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[ Michael J. Card ] - [ Brig. Gen. Kenneth R. Fleenor ] - [ Marnel Clay Morman ]
Card's talents were recognized by Shirley Dobson of Focus on the Family when she commissioned him to write the theme song for the 1993 National Day of Prayer, Heal Our Land. As an author, Card has been nominated for a C.S. Lewis Children's Book Award (Sleep Sound in Jesus) and is a three-time finalist for the Evangelical Press Association Gold Medallion Award (Sleep Sound in Jesus, Immanuel: Reflections on the Life of Christ and Close Your Eyes So You Can See). He is also highly regarded as a Bible teacher and has written a commentary on the Gospel of John titled The Parable of Joy. Card, who lives in Franklin, Tenn., is married to Susan Kepley Card, a 1981 WKU graduate. They have four children. Brig. Gen. Kenneth R. Fleenor Fleenor has continued to be busy after retirement. Now living in Selma, Texas, he has been involved with city government, serving three years on the Selma City Council and seven years as mayor. He has also served on various civic boards, was a regional coordinator for the Governor's Texan's War on Drugs Committee, was general manager of the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo and operated a beverage company in San Antonio. He is married to the former Anne Read of Scottsville. They have five children and 11 grandchildren.
Moorman taught in Shelby County for 21 years and was on leave from the school system while serving as KEA president. He worked his way through the system, serving as president of the Shelby County and Fifth District education associations; eight years on the KEA Board of Directors; KEA delegate for 24 years and a delegate to the National Education Association Representative Assembly for 21 years. His favorite phrase was, "Children are our most precious resource." Moorman was also considered a community activist, belonging to various committees and task forces working to improve Shelbyville and Shelby County. He was a member of the Clay Street Baptist Church in Shelbyville and the local, state and national branches of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. He was married to the former Laura Loving. They have two daughters, Tolya and Elizabeth, and a son, Marnel Jr. A third daughter, Alison, died in 1993 while working on her master's degree at Western.
He has received honors from the Kansas City and Wisconsin Civil Liberties Unions, the International Salon of Cartoons Award and the National Headliners Award. His cartoons have also caught the attention, and comments, of U.S. presidents from Lyndon Johnson to George Bush. Sanders, a native of Springfield, TN., lives in Ft. Myers, FL., with his wife, Joyce. They have four children and nine grandchildren.
In 1971, at age 45, he was elected president and CEO of C&O/B&O, and in 1973, added the title of chairman of the board. As the mergers continued, so did Watkins' rise. In 1975, he became chairman, president and CEO of Chessie System Inc.; in 1980, president and co-CEO of CSX Corporation; in 1982, chairman and CEO of CSX; and in 1989, chairman of the CSX Board of Directors, a position he held until his retirement in 1991. He is now chairman emeritus of CSX. His advancement was somewhat unusual because Watkins background was in finance, not in transportation operations. Watkins said he was able to understand the railroad's operations and tell where the company was headed by studying its figures. Watkins life has not been limited to railroads. He has been a director with various corporations, including Black & Decker, Westinghouse Electric and Signet Banking; a rector on the Board of Visitors at the College of William and Mary; and a member of the Board of Trustees, School of Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University. In addition, he has been active in many civic organizations, including the Cleveland Orchestra, Richmond Symphony and the Greater Richmond YMCA. He has received numerous honorary doctoral degrees; the Man-of-the-Year Award from Modern Railroads Magazine; Excellence in Management Award, Industry Week Magazine; Virginia Outstanding Industrialist of the Year; Distinguished Service Award, Virginia Chamber of Commerce; and the Community Service Award, Metropolitan Richmond Chamber of Commerce. Watkins and his wife, Betty, live in Richmond, Va.
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biblical scholar. The singer, songwriter and author holds a master's degree in biblical studies from Western (1980). Card began his recording career in 1981 with First Light. He has been able to blend carefully-drawn insights from the Bible with deftly-crafted melodies, resulting in more than 15 critically-acclaimed albums and nearly two million in sales, including a gold-certified lullaby album, Sleep Sound in Jesus. He has also received recognition from his peers with five Gospel Music Association Dove Awards: Songwriter of the Year, Song of the Year (El Shaddai), Children's Album of the Year (Come to the Cradle), and two for Praise and Worship Album of the Year (The Final Word and Coram Deo).
Force to become a brigadier general with many decorations and director of all flight operations for the USAF Air Training Command. Fleenor, 67, a 1952 Western graduate, was commissioned into the Air Force as a second lieutenant, earning his wings in 1953. During his 28-year career, he also served as flight commander, squadron commander, director of flight operations, base commander and wing commander. Before retiring in 1980, Fleenor logged more than 6000 flying hours in jet fighters and trainers, including 184 combat hours. 
years that followed the implementation of the 1990 Kentucky Education Reform Act. Marnel Clay Moorman was the first African American to be elected vice president and then president of KEA. He was serving his second term as KEA president when he was killed in an automobile accident in 1994. Moorman was born in Central City in 1943. He earned his bachelor's degree from Western in 1965 and later earned his master's degree from Georgetown College. He began his teaching career in Shelbyville in 1965; was elected KEA vice president in 1986, 1988 and 1990 and KEA president in 1992 and 1994. "His guidance, wisdom and gentle understanding calmed the fears of many teachers as they steered into the uncharted waters of school reform," said Janet Carrico, KEA vice president at the time of Moorman's death. Carrico said that Moorman will "be remembered for his devotion to Kentucky's school children and to his belief that education reform must succeed to create a better future for them."
from WKU in 1955. Armed with a national football passing record as quarterback, Sanders was to play with the Cleveland Browns, but was sidelined by a military tour in Korea and Japan. There he discovered a passion for drawing editorial cartoons. After two years at the Stars and Stripes, Sanders spent four years at the Greensboro Daily News and another four at the Kansas City Star before taking up residency at the Milwaukee Journal (1967-91).
and a conductor and, during his graduate studies, he began photographing trains passing through Chicago and the collection remains one of his treasured possessions. So Watkins' rapid rise to chairman of CSX Corporation is not surprising. The path he took, however, was somewhat unusual. A native of the Louisville suburb of Fern Creek, Watkins earned his bachelor's degree from Bowling Green Business University (now WKU) in 1947 and a master's degree from Northwestern University in 1948. In 1949, he joined Chesapeake and Ohio Railway as a staff analyst and by 1961 had become C&O's treasurer. In 1964, following the affiliation of C&O and Baltimore and Ohio railways, Watkins was elected vice president for finance for both companies.