1999 Inductees

Carl Elliott

Carl Elliott never taught in a class-room, but millions of Americans owe their education to him. (more)

Elmo Ellis

Many broadcast pioneers worked magic with equipment. Elmo Ellis worked magic with people. (more)

Annabel Hagood

Nothing is more vital to the democratic arts than spirited and lively debate, and few have been as vital to the study and practice of debate as Annabel Hagood, a towering figure in intercollegiate forensics. (more)

Robert Luckie

Bob Luckie created and directed the first advertising agency in Alabama that brought major, prestigious accounts to the state. He was also responsible for perhaps the most famous and effective television ad ever seen in Alabama. (more)

Carmage Walls

"Spend less money than you take in." Carmage Walls’s formula for making a profit was, by his own admission, ridiculously simple. What he really made, though, was opportunity. And he offered it to the dozens of young newspaper publishers and owners he mentored. (more)

Edward O. Wilson

In his memoir, Naturalist, Edward O. Wilson wrote, "The University of Alabama saved me. . . [It] was and is the home of first-rate scholars and teachers, and of abounding opportunities for students who come there, as I did in 1946, to learn about the world, to enter a profession, and, if you will permit an old-fashioned expression, to make something of themselves." (more)