Unknown Major, ’32 Born Melvin Allen Israel, he was a student manager for the Crimson Tide’s football and baseball programs before receiving a chance to do play-by-play for UA football games. He earned undergraduate and law degrees from UA before winning an audition to announce in New York for CBS Radio in 1936. Allen broadcast his first World Series in 1938 and joined the Yankees the following year, where he stayed for the next 25 seasons. He was the voice […]
Unknown Major, ’45 Ann Wood Waldron was an author who initially focused on writing for children and young adults, but turned her work to biographies of authors from the South, and eventually shifted to writing murder mysteries. She earned a degree in journalism from UA and was editor of The Crimson White. Waldron met her Pulitzer Prize-winner husband, Martin Waldron, while working for The Atlanta Constitution. Ann Waldron wrote biographies on Hodding Carter (Hodding Carter: The Reconstruction of a Racist) […]