Even Grover Cleveland Hall, the Pulitzer Prize-winning editor of the Montgomery Advertiser from 1926-1941, didn’t know the scroungy piebald cat that appeared at the Advertiser’s offices in January 1938 would soon become the most talked about female in Montgomery.
Clarence Cason was described in the Montgomery Advertiser as one of the “most brilliant and engaging thinkers in Alabama.”
Adults with Type II diabetes are invited to join a support group that is meeting Friday, May 11, from noon-1 p.m. at the Capstone Medical Center west conference room on The University of Alabama campus.
Huntsville attorney David L. Thomas has established a new scholarship at The University of Alabama School of Law. The David L. Thomas Endowed Scholarship will be added to the list of more than 100 endowed scholarships offered to students at the UA Law School.
A University of Alabama law professor has been invited to teach at Harvard Law School next year.
Paul Isom, director of the Office of Student Media at The University of Alabama, was recently elected vice president of College Media Advisers Inc.
Dr. Michael Parker, assistant professor in the School of Social Work at The University of Alabama, has been selected as one of 10 outstanding social work faculty scholars by The John A. Hartford Foundation of New York City and The Gerontological Society of America.
U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher will speak at a dedication ceremony for the Mary Starke Harper Geriatric Psychiatry Center in Tuscaloosa on Tuesday, May 8. The noon luncheon ceremony at Tuscaloosa’s NorthRiver Yacht Club will cap a two-day series of workshops at The University of Alabama’s Bryant Conference Center focusing on care of the elderly.
Registration for this summer’s University of Alabama Museum of Natural History Expedition at Moundville Archaeological Park closes May 15 or when all spaces are filled.
Dr. Ronald L. Numbers will present this year’s Allen Going Lecture event titled “Anti-Evolution in 20th Century America: From Creation Science to Intelligent Design,” on Thursday, May 10, at 7:30 p.m., in 125 ten Hoor Hall on The University of Alabama campus.