Sticking to His Guns Lon Anthony Has Remained Faithful to His Vision in Art and Academe from R I He Editor

SUMMER 1996

Sticking to His Guns Lon Anthony Has Remained Faithful to His Vision in Art and Academe From r I he Editor

Rhodes (ISSN #1075-3036) is Celebration lime published four times a year in winter, spring, summer and fall by Rhodes College, There's a lot to celebrate at Rhodes these days. The long- 2000 N. Parkway, Memphis, TN 38112-1690. awaited Bryan Campus Life Center is nearing completion. The It is published as a service to all alumni, students, college is planning its 150th anniversary in 1998. This fall's parents, faculty, staff and friends of the college. bright and talented first-year students will be the Class of 2000, Summer 1996—Volume 3, Number 3. taking Rhodes proudly into the new millennium. Periodical postage paid at Memphis, Tennessee, and additional mailing offices. And that's not all. Included in this issue of Rhodes are three EXECUTIVE EDITOR: Helen Watkins Norman features that focus on the considerable accomplishments of EDrroR: Martha Hunter Shepard '66 faculty and alumni, all of which are causes for celebration. For ART DIRECTOR: Kevin Barre instance, you know it's time to celebrate when: CONTRIBUTING EDITOR: Susan McLain Sullivan DESIGN CONSULTANT: Eddie Tucker 'The college's renowned Man/Search course turns 50. That

POSTMASTER: Send address changes to: time has arrived, and to mark the occasion, Political Science Rhodes, 2000 North Parkway, Memphis, TN Professor Michael Nelson, along with other faculty and 38112-1690. students, have written a book about it. CHANGE OF ADDRESS: Please mail the completed form below and label from this issue of Rhodes Titled Celebrating the Humanities: A Half-Century of the Search to: Alumni Office, Rhodes College, 2000 North Course at Rhodes College, the book chronicles Search from its Parkway, Memphis, TN 38112-1690. early development in the 1940s through its constant evolutionary stages right up to the present. Name The book is due out in October from Vanderbilt University Press. To order your copy, just use the enclosed reader response Street card. In the meantime, read the story on page 12. City State Zip •Professor Emeritus of Art Lawrence Anthony has a Home Phone Business Phone retrospective of his work at Clough-Hanson Gallery this fall. Anthony, who taught at Rhodes from 1961-95, touched the lives Employer of countless students, many of whom are successful artists

Title today. CLASS NOTES: Please send all Class Notes His work and theirs are testament to the friendship and news including marriages, births and obituaries inspiration drawn from one another during their years at to: Alumni Office, Rhodes College, 2000 Rhodes. See story on page 19. N. Parkway, Memphis, TN 38112-1690. Phone: (901)726-3845 Fax: (901)726-3474. Internet address to Sally Jones, director of •The ingenuity of alumni affects society in wonderful ways. alumni: [email protected] "Giving Birth to Bright Ideas" on page 29 highlights four of

LE t t IRS To THE EDITOR: Please address those alumni: Memphis orthopedic surgeon Charlie Taylor '74, postal correspondence to: Martha H. Shepard, medical equipment manufacturer Bruce Parker '70, dramatist Editor, Rhodes Magazine, Rhodes College, and community activist Levi Frazier '73 and book packager 2000 N. Parkway, Memphis, TN 38112-1690. and publisher John Boswell '67. Internet address: [email protected] Phone: (901)726-3875 Fax: (901)726-3553. —Martha Hunter Shepard, Editor Contents

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COVER—Muggy in Miami by Lawrence Anthony. Rhodes magazine is printed with soya ink 1977. Mixed Media. Lent by Mary Ann Lazar. on recyclable paper. Photo by Steve Jones Campus News

Honorands Receiving honorary degrees from Presi- dent James H. Daughdrill (left) at Com- mencement were best-selling author John Grisham, doctor of letters; Corella Bon- ner, founder of the Bonner Scholars Pro- gram, doctor of humanities; and Howard Edington '64, senior minister of First Pres- byterian Church, Orlando, Fla., doctor of divinity. Broadway actor George Hearn '56 received an honorary doctor of fine arts degree in absentia.

Distinguished Service Medal Rhodes trustee Dunbar Abston received the Distin- guished Service Medal, which is given each year to a person who has selflessly given time and talent for the betterment of the college. The proprietor of Abston Management Co., he has served as secretary of the Rhodes Board of Trustees, chair of the Annual Fund, and member of the Diehl Society Faculty Award Committee and the 150th Anniversary Cam- paign Executive Committee. Sullivan Awards The "Lore of Literature" course he created and teaches at the Meeman Center for Lifelong Student recipients of the Learning on a regular basis is one of the cen- Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award ter's most popular offerings. were Loretta Lambert (above left) and Scott Brown. The award honors two students and one non-student for outstanding contributions to the college. Lambert, a Bonner Scholar, Kinney Program participant and resident assistant, also served Phi Beta Kappa as the coordinator of SafeRides. Brown was 1995-96 Rhodes Stu- Award dent Government president and Physics major a star basketball player. Jacob Abraham, vice Roosevelt Evans (right), assis- president of the tant storeroom supervisor for Rhodes Student Gov- Rhodes' Physical Plant, received the non-student Algernon ernment, received Sydney Sullivan Award for one who has given selflessly to the college's highest the college. He was the recipient of the 1992 Outstanding academic honor, the Administrative Services Staff Award and in the fall 1993 Phi Beta Kappa was selected Physical Plant Employee of the Month. Award.

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Cookie Ewing, Cynthia Marshall Receive Top Faculty Honors

Two of Rhodes top professors were sees your gifts—what you can be— this year to Cynthia Marshall, the I honored with the highest faculty and she gets you there, too, long first woman faculty member to awards the college bestows at this before you see the possibility of receive the award, honors a faculty spring's Awards Convocation success yourself." member who has demonstrated Assistant professor of theater In addition to teaching, Ewing significant scholarly activity, Julia "Cookie" evinced by publications or other Ewing received the forms of research or creative Day Award for Out- expression. standing Teaching, A Shakespearean scholar, Mar- which includes a shall also received the 1990 Day $7,500 honorarium. Award for Outstanding Teaching. Cynthia Marshall, English Department Chair associate professor of Robert Entzminger said that her English, received the 1991 book Last Things and Last Dean's Award for Cookie Ewing Research and Cre- (left), Plays "was gen- ativity, which carries Clarence Day uinely ground- a $4,000 prize. and Cynthia breaking in a Marshall Both awards were Photo by Russell Hays way few works established by Mem- in Shakespeare phis businessman Clarence Day and acts in, directs and produces plays studies—the most crowded and are provided by the Day Founda- at Rhodes' McCoy Theatre and, competitive of literary fields—can tion. occasionally, at other area theaters. claim to be." Marshall also has Cited for her "commitment to Ewing, who worked in children's published a series of articles in top the whole student," Ewing is noted theater for a number of years, academic journals "that has further for her teaching at Rhodes. One of holds an M.A. in directing from the enhanced her reputation as a her students said: "Cookie sees University of Memphis. Shakespearean of rare insight," beyond your mistakes; she always The Dean's Award, presented Entzminger said. Philosophy Prole or Jim Jobes Retires hilosophy professor Jim Jobes, ship, Jobes of Trustees, is a Pa member of the Rhodes fac- came to Rhodes member of the Amer- ulty for more than 30 years, in 1964. He had ican Philosophical retired at the end of spring also done grad- Association, Ameri- semester. uate work at can Society for Aes- On campus, he was instantly Princeton thetics and Society of recognizable by his professorial under a Christian Philoso- beard and pipe. Yet Jobes Woodrow Wil- phers. brought to the classroom much son Fellowship. He and his wife more than the trappings of a col- A native of Amy recently moved lege teacher. His areas of interest Washington, to Sherwood, Ark., included aesthetics, Greek and D.C., he had where they have medieval philosophy and ana- previously begun a new chapter lytic philosophy. taught at the Prof. Jim Jobes in their lives. An With his B.A. from St. John's University of Photo by Troy Clot ordained Episcopal College and Ph.D. from the Uni- Virginia and Roanoke College. priest, Amy is currently an assis- versity of Virginia where he was Jobes, who served a three- tant minister at a church in the recipient of a DuPont fellow- year term on the Rhodes Board North Little Rock. Summer 1996 Rhodes 3 Lagpx&UedivQ

McCoy Theatre Presents Fall Repertory in Season 16 cCoy Theatre will present two Schwartz, runs Oct. 31, Nov. 14-15 Tom Jones, Feb. 13-15 and 21-23. M musicals and two dramas in and 23-24. Tickets are $12 adults, Tickets: $8 adults, $4 students. its 1996-97 season. $6 students. The musical Ernest in Love, Running in repertory this fall Michael Cristofer's The Shadow book and lyrics by Anne will be the musical Pippin, Box will play Nov. 7-9, 16-17 and Croswell, music by Lee Pockriss directed by assistant professor of 21-22. Tickets are $8 adults, $4 and directed by Memphian Barry theater Cookie Ewing, and The students. Fuller, runs April 10-12 and 17-20. Shadow Box, a drama directed by Second semester will see the Tickets: $12 adults, $6 students. Brian Mott '87. drama Our Country's Good by For ticket information, call the Pippin, book by Roger 0. Hir- Timberlake Wertenbaker, directed McCoy box office, (910) 726-3839. son, music and lyrics by Stephen by associate professor of theater Rhodes Welcomes Alumni To Faculty Will Coleman '75, associate profes- Two other Rhodes alumni, who Child Health and Human Develop- sor of theology and hermeneu- are husband and wife, will also join ment. tics at the faculty this fall: Anita Davis '90, Wigginton received his M.A. Columbia who comes to Rhodes as assistant from the University of Illinois at Theological professor of Urbana-Champaign, where he is Seminary in psychology, also a Ph.D. candidate. His major Decatur, and her field of Ga., will husband study is join Russell African- Rhodes' Wigginton American Department '88, who is history, of Religious the William while other Studies as Randolph areas of scholar-in- Will Coleman interest residence include the for the fall semester. As scholar-in- American residence, Coleman will teach one course while working on a forth- coming book. Hearst An ordained Presbyterian minis- Minority ter, Coleman holds his M.Div. from Fellow in National Columbia Seminary and Ph.D. from the history period and the Graduate Theological Union, department. education Berkeley. Davis, in the He taught at Nanjing Theological who gradu United Seminary in China during second ated cum States and semester this year. laude and with honors from Rhodes, Europe. His dissertation, titled "A Study earned her M.A. and Ph.D. from the Other of African American Slave Narra- University of Minois at Urbana- alumni who Eric Henager tives as a Source for a Contempo- Champaign. At Illinois, she received are new to the Rhodes faculty are rary, Constructive Black the Herman Eisen Award for Out- religious studies instructor Greg Theology," has been described as standing Commitment and Contri- Carey '87 and Spanish instructor one of the first comprehensive bution to the Practice of Psychology Eric Henager '89, who will begin studies of slave narratives as a and the Research Supplemental their second year of teaching at the source for religious thought. Award from the National Institute of college this fall. 4 Rhodes Summer 1996 Graceland Opens New World For Art Interns By Susan McLain Sullivan scheduled to go on display for worked with a small group of When recent graduate Hugh the first time are garments from archive staffers, including Shockey talks of his college Elvis' personal wardrobe, a tele- Awsumb, also an art major. days in Memphis, one of the first vision set with a bullet hole in Awsumb said Elvis Presley things he's asked is if he's been the screen and clothing once Enterprises Inc., the corporation to Graceland. It seems everyone worn by Priscilla and Lisa Marie. that runs Graceland, is still in the has an Elvis memory, he said. While cataloging Elvis' jump- process of recording the many Not only has Shockey '96 been suits, Shockey became intimately Elvis items in its possession— to Graceland, he spent untold familiar with the rock-and-roll clothing of his and his family, hours there this spring as an legend. He helped inventory personal items and concert and intern working closely with a Elvis' personal items, entered film memorabilia. variety of Elvis artifacts, from data into a state-of-the-art corn- Occasionally members of the costumes and documents to pho- puter database and made sugges- archives staff come across tographs and other memorabilia. tions on how certain objects unnoted Elvis artifacts as they Alumna Liz Awsumb '92, the could be displayed. inventory articles from boxes registrar of Graceland's Archive Shockey, an art major with an stored in Graceland's attics or Office for the past several years, interest in conservation, said that closets, Awsumb noted. Grace- served as Shockey's internship the Graceland internship gave land opened to the public in mentor. Greg Howell, curator of him the opportunity to handle 1982. exhibitions and collections, coor- one-of-a-kind artifacts, including "One of my favorite things that dinates internships at Graceland. some of the flashy costumes peo- I've discovered when I was going "It becomes a very through some pervasive part of your of Elvis' life," Shockey confided. shirts was the "Anyone who finds out cuff links that that you work at President Graceland wants to Nixon gave talk to you about it." him still on a As an archives shirt," intern, Shockey learned Awsumb the cataloging system said. "Those and conservation chal- are going on lenges presented by an display with array of Elvis artifacts, the new particularly with cos- exhibit." tumes made from syn- Awsumb thetic fibers produced said Grace- in the '60s and '70s. land's Among other tasks, the archives has archive team at Grace- had only one other intern land uses a digital cam- era to scan high resolution ple easily recognize from Elvis' and Shockey is the first from images of Elvis wardrobe and concert performances. While Rhodes. Quickly finishing his costumes directly into a com- most people wouldn't give those 140-hour internship by working puter database. Shockey also materials a second thought, three days a week, he was invited worked with the archive staff in archivists seek out textile experts to continue working on a tempo- designing and selecting artifacts for advice on preserving poly- rary basis until semester's end to for a new "Sincerely Elvis" ester knits and other fibers popu- complete a project with the exhibit that opened recently. archives staff. lar during Elvis' heyday. Among the "new" items At Graceland, Shockey "I think as much as he has Summer 1996 Rhodes 5 learned from us, we have learned Rhodes art department, said eme is very helpful in the transi- from him," said Awsumb, adding internships sponsored through tion all students have to make to that Shockey has a "pretty the art department serve as a the post-undergraduate world. unusual background for someone valuable adjunct to classroom "I think Hugh found that his who is an undergraduate." Prior instruction. response to material objects was to his internship, Shockey spent "In Hugh's case, this meant changed by watching visitors two summers professionally giving him an opportunity to come to Graceland to see specific restoring and preserving paint- work with objects—jumpsuits, objects," he added. "It reminded ings and other art works at Cow- gold records, etc.—that are not him that audiences can vary den Art Conservation in Benton, commonly part of a conservator's widely and dramatically in their Ark. job," McCarthy explained. "Fur- response to artifacts, which is to Assistant Professor of Art ther, the opportunity to work say that audience reception is David McCarthy, who chairs the with individuals outside of acad- never uniform, nor should it be." Faculty Research Shifts Into High Gear In Summer

By Susan McLain Sullivan publishers very interested in pre-election campaign events on Whether analyzing a Presiden- their research. the general election campaign, IIII tial election, serving as a With the help of an FDE grant, including incumbency, economic modern-day Margaret Mead or Political Science Professor conditions and the character of tracking down facts about the Michael Nelson is busy analyzing the parties' nominating cam- Old Testament's King David, who will win the November elec- paigns and conventions. As the many Rhodes faculty are spend- tion, how campaign heats ing the summer immersed in and why. up this sum- interesting research projects. Nelson's mer, he is Each year the college supports previous observing the the summer research efforts of three books role of the faculty by awarding grants to the on the presi- media (both worthiest, most innovative pro- dential elec- advertising by jects proposed by faculty appli- tions of 1984, the candidates cants. A faculty committee, this 1988 and and news cov- year headed by associate profes- 1992 were erage), the sor of anthropology Tom the first influence of McGowan, recommends funding books to be independent or to the dean of academic affairs. published on third party can- These FDE (Faculty Develop- those elec- didates, the ment Endowment) grants pro- tions. debates and the vide for expenses and a $3,000 Released just candidates' stipend to fund eight weeks of four months strategies and summer research. Eighteen pro- after the fact, skills in execut- fessors received an FDE grant the books ing them. He this year. The money for the won critical Prof. Susan Kus will have to grants comes from income on an praise in var- wait for the endowment provided by an ious political science journals. outcome in November to analyze anonymous donor. Congressional Quarterly Press, voting patterns and voter man- The purpose of FDE grants is which published the previous dates. to promote faculty development three election books, is also pub- Nelson believes that his books by supporting professional activ- lishing the 1996 election book. have survived critical scrutiny ity during the summer. Some fac- As the 1996 campaign evolves, because "they ground their ulty have already found Nelson is studying the effect of analyses of current elections in 6 Rhodes Summer 1996 Campus News

the scholarly literature." The spending eight weeks this sum- some interpret as a historical ref- books cover the role of foreign mer observing and documenting erence to the House of David. policy in the campaign, constitu- how a child's play and task-shar- "The recent (1993) discovery tional aspects of the elections and ing reflect an "embodiment" of from the site of Tel Dan in North- the effects of the election results gender in Betsileo society. Mead ern Israel of an Aramaic inscrip- on the presidency. wrote extensively on childhood tion touted as the first Nelson has also written on socialization and her daughter's contemporary mention of David other aspects of presidential elec- experiences. outside of the Bible has fueled tions, including history, voting, Steven McKenzie, an associate the debate over and interest in the nominating process and professor of religious studies, the historical David," McKenzie change and stability in choosing plans to spend the summer notes. presidents. reconstructing King David's life Regarding the contemporary For her research Associate from the biblical accounts and interest in the issue, McKenzie Professor of Anthropology Susan other sources for a comprehen- said at least three novels on the Kus is traveling several thousand sive biography. McKenzie said David story were published by miles to Madagascar, off the no one has ever attempted to contemporary writers within the southeast coast of Africa. Among write a critical biography of King last 10 years. McKenzie said he other research projects, she will David and he proposes "to fill hopes to travel to the Hebrew study how gender-specific prac- this gap." Union College where the Tel Dan tices and roles are passed from McKenzie theorizes that, con- inscriptions research is ongoing, adults to children. trary to the traditional biblical and to several archaeological sites Last summer while doing account, King David—ancient in Palestine as well as to muse- research in Betsileo, a small vil- Israel's greatest ruler—simply ums in Paris and Amsterdam. lage in the grassy central high- did not have lands of Madagascar, Kus and kingship thrust her co-researcher husband Victor upon him as a Raharijaona noticed that their 5- naive youngster year-old daughter Landy—who because of his accompanied them—was quickly faith. picking up the local dialect as McKenzie said spoken by the natives. Rahari- he will study jaona, a native of Madagascar, Bible passages, had already taught Landy a dif- archaeology and ferent Malagasy dialect. other inscrip- Kus and her husband also tions, including observed their young daughter the fragmentary begin to perform tasks in the Mesha stone same gender-specific way as the (circa ninth cen- Betsileo women and girls. For tury) discovered instance, girls in Betsileo are in the 1860s, and taught to carry items on their the Tel Dan stela heads to keep their hands free for discovered in other tasks. It wasn't long before 1994. The stela Landy was carrying a doll on her makes what back and a water jug on her head. She also rapidly learned to pound rice with a large pestle in rhythm with another girl. Prof. Kus' Like anthropologist Margaret daughter Landy Mead who observed her own (in sundress) with native children in daughter's gender socialization Madagascar last in far-flung cultures, Kus is summer Summer 1996 Rhodes Campus News

Michta Named To Wilson Center Board Alumni Participate

ssociate Professor Andrew A. from Cornell, University of Min- In The Olympics A Michta, who holds the Mertie nesota, Indiana University, Uni- W. Buckman Chair of Interna- versity of Pittsburgh, Stanford, While Americans are still flush tional Studies at Rhodes, has been Rice and Harvard. II with the glow of the '96 named to the Academic Advisory The responsibility of the Acad- Olympics, the memories of the Council for East European Studies emic Advisory Council includes Centennial Games will remain in at the Woodrow Wilson Interna- evaluating the direction of East the hearts of several Rhodes tional Center for Scholars in European studies as a discipline in alumni forever. Washington, D.C. The Wilson the U.S. and making appropriate Carrying the Olympic torch Center is a premier research insti- recommendations to the pro- were: tution affiliated with the Smith- gram's director; evaluating appli- • William Claytor '63 of Char- sonian Institution. cations for Research Scholar lotte, N.C. One of 20 runners Michta, whose area of expertise awards at the Wilson Center; and chosen to carry the flame includes Eastern and Central taking part in the Junior Scholars through his hometown in late Europe, is the only academic from Training Seminar which is orga- June, Claytor recently assumed a liberal arts college and the only nized annually at Aspen Insti- the presidency of the Mecklen- one without the rank of full pro- tute's Wye Plantation in Maryland burg County Bar Association. fessor on the council. Other schol- to bring together the most promis- • Daudet Johnston Schreurs ars who make up the council are ing young scholars in the country. '68 of Memphis carried the torch in Memphis in late May. She is coordinator for Chi Omega Reads Aloud—a national philan- thropy that under her direction Sou'wester Offers Subscriptions supplied 20 readers to Memphis re Sou'wester, Rhodes' student weekly newspaper, will offer a Volunteers in Schools. subscription service during the 1996-97 academic year for • Gwen Jones Parrish '79, cho- parents, alumni and friends of the college. sen for her work with the Junior Published on Wednesdays and mailed first class throughout League of Memphis, of which the continental U.S., The Sou'wester will be delivered within 2-3 she is president-elect, also was a days of publication. Cost is $25 for all 22 issues published dur- torchbearer in Memphis. ing the academic year. • Mary Beth Farr '96 of To receive the paper, complete this form and mail it with a Atlanta joined the Olympic torch check for $25 made out to Rhodes College and marked "for relay team in Fort Worth, Texas, Sou'wester subscription" to: The Sou'wester, Box 3010, Rhodes a week after graduation. She College, 2000 N. Parkway, Memphis, TN 38112-1699. worked 60 cities in 60 days all the way to Atlanta. The highlight of the journey was actually car- Yes! Sign me up for The Sou'wester! rying the torch in Memphis on her 22nd birthday in late May. Name On Being Inv Home Phone Work Phone Andrea Dellinger '99 of Rome, Ga., has had a highly visible role Address in this summer's Olympics. She was among the 43 young adults City State Zip selected to perform as the Olympic mascot "Izzy" during the Atlanta games July 19-Aug. 4.

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International Students Use Rhodes As Home Base For Travel

By Susan McLain Sullivan ing experience for the pair who independently of each other. hen it comes to studying and became known on campus as During her year at Rhodes W traveling on limited time, "the road trip queens." Heusel visited various spots Rhodes exchange students Anne "I could not see houses or cat- within Arkansas. She popped in Heusel and Makiko Asai could tle. It was only big fields," said on Birmingham, New Jersey, teach a class. Asai, referring to the landscape New York City and New Heusel, a language studies out west. Orleans. During the Christmas student from the University of Both students agree San Diego break she joined the Baptist Stu- Tubingen, Germany, and Asai, an is the most beautiful American dent Union's community out- American studies student from city they have visited, and both reach trip to East St. Louis and Kansai Gaidai International Uni- would like to return some day. over spring break did volunteer versity in Osaka, Japan, logged Over the span of the seven-day work in Reynosa, Mexico, with tens of thousands of miles each trip, they took in Dallas, El Paso, other Rhodes students. during this past year at Rhodes, Phoenix, Tucson, Los Angeles, Meanwhile, Asai traveled to traveling coast-to-coast and visit- San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico. New Orleans and Orlando during some 19 ing separate states. breaks, both Sometimes times meeting Heusel and friends from Asai traveled Japan. She also separately. But visited Hous- most of the ton, Nashville, spring semes- New York and ter the pair Pennsylvania. trekked Amer- Heusel and ica together, Asai returned often hitching home from rides with Rhodes in May: friends. They both have relied on com- course work to mercial road complete at maps, a Ger- their home uni- man-language versities before guide book graduating. But and advice travel is still from friends Anne Heusel Photo by John Ron. uppermost in for directions their minds. and points of interest. In January Heusel, who speaks fluent After finding jobs and stashing they drove to Charleston, S.C., English, Spanish and French, and away some travel funds, they the eastern most point of their Asai, also fluent in English, met hope to visit each other on home travels. Three months and sev- at Rhodes' International Student turf. Whether they rendezvous in eral short trips later, the duo took Orientation last August after Tubingen or Osaka depends on a long-planned Greyhound bus long, tiring flights from their who can arrange a trip first. ride to San Diego during Easter native lands. They also plan a Rhodes break. They covered some 1,990 Their first joint trip began that reunion in two years, and it's miles in two days on the way week with some rock climbing easy to predict the agenda. west, stopping dozens of times near Anna, Ill. They repeated the "We'll rent a car and do some along the way. excursion at fall break. traveling," Heusel said. Asai The bus trip was an eye-open- The two girls also traveled smiled in agreement. Summer 1996 Rhodes 9 hymns or sermons. cy as "office" and as "person." Always We Begin A guide rather than a specific His chapters on "The "how-to" book, Finding Words for Constitutional Presidency" and Again: The Benedictine Worship suggests and encourages "The Vice Presidency" explore creativity in worship every aspect of how those offices Way Of Living "The path toward developing came about. By John McQuiston '65. 95 pp. a relationship with In "The Changing Harrisburg: Morehouse Publishing. God or helping Office," the final chapter of $7.95. congregations 1-INDIN1 the book, Nelson writes: When Memphis attorney and express their wor- "Presidents come and Episcopal lay leader John ship is a meander- WORD go-41 in little more than McQuiston went ing country two centuries, an average of road, not a one every five years. Each of searching for a Always We truly balanced Begin Again shortcut or a their personalities and poli- life, he found it superhigh- cies leaves a mark on the in a sixth-centu- way," writes office, some more enduring ry text, St. Duck. "In this than others. But change in Benedict's Rule. book, I seek to the presidency flows within He has since present methods, disciplines channels created by the interpreted and and models that can help con- Constitution of 1787, a plan of restated the gregations find words for government little changed since ancient system of worship—words that come then by amendment. The combi- spiritual living in out of the creativity and con- nation of change and continuity Always We Begin Again. temporary life of Christians." is one of the hallmarks of the At the core of the pocket-sized American political system, as book are insights into the art of embodied in the president." living and issues such as leader- The Presidency: Nine chapters deal, in chrono- ship, stewardship, service, good logical order, with the histories of works, humility, meals, guests, A History Of The President all the American presidents from silence and community. Also Of The United States From Washington to Clinton. A chap- included are sample meditations 1789 To The Present ter by Rhodes assistant professor and a weekday schedule. of political science Stephen Wirls Edited by Michael Nelson, Professor covers "The 'Gilded' Age" from of Political Science. 208 pp. New Grant (1869-77) to McKinley Finding Words For York: Smithmark Publishers. $24.98. (1897-1901). One chapter is Presidential scholar Michael devoted to "The First Ladies." Worship: Nelson has produced a scholarly The writing is lively, objective and visually stunning book on and informative, especially for A Guide For Leaders the history of the U.S. readers who By Ruth C. Duck '69. 147 pp. presidency. With essays by find them- Louisville: Westminster John Knox eight political scientists selves dis- Press. $16.99. and historians and rich in PRESIDENCY tanced from Ruth Duck is associate profes- color photographs of presi- their civics sor of worship at Garrett dential artifacts, The lessons of long Evangelical Theological Seminary Presidency would be ago or torn by and the author of numerous equally at home on one's headlines in books of worship resources. Her reference shelf or coffee this election latest, Finding Words for Worship, table. year. is meant primarily for people— Nelson's foreword sets laity, clergy and seminarians— the tone with an essay on who write their own prayers, the nature of the presiden-

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Bryan Campus Life Center: It'll Knock Your Socks Off This fall, returning students, return in August. The athletics time it is dedicated in late I umni and friends won't rec- and recreation staff will move October. There will, however, be ognize the north side of campus. into the facility in late July / early minor adjustments and final Where once stood a giant sea of August. touch-up work that will continue mud, steel beams and unsightly Opening this fall: in November and December, machines, beautiful walls of •A tennis complex with 10 officials predict. stone rise impressively. Bryan brand-new lighted tennis courts. •Alburhi Pool. This facility will Campus Life Center, Rhodes' Opening early September, the open spring '97 with a new pool long-awaited $21.6 million athlet- courts of post-tension concrete house, decking and landscaping. ic, fitness and social center, edges with an acrylic surface are being The Bryan Campus Life closer to completion. built to the northeast of Bryan Center will operate 12 hours a Because of the scope and size Hall. The eight old courts are day, 7 days a week under the of the project—the largest con- being replaced by a landscaped supervision of new facility direc- struction project in Rhodes' 147- area that will serve as a pedestri- for Matt Dean, who will also year history—the facility is being an approach to the center. continue as assistant men's bas- completed in stages. •Bryan Hall. The tower-front- ketball coach. The athletic Already open: ed building which houses the department is additionally dou- •Mallory-Hyde Gyms. These massive multi-use forum, a sec- bling the size of its student staff renovated—and air condi- and-floor ballroom for dances, to help with the many activities tioned—facilities are already lectures and other campus that will take place within the complete. They house huge complex. the basketball arena, The leading gift three racquetball and for the Bryan two squash courts, Campus Life men's and women's Center came from locker rooms and aero- the children of bics room. Catherine Opening late summer: Wilkerson Bryan •The athletics build- of West Point, ing which connects Miss., and from Mallory-Hyde and Bryan the business her Hall to its east. The sec- late husband John ond floor of the athlet- H. Bryan Sr. co- ics building holds the founded, Bryan offices of the athletics Foods. John Bryan and recreation staff; Jr. '58, chairman of the first floor contains Coach Sarah Hatgas teaches karate in a renovated area of the board and a 7,000-square-foot fit- Mallory•Hyde gym. The space is also used for aerobics. CEO of Sara Lee ness room as well as a Photo by Kevin Barre Corp., is one of beautiful windowed corridor events, an indoor track (1 / 10 Mrs. Bryan's four children pro- where the Rhodes Athletic Hall mile) and the Lynx Lair (the new viding Bryan Hall in her honor. of Fame will reside. In terms of social area and snack bar) will Her three other children also the number of enrolled students, open this fall. The Lynx Lair will participated in the gift: the fitness room will be among have, in addition to tables for Memphian George W. Bryan, the nation's largest collegiate fit- dining, comfortable seating areas senior vice president of Sara Lee; ness centers providing nearly 5 where groups or couples can Caroline Bryan Harrell, a West square feet per student, notes gather and talk. Point, Miss., civic leader; and the athletic director Mike Clary '77. Barring unforeseen construc- family of her late daughter The fitness room will be up and tion delays, Bryan Hall is expect- Catherine Bryan Dill '64, also of running by the time students ed to be 99% complete by the West Point. Summer 1996 Rhodes 11 Celebrating ___ .The Humanities New Book Docuniants "Man"/"Search" Corr 's First H

By Michael Nelson Professor of Political Science t is a story that preachers (once known as the "Man" love. In an age of academic love (I have heard it four course) are amateurs. No one has hyperspecialization, in which times from three pulpits) a Ph.D. in Search; no such degree careers typically advance by writ- and it goes like this: The exists. Classicists regularly step ing more and more about less architect Christopher Wren, outside their training to lead col- and less for fewer and fewer Iafter working for 35 years to readers, no other motive rebuild St. Paul's Cathedral for teaching in a course in London, took Queen like Search makes sense. Anne on a tour of the com- I hasten to add, without pleted renovation. When Celebrating the fear of contradiction, that they were done, the queen no one in the history of delivered her verdict: "It is Humanities Search has been more of awful, it is artificial, it is A HALF-CENTURY OF THE an amateur than I—cer- amusing." Wren was SEARCH COURSE AT RHODES COLLEGE tainly in the modern sense thrilled, not devastated. In of the word and, I hope, in 1710, awful meant "awe- the original one as well. inspiring," artificial meant Fear of embarrassment "artistic," and amusing prevents me from reveal- meant "amazing." ing the full extent of my Amateur is another word ignorance when I began that once thrilled but now teaching first-year Search devastates. The Latin root in 1991. Suffice it to say reveals something of its that although I probably original meaning: amare, to could have eked out a C- love. Properly understood, on a pop quiz drawn from, an amateur is someone who say, E.D. Hirsch's does something for the love Dictionary of Cultural of it. Yet this meaning has Literacy, I almost certainly been all but lost. To call would have flunked an someone an amateur today essay test. Twenty years of is to describe a person of studying the American limited competence, a bum- presidency and related bler or trifler. subjects had seldom led Dare I say it, then? All of us loquia on the Hebrew scriptures; me into the byways of the who teach in Rhodes' four-semes- philosophers strain to teach the Deuteronomistic History or the ter flagship course, "The Search Inferno; theologians march their musings of the Stoics and for Values in the Light of students though the Iliad and the Epicureans. Western History and Religion" Republic. All of them do it out of What, then, was I doing on the

From "On Diversity requires that one ask not, "What does this text mean for me?" but and Conflict' rather, "What did it mean for By Ellen T. Armour those who produced it?" It also Assistant Professor of means realizing that the Bible is Religious Studies not a book that says the same Students sometimes find it thing from cover to cover. hard to grasp the difference Instead, it is a library containing between academic study of a variety of genres of literature the Bible and church-school and views of deity, all reflecting study. My approach to get- a wide range of historical per- ting them to discern and spectives and interests. (The appreciate the difference is to word "bible" is itself from the describe the Bible as, among Greek biblia—that is, books.) other things, a window into Thus, the Bible contains bumps, the world that produced it. bruises, and warts that may Gaining access to that world trouble contemporary readers.

Summer 1996 Rho( 13 faculty of the Search course? In not so easily satisfied. Two years 1945) needed to be recovered and large part I was there for my own ago it found a new channel. The told. education. I wanted to "learn this Search course was about to mark The story needed to be told, stuff," as I put it to myself; I did its 50th anniversary, an extraordi- first and foremost, for the benefit not want to go to my of the Rhodes community, grave without having its diversity wonderfully seriously read, Now to Cot Tour Copy enumerated by philosophy reflected on, and dis- A pull-out coupon in the center of the maga- professor Robert Llewellyn cussed works such as zine makes it easy to order copies of Celebrating as "alumni, parents, house- the Aeneid, the the Humanities, due out in October. Vanderbilt keepers, teachers and Nicomachean Ethics, the Press is the publisher. Those who order by coupon coaches, students, secre- Hebrew prophets, and by December 31 will get the book at the discount taries and staff assistants, Augustine's price of $23 (plus shipping and handling). retirees and saints, chap- Confessions. I knew Books will also be available (at the regular lains and counselors, bene- from long experience sales price of $28.95) through the Rhodes factors, administrators and as a teacher that there Bookstore beginning in October. To order, call executives and deans, is no better way to 901-726-3535. groundskeepers, trustees, master a subject than to On Homecoming Weekend, Oct. 25 - 27, there librarians, maintenance teach it, and so I will be an Authors' Panel Discussion featuring technicians, friends." resolved to do so with Michael Nelson and the other faculty contributing But the story of the the literature of the to the book at 4:45 p.m. Friday, Oct. 25 in Blount Search course was also one ancient and biblical Lecture Hall of Buckman Hall. The Rhodes that the world needed to world that makes up Bookstore will be selling books at that event and hear. At a time when simi- first-year Search. throughout the Homecoming Weekend. lar courses were being I also knew that the attacked at some colleges Search course was the and universities as the dark defining academic experience at nary milestone in the turbulent vestiges of "Eurocentric patri- Rhodes, the soul of the college in world of higher education. I archy," arrogantly presented at some ways. I had learned this decided that the half-century others under the banner of "our while teaching at Vanderbilt story of the course (it began in Judeo-Christian heritage," and, at University and living in Nashville for 13 years before coming to Rhodes. My Nashville Out Into The Wald course at Rhodes as a student, friends included several Rhodes commuted to Jackson, Miss., to alumni, and when I would ask The Search course has been a advise Millsaps College on how them what their college experi- "light unto the world" of higher to create its Heritage Program. ence had been like, they almost education—the course is Other colleges have also bor- always said the same two things: arguably Rhodes' greatest con- rowed directly from the Search first, that Search had been the tribution to the larger academic course in designing their curric- best course they had ever taken, community. As Rhodes French ula, including St. Andrews the one that had stayed with professor James Vest reports in College in North Carolina, them the longest and affected Chapter 5 of Celebrating the Austin College in Texas, Eckerldi them the most; and second, that Humanities, in 1960 Davidson College in Florida, and, most Nag they wished they had realized College recruited philosopher recently, the University of the how valuable it was at the time Daniel D. Rhodes from the South in Sewanee, Tenn. So they were taking it. When I left Rhodes faculty to bring the have some Memphis insti Vanderbilt for Rhodes, I did so Search course to Davidson, lions, such as Memphis for several reasons—the lure of where a version of it is still University School and, as pa small classes, the beauty of the taught. A few years later, when of its Sunday Christian campus, a fondness for midtown W. Taylor Reveley, a Rhodes Education program, Calva Memphis, and so on. But high on Bible professor and the college Episcopal Church. And, of the list was my desire to teach in chaplain, was made president of course, over the years hundreds the Search course. Hampden-Sydney College in of Memphians have taken a That desire has been fulfilled: Virginia, he instituted a similar continuing education version of this fall I will begin my sixth year program there. In 1968, Rhodes the Search course from the as a faculty member in the classics professor Tom Jolly, Meeman Center for Lifelong course. But the amateur spirit is who had taken the Search Learning.

14 Rhodes Summer 1996 From "On Faith and the Bigger would then show Critical Method" how the myth at the end of By Larry Lacy the Republic illuminated the Professor of Philosophy implications of a belief in Among the most valuable immortality for how one aspects of teaching in the course lived one's life; Fred Neal in those early years was the would explain how the weekly staff luncheon. These concern for immortality in were not just administrative Gilgamesh was similar to, meetings, but gatherings at yet in important ways dif- which the staff probed the issues ferent from, the signifi- in the assigned readings from cance of resurrection to many different angles. Paul; and Larry Kinney If the subject for the week would probe the existential was the Epic of Gilgamesh, a meaning of the idea of meeting might go as follows— immortality, perhaps Granville Davis would suggest a drawing on Kierkegaard. question like, "How did realiz- Generous of spirit, my for- ing that he was not immortal mer teachers would draw Prof. Larry Lacy Photo by Iburray NW* influence the behavior of me into such discussions. Their could grow not only in under- Gilgamesh?", to open the class interest in and response to my standing of the issues but also discussion; he called them his halting contributions created the in confidence as a teacher and "sparkplug" questions. Charlie kind of atmosphere in which I colleague. all too many institutions of united in their commitment to ments. Its students, a substantial higher education, indifferently the course but diverse in almost majority of the first-year class, taught in large lecture sections by every other way, ranging from were more enthusiastic about resentful junior faculty, the staunch traditionalists to femi- Search than at any time in its his- Search course at Rhodes seemed nists and postmodernists and tory, and they (and their profes- evergreen. including representatives from sors) took justifiable pride in how Its faculty members were nearly a dozen academic depart- their writing, critical thinking, verbal expression, and general education improved because of i i i grew up knowing I wanted to the course. go to Rhodes and knowing If telling the Search story was about the 'Man' course from a good idea, a better one was to my older sisters who attended Rhodes share the research and writing of before me. I had full anticipation the book with several other ama- entering Rhodes that this was some- teurs in the course, including thing important....Not a day goes by longtime faculty, recent faculty, that I don't harken back to something men, women, historians, philoso- I learned in the 'Man' course. I can phers, political scientists, lin- still remember many of the lectures: guists, classicists, religious Dr. Patterson talking about romanti- studies scholars, even (or perhaps cism, Dr. Llewellyn teaching Emanuel especially) students. Bringing in Kant, Dr. Batey's talks about Peter in others made the book better in the New Testament. As students our ways that for a half century have horizons were broadened... made the course better, augment- "I remember in 1974 when my sister Rose was in graduate ing it with a large number of school and discovered that she had accidentally thrown away her excellent voices, talents, and per- 'Man' notebooks. She was so upset: it was as if she'd thrown away spectives, all of them working her birthright..." together with just the right mix of John Gladney '74, Shreveport, Lai individuality and collaboration. General Surgeon with Brown,Eddleman,Gladney And so Celebrating the MIL Benefactor of the "Search" Coursea Humanities: A Half-Century of the Summer 1996 Rhodes 15 Search Course at Rhodes College, Davis, Alexander P. Kelso, the current director of the course, which will be published in Laurence F. Kinney, John Osman, picks up the narrative torch in October by Vanderbilt University and W. Raymond Cooper—and Chapter 2 and carries it through Press, was born. The opening describe how they and President the 1960s, when Search was beset chapters tell the history of the Charles E. Diehl both influenced by many of the challenges of that Search course from its origins at and were influenced by prevail- tumultuous decade, and up to the end of World War II through ing currents in humanistic and 1975. In Chapter 3, Professor its 50th year. In Chapter 1, I Christian higher education in the Robert Llewellyn chronicles the introduce the course's 1940s and 1950s. Rhodes history course from 1975 to 1985, equally founders—professors John Henry professor Douglas W. Hatfield, stormy years because of obstacles that arose within the college itself, especially the need to meet i iromF the first time I stepped into the 8:00 a.m. lecture, I Rhodes' commitment to biblical knew that the 'Man' class study in an academically sound would be like nothing I had ever way. Then, in Chapter 4, James experienced before. Our first reading M. Vest, a professor of French, assignment was a book called The and political science professor Murder of the Missing Link, not high Daniel E. Cullen bring the story literature but a gripping way to of the Search course into the pre- begin—with creation and the start of sent, describing a decade in human affairs. It teased us into con- which the change in name from sideration of fundamental questions "Man" to "Search" neatly sym- of who is man and what it means to bolized the turbulent academic be human. This sort of experience waters that the course, like happened time and again. "Western Civ" and "Great The Man course was an exceptional way to stimulate 17- a nd Books" courses everywhere, had 18-year-olds with the thrill of learning, to broaden our interests, to navigate. and to allow us the privilege of sharing our teachers' insights and The remaining chapters offer excitement. Such formative impressions really help shape a lifeti an eclectic mix of perspectives on of exploration." the Search course. In Chapter 5, Liz Currie Williams ' Vest describes the spread of the Vice President of Business and Finance, course, or variants of it, from Southern Methodist University Rhodes to Davidson, Millsaps,

experience, often by exploring a about him. To ponder why From "Of Great Books and dimension of humanity that is Odysseus rejects Calypso's offer, Conflicts" unknown to, choosing instead By Daniel E. Cullen or forgotten the bounds of Associate Professor of Political by, our cul- mortality and the Science ture. Nothing hazards of home- Students are naturally will be gained coming, is to con- inclined to ask (to paraphrase by studying front the question Tertullian): What do Athens and the great books of what it means Jerusalem have to do with me? unless we can to be human. It's a fair question, and a learn some- Similarly, coming demand I take seriously, believ- thing from to grips with the ing as I do that most students them—merely insistence on radi- arrive at college without an edu- to admire cal humility in the cational plan, but longing for them for their Rule of St. fulfillment and self-knowledge. canonicity is Benedict can The Search course responds to both empty bring home, per- that longing with the implicit and ridiculous. _ haps for the first suggestion that students can I approach time, the ramifica- begin to find themselves with Search with tions of acknowl- the aid of books that challenge the idea that one can learn from edging one's status as a created them to make sense of human Homer or Plato, not merely being.

Rhodes Summer 1996 Eckerd, Hampden-Sydney, the University of the South, and other distinguished liberal arts colleges. (See the box on page 14.) Chapter 6, written by Rhodes students David Welch Suggs Jr. '95 and James W. Turner '95, with assistance from a number of other student reporters, presents Search as a living institution by recording a week in the life of the course during the Spring 1995 semester. (See the box below.) Finally, in Chapter 7, I speculate on the future of the Search course and of similar courses at other colleges and universities. In doing so, I take into account numerous trends in the humanities and higher education, ranging from the ongoing war over Professor Dan Rhodes, shown here celebrating his birthday with students, later left the college to launch a "Search" course at Davidson. A Week In The Life Murray notes these in the "John's the synoptic Gospels when he Gospel" column on the white- wrote his own account? By Welch Suggs '95 and Jim board. This prompts most of the Faith, who is wearing a cross Turner '95 class to reproduce the chart in necklace, and Cerise argue vehe- In March 1995, Rhodes student their notes, while discussion mently that John and the synoptic journalists David Welch Suggs Jr. turns to the differences in the var- Gospels were written indepen- '95 and James W. Turner '95 chroni- ious Gospels' portrayals of Jesus' dently of each other, while other cled a week in the life of the Search baptism and his relationship with members of the class are just as course. During the week they chose John the Baptist. convinced that John was written to cover, students in the first year of As the class progresses, almost much later and incorporates ele- the two-year course were studying everyone contributes to the dis- ments of the other Gospels. the Gospel of John. The Murray clicks the cap following excerpts from back on her marker Suggs' and Turner's and lets the discus- chapter in Celebrating sion range widely... the Humanities offer a Discussion in snapshot of the colloquia Tenzer's class also taught by Professor Gail spans a number of Murray of the history topics: the political department and Greek maneuverings pre- and Roman Studies pro- ceding the crucifix- fessor Livia Tenzer. ion, the Last Supper, "How does the and comparisons of Gospel of John deal Jesus and Moses. with the question of Most students Jesus being God incar- seem truly to enjoy nate, and how does Welch Suggs '95 (left) and Jim Turner '95 Photo by Troy Clark these freewheeling this differ from the discussions. Later, other gospels?" Murray asks her cussion, often talking at the same Tom offers his take on the situa- students. time. Murray quietly gets up to tion: "The readings predicate One by one, different students close the classroom door against thinking, not just cursory syn- point out the seven signs in John, noise from the hallway as another opses. Reading the text will not with Jesus changing the water question arises: Was the author of help your Search grade, but into wine a particular favorite. the Gospel of John familiar with analysis and reflection will."

Summer 1996 R diN I T the "canon" to changes in educa- tional technology. Sprinkled throughout the book are a number of brief "perspectives" essays, each written by a member of the Search faculty: Ellen T. Armour and Gail Corrington Streete of the religious studies department, philosophers James Jobes and Larry Lacy, Kenny Morrell of the Greek and Roman Studies program, longtime former course director Fred W. Neal, Cullen, Founding Fathers of what was originally known as the "Man" course: and me. These essays (some of (from left) Laurence F. Kinney, John Osman, John Henry Davis, which are excerpted to appear Alexander P. Kelso. along with this article) vary Search course's first half century, times, the course has maintained widely, in keeping with the but also the beginning of its sec- an integrity, deeply grounded in spirit of the course. As its name ond. I am optimistic about the its history and content, that has implies, one of Search's pur- future of Search in a way that enabled it to endure. poses is to encourage students in only close study of its history The proof of the Search their personal quests for mean- allows. Throughout its 50 years, course's integrity continues to lie ing. Students differ greatly in the Search has had ups and downs in the alumni of the college. I destinations to which their too numerous and varied to experience the effects of their searches carry them. Why mention. Yet through the high regard for the course every should it surprise anyone that unceasing efforts of dedicated time I speak to an alumni chap- faculty do, too? faculty and some administrators ter. I always bring with me a Celebrating the Humanities to keep up with but not give stack of the current Search read- marks not only the end of the way to the vagaries of changing ing list, and when I announce that I have done so, I know from human beings in both their experience what I will hear from I-From "A Dialogue With common humanity and rich graduates of every generation: a Values" diversity? Maybe a concern for sudden and collective gasp of By Fred W. Neal responsible living in the civic pleasure, a squeal of delight. I Professor Emeritus of Religion community? have come After the knowledge of facts I still remember many of my to think of and information colleagues' lectures— that as the has disappeared, some of them brilliant. sound of what remains? But more significant to the Search Habits of my mind were the course. thought, habits study and discussion of the heart, an questions we gave to appreciation of our students to accom- and devotion to pany each reading significant val- assignment. I remember ues, maybe some them as probing into great commit- vital issues of life, deal- In addition to being editor of ment? Maybe a ing with problems that Celebrating the Humanities, Prof. Fred Neal Professor of Political Science sense of the vast Portrait by Torn Donate." have plagued human Michael Nelson has written a sweep of beings throughout number of books about the Western history? Maybe the Western history, asking for reac- American presidency, recognition that basic issues of tions of all sorts from the including The American Presidency: Origins and human life recur in succeeding reader—personal opinions, rea- Development, 1776-1993, which ages and challenge us to make soned conclusions, careful inter- won the Benjamin Franklin Award new responses in ways enlight- pretations and evaluations—all in the category of history, poli- ened by the experience of the as a prelude to discussion with tics and philosophy. (Also see story page 10 about his latest

past? Maybe an appreciation of faculty and fellow students. book.) photo by Trey Clark

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Saturday morning is followed in Memphis, so make your plans Join The Crowd by the traditional Homecoming early. For information about picnic. hotel rates and Homecoming Homecoming 196 At 2 p.m., the Rhodes Lynx weekend activities, call the battle the Colorado College Rhodes Alumni Office at October 25-26 Tigers. At halftime and after the (901)726-3845 or 1-800-264-5969. game, the Class of '91 will host a A schedule of exciting events victory party adjacent to will greet alumni and their fami- Fargason Field. The Coming Of lies returning to Homecoming '96. Of course, Homecoming There will be tours of the wouldn't be complete without Goings Bryan Campus Life Center, reunions, celebrated this year by scheduled to open in October. classes ending in the numbers 1 Liz Goings '96 joined the New members of the Rhodes and 6. All alumni are invited to Rhodes Alumni Office as Athletic Hall of Fame, which participate, including those who assistant director of alumni at the eventually will have a place of aren't members of a reunion beginning of the summer. She honor in the center, will be class. will concentrate on young alumni inducted at a luncheon on Please note: Homecoming activities and working with cur- Friday, Oct. 25. Weekend is always a busy time rent students. On Friday afternoon during the Academic Festival, alumni may return to the classroom. Rhodes is offering four mini- Homecoming '96 classes, each taught by a Rhodes professor specifically for alumni Friday, Oct. 25 and guests. Noon Luncheon Honoring Inductees to the Rhodes The reception Friday evening Athletic Hall of Fame will welcome alumni and celebrate the artistic career of 3:30-5:45 p.m. Academic Festival of Mini-Classes Lawrence Anthony. A retrospec- 6-8:30 p.m. Welcome Home Reception for All Alumni tive of his work will be on view Celebrating the Lawrence Anthony Retrospective in Clough-Hanson Gallery. Lon in Clough-Hanson Gallery Anthony retired from the Rhodes art department in 1995. Saturday, October 26 The exhibit will be open during 9 a.m. Homerunning: Second Annual Rhodes College the reception and throughout 5K Fun Run Homecoming weekend. 9:30-10:45 a.m. Coffee with faculty For those alumni who feel fit, Saturday morning offers Home- 11 a.m. Alumni Procession and Convocation running, the Second Annual Noon Homecoming Picnic and Memphis Music Rhodes College Run for Fun. 2 p.m. Rhodes Lynx vs. Colorado College Tigers The event, sponsored by the Half-time and All Alumni Victory Party sponsored by the Class senior class (class of '97), Postgame of '91 awards prizes in all age divisions. Evening Class Reunion Parties The Alumni Convocation on Summer 1996 Rhodes A-1 Alumni

Frist of Tennessee and Rep. Church after Commencement. If Spencer Bachus of Alabama. you believe the ring is yours, Other campus activities included please call the Alumni Office volunteering in the Adopt a (901) 726-3845 with a description. Friend Project at Snowden The Alumni Office will return it Elementary School through the to you Kinney Program and working as a section editor on the Lynx year- book staff. New Alumni Liz As a Rhodes Student Ambas- Goings sador her senior year, Goings Photo by Directory On The Kevin Barri assisted with alumni events on campus and helped organize the Way Goings came to Rhodes from First Annual Homerunning 5K at Birmingham, Ala. A political sci- Homecoming '95. Watch your mailbox for infor- ence major, she put her studies to mation regarding the work by serving as a Student Sesquicentennial Edition of the Government senior senator. She Lost And Found Rhodes College Alumni Directo- also participated in the Washing- ry, due out in 1997. All Rhodes ton Semester Program and A silver ring was found at alumni will have the opportunity interned in the offices of Sen. Bill Mississippi Boulevard Christian to be included in the directory,

Photo by Kevin Barre Alumni And Their '96 Graduates

Three generations of Rhodes alumni gathered for a family photo at Commencement. They are: First row: (left to right): Athena Petropoulos '96, Stanley Dunn Petropoulos '65, Adair Hogue Rainey '71, Jessica Rainey '96, Tracey Short '96, Dianne Rickoll Short '67, Jere Fones '70, Allison Fones '96 and her grandfather Franklin Kimbrough '33, Susie Aivazian Cohan '66, Abbie Cohan '96 and her sister Sara Cohan '94, Al Hammer '96 standing behind his grandmother Jane Evans West '43. Second row: John Havercamp '96, Tamma Lehmann Havercamp '64, Paul Guibao '96, Renee Clark Guibao '67, Jennifer Larson '96, Judi Adams Larson '68, Alyce Jappe Burr '64, Elizabeth Burr '96, Harry Burr '65, Margaret Jones Houts '40 and behind and to the right of her, grandson Aaron Houts '96. Third row: John Feild '96, Roscoe Feild '52, Patrick Fisher '96, Carl Fisher '65, Anne Tuthill Reynolds '40 and her grandson Richard Reynolds '96, Ellen Woodruff Reynolds '67, John Larson '68, Nancy Patton Langdon '68, John Langdon '96, Anna Hurayt '96 and her father Tom Bowman '66, Jamie Roeling '96, Alice Fitch Roeling '59. Not pictured: Margaret Bush '96 and Nicole Holmes Bush '65; Tom Castelli '96 and his grandmother Ann Turrentine Hauser '45; Whitney King '96 and Barbara Condra King '70; Tim Smith '96 and Winton Smith '65; Richard Walker '96 and Carol Pennepacker Walker '65; Chip Reynolds '67. A-2 Rhodes Summer 1996 F2M1111■1111111W1 PkiumniA 1 Rhodes

which will contain the latest in sor emerita in UT's hematology people will look upon this alumni home and business infor- department. church and say Christ is alive mation, fax numbers and e-mail Women of Achievement is a there." addresses. multiracial, multifaith coalition of The directory, published by civic and professional groups Publishing Concepts Inc., will be and supporting agencies. Award Ricker Develops available in soft cover ($39.95), recipients are nominated by the hard cover ($43.95) and CD-ROM public for their service to Caregiving ($43.95). Memphis and for their courage, initiative, steadfastness, determi- Computer nation, heritage, heroism and Thrilled At The vision. Program Guild Retired insurance executive First Church Calls John Ricker '38 of Denville, N.J., Last fall, the city of Memphis former chairman and CEO of The presented a certificate of recogni- Scarborough Continental Corporation, and one tion to Bill Kendall '45, manager of his sons have developed a and later owner of the old The Rev. Bo Scarborough '67 computer program to track the Ritz/Guild and Studio Theatres, preached his first sermon Easter various stages of a rare brain dis- for "outstanding and meritorious Sunday at his new pastorate, ease called progressive supranu- contribution to our community." Memphis' First Presbyterian clear palsy (PSP). Kendall was cited as "film schol- Church. Scarborough, a former Ricker's wife Jane is one of ar and Memphis landmark-66 dean of student affairs at only 20,000 people who suffer years in the dark." Rhodes, went to First Church from the disease, about which "We had so many Southwest- from Frayser-Trinity Presbyter- very little is known. Initially, he ern employees at the Guild," says ian Church. developed the program to record Kendall. "Plus, if we had had as Founded in 1828, First her symptoms, and has since col- many customers from Memphis Church conducts a downtown lected data from more than 125 State as we did Southwestern, Bo we'd have been rich." Kendall Scarbor- recounts one customer saying, ough with "Only two things in Memphis young have real class—Southwestern parishon- ers during and the Ritz Theatre." a Sunday service. Photo by Kent Phillips, The Commercial Women Of Appeal Achievement Pauline Jones Hord '29 and Ann Bell '41 of Memphis were honored this spring at the 12th annual Women of Achievement Inc. awards banquet. ministry that includes a day l'SP patients. Ricker updates the Hord, a Memphis City Schools care center and soup kitchen. information periodically, prints it teacher for 38 years, is nationally Scarborough was quoted in a and sends it to the caregivers of known for founding a literacy Commercial Appeal article as say- those 125 patients. The data helps program at Mississippi's ing he is "drawn to the kind of them understand and cope with Parchman Prison. Bell, who Christians who are drawn to the illness of their loved ones. began her career as a secretary in downtown and inner-city Several members of the med- the pathology department of the churches." ical profession are interested in University of Tennessee, "I pray that we will carry a possibly putting Ricker's study to Memphis, is an assistant profes- light into all of the city. That wider use. Summer 1996 Rhodes A-3 Alumni

than 200 new mixed media paint- Seminary in Chicago. Nash Receives ings—not cartoons—that he's A member of the McCormick created in the last two years. faculty since 1984 and a full pro- Community Award fessor since 1992, she counts reli- Jere Nash '50 of Greenville, gious education as her area of Miss., a Rhodes trustee in the Telling Stories expertise. The author of curricula 1970s and '80s, was the winner of for children and youth, she has the 1995 Jake Stein Community Ted and Liz Smith Parkhurst also published her doctoral Service Award, given annually '80, president and vice president research, Hulda Niebuhr: A Myste- by the Delta Democrat of August House rious Mantle (Pilgrim Press, 1992). Times newspaper for Publishers in Little Her most recent book is Come community service. Rock, are the 1996 unto Me: Rethinking the Sacraments Nash, treasurer of recipients of the for Children (United Church Delta Implement Co., John Henry Faulk Press, 1996). is a past president of Award for the Rotary Club, to outstanding contri- which he has bution to the art of Mission To The CIS belonged for 40 years, storytelling. and program August House pub- Janet Annis Pauley '76 and her coordinator for Ameri- lishes a variety of husband Larry are staff mission- can Field Services, an storytelling aries at the international international exchange resources. headquarters of the Slavic Gospel program for young Faulk, for whom Association in Loves Park, Ill. people. the award is The 62-year-old mission helps He has also been a named, was a evangelical churches in the Com- youth counselor and Texas storytelling monwealth of Independent States tutor as well as a volunteer for legend, noted author and televi- in the former Soviet Union. the Salvation Army and Delta sion host. He was also a champi- Janet coordinates the mission's Regional Medical Center. He was on of free speech who battled print and media communications, a member of the school board in McCarthyism in the 1950s. and Larry travels frequently to the mid-'60s, defending the pub- the CIS to train pastors and lic school system when court- church planners in biblical ordered desegregation came to Caldwell Named To theology. the Greenville Municipal "I am the only one in our office Separate School District. Professorship with a multiple-language "The best thing my wife background, so my studies at [Margie Boisen Nash '50] and I Lib Caldwell '69 has been Rhodes come in very handy," she have done over the years is raise named the Harold Blake Walker says. three good, hard-working sons," Professor of Pastoral Theology at the modest Nash said of his McCormick Theological honor. Nash's son Louis was also a nominee for the award. Top Job Liz Gotham '92 McMillan Returns with her boss, Vice President "Return to Memphis after 10 Al Gore. Cotham, who Years" is the title of an upcoming works as special September exhibition of works by assistant to the Brad McMillan '68 at the Cooper vice president, Street Gallery. The Dallas artist is pictured in her office in the whose political cartoons regular- west wing of the ly appear both in Dallas and in White House. the Memphis Business Journal, says the exhibit will include more A-4 Rhodes Summer 1996 Alumni

as reported in the spring issue Orman Shields '73. "I am happy Advertising Award of Rhodes. Also, she has expand- to report that I still live in Mem- ed the scope of her newsletter, phis with my husband Mark Goes To Rye now called Business Law Focus. It Griffee '77 and our two Scott Rye '83 recently received covers small business legal children, Susannah and Mark the Advertising Federation of issues for business owners, Jr.," Griffee says. Greater Mobile's 1995-96 entrepreneurs and business Natasha Westrich '95 is a Presidents Award. Rye, an advisers. Several Rhodes alumni graduate student at Southern Illi- account executive with Timbes & have contributed to the newslet- nois University, not Southern Yeager Advertising, is current ter, including Harry Ogden '71, Indiana. chairman of Mobile AdFed's Past Michael Coury '77 and Clare Rhodes regrets these errors. Presidents Council. Active in community volunteer work, he also is a naval historian and Alumni Gatherings author. Prof. Jim Lanier, who recently spoke to Dallas alumni about his research, with host Club News Karen Hermele Levy '81 and her daughter NASHVILLE—Rhodes alumni Sophie in the Nashville area gathered at the home of Cam '82 and Laurie Smith Moss '85 for a Mexican fiesta. Other alumni hosts were David McMillan '68, Charlie '73 and Arden Ritter McElroy '76, Sydney Richardson DeWitt '81 and Ellen Lewis '91. A large turnout of alumni made the event a festive occasion. Mary Barrett MEMPHIS—Memphis alumni Brewer '82, in the classes of 1930-60 enjoyed host Cam Moss '82 and a matinee performance of McCoy Holly and Theatre's production of The Gordon Brewer Pirates of Penzance. A dessert '90 reception followed the rousing musical. Hosts for the event were McKay '38 and Mollie Boswell, Tom '46 and Bettie Durham and Mary George Beggs '55. SAUSALITO—Doug and Margaret Rowe Fancher, both members of the class of '64, invited San Francisco area alumni to Molly and McKay their home in Sausalito, Calif. Boswell '38, two of Intrepid Rhodes alumni able to the hosts of The follow Doug's directions to his Pirates of Penzance home were rewarded with a theater party refreshing "lunch by the bay." Correction Virginia Watson Griffee '78 lives in Memphis, not Nashville, Summer 1996 Rhodes A-5 Class Notes

By Stephen Maloy Deusner '96 CHRISTY MORGAN, REG GERMANY, PRESIDENT PRESIDENT NEXT REUNION: FALL 2000 Rhodes International 51 NEXT REUNION: 55 Mary Rogers Watkins Alumni Association Ocr. 25-26, 1996 recently represented Executive Officers 1995-96 Martha Ellen Davidson Rhodes at inaugural ceremonies Maxwell, executive director of at Tennessee Wesleyan College in President the Memphis Symphony, was re- Athens. Tan Heslip Hine '69, Atlanta cently elected secretary of the President-Elect Memphis Rotary Club. IIM TURNER, PRESIDENT Jim O'Donnell '74, Dallas NEXT REUNION: Vice President HAM SMYTHE, PRESIDENT 56 Ocr. 25-26,1996 Deborah Legg Sullivan '80, NEXT REUNION: Leonard and Nancy Memphis S2 Ocr. 17-18, 1997 Germany Reinker of Kent, Ham Smythe, president Ohio, are both retired and spend of Yellow Cab Co. in Memphis, their time traveling and being BAXTER POUNCEY, has been named a trustee of the with their five grandchildren. PRESIDENT Baptist Memorial Health Care 41 NEXT REUNION: Foundation. TIM AND MARGARET FAGAN OCT. 25-26,1996 EIKNER, CO-PRESIDENTS Olive Martin Garren of Malden, CHARLES SULLIVAN, 57 NEXT REUNION: Mo., does volunteer and publicity PRESIDENT Ocr. 17-18, 1997 work for the Bootheel Youth Mu- 53 NEXT REUNION: FALL 1998 Mary Frances Files Silitch re- seum and the Malden Communi- Katherine Hinds cently represented Rhodes at in- ty Concert Association. She is Smythe, president of Memorial augural ceremonies at George also a pianist at First Presbyterian Park in Memphis, has been Washington University, Church and a piano teacher. reelected to a second term as Washington, D.C. president of the Cemetery Associ- HARLAND SMITH, ation of Tennessee and is current- JERRY DUNCAN, MARILY PRESIDENT ly on the board of Blue DAVIS HUGHES, 47 NEXT REUNION: Cross/Blue Shield. 61 CO-PRESIDENT Ocr. 17-18,1997 Charles "Mac" McAllister, NEXT REUNION: Robert Stobaugh of Columbus, president/CEO of Ouachita Med- Ocr. 25-26, 1996 Ohio, retired as director of ical Center/System in Camden, Judith Carson Vestal recently research at Chemical Abstracts Ark., was recently appointed to received an Award of Merit from Service in 1992, and now works the board of directors of the Louisiana Occupational Ther- there part-time. QualChoice of Arkansas, a man- apy Association. She teaches in aged health care company. the occupational therapy depart- BILL COLEY, PAUL CURRIE, ment at the Louisiana State Uni- CO-PRESIDENTS To TAYLOR THRELKELD, versity at Shreveport School of SO NEXT REUNION: FALL 2000 PRESIDENT Allied Health Professions. An op - ed piece titled 54 NEXT REUNION: FALL 1999 "Loneliness" by Richard Dixon, Elizabeth Price TOM WHITE, PRESIDENT professor emeritus of history at Johnson recently represented NEXT REUNION: the University of Arkansas at Lit- Rhodes at inaugural ceremonies 62 OCT. 17-18, 1997 tle Rock, was published in the at Belhaven College in Jackson, Grady Tollison recently Jan. 15 issue of The Presbyterian Miss. represented Rhodes at inaugural Outlook. He recently presented a Retired banker and former ceremonies at the University of paper at a meeting of the Rhodes trustee Ray Tanner of Mississippi. Arkansas Historical Association Jackson, Tenn., has been named a on the career of educator M. trustee of the Presbyterian LYDE ELLA CONNER LANCE, LaFayette Harris, president of Church (U.S.A.) Foundation PRESIDENT Little Rock's Philander Smith Board. He has served as past 63 NEXT REUNION: FALL 1998 College from 1936-60. chair of the church's Board of Fran Steward Bryan of Annuities and Relief and Board Little Rock works as a program- of Pensions. mer for Alltel Information

A-6 Rhodes Summer 1996 Class Notes services and sings in the SAMMY ANN PRIMM branch manager of the Jackson, Arkansas Bach Chorus. MARSHALL, PRESIDENT Tenn., office of Morgan Keegan 66 NEXT REUNION: Inc., was appointed to the compa- LINDA JACKSON TAYLOR, Orr. 25-26, 1996 ny's 1995 Treasurer's Club. PRESIDENT Lee Forbes of Millington, Tenn., John McMinn recently repre- 64 NEXT REUNION: FALL 1999 was recently promoted to chief sented Rhodes at inaugural cere- John Dean of Leland, administrative officer with the monies at Miami-Dade Miss., is president of Shelby County Sheriff's Community College. LANDMART Inc./Dean Land & Department. Ellen Brown Rust is school Realty Co., a company specializ- "The Secrets of Secretaries" counselor at Harpeth Valley Ele- ing in investment grade was the title of a recent exhibition mentary in Nashville. farmland. He is president-elect of of paintings by Betty Sue Dean the Mississippi Association of Re- Kaman of Lubbock, Texas, at the TRISH COOPER HAYLEY, altors. Texas Tech University Law SUSAN GLADDEN STITT, Frank Luton of Stone Moun- library. 69 CO-PRESIDENTS tain, Ga., retired from BellSouth Clay sculpture by Chrisana NEXT REUNION: FALL 1999 last fall. He now works as a con- Reveley, an art and French Pat and Susan Head Osoinach sultant and motivational speaker teacher at Patrick Henry High '67 live in Wichita Falls, Texas. A and volunteers for the Carter School in Richmond, Va., is cur- retired Air Force major, he serves Center, Wellness Community, rently on exhibit at galleries in as executive director of Habitat Adult Literacy Council and Richmond and Williamsburg. for Humanity and she is a free- Camp Twin Lakes, a camp for lance translator for regional com- children with debilitating IIM WHITTINGTON, panies. diseases. He also writes a humor PRESIDENT Wayne Rickel!, a biology pro- column for his neighborhood 67 NEXT REUNION: fessor at the University of Puget newspaper. Orr. 17-18, 1997 Sound in Tacoma, Wash., was re- Ann Evans Williams coordi- Aaron Foster was recently hon- cently granted tenure. He teaches nates the Gifted/Talented ored by Union Avenue United introductory and developmental Program of the McAllen, Texas, Methodist Church in Memphis, biology and electron microscopy, Independent School District. She where he is organist, for his 31 and his research is on molecular also works in a counseling center years' service as a church and genetic aspects of and leads children's groups at the musician. He has served as morphogenesis. He is currently Palmer Drug Abuse Program. organist at several Jewish congre- engaged in research with gations and Protestant and scientists at Duke and Northern Lou ELLYN HINDMAN Catholic churches in Memphis. Arizona Universities. GRIFFIN, PRESIDENT Kris Pruitt McColgan, an 65 NEXT REUNION: FALL 2000 English professor at Christian RUTH ANN SADLER HANEY, Jamie Murff Dent and Brothers University in Memphis, PRESIDENT her husband Gil, an Episcopal served as co-director for the Con- 70 NEXT REUNION: FALL 2000 priest, live in Laurens, S.C., ference on Milton held at Middle Gary Clark of Clearwa- where she serves as executive di- Tennessee State University last ter Beach, Fla., is the creator of rector of the local hospital foun- fall. She presented a paper on Interactive Storytelling, a dation and is involved in local Paradise Lost at the Fifth Interna- program that allows children to politics. tional Milton Symposium at the learn how stories are created and Attorney Dinetia McCormick University of North Wales in how they evolved. The author of Newman was recently named a Bangor last summer. the novel The Clearing, he has partner in the Tupelo, Miss., Ed Yarbrough's law firm, written a new book titled The office of the New Orleans-based Hollins, Wagster & Yarbrough in Wisdom of Children: Listening to the Phelps Dunbar law firm. Nashville, is celebrating its 20th Creativity of Young Minds. Charles Weber writes, "I anniversary this year. Benton Rollins was recently have launched a new career as a elected city attorney of Camden, string band fiddle player, but JANE BISHOP BRYSON, Ark . have not quit my day job" as su- PRESIDENT The Rev. Gary and Liz pervisor of urban forestry for the 68 NEXT REUNION: FALL 1998 Ridings Scheidt live in Moneta, city of Huntsville, Ala. Carol Sue Cato Keathley, Va., where he is the installed Summer 1996 Rhodes A-7 Class Notes minister for the Smith Mountain State University in Johnson City. Lynn Dunavant lives in Trinity Ecumenical Parish, which Nashville, where she works as a includes Trinity Presbyterian LARRY ANDERSON, school psychologist for Metro Church, Trinity Lutheran Church PRESIDENT Nashville Schools and attends and Trinity Episcopal Church. 74 NEXT REUNION: FALL 1999 Vanderbilt Divinity School. Ben Legett, director of Carol Ellis Morgan recently ALICE COCKROFT OATES, music at the Hutchison School in represented Rhodes at inaugural NANCY LENOX, Memphis, also is executive direc- ceremonies at Agnes Scott 71 CO-PRESIDENTS tor of the Wolf River Singers, a College in Decatur, Ga. NEXT REUNION: community choral group. OCT. 25-26, 1996 IOELLYN FORRESTER David Anderson of Hermitage, CATHERINE DAILEY BERGER, SULLIVAN, PRESIDENT Tenn., owner of Anderson PRESIDENT 77 NEXT REUNION: Photography Co., is starting a 75 NEXT REUNION: FALL 2000 Ocr. 17-18, 1997 second company which will be Earlier this year, Will Jay Brooks, chief of pathology digitally based, dealing with digi- Coleman of Atlanta, associate and laboratory medicine service tal cameras and computer professor of theology and at Veterans Affairs Medical Cen- processing. He is also involved in hermeneutics at Columbia Theo- ter in Jackson, Miss., was recently the National Speleological Society logical Seminary, was appointed to the College of and goes spelunking frequently interviewed on a CNN weekly American Pathologists' Program with his 16-year-old son Eric. religious program regarding the and Program Evaluation Karen Francis, owner/presi- roots of African-American spiri- Committee. dent of Art Promotions public re- tuality as depicted in slave narra- Rick and Ann Fair Burns live lations firm in McLean, Va., is tives and the relevance of the in Charlottesville, Va., where he featured in the 1995-1996 Who's narratives for contemporary manages a Radio Shack store. Who of American Women. scholars. Last year, she received her mas- Ry Tipton of Myrtle Beach, Anna Olswanger of Raleigh, ter's degree in library and infor- S.C., has been selected by his N.C., has published several arti- mation services from the peers to be listed in cles lately: an interview with University of North Carolina at Woodward/White, Inc.'s The Best Frank Sloan, former editorial di- Greensboro. Doctors in America, an honor rector of Thomson Learning, in Cathy Coats of Miami has a bestowed on only one percent of Children's Writer; a profile of new job with FENDI, the Italian physicians in the United States. Juanita Havill, creator of the leather goods company, as region- Jamaica picture books, in al manager for the Americas. BETTE DALE GARNER, Children's Literature; "Shlemiel Earlier this year, Mike Coury ANN GOTSCHALL SHARP, Crooks" in Palo Alto Review; "Big joined the Memphis law firm of 72 CO-PRESIDENTS Mistreatin' Bittersweet 'n Blues" Waring Cox as special counsel. NEXT REUNION: in Cricket; and her essay, "A Jew's Corbin "Cobby" Hobbie and OCT.17-18, 1997 Body," reprinted in the winter is- Nancy Brock '79 live in Susan Schaeffer Goodin of sue of Neshama, a Boston Roanoke, Va., where he is a Gallatin, Tenn., last winter women's newsletter. licensed clinical social worker celebrated the fifth anniversary of Vicki Gilmore Roman recent- and supervises a substance abuse her business, Books on the ly represented Rhodes at program. She is an attorney with Square. inaugural ceremonies at the Legal Aid Society of Roanoke Linda Hall Yoakum has been Morehouse College in Atlanta. Valley. promoted to manager of benefit An article by attorney Bill services at Federal Express in VICKERS DEMETRIO Hulsey titled "The Technology Memphis. JOHNSON, PRESIDENT Lawyer's View of the Initial 76 NEXT REUNION: Board of Directors," was TAN MANNING APLIN, Ocr. 25-26,1996 published in the January 1996 is- PRESIDENT Robert Chiong is the manager of sue of Technology Business 73 NEXT REUNION: FALL 1998 the Sarawak, Malaysia, office of Quarterly. Hulsey is a partner in Stephen Patrick is head The People's Insurance Co., a the Austin, Texas, law firm of of the Documents/Law/Maps subsidiary of Kuala Lampur Baker & Botts. Department at East Tennessee Industries. Cathy Johnson is director of A-8 Rhodes Summer 1996 Class Notes operations and development at STACY ABERNETHY, LESLIE DRAKE SCHUTT, National Rx Pharmacy in Tampa, KATHLEEN WILLS PRESIDENT Fla. 81 CHANDLER, CO-PRESIDENTS 83 NEXT REUNION: FALL 1998 NEXT REUNION: John and Susan Haley CHARLES RICHARDSON, Ocr. 25-26, 1996 Adams '82 have moved to Eden PRESIDENT Beth Patton Allen serves as di- Prairie, Minn., where he works as 78 NEXT REUNION: FALL 1998 rector of Christian education at a communications analyst for Bonnie Allen is assistant Westminster Presbyterian Church Wessels, Arnold & Henderson, staff counsel for the American in Waynesboro, Va. an investment banking firm in Bar Association, Center for Pro Cathy Goetz recently moved Minneapolis. Bono, in Chicago. A student at to Santa Fe to work for ICF John Bock, Andrew W. Mel- Garrett-Evangelical Theological Kaiser Engineers as a geologist lon fellow at Australian National Seminary, she is pursuing a mas- for an environmental remediation University's National Center for ter's in theological studies, with a contract with the Los Alamos Na- Epidemiology, and his wife Sara concentration in ethics and tional Laboratory. are spending 1996 in the Okauan- applied theology. Brooks Robey recently ga Delta in Botswana, where he is Martha Norton works full- accepted a faculty appointment at studying children's health and time as a physical therapist at the the University of Illinois College welfare among the bushmen. Arkansas Easter Seal Society and of Medicine in Chicago. Alex Ivy of Memphis recently part-time at the Timber Ridge formed Ivy Financial, a firm that Neurorestorative Center in Little BETSY RAMIER VACHERON, provides valuations of closely- Rock. She received her master's PRESIDENT held companies and related con- in physical therapy from the Uni- 82 NEXT REUNION: sulting services. His wife, versity of Central Arkansas in Ocr. 17-18, 1997 Melissa Barth Ivy, was named 1994. Heidi Hayslett Carroll recently the Junior League of Memphis' Deborah Dudney Watts of represented Rhodes at inaugural 1995 Community Volunteer of Wilmington, N.C., was featured ceremonies at Howard University the Year for her service as chair- in the January-February 1996 is- in Washington, D.C. man of the League's Habitat for sue of Today's Insurance Woman The Rev. Boyd Chitwood is a Humanity project. in an article regarding the daily teacher/administrator at Walnut Barry Johnson of Arlington, challenges of insurance claims Valley Christian Academy in Lit- Texas, is a partner at the Dallas adjusters. tle Rock. law firm of Barrett, Burke, Ann Collins lives in Jamaica Wilson, Castle, Daffin & Frappier. LAWRENCE HIGGINBOTHAM, Plain, Mass., and works as a ref- Laura Meacham Keane of St. PRESIDENT erence librarian for the Brookline Petersburg, Fla., is preparing to 79 NEXT REUNION: FALL 1999 Public Library. SEE BIRTHS return to graduate school to Joe Evangelisti, a Julia Reilly Fields recently study mathematics, "an interest- senior vice president of First Ten- accepted a job at the Sherman ing divergence from my previous nessee Bank in Memphis, was re- Reilly firm in Chattanooga. studies of literature," she writes. cently appointed by Gov. Don Paul Unkauf was recently She currently manages her Sundquist to the Tennessee promoted to commercial escrow husband's homeopathic medical Development Disabilities Court- manager in the Louisiana office practice. dl. SEE BIRTHS of Lawyers Title Insurance Corp. in New Orleans. AMY DOVILLE, DEBORAH LEGG SULLIVAN, Claire Tunnel! Warren is the TRACY VEZINA PATTERSON, GLORIA WHITE, director of therapeutic riding and 84 CO-PRESIDENTS 80 CO-PRESIDENTS animal assisted activities at the NEXT REUNION: FALL 1999 NEXT REUNION: FALL 2000 Richmond State School, a Texas Catherine Reese is an assistant Lela Taylor Scott is a quality Department of Mental Health professor of government at New improvement manager at LeBon- and Mental Retardation facility. Mexico State University in Las heur Children's Medical Center The program provides residents Cruces. She earned her doctor of in Memphis. and individuals in the Houston public administration degree area with horseback riding from the University of Georgia opportunities and pet-assisted ac- last year. tivities. SEE BIRTHS Marcus and Leigh Robley Summer 1996 Rhodes A-9 Class Notes,

Stevison '85 live in Cleveland, a sales representative for United Wa y. Tenn., where he owns and man- MindSpring Enterprises Inc., an Kendra Hazlett Armstrong ages Marcus Stevison Internet access provider. recently joined the Memphis law Construction Co. and she works Ray Barfield recently finished firm of Rice, Rice, Smith, Bursi, as a medical technician for Blood his pediatrics residency in Veazey & Amundsen as an asso- Assurance. Atlanta. SEE BIRTHS ciate attorney. David Thomas was recently Lorraine Fincke Dodson and Andrew Fong is currently named partner of the New her husband Jack moved to working at Mid-Continent Labo- Orleans-based Phelps Dunbar Jefferson City, Mo., last year, ratories in Memphis. law firm. He works in the where she has a private Andy and Patricia Hall Long Jackson, Miss., office and special- obstetrics/gynecology practice live in Knoxville, Tenn., where he izes in labor and employment and he practices family medicine. is the head DUI prosecutor with law. Amy Irwin will begin medical the Knox County District Harriet Turnbull received her school at the University of Okla- Attorney General's office and she bachelor's degree in music educa- homa Health Sciences Center this is a criminal defense and person- tion from the University of Mem- summer. al injury attorney. phis, and is currently teaching Mark Landon Smith's play Michelle Murchison Pattat elementary music in Memphis Faith County, based on the old now works as a family nurse prac- City Schools. Rhodes weekly radio program titioner in Halls, Tenn. Last year, written and acted by students, she received her master's degree KAREN LARSON, BEVERLY was produced at the Ruffin The- in nursing from Vanderbilt THOMAS WILLIAMS, atre in Covington, Tenn. University. 85 CO-PRESIDENTS Ellen Treadway works as a Kevin Rasch currently works NEXT REUNION: FALL 2000 Title VII bilingual language spe- at the Oak Ridge National Labo- Richard Banks of Memphis was cialist with the Las Cruces, N.M., ratory. He holds a master's in recently promoted to senior edi- public schools. She is also work- computer science from Stanford tor at Towery Publishing Inc. He ing on her dissertation, which ex- University. is now the editor-in-charge of 32 plores bilingual education annual and bi-monthly program planning, BOB COLEMAN, publications, including Agenda, a implemetation and evaluation. EILEEN RUFFIN WOOD, Memphis business magazine. 89 CO-PRESIDENTS Nashville psychiatrist Beth ALICE MACCARTHY FINN, NEXT REUNION: FALL 1999 Baxter's article, "Concepts and DAVID LUSK, Caren Creason has been Models of Empathy: Past, 87 CO-PRESIDENTS promoted to senior accountant Present, and Future," appeared in NEXT REUNION: with Marston, Blount, Brock & the Jefferson Journal of Psychiatry OCT. 17-18, 1997 Gordon in Memphis. (2:6-14; 1995). Emily Baillio is an internal medi- David Greeson, who graduat- Holly Bauereis CogNati cine physician in Jackson, Miss. ed from Vanderbilt Medical recently returned to work part- SEE MARRIAGES School last year, will begin a time as a contract administrator Peggy Gallalee Bates is a three-year residency in dermatol- at Sassoon Metals & Chemicals, full-time developmental studies ogy at the University of Texas at an international trading company instructor of English and mathe- San Antonio in July. He recently in Lausanne, Switzerland. matics at Chattanooga State Tech- completed an internship in inter- Shauna Morris is an attorney nical Community College. nal medicine at the University of with Niewohner & Wright in Leslie Thome is currently New Mexico. Fairbanks, Alaska. SEE BIRTHS working as an urban planner for Page McClendon Harper is the New Orleans City Planning the director of legal affairs for AMY DONAHO HOWELL, Commission. Gulf Universal Holdings Inc. in PRESIDENT DeRidder, La. 86 NEXT REUNION: SUZANNE CARPENTER, Andrea McMillan Honeycutt Orr. 25-26, 1996 PRESIDENT is a social work counselor at M.D. Alan and Susan Shackelford 88 NEXT REUNION: FALL 1998 Anderson Cancer Center in Arnold '89 live in Atlanta, where Eric Aft and his wife Ju- Houston. SEE MARRIAGES he is an attorney with King and lianna live in Wooster, Ohio, John Hopkins, who complet- Spaulding and she now works as where he is executive director of ed his pediatric residency in Lit- A-10 Rhodes Summer 1996 Class Notes

tle Rock in June, plans to practice Louis. She now teaches earth and antique furnishings and artisans' in Tulsa, Okla. environmental science classes at work. Brett Howell of Sandersville, Robert Morris College in Paige Williford Carruth Ga., works as a systems analyst Chicago. teaches at Evangelical Christian for ECCI. SEE MARRIAGES Air Force Captain Maria Carl- School in Memphis. Mamie McMichael is an asso- Myers of San Antonio, Texas, a Natalie Ensminger Glidea is ciate attorney with Weinstock & public affairs officer assigned to the director of community educa- Scavo in Atlanta. Randolph AFB, was recently de- tion and assistant to the dean of Capt. Jon and Vivian ployed as chief of the Joint Infor- students at Memphis College of Nichols Reesman '90 live in mation Bureau to Operation Art. Colorado Springs, Colo., where Provide Comfort in Southern Bryan Justice is teaching he serves as a C-21 instructor pi- Turkey. Last summer, she served English in Paris, France, and lot, chief of flying safety, at Peter- as the public affairs adviser to the working toward his master's de- son Air Force Base. He received Secretary of Defense Task Force's gree at the University of Paris. his master's degree in director of the Defense Ministeri- Kathy Kinneman of Little management from Webster Uni- al of the Americas in Rock is the business versity last year. In December, Williamsburg, Va. She worked administrator of the neurology they plan to move to Charleston with the bilateral defense team department at the University of (S.C.) Air Force Base where he'll planning the delegates' plenary Arkansas School for Medical fly the C-141. SEE BIRTHS sessions and treaties between Science. Chad Schultz recently began Ecuador and Peru and between Shilpa Reddy lives in Silver a new job as a national Jamaica and the United States. Spring, Md., and works as a con- promotion coordinator for SEE MARRIAGES gressional staffer for Rep. Robert Mercury Records in Nashville. Bill and Linda Holshouser Kramer (D-Ala.). Laura Popovitch Sewell is a Parks live in Wheaton, Ill., contract attorney with the Dallas where he is on the Law Review at ANNIE B. WILLIAMS, law firm of David A. Dean & As- The John Marshall Law School in PRESIDENT sociates and has served as a Chicago, and she is office manag- 92 NEXT REUNION: board member of the Dallas er for the Wheaton law firm of Ocr. 17-18, 1997 Young Lawyers Auxiliary for the Schmidt & Barbrow. Catherine Cooper is the Rocky past two years. Joe Tamborello teaches Ridge branch manager and a Dawnita Wilson is a prosecu- introductory theatre at Hillsbor- bank officer of AmSouth Bank, in tor for the Travis County ough Community College in Birmingham. Attorney's Office in Austin, Tampa, Fla. Henry and Amy Russell Texas. Web Webster was recently Lindeman '93 live in Memphis named account executive for where he works as a senior JOHANNA VANDEGRIFT Buntin Public Relations in accountant at Coopers & LEHFELDT, PRESIDENT Nashville. He is responsible for Lybrand. She recently received 90 NEXT REUNION: FALL 2000 examining and executing new her master's degree in journalism Margaret Chandler is communication strategies for the from the University of Memphis. general manager of Primary firm's retail and hospitality SEE MARRIAGES Stages, an off-Broadway theatre accounts. Carl Randall now works in in New York. the Birmingham district Stephen and Amy Baldwin MARIORIE THIGPEN, attorney's office. He graduated Crockett '89 live in Memphis. PRESIDENT from the University of Alabama He was recently promoted to 91 NEXT REUNION: Law School last year. branch sales manager for LDDS Ocr. 25-26. 1996 Sharon Bridger Reichhardt Metromedia, and she has earned Keith Arnold teaches voice at and her husband have moved to her doctorate in psychology and Middle Tennessee State Universi- her hometown, Jacksonville, Fla., works as a staff psychologist at ty in Murfreesboro. where she is supervisor of the Genesis Treatment Center. Amy Bower Burchenal special loans department at Jennifer Gaines Kidder recently opened Cotswold Alliance Mortgage Co. recently received her Ph.D. in Classics Inc., a showroom in the Martin Russell is company earth and planetary sciences from Atlanta Decorative Arts Center stage manager for the Parnassus Washington University in St. featuring English, pine and Theatre in Manchester, Tenn. Summer 1996 Rhodes A-11 Class Notes

1st Lt. Ben "Zach" of Tennessee, Memphis. promoted to a senior staff Woodworth is currently William Harris is currently accountant at Marston, Blount, stationed at Camp Lejeune, N.C., teaching English and working to- Brock & Gordon in Memphis. where he is a "winged" naval ward his Ph.D. at the University Jeff Wilson recently accepted aviator and flies CH46 of Tennessee, Knoxville. He a position with Andersen helicopters for Marine Corps heli- received his master's degree at Consulting in Memphis. copter squadron HMM-365. UT last year. Edley Womack recently Erin Hubbell is enrolled in the earned her master of education LYNN CRABB, PRESIDENT master's program in Teaching degree from Berry College in NEXT REUNION: FALL 1998 English as a Second Language at Mount Berry, Ga. 93 Chris and Amanda Elli- Northern Arizona University. Wendy Young is doing her son Buchanan '95 Amber Khan, Southern school psychology internship in recently bought a house in Win- regional director for Washington, Harlan, Ky. ston-Salem, N.C. He is a law stu- D.C.-based People for the Ameri- dent at Wake Forest and she can Way, was featured in NANCY TURNER, PRESIDENT works in visual display at Memphis' Commercial Appeal NEXT REUNION: FALL 1999 Hecht's Department Store. regarding her activities during 94 Ellen Baker, who works Many Memphians know Brett the winter presidential primaries. with the Chicago Corp., Cullum as Tad Pole, the Ed Kizer of Longcreek, S.C., was recently elected correspond- "Froggy" 94, WOGY-FM 94.1 works as a carpenter and guide ing secretary of the Tri-Delta weekend deejay, but he is a regu- on the Chattooga River on the alumnae group. She is also active lar in Memphis theater. Earlier South Carolina-Georgia border. in the Montgomery Ward- this year, he played Todd, an Kevin and Judy Song sponsored Cabrini Green Tutor- HIV-infected son who returns Marshall '94 live in Springfield, ing Program. home in Nicky Silver's play Va. He is a training consultant at Angi Elsea, a graduate Pterodactyls at Theatre Memphis' Price Waterhouse and she is pur- student in art history at Emory, is Little Theatre. suing her master's in counseling working this summer with Chris Dawson of Baton at Loyola College in Baltimore. former Rhodes art professor Jim Rouge, La., is a staff investigator SEE MARRIAGES Clifton at the Sarah Campbell for the Louisiana State Katherine McCaa attends the Blaffer Foundation in Houston. Department of Ethics and University of Tennessee, Memphis, Susan Gear was recently pro- Campaign Finance. where she is working toward her moted to family counselor at the Melissa DeCelles recently re- master's in social work. Memphis branch of Youth ceived her master's in art educa- Tracy Nelson recently Villages, an organization that tion from the University of completed studies at the Univer- helps disturbed children and Alabama at Birmingham. sity of Georgia School of Law. their families. Anne Douglas teaches eighth- Eric Smith of Boulder, Colo., Chris and Lelia Hood grade science in Houston, where works for Pharmacy Corporation Getman live in Memphis, where she is also involved in Project of America. he is in his second year of dental Star, a National Science Founda- Jennifer Tacker was recently school at the University of tion program designed to promoted to specialty leasing co- Tennessee and she works at First integrate technology in math and ordinator with Winmar Co. Inc. Tennessee Bank's international science classrooms. She is work- in Louisville, Ky. In the spring, division. ing toward her M.Ed. in science she moved into a 100-year-old Pace Harrison works as a curriculum and instruction. house she has renovated. communications coordinator at Lisa Mancini Harden recent- Blake Walker is pursuing his ServiceMaster in Memphis. ly graduated from the University master's in biology at George Hawkins lives in of Alabama School of Law. This Washington University Medical Birmingham, where he works as fall, she will clerk for Judge School in St. Louis. He currently a mortgage banker with Castle Harold W. Albritton in the U.S. works as a lab technician in a Mortgage. District Court for the middle dis- molecular biology lab that is do- John Helm currently works as trict of Alabama. SEE ing research on the molecular ge- a customer support consultant for MARRIAGES netics of alcoholism and bipolar TCS Management Group, a com- Jennie Beth Harris attends depression. puter software consulting firm in medical school at the University Ronald Weiss has been Nashville. A-12 Rhodes Summer 1996 Class Notes

Laurence Henry is a law stu- Australia, New Zealand, Indone- ter in Washington, D.C., where dent at St. Mary's Law School in sia, Malaysia and China. she is an administrator for the car- San Antonio, Texas. Ashley White lives in Prairie diology and nephrology services. Natelya Hicks writes that she Grove, Ark., where he works as a At night she does volunteer work is working as "a cyberhostess at marketing director for Tyson teaching English to immigrants. an internet café" in London. Seafood. SEE MARRIAGES Allison Nowlin recently left Emily Pouzar Jenkins has Patsy Whitehurst is pursuing for her Peace Corps assignment completed her second year of law her master's in higher education in Nicaragua. school at William and Mary. She at Vanderbilt University and Stephanie Rogers has a new serves as the Moot Court chair of working at St. Mary's Episcopal job as an administrative assistant the annual Institute for the Bill of School for Girls in Memphis. in the management training pro- Rights, and recently won first gram at Merrill Lynch in Atlanta. place in the Washington Moot CLYDE HENDERSON, Sarah Sears is employed at Court tournament. PRESIDENT Southern Progress, Media Chris Linder is a Peace Corps 95 NEXT REUNION: FALL 2000 Services Inc., and is pursuing her volunteer with the Small Jaci Adams is pursuing master's degree in criminal Enterprise Development Program her master's in teaching at the justice at the University of Alaba- in Mali, West Africa. University of Memphis. ma at Birmingham. Caprice Roberts and Trey Lane Clements recently Emelie Sims works as a confer- Hamilton, second-year law stu- began working at Christie's in ence coordinator for Methodist dents at Washington and Lee New York. Hospital Systems in Memphis and School of Law, both made Law Bryan Creech works as a sys- was nominated by the Council of Review '95. They recently tems programmer at Christian Bishops of the United Methodist competed together in a Florida Brothers University in Memphis, Church to the General Commission mock trial competition, winning where he is also pursuing a mas- of Archives and History. first place for Mock Court. ter's degree. John Slater works as a Ben and Riddell Walcott Jennifer Eason recently docent at the historic Hunt-Phe- Scott '95 live in Moscow, where began graduate studies at the lan Home in Memphis. he works with Federal Express. University of Denver Graduate Amy Oberhelman is an associate He was recently promoted from School of Social Work. She has researcher for the Office of country manager of the worked as a residential Research and Education Account- Commonwealth of Independent counselor, then manager at a resi- ability, a branch of the Tennessee States and the Baltics to his new dential homes for developmental- State Government in Nashville. position as marketing specialist ly disabled people. Buvana Rajanna is a medical for Eastern Europe, Elisabeth Estes of Atlanta is student at the University of Ten- Commonwealth of Independent with Alexander Communications, nessee at Memphis. States and the Baltics. a public relations firm where she Carol Whitlow recently began Vimal Shah is with Duff & works with the agency's Discovery working as an orientation counselor Phelps Credit Rating Co. in Channel Online and Travel Chan- for the Little Rock Job Corps. Chicago. nel Online Network accounts. Ruth Stephenson lives in Elise Harbin who is with the SCOTT BROWN, PRESIDENT Madrid, where she is interning in Japan Exchange in Teaching (JET) NEXT REUNION: FALL 2001 the maritime department of program, teaches English at six 95 Jacob Abraham was Thyssen, a German company, junior high schools in a small awarded a Rotary District and is enrolled in a Spanish fishing village on the main island 6110 Scholarship to study physics translator course. of Honshu. at the University of New South Tori Taugner writes that after Andrea McDowell is also par- Wales in Sydney, Australia. recently finishing her two-year ticipating in the JET Program, Cort Winsett recently commitment with the Peace teaching English in Hiroshima. appeared at the Germantown Corps teaching English in the Arlyn Mick recently appeared (Tenn.) Community Theatre in Solomon Islands, she has signed in the Theatre Memphis produc- The Cardigans, a highly acclaimed up for another year. tion of Arsenic and Old Lace. musical that won numerous Julia Anne Wanklyn and Camille Napier is an Army awards, including Best Ensemble, Lisa White left in the spring for second lieutenant stationed at at the Southeatern Theatre a year-long trip around Africa, Walter Reed Army Medical Cen- Conference in Louisville, Ky. Summer 1996 Rhodes A-13 For The Record

'95 Jennifer Laugh- Hargis, Dec. 13, 1995. Tanzberger Hood, a Marriages lin to Michael S. Havill, '84 Marcus and son, Leonard Paul III, '80 Lela Taylor to March 2, 1996. Leigh Robley Stevison March 28, 1995. Danial B. Scott, Dec. 27, '95 Karyn Walters to '85, a daughter, Jaclyn '89 Jeff and Kimber- 1994. Don L. Overton, Feb. 3, Anne, Jan. 30, 1996. ly Franklin Ray '91, a '85 Brigid Elsken to 1996. '85 Ralph Robertson daughter, Hannah Mary, Andrew Galloway, and Shauna Morris, a Jan. 3, 1995. March 2, 1996, Atlanta. daughter, Fiona Isabel '89 Jon and Vivian '87 Emily Baillio to Births Robertson-Morris, June Nichols Reesman '90, Tim Murray, Feb. 4, '79 Joe and Barbara 1, 1995. a son, Jon A. Jr., July 1, 1996. Evangelisti, a son, An- '85 Rand and Kelley 1995. '88 Ashley Graham to drew Robert, Dec. 23, Ashby Paul, a son, Dun- '90 Kevin and Chris Brown, Oct. 21, 1995. can Randal, March 20, Christie Kennedy 1995. '80 David and Patri- 1996. Tilley '92, a daughter, '89 Amanda Diane cia Dunavant, a son, '86 Ray and Karen Caroline Anne, Dec. 30, Durocher to Brett How- John Everett, Sept. 30, Barfield, a son, Micah 1995. ell, Dec. 16, 1995. 1995. Christopher Raymond, '92 John and Debra '89 Andrea McMillan '80 Ted and Ann May 31, 1995. Anne Gilluly, a to David Honeycutt, Oct. Pallas, a son, Theodore '86 Jeff and Carol daughter, Emma 14, 1995. Nicholas, March 11, Gilliland Bradford, a Kathleen, Feb. 19, 1996. '89 Cynthia 1996. daughter, Ann Marshall, '92 Bryan and Rhon- McPheeters to Jim '80 Pat and Allyson Feb. 7, 1996. da Herren, a daughter, Montgomery, March 9, Hooper Proctor '87, a '86 Paul and Holly Anna Noel, Jan. 25, 1996. 1996, Orlando, Ha. daughter, Anna Myatt, Anderson Kruse, a son, '89 Molly Soper to Jan. 28, 1996. John Coleman, Aug. 29, Joshua Yeates, March 23, '81 Tony and Alisa 1995. Obituaries 1996. Botto, a son, Jackson '86 Brad and Kim '23 Sara '90 Robin Blevins to David, Oct. 8, 1994. Weeks Smith, a daugh- McReynolds Culberson Chris Sanders, Jan. 6, '81 Peter and Alicia ter, Bridget Elise, Dec. 6, of Asheboro, N.C., Feb. 1996, Chattanooga. Feldman Ten Eyck, a 1995. 28, 1996. The widow of '90 Maria Carl to son, Peter Winfield, June '86 Mike and Marcia James "Chief" Culberson Michael Myers, Feb. 10, 22, 1994. Thompson, a daughter, '23, she leaves a daugh- 1996. '82 Ann Collins, a Hunter Katherine, Dec. ter, Helen Culberson '90 Judy Parnicky to daughter, Leah Kathryn 6, 1995. Johnson of Liverpool, Scott Burkle, Dec. 16, Sherman-Collins, Aug. '87 Jim and Jean N.Y.; a son, James M. 1995. 22, 1995. Ann Conley Beckley, a Culberson Jr. of '92 Erica Blank to '82 Craig and Claire daughter, Mary Sullivan, Asheboro; nine William H. Bronson III, Tunnell Warren, a Feb. 14, 1996. grandchildren and eight Aug. 5, 1995, St. Louis. daughter, Chandler Rae, '87 Mark and Nancy great-grandchildren. Her '92 Alison Foster to Nov. 14, 1994. Daniel, a daughter, father, Thomas Ewing Alec Rosenberger, Oct. '83 Dave and Amy Katherine Marie, Feb. 6, McReynolds, was a 14, 1995. Farley Howe, a son, 1996. member of the class of '93 Lisa Mancini to Richard Davis III, March '87 Tim Davis and 1875, and her brother, Siegfried Harden, Dec. 13, 1996. Lisa Singer, a daughter, Robert McReynolds, the 30, 1995. '84 John and Jean Emma Pauline Davis, class of 1921. '93 Amy Russell to Willard Asinger '85, a Jan 30, 1996. '29 Samuel Henry Lindeman '92, daughter, Emily Cather- '88 James and Anderson of Memphis, Nov. 4, 1995. ine, Aug. 6, 1995. Kendra Rogers Martin, March 12, 1996. A retired '94 Amy Luginbuel to '84 Jack and Loretta a son, Jacob Aubrey, math professor at the Ashley White, Feb. 10, Coombs, a daughter, Nov. 8, 1995. University of Memphis, 1996. Ellen Reese, Feb. 22, '88 Mark and Debbie he was a member of St. '94 Judy Song to 1996. Harris McBride, a Luke's United Methodist Kevin Marshall '93, '84 William Hargis daughter, Madison Bai- Church and a World March 23, 1996, and Phaedra Hise '86, ley, July 12, 1995. War II Army air forces Collierville, Tenn. a daughter, Lily Anthea '89 Paul and Lynn veteran who taught air

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navigation in the Air League and the Mini- five in law enforcement, Baker, Diana Reames Corps. The widower of Makers Miniature Club. he served on the border Ungate and Michael Mary S. Anderson, he The widow of Samuel patrol and as a supervi- Reames. leaves a niece and Mossman Nickey Jr., she sor for the U.S. Immigra- '45 C. Frank Fourmy nephew who cared for leaves four daughters, tion and Naturalization Jr. of Memphis, Nov. 4, him, Nancy Duroe of Elizabeth Neilson, Service, and with the 1995. A retired attorney, Glendale Calif., and Ver- Carolyn Rosson and Largo, Fla., Police he leaves his wife, Bever- non Short of Memphis. Eleanor Hoehn, all of Department. He leaves ly Fourmy; a daughter, '29 Elizabeth Baker Memphis, and Lois his wife, Lucille Partin; Margot; and two sons, Fleming of Memphis, Mancin of Birmingham, two sons, Charles F. Frank Fourmy '75 and Dec. 26, 1995. Ala.; a son, Samuel Partin of Louisville, Ky., Stewart Fourmy. '33 Norman Harry Mossman Nickey of and Doug Partin of '48 Estelle McLean Champlin of Silver City, Marks, Miss.; a sister, Cincinnati; four daugh- Burnett of Milan, Tenn., N.M., a retired Carolyn Bolton of Biloxi, ters, Susan Carroll Hart Dec. 2, 1995. Presbyterian minister Miss.; a brother, Clinton of Manteca, Calif., Sandy '60 Charlotte and author, Jan. 10, 1996. McKellar of Atlanta; and Partin Larsen of La Hogsett of Gainesville, '33 Barbara Porter 11 grandchildren. Grange, Ill., Shelley Ha., March 10, 1996. A Ginn of Memphis, '40 Blanche Evans Carter of Douglasville, retired college professor, March 12, 1996. A retired Fleming Gray of Mari- Ga., and Diana Partin of she taught at Duke and schoolteacher in on, Ark., Jan. 6, 1996. She Towson, Md.; 11 grand- Mary Baldwin. She was Greenville, Miss., she was a member of Grace- children and one great- the author of several was the widow of St. Luke's Episcopal granddaughter. journal articles and a Howard Ginn. She Church in Memphis. The '43 William C. book on 18th-century au- leaves a sister, Effie W. widow of Frank Biddle Dewey of Memphis, thor Germaine de Stael. Porter of Memphis. Gray, she leaves two May 10, 1996. A veteran She leaves her parents, '38 Milton Hue sons, Frank Biddle Gray of World War II and the Mr. and Mrs. John Smith Jr. of Memphis, Jr. of Charlottesville, Korean conflict, he Hogsett of Jackson, Feb. 6, 1996. A retired Wis., and Walter Evans opened Memphis' first Tenn., and a sister, Mari- district manager for Gray of Puerto Rico; and Volkswagen dealership, an Hines of Collierville, South Central Bell, he a brother, Joseph Dorion Dewey Motor Inc., with Tenn. was a member for 44 Fleming Jr. of Concord, his brother Edward. Af- '64 Will Whitten years of Second Presby- Mass. ter selling the dealership Owen Sr. of Tunica, terian Church, where '41 William Ryerson in the late 1970s, he Miss., Jan. 13, 1996. The was an elder emeritus. Joy of Montgomery, became active in the real husband of Lucille He was a former Ala., March 11, 1996. estate, working with Owen, he leaves a son, chairman of the President of William R. Duff Gaither Co. and lat- Will W. Owen Jr. '90, Memphis Red Cross, for- Joy & Co., he was a er with Ray Dickey Real- and a daughter, mer president of the Ki- World War II Air Force tors. The husband of Elizabeth Owen. wanis Club and a veteran, completing 139 Ann Dewey, he also '69 Norman member of the missions and receiving leaves his brother, Campbell Jr. of Shreve- Horseshoe Lake Fishing five Bronze Stars. He Edward Dewey of Mem- port, La., Feb. 15, 1995. Club. He leaves his wife leaves a daughter, Bren- phis; two daughters, The minister of of 58 years, Virginia da Arthur of Laguna Ann Wallace "Wally" Broadmoor Presbyterian Buchman Smith '39; a Beach, Calif.; a son, Smith of Memphis and Church, he served daughter, Virginia Smith William R. Joy Jr. of Stephanie Dewey Hoff- churches in South Nearn '66 of Memphis; a Nashville; and three man of Collierville, Carolina, Florida and son, M. Hue Smith III of grandchildren. Tenn.; and three grand- Georgia. The husband of Los Angeles; and four '41 The Alumni Office children. Faye Deal Campbell, he grandchildren. recently received news of '43 Doris Lyons leaves three daughters, '39 Elizabeth the death of Amelia Ple- Reames of Knoxville, Carolyn Stapleton McKellar Hickey of sofsky Mackler of San Tenn., Oct. 10, 1995. The Campbell, Christy Eliza- Memphis, Feb. 1, 1996. Fransisco. widow of George beth Campbell, and Bon- She was a member of '41 Charles Fred Reames '38, she leaves nie Heather Campbell. Woodland Presbyterian Partin of Loveland, two daughters and a '71 Thomas P. Han- Church, Memphis Junior Colo., April 9, 1995. Ac- son: Patricia Reames rahan of Memphis, Summer 1996 Rhodes A-15 For 1 he Record

March 8, 1996. A former 1995. A senior employee of the U.S. marketing planner for "The time will never come when the teacher is Post Office and Metro Atlanta Transit, not the most important part of the college..." Memphis Public he leaves his parents, —President Charles E. Diehl Library, he was a Mr. and Mrs. M.A. Dar- November 27, 1925 Vietnam War veteran den of West Point, Ga. who earned the Purple '83 Kellie Wilkinson Heart. He leaves his McGarrh of Elida, N.M. mother, Alice Hanrahan and Marigold, Miss., of Memphis; four Nov. 29, 1995. sisters, Clare Hanrahan '83 David Reese of of Asheville, N.C., Dallas, Feb. 14, 1996. A Eileen Hanrahan of Sur- partner in the Dallas goinsville, Tenn., Regina law firm of Vial Hamil- Hanrahan Flatt of ton Koch & Knox, he Dr. Cynthia Lexington, Tenn., and leaves his parents Ralph Marshall Mary Alice Hanrahan and Edite Reese of Photo by Thomassen of Calgary, Memphis; a brother, Kevin Barre Alberta, Canada; and Paul Reese of Cordova, "Seeing students develop intellectually is for me two brothers, Michael Tenn.; and grandmoth- the most satisfying part of teaching. Frequently Hanrahan of Asheville, er, Austra Krumalis of growth is apparent over just a semester, usually and Robert Hanrahan of Memphis. over the course of several years, and occasionally Memphis. '90 Kimberly Sue years after graduating a student will write or call '71 Camilla Jane Millsaps of to say 'now I understand.' As a teacher, you never Queener Shaw of Fort Bloomington, Ind., know when or exactly how you will influence a Meade, Md., March 19, March 17, 1996. She student's life." 1996. A special leaves her parents, Ken- —Dr. Cynthia Marshall education teacher and neth E. and Carolyn Sue Associate Professor of English registered art therapist, G. Millsaps; a sister, she taught for the Christina L. Millsaps; he hallmark of Rhodes' faculty is its dedication Defense Department De- her maternal Tand devotion to students. As alumni, we are pendent School System grandmother, Alta B. the beneficiaries of this legacy, and now it's our in Greece. She leaves her Gardner of Oak Ridge, turn to pass it on. husband, William Shaw; Tenn.; and several aunts, Your gift to the 1996-97 Annual Fund will help a brother, Edgar Queen- uncles and cousins. Rhodes continue to attract outstanding faculty— er of Rogersville, Tenn.; '96 Stephen M. scholars and teachers who are committed to their and her parents, Lea and Wagner of students. And it will help provide supplementary Llewellyn Queener, Germantown, Tenn., materials they need to offer their students a Rhodes professor emeri- April 13, 1996. A politi- Rhodes education that is second to none. tus of psychology. cal science major and Your gift—every gift—is key to our reaching '74 Rachel Looker member of Sigma Alpha this year's goal of 50% alumni participation. It of Rosemark, Tenn., Epsilon fraternity and will ensure that a new generation of students ex- Nov. 10, 1996. She leaves the Rhodes soccer team, periences the challenges and friendships of a sister, Leslye Leeker he had been ill with can- outstanding faculty mentors devoted to '75 of Key West, Fla. cer. He leaves his undergraduate teaching. '74 John D. Nolan parents, John and Mar- It's Your College. Pass It On. of Memphis, March 12, cia M. Wagner of 1996. A senior program- Germantown; a brother, RHODES ALUMNI PARTICIPATION mer analyst at William Justin Wagner CAMPAIGN Methodist Hospital, he of Germantown; and his 2000 North Parkway, leaves his mother, Elsie grandparents, Joseph Memphis, Tennessee 38112-1690 Nolan of Little Rock. William and Betty Mat- Telephone: Perry Dement '83, (800) 264-LYNX, '77 Charles ter of Harrisburg, Pa., (901) 726-3850 Shepherd "Shep" Dar- and Cleo Wagner Con- e-mail: [email protected] den of Atlanta, Aug. 13, fair of Williamsport, Pa.

A-16 Rhodes Summer 1996 LEARNING ART- IN THE LON RUN

by Helen Watkins Norman

his fall hundreds will visit the college's Clough-Hanson Gallery to savor the Tcreative genius of a man who for more than 30 years defined the visual arts at Rhodes.

Lon Anthony with wo rogress on second floor of his Florida beach house. Photo by Helen Norman 411. Opening September 13 is a depth of Anthony's talent, the To understand Lon major retrospective saluting diversity of the media in which Anthony's significance as artist, sculptor and painter Lon he has worked over the years teacher and mentor, Rhodes Anthony, artist-in-residence, and the captivating humor and magazine turns not only to the professor and art department style that have made him one of artist but to some of those for- chair at Rhodes from 1961 until the South's most popular and mer students who followed in his retirement from teaching in enduring artists. his shoes. 1995. The exhibit, which runs What they won't observe is a through October 26, is the brain- far greater accomplishment: his nthony sits on his sec- child of gallery director Marina ability to mold art and artists ond-floor deck over- Pacini who, for the past year simultaneously. During the three looking buttonwood and with Anthony's help, has and a half decades represented A and coconut trees and researched and selected 42 rep- in this show, Anthony touched the Atlantic Ocean. Dressed in resentative works, most of them the lives of scores of Rhodes stu- khaki shorts and a smudged t- on loan from private collections. dents, many of whom defied the shirt, he looks tanned, trim and What visitors will see is the odds to become successful artists younger than his 62 years. The themselves. arthritis in his back has subsided. Emily Benoist Ruffin '75 Taos, N.M. Occupation: Goldsmith. Owns a Taos jewelry gallery which bears her name and carries her work as well as other unusual hand-made designs by various other American and European artists. Her custom jewelry generally ranges in price from $2,000 to $50,000 (+). Career path: Started making jewelry when she was 14. Pursued a premed curriculum and an art degree at Rhodes. Helped weld portions of Lon Anthony's campus sculpture called "Campus Life." Worked in New Orleans, West Germany and Palm Springs before settling in Taos. Career high points: Was the second place winner of the 1991 "Spectrum" competition of the American Gem Trade Association for design of a (48.94 ct.) blue sapphire and diamond ring. Won the New

Mexico Jewelers Association Ruffin and her award winning 1995 first place award (as well as opal and diamond "stirrup ring." several others) for opal, 18k and diamond "stirrup ring." Description of Lon Anthony: "He is smart as hell, sensitive, intelligent, educated and interesting. He loved it when he had someone who really wanted to make art. He was a great mentor. If he could be as demanding of me as he was and I could still love Anthony's The Violinist, 1964. Welded steel. Lent by Ila and him like I do, then he must be something special."

Dodie Jehl. Photo by Steve Jones

Summer 1996 Summerland Key, a small Army Thrift Shop has regular students to keep up with me. oceanside hamlet 21 miles east hours. And there's a video store Many don't know where I am." of Key West, is now home to that fills the cinematic void of Those who know Anthony Anthony, his wife Anne (Sayle small-town life. There's even a might have predicted his move '73), their 15-year-old son Philip small foundry which he shares to the coast, however. His affin- and Charlie and Mingo, pet with an artist on a neighboring ity for sand and surf date back dachshunds. The community, island. to his youth in South Carolina which straddles Highway 1, has The only thing missing is the where he grew up the son of a everything—or almost every- students. lumberman and farmer, thing—Anthony needs. "When I was in Memphis I'd Lawrence K. Anthony, and his There's a decent Ace have former students pop in all wife Amelia. Hardware Store where Anthony the time. I'd be in class and a If there was one thing the can forage for bolts and tools. former student would walk in young Anthony loved as much Murray's Food Market, for that I hadn't seen in 20 years," as drawing soldiers and bad locals with discriminating Anthony says wistfully. "Since guys, it was water, notably that palates, is a quick bike ride from I've moved away from of salty origins. He desired a Anthony's home. The Salvation Memphis, it's been harder for sailboat so bad at age 12 that he

- "1111.111114 Jim Cogswell '71 Ann Arbor, Michigan Occupation: Painter and tenured associate professor of art at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. Career path: After graduating from Rhodes with an English major and after teaching English in Japan for two years, he started painting; spent the next year in Japan doing nothing but. Entered graduate school in art in 1978. Career high point: Being the first visual artist to receive a prestigious fellowship to the University of Michigan's Institute for Humanities (he credits his liberal arts education at Rhodes). That fellowship was the springboard for his current and biggest artistic challenge: a series of 26 1 five-foot-square anthropomorphic paintings being funded by a grant from the university.A sequen- tial set of images, each painting focuses on four human figures which, when viewed carefully, form a different letter of the alphabet. Lon Anthony's influence: "When I think of my contact with him, I realize what a difference one teacher can make in the life of another human being. Part of Lon's wisdom was to understand that all knowledge did not have to pass directly through him, and that most learning did not happen in a formal classroom. He gave us confidence to trust what we were learning on our own and a sense of excitement at what might happen next".

(top) Cogswell in his studio. Line Photographic 1996. (bottom) Cogswell's F, Oil on canvas, 32" x 30"

Photos by Vicci Vecnstra

Summer 1996 Rhodes 21 built his own vessel out of an Despite that unfortunate the flat landscapes of the South old rowboat and ventured out start, Anthony's love for sailing Carolina coastal plains. onto a nearby lake one after- and the water only grew. In fact, He's even closer to the water noon in late February. "It Anthony chose to teach at now. There's a breathtaking looked like a sailboat but I did- Rhodes over University of the view of the ocean and his 21- n't know sailboats needed a South—which had also offered foot sailboat from his studio, an keel," a much wiser Anthony him a faculty post in the early open-air porch on the second recalls. The wind blew his top- '60s—because of Memphis' floor of the Anthony's weath- heavy craft over, sinking R- proximity to the Mississippi ered gray beach house. His boat and its young captain. "I River. The view across the river is tethered to a dock that he thought I was going to drown." from Memphis reminded him of built with his own two hands, ready for a sail whenever the urge strikes. Though his hours are some- what shorter than when he was teaching, Anthony continues to put in a full day of sculpting and painting. He's in the studio by 8 a.m. and rarely finished before 6. But the setting is less con- ducive than Memphis for churn-

Ocean breezes and an abundance of open windows keep air conditioners off in the home Anthony shares with wife Anne and son

Philip. Photo by Helen Norman

and careen "He had as great an influence on me Randy Hayes 'GB as any person ever had. He told me not to live a Seattle, Washington life of regret. I was trying to decide about art as a Occupation: Artist. Originally a sculptor, now career. His advice is what I needed to hear." a painter. On Anthony as a teacher: "He didn't teach a Career highlights: Started out as a scene class, he taught the person. Lon had a great ability painter and set designer for WGBH, a Boston to communicate on a real personal level. He public TV station. Moved to Seattle in 1976 to understood how to get at the heart and mind of open a used bookstore and paint part-time. In each student." early '80s began painting full time. Has had art exhibited in the Los Angeles County Museum as well as New York's New Museum. He's currently working on a large commission for the Port of Seattle Headquarters. In 1987 he received a fellowship to work in Rome resulting in an exhibit at a University of Washington gallery. He won the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Visual Arts Award in 1990. His first gallery show in Mississippi will occur in Oxford's Southside Gallery this fall. Lon Anthony's impact on his life

Randy Hayes with The Road to Angola, Oil on photographs.

22 Rhodes Summer 1996 ing out art, he worries. "Part of that was because I vitality." "Sometimes I think my work was younger," Anthony rea- In those days at Rhodes, he is an urban thing. It seems to me sons. "Plus that's what I did. I intentionally located his studio it flourishes best in that environ- didn't mess around with boats at the college, not home. That ment," says Anthony. "When I or work in the yard or on the way he'd be close to his art stu- was in Memphis I was probably house. I just went in my studio dio students who were required producing five times as much as every day and that was my to devote at least 10 hours to now. nature. That was my life, my their artistry a week. "I wanted Hilton McConnico '67 Paris, France Occupation: Scenographer; photographer; designer of furniture, crystal, porcelain and other decorative objects, as well as movie sets and costumes; interior architect. Career path: Left Memphis for Paris in 1965. Attended design school in Paris. Designed the first European men's ready-to-wear collection for Saint-Laurent before breaking into set and costume design for film. Currently spends most of his time designing decorative products for several European companies as well as designing museum exhibitions for Hermes, etc. Career high points: Was nominated for a Cesar (French equivalent of an Academy Award) for set design in two French films Dites lui que je l'aime and Diva. Won a Cesar for set and costume design for Moon in the Gutter. Does design work for the French company Daum Cristal as well as Lanvin and Hermes. The Louvre commissioned him to design its "'80s fashion" exhibit and the museum bought for its permanent collection five of the pieces he designed for Daum. Former French President Francois Mitterand gave the visiting U.S. President George Bush a large compote designed by McCONNICO. Most Poignant Memory of Lon Anthony: The day McConnico approached Anthony about having his records transferred from the Memphis Academy (now College of) Art to Rhodes: "The atelier class smelt of oil-paint, and the floor cracked as I walked around the easels, in this studentless space. I went into Lon Anthony's office, we spoke a few minutes and he called the Art Academy about my records. His feet were crossed on the desk covered with models of his sculptures and piled high with papers. His right hand fiddled with the pages of the telephone book where he just looked up the number. "Everything seemed very normal when suddenly his facial expression began to change and a vague look of shock fell over his features. I heard him say: 'Oh my God!...no...I can't believe it...' His right hand folded into a fist, taking with it five pages of the telephone book. His eyes became misty. He hung up the phone and looked straight at me, with an intensity I was not familiar with. "After a second, he spoke: 'Kennedy has been shot. The President is dying.' "More than his work, the memory of sharing this historical tragedy with Anthony stays engraved in my mind...The respect I have for his work is only surpassed by the respect I have for him as a man. The professor became a friend." McConnico (Photo © Patrick Burban) and his Nevada compote designed for Daum Cristal.

Summer 1996 Rhodes 23 to be there for my students if and when they needed me," says Anthony, who would arrive at Rhodes at 8 a.m. and rarely leave before 8 p.m. (except on Saturdays or Sundays when he knocked off early at 7 p.m.). "I always told (my students) 'If you're in here working and I'm in my studio working, I'm not going to pester you. But if you need me come

Two pieces by Anthony which knock on the door'." are expected to appear in his Anthony retired to the Keys upcoming retrospective at in 1995. Between 1987 and '95 Rhodes. (top) Dinner Party, he had been teaching at Rhodes 1987. Mixed media. Lent by Tom and Merrill Howard. (left) The during the fall semester and liv- Misanthrope, 1977. Figwood and ing and making art in Florida acrylic paint. Lent by Pinkney from January through July. Herbert. Both photos by Steve Jones "The beauty down here is the light coming off the ocean as well as the sky," says Anthony. "Color is highly keyed. As you get older you need more light, I guess."

with nationally known sculptor Robert Arneson Carol DeForest '71 at University of California Davis. Spent three Memphis, Tenn. years as admissions director at Memphis College of Art where she also earned a B.F.A. in ceramics. Occupation: Ceramic artist and mixed media Broke into the national retail dinnerware market sculptor. Designs more than a dozen different in 1988. lines of dinnerware marketed via catalogs (like Greatest challenge: Trying to be a sculptor Horchow and Neiman-Marcus) and in stores while keeping her business going. "I started this across U.S. business to support me while I continued to make Career path: Worked as a technical assistant art...my craft supporting my art." Career highlights: Sculpture exhibits at Rhodes and Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. " Having her dinnerware designs featured in New York magazine in a "Best Bets" and showcased in photos in Food and Wine, Bon Appetit and Gourmet magazines. Influence of Lon Anthony: "The first time I saw him he was welding...he was wearing heavy leather boots and gloves and was covered with soot." She came to appreciate his "wonderful intellectual mind and creativity" and decided that "this man was living the life I wanted for myself." "He was very interested in people developing their own style. He didn't want Lon Anthony clones....(he) made us believe we could thrive as artists and make a living as artists."

DeForest with her sculpture, Putting Down Roots. Photo by Hud Andrews '70

24 Rhodes Summer 1996 nthony's career as ied at Washington and Lee, M.F.A., Anthony continued his artist and teacher did- accepted him into the art pro- art education with a year-long n't take shape until gram on probation. trip to Europe. He and his newly- several years after he The first week there Anthony wed wife Betsy (they were later graduatedA from Washington and discovered that his style didn't divorced) lived on $4 a day in Lee. Though he took art classes mesh with the faculty's. Europe while visiting every pos- in college, he didn't seriously "Abstract expressionism was the sible museum and building of consider art as a profession: "Art thing at the time," Anthony architectural significance. was something you did on the recalls. "Figurative painting, He returned from abroad in side." For a while he tried unsuc- especially the kind of cartoon- 1960 and took a job as an assis- cessfully to satisfy his artistic ori- like stuff I was doing, was tant to the director at the art entation with architecture classes. laughed at." Anthony switched museum in Florence, S.C. But One night a family friend saw to sculpture. teaching was his goal. When some of his paintings and sug- After graduating with an offered a post at Rhodes in 1961, gested he investigate University of Georgia, which had a renowned graduate program in painting. A short time later an elderly aunt died in a town near the University of Georgia. Anthony, accompanying his funeral-bound father, decided to stop off at the university and check out the program. The dean of the graduate school, a friend of an artist under whom Anthony had stud-

Keeping up on art Kaman and her Marcia Kruse and Shirley Pruett, pastel, 1992, 16 x 18. During 1996-97 the art department at Rhodes will launch an annual newsletter Belly Sue Dean Kaman 'GB aimed at keeping art alumni Lubbock, Texas better informed. For and about art alumni, the Occupation: Day job—legal secretary, real job—painter. newsletter will also include Career path: Worked at various office jobs for the past 30 years news about the current art while raising a family and painting steadily on nights and week- department, its students and ends. faculty, and upcoming Career high point: Her recent show at the Texas Tech law events. library and at another gallery in Lubbock. Titled "The Secrets of If you have news to pass Secretaries," she calls the paintings her "Vietnam wall of secre- along to your art classmates taries," depicting the women with whom she's worked. or if you want to be added to Lon Anthony's influence: "Lon Anthony taught the 'what-ifs'- the mailing list (art majors he encouraged you to experiment, to push the boundaries. Art edu- and minors will automati- cation to him meant living your art, not just doing pieces. Through cally be on the list), contact the years, that has allowed me to transcend many circumstances, him by e-mail: and I've held onto it tenaciously." [email protected] or by Favorite recollection of Lon Anthony: "He always did his own mail: work in his office/ studio. But one day in sculpture class we were David McCarthy messing with clay until it took on a form. Lon suddenly ripped Art Department Chair apart the clay he'd been working with and threw it down. I imme- Rhodes College diately said that I saw the form of a dead animal with its tongue 2000 North Parkway sticking out. Lon saw it, too. Excited, he worked feverishly to com- Memphis, TN 38112 plete the form. It became a Lon Anthony sculpture just like that— right in front of our eyes."

Summer 1996 Rip des 25 to replace the departing Henry Madden, Anthony jumped at it. "I came to Memphis and just loved the place," he says. Thus began a critical chapter in the life of the art department at Rhodes: the period when she came of age. It was Anthony who first expanded the department's offerings, who brought in the area's leading artists to help teach classes and offer students "other artistic perspectives," who raided army surplus sales hundreds of miles from campus (along with former college President Peyton Rhodes and physics professor Jack Taylor) to pick up art sup- plies for next to nothing. It was through Anthony's lead—and the follow-up of the current art faculty whom he helped hire—that the art department has become a more central part of the college community.

Anthony has always been fasci- nated by the human figure—espe- Herbert with Regeneration, 1995, oil on canvas, 77" x 96" cially heads. In the ceiling of his Photo by Mud Andrews 70 studio are pull-down drawers of heads that have never made it into an Anthony sculpture. Pinkney Herbert '77 Photo by Helen Norman Memphis, Tem.

Occupation: Painter, teacher (Memphis College of Art) and founder and director of Marshall Arts Studio and Gallery. Works primarily in oils on canvas and pastels and charcoal drawings. Latest major commission: 13-by-36-foot painting for Wolfchase Galleria, new regional mall outside Memphis. Career path: Chose to attend Rhodes because of dual goal of getting an art major and a liberal arts degree. Taught high school art before entering art grad school. Pursued career as a painter in New York City for 8 years—had his first exhibit there within six months of arriving. Returned to Memphis in 1989 to teach at the University of Memphis. Career high points: Received a National Endowment for the 41 Arts fellowship in 1986. Two years later (on the night his first child was due) had his first one-man show open in an uptown Manhattan gallery. (The baby didn't arrive for the opening although the obstetrician did.) Was selected in 1992 by U.S. Information Agency (USIA) to be artist-in-residence at Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki. Lon Anthony's influence: "He was the first teacher I ever ha from whom you learned as much outside of class—in his studio, in his home, traveling to art conferences and events—as you did in the classroom. What affected me most were his drive, his sense of discipline, his commitment to work—and of course, his art." I 6 Rhodes Summer 1996 But most of all, it was about pursuing art as a career, he first lesson was "trust Anthony who introduced art and especially in the non-establish- thyself," something its significance to human life to ment days of the late 1960s and Anthony says he learned so many students of the '60s, '70s, early '70s when the ranks of art T too late. "Art is so sub- '80s and early '90s. majors grew to their highest levels. jective. Why not trust yourself "I never saw my role as train- "Just as a great sculptor can totally." The second was: ing students to be studio artists," look at a crude block of stone and "work." Anthony says, noting that most see the 'David' inside," says Peter "You have to work whether of his students over the years Casparian '71, an Episcopal priest you want to or not," he insists, were not art majors. "I saw the in Florence, Italy, "so was Lon "whether you feel like it or not. If classes I taught in art as a way to able to look at some quite rough you wait on the muse, you're knowledge, another way of students and see that there could never going to get anything understanding yourself, of com- indeed be an artist inside." done." municating." And when he found that artist, Anthony smiles when he's There were, however, a good he tried to teach two things, he reminded that a surprisingly many students who were serious says. large number of his former Susan Baker Chambers '74 Little Rock, Ark. Occupation: Painter (acrylics and collages/ mixed media). Part- time lecturer at University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Career high points— Earned M.F.A., University of Georgia. Was one of 51 gifted artists from across the nation (one from each state plus District of Columbia) selected by Absolut Vodka for its Absolute Statehood Series. Each artist was to "capture the spirit of his or her home state while also incorporating the Absolut Vodka image." Chamber's painting ran full-page in USA Today in 1992. Has had her work featured in more than 60 exhibits in the U.S. What she admires in Lon Anthony: "His integrity as an artist. Lon has his own style and he taught us (students) to try and find our own style. He doesn't look for his style from outside but from within. He was able Crump with canopy lamp he to communicate to us that art is a spiritual designed and made. journey. Although the art department was Photo by Hod Andrews 70 small, we were all serious about our work because he was serious about his work." Steve Crump '71 The artist, photo by George Chambers, and one of her pieces: Whirligig Garden, 1996, Memphis, Tenn. 1110 acrylic on canvas, 88" x 54" Occupation: Furniture maker for 25 years. Builds o his own designs Description of Lon Anthony as artist and teacher:

"His talents are so diverse. He 0. is articulate as well as a pro- lific artist. Lon's also an astute observor of human nature as reflected in his figurative work. In the classroom there was never any doubt about the business of being an artist. But his wit always came through."

Summer 1996 Rhodes 27 students—large for a small liberal arts college—are actually making a career in art today. "It's not easy (to survive as an artist," Anthony admits. "Few can." "I don't attribute my students' success to anything I did but more to their tenac- ity and perseverance and discipline," he says. "If either by aggravation or inspiration, I helped the student get to this point, I'm happy." R

An assortment of Anthony's pieces occupy the walls and shelves of his Florida Keys

home. Photo by Helen Norman.

McGehee (above) and one of her "avatars" (the futuristic face) in a 3-D space in which users can interact with one another on-line. pany. Completed her M.A., then got a job offer in Stasia McGehee 186, California as a 3D character animator with the now defunct Twin Dolphin Games. Joined Cupertino, Calif. OnLive! in February 1994 as its sixth employee. Occupation: The 3D character animator for Biggest career challenge: "Making that transi- OnLive! Technologies, a hot young Silicon Valley tion from traditional fine arts, drawing, painting, computer software company. The company has and sculpture, to work on a loathed computer." an application that allows Internet users to chat She had no computer experience before taking her with others on the Net in real-time, three-dimen- first job at Blue Feather; while at Rhodes she sional environments using voice instead of text. didn't even know how to type. She creates 3D Models (futuristic looking faces) Lon Anthony's influence: "For an artist who known as avatars which a user may choose to rep- already had a strong sense of purpose, it was lib- resent himself or herself in these virtual-reality, erating not to have that creative drive stifled by a three-dimensional chat rooms teacher with an overbearing agenda. Lon's cri- Career path: After earning B.A. from Rhodes tiques were less critical than they were probing, as and B.F.A. from Memphis College of Art, she he forced us to articulate our artistic intentions, enrolled in English graduate program at and assess whether or not we had achieved them. University of Wisconsin and took a job at Blue Whether or not he liked our work was irrelevant; Feather, a small start-up computer graphics corn- we were the ones who had to live with it."

2S Rh OLIO Summer 1996 GIVING t1111111 TO -DIGIT 11)141i Four Fathers of Innovation Prove that the Creative Spirit is Alive and Well

By A.M.B. Upham

creative idea can Lady Luck cast a come- Charles Taylor to discover- creep in stealthily hither look that lassos a ies that help us heal. A and set a soul afire determined accomplice? These exceptional folks for a lifetime. A few know the feeling, may chalk up their creativ- Or it can thunder in and and cultivate creative ideas ity to logic or necessity, nat- explode into a thousand daz- to fruition. John Boswell is ural inclination or zling possibilities, and just as one: his brainstorms serendipity. But all agree dramatically be doused by become books. Levi Frazier their solid Rhodes back- derision or drown in apathy. is another: his inspirations ground was influential, Does the Muse inspire? A take to the stage. The body helping them not only to leprechaun reward? Or guides Bruce Parker and learn, but also to think.

Summer 1996 Rhodes 29 sold more than 1 mil- John Boswell lion copies, and the • '67 dozen more foods for There's no mistaking: which 365 Ways of John Boswell '67 likes fixin' were found and his work. And to hear published. him tell it, who would- But certainly, over n't? All he needs is one the years, finding ideas good idea—that is, one for books "has become right after another. much easier," says "It's fun," he says of Boswell, who has con- book publishing, ceived, created and "because it allows you produced approxi- to be a professional mately 250 titles for dilettante." every major trade pub- He parachutes into lisher and been agent someone's world to for more than 300 mold an idea, sharpen a books for clients. "In focus, produce a series fact, I've become much or ensure his pithy title more efficient at it. gets a fun book built "I think I could under it. And, like The take almost anyone Phantom, slips out and and find a book in moves on. them that I can sell. "I'm fortunate to be ...Once you do it in an industry where enough, your brain people actively solicit your conceiving and concocting last just starts to function that way." ideas," says the former year's triumph, Legal Pad, Such talk might be difficult to Memphian living in Manhattan. billed as "a spoof, a whole spoof believe if it weren't coming from "It's almost unique in that way. and nothing but a spoof" on the the man who co-wrote with The vast majority of businesses famous defendant's fictional Mark McCormack the No. 1 New look to kill ideas because they're musings and doodles during York Times best-seller What They a threat." trial. Don't Teach You at Harvard But at John Boswell From whence do such notions Business School (1984). Associates, a literary agency spring? "I constantly read any- "I do go through phases, and formed in 1979, and John thing having to do with pop cul- in some I'm creatively more pro- Boswell Management Inc., a ture or current events," he says. ductive than in others," says book packaging firm incorpo- "You need the input for the out- Boswell. "But there's really not a rated in New York in 1981, ideas put." whole lot of pattern to it. I can be are the business, and Boswell is Lest it be thought this member having a conversation with president. of the Rhodes board of trustees someone and all of a sudden I'll Don't let his title fool you. takes nothing seriously, let it be say, You know, that's a good This former English major gets a known that this summer he idea for a book.' Just based on kick out of finding your funny spent a week or so updating for the conversation." bone. He packaged the releases paperback release his remarkably So thank goodness for the this year of Herstory: Lisa Marie's successful how-to, The Awful publishing business' voracious Wedding Diary (he divined the Truth About Publishing, Why They appetite. "There are 50,000 books concept; Sean Kelly and Chris Always Reject Your Manuscript... published every year, and Kelly wrote it) and Bad Golf My And What You Can Do About It they're always desperate for new Way, by Leslie Nielsen and (1986). However, it will be pub- material and desperate for Henry Beard. lished anew with a new main another best-seller," Boswell Then there's this year's forth- title: The Insider's Guide to Getting says. "I have a hungry market coming satire he created with Published. Even he thinks it con- out there ready to buy my ideas Beard, The Unshredded Files of tains darn good advice. from me. So that, in itself, makes Hillary and Bill Clinton. And, yes, Not as much advice, perhaps, it easier to come up with ideas." he's guilty (again with National as his 365 Series of good eatin': Being in the idea business, Lampoon co-founder Beard) of 365 Ways to Cook Chicken, which however, wasn't Boswell's idea.

30 Rhodes Summer 1996 He fell into the profession after success: Not to work too hard and "When I go back five years, attending Naval Officers to deal with only nice people. this company was turning a Candidate School, meeting a "Seventeen years in business profit, we were getting strong, man who put him onto a and dealing with thousands of we had a dozen employees. Now Harvard University summer pro- people and thousands of con- we have 70," says Parker, clad in gram for publishing, then attend- tracts, we've never been sued by knit sports shirt and khakis. "I go ing and writing a paper for a anybody," he says. "Obviously back five years beyond that, this visiting publisher who offered the vast majority of the people company wasn't started. him a job in New York. we deal with are people we "I'd like to say my life was "I think a lot of my career has, really like. It's not a bad perk." planned and it was clear what I in fact, been accidental— more a was going to do, but it didn't matter of roads not taken than happen that way. The two roads taken," says Boswell. He biggest things in my life have worked for a big sports market- ci Ise Pater 70 been happenstance: meeting the ing firm, International Don't ask Bruce Parker '70 woman I would many and my Management Group, running its about his five-year business plan. interest in this job." literary division. The firm had That's too far in the future for Roots of both reach to Rhodes. one idea about what his job— the founder of Parker Medical Just a week before he graduated, and income—should be; Boswell Associates in Charlotte, N.C., to Parker had his first date with had another. He used his creativ- prognosticate. Laura Beth Whittemore '71, his ity, bent the job description, Parker, after all, was working future bride and mother of his pushed his income up, "and con- for Zimmer, Inc., a major ortho- two daughters. vinced myself that if I could do pedics firm "in the best job I'd And it was his chemistry that for them, I could do it for ever had" one day, and the next degree from Rhodes that helped myself. (or so it seemed) had quit, coaxed Parker land his first job as an "Necessity is the mother of $100,000 from his brother and analytical chemist with a creativity." brother's partner, and developed Charlotte, N.C. manufacturer of But he doesn't sell short that a moisture curing fiberglass wrap polyurethane foams, synthetic he arrived in publishing with a that would make his firm the No. rubber products and textiles. solid background from Rhodes, 1 splint company in the world. "The big reasons I went to alma mater of his father, His idea is producing sales this Rhodes," says Parker, "were the Memphian McKay Boswell '38. year of about $15 million, includ- strength of the chemistry depart- "They had wonderful professors ing sales of soccer shin guards, ment" and the encouragement of in the English department, like an offshoot product on the pre- pals Arch Johnston '67, David Professor Wolf, who really could vention side of sports. The com- Lloyd '71 and C.W. Stacks '70. make things come alive. And I pany ranks among North "I still remember Drs. Moose, think that certainly was an influ- Carolina's fastest growing. Gilow, Lyons, Alcoa, Gilliom. ence. "I think the larger influence is—and I believe very strongly in—the liberal arts mes- sage, which is that it teaches you to think. And I think creativity is just an extension of that: taking disparate ele- ments and merging them in some way." Boswell's thinking has brought him not only fame and the fortune to provide for his wife of 23 years and two children, but also fulfillment of two perks he promised himself, in the event of Bruce Parker with some of his shin guards.

Summer 1996 Rhodes And, of course, I remember Jack dominating the market. It took Parker Medical's shock absorb- Taylor for physics." longer than predicted to develop ing, custom-fit guards were being But there were other important Ortho-Glass, a synthetic splinting worn by about 25 of the players events that paved the way for material. But in 1987 manufactur- in the 1994 World Cup games. Parker's plunge into the manu- ing began for his splint, which is In recent months Parker's keen facturing of orthopedic and emer- "easier to apply, no mess, no entrepreneurial instincts have gency room products. waste, lighter and more comfort- been directed toward new oppor- The most recent was his sea- able for the patient." tunities: namely, tissue engineer- faring adventure. In 1977 Parker Parker Medical has splint cus- ing. He is president of a new gave up the security of the high-tech company, 9 to 5 workplace and with Reprogenesis. Parker his wife spent several Medical has joined forces years building a sailboat. with Harvard's Children's For a year-and-a-half they Hospital and MIT in this sailed the Caribbean. technology. "I really think that "Our first product," he building that boat was the says, "will be to treat ureteric best project as far as learn- reflux in children," and evening about project manage- tually urinary incontinence ment, basically building in the elderly. from scratch, doing all the In ureteric reflux, the electrical systems, plumb- duct (ureter) for urine to flow ing, the engineering for the from the kidney to the blad- engine and propeller sys- der is attached to the bladder tems and masts and rig- at the wrong angle. The ring ging," he says. of muscle that should keep Parker subsequently the channel closed at proper journeyed back to the com- times isn't doing the job, and pany where he had previ- urine sloshes back to the kid- ously worked. Eight ney. Treatment depends on months later he joined the abnormality's severity Zimmer, Inc. as an engi- and ranges from antibiotics neer. During his 4 years to major surgery. there he served on the new Reprogenesis intends to products and patents com- provide physicians with a kit mittees. "We would get ideas tomers worldwide with Smith & to biopsy cartilage from the from entrepreneurs, a dozen a Nephew as its distributor in child's ear to ship to the firm's month, every month," Parker some areas of the globe. The com- lab, where it would grow. Once recalls. "They would be in the pany also produces 25-30 types of returned to the doctor, the development stage everywhere soccer shin guards, marketed expanded tissue would be from a crude drawing on the under brand names such as injected around the ureter to back of a brown paper bag to a Adidas, Nike, and his own, accomplish what muscle nor- completely developed product Tubig. mally would do. with patent specifications, draw- Parker Medical added shin "All indications are that it ings, etc., on how to make it." guards to its product line after would fix the child's problem Few small businesses are able observing athletic trainers using permanently," says Parker. to go the distance when it comes their medical products to prevent "These are not my ideas, but to developing, producing and injuries among their players. I'm at least part of the team marketing a new product, Parker Parker tested the use of Ortho- that'll bring it to market and maintains. His own company, Glass in soccer shin guards at make a vital business. ... Doctors Parker Medical, which he started nearby Davidson College, where liked the idea of Parker Medical in 1986 after leaving Zimmer, is Parker's father, Charlie Parker, because we'd taken a product an exception. served as wrestling coach from from idea through patenting, Parker began the company after World War II until he died manufacturing and international aiming to find a splint material in 1979. marketing and distribution," and for sprains and broken bones that Davidson's players liked the they want to do the same with would be better than the one then shin guards. Several years later tissue engineering concepts.

32 Rhodes Summer 1996 Frazier and youth from the Trolley Stop Creative Arts Camp. Moto by Steve Jones.

Memphis' first African- employees. Deborah Glass- American theater company with Frazier developed the concept: a • Levi Frazier 73 a full season of shows. He and camp that teaches kids about the "It's all right to be creative." his wife, Deborah Glass-Frazier, city's rich cultural heritage; Levi So insists Levi Frazier '73: both teachers, founded Beale Frazier came up with the name. Memphis actor, playwright, Street Writers in 1978, and in He also works directly with the director and man with a mission. 1979 began Blues City Cultural sessions that keep the kids' "Everybody will not be a doc- Center, where he is artistic minds and bodies moving in tor, lawyer, even teacher or ath- director. thought-provoking directions. lete," says Frazier, a key figure in "Blues City Cultural Center For example, one two-week ses- the development of African- was founded by my wife and sion for kids age 5-13 looked at American theater in Memphis. myself for the express purpose of architecture and history in He emphasizes that many people producing original work about downtown Memphis, with well- have a creative side that often the African-American experience; known Memphians and profes- lies untapped: "Maybe you more specifically, about the sionals conducting tours of wanted to write and nobody Southern African-American places dear to them. encouraged you. Maybe you experience. That's changed a lit- In addition to encouraging the wanted to act and nobody really tle bit over the years, but still one artistry and imagination in oth- encouraged you. of our main things is to do origi- ers, Frazier has let his own cre- "I kind of felt that was my nal works. We do some tried- ative juices flow freely since his mission: in addition to being a and-true, such as A Raisin in the days at Rhodes where he writer, actor and director, my Sun and Amen Corner. But our majored in communication arts mission was to help other people hearts are still in original works." and psychology. become artists themselves." Blues City Cultural Center is "That was a great time to be at He's accomplished that goal also the hub of the couple's latest Rhodes, especially with some of in a number of ways. In 1974 he effort for summer, Trolley Stop the professors that I had," and several friends founded Creative Arts Camp, a day camp Frazier says. "And the openness Beale Street Repertory Company, for the children of downtown that I had in terms of my want-

Summer 1996 Rhodes 33 ing to create, I think about (pro- grandmother. "I would end up from newspaper articles to con- fessor of theatre) Ray Hill ... He taking an old fountain pen and test requirements, conversations was the type of person who just scribbling hieroglyphics all to happenstance. They may take would encourage you: 'Go ahead over the paper until I just got years to mature. He tills his cre- and try it.' ... Then you'd get tired. And I felt that I was ative ground with more care in back with him and talk about the accomplishing something when I recent years, making detailed project, and he'd give you did that." outlines rather than letting a advice, criticism, and then you'd It was at Rhodes that Frazier project just evolve. go back, work on it. wrote the seminal versions of his "I'm writing a musical now, "It was just that kind of envi- plays Down on Beale and A and it's either going to be the ronment that I really needed as a Tribute to Richard Wright. worst thing I ever wrote or the young person growing up who The musical Down on Beale best thing I ever wrote. It's about probably wouldn't have fared (1971) was inspired by plans for Baby Boomers. I have a song in extremely well if somebody had a W.C. Handy festival in there about Memphis ... and it put me in an environment that Memphis. In anticipation, he talks about how I just have to was so structured. I'd have prob- wrote the play, gathered a cast, keep comin' back (to Memphis). ably felt I couldn't breathe in it; I wrote lyrics to songs composed The working title is Boome Rang. may not have even been in the- by pal Howard Robertson. The "Ultimately," Frazier confides, ater had I gone to another school musical opened locally and ran "I'd like to write a piece that that wasn't as open as Rhodes off-off Broadway in 1979. combines theater, the novel and was." For Frazier, seeds of projects the screenplay — maybe a multi- While at Rhodes, Frazier ven- are sown in sundry ways — media piece." tured into community theater. "I think it was 1970 that I per- formed in Of Mice and Men. I played Crooks, the black stable buck. Carl Johnson, he was teaching biology at the time at Rhodes, Carl drove me home one evening. ... I said I didn't know if I wanted to take (the role). ... (Crooks) is a black guy, kind of a loner, but he speaks up for himself, doesn't let anybody run over him. He's an older guy. ... Carl said, 'Well, this is a step, and plus, he does have some dignity, doesn't he? If I were you, I'd go ahead and do it.' "I guess that's one reason why I try to encourage people, too," says Frazier, "because when you're at the crossroads, a good word or good pat on the back means a whole lot." In addition to acting, Frazier has written plays, short stories and poetry. "I can't even remember not wanting to write," says Frazier. "I always enjoyed writing, even before I knew how to write. "My grandmother had an old fountain pen," he says, explain- ing that while his parents worked, he often stayed with his

34 Rhodes Summer 1996 Taylor holds his one-model-treats-all external fixator frame. The dowel in the middle represents bone. photo by Jones And it was in that same back- geting device, is used to secure yard shop in 1983—almost a bone fragments in these long Charlie Taylor '74 decade later— that Charlie and bone fractures. by 1 lelen Watkins Norman his younger brother designed "The rods go down the center It's hard to tell if Charlie their first biomechanical instru- of bones, and in the rods are Taylor's love of tinkering was mentation. screw holes," says Taylor, seated learned or inherited. As the No. 3 Charlie had finished medical in a small, unadorned office at son of longtime Rhodes physics school and was putting in many EPM (Engineering and Precision professor Jack Taylor, Dr. J. hours as a surgery resident at the Machining Inc.), a family-owned Charles Taylor '74 could hardly trauma center at the Regional business that his brother escape the creative forces that Medical Center in Memphis. It founded. His words are inter- permeated his youth. was a very busy emergency cen- rupted by the wail of an Charlie, today a prominent ter, says Taylor, treating many approaching ambulance. orthopedic surgeon practicing in long bone fractures, especially of "We literally can make a cut Memphis, spent untold hours as the tibia (shinbone) and femur the size of a snakebite—a fourth a teenager puttering in a small (thighbone). Interlocked nailing of an inch—and (using an x-ray laboratory behind the family for these fractures—combining machine to view the process) home. Affectionately dubbed the rods and screws to stabilize the feed the screw through the bone Family Center of Creativity by bones—had just begun. And and a hole in the rod," notes the elder Taylor (class of '44) who Taylor and his colleagues were Taylor, who practices full time built it, the lab was and is home spending many hours in surgery with five other physicians in the to assorted machines and tools. exposed to (x-ray) radiation Memphis Orthopedic Associates It was in his father's shop, in inserting the rods and screws Inc. fact, that the younger Taylor con- during these procedures. In addition to the targeting ceived and built his first inven- "So (brother Harold and I) device, Taylor and another physi- tion: an automatic tennis-ball came up with a better instrument cian designed a new system of server that he unveiled his that allows the surgeon to get the interlocking nails and screws. sophomore year at Rhodes. screws in more quickly and with They developed 9 different nails Taylor, a member of Rhodes' ten- less exposure to x-rays," says for various bones in the body. nis team, developed a machine Taylor. Their invention, a surgi- "It's now the No. 1 system in the that could simulate a real serve. cal instrument called a distal tar- world for long bone fractures,"

Summer 1996 Rhodes 35 says Taylor. text in the The instru- Othersof Mention University of mentation and Rhodes' alumni ranks are full of creative folks—people who Memphis nails are most have come up with new ways of thinking, seeing or doing. Here library. are a few more alumni—living and dead—who have improved Al often used in 911 For about a complex frac- our lives with their innovative ideas. year Taylor tures like those • Louise Fitzhugh '50, Connecticut (Died in 1974 of an aneurysm)— researched the resulting from Author of Harriet the Spy, the best-selling children's book which has problem, car wrecks, sold 2.5 million copies since it came out in 1964 (a movie based on devoting his motorcycle acci- the book hit theaters this summer). Also was a painter and illustrat nights and spare time to dents or spills on • Ling H. Lee '53, Memphis—Radiologist (retired). Has invented it. When the the ski slopes. a host of general consumer products—a pelletized fabric soft- family, which Taylor specializes ener, a toothbrush with bristles on both ends, a mechanism that in complex frac- includes two blots the grease in fried chicken—as well as medical innovation tures and treat- daughters and ing infected or The invention that's made money and is used most widely is a a son, drove to slow to heal needle that allows doctors to do lung biopsies without surgery. his wife bones. • Michael E. Hendrick '69, Groton, Conn. (Died May, 1995) Ginger's fam- Taylor and Researcher with Pfizer Inc. Food Service Division. Was lead ily home in brother Harold inventor of Alitame, a high intensity sweetener which, at the Yazoo, Miss., hold the patent time of his death, was awaiting approval in the U.S. (Alitame is she'd drive on the distal tar- already in use in other countries.). Also aided in the discovery o and Taylor geting device. many other new food ingredients at Pfizer. would do math. The interlocking •Ward Archer Jr. '74, Memphis—President and CEO of "I went to nail system is a Archer/Malmo, Inc. Created the initial marketing program and the art supply $30 million-plus coined the name of Harbor Town, a residential area on the business for its store and got an Mississippi River in Memphis. easel pad to manufacturer, imm•• Smith & Nephew work on this. Orthopaedics Inc. in Memphis. inches of leg bone destroyed in a Ordinary paper wasn't big Taylor's most recent inven- wreck or hunting accident. In a enough," he says. "I had equations tion—and the one that he lot of these cases instead of the that would have 20 terms per line describes as "revolutionary"— bone just being short, it might and five lines per equation." is a device he and his brother also be crooked or mal-rotated," Finally he came up with the conceived in ten short minutes. says Taylor. "With this device math which makes the frame It's an easily adjustable frame you can address all of the prob- simple to use. The orthopedist that fits over a broken or lems at one time. In the past simply takes six conventional deformed limb and is used to you'd have had to apply a frame measurements from x-rays and achieve or maintain alignment. that took several hour to days to does a clinical exam, and a small Composed of two rings joined analyze and pre-construct. Then calculator yields the adjustments by long thin metal poles, the after correcting two or three for the frame to realign the device is known as an external things, the surgeon would have crooked or broken limb. fixator. to rebuild the frame and it Although the patents on the The Taylor model, unlike might take two or three office external fixator frame are still previous designs, comes in a revisions for the surgeon to get pending, EPM has already standard one-model-treats-all the patient's bones moved the received its first orders for the format that can be easily re-con- way he wants them. With this fixation device. figured to correct breaks that device you do it all in one shot." Taylor credits his "interest" previously may have required a "I had a lot of math in col- in his work rather than creativ- series of frames and procedures. lege, but I was brought to my ity for the inventions he's devel- By twisting the vertical poles, knees trying to solve this," oped. "I've never discovered a the physician or the patient, can admits Taylor, a physics major new element or anything," says re-orient the frame, forcing the at Rhodes. He discovered the Taylor, who is palpably uncom- bone to heal at a certain angle. partial mathematical solution in fortable talking about himself. "A child might be born with a the works of 17th and 19th cen- "I've simply tried to make it deformed arm or leg. Or a per- tury geometers after reviewing easier to do the things I do on a son might have had several every physics and engineering daily basis." Ei

36 Rhodes Summer 1996 SEP 30 St. Mary's Guest NOV 18 Rhodes College Concert. 6 p.m., Hardie Artist Series featuring Community Orchestra Auditorium. FREE organist David Ramsey, Concert conducted by Rhodes associate profes- Charles Clark. 8 p.m., SEP 13-OCT 26 Profes sor of music. 7:30 p.m., Hardie Auditorium. sor Emeritus of Art St. Mary's Episcopal FREE THEATRE Lawrence Anthony Cathedral, 700 Poplar Retrospective, Clough- Ave. FREE DEC 8 Hodie (This Day) OCT 31, NOV 14-15; Hanson Gallery, Tues- by Ralph Vaughan 23-24 Pippin, book by day-Saturday from 11 OCT 4 Evergreen Guest Williams featuring the Roger 0. Hirson, music a.m.-5 p.m.; closing Artist Series featuring Memphis Symphony and lyrics by Stephen reception Oct. 24, 5-7 organist Jane Gamble of Orchestra and Hodie Schwartz, directed by p.m. Closed during fall the Rhodes Music Acad- Festival Chorus con- assistant professor of break, Oct. 19-22. FREE emy faculty. 8 p.m., ducted by Tony Lee theater Cookie Ewing; in Evergreen Presbyterian Garner. 4 p.m., Ever- repertory with The Shad-

NOV 9-DEC 14 Sculp- Church, 613 University. green Presbyterian ow Box. Tickets: $6 stu- ture by Rhodes art pro- FREE Church, 613 University. dents, $12 adults. For fessor Carol Stewart; Tickets: $16 adults, $8 ticket information, call opening reception, Nov. OCT 24 Faculty Concert students and seniors. the McCoy Theatre box 8, 5-7 p.m. Clough- Series featuring Rhodes For information, contact office, (910) 726-3839. Hanson Gallery, Tues- Music Academy director the McCoy Theatre box day-Saturday from 11 Cathy Fletcher, piano, office, (901) 726-3839. NOV 7-9; 16-17; 21-22 a.m.-5 p.m. Closed dur- and Christine Rutledge, Michael Cristofer's The ing Thanksgiving holi- viola. 8 p.m., Shirley M. DEC 10 Christmas at St. Shadow Box directed by days, Nov. 27-Dec. 1. Payne Recital Hall, Mary's featuring the Brian Mott '87; in reper- FREE Hassell Hall. FREE Rhodes College Singers, tory with Pippin. Tickets: Rhodes Music Academy $4 students, $8 adults. OCT 27 Faculty Concert Children's Chorus, For ticket information, Series featuring pianists Rhodes Music Academy call the McCoy Theatre Rose Marie Wang and Young Singers, Ger- box office, (910) 726- Tom Foster. 3 p.m., mantown United 3839. Shirley M. Payne Recital Methodist Church SEP 15 St. John Passion Hall, Hassell Hall. FREE Matins Handbell Choir, by Johann Sebastian Evergreen Presbyterian Bach featuring the NOV 10 Faculty Concert Church Jubilate Bell Rhodes Mastersingers Series featuring John Choir, Recorder Choir, Chorale and Memphis Ross, lute / guitar. 7 p.m., Rhodes Brass Quartet. SEP 17 Frank M. Symphony Chamber Shirley M. Payne Recital 7:30 p.m., St. Mary's Gilliland Symposium Orchestra, conducted by Hall, Hassell Hall. FREE Episcopal Cathedral, presents Roger Tony Lee Garner. 2:30 700 Poplar Ave. Tickets: Kennedy, director of the p.m., Evergreen Presby- NOV 14 Evergreen $6 adults, $4 students U.S. National Park Ser- terian Church, 613 Uni- Concert Series featuring and seniors. For infor- vice; Hardie Auditori- versity St. Tickets: $16 organist David Ramsey, mation, contact the um, 8 p.m. FREE adults, $8 students and Rhodes associate profes- McCoy Theatre box seniors. For information, sor of music. 8 p.m., office, (901) 726-3839. contact the McCoy The- Evergreen Presbyterian atre box office, (901) 726- Church, 613 University. DEC 11 Rhodes Singers 3839. FREE Campus Christmas Rhodes College 2000 North Parkway Memphis, Tennessee 38112-1690

Celebrating 100 Years of Football

his fall marks the 100th anniversary of football at Rhodes. The 1896 football team—the first ever fielded by the college—is pictured above. TThe team played only one game 100 autumns ago. It was against Vanderbilt, which won 30-0. It took 40 years to even the score a bit. In 1936 the Lynx beat Vandy 12-0.