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Alumni Awards
2025 Alumnus of the Year Award: John Baschab
John Baschab is co-founder and general partner at Scout Energy Partners (established 2011), the co-founder of Impact Innovations Group (established 1999 and transacted in 2005), and the author of four titles published by John Wiley & Sons, including The Executives Guide to Information Technology and Outperform: Inside the Investment Strategies of Billion Dollar Endowments.
Baschab is a 1991 magna cum laude graduate of The University of Alabama Culverhouse College of Business, majoring in Management Information Systems. He was part of the 1987 inaugural class of the University Honors Program, now the Honors College. While at Alabama he was selected by faculty as outstanding MIS senior in his major, as well as received the Charles L. Seebeck for the outstanding student in CBH (now Randall Research Scholars).
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Post-graduation, he worked at Intergraph Corporation in Huntsville, Alabama as a financial software analyst. He received his MBA in 1996 from the University of Chicago, graduating with honors and received the Dean’s Award of Distinction for the top five program students excelling in academics and service.
Afterwards he worked for management consulting firm Booz Allen & Hamilton, advising consumer-oriented firms on technology strategy. Baschab was an adjunct professor in the Lyle School of Engineering at Southern Methodist University from 2003-2009 and was selected as Outstanding Undergraduate Faculty in 2008. He served on the Distinguished Advisory Council for the Engineering Management, Information and Systems department at SMU. He is a member of the Dallas Gold Chapter of the Young President’s Organization and the Dallas Wildcat Committee.
His wife, Mary, is a 1991 UA grad in MIS; his daughter, Emily, is a 2023 UA graduate in mathematics; and his son, Will, is a current UA student majoring in mechanical engineering and German. Baschab serves on the Honors College and Culverhouse College of Business Board of Visitors.
2025 Volunteer Service Award: Dr. Allen Yeilding
Dr. Allen Yeilding graduated cum laude with a B.S. from UA in 1978 and received his M.D. from UAB in 1982. He is currently a managing partner with Hematology & Oncology Associates of Alabama and has been the Principal Investigator for more than 50 clinical trials. He was honored with the Physician’s Recognition Award in 1990 and was president of the Alabama Society of Clinical Oncology in 1991.
His dedication to education at The University of Alabama is exemplified with the establishment of the Allen L. Yeilding Endowment Support Fund. He has recently established the Dr. Allen L. Yeilding Prestigious Scholarships and Fellowships Support fund to support Honors College students who are competing for the world’s most prestigious undergraduate awards.
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Yeilding serves on the UA President’s Cabinet and is the chairperson of the Honors College Board of Visitors where he has served since 2004. He was the Alabama State Mid-Amateur golf champion in 1991 and was the recipient of the 2024 Paul W. Bryant Alumni-Athlete Award.
He was also appointed by UA President, Dr. Stuart Bell, to The University of Alabama Capital Campaign cabinet.
Yeilding has had 750 Honors pre-med students shadow him over the past 25 years and has written letters of recommendation for the majority.
He serves as a board member for the Friends of Rickwood, who hosted the unprecedented major league baseball game last June between the Giants and Cardinals along with Fox and MLB, recognizing the oldest ballpark in America and honoring the contribution to baseball by the Negro Baseball League.
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Executive Board of Visitors
2024
| Richard Adams Point 72 | John Baschab Scout Energy Partners | Dr. Vincent Michael “Mike” Bivins Urology Centers of Alabama | Dr. Nanette “Nan” J. Boden The Everyday Robot Project A@ X |
| Dr. Andrea Braden Lybbie | Alan Deer Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP | Emily Dunn | Lt. Col. Jonathan “Greg” Floyd Retired |
| Elsie Gabrielson | Lindsay Hackney Protective Life | Lauren Hardison Goldman Sachs | Trey Hayes Alabama Power Company |
| Mary Quitman Holmes Lawson Catfish Farm | David Holt, J.D. Loftin Holt LLP | Phillips Thomas Hornbuckle, J.D. York College of PA Office of Intercultural Studies & Global Programming | Bobby Humphrey Bryant Bank |
| Haskins Jones Haskins Jones, LLC | James C. Kennemer Vision Research Corporation | Anna Laurie McKibbens, J.D. Bryant Bank | Ashley McMahon Pleiad Foundation |
| Kimberly L. Mize | Paul Moreton Capital One | Kathy Mouron | Dr. Milton Nettles Lighthouse Christian School |
| Jonathan “Jon” D. Noland ACIPCO | Dr. Catherine J. Randall Computer Based Honors Program Director Retired | Admiral Charles A. Richard Retired | Christine R. Roth Oregon State University, College of Business |
| David L. Silverstein The FiveStone Group | Gail W. Stevens Regions Bank Retired | Yvonne Stevenson Department of Defense, Retired | Roscoe Tracy Wallace, Sr. Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp. |
| Lella Bromberg Wilbanks | Tammie Williams Alabama Power Company | Taylor Williams Powersouth | Jacqueline “Jackie” Wuska United Way of West Alabama |
| Dr. Allen Yeilding (Chairman) Hematology & Oncology Associates of Alabama | Lee Zell Balch & Bingham |