Greetings, from Bob Whetstone

Bob Whetstone, AHF Board Chairman

Dear Friends of the Alabama Humanities:

Welcome once again to Alabama Humanities Foundation’s giant step forward in electronic media communication. It was only a year ago that the AHF Board of Directors launched our first e-magazine and I want you to share in the rewarding results. AHF’s visibility has expanded throughout the state and beyond as evidenced by incremental hits on our website and outstanding attendance at sponsored events. Your generosity has continued to increase in response to our vision for a better Alabama. Because of your support, AHF has extended its reach to more underserved communities and populations throughout the state than ever before. AHF’s spotlight event this year commemorated the 50th anniversary of the publication of To Kill a Mockingbird. As a result, scores of Alabamians read for the first time and many others re-read this timeless jewel by Alabama’s own Harper Lee. We look forward to our 2011 tribute honoring yet another great author with Alabama connections. Watch for the forthcoming announcement.

As readers of eMosaic, you represent a special group of citizens who care deeply about the quality of life in Alabama and we appreciate your support for AHF’s mission: To create and foster opportunities for scholars and the public together to explore human values and meanings through the humanities. Often it’s not until after we leave college that we recognize the humanities not just as courses we are required to sit through and then leave behind after final exams, but rather as life-long vehicles for continuing to examine and discover what it is to be human. 

We will soon begin a new year and a new term of AHF leadership. I take pleasure in announcing the AHF officers-elect: Jim Noles (aka “Jem”), chair; Judge John Rochester, vice-chair; Danny Patterson, treasurer; and Lisa (aka “Scout”) Mead, secretary. I have the greatest confidence in these officers and the other 21 members of the Board of Directors, who represent a cross section of the state both geographically and demographically.  As I turn over the helm to these dedicated leaders, I invite you to join me in pledging my full support to them and their efforts.

Respectfully,
Bob Whetstone
AHF Board Chairman