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Graduate Schools /
Spring Hill College |
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Famous graduates and faculty |
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- Edward Troye is a famous
mid-19th century artist. He
taught French and drawing at the college
from 1849 to 1855.
- Paul Morphy graduated in the Spring of 1855 at 18 years of age. He was generally considered to have been the strongest chess master of his time, as well as the first recorded chess prodigy in history.
In 1957, a centennial monument dedicated to Morphy's 1857 victory in the First American Chess
Conference was erected behind Mobile Hall. It was presented by the Log Cabin National Chess Affiliation (now
defunct).
- Joe Langan is a former Alabama state senator and mayor of Mobile, Alabama, and is credited with having maintained the peace during the racial turmoil of the 1960s, when many other southern Alabama cities were attracting national attention because of their racism. He graduated from the college in 1951.
- Jeremiah Denton was one of the most famous American POWs during the Vietnam War. A pilot during the
war, he was shot down on July 18, 1965 while flying a combat mission. He was subsequently
captured and tortured for seven years. He is perhaps most famous for a TV interview he gave during his time as a prisoner of war,
in which he blinked the word "torture" in morse code during what was supposed to be a North-Vietnamese propaganda piece on the
"humane" treatment of detainees. He is the author of the book, When Hell was in Session, which details his experiences as a prisoner of war.
- Robert McCown, S.J. is a
Jesuit artist and literatus. In 1979,
he filmed the award-winning documentary República Jesuítica del Paraguay, which depicts the efforts of Jesuits in the 17th and 18th centuries in Paraguay. He taught at Spring Hill in
1968.
- Brian D. Melton is
president of the Dallas Bar Association. He graduated from the college in 1980.
- Joe Miller is a research biologist who helped discover that
IRDS (infant respiratory distress syndrome) was due to a lack of surfactants. This research led to the discovery of a treatment for infants with this condition.
- Blake Stein is a baseball pitcher for
the Pittsburgh Pirates in the National League. He graduated from Spring Hill in 1994.
- John Patrick
McGraw was a journalist for the Denver Post for twenty years. He taught journalism and headed
the SpringHillian during his time at the college from 1993 to 2003.
- Nick Dupree is an activist for the Disability Rights Movement. His two-year campaign to change health care laws in Alabama resulted in a special program for people with particular disability needs to continue home nursing care after they turn 21. In 2003, he received
the National Advocacy and Protection Systems award for Self-Advocate of the
Year. He is a current student at Spring Hill.
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| Edgar Allan Poe attended West Point. |
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