Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Poetic Obituaries: [Joy] Agee said [Maria Ragland] Davis challenged

her students to "think, especially critically, outside the box" and that she had "high expectations of them."

She called [Adriel] Johnson the "backbone of the mentoring process at UA Huntsville."

Talitha Holmes-Caudle, a doctoral student under Davis, said her professor loved animals and jazz and was a published poet.

Fighting back tears as she spoke, Holmes-Caudle recalled the time when some chicks hatched from embryos during an experiment. Davis couldn't bring herself to kill them so she found a home at Old McDonald's Petting Farm.

from The Huntsville Times: Professors memorialized in services Thursday

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