Thank you to all who joined us for the 2011 Alabama Humanities Award Luncheon!

The Alabama Humanities Foundation was thrilled to honor Elaine Hughes with the 2011 Alabama Humanities Award and Wells Fargo with the 2011 Charitable Organization in the Humanities Award.

Our outstanding keynote speaker was Gen. Charles C. Krulak, the 13th president of Birmingham-Southern College. Gen. Krulak is a retired commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps and former member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He joins a long list of outstanding speakers who have appeared at the event including Alabama Gov. Bob Riley, Pulitzer prize-winning writers Rick Bragg and Cynthia Tucker, journalist Charles Kuralt, historian Douglas Brinkley, best-selling authors Sena Naslund and Warren St. John, U.S. Sen. Howell Heflin and Lynne Cheney. Jan Crawford, the chief legal correspondent for CBS News, spoke at the 2010 event.



About Gen. Charles C. Krulak
General Krulak served 35 years in the U.S. Marine Corps. His last position was as Commandant of the Marine Corps and as a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He commanded a platoon and two rifle companies during two tours of duty in Vietnam and then held a variety of command and staff positions. These included deputy director of the White House Military Office, Commanding General, 6th Marine Expeditionary Brigade during Desert Storm, Commanding General, Marine Corps Combat Development Command, and Commanding General, Marine Forces Pacific. During his military service, General Krulak was awarded the Defense Distinguished Service Medal, the Silver Star Medal, the Bronze Star Medal with Combat “V” and two gold stars, the Purple Heart with gold star, the Meritorious Service Medal, the French Legion d’Honneur Commandeur rank, and many other decorations and medals.

Upon his retirement from the Marine Corps, General Krulak joined MBNA America Bank as Vice Chairman and Chief Administrative Officer and subsequently as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of MBNA Europe Bank, Ltd. After four years in this position, he returned to the United States and served as Vice Chairman, MBNA America Bank as Head of Corporate Development, Mergers and Acquisitions. General Krulak retired from MBNA in June 2005.

Today, General Krulak is the President for Birmingham-Southern College, a liberal arts college located in Birmingham. In addition, General Krulak currently sits on the Board of Directors of Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Corporation where he is a member of the Public Policy and Personnel Committees and the Board of Directors of Union Pacific Railroad Corporation where he is a member of the Finance and Audit Committees. He sits on the Board of Regents forthe Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. He sits on the Board of the CEO Forum and serves as Director with Aston Villa Football Club in the United Kingdom. He is an advisor to the Center for Naval Analysis and Human Rights First. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

General Krulak is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and has a master’s degree in labor relations from George Washington University.

About Alabama Humanities Award Winner Elaine Hughes
Elaine Hughesx has been an active and acclaimed champion of the humanities throughout her personal life, professional service, and
almost four decades at the University of Montevallo as a professor of American literature with a specialty in Southern and contemporary literature. She served on the AHF Board of Directors for six years, including two years as the board chair.

Hughes’s effectiveness in promoting the humanities has been recognized by regional and national awards. She was the 2007 recipient of the Eugene Current-Garcia Distinguished Scholar Award, and in 1998-1999 she received the Carnegie Foundation CASE Professor of the Year Award for Alabama. Both our state and the nation have recognized that Hughes has had an enormous direct impact on elevating public awareness of and interest in the humanities. Hughes has dedicated her life, expertise and extraordinary energy to being a visionary champion of the humanities. Past honorees at the luncheon have included Senator Richard Shelby, Red Blount, Harper Lee, Senator Howell Heflin, Emory Cunningham and Jack Warner.

About Wells Fargo, 2011 Charitable Organization in the Humanities
Wells Fargo has a long history of helping communities. In 2010, Wells Fargo contributed more than $3.9 million to over 500 organizations that are making a lasting impact on Alabama residents. Wells Fargo also showed support through team member volunteerism, logging more than 10,300 hours throughout the state.

Wells Fargo is committed to building strong, healthy communities and serves organizations in one of six areas of focus: Education, Community Development, Human Service, Arts and Culture, Environmental, and Civic. In the areas of Education and Arts & Culture, Wells Fargo's recent philanthropy recipients include: A+ Education Partnership, Alabama
Educational Television, Alabama Humanities Foundation, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Alabama Symphony, Birmingham Botanical Gardens, Birmingham Children's Theatre, Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Birmingham Education Foundation, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham Zoo, Junior Achievement, McWane Science Center, Metropolitan Arts Council, Red Mountain Theatre, Teach for America, United Way of Central Alabama, and Vulcan Park Foundation, among many others.

Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) serves over 1.1 million customers in Alabama at 190 locations. Wells Fargo is a nationwide, diversified, community-based financial services company with $1.3 trillion in assets. Founded in 1852 and headquartered in San Francisco, Wells Fargo provides banking, insurance, investments, mortgage, and consumer and
commercial finance through more than 9,000 stores, 12,000 ATMs, the Internet (wellsfargo.com and wachovia.com), and other distribution channels across North America and internationally. With approximately 275,000 team members, Wells Fargo serves one in three households in America. Wells Fargo & Company was ranked No. 23 on Fortune’s 2011
rankings of America’s largest corporations. Wells Fargo’s vision is to satisfy all our customers’ financial needs and help them succeed financially.

Jenice Riley Memorial Scholarships
Also presented during the luncheon were individual scholarships in memory of Jenice Riley, the late daughter of Governor Bob and Patsy
Riley. The $1,000 awards are given to teachers to enhance their teaching abilities by purchasing classroom materials for a special project, offering a class field trip or attending a seminar or institute in the subject areas of history and civics.

The 2011 Jenice Riley Memorial Scholarships were awarded to:

Rebecca J. Davis of Centreville, teaches at Cahawba Christian Academy, Centreville, Ala.

Debbie Redden and Tammy Quillin of Montgomery, teach at Montgomery Catholic Prepatory, St. Bede Campus, Montgomery, Ala.

Mallory Richardson of Homewood, teaches at Edgewood Elementary School, Homewood, Ala.

Stephane Nicole Singleton of Killen, teaches at Harlan Elementary School, Florence, Ala.

Thank you to the sponsors of the 2011 Alabama Humanities awards luncheon!

Past Recipients of the Alabama Humanities Award

2010 — Edgar Welden, civic leader

2009 — William C. Carter, Emeritus Distinguished Professor of French, UAB, former AHF chair

2008 — Senator Richard Shelby

2007 — Jack Warner, businessman, philanthropist, founder of Westervelt Warner Museum of American Art, Tuscaloosa

2006 — Bert Hitchcock, literary scholar, Auburn University, former AHF board

2005 — Neal Berte, civic leader, retired President of Birmingham-Southern College; and Joe McInnes, civic leader, Montgomery

2004 — Senator Howell Heflin, retired U.S. Senator, Tuscumbia

2003 — Harry Philpott, retired President of Auburn University, founding AHF board member

2002 — Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird

2001 — Ed Bridges, Director of Alabama State Department of Archives and History, former AHF board

2000 —Kathryn Tucker Windham, author, storyteller; and Jim Yarbrough, former Dean of College of Arts and Sciences, University of Alabama, former AHF board chair

1998 — Emory Cunningham, publisher, philanthropist, former Auburn trustee and AHF board

1997 — Odessa Woolfolk, civic leader, historian, founder of Birmingham Civil Rights Institute

1996 — Governor Albert Brewer, former governor, law professor, Birmingham

1995 — Suzanne Wolfe, editor, founder of Alabama Heritage magazine, Tuscaloosa

1994 — Philip Morris, architectural and landscape preservationist, Southern Living editor-at-large

1993 — Leah Rawls Atkins, historian, founding Director of Auburn University Center for Arts and Humanities

1992 — Judge C. J. Coley, historian, civic leader, Alexander City

1991 — Wayne Flynt, historian, author, Auburn University

1990 — Virginia Van der Veer Hamilton, historian, author, University of Alabama at Birmingham

1989 — Winton M. Blount, philanthropist, civic leader, Montgomery

Past Winners of the Charitable Organization in the Humanities Award

2010 — Robert R. Meyer Foundation

2007 — Susan Mott Webb Foundation

2006 — Daniel Foundation

2003 — AmSouth Bank

2002 — Alabama Power Company

2001 — Southern Progress Corporation

1998 — Protective Life Corp

1997 — Mike Warren/Energen

1995 — Jim Wilson/Jim Wilson & Associates