Cathi Snow Parish ’83, pastor at Remington United Methodist Church in Remington, Indiana, was the featured speaker at the Kentland Rotary Club meeting. Parish challenged and encouraged the membership to be visionaries and continue to dream big. She has served at Remington United Methodist since August 2020, following her five years as director of pastoral care ministries at St. Andrew United Methodist Church in West Lafayette, Indiana.

Chris Armstrong ’95 was named the new head coach for men’s basketball at Madison Comprehensive High School in Madison, Ohio, where he has served as a special education teacher and assistant coach for the last four years. Prior to joining Madison, Armstrong was head coach at Cornerstone Christian Academy in Shelbyville, Kentucky, where he led the team during a 20-win season. He also served as assistant coach at Dunbar High School, implemented their player development program, and saw the team win the state championship. At BSC, Armstrong studied economics and was a member of the men’s basketball 1995 NAIA national championship team.

Dr. Holley Tankersley ’99 was named dean of the new Spadoni College of Education and Social Sciences at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, South Carolina. Tankersley has been at the university for more than 14 years serving in multiple roles, including most recently as associate provost of strategic initiatives and faculty development. She has also served as associate dean of the Thomas W. and Robin W. Edwards College of Humanities and Fine Arts and as the chair of the Department of Politics, during which she founded the Edgar Dyer Institute for Leadership and Public Policy. Tankersley holds her master’s degree in public policy from Georgetown University and her Ph.D. in political science from the University of Georgia.

Kyle Whitmire ’02 received the first-ever Molly Ivins National Journalism Prize for Excellence in Political Commentary. The Texas Observer and the Texas Democracy Foundation has presented the award in investigative journalism – named after the late pioneering Observer reporter Molly Ivins – for 16 years and introduced the political column/commentary category this year. Whitmire is an award-winning political columnist for Alabama Media Group covering Alabama politics. He recently won the national Scripps Howard Award for Opinion Writing for work from his column, “Life, Politics and Corruption in Alabama.”

Stephanie Rebman ’03 has been promoted to editor-in-chief of the Birmingham Business Journal. Rebman joined the BBJ staff in 2016 as managing editor and has since led the day-to-day operations of their award-winning newsroom. Prior to this role, she has experience in writing and editing at several newspapers, including the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, the Carrollton Times-Georgian, Tallapoosa Publishers, and the Oxford Eagle, where she served as editor-in-chief. Rebman is a graduate of Leadership Birmingham and Leadership Mississippi and serves on the boards of the Greater Birmingham Humane Society and the ACTION Civitan Club.

Cynthia Todd MPPM ’07, operations manager for Blue Cross Blue Shield, is one of 13 Montevallo leaders who have been appointed to a trustee-led working group to review the naming criteria for buildings at the University of Montevallo. This group follows the UM Board of Trustees 2020 vote to remove the names of Corner Hall and Bibb Graves Hall, both named after Alabama governors who were staunch supporters of segregation and white supremacy. Todd received her Bachelor of Science from Montevallo in 1988 and currently serves as president of the university’s alumni association.

Tyner Rushing ’09 will have a recurring role in “The Terminal List,” an upcoming Amazon Prime Video series starring and executive produced by Chris Pratt. The series is based on the best-selling novel by Jack Carr, which follows Navy SEAL James Reece (Pratt) as he returns home from a covert mission with conflicting memories and uncovers new evidence from the event. Rushing will play Liz Riley, a former Army pilot from Alabama – like Rushing herself, who’s from Semmes, Alabama. She also has an upcoming role in the fourth season of “Stranger Things,” adding to her resume of other film and television roles, plus her experience touring with California Theater Center.

Evan Lewis ’17 joined the coaching staff of Pro One Basketball Club in Huntsville. Following his standout career as a BSC student-athlete, Lewis coached on the Hilltop before entering the corporate world in medical sales.

Dr. Jessica Y. Allen, assistant professor of psychology at BSC, has recently published her research, titled “Bereavement outcomes among spousal hospice caregivers: Relief, rumination, and perceived patient suffering.” This research contributes to Allen’s expertise and past research addressing the psychological and physical challenges confronted by older adults and their families as they approach the end of life.

Elizabeth McDonald Dunn, a member of BSC’s Board of Trustees, was featured by Bham Now as one of Birmingham’s active volunteers. Outside of her real estate career with LAH Real Estate, Dunn currently serves at Canterbury United Methodist Church and supports Heart Gallery Alabama, an organization that finds adoptive families for Alabama’s foster children. She is the mother of two BSC graduates: Jay Dunn ’12 and Cole Dunn ’16.

Clay C. Long ’58 of Atlanta, Ga., on May 29, 2021. Long graduated summa cum laude from BSC and studied on a Rotary Fellowship in London, where he met Elizabeth Ehlers Long, the California girl who would become his wife of 61 years. He attended Harvard Law School, served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review, and later served as a law clerk for Justice Hugo Black of the U.S. Supreme Court. During his clerkship with Black, he drafted the ruling in Gideon v. Wainwright, the landmark case which established the right to legal counsel for anyone charged with a crime. In 1963, Long began his career in Atlanta at Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan before, in 1974, founding a corporate and commercial real estate practice with his colleagues. Long, Aldridge, Stevens & Sumner became a leading corporate firm and later merged with a Washington-based firm to become McKenna Long & Aldridge. Long was a natural-born negotiator, ferocious advocate, and honored attorney. He received the first Atlanta Bar Association Leadership Award in 1989 and the Anti-Defamation League Lifetime Achievement Award in 2004. Long also served on BSC’s Board of Trustees – among numerous other service and community organizations – and received an honorary Doctor of Laws from the College in 2002. Read more about Long’s legacy here.

Sterling Lyle Wilkins ’58 of Birmingham on June 4, 2021. Wilkins was a stabilizing force for all who knew him, a calm in the storm, and a dependable voice of reason for family and friends. He was a self-taught trombonist and went on to play big bands and arrange music throughout his life, including years with the Shriners, the Alabama Cardinals, and the Joe Giattina Orchestra. If you celebrated New Year’s Eve at The Club in the seventies, you celebrated with Wilkins and the band. His love of music was infectious and lives on in all those who heard him play. He spent almost his entire work life at UAB, finishing his career as chief investment manager. Wilkins was a member of Dawson Memorial Baptist Church as well as the Zamora Shriners of Central Alabama and the Alabama Freemasons.

Betty Fotinos Hontzas ’59 of Birmingham on May 25, 2021. Hontzas began to love music from an early age as her father encouraged her talent in piano. She studied music education and English literature at BSC and taught private piano lessons for many years. She was a member of Holy Trinity – Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Cathedral.

Barbara Moseley ’59 of Orange Beach, Ala., on April 29, 2021. After graduating from BSC, Moseley worked for several years at the College Library and later earned her master’s degree in library science from the University of Alabama. When the Alabama legislature established the junior college system, she was asked to be first librarian at Faulkner State Junior College in Bay Minette. Moseley worked there until her retirement and then moved to Orange Beach, where she enjoyed living on the water.

Martha “Marty” Rodgers Reid ’70 of Birmingham on September 21, 2020. After growing up in Birmingham and receiving her degree from BSC, Reid moved to Pensacola, Florida, where she met and married naval aviator Jay Reid. The U.S. Navy transferred them to Virginia Beach, and she accepted a pre-school teaching position at Virginia Beach Country Day School. They were blessed with two children, and Reid “held down the fort” at home during her husband’s deployments. Reid later returned to education, most notably at King’s Grant Elementary where she was a beloved third grade teacher. In her retirement, her sense of community spirit led her to volunteer as a poll worker and as an usher at the Sandler Center for Performing Arts in Virginia Beach.