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Bass phenom Edgar Meyer

VOLUME 82 • NUMBER 3 • WINTER/SPRING 2001 VOLUME 82 • NO.. 3• WINTER/SPRING 2001 MAGAZINE

FEATURES

12 First Bass Under Edgar Meyer’s tender ministrations, the “bullfrog of the orchestra” takes wings

16 In the Company of Trees Despite drought, starlings, bulldozers, and humans, Vanderbilt’s trees endure

20 Wise Heart 16 2000 Distinguished Alumnus led the way for GERALD HOLLY understanding of atherosclerosis Mary Tom Bass, MEd’85, Editor Victor Judge, BS’77, MS’79, Assistant Editor 22 GayNelle Doll, Assistant Editor

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University, 201 Alumni Hall, Nashville, TN 37240. Vanderbilt STACEY IRVIN to 19th-century artists of the Norwich School, who painted the scenery University is committed to principles of equal opportunity and affirmative action. of the East Anglian countryside and nearby coastal areas. The Goldberg Circulation: VANDERBILT MAGAZINE is sent free of charge to alumni and parents of current undergraduate students who estate also provides funds for the purchase of additional materials for the make an annual gift to any part of the University. Sustaining members of the Alumni Association ($25 for recent graduates book collection, a professorship in fine arts, an annual lecture in art of ten years or less, $35 for regular individual membership, $50 per couple) also receive the MAGAZINE. history, and a University Press prize. Copyright © 2001 Vanderbilt University Cover: Edgar Meyer, Blair School of Music adjunct associate professor of bass, by Jim McGuire LETTERS

Summoning Special Memories ON CAMPUS I wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed the Fall 2000 issue of Vanderbilt Maga- zine. With graduate degrees in English, I Psychologist Named A&S Dean Gift of Patent Could Lead to found the report on the Millennial Gather- New “Super Aspirin” ing of Writers of the New South (“Remod- I Richard McCarty, executive director of sci- be a biologist before eling the House of Southern Literature”) of ence for the American Psychological Associ- becoming interested I In a move that offers enormous potential obvious interest, but it was Christine Kreyling’s ation, will become dean of the College of Arts in psychology,”he payoff for Vanderbilt, Procter & Gamble has piece on the point/counterpoint of the Van- and Science on July 1. explains. He received given the University a collection of patents and derbilt and Peabody campuses (“Great Aspi- McCarty, who also is a professor of psy- his bachelor’s degree pending patents for technology that could lead rations”) that really caught my attention. My chology and former department chair at the in biology and a to the next “super aspirin.” tenure at Vanderbilt predated the Vander- University of Virginia, says he was interested master’s degree in Procter & Gamble has donated 196 patents bilt-Peabody merger, and I used to “escape” in coming to Vanderbilt “because it is such an zoology from Old and all associated intellectual property for a to the Peabody campus when I wanted a few outstanding research institution with aspira- Dominion Univer- collection of chemical compounds that block ANNE RAYNER moments of peace and quiet. Ms. Kreyling VANDERBILT REGISTER EXTRA DIAPER, ANYONE? captured the spirit of both campuses and tions to be even better. It is unusual to find an Richard McCarty sity before earning the action of the enzyme cyclooxygenase-2. institution with both high standards and a a Ph.D. in compar- Like the recently marketed COX-2 inhibitors, Since 1997, Vanderbilt University Medical Center has become a national leader in the field of in summoned some special memories. Thank utero surgery for spina bifida. Surgeons have performed more than 100 operations in an attempt you. tremendous base of support.” ative animal behavior from Johns Hopkins Celebrex and Vioxx, these compounds could to minimize the damage to fetuses while still developing in the womb. Expectant parents have He succeeds John Venable, who became University. become “super aspirins”—drugs that relieve come to Vanderbilt from across the country as well as British Columbia and Puerto Rico. Experts Lorrie Kyle Ramey, MA’72,PhD’79 dean of the University’s largest college upon He spent two years as a research associ- pain and inflammation without the gastric say it is too early to predict the final outcome, but results so far are encouraging. Says one parent, Winter Park, Fla. the resignation last summer of Ettore “Jim” ate in pharmacology with the National Insti- side effects of aspirin. COX-2 inhibitors may “My boy is going to walk. We are helping him be as normal as he can be. What else can we ask for?” Each year patients return for a reunion, giving Vanderbilt physicians a chance to review the Infante.Venable agreed to serve as dean while tute of Mental Health before joining UVA in also find use in the prevention and treatment children’s progress. Above, during a gathering last fall, Dr. Joseph Bruner (left), director of fetal Vanderbilt conducted a national search for a 1978 as an assistant professor of psychology. of colon cancer and Alzheimer’s disease. diagnosis and therapy, Dr. Noel Tullipan, director of the division of pediatric neurosurgery, and reg- successor. He also was a senior fellow at the National “Celebrex and Vioxx are already household istered nurse Eileen Vrabcak are happily covered up by their patients. An authority on the physiological and be- Heart, Lung and Blood Institute and spent 10 names,”says Dr. Harry R. Jacobson, vice chan- havioral aspects of stress, McCarty was pro- years as behavioral science coordinator for the cellor for health affairs.“We hope to add a third $1 Billion Campaign to Be Launched in 2002 fessor and chair of UVA’s psychology department FBI National Academy. He is a fellow of nu- COX-2 inhibitor to this list.”The global mar- from 1990 to 1998. He has been with the Amer- merous professional organizations and serves ket for COX-2 inhibitor drugs is approximately I The Vanderbilt Board of Trust has approved student life. That is the kind of leadership that ican Psychological Association since 1998. In as editor of American Psychologist. $3 billion annually. As the sole new owners of a comprehensive fund-raising campaign with will make Vanderbilt a great university.” 1994–95 he was visiting scientist for the Clin- McCarty plans to teach classes at Vander- the Procter & Gamble technology,Vanderbilt a test goal of $1 billion. Under Carell’s leadership, a steering com- The latest issue (Fall 2000) came recently. I ical Neuroscience Branch of the National In- bilt but will forego his research. He will make will benefit from all future revenues after the “Vanderbilt is ascending to the highest lev- mittee will work with University leaders, in- don’t know precisely why, but I found this stitute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. regular trips to the campus during the spring technology is developed and commercialized. els of quality and excellence,”says trustee chair- cluding alumni and faculty, to continue campaign issue more interesting than any in recent past. McCarty came to his field of study in a semester to meet faculty and students be- The gift is the sixth in a series of Procter & man Martha R. Ingram.“Under Chancellor planning. The final goal announcement and I believe that I read it cover to cover. I espe- somewhat roundabout way.“I started out to fore assuming the deanship in July. Gamble technology donations to leading uni- Gordon Gee’s leadership, we are confident that public kickoff is planned for spring 2002. cially enjoyed the information on new build- ings and was surprised to see mention of versities and research institutions. Procter & Vanderbilt will be counted among the truly The multiyear campaign will focus on five Capers and 22nd Avenue. I rented for a year Gamble’s external consultants identified Van- great universities of the world—if we provide principal areas for the University: endowment just about at that spot; it must be time for me HEADY STUFF derbilt, a longtime leader in research areas that the resources necessary to turn aspirations into for scholarships and faculty chairs, funding to visit VU once again. The information con- Jon Kaas reached the pinnacle of his 29-year career on the include the cyclooxygenase enzymes, as the reality.” for new and improved facilities, improvements Vanderbilt faculty last fall when he was inducted into the Nation- cerning Peabody brought back memories, al Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors bestowed university most uniquely qualified to develop Trustees approved the campaign, the most in student life, continuing development of for in the early ’50s I rented a room on 18th on an American scientist. Centennial Professor of Psychol- further the COX-2 inhibitor technology. ambitious in the University’s history, during world class research and clinical programs, Avenue South, at the edge (at that time) of ogy, professor of cell biology, and Kennedy Center investi- Of the nearly 200 compounds being do- their November meeting.Vanderbilt’s last com- and general operating support. that campus. Thanks for the good work. gator, Kaas has studied the brain for some 35 years. His nated to Vanderbilt, one has been tested more prehensive campaign concluded in 1995 with A limited number of universities are en- research has provided new insights into how the brain process- Frank Trainor, MA’53,PhD’57 es sensory input from the ears, skin, and particularly the eyes. extensively and holds promise for commer- more than $560 million in gifts, pledges, and gaged in campaigns with a goal of $1 billion Storrs, Conn. As a Centennial Professor, Kaas’ primary focus at Vander- cialization. In animal studies, this lead com- planned bequests. or more, including Georgetown, Duke, North- bilt is research. But he continues to teach one undergradu- pound appears to be as effective an Monroe J. Carell Jr., BE’59, chairman of western, and Washington universities. ate and one graduate course each semester. “I love teaching, Letters are always welcome in response to and I have had the best of students at Vanderbilt,” he says. anti-inflammatory as Celebrex and Vioxx, with Central Parking System and a member of “This campaign will affirm our most cher- contents of the magazine. We reserve the Former Kaas student Leah Krubitzer, PhD’89, a neuroscien- an added edge—an ulcer healing effect. Be- the board since 1991, will chair the fund drive. ished principles and values,”Ingram adds.“At right to edit for length, style, and clarity. Send tist at U.C. Davis and MacArthur fellowship winner, says, “I yond pain relief, COX-2 inhibitors may find “This campaign is about people,”he says.“At the same time, it will sound a clarion to the signed letters to the Editor, VANDERBILT MAG- can’t think of anyone who has worked on so many different AZINE,VU Station B 357703, 2301 Vanderbilt applications as cancer drugs. COX-2 inhibitors Vanderbilt, we have something unique, and University family, its friends, and the com- species in such detail. Once you work in Jon’s lab, your life Place, Nashville, TN 37235, or e-mail is never the same—not just your science, but your whole life.” appear to improve the tumor killing activity we must build upon it to be even better by fo- munity that sustains it to help Vanderbilt re- [email protected]. of chemotherapy. cusing on scholarships, endowed chairs, and alize its true potential.” PEYTON HOGE

2 VANDERBILT MAGAZINE WINTER/SPRING 2001 3 Freedom Forum to Build Institute for Newsroom Diversity Engineers Working to Improve Expert on Diabetes and Pregnancy Heads School of Medicine Mobility of Blind Pedestrians I The Freedom Forum will build a new $6 Currently, minorities account for more Gabbe’s background en- million journalism training institute on the than 28 percent of the U.S. population, but I Vanderbilt engineers are working with a compasses both clinical and re- Class of 2004 Vanderbilt campus and relocate most of its they represent only 12 percent of newsroom team of universities to develop better auditory search experience. His research administrative staff to Nashville from Arlington, staffs. systems to guide blind pedestrians through interests include prenatal di- Freshman class 1,643 Virginia. The facility will house a training cen- “Diversity is one of Vanderbilt’s highest tricky intersections. agnosis using ultrasound, the Average SAT 1313 ter for journalists of color, plus offices for priorities, and we welcome the institute to our The Blind Pedestrian Access to Complex assessment of fetal well-being, Freedom Forum staff. campus,”says Chancellor Gordon Gee.“The Intersections project, sponsored by the Na- premature labor, and the com- Average High School GPA 3.61 The institute is a one-of-a-kind facility that important work of the institute may well shape tional Institutes of Health, will incorporate plications of childbirth. He is will involve daily newspapers from around a new face in newsrooms across the country School of Engineering research to develop an author of 127 peer-reviewed Women 53% the country. It is expected to train about 80 and greatly affect issues facing our society.” acoustic virtual reality system that will deepen papers, 93 abstracts, 71 chap- Men 47% journalists annually from nontraditional back- The Freedom Forum will build and fund understanding of how people perceive sound ters, and nine books. grounds for newsroom jobs. the new three-story, 32,000-square-foot fa- and interactively teach the blind to use sound A graduate of Princeton Minorities 17%

Aspiring journalists of varied ages and cility adjacent to the First Amendment Center to fine-tune their location as they navigate in- University and Cornell Asian American 6% backgrounds will undergo intensive 12-week and Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy tersections. VANDERBILT REGISTER University Medical College, Studies at 18th Avenue South “There is a great deal of individual varia- Steven Gabbe Gabbe was a resident and fel- African American 5.6% and Edgehill. In 1993, The tion in how people perceive sound,”says Van- I The new dean at Vanderbilt’s School of low at the Boston Hospital for Women and Hispanic/Latino 3.4% Freedom Forum spent $2 derbilt acoustics specialist Kenneth Frampton, Medicine, one of the world’s leading experts a research and clinical fellow at Harvard million to help construct the assistant professor of mechanical engineering. on diabetes and pregnancy, wants to expand University. Obstetrics and gynecology is an States Represented 46 First Amendment Center and “Our technical challenge will be to develop a clinical research and collaboration between ideal background for a medical school dean, Tennesseans 13% Vanderbilt Institute for Public computer program that can create a real-time scientists and health-care professionals. he says, because “it emphasizes primary care, Foreign Countries Represented 47 Policy Studies building under acoustic virtual reality environment that is in- Dr. Steven Gabbe, one of the most respected medical care, surgery, and reproductive health. the leadership of John stantaneously interactive.” academic perinatologists in the country and It’s at the cutting edge of so many research High Schools Attended Seigenthaler, founder of the When completed, the system will allow in- a member of the Institute of Medicine, as- fields, such as genetics, cancer, and geriatrics, First Amendment Center. dividuals to practice navigating an intersec- sumed his new position in March. He suc- that it provides a very broad appreciation of Public 58% “We are expanding the tion using an auditory guidance system. They ceeds Dr. John Chapman, who retired after 25 what’s possible in medicine.” Private 42%

RENDERING BY ADKISSON/HARRISON & ASSOCIATES BY ADKISSON/HARRISON RENDERING successful partnership with will wear a headset connected to a computer years as dean. Gabbe says he has several items on his agen- The Freedom Forum Institute for Newsroom Diversity will train about Vanderbilt that began in that will generate sounds in response to the For the past four years Gabbe served on da as dean. His plans include encouraging National Merit Scholars 102 80 journalists of color for jobs in journalism each year. 1993,”says Charles Overby, position and motions of their heads. the faculty at the University of Washington broader opportunities for resident and fellow National Achievement Scholars 9 training sessions followed by guaranteed jobs chairman and CEO of The Freedom Forum. The first step in developing this interactive Medical Center where he was professor and education and continuing medical education. Ranked 1st or 2nd in class 186 and further training at newspapers. Honors Overby announced that Wanda Lloyd, man- system is to analyze how sound is perceived chairman of the Department of Obstetrics He is interested in translational research— seminars also will be offered to selected stu- aging editor of the Greenville News (S.C.) and from different directions, depending on the and Gynecology. Previously he was professor applying what is learned in basic science Student body presidents 42 dents from nearby colleges. In addition, the a national leader in journalism diversity, position of the head. For this research, Framp- and chair of obstetrics and gynecology at the laboratories to clinical practice. He also will institute will offer programs aimed at help- will become executive director of The Freedom ton and his team are enlisting the help of Ohio State University College of Medicine. encourage interdisciplinary clinical research. Publication editors-in-chief 105 ing newspapers boost minority retention. Forum Institute for Newsroom Diversity. KEMAR, a microphoned mannequin. With Students at both institutions singled him out Gabbe is only the 10th dean of VUSM since Captains of athletic team 563 sensitive microphones in each ear that simu- to receive teaching awards. its 1875 founding. late the performance of the human ear, KEMAR Vanderbilt Launches transmits sound data to a computer system Research Webzine that analyzes characteristics of sounds received in each ear. I A new online magazine devoted to “People determine location of sound by GREAT PERFORMANCES university-based research is Vanderbilt’s lat- comparing the difference between what the Jonathan Miller, the Harvie Branscomb Distin- est effort to help the public understand guished University Visiting Scholar and acclaimed two ears are hearing,”Frampton explains.“The and appreciate science and engineering. Called director and author, was in residence at Vander- position of the head and the structure of the bilt from October 16 through November 3. Here he Exploration, the journal is on the Web at cartilage around the ear affect both the vol- works with Kate Janssen, BMus’99, and Evan http://exploration.vanderbilt.edu. “It’s ex- Dozier-Stefanuk, BMus’00 (right), of the Vander- ume and the timing of the sounds perceived tremely important that universities and other bilt Opera Theatre, on a scene from Mozart’s Mar- by each ear. riage of Figaro. While in residence, Miller, who also science and engineering research institutions “The signal processing system we’re de- is a physician, participated in the University’s Great do a better job of explaining what they do to Performances series, appeared as part of the Dean’s veloping will enable us to present sounds that the general public,”says Rick Chappell, Hour at the School of Medicine, and worked with appear to be originating from any direction,” classes in directing as well as the Shakespeare former NASA science astronaut and direc- he adds.“What used to be accomplished using Workshop and Vanderbilt Opera Theatre. tor of Vanderbilt’s Office of Science and ANNE RAYNER dozens of speakers will be achievable with Research. The webzine uses photography, clips to help explain aspects of research that only two.” illustrations, animations, and video and audio are difficult to convey through text alone.

4 VANDERBILT MAGAZINE WINTER/SPRING 2001 5 New General Counsel Also Will Teach Law Better Business Through VANDERBILT RANKS 22ND Social Responsibility IDavid Williams II, formerly a vice president ing and student organizations, intercolle- Vanderbilt continues to be among the I Businesses don’t have to choose between and professor of law at The Ohio State Uni- giate athletics, facilities, and community af- nation’s top 25 universities, according to versity, has been appointed vice chancellor, fairs. He also was a tenured professor in Ohio U.S. News and World Report. being socially responsible and making money general counsel, and secretary of Vanderbilt. State’s College of Law, where he special- Published last but can easily intertwine the two, says Ben Williams, who began his new position last ized in taxation and sports law. August, the Cohen, cofounder of Ben & Jerry’s Home- “Best National summer, also will teach at Vanderbilt Law Williams is Vanderbilt’s chief legal offi- Universities” made, who visited the Owen Graduate School School. cer. He directs the Office of General Coun- annual survey of Management last fall. As vice president for student and sel and the Office of Risk Management, and ranked Vanderbilt Cohen spent the day meeting with stu- 22nd. Princeton was dents and participating in a business round- urban/community affairs at Ohio State, he oversees corporate activities related to the first, and Harvard and oversaw a wide range of activities at the University’s Board of Trust. Yale tied for second. table sponsored by the Cal Turner Program sprawling campus, including housing, din- At Ohio State, Williams was vice president in Moral Leadership for the Professions. under Gordon Gee, then Ohio’s president and Throughout the day’s activities, which in- now Vanderbilt’s chancellor. When asked why USDE Grant Helping cluded his appearance as the inaugural speaker he left his home of 14 years to assume the four- Disadvantaged Students Aim High for Owen’s Just Do It Right Club and, of fold duty at Vanderbilt, Williams credits the course, an ice cream social, Cohen reiterated I working relationship he has had with Gee, the Disadvantaged middle-school children now Ben & Jerry’s mission to use business as a NEIL BRAKE uniqueness of the University he now calls have a greater chance of attending schools positive force for progressive social change home, and the wide latitude of possibilities as like Vanderbilt, thanks to a federal five-year and to strengthen partnerships with com- the top legal representative of the institution. grant to the University totaling $5.7 million. munities in which the company operates. PREVENTING VIOLENCE THE BEST WAY “If you have any desires to practice law The U.S. Department of Education’s GEAR Although the company donates money Susan Han and Tom Catron use puppets and role playing as part of the Behavioral Enrichment and Social Training (BEST) program, a violence prevention initiative aimed at preschoolers. Catron, in such a way that you have one client and get UP program—Gaining Early Awareness and to worthy causes through its foundation, Readiness for Undergraduate Programs— associate professor of psychiatry and codirector of the Center for Psychotherapy Research and to see a wide variety of things that are cutting Cohen stressed that Ben & Jerry’s primar- Policy at the Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies, and Han, research associate at the Cen- edge, then being general counsel of a uni- recently awarded $45.6 million in GEAR UP ily fulfills its mission by integrating social re- ter, helped develop the program with other Vanderbilt researchers. BEST trains teachers and versity is a great way to experience that,”he grants to help more than 710,000 disadvan- sponsibility into its business operations. parents to help eliminate negative and inappropriate behaviors—while also improving a child’s self- taged middle-schoolers throughout the esteem and problem-solving abilities—through reinforcement of positive behaviors. The program says. Examples include buying tax credits for hous- is being tested in several local preschools and may expand to other cities statewide. “The earlier Gee says of Williams,“He is a talented and country. ing for the formerly homeless, utilizing com- you can reach a child the better,” says Catron. “Teaching them problem-solving techniques and versatile administrator who is equally at home Vanderbilt will use its grant to enhance munity banks and investing in the rebuilding anger management in preschool is a powerful intervention.” analyzing tax policy and working with stu- its existing Project GRAD (Graduation Real- of decaying areas, and switching from bleached ly Achieves Dreams) program that helps pre- to unbleached containers. dents; he is a fine legal scholar and teacher; Vanderbilt Searches for Depression Genes pare students for academic success starting “We decided to redefine the bottom line NEIL BRAKE and he intuitively understands the mission of David Williams II a great university.” in pre-kindergarten and following them and measure success in two ways: how much I A network of international researchers is to deal with the condition,”says Jonathan L. through high school. The cornerstone of Pro- we have contributed to the welfare of the com- set to begin the largest study ever conducted Haines, professor of molecular physiology ject GRAD is the guarantee of scholarship munity and how much we have increased prof- to search for genes that cause major depres- and biophysics and director of the Pro- assistance to any student who graduates with Bold Investment Strategy Reaps Big Dividends its,”Cohen says. “Earlier in our careers, we sion. The study, coordinated by Vanderbilt’s gram in Human Genetics. a 2.5 grade point average from a high school decided that if we didn’t like the way business Program in Human Genetics in collabora- The new study will recruit a minimum of I Vanderbilt’s financial portfolio performed tions. “A traditional asset mix of 75 per- participating in the program. is normally run, we should do it differently.” tion with the pharmaceutical company Glaxo 1,200 families in which at least two indi- exceptionally well last year, yielding a stag- cent U.S. stocks, 10 percent non-U.S. stocks, “Project GRAD also provides intensive Wellcome, could lead to development of new viduals have been characterized as clinically gering 31.92 percent return and ending and 15 percent bonds would have generat- professional development for teachers and drugs to prevent or treat the disease. depressed. Clinical histories and DNA data the fiscal year 2000 at $2.4 billion. ed a return of 8 percent,”he notes.“The dif- works with families to ensure that students Major or unipolar depression affects about will be collected from eligible families at mul- “Typically, if you outperform the mar- ference between the 8 percent return and arrive at school ready to learn,”says Marcy 12 percent of the population in the Western tiple centers, including Washington Univer- ket by 1.5 percent, then you’ve done very our 31.9 percent outcome is largely a func- Singer-Gabella, Vanderbilt assistant provost world at some point, making it the leading sity; the Institute of Psychiatry in London; well,”says Bill Spitz, vice chan- tion of our private equity port- for Initiatives in Education and director of cause of disability worldwide. Although about the University of Birmingham, UK; the Uni- cellor for investments and trea- folio.” The engine driving Project GRAD.“This grant both helps fund 70 percent of patients respond to treat- versity of Wales; and Trinity Centre for Health surer.“Last year we beat it by 3.6 Vanderbilt’s endowment fund in these activities and significantly enhances ment with antidepressants, up to 75 percent Sciences. Additional sites are expected to join percent and thought that was recent years has been its venture our ability to provide academic advising, col- of them experience recurrent depression the effort. awesome. This year we outper- portfolio, which yielded a return lege planning, and parent outreach services.” within 10 years. A high proportion of suf- Vanderbilt investigators will analyze all formed our customized bench- of 178 percent over the past year. Project GRAD currently serves Pearl- ferers remains undiagnosed and untreated. of the data collected at study centers, look- mark, which is a blend of market The endowment funds only Cohn High School and its feeder schools, Although some candidate genes for de- ing for links between genetic markers and indices for each of the categories about 5 percent of Vanderbilt’s Cockrill, McCann, and Park Avenue ele- PEYTON HOGE pression have been identified, none has been clinical depression. Spots in the genome that that we invest in, by more than 20 percent.” annual operating budget of $1.2 billion, the mentary schools, and W.A. Bass, McKissack, Ben & Jerry’s cofounder Ben Cohen, sporting a Ten- nessee Titans jersey presented by Owen School confirmed.“Understanding the genetic basis are found to be linked to depression then act Spitz attributes the boon to Vanderbilt’s bulk of which comes from Medical Center and West End middle schools. The grant will students, poses with second-year students Jen- of unipolar depression will give us new tar- as signposts, pointing the way to the actual investment strategy, which differs from the revenues, tuition, government grants, and enable Project GRAD’s expansion into other nifer Lemming and Keith Deerkoski, cofounders gets to help design new, improved medicines genes that play a role in the disease. model used by many investors and institu- gifts. Metro schools. of the Just Do It Right Club.

6 VANDERBILT MAGAZINE WINTER/SPRING 2001 7 Chancellor Gee Announces New Structure for Student Affairs, Planning and Advancement Voice Holds Clues to Assessing Suicide Risk A CALL FOR “HEROS, staff, and has a passionate commitment to ex- As part of the restructuring, John S. Beasley HOPE, AND HISTORY” I cellence for the future.” II, BA’52,JD’54, vice chancellor for alumni and Mental health awareness has made great NAACP chairman Julian Bond, grandson of a former A graduate of the University of Wiscon- development, emeritus, will serve as counselor strides in recent years, but an ongoing chal- slave, was keynote speaker for the Martin Luther King sin and its law school, Zeppos joined the Van- to the chancellor and will help foster rela- lenge is determining an individual’s degree of Jr. Commemorative Series held in January. A distin- guished professor at American University and a history derbilt faculty in 1987 after serving as an tionships between the University and key alumni suicide risk. Current assessment methods in- professor at the University of Virginia, Bond told a capac- attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice. constituencies. volve taking personal histories, clinical ex- ity crowd in Benton Chapel that today’s students are From 1998 to 1999, he served as associate dean The vice chancellor for student affairs and amination, and psychological testing—all of “filled with the cynicism and despair of their age” and which take precious time in situations that need to learn more about the “unknown heroes and hero- of the Vanderbilt Law School. He has won campus life will report directly to Chancel- ines” who took part in the civil rights movement. “By giv- five teaching awards at the University and is lor Gee and will oversee a wide range of ex- may require immediate action. ing voice to the hopefulness of earlier generations who PEYTON HOGE VANDERBILT REGISTER VANDERBILT An interdisciplinary research team at faced resistance and oppression my students have never Nicholas Zeppos John Beasley a nationally recognized scholar in legislation isting services and programs, such as residential and government regulation. and judicial affairs, student activities, student Vanderbilt has identified several acoustic fea- known and will never know, I hope to make heroism more available, more attainable to a generation inclined to see I The consolidation of several key institu- Beverly Bond, MBA’93,who had served as health and counseling, the Honor Code, and tures in the voices of people recorded shortly through a glass darkly.” tional functions and the creation of new se- vice chancellor for alumni and develop- others. before they took or attempted to take their WOODIE S. KNIGHT nior executive positions mark a significant ment since July 1999, became executive di- These activities currently are administered own lives that differentiate them from record- ed voices of normal individuals. reorganization of Vanderbilt’s strategic plan- rector of the University’s capital campaign. by the Office of the Associate Provost for Stu- Government Information Web Site Lauded ning, development, alumni relations, and stu- Previously she was associate vice chancellor dent Affairs and the Office of the Dean of Stu- The work is an outgrowth of observations dent affairs efforts. Chancellor Gordon Gee of the division, directing fundraising and dents, both of which report to Provost Tom first made 30 years ago by Stephen Silverman, I The Heard Library’s government infor- it difficult to uphold the motto of the GPO— announced the changes in January. alumni relations for non-medical areas of the Burish. The new position is being established then a clinical psychologist at Brookdale mation Web site (http://www.library.van- “Keeping America Informed.” The two new positions—vice chancellor University. A 22-year veteran of the alumni in part as a result of an evaluation of Van- Hospital Medical Center in New York. As he derbilt.edu/romans/gvtmain.html) was Government Information Services’ paper for institutional planning and advancement and development staff, Bond also helped di- derbilt’s current student life operation con- interviewed patients in the psychiatric emer- recently named one of the 26 principal start- sources are varied.“We focus on three main and vice chancellor for student affairs and cam- rect the Campaign for Vanderbilt, which raised ducted by a review team of senior student affairs gency room, Silverman, who is also a jazz ing points for finding government infor- areas,”says Romans, “Congress, the Office pus life—“involve issues, organizations, and more than $560 million from 1989 to 1995. executives. pianist, found that the sound of some voices mation in the country. of the President, and the Department of State. opportunities that are at the heart of our aca- “Beverly has been a true friend to Vander- Moving student affairs and campus life to literally caused the hair on the back of his neck Maintained by Larry Romans, govern- demic mission and will dramatically affect bilt and to many, many of our alumni for more a more autonomous position within the ad- to rise. As he analyzed the voices that creat- ment information librarian and political sci- Vanderbilt’s ability to reach a new level of than 20 years,”says Wayne Hyatt, BA’65,JD’68, ministration will allow Burish to engage in ed this sense of alarm, he concluded that it ence bibliographer, engineering junior Jared excellence and leadership,”Gee says. president of the Vanderbilt Alumni Associa- wider leadership in his role of chief academic was caused by a distinctive quality in the pat- Sims, and other student assistants, the site Gee, who became chancellor last July, called tion.“Most of us ‘ordinary folk’ do not ade- officer, Gee says. tern and tone of the voices of individuals like- reflects a diversity of material, some from the changes “significant, unique, and trans- quately realize or appreciate the very important Leading the search committee for the first ly to attempt suicide in the near future. the Government Printing Office (GPO), some formational.” role she played in the Campaign for Vander- vice chancellor for student affairs and campus Silverman and his wife, Marilyn, also a psy- from other agencies and departments of the Nicholas Zeppos, a law professor who for bilt and in other fund-raising efforts; that was life will be David Williams II, vice chancellor chologist, began to investigate the phenome- federal government, and some from non- the past two years has served as associate provost vital. However, we see her best as one whose and general counsel, who also was a member non on their own. After years of study and governmental sites. It’s indicative of the di- for academic affairs, became vice chancellor friendship, dedication, and encouragement of the review team. The search committee will research, they visited Vanderbilt and described rection the GPO and its primary disseminators, for institutional planning and advancement inspired and supported our own efforts for comprise faculty, students, members of the their project to professors Thomas Harris, the more than 1,300 federal depository li- March 16. A national search is under way for Vanderbilt; that was special.” Board of Trust, and alumni. chair of biomedical engineering, and Richard braries, are now taking. the new vice chancellor for student affairs and Shiavi, an expert in signal processing. The Because of government cutbacks to the campus life. Vanderbilt researchers accepted the challenge GPO budget, more and more government Gee says the division Zeppos heads is tak- BLAIR STUDENT and arranged adjunct appointments for the information is available only through elec- PLAYS CARNEGIE ing a leadership role in strategic planning and Silvermans, who are on the clinical faculty tronic resources. “It costs too much money Blair School of Music senior and violinist Sara Schultz at Yale Medical School. to produce both electronic and paper ver- will incorporate the activities of the previous gave the performance of her lifetime during the Nashville Office of Alumni and Development. Symphony’s Carnegie Hall debut last September. She Thus far, the work at Vanderbilt has iden- sions,”says Romans. “It has become clear to me that the Uni- and 18 Blair faculty, the majority of whom are principals tified several features that appear to differ in Using electronic resources to access gov- versity’s advancement efforts, that is, fundrais- for their sections, toured the east coast with the orches- the voices of normal, depressed, and suici- ernment information has advantages.“The DAVID CRENSHAW tra, which also includes Blair precollegiate and collegiate Larry Romans ing and alumni relations, must be far more alumni. “The hall itself looked surprisingly small to me,” dal individuals. One involves the dominant most obvious is that you don’t have to be in closely linked with our academic mission and says Schultz. “I had seen the place on television so many frequencies of the voice; another involves the the library to find things. Another is that they But we have a fascinating array of old and planning,”Gee says.“We have arrived at a point times that the night of the concert I felt as if I were play- amount of energy in different frequency ranges. update information much more quickly on- current material. People don’t realize that ing inside a TV set instead of a stage. The room felt like in Vanderbilt’s evolution where our highest a true place of business, and my job, as part of the orches- In analysis of slightly more than 100 subjects, line. It might take us six months to receive a the United States government is the world’s academic aspirations, unparalleled opportu- tra, was to play with accuracy and excitement.” The sym- researchers were able to differentiate correct- paper update,”says Romans, “but it takes a largest collector and producer of statis- nities, and resource development must merge.” phony did just that according to New York Times music ly between depressed and suicidal individu- day to post an electronic update.” tics.” critic Allan Kozinn, who called the performance “mostly als 80 percent of the time. Further research On the other hand, the availability of gov- Government Information Services at the Gee calls Zeppos “one of the brightest, most a knockout” and hailed the orchestra as playing “with the energetic and creative people at Vanderbilt. He energy of an ensemble out to impress.” The program fea- PEYTON HOGE under way includes investigation of second- ernment information only through elec- Heard Library became a depository in 1884. cares deeply for Vanderbilt’s mission, has great tured works by Ives, Strauss, and Beethoven. by-second variations in the rate of vibration tronic resources does not always assure that (A smaller depository focusing on legal ma- respect for its alumni, faculty, students, and of the vocal chords. it will be available to everyone, which makes terials was added at the Law Library in 1976.)

8 VANDERBILT MAGAZINE WINTER/SPRING 2001 9 Ward Leads Women’s Golf McPhaul Named Golf Coach With Winning Play I Press McPhaul, former assistant men’s golf I Meredith Ward began playing golf when coach at North Carolina State University, was PORTS she was three years old. At age seven, she start- named Vanderbilt’s head men’s golf coach last S ed playing competitively. Last year, she became summer. He replaces Jim Ragan, who recent- the first Vanderbilt women’s golfer to win a ly became head men’s coach at Oklahoma. Linebacker Sees Future in Special Education Williams Oversees tournament: the Green Wave Tournament “Press McPhaul is the right man to con- PEYTON HOGE Future Revenue Sports in New Orleans. tinue building our program,”says Athletics I As a high school senior, Nick Mor- “I was quite shocked,”Ward says of her Director Todd Turner.“He has the energy and row, an all-state linebacker from rural I Carla Williams was named assistant direc- victory.“It was our third tournament of the enthusiasm of youth, he relates well to Press McPhaul New Concord, Ohio, knew very little tor of athletics for future revenue sports last spring season. … I would not look at the stat student-athletes, and he knows the game about Vanderbilt football. But a visit summer, succeeding June Stewart, who retired sheet indicating what place I was in because inside-out.”Turner has known McPhaul since tournament team in 1995 and played in three to the campus sold him on the Uni- earlier in the year. I was happy with the way I was playing.” the early 1990s when McPhaul was captain of NCAA tournaments. More recently, he was a versity and its football program. When she was named, Williams was Ward, a junior from Crystal Lake, Ill., was the North Carolina State University golf team. semifinalist in the 1998 Carolinas Amateur “I watched the Notre Dame game finishing the Ph.D. degree at Florida State named second-team All-SEC at the end of McPhaul was with the Wolfpack men’s and placed third and second in the last two that fall,”Morrow says.“I met the coach- University where she served as an academic that spring season. A double major in engi- coaching staff for two years. He was known North Carolina Amateur tournaments. es and absolutely loved it. I knew it mentor. She is a former basketball player and neering sciences and economics, she also as a strong recruiter and also served as the “I’ve known Todd Turner since I played PEYTON HOGE was the place for me. I cancelled all my assistant coach at the University of Georgia made the SEC Academic Honor Roll. interim women’s golf coach in 1999. collegiately and understand firsthand his inter- other visits and decided to come here.” and has extensive experience as a radio and The tournament schedule, particularly A native of Sanford, N.C., he was one of est and commitment to golf,”McPhaul says. Morrow began his collegiate career television commentator. Special education major Nick Morrow worked with at- in the fall, keeps Ward and her teammates the state’s finest amateur golfers. He was a “All I needed to know was that he was at Van- intending to be a large-animal veteri- risk learning-disabled students last fall. Williams is the administrative contact for busy. On tournament weeks, some of which member of the Wolfpack’s eighth-place NCAA derbilt to know I wanted to be here, too.” narian, but ultimately decided that his Vanderbilt varsity teams except football come back-to-back, the team leaves on career should focus on people. He looked for Vanderbilt, Morrow has completed his under- and men’s and women’s basketball. Wednesday, travels to the tournament, and Vanderbilt Baseball Scores with Fall Signees direction in Peabody’s human and organiza- graduate requirements. However, as a red- returns on Sunday. “Typically, you miss tional development program and found his shirt player (held out his freshman year for Thursday and Friday classes,”she says.“You IVanderbilt signed three nationally ranked Louisville, Ky., claimed All-State honors in Sidelines niche and major in special education. an extra year of eligibility), he returns to the make up tests here and there, try to meet players for the Commodore program last fall, 2000 after registering a 13-0 record and 0.16 “I took an Intro to Exceptionalities course team this fall for his final year of football. He Allen DeGraffenreid, BS’97, last Octo- with tutors, and practice to get ready for the including an infielder, right-handed pitcher, earned run average in 85.2 innings. He my freshman year with Professor Joe Wehby, also plans to earn a master’s degree in edu- ber was drafted to play in the new XFL next tournament.” and left-handed pitcher. They rank among selected Vanderbilt over Notre Dame, Wake who opened my eyes,”Morrow explains. He cation administration. football league, a joint effort of the World The team goal for the 2001 spring season the top 100 prospects in the nation accord- Forest, and Duke. talked to his mother, an educator, about teach- As a student-teacher last fall, Morrow Wrestling Federation and NBC. He was cho- is to go to the NCAA final championship. ing to the collegiate baseball recruiting Web Jeff Sues, a 6-4, 220-pound, right-handed ing.“She said,‘You know, anyone can become worked with at-risk students with mild to sen in the 39th round by the New York/New “We still haven’t played our best golf together site TeamOneBaseball.com. pitcher from Middletown, N.J., guided Red a teacher and get through it. But not every- moderate learning disabilities at the high Jersey Hitmen as an offensive guard. yet, and this is the Tony Mansolino, a 6-0, 185-pound senior Bank Catholic to the conference champi- one can be a good teacher who really is pas- school and middle school levels. Before mov- Christine M. Reitano, BS’00, last best chance we’ve shortstop at Buchanan High School in Clo- onship last season while leading the team in sionate about the kids and helping them.’ ing into administration, he plans to spend June was selected as Vanderbilt’s ever had to go.” vis, Calif., is a two-time honorable mention strikeouts and posting a 5-3 mark and 2.50 That, and working with Dr. Wehby, changed several years in the classroom. recipient of the SEC Female Scholar Athlete Ward enjoys All-Tri River Athletic Conference selectee. earned run average. He chose Vanderbilt over my mind. I began to do some volunteer work “That’s where my heart is,”he says.“I have of the Year award. A member of the track and the supportive Jeremy Sowers, a 6-1, 160-pound left- Clemson, San Francisco, William and Mary, on campus with the Susan Gray School for an opportunity to give students something field team, she competed in the 400-meter atmosphere that handed pitcher from Ballard High School in Princeton, and Columbia. Children and absolutely loved it.” they might not otherwise have, and I’ll do my hurdles, 400-meter sprint, and pole vaulting. surrounds the Three and a half years after enrolling at best to accomplish that.” Reitano was graduated magna cum laude and team. Many fam- Former Soccer Star Goes Pro, Second Player Named All-SEC Phi Beta Kappa with an interdisciplinary ily members trav- PEYTON HOGE I Former Vanderbilt women’s soccer stand- First-Team. Four Commodores Earn All-SEC Honors major in neuroscience. She now attends med- el to the various ical school at the University of Mississippi. tournaments to out Asta Helgadottir was selected by the Car- Vanderbilt senior defender Laurie Black I Led by first-team junior linebacker Jamie For Winborn, it was the third year in a Former men’s basketball coach C.M. offer encourage- Meredith Ward olina Tempest in the inaugural draft of the was named First-Team All-SEC and Third- Winborn, four Commodores earned All-SEC row he was selected to the All-SEC team. He Newton was inducted into the Nai- ment.“My parents flew to every tournament,” Women’s United Soccer Association. She was Team All-Central Region in a vote by the honors from the conference’s head coaches announced after the season that he will forgo smith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame last she says.“We usually have a pretty good rep- picked in the 12th round as the 91st overall National Soccer Coaches Association of at season’s end in December. Senior tight end his senior year of collegiate eligibility to enter October in the contributors category. He was resentation of parents.” selection. America’s All-America Committee in Elliott Carson, senior offensive tackle Brian the 2001 NFL draft. Winborn is a fourth- a member of Kentucky’s 1951 national cham- Life after graduation may include a shot “It feels great to be drafted and to get to December. Gruber, and sophomore wide receiver Dan year junior (having redshirted in 1997) and pionship team and was involved in basket- at tour golf play.“I think I would regret not be part of this great league,”says Helgadottir, A native of Bethel, Conn., Black added to Stricker were named to the second team. expects to graduate this spring with a degree ball for more than 50 years. He coached at trying,”she says.“That’s what my dad has al- who was drafted in December.“Carolina was the offensive attack with 29 shots, one goal, It marked the most Vanderbilt players in human and organizational development. Vanderbilt from 1982 to 1989, compiled a ways said to me: ‘What have you go to lose? my first choice, and I’m glad I will be close and one assist. A human and organization- named to the all-conference team since five It was Carson’s second appearance on the record of 129-115, and saw postseason play Give it a shot, and if it doesn’t work out, it to my sister who plays at Duke.” al development major, she wrapped up the players were tabbed for honors following the team while Gruber and Stricker were named twice in the NIT and twice in the NCAA tour- doesn’t work out.’If it doesn’t, I’ll go into in- At Vanderbilt, Helgadottir was named a regular season by being named to the SEC 1997 season. for the first time in their careers. nament. vestment banking or consulting work.” First-Team All-American, a Freshman All- Academic Honor Roll for the third straight American, All-SEC, and All-Central Region season.

10 VANDERBILT MAGAZINE WINTER/SPRING 2001 11 by Mark Levine

the foreground, he transformed his bass into music.”In 1998, with the Emerson String over the frame of the bass in a languorous an instrument of astonishing delicacy and Quartet, Meyer recorded his luminous “Quin- embrace. At other times, he stood apart, flick- color. During a stretch of solo playing in a tet.”It’s a piece that sounds as if the mystic ing at the strings with his bow, as though the piece entitled “Emily’s Reel,”his bass had the minimalists Henryk Górecki and Arvo Pärt bass were playing him. Sometimes the two of doleful, ethereal sound of a remote echo. In had suddenly gone down home. In the mid- them, swaying in tandem, seemed entirely a gorgeous oddity,“Druid Fluid,”which braid- ’80s, Meyer founded a band, Strength in Num- lost in the music together. Watching this mat- ed together strains of Baroque music, folk bers, which specialized in a highly sophisticated ing dance, I was reminded of something Susan tunes, and blues, the instrument embraced form of bluegrass, dubbed “newgrass.”Although Ranney, the principal bass player of the Los moody lyricism and dronelike percussive- the group made only one recording, The Tel- Angeles Chamber Orchestra, said to me: “I ness. Meyer produces the kind of straight tone luride Sessions, in 1989, bootleg tapes of its don’t consider that Edgar and I play the same favored by early-music specialists, and it gave performances are highly prized in college- instrument. He is a soul that has decided to everything he played a raw, unmanufactured town record stores. Through Strength in Num- locate itself in a bass.” quality—demonstrating that even this burly bers, Meyer became involved with some of In the classical music world, bassists have instrument could be made to sound as plain- the most inventive nonclassical instrumen- long struggled for respect. David Finckel, the tive as any wailing guitar. talists in the country. His 1997 recording cellist of the Emerson String Quartet, regards When the trio launched into several O’Con- Uncommon Ritual, a collaboration with the Meyer as “unquestionably up there with the nor compositions from Appalachian Journey, great improvisatory banjo player Béla Fleck great players on any instrument.”Nonethe- the music slid perilously close to the old-timey and guitarist Mike Marshall, ranges from a less, he finds it odd that a musician of Meyer’s soundtrack of a sepia-bathed Ken Burns doc- transcription of a Bach fugue to bluegrass caliber would devote himself to so limited an

“The bass doesn’t appeal to me. I am the bass.” Edgar Meyer

umentary. But in Meyer’s pieces the music and swing. On Short Trip Home, which Sony instrument.“It’s easy to understand why one went beyond generalized nostalgia to create released last year and which is perhaps his would take up the violin or cello or flute,” a world that had the strange yet familiar feel- most exhilarating album to date, Meyer and Finckel says.“But why one would freely choose ing of a Cornell box. Baroque figuration Marshall joined Joshua Bell and the legendary to take up the double bass is beyond me.” bumped up against country heartache; the mandolin player Sam Bush in a brilliantly Gary Karr, who is the best-known rhythmic and harmonic thorniness of mod- fresh argument for bluegrass as a smart, unpre- classical-bass soloist of the generation before ern classical music merged with the twangy dictable—and completely unpretentious— Meyer’s, says that one reason for the instru- bravado of bluegrass. Occasionally, as in a form of American classical music. ment’s low esteem among classical musicians piece entitled “Schizoozy,”there was a raw Bass players are generally the most sta- is that the opportunities for self-display come FIRSTBass JIM MCGUIRE blast of energy that summoned up the spir- tionary of musicians, setting loose their fin- down mostly to several concertos by the UNDER EDGAR MEYER’S TENDER it of ’70s hard rock. gers and arms while keeping their torsos and less than household name of Giovanni Bottesi- ne evening a few months ago, “I’ve unconsciously been doing a survey legs still. Meyer’s relationship with his instru- ni, a 19th-century bass virtuoso and a com- three of the world’s top string MINISTRATIONS, THE “BULLFROG OF of all the music I’ve ever heard,”Meyer told ment, however, is intensely physical. At Lin- poser of romantic showiness. Karr can catalogue players gathered at Avery Fish- THE ORCHESTRA” TAKES WINGS me before the concert. “Most of the music coln Center, he sometimes draped himself the indignities he has endured on behalf of Oer Hall to offer a cheerful I’ve become interested in is hybrid in its ori- demonstration of the hybrid state of Amer- Meyer, adjunct associate professor of bass best-seller on the classical/crossover charts, gins. It’s real hard to find a pure strain of any- MEYER RECEIVES TOP PRIZE ican classical music.Yo-Yo Ma, the most cel- at Vanderbilt’s Blair School of Music, is a musi- and whose follow-up album, Appalachian thing. Classical music, of course, is unbelievably ebrated cellist of his generation, was seated cal chameleon who is equally at home sup- Journey, had just been released. The program hybrid. Jazz is an obvious amalgam. Bluegrass Edgar Meyer became the first bassist to receive the top award for stage left. Across from him stood Mark O’Con- plying the bass line for Schubert’s “Trout” began with a piece entitled “lB,”which Meyer comes from 18th-century Scottish and Irish American classical instrumentalists last October when he was named nor, a lanky, long-haired violinist who won Quintet, working as a studio musician for composed as a violin exercise for his eight- folk music that made contact with the blues. winner of the Avery Fisher Prize. The award recognizes outstanding fiddling contests in Texas as a child and who Emmylou Harris and Garth Brooks, and play- year-old son, George. Like much of his music, By exploring music, you’re exploring every- achievement and excellence in music and includes a $50,000 prize. has six times been named Musician of the ing the demanding solo part in his own con- it had an immediacy that was at once child- thing.” Begun in 1974 and named for the late philanthropist, the Avery Year by the Country Music Association. Stand- certo for double bass and orchestra. (Along like and sophisticated—a whirling tuneful- It’s never been easy to know what to expect Fisher Prize is not awarded every year. In 26 years it has gone to only ing between them was the 40-year-old bass with Ma and the Boston Symphony Orches- ness wrapped in trancelike rhythms that from Edgar Meyer. In the late ’80s, he released 16 individuals. Previous winners include pianist André Watts, cellist player Edgar Meyer, who may be the most tra, he helped open last summer’s Tangle- evoked the chaotic choreography of kids in a series of recordings on MCA that ranged Yo-Yo Ma, and violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg. Clarinetist David remarkable virtuoso in the relatively unchron- wood Music Festival with a performance of a playground. For the most part, Meyer stayed from jazz and contemporary classical to ambi- Shifrin also won the prize in 2000. icled history of his instrument. his Double Concerto for Cello and Bass.) in the background, content to supply a thump- ent music and the blues. These albums, which Mark Wait, dean of the Blair School of Music, says Meyer winning On this occasion, he was rejoining a trio ing beat while Ma and O’Connor matched pushed the vogue for eclecticism to the point the Fisher Prize “is a just recognition of his amazing talent and unique place in the music world today.” Reprinted with permission from New Yorker magazine, whose 1996 album of rough-hewn riffs and each other with virtuosic, muscular bowing. of incoherence, were an early instance of what July 24, 2000 issue. Copyright © 2000 by Mark Levine. keening folk tunes, Appalachia Waltz, was a But when the music called for Meyer to seize the classical violinist Joshua Bell calls “Edgar-

12 VANDERBILT MAGAZINE WINTER/SPRING 2001 13 his bass, and placed respectably.“I think peo- real middle-of-the-road: Bach, Mozart, “I don’t consider that Edgar and I play the same instrument. ple’s response was along the lines of ‘Wow, the Beethoven. My music is probably a little con- dog can talk,’”he says. servative in that it’s so rooted in the old guys. He is a soul that has decided to locate itself in a bass.” Meyer seems entirely comfortable mov- I think 20th-century guys have probably fig- Susan Ranney, principal bass player, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra ing between his home in country music’s cap- ured out a lot of neat stuff that I don’t really ital and his forays into the classical world, know about. And I certainly plan on catching the instrument: the conductors who have lic schools. He started his son on the bass at “I spent a lot of time jamming with a couple between his itinerant life as a collaborative more of that as I get older. But that wasn’t ordered him to lower his volume to the point the age of five. When Meyer turned 10, his of buddies—a trombonist and a bassoon- player and the solitude it takes to compose. what brought me into music. As a composer, of inaudibility (“The bass,”he says gloomily, father presented him with the gift of a $25 bass ist—just doing free-improv stuff. I played “It would feel unnatural for me to separate I probably try to combine the things that excit- “is the bullfrog of the orchestra.”); the times of nebulous Czech origins, a scarred specimen piano in high school jazz bands, and I played performing from writing music,”he told me. ed me about music when I was a kid.” he has stood in baggage-claim areas and that, with its top removed, had been used as a bass for the church choir, and my dad and I “For me, it’s all continuous. I can’t think of watched his 17th-century Amati get jammed planter. The elder Meyer had did a lot of weddings and bar mitzvahs.”For any living composers who are at the level of A Musical Egalitarian coming down the chute. a large collection of jazz years, Meyer thought of becoming a math- accomplishment as performers that we imag- Meyer’s popular successes have placed him in Then why devote recordings, featuring such ematician, and today his favorite airplane ine Beethoven and Mozart and Bach were. But danger of being tagged with the most poiso- your life to it? Karr reading is books about math. But after a year a lot of the leading jazz players write their own nous epithet among serious music lovers: Edgar Meyer, his wife, Connie Heard, and their son, George, enjoy a trip to Canada last August says,“From Day One, Appalachian Journey, an at Georgia Tech he changed his mind and music and play it. It’s the same with a lot of “crossover.”As far as Meyer is concerned, how- in what was “probably our first family vacation I felt that the bass was Edgar Meyer collaboration, enrolled in Indiana University’s School of bluegrass musicians. Whatever one thinks ever, he’s not crossing over into anything; he’s where neither of us was working,” Heard says. part of my body. Its received a Grammy award in Music. From the outset, he knew that the stan- of Rachmaninoff’s achievement as a com- just doing what he wants to do. And he has Meyer, who has been called “quite simply, the best February. Performing with bassist alive,” is adjunct associate professor of sound was my sound. Meyer on the CD are cellist dard career path for a classically trained poser, I find the degree of continuity between made believers of those in the top rank of clas- bass at the Blair School of Music. Heard, an asso- If chocolate could sing, Yo-Yo Ma and fiddler Mark bassist—vying for orchestral positions and his playing and writing to be quite natural.” sical performers who have played his music. ciate professor of violin at Blair and member of the it would sound like the O’Connor. Last year Short taking one’s dutiful place on the periphery of We were in his upstairs studio in Nashville, Carter Brey, the principal cellist of the New highly acclaimed Blair String Quartet, is also the Trip Home received a Gram- double bass.” the musical action—didn’t suit him.“There a small room with sloping ceilings, bare walls, York Philharmonic who joined Meyer for a daughter of Alexander Heard, Vanderbilt Chan- my nomination. It features cellor, Emeritus. Continuing in the gifted family tra- Meyer says simply, Meyer, violinist Joshua Bell, was no chance of that,”he says.“I was inter- and a floor strewn with sheet music, faxes, and performance of the Double Concerto for Cello dition, George, eight, is a budding violinist. “The bass doesn’t appeal mandolin player Sam Bush, ested in music—which includes much more CDs.“I was always writing music,”Meyer says. and Bass in Los Angeles last year, says that to me. I am the bass.” and guitarist Mike Marshall. than the orchestral repertoire.” “I wrote whatever I felt like. As a kid, I wrote Meyer’s music, with its rhythmic complica- “I came on him while he was standing by him- If Meyer had any model at all, it was the a lot of little pop songs, then I started writing tions and its demands for spare, unmannered self next to a tree, watching a stream. He The Young Master bass stars as Ray Brown, Paul Chambers, and boundary-leaping trumpeter Wynton Marsalis. pieces to play with my friends. If they were sound,“jolted me out of a complacent way of was swaying and gyrating, as if he were lost “My parents tell me that I’ve wanted to play Ron Carter, but every Sunday, all day long, he But Meyer’s teacher at Indiana, Stuart Sankey, classical players, it would be written-out stuff, thinking about how to play a string instru- in some inner music.” the bass ever since I was two,”Meyer said to played classical music.“That,”Meyer says,“was discouraged eclecticism. Sankey, who was also and if they were improvising players it would ment. You have to put your classical training Meyer is a musical dreamer whose work me one recent afternoon. We were sitting on my childhood religious experience.” Gary Karr’s teacher, told me, “I really didn’t be a melody, and then we’d improvise over it.” in a drawer for a while to play Edgar’s music. belongs to that essentially optimistic strain in unpainted rocking chairs on the screened- Meyer made extraordinary progress on think it was a good idea for Edgar to straddle Before long, he began composing for his own He doesn’t want the fatty, supercharged sound American music which connects Ives to Fourth in porch of his house in Nashville, where he the instrument with seemingly little effort. As classical and jazz. The demands are just too instrument.“If I wanted to have a cool piece that those of us trained in the tradition of the of July bands, Copland to cowboy songs, Bern- lives with his wife, violinist Connie Heard, a child, he rarely practiced more than 45 min- different, and I tried to convince Edgar that to play with my friends, I knew I’d have to Russian School produce.” stein to Broadway, Philip Glass to MTV.“I’d associate professor of violin at the Blair School utes a day. (This continues to be the case.) At he’d have to make a choice. He kept refusing.” write it. It’s always been that way for me—just Joshua Bell says,“Edgar’s music only seems say that a big piece of what I’m doing is try- and member of the Blair String Quartet, and the same time, since the category of child Meyer supplemented his classical training with writing stuff for people I know.” simple from the outside. It’s actually amaz- ing to get in touch with the underlying uni- their son, George. Meyer, who was wearing prodigy does not extend to bassists, he did not gigs as an accompanist for a black gospel choir, The boundaries between performance and ingly intricate. That’s a pretty tough trick.” versal principles of music,”he told me one white sneakers, rumpled khakis, and an untucked envision a musical career. a Latin band, and a country singer; he also composition have started to relax in recent David Finckel, of the Emerson Quartet, puts day, without a hint of grandiosity.“I do think shirt, looked boyishly unkempt. A bulky man “I grew up really laid back on the instru- played improvisational jazz piano at bars. years—both Philip Glass and Steve Reich, for Meyer in the company of other American that there are some root principles that show with the physique of an ex-linebacker, he spoke ment, thinking it was just a blast,”he says. Once, as a lark, he entered a fiddle contest on example, perform their own music with their composers who were once disparaged for being up wherever there’s exciting music—broad, shyly, as if it might seem immodest to talk too own ensembles—but the feeling that virtu- too accessible.“We need to remember that in basic things, like melody and rhythm. These much about himself. 2000 Barber & Meyer Violin Concertos performed by Hilary Hahn oso performers are not to be taken seriously the ’60s and ’70s there was a violent reac- things have the force of nature behind them. “My parents took pictures of me holding Bach: Unaccompanied Cello Suites performed by Edgar Meyer as composers persists. Meyer may be partic- tion against Copland, Bernstein, Barber,”he Trying to get around melody and rhythm is TO HEAR MORE a broom and a vine, pretending I’m playing,” Appalachian Journey performed by Edgar Meyer, Yo-Yo Ma, ularly vulnerable in this regard, given his lack says.“Edgar is writing what he loves and believes like fighting gravity.” he said.“It’s not real mysterious. The bass was and Mark O’Connor of academic credentials as a composer; in any in, and anybody who does that runs the risk When I asked David Shifrin, the artistic my father’s instrument, and I loved him and 1999 Short Trip Home performed by Edgar Meyer, Joshua Bell, case, he is typically understated about his com- of condescension.”Yo-Yo Ma says,“If people director of the Chamber Music Society of Lin- looked up to him. From before I can remem- Sam Bush, and Mike Marshall posing ambitions.“I took a couple of lessons think his music is simplistic, they should try coln Center, about Meyer’s all-embracing ber, my identity was as a bass player.” 1998 Meyer, Quintet; Rorem, String Quartet No. 4 performed by in composition once, and I wasn’t liking it too to play it. And if they read Edgar himself as approach, he said, “Edgar isn’t blending two Meyer’s father, who was also named Edgar the Emerson String Quartet with Edgar Meyer much,”he says. “A lot of my instruction was unsophisticated they need to read again.” or more worlds—he’s living in a single very and who died in 1988, grew up on a farm out- accidental—reading my dad’s college text- Carter Brey recalls going on an outing with large world.”As Meyer himself put it,“Music 1997 Uncommon Ritual performed by Edgar Meyer, Béla Fleck, side Chattanooga. Self-taught on the instru- and Mike Marshall books when I was a kid, picking up things Meyer when they were both performing in is just the best place to be.” ment, he toured the South with jazz bands from my friends. But that’s about it. When I the Seattle area.“A group of us were walking 1996 Appalachia Waltz performed by Edgar Meyer, Yo-Yo Ma, Mark Levine teaches poetry at the University of before settling in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where and Mark O’Connor hear something I like, I try to figure it out and in the woods on Mt. Rainier, and at one point Iowa Writer’s Workshop. His most recent book of he directed the string program in the local pub- add it to what I do. My classical influences are Edgar separated himself from us,”Brey says. poems, Enola Gay, was published in April 2000.

14 VANDERBILT MAGAZINE WINTER/SPRING 2001 15 In the Company of

ANDERBILT HAS ALWAYS LOVED ITS TREES. years has been responsible for the planting of many Vanderbilt trees, Bishop Holland McTyeire planted them, nurtured them, and including the magnolia screens that line West End and 21st avenues. loved them so well that whenever one had to be felled in the In 1988, the Vanderbilt campus was granted official arboretum name of progress, he felt compelled to turn his back. James Kirk- status by the American Association of Botanical Gardens and Arbore- land, Vanderbilt’s second chancellor, found their loss so painful ta. Vanderbilt’s collection of trees focuses on native species main- that he was said by his biographer to leave town on occasion to avoid tained to look much as they would in nature, with a minimum of witnessing their destruction. Chancellor Harvie Branscomb felt suf- pruning or shearing. Many of them are identified with tags, thanks ficient remorse about sac- to a 1968 gift made by Mrs. rificing two choice bald James Mapheus Smith, a cypresses to make way for former Vanderbilt librari- Kissam Quadrangle that, an, in honor of her husband, upon his retirement, he paid who earned a Vanderbilt for replacements out of his doctorate in 1931. own pocket. “Quite a number of other Trees, some of them colleges and universities older than the United States, have arboreta,”notes Pam have provided shelter against Sevy, University landscape VANDERBILT PHOTOGRAPHICARCHIVES DESPITE DROUGHT, STARLINGS, BULLDOZERS, AND HUMANS, soggy May Commence- architect.“But they are more VANDERBILT’S TREES ENDURE ments. They have yielded commonly found among branches and berries and universities with a horti-

by GayNelle Doll cones for a hundred hang- culture or landscape ings of the greens. They have department. What also provided samples for gen- makes Vanderbilt’s arbore- erations of Nashville school- Vanderbilt’s original 75-acre campus was largely treeless, so saplings were planted along- tum stand out is that it’s not children’s leaf identification side new building construction, evident in this early photo of Benson Science Hall, erected a separate entity. The entire projects. They have endured in 1880. Many of the young trees were taken from the hills surrounding Hillsboro Pike. campus is an arboretum.” the insults of countless poster nails, Hitchcock-esque invasions of That’s good for the people who study and work at Vanderbilt, but starlings—and a few errant student drivers. not always ideal for the trees. “We can’t just set spindly baby trees If you have visited campus recently, witnessed the ubiquitous sil- out there in the middle of a big lawn where people might be tempt- houette of construction cranes against the winter sky, and wondered ed to take shortcuts,”Sevy says.“We have to buy good-sized, sturdy how long the trees could hold their own against the relentless march specimens to give trees a fighting chance.” of progress, rest assured. Vanderbilt’s trees, numbering perhaps 6,000 Sevy, who is primarily responsible for choosing the new trees that by one educated guess, are as cherished as ever, though no one has Vanderbilt plants each fall and winter, concentrates on species that left town lately at the prospect of a sycamore’s demise. In an average do well in the Nashville region and are naturally disease-resistant. Most year Vanderbilt plants several hundred trees to replace those that are bought from nurseries around McMinnville, Tennessee. Vander- have fallen victim to age, disease, or the stress of living amidst thou- bilt’s trees generally are tough enough to withstand the drought con- sands of humans. ditions of the past two years. But it’s possible to kill them with kindness. “Vanderbilt has one of the most beautiful and well-maintained cam- “We want trees, but people also enjoy green lawns,”says Sevy. puses in the country,”observes William Shain, director of admissions. “Our mature trees grew up not having sup- “The trees are a major part of that. Our surveys of admitted students plemental water until about 10 years ago show that the campus setting is a powerful draw in attracting students.” when we began irrigating our large open An 1879 catalog published six years after Vanderbilt’s founding The lawn spaces. Some of the trees, particu- TREES shows that the campus already featured at least 300 species of trees and of Vanderbilt larly sugar maples, haven’t handled it real shrubs. Bishop McTyeire, the University’s visionary first president and well. In a forest setting, instead of lawn tireless promoter, transformed what was largely treeless land, planting dozens of species himself, including magnolias, elms, tulip poplars, and The University’s Office of Publications and Design published The Trees of Vanderbilt in 1994. Seven

GERALD HOLLY the zelkovas that still grow near the Divinity School. Many were saplings taken from the hills of Hillsboro Pike and raised in an arboretum on different walks on campus are described in this SEVEN WALKS small volume, along with information about many THROUGH THE campus. VANDERBILT native American species found in Vanderbilt’s UNIVERSITY Trees, lawns, and bedding plants make for a beautiful campus, but they sometimes require different conditions to thrive. Irrigation kills more trees on Chancellor Kirkland’s wife, Elizabeth, organized faculty wives and ARBORETUM arboretum. Copies are available at the Vander- campus than does drought. other women to form the Vanderbilt Garden Club, which over the bilt Bookstore for $10.95 each; call 615/343-4369.

16 VANDERBILT MAGAZINE WINTER/SPRING 2001 17 you’d find fallen leaves and rotted wood, which sets up a wonder- the grounds each day looking for weak or dead wood and removing nition by the Tennessee state forester as Tennessee State Champion ful kind of biological soup for fungi that draw on the nutrients at it before it creates a hazard for humans. Trees—the largest known of their specimen. They include a sweet- the tree roots. That’s what really makes trees happy.” It’s not a job for sissies. Besides being willing to climb tall trees bay magnolia, southern hackberry, Japanese zelkova, swamp white with only a rope and saddle, you have to expect the unexpected.“We oak, Chinese scholartree, Ohio buckeye, and hedge maple, or Eng- Revenge of the Trees couldn’t cut a holly recently because there was a nest of yellow jack- lish field maple. Trees also suffer from soil compacted by lawn mowers, ets that was way too active,”Pent says. As society has become increasingly mobile, and homeowners are other heavy equipment—and rarefied scholarly hot air. Squirrels whose nests are threatened can turn aggressive. Juniper less likely to have the time or space to plant the slow-growing mag- An elm that flourished outside the Peabody Admin- branches scratch the skin. And there’s the weather. “The cold does- nificent kings of the tree hierarchy like white oaks and beeches, Van- istration Building was known as the tree of knowledge. n’t bother me. You can put on enough clothes,”Langley says.“But in derbilt’s venerable trees become more valuable than ever. Educational administrators gathered under its summertime canopy the heat of summer it’s pretty tough up there.” Now, in the quiet cool months of a Tennessee winter, with lawns for discussions. When it died, Peabody president Bruce Payne wrote Still, there are compensations for working on Vanderbilt’s trees. dormant and leaves raked, Vanderbilt’s gardeners are still pruning, in 1936 that it had been talked to death. “Climbing demands a bit of engineering,”says Pent. “It takes phys- planning, and planting more trees for posterity. With any luck, one Most of the time trees suffer in silence to the human insults inflict- ical and mental skills. For me, it’s quite a rush.” day some of them will be champions, too. ed on them. Occasionally they strike back. “Students stop and ask us what we’re doing,”Langley adds.“Their “Two years ago a coed was walking under a tree when a hedge most frequent question is,‘You’re not cutting down that tree, are you?’” GayNelle Doll is an assistant editor of VANDERBILT MAGAZINE. apple fell and struck her on the head,”remembers Mark Petty, who as director of general services oversees day-to-day maintenance of Planting for Posterity Vanderbilt’s grounds. “We don’t plant persimmon trees anymore, As Vanderbilt has undergone a building growth spurt, DAVID JOHNSON but we’ve got one in front of Branscomb that drops fruit on the side- the need for space and the pressure on trees and other walk. It’s slippery and we spend a lot of time washing it off. plantings grows. But University officials are keenly “Anything with nuts is a prob- aware that Vanderbilt’s trees are part of its identity. Above: Among the rarest trees on campus are these Japanese zelkovas lem,”adds Sevy. “And the fruit growing between the Divinity School and the Owen Graduate School of Man- “In a number of cases, construction decisions have been driven from female ginkgo trees creates agement. Bishop Holland McTyeire planted Vanderbilt’s zelkovas as well by the desire to maintain existing trees and green space,”notes Sevy. a real odor problem. Until recent- as many other trees on campus. And even if most of those involved agree that a particular tree should ly you couldn’t tell the males from Left: Campus planners generally avoid planting trees with messy fruits, but go, it still has a chance of survival. these crabapples growing near the Law School compensate for a bit of untidi- the females before they were 10 ness with spectacular spring flowers and, later in the season, fruits that pro- “Everybody here that deals with trees has what we call our favorite or 12 years old and started bear- vide brilliant color and feasts for resident birds. ‘ugly’ tree—the one tree on campus that everybody else wants to cut GERALD HOLLY ing fruit. Nowadays you can buy down but that we’ve adopted,”Petty says. Petty’s own ugly tree is a male clones, but we still have plen- the ice storm that paralyzed Nashville in 1994, Vanderbilt’s grounds horse chestnut growing close to his office on the Peabody campus. ty of stinky females around.” crews and contracted tree surgeons spent three months cleaning up “My favorite ugly tree is the mulberry in Fleming Yard,”Pent says. The fan-shaped leaves of the ginkgo tree have been found in fossils that date Last year during Reunion a broken branches and damaged trees. “It has only four or five branches left, but the trunk is white and flaky back 280 million years. Kernels of their plumlike fruits are considered a

DAVID JOHNSON delicacy by the Chinese, but the fruit’s outside flesh is famous for its obnox- maple crashed to the ground On a day-to-day basis, two of Vanderbilt’s landscape gardeners, and beautiful to me. There’s not much left to it, but what there is I’ve ious odor. Recent cloning technology has made it easier to obtain odor-free between Calhoun and Garland Peter Pent and Lee Langley, are primarily responsible for the Uni- climbed up into and tried to make pretty.” male ginkgoes. The ginkgoes pictured here grow outside the Hobbs Labo- Hall after a rainstorm. Following versity’s tree and shrub maintenance. Part of their job is patrolling Seven trees on the Vanderbilt campus have achieved official recog- ratory on the Peabody campus. M NOTABLE NOTORIOUS Most reviled species Most impressive comeback by a species: Most ardent non-human fans: on campus: Dawn redwoods, now growing near the A toss-up between the squirrels and the The inaptly named tree Divinity School, were known only by fossil starlings that developed an unhealthy of heaven (ailanthus records until the 1940s, when living obsession for Vanderbilt’s magnolias in altissima). Imported specimens were found in China. the mid-’90s. Fortunately, says Mark from the Orient because Petty, who oversees grounds maintenance, Tallest tree on campus: it grows fast and survives “Starlings don’t have long life spans. We

A willow oak estimated to be Nominee for the M

street conditions, it Biggest by-product: M ran them off with loud noises that made Methuselah award: 80 to 90 feet tall. Vanderbilt becomes huge. It’s also Leaves. Millions of ’em. their lives uncomfortable and after doing The massive bur oak inherited it by acquiring the weak-wooded, unstable, Vanderbilt’s compost that for a generation or so, their habits near Garland Hall, Bill Wilkerson Hearing and and messy.“It should be heap, located at 31st and changed and they went elsewhere.” growing at the time Speech Center at the corner renamed the weed of Blakemore avenues, is of the American of 19th and Edgehill avenues. hell,”comments bigger than a football field Revolution and also GERALD HOLLY

Vanderbilt landscape NEIL BRAKE and grows to 10 feet high known as the gardener Peter Pent. during leaf-raking season. bicentennial oak. GERALD HOLLY 18 & VANDERBILT MAGAZINE WINTER/SPRING 2001 19 Dr. Clifford Garrard Jr., BA’58,MD’62, a to attend church on Sunday, yet he never former classmate and now a retired cardiol- called attention to his religion.” ogist, says Gotto’s work has greatly enhanced “His work has defined At the end of his second year abroad, Gotto understanding of heart disease. “His work interrupted his studies long enough to marry has defined basic problems of arteriosclero- basic problems of Anita Stafford. The pair had met as teenagers sis, coronary disease, and heart attacks,”Gar- at 4-H camp. Gotto was immediately smit- rard says. “His trial studies have shown us arteriosclerosis, ten. Anita was unimpressed. In his senior how to treat cholesterol metabolism with year, when Gotto was elected student body medication that blocks the pathways which coronary disease, president, Anita took a closer look.“I figured deposit arterial plaque.” he must have something I’d missed,”she Garrard, who nominated Gotto for the and heart attacks.” remembers. Vanderbilt award, remembers being seated Dr. Clifford Garrard Jr., BA’58, MD’62 When Gotto sailed for Oxford, he left next to Gotto many years ago in organic Anita Stafford working toward a Peabody chemistry class.“Tony went about his work teaching degree. When she was graduated in quickly and methodically, and always fin- 1959, he came to fetch her for an extended ished when I was still getting started,”Gar- grandfather and namesake, a feisty Italian honeymoon in Europe. After they returned rard says. “Our exams were graded on the youth who set sail from Genoa to America, to Nashville, Anita taught school until the curve, and Tony was always up there at the joined the notorious 19th-century adven- birth of their first daughter. Tony earned his top by himself. He was an extremely smart turer General William Walker on an ill-fated medical degree in 1965. He served a resi- fellow—but also a very nice fellow. Through- expedition to Latin America, and, according dency at Massachusetts General Hospital in out our careers I would see him from time to family lore, witnessed Walker’s execution Boston. From there, they went to Bethes- to time at professional meetings, and he was before a firing squad. da, Maryland, where he fulfilled a military always the same pleasant gentleman as he Besides his great-grandfather, Gotto’s boy- obligation at the National Institutes of Health. was back in school.” hood heroes included Franklin Roosevelt With three little girls—Jennifer, born in STEVE HALIN Gotto grew up in tiny Una, Tennessee, the and Adlai Stevenson. Gotto still remembers 1964, Gillian in 1968, and Teresa in 1970— only son of a Methodist Publishing House hearing Stevenson speak in Nashville.“I was the Gottos lived an idyllic life. But it would employee and a schoolteacher. As a young- certainly impressed,”he says. “I’d had a lot not last. At ages five and eight, the two older Wise Heart ster he loved hearing tales of his great- of success on my high school debate team, girls were diagnosed with juvenile diabetes. 2000 DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS LED THE WAY and I thought I’d like to try the law and maybe The Gottos were devastated. The disease FOR UNDERSTANDING OF ATHEROSCLEROSIS public office.” had claimed Anita Gotto’s uncle prematurely The roadblock was Gotto’s father. No lover in his mid-30s. Though medical connections of lawyers, he refused to pay for his son’s legal gave them access to the best doctors and lat- education. est treatments, the family lived under a cloud. by Julia Helgason Medicine may have been Gotto’s second The uninspired meals prescribed for his choice, but he found a focus early. His expe- daughters were a significant factor in Gotto’s rience as a Rhodes Scholar fired his passion mission to promote healthy foods that taste n a field with no shortage of great minds 350 scholarly articles and several best- Gotto used the occasion less to talk about for scientific investigation and caught the good. His colleagues seemed indifferent, yet and great egos, Antonio Gotto is a para- selling books, and past president of the Amer- his work than about those faculty: Dr. Oscar attention of biochemist and Nobel prize Gotto persisted. dox. Colleagues, former classmates, and ican Heart Association and the International Touster, former chairman of molecular biol- winner Sir Hans Krebs and his associate, Meanwhile, his reputation for meticulous mentors universally praise not only the Atherosclerosis Society. Since 1997 he has ogy, who encouraged him to seek a career in Sir Hans Kornberg. When results of Gotto’s research pulled in dozens of job offers. He brilliance of his research and the profound served as the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss academic medicine; Dean Madison Sarratt, first summer’s research were published, the chose the fledgling Baylor College of Medi- Ieffect his work has had on the field of heart Dean of the Joan and Sanford I. Weill Med- who prompted him to try for a Rhodes Schol- young American was invited to the Con- cine in Houston for one reason: Michael disease, but the measure of the man himself. ical College of Cornell University where he arship; and Dr. Arthur Ingersoll, professor gress of Biochemistry in Vienna. There DeBakey. In the late ’60s, DeBakey had become Modest, unassuming, steady, and centered also is a professor of medicine and provost of organic chemistry, who urged him to pur- Krebs and Kornberg persuaded him to famous for designing and successfully implant- are all words frequently used when you ask for medical affairs. sue research. postpone medicine, continue his research, ing a booster pump to supplement failing anyone who knows Tony Gotto what he is Last October, Gotto returned to Vander- “Tony was an absolutely superior student and work toward a doctorate. hearts and keep cardiac patients alive long really like. bilt to accept the Vanderbilt Alumni Associ- in all ways,”Touster says unequivocally.“He Dale Johnson, now a professor of enough for treatment. Gotto, BA’57, MD’65, is considered one ation Distinguished Alumnus Award, the could do anything that was expected of him. church history at Vanderbilt, was a Rhodes Gotto and DeBakey became fast friends of the world’s foremost authorities in unrav- latest in a long list of honors he has received. As a senior undergraduate he audited my Scholar during the same time as Gotto. and collaborators. They coauthored The Liv- eling the complexities of atherosclerosis, the “This one I will cherish,”he said with char- graduate course in bio-organic chemistry “There was a kind of focus and clarity about ing Heart in 1977, supplemented by a later primary cause of cardiovascular disease. His acteristic modesty, “because I cherish my and made the highest grade in the class. 1957 was a banner year for Vanderbilt Tony,”Johnson remembers. “He was cen- update, The New Living Heart. Their simple Rhodes Scholars. From left, Olaf Grobel, work has greatly enhanced understanding years at Vanderbilt and the splendid faculty He was always soft-spoken, yet he exuded BA’56, Tony Gotto, BA’57, MD’65, and tered—personally, academically, and reli- prose translated complex medical infor- of the disorder. He is author of more than who gave me my start and pulled me along.” capability.” Donald Smith, BA’57, all headed to Oxford. giously. He used to take a bus some distance mation into laymen’s language, and both continued on page 43

20 VANDERBILT MAGAZINE WINTER/SPRING 2001 21 IN THE “PLACE OF SERPENTS,” VANDERBILT ARCHAEOLOGISTS UNEARTH A SPRAWLING ANCIENT CITY

by David F. Salisbury © CHRISTOPHER TALBOT/NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY Lost Kingdom REDISCOVERED

or more than a thousand years, the lacked the tall temples that signal major ruins a three-story building and we were walking dad del Valle in Guatemala.“But what is most Above: Ingram Professor of Anthropology Arthur great jungle-covered hill slept. Farm- in other nearby areas. on top of the roof,”the Ingram Professor of incredible about this site is that most of the Demarest (left) and Vanderbilt graduate student George Higginbotham (right) peer into a window Fers found the dense vegetation and Nearly four more decades passed, marked Anthropology remembers. palace is buried virtually intact. No one has on a lost world, an excavation of a room in a royal stony site unsuitable for growing crops. Archae- by civil strife that left little time for inhabi- The structure that Vanderbilt archaeolo- found anything like this since the turn of the palace built by the Maya people. Vanderbilt and ologists visited the remote corner of Guatemala tants of the region to wonder about the hill gists and teams from the United States and century.” Guatemalan archaeologists are excavating an eighth century, three-story 170-room royal palace in 1905 and determined that the site proba- bordering the Guatemalan highlands. Guatemala have since been working to unearth The vegetation-covered royal palace sits at Cancuén, Guatemala, a palace unusual in its bly had been only a minor center of ancient Then one day in 1999, Arthur Demarest is not only one of the largest and most elab- in the center of the ruins of an ancient city design and solid limestone masonry. Alejandro Maya civilization. went walking on the hill’s highest level and orate residences of ancient Maya kings dis- named Cancuén, which means “place of ser- Seijas (center) is an undergraduate student at the Universidad del Valle in Guatemala.

Sixty years went by. Harvard graduate stu- quite literally fell into another world. He DRAWING © LUIS FERNANDO LUIN/NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY covered but also one of the best preserved. pents.”It is located in a remote area of the dents visited again briefly—long enough found himself up to his armpits in vegeta- Initial survey and mapping have revealed that Petén rainforest of Guatemala that has been to identify an ancient palace that did not tion—with a solid stone base. the site is 20 times larger than previously esti- largely overlooked by archaeologists. The standable, says Demarest.“To the untrained seem to be particularly remarkable. The site “That’s when I realized the entire hill was mated, covering at least five square kilometers. expedition that has begun to map and exca- eye, the palace looks just like a great, jungle- “With more than 170 rooms built around vate the site is sponsored by Guatemala’s covered hill. Even to archaeologists much of Above: The architectural drawing in the background is an artist’s conception of a section of the sprawl- 11 courtyards in three stories, this eighth- Institute of Anthropology and History, the the palace appeared to be high, solid plat- ing palace built 1,300 years ago. Archaeologists are finding that the foliage-covered palace had more century royal palace is about the same size National Geographic Society, and Vander- forms.” than 170 rooms built around 11 courtyards on three stories and was made of fine limestone masonry. as the central acropolis in Tikal (Guatemala),” bilt University. An area of about two square kilometers Right: The Maya people of Cancuén left behind this burial vase, one of numerous artifacts found at Cancuén, Guatemala, once a large and powerful kingdom that controlled trade in precious goods in says Demarest, who heads the expedition The fact that the significance of the site around the palace is paved with stone. Over much of the Maya world. © CHRISTOPHER TALBOT/NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY with Tomás Barrientos from the Universi- went unrecognized for so long is under- time, jungle trees pushed through the stones

22 VANDERBILT MAGAZINE WINTER/SPRING 2001 23 Cancuén and far superior to anything in the ed in the past, so he tracked down some of it Petexbatun region,”Demarest says. in private and public collections. The story he At Cancuén, where archaeologists expect- has found is likely to cause major revisions in ed to find a minor center, they were surprised the scholarly views of Maya civilization. to find evidence of a much larger, richer, and Cancuén was ruled by one of the oldest more powerful kingdom, one based on con- Maya dynasties, one that was already well trol of the trade in precious commodities: established by 300 A.D. So far, researchers jade, pyrite for making mirrors, and obsid- have found no evidence that Cancuén con- ian for razor and knife blades. Thousands of ducted any major wars with its neighbors. people apparently lived at the center during Instead, Cancuén’s rulers appear to have been © CHRISTOPHERTALBOT/NATIONALGEOGRAPHICSOCIETY its peak. single-mindedly dedicated to commerce. The palace was surrounded by the homes Their location, at the beginning of the nav- and workshops of artisans, which archaeol- igable stretch of the Pasion River, the major ogists have explored. “Even the waterway used by the Maya, allowed them workmen at Cancuén were to control trade in precious commodities well-to-do. They had between the Guatemalan highlands and the teeth filled with jade jungle lowlands. Records show that they used Arthur Demarest instructs archaeology graduate students on a river expedition to Can- inlays and were their wealth to form alliances throughout the cuén.“Our discoveries are exactly the sort of stuff that captures the public imagina- buried with fine Maya world. Researchers think that the palace tion: lost cities in the jungle, tombs filled with treasures, and hieroglyphic inscriptions,” ceramic figurines had such a large number of rooms to house Archaeology, Arthur Demarest maintains, is not only about uncovering the past, but also he says.“To me, however, the most interesting aspect of our work is that we found about enhancing our present and future. “Archaeologists can’t just keep excavating ancient Cancuén in the rain forest where high civilizations aren’t even supposed to exist. with beautiful visiting royalty from their many allies. headdresses,” The fact that Cancuén appears to have ruins while the modern Maya settlements nearby are starving,” says the Vanderbilt anthropol- From an ecological standpoint, we’re trying to keep people out of the rain forest ogist, shown here near the Cancuén site at a piñata party with the children of El Zapote. because we know that large human populations will destroy it. Well, the ancient Maya, Demarest says. prospered for hundreds of years without war- who never read any of the USAID (United States Agency for International Develop- While archae- ment) literature about fragile ecosystems, built a high civilization in the rain forest with hundreds of cities.” ologists were map- Novel Restoration Effort ping the site, Guate- and established an island of dense rainfor- one of Dos Pilas site’s most exquis- malan epigrapher Fede- Could Help Modern Mayas est. The walls of the 270,000-square-foot ite structures. “It looks as if the princess rico Fahsen was reconstruct- MEXICO Tikal palace are built of solid limestone masonry brought her own artisans, because the ing the history of the site by deciphering its BELIZE While Vanderbilt archaeologists work to for the Maya area—using the ancient trea- CANCUEN and did not collapse when enveloped by the stonework on her palace is just like that at monuments. The city’s statuary had been loot- lf uncover royal treasures at Cancuén, mod- sure of the Maya civilization to benefit jungle, unlike the more typical Maya struc- f GUATEMALA HONDURAS ern Maya villagers in the area eke out a their descendants,”Demarest says. ntepec tures made from concrete and mud. Guatemala City subsistence living. Life for the descendants Cancuén is not only a lost city, but also

The palace was so well camouflaged that EL SALVADOR NICARAGUA of the ancient Mayas could improve, how- a lost natural world. In addition to the Demarest and his colleagues did not recog- ever, if Arthur Demarest’s plan works. ruins, the site contains one of the last stands nize its true size for their first two weeks at “Archaeologists can’t just keep exca- of tropical rainforest in the southern Petén the site. Like previous visitors, they also vating ancient Maya ruins while the mod- region of Guatemala, complete with endan- thought large parts of the palace were solid ern Maya settlements nearby are starving,” gered tropical species including howler platforms until Demarest fell into one of the says Demarest, Ingram Professor of Anthro- monkeys, woolly anteaters, and rare birds. courtyards. pology. He views the site now being exca- So the plans include strict environmen- The archaeologists visited Cancuén in fare and that commerce appeared to play a vated in Guatemala as an opportunity tal preservation measures. 1999 to follow up a lead from a 10-year dig far more important role in everyday life than to try a new approach to archaeological An integral part of the planning is to in northern Guatemala. Excavations at Dos religion contradicts the widespread view preservation that not only will protect the establish an educational program that will Pilas and several other sites had given them among scholars that religion and warfare ancient site but provide economic sup- train members of the local village in the a wealth of information about a highly mil- were the sources of power for Maya kings, port for the modern Maya people. various skills needed to operate an eco- itaristic city-state called Petexbatun. © CHRISTOPHERTALBOT/NATIONALGEOGRAPHICSOCIETY particularly toward the end of their domi- Demarest is attempting to raise suf- tourism center and to preserve and pro- Among the Petexbatun records, they found nance, after about 600 A.D. ficient private funding to recreate the for- tect the site. a description of a marriage alliance between “I have a book in press that I’ll have to mer splendor of the huge, labyrinthine Plans for continued archaeological a Dos Pilas prince and a Cancuén princess. revise,”Demarest says matter-of-factly. “It palace and to make it the centerpiece of a study, rainforest conservation, and indige- The small palace where the princess lived was just goes to show that you can’t believe every- new ecotourism center. nous community development are being thing you read on one dynasty’s monuments.” “We hope this project will create a carried out under the auspices of Van- model for future archaeological research derbilt’s Institute of Mesoamerican Archae- At right are a piece of an altar and a stela, or mark- in developing countries—and especially ology. er, left by the Maya people. Arthur Demarest is David F. Salisbury is assistant director of science standing at the base. and research communications at Vanderbilt.

24 VANDERBILT MAGAZINE WINTER/SPRING 2001 25 ALUMNA CAPTURES THE FACES OF WESTERN CHINA

by Stacey Irvin

s the 1999 recipient of the Photo Nomaddha carved into the cliff. The other man was accompanied by his AMargaret Stonewall Wooldridge Hamblet Award for outstanding five-year-old grandson, a typical wide-eyed, runny-nosed little guy who achievement in studio art, photog- carried three empty water bottles on a string. Both men wore the tra- rapher Stacey Irvin, BA’98, em- Hong Kong ditional Mao blue jackets and caps, and the grandfather wore lightly shaded large eyeglasses. barked on a four-month odyssey to Upon leaving the United States for Hong Kong, I had an extreme de- My guide and I were invited for tea by the man who lives at the explore the cultures of China, Tibet, sire to curl into a fetal position. I was embarking on a lifelong dream, shrine, and as we sat and talked, I learned that the man with the glasses Nepal, and Pakistan through the but an acute fear bewildered me. The world was suddenly a scary place, is a farmer and raises honeybees. He invited me to come and see his lens of her camera. Presented an- and I wanted so badly to leave the airport and go home; however, I bees and his blooming tree. Before we left the shrine, four men, three nually at Vanderbilt, the Hamblet have yet to curl up into a ball. I know I’ll be fine. Everything I am going of whom were policemen in Gansu to see and do for the next four months will be new and different— Top: Li River valley near Yangshuo. Province, came and sat with us, and far, far away from home. Middle: A toddler in Baisha, a small too. They liked my camera and my Walking down Hong Kong’s alleys—where the people are happier town near Lijiang in the Yunnan Province. Below: Taken near Xiahe, a pilgrim photographs and were very inter- to see you than those in the streets—I passed a couple of elderly ladies woman holds Tibetan prayer beads. ested in all of the places I was going at the back door of a restaurant. Earlier I had received a tip from an to see, but they were more curious expatriate: when greeting people on the street, make eye contact, smile, about the color of my hair (light brown). As we were leaving the cliff- and give them a subtle nod. After making eye contact with one of the Dali side temple, the caretaker gave us all handfuls of crackers and candies ladies, I smiled and nodded. Her eyes lit up, and she beamed as we Today I arrived in Dali from Kun- from dishes on the altar. He said it was “Buddha food.” passed. I touched her hand and held it for a moment. She seemed sur- ming and set out for a fishing vil- Then we went to visit the farmer’s “bee factory.”He gave us straw prised, but then she squeezed my hand. When I motioned for her to lage on an island in Lake Urhai. I hats with netting around them for protection, and then he wanted me let me take her photograph, she smiled and stood tall with her hands ended up on the wrong boat at a to take a picture of him with his bees next to the flowering tree. I was to her sides. She reminded me of my grandmother, hard at work, tourist-trap temple but managed slightly nervous as he pulled out a section of bees, but I just kept snap- yet warm and friendly. to escape down a road that led ping. When I asked him if he had any jars of honey for sale, he was more downhill where I saw a boat and Award includes $16,000 used by interested in offering me sips of his homemade “prince Honey Rice family on shore, so I went to get a the recipient to travel and pursue Wine,”supposedly made from the prince bee’s honey. closer look. artistic interests. A native of Dallas, Because I try to live on both Irvin earned her baccalaureate in sides of the camera, I jumped in philosophy while studying photog- the boat to talk to the two young Xiahe raphy with Don Evans, associate daughters and take a few photos, After traveling by train on the Silk professor of fine arts. She hopes to but I also jumped in to see if I could take part in the fishing experience. Route, we are now driving to Xiahe, combine her passion for travel with When the mother started bringing in the net, I decided to give it a try and like most drives in China, you photography and pursue graduate and see if I could help. The catch seemed rather disappointing to me: just have to hang on and pray. On studies in photojournalism. Antarc- only one big fish (the other one got away) and a bucket of smaller ones. my first day in Xiahe, I was given tica tops her list of future destina- I learned from the family that the thousands of tiny white translu- a guided tour of the Tibetan tions. To see more of Irvin’s images, cent fish in the seaweed were the most prized part of the catch. These Labrang Monastery where there go to www.staceyirvin.com. “silver fish” are a popular delicacy in other parts of China and Japan. are over 1,800 monks (the yellow hat sect) in residence. Pilgrims come from all over to complete Gangu clockwise circuits around every When I went to Daxiang Si to photograph the cliff-side Buddhist and holy site in the huge monastery. Daoist shrines, I met two elderly men who were reluctant to have their Men, women, and children are pictures taken. Their fear dated to the Cultural Revolution when they dressed in thick coats with long sleeves almost touching the ground could have been punished for having their photograph taken with a and straw or felt hats. Everyone has a string of prayer beads that are foreigner. One of the men lives on the actual cliff side inside a small constantly in motion between their fingers. The Lamas wear deep pink Top: A Uighur man in Hotan wears a traditional wool hat. Above: In the Pamir Mountains, photographer Stacey Irvin cave with a Daoist shrine. His bed is located right next to an altar for robes and quietly make their way around town. (second from right), BA’98, poses with a group of Tajik traders on the road to the Pakistan border. the Daoist god of medicine, and his job is to tend to the giant Bud- Within the monastery halls, yak butter lamps glow brightly and

26 VANDERBILT MAGAZINE WINTER/SPRING 2001 27 embroidered cloth hangs from the I pulled out my camera, and ceiling over the large square cush- Hotan everyone had to look through the ions used by the monks while And I thought I’d been to markets. Today I spent a few hours wan- viewfinder. Of course there was studying or chanting. Light seeps dering around the Hotan Sunday Bazaar. It reminded me of an an- pushing, grabbing, and posing through small windows near the cient dusty Home Depot/Super Wal-Mart outdoors and densely for the camera. They also loved center of the ceiling and sets the packed with people and donkey carts—huge trees cut for lumber, giving me high fives and saying tapestries aglow. From floor to fresh handmade wood furniture, doors carved and colorfully painted, “all right.”Sometimes I feel like ceiling, rows of small niches house endless rows of fabrics, mountains of freshly cooked noodles, tons the pied piper, but with a cam- brightly wrapped scriptures, and of hanging lamb carcasses, smoking shish kebabs, knife sharpeners era, as children follow me until I you can hear Lamas chanting in take their photo. their deep guttural voices through- Left: Two young boys out the halls. in a rural village near I set up my tripod to photo- Peshawar in north- Kathmandu ern Pakistan. Below: graph pilgrims as they passed Uighur musical instru- Here I am in Kathmandu listen- through a door to the prayer wheels. ments on display in ing to a Patty Griffin tape. My friend Several young Tibetan girls and a storefront. Marcella arrived from the States men came over to look through Left: A Uighur woman sells vegeta- to join me, and I think I have be- bles in Kashgar. Above: Tajik children my viewfinder—this is the sim- play soccer in a village called Tashkur- come slightly more homesick. At plest gift I can give to these peo- gan. The boy on the left has stickers the same time I feel a panic setting ple. I was greeted with bursts of on his hand, a gift from Irvin. in with the reality that this trip is “Hello, what is your name? How coming to an end. I am already an- are you?”from young monks. Just ticipating the self-criticism I will inflict upon myself when I’m finally a few years ago, everyone would home sitting in front of a massive stack of contact sheets. yell in Chinese the word “lao wei” Travel is definitely a displacement. But what will I do with this part when they saw a foreigner. Now at work with sparks flying. Tables were stacked with baskets of fresh of my education? How can I take these travel experiences and trans- “hello” has become the universal bread, walnuts, and pomegranates, and there were cases full of watches, form them? I have witnessed people’s daily activities; I have tasted their way to identify a foreigner, often earrings, and other shiny objects. food, tried to speak their languages, and listened to their music. I followed by lots of laughter, espe- But my favorite vendors were the paint salesmen. They sat with have read their faces, seen the sweat on their brows and the dirt on their cially if you respond. Above: A Uighur man near containers of fluorescent powdered pigments and would measure hands, and the love within their families. It’s so much easier to observe Kashgar in Xinjiang Province. Below: Two young Uighur out scoops of powders and mix them together while carefully weigh- when you are displaced. men sell bagels in the “old ing the amount. Many of the salesmen were covered in dusty reds We live in a world of constant misconceptions, assumptions, and Hami town” of Kashgar. and purples, their hands and faces almost permanently stained. I inflated fears; however, people should realize how much we all have in This was the first place I’ve come took some photos of one vendor with a deep pink-colored face common. The love and strength I’ve witnessed across cultures, reli- in contact with the Uighur people, and sparkling gray-blue eyes with a great ivory smile. gions, nationalities, and ages have proven invaluable to my under- one of China’s many minority standing of humanity. I’ve had over a hundred cups of tea with people groups. Uighurs are of Turkish de- who spoke little or no English, yet we were “each other’s company,”de- scent, and their striking physical Tashkurgan spite the presence of vast differences. characteristics are an interesting On the drive to Tashkurgan we stopped while I photographed an old mix of European, Middle Eastern, Tajik man who was riding a mule with his granddaughter and lead- and Asian features. ing two camels with huge loads of hay packed on their backs. It The morning light was won- was an incredible sight that really summoned the ideas I’ve had of derful as I photographed men bak- ancient Silk Road traders. ing bread in big round ovens that I wandered across a field to a Tajik village where some little boys open from above like a giant vase were starting up a soccer game among the flocks of grazing sheep. made of earth. They place the round, When I made it down to the field, I sat down to watch the boys play. flat pieces of dough on the inside Slowly a couple of them came and sat near me until they mustered walls of these kiln-like ovens and up enough nerve to get closer. Soon the whole group was surrounding then peel them off when they’re me, babbling, smiling, and showing great interest in my camera bag. baked. I stopped by a farmhouse I showed them my photos and gave them all football and baseball to buy bread from a Uighur woman. stickers. They all must have been around seven to 10 years old with Inside the main room of her house the exception of one younger girl in khaki dungarees, a red sweater was a window in the ceiling that vest, tiny earrings, red painted nails, a penciled on uni-brow, and illuminated the wooden crate of of course, extremely short hair. Her eyes were as big as her smile, and A Tajik man traveling high up in the Pamir Mountains leads two camels loaded freshly baked round bread. they lit up her dirty round face. with hay.

28 VANDERBILT MAGAZINE WINTER/SPRING 2001 29 A WOMAN’S LIFE LESSONS FROM WARFARE In Her Own Time, edited by Jeanne Stevenson-Moessner, A Question of Character: Life Lessons to Learn From Mil- BA’70,Fortress Press, 387 pp. including notes, $21 paper- itary History coauthored by Thad A. Gaebelein, MA’90,and back Ron P.Simmons, 169 pp. including bibliography, Red Brick B OOKS From adolescence to maturity, premenstrual to menopausal, Press, $14.95 hardcover and life to death, women mark time through developmental For years, the pinstriped power-brokers of the Fortune 500 have EPISTLES FROM “RED” gle and reconciliation with this question of poetic and theologi- passages uniquely their own. In Her Own Time, edited by Jeanne consumed the wisdom of Sun Tzu’s The Art of War because of the Stevenson-Moessner, is a guidebook for the pastoral care of women Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren,Volume One:The cal appropriateness is examined most authoritatively by Milton- ancient battle manual’s applicability to the business world. Fol- ian scholar Phillip Edward Phillips, assistant professor of English that provides a theological framework for their emotional, phys- lowing on that phenomenon, authors Thad A. Gaebelein and Ron Apprentice Years,1924–1934, edited, with an introduction, ical, and spiritual growth. at Middle Tennessee State University, in John Milton’s Epic Invo- L Simmons offer a historical retrospective of effective leadership by by William Bedford Clark, 274 pp. including notes and index, cations: Converting the Muse. Eighteen female theologians bring their own backgrounds, profiling the successes of warlords from Hadrian to Patton. A Ques- Louisiana State University Press, $39.95 hardcover Through his methodical analysis of invocations in the Hebra- observations, research, and clinical training together in address- tion of Character: Life Lessons to Learn From Military History exam- ing women and the issues that are common to their lives. Where have all the letters gone? In this era of electronic commu- ic, Homeric, and Vergilian tradition of epic poetry, Phillips dis- ines the qualities that “separate the lasting from the flash in the Contending that spiritual care is dependent on understanding nication, the handwritten letter seems to have gone the way of the cusses how summoning Urania for divine assistance proves pan.” the internal and external focuses that mold a woman through- passenger pigeon. William Bedford Clark, however, shows read- problematic for Milton, a Christian writer with a classical educa- “We present examples from military history because in no other out her life, the book is divided into three major parts—devel- ers how it used to be done, at least by one fledgling writer who was tion, who lived in an epoch when Royalists established a “Christ- profession are the consequences for failure so extreme,”the authors opmental themes, developmental passage, and developmental explain. What they found was a common denominator among just coming into his own. L ian nation” with undeniable connections to a classical past and issues—and it confronts a range of topics related to self-care, sin- Clark’s first volume of collected letters by one of Vanderbilt’s when Puritans rejected the idea of a pagan heritage as they attempt- conquerors and captains of industry alike which marked them for gleness, healthy eating, disability, trust, and empowerment, among most famous alumni—poet, novelist, and critic Robert Penn War- ed to work God’s purpose in the world. Phillips explores the com- greatness—character.“A business, like a military campaign, can others. ren, BA’25—chronicles the early life of the literary giant in his last plex relationship between poetic form and political-religious crisis only be successful if the troops are led by, and contain, people of Stevenson-Moessner is the Henry Luce III Fellow and associ- years at Vanderbilt and during his graduate study at Berkeley,Yale, by combining rhetorical and philological analysis with new his- character.” ate professor of pastoral theology and spiritual formation at the and Oxford, where he wrote his first book. The letters not only toricist theory. From a sensitive, careful reading of the texts and The first portion of the book is formulaic in its presentation of University of Dubuque Theological Seminary in Dubuque, Iowa. served as a means of communication between Warren and others his extensive research, Phillips illustrates that through a syncretic basic character values related in the context of warfare. Lessons on An ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), she has (most notably fellow Fugitive and Vanderbilt alumnus Allen Tate, blending of pagan and Christian attributes, Milton’s muse, Ura- qualities like interdependence are neatly wrapped in military max- collaborated with women in the Society for Pastoral Theology to BA’22),but Clark makes a case for Warren’s personal communi- nia, may be identified simultaneously as the pagan daughter of ims: “Never cross the supply sergeant.”European monarchs con- produce two other books in this field: Through the Eyes of Women: cations as a corollary canon or literary subgenre in which he explores Zeus and Mnemsoyne and as Christ or the Holy Spirit. tent to maintain an inefficient status quo of wasteful warfare are Insights for Pastoral Care (1996) and Women in Travail and Tran- alternate identities, all of which subsequently “make” the writer —Victor Judge compared to executives of the Big Three automotive manufac- sition: A New Pastoral Care (1991) . —Susan L. Jenkins we know today as Robert Penn Warren. turers who continued to turn out gas-guzzling “land-yachts” One of these identities is “Red”Warren, a nickname he assumed well into the mid-’70s energy crisis. To FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON L after entering Vanderbilt at age 16, though to those at home in BOYS OF SUMMER A large portion of the book is dedicated to Napoleon’s mete- QUARKS To Quarks and Quasars:A History of Physics and Astron- Guthrie, Ky., he was always “Robert Penn.”Clark describes the and The 521 All-Stars:A Championship Story of Baseball and oric rise to world dominance from under the stigma of xenopho- QUASARS omy at Vanderbilt University by the late Robert T. Lage- bia and social exclusion and to the character flaws that led to his “Red” Warren portrayed in letters as “a hell-raiser with a reputa- Community, text by Frye Gaillard, BA’68,photographs by ✧ mann, MS’35, professor of physics, emeritus; edited by ultimate fall at Waterloo. tion for fast and dangerous living, a cynic who knows the world Byron Baldwin, 123 pp., Black Belt Press, $29.95 hardcover and views it with sardonic detachment, an aesthete devoted tire- A History of Physics and Astronomy Lieutenant Commander Thad A. Gaebelein is an instructor at Vanderbilt University Wendell G. Holladay, BA’49,MA’50,dean of the College of lessly to the pursuit of perfection in his verse, an amused specta- In most respects, baseball is a game like no other. The defense con- at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, N.Y., and ROBERT T. LAGEMANN Arts and Science, provost, and professor of physics, emeri- trols the ball; there’s no clock ticking down to the end of the a former Army major who taught military history at the United tor of the human comedy.” tus; 585 pp. including appendices, notes, and index; pub- contest; and the dimensions of the playing field are not only asym- States Military Academy at West Point. —Shawn Jenkins In reality, however, Warren was self-conscious, gangly, and lished by the Department of Physics and Astronomy; $25 increasingly under emotional stress that resulted in an attempt- metrical but vary from ballpark to ballpark. Basketball, as Frye hardcover ed suicide during his spring term at Vanderbilt in 1924. It is this Gaillard points out, can be played on a slice of asphalt by as few as LIFE AMID THE KUDZU

L two people. Baseball, on the other hand, takes vast space and no persona who writes to his good friend Allen Tate that “when a per- This very readable book covers events in the Department of Physics Somewhere in All This Green by William S. Cobb, MA’63, son writes a letter it is nearly as much one to himself as to the per- and Astronomy from the establishment of the University in fewer than 18 players. son who takes it from the postbox.” 1873 through 1995. Along the way, it documents the careers of fac- In rural South Carolina, there is no shortage of grown men to 171 pp., Black Belt Press, $20 hardcover Clark, professor of English at Texas A&M University, is a noted ulty members Landon C. Garland, the University’s first chancel- play, nor is there a shortage of real estate for them to chalk out 90- Tied by common threads of the Old South, William Cobb’s authority on Warren and author of The American Vision of Robert lor and professor of physics and astronomy; John “Dynamo”Daniel, foot base paths. By happenstance, Gaillard exited Highway 521 compilation of 13 short stories reflects facets of complex, and some- Penn Warren. —Bonnie Arant Ertelt who “electrified” the campus in 1890; and astronomer Carl K. at the sight of a baseball field, the aged, rickety bleachers and times disturbing, human interaction, brought out in various every- Seyfert, who built Dyer Observatory in the 1950s. barely-there dugouts that corral half the infield. What drew L day circumstances. Religion, family, relationships, society, unspoken Gaillard off the highway impressed him: two teams of African URANIA DESCENDING To Quarks and Quasars contains compelling accounts of the rules, and heritage are closely intertwined in Somewhere in All This department’s distinguished faculty members. They included Nashvil- Americans varying in age and ability and droves of fans who paid Green. The selections survey Cobb’s career, displaying both the John Milton’s Epic Invocations: Converting the Muse lian Edward E. Barnard, who became one of the world’s leading $2 apiece to watch the weekend warriors battle on their make-do realism and fantasy that have characterized it. by Philip Edward Phillips, MA’92, PhD’96, Volume 26 in astronomers during the late 19th century. Nobel laureate Max Del- diamond. Internal struggle plays itself out in the lives of characters like Renaissance and Baroque Studies and Texts, 122 pp. plus brück conducted his seminal research in molecular biology while Baseball is a tradition in the small town of Rembert, S.C., and Ralph Fosque, the irrepressible boy trapped in an old man’s body, notes, bibliography, and index, Peter Lang Publishing, $44.95 a member of the Vanderbilt physics faculty during the 1940s. Fran- in the neighboring communities that host the leagues’ other teams. who is almost convinced that he has come to terms with grow- hardcover cis Slack, Ernest Jones, Newton Underwood, Robert Lagemann, Generations of men have played semi-pro ball in Rembert, dating ing up. But when he faces his fears by reacquainting himself with and other Vanderbilt physicists worked on the Manhattan Project, back more than a half-century. A few of the players have been to the daughter he abandoned 22 years before, he abruptly walks out In “Book VII” of John Milton’s epic Paradise Lost, the narrator which resulted in the creation of the atomic bomb and the Oak the Major League; several more have been to the minors and back in the middle of a conversation with her and never looks back. invokes the heavenly muse Urania, the patron goddess of astron- Ridge National Laboratories in Tennessee. again. All play for love of the game. Although Cobb’s prevalent use of realism in his characters often omy, to inspire him as he constructs a “great argument to justify Lagemann had almost completed writing the book when he Gaillard and photographer Byron Baldwin document the 521 gives an air of hopelessness, it is his sprinkling of almost absurd the ways of God to men.”Conceived during the 17th century, this died in 1994. It was left to his colleague Wendell Holladay to edit All-Stars’ journey to the league championship series. En route, the escapism or denial that provides a contrast to the despair. South- unparalleled interpretation of Satan’s rebellion against God and the manuscript and provide many of its illustrations. Though writ- team faces multiple challenges, including the unexpected death of ern writer Pat Conroy says of Cobb,“[He] writes with uncommon the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden was com- ten chiefly for faculty and former students, non-scientists will also a team leader. clarity, beauty, and mastery of his subject matter. His stories seem posed in England after a clear line of demarcation had been drawn enjoy its depictions of important researchers, discussion of cam- Gaillard’s career as pitcher and shortstop peaked on the city to rise up out of the earth and begin speaking on their own between the identity and function of pagan and Christian allu- pus politics, and historical perspective. league softball fields of Charlotte, N.C. He has written 16 books without even looking around to notice who wrote them.” sions in religious literature. Copies may be ordered from the Department of Physics and and coedited four, and he lives in Indian Trail, N.C. Cobb is writer-in-residence at the University of Montevallo L A Puritan and a humanist, Milton was not granted a dispen- L Astronomy, Box 1807 Station B, Nashville, TN 37235. —Skip Anderson in Alabama. —Susan L. Jenkins sation from the controversy surrounding the employment of a —Joanne Lamphere Beckham classical convention within an explicitly Christian poem. His strug-

30 VANDERBILT MAGAZINE WINTER/SPRING 2001 31 Postimpressionist painter while they toured the exhibition. In October, Bostonians met at Charley’s Eating HOMECOMING 2000 and Brewing Saloon for happy hour. Commodores Celebrate the Century The Van Gogh exhibit was at the LUMNI EWS Philadelphia Museum of Art in early A N December, and Philadelphia alumni A new event and a host of old favorites greeted Vander- bilt alumni who converged on campus for Homecoming, also took advantage of the event CLUBS IN ACTION Alumni Association President Aspires to Strengthen Partnership October 20 and 21. Below, Alumni Association President by hosting a breakfast and lecture at the museum. Professor Folgar- IN VANDY’S BACKYARD I Wayne Hyatt, BA’65, JD’68, A&S senior Ann Carmichael Wayne Hyatt, BA’65,JD’68, he says,“and from my conversations with students, I (left), and Sarah Creekmore, BA’00, who works with the ait again was the featured lecturer. Nashville Vanderbilt Club members wants alumni to enter “a part- have found them to be enthusiastic to learn about the Alumni Association, joined student organizations, football Meanwhile, New York alumni combined aesthetics with sports nership with Vanderbilt.” resources alumni can offer.” players, and Chancellor Gordon Gee and Constance Gee celebrated the holidays at the Mu- by taking a September road trip As the 99th president of Whenever Hyatt’s professional role as a partner in in the Homecoming parade held Friday. On Saturday morn- seum of Modern Art. to Birmingham for an “Arts and ing, more than 675 alumni, friends, and family members Athletics Weekend.” The delegation the University’s Alumni the Atlanta law firm of Hyatt & Stubblefield requires gathered to enjoy the annual Homecoming Pre-Game Tail- HEADING WEST of Nashville alumni met Alabama Association, he believes him to travel, he also uses those business trips as op- gate, including, bottom right, David Chatman (left), BA’85, Alums deep in the heart of Texas Vandy alums at the Birmingham the 100,000-plus alumni portunities for calling on Vanderbilt Alumni Club and Kelwin Heard, BS’85. Chatman is president-elect of Museum of Art for a reception with the Association of Vanderbilt Black Alumni. Right, con- were active during the last months Chancellor Gordon Gee and a lec- throughout the world can presidents or attending club events. He is particularly gratulations to Homecoming Queen and King—senior Pamela of 2000. ture on French artist Henri Matisse be influential resources for impressed by the gatherings that alumni clubs are Ferguson, SGA president, and senior Erik Baptist, former In November, members of the by Associate Professor of Fine Arts building relationships with hosting this year to introduce Chancellor Gordon Gee. alumni class officer—who were crowned during halftime of Dallas club viewed masterpieces by Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Car- PEYTON HOGE the football game, which pitted the Commodores against Vivien Fryd. After viewing the largest Vanderbilt’s administration, “The more our clubs around the country involve ad- tour of Matisse’s work to be exhib- Wayne Hyatt South Carolina. Vanderbilt scored a touchdown on the first los Merida, and other artists at ited in America in two decades, the faculty, and students. ministrators, faculty, and prospective students in their drive down the field following kickoff, but the Gamecocks the Modern Masters of Mexico ex- alumni donned their black and gold “There’s a huge wealth of information, experience, programs and projects, the stronger the partnership prevailed, 30-14. The Mid Autumn Party, a new event for hibition. Following a reception at seniors and young alumni, was launched Saturday night at and traveled to Legion Field where and commitment in the alumni, and bringing them with Vanderbilt.” the Dallas Museum of Art, alums a downtown nightspot and attended by more than 100. heard a lecture by Stephen Harri- they cheered the Commodore foot- into the process of advancing Vanderbilt is in many But Hyatt argues that the crucial factor for alumni ball team in their match against the son, the museum’s associate cu- Crimson Tide. ways far more important than asking them to con- to sustain a relationship with Vanderbilt is the Uni- rator of decorative arts. In October, tribute money,”says Hyatt, who assumed presidency versity’s unwavering focus on quality teaching.“Teach- they met at Frankie’s Sports Bar for happy hour, and convened again in DOWN SOUTH of the Alumni Association last May during Reunion ing is what brought us to Vanderbilt; teaching is what December for a holiday party. In Atlantans performed a day of com- 2000. will keep Vanderbilt among the great universities, and January, Houston alums welcomed munity service in October for Hands To encourage this partnership with Vanderbilt, as alumni, we want the University to keep a focus on Vanderbilt’s new chancellor to the on Atlanta and hosted a Conversa- Hyatt has met with current students and leaders of teaching. One of the great features of Vanderbilt is Lone Star State when they hosted tion with Chancellor Gordon Gee in a Conversation with Chancellor Gor- November at the Piedmont Driving student organizations and asked how alumni can serve that freshmen can have a full professor who not don Gee at the Houstonian Hotel. Club. Peach State alumni also cel- them. “Historically, we have missed the opportunity only researches but teaches.” The young alumni of Houston also ebrated the winter holidays in De- to involve students at a high level in alumni programs,” enjoyed a November happy hour at cember by sponsoring their eighth the Mercantile Brewery and Pub, annual intercollegiate party at the and the San Antonio club spon- Marriott Hotel at Lenox. Black Alumni Honor Distinguished Alumna sored a “rapping and relaxing” party Other cases of December holi- in December for the Elf Louise Com- day fever reported throughout the I Sheryll D. Cashin, BE’84, a former White House di- ling Vanderbilt Scholar. To see more munity Service Project in McCre- South’s alumni circuit included par- less Mall. ties in Birmingham and Jackson, rector who has devoted her career to helping the urban Cashin earned a mas- Homecoming photos, visit It was an afternoon of visual and Tennessee. poor, received the 2000 Walter R. Murray Jr. Distin- ter’s degree in jurispru- www.vanderbilt.edu/alumni culinary delights for the Tulsa alumni Not all Floridians spent weeks guished Alumnus Award last October. The Associa- dence (English law) with who met at the Philbrook Museum recounting votes or speculating tion of Vanderbilt Black Alumni presented the award second highest honors HOMECOMING PHOTOS BY PEYTON HOGE of Art in November for a catered about chads. Palm Beach/Broward lunch and tour of the Triumph of County alums gathered at Pete during the group’s Reunion 2000 activities. from Oxford Universi- French Painting exhibition. Rose’s Ballpark Café to watch the Cashin, an associate professor of law at George- ty and a J.D. cum laude St. Louis club members raised Commodores battle the Gators. NASHVILLE ALUMNI WELCOME GEE town University Law Center, served as director of com- from Harvard Law their glasses during an October wine Tampa alumni met in December for More than 600 Nashville alumni filled the Stadium Club on munity development with the National Economic School, where she edit- tasting party held at Remy’s Kitchen libations at Newks Café. Sept. 28 to meet Chancellor Gordon Gee, who told the group and Wine Bar. They also launched Council from 1993 to 1995. In 1996, she worked for ed the Harvard Law that being chancellor of Vanderbilt is the “best job in America.”At 2001 with a viewing party at Ozzie’s Vice President Al Gore as staff director for commu- Review. right Gee chats with Stanley Bernard, BA’44, MD’47, and his UP NORTH Restaurant and Sports Bar when wife, Adell. The Nashville Vanderbilt Club gathering was the Art aficionados in the Boston Van- nity empowerment. In both roles, she developed and Previous AVBA dis- the Commodores took the court first in a series of events called “Vanderbilt Values: A Conversation oversaw policies to support revitalization in low- PEYTON HOGE tinguished alumni in- against Arkansas. derbilt Club recently came “face to with Chancellor Gee.” In November, the new chancellor trav- Sheryll Cashin face” with Vincent Van Gogh. Fol- income communities. clude Dr. Levi Watkins, eled to Atlanta where the Atlanta Vanderbilt Club hosted a In downtown Denver, Colorado lowing breakfast and a lecture at the A native of Huntsville, Ala., Cashin was graduat- MD’70, the first African American to graduate from reception at the Piedmont Driving Club. Gee met Houston alums discovered an antidote to the Back Bay Hilton, alumni toured Van cold December weather when they ed summa cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in elec- Vanderbilt’s medical school and a prominent Baltimore alumni at the Houstonian Hotel in January, and Birmingham Gogh: Face to Face at the Museum alumni at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens in February. sampled the wares at a beer tast-

of Fine Arts. Leonard Folgarait, chair trical engineering. At Vanderbilt she served as president cardiologist; Bill Campbell, BA’74, mayor of Atlanta; The Metro New York Vanderbilt Club will host a reception on PEYTON HOGE ing get-together held at the Rock of fine arts, introduced alumni and of the Black Student Alliance and was a Harold Stir- and Brig. Gen. Kenneth U. Jordan, JD’74. April 4 at the Warwick Hotel. More events are being planned. Bottom Brewery. friends to the 19th-century Dutch

32 VANDERBILT MAGAZINE WINTER/SPRING 2001 33 elected president of the staff at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., for LOUD AND PROUD Jay Dawson 2001. Michael L. Solomon,BA,ofHar- I Six years ago, Nashville music publisher and com- music is more like learning a dialect of a language than risburg, Pa., was named the first general poser Jay Dawson, BME’69, attended a rehearsal of learning a piece of music,”Dawson explains.Youth helps, counsel of the Boyds Collection, a domestic designer, importer, and dis- the Nashville Pipes and Drums. The joyful and melan- too, because “there’s a kind of athleticism in playing CLASS NOTES tributor of branded, handcrafted col- choly bagpipe sounds intrigued him, and he told the pipes.” lectibles and giftware products. ews for this section should be year 1999–2000, the highest honor given E. Eisenstat, BA, was listed in the “Best students and a physics institute for high band that he would like to learn to play. Pleased to wel- A native Nashvillian, Dawson, who also plays the sent to Nelson Bryan, class to a UT faculty member.R01 Doctors” issue of New York magazine in school teachers. come an eager newcomer, band members loaned Daw- French horn, piano, string bass, and trumpet, has enjoyed James Althouse, BA, a colonel Nnotes editor, VANDERBILT MAG- June 2000. He is vice president of the son a set of pipes.“I thought I would learn to play a long, successful career in music, primarily in com- in the Army, took over com- AZINE, VU Station B 357703, 2301 Van- REUNION JUNE 1–2, 2001 American Society of Colon and Rectal George S. Dragnich, BA, is the over a weekend,”he says. posing, arranging, and pub- mand of Yuma Proving Ground derbilt Place, Nashville, TN, 37235- Surgeons and president of the Pennsyl- counselor for labor and social “I was wrong.” lishing band music, an activity in Arizona last August. He pre- 7703, fax: 615/343-8547, or e-mail: James Lott Armour, BA, LLB’64, vania society. He and his wife, Sharon affairs and deputy of the eco- viously’77 was assistant program executive Today, many lessons later, he began as a teenager. He is of Dallas, was selected for inclu- Leonard, BA’66,celebrated their 34th nomic section at the American [email protected]. Dawson admits that learn- former assistant conductor of officer for the air and missile defense Please include your degree, year, and, sion in Who’s Who in America, wedding anniversary last June. They live Embassy’68 in London, England. ing the bagpipes is a lifelong the Nashville Symphony, in program executive office in Washing- when applicable, maiden name. You having been continuously includ- in Watchung, N.Y. Leslie B. Enoch II, ton, D.C., responsible for the integra- also can send us news or update your ’61ed since 1988. He is a partner in the law BA, chief executive officer of the Middle Tom Sterling, BE, was named pursuit. Perhaps, but it is a which he was a member of the tion of the Army’s Patriot and Theater address and other biographical infor- firm of Locke Liddell & Sapp, practicing Tennessee Natural Gas Utility District in president of Transtar, a Mon- preoccupation in which he French horn section for many High Altitude Area Defense System mation electronically through forms on oil and gas international law. Burnett W. Smithville, received the Personal roeville, Pa.-based transporta- clearly shines: he is now pipe years prior to that appoint- missile defense programs.REUNION the alumni home page at www.vander- Donoho, BA, of Englewood, Colo., was Achievement Award and the Past Presi- tion company. major of the Nashville Pipes ment. He also is former direc- JUNE 1–2, 2001 bilt.edu/alumni. named to the board of directors of dent’s Award from the American Public ’69 and Drums (they are Year tor of the Nashville Youth Charles C. Euchner, BA, was Socket Communications, a California- Gas Association at the association’s Vicki H. Escude, BA, a profes- 2000 U.S. Open Pipe Band Symphony. named the first executive direc- Marion Collins Clouser,BA, based firm that develops and sells con- annual conference last summer. Bill sional certified success coach Champions in their class). Dawson points out that tor of the Rappaport Institute writes that she spent some time nection products for Windows-powered Thompson, BA, editor of Landscape with Success Unlimited Net- He also performs solo.“Pipes bluegrass music and south- for Greater Boston at Harvard away from her Tallahassee, Fla., computers. He is president and chief ex- Architecture magazine, was the keynote work in Gulf Breeze, Fla., was University’s’78 John F. Kennedy School of are a nice alternative to harps ern folk music reflect the influ- home to research her family ecutive officer of Club Sports Interna- speaker at the Northern California ’70named a senior associate with SUN and trumpets at weddings ence of Scottish and Irish tunes, Government. The institute is dedicated ’52history and her husband’s family histo- tional. Robert D. Hatcher Jr., BA, chapter of the American Society of Partnership Executive Coaching. She to research and projects to improve the and funerals, but bagpipe perhaps explaining in part the ry in Tenn.“This exciting history, going MS’62, was named to the board of direc- Landscape Architects last June. The coaches entrepreneurs and corporate governance of Boston and surrounding back to 1735, was fascinating. … I have tors of Tengasco, an oil and natural gas American Society of Landscape Archi- executives for success. music is not background persistent popularity of bag- communities. Previously, he was associ- written up these family histories for our exploration company in Knoxville. A tects awarded him Fellow status in 1999. music. I often have to con- pipe music in the South. But ate director of the Center for Urban children and grandchildren.” recognized authority in Appalachian REUNION JUNE 1–2, 2001 vince folks that 15 minutes the sound complements many and Regional Policy at Boston’s North- geology, he holds a chair as a University Jane Evans, BA, president and is as long as most people types of occasions and musi- eastern University. Nicholas C. Glover, of Tennessee/Oak Ridge National Labo- CEO of Arizona-based Gamut Connie Clark, BA, JD’79, REUNION JUNE 1–2, 2001 want to listen to bagpipes,” PEYTON HOGE cal genres. Nashville Pipes and BA, is a real estate market attorney with ratory Distinguished Scientist through Interactive, the first electronic assumed the chairmanship of he says. Drums has performed with Nextel Communications in Tampa, Fla. Madeline Reynolds Adams,A, the Science Alliance Centers of Excel- wallet for the mass market, was the Tennessee Bar Foundation The bagpipe chanter, the Nashville Symphony and He is author of Florida Commercial and Debby Luton Cate,BA, lence at the University of Tennessee. ’65named to the board of directors of Hy- last summer. She is director of which carries the melody, can on the closing night of evan- Landlord and Tenant Law. He writes write that they are co-chairing Alan Rosenthal, BA, MD’64, vice presi- percom Corporation, a provider of elec- ’71the Tennessee Supreme Court’s admin- produce only nine notes. Three drone pipes sustain the gelist Billy Graham’s appearance in Nashville last year. that he is “married and has three cats.” what they “intend to make the dent of scientific affairs and technology tronic payment solutions. Ed Hill, MA, istrative office of the courts, which Steve Lane, BE, ME’91, last summer best’56 reunion ever. Come one, come all at Abbott Laboratories in Illinois, was PhD’68, retired after a 31-year career as a oversees the state’s judicial system. one-toned, underlying sound. The difficulty in per- They also have performed with vocalists Amy Grant and was installed as secretary of Consulting to the 45th reunion.”They want the named to the board of directors of professor of mathematics at Cornell Col- Ronald M. Pettus, BE, joined the forming on the pipes comes from maintaining proper Michael W. Smith.“We’ve even played at halftime for Engineers of Tennessee for 2000–2001. Class of ’56 to “kick up their heels” MitoKor, a biotechnology company in lege in Mount Vernon, Iowa.REUNION Nashville construction firm of R.G. breathing technique, staying in tune, and playing the a University of Tennessee football game in Neyland Sta- He is executive vice president and before they become Quinqs. Help out San Diego. Anderson as a project manager. Previ- melody, all at the same time, and sometimes in unison dium. First,‘Scotland the Brave.’Then ‘Amazing Grace.’ director of civil, environmental, sports, by calling with ideas of what you would REUNION JUNE 1–2, 2001 ously, he was senior project manager with 10 to 15 other pipers. And finally,‘Rocky Top.’The response from the crowd and entertainment engineering services or would not like to happen. Contact McKenzie C. Roberts, BE, of with the Tennessee Stadium Group. What makes a good student? “A love of the sound of was deafening,”Dawson recalls.“They loved it.” for Smith Seckman Reid in Nashville. Madeline at 404/355-8965 (phone) or McMinnville, Tenn., was elected George Hickman, BA, retired the instrument and a genuine determination to learn “‘Dynamite,’”he adds with a grin,“can also be played Jonathan E. Rattner, BA, of Palo Alto, 404/355-3156 (fax), or Debby at president-elect of the National from the DeKalb County, Ga., Pearl Adams, BA, of Visalia, to play.”A sense of rhythm helps.“Learning bagpipe on the bagpipes.” —Peggy Culp Calif., writes that after a brief stint as a 281/497-6829 or [email protected]. Exchange Club at the organiza- school system after 27 years. He Calif., writes that her husband sole practitioner specializing in real “Please mark your calendar now and ’63tion’s annual convention last July. A taught learning disabled stu- of 16 years, Kenneth L. Adams, estate transactions, he joined Atrium plan to come! Make this a top priority.” professional engineer, he is owner of ’66dents at Decatur High School and was passed away suddenly of a heart the Community Foundation of Jackson Raaen, BA, of Ann Arbor, Mich., is a ton College in Wilson, N.C., where he is Capital, a Menlo Park-based venture Nancy Holt Garver, BA, of Richmond, Engineering Consulting and Design, chairman of the special education ’72attack on May 28, 1999. George Gard- County, Ind. court consultant and volunteered his writer-in-residence. He has published capital firm as CEO.“Life is good.” Va., retired last May from Southern Roberts Electric Company, and Securi- department. His retirement plans ner, BE, MS’93, a retired Navy com- services to assist the Balkan republic of two books of poems, Dancing on States Cooperative after 20 years in ty Equipment Company. James D. include increased volunteer work and mander, was appointed vice president of Craig Hume, A, was named Macedonia in establishing an indepen- Canaan’s Ruins and Handiwork. John Mike Condrey, BA, was named information systems. Skaggs, MA, PhD’71, retired as distin- occasional substitute teaching. the Nashville engineering firm of Barge, news director for CBS 2 Chica- dent judicial budget and conducted C. Dupree, BA, was named vice presi- to the board of directors of guished professor of English from the Waggoner, Sumner & Cannon. James C. go. He previously was general budgeting seminars for Macedonia dent of marketing and general business Capital Bank in Raleigh, N.C. Richard K. Hammel,A,of University of Puerto Rico after two John Haile, BA, retired as editor Kelly, MA, PhD’74, assistant director manager of Central Florida judges and court staff. Marty Singer, sales for Sprint Business in Dallas. He is managing director of Hammel Financial Advisory decades. He has written 10 volumes of of the Orlando Sentinel on Jan. 1. for museums at the Virginia Historical ’75News 13 in Orlando. Anthony A. MA, PhD’77, president and CEO of Melinda Baskin Hudson,BA,of ’79Northwestern Mutual Financial Net- Group in Brentwood, Tenn.,was poetry, the latest of which is Done He led the staff to three Pulitzer Society in Richmond, had two books Joseph, BS, last summer began a three- SAFCO Technologies, was appointed an Alexandria, Va., last August was profiled work for eastern North Carolina. David named one of the Best 150 Before Dark. He now lives in Bowling Prizes during his 15-year tenure, published in 2000: Bound Away: Vir- year term as an Alabama State Bar advisor to Intacta Technologies, a soft- by the Washington Post newspaper after Shardelow, BE, of Cincinnati, was Financial’58 Advisors for Doctors in the Green, Ky., in a 1890s foursquare stone ’67and the paper launched a 24-hour cable ginia and the Westward Movement and Commissioner for the 10th Judicial ware company headquartered in becoming senior vice president of named director of e-business for the United States by Medical Economics house across from Western Kentucky news station and ushered in the Internet. The Virginia Landscape. Doug Walker, Circuit. He is a partner in the Birming- Atlanta. America’s Promise–The Alliance for Metalworking Technologies Group of magazine. He also serves on the national University’s campus. Marshall Wilt, PhD, was named one of BA, co-founder and CEO of WRQ, a ham firm of Johnston, Barton, Proctor Youth, a nonprofit organization dedi- Milacron. the first recipients of the Centre Scholars Seattle-based e-business solutions and board of directors for the National & Powell, where he concentrates his REUNION JUNE 1–2, 2001 cated to building the character of Association of Personal Financial Lillian B. Clark,MAT,of award, a new honor given by Centre Col- software firm, won Master Entrepre- practice in white-collar criminal young people. Nancy J. Hutson, PhD, Jeff Davis, BE, of Arcadia, Advisors. Joseph B. Trahern Jr., BA, Campbellsville, Ky., was named lege in Danville, Ky., that recognizes neur in the business leadership category defense and general civil litigation. Bill Jim Clark, BA, was the featured of Stonington, Conn., was elected to the Calif., was named director of MA’59,was named National Alumni one of five Phenomenal Women excellence in teaching, scholarly work, of the Ernst & Young Pacific Northwest Norton, BA, JD’82, an attorney at the writer in the “Sunday Reader” board of trustees at Illinois Wesleyan the Water Resources Institute at Association Distinguished Service of the Year in January 2000 by and contributions to the college. A Entrepreneur of the Year Awards. Bud Nashville firm of Boult, Cummings, section of the Sept. 3 issue of University. She is a senior vice president Cal State, San Bernadino. Roy Professor at the University of Tennessee ’64the Louisville Courier-Journal newspa- physics professor, he has taught at Centre Walther, BE, pastor of Immanuel Unit- Conners & Berry, last fall was an the News & Observer newspaper of U.S. Exploratory Development and ’80Herron, MDiv, JD, is author of Things in Knoxville. The English professor also per. She is an adjunct professor at since 1967 and has directed a summer ed Church of Christ in Crothersville, adjunct professor at the Vanderbilt Law ’76in Raleigh, N.C. He teaches creative U.S. Development Science at Pfizer. Held Dear: Soul Stories for My Sons,a was named Macebearer for the academic Campbellsville University. Theodore science program for gifted high school Ind., was named president and CEO of School teaching bankruptcy law. Nial writing and modern literature at Bar- Teri Rummans, BA, writes that she was collection of family stories and memo-

34 VANDERBILT MAGAZINE WINTER/SPRING 2001 35 ries of growing up in the South. A resi- Richard Danielson, BA, was Birmingham with her husband and REUNION JUNE 1–2, 2001 ed.” Karl Jordan, BS, former All SEC dent of Dresden, Tenn., he is a state named editor of the North three children, working out of her defensive tackle at Vanderbilt, has been senator, lawyer, and ordained minister Pinellas Times newspaper. He is home. Martin E.Valk, BA, was elected Michael W.Blackburn,BA, strength coach at Alabama A&M Univer- in the United Methodist Church. He a resident of Clearwater, Fla., to the Merrick (New York) Union Free MBA’94,of Nashville, announces sity for three years. During that time, the practices law with his wife, Nancy ’84and formerly was a reporter for the St. School District in May 2000, overseeing the birth of a daughter, Anne team has gotten bigger, stronger, and Miller-Herron, JD/MDiv’83. They Petersburg Times and Tampa Tribune. district elementary schools. Tyler West, Elizabeth, born on Nov. 19, 1999. faster, he says. His program combines ’86Brian E. Bomstein, BA, was appointed have three sons. Elizabeth W.Rapisar- Hal Eason, BA, received the M.B.A. BE, has been appearing in national tele- weight lifting, agility drills, and running. da, BA, MBA’87,was named director of degree with high distinction from Har- vision ads for WorldCom’s “generation senior vice president and general counsel Joan Wildasin, BA, and her husband, corporate relations at Vanderbilt. Previ- vard Business School in June 2000. He d” campaign. He is director of online at Bayview Financial Trading Group, a Mark, JD’91, announce the birth of a ously, she was director of strategic cor- was named a George F. Baker Scholar, marketing for the business markets mortgage banking service in Miami. daughter, Kathryn Arden, born on Dec. porate and foundation initiatives at the the school’s highest academic honor division of WorldCom’s Atlanta office. James C. Camp, BS, of St. Petersburg, 31, 1999, joining sister Grace Kathryn. University of Pennsylvania. presented to the top 5 percent of the Fla., writes that he ran his first Boston They live in the San Francisco area. class, and received the John L. Loeb Marathon in 2000: “Highly recommend- REUNION JUNE 1–2, 2001 Award, a fellowship given to the top 10 students in finance. He works with the Cody Fowler Davis,BA,an Boston firm of Bain & Company as IMPROVING NASHVILLE NEIGHBORHOODS attorney with the Tampa, Fla., strategy consultant. Trish Elston,BA, Bill Purcell law firm of Davis & Scarritt, was MA’90, was named director of develop- I In his first nine months after taking office as Nashville’s certified as a member of the Mil- ment at the Country Music Hall of mayor, Bill Purcell, JD’79, made visits to all 127 of lion’81 Dollar Advocates Forum. Member- Fame and Museum in Nashville. Jane ship in the forum is limited to attorneys Lewis, EdD, of Fayetteville, N.C., writes Nashville’s schools and read Yertle the Turtle to so many who have won million and multimil- that she was awarded a certificate of schoolchildren that he had to replace the dog-eared lion dollar verdicts, awards, and settle- appreciation by the Heritage Place Resi- copy he’s treasured since he was a boy. ments. Cindy Durham, BA, was named dents Association in appreciation of her The Dr. Seuss fable about a pompous ruler brought executive director of the Tennessee dedication in compiling History of Her- down by the guy at the bottom is a favorite among Pur- Association for the Education of Young itage Place 1982–2000. Erin Maloney, cell’s young audiences, but it also carries a message Children in Gallatin. The association BS, MPP’91, is in her third year as an Nashville’s mayor has taken to heart throughout his provides experiences to members in instructor at Bilkent University in career: Leaders ignore the concerns of the people at various approaches to the develop- Ankara, Turkey. She teaches computer their own peril. ment, care, and education of children. courses and American culture courses Purcell stunned pollsters and much of the news Beatriz Lucki, BA, was named vice to Turkish students at an English- president of e-commerce USA at Yupi speaking university. media with his 1999 upset mayoral win, racking up a Internet, a Spanish-language portfolio 25-point lead ahead of his two nearest rivals. The of e-commerce sites. Richard Murphy, Brett A. Barfield,BA,joined resounding victory was less surprising to those who BE, of San Jose, Calif., was named the Miami office of Holland & knew Purcell from his five terms in the Tennessee House SECOND CHILDHOOD Lee Hendrix director of sales in Europe for MEMC Knight as an associate in the of Representatives. There he served as House Majori- Electronic Materials, a manufacturer of litigation department. Kyle ty Leader and earned a reputation as the legislature’s I When Lee Hendrix, BA’75,was a young girl in Memphis, problem because it has to be taken out of its context as high-purity silicon wafers for the semi- Cavanaugh’85 , MEd, was named associate best orator and a shrewd political observer. An out- she and her best friend used to hang out in her friend’s part of the architectural fabric. The leading and glass conductor industry. He relocated to vice president for human resources at spoken advocate for children’s health, education, and grandmother’s painting studio and draw on big pads can crack, and the painting on both sides of the glass Milan, Italy, with his wife and three the University of Texas in Austin. He welfare issues, he was largely responsible for reform- of paper. When she wasn’t in the studio with her friend, can be scraped or damaged. I didn’t have a really good children for a two- to four-year assign- previously worked in human resources ing state spending to ensure that children’s programs she was looking closely at insects and other natural ob- night’s sleep until all of it was reinstalled in its original ment. Ross Perot Jr., BA, was named at Rice University and Vanderbilt. get dollars roughly equal to adult prison expenditures. jects near her home. Now, the two pursuits have con- context.” president and CEO of the Perot Sys- Barbara Yvonne Foster, A, married Now, as mayor, he’s turned his energies toward mak- verged in her work as an art historian and curator of A chance discovery came about in developing the tems Corporation in Dallas last August. Franklin Dunham Hartline on June 24, ing good on his campaign platform: good schools in sponsored the landmark Education Improvement Act drawings at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, exhibit with one of the Getty’s exhibition designers, Previously, he worked in London with 2000. They live in Colorado Springs. every neighborhood, safe neighborhoods in every part of 1992. He also chaired the Democratic Legislative where she specializes in Northern European drawings Ann Marshall, who attended the College of Arts and the company’s European operations. A. Brian Phillips, BS, earned a J.D. and He remains chairman of Hillwood M.B.A. at the University of Tennessee of the city, and a quality of life shared by all Nashvil- Campaign Committee and managed the 1996 Clin- and prints. Science in the early ’80s. Hendrix explains, “We both Development Corporation, a privately and an L.L.M. in taxation from the lians. ton/Gore campaign in Tennessee. Purcell left state gov- “What you do in life is so instinctive,”says Hendrix, have southern accents, and one day we were talking held real estate company. University of Florida. After a ten-year Purcell grew up in Philadelphia, the son of a retail ernment to concentrate on directing the Child and who served as associate curator of drawings and prints and I asked where she went to college. She said Vanderbilt. career with the U.S. Department of salesman and a college teacher. By the time he enrolled Family Policy Center (which he founded in 1995) at at the Getty from 1989 to 1998, when she was named It is incredible that two Vanderbilt alumni worked Ronald E. Babos, BA, joined Justice and U.S. Attorney’s office, he in undergraduate school at Hamilton College, Purcell the Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies. curator of the division.“In entering the field of art his- together on this glorious project. the Boca Raton, Fla., office of opened his own practice in Orlando had developed an interest in government as it affects Now, as chief government executive over the 24th tory, I’ve come back to the things that were fascinating “I did the art history portion, and Ann gave it vi- Trammell Crow, responsible for focusing on criminal tax and white- people. largest U.S. city, Purcell has his work cut out. While to me when I was younger. I’ve always been more in- sual expression. She devised a very serene, incredibly retail tenant representation and collar criminal defense. He and his wife, ’82retail development. Cathy Lynn Ben- Pam Quinn Phillips, BSN, MSN’88, He came south to law school at Vanderbilt, he says, Nashville has benefited from the country’s long eco- terested in process than the finished product, how beautiful design in which the stained glass windows to get warm. His timing was fortuitous.“There was an nomic boom, public schools have not. Purcell has an the thing is made, the sort of decisions that go into were set in deep arches that were rather abstract, but der, BS, of Hermitage, Tenn., married have a four-year-old son, James. Ivan J. increasing interest in and support for the clinic and the ambitious list of goals for education, including small- making marks on paper or canvas, and drawing is ex- evoked the context of a church. The exhibit itself was Omarr Shariff Jackson on May 21, Reich, BA, JD’88, of Davie, Fla., was 2000. Bradley Frohman, BS, joined IP named a shareholder with the Ft. Laud- Legal Aid Society,”he remembers. As a third-year stu- er classes and more teachers, improved technology, actly that. It’s all about process.” a work of art.” Axess company as vice president of erdale law firm of Becker & Poliakoff. dent, Purcell was executive director of the Legal Aid introduction of best management practices, and fam- Hendrix herself recently went through the creative Hendrix’s passion for art history is rooted in her development groups in Plano and San Scott A. Sonnemaker, BE, was named Society.“That experience,”he says,“greatly shaped all ily resource centers. process as co-curator of Painting on Light: Drawings and A&S undergraduate experience. “My first exposure Antonio, Texas. Greg Langdon, BE, was executive vice president at Sysco Food of my subsequent choices.” He isn’t shy about pointing out places where Van- Stained Glass in the Age of Dürer, a challenging exhibit to major painters was through Professor [Hamilton] promoted to executive vice president of Services of Portland. He lives in West His decade in the Tennessee House of Represen- derbilt University can help. “Vanderbilt is Nashville’s of Renaissance stained glass windows paired with their Hazlehurst and Professor [Robert] Mode. Most of what product strategy at Efficient Networks, Linn, Ore., with his wife and two chil- tatives was marked by widespread progress. He chaired largest private employer, and the city and the Univer- preparatory drawings. Shown at the Getty Museum last I know of early Christian and Byzantine art is rooted a Dallas-based provider of digital sub- dren. Laurie Stroud, BA, a former tele- the Select Committee of Children and Youth for the sity are very much interdependent,”he says. fall, the show was more than 10 years in the making. in what Professor [Ljubica] Popovich taught me. I re- scriber line and customer premises vision reporter, created Birmingham Tennessee General Assembly, sponsored legislation cre- “I will always think the city and the University should “One of the big challenges of this exhibit,”she ex- member them all vividly and with great fondness, and equipment for the broadband access Christian Family magazine, a monthly ating the statewide public defender system, introduced do more for each other, and we ought to keep trying.” plains, “was pulling together the drawings and three- it was because of them that I decided to get my Ph.D. market. family-oriented publication with a a bill to increase compensation for crime victims, and —GayNelle Doll dimensional objects. Stained glass presents a particular in art history.” —Bonnie Arant Ertelt Christian focus. The inaugural issue hit the newsstands last July. She lives in

36 VANDERBILT MAGAZINE WINTER/SPRING 2001 37 University of North Carolina at Chapel Chris Baltz, BA, was named Va., married Paul Kopp on June 3, 2000. Centre College in Danville, Ky. Randi Y. BA, writes that “life is pretty rough in Nicole Cheslock, BA, moved to Hill in May 2000 and married Michael director of media production She received an M.B.A. degree from the Greene, BA, was named an associate Colorado, what with all the skiing, hik- Palo Alto, Calif., for an interdis- David Dunn in July. They live in Indi- for the Division of Institutional College of William and Mary Graduate with the Nashville law firm of Ortale, ing, camping, and rock climbing that ciplinary master’s degree pro- anapolis where she works in marketing Planning and Advancement at School of Business and works as a con- Kelley, Herbert & Crawford practicing I’m forced to participate in.”He is the gram in the school of education and opportunity analysis with Eli Lilly. ’92Vanderbilt. His wife, Jill Taggert Baltz, sultant for PricewaterhouseCooper’s real estate, insurance defense, and cor- lead brewer for Tommyknocker Brew- ’95at Stanford University. Joanne P. Ken Epps, BS, is on hiatus from the BS, also works at Vanderbilt as assistant Washington consulting practice. Jen- porate law. Meredith Anne Simmons ery, a microbrewery in Idaho Springs, Doyle, BA, lives in the Brentwood sec- Navy and is a first-year MBA student at director of database management for nifer Snyder, BA, began practice as a Higgs, BS, is a tenure-track faculty 35 miles west of Denver. Lady Smith, tion of Los Angeles and is director of the University of North Carolina at institutional planning and advance- family physician in Kenton, Ohio, last member in developmental studies MA, PhD’98, joined Southern Living recruiting at eCompanies, an Internet Chapel Hill. David Yuder Lien, BS, ment. Gregory M. Bernstein, BS, fin- August. mathematics at Middle Tennessee State magazine in Birmingham as a senior incubator in Santa Monica. Kathryn married Marina Yu-Qinq Lu on July 2, ished a one-year assignment in Korea as University in Murfreesboro. She also copy editor. Leah Stewart, BA, last Killick Johnson, BA, married Gary 2000. They live in Nashville. Jeff S. the physician for an Army artillery unit Laurie Estelle Burns, BS, mar- serves as director of the developmental August had a book signing and reading Douglas Smith, MBA’93, on July 15, Martindale, BA, accepted a position as and now works in Washington, D.C., as ried Lindsey Wade Cooper Jr. studies math lab and tutor trainer in of her debut novel, Body of a Girl,at 2000. They live in Nashville. Denise senior financial analyst at FedEx in a general medical officer in the health on May 13, 2000. They live in the college reading and learning associ- Davis-Kidd bookstore in Nashville. Lasprogata, BA, is founder of Memphis. He lives in Collierville, clinic at the Pentagon. Amy Brown, Washington, D.C. David Eber- ation. She and her husband, Ray Higgs, Thomas T. Toland, BA, is a corporate DEEDEE, a New York City-based cloth- Tenn., with his wife, Lana, and sons, BA, a third-year student at Rutgers Law hardt’94, BA, was named assistant director BE’93, live in McMinnville where they finance attorney with the Dallas firm of ing company that makes fashionable Will and Jack. School in Newark, N.J., was awarded a of student life for student activities at are active in their church. Eric R. Rode, Haynes and Boone. apparel for blind and partially sighted

PEYTON HOGE scholarship by the New Jersey State Bar Foundation, the educational and phil- FANCIFUL FACES REUNION JUNE 1–2, 2001 anthropic arm of the New Jersey State “People provide the most interesting material for humor,” says Nashville Whitney K. DeJardin,BA,of Bar Association. Olivia Quartel artist Jim Gardner, BA’90. A banker by day, Gardner says his art is a “fun, Alhambra, Calif., writes that she Daane-Black, BA, and her husband, Christopher Barbic weekend avocation. It beats playing golf or swilling beer.” He sold his and her husband, Brad, are busy David Andrew Black Jr., announce the ENTERPRISING EDUCATOR first painting in 1995, when “a friend talked me into doing a few works with their daughter, Ellis, and are birth of a daughter, Ki-lin Daane Black, ’91renovating a 1912 Craftsman house. born on Oct. 25, 1999, in Aspen, Colo. I for a show. To my astonishment, someone bought one; it was a pleas- Last year, a five-year-old charter school housed in temporary buildings ant surprise.” A history and Spanish major at Vanderbilt, Gardner adds, They are looking forward to seeing Olivia is a self-employed artist, and on an inner-city parking lot in Houston took top honors among Texas “Unfortunately, the only time I did artwork at Vanderbilt was when I illus- friends and children at Reunion 2001 in David works with the Aspen Ski Com- high schools based on academic achievement and attendance records. trated books for girlfriends in early childhood education classes.” His June. David Furtwengler, BE, is director pany. Sarah Hughes, BA, married Sean The school’s founder, director—and miracle worker—is 30-year-old whimsical portraits can be seen at Local Color Gallery, Outside the Lines, of test and evaluation for the Theater Patrick Kemple, BA’93, on April 29, Peabody alumnus Christopher Barbic, BS’92. High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) 2000, in Alexandria, Va., where they Le Peep restaurant, and Sherlock Holmes Pub, all in Nashville. The YES College Preparatory School is an open-enrollment school project office. THAAD is a missile live. Susan Swager Ingman, BA, and defense system under development by her husband, Martin, live in Helsinki, whose students are primarily underprivileged Hispanic youth. Last year John M. Bayer, BE, is attending WZZK-FM. Colin Luke, BA, also was the U.S. Army and Ballistic Missile Finland, where they are IT consultants 99 percent of the student body passed the state’s academic skills test, as the U.S. Army Command and featured in the July 21, 2000, issue of Defense Organization. He and his wife, with PricewaterhouseCoopers. They compared to neighborhood averages of 35 to 50 percent. SAT scores av- General Staff College at Ft. the Birmingham Business Journal for his Susan Honeycutt Furtwengler, BS, have a one-year-old son, Erik Johannes eraged 960 while neighborhood schools averaged 750. Leavenworth, Kan., until June role as vice president of development MSN’93, announce the birth of daugh- Ingman, and plan to attend Susan’s 10- Relying on creative solutions and a missionary zeal, Barbic launched 2001.’87 He previously served a 14-month and corporate legal counsel for Active ter, Bethany, born in August 2000. Carla year Vanderbilt Reunion in 2002. the YES School under the auspices of the Houston Independent School assignment with the 2nd Infantry Divi- Services Corp. J. Haight, BS, of Blue Springs, Mo., was Heather Lea O’Cain, BA, married District in 1995. Three years later he wrote a new charter that placed sion in Korea. He and his wife, Perri, promoted to performance consultant at Robert Alfred Donato on May 6, 2000. the school under state jurisdiction and afforded Barbic the autonomy he have a daughter, Bailee, four, and a son, Scott D. Carey, BA, a share- One Sprint Sales Center in the National They live in Memphis. Ben Ryan, BE, needed to make it work. Although YES is state funded, Barbic solicits pri- Noah, one.“Drop us a line or call if you holder in the Nashville office of Consumer Organization at Sprint Com- of Apex, N.C., began a new job last vate donations for the extras—about $750,000 in the last two years. He THOMAS LAVERGNE are in the Kansas City area,”he writes. Baker, Donelson, Bearman & munications. John Hamilton, BA, and August at the Internet start-up compa- Carol Ann Hilton, MEd, married Caldwell, was elected president his wife, Cheri, announce the birth of ny Alerts.com. Deana Pace Wegenast, hopes to buy land and begin construction on a permanent school build- Joseph Mark Finnigan on Oct. 21, 2000. ’89of the Tennessee Bar Association’s ing soon. came as a volunteer for the campus service organization Vanderbuddies; their first child, Jack, born in March MEd, and her husband, Dennis, She is a business proposal writer with Young Lawyers Division. Meredith 2000. John received an M.B.A. from announce the birth of Evan Joseph “I don’t think I could do this anywhere else in the country,”says Barbic. he tutored youngsters at Nashville’s Bethlehem Center. “I loved going Deloitte & Touche in Arlington, Va. Roberts Henry, BE, ME’95, MBA’95, Duke University’s Fuqua School of Busi- Wegenast, born on May 7, 2000, joining “Houston still has that cowboy, wild-catter mentality. These people don’t down there and working with those kids. I guess I was born with teach- Paula Hardin Hines, BS, and Steve works with GNB Technologies as a ness last May, then relocated to Atlanta two-year-old brother, Zachary. mind taking risks.” ing in my blood,”says Barbic, whose mother and aunt are teachers. Hines, BS’85, announce the birth of manager of plastics operations. She and where he works for iXL as an Internet Positive publicity helps, too. Barbic recently picked up a prestigious His newfound love for teaching prompted Barbic to choose Teach for twin daughters, Megan Elizabeth and her husband have been to New strategy consultant. Jack Oliver,BA,an Alison Lee Ehlert, BS, married award and a check for $10,000 from Rolling Stone magazine and Do America as his senior research project. Teach for America is a program Emma Katherine, born on Jan. 11, Zealand, Australia, and Paris since 1995 attorney in Cape Girardeau, Mo., served Jason Alan Muncy on Aug. 7, Something, a national nonprofit organization. He was selected for lead- offering teacher certification in exchange for a two-year commitment 2000. They live in Richardson, Texas. and worked in Chicago, Columbus, as national finance director of the 1999, in Dallas. Bridesmaids ership, entrepreneurial skills, long-term vision, and a measurable effect to teach in impoverished neighborhoods. After graduation Barbic signed James R. Holmes, BA, and his wife, Ga., and Jackson, Miss. James N. John- George W. Bush presidential campaign. included Elisabeth Kyle Cater, on lasting positive change. up and was hustled off to teach sixth graders in one of Houston’s inner- Elizabeth, announce the birth of their son, BA, MD’93, served four years as a Jon Parrish Peede, BS, and his wife, BA;’93Rania Deeb Smith,BA;Paula city schools. first child, Emma McDonald Holmes, flight surgeon and general medical offi- Nancy Holloman-Peede, announce the Fielder Wills,BA;Kelly Barton, BS; and The YES motto is “Whatever It Takes”—and what it takes is plenty born in October 1999. He writes that he cer in the Air Force. After completing birth of a daughter, Somerset Kea Peede, Leslie Johnson McClanahan, BS. Alison of energy. For 11 months of the year, classes begin at 7:30 A.M. weekdays “I could get the kids excited about learning, but when they went off to quit work to rear Emma and write his his residency at the Mayo Clinic in born on May 2, 2000. He is director of is a technical recruiter for Andersen and end at 5 P.M. (an hour earlier on Fridays). Students also are re- junior high, it all unraveled,”he explains. “We needed a better answer.” Ph.D. dissertation on the diplomacy of Jacksonville, Fla., last August, he began publications and college editor at Mill- Consulting. Melissa Fraser, BA, joined quired to attend six-hour Saturday classes twice each month. Even so, 400 That answer was YES. Theodore Roosevelt. They live in Bel- serving a one-year sports medicine fel- saps College in Jackson, Miss. Matt the Washington, D.C., law firm of Ful- enrolled students and their parents have signed contracts of compliance, YES stands for Youth Engaged in Service, and when Barbic talks about mont, Mass. Thomas L. West, MA, was lowship at San Jose Medical Center/ Sailors, BE, received a Ph.D. from the bright Jaworski, practicing administra- and another 250 are on a waiting list. building better communities through service, he means it. YES students elected president of the American Stanford University. Hal Piper,BA, University of Utah last May. He is a non- tive law and oil and gas law. Allison “They see a college education as a way out of poverty,”says Barbic. volunteer for everything from collecting food and toys to pounding ham- Translators Association, the largest MEd’93, joined Duke-Weeks Realty clinical assistant professor at the Univer- Gardner, BS, married Brett Alan Auf- “That’s the motivation.” mers and wielding wrenches. association of professional translators Corporation in Tampa, Fla., as a leasing sity of Texas Health Science Center at denkamp on July 15, 2000. They live in The faculty, in turn, is committed to preparing students for success in Barbic believes a critical mass of college-educated people can make a in the United States. He is president of representative. Ben Hardin Rowan III, Houston in general surgery and an Smyrna, Tenn. Susan Stone Kessler, BS, college—socially as well as academically. Most minority students who neighborhood thrive. He encourages his students—whom he calls “trail- Intermark Language Services in BE, married Julie Lynn Jeter on Aug. 5, adjunct assistant professor in the depart- MEd’94, assistant principal of Fairview blazers”—to get their college educations and then come back home where Atlanta. 2000. They live in Memphis. ment of health informatics at the School High School in Tennessee, earned an leave college leave for social reasons, says Barbic. “We try to make sure of Allied Health Sciences. John M. Turn- Ed.D. degree in school administration at that won’t happen.”YES students get social conditioning through visits they can make a difference. On his desk, a symbolic crystal paperweight Hans Heilmann, BA, was fea- Melanie Denius, BS, married bull, BA, MD’95, returned to his regional Vanderbilt last August. She and her hus- to museums, theatre districts, historical sites, and longer trips to college shaped like a mountain reminds him of this mission. tured in the July 21, 2000, issue Kevin Bartczak on June 16, roots in Cookeville, Tenn., when he band, Eugene B. Kessler, BA’80,wel- campuses across the country. Last year YES ninth graders toured Vanderbilt. “I tell the kids it’s not enough to climb the mountain. When they get of the Birmingham Business 2000. They live in Indialantic, joined the Upper Cumberland Orthope- comed their second child, Zachary At Vanderbilt, Barbic majored in human and organizational develop- up there, they’ve got to reach down and help someone else to the top.” Journal as general sales manag- Fla. Theresa Skowron Dunn, dic Surgery practice. Matthew Stone Kessler, born on April 14, ment and English—not in education—so his first teaching experience —Julia Helgason er’88 at country music radio station BA,’90 completed an M.B.A. degree at the 1999. Laura Shaffer, BA, of Arlington,

38 VANDERBILT MAGAZINE WINTER/SPRING 2001 39 with overwhelming ambition.’You have Pete, have their own Vanderbilt alumni Uhuru Peak … and I can speak basic Before her election to the Vanderbilt Music, College of Arts and Science, MAKING BRIGHTER DAYS to love Silicon Alley.”He is a senior sys- association on the hill. Whitney Swahili now.” Claire Rigsby, BA, mar- Board of Trust, she served as an officer Heard Library, Children’s Hospital, and FOR CHILDREN tems architect with Instinet in New McCoy, BS, was promoted to senior ried Rob Clark on July 15, 2000. They of the Vanderbilt Aid Society, Alumni the National Commodore Club. York City, but hopes to build a mini- account executive at Kleber & Associ- Association, Vanderbilt Development live in Bay City, Ill. Jeffrey S. Robinson, Chester Colwell Brummett, BA’35, Stanford University plastic surgeon Nick Sieveking, BA’90, paus- empire.“However, I still make time to ates, an Atlanta advertising firm for Foundation, and was a trustee of the BA, lives in downtown Chicago where MD’38, of Mountain Brook, Ala., June es just long enough to pose with a patient during an intense two- think outrageous thoughts and write clients in home improvement and Jean and Alexander Heard Library. Last he works as an associate actuarial con- 7, 2000. He was a family practitioner in week trip to the Philippines. Sieveking was part of a team of medical inflammatory essays. What’s life with- building product industries. Angela year she endowed the Mary Jane sultant for Towers Perrin. Middlesboro, Ky., and Aberdeen, Miss., volunteers who traveled to the province of Leyte under the aus- out a little controversy?” Andrew Oye- Dawn Middleton, BA, married Ryan Werthan Professorship in Judaic and before completing a residency in anes- pices of Interplast, a nonprofit organization that provides free fesobi, BS, is a freelance entertainment Joseph Mitchell, BA, on June 3, 2000. Biblical Studies at Vanderbilt’s Divinity DEATHS thesiology and relocating to Birming- reconstructive surgery for children in developing nations. Sievek- writer and founder of Urban Prince Attendants included Maureen School, and an annual achievement ham. He was a life deacon at the ing and two other plastic surgeons provided life-changing surg- Publishing, which released his first Morgan, BS; Zach Hughes, BA; and award is given in her name by the Uni- Andrew Emerson Chester, A’18, of Mountain Brook Baptist Church and a eries on 44 children and six adults. “Those suffering from cleft lips novel, Sin in Soul’s Kitchen, in February Neal Massand, BS. Angela is pursuing a versity’s Women’s Center. She was a Dallas, June 27, 2000. After serving as a member of the American Academy of and cleft palates many times cannot eat properly, which may lead 2000. His Web address is www.urban- medical degree at the Medical College member of the Temple Ohabai Shalom pilot during World War I, he worked Anesthesiology, the American Medical to malnutrition,” says Sieveking. “Children with cleft palates prince.calicopark.com. Glenn E. Plosa, of Virginia, and Ryan is a financial ana- congregation, served as Nashville presi- for Magnolia Petroleum Company, Association, Alabama Medical Society, also have recurrent ear infections, which many times cause hear- BA, works with the Nashville law firm lyst with Harris Williams & Company dent of the National Council of Jewish retiring in 1960 as vice president of and Alabama Anesthesiology. His other ing loss.” Also part of the volunteer team was Nick’s father, Nicholas of Zinser & Patterson after finishing law in Richmond. John Nutter, BA, lives in Women, chaired the women’s division production. He was an active member affiliations included the American Sieveking, clinical psychologist and director of Vanderbilt’s Psy- school at the University of Pittsburgh. Moscow, Russia, where he works for the of the Jewish Welfare Fund, and served and elder at Highland Park Presbyter- Radio Relay League, Birmingham Sail- chological and Counseling Center. The elder Sieveking studied Irene Porter, BS, was named assistant law firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & on the board of the Jewish Community ian Church and served as president of ing Club, and Birmingham Astronomy Filipino culture to help medical team members better understand director of student life for Greek life at Hamilton. He will return to the United Council. Survivors include her hus- the Greater Dallas Council of Church- Club. A licensed pilot, he was active in their patients, and also provided therapeutic services. Centre College in Danville, Ky. Omar States this fall to attend the University band, a daughter, five grandchildren, es. He was a mason and a member of volunteer medical missions to Banga- Rosales, BA, a captain in the Marine of Virginia School of Law. Claire Eliza- five great-grandchildren, and a sister. the Dallas Country Club, Dallas Petro- lor, India; Ogbomosho, Nigeria; and Corps, reported for duty to the Marine beth Wakefield, BS, married Andrew leum Club, Daedalians, and Mayflower Edward H. Bringhurst, BA’31, of Gaza City, Israel. He was a flight sur- women. Her designs come with Braille for Nextel Communications. Jennifer L. consultant in computer systems with Corps Tactical Systems Support Activi- Davis Berg on June 9, 2000. They live in Society. He is survived by his wife, four Danville, Calif., October 1999. geon during World War II. Survivors Deloitte Consulting, and he is a sales ty at Camp Pendelton, Calif. Oleg Franklin, Tenn. tags describing garment color and care Letner, BS, is pursuing an M.B.A. at the children, 11 grandchildren, 11 great- include his wife, Catherine Boyd Bell manager at Ram Tool and Supply, a retail Savchenko, BS, was featured in the Samuel L. Meyer, MS’32, of Lexington, instructions. Many of the garments University of Georgia. Chanden S. Lang- grandchildren, and one great-great- Brummett, MD’38, three daughters, store. Aug. 4, 2000, edition of the Jewish Stan- Jennifer Bewley, BS, lives in Ky., June 26, 2000. He was president, have Braille words sewn with sequins on hofer, BA, married Karen Harper on July grandchild. two sons, six grandchildren, and five the chest and around the midriff. Moni- 8, 2000. After attending graduate school dard newspaper in Teaneck, N.J. He is a Nashville and is in her second emeritus, and the seventh president of F.Fagan Thompson, BA’25,MA’26, great-grandchildren. ca Lewis, BA, married Jason Johnson, at George Washington University, he Kara Albert, BA, married Allen resident of Passaic and a medical stu- year of teaching first grade at Ohio Northern University. During his BD’28, of Wimberley, Texas, June 16, BE’96, on Sept. 2, 2000. They live in works in the Pentagon. Matt Moynihan, Hicks on Aug. 12, 2000. They dent at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in Eakin Elementary School. tenure from 1965 to 1977, building Charles M. McGill, MD’35, of Gig 2000, after a brief bout with cancer. He Shawnee Mission, Kan. Jason Duane BA, joined Weberize as content director met in federal District Court in New York City. Cynthia K. Suerken, ’99Tiffany Cherrington Gaston, BS, commenced on the west campus Harbor, Wash., Jan. 24, 2000. spent 18 years at Vanderbilt as a student Richardson, BS, MEd’97, married and linguistic administrator. Sarah Nashville the summer following BS, earned a master of science degree in MEd’00, married Albert Jackson Dale including Meyer Hall of Science, J. Aust Matthews, BA’36, of Pleasant ’97her graduation. She received a law statistics from the University of Georgia IV, BS, on July 8, 2000. They live in and teacher of religion and the arts, psy- named in his honor. Prior to joining Brandi Elizabeth Burnett on May 21, Routh Shelburne North, BA, was grad- Hill, Calif., Sept. 1, 1998. chology of religion, and hymnody. Dur- 2000. They live in Franklin, Tenn. Kris- uated from Vermont Law School magna degree and a master’s in bioethics at in May 2000, earning a 3.0 GPA, and Nashville. Juan A. McGruder, PhD, was Ohio Northern, he worked at the Uni- ing the Depression, he traveled for the William H. Armistead, BE’37, MS’38, ten R. Sullivan, BA, works as an edi- cum laude and was designated a class Case Western Reserve University School received the Outstanding Teaching appointed special assistant to the presi- versity of Tennessee, Emory University, Methodist Publishing House, teaching PhD’41, of Corning, N.Y., June 25, tor/writer for Omega Performance marshal for the May 2000 ceremonies. of Law. They both practice law in Award as the top teaching assistant in dent at Clark Atlanta University after Florida State University, Central the Methodist hymnal and hymnody to 2000. He was retired from Corning Inc. Corporation, a training and consulting She and her husband, Barrie, founded Atlanta. Vandy alums at the wedding the statistics department. She is a serving two years as assistant director Methodist College in Missouri, and the groups in 17 states. He went on to minis- where he had been director of research. firm in Charlotte, N.C. Brian Thomas, the law school’s women’s rugby club. She included Melissa Bowie Atkinson,BA; research statistician at the Research Tri- of CAPHE at the Council for Indepen- University of the Pacific. He was active ter to churches and became a director Survivors include two daughters and BE, was appointed medical officer for a is an associate with the law offices of Jennifer Nordloh, BS; Charlotte Turn- angle Institute in Chapel Hill, N.C. dent Colleges in Washington, D.C. in Rotary International, served on the and consultant in psychology to Veter- three sons. two-year tour aboard the U.S. naval ves- Charles Platto in Norwich, Vt., and er,BA;Britt Farwick,BA;Lisa Quall, Karen Choi Parvin, BS, and her hus- University Senate of the United an’s Administration hospitals through- sel USS Duluth last August. The Duluth Lebanon, N.H. Sandra Gale Portnoy, BMus’99; and Megan von Gremp Mor- Alician Fatemah Babalmoradi, band, Chad Parvin, BE’98, celebrated Methodist Church, and as chair of the Louise P.Childers, A’37,of Raymore, out the South. Survivors include his wife, is an amphibious ship that transports BS, married Ethan Sumner Bornstein on gan, BS, MSN’98. Lindsay Alexander, BS, and Joseph Andrew their first wedding anniversary on Oct. Ohio Foundation of Independent Col- Mo., June 21, 2000. She and her husband daughter, son F.Fagan Thompson Jr., marines and their equipment. May 13, 2000. They live in Charlestown, BMus, earned a master’s degree in Driscoll, BE’96, MA’98, were 30, 2000. They live in the Charleston, leges. He is survived by his wife and two farmed for 50 years and were placed on A’60,four grandchildren, and two great- Mass. John Shorb, BA, earned a master church music/choral conducting from married May 21, 2000. She is in S.C., area. William B. Shropshire, sons. the honor roll of the Missouri Agricul- grandchildren. of architecture degree from Virginia Tech Belmont University last August. She is a ’98a doctoral program in pharmacy, and MEd, is a high school counselor at Nor- tural Extension Service for their roles as REUNION JUNE 1–2, 2001 Ann Dillon, BA’33, of Nashville, July last August and was awarded the Henry music assistant at First Presbyterian he is working on a doctoral degree in cross High School in the Atlanta area. Mary Jane Werthan, BA’29, MA’35, of 20, 2000. A magna cum laude graduate leaders of 4-H. Her community involve- Kimberly Secrist Ashby,BA, Adams Medal and Certificate as the sec- Church in Nashville. Michael Bobo, electrical engineering. Anne-Marie Kathryn Mead Smith, BS, married Nashville, Aug. 15, 2000, at her home. at Vanderbilt, she earned a master of ment included serving as a Democratic MEd’97, of Birmingham, ond-ranking graduate. Gretchen Sti- MD, completed medical school residen- Betts, BS, and John Peter Tartikoff, Brent William Webster on June 11, She was the first woman elected to the science degree from Columbia Univer- committeewoman and membership in received a master of divinity chon, BA, of Nashville, was named cy at Vanderbilt last June and practices BA’95, were married on July 8, 2000, in 2000, in Greeneville, S.C. Vanderbilt University Board of Trust sity. She served as director of statistical the First Presbyterian Church of Union degree in May 2000 from Union assistant to the director of education at oral and maxillofacial surgery in Mur- Philadelphia. They live in Atlanta where and a leader in Nashville civic, cultural, services for the Tennessee Department Star, the General Federation of Women’s ’96Theological Seminary and Presbyterian the Frist Center for the Visual Arts. Mary ray, Ky., and Union City, Tenn. He and she is employed with Eclipsys Corpora- Eothen “Egon”Alapatt, BA, was and religious life. She was a charter Clubs, Philo Club, and Twentieth Centu- of Public Health from 1953 to 1968 School of Christian Education in Rich- E. Traylor, BA, of Gainesville, Fla., writes his wife, Sharon, have a young son, tion, and he works with the Fulton featured in an article in the Aug. member of the board of directors of before moving on to a statistician posi- ry Club. She also had been a deputy for mond, Va. Katherine Susanne Cizmar, that she is excited to be done almost with Christian. Heather Elizabeth Dewar, County Police Department. Jeremy T. 6, 2000, edition of the Connecti- Planned Parenthood and was a found- tion with Pan American Health Organi- the fourth district of the Order of the BS, married Jason-Philip Camilleri on medical school and is ready to begin a BS, and Brandon Nelson McCarthy, Chaussee, BS, is completing his third cut Post newspaper in Bridge- ing member of Family & Children’s zation in Washington, D.C. During her Eastern Star. Survivors include three July 22, 2000. They are studying in Lon- residency in pediatrics.“I look forward BA’96,were married on May 13, 2000. year as an AmeriCorps VISTA worker port.’00 The story noted that he is an daughters, a son, seven grandchildren, Service, serving as president in the career, she also taught preventative don for master’s degrees, she in organiza- to seeing lots of old friends at Reunion They live in Dallas where she is a pro- for the Massachusetts Campus Com- accomplished deejay who introduced 1950s. She also was a founding board medicine and public health statistics at two step-grandchildren, two great- tional social psychology at the London this year and hope that lots of people gram manager for Sprint, and he is an pact in Boston. Ryan Durst, BA, moved audiences to funk. Alapatt is now in Los member of the Public Television Coun- Peabody College and Meharry Medical grandchildren, and a step-great- School of Economics, and he in informa- return.” Duncan G.Winter, MEd, attorney. Kyla Marie Mostello,BA, from New York City to Washington, Angeles where he is manager and pro- cil when it was formed to support College School of Nursing and in 1965 grandchild. proudly announces her New York City ducer for the independent label Stone’s tion management and finance at the received the Tennessee Teacher of the D.C., where he is a staffer in the office WDCN–Channel 8; a board member was listed in Who’s Who of American William Southard Scott, MD’37, of acting debut in the one-woman show Throw Records. Kelly Bennett,BA, University of Westminster. Austin Humanities 2000 Award from the Ten- of U.S. Senator Fred Thompson, JD’67. when the Nashville Symphony Guild Women. Her professional affiliations Spartanburg, S.C., May 6, 2000, follow- “lamb of gods.”The show appeared at joined the Richmond, Va., firm of BB&T Garza, BS, finished medical school at nessee Humanities Council. He is chair Ashley Fogg, BS, joined the Atlanta was formed; first president of the included the American Public Health ing a lengthy illness. During World War the New York International Fringe Fes- Capital Markets as an associate in the Vanderbilt and earned the M.D. degree of the social studies department at Fred J. advertising firm of Kilgannon Friends of Cheekwood; and a lifetime Association, American Statistical Asso- II, he served as a neuropsychiatrist at tival last August. Thomas H. Mueller, corporate finance group. Jenn Reavis, last spring. Joy Coleman Godshall, Page High School in Franklin. Yiwen McReynolds as an account executive. board member of the Tennessee Botan- ciation, American Association for Vital Lawson General Hospital, the 216th BA, was graduated from the University BE, of Newburgh, Ind., writes that she MEd, married William S. Ivester III on Yen, BE, received an M.S. degree from Robyn Gerth, BS, is a geologist investi- ical Gardens and Fine Arts Center. As a Records and Public Health Statistics, General Hospital in England and Ger- of Mississippi School of Law and relo- enjoys working at Merck as a pharma- March 25, 2000, in Greenville, S.C., Case Western Reserve University with a gating earthquake hazards in Oakland, Vanderbilt student, she was president of and the Tennessee Public Health Asso- many, and the 82nd General Hospital cated to Jackson, Miss., where he ceutical engineer. Last summer she spent where they live. She is coordinator of the concentration in medical imaging and Calif. Daniel Martin, BA, writes that he the Women’s Student Government and ciation. She also was an active member in France. He was a member of the First accepted a position as law clerk for a eight weeks in the Shinyanga region of University of South Carolina’s transition currently is pursuing an M.D. at the Uni- fell in love with Chapel Hill, N.C., after Women’s Athletic Association; presi- of West End United Methodist Church Baptist Church of Spartanburg, the Mississippi Supreme Court justice. Tanzania, working on nutrition and systems change grant. Kimberly Ann versity of North Carolina School of Med- working in the research triangle area. dent of her sorority, Alpha Epsilon Phi; and a supporter of Cheekwood, Spartanburg County Medical Society, Kevin O’Donnell, BA, writes that he health counseling with women and chil- Meyer Itkoff, BS, married Christopher icine. Jessica Ruen Young, BS, married He started full-time classes at the Uni- Lady of the Bracelet, the highest recog- Nashville Opera Association, Nashville American Medical Association, South- currently lives by the motto,“‘Deca- dren in rural villages.“While I was there, Kent DeSalvo on April 2, 2000. They live Robert Page Naftel, BA, on Aug. 5, 2000. versity of North Carolina’s business nition given to a female undergraduate; Symphony, and a number of Vanderbilt ern Medical Association, and South dence is a valid lifestyle when balanced I climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro, all the way to in Atlanta where she is a benefits analyst They live in Atlanta where she is a senior school. He notes that he and his dog, and was graduated Phi Beta Kappa. divisions, including the Blair School of Carolina Medical Association. Sur-

40 VANDERBILT MAGAZINE WINTER/SPRING 2001 41 vivors include his wife, two daughters, byterian Church, he had a lifelong Kenneth Todes, BA’45, of St. Louis, member of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. four grandchildren, and two great- interest in genealogy and history. Sur- Mo., Aug. 12, 2000, of complications For more than 30 years, he worked in the Wise Heart continued from page 21 grandchildren. vivors include his wife, a daughter, and from various illnesses. An architect and general practice of law and was city three grandchildren. businessman, he had owned the Mark attorney for Spring Hill. Survivors books became bestsellers. Patients were beginning to understand The move to New York in 1997 took some adjustment.“I was here Sally B. Crosthwaite, BA’38, of Sher- Twain, Mayfair, and Gateway hotels include two sons, two daughters, and a how their arteries had become clogged and to learn to participate in three years before I could root for the Yankees,”Gotto quips, “but man, Texas, April 13, 2000. Lucy Matthews Mastin Kirkman, downtown. At his death, he was working grandson. BA’41,of Charleston, S.C., June 21, their own treatment. I’ve never regretted the move to Cornell.” Robin A. Byron, MD’39, of Owingsville, on a memorial in Calvary Cemetery and 2000. She was a member of the Daugh- William G. Webber, BA’50, of Panama Gotto believed that medical outcomes would improve when He draws inspiration from two black and white portraits lining Ky., Aug. 14, 2000, of complications from on projects in Michigan. Survivors ters of the American Revolution, Ladies City, Fla., June 8, 2000. congestive heart failure. A veteran of include his wife, stepdaughter, stepson, patients and their families became educated about the disease. The the walls of the dean’s conference room—those of Vanderbilt School Benevolent Society, National Society of World War II, he retired as a major with and two step-grandchildren. Lewis R. Beam Jr., MD’51, of Mill Colonial Dames of America, Daughters idea was somewhat radical for a time when doctors gave orders and of Medicine legends Canby Robinson and Hugh Luckey, who both the U.S. Army Medical Corps serving in Spring, N.C., March 23, 2000. of the Crown, The Confederate Home, Ted R.Witt, BD’45, of Knoxville, Tenn., patients obeyed—or disobeyed them. He also remained dedicated went on to lead Cornell’s medical school. “Cornell and Vanderbilt the Pacific Theater, primarily in New Daughters of the Cincinnati, Gibbes Art June 8, 2000. He is survived by his wife Sally Davis Ford, BA’51, of Jackson, Guinea. He had an active private practice to identifying tempting, tasty foods that met medical standards for enjoy a long tradition of close relationships,”he observes. Gallery, Charleston Museum, Library and son, Ted R.Witt Jr., BD’62. Tenn., Jan. 11, 2000. for more than 50 years and was a mem- Society of Charleston, Delta Delta heart health. His obsession culminated in his best-selling The New Though he turned 65 this year, Gotto says retirement is a long ber of the Owingsville Christian Church. Barry Bowers, BE’47, of Satellite Beach, James Robert Harland Jr., BA’51,L’54, Delta, and French Huguenot Church. Living Heart Cookbook, coauthored with DeBakey, Lynne Scott, and way off. But in typical fashion, he’s laying the groundwork. The Got- Survivors include his wife, a daughter, a Fla., Aug. 2, 2000, at his home. He was a of Atlanta, June 30, 2000, after a long Survivors include her husband, Frank son, four grandchildren, a twin brother, Navy veteran of World War II, having battle with cancer. He practiced real John Foreyt. tos spend winters in their old neighborhood in Houston where they L. Kirkman, BA’42,two daughters, a and a sister. served as a lieutenant in the Intelligence estate law in Atlanta. Survivors include When Gotto decided that similar fare should be available at restau- still own a home. They are about to start construction on a larger son, six grandchildren, and a sister. Service Unit called “Beach Jumpers.”He his wife, three children, and four grand- William Parks Dixon, A’39,L’41, of rants, he and Ted Bowen, CEO of The Methodist Hospital of Hous- cottage in Maine (they now have a lakeside cottage there) where they Cloyd Andrew Robinson, BA’41, of earned a master’s degree in public health children. Memphis, July 11, 2000. ton, hired a chef and opened Chez Eddie in the hospital. The eatery plan to spend their summers—with plenty of room for family vis- Birmingham, May 29, 2000. He served policy from Johns Hopkins University E.J. Magnusson, BA’51, of Huntsville, Wilfred S. Dowden,BA’39,MA’40,of proved a great success and was voted one of the city’s 10 best restau- its. as a lieutenant in the Army during and was CEO of Maryland General Hos- Ala., June 7, 2000. He was a graduate of Houston, Texas, Oct. 31, 1999. World War II and saw action in Bel- pital in Baltimore. He is survived by his Columbia Military Academy in Ten- rants. Though Jennifer and Gillian required lifesaving organ transplants Leonard E. Garrard,BA’39,ofColum- gium and Germany. After the war, he wife, daughter, son, stepdaughters, and nessee, Vanderbilt, and the University Gotto and his Baylor colleagues pioneered research on the rela- as adults, everyone is doing well. Jennifer, who finished her last two worked for Interstate Life Insurance grandchildren. bus, Ohio, July 24, 2000. of Alabama. He served as a radar officer tionship between cholesterol metabolism and hardening of the arter- years in medical school on dialysis, is a psychiatrist and professor in Company and Sears Roebuck in with the Navy during World War II Bill Herbert, MD’39, of Spartanburg, Jeanne Marie Bryant Salmon, BA’48,of Nashville, Selma, and Birmingham. aboard the destroyer USS Shelton.A ies, proving among other things a connection between lowered Los Angeles. Gillian is a medical social worker in Houston. Teresa is S.C., Aug. 9, 2000, after a nine-year Nashville, Feb. 19, 2000. Survivors include two sons and six member of Mt. Zion Baptist Church, he cholesterol and a lowered incidence of heart attack. During more a Harvard Business School graduate and stockbroker who lives and struggle with prostate cancer. An obste- Eugene Stuart Wolcott, BA’48,of grandchildren. retired from Thiokol after 36 years. trician/gynecologist, he delivered more Franklin, Tenn., Sept. 1, 2000. He was a than two decades in Houston, Gotto was the Bob and Vivian works in London. Archie L. Boswell, JD’42, of Norfolk, Survivors include his wife, a sister, and than 17,000 babies in Spartanburg hos- physician in the Tennessee counties of Va., March 31, 2000. several nieces and nephews. Smith Professor at Baylor, and chairman of the Albert B. and Mar- “Of course, I’d much rather they hadn’t been ill,”their father says. pitals. He was 76 when he delivered his Williamson and Marshall where he garet M. Alkek Department of Medicine and chief of the Internal “But their illness strengthened their characters and their resolve and last baby, bringing the total to 17,001. Thomas O. Morris Jr., A’42, of Tampa, served as chief of staff for both county William Sugg Voorhees, BA’52, of He was author of Combat Surgeon,a Fla., Dec. 29, 1999. hospitals. He earned a D.D.S. degree at Nashville, Sept. 2, 2000. He was a mem- Medicine Service at The Methodist Hospital in Houston. At Bay- gave the girls a tremendous compassion for others that they wouldn’t book about landing behind the troops the University of Tennessee College of ber of Sigma Chi fraternity, a veteran of lor he also held the J.S. Abercrombie Professor Chair for Athero- otherwise have.” Eugene S. Ogrod, BD’42, of Granite at the Normandy Invasion and his Dentistry and an M.D. degree at the Uni- the Korean War, an elder of First Pres- Bay, Calif., July 8, 1999. sclerosis and Lipoprotein Research and was scientific director of The The Gotto daughters also learned that they could count on their experiences of running a 2,000-bed versity of Tennessee College of Medicine byterian Church, and a member of the hospital to treat soldiers injured in the William H. Bailey, BD’45, of North in Memphis. He was a retired lieutenant Downtown Rotary Club, Cumberland DeBakey Heart Center. father. “Tony has always been there for all of us,”his wife says. “He D-Day landing. Survivors include his Chili, N.Y.,April 13, 2000. colonel in the Air Force and a member of Club, Mission Inn Golf and Country Then came the offer from Cornell and the prospect of new chal- never asks what he should do next. He always knows. And he always wife, Kitty Gale Herbert, BS’40, Club, and Howey-in-the-Hills, Fla. Sur- Marie Frances Kenneday Davis, Hiram Lodge and York Rite in Franklin lenges. Part of his assignment at Cornell would be building a research does it.” MA’41, a daughter, and two sons. vivors include his wife, a son, a daugh- BA’45, of Annisquam, Mass., April 19, and Scottish Rite and Al Menah Temple ter, a stepson, four stepdaughters, and infrastructure, and there was $100 million to make it happen, a dona- Julia Helgason, formerly a staff writer for the Dayton Daily News, is a free- Morton B. Howell Jr., BA’39, of 2000. A native of Birmingham, she in Nashville, where he served as chief numerous grandchildren. tion from Cornell Chairman Sanford Weil and his wife, Joan. lance writer in Nashville. Nashville, Aug. 31, 2000, of complica- spent most of her childhood in her medical staff for 37 years. Survivors tions from Alzheimer’s disease. He was family’s hometown of Franklin, Tenn. include two sons, two daughters, and five Elizabeth Calvin Booth, BA’53, of a retired senior partner of Howell and She moved to Annisquam with her hus- grandchildren. Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 5, 2000. She attended Fisher attorneys and a graduate of band in 1946 where they reared their John McDuffie McGehee, A’49,of the Berkshire Choral Institute and missions in the European theater of Willie Edward Phillips, PhD’59, of Yvonne Spragins Tatum, A’59, of Lynn Dow Pearson, G’63, of Okla- Montgomery Bell Academy, serving on three children. She was an active volun- Mobile, Ala., July 15, 2000, following a organized a music ministry for senior operations. He later worked for the University Park, Md., Sept. 3, 2000, of Memphis, June 9, 2000. homa City, Dec. 1, 1999. Bureau of Reclamation’s information cancer. He was a physicist with the its board of trustees from 1947 until his teer at the Addison Gilbert Hospital lengthy illness. He had served for a year citizens. She was a church soloist at St. John Harley Walsh, BA’59, MD’63, of Floyd Dale Crenshaw, PhD’64, of department in Boulder City, Nev. He National Bureau of Standards and death. He earned his law degree at Yale and the Northshore Babies Hospital as Mobile County’s health officer and George’s Episcopal Church in Nashville Los Angeles, June 14, 2000, of compli- Edwardsville, Ill., March 30, 2000. graduated from the University of Utah helped develop methods, computer University and joined the U.S. Army Air and was a member of the Cape Ann was acting chairman of the Department and the Cathedral of St. Philip and cations from a heart attack. He was in Salt Lake City and worked for the programs, and instrumentation for Bobbie E. Oliver, MST’65, MLS’68, of Corps where he commanded the Garden Club, the Annisquam Sewing of Internal Medicine at the University of Trinity Presbyterian Church in Atlanta. research chief of the digestive disease postal service for 30 years until his precision deep-level measurements in Memphis, May 20, 2000. He was retired Fourth Aviation Squadron at Maxwell Circle, the Vanderbilt Alumni Associa- South Alabama. He served as a medical Survivors include her husband, Henry division and the Dorothy and Leonard retirement in 1988 when he returned to semiconductors. He also focused on head librarian at Memphis Theological Field, Ala. He served on the board of tion, the Annisquam Village Church, officer with the Navy during the Korean Booth, BA’50, four children, and seven Strauss Professor of Medicine at the Buffalo. In addition to stream fishing, improving precision low-temperature Seminary and an ordained minister in Rhodes College and the EAR Founda- and the Annisquam Yacht Club. Sur- War and later set up a private practice. grandchildren. University of California Los Angeles tion and was mayor of Belle Meade vivors include her husband, two daugh- he enjoyed hiking pioneer trails and thermometry techniques. In the 1980s, the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Survivors include his wife, a daughter, Percy F.Garnett, BA’53, of Florence, School of Medicine. He also was direc- from 1947 to 1982. An avid duck ters, and six grandchildren. visiting places of historic importance. he taught electrical engineering and He is survived by his wife. five stepdaughters, and 11 grandchil- Ala., May 11, 2000. tor of CURE: the Digestive Disease hunter, his other interests included He was an active member of the Ore- physics at Mississippi State University. Thomas Franklin Parrish, BA’45, dren. Research Center, and was internation- Florence Spencer Statler, G’66, of Latin languages, travel, and classical Frances J. Cummins Moon, BA’54, gon Trail and Bozemen Trail societies. During World War II, he served in the MD’48, of Nashville, Aug. 10, 2000, fol- Owen Martin Couch, BA’50,of Gun- ally known for his pioneering studies of Hendersonville, N.C., Feb. 11, 2000. She archaeology. Survivors include a son, MA’56, of Marietta, Ga., May 6, 2000. Survivors include his wife, a brother, Army Signal Corps in China and India. lowing a lengthy illness. He was Van- how gastric acid functions and of treat- is survived by her husband, Anthony T. tersville, Ala., Feb. 10, 2000. and a sister. He was a member of the University five grandchildren, and a brother. Robert E. Kennington II, BA’55, of ments for ulcers and other related dis- Statler, BA’50,MS’51. derbilt’s first orthopedic resident and United Methodist Church, the Masons, H.G. Gatlin Jr., BA’50,JD’51, of Bethes- Grenada, Miss., March 7, 2000. Nancy Lou Rogers, BA’57, MS’68, of eases. Survivors include a daughter, a James Arnold, MA’40, of Columbia, served for two years in the U.S. Army as and the Rotary Club, where he was J. Paul Franke, PhD’68, of Birming- da, Md., Aug. 9, 2000. Nashville, Aug. 1, 2000, at her home. son, three grandchildren, and a sister. S.C., June 13, 2000. He studied at the a captain in the medical corps in Japan Jack Kuzara, MA’55, MAT’55, of Buffa- named Rotarian of the Year in 1996 and ham, June 28, 1999. She had been a research associate at University of Grenoble, the Sorbonne during the Korean War. He was in prac- Robin Spencer Courtney, BA’50,JD’55, lo, Wyo., July 2, 2000, at his home. a Paul Harris Fellow. He also was a past Henry P.Staley Jr., BA’61, of Old Hick- Vanderbilt for many years and, at her Melissa Shane, MSN’99, of Nashville, in Paris, and the University of South tice for 32 years with Tennessee Ortho- of Columbia, Tenn., July 10, 2000. As a While growing up, he helped his father board member of the Institute of Elec- ory, Tenn., April 2, 2000. death, was a research associate of the August 2000. She was employed with Carolina. He taught in public and pri- pedics. He raised cattle on a farm in young man, he worked as a page in the build and maintain a cabin in the Big trical and Electronics Engineers. Sur- division of nephrology/clinical trials Cordell Thomas Taylor, BE’61, of Vanderbilt at the VIPPS Center for Psy- vate schools and colleges and retired Castalian Springs, Tenn., and was presi- U.S. Congress. He was a veteran of the Horns, where he spent his summers vivors include his wife, three daughters, center. She is survived by a sister and Franklin, Ky., July 25, 2000. chotherapy Research and Policy as a from education in 1963 after his tenure dent of the Tennessee Hereford Associ- Army and served in Germany and the and developed a love of stream fishing. and a sister. cousins. mental health clinician. as superintendent of schools in Lower ation. Survivors include his wife, two Korean War. A supporter of Vanderbilt During World War II, he served in the Richland. A member of Shandon Pres- sons, a daughter, and a brother. athletics, he was senior warden and a Army Air Corps and participated in 32

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A Good Thing Just Got Better You love seeing the old gang at Vanderbilt Reunions. But you also love spending a long, leisurely Memorial Day weekend with family. What’s a loyal alum to do?

This year you don’t have to choose. Reunion 2001 is moving from Memorial Day weekend to the first weekend in June. Don’t miss out on a fun-packed weekend as undergrad- uate classes ending in “1” and “6” reunite and reminisce.

Visit www.vanderbilt.edu/alumni/reunion to: • See what was going on when you were a student • See what activities are scheduled for your class • Chat with classmates on your class message board Reunion 2001 June 1–2 Have your cake and eat it too. (Not to mention cookies, pie, wine and cheese…)

Reunion Office Vanderbilt University 205 Alumni Hall Nashville, TN 37240 Phone: 615/322-6034 E-mail: reunion.offi[email protected]