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The Vanderbilt Political Review Nonpartisan political discus- sion is the focus of The Vanderbilt Political Review, a new VSC publi- cation that launched in the fall. Jadzia Butler, a junior in Arts and Science, started the politi- cal journal to feature academic

Butler during an appearance on MSNBC. essays written by students, fac- ulty and alumni. Alumni con- tributors have included Sen. Lamar Alexander (B.A., 1962) and Willie Geist (B.A., 1997), co-host of “Morning Joe” on MSNBC. Butler invites alumni to send questions, comments and submissions to vanderbiltpoliti- [email protected].

Olney speaks with a few members of The Vanderbilt Hustler sports staff in the Student Media Newsroom during a recent visit to campus. Vanderbilt Fashion Quarterly Students with a passion for fashion have a new outlet for expressing their interest in style Olney visits different campus and design. Vanderbilt Fashion Quarterly is a new publication by Tim Ghianni, Journalist-in-Residence for Vanderbilt Student Communications started by Lauren Elizabeth Junge, a sophomore in Arts and Vanderbilt’s increasing student diversity, “I knew when I was 15 that I wanted to ham sandwiches in the basement of Sarratt. Science who plans to create a its tolerance and outreach have made Buster be a sportswriter,” says Olney. “I thought it He graduated in the spring of 1988. VFQ website and publish a print- Olney much prouder of his university than would be a pretty cool way to make a liv- Now Olney is in the upper reaches of his ed version quarterly. The maga- when he was a student here. ing.” profession. After beginning at the Banner, he zine will include features, fashion When he came here from a Norman Even though he was a runner-up for the worked as a baseball beat writer for papers photography and columns such Rockwell-style New England upbringing, one scholarship, he came to Vanderbilt. His first in San Diego, Baltimore and New York City as “What’s Hot/What’s Not” and of the first things with which he had to cope, day as a student was the first time he saw before settling in as a writer and commenta- “Vandy Style.” Alumni interested in contributing to VFQ can email or at least to overcome in his naïve soul, was the campus. tor for ESPN. Junge at lauren.e.junge@vander- the hate and prejudice he encountered. He spent about six years here -- taking From that vantage, he’s been able to keep bilt.edu. Olney arrived on campus in the fall of leaves of absence to make money to fin- track of -- and be proud of -- the change at 1982, chasing his dream of becoming a ish his education. “I had friends in nine VU. He also makes regular visits to his alma GEIST sports writer after his interest was piqued graduating classes,” he says, explaining those mater and in mid-January he stopped by The Philosophy Journal when he tried to win the friendships included the freshman, sopho- Hustler newsroom to entertain staffers about Scholarship. The school also was home of more and junior classes from when he was his adventures in the wide world of sports, Spencer Montalvo, a junior in another sports writing legend, Fred Russell, a senior. its highs and lows, and the journalism pro- Arts and Science, is working to launch Geist, a biannual publica- who went from playing baseball for the Much of his time here, Olney was a self- fession in general. tion of philosophical research, Commodores to becoming a nationally described “Tunnel Rat,” a sports writer, edi- After that visit, he sat down for a few min- academic critique and discussion. revered columnist based at the Nashville tor and humor columnist who buried him- The undergraduate journal of phi- Banner. self among the piles of papers and decaying see Olney, page 2 losophy will feature essays by stu- dents from academic institutions across the country and interviews conducted by members of Geist's editorial board. Destiny leads Etheridge to 'Breach'

H H H by Tim Ghianni, Journalist-in-Residence for Vanderbilt Student Communications

Eric Etheridge always has enjoyed talk- “I’m a sucker for talking to people and ing with people. That’s what led the 1979 getting their story,” he says. “When that story Index… Vanderbilt University English major to involves going to Mississippi and getting Alumni Column 2 achieve success as a writer and editor for the arrested and being thrown in Parchman, it’s Alumni Updates 3 likes of Rolling Stone, Harper’s, the New York even better.” Times and George, the latter co-founded by Parchman, or Parchman Farm, is the the late John F. Kennedy Jr. name and location of Mississippi’s most VANDERBILT STUDENT COMMUNICATIONS, INC. It’s also what led to Etheridge’s inter- infamous prison. est in the Freedom Riders, the brave souls And it was the destination for many of 1967 2009 who traveled from near and far into the the subjects Etheridge photographed and Deep South -- including his home state of interviewed for his book, Breach of Peace: Mississippi -- to make their cases for racial Celebrating 42 years in 2009 equality at great personal risk. see Etheridge, page 2 Etheridge 2 tunnel vision

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bright lights an alumni column… utes to talk more personally about his Vanderbilt difficult.” experience, including his early dismay about rac- Things have evolved here over time. And while ism. following the successes of the football team, the “It has been so wonderful to see and feel the baseball team, the men’s and women’s basketball News and Personalities evolution of the school and know you can have teams, he’s also been able to keep track of that an African-American, like David Price, taken in evolution. by Mary Elson, Class of '74 the first round of the draft, from Vanderbilt. And He says one of the high points of recent years Pedro Alvarez,” he says. was looking across from Memorial Gym and see- I was a 20-something general assign- That is in stark contrast to his time here, when ing a banner proclaiming “Vanderbilt for Israel.” ment reporter at the Dallas Times Herald black faces were met if not with hatred then at He was so dumbfounded and excited he called his in 1977 when Tony Dorsett, who would least with apprehension and disregard. best friend from college who lives in Yonkers, N.Y. become one of the most decorated of “My time here was very difficult, because I came It was not a sign seen on the campus when he was all NFL players, came roaring into the from a small town in Vermont and had never been a student. Far from it. city as the newest member of the Dallas exposed to any kind of racism,” he says. His voice cracks when he compares the then to Cowboys. “And there was a lot of racism here at the time I the now. I was fortunate enough to be given was going to school. It was very difficult. “It’s very emotional for me, because it was really the assignment to do the color story on “When I was here, I knew African-American foot- hard for me back then. The things I saw were so Dorsett, visiting him and a half dozen of ball players who wore T-shirts that said ‘Vanderbilt confusing to me. I didn’t understand them.” his buddies at his new place in Dallas. Football’ all the time, because otherwise they Then he smiles. “Coming back year by year Mary Elson I remember he scoffed at the furniture would be stopped by security.” by year, I have seen the diversity in the campus that had been delivered, saying he had ordered it hastily and was He admits he had heard the “N” word used in change, and it has been good. I feel more strongly sending it back. The leather upholstery in his Cadillac convertible conversation in his mostly white farm town. And now about Vanderbilt than I did then.” outside the apartment glistened, I wrote, under “the rampaging while it never was a good word, “It was used in a Texas sun.” benign manner, like you were describing someone Tim Ghianni, who spent more than 33 years as a Dorsett was a large personality and gave me plenty of nice from New Hampshire.” writer, columnist and editor for various daily newspa- material for a page 1 Sunday story. It wasn’t until he got here and heard some pers, is working as VSC’s journalist-in-residence this As it happened, that same weekend, President Jimmy Carter’s over-fueled fellow dorm dweller holler it that he year, coaching students who work for The Hustler, younger brother, Billy, another outsized personality who had became upset. Versus and InsideVandy. been keeping his elder brother on edge with his highly publicized “It was said with such maliciousness. It was very antics, came reeling through the Dallas-Ft.Worth International airport on that production night. I was dispatched to the airport to chronicle the scene, dictating Etheridge, continued from page 1 a story on deadline and getting home, if I recall, sometime after 4 a.m. And so it was that I wound up – for the first and last time Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders. For the native of the small town of Carthage, in my reporting career -- with two stories on the front page of the The basic premise of this document is that Miss., the seed of his photographic history book Sunday . Etheridge, working from the mug shots of those had been planted. It all seemed so, well, familiar – being up all night, writ- who were arrested in the cause, tracked down and “I started it in 2004,” he says. In the files, “they ing multiple stories on deadline, handling disparate subjects, interviewed 80 of the Freedom Riders, shot new had a complete set of (police mug shots of) every- scrambling to get a stories under strenuous circumstances. Of photographs of them and ran the mug shots and one arrested in Jackson. They were pretty compel- course, it was because I had learned a lot of that by working 40 the new portraits side by side. ling images, especially considering the providence hours a week at the Hustler, traveling to the production plant in Etheridge, who quickly points out that he was of them taken shortly after they were arrested and Murfreesboro often two nights a week and also taking five classes “a Versus man” when misidentified as a Hustler they were preserved by the people who were trying each semester at Vanderbilt. alum, is proud of his time at Vanderbilt, which he to defeat them.” I had literally learned to hustle to get almost anything required attended from 1975-79. Etheridge decided his project would be to track for a story and was able to draw on writing skills enhanced by “I started at Versus when I was a freshman and down those in the infamous mugs and shoot cur- some of the best literature professors in academia. then in my senior year I was the editor. It was rent portraits of them. I had never taken a journalism course – and haven’t since. where I hung out,” he says of “I’ve located about 120 of That’s not meant as a dig at journalism schools, which have the office of the campus arts the 328 I have mug shots for,” produced plenty of outstanding journalists. Yet I can’t help think- publication that in 2008 was he says. “About 80 of them are ing that I was fortunate not to have planned to go into journalism transformed into a weekly enter- featured in the book.” in high school, because I might have picked a different college. tainment guide. “Those crazy He hasn’t given up on the Instead I headed off to Vanderbilt after high school (in Oak kids,” he says, with a laugh, collection, either. As he finds Ridge, Tenn., “Atomic City, USA”), thinking I would become a during a phone interview from about more of the Freedom microbiologist or a lawyer. the home in Manhattan’s West Riders, he ponders perhaps add- Serendipitously, I lived across the hall from a girl who worked Village that he shares with is ing them to a paperback version on the Hustler, and she introduced me one evening to a world wife and 7-year-old daughter. of the book or a new edition. that would become my profession. He notes he never had any In many ways it is comple- I came to believe that attending a renowned liberal arts school black friends at Vanderbilt. tion of a he didn’t know such at Vanderbilt with an independent award-winning campus As a native of Mississippi, it even existed. “To be honest, I newspaper was the near-perfect combination (at least for me) to truly may have been his destiny really got into it at the begin- enter journalism as a career. On the Hustler, I was surrounded by to produce Breach of Peace, but ning because the history aspect brilliant, curious, creative people who devoted untold hours to he basically stumbled on the appealed to me and the story the paper not because they would get college credit or complete idea. of the Freedom Riders is a great a degree but because they were captivated by putting out a news- “I was looking for a photo- story.” paper. They were learning the nuts and bolts of journalism on graphic project to do. I had an The cover art of Etheridge's It was only later that he decid- the job and learning about the world and politics and history in idea. I had seen projects other "Breach of Peace." ed he was “learning my own people had done with historical history” as a son of Mississippi. see Elson, page 8 images. It was a clever idea and “I was too young to know,” in general they were well done,” he says of the violence. “I always he says. understood that race was the sort of overarching It was while he was mulling this that he went issue above everything and the town was very home to Mississippi for the holidays in 2003. segregated. tunnelvision “I flashed on the Sovereignty Commission “The movie theater was segregated. And my doc- A publication for alumni of student media at Vanderbilt University files,” he says. That commission was formed in the tor’s office, but I didn’t know about the politics of Tunnel Vision is published by Vanderbilt Student Communications, Inc. 1950s with the basic goal of protecting the state it.” Edited by from “federal encroachment” into state affairs. He says that by the time he was able to under- Chris Carroll, Tim Ghianni and Paige Clancy In other words, the organization was founded to stand what had happened in his state, the old mug Stories by stave off U.S. mandates for integration, suffrage shots were basically gathering dust in the state Tim Ghianni and Paige Clancy and basic civil rights. archives. Olney Photo by Those were just the causes advocated by the “It became a chance by interviewing these Chris Carroll Freedom Riders when they arrived in Mississippi people and taking their pictures, to learn my Layout and Design by between May 24 and Sept. 13, 1961. own history as a Mississippian. That became very Jeff Breaux Local authorities reacted with force. When the rewarding.” Printed by Franklin Web Printing, Co. Freedom Riders were arrested, their mug shots And he has found more fulfillment now that the

Please send address updates via mail, phone, fax or e-mail to: were stored by the Commission and were finally book is published, now that he is on book tours Vanderbilt Student Communications made public in 1998. and taking part on panels where he can “take these Attn: Alumni Mailing List 2301 Vanderbilt Place • VU Station B 351669 • Nashville, TN 37235 “I knew the files had been made public. I’d mug shots back to the public and try to spread the 615-322-6610 (phone) • 615-343-2756 (fax) never seen them. Never looked at them,” he recol- story.” [email protected] H www.vscmedia.org lects. “I thought what if maybe there’s some pic- He has traveled all over the country to collect tures in those files.” these interviews and images and takes a certain He made some calls and found out that, yes, delight in knowing he’s reopening chapters of Vanderbilt there indeed were photographs – mug shots of heroism for new generations. Student Communications, Inc. civilians – in those files. “It’s a great story,” he says. “Every person on the Student Media at Vanderbilt University “Once I heard there were mug shots, it very rides has their own particular details of how they much piqued my curiosity,” he says. ended up there, what motivated them to go.” Issue 10 • Fall 2008 3 distant voices alumni updates… A glimpse into a few lives that helped shape student media at Vandy

1943 1950 as a volunteer Fishery Research Biologist with 1967 the Biological Resources Division of the U.S. Geological Survey after relocation to Gainesville. Eugene Reese Bogle H B.E., 1943 Franklin T. Evans H B.A., 1950 Walker Todd H B.A., 1967 I remain active in research and publishing sci- (The Vanderbilt Hustler) Bogle lives in Audubon, Subsequently earned M.D. degree at Harvard (The Vanderbilt Hustler, WRVU) Todd lives in entific papers and book chapters. In September PA, and said: Even after 65 years I find the cur- Medical School, 1954. Internship at Strong Cleveland, OH, and said: Still occasionally write 2007, I received the Resource Conservation Award rent Vanderbilt media publications refreshing Memorial Hospital in Rochester, U.S Public op-ed articles on current economic (primar- from the American Fisheries Society (a lifetime and very enjoyable. You are doing a great job and Health Service (1955-60), psychiatric residency ily financial) topics. I had a commentary on achievement award), and will be listed in Who’s are an asset to the University. Keep up the good at Yale University School of Medicine (1960- Bretton Woods II and the possibility of a return Who in America in its 2009 edition. I’m still active work. Reese Bogle 63), psychiatric practice in Annapolis (1963-81), to an international gold standard in the Christian in photography as I was during my wonderful inventor of BEDDERS, medical director at Sinai Science Monitor dated November 17, 2008. Also, years at Vandy and involvement with the Hustler Hospital Drug Dependency Program (1983-95), on November 18, International Finance, a journal 1947 and Commodore yeabook. part time at Custom Research Organizations of the Council on Foreign Relations, published H (1997-2002), medical director at REACH Mobile online for its Summer 2008 edition an article on Edyth Lasky Malin B.A., 1947 1957 (The Vanderbilt Hustler, Commodore yearbook, Health Services (2002-07). Poems published in the Federal Reserve’s objectives and current han- Vanderbilt Masquerader) Malin lives in Wayne, PA, various publications, among them: River Styx, dling of the financial crisis, co-authored by Anna Michael G. Wagner H B.A., 1957 and said: Mort Malin and I were married on June Annapolis Anthology, Gay Paper, Cooke Book, and J. Schwartz and Walker F. Todd, Why a Dual (WRVU) Wagner said: Fifty years of sales and 8, 1947 and were on our honeymoon instead of Weavings 2000, the Maryland Millennial Anthology. Mandate Is Wrong for Monetary Policy. management,various industries. attending our graduations. He received an M.A. Poetry readings in various locations, among in History. We lived in Chattanooga for two years. them: The Angel Tavern, Minas’ Gallery, Saint 1968 Mort was the historian at Chickamauga Battlefield Mary’s College of Maryland, Carroll Community 1958 Park. I worked briefly for the Chattanooga- College, Washington College (where I also was John Albert H B.A., 1968 Hamilton County Health Department. In invited to give a lecture on Dr. Merrill Moore, David Halpern H B.A., 1958 (The Vanderbilt Hustler, WRVU) Albert lives in 1949 we moved to College Park, MD, as Mort a famous doctor/poet; and to read some of his (WRVU) Halpern said he is splitting his time Nashville, TN. began work on his Ph.D. at the University of sonnets along with some poems of mine). Plays: between Tulsa and Santa Fe. His latest book, Maryland. After one year in the U. Md. Chemistry Three so far. One about Judas Iscariot; my first, Pilgrim Eye, showcases more than fifty years of Robert Charles Rodgers H B.A., 1968 Department as a lab assistant, I went in 1950 subsequently revised. Second with a friend who photographing the American landscape. (The fol- (WRVU) Rodgers lives in Olympia, WA, and to the American Chemical Society in nearby spent most of WWII in Japanese prisoner-of-war lowing is from a review:) “The images are accom- said: After years of being lost in the wilderness, I Washington, DC, first as a writer on Chemical camp, but survived to tell his story. Third about panied by a self-revealing essay providing insight have finally discovered my and Engineering News and then, in 1953 after the King James I of Bible fame, reincarnated into our into the motiva- true love. I have returned birth of my first child, as a manuscript editor for television, evangelistic, and electronic age. Wind tions and philos- to my radio roots which ACS applied publications. Several years later, I energy: Currently developing a patented wind- ophy of a sensi- were grown at Vanderbilt joined the staff of the Federation of American driven machine for generating electricity locally tive photograph- in the sixties. I now do reg- Societies for Experimental Biology in Bethesda, without relying on the “grid.” ic artist. Halpern ular interviews with peo- MD, where I prepared annotated bibliographies has served as ple who have Parkinson’s for special conferences. In 1952 a National Disease. My guests share 1967, when the youngest Park Artist- their stories about what of my three children was Ken Berryhill H B.A., 1952 i n - Re s i d e n c e Rodgers they are doing to restore in first grade, I enrolled (WRVU) Berryhill lives in Nashville, TN, and eleven times their health. People con- at American University, said: Ken Berryhill was the subject of a docu- and has taught nect to my teleseminars through the internet, so Department of Chemistry mentary in Nashville’s recent Film Festival about photography in my radio broadcasts are no longer limited to the and received an M.A. in his lengthy TV/radio career, where he recon- classrooms and Nashville region. I have thus gone international, chemistry and information nected with actress Patricia Neal, having first met Pilgrim Eye, book by David workshops since a step up from my broadcast days at Vanderbilt. science in 1969. Later in her on the set of the 1957 movie “Face in the Halpern, photographer/author the 1970s.” Robert Rodgers, Ph.D. 1968 Malin 1969 my husband accepted Crowd.” Ken was the role model for the character a job in Philadelphia, and played by actor Walter Matthau, a Memphis TV 1969 we moved to the suburban Main Line area. I con- producer/director. Matheau’s character had, in 1963 tinued graduate school and received a Ph.D. in the movie, even Ken’s nickname at that time: Donald Martin Wolfson H B.A., 1969 Biochemistry and Organic Chemistry from Bryn “Old Vanderbilt!” Berryhill aided in that part of Roy Blount, Jr. H B.A., 1963 (Commodore yearbook) Wolfson said: Three chil- Mawr College in 1975 and spent 2 years as a post- the movie which was filmed in Memphis. Ken (The Vanderbilt Hustler, Spectrum) Blount, Jr. lives dren: Kymberly (28); Erin (25); Lance (23). doctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Berryhill, while a student, founded Vanderbilt’s in Mill River, MA, and said: My latest book, Erin graduated from Vandy. Wife: Karen Read- School of Medicine. In late 1977 I went to now-famous WRVU radio station and is on-the- Alphabet Juice, Wolfson. Work: President, Carperks LLP - nation- work at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, in air there weekly. was published al automotive internet marketing company rep- Wyndmoor, PA, first as a Research Associate and by Farrar, Straus resenting over 5,000 dealerships and over 22 then as a Research Chemist. I retired in 2003. 1953 and Giroux in million full time employees nationwide. 2005-07 During my career at USDA I conducted both October. The Mayor, City of Atlantic Beach, . Served basic research (modeling the structure of milk Anderson Spickard, Jr., M.D. H 1953 book before that, as board member and chairman of the Zoning proteins) and applied research (developing low- Spickard lives in Nashville, TN, and said: I am Long Time Leaving: Board of Neptune Beach and the Community fat cheese for school-lunch pizza) for which my retired now and have an office in the Emeritus Dispatches from Development Board of Atlantic Beach for 27 group and I received many awards. Currently I Professor’s offices in the Oxford House. Up South, comes years collectively. serve as a Director of the Delaward Valley Science out in paperback (Counterpoint H Council and as a member of the Executive Board 1955 Blount, Jr. James Rosenblatt B.A., 1969 of the Philadelphia Chapter, Association for Books) this (Publications Board) Rosenblatt lives in Jackson, Women in Science. month. I’m into my second term as president of Raphael Ford Smith H B.A., 1955 MS, and said: As dean of the Mississippi College the Authors Guild and have been inducted into (WRVU) Smith lives in Nashville, TN, and said: School of Law, I have the opportunity to work the Fellowship of Southern Writers. 1948 After VU, received MD degree from Harvard, post with the publishers of a student newspaper, a grad training Mass General Hospital, then Navy yearbook, a law review, and a branch of the law Carolyn Southgate Sartor H duty, initially at Naval Aerospace Med Institute 1964 school that publishes legal treatises. My experi- B.A., 1948 Pensacola, FL. Later recalled during Desert Storm, ence on the Publications Board at Vandy has been (The Vanderbilt Hustler) Sartor lives in Nashville, serving in Middle East. Served on VU Med School Lynn Currey Mayes H B.A., 1964 helpful in this work. However, we do not have a TN, and said: Retired landscape architect licensed faculty as a cardiologist during most of my career; (The Vanderbilt Hustler) Mayes lives in Atlanta, radio station! Note: I have four years (1965 to in and Georgia. retiring from the full-time faculty in 2005 as GA, and said: Lynn Mayes has studied at the 1969) of bound Hustlers. Anyone have a need for Professor of Medicine. Art Students League in New York and with sev- them? Second Note: I am always on the lookout Mary Wade Sutton H 1948 eral studio artists at the Arrowmont School in for bright Vandy students who were involved with publications and who are interested in attending (Commodore yearbook) Sutton lives in Nashville, 1956 Gatlinburg, TN. She spent two summers on the TN, and said: I think the 1948 Commodore year- island of Samos, Greece, studying with Yannis law school. Write me at [email protected] book was a very significant Commodore. I co- Ziogas at the Art School of the Aegean. Currently Dean Jim Rosenblatt ’69 Sheldon Hackney H B.A., 1956 edited with John Barton. I became so enamored she is studying with Martin Daws at the Cherry (The Vanderbilt Hustler) Hackney lives in with the Ole Miss Rebel that I asked artist Tom Lion sculpture studio in Atlanta, GA. Since 1994, Philadelphia, PA, and said: I am in “phased 1970 Griscom, who later became a fine sculptor, and she has devoted her professional life to painting retirement” at Penn, teaching History in the he designed the Commodore mascot, which with oils and mixed media. Her subject matter Truett K. Smith H B.E., 1970 spring semester, and spending summers and falls appeared throughout the yearbook. Our photog- ranges from figures to the landscape; sometimes (WRVU) Smith said: WLAC-TV (Nashville on Martha’s Vineyard. Two children, eight grand rapher Kenneth Spain, an engineering student, the two are combined. She has participated - now Newschannel 5/WTVF) 1968-1975. children, and a tolerant wife, Lucy, brighten my went to every one of the events pictured in the in a number of group shows in Nashville and Opryland Productions/The Nashville Network days. I am, as usual, at work on a book. yearbook, and he was faithful in his commit- Atlanta. (TNN)/ Television (CMT) 1975- ment. I asked Tom Allen to sketch the buildings 2001 - Engineering Manager Media/Broadcast Walter R. Courtenay, Jr. H B.A., 1956 on campus; he later became a famous children’s Integration and Technical Services, Inc. (M/BITS) (The Vanderbilt Hustler, Commodore yearbook) 1965 book illustrator. We were a great group, we had a 2001-present - Founder and President. National Courtenay, Jr. lives in Gainesville, FL, and said: ball, and we have remained friends for 60 years. Emmy Award - 1976 - videotape editing for 1976 I’ve been retired from a 36+ career in aca- Don DeGeorge H B.E. M.S., 1965 1967 I have great pride. Montreal Olympics. demia since December 1999 but remain active (WRVU) DeGeorge lives in Ellicott City, MD, and said: Now retired, I volunteer with non-profit Charles White Stockell H B.A., 1948 musical organizations specializing in cham- William Eugene Livingston H (The Vanderbilt Hustler) Stockell said: Colonel U.S. ber music in Howard County, Maryland: The B.A., 1970 Army, 30 years, four Purple Hearts, 12 Medals Help us identify Orchestra of St. John’s in Ellicott City, Sundays at (The Vanderbilt Hustler, Spectrum) Livingston lives WWII (Omaha Beach and The Bulge). Later: M.A. Student Media alumni Three in Columbia, and the Candlelight Concerts in North Olmsted, Ohio, and said: I will be American U.) and Russian Ph.D. under ranking Please take a moment to email in Columbia. honored at the National Pole Vault Summit in Soviet defectors. Twenty years Soviet Intelligence [email protected] with a list Reno, Nev., Jan. 2-3, as their U.S. Media Person of the Year for my new book, “Above and Beyond Director in four major military headquarters, of names and approximate Class Years briefing the White House and writing Natl -- Tim Mack, the Pole Vault and the Quest for of alumni who worked in Student Intelligence Estimates. Afterward (1972-87), pro- Olympic Gold’’ (Kentstateuniversitypress.com fessor of Russian Studies USCB editor and pub- Media at Vanderbilt. The university and Amazon.com). It is a biography of the lisher of Beaufort, S.C., Magazine (subscribers in maintains a great alumni database at Cleveland-born-and-bred 2004 Olympic gold all 50 states and seven foreign nations). Manager www.Dore2Dore.com, and we want to medalist and a popular history of the event. It of Beaufort Chamber of Commerce 1974-87. add information to identify alumni who has consistently been in the top 25 for Olympic Author of autobiography “Soldier’s Story - While were involved with Student Media. books and in the top 100 for track and field Hunting and Fishing in 71 Foreign Nations.” Live books and running/jogging books in Amazon. in Russia, Germany, UK, Laos, Thailand. Don DeGeorge in his media room. com sales. My other new book, “The Great 4 tunnel vision

Book of Cleveland Sports Lists,’’ has been in the includes postings of a lot of pictures from the Irvin Muchnick H B.A., 1976 William M. Akers H B.S., 1978 Amazon top 50 for general sports reference. I Centennial Commodore, The Hustler, music videos (The Vanderbilt Hustler) Muchnick lives in (The Vanderbilt Hustler, Versus magazine) Akers continue to write a 4-times-a-week sports column from YouTube, as well as memories of class- Berkeley, CA, and said: Since 2005, Irv Muchnick lives in Nashville, TN, and said: I’ve been teach- for the Cleveland Plain Dealer. mates and myself of those special times we all has led an effort by objecting freelance writers ing screenwriting and filmmaking at Vanderbilt had together on campus in those days. Having to the settlement of a landmark class-action for thirteen or so years. Parallel to that, I write 1971 worked at WRVU certainly helped me remember copyright suit against publishers. At this writ- movies and television for the fine people in some of the interesting and historical things that ing, the Supreme Court was deciding whether Hollywood. Three of my screenplays have been Steve Jones H B.A., 1971 occurred back then. We also posted some period to hear an appeal. One of the ironies of the produced, which is not a bad average for some- (The Vanderbilt Hustler) Jones lives in Summit, TV news clips and ads courtesy of the Vanderbilt dispute is that it places two old friends and body living outside Los Angeles. Currently I’m NJ, and said: Steve Jones is managing editor for University TV News Archives to further add to former Hustler editors -- Muchnick, ‘74-75, and writing a script for folks in New York about a product development for Dow Jones Newswires the experience. Hopefully, it encouraged folks to Roy Blount Jr., ‘62-’63 -- on opposite sides. London cop who goes to Norway to recover a in Jersey City, NJ. Steve has worked for Dow come to reunion and enjoy themselves. (Roy is president of the Authors Guild, which stolen painting, rewriting my script about the fall Jones for 27 years, including 13 years in Asia as helped negotiate the settlement. Irv is a former of Saigon for producers in Los Angeles, and have a reporter, news editor and managing editor of William Hays H B.E., 1973 assistant director of the National Writers Union optioned my coming of age screenplay about a The Wall Street Journal Asia. In recent years, based (Versus magazine) Hays lives in Nashville, TN, who has been a copyright litigation consultant.) sixteen year old girl in Mississippi to producers in New York and New Jersey, he has focused on and said: Presently a transportation engineer at For details, see Irv’s blog (http://freelancerights. in Nashville. Inspired by my years of teaching, my internet publishing at the Online Journal and at Barge, Waggoner, Sumner, and Cannon, Inc., blogspot.com) and his recent letter in the Wall book, Your Screenplay Sucks!, came out in August Dow Jones Newswires and is now working on Nashville. Street Journal (http://online.wsj.com/article/ and is getting lovely reviews, thank you very ways to make the news readable by computerized SB122783336589063095.html). much. If you know any wealthy, divorced men trading programs. 1974 who want to make the world a better place for 1977 men in the throes of divorce, send them to me. 1972 Cecil Ross H B.A., 1974 I’ve got a script I want to make that echoes the (Versus magazine) Ross said: Army officer, 1974- Mary Dare H B.S., 1977 Norman Mailer line, “You never know a woman Trudy Day H B.A., 1972 78. Ph.D. in American History, Notre Dame (WRVU, VUT) Dare lives in Severna Park, MD, until you meet her in divorce court...” Mercifully, (Commodore yearbook) Day lives in San Francisco, 1982. Law Degree from Ole Miss 1985. Held sev- and said: Hey all! First, I must say that Vandy not based on my life. I’ve got a wife, two kids, two CA, and said: Trudy Day moved to California in eral judicial clerkships and various low-level sate looked wonderful last fall for my 30 year class dogs and no house note, thank God. 2001. I am currently the Associate Dean in the lawyer jobs. Currently with the Office of General reunion, and I’m very honored to be associated Graduate Shool Counsel, Bureau of TennCare. Married Peggy with such a fine university. of Education at Wall (a Vanderbilt Classics Ph.D.). Together for As for me, I’ve spent most Alliant University 32 years. We’ve raised three sons more or less of the time since gradua- in San Francisco, successfully. tion working and/or vol- working with unteering in live sound new teachers Ann Carroll H B.A., 1974 reinforcement and music in urban set- (The Vanderbilt Hustler, WRVU) Carroll lives in performance and ministry tings in the Bay Washington, DC, and said: Ann Carroll is current- while handling marriage, Area. I return to ly the Series Producer for “The Real Cowboys,” on divorce, home ownership, Nashville every the History Channel. Ironically, she also recently Dare and single parenting. The finished a special on the Iroquois Indians for Day summer and best thing is, my son is always make a Discovery, entitled “America’s First Nations.” a heavy metal musician who excels at audio stop at Vanderbilt to recall how beautiful the production so we get along really well. I’ve also William M. Akers campus was and still is. 1975 been fortunate to have played a major role in the building of a performing arts center at Annapolis Kathleen Gallagher Kemper H Scott Davis H M. DIV., 1975 Area Christian School, my son’s high school 1979 B.A., 1972 (WRVU) Davis lives in Chesapeake, VA, and alma mater. Hopefully I’ll see some of you again (The Vanderbilt Hustler, VSC Board member) said: I am a retired Navy chaplain, now working at VU. Roger D. Hyman H B.A., 1979 Kemper lives in Tabernash, CO, and said: Whitney as a financial planner in the Norfolk/Virginia (WRVU) Hyman lives in Knoxville, TN, and (L’73) and I retired in August 2007 and moved Beach area. Beginning in January 2009 I will be Bill Nettles H M.S., 1977 Ph.D., 1979 said: Married to Elsa L. Hyman; three chil- to Tabernash,CO, a ramshackle, unincorporated President of the Hampton Roads chapter of the (WRVU) Nettles lives in Jackson, TN, and said: dren - Cristina (17), James (7) and Julia (6 town near Winter Park and the western edge of Financial Planners Association. My wife, Myra, Professor of Physics and Chair at Dept. of Physics, mos.). News and air personality WKDA/WKDF, the Rocky Mountain National Park. We have and I have 2 sons currently in college. The young- Union University, Jackson, TN. Nashville, 1978-79. Graduated from Univ. of sweeping views of the Continental Divide and est is a freshman at James Madison University Tenn. College of Law 1984. Program Director lots and lots of snow. We’ve recently traveled to and the oldest is a senior at the 1978 WBIR-FM, Knoxville, 1979-80. Assistant attorney China, Italy and Ireland (where Whitney ran the Naval Acaemy. Upon graduation next May he will general for State of Tennessee, 1986-95. Now chief manager/senior partner of Hyman, Carter & Belfast Marathon), but now we’re staying home, be commissioned an officer in the United States Steven Michael “Mike” Powell H Patel, PLLC (attorneys). See our website at www. hiking in the mountains and roasting marshmal- Marine Corps. Last summer I visited Vanderbilt B.A., 1978 northknoxlaw.com. lows with our two grandchildren, who recently alumnus Mike Anzek at the radio station he now (The Vanderbilt Hustler) Powell lives in Franklin, moved to Denver with our daughter Gwendolyn owns in Alabama and broadcast the morning TN, and said: I have served in the Navy since Richard Chenoweth H B.S., 1979 and son-in-law Carlos Gomez. Son Whitney Jr. drive show with him. That was fun, just like the shortly after graduation from Vanderbilt in 1978. (WRVU, Versus magazine) Chenoweth lives in and his wife, Hana Hattori, have moved to New old days at WRVU. The past 18 years, I have been in the Navy Reserve. Princeton, NJ, and said: Richard is an archi- York to pursue her fashion design career and Last March, I was mobilized to active duty to tect and artist living in Princeton, NJ, with his the joys of big city life while still in their early serve in Operation Iraqi Freedom. I am a Captain three children. In 2001, Richard won a national 20’s and child-free. Whitney (Sr.) is pioneering stationed in Baghdad where I live and work in the design competition for the Washington, DC, a LEEDS-certified residential building in Denver, International “Green” Zone. I am the Program Metro Canopy Program (see photo). He and and I am tutoring local students on writing skills, Manager for the Security Assistance Program his partner built 28 of the steel and glass cano- which is not that much different from dragging with the Iraqi Ministry of the Interior which pies throughout the region for the Washington stories out of reporters. oversees all local and national police forces. We use Foreign Military Sales, a huge US bureaucracy Steve Kendall H B.A., 1972 which sells military equipment to countries all (The Vanderbilt Hustler, Versus magazine, over the world, to help the Iraqis equip their forc- Commodore yearbook) Kendall lives in Harvard, es. Iraq is a special case because they are allowed MA, and said: Since selling my advertising agency to purchase non-standard military equipment and retiring in 2004, I’ve been traveling, read- like police cars and trucks, Russian weapons and ing, working out, cooking, writing an art theft Davis sponsored a golf tournament that raised ammo, and much more. It is our job to manage $30,000 for a local high school football program. mystery, landscaping our yard and working with these approximately three-dozen cases. I work at builders to create the Boston Globe’s 2006 Home Vanderbilt in my civilian job, which is where I Addition of the Year. Most gratifying, though, has will return when my tour ends in March 2009. been my volunteer work -- as president of the Lee Hall H B.A., 1975 I am an administrative assistant in the Dept of board of an organization that teaches at-risk (WRVU) Hall lives in Knoxville, TN, and said: Biological Sciences where I have been since 1999. teens how to start and operate their own busi- After graduating from college radio to the pro- Also, I recently self-published a novella entitled nesses; as an instructor and mentor to women fessional world, I spent many (mostly) happy “The Islamabad Delivery” which can be found at L’Enfant Station Metro Canopy Design, who are starting their own businesses; and as the years in radio news, both on-air and as a news- lulu.com and amazon.com. Mike Powell News Washington, DC. chairman of the long-range planning committee room manager. Some of my fondest memories editor and Sports editor, VU Hustler, 1976-78. for a day camp. are of that cold upstairs WRVU studio in old Metro Area Transit Authority. Currently, he is Neely Auditorium. There were many days we creating computer visualizations of the 1814 wondered whether anyone was listening. And United States Capitol for use in a documentary they probably weren’t. Nowadays, I’m director of movie on architect Benjamin Latrobe. This work corporate communications for Scripps Networks includes research, drawing, computer modeling, (HGTV, Food Network, DIY, Fine Living Network, animation and video production. Richard would GAC, SN_Digital) in Knoxville; married with two be glad to talk with potential sponsors for his grown boys. Kudos to those at VU who keep the work on the Capitol. The movie will be hosted by presses running and the transmitters humming! WETA Washington.

Charles Austin Heffernan H B.A., 1975, 1980 M.B.A., 1977 (WRVU) Heffernan lives in Hagerstown, Emmet J Schwartzman H B.A., 1980 MD, and said: Owner - Royal Aircraft Services (WRVU) Schwartzman lives in Key Biscayne, FL, www.royalaircraft.com and said: I had the pleasure of visiting WRVU in April 2008, accompanied by Fred Buc (WRVU, Steve Kendall and his wife, Betsy, by one of the two Class of 1979), now at Nashville’s Lightning 100. ponds they created--part of their home addition 1976 (I was in Nashville for the Aviation Insurance that won the Boston Globe’s 2006 Home Addition Association’s annual meeting.) I was impressed of the Year award. John E. DuBois H B.A., 1976 with the operation and the tremendous improve- (Versus magazine) DuBois ments in both technology and comfort. I con- 1973 lives in Albuquerque, NM, tinue to practice law as as shareholder at Carlton and said: 32 years later and US Navy CAPT Mike Powell at Forward Operating Fields in Miami, with a focus on aviation defense Patrick Joseph Nolan H B.A., 1973 I still cherish my days with Base Phoenix in Baghdad, Iraq, where he is serving a litigation. I live on Key Biscayne with my wife Jill (WRVU, Commodore yearbook, VSC Board mem- Versus magazine. It was a year-long active duty tour as the Program Manager and children Alec (16) and Catie (9). for the Security Assistance Program with the Iraqi ber) Nolan said: I had the most fun in recent great experience. Magazine Ministry of the Interior which oversees all local months being the official Class of 1973 blog- journalism fills in that and national police forces. He helps administer the Looking for updated Vandy News? ger for our recent (October, 2008) 35th Class important gap between Foreign Military Sales Program to police forces, Visit Student Media's www.insidevandy.com helping them purchase equipment, weapons and Reunion at Vanderbilt. The blog, (check it out newspaper journalism and ammunition in order to help them become self- to see what our staffs are covering and what is at: http://thevucentennialclass.blogspot.com), DuBois literary reviews. sufficient. happening within the Vanderbilt Community. Issue 10 • Fall 2008 5

alumni updates…

1981 Marianne Savalli Vanness H B.S., 1984 radio program, Jim Patton H B.S., 1988 (The Vanderbilt Hustler, Versus magazine, “The Space (The Vanderbilt Hustler) Patton lives in Atlanta, Show” (http:// Mary Beth Pendley Ray H B.A., 1981 Commodore yearbook, VSC Board member) GA, and said: I was the Hustler Business Manager www.thespace- (The Vanderbilt Hustler) Ray lives in Washington, Vanness lives in Orlando, FL, and said: Things in 87. I own a small IT consulting company in show.com), talk- DC, and said: Living in Washington, national are hectic here in Orlando, as always. I have just Atlanta. I live in the Buckhead neighborhood ing about Lunar political campaigns are part of our daily news returned to the work force full-time after 15 years with my 5 year old son Jackson and my wife Pioneers and cycle. But the 2008 presidential election really of being home with my children. I am teaching Heather. I just enjoyed a great 20 year reunion about writing for came to life for me 3rd and 4th grade at our local elementary school, in Nashville. Nickelodeon’s because I was asked to which I love. But must say, teaching full-time and “You Can’t provide almost daily taking care of my family is way harder than I ever Do That On commentary for The thought it would be. We have had a fun year -- we T e l e v i s i o n ” Independent, a London were able to take a trip to New York City over the while I was newspaper. My com- summer -- our daughter Grace is in the Florida at Vanderbilt. ments appeared both Young Artists Orchestra, and they played at More recently, in print and online. Carnegie Hall!! Very exciting. We were also able I participated Having been accus- to spend some tome in Pennsylvania, and got to in the Indiana tomed to asking the see Vanderbilt friend Kathy Hoffman. We would Bob Black signs copies of his H i s t o r i c a l questions rather than love to see any and all Vanderbilt pals -- so drop books at the Indiana Historical Society’s Holiday Author Fair, Society’s Holiday answering them, it in if you’re ever in Orlando. (Make sure to call December 6. Author Fair, was eye-opening to first so I can attempt to clean the house.) which was held Mary Beth Pendley Ray, see what they printed December 6 in Indianapolis. You can find out chairing An Evening and what they cut! The Heather, Jackson and Jim Patton VU88 Nov 1988 of Music for Mission. more about all my books, including how to in Highlands NC. experience reinforced order them, at my author website, http://www. for me just how small the world is-- a neighbor rablack.com/. came home from London and said she read 1989 my comments every day while she was there. Lisa Dorsey Glass H B.A., 1986 Another friend in Malta emailed to say that her Amy Ellen McGowen H B.S., 1989 (WRVU) Glass lives in Irvine, CA, and said: daughter had brought her several of my articles (The Vanderbilt Review) McGowen lives in Jupiter, After graduation, I left my Cincinnati hometown from London! I wouldn’t say that my comments FL, and said: Amy McGowen, class of 1989 and and spent many wonderful years in Virginia changed the course of the election, but I think former Editor of the Vanderbilt Review was mar- and Connecticut. Now reside and work in there may be some blogging in my future. ried to Robert S. Stubbs, Jr. (class of 1978 at SoCal as Managing Director for Babson Capital the University of Florida) on October 18th at Management raising two children, 13 year old the Chesterfield Hotel in Palm Beach, Florida. 1982 son and 16 year old daughter. Ian, Lizzie, David, Marianne and Grace Vanness on The couple will reside in Jupiter, Florida. Amy the Brooklyn Bridge, summer 08. is the President / Owner of McGowen Displays, Geof Huth H B.A., 1982 Brian Bomstein H B.A., 1986 Inc, a store fixture / custom woodwork company (The Vanderbilt Hustler, WRVU, Versus magazine, (WRVU) Bomstein lives in Cooper City, FL, and celebrating 30 years in business. Bob is a Cabinet Commodore yearbook) Huth lives in Schenectady, said: Brian is currently the General Counsel Maker / Finisher for the Cypress Collection, spe- NY, and said: This year, Geof Huth edited a selec- 1985 and Senior Vice President of Bayview Asset cializing in custom golf pro shop fixtures. tion of visual Management in Coral Gables, Florida (www. Tom Rushton H B.A., 1985 poetry for bayviewfinancial.com). He resides in Cooper 1990 (Commodore yearbook) Rushton said: After bounc- the magazine City, Florida with his wife Laurie and two sons, ing back and forth between Nashville and Tampa, Poetry, which Spencer and Dylan. When not working, he I found a job at Marshall University as a professor was the first spends time on the tasting committee for the of Infectious Diseases. I am married to Catherine time the mag- Scotch Malt Whisky Society of America (www. and have two wonderful children, Fiona and Ian. azine includ- smwsa.com). ed color In my spare time I still do photography with a between its 4x5 camera and film. covers. Three books of his Gardner Landry H 1985 poetry came (VSC Board member) Landry said: I was a VSC out this year: board member under the tutelage of Leon Photo taken just off US Highway “Longfellow Helguera and Jim Leeson until the spring of ’85, 1 in Marin County, California, on Memoranda” when I graduated from Vanderbilt. As fate would 21 August 2008. ( f r o m have it, I ended up in the communications busi- Amy McGowen and Robert Stubbs wedding photo! Otoliths in Australia), “a book / of poems / so ness. My company’s website has just gone live: small / I cannot / taste them” (from ntamo in www.gardnerlandry.com Finland), and “texistence” (with mIEKAL aND, from Xerox Sutra Editions in Wisconsin). Gary D. Gerson H B.S., 1985 Bruce K Negrin H B.A., 1990 (The Vanderbilt Hustler, WRVU, Versus magazine) (WRVU) Negrin lives in New Rochelle, NY, and Brian and Laurie Bomstein 1983 Gerson lives in Bloomfield Hills, MI, and said: said: It has been an interesting year. My wife Gina Still teaching high school in Michigan and rais- and I have been blessed with a wonderful baby ing my three Philip Tate H B.A., 1983 boy named lovely chil- 1987 (The Vanderbilt Hustler, WRVU, Commodore year- Ryan and dren. Just book) Tate lives in Charlotte, NC, and said: I’m another is wrote a book James Edward Keeley H B.A., 1987 currently serving a two-year term on the national on the way. including my (The Vanderbilt Hustler) Keeley lives in board of directors for the Public Relations Society During this Va n d e r b i l t Laytonsville, MD. of America (PRSA), the world’s largest organiza- tumultuous football expe- tion of communications professionals. As senior time I decid- riences called vice president at Luquire George Andrews, a 1988 ed to run for “ S c o r i n g full-service marketing, advertising and public public office Points: Love relations agency in Charlotte, I work with such William H. Schmitt H B.S., 1988 seeking a seat and Football notable clients as the Carolina Panthers, National Gary Gerson carrying young son (The Vanderbilt Hustler) Schmitt lives in Redwood on the New Eli (4 in that pic) at the camp we in the Age of Bruce Negrin - Looking Good. Gypsum, Blum and Alcan. My wife, Brenda, and I City, CA, and said: I am a managing director at Rochelle City help run (for children with bleed- AIDS” and it are enjoying life with our two teenage daughters, ing disorders). Cambrian Partners, a technology focused bou- Council. I can be found Meredith and Morgan. I still enjoy following the tique finance and strategy advisory firm. We are was unsuccessful in my bid but my experience at on amazon.com (just search by title or with my Commodores, especially football, baseball and in the San Francisco Bay area. WRVU made me a pretty good/dangerous pub- name, Gary Gerson). Just stepped down as head men’s and women’s basketball. lic speaker. Who knows what the next year will football coach at Cranbrook to raise my family. Clark Parsons H B.A., 1988 bring. Good luck to us all. GG 1984 (The Vanderbilt Hustler, WRVU, Versus magazine, The Vanderbilt Review) Parsons lives in Berlin, Jeff Martindale H B.A., 1990 Robert Franke H B.A., 1985 (The Vanderbilt Hustler) Martindale lives in Erin Maloney H B.S., M.P.P., 1984 Germany, and said: Eleven years after moving (Versus magazine, Commodore yearbook, VSC Collierville, TN, and said: In addition to my (The Vanderbilt Hustler, WRVU, Versus magazine, to Berlin, I’m now the Managing Director of the Board member, Film Committee Chair) Franke full-time job at FedEx World HQ, I’m a freelance Commodore yearbook) Maloney lives in Ankara, Berlin School of Creative Leadership, an executive lives in Nashville and Los Angeles and said: As writer and author of a humor column on father- Turkey. MBA program and business think tank for the a Film/TV screenwriter with the William Morris creative industries (all the ones you find in the hood - “Confessions of a Confused Dad” - that Agency, it has been a tough 18 months during appears regularly in The Collierville Herald. For Thomas Mark Hodges H B.A., 1984 tunnel). The bigger news is that my wife Alexia and after our WGA strike in late 2007. Studios more information, read my blog at http://confes- (WRVU) Hodges lives in Taipei, Taiwan, and said: and I have now welcomed a new daughter, Helen, have cut way back on production development, sionsofaconfuseddad.wordpress.com/ or visit Since 2007, I’ve been the Public Affairs Officer into the family. She joins her six year-old brother especially as SAG still looms as another strike. my web site: http://www.jeffmartindalebooks. of the American Institute in Taiwan, which the Peter, whom I hope will one day decide to go to Nonetheless, in the last two years, I have been com. call “America’s de facto embassy in Vandy so I can have an excuse to visit. Oh, and commissioned to adapt the comic book Brodie's Hell has frozen over: Alonso is in Facebook. Taiwan.” A big part of my job is liaison with the Law for a feature film by Machine Made Ent., feisty media of Taiwan. It’s a fun and interesting asked to write the film adaptation for the 1980’s job. TV show Equalizer by the Weinstien Group, sold my spec script Brace to OGO Films and am cur- rently adapting the best selling book Go-Go Girls of the Apocalpyse into a feature film for director Malik Bader.

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Bob Black H B.E., 1986 (The Vanderbilt Hustler, WRVU, Versus magazine, Commodore yearbook, The Vanderbilt Review) Black lives in Moorpark, CA, and said: My book, Lunar Pioneers, has been named to the “Best of the Moon 2008” list at the space advocacy website, Thomas Hodges (BA 1986, WRVU alum), now Public Affairs Officer at the American Institute in Taiwan, “Out of the Cradle” (http://www.outofthecradle. Me and Helen in the Berliner Charité clinic last talks to members of the media in Taipei. net). I also appeared as a guest on the internet July 10. Jeff Martindale with sons, Jack (left) and William. 6 tunnel vision

alumni updates…

1991 1993 Piper, which hit number one on the Billboard ish my doctorate in Policy Analysis through the Club Chart this year with remixes of Kimberley University of Missouri-Columbia. Locke’s singles “Fall” and “Band of Gold.” NARAS Christine J. VanDeWege H B.S., 1991 Joe E Peebles, Jr H B.S., 1993 invited me to Los Angeles to be on the panel for (Versus magazine, Commodore yearboo,k VSC (WRVU, Vanderbilt Television) Peebles, Jr lives 1997 the Grammy Selection Committee for the dance/ Board member) VanDeWege lives in McHenry, in Washington, DC, and said: All is well in the electronica awards. Club gigs brought me to San IL, and said: Christine VanDeWege, Commodore nation’s capitol awaiting the new president and Heather Ebert H B.A., 1997 Antonio (opening for George Acosta) and head- Editor-in-Chief 1991, found herself with a year- hope that things will get better. I’m still deejaying (The Vanderbilt Hustler, Commodore yearbook) ling gigs in Hartford, Orlando, and Memphis. book editorial staff of all women except for Photo local events for friends and family when I have Ebert lives in Spring Hill, TN, and said: I’m back 2008 was a busy year and 2009 looks like it's Editor Andrew Newman. Now, she finds herself time from work and spending time coaching in Nashville after living in the San Francisco going to be even bigger! in an opposite my two boys, Tre (6) and Josh (4) in soccer and Bay area for seven years and spending a year in scenario as the basketball. Washington, D.C. Now I’m working for Parthenon H mother of four Chip Brantley Publishing, a custom publishing agency founded sons. She and B.A., 1995 husband Jeff Batt (The Vanderbilt welcomed baby Review) Brantley lives Rhodes Joshua in Montague, MA VanDeWege Batt States, and said: My on August 28, first book, The Perfect 2008. Big broth- Fruit, will be pub- ers Nathan, lished in July 2009 by Matthew and Bloomsbury. Last year, Will Christian I co-founded a food are thrilled. and cooking website The VanDeWege Batt Family: Professionally, called Cookthink. Mom Christine, Dad Jeff, Brantley’s first book, We’re growing fast and Nathan, Matthew, Will Christine contin- The Perfect Fruit (to be Christian and baby Rhodes. ues to serve as the have been featured in Joshua Peebles, Tre Peebles published by Bloomsbury Self, The Washington Heather Ebert in Sydney, Australia, with the Senior Director in 2009). Passion World Tour. of the Kellogg Cancer Care Centers at Evanston, Post, New York Times Glenbrook, and Highland Park Hospitals for Shelley and on ABC News.com. Drop by and say hello at by a fellow Vandy alum. This past year I traveled NorthShore University HealthSystems. Lynn www.cookthink.com. quite a bit, including trips to Kampala, Uganda Jarrard H and Sydney, Australia, as a volunteer with Passion H Eric Franc Sterbenk H B.A., 1991 B.S., 1993 Jennifer Peebles B.A., 1995 Conferences. (The Vanderbilt Hustler, Versus magazine, (The Vanderbilt (The Vanderbilt Hustler, WRVU, Versus magazine, Commodore yearbook) Sterbenk lives in Corning, Review) Jarrard VSC Board member) Peebles lives in Houston, TX, Langdon Shoop H B.A., 1997 NY, and said: Teaching screenwriting at Ithaca lives in Salt and said: In the worst (The Vanderbilt Hustler, Versus magazine) Shoop College. Married, two kids, house, cats, and white Lake City, economy in a genera- lives in Lexington, KY, and said: Still a GM/ picket fence. Writing the great american screen- Utah, and said: tion, at a time when Chrysler Dealer as of Dec. 2008. Taking a sailing play when not teaching, chasing kids, or updating Business and jobs in print media trip with Michael Bruno (Hustler- class of 97 also) my facebook status. Life Coach are as hard to find this new years to the Virgin Islands. Rooting for with SoulSalt, as gold dust and my Inc. colleagues fret about buyouts and layoffs, I Shelley Lynn have taken the most Jarrard sensible step: I quit Peebles: It’s just a plain my newspaper job. I old boring mugshot of me, though it was taken left this 1994 on the Brooklyn Bridge September -- after 14 in New York City about years -- to work for two H 2 years ago. Julie La Barba Miggins B.S., 1994 former Tennessean co- (WRVU) Miggins lives in San Antonio, TX, and workers in Houston who have started an online- said: After graduating, I lived in Deauville, France only nonprofit journalism venture called Texas teaching ESL to French elementary students. I Watchdog. We’re at www.texaswatchdog.org. I’m later returned to Texas to attend medical school reporting, writing, editing, crunching numbers, This photo is of me and a couple friends I met at the Sofia and her Thanksgiving Pumpkin Pie. and completed a Pediatrics residency with a spe- doing computer maps and creating Google maps, Playboy club in Las Vegas a few weeks back... cial interest in children’s nutrition. My husband sending FOIA letters, blogging and, strangely, get- VU to win a bowl game for the first time in my is Robert Miggins, and we now have 3 children: ting interviewed by the mainstream media. I’m lifetime this Dec. Go Dores!!! 1992 Lily(6y),John Carlo(4y),and Patrick (18 mo) as really enjoying it. Any former VSC alums in the well as one more on the way in May 09! All are Houston area, please holler at me. I’m at Willie Geist H B.A., 1997 Shawn M Meredith H B.E., 1992 [email protected]. (The Vanderbilt Hustler) Geist lives in New York, (WRVU) Meredith lives in Kernersville, NC, and NY, and said: Host, MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” said: I’ve learned a ton since I’ve DJ’d at WRVU. After graduating in 1992, I’ve joined the commer- 1996 cial vehicle development industry and the U.S. 1998 H Army Reserve. Between the two organizations, Chad Gervich B.A., 1996 I’ve made a couple of careers. I married in 1996 (The Vanderbilt Hustler, WRVU, Vanderbilt Tim B. Peterson H B.A., 1998 to Tanya and we are proud parents of two fine Television, VUT, SGA) Gervich lives in Los (The Vanderbilt Hustler) Peterson said: Career boys. I’ve also managed to tack on two graduate Angeles, CA, and said: Chad Gervich’s new book, in management consulting followed by gradu- degrees in the process. I’m extremely proud of my “Small Screen, Big Picture: A Writer’s Guide ate school in business at Kellogg School of Vanderbilt days and look back on those WRVU to the TV Business,” came out from Random Management (Northwestern U.). Followed by a benefit events with fond sentiment. House this November career in mergers and acquisitions and private and is currently avail- equity investing in the Washington, D.C., area. Julie La Barba Miggins and husband,Robert Miggins, able in all major celebrating completion of residency in Paris. bookstores across Kirby Hopkins H B.A., 1998 happy and healthy. I am always so grateful for my the country. Chad (The Vanderbilt Hustler, The Vanderbilt Review, VSC Vanderbilt experience and look forward to seeing spent most of 2008 Board member) Hopkins lives in Houston/The the new WRVU digs one day! writing for “Reality Woodlands, TX, and said: Working hard, playing Binge,” Fox Reality’s hard. Recently enjoyed 10 year reunion. Trying to comedy sketch/clip/ 1995 forget Duke game. Senior Associate at a small law variety show... and firm outside my hometown, Houston. Escaping executive produc- work for ten days during the holidays to sail the Ronald Slomowicz H B.E., 1995 ing “Spellbound: British Virgin Islands. Married in 2006 to high- (WRVU) Slomowicz lives in Nashville, TN, and The Real Witches school newspaper and tennis classmate. Reading said: Still spinning on WRVU (91 Dance / 91 of Orange County” mysteries and dreaming of writing. Out of the Closet), I am also touring the country for the Weinstein Here I am at Armor Officer Basic Course in 2005. as DJ/VJ. As the first entertainer in the US to It’s the cover shot of my book, “Small Screen, Big Company. Chad also Bil Childress H B.A., 1998 use Arkos GrandVJ software, I use a dual laptop Picture,” which came out writes “Script Notes,” (The Vanderbilt Hustler) Childress lives in Spokane, system to beatmix and blend music and video November 25. Anne Michelle Manzo H B.A., 1992 “Writer’s Digest’s” WA. and export it to GrandVJ where I add layers of screenwriting blog and contributes regularly to (The Vanderbilt Hustler) Manzo lives in Brooklyn, visuals and effects - literally remixing the videos various publications such as “Daily Variety” and Graeme Dennis H B.S., 1998 NY, and said: Anne Michelle Manzo and David live for club sets. With this setup, I have been “Orange Coast” magazine. In addition, he con- (The Vanderbilt Hustler, Commodore yearbook) McNeel were married July 2008 on the shores featured in national magazines - Club World, DJ tinues to run Vandy-in-Hollywood, Vanderbilt’s Dennis lives in Nashville, TN, and said: Graeme of Lake Tahoe, California. Both work as editorial Times and Remix Magazine. This year marked my professional organization connecting alumni Dennis accepted a position as Drug Discovery directors at WebMD in Manhattan and reside, fifth anniversary as Guide/Editor of dancemusic. working in entertainment and providing intern- Scientist in the Department of Pharmacology at with one cat, on a quiet street in Brooklyn. about.com - the number one dancemusic web- ship and employment opportunities to current Vanderbilt. site (according to Google and many other search VU students and graduates. (You can check it out John S. Kim H B.A., 1992 engines.) I am also part of the production team, (The Vanderbilt Hustler, Vanderbilt Television) at vandyinhollywood.com; username: vander- 1999 Kim lives in Atlanta, GA, and said: Coordinating bilt, password: commodores) Producer with Turner Sports New Media. Editorial Denise Courtney Wesley H B.S., 1999 Director of PGA.com. Katherine (Kady Rowe) Numerick H (The Vanderbilt Hustler) Wesley said: I went to law B.S., M.Ed., 1996/1997 school at the University of Mississippi immedi- (The Vanderbilt Hustler, Commodore yearbook) ately after graduating from Vanderbilt. After law Numerick lives in Manhattan, KS, and said: school, passed the Bar exam and was admitted to Update your contact info Currently serving on active duty at Ft. Riley KS practice in the Mississippi Bar. Have been an asso- Have you moved? Started a new job? after 10 years in the education field with the ciate attorney with the law firm of Currie Johnson Changed your email address? Please Missouri Department of Education. Have a 7 yr Griffin Gaines and Myers, P.A., since May of 2002. visit www.Dore2Dore.com to update old son. My husband, Nick, works for the Dept However I am currently in the process of chang- your contact information so you can of Homeland Security but will be going on his ing my full-time career from that of an attorney to continue to receive Tunnel Vision. fourth deployment to Iraq in 2009-10. My jour- a teacher. I have accepted a teaching position with the Hazelhurst City School District and hope to DJ Ron spinning at Play Dance Bar in Nashville, TN. nalistic work consists of orders and directives Photo credit Michael Tyler. these days! Eventually I’ll get off my duff and fin- begin teaching there in January of 2009. Issue 10 • Fall 2008 7

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Andrew C. Staiano H B.E., 1999 TX, and said: I am in the Masters program at David P Schiff H B.A., 2002 (Commodore year- University of Texas for landscape architecture, (The Vanderbilt Hustler, Versus magazine, Vanderbilt book) Staiano studying the incorporation of green space into Television) Schiff lives in Seattle, WA, and said: lives in Clinton, urban areas. I am using skills honed at Versus! We Hey y’all! I’m happy to say that I’m back in touch NJ, and said: must defend our work in studio to jurors at pin- with many of my fellow Hustler editors (Joanna Recently promot- ups and I remember picking art for the magazine Pluta, Jackie Ross, Neil Vigdor), and have seen ed to the rank of and having specific reasons for the selections. Major in the U.S. I am also painting quite a bit for commission Army, Andrew which is fun. Staiano is cur- rently a full time Sarah Creekmore Woodall H B.A., This is me making a new friend on our honeymoon in Nevis. graduate stu- 2000 dent at Rutgers (The Vanderbilt Hustler) Woodall lives in Nashville, Corinne and I are now happily settled on Capitol University in TN, and said: Sarah Woodall married Jay Woodall, Hill in DC! New Jersey. He MBA ’99, in May 2008. They live in Nashville. and his wife Robert Lawrence Shaw H B.A., 2004 Photograph taken in eastern Afghanistan near Ghazni. returned to 2001 (The Vanderbilt Hustler, Vanderbilt Television) the US from Shaw lives in New Germany in order for Andrew to complete a Erin Hancock H B.A., 2001 York, NY, and Master’s in Environmental Engineering for the US (The Vanderbilt Hustler) Hancock lives in Misawa, Me and my girlfriend, Autumn, in Leavenworth, WA said: I’m now a for Oktoberfest! Army Corps of Engineers. In June, after complet- Japan, and said: Erin Hancock is now a Captain Sports Anchor ing his degree, MAJ Staiano will be stationed with in the Air Force. She was recently transferred to others on occasion (Will Tomlinson)... After 5 for OPENSports the Corps of Engineers completing projects for Misawa Air Base, Japan, where she will reside for years in the Navy as a supply officer, serving on Network who enjoys the Federal Government around the world. the next 2 years. Erin is a flight commander in an aircraft carrier based in Japan and a submarine covering the Mets, her squadron, overseeing human resource and based near Seattle, I decided to give Corporate Jets, Giants, and 2000 quality of life programs for bsae personnel. She America a try. I own a home in Seattle now, Knicks. Earlier in is enjoying traveling around the world and liv- am dating a wonderful woman, and am taking the year, I conduct- Doug Jennings H B.A., 2000 ing life! advantage of the tremendous natural beauty of Rob Shaw In Action. ed a report on the (Versus magazine) Jennings lives in Jackson, MS, the Pacific NW. I have so many fond memories of unique Vanderbilt and said: After working in private practice in Dan Wolken H B.A., 2001 Vanderbilt, but more specifically of production University Athletic Department for CBS. Nashville for nearly a year, Doug returned to (The Vanderbilt Hustler) Wolken lives in Memphis, nights on the Hustler. I hope all of my former col- his hometown of Jackson, Mississippi, and is TN, and said: Dan is in his third season as the leagues are doing great and still writing! Alex Arnett H B.S., 2004 currently serving as the Senior Attorney for the college basketball writer at The Commercial Appeal (The Vanderbilt Hustler, WRVU, Commodore year- Mississippi Secretary of State’s Policy & Research in Memphis, TN. Jonathan Lander Drew H B.A., 2002 book) Arnett lives in Atlanta, GA, and said: I just Division. (The Vanderbilt Hustler) Drew lives in Atlanta, GA, recenty bought my first house. It’s been a lot of Alicia Robbins H B.A., 2001 and said: I’m overseeing 13 states and a hand- work, but a lot of fun. I hope to buy a drum set Kara Smith H B.E., 2000 (Vanderbilt Television) Robbins lives in Los ful of editors during the evening hours as The soon to celebrate getting out of the condo/apart- (WRVU, Vanderbilt Television) Smith lives in Angeles, CA, and said: I am currently living and Associated Press’s South Region night supervisor. ment life. I’m working in commercial real estate Sunnyvale, CA, and said: I’ve traveled to many working in Los Angeles as a freelance Director Over the past six years, I’ve worked for The AP in as my day job, but getting back into photography places this year including Vietnam, Japan and of Photography and Union Camera Operator. Phoenix, Ariz.; Columbus, Ohio; New York and as I was into at the Hustler and Commodore. I’ve Argentina. The trip to Buenos Aires, Argentina I came out here now Atlanta. started shooting portraits, weddings, and concerts was especially fun because I joined fellow alumna to earn my MFA around the Atlanta area and hope it can eventu- Tamika Burrus on this trip. in cinematog- 2003 ally lead to a steady income and get me out of raphy from the cubicle-land. I also play bass in a band hoping American Film Justin Stephen Smith H B.A., 2003 to release an album this spring. We’ll see where Institute. My most (Vanderbilt Television) Smith said: Continuing that leads... recent projects work in television production, in both reality and include shooting specials. Work in ’08 included stops at Logo, MTV 2005 2nd unit cinema- and CMT, where I returned to Nashville for Gone tography for the Country Season 3. The year ends (or to be more Danielle L Throneberry H B.A., 2005 new Mike Judge exact “begins”) Jan. 1 as I help produce the NHL’s (The Vanderbilt Hustler, Commodore yearbook, film, “Extract,” winter classic that transforms baseball’s Wrigley Orbis, The Vanderbilt Review, VSC Board member) Shooting feature “Made in camera operating Field into an ice rink for Blackhawks/Red Wings. Brooklyn” in New York. Throneberry lives in Nashville, TN, and said: for HGTV shows Danielle Throneberry, A&S ’05, is still hang- such as Designed to Sell and Hammer Heads, and Melanie Faulkner Shepard H ing around Nashville, causing trouble as the camera operating for web based music videos B.A., 2003 Operations Director for The Princeton Review, for Yahoo Music for artists such as Fall Out Boy, (The Vanderbilt Hustler) Shepard lives in Nashville, a national test prep and tutoring company. On Alanis Morissette, Jewel, and many more! I have TN, and said: This is my 3rd year of teaching any given night she can be found either hanging Kara Smith and Tamika Burrus in restaurant in been the Director of Photography for three fea- Buenos Aires, Argentina. sophomore English at Centennial High School in out with her dog and a skinny latte, working up a tures as well as two documentaries, one of which Franklin, TN. I love it! I am also teaching classes good case of dehydration at Hot Yoga Nashville, I traveled throughout Ghana and Malawi for a at University of Phoenix. My husband, Philip, or working on her fledgling corporation, Berry Brooke Everley H B.A., 2000 an entire month. I am thankful that I am able to and I live in the Crieve Hall area - no kids yet Interesting Productions, Inc., which provides web (Versus magazine) Everley lives in Birmingham, make a living doing what I love! And I have to except our dogs, Maggie and Waylon. Would love management and e-marketing services. AL, and said: I am an attorney with Bradley Arant say, Vanderbilt Television is where it all started! to catch up with any of you still in the Nashville Rose & White, LLP, doing estate planning and area! Ashley Mallinson H B.A., 2005 corporate law. 2002 (The Vanderbilt Hustler) Mallinson lives in New 2004 York, NY, and said: Robert Verdi Inc, Director of Jackie Ross H B.A., 2000 Adrian Hill H B.A., 2002 Events Working for celebrity stylist at boutique (The Vanderbilt Hustler) Ross lives in San Francisco, ( V a n d e r b i l t Jacob Grier H B.A., CA, and said: Jackie Ross has officially re-branded Television) Hill 2004 herself as a “West Coaster” after moving to San lives in Chicago, (The Vanderbilt Hustler, Francisco this summer. She recently joined World IL, and said: The Slant, The Torch, VSC 50 as a Program Director, initiating and facilitat- Currently living Board member) Grier ing influential conversations among the world’s in Chicago with lives in Portland, OR, and top executives. Jackie also serves as a mentor with wife Carol and said: Freelance writing in Upwardly Global, a nonprofit organization that daughter Katie. Portland, OR and blogging helps highly qualified immigrants navigate the Preparing to Jacob Grier at www.jacobgrier.com US professional culture. move to LA for 6 months to pursue Jodi Edelstein H B.M., 2004 Trevor Foley H B.A., 2000 a career in acting. (VSC Board member) Edelstein lives in Komatsu, (The Vanderbilt Hustler, Vanderbilt Television, Me, Wife Carol Ishikawa, Japan, VSC Board member) Foley lives in New York, NY, Hill (also a Vandy and said: As and said: I reside in New York City and work at alum), and daugh- ter Katie. part of the Macquarie Group, a global financial services firm Japan Exchange headquartered in Sydney, Australia. I’m a Product and Teaching Ashley Mallinson and Sherry Bromfield Manager in the firm’s asset management busi- Missy London Chicre H B.A., 2002 Program, I am ness, Macquarie Funds Group. I also chair the (The Vanderbilt now teach- creative services company. Director of events Board of Directors of viBe Theater Experience, a Hustler) Chicre lives ing English to department, includes running our private luxury 501(c)(3) non-profit organization co-founded in in Minneapolis, MN, Japanese High event space, event planning, creative consulting, 2002 by Chandra Thomas (A&S ’00) that pro- and said: I returned School students client relations, marketing, brand partnerships vides educational and developmental programs to Minneapolis in in Komatsu, and strategic alliances. in the performing arts to disadvantaged teen- the summer of 2003 Ishikawa, Japan. age girls attending New York City’s public high after completing a It is a wonder- Alex Kwak H B.A., 2005 schools who have decreased access to creative and one year teaching fel- ful program and (The Vanderbilt Hustler) Kwak lives in Chicago, IL, positive outlets (www.viBeTheater.org). lowship in Spanish I recommend and said: I moved to Chicago in August and am Alfonso (my husband), Jodi at the local Kimono at a boarding school Fashion Show. it to all. I also working at the University of Chicago as Assistant H Missy and Mimi (new Erika Huddleston B.A., 2000 puppy) celebrate in Massachusetts. My recently passed Director of Direct Response in the Office of (Versus magazine) Huddleston lives in Austin, Thanksgiving 2008. academic and profes- the Massachusetts Bar Exam. I am currently a Philanthropic Affiliation. sional journey has been an interesting one over licensed by the Vermont Bar. the past several years, ranging from earning a Evan Mayor H B.A., 2005 Master’s degree in Hispanic Literature, to change Jay Williams H B.A., 2004 (The Vanderbilt Hustler) Mayor lives in management consulting to my current role as (WRVU, VSC Board member) Williams lives in Washington, DC, and said: I plan on graduating the Diversity & Inclusion Lead at the Best Buy Washington, DC, and said: In the past year, I from George Washington University Law School corporate offices in Richfield, MN. My husband graduated from law school (American University in Washington, D.C., in May. I have accepted a Alfonso and I got married in the summer of 2005 Washington College of Law), took and passed the job in Los Angeles, California, as an associate at and we just got a new puppy, Mimi, so she is our Maryland bar exam, and started work at Venable O’Melveny & Myers LLP, where I will be practic- first “child.” I stay connected to Vanderbilt by LLP, a DC law firm, as a litigation associate. ing entertainment/media and general corporate doing alumni interviewing for prospective high Additionally, as if it wasn’t a busy enough year, litigation. I plan to start my job in September Huddleston at a tree farm. school students in the Twin Cities! I got married on February 23, 2008. My wife after I take the California bar exam. Issue 10 • Fall 2008 tunnel vision the alumni newsletter for student media at vanderbilt university 8

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2006 Zachary Michael Norton H B.A., 2006 get to stand on my ters in Atlanta, in the marketing department. I (The Vanderbilt Hustler, Versus magazine) Norton own two feet like can honestly say that I love coming to work every never before. I like morning and as a first job out of college this posi- Taylor Smith H B.A., 2006 lives in New York, NY, and said: Zach recently Lawrence (Kansas tion has been a dream come true. One exciting (The Vanderbilt Hustler) Smith lives in Surabaya, took a job as an editorial coordinator with turned out to be part of my position is that I get to travel around Indonesia, and said: Soon after graduating Vandy, McGraw-Hill Higher Education. In his spare time really beautiful), with the ! Nissan is the official I moved to New York City to be part of the Teach he writes freelance and performs comedy at sev- and I’ve recently sponsor of the trophy along with the SEC and For America program. I taught 3rd grade Special eral venues in Manhattan and in the surrounding become a sub- Education in the Bronx and got my Masters in boroughs. stitute teacher in Teaching. I am currently living in Indonesia on a the district. The Fulbright Scholarship teaching English and plan Gosha Khuchua H B.A., 2006 impetus for this to return to America in the summer of 2009. I am (The Vanderbilt Hustler, WRVU, VSC Board mem- was that (among also engaged to fellow Vanderbilt alum Carissa ber) Khuchua lives in New York, NY, and said: other things) I Lucyk (BS ‘05) and of course I miss staying up Gosha is working at a joint venture between two may want to be late in the Hustler office typing in the box scores ad agencies, Ogilvy and JWT, handling all digital a Latin teacher for the sports section and trying to think of clever media for several national and global clients. someday, and the headlines for the front page. He lives in the city and regularly hangs out with local high-school fellow Hustler and WRVU alums who have also Lemmon: My Kansas - from Latin teacher was Andy Lutzky H B.S., 2006 made the move to NYC. the park near my apartment. planning a three- (The Vanderbilt Hustler) Lutzky lives in San week leave of absence. I am currently standing in Pulman and co-worker (and friend) Katie in Florida Francisco, CA, and said: After I graduated in 2007 for him so I can see if this is what I really want. with the Heisman Trophy! 2006, I spent two seasons with the PR staff of So, while I can’t boast of great advances in my BIG TEN conferences and as a result of this we the San Francisco 49ers. After my first year with Mike Burns H B.A., 2007 field, or life at my new and prestigious graduate have the trophy in our office for the entirety of the team, I was lucky enough to get selected by (The Vanderbilt Hustler, VSC Board member) school, I must say this post-graduation life is new, the football season! It is so much fun. We set up the NFL to be the US PR Manager for one of Burns lives in Washington, DC, and said: Mike and exciting, and thoroughly enjoyable. Taking displays and events with the trophy around the their six international teams for their summer is a second-year law student at Georgetown a year off never sounded like a better plan than Southeast and I recently got back from a week- league in Germany. I led the PR efforts for the University Law Center. now, in the midst of doing it. long roadtrip of Florida with the trophy. There are many more aspects of my position and this is 2008 Ellen Tremaine H B.A., 2008 only a small part of what I do but it is something (Versus magazine, The Vanderbilt Review) Tremaine that I will always remember! Reeve Hamilton H B.A., 2008 lives in New York, NY. H (The Vanderbilt Hustler) Hamilton lives in Austin, Lillian Gu B.A., 2008 TX, and said: After a finishing up a thrilling Glenna DeRoy H B.A., 2008 (Versus magazine, Commodore yearbook) Gu lives internship with The Nation magazine, I am spend- (The Vanderbilt Hustler, InsideVandy.com) DeRoy in Durham, NC. ing my time covering the Texas Legislature as a lives in Washington, DC, and said: I’ve been at H legislative intern at The Texas Observer. USA Today for just about six months. I spent Meredith Trezise B.A., 2008 the summer there as part of the Talent (The Torch) Trezise lives in Pensacola, FL, and said: I am currently in flight school in the Navy Emily Lemmon H B.A., 2008 Development Program and then was hired per- training to be a Naval Flight Officer. (Commodore yearbook) Lemmon lives in Lawrence, manaently in August. My job has continued KS, and said: As a brand new college graduate, it to evolve since then. Right now, I edit the H H H Lutzky on the field before working a 49ers game. was important for me to do something different- USATODAY.com homepage on weekday morn- -namely, not being in school for the first time ings, choosing stories and layouts and handling BLOG ROLL… team in Berlin, spending four awesome months since I was four. I also did not want to move back breaking news for the online face of USA Today. We are hoping to gather lists of alumni blogs abroad for the League. In my final season, I home to Georgia. I moved out to Kansas and got for future issues of Tunnel Vision. If you have was the team’s publications coordinator, serv- a low-paying restaurant job just to see what that Madeleine Frances Pulman H a blog and would like for us to include it, ing as the editor for the team’s yearbook, media was like. My relatively radical break from my B.A., 2008 please email to [email protected] guide, newsletters, and more. I now work at A&R own tradition has proved quite serendipitous in (InsideVandy.com, Commodore yearbook, the title of your blog, web address, your name, Edelman, the top technology firm in the tech-rich providing me with opportunities to explore sides Advertising) Pulman lives in Atlanta, GA, and year/class at Vandy and a brief description Silicon Valley, where assist with Hewlett-Packard of life previously kept hidden, and to put some said: After graduating in May I have been working about the topic of your blog. (HP)’s public relations. old ideas of ‘what I might want’ to the test. I also at the Nissan North America regional headquar-

Elson, continued from page 2 class. den. It was an indelible experience, all Co. in Chicago. We edit and distribute In making my way through the media the more so because I was familiar with more than 150 features of commentary, PRSRT STD PAI D U.S. Po st age world – St. Petersburg, Nashville Banner Moore’s work. I had amassed enough political cartoons, advice columns, horo- F r a n kl in , TN Pe r m it No. 357 (Al Gore was in the D.C. bureau of the credits at Vanderbilt for a major in art scopes, comic strips and other features Tennessean at the time. Gore was an history and knew many of his works by each week. We represent Rolling Stone, investigative reporter at The Tennessean title and artistic period. New York magazine, the Atlantic, Foreign from 1971-1976.), Times-Herald, Dallas I have covered a baby seal hunt in Affairs, US Weekly and other magazines Morning News, Chicago Tribune – I worked Newfoundland, a cruise ship accident and sell their articles to major publica- as a reporter, fea- tions overseas. ture writer, copy I recently supervised editor, writing production of a special TMS coach, Chicago commemorative Inaugural bureau chief, edition using the talents of deputy metro Garrison Keillor, Arianna editor, assistant Huffington, advice columnist Sunday magazine Amy Dickinson, travel host editor, associate Rick Steves and others whom managing edi- we represent. tor/features and Barack Obama’s chief other positions. political strategist, David At some point, I Axelrod, was a reporting col- had worked vir- league of mine at the Tribune in tually every shift the 1980s. and every day of In other words, after Irv Muchnick, , two Hustler staffers (if you know who they are, the week, includ- please let us know), Bob Gillespy, Rosalynne Harty, John Bloom and Mary Elson. all these years I’m still dealing ing weekends. with news and interesting per- I concluded that being a good journal- in Alaska, Bill Clinton as governor of sonalities -- on deadline and with enter- ist, more than anything, boiled down to Arkansas, election of the first female taining colleagues. Familiar? Of course. being a good observer, knowing a lot of mayor in Chicago, actor Charlton Heston That’s how it all started in 1970 when I stuff, talking easily to people about it, at the University of Chicago (“Big man first entered the Hustler offices on the top and organizing all of it quickly and com- on campus”), the H.L. Hunt-family biga- floor of Alumni Hall. I wouldn’t have had pellingly or directing others to do the my trial, high-profile murders, the impli- it any other way. same. cations of artificial intelligence, Chicago It was not unlike the skills needed to policemen serving drug warrants, hand Mary Elson (B.A., 1974) lives in synthesize a complicated class assign- models, Anita Bryant and White House Evanston, Ill., with her husband, Jim ment at Vanderbilt – or to get the Hustler pages (a pre-Monica Lewinsky scandal). Mahan (B.A. 1973), who played football to bed each week. An interview I did with the last sur- for Vanderbilt and works in the commodities While still in Dallas, I was dispatched viving member of the famous photo of business in Chicago. They met years later with a group of rowdy Texas politicians Marines raising a flag on Iwo Jima dur- in Evanston and were married in December on the inaugural flight of Braniff Airlines ing World War II wound up in a recent 2004. Mary has two children from a previous from Dallas to London. The next day memoir that reportedly figured into the marriage, Madeleine, 26, and Russell, 17. I had an interview scheduled with the background for Clint Eastwood’s movie. Mary is managing editor of Tribune Media sculptor Henry Moore, traveling to the My current job is managing editor of Services, the syndication and licensing divi- countryside outside London to tour his the syndication and licensing division of sion of Tribune Co. She can be reached at studio and breathtaking sculpture gar- Tribune Media Services, a unit of Tribune [email protected].