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Vanderbilt Television's Nov. 11, 2011, episode of VTV News won in the Best Newscast category in the recent Tennessee Associated Press college broadcast awards. VTV also received honorable mention as a finalist for the Best TV News Story, and rising senior Harrison Dreves received honorable mention as a finalist for the Best TV Feature Story.

NATIONAL GROUP HEADQUARTERS MOVE TO VANDY The College Media Association (formerly College Media Advisers) Board of Trustees has chosen Vanderbilt Student Communications, Inc. to serve as the Association’s headquarters for the next five years. VANDERBILT STUDENT MEDIA HALL OF FAME CMA Hall of Fame member Chris Carroll, director of Student Media for VSC, will serve as CMA execu- tive director. His VSC colleagues Jeff Breaux, who will be CMA’s financial director, and Jim Hayes, who will serve as technology direc- tor, will assist him. The board voted at its summer THE 2012 CLASS meeting in Nashville May 29-31. by Ann Marie Deer Owens, (B.A., 1976)

Three Vanderbilt Student Media alumni who demonstrated leadership as student journalists and then achieved remarkable success in careers that include sports writer, H H H television anchor and overseas financial reporter will be inducted into the Vanderbilt Student Media Hall of Fame on Oct. 26. Those selected for the 2012 class are Willie Geist, MSNBC morning show host and contributor to several NBC programs; Clay Harris, London-based journalist who spent much of his career at the Financial Times; and Lee Jenkins, senior sports writer for Sports Illustrated.

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Celebrating 45 years in 2012 H H H Induction Ceremony to be held Oct. 26 from 3:30 to 5 p.m. at the First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt H H H 2 tunnel vision bright lights an alumni column Student Media Awards 2012 A funny thing happened on the way to my career by Zhubin Parang, Class of '03

On a rainy day in the spring of 2003, I stepped off of Vanderbilt’s campus a wide-eyed graduate, clutch- ing a diploma and ready to take on the world. I was 22 years old, and I thought I knew all there was to know Annual VSC reception in Sarratt 189 Wednesday, April 18, 2012. The reception recognized incoming and outgoing stu- about life. dent media leaders, in addition to awarding the WRVU award to sophomore Neal Cotter (left) and the Charles Forrest Alexandar Award in Journalism to senior Andrew Kirkman (right). photos by Chris Honiball Nine years later, I look back on that day and see that I was right. Frankly, life WAVE, VTV’s annual studio kickoff show, The plays itself out fairly predict- Battle of the Bands, and Dance Marathon. ably. You meet a bunch of The Alexander His crowning achievement came when he Parang jerks, spend most of your secured the exclusive announcement of the time doing paperwork, and Award in Journalism 2012 Rites of Spring lineup for VTV. Kirkman eventually die. Any 22-year-old can see that. produced a show that was watched by nearly But did I truly foresee how successful I myself would become? Graduating senior Andrew Kirkman 1,000 people online, along with many more Again, yes. As the son of upper-middle class professionals and received The Charles Forrest Alexander Award watching on cable channel 6, making it by far graduate of an elite university, my odds of failure were practically in Journalism, which also was awarded during the largest audience ever for a live program on non-existent. I mean, worst-case scenario, I’d just become a con- VSC's April 18 ceremony. The award is pre- VTV. sultant. sented annually to a student who has achieved After graduation, Andrew is headed to a job But instead, I write for television, which by the standards of distinction in Vanderbilt student journalistic at CBS News in New York. modern American society ranks me among the most wildly suc- projects. The selection criteria for the Alexander Award cessful graduates in Vandy history. (I stand only behind MSNBC include the degree of participation in student host Willie Geist, who is on-camera and is therefore better.) By journalism, objectivity and thoroughness, day I rub elbows with the Hollywood elite on studio lots, while regard for journalistic ethics, and the impact my nights are a blur of rubbing elbows with the Hollywood of journalistic activities on student life at elite at various award ceremonies. Weekends I relax at one of the Vanderbilt. French Caribbean islands, rubbing soothing ointment on my chafed elbows. Which is not to say I predicted that my success would be through television writing. Initially I intended for my career to be WRVU Award spent as an attorney representing the disadvantaged poor, which evolved after graduation to a career representing corporations The WRVU Award for Dedication to disadvantaging the poor. But from the start, my experiences at Excellence in Radio was presented to Neal Vanderbilt guided me inexorably to what the French call “creative Cotter during VSC's annual year-end awards expression” when they’re speaking English. ceremony on April 18. Cotter served as the For one thing, my experience writing for The Hustler and WRVU training director, and his unique Orbis taught me the value of aggressive, quality page-one news approach to this vital position at WRVU was reporting, in that it provides a protective shell for the valuable Media students look on during the annual VSC revelatory. He not only held a first-of-its-kind opinion columns on page four. The reporting itself is mostly Awards Reception. group training session in Studio C, but also worthless, beyond allowing readers to safely spill Rand hot sauce recorded and posted several training videos on the investigative piece exposing tuition embezzlement on Kirkman first participated in Vanderbilt that will serve as a resource for new trainees their way to reading what a freshman thinks about abortion. Student Media when he attended the Media for years to come. He also hosts the popular As a television writer – which I am, I write for television – I Immersion training program in August 2009. “Mercury Retrograde” show and served as use this knowledge to comment on society in a way that mini- He immediately developed, produced and office manager prior to taking over as training mizes an audience’s thought and maximizes its emotion, ideally hosted VTV’s first morning news program, director midway through the fall semester. in a form of patriotic but titillated outrage. It’s the best way to Morning VU, which has since produced more The WRVU award was endowed in 2007 attract advertising revenue, at least until the final triumph of the than 150 episodes. Kirkman resurrected VTV by former WRVU General Manager Dr. Jamie world socialist revolution over the United States renders money News and developed it into a meaningful Noble, and is presented annually to an under- obsolete and ushers in a bikini paradise. operation with weekly broadcasts covering a graduate Vanderbilt student who is a current But Vanderbilt was also instrumental to my personal devel- range of campus events. During his two-year WRVU DJ, a member of the executive staff, and opment. My views on relationships were forged in the crucible of tenure as station manager, the number of origi- one who has shown excellence beyond expec- Vanderbilt, when Kelly and I first started dating freshman year, nal shows tripled, as did the number of student tations for their position in their dedication and then in junior year mutually agreed to mutually break up in participants. to WRVU either in listenership, programming, a very mutual way. Since then I have dated many, many beautiful Kirkman anchored live coverage of the heat- music education of the public, engineering, or women, all of whom have definitely agreed that Kelly is missing ed Vanderbilt Town Hall meeting in January. financial support. out. You made a huge mistake, Kelly. A huge mutual mistake. He also produced multiple live events on cam- pus, including the Lambda Drag Show, Spoken But from this I learned the many ways that men and women H H H are different, and my work in television writing – that is my Word, MOSAICS, VTV Live on the Commons,

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Edited by Alumni are invited to attend the 2012 induction ceremony Chris Carroll and Paige Clancy A ceremony and reception to honor the fourth or to society in general. Stories by Ann Marie Deer Owens and Zhubin Parang class of inductees is scheduled from 3:30 to Induction into the 5 p.m. on Oct. 26 at the First Amendment Hall of Fame is Photos by Chris Honiball Center at Vanderbilt. The event will be held the highest hon-

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WiLLie GeiSt Lee JenKinS CLaY HarriS Geist is the host of MSNBC’s “Way Too Early Jenkins, like Geist, started off covering sports Harris, who grew up in Tampa, Fla., came to with Willie Geist,” co-host of “” and a at the Hustler. Another similarity between the two Vanderbilt as a national merit scholar. The univer- frequent fill-in for on the Today show. He inductees is that they both have fathers who are sity’s lack of a journalism school actually attracted has a video blog on MSNBC.com called Zeitgeist. journalists. Geist’s dad reports for CBS News Sunday him to campus, as he preferred to focus on the lib- Geist grew up in Ridgewood, N.J., and had the Morning while Jenkins’ father is a columnist for the eral arts. Harris majored in history and economics. distinction of being captain of both the Ridgewood San Diego Union Tribune. Among Harris’ mentors at the Hustler was edi- High football and basketball teams. As a Vanderbilt Jenkins grew up in San Diego and was awarded tor Jeff Davis, who had no problem marking up freshman, Geist tried out for the men’s basketball the Russell-Rice Sportswriting Scholarship in 1993. reporters’ copy with a red pencil. After Harris tried team. That didn’t work out, but he found his way “Tyler Kepner assigned me my first story for the writing in “stream of consciousness” for a story into Memorial Gym by volunteering at the women’s Hustler on Vanderbilt baseball player Josh Paul, who about Impact speaker Allard Lowenstein, Davis basketball practices. later went pro, before I had finished moving into advised him not to try that again. “In a remarkable He was first a staff sports writer and then an my dorm,” Jenkins said. way we were self-taught. None of us was a journal- associate sports editor for The Vanderbilt Hustler. “I Jenkins served as Hustler editor-in-chief, which ism major,” said Harris, who was editor-in-chief had never covered sports because I’d been playing he calls “the best job I ever had.” He remembers his senior year. “We learned that journalism was them my whole life,” Geist said. “Sports writing pasting up copy and pulling all-nighters on Sundays not only reporting and writing stories. There was kept me close to the games in college. My classmate and Wednesdays to get the paper done. “We would also an industrial process that required us to go to Tyler Kepner, who was a Fred Russell-Grantland finish around 6 a.m. and head to Pancake Pantry,” Murfreesboro to oversee the offset printing.” Rice Sportswriting Scholar, was a great friend and he said. “The staff had tremendous energy and Harris competed with some 1,200 applicants editor at The Hustler. It’s been exciting to watch him spirit as we challenged each other to improve. I can for a Washington Post internship after his junior year reach such great heights.” remember writing wonderfully long stories, some and won a coveted slot with the Los Angeles Times/ Geist was named a contributing editor of The with only two quotes in them. We were testing News Service. Harris was hired Hustler his senior year. Meanwhile, his interest in limits of what we could do.” by the Tampa Times after graduation. In '73 the American, and particularly Southern, politics deep- Jenkins, an American Studies major, said cer- Washington Post offered him a position in London, ened with classes from political scientists like John tain professors were sympathetic to the long hours where he would select and edit stories for their syn- Geer, Bruce Oppenheimer and John Kuzenski. of putting out the paper. Classes that he took with dication clients. Geist earned his bachelor’s degree in political Professor of English Kate Daniels and the late “This was long before the Internet and email so science in 1997. He jumped into sports television as Walter Sullivan were among his favorites. we were dealing with satellite windows, ticker tapes an editor and producer for CNN/Sports Illustrated, Jenkins recommends student journalists read and telex operators,” Harris said. During that time a 24-hour sports network based in Atlanta. “Starting extensively and take time to absorb the words on Harris met the man of his dreams and they have as a production assistant, I learned every inch of the the page. “You might tend to mimic other people’s been together for more than 38 years. That relation- television business,” Geist said. He later became a voices at first, but eventually you will find your own ship was a deciding factor in Harris' decision to producer and writer for Fox Sports Net. voice,” he said. “Strive to grow as a writer.” settle in London and build his career there. In 2005 Geist joined MSNBC as a senior pro- After graduation, Jenkins covered UCLA bas- In 1979 Harris became a news editor at the ducer for “The Situation with Tucker Carlson.” His ketball and football for the Orange County Register Financial Times, which was launching its first inter- newsroom banter with Carlson became a regular and the Colorado Avalanche and Denver Nuggets national edition. "The stories needed to be written feature of the program where Geist would report for The Colorado Springs Gazette. In 2003 he joined in 'neutral' clear English without ideological bias – and offer his unique spin on the day’s news. Geist’s , where his assignments included meaning that they could be understood just as eas- big break came in 2007 when he was named co-host being the beat reporter for the New York Mets. ily to readers in D.C. as to those in Paris or Bonn," of Morning Joe, which has grown to become argu- Jenkins’ numerous honors include first place in Harris said. ably television’s most influential political show. the New York Press Association (Sports Reporting) He stayed at the Financial Times for nearly 30 “I encourage students to focus on liberal arts category and the Football Writers Association of years in a variety of reporting and editing positions and to simply get smart,” he said. “Take political America (Best Game Story). In 2007 he was named and created Mudlark, a financial diary column, science, history, economics and whatever else inter- senior writer at Sports Illustrated, where he has before retiring in 2007. ests you. That base of knowledge will prepare you covered everything from the Super Bowl to the NBA Harris is now a freelance columnist for Securities to think critically about the world. We can teach you finals, with an emphasis on feature writing. Jenkins & Investment Review. He said that a liberal arts edu- the ropes of journalism later.” Geist lives in New lives in Los Angeles with his wife, alumna Elizabeth cation was integral to his success. "I would not be York City with his wife, alumna Christina Sharkey Cook Jenkins, and their two children. where I am today without a Vanderbilt education or Geist (’97), and their two children. the Hustler," he said.

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distant voices alumni updates A glimpse into a few lives that helped shape student media at Vandy

1958 transports a mafia-related whiskey mogul to column about politics and culture for an "alter- brought to market the award winning Troy & Franklin County, Virginia, described in a non- native alternative" paper here in Nashville, but Sons Platinum Moonshine. This summer we fiction book by Matt Bondurant as "The Wettest it folded owing me about $800 and, except for will release Troy & Sons Oak Reserve which is a David Halpern * B.A., 1958 County in the World." Starring in the movie are office memos and court briefs, I haven't written moonshine that has been mellowed in bourbon (WRVU) Halpern lives in Santa Fe, NM, and said: Gary Oldman, Shia LeBoeuf, Tom Hardy, Guy a lick since. barrels. Our products are made using a white Continuing a long career as a photographer of the Pearce, Jessica Chastain and Mia Wasikowska. heirloom corn that was virtually extinct, which I A trailer for the movie can be seen now on the 1976 found growing on one family farm in Old Fort, Internet. Marc, a retired Coca-Cola Company North Carolina. exec, was told by his wife Deedee: "At least some- Irvin Muchnick H 1976 one in the family is working." (The Vanderbilt Hustler) Muchnick lives in Greg Alldredge H B.A., 1981 Berkeley, CA, and said: My rebranded website, (The Vanderbilt Hustler) Alldredge lives in 1969 http://concussioninc.net, is a go-to place for Knoxville, TN, and said: Employed with Scripps journalists and opinion-makers seeking info on Networks as Director of Business Affairs since Mary Margaret Oliver H B.A., 1969 the backstage political maneuvering and cottage 2006. (The Vanderbilt Hustler) Oliver lives in Decatur, industries emerging from the football concussion GA, and said: Currently serving as State crisis. I regularly am interviewed on radio and 1983 Representative for the 83rd District of Georgia. TV, and I have published five ebooks: three from Appointed by Governor Nathan Deal to serve on the "Concussion Inc." imprint, plus histories of Lisa Marie Collins Huddleston H B.A., the Special Council on Criminal Justice Reform the Signature Pharmacy steroid prosecution and 1983 which led to the passage of a sweeping Criminal of the USA Swimming youth coach sex abuse Huddleston lives in Lebanon, TN, and said: Lisa Justice Reform Bill in the 2012 Legislative Session. scandal. A revised edition of my 2009 book from recently graduated from Union University with a In 2011, in honor of the 175th anniversary of ECW Press, "CHRIS & NANCY: The True Story of Master of Christian Studies degree (MCS, 2012) Emory University, was named one of 30 women the Benoit Murder-Suicide and Pro Wrestling's and is working as a life coach, freelance writer, out of 175 Emory History Makers. Practicing law Cocktail of Death," will be published this sum- and a volunteer at the in Decatur. mer. My new book, "The Concussion Inc. Files," Cumberland Crisis will be published in early 2013. Pregnancy Center. She 1970 is looking forward to 1977 an exciting summer Doorways in Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Culture with two of her three National Historic Park, New Mexico John Donaldson H B.A., 1970 (Commodore yearbook) Donaldson lives in Ned Pillersdorf H B.A., 1977 children getting mar- American landscape, I've moved to New Mexico Alexandria, VA, and said: In December, 2010, (The Vanderbilt Hustler, Versus magazine) Pillersdorf ried--Sarah in June and where I'm photographing places important to I retired after 16 years doing External Affairs lives in Van Lear, KY, and said: Practicing law in Chad in July. (Nick has Native American cultures, serving on the board of for the World Bank Group. This was part of a Prestonsburg Ky. Campaign manager for Court of to wait his turn--not the New Mexico chapter of the American Society communications career of more than 40 years Appeals Judge Janet Stumbo. Janet is seeking to this year!) She and of Media Photographers, teaching photography in Washington, including time working in the return to the Kentucky supreme court. The elec- Huddleston her husband, Chuck workshops and writing a blog about photography Legislative and Executive Branches of govern- tion will be held 3 days after Janet and I celebrate Huddleston (BS '83), @ http://www.davidhalpern.com/blog.html. ment, as well as for an international public affairs our 28th wedding anniversary. are enjoying the mostly empty nest and having a company. I am now taking on a bit of consult- great time biking, kayaking, and enjoying dinners 1959 ing, but also enjoying volunteer work with Little Jefferson Perry Knight H B.A., 1977 for two on the town or the patio. League Baseball and other groups. (The Vanderbilt Hustler, The Vanderbilt Review) Daniel H. Monroe Jim Dunn H B.A., 1959 Knight lives in Miami, FL, and said: August 2011 H B.A., 1983 (The Vanderbilt Hustler) Dunn lives in Chesterfield, Truett K. Smith H appointed by Florida Governor Rick Scott to the (Versus magazine, MO, and said: I retired from "regular work" as a B.E., 1970 Judicial Nominating Commission for Judges of The Vanderbilt Poetry corporate executive in 1999. I was with Eastman (WRVU) Smith lives Compensation Claims. April 2012 appointed Review) Monroe lives Kodak, Corning Glass, Swiss Aluminium and in Nashville, TN, and General Counsel of Republican Party of Miami- in Birmingham, AL, Boeing. I believe my time at The Hustler, along said: I started Media/ Dade County. and said: Our agency, with a number of other factors, helped me later Broadcast Integration Cayenne Creative, in my career. Since 1999 I have had a number of and Technical Services, 1979 (www.cayennecreative. other activities that I always wanted to do. These Inc. (M/BITS) in 2001. com), which just saw include teaching chemistry (at Missouri Baptist We have now complet- Richard Chenoweth H B.S., 1979 its 8th birthday, has University) and a heavy dose of volunteering. ed 10 years in business (WRVU, Versus magazine) Chenoweth lives in Monroe recently been notified My wife Mary Jo and I live in a St. Louis suburb and specialize in work- Princeton, NJ, and said: I have launched my Truett Smith, BEEE that we've won three and enjoy lots of grandchildren. I enjoy inter- ing with television movie project 1970, President of M/ National ADDY® awards, two for pro-bono work viewing prospective Vanderbilt students for the BITS broadcasters and other on Kickstarter. we did on behalf of The Birmingham Education CoRPs program each year. Attending my "Quinq" clients who use profes- com. Go there Foundation (Ed), and one for a self promotional Reunion in 2009 was a great experience. sional broadcast equipment. We offer design, and search the gift. I was up in Nashville for the District ADDY consulting, and integration services that help our title, "The Most awards, where we took Best in Show honors for clients migrate from analog to high definition Beautiful Room 1960 the Ed work and gold and silver ADDYs for a platforms. Besides TV broadcasters, our clients in the World." also include Vanderbilt University as well as number of other efforts, and enjoyed a trip down Chuck Nord H B.A., 1960 Contribute to many other sports venues belonging to profes- memory lane along with various downtown (The Vanderbilt Hustler, VSC Board member) this project and sional sports teams and universities. We expand- diversions. I was amazed to see all of the changes Nord lives in Bradenton, FL, and said: My wife help give back ed our staff last year and are looking forward to a at our alma mater! (Laurie Ford, '60) and I divide our time between this amazing lost robust 2012. All this began with my being a staff Bradenton, FL and Nashville, TN. I am still active history to the engineer for WRVU in the sixties when it was a 1984 in the life and health insurance business and American peo- carrier current AM radio station. It has been an have no plans to retire. We spend as much time ple! It's the story exciting career! Steven David Hall H B.S., 1984 as possible with our four children and seven of how Benjamin (WRVU) Hall lives in Fort Myers, FL, and said: grandchildren. Jefferson inspects the Latrobe built 1972 roof framing of the Capitol. the Capitol dur- This past December, I turned 50! Hard to believe Digital painting by Richard how the years have passed quickly. My wife and 1964 Chenoweth. ing the Jefferson Watkins "Noggin" Administration. I celebrated our 20th anniversary just over a year Guice Wild H B.A., This period of construction was all lost when ago. My son just turned 18 this year, too. I work G. Marc Hamburger H B.A., 1964 1972 the British burned the building during the War for Ericsson as an area manager and live in Fort (The Vanderbilt Hustler, Commodore yearbook) X (Commodore yearbook) of 1812. I've painstakingly researched and rebuilt Myers FL. Hamburger lives in Atlanta, GA, and said: An Wild lives in McComb, everything based on drawings and letters. The antique car owned by Marc Hamburger, BA MS, and said: Owner Hall of Representatives was thought to be one of Stephen Andrew Kennedy H B.A., 1984 '64, "stars" with six Hollywood actors in the of ERA Wild Realty. the most beautiful chambers in the world, but I (The Vanderbilt Hustler, Versus magazine) Kennedy Prohibition-era movie, "Lawless," to be released Currently serving as won't be able to tell the story until this movie gets lives in Dallas, TX, and said: Stephen Kennedy August 31, 2012. The car, a 1931 Pierce-Arrow, state president of the made. Richard continues to represent clients in intellectual Mississippi Association property matters, primarily in litigation. He has of Realtors. 1981 represented recording artist Don Henley in a right Wild of publicity case and numerous authors of artistic works in copyright Troy Wigginton Ball H B.S., 1981 and trademark (The Vanderbilt Hustler) Ball lives in Asheville, NC, Peggy Jo Shaw H matters, such as and said: While at Vanderbilt I was the Business B.A., 1972 photographers manager for the Vanderbilt Hustler. After help- (The Vanderbilt Hustler) adverse to ESPN ing my special needs son to publish a best sell- Shaw lives in Decatur, and Walt Disney ing book in 1999 and doing a national media GA, and said: Director for copyright tour which included of Public Relations, infringement; art- appearing on the Holy Innocents' ists adverse to art Oprah Winfrey Episcopal School. galleries for com- Show, we moved 1931 Pierce-Arrow Model 41 Club Sedan (LeBaron) Children's books mission rights; to Asheville, North author. Owner: Wren architects in copy- Carolina in 2004. Cottage Writing & right infringe- Shaw Today I am one of Editing. ment matters; and four women in the a Western artist country that has HHH famous for creat- founded and owns a Kennedy ing championship 1974 distillery - Asheville rodeo trophies and buckles whose artistic work Distilling Company. was infringed by numerous silversmiths across UPDATE Cecil Ross H B.A., 1974 I studied the art of the country. He continues to represent regional your contact information at (Versus magazine) Ross lives in Nashville, TN, fine moonshine and international software companies in copy- and said: Since leaving Vanderbilt I've been an Troy Ball, photo taken by making for real right and patent infringement matters. In the VUconnect.com Army officer, a grad student (PhD in American Rachel MacIntosh at the mountain men, as Old Fort Farm. past, he has represented the sole true inventor of History) and finally a lawyer currently working opposed to the rot the patent covering PRK or Lasik; has represented for the State. For about a year and a half I had a gut type that many have encountered, and have Issue 16 • Spring 2012 5

a SOX whistleblower against Berkshire Hathaway; lives in Moorpark, 1992 1997 and has represented investment bankers in com- CA, and said: My plex commercial litigation. Mr. Kennedy contin- new book is out! Serdar Uckun H Ph.D., 1992 Tim Peterson H B.A., 1997 ues to oppose Vanderbilt's admissions policy of Unswept Graves, a (Versus magazine) Uckun lives in Palo Alto, CA, (The Vanderbilt Hustler) Peterson lives in admitting students regardless of their ability to historical novel for and said: Serdar Uckun is Founder and CEO Washington, DC, and said: Tim and Danielle pay for tuition as an unsound financial decision middle school read- of CyDesign Labs, a rapidly growing Silicon Peterson welcomed the birth of Brynn Catherine for the school which has the further adverse effect ers about Chinese Valley software company developing tools for the Peterson on April 26th. Big brothers Owen (5) of teaching entitlement-mentality economics to immigrants in 1898 design of complex systems such as automobiles and Cole (3) are pretty excited about their new this nation's future leadership. San Francisco. This is and aircraft. sister. Tim and family continue to live in the my fourth book over- DC area where Tim is a Principal at SunBridge Nadine Samter H B.A., 1984 all, and my second Andrew Maraniss H B.A., 1992 Capital leading the firm’s private equity investing. (The Vanderbilt Hustler, Versus magazine, with publisher Royal (The Vanderbilt Hustler, Commodore yearbook) Commodore yearbook) Samter lives in Seattle, WA, Fireworks Press. You Maraniss lives in Brentwood, TN, and said: After Langdon Shoop H B.A., 1997 and said: I am an attorney at the Federal Trade can find out more at (The Vanderbilt Hustler, Versus magazine) Shoop Commission for a long time now, enforcing fed- my author website, lives in Lexington, KY, and said: Very excited to eral consumer protection laws. My husband is an Here's the cover for http://www.rablack. my new book, Unswept be headed back to Vandy this fall for the 15 year arborist (tree guy) for the City of Seattle and we com/. Graves. reunion. Looking forward to seeing some old have a ten year old daughter who keeps us very friends, and seeing what is etched into the picnic busy and honest. table these days at McGill. 1985 1987 Beth Rives Chesterton H B.S., M.Ed, Adam Dread H B.A., 1985 1987 (WRVU) Dread lives in Nashville, TN, and said: I (The Vanderbilt Hustler, WRVU) Chesterton lives am a managing partner at a boutique law firm in in St. Louis, MO, and said: In addition to recent Hillsboro Village (right around the corner from radio voice over work (which was fun) and partial Eliza Maraniss looks cute in her Easter dress, our old favorite water- but dad Andrew is also impressed with her ball- ownership in a great local publication, Town & ing hole, Faison's.) throwing skills. Style, I've recently launched Chesterton & Co., a I've been doing quite new company that designs coaching and personal 14 years with McNeely Pigott & Fox Public a bit of entertainment development programs for individuals and com- Relations in Nashville, I became a partner at the law including being panies. I've spent the last 20 years working with firm in February. I'm continuing to write a biog- involved in the remov- Fortune 500 companies training leadership teams raphy of former Commodore Perry Wallace, with al of celebrity sex tapes based on Dr. Kathryn Cramer’s book “Change 17 chapters done and about six more to go. Most from the Internet. I This photo was taken in Cleveland at Paul the Way You See Everything” through asset-based important, my 18-month-old daughter, Eliza, Richter's wedding (VU class of 1998, Versus) Left also handle a lot of thinking. Of course, working with Vanderbilt appears to be developing a rocket of a throwing is John Parker (VU class of 1999). Middle is me. DUIs (when you visit Right is Paul. alums is some of my favorite work! arm and I look forward to the day we take to the Nashville, be aware softball field together. of two DUI traps; one This photo was taken Tonnya Kennedy Kohn H B.S., 1987 Linsey Lewis Hasenbank H B.A., 1997 on Nantucket for the near Vandy across from (The Vanderbilt Hustler, Versus magazine) Kohn 1993 (The Vanderbilt Review) Hasenbank lives in newspaper when I the Holiday Inn, and released my second lives in Columbia, SC, and said: After 21 years Franklin, TN, and said: This summer, my family one at I-440 and 21st book, entitled "You've as a journalist, most recently managing editor of Shelley Lynn Jarrard H B.S., 1993 is moving from my hometown of Houston to Obviously Spent Time Avenue. Slow down The (Columbia, SC) State, I left that profession (The Vanderbilt Hustler) Jarrard lives in Salt Lake Franklin, Tennessee! I never imagined I'd return On Nantucket If... there...) Rarely a week ACK't II" and attended the University of South Carolina City, UT, and said: Head Women's Basketball to Tennessee, but we're super excited about liv- goes by when some cli- School of Law. I am currently the law clerk Coach at Westminster College in Salt Lake City. ing a simpler, slower paced life on a small farm. ent or lawyer doesn't hear my name and mention for South Carolina Circuit Court Judge Clifton I'll continue designing custom Christmas cards the old "Happy Camper Show" on 91-ROCK. I Newman and plan to open a general law practice (www.LLHdesigns.com) and my husband will still run into Webb Wilder and members of the 1995 later this year. start a new sports chiropractic clinic in Nashville multitude of local bands who graced our studio. (www.DrHasenbank.com). I hope to see lots of Jessica Ehrlich H B.A., 1995 Most of my escapades are on Facebook. you at the reunion! 1988 (The Vanderbilt Hustler) Ehrlich lives in St. 1986 Petersburg, FL, and said: I am running for U.S. Trey Beasley H B.A., 1988 Congress in my hometown of St. Petersburg, 1998 (WRVU) Beasley lives in Nashville, TN, and said: Florida (FL-13). After Thomas Hodges H B.A., 1986 In the summer of 2007, my wife, Vanessa (VU graduating from Lauren Schmitzer H B.A., 1998 (WRVU) Hodges lives in Vienna, VA, and said: Class of '88), and I were both fortunate enough Vanderbilt, I worked (The Vanderbilt Hustler) Schmitzer lives in Thomas Hodges is brushing up on his Chinese in to get jobs at Vanderbilt. She is an Associate in international busi- Nashville, TN, and said: My first stageplay had a preparation for his August assignment as Public Professor in Communication Studies and I am ness before attending great 2nd run this May in Nashville. "Chlamydia Affairs Officer at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing. in Vanderbilt's Treasury Office after 15 years at law school at Southern is Not a Flower (and other love lessons I missed)" JP Morgan Chase Bank. Our oldest son, Adam Methodist University debuted as the finale of the TN Women's Theatre Gregory Mayback H B.E., 1986 (14), will be a freshman at University School of and transitioning to Festival in 2011 and was a critic's pick in the (Commodore yearbook) Mayback lives in Fort Nashville next fall, and Charlie (9) will be enter- a career in public ser- Nashville Scene for this run. Hope to bring it to Lauderdale, FL, and said: I was selected by the edi- ing 3rd grade at his school. In addition to enjoy- vice. I have worked as the festival circuit and/or other great city theaters torial staff of Florida's Daily Business Review as ing time with my wonderful family, I love officiat- an attorney for mem- this year. the "2010 Most Effective Lawyer" for Intellectual ing high school basketball here in Nashville--and bers of Congress on Property for the work that I did in a patent cheering for the Commodores! some of today's most Julie Petersen H B.A., 1998 infringment suit by an inventor against Home pressing issues: Social (The Vanderbilt Hustler, Versus magazine, The Depot, in which the plaintiff inventor won an Ehrlich 1989 Security, the budget, Vanderbilt Review) Petersen lives in Petaluma, CA, and financial sector regulation. Since returning and said: Vanderbilt alum Julie (Landry) Petersen and husband Troy Petersen welcomed Zadie Marleen (Marlena) McClure H B.S., home to care for my ailing father, I've seen how Rae Petersen to their family on March 16, 2012 1989 my neighbors, family, and friends are struggling in Petaluma, CA. She joins big brother Zachary (WRVU) McClure lives as a result of the recession. I decided that now James Petersen, age 3, who's thrilled to have her in Nashville, TN, and is the time to get off the sidelines and make real around! said: I'm still living in change. I am running for Congress to be an advo- the Belmont/Hillsboro cate for the people of Pinellas County. To learn Village area, cob- more about my campaign, I hope you will visit bling together various my website at www.EhrlichforCongress.com or part-time positions, check out my campaign on Facebook (facebook. com/JessicaEhrlichforCongress) and Twitter (@ McClure working for entertain- ment attorneys, the JessEhrlich). Nashville Film Festival, and recently started at The Ranch in Nunnelly, Tennessee. I have two 1996 guinea pigs. Chad Gervich H B.A., 1996 1990 (The Vanderbilt Hustler, WRVU, Vanderbilt Television) Gervich lives in Los Angeles, CA, and George Bevington H B.A., 1990 said: I recently finished writing/producing on Catherine Hoffman is my wife and law partner. "After Lately," starring Chelsea Handler, and am This is a photo of counterfeit bags our firm seized (Versus magazine) Bevington lives in Atlanta, GA, before they were destroyed. and said: I am the academic dean of the Walker now writing for "Dog With a Blog," an upcom- ing sitcom on the Disney Channel. I'm also School in Marietta, Georgia, and am expecting Zadie Rae Petersen on her first walk, March 2012 award of almost $25,000,000. For the past seven working on two new books, "Psych's Guide to years in a row, I was selected in the list of Florida's Crimefighting for the Totally Unqualified" (a tie- SuperLawyers and was featured in the 2010 edi- in book with the TV show "Psych"), and "How To 2001 tion of the magazine. Florida Trend Magazine Manage Your Agent," a Hollywood how-to book. named me as a Florida Legal Elite for the past Both come out next spring. I also continue to run Kedron Thomas H B.A., 2001 five years in a row. Since I became a Registered Vandy-in-Hollywood, Vanderbilt's professional (The Vanderbilt Hustler) Thomas lives in St. Louis, Patent Attorney, I have been involved in the issu- network of alumni and students working in (or MO, and said: In November 2010, Pete (Benson) ance of over 1,250 U.S. patents. In September of interested in working in) Hollywood. You can and I had a baby boy, Emmanuel Blair. He's 2011, I was a member of a private team that built learn more about us at www.vandyinhollywood. now a year and a half old, walking, talking, and and launched a rocket, named "QU8K" that rose com. keeping us very busy. In the past year, I also fin- to over 121,000 feet and, during the flight, took ished my PhD in social anthropology at Harvard on-board video. The videos have been viewed Sovana Paul Moore H B.S., M.D., 1996 University and accepted a faculty position in over 1,300,000 times by YouTube viewers. The (Commodore yearbook) Moore lives in the anthropology department at Washington team was recognized as winning a $2,500 partial Murfreesboro, TN, and said: My husband, University in St. Louis, where Pete also teaches. prize in the $10,000 Carmack Challenge - a chal- Steve Moore (B.S., 1996), and I are living in A big hello to all of my former colleagues at the lenge requiring participants to send their private Murfreesboro, TN. I am practicing OB/GYN at Hustler. rocket to over 100,000 feet, obtain GPS tracking, Women's Health Specialists. We have one child, and recover it intact.This is a photo of counterfeit Kathleen and I on the Ponte degli Scalzi in Venice, Shelby. We miss the days of meeting friends at Fernando J Suarez H B.A., 2001 July, 2011. bags our firm seized before they were destroyed. the wall in between classes and hanging out with (Vanderbilt Television) Suarez lives in London, UK, a baby boy with my lovely wife Kathleen, some everyone at Rand Hall. and said: CBS News London bureau producer Robert Black H B.E., 1986 time around Bastille Day, 2012. We were married covering foreign news for all CBS platforms, pri- (The Vanderbilt Hustler, WRVU, Versus magazine, on June 25, 2011, in Chicago, then ventured to marily the CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley. Commodore yearbook, The Vanderbilt Review) Black Italy for our honeymoon. 6 tunnel vision

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2002 ing the semester as the Fall Writer-in-Residence 2006, D'nelle is finally dedicating herself full- tising for IAC, manag- at Interlochen Academy for the Arts in Michigan. time to running Berry Interesting Productions, ing digital advertis- Inc., providing digital branding development & ing for Match.com, Adrian Hill H B.A., 2002 Cara Bohon H B.S., consulting services to small businesses. Evite, Barnes & Noble, (Vanderbilt Television) Hill lives in Chicago, IL. 2004 Sparknotes.com and (The Vanderbilt Hustler, 2006 more. She also writes Commodore yearbook) the humorous lifestyle Bohon lives in San Jodi McShan H B.S., 2006 blog SewFetch.com. Francisco, CA, and (Commodore yearbook) McShan lives in Dallas, In her free time, she said: Cara Bohon TX, and said: Jodi McShan is now a family law enjoys the pursuit of will begin work at attorney, practicing at Withers & Withers, P.C. in Manhattan's perfect Stanford University Dallas, Texas. Bogopolskaya charcuterie. in July 2012. She will H be an assistant profes- 2007 Lewis F Saettel M.S., 2010 sor in the Department Saettel lives in Nashville, TN, and said: I am cur- Hill with wife Carol, daughter Katie of Psychiatry and rently employed with Vanderbilt University School Cara Bohon, photo by Charlie Lockwood H B.A., 2007 Jill DiMartino Behavioral Sciences. of Engineering as (The Vanderbilt Hustler, WRVU) Lockwood lives the Facilities and in Austin, TX, and said: Since graduating with 2003 Services Manager 2005 a BA in English/History & Ethnomusicology at for Featheringill Vanderbilt University in 2007, I earned an MA in Justin Wood H B.A., 2003, J.D., 2006 Hall and Science Jennifer Carlisle Dillard H B.A., 2005 Ethnomusicology at the University of California, (The Vanderbilt Hustler) Wood lives in Raleigh, and Engineering. (Orbis, The Vanderbilt Review, VSC Board member) Santa Barbara, where I played the 'ud (Arab short- NC, and said: Justin married Kelly (Atkinson) Featheringill Hall Dillard lives in Washington, DC, and said: Joel necked fretless lute) in the UCSB Middle East Wood on December 4, 2010. Groomsmen includ- is the flagship for Dillard (Orbis) and Jennifer Carlisle Dillard Ensemble, directed by Dr. Scott Marcus, one of ed Brad Golder ('03) of the Vanderbilt Hustler engineering and is (Orbis, Vanderbilt Review, VSC Board member) the foremost scholars of the Arab maqamat sys- and Vanderbilt Television, and Matthew Saul an eleven year old would like to announce the birth of their baby tem. In July 2010, I traveled to Cairo, Egypt with ('03) of Vanderbilt Television. Justin and Kelly renovation with girl, Junia Peace Dillard, on April 27, 2012. Joel the UCSB Middle East Ensemble to play a series now reside in Raleigh, NC where he is a lawyer beautiful class- is an attorney at the National Labor Relations of concerts at the Cairo Opera House. I currently with Troutman Sanders LLP. rooms, conference Board, and Jennifer is an attorney at the U.S. hold a position as Program Coordinator at Texas Lewis F. Saettel, FASM rooms, and seminar Department of Labor. Folklife, an Austin-based arts & culture non-profit Featheringill Hall, School 2004 of Engineering spaces. organization, and play music with the "Atlas Elizabeth Ashley Opderbeck H B.S., Maior" trio and "Austin Global Orchestra." www. Kate Zabbia Stuart H B.S., 2004 2005 facebook.com/atlasmaior www.texasfolklife.org (Versus magazine) Stuart lives in Nashville, TN, (The Vanderbilt Hustler, WRVU, Commodore year- and said: Kate (Zabbia) and JD Stuart welcomed 2011 book) Opderbeck lives in San Diego, CA, and said: 2008 their first child, Margaret "Maggie" Stuart, on Getting married May 19th, 2012. Graduated in Chris McDonald H B.A., 2011 February 24, 2012. March 2012. New job at Miva Merchant - eCom- Meredith Casey H B.A., 2008 (The Vanderbilt Hustler, Versus magazine, merce solutions - in San Diego, California. Robert Lawrence Shaw H B.S., 2004 (The Vanderbilt Hustler, InsideVandy.com) Casey InsideVandy.com, VSC Board member) McDonald lives in Washington, DC, and said: Meredith lives in Lexington, VA, and said: Chris McDonald (The Vanderbilt Hustler, Vanderbilt Television) Shaw Matt Galante H B.E., 2005 Casey joined the Washington, D.C. office of just finished his first year of law school at lives in New York, NY, and said: I head the broad- (Vanderbilt Television) Galante lives in New York, international communications firm, Fleishman- Washington & Lee University School of Law. He cast business for Bloomberg Sports while also NY, and said: Matt Galante '05 recently moved Hillard, as an Account Supervisor in May. She will be spending the summer back in Nashville leading our content generation. I still do some out to New York City to work as a Premium works with FH clients to plan and execute effec- on-air work as a sports analyst on Bloomberg TV, Experience Consultant for the New York Yankees. tive integrated marketing communications initia- Bloomberg Radio, as well as syndicated segments Matt is excited to be in the Big Apple and tives. Meredith enjoys leveraging her background on regional sports affiliates and USA Today. will focus on Client Services for season ticket in advertising, marketing, media planning, public Enjoying life in NYC with my wife of two years holders with premium seats at Yankee Stadium. relations, social media, and digital in this role. If Jennifer and our little pug Butch Huskey. You can Previously, Matt had worked for the Denver your company has needs, please contact her at follow my sports tweets: @RobShawSports Broncos for four seasons in Club Seat Services [email protected]. and Partnership Activation.

Robert Caldwell H B.S., 2005 2010 (The Vanderbilt Hustler, WRVU, VSC Board mem- ber) Caldwell lives in St. Louis, MO, and said: Michael Warren H B.A., 2010 Slowly climbing up the St. Louis music scene, (The Vanderbilt Hustler, WRVU, InsideVandy.com, attorney and defender of constitutional rights. The Torch, VSC Board member) Warren lives in Robert Caldwell's band Black Bears has become Arlington, VA, and said: I'm wrapping up my a well known and recognized St. Louis band. second year working at the Weekly Standard Check them out at www.facebook.com/black- magazine in Washington. As a reporter, I've spent bears.band. time covering the Republican presidential pri- mary in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Rob Shaw Covering Sporting Training for Chris McDonald '11 (Right) with Charlie Russell '11 Bloomberg Sports in Jupiter, FL D'nelle and Florida. I also report on Congress, federal and Anthony Vizcarra '11 at Homecoming Throneberry H and state elections, and other aspects of American B.A., 2005 politics. I was recently awarded a 2012 Robert as a legal intern for The Honorable Juliet Griffin, Meredith Gray Gray-Grener H B.A., (The Vanderbilt Hustler, Novak Journalism fellowship from the Phillips United States District Court, Middle District of MFA, 2004 Commodore yearbook, Foundation. I will use the part-time fellowship Tennessee. (The Slant, Spoon magazine) Gray-Grener lives Orbis, The Torch, The to work on a reporting project about race and in Nashville, TN, and said: After a great year in Vanderbilt Review, America politics. Aimee Sobhani H B.A., 2011 which both of us taught in the English depart- VSC Board member) (The Vanderbilt Hustler, Orbis) Sobhani lives in ment back at Vanderbilt, my husband (Adam Throneberry lives in Nikki Bogopolskaya H B.S., 2010 Atlanta, GA, and said: I just finished my first year Grener, '04) and I are moving to Baltimore, Nashville, TN, and said: (The Vanderbilt Hustler, Versus magazine, of law school at Emory University School of Law. where he is an ACLS New Faculty Fellow at Johns After starting her own InsideVandy.com) Bogopolskaya lives in New York, Hopkins University. First, though, I'll be spend- marketing company in NY, and said: Nikki is currently working in adver- H H H

Alumni Column, continued from page 2 job, writing for television – allows me to use the light being, with real feelings and tears. He is visibly hurt our nation will not return to the dark era when it was of my specific experiences to explore the universal by the public’s ignorance of this, and during our brief choked in the grip of an imperial president who execut- longing of the human condition, and through the encounters I saw real pain in his eyes as he pinned me ed suspected terrorists with impunity and commanded art of situation comedies to seek answers to the most down and forcibly cut my hair. lawless prison camps while drowning us in debt. elemental questions of the heart: Who is man? Who But despite his difficulty connecting with voters, Who knows which of these men will win in is woman? And how do they relate to each other? Of Romney remains within striking distance of President November? I do: President Obama. Again, it just seems course, for ratings purposes, the Barack Obama, thanks to the vast fairly predictable, and I’ve been batting a thousand on answers to those questions are: propaganda apparatus wielded by these predictions so far. But in a larger sense, the answer a relatable slacker, a gorgeous As a television writer – which I the political right. Operating over is irrelevant. So long as our great nation is populated by twenty-something, and through am, I write for television – I use multiple media outlets including successful Vanderbilt graduates who are television writ- quips and pop culture references. this knowledge to comment on Fox News, talk radio, the Wall ers, we're going to be alright. But whatever nuance is lost in the Street Journal, and the emails your Kelly, if you read this, give me a call. Facebook keeps editing bay, the important thing society in a way that minimizes aunt forwards to you, this appara- blocking my friend requests for some reason. is that a piece of me remains on an audience’s thought and tus employs the most sophisticat- the screen, for enough episodes maximizes its emotion, ideally ed techniques of viewer manipu- H H H to attract a lucrative syndication lation, from leggy blondes phras- in a form of patriotic but deal. ing accusations as questions to Zhubin Parang is a writer for The Daily Show With Jon And so I have remained titillated outrage. aging Irishmen phrasing ques- Stewart. His work has been published by McSweeney's and humbly grateful and faithful to tions as accusations. The Onion. Parang graduated in 2003 from the College of my Vanderbilt roots, even as my achievements as a suc- Arrayed against this media Wehrmacht is Rachel Arts and Science with a B.S. in political science and sociology, cessful television writer – television writer – have cata- Maddow, whose concentrated smugness is the left’s only and was the 2003 Sociology Major of the Year. He contrib- pulted me to the elite strata of American society. I have hope for Obama’s re-election. The match is uneven, uted to The Vanderbilt Hustler from 2000-2002 and to Orbis met Mitt Romney, and have learned that, contrary to to be sure, but the stakes are high. Securing a second from 2002-2003. Parang lives in New York, NY. common perception, he is not a robot but a live human Obama victory is the only way we can be assured that Issue 16 • Spring 2012 7

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Matt… of the Fred Russell-Grantland Rice TRA Sportswriting Foundation supports families Scholarship. He lives in Maryland and works as a part-time freelance journalist with a full-time career at dealing with cancer Deloitte Consulting. Jon Albert (B.S., 1984), a WRVU alumnus, founded Jack & Jill Late Stage Cancer Foundation as a "lasting and meaningful trib- Remembering Kim Chapin ute" to his wife Jill and their chil- Kim Chapin (B.A., 1964) died Nov. 23, 2001, and was dren Jamie and memorialized by Vanderbilt classmate Richard McCord Jake after he lost (B.A.,1964) in a reflection published in The Santa Jill to breast can- Fe New Mexican on Nov. 27. In "Kim Chapin: A lov- Matt Radford at Riverwood Mansion. cer in 2006. Albert ing husband and said JAJF was hon- father, an extraor- After six years of working in Student ored as the 2010 dinary journalist," Media at Vanderbilt, Art Director Matt Humanitarian of McCord wrote of Radford stepped down from his posi- the Year, spon- meeting Chapin, tion at the end of the spring semester. sored by American a Grantland Rice He and his wife Kimberly are taking Airlines, and in scholar, when over ownership of Riverwood Mansion, Albert 2011 as the Avis they were fresh- a successful wedding and events facil- National Spirit recipient at Yankee Stadium. JAJF has men working at ity in east Nashville. The 9,200 sq. ft. sent hundreds of cancer-inflicted families on memora- The Hustler. After home was built in the 1790's and hosts ble vacations to help take their minds off their troubles college, the duo an average of 65 weddings a year, as and create lasting family memories. shared an apart- well as additional corporate events and "Sadly, it is just too easy to find young moms and Chapin ment in Atlanta, school functions. He will be helping in dads in their 20s, 30s and 40s dying from cancer leaving where Chapin all aspects of day-to-day operations and behind their children, despite the advances in cancer covered stock-car racing in the early years of NASCAR is looking forward to re-branding the research as you appreciate," Albert said. "We are the only in the late 1960s. business, updating its website and estab- organization of its kind in the nation serving this over- "Kim next went to New York to write for Sports lishing a stronger web-presence through looked population nationally. We receive our families Illustrated magazine," McCord wrote. "There he found social media. strictly from Vanderbilt, Sarah Cannon, Emory, Moffitt, that the editors had a snooty attitude toward stock-car "I'm excited about my new career Duke, MD Anderson, City of Hope, UCLA, Sloane- racing, considering it a lowbrow pastime for rednecks opportunity but leaving Student Media Kettering, Cornell and other leading Oncology Centers/ and moonshiners. (To a large degree it was, back then.) is bittersweet. I am humbled by and Hospitals throughout the United States." But Kim lobbied for his sport, and prevailed. Soon long grateful for the chance to have worked feature articles, with his byline, began appearing on with such talented and inspiring stu- equal footing with big-time baseball, football, tennis dents and staffers over the past few and such." years. I plan to stay in touch and look Derr pens Russell bio McCord wrote that he and Chapin remained friends forward to seeing Vanderbilt Student and both found their way to the Santa Fe community, Media evolve in the coming years as Andrew Derr (B.A., 1996) recently published his book where they reconnected closely. He wrote, "But suddenly much as it has in the short time I've "Life of Dreams: The Good Times of Sportswriter Fred Kim is gone. Not real yet. There is a hole in my life. been lucky enough to have with this Russell," the first complete biography of Vanderbilt Goodbye, and rest in peace, old friend." amazing organization." alumnus Fred Russell, called one of the all-time stars in Matt and Kimberly were married in sports journalism. Derr was Vanderbilt's 1992 recipient Savannah, GA last October and are also expecting their first child this fall. PRSRT STD PAID U.S. Po STAgE FRA nklin, T n PermIt No. 357

Sarratt construction moves Student Media during summer Students and advisers at Student Media love to see alum- major renovation in more than a decade will feature enhanced ni visitors in The Tunnel, the nickname for Student Media's meeting and rehearsal spaces for student organizations, new space on the ground floor of the Sarratt Student Center. But offices and conference rooms and an expanded Varsity Market. this summer might not be the ideal time to pay a visit. Along Rand Dining Hall and the former Vanderbilt Bookstore space with several other offices in Sarratt, Student Media has relocat- will have a completely new layout and look, including overall ed and is operating in temporary office space for summer 2012 circulation improvements." due to a major renovation in Sarratt and Rand Dining Hall. Years ago, Student Media operated out of nearby Alumni The renovation required Student Media to completely va- Hall, which also is under construction. The university has said, cate the newsroom space and the advisers' offices so workers "significant renovations to Alumni Hall will create a new class- could access the ceilings in those areas, which otherwise won't room, music lounge, exercise room, writing center, faculty be affected by the renovation. Construction is expected to be office suite, café and expanded outdoor terraces, while main- complete in early August, and Student Media advisers are ea- taining the integrity of the building’s historic architecture." ger to move back so they can prepare for students' arrival for the fall semester. As always, alumni visitors are welcome, too. To learn more about the many construction projects on campus Sarratt will have a lot more to offer students when con- this summer, read the university's construction roundup online struction is complete, according to the university, "Sarratt’s first at news.vanderbilt.edu/2012/06/summer-construction-projects.