McGill-Toolen Hall of Fame
As of November, 2012
Crawford C. Adams*
Herb Adams
Reverend Monsignor Oliver Edward Adams*
Steven G. Alsip
Br. Matthias Amos SC
W. Terry Ankerson
Vincent P. Arata
James P. Balthrop*
Gerald K. Banks
Eleanor M. Benz
Wes Bizilia*
Dina H. Blankenship
Juanita Boddie*
Frank E. Bolling
Milton J. Bolling III
Paul G. Bonham*
Gretchen Koppersmith Boykin
Andrew D. Burch Sr.
Gerald Thomas Burch
John Harry Burton
Robert J. Cady
Christy L. Calametti
John A. Calametti Jr.
Vincent E. Calametti*
Herbert L. Callahan
Al Chamblin*
Lynn Donaghey Clapper
William E. Clarke*
J. Gary Cooper
Marvin Cornelius Jr.
Alvin Cottrell Jr.*
Ernest J. Cox
James Newton Cox*
Roderick Phillip Crawford
Anna Bailey Crow
James Kenny Crow Jr.
Jeremiah Denton Jr.
Ray Dicharry*
Rebecca Dickinson
James B. Donaghey II
Joseph Bradley Donaghey
Vincent J. Dooley
William G. Dooley
Robert G. Duke*
Edmund C. Dyas IV*
David Eckert
George W. Finkbohner III
Heidi A. Fleming
Emile F. Fritz*
Fournier J. “Boots” Gale III
Arthur E. Geil*
Mary Margaret Goff*
Patrick R. Greenwood
Thomas Gerald Gulledge
James Patrick Guy
Angelo C. Harris III
James M. Harrison Jr.
William R. Havens
Arve W. Henriksen Sr.*
Br. Martin Hernandez SC*
Denzil Hollis
Most Reverend William R. Houck
Amy Cornelius Huff
Richard McGowan Hunt*
Leo Jacob
Donald P. Kelly Jr.
John A. Kern Jr.
Frank Kerns
Benjamin H. Kilborn Sr.*
Cookie Strong Krehling
Bill Lagman*
Br. Dacian LeBlanc SC*
John T. LeGros Jr.
Thomas J. Legros
Most Reverend Oscar H. Lipscomb
Jack L. Lowrey Sr.
Peggy E. Martin
Patrick A. McAleer
H. William “Bill” McAtee
Leroy Thomas McAtee*
John L. McCarron Jr.
Harry J. McCarron III
William H. McDermott*
John M. McFadyen*
Carl J. McFarlane*
E. Walter McKean
James J. Merig Jr.*
Joseph F. Milton*
Lonnie L. Mixon
James Patrick Murphy
John E. Murphy Jr.
William Joseph Murphy Jr.
Henry J. O'Connor Sr.*
James M. Ollis Jr.
Arthur R. Outlaw*
Ed Overton*
David Ross Partridge
James D. Partridge
Sidney Francis Pearson Jr.
Joseph A. Perez*
Donald S. Pierre, Sr.
George E. Pond*
Patrick J. Ponder
W. Holcombe Pryor, Sr.
William H. Pryor, Jr.
Stephen N. Quinn
Amin J. Rathle
Michael A. Reilly
Daniel E. Reimer Sr.
John Arthur “Rip” Repoll*
Helen Hobbs Rogers
Candi Nicholas Skipper
Dennis G. Smitherman*
Gilbert Burke Strong*
Phillip C. Sullivan*
Vincent J. Sullivan
Stephen T. Sylvester
Marcus F. Thublin Jr.
Walter D. Verneuille
C. L. “Skipper” Walters Jr.
Casimir Paul Weinacker*
John W. “Wes” Williams Jr.
Jere E. Woolsey Jr.
George W. Yeend Jr.
Linda Zoghby
*deceased
Hall of Fame
Eleanor Marston Benz
Visitation Academy Class of ’34
Eleanor Marston Benz graduated from the Visitation Academy in 1934 with a Classical degree.
She first came to McGill Institute in 1955, the only woman on the faculty. She remained as librarian until 2003, except for 5 months when she and her husband were in San Francisco.
In 1972, a year before the merger of the all-girls Bishop Toolen High School and the all-boys McGill Institute, she was responsible for combining the two schools’ libraries and the relocation to the library’s present site. For nearly 50 years Mrs. Benz added a special quality to life at McGill and McGill-Toolen as she dispensed band-aids, coffee, counsel, moral support, intellectual stimulation and wonderfully entertaining tales of old Mobile–all while she unhurriedly went about the business of running the library. On May 17, 1989, the McGill-Toolen Library was dedicated and named the Eleanor Marston Benz Library in her honor. She retired in May 2003, and in September of that year she was named Librarian Emerita. She continues to visit the library and is always warmly welcomed.
Mrs. Benz has two children--Sarah Benz Phillips, CM ’64, and John, MI ’60–and three grandchildren--John Richardson and Lauren and Olivia Phillips.
Inducted 2001
Biography updated 5/19/05
