Synopsis
Alabama: The Progress, The Promise By Ralph Stacy and Kristina Sauerwein From the quiet bayous along Alabama s southern shore to the roar of rocket engines at Huntsville in the north, the golden Heart of Dixie beats anew in the Yellowhammer State. Alabama: The Progress, The Promise tells in words and pictures how Alabama shines as a beacon of racial healing in the New South, as Don Logan puts it in his foreword; how it hums as an important center of aerospace and automaking; and how it reaps the bounty of its fertile economic environment. Alabama: The Progress, The Promise shows how the past, the present, and the future abide side-by-side in Alabama. Here we find such storied schools as Tuskegee University, with its Air Force ROTC program upholding the legacy of the Tuskegee Airmen of World War II. Where Governor George Wallace once took his stand in the schoolhouse door at the University of Alabama, we find a universally respected center of learning, with its public law school, its doctoral programs, and its Crimson Tide sports teams. Where Admiral David Farragut broke through Confederate defenses at the Battle of Mobile Bay, we now find the deepwater Port of Mobile with its extensive intermodal freight facilities. And nestled along the state s extensive inland waterways and within its broad forests we find bustling business incubators and ultramodern research parks. Alabama: The Progress, The Promise paints the new Alabama as a land of hope and opportunity, freed of divisive politics, friendly to business and industry, and extending that most Southern of virtues, hospitality, to friends and strangers alike.
About the Author
Ralph Stacy CAE, is president/CEO of the Chamber of Commerce Association of Alabama, a professional development and governmental relations organization that represents over 120 chambers of commerce in Alabama. He currently holds the professional designation of Certified Association Director from the American Society of Association Executives. Stacy, an Eagle Scout, is a sixth-generation Alabamian, raised in the small town of Georgiana, and still resides in his native Butler County. He is a graduate of Huntingdon College, where he was a member of the collegiate golf team, and is a columnist, syndicated radio sports show host, a television spokesman, motivational speaker, strategic planning facilitator, emcee and auctioneer, and a bi-vocational Independent Methodist minister. Stacy is an active participant in state business advocacy efforts, serving on the board of directors of the Business Council of Alabama; in children s advocacy issues as a governor s appointee to the Alabama Partnership for Children and as founding chairman of the Butler County Children s Advocacy Center; and on a professional level as an executive officer of the Alabama Council of Association Executives. He is a graduate of Class XVI of Leadership Alabama. Stacy is an avid golfer, reader, and outdoorsman. He and his wife, Angel, have one daughter, Savannah. Kristina Sauerwein is an award-winning journalist, author, and business writer based in St. Louis, Missouri. This is the fourth book she has written for Cherbo Publishing Group. For more than a decade, Sauerwein worked as a staff writer for several daily newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times, where she was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize in breaking news for coverage of the 2003 wildfires that devastated Southern California. She also freelances for general interest and trade magazines as well as for businesses and organizations. Sauerwein earned her journalism and sociology degrees from Syracuse University in New York, wher
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