Two "Realizing the Dream" Events Scheduled at
Shelton State
Tuscaloosa - The "Realizing the Dream" Committee has scheduled two events
during Black History Month at Shelton State Community College. "Realizing
the Dream" activities are supported by Shelton State Community College, the
University of Alabama and Stillman College.
Dr. Steven H. Hobbs, an accomplished storyteller, will perform
on Thursday, February 2 at 7:30 p.m. in the Alabama Power Foundation Recital
Hall in the Sandra Hall Ray Fine Arts Center on the Martin Campus at 9500
Old Greensboro Road in Tuscaloosa.
In addition to being a storyteller, Steven H. Hobbs is an educator, lawyer,
poet, ethicist, historian, quilter, entrepreneur consultant, actor,
community organizer, and world traveler. Steven sees himself as a
story-framer, one who structures stories around history, law,
entrepreneurship, culture and life. Storyteller Hobbs likes to share
stories of wisdom, humor and the triumph of the human spirit.
Dr. Hobbs serves on the faculty of the University of Alabama School of Law.
He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1975 with a Bachelor
of Arts degree and received the juris doctor from the University of
Pennsylvania Law School in 1979. Professor Hobbs was a member of the
Washington and Lee law faculty for 16 years before accepting the position of
Tom Bevill Chairholder of Law at Alabama in 1997. He also has visited on the
law faculties at Willamette University and Florida State University.
On Thursday, February 9, Reverend Warner R. Durnell will return to
Tuscaloosa to present "Readings from the Works of Dr. Martin Luther King,
Jr."
Durnell earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from The Lincoln University
(Lincoln University, Pennsylvania), with a major in political science.
After completing his undergraduate degree, he began his seminary training at
the Interdenominational Theological Center of Atlanta, Georgia, and
completed his Masters of Divinity degree from Columbia Theological Seminary
of Decatur, Georgia.
Ordained to the Ministry of Word and Sacrament of the Presbyterian Church
USA, Warner has served as a local church pastor, campus minister, college
chaplain, college instructor, and church governing body administrator at
synod and presbytery levels. This service to the Church has taken him to
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Nashville, Tennessee,
and now to Huntsville, Alabama where he serves as the Executive Presbyter
for the North Alabama Presbytery. While in Tuscaloosa he served as Pastor
of The Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church, Instructor and Chaplain at
Stillman College from 1982 thru 1988.
Reverend Durnell's readings in the Alabama Power Foundation Recital Hall
will be accompanied by B. Stanley Graham on the jazz trumpet.
Graham is a multi-talented native of Charlotte, North Carolina who began his
career as a musician, arranger and composer in the late 1960s. He graduated
from the University of North Carolina Charlotte where he was certified to
teach instrumental music. While teaching in Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools,
he performed with numerous groups and worked with Quincy Jones on "The Color
Purple." Other theatrical productions include "Bubbling Brown Sugar," "God
Trombones," and "My Grandmother Prayed for Me," for which he served as
musical director for the premiere production.
Both of the "Realizing the Dream" events are free and open to the public,
however seating is limited. A reception will follow each of the
performances.
For more information, please contact Linda Grote at 205/391-2253 or by email
at lgrote@sheltonstate.edu.
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