TTrraannssyyllvvaanniiaa Spring 2004 UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE FORMER CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD William T. Young 1918-2004 Medical/Law School Success I Professor of the Year ALUMNI WEEKEND 2004 April 23-25 Do you remember? Do you remember the Septembers at Transylvania when we chased the clouds away? Join your classmates, friends, and faculty mem- bers as we reminisce about those golden dreams and shiny days during Alumni Weekend 2004. Highlights include a golf outing, an afternoon at Keeneland, the Pioneer Hall of Fame dinner and induction of new members, TGIF kick-off party, alumni luncheon, class reunion receptions and din- ners, the Coronation Ball, campus tours, and educational seminars. An invitation with a detailed schedule is being mailed to alumni. You can register on-line through a secure site using your Visa or MasterCard. Go to www.transy.edu, click on For Alumni, News & Events, then on Reunions/Alumni Weekend. TransyUNIVERSITYlvan MAGAZINEia SPRING/2004 Features 11 William T. Young, 1918-2004 Former chairman of the board provided remarkable leadership and support for nearly four decades 14 Succeeding in Medicine and Law Transylvania’s demanding curriculum, focused advising 11 prepare students well for medical and law school 17 Professor of the Year Political science professor Don Dugi honored by Carnegie, CASE as Kentucky’s top professor for 2003 19 Isn’t It Romantic? Transy couples from the ’40s to the ’90s share memories of dating customs and favorite places to go for romance 17 Departments 2 Around Campus 9 Applause 19 Alumni News and Notes 23 Class Notes 25 Alumni Profile: Rick Berman ‘64 28 Alumni Profile: Amy Holland ‘94 31 Marriages, births, obituaries on the cover Director of Public Relations: Sarah A. Emmons ■ Director of Publications: The late William T.Young, Martha S. Baker ■ Publications Writer/Editor: William A. Bowden ■ Publica- former Transylvania chairman of the board, is tions Assistant: Katherine Yeakel ■ Publications Designer: Barbara Grinnell pictured in 1986 with Haupt Humanities as a Transylvania is published three times a year. Volume 21, No. 2, Spring 2004. backdrop. See article on Produced by the Office of Publications, Transylvania University, Lexington, page 11. Photo by Robin Hood KY 40508-1797. Send address changes and alumni news to Alumni Office, Transylvania University, 300 North Broadway, Lexington, KY 40508-1797, fax to (859) 233-8797, or e-mail to [email protected]. Around Campus Challenge grant will establish Lucille C. Little Endowed Chair in Theater Transylvania has received a challenge Blankenship ’81, interim vice president of sor to be redirected to new initiatives. grant of $500,000 from the W. Paul and development. These include engaging an adjunct profes- Lucille Caudill Little Foundation that will be Transy’s state-of-the-art theater is named sor to develop and teach a full semester used to establish the Lucille C. Little for Mrs. Little, a Transy alumna and trustee course in children’s theater; employing Endowed Chair in Theater. The University who died in 2002. Its opening in 1999 guest artists to direct theater productions; must raise $500,000 in matching funds marked a turning point for the drama pro- arranging trips to New York City for drama within four years to claim the award. gram by providing space to expand the pro- majors and minors to attend plays and The grant will provide permanent fund- duction schedule from three plays to as musicals; organizing workshops featuring ing for the endowed chair—the first in any many as nine productions annually, multi- visiting actors, directors, playwrights, and discipline at Transylvania—and allow for plying teaching and learning opportunities, designers for specialized training in rele- new initiatives designed to enhance teach- and increasing awareness and interest vant areas; and augmenting funds for ing and learning in the drama department. among students. drama faculty travel, enrichment, and pro- “Instructional enhancements are a vital In recent years, the number of drama fessional development. part of Transylvania’s 2003 Long-Range majors has doubled from eight to 16, eight “By providing the challenge grant, the Plan,” said President Charles L. Shearer. students have declared drama as a minor, Little Foundation is following Mrs. Little’s “Like our very successful Bingham Pro- and an additional 70 students majoring in desire to enhance all aspects of theater gram for Excellence in Teaching, endowed other academic disciplines take advantage instruction,” said Blankenship. chairs can help the University attract and of the program’s open audition policy to William T. Young Jr., chairman of the retain outstanding professors, which participate as actors, technicians, play- Board of Trustees, and the late William T. enhances our students’ education. The Lit- wrights, and directors. The University Young, former board member and chair- tle grant will enable us to provide learning expects to attract even more students man, already have made generous gifts experiences that are above and beyond interested in theater and the fine arts as a toward the challenge. what we have been able to offer on a regu- result of hosting the Governor’s School for To make a gift or obtain additional infor- lar basis.” the Arts for the past four years and the mation, contact the development office at The Little Foundation grant is especially new contract extending GSA’s stay at Tran- (859) 281-3692 or (800) 487-2679, or visit meaningful because it matches Lucille Lit- sy through 2008. www.transy.edu and click on Giving to tle’s interest in the performing arts with The endowed chair will allow operating Transy. Transylvania’s needs, according to Mark funds currently designated for one profes- Art building renovations set to continue The installation of new win- thal has spearheaded fund-rais- dows during the summer of ing efforts, which have netted 2003 brought renovations to more than $750,000 for the the art building closer to com- renovations. pletion, with final alterations This summer, a new central scheduled for summer 2004. heating and air conditioning sys- The windows, along with tem will be installed and a slop- landscaping to the front and ing roof added to further rear of the building, the creation enhance the building’s appear- of an adjacent parking lot, and ance. An elevator will be con- Katherine Yeakel the 2002 addition of a front structed and attached to the entrance with Transylvania’s sig- rear of the building, making it nature columns, are part of handicap accessible. The interi- efforts to transform the old or will be freshened with paint Fayette School Building into a and ceiling work, especially the ■ New windows and landscaping, coupled with previously recognizable part of campus. Student Art Gallery. Each of added columns, have transformed the appearance of the art “Before, this was just a build- these projects must be precise- building. ing that we owned,” President ly timed so that work can be Charles L. Shearer said. “The completed by the fall term with- “Replacing the windows was very severe.” goal of Mr. Rosenthal, who took out interfering with the three- made a tremendous difference The trustees voted in Novem- this project on, was to make week Governor’s School for the both to the exterior and the ber 2003 to name the structure this building look like a Transyl- Arts program. interior of the building,” Shearer the Shearer Art Building. A cer- vania building.” While the future upgrades are said. “The shrubbery helped to emony to officially dedicate the Board of Trustees member very necessary, Shearer said soften the building’s outward building with its new name will and chair of the development the building has already under- appearance. Before, we had be planned for some time in committee Warren W. Rosen- gone a noticeable change. street, sidewalk, building. It the fall. 2 TRANSYLVANIA Transy music graduate returns for presentations blended his musicology with my ears, eyes, and mind to his film criticism and theory in delve into a film’s inner and Davidson College music pro- thematic elements suggesting ways that clarified the film’s outer workings. They provided fessor Neil Lerner ‘89 returned contemporary political issues, text.” me with tremendous role mod- to Transylvania in November to especially communism and the Finally, Lerner gave a talk els as I embarked on my own give three presentations on his tensions between the United titled “Notes from the Frontier academic career.” scholarship in American film States and the former Soviet of Film Scholarship: How a Lerner did specialized study music and on the value of his Union. He related those Transy Education Helped in advanced music theory and Transy education in relation to themes to the film’s score, Launch an Academic Career” electronic music with Barnes his career. composed by Dimitri Tiomkin. during open hour in the facul- while completing a double Lerner provided live piano The paper will be published in a ty/staff lounge. major in applied music and Eng- accompaniment to a silent film, special music issue of South “Transy gave me a strong lish. Barnes, who invited his for- then discussed how that musi- Atlantic Quarterly. balance of general and specific mer student back for the pre- cal style developed in a joint “Neil did a fine job of show- educational skills that I use sentations, said that he and session of music professor ing how music is an absolutely constantly as a teacher and Lerner “did some graduate level Larry Barnes’ and English pro- integral part of what’s going on writer,” said Lerner. “The pro- work while he was at Transy.” fessor Tay Fizdale’s classes. in the film,” said Fizdale. “He fessors showed me how to use Lerner completed his mas- In a Coleman Recital Hall ter’s and Ph.D., both in musi- presentation, Lerner read and cology, at Duke University.