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12 Anna Laura Page Tribute magazine.austincollege.edu When Oscar Page steps down as Austin College president in June 2009, the community also will say goodbye to Anna Laura Page. The editor offers a closer look at the first lady. 10 More Summer VIP Experiences 13 Anna Laura Page Photos: The Austin College Years 14 Emily Austin: Frontier Woman for Modern Times 18 The Race for Madam President: Reflections from Kiki McLean It was Emily Austin who gave the initial gift to establish 21 At the Death House Door: Film Trailer and Details Austin College. She was a woman ahead of her time, 25 Ties to Presbyterian Seminaries Still Strong providing for her family when women had little to no power 26 Additional Opening of School Photos in society. A new biography by Light Cummins will give the 31 News Briefs Photos Texas pioneer woman a place in history she long has deserved. 33 More About the Presidents Climate Commitment 36 The Women’s Soccer Travel Blog 20 In the Shadow of Death 38 Legends Dinner and Golf Photos Carroll Pickett served as the Death House chaplain at Texas’ Huntsville Prison for 13 years, and his experiences have been made into a documentary released in May.

22 Wynne Chapel’s 50th Anniversary Built in 1958, Wynne Chapel has seen thousands of students come through its doors. In November, the College celebrates the 50th anniversary of the building’s dedication.

26 Winkler Presents Opening Address Henry Winkler shared words of inspiration and hope with students, faculty, staff, and guests at the official opening of the 160th academic year of the College.

28 Out of the Congo An Austin College art exhibit offers a look at African art that usually accessible only in major museums. The art objects, on loan from Austin College alumni, represent villagers’ gratitude to a missionary doctor. AC MagSept07:Layout 1 10/9/08 3:25 PM Page 3

AUSTIN COLLEGE

Oscar C. Page President Nan Davis Vice President for Institutional Enrollment Heidi Ellis Vice President for Business Affairs Mike Imhoff Vice President for Academic Affairs Jerry Holbert Vice President for Institutional Advancement Tim Millerick Vice President for Student Affairs and Athletics

AUSTIN COLLEGE MAGAZINE September 2008

20 Editor Vickie S. Kirby Senior Director of Editorial Communication

22 Design Mark Steele Art Director

Editorial Dara McCoy Senior Writer Jeff Kelly Sports Information Coordinator Victoria Hughes Production Coordinator Vickie S. Kirby

Photography Vickie S. Kirby

Office of College Relations Michael Strysick Executive Director

The Austin College Magazine is published by the Office of College Relations, Institutional Advancement Division. 28 The Office of College Relations retains the right to determine the editorial content and presentation of information contained herein. Articles or opinion written 26 by guest writers do not necessarily reflect official views or policy of Austin College and its Board of Trustees. IN EVERY ISSUE: Contact Austin College Magazine : Office of College Relations, Suite 6H Austin College 3 Faculty Notebook 900 North Grand Avenue Sherman, TX 75090-4400 7 Student Achievers Editor: 903.813.2414 Fax: 903.813.2415 26 Around Campus Email: [email protected]

35 Home Team Austin College does not discriminate on the basis of age, color, disability, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual 39 ‘Roo Notes orientation, or status as a veteran in the administration of its 48 Calendar of Events educational policies and programs, employment policies and practices, enrollment policies and practices, and athletics 49 Every Picture Tells a Story program, as well as any other College-administered policy, procedure, practice, or program. Reasonable The Story Behind the Photo accommodations are made for individuals with disabilities.

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president’ s column

Dear Friends of Austin College, 1992 in response to growing incidents of human CIRCLINGTHE trafficking in Vietnam. Since its founding, Little Rose has When students returned to campus this fall, I began provided a safe shelter to hundreds of young girls and GLOBE immediately to hear stories of summer experiences. continues to help them build a positive future. With the start of the Global Outreach (or GO) program Casie taught English and music, among other and the continuation of the Lilly Vocational Internship subjects, at Little Rose, and while doing this she had Program, 63 students participated in these two programs the opportunity to meet relatives she had only heard in experiential learning experiences that were nothing about. Her parents returned to Vietnam this summer short of life-changing. for the first time since their departure decades ago, and The 10 GO Fellows worked with non-profit groups they were able to witness their daughter’s servant around the globe — five in Africa, two in Peru, and one leadership in action. each in Russia, Pakistan, and Guatemala. Austin College always has encouraged students to Created with a grant from the Todd and Abby step outside their comfort zone to serve, and today’s Williams Family Foundation of Dallas, the GO students are no different. These are just two examples of program aims to cultivate the next generation the College’s commitment to global understanding for of local, national, and global leaders by all students who desire to participate in international promoting innovative, experiential servant experiences. Ten additional students participated in life- leadership opportunities around the world. changing internships through our centers for As a GO fellow, Holly Boerner ’09 worked Environmental Studies and for Southwestern and this summer at the Adana Children’s Center, an Mexican Studies, as well as our Career Study Off- orphanage in Debre Zeyit, Ethiopia, 45 minutes Campus program. from that nation’s capital, Addis Ababa. This When the 2008 graduating class walked across the was Holly’s third visit to Ethiopia as an Austin platform, we knew that 70 percent of these students had College student. The first two trips, Holly was participated in a global experience. Our alumni take great at the Kamashi Orphanage and School, which pride in their service opportunities and their recognition serves the area of Benishangul-Gumuzone, one of the need to understand and participate in the solving of Ethiopia’s poorest regions, where there are of global problems. In reflecting on the experiences of the an estimated 40,000 orphans. By working in students who reached out to others this summer, I feel these communities, Holly deepened her confident that future generations of students will cultural perspective of a part of the world continue this great tradition at Austin College. where few students travel. She also met Service, experiential learning, and concern for successfully the challenge to view the world people throughout the world will be the enduring from a global perspective—and from a servant theme of the College. As you read about Emily Austin leader’s heart. and the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the The Lilly Vocational Internship Program opening of Wynne Chapel, be reminded that our great provides support for a wide range of internships traditions have their roots in the vision of our founders, throughout the world, but most take place in the United who were inspired by the Presbyterian Church to reach States. As I visited with one Lilly intern, Casie Luong out to the underserved and provide opportunities for ’10, I realized what a great impact this type of program service to people throughout the world. can have on the life of one person. Casie is the daughter of parents who fled from Vietnam during the war, and this summer Casie went to her parents’ home country Sincerely, to work in a children’s shelter in Ho Chi Minh City. Casie’s experience at the Little Rose Shelter provided Oscar C. Page her the opportunity to share her gifts with children who President had suffered abuse and to contribute positively to her family’s cultural home. The shelter was established in

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facult y notebook

Faculty Members Earn Promotions, Tenure Faculty Appointed to Leadership Bart Dredge , who joined Austin College’s faculty in Roles as Academic Division Deans 1994, has been promoted to professor of sociology The appointment this fall of Patrick Duffey , professor effective this fall. The rank of full professor at Austin of Spanish, as dean of Humanities completes a cycle of College is reserved for those faculty members whose recent updates in the deans’ positions at the College. careers reflect outstanding cumulative achievement. In fall 2007, Steve Goldsmith , professor of biology, Faculty considered for promotion to professor have and Jerry Johnson , professor of business administration demonstrated excellence in teaching and in research, and economics, began terms as deans in the divisions of publication, or other professional work that supports Sciences and Social Sciences, respectively. distinguished teaching and continued intellectual The appointments were made by President Oscar C. growth. Superior performance in areas such as advising, Page upon advice from Mike Imhoff , vice president for Bart Dredge program development, committee service, and other Academic Affairs, who consulted with division faculty. institutional leadership are required. A faculty member The appointments are made for a term of six years. normally completes a minimum of six years of successful Each dean coordinates the departments of the full-time teaching at the rank of associate professor division, supervises staff and facilities, monitors and before consideration for promotion. requests budgeted funds, coordinates new faculty Alessandro Garganigo , English; Julie Hempel , searches, conducts reviews and evaluations of faculty, Spanish; Elena Oliv e´, Spanish; and Ivette Vargas- and assists individual faculty members in support of O’Bryan , religion, were granted tenure and promotion to teaching, advising, scholarship, and other professional associate professor effective fall 2008. activity. Due to heavy administrative duties, deans Faculty members considered for tenure are evaluated customarily teach two courses each in the fall and spring on teaching, professional development, and service to terms and may occasionally teach a January Term course. Austin College, with teaching as the most important The appointments follow the completion of service Patrick Duffey factor in evaluation. Tenure is a contractual agreement as divisional deans in summer 2007 and 2008 by E. Don for continued appointment until retirement unless the Williams , professor of mathematics and Chadwick faculty members resigns or is dismissed for cause. Chair in Mathematics; Howard Starr , professor of Austin College tenure-track faculty members are psychology; and Bernice Melvin , professor of French normally considered for tenure in the sixth year of and Margaret Root Brown Chair of Foreign Languages. probationary service. In some pre-arranged instances, a faculty member may receive credit at another institution toward satisfying the probationary period for full-time teaching experience.

Steve Goldsmith Annual Awards Honor Faculty Accomplishments Awards presented at the close of each academic year SCHOLARSHIP: Nathan Bigelow , assistant professor of recognize faculty members’ service to the College political science; Wayne Crannell , associate professor of community, teaching excellence, and individual music; Michael Higgs , associate professor of scholarship. One recipient each from the Sciences mathematics and computer science; and Jacqueline Division and Social Sciences Division is selected for each Moore , professor of history. honor. The Humanities Division selects two recipients for each award due to its larger number of faculty. SERVICE: Peter Anderson , associate professor of English; Truett Cates , professor of German; David TEACHING: Light Cummins , professor of history; James Griffith , associate professor of business administration; Jerry Johnson Johnson , professor of classics; Melanie Fox Kean , and Donald Salisbury , associate professor of physics. assistant professor of economics; and Kelly Reed , associate professor of biology.

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facult y notebook Of Temples and Teepees

raveling the world is one of the perks of the job for most Austin College professors. Jackie Moore , professor of history, has taken advantage of that perk on numerous JanTerms and study abroad trips since coming to the College in 1994. One of Jackie’s most memorable Ttrips is a JanTerm 2005 trip after the December 26, 2004, Indian Ocean Tsunami. Austin College students quickly gathered medical supplies and more than $4,000 in donations that students in Jackie’s course, “Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar: Temples & Empires,” delivered to a relief agency in Thailand. “Being able to make a contribution to those countries was the most rewarding,” she said. During her 2007 – 2008 sabbatical, Jackie travelled to India, England, France, Hawaii, New York, and Washington, but it was a 2,500-mile research trip this summer that recently intrigued her most — and she never left Texas. “I was stunned with the diversity of the different parts of the state and with just how flat south Texas plains actually are,” said Jackie of the trip to research her book, Cow Boys and Cattle Men: Nineteenth Century Class and Masculinity on the Texas Frontier , to be published in late 2009 by New York University Press. “I saw desert, mountains, hills, rivers, land-locked sand dunes, beaches, cities, small villages, and even a picnic area made of giant, painted metal teepees.” Though Jackie enjoyed her travel-intensive sabbatical, she S

is just as happy to be in the classroom this fall. She’s E N O particularly interested in teaching within an area of her J N O S A

research specialty in the course “Gilded Age and Progressive J Y B

Era, 1877 –1919.” This period of American history “has O T O H

everything — great scandal, but also great reform, spectacular P economic and technological achievement alongside spectacular poverty, and Teddy Roosevelt to boot,” Jackie said. Jackie’s teaching usually includes aspects of women’s experiences in history, like Emily Austin’s. She said it’s important that her students know the obstacles women have overcome and what rights exist today, and are able to look critically at situations instead of assuming equality exists. Jackie said she benefited from growing up in an era Jackie Moore where she felt that being a woman was not a barrier to achievement, but admitted that not everyone shared her beliefs. She said the view that women achieve positions based on affirmative action measures instead of their own merit is a sign that women still face perceptual barriers. “As Emily Austin shows, in reality, women have been running things very capably all along so it should be no stretch of the imagination to think that a woman could be as good at the job as anyone else,” Jackie said. Jackie finds the diversity of experiences and academic courses in her role at Austin College as broad as the geographic diversity of Texas. “I love the flexibility I have to teach a variety of courses and the opportunity to take students abroad for JanTerm to places they would never go by themselves,” she said. The College’s commitment “to make a positive contribution to the world,” as exemplified by the emergency relief trip to Thailand, is yet another reason she’s proud to be a part of Austin College.

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PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Jeff Czajkowski , assistant professor of economics, Greg Kinzer , assistant professor of English, will presented the research paper “Run from the Water, Hide present a paper, “Morphology, Consilience, and from the Wind: Toward a Better Understanding of the Metaphor: Natural History as Poetic Method,” at the Costs of Not Evacuating from a Hurricane” in July at the Modernist Studies Association Conference in Nashville, 2008 Hazards and Disasters Researchers Meeting, held Tennessee, in November. The paper examines the near Boulder, Colorado. This summer, he continued influence of Darwin and the scientific practices of early research in this area in conjunction with Emily 20th century natural historians on modernist poets, Kennedy ’09, a math and economics major. especially Marianne Moore. He also will participate in a Peter DeLisle , the Leslie B. Crane Chair in seminar discussion on “Modernist Gene/alogies,” which Leadership Studies and director of the College’s Posey asks how the understanding of evolution and genetics Leadership Institute, was the principal instructor of the developed in modernist/modern culture. In addition, Leadership Development Conference this August hosted Kinzer will present the paper “Reiteration as Noise: Joan by the Texas Engineering and Technical Consortium and Retallack’s ‘The Woman in the Chinese Room’” at the All Across Texas. He will lead another session in Dallas in annual conference of the Society for Literature, Science, October. Sessions include topics such as leadership and the Arts in Charlotte, North Carolina, in November. effectiveness, project management, formal Jerry Lincecum , professor emeritus of English, and communication, and engineering ethics in the Peggy Redshaw , professor of biology, are taking their workplace. Approximately 60 engineering students from Telling Our Stories autobiography program in a little across the state participated in the week-long program. different direction this fall. They have joined with Kelly The state-sponsored program also promotes collaboration Reed , associate professor of biology, and other members among engineering colleges and allows students to of Austin College’s Relay for Life team, ’Roos Fighting interact with engineering professionals and learn about Cancer, to compile and publish a thematic book of various career specialties. In August, representatives on stories, Contemplating Cancer: Stories of Life, Love, hand included those from Raytheon and Texas Laughter, and Loss . The book will contain stories written Instruments as well as the Texas Corp of Engineers. Will by cancer survivors, as well as family members and Rusinko ’09, a member of the Posey Leadership Institute friends of cancer patients. More than 55 stories have who plans a career in engineering, served as a teaching been collected, with experiences dating as far back as assistant and facilitator at the conference. DeLisle hopes 1930. Several contributions have come from faculty, to include Austin College computer science students in staff, and alumni. Publication of the book is scheduled future conferences. for early November. All profits will go to the American Daniel Dominick , associate professor of music, Cancer Society for research. In June, Lincecum and became president of the South Central Division of the Redshaw made a Gideon Lincecum Chautauqua College Orchestra Director’s Association in February. The presentation at the Botanical Research Institute of Texas Sherman Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Dominick, in Fort Worth, Texas. They also conducted a workshop will perform its 200th concert, the Tchaikovsky Sixth for teachers in grades 4–8 at the Star of Texas Museum Symphony (Pathetique), on October 25. in Washington County, giving free copies of Gideon’s Kirk Everist and Brett Boessen , assistant professors book Science on the Texas Frontier and demonstrating of communication studies, led Sherman-area aspiring ways to use original historical and scientific writing in filmmakers to release their creativity in Script-to-Screen the classroom. workshops this summer. Each provided a workshop offered to assist individuals working on the 24-Hour Script-to-Screen Short Film Contest sponsored by the Sherman Arts Festival held September 20. In addition to exploring creativity, the faculty members offered insight on narrative story telling, script writing, and filming.

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TRONCALLI RECEIVES AWARD FOR RESEARCH PURSUIT Andra Troncalli , assistant professor of physics, has received a Cottrell College Science Award from Research Corporation, providing nearly $45,000 for her project “Investigation of Vortex Pinning

Anisotropy in the High Temperature Superconductor YBa Cu O .” S

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She received an additional $9,000 from the Austin College Priddy J N O

Grant for the work. S A J Y

“Columnar defects have proven to be highly effective at pinning B O T

vortices in high temperature superconductors,” Troncalli said. O H P “However, most studies have been performed with the defects oriented either perpendicular to, or at large angles relative to, the superconducting Cu-O planes of YBa 2Cu 3O7-8 . No study has investigated the effects of columnar defects introduced parallel to the superconducting Cu-O planes. We will perform a systematic study in which we compare the effects of columnar defects introduced parallel and perpendicular to the superconducting Cu-O planes.” The award is for two years and covers equipment, supplies, stipends for the faculty member and a student, and travel funds to conduct research at other institutions.

Andra Troncalli

Where are they now? Dan Schores, Associate Professor Emeritus of Sociology O T O H P Y S

E f he’s not on a river cruise in Holland or Belgium or on some other excursion, Dan Schores , T R U

O associate professor emeritus of sociology, is likely to be found somewhere near Austin College. C He said his days leading JanTerms in the Caribbean fed his travel interest, but now that he’s Ifooting the entire cost of travel, he doesn’t globetrot quite so often. That’s not to say Schores is sitting at home. He and his wife, Marie, keep their days full serving in numerous organizations in Sherman. Dan preaches on a regular basis in southeastern Oklahoma Presbyterian churches and serves as president of the Texoma Senior Foundation, which collects donations for senior service agencies in the area. He also leads the Austin College Elderhostel program, an informal learning opportunity for citizens older than 55; works with the Alpha Phi Omega national service fraternity, which Schores helped establish on campus; and finds time to attend plays, musical performances, and sporting events at Austin College. When he’s not serving the community, Schores enjoys woodcarving as a member of the Texoma Woodcarving Guild and keeps up with the subjects that interested him most in his 25-year academic career that started at Austin College in 1969. He often speaks to community Dan Schores organizations, covering topics such as the southwest American Indians or Victorian homes in north Texas. Whether on a river in Holland, in a pulpit in Oklahoma, or at a podium in Sherman, Schores hasn’t seemed to lose a step since retiring from the faculty in 1994. Contact him at 1513 Yarborough, Sherman, Texas 75092.

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student achievers

Claire Balani Named Institute for International Public Policy Fellow

laire Balani ’10 was one of 32 students from Balani, an international relations major, is across the nation selected as Institute for spending her junior year in China, where she will gain International Public Policy (IIPP) Fellows for advanced skills in Mandarin Chinese. She eventually 2008. Each fellow receives scholarship and will pursue a Ph.D. in political science and hopes for a Cservices totaling nearly $100,000 over a five- career with the U.S. State Department as an adviser on year period. human rights in Asia. The fellowship is a six-component program that The IIPP is funded by the U.S. Department of includes the Sophomore Summer Policy Institute at Education and administered by the United Negro Spelman College; Junior Year Study Abroad; Junior College Fund Special Programs Corporation to provide Summer Policy Institute at the University of Maryland’s students from underrepresented minority groups with School of Public Policy; Summer Language Institute; the education and training necessary for advancing in Master’s Degree Program in International Affairs; and international affairs. O

an IIPP Internship. The fellowships provide funding for T O H P

the summer programs and portions of the study abroad Y S E T

and master’s degree programs. R U O

Balani began the fellowship program in June with C the seven-week Sophomore Summer Policy Institute that introduced basics of foreign affairs, international policy development, cultural competence, and career and graduate study options. Students then participated in study missions in Washington, D.C., and New York City with briefings at the Department of Education, the Department of State, and the Central Intelligence Agency, as well as the Council on Foreign Relations, the United Nations, and the World Bank. Claire Balani

Austin College Musicians Perform in Austria Festival Professor of Music Rick Duhaime and 2008 graduates Kaitlin Hampton (violist), Lindsay Brown (mezzo soprano vocalist), and Justin Duncan (bass vocalist) found themselves in a birthplace of classical music in August, performing O

T at the 33rd annual Classical Music Festival (Eisenstädter Sommerakademie) in Austria. “During O H P

Y this festival, we are practicing and performing classical works often in the very venues in which S E T

R they were conceived,” Duhaime said. “That cannot be duplicated.” U O

C For two and a half weeks, musicians from the United States and Europe studied, rehearsed, and performed in Vienna and surrounding concert venues. An orchestra of 50 and a chorus of 80, plus four internationally recognized vocal soloists, presented two master works of classical music: Joseph Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass and Ludwig van Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis . Duhaime has served for 18 years as an orchestral principal and member of the festival’s continuing faculty. Participation is by audition, and as a regional coordinator, Duhaime is able to admit performers. Musicians Kaitlin Hampton, Lindsay Brown, Rick Daily rehearsals as well as the final gala concert of the festival were held in the Schloss Duhaime, and Justin Duncan relax after a gala Esterházy where Haydn, a lifelong resident of Austria, spent some 32 years of his career concert performance in Austria. composing and playing for the ruling Austrian family.

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320 Hours That Can Change a Life: Vocational Internships The Theological Exploration of Vocation program, begun Through a VIP grant, Emily Kuo ’10 spent the summer with funding from the Lilly Endowment, has a lofty title, as a community resource caseworker at the Collin County and the lessons learned by the 60-some Austin College Children’s Advocacy Center. She connected families with students who participated in the 320-hour summer available resources, monitored supervised visits, attended internship program in 2008 were quite grand as well. court cases, watched forensic interviews, and participated in The experience students gained through the home visits with law enforcement and Child Protective Vocational Internship Program (VIP) confirmed Services personnel. directions, set new paths, and inspired passions. The lofty “I learned how passionate I am about helping children title breaks down more simply: The program doesn’t and protecting their right to lead normal lives,” said Kuo, a advocate any particular religious viewpoint but focuses on psychology and Spanish major with a minor in leadership the ideas of meaning and purpose often at the heart of studies. “My eyes have been opened to the realities of this religious tradition. The exploration aspect of the program world, and I cannot say that I will ever look at it through involves examining students’ own ideas and values while the same lens. We can’t turn our heads away from child investigating interests. The idea of vocation, or calling, abuse; it is a harsh and sadly common truth that affects all involves a process of discernment and turning inward to ages, races, and socioeconomic levels.” discover one’s gifts, passions, values, and talents. “Academically, I have seen the demands of Spanish Students receiving VIP internships in 2008 explored fluency in the workplace and have been inspired to work options from working in hospitals and clinics to an even harder toward this goal,” Kuo said. “The work for opportunity to study global cultures at the United States these translators never appears to stop. Psychologically, I Mission to the European Union in Brussels, Belgium. continue to explore ways to understand others as Students explored work in communications, banking, law, individuals, and every day I see the value of effective advertising, government and politics, fine and performing leadership. Immersion in the O T O

arts, psychology, ministry, environmental concerns, H field of social services has been P Y S

medicine, business, and education. E the most challenging and T R U

Their exploration is not over. All VIP interns take a O rewarding experience of my life C course the fall after the internship to reflect upon their — so far.” experiences and share those with one another, having further opportunity to explore their reactions and Pictured at the Collin County Children’s responses. The course is led by program director Mark Advocacy Center, are, top left, intern Alissa Hebert , associate professor of philosophy. King ’09; Emily Kuo ’10 at top right; and Jessica Knowles ’07, a center volunteer. O T O H

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R More SummerVIP Experiences U O C

Jade Rutledge ’09 spent the summer as an environmental educator for a nature camp at Alaska’s Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge. “My job was to teach the kids about ecology and natural sciences while instilling a love and enjoyment of the natural world. The neatest part was my travel to remote villages that range in population from 30- 200, mainly native people. In those instances, I learned more from the kids than I taught them. I learned a great deal about the native environment, and the kids taught me a great deal about their native culture. This fit in well with my education because I think the best way to learn is through teaching others.”

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student achievers N

he first year of college is always memorable. The excitement, if not O outright fear, of being in a new place, the sense of independence, and the anticipation of discovery hits just about every college freshman at the same time each navigates the challenges of moving into the I Ttypically cramped living space of a residence hall and deciding on a course schedule. Carlee Young ’11 experienced these emotions when she started her freshman year at Austin College in fall 2007, but her excitement has not waned. “I have made so many friends, found a great sense of independence, and I am studying the things I absolutely love,” said Carlee, who completed a

S 2008 Career Study Off-Campus summer internship at Frisco Eye Associates, secured through Austin College’s Career O T O

Center, to pursue her career interests in H P Y S

ophthalmology or optometry. “More E T I R U

now than even before, I feel like the O C students and faculty at Austin College will help me accomplish anything I want to do in the next three years.” To her credit, Carlee didn’t allow her

V freshman year at Austin College to intimidate her. “I started not knowing what to expect, but wanting to make a difference by being involved on campus and in the community,” she said. She attended an activities fair during her first week at the College and pursued what interested her most. Carlee is a member of the Posey Leadership Institute and is involved in Habitat for Humanity, the 0 Student Development Board, Pre-Medical Society, and Big Brothers Big Sisters. She Carlee Young logged nearly 100 hours of service during her freshman year, including participation in the Alternative Spring Break relief trip to New Orleans. Carlee’s determination to make the most of what Austin College offers was rewarded when she received the Outstanding Freshman Award in spring 2 2008 in recognition of demonstrated leadership potential. She doesn’t plan to slow down any time soon. “I have wanted to study history in Italy since about seventh grade, and I now know that Austin College will help me turn that dream into an actual experience,” said Carlee, who plans to spend the fall / term of her junior year in Italy. Given her fearless determination to pursue what she loves, it’s likely she will turn many more dreams into realities. 0

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by Vickie S. Kirby

Just the name Anna Laura

has a melodic and uplifting lilt.

In the nearly 15 years Anna Laura Page

has been first lady of Austin College,

many have enjoyed the song

she brings to every day. Y B R I K . S E I K C I V Y 12 Austin College Magazine September 2008 B O T O H P AC MagSept07:Layout 1 10/9/08 3:26 PM Page 15

Editor’s Note: As President Oscar C. Page’s announced retirement their lives. I don’t even know where my college roommates are. It from Austin College in June 2009 draws nearer, the College has fascinated me how the Austin College community is so community begins the process of saying farewell to Dr. Page — connected. And, the trustees have been so wonderful to us. It’s an and to his wife, who has been very much a part of campus life. amazing place.” Having met the Pages in February 1994 immediately after the Oscar and Anna Laura’s move to Sherman was the first Board of Trustees officially elected Page as president, I’ve had without at least one of their two children, Kristen and Matt. In many opportunities to interact with Anna Laura and offer here a 1994 when the Pages arrived at Austin College, Matt had completed glimpse into the daily life of our first lady. a degree at Austin Peay State University in Tennessee and was working; Kristen was beginning doctorate work at Purdue Those walking on the Austin College campus any afternoon might University. Matt was married only six months after the Pages see Anna Laura Page walking her dog in front of their home just arrived in Texas. A few years later, Matt and his wife, Amy, moved across the street. If they wave her down they will be greeted with to McKinney, Texas, and in 1999, their daughter Cailin — the first her ready smile and a bit of southern charm. She offers no pretense Page grandchild — was born. Kristen since has married and she and or putting-on of airs; few would guess they were speaking to the her husband, Rick, now are expecting their first child. And, in the wife of a college president. The encounter with her will be genuine, continuing circle of life, Anna Laura’s dear mother, Beulah Cook, but perhaps brief; she’s a busy woman, both in her role as first lady known to many at Austin College, died this July at 97 years of age. of Austin College and as a sought-after composer, director, and She had lived with Oscar and Anna Laura the past seven years, performer of sacred organ, hand bell, piano, and choral music. since becoming ill during a visit from her Kentucky home. During Anna Laura’s career branches in many directions. She leads those years, caring for her mother took some of Anna Laura’s time hand bell festivals all over the country. She composes music and as well, but it was time she gladly gave. “It was wonderful to have lyrics or special arrangements for hand bell, organ, and piano. She that time with her. I left home at 18, married a ‘vagabond,’ and co-wrote “Creation Will Be at Peace,” which has been performed at never got to know her that well. It was fun having her here, but events ranging from dedication of a Holocaust museum in Arizona hard watching her suffer through health issues. She had always to a service at megachurch Coral Ridge Presbyterian in Fort been so healthy.” Lauderdale, Florida. In addition to these projects, she was hand bell As President Page’s announced retirement draws nearer, Anna editor for Alfred Publishing Company for 11 years. She writes Easter Laura thinks back to her beginnings as a young girl from Kentucky and Christmas musicals and a variety of special commissions, and reflects on all that has come her way since then. “I don’t feel a including pieces for the 50th anniversary of Wynne Chapel, in bit different than I did back then,” she said. “Oscar and I have memory of a child who died in an airplane crash, and in never forgotten our roots — first-generation college graduates who celebration of the dedication of a new church sanctuary. got there because our parents worked hard to make that happen. Many visitors to the Page home have enjoyed Anna Laura’s We were blessed — a lot of people don’t have that opportunity. I seemingly effortless performance of beautiful piano pieces, ranging think we all are blessed, and some have more blessings than others, from Christmas carols to Broadway tunes to classical compositions. but that doesn’t make us any more special.” When film director Peter Bogdanovich visited campus and the Page The Pages have lived in Sherman longer than any other place home, Anna Laura played piano and Bogdanovich sang — with in their married lives. “This is where we’ve made friends and really Bogdanovich calling out whatever song next came to mind — and feel at home,” she said. Sherman will remain home. They have Anna Laura never missed a note. purchased a house here and look forward to a little slower pace in Opportunities to meet many of the people who visit Austin which to enjoy their lives. Though Anna Laura said they will “stay College are among the experiences she holds dear. “All the people out of sight and give the new president an opportunity to fly,” the have been wonderful. I’ve enjoyed them and having the chance to College community hopefully has not seen the last of this beloved see their more personal side,” Anna Laura said. president or his amazing first lady. Here’s to meeting Anna Laura on Though she has visited with Barbara Bush and had tea with the sidewalk for a quick update on life and a dose of the charm — Henry Winkler, Anna Laura is as gracious to every member of the the music — that is all her own. Austin College community as to “celebrities.” “The people in Sherman and in Texas in general are wide open and friendly,” she said. “That has been wonderful. People here just accept you.” And Anna Laura has “loved, loved, loved!” living across the street from the College. ”I love to see the students, watch the activities, and hear the chimes. I so enjoy seeing the students and magazine.austincollege.edu faculty work together and then keep up with each other through Anna Laura Page Photos:TheAustin CollegeYears

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by Dara McCoy

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tephen F. Austin wasn’t the only pioneering spirit in the renowned Austin family. While Stephen led groups of settlers to tame the wilds of the Texas frontier, his S sister Emily Austin blazed her own path through a male-dominated era few women of her time dared. Her story will be detailed in a new biography in 2009 by Light Cummins , Austin College professor of history. This groundbreaking story reveals that the intertwining storylines of Texas’ birth and the Austin family run much deeper than Moses and Stephen F. Austin. Stephen F. Austin was named the “Father of Texas” at his funeral by Texas history icon Sam Houston and was a significant leader during the ´ Texas Revolution and its early years as a republic. Monuments to Austin include the namesakes of the Texas state capital and two Texas higher educational institutions, as well as a 60-foot statue in Angleton, Texas. His likeness is on Austin College’s official seal. Yet, obscured by the enormous shadow cast by one of Texas’ most prominent historical figures and by the legal and societal restraints on women of the 1800s, stands Emily Austin. Cummins is one of the first historians to sort through Emily Austin’s personal papers, while researching and writing the first biography of her life. His research unveils a depth of character in Emily Austin, sole heir to her famous brother Stephen F. Austin and his Texas land holdings after his death in 1836. The biography details the political, business, and social life of this unique frontier woman, who defied 1800s-era societal norms for women and put her own stamp on histor y. After Stephen’s death, it was Emily Austin who wielded and magnified the considerable economic and political influence of the Austin family heritage and estate. Despite Stephen’s likeness on Austin College’s official seal, it was Emily Austin who made the donation to provide a financial foundation on which Austin College was built. It was Emily Austin, through active involvement in Texas economic and social development, who ensured that the Austin family influence on Texas history did not die with Stephen.

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THE LIFE OF EMILY AUSTIN tended to view women of their class as delicate, hough born in Virginia in 1795, Emily submissive helpmates,” writes Cummins. “Women from Austin spent most of her adolescent life in Emily Austin’s social class in the South related to the Missouri, at that time part of the western world through the framework provided by the men in U.S. frontier, where her father Moses their lives.” Austin operated a lead mining business. By 1822, that social construct had failed Emily and Emily received a quality education by no man with the ability to provide support remained in frontier standards at a Lexington, her family. “All of the Austins were strong-willed Kentucky, boarding school for four years people,” Cummins said. “She was no less strong-willed and almost two years at the Hermitage than Moses or Stephen F. Austin, and her years of Academy, a prestigious girls’ school near widowhood created a circumstance where she could no TNew York City. It was an education that would serve her longer worry about acceptability.” Survival became well and may have played a part in her concern for Emily’s focus, and by that necessity, self-reliance was education later in life. born. She took in sewing from neighborhood men, After her schooling, Emily returned to Missouri and opened a small school and charged a modest tuition, married a young merchant, James Bryan, who and put others in her household to work on various eventually joined her father in the mining business. But crafts, like bonnets, to sell. a series of events starting in 1819 would thrust Emily Eventually, Emily remarried, to James Franklin Austin into a role that defined the independent woman Perry, and at Stephen’s beckoning, they moved to Texas who would eventually settle in Texas. The Panic of in 1831 and established Peach Point Plantation, the 1819, a depression after the War of 1812, left the Austin place that Stephen also came to call home. Cummins is N

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sons when they were grown, Cummins said the letters Stephen from the State of Texas to the college. It was and records Emily kept revealed her to be very involved this gift that made possible the founding of Austin in the management of the Austin estate. College, one of the earliest colleges in Texas. Emily was active in urban planning and in selling Concern for her family was a driving factor in land — often doing so personally as a real estate agent of Emily’s life, evidenced by the years she alone sorts — to raise capital and disposable income. She was supported her family in poverty and by her activity to an investor in the first attempt to build a railroad in preserve and grow her inheritance for the future Texas. Her son Moses Austin Bryan was the secretary of provision of her children. “When she died in 1851, she the first railroad company in Texas, but Emily was the passed on to her living children the entire Stephen F. chief stockholder, Cummins explained. Emily even Austin estate, which was greatly augmented in size,” said loaned money to Gail Borden to purchase his first herd of Cummins. In fact, Emily’s Last Will and Testament dairy cows. “We all know what he did,” Cummins added. valued her estate at $450,000 in 1851 U.S. dollars, which Throughout Stephen’s life as a political leader, would roughly equal $12 million in purchasing power by Emily entertained guests and organized parties for her today’s terms, according to Cummins’ calculations. unmarried brother. Later, when her son Guy M. Bryan entered politics, Emily retained the role of hostess, EMILY AUSTIN’S TEXAS? seemingly unabashed about sharing her views when To diminish Stephen F. Austin’s role in the birth of the opportunity presented itself, Cummins said. At Texas would be preposterous, but to downplay or ignore one point, Emily hosted eventual U.S. president the woman who helped raise this “child” diminishes the Rutherford B. Hayes, a close friend of Guy Bryan’s, at full legacy of the Austin family. Stephen’s place in Texas Peach Point plantation. history is cemented, but Emily’s equally important role Emily also utilized the Austin family wealth and is just beginning to be revealed and understood through fame in social development through philanthropy. She efforts like Cummins’ biography. was instrumental in founding the first Episcopal church “Emily Austin was very much her own woman, in Texas — a denomination she had been a part of prior with strong and well-articulated personal feelings to marrying Perry — and recruiting its first bishop, centered on a steely personality bolstered by a rock-solid Leonidas Polk, who became a famous Civil War general resolve for action that would enable her to survive and has the military base of Fort Polk, Louisiana, through almost six decades of frontier hardship,” writes named after him. She also brought one of the earliest Cummins. “She was in many ways a very modern educators to Texas in Thomas J. Pilgrim to teach her woman. As the daughter of Moses Austin and sole heir own children. Pilgrim founded the first school in Texas of her brother Stephen F. Austin, she had political, with Emily’s support, according to Cummins. economic, and social status in Texas, which made her In 1840, Reverend Daniel Baker traveled to Peach absolutely unique and unprecedented.” Point Plantation, having just left the founding meeting In the 1800s, the fortitude required for a single of the Presbytery of Brazos. The idea to found a woman to care for five dependents with no male Presbyterian college in Texas had formed out of that assistance and later be a guiding hand in the maturation meeting, and Baker had been told to visit Emily Austin of Texas was no less impressive than the fortitude about funding. Baker’s visit was successful, as Emily Stephen displayed in settling the Texas frontier. By and her husband, James Perry, were devout members shedding light on these lesser known chapters, the story of the Presbyterian Church and agreed to support the of Texas, the Austin family, and women’s history gains college. In 1849, Baker renewed his efforts to found new breadth and depth. the college and Emily honored her earlier pledge by deeding acreage in Brazoria County and all the Austin family’s claims to pension funds or monies due to

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FROM EMILY AUSTIN TO AUSTIN

Significant Moments in Women’s Rights quality for women has come a long way since the days of 1848 The first women’s rights convention is held in Seneca Falls, New York, resulting in Emily Austin, but some successful Austin College alumnae a call for equal treatment under the law and voting rights for women. understand that it hasn’t been too long ago that women were pressing for more individual rights — and that today’s women 1869 Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman E encounter new and different challenges. Suffrage Association, seeking women’s right to vote. Becky Russell Sykes ’67, executive director of the Dallas Women’s Foundation, remembers a time when expectations for 1893 Colorado is the first state to grant women the right to vote. women were very different than those for college-aged women today. “I grew up in the ’50s and by the time I got to Austin College, the 1919 The federal woman suffrage amendment, originally written by Susan B. Anthony prevailing thought was that girls would marry and have a family, and and introduced in 1878, is passed by the House and Senate. that was it,” she said. “We really didn’t have any role models for professional women.” 1920 The 19th Amendment to the Constitution grants women the right to vote. Sykes followed the plan pretty well — marrying and taking a teaching position for a few years before leaving the workforce to start 1960 The Food and Drug Administration approves birth control pills. a family — until an economic depression hit Texas in the mid-1980s. “I had to go back to work,” Sykes said. “I was 41 or so when this 1961 President John Kennedy establishes the President’s Commission on the Status happened, and this was a great shock to my system.” of Women and appoints Eleanor Roosevelt as chairwoman. So, Sykes returned to the workforce as an administrative assistant to the man who bought Greyhound Lines and relocated the company 1963 Betty Friedan publishes The Feminine Mystique . The book becomes a best-seller to Dallas. The company’s violent 1990 drivers strike and Chapter 11 and galvanizes the modern women’s rights movement. bankruptcy gave Sykes a tough return to the work world. “It was some of the best experience I could have had because I was such a bleeding 1963 Congress passes the Equal Pay Act. heart, and I toughened up working in this corporation,” Sykes said. 1966 The National Organization for Women is founded with the aim to end sexual Sykes later worked for a TV station, as a development director for discrimination by means of legislative lobbying, litigation, and civil disobedience. Southern Methodist University’s Meadows School of the Arts, and as a non-profit consultant before being contacted by an organization 1971 Ms. Magazine is first published, selling 300,000 copies in 8 days; editor Gloria that she had helped start 15 years before. Sykes had served as the first Steinem is launched as an icon of the modern feminist movement. board president of the Dallas Women’s Foundation when the organization got its start, addressing inequality of funding between 1972 The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) is passed by Congress. Originally drafted in female-focused agencies and male-serving groups like YMCA and Boy 1923, the amendment died in 1982 when it failed to achieve ratification by a Scouts of America. “At that time, less than four percent of annual minimum of 38 states. foundation dollars across the nation were going to programs specifically for women and girls,” she said. 1972 The Supreme Court rules that the right to privacy includes an unmarried Sykes was asked to serve as the interim executive director and in person’s right to use contraceptives. 1998 was hired to fill the role. She said the Dallas Women’s Foundation is a place for women to learn about philanthropy and to 1972 Title IX of the Education Amendment bans sex discrimination in schools; provide a source of funding for the community’s girls and women, participation of women in athletics and professional schools increases dramatically. who often face unique issues like the scary prospect Emily Austin faced in caring for her children and elderly mother. 1973 The Supreme Court establishes a woman’s right to a safe and legal abortion. Sykes, who deals with women’s philanthropy on a daily basis, firmly believes that women, like Emily Austin, have been a driving 1996 The Supreme Court rules that the all-male Virginia Military School has to admit force in development and progress not only for women’s issues but women in order to continue to receive public funding. It holds that creating a separate, also for a much broader spectrum of issues. “Individual women from all-female school will not suffice. the early days of this country have been building America through their volunteer work and through philanthropy for social change,” Excerpted from “Women’s Rights Movement in the U.S.: Timeline.” Infoplease. © 2000-2007 Pearson Sykes said. “Women were using their wealth to open doors, and it Education, publishing as Infoplease.

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to an important moment in women’s history this year as a senior C campaign adviser for Senator Hillary Clinton, agrees. “One thing women have always been good about doing is finding a way to move themselves forward, even in the era of Emily Austin, who couldn’t work the front channels, but worked the back channels,” she said. (See The Race for Madam President in the online magazine.) Virginia Smith Volpe ’90, director for Global Transaction Services at Citi, is part of a generation of women that has had the benefit of women role models. “I am very thankful for the generation before me because they fought tooth and nail, and now I don’t have to,” she said. “You still don’t see women in all positions. It’s a work in progress, but advancement based on merit is happening.” Becky Russell Sykes However, she sees the progress of generations before her and today’s continuing evolution of women’s rights as slightly different. What Volpe finds “breathtaking” is that women are taking success into their own hands and going beyond “glass-ceiling” terminology. “The generation before me defined success by giving up anything necessary to get to the top,” Volpe said. “What I am seeing now, in my generation and beyond, is the ability of women to define success on their own terms. That can mean a combination of marriage, partners, kids, friends, life outside of work, and career.” Sykes and McLean hope that younger women don’t lose sight of the progress made. “Equality is still an issue and always will be until we have economic parity,” McLean said. “I think we have some generational challenges for women who are growing up not knowing some of the restrictions women ahead of them experienced.” Sykes, who as a married woman couldn’t own property in her Virginia Smith Volpe own name by Texas law until the Marital Property Act of 1967, recognizes that the landscape for women has changed dramatically during her lifetime, but hopes the stories of the women who pushed for those changes aren’t forgotten. “Young women and girls need to hear these very inspiring stories about Emily Austin and other women in history,” Sykes said. “When I came along, there was no such thing as women’s history. The great advantage that younger women have now is role models.”

magazine.austincollege.edu The Race for Madam President: Reflections from Kiki McLean Catherine “Kiki” Moore McLean

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IN THE SHAD C F I / N A R O H N I V E K Y B O T O H P

Carroll Pickett recorded tapes about each of 95 inmates who were executed while he was Death House chaplain.

by Dara McCoy hat would it be like to watch 95 people be which he had bared his soul to the recorder after each executed? What kind of solace can be execution. provided to them in their final hours? What “It was difficult,” said Pickett of opening the tapes if those responsibilities were part of doing a to the production crew. “I had done the tapes for me Wjob? These are the questions addressed in At alone, and they were put away for good.” He said the the Death House Door , an Independent Film Channel producers took the time to listen to the tapes and asked (IFC) documentary on the life of Carroll Pickett ’54 and questions about memories he had suppressed long ago. his 15 years as chaplain at the Texas State Penitentiary in “Several times, it really hurt to hear the things I had Huntsville, Texas. From 1982 to 1995, Pickett walked been through and to recall those men who I was with all “through the valley of the shadow of death” with 95 day and night,” he said. prisoners sentenced to death by lethal injection. They The documentary chronicles Pickett’s life after weren’t his valleys, but serving as the guide for those graduating from Austin College. He attended Austin walks was terrifying enough. Presbyterian Theological Seminary where he was told by The documentary premiered on IFC May 29 and was one professor in 1957, “I am convinced that your described as “a quiet powerhouse that leaves you ministry is destined to focus on the dying, lending thinking about the central issues and character long after comfort to those faced with death and those who are the lights have gone up,” by a Dallas Morning News losing loved ones.” His professor’s words became very writer. Pickett allowed camera crews into his living room real in 1974 when several prisoners took hostages at and relived his experiences as Death House chaplain. He “The Walls” unit of the Huntsville State Prison in an 11- also opened his collection of cassette recordings, in day standoff, the longest in United States history.

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At the time, Pickett was the minister of the hours and was at their side when the lethal injection was Presbyterian Church in Huntsville. Jim Estelle, one of his administered. “It is hard to tell anybody, even the meanest church members and the director of prisons, asked person, that it’s time to go,” Pickett said. Pickett to come and minister to the families of the prison Pickett would fill this role 95 times. He even faced the employees taken hostages. Then, Pickett was told that personal conflict of ministering to Ignacio Cuevas, the two hostages were faithful members of his own lone surviving inmate from the 1974 hostage crisis that congregation. The prisoners allowed the hostages to call resulted in the deaths of his church members. At the time their families. During one call, the women from Pickett’s of Cuevas’ execution, Pickett approved of capital church told him their wishes for their funeral services. punishment and felt disgust that even in Cuevas’ final On August 3, 1974, the hostage crisis ended hours he never mentioned his role in the 1974 hostage violently on the front ramp of the prison during an crisis. “I wanted him to bring it up,” Pickett said. “He escape attempt. Two leaders of the crisis lay dead, and talked about murdering, slashing, and killing all these two of the 11 hostages were murdered by the prisoners. other people, but he didn’t bring it up. The whole idea of Both were Pickett’s church members. That day Pickett justice and fairness was not in his system.” said he would never return to the prison. The execution of another prisoner, Carlos DeLuna, changed Pickett’s stance on capital punishment. In their GOING BACK time together, he became convinced DeLuna was Five years later, Pickett did go back to the Huntsville innocent. Despite his reservations about capital prison, taking a job as the prison chaplain in an attempt punishment, Pickett continued to minister in his role as to save a marriage strained by the time-consuming work Death House chaplain. “I believe that the ‘ministry of of pastoring a church. “When I went to work there, presence’ is so important for anyone who is about to die. I didn’t breathe walking up that ramp,” Pickett said of his … No one should die without a friend,” said Pickett. first day. “I got to the place right there at that corner The story of DeLuna’s possible innocence interested where Judy and Yvonne were shot, and went to the library two Chicago Tribune reporters in 2005. They contacted and there were still bullet holes. You could still see the Pickett in February 2006 and were involved in the IFC blood stains.” documentary filming as well. The documentary gave When Pickett first began as chaplain, six people Pickett an opportunity to speak out against the death attended service in the prison’s chapel, but he went to penalty for the first time since he retired from the prison work gathering a new congregation of thieves, murderers, in 1995. “I have given 275 radio, TV, phone, and personal and other criminals. He started a choir that attracted interviews and traveled over 26,000 miles to promote the several talented inmates, one of whom had been a backup film and speak after each showing,” Pickett said. He has singer for Don Ho and another who was a former Texas spoken to the Texas Democratic Caucus, to church Supreme Court justice. congregations, and on Capitol Hill to the Judiciary In 1982, Pickett once again faced death in his Committee of the House of Representatives. ministry. The Huntsville prison was scheduled to Pickett’s experiences in the Death House remain with administer the first execution by lethal injection in the him. “I have been there 95 times and most people will United States. “Nowhere in my job description did it say never see what it is like,” Pickett said of a practice he now anything about executions,” Pickett said in the film. Yet, sees as unfair and immoral. ”I want people, through this the prison director assigned Pickett to minister to the film, to feel something and do something about it.” condemned inmates, transferred from Death Row to the Huntsville death chamber on the day of execution. He magazine.austincollege.edu stayed with the condemned prisoners during their final 18 At the Death House Door: FilmTrailer and Information

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TH 50 ANNIVERSARY

Sara Bernice Moseley, wife of Austin College president emeritus John D. Moseley, remembers watching from her home on Grand Avenue as a crane lifted the Sam Houston bell and steeple atop Wynne Chapel in 1958. This year, Wynne Chapel celebrates its 50th anniversary. The College’s connection to the Presbyterian Church Sand the Wynne Chapel’s usage have evolved dramatically since the building’s construction. Yet, its presence still serves as a reminder of the College’s Presbyterian history, an important tie to the church, and the nexus of religious and spiritual life on campus. It was a generous gift from Toddie Lee Wynne, Sr., a well-known Texas oilman, civic leader, active Presbyterian, and former chair of the Austin College Board of Trustees, that funded the construction of Wynne Chapel. Mrs. Moseley remembers the excitement on campus of having a new building with a 900- person seating capacity for lectures, musical performances, and religious activities. On September 15, 1958, Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the House of Representatives, delivered the keynote address at the chapel’s dedication. Mrs. Moseley said the chapel’s construction also had great significance to President Moseley, who led Austin College from 1953 to 1978. Y R W O L T E N A J F O Y S E

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“It was so important in his thinking that the College had a chapel, a building that was centrally located, and the fact that it faces the Administration Building was a very significant thing,” she said. To the leaders who today enter Caruth Administration Building and make decisions concerning the College’s future, the chapel’s location provides a clear reminder of historical roots and modern ties to the church. In 1958, Wynne Chapel was an important symbol of the College’s Presbyterian history, tracing all the way back to Presbyterian Imissionary the Reverend Daniel Baker, who helped found the College, and to its legal ties. When the chapel was built, the College was a legal entity of the Presbyterian Church. In 1962, Dr. Moseley proposed redefining the legal link between the College and church in order to create more of a non-sectarian liberal arts college. Four years later, the Synod of Texas and Austin College severed legal ties and established a covenant relationship. According to Austin College: A Sesquicentennial History 1849-1999 , President Moseley described the covenant as “revisions designed to A bronze likeness of anticipate and avoid future problems in Church-State relationships by Toddie Lee Wynne hangs providing a broader base and flexibility of support through trustee in the foyer of Wynne Chapel. leadership, recognizing that the regular benevolent budget of the Church cannot provide the increased necessary funds for maintaining a pace-setting institution.” The mid-1960s also saw a broad shift in attitude from students and faculty who criticized the long-established mandatory chapel services, held in Sherman Hall prior to Wynne Chapel’s construction. The issue was hotly debated and eventually chapel service requirements were terminated, further denoting the College’s shift to a non-sectarian institution.

WYNNE CHAPEL TODAY Fifty years later, Wynne Chapel still stands watch over students and faculty as they cross the campus, a reminder of the Presbyterian Church ties and the opportunities for spiritual growth and outreach for all students. “How Great Thou Art” or some other hymn rings out from the chapel’s Carillon bells at 4:45 p.m. each day, one of many tangible ways the chapel touches modern day campus life. Despite the altered relationship with the church and changing attitudes about religious life in general over the past 50 years, Wynne Chapel remains an important fixture at Austin College. Opening Convocation, Family Weekend worship, and the annual holiday Service of Lessons and Carols are just a few College-wide events held in Wynne Chapel. The chapel is an important venue for campus music group performances, Austin College Leadership Award recipients, and special speakers such as Robert Engel, recipient of a Nobel Prize in Economics. Every year, the chapel is filled with young people who utilize the campus for Presbyterian youth events. The building’s evolution also is evidenced in the small chapel, which accommodates yoga classes, provides indoor practice space for the Aussies Dance Team when bad weather strikes, and hosts the

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Muslim Student Association prayers. “It’s a space for the whole student body, the whole college community,” said John Williams ’84, college chaplain and director of Church Relations. Though the chapel opens its doors to various activities within the student body, traditional Christian worship and activity in Wynne Chapel occurs regularly through midday prayers every Tuesday, communion and worship every Sunday night, and as a headquarters for ACtivators, a campus Presbyterian mobile youth ministry. “We’re not going to hit you over the head with the cross, nor are we going to apologize that there’s a cross on top of the steeple,” Williams said. “Our commitment as a church-related institution is to take all students and their spirituality seriously.” For 50 years, Wynne Chapel has embodied the religious underpinnings of Austin College. The activities held within its walls, from mandatory chapel service with assigned seating to belly dancing classes, exemplify the transformation of church relations, religious thought, and the enduring relevance of the building. Mrs. Moseley, who has experienced the evolution of Wynne Chapel and church relations at Austin College, still feels as excited about the chapel as she did 50 years ago. “There’s such activity coming out of the chapel,” she magazine.austincollege.edu said. “It’s a real, live connection to the church.” Ties to the Presbyterian Church Remain Strong

HAPPY 50TH IN CELEBRATION OF WYNNE CHAPEL’S 50TH ANNIVERSARY:

E September 26 – November 16: Austin College Archives Display in the small chapel illustrates the 50-year history of Wynne Chapel. E September 28: Parent and Family Weekend Worship Service at 11 a.m., with a sermon by the Reverend Kary Wilshusen Rawlings ’78. E October 26: Homecoming Weekend Worship Service at 11 a.m., with a sermon provided by the Reverend Nancy Duff ’73 at 11 a.m. E November 13: Austin College A Cappella Choir Concert at 7:30 p.m., featuring the premiere of a choral work by Austin College’s first lady Anna Laura Page , commissioned for the anniversary. E November 14 – 15: Grace Presbytery Meeting , including the 2008 Cunningham Lectures by Dr. Cynthia Rigby, professor of systematic theology at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary. E November 16: Official Worship Service in Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Wynne Chapel’s Dedication, including an A Cappella Choir performance of the choral piece commissioned for the anniversary and composed by Anna Laura Page . The Reverend Laura Shelton Mendenhall ’69 will speak at the 11 a.m. service.

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around campus

Henry Winkler Presents Opening of School Address

enry Winkler presented the Opening of School things to be done, needs to be met, and hurts to be address September 1 to begin the 160th year of healed, and if you do not do your part, something very HAustin College. The well-known television important will remain undone forever,” Winkler said. icon spoke in Wynne Chapel to a full house — Winkler remains best known as the television icon some 900 members of the Austin College community “The Fonz” on the 1970s sitcom Happy Days , though he including the entering Class of 2012, the Class of 2009 has since added many television, film, and Broadway processing in cap and gown for the first time, faculty, acting and directing projects to his credits. He also is staff, and guests. recognized as a distinguished speaker, humanitarian, Combining humor, wit, inspiration, and poignancy, author, and advocate of young people and education. Winkler discussed his life experiences, beginning with Austin College awarded Winkler an honorary Doctor of troubling years in school, battling undiagnosed dyslexia, Humane Letters degree in 2002. low self-esteem, and a lack of emotional support from his parents. His years in higher education were a bit more

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in homes across the United States and P beyond. His early years were challenging ones, but Winkler recalls them with a positive outlook. “I realize maybe I would never have been able to achieve what I achieved if I didn’t have the battle, the hill I constantly had to climb,” he said. Winkler hopes his experiences will bring inspiration to other children who may suffer from learning disabilities or other problems. He has now completed 15 books in a children’s series, Hank Zipzer, The World’s Greatest Underachiever , in which the Henry Winkler title character, based on Winkler, finds ways to overcome his daily difficulties. Speaking particularly to the students present, Winkler encouraged them to make the most of themselves, stressing that each person has only one lifetime to live; that living to their potential will equip them to serve others; and that their very best selves are needed to assist the most vulnerable in society. “There are magazine.austincollege.edu Additional Opening of School Photos

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Campus Programs Commemorate Charles Darwin Anniversaries ustin College will sponsor the event series “Darwin 200” throughout this The Reluctant Mr. Darwin academic year in celebration of the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s Students in Austin College’s Class of 2012 had birth February 12, 1809, and the 150th anniversary of the publication of homework months before arriving on campus. Joining his widely influential book The Origin of Species (1859). A many colleges and universities around the nation, Austin The events include a lecture series, “Darwin 200: Contributions/ College has instituted a “common read” program, in Controversies.” The series examines Darwin’s influence not only in the sciences which all freshmen are assigned a particular book to read but also in the social sciences and humanities, through disciplines such as prior to the beginning of the fall term. President Oscar psychology, economics, literature, philosophy, and religion. Lectures also will C. Page initiated the addition of the program a few years address some of the misunderstandings and controversies surrounding ago and sends the selected book to all freshmen each evolution. “Almost no one has had more scientific influence and broader June along with a letter asking that they read the book. cultural impact than Darwin,” said George Diggs , professor of biology, who has The 2008 selection was David Quammen’s The helped organize the events. “Few areas of thought remain untouched by Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin’s contributions.” Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution . Fall term speakers for “Darwin 200: Contributions/Controversies” include “The common read sets a tone for students and George Diggs , Austin College professor of biology, September 11 at 11 a.m.; gives them an opportunity to start to focus on college,” Piers Hale, University of Oklahoma assistant professor of the history of science, said Mike Imhoff , vice president for Academic Affairs September 25 at 11 a.m.; and Steven Goldsmith , Austin College professor of and dean of the faculty. “The common read book gives biology, October 30 at 11 a.m. These lectures are scheduled for Ida Green them something that stimulates them intellectually Theatre in the Ida Green Communication Center. while providing all students a common experience.” David Quammen, author of The Reluctant Mr. Darwin, will speak February When faculty members use the book in various aspects 10, 2009, at 7 p.m. in Ida Green Theatre. Philip Gingerich, University of Michigan of their courses, students can begin to see how the Case Collegiate Professor of Paleontology, will speak in March 2009, and David book relates to various disciplines and how they can Buss, professor of psychology at the University of Texas, will speak April 24, but learn from a closer reading, Imhoff said. other details of these lectures are still to be determined. Additional speakers How faculty members incorporate the common may be added to the schedule. read book is up to individual faculty. Since several The lecture series coordinates with two major campus programs: the faculty members are involved in organizing “Darwin summer read — The Reluctant Mr. Darwin — and the April 24 –25, 2009, annual 200” events, many opportunities to include the book in undergraduate research conference — “Darwin 200: Bridging class discussions may arise. Disciplines/Breaking Boundaries.” The undergraduate research conference, the Past Austin College common read assignments sixth hosted by Austin College, will focus broadly on Darwin’s impact on include Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi, A Hope academic disciplines and popular culture and will cover a diverse range of in the Unseen by Ron Suskind, and Tracy Kidder’s evolution-related topics spanning the humanities, social sciences, and Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul sciences. David Buss, professor of psychology at the University of Texas, will Farmer . Suskind delivered the Opening of School provide the keynote address for the conference April 24, 2009. address the year freshmen read his book and Paul Faculty organizers for the Darwin celebration include George Diggs , Farmer was the 2007 speaker. professor of biology; Steven Goldsmith , professor of biology; Max Grober , associate professor of history; Jerry Lincecum , professor emeritus of English; Peggy Redshaw , professor of biology, who is coordinating the lecture series; and Carol Daeley , professor of English, who is coordinating the undergraduate research conference in April 2009. Event details are available online: www.austincollege.edu/darwin .

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around campus Out of the Congo

he Austin College community will get a glimpse of the Congo and the culture of the Bakubas people this fall through an African art exhibit that will kick off the T College’s annual Africa Symposium. Alumnae Elizabeth Poole Shepherd ’58 and Amelia Poole Sudderth ’59 were born into that culture as the daughters of Presbyterian medical missionaries Mark and Sara Poole. Amelia, her husband Joe Sudderth ’59, and her late sister’s husband, Don Shepherd ’58, generously made a temporary loan of Bakubas artifacts from the Belgian Congo period for the exhibit. Ceremonial masks, royal ceremonial garments, wood and stone statues, a carved ivory tusk, and ceremonial swords and spears from the Bakubas tribe will be displayed October 24 – November 26 at the exhibit, housed in the Archives and Special Collections Suite of the College’s George T. and Gladys H. Abell Library Center. Justin Banks , College archivist, said that individuals usually would have to travel to the Smithsonian or catch a traveling art exhibit from the Metropolitan Museum to see the type of artifacts that will be displayed on campus. “The willingness of the families to loan these artifacts creates a unique educational opportunity that would otherwise be impossible for Austin College to offer,” Banks said. Mark Poole and his wife, Sara Day, served as medical missionaries in Art of the Kuba the Belgian Congo from 1936 to 1962, providing medical care, surgical October 2 4–November 26 operations, and hygiene instruction to the Bakubas tribe. Over time, the Abell Library, Archives and Pooles acquired several tribal artifacts and brought them back to the Special Collections Suite United States, where they have long served as mementos of their lives Curated by Austin College and work in the African Congo. Archivist Justin Banks The Poole sisters finished high school in the Congo before attending Austin College. “The transition from living in Africa to living in the United Mondays, Tuesdays, States was difficult,” Amelia said. “Austin College was very supportive, and it Wednesdays, Fridays; was small enough that we could become an integral part pretty easily.” Both 8:30 – 11:50 a.m. and 1 – 3:50 p.m. women met their husbands at Austin College, and in 1961, the College Thursdays; 8:30 – 11 a.m. awarded their father an honorary degree for service to humanity. “We’ve Homecoming Only : Friday until 6 p.m.; always had a warm spot for Austin College,” she said. Saturday 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Amelia, who majored in art at Austin College, loaned the artifacts to the College for an exhibit in 1959 and was excited to share the artifacts again. “It seems a very appropriate thing to do and something I know my sister would have done if she were still living,” Amelia said. Africa Symposium “We are loaning these things to honor both the culture of the Bakubas November 1 8–20 people and the dedication and service of my parents among them during Keynote Speaker: David Binkley those years,” Amelia said. “They went to express the love of God through www.austincollege.edu/news their medical and surgical work. As my dad expressed it so many times, they did it so that the people could be free from fear, superstition, and witchcraft and have peace in their hearts through the love of God.”

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Faculty Member Shares Significance of Poole Collection Peter Anderson joined Austin College’s faculty as an associate professor of English in 2006. A South African writer, sculptor, and academic, he wrote the script for the slide catalogue of the Standard Bank African Art Collection housed at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg in the mid-1980s. He teaches postcolonial literature and creative writing, and this fall is offering a course on Anglophone Nigerian literature, “Palm-Wine and Purple Hibiscus.” His comments follow.

African art was never meant to be put on display — hung on a wall, sealed in a glass box, isolated as an object of contemplation, a mute museum piece. In fact, even the concept of “art” is little short of a Eurocentric imposition. African art (continuing to use the term for convenience sake), always was dynamically integrated as a signifying cultural practice, productive of the meanings by which different communities comprehended and connected with the world around them. Masks, for instance, were often inspirited, filled with the overflowing presence of the numinous, the sacred, and therefore as capable of striking terror into the heart of the people as they might be of uplifting them, filling them with power, with love. The Poole collection is among the few such collections to have been made in a way that can today be endorsed as ethically acceptable. In gratitude for being cured, people would bestow gifts upon the good doctor — “art” works, which we now acknowledge as priceless, but that in early 20th century Europe and America simply were considered as “primitive,” “bizarre,” “barbaric,” and so on. It is no small achievement to have an ethically sound collection of indigenous art from Congo of the early 20th century. And what a collection. Kuba art is among the most spectacular ever to emerge from central Africa, one of the most powerful founts of great art in world history. Kuba masks, figurative sculptures, carvings in and on ivory, raffia work, to name only those items that come first to mind, are exemplary of the vitality and awe-inspiring profundity of African art. It is no secret today that the impact of African art, its incomparably powerful sculpture in particular, perhaps, on European high modernism, was decisive. We could point to Picasso and the development of cubism, Brancusi and the turn away from “beefsteak” realism, Modigliani and the elongation and simplification of form, for the ramifications are almost endless. Austin College is truly honored, even blessed, to place on exhibition a range of pieces from the Poole collection.

The Africa Symposium will feature the keynote address “Stop the Sun: The Art of Masquerade in Southern Kuba Culture” by David Binkley at 11 a.m. November 20 in Hoxie Thompson Auditorium of Sherman Hall. Binkley’s lecture will include a discussion of Kuba history as well as the system of titleholding and the relationship of art making to the political hierarchy , including textile production and masquerade performance. Binkley is an art historian who has lived in the Congo among the Kuba, and according to Anderson, is “perhaps the foremost U.S. expert on Kuba art.” Binkley was the senior curator for research and interpretation at the National Museum of African Art at the Smithsonian Institution and has been involved in many exhibitions and art programs. He earned a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in art history before completing a Ph.D. in African art history in 1987. A student panel discussion, “Active Participants: Volunteer Insights into Development and Humanitarian Efforts in Africa ,” on November 19 features students who spent the summer as Global Outreach Fellows, working with children in Ghana and Ethiopia. Student panelists are Cara Barnes ’09, Holly Boerner ’09, Rebeca Kim ’10, Anne Engelhart ’1 0, and Monica Martinez ’09.

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Washington, D.C., Becomes Summer Classroom

Rachel Dodd ’11 and Erin Bailey ’10 spent most of the summer in O T O H

Washington, D.C., but it wasn’t for sightseeing. The two completed an P Y S E

intensive four-week program in Arabic, meeting four hours each weekday T R U O

in July. The introductory Arabic course emphasized development of C speaking and listening skills through intensive drills, exposure to basic structural patterns of the language, and functional vocabulary. The course — led by Yasmine Hasnaoui who taught Arabic in a one-year program at Austin College in 200 4–2005 — included introduction to cultural components in the Middle East and North Africa. In August, Bailey attended the Summer Symposium on U.S. Foreign Policy, joining students from around the world in Washington, D.C., to hear economists, analysts, journalists, government officials, and educators provide insight on the state of politics around the globe. The students also visited the embassies of China, Israel, and Egypt during the conference. Other Austin College participants were Laura Gallardo ’10 , Wes Johnston ’10 , Adnan Merchant ’11 , Kerry Van Zant ’08, and Nathan Withers ’09. Both events, offered through the Osgood Center for International Studies, were directed by Shelly Williams , president of the Osgood Center and Austin College professor emeritus of political science. Alvaro Escorcia ’10 and Wes Johnston ’10 were Osgood Center interns for the summer. Escorcia worked with a non-governmental agency on sustainable development and Johnston was assigned to TASH, an international association working in disability advocacy.

A Summer of Two-Way Learning Fulbright-Hays Program that included travel to India High School Students Experience College Life S

F A group of students at Jefferson Elementary School in in 2007 and gathered materials there used in the Twelve students participated in the Center for E

I Sherman experienced international learning this classes. Jaisy Joseph ‘09 visited the camp one Southwestern and Mexican Studies (CSMS) Summer

R summer — from right in their own classrooms. morning to demonstrate and teach traditional Indian Institute for Talented High School Students in 2008.

B Approximately 45 first through fourth grade students dances to the children. The program allows high school rising juniors and

S learned about the land, people, and culture of India seniors to attend, tuition-free, two full-credit Austin

W through the sixth annual summer enrichment program Summer Institute for Foreign Language Teachers College summer courses relating to the interests of

E offered by students and faculty of Austin College’s Texas high school teachers of French, Latin, and the center. All students selected for the institute take N Austin Teacher Program (ATP). The two-week session, Spanish arrived on campus in July to participate in a the same two courses, which also may include 8:30 a.m. to noon daily, was funded by the ATP. one-week residential language immersion program regularly enrolled Austin College students. The collaborative camp was coordinated by Julia designed to enhance teaching skills. The teachers Course offering in 2008 were “Introduction to Shahid , associate professor of education in the stayed in Jordan Family Language House and spoke Cultural Anthropology” and beginning or intermediate Austin Teacher Program. She and Jefferson School their target languages at all times. Spanish. Terry Hoops , associate professor of staff realized several years ago that such a camp Members of the College’s Classical and Modern anthropology, and Patrick Duffey , professor of could meet the need for a summer program for Languages Department led a number of sessions Spanish, taught the courses. Light Cummins , Guy M. children as well as offer teaching opportunities for each day that allowed the teachers to refresh Bryan professor of history, is director of the CSMS. students in the ATP’s summer course on science and language skills and develop new cultural and The program is open to high school students social studies teaching methodologies. technological resources to advance teaching in their who live in Grayson, Fannin, Collin, or Cooke counties The College students prepared the summer own classrooms. in Texas or in Bryan County in Oklahoma and have curriculum, collected resources, and coordinated All costs for the teachers, including room and completed two full years of high school. each days’ lessons. Shahid and select Jefferson board, were funded by a grant from the Sid W. teachers provided feedback to the student teachers Richardson Foundation. The summer program has each day. Shahid participated in a month-long been offered for several years.

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Five Join College Board of Trustees

Five individuals recently joined the Austin College Board of Trustees: E John M. Andersen ’66 of Dallas, professor of pediatrics and director of pediatric gastroenterology at University of Texas Southwestern Medical School and Children’s Medical Center in Dallas E Laura Dies Campbell ’73 of Austin, community volunteer active in Lay Missionaries of Charity and Mobile Loaves and Fishes E Kelly Hiser of Sherman, owner of Kelly Oil Company E Wes Moffett ’82 of Dallas, chief operating officer of Avelo Mortgage in Irving, a subsidiary of Archon Group E John Serhant of Denison, Texas, and Steamboat Springs, Colorado, retired vice chair of State Street Global Advisors and advisor to Goldentree Asset Management. S O T O H P Y S E T R U O C

John M. Andersen Laura Campbell Kelly Hiser Wes Moffett John Serhant

Davis Provides Professional Leadership Japan/U.S. Educators Compare Notes research directors from across the nation invited to Nan Davis , vice president for Institutional Enrollment, Back-to-school time took on new meaning in August serve on the Integrated Postsecondary Education will serve as co-director for the National Association for a group of educators from Japan visiting the U.S. Data System (IPEDS) Technical Review Panel (TRP) for College Admission Counseling (NACAC) Chief to compare the educational system to that of their for the Department of Education. The TRP met in Enrollment Officers Forum in September in Seattle, own nation. Their agenda included an afternoon of Washington, D.C., July 9–10 to review possible Washington. She serves on the Program Planning discussion with the faculty of the Austin Teacher changes to the IPEDS Graduation Rate Survey. Committee and is co-chair of the Local Arrangements Program and a local school administrator. Committee for the National College Board Forum The trip for the 13 high school and college French Teachers, Students Learn Together 2008, to be held in Houston this November. Davis teachers, principals, and administrators from Japan French students and teachers from Keller High again served as a resident faculty member for the was arranged through the Japan Fulbright Memorial School. Klein Oak High School, Sherman High College Board/Texas Association for College Fund (JFMF) Teacher Program, sponsored by the School, and James Bowie High School in Arlington, Admission Counseling (TACAC) Summer Institute held government of Japan, and designed to increase Texas, were selected by Austin College French faculty in San Antonio, Texas, in July. She continues service understanding between the people of Japan and the to participate in a campus program in July. The group on the College Board National College Scholarship United States. spent three days in the College’s Jordan Family Service Assembly Council and the Southwestern The Japanese visitors’ educational specialties Language House, and Austin College French College Board Regional Council. range from homemaking to physics. Their homes and Department faculty led sessions designed to develop schools are in Aichi, Osaka, Hokkaido, and students’ listening and speaking fluency through an Summer Days Are Busy Ones at Austin College Hiroshima, Japan. Brandon McInnis ’09 served as immersion program. Each summer, several thousand individuals visit language interpreter for the gathering. Austin College as participants in various summer News Briefs photos available in the online magazine. conferences. Many are youth camps of church and Wheaton Selected for Research Panel school groups, as well as the annual Young Leaders Judy Wheaton , director of Institutional Research and Conference of the National Hispanic Institute. Assessment, was one of fewer than 15 institutional

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Austin College Is a Great Place to Work Austin College was named one of the “2008 Great Colleges to Work For” in the July 18 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education , scoring in the top five in 17 of 27 categories. “I am proud of the faculty and staff of Austin College who make this a great place to work,” said Oscar C. Page , Austin College president. “Each person contributes to a positive environment characterized by respect and support for one another.” ModernThink, a human resources consulting firm, administered surveys to 15,000 randomly selected employees of 89 public and private colleges and universities. Austin College was included in the “small” category, for institutions with 499 or fewer employees and ranked among the top five institutions in categories including healthy faculty- administration relations, collaborative governance, p rofessional/career development, teaching environment, confidence in senior leadership, connections to institution and pride, respect and appreciation, and post-retirement benefits. “Independent surveys are important because responses are generally honest and sincere,” said Heidi Ellis , vice president for Business Affairs at Austin College. “I believe this is a terrific place to work, and this survey confirms that many others feel that way as well.” Renowned Shakespearean Scholar to Visit Campus for Lecture orld-renowned Shakespearean and English literature scholar Stephen Greenblatt will Wvisit Austin College October 20 to present a lecture on Shakespeare and Cervantes, “The Strange Case of Cardenio .” The lecture will be held at 7 p.m. in Hoxie Thompson Auditorium of Sherman Hall. A reception and booksigning will follow.

H “Stephen Greenblatt’s visit to Austin College is a major event for C A R

H us,” said Carol Daeley , professor of English and chair of the English C A B

Y Department. “He is a groundbreaking figure in literary studies who B O

T has recently launched two truly unique projects born out of his O H P interest in ‘what happens when things cross borders.’ His Harvard course on global exchange along ocean routes in the 17th century has, like much of his work, profound relevance to today’s world. His play, Cardenio , co-written with Charles Mee and inspired by Shakespeare and Cervantes, has been adapted for performance in Japan and India. Who better to bring here as the faculty begins its ‘Global Learning for Cultural Awareness’ Quality Enhancement Plan?” Greenblatt is the John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University, one of 19 Harvard University Professors, the school’s highest professorial distinction. Before joining the Harvard faculty in 1997, Greenblatt was a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught for 28 years. He has been a visiting professor and lecturer at universities around the world, including the universities of Oxford, London, Kyoto, Bologna, Florence, Berlin, and Peking. He is the author of dozens of scholarly articles and of 10 books, including Hamlet in Purgatory . He also has served as editor of 10 major volumes, including the seventh edition of The Norton Anthology of English Literature . He is a Stephen Greenblatt Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the recipient of many honors and awards.

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Leadership Forum Scheduled for November 7 O Austin College’s Posey Leadership Institute will host its annual T O H P

Leadership Forum November 7, featuring Howard Prince, director of Y S E T

the LBJ School’s Center for Ethical Leadership and retired Brigadier R U O General of the U.S. Army. Prince will offer a 9:30 a.m. session and C speak at a luncheon after the morning session. From 1990 to 1996, Prince served as founding dean and professor in the University of Richmond’s Jepson School of Leadership Studies, where he was responsible for development of the first undergraduate leadership degree program in the world. From 1978 to 1990, Prince was professor and head of the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. An honor graduate of West Point, Prince holds a master’s degree in international relations from American University, studied at the University of Bonn in Germany as an Olmsted Scholar, and earned a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Texas at Austin. A clinical psychologist, he is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association. For information about the event, contact the Posey Leadership Institute staff at (903) 813-2015 or see www.austincollege.edu/news. Howard Prince

Page Signs Climate Commitment Addendum: Spring 2008 Music Recitals Austin College President Oscar C. Page signed the American College and A listing of senior recitals performed by Austin College University Presidents Climate Commitment July 24, pledging to eliminate music majors that was included in the June magazine campus greenhouse gas emissions over time. The commitment will inadvertently omitted Michael Brahce , vocalist. Since require Austin College to complete an emissions inventory, set a target graduation he has been involved with the Berkshire date and milestones to become “climate neutral,” reduce greenhouse gas Theatre Festival (BTF) in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. emissions, integrate sustainability into the curriculum and into the As one of five Artists in Residence, Brahce College’s education experience, and make an action plan, inventory, and performs once a week in a touring production, A Tour progress reports publicly available, according to the Presidents Climate of Mount Olympus, written by BTF’s E. Gray Simons III Commitment Web site. and Tara M. Franklin. He also teaches children at area “The college has been serious about various aspects of environmental schools about various aspects of theatre and will issues in the past, but I’m delighted to see the highest level administrative perform in the company’s annual holiday production support for a more comprehensive approach,” said Peter Schulze , of A Christmas Carol. professor of biology and environmental science and director of Austin College’s Center for Environmental Studies. “Joining the Presidents Climate Commitment is a recognition that these sorts of efforts are in the best interest of the College and larger community in the long run and are compatible with the mission of the College.” One of the first steps Austin College will take during Fall Term 2008 is to form a committee that will evaluate how to best meet the goals of the commitment. In signing the commitment, Austin College joined more than 560 colleges and universities committed to address the issue of global warming through reducing campus impact on the environment.

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Fall Theatre Season Fall Music Season Chapter Two by Neil Simon October September 25–27, 7:30 p.m. ; and 2 :30 p.m. , September 27 25 Sherman Symphony Orchestra Directed by Greg Hernandez ’09 7:30 p.m., Kidd Key Auditorium, Sherman Beardsley Arena Theatre 26 Faculty Trio Recital 3 p.m., Craig Recital Hall Hamlet by William Shakespeare November October 23–25, 7 p.m. 13 Choral Concert Directed by Kathleen Campbell , professor of communication studies 7:30 p.m., Wynne Chapel Ida Green Theatre 19 Concert Band Performance 7:30 p.m., Wynne Chapel Festival of One-Act Plays 20 Student Recital November 21 –22, 7 p.m. 7:30 p.m., Wynne Chapel Directed by students of Kirk Everist , assistant professor of communication studies 24 Chamber Music and Jazz Concert Ida Green Theatre 7:30 p.m., Wynne Chapel 25 Student Recital All performances in Ida Green Communication Center. Tickets are $8, but free to all 7:30 p.m., Craig Recital Hall Austin College students. See www.austincollege.edu for updates. December 4 Service of Lessons and Carols featuring Austin College Choirs Art Exhibit 7 p.m., Wynne Chapel October 2 0–November 14 6 Christmas Pops with the Sherman Symphony Orchestra Artist: Susie Fowler 7:30 p.m., Mason Complex, Sid Richardson Center Ida Green Gallery, Ida Green Communication Center 7 Christmas Pops with the Sherman Symphony Orchestra 3 p.m., Mason Complex, Sid Richardson Center

See www.austincollege.edu for details, updates, and ticket information. Grant Enhances Computer Science Study through Robotics “Implementing robotics into computer science and other sciences “It’s much more fun to teach a robot to navigate around obstacles, makes the curriculum more interesting and interactive,” said Shellene perform a dance, or travel the halls taking pictures than to write a Kelley , Austin College associate professor of computer science. program to solve a mathematical equation or search for information in a Austin College was one of 28 high schools, colleges, and file,” Kelley said. “But the same logic and problem solving skills are universities in the nation to receive a grant this summer to enhance needed to accomplish all these tasks. Students learn not only to program Acomputer science curriculum with robrotics technology. The grant wtas robots but also ts o program computers to solve real-world problems.” provided by the Institute for Personal Robots in Education (IPRE) and a gift from Microsoft Research. The schools share $250,000 and received Y B R

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Kelley. “This is key to encouraging experimentation and learning, both H P in and out of the classroom environment.” Kelley is implementing the technology this fall during her Communication/Inquiry (C/I) course, “Computing with Robots: It’s all a BOT science,” with each student exploring ways to automate robot behavior through computer programming using their own personal robot. Kelley also will use the robotic technology in 2009 January and spring term courses.

Freshmen Kristyn Weaver and Andrew Jaremski work on programming as faculty member Shellene Kelley, center, examines one of the book-sized robots used by her C/I class.

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by Jeff Kelly

n unspoken rule in sports is that it takes time to build a winner. In all, Burns has led his teams to 11 consecutive winning seasons, When a program is created, odds are it will struggle before it with 10 seasons of double figures in the win column and plans to add turns the corner toward success. to the streak this fall. A Apparently, no one ever told that to Paul Burns , the first “My goal when I started the program was to compete every year and only coach the Austin College women’s soccer program has known for a conference championship,” said Burns. He attributes the success since its 1996 beginning. He brought winning to women’s soccer in a to strong recruiting and developing a pool of committed and hurry. In the team’s second year, the Kangaroos posted a winning competitive student-athletes. record of 11-7-1, and have not been under .500 since. They won 12 “Lots of sacrifice is needed,” Burns said. “I push the players games in their third season, and within outside their comfort zone. We want players that understand this just five years of the inception dynamic and have a passion to improve, compete, win — and combine of the program, they won a this with succeeding academically and enjoying student life.” program-record 16 Burns said his coaching philosophy is simple. “Practices always are games and the first thoroughly organized, supervised, and intense,” he said. “I provide of two conference the student-athletes with challenging year-round training championships. programs that improve players’ game, development, and understanding. I believe a successful coach is part technician, part mentor, and part entrepreneur. He must know his game thoroughly and instinctively, be sensitive to the needs of his players, and employ the business skills of a successful manager with zest and flair.” The hard work is necessary to achieve and maintain success, but as Burns says, “Nothing is free and nothing is easy. You get out what you put in.” At the same time, Burns teaches his players that there is no room for placing blame or reacting poorly when something doesn’t go their way. “I believe a team must come to play no matter the adversity,” said Burns. “The athletes must be prepared, motivated, competitive, and always gracious in victory or defeat. They must take responsibility for their own actions and always strive for excellence on the field and in the classroom. I believe each player has talent, and through physical, mental, and spiritual enhancement, each student-athlete has the ability to reach maximum potential.” For now, Burns is focused on the 2008 season, and as always the goal is to challenge for a conference championship. With a plethora of N A M

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Baseball Team Can’t Repeat SCAC Championship The Kangaroo baseball team came up short in defending its Southern Soccer Women Discover Magical Kingdom Collegiate Athletic Conference title, falling in a best-of-three series to Women’s soccer coach Paul Burns and several members of No. 15-ranked DePauw University in the SCAC Divisional Tournament his team traveled to the United Kingdom this summer for a to end the season with a record of 18-24. The ’Roos also had a 7-9 training tour in the coach’s home country. The women regular season mark against conference opponents. played three games against teams from England and Wales Shortstop Andy White ’10, first baseman and pitcher Bobby and took in the sights along the way, traveling to Schleizer ’08, and third baseman Bennett Herrick ’11 were honored in Manchester, Peterborough, Abergavenny, and London. The the postseason for their outstanding play during the year. White was trip was immensely enjoyable for the players as well as named All-Conference after batting .355 with 12 doubles, four triples, successful — as the team went 3-0 in competition. four home runs, and 29 RBIs, and also provided perhaps the biggest Fourteen of this fall’s 22 returning players, as well as highlight of the season when he turned a rare unassisted triple play. Nicole Christy ’00 and Kim Frazier, father of a current White also was named the SCAC Player of the Week during the season. player, took part in this road trip of a lifetime. Schleizer finished the season ranked second in the conference with 10 home runs and added nine doubles and 42 RBIs while hitting .336 O T O

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doubles, along with three triples, three homers, and 29 RBIs. E T R U

Also posting strong seasons were catcher Patrick Ray ’10, who O C batted .349 with three homers and 17 RBIs, and outfielder Jordan Robison ’10, who hit .357 with four triples and three home runs on the year. Scooter Merritt ’11 acclimated to college ball quickly, hitting .318 with five doubles and 21 RBIs during his first season. Cory Stevens ’09 put together a solid season on the mound for the ’Roos, posting a team-best five wins in nine starts while striking out 58 batters. Will Chermak ’10 added four wins on the year and led the team with 63 strikeouts. Tyler Steed ’11 had a strong first season for the ’Roos, earning three wins and two saves while striking out 26 batters and walking just 12 on the year. With the ’Roos losing just one senior from the 2008 team and boasting so much young talent, there will be plenty of firepower in place for coach Carl Iwasaki and his team to once again be near the top of the SCAC in 2009.

Soccer travelers stopping for a Big Ben photo are, left to right, first row: Allison Wurmbrand ’10, Paige Rutherford ’09, Ashleigh Johnson ’11, Amy FIND THE LATEST ’ROO SPORTS Holman ’10, Holly Messamore ’09; second row: Caitlin Sperry ’11, Sarah SCHEDULES AND RESULTS ONLINE: Fennewald ’09, Bahar Abbassi ’10, Brooke Adams ’09, Katie Hudson ’11, Faren Frazier ’09; and third row: Helen Heres ’09, Mackenzie Lund ’11, WWW.AUSTINCOLLEGE.EDU/ATHLETICS and Kaitlin Elledge ’11.

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Softball Team Shows Signs of Growth, Makes Donation for Cancer Research

The Austin College softball team saw a huge improvement in its raise money for St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital. Every second year as an NCAA varsity sport, finishing third in the Southern 'Roo homerun of the season resulted in donations, totaling Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC) tournament, posting a 17-23 $3,213 for the charity. overall record and an 11-5 mark against conference opponents. The 11 Hart presented the check on behalf of the Kangaroo softball conference wins alone top the team’s win total from last season. team during the team’s April trip to play Rhodes College in The ’Roos finished the regular season in second place in the SCAC Memphis, Tennessee. O

West, and were the only SCAC team to defeat Trinity prior to the T O H P

postseason, splitting their series 2-2. Leading the way for the ’Roos Y S E

were first baseman Stefanie Faith ’11, outfielder Laci Hart ’08, and T R U O

utility player Sam Smith ’11. C Faith made an incredible impact in her first collegiate season, named to the Louisville Slugger/National Fastpitch Coaches Association Division III All-South Region Third Team and the SCAC All-Conference First Team. Hart, who joined the team for her senior season after excelling for the volleyball team for four years, joined Faith on the SCAC First Team, as well as the SCAC All-Tournament Team. Smith, who played catcher, third base, first base, and outfield at various points in the year, was named Honorable Mention All-SCAC for her work at third. It wasn’t just the ’Roos who were scoring whenever a ball went over the outfield fence. At the suggestion of head coach Edie Fletcher , Softball players visiting St. Jude’s Hospital are, front row, left to right, Brittany Gaertner a two-time cancer survivor, the ’Roos created Home Runs for Hope to ’11, Ashely Johnson ’11, Sam Smith ’11, Abbey Hayes ’11, Carolyn Stone ’11; and second row, Kali Gossett ’11, Stefanie Faith ’11, Lauren Harrison, ’11, Laci Hart ’08, Whitney Bodine ’11, and Bobbi Schulle ’10.

Women’s Tennis Team Finishes Strong; Navey Recognized for Men

The Austin College women’s tennis team had a solid year, winning Satyavada earning the honor for both singles and doubles. Lewis, two matches in the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC) who was Satyavada’s doubles partner during the tournament, was Tournament and finishing the year with an 8-9 record. The men’s selected for outstanding performance in doubles competition. Both team finished 2-13, with wins coming against the University of the Satyavada and Lewis went undefeated at the event. Ozarks and Concordia University of Texas. Satyavada also was named Honorable Mention All-SCAC after The two teams debuted the new Russell Tennis Complex in the excelling in number two, three, and four singles, as well as being 2008 season, with both the men and the women winning their first paired with Lewis in number one doubles. Satyavada was the women’s matches at the new facility in an April 11 match against the Ozarks. Carroll Pickett Award winner as the most outstanding player. Both the men and the women won by scores of 5-4 over the Tigers. On the men’s side, Nate Navey ’09 was named the men’s Carroll The women were led by a pair of first-year players in Minnie Pickett winner for the second straight season. Navey played well all Satyavada ’11 and Kelly Lewis ’11, who were strong throughout the season in both number one singles and number one doubles. season, and each was named to the SCAC All-Tournament Team, with

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home team

Alumni Honored at 2008 Legends The annual Legends Celebration July 1 9–21 attracted record numbers for the Sunday awards dinner as well as large numbers for the Saturday receptions and a full course for the annual McCord Golf Tournament.

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Jim Baird ’93 W.K. “Bo” Brown ’75 Allison McKinney Tarpley ’99 Kenneth D. Tatum ’89 Kenneth W. Street Coppell, Texas Dallas, Texas Frisco, Texas San Antonio, Texas Sherman, Texas Football, baseball Football Basketball Football Honorary Inductee Captain, Coppell Fire Department Owner, Brown Fryar, and Long Law Firm Account vice president, UBS Financial Senior consultant, Travelers Insurance Professor Emeritus , Austin College

AUSTIN COLLEGE KEDRIC COUCH ALUMNI COACH OF THE YEAR Larry Uland ’61 Farmersville, Texas Athletic director and football coach at Greenville Christian School

COACH JOE SPENCER AWARD FOR MERITORIOUS SERVICE AND LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT IN COACHING Butch Worley ’76 Austin, Texas Senior associate athletics director, University of Texas

Continued Excellence Expected from 2007-2008 Outstanding Freshman Athlete S E Coach Ronnie Gage is looking for strong play from this fall from 2008 R O L F Tim Jubela Freshman Athlete of the Year Chris Hickson ’11. N O R

A Hickson made an immediate impact on the ’Roos football team in A

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H among the team leaders with 35 tackles, including 22 solo tackles. P Gage described Hickson as a gifted athlete with an incredible work ethic and competitive spirit. In addition to praising Hickson’s diligence and dedication to his team, Gage also called the young star defensive back a person of great moral character.

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from the alumni board

He could have added fortune to fame, but caring for neither, “he found happiness and honor in being helpful to th”e world. Fellow alumni: Greek Alumni Council Supports Austin College Greek Organizations This epitaph of George Washington Carver resonates with me as a new school year begins. A lot has changed since my first days at Austin College — my wild The Austin College Greek Alumni Council (GAC) oats have surely turned to bran cereal, and I hear my favorite songs only on office was formed in 2004 to provide a connection elevators — but the lasting values we gained at Austin College remain the same. between current students and alumni members of Your Alumni Board carries on that “helping” tradition by connecting alumni Greek organizations and ensure cooperation and to Austin College and to each other. Recent activities of the board include: communication between and among the College Beverly Benthul Barry ’67 greeted 325 new members to the Alumni and the Greek community. Association at Commencement for the Class of 2008 in May. I met future alumni The GAC offers counsel and assistance to of the Class of 2012 and presented their class flag on behalf of the Alumni Board Greek organizations, with goals of strengthening at the Opening of School Convocation. and promoting each group; providing a historical Sarah Gunderson ’81 and Craig Florence ’84 were elected to the board’s reference; improving the overall Greek program; new positions of first and second vice president, respectively. assisting in effective governance, including conflict The Alumni College Committee organized programs with outstanding resolution; and serving as outreach and connection professors for September 21 in Denver; October 2, Houston; October 5, San points between Greek alumni, their organizations, Antonio; October 7, Dallas; and October 12, Washington, D.C. Will we see you and the College. there? See acalumni.org for details. The GAC recently participated in the charter The Homecoming Committee planned another outstanding Homecoming review process for three Greek organizations with October 2 4–26, with all reunion groups meeting Saturday evening in one charters up for renewal. In addition, the council location. The gathering should be even better than last year’s great event! established a “listserve” that facilitates The Annual Fund Committee raised a concern that only 29.42 percent of our communication among Council members and nearly 14,000 alumni made a gift of any size to the Annual Fund campaign that created a Web site. Additionally, the GAC has ended June 30. Thank you to those who gave, and I hope you will continue to expanded its role with a voting seat (represented give. This is one measure of the alumni’s confidence in their alma mater and its by the council president) on the Austin College future. Let’s work to raise that percentage this year. Alumni Board. Forget Facebook and MySpace, have you signed up for Austin College’s new How can you represent your Greek online community? It’s a great way to network and connect with your classmates. organization? Each chartered Greek organization Go to acalumni.org and use the code on your magazine mailing label to sign in. may be represented on the GAC by up to three Starting with this issue, I want to expand on some key components of the alumni members. The GAC seeks diversity and Y

Alumni Board. I asked Giselle Finne Gafford B inclusion of alumni from various decades. There is R I K

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Mike Nurre Alumni Board President

Mike Nurre

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Class of 2012 Includes Several Continuing a Family Tradition Y B R I K

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The 319 members of the Austin College freshman class include 64 students with some previous family tie to the College. Freshman Thomas Clayton has the most legacy connections, with six family alumni, including his grandparents Alfred Clayton ’44 and Bettye (Green) Clayton ’48; his parents Mark Clayton ’77 and Cathy Bryant Clayton ’76; his sister Catherine “Cate” Clayton ’03; and his brother Stephen Clayton ’06.

Other students and alumni gathering for the photo are listed here, in an attempt at left to right identification by row. Front, Bianca Banek, sister of Jeremiah Banek ’00; Caitlin Tabor, daughter of Nancy Lazarine Tabor ’83, and sister of Cayce Tabor ’10; Anne Deming, sister of Katie Deming ’04; Erin Slade sister of Leslie Slade ’09; Kaitlin McCoy, daughter of Michelle McCoy ’87; Thomas Clayton and family listed above; Mackenzie Mayer, cousin of Stacy Austin ’85; Margaret Edwards, daughter of David ’83 and Sara Mullin ’85 Edwards; Hillary Gregory-Allen, daughter of Victoria Reeder ’84 and Roger Gregory-Allen ’84, and niece of Richard Gregory-Allen ’78; Wajiha Khan, cousin of Haroon Samar ’02; Second row, Devanie Emms, daughter of Thomas Emms ’82; Kallison and Kellan Pope, sisters of Krisandra Pope ’08; Bridgette Deem, granddaughter of Don and Marion Bean ’64; Umair Karim, brother of Mariya Karim ’08; Suzanne Beltran, great niece of William and Nancy Sizer Oelfke, both ’66, and cousins of William and Melanie Brown Oelfke, both ’84; Alyssa Rangel, sister of Javier Rangel, Jr. ’05; Tyler Brannen, brother of Thomas “Bucky” Brannen ’08; Madeleine Levin, daughter of Jeffrey ’79 and Ginny Harleston Levin ’79; Neema Dad, sister of Jeema Dad ’10; back row, Chelsea Freeland, daughter of Charles ’90 and Lisa New ’89 Freeland; Kevin Kurian, brother of Joseph Kurian ’08; Will Navey, son of Allen Navey ’73, brother of Nate Navey ’09, and nephew of Cornelius Nau, Jr. ’73; Frank McStay, brother of Kira McStay ’10; Hannah Alexander, daughter of Gerald Alexander ’76; Graham Schneider, brother of Jordan Schneider ’08; George Foote Clark IV, son of George F. Clark III ’77; Kayla Cook, niece of Byron Cook ’71; Katelin McKee, sister of Zach McKee ’07; and Ellen Wehner, sister of Brooks Wehner ’01.

Alumni News

Campus Room Bears Name of Master Teacher Nona Bishop Wood Sansom ’66 was surprised during a visit to campus in April by a gift from her husband, Andy Sansom ’68, whose funding named the Nona Sansom Room in the Temple Learning Center at Thompson House

O in her honor. Nona taught many years before retiring from the Austin Independent T O H P

School District. “Honoring my wife in this way was a great privilege for me and I am Y S E

T grateful to Austin College for allowing me to do so,” Andy said. “More than anything R U

O else, she is a fine example to students studying to be educators because she is a C consummate professional. She is recognized as a Master Teacher who will be an inspiration to all who use the Nona Sansom Room.” Andy, a conservationist and former executive director of Texas Parks and Wildlife, has written four books, including Water in Texas , published this summer by UT Press. He also is the author of Scout, The Christmas Dog . Although not written or marketed as a children’s book, it often is found in children’s book sections and has been used as a text in children’s literature classes at the University of Texas. Nona Sansom in the Temple Learning Center at Thompson House

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54 80 86 The work of Carroll Pickett as Death House Marlene Llopiz has been named regional director Israel Suster has been elected president of the chaplain at the Huntsville prison is the subject of for Latin America for Venn Life Sciences Clinical Plano Bar Association. His law firm is engaged in the the documentary At the Death House Door . See Research in Mexico City. She is in charge of opening practice of commercial and property litigation page 20. offices throughout Latin America. She made a throughout north Texas. He lives in Plano with his presentation at the Drug Information Association wife and their two children. 60 forum in July, representing the entire Latin American Dan Page received a Manhattan Association of region. She has two children. 92 Cabarets (MAC) Award in the category of Special A son, Ryan Sterling, was born August 7, 2007, to Musical Material as a writer of the song “One Stop 83 Anna and Michael Clark (11) . Ryan joins big sister Shopping,” co-written and performed by New York Leah Clemmons Lane and her family — husband Jordan, 3. The family lives in Dallas. I Mary Kelly- jazz and blues artist Sue Matsuki. Dan is a John and their son and daughter — moved to New Swafford and Judson Crowder (4) met up with one songwriter and playwright living in Harvard, Zealand in 2005. Their son, Joseph, already plans to another in Reno, Nevada, at the National Association Massachusetts. be in Austin College’s Class of 2016. Leah wrote in of Professional Organizers conference in April. Both belatedly to identify participants in the photo are professional organizers; Mary in New Orleans 65 included in the Every Picture Tells a Story feature in and Judson in Houston. I Christopher Thompson Dr. John C. Landolt (12) retired in August from the the December 2007 Austin College Magazine. Of (24) , a partner in the litigation and bankruptcy teaching faculty of Shepherd University in the photo, she recalled that during the trip to China sections of the Dallas offices of the Jackson Walker Shepherdstown, West Virginia, after a tenure of 38 led by Jim Ware, now professor emeritus of law firm, was named a Rising Star for 2008. Rising years. Landolt joined the Shepherd faculty after philosophy and religion, the Austin College men took Stars must be no older than 40 and practicing law receiving a doctorate in zoology from the University on a Chinese basketball team and the locals were for 10 years or less. The award is based on a survey of Oklahoma. While at Shepherd, Landolt taught surprised that Dr. Ware spoke Shanghai Chinese (he of Texas attorneys to determine the top 2.5 percent classes in general biology, general zoology, was born there to missionary parents). She also of the state’s up-and-coming lawyers. T exas Monthly developmental biology, and comparative anatomy, recalled that her suitcase broke and Trev Teel ’78 staff members then conduct independent research as well as serving a rotation as chair of the Biology gave her $40 to get a new one. Ah, memories … of the nominees’ credentials and publish those Department. Landolt has been engaged in research selected in the April 2008 magazine. on the natural history of cellular slime molds for a 85 number of years. He has authored or coauthored Rachel McCollough Matthews graduated from 93 over 30 refereed journal articles; made Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Chicago (21) A son, Daniel Murray Lee II, was born June 22, presentations at many regional, national, and with a Doctor of Ministry degree in pastoral 2007, to Sydney and Erica (Jebs Holder) Lee . The international meetings; and is listed as an authority counseling and psychotherapy. Her doctoral paper family lives in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan for the formal description of more than 20 new was “Using Ritual and Spiritual Practices in Pastoral area. species of cellular slime molds. Landolt will continue Counseling and Psychotherapy: The Role of Pastoral a relationship with Shepherd University as research Counselor as Ritual Leader.” I Denyse Seaman was 95 professor of biology emeritus and will remain in married May 31 to David Rodgers. She continues to A son, Samuel Michael, was born May 25 to Mike Shepherdstown with Melinda, his wife of 28 years. work at Baylor University in the Electronic Library as and Jill Harter Teagarden (15) . Big brother Max, 2, 74 head of Library Information Systems. welcomed Sam home. Jill is a senior director of Rock Stanley successfully defended his doctoral dissertation “Current Mathematical Concepts Critical To Student Success in College Algebra” in May at Texas A&M-Commerce. The graduation ceremony Alicia Van Borssum ’82 has taught Montessori and English as a Second Language (ESL) for the past was in August. 25 years. This fall, for the first time since the 1970s when she assisted Cynthia Manley of Austin College’s faculty, she is teaching French as well as ESL at a middle school near Rochester, New York. 78 She also is beginning doctoral studies at the O T

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thesis, “Breaking Bread: the Gospels and the End of U Ethiopia Reads and last summer spent a O Poverty,” makes the case for a biblical mandate to C month in Ethiopia doing teacher training and end poverty. Luck continues to serve as dean of St. volunteering in the first free public library for Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral in Syracuse, New York, children in Addis Ababa. She returned to and as a chaplain to the Clergy Leadership Project, Ethiopia in December 2007 and plans to travel a program of Trinity Church/St. Paul’s Chapel in there again in summer 2009 to help set up a New York. Van Borssum, at center, with teachers in Ethiopia training center for teachers.

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research and development for VHA, Inc., in Irving, of his research project “Carolingian Catalonia: Isabel Lerma Hedger . They are happy to be back in Texas, and Mike manages analytics for McAfee in politics and culture in the Spanish March.” After the Texas after nine years in New Mexico. I Greg Koch Frisco, Texas. The family lives in Dallas. I Kim Terry stop at Purdue and visiting friends in Michigan and is adjunct professor at the California School of and Benjamin Winbery (19) were married February Chicago, the family returned home to Williamsport, Professional Psychology at Alliant International 16 in San Antonio, Texas. They live in Georgia where Pennsylvania — home of the Little League World University, where he teaches a doctoral course on Kim works as a private practitioner outpatient Series. A visit to the Card Wildlife Education lesbian and gay couples, families, and children. He counselor in Warner Robins. Museum at Ferris State University in Michigan gave contracts with the California Department of Cate a chance to learn more about kangaroos — Corrections and Rehabilitation to assess and treat 96 and pose for a photo. I Max Hawsey was named inmates at Centinela State Prison in El Centro and Cullen and Amy Aubrey Chandler (7) , along with head football coach for Grinnell College in Iowa in maintains a part-time private practice in San Diego. their daughter Cate, 5, traveled to the Midwest in January. Offensive coordinator and line coach at He is the current chair of the San Diego June to combine business with pleasure. Amy Colorado College since 2003, Max helped the team Psychological Association’s Committee on Gay and attended various events at Purdue University where break 15 offensive school records while averaging Lesbian Concerns. In October 2007, Greg was a part she continues to telecommute as writer/editor of over 400 yards and 30 points per game. He recently of the volunteer Disaster Mental Health Team at alumni publications for the School of Pharmacy and finished production for American Football Monthly , Qualcomm Stadium, where 11,000 evacuees were Pharmaceutical Sciences while Cullen conducted where he writes and creates football videos and housed during the San Diego wildfires. research at the library on campus. Cullen, assistant articles for coaches nationwide. He and his wife, professor of history at Lycoming College, was Sara Townsend-Hawsey , have three children, 97 awarded a $6,000 summer stipend from the Marion, 5; Hunter, 3; and Natalie, 1. I A daughter, Melinda Massie has begun an events planning National Endowment for the Humanities in support Natalia Elyse, was born May 29, 2007, to Sean and business, Melinda Massie Events and Consulting. outstanding medical student in psychiatry

Tanishia Choice ’04 was a co-recipient of the 2008 North complete the additional two years necessary for work in Texas Society of Psychiatric Physicians Award for the child psychiatry. Outstanding Medical Student in Psychiatry at University of With training completed, Dr. Choice wants to establish Texas Southwestern Medical her own practice in the Dallas area and/or participate in O T

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C leadership on campus regarding adults’ illnesses and problems were rooted in childhood. “I psychiatry education, and see child psychiatry as preventive medicine to stop these commitment to community illnesses from compounding,” Dr. Choice said. involvement in the service of the A passion of Dr. Choice is continuing efforts toward mentally ill.” establishment of a residency outreach program at UT This spring, Dr. Choice Southwestern. She hopes that when residents can volunteer undertook a research project in in the community to educate people about mental illness genetics, studying causes of lung, and reduce the stigma associated, people will not be breast, and colon cancer while opposed to seeking care. “We need to reduce the morbidity E

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psychiatry. Following completion of the psychiatry activism — with great success during her residency.” A residency, Dr. Choice plans to seek a fellowship to

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00 A son, Mason William, was born November 30, Church and Blair Monie, senior pastor at Preston stationed at Ft. Lewis, Washington. I Kathryn 2007, to Brad and Stephanie Palmer Bierman (8) . Hollow Presbyterian Church. The wedding party Kincaid and James Paul “JP” Goldsmith (20) were The family lives in Frisco, Texas. Stephanie is a included Britton Travis Varn ’03 and Stephanie married September 22, 2007 in Fort Worth. Kathryn director of admission, working regionally in Dallas, Allaire Flores ’02. Attendees included Paula Jonse is the daughter of Robert Kincaid ’74 and JP is the for Austin College, where she has worked for six ’02, Heather Graham ’02, Susan Brantley ’02, son of Glen Goldsmith ’74. The wedding party years. Brad is a benefits and risk consultant for Jennifer Frye ’02, Brandie Gould Means ’02, Jason included Emily Kincaid Youngblood ’97, Kristin Homes Murphy Associates in Dallas. I A daughter, Means ’02, Stacy Smith ’02, Sarah Walker Kinard Orsak ’03, and David Meacham ’04. The new Lainey Cathryn, was born April 24 to Ben and Abby ’02, Matt Kinard ’02, Sarah Beatty Snyder ’04, couple lives in Fort Worth. JP is an architecture Hagan Harris (16) . The family lives in Plano, Texas. I David Snyder ’02, Melinda Veatch ’85, John student at University of Texas at Arlington and a Tricia Holland and John Williams (10) were married Williams ’84, and Courtney Mullins ’10. The new mechanical, electrical, and plumbing designer for September 2, 2007, at the Umlauf Sculpture couple lives in Houston, Texas, where Omi teaches Class One Solutions, Inc. Kathryn is the membership Garden and Museum in Austin, Texas. The wedding third grade in the Spring Branch Independent and communications coordinator for the Fort Worth party included Andi Taylor ’01, Leigh Wisner ’01 School District and Robert works as a recruiter for Chapter of the Texas Society of CPAs. I Cory and Aron Bautista ’01. Tricia and John live in TEK Systems. I Geanna Day and Ryan Tubbs (18) McDowell (2) graduated with honors May 12 from Houston, Texas, where Tricia is a special agent with were married October 20, 2007, in Lubbock Texas. Texas Tech School of Law with a doctorate of the U.S. Secret Service and John is a superintendent Alumni Leslie McCrary Siebenhausen , Kayla jurisprudence and a Master’s in Financial Planning for Brighton Homes. I Gary Howell has completed Smiley ’05, Chris Siebenhausen , and Amanda degree. Cory and his wife, Jennifer (Whetsel) , live in a doctorate in clinical psychology at the Adler Smith Traweek ’01 attended and are pictured with Midland, Texas, where Cory is an attorney with School of Professional Psychology in Chicago, the bride. Cotton Bledsoe Tighe & Dawson and Jennifer Illinois, and received a certificate in clinical hypnosis teaches first grade at Burnett Elementary. I Sean D. and assessment. His dissertation was on assessing 03 Sweat graduated from MIT in April and began work the need for adjustments in scoring on the Courtney Paige O’Neal is a public services librarian for Intel Corporation in Phoenix, Arizona, as a capital Rorschach Inkblot Test with gay men He is clinical at the School of Public Health Library at the supply chain engineer. I Happy Rahman is a first- director of a private, psychologist-run psychiatric University of Texas Health Sciences Center at year associate at Austin law firm Scanlan, Buckle & practice. I A son, Daniel Patrick, was born February Houston. I Sarah Steward-Lindsey graduated with Young, where she is a general civil litigator. She 28, 2007, to Daniel and Kelly Klotz Diaz (5) . The honors from the University of Texas School of Law in enrolled at Tulane University Law School and was family lives in Carrollton, Texas. I A daughter, Hazel May. Following completion of the Texas Bar very active there, then transferred to the University Jennie, was born March 8 to Stephen and Allison Examination, Sarah will join the Houston office of of Texas Law School, where she earned her J.D. in Davis Stamatis (13) . Big sister Lillian welcomed Liskow & Lewis as a litigation associate. She and 2007. She was published in and served as editor- Hazel home. The family lives in Weatherford, Texas. her husband, Colin Lindsey ’01, celebrated their in-Chief of the T exas Environmental Law Journal , the Allison completed her doctorate in environmental first wedding anniversary May 26. I Beth Marie official publication of the State Bar of Texas, science in December 2007. Terpolilli and Conor M. Teegarden (25) were married Environmental and Natural Resources Section. June 9, 2007, at the United States Air Force Happy did bilingual work as a student attorney in 01 Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Beth is a both the Children’s Rights Law Clinic and the A son, Rhett Blake, was born February 19 to Trey third-year medical student at University of Texas Community Development Law Clinic. I Sarah and Amanda Smith Traweek (17) . Health Science Center at San Antonio, and Conor is Russell and Jason Duff (14) were married August 18, a captain in the United States Air Force. He is 2007, at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church in 02 stationed in Lakenheath, United Kingdom, where he Dallas, Texas, and were honored with a dinner dance Chaney Leigh Brown and Michael Scott Curran (9) is a weapons system officer in a F-15E Strike at Old Red Courthouse. Sarah is the daughter of were married April 26 at Wynne Chapel with Chet Eagle. The couple lives in Brandon, England. Gary and Catherine Theall Russell ’77. The Haney of Parkside Baptist Church in Denison wedding party included Meghan Cardwell-Wilson, officiating. The couple, who honeymooned in Playa 04 Lindsay Arnott ’03, Josh George , and Travis de Carmen, Mexico, lives in Sherman. Chaney is Megan Desalee Brentzel and Leonard Mitchell Redman . Many other Austin College alumni employed by Sherman Independent School District Joyner II (3) were married May 24 in a garden attended. The couple honeymooned in Hawaii and and began doctoral studies in supervision, ceremony at the ranch home of the bride’s now lives in McKinney, Texas. Sarah graduated from curriculum, and instruction in August. Scott is head parents. Zach Heath served as a groomsman. Texas Tech University School of Law in May 2007 boys basketball coach at Denison High School. I Following a honeymoon to Hawaii, the bride and and is an associate attorney with Wolfe, Tidwell, & Naomi “Omi” Kathryn Boggus and Robert L. Ford (6) groom make their home in DuPont, Washington. Meg McCoy of Frisco, Texas. Jason graduated in May were married January 19 at Preston Hollow earned a Doctor of Pharmacy from the University of 2007 from Oklahoma City University School of Law Presbyterian Church in Dallas. Officiating pastors Texas at Austin, College of Pharmacy, in May 2008. and practices law in the Dallas area. were Steve Jester ’79 of St. Philip Presbyterian Leo is a first lieutenant in the United States Army,

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Owen graduated from Austin Presbyterian Theological 05 Seminary in May and received the Donald Capps Award 06 Ana Guzman received her Master of Business for pastoral care. I Megan Wald presented at the 2008 Alicia Heller and Charles “Ahren” Simmons (1) were Administration degree from Texas Woman’s University National Student Research Forum in Galveston, Texas. Her married March 1 in Houston, Texas. Colleen Walsh in May 2008. I Kimberly Lang and Elizabeth research also received third place honors at the University ‘07, Christin Stinson ‘07, Melissa Levine ‘07, Lisa Sanberg (23) were married June 7 at St. Paul’s of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA) Hoffman Loftice, and Jenni Pilsbury Johnson , former Anglican Church in Vancouver, British Columbia. They Medical Student Research Day in August 2007. Megan Austin College residence life area coordinator, honeymooned in Lake Louise and Banff, Canada. examined the effects of peripheral thermal injury on brain attended. The couple lives in Manvel, Texas. I Sara C. Kimberly and Elizabeth live in Washington, D.C., architecture under the auspice of the UTHSCSA Mitchell received a master’s degree in computer where Kimberly develops online communications Department of Neurosurgery. She is a medical student at science June 15 from the College of Engineering at and marketing strategies for a nonprofit UTHSCSA. The Leland Stanford Junior University in Palo Alto, environmental organization, and Elizabeth does California. She works with Adobe, a software research on policing issues. I Emily Richardson engineering firm in San Jose, and lives in Santa Clara.

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Brandon Willard Honored in Business Study Brandon Willard ’05, a 2005 graduate of the MBA in Entrepreneurship program at the Treuhaft Judis ’92, he met Zach Lynde ’90 at an alumni reception. Lynde, an Acton Acton School of Business in Austin, Texas, was named Acton Alumnus of the Year in May. The alumnus suggested Brandon look into the school’s entrepreneurial program, taught by real Brandon Willard Fellowship awarded this fall allows an Acton student to attend tuition-free. entrepreneurs in a case study setting, as a means to pursue his concerns for Young Life. Brandon said the one-year, 100-hour-per-week program at Acton has three learning The rest, as they say, is history. goals for participants: how to learn, how to make money, and how to live a life of meaning. Today, the new business takes much of his time, but O T

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After completing his MBA at Acton, Brandon worked in marketing in the high-end seeks ways to help Young Life, “an enormous passion in my Y S E T

network security industry. After a year, he and three partners launched DisplayPoints, an life.” He and his fiancé plan to marry in October 2009 and R U O

interactive advertising media product that delivers content at casual restaurants. He has are considering ways they will work together in support of C other plans that lean more toward social entrepreneurship — starting for-profit companies their community. “My family and close friends are the with the specific mission of serving an area of society in need on a long-term basis. biggest influence on my life,” Brandon said. “I have grown Brandon arrived at Austin College planning a career in law, though he had an early start up with several business owners in my family, and I have in business — selling his drawings and lemonade in his yard at age 5, among other ventures. watched them run their businesses while making their faith, Involved with Young Life since high school, his work with the group while at Austin family, and friends their highest priority.” College started him toward an MBA program because of a need he saw in the group’s business model. During a January Term course on Global Offshoring, taught by Rebecca Brandon Willard

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K Austin College Mourns Loss of Senior Trustees IN MEMORIAM Philip Coldwell of Dallas, Texas, died May 26. A graduate of the University of Illinois, he earned a Ph.D. in economics and finance at Austin College has received word of the deaths of the following alumni. the University of Wisconsin. His education was interrupted by service during World War II as a U.S. Navy F65 Hellcat pilot in the Pacific. Coldwell taught at universities in Wisconsin, Illinois, Montana, and ’35 John L. Faulkinberry June 9, 2008 ’41 Lawrence E. Gilbert August 8, 2008

Louisiana before beginning a career with the S O T ’42 LeNoir Moore May 30, 2008 Federal Reserve System. He held several O H P ’44 Betty Bernice Lee Culy May 31, 2008 positions before becoming president of the Y S E

T ’45 Carol Ivy Dawson April 14, 2008 Dallas Federal Reserve Bank in 1968. He was R U O nominated in 1974 by President Gerald Ford to C ’45 Hayden Pittman July 25, 2008 serve on the seven-member Board of Governors ’47 Anna Elsie Scott April 20, 2008 of the Federal Reserve System. Confirmed by ’47 Joy Devault Sory August 20, 2008 the U.S. Senate, Coldwell spent the next 18 ’49 Robert H. Lang July 14, 2008 years in Washington, D.C. Upon retiring from ’50 James L. Jackson July 12, 2008 the Board, he formed an international ’53 William A. Hodges May 10, 2008 consulting firm, Coldwell Financial ’54 Jorge Lara-Braud June 22, 2008 Consultants, and was a frequent speaker within ’54 Joan McDonald Haile June 20, 2008 the banking industry. ’57 Joseph Halstead Dwinnell June 16, 2008 Coldwell and his wife, Norma Abels Philip Coldwell ’57 John Jacob Egbert July 12, 2008 Coldwell, returned to Dallas in 1992. He was an active member of Park ’57 Carol Dozier Sprinkel Fritze July 5, 2008 Cities Presbyterian Church. He and his wife celebrated their 60th ’61 Virginia Rene Perdue Hinkley June 30, 2008 wedding anniversary in June 2007. ’61 Carl E. Snider July 27, 2008 Coldwell joined the Austin College Board of Trustees in June 1977. ’66 Phoebe Anne Lester Corry June 14, 2008 He served as a member of the Senior Board until his death. ’69 Jo Ann Evans June 7, 2008 William Wheat Collins Jr. , 95, of Fort Worth, Texas, died June 29. ’72 Pamela Elley Colley August 14, 2008 A graduate of the University of North Texas, he later studied at Johns ’83 Dylan Paul Thomas April 8, 2008 Hopkins University and earned degrees at the Maxwell School of Public Administration at Syracuse University and the Southwest School of Banking at SMU. Friends We Will Miss His career included public school teaching Longtime Austin College supporter Charlotte Russell Spears of Sherman died and band direction, military service, and June 20, 2008. government service, culminating in his appointment as regional administrator of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. After retiring from federal service, Collins pursued interests in banking, oil and gas, real estate, and ranching. He was a member of University Christian Church. Collins served on the Board of Trustees at Austin College from 1981 to 1993 and on the Senior Board until his death. His involvement with Austin College began through his wife, Margaret Binkley Collins ’36, and ranged from William Wheat Collins, Jr. board service to philanthropy to Dixie Land band performances for Homecoming. He and Margaret, married 55 years A scholarship has been established in the name of Eric Sorenson ’11 who died in before her death in 2002, were awarded Austin College’s Toddie Lee April. The Eric Sorenson Memorial Scholarship will be awarded each spring to a Wynne Award in 1996 for significant contributions to advancement of student at Austin College or an area high school. Contributions may be made to the the College. fund through American Bank of Texas.

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES The parallels between Annadele “Ann” Holm Ross ’66 and one of her C H A I R : ancestors run deeper than bloodlines. Ann is a sixth generation Texas native descended from the famous Texas pioneering Austin family. Robert M. Johnson ’53, McLean, Virginia (Emily would be her great-great-great-great grandmother.) Emily and V I C E C H A I R : Ann have walked ironically similar paths: both facing the challenges of young widowhood, managing their family’s estates, investing their time Richard J. Agnich, Dallas, Texas and resources into education and community philanthropy, and being supportive of Austin College. T R U S T E E S : Ann graduated from Austin College in 1966 and moved to Dallas to work for the Dallas Public Library. She met and married Daniel Ross John Q. Adams, Jr. ’84, Southlake, Texas Sharon S. King, Richardson, Texas O

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John M. Anderson ’66, Dallas, Texas Luan Beaty Mendel ’75, Palo Verdes, California U decided to obtain a master’s of O C business administration degree Jerry E. Apple ’60, Irving, Texas Steven M. Mobley, Austin, Texas from Southern Methodist University to assist her in Lee Dean Ardell ’74, Houston, Texas Wes Moffett ’82, Dallas, Texas performing these new tasks. Her James D. Baskin III ’75, Austin, Texas Samuel S. Moore ’64, Dallas, Texas career path included work in the banking industry and helping Laura Dies Campbell ’73, Austin, Texas Jo Ann Geurin Pettus, Graham, Texas establish the Dallas Women’s Foundation — serving as its Jacqueline R. Cooper ’73, Oakton, Virginia Davis B. Price ’67, Lubbock, Texas president in the ‘90s — until she decided to manage her own Linda Morris Elsey, Fort Worth, Texas Fazlur Rahman, San Angelo, Texas property, a timber operation on her Ann Ross F. R. “Buck” Files ’60, Tyler, Texas Annadele H. Ross ’66, Dallas, Texas late husband’s East Texas farm and real estate in Dallas. Georgina Fisher ’69, Severna Park, Maryland John Serhant, Denison, Texas Ann’s work with the Dallas Women’s Foundation was a special interest in her life. “The Dallas Women’s Foundation was attempting to Rebecca Moseley Gafford ’72, Dallas, Texas Caroline Elbert Taylor ’66, Wyalusing, Pennsylvania educate women about their money and money management, which I think is really important for women’s ability to be independent,” she Donald Gibson ’75, Houston, Texas Jesse R. Thomas ’74, Sherman, Texas said. Ann expanded her already active involvement in civic service Dennis E. Gonier ’83, Fredericksburg, Virginia Linda Plummer Ward ’78, Nashville, Tennessee when accepting the invitation to join the Austin College Board of Trustees and maintain formal family ties to the institution. Thomas Hall, Jr. ’78, Colleyville, Texas William E. Warren ’74, Plano, Texas “My education concerns are similar to Emily Margaret’s in the sense that I believe we need critical thinkers for the challenges in the Mary Ann Stell Harris ’70, Fort Worth, Texas Todd A. Williams ’82, Dallas, Texas state and nation,” Ann said. “I believe Austin College is ideally suited to educate people with those interdisciplinary critical thinking skills as it Charles Hendricks ’61, The Woodlands, Texas Stanley M. Woodward, Dallas, Texas has for generations.” Ann believes the Austin College Board of Trustees Kelly Hiser, Sherman, Texas Michael G. Wright, Dallas, Texas may need a little of Emily’s pioneer spirit to face challenges close to home like building a new science building and finding a new college M. Steve Jones, Sherman, Texas Robert J. Wright, Dallas, Texas president, not to mention meeting the broader challenges in the world. “We must continue to move the College to an excellent future most of us may not fully understand at present,” she said. “We have to employ everyone’s abilities. We all have to be visionaries like Emily Margaret Austin was to get Austin College where it needs to be.”

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS

October 2008 18 Math and Sciences Admission Preview 20 Steven Greenblatt Lecture 23–25 Homecoming 26 Faculty Trio Recital 30 Darwin 200 Lecture: Steve Goldsmith

November 2008 7 Leadership Forum 13 Choral Concert 14–15 Cunningham Lectures 16 Wynne Chapel 50th Anniversary Celebration 18–20 Africa Symposium 19 Concert Band Performance 21 –22 Festival of One-Act Plays 22 Social Sciences Admission Preview 24 Chamber Music and Jazz Concert

December 2008 1 World AIDS Day Service 4 Service of Lessons and Carols 12 Fall Term Ends

See the Austin College Master Calendar for details, updates, and a full schedule of events: www.austincollege.edu/calendar

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