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The Mystery of Lightnin • From I he

Olympian Dave Wottle S (ISSN *1075-3036) IN Rhode With our coverage of the 1996 Olympics in this issue of Rhodes it published four times a year in winter, spring, seems the perfect time to introduce or reintroduce our readers to the summer and fall by Rhodes College, only member of the college's staff who has 2000 N. Parkway, Memphis, TN 38112-1690. "been there, done that." It is published as a service to all alumni, Dean of admissions and financial aid Dave students, parents, faculty, staff and friends of Wottle won the Olympic gold medal in the 800 the college. Spring 1996—Volume 3, Number meter run at the 1972 Munich games. Since his 2. Second class postage paid at Memphis, arrival at Rhodes in 1983 Wottle has seen Tennessee, and additional mailing offices. applications triple and SAT scores move from EXECUTIVE EDITOR: Helen Watkins Norman 1100 to 1200 (and that's using non-recentered EDITOR: Martha Hunter Shepard '66 scores). ART DIRECTOR: Kevin Barre While he continues to CONTRIBUTING EDITOR: Susan McLain do honor to the college, Sullivan Wottle still finds DESIGN CONSULTANT: Eddie Tucker Dave Wottle 1996 himself the object of POSTMASTER: Send address changes to: Olympic fascination, if not adulation. Rhodes, 2000 North Parkway, Memphis, TN Journalists fondly remember the "man in 38112-1690. the hat" during the '72 Olympics. Wearing his CHANGE OF ADDRESS: Please mail the completed trademark golf cap, Wottle edged out the heavy form below and label from this issue of Rhodes favorite—Russia's Yevgeny Arzhanov—beating to: Alumni Office, Rhodes College, 2000 North him by 3/ 100ths of a second. It was the closest Parkway, Memphis, TN 38112-1690. finish in Olympic history up to that point. In the excitement of victory, Wottle forgot to remove his cap during the national anthem. 1972 Name This year, Wottle will make several appearances in connection with the '96 games in Atlanta. Street • The first is a May 1 dinner in Washington, D.C., with President and Mrs. Clinton and 200 members of Congress honoring some City State Zip 50 U.S. Olympians. • In early June Wottle will join 20-30 fellow athletes at a "Greatest Home Phone Business Phone Sports Legends" meeting in Atlantic City. • On June 30 he'll be featured in Bud Greenspan's America's Employer Greatest Olympians, a two-hour documentary which airs on TBS. Wottle's segment was filmed on the Rhodes campus in 1991. Title • In Atlanta, Wottle will attend the Gold Medal Internationale, a CLASS Nuns: Please send all Class Notes reception for medalists from all the Olympics and their spouses. news including marriages, births and obituaries • He'll also make an appearance at the VISA Alumni Center near to: Alumni Office, Rhodes College, 2000 Olympic Village, and give interviews at the Olympics N. Parkway, Memphis, TN 38112-1690. communications center. Phone: (901)726-3845 Fax: (901)726-3474. In 1987 Wottle received an Olympic Spirit Award for his Internet address to Sally Jones, director of performance in Munich from members of the U.S. Olympic Committee alumni: [email protected] and former Olympians.

LETTERS To THE EDITOR: Please address "The Olympic spirit transcends boundaries of countries, race and postal correspondence to: Martha H. Shepard, religion," he said at the time. "I think the flame continues to bum. It Editor, Rhodes Magazine, Rhodes College, bums in hearts of athletes all around the world because it is still the No. 2000 N. Parkway, Memphis, TN 38112-1690. 1 measure of the highest accomplishment that an athlete can achieve." Internet address: [email protected] Phone: (901)726-3875 Fax: (901)726-3553. —Martha Hunter Shepard, Editor

Contents

FEATURES

Lightning Sparks Professor/Dancer Fits Alum's Quest for Rhodes to a Dee Answers in the Clouds 17

22 Carrying the Torch

DEPARTMENTS 2 CAMPUS NEWS 30 CAMPUS VOICES News of Rhodes events, faculty, students and friends Kathleen Weil-Garris Brandt discusses her role in identifying an early Michelangelo sculpture in New York's A- 1 ALUMNI NEWS French embassy Features, Class Notes, For the Record 32 ATHLETICS 29 IN PRINT New books by faculty and alumni 33 CALENDAR

COVER—Lightning strikes like this one in Bushland, Texas, are an occupational requirement—not hazard—to Ole Miss physics professor and renowned lightning expert Tom Marshall '71. Rhodes magazine is printed with soya ink Photo C 1988 C. Doswell on recyclable paper. Carepus. mv§v ,

Rhodes Scores With New Athletic Hall Of Fame

he sports greats of Rhodes' Rhodes will christen the pro- permanent display, named in Tpast may be gone but they gram and induct its first honorees memory of Rhodes coaching won't be forgotten. during Homecoming Weekend great James "Jimmy" Haygood, is This fall Rhodes is launching Oct. 25-26. scheduled for completion in the an Athletic Hall of Fame to salute In addition to honoring spring of 1997. Haygood served individuals who have either inductees at a luncheon and at Rhodes in the early '30s as both made outstanding contributions the Saturday football game, athletic director and head football to the athletic program of the col- Rhodes will recognize them in a coach. lege or who have distinguished permanently-mounted Athletic Rhodes alumni, friends of the themselves—and brought honor Hall of Fame display that will college, staff, faculty, students to the college—through their ath- occupy the ground floor of the and others will nominate candi- letic accomplishments during and new athletics building in the dates each year for the Hall of after their years at Rhodes. Bryan Campus Life Center. The Fame (see nomination form below). The Alumni Office will oversee the nomination process. Once nominations are in hand, a Rhodes Athletic Hall of Fame Nomination Form selection committee will consider Rhodes' International Alumni Association is soliciting nominations for them and any its members may its Athletic Hall of Fame. The purpose is to salute individuals who have choose to add. The committee either made outstanding contributions to the athletic program of the col- membership will consist of lege or who have distinguished themselves—and brought honor to the col- alumni, staff, students, faculty lege—through their athletic accomplishments during and after their years and administrators. at Rhodes. Rhodes will name a maximum Up to five individuals will be inducted this coming October. Nominees of three inductees each year in not selected this year will remain on the list of candidates to be considered 1996, '97 and '98 in order to in subsequent years. "catch up" for past years of not Alumni are eligible for the Hall of Fame if they are members of a class having an Athletic Hall of Fame, that has been out of Rhodes 10 years or longer (Class of 1986 or earlier). noted Mike Clary, athletic direc- Athletic staff may be candidates only if they no longer work at Rhodes. tor, head football coach and the Nominee head of the selection committee. After 1998, the selection commit- Class Year tee will determine the number of Athletic Involvement at Rhodes and/or after Rhodes inductees, although the total for a year will not exceed three. To be eligible for the Athletic Hall of Fame, an alumnus or alumna need not be a graduate of the college. However, he or she (Feel free to add another sheet) must have participated in varsity Nominated by intercollegiate competition at Rhodes, or the individual must Daytime phone number have achieved significant distinc- tion as an athlete in the years that Return by June 3, 1996 to: followed Rhodes. Also, alumni Rhodes International Alumni Association recipients must be a member of a Athletic Hall of Fame Selection Committee class which has been out of 2000 North Parkway Rhodes at least 10 years by the Memphis, TN 38112 time of the induction in the fall. (For example, the fall 1996 2 Rhodes Spring 1996 Camptp.Ne.w,s,

inductees must have been members of the class of 1986 or of earlier classes.) The Hall of Fame is additionally open to former members of the athletic staff. However, to be a candidate, they must have worked at Rhodes a minimum of five years and no longer be employed by the college. "The Rhodes Athletic Hall of Fame will involve alumni and friends in the college's rich athletic tradition," said Coach Clary. "Rhodes has had some outstanding athletes over the years as well as staff members who have had a profound impact on our athletic program. Annual recognition of these individuals will be a highlight in the athletic life of the Southwestern Presbyterian University Football Team 1915-16 college." '5 On 5 Program' Focuses On Getting Students Together I la can a Rhodes student fall, "makes the students realize Ala., who is Caucasian. The two Wlearn in a week spent getting how much they have in common had met briefly earlier in the year, to know another student from a rather than the differences," says sharing a table at breakfast, and different ethnic background? Jones-Jobe. "In fact, I think that is had seen each other occasionally Plenty, say the participants in the quite a surprise to them all." on campus. That was the extent of "5 on 5 Program" that their relationship Debora Jones-Jobe, direc- until each responded tor of the college's Office to the flier in their of Multicultural Affairs, mailbox from Jones- began this year. Jobe announcing "5 Pairing 10 students on 5." from varying ethnic back- Bean and Johnson grounds who volunteer took two-hour for the program, Jones- lunches and several Jobe gives each pair some dinners together, directions: during one attended a meeting week they must spend at of the Black Student least one hour per day Association and Bap- together and meet each tist Student Union, other's friends. At the end Amanda Johnson (left) and Effie Bean "do lunch" In the and went to a frater- of the week, they view refectory photo by Troy Cleft nitY party. and discuss a video titled "We all want to Skin Deep and participate in a Among early volunteers for make it work," Johnson says of group discussion on race. Finally, "5 on 5" were first-year students the program. "Everyone on cam- each student conducts an inter- Effie Bean of nearby Millington, pus has the opportunity to do it. If view with his or her partner. Tenn., who is African-American, not, I think we'll run into prob- The program, which began last and Amanda Johnson of Sterrett, lems in the larger world." Spring 1996 Rhodes 3 Campus News

Armstrong Leaves 10,000-Volume Library To College

emplus attorney and former signed first editions. There are M Rhodes trustee Walter Arm- also some Bibles along with art, strong, who died March 5, has drama, music and reference left Rhodes an extraordinary books. Ten boxes of books per- legacy. A noted patron of the arts tain to Sherlock Holmes, another and bibliophile, he bequeathed of Armstrong's passions. his entire personal library of "The bulk of the collection will some 10,000 volumes as well as fit into the 'regular books' cate- cash gifts to the college. gory—material that will be Rhodes' library director Lynne extremely useful for the library's Blair estimates that literary works circulating collection," says Blair. comprise 85 percent of the collec- "The volumes in literature, in tion, which includes some rare particular, are outstanding."

Walter Armstrong Lawrence Otis Graham Speaks At Rhodes I awrence Otis Graham, pic- Graham's experi- tured signing a copy of his ences are depicted book Member of the Club for Eliza- in an upcoming beth Hood '98, spoke at Rhodes Warner Brothers this winter. Graham is a Harvard film starring Den- Law School graduate and New zel Washington. York corporate attorney who went undercover as a busboy at an exclusive country club. He wrote an investigative article for New York magazine on the dis- crimination against minorities, Photo by Andrew Niesen Jews and women he found there .

students interested in economics Mrs. Hon Dies and business, international studies and pre-medical and pre-minister- azel McLain Hon of Mem- ial studies. H phis, wife of Dr. Ralph C. A member of Trinity United Hon, professor emeritus of eco- Methodist Church, she was a past nomics and business administra- president of United Methodist tion, died Feb. 11. She was 91. Women. Mrs. Hon was also a char- Mrs. Hon was known as a gra- ter member and past president of cious hostess who through the PEO Sisterhood Chapter 0. years entertained countless faculty She also leaves two sisters, Ber- and students in her home. nice Kroll of Independence, Mo., The couple established the Hon and Joanne Hendricks of Odessa, Scholarship Fund for deserving Texas; and two brothers, Wade McLain of Independence, Mo., and Mrs. Mon Bertran McLain of Cleveland, Mo. 4 Rhodes Spring 1996 Civic leader and philanthropist Four To Receive Honorary Degrees Corolla Allen Bonner of Prince- ton, N.J., will receive an honorary B author John which opened on Broadway in doctor of humanities degree. She WPGrisham, Tony Award-win- November 1994. Hearn has contin- and her late husband Bertram, a ning actor George Hearn '56, phil- ued to play the role of Max since real estate magnate, founded the anthropist CoreIla Allen Bonner the night the blockbuster musical Bonner Scholars Program. Rhodes, and the Rev. Howard Edington made its American premiere in along with 21 other colleges, par- '64, senior minister of Orlando, Los Angeles in November 1993. ticipates in the program which Fla.'s 5,000-member First Presby- He will receive an honorary doc- provides scholarships of more terian Church, will receive hon- tor of fine arts degree. than $3,200 a year to needy stu- orary degrees at Rhodes' 147th No stranger to awards, Hearn dents, who in turn perform com- commencement ceremonies at 10 won his first Tony for playing munity service. a.m., Saturday, May 11 in Fisher Albin in La Cage aux Folles on In addition to the scholarships, Memorial Garden. Broadway. He also received Tony the Bonner Foundation has made John Grisham, who will nominations for his roles in annual gifts of half a million dol- receive an hon- lars to support orary doctor of let- more than 100 food ters degree, banks and church- currently has more based crisis min- than 55 million istry programs. books in print Howard Eding- worldwide. He ton will receive an began writing his honorary doctor of first novel, A Time divinity degree. His To Kill, in 1984. First Presbyterian Three years later, Church in Orlando, he wrote the legal said to be one of the thriller The Firm. largest and fastest His new book The growing churches John Chisholm George Hearn Runaway Jury is in the United States, scheduled to be is involved in more released in May. than 150 areas of Born in Jones- ministry including boro, Ark., an infant/ child care Grisham earned center and health his undergraduate clinic. degree in account- Edington's book, ing at Mississippi The Downtown State University Church: The Heart of and his law degree the City, will be at the University of published in late Mississippi. He spring by Abingdon was elected to the Press. Edington Mississippi House Corolla Bonner Howard Edington holds a M.Div. from of Representatives, Louisville Presby- where he served from 1983-90. A Doll's Life and Watch on the terian Theological Seminary and is Native Memphian George Rhine. He received an Emmy currently chairman of the board of Hearn received the 1995 Tony Award for his starring role in Montreat College. His television Award as Best Featured Actor in a Sweeney Todd, after playing that program The Certain Sound is seen Musical for his role as Max von part on Broadway and on national weekly in much of Florida and the Mayerling in Sunset Boulevard, tour with Angela Lansbury. greater Atlanta area. Spring 1996 Rhodes 5 Tennessee Williams Festival To Salute Edwin Howard

hodes' first annual Tennessee argued, it was in the college's Memphis: "The laughter... RWilliams Theater Festival library that he first encountered enchanted me. Then and there the July 12-28 comes 61 years after Chekhov who was theater and I the renowned playwright found to become a major found each other his muse, literally, at the college's influence in his for better and for doorstep. later writing. For- worse." It also occurs 31 years after the mer president of In addition to idea for such a festival was first the college Peyton calling for a Ten- proposed by Edwin Howard '50, Rhodes, then a nessee Williams who was then the arts and enter- member of the fac- festival in the city, tainment editor for the Memphis ulty, was a friend of Howard, who is Press Scimitar newspaper. In Williams' grand- now the arts and recognition of his influential role parents and paved travel columnist in the creation of Rhodes' Ten- the way for him to for Memphis Busi- nessee Williams Festival, the use the college's ness Journal, also McCoy Theatre has selected facilities. spearheaded the Howard as the festival's first In a 1983 news- effort to establish "distinguished honoree." Each paper column, Howard repeated in Memphis two historical mark- year the festival will honor some- several lines written by Williams ers dedicated to Williams. Today one whose life has been closely years after that first production in they stand at the site of his first linked to or influenced by Ten- nessee Williams. Howard suggested that Mem- The Performances phis host a Tennessee Williams bodes' Tennessee Williams val Thomas Cadwaleder Jones, a theater festival back in 1965 after FM Theatre Festival will span Rhodes theater professor, is cre- discovering the playwright's three weeks. Performances will ating this commemorative piece important tie to Memphis. In 1935 alternate between The Night of the that may come complete with a while visiting his grandparents, Iguana—a full-length play—and young Tennessee Williams and the Rev. and Mrs. Walter Dakin, two one-acts, The Gnadiges Froulein even a Blanche DuBois standing who lived at 1917 Snowden Ave. and 27 Wagons Full of Cotton. Vet- by. The enactment, in Rhodes' near Rhodes, Williams penned a erans of Memphis theater will Fisher Garden on Saturday one-act play Cairo! Shanghai! Bom- direct: Bennett Wood for The Night afternoon of the opening week- bay! The play made its debut that of the Iguana and Jerry Chipman end, will help kick off the new summer on a makeshift stage in for the two one-acts. festival. It is free and open to the garden of Alice G. Rose- The casts also include some the public. brough's home at 1780 Glenview. of the city's most accomplished Another offering of the festi- It was the first time he'd ever performers, including several val is a two-matinee (July 20 seen a play of his performed. He Rhodes alumni: Christina Well- and 21) concert performance of never forgot the thrill of the audi- ford Scott '73, Mari Askew '71, the opera based on Williams' ence's reaction. and Brian Mott '87. And Tony two-part play Summer and Then, shortly after Williams Lee Garner '65, artistic director Smoke, composed by Lee Hoiby. died in February 1983, Howard of the McCoy Theater, serves as Gary Beard will direct. again appealed to city leaders and executive director of the festival. Tickets for the festival go on theater patrons for the establish- A special offering of the festi- sale in mid-April through the ment of a festival honoring one of val is an enactment of that first Rhodes box office at (901) 726- America's greatest playwrights. production of Cairo! Shanghai! 3839. See the Calendar in the Not only was Williams' first Bombay!, Williams' first play. back of the magazine for dates play written in Memphis (in the Producing director of the festi- and prices. shadow of Rhodes), Howard 6 Rhodes Spring 1996 production and on University until he was 15. His family moved of the Press Scimitar for a Pulitzer Street at the Snowden Avenue to Memphis in 1940. After serving Prize for his book criticism. entrance to Rhodes, not far from in the army during World War II, While working at the Press his grandparents' home. he returned to Memphis, married Scimitar he additionally served as It was at his grandparents' and began attending Rhodes (then lively arts critic at WMC-TV. home on Snowden that young Southwestern). While a college After the Press Scimitar dosed, Tom used the name "Tennessee" student, he also worked full-time Howard joined the Memphis Busi- for the first time. According to a at Memphis' afternoon daily ness Journal in 1983, founding that new biography on Williams, Tom: newspaper, The Press Scimitar, as paper's arts and leisure section, the Unknown Tennessee Williams, amusements editor and film and Life at the Top. He is the author of Williams first called himself "Ten- drama critic. He stayed at that two books: Sign On: the First 50 nessee" when he submitted four newspaper for 42 years until it Years of WREC Radio and The Edi- plays he'd written to a prestigious ceased publication, writing torial We, On the Career and Writ- playwriting competition spon- columns and news stories about ings of Edward J. Meeman. He also sored by the Group Theater in entertainment. In the process he helped found the Memphis New York in 1938. He mailed the accumulated a loyal readership as Shakespeare Festival (1952-67) manuscript from his grandpar- well as accolades such as the life- and a local acting competition ents' home. time service award bestowed which for eight years provided Howard, the son of a newspa- upon him by Playhouse on the scholarships to Cirde in the per editor, was born in Grand Square. He also was nominated Square Theatre School in New Island, Fla., but lived in Knoxville by the late Milton Britten, editor York. Blundon Receives Funding For Research Equipment By Susan McLain Sullivan Blundon's research is aimed at in the receiving neuron." Rhodes neurobiologist who explaining the way in which neu- "Neurobiologists now believe A studies electrical nerve rons relay impulses that result in that the release of neurotransmit- impulses passing from one nerve the formation of memories. He ter chemicals from one group of cell to another recently received explains, "The brain contains bil- neurons to another is temporarily funding for equipment critical to lions and billions of nerve cells, boosted during experiences, for his continued and each example, looking up a number in research. individual the phone book. Our 'short term' Biology Professor neuron is memory of that phone number Jay Blundon's suc- capable of will persist as long as the chemical cessful efforts sending an signals between those neurons resulted in a $6,600 electrical remain boosted. The memory award from the impulse along fades as the release of neurotrans- Grass Instrument its length. mitter returns to normal." Foundation and When that "If the release of neurotransmit- matching funds from impulse ter is boosted sufficiently high, Rhodes for the pur- reseaches the neurons may actually grown new chase of a computer end of the connections in the brain. Science operated digital volt- neuron, the has shown us that these new con- age damp costing signal may nections are permanent structural $13,000. The damp then be changes in the brain that form the device precisely con- Prof. Jay Blundon in his lab relayed to basis of 'long term' memories that trols voltages of Photo by Kevin Barre another neu- can last a lifetime." nerve cells (neurons) ron in the With the acquisition of the volt- and will help advance his research form of a chemical called a neuro- age damp, Blundon is looking for- on how signals, or impulses, travel transmitter. The neurotransmitter ward to involving students in new from neuron to neuron. then initiates an electrical impulse aspects of his research, he said. Spring 1996 Rhodes 7 Lampus

Swedish Economist To Receive Seidman Award a \vedish economist Assar problems of the welfare state. rent control for housing mar- Lindbeck, an early critic of He and Dennis Snower of kets. his country's expanding welfare Birkbeck College, University of Lindbeck is the author of state, will receive the 1996 Frank London, developed what they dozens of research papers and E. Seidman Distinguished called the "insider-outsider the- 18 books, including his latest, Award in Political Economy. He ory" of involuntary unemploy- Turning Sweden Around, pub- will receive the award, which ment. Their work explains how lished by MIT Press. He has carries a $15,000 prize, at a din- those who already have a job been a consultant to the World ner to be held at Rhodes Sept. 20. ("insiders") protect themselves Bank and a visiting researcher at Lindbeck is a professor of and their jobs from the unem- the International Monetary international economics at Fund. He has also served on a the Institute for Interna- number of agricultural and eco- tional Economic Studies. nomic councils and committees He directed the Institute for the Swedish government. for 23 years, relinquishing Lindbeck holds a master's that post just two years degree from the University of ago. Uppsala and doctorate from the Lindbeck, sometimes University of Stockholm. He has described as an arch-neo- taught at Columbia University, classicist, has served in UC Berkeley and Yale. recent years as chair of the The Seidman Award was committee that awards the established by Rhodes trustee Nobel Prizes for econom- P.K. Seidman and his late wife ics. He also is widely Leone to honor Seidman's known, especially in Swe- brother Frank, an economist and den, for what came to be accountant who died in 1972. known as the Lindbeck Presented by the Seidman report. A group of Nordic Award Board of Directors and economists led by Lind- Rhodes, the award recognizes beck issued a report in the Assar Lindbeck and encourages economists spring of 1993 which whose expertise has profoundly pointed to "several decades of ployed who seek their jobs influenced all interdependent mistakes and reckless policies" ("outsiders"). Their work also areas of the social sciences. as the cause of Sweden's eco- explains why long-term unem- Past recipients of the Frank E. nomic woes. ployment persists after short- Seidman Distinguished Award According to an article in The term unemployment blips in the in Political Economy include Economist, the Lindbeck report economy. four economists who later went called for broader political As for government welfare on to accept Nobels in econom- reforms, longer Parliaments, a programs, Lindbeck is quick to ics: James Buchanan, Robert more powerful finance ministry admit the benefits of welfare in Solow, Gary Becker and the late

(in relation to other ministries), - reducing poverty and providing Gunnar Myrdal. a more independent central economic security for the recipi- bank and a reduction in the ents. His research, however, power of interest groups like the underscores the longterm risk of trade unions. generous welfare progams to Save These Dates Lindbeck, the 23rd recipient undercut the very economic Homecoming of the Seidman Award, has foundations supporting a wel- devoted much of his career to fare state. He has also written Oct. 25-26, 1996 examining unemployment and about the deleterious effects of 8 Rhodes Spring 1996 Lightning Sparks Alum's Quest for Answers in the Clouds

Dark clouds loom above Tom Marshall as he holds measurement equipment during a balloon launch. photo Peter J. Menzel 1993

o one will blame Tom Marshall '71 if his head is in the clouds. Marshall, a professor of physics at the University of Mississippi, has spent 18 years studying thunderstorms and the lightning they produce. His goal: By to explain what actually triggers Helen Watkins Norman the celestial flash-dance we know as lightning—what flips the switch in the clouds that sends a stream of negative electrons rush- ing to earth.

Spring 1996 Rhodes 9 In the United States nature "If you want to get a notion of for and his secretary wife, he leaves its high-voltage calling what's going on in the develop- became friends in grade school card with greatest frequency in ment of the electricity (in a storm with Rhodes physics professor the spring and summer months. cloud) before the lightning has Jack Taylor's son Bill (who later About 100 people in the United come along to rearrange the elec- went on to attend and graduate States die each year from light- trical charges for you, you want from Rhodes). When visiting Bill ning: more than the number to sudy the storm as it's first at his home, Marshall received killed by hurricanes and torna- forming," says Marshall, seated frequent encouragement from Dr. does. Thousands more are in his spartan-like office in the Taylor to try out physics at injured. Property damage due to old section of Lewis Hall, the Rhodes. lightning totals up to several physics building, on the Ole Miss Marshall followed that advice hundred million dollars for the campus. "There's probably a bet- and took physics his freshman U.S. annually. And lightning- ter chance to do that in Mew year. He discovered that he induced power outages are not Mexico than in other places." was—as he puts it—"pretty good only inconvenient and costly but Besides, Langmuir is where at it." His junior year he won the oftentimes dangerous. Marshall got his feet wet—figura- top scholarship in physics. The Marshall's research on light- tively and literally—in the study next year he graduated with dis- ning—or, more accurately, his of storms. tinction in physics. study of the electrical conditions After Rhodes he headed to in the storm clouds—has primar- arshall's earliest con- University of Florida where he ily been conducted in two areas nection with physics earned his master's in physics. of the country that are prime was personal. Unsure of his career goals, how- venues for such research— Growing up in mid- ever, Marshall then taught a year Oklahoma and New Mexico. Mtown Memphis, the son of a real- at a college-prep boarding school In New Mexico, Marshall has worked at Langmuir Laboratory, a facility that was built specifi- cally for the study of thunderstorms. It stands at an elevation of 11,000 feet, so high that the cloud base is almost on top of you, notes Marshall. More important, it's a perfect site for examining a storm in its developmental stage. "The storms in New Mexico occur above the mountains, almost always," says Marshall. The fact that the storm is right overhead is important for the Memphis-born physicist because his experiments require the launching of large balloons directly up into storm clouds. Attached to the balloons is equip- Humans' longstand- ment that measures the electrical ing interest in lightning is borne out by charge of particles in the clouds this set of "Franklin and the electric field at various chimes," positioned positions in the cloud. This infor- adjacent to Marshall mation is beamed by radio wave and owned by the University of back to earth. Mississippi. The At Langmuir's mountaintop chimes were home, the storms not only form invented by directly overhead, they tend to Benjamin Franklin in the mid-1700s to stay in one place which provides determine the elec- more time for researchers to get trical state of thun- the data they seek. derclouds. photo by Steve Jones

10 Rhodes Spring 1996 in Florida and returned to studying the electrical charge on ity courses through this air which Memphis to work in the bio- the raindrops and hailstones in has been broken down. chemistry lab at Memphis' storm clouds. Marshall's experiments aim to Veterans Administration "The most popular idea about find what makes the electric field Hospital. how thunderstorms get electri- in the storm grow large enough Eventually he decided to go cally charged," says Marshall, "is for this whole process to begin. back to graduate school for his that somehow the precipitation in Ph.D. in physics. He chose New the cloud—these individual parti- bile Marshall's Mexico Institute of Mining and cles—bump together and during study of storms Technology—New Mexico Tech, that collision electrical charges began in New for short. Though small, it has a exchange between the two." Mexico's moun- well-respected physics graduate The positive particles are car- tains, some of his most interest- program which specializes in ried by an updraft of air to the ing—and hair-raising—data thunderstorms and radio astron- upper part of the cloud; the nega- collection has taken place in the omy. tive-charged particles fall to the wide-open plains of Oklahoma, Marshall began his first base of the cloud, creating an Texas and Kansas. There, rather research project in storm studies electric field similar to that in a than waiting for storms to come in the summer of 1978, after his battery. The negative charged to him, he strikes out after them. first academic year at New area in the base of the cloud Traveling hundreds of miles each Mexico Tech. Working out of sends out a small spark—an elec- day by van and truck, his desti- Langmuir Labs, which is run by trical discharge—called a stepped nation is a dark mountain of New Mexico Tech, Marshall leader which zigzags down to vapor that may or may not mate- teamed up with a graduate earth in search of a neutralizing rialize in the skies above. school professor and began charge. The storms that Marshall stud- Eventually it gets ies in the plains states are often to the ground where massive in size. They are called it's met by a rising Mesoscale Convection Systems positive spark. A very (MCS), because in scope, they're bright return stroke— in the middle—"meso"—between the lightning flash one a huge meteorological front and a sees—courses up smaller "micro" storm. They can from the ground, fol- grow to be half the size of lowing the same Oklahoma, says Marshall. channel as the Another type of exceptionally stepped leader. It car- large thunderstorm that Marshall ries the electrical studies is a "supercell." It lives charge from the about five times longer than a ground into the cloud. localized thunderstorm, and it's The series of events the most common producer of that leads to lightning tornadoes, not to mention light- is similar to what ning. happens with static Most of the time Marshall electricity. A child works with longtime colleague scuffs across a carpet Dave Rust—a meteorologist with on a dry winter day, the National Severe Storms scraping electrons off Laboratory in Norman, Okla. Not the rug and gaining only were they the first to do an electrical charge. electric field research on large- Air, which normally scale storms, they are among the resists the conduction top dozen or so researchers of electrical current, nationwide in the area of electric breaks down because field measurements of storms. of the high electric Marshall's fiancee Maribeth field around the child. Stolzenburg, a meteorologist As the child reaches whom he met while chasing for the doorknob, a storms, is also on that list. spark of static electric- Marshall and his wife-to-be (they

Spring 1996 11 will marry this May) as well as They head to the spot where a Dave Rust were, in fact, show- storm is most likely to develop, cased in a Nova television special remaining in constant contact on lightning that was broadcast with the forecasters for updates in November. The PBS program on the weather. showed them launching balloons Their destination on a given and monitoring the results. day may be four to five hours

In terms of this kind of balloon away by car. It's not unusual for FROM LAB TO launching, Marshall and Rust Marshall's group to drive 600 LIFT-OFF—Top have more experience than any- miles within a 24-hour period, left, Marshall and one in the U.S. Giant latex and to do that day after day. crew in the balloon hangar at sausages of helium, the balloons Once they arrive at what looks Langmuir Lab. are what carry their measure- like a good spot for launching, Bottom left, ment instruments into the clouds. the crew has to be ready for Marshall consults After witnessing a small helium action. "You can wait for days with other members of the crew balloon whipped mercilessly by (for a good storm) and drive for as they prepare the breeze, one can only imagine hours and then have only 10 min- for the launch. what it's like maneuvering a utes (because of the storm condi- Right, helium and truck-sized balloon in 40 to 50 tions) to get the balloon fast winds carry the balloon sky- mile per hour winds. launched," says Marshall. ward. The yellow It probably helps that Marshall Everyone has a job, whether sheeting on the is fit and trim. A member of the it's inflating the balloons, remov- ground is the spe- golf team during his Rhodes ing them from the truck, testing cial balloon bag Marshall and his days, he now stays in shape with the radio signals and the electric partner Dave Rust a daily 3 to 4 mile run and low- field meter, establishing precisely created to maneu- fat lunches at his favorite vege- where they are with a special ver the balloon tarian restaurant on the "Square" naviagation tool, or attaching before a launch. photos PeterJ.Menzel in downtown Oxford. 1993 While on the road chasing storms, however, fast food often replaces health food; and the daily run sometimes gets squeezed out of the schedule . From mid-May, when Marshall arrives in Oklahoma, through mid-June, the daily rou- tine begins around 8 a.m. That's when Marshall and his research crew gather at the "balloon barn" rented by the National Severe Storm Lab to check out the day's weather predictions and prepare for a mid-morning departure. "We decide in the morning if the forecast is good for an afternoon supercell in the Texas panhandle, for instance," Marshall explains. "Supercells don't usually start until 2 or 3 in the afternoon." Then the crew of seven or eight pile into two vehicles: a van equipped with computers, cellular phones and radio communica- tion equipment and a truck which carries the balloons, helium and testing equipment.

12 Rhodes Spring 1996 Spring 1996 Rhodes 13 parachutes to the testing equipment. "We put parachutes on everything so that when the balloon bursts it doesn't come down like a rock," says Marshall. His responsibility is perhaps the most critical: deciding where to put the balloons and the instruments so that when they're launched, they fly where they're intended. He has to know not only the current wind direction but where the wind will be blow- ing at the exact moment that the balloon is launched. "If the balloon gets turned sideways to the wind, it's a big bad problem. So you've got to keep it pointing into the wind," says Marshall. He and Rust actually invented a special canvas sack that makes maneuvering the balloon easier. Once the balloon's where they want it, they pull the bag's velcro seam and the balloon pops out. On a good day, they may launch three balloons into the storm. Because Oklahoma and the Texas panhandle are sparsely populated, most of the balloon launches occur in windswept fields along the side of the road. "Sometimes though we've launched in people's front yards. We hope they don't come out with their shotguns," Marshall laughs. "Usually everyone is just intrigued or dumbfounded won- dering what these idiots are doing in their yard." Thunderstorms around the world generate lightning flashes at a rate of If a tornado's on the ground 100 per second. One source estimates that the energy in a thunderstorm is greater than that released by an atomic bomb. Photo two miles away—as it was on 01990 C. Doswell one occasion—the homeowners aren't that attentive to Marshall's project that sent out an armada year of his VORTEX field work, experiment. They're more inter- of scientific teams to perform dif- Marshall was at the right place at ested in where that tornado is ferent experiments on one major the right time to witness a four- heading, and what they should storm each day. Hosted by the star tornado. The only problem do in response, Marshall notes. National Severe Storms Lab, the was his equipment. In the spring of 1994 and 1995, project aimed to gather data "That was a sad, sad, sad, sad Marshall took part in one of this about these storms, especially day," Marshall says, shaking his country's largest storm-chase concerning the development of head. In years past he had been projects to date. VORTEX tornadoes. The ultimate mission near tornadoes plenty of times. (Verification of the Origins of was to improve forecasting and But he had never observed first- Rotation in Tornadoes warning procedures. hand a tornado swoop down Experiment) was a massive field Last spring, during the second from the clouds. "I've been try-

14 Rhodes Spring 1996 in the years he's been launching balloons has he had to abort due to lightning and only five times has his crew had to deal with the threat of a tornado bearing down. There are other hazards as well, however: whirlwinds of dust so thick you can't see more than a 100 yards; trees uprooted and lying across the streets, roadways covered with water. But the "worst of the worst," according to Marshall, is downed but live power lines. After a particularly destruc- tive tornado in Freona, Texas, Marshall and his partner Dave Rust were driving along when suddenly Rust slammed on the brakes. "There was this power line, right at windshield height, and we stopped about this far from the thing," says Marshall, holding his hands about six inches apart. "I don't even know how he saw it." Despite the adrenalin rush of chasing storms, it's clear to see that Marshall's biggest thrill comes from forging new paths of understanding about how storms and lightning work. One of the biggest surprises provided by his research is an indication that certain areas within storms—areas that were previously thought to have little if any lightning potential—are in fact highly charged. Marshall's studies suggest, for example, that the flat upper ing to chase big supercell storms snapped. "It was a fluke. That region in anvil-shaped storm since 1983 and had never really should never have happened," clouds has a high electrical seen a good tornado." Marshall says. field...high enough, in fact, that a This time was different. On this particular occasion, plane flying through it might be "We saw it come down from Marshall's crew was not in the enough to trigger a lightning the cloud and go down in this tornado's path and even if the stroke. That's not something sci- field. We were about a mile tornado had changed direction, entists expected to find. away," Marshall recalls. Fifty to there was an easy escape route. In 1987 NASA launched an 60 mile per hour winds were But that has not always been the unmanned satellite and rocket. swirling around Marshall and his case. As it flew through the anvil por- crew, however. "We had to fight "Usually we're in a pretty safe tion of the cloud, lightning like demons to get everything set place for the launch, but there struck. It ruined the computer up to launch the balloon." They have been times when we were system and promptly brought got the balloon in place and not happy about where we down the $166 million spacecraft. released it, but the line connected were," Marshall admits with typ- A year later NASA invited to their electric field meter ical understatement. Only twice Marshall to the Kennedy Space

Spring 1996 Rhodes 15 Center to consult on experiments There was a screened-in porch Marshall still enjoys a good on electrical potential in the on one side of Marshall's boy- storm. clouds—especially in the anvil— hood home. "I can remember When Mother Nature delivers and to share his research on being a kid, ten years old or so, a beauty of a tempest to his anvils. sitting out there with a blanket doorstep in Oxford, Miss., around me because it would be Marshall likes to savor the arshall's curiosity cold and damp," he recalls. "I moment. And he doesn't need about how storms would just sit there and watch his trusty balloons and electric get electrically the rain and lightning and listen field meters. "Gee, there's a nice charged did not to the thunder...I was filled with one," Marshall is quick to Memerge until he was in graduate awe." remark. "And isn't it nice to be school. But his fascination with Thirty-six years and hun- able to just sit and look." storms was present early on. dreds of thunderstorms later,

A setting sun concludes yet another day of storm-chasing for the mobile lab used by Marshall and company. photo Peter J. Menzel 1993 Alacid"r ni

Sally Jones ([email protected] ) Memphis for their Jan. 9 Homecoming '98 with your name (include maiden wedding wearing Porteous' name if applicable), class year, e- Sigma Nu pin that he'd given her Oct. 25-26 mail address and a request for in college. your e-mail address to be Save These Dates! published. Because the directory is More Than A Plans for Homecoming '96 are universally available, the Alumni well underway. While dasses end- Office will not post your e-mail Party ing in the numbers 1 and 6 will address without your celebrate reunions this year, all permission. Forty years and 6,000 parties alumni will want to return to after joining Memphis' Commer- Rhodes for a special Homecoming. cial Appeal, Memphis newspaper- On Friday afternoon, the pop- Porteous Finds woman Mary George Beggs '55, ular Academic Festival will has retired. feature some of the college's New Life, A distinguished features finest faculty members. That writer, Beggs estimates she cov- evening, the traditional Alumni New Wife ered 6,000 parties for the paper Reception will double as the and never tired of it. opening party for a retrospective When Memphis newspaper "I think the newspaper exhibit of the work of retired art legend Clark Porteous '34 retired records history, and the kinds of professor Lon Anthony. this winter he gave the local jour- stories I Saturday events—the Alumni nalists something to write wrote Convocation and Homecoming about—he married his former helped Picnic—will take place in the Rhodes sweetheart, Margaret chronicle brand-new Bryan Campus Life Clay Faulhaber Mack '36 of the lives Center. You won't want to miss Lawrenceville, Ga., whom he of people this opportunity to take a look at hadn't seen in 58 years. in this the newest building on campus. The couple had dated in area from And start getting in shape now college but went their separate the mid- for the 1996 Homerunning 5K ways after graduation—Porteous 1950s to sponsored by the Rhodes Class of to the old Memphis Press-Scimitar the mid- 1997 on Saturday morning. newspaper, where he married 1990s, That afternoon, the Lynx will reporter Elizabeth Colling, who their Mary George Beggs take on the Colorado College died in 1995. He worked there for leisure Tigers on Fargason Field. 47 years until 1981 when he and charitable and community joined the Collierville (Tenn.) Her- lives, how they entertained, how ald as editor. they lived and furnished their Send Us Your Faulhaber married a Little homes, how they dressed," she Rock banker, Joe Mack, who died was quoted in a Commercial E-Mail Address in 1994. She sent a sympathy Appeal article. card to Porteous after hearing After graduating from Rhodes, If you would like to have your about the death of his wife, and Beggs worked for a short time at address published on the Alumni they began to correspond. After the old Helen of Memphis Home Page on World Wide Web, several visits, they decided they women's specialty store before please e-mail Alumni Director were in love. She arrived in joining the paper. She's currently Spring 1996 Rhodes A- l Alumni

putting her skills to work part- officer of Memphis-based Buckman time at a fine gifts shop. Mayor Fancher Laboratories International Inc., has turned over those operations to his Doug Fancher '64, who served nephew Steve Buckman '71. a one-year term as mayor of Steve, who joined the company Sausalito, Calif., this year, is in 1974, has served as secretary, wrapping up a distinguished 24- vice chairman/ year career in public life to secretary and president of Buck- concentrate on his international man Laboratories Inc. In his new investment banking firm. position, he oversees the offices of Fancher began his public ser- the president, strategic planning, vice in 1972 as chairman of the marketing, Sausalito School District master human Robert resources, Echols research and devel- Echols Takes opment, know- Command ledge transfer U.S. District Judge Robert and opera- Echols '62 of Nashville, a colonel tions. He in the Tennessee National Guard, will has been named deputy State continue as director of the parent Area Command commander and company, Bulab Holdings Inc. leader of the 80th Troop Robert Buckman, who now Command. Along with his new serves as vice chairman of Buck- position, he will be promoted to plan committee. He later served man Laboratories International brigadier general at a later date. as a member, and president, of Inc., oversees the corporation's Troop Command consists of the school district board of financial and legal departments. medical, maintenance and trustees. He remains chairman of the administrative units located A city council member, vice board and president of Bulab throughout the state with more mayor, two-term chairman of the Holdings Inc. than 2,500 guard soldiers in 10 city planning commission and a subordinate units. During the member of the waterfront Persian Gulf War, eight units planning committee, he also has were called up—more than any made room for the arts, serving other command in the Tennessee on the Art Festival advisory com- National Guard. mittee and as chairman of the board of Mann Community Play- house. In addition, he has served Jernigan To on the session and as treasurer of Sausalito Presbyterian Church. Florence In December Fancher returned Ward to Rhodes where he and classmate Archer Charles Jernigan '64 serves as Margaret Rowe were married. director of the honors program at Mr. Downtown California State University, Long Beach. He will be in Florence, Steve Buckman Ward Archer '74, president Italy for the next two years and CEO of Memphis' directing the California State Takes Helm Archer/Malmo Inc. advertising, University campus there. was selected "Mr. Downtown" Rhodes trustee Robert for 1995 by the Downtown Mem- Buckman, former chairman of the phis Association. The award was board, CEO and chief operating given "in recognition of his A-2 Rhodes Spring 1996 Alumni

community service and commit- Mississippi state senate last fall. ment to the vitality of downtown Paging The World With 58% of the vote, he defeated redevelopment." the incumbent. Archer has developed advertis- Will Yandell '77 and his Mem- ing and marketing for several phis telecommunications compa- downtown tourist attractions and ny Intertel are going where few Thigpen Named has served on the boards of many pagers have gone before. civic organizations. He was also Yandell, who owns paging Scadden Fellow instrumental in restoring the companies in rural areas of the Memphis Belle World War II air- South as well as a cellular Marjorie Thigpen '91, who is plane and having it placed on telephone service on the Mariana finishing law school at Columbia Mud Island as well as creating a Islands in the Pacific Rim, is cur- University, has been named a marketing program for and nam- rently setting up paging systems Scadden Fellow. The highly coming the Harbor Town residential in El Salvador and Ukraine. petitive fellowships are awarded development on Mud Island. International paging between by the prestigious Scadden Arps the U.S. and El Salvador—in law firm in New York. The firm partnership with the Jackson, funds 25 students to practice two Sites Forms Miss.-based Mtel company—is years of public interest law. Thig- planned, and Yandell sees great pen will work for Legal Aid in Daystar Fund potential in Ukraine which boasts Brooklyn for the next two years. a population of 55 million John Sites '74, who resigned people. last summer as executive vice "We have to go in when Hamilton Works On president, director and member nobody else wants to go in," he of the executive committee of was quoted in a local newspaper. CBAF "That's the risk we take." Yandell, an international stud- Tim Hamilton '94, a graduate ies major at Rhodes, holds a J.D. student/teaching assistant at the degree from the University of University of Pittsburgh, recently Mississippi. joined a Pitt nuclear physics group in Virginia. The group is building a continuous electron Griffee Publishes beam accelerator facilitator (CEBAF), a particle accelerator on Newsletter which Hamilton runs experiments. Virginia Watson Griffee '78 of Nashville has launched a newsletter, Tennessee Small Busi- Film Work ness Law Focus, directed at small business owners with 10 or fewer Beckons Jenkins John Sites employees. Griffee was formerly senior Jennifer Jenkins '95 spent the Bear, Stearns & Co., recently attorney at Great Western winter and spring in Memphis formed Daystar Special Consumer Finance Group and an working on the film The People vs. Situations Fund with two former associate attorney at the Memphis Larry Flynt, starring Woody Har- Bear, Stearns associates. law firm of Armstrong, Allen. relson and Courtney Love. She Daystar, headquartered in worked in production and as Rye, N.Y., is a limited Love's assistant and says she partnership focusing on investing Tollison Elected To plans to make a career of in undervalued or special working in feature film. situation companies, particularly State Senate Between takes, Jenkins those that are distressed or in freelances for Southern Living bankruptcy. The minimum Oxford, Miss., attorney Gray magazine, where she had an investment is $10 million. Tollison '86 won a seat in the internship last summer. Spring 1996 Rhodes A-3 Alumni Club News Alumni Gatherings ATLANTA—Rhodes alumni Seen at Mike 'n in the Atlanta area got in the hol- Angelos in Buckhead iday spirit with a happy hour at were Robert and Claire Dalrymple Watkins, Mike 'n Angelos Pub. Guests both '90 and Eileen donated a toy to brighten the hol- Ruffin Wood '89, idays of the children at the Scot- Rhodes director of tish Rite Children's Medical regional campaigns. Center. Atlanta club president Kevin Schulte '87 coordinated the event.

ROANOKE—Randy Rhea '77 and Taylor '80 and Abby Jackson Todd '80 hosted a cocktail buffet for Rhodes alumni and friends at the Hotel Roanoke in the winter. Guests from the western half of Left: hosts Kevin '87 and Virginia enjoyed tasty food, Mary Margaret Hills catching up with old friends and Schulte '88. hearing the latest news from the college.

DALLAS —Walter and Karen Hermele Levy '81 hosted a reception for Rhodes alumni and friends in the Dallas area. Special guest Jim Lanier, associate professor of history, spoke on his current research to a delighted Right: Susan audience. Stribling McDermott '86, Mary Schroder '89, Inez Yeiser '89, Kellie Ogden '87 Correction and Elizabeth Simpson Spears '88. The pain scale that appeared in the winter Rhodes magazine with a feature story on Dr. Strat- ton Hill included an incorrect credit line. The following should have been credited: Whaley & Enjoying the ambience at Hotel Wong's Nursing Care of Infants Roanoke were Leslie '48 and Lenoir and Children, ed. 5. 1995, St. Tucker (at left) and Trey Hamilton '94, Louis, Mosby-Year Book Inc Caprice Roberts '94 and Jeff Mullins '93 (below). Pain Intensity Rating Scales Visual Analog Scale

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By Stephen Maloy Deusner '96 SMITH, PRESIDENT HAM SMYTHE, PRESIDENT NEXT REUNION: NEXT REUNION: 47 Orr. 17-18, 1997 52 Ocr. 17-18, 1997 Rhodes International Elton Crowson of John Cochran's book Alumni Association Florence, Ala., writes that his Personal investment Portfolios now Executive Officers 1995.96 principal interests are genealogy carries 20 credits for continuing and religion, "with an absorbing education in the C.F.A. program. President hobby of telling everybody who He is an economics professor at Tan Heslip Hille '69, Atlanta will listen how much better things Georgia State University.

President - Elect used to be than they are now." Jim O'Donnell '74, Dallas JO TAYLOR THRELKELD, Vice President MARTHA CARROLL PRESIDENT Deborah Legg Sullivan '80, MCGUIRE, PRESIDENT 54 NEXT REUNION: FALL 1999 Memphis 18 NEXT REUNION: FALL 1998 The Rev. William and Jeanne O'Hearne Elizabeth Walker Hughes '55 GOLDEN LYNX Eslinger of Fullerton, Calif., have moved to San Antonio, NEXT REUNION: FALL 1998 recently won the Golden Rule where he serves at St. John's 28 Walker and Virginia W- award at a "Spirit of United Methodist Church. I Gaha White of Mill Volunteerism" luncheon, Peggy Fitch Witherspoon is Creek Ranch, Mason Co., Texas, sponsored by all the volunteer serving her second term on the celebrated their 66th wedding an- centers of Greater Orange Coun- session and her sixth term as niversary April 16, 1995. ty. In addition, a $1,000 donation clerk of the session at Ginter Park was made to her Soroptimist In- Presbyterian Church in NEXT REUNION: FALL 1999 ternational Club. Richmond, Va. She has five The campaign to raise grandchildren in Memphis. 39 $1.2 million to endow the LESLIE THOMPSON, Henry P. Mobley Profes- PRESIDENT REG GERMANY, PRESIDENT sorship in Theology at Louisville 49 NEXT REUNION: FALL 1999 NEXT REUNION: FALL 2000 Presbyterian Seminary—named William Marsh of Dr. Will and Mary Mar- after The Rev. Henry . P. Germantown, Tenn., writes that garet Storck Johnston

Mobley—has been completed. he is enjoying retirement and is of Salisbury, Md., have retired. "wallowing in symphony, opera, Will serves as president of the BAXTER POUNCEY, theater and ballet." Delmarva chapter of the Ameri- PRESIDENT can Parkinson's Disease Associa- NEXT REUNION: BILL COLEY, PAUL CURRIE, tion and is active in the Ocr. 25-26, 1996 CO-PRESIDENTS Parkinson's Action Network. Harold and Penelope Mielenz 50 NEXT REUNION: FALL 2000 Mary Margaret is a docent at the Bisbort live in Decatur, Ga., Speros Vryonis recently Ward Museum of Waterfowl Art. where she works as a travel con- moved to Rancho Cordova, Calif. sultant. He is a retired regular from New York City. JIM AND MARGARET FAGAN Army Corps of Engineers officer. Happy Anniversary, a novella EIKNER, CO-PRESIDENTS by Joan Williams, appeared in 57 NEXT REUNION: DON GORDON, PRESIDENT the tall issue of The Southern Ocr. 17-18,1997 NEXT REUNION: FALL 1999 Review. John Flippin of Calhoun City, 44 William Ramsay, Miss., retired from Mississippi professor emeritus of re- CHRISTY MORGAN, schools last year, and now serves ligion at Bethel College, has writ- Pi PRESIDENT as pastor of New Prospect Baptist ten four Bible study books for the J I NEXT REUNION: Church in Houlka, Miss. Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). OCT. 25-26,1996 The series of eight books, which Rhodes professor of music SARA JEAN JACKSON, was designed for use by small Charles Mosby performed a pi- PRESIDENT groups of men (not more than ano concert at Rhodes in the fall, 59 NEXT REUNION: FALL 1999 12), deals with different books of featuring pieces by Haydn, Betty Sims Damewood the Bible. The first was published Beethoven, Chopin and of Charleston, W.Va., was named in January. Schumann. Kanawha Co. Schools elementary Spring 1996 Rhodes A-5 Class Notes mathematics teacher of the year SAMMY ANN PRIMM TRISH COOPER HAYLEY, for 1995. MARSHALL, PRESIDENT SUSAN GLADDEN STITT, Jane Aquino Osuga of Grove 66 NEXT REUNION: 69 CO-PRESIDENTS City, Ohio, will retire from Ocr. 25-26,1996 NEXT REUNION: FALL 1999 Franklin County Children's Ser- Susie Aivazian Cohan works as Dr. Rich Raspet, a physics pro- vice in May. an admissions coordinator at the fessor at the University of Missis- In 1995 Sue Osenbaugh University of West Florida. Her sippi, gave a lecture on "Acoustic Williams was selected the daughter Sara '94 is a graduate Forces" to the Rhodes physics de- Outstanding Teacher of the Year student at Florida State, and partment in the winter. at St. Mary's Episcopal School in Abbie '96 will graduate from Memphis. Rhodes in May. RUTH ANN SADLER HANEY, This year Russ Didelot of PRESIDENT JERRY DUNCAN, Greenville, S.C., celebrates his 70 NEXT REUNION: FALL 2000 MARILY DAVIS HUGHES, 30th wedding anniversary and Jim Brinson, music 61 CO-PRESIDENTS his 30th year with Sears Roebuck director at the Church of the NEXT REUNION: & Co. Holy Communion in Memphis, Ocr. 25-26, 1996 will again serve as director of the Cynthia and Edwina Bringle '61 IIM WHITTINGTON, Sewanee Church Music had a joint exhibit at the Cordova PRESIDENT Conference this summer. Cellars Winery and Vineyards in 67 NEXT REUNION: In November Pat Patterson Cordova, Tenn., in the fall. Ocr. 17-18, 1997 completed his Ph.D. in software Cynthia has a studio in Penland, Renee Clark Guibao is the engineering at George Mason N.C., where she works in many membership director at the Mem- University in Fairfax, Va. areas of clay, including lowfire, phis Botanic Garden Foundation. raku, stoneware and woodfired Her son Paul '96 will graduate BETTE DALE GARNER & salt. Edwina teaches at the Univer- from Rhodes in May. ANN GOTSCHALL SHARP, sity of North Carolina in Charlotte; The Rev. Charles Murphy has 72 CO-PRESIDENTS her work includes weaving, bead- served the Rock Creek Presbyter- NEXT REUNION: work and embroidery. ian Church in Erwin, Tenn., since Ocr. 17-18, 1995 Jerry Davidson Thomas is a last August. Drs. Glenn and Joanne professional consultant with Glover Sowell both teach at the J. Thomas Consulting Services JANE BISHOP BRYSON, University of Nebraska-Omaha. (JTSC) in Memphis, a clinic that PRESIDENT He is a physics professor and she provides treatment and counsel- 68 NEXT REUNION: FALL 1998 is an assistant professor of art. ing to prevent sexually agressive Mary Morris Berryhill, a Joanne received the university's behavior among adolescents and reference librarian at Elsie Quirk Excellence in Teaching award children. Public Library in Venice, Fla., re- and the National Art Education cently won the 1995 Florida state Association Western Region's Art TOM WHITE, PRESIDENT award for outstanding library Educator of the Year award, NE/CT REUNION: services to young adults. Higher Education Division. 62 OCT 17-18, 1997 Mackie Gober was recently Sally Rieves of named president of National IAN MANNING APLIN, Albuquerque retired last fall after Bank of Commerce (NBC) in PRESIDENT 25 years of teaching. Memphis; he will oversee corpo- 73 NEXT REUNION: FALL 1998 rate development, branch opera- John Hooper of LINDA JACKSON TAYLOR, tions, lending and administrative Houston recently left NUS Train- PRESIDENT services. ing to accept a position as 64 NEXT REUNION: FALL 1999 Olive Crudup Murrie writes electronic forms specialist with Doug Fancher has that she is "finding it very United Media Corporation, a vi- served as mayor of Sausalito, rewarding to be teaching English sual communications company. Calif., for the past year. as a second language to economi- He and his wife Debbie, a senior cally disadvantaged students in title examiner with Falls Church, Va." Commonwealth Land Title, live with their two daughters in Spring, Texas. A-6 Rhodes Spring 1996 Class Notes

Meriwether Montgomery Becky Carroll of Washington, Fairfax, Va. Retired from the U.S. Maranzana is a regional supervi- D.C., completed her Ph.D. in Navy, he is now working at PRC sor for Epoch Management in counseling psychology at Inc. as a senior functional appli- Delray Beach, Ha. She divides Howard University last year. cations analyst and has begun her time between Florida and Jerry Foreman has been working toward a master's in in- Paris, France, where her husband named president and chief oper- formation security from Eastern Guy is the general manager for a ating officer of Ingram Merchan- Michigan University. golf resort. Her son Scott Haven dising Servies Inc. in La Vergne, '99 is a first-year student at Tenn. DEBORAH LEGG SULLIVAN, Rhodes. SEE MARRIAGES GLORIA WHITE, In August 1995 Clement IOELLYN FORRESTER 80 CO-PRESIDENTS Turner received his M.S. in SULLIVAN, PRESIDENT NEXT REUNION: FALL 2000 library science from the Universi- NEXT REUNION: Corinne Chavez has been ty of Tennessee at Knoxville. Ocr. 17-18, 1997 promoted to senior manager at After four years as a lawyer and Ernst & Young in Atlanta, where LARRY ANDERSON, 10 as a commercial banker at she specializes in information PRESIDENT AmSouth Bank, BM Nolan has technology in the hospital industry. 74 NEXT REUNION: FALL 1999 founded Nolan Financial Pat and Christy Black Glad- Houston Craddock is Resources, a company offering ney '81 live in Homer, La., director of facilities for the Non- comprehensive financial where he is deputy clerk of the connah Corporate Center in solutions for home and business, Claiborne Parish court and she Memphis, a position he has held in Birmingham, Ala. owns a video production compa- for three years. ny called Black Angel Dolores Digaetano, her hus- CHARLES RICHARDSON, Productions, which produces band James Michael McMinn and PRESIDENT commercials and a cable access their three sons live in Memphis, 78 NEXT REUNION: FALL 1998 talk show. where she is president of the Teresa Watson The Rev. Carol Stephens 1 ,, Chamberlin Clinic. Carrigan of Decatur, Ill., is the a chaplain in pediatrics and Jane Scharding Smedley of owner of a personal computer obstetrics at Lutheran General Memphis last year received an consulting company, Carrigan Hospital in Park Ridge, Ill. SEE award for outstanding service and Associates. BIRTHS from the National Association of Annette Neblett Evans of Pastoral Musicians. She is organ- Charlottesville, Va., presided at a STACY ABERNATHY, ist at St. Peter's Catholic Church. fall meeting of the North Ameri- KATHLEEN WILLS can Paul Tillich Society in 81 CHANDLER, CO-PRESIDENTS CATHERINE DAILEY BERGER, Philadelphia. NEXT REUNION: PRESIDENT Memphian Robin Marvel's OcT. 25-26, 1996 75 NEXT REUNION: FALL 2000 new book Cooper-Young on a Shoe- Gina Salvati attended the Whar- Anna Olswanger helped string is a collection of essays and ton Executive program last sum- organize the first "Memphis Con- a short story dealing with life in mer where she received the nection Party" in Raleigh, N.C., a the city's popular old midtown CIMA (Certified Investment party that brought together area neighborhood. Management Analysis) designa- alumni from Memphis colleges. tion, a certification in the invest- There was even an Elvis sighting. LAWRENCE HIGGINBOTHAM, ment consulting industry. She is In other news, her interview with PRESIDENT vice president of retirement Arthur Levine, editor-in-chief of 79 NEXT REUNION: FALL 1999 investments with Interstate/John- Crown and Knopf Books for David and Risha son Lane in Charlotte, N. C. Young Readers, appeared in the Daughdrill Hoover live in September 1995 issue of Huntsville, Ala., where he is BETSY RAMIER VACHERON, Children's Writer. president and she, secretary, of PRESIDENT the newly-formed D & R Foods 82 NEXT REUNION: VICKERS DEMETRIO Inc., a Wendy's franchise-holding Ocr. 17-18, 1997 JOHNSON, PRESIDENT company. Anita Hauenstein is a first year 76 NEXT REUNION: Jim and Caroline Covington doctoral student in the OCT. 25-26, 1996 McDonald have moved to counseling and counseling Spring 1996 Rhodes A-7 Class Notes psychology program at Auburn Advertising. Wide Web, due out in the fall University. Brian Sanders of Los Gatos, from Henry Holt publishers. Laura Huff lives in Nashville, Calif., was recently promoted to Bob Lawhon of Franklin, where she teaches English part- president of the Asian/Pacific Tenn., is now working with the time at Belmont University. SEE Latin American division of Pilk- Automotive Industries Group at BIRTHS ington Barnes Hind. NationsBank. Mark Hurley ran in the Chica- Wallace McMillan is current- go Marathon last fall, finishing in AMY DOVILLE AND ly a research associate in the exactly four hours, which placed TRACY VEZINA PATTERSON, physics department at the him in the middle of a pack of 84 CO-PRESIDENTS University of Maryland- 9,000 other finshers. His wife, NEXT REUNION: FALL 1999 Baltimore County. He is involved Elizabeth Sheppard Hurley '84 Carter Green received his archi- in research of the earth's attended the Wagner Festival last tectural registration in Virginia atmosphere as part of NASA's summer in Bayreuth, Germany. last year. Earth Observing System. Rob and Jan Fountain Suzanne Lea recently Bill Owens recently complet- McRae '81 have moved to Win- completed her Ph.D. in epidemi- ed his orthopedic surgery nipeg. He was recently promoted ology at the University of Califor- training and has accepted a one- to manager of Cargill Grain in nia, Berkeley School of Public year fellowship in upper extremi- Canada. Health. She is now a post-doctor- ty and microvascular surgery at Pedro and Gail Meier al fellow, conducting research the University of Florida. Rodriguez live in Lenexa, Kan., into the causes of childhood Kim Linnander Wood is an where he works for Scoular grain leukemia. instructor of medicine at merchandiser. Her choir sang for Blair Summit recently moved Bowman-Gray Medical School in the pope during his U.S. visit last to the Chattanooga area and is Winston-Salem, N.C. year. doing a residency in general surgery with the University of AMY DONAHO HOWELL, LESLIE DRAKE SCHUTT, Tennessee. PRESIDENT PRESIDENT Karen Thompson recently NEXT REUNION: 83 NEXT REUNION: FALL 1998 moved back to Dallas where she OCT. 25-26, 1996 Cindy Brown Bair of has a new job at Dr. Pepper/Cad- Audrey Weston Breay returned Little Rock is a free-lance writer bury North America as director to teaching composition and liter- and works for the Arkansas Demo- of national promotions/fountain ature at Southwestern College in crat-Gazette. Her most recent pub- and food service. Coronado, Calif., earlier this year. lications were in the Arkansas Knight Champion has left the United Methodist newspaper and KAREN LARSON AND practice of law to work in real es- Arkansas Women's Journal. She BEVERLY THOMAS tate. He now works for Long & was recently honored as the New 85 WILLIAMS, CO-PRESIDENTS Foster in Washington, D.C., spe- Rotarian of the Year from the NEXT REUNION: FALL 2000 cializing in residential West Little Rock Rotary Club. Stuart and Leigh Anne condominiums and townhouses. SEE MARRIAGES Williams Duff '86 live in Austin, The Rev. Trevor Downie be- Pat Beaird is a project manag- Texas, with their two sons, Bran- came pastor of the Windsor Av- er at U.S.T. Business Marketing don and Spencer. Stuart is a sys- enue Presbyterian Church in Group in Atlanta. tems analyst with MCI. Bristol, Tenn., last fall. John Goza is a surgery Bill Hargis and Phaedra Sann Gossum recently com- resident in Birmingham, where Hise '86 live in the Boston area, pleted his orthopedic surgery res- he lives with his wife Mary Sue where they both recently earned idency at Campbell Clinic in and their two sons, Jack and their instrument pilot's license Memphis. He is now a captain in Chris. and now own several airplanes the U.S. Air Force, serving as Lewis Kalmbach recently they fly for work and for fun. He chairman of the orthopedic had a joint art show with his is a regional sales manager for surgery department at the 35th father Frances Kalmbach at Standard Aero and is working to- Medical Group Hospital in Mis- Riverside Galleries in Shreveport, ward his M.B.A. at Northeastern awa, Japan. La. Lewis divides his time University. She is a technology After spending a year in between the Shreveport and San writer for Inc. magazine and is Krakow, Poland, Amy Irwin lives Fransisco branches of Kalmbach writing a book about the World in Tulsa, Okla., where she teaches A-8 Rhodes Spring 1996 Class Notes nutrition classes at Oklahoma College, and she teaches ballet. Continental Airlines in Houston. State University in Okmulgee Mitchum and Monica Bums Laura Richens works as and is a consultant dietician for a Warren '87 have moved to assistant visual arts curator for program for pregnant and Nashville where he is with Van- the Contemporary Arts Center in parenting teens. derbilt Stallworth Rehabilitation New Orleans. She is married to Terri Wilhite Johnson of Hospital. He recently completed musician Douglas Garrison. Madison, Ala., is teaching mathe- his M.S. in physical therapy at Margaret Wood is a matics part-time at the University Beaver College in Philadelphia. photography specialist at Medical of Alabama-Huntsville. SEE BIRTHS University of South Carolina in John Koh now practices oph- Mark and Darby Elsberry Charleston. She also works as a thalmic plastic, reconstructive Woodall live in Charleston, S.C., free-lance photographer, covering and orbital surgery at Franklin where she works as a software weddings, portraiture and corpo- Eye Consultants in Southfield, developer and he is finishing his rate events. Mich., a suburb of Detroit. He re- fellowship in child psychiatry. cently completed his fellowship They have a son, Dylan. SUZANNE CARPENTER, at the New York Eye and Ear In- PRESIDENT firmary, Manhattan Eye, Ear and ALICE MCCARTHY FINN, 88 NEXT REUNION: FALL 1998 Throat Hospital, Mount Sinai PRESIDENT Allen and Kitty Riley Medical Center and New York NEXT REUNION: Bacon '87 live in Charlotte,

University. Ocr. 17-18, 1997 N.C., where he works as an engi- Christie Bates McKaskle is Steven Brammer is an associate neer in charge of new product a parent adviser for Tennessee In- with the Memphis law firm of development at Litton Airtron- fant-Parent Services School in Farris, Mathews, Gilman, Branan SYNOPTICS, a company that Jackson and is a newspaper mon- & Hellen, where his produces solid state laser itor for a public relations compa- concentration is employment law. crystals. He completed his Ph.D. ny in Knoxville. One of her Harold Dufour and his wife in physics at Duke University last poems was published in the De- Jennifer recently moved to Hicko- May. cember '95-January '96 issue of ry, N.C., where he is in private Jeff and Sharon Walker the New South Poetry chapbook practice at Catawba Women's Calvert '89 have recently moved series. Center, a five-person to Nashville, where he is vice Laurie Laughlin Neale of obstetrics/gynecology group. president of commercial banking Memphis is an assistant district Lorna Lyell was recently at First Union and she works for attorney general for Shelby elected to the St. Andrew's Epis- Centennial Medical Center as on- County. copal School board of trustees in cology clinical research study Michael Palazzolo of Jackson, Miss. She is the first St. coordinator. Memphis does color commentary Andrew's graduate to serve on Peter and Mary Ann Fesmire for Lynx football on radio station the school's board. Emanuel '86 have moved to U-92. Colleen McAllister is owner Charlottesville, Va., where he has Tony Pantuso lives in and president of Correctional Al- accepted an interventional radiol- Milford, Conn., with his wife, ternatives Inc., a not-for-profit ogy fellowship position at the Bonnie Beth Bailey. He is an sentencing program for convicted University of Virginia hospital. attorney with Cooney Scully & felony offenders in Memphis. The Tom Horton has taken a new Dowling in Hartford. firm is grant-funded by the state job as director of marketing for Sif- Maureen Spain oversees au- of Tennessee. ford Media, a video company in diovisuals, communications and Lee Nimocks has taken a new Nashville. He and his wife, Hope, special events for Home-Bound position as director of communi- have taken up Scottish country Medical, a home health agency in cations and state relations for dancing in their spare time. Memphis. She is also working to- Kentucky's independent college Jay Huffstickler writes: "Af- ward becoming a nurse association. She formerly taught ter growing tired of the country practitioner. English and worked in public re- music scene (too many sellouts) Ellis Gatewood Stroud and lations at Sue Bennett College in and WWF wrestling (too much her husband Jonathan recently London, Kentucky. travel) in Nashville, I've relocated moved to Sherman, Texas, with Susan Heisler Overly is a to Louisville, Ky." He now works their two daughters. He is vice sales and service manager in the as a division manager for Special- president of enrollment at Austin reservations division of ty Oil Company. Spring 1996 Rhodes A-9 Class Notes

Lauren Grasfeder Luster is Therapy and she teaches third lives in Bloomington, Ind., where director of membership for the grade at Sequoyah Elementary she is a sales manager for Sunrise Tennessee Medical Association. School. Publications, a greeting card She and her husband Michael Laura Wilson Cobb works as manufacturer. SEE BIRTHS live in Nashville. special education supervisor at Cay Chastain has a new posi- Meg McCully is the manager Memphis Boys' Town. tion as an assistant professor of of the Humphrey Fellow David LaValle lives in Arling- art and art history at Piedmont Program at the University of ton, Va. He works as legislative College in Demorest, Ga. She is Maryland's College of director for Rep. Bill Emerson currently finishing up her disser- Journalism. (R-Mo.). tation in art history at Emory Beth Schulte is a conversion Lisa McClelland is a law University. manager for Alltel Information clerk for a U.S. district judge in Marine 1st Lt. Paul Conroy Services in Little Rock. Atlanta. She is also a volunteer is part of the 26th Marine Expedi- Heidi Schultz, now recovered with a local service agency, tionary Unit, which departed last from a 14-month battle with bone Hands on Atlanta. fall for a six-month deployment cancer, has a new job as Roger and Reagan Roper in the Mediterranian Sea. circulation director for Texas Busi- McNeil '88 live in Little Rock Stacy DeZutter teaches acting ness magazine in Houston. where he is an attorney for the and children's theatre classes in Cynthia Strong Thompson Arkansas State Insurance Central Florida. She also acts pro- and her husband Wayne recently Commission. SEE BIRTHS fessionally, having appeared most moved to Selma, Ala., where he Julianne Johnson Paunescu recently in an episode of The is CFO of the Four Rivers most recently served as assistant Mickey Mouse Club and a commer- Medical Center. information officer for the U.S. cial for Universal Studios. Robert Wallace is a trader at Embassy in Manila. She returned Craig Gibson successfully de- the Mercantile Exchange in to the U.S. last fall to study Span- fended his doctoral dissertation Chicago. ish for her assignment this sum- in classical studies at Duke Uni- Russell Wigginton and Anita mer as press attaché and versity last fall. Title: "Didymos Davis '90 live in Louisville, Ky., spokesperson for the U.S. Chalkenteros and the Ancient where he is working on his Ph.D. Embassy in Panama. Scholarship on Demosthenes." in history and she is an intern in Marc Rose has been promot- Heath Harrison is a realtor pediatric child psychology at the ed to manager of the the Ernst & with Lindsey & Associates Inc. in University of Louisville School of Young office in Atlanta, where Fayetteville, Ark. Medicine. he specializes in information John and Pam McQuillen technology, consumer products Hill live in Louisville, Ky. He was BOB COLEMAN, and international business recently promoted to manager at

EILEEN RUFFIN WOOD, industries . Ernst & Young, and she is in her 89 CO-PRESIDENTS Elizabeth Shaye-Pickell and second year of residency in NEXT REUNION: FALL 1999 her husband Daniel are planning obstetrics/gynecology at the Uni- Kara Babin works for Tuck Hin- to move from St. Louis to versity of Louisville. ton Architects in Nashville where Williamsburg, Va., this spring. Debra Keeran is vice she is currently doing design work She has worked in the St. Louis president of marketing for Social for a Unitarian church in Metro AIDS Program. Responsibilty Investment Group, Knoxville. She recently finished Karen Fielder Weaver of a private money management the offices of a new country music Nashville works as associate firm in Atlanta. label, Veritas Music regional director of Habitat for Creshelle Nash of Arlington, Entertainment. Humanity, South Central Region Va., is doing her medical Monte Butler is currently the (Tennessee and Kentucky). residency at George Washington chief resident of oral and maxillo- Alissa Woodworth is a corpo- Hospital. facial surgery at the University of rate finance officer at Michael Safly has been Tennessee, Memphis. He will fin- NationsBank in Chicago. promoted to product marketing ish his residency in June. manager at Cisco Systems Inc. in Jeff and Amy Fay West JOHANNA VANDEGRIFT San Jose, Calif. Chandler live in Knoxville, LEHFELDT, PRESIDENT Keith Spitchley works for where he is a physical therapist 90 NEXT REUNION: FALL 2000 the state of Louisiana as an at Knoxville Orthopedic Sports Laura Blankenship epidemiologist. A-10 Rhodes Spring 1996 Class Notes

Gretchen Strayhom teaches simulation programs. clinical research monitor at Corn- second grade at Carolina Day Angela Holland Mills has a ing Besselaar Inc. in Nashville. School in Asheville, N.C. new job as an account executive She earned her master's in Kirsten Williams Wade is a for ATS Network Communications psychology from the University clinical psychologist at the North in Memphis. of Memphis in 1994. Mississippi Medical Center in Bill and Stacy Starr Pace Ashley Brian Coffield lives in Starkville. '92 live in Johnson City, Tenn., Washington, D.C., where she Walker Wellford plays drums where he is earning his master's works as a policy adviser in the in the Atlanta-based band in computer science from East Office of Disease Prevention and Doublewide, which recently Tennessee State University and Health Promotion, U.S. issued its first CD. she is in her fourth year at Department of Health and Quillen College of Medicine. Human Services. MARIORIE THIGPEN, Kelly Fleece Smoke works Brad and Amy Hill Dickerson PRESIDENT in sales at Ryland Homes in '94 live in Richmond Hill, Ga., NEXT REUNION: Alpharetta, Ga. where he is a captain in the Army Ocr. 25-26, 1996 Pieter van der Gaag lives in and she is earning her master's in Dany Beylerian recently earned Delft, The Netherlands, where he educational counseling. his master's from the Fletcher recently finished an internship Don and Laura Landers School of Law and Diplomacy. with Youth For Development and Duke live in Cordova, Tenn., He now works as press attaché Cooperation, headquartered in where he is a manager of a Union representing Armenia at the Amsterdam. The internship is Planters bank grocery store United Nations. part of the final year of his inter- branch and she teaches John Borden, an associate national policy studies at elementary music at Macon Ele- with the Brock, Clay, Wilson & Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. Part mentary School. Rogers law firm in Marietta, Ga., of his work included organizing a Kim Elmiligy lives in Brussels, was recently inducted into the seminar on the subject of youth Belgium, and works as account Order of the Coif. and structural adjustment and manager for Olivetti, European David Cook is a distribution working on a booklet titled Youth producer of PC and support ser- center analyst at AutoZone head- Faces of Adjustment. vices. quarters in Memphis. Valerie Weeks Williams of Sam Flemming finished a Robert and Stacy Long Hermitage, Tenn., passed the nine-week intensive Japanese lan- Heck '94 have moved to Tennessee bar exam last summer guage program at the Monterey Memphis, where he is in residen- and is now working in-house for Institute of International Studies cy in orthopedic surgery at Cracker Barrel Old Country Store and is currently working toward Campbell Clinic. Stacy began Inc. his M.A. in TESOL (Teaching physical therapy school at the Kirsten Witt lives in Atlanta English to Speakers of Other Lan- University of Tennessee, and works in public relations. guages). He plans to finish in De- Memphis this winter. She has been busy with her cember and hopes to return to Alicia Klyman is an attorney client, the Atlanta Committee for Japan to teach English. with Weintraub, Robinson in the Olympic Games. McPhail Hunt is in the first Memphis. Douglas Zimmerman is year of the M.B.A. graduate pro- After working as a legal assis- working toward his master of di- gram at Vanderbilt. tant for several years, Ginny vinity degree at Virginia Jennifer Jenkins has joined Southerland Langenkamp is a Theological Seminary in Alexan- Hewlitt-Packard in Corvallis, first year student at the South dria and is studying for the Epis- Ore., as an information research Texas College of Law in Houston. copal priesthood. analyst. SEE MARRIAGES Jenny McDaniel is an account Tracy Ballard Lindow recent- ANNIE B. WILLIAMS, manager for AS1 Services Corp. ly took a job as human resource PRESIDENT in Atlanta. manager for 3-V Chemical Corp. NEXT REUNION: Ben Merchant works as an 92 in Georgetown, S.C. Ocr. 17-18. 1997 account executive at Dean Witter Jeff Martin is a junior analyst Tom Beebe is a sports in McLean, Va. for System Simulation Solutions marketing account executive for Britten Morel has finished her Inc. in Alexandria, Va., a defense Lang & Associates in Atlanta. graduate studies at Middle Ten- contractor that creates military MeChe Cochran works as a nessee State University and Spring 1996 Rhodes A-11 ClassNate$

works as program secretary for vision production company. national company that supplies the Presbytery of Middle Jason Hamilton works for medical equipment and services. Tennessee in Brentwood. Coopers & Lybrand in Knoxville, Nicki Soule of Decatur, Ga., Rankin Payne is working to- Tenn. recently formed a marketing, ward her master's in social work David Hill researches human training and development at the University of Arkansas at transport proteins at Emory Uni- consulting firm. She plans to Little Rock. versity School of Medicine. His attend law school while working Scott and Katherine results have been pubished in with the firm. Goodloe Peatross '93 live in various physiology journals. River Ridge, La., near New Teresa Jones passed the NANCY TURNER, PRESIDENT Orleans. He will finish Tulane CPA exam on the first sitting and NEXT REUNION: FALL 1999 law school in May and she works received the third highest score Molly Bradley recently as a case manager with mentally in Alabama. She now lives in moved from New York ill adults. Fairhope and works at McKean & City to Nashville, where she is Political consultant Brad Todd Associates in Mobile. working for the Tennessee worked as the Republican Katherine Kennedy received Performing Arts Center. She is National Committee state her master's in social work at the coordinating an arts festival in campaign director in Mississippi University of Tennessee at May for Tennessee's bicentennial for the '95 elections. Nashvile and now works as a celebration K.Y. Watkins-Mormino is guidance counselor at Harpeth Nellie Clouse works as an as- currently in her fourth year of Hall school in Nashville. She also sistant analyst for Univest Finan- teaching French at Houston High plans to work in a program that cial Services in Atlanta. School in Shelby County, Tenn., provides academic enrichment Amy Coney is in her second and is active in a medieval and for inner-city girls. year of law school at Notre Renaissance theatre company Caroline Knight earned her Dame. called the Silver Sphynx Players. M.A. in Middle East studies from Jason Briggs Cormier served Belinda Woodiel is currently the University of Texas last year. as stage manager for the Univer- working toward a master's in en- Kimberly Lichterman is pur- sity of Memphis' production of vironmental planning and policy suing her M.B.A. at the Universi- Silence, Cunning, Exile. at the University of Tennessee, ty of Memphis. Ric and Susan Ewart Crow- Knoxville. Dionne Low, a third-year stu- der live in Manhattan, Kansas. dent at Barry University School He is in his second semester at LYNN CRABB, PRESIDENT of Podiatric Medicine, recently Washburn Law School and serves NEXT REUNION: FALL 1998 published her first article titled as youth choir director at College 93 David and Sydney "The Role of Antidepressants for Heights Baptist Church. Susan is Thompson Assaf live in the Treatment of Painful Diabetic in her fourth semester at Kansas the Nashville area. He is working Neuropathy in the Lower State College of Veterinary Medi- toward his Ph.D. in math at Van- Extremity." cine and serves as president of derbilt, and she translates daily Lina Parikh lives in Washing- the Exotic Animals Medicine devotional booklets into Spanish ton, D.C., where she is an Club. Both teach two-year-olds in for the United Methodist international affairs specialist for Sunday school. Discipleship. Edlow International, an energy Melissa Elmiligy is an Sara Blankenship is working consultant firm. account manager in Brussels, Bel- toward her master's in speech- Don Price is a third-year med- gium for Ingram Micro-Europe, a language pathology at the ical student at the University of subsidiary of Ingram Micro in University of Georgia. Tennessee at Memphis Medical Santa Ana, Calif. Elizabeth Timmons Brown School. Last fall Caroline Lenac received an M.A. in English liter- Courtney Schwarten is an returned from Croatia, where she ature from the University of aquatics instructor at the YMCA helped with the war effort, and Memphis. in Lake Forest, Ill. from Italy, where she attended Charles Cardona teaches at Bryan Shelby is a third-year language school. She now works Raleigh-Egypt Middle School in law student at Tulane University. in Memphis as an international Memphis where he is chairman Jennifer Short of Evans, Ga., broker for Alcal Trading and of foreign languages and techni- is a certified technical adviser for plans to travel to Russia to do a cal director of the in-school tele- Osbon Medical Systems, an inter- market study. A-12 Rhodes Spring 1996 Class Notes

Jeni Marley is pursuing a Auburn University. the Mensa Education and double master's in English and Brett Williams works as a Research Foundation and Mem- education at the University of plan administrator for Bryan, phis Mensa. She currently attends South Alabama in Mobile. Pendleton, Swats & McAllister, medical school at the University Julianna Gentle McKee is a an employee benefits consulting of Illinois at Urbana. correspondent for The Kennett Pa- firm in Nashville. Laura Lyons is working as a per in West Chester, Penn., and medical assistant in Memphis, volunteers in an adult literacy CLYDE HENDERSON, and plans to attend medical program in inner-city PRESIDENT school. Philadelphia. SEE MARRIAGES 95 NEXT REUNION: FALL 2000 Sarah McVoy, an assistant ed- Jull Mi'nor lives in Dallas, Kana Barker-Mabon is itor for MM Graphics in where she teaches English classes enrolled in the teachers' certifica- Memphis, recently completed at Richland College and works as tion program at Rhodes while volunteer training at the a seminar coordinator for Trinity working as president and Exchange Club Child Abuse Pre- Consultants. business manager for Thompson vention Center. Lisa Mitchell was elected a di- Transport. Diane Melby is pursuing a rector of the Junior Chamber of Brian Coldren attends gradu- Ph.D. in clinical psychology at Commerce in Tulsa, Okla., the or- ate school at Drake University in the University of Memphis. ganization's national headquarters. Des Moines, Iowa. Arlyn Mick played the role of Missy Motichek is working in Catherine Cozad is projects Derek Coburn in the Theatre the JET Program, teaching manager for AAA Translators Memphis production of Smoke English in a village of 900 in Inc. in Memphis. and Mirrors in the fall. Japan. Leann Eggers, who is taking Erik Moratzka, a second lieu- Caroline Oakley is with Girls a year off before attending tenant in the Air Force, wrote in Inc. of Memphis. University of Tennessee at Mem- December that he is finishing his Nell Paxton is a residential phis Medical School, is working first tour as assistant regional di- treatment counselor at Alaska at a ski lodge in Winter Park, rector of admissions in Memphis. Children's Services and is taking Colo. He expects to leave for his next classes at the University of Alas- Jennifer Erkulwater is a Tip tour soon as either a student in ka at Anchorage. O'Neill Fellow at Boston College pilot training or computer Brandy Rogers of New York where she attends graduate communications. works as an assistant to the school in political science. Judd Peak is a first-year law senior vice president of commu- Thomas Giese'mann is serv- stud clit at Vanderbilt. nications of Capital Cities/ABC ing a one-year term in the Stephanie Schulz is pursuing Inc. and is doing graduate study German army. Stationed in Bran- a Ph.D. in clinical psychology at at Columbia University. denburg, he is with one of the the University of Memphis. Joyce Shin attends the few army fighting units. He visit- Carrie Shollmier is a credit University of Chicago Divinity ed his Rhodes roommate Jason analyst at First Tennessee Bank in School in theology and ethics. Carmel in Paris earlier this year, Memphis. Jason Tatum works at and expects to reenter civilian life Brad Terhune and Tracy Ad- Synthetic Industries in this spring. kisson live in Memphis where Chickamauga, Ga., doing human Lori Joubert is in her first he works as an electrical appren- resources-related project manage- year of law school at Louisiana tice for Dillard Smith ment work. He will receive his State University. Construction Co. and she is an master's in industrial/organiza- Don Keeney is a trust estimator at Frank Ditto Painting tional psychology from the Uni- representative at National Bank Co. SEE MARRIAGES versity of Tennessee at of Commerce in Memphis. Jim Turner was promoted to Chattanooga in May. Angela Kreuter of Memphis Navy ensign last fall while serv- Stefanie Yount Taylor lives is an analyst for Andersen ing at Naval Aviation Schools in Fayetteville, Ark., and works Consulting. Command, Naval Air Station, in the personnel department at Adin Lara attends law school Pensacola, Fla. First National Bank of at the University of Tennessee at Natasha Westrich is Springdale. SEE MARRIAGES Knoxville. working toward her master's in Catie Wells is a graduate stu- Amy Ludwikowski received art therapy at Southern Indiana dent in Spanish education at the 1995 local scholarship from University. Spring 1996 Rhodes A-13 For 1 he Record

North Caldwell, N. J. Hawkins Doran, i Catherine Redfield, April Marriages '91 Heather Lindsey daughter, Megan 19, 1995. to Edward Hettinger, Elizabeth, June 22, 1995. '86 Paul and Holly '64 Margaret Rowe Dec. 16. 1995, '80 Carol Stephens, Anderson Kruse, a son, Brown to Doug Birmingham. a son, Zachary Slater John Coleman, Aug. 29, Fancher, Dec. 31, 1996, '91 Virginia Souther- Stephens, Oct. 18, 1995. 1995. Memphis. land to Tyler '82 Anthony and Va- '86 Timothy and '71 Elizabeth Lazear Langenkamp, Jan. 7, lerie Blatnik, a daughter, Leslie Nelson Lee, a to Graham L. Bingley, 1995. Melissa Catherine, Jan. 3, son, William Garrett, Oct. 21, 1995. '93 Terri Randolph to 1996. Dec. 13, 1995. '73 Meriwether Mallory Chambers, Aug. '82 John and Cristina '86 Mitchum and Montgomery to Guy 10, 1995. Clinton, a daughter, Monica Bums Warren Maranzana, Aug. 25, '94 Julainna Gentle Megan Maryana, Sept. 6, '87, a daughter, Emily 1995, Key West, Fla. to David McKee, Sept. 9, 1995. Margaret, April 12, 1995. '77 Patricia LaRue to 1995, Birmingham. '82 Gregg Hileman '87 Charles Landreth Doug Boyd, Sept. 16, '94 Lelia Hood to and Laura Huff, a son, and Andi Williams '88, a 1995. Chris Getman, Dec. 30, John Gabriel, June 20, son Noah Charles, Dec. '82 Courtney Mills 1995, Greensboro, N. C. 1995. 19, 1995. Hawkinsto Douglas '94 Stacy Ann Berry to '82 Tom and Teresa '88 Glenn and Karen Manz, Nov. 11, 1995, Lit- Mark Loftis, Nov. 18, Stevens, a son, Charles Tillery, a son, Thomas tle Rock. 1995, Memphis. Thomas, July 9, 1995. Austin, Sept. 6, 1994. '83 Cindy Brown to '94 Stefanie Yount to '83 Paul and Jane '89 Mark and Cather- Kent David Bair, Nov. 22, Christopher Taylor, Aug. Dewey Deaton '82, a ine Bolger Graham, a 1995, Little Rock. 19, 1995, Mountain daughter, Nancy Joanna, son, Joseph Perry, Nov. '83 Virginia Parker Home, Ark. Sept. 23, 1995. 24, 1995. to Ronald E. Salach, Aug. '95 Tracy Adkisson- '83 Charles and Toni '89 Roger and 5, 1995, Tulsa, Okla. to Brad Terhune, June Chrysanthis Mont- Reagan Roper McNeil '87 Lydia Henegar to 24, 1995, Memphis. gomery, a son, David '88, a daughter, Emma Greg Spencer, July 22, '95 Laura Vaughan to Antonion, May 31, 1995. Rogers, Aug. 17, 1995. 1995, Lewisburg, Tenn. Lowry Howell, Dec. 30, '83 Clay and Ann '90 Doug Blank and '87 Gretchen Lile to 1995, Memphis. Keltner Slack, a son, Laura Blankenship, a David Rowland '95 Christina Pierce Robert William, Nov. 5, son, Thaddeus Scott Bachman, Nov. 11, 1995, to Jacob William 1995. Blank, June 5, 1995 Little Rock. Neumann, Dec. 22, 1995, '84 Matt and Sandra '90 Hal and Gay '87 Sheema Maurice Nassau Bay, Texas. Buenahora Crooks, a Daughdrill Boyd, a son, to John Wahab, Dec. 28, son, Sean Connor, June James Hallam IV, Feb. 1, 1995, Rawalpindi, 17, 1995 1996. Pakistan. Births '84 Lee and '91 Ryan and Joy '89 Tanya Margaret Bryan French Stafford Murphey, a Robertson to John '75 Malcolm and '85, a daughter, Anna daughter, Amanda, July Novarese, Nov. 4, 1995. Melinda Hurst Pearson, Lee, Dec. 19, 1995. 8, 1995. '89 Sheryl Lynn San- a daughter, Anna Clare, '84 Price and Johan- '93 Harold and som to Larry Hayes, Sept. 14, 1995. na Glenn Gillenwater, a Andrea Weiser Qualk- Nov. 18, 1995, Nashville. '76 Buddy and son, John Price III, Sept. inbush, a daughter, Mor- '89 Susan Sorocak Rebecca Skillern Park- 26, 1995. gan Paige, Aug. 20, 1995. to Scott A. Swing, Aug. er, a son, Joel William, '84 Alvin and 19, 1995. Oct. 12, 1994. Stephanie Moore, a son, '90 Ann Hollings- '78 George and Christopher Stephen, Obituaries worth to Peter Weeden, Currey Courtney Nov. 25, 1995. June 4, 1994. Copple, a son, Robin El- '86 Glenn and April '31 Marion Mills of '91 Sharon Carpen- 11,,, Dec. 18, 1994. Brunetti Box, a son, Bogalusa, La., Sept. 9, ter to Jonathan Wright, '79 Bob and Tracey William Eckley, March 1995. A member of First Dec. 30, 1995, Nashville. Dobbins, a son, Richard 1995. Presbyterian Church and '91 Carole Duffy to Knox, Nov. 29, 1995. '86 Ben and Virginia the board of directors of John Krug, Oct. 14, 1995, '80 Gerald and Cary Lien Calms, a daughter, the Bogalusa Community A-14 Rhodes Spring 1996 For The Record

Medical Center, she great-grandchild. three grandchildren. and six grandchildren. served as supervisor for '38 Bess Gamewell '39 Samuel H. Mays '43 William K. Allen Bogalusa City Schools. Young of Ashton, Md., of Memphis, Dec. 17, of Birmingham, Ala., She leaves a brother, Nov. 17, 1995. 1995. A retired corporate Sept. 11, 1995. He was a Claude Rodney Mills '32, '39 Herbert J. Bing- secretary of the old retired supervisor of di- a niece, Emily Mills John- ham Sr. of Hermitage, Southern Central Co., he vision commercial results son '83, and a nephew, L. Tenn., Oct. 11, 1994. For was a charter member at South Central Bell. A R. Mills '63. 46 years he served as ex- and secretary of the member of Briarwood '33 Toxey Thomas ecutive director of the steering committee for Presbyterian Church, he Fortinberry of Water Tennessee Municipal the founding of Christ was a 32nd degree Valley, Miss., Aug. 12, League, representing the United Methodist Mason. He leaves his 1995. He leaves his wife, state's cities and towns. Church in 1954, where he wife, Bobbie Allen of Martha Costen Fortinber- During his tenure TML taught Sunday school. A Birmingham; two daugh- ry '34; seven daughters, became a national model World War II major in ters, Catherine Bell of Sylvia Lowe, Toxie Ann with initiatives such as the 82nd Airborne Divi- Birmingham and Barbara Walter, Sabrina Whelan, the Municipal Advisory sion, he was a past presi- Flowers of Troy; and Merle Wine, Marjorie Service and the Center dent of Memphis four grandchildren. Barnard, Martha Tyler for Government Training. Kiwanis Club, Big Broth- '43 Georganne Little and Mary Lu Vaughn; A World War II gunboat ers, Big Sisters, Art Beaumont of Memphis, and two sons, Thomas officer, he went to work Today and the Wesley Nov. 5, 1995. A member and Luther. as TML's chief executive Foundation and held the of Germantown Presby- '34 Fred Goddard in 1946 to find new rev- silver beaver award, the terian Church, she was Boehme Jr. of enues for Tennessee highest award from the retired principal of The Memphis, Jan. 18, 1996. cities. In 1986 he wrote Chickasaw Council of the Hutchison (lower) School A World War II veteran, the book Municipal Poli- Boy Scouts of America. A for Girls. She leaves two Boehme was a Certified tics and Power. He leaves former chairman of the daughters, Layne Beau- Photographic Counselor a daughter, Julie mayor's committee for mont Gaines '66 of Chat- and the owner and oper- Bingham Posey '68, of hiring the handicapped, tanooga and Paige ator of Memphis Photo Washington, D.C., and he earned a second Beaumont of Memphis; Supply Co. Inc. He two sisters, Mary Walker degree from the and two grandchildren. leaves his wife, Barbara of Nashville and Rachel Memphis College of Art '43 Caroline Murphy Boehme; a daughter, Finnegan of Hawley, in 1987. The husband of Duerr of San Antonio, Deborah Boehme Salter Minn. Eloise Ragsdale Mays, he Texas, Feb. 5, 1995. A of Atlanta; a son, Buzzy '39 Claudia Nash also leaves a daughter, member of Christ Episco- Boehme of Memphis; Verger Foster of Mem- Melissa Mays Robinson; pal Church, she leaves and four grandchildren. phis, Jan. 26, 1996. A a son, Samuel H. Mays her husband, Edwin '34 Charlie'. Tucker member of Second Pres- Jr.; two sisters and two Duerr; a daughter, Susan Cobb of Clifton, Tenn., byterian Church, she was grandchildren. Brown of Houston; two Nov. 27, 1995. The wid- active on the Memphis '43 D. Wells sons, Edwin Lehn Duerr ow of William S. Cobb Board of Realtors and Alderman Jr. of Jr. of San Antonio and '33 , she leaves a daugh- was an employee of AL- Florence, S.C., Oct. 28, Joseph Duerr of Los An- ter, Eleanor, and two SAC at St. Jude 1995. A deacon at First geles; four grand- sons, Bill and Charles. Children's Research Hos- Baptist Church, he was a children; and one '36 Herbert Williams pital. The widow of member of the Rotary great-grandchild. Jr. of Memphis, Nov. 15, James Madison Foster, Club where he was hon- '43 Arthur H. Fried- 1995. A World War H she leaves a daughter, ored as a member of the man of Amberley veteran, he was a retired Melinda Catherine Foster Four Chaplains Legion of Village, Ohio, July 15, pharmacist and a mem- of Knoxville, Tenn.; four Honor in 1993. He leaves 1995. A retired hotel ex- ber of Colonial Baptist sons, James Madison his wife, Cynthia ecutive and former may- Church. The husband of Foster Jr., Richard Camp- McLaughlin Alderman of or of Amberley Village, Juanita Williams, he also bell Foster and Michael Florence; two daughters, he served on the boards leaves a stepdaughter, Monroe Foster, all of Peggy Herndon of Burke, and as vice president of Carolyn Cogdill of Memphis, and Andrew Va., and Cindy Shaw of Ohav Shalom Synagogue Springfield, Va., three Paterson Foster of York, S.C.; a son, David and Temple Shalom. In grandchildren and a Germantown, Tenn.; and Alderman HI of Florence; 1976 he was awarded Is- Spring 1996 Rhodes A-15 For the Record

rael's highest civilian Conference and was pre- medal, the Prime Minis- siding judge for the "The time will never come when the teacher is ter's Medal. He was a state's 30th Judicial Dis- not the most important part of the college..." World War II veteran trict for a number of —President Charles E. Diehl who attained the rank of years. A member of St. November 27, 1925 captain, and practiced John's Episcopal Church, law in Memphis from he was a supporter of the 1949-55. He leaves his arts in Memphis. He wife, Bernice Friedman leaves two daughters, of Amberley Village; a Elizabeth Craig Liebergot daughter, Cheryl Fried- of Houston, and Dr. man; a son, Alan Anne Marie Tharpe '77 Friedman; a brother; and of Baton Rouge. two grandchildren. '52 Harlan Gates II '49 Sara Beth Mead- of Memphis, March 2, ows Causey of 1996. A retired dentist Associate Memphis, Feb. 1, 1996. and professor emeritus Professor Andrew A noted choral director, of prosthodontics at the Michta teacher and singer, she University of Tennessee Photo by Trey led choral programs in College of Dentistry, he Clark many Memphis church- belonged to several pro- es over the past few fessional associations. He "I love to teach. It's about contact with students decades, most recently was a life member of the and their ideas. The classroom is the most at Kingsway Christian American Dental Associ- immediate test of my research—often the most Church. She also direct- ation. He leaves his wife, demanding one." ed the Sara Beth Causey Beverly Laidlaw Gates of —Dr. Andrew A. Michta Chorale that colleagues Memphis; three daugh- The Mertie Willigar Buckman established in her honor. ters, Randol Gates Chair of International Studies In 1965 she formed the DeGuzman of Memphis, Memphis Symphony Diane Gates Miller of he hallmark of Rhodes' faculty is its dedication Chorus and directed it Lakeland, Tenn., and Tand devotion to students. As alumni, we are for 23 years. She Mari Gates Allison of the beneficiaries of this legacy, and now it's our conducted the Opera Bartlett, Tenn.; two turn to pass it on. Memphis chorale from sisters; and five Your gift to the 1995-96 Annual Fund will help 1979-92. The widow of grandchildren. Rhodes continue to attract outstanding faculty— Nick Causey, she leaves '59 Robert Reynolds scholars and teachers who are committed to their her daughter, the Rev. Simpson of Hartsville, Beth Causey of St. S.C., July 6, 1995. A histo- students. And it will help provide supplementary Petersburg, Fla.; a son, ry professor at Coker materials they need to offer their students a Stephen Meadows of College, he leaves his Rhodes education that is second to none. Louisville, Ky.; and a wife, Peggy Boatwright Your gift—every gift—is key to our reaching granddaughter. Simpson. this year's goal of 50% alumni participation. It '49 James Michael '62 John Mosby Ed- will ensure that a new generation of students ex- Tharpe of Memphis, Jan. wards II of Memphis, periences the challenges and friendships of 11, 1996. A Circuit Court Dec. 2, 1995. An employ- outstanding faculty mentors devoted to judge, Tharpe served ee of Royal Discount Fur- undergraduate teaching. Memphis and Shelby niture, he leaves his wife, It's Your College. Pass It On. County for more than 20 Patricia K. Edwards; two years. A World War II sons, John Mosby RHODES 50% ALUMNI PARTICIPATION Army veteran, he was Edwards III of Knoxville, CAMPAIGN stationed at Pearl Harbor and David McAllister 2000 North Parkway, when it was attacked by Edwards of Memphis; Memphis, Tennessee 38112-1690 the Japanese Dec. 7, 1941. his mother, Katherine S. Telephone: Perry Dement '83, (800) 264-LYNX, He served as president of Edwards, and two broth- (901) 726-3850 the Tennessee Judicial ers, all of Memphis.

A-16 Rhodes Spring 1996 Dee Birnbaum strikes a pose wearing an exotic headpiece normally worn by the women of Siwa Oasis. Photo by Steve Jones Professor/Dancer Fits Rhodes to a Dee By Helen Watkins Norman

t's no surprise that Rhodes ory and management—Bimbaum hips uninhibited by western con- associate professor of busi- has relied on a unique form of vention, Birnbaum has mastered ness Dee Birnbaum speaks body language to communicate. the narrative art of Mideastern Iwith her hands...even when With shoulders that shimmy, a dance. She is among America's conversing by phone. For more rib cage that's anything but rigid, five leading experts in than 20 years—longer than she's a middle that flexes indepen- Mideastern folkloric dance, espe- been teaching organizational the- dently of the rest of the body and cially that of Egypt. Spring 1996 Rhodes 17 irnbaum, a tp popular and eople in Egypt think it's well- respected completely bizarre that an American is an member of Rhodes' • 1) faculty since 1991, has expert on Mideastern dance. had to curtail dancing in recent years thanks to a busy or organizational theory. and was 9 when she started cello. teaching schedule at Rhodes Handmade folkloric cos- She decided she wanted to be a (she's taught an overload for the tumes—a few of the several hun- professional cellist at age 13 and past two years) and a host of dred Birnbaum has collected by 15 had developed an impres- committee assignments at the col- since 1976—hang along the walls sive repertoire of Brahms and lege. She performs approximately and from the doorsills as exotic, Beethoven sonatas and Saint- once a month now and leads out- but changeable, artwork. "If I Saens concerti. of-town dance workshops only ever take one down and dance in "If you're raised in a Jewish twice a year. it, I can simply put it back up on middle class family," Birnbaum Nonetheless, to Mideastern the wall," she laughed. "It's real said, "studying music is some- dance students thirsty for authen- convenient." thing you do." ticity, Birnbaum's expertise is as While her costumes may be Fact is, she "did it" much bet- popular as an oasis in America's easily accessible, Birnbaum's ter than most. She studied with expert-barren midsection. Her quest to master Mideastern dance the best cellists Cleveland had to name on a workshop program is has been anything but easy or offer: members of the city's a major draw. What's more, her predictable. orchestra as well as Lynn Harrell, opinions and answers are repeat- a noted concert and recording edly sought by those searching ouise Birnbaum entered artist. And she practiced four for facts about the culture, cos- the world in 1947 in hours a day. During the summers tumes and lore of Mideastern Cleveland Heights, a in high school she performed in dance. A week rarely goes by L working class suburb of music festivals in Aspen. that Birnbaum doesn't get a Cleveland. Her father was a trav- Before graduating her class- request to perform, teach or eling salesman who peddled mates presciently selected her as answer a question about the musical instruments to stores in "most musical" along with a regional dance of the Middle Ohio, Pennsylvania and New neighborhood friend: Jimmy Fox, East. York; her mother was a home- who went on to become lead "People in Egypt think it's maker. And Louise? Well, Louise drummer with the rock group completely bizarre that an wasn't Louise for long—she The James Gang. American is an expert on decided to call herself "Dee" After high school Birnbaum Mideastern dance," said when she was 2 and the name headed to New York to study at Birnbaum, who grew up in a stuck. Mannes College of Music. Her middle class Jewish home in What she was, however, was a experience there was "dreadful," Cleveland, Ohio. born musician and a precocious she said, because of her inability Today she lives in midtown one at that. to get the professors the school Memphis, not far from Rhodes, in Surrounded by the instru- promised. Within three years she a one-story stucco whose interior ments her father sold—the accor- dropped out of Mannes and ulti- resembles a Turkish bazaar. A dion, the clarinet, the flute— mately transferred to State red and black "elephant foot" ori- Birnbaum learned to read music University of New York, Stony ental carpet covers the hardwood before she read English. She was Brook. floor along with a scattering of playing piano She continued to play the cello wool floor pillows made from by age to support herself in New York. donkey bags purchased in six But there were major problems. Afghanistan. There are hand- For one, she suffered greatly engraved brass trays from from stage fright. "I'd be physi- Morocco, vases from Egypt, a sil- cally sick. My hands would ver box from Iran and couch pil- shake. I'd get on stage and be lows stitched out of Bedouin almost comatose," she dresses—hardly the home recalled. "The only way I place one would envision for could really perform on stage an expert in personnel issues was to overlearn the music to

18 Rhodes Spring 1996 Life's a busy whirl for professor and folkloric dancer Birnbaum, shown here in her dance studio at home. Photo by Steve Jones the point that if you woke me at 3 unit manager, basically directing Still, she couldn't get the a.m. I could get up and play the the operations of three patient image of those dancers out of her piece." care units. head. The second obstacle was phys- About a year after joining the Upon returning to Manhattan ical. She developed a debilitating hospital she took her first vaca- she did her homework and found case of tendonitis in her right tion: a trip to Greece. With that a troupe led by one of hand, the result of unrelenting America's 6th fleet stationed out- America's best-known hours of practice and of lugging side the Greek Isles, however, Mideastern dancers, Ibrahim her heavy cello and case on and Birnbaum found relations Farrah, was performing at Town off the subways and streets of between the U.S. and Greece Hall. She went to the show and New York. When it got to the were tense and the mood toward afterward tracked down Farrah's point that she could no longer tourists, hostile. On the advice of studio. He agreed to give her button a button, she knew she some American nurses traveling lessons. had to quit the cello. in Greece, she headed to Turkey. "I was shocked when I started "I was 21 when I realized I It was a fortuitous decision. In taking these classes. I didn't had to give it up," said Istanbul, the city of exquisite know my body could do these Birnbaum, acknowledging the mosques, she discovered what different movements," said terrible depression that followed. would become a lifelong passion: Birnbaum, jumping from the sofa "I stopped even listening to clas- Mideastern dance. to demonstrate. "What you want sical music after that. I didn't go "I fell in love with it," to do is isolate muscles." to concerts. It was just too Birnbaum remembers of her first In truth, Birnbaum doesn't fit painful." encounter with the dance and Americans' misguided mental Birnbaum finished her music music in the bazaars and night picture of a Mideastern dancer. degree at SUNY Stony Brook, spots of this ancient city. She was First of all, Mideastern dance is however, and she worked for a completely captivated by the way much more varied and complex while as a music therapist with the dancers moved but figured than the one version most people retarded children. But the salary she'd never be able to move that know: bellydancing. barely paid the bills. way. "Bellydancing" was intro- In the fall of 1971 she heard "I'm such a klutz," Birnbaum duced to the U.S. in 1893 at the from a friend of an administra- said. She had never danced Chicago World's Fair by a Syrian tive opening at a hospital in before, even as a child. "My dancer named Little Egypt. Spanish Harlem and it sounded mother took me to a ballet class "The bellydance is a nightclub like a job she could do. To her when I was young and I was dance which borrows from all the surprise she landed the job of hopeless." folkloric idioms," said Birnbaum.

Spring 1996 Rhodes 19 It weaves together moves from tumes are less revealing than 1953 film Salome or the perky different folkloric dances and the those of the bellydancers. "genie" who still dances across end result is a "fantasy perfor- There are hundreds of villages U.S. TV screens in reruns of I mance"—a cabaret dance that in Egypt, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Dream of Jeannie. Birnbaum, in lasts 20-30 minutes "It's a mis- Jordan, Syria, Palestine, Yemen, contrast, is only five feet tall, nomer," she explained, "because Turkey and the Gulf states and compactly built and dark-haired; you dance with a lot more than each may have a folkloric dance she wears almost no makeup; your belly. But people call it that that is unique to that area. and her work wardrobe consists because that's what is exposed." What's more, a certain region of loose tunics and long skirts or Folkloric dance, Birnbaum's may have a number of different slacks, mostly in black. true specialty, is based on move- dances for different occasions: On campus the only palpable ments that are more structured weddings, the exorcising of clue of her fascination with the and prescribed. And the cos- demons, the birth of a child. Mideast is the exotic bedouin Birnbaum has spent jewelry from Egypt, Afghanistan, nearly two decades Yemen or Turkey that she often traveling to these dis- dons for class—that and the tant lands, visiting infrequent demonstration of a with residents in their dance move to drive home an homes and public academic point. places and soaking in In her international manage- the folkloric traditions ment class this spring, for of each area. One sum- instance, Birnbaum broke into a mer, for instance, she fast-paced spin when discussing spent two weeks in some of the Middle East religious Port Said, a port city in practices which are not sanc- northeast Egypt at the tioned by religious leaders. She opening of the Suez was demonstrating the moves of Canal. She went to the "whirling dervish," an observe the daily Islamic religious cult which activities of the fisher- claims to reach a higher con- men—how they sciousness by revolving in place manipulate their nets like a top. and clean the fish, for instance—because irnbaum was fortunate those activities are that she lived in New mimicked in their York City when bitten by dance. B the Mideastern dance "With folkloric bug. There were skilled dancers dance you have to try there from whom Birnbaum and tell a story or por- could learn the various moves tray a certain type of that comprise Arabic dance. character to make the Every weeknight, after putting in dance interesting. a full day at the hospital, she Otherwise it looks like would dash across town to a 6 to a bunch of repetitive 8 p.m. dance class. Afterward she movements." practiced several more hours in Most Americans her Manhattan apartment. Except also picture for paying rent and buying food, Mideastern dancers as Birnbaum spent all she had on resembling the sultry lessons and trips to the Middle Rita Hayworth in the East. Birnbaum took classes in New A few of the several York four nights a week for six hundred dance cos- years. During that same period tumes Birnbaum has she climbed in hospital adminis- collected during her travels in the Middle tration from an entry-level man- East. ager to a vice president of photo by Steve Jones

Spring 1996 support services. "I usually go as soon as com- dancing typically occurs. In 1978, however, she had to mencement is over (mid-May) "The only way a woman gets trim her dance study way back and stay until the middle of out of her home here is when she because she entered into an July," she said. "I try to go earlier dies and is buried. There are very M.B.A. program at night. when it's not as hot, but if I do strict rules as to how a woman Another hospital in the city had that I miss the mangoes which behaves and dresses," said lured her to its staff with the are at their best in August." Birnbaum. "In these kinds of promise of paying for her to In addition to scouting out places the women don't go out to attend evening grad school. folkloric dance in Mediterranean do the folkloric dance. They do it Dance classes were relegated to countries, Birnbaum spends con- in their homes when the men vacations and weekends. siderable time working with aren't there." Birnbaum ultimately left her agencies to improve the delivery And Birnbaum is one of few management position at the hos- of health care in Egypt, especially foreigners who's had a ringside pital and enrolled full-time in in the rural areas. She speaks seat. graduate school at the City Arabic well enough to get by. University of New York. By 1984 Basically her job is to put ack home in Memphis, she had earned her Ph.D. there in together proposals for health care Birnbaum incorporates business and organizational programs ranging from neonatal the various dance moves behavior. Her dissertation dealt and family planning to child vac- B observed on the road with the image of the nursing cination initiatives. UNICEF, the into her own dance routines to role and the effects of that image agency for which she has worked make them as interesting as pos- on job attitudes and behavior. each summer, uses these propos- sible. She does the same with her Her dissertation and a strong als and the grant requests she classes at Rhodes, weaving background in health care man- writes to get funding from other humor and anecdotal lessons agement led to a teaching posi- agencies. One of her proposals from the world at large into her tion for Birnbaum at the that got funded in recent years management and human University of Kansas' was a plan for establishing neigh- resources courses. Department of Health Services borhood health clinics in outlying "You can be an excellent Administration. She taught there areas of the country. dancer, but if you're not enter- two years before being recruited "What they usually do is put taining, you have lost your audi- by the Tulane University School me in a room and tell me to spin ence," Birnbaum noted. "The of Public Health and Tropical the straw into gold," Birnbaum same is true in the classroom. Medicine. joked. For her efforts she earns You can have important things to Once Birnbaum left New York, Egypt's top consulting fee: $30 say, but if you can't package it was hard to find teachers quali- for a two-month's project. them in a way that's entertaining, fied to teach her in Mideastern That stipend, no matter how the students are gone." dance. She had to travel else- small, "makes Egyptian officials "She is funny and popular as a where for lessons or organize feel that they're not getting a hand- teacher," associate dean of acade- workshops that could attract the out," said Birnbaum. For her, mic affairs John Planchon con- top teachers. though, it's a matter of service. firmed, "but she's also among the A big break in her dance edu- "I care about Egypt and want most demanding teachers on cation came when Tulane to do something for its people." campus." University decided to use some Equally important, the con- In the more buttoned-down grant money and sent Birnbaum sulting work brings her close to world of management, finance to observe and work in the health the birthplace and creative center and marketing, Birnbaum's care system in Egypt in the sum- of Arabic dance. "I get to go to quirky style and eclectic interests mer of 1987. When she arrived, places I'd never otherwise visit. I remain an anomaly. "She's Birnbaum approached Cairo's get to see and meet people where unique," said Sandi Klotwog '96, two most famous dance troupes, they live." an advisee and student. "You're the Reda Troupe and the Sometimes she travels to never going to meet another National Troupe, and asked if remote villages of mud-brick woman like her." she could study with them. huts and no electricity. A Those who know the quick- Thus began her on-site tute- UNICEF car may be the only way witted professor have to agree. lage in the folkloric dances of for Birnbaum to reach these iso- Dee Birnbaum is that rare acade- Egypt. Birnbaum has returned to lated villages and her contacts mic who not only marches to a Egypt every summer since. This through UNICEF, the only ticket different drummer, but dances to coming summer marks her tenth. into people's homes where the one, too.

Spring 1996 Rhodes 21 Carrying The Torch

Atlanta Alumni Are Ready To Let The Games Begin Atlanta1996 By Martha Hunter Shepard

T'S MORNING RUSH This is big Olympics translate to a bigger hour in Atlanta, and The Atlanta Committee for the and better Atlanta—full of brand- thousands of com- Olympic Games (ACOG) esti- new athletic facilities and muters edging toward mates that the '96 Olympics will improvements that will be given town are about to be the biggest ones ever held, to the city and its schools that receive their daily with more events than ever serve as venues and training wake-up call. There, before (271) and more medals to sites. above the freeway, is be awarded (1,118). More coun- the "countdown tries (197) and more athletes will Where the action is sign"—the electronic daily participate (10,000), and the Venues for the '96 Olympics Ireminder ticking off the days till largest audience in history is stretch from Washington, D.C., to July 19, when the 1996 Olympics expected to watch the games on Miami and from Birmingham to begin. TV (3.5 billion worldwide). Savannah. But most of the action The sign affects Atlantans in The games also mean big busi- will be in Atlanta. different ways. Most are excited; ness—corporate sponsors who In the middle of that action is others, apprehensive. Small won- have donated up to $40 million Chris Kollme '93, assistant venue der, considering that the eyes of each and TV broadcast rights of manager of operations at the new the world will be on their city as $456 million. Projected revenues 85,000-seat OlympicStadium. it hosts the 100th Olympic Games are $5.1 billion over six years. Until recently, his office was at July 19-Aug. 4—and that two mil- The Olympics have addition- the green-glassed ACOG head- lion people will be pouring into ally brought a boom in the con- quarters building downtown. Atlanta from all over the world. struction industry with the new Now he works from a construc- Times like these call for cham- 4,700-room Olympic Village, 10 tion trailer parked outside pions, and not just the athletic athletic venues, miles of fiber- Olympic Stadium. It's far from kind. Thanks to scores of vision- optic cable and additional free- the skybox suites, but he doesn't ary planners and energetic volun- way lanes, rapid-transit train mind. He prefers being close to teers—many of whom are tracks and stations to manage the the project. Rhodes alumni—Atlanta is ready traffic. Kollme's boss, along with 80 to let the games begin. Ultimately, of course, the percent of the other venue man-

22 Rhodes Spring 1996 agers, came from the 1994 World Cup soccer tournament. Veterans of grand-scale events, they'll move on to other ones after the Atlanta summer games, perhaps even to the next Olympics. Several other managers, currently "on loan" to the summer Olympics, manage stadiums and arenas elsewhere. "They all bring with them a significant amount of facility management experience," says Kollme. Olympic Stadium will have a two-week breather after the games, then the Paralympics for those with physical disabilities begin. "My job will be finished at the end of August," Kollme says. The stadium will then be given to the Atlanta Braves and reconfig- ured purely as a ballpark. No stranger to construction dust herself is Chris' wife, Shannon Lientz Kollme '93, who works in the development office of Georgia Tech's athletic director. From her office she has wit- nessed a rebirth of the downtown Tech campus, home of Olympic Village and the new aquatics and renovated boxing venues. Some of the Olympic Village dorms will be given to Georgia State at the other end of downtown where the badminton venue is located. The rest of them, plus the two athletic facilities, go to Tech. Thanks to the expected crush of pedestrian and street traffic, summer sessions at both univer- sities have been delayed and con- densed to accommodate their students and the Olympic crowds.

Signs of the times. The "countdown sign" greets morning com- muters heading into downtown Atlanta. Photographed in early March, the sign is now in double digits—and counting Photo by Bill Losenby

Spring 1996 Rhodes Now it all began Every year the Nardos vaca- The idea of Atlanta's hosting tion with these folks—fellow the '96 summer games originated physicians and their families with nine years ago with Atlanta whom they were stationed in lawyer Billy Payne. Never mind England in the Air Force in the that there weren't any existing early '70s. facilities like Los Angeles had in The Nardos attended the 1984, or that the sentimental Munich Olympics in '72, but favorite for the Centennial Games Sharon was "an Olympics junkie" was Athens, Greece, birthplace of long before that. The year after the modern Olympics. To Payne, graduating from Rhodes she saw Atlanta was the place. Period. a documentary about the bare- And he succeeded in convincing foot Ethiopian marathoner Abebe the International Olympic Bikila's lightning-fast victory in Committee of the same. the 1960 Rome Olympics. As chief executive officer of Enthralled with his story, she the Atlanta Committee for the began looking for tickets to the Olympic Games (ACOG), Payne '72 games "as soon as we got off wasted no time enlisting a host of the plane in England." Now the movers and shakers, including games are in her hometown, and Atlanta attorney Charlie Battle as she can't wait. managing director of interna- Nardo is a volunteer at WSB tional operations and Chicago Radio's Consumer Action Center. banker A.D. Frazier as chief oper- A "computer person," she man- ating officer. Both are married to ages the center's data bank that Rhodes alumnae, Lola Eustis provides Battle '65 and Jeanne Reinhardt consumer Frazier '66. resource Both women, who have their information own business and volunteer com- to the tele- mitments, have traveled and phone vol- entertained with their husbands unteers. In on behalf of the Olympics. addition, They and several other she provides Atlantans entertained visiting technical international Olympic representa- support for tives in their homes before a computer Atlanta got the nod. "I believe it program her was Atlanta's hospitality that husband won the bid for us," says Jeanne Mickey, a Frazier. psychiatrist, wrote. The Southern hospitality couple mar- The Fraziers' hospitality kets the pro- apparently knows no bounds. gram which They expect to host at least 50 involves people at their home during the billing and games—family, close friends and scheduling an undetermined number of their for mental son's friends from college. health professionals. While she to cook. One night is reserved for Sharon Lupfer Nardo '64 and plans to keep up these duties the group's traditional special husband Mickey have invited 21 during the games, she also hopes dinner out. She booked that at a old friends and their families to to be a volunteer for track and neighborhood restaurant back in stay at their home during the field at Olympic Stadium. the winter, too. For the majority games. The "kids"—aged 16-25— Organized for the onslaught of of meals, though, Nardo has will sleep outside in tents "even visitors since early winter, Nardo worked out a deal with her if it rains," says Nardo. has assigned each guest a night guests: all the families must send

24 Rhodes Spring 1996 "We've given the Finnish family a list of things to do within 100 miles of Atlanta," says Robert. They are also arranging for the Finns to join them and their friends at a barbecue at Lake Lanier, the site of the rowing venue. A work-related connection put Robert in touch with the Finnish Olympic delegation. "They couldn't have been nicer," Robert Chris and Shannon says of the group, who flew to Lientz Kollme, both '93, above the aquat- Atlanta to interview them and ics venue on the photograph their home. Satisfied, Georgia Tech cam- the delegation booked the pus, also site of Watkins' home through the Olympic Village. Shannon works in Finnish Travel Bureau and the the development deal was done. office of the athletic Robert says he and Claire plan director at Tech. to use the rental money to finish Chris is assistant venue manager of remodeling their 1950's ranch- operations at the style home. new 85,000-seat Olympic Stadium. The view from the top Photo by BM Lisenby From her corner office high four bathrooms will be assigned atop Coca-Cola headquarters in as well. "Whoever has to leave downtown Atlanta, Susan first for an event gets first go at Stribling McDermott '86 has a the bathrooms," says Nardo. One bird's-eye view of several more restriction: each guest will Olympic venues, including the have a time slot of only 20-30 surrounding Olympic Village. minutes for their morning ablu- Coke is the oldest continuous tions. sponsor of the Olympics—since Many Atlantans will rent their 1928—and McDermott, program homes to visitors—a lucrative manager for public and media proposition, to be sure. One-bed- relations, is literally in the thick room condominiums can rent for of things. thousands of dollars for just two McDermott works with Coke's weeks. Olympic global advertising cam- But for Robert and Claire paign. She's also coordinating the Alpha and omega. Dalrymple Watkins, both '90, it's company's Olympic Salute to The starting line for more than just a business deal. Folk Art, an international three- track and field at the They've leased their home for dimensional art exhibition. The new Olympic two weeks to the family of a art works, submitted by various Stadium where the opening and closing Finnish swimming gold medal countries, will be on display dur- ceremonies also will contender. During the games the ing the games. Another of her be held. couple will head for their vaca- responsibilities is working with ©AGOG tion home in the North Georgia the Coca-Cola Official Olympic her their menus well in advance, mountains. Robert, who is with Pin Trading Centers located and she'll do the shopping. Colonial Pipeline, and Claire, throughout the various venues. There's no room for mistakes, who is vice president at Social Like Sharon Nardo, either—the complete schedule is Responsibility Investment Group, McDermott is a "huge Olympics on a spreadsheet in her computer plan to keep working as much as fan." McDermott, who worked as well as on an Internet web possible by commuting and for Coke at the Albertville and page the Nardos have created telecommuting. They'll also take Barcelona Olympics, says that the especially for this occasion. The some vacation. excitement of the games just

Spring 1996 Rhodes 25 own. The relay is a daytime operation so that as many Americans as possible can see it. In fact, the entire route was designed to be within a two-hour drive of 90 percent of the U.S. population. On an average day, the torch Sharon Lupfer Nardo '64 shakes travels 150 miles in 15 hours. out a sleeping bag The flame, which was lit by to be used by one the sun in Olympia, Greece, at of the 21 people— the end of March, came by plane all friends and their families of 25 to the U.S. in a specially-designed years—who'll be lantern. At night during the torch staying with her relay, the flame is "put to bed" in during the peak of the lantern where it burns the Olympics. She's planning brightly till dawn. meal and lavatory logistics on a The to-do list spreadsheet on her The Olympics, according to computer. Photo by Bin Lisonby Pressley Harris '91, is "the equiv- alent of eight Super Bowls daily doesn't translate as well on tele- the torchbearer host team, taking for 17 days." vision as it does live. "I found care of the people who carry the She should know. Harris, a that out in Albertville," she says, flame. communications representative referring to the spectacular open- "Basically, we greet the torch- for the Atlanta Committee for the ing ceremony and "the way the bearers and provide training on Olympic Games, wears several crowd reacted when the teams lighting and presenting the hats. One of them is regularly came out." And in Barcelona, she torch," says Rooney. The couple updating ACOG's "to-do" list on was touched by the emotional has joined an entourage of 40 the World Wide Web. Pages long, reception the Spaniards gave vehicles carrying scores of other the list involves things like their country's athletes. volunteers whose duties include installing 1,400 tents, 500 trailers, advance work, coordinating hotel 24 miles of fencing, 63 portable Lift high the torch rooms and meals and accommo- generators, 21 million pounds of Many Americans can experi- dating the news media. The ice and other truly Olympian ence some of that emotion when Rooneys generally travel ahead tasks. the Olympic torch passes through of the caravan, meeting up to 15 Harris, who works with the the country this summer on its torchbearers at a time at collec- local, national and international way to Atlanta. Currently accom- tion points along the route. After news media, also handles public- panying the torch for half of its meeting them, the Rooneys take ity for the volunteer program, 15,000-mile journey is Peter the torchbearers to their destina- which will recruit and train up to Rooney '84, director of develop- tion points, then move on to the 45,000 volunteers. She also does ment at Westminster Schools, a next group up the road. publicity for the medical services private college preparatory Ten thousand torchbearers are department. In the ACOG office, school in Atlanta. participating in the torch relay, 50-hour workweeks are the norm, Rooney and his wife Elizabeth, including 1,000 Olympians and she says. both volunteers who jumped at 5,500 "community heroes"—folks the chance to accompany the who have been nominated by The volunteers torch, were among the group people in their hometowns in As part of her job, Harris will meeting the Olympic flame in recognition of their community work in the main print and pho- late April in Los Angeles. He will service. For 84 days the torch will tography press center during the help chaperon it some 7,500 travel across the U.S. by foot, games, while volunteer Frank miles, traveling up and down the train, boat, bicycle, yacht, even Luton '64 has been assigned as a West Coast, West, Mid-West and riverboat. "bullpen steward" in the main all of Georgia. Real estate broker The torchbearers carry the press center, presumably to help Lynn Myrick Dudley '82 hopes to flame 1 kilometer—more than bring order out of the normal accompany it for a week. half a mile—each and light the chaos of such an operation. The Rooneys are members of next person's torch with their Luton, who retired from

26 Rhodes Spring 1996 BellSouth last fall, is not the only Olympics again." he simply saw a sign in the volunteer in his family. Daughter Working with the Red Cross Clayton County Public Library Courtney will be a volunteer at are Jim Wade '46 and Sean last fall asking for volunteers. He the equestrian venue in Conyers, Moran '94. Wade, a member of jumped at the chance, and every Ga., and wife Barbara Bevis the Atlanta chapter's Olympic Saturday from January to mid- Luton '66 will "be doing her best planning and communications March drove to Atlanta for train- getting the two of us where we committees, is concerned with ing. need to be and 'hosting' all our safety first. He will be one of many Red friends and family, who have "If anything goes wrong, Red Cross first responders, expressly staked out camping sites in our Cross volunteers will be the first for the spectators. "The athletes basement," according to Frank. on the scene," Wade explains. will have their own medical Volunteers, who will receive Some 500 volunteers will be staff," he says. Moran says he's specific training in their areas as trained in CPR and first aid, sup- enjoyed the experience so much the Olympics draw near, will plementing the professional med- that he plans to continue as a Red work a daily eight-hour shift for ical staff on hand at each venue. Cross volunteer after the 14 consecutive days during the Wade, who heads his own Olympics. During the games he games. They will wear an official advertising agency, has served as hopes to be assigned to the beach volunteer uniform, receive one a Red Cross volunteer before. He volleyball venue in his own meal a day, and are invited to the also did national advertising for Clayton County. final dress rehearsal for the open- the Red Cross as a member of At Lake Lanier, another venue ing ceremony. New York's J. Walter Thompson close to Atlanta, Beth Shipp Nott For folks who work downtown advertising company in the '70s. '69 has volunteered to work with where all the action will be, vol- Sean Moran, on the other international visitors as part of unteering is easy—many of their hand, had no past association the games' protocol division. offices will simply close down for with the Red Cross. An account Nott, development research asso- the games. Other volunteers will representative at Fritz Co. Inc. in ciate and French instructor at take vacation. Jonesboro, Ga., south of Atlanta, Brenau University in Gainesville, Stephanie Rogers '95 will serve as a free- lance Russian translator at various venues, and Julia Reilly Fields '82 of Chattanooga plans to stay with friends in Atlanta for two weeks Susan Stribling McDermott while volunteering at a '86 is program manager for sports venue. Leaving public and media relations her understanding hus- at Coca-Cola Inc., the old- band and children at est continuous Olympics sponsor (since 1928). One home, Fields says it's of her responsibilities is "the opportunity of a coordinating the company- lifetime—I'll never be sponsored Official Olympic Pin Trading Centers. this close to the Photos by Bill Lisenby

Spring 1996 Rhodes 27 Ga., looks forward to putting her finals as well. language skills to work. Bill '94 and Lacey Taylor Lake Lanier, the rowing and Jordan '92 will see some track DITOR'S NOTE: Special canoe/kayak sprint venue, boasts and field events, plus a U.S.-Cuba thanks to all the Atlanta two enormous new boathouses baseball game. alumni who responded to along with spectator seats, per- But Buddy and Rebecca Rhodes with their plans for the manent retractable line markers Skillern Parker '76 are going for Olympics. Due to space, we and a finish tower. All but some the gold. With tickets for 10 could not highlight everyone. spectator seats will be given to straight days of events, they plan Nor could we include Rhodes'

the Lake Lanier Rowing Club and to take two weeks' vacation in community heroes who will . the Lanier Canoe/Kayak Club order to see it all. Rebecca, an carry the torch. Please send after the Olympics. Pre-Olympics Olympics fan from way back, news of your involvement in events this spring included the first tuned into the games at age the '96 Olympics to Rhodes for first-ever Harvard-Yale-Oxford- 12 while recovering from having publication in the summer Cambridge regatta, the U.S. her wisdom teeth removed. issue. Olympics trials in rowing and the Like the many Rhodes alumni Western Hemispheric Olympic who have worked so hard to Qualifier in sprint canoe/kayak. bring the Olympics to their At the lake, as at the other hometown, make it venues, all stands in readiness. happen and enjoy Floor-to-ceiling racks of canoes it, Parker says and kayaks fill the boathouses. she'll just "be Each rack is labeled with a coun- happy to be there" try's name. So are the cabinets this summer. full of life jackets that line the corners. In the center are the motorized chase boats looking like ocean liners beside the smaller craft. Beth and Roger Nott, who live in a lakeside home, are actually whitewater enthusiasts. Roger, a certified international judge for slalom and wildwater competition, will be a gate judge at the canoe/kayak slalom events at the Ocoee Whitewater Center venue in Southeast Tennessee. Like all volunteers, the Notts have put countless hours of their own time into the Olympic effort. "If you live here, you can't help but be involved," says Beth.

The spectators Most Atlantans, like Drew '90 Beth Shipp Nott '69 and Amy Bower Burchenal '91, of Gainesville, Ga., ordered their tickets early will work with international visitors as through a lottery system. Not an Olympic proto- sure if they'd get tickets at all, the col volunteer at the Burchenals' first choice was bad- Lake Lanier rowing minton. According to Amy, "we venue. Surrounded by racks of kayaks just wanted to be sure we could in the new see something." They got their boathouse, she badminton tickets in short order, wears a '96 and were able to land some for a Olympics pin—one of 30 she owns. whitewater event and soccer Photo by Martha Hunter Shepard

28 Rhodes Spring 1996 In Print

field and pasture, he has always an autobiographical bent. It is the Cumberland: found time to write. Several of his story of the adventures of two Dream And Reality essays that young brothers growing up on the have family farm. Their father, a doctor, By Danforth Ross '32 '33, Professor appeared in is the first person in the area to Emeritus of English. 170 pp. various liter- own an auto- Scottsville, Ky.: Gerald Printing. $5. ary journals mobile. He are now also buys a available in tractor that Farewell To The two paper- doesn't work backs, as well as a Leaning Tree And Cumberland: mule at Dream and spring plow- Other Happenings Reality and ing. Farewell to the Leaning Tree and Every By Danforth Ross. 84 pp. Scottsville, Other Happenings. day is a Ky.: Gerald Printing. $3. Cumberland gives a history of source of an Ross, who taught at Rhodes the Ross family from the late 18th wonder and excitement for the Dfrom 1955-74, has been a full- century, when its members settled boys. Products of a loving family, time farmer in his native in the Cumberland area, to the they are well-behaved, yet always Clarksville, Tenn., since his retire- Civil War period. manage to get into a reasonable ment. Between the demands of Farewell to the Leaning Tree has amount of mischief.

stituent styles. But this leveling American Laughter: was the thrust of the immigrant Immigrants, Ethnicity, And 19 30s Hollywood Film Comedy and ethnic filmmakers' version of culture; for these filmmakers, all By Mark Winokur, Assistant Hollywood three quarters of a cultures were to be valued equal- Professor of English; Film Studies century after the end of new ly, both because the codes, only Program Chair. 310 pp. New York: immigration," Winokur writes. newly known, were only partially St. Martin's Press. $33.95. "The classical Hollywood style understood, and because of the Crom the Marx Brothers to screw- continues to mix its ethnic desire to dehierarchicalize for the . ball romance, American Laughter metaphors in now tra- sake of self-promo- looks at the role of immigration and ditional ways: contain- tion. ethnicity in the development of ing African-American Postmodernism at American film comedy and 1920s actors (Eddie Murphy, AMERICAN national and inter- and '30s American mass culture. Richard Pryor) in genre national levels finds Winokur begins with a history films and roles created !MUER its origin in the of American comedy, then discuss- for white actors; creat- I. • rt immigrant and eth- es the refashioning of slapstick, ing fantasy landscapes 144...... 1 nic desire to dimin- team and romantic comedy by an that work either as 1749 ish the value of immigrant Hollywood for a pre- overt allegories of race 1-1* social hierarchy." dominantly urban, ethnic audience. (Alien Nation, Blade Winokur employs With observations on more Runner), or as displace- a broad range of than 300 films, the three main ments of ethnicity (The contemporary con- chapters explore immigrant and Neverending Story, or cepts in film history ethnic esthetic in the films of any fantasy in which a and culture studies, Charles Chaplin, the Marx contemporary sensibility intrudes intertwining such diverse subjects Brothers and William Powell and on an archaic society). We now as Balkan politics, Art Deco, psy- Myrna Loy. call this pastiche of elements post- choanalysis, vaudeville, Sicilian "Evidence of the absorption modernism, itself a style charac- peasant life, orientalism, the stage with ethnicity is everywhere in terized by a leveling of all con- Irishman and "body" criticism. Spring 1996 Rhodes 29 alaiajoicq§

Art Historian Kathleen Brandt Lectures At Rhodes rt historian Kathleen Weil- been to be the art historical inter- What are the differences AGarris Brandt spoke at preter/evaluator. between the previously Rhodes this winter as part of the The whole project was run by "dirty" works and the Lillian and Morrie Moss Fabrizio Mancinelli, who came to "clean" ones? Endowment for the Visual Arts Rhodes as a Moss lecturer some There is a world of difference series. Brandt, a professor at New years ago. between them. Our whole inter- York University's Institute of pretation of "The Last Judgment" Fine Art, last fall attributed a Michelangelo painted the changes now that it's been sculpture at the French embassy Sistine ceiling between cleaned. We can now see rela- in New York to Michelangelo. 1508-1512. Twenty-three tionships among the figures in She had walked past the build- years later, he painted "The quite a different way. ing for 30 years on her way to Last Judgment" on the wall That requires that we reinter- work. But it wasn't until last above the altar. Do you see pret the meaning of the work. In October when she saw the sculp- differences between his the past it was seen as a highly ture brightly illuminated during earlier and later works in personal confessional by an art opening at the embassy the Sistine Chapel? Michelangelo of his later piety in that she thought it might be one There are many. How rapidly which he became very much of Michelangelo's early works. and profoundly he transformed interested in Pauline theology After months of research, Brandt himself throughout his life! If one shared her belief publicly. looks at the Sistine ceiling as a At Rhodes, Brandt, who is per- whole, it's hard to believe that manent consultant for the artist who began the work is Renaissance art to the Vatican the artist who finished it. When Museums, spoke on you get to "The Last Judgment" Michelangelo's "The Last you have to think it's a different Judgment" on the altar wall of moment of history in his life. One the Sistine Chapel. During her sees it in the body images, the visit, she granted the following way bodies interact, the way the interview to Rhodes. story is told.

Have you been involved in the restoration of the Sistine Chapel since the beginning? Yes. I was named permanent consultant 1987. It's best not to use the word "restoration." It suggests that one can restore a work of art to its original state, which is neither possible nor really desirable. The best thing we can hope to do is conserve what we have. So we talk about "cleaning and conservation" rather than "restoration." But let me say right away that I'm not a conservator by training. Kathleen Weil•Garris Brandt and I'm an art historian with a special the "Cupid" she has attributed to interest in the history of tech- Michelangelo meet the press at the French embassy in New York. niques and painting. My job has S. Jayson Sigma 30 Rhodes Spring 1996 Campus. Voice,$

and its implications as they were not a place for a private, religious mania" going around now. developed by Protestantism; that confession. It's the place for a People have very strong feelings is to say, that we are saved doctrinal statement that the Pope about the sculpture, but what one through faith alone and not approves of. When we look at the must do is look at the evidence— through works. It's been said this painting now on those terms, that that's what I'm interested in. is what the work depicts at one fortifies a new reading of it. It's The elements of this were level, that it depicts the sense of talking about the importance of always there—they were never the tremendous burden of sin the church and the papacy for secret. This isn't a story about that the aging Michelangelo felt salvation. priority or discovery. It is a story himself. about having observed some- Now all the clues that made us You've stated that the thing. I was fortunate enough to think that are really not there. sculpture of cupid you've be able to pursue it, to find out First of all, it's no longer gloomy attributed to Michelangelo many things and to arrive at the in appearance, and we see that probably dates from 1494- actual conclusion from a totally the gestures the figures make 1495 when the artist was different point of view. toward each other really tell a 19 or 20 years old. How do A number of people have different sort of story. you deal with the negative come out of the woodwork say- In the Palatine Chapel, the criticism that has resulted ing they discovered it. To them I most public, formal space in the from your discovery? say, "congratulations." It's won- Vatican, on the altar wall—that is There is a "Michelangelo derful that they saw it. And some people feel it can't be true because they didn't see it. This isn't an election or a competition. The interesting thing is what this sculpture is. If it turned out not to be by Michelangelo, scholars would be more excited because it would mean that we suddenly sighted a planet of whose existence we had no idea. So it's a win-win situation. It's not that anything rides on whether it is by Michelangelo. Michelangelo means something very special to people who are not really concerned with art particularly. He represents a kind of romantic hero, somebody who's not part of any power structure who through his indi- viduality, courage and power managed not only not to belong to power structures, but tran- scend them. So when you change what one thinks is Michelangelo either by cleaning it or adding to the earth- work, you really are threatening certainties that people treasure.

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Lynx Basketball Sarah Hatgas Named Fitness Director Finishes Strong women's basketball coach Sara "The idea of having a fitness II Hatgas, who completed her 17- director on board with the new he men finished the season year basketball coaching career this facility when it opens has been Twith an outstanding 18-7 year with 207 wins, has been part of the plan for three or four record, narrowly missing their named to the new post of director years," said athletic director Mike second bid in four years to the of the Rhodes Fitness Program. She Gary. NCAA Division 3 tournament. will assume her new administra- Hatgas will work to create and The Lynx were led by senior tive duties in July, prior to the expand a variety of programs— Albert Johnson, who finished an opening of the Bryan Campus Life including aerobics and martial outstanding career by making the Center. arts—to the student body, faculty All-Conference first team. Johnson Hatgas will continue to coordi- and staff. She'll also be responsible averaged 16.2 points per game, nate the women's and men's tennis for fitness seminars and instruction and led the SCAC in assists at 5.7 programs and instruct martial arts and working with intramural and per game. classes. club sports. The men also got outstanding play from the shooting guard spot, where David Parker was Spring Sports Take The Field BASEBALL Junior Jimmie Glorioso took the The Lynx went the first 15 top spot in javelin for the men. games without playing a true home game. The closest they came TENNIS was a season opening bone-chill- The Lynx tennis teams were off ing doubleheader at Tim to good starts this season. The McCarver Stadium against women, led by defending Division Savannah College. 3 national singles champion Nao Off to a slow start at the begin- Kinoshita and sophomore Taylor ning of the season, the Lynx Tarver, were 3-0 in mid-season turned it around in their first game with wins over Hendrix, Centre on the renovated home field win- and Sewanee. ning over Hendrix 9-8, 13-12 and The men's team was 3-1 in the Carissa Lucas 3-1 in a conference weekend series. early season. Senior Estes Tarver Photo by Andrew Nissen VI and junior Brad Gilbert led a Lynx named second team All- TRACK AND FIELD team with wins over Union, Conference. Parker averaged 14.5 The Lynx hosted the Rhodes Hendrix and Austin. points per game and made 64 Invitational in mid-March. The three-pointers, shooting at a 45.1% women took second place overall, GOLF clip. and the men, fourth. The 14-man squad is coming off The women had two All- In the women's 5,000 meters, a fourth-place finish in the SCAC a Conference performers in 1995-96. first-year student Emily Ferguson, year ago, and though the team Junior forward Carissa Lucas led seniors Billie Ann Snodgrass and may lack experience, it has talent. the SCAC in scoring for much of Anne Hardwick, sophomore Lara The Lynx women golfers also the year, while sophomore star Harkins and first-year student Joy finished fourth in the SCAC last Kate Maffei improved with every Johnson shut out the opposition, season. This year the team features game. Maffei could emerge as the clinching first through fifth place. two outstanding first-year stu- best player in the conference next Sophomore Jenny Gorman was dents, Stephanie Boyd and Jamie season, finishing this year as the number one in the 200. In the Lancaster, who should compete SCAC's second leading scorer and 3,000, Erin Riches took first place, for all-conference honors right rebounder. and Nicole Horvath, second. from the start. 32 Rhodes Spring 1996 Calenlar,

Theatre. 2 p.m. matinees for groups of 10 or more Theatre Box Office, (901) July 21 and 28, all other students. For tickets and 726-3839. performances at 8 p.m. information, call the ART". Admission: $15 adults; McCoy Theatre Box APR 20-MAY 11 Senior $10 students and Office, (901) 726-3839. Art Show featuring seniors; $12 per ticket JUL 13, 20, 21 Summer works of Rhodes for groups of 10 or more and Smoke, the opera by seniors; Clough-Hanson adults; and $8 per ticket Lee Hoiby performed in M irs7 Gallery, Tuesdays for groups of 10 or more concert, directed by MAY 10 Rhodes Singers through Saturdays, 11 Gary Beard; Hardie Annual Spring Concert a.m.-5 p.m. FREE Auditorium; 2 p.m. featuring the Admission: $12 Mastersingers Chorale adults, $8 students and Music Academy and seniors. For tick- Children's Chorus; ets and information, Evergreen Presbyterian call the McCoy The- Church, 613 University THEATRE atre Box Office, (901) St., 8 p.m. Tickets: $4 MAY 2.4; 7-9; 11 726-3839. adults, $3 students and McCoy Theatre 10th JUL 13 Cairo! Shang- seniors Annual Benefit Concert, hai! Bombay!, a com- MAY 13-27 Rhodes "The Music of Irving memorative Singers' international Berlin," devised and enactment of the tour to Prague, directed by Bennett staging of Tennessee Budapest and Vienna Wood, musical direction Williams' first play; with Singers alumni and by Tony Lee Garner; members of the Mas- McCoy Theatre, 8 p.m. tersingers Chorale Tickets: $15 general admission, $9 students. For further information students. For tickets contact the McCoy The- and information, call atre Box Office, (901) the McCoy Theatre 726-3839. Box Office, (901) 726- COMMENCEMENT 3839. MAY 10 Baccalaureate, JUL 13, 14, 19, 21, Mississippi Boulevard 24, 26, 28 The Christian Church, 70 N. Gniidiges Frdulein Bellevue, 3:30 p.m. TENNESSEE and 27 Wagons Full of MAY 11 Commence- Cotton directed by ment, Hubert M. Fisher Jerry Chipman; Memorial Garden, 10 McCoy Theatre; 2 a.m. Rain location: Mis- WILLIAMS p.m. matinee July 14, sissippi Boulevard all other Christian Church, 70 N. performances at 8 p.m. Hubert M. Fisher Bellevue FESTIVAL Admission: $15 adults; Memorial Garden, JUL 12, 14, 18, 20, 21, $10 students and bring-your-own picnic 25, 27, 28 I he Night of seniors; $12 per ticket at noon, enactment at 2 the Iguana directed by for groups of 10 or more p.m. FREE. For informa- Bennett Wood; McCoy adults; and $8 per ticket tion, call the McCoy Rhodes College 2000 North Parkway Memphis, Tennessee 38112-1690

LOOKING TOWARD SUMMER The statue of Dr. Charles E. Diehl (president of Rhodes from 1917-49) reflects the feelings of the entire campus community after the long, cold winter. Photo by Trey Clark