A former University of Alabama president and chancellor is the new namesake of the school's Fellows Program after a substantial gift from the family of a devoted alumna. The naming of the Dr. Robert E. Witt University Fellows Program was approved by the University of Alabama System Board of Trustees on February 2.
When Dana Patton, an eighth grade English teacher at Horn Lake Middle School, left her home in Southaven to attend a teachers conference in Florida in June, she did not