Category: Past Speakers

Lt Col Dave Glassman, USMC (Ret.), is a graduate of the State University of New York and commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in 1988. He served in a variety assignments as a Naval Aviator, to include unit deployments to Okinawa, Japan; the Mediterranean Sea, and combat support operations in the Kosovo Area of Operations. He retired for Active Duty in February, 2010, and served as Director of Operations for the Center for Strategic Military Excellence (Pensacola, FL) to provide leadership and programmatic development designed to address gaps in veteran services provided by the Veterans Administration. In 2013 he Co-Founded DigiPro Media, LLC and he continues to serve the community by developing digital networks that serve small business and non-profit organizations.
Since 2009 he has served as Vice President for America’s Heroes Enjoying Recreation Outdoors (AHERO: AHEROusa.org), a non-profit organization that strives to reduce military and veteran suicide. He also serves on the Board of Directors for the Veterans Memorial Park Foundation of Pensacola, a non-profit organization that is charged with the custodial care of the Park and its memorials to the men and women who have sacrificed their lives in the defense of this great nation.

“Establishing a New Catholic High School in Baldwin County.”
St. Michael Catholic High School opened in 2016 with 99 freshman and sophomores, and has added a class each year. Now a 9-12 school with 323 students, it offers students classes at the “Collegiate Studies” and “Honors/A.P.” level. Students earn 32 credits for graduation, with four years of History, Theology, Science, Math and English and a minimum of 2 years of foreign language and the Arts. The school hosts 11 varsity athletic programs competing at the 3A level, a 70-member Band program, a 150-member choral program, a Scholar’s Bowl team, a Model U.N. team, and a foreign language program that earned 56 medals on national language exams in 2019.
This is the story of St. Michael’s origins and its future plans, as told by its founding principal, Faustin Weber.
31 years as Principal, President or Headmaster of three Catholic high schools, married to Diane Weber for 33 years, with four kids and five grandchildren. Undergrad and graduate degrees from University of Notre Dame, worships at Christ the King in Daphne.

As President and lead consultant at The Net Effect, Glenda R. Snodgrass is primarily engaged in cyber security training, threat analysis and mitigation for commercial, non­profit and governmental organizations. A frequent contributor to multiple online publications, she also provides expert witness testimony in technology ­related court cases.
Currently President of Gulf Coast Industrial Security Awareness Council, Vice Chair of Mobile Chapter 117 of the American Society for Industrial Security (ASIS International), member of the steering committee for Gulf Coast Technology Council, and serving on the Board of Directors of the Mobile Area Chamber of Commerce, Ms.
Snodgrass is also an active member of InfraGard and recently graduated from the FBI Citizens’ Academy. She holds a B.A. from the University of South Alabama (1986) and a maîtrise from Université de Paris I ­ Panthéon­Sorbonne in Paris, France (1989).

Scott Speck joined the Mobile Symphony in 2000 as its first full-time music director and is now in his 19th season. Under his leadership, the orchestra has grown to become one of the central Gulf Coast’s most outstanding performing arts organizations.
A masterful conductor with a wide-ranging knowledge of repertoire, deep experience in programming, and a terrific sense of what will engage audiences – old and new. His gala performances with Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, Joshua Bell and most recently with Renee Fleming are highlights of his years as music director of the MSO. This season’s exciting lineup of concerts further illustrates the depth and breadth of his knowledge and experience.
Speck also holds positions as Music Director of the Joffrey Ballet, Chicago Philharmonic and West Michigan Symphony. He is co-author of the world’s best-selling books on classical music for a popular audience: Classical Music for Dummies, Opera for Dummies and Ballet for Dummies. He has been a regular commentator on National Public Radio, the BBC, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Voice of Russia, broadcast throughout the world.
Born in Boston, Scott Speck graduated summa cum laude from Yale University. He was a Fulbright Scholar in Berlin, where he founded Concerto Grosso Berlin, an orchestra dedicated to the performances of Baroque and Classical music in a historically informed style. He received his Master’s Degree with highest honors from the University of Southern California, served as a Conducting Fellow at the Aspen School of Music, and studied at the Tanglewood Music Center. He is fluent in English, German and French, has a diploma in Italian, speaks Spanish and has a reading knowledge of Russian.

Michael C. Rogers, Jr.
President
Rogers & Willard, Inc.
Mike has lived most of his life in Mobile. He attended McGill-Toolen High School and received a degree in Building Science from Auburn University in 1987. In 1989, after starting his career in construction in Nashville, he returned to Mobile and co-founded Rogers & Willard, Inc… Since beginning his career, Mike has been involved with many non-profits. He is past chair of Centre for the Living Arts (CLA) where he oversaw the restoration of the historic Saenger Theatre and the conversion of the Mobile Press Register into Alabama Contemporary Art Center (ACAC). He is a graduate of Leadership Alabama and has served on many non-profit boards including Alabama Coastal Foundation, The Nature Conservancy of Alabama and the Alabama Architectural Foundation. He presently serves on the boards of Auburn University College of Architecture, Design and Construction, Mobile Chamber of Commerce. Auburn University Alumni Association and UMS-Wright Preparatory School. He is passionate about; arts and culture, affordable housing, the environment and attracting young professionals to Mobile. Mike is married to Cay MacClary and has three daughters; Catie (27), Jackie (25) and Leigh (12). He is an amateur photographer and avid outdoorsman. He particularly enjoys fishing, birding, photography and travel.

Dr. E. Gaylon McCollough is a globally recognized facial surgeon, teacher, philanthropist, and author. In a feature article, the international publication, Cosmetic Surgery Times called him a “Renaissance Man.” He is an experienced interviewee on regional, national, and international television and radio productions.
To view a sampling of Dr. McCollough’s appearances (and previous books he has written), visit www.mccolloughplasticsurgery.com and click on “Home”… “Recent Appearances”… and “Book Club.”
McCollough is an inductee of the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame as its “2017 Distinguished Alabama Sportsman” and a recipient of the University of Alabama’s prestigious “2017 Paul W. Bryant Alumni Athlete Award.”
The award is presented to a former UA athlete “whose accomplishments since graduating from the university are outstanding. Selection is based on recognition in the following areas of the life experience: Character; Contributions to Society; Professional Achievement and Service to Fellowman”.
While attending the University of Alabama as a student, the future Dr. McCollough was an Academic All-American center on Alabama Coach Paul “Bear” Bryant’s 1964 National Championship Team and an “All-Southeastern Conference Center,” who chose a medical career over a professional football career with the Dallas Cowboys.
In 2017, Dr. McCollough published his memoir: Victory in the Game of Life: A Paul W. Bryant Alumni Athlete’s Journey, in which he shares the lessons learned from Coach Paul “Bear” Bryant and from an all-star lineup of medical and surgical mentors.
He is a founding director of the Bryant-Jordan Scholar-Athlete Foundation (which has recognized and awarded scholarships in the amount of $12 million) to deserving student athletes. He also served as President of the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame, the Birmingham Touchdown Club, Gulf Coast Athletic Club, and is also an inductee of the Wiregrass Area Sports Hall of Fame. He was chosen by the citizens of his hometown (Enterprise, Alabama) as the city’s “All-Time Football Player”.
He is an emeritus trustee of Judson College for Women, a director emeritus of Big Brothers/Big Sisters of America, and was invited to deliver a keynote address at the annual Harper Lee Literary Conference in the city where To Kill a Mockingbird took place, Monroeville, AL.
In 2015, Dr. McCollough, who serves on the Academy’s international faculty, received the United States Sports Academy’s Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt Meritorious Achievement Award. Previous recipients include President Ronald Reagan, numerous US Congressmen, Governors, Hall of Famers and Olympians. He was also honored twice by the All-American Football Foundation, with “Distinguished American” and “Un-Sung Hero” Awards.
For his efforts in creating the position of “Medical Director” for Nursing Homes—and the first to serve in that capacity—Dr. McCollough was inducted in his state’s “Senior Citizens Hall of Fame,” before he was fifty years old.
In 1994, Dr. McCollough was honored by the March of Dimes as “Alabama Citizen of the Year” and is listed in the National Registry of Who’s Who in Medicine. He has been included in Best Doctors in America, America’s Top Plastic Surgeons, America’s Best Physicians, and the National Academy of Medicine. He also served as commissioner on the State of Alabama’s first Medical Licensure Commission, the organization charged with the responsibility of awarding (and revoking) the medical licenses of physicians.
To demonstrate the trust and gratitude that the U.S. Military Complex had in—and for—him, in the 1990s McCollough was a twice invited guest of the National Defense University at Ft. McNair in Washington after having been honorably discharged from the Alabama National Guard with the rank of Major and appointment as “Chief of Medical Services” for an U.S. Army Evacuation Hospital.
In academic arenas, he also served as vice-chair of UA President Joab Thomas’ President’s Cabinet, co-chairman for the Bryant Museum Planning Committee, and co-chair for the university’s 1990s Capital Campaign for the College of Arts and Sciences.
In the spring of 2017 he and his wife, (former Miss Alabama, Susan Nomberg,) endowed the McCollough Institute for Pre-Medical Scholars at the University of Alabama, a one of a kind educational experience for tomorrow’s physicians.
The couple also funded construction of the “Susan and Gaylon McCollough A-Club Career and Leadership Development Center” in the Battle Academic Center at Bryant Hall on the UA Tuscaloosa campus. This center assists current and past athletes prepare for careers after sports.
Dr. McCollough is a prolific writer. He is author/co-author of several major textbooks on facial and nasal plastic surgery, multiple chapters in other medical/surgical textbooks, and author of scores of articles published in “peer reviewed” medical journals.
His most recent textbook The Elite Facial Surgery Practice (2017) shares his practice development and management experiences with aspiring younger surgeons and those seeking to expand their practices. To date, there has been no evidence that his consumer information book, The Appearance Factor is not the only publication offered (free of charge) to prospective surgical and non-surgical patients.
On the credentialing side of the ledger, Dr. McCollough is well-endowed. He is “board-certified” by both The American Board of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (ABRPRS) and the American Board of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (ABO-HNS). He was elected by his peers to serve as the ABFPRS’ first President. He received the Dr. Larry Schoenrock Award from the ABFPRS for leadership efforts in the specialty of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and the Dr. John Dickinson Award for his efforts in teaching Facial Plastic Surgery on the national and international stages.
He is a director of fellowship training for the American Academy of Facial Plastic Surgery’s and has trained 94 Facial Plastic Surgeons, in his US clinics. For his efforts as an instructor and author of textbooks and journal articles, he was awarded the AAFPRS’s highest: the “John T. Dickenson” and “William K. Wright” awards.
Dr. McCollough was inducted into the American Board of Cosmetic Surgery as an honorary member and served as President of the American Association of Cosmetic Surgeons. He is Clinical Professor of Surgery (Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery) in the Department of Surgery at the University of South Alabama, College of Medicine and while in Birmingham, he held the same academic position in the Department of Surgery at UAB Medical Center.
Underscoring his interests and mind, body, and spirit wellness, Dr. McCollough served as President of the International Council of Integrative Medicine, directed educational seminars in “Rejuvenology (the medicine and surgery of appearance and health enhancement,” and has traveled to numerous countries where he taught and performed life enhancing procedures.
In 2007, Dr. McCollough was honored for the release of his book Let Us Make Man, (an in-depth study of the Book of Genesis) at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City, New York. In addition he has written The Long Shadow of Coach Paul “Bear” Bryant, (Compress Press, 2008) a profile of the late, great Alabama football Coach, Shoulders of Giants (Albright Publishing, 1986), Before and After (Compress Press, 1994), The Image in the Mirror, a.k.a. The Appearance Factor (Compress Press, 2009), a consumer’s guide to plastic surgery as a method of appearance and health enhancement, The Oath (A-Argus Better Book Publishers, LLC), his first novel, The Annunaki Enigma: Armageddon 2015 co-authored with Dr. Symm McCord, A-Argus Better Book Publishers, The Lords of Seduction (A-Argus Better Book Publishers, LLC), and The Orwellian State of America, and his aforereferenced memoir, Victory in the Game of Life…
His 35,000 square foot McCollough Institute for Appearance & Health is the fourth such clinic and institution he has built, in two separate zip codes. It is an interdisciplinary professional complex dedicated to helping people from all walks of life look, feel, and perform better… longer. Strategically, the McCollough Institute is located in a coastal (Gulf of Mexico) golf and resort community (Craft Farms). Because of the positive attention and advanced services in the appearance and health arena it brought to the community, in 2002, the McCollough Institute was honored by the Alabama Gulf Coast Chamber of Commerce as “Business of the Year”.
Dr. McCollough and his wife, Susan, have two children, four grandchildren and a small herd of Tennessee Walking Horses on their ranch located just minutes from the McCollough Institute in the coastal resort community of Gulf Shores, Alabama and less than an hour from the city limits of Mobile, AL, and Pensacola, FL
So, the question lingers: Does the label, “Renassaince Man” aptly apply to Dr. E. Gaylon McCollough, the author of The Gift You Give Yourself…? That question can only be answered by historians; however—with this summary of “contributions to society, character, professional achievement, and service to fellowman,” those responsible for expanding the profile that currently exists, for Dr. McCollough, should have a solid foundation, with which to build upon.
 
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