PR 2006 Feb U5

                                                    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.