By Bill Plott, for the AHSAARichard “Dickey” Wright learned the importance of a coach’s impact from the very best.He got his start as a student coach working with Hall of Fame coach Bob Finley at W.A. Berry High School. He spent most of his professional coaching and teaching career in the Homewood City School System working with such great mentors as Hall … [Read more...]
Family Tradition: Tom Luckie Earns Silver Medal Award From American Advertising Foundation
By Rubin E. GrantTom Luckie considers himself, well, lucky. Or, to use his word, “fortunate.”That’s how the Luckie & Co. chairman described being selected earlier this month as the recipient of the prestigious Silver Medal Award from AAF Birmingham, the local chapter of the American Advertising Foundation. AAF Birmingham’s Silver Medal Award recognizes ad … [Read more...]
The Hope of Easter
There seems to be a sense of hopelessness pervading our country today. I have read a great deal about the disturbing rise of deaths of despair (drug overdoses and suicide) among our younger generation. In a New York Times article, there was a discussion about the escalating suicide rate, and Robert Putnam, a professor of public policy at Harvard, put his finger on what appears … [Read more...]
Highest Honor: Associate Dean Receives Lifetime Achievement Award in Medical Genetics
By Ryan McCain Dr. Bruce Korf, Ph.D., FACMG, associate dean for genomic medicine and distinguished professor of genetics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, has been named the recipient of the 2024 American College of Medical Genetics Foundation for Genetic and Genomic Medicine’s David L. Rimoin Lifetime Achievement Award in Medical Genetics.The award, the … [Read more...]
A River Runs Through It
Julia Bell Pope has spent countless days fishing on Wyoming’s scenic Snake River, but she’ll never forget one day in particular. Her fly-fishing client for the day was a 6-year-old girl who arrived dressed head-to-toe in pink — and then learned to fly-fish quicker than anyone Pope had ever seen.“It was like looking at a little version of myself,” Pope recalls upon … [Read more...]