Kathryn Foxhall ’72 was awarded The Society of Professional Journalists’ Wells Memorial Key, the highest honor for members of the organization. Foxhall is a Washington, D.C.-based reporter and writes about health and health policy, including reimbursement, mental health and substance abuse, health information technology, pediatrics, pharmacy, and infectious diseases.

Chris Dupont ’85 is opening his “last restaurant” in his hometown of New Orleans. Dupont has sold his Birmingham restaurant, Café Dupont, to his longtime sous chef, with plans to relocate his family and focus on a forthcoming Magazine Street restaurant. A celebrated Birmingham chef, he raised the city’s culinary profile when he opened his downtown restaurant 20 years ago. The restaurant will continue to operate as Café Dupont.

John L. Collar, Jr. ’86, founding shareholder of Boyd Collar Nolen Tuggle & Roddenbery, was recognized by Super Lawyers as a Georgia Super Lawyer in family law. Collar practices in Atlanta and has received numerous accolades for his work, and he is one of a handful of family lawyers in Georgia who are also accountants.

Ellen Woodward Potts ’88 was presented with a Head-Over-Heels Women’s Leadership Award at the University of Alabama Women’s Basketball game for her work with Habitat for Humanity. Potts has served as executive director of Habitat for Humanity of Tuscaloosa for nine years and has led transformational efforts in the community.

Dr. Brent Boyett ’89 of Hamilton, Ala., published an article in the Journal of Drug and Alcohol Dependence. As lead author for the article, Boyett’s research seeks to establish a standardized craving scale to quantitate opioid craving. He specializes in medication-assisted addiction recovery and high-risk populations and treats all forms of substance abuse disorders. He is recognized as a Distinguished Fellow by the American Society of Addiction Medicine.

Dr. Anne Mitchell Whisnant ’89 of Chapel Hill, N.C., and her husband, Dr. David E. Whisnant, won the 2022 Excellence in Consulting (Group) Award from the National Council on Public History for “Black Lives and Whitened Stories: From the Lowcountry to the Mountains, a Historic Resource Study on Black History completed for the Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site, National Park Service.” This is the second time Dr. Anne Mitchell Whisnant has won this award, first recognized in 2013 for her leadership of a project commissioned by the National Park Service and the Organization of American Historians to explore history practice in the Park Service.

Anil A. Mujumdar ’97 was named director of diversity and inclusion and assistant professor of law in residence at the University of Alabama School of Law. Previously serving as the interim director of diversity and inclusion, Mujumdar steps into the full-time role while also teaching in the law school and serving as coach to the Black Law Students Association’s Thurgood Marshall Moot Court Competition Team. For most of his career, he has concentrated in white-collar criminal defense, which developed during his work with former U.S. Attorney and former U.S. Senator Doug Jones. He serves as counsel in litigation focused on improving accessibility and mental health care for people with disabilities in the Alabama prison system.

Andrew Triplett ’19 will earn his J.D. degree from Samford University’s Cumberland School of Law this spring and plans to practice law in Alabama and Tennessee after sitting for the bar exam this summer. Triplett currently serves as deputy chief justice of Cumberland Law’s Honor Court and the vice chancellor of the Thomas More Society. During law school, he has served as a legal clerk for multiple firms, including The Frankowski Firm and Friedman Dazzio, and was the judicial clerk for Special Judge Charles B. Langham in the Jefferson County Domestic Relations Court in fall 2021. Triplett is a member of BSC’s Young Alumni Council.

Lenecia Layman Bruce ’41 of Decatur, Ga., on Feb. 26, 2022. Bruce attended BSC before World War II, during which she was an air traffic communications specialist at the old Hartsfield Airport in Atlanta and at the Tri-Cities Airport in Bristol, Tennessee. During her time in Savannah, she became a voting rights activist through the League of Women Voters. Bruce joined the organization’s Savannah chapter in 1963 and began going door-to-door to encourage voting during political campaigns. She earned her master’s degree from Duke University in 1971 with a thesis on the 1920-1922 municipal reform effort of the Atlanta League of Women Voters. Bruce was later hired by the Georgia League of Women Voters as its first paid office manager and spent twelve years there, guiding the league into the computer age, writing numerous historical and policy reports, and conducting dozens of interviews of league activists. She received the Eleanor Raoul Greene Lifetime Achievement Award for her service with the Georgia League. Bruce was an active member of Bull Street Baptist and Memorial Baptist Churches in Savannah and Central Presbyterian Church in Atlanta, as well as a dedicated volunteer. Read more about her legacy here.

Catherine Franklin Vandergrift ’45 of Aiken, S.C., on Feb. 18, 2022. After graduating from BSC, Vandergrift taught music, math, and geography before she and her husband decided to make a commitment to foreign missions. In 1949, they traveled to Belgium for language studies of French and Tshiluba, one of the main dialects of Congo. They spent 10 years in the Kasai region of the Congo where they taught and served in local communities and made several trips later in their lives. The family spent more than 20 years in Auburn, where Vandergrift taught French, and her husband was the director of Auburn University’s Co-operative Education Program. Vandergrift continued her mission work through Aiken First Presbyterian Church in Aiken – where they moved to be closer to their daughter – and was an active supporter of Formula for Life, a ministry providing infant formula to HIV-positive mothers in Mwandi, Zambia. Read more about Vandergrift’s legacy here.

Lois Pauline “Polly” Price Owen ’47 of Birmingham on Feb. 17, 2022. Owen was a member of Canterbury United Methodist Church, The Club, The Caxton Club, Coronets Dance Club, and various other social clubs. Her family and Camp Winnataska, where she met her husband of 65 years, were the joys of her life.

Merlee Sears Wagner ’48 of Birmingham on Jan. 27, 2022. Wagner attended Judson College and graduated from BSC, where she was a member of Alpha Omicron Pi. She was a life-long educator, primarily teaching in the Birmingham City School system until her retirement. She was a member of the Alabama Education Association, the Birmingham Bridge Club, and St. Francis Xavier Church. Wagner’s husband, the late Frank Wagner ’48, daughter Janet Wagner Potter ’73, and granddaughter Allison Chang ’08 also graduated from BSC.

Elizabeth “Nena” Berry Biddle ’51 of Birmingham on Feb. 16, 2022. Biddle was a beloved teacher for 30 years – teaching fifth grade at North Birmingham Elementary School before moving to Arthur School – and her former students still reach out with stories and moments remembered from years ago with Mrs. Biddle. Her passion in life to improve mental health services in Alabama and saw measures passed to help those in need and to bring attention to mental health alongside her husband, Senator Jack Biddle. She served on the Board of Directors of the Jefferson Blount St. Clair Mental Health Authority for 28 years and was appointed by Governors Don Siegelman and Bob Riley to serve on the Board of Trustees for the State of Alabama Department of Mental Health. Biddle was also actively involved with the 1920 Club, a member-run drop-in center for people in recovery from mental health illness, and the club’s Southside building was named the Jack and Nena Biddle Building by the Alabama Department of Mental Health in honor of their work. She was a member and former president of the Legislative Spouses Association, recipient of the Gardendale Citizen of the Year Award in 1997, and a lifelong member of Gardendale Mt. Vernon United Methodist Church (now Hope Community Church).

Patrick M. Hagerty ’65, of Franklin, Tenn., on Feb. 21, 2022. Hagerty’s commitment to his 35-year career with the Internal Revenue Service was evident in his final position as acting assistant district director. Prior to that, he served as chief of quality improvement staff, quality consultant, and problem resolution officer. Hagerty was a member of St. Philip Catholic Church, where he served as president of the Parish Council and Men’s Club, RCIA sponsor, and coordinator or volunteer for countless events and fundraisers. He served his neighbors and those in need by transporting sick patients to medical appointments, delivering for Meals On Wheels, and always lending a hand where needed. He also volunteered his time and expertise annually at VITA tax sites and served as Monticello HOA President.

Kay Middlebrooks Dailey ’68 of San Diego, Cali., on Feb. 12, 2022. Dailey earned a National Merit Scholarship to BSC, where she studied biology. She then earned her master’s degree in microbiology and immunology from UAB and taught at Lawson State Community College. Dailey and her family moved throughout the Southeast and later settled in California, and she worked in a laboratory at the Scripps Research Institute and was actively involved in her sons’ education. After observing injustices as an instructor and later in her children’s classes, she cofounded Parents of Students in Special Education, an advocacy group in the school system. Dailey loved traveling and tap dancing and did both throughout her life.

Penny Williamson Haddock ’75 of Decatur, Ala., on Nov. 13, 2021. Haddock received her degree in elementary education from BSC and her master’s degree in education from the University of Alabama. She taught elementary students at Holy Spirit Catholic Church School in Tuscaloosa before she moved to Decatur, where she taught in Decatur County Schools’ gifted program. Haddock later spent 13 years as the director of BamaKid Daycare School. She was a board member of the Morgan County Chapter of the American Cancer Society and the Princess Theatre and dedicated volunteer for Hospice of the Valley, Parents and Children Together, the Decatur Morgan Hospital Foundation and Guild, and the Decatur Assembly, to name a few. She received the 2010 Gail Hurst Service Award for her work with Parents and Children Together and the 2015 John A. Caddell Award from the Decatur Morgan Hospital Foundation. Haddock was a member of Decatur First United Methodist Church.

Elise Ware DuBois ’78 of Birmingham on Jan. 25, 2022. DuBois was a member of Alpha Chi Omega at BSC. Following her graduation, she immediately entered employment with BellSouth and retired from AT&T. She was a devout Christian and lifelong member of the United Methodist Church.

Don Edwin “Butch” Shotts, Jr. ’85 of Birmingham on Feb. 18, 2022. Following his graduation from BSC, where he was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Shotts returned to Huntsville to open and operate Bailey’s, a men's clothing store, for many years. Those who knew Butch knew of his passion for landscaping and his ability to transform anyplace into showplace.

Katelyn Hancock ’10 of Atlanta, Ga., on Jan. 29, 2022, after an extended illness. Hancock received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in studio art summa cum laude with a Distinction in Leadership Studies from BSC. She went on to earn her Master of Arts in women’s, gender, and sexuality studies from Ohio State University in 2014 as well as a Master of Arts in Asian American studies from the University of California Los Angeles in 2018. She last worked as a lecturer at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. Hancock’s mother, the late Linda Taylor Hancock ’79, and brother, Kevin Hancock ’06, also graduated from BSC.