TransylvaniaUNIVERSITY MAGAZINE FALL/2008

Features

8 HOW SUITE IT IS Perfect October day frames dedication ceremony for suite-style, $5.5 million Thomson Residence Hall

10 TRANSY SHOW AND TELL With a 228-year history, Transylvania is repository for many unique, historic, and intriguing items

14 TRANSYLVANIA AND ABRAHAM LINCOLN Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial recalls 16th president’s many relationships with Transylvania figures

16 HIGH ART Linda Wise McNay ’77 builds relationships to advance institutions she believes in page 8

Around Campus 2 Six new faculty members join Transylvania 3 Transy creates German Studies major 4 225th Anniversary Campaign goal now $42 million 6 Themed housing seen in International House 7 Transylvania sets enrollment record at 1,158

Alumni News and Notes 18 Class Notes 20 Alumnus Profile: Dewey Cornell ’78 25 Alums receive Fulbright honors 26 Alumna Profile: Mary Bruno Engola ’02 28 Marriages, Births, Obituaries On the cover 32 Lila Boyarsky dies at 87 Physics professor Jamie Day does his finest impersonation of a 1960s era science teacher while exhibiting an instructional slide rule that was hung from the top of a blackboard. Pickett, a leading supplier of the day, provid- Director of Public Relations: Sarah A. Emmons ! Director of Publications: ed these free to schools purchasing its nor- Martha S. Baker ! Publications Writer/Editor: William A. Bowden ! Editorial mal slide rules for student use. Mathematics, Assistant: Lori-Lyn Hurley ! Publications Designer: Barbara Grinnell chemistry, physics, and engineering students used slide rules extensively for various com- Transylvania is published three times a year. Volume 26, No. 1, Fall 2008. putations. For additional intriguing items Produced by the Office of Publications, Transylvania University, Lexington, found around campus, see story on page 10. KY 40508-1797. Send address changes and alumni news to Alumni Office, Photo by Joseph Rey Au Transylvania University, 300 North Broadway, Lexington, KY 40508-1797, fax to (859) 233-8797, or e-mail to [email protected]. Around Campus

TRANSYLVANIA WELCOMES SIX NEW FACULTY MEMBERS JGK III scholars on campus

Six professors joined the Transylvania faculty for the 2008-09 academic year, The first two JGK III scholars, Austyn including three to fill newly created positions in chemistry, economics, and Span- Gaffney of Bowling Green, Ky., and Justin ish, and three as replacements for retiring and departing faculty in sociology, com- Penticuff of Winchester, Ky., began their puter science, and business. studies at Transylvania this fall.

Jeremy Paden, assistant professor in economics, of Spanish, most M.B.A., and Ph.D. recently taught at in economics from Georgia State Uni- Middle Tennessee versity. He earned State University. his B.A. in English His dissertation literature from was titled The Harding University, Effects of Private his M.A. in Spanish Prison Labor Pro- literature from the gram Participation in Inmate Recidi- University of Memphis, and his Ph.D. in vism, and his research interests include Spanish from Emory University. His dis- wage penalties associated with smok- sertation was titled Reading Religiously: ing and obesity. Baroque Hermeneutics and the Reli- George K. Kaufman, assistant pro- gious Poetry of Lope de Vega and Sor fessor of chem- Juana Inés de la Cruz. istry, was most Volkan Cetinkaya, assistant profes- recently head sor of economics, teaching fellow in most recently physical-organic Joseph Rey Au taught at the Col- chemistry at Har- Austyn Gaffney Justin Penticuff lege of New Jersey vard University. He School of Business. earned his B.A. in He earned his B.A. classics, B.S. in Gaffney hopes to create a major in inter- in economics from chemical physics, and M.S. in chem- national affairs and minor in a foreign lan- Bilkent University, istry from Brown University, and his guage. “Because of this scholarship, I am Ankara, Turkey, M.A. and Ph.D. in chemistry from Har- able to pursue interests like study abroad,” and his M.A. and Ph.D. in economics vard. His research interests include she said. “Transy is a school brimming with from Rutgers University. His research assembly of antibodies using multiva- intelligent students, and I am fortunate to be interests include industrial organization lent haptens and electrostatic assembly given this opportunity.” and health economics. of polymer electrets. Penticuff, who plans to study the sciences Robert England, associate professor Marta Rodríguez-Galán, assistant in preparation for a career in medicine, said of computer sci- professor of sociol- that receiving the scholarship added to his ence, most recently ogy, most recently sense of belonging at Transylvania. “It has taught at Rhodes served as a post- not only provided me with a sense of com- College. He earned doctoral research pletion and success,” he said, “but also his B.A. in mathe- associate in the excitement and responsibility. I will continue matics from Northeastern Uni- to strive toward being the best student and Rhodes and his versity department overall role model that I can be.” M.S. and Ph.D. in of sociology and The JGK III Scholarship was endowed by computer science anthropology for a sisters Clay Kirk of New York City and Sarah from the University of Tennessee, National Institutes of Health-funded Kennedy of Atlanta to honor their brother, Knoxville. He has researched clique project titled The Boston Puerto Rican James G. Kenan III, vice chair of Transylva- graph theory and applications to prob- Center on Population Health and nia’s Board of Trustees and chair of the lems in parallel computing, and Health Disparities. She earned her Investment Committee. designed and implemented a grammar B.A./licensure in pedagogy from the The merit scholarships include full tuition driven language sensitive computer University of Oviedo, Spain, her M.A. and fees, room and board, for four years and interface system for the IBM AT and in Hispanic studies from the University will be awarded to two entering first-year VAZ computers. of Rhode Island, and her Ph.D. in soci- students every four years. JGK III scholars are Jeffrey D. Hopper, assistant profes- ology from Northeastern University. required to maintain a 3.5 grade point aver- sor of business administration, most Her research interests include depres- age, be campus leaders, and exhibit excel- recently taught at Middle Tennessee sion among aging Hispanics and the lence of character and responsible citizen- State University. He earned his B.A. conceptualization of culture in the ship. from Transylvania in 1994 and his M.A. works of Sarmiento.

2 TRANSYLVANIA TRANSYLVANIA ADDS GERMAN STUDIES MAJOR New Strategic Plan being developed After years of helping stu- for Faculty and Student Enrich- ema (mainly 1990s post-reunifi- dents create a German special ment. Over the years, he has cation films) the next. Transylvania is preparing a major pattern, German and acquired firsthand knowledge of Weber is in the national fore- 2009-2012 Strategic Plan that French professor Rick Weber the German culture, including front of academia’s reshaping of will give the University a now takes pleasure in knowing many different cities, which is the German curriculum to offer renewed unity of vision for its that it’s official—the University supported by a large collection a more robust major and attract future. The report will include approved a German Studies of his photos he uses to supple- more students. He authored a strategies to complete goals major effective with the current ment his classroom presenta- well received paper titled carried over from the current academic year. tions. “Re(de)fining the College Ger- 2003-2008 plan as well as The major’s title includes the “German texts tend to have a man Curriculum: A Program new initiatives. word “studies” because its cur- city in each chapter around Proposal” that was published in The plan will focus on four riculum goes beyond the tradi- which the material is organ- the spring 2000 edition of the general areas: financial tional German major that focus- ized,” Weber said. “I personal- scholarly journal Die Unterricht- resources, academic and es primarily on language and lit- ize that with my own photos spraxis in which he discussed intellectual community, diver- erature. As Weber has shaped and knowledge gained from the ideas he has implemented sity/globalization, and support it, Transylvania’s major includes having been there.” in Transy’s curriculum. of campus culture. those elements, but also Supporting that notion of Weber also feels the timing is Transylvania Board of encompasses German culture, learning about the country itself right for more emphasis on Ger- Trustees members Byron history, politics, philosophy, is a requirement that each Tran- man studies at Transylvania Young ’61 and Rose Mary geography, and current events. sy German Studies major com- because of the role a reunified Stamler Dow ’88 are co-chairs “The movement in German plete a study abroad experience Germany is playing in Europe for the 2009-2012 Strategic throughout academia has been in the country. This is facilitated and the world. Plan initiative. Young chairs toward including a much broad- financially by the University’s “With reunification, Germany the board’s Planning and Eval- er range of topics in the major,” decision to allow students to moved geographically from the uation Committee, which has Weber said. use a portion of their scholar- eastern edge of the Western oversight for the project. Fac- Transy students taking Ger- ship funds for study abroad. world, or Europe, to the cen- ulty and staff members will man have an advantage in that Rounding out the major’s ter,” he said. “It’s occupying also take part. regard with Weber, who visits content is a new May term that space in an economic and The plan will be presented Germany every summer with offering that features German cultural sense as well. Germany to the board for approval in the support of the David and cinema, with historical films (up is playing a central role in the May 2009 and become a pri- Betty Jones Faculty Develop- to about 1980) being offered redevelopment of all the former mary resource as the Universi- ment Fund and the Kenan Fund one year and contemporary cin- Soviet countries.” ty gears up for its next reaffir- mation of accreditation process in 2012 with the Transy hosts portion of Henry Clay conference Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Addressing the need to bridge the nation’s and “As we review the early history of this 228- Colleges and Schools, a pro- the world’s differences, the Henry Clay Center for year-old institution, we find that Henry Clay had a cedure that members of SACS Statesmanship launched its inaugural Student Con- profound influence on the University,” President go through every 10 years. gress in July, with Transylvania playing a key role. Charles L. Shearer said during his opening The Congress brought together 51 rising col- remarks. “In 1812, the trustees appointed Henry lege seniors from 50 states and the District of Clay to a search committee charged with finding Mitchell elected to Columbia, nominated by their respective state’s a president. As a result, Horace Holley, one of Board of Trustees senior U.S. senator and college and university offi- Transylvania’s most successful presidents, was cials, with the goal of promoting statesmanship appointed.” Samuel J. Mitchell Jr. was through Henry Clay’s ideals of debate, diplomacy, Clay also taught in Transylvania’s early law school recently elected to the Transyl- communication, and beneficial compromise. and served on the University’s Board of Trustees. vania Board of Trustees. He is The curriculum for The day included president of The Valvoline the unique one-week sessions with Transyl- Company, with responsibility course was titled vania writing, rhetoric, for Valvoline’s worldwide busi- Resolving Conflict in and communication ness of lubricants and chemi- the Modern World. professor Scott Whid- cals, the division’s quick-lube The first full day of don and political sci- business, and the develop- the conference was ence professor Don ment of innovative premium held on Transy’s cam- Dugi, and a tour of products. He is a graduate of pus, an appropriate Special Collections led Miami University in Ohio and choice for an event by Special Collections holds a master’s degree in bearing the name of librarian B. J. Gooch business administration from Henry Clay. (photo at left). the University of Chicago. Mollie Eblen

FALL 2008 3 Around Campus

Parents Council Joseph Rey Au

! Members of the Parents Council are working to raise $93,000 for the Parents Fund, which helps purchase resources for Transylvania’s J. Douglas Gay Jr./Frances Carrick Thomas Library. From left, front: Susan Shewmaker, Patti Geil, Sarah Johnson, Brenda Clayton, Bev Drye, Mary Beth Marshall, Kim Lacy (co-president), Mary Lou Anderson, Mary Beth Richardson, Veronica Dean-Thacker, Carmen Jagoe. Back: David Shewmaker, Jack Geil, Pete Gammon, Noel Clayton, Jim Drye, Perry Marshall, Mac Lacy (co-president), Mike Anderson, Mary Ann Miller, Ed Miller, Shelby Thacker, Scott Jagoe.

225TH ANNIVERSARY CAMPAIGN GOAL INCREASED TO $42 MILLION The 225th Anniversary Cam- academic chairs, additional sup- Transylvania faculty are very among students and among paign has been a great success port for study abroad opportuni- impressed with results of the faculty members, said biology overall, surpassing its original ties, and other projects. renovation so far. They are now professor James Wagner. “Mod- $32 million goal to reach $35 Work on Brown Science has teaching in labs that are state-of- ern science is very interdiscipli- million. Still, there are specific already included a new heating, the-art in both decor and equip- nary,” he said, “and we’re cre- categories within the campaign ventilating, and air conditioning ment, and which offer much ating spaces that encourage that have yet to be fully funded. system, a new flex lab, renovat- greater flexibility and capabilities faculty members in the various Because of that, the University ed physics labs, and the first of for science instruction. disciplines to share them. Math- has extended the campaign by the renovated biology and The renovated spaces also ematics is using the physics lab six months and increased the chemistry labs. facilitate more collaboration as a teaching classroom, and overall goal to $42 million. chemistry, math, and biology all “Overall progress on the cam- use the biology flex lab.” paign has been excellent,” said Richard Valentine, vice presi- President Charles L. Shearer, dent for alumni and develop- “but we need to address several ment, is optimistic that Transyl- specific goals that are very vania donors will make the final important to Transylvania’s stage of the campaign a suc- future.” cess. “Completing the work in Chief among the remaining Brown Science and funding two goals is the ongoing renovation more endowed academic chairs of laboratory space in Brown are our primary targets, with Science Center, which opened study abroad funding and other in 1970. Costs for the project, projects also in the mix. We feel which is more than halfway very good about reaching our completed, have risen from an new, more ambitious goal of original estimate of $7 million $42 million.” to $9 million. Fund-raising so far has totaled $6.3 million, leaving $2.7 million as an inte- ! Junior Rachel Skinner uses gral part of the remaining over- one of the new fume all capital campaign. hoods, which safely venti- Other categories that the late chemical fumes to the outside, during an organic extended and increased cam- chemistry class in a newly paign is intended to address renovated Brown Science include two $1 million endowed Joseph Rey Au Center laboratory.

4 TRANSYLVANIA CANDRIS SCHOLARSHIP TARGETS SCIENCE AND MATH STUDENTS Because of their ardent belief Transylvania from Greece and Meyer, Unkovic & Scott, LLP. in the transforming and endur- completed three majors— “By staying in close touch ing value of a Transylvania edu- physics, mathematics, and pre- with both Transylvania and cation, Laura A. (Sutton) Can- engineering—and went on to Carnegie-Mellon, we hope to dris ’75 and Aris Candris ’73 earn a Ph.D. in nuclear science encourage more emphasis on established the Laura and Aris and engineering from Carnegie- technical and engineering curric- Candris Science Scholarship at Mellon University. In July 2008 ula,” Aris said. “That’s one of Transylvania. he became president and CEO the reasons this scholarship at The scholarship will provide of Westinghouse Electric Com- Transy is so important to Laura financial assistance to qualified pany, the global leader in com- and me. Transylvania has excel- students majoring in physics, mercial nuclear power. lent programs in the sciences ! Aris Candris ’73 and Laura A. chemistry, mathematics, or com- Laura completed a pre-law and mathematics, and we want (Sutton) Candris ’75 puter science, with first prefer- major at Transylvania and to support top students interest- ence given to international stu- earned her J.D. degree from the ed in those majors. Our nation support the Laura and Aris Can- dents. University of Pittsburgh School needs these kinds of graduates dris Science Scholarship, contact Aris, a member of the Transyl- of Law. She is senior counsel now more than ever.” the development office at (800) vania Board of Trustees, came to with the Pittsburgh law firm For information on how to 487-2679.

Annual Fund contributions take on new significance in time of financial turmoil Contributions to the Transylvania Annual faculty salaries, curricular enhancements, will be a significant factor in protecting it Fund are more critical than ever this year and other needs of operating the University from any further decline.” because of the decline in value of the Uni- on a year-to-year basis,” said Richard Valen- Transylvania’s well managed endowment versity’s endowment that has resulted from tine, vice president for alumni and develop- portfolio drew high praise from the National the turbulence in the stock market. ment. “The current year is a special case as Association of College and University Busi- Like many other colleges and universities, we strive to preserve our endowment by ness Officers in 2005 when it was cited for Transylvania’s investment portfolio has been using as little as possible for current needs.” being in the nation’s top 10 among higher hit by the recent disruption in financial mar- President Charles L. Shearer put the education endowments for 10-year returns kets. The endowment stood at $144.5 million endowment in perspective when he noted, for three years in a row. in June 2007, and had declined to $121.5 “Transylvania’s endowment is our institu- “We are very optimistic about the long- million a year later. The international credit tional savings account, our nest egg, and range health of our endowment, and it’s crisis that occurred this fall has added to the preserving it and building it are key to the important to note that the University has challenge of maintaining portfolio value. University’s future. Even though it is also a not invested in any non-traditional securities “Transylvania donors have always provid- significant source of revenue for the operat- that have diminished dramatically,” said ed the college with a robust annual fund ing budget, we need to carefully control Shearer. “Our endowment tends to be that gives us the unrestricted dollars to how much of it we use for that purpose. invested predominantly in mainline stocks draw from for scholarships, new technology, Donor support of the annual fund this year of traditional, sound companies.”

Transylvania hosts seminar on liberal education ! Sixteen professors from across the country participated in Transylvania’s seminar titled Twenty-first Century Liberal Education: A Contested Concept, in July. The seminar participants were selected from a pool of over 40 applicants from prominent liberal arts colleges. Professors and officials tak- ing part in the seminar included, front row,

from left, Ellen Cox, Transylvania, philoso- Hurley Lori-Lyn phy; Anne B. Rodick, Wofford College, European history; Diana Punzo, Earlham College, psychology; Sydney Watts, University of Richmond, history; Mark Brouwer, Wabash College, political theory; Jeffry C. Davis, Wheaton College, English and interdisciplinary studies; back row, Lisa A. Wilkinson, Nebraska Wesleyan University, philosophy and liberal arts; Jeffrey Freyman, Transylvania, political science; John Ahrens, Hanover College, phi- losophy; William F. Pollard, Transylvania, vice president and dean of the college; Peter Bradley, McDaniel College, philosophy; Doug Casson, St. Olaf College, political theory; Barbara Lom, Davidson College, biology and neuroscience; Richard Ekman, president, Council of Independent Colleges; John Svarlien, Transylvania, classics (partially hidden); James Frueh, Bridgewater College, history and politi- cal science; Karen Schmeichel, Oglethorpe College, biology; and Matthew McKeever, Mount Holyoke College, European history. Participants not pictured are Brenda Foley, Marlboro College, theatre and performance studies; Laurence Roth, Susquehanna University, English and Jewish studies; and Stephen Salkever, Bryn Mawr College, European history.

FALL 2008 5 Around Campus

THEMED HOUSING SEEN IN INTERNATIONAL HOUSE cere interest in students and was always there to help them With the renovation and for the house. Street that provides an alterna- along. reopening of a historic residence Grace Saulsbury, a senior tive living opportunity focusing “He would ask how you were on North Broadway as the home Spanish and anthropology dou- on spiritual development. Future doing, what classes you were of International House, the ble major, feels the social atmos- themed housing, said Vetter, taking, did you have a summer themed housing movement at phere at International House is may feature environmental job lined up, what were you Transylvania is picking up steam. conducive to language learning, awareness and wellness. doing after graduation,” she “This type of housing inte- especially during the frequent said. “It wasn’t just chit-chat— grates the learning experience events hosted by residents. A Scholarship honors he really cared about you. into the living experience,” said conversation hour is held every “I was very glad to have the dean of students Mike Vetter. week in which students, faculty, former professor James E. Miller opportunity to do something to “We’re trying to strengthen the and staff are invited to take part. honor Dr. Miller as well as help linkage between academics and “We use the foreign language Former students, colleagues, future computer science stu- student life, which broadens the exclusively during these events, and friends of Transylvania com- dents.” opportunities for learning and try to let people come and puter science and mathematics For information on supporting beyond the classroom.” practice the language and learn professor emeritus James E. the James Miller Scholarship International House fulfills about the country in a more Miller are coming forward to Fund, contact the development that goal by giving students casual, everyday setting,” Sauls- support a scholarship fund in office at (800) 487-2679. interested in a foreign language, bury said. honor of his remarkable 42-year as well as others interested in Saulsbury also appreciates the tenure at the University, which international issues in general, a renovation and rebuilding that Rosenthal receives ended with his retirement at the place to live and practice their created an International House Kentuckian Award close of the 2007-08 academic language skills in an out-of-class with modern amenities, includ- year. Warren W. Rosenthal, a mem- situation. ing new fixtures in the kitchens “What we learned from Dr. ber of the Transylvania Board of “The heart of the International and bathrooms for each of the Miller wasn’t just how to write Trustees, was honored by the House is supporting the three four apartments, while preserv- computer code, but how to Happy Chandler Scholarship main spoken languages we have ing many original features. solve problems and think logical- Foundation with its 2008 Ken- at Transylvania—Spanish, French, “I love that they kept much of ly,” said Steve Banfield ’90, CEO tuckian Award during the foun- and German—but when there is the old character of the house,” of Verve Media, a technology dation’s Awards of Excellence room, we want to encourage Saulsbury said. “In one of our startup based in Los Angeles, Gala in July. The award honors students who have taken some rooms there’s an original mantle who formally worked for Sony, outstanding service to the Com- language courses and have other decorated with colored tiles Microsoft, RealPlayer, and IBM. monwealth. international interests, such as that’s gorgeous.” “Those skills are ones I and many A video tribute to Rosenthal’s anthropology or business, to also Another themed residence other alumni have come to rely business and philanthropic live there,” said Spanish profes- facility is CRU House, located in upon throughout our careers. achievements cited the native of sor Danae Orlins, faculty adviser a restored house on Upper Creating the scholarship endow- Paducah, Ky., as “...one of the ment was a small way we could most powerful and ingenious encourage everyone who has forces in the food service and been touched by the sciences franchise industry.” programs at Transy to recognize Rosenthal joined the fledging Dr. Miller’s contributions.” Jerrico company in 1948 when it The James Miller Scholarship consisted of two hamburger Fund will provide annual grants stands and a sandwich shop. to currently enrolled deserving When he stepped down as students who are majoring in chairman of the board in 1989, computer science and have Rosenthal had played a key role demonstrated financial need. in growing Jerrico Inc. into a Thus far, 115 donors have con- food service giant with 1,565 tributed $65,416 in gifts and Jerry’s, Long John Silver’s, and pledges to the fund. Fazoli’s locations. The endowment recognizes Rosenthal serves on the Tran- the impact Miller had as teacher, sylvania board’s Executive Com- adviser, and mentor to countless mittee, and has supported students during more than four numerous capital campaigns and decades of service to Transylva- been a major donor for such nia, from 1966-2008. projects as the Clive M. Beck Joseph Rey Au Suzanne Thompson ’87, a Athletic and Recreation Center. ! Lounging on the steps of the newly renovated International software engineer at Lexmark He was instrumental in estab- House are, from left, Grace Saulsbury ’09, Alex Keys ’11, Adrienne Singleton ’09, Clay Shields ’11, Jared Williams ’10, International in Lexington, lishing the hospitality manage- Marci Cornett ’09, Gus Rankin ’09, and Rachel Gregory ’08. recalled how Miller took a sin- ment program at Transy.

6 TRANSYLVANIA GLOBAL HEALTH EXPERT SPEAKS ABOUT HUMANITARIAN PURPOSE Doctor, humanitarian, and “Those who can ill afford to global health expert David Wal- suffer always end up suffering ton spoke in Haggin Auditorium more,” Walton said. “Our task on September 14 at Transylva- as a world community is to fix nia’s fall convocation. The lec- this situation. Healthcare is a ture was tied in with Transy’s human right, not a commodity.” First Engagements book choice After describing the living for 2008-09, Tracy Kidder’s conditions in Haiti and sharing Mountains Beyond Mountains: his experiences as a healthcare The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a provider in that setting, Wal- Man Who Would Cure the ton’s charge to the convocation World. audience was to become Murphy represents ! Junior Tyler Murphy poses in Walton met Farmer during his engaged on some level with INVESCO Field at Mile High in first year of medical school and other people’s lives. Kentucky at convention Denver, site of the 2008 Democratic National Convention. became his research assistant. “Whatever you do with your While his classmates were His first trip to Haiti in 1999 set life, there are always ways to preparing to move back to cam- Clinton’s staff in Kentucky and the stage for his ongoing com- help the less advantaged,” he pus this fall, junior Tyler Murphy active in her campaign in the mitment to the poorest country said. “Do what you’re passion- was in Denver serving as a first- days leading up to the primary in the hemisphere. ate about, but find a way to time delegate to the Democratic in May. He also played a key A staff member at the Divi- help others.” National Convention, held role in getting both Hillary and sion of Social Medicine and In the First Engagements pro- August 25-28. A political sci- former president Bill Clinton to Health Inequities at Brigham gram, all first-year students read ence major from Flatwoods, Ky., attend a get-out-the-vote rally and Women’s Hospital in Kidder’s book and took part in Murphy has been interested in at Transylvania on the eve of the Boston, he spends much of his small-group discussions of its politics since childhood. primary. time in Haiti providing medical themes. “In Denver, I met people that Because of his involvement in care to impoverished communi- I’ve watched every day on the Kentucky politics, Murphy said ties as a part of Farmer’s news or on C-Span,” Murphy he already knew many of the Partners in Health. This said, people like former Secre- other delegates, and the conven- organization aims to tary of State Madeline Albright tion was a great opportunity to bring healthcare and Lori-Lyn Hurley Lori-Lyn and Speaker of the House strengthen those bonds. “I love social justice to the poor Nancy Pelosi. Kentucky, and to share the expe- of the world, not only in Murphy cited Sen. Ted rience with the other delegates instances of emergency, Kennedy’s speech as a highlight was exciting,” he said. “No mat- but as a lasting partner- of the convention. “Here was ter how we cast our ballots, it ship. this man who has served our was historic for our party and party for half a century,” he said. our nation. Being a part of that ! Convocation speaker “Seeing him come out on the is something I’ll never forget.” David Walton talks podium and hearing the Murphy was not the only with political science response from the crowd was a professor Sakah Transylvania connection at the Mahmud at a recep- powerful moment.” convention. Jennifer Care tion following the Murphy, who is president of Moore ’95, chair of the Demo- speech. Transy’s chapter of College cratic Party in Kentucky, was Democrats, was on Sen. Hillary also a delegate.

Transylvania sets enrollment record

Transylvania began classes this fall with years ago to address the issue of reten- The entering class, comprised of stu- 329 new students and a record-setting tion. The program pairs second-year stu- dents from 33 states, includes 49 Ken- total enrollment of 1,158 students. A full dents with staff mentors who help tucky Governor’s Scholars and six National class of new students combined with 12 address the issues they face, and is one Merit Finalists. Fifty-one percent were in transfer students and an excellent reten- of several initiatives on campus designed the top 10 percent of their high school tion rate contributed to this record enroll- to support students. “Transylvania uses a class, with ACT and SAT scores well above ment. University-wide effort and commitment,” the national averages. Michael Covert, associate dean of stu- he said, “to work with students, make Orientation for the class of 2012 dents, directs the Sophomore Success sure they feel connected, and are suc- included the traditional serenade on the program, which was started over five cessful during their four years here.” steps of Old Morrison and the Greet Line.

FALL 2008 7 How suite it is Perfect fall day frames Thomson Hall dedication

BY WILLIAM A. BOWDEN

unshine and clear blue skies provided abundant elsewhere in Thomson Hall and Sa beautiful backdrop for the October includes a lower level meeting room with 4 dedication of Thomson Residence Hall, a capacity of 80 as well as a spacious lounge a suite-style facility that offers upper-class at the end of hallways on the second and students new levels of privacy and inde- third floors. pendence along with inviting social and Joe Thomson ’66 and his wife, JoAnn, meeting spaces. provided a generous lead gift toward the “Thomson Hall provides students design and construction of the facility. something very close to apartment-style They are owners of Winbak Farm, a Stan- living while still being on campus,” said dardbred horse farm headquartered in President Charles L. Shearer. “It represents Maryland, with operations in Delaware, a forerunner of the type of housing we New York, Pennsylvania, Maine, and would like to see more of down the road Canada. Joe is a member of the at Transylvania.” Transylvania Board of Trustees and a The $5.5 million, three-story, 28,000- former member of the Board of Visitors. square-foot facility, located on back circle “JoAnn and I are very happy and proud off Fourth Street, features 31 suite-style that we can make a contribution to help living units, each with a living room, study Transylvania,” Joe said in his dedication area, kitchenette, bathroom, and bedroom. remarks. “A project like this is really enor- Modular furniture allows students to cus- mous, and there are many other people tomize their bedroom with a bunk bed who also made gifts so that this wonderful style or separate beds. building could be constructed. Our hope On the ground floor, the expanded is that those who reside in Thomson Hall 1780 Café, relocated from the lower level will become better students by virtue of of Clay Hall, is open evenings and features living there.” a healthy menu consisting of wraps, sand- William T. Young Jr., chairman of the wiches, flat bread pizza, salads, fruit, veg- board, and Molly Burchett, a senior etables, fair trade coffee, smoothies, and business administration major from Pre- energy and fruit drinks. Tables and booths, stonsburg, Ky., expressed the University’s ! Above, Joe Thomson ’66 addresses the flat-screen televisions, and an outdoor appreciation for what the Thomsons and audience at dedication ceremonies for patio have already made the 1780 a very other major donors did to make Thomson Thomson Residence Hall. Below, Joe is joined by his wife, JoAnn, and daughters popular gathering place. Hall possible. Ashlee and Kimberly for a cake-cutting. Meeting and gathering space is “The quality of campus facilities, especially residence halls, is an important recruiting tool in a very competitive market for college students,” Young said. “All of us here today owe a great deal of gratitude to JoAnn and Joe for providing the lead gift for this project. Generous support by alumni and friends like the Thomsons is key to Transylvania’s future.” Burchett, who is president of the Student Government Association, said she looked forward all summer long to moving into Thomson Hall and that living there has already made her senior year more enjoyable. “Students at Transylvania greatly appreciate the generosity of Mr. and Mrs. Thomson and others who have helped keep Transy one of the most dis- tinguished liberal arts colleges in the nation.” !

8 TRANSYLVANIA THOMSON HALL environmentally friendly Here are some aspects of Thomson Hall that benefit the environment: • Insulating values that exceed state code require- ments by 28 percent • Geothermal heating and air conditioning variable speed pump that saves 50 per- cent of pumping energy • Total energy recovery wheel on outside air ventilation system • Energy-saving motion sen- sors on corridor and laun- dry room lighting • Low flow shower heads • Fifty percent recycled mate- rial in parking lot surface

! Above, senior Laura Wright enjoys her bedroom in Thomson Hall. Right, the 1780 Café, on the ground floor, offers a healthy menu in the evenings, and serves as a social and meeting spot at other times.

Take it from those who are residing there— Thomson Residence Hall is a great place for Transylvania students to live. Photos by Joseph Rey Au “The best part about Thomson is that we don’t disturb each other.” Hagan and Jolly both fit that we have more of our own space,” said Jolly also likes the expanded social and description. Besides being a member of Monica Hagan, a senior from Louisville meeting spaces of Thomson Hall. the swim team, Hagan, a biology major, who is on the swimming and diving team. “The College Democrats and College is involved in Omicron Delta Kappa “The suite style gives you lots of options. Republicans sponsored an evening in the national leadership honorary, the Biology My roommate and I actually made two 1780 for the campus community to watch Club, and community volunteer work. bedrooms by putting one bed and desk the vice presidential debate on TV. Also, Jolly, an American Studies major, is a out in the living area. With my swimming our hall had a meeting with our resident member of the speech and debate team schedule and her student teaching, she adviser at the beginning of the year in the and is president of the Kentucky Forensic can stay up late and study, and I can go to lounge at the end of our hallway, and that Association. He is also co-coordinator for sleep after swim practice. It’s really worked worked out great.” the Transylvania Episcopal Fellowship. out well.” One of the goals in designing Thomson Hagan sees her senior year in Thomson Marshall Jolly, a senior from Paris, Ky., Hall was to offer upper-class students who Hall as a warm-up for life after Transy. also appreciates the degree of separation are very active on campus an appealing “I feel like Thomson is a good step- the suite style gives him and his roommate. alternative to moving off campus for their ping-stone between dorm life and “My roommate and I have different final college years. apartment life,” she said. “We have to clean sleeping schedules. I’m in bed by midnight, “We wanted to have a place on campus our own kitchen and bathroom, and that he might not be in bed by 4 a.m., and he for very involved, engaged students who makes you grow up a little and be aware likes to take naps during the day. It gives are providing campus leadership,” said of what has to be done to maintain a place. us the opportunity to have that cordoned dean of students Mike Vetter. “Their It’s good preparation for being on my own off space, where if one of us wants to sleep involvement means that living far from the after graduation.” and the other wants to be on the computer, University would be difficult for them.”

FALL 2008 9 TRANSY Show & Tell

With a 228-year history that FOOTBALL FEVER only a handful of colleges and This 1939 football pro- gram was for Transylvania’s universities in the nation can game on September 22 against the University of Louisville, played in match, it’s only natural that Transyl- Lexington, won by U of L 25-0. Two years later, the onset of World War II meant the vania would be the repository of many 1941 team was the Pioneers’ last—the sport was never revived at Transy. historic and intriguing items. Transyl- vania magazine decided to ask the campus community what they might have tucked away in a desk drawer or tossed on a shelf that would reflect something intriguing about the col- lege’s distant and more recent past.

Just for good measure, we also checked with Special Collections librar- ian B. J. Gooch to see what might be lurking in our archives to add to the eclectic mix of items brought forth by SURVIVING THE ’70S Computer science professor Kenny Moorman dates this com- faculty and staff members. A pocket puter terminal from the late 1960s or early ’70s. Like the Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz, it has no brain of its own—it’s watch given to Transylvania’s first a “dumb” screen and keyboard that drew its programming and memory from a connection to a mainframe computer. This female graduate as a commencement particular model is a Regent 100, made by Applied Digital Data System. gift and a Transylvania belt buckle were among the finds.

There are well documented stories connected to many of these items. With others, we were fascinated by the item, but had little solid informa- tion to go on. Transylvania readers who have the inside story on anything displayed here are encouraged to let us know what you know.

Please respond to Martha Baker, director of publications, at [email protected] or call the publications office at (859) 233-8146.

10 TRANSYLVANIA HAMILTON COLLEGE BLING Thought to be earrings, although they are slightly different, these pendants bear the logo of Hamilton College, a women’s junior and preparatory college that was affiliated with Transylvania in the early 1900s. A tag in the box is marked $4.

AN EARLY SOCIETY This formal invitation to an open meeting of the Phileusebian Society is dated 1891. The society was a literary group that began its career at the College of the Bible in 1886. According to John D. Wright Jr.’s book, Transylvania: Tutor to the West, it was the belief of this society and others like it that the members gained as much from the society as they might from their university studies.

LL THAT FOR $1.5 MILLION This capital campaign brochure and newsletter supported Transylvania’s $1.5 million 175th Anniversary Campaign, a 1955 fund-raising effort under the leadership of President Frank A. Rose ’42. Rose wrote, “Our college is at the crossroads—what you and I and others do in the 175th Anniversary Campaign will put Transylva- nia on a road leading to higher achievements for Kentucky and the world...”

THE WELL DRESSED PIONEER The freshman beanie was once required apparel for Transy students. This style was for the women and belonged to Margaret “Boots” Sweeney ’43. According to Harry Stephenson ’46, the sweater, which belonged to football player Charles P. Taylor Sr. ’39, was the type worn by varsity athletes during their first year, after which they graduated to a “T” sweater.

FOR THE FASHIONABLE GENTLEMAN Three of the more than 350 mustache cups that Lexington businessman and real estate developer Julius Rosenberg donated to Transylvania in 1983. The inscription in old German script on the largest cup (left), as translated by German and French pro- fessor Rick Weber: Your cup was constant- ly too small. Will this one then suffice?

FALL 2008 11 THIS WAY TO TRANSYLVANIA Many years ago, this sign arched across a sidewalk entrance to the Transylvania campus that faced Broadway. The old sidewalk wound its way through what is now the lawn in front of Haupt Humanities, up to the old College of the Bible building that occupied the Haupt site. The sign now hangs in The Rafskeller, the campus grill.

FROM THE LATIN This 1920 Transylvania A.B. diploma, printed on parchment, was earned by Earl Rhodes Thompson and was contributed by John L. Thompson, his grandson and Tran- sy’s computer help desk coordinator. It’s written in Latin and was translated TRANSYLVANIA LIFE for us by classics professor John Svarlien, reading, in part, “We inform the readers that This 1939 T-Book belonged to Margaret Earl Rhodes Thompson is an upright alumnus of “Boots” Sweeney ’43. T-Books served as our academy, and that he has been judged worthy guides for the well-informed student. This in those studies that pertain to the foremost degree, one includes sports schedules, fraternity studies already completed with great praise and by means and sorority information, a list of local of esteemed and often special gifts both of learning and nat- churches, the Honor Code, the words to ural ability, who advances into the ranks of baccalaureates...” the Transylvania Alma Mater, and rules for class and chapel attendance.

AN UNUSUAL RAIN Art professor Kurt Gohde has a bottle of what is believed to be meat rain—actual flakes of meat said to have fallen from the sky for 10 minutes on March 3, 1876, at Olympia Springs, Ky. Sam- ples were gathered and studied at Transylvania and sent to other scientists, whose theories about the substance ranged from vegetable mat- ter to frogs, muscle fiber, cartilage, and lung tis- sue.

12 TRANSYLVANIA TRANSY MAIL This postcard featuring Old Morrison and the building that housed the former College of the Bible indicates a postal rate of one cent for domestic mail and two cents for international. This dates the postcard earlier than 1925, when the rate for internation- al mail was raised to three cents. Diane Fout, director of student activities and campus center, had this item.

FOLK ART Kentucky folk artist Bill Woodrum made this “Mountain Rover” for Transylvania in 2004 after hearing Steven Squyres, principal investigator on the NASA project that sent the robots Spirit and Opportu- nity to explore Mars, present the Kenan Lecture. The inscription on the back: Like the beginning, the Almighty God gave us the moon pie and the big orange. . .We ate the moon pie, drank the big orange, and sent the rover “spirit” to Mars.

TRANSY STYLE This brass belt buckle belonged to Pete Baxter ’75, who purchased it in an antique store on Limestone Street in Lexington. He showed it to former history professor John D. Wright Jr., who believed it may have originally been part of a band uniform. Transy yearbooks from the 1930s picture a philharmonic band in elaborate uniforms.

MEMORIES PRESERVED This beautiful graduation week scrapbook is inscribed to Edna B. Browning, class of 1926, from her roommate, Florence Martin. It includes a gradua- tion photo of Browning and is signed by many of her professors. It also contains a T-shaped program from junior prom 1924 listing a menu that includes frozen mushrooms and queen olives.

RINGING IN THE NEW YEAR This large brass bell is dated 1909 and appeared on the cover of A TIMELY ARTIFACT the Spring 1991 issue of Transylvania today magazine. In the 1955 photo, Transylvania’s 22nd president, Frank Rose (his obituary was This watch was given to Catherine Van Arsdall, in this issue), rings the bell on the steps of Old Morrison to signify Transylvania class of 1893, by her mother as a the start of a new school year. graduation gift. Catherine, from Harrodsburg, Ky., was the first female graduate of the University and was elected president of her class. FALL 2008 13 Transylvania The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennia

As the nation celebrates the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln’s February 12, 1809, birth in Hardin County, Ky., the many connections between Transylvania and the 16th President are worth recalling for how they illuminate the prominent roles in Lin- coln’s personal and political lives that were played by alumni and others associated with this historic college. Among those connections are the role of political hero to Lincoln played by the famed statesman Henry Clay, a former Transylvania professor and trustee; the legal acumen Lincoln relied upon when he appointed Transylvania graduates Samuel Freeman Miller to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1862 and James Speed as U.S. Attorney General in 1864; and the diplomatic skills provided by alumnus Cassius Clay, named Minister to Russia by Lincoln in 1861. In his personal and family life, Lincoln returned to his native Kentucky to wed Mary Todd of Lexington, whose family included several Transylvanians, beginning with her father, Robert S. Todd, who entered Transylvania at age 14. The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial is being celebrated throughout 2008 and 2009, with a crescendo of events taking place on and around February 12, 2009, the 200th anniversary of Lincoln’s birth. As Transylvania takes part in that cel- ebration, it harkens back to its history in the middle decades of the 19th century, a time when the University enjoyed a national prominence that coincided with Lincoln’s rise to the presidency. Kentucky Historical Society

A LINCOLN PHOTO JOURNEY

A modern-day Transylvanian with a Lincoln connection is photographer John Snell ’70, whose latest book, Through the Eyes of Lincoln, A Modern Photographic Journey, takes viewers and readers to Lincoln-related sites in Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Pennsyl- vania, and Washington, D. C. The hardbound, coffee-table book features 90-plus photos by Snell, along with other historic photos from the Library of Congress and other sources. The text is by author Ron Elliott. The interesting and eclectic sites photographed by Snell include the confluence of Knob Creek and Rolling Fork River in Kentucky, where Lincoln’s father launched a raft bound for Indiana; the Knox College building that was the site of a Lincoln-Douglas debate; and the pew in the Washington, D.C., church where Lincoln worshipped. Snell is the owner of John W. Snell Photography in Lexington. For information on the book, visit www.johnsnellphoto.com.

14 TRANSYLVANIA and Abraham Lincoln ecalls the Great Emancipator’s links with Transylvania figures Presidents Day Transylvania was a fertile breeding ground Montgomery Blair studied in the law for leaders in many areas of society during school at Transylvania and later served as Kenan lecture will those years, and Lincoln called upon that a U.S. district attorney for Missouri and focus on Lincoln expertise as he led the nation through one as mayor of St. Louis. After Lincoln “Our Lincoln” will of its most bitter and critical eras. appointed him Postmaster General, he cre- be the topic when Following are brief sketches of some ated several procedures seen in the modern presidential historian of those people: postal system, including requiring postage Richard Norton Smith Henry Clay taught in the Transylvania from the sender and the return-receipt delivers the Kenan lec- law department from 1805-07, after which system. ture on Presidents Day, he served several terms as a trustee and Robert S. Todd, who studied at Tran- Monday, February 16, remained a loyal friend and counselor to sylvania, became Lincoln’s father-in-law at 7:30 p.m. in Haggin the University until his death in 1852. with the marriage of his daughter, Mary Auditorium. The event Known as the Great Compromiser, Clay Todd, to the young lawyer and politician is part of Transylvania’s Richard Norton Smith achieved national and international fame in 1842. celebration of the as a statesman while serving in the George Rogers Clark Todd, Mary’s Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial. Congress and as U.S. Secretary of State. brother and a graduate of the Transylvania Smith is a scholar in residence at Lincoln referred to Clay as his “beau ideal Medical Department, was Lincoln’s broth- George Mason University, where he of a statesman” and said of Clay in his er-in-law, as was Ninian Wirt Edwards, teaches on the American presidency. lengthy and moving eulogy, “His long and an 1833 Transylvania law school graduate, He also is the ABC News presidential eventful life is closed. Our country is pros- who was married to Mary’s sister, historian and a political analyst for PBS. perous and powerful; but could it have Elizabeth. It was in the Springfield, Ill., A prolific writer, Smith was a finalist been quite all it has been, and is, and is to home of Ninian and Elizabeth that Lincoln for the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for his book, Thomas E. Dewey and His Times. His be, without Henry Clay?” first met Mary Todd. ! 1997 book, The Colonel: The Life and Legend of Robert R. McCormick, Henry Clay Publications writer/editor William A. received the Goldsmith Prize from Har- Bowden, Special Collections Librarian B. vard University’s John F. Kennedy J. Gooch, Circulations Services Supervisor School and was described by Hilton Stephen G. Leist, and sophomore Michael Kramer as “the best book ever written Harrell produced this article. about the press.” Smith currently is working on a biography of Nelson A. Rockefeller. Smith served as director of the Her- Cassius Clay bert Hoover Presidential Library and as minister to Museum, the Dwight D. Eisenhower Russia, 1861

Transylvania Archives Transylvania Center, the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, the Ronald Reagan Presidential Samuel Freeman Miller graduated Foundation, the Reagan Center for from Transylvania in 1838 and supported Public Affairs, and the Gerald R. Ford Lincoln’s bid for the presidency in 1860. Museum and Library. He organized the Lincoln appointed him to the U.S. Eisenhower Centennial on behalf of Supreme Court in 1862, where he served the National Archives and Records until his death in 1890. Administration. James Speed earned his law degree Smith was director of the Robert J. from Transylvania in 1833 and was an Dole Institute of Politics at the Universi- ty of Kansas, where he supervised con- attorney, professor, and politician in struction of the organization’s $11.3 Kentucky for many years. In 1864, Lincoln million headquarters and launched a appointed him U.S. Attorney General, a presidential lecture series. In 2003, he post he held until 1866. was named founding director of the Cassius Clay, the outspoken emanci- Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library pationist, attended Transylvania and was and Museum in Springfield, Ill., and an early organizer of the Republican Party. executive director of the Abraham Lin- After Lincoln named him Minister to coln Presidential Library Foundation. Russia in 1861, Clay helped to lay the Smith is a graduate of Harvard Uni- groundwork for the U.S. purchase of versity with a degree in government. Alaska in 1867. Transylvania Archives Transylvania

FALL 2008 15 HIGHLinda Wise McNay ’77 builds relationships to advanceART institutions she believes in BY LORI-LYN HURLEY

ou could say that it was Linda Wise out of town for five days. I’d come in the “I lived downtown so I walked to work YMcNay’s love of Transylvania that led office on Saturday morning, and I’d leave every day,” she said. “I would have lived her to her current position as director of again.” at Transy 24 hours a day if they let me.” advancement at the High Museum of Art In hopes of cutting back her travel time, She said she would still be working at in Atlanta. she applied for a job in development and Transy if not for the fact that she and her When she graduated in 1977 with a was appointed director of the annual fund. husband, Gary, moved to Atlanta because major in business administration, McNay “I didn’t have any experience,” she said, of his career as an architect. didn’t want to leave the Transylvania com- “but I jumped in and started raising munity, so she decided to seek work expe- money.” Taking her skills to new places rience elsewhere that would prepare her McNay visited many of the same people In Atlanta, McNay’s sense of adventure to someday return and work for her alma she’d already met through her work in and her fund-raising experience led her to mater. After working in personnel for Hyatt admissions, and she discovered that fund- positions in development and consulting Hotels in Chicago for two years, she raising was enjoyable. at the Georgia Institute of Technology, returned to Lexington, and campus. “I think of it as a game where you move Emory University, and Pace Academy. “I went to Transy and asked, ‘Okay, puzzle pieces around and you’re always “I took what I learned at Transy about what do you want me to do?’,” she said. trying to get the right prospect,” she said, raising money to my new positions,” she That eagerness to try new things “and then you ask for the right amount at said. “At Georgia Tech, I visited all of our launched McNay into a career that has the right time for the right project.” donors who gave a thousand dollars or taken her to many interesting places. At At one point, McNay was the alumni more. People would say, ‘No one has ever Transy, she started as assistant director of director and annual fund director, and for visited me before,’ and yet that’s what I admissions, a position she loved, but one two years she was director of development. learned to do at Transylvania—stay in touch that required her to travel extensively. All of those positions saw her handling with the donors.” “I had a huge area,” she said. “Every special events and working almost every Most recently, McNay was director of Sunday we’d pack and leave, and I’d be weekend. development at Pace Academy in Atlanta,

16 TRANSYLVANIA where her sons were students. Advancement Museum Directors she considered as a major in college. When “It was a job that worked well for my Association, a group comprised of chief she worked for Transylvania, she children,” she said. “It was something I development officers of major museums, represented the University in helping inven- knew how to do and it fit with their for which McNay recently served as tory and transport to campus the Clara schedules, but I decided my next job would president. This year, the High hosted the Peck collection, including Audubon’s be for me.” association’s annual conference. “People Birds of America, 1826-38 and Viviparous That job turned out to be her current wanted to come see our new buildings,” Quadrupeds of North America, 1845-48, position at the High Museum of Art, con- she said. now part of Transylvania’s Special Collec- sidered by many to be the leading art muse- In fact, McNay and her husband tions. um in the Southeast, with more than attended the opening of the Piano McNay and former librarian and Uni- 11,000 works of art in its permanent col- buildings in 2005, not knowing she would versity archivist Roemol Henry ’34 traveled lection. McNay began working there in soon be working there. to New York City to supervise the packing 2006, and found it’s an environment that “We have been big supporters of the of the extremely valuable prints. suits her. High,” she said, “and have come to the “After flying back home, I remember “I fell in love with the High,” she said. major exhibitions since we’ve lived in sitting out on the library steps waiting for “I get to be around the arts, so if I ever Atlanta, about 20 years. My husband works that truck to pull up after midnight one have a stressful moment, I just walk about a block away, and now he comes up night, and then they brought in all these through the galleries.” and knocks on my window and we have rare books,” she said. “It was great.” Her day-to-day experience is unpre- lunch.” Last summer, McNay worked on a $4 dictable. “Whatever I think I’m going to million gift for the High, and a building do, I end up doing something else,” she From education to art was named for the donor, who will be rec- said. The something else could be writing McNay holds an MBA in personnel ognized as philanthropist of the year in proposals or letters, or attending social administration from the University of Ken- Atlanta because of what she’s done for the events or meetings. tucky and a Ph.D. in philosophy of museum. “I’ve had to learn how to run a education from Georgia State University, “I’m proud to have worked with her museum. I’ve learned about budgeting a degree that she once thought might lead and to have gotten to know her,” McNay and which of our donors care about African to a career as a college president. “(Tran- said. “Fund-raising is all about relation- art versus African American art,” she said. sylvania President) Dr. Shearer is a big role ships—who you know.” McNay had been at the High for only model for me,” she said. “I thought I McNay says her spare time is primarily about a month when she flew to Paris to would go the fund-raising route and teach devoted to her sons, Ian, a sophomore at meet with a donor. “At my previous job along the way.” Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State at Pace Academy, the way I raised money Indeed, with most of her development University, and Mason, a senior in high was to meet people down at the carpool experience in the realm of educational school. With an interest in art and theater, line, and now I’m traveling all over the institutions, McNay found she had to Mason is a student docent at the High. world,” she said. switch gears when she began her work at “I’m also the oldest person on the High The High Museum’s current capital the High. Whereas a school has its own Museum softball team,” McNay said, “It campaign is focused on raising funds for unique database from which to draw, non- keeps me young, and I get to work with the final phase of the “New High for profit organizations share the same pool younger people I probably wouldn’t get Atlanta Campaign,” which will provide of potential donors. to know very well otherwise.” finishing touches on three buildings “People usually give money to “Fund-raiser” is not a term that McNay designed by Renso Piano that more than something they believe in,” she said. “They often uses to describe herself. doubled the museum’s size to 312,000 might give to a health organization, for “Advancement is more accurate,” she said. square feet. The Piano buildings were example, if someone in their family has “We’re advancing the institution,” but designed as part of an overall upgrade of been ill. In arts, we have to continue to even in her personal activities, she often the entire Woodruff Arts Center Complex, seek people who care about art.” finds herself in the position of raising funds. of which the High is a part. The High Museum does have 50,000 “I help raise money for our church,” “We have a lot of money to raise,” members. “They’re similar to she said. “When people find out I’m a McNay said. “Our goals are huge,” but Transylvania’s Annual Fund donors,” she fund-raiser, they all have their pet projects she’s optimistic. During her first year at said, “and several thousand have been for me to help with—when I volunteer at the High, development set a record, raising members for 25 years because they love the PTA or something, I tend to fall into more money than had ever been raised in art.” consultant mode and end up raising a year. Working for the High allows McNay to money.” ! One place she finds inspiration is the explore her own interest in art, a subject

“At my previous job at Pace Academy, the way I raised money was to meet people down at the carpool line, and now I’m traveling all over the world.”

FALL 2008 17 Transylvania would like to publish your photos of alumni events and personal milestones. For consideration, please send photos to Transylvania Magazine, NEWS & NOTES Transylvania University, Alumni 300 North Broadway, Lexington, KY 40508-1797. Transylvania Archives Transylvania

Forrer Hall turns 50

! Forrer Hall, the main women’s residence hall at Transylvania, is 50 years old this fall. Photos show the final stages of construction, with cars parked along Broadway; students preparing to serve punch and munchies at the 1958 dedication; and Lewis Ware ’27, a life member of the Board of Trustees, addressing the dedication crowd while standing in what is now the dining hall, with the courtyard in the background. President Irvin E. Lunger is seated, at far left, second from left.

18 TRANSYLVANIA Alice Duryea Kinney celebrated her Vernon G. Cooper, Kingsbury, Tex., Valley of the Inca and climbed Machu ’35 96th birthday on August 23. She lives ’50 participated in the annual celebration Picchu. in her own apartment in Butte, Montana, of the “Battle of the Medina” near San and is still full of pep. Antonio in August. The battle was fought on Shirley Frey McConahay, Durham, August 18, 1813, and was the last of the battles ’62N.C., spent October 2007 teaching fought by the Texicans to free the first Republic soft sculpture on the Wind River (Arapaho) ! Alice Duryea of Texas from the forces of New Spain Reservation in Wyoming and this past March Kinney in 1937 teaching on the Cherokee Reservation in and in 2008 (Mexico). Vernon gives as many as 50 after- dinner talks a year on American history. North Carolina. In 2009, she will travel to White Earth, Minn. You can read more about J. Cy Rowell and Vera McManaman her work on the Art for Indigenous Survival ’55 Rowell ’58, Ft. Worth, Tex., recently Web site, www.aisurvival.org. moved to a condominium closer to town. The lack of yard work is an added bonus. Karen B. Tye, St. Louis, retired in June ’63 2007 from her position as professor Autumn J. Stanley, Portola Valley, Calif., is of Christian education at Eden Theological working on a biography of Charlotte Smith, Seminary and was named professor emeritae. Virginia Marsh Bell, Lexington, a 19th-century magazine editor and reformer. This past spring, she had two books pub- ’44 co-authored a book on activities for The book, titled Raising More Hell and lished—Your Calling as a Teacher by Chalice persons with dementia titled The Best Friends Fewer Dahlias, is in production at Lehigh Press and Christian Education in the Small Book of Alzheimer’s Activities, Volume 2. Her University Press and scheduled to appear in Membership Church by Abingdon Press. co-authors are Tonya Tincher Cox ’95, David 2009. She also will have an entry in the 2009 edition of Who’s Who of American Women. Joseph E. Cosby lives between Steam- Troxel, and Robin Hamon. ’64 boat Springs, Colo., and Bellingham, Florence Sherrod Reneau, Grafton, Terry L. Cummins, New Albany, Ind., Wash. In June, he returned from a month ’46 W.Va., was named Centennial Mother ’56 is working on his fourth book, Dis- of travel and photographic shooting in of the Year on Mother’s Day 2008 by the covering Your Fountain of Youth After 65. Central Asia and Western China and spent International Mother’s Day Shrine in part of July in the Yucatan province of Edwin C. Linberg, La Verne, Calif., Mexico. He was accepted in August as a per- Grafton, the location of the first celebration and his wife, Mariette, observed their of Mother’s Day in 1908. ’57 manent artist on display at the Artist Gallery 50th wedding anniversary on December 28. of Steamboat Springs. In October he will Earl. A. Roberts and Bonnie Lee On December 30, they celebrated with over return to Central America for more shooting ’48 Roberts ’50 have moved back to Ver- 100 guests at Sierra La Verne Country Club. and to get married. sailles, Ky. They celebrated their 61st William S. “Smitty” Lucas, Cumming, wedding anniversary on August 8. William E. Davis, Woodland, Calif., co- ’58 Ga., and his wife, Sue, toured Italy, founded DPK Consulting, an international Garey L. White and Switzerland, France, and England in July justice administration firm in San Francisco, Carol Ann Barnes White with their daughters Melissa Lucas with Bob Page in 1993. Since meeting and ’50, Lexington, cele- Bernardino ’86 and Sue Lucas Ginac ’90, and serving in the Peace Corps in South America brated Carol Ann’s Melissa’s husband, Paul, and daughters, in the late 1960s and establishing careers in 80th birthday this sum- Annalise, 10, Allison, 9, and Ava, 7. judicial administration, they continue to mer. Garey reached his Highlights of the trip were the wedding of share an expansive world view and heart’s desire by son Scott in England and an early celebration commitment to service. posting golf scores of Smitty and Sue’s 49th wedding anniver- below his age twice and sary. Jane Kinnaird Hodges, Rancho Palos Verdes, on his age once. They Calif., retired from the Palos Verdes Unified W. Gregory School District in 2006 to travel with her have become part of the Bruce, Panama party crowd and enjoy ’60 husband for the Center for Faithwalk Lead- City, Fla., ership. In June, they conducted “Lead Like pampering themselves was presented the in the Florida sun five Jesus” encounters in Bethlehem and 2007-08 Courage Award Jerusalem. months a year. by the American Cancer Embrey B. Howson and Janet Pinch Society in recognition of Sandra Stewart Morgan and Mo Morgan ’49 Howson, Columbus, Ohio, his courage in his are thoroughly enjoying retirement along celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary personal experience with the South Carolina coast in the historic town on August 30. cancer. It also honors his positive attitude, of Beaufort. Their home overlooks the water ability to lead a “normal” life, communication toward Parris Island, where they met and Betty Lou Schafer Pieratt, Tempe, Ariz., is skills, and involvement with the local were married. the proud great-grandmother of three boys, American Cancer Society and other ages 2 months to 2 years. She enjoys living community activities. C. Rodger Hammons and his wife, in Arizona, which is close to her family, and ’65 Karen, live in Morehead, Ky. Rodger stays active in the local church, the W. Douglas Cardwell and Marilyn retired from the department of mathematics ecumenical organization and peace ’61 Estridge Cardwell, Winston-Salem, and computer science at Morehead State Uni- movements, and as a reading partner to first N.C., visited the Galapagos Islands in August versity after teaching for 37 years. He served graders. with their daughter, son-in-law, and two 15 consecutive years as department chair. grandsons. They also went to Peru’s Sacred

FALL 2008 19 DEWEY CORNELL ’78 Preventing violence before it begins

When forensic psychologist misconceptions about youth violence, Dewey Cornell ’78 began his gradu- such as the notion that get-tough poli- ate studies, he had met only one other cies will deter youth from delinquency. clinical psychologist. That was Richard “Zero tolerance in schools and poli- Honey, a professor and Cornell’s mentor cies to send juveniles to adult court at Transylvania. backfire and increase juvenile crime “I basically made my career decision rather than reduce it,” he said. based on his influence,” Cornell said. Focusing on prevention strategies “He had a great impact on me.” rather than crisis response, Cornell is at Looking back, Cornell sees choosing work on projects to make bullying pre- a field of study based on his experi- vention more effective, to demonstrate ences with one person as somewhat of the effectiveness of threat assessment a gamble, but it turned out to be a teams in primary and secondary good one. A philosophy and psycholo- schools, and to establish procedures for gy major at Transy, Cornell earned his college threat assessment. M.A. and Ph.D. in psychology from the After the Columbine shootings, there University of Michigan and found that was a widespread demand for a check- conducting forensic evaluations at a list of characteristics that could be used state hospital after graduate school to identify the next shooter, but Cornell sparked his interest in legal issues. contends that there is no single profile Cornell now holds the Curry Memori- of the juvenile offender. al Chair in Education at the University “Having worked with hundreds of of Virginia and is director of The Youth Violence Project, which people who have committed severe acts of violence, I have learned began in 1993 as an effort to help schools deal with juvenile crime that most of these individuals, even those who murdered someone, and violence. are surprisingly normal and not fundamentally evil or crazy,” he Over the past 15 years, Cornell and his graduate students have said. undertaken a series of research and training projects to address However, in almost every case, the violent students communicat- problems that range from school shootings to bullying, gangs, and ed their intentions well in advance of the attack. student suicide. He has testified as both a defense and prosecution In May 2007, Cornell testified before the U.S. House Committee expert in numerous criminal proceedings, including the 1997 school on Education and Labor about student threat assessment—an effec- shooting in Paducah, Ky., and the 2002 Washington, D.C., sniper tive, systematic response to threats that involves identifying a shootings. threat, evaluating how serious it is, and taking action to prevent it The challenge for any forensic psychologist, Cornell said, is to from being carried out. translate scientific knowledge into facts that the courts can rely “Prevention is not something that you do when there is a gun- upon. man in the parking lot,” he said. “Prevention has to start with the “The legal system is intensely adversarial and partisan, and conflicts and problems that occur months or years before the shoot- assumes that the truth will emerge from conflict between rival ing starts.” points of view,” he said. “Many mental health professionals steer Cornell points to a substantial body of scientific research outlin- clear of forensic issues because of this fundamental problem.” ing what works in terms of violence prevention—methods like prob- But Cornell finds it rewarding when his research and opinions lem-oriented, community policing; teaching young people how to have an impact on a legal matter, and despite a widespread fear of resolve conflicts; linking young people with mentors; and providing campus violence, Cornell’s findings support the idea that schools constructive after-school activities. are not dangerous places. Juvenile violence is a heavy topic, and Cornell admits his chosen “There is a misconception that juvenile violence is on the rise, field can be consuming, but at the end of the day, his work makes when the opposite is true since its peak in the early 1990s,” Cornell him more appreciative of things he might otherwise take for said. “The media has tremendous impact on our perceptions of vio- granted. lence. Although it is important that the media inform us and draw “It’s a tremendous relief to spend time with my family,” he said. attention to pressing social problems and needs, all too often media He and his wife, Nancy, have three daughters, one in high school attention generates an exaggerated view of reality.” and two in college. Of his own college experience, Cornell said According to Cornell, media coverage of violence not only things he learned and read and debated with his Transy professors engenders unrealistic fears in the general public, it can stimulate still inform his lectures and writings 30 years later. copycat behavior, as we saw in reaction to the Columbine and Vir- “I have been reviewing applicants for graduate school for 22 ginia Tech shootings. This copycat effect creates short-term trends years,” he said, “and even though we have candidates from the top that reinforce the perception of danger. institutions in the country, few have had the breadth and depth of Cornell’s book School Violence: Fears Versus Facts, published in coursework that I experienced at Transy.” 2006, features numerous case studies that identify 17 myths and —LORI-LYN HURLEY

20 TRANSYLVANIA Jo Anne “Jody” Achberger Rankin, Rock Hill, S.C., is teaching K-5 English as a second lan- Backstage with guage for the Rock Hill School District. Jay and Barry R. Winn Turney, an attorney in Lexington, Barry Bronson ’70 and Jay Leno get was appointed commissioner of the Kentucky together after a recent taping of The Department of Aviation. He has long been Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Bronson, involved in aviation activities in Central senior communications counselor for Kentucky and is a pilot, a charter founding Ashland Inc. and its Lexington-based member and trustee of the Aviation Museum Valvoline division, is a frequent visitor to of Kentucky, and a member of the Kentucky Leno’s Burbank, Calif., Big Dog Garage Aviation Hall of Fame Committee. where the star keeps an impressive col- Koichi Kurosawa, Tokyo, and his wife, lection of classic and rare cars and ’66 Yasoko, along with Hiroshi Kurihara motorcycles spanning a century of and his wife, Mitsuyo, of Hyogo-Ken, Japan, motoring history. During his last visit, toured Denmark, Norway, Finland, and Bronson taped a motor oil session with Sweden this summer. They were impressed Leno on JayLenosGarage.com. Bronson by the natural beauty of those countries and has been with Ashland and Valvoline for resolved to keep reducing pollution as much more than 20 years in the areas of pub- lic relations and motorsports marketing.

2009. Schools, was named a director for the Kentucky Foundation Advisory Board. Jean Fudold Smith, Lexington, is semi-retired but still looking for something to keep her Janet Douglas Bloom, Louisville, and busy. In August, Jean joined Fortune Hi- ’72 her husband, Stephen, moved their Tech Marketing and invites her fellow alums manufacturing company, Grand Circuit to view her new Web site at Products, to Louisville from Freehold, N.J. www.FHTMUS.com/jeaninlexington. The company manufactures therapeutic horseshoes and devices along with an anti- Herschel Sparber, Los Angeles, is currently fungal/anti-bacterial treatment, and ships ! From left, Hiroshi and Mitsuyo Kurihara, the voice for a new campaign for Harrah’s worldwide. They also have a retail farrier Yasoko and Koichi Kurosawa in Casinos. To view the spots, go to Copenhagen. supply store in New Jersey. www.escapetoHarrahs.com and click on “Watch TV Commercials.” Herschel also Janet Greenberg Massey, Vevay, Ind., as possible. Hiroshi has traveled a lot since traveled to New York in October to do a graduated from Louisville Presbyterian The- retirement. One of his recent trips in June staged reading of a new musical What the ological Seminary in May with a degree in was to the northern part of Japan, Nurse Knew. pastoral studies. She is pastor for Caledonia “Hokkaido,” where the last Summit was held Presbyterian Church in Vevay. in June. Virginia Dodge Fielder, Miami, is serving as visiting James K. Batten Jeanne Brown Speckhals lives in Amberg, J. Larry Patterson, Cary, N.C., published ’70 Professor in Public Policy at Davidson Germany, with her husband, John. Jeanne Using a Town and Type Catalog to Start a College for the fall semester. She will teach is a social worker specializing in counseling Precancel Stamp Collection. The booklet Media Use in the Digital Age and Research with children and families. received a silver award in the “Handbooks on Mass Media Effects. and Special Studies” category from the Amer- Edward D. Dombroskas, West Hart- ican Philatelic Society at Stamp Show 2008 Sue Shadburne Call, Fishers, Ind., ’73 ford, Conn., retired as the held in Hartford, Conn., in August. ’71 and her congregation, Downey Connecticut director of tourism after a 34- Avenue Christian Church in Indianapolis, year career in government. In recognition Pamela Rock Cormany lives in received a 2008 Lilly Endowment Clergy of his career, January 25 was declared Ed Decatur, Ga., with her husband, Cliff. ’68 Renewal Grant in June, which covered costs Dombroskas Day by Governor M. Jodi Rell. Pam married Cliff, her high school while she took a three-month renewal trip Ed keeps busy as chairman of the board of sweetheart, in June 2007 on the 47th beginning in August. She visited many places the Valley Railroad Co. and working with a anniversary of the day they met when they to sing and listen to wonderful music. The not-for-profit group creating a regional trans- were both 14 years old. He is a retired FBI highlight of the trip was a visit with her portation system for the elderly that is an agent and has his own investigative firm. husband to Australia in October and an a alternative program to owning and driving Michael J. Nolan, Frankfort, Ky., is semi- cappella gospel singing workshop on the a car. retired after 35 years of managing non-profit island of Fiji. Roma Howard Prindle, Morehead, Ky., is the associations but continues to be involved in Deborah Bird Phelps, Decatur, Ill., visited founder and director of the first professional a project for county government. with Janet Douglas Bloom ’72 in Louisville opera company in Central Appalachia, the Dale Ann Fielman Cole, Edgewater, in July. Highlands Light Opera. Their premiere was Md., is still working for the federal celebrated this summer and featured several ’69 Candice Caine Zaluski, Lexington, a library government but thinking about retiring in performances of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Pirates resource specialist for the Fayette County of Penzance. FALL 2008 21 Robert C. Grant (center, photo), Nancy L. Allf, Las Vegas, ran unsuc- see patients with chronic orofacial pain con- ’74 Griffin, Ga., was named layman of ’79 cessfully in 2008 for ditions. Kevin is in graduate school studying the year by the Georgia Region of Christian the Nevada Supreme Court biomedical ethics, teaches in the Mayo Church (Disciples of Christ). He is active as but will definitely run again. Medical School ethics curriculum, and serves an elder and is retired as music director of Photos from the campaign on other ethics-related committees at Mayo. First Christian Church in Griffin. can be seen on her Web site, He and his wife, Misty, director of marketing www.NancyAllf.com. Nancy at Mayo Clinic, are parents to Ian, 14, and is the immediate past Liam, 12. Outside of work, Kevin is an avid president of the State Bar of Nevada and cyclist. practices law in Las Vegas. She and her husband, Dave Thomas, look forward to cel- Catherine L. Creech and her husband, ebrating their 10th wedding anniversary in ’84Britt Reynolds ’85, continue to reside Maui. in Washington, D.C., with their two children, Blair, 11, and Robert, 7. Britt is director of Thomas L. Steinemann, Shaker Heights, undergraduate admissions at the University Ohio, was promoted to professor at Case of Maryland in College Park. Cathy recently Louise Farmer Uota, Davis, Calif., has Western Reserve University. He received left private law practice to become a partner ’75 been named director of ceremonies the 2008 Secretariat Award from the in Ernst & Young LLP’s national tax depart- and special events at the University of Cali- American Academy of Ophthalmology for ment, where she continues to advise clients fornia–Davis. significant contributions to the academy and on tax issues related to executive the ophthalmology profession in the area compensation and employee benefit pro- Joy Sausman Beaudry, Gaithersburg, of advocacy and government affairs for his grams. ‘76 Md., and her husband, Lou, own and work resulting in federal oversight of contact direct LJB Holding Company, which is com- lenses. Curtis E. Robertson, Lexington, is senior prised of 15 enterprises, project manager with Intersteel, Inc., in Lex- including the 40-year-old Gerald T. Grant, Chesapeake, Va., was ington and is involved with Chemical Graphic Ideas Advertising ’81 awarded $1.5 million for research by Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Programs and the 25-year-old Per- the U.S. Navy for craniofacial imaging and in Anniston, Ala., Richmond, Ky., and sonnel Placement Service the development of CAD/CAM systems for Newport, Ind. Inc. Their newest head and neck reconstruction due to combat enterprise is Personnel trauma. Gerald is department chair for the Benham J. Sims III, Louisville, was Placement Seminars Insti- maxillofacial prosthetics department of the ’85recently appointed special justice to tute, which conducts seminars for those Navy Postgraduate Dental School and the the Kentucky Supreme Court. seeking employment. Navy speciality leader for maxillofacial William R. Harris, Georgetown, Ky., prosthetics and dental implantology to the associate professor of mathematics at Roger A. Michael, Paris, Navy Surgeon General. ’86 ’77 Ky., has expanded his law Georgetown College, received the 2008 practice to neighboring George- Kyle Brown Rahn, Arp, Tex., was promoted Curry Award for Faculty Excellence at town. Contact him through to the director of U.S. development for either of his offices: Paris (859) Mercy Ships, a global charity that brings free 987-3939, or Georgetown (502) 867-3937, surgical care to the world’s forgotten poor or at [email protected]. by employing state-of-the-art hospital ships. Her e-mail address is Sandra Baes Monfort, Lima, Ohio, received [email protected]. the Jefferson Award in April for the Lima/Allen County region. She was Vinson W. Miller, Lemoore, Calif., has been recognized for her work as a volunteer at selected for commander (O-5), Chaplain ALUMNI TRAVEL 2009-10 Camp Sunrise, a camp for children impacted Corps, U.S. Navy, and will be promoted in Trips being planned for 2009: Peru: by AIDS and/or HIV, and for donating a February. He and his wife, Julie, celebrated Ancient Land of Mysteries (June), kidney in October 2007 to a co-worker. their 25th wedding anniversary in August. Canadian Rockies by Rail (July), Alaska Sandy has been the executive director of the Beven Pace Livingston, Jacksonville, Discovery Land and Cruise (August), Western Ohio Regional Treatment and Italian Lakes and Greek Isles (Septem- Habilitation Center for seven years, and her ’82 Fla., received her Ph.D. in neuroscience from Emory University in May ber/October), Splendors of the Nile facility has been chosen as one of three (November), Europe’s Christmas Mar- finalists for the Cliff Skeen Award in Ohio. and accepted an assistant professor position in the athletic training and physical therapy kets (December), California New Year’s Barry A. Resta, Adel, Ga., was department of the University of North Flori- Getaway (December). ’78appointed to the board of directors of da. Trips being planned for 2010: The the State YMCA of Georgia. He is also Panama Canal (January), Copper president and CEO for Mariposa Catering Tisa Johnson Mason, Hays, Kan., was Canyon Adventure (February), Spring- of Adel as well as department chairman for ’83named vice president for student affairs time Tulip River Cruise (April). family and consumer sciences at Berrien at Fort Hays State University. For more information and a trip Middle School in Nashville, Ga. brochure, contact Natasa Pajic ’96, Kevin I. Reid, Rochester, Minn., served as director of alumni programs, at (800) chair of dental specialties at Mayo Clinic in 487-2679, [email protected]. Rochester for eight years and continues to

22 TRANSYLVANIA Georgetown’s annual Founders’ Day con- vocation in January. The award recognizes Georgetown faculty members who make sig- nificant contributions in service to faculty, A Family Reunion scholarship, and students. Billy F. Van Pelt, Lexington, was ALUMNI WEEKEND ’87appointed by Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear as a member of the State Board of Examiners and Registration of Landscape 2009 Architects, and was elected the board’s pres- April 24-26 ident. The board regulates and controls the licensing and conduct of landscape architects Transylvanians think of themselves within the Commonwealth of Kentucky. as family, and that’s the theme for Mary-Margaret “Meg” Collier Alumni Weekend 2009, set for April ’89 Hornsby, Louisville, is in her final 24-26. A full weekend of fun-filled year as a doctoral candidate of clinical psy- activities will set the stage for a fam- chology. She was awarded a spot at the eighth ily get-together to share memories annual Diversity Challenge at Boston College and catch up on all the latest news to present her research on developing an about classmates and favorite pro- after-school program for adolescents exposed fessors. to community violence. Friday’s golf outing and races at Keeneland get the weekend off to a Jennifer Hall Medley lives in Louisville with sporting start, and the Robert Barr her husband, Richard Medley ’88, a urologist, Society breakfast and a chapel serv- and their son, Nick, 11. She stays busy with ice in Old Morrison on Sunday morn- the parent association at Nick’s school and ing will close out the activities. In is involved with the Kentucky Humane Soci- between, there’s the TGIF Kick-Off ety. Party for all alumni and the T-Day Andrew B. Morris is president and founder Coronation Ball, both on Friday of Morris Advisors, Inc., an independent evening, the Alumni Celebration management consultancy specializing in pay- Luncheon on Saturday, and ments, loyalty marketing, and e-business. Saturday evening’s class reunion Andrew is also a leading expert on financial receptions/dinners. services and marketing applications of mobile Reunion classes include Robert phones. He lives in Johns Creek, Ga., with Barr Society (1939, 1944, 1949, 1954), his wife, Caroline, and their two daughters, 1959, 1964, 1969, 1974, 1979, 1984, Lindsay, 6, and Claire, 3. 1989, 1994, 1999, and 2004. All alumni, regardless of class year, are Michael C. Finley, Roswell, Ga., co- welcome for Alumni Weekend. ’90authored his first book, You.next(), For best lodging choices, alumni Move your Software Development Career to should plan ahead, since this same the Leadership Track, which will be published weekend will find Lexington hosting in October. The book will be available on the Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event, Amazon.com and is directed at professionals an international equestrian event at in technology roles who are transitioning the Kentucky Horse Park that into organizational leadership. attracts many visitors. To access reunion class Web sites, Ann Montalvo Guillerman, Pearland, Tex., visit www.transy.edu (select Alumni, co-authored a book with pediatrician Chantal News & Events, and Reunions/Alumni Caviness titled The Infertility Assistant, a Weekend). You can sign the guest- tool to guide infertility patients in the journey book for your reunion and fill out to parenthood. For more information, visit the on-line reunion questionnaire. www.infertilityassistant.com. An invitation with detailed sched- Jeffery L. VanHook, Mt. Vernon, Ky., was ule will be mailed to all alumni in appointed to fill a vacancy on the Rockcastle late winter. On-line registration will County Board of Education. Jeff continues be available beginning in February. to serve on the board of directors for The For more information, contact Kentucky Music Hall of Fame and Museum Natasa Pajic ’96, director of alumni in Renfro Valley, Ky. He and his wife, Sonya, programs, at [email protected] or have two children, Courtlyn Taylor, 9, and (800) 487-2679. Jackson Todd, 4.

FALL 2008 23 Tiffany R. Wheeler, Lexington, received her [email protected]. Tonya Tincher Cox, Nicholasville, Ky., doctorate degree in education in May 2007 ’95 co-authored a book on activities for and is an assistant professor of education at Alyssa E. McIntosh, Lexington, has opened persons with dementia titled The Best Friends Transylvania. She was the recipient of a WDWTEC, LLC, a Walt Disney World Book of Alzheimer’s Activities Volume 2. Her Bingham Start-Up Grant, which is given to vacation consulting service. co-authors are Virginia Marsh Bell ‘44, David unusually promising new faculty members, David Wilson, Louisville, received his master Troxel, and Robin Hamon. and, in 2007, received the Greek Adviser of of business administration degree from Bel- Scott W. Hulbert, the Year Award for her role as Phi Mu faculty larmine University in May. adviser. She also earned the Phi Kappa Tau ’96 Phoenix, joined the Faculty Member of the Year Award and has Catherine Roberts Eads, Duluth, Ga., commercial law firm of been selected to serve as faculty adviser for ’93was awarded the Legacy Sales Award Engelman Berger. Omicron Delta Kappa leadership honorary. from EDC Publishing/Usborne Books at Natasa Pajic, Lexington, was appointed Col- She can be reached at [email protected]. Home during their 2008 national convention legiate Specialist-Leadership for the Beta in Tulsa, Okla. Visit Cathy’s Web site at Dawn J. Wilson, Louisville, won the bronze district of Alpha Omicron Pi and will serve www.FindTheDuck.com or e-mail her at until June 2010. She is director of alumni medal for women’s saber in the 2008 [email protected]. Women’s Veteran’s 40 category during the programs at Transylvania. Summer National Championships held in Brian Froedge, Radcliff, Ky., was selected last Jason T. Bitsoff and Katherine Fugazzi San Jose, Calif., in July and will compete in year by the Kentucky Music Educators Asso- ’97 Bitsoff ’98 live in Arlington, Va., Louisville’s competition in December and ciation as high school teacher of the year. where Jason is the vice president and general January. Brian is the band director at North Hardin manager of sponsorship and strategic alliances High School and was featured in the most for Feld Entertainment and Kate is an Heidi Robinson Adams, Maineville, recent issue of Kentucky Teacher magazine. ’91Ohio, teaches seventh grade science attorney for the Federal Communications at Hopewell Junior High School in Brian K. Sutton, Bardstown, Ky., was included Commission. Westchester, Ohio. in Who’s Who in America. Brian is the 2008 Jason C. Whitaker, Lexington, has been co-chair for Leadership Nelson County, vice Theodore A. Edmonds, Lexington, was named director of information technology president of the Nelson County Education at Transylvania. selected by Maker’s Mark to participate in Endowment Fund, and is active in the an international touring exhibition of Kentucky Bourbon Festival, Kiwanis, and Kasey M. Eidson, Pittsburgh, received Kentucky artists. The tour kicked off in Sep- Optimist International. ’98 her M.D. from the University of Pitts- tember at the distillery and will include eight burgh and started her internship at Case Uni- cities across the United States and Europe. Kelly L. Johnson, Lakewood, Calif., versity Hospital in Cleveland. ’94 is a senior engineer in the Ride and Leenata G. Maddiwar is still practicing Show Sustaining Engineering Group at Dis- Christopher H. Hawkins, Nashville, has com- pediatrics in Cincinnati and living in neyland Resort in Anaheim and assigned to pleted his chief residency in urology at Indiana Northern Kentucky with her husband, Chris, work with Walt Disney Imagineering on the University Medical Center. After passing the and three children, Neema, Asha, and Neil. $1 billion expansion at Disney’s California American Board of Urology examination in She would love to hear from old friends at Adventure Park. Kelly is also pursuing an early August, he spent three weeks traveling [email protected] or on Facebook. executive MBA from the University of Cal- in Greece and Turkey before beginning Pamela A. Marsh, Lexington, is a project ifornia-Irvine. practice with Urology Associates, the largest specialty urology practice in Tennessee. manager for IBM and recently received the Archana Singh has been 2008 BT/IT Leadership Award from the working in Nepal in the C. Shawn McGuffey, Jamaica Plain, Mass., IBM CIO. She welcomes contact from old development field for spent most of his summer conducting rape friends at [email protected]. the past 12 years and is survivor research in South Africa. He also Timothy W. “Tex” Smith, Louisville, coached the national project had an article published in the journal Social DuPont Manual High School’s boys’ tennis coordinator for Inter- Problems titled “Saving Masculinity: Gender team to their first state championship in May. national Labour Orga- Reaffirmation, Sexuality, Race, and Parental He teaches AP Spanish and humanities at nization’s HIV/AIDS Responses to Male Child Sexual Abuse.” Workplace Education Manual. Melissa G. “Missy” Newell-Smith Elaine M. Russell, Kalamazoo, Mich., has works for Carmichael’s Bookstore handling Programme. She lives in Kathmandu, Nepal, accepted a position as director of sports mar- children’s literature and giving book presen- keting at Western Michigan University and tations for teacher groups while trying to with her husband, Sunil Shrestha, and daughter, is responsible for all 16 intercollegiate keep soccer schedules straight for their sons, athletics programs. Zeke, 12, and Luke, 9. Reet, 9. Archana would love to hear from Caroline Slater Burnette, Henderson, Lori Rosen Bohan and Matthew P. friends at [email protected]. ’99 N.C., was named partner in the law ’92Bohan ’93 live in Seattle with their firm of Stainback, Satterwhite, Burnette & daughter, Brooke, 4. Matt is director of con- Heather D. Tharp married Troy Hood on September 30, 2006. Together they have Zollicoffer. She maintains a general practice sulting for CGI, a global IT outsourcing and is the attorney for Vance County Social company, and Lori is a personal life coach four children. You can e-mail Heather at [email protected]. Services Child Welfare Division. Caroline and stay-at-home mom. They would love to has two children, Beau, 3, and Chapman- hear from former classmates and friends at Scott, 2. [email protected] and

24 TRANSYLVANIA TRANSYLVANIA ALUMS RECEIVE FULBRIGHT HONORS

Three Transylvania alums were recent recipients BRIAN EPLING ’07 was awarded a 2007- 08 Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship by of Fulbright program awards and honors to further their the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board and educational and professional pursuits. the Korean-American Education Commission to teach English conversation in a secondary school in South Korea. Epling decided to apply for the Fulbright program after studying in a summer program at Oxford University in England while a student at Transy. Director of study abroad and special programs Kathy Simon suggested Korea. His Fulbright experience began in July 2007 with a six-week ori- entation program and 100 hours of Korean language immersion at Kang Won University. Epling lived in South Korea for one year with a host family, where he spoke mainly Korean and learned about grammar as well as traditional Korean culture. “I love Korean culture,” he said. “It’s completely unique to Western culture. In Seoul, you find ancient traditions within a modern city.” His duties included 20 hours a week of class time teaching Eng- lish to middle school boys under the supervision of a certified Korean teacher. Though Epling had no previous teaching experi- ence, he led the classes and did all of the planning. He says much of his time was spent trying to control the class of about 40 bois- terous students, but he loved the experience. In fact, Epling returned to Korea in October 2008 to study Kore- an full-time. A political science major at Transy, he is interested in international law and also plans to learn Chinese. “Asia is an expanding market,” he said. “The world is looking to China.”

LOGAN MCINTOSH ’02 participated ASHLEY DUNCAN ’05 was awarded a Fulbright Research Grant in the Fulbright Memorial Fund Teacher for 2008-09 for her project, “Exploring the Finnish Model of Farm Program in June 2008. McIntosh was Animal Welfare,” which is based on the hypothesis that the Euro- among 160 educators who spent three pean Union gives more protection to farm animals than does the weeks in Japan in an effort to promote United States. greater intercultural understanding Duncan, a graduate of the University of Louisville Brandeis Law between Japan and the United States. School, is spending nine months in Finland researching the laws, McIntosh, a special education teacher regulations, and court opinions of the European Union and Finland at Klondike Lane Elementary School in to determine the standard of welfare mandated for farm animals Louisville, was selected for the honor from a national pool of over there. By studying in a European Union country that has more 1,700 applicants by a panel of educators. extensive laws for farm animals, she hopes to learn about the leg- The group began its visit in Tokyo with a practical orientation to islative history, policy, and scientific evidence that influenced the Japanese life and culture and attended meetings with Japanese laws. She is conducting field work and interviewing farmers who government officials and educators. They then traveled in groups have been directly affected by recent changes in the laws, with the of 16 to select host cities, where they had direct contact with long term goal of using the information to improve the treatment Japanese teachers and students during visits to primary and sec- of farm animals in the U.S. ondary schools as well as a teachers college. They also visited cul- Duncan’s interest in animal welfare issues was sparked in high tural sites and local industries. school. “From the moment I learned about the treatment of ani- “The Japanese people were very friendly and welcoming to the mals raised for food, I knew I had found my life’s calling,” she American teachers,” McIntosh said. “It was particularly interesting said. “I became very passionate about the issue and looked for a to visit the schools in Japan, which allowed me to compare their way to integrate my passion with a career that would allow me to instructional strategies and school climates with my own experi- improve the lives of animals.” ences.” Duncan experienced a deepening of her passion at Transylvania, The Japan Fulbright Memorial Fund, based in Tokyo, is spon- where she majored in anthropology and worked with anthropolo- sored by the government of Japan and was launched in 1997 to gy professor Barbara LoMonaco, who shared her interest in animal commemorate the 50th anniversary of the U.S. government Ful- welfare issues. bright Program, which has enabled more than 6,000 Japanese citi- She plans to pursue a career in litigation and would ultimately zens to study in the U.S. on Fulbright fellowships for graduate like to dedicate her practice full-time to animal law. education and research.

FALL 2008 25 MARY BRUNO ENGOLA ’02 Creating her own space

Mary Bruno Engola ’02 we will receive from devel- would like nothing better oping these new technolo- than to rekindle the kind of gies and going to new excitement and national places will be immense.” pride about space explo- Engola credits her Tran- ration that swept America sylvania education with set- in 1969 when astronaut ting her on the path to Neil Armstrong became the positions of increasing first human to set foot on leadership. another celestial body. “Transy challenged me, Nothing quite like that which has helped me grow aura of excitement exists and develop skills on the today, and that’s regret- job,” she says. “The most table, Engola says. Through challenging course I took her position as manager of was Dr. (Don) Dugi’s Politi- customer and industry rela- cal Theory class. That class tions for Ball Aerospace & made me a better person. Technologies Corp. and her Now, I work with the repre- Ken Hutchison, Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. & Technologies Ken Hutchison, Ball Aerospace leadership role with the sentatives from companies Coalition for Space Explo- ! Mary Bruno Engola ’02 is shown with a full-scale mirror segment for the and organizations all over James Webb Space Telescope, a follow-on to the Hubble Space Telescope. ration, she has established the country that belong to It’s being built for NASA by Ball Aerospace & Technologies, where Engola a national presence as an is manager of customer and industry relations. the coalition. I’m the advocate for space explo- youngest of them all, yet I ration. was elected to a leadership position.” “The space race with the Russians in the 1950s and the moon The message Engola delivers about the benefits of space explo- landing in the 1960s excited the public, but we don’t have that ration centers on the need for the United States to stay in the fore- today,” Engola says. “So we have to educate the public on why our front of technological advancement, the inspiration the space pro- tax dollars should go to fund NASA initiatives. That’s one of my mis- gram gives to young students to study and work in the sciences, sions, to bring space exploration back to the forefront.” and the many spinoff benefits to society that come from research The space industry wasn’t the career Engola had in mind while into space technologies. Examples of the latter include the cardiac completing her political science major and communication minor at pacemaker, car navigation systems, and Velcro. Transylvania—her original idea was to be a high school teacher. Two A sample of Engola’s work was her role in helping the coalition summers of her college years spent as an intern on Capitol Hill con- assist the American Medical Association pass a resolution on the vinced her that a career involving the political process appealed to benefits of space exploration to the medical community. In turn, the her. coalition uses that resolution when lobbying Congress. That opportunity came less than a year after her graduation from Although Engola’s employer has facilities in Virginia, Georgia, Transy when she took an industry/government relations position Ohio, Colorado, New Mexico, and the nation’s capital, she lives in with Ball Aerospace while living in the Washington, D.C., area and none of those places. She and her husband reside in Santa Clara, completing her master’s in public policy at George Mason University. Calif., with their infant son, and Engola works from a home office Ball is a leader in space programs and products, creating and work- with a combination of telecommuting, teleconferencing, e-mails, ing with satellites and spacecraft, space-based instruments and sen- the telephone, and travel back and forth between Santa Clara and sors, and a host of other technologies that support space and earth Ball’s Broomfield/Westminister, Colo., office to accomplish her work. science, exploration, national security, and intelligence programs. That very accommodating work situation is a testament to how Engola’s work for Ball brought her increasing exposure in the much Ball values Engola’s abilities. space industry and led to her election last year as chair of the public “I had moved from the Washington office to the Colorado office, affairs team for the Coalition for Space Exploration. The coalition is and then moved to California when my husband, Paul, who is an a national collaboration of space industry businesses and advocacy aerospace engineer, received a job offer,” Engola says. “I fully groups that works to inform the public about the benefits of space expected to have to find another job, and was so pleased that Ball exploration. Ball fully supports Engola’s work in this area, allowing was willing to work with me.” her company time to fulfill her coalition obligations. In a coincidence almost too good to be true, Engola gave birth to The coalition was formed in 2004 when President Bush her son, Tyler, on July 20, 2008, the 39th anniversary of Armstrong’s announced a new focus for NASA that would have the space “one giant leap for mankind.” Many years earlier, when Engola was agency complete the International Space Station, retire the Space a fifth grader in her hometown of Dumfries, Va., she wrote an Shuttle, and develop a new spacecraft to conduct manned missions essay about why she wanted to attend space camp and won the to the moon and beyond. That reinvigoration of NASA has given grand prize—a free trip to camp. greater impetus to Engola’s advocacy efforts. “I’ve always been interested in space,” she says. “There’s a lot of “It’s very exciting that we are going to return to the moon and interesting science going on because of the space program, and it’s then venture farther into space,” Engola says. “We’ve been stuck in something I’d like to stick with.” low earth orbit since the last Apollo mission in 1972. The benefits —WILLIAM A. BOWDEN

26 TRANSYLVANIA Leigh A. Cooper, Louisville, became licensed and Eastern Kentucky. Their first store is Shanda Cool Berrios, Louisville, in marriage and family therapy. Her private located in downtown Lexington on the ’04 graduated with dual master’s degrees clinical practice is in Louisville and her e- corner of Main and Rose Streets. in May 2008. She received a master of science mail address is [email protected]. in social work from the University of Shawn T. Scott, Florence, Ky., was promoted Louisville School of Social Work and was Ann-Phillips Mayfield and her husband, Jay to manager of instruction at Berlitz Language recognized with a Graduate Dean’s Citation Ingle, live in downtown Lexington with their Center, where he recruits, trains, and hires and the Phi Kappa Phi Award for graduating daughter, Murphy, 1. Ann-Phillips is a real all language instructors for the center. In in the top percentage of all graduating estate agent with Trademark Realty Partners addition to teacher development, he students at the university. She also received and Jay is a partner at Jackson Kelly. continues to teach English and French. a master of divinity from Louisville Stacy N. Sergent, Spartanburg, S. C., Karen Bryden Joyce, Tucson, Ariz., Presbyterian Theological Seminary and was completed her master of divinity degree from ’02 completed her Ph.D. in analytical awarded the James W. Tinsley Award for Gardner-Webb University last May and began chemistry at the University of Arizona. She demonstrating commitment and a year of chaplain residency at Spartanburg and her husband are relocating to Knoxville, perseverance in preparation for ministry. Regional Medical Center in South Carolina. Tenn., where she has been hired as a senior Christina Urig Collins, Norwich, N.Y., This past May, she was ordained by Fern- technical staff member for the National received her master of science degree in inor- wood Baptist Church and is now staff Security Complex, B&W Y-12. ganic chemistry from Miami University of chaplain at Medical University of South Ohio in May 2007. She and her husband, Carolina hospital in Charleston. Alison R. Cook, Dallas, was promoted to senior tax consultant in the state and local David, moved to Norwich, where they just Joshua B. Crabtree is managing tax practice at Ernst & Young, LLP. purchased their first house. Christina is a ’00attorney for the Children’s Law quality control chemist at Norwich Pharma- Center, a non-profit organization Hannah F. Cook and her husband, Matt Cross ceuticals in Norwich and David is a professor representing the legal rights of children, with ’01, live near Phoenix. Hannah accepted a of chemistry at the State University of New offices in Covington, Ky., and Lexington. one-year appointment as professor of English York at Cortland. at Central Arizona College while finishing Josh lives in Florence, Ky., with his wife, Lindsay Cuadros Tate, Xenia, Ohio, received Christina. her dissertation for the University of Ten- nessee. her master of science in college student per- P. Ruston “Russ” Kelley lives in Portland, sonnel from the University of Dayton in Ore., with his wife, Elizabeth, and is a first- Gregory D. Darnell, Chicago, defended his 2007 and started working there full time in year law student at Willamette University in Ph.D. dissertation in biochemistry at the July 2007. University of Chicago in October. Salem. Preston F. Gover, Somerset, Ky., is operations Jimmy M. Nichols, Grove City, Ohio, is a F. Brooke Dunn, Indianapolis, an associate at coordinator in the Gulf office of Save the controls engineer at the engineering design National City Bank, has completed the Children. Save the Children USA is a firm of Alexander & Associates in Cincinnati. United Way of Central Indiana’s member of the International Save the Jimmy and his wife are in the process of comprehensive leadership development pro- Children Alliance, a global network of 28 adopting a child from Columbia. gram, Leadership United. independent organizations working to ensure the well-being and protection of children in Jeffrey B. Sharp Kristie Lynn Young, Nashville, completed lives in Lexington with his more than 120 countries. her pediatric residency at Vanderbilt wife, Holleigh, and their two children, Children’s Hospital in Nashville and is now Jackson, 3, and Addison, 10 months. Jeff Katharine L. “Kate” West, Lexington, was completing a pediatric cardiology fellowship and Holleigh are both mortgage loan officers awarded her third Eastern Star Grand at Vanderbilt University. for Walden Mortgage Group, LLC. Chapter of Iowa Educational Award, which is given to women in the field of ministerial Sarah Stewart Holland Jay D. Beckner, Louisville, earned his , Washington, education who demonstrate a clear focus on ’01 MBA at Indiana University Southeast ’03 D.C., graduated from American Uni- ministry, education, and service to their com- in May and is a financial analyst in business versity Washington College of Law in May munity. planning for ZirMed, Inc. 2007 and works on Capitol Hill for Senator Robert Menendez (D-N.J.). Claire D. Selby of Sullivan Island, S.C., Karesa Edwards Crockett, Somerset, Ky., has begun her second year at the Allison M. Leake ’05 earned her master of arts degree in education lives in Chicago’s Humboldt Staatliche Zeichenakademie in Hanau, Ger- from Eastern Kentucky University in May Park. She recently graduated from the Illinois many, where she continues her love of art in and has moved to Misawa, Japan, to teach Institute of Art with a BFA in visual com- the direction of goldsmithing and jewelry English with the JET program. munications and works as a graphic designer making. She is also in the process of at ProActive, an event planning and logistics translating Goldsmithing I, by Gerhard Shelly C. Ferrell and Elizabeth Stafford Ferrell company. Schultz-Wahle, from German to English. ’03 will continue to live in San Antonio for Justin D. Story the next year while Shelly finishes his , Bowling Green, Ky., is a Kayla Hanser Steltenkamp, Louisville, residency in anesthesiology. They have two reporter for the Bowling Green Daily News. received her master’s degree in special children, David, 4, and Jack, 1. His recent story on a relocated Iraqi refugee education from Georgetown College and family was picked up by the state Associated was awarded the Dean’s Award for the class Collier T. Mills, Lexington, is the operating Press and appeared in newspapers across Ken- of 2008. partner for Fast Break Doughnuts, whose tucky. plans are to open 23 Dunkin’ Donuts stores Jason G. Thompson, Tucson, Ariz., is entering over the next six years in Central, Southern, his second year of DMA coursework at the

FALL 2008 27 University of Arizona, where he also teaches undergraduate courses in music composition. He was recently commissioned by the Louisville Youth Orchestra to compose a piece in celebration of that ensemble’s 50th anniversary, which will be premiered in March.

J. Ryan Turner, Lexington, received his J.D. degree from Salmon P. Chase College of Law in May and completed the Kentucky Bar examination in July. This fall he began a full-time clerkship with deputy chief justice Will T. Scott for the Kentucky Supreme Court.

Elizabeth A. Dickerson, Lexington, ’06 received her master of arts in teaching elementary education from Eastern Kentucky ! Calin M. Elardi ’07 and Collin H. Smith ’06 were married on June 21, 2008, in University in December 2007. Murfreesboro, Tenn. Among the Transy alums and current students in attendance were, kneeling, from left, Ellis Wilder ’08, junior James Harding; standing, from left, Tonmoy Islam, Lexington, received his Ryan McEwan ‘07, Travis Pfeiffer ‘08, Christopher Geiger ’08, Calin, Collin, John master’s degree in economics from Vanderbilt Kleinschmidt III ‘04, Ronnie Brooks ‘07, Tyler Rankin ‘06, Nick Knaebel ’04, junior Elijah University and is pursuing his Ph.D. in eco- Truman, Cordell Lawrence ‘04, senior Ross Edwards, Alex Roig ‘04, Nathan Isaac ‘03, nomics from the University of Kentucky. Will Ney ‘05, Brian Coleman ‘05, and Otwell Rankin ‘05.

Nicholas A. Wood, Flemingsburg, Ky., works in the summer as a mountain guide and inter- summer at the University of Louisville. She Jennifer Marsh Davis ’90 and Chris Lawrence, national wilderness leadership school still works full time in admissions at Midway August 20, 2008 instructor for Alaska Mountain Guides based College and part time as a residence direc- tor. Daniele Allison Baker ’98 and Kenneth Evans in Haines, Alaska, and for the Alta Lifts Com- Shealy, June 21, 2008 pany at the Alta Ski Resort in Little Alyssa N. Rice, St. Cloud, Minn., has Cottonwood Canyon, Utah, in the winter. completed her one-year commitment to Adam Wayne Applegate ’02 and Angela He completed Wilderness First Responder AmeriCorps in St. Cloud, Minn., and has Michelle Ingmire ’06, June 21, 2008 Certification along with Avalanche One Cer- returned to Kentucky. Owen Richard Chandler ’02 and Emily Elaine tification, participated in a 24-day ski-moun- Rigsby, July 29, 2007 taineering course, and instructed on 12-day Lisa A. Taylor has moved to Florida in search mountaineering trips. of new and exciting job opportunities as well Stacey Marie Clark ’02 and Nicholas P. Clark, as to assist in caring for her four-month-old September 2, 2007 Wendalyn Prather Carpenter, Kissim- niece. ’07 mee, Fla., was promoted from a retail Christina Anne Henson ’02 and Keith De- management internship at Walt Disney Young, April 19, 2008 World’s EPCOT theme park to retail guest service manager at Disney’s Fort Wilderness MARRIAGES Colmon Elridge ’03 and Victoria Lei Hall, Resort and Campground. June 21, 2008 Frank Daniel Mongiardo ’82 and Allison Jessica Paige Monthie ’03 and Tyrus York, Mary V. Goldie, Mt. Sterling, Ky., has Patrick, June 21, 2008 completed her master’s study in social anthro- May 17, 2008 pology at Goldsmiths University of London Lindsay I. Cuadros ’04 and Michael Tate, June in London, England. 7, 2008 Amy D. McCleese, Lexington, is the volunteer Sara Elizabeth Kelley ’04 and Barrett Chris- and program development coordinator at tensen, January 26, 2008 the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning. She can be reached at Lauren Catherine Francisco ’05 and Bruce [email protected]. Joseph Kostelnik ’06, July 7, 2007

Ryan A. McEwan, Philadelphia, spent the Perry Lee Greer III ’05 and Lindsey Heath past year working for the Philadelphia Mulloy, May 17, 2008 Chapter of the American Red Cross. He has begun his studies for a master of science Kayla Marie Hanser ’05 ! Rachel Worden Zucker ’98 and and Joe Steltenkamp, degree in emergency management at North Joshua Isaac Gould were married May Dakota State University. 25, 2008. In attendance were, from July 5, 2008 left, Rachelle Williams ’98, Shana Meredith A. Plant, Midway, Ky., began Boyd Hackworth ’98, Natasa Pajic ’96, Jason Paul Sankovitch working toward her M.Ed. degree this Rachel, Joshua, and Alison Moore ’98. ’05 and Megan Anne Fightmaster ’07, July 19, 2008

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Transy Golf Classic set for May 18 Recommendations sought for awards and Alumni Executive Board Join Transy’s athletics department and the alumni office for the 2009 Transylvania Golf Classic, a four-player Alumni are encouraged to submit recommendations scramble set for Monday, May 18, at the University Club for several awards that will be presented during Alumni of Kentucky. Registration and lunch will be at 11 a.m., Weekend 2009 and for new members of the Alumni followed by a noon shotgun start. Sponsorship opportu- Executive Board. nities are available. Recommendations are sought for the Pioneer Hall of For more information on the tournament or sponsor- Fame, Morrison Medallion, Outstanding Young Alumni ships, contact Cindy Jacobelli, associate director of athlet- Award, and distinguished achievement and service ics, at (859) 233-8663, [email protected], or Mark awards. The Hall of Fame recognizes former athletes, Blankenship ’81, director of development, at (859) 233- coaches, and others who have made outstanding contri- 8402, [email protected]. butions to Transylvania athletics, while the Morrison Medallion is given to an alumnus or alumna for outstand- ing service to the University. The Outstanding Young We’re looking for prospective student Alumni Award would in most cases recognize an alumna referrals and alumni legacies or alumnus who has been out of school 15 years or less with an extensive record of service and support to the Do you have a son or daughter ready to begin his or University. Achievement and service awards honor profes- her college search? Perhaps your neighbors or close sional excellence and service to Transylvania. friends are getting ready for the college search process? Those recommended for the Alumni Executive Board Have you given their names and other pertinent informa- should have a record of support and service to the Uni- tion to Transylvania? versity and be willing to serve a three-year term. New The admissions office would love the opportunity to members are nominated by the board and elected at the recruit alumni legacies and other talented students annual meeting during Alumni Weekend. For recommen- referred by alumni. To ensure that they are on Transy’s dation forms, contact the alumni office or submit recom- mailing list, please contact Kim Chaffer, associate director mendations to Natasa Pajic ’96, director of alumni pro- of admissions, at (800) 872-6798 or [email protected]. grams, at [email protected]. Alumni are also encouraged to request fee-waived appli- cations for admission to give to their children, other rela- tives, or friends. Alumni on-line community update

Since its launch in September 2006, over 2,000 alumni Get your Transy license plate and help have registered for the Transy alumni on-line community, support scholarships and that number continues to grow. This is a secure, password protected site that alumni can access from Alumni, students, faculty, staff, parents, and friends www.transy.edu. Services include: on-line alumni directo- living in Kentucky purchased or renewed 601 Transylva- ry, class notes, events calendar and registration, photo nia license plates in 2007—a mere three tags shy of albums, on-line giving, and more. New features added tying Centre College, which eked out its fifth straight this fall will include career networking and blogs. First- win with 604 plates. Georgetown College captured third time users will need to obtain their unique ID number place with 554 plates. Transylvania has received $26,090 from the alumni office in order to register for the site: from the license plate sales for the scholarship fund (800) 487-2679, [email protected]. For more informa- since the program began five years ago ($10 from each tion, contact Natasa Pajic ’96, director of alumni pro- plate sold). grams, at [email protected]. Vehicle owners who already have a Transy tag can get the redesigned tag any time at the county clerk’s office, or in the owner’s birth month when the annual registra- To contact the Alumni Office: tion fee normally comes due. Cost of the new license plate is $44 the first year and $31 in subsequent years to Natasa Pajic ’96, director of alumni programs, renew. Regular issue plates are $21 the first year and [email protected] $21 to renew. Take photo identification, vehicle title, and proof of insurance to the county clerk’s office. Vehicle Tracy Stephens Dunn ’90, assistant director of owners with regular issue “Unbridled Spirit” license alumni programs, [email protected] plates must return the old plate to the county clerk’s Elaine Valentine, administrative assistant, [email protected] office to obtain a new Transy plate. For details and contact information for your county Phone: (800) 487-2679 or (859) 233-8275 clerk, visit the Kentucky Motor Vehicle Licensing System Fax: (859) 281-3548 Web site at www.mvl.ky.gov. Mail: 300 North Broadway, Lexington, KY 40508 E-mail: [email protected] / Web: www.transy.edu

FALL 2008 29 Margaret Tandy Sutton ’05 and Gregory Kristina L. Peters ’96 and Caleb Olin, a son, a daughter, Piper Reagan Stevens, June 12, Luther Repass ’06, July 19, 2008 Adam Spencer Olin, April 3, 2008 2008

Kelsey Marie Blankenship ’06 and Nathan Jason T. Bitsoff ’97 and Katherine Fugazzi Kim Lowman Sutton ’01 and Aaron M. Sutton Allen Frazee, June 7, 2008 Bitsoff ’98, a son, Jackson Thomas Bitsoff, ’02, a son, Baker Matthew Sutton, March 2, August 25, 2008 2008 Patrick Michael Marsh ’06 and Molly Catherine Eakins ’07, September 15, 2007 Mary Kay Pendley Kasiborski ’98 and John Emily Turner Weatherholt ’01 and Timothy Kasiborski, a son, Nicholas Robert J. Weatherholt ’01, a son, John Turner BIRTHS Kasiborski, April 5, 2008 Weatherholt, August 5, 2008 Jennifer Davis Keefe ’98 Mary Bruno Engola ’02 and Paul Engola, a Kathryn Jane Grande- and Kelly Keefe, twin son, Tyler Rufino Engola, July 20, 2008 daughters, Anabel Lily Allen ’91 and Mike Allen, Kelly MacDonald Cheney ’03 and Daniel M. a son, Sean Alden Allen, Keefe and Sophia Eden Keefe, May 20, 2008 Cheney ’03, a son, William Harrison Cheney, July 3, 2008 May 1, 2008 J. Robert Pearman ’98 and Julie Staton Jennie Scruggs Johnson ’92 and Andy Tiffany Hague Martinez ’03 and Evaristo Johnson, a son, Andrew “Drew” Price Pearman ’01, a daughter, Jenna Marie Pearman, July 5, 2008 Martinez, a daughter, Sofia Elena Martinez, Johnson Jr., April 12, 2008 September 3, 2008 Amy Underhill Lang ’92 and James Graeme Amy Lewis Bates ’99 and Chad Bates, a daughter, Mia Caroline Bates, May 22, 2007 Tara Cox White ’05 and Mark White, a son, Lang III ’92, a son, James Graeme Lang IV, Teagan Jameson White, March 26, 2008 August 20, 2008 Molly Gluth Lang ’99 and Jarred Lang, a Amy Adams Schirmer ’92 and Pete Schirmer, daughter, Leah Helene Lang, July 20, 2008 a son, Charles Steven Schirmer, August 12, Emily Korfhage Monarch ’99 and J. William 2008 Monarch ’99, a OBITUARIES Gary A. Weinberger ’92 and Rachel daughter, Lucy Weinberger, a son, Parker Allen Weinberger, Ann Monarch, Only alumni survivors are listed May 3, 2008 July 30, 2008 Mary Hyden VanWinkle ’25, Lexington, died Amber Smith Miller ’93 and Marc Miller, a Tammy Hammond July 27, 2008. She was retired from the Lex- son, Jude Crittenden Miller, August 30, Natof ’99 and Paul ington Signal Depot and was a member of 2008 Natof, a daughter, Emma Paige Natof, May the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). 16, 2008 Ann Baker Phillips ’93 and Rip Phillips, a Lillian H. Dale ’35, Paris, Ky., died August 8, daughter, Baker Elizabeth Phillips, May 21, Claudia Lee French ’00 and Warren French, 2008. She was a retired elementary teacher 2008 a daughter, Arwen Elizabeth French, May for Paris Independent Schools, where she 3, 2008. (Pictured with her uncle, Matt Lee taught for 31 years. She did graduate work Meredith Kirklin Slechter ’93 and Mat ’97.) at the University of Kentucky, where she was Slechter, a daughter, Laurel Elizabeth a member of Alpha Delta Kappa national Slechter, February 18, 2008 Marni Rock Gibson ’00 and J. P. Gibson, a honorary sorority for teachers. She was a daughter, Campbell Lainey Gibson, February member of St. Peter’s Episcopal Church and Aaron M. McMahan ’94 and Lucy McMahan, 12, 2008 the Kentucky Retired Teachers Association, twins, Lilly McMahan and past regent of Jemima Johnson Chapter Natalie Gray Ballash ’01 and Adam Ballash, Owen McMahan, February Daughters of the American Revolution, and a son, Andrew Park Ballash, November 25, 8, 2008 past president of Bluegrass Garden Club. At 2007 Cathryn Richardson Transylvania, she was a member of the Rehmeyer ’95 and John Shelly C. Ferrell ’01 and Elizabeth Stafford History Club and sang in the choir. Ferrell ’03, a son, John Raphael “Jack” Ferrell, Rehmeyer, a daughter, Vivian Jean Viola Lowry Gudgell ’36 May 20, 2007 , Paris, Ky., sister of Rehmeyer, June 12, 2008 Joyce Lowry Witt ’58, died July 26, 2008. Brook A. Stahley ’95 and Kimberly Ikeda Avery Edwards Garner ’01 and R. Lance She was a retired teacher for the Bourbon Stahley, a son, Ellis Alfred Saneatsu Stahley, Garner ’02, a son, Ryan Isaac Garner, January County and Paris Independent school December 17, 2007 29, 2008 systems. She was a member of First Christian Church, Lioness Club, and Tender Harris Falguni Amin-Zimmerman ’96 and M. Jason Eugenia Calkins Harri- Circle. At Transylvania, she was a member Zimmerman ’97, a son, Deven Jeremy Zim- son ’01 and Todd of the Glee Club and the YWCA. merman, August 6, 2008 Harrison, a daughter, Violet Elise Harrison, Ollie Laudeman Clark ’39, Lexington, died W. Justin McDonald ’96 and Andrea July 31, 2008 June 8, 2008. She was a retired social worker McDonald, a son, Campbell Allen and a member of Immanuel Baptist Church. McDonald, June 28, 2008 Timothy J. Majors ’01 At Transylvania, she was a member of the and Kristin Majors, a son, Luke Robert International Relations Club. Tara Shrum Peffer ’96 and Shane Peffer, a Majors, April 26, 2008 daughter, Ann Marie Faith Peffer, May 16, Jack Ellis ’41, Lexington, died June 20, 2008. 2008 Molly Dean Stevens ’01 and Wayne Stevens, He was a retired pharmaceutical sales rep- 30 TRANSYLVANIA resentative for Hoffman La-Roche. He was regional minister of the Christian Church tember 23, 2008. He worked in the phar- a World War II veteran of the U.S. Army Air (DOC) in North Carolina. He was a member maceutical industry for 31 years, and retired Corps and retired as a Lt. Col. in the U.S. and elder of Twin Pines Christian Church. as a regional manager in sales for Glaxo-Well- Air Force Reserve. A long-time member of At Transylvania, he was a member of Pi Kappa come. He was a member of the Jaycees and Southern Hills United Methodist Church, Alpha fraternity. the Woodford County school board. At Tran- he also held memberships with the Lexington sylvania, he was a member of Kappa Alpha Lion’s Club and Central Kentucky Senior Joseph S. Henderson ’50, Palm City, Fla., Order. Men’s Golf Association. At Transylvania, he died May 24, 2008. He graduated from the played on the football team and was a University of Kentucky with a degree in engi- Colin Drew Simpson ’64, Cohoctah, Mich., member of the Chemistry Club. neering and served in the U.S. Navy. He was died June 24, 2006. active in the Shriners organization, Barn Ann Moore Medaris ’42, Hazard, Ky., mother Theater, Sailor’s Club, and the Old Eagle’s Robert H. Rollison ’66, Prompton, Pa., died of Thomas M. Medaris ’82, died July 18, Club. At Transylvania, he was a member of June 29, 2008. He was employed at MRI 2008. She was a retired social worker for the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity. Prompton Tool as senior buyer and was the state of Kentucky and a volunteer for the mayor of Prompton Borough for the past American Red Cross, the Wilderness Road Jean Willcox Westerfield ’51, Jeffersonville, 11 years. He was a life member of the Council of the Girl Scouts of America, Ind., died May 24, 2008. She was a retired National Rifle Association and Trout Hazard Perry County Community registered nurse. At Transylvania, she was a Unlimited. member of Delta Delta Delta sorority. Ministries, Hazard Perry County Performing Patricia Selvage ’67, Chatham, N.J., died Arts Series, and a tutor at Roy G. Eversole George C. Vaughn ’52, Irons, Mich., husband July 7, 2008. She received her master of Elementary School. She was active with the of Sue Oakes Vaughn ’56, died September social work from the University of Pittsburgh Transylvania Alumni Association. At Tran- 22, 2008. He was a retired physics teacher, and went on to become a licensed marriage sylvania, she was a member of Chi Omega having taught for over 36 years in Grand and family therapist and licensed clinical sorority. Rapids, Mich., public schools. He was a social worker. She volunteered and worked Helen McKenna Anderson ’43, Stockton, member of Phi Delta Kappa honorary, and at Morristown Memorial Hospital while Calif., wife of George O. Anderson ’43, died was the “leader” of the TransyNetters e-mail maintaining a private practice. She was a June 1, 2008. She graduated from the Uni- group. long- serving board member of the Cheshire Homes Inc. At Transylvania, she was a versity of the Pacific in Stockton and taught James C. Maddox ’53, Lexington, died Sep- kindergarten for 20 years. She was a member member of Chi Omega sorority and Young tember 12, 2008. He was president and Republicans. of the First Christian Church. At owner of Masterbuild Homes, Inc. In his Transylvania, she was a member of Chi retirement, he raised thoroughbreds and was Susan T. Miller ’69, Atlanta, died October 1, Omega sorority and played the flute in the a prolific gardener. He served in World War 2007. She earned an MBA from Emory Uni- band and orchestra. II in the Pacific Theater and was awarded versity and was a commercial real estate Harry B. Partin ’47, Durham, N.C., brother three Bronze Stars for bravery. He was a investment banker with Travelers, First of Charles P. Partin ’51, died June 10, 2008. member of the Lexington Jaycees, Oleika Chicago, Cushman & Wakefield, and First He earned his doctorate from the University Shrine Temple, and Master Mason for more Union/Wachovia, where she was a senior of Chicago and was a professor of history of than 60 years, and a Kentucky Colonel. He vice president. At Transylvania, she was a religions at Duke University for 30 years. was a deacon at Tates Creek Christian member of Delta Delta Delta sorority. He was a long-time member of Pilgrim Church. At Transylvania, he was a member of Kappa Alpha fraternity. James E. Biven ’75, Bardstown, Ky., died Sep- United Church of Christ in Durham. tember 2, 2008. He taught high school in William O. Allen ’48, Lexington, father of John C. Hendricks ’54, Cynthiana, Ky., North Carolina before entering military Billie Jean A. Hurt ’69, died June 16, 2008. husband of Mary Ruth Sabel Hendricks ’51, service as a paratrooper. At Transylvania, he He was a graduate of the University of died July 5, 2008. He was a retired farmer was on the basketball team and accumulated Louisville College of Dentistry. He was a and member of Cynthiana Christian Church 1302 points, ranking him 22nd highest scorer retired dentist and practiced mostly in and a U.S. Air Force veteran of the Korean in the basketball program. Pikeville, Ky. He was past president of the War. At Transylvania, he was a member of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity. William K. Gaines ’77, Paris, Ky., died August Kentucky Board of Dentistry, past president 20, 2008. At Transylvania, he played on the of Pikeville Rotary Club, and member of the Donald Eugene Witt ’56, Lexington, husband basketball team, and after graduation, played Prestonsburg and Pikeville United Methodist of Joyce Lowry Witt ’58, died August 11, basketball in Lausanne, Switzerland. Church. He was a World War II veteran and 2008. He earned his master’s degree from served in the U.S. Army Air Corp. the University of Kentucky and served with Bernard C. Meece 49, Lexington, father of the U.S. Air Force stationed at Hamilton Jeannine Meece May ’78 and Jacqueline Field, Calif. He was an educator for 31 years ! Obituaries in Transylvania are based on Meece Summers ’84, died June 28, 2008. and retired as director/coordinator of the information available in alumni office files He was a graduate of Lexington Theological Fayette County Adult Education Center. A and from newspaper obituaries. Please Seminary and obtained his doctorate of long-time member of Woodland Christian send information concerning alumni deaths to the attention of Elaine ministry from Drew University. In 1980, he Church, he was a Kentucky Colonel and a member of the Retired Teachers Association. Valentine in the Transylvania Alumni received an honorary doctorate of theology Office, 300 North Broadway, Lexington, from Transylvania. He served as a minister At Transylvania, he played on the baseball KY 40508-1797. Newspaper obituaries for the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) team. with complete listings of survivors are preferred. in Michigan and Florida and retired as the Homer E. Bates ’58, Versailles, Ky., died Sep-

FALL 2008 31 Lila Boyarsky dies at 87 Beloved biology professor emeritus Lila Boyarsky, who in liberal arts studies. was known as “Dr. B” to her students, died at her home in “She typified the heart of Transylvania: professors whose Lexington on October 8, 2008. She was 87. commitment to and interest in students went way beyond One of Transylvania’s the classroom,” said Tim longest tenured and most hon- Steinemann ’79, ophthalmol- ored professors, Boyarsky ogist at MetroHealth Medical taught from 1955-57 and Center in Cleveland and pro- 1958-91 and was one of the first fessor of ophthalmology at recipients of the Bingham Case Western Reserve Univer- Award for Excellence in sity. Teaching in 1988. Boyarsky’s commitment to “She was a wonderful exam- Transylvania was further illus- ple, a remarkable instructor, and trated by her support of several one who never stopped initiatives. A member of the touching the lives of those she Third Century Founders- met,” said Lee Rose ’58, who Benefactors donor group, she was a student in two of provided financial support for Boyarsky’s biology courses. the Brown Science Center lab- Rose, a volunteer for the non- oratory renovation project, the profit group Forward in the Transylvania Women’s Club Fifth, continued, “How lucky Endowed Scholarship Fund, we were to have her attend and Alternative Spring Break. our 50th class reunion dinner Her contributions both in this year and let us shower her and out of the classroom are with our love and affection.” evidenced by the students she In 2006, Boyarsky received inspired. the Irvin E. Lunger Award, “She was one of my very which is named in honor of favorite professors, and I’ve Transylvania’s 21st president often tried to copy her enthu- and honors special service to siastic style of breezing into the the University. At that time, President Charles L. Shearer classroom full of energy about what she was about to teach,” announced that Boyarsky would be the first to have a room said Carolyn Henry ’73, mathematics teacher at Jefferson named in her honor in the renovated Brown Science Center. High School in Lafayette, Ind. Nearly 200 alumni and friends responded to a $100,000 “She swept away any semblance of green by her no challenge grant by Joe Coons ’73, a former student of nonsense approach to a new crop of Transyites,” said Bruce Boyarsky’s and member of the Board of Trustees. The out- Florence ’59, chief campus officer at Maysville Community pouring of support raised $250,000 for the creation of the and Technical College, Licking Valley Campus in Cynthiana, Lila Boyarsky Science Laboratory. Ky. “She startled us, challenged us, coaxed us, pushed and “Dr. Boyarsky led generations of Transy students through prodded, and in slow steps we began to see biology through the intricacies of genetics and other biological mysteries,” different eyes. It has stayed with me these many years. How said Shearer. She also maintained a famously large hamster fortunate I was to have been in her class.” colony, which gave students a chance to perform genetic A member of Phi Beta Kappa, Boyarsky received a experiments. At one time it grew to 500 hamsters. doctorate in genetics from the University of Wisconsin. Ed Zuroweste ’71, chief medical officer at Migrant “Dr. Boyarsky was extremely dedicated to Transylvania,” Clinicians Network in State College, Pa., was one of many Shearer said. “Her enthusiasm and genuine concern for students who had the opportunity to work with the hamster students made her one of Transy’s most popular professors, colony. and she was a dear friend to many of us. She will be greatly “Dr. B had full confidence in my ambition to become a missed.” physician,” he said, “and I often wonder how my life would • • • have turned out without her always present enthusiastic Memorials are suggested to the Dr. Lila Boyarsky Endowed belief in my abilities.” Scholarship Find, c/o Development Office, Transylvania In 1960, Boyarsky’s dedication to students led her to University, 300 North Broadway, Lexington, KY 40508. For establish the Holleian Society. Named for Horace Holley, more information, contact Mark Blankenship ’81, director Transylvania’s president from 1818-1827, the society of development, at (800) 487-2679 or recognizes and encourages students for superior achievement [email protected].

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A class with Chanticleer

Members of the world acclaimed male chorus Chanticleer, standing at left, gave a master class for the Transylvania singing group TBA (Transylvania Boys A Cappella), standing at right, to which the campus community was invited. Chanticleer presented the second annual performance in the Dorothy J. and Fred K. Smith Concert Series later that evening, November 14, to a capacity crowd in Haggin Auditorium in the Mitchell Fine Arts Center. Now in its 30th season, Chanticleer is a Grammy Award-winning ensemble that has been ll d “th ld’ i i l h ” b N Yk i Ph t b J h R A THOMSON HALL DEDICATION Joe and JoAnn Thomson pose in front of Thomson Residence Hall at dedica- tion ceremonies on October 4 for the suite-style facility with accommoda- tions for 61 students. Joe, a member of the Transylvania class of 1966 and of the Board of Trustees, and JoAnn provided a generous lead gift toward the project. See story on page 8. Photo by Joseph Rey Au