COLLEGE MAGAZINE SU M M ER 2 0 0 3 Feat ures 12 Colorful Lives of a Princess and a Painter Highlight Berea Premiere 14 Destination: Berea Kentucky Artisan Center Brings Berea College Crafts to a Wide New Audience 16 Feat of Clay Deborah Watts Bedwell, ’68, Brings Art to the Community 18 Eclectic Visions: Cultural Landscapes from Appalachia Appalachian Center Exhibit Documents the Ever-Changing Region 24 New Directions in Appalachian Studies 28 Summer Reunion 2003

Front Cover: Tina Miles, ’03, is one of many Berea students who work with Berea College Student Crafts. She also operates her own small crafts business (story on p.16). Photo by Terry N elson

Photo right: “Gorge-Breaks Interstate Park, Va.-Ky.” Chris Faust. De pa r t ment s 4 Editor’s N otes 5 Around Campus 10 Sports N ews 31 About Berea People 39 Berea Passages 41 Homecoming

Note to our readers: The mission of Berea College is carried out through activities guided by Berea’s Great Commitments. Since its founding, Berea College has provided a place for all students—male and female, black and white—to “be and become.” Berea’s strategic plan, Being and Becoming: Berea College in the Twenty- First Century, identifies specific initiatives which the College is implementing to continue its tradition of learning, labor and service. While all Berea College Magazine articles relate to Berea’s mission, specific articles about the strategic plan initiatives are indicated with the symbol. Photo by Kristina Juodyte, ’04 Alumni Association COLLEGE MAGAZINE st aff m em bers said Summer, 2003 goodbye to Jackie at Vol ume 74, Number 1 a reception on campus June 23. www.berea.edu L-R: Renee Deaton, Cx’90, Mary A. Labus, ’78, Shelley Dr. Wil l i am A. Lar amee Boone Rhodus, ’85, Vi ce Pr esi den t , Jackie Collier Alumni and College Relations Ballinger, ’80, and Ti mothy W. Jor dan, ’ 76 Norma Proctor Director, Public Relations Kennedy, Cx’80. Ann Mar y Quar andi l l o Edi t or Shelley Boone Rhodus, ’85 A Note From Jackie Cl ass Not es Edi t or Berea’s director of alumni relations served 23 years. Li nda L. Kuhl mann Gr aphi c Desi gn er ALUMNI ASSOCI ATI ON STAFF Who would have thought in August of 1980 that the temporary job I took Mar y A. Labus, ’ 78 as secretary in the Alumni Association would lead to a wonderful 23-year Coor di n at or of career? Not me! And as rewarding as those years have been, it is time for Alumni Information Services Shelley Boone Rhodus, ’85 me to move on to new challenges as director of corporate and foundations Coordinator of Events Planning relations at Eastern Kentucky University. and Student Relati ons Norma Proctor Kennedy, Cx ’80 But today, as I look back on my time at Berea and prepare for my Of f i ce Man ager work at EKU, I feel like Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz. Dorothy had Renée Deat on, Cx ’ 90 great anticipation about returning to Kansas, but with her excitement Sec r et a r y came sadness at leaving the wonderful friends she encountered in Oz. ALUMNI EXECUTI VE COUNCI L Offi cer s: As I have traveled down my own “yellow brick road” as a Berea Pr esi den t : Vicki E. Allums, ’79 student, alum and staff member, I’ve made many friends and worked to Pr esi den t - El ect : Dr. Steel e Matti ngl y, ’ 50 Past Pr esi den t : Ernest Graham, ’49 carry on the traditions set down by my predecessors at the Alumni Dr. Wil l i am A. Lar amee Association. I will treasure many colleagues in the Alumni Association and Counci l Member s: throughout Berea College, including two who have been with me throughout Mar y A. Labus, ’ 78 Shelley Boone Rhodus, ’85 most of my time here – Mary Labus, ’78 and Shelley Boone Rhodus, ’85. Dr. Lar r y D. Shi nn, Ber ea Col l ege Pr esi dent Together their years of service to our alma mater totals nearly 40 years. Dr. Charlotte F. Beason, ’70 Pansy Waycaster Blackburn, ’58 I am proud to share the tradition of strong Bereans who served our Kristin Conley Clark, ’92 Association as director including C. Byrd West, ’24, Charles T. Morgan, Juani t a Nol and Col di r on, ’ 47 J. Mar k Est epp, ’ 77 ’23, Wilson A. Evans, ’30, Charles C. Carrington, ’42, Norris B. Woodie, Mar i sa Fi tzger al d, ’ 99 ’48, Billy Edd Wheeler, ’55, Doug Massey, ’54, Philip Conn, ’63, John Euni ce Hal l , ’ 78 Rachel Berry Henkle, ’64 Cook, ’60, Richard Bellando, ’62, Larry Blondell, ’61, Rod Bussey, ’63 and Mel i ssa A. Jenni ngs, ’ 95 To m Arnold, ’75. I have worked with two vice presidents, Rod Bussey and Rob St af f or d, ’ 89 Dr. Bill Laramee, and three presidents, Dr. Willis Weatherford, Dr. John Tracy Thompson, ’80 Vi rginia Hubbard Underwood, ’73 Stephenson and Dr. Larry Shinn. All of these people have been part of the Iverson Louis Warinner, ’66 driving force behind Berea’s rich traditions and history. Judy Garner White, ’67 These traditions have stood firm for nearly 150 years, and Berea ALUMNI TRUSTEES Vance Edwar d Bl ade, ’ 82 continues to hold to our Great Commitments while recognizing what it Dr. Rober t N. Compton, ’ 60 means to keep these Commitments in the 21st Century. I continue to be Dr. Wil l i am H. Johnstone, ’ 74 Tyler Smyth Thompson, ’83 thankful that Berea has sustained our traditions while looking forward and Ber ea Col l ege Magazi ne ( I SSN 0005-8874) i s making necessary changes to exist in this ever-changing world. published quarterly for Berea College alumni and Even as I click the heels of my own “ruby slippers” and am transported friends by the Berea College Public Relations Depar tment, CPO 2142, Ber ea, Ky. 40404. from Berea, the College will always be a part of me, and the countless POSTMASTER: Send address corrections to the Berea alumni who have been in my life throughout these years will remain Ber ea Col l ege Al umni Associ ati on, CPO 2203, near and dear to my heart. As an alum, no matter how far I travel, Berea Ber ea, Ky. 40404. Phone 859.985.3104. will always feel like home. And there’s no place like home.

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Ret i r ees Ho n o r ed Brow ner Named Dean of Faculty On May 7, seven retirees were honored at a campus-wide reception in the Woods- Penniman Commons. Dr. Stephanie P. Browner, associate professor of English, has been chosen to serve a 5-year term as dean of the faculty at Berea College, beginning this summer. Browner will Stephanie Browner administer the College’s academic programs and

oto by Elisabeth M cGuire, ’04 provide leadership and oversight in Ph (L-R) Catherine “Kit” Roberts, ’67, Hutchins Library, 27 years; James Carpenter, facilities management, hiring, developing, and maintaining 45 years; James Morgan, facilities management, 25 years; Dorothy Schnare, English and theatre an excellent faculty characterized by faculty, 20 years; and Steve Boyce, mathematics faculty, 34 years. Not pictured: John Little, music and commitment to effective teaching, general studies faculty, 26 years; Phyllis Little, student payroll, 24 years. self-directed scholarship, and community service. Browner came to Berea College Sustainability in 1994 after receiving her M.A. (1988) and Ph.D. (1994) in Pr esi d en t Sh i n n Ho n o r ed f o r En v i r o n m en t al Ef f o r t s American literature and American On April 14, the Kentucky studies from Indiana University. She Environmental Quality received her B.A. degree in general Commission (EQC) honored studies in the humanities from the Berea College President Dr. University of Chicago in 1981. Larry D. Shinn with a 2003 Browner has taught a wide range of Earth Day Public Service courses in American and African Aw ard, the Lifetime Service American literature. She has created Award, during a ceremony at an expansive website on the writings the Governor’s Mansion. For of African American author Charles the past 13 years, EQC has Chesnutt. Co-author (with Berea’s celebrated Earth Day by hon- Richard Sears, professor of English Past EQC Chair Wm. Horace Brown (left) and EQC oring outstanding efforts made and theatre, and Stephen Pulsford, Commissioner Patty Frasher Wallace, ’52, (right) by citizens, businesses and asst. professor of general studies) of present Berea College President Dr. Larry D. Shinn government agencies to the book Literature and the with the 2003 Earth Day Public Service Award. protect and enhance Internet: A Guide for Students, Kentucky’s environment. Teachers, and Scholars (Routledge, Dr. Shinn has led several projects at Berea that will convert the College 2000), Browner finished her second campus into a more sustainable community. The EQC award committee cited book, entitled Profound Science and the new Berea College Ecovillage, an integrated and continuous learning Elegant Literature: Imagining community showcasing how humans can live simply and in harmony with our Doctors in Nineteenth-Century natural world, as a bold and courageous project. With the construction of the America, during her sabbatical leave Ecovillage, the campus will provide a model for sustainable living that can in 2001-02. She is also active as a inspire students, the Appalachian region, and the state. dancer and choreographer with the “Larry Shinn is a leader among Kentucky colleges and universities and an Berea College Modern Dance inspiration to me as an alumnus of Berea College,” said EQC Commissioner Troupe and in “Kinetic Expressions,” Patty Frasher Wallace, ’52, who nominated Dr. Shinn for the Award. “He clearly Berea’s modern dance showcase. understands that colleges and universities provide unique settings for students to Dr. John Bolin, outgoing dean, gain crucial skills through what is taught as well as what is practiced.” will take a year’s sabbatical and then return to teaching in the College’s English and theatre department.

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N ew and Renovated Facilities

Kentucky and Talcott Rededicated Ph oto by Elisabeth M cGuire, ’04 cGuire, M Elisabeth by oto Berea trustees, administration, faculty, standards of Berea’s Energy Master staff and students celebrated the Plan, reducing the amount of energy rededication of the newly renovated consumed while enhancing the Kentucky and Talcott residence halls amenities of the buildings. on May 9. The most noticeable Rebecca Pratt, ’06, says she is change is the new atrium on the excited about living in one of the second and third floors which now renovated halls next year. Talcott Hall, the first people that live here,” says connects the buildings, offering new built in 1916, was completed in May Pratt. “We get to be part of the new study and gathering spaces for and will house students this fall. beginning.” residents. The renovations also include Kentucky Hall, built in 1915, was Kentucky and Talcott will host an laundry and kitchen facilities on each completed in August 2002, and has open house to show off the new floor. The buildings were renovated been housing students during the facilities during Homecoming 2003 and upgraded to meet the efficiency 2002-03 school year. “We get to be Nov. 22-24.

Pr esi d en t Sh i n n Recei v es Yahng, ’63, Named New Trustee Honorary Degree This spring, Berea College named Robert T. Yahng, ’63, On May 17, Drew University in attorney and chairman of American Bridge Company, to the Madison, N.J., conferred an honorary College’s Board of Trustees. degree of Doctor of Humane Letters Born in China, Yahng was raised in Berea. After completing upon Dr. Larry D. Shinn, Berea his Berea degree, he earned his law degree from the University College President. Dr. Shinn received of Kentucky. From 1967-72 he served in the U.S. Air Force, his Bachelor of Divinity degree from where he attained the rank of captain. He and his family have a Drew Theological School in 1968. In long history with Berea College; his father, Daniel Teh-en Yang, honoring Dr. Shinn, the University was a former professor of economics and business, his mother, cited his outstanding career in higher Louise Chang Yang, taught general studies and was a College education, especially his presidency of Robert T. Yahng librarian, and his grandfather, Fu-Liang Chang, taught in the Berea and his commitment to service. sociology department. Dr. Shinn was particularly honored Ya hng was a capital partner with the law firm of Baker and McKenzie from 1977- that faculty at his alma mater recog- 98. From 1988-92, he was an executive director of the USA-ROC Economic Council nized his work. “Drew faculty were serving under Kaspar Weinberger. Since 1998, he has served as chairman of American models I have tried to emulate in my Bridge Company, an industry-leading engineering, manufacturing, and construction academic career,” he says. company. He and his wife, Tina, live in Kentfield, Calif., and have two children.

Sustainability Berea Receives 2002 Build Kent ucky Aw ard Berea College, along with Messer Philadelphia. While retaining the Construction and Van Der Ryn historic character of the structure’s Architects, has received the 2002 Build Georgian exterior and its existing Kentucky Award for “Historic footprint, Draper Hall now features a Preservation in the $5 - 10 Million more open and integrated learning environment with state-of-the-art Category” for the Jessie Preston Draper of energy, water and building materials. technology. The modern interior Classroom Building renovation project. The renovation was part of the Energy incorporates ecologically-friendly Built in 1937, Draper Hall was Master Plan, a blueprint of the designs that ensure a resourceful use modeled after Independence Hall in College’s commitment to sustainability.

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Dead Man Walking Internationalization Author Speaks Honeycutt Latest Watson Fellow Sister Helen Prejean, CSJ, advocate against the death penalty and author of Anthony Honeycutt, ’03, received his first guitar on the book that inspired the Academy his ninth birthday. Little did he know that his love for Aw ard winning film Dead Man Walking, music and interest in conservation biology would lead spoke on Friday, April 25th at Berea him to Central and South America to study guitar- College. Her presentation, “Receding making. As the latest Berea recipient of the Thomas J. Violence. . . Reseeding the Earth” Watson Fellowship, which allows students from 50 of discussed the death penalty and its link America’s top liberal arts colleges to spend a year to violence against the Earth. Sister traveling abroad studying the topics of their choice, Helen and Sister Marya Grathwohl, OSF Honeycutt will visit Venezuela, Mexico, Brazil and also led a related workshop at the Argentina to seek out luthiers (craftsmen who create College. Anthony Honeycutt stringed instruments) who employ uncommon woods Prejean, a Sister of St. Joseph of and learn how these craftspeople judge the suitability of those woods. Medialle, has become a well known “I wish to investigate if tradition, wood availability, ecological impact, advocate for the abolition of the death and a desire to experiment with different tree species affect the crafts of penalty through her work with death individual luthiers,” the Asheville, N.C. native row inmates in Louisiana. Her book, The Thomas J. explains in his proposal. Classical guitars are Dead Man Walking, was nominated for a Watson Fellowship manufactured from several standard woods because Pulitzer Prize and was later made into a allows students from of their strength and high density which allow major motion picture. Actress Susan 50 of America’s top them to reflect sound waves. However, due to Sarandon won an Academy Award for liberal arts colleges heavy dependence on these woods for instrument her role as Prejean. For more to spend a year making and other wood industries over the past information, visit Sister Helen’s website traveling abroad 200 years, several of the historically important at www.prejean.org. st u d yi n g t h e t o p i cs species for guitar crafting are becoming increasingly of their choice. rare. Honeycutt’s goal is to study alternative woods that can be managed and harvested in an ecologically Ph

sound manner, aiding in the existing conservation efforts of traditional ’04 cGuire, M Elisabeth by oto tone-wood species. “This trip will allow me to study conservation biology, the field I hope to pursue in graduate school, and to learn more about the instrument I intend to practice for the rest of my life,” Honeycutt says. “Studying guitar tone from the most fundamental level will enhance my musical abilities and knowledge and provide a solid foundation for future academic focus.” Sr. Helen Prejean signs copies of her book for Berea students. Berea Present s “ Variet ies of American M usic” Series 2003-04 Convocations The Butch Thompson Trio, former house band for “A Prairie Home Companion,” Feat u r e No b el Pr i ze and Grammy-nominated Bobby Sanabria and Ascension highlighted April’s month- Winner, NAACP Chair long “Varieties of American Music” convocation series of performances by some of the top jazz groups in the country. Dr. John Fenn, ’37, 2002 Nobel “Jazz hasn’t been featured at convocations since I’ve Prize-winner for chemistry, and Dr. been here, so it was great to see such a variety,” says Kristina Julian Bond, civil rights activist and Juodyte, ’04, a Berea College music major. “I think it’s great chair of the National Association for that students get to have fun with all different kinds of music.” the Advancement of Colored People The Kentucky Jazz Repertory Orchestra, led by Dick Domek, (NAACP), highlight the 2003-04 led off the series, followed the next week by Bobby Sanabria Berea College Convocations series and Ascension, masters of Afro-Cuban jazz. The Butch on Berea’s campus. For more Thompson Trio performed classic jazz and ragtime April 17, and April 24 featured information on convocations that The Hot Club of Cowtown, playing hot jazz and western swing. Each convocation are open to the public, visit included afternoon lecture-demonstrations followed by evening performances. www.berea.edu/convo. “Varieties of American Music” was part of the Stephenson Memorial Concert Series for 2002-03 and the Berea College Convocations program.

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Fee Descen d an t s Cel eb r at e Berea Hospit al Changes Hands New Opportunity School Jo h n G. Fee Day Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI), a Feat u r ed o n “ Op r ah ” On June 8, over 20 descendants of national not-for-profit health care The New Opportunity School for Berea College and Union Church organization, has taken over operations Women, founded on Berea’s campus in founder John G. Fee gathered at of the Berea Hospital. By adding the 1987 by former Berea first lady Jane Union Church to celebrate Fee and the hospital to its network, Catholic Health Stephenson, accepted a $100,000 “Use 150th anniversary of the Church’s Initiatives’ goal is to reverse the financial Yo ur Life Award” from the Oprah founding in Berea. More than 50 difficulties the hospital has experienced Winfrey Show on March 13. A crew descendants had been contacted, and by expanding services and making the from the show spent two days in Berea those who hospital financially self-sufficient within interviewing staff, graduates, and Descendants of attended five years. current participants of the program for Berea College represented The CHI mission includes emphasizing a segment that founder John G. seven states. “human dignity and social justice as we accompanied Fee g at h er ed t o John G. move toward the creation of healthier the award celebrat e Fee and Fee Day is part communities,” a mission that corresponds presentation. the 150th of Union well with the mission of Berea College. The New anniversary of Church’s Provisions have also been made for Berea Opportunity the founding of Sesqui- College to reacquire the assets if the School works to Union Church. centennial structure ceases to operate as a hospital. improve the The New Celebration, “CHI has agreed to become good educational, Opportunity “One in Spirit, Many in Thought and neighbors and partners with Berea financial, and Sch o o l w o r k s Deed.” The special service included an College,” says Dr. Ron Smith, Berea’s personal to improve the historical portrayal of Fee by Rev. Kent vice president for finance. “This affiliation circumstances of educational, Gilbert, who arrived on horseback will help meet the needs of both the low-income, financial, and and, with hymns and service elements hospital and the community.” middle-aged personal from the period, performed anecdotes women in circumst ances from Fee’s autobiography and sections Kentucky and the of low-income from his published sermons. The south central women in Union Church Sesquicentennial Appalachian Kentucky and Celebration continues throughout region. They the Appalachian 2003. For more information and a offer a three region. calendar of events, call 859.986.3725 week intensive or visit www.union-church.org. course, which includes classes on writing, computer, and job skills, cultural event field trips, and an internship program with local businesses. The majority of women have family incomes below $10,000 per year, and attend free of charge thanks to the generosity of friends and donated services from local and Reprinted with permission of Catholic Health Initiatives. regional businesses. For more information, visit www.NOSW.org.

Bereans Revising Campus M ast er Plan On March 18, Berea College kicked off a campus master planning process to update the 1993 Campus Master Plan that has guided the last 10 years of campus physical infrastructure development. Like many good plans, the 1993 plan has been a quiet, almost invisible guide to campus changes now taken for granted, including the Seabury Center and the Crossroads Complex. The college community will be working with McIlwain + Associates, a Lexington, Ky., landscape architectural firm. The planning process includes open forums, small group discussions, and design charrettes which will involve the entire Fee family members Photo by Kristina Juodyte, ’04 campus community in planning for the most effective updates.

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Graduates Urged to Open New Doors Dr. Dean W. Colvard, ’35, whose Commencement Honors courageous leader- ship in the integra- Berea’s highest faculty honor—the tion of collegiate Seabury Award for Excellence in sports teams was the Teaching—was presented to Walter subject of a March Hyleck, the Morris B. Belknap, Jr. 10, 2003 Sports Professor of Fine Arts and director of Illustrated feature the ceramic apprenticeship program. A story, urged the class ceramic artist, he exhibits his work Dean W. Colvard of 2003 use their both regionally and nationally. Hyleck, skills to open new doors at the College’s who joined Berea’s faculty in 1967, 148th Commencement, held on May 25 holds his master of fine arts degree in Seabury Gym. “The best way for you from Tulane University. to open the door is not from the Betty Hibler, associate director of outside,” he said, “but to work hard and the Center for Excellence in Learning prepare yourself well for what you do, to Through Service (CELTS), received the believe in it, and to Elizabeth Perry Miles Award for receive the invitation Community Service. At Berea since from those who 1999, Hibler has served as a board have confidence in member on several local non-profit you. That will cause organizations and currently serves as them to open the vice president of the Madison County door from the inside Boys & Girls Club. and let you in.” Dr. Dawn Anderson, associate professor of biology, received the Paul C. Colvard’s Hager Award for Excellence in Advising. remarks, along with The Hilda Welch Wood Award for outstanding achievement by a female John C. W hitehead those of fellow student went to Rebecca Heid Stephenson of Salem, Ind., who received a bache- speakers and honorary degree recipients lor of arts with an independent geology major. The T. J. Wood Award for out- John C. Whitehead and Charles Crowe, standing achievement by a male student went to Andrew Ammons, of ’70, preceded the awarding of degrees to Spartanburg, S.C., who received a 214 seniors and recognition of an bachelor of arts degree in biology. additional 16 students who will graduate at the end of the summer term. John C. Whitehead is former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State and currently chairman of the organization to rebuild Lower Manhattan following the September 11, 2001 attacks. Dr. Dean W. Colvard, ’35 is chancellor emeritus of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and president emeritus of Mississippi State University. He is a former member of the Berea College Board of Trustees and received the College’s Distinguished Alumni Award in 1993. Charles Crowe Charles Crowe, ’70, a director at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge operations, was honored in 1991 with a Points of Light Award from the President of the United States for his efforts to encourage and provide personal resources for minority students to attend college. A past president of the Berea College Alumni Association, Crowe received the Alumni Loyalty Award in 1995.

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2003 Athletics Aw ard Winners So f t b al l Fi n i sh es Th i r d Three outstanding student-athletes were The C.H. Wyatt Award, honoring in KIAC honored for their accomplishments both the longtime Berea basketball coach, was Berea’s softball team defeated on and off the field this year. awarded to Brandon Snowden, ’03, a Bethel College and top-seeded Bethany Herman, ’04, a physical member of the men’s basketball team. Brescia University in the KIAC education and health major from Snowden was named NAIA All- tournament to take third place in Wellston, Ohio, and member of the American, All-Region and All-Conference the conference. This year’s team women’s track team, received the Minnie this year, while maintaining a 3.78 GPA boasted seven All-Conference Maude Macauley Award. This annual in business administration. He traveled players, including Johnna award honors an outstanding female to Australia in May to represent the Whittamore, student athlete, and is given in honor of United States in the Arafura Games, an ’06, first team This year’s Ms. Macauley, who was instrumental in international competition, where he shortstop, who encouraging women’s athletics at Berea. helped lead the team to victory. team boasted was voted KIAC seven A l l - Herman has competed in both track Peter Branscomb, ’04, a business Player of the Week and field and cross country throughout administration major from Sheffield, Co n f er en ce and nominated players. her career at Berea while maintaining a Ala., and member of the baseball team, for NAIA 3.7 GPA. She has been named Academic is the recipient of the fifth annual National Player All-Conference, a Berea College Scholar- Roland R. Wierwille Athletic Award. of the Week this season. Daisha Athlete, and made the Dean’s List. In The annual award, given in honor of Hart, ’06, also made first team as a 2003, she scored several 2nd place former Berea head basketball coach pitcher, and Andi Amburgey, ’03, showings in the 10,000 meter run, and Roland Wierwille, honors those students Tarah Carnefix, ’04, Veronica Livers, also competes in the 5,000 and 3,000 whose character reflects a sense of ’06, Shannon Sommers, ’04, and meter events. discipline, dedication and determination Makensie Wells, ’06 were all named both on and off the second team. Mae Leslie Hamilton, athletic field. An ’03, and Tarah Carnefix, ’04, were outstanding out- NAIA All-America Scholar Athletes. fielder, Branscomb Although their third place was named to the finish did not earn them a trip to Kentucky Inter- regionals this year, it was a definite collegiate Athletics learning experience. “The way they Conference (KIAC) ended made me proud,” says Coach All-Conference Scott Buchanan. “They played their second Team. best ball when it counted.” Bethany Herman Brandon Snowden Peter Branscomb

Six Baseball Seniors Broke Over 30 Records The baseball careers of six Berea seniors are both leaving to pursue graduate it was built over 30 years ago, but as it ended this season at the conference studies. Over the past four years, they was so close to Ellipse Street, it made tournament. Over 30 Berea College have significantly improved the team’s play difficult. The new field has been baseball records were broken during the quality and implemented new recruiting, repositioned away from the street, and careers of Chris Barton, Todd Clanton, training and conditioning programs. includes new lights and grandstands. Brendan Fenton, Denis Ponder, Garrett Even against tough competition, including With three of their top four pitchers Lange, and Trizdon Reynolds, with at out of conference match-ups against returning, Berea baseball has a strong least one of them being named All- NCAA Div. I teams like Eastern Kentucky foundation to build upon. Conference in each of the past three years. University, the team has Although this leaves some large achieved record-breaking shoes to fill, there is also promise on this seasons, including 2002’s team. Four players were named KIAC 19-win new College win All-Conference this year: Bryan Moberly, record. Ph

’05, was named first team pitcher, while The team is also ’05 Juodyte, Kristina by oto Chris Barton, ’03, (2nd base), Peter looking forward to playing Branscomb, ’04, (outfield), and Dustin on the newly redesigned Ingram, ’05, (catcher), were all named baseball field, which has second team. been built next to the new The team will also miss co-coaches soccer field. The old field The new Berea College baseball field. Ryan Hess, ’98, and Todd Morris, who was state-of-the-art when

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Relay Team is All-American Earlywine, ’04, is Tennis All- The 4x800 meter relay team of Lucian Musgrove, ’03, Shawn Co n f er en ce Jakubowski, ’06, Matt Schenk, ’05, and Joseph Kimeau, ’05, The men’s tennis team finished the combined efforts to take fifth place with a time of 7:43.12 season with a win against Bethel at the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) College at the conference tournament National Championships held in Olathe, Kan. May 22-24. hosted by Berea, placing them third Their performance earned them All-American status this in the KIAC Conference, despite the year. Schenk also had the 22nd fastest time in the nation loss of two seniors from last year’s this year in the 5,000 meter run. team. Jason Earlywine, ’04, was John Hockersmith VI, ’03, finished 10th in the nation voted one of only six members of in the hammer throw, with a toss of 163’03”. He has also the KIAC All-Conference Team. been named an NAIA All-America Scholar Athlete. Jamie Berea lost two more seniors Eckford, ’03, competed in nationals in the 100 and 200 with the graduation of Willie meter dashes, and advanced to Sandifer and Tom Bowen, but have the semi-finals in both events. “This is a team that several improved players who will be This year also saw two College is much like a family. competitive in 2004. One of these, records fall: Kimeau broke the 800 Joseph Kimeau So m e t i m e s w e l o v e , Anthony Shelton, ’06, praised his meter run record with a time of so m et i m es w e first year as “full of great learning argue, but mostly 1:54.66, and the 4x800 relay team experiences and new opportunities.” we compete.” broke the school record with a time of 7:49.58. The men finished the season with a record of 31-7. They also said goodbye to five highly successful seniors: Jamie Jimison, Lucian Musgrove, Mike Felder, Jamie Eckford and John Hockersmith, who combined for almost half of the team’s total season points. “To say they will be missed is an understatement,” says Coach Mike Johnson, ’73. “This is a team that is much like a family. Sometimes we love, sometimes we argue, but mostly, we compete.” The women’s track and field team broke three school Ph

records this year, and sent Izabela Luckiewicz, ’05, to ’04 cGraw, M Robert by oto nationals, where she finished 9th in the nation in the 3,000 Izabela Luckiewicz meter steeplechase with a time of 11:33.92. Jessica Dirr, ’05, broke the school record in the shot put, and the 4x800 relay team also broke the school record. “I want to grow on what we’ve established this year,” says Coach Kelly Ambrose. “The women have put forth a lot of effort to stay on top of their game this season.” Jason Earlywine

Sch o l ar A t h l et es Reco g n i zed Co m e Su p p o r t t h e Seventeen outstanding senior student- athletes were recognized at the annual Mountaineers! senior banquet this spring. Front (L-R) The Berea College Magazine will no Natali Edmonds, Bethany Herman, longer print Berea College athletics Abbie Taneyhill. Back (L-R) Christopher schedules, as our long lead time Barton, Brandon Snowden, William makes it difficult for them to be “Blake” Main. Not pictured: Lacey accurate. Please visit the Athletics Behymer, Christine Carver, Marian web page at www.berea.edu/peh for Cooper, Luciana Davis, Alice L. Driver, updated schedules, or call the Jeremiah K. Duerson, Leslie Mae Athletics Department at Hamilton, John Hockersmith, James 859.985.3423. Jimison, Yuriy Myachin, Denis Ponder.

SUMMER 2003 11 Colorfulolorful LivesLives ofof aa PrincessPrincess andand aa PainterPainter HighlightHighlight BereaBerea PremierePremiere By Timothy Jordan, ’76

When the newly built Dimitrie Berea An almost unbelievable sequence Art Gallery was dedicated on February of circumstances led to the creation 21, another chapter was added to the of the Dimitrie Berea Gallery. The fascinating story of a princess, an events unfolded as if straight out of a artist, and a college which happened movie plot complete with danger, to have the right name. With the romance, and adventure. premiere of this gallery, the colorful lives of Princess Alice Gurielli Berea Once Upon a Time Terres and her late husband, Dimitrie The story begins as all good stories do. Berea, a famous post-impressionist Once upon a time, there was a Russian/ artist whose work is owned by Romanian princess named Alice museums, galleries, and royal and Gurielli, whose grandfather was the private collectors all around the king of Georgia. Her life was filled world, became inextricably intertwined with contrasts of privilege and poverty, with Berea College. hardship and happiness. Her family’s Monte Carlo, 1969 estates were confiscated by the America in 1960, where he was Communists and several of her relatives portrait painter to socialites and film were killed. During Stalin’s regime, stars in New York, Miami, Palm she was imprisoned for three years, Beach, San Francisco and Hollywood. enduring hardship and near starvation. She escaped and fled toAustria where The Plot Thickens nuns at a school in Vienna provided It was in New York that the life of refuge. Dimitrie Berea became intertwined oto by Greg Begin, ’04 Ph with that of Princess Alice Gurielli. Berea College President Larry D. Shinn greets dedication guests. She had renounced her Romanian citizenship and came to the United At th e opening exhibit of the new States in 1966, first working as a Dimitrie Berea Gallery, which connects New York City taxi driver and as a the Rogers and Traylor Art Buildings housekeeper. She worked for Dimitrie on Berea’s campus, President Shinn Berea for a few years, cleaning his stated, “Berea College and Dimitrie studio and organizing his papers. Berea share much more in common They fell in love and were married in than just a name. Although he never 1972. She brought to the marriage came to Berea during his life, he beauty, charm, cultured sophistication, Dimitrie Berea at his easel. shared many of the same Christian and good business sense. Their life ideals for which this College has Meanwhile, Dimitrie Berea, a togetherwas filled with friends who stood for nearly 150 years. Those Romanian-born post-impressionist were film stars, government leaders, who knew him personally tell us that painter who refused to work for the and European royalty. Three blissful Dimitrie Berea had great love for all Communists, left his homeland for years later, Dimitrie died of colon people and an appreciation for nature. France where he lived and painted for cancer in Paris. After a memorial mass He expressed those ideals through many years. He was an associate and at La Madeleine, Alice arranged for his colorful art. Now through the friend of other notable painters his burial in Pere LaChaise Cemetery generosity of Princess Alice Gurielli including Matisse, Picasso, Bonnard, among other famous artists, writers, Berea Terres, Berea College has both and Dali. He became famous for and nobility. his wonderful artworks and a gallery painting colorful landscapes and The works of Dimitrie Berea are named in his memory in which to portraits of European nobility and part of major museums and state display them.” heads of state before coming to collections in Rome, Madrid, Tel-Aviv,

12 SUMMER 2003 Bucharest, Geneva, London, Paris, contacted Berea College about and Traylor Art Buildings, was designed Venice, New York, San Francisco, and donating this valuable art collection. by Glaserworks, an architectural design Vatican City. Private and royal Later, when she saw the College firm in Cincinnati, Ohio, with Messer collections include those of Sir Winston Seal (a cross surrounded by the College Construction Company, Lexington, Churchill, The Duke and Duchess of motto) on the Berea letterhead, it was Ky., serving as general contractor. In Windsor, Sir Lawrence Olivier, Bette to her another “sign” confirming that addition to the larger gallery space Davis, Henry Ford II, Katherine Berea College was indeed the place which featured the premier exhibition Hepburn, Conrad Hilton, King Carl where Dimitrie Berea’s works should of Dimitrie Berea’s artworks, the new of Denmark, Queen Elizabeth II of permanently reside. She and others who building also houses a “Romanian England and Salvador Dali. The knew him state that as he approached Room” to permanently display papers collection of Berea’s own artworks each blank canvas, Dimitrie always and other artifacts which relate to now further distinguishes the College made the sign of the cross and bowed Dimitrie Berea and his native country. as the world’s largest repository of deeply before beginning to paint. In addition to the exhibition space for images by Dimitrie Berea. “This was the habit for all his life,” the Dimitrie Berea art, the new states Princess Alice. building contains 1,200 square feet of A Sign from God secure art collection storage, an The connection between Princess elevator, restroom, and mechanical Alice and Berea College began about rooms. With the new construction, four years ago with a newspaper and old spaces were also renovated to a prayer. She was looking for “a sign provide a multi-media class room, a from God” to direct her regarding the 3-D design space, exhibition prep disposition of the artworks by her late spaces and a computer graphics studio. husband, Dimitrie. Many notable A newly designated student gallery museums and schools had been was named for Dorothy Tredennick, soliciting her to place his artwork in an emerita professor of art, in honor their collections. After spending more of her contributions that enable art than an hour in prayer, as is her daily students to travel to national galleries habit, she read about Berea College in and museums in such cities as New an article in the New York Times. Yo r k , C h icago, and Washington, D.C. Immediately she regarded the common During the dedication ceremony, connection between the name of her President Shinn recognized other oto by Greg Begin, ’04

late husband and the college she had Ph donors who made the Dimitrie Berea just read about as “a sign,” and Dr. Robert Boyce, ’66, art department chair, Gallery building possible, including joins Princess Alice outside the Gallery. gifts from two Berea College Trustees— In the intervening years since the Mr. James Bartlett and his wife princess first read the newspaper Hanna; and Donna Hall and her article, she came to visit Berea’s husband John. “The gifts from the campus, provided funds for the Bartletts, the Halls, and Dorothy construction of the “Dimitrie Berea Tr edennick, along with those from Gallery,” and gave the College many Princess Alice, help ensure that our artworks by her late husband. students, our community, and visitors to our campus for years to come A New Gallery can study, can enjoy, and can Construction of the new 4,700 square appreciate fine art that makes the foot building containing the gallery world a better place ‘for all peoples began in 2002. The gallery building, of the earth.’” The Princess at her New York home. which connects the existing Rogers

SUMMER 2003 13 With the recent opening of the The College provided the 10-acre Kentucky Artisan Center at Berea, DESTINATION: BEREA site for the Center and has been travelers and lovers of fine crafts will The involved in its creation from the have another good reason to visit Berea beginning, partnering first with local and Berea College. A 20,000 sq. ft. Kentucky Artisan Center artisans and Eastern Kentucky facility located on Interstate 75 at exit University’s Center for Economic 77, the Center will offer visitors a blend Brings Berea College Crafts Development, Entrepreneurship and of travel services, education and arts all Technology (CEDET) to plan a center in one location. There will be a wide to a for local artisans, then with three state array of travel information available, and Wide N ew Audience government cabinets as the project visitors can dine at a restaurant featuring became state-wide. Faoro says the Kentucky cuisine. The centerpiece, Center’s location in Berea will be good however, will be products made by By Julie Sowell for the College, the town, and the artists and artisans from throughout entire region. Kentucky, displayed and offered for “The Center anticipates drawing sale in a unique setting designed to be 400,000 interstate travelers annually, an educational experience as well. and we think that will have a huge “Artisan products are displayed impact on Berea,” she explains. “One with information that tells the stories of the goals of the Center is to get connected with them,” explains people beyond our site to other Victoria Faoro, the Center’s director locations in Kentucky. Ultimately, we and former director of the Museum of hope that rather than passing through, the American Quilter in Paducah, Ky. people will see Kentucky as a destination “Stories of how the products are made, in itself. The most logical and easiest stories of how the artisans live and work, location to explore is Berea, where the parts of Kentucky they come from. they can see artisans at work, buy We’ll also be offering products for sale, artisan products, and visit the College products that represent the quality and and cultural attractions.” diversity of artisans’ work in the state.” The number of visitors who will Faoro thinks the Center achieves come into Berea from the Center is the right balance between providing a estimated to be as many as 40,000 high quality experience and being each year. With that mind, Berea comfortable. “I see this facility as a very College worked with city officials and exciting blend of some of the concerns the Berea Tourism Commission in of a museum—that of quality education preparation for the Center’s opening, and quality work being shown—but according to Diane Kerby, the with real accessibility and hospitality College’s vice president for business. that make everyone feel comfortable “We have new signage that Ph and want to return,” she explains. ’04 Juodyte, Kristina by oto integrates the town as a whole and Berea College Student Crafts will helps visitors get into and around have a variety of products for sale at the Berea. This includes identifying locations Center, and information, photographs and events of historical significance and a short video will tell more of the both on campus and in town,” Kerby College’s story. says. “Our new Visitor’s Center on Victoria Faoro shows Diane Kerby the crafts display “Display cases created by Chris area at the Artisans Center. College Square will provide information Miller and students in the Appalachian for visitors about Berea College, and is Center’s Artifacts and Exhibits Studio also the new home for both campus tell about the history of the College and complement what’s going on in Berea. and student crafts tours. We’re also crafts program,” Faoro says. “We also We’d rather visitors went into Berea to promoting all of the cultural events have an area where there can be a see artisans working at Student Crafts, sponsored by the College that are open musician or craft demonstration, but Churchill Weavers or some of the to the public. We want to encourage we’ll be doing just enough of that to artisan workshops.” folks when they’re in town to participate 14 SUMMER 2003 in those kinds of things, which is part of our educational mission. We want Lat t a is Part of Berea Tradit ion people to stay and eat at Boone Tavern Kentucky Tourism Cabinet Secretary Ann and to visit the shops and restaurants Latta is one of the strongest forces behind on the Square, but we’ll also be the Kentucky Artisan Center at Berea, but she and Berea have ties that go back much encouraging them to spend time in farther. In the late 1800s, Latta’s great other parts of Berea.” grandmother Isabel Carmack Ambrose, who “At Berea” is part of the Center’s lived in Owsley County, was contacted by official name. It’s not just to help Berea College outreach staff, who were visitors remember the location, but is a Ann Latta looking for mountain weaving patterns drawing card in itself, as Faoro while telling people about Berea. “They really sought out the children in the mountain area to come and go to school,” Latta says. “ My great grandmother discovered when conducting research realized the opportunities for her children to get an education.” to determine the Center’s name. “We The Berea people bought Isabel’s weaving patterns, and she saved the did interviews at the two rest stops on money she got for those patterns, using it to send most of her 11 children to either side of I-75 in Kentucky and Berea, including Latta’s grandmother, Nellie Ambrose Roberts. Latta’s father, found that many people associate Berea Dudley Roberts, ’23, a Berea track star, taught school and coached basketball before pursuing his master’s and Ph.D. degrees in psychology. He became the with quality and with crafts.” chief psychologist at the Veterans Hospital in Lexington, Ky. “ My dad said Berea is the officially designated education was the thing that got him out of poverty,” she says. “ He always Folk Arts and Crafts Capital of thought very highly of Berea College. He thought it gave him his start in life— Kentucky. Berea College has a well to have that education from Berea.” established reputation and its crafts Tourism is the third largest industry in the state, providing 163,000 jobs and history is more rich than even Faoro $8.8 million in annual revenue. Latta has been involved in tourism for most of her career, and as Mayor of Prestonsburg, Ky., she created a tourism commission was initially aware. “In working with and was instrumental in building the Mountain Arts Center there. She has served the Artisan Center project, I came to as secretary of the Kentucky Tourism Cabinet since 1999 and has concentrated understand that the College and its on encouraging tourists to stay longer in the Bluegrass State—a misssion in crafts program have had a profound which the Artisan Center at Berea will play a significant role. “The Artisan impact on crafts not just in Kentucky Cen t er ’s f o cu s i s st at ew i d e,” Lat t a exp l ai n s. “ Ber ea’s r ep u t at i o n an d p o si t i o n as the Arts and Crafts Capital make it the logical place for the Center to be.” but in this whole region of the United She is very proud of her family tradition at Berea. “ Berea had a tremendous States,” said Faoro. “We’re not only impact on the state, especially eastern Kentucky,” she says. “ It’s come full circle building on the tradition of Berea but for me. My family’s history with Berea started with crafts, and now we’re there of Berea College, which is a really today to really show off the crafts for all of our artists across the state. It’s very remarkable one.” exciting.” Berea’s Student Crafts Program is known nationally, but the program’s region. Called Berea College Fireside On the campus, Fireside Industries history and its connection to the Industries, the enterprise provided gradually evolved into Berea College development of the local artisan income to local and mountain families Student Crafts. The College’s Labor community may be less familiar. In the who made the products and also Program has expanded since then, but summer of 1893 new Berea College generated needed income for Berea some students still earn part of their President William G. Frost traveled on College through sales of weaving, educational expenses through weaving, horseback through the mountains of furniture, baskets and other products. woodworking, pottery, wrought-iron, Kentucky, West Virginia, North Carolina During the next fifty years and broom making industries. and Tennessee to learn about the Fireside Industries trained weavers, Craftspeople settled in Berea for educational needs of the region. He woodworkers and other craftspeople the opportunity to educate their children brought back several handwoven who taught and worked throughout and to sell their products through coverlets, and while on a fundraising the region. It became a major crafts Fireside Industries. President Frost trip to New England, he discovered a production and marketing center and personally sought out craftspeople and desire to buy coverlets like this among was a major influence in the Crafts invited them to move here. Later, local the people he visited. Upon his return, Revival in southern Appalachia. The enterprises such as Churchill Weavers he began organizing a cottage three-story Log House Craft Gallery, were begun by former College handweaving industry, the first where Student Crafts products are employees. Some residents learned handcraft revival effort in Kentucky, now sold on campus, was built in 1917 weaving, woodworking, or another and one of the first in the Appalachian as a home for the growing industry. craft at Berea College, then worked for SUMMER 2003 15 one of the local handcraft industries members of the Kentucky Guild of or became independent craftspeople, Artists an d C raftsmen. creating the solid base from which The enduring satisfaction to be Berea’s present local artisan community found in making, receiving and using has grown. fine handmade products has been Feat Over the years, the crafts traditions recognized and valued by Berea College of both the College and town have for over one hundred years. Victoria by Julie Sowell combined to produce and to attract Faoro, too, knows people connect in a extraordinary craftspeople as teachers, unique way with hand-made products. students, artists and artisans who make “We want to provide people who the community unique in the state and are already interested in fine crafts a in the region. In 1929, Berea College diversity of products from a wide range was a charter member of the Southern of Kentucky artists and artisans,” she Highland Handicraft Guild, which concludes, “but one of our most quickly grew to be the major agent for important missions is to place that first the revitalization and marketing of crafts handmade mug or handwoven scarf in in Appalachia. In 1960, two Berea the hands of a visitor, because we faculty members, Rude Osolnik and know something special will happen.” Lester Pross, were founding board Deborah Bedwell shows off pottery by community A Canny Craftsperson artists in the Baltimore clayworks gallery. Ti na Miles, ’03, Combines Business with Art It’s not often you find a person whose artistic Ph

talents and business skills are equally outstanding. elson N Terry by oto But Tina Miles, ’03, excels in both areas, which made her four years of work in the marketing/ sal es o f f i ce o f Ber ea Co l l eg e St u d en t Cr af t s a perfect fit. “ Tina is the kind of student we all hope to work with,” says her supervisor, Student Tina Miles Cr af t s ad m i n i st r at i ve assi st an t Ch er r i Br o ck . “ W e received compliments on her customer service skills all the time.” With a degree in business administration with a marketing emphasis, Tina has learned to combine business with pleasure. An artist herself, she runs her Baltimore Clayworks serves thousands of students own business called “ Burning Image,” named after a wood-burning technique and community members in inner-city Baltimore. she uses on gourds. “ This is the only craft item I have ever bought from a st u d en t w h i l e t h e st u d en t i s st i l l en r o l l ed ,” says Peg g y Bu r g i o , co o r d i n at o r o f the Student Crafts Program, who sells Tina’s work at the Log House Craft Gallery. “ Her crafts are that good.” Bereans are not the only ones who recognize Tina’s artistic talent. Since 1994, one artist from every state has been chosen to decorate an Easter egg for the White House. This spring, on the advice of her aunt Peggy Bibb, who was chosen to represent Arkansas, Tina entered the competition. Ti na wanted everything about the egg to be authentically Kentuckian, so she bought local chicken eggs from a neighbor. In four attempts on fragile eggshells, she painted representative Kentucky themes: Marion County’s Maker’s Mark bottle, her mother’s quilts, and the Kentucky Derby’s Churchill Downs racetrack. The egg Tina designed and painted was chosen to represent the state of Kentucky and is now in the private collection of President George W. Bush. Ann Hazels, ’95, served as an intern at Clayworks, “For me, art – whether drawing or making crafts—is a hobby that I enjoy,” and is now on staff. Ti na explains. “ I like making things with my hands.” Photos by Julie Sowell Ti na grew up around her parents’ crafts business in Marion County, so when assigned to the Student Crafts department as a freshman, she already had an appreciation for the work done there. She finished as the student supervisor. “ The experience I got working in Student Crafts goes hand-in-hand with my crafts business,” Tina says. “I’m ready for new challenges where I can put into practice what I’ve learned.”

16 SUMMER 2003 of Clay Deborah Watts Bedwell, ’68, Brings Art to the Community Deborah Bedwell, ’68, says learning to Clayworks’ community arts develop relationships with folks that write well and to organize were two programs, usually 8-10 week sessions, are culturally different from themselves.” abiding gifts Berea College gave her. have been the only arts education Elements of Berea’s labor program Over the past 25 years she’s combined program for thousands of school have also made their way into Clayworks. those skills with a love of teaching and children in inner-city Baltimore. Last “We have had here from the very the ceramic arts to lead Baltimore year, the center served more than beginning a work exchange program Clayworks, a non-profit ceramic arts 2,000 students. Special programs that looks a lot like the Berea College center, into an arts powerhouse that include intense study for community labor program,” Bedwell says. “Upwards has served tens of thousands of arts students identified by their of 25 of our students are enrolled Baltimore area residents and an instructors as gifted and a 30-week every semester. They get an exchange international artist community. program that teaches young mothers rate toward the cost of their class tuition.” It all started when she was teaching and grandmothers how to create and Work is an important part of the English at a Maryland middle school. market functional clayware. arrangement for Berea students who When the school’s art teacher left By the time Clayworks observed its come to Clayworks as interns as well. unexpectedly, Bedwell was thrust 20th anniversary in 2000, it had gained In exchange for 30 hours of work, overnight into the role. After deciding an additional 8,000 sq. ft. building, students receive room, board, and to get more art training, she discovered and received a half-million dollar grant facilities and materials for making their a love for the medium of clay. A few from the Maryland legislature. The own artwork. So far about 10 Berea years later she was finishing a masters Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation selected students have done internships. Several degree in ceramics at Towson State it, from all museums and cultural Berea alums have returned as residents, University near Baltimore when she and organizations in the state of Maryland, to work as teachers or become staff a group of eight like-minded potters to create a large community program members. Berea alumni currently on and sculptors came up with the idea in celebration of the Millennium. staff include Becky Lowery, ’94, and for Clayworks. Bedwell was named one of Maryland’s Ann Hazels, ’95. Matthew Hyleck, son The group persuaded the city of Top 100 Women in the January 2001 of ceramic artist and Berea professor of Baltimore to sell them an empty issue of The Daily Record,Maryland’s art Walter Hyleck and his wife Marjorie, historic Carnegie Library building in most prestigious business journal. directs Clayworks’ education programs. the city’s Mt. Washington area. When Bedwell counts her Berea education as Before she became an art teacher Clayworks opened its doors in 1980 it one of the major formative events of by accident, Deborah Bedwell wouldn’t had three major program areas—studio her life. have predicted that her life’s work spaces for ceramic artists, community- “I couldn’t be doing what I’m doing would be running a ceramic arts center based classes that the artists taught, today if I hadn’t gone to Berea,” the with the equally important missions of and a gallery and shop where the Bluefield, W.Va. native explains. “Berea supporting the development of work of Clayworks artists and selected opened my eyes to the world and how professional artists and bringing the local artists was exhibited and sold. it works. I had loving, caring transformational experience of art Clayworks’ on-site program space has Appalachian parents, but Berea gave creation to those who might never have tripled since then. The major change me so many gifts and helped shape my had the opportunity otherwise. “Berea has been the addition of a community values during the time I was there. I College taught me that education is for arts program, begun in the summer of developed a real appreciation for Black everyone and helped me to understand 1990. Its philosophy is that by culture and for cultural diversity. Berea what being inclusive really is,” she says. connecting experienced professional gave me the opportunity to know people “The equality, the inclusiveness, the artists with a wide and diverse from other countries in an intimate and diversity, the multi-culturalism at Berea, community, the artists, the participants supportive environment. People have all of that set the stage. Those values and the community are all elevated to have those kinds of experiences to are the structural underpinning of and enriched. learn how to live and work and what I ended up doing with my life.”

SUMMER 2003 17 Appalachia

“I came into this landscape not ever having been here and came away not looking at differences so much as similarities. I think the College has gained an invaluable collection of work that has marked history and culture in the beginning of this new century.”

Eclectic Visions: Cultural Appalachian Center Exhibit Documents the Ever-Changing Region

In 2002, the Berea College Appalachian Center commissioned noted documentary landscape photographer Chris Faust for two photographic tours in the Appalachian region, culminating in a traveling exhibit of the images. These tours, in May and November 2002, generated over 400 images from five states—Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina and Georgia. They document diverse human interaction with the land and mountains, including roads and crossings, active surface mining and reclamation, homes, businesses and towns, cemeteries and a prison, as well as parks and preserves. The photographs on these pages are a small sample of the images captured. The exhibit project was curated by Christopher Miller, Berea College curator with the Center’s Artifacts and Exhibits Studio program. “The exhibit focused on human interaction with the landscape of Appalachia,” says Miller. “This interaction takes many forms and is shaped by both the people and the land. The land brings many realities of geography, geology and biology to the transaction. People bring history, tradition, economics, values, ideals and the realities of daily life. The images selected for the exhibit show some of the diverse forms this interaction has taken in Appalachia.” Chris Faust lives in St. Paul, Minn. His photographs have been collected by such organizations as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Center for Photography (Woodstock, N.Y.), Minnesota Historical Society, the Wisconsin State Historical Society, and the Minneapolis Institute of Art. “The experience that I had working on this (Appalachian) project was amazing,” says Faust. “I came into this landscape not ever having been here and came away not looking at differences so much as similarities. I think the College has gained an invaluable collection of work that has marked history and culture in the beginning of this new century.” The exhibit premiered at the Appalachian Studies Conference at Eastern Kentucky University March 28-30, and moved to the Berea College Appalachian Center Gallery in the Bruce-Trades Building, where it will be on exhibit April 2 – Dec. 31. In 2004, the exhibit will begin a three-year tour. For more about Faust and his photos visit www.chrisfaustphoto.com.

18 SUMMER 2003 Chattahoochee River between restaurants, Helena, Ga. Landscapes from Appalachia

Tweetsie Railroad Park, near Boone, N .C.

Bell Theatre and downtown Pikeville, Ky.

Foldout: Natural Tunnel State Park, Va. SUMMER 2003 19

East Jenkins Cemetery, Ky.

Building on stilts, Grundy, Va.

Hotel on mountain top near Banner Elk, N .C.

Eastman Kodak plant, Kingsport, Tenn.

23 SUMMER 2003 Appalachia New Directions in

Appalachian StudiesBy Beth Curlin

24 SUMMER 2003 I shall not leave these prisoning hills Though they topple their barren heads to level earth And the forests slide uprooted out of the sky. Though the waters of Troublesome, of Trace Fork, Of Sand Lick rise in a single body to glean the valleys, creation of Berea’s Appalachian To drown lush pennyroyal, to unravel rail fences; Center, Jones had been director of the Council for the Southern Mountains Though the sun-ball breaks the ridges into dust (CSM), the first group to concentrate on Appalachian issues. The CSM was founded in the early 1900’s and was And burns its strength into the blistered rock headquartered in Berea until the 1970’s. The activists of the 1960’s I cannot leave. I cannot go away. (VISTA, Appalachian Volunteers, labor activists, and War on Poverty —taken from James Still’s poem Heritage volunteers), plus a growing academic movement in Appalachian Studies, fueled a heightened interest in the region. Appalachian Heritage magazine, now based at Berea College, began in 1972, and the Appalachian Jo u rn al at Appalachian State University in North Carolina began the same year. But leave they do. Pennington, a native of Abingdon, Va. Many of Appalachia’s best and “Any time you raise the consciousness Growing Interest brightest young people leave their of people about problems and in the Mountains homes, for the same reasons they solutions, you do an immeasurable Briscoe Pennington and professor always have—to find opportunity and good. If Appalachian students say, of history Dr. Gordon McKinney, jobs. Despite strong roots nurtured by ‘H ey, I’m from there. . .’, and you director of Berea’s Appalachian a sense of place, knowledge of home, make them aware that they can be a Center, along with other Berea faculty family, and cultural bonds, today’s catalyst for change or preservation, it and staff, recently joined scholars, Appalachian youth feel they must seek is a contribution. They learn they teachers, and regional activists at opportunity elsewhere. But there is don’t have to leave to survive.” Eastern Kentucky University for the hope for the future. The growth of “Berea College is thought of as a Tw enty-Sixth Appalachian Studies Appalachian Studies at Berea College place with regional expertise, Association (ASA) Annual Conference, and in the region continues to bring primarily because of the College’s co-sponsored by Berea College and academicians and activists together to explicit mission to serve the region; EKU. Academicians and scholars such preserve culture, environment, and the outstanding mountain collection in as Jones and Richard Drake, former strengthen local communities from the Archives of Hutchins Library; the Berea professor and historian, within. groundwork Loyal Jones, ’54, (the organized the group in 1977. “Appalachian Studies give young first Berea Appalachian Center According to McKinney, the people the confidence that they can director) laid on campus, and the outgoing ASA president, the stay if they choose,” says Appalachian respect and recognition he brought,” Association established several initial Center associate director Lori Briscoe Briscoe Pennington says. Prior to the goals, the first of which was to correct

SUMMER 2003 25 the stereotyped image of Appalachia. growing minority group in Appalachia. Academicians and activists also Berea is trying to make sure they are Read M o r e planned to expose welcomed into the Appalachian on Appalachia outside control community. “There are hundreds of over the economy thousands of them,” McKinney The W.D. Weat herf ord and political system explains. “They are a long way from Award is presented annually to the author of the region and to their home, but they are here, and of the work which best preserve the take a lot of low wage jobs. With the illuminates the Appalachian culture. out migration of younger people from challenges, This comprehensive Appalachia, those jobs are open.” personalities, and agenda attracted a great Hispanics have made a significant unique qualities of diversity of participants financial contribution to the the Appalachian from community Appalachian community, as they work So u t h . I t w a s organizations and groups on fruit farms in the region, in the presented at this to committedindividuals. booming Christmas tree industry, and From year’s Appalachian APPA HIST LACH “The immense growth other service areas. For example, in St u d i e s A sso ci a t i o n ORY IA: A Alexa by Joh in the attendance of the ASA the north Georgia city of Dalton, nder n conf erence t o (c) 20 Will 02 by th iams Caro e U . Copyrig shows that there were a lot of known for its large rug-making textile Jo h n A l exan d er lina P niversity o ht the p ress. U f N ublish sed by p orth people doing this work already, industry, forty percent of school Williams for his er. w w erm issio w.uncp n of ress.un but they didn’t know each children are Hispanic. In addition, comprehensive w ork, c.edu. Appalachia: A History. other.” McKinney says. “People there are more than 35,000 Hispanics Interweaving social, political, were isolated. Once it became known, in Lexington, Ky. “Hispanics certainly environmental, economic, and it grew quickly.” Appalachian Studies would qualify economically to be popular history, Williams as an academic discipline, however, is students here at Berea,” McKinney chronicles f our and a half still relatively obscure. While there are says. “Due to the transient lifestyles of cent uries of t he Appalachian a large number of Appalachian Centers, many of the families they have not past. Along the way, he only Appalachian State University in participated, but more and more of explores Appalachia’s long- Boone, N.C., offers a masters program. them are intending to stay for an contested boundaries and the Berea College’s minor in Appalachian extended time.” numerous, often contradictory Studies offers courses in Appalachian A great deal of region-wide images that have shaped perceptions of the region as history, economics, music, literature, research is also being done on gender. both the essence of America and sociology. This reflects a national movement, a and a place apart. At this year’s ASA conference, more growing knowledge about what Throughout the book, a than 500 participants representing nine women have contributed to Appalachia wide range of Appalachian Appalachian states examined old issues and how a gender-informed perspective voices enlivens the analysis and more broadly and introduced new makes for a better total understanding reminds us of the importance of ones. As the world changes, so does of the region. st o r yt el l i n g i n t h e w ays t h e Appalachia, in the areas of race, people of Appalachia define ethnicity, gender, and sustainability in Appalachia’s themselves and their region. the environment. While tackling the Environmental Issues Author or coauthor of five hillbilly stereotype is a never-ending The ASA’s concern about a previous books, John Alexander battle, McKinney says, “We just have sustainable environment parallels that Williams is professor of history at Appalachian State University to refer people to scholarly work that of Berea College, which is taking the in Boone, N.C. has been done. People are catching up lead with its Sustainability and Weatherford Award-winning with 25 years of work!” Environmental Studies Program (SENS). works offer unique and varied “Some days I am overwhelmed by perspectives on the Appalachian Changing Identity hopelessness because of the degree of experience. For a complete list of Appalachia environmental destruction,” says of Weatherford winners, visit If the identity of Appalachia was Briscoe Pennington. “But because I am the Appalachian Center website: hard to define twenty years ago due to immersed in Appalachian Studies, I am www.berea.edu/ApCenter. stereotypes, it is even harder today with hopeful—there is a network growing, the introduction of Latinos, the fastest and more and more groups are 26 SUMMER 2003 native to the area. These areas studying business and sustainability. contrast profoundly with coal country Then, when we went out to in southeastern Kentucky, parts of communities around the region, it West Virginia, and other areas. Studies finally clicked.” show that where unparalleled natural Tw o fully endowed Entrepreneurship resources are extracted, the people Chairs at Berea further strengthen the in the communities don’t do well education of leaders for Appalachia. economically. Needs for them haven’t Dr. Deborah Brock, former director of changed: better and more health care, the Entrepreneurial Resource Lab and better quality education, more and director of the Kauffman better paying jobs, and a reduction in Entrepreneurial Internship Program at all types of violence. Miami University in Ohio, serves as the William and Kay Moore Chair of Lori Briscoe Pennington, associate director, Berea College’s Entrepreneurship and Management. and Gordon McKinney, director of the Appalachian Impact The William R. Gruver Chair in Appalachian Center. These areas of study form a rich Leadership Studies will be hired for curriculum for Berea College students. the 2004-05 school year. A third chair The College fulfills its commitment to in Appalachian Studies, the National involved in the struggles. The hard the mountains through the Berea Endowment for the Humanities work of the last 30 years is coming to College Appalachian Center, as well as (NEH) Chair, brings a visiting fruition.” She is the vice president of integrating the need for trained professor to do research in Appalachian the Appalachian Coalition for Just and leaders for the region throughout the Studies and teach. Jack Wright, a Sustainable Communities, which serves curriculum, including Appalachian filmmaker from Ohio University, held as a clearinghouse for individuals, grass Studies. The Brushy Fork Institute, the NEH chair in 2002-03. He and his roots movements, communities, and housed in the Center, has sent a assistants from Ohio University helped institutions. “Members of the Coalition leadership team to Appalachian students produce videos about their share information, experience, and counties for more than ten years to lives as part of a short-term project. expertise, and they approach the work directly with local citizens. The Many Berea graduates are making problems with a larger regional voice Center for Excellence in Learning a difference in the communities and that has more impact,” she explains. Through Service (CELTS) coordinates institutions of the region. McKinney “The greatest thing is seeing ordinary students with community service in a cites examples like Gaynell Begley, people reclaim their communities and variety of ways, and the new ’37, who owns a grocery in Blackey, step up to become leaders. Appalachian Entrepreneurship for the Public Good Ky., and who, with her late husband, Studies can provide a model for how (EPG) program is training students helped win the fight against the use not to mine your resources or how not in creative problem-solving and of the broad form deed. Mike to exploit your people.” collaborative leadership. All of these Mullins, ’71, directs the Hindman Those studying the region have initiatives combine classroom Settlement School, which has the only also found that different parts of experience with work in the field. program for dyslexic children in a Appalachia vary greatly in terms of Berea’s strongest focus is the five-county area. economic success. While parts of the building of “human capital,” by “There are too many Berea alums region have entered the American educating and training students to to name—so many individuals, school economic mainstream, there are others think aggressively about changing the teachers, superintendents, lawyers, still at the bottom of the national region. The Entrepreneurship for the ministers—who have gotten their scale. Areas of western North Public Good program is a major communities involved in these issues, Carolina, north Georgia, and some initiative for taking the students to and that’s how Berea has an impact in sections of West Virginia which are the communities, and bringing the Appalachia,” McKinney says. “I travel. near Washington DC have become communities to campus. “This is a big I teach. I often hear people say they bedroom communities, and land push now, and it is happening at knew a Berean who had made a values have risen accordingly. For Berea—I can see it,” Briscoe tremendous impact on their life. example, in Asheville, N.C., a one- Pennington says. “The highlight of the Our alumni often don’t make great acre lot can cost $250,000, which puts EPG summer program is that students claims, but the reaction is always a it out of reach for many families spent a month in the classroom here positive one.” SUMMER 2003 27 Summer Reunion 2003 mily i, their fa 0 alumn the ver 1,40 attended d friends bers an uded a mem hich incl Bow, ’53, Has a O ivities, w r kend act nions fo System for Success wee , and reu luncheon es con- e picnic, n activiti ve Bow, ’53, knows th . Reunio nion Ste e classes with a U f learning nin morning , importance o Sunday ebration e cluded nnial cel iness skills—t*khose h quicente bus urch Ses ilbert’s his time at Ch r Kent G a gained during ng pasto nd Bere featuri Church a a led to a successful f Union Bere rtrayal o . Fee. ent and po r John G career as presid e founde . Colleg insurance companies CEO of several major tinguished Alumnus Bow accepted the Dis nion ’03 ring the Summer Reu Award du gy ciology and psycholo alumni banquet. A so health and has been involved in major, Bow r- out his career, and cu life insurance through ow & and operates Steve B ou rently owns m Lakes, gement consulting fir ssociates, Inc., a mana Lretired A ho Santa Fe, Calif. director in Ranc of as a person who gets plan Bow is known ned giv a has continued ing, nd he is glad that Bere who ser results, a e ved the w to be successful. “W Col to teach students ho lege for orld—the over eatest system in the w 30 year have the gr s, was ,” he said. “And there honora nam free enterprise system ry alum ed an sities in the on at the w colleges and univer Saturda alumni are very fe . y. Duri coffee free enterprise system were 1 ng her t ountry that teach the ,574 pl enure t c started this Co anned g here to see that Berea has llege, to ifts give I’m delighted taling o n to the m.” ver $38 ntrepreneurial progra million e

ackie Collier Ballinger, ’80, Jwho has resigned from her position as director of the Alumni Association, was honored at the banquet by Berea President Larry D. Shinn, who presented her with a woven throw from Student Crafts.

28 SUMMER 2003 Photos by: Kristina Juodyte, ’04, Olga Popescu, ’04, Ann Mary Quarandillo. Mary Ann ’04, Popescu, Olga ’04, Juodyte, Kristina by: Photos

’38 Dr. Lawrence Bowling, Mildred “Dink” Gorman Allen, E. E. Palmer, Carl Auvil, Mabel Self Emerson, James “Pop” Hollandsworth, ’37.

T he Class of 1953 Celebr 50th Reuni ated Their on this Year

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1st row: J. Kenneth Frye, Justine Jones Rozier, Virginia Ferrill Piland. 2nd row: Carl Newman, Harry Tennant, Zora Ball Cornette, Edith Howard Richardson. 3rd row: Jack Walker, Carl Kilbourne, Sallie Conley Scherrer, Virgie Herrin Fuller. 4th row: Winn Hughes, Victor Scherrer, Charles Clark, Peggie Yowell Eure.

(L -R) 1st row: E leanor Clem V Edmondson M anHorn, Wan ason, Joyce G da Honeycutt 2nd row: D illiam Byrd, N Miller, Edna on Reece, Ann ick F. Nichols Bernard, a Lee Messer, (Nickolokis). Suzi Shriver K Lula Bruce Tu 2nd row ohler, Ignacio pper, Allene W (b): Georgia I Torres Cruz, W ade Clay vey Keen, Cha . Lyn Claybr brook. 3rd row rlie Bensenhave ook. Bu : Bishop Span r, Jr., Alwayne ssey Godsey, W gler, Jessie Rea McClure W iley DuVall, F sor Zander, W illiams, Jean orrest McGlon onnell ette Robinson e, Mildred Je Bryant, Joan Thurman, Be an Hurt ne Ezzard Ba tty Click Powe Lattie Ma rksdale. 4th ro rs, Sue Lilly e Corbin Keet w: Leland M Janath er, Eleanor Br . “Pappy” Mar Casto Walters, ooks Ward, Fr tin, Maye Wilda Wilson ances Farley B Hansen Barn Wilson, Ulrik arrier, Jul ard, Blanche A e Gaebler Ho ia Tipton Fort llison Bakke. ja, C , Marjorie Ma 5th row: Alex arolyn Benson rtin Bixler, R Hoja, ’48 Farmer, Beve uth Blackburn 6th row: Gla rly Pierson Ma Fugate, dwin Joshua S rion, Shirley W (Cx), Cal olomon, Robe heeler Einem vin Phipps, Bi rt Walters, Ch . 1st row (seated): James Edwards, Shelby Duff, Hilda Karlsson Roderick, Phyllis ll Friar, Mar arles Morris Lisi. 7th row: y Hulburt Par Cecilia Stalnaker Repair, Clinton Clay, Clint Ramey, Barbara Goddard. 2nd Wrig Bill Marion, ker, Mary Lou ht, John C. Ro George Geyer, Bean, row: Dorothy Davis Blackburn, Elsie Coffey England, Mary Lou Baker Ed gers, Charles Walter (Buster sel Parker. 8th Edwards, Ed T ) Henjum, Helen Smith Brown, Corsie Croucher Collins. 3rd row: Jeanne row: Donald rimble, Hugh Charles E. Ba Wells, Judge T Browning, Hardy Griffin, Ella Lee Martin Fuller, Silvia Sewell Hendricks, Jean ker, Steve Bow . Calton, Der , Edward Dow l G. Stallard, Croucher Cornett, Ola Faye Massey Eplee. 4th row: Ray B. Davenport, Ernest dy, Jim Rouse. Raines, Marjorie Moss Davenport, Hazel Reynolds Hale. 5th row: Joan Lykins Parr, Reedus Back. Not pictured: Margaret Gray Jarrell

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1st row: James Phelps Jr. Jennifer Francis Flynn, Geri Bennett Grossman, William Atwater Jr., Arnold Blankenship. 2nd row: Ronald Flynn, Lawrence Grossman, Boyd Graves, Dr. Don Hirshman, David Jeffers. 3rd row: Carolyn McDaniel Rogers, Darrell Rogers, Malcolm “Edward” Kitchen, Gary Raines, Voe Hines Morris, Sandy Fredericks Johnstone, Connie Spencer-Ackerman, ’58 Margaret Walker Jeffiers. 4th row: Susan Moore, Cheri LeMaster Hendrickson, Carol Jackson Ferguson, Betty Hall, Ron Good. 5th row: Jim Ferguson, Clyde 1st row: Leota Wise Coffey, Betty Jones Zeller, Margaret “Meg” Boyd Atkins, Huskey, Cuba Franks Craig, Ed Montgomery. Shirley Kincaid Cook, Joanne Brockman Wooters, Barbara McLain Isreal. 2nd row: James R. Masters, Roy Walters Jr., Joy Phillips Miller, Edith Wood Puckett, Shirley Harrison White, Marguerite Dyer Bertram, Millie Ramey Payne. 3rd row: Fred Finley, Roger Dean, Joyce Hyder O’Keefe, Betty Stephens Lamb, Wilma Mahaffey Peercy, Carol Colvard Noronowicz. 4th row: Paul Sutton, Mary Nell Mahler, Juanita Littleton McDonald, Mitch Osteen. 5th row: John Holbrook, Judith Graves Kennedy, Delores Thurston Higgins, Frances Stephens Sebastian, Barbara Hyder Fenton, Maxine Whiteside Martin, Pansy Waycaster Blackburn. 6th row: Patricia Franklin Lohrmann, Stephen Morgan Hunter, Woody Snapp, Anne Faye Lecky Dickson, Jerri Puckett Tisdale, Carroll H. Gilbert. 7th row: Richard K. Bowling, Joy Alexander Colvard, Toby Shook, Frances Gabbard Baird. 8th row: Howard ’73 Greer, Luther W hitacker, Fred Beddingfield Jr., Jim Colvard, Keith Parker, Robert Judd. 9th row: Gwyn Cambell, Marion Atkinson, Wallace Baird, John 1st row: Marcia Devere Stewart, Donna Massey Collins, Rita Kay Scott Potts, Basil Borders, James S. Burton. 10th row: Jim Crase, Bob Miller, Tom Blankenship, Nancy Johnson Rutherford, Jane Johnson Parke, Ruth Schaeffer Loftis, Harold “Frosty” Hubbard, Glen Wooters. Walker. 2nd row: Boat Blankenship, Thana Taylor Connelly, Rebecca Blake Carter, Mary K. Claiborne Johnson, Nancy Walker Hale, Janet White, Carol Terry Rison, M arie-Anne Lisik von Gemmingen, Linda Sexton Seehorn. 3rd row: Mike Johnson, Brad Hunt, Hank Gillette, Jerry B. Hale, Robert Grossman, David Thacker, Virginia Hubbard Underwood.

’63 Academy/Foundation Academy/Foundation – Kneeling: Paul Atkinson, Mary K. Fielder Kauffman, 1st row: Josietana Bernice Segar Hill, Shirley Nelson Kindel, Joel Detchon, Corban Goble, Bobby Asher, Nadene Wade May, Robert Dodd, Robert Barry Kent Poe, Lebron Free. 2nd row: Carol Roberts, Betty M cConnell Dishner, Bingham, Roy Walters, Jr. 2nd row: Betsy Fortner Hancock, Bessie Hibbits Tom Eller, Al Martin, Barbara Hewlett Barker, Thelma Jean Howard Barrier. 3rd row: Joann Wethington Maxwell, Mary Berry Repass, Evelyn Ritchie Beasley, Sarah Ann Hutcherson W ing, Janice Stephenson Hamilton, M artha Nachman, Glenn Ihrig, Brenda Anderson Delaney, Shannon Frazier Cornett. Hutcherson Cochran, Betsy Churchill, Delia Abney Prather, Zuria Farmer 4th row: Todd Repass, Clint Layne, Roger Lester, Mary Jo Ellenburg Morton, Austin, Reva Jo Fowler Schumacher, Mollye Lovelace McKenzie, Emel Atkins. Mildred A. Kitts, Bill Montgomery, Richard Kitt, Margaret Turnbull Sutters. 3rd row: Don Lainhart, Bill Gosser, Genevieve Graham Gleis, Hugo Miller, 5th row: Evelyn Rebecca Brubaker Glasscock, John “Jack” Walters, Jan Eckler Harding Coffey, Ernest Graham, Owen Schumacher, Mary Armstrong Hiller, Fox, Nancy Lee Golladay Varney. Jim King, Luke Eldridge, Truman Fields. Not pictured: Joe Meador, Fred Arms. 30 SUMMER 2003 About Be r e a Pe opl e

The Ber ea Col l ege Al umni Associ ati on enj oys hear i ng from Bereans all over the U.S. and the world. The “About An Easy Way to Give—Online! Ber ea Peopl e” secti on of the Ber ea Col l ege Magazi ne reports news that has been sent to the Association by Berea College now offers the opportunity to make a al ums, as wel l as news we fi nd i n var i ous l ocal and gift online with your Visa, MasterCard, Discover regional media. Please let us know what’s going on with or American Express, or even by check with you! Send i nfor mati on to Shel l ey Boone Rhodus, Ber ea eCheck. It’s fast, simple, and most important, College Alumni Association, CPO 2203, Berea, Ky. 40404; call 1.800.457.9846; or e-mail [email protected]. secure. Now it’s even easier to support students with great promise, but limited economic resources. So visit us today at ______1934______www.berea.edu/development and click on Marjorie Clark Graham, Cx’34, served as the “Donate to Berea.” For more information or hostess for the Berea College Country Dancers when they performed during spring break at The Village in if you have questions, please contact us at Gai n esvi l l e, Fl a. [email protected].

Eugene and Vi rginia Cooper Smith, ’43, ______1935______observed their 60th weddi ng anni ver sar y i n December. ______1949______Dr. Dean Colvard was featured in an article in th Ju n e 11-13, 2004 the March 10 issue of Sp o r t s I l l u st r a t ed concerning his SUM M ERREUNION amazi ng stor y and i mpact on i ntegr ati ng bl acks and ______1944______55 th whi tes i n col l ege basketbal l whi l e ser vi ng as pr esi dent Ju n e 11-13, 2004 The Class of 1949 will observe its 55 year of Mississippi State College. Dr. Colvard also received an th reunion during Summer Reunion 2004, scheduled honorary degree from Berea College and spoke to the 60 SUM M ERREUNION for June 11-13. graduates at the May 2003 commencement. He and his The Class of 1944 will observe its 60th year Romulus Jolley Duncan is involved in tree wi fe, Martha Lampkin Colvard, ’34, reside in reunion during Summer Reunion 2004, scheduled farming in McDowell County, N.C. Ch ar l o t t e, N. C. for June 11-13. Janice Pigmon Maggard, a homemaker, lives Nel l War hol m Si l ber , retired from teaching, with her husband, Edward, in Lexington, Ky. has moved to Riderwood Village. She enjoys watercolor ______1936______painting and exhibits some of her work at Riderwood. Delmas Saunders, Cx’36, observed his 90th ______1950______birthday on Jan. 13, at his winter home in Bonita Springs, Don Lainhart, Cx’50, received the Senior Fla. with a host of family and friends. In 2001, he wrote ______1945______Leader shi p Awar d at the fi r st Nor ther n Kentucky Uni ted History of Abbott Creek and the Village of Bonanza. Eul ene Sher man Lyttl e and her husband, Davi d, Community Awards recognition ceremony for his Mr. Saunder s has attended each Ber ea Col l ege Summer ar e both r eti r ed, and spend par t of the wi nter tour i ng vol unteer i sm. The awar d was pr esented by the Reunion since 1986. He is a member of the Irene Cole the southwest and Mexico in their motor home. They Community Recorder and United Way of Northern Memor i al Bapti st Chur ch, wher e he ser ves as Sunday would like to hear from other Bereans who travel by RV. Kentucky at the Marquis Banquet and Conference School superintendent, deacon, and trustee. He regularly Margie Mantooth Linnartz and her husband, Center. Lainhart volunteers at Florence Baptist Church, wal ks four mi l es per day four days a week. Donald, observed their 50th weddi ng anni ver sar y i n helps with bingo games at the Cincinnati Veterans September 2002 with their family. Hospital, is a Shriner and Mason, and is a member of the Boone County Historical Society and Woodsman of ______1937______the World. He works the annual Bean Bash event in Al i ce Chur chi l l Hadl ey, Cx’37, and her ______1946______Boone County to r ai se funds for sever al char i tabl e husband, Paul, observed their 60th weddi ng anni ver sar y, Nina Sprinkle Gilbert is a teacher and organizations, as well as helping transport children with more than 200 friends and family present. homemaker, living in Murfreesboro, Tenn. from their homes, many in Eastern Kentucky, to Cincinnati and northern Kentucky hospitals, including the Cincinnati Burn Hospital. ______1939______1947______Bet t y Par k er and Fr ankl i n Par ker , ’49, th Ju n e 11-13, 2004 Bet t e Jo Gevedon Whet st one and her collaborated on two articles about philanthropist SUM M ERREUNION husband, Delbert, have George Peabody for two books: Not abl e Amer i can 65 traveled many places, Philanthropists: Biographies of Giving and The Class of 1939 will observe its 65th year including residing three Vo lunteeringand Encyclopedia of Philanthropists in reunion during Summer Reunion 2004, scheduled year s i n Eur ope. They the United States. The books were sponsored by the for June 11-13. observed their 52nd Center for Philanthropy at Indiana University, Mayhew Clark, A’39, retired, walks one mile weddi ng anni ver sar y by Bl oomi ngton. They al so col l abor ated on a book r evi ew daily and enjoys gardening at his home in Easley, S.C. He vi si ti ng the states they of Paul K. Conkin’s Peabody College: From a Fronti er shar es most of hi s pr oduce and r oses wi th hi s nei ghbor s. had missed during their Academy to the Frontiers of Teaching and Learning, whi ch wi l l appear i n the for thcomi ng 80th anni ver sar y Bet t e Jo and Del ber t previous travels, including Wisconsin, Minnesota, issue of the Peabody Jou r n al of Edu cat i on . Mrs. Wh et st o n e th ______1940______and Nor th and South Parker helped plan a day-long 80 anni ver sar y pr ogr am Mary Jones Pearlman, retired from biomedical Dakota. During their trip they covered 14 states and celebrating the chartering of Uplands, the retirement research at the University of Nor t h Car ol i na School of 5300 miles in 24 days. vi l l age wher e they have l i ved si nce 1994. Medicine, has moved to a retirement center in Harry Shaw I I I , is retired from the National Bar bour svi l l e, W.Va. Weather Servi ce. He and i s wi fe, Susi , r esi de i n ______1948______Memphi s, Tenn. Vi rginia Kearns Denhamtaught home Married: Dorothy Taylor Simpson to Rev. ____1941____ economi cs at Clover por t Hi gh School , Smi th Grove ( Ky.) Benj ami n Chi dester on Mar. 17, 2001, i n Boones Mi l l , Cor l eene Shumat e High School, and in the Cleveland School System. She Va., where the couple resides. Hammond is a teacher, actress, retired as food service manager at Tates Creek High librarian and statistician. She School in Lexington, Ky. wor ks for the New Haven Betty Jean Davis Morgan is retired and resides ______1951______Cor l een e Shu mat e California Unified School District. in Asheville, N.C. Dr. Edwin Copeland was inducted into the Hammond Mar yl and Seni or Citi zens Hal l of Fame for hi s

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extr aor di nar y humani tar i an ser vi ces for the ci ti zens of coordinator of ESOL, which in ten years has had more Homer and Colista Spradlin Ledford, ’53, Mar yl and. He i s acti ve i n the Her i tage Bapti st Chur ch’s than 1200 students from more than 40 countries observed their 50th wedding anniversary in 2002 with a programs for youth and children and the English for participate in the program which is staffed by volunteers. reception given by their children at the First Methodist Speakers of Other Languages program ( ESOL) . He has Church in Winchester, Ky. been AARP community coordinator for his county, Vi nson and Patr i ci a Ascough Watts, ’65, president of the Retired Teachers Association, and ______1952______observed their 50th wedding anniversary on Feb. 15, with acti ve i n state and county l egi sl ati ve commi ttees. Dr. Dr. Dave Auxier has retired from veterinary a r ecepti on gi ven by thei r chi l dr en and gr andchi l dr en. Copeland is involved with a local homeless shelter practice in Memphis, Tenn. Ei l een Gunter Auxi er , wher e he hel ps guests devel op j ob r esumes, wor k on ’54, retired as coordinator of the Kindermusik program job search skills, and gain self-confidence and feelings at the Uni ver si ty of Memphi s. They have moved to ______1953______of self-worth. Hilda Davenport Copeland, ’53, is Mur physbor o, I l l . Shirley Wheeler Einem has a small resort on the Pacific coast of Mexico near Puerto Vallarta where she spends her wi nter s and a bed and br eakfast i n Nova It brought you letters Scotia where she spends her summers. from home, notes from A Gift that Joyce Parsloe Gardner has retired. She and your sweetheart, and Keeps on Giving her husband, Edgar, reside in Saco, Maine. even your College Mary Margaret Hughes Harrelson’s husband, Carl, died Mar. 25, 2002. The couple had been married paycheck! Now it can 43 years. Mrs. Harrelson lives in the Covenant Village help you save money, retirement center in North Carolina. and support Berea’s students at the same time. Students in Berea ______1954______College Woodcraft have th Ju n e 11-13, 2004 created, from the 50 SUM M ERREUNION original Berea College The Class of 1954 will observe its 50th year CPO boxes, a beautiful reunion during Summer Reunion 2004, scheduled CPO Bank which the for June 11-13. Rev. Dr. Fannie Hardwick Feltner , Cx’54, was Alumni Association is offering for sale. Designed by student crafts production ordained as a minister in the Interdenominational manager Terry Fields, ’72, with a coin slot medallion designed and produced by Berea Ministers’ Association on March 8, the same day that craftsman Ken Gastineau, the boxes are a treasured heirloom for any Berea alum. she and her husband, Dillard Feltner, ’52, observed Purchasing the box will also support the mission of the College. Over two- their 50th weddi ng anni ver sar y. Mr s. Fel tner gr aduated thirds of the purchase price is tax-deductible as a gift to Berea. And as you fill Feb. 22 from the Evangelical Bible Seminary in Lake the bank, perhaps you could send your spare change back as a continuing gift to Wo rth, Fla., with a doctorate of theology degree. In 1991 Mr. Feltner retired after 35 years of service with the College. So place your order today on the form below! You may even be able the Firestone Tire & Rubber Company. Both of them are to get your old CPO box number (subject to availability.) members of the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels. Make a gift to yourself, the alum in your life, and to Berea College as well John K. “Kenny” Gwinn’s wi fe, Ruby with a CPO Bank from Berea College Student Crafts. “Wendy” Puckett Gwinn, A’ 50, ’61, died Feb. 6. She was r eti r ed fr om Hami l ton Hei ghts Juni or Hi gh School . Mr. Gwinn resides in Greencastle, Ind. CPO BANK ORDER FORM Nancy Biddix McKinnis, retired teacher, and her husband, William, moved to Polk City, Fla., and Name______would love hearing from other Bereans. Dr. Jack Weaver, professor of English at Address______Winthrop University, retired Dec. 31, 2002. He and his wi fe, Bet t y Nest er Weaver , Cx’54, live in South Carolina. City______State_____ ZIP______Phone # ______I would like ______Berea College CPO Banks at $150.00 each (includes ______1955______shipping. $105 of the purchase price is a tax deductible gift to the Berea Fund. Martha Marshall Cress is retired from Duke All orders must be prepaid.) Please specify the CPO box number you prefer: Uni ver si t y. 1st choice ______, 2nd choice ______, 3rd choice ______. (Requests for specific Marvin Hutchins is a retired poultry nutritionist. Leona Dobbi ns Hutchi ns, ’54, is a homemaker and numbers must be received by September 30, 2003, and will be filled after that date, provided former teacher. They have moved to Hillsborough, N.C. the door is in working order, with preference to the alum of the earliest class year. Requests They woul d l ove to hear fr om other Ber eans i n the ar ea. after Sept. 30 will be filled with random box numbers.) Dr. Peter Thoms ser ved as pr esi dent of the Genesee County (Mich.) Medical Society during 2002- Enclosed is my check for $______OR Please charge my (Circle one) VISA, 2003. He began his medical career as a family physician in 1960. He chaired a committee on Medicine and MASTERCARD, DISCOVER, AMERICAN EXPRESS, OR DINERS CLUB card Religion and served as a delegate to the Michigan State Medi cal Soci ety’s House of Delegates. He was a del egate for $______. Card Number______to the Michigan Association of Family Practice Board of Expiration Date______Signature of Card Holder______Directors and worked on the public relations committee. He was instrumental in establishing a Please send order form to: permanent headquarters for the GCMS to consolidate and was i nvol ved i n the for mati on of the Genesee Mary Labus, Berea College Alumni Association, CPO 2203, Berea, KY 40404. Medical Corporation and the Genesee Health FAX to 859.985.3178, call 1.800.457.9846, or e-mail [email protected]. Corporation, which has become Health Plus.

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______1956______The Nur si ng Class of 1956 hel d a mi ni -r euni on. Alumni Chapter Dates 2003-04 Alumni present are pictured below. The following Berea College Alumni Association Chapters will hold chapter meetings in 2003-04. Please contact the Alumni Association at 1.800.457.9846 for more information. Chapter dates in bold face have been confirmed. CHAPTERS AND COORDINATORS Colorado Picnic - Sun. Aug. 17, 2003 East Central Florida – Sun. Feb. 8, 2004 Ursula Boehm Dickinson, ’52 Vanessa May Lane, ’87 Al i ce Spr i nk l e Bak er , retired teacher, resides Cincinnati, Ohio – Sat. Aug. 30, 2003 Colorado - Sat. Feb. 21, 2004 in Paris, Mo. Steele and Betty Dimmick Ursula Boehm Dickinson, ’52 Robert Dean “Bob” Elkins recently had his Mattingly, ’50 Northern Florida – Fri. Feb. 28, 2004 novel The Conver si on Raleigh, N.C. – Sat. Sept. 6, 2003 Richard Parker, ’50, Willie Sanders, of Bi g Jim Cane Doug and Hollie Sides Currie, ’86 ’69 published by Mountain Boone, N.C. - Sat. Sept. 7, 2003 Western Kentucky - Sat. Mar. 6, 2004 St at e Pr ess. I t i s a Dr. Larry Keeter, ’60 George Ballard, ’67, Claude, ’51 fictional recollection by and Annabelle Phipps Beverly, ’52 a gr andson r etur ni ng to Asheville, N.C. – Sun. Sept. 14, 2003 his native West Virginia To m Eller, ’63 Alabama – Sat. March 13, 2004 mountai ns for the Louisville, Ky. – Sun. Sept. 14, 2003 Eugene Dekich, ’52, J. Ernest Hill, funeral of his grandfather Vance Blade, ’82, James Dean, ’82, ’36, M elanie Wright Stephenson, ’88 Robert Dean “Bob” Elkins Bi g Ji m Can e, a larger Bill Evans, Fd ’54, Ralph, ’56, and than life man of remarkable wit and intelligence. The South Carolina – Sat. March 13, 2004 Julia Tipton Fort, ’53, John and Walter Jacobs, ’52 stor y i s l oosel y based on El ki ns’ chi l dhood memor i es Joyce Duncan Franklin, ’59, growing up in Eastern Kentucky. In May, he signed Virginia Dale Kyer Hutsell, ’50, Upstate South Carolina – Sun. March copies at a book fair featuring contemporary Helena Jacobs Mink, ’51, Eddie 14, 2004 Appalachian authors, which was conducted by B. Dalton Mitchell, ’87, Owen, ’76 and Calvin Campbell, ’77, Gay Nell Books at the Town Center Mal l i n downtown Char l eston, Sherry Addington Parker, ’75, Ron Duckett, ’71 W. Va. Elkins, who lives and works in Frankfort, Ky., taught Singleton, ’66, and Esther Madison County, Ky. – Sat. Mar. 20, 2004 school i n Ral ei gh and Mi ngo County, W.Va. for 30 year s. Richardson Weddington, ’49 Virginia Ferrill Piland, ’43, Truman El k i ns’ next book , The Stor yt el l er s of Cane Bot t om, is Charlotte, N.C. – Sun. Sept. 14, 2003 and Joyce Barnes Fields, ’61, Joan due out in 2004. The Conver si on of Bi g Ji m Cane is Coy Bates, ’55, Glenn Jennings, avai l abl e thr ough Uni ver si ty of Char l eston, Mountai n State Melinda Altizer Mills, ’80, Harold, ’57, Press, 2300 MacCorkle Ave., SE, Charleston, WV 25304. and Pansy Waycaster Blackburn, ’58 ’72, Frank Souther, ’58 Big Sandy, Ky. – Sat. Sept. 20, 2003 Roanoke, Va. – Sun. Mar. 21, 2004 Tr oy, ’92, and Della Mae Justice Leroy Worley, ’70 ______1957______Price, ’93 Central Virginia – Sat. Mar. 28, 2004 Celia Parker Lawrence is active in the Judy Coates Fray, ’67 Beckham Bi r d Club of Loui svi l l e, Ky. She spent two Pulaski Co./Somerset, Ky. – Sat. Sept. weeks in Venice and Padua, Italy in April 2002 with 20, 2003 Hazard, Ky. – Fri. April 16, 2004 Elderhostel’s Art of the Veneto program. Bill, ’65, and Judy Garner White, ’67 Sam Turner, ’54, Novena Faye Knoxville/Oak Ridge, Tenn. – Fri. Trimble, ’72 Sept. 26, 2003 Whitley County, Ky. – Sat. Apr. 17, 2004 ______1958______Kathy McGinnis, ’74, Joyce Spears James Masters, ’58 Joseph Br own is a retired accountant. Ruth Beets, ’69, Sara Seybert Turner, ’77 Conner Brown, ’59, is Nashville, Tenn. – Sat. April 24, 2004 Maine – Sat. Oct. 4, 2003 Randall and Sarah Peters Reynolds, ’80 a r eti r ed teacher. They Hilda Karlsson Roderick, ’48 reside in Carlsbad, N.M. Atlanta, Ga. – Sat. April 24, 2004 Don Buchanan Winston-Salem, N.C. – Sat. Oct. 4, 2004 Shelby Alderman Whitson, ’59, was swor n i n as a Will Spivey, ’87 Sherry Mason Brooks, ’79, Mac, member of the Ber ea Baltimore, Md. – Sat. Oct. 18, 2003 ’50, and Ruth Boggs Davis, ’49 Pl anni ng and Zoni ng Deborah Watts Bedwell, ’63 Commission. He and his Greater Kanawha, W.Va. – Sun. Apr. wi fe, Gayl e Har per Greater Cumberland Co., Tenn. – Sat. 25, 2004 Buchanan, ’56, reside in Oct. 25, 2003 Roberta Larew Allison, ’42, Joann Joseph and Ruth Conner Ber ea, Ky. Martha Frances Dowdy King, ’52, Overton Dawson, ’56, Russell, ’49, Br own Howard Greer Margaret Haun, ’52, Leah Ann and Mary Cook Dean, ’45, Paul is a college professor emeritus at Oklahoma State Alley Kidd, ’52, William, ’55, and Hunter, ’93, Barbara Baker White, Uni ver si t y. Joan Adams Gr eer , Cx’59, is a retired ele- Joyce Croucher Bishoff, ’56 ’60, Charles and Dorothy Winston mentar y school teacher. Southern California - Sat. Oct. 25, 2003 Larew, ’56 Eugene Ki r kl and is retired from the Civil Robert, ’56, and Wilma Mahaffey Columbus, Ohio - Sat. May 1, 2004 Ser vi c e. Annette Strange Kirkland is a retired Peercy, ’58, Sammie Mills Adams, David and Jennie Tallent Nickel, ’65 teacher. The couple resides in Grant, Ala. ’56, M arolyn O lson Dunlap, ’52 Dr. Marvin Payne retired Aug. 1, 2002. He Bluegrass, Ky. – Sun. May 17, 2004 taught in the Physics Department at Berea College from Tidewater, Va. – Sat. Oct. 25, 2003 Kristin Conley Clark, ’92 1960-1972. After teaching at Berea, he became a senior Reba Salyers McClanahan, ’59. sci enti st doi ng r esear ch i n atomi c, mol ecul ar and Washington, D.C. – Sat. Oct. 25, 2003 optical physics at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He Will Jones, ’95, and Kelvin later became a professor of physics at Georgia Southern Martinez, ’95 University in Statesboro, Ga., then was asked to serve as chair of the department. He has published more than

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Car ol Deel retired in 2001 after teaching 32 Foundation School Reunion ______1964______year s i n the Buchanan County Publ i c School system. She th Ju n e 11-13, 2004 resides in Grundy, Va. Last September, 69 former Foundation SUM M ERREUNION James Hi nsdal e, having retired from teaching in School students (class years 1957- 40 Kentucky in 1995, recently took a three-fourths th 61) attended a reunion at the The Class of 1964 will observe its 40 year position at Polk County’s Alternate School. He co-edits Campbell House in Lexington, Ky. reunion during Summer Reunion 2004, scheduled Pine Mt. Sand & Gravel , and has had poetry published for June 11-13. in 2002 in Wi n d , Pegasu s, and Pine Mt. Sand & Gravel . Many of these students had not seen Dr. Brad Crain, provost and vice president for each other in over 40 years. He had an essay and poem al so appear i n the Hi ndman academi c affai r s at Li ncol n Memor i al Uni ver si ty i n Settlement School’s recent book, Cr ossi n g Tr ou bl esome. Organized by Steve Hensley, Phillip Harrogate, Tenn., was the recipient of the Appalachian Helen Charles Pennington is a middle school LeMaster, Jimmy Hensley and Nancy Consortium’s Laurel Leaves Award for 2003. He was principal in Morgan County Kentucky. Hooker Powell, 124 classmateswere honored for his efforts to preserve Appalachian values located and contacted. A 2003 and cul tur e, hi s commi tment to hi gher educati on i n reunion will be held the first weekend Appalachia, and his volunteer fund raising efforts in ______1969______suppor t of the mi ssi on of the Appal achi an Consor ti um. Ju n e 11-13, 2004 of October. To be added to the Laur i e Dod Speer , Cx’64, and her husband, th address list and to receive the group James, spend half of their time in their country home in 35 SUM M ERREUNION newsletter, contact Nancy Hooker upstate New York. The Class of 1969 will observe its 35th year Powell, Fd.’59, 2917 Battle Forrest reunion during Summer Reunion 2004, scheduled Drive, Decatur, GA, 30034, for June 11-13. 404.241.5013. ______1966______Dr. Donna Dean, deputy director at the National Dr. John Fleming was appoi nted by Pr esi dent Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering George Bush to serve as a member of the National (NIMBE) was inducted into the College of Fellows of the 175 papers. Dr. Payne was elected as a Fellow of the Museum of African American History and Culture, Plan American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. American Physical Society and continues to do research for Action Presidential Commission. Fleming is one of The honor i s bestowed upon i ndi vi dual s who have in theoretical quantum optics and to consult for the ei ght commi ssi oner s appoi nted by the Pr esi dent to ser ve distinguished themselves in the field of medical and National Institute of Standards and Technology. He has on the Commission established by Congress to biological engineering through important contributions moved to La Grange, N.C. recommend a plan to develop this new museum. He is to the theory, practice, or demonstration of unusual in charge of the Cincinnati History, Natural History and accompl i shments. Dr. Dean was honor ed for di r ecti ng Children’s Museums at the Cincinnati Museum Center in the initial establishment of the NIMBE. ______1959______Ohio. He resides in Yellow Springs, Ohio, with his wife, Married: Dr. Joyce Fortney to James Hamberg th Ju n e 11-13, 2004 Dr. Barbara Durr Fleming, ’68. on Mar. 8. She retired after 31 years in Kentucky SUM M ERREUNION Ronal d Gol l i day retired from the General educati on i n May 2001. She now teaches and coor di nates 45 Services Administration in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 3, th the Master of Arts in Education Program at Northern The Class of 1959 will observe its 45 year after 36 year s of ser vi ce. He r esi des i n Manassas, Va. Kentucky University. reunion during Summer Reunion 2004, scheduled Dr. Shirley Ann Holt/Hale was el ected Car ol yn Davi d Gar r i son is assistant professor for June 11-13. president of the American Alliance for Health, Physical of education at Campbellsville University. Bruce Educat i on, Recr eat i on, and Dance ( AAHPERD) on Apr i l Garrison is a teacher at Taylor County Middle School. 5, at the National Convention in Philadelphia, Pa. ______1961______AAHPERD has a national membership of 23,000 physical Dr. Hazel Dicken was honored for distinguished educati on, heal th, and dance teacher s and pr ofessor s ______1970______contributions to graduate education and inducted into from the kindergarten through Ph.D. levels. Ronal d Docker y, educational administrator the Academy of Distinguished Teachers by the University Dr. Judith McLaughlin, a professor at Georgia with Martin County ( Ky.) Schools, was recently of Minnesota in 2002. Southern University, received the University’s two highest appoi nted to the Kentucky Associ ati on of School Syl vi a Mi nni x Shepher d and her husband, awar ds for teachi ng excel l ence, i ncl udi ng the Focus on Administrators Board of Directors. Richard, made a trip to Hawaii in 2002 and to Sweden Excel l ence Awar d. Dr. Janet McDaniel is a professor in the School in 2001. Kenneth Palmer is director of hospital of Nursing at Radford University. Kathleen Brown Staton, Cx’61, retired from bioterrorism preparedness with the Tennessee Department Sar ah Evans Nei l l , Cx’70, lives in Stratford, N.J. the Federal Aviation Administration in Jan. 2002 and of Health. Sue VanSant Pal mer , ’68, is a partner with Helen Rice Richmond was honor ed wi th a returned to her home place in Brodhead, Ky. Stiles and Harbison. luncheon for 30 years of outstanding service to the Save the Children organization’s Berea office. She serves as sponsor shi p manager for the or gani zati on, whi ch hel ps ______1962______1967______underprivileged children in Appalachian regions of Rosemar y Col vi n retired from teaching in June Cl i f t on Bar r i er is a retired teacher and computer Kentucky, Tennessee, and West Virginia. 2002. She is employed part-time in her church’s office consultant with Pioneer Bank. Patricia Woodward Iris Kennedy Waadeis a builder, designer, and and vol unteer s at Ki l by El ementar y School . Bar r i er , ’69, is a retired elementary school teacher and decorator with R & I Construction Inc. and Shadow Marilyn Skaggs Fyffe teaches at Madison is substitute teaching. Pat t er ns, I nc. Christian School and lives in Carroll, Ohio. James Evans is retired from the U.S. Air Force. Joan Bl evi ns McCal l , screenwriter and minister, He vol unteer s at Ni cevi l l e Hi gh School , wher e he ser ves was or dai ned i n 2002 as a staff mi ni ster at the Los Angel es as pr esi dent of the Booster Club. Cat her i ne Hawk i ns ______1971______Church of Religious Science. She is writing screenplays Evans, ’68, teaches first grade at Okaloosa County Thomas Phillips, a newly appointed U.S. District and ser vi ng as di r ector of the Hol l ywood Wri ter s Studi o. (Fla.) Schools. Judge, has become an Article III judge. He was featured Yukiko Suzuki Kong is vice president and in an article in the Feb. 20, issue of the Knoxville Bar director of administration for DENTSU Holdings USA, Association’s periodical DI CTA. ______1963______Inc, a Madison Ave. advertising agency in New York City. Dr. Scott Scutchfield became an associate She has been employed with the company for 32 years. professor at the University of Kentucky Division of ______1972______Orthopedic Surgery in fall 2002. He was the former Terry Fields, production manager of Berea’s chief of orthopedics at Lexington Virginia Hospital. ______1968______Student Crafts Program, was selected to be a juror for Ronald Wolfe and hi s wi fe Hope Fox Wolfe, Conni e Spencer Ack er man is directing the the 2003 Jury Session of the Kentucky Craft Marketing ’65, run Wolfe Orchard, which specializes in peaches and Adult Education Academy, a new organization providing Program on June 4-5. See more about this honor in the anti que appl es. Mr s. Wol fe, head of the Nur si ng professional development for Kentucky’s adult educators. Faculty/Staff section of About Berea People. Department at Parkland College, retired in July 2002. The academy i s housed at Mor ehead State Uni ver si ty.

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Nancy Moor e Mel ton is completing her year as of Lynnvale Elementary in White Mills, Ky. and Western State University. He and his wife, Patr i ci a Campbel l president of the Kentucky Association of Student Financial Elementary in Eastview. Thompson served as principal Estepp, ’77, reside in Butler, Tenn. Aid Administrators, which is made up of financial aid of Lynnvale for 23 years and for one and a half years as Rev. R. El l en Whi te was or dai ned to the admi ni str ator s and l ender s i n Kentucky. She i s compl et- principal for both Lynnvale and Western. He and his wife, Priesthood in the Episcopal Church at St. Andrew’s ing her 26th year as di r ector of Fi nanci al Ai d at Al i ce Ann Bar r i ck l ow Thompson, ’74, reside in Glendale, Ky. Episcopal Church in Arlington, Va. in Jan. 2003, where Ll oyd Col l ege i n Pi ppa Passes, Ky. She and her she ser ves as assi stant r ector. She r ecei ved a post- husband, Bi l l y Mel t on, ’69, reside in Pippa Passes. graduate diploma in Anglican Studies from Virginia ______1975______Theol ogi cal Semi nar y i n May 2002. Eva Har per McGr aw is a self-employed ______1973______registered nurse. She resides with her husband, Richard, Andr ew Bask i n, ’ 7 3 , has been reappointed to a in Victor, W.Va. ______1978______third term as Vice-chairman of the Kentucky African Patr i ci a Dar nel l Sutton, Cx’75, is a registered November 21-23, 2003 American Heritage Commission by Kentucky Gov. Paul nurse and clinical manager at St. Joseph Hospital in th Patton. His term goes through February 2007. Lexi ngton, Ky. Wi l l i am Sut t on, ’74, is a cabinetmaker. 25 HOMECOM ING Ann Gr eenwel l Cl ar k is a trainer with Park The Class of 1978 will observe its 25th Feder al Cr edi t Uni on. reunion during Homecoming 2003, scheduled ______1976______for Nov. 21-23. The reunion chairpersons, Drs. Kennett Ellis was acti vated to the U.S. Ai r For ce Lon and Ann Adams Hays, can be r eached at 8900 ______1974______from the Kentucky Air National Guard after September Hickory Hill Road, Lexington, KY 40515-9503, Ju n e 11-13, 2004 11. He served with the 123rd Airlift Control Flight in 859.272.3284, or e-mail [email protected]. th Pakistan for two months, then at Ft. Campbell, Ky. for Drema Lively Burleson, Cx’78, received 30 SUM M ERREUNION four months. After one year he was released and recognition in June 2002 by Iredell Memorial Hospital The Class of 1974 will observe its 30th year returned to his civilian job of air traffic controller in in Statesville, N.C. and by Mitchell Community College reunion during Summer Reunion 2004, scheduled Loui svi l l e, Ky., whi l e sti l l ser vi ng i n the Ai r Nati onal Guar d. for her devotion and service of 25 years as a certified for June 11-13. nursing assistant. Emi l ( E. G. ) Thompson is principal of Lakewood ______1977______Clyde Viersis district seed consultant for Elementary School in Hardin County, Ky., which opened Dr. Mark Estepp has been appointed dean of Stewart Seeds, Inc. He also farms over 600 acres. He Jan. 6. The school is newly built and is a consolidation the College of Fine and Applied Arts at Appalachian lives with his wife, Candice, in Francisco, Ind.

Please use this form for address changes, to let us know what’s new, or to report ______1979______if you are receiving duplicate copies of the Berea College Magazine. Vallorie Henderson’s “Among Friends,” a small exhi bi ti on of hand fel ted wool and si l k gar ments, vessel s, and wal l pi eces, wi l l be on di spl ay at the Log House Craft Name (please include maiden name)______Gallery from July 11 through August. Two receptions Year of Graduation______were held at the Log House on July 11th and on July 30. Hender son ear ned her master of fi ne ar ts degr ee i n Address______fibers from Miami (Ohio) University in 1981. She has exhi bi ted her wor k both nati onal l y and i nter nati onal l y, most recently at the Kentucky Museum of Art + Design City______State______ZIP______in Louisville. She currently works as Special Projects Coordinator in the Craft Marketing program of the Class Note:______Kentucky Arts Council. She lives in Louisville with her husband, Michael McCoy, a landscape architect, and ______her two daughters, Sarah and Lee Anne Alsup. For more information on this exhibit, please contact the Log ______House at 859.985.3226. Dr. Jill Ann Neff joined Adena Health Systems in ______Chillicothe, Ohio as a pediatrician in their Jackson office. ______1980______Debbie Roberts, a Church of the Brethren pastor, is pursuing her Ph.D. in Women’s Studies and Religion at Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, ______Calif. She has served as campus minister and director of the peace studies and summer service programs at ______the University of LaVerne since 1996. ______1981______Sar ah Jane Car per is in her 7th year as youth minister at the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd ______and i s a mi ddl e school r el i gi on teacher at Epi scopal Day School, where she also coaches volleyball and basketball. ______The vol l eybal l pr ogr am at EDS was featur ed i n the October/November 2002 issue of Au gu st a Magazi n e. In June 2002, she led a youth pilgrimage to Scotland. Please send to: Shelley Boone Rhodus, Class Notes Editor, Berea College Alumni Association, CPO 2203, Berea, Ky. 40404. You can call us: 1.800.457.9846 or e-mail: [email protected] ______1982______Terri Fluker is a costume fabricator. She assi sted wi th maki ng some of the fur cat sui ts for the cat in the movie Cat i n t he Hat .

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unit provided rocket and missile fires for all Coalition National Association of School Psychologists held in St. Berea Apprentice and Forces and earned the nickname “ America’s FA Petersburg, Fla. in 2002. Br i gade!” He was awar ded a Br onze Star for hi s effor ts Karen Wallis Flanders was incorrectly listed as Resident Potters on June 20. He and his wife, St acy Owens Napi er , living in Herndon, Va. in the winter issue of the Ber ea ’85, moved to Montgomer y, Al a. wher e he wi l l attend the Col l ege Magazi n e. She and her husband, Scott, along Dr. Walter Hyleck Air Co mmand and Staff Col l ege at Maxwel l AFB for the with their three daughters live in Fairfax, Va. and Charlie next year. Matthew, their oldest son, recently graduated Teresa Sherrill Jefferson coordinated the from Lawton High School, Their son Joshua will be a December Bl uegr ass Open, a Cheer l eadi ng Ltd. CANAM Cummings, ’95, are high school junior this fall. 2003 qualifier hosted by the Berea Community School compiling a comprehensive Cheerleaders, for whom she serves as cheerleading list of apprentices and resident coach. She and her husband, Cr ai g Jef f er son, ’81, potters who participated in the Berea ______1984______reside in Berea, Ky. College apprenticeship program Suz anne DuVal l received her master’s degree in since its inception in 1970. They are educati on fr om Wester n Carol i na Uni ver si ty i n May and is pursuing a national board certification. She teaches at ______especially interested in those who 1988 Mar s Hi l l El ementar y School i n Mar s Hi l l , N.C. November 21-23, 2003 continue to work with clay, as they Karlene Kincaid had a poem win the Poet of th assess the possibility of organizing an Merit Award through the International Library of Poetry. 15 HOMECOM ING exhibition of your current work. If She is in medical records at Sarasota Arthritis Center in The Class of 1988 will observe its 15th you participated in the apprenticeship Sar aso t a, Fl a. reunion during Homecoming 2003, scheduled Married: Michael Murphy to Belen Ortiz, on for Nov. 21-23. The reunion chairperson, Joe or resident potter programs, please Oct. 11, 2002, in Vigo, Spain. The couple resides in Bagnoli, can be reached at CPO 2205, Berea send your name and current contact Iceland where he is the director of intelligence for the College, Berea, KY 40404, 859.985.7834, or e- information to: Iceland Defense Force with the U.S. Navy. mai l j oe_bagnol i @ber ea. edu. Charlie Cummings Bi l l Sammons is the farm manager at Cal-Main Deborah Bowman D’Anna was appoi nted dean Charlie Cummings Clay Studio Foods’ Guthrie, Ky. operation, where they have 2.5 of students at Union College in million laying hens. Cal-Main Foods has 23 commercial Bar bour vi l l e, Ky. i n May. She i s 4130 South Clinton Street egg oper ati ons and suppl i es eggs fr om Cali for ni a responsible for all aspects of Fort Wayne, IN 46806 to Maine. student l i fe, i ncl udi ng r esi denti al [email protected] Victoria Moore Wand is a registered nurse life and campus activities. D’Anna Phone: 260.458.9160 wi th the Madi son County ( Ky.) Heal th Depar tment. joined Union in 1992 as a health and physical education instructor and head women’s basketbal l ______1985______coach. In 1997, she was pro- ______Debor ah Bowman 1983 Ri ffat Rahman Chaudhur y, a banker, resides D’ Anna moted to assistant professor and November 21-23, 2003 in Ontario, Canada and would like to hear from 1981- department chair. Prior to coming th 85 alumni. to Union, she was an instructor at Su e Ben n et t Co l l ege i n 20 HOMECOM ING Jack Mar i nel l i is an arthritis and analgesic London for four year s. Whi l e ther e, she al so coached The Class of 1983 will observe its 20th speci al i st wi th MERCK and Co. for the Nor th Centr al women’s basketbal l and softbal l and was r ecogni zed as reunion during Homecoming 2003, scheduled Regi on of I l l i noi s. coach of the year by the Kentucky Junior College for Nov. 21-23. The reunion chairperson, Karen Scot Musser is headmaster of Evangelical Athletic Conference. She has earned a master’s in health Ballinger Miller, can be reached at 206 Falcon Christian Academy, a school for missionary children, in educati on fr om Easter n Kentucky Uni ver si ty. Court, Berea, KY 40403-8708, 859.985.9761, or Madr i d, Spai n. He and hi s wi fe, Car ol Paugst at Marisa Christman Dingman is a part-time e-mail [email protected]. Musser, ’85, reside with their four children in Spain. office manager for Frei Plumbing and is a part-time self- Todd Faubert, an artist who had been unable to Bel i nda Smi t h is a registered nurse with the employed photographer. draw after a motorcycle accident in 1991, has begun Camd en Med i c al Cen t er i n Geo r gi a. Bar r y Poynt er has been named vice president drawing again. Faubert, who is visually impaired, has for finance and business at Cumberland College. had his work on display at the Berea College Art Gallery, the Centre College Art Gallery and the Rochester ______1986______Institute College of Fine and Applied Arts. Every summer Kimberly Back Mitchell, coordinator of the ______1989______he works at the Silver Bay YMCA Conference Center in South Hancock ( Ky.) Family Resource Center, co- Dreama Gentry has been named a member of New Yor k . author ed a book entitled, A Ken t u ck y Gat her i n g, the Berea Planning and Zoning Commission. Darlene Thomas Hilsenbeck completed her Reci pes an d Remembr an ces. Ral ph Mi tchel l has a Bi r t h: A daughter, Jamison Grace, born Apr. 7, to masters in special education at the University of Louisville new position with Perdue Farms. Andr ew and Ci ndy Hays I saacs. in 2002 and is entering the doctorate program.She is a Al an Ramsey, a library technical assistant at Bi r t h: A daughter, Emily Grace, born June 30, part-time instructor for the University of Louisville West Li ber ty State Col l ege, i s a member of the West 2001 to Jeff and Jackie Masterson McKeel . Depar tment of Teachi ng and Lear ni ng, wher e she Vi rginia Higher Education Coalition. Michael Oney was pr omoted to gener al teaches distance based special education courses manager wi th Intercontinental in Guyana. He and his online, has written one masters level special education wi fe, Michelle Pr ather Oney, reside in Venezuela. course on language development, and co-written three ______1987______addi ti onal cour ses i n the ar ea of assi sti ve technol ogy. Mary Marks Brockman is a registered nurse at Maj. David W. Napier (US Army) returned from Kai ser Per manent e. ______1990______Iraq on June 6, where he Ti m Car penter is the director of music, choral Bi r t h: A son, David Jonathan, born Jan. 21, to ser ved as the Br i gade director, and handbell choir director at Milford First Wi l l i am an d Beatrice Speakman Lee. Oper at i ons Of f i cer ( S3) f or United Methodist Church. Tracy St. Clair Carpenter, Bi r t h: A daughter, Isabelle Monique, born Oct. the 214th Field Artillery during ’88, is the flute choir director as well as a member of 23, 2002, to Gregory and Andr ea Lea Pi k e- Gof f . Mrs. Oper ationIraqi Freedom. His the above mentioned groups. Pike-Goff is a family resource coordinator with the Angi e Chandl er is serving her 13th year as a Meade County, ( Ky.) Board of Education. David Napier (right) with school psychol ogi st i n Nel son County ( Ky.) . I n Jul y 2002 hi s Bri gade commander Col. she began a ter m as pr esi dent of the Kentucky Jim Boozer, standingb esi de Associationfor Psychology in the Schools, where she ______1991______an Iraqi vehi cle 1 km. from ser ved as confer ence chai r i n September 2002. She Laur a Bl ack has been promoted to associate Baghdad I nt er nat i onal Ai r por t . attended the South East Regi onal Meeti ng for the research director at HealthLeaders, Inc. in Nashville, Tenn. HealthLeaders is a leading multi-platform media

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company dedicated to meeting the business information needs of healthcare executives and professionals. ______1994______Leeann I saacs, who is teaching ancient history at Isaac “Zeke” Vanderpool, II, Cx ’ 9 4 , was Discover the a Chr i sti an Classi cal School mobilized with the Army National Guard in May 2002 as in Austin, Texas, completed part of the war on terrorism. He left to spend six months Art of Paris! her master’s degree in Old in Afghanistan in September, returning to the states in Testament Bi bl i cal February 2003 to finish his year-long activation period in Spend two weeks Bi r mi ngham, Al a. He l i ves wi th hi s wi fe, Amy Hoggard Archaeology. She received exploring the art of her joint degree from Vanderpool, Cx’94, and their two children. Wheaton College, Haifa France on the Berea Uni ver si t y and Jer usal em ______College Alumni Tour University after completing 1995 during summer 2004. Bi r t h: A daughter, Mary Beth, born in April 2002, ar chaeol ogi cal fi el dwor k The tour, “Discovering Paris, Loire and academi c r equi r ements to Thomas, ’93, and Li nda Johnson Bar ber . in Jordan, Israel and Egypt. Herbert Dockery was promoted to child protective Va lley and Burgundy,” ser vi ces team l eader i n fi ve counti es for the Tennessee Leeann I saacs Tom and Janet focuses on the art of Kreider, Hon.’91, observed Department of Children’s Services in June 2002. the region, and will th Bi r t h: A son, Tanner James, born Oct. 20, 2002, their 50 weddi ng anni ver sar y be hosted by Berea in June 2002. She is president to James and Al i son Henr y Houst on. Mrs. Houston is a of the resident’s council and policy analyst with the Virginia Retirement System. College President he is a member of the budget Bi r t h: A daughter, Grace Kimberly, born Jan. 11, Larry Shinn and his committee at their retirement to Wi l l i am Jones and hi s wi fe, Amy. wife, Nancy, with home. She serves as a trustee educational leaders Tom and Janet Krei der of Episcopal Retirement Homes. ______1996______Dr. Robert Boyce, ’66, Br adl ey Onk st is an investigator for the professor of art and chair Depar tment of Defense. He and hi s wi fe, Kelly Mount of Berea’s art department, ______Onkst, ’99, reside in Bloomington, Ind. 1992 and Jean Hornbeck Boyce, Dawn Swallow Ballard, a senior microbiologist Mary Pollard was honor ed as the Ber ea Pol i ce with Nestle’s Prepared Foods division, finished 601st out Depar tment’s Tel ecommuni cator of the Year i n December. ’66, lecturer in French. Readings of 6500 female runners at the 2001 Boston Marathon. Phi l Wi l l i ams received a bachelors degree in will be recommended prior to the tour She continues to compete and run for recreation. Roby urban geography and is pursuing a masters degree in city and Dr. Boyce will offer daily lectures regional planning at Ohio State University. He resides in Bal l ar d I I is a project engineer with Toyota Motor and commentaries. Manufacturing. The couple built a home on a farm where Co l u mb u s, Oh i o . they raise beagle hounds. The tour will cover French art Bi r t h: A son, William Anthony, born Oct. 19, 2002, and architecture from the 12th century to Tony and Vanessa Stark Haden, Cx ’ 9 2 . Sh e i s a ______1997______through the 20th, and includes pastry chef. Amy Bur nel l Bi ngham was one of 10 recipients of the Little Scholarships, which provide opportunities for excursions to Versailles, the Loire Jennifer Robbins Hurt , Cx’92, is vice president of Va lley and Burgundy. Airfare from operations for Cardio-Pulmonary Temps, Inc. Kevin Hurt, students to attend i nsti tutes at Easter n Kentucky Cx’94, is the Dayton Community Center Director for Volun- University. The scholarships, which are awarded to Cincinnati to Paris, hotel, breakfast teers of America. The couple resides in Monroe, Ohio. gr aduate students, ar e desi gned to l ead students to enr ol l and six dinners, all excursions and Troy Price is the director of the Big Sandy Area in at least six hours of coursework and attend 25 contact admissions, as well as travel costs Child Advocacy Center in Pikeville, Ky. He and his wife, hours of seminars, lectures, clinical or field experiences within France, are included in the Della Justice Price, ’93, reside in Pikeville. and other acti vi ti es desi gned to enr i ch thei r tr ai ni ng i n educati onal l eader shi p. Mr s. Bi ngham teaches i n the tour price of approximately $3,500. Madison County School System. She and her husband, We’re planning now, so don’t miss ______1993______Jer r y Bi ngham, ’96, a teacher at Berea Community out! For more information, contact School, reside in Berea, Ky. th November 21-23, 2003 Norma Kennedy, Cx’80, in the Alumni Melissa Hessele Dunn and her husband, Capt. Relations office at 1.859.985.3104, HOMECOM ING Aaron Dunn, are stationed at Incirlik Air Base in Turkey 10 1.800.457.9846, or by e-mail at The Class of 1993 will observe its 10th year through 2004. reunion during Homecoming 2003, scheduled for Cynt hi a Smi t h Ludwi g and her husband, Davi d, [email protected]. Nov. 21-23. The reunion chairperson, Cathy reside in Renton, Wash. Luttr el l Cor nett, can be r eached at 203 Br i stol Drive, Richmond, KY 40475-2219, 859.623.5287, or e-mail [email protected]. ______1998______internship in May 2003 and graduated with a master’s Jodi e Or r Cr owl ey is a real estate agent with th November 21-23, 2003 degree in elementary education in the summer of 2003. Century 21 in Massachusetts. HOMECOM ING Bi r t h: A son, Luke Andrew, born Aug. 9, 2002, to Dr. Jason King is a member of the Lourdes 5 Davi d and Jamie Foglesong Thomas. Mrs. Thomas th College religious studies faculty. During a presentation of The Class of 1998 will observe its 5 year received a master’s degree in business administration an ar ti cl e by Ki ng on the “ Theol ogy of Dati ng” at the reunion during Homecoming 2003, scheduled for from the University of Findlay in May 2002. College of Theology Society 2002 Annual Conference, he Nov. 21-23. The reunion chairperson, Chris Mary Jasper Vitatoe is a full-time instructor with was appr oached by an audi ence member, Mr s. Her der of Berger, can be reached at P.O. Box 854, Columbia Project Beam at Somerset Community College, a federally Herder & Herder Publishing, about a book deal. His City, IN 46725, 260.740.6971, or e-mail funded program—the first of its kind in Kentucky—that book, tentatively titled, Save the Date: A Spirituality of cber ger 1010@hotmai l . com. assi sts mi gr ant and seasonal far m wor ker s i n obtai ni ng Dat i ng, is scheduled to be published in the fall of 2003. Marvin Radford has been named fund-raising their high school equivalency diploma. James Vi t at oe,a Shel l ey Rober t s is employed with the Lexington- secr etar y to the secr etar i at of the International Sp o r t an d gr aphi c ar ts desi gner, opened the Amp Space, an ar ts and Fayette Urban County Government Division of Environmental Cultural Association in Copenhagen, Denmark. music collective in Somerset, Ky., that features local and and Emer gency Management. Married: Prakash Shahi and Chasi t y Hor nsby, nationally touring musi cal acts and is home to sever al ar t ’99. The couple lives in St. Louis, Mo. exhi bi ts. Hi s band, the “ Br eather Resi stance,” tour ed the Sar ah St r i ck l en, an assistant teacher at United States in the spring of 2003. Gingerbread School in St Petersburg, Fla., completed her

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begin pursuing his master’s degree in French at Tulane COLLEGE OFFI CERS ______1999______Uni ver si t y i n New Or l eans. M. Elizabeth Culbreth, ’64, Chair of the Board Bi r t h: A son, Michael, born Oct. 6, 2002, to Cat her i ne Mor gan received a full-tuition Dr. Lar r y D. Shi nn, Pr esi dent Maximand Cynt hi a Andr ade Chyobot ov. schol ar shi p to Har var d Di vi ni ty School . Cour t ney Di k e gr aduated fr om Chase Col l ege of Dr. David B. Porter, Academic Vice President Law i n December 2002. and Pr ovost Bo Mason is a research technologist in the ______Dr. Stephanie P. Browner, Dean of the Faculty Facu l t y / St af f Radiation Oncology Department of the Brown Cancer Andr ew Bask i n, ’73, has been reappointed to a Gail Wolford, Vice President for Labor Center in Louisville, Ky. Vi ctor i a Bowyer Mason is a third term as Vice-chairman of the Kentucky African and Student Li fe and Dean of Labor public school teacher and a graduate student at the American Heritage Commission by Kentucky Gov. Paul E. Diane Kerby, Interim Vice President for University of Louisville. The couple observed their fifth Patton. His term goes through February 2007. Busi ness and Admi ni str ati on wedding anniversary in 2002. Ilmars Birznieks, former Berea College Married: Shi Westall to James Whisnant in Oct. professor of German, novelist, and native of Latvia, was Dr. Wil l i am A. Lar amee, Vi ce Pr esi dent for 2001. The couple resides in Polkville, N.C. Alumni and College Relations featured in an article on Feb. 16 in The Post and Cou r i er (Charleston, S.C.) about his life story and Dr. Ronald E. Smith, Vice President his family’s struggles under German and Soviet for Finance ______2000______oppression. Bi r t h: A son, Nikolas Martin, born Oct. 26, 2002, Harrie Buswell, Berea scientific instrumentation COLLEGE TRUSTEES to Daniel and Stephanie Hillen Delano. Mr. Delano technician, traveled to Washington, D.C. this spring to M. Elizabeth Culbreth, ’64, Arlington, Va. is employed with Progressive Insurance and Mrs. review sensor technologies proposals for the National Del ano i s a homemaker. Ch ai r o f t h e Bo ar d Science Foundation. Each one of 40 claims on one of Joy Mi t chel l Kemmer lives with her husband, his World Patent Applications has been challenged and Dr. Lar r y D. Shi nn, Ber ea, Ky. Mitch, and their two children in Grandview, Tenn. appr oved on each of the thr ee separ ate cr i ter i a: Novel ty, President of the College Inventive Steps, and Industrial Applicability. James T. Bartlett, Cleveland, Ohio Al ber t J. DeGi acomo, asst. professor of English Vance E. Blade, ’82, Louisville, Ky. ______2001______and theatr e, publ i shed T. C. Ann Jones Bowling, Darien, Conn. Shawn Adk i ns is doing freelance work for FOX Murray, Dramatist: Voice 19 and employed full-time as a commercial lines insur- Dr. Robert N. Compton, ’60, Oak Ridge, Tenn. of Rural Ireland through ance under wr i ter for Cinci nnati I nsur ance Company/ Mar ti n A. Coyl e, Ki awah I sl and, S.C. Syracuse University Press in Ci n c i n n at i Fi n an c i al Co r p . January. Drawing on the Fr eder i c L. Dupr ee Jr . , Navy V- 12 ’ 45, Bi r t h: A daughter, Natalie Jean, born Sept. 24, ar chi ves of l i br ar i es i n Lexi ngton, Ky. 2002, to John and Rebekah Calhoun Morgon, who Dubl i n, New Yor k City, and Cat h er i n e G. Eb er t , Gl en Ar m, Md . were married on April 12, 2002. Boston, the book assesses Eugene V. Fife, Charlottesville, Va. Murray’s contribution to Glenn R. Fuhrman, New York, N.Y. ______the Irish dramatic James P. Gray II, Lexington, Ky. 2002 movement. One of the Married: Patricia Bryant and Michael William R. Gruver, Eagles Mere, Pa. “Cork realists” of the Wei ner on June 21, at Bernheim Forest in Clermont, Abbey Theatre, Murray Donna S. Hal l , Lexi ngton, Ky. Ky. She is pursuing a master’s degree at the University of wr ote seventeen pl ays. Hi s char acter s’ dr i ve for Mar i an L. Hear d, Boston, Mass. Loui svi l l e. He i s a computer pr ogr ammer anal yst at sel f-deter mi nati on and thei r r el i gi ous consci ousness Geneva Bolton Johnson, Brookfield, Wis. Kentucky State University. mark Murray’s dramatic landscape. In exploring Dr. William H. Johnstone, ’74, Bristol, Tenn. Bi r t h: A son, James Riley, born Dec. 25, 2002, to Mur r ay’s l i fe as a Cathol i c dr amati st i n a l i ter ar y scene Luci nda Rawl i ngs Lai r d, Loui svi l l e, Ky. Cl i n t an d Amy Nor f l eet Edwar ds. Mrs. Edwards is a that was predominantly Protestant, DeGiacomo draws registered nurse in the NICU and Newborn Nursery of heavily on the playwright’s correspondence with friends, Dr. Eugene Y. Lowe, Jr., Evanston, I l l . the Medical Center in Bowling Green, Ky. Dr. Alice R. Manicur, ’54, Frostburg, Md. family members, and the glitterati of Dublin literary Amy Her i t age Hi l l e is serving as an intern in circles. The book, largely a work of theatre history, Dr. El i ssa May-Pl attner, Camp Spr i ngs, Ky. the United States Embassy in Bratislava, Slovakia during spans Mur r ay’s l i fe and car eer fr om 1873 to 1959 and Dr. Harold L. Moses, ’58, Nashville, Tenn. summer 2003. She wor ks i n the consul ar secti on highlights his plays on Abbey tours of America from James E. Nevels, Swarthmore, Penn. assi sti ng U.S. ci ti zens, pr ocessi ng vi sa appl i cati ons and 1911 to 1935. DeGiacomo’s articles have appeared in Thomas H. Ol i ver, Dataw I sl and, S.C. researching the Slovak foster care system. Hille Irish University Review and Ei r e- I r el an d. Dr. Char l es War d Seabur y I I , Cal abasas, completed her first year as a graduate student in the Terry Fields, ’72, production manager of University of Kentucky’s Patterson School of Diplomacy Ber ea’s Student Crafts Pr ogr am, was sel ected to be a Cal i f . and I nter nati onal Commer ce, one of the top four Dr. David E. Shelton, ’69, Wilkesboro, N.C. juror for the 2003 Jury Session of the Kentucky Craft diplomacy schools in the United States. She was Mar keti ng Pr ogr am on June 4-5. The Kentucky Craft Davi d Swanson, Wal pol e, Me. awar ded a schol ar shi p to Patter son after her gr aduati on Marketing Program is a division of the Kentucky Arts Tyl er Smyth Thompson, ’ 83, Loui svi l l e, Ky. from Berea with a degree in International Relations. Council, a state agency in the Education, Arts & David O. Welch, ’55, Ashland, Ky. Hi l l e wi l l gr aduate fr om Patter son i n December 2003 Humanities Cabinet. There is only one opportunity each R. Elton White, ’65, Sarasota, Fla. wi th a master ’s degr ee i n di pl omacy and a mi nor i n year to become a j ur i ed par ti ci pant of the Craft intelligence. Dawneda F. Wil l i ams, Wise, Va. Marketing Program. Activities include the opportunity Robert T. Yahng, ’63, Kentfield, Calif. to exhibit at Kentucky Crafted: The Market, the Governor’s Derby Celebration, and the New York ______2003______International Gift Fair. The Craft Marketing Program is a HONORARY TRUSTEES st November 21-23, 2003 high profile program that has become a role model for Al ber t a Wood Al l en, Gl envi ew, Ky. HOMECOM ING other states. Jurying is the crucial component for Bar r y Bi ngham, Jr., Glenvi ew, Ky. 1 ensur i ng and mai ntai ni ng the r eputati on of the pr ogr am st Jack W. Buchanan, Winchester, Ky. The Class of 2003 will observe its 1 year by requiring high standards of quality for juried reunion during Homecoming 2003. The reunion Wilma Dykeman, Newport, Tenn. participants’ work. Out-of-state and in-state jurors are chai r per son i s Ri car do McCants. He can be Kate Ireland, Tallahassee, Fla. used for the Craft Marketing Program jury; four jurors reached at 1550 Trent Blvd., Apt. 1616, Lexington, were from Kentucky and three others were from Dr. Juani ta Mor r i s Kr eps, ’ 42, Dur ham, N.C. Ky. 40515, 859.492.2838, or e-mail Tennessee, Illinois and New York. Kroger Pettengill, Cincinnati, Ohio [email protected]. Alfred J. Stokely, Zionsville, Ind. Married: Yuri V. Kondratiev to Brittney Hart on April 16, 2003, in Hickory, N.C. This fall he will

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The Ber ea Col l ege Magazi ne honors Bereans Marjorie Ruddle Norfleet, Cx’35, of other committees. He was a member of the advisory who have passed away i n thi s “ Passages” secti on. I f you Elizabethtown, Ky., is deceased. committee to study the educational system of Jamaica know of a Berean who has died, please let the Alumni Al i ce Lowe Whi t e, ’ 3 6 , of Bybee, Tenn., died and make r ecommendati ons to thei r mi ni str y of Associ at i on know by mailing information to CPO 2203, March 4. She was a retired teacher with the city of educati on. He was a member of Bethel Uni ted Methodi st Ber ea, Ky. 40404, cal l i ng 1.800.457.9846, or e-mai l i ng Ki ngspor t , Tenn. Church, the Sonoma Masonic Lodge 472AF & AM, a shel l ey_r hodus@ber ea.edu. Pl ease i ncl ude the per son’s Evel yn Cantr el l Bi shop, ’37, of San Clemente, charter member of the Pigeon Valley Lions Club, a class year or connection to Berea, and the date and Cal i f . , i s d ec eased . member of the board of directors of First Union place of death. Ber t Adams, ’ 3 8 , of Highland Springs, Va., is National Bank of Canton, and the Haywood County deceased. Chamber of Commerce. He is survived by his wife, James Wheeler Lambert, A’38 , of Mt. Vernon, Vi rginia, one daughter, three sons, two sisters, a ______1910s______Ky., died Feb. 2. He was a former state representative brother, seven grandchildren, and three great- Adel e Fr ost Kossut h, Cx’ 1 6 , of Kerrville, and l ong-ti me Rockcastl e County ( Ky.) attor ney. He was gr andchi l dr en. Texas, di ed Dec. 14, 2002. el ected to the Kentucky House of Repr esentati ves for Nellie Leslie Webb, ’40, of Bluffton, Ohio, died four consecutive terms, was Republican leader of the Feb. 21. She was a retired teacher who taught in Kentucky House in 1952 and 1954, and in 1966 was a Kent uck y and Ohi o. ______1920s______member of the Kentucky Consti tuti on Revi si on Assembl y. Hal Smith, ’41, of Columbus, Ohio, died Nov. Marie Heidel Rollins, ’25, of Knoxville, Tenn., For more than 30 years, he served as director of the 19, 2002. His wife, Fl or ence Muel der Smi th, ’41, died Feb. 5, at the age of 102. She owned and operated Rockcastle Hospital and Respiratory Care Center. resides in Columbus. the Advance School for 62 years. Lamber t has ser ved as di r ector of the Bank of Mount El fr ed Zi mmer man, ’41, of Lexington, Ky., died Loui se Ar nol d Menefee, ’28, of Washington, Ver non and Ber ea Nati onal Bank and was a member of Mar. 14. During World War II he served in the Army Air D.C., i s deceased. She was a r eti r ed r esear cher. the Mount Vernon First Baptist Church and the Mount Corps. at Wright Patterson Air Force Base as a civilian Rev. John C. Vernon, ’28, of Greensboro, N.C., Ver non Li ons Club. He was a 32nd-degree Mason. He is in the Air Training Programs. He retired after 30 years is deceased. sur vi ved by two sons, two si ster s, and thr ee gr and- of service with the Kentucky Employment Office. He was children. a Kentucky Col onel and a member of Calvar y Bapti st Charles A. Brooks, ’39, of Brandywine, Md., Church. He is survived by his wife, Mary Louise ______1930s______died March 17. He was a retired U.S. Air Force Colonel Monical Zimmerman, ’42. Dr. Ralph W. Phillips, ’30, of Colorado and an el ectr oni cs engi neer wi th the Feder al Avi ati on Lucy Canada Bai r d, ’42, of Clermont, Fla., is Springs, Colo., died Jan. 7. An international animal Agency. deceased. She was a retired English teacher with the geneti ci st and r epr oducti on physi ol ogi st, he ser ved as Sue “Susi e” Johnson I r wi n, ’ 3 9 , of Maryville, Cl er mo n t Sc h o o l Syst em. executi ve di r ector of i nter nati onal or gani zati on affai r s Tenn., i s deceased. She was a r eti r ed hi gh school l i br ar i an. Chester L. Young, ’42, of Leesburg, Fla., died for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, was a founding Robert K. Wilson, ’39, of Lexington, Va., died Dec. 17, 2002. He was a retired electrical safety edi tor of the Jo u r n a l o f An i m a l Sc i en c e, and retired in Jan. 9. He retired as a commander in the Chaplain inspector with the state of Ohio and a retired math and 1982 as deputy director-general of the U.N. Food and Corps of the U.S. Navy after 21 years of service. He was political science teacher for the state of Florida. His Agriculture Organization. His career was dedicated to a veter an of both Wor l d War I I and the Kor ean War, wi fe, Ethyl , l i ves i n Leesbur g. improving livestock production around the world. He is ser vi ng as the chapl ai n on the ai r cr aft car r i er that took Rev. Buford Whitaker, ’43, of Etowah, Tenn., sur vi ved by hi s wi fe, El l en, a daughter, si x stepchi l dr en, the first marine pilots into combat in Okinawa during died June 10, 2002. A retired minister and educator, he and 13 gr andchi l dr en. World War II. Among his military decorations were the was a member of Ber ea Col l ege’s Founder s Club, and Martha Lytte Kabasenche, Cx’32, of Cedar China Service Medal and the United Nations Service attended numer ous Al umni Col l eges and Summer Grove, N.J., died Jan. 1. She was a retired nursing Medal . After r eti r ement fr om the Navy, Wil son ser ved as Reunions. Rev. Whitaker was to have received the Berea super vi sor at Over br ook Hospi tal . the first chaplain for the cadets at Virginia Military College Alumni Loyalty Award but passed away before Geor gi a Bai r d Bal l ar d, Cx’ 3 3 , of Lancaster, Ky., Institute in 1964. After his retirement in 1979, he the presentation. died June 14, 2002. She was a retired seamstress. She ser ved as suppl y pastor for sever al Rockbr i dge ar ea Francis Bailey, Navy V-12 ’44, of Galesburg, is survived by one daughter, Sally Ballard Clark, ’55 . churches. He is survived by his wife, Miriam, four sons, Ill., is deceased. His wife, Mary, resides in Galesburg. Jessie Hamm Meyer, ’33 , of Gainesville, Fla., one brother, two sisters, and two grandchildren. Ar t hur Dause, ’ 4 4 , of Cincinnati, Ohio, is died Feb. 28. She was an educator, teaching in Palm Cat her i ne Bl ank enshi p Wi t t , ’ 3 9 , of Waterloo, deceased. Beach and Al achua County ( Fl a.) and was a for mer Iowa, died Dec. 4, 2002. She was a nursing supervisor. Connie Hugo Flowers, Jr., Navy V-12 ’44, of president of the Alachua County Classroom Teachers She is survived by a son, daughter, three grandchildren Loui svi l l e, Ky., di ed Nov. 23, 2002. Association. She dedicated her time to associations such and one gr eat gr andchi l d. Lillian Altizer Kronenburg, ’44, of Jacksonville, as the Gainesvi l l e chapter of the Amer i can Associ ati on Fla., died Dec. 22, 2002. She was a retired social of University Women, the Keystone Heights Women’s studi es teacher at Nor l and Juni or Hi gh School i n Mi ami , Club and the Florida Women’s Fellowship of the ______1940s______Fla. She is survived by a son and three grandchildren. Moravian Church. During her 12 years as a Florida Susan Atchley Davis, ’40 , of Anderson, S.C., is Ruby Smith Johnson, ’44, of Berwyn Heights, Federation of Women’s Clubs board member, she wrote deceased. She was a retired teacher. Md., di ed Dec. 2, 2002. She was r eti r ed fr om the Leadi ng t he Way, a 100-year history of women’s clubs Reparata “Rose” DeSimone DeVoid, ’40, of University of Maryland. in Florida. She also co-authored two books with her Hampton, Va., died Feb. 9. She served in the U.S. Army Richard Schulze, Navy V-12 ’44, of Houston, husband about Central American history. She is survived during World War II and Korea, retiring as a Lt. Texas, i s deceased. by her husband, Dr. Harvey Meyer, ’36, two sons, a Colonel. She also worked as a civil service nurse for Myron Shure, Navy V-12 ’44, of Highland daughter, three grandchildren, and six great-grand- many year s. She i s sur vi ved by her husband, Geor ge, Park, Ill., died Dec. 25, 2002. children. two brothers, and two sisters. Jenny Lavender Sel f , Cx’ 4 5 , of Columbus, Milburn Lewis Roberts, ’33, of Madison M. Clinton Nix, ’40, of Canton, N.C., died Nov. Ohio, died Apr. 1, 2003. She was the widow of Wade Heights, Va., died Dec. 4, 2002. For 10 years he was 24. He was a member of the Haywood County, ( N.C.) Self, ’51. empl oyed i n stor e management for S.H. Kr ess and Co. school boar d and Citi zens Commi ttee for Better Mary Adkins Buckland, ’46, of Cleveland, in North and South Carolina. He served two years in the Schools. In 1965, he was appointed to begin the Ohi o, i s deceased. U.S. Naval Supply Corps. From 1946 until his retirement Haywood Industrial Education Center, later known as William Cruse, Navy V-12 ’46, of Kerrville, in 1974, he was employed in the New York buying Haywood Technical Institute, and became its president Texas, i s deceased. division of S.H. Kress and Co. and Rexall Drug. Co. He in 1967. Nix was a member of the joint advisory Ruth Fair Dittus, ’46, of Los Angeles, Calif., is is survived by his wife, Polly, and three children. committee of UNC Community Colleges, the Central deceased. She was a retired teacher with Edison John W. Gwinn, Cx’34, of Oak Hill, W.Va., died Co mmi t t ee o f Co mmu n i t y Co l l ege Ad vi so r y Co u n c i l o f El ement ar y School . March 7. He was a retired elementary school principal. the N.C. State Board of Education, the North Carolina Fr ances Smi th Tye, ’47, of Cincinnati, Ohio, is Edna Br oyl es Robi nson, Cx’34, of Oakland, Association of Public Community Presidents, serving on deceased. She is survived by her husband, Russel l Tye, Cal i f . , i s d ec eased . the executive committee from 1976-77, and numerous Navy V-12 ’44.

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Frank H. Walker, Navy V-12 ’44, ’47, of is survived by his wife, Jack i Dyer Noe, ’ 8 2 , two sons, Lexi ngton, Ky., di ed Dec. 6, 2002. He was a l i eutenant i n ______1960s______a si ster, and a br other, Char l es Noe, ’ 7 9 . the U.S. Navy and commanded an LCT in the Pacific Sarah Gouge Medlin, ’60 , of Greensboro, N.C., Theater. He was a geol ogi st wi th the Kentucky died Dec. 4, 2002. She was an assistant professor at Geological Survey, the Indiana Geological Survey and Bennett Col l ege and on the facul ty of the Uni ver si ty of ______1980s______then served in the Kentucky Department of Mines and North Carolina at Greensboro. She received the Junior James Keeton Roberts, ’83 , of Monticello, Ky., Minerals as division director for oil and gas. He was a League Awar d for Chi l d Abuse Pr eventi on Pr ogr am and is deceased. He was a store manager with Family Dollar. geol ogi st wi th the Kentucky Geol ogi cal Sur vey unti l hi s was named by the Nati onal Associ ati on of Soci al retirement in 1987. He served as Scoutmaster for many Wo rkers as Social Worker of the Year for the Triad area year s and as tr easur er for the Kentucky Feder ati on of in 1996. She was a member of Phi Kappa Phi Honor ______1990s______Music Clubs. He is survived by his wife, Josephine, two Society, Alpha Delta Mu Social Work Honor Society, Monica Wilson DoBynes, ’90, of Birmingham, sons, a gr anddaughter, and a gr eat-gr andson. Who’s Who in Human Services, the National Association Ala., died in March in an automobile accident which Gl en Bl evi ns, ’ 4 8 , of Spruce Pine, N.C., died at of Certified Social Workers, the National Association of al so took the l i fe of her daughter, Jasmi ne. Moni ca was his home on April 7. Social Work Educators, the Association of University a notar y and coor di nator wi th Br ookwood Medi cal John D. “Jack ” Wi l son, ’ 4 9 , of Forest City, N.C., Wo men, the American Association of University Center. A fund has been established for her surviving died Mar. 21. He retired from the trucking industry after Professors, and the Older Women’s League of the daughter Jade, who was also injured. Contributions may 25 years of service, then worked for ten years for Belk Triad. She is survived by two sisters, Joyce Gouge be sent to W. Nell Kindred, 2645 20th St . , West Stores. He was a member of the Old Mecklenburg Byrd, ’52, and Joann Gouge Holt, ’49 , two sons, Bi r mi ngham, AL 35208. Genealogical Society, the Old Tryon County Genealogical and a br other. Matthew Ropke, ’96, of Louisville, Ky., died Society, and the Winston Lodge No. 167. He was a Ruby “Wendy” Puckett Gwinn, A’50, ’61, of Nov. 18, 2002. member of the Hol y Comfor ter Epi scopal Chur ch, Greencastle, Ind., died Feb. 6. She was retired from ser vi ng i n many capaci ti es wi th the Chur ch i ncl udi ng Hami l ton Hei ghts Juni or Hi gh School . Her husband, si ngi ng i n choi r s for 64 year s. He i s sur vi ved by hi s wi fe, John Gwi nn, ’ 5 4 , resides in Greencastle. ______2000s______Hilda, three children, including Marie Wilson, ’86, a Rose Kline Fannin, ’64, of Beckley, W.Va., is Kenetha Diane Beach, ’02, of Dry Ridge, Ky., si ster, Fl or i ne Wi l son Mar r en, ’39, a brother, deceased. She was a retired elementary school teacher. died April 16. A second grade teacher at Crittenden-Mt. Joseph Michael Wilson, ’58 , and a sister-in-law, Eugene Kei th, ’66, of Independence, Ky., died Zi on El ementar y School i n Dr y Ri dge, her l i fel ong desi r e Wi l ma Har r el l Wi l son, ’ 5 4 . Feb. 13. An award-winning woodworking teacher, he was to be a teacher. She lived out this dream for 19 days taught for 30 years at Simon Kenton High School, where before a rare lung disease and a heart condition forced his students consistently won championships in the her to be at home on oxygen. She was a member of ______1950s______statewi de Easter n Kentucky Uni ver si ty-sponsor ed hi gh Elliston Baptist Church where she helped with pageants Oti s Gabbar d, ’50, of Miami, Fla., died Jan. 22. school cr aft competi ti ons and the Technol ogy Students and speci al pr ogr ams. She i s sur vi ved by her par ents, Patr i ci a Dawson Mi dtskog, Cx’50, of Association state competitions. In 1991 he was awarded Ti m and Sharon Beach, three brothers, Tim II, Ty, and Woodinville, Wash., died in November. She is survived the Kentucky Post Golden Apple Award for exceptional Bo Beach, one si ster, Tiffany Beach, ’03, and both sets by her husband, Arne. teachers. Keith worked with 4-H groups and Boy Scouts, of grandparents. Lt. Col. Vadis Godbey, ’51, of Alpharetta, Ga., and was an avi d tr out fi sher man, a Civi l War hi stor y died Oct. 5, 2002. He was retired from the U.S. Air enthusi ast, and a Mason. He i s sur vi ved by hi s wi fe, Force. He is survived by his wife, Doris, two stepdaughters, Barbara Thompson Keith, ’70 , two sons, and a ____Facult y/ St af f ____ one brother, and one sister. brother, James Kei t h, ’ 6 7 , Agnes Aspnes, Hon. ’ 8 6 , of Berea, Ky., died Pansy Sher r i l l Ober g, ’54, of Grand Rapids, Esen Lowr i e Mar shal l , ’67, of Bondi, New Dec. 24. She was empl oyed i n the Home Economi cs Mi ch., di ed Mar ch 2. She was a teacher and homemaker. South Wales, Australia, died Aug. 17, 2002. Depar tment of Ber ea Col l ege for 32 year s. In her local community, she was elected park Dr. Edison Monk, ’67, of Rockville, Md., died Char l es Dr ak e, a former professor and dean of commissioner for Meridan Township from 1980-84 and Jan. 15, 2002. He is survived by his wife, Helen LeMay men at the Foundation School, died Jan. 15. He was the was a member of the Okemos No Name Book Club for Monk, ’67, three children, and three grandchildren. edi tor of Mountain Life and Work . Drake founded the 30 years. She loved to square dance, read, travel and Walter Dumas, ’68, of Englewood, Colo., died Landmar k School i n Bever l y, Mi ss., Landmar k Col l ege i n paint. She is survived by three children, nine grand- in 2003. He was systems manager with Information Putney, Vt., and White Oak School in Westfield, Mass., children, two brothers and two sisters. Handl i ng Ser vi ces. al l ser vi ng dysl exi c students. He i s sur vi ved by hi s wi fe, Marguerite Wilson Lu, ’55, of Los Angeles, Marjorie, three children and six grandchildren. Calif., died Jan. 31. A teacher, she loved to garden, Mary Hull, retired from the College purchasing travel, and was an avid reader, belonging to several ______1970s______department, died Jan. 25. She was a life-long member of reading groups. She had a passion for antique collecting, Michael Gordon Baugh, Cx’73, of Berea, Ky., Union Church, a volunteer at Berea Hospital, and a enj oyed qui l ti ng, and was a member of the Amer i can died in April 2002. He was a building contractor with member of Body Recal l . She i s sur vi ved by a daughter, a Quilters’ Society, attending its annual convention in Fritz & Baugh Construction Company. gr andson, and a gr eat gr anddaughter. Paducah, Ky. for a number of years. She is survived by Kay Butler, ’73, of Louisville, Ky., died in Johnni e Reed, retired superintendent of the her husband, John Lu, ’ 5 5 , four brothers, and three February from injuries sustained in an automobile Ber ea Col l ege Br oomcr aft I ndustr y, di ed Mar ch 19. He si ster s. acci dent. An Engl i sh and humani ti es teacher at ser ved i n Br oomcr aft for 33 year s ( 1946-1979) . He Norris Biggerstaff, Cx’57, of Spokane, Wash., Waggener Hi gh School , she coached the school ’s Qui ck conducted broommaking demonstrations at colleges died Sept. 30, 2001. Recall team and administered the ACT and SAT college and uni ver si ti es thr oughout the Uni ted States and Ruth Augusta York Franklin, ’57, of Putnam, admi ssi on tests. A schol ar shi p i n her name has been set regularly demonstrated at the Parkway Craft Center near Conn., died March 25. She taught business education at up at the High School. Butler was awarded a Christa Boone, N.C. He was the father of Jef f Reed (Facilities Plainfield, Giswold, and Putnam High Schools until her McAul i ffe Fel l owshi p Awar d i n 1988 and named Management) , Lonni e Reed (Broomcraft), Deloris retirement in 1992. Jefferson County Middle School Teacher of the Year in Coleman (Student Craft Industries), and the husband Donald Fields, Cx’58, died Nov. 12, 2002. A 1990. She taught in Jefferson County Public Schools for of Emma Reed, retired Berea College employee. retired truck driver for the Madison Grocery Company, 27 years, including Moore, Shawnee, Iroquois, Central Macie Turner, of Berea, Ky., passed away March he was a U.S. Army veteran and a member of the First and Jeffer son County Hi gh School s and Hi ghl and Mi ddl e 4. She was retired from the College. Bapti st Chur ch at Fr anci s and Col l i ns wher e he was School. She is survived by her mother, brother, and sister. Li l l i e Mounce Wi l l i ams, a retired baker, died ordained a deacon in 1986. He is survived by his wife, James Noe, ’ 7 9 , of Rogersville, Tenn., died Jan. 27. She was a member of Berea Baptist Church. Anna, two sons, three daughters, two brothers, two sisters, March 29. A fourth grade teacher at Surgionsville She is survived by a daughter, granddaughter, grandson, seven gr andchi l dr en and four gr eat gr andchi l dr en. Elementary School, he had taught in Hawkins County and thr ee gr eat-gr andchi l dr en. James Hodge, F’ 5 9 , of Riverside, Calif., died Schools for 20 years. He was a member of East Nov. 10, 1999. Rogersville Baptist Church, and coached a number of baseball teams in Rogersville and Surgionsville, Va. He

40 SUMMER 2003 Come See What’s NEW at Berea! Homecoming 2003–November 21-23

Do you ever wonder who’s living in your old room in Talcott Hall? Or reminisce about piano music wafting from the practice room windows in Presser? Well, Homecoming 2003 is the perfect time to relive your years there, while you tour the completely renovated facilities! At the Kentucky-Talcott Homecoming Open House, you can visit the new connector between the two halls, and see how rooms have changed over the years. During the Presser Building Open House, see the new state-of-the-art Gray Auditorium recital hall, where the ceiling has been raised to provide outstanding acoustics. Don’t miss this opportunity to see what’s new! Plus, the classes of 1978, 1983, 1988, 1993, 1998, and 2003 will celebrate reunions at Homecoming. You will receive reunion information from your chairperson. Return your RESERVATION today, and we’ll see you in November!

HOMECOMING 2003 REGISTRATION FORM

Name (include birth name)______Class Year______Spouse/Guest (include birth name)______Class Year______Address______State______Zip______Home Phone______Business Phone______FAX ______

______Yes, I plan to be at Homecoming, November 21-23, 2003. Please reserve tickets for me for the following events:

I will need ______tickets for the Friday evening, November 21, banquet at Boone Tavern at $19.00 each. I will need ______tickets for the Class Pizza Buffet Luncheon on November 22 for the class of ’78, ’83, ’88, ’93, ’98, ’03, or others (please circle one). Tickets are $6.50 per adult, $3.00 for children ages 5 and under. I will need ______tickets for the Basketball Game on Saturday evening, November 22. ($6.50 each) Please indicate if you require special accessibility or assistance, or have special dietary needs during Homecoming.______

______No, I am unable to attend Homecoming 2003. Enclosed is some information which can be shared with the reunion group.

Enclosed is my check for $______- $______of this is my contribution to the Berea Fund and $______is for my tickets OR Please charge my VISA, MASTERCARD, DISCOVER, AMERICAN EXPRESS, OR DINERS CLUB card for $______. $______of this is my contribution to the Alumni Fund and $______is for my tickets.

CARD______CARD Number______Expiration Date______

Signature of Card holder______

Due to limited availability of tickets, reservations must be made by November 10, 2003. Mail reservation form to: Berea College Alumni Association, CPO 2203, Berea, KY 40404 FAX to 859.985.3178, or call 1.800.457.9846.

BEREA RICHMOND HOTELS/MOTELS HOTELS/MOTELS Boone Tavern Hotel Days Inn Holiday Inn Express Knights Inn Hampton Inn – Richmond 1.800.366.9358 859.986.7373 859.985.1901 859.986.2384 859.626.1002 859.985.3700 EconoLodge I-75 Holiday Motel Super 8 Motel Holiday Inn Express – Comfort Inn & Suites 859.986.9323 859.986.9311 1.800.800.8000 Richmond 859.985.5500 Fairfield Inn 859.986.8426 859.624.4055 859.985.8191 SUMMER 2003 41 COLLEGE MAGAZINE Periodical postage paid at Berea, Ky. and additional mailing offices. Send address changes to Berea College Magazine, c/o Berea College Alumni Association, CPO Box 2203, Berea, KY 40404

Summer has been a busy time for construction on campus as the new Ecovillage student family housing complex took shape. Kelly Cutchin, ’04, a sustainability and environmental studies minor, put her knowledge to work as a member Brooks Charles by o Phot of the construction crew. Renovations also proceeded on both Lincoln Hall and Presser Music Building, which will both reopen this fall.