The Art of Weaving
Tuscaloosa News – May 6
Students participating in a three-week interim class at The University of Alabama will learn the craft of weaving and work with weaving equipment.
DUIs increase on Cinco De Mayo
ABC 33/40 (Birmingham) – May 5
A not so fun fact about today, DUI numbers go up. The University of Alabama’s Center for Advanced Public Safety says about a third of car crashes on this day involve alcohol. They also say the state averages 24 DUI crashes on May 5, compared to 18 the rest of the year.
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Occidental ‘Lifer’ Vicki Hollub to Be First Female Oil Chief
The Washsington Post – May 5
Hollub, 55, will assume control of Occidental’s oil and natural gas business worldwide as an interim step to succeeding current CEO Stephen Chazen “after a thorough transition period,” the Houston-based company said in a statement Tuesday. Occidental said in March that Chazen, 68, would step down at the 2016 annual meeting. Hollub is a University of Alabama-trained mineral engineer who’s seen the company evolve from the global conglomerate assembled by the late Armand Hammer to a slimmed-down explorer focused on the U.S. Great Plains, a handful of Persian Gulf countries and Latin America. Occidental, which spun off its California oil business last year, has a market value of about $61 billion. Shares have fallen 2.5 percent this year. Hollub is a familiar name, though not a well-known personality to analysts who follow the company. “She’s a lifer at Oxy so she certainly knows the company well,” Roger Read, an analyst at Wells Fargo Securities LLC, said in a telephone interview on Tuesday. “But they tend to keep management protected over there so it’s not as if we’ve had a lot of interaction with her.”
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Grand Piano Dedication at Brookwood High School
ABC 33/40 (Birmingham) – May 5
Brookwood High School will dedicate its new grand piano during tonight’s concert. Choosing that piano was made possible through an Adopt-A-School partnership with Walter Energy. They gave Brookwood $10,000 to help with the cost of the piano. The Brookwood Choir’s Spring Concert is this evening at 6:00 at the high school and the piano dedication will follow at 7:00. Kevin Chance, a member of The University of Alabama’s School of Music faculty will be playing this evening.