Jesse Milby, Ph.D., has many memories of meeting with colleagues at Ted’s Steakhouse when it was located on 18th Street.

Maggie Hawkins (left), Jesse Milby (right) and the recently retired J. Daniel Lynn will be honored for 40 years of service to UAB at this year’s service awards program to be held Friday, Feb. 27.

Milby has seen every change on and around UAB’s campus during the past 40 years. Milby, along with Maggie Hawkins in the nurse anesthesia program and the recently retired J. Daniel Lynn from the Department of Medicine, will be honored for 40 years of service to UAB at this year’s service awards program.

A luncheon honoring more than 260 employees with 20 or more years of service will be held Friday, Feb. 27. All employees with five or more years of service will be invited to a reception in their honor the same day.

Milby had offers through the years to go to different universities, but says nothing ever compared to UAB.

“Every time I had an offer to leave I thought UAB was a place with more potential where I could make a contribution and use my talents,” Milby says.

Milby, who directs of the medical psychology doctoral program, continues to research ways to develop more cost-effective treatments for cocaine dependence.

“We have one of the few evidence-based effective treatments with cocaine dependence,” Milby says. “We’ve been collaborating with Birmingham Health Care since 1990 on these projects. We’ve completed four randomized controlled trials that have demonstrated and replicated the effectiveness of this intervention.”

Hawkins, an office associate in the nurse anesthesia program, also has seen many changes. She came to UAB in January 1969 looking for a job and was hired as a patient assistant by Harold Dodge, then the director of the cardiovascular research department. She moved to nephrology soon after and became a part of the nurse anesthesia program in 1974; she continues to work there today.

“I remember coming into this program when they needed a secretary and walking into my office and seeing a desk with three stacks of files from the floor to the ceiling,” she says. “There were no file cabinets, but I did have a typewriter. I had to start from scratch in helping to get the program set up, but I loved it.”

Hawkins says she has no intentions to retire any time soon.

“I’m not retirement age,” she says with a laugh. “I really like where I am. I love my school and co-workers.”

This year’s other honorees are:

Honored 20-Year                             

Mary Beth Adams (Office Planning & Analysis); Jonathan H. Amsbary (Communication Studies); C. Suzanne Baker (Preventive Medicine); Carey Ballenger (Design Build Construction); Willie Barham (Parking & Transportation Services); David Bedwell (Microbiology); William Belser (Preventive Medicine); William Benjamin (Optometry); Suman Bharara (Center for Biophysical Sciences/Engineering); Sharon Blount (Pediatrics-Infectious Disease); Elizabeth Bolton (Periodontology); Elaine Broussard (Office of Asst VP Occupational Health & Safety); Kathleen Burch (OB/GYN); Robin Burkett (CIRC); Amy Burks-Jones (UAB Police); Olivia Burnett (Sterne Library); Danny Cash (Campus Services); Louise Cecil (A&H Dean’s Office); Jeffrey Clair (Sociology); David Clowdus (Campus Maintenance); J. A. Cooper (Pulmonary/Allergy/Critical Care); Linda Copeland (NSM Dean’s Office); Anne Cusic (Biology); Sharon Dailey (Cardiovascular Disease); Helen Davenport (Accounts Payable); Louis Dell’Italia (Cardiovascular Disease); Georg Deutsch (Radiology); Margaret Dodd (Anesthesiology); John Edwards (Central Utilities); Rita Elston (Office of Exec Director Accounting); Ann Eppley (Pulmonary/Allergy/Critical Care); Vicki Farris (Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation); Tongia Franklin Feagins (OB/GYN); Douglas Gann (Central Utilities); John Gnann (Infectious Diseases); Leathea Gray (Print Plant); Marcia Green (Gerontology/Geriatrics/Palliative Care); Donna Guevara (Anesthesiology); Thomas Hancock (Huntsville Clinic-General); Gregory Harber (Microbiology); Susan Harding (Pulmonary/Allergy/Critical Care); E. Jay Harris (Lister Hill Library); Marguerese Harris (OB/GYN); Robert Bruce Herndon (Radio Paging); Bryan Higgins (Cardiovascular Disease); Jimmy Hollis (Campus Maintenance); Teresa Holly (Payroll Services); William  Holman (Cardiovascular/ Thoracic Surgery); Anne Elizabeth Hubbell (Preventive Medicine); Sean-Shong Hwang (Sociology); Robert Hyatt (Computer & Information Science); Carole Jackson (OB/GYN); Veronica Jackson (Hematology & Oncology); Theda Jackson (Hematology & Oncology); Beverly Jackson (Sterne Library); Amie Jackson (Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation); Wei-Fan Jia (Microbiology); Clisby Jones (Orthopaedic Surgery); Jannet Katz (Pediatric Dentistry); Larry Kelley (Campus Maintenance); Demosthenes Lalisan (Office of Asst VP Occupational Health & Safety); William Lenker (Optometry Clinical Services); Alfreda Lewis (Comprehensive Cancer Center); Bridget Lewis (Family & Community Medicine); Helen Lewis (Building Services); Terrie Lippeatt (Payroll Services); Timothy Love (Office of Exec Director Procurement); Jane Lucas (Medicine); David Macrina (Education); Joyce Marsh (Athletics); Leah McCraney (TRIO Academic Services); James McDill (Grounds); Carrie McGlone (HR); Timothy McMinn (Budget & Payroll);  Gloria Merkerson (Building Services); Judith Miller (Preventive Medicine); Nina Mims (Building Services); Paul Mosteller (Music); Joanne Murphy-Ullrich (Molecular & Cellular Pathology); Donna Myers (Medicine); Fay Newman (Huntsville Medical Programs); Vicki Noles (Infectious Diseases); Mary Norwood (Education); Riedar Oestenstad (Environmental Health Sciences); John Olive (Sterne Library); Lue O’Neal (Preventive Medicine); Peter Pappas (Infectious Diseases); David Parkinson (Optometry); Ransom Pewitt (Education Training & General Safety); Patty Pilkerton (Sterne Library); Patrick Pouncey (The University Computer Center); Bonnie  Powell (HR); Richard Powers (Neuropathology); Jannis Reeves (CIRC); Michael Alan Riccio (Office Planning & Analysis); Julio Rivera (Accounting & Information Systems); Leslie William Roberts (Medicine); Margarete Roser (Medicine); Richard Sanders (Grounds); Nalini Sathiakumar (Epidemiology); Harry Schroeder (Immunology/ Rheumatology); P. Linda Sellers (Preventive Medicine); Gary Simmons (Forensic Pathology); John Sloan (Justice Sciences); Craig Smith (Vision Sciences); Shelia Smith (Student Financial Aid); Cheryl Anne Smyth (Transplantation Surgery); Scott Snyder (Education); Marion Spell (Center for AIDS Research); Alan Sprague (Computer & Information Science); Catherine Sreenan (Cardiovascular Disease); Thomas Struzick (Center for Comm. Health Resources & Dev.); Debra Tate (UAB Police); Romeo Thigpen (Central Utilities); Theresa  Thomas (Prosthodontics); Joanice Thompson (Comprehensive Cancer Center); Richard Toliver (Building Services); Patrick Umeda (Cardiovascular Disease); David Warnock (Nephrology); Wanda Washington (Building Services); R. D. Watson (Biology); Samuel Webb (History); Robert Wells (Design Build Construction); James Williams (Building Services); Holly Williams-Smith (OB/GYN); David Wolford (Telecommunications); Kennedy Woods (UAB Police); William Yarbrough (Education Training & General Safety); K. R. Young (Pulmonary/Allergy/Critical Care); Tina Young (Psychiatry)

Honored 25-Year                             

Gordon Apperson (Campus Maintenance); Rosa Arnold (Epidemiology); Cynthia Atkins (Gastroenterology); Robert Barfield (Endodontics); Lincoln Berland (Radiology); Phillip Borden (The University Computer Center); Isabell Boyd (Finance, Economics & Quantitative Methods); Shelby Brasher (Hospital Maintenance); Charles Brown (Sterne Library); Barrett Bryant (Computer & Information Science); Rosemary Bubien (Cardiovascular Disease); Peter Burrows (Microbiology); Donna Carter (Prosthodontics); Edward Colvin (Pediatric Cardiology); Lynda Cosby (Hematology & Oncology); Carlton Craig (Emergency Medicine); Doris Crittenden (Diagnostic Sciences); Janice Daniel (Transplantation Surgery); James Elliott (Telecommunications); Robert Ellis (Telecommunications); Adella Ellis (OB/GYN); Vivian Friedman (Child & Adolescent Psychology); Roderick Fullard (Vision Sciences); Hugh Gainer (Office of Assoc VP Business Services); Peter Ginter (Health Care Organization & Policy); Adam Gordon (Optometry); Renea Graves (Office Planning & Analysis); Gary Gray (Chemistry); Lindy Harrell (Neurology); Donna Hester (Education); Linda Higgins (MIST); N. P. Higgins (Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics); M. G. Hill (Nursing Adult/Acute Health); Jeri Hodo (OB/GYN); Sylvia Ingram (Medical Student Services); Ellen Johnson (Grants & Contracts Administration); Ann Johnson (Student Accounting); Richard Jope (Behavioral Neurobiology); Harold Kincaid (Philosophy); Connie Kohler (Health Behavior); Janice Lacey (Grants & Contracts Accounting); James Lee (Central Utilities); Terry Lewey (Radiology); Albert Lobuglio (Hematology & Oncology); Andrew Marsch (Office of Asst VP Student Life); Judy Mason (Nursing); Ronald McClain (Campus Maintenance); Rebecca McCrary (Medical Education Information Services); Zina Moldoveanu (Microbiology); David Morris (Physical Therapy); Barbara Mullis (Surgery-Gastrointestinal); Rodger Nesmith (Equipment Accounting); Freddie Oglesby (Biology); Sara Patterson (Health Services Administration); Susan Perkins (Dermatology); Ardia Perry (Post Office); Patricia Pippen (Surgery-Orthopaedic); Firoz Rahemtulla (Prosthodontics); Midge Ray (Health Information Management Program); John Rogers (Minority Business Training & Dev); Yoshimi Saito (Mathematics); Sheila Sanders (Office of VP Information Technology); Raymond Schroeder (Campus Maintenance); Bruce Wayne Seals (Sterne Library); Mary Shepherd (Orthopaedic Surgery); Margaret Smith (Montgomery Internal Medicine); Wanda Stevenson (Sterne Library); Brenda Stofan (Nephrology); Annie Stokes (Office of Exec Director Procurement); Tina R. Stone (Center for AIDS Research); Linda Struggs (Education); Debra Talley (Student Financial Aid); Josephine May Taylor (OB/GYN); Janice Vincent (Nursing Fam/Child Health/Caregiver); Pamela Walls (Pediatric Infectious Disease); Kay White (Clinical Affairs); Barbara Williams (CORD); Glenda Williamson (Surgery-Oncology); Amos Wright (Anesthesiology)

Honored 30- Year                            

James Alexander (Art); Donna Andrews (Honors Program); Robert Angus (Biology); Jennifer Banks (Optometry Clinical Services); Theodore Benditt (Philosophy); David Briles (Microbiology); Gloria Cahall (Sterne Library); James Chenoweth (Office of Exec Director Accounting); John Classe (Optometry); Harriet Doss (History); Andy Grabany (Materials Science & Engineering); Wilbert Hendrix (Sterne Library); David Hill (Print Plant); Nancy Hinson (Medical Student Services); James Jordan (Campus Maintenance); Shirley Salloway Kahn (Office of VP Development, Alumni & Ext Relations); David Ku (Pharmacology/Toxicology); Marilyn Kurata (Office of Assoc Provost Undergraduate Programs); Beverly Layton (Neurology); Michael Loop (Vision Sciences); Irene Lynn (Pulmonary/Allergy/Critical Care); Kathy Thomas McDaniel (Building Services); Richard Meyer (Orthopaedic Surgery); Judy Willis Nichols (Athletics); Jimmy Nordan (UAB Police); Thomas Norton (Vision Sciences); Sandra O’Neal (Prosthodontics); Georgia Pollard (Student Housing & Residential Life); Ferris Ritchey (Sociology); E. G. Salter (Cell Biology); Anthony Schimizzi (Sterne Library); Johnny Scott (Radiology); Deborah Sewell (Cell Biology); Marsha Sherrer (Office of VP Financial Affairs & Admin); John Siegwart (Vision Sciences); Sara Tartt (Immunology/Rheumatology); Lelland Tolbert (Child & Adolescent Psychology); Fern Tomisek (Office of Assoc VP Financial Affairs); Carolyn Walden (Sterne Library); David Whikehart (Vision Sciences)

Honored 35-Year                               

William Bailey (Pulmonary/Allergy/Critical Care); Mary Bryant (Graduate School); John Carpenter (Hematology & Oncology); Woodrow Cook Jr (Desktop Support Svcs); Richard Davis (OB/GYN); Michael Manley (Student Housing & Residential Life); William Rogers (Cardiovascular Disease); David Shealy (Physics); Sally Whitley (Neonatology); Edward Wills (Physics); James  Wilson (Hospital Maintenance)

Honored 40-Year                             

Maggie Hawkins (Nurse Anesthesia Program); J. Daniel Lynn (Medicine); Jesse Milby (Psychology)