Three to receive honorary degrees during Birmingham-南部 College’s commencement
Three to receive honorary degrees during Birmingham-南部 College’s commencement
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五月. 15, 2017
阿拉巴马州的伯明翰.--Birmingham-南部 College will grant three honorary degrees in addition to more than 260 undergraduate degrees at its 158th spring commencement ceremony at 9 a.m. on 五月 27 in Bill Battle Coliseum on campus.
荣誉学位获得者, who have devoted their lives to service and the betterment of humanity, 是 威廉"比尔"雷恩斯战役三, former 澳门新葡京官网 trustee, businessman, and college athletics director; 亨丽埃塔·博格斯-麦奎尔， the former First Lady of Costa Rica who helped lead that country’s 1948 revolution; and 德瑞·布莱斯·邦廷，1969年， 澳门新葡京官网受托人及慈善家.
Battle will receive an honorary Doctor of Law for his enormous impact on higher education in the state and nation. He is the father of collegiate athletic licensing as it is known today; in 1981, he founded the Collegiate Licensing Co., which started in Alabama and quickly grew to represent almost 200 of the nation’s top colleges, 大学, 碗游戏, 还有体育会议. He sold the company in 2007 and recently retired as athletic director for the University of Alabama, 他的母校.
Battle’s has deep ties to Birmingham-南部; the college’s Bill Battle Coliseum is named for his father, 小威廉·雷恩斯·巴特尔., who served as 澳门新葡京官网’s athletics director from 1952-1974 and was inducted into the inaugural class of the 澳门新葡京官网 Sports Hall of Fame. Battle’s uncle, 澳门新葡京官网 graduate Laurie Battle, served three terms as a U.S. Congressman, and numerous other family members attended the college. Bill served on the 澳门新葡京官网 Board of Trustees from 1998-2009, and has given generously to the college--providing support for the Hall of Fame Room in the coliseum, 黑豹体育场的战场, and for the college’s general programs.
Boggs-MacGuire will receive an honorary Doctor of Humanities to acknowledge her lifelong promotion of social change and equality. When the 22-year-old Boggs-MacGuire---then a junior at Birmingham-南部--decided to visit her aunt and uncle in Costa Rica, she had no idea she would end up influencing the fate of that nation. 在那次访问中, she met and fell in love with Jose Figueres, a coffee farmer who would go on to lead the democratic revolution against the corrupt power structure. 她于2010年10月与他结婚. 18, 1941 and spent two years with him in exile in Mexico and El Salvador. After the disputed presidential election of 1948 led to civil war, Figueres led the rebel army to victory and became president of the temporary junta.
作为总统, Figueres directed the creation of a new constitution and enacted numerous popular reforms--many of them stemming from the perspective his wife brought with her from the U.S. In her 18 months as first lady of Costa Rica, she pushed her husband for important changes, especially giving women the right to vote. Figueres abolished the army, freeing up money for education and social benefits. 他于1949年放弃了权力, turning the government over to the country’s rightfully elected president; Figueres later served two more terms, but by then Boggs-MacGuire had left the marriage, 回到美国的家.S., where she was active in civil rights, women’s rights, and labor activism. She currently lives in Montgomery (she turned 99 on 五月 6); the recent award-winning documentary film 革命第一夫人 与世界分享她的故事.
Bunting will receive an honorary Doctor of Law for her lifelong commitment to service and her alma mater. 她和她的丈夫，博士. 彼得·邦廷，1966年, provided the seed money and established an endowed fund to enhance and support 澳门新葡京官网’s service-learning program, now called the Bunting Center for 参与d Study and Community Action. The center fit their philosophy that education provides a way to make the world a better place. They also wanted to make a distinction between volunteering and service-learning, which blends meaningful service with instruction and reflection to solve deep societal problems. Since the center’s founding in 2007, hundreds of 澳门新葡京官网 students have benefitted from its programs, taking part in engaged service through their coursework, 与社区伙伴合作, across the world during 探索术语, 以及另类春假.
Derry graduated with a degree in elementary education. She has served on the 澳门新葡京官网 Board of Trustees since 2014 and has been involved with the Birmingham Museum of Art and the Altamont School, along with numerous other community organizations in Birmingham. She and Peter have supported 澳门新葡京官网 as members of the Endowment Builders Society; by funding the Peter D. Bunting Physical Chemistry Laboratory in the Stephens Science Center, and by establishing the Derry Brice and Peter Douglas Bunting M.D. Endowed Scholarship, which supports pre-medical students from single-p是nt 首页s.
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Birmingham-南部 College is a four-year, private liberal arts institution in Birmingham, Ala., founded in 1856 and affiliated with the United Methodist Church. It enrolls about 1,300 students from more than 30 states and 15 foreign countries.