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In 1989, longtime West Alabama teacher and civic worker Maude Whatley died. Whatley had spent more than 50 years as an employee of the Tuscaloosa Board of Education as a teacher and later as principal of Central School. Even after her retirement,…

Dr. J. Barry Mason, born in Memphis, TN on March 24, 1941, and raised in Louisiana, was the seventh dean of The University of Alabama’s Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration.

He earned his Bachelor’s degree from Louisiana…

Dedicated – determined – hard working – and a believer in every young mind, Chester Fredd was born on January 26, 1906, in Sawyerville, Alabama. He achieved his early education in Hale County schools, attending a one room school during his elementary…

The daughter of Dr. and Mrs. James Richard Allison, Frances Allison Alexander was born in Columbia, SC on January 29, 1923 and graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1943. Frances Allison married Sydenham B. Alexander, M.D.…

Carl Albright lived a life of meaning, commitment, and service - and excellence marked all of his endeavors. From home life to the workplace, from the church to the courtroom, from the chamber of commerce to the boy scouts, from giving to encouraging…

Few individuals have been called to service in as many leadership capacities as was Henry Holman (Bene) Mize, and few have a record of accomplishment his equal. In his own quiet, dignified, and unheralded manner, he made many contributions to a…

Marvin Lee Harper, born in 1919 in Northport, AL, earned the title throughout the community and Alabama as “Mr. Preservationist” during his 89 years. He made an immeasurable impact on the community through his work in heritage and historic…

Born in 1890, Reuben Hall Wright, was a lawyer, circuit court judge, civic leader and longtime member of the Tuscaloosa City Board of Education.

Judge Wright, a native of West Blocton, AL, died in 1964. He was a graduate of West Blocton High…

Marie Ellen ("Nellie") Clarkson was born on May 22, 1841, in Columbia, South Carolina, to Thomas Boston Clarkson and Sarah Caroline Heriot.

On November 28, 1860, at the age of 19, she married Peter Bryce, a 26 year old native in Columbia, South…

Glenn House was an illustrator, sculptor, painter and printer, probably best known for the iconic sign he designed early in his career for the Moon Winx Lodge in Alberta, near Tuscaloosa.

House was born in Gordo, the son of a farmer, Norman Lee…