Carl Albright Jr. 
     
TUSCALOOSA - Carl Wayne AIbright Jr., 53, of Tuscaloosa, died at his residence on December 11, 1997. A memorial service will be held at 11:00 a.m. December 13 at First Presbyterian Church of Tuscaloosa with the Reverend Charles Durham officiating. The family will receive friends in the Fellowship Hall following the service. Heritage Chapel Funeral Home is directing. 
     He was a graduate of the University of Alabama where he received a degree in Aerospace Engineering in 1967 and a JD in 1970. Mr. Albright practiced law with the firm of Rosen, Wright, Harwood, & AIbright. He left the law firm in 1981 and joined the First National Bank of Tuskaloosa as General Counsel. 
     In 1983 he became Executive Vice President of the First National Bank of Tuskaloosa and a member of its Board of Directors. He became President and Chief Operating Officer of First National Bank prior to its merger with AmSouth Bank in 1988. He was an Executive Vice President of AmSouth Bancorporation and of AmSouth Bank and served as Chairman of the Tuscaloosa Board of Directors and Area Executive for West Alabama operations. 
     Mr. Albright has been on the Black Warrior Council of the Boy Scouts of America since 1990. He has been chairman of the Industrial Development Authority and the Chamber of Commerce. He served as a Director of the Druid City Hospital Foundation for many years and served as its President in 1994. He also served on various other boards in the community. 
     In 1983 he was elected a member of the Board of Trustees of Stillman College and served as President of the Stillman Foundation from 1988 to 1996. He chaired a major portion of the campaign to raise funds to renovate Winsborough Hall on the campus of Stillman College. 
     He was a member of the President’s Cabinet at the University of Alabama and was active in various fund raising activities for the University and for the College of Engineering. In 1987 he was elected to the inaugural class of the Fellows of the College of Engineering. 
     He was an Elder in the First Presbyterian Church of Tuscaloosa and has served as Chairman of its Board of Deacons. He recently chaired a multi-million dollar building campaign which remains underway for renovation and new construction at the church. 
     Mr. Albright is survived by his wife, the former Rainer Lamar of Birmingham; two children, Sally Lamar Albright of Washington, D.C., and Carl W. Albright III, of  Birmingham; and a sister, Caroline Albright Simpson of Oxford, Mississippi. 
     Pallbearers will be, George Shirley, George Miller, George Wright, Bernard Harwood, Sidney Cook, John Rickett, Dan Carmichael and Ralph Quarles. 
    Published in the Tuscaloosa News on 12/12/1997.