Posted on July 28th, 2010 by Jennifer Dome
Join us for a golf tournament benefiting the Alabama Humanities Foundation and the Birmingham Lions Club Foundation.
Monday, October 11, 2010
Pine Tree Country Club
8 a.m. Shotgun Start
You can select from the following price packages:
$125 Player Fee
$200 Sponsorship Sign Only
$450 Arranged Foursome Fee
$275 Hole Sponsorship and One Player
$600 Hole Sponsorship and Four Players
All fees include a luncheon at the Pine Tree Country Club. Prizes will be awarded for 1st-, 2nd-, and 3rd-place teams, closest to the hole and longest drive.
To sign up for the tournament, email us for a form: jdome@ahf.net.
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Posted on July 23rd, 2010 by Jennifer Dome
This year’s Alabama Humanities Awards Luncheon will be held Monday, September 13, 2010, at noon at the Wynfrey Hotel in Birmingham.
The luncheon will feature our guest speaker, chief legal correspondent for CBS News Jan Crawford. We will honor Edgar Welden, 2010’s Alabama Humanities Award recipient, and the Robert R. Meyer Foundation as this year’s Charitable Organization in the Humanities. We will also present a special resolution in recognition of The Rev. Fred Lee Shuttlesworth.
For more information, and to R.S.V.P., visit our luncheon website. Read more »
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Posted on July 6th, 2010 by Jennifer Dome
Please join us on Thursday, July 29, at 6 p.m. for an evening with Jim Leach, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities. The reception and program, “Civility in a Fractured Society,” will take place at Brock Recital Hall at Samford University.
The event is presented by the Alabama Humanities Foundation, in partnership with Samford’s Frances Marlin Mann Center for Ethics and Leadership and the Birmingham Area Consortium for Higher Education. Read more »
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Posted on July 6th, 2010 by Jennifer Dome
A former AHF board member and chair is continuing to help educate the youth of Alabama, and earning students national recognition for their efforts.
Nancy Anderson, an English professor at Auburn University Montgomery, surprised elementary school students this week with a letter from President Barack Obama. Read more »
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Posted on July 1st, 2010 by Jennifer Dome
This has been a big year for Alabama’s beloved book, and now you have a chance to win a signed copy of your own!
The Alabama Booksmith will hold a raffle and auction for two copies of To Kill a Mockingbird. Each book has a cloth slipcase, the original 1960 jacket design, ribbon marker, and bookplate signed by Harper Lee.
One book will be raffled off—for every $5 donation to the Alabama Humanities Foundation, your name will be entered into the drawing. The drawing will take place on August 11, 2010, at 6 p.m. when Harper Lee biographer Kerry Madden draws the winning name.
To win the other copy, enter the auction at The Alabama Booksmith’s website. Each offer must surpass the previous highest total by $10, until $1,000 is reached. Then a $50 increase will be necessary. The highest bid as of 6 p.m. on August 11, 2010, will get to take the book home. Read more »
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Posted on June 30th, 2010 by sperryahf
Nathan Glick shows his WWII sketches.
How do we, as civilians, understand war?
Nathan Glick, a WWII veteran and combat artist, brought World War II to life for SUPER teachers June 11 with his portfolio of portraits of heroic WWII pilots and sketches of combat and soldiers at leisure. At 98 years old, Nathan Glick vividly remembers every location where he witnessed and recorded the personal stories and graphic images of WWII. Last week at the SUPER Institute, teachers explored World War II, considered by many to be the last “good” war, through art, music and literature. The lead scholar, Dr. Alan Brown, professor of English at the University of West Alabama, showed the PBS documentary film “They Drew Fire” about the 100 U.S. servicemen and civilians who served as combat artists in WWII. You can see the art gallery of their work, often unseen since the war, on the PBS website.
Members of the June 9-11 SUPER Institute program.
The SUPER Teacher Institute exemplifies the theme of the keynote address “Student Voice—through the Arts” by Dr. Tommy Bice, the Deputy State Superintendent with the Alabama State Department of Education. Alabama Institute for Education in the Arts (AIEA) invited Dr. Bice to be the luncheon speaker for the AIEA Teacher Institute in Montgomery, an AHF grant-funded project. Dr. Bice challenged teachers to listen to students and understand their interests through the arts. As an example of the integration of arts to teach the core curriculum, he used his own positive educational experience in the arts in elementary school in Alexander City. As a young student, he played the Mad Hatter in the play “Alice in Wonderland.” In an effort to decrease the number of dropouts in Alabama schools (currently about 5,000 a year), Dr. Bice believes that all children can become engaged through the arts. He quoted Ron Edmonds, an influential educational researcher: “We can, whenever and wherever we choose, successfully teach all children whose schooling is of interest to us.” The arts are a powerful tool to hear the student’s voice and to teach history, literature and mathematics.
Written by: Susan P.
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Posted on June 28th, 2010 by rstewartahf
I am very pleased to announce that Jennifer L. Dome is the new AHF public relations and publications manager as of June 28. Jennifer replaces Katie Crawford, who has taken a marketing and public relations position at DAXKO, a Birmingham-based software company.
A New Jersey native, Jennifer is a 2001 graduate of Penn State University with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and a minor in Spanish. She received a master’s degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in 2006. From 2001-2005 she was employed by Greater Media Newspapers in Freehold, NJ, moving up from copy editor to managing editor before leaving for Medill. While at Medill, she interned in the London bureau of Fairchild Publications. After graduation, Jennifer joined Time Inc. as an intern at Southern Living magazine. She served as assistant copy editor for Southern Living until March 2010. Since March she was freelance writing and copy editing for Hoffman Media in Birmingham.
Jennifer has also been very involved locally with the United Way Young Leaders Society, as well as serving as a volunteer with Grace’s Kitchen and the Time to Read program at Center Street Middle School. Please welcome Jennifer, as she takes charge of our print and electronic communication—including the print Mosaic, eMosaic newsletter, and “Kudzu Twines Journal” blog.
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Posted on June 22nd, 2010 by rstewartahf
Now on the AHF website are nearly 100 photos of our recent To Kill a Mockingbird events in Birmingham and Montgomery. The events included a panel discussion at Birmingham’s 16th Street Baptist Church on the impact of the book on the legal profession and the court system; an opening night exhibition reception and silent auction at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute; an opening reception at Stonehenge Gallery in Montgomery; screening of the 1962 film, starring Gregory Peck, before a packed audience at the Capri Theatre adjacent to Stonehenge; and a reception and silent and live auction at Wynfield Estates in Montgomery, home of the late Winton “Red” and Carolyn Blount. If you missed one or more of the events, the photos are an excellent documentation of the art, the associated educational programs and the social gatherings. Read more »
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Posted on June 17th, 2010 by kcrawfordahf
“TKAM 2010: To Kill a Mockingbird–Awakening America’s Conscience” contributing artist Bethanne Hill recently created the cover art for the Traditional Musics of Alabama Volume 5 album. Those interested in purchasing the album should visit this link.
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Posted on June 15th, 2010 by plawsonahf
I remember. In fact, I will never forget.
Exactly 40 years ago in the city of Montgomery and at a spot named Patterson Field a hard fought, nail-biting baseball game took place. It was on a late May night as the Ensley High School Yellow Jackets squared off against Montgomery’s mighty Robert E. Lee Generals. Read more »
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