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UA Staff Member Named Honor Society's Outstanding Adviser
The University Of Alabama Press Receives Awards

UA Staff Member Named Honor Society's Outstanding Adviser

Beverly Kellen

The national president of Alpha Lambda Delta honor society announced University of Alabama staff member Beverly Kellen as the Outstanding Adviser of 2002-2003. The National Council of Alpha Lambda Delta selected Kellen, assistant director of UA's Russell Student Health Center, for the award from numerous chapter nominations. Kellen has served within the UA's Health Center's administration since 1973. She has been Alpha Lambda Delta's administrative adviser since 1992.

"Mrs. Kellen cares so much about being a responsible adviser that she has never missed an officers meeting or a general meeting," said Lisa Vaughn, UA's Alpha Lambda Delta vice president. She invites the officers into her home for special meetings and shares the organization's history and purpose with students. She maintains an open door policy towards its members.

Alpha Lambda Delta, founded at the University of Illinois in 1924, is a national society honoring academic excellence during a student's first year in college. It has 239 chapters throughout the United States and has initiated more than 650,000 students. The Outstanding Adviser Award has been given annually since 1992.

The University Of Alabama Press Receives Awards

The University of Alabama Press has announced that several of its recent publications have received recognition for their excellence and their literary achievement from ForeWord Magazine, Organization of American Historians, and The Alabama Library Association.

ForeWord Magazine, which is circulated to acquisition librarians, independent and chain booksellers, has named Discovering Alabama Wetlands and It Wasn't All Dancing and Other Stories among its Book of the Year Awards winners. The magazine's Book of the Year Awards were established to bring increased attention from librarians and booksellers to the literary achievements of independent publishers and their authors. The winners and finalists -- chosen by a jury of librarians, booksellers, and reviewers -- are selected based on editorial excellence, professional production, originality, and the value the book adds to its genre.

Discovering Alabama Wetlands, text by Doug Phillips and photographs by Robert Falls Sr., received the Silver Award in the Nature category. Mary Ward Brown's It Wasn't All Dancing and Other Stories received the Bronze Award in the Fiction-Short Stories category.

Dividing Lines: Municipal Politics and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Montgomery, Birmingham, and Selma by J. Mills Thornton, III has been selected as the winner of the 2003 Liberty Legacy Foundation Award by the Organization of American Historians. This award is given annually for the best book on any aspect of the struggle for civil rights in the United States from the nation's founding to the present.

Two of the Alabama Library n Association's three awards went to publications from The University of Alabama Press. Author Mary Ward Brown received the fiction award for her 2002 publication, It Wasn't all Dancing and other Stories. Co-editors Samuel Webb and Margaret Armbrester received the nonfiction award for Alabama Governors: A Political History of the State, a 2001 publication.