The Andalusia High School Scholarship Foundation’s Outstanding Graduate Committee will honor five outstanding graduates in a ceremony in the Andalusia City Hall auditorium at 11 a.m. Friday. 

• Dr. Claude Burnett, Class of 1988, is a colonel in the U.S. Army. He currently serves as Deputy Commander of the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Landstuhl, Germany, where he also is chief of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

• Sam Craven, Class of 1964, practiced law in Louisiana from 1972 until 2000, specializing in civil litigation. He earned a master in divinity from the Episcopal Seminary of the Southwest and was ordained as a priest in 2004. He served Episcopal churches in Texas until his retirement in 2016.

• Sam Nichols, Class of 1965, spent his 37-year career as a teacher, coach and administrator in Alabama public schools, and was superintendent of Dothan City Schools at the time of his retirement. He also was a proud Marine veteran of Vietnam. Sadly, he died last spring of lung disease related to his military service and exposure to Agent Orange. His daughter will accept the award in his behalf. 

• Margo Russell, Class of 1961, has exhibited and sold art across the Southeast, and worked as an art administrator. But her most lasting contribution has been as an art teacher in public schools, as a faculty member at institutions of higher learning and in private lessons taught to hundreds of children in Andalusia.

• Dr. Lee Wilson, Class of 1993, is using cutting edge techniques in the pursuit of better outcomes and quicker recoveries for his orthopedic patients. He has been in private practice in Gadsden since June of 2011, and currently is a partner at Northeast Orthopedics.

• Tami Glover McGee also was selected for inclusion this year, but the award will be deferred to next year, as she is part of NASA’s Artemis I launch and was unable to travel to Andalusia this week. 

The public is invited to attend the induction ceremonies at 11 a.m. in City Hall Auditorium on Friday. A private luncheon for inductees and their families will follow the ceremony.