True Maroons: Gabriel McElwain, Willie Davis, Edward Tenner, and more

SHARED SONG
"Inspiration Rules at Songwriting Workshop" (Southtown Star, Jun. 28, 2009)
Songwriting-workshop instructor Gabriel McElwain, AB'03, says he learns more about his craft when teaching it to teens than when doing it himself.

JUST A NUMBER
"When Stats Bite Back" (Dispatches, Atlantic, Jun. 24, 2009)
Writing about using statistics to consider human worth, Edward Tenner, AM'67, PhD'72, quotes F. Scott Fitzgerald: "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function."

MILESTONES

  • "Local Geneticist, 84, to Get $500,000 Prize" (Chicago Tribune, Jul. 1, 2009)
    In October Janet Rowley, PhB'45, SB'46, MD'48, receives the 2009 Peter and Patricia Gruber Genetics Prize for her findings that establish cancer as a genetic disease.

  • "Hall Named Dean" (UA News, Jul. 1, 2009)
    James A. Hall, AM'75, has been named dean of the University of Alabama's School of Social Work.

  • "Hewitt Associates Appoints Green to Board" (Business Wire, Jul. 1, 2009)
    Judson Green, MBA'76, joins the board of directors for Hewitt Associates, a global human-resources consulting company.

July 1, 2009