WRITING ACROSS the BOARD- the ART Ai TD VALUE of GOOD WRITING

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WRITING ACROSS THE BOARD- THE ART Ai TD VALUE OF GOOD WRITING

"Writing is an explora ti on. You start from n oth g and 1 e a rn as yo go " E. L. Doctor() From The alskilt

Rhodes (ISSN #1075-3036) is Rhodes on Rhodes published four times a year in winter, spring, This issue of Rhodes welcomes two alumnae writers, Anne Herbers Farris summer and fall by Rhodes College, '78 of Washington, D.C., and Catherine Cuellar '96 of Dallas. 2000 N. Parkway, Memphis, TN 38112-1690. Farris, a writer for The Washington Post's national desk, covers politics and It is published as a service to all alumni, students, government, while community art is Cuellar's beat at The Dallas Morning News. parents, faculty, staff and friends of the college. Winter 1997—Volume 4, Number 1. Both were English majors at Rhodes, worked on The Sou'wester student Periodicals paid at Memphis, newspaper, served as community volunteers in the Kinney Program and were Tennessee, and additional mailing offices. named to Who's Who among Students in

EXECUTIVE EDITOR: Martha Hunter American Colleges and Universities. Shepard '66 And the similarities don't end there—in ART DIRECTOR: Kevin Barre this issue, they both write about other Rhodes CONTRIBUTING EDITOR: Susan McLain alumni in their own hometowns. Farris's Sullivan feature (page 17) deals with four Rhodes PRODUCtION ASSISTANT: Kevin Olsen women who are involved in historic DESIGN CONSULTANT: Eddie Tucker preservation in the Washington area. Cuellar POSTMASTER: Send address changes to: (page 25) focuses on an alumni couple in Rhodes, 2000 North Parkway, Memphis, TN Dallas concerned with world hunger relief. 38112-1690. Farris, a Bethesda, Md., native, is an award- CHANGE OF ADDRESS: Please mail the completed winning journalist who has worked for such form below and label from this issue of Rhodes papers as The New York Times, Kansas City to: Alumni Office, Rhodes College, 2000 North Star, St. Louis Post-Dispatch and The Arkansas Parkway, Memphis, TN 38112-1690. Anne Herbers Farris Gazette. Before signing on with the Post last summer, she was research assistant for author James Stewart's 1996 book Name Bloodsport, about the first Clinton administration. Street She has won awards for her writing from the Associated Press, Gannett, Arkansas Press City State Zip Association and University of Arkansas. She holds a master's degree in urban affairs from St. Home Phone Business Phone Louis University.

Employer Cuellar began her career as an intern at the Morning News, where she now has a full-time Title job. At Rhodes, the Dallas native was a four-

CLASS NOTES: Please send all Class Notes year member of the Student Government and news including marriages, births and obituaries Singers. She founded the Rhodes Film Society to: Alumni Office, Rhodes College, 2000 and Catalyst, the student group that promotes N. Parkway, Memphis, TN 38112-1690. alcohol responsibility. In addition, she was Phone: (901)843-3845 Fax: (901)843-3474. elected to ODK, Mortar Board and the college Catherine Cuellar E-mail Sally Jones, director of alumni: Hall of Fame. [email protected] It's an impressive lineup of talented alunini who are caring for our nation's LETTERS To THE EDITOR: Please address heritage, helping to alleviate world hunger and writing about them all. Their postal correspondence to: Martha H. Shepard, experiences at Rhodes—courses, direction and interests taken—have served Executive Editor, Rhodes Magazine, Rhodes them well in their respective careers, at which they excel. College, 2000 N. Parkway, Memphis, TN 38112-1690. E-mail: [email protected] —Martha Hunter Shepard Phone: (901)843-3544 Fax: (901)843-3553. oiatents

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25 Doing Their 17 A Sense of Place Part DEPARTMENTS 2 CAMPUS NEWS 30 PROFILE News of Rhodes events, faculty, students and friends Barbara Ensrud '61 uncorks the secrets of wine A-1 ALUMNI NEWS 32 ATHLETICS Features, Class Notes, For the Record 28 IN PRINT 33 CALENDAR New books by faculty and alumni

COVER—Photography and design by Kevin Barre. Rhodes is printed with soya ink Quote from E.L. Doctorow from The New York Times, on recyclable paper. Oct. 20, 1985. Camp us

College Dedicates New Dorm As Blount Hall Students, faculty and trustees and the Heritage Society. Blount Blounts were presented an archi- were on hand for the dedication of Lecture Hall in Buckman Hall is tectural drawing of Blount Hall Blount Hall, formerly New Dorm, named in their honor. and were special guests at a during the Board of Trustees' fall Following the dedication, the trustees' luncheon. meeting. The hall is named in honor of Winton "Red" and Carolyn Blount, who have provided leadership to Rhodes in many ways. Winton Blount, chairman of the board of Montgomery, Ala.- BLOUNT HALL based Blount Interna- Dedicated in Honor of tional Inc., served as Carolyn and chairman of the Wynton Malcolm Blount with deep gratitude Rhodes Board of and in recopution _ place ln the life of Rhoda their Trustees from 1987- of as leaders, benefactors, and beloved blends. 93, and has had a October 17,1996 strong leadership role in Rhodes' 150th Anniversary Cam- paign. He and Car- olyn are members of the Benefactors' Circle Campus Phone Numbers Change David Willcocks It's as easy as 8-4-3. All phone explained, is safety. Digital numbers on the Rhodes campus phone lines, as opposed to ana- Lectures have changed to an "843" prefix log lines, allow an operator to Sir David Willcocks, director from the longstanding "726" and pinpoint exactly where a 911 call of the London Bach Choir and "272" prefixes. The extension from campus originated, not just longtime director of the Royal numbers (the last four digits) the fact that a call came from College of Music, was the remain the same for all campus Rhodes. In emergencies, when speaker at the John Murry residents and for faculty and quick response time is crucial, Springfield Music Lecture in staff offices. 911 operators need to know that early February. Callers who use the old num- a call came from "Room 999" Organist at England's great ber now get a recording that Bellingrath, Boone said, not sim- cathedrals, conductor, arranger directs them to the college's main ply from someone at Rhodes. and editor, Sir David began his operator or instructs them to The change also occurred musical training as a chorister at change the prefix when dialing because the number of extensions Westminster Abbey. He attended the number. available on Rhodes' phone sys- Cambridge, where from 1957-74 There are half a dozen reasons tem was at capacity. The new he was director of music at for the switch, according to Dean prefix provides 2,000 available King's College, university lec- of Administrative Services Allen extensions compared to the col- turer in music and conductor of Boone. The most compelling, he lege's previous 1,300 maximum. the Cambridge Musical Society. 2 Rhodes Winter 1997 Campus Dews

Video, CD-ROM Put Rhodes On View The Admissions Office has overview of all aspects two new tools to help with its of campus life. recruiting efforts—an updated New York photog- video about Rhodes and a first- rapher and computer ever CD-ROM. expert Trey Clark '89 Dean of Admissions Dave created the cutting- Wottle commissioned the video edge CD-ROM last from Videc Inc., a Franklin, summer. With sound Tenn., company that specializes bytes, video clips, col- in college videos. Working with orful graphics and Wottle as writers and producers important information were Loyd Templeton, assistant about the college, the to the president for college rela- new CD gives tions, and John Rone, special pro- prospective students jects director. All three an interactive way to contributed to selecting the best learn about Rhodes. scenes for inclusion in the final Prospective stu- product. dents who wish to The year-long shoot, which order a free video, CD- began in fall 1995 and wrapped ROM or copies of both up at Homecoming this year, uti- can call Videc Inc., 1- lized a roster of students, faculty 800-255-0384 anytime, and staff. More than 50 VHS seven days a week. tapes were whittled down during Dave Wottle (seated), the editing process to produce a John Rone (center) and 24-minute video that gives an Loyd Templeton Sue Matthews Joins Gamma Phi Beta To Development Office Disband At Rhodes Roberta ("Sue") Matthews of The Rhodes chapter of Memphis has joined the Rhodes Gamma Beta Phi sorority Office of Development as direc- recently voted not to participate tor of planned giving. Her pri- in rush beginning in fall 1997, mary focus is working with charting its course to become alumni and friends who have inactive at Rhodes in four years. included or wish to include Members cite the lack of their

Rhodes in their estate plans. own sorority house as a drawback Matthews earned her bache- Sue Matthews Photo by John Rona to attracting new members and lor's degree from Duke Univer- lack of communication among sity, a master of public affairs assistant to the speaker of the Gamma Phi Beta International, degree from the Lyndon B. John- Texas House of Representatives. the college and Panhellenic. son School of Public Affairs at While working as an attorney The Rhodes chapter, which the University of Texas at Austin with the Memphis firm of Wat- colonized at the college in 1989, and a law degree from the Cecil son, Arnoult & Quinn, her prac- will continue to function as a C. Humphreys School of Law at tice focused on estate and sorority and participate in Pan- the University of Memphis. probate matters as well corporate hellenic activities for the next In Texas, she served as an and business-related law. four years.

Winter 1997 Rhodes 3 Swedish Economist Assar Lindbeck Receives Seidman Award Swedish economist Assar Lind- man Award; Deborah Pittman, Sen, a past Seidman Award recip- beck received the 1996 Frank E. Rhodes assistant professor of ient; Nobel laureate Kenneth

Seidman Distinguished Award in business administration; Amartya Arrow. Photo by Hod Andrews '70 Political Economy and the accompanying $15,000 prize at a fall banquet held on campus. Pictured at the dinner are: FRONT ROW (left to right): Assar Lindbeck; Beth Seid- man Smetana, chairman of the board of the Seidman Award; Rhodes President James H. Daughdrill; P.K. Seidman, who established the award in memory of his brother; Rhodes trustee Robert Buckman. SECOND ROW: Mel Grinspan, Rhodes distinguished professor emeritus; Robert Solow, Nobel laureate and a past recipient of the Seidman Award; Nobel laureate Lawrence Klein; James Tobin, a past Seidman Award recipient; Thomas Schelling, a past recipient of the Seid- Jubal Trio Chamber Ensemble To Perform March 18 The Jubal Trio, one of Ameri- that of The New York Times' John pinning the ensemble." In all, he ca's leading chamber ensembles Rockwell, who called soprano said, "these women make real, with a unique blend of harp, Christine Schadeberg "an impas- even powerful music." flute and voice, will The Jubal Trio was the 1977 perform at 8 p.m., winner of the Walter Naumburg March 18 in Hardie Chamber Music Award. Among Auditorium. The its other honors are the first C. group's appearance is Michael Paul Chamber Music sponsored by the Harry Residency, commissioning B. McCoy Jr. Visiting awards from Chamber Music Artists Program. America and Nonesuch and sev- Established in 1974, eral grants, including one from the New York-based the National Endowment for the Jubal Trio embraces a The Jubal Trio: Sue Ann Kahn, flute; Susan Arts. rich and varied reper- Jolles, harp; Christine Schadeberg, soprano The Harry B. McCoy Jr. Visit- tory, ranging from the Renais- sioned, intelligent singer." Flutist ing Artists Program was estab- sance to the avant-garde. It Sue Ann Kahn, he said, "plays lished at Rhodes in 1978 in honor draws its name from Handel's the flute with a forcefulness of the late Harry McCoy, a Mem- aria "0 Had I Jubal's Lyre and unusual for her instrument." phis real estate developer. It Miriam's Tuneful Voice." The Rockwell wrote that harpist introduces students every year to trio chose Jubal, the father of all Susan Jolles "not only plays the various art forms and to the per- who play on harp and pipe. harp confidently and sensitively, forming artists themselves. The ensemble consistently gar- but also acts as a rhythm section, For ticket information, call ners critical acclaim, including in the jazz-combo sense, under- (901) 843-3875. 4 Rhodes Winter 1997 scampusIle.was,

Seven, Including Six Alumni, Join Board Of Trustees The Rhodes Board of Trustees Maxwell since 1960, specializing She has chaired the boards of the recently welcomed seven mem- in commercial real estate and Metropolitan Inter-Faith Associa- bers, six of whom are alumni. finance. He has served as an tion, Memphis Symphony League New trustees are: John Maxwell elected member of the Tennessee and Junior League, and served on '57, Dr. John Gladney '74, Wayne Legislature and the Shelby the boards of several civic, health Steele Sharp '75 and David County Commission. He has been and educational organizations. McWilliams '78. Neville Rejoining the Frierson board are Bryan '58, a Nancy Hill Ful- Chicago civic mer '51, Neville leader, is a Frierson Bryan member of '58 and Kenneth the Art Insti- Clark. tute of Wayne Steele Chicago Sharp '75 of Los Angeles Woman's Board and is a partner and member the Art Institute's Sus- of the Equity Strategy taining Fellows pro- Committee of Boston gram. In addition, she Partners Asset Manage- serves on the board of ment. Formed in April the Chicago Botanic 1995, Boston Partners Garden. was named Defined Ben- Kenneth Clark, efit Manager of the Year Top row: (4) Wayne Steele Sharp, David McWilliams, recipient of the col- John Gladney, John Maxwell. Bottom row: Nancy by Plan Sponsor magazine Fulmer, Neville Frierson Bryan, Kenneth Clark. lege's 1992 Distin- in May 1996. guished Service David McWilliams '78, office president of the Rhodes Alumni Medal, is counsel in the Mem- manager and resident vice presi- Association and chairman of the phis law firm of Wyatt, Tarrant dent of Merrill Lynch in Bloom- Rhodes President's Council. & Combs. He is deputy chair of field Hills, Mich., has served on Nancy Hill Fulmer '51 of Rhodes' 150th Anniversary the Rhodes Alumni Council and Memphis is active in civic affairs. Campaign. Alumni Executive Board. Dr. John Gladney '74 of Shreveport, La., is a thoracic sur- Young Scholars And Writers Camp geon who was selected by his peers as one of the Best Doctors Set For June 15-27 in America, Southeastern Divi- Rhodes' Young Scholars and the East; The Quest for Justice; sion, in 1995. In 1994 he founded Writers Camp, a two-week resi- Cyberspace: Beyond the Bounds the Gladney Fund at Rhodes to dential program of college-level of Space and Time; Math and support faculty teaching of the courses for high school students, Music; American Popular Culture; interdisciplinary course The will be held June 15-17. Religion and Racism; and Writing Search for Values in the Light of The program offers two hours in Psychology. Western History and Religion. of college credit transferable to For further information, contact That same year he founded the Rhodes and any other accredited Prof. Beth Kamhi, Director, Young Drs. James and Pat Gladney Fund institution. Scholars and Writers Camp, to support the practice of medi- All classes, which are small (8- Rhodes College, 2000 N. Parkway, cine in rural Louisiana. 15 students), are taught by Rhodes Memphis, TN 38112-1690. Tele- John Maxwell '57 has practiced professors. Courses for summer phone: (901) 843-3293. Fax: (901) law with the Memphis firm of '97 are: Fiction, Poetry and Essay 843-3728. Web page: http://writ- Apperson, Crump, Duzane and Writing; Sacred Literature From ing.rhodes.edu/camp/index.html Winter 1997 Rhodes 5 campus_Ne.was,

Rhodes Athletic Hall Of Fame Hails First Inductees By Susan McLain Sullivan death in 1958 shocked and sad- stood for more than 30 years. He The Rhodes Athletic Hall of dened all who knew him. Accept- led the entire nation in scoring for Fame was officially inaugurated ing a plaque in his name was two weeks, finally coming in during Homecoming week- third in the coun- end with President James try with 97 points H. Daughdrill naming for the season. three former stars as the Off the field and first inductees: Gaylon on the court, he Wesley Smith '39, Henry played forward for Thomas Hammond '36 and the Lynx basketball Ralph Clinton Allen '73. team and was the These and future out- leading scorer for standing athletes will be rec- three consecutive ognized in a permanently- years. mounted Athletic Hall of A four-year let- Fame display that will terman in track, occupy the ground floor of Smith set both pole the new athletics building in Rhodes President James H. Daughdrill; Mar garet Jones vault and 100-yard the Bryan Campus Life Cen- Houts '40, who accepted a plaque on behalf of Gaylon dash records that Smith '39; Henry Hammond '36; Ralph Allen '73; and ter. The display, scheduled were to stand for Rhodes Athletic Director Mike Clary Photo by Trey Clark for completion in spring, is many years. He named in memory of Rhodes Margaret Jones Houts '40 whose was also a standout in the discus coaching great James "Jimmy" husband J. Thayer "Toto" Houts '37 and shot-put events. Haygood who served the college in was captain of the 1936 winning Henry Hammond was a mem- the early '30s as both athletic direc- team and a teammate of Smith. ber of the legendary 1936 Lynx tor and head football coach. Smith spearheaded the 1938 football squad that lives in Rhodes The first to be honored was Lynx to their most successful sea- history as the 12 "iron men." In Gaylon Smith whose untimely son since 1896, a record that that season it was the game against Vanderbilt that climaxed his college career. Hammond caught the pass for the final touch- Nominations Sought For Athletic Hall Of Fame down, carrying Southwestern to Rhodes' International Alumni Association is soliciting nomi- 12-0 over highly touted Vandy. nations for its Athletic Hall of Fame. The purpose is to salute He played one season with the individuals who have either made outstanding contributions to Chicago Bears, becoming the col- the athletic program of the college or who have distinguished lege's first athlete to play pro themselves—and brought honor to the college—through their football. athletic accomplishments during and after their years at Rhodes. Ralph Allen '73, the youngest Up to three individuals will be inducted in October 1997. of the star inductees, was a gifted Nominees not selected this year will remain on the list of candi- receiver in football. In 1972 he fin- dates to be considered in subsequent years. ished the season with 38 recep- Alumni are eligible for the Hall of Fame if they are members tions for 619 yards. of a class that has been out of Rhodes 10 years or longer (Class In track and field Allen was a of 1987 or earlier). Athletic staff may be candidates only if they one-man track team. He set and still no longer work at Rhodes. holds the record in decathlon with Please send your nominations to: 6,572 points, and the record in Rhodes International Alumni Association, javelin with a mark of 198'10". In Athletic Hall of Fame Selection Committee, addition, he set and held for 12 2000 N. Parkway, Memphis, TN 38112-1690. years the record in triple jump at 45'11".

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Seidman Lectures Deal With Critical Issues of Public Philosophy This year's M.L. Seidman Leon Kass, the University of edge and Networks: Communi- Town Hall Lecture speakers will Chicago's Addie Clark Harding cation and Ideas in the Scientific deal with a variety of issues as Professor, Committee on Social and Information Revolutions." they explore the theme "Critical Thought, will speak April 2 on Leslie is the founder of the Issues of Public Philosophy." All "Why Doctors Must Not Kill." Hartlib Papers Project, a compi- lectures, which are free, will be Kass, who many regard as the lation of the papers of 17th-cen- at 8 p.m. in Hardie Auditorium. nation's leading authority on the tury British intellectual Samuel Leading off the series March subject of medical ethics, has Hartlib, and coeditor of the 4 is Jeffrey Abramson, profes- written a brief for the Supreme books Samuel Hartlib & Universal sor of political science at Bran- Court which will hear oral argu- Reformation: Studies in Intellectual deis University, who will speak ment through spring on two cases Communication and Writing and on "After O.J.: Reforming the involving physician-assisted sui- the Land, and two CD-Roms- Jury System." cide. The author of several books, text and facsimiles—of the com- The author of the highly including Towards a Natural Sci- plete archive of Hartlib's papers. acclaimed book We, the Jury: The ence, and The Hungry Soul, Kass is The M.L. Seidman Memorial Jury System and the Ideal of also a participant in the Bill Moy- Town Hall Lecture Series was Democracy and most recently, ers PBS series Genesis. established at Rhodes by P.K. Postmortem: The O.J. Simpson On April 24, Michael Leslie, Seidman and his late wife Leone Case, Abramson is also a lawyer Rhodes English professor and in memory of his brother who and former prosecutor in Massa- dean of British Studies at Oxford, founded the BDO Seidman inter- chusetts. is scheduled to speak on "Knowl- national accounting firm. Chin Speaks In Helen Watkins Norman Retires With plans to spend more time winner of growing national recog- Moss Series with her family and do free-lance nition of Rhodes, she has served Mel Chin, New York concep- writing at home, Helen Watkins us all with keen insight and tual artist and current Lamar Norman has retired from remarkable tal- Dodd Chair of the Fine Arts at her post as assistant to the ent," said Presi- the University of Georgia, will president for public infor- dent Daughdrill. speak at Rhodes at 8 p.m., April mation, a position she "The Rhodes 3 in Hardie Auditorium. His visit held for the last 13 of her magazine, of is sponsored by the Lillian and nearly 18 years at Rhodes. which she was Morrie Moss Endowment for the A Phi Beta Kappa executive editor, Visual Arts. graduate of the Univer- countless news Primarily a sculptor, Chin is sity of North Carolina, releases, news- widely known for his work that Chapel Hill journalism paper op-eds aims straight at the heart of school, Norman came to and features social issues. Rhodes in 1979 to head placed, college He sees public art as "a cat- the college's news service guide listings alytic structure that allows us to and edit Rhodes Today, and numerous break out of the art world into the alumni newspaper. publications other areas such as language (or In 1984 Rhodes President reflect the signa- recycling)," he told Public Art James H. Daughdrill named her to ture standard and style of Helen Review. While he doesn't take his administrative cabinet as assis- Watkins Norman." much stock in the ability of art tant to the president for public A national search has been con- itself to make a social impact, he information. ducted for Norman's successor, believes in working for change "As writer, editor, news bureau whose title will be executive direc- despite the seeming futility. director, college spokesperson and tor of media relations. Winter 1997 Rhodes 7

Campus News

Homecoming '96 —Photos by Enrique Espinosa '97

Off to a good (and early) start Saturday morning at Home- running, the 5K race sponsored by the senior class.

Honored by a faculty portrait was Robert Amy, professor emeritus of biology. Painted by Mem- phis artist Tom Donahue, the portrait will hang in a place of honor in Neely Hall of the Cather- ine Burrow Refectory.

Bill Mankin '62, senior Walter Howell '66 of Mem- scientist at the National phis, president of All Center for Atmospheric States Conveyor and Research, Boulder, Colo., reunion gift chair, was received the Distinguished named Volunteer of the Alumni of the Year Award. Year. Lynx mascot R.C. escorts President and Mrs. Daughdrill at halftime. Rhodes won the game over Colorado College 12-7.

Booksignings- Dan Ross, right, professor emeritus of English, signs copies of his books, Cum- berland and The Leaning Tree. Politi- cal science professor Michael Nelson signs a copy of Cele- brating the Humani- ties, the history of the Man/Search course, for Sammy Ann Primm Marshall '66.

Rhodes Winter 1997 Deborah Pittman (left), Beth Kamhi and Stephanie Turnbull direct and administrate Rhodes' writing programs Writing Photo by Steve Jones

Across At home Rhodes' commitment to teaching good writing and communication skills is based on the firm belief that the ability to impart ideas clearly is essential to the life's success. This view is so highly regarded throughout the entire Rhodes curriculum that first-year students are offered a choice between two intensive first-year Board writing courses, and students in all disciplines are encouraged to use the resources of the Writing Center for assistance on all assignments. "The Writing Center is open to any student on campus who seeks help with an assignment or whose professor refers them," said Kathryn Royster, a student tutor in the Writing Center. "Students can By Kini Kedigh get one-on-one assistance on a paper. We do encourage them to come by and talk because this gets their problems taken care of quickly." English Professor Beth Kamhi directs the Writing

Winter 1997 Rhodes 9 Center. She has a B.A. in French from Emory the center directly with their questions and problems University and a master's and Ph.D. in comparative 24 hours a day. The web site literature from Indiana University. She's taught at (http/ / :writing.rhodes.edu) includes a grammar Rhodes since 1985. handbook tailored to answer the most frequently Royster, a Nashville-area sophomore majoring in asked questions. English literature, has worked in the Writing Center Although the center's hours are based upon the four hours a week since last fall and is one of three student tutors' schedules, occasionally tutors will tutors available to assist the 30 to 50 students a week help a student during off-hours because, as who request help with their writing. Royster notes Royster says, "it's as much for my benefit as it is that during mid-term and final exam periods, the for their benefit." Writing Center sees more students than at other "I'm able to see from the other side and am fasci- times during the year. nated at how the students' writing improves," said The majority of students who frequent the Writing Royster about her experience as a tutor in the Writing Center are first-year students with questions about Center. "It has boosted my own creative level. writing assignments. However, Royster and other Professor Kamhi tells all tutors at the beginning of tutors work across the curriculum, from advising the semester that our goal is to put ourselves out of senior international studies majors with their senior business. We want to train students to recognize their papers to consulting with other students about cover own mistakes and learn how to correct these mis- letters for job résumés. International students are also takes on their own. That's what makes a good writer, among those who use the center's resources. "English the ability to edit your own work." can be very difficult to learn, especially for students "There's a demand for writing courses," said who are spending their first year here. All English Kamhi, who, in addition to directing the Writing rules have exceptions," according to Royster. Center teaches Daily Themes, one of two intensive Because of Rhodes' honor code, the tutor's job is to first-year writing course. "Rhodes is really putting a look at the papers but "we don't do proofreading," lot of effort into the writing program. It seems the Royster said. "It's a tricky matter which we must need is there and we're interested in doing more." explain a lot. I may read the first two or three pages All first-year students are required to take English of a paper and notice several mis- spelled words, but I don't correct all the mistakes. This would be Kathryn Royster at work in the Writing Center considered giving aid on the assignment," she said. "Instead, I tell them I've noticed spelling diffi- culties or a certain grammatical error, maybe point out a couple to them and suggest grammar rules that might apply. We try to be as specific as we can, then let them handle it on their own." Royster explained that the Writing Center is important to all students, regardless of their major. "We're here to help everyone, and it's important for the student to tell us if we're getting off track," she said. "If they don't agree with what we suggest, they should tell us, because this helps us as well as them. It's made me more sensitive to an author's point of view," said Royster, who plans to be an editor for a publishing company. In addition to the shelves of available grammar handbooks that explain the rules of English, the Writing Center also offers an online web site for students to E-mail

10 Rhodes Winter 1997 151, an exhaustive seminar in critical reading, think- their own voice and 'hear' themselves," Kamhi ing and writing. Students also have the option to explains. Also, in reading papers aloud in class, stu- apply to an even more intensive writing course, Daily dents become aware of how people approach the Themes, which requires five papers each week for an same subject from different perspectives. entire semester. Once the course starts, students find they get into a Patterned on a course started at Yale University in certain rhythm, according to Kamhi. "They write at a the 1930s, Daily Themes was established at Rhodes certain time and they learn how to meet deadlines. It with funding from Memphis attorney Charles pushes them in a direction they wouldn't normally Newman and his wife Kay. It is limited to 12 students go and forces them to deal with language, process each semester, and Kamhi says she has first-year stu- and details." dents begging for the few class positions available. What is interesting is that so many first-year stu- Unlike the Yale program, designed for upperclass dents are willing to accept the challenge of writing students with more than 100 participants in each five papers each week; even more intriguing is that class, Daily Themes meets once a week for an hour some students become distraught once the class is and a half. Students discuss assignments, go over any over. "It is hard for some of them not to have an problems and complete five written assignments assignment to do," Kamhi said. "They get into a pat- weekly. Each week students meet with either a tutor tern of writing and actually miss the work." in the Writing Center or with Kamhi on an individual Rhodes senior Hallie Lanier, who took the basis to review their work. course almost four years ago, says she uses daily "If students do the work on time and put in the what she learned in the class. "Daily Themes effort, they can't help but improve by the end of the improved my writing skills tremendously, and course," says Kamhi. really helped me in the job search process." She is a "The wonderful thing about the course is that it's public relations intern for the Memphis Symphony not just for English majors," Kamhi continued. "A lot Orchestra this spring. of students out there love to write and they want help with it. They are intrigued by the format and structure of the class, and see it as a challenge to their energy and exuberance." And abroad Class exercises offer different aspects of writing Rhodes students aren't the only ones benefiting such as point of view, figurative language, dialogue these days from the college's growing emphasis on and expository structure. Each is writing skills. Thanks to the Rhodes Writing designed to improve the students' Academy, which reaches out to the local community, style and to get them thinking. "I people of all ages are learning to express themselves tell them I hope we all disagree," clearly. Kamhi says. "The goal of all Rhodes "The Writing Academy supports and encourages writing courses is to get students to local writers of all ages and from all walks of life," be very deliberate about their writ- said Kamhi from her third-floor office in Palmer ing, and increase their self-aware- Hall. "Rhodes provides them a place where they can ness as writers." come to write. We give them confidence, encourage- Rhodes students are characteristi- ment and lots and lots of feedback. No matter how cally very good writers, according to good (elementary and secondary) schools are and Kamhi, and students, such as first- how small the classes, teachers today still don't have year Starkville, Miss., native Amy time. What we can and do offer is individual atten- Killebrew, find the daily writing tion, because we don't have the curriculum demands assignments improve overall skills. that other teachers have, and we can focus strictly on "The class made me write every the writing." day and it became easier," Killebrew The Writing Academy is conducted through said. "I can now just sit down and Rhodes' Meeman Center for Lifelong Learning and write and organize my thoughts on includes a number of different programs as diverse paper. Learning to write from so and all-encompassing as the individuals who sign up many different perspectives and dif- to take them. ferent ways of thinking improved my The Young Writers' Workshop, special classes for choppy writing style." students in fourth through sixth, sixth through eighth Once assignments are turned in, and ninth through twelfth grades, is offered in the Kamhi selects papers that are read evenings and on weekends during the school year aloud by a student other than the and in the summer. The workshops are targeted author. "We want them to discover toward local schoolchildren to enrich their writing

Winter 1997 Rhodes 11 experience, improve organization and research skills home in Oxford, Miss.—Beale Street and the National and help them interpret ideas and transform them Civil Rights Museum , while students in the into written works. "American Popular Culture" course tour Graceland, Jonathan Boyd, 15, was in eighth grade at home of Elvis Presley. New courses this year include Memphis' White Station Middle School when he "Sacred Literature From the East," "Math and enrolled in a six-week writing workshop through the Music" and "Religion and Racism." Writing Academy at Meeman Center. "This was a "There seems to be a nationwide anxiety over new expression for him," said his mother Martha writing skills," Kamhi said, reflecting upon the num- Boyd. "He was wanting to write, and the class ber of applications she receives annually for the writ- encouraged him and gave him confidence that ing programs. Last June the Young Scholars and enabled him to feel good about his writing abilities." Writing Camp registered 75 students from 20 states, Following Writing Academy, Boyd enrolled in the Panama and the West Indies. Of those students, 12 academy's summer writing program, taking classes were from the Memphis area. in fiction and essay writing. For 19-year-old Barrett Hathcock, who partici- "To experience a college campus, even for a brief pated in the camp two years ago, the experience gen- time, was a great opportunity for him," said Mrs. erated ideas and clarified his desire to write novels Boyd. "He learned different forms of writing and and plays. "I learned I could write as I had always how to organize his thoughts. Most important for wanted to if I just pushed myself," he said. him, he received personal encouragement and confi- The Young Scholars and Writing Camp is quickly dence. The real milestone was gaining the courage to gaining a reputation as one of the nation's most read his work in front of others." innovative experiences for high school students, The academy also offers "Creative Writing for according to Kamhi. "We have faculty from the Adults" designed to enrich the participants' writing humanities and social and natural sciences partici- in fiction and poetry. pating. The faculty is interested in writing as a "The people in these classes know that writing process and they teach it as a means of communicat- skills are important and they want to build on the ing and synthesizing." skills they already have," said Kamhi. "Adults work Both the Writing Academy and Camp attract two all day long (at a job) and then come to sit in the kinds of students, according to Kamhi: those who are classroom and work some more. The intensity of dis- looking for the enrichment the program offers, and cussion and what they want out of the course is those who want to prepare themselves for college tremendous. It's something that they just really need writing. What the academy and camp offer students and want in their lives. Not all of them want to and the community at large does make a difference become professional writers, but some do, indeed, in their development as writers. want advice on how to get published." When Rhodes sophomore Kevin Willoughby, an Kamhi directs yet another writing program for international studies major, attended the camp in the youth, the Young Scholars and Writing Camp, which summer of 1994, he had been exposed to college- is offered through the college. A two-week residen- level work through advanced placement classes in tial program, the camp targets exceptional high his high school in Grapevine, Texas. However, he school students who want to experience college-level had not been exposed to the atmosphere a college academics and get a preview of college life. Founded setting provides. in 1990, the Writing Camp three years ago merged "Getting a two-week taste of the freedom a college with the five-year-old Summer Scholars program in atmosphere affords while still in high school is really response to students' requests for more writing in exciting," Willoughby said about the experience. various college disciplines. "Living in a dorm with students from across the "There are many summer academic programs and nation and interacting with Ph.D.s extremely knowl- this is one of the few centered on writing," Kamhi edgeable in various subjects is a useful thing to do at said about the camp. "Most programs focus on a sin- that stage of life." Willoughby's course work gle area. I'm not aware of other programs that offer included writing and Eastern religions which he writing across the curriculum as this one does." found refreshing and said broadened his horizons. The program includes writing-intensive courses For working people keeping pace with the busi- from offerings in the humanities and social and nat- ness world, the Meeman Center offers specific ural sciences. Participants can study fiction, essay courses in business writing. Meeman Center adminis- and poetry writing along with writing in psychology trator Stephanie Turnbull attributes much of the gen- and communicating in cyberspace by creating a eral thirst for good writing to the fast-paced changes homepage on the World Wide Web. Students in the of our high-tech society. creative writing classes may take field trips to such "Technologically, written communication has diverse locations as Rowan Oak—William Faulkner's changed much in the past five years," Turnbull said.

12 Rhodes Winter 1997 Amy Killebrew '00 and Pete Snow '98, both Daily Themes veterans, review Killebrew's writing Photo by Itoyin Barre

"E-mail, office reports, letters of complaint, even Pittman, a former banker, received her Ph.D. in writing the office memo has changed completely finance from the University of Memphis in 1991. She with the computer." says the success of the communication workshops is This may be why the international medical equip- driven by how business-specific they can be tailored. ment firm Smith & Nephew's Memphis office "Workshops for business people must be immedi- recently contracted with the Meeman Center to con- ately relevant and presented in an efficient manner," duct a communication workshop for company execu- Pittman said. "The workshop participants want it tives. The workshop emphasized writing business (information) as fast as they can get it, and this plans, E-mail, memo writing and using the power of requires a commitment on the organization's side. words to persuade, enhance and achieve higher per- Every large corporation has its own set of communi- formance levels in the workplace. cations challenges, and once we know what they are, "You are really hampered in where you can go in we can focus on these areas." your life if you can't communicate," Turnbull said, The workshop emphasizes the power of effective explaining that this is why the Meeman Center offers communication and includes short writing assign- tailor-made programs for companies in need of better ments as well as discussions appropriate to the communication. company in communicating ways to write, think Deborah Pittman, chair of Rhodes' Economics and and analyze. Business Department and administrator of corporate "We see this as a lifelong process," said Turnbull programs for the Meeman Center, designed the about the Meeman Center's individualized course Executive Communication Workshop to be firm-spe- offerings. "We can tailor the program to specific cific to meet individual needs of corporations. needs—we're not restricted." "We can't offer a cookie cutter program," said Bottom line, the Rhodes curriculum and the Pittman. "We must work closely with companies to Meeman Center offer writing courses to anyone, any survey their needs and understand what they age, who possesses the desire to learn. "We're inter- require," a view Pittman says is consistent with ested in doing more along these lines," said Kamhi. Rhodes' dedication to providing small classes with "There are several ways the programs can grow, and attention to individual needs. it's just a matter of marshaling the time and focus." 111

Winter 1997 Rhodes 13 Prof. Herb Smith Photo by Steve Jones

MIN DING MIND

EOPLE FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE cite the power of positive thinking for bringing about numerous successes p in their lives. BY Patients and physicians give testi- SUSAN MCLAIN SULLIV/\N monies about how belief contributes to all types of physical and mental healing. Olympic athletes and other sports stars report that concentration and mental focusing techniques are vital factors in their achievements.

14 Rhodes Winter 1997 The link between mind and These courses have experiential that we need no training or prac- body has always intrigued peo- components varying from practice in controlling our most pre- ple. As we learn more about this tice requirements of 45 minutes a cious instrument—our mind." relationship, more attention day, six days a week, to three 15- But Smith warned that working than ever before is being minute practice periods a week with the mind is difficult and focused on developing wellness depending on the purpose of a takes some commitment and and treatment programs. particular course. courage to be successful. Professor Emeritus of "The fundamental problem is Smith, who received a Ph.D. in Psychology Herbert Smith has that the mind is like a drunken psychology from Florida State spent the last 10 years studying monkey jumping from limb to University, has taught and prac- and teaching in this area. limb. We are usually unaware of ticed psychology for almost 40 Smith is an advocate and daily the way the mind jumps years. Of pivotal importance to practioner of relaxation and around," Smith said, noting that his development in the area of focusing techniques that have mental restlessness usually pre- mindfulness training was a sab- brought international attention to vents relaxation. "Things in the batical year in 1989 spent as a vis- prestigious centers such as the past which have a certain charge iting professor at the University Mind Body Institute at Harvard and an unhelpful influence on the of California Medical School at Medical School directed by present can become guiding Irvine's Department of Herbert Benson, M.D. and the forces in the mind. Planning Psychiatry. He worked with one Stress Reduction and Relaxation thoughts can dominate the mind. of the leading authorities in Clinic at the University of Have you ever noticed how Eastern and Western psycholo- Massachusetts Medical Center incredibly unreliable thoughts gies and spiritual traditions, directed by Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D. "In many of these practices an individual does not try to achieve any particular mind state but learns a new way of relating to all of experiences," Smith said. "The goal of practice is to stay composed and alert in the middle of life's constantly arising experiences and responding in a way that is wise and compassionate." "Many people are afraid of their mind," he said. "In the West, we believe that being left with your mind without some form of distraction is a cruel and unusual punishment. It's called solitary confinement." Smith has taught courses at Rhodes in the area of controlling consciousness—two for faculty and staff, two for undergraduates and one at Rhodes' Meeman Center for Lifelong Learning. His students, with just a few weeks of Prof. Smith after an audience with Pope John Paul If in 1989. Smith was training, have reported remark- in Rome giving two lectures on the relationship between spirituality and able insights into mind-body states of consciousness for the American Summer Institute held at the relationship as well as the ability Waldensian Seminary. to modify consciousness. can be? One needs to learn how Roger Walsh, M.D. and Ph.D. To teach the various practices to train the mind. In the West we That same year, Smith attended for focusing the mind and physi- are all familiar with the fact that the first of a number of contempla- cal relaxation, Smith uses three to learn to play a musical instru- tive retreats and conferences primary books: Full Catastrophe ment requires a substantial which included three-, seven- and Living, The Wellness Book and Flow amount of training and constant 10-day silent retreats led by as well as audio practice tapes. practice. Nevertheless, we feel Christians, Buddhists and practi-

Winter 1997 Rhodes 15 tioners of other spiritual traditions. In fact, relaxation and focusing aged to go beyond abstractly On one particular 10-day silent techniques have been demon- knowing the material to testing it retreat, Smith said he learned strated to be an effective therapy in their own experience. One of more about his own mind than in the treatment of individuals the major reasons I enjoy teach- he had learned in his 40 years of with hypertension, cardiac ing is that I learn much from my psychological practice. Last sum- rhythm irregularities, many students." mer he was invited to lecture on forms of chronic pain, insomnia, Smith's sessions at Rhodes models of the mind from psy- PMS, anxiety, hostility and mild elicit regular testimonies of chotherapeutic and meditative to moderate depression. changed consciousness. In his perspectives at the Crestone An interest in meditation and most recent course, all of the par- Mountain Zen Center in yoga is shared by Smith's wife, ticipants who returned an anony- Colorado. Elizabeth N. Smith. She has par- mous survey (90%) reported that In addition to contemplative ticipated in all of the silent medi- they had learned to reduce their retreats and training pro- overall stress level and grams Smith has attended could do so on a consistent the training program in basis. The course taught at behavioral medicine the Meeman Center for offered for health care Lifelong Learning was one providers by the Mind- of the highest rated courses Body Institute at Harvard offered by the Center, Medical School. He according to coordinator recently attended a confer- Stephanie Turnbull. ence on Spirituality and One faculty member Healing in Medicine sent Smith the following offered by the same group. comment after an eight- Smith also has participated week program: in a training program "Although I haven't offered by the Omega been practicing the medita- Institute and led by Jon With the Dalai Lama in 1989 at a conference on tion and yoga quite as regu- Eastern and Western psychologies and contem- Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D., director plative practices in Newport Beach, Calif. At the larly as I did during the of the Stress Reduction meeting the Dalai Lama was first notified that he workshop, I've noticed a and Relaxation Center at had won the Nobel Peace Prize. tremendous change in my the University of personality and my Massachusetts Medical Center. tation retreats and attended the responses to stressful situations According to research pub- training programs and confer- and people. I am most struck by lished by the Mind-Body ences. Being able to travel this the realization that I have choices. Institute, when a person learns to path together has been a delight- Now that I'm more aware of my focus the mind, a relaxation ful learning experience, they said. habitual physical and mental reac- response is elicited. The results Both meditate every day and tions to stress, I often find that are decreased metabolism, heart agree that they have greatly ben- habit or tendency and then decide rate, muscle tension, blood pres- efited by doing so. Elizabeth to respond in a more productive sure, pattern of breathing and assists in teaching two of the way—my body and my feelings distinctly slower brain waves. courses offered at Rhodes. are becoming more flexible. In research conducted by the "The greatest influence on my "Perhaps as a by-product of this Stress Reduction Clinic of the understanding and teaching in flexibility, I feel that my overall University of Massachusetts this area comes from my medita- outlook on life is more positive," Medical Center, patients who suf- tion practice. Books, tapes, lec- the faculty member continued. fered from anxiety or panic disor- tures can all serve as valuable "I'm becoming more charitable der experienced significant pointers but I have to turn again with other people and more reduction in anxiety and depres- and again to my own practice to accepting of my own shortcom- sion after completing an 8-week come closer to seeing things with ings, less critical and judgmental. mindfulness-based meditation fewer distortions," Smith said. "I On the more practical side, I've program. The number of patients constantly remind my students also noticed that I tend to stay reporting panic symptoms also that what I say is based on my more focused now. I pay closer decreased significantly, according current understandings and is attention to whatever I'm doing— to a 1992 report in the American not to be confused with final teaching, walking, cooking, what- Journal of Psychiatry. knowledge. Students are encour- ever—and I enjoy it more." R

16 Rhodes Winter 1997 ^Ll^ld1 lt 1 What's New Honors Go To Morris With You? Herman Morris '73 has been Rhodes magazine wants to named interim director of Mem- know. If you have a marriage to phis Light, Gas & Water. He for- announce, a new baby, new job, merly served as general counsel new address or other news of for the public utility. yourself, please send it to the In addition, the Memphis Rhodes Alumni Office, 2000 N. chapter of Professional Parkway, Memphis, TN 38112- Secretaries International recent- 1690, telephone: (901) 843-3845; ly named Morris Executive of fax: (901) 843-3474; e-mail: the Year. [email protected] Herman Morris Please allow several months— yes, months—for publication. Rhodes is published four times a consortium of doctors in Beijing year, and Alumni News Hill Featured On in late fall as a guest of the deadlines are set at least four People's Republic of China. months in advance of actual 'GO Minutes' Also in late fall, he was publication. The Rhodes staff Dr. Stratton Hill '50 of featured on CBS television's 60 appreciates your patience and Houston's M.D. Anderson Pain Minutes regarding regulatory understanding. and Symptom Management clin- issues involving the medical use ic, was invited to join a of narcotics. Hill has worked with Texas lawmakers along with state and federal medical Baldwin Named Memphis and narcotics boards to improve pain control. He was the Executive Presbyter recipient of the 1995 American Cancer Society's 1995 Dick Baldwin '58 West Tennessee, Humanitarian Award. recently stepped the Missouri down as senior min- Bootheel and part ister of Evergreen of East Arkansas. Presbyterian Church, Baldwin, who NI That Jazz where he has served was selected from The Avalon Jazz Quartet, the past 10 years, to 50 candidates, featuring Andy Colyer '90 (piano assume his recently has worked close- and vocals), played a gig at Back- elected post of execu- ly with Memphis stage Bistro in St. Louis in the fall. tive presbyter, the Presbytery A chiropractor by profession, administrator of the during his Ever- Colyer majored in music at Presbytery of Mem- green ministry. Rhodes and has played in big phis. He served on the bands around the country with The presbytery is presbytery coun- musicians such as Marvin Stamm, the governing body of the Pres- cil and was chairman for two Clark Terry and Kim Park. Colyer byterian Church (U.S.A.) in years. lives in Farmington, Mo.

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on the basis of academic achieve- Cole Moves To ment, leadership in the church Works 01 Art and on campus and A recent exhibition of charcoal Higher Court demonstration of outstanding drawings by Black Mountain, Former Florida attorney John promise for the ordained N.C., artist Mary Parker '28 drew Cole '86 is currently a second- ministry. excellent reviews in the local year student at Columbia A native of Daytona Beach, news media. One critic wrote Theological Seminary, Decatur, Cole holds an M.A. from Univer- that "Parker's legacy is a sturdy Ga., and the recipient of an honor sity of Virginia and J.D. from modernism, a no-nonsense scholarship for the 1996-97 acad- Florida State University. He and aesthetic of abstract emic year. The scholarship, his wife Bette have a son, Jacob, expressionism that builds on this which covers tuition, is awarded and a daughter, Jessie. century's and this country's most Classmates Work To Restore Mallory-Neely House Larry Anderson '74 and Kate lived in the house for 86 years goods such as elaborate wooden Canon Dixon '74 may have been until her death in 1969, kept mantelpieces, doors and classmates at Rhodes, but they most of the original furnishings. millwork, none of which was didn't really know each other The restoration will eventually hand-carved, but machine-made. until they went to work for Many of the items could be the Memphis Museum Sys- and were ordered by tem—a fact they discovered catalogue, another manifes- at a reunion party several tation of the modern age years ago. Now, they're back then. He says that such partners on a project with a goods were more desirable historical connection to then than were, for instance, Rhodes. the older, hand-carved white Anderson, a conservator, marble mantels that the fam- and Dixon, curator of ily had moved upstairs and historic properties for the replaced with the current Memphis Museum System, wooden models. are working together on the Dixon says that their job restoration of the city-owned is to interpret the house for Mallory-Neely House. Built visitors through the restora- in 1852, the historic mansion tion work. With 145 years of is located close to downtown history to work with, on the block of Adams Street curators are able to change known as Victorian Village. exhibits to emphasize differ- The Mallory-Neely House ent periods in the life of the was the childhood home of house. For instance, when the late William Neely Mal- the Memphis Wonders series lory for whom Mallory opens its artifacts from the Gymnasium is named. His Titanic exhibit this spring, son W. Neely Mallory Jr. the Mallory-Neely House serves on the Rhodes Board Larry Anderson '74 and Kate Canon Dixon also will focus on that era. '74 in the double parlor of the Mallory•Neely of Trustees. House Photo by Kevin Barre While Anderson is busy Originally built as a 2 cleaning and recreating wall- 1/2-story country house in the take the house back to the era of paper by handpainting entire Italianate style, the structure the 1880s and '90s. sections of it and restoring the underwent a transformation to "The house is a testament to ornate ceilings and furniture, High Victorian in the 1890s at the machine age and ordering visitors who watch him at work the hand of its owner James by catalogue," says Anderson, get another history lesson in the Columbus Neely. His daughter, pointing out the Victorians' fas- craft that went into building the Frances Neely Mallory, who cination with machine-made house.

A-2 Rhodes Winter 1997 Alumni durable artistic tradition." In addition to the show, Park- Broffitt Elected Judge er signed limited edition serigraph prints at a fundraiser The Shelby County Commis- for the Mary Parker Fine Arts sion gave unanimous approval Scholarship at Western Carolina for Memphian Joyce Broffitt '77 University and the Black Moun- to serve out the unexpired tain College Museum and Art term of Division 9 General Ses- Center. sions Criminal Court judge William Ray Ingram. A former assistant district attorney general, she plans to run for her Marr Named To judgeship in 1998. Broffitt has been a member of the Rhodes Sea Grant Group President's Council and has Environmental toxicologist served on an alumni panel John Marr '86 was recently during the college's parent named associate director of pro- orientation. grams for Mississippi-Alabama Joyce Broffitt Sea Grant Consortium, which develops and manages university-based programs in marine Safe Place program, a community serves as the agency's communi- research, education and advisory effort to provide young people ty relations director. services in those states. immediate refuge from violence Marr was formerly with or threatening situations. Several Hagler Bailly Inc., an local supermarkets, fast food Correction environmental science and restaurants, video stores and gas consulting firm in Boulder, Colo. stations participate in the The writer of the article program, prominently displaying "Women at Rhodes" in the fall yellow and black Safe Place issue of Rhodes failed to Safe Haven signs. acknowledge the immeasurable Frinks recruits, trains and help of Patrick Donahue, Rhodes Sarah Frinks '96 of Memphis coordinates Safe Place site opera- assistant director of career has been named director of the tors and volunteers. She also services; the families of Margaret Basquets Full Jim '79 and Dodie Hunter's such as business, Hunter Basquetrie, smoked trout, was recently the subject of a fea- selected from a ture in the Memphis Business list published Journal. The couple designs and by the assembles customized gift Gourmet Food baskets "that range from the ele- Association. gant and distinctive to the The whimsical," the article said. business, which The Hunters pack their Dodie founded baskets with local and regional as a cottage delicacies such as Memphis bar- industry, now becue sauces, bottled Memphis occupies a water (from artesian wells), Ten- 3,800-foot facili- nessee tea cakes and cotton ty near memorabilia. They also use Germantown, award-winning gourmet foods, Tenn.

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Trahern Patch and Mildred Smith Glenn; and "The new students who are today being Elizabeth Gates Kesler, Rhodes archivist. welcomed into the college community, as well as The photo on page 16 of the fall issue is of the older students and alumni, should realize that their alma mater has an honorable heritage, which Rhodes Student Government president Michael it is their privilege and duty to foster and Faber, not Rob Robinson, president of the Social Regulations Council. maintain." Rhodes regrets these errors. —Charles E. Diehl President of Rhodes 1917-49

senior from New Club News York, originally from A NASHVILLE—Michael Nelson, Rhodes pro- Atlanta, Andy fessor of political science and editor of the new Wildman transferred to book, Celebrating the Humanities: A Half-Century Rhodes at the of the Search Course at Rhodes College, spoke to beginning of his sopho- alumni at the home of Carol and Charlie more year. Wildman, Williams, parents of Annie B. Williams '92. A one of many Rhodes bonus for the lucky Rhodes alumni in student-athletes, is an attendance was touring the Williams' beautifully international studies renovated 19th century townhouse. major and a starter for DENVER—Rocky Mountain Lynx gathered the men's soccer team. at the home of Terry '83 and Julee Carroll Bate This fall, he earned an internship position in Andy Wildman '97 '83 for an informal supper. Others hosting the Photo by John Rom event were Lynn Duncan Summerfield '91, Julia the trust department of Weaver '85, Jean Ann Conley Beckley '87 and National Bank of Commerce in Memphis. Sallie Clark '76. Impressed with the supportive attitude of both ATLANTA—Michael Nelson also traveled to peers and faculty at Rhodes, Wildman believes Atlanta to speak to the local alumni club about that his educational experience has prepared his newest publication. Jim Lientz, Rhodes him to be a thinker and achiever in the business trustee and president of NationsBank, and his world. wife Peggy hosted the reception at the bank. The Lientz's daughter, Shannon Lientz Kollme '93, "My years at Rhodes have provided me with and her husband Chris '93 were among Rhodes a nurturing environment suitable to satisfy all alumni at the event. my academic, social and athletic needs." MEMPHIS—Rhodes young alumni initiated —Andy Wildman '97 the "First Annual First Thursday in December Party." Guests brought canned goods and cloth- Your gift to the 1996-97 Annual Fund provides ing to benefit the Rhodes Souper Contact Soup the means to attract and retain outstanding Kitchen, a Kinney program. Alumni hosting the students like Andy Wildman. event were Neal '85 and Amy Hazlewood It ensures that all Rhodes students can grow McAtee '86, Greg '87 and Laura Briscoe Carey and interact in an environment that challenges the '88, Leann Eggers '95, Jenny Phillips '96 and mind and strengthens the spirit. Christie Smith '96. Please do your part to continue the tradition of LITTLE ROCK—Little Rock alumni enjoyed educational excellence at Rhodes. If you have not the city's newest hot spot at a holiday happy done so, please support Rhodes students with an hour. Alumni assisting with the event included Annual Fund gift today. Susan Burnside Fleming '73, Emily Parke Balch '81, Paige Beavers Markman '87, Doug Duncan 149TH RHODES ANNUAL FUND '96 and Allyson Kennett '96. 2000 N. Parkway, Memphis, TN 38112-1690 Telephone: Grayson Blair 800-264-5969, 901-843-3859, e-mail: [email protected]

A-4 Rhodes Winter 1997 tuumniA 1 Rhodes Alumni Gatherings Members of the class of '86 met at the Rendezvous to celebrate their 10th reunion at Homecoming. FRONT ROW (left to right): Lorraine Fincke Dodson, Lesley McPherson Gentry. SECOND ROW: Janee Lambert Bonner, Amy Hazlewood McAtee, Laurie Sides Hill, Mary Lee Cannon Schaefer, Susan Strib- ling McDermott. TOP ROW: Kim Weeks Smith, Laura Lecky, Leslie Nelson Lee, Amy Donaho Howell, Margaret Chisholm.

Two of the hosts of the "First Annual First Thursday in December Party" were Laura Briscoe Carey '88 and Greg Carey '87, Rhodes religious studies instructor.

Emily Parke Balch '81 and Paige Beavers Markman '87 were two of the happy hour hosts.

Annie B. Williams '92 and her parents, Carol and Charlie Williams, invited area alumni to their restored 19th-century townhouse. Winter 1997 Rhodes A-5 Class Notes

ganization that provides free Viola Deavours Powers of business counseling. Cincinnati recently received an Rhodes International M.A. in religion from the Alumni Association MARTHA CARROLL Athenaeum of Ohio. Executive Officers 1996.97 MCGUIRE, PRESIDENT Marilyn Mitchell Wray of 48 NEXT REUNION: FALL 1998 Memphis is in her 24th year as President Wilmary Hitch Elliott is director of Evangelical Christian Jim O'Donnell '74, Atlanta an artist, author and elder at First School. President-Elect Presbyterian Church, Talladega, Doug Fancher '64, Oxford, Miss. Ala. Her book East Street South is REG GERMANY, PRESIDENT and Sausalito, Calif. about historic Talladega homes, NEXT REUNION: FALL 2000 Vice President and she has written and illustrat- 55 Dr. David Chang recent- Sally Cross Coleman '61, ed a book of poems yet to be ly represented Rhodes at Memphis published. inauguration ceremonies at Ripon College. LESLIE THOMPSON, Peggy Crocker Strong LEROY MONTGOMERY, PRESIDENT recently represented Rhodes at PRESIDENT 49 NEXT REUNION: FALL 1999 inauguration ceremonies at 31 NEXT REUNION: FALL 2001 Leona Demere-Dwyer Hollins College. Mary Moore Smith of of Memphis was included in the Dr. James H. Thompson re- San Diego, Calif., celebrated her Marquis publication Who's Who cently represented Rhodes at in- 87th birthday in the fall with her in America 1996. She is in private auguration ceremonies at former Rhodes roommate Mary practice as a marriage and family Guilford College. Woosley Baxter and Baxter's counselor. daughter. "In 1930 and 1931 Bill Marsh, a retired Memphis TIM TURNER, PRESIDENT Mary Woosley and I were room- school teacher, enjoys promoting NEXT REUNION: FALL 2001 mates," writes Smith. "We lost Ballet Memphis and reviewing S6 Catharine Coleman touch. In 1995, 64 years later, operas. Alexander received an Mary Woosley found me through honorary doctor of letters from Rhodes Alumni News." CHARLES SULLIVAN, Pomona College last spring. Her PRESIDENT husband David Alexander '53 is ALLEN HILZHEIM, 53 NEXT REUNION: FALL 1998 president emeritus of Pomona. PRESIDENT Bob Stewart serves as Henry Williamson is serving 43 NEXT REUNION: FALL 1998 clerk of the session at Advent as interim pastor of First Presby- Gladys Moore Ellis, a Presbyterian Church in Cordova, terian Church, Columbus, Miss. retired teacher at Treadwell High Tenn. School in Memphis, now volun- Charles Sullivan spent his JIM AND MARGARET FAGAN teers as a tutor/trainer for the summer supervising Team EIKNER, CO-PRESIDENTS Memphis Literacy Council. Volleyball during the Olympic 57 NEXT REUNION: Games in Atlanta. He and his Ocr. 17-18, 1997 DON GORDON, PRESIDENT wife Alice, who are visiting Jane Crutcher Williamson of NEXT REUNION: FALL 1999 friends in Australia in February Joiner, Ark., was recently elected 44 Cary Harris Hunt of Lit- and March, may do a Team Vol- president of Delta Kappa Gamma tle Rock works at leyball repeat at the 2000 teachers' sorority. She is also Sangster/Vogel Realty, her Summer Games in Sydney. president-elect of the Arkansas grandson's real estate company. Foreign Language Teachers JO TAYLOR THRELKELD, Association. HARLAND SMITH, PRESIDENT PRESIDENT 54 NEXT REUNION: FALL 1999 BETTY CHALMERS PEYTON, 47 NEXT REUNION: Wade Hunter of Austin, PRESIDENT OCT. 17-18, 1997 Texas, retired from the U.S. SO NEXT REUNION: FALL 1998 Katherine Glenn Miller of Department of Education, Office Betty Russell of Leighton, Ala., recently joined of the Inspector General in March Piggott, Ark., has retired from the Service Corp of Retired Exec- 1996, and is currently involved in Piggott High School, where she utives (SCORE), the nonprofit or- community service and travel. was a counselor for 20 years. A-6 Rhodes Winter 1997 Class Notes

Programs and is active with the BETHA HUBBARD GILL, NEXT REUNION: Brentwood, Tenn., Historical LAURIANN LINES HEISLER, Ocr. 17-18, 1997 Trust. 71 CO-PRESIDENTS 62 Actress Dixie Carter lit Nancy Glenn Green of Eden, NEXT REUNION: FALL 2001 up Broadway in late Jan- Texas, is currently working on a Marcia Swett Baker of uary when she assumed the role project to expand and remodel Germantown, Tenn., teaches at of opera diva Maria Callas in Ter- the Eden Public Library. Ridgeway Middle/High School, rence McNally's hit Master Class. Charie Bowman Reid of and is active at Second Presbyter- Bill Mankin, senior scientist at Pleasant Hill, Calif., recently ian Church and with Young Life. the National Center for completed an M.A. in Works by Jim Cogswell, pro- Atmospheric Research in gerontology at San Francisco fessor of art at the University of Boulder, Colo., and recipient of State University. She is associate Michigan, were on exhibit at Pur- this year's Distinguished Alumni pastor at Grace Presbyterian due University's Beelke Gallery Award, gave a fall lecture for the Church. in the fall. Rhodes physics department on Carolyn Fanning "The Effect of Volcanoes on the GINNY TAYLOR DRASH, Hollingsworth is pursuing an Ozone Layer." PRESIDENT M.F.A. in ceramics at Georgia 66 NEXT REUNION: FALL 2001 State University. She received a LYDE ELLA CONNER LANCE, Annasue Sanders B.F.A. in art education in 1995. PRESIDENT Davis recently represented Mary Anna Williamson NEXT REUNION: FALL 1998 Rhodes at inauguration appeared in the opera production 63 John and Mackie ceremonies at Union College. of Summer and Smoke during Mitchel Rice '66 live in Arling- Rhodes' first annual Tennessee ton, Va., where he is rector of TRISH COOPER HAYLEY, Williams Festival last summer. Trinity Episcopal Church. SUSAN GLADDEN STITT, 69 CO-PRESIDENTS BETTE DALE GARNER AND LINDA JACKSON TAYLOR, NEXT REUNION: FALL 1999 ANN GOTSCHALL SHARP, PRESIDENT Neil Arnold of Germantown, 72 CO-PRESIDENTS NEXT REUNION: FALL 1999 Tenn., recently joined the law NEXT REUNION:

64 Jeanne Gregory Spra- firm of Baker, Donelson, Ocr. 17-18, 1997 gins of Shelby, N.C., is in her Bearman & Caldwell as David and Allison Powell Mays 14th year on the Shelby City controller. '81 live in Ohio, where David re- Schools Board of Education. Chet Heard has retired as a cently took the position of Linda Jackson Taylor of Navy pilot, and currently works physics and astronomy librarian Memphis has been selected to co- as a pilot for UPS. at Ohio State University. manage Regency Travel & Inter- Gloria Brown Melton of Nancy Eaton Ross works as a national Market's new leisure Houghton, Mich., is associate speech language pathologist at group division, offering travel dean of student affairs at Michi- three Memphis City Schools. group services to clients interest- gan Technological University. Gwen Martin Thurmond of ed in escorted tours. Susan Gladden Stitt of Cov- Clayton, Ga., is an administrator ington, Tenn., is the counselor at at Woodbridge Hospital. She was Lou ELLYN HINDMAN the new Brighton (Tenn.) High a community hero torchbearer GRIFFIN, PRESIDENT School. before the summer Olympic 65 NEXT REUNION: FALL 2000 games. Jan Hockaday Baudoin Rum ANN SADLER HANEY, of Carencro, La., has retired from PRESIDENT LARRY ANDERSON, the Lafayette Parish School Board 70 NEXT REUNION: FALL 2000 PRESIDENT as supervisor of gifted programs Jim Brinson was recent- 74 NEXT REUNION: FALL 1999 and the high school Arts ly honored for his 20 years of ser- Linda Raffel Qualia Academy. vice as organist/choirmaster at lives in Plano, Texas, where she Suzanne Burns is president of the Church of the Holy Commu- is director of counseling at Collin the Ladies' Soldiers' Friend Soci- nion in Memphis. County Community College. ety, a Civil War reenactors group. Hotly Byer Renfrew lives in She is president of the National Greenwich, Conn. She teaches Organization for State Kidney first and second grades at a

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Montessori magnet school in S.O.S. (Save Outdoor Sculpture), STACY ABERNETHY, Yonkers, N.Y. a project sponsored by several KATHLEEN WILLS Jane Scharding Smedley is top-level national and state orga- 81 CHANDLER, in her 16th year as nizations. CO-PRESIDENTS organist/choirmaster at St. Steve Masters is a family NEXT REUNION: FALL 2001 Peter's Church in Memphis. She physician practicing in Knoxville, Kevin and Claire Markham currently serves as director of the Tenn. He is in a group of 64 pri- Collins and their three children local chapter of Pastoral mary care physicians which oper- live in Lookout Mountain, Tenn. Musicians, which she established ates throughout East Tennessee He is a vice president in SunTrust last year. in the Summit Medical Group Bank's trust department. Larry White retired as a corporation. SEE BIRTHS Steve Jackson works as a tax commander from the U.S. Public Nancy Patterson specialist for KMPG Peat Health Service Dental Corps last McCullough of Brentwood, Marwick in Dallas. He recently summer at the rank of Tenn., coordinates the oncology purchased a home, and in his commander. research for 11 cancer centers af- spare time volunteers as a speak- filiated with the Vanderbilt Can- er for AIDS education in area VICKERS DEMETRIO JOHN- cer Center. high schools and colleges. SON, PRESIDENT Jane Terry of Jackson, Tenn., Ed Morris of Collierville, 76 NEXT REUNION: FALL 2001 works as a nurse in a neuro- Tenn., teaches fifth grade at Mt. David Dudley and wife intensive care unit. She received Pisgah Middle school. Kathryn are co-pastors of Sweet- her B.S.N. degree in 1996. Leslee Choate O'Kelly works water Presbyterian Church in for U.S. Business Interiors in Lan- Hickory, N.C. LARRY HIGGINBOTHAM, ham, Md. PRESIDENT Tom Seal of Tallahassee, Fla., IOELLYN FORRESTER 79 NEXT REUNION: FALL 1999 is an environmental specialist in SULLIVAN, PRESIDENT J.H. "Rusty" Fairbanks the office of water policy at the 77 NEXT REUNION: is an orthopedic surgeon in Abi- Florida Department of °cr. 17-18, 1997 lene, Texas. Environmental Protection. He is Dave Smathers and family Alice Smith of Arlington, Va., also an adjunct instructor at Tal- recently moved to New currently serves as special assis- lahassee Community College. Berlinville, Pa. Dave, who works tant to Commissioner Doris as a research scientist in the tech- Meissner at the U.S. Immigration JIM TAYLOR, PRESIDENT nology division of Cabot Perfor- and Naturalization Service in NEXT REUNION: mance Materials, was formerly Washington. 82 OCT. 17-18, 1997 with Teledyne in Oregon. Greg Peters has moved Steve Wade is executive vice DEBORAH LEGG SULLIVAN, to Belle Meade, N.J., where he is president of Metropolitan GLORIA WHITE, employed by Logic Works. SEE National Bank in Little Rock. He 80 CO-PRESIDENTS BIRTHS serves on several community NEXT REUNION: FALL 2000 Dorothy Sanders Wells of boards, including Junior Achieve- Ellen Geiger Alexander of Memphis has accepted a position ment of Arkansas and the Old Flagstaff, Ariz., works as conserva- as an attorney with Federal State House Museum, and teach- tion educator for the city recycling Express. She was formerly with es Sunday school at Trinity Unit- office. She was awarded the Gov- the Memphis firm of Waring Cox. ed Methodist Church. ernor's Pride in Arizona Award in SEE BIRTHS environmental leadership for her CHARLIE RICHARDSON, efforts in developing the 1995 NEXT REUNION: FALL 1998 PRESIDENT Compost Demonstration Project. Cheryl Barton 78 NEXT REUNION: FALL 1998 Ed Porter of Eads, Tenn., was 83 Bissette of Durham, Carol Fuqua Koenig of mentioned in the October 17, N.C., was recently Brentwood, Tenn., is a health 1996 issue of Rolling Stone maga- installed as the Presbyterian cam- care marketing manager for zine for his role in the production pus minister at Duke University. Aladdin Industries. and distribution of a double com- Hal Patton and his family Sarah Bailey Luster of pact disc album by Memphis recently moved to Spokane, Natchitoches, La., is coordinator artists, The Singles (1993-1994) Wash., where he is general man- of 29 parishes for Louisiana Loverly Music. ager of Northwest Bedding. A-8 Rhodes Winter 1997 Class Notes

AMY DOVILLE, TRACY Peggy Wood Townsend has cal engineering from Georgia VEZINA PATTERSON, moved back to Chattanooga, Tech. 84 CO-PRESIDENTS Tenn., where she works as the Knox Gunn, Macintosh guru NEXT REUNION: FALL 1999 cultural arts coordinator for the and Rhodes' first desktop Karen Joyce Arkin recently City of Chattanooga Parks and publisher, works for a Mac-based completed her master's degree in Recreation Department. After graphics firm in Louisville, Ky. mental health counseling, and is completing an M.A. in arts Brian Hayhurst was recently working in private practice in Mi- administration at the University promoted to associate vice presi- ami. of Cincinnati, she was a fellow in dent of investment banking at Angie Friedrich Arnold lives the museum program at the Na- Morgan Keegan in Memphis. in Memphis, where she practices tional Endowment for the Arts in Karen Cagle York of medicine at Baptist Memorial Washington, D.C. SEE Memphis works as a corporate Hospital. MARRIAGES trainer in leadership Ed and Lynn Myrick Dudley development at First Tennessee '82 live in Marietta, Ga. He AMY DONAHO HOWELL, Bank. coaches football at Walton High PRESIDENT School, and she works in 86 NEXT REUNION: FALL 2001 SUZY CARPENTER, commercial real estate at The John Bright teaches eco- PRESIDENT Myrick Co. nomics at Clemson University. 88 NEXT REUNION: FALL 1998 Janet Comperry Lowdermilk Paul Eich, a Navy lieutenant Ed Delgado recently de- recently became the coordinator stationed in Bath, Maine, is the fended his dissertation, and has of the Robinson Forest Trust at quality officer for NAS started his required internship at University of Kentucky. The trust Brunswick, and has served as an the Counseling Center of Michi- is a charitable foundation examiner for the Maine State gan State University. He will designed to benefit the Eastern Quality Center. graduate from Notre Dame with Kentucky area. Her office is still Joe MacCurdy has moved to a doctorate in counseling in Au- at Lees College, Jackson, Ky. Nashville, where he has joined gust. Hill Radiology. SEE BIRTHS Tricia Pennington Haws of KAREN LARSON, BEV Laurie Laughlin Neale works Silver Spring, Md., has a new job THOMAS WILLIAMS, as an assistant district attorney as director of marketing for 85 CO-PRESIDENTS general for Shelby County, Tenn. Adventist HealthCare. NEXT REUNION: FALL 2000 Mose Payne lives in Anne Ricks Lampton and her Janet Freytes of Collegeville, Chattanooga, Tenn. He is the su- family recently moved from Pat- Pa., is an account executive at 30 pervisor of the OCRI and OCRII terson, La., to Memphis. West Advertising Agency. departments at Blue Cross and David Porter of Draper Utah, Heather Cutting Monk of Dal- Blue Shield of Tennessee. is an area market manager for las is an account manager for Schering-Plough HealthCare. Multimedia Learning, a software SAM BRIDEN, BRIAN solutions company. MOTT, CO-PRESIDENTS BOB COLEMAN, Bill Owens has joined the Lau- 87 NEXT REUNION: EILEEN RUFFIN WOOD, rens County Orthopaedic Group OCT. 17-18,1997 89 CO-PRESIDENTS in Laurens, S.C. Gene Adams is a partner in the NEXT REUNION: FALL 1999 Josh Sandifer works in orga- Little Rock law firm of Rice, Charles Carrico is the manager nization and management devel- Adams & Pace, and a board of marketing and proposal opment at the Pizza Hut member of the Elderly Activities services for Fidelity Institutional corporation in Dallas. He holds a Association and Boys' and Girls' Retirement Services in Ph.D. in industrial psychology. Club. Covington, Ky. Dee Schwartzman of Decatur, Gretchen Lile Bachman of Jeff and Amy Fay West Ga., owns Premier Land Title, Little Rock is the corporate gifts Chandler live in Knoxville, and is involved with Project Read officer for Arkansas Children's Tem., where he is director of an Atlanta. Hospital. outpatient orthopedic clinic in Laurie Turner Strayhorn re- Meg Beeson works as a test Lenoir City and she teaches sec- cently represented Rhodes at in- engineer in the Toyota Technical ond grade at Sequoya Elementary auguration ceremonies at Mars Center in Ann Arbor, Mich. She School. Hill College. holds an M.S. degree in mechani- Brian Foy has been transferred

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to Dallas with The Aluminum Cary Tynes Wahlheim works pathology. SEE BIRTHS Company of America. His for the Birmingham law firm of Kevin and Sherrill Cameron responsibilities include South Burr and Foreman, specializing Garland live in Sugar Land, Central U.S. sales and market de- in health care and consumer Texas. He was recently promoted velopment manager for Alcoa's fraud litigation. to director of mergers and acqui- operations in Mexico. sitions at Enron Capital, and she Charles Harris of Memphis is JOHANNA VANDEGRIFT has started a business as a manager of market analyses for LEHFELDT, PRESIDENT Creative Memories consultant. the Promus Company's develop- 90 NEXT REUNION: FALL 2000 Craig Gibson of Durham, ment department. Barry Billings is N.C., teaches first-year English at Lora Hooper of Saint Louis currently doing his residency in Duke University, and is working holds a Ph.D. in biochemistry urological surgery at University on a book. from Washington University. of Alabama, Birmingham. He re- Daren and Jessica Lux Guil- Jennifer Busbee Hunt of ceived his M.D. from UAB last lory live in Eureka Springs, Ark. Franklin, Tenn., is director of spring. He owns The Horizon restaurant physical therapy at Williamson Stuart Chapman is currently and deli, and she is a Medical Center. pursuing a Ph.D. in English at rehabilitation case manager for Susanna Smith Jacobs teach- Boston University. people with disabilities. es at a private school in Floyd, Va. Mary Chervenak of Reid Harbin of Atlanta is an Aaron Kaufman, of Rockville Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, attorney at the Lawson Davis & Centre, N.Y., has entered the PT teaches chemistry at the Universi- Pickren firm, specializing in com- assistant program at Nassau ty of Alberta on a Canadian Her- mercial and business Community College. itage Fellowship. She holds a transactions. Erin McAllister is manager of Ph.D. in chemistry from Duke. Heath Harrison lives in Fayet- the graphics department of a de- Casey Compton lives in Lake- teville, Ark., where he works in sign company in King of Prussia, land, Fla. He recently completed real estate sales. Pa., where she also serves as the graduate tax program at Uni- Beth Batson Murrey works as president of the local theater. She versity of Denver Law School, director of internal audit at Mor- is currently pursuing an M.B.A. and is associated with Scandia, a gan Keegan in Memphis. SEE in management from Penn State. business based in Lima, Peru. MARRIAGES Cynthia McPheeters Paul and Sandy Sullivan Crickett Rumley is pursuing Montgomery lives in Stone Conroy live in Knoxville, Tenn. her M.F.A. at Columbia Universi- Mountain, Ga., and works as a He attends the University of Ten- ty. She also works free-lance for a lateral associate for the law firm nessee, and she works as a public Walt Disney-affiliated production of Rogers & Hardin. health dentist and operating company and for the Telluride Bobby Reed is an assistant room administrative director at Film Festival. professor of chemistry at Austin the University of Tennessee Med- Peay State University. He holds ical Center. MARTORIE THIGPEN his degree from the Vanderbilt Matt and Ashley Connell CARTER, PRESIDENT University School of Medicine, Davis '91 live in Folly Beach, 91 NEXT REUNION: 2001 department of molecular physiol- S.C. He works in a pediatrics res- Keith Arnold and David ogy and biophysics. idency in Charleston, and she is a Burrows live in Nashville, where Sharon Skinner is the budget social worker. Keith is director of music at First analyst for the town of Lara Butler Fonville is with Unitarian-Universalist Church. Collierville, Tenn. the Memphis law firm of Thoma- Wes Bailey of Memphis Kirk Stone completed a family son Hendrix Harvey Johnson & works as controller of Southland residency program last spring, Mitchell. She is a member of the Capital, a real estate and invest- and has opened a medical Memphis Bar Association Young ment company. practice in Union City, Tenn. Lawyers' board of directors. Robin Baldwin attends law Clark Tomlinson lives in Val- Bill and Karen Finch school at the University of dosta, Ga. With a B.S. in nursing, Gannaway '93 live in Arkansas at Little Rock. he works as a certified care nurse Greenville, S.C., where he is do- Traci Blair is a portfolio for the coronary care unit of ing his residency in internal med- accounting officer at Investment Archbold Medical Center in near- icine. Karen holds a master's Counsel & Trust Co. in Memphis. by Thomasville. degree in speech language Patrick Blake is chief operat- A-10 Rhodes Winter 1997 Class Notes ing officer for Quest Interactive Olympic Games. director for Arnold & Truitt Man- Media in Memphis. Brad Haynes is a commercial agement Consultants while com- Andrew Chaney is on a one- account executive for pleting his Ph.D. in economics at year internship from Princeton CellularOne in Jackson, Tenn., NYU. Seminary as an assistant pastor at and is pursuing his M.B.A. at Lynn Taylor is an assistant edi- Providence Presbyterian Church, Union University. He serves on tor for Seiniger Advertising in Hilton Head, S.C. SEE the boards of Jackson-Madison Los Angeles, which creates trail- MARRIAGES County Crimestoppers and ers and commercials for movie Kellye Crane, of Portland, Youthtown of West Tennessee. studios and feature films. Ore., is self-employed as a public Chris Kolker lives in Rob Taylor coaches wrestling, relations consultant. SEE Oklahoma City, where he is in a football and baseball at Houston MARRIAGES residency program at St. Antho- High School in Germantown, Tenn. Diana Sossaman Davis of ny Family Practice. Courtney Ward lives in Nashville is a legislative JoAnn Lynen Joaquin lives Sullivan's Island, S.C., where she coordinator at The Ingram in San Jose, Costa Rica, where she works as a programs coordinator Group, a public and government works as the homestay and for El Buen Samaritano Episcopal relations firm. SEE MARRIAGES student welfare coordinator for Center. Pete Ferrara works in the ILISA, a Spanish-language Laura Anderson Waterton mergers and acquisitions group school. SEE MARRIAGES works as a town planner for the at Price Waterhouse in New Kim Medland is enrolled in city of Vail, Colo. She holds a York. Georgetown University's gradu- master's degree in urban Danette Joslyn-Gaul is assis- ate public policy program. planning from Portland State tant executive counsel to the gov- Angela Holland Mills of University. ernor of Georgia. She graduated Nashville works as a sales from Emory Law School in 1994. manager for Holiday Inn Vander- ANNIE B. WILLIAMS, SEE MARRIAGES bilt and serves on the Holiday PRESIDENT Angela Gelzine works as a fam- Inn central sales team for the 92 NEXT REUNION: ily therapist for Youth Emergency Nashville area. Ocr. 17-18, 1997 Service in St. Louis. She holds a Misty Wakeland Monroe of Shane Beeson of Dallas is master's degree in social work Jackson, Miss., works as a law founder of The Christopher Com- from Washington University. clerk for Chief Judge John Frasi- pany Ltd., specializing in proper- Helen Glover received her er, Mississippi Court of Appeals. ty appraisal and liquidation. He master's degree in speech pathol- Darby Moore works as a field is also a company member of Ris- ogy from East Carolina Universi- archeologist and illustrator for ing Moon Theatre. SEE ty earlier this year, and is now SWCA, an environmental MARRIAGES pursuing her Ph.D. She presented consulting firm in Phoenix. Shannon Brown is doing a pedi- her master's thesis at an interna- Angela Hissing graduated atric residency at Children's Med- tional conference held in from the University of ical Center of Dallas. She graduated Nijmegen, Netherlands. Wisconsin-Madison in the from the University of Tennessee Morgan Goodson has summer with an M.A. in applied College of Medicine in 1996. obtained a master of studies in English linguistics. She has Jay Copeland is a first-year environmental law, received a fellowship from the resident at the Washington Uni- and currently practices law in SOROS Foundation, which versity School of medicine, South Royalton, Vt. enables her to teach upper-level department of pathology. Jason Greene has received his English and train teachers at Chris Cox of Arlington, Va., Ph.D. from Indiana University, Samara State University in works as a federal lobbyist for and is now an assistant professor Russia. the National Rifle Association. in the business school at Georgia Clayton Spencer was recently Kelli de Witt works in adver- State. appointed assistant professor of tising sales for The Memphis Flyer Pressley Harris has joined the chemistry at Illinois College. He newspaper. Atlanta fund-raising and consult- holds a Ph.D. in theoretical chem- Allison Fuss passed her ing firm of Alexander O'Neill istry from Cornell. doctoral comprehension exams in Hass & Martin. She was formerly Steven and Stephanie Monte American history at Notre Dame, a communications representative Sullivan '93 live in New York, and is now researching her for the Atlanta Committee for the where he works as research dissertation.

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Randy Graham of Alexandria, technician at Ericsson Telecom in of medical school at the Universi- Va., is a network manager for Dallas. ty of Tennessee. Universal Systems Inc. Terron Shoemaker recently Jennifer Coker is pursuing Amanda Murray Hofstetter took a new job as studio manager her M.A.T. in early childhood ed- was recently promoted to senior of CryRock Recording and Mas- ucation at the University of Mem- internal auditor at Bank United tering Studios in Memphis. phis and working at Burke's of Texas in Houston. Kyle Swift of Memphis is an Book Store. Vikkie Holland studies and assistant professor of clinical Forrest Conner has graduated teaches music in Chicago. She pharmacy at the University of from Owen Graduate School of won second place in the Young Tennessee College of Pharmacy. Management at Vanderbilt, and Artists Division of the Chicago Annie B. Williams of works as an investment chapter of the National Associa- Nashville received a J.D. from consultant for a small firm in tion of Teachers of Singing com- Columbia University last spring. Nashville. petition. Last summer, she Stacy Holston Zeller is a Jim and Sarah Houser Dick- traveled to England where she at- senior at Louisiana State Univer- ens live in Holyoke, Mass., tended the Britten-Pears School sity Medical School in New where she is director of social for Advanced Musical Studies. Orleans. SEE MARRIAGES work at Linda Manor Extended Julie Jenkins is an attorney Care Facility, and he is a Ph.D. with Janecky, Newell, Potts & LYNN CRABB, PRESIDENT candidate in astronomy at the Wells in Mobile. NEXT REUNION: FALL 1998 University of Massachusetts' Robert Lahiere of Memphis is Peter Adams works as Five-College Radio Astronomy co-owner of AAA Translators Inc. 93 assistant athletic market- Observatory. SEE MARRIAGES and its spinoff company, Imagik, ing coordinator for the University Dina Facklis lives in Chicago, a web site development firm. of Memphis. He holds an M.Ed. where she works as an Mike and Cassy Kasun Lewis in sports managment from the accountant and production man- '93 are graduate students at Uni- University of Arkansas. ager at The Second City. She also veristy of Iowa. He is in American Lara Babaoglu is earning an performs improv regularly. studies, and she, biology. international M.B.A. from the Les Johnson attends law Arden Towson Lindsey of University of Memphis. She is school at the University of Collierville, Tenn., is a senior currently interning in Paris with Mississippi. staff member of Ernst & Young's the Axiohm company. Amber Khan lives in Washing- financial analyst services group. Lynette Breedlove of ton, D.C., where she works as na- Mark and Heather Dorris Livingston, Texas, is a county ju- tional deputy field director for Miller '93 live in Memphis, venile probation officer for edu- the Interfaith Alliance. She was where he is in his third year of cational programming. formerly with People for the dental school at the University of Chrissie Burr of Little Rock American Way. Tennessee, and she works as a works as a compensation analyst Paul and Amanda Gatlin physical therapist at Baptist for ALLTEL Corporate Services Knapstein '94 live in Memphis, Rehabilitation in Germantown. Inc. She has an M.A. in industri- where he teaches and is head She is a graduate of the UT-Mem- al/organizational psychology football coach at Memphis phis physical therapy school. from the University of Arkansas Catholic High School. Chris Moore is an associate at Little Rock. Shannon Maris is working on with the Chattanooga law firm of Dan Carl is an Air National her master's degree in biology, Leitner, Moffit, Williams, Dooley Guard C-130 pilot stationed in with a concentration in vertebrate and Napolitan. He earned his J.D. Kansas City, Mo. He has served zoology, at the University of degree last spring at University in the anti-drug trafficking cam- Memphis. of Memphis. paign in Central and South Susannah McLendon is in her Lane Patton Patikas works as America, and spent last summer second year of graduate school at assistant director of youth flying to and from Bosnia while Middle Tennessee State Universi- ministries at Independent Presby- based in Romstein, Germany. ty, where she is working toward terian Church, Memphis, and is Joe and Susan Long Caste lli a master's degree in taking graduate correspondence live in Memphis, where she is industrial /organizational courses from Covenant Seminary public relations manager for the psychology. in St. Louis. Metropolitan Inter-Faith Associa- Ken Milman of Memphis has Dana Peterson is a software tion, and he is in his fourth year been promoted to EDP audit

A-12 Rhodes Winter 1997 Class Notes manager at National Bank of Austin, Texas, where she works games channel. Commerce. as a technical writer. Sarah Hall is an advertising Charles Mitchell teaches Corey Galle of Mobile works administrator for Memphis maga- ancient history and geography as an environmental health zine and The Memphis Flyer. and coaches football and basket- specialist in land resources and Amanda Kronin attends Hofs- ball at Germantown (Tenn.) High development for the Mobile tra Law School in New York. School. County Health Department. Vaughn Massie recently Wendy Young Mullins Matt Hardin works at the entered medical school at the received an M.S. in clinical Rothman Agency, a literary and University of Tennessee, psychology from Eastern talent agency located in Beverly Memphis on full scholarship. Kentucky University last year. Hills, Calif. He holds an M.S. de- Camille Napier is pursuing her SEE MARRIAGES gree in management from master's degree in liberal studies Katherine Goodloe Peatross University of Tennessee, at Georgetown University. works as a counselor at Youth Knoxville. Keith Rivers attends law Villages in Memphis. George Hawkins is a school at the Mercer School of Paula Porter lives in Boone, mortgage banker with Castle Law in Macon, Ga. N.C. She works as a billing coor- Mortgage in Birmingham. Stephanie Rogers of Roswell, dinator for Hubbard Molly Bradley Jackson of Ga., works as an assistant finan- Management, which is involved Nashville works as fund manager cial consultant at Merrill Lynch. in nursing home operation, prod- in the Tennessee Performing Arts Chris Williams is pursuing a uct sales and distribution and Center's development office. SEE master's degree in environmental medical equipment billing MARRIAGES studies at Yale University's throughout the Southeast. Alison McVoy works as a med- School of Forestry and Sumi Sankaran of Downers ical writer for Business On Hold Environmental Studies. SEE Grove, Ill., works as a computer Inc. in Roswell, Ga. She holds a MARRIAGES consultant for Platinum Solution. master's degree in humanities Brian Tierney is in medical from Florida State University. SCOTT BROWN, PRESIDENT school at the University of Virginia Pearce Seawell of NEXT REUNION: FALL 2001 Mississippi. Atlanta works in the benefits de- 96 Amy Hall of Memphis is partment of Wolf Camera and a public relations NANCY TURNER, Video. assistant at the advertising/pub- PRESIDENT Alicia Swanson is church sec- lic relations firm of Walker & As- 94 NEXT REUNION: FALL 1999 retary at First Evangelical Church sociates. Judy Brown of of Memphis. Dan Millner attends graduate Arlington, Va., works for the U.S. Nancy Turner is pursuing an school in civil engineering at Senate Committee on Energy and M.B.A. at the University of Texas, Texas A & M. Natural Resources for Chairman Austin. Meredith Neer is a student Frank Murkowski. teacher at Kingsbury High School Jennifer Buhl lives in CLYDE HENDERSON, in Memphis. Knoxville, Tenn., and works as a PRESIDENT Carey Skinner of Atlanta is a clinical case manager at Camelot 95 NEXT REUNION: FALL 2000 professional in training at Geor- Family Resource Center in near- Kimbrelle Barbosa is gia Power Co. by Maryville. assistant vice president of private Michael Stoker of New Orleans Chip Campbell attends law banking at First American is the creative and graphic director school at the University of South National Bank in Memphis. for Mercury Advanced Services, a Carolina. Bryan and Sara Barnette regional multi-media/communica- Chad Davidson received an Coker live in Columbia, S.C. He tions corporation. M.S. in physics from Louisiana is in his last year of graduate State University in 1996. school, and works as a graduate Anne Falgoust is a financial assistant in the office of student analyst for Chaffe & Associates life. SEE MARRIAGES Inc., a New Orleans investment Thomas Gieselmann lives in bank, and is pursuing her M.B.A. Hamburg, Germany. He works at at the University of New Orleans. America Online-Germany, Susan Gabrielson lives in responsible for the Internet and

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to Christine Putney, '94 Jennifer Robert Ellis, June 6, Marriages Dec. 30, 1995. Wineland to Robert 1996. '40 William '91 Kellye Crane to Craft '95, Sept. 7, 1996, '79 Jack and Julie Craddock to Patricia Tim Brezina, June 1, Memphis. Ann Trimble, a son, Holliday, Aug. 24, 1996. 1996. '95 Sara Barnette John "Jack" D. VI, Jan. '74 Jeff Perkins to '91 Katherine to Bryan Coker, July 11, 1996. Kathryn Jaskevich, Sept. Goodrich to Ethan Fly- 27, 1996, Baton Rouge, '80 Andy and Shel- 21,1996, Atlanta. nn, April 30, 1996, La. ley Fletcher, a son, '75 John McMillin Silver Spring, Md. '95 Kim Crowell to Carson Matthew, July to Susan Dover, Aug. '91 Danette Joslyn John Little '93, May 31, 1996. 24, 1996. to Jonathan Gaul, May 18, 1996, Alexandria, '80 Joel and Kaycee '76 George "Herb" 13, 1995. La. Strickland Hansel, a Gunn to Joan Dennehy, '91 JoAnn Lynen to '95 David daughter, Jeana Claire, Aug. 24, 1996, Detroit. Manuel Antonio Humphreys to Kimber- May 3, 1996. '76 Joy Elizabeth Nicaragua Joaquin, ly Garvin, May 18, 1996, '82 Greg and Tess Hale Welch to Jeffrey Aug. 3, 1996, San Jose, Clinton, Miss. Peters, a son, Brody, McManus, June 29, Costa Rica. '95 Rachel Nelson July 22, 1995. 1996, Hollywood, Calif. '91 Diana to Chris Gilreath '94, '82 Herbert and '82 John Presley to Sossaman to Doug Aug. 10, 1996, Dorothy Sanders Amy Swanson to, Oct. Davis, May 5, 1996. Brownsville, Tenn. Wells, a daughter, 12, 1996, Memphis. '92 Coleman '95 G.A. "Bert" Meredith Nicole, June '85 Margaret "Peg- Barton to Steven John- Robinson to Ashley 11, 1996. gy" Wood to Stanley son, Aug. 10, 1996. Collins, Sept. 28, 1996, '83 John and Elisa Dale Townsend, Sept. '92 Shane Beeson Memphis. Yarber Clouthier, a 14, 1996, Prince Edward to Katrin Beacom, May '95 Julie Wilkins to son, Michael James, Jan. Island, Canada. 11, 1996, Dallas James Allen Price, Sept. 12, 1996. '86 Kelly Weems to '92 Cristi Champlin 21, 1996, Little Rock. '83 Paul and Jane Edward Rothman, Oct. to Randall D. Howard, '95 Chris Williams Dewey Deaton '82, a 31, 1996, Memphis Aug. 24, 1996. to Sarah Helen Stanton, daughter, Nancy Joan- '87 Harriet Smalley '92 Shantih Geary Aug. 10, 1996, Hatties- na, Sept. 23, 1995. to Scott Anthony Mon- to Bert Smythe, July 15, burg, Miss. '84 Harold "Trey" nig, Oct. 19, 1996, 1996. '96 Karen Huddle- and Alice Marie Clark Columbia, Mo. '92 Stacy Holston ston to John Phillips, Danks, a son, Harold '88 Donna Mannina to Joseph Zeller, July 6, July 27, 1996, Nashville. Barnard III, Sept. 5, to John L. Young, Sept. 1996. '96 Timothy Smith 1996. 28, 1996, New Orleans. '93 Katherine Mc- to Amy Ward, Sept. 21, '84 Ken and Darla '88 Dawn Pries to Caa to Robert 1996, Batesville, Miss. Rea, a daughter, Christopher Smith, May Baldwin, July 13, 1996, Abigail Leigh, June 28, 4, 1996. Salt Lake City, Utah. 1996. '89 Todd Moore to '93 Sarah Houser to Births '86 Neal and Amy Christie Garrett, March James Dickens, June '72 Abdel Hafid Hazlewood McAtee, a 30, 1996. 1, 1996, Birmingham. Lahgazi-Alaoui and daughter, Maggie, June '90 Beth Batson to '93 Elizabeth Nancy Hotta!, twin 13, 1996. Gavin Murrey, Dec. 16, Jones to John Douglas, daughters, Sana'a and '86 Joe and Theresa 1995 April 20, 1996. Safa'a, Jan. 19, 1995. MacCurdy, a daughter, '90 Gretchen Nan- '93 Wendy Young to '75 Ralph and Car- Maggie Elizabeth, July nie to Robert Hoffman, Stephen Mullins, Oct. olyn Crenshaw Carl 13, 1996. May 17, 1996. 26, 1996. '79, a son, Marshall '86 Geordy and Kelly '90 Joe Tamborallo '94 Molly Bradley Hilliard, Oct. 1, 1996. Wells, a son, Pender to Monica Long, July to Will Jackson, Sept. '78 Steve and Moore, June 25, 1996. 27, 1996, New Orleans. 14, 1996, Florence, Ala. Wendy Masters, a '87 Ken and '91 John Caviness '94 Katherine Cole daughter, Sarah Kathryn Murphy to Margaret Ritten, Oct. to Todd Photopulos, Meghan, Aug. 16, 1996. Anderson, a daughter, 19, 1996, Memphis. Aug. 10, 1996, '78 David and Joan Suzanne Nell Murphy, '91 Andrew Chaney Memphis. Ellis Green '79, a son, May 26, 1996. A-14 Rhodes Winter 1997 For The Record

'87 Jerrold and Jan July 5, 1996. Church (U.S.A.), he Club. The widow of Ben Buckaloo, a daughter, '90 Andrew and leaves his wife, Grace Edwards '35, she leaves Clayton Anna, Jan. 25, Jean Sulzby Jones, a Bergen Mohns; a two sons, a brother, six 1996. daughter, Marie Davis, daughter, Grace; and a grandchildren and three '87 Philip and Char- April 11, 1996. son, Dr. Edward B. great-grandchildren. lotte Cooper Gaskins, '90 Brad and Mohns '65. '37 Jean Byars a daughter, Rebecca Michelle Shelton, a '31 Thomas E. Roberts of Memphis, Cooper, May 3, 1996. daughter, Miranda Burke of Memphis, Oct. Aug. 21, 1996. A mem- '88 Felix and Tracy Whittles, Aug. 3, 1996. 19, 1996. Retired ber of Independent Bryan, a son, Travis '91 Dan and Ashley certified life insurance Presbyterian Church, Clifton, March 7, 1996. Harper, a daughter, underwriter and real es- she was the widow of '88 Luke and Louise Flannery Ellen, Aug. 26, tate agent, he was an William S Roberts Jr. LyeII Lampton, a son, 1995. Army field artillery cap- She leaves four daugh- Crawford Denkmann, '91 Mike and Lynn tain in World War II. ters, two sons, 10 grand- Oct. 15, 1996. Duncan Summerfield, The widower of Jane H. children and eight '88 Thierry and Lau- a daughter, Shelby, May Burke, he leaves a great-grandchildren. ra Holman Lonjaret, a 15, 1996. daughter and a son. '41 Billy B. Boothe daughter, Rachel Elaine, '91 Bryant and Hel- '33 Louise Thomas of Sarasota, Fla., July 5, Sept. 27, 1996. Ion Frances Buford Biggs of Natchez, 1996. A retired '88 Ben and Lori Witt '90, a son, Carter Miss., Aug. 2, 1996. A lieutenant colonel in the Guth McCaghren, a Shields, July 16, 1996. member of First Presby- Air Force, he was a daughter, Mary Jane, '92 Philip and Arden terian Church, she was World War II veteran Oct. 14, 1996. Towson Lindsey, a also active in the who served in the 22nd '88 Glenn and Karen daughter, Andrea Daughters of the Ameri- Bomb Group and later Tillery, a son, Christo- Nicole, Oct. 14, 1996. can Revolution, Garden as a volunteer with the pher Allen, Oct. 9, 1996. Club of America, Hurricane '88 Keith and Julia Natchez Art Association Reconnaissance Unit of Mitchener Obituaries and the Mississippi the Army Air Force Turnipseed, a son, '22 Abner Brown Stitchery Guild, of Weather Service. The Richard Evans Bratton, Harvey of Clarksville, which she was a charter widower of Jeanne April 8, 1996. Tenn., June 23, 1996. Re- member. She leaves two Booth, he leaves a son, '88 Sarah Wayland tired chairman of the daughters and four two sisters, Beverly and John Loukidelis, a board of Byers and Har- grandsons. Boothe Kelly '37 and son, Spyros David vey Real Estate, he was '34 Charles R. Lay- Sarah Boothe White '39, Loukidelis, June 5, 1996. also an author and his- man of Memphis, July and a twin brother, '88 Joe and torian of the 11, 1996. Founder of Henry L. Boothe '41, all Shannon Linder Wel- Cumberland region. Layman-Memphis Inc., of Memphis. born '91, a son, Joseph The Clarksville- he was a World War II '42 Mary Margaret Braden, Feb. 9, 1996. Montgomery County veteran, a member of Page Bailey of '89 Joe and Jenne Public Library named Bellevue Baptist Church Memphis, Aug. 25, Adams Pirani, a its genealogy room after and was involved in the 1996. The widow of daughter, Catherine him in 1994. A World Inquirer's Class at St. James Harris Bailey, she Marie, July 9, 1996. War I veteran, he was a John Orthodox Church. leaves a daughter, two '89 John and member of First Christ- He leaves his wife, Mar- sons, two brothers, Dr. Jennifer Moman Voss, ian Church and garet Law Layman, a Gene R. Page '48 and a daughter, Alexandra belonged to several daughter, a son and two Dr. Roy C. Page '52 of Elizabeth, March 22, civic clubs. He leaves a granddaughters. Memphis and five 1996. daughter, two sons, 10 '35 Katherine grandchildren. '90 Larry and Shel- grandchildren and 12 Stratton Edwards of '42 Kitty Bright Tip- lie Ruoff Creson, a great-grandchildren. Memphis, Sept. 12, ton Brayton of Dyers- son, Alexander Edward, '24 The Rev. 1996. She was a member burg, Tenn., Aug. 5, July 13, 1996. Edward A. Mohns of of St. John's United 1996. The widow of Lee '90 Bill and Karen Portland, Ore., April 27, Methodist Church, Omar Brayton, she Finch Gannaway '93, 1996. A retired minister Junior League of Mem- leaves a daughter, a daughter, Celia Grace, of the Presbyterian phis and LeBonheur Katherine, and a son,

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John Brayton '71. York Cotton Exchange. longtime radiologist at leaves his wife, Kay F. '43 Malcom V. Hin- During World War II, he Baptist Memorial Hospi- Markette, a daughter son of Memphis, June was decorated for saving tal and an inventor who and a son. 22, 1996. Manufacturing three soldiers from in the early 1970s '62 Thomas F. Gamer representative with Hin- drowning. He leaves his invented one of the first Jr. of Ripley, Tenn., Oct. 1, son Inc., he leaves his wife, Virginia Thomason biopsy needles in the 1996. Director and wife, Florence H. Frye '48, a daughter, a son world, he came to president of Gamer Funeral Hinson, a daughter, and three grandchildren. Rhodes as a 17-year-old Home, he was a 32nd three sons, a sister and '48 Jack B. Hilzheim merit scholar from main- degree Mason and member five grandchildren. of Memphis, Aug. 21, land China. A diplomat of First Baptist Church. He '44 Joe Barry 1996. Retired of the American Board was named 1996 recipient Mullins of Hattiesburg, immigration specialist of Radiology, he was of the Rotary Award for Miss., June 5, 1996. He for the state of past president of the Outstanding Citizen of was a professor emeritus Tennessee, he was a Memphis Mayo Alumni Lauderdale County. He at the University of communicant of St. Association. He leaves leaves his wife, Katharine Southern Mississippi. Mary's Episcopal Cathe- his wife, Georgianna Lee Warren Gamer, a daughter, '47 Clarkie Elizabeth dral. He leaves his broth- of Memphis, a daughter a son, three sisters and an "Betty" Dale Williamson er, Allen H. Hilzheim '43 and two sons. aunt of Oak Hill, Ala., July 29, of Memphis. '53 James Norris '72 Stephen J. 1996. She was a member of '48 W. Theodore Sappington of Schmidt Jr. of Atlanta, the United Daughters of the Johnson of Sarasota, Lewisburg, Term., May July 25, 1996. President Confederacy, the Fla., July 12, 1996. 1, 1996. The owner of of Dixie Seal & Stamp Daughters of the American '49 Martin E. Rickey Sappington Jewelry, he Co., the company his fa- Revolution, the Daughters of Bloomington, Ind., Sept. was a director of First ther founded, he of the American Colonists, 8, 1996. Professor emeritus National Bank and Na- established the Stephen J. the Colonial Dames, and of physics at Indiana Uni- tionsBank, past Schmidt Jr. Scholarship at the Magna Charta Dames. versity, he designed and president of the Rhodes. A portion of At the time of her death, built the university's Marshall County Cham- each sale of Rhodes she was state registrar for cydotron and was a con- ber of Commerce and license plates, which are the John Key Chapter of the sultant at research centers Kiwanis and served on manufactured by his Colonial Dames, and was in Oak Ridge, Los Alam- the Marshall County company, goes to the also serving as chaplain of os, Brookhaven, N.Y., and Court. A member of scholarship for students the Francis Bllingsley I throughout Europe. He First Baptist Church, he with financial need. An Chapter of the DAC. She received numerous leaves his wife, Muriel outstanding athlete, he was a lifelong member of awards for his Renegar Sappington of played varsity basketball the Bethel Associate accomplishments in accel- Lewisburg, a daughter, for Rhodes and was Reformed Presbyterian erator physics. A World two sons, a brother and recently honored by the Church. She leaves her hus- War II Navy veteran, he seven grandchildren. Atlanta Tip-Off Club, band, Howard Foster leaves his wife, Ellen '54 Patricia "Patsy" which endowed him Williamson of Selma, two Krueger, of Berlin, two Braswell Culverhouse of with its Most Courageous sons, an aunt, a brother and daughters, one son and Fulton, Mo., Aug. 10, 1996. Player award. He leaves five grandchildren. two brothers. A retired teacher at the his wife, Terry Schmidt, '48 Raymond Berson '50 Frank Bradshaw Missouri School for the two sons, his parents and Frye of Fresno, Calif., of Atlanta, July 30, 1996. Deaf and a volunteer at a sister. June 21, 1996. He founded Founder of Bradco Inc., Callaway Hospital, she '74 Joan Booth Ed- R Berson Frye Co., a lead- he was a veteran of leaves her husband, the wards of Lake Edward, ing cotton trading compa- World War II and the Rev. Cecil G. Culverhouse, Fla., Nov. 2, 1996. ny. He was president and Korean War. He leaves two sons and a sister. a board member of the his wife, Joanne Powers '58 Ronald Lee Mar- Fresno Cotton Exchange, Bradshaw '51, two kette of Stone a trade delegate to Europe daughters, two sons, a Mountain, Ga., Aug. 25, for the American Cotton brother, a sister and five 1996. Director of dental Shippers, and a member grandchildren. services at Georgia of the Liverpool Cotton '53 Dr. Ling H. Lee of Regional Hospital- Association and the New Memphis, Oct. 5, 1996. A Atlanta for 29 years, he

A- 16 Rhodes Winter 1997 ashington, D.C. In this city teeming with history are four A SENSE women who share a distinctly similar past and present. While possessing an academic history of having attended OF PLACE Rhodes, all three are also responsible for the preservation of some of the nation's most prized PRESERVING AMERICA'S historic structures. HISTORIC HOMES The character of these national treasures—from the expansive bowling green of Mount Vernon to By Anne Herbers Farris '78 Photos by Bob Narod the daub chink of a rustic log cabin—are as diverse and distinct as the women who oversee their care. And yet, all the structures harbor vibrant histories brought to life by these four women who have grown to appreciate the value of history through their studies and careers.

Winter 1997 Rhodes 17 he oldest and most mod- history. "I was going to major in est of the homes is the history, then decided on Ball-Sellers House, a Christian education," she said. T one-room log cabin "Now in retirement I've come owned and preserved by the back to my first love." Among Arlington (Va.) Historical her favorite classes at Rhodes Society. Its director is Martha were those taught by history pro- Beggs Orth, a Memphis native fessor John Henry Davis. who attended Rhodes in 1949-50 But retirement is hardly the before graduating from the word to describe Orth's involve- Presbyterian School of Christian ment in historic preservation. Education in Richmond. She also Besides overseeing the Ball- earned her master's degree in Sellers House as a volunteer, she human relations at the University also is a docent at two other his- of Oklahoma. toric homes in Washington and While visiting a friend in tends to her own 18th-century Washington 30 years ago, she weekend farmhouse in the north- met her future husband and ern neck of Virginia. remained in Washington, where "It's funny. I still feel like I'm she worked for the Federal 18 years old at Southwestern. Deposit Insurance Corporation You don't grow old inside," she and the Comptroller of the said as she sat in the shade of a Currency. 100-year-old wisteria vine pro- It was only after retirement truding from the rock foundation that she discovered her love of of the Ball-Sellers House.

Rhodes Winter 1997 While overshadowed by the cabin for a kitchen as late as 1969. size and grandeur of other his- The last owner, Marian Rhinehart toric mansions and plantations in Sellers, gave the house to the his- Virginia, the Ball-Sellers House torical society in 1975 for preser- provides a much more accurate vation and public visits. The representation of how most of home is listed on the Virginia America's first families lived. Landmarks Register and the "It's a little jewel," she said, National Register of Historic pointing out the simple brick Places in America. hearth and oak-planked loft Orth and her husband share where five daughters once slept. an active interest in historic "This is the way most of our preservation. Both are members ancestors lived." of the Arlington Historical Orth appreciates the rarity of Society, for which Orth served as the Ball-Sellers House, even with president in the 1970s. When she its modest presence. "Lots of the retired from the Comptroller of grand houses survived, but the Currency office, she agreed to houses like this were destroyed help direct the Ball-Sellers House by termites or fires, or people tore for one year. That was five years them down," she said. ago. "The house becomes your Nestled in a quiet middle-class life almost," said Orth. suburb between an interstate During her tenure as director, highway and a public library, the she has researched and compiled house is a rare example of the a history of the house in a book dwellings of ordinary families titled Martha Beggs Orth, curator of the The House That John Built. Ball-Sellers House (at left), built during the 1700s. It is the oldest She has also expanded committee in the 1750s house in Arlington. and volunteer efforts to open the Orth tells the history of the house on a regular basis for tours 246-year-old house as if the origi- and provide programs for school- nal occupants were contempo- children. raries. A yeoman farmer named She recently acquired grants to John Ball bought 166 acres from produce a video about the house Lord Fairfax in 1742 and built the for school groups and tours and one-room Tidewater house near a to plant a vegetable and herb gar- stream called Four Mile Run in den behind the house replicating the northeastern part of Virginia. one cultivated by the Ball family. To build the house, he felled "People relate to this house trees, hewed logs and chinked when they come here because it's the cracks with mud daub. where their forefathers lived," "His inventory shows he used Orth said. an axe, a foot adz, chisel, rasp and hand saws," Orth said while of far away, in the pointing out the handmade win- heart of Georgetown, dows, white exterior weather- is a vastly different boarding and rare oak clapboard N home of some more roof that is among only a few of the nation's forefathers. It is 18th-century board roofs pre- Dumbarton House, an excep- served in the nation. Each tional example of attenuated crudely cut log reveals the tex- Federal period architecture, and tured labor of Ball's endeavor. the first refuge for Dolley Orth recounted the lineage of Madison during her daring dash dwellers and how they added a from a burning White House set lean-to and eventually a two- afire by British troops in 1814. story Victorian farmhouse to the Preserving this rich history is original cabin. One owner was Nancy Wasell Edelman, curator George Washington's tailor, and of education, history and research another dweller used the original at Dumbarton House. Edelman, a

Winter 1997 Rhodes 19 native of Winston-Salem, N.C., galleries featuring the works of and 1964 Rhodes graduate, has Thomas Hart Benton and George been the home's education cura- Caleb Bingham. When her hus- tor since 1992, when the owners band was appointed U.S. ambas- decided to renovate the home sador to Cameroon in 1987, she and expand its public education managed the ambassador's resi- programs. dence there. She also hosted To do that, they hired social events for the embassy Edelman, who brought with her centered on art exhibits, such as vast experience in the arts, music shows mixing traditional and history and a love and American art with art indigenous appreciation for the aesthetic and to Cameroon. historic value of the home. "My life in the arts has been "I'm the glue that keeps every- like a string of pearls. Every thing together," she said, mod- period is a different one. My mis- estly describing a job that sion is historic preservation," includes soliciting grants, direct- said Edelman as she turned an ing the adult education curricu- eight-inch-long brass key and lum, coordinating the catalogue unlocked the front door of of museum collections, adminis- Dumbarton House. tering a program for 5th grade The house is an elegant brick public school students, research- mansion sitting high atop a tract ing the manuscript collection and of land called "the Rock of overseeing 70 docents. Dumbarton" which was patented Nancy Wasell Edelman, curator of "I love learning through by Ninian Beall in 1703. The education, history and research at objects," she said, recalling that home was built in 1799, one of a Dumbarton House she was seven years old galaxy of fine homes built when she received her around Washington when the first art book filled with federal government began locat- the works of master ing there permanently. One of artists. Her mother was a the earliest occupants was Joseph piano teacher and she, an Nourse, the first register of the accomplished violinist. U.S. Treasury. Edelman transferred to Dumbarton House contains Rhodes from Agnes Scott furniture in the Sheraton and in her junior year. At Hepplewhite styles and features Rhodes, she majored in decorative art collections of the French, took art courses late 18th and early 19th centuries. from Lon Anthony and Among the collections are ornate especially enjoyed the Chinese porcelain and a coach Man (Search) course. coat that belonged to Martha After earning a mas- Washington's granddaughter. ter's degree in art history The house, now the national at the University of North headquarters of the 16,000-mem- Carolina, Edelman moved ber National Society of The to Washington in 1969 to Colonial Dames of America, is live near her sister and listed on the National Register of friends. She became an Historic Places. The society assistant at the bought the house in 1928, International Exhibitions restored it and four years later, Foundation and a cata- opened it for 25-cent tours. loguer at the Paul Mellon • Among the guests at Collection in Virginia. Dumbarton House during She married in 1973 Edelman's tenure have been for- and moved to Missouri, mer Secretary of State Warren where she directed and Christopher, German Chancellor managed exhibits and Helmut Kohl and numerous U.S.

Rhodes Winter 1997 senators. Under a school tour Susan Olsen '79, has successfully program Edelman originated, meshed her exuberant 1990s' more than 1,000 schoolchildren style with the staid presence of from local public schools tour the colonial antiquity at Woodlawn. home each year and participate in "You can feel the history in this hands-on history programs. house," Olsen said excitedly as she Edelman has also made the sat in her office, which is perched stately home come alive in recent in a second-story dormer room years through music and manu- with a portico window provid- scripts. ing a view of rolling "I wanted the home to be filled Virginia hills. "It's with music," she said. So in 1992 served as a religious she started a free concert series at building and pri- Dumbarton House featuring the vate home to sen- Friday Morning Music Club, a ators and chamber music ensemble that playwrights." performs circa 1800 music on The Federalist period instruments. imposing Edelman and the staff also plantation have relied on the home's manu- home was script collection to bring its his- built for tory alive. It had long been Eleanor rumor, but never substantiated, "Nelly" that First Lady Dolley Madison Custis had stopped at Dumbarton Lewis. As House while fleeing from British the nation's First Granddaughter, troops. But only recently was it Lewis lived here with her hus- proved when a historian visiting band and four children, filling the Dumbarton House recalled hav- house with furniture from Mount ing seen reference to Madison's Vernon, the retired president's stop in the private papers of a home, and her detailed needle- former Navy secretary. work creations. Curators and volunteers con- Today the house is a meeting ducted extensive research, and place for numerous community Edelman supervised their work groups, including Nelly's for the compilation of "Dolley at Needlers, a needlepoint associa- Dumbarton," an exhibition docu- tion that hosts the Annual menting Madison's escape to Needlework Exhibition, the old- Dumbarton. The temporary est and largest needlework exhi- exhibit, housed on the second bition in America. Olsen herself floor, featured 14 letters culled has become an accomplished from the Dumbarton manuscript needlepoint artist while working collection written by Madison to at Woodlawn. the family of Rebecca Morris, Olsen's appreciation of history who became Treasury Register dates to her college days. "My

Joseph Nourse's daughter-in-law. good fortune came when I flunked linear algebra and F fifteen miles south in switched to history," Olsen Fairfax County, Va., is recalled. She was so taken by his- Woodlawn Plantation, a toric studies at Rhodes that she two-story brick colonial even had a giant poster of her home with architecture similar to British history professor, Franklin that of Dumbarton House. Built Wright, hanging in her dormitory in classic Federalist style in 1800, room. it was a wedding present for As part of her course work, George and Martha Washington's she helped catalogue the Clough granddaughter. Its director, Collection at Rhodes. But she

Winter 1997 Rhodes 21 decided that historic but two homes of historic and preservation would architectural significance at the become her career and 126-acre Woodlawn Plantation. lifelong pursuit when Not far from the plantation man- she was among four stu- sion sits a classic Usonian archi- dents selected as interns tecture house designed and built at the Dixon Gallery and by Frank Lloyd Wright. Gardens in Memphis. The 1940 Pope-Leighey House, "I knew the bug hit reflecting Wright's belief that me the day the gallery homeowners of moderate means received a new Monet," should have well-designed she recalled. "We sat on homes, is a stark contrast to the a rug in front of the Woodlawn mansion that reflects painting drinking cham- the opulent culture of an evolv- pagne, gazing at that ing plantation system. painting for hours." The Pope-Leighey house is After graduating, she built of cypress, brick and glass, worked at the Memphis and features Wright's trademark Pink Palace Museum as minimalist design and concepts an assistant conservator. of organic unity. As with all Shortly after, the Wright's homes, the architect also Magevney House in designed its interior furnishings. Memphis was suddenly The home was originally built in need of a curator. At 10 miles away in Falls Church, age 23, Olsen found her- Va., for Loren Pope, a young self as the Magevney journalist at the time who wrote House director. Wright asking for a custom-built From there she home that would meet his cou- became director of Belle pled desire for material and spiri- Meade Mansion in tual things. "The writer has one Nashville before moving fervent wish that includes both," south to become director the journalist wrote Wright. "It is of the Key West Art & for a house created by you." Historical Society. She In 1964 the house was rescued flourished in that tropi- from the path of highway con- cal paradise, overseeing struction and moved to the restoration of the Woodlawn Plantation by Mrs. Key West Lighthouse and acqui- Robert Leighey, who donated the sition of a former customs house home to the National Trust for for the future home of the East Historic Preservation. It is one of Martello Art Museum. Within three Wright homes owned by eight years, she was appointed the trust. chief of the Florida Bureau of The current setting for the Historical Museums in Pope-Leighey home—on the Tallahassee, overseeing all of edge of a thick pine and oak for- Florida's state-owned museums. est of the plantation—closely The job was short-lived because resembles its original surround- of political turnovers, and after 10 ings when first constructed. months she was blanketing the Pope, now 85 years old, serves country with résumés. She was on the Woodlawn Council. He thrilled when Woodlawn called also helps preserve the Pope- her two years ago for an inter- Leighey home and conducts view and hired her immediately. tours for college groups and visi- "To do history in Virginia is the tors. A $750,000 renovation of the best it gets," she said. house was recently completed. Olsen oversees the preserva- "The only thing in common tion and public use of not one, about the two houses is

22 Rhodes Winter 1997 Woodlawn was Nelly's dream both nationally and in the house and this was Pope's dream Washington area for the last 14 house," Olsen said. years. Most recently, she was Olsen is in charge of 42 staff director of development at Mount employees and 100 volunteers. Vernon, where she spearheaded More than 50,000 people visit the estate's capital improvement Woodlawn Plantation each year. efforts. "Historic preservation has Olsen stepped out onto the been an important element in my front porch of Woodlawn man- life," Myers said. sion where two centuries ago, Growing up in midtown Nelly Custis would stand and Memphis among some of the gaze at Mount Vernon, George city's older homes, Myers devel- Washington's farm plantation oped an appreciation for historic along the Potomac River three preservation at an early age. An miles to the east. English major at Rhodes, she recalled how American history oday, visitors can share classes reignited that interest. the same view of Mount Myers was involved in efforts Vernon, one of many to save Overton Park from a T homes that another highway expansion program, and Rhodes graduate has helped to she worked with the Memphis preserve through her fund-rais- Heritage Foundation in its Susan Olsen, director of Woodlawn Plantation, and Loren ing efforts. attempt to save a Union Avenue Pope in the Pope-Leighey house Mary Mooney Myers '77 has house from destruction. at Woodlawn. Frank Lloyd Wright worked in historic preservation After graduating from Rhodes, designed the house for Mr. Pope.

Winter 1997 Rhodes 23 she became direc- has been tagged "the largest tor of the college's assembly of preservation movers annual fund, and and shakers in the nation." Under then director of Myers' leadership, the Heritage development. In Society was saved from near 1983 she moved extinction and expanded to to Washington, include 1,000 members from its D.C., and began original membership of 150. It also working for the tripled its level of financial sup- National Trust for port with revenue in fiscal year Historic 1996 of more than $1.5 million. Preservation, one She instigated an extensive of the nation's travel program for Heritage largest preserva- Society members to see their own tion groups. The and other successful preservation trust, with 250,000 efforts first-hand. One donor visit members, is a pri- to Washington featured tours to vate non-profit the State Department, French organization char- embassy and dinner at the vice tered by Congress president's home. In 1991 Myers in 1949 to become expanded the travel program to the nation's include annual trips to Europe. repository of his- After 13 years with the torically signifi- National Trust, Myers went to cant homes. It Mount Vernon, the 200-acre owns 19 homes, estate in northern Virginia that including served as a temporary home to Montpelier and George Washington during his the James and service in the Revolutionary War Mary Mooney Myers Dolley Madison home and the and as president. One million vis- Rockefeller estate in New York. itors a year pass through the During her first two years at gates of Mount Vernon, where the National Trust, Myers was Washington retired permanently, director of historic properties two years before his death. fund-raising and headed efforts Myers was responsible for to help trust properties overseeing Mount Vernon's capi- strengthen their development tal improvement program that funds capital and operating bud- calls for future construction of gets. In that capacity, she was new buildings, including an responsible for half the trust's interpretive museum focusing on properties, including Woodlawn Washington's life as a landowner, Plantation, the Woodrow Wilson family man and progressive House and the Decatur House farmer. (home of naval commander While George Washington Stephen Decatur), which are all may be America's most famous in the Washington area. historical figure, his personality She also oversaw the develop- and character still remain enig- ment efforts at the Chesterwood mas to both lay observers and Home and Studio in historians. Massachusetts' Berkshire "He was a man of action and Mountains and Drayton Hall in virile in his outlook on life. I like South Carolina. Her efforts were to call him the Bill Gates of agri- so successful that local support culture, which was the primary groups were established at each economy of the time," said of the properties. Myers. "He was a businessman Myers then became director of with outstanding leadership the trust's Heritage Society which qualities." 13

24 Rhodes Winter 1997 Catherine Cuellar, a '96 Rhodes graduate, wrote Doing the following piece about Chad '90 and Anna Owens Dunston '92 for The Dallas Morning News.

Their Chad and Anna Dunston are a twentysomething couple you Part might not expect to find in the COUPLE'S CATTLE COMPANY meat industry. He's got a religious AIDS HUNGER RELIEF EFFORTS studies degree. She's got one in BY CATHERINE CUELLAR political science. But a cattle com- STAFF WRITER THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS pany is where they've put their education—and ideals— to work.

Anna and Chad Dunston say that part of their cattle company's mission is to promote the "dignity and well-being of all people" through social action on hunger. Photo by Louis DeLuca/The Dallas Morning News s an undergraduate at Rhodes you do not have a moral obligation to College, a Presbyterian liberal assist. arts school in Memphis, Tenn., "Hunger is the most basic of all s. Dunston took a theology needs," she added. "Food and water are Amclass on "Hunger, Plenty and Justice." what it takes to survive, and if you're "One goal [of the class] was to under- going to try to give dignity and well- stand the scope of the world hunger situ- being to a person, they've got to first ation," she said. The professor "asked for exist. As human beings, we're all part of you personally to decide as an individual this world and we're all God's crea- what your role is in this whole hunger tures, so we have a responsibility to problem, and whether you feel you do or help others." Hunger, Plenty and Justice By Martha Hunter Shepard with the problems of world dents and the general public to Students who take Professor hunger. Study is given, for the economic, ethical, historical Michael McLain's "Hunger, example, to Heifer Project and political dimensions of pro- Plenty and Justice" course often International, the 50-year-old ducing and distributing food in are in for a humbling, some- nonprofit ecumenical organiza- today's world. times life-changing, experience. tion based in Little Rock. Heifer In addition, McLain has The semester begins with a gives needy families and com- established student study of philosophical issues munities livestock and the service / learning projects in related to hunger. It then moves training to Honduras, and to the causes of international raise them this spring, will and domestic hunger and so that scout Heifer ser- whether or not the "haves" have they can vice possibilities a duty to aid the "have-nots." enjoy food near South Ten percent of the students' security Africa's Rhodes grade depends on their involve- and derive University, with ment in community service income which Rhodes activities. Students are required from local College is estab- to deliver a meal to an economi- markets. lishing an cally deprived elderly person Heifer exchange pro- through the Memphis requires gram. Metropolitan Inter-Faith the ani- McLain says his Association's home meal deliv- mal's first interest in world ery program. They also work offspring hunger was whet- one afternoon feeding the to be ted at a confer- homeless at Souper Contact, the passed to ence he attended soup kitchen run by Rhodes a neigh- Prof. Michael McLain at the University students at nearby St. John's bor, which Photo by Troy Clark of Texas several United Methodist Church. has a multiplier effect on the years ago. Speakers such as McLain was instrumental in community. Frances Moore Lapp& author of founding Souper Contact. McLain has represented Diet for a Small Planet, and Throughout the semester, Heifer at two United Nations social activist William Sloane guest speakers come to class to conferences, one in Rome that Coffin urged academics to teach talk about hunger, medical care dealt with nutrition, the other in about world hunger. "They for the poor and working poor, Cairo that focused on popula- asked some good questions, so I crime and welfare. tion and development. In the did it," he says.

Finally, the students come to early 1980s he was co-director of - "There is a chain of poverty grips with it all in a term paper. Rhodes' "Food for Thought," a that involves hunger, the inner The theme: "Do We Have an three-year interdisciplinary pro- city, crime and joblessness," Obligation To Aid People with gram funded by the Kellogg says McLain. "Once you under- Unmet Subsistence Needs?" Foundation. "Food for Thought" stand what hunger is, it takes Solutions are taught along was designed to introduce stu- you far afield." immaimiga. Atiniffmrall

26 Rhodes Winter 1997 Part of the mission of the Dunston's own company, Crystal Creek Cattle Co., is to promote the "dignity and well-being of all people" through social action on hunger and other issues. Mr. Dunston was running a wholesale commissary that supplied meat to his father's steakhouse and about 100 other local restaurants when he and his wife saw a niche for a retail gourmet meat company. Since founding Crystal Creek in August 1995, the couple have sup- ported nonprofit organizations such as Heifer Project International, a hunger relief operation that provides animals to hungry communities so that they can produce their own food. They wanted to feel good about what they were doing and how they were doing it, and they wanted the company to reflect their beliefs. "It kind of led us to use Crystal Creek as a vehicle for our social responsibility," Ms. Dunston said. "We feel people should have to help others. So that's how we got from meat to Heifer Project."

he Dunstons selected Heifer Project International from their studies of hunger relief organizations because they liked its Tapproach. The project requires that the offspring of animals they provide be business world you have to be careful, In Guatemala, the gift of a passed along to other members of the because it can turn some people off. Heifer Project community. It seeks to promote sustained Hopefully, Crystal Creek will reflect the sheep provides an self-sufficiency rather than dependence positive things we're trying to do in a ongoing source of on handouts. social, global sense, and then personally protein food for the family and Crystal Creek's catalog includes infor- we can have our own faith and beliefs." income to pay for mation about Heifer Project International, The Dunstons have also contributed clothes and and $2 from every steak-sampler sale gifts from their catalog to silent auctions schooling goes to the project. One of the three pages that support other causes they believe in, photo by John Petersen in its packaging insert is also dedicated to from the Dallas Farmers Market to Equest project information, and Crystal Creek therapeutic horseback riding. As the com- puts literature from Heifer Project pany grows, they hope their charitable International in every shipment. partnership with Heifer Project "Up until now, Heifer Project was try- International will grow as well. ing to influence and contact people "Part of the reason we're doing this," through churches and religious institu- Mr. Dunston said, "is we're hoping that tions and occasionally Rotary," Mr. by committing to a nonprofit organiza- Dunston said. "This is a vehicle for them tion from the very beginning, maybe through us to go to people that may not other people will see what we're doing be affiliated" with those groups. and we can lead by example. I don't think "Heifer is very careful to say that we're going to change the world for they're rooted in the Christian tradition," Heifer....We feel like you've got to start Ms. Dunston said, "but they help people somewhere." 111 of all faiths, and people of all faiths work with them, which attracted us. Reprinted with permission of The Dallas "We have personal beliefs, but in the Morning News

Winter 1997 Rhodes 27 In Print

Racial Politics at the Crossroads By Marcus D. Pohlmann, Rhodes during the yellow fever epidemic day in city elections and in Associate Professor of Political and were replaced by parochial, everyday life. Science, and Michael P. Kirby, rural-born conservative white It is a kind of poison left from Rhodes Associate Professor of residents. At the same time, the the long, bitter racial confrontations Political Science. 269 pp. Knoxville: black population was among the that Pohlmann and Kirby clinically The University of Tennessee Press. highest of any city in the nation. refer to as "racial reflexivity." $34 hardback, $17 paper. That set the stage for By Nate Hobbs the political battles of The Commercial Appeal the 1900s, a power game There can hardly be a city in in which white conserv- Racia l' I America that would make a atives sought to main- better laboratory than Memphis tain dominance and Politics for the study of race. black residents sought at the Casual and formal conversa- to gain at least a share rossroads tion sometimes reeks of it, espe- of power. cially when that conversation In quick summary, turns to politics. As the politi- the black-white battles cians talk publicly and privately, are recounted during their language often evinces a the reign of E.H. "Boss" black-white tone. Crump from 1909 until Race so enmeshes the city's his death in 1954, and politics that one can regularly the subsequent adminis- and correctly call the outcome of trations of mayors an election just by looking at the Henry Loeb and Wyeth racial breakdown of registered Chandler. voters and the racial identity of Most prominent is the candidates. Certainly that Crump, an avowed seg- Memphis Lle(ts was the case for the 1991 mayoral regationist who tolerat- Dr. \\. llerenton election, as this book chronicling ed no power position for that contest makes clear. an African-American in Marcus D. Pohlmann Racial Politics at the Crossroads, his political machine, and Michael P. Kirby by Rhodes College political scien- even though he regis- tists Marcus D. Pohlmann and tered black voters to cast Michael P. Kirby, is not only a ballots for his chosen Memphis Mayor W.W. Herenton, left; the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Memphis civil clear-eyed look back at the may- candidates. When black rights activist Maxine Smith at the Lorraine oral contest but a summarized leaders challenged Motel, the site of Martin Luther King Jr.'s history of the fascination that Crump and his white assassination. voters in this Southern metropo- dominance, he sought to lis have had with the color of run them out of the city or have "At that juncture, because of their elected officials. them physically assaulted. that area's interracial history, any The writers are less interested While acknowledging that candidate's attempt to gain sup- in assigning blame for the racial Crump moved the city forward port across racial lines is immedi- politics than they are in revealing economically and socially and ately met with considerable sus- how it came to exist and perpetu- displayed a kind of noblesse picion within that candidate's ate itself. oblige toward black residents, own racial group. The candidate As they explain it, the conserv- Racial Politics concludes that his making such an appeal is seen as ative political culture of the city Southern-style apartheid paved naive at best or as 'selling out' at dates to the late 1800s when the the way for the suspicions and worst." progressive, cosmopolitan, for- mistrust between black and As the 1991 mayoral election eign-born white residents left white residents that linger to this arrived, incumbent Dick Hackett 28 Rhodes Winter 1997 In Print,

and challenger W.W. Herenton candidate in major elections, fear- mayor Hackett addressed cam- found themselves unable to ing the result would be more paign issues, the overwhelming appeal successfully across racial racially polarizing politics. number of voters were more lines without alienating their core By focusing almost exclusively interested in the race of the can- supporters: white voters for on the 1991 contest, the authors didates than in their articulated Hackett and black voters for discuss none of this. That is an political stances. Herenton. annoying aspect of Racial Politics. "In the absence of any glaring Unlike in most other large cities The book gives a thorough policy disagreements or any that had elected black mayors, airing of the Hackett and strong personal attacks, the two there was not to be a biracial coali- Herenton campaigns, from their mayoral campaigns sped along in tion here. And though the authors strategies to their fund-raising to an obviously parallel manner like find this highly unusual in a major their post-election views on how two adjacent trains in the night," city—the lack of a sizable base of Herenton claimed a 142-vote vic- the authors write. "Herenton cam- white liberals who see beyond tory with less than 3 percent of paigned largely in the African- race in voting—perhaps it is not the white vote. American community, Hackett in altogether surprising. Yet little consideration is given the white community." However, one has to go to the forces surrounding the As the array of footnotes, sta- beyond the mayoral elections city, especially the segregated tistical analyses and post-election assessed in Racial Politics for a South, that helped shape its polit- interviews indict the city's addic- possible explanation. tion to racial voting, Consider the 1974 elec- the authors ask tion of Harold Ford to bravely whether Congress. Ford won there is a way to kick with the kind of coali- the habit and move tion that sent many from this crossroad, black candidates to vic- which gives title to tory in mayoral elec- the book. tions: broad black sup- They suggest that port combined with a Herenton has pre- significant number of sented the city such white liberal voters. an opportunity by In reporting Ford's assembling a pro- victory over a white Marcus Pohlmann, left, and Michael Kirby gressive black-white incumbent to become governing majority the state's first black elected con- ical history. Nor is much atten- that so far has triumphed over gressman, this newspaper (The tion paid to polarizing black fig- the hard-line racial adherents in Commercial Appeal) said Ford ures such as Ford, who played a both communities. They point to received about 15 percent of the significant role in the 1991 and 40 percent white support for white vote in a district where just the 1983 mayoral elections. Herenton in his 1995 re-election 45 percent of the voters were black. The fact is that once the num- as evidence that such a majority He won by just under 600 votes. ber of black registered voters is at least conceivable. That black-white coalition was overtook that of white regis- Maybe. Pohlmann and Kirby not to grow or even last, howev- tered voters, using race to too quickly conclude without a er, as Ford's fiery rhetoric, with appeal to voters became just as serious discussion of their most its racial overtones, made him effective for black candidates as interesting question. But don't be just as controversial in the white it had once been for white can- discouraged by the quick exit. community as the conservative didates. There was no refuting Up to that point, the well-writ- Loeb and Chandler were in the that after the 1991 election, ten, well-organized book is a black community. The obvious when citywide black registra- political insider's delight. question is whether white liber- tion outnumbered white regis- Copyright, 1996, The Commercial als who voted for Ford retreated tration for the first time. Appeal, Memphis, TN. Used with from future attachment to a black As Herenton and incumbent permission. Winter 1997 Rhodes 29 From Albariim To Zinfandel-Uncorking The Secrets Of Wine By Martha H. Shepard years. It could also include what around the country and the Criendship can be like a terrific different terms mean in regard to world who come to visit, con- I wine that gets better over time. wine, such as 'fat' (full of body), ducts wine tastings and dinners And writing about wine has 'short' (having a short aftertaste) around the country and plays as earned renowned connoisseur or 'long' (having a lingering much tennis as possible. Ensrud Barbara Ensrud the solid friend- aftertaste)." is an integral part of the Oxford ship of scores of readers—from From 1979-92 Ensrud, who writing community whose mem- sophisticated oenophiles to the then lived in New York, also bers include such luminaries as red, white and rosé-only crowd. wrote a nationally-syndicated John Grisham and Barry Hannah. Generous with her knowledge weekly wine column that ran in "I was really ready to leave and clear in her prose, the 1961 several major U.S. newspapers. New York," says Ensrud. "I had Rhodes graduate is the author of She let that column go in 1992 lived there more than 25 years. I five critically-acclaimed books on when she moved to Oxford, Miss., love New York—it's a fabulous wine. Ensrud also writes a wine to be with her ailing mother, who city—but I was getting a little column for The Wall Street died a year and a half later. tired of urban life. Art, theater, Journal, something she music, dance—all of has done "fairly regu- those things meant a lot. larly" since 1984, and But what I discovered her articles and essays in Oxford was how have appeared in the much I'd missed this country's leading maga- kind of life. I like work- zines and cookbooks. ing in my yard, the ease Ensrud's latest book, of getting around. I can Best Wine Buys for $12 do in 20 minutes here and Under (Villard half a dozen errands Books, 1995), is a handy that would take three to pocket guide that tells four hours in New readers exactly what York." they need to know With Memphis about wines, what they International Airport a cost and the best food to little more than an hour serve with them. Not away, she says she can only that, it shaves time fly anywhere in the spent in wine shops and world from there as eas- arms buyers with solid ily as from New York. knowledge guaranteed Barbara Ensrud Photo by Randall Shepard 114 She has an upstairs to knock the socks off office, a fully stocked local wine merchants. "The trigger for coming here wine cellar, of course, and the And more help is on the way. to Oxford was my mother. I tops of her kitchen cabinets are Her current book in progress, An don't know if I'll stay here forev- lined with the empty bottles of Alphabet for Oenophiles (working er, but I do like it," she says. great wines she's enjoyed. title), will be a collection of Originally from Pine Bluff, Among the rows, one in particu- essays on different aspects of Ark., Ensrud lives in a comfort- lar stands out—a 1985 Barbara wine. "It's not a dictionary," she able home in a new Oxford Ensrud Cabernet Sauvignon. says. "But, for example, an entry neighborhood with her cats— Working with a vintner friend might be: 'A is for aging' which New York-born-and-bred Chipi, in California, she bottled it by would deal with why age is whose coloring resembles that of hand—"the old-fashioned way." important in wine and what vin- a chipmunk, and Meg, an almost- She harvested, even crushed the tage dates signify, or why a red Himalayan. grapes with her bare feet, bottled wine can last 4-5 years or 20-30 She often sees friends from and corked it. "It was a squishy, 30 Rhodes Winter 1997 sticky business that felt wonder- Her web page, which will be to cook and in good wine. We ful," she laughingly says of her available free of charge, will were starting to learn a little bit hands- and feet-on experience. include news, a wine special of when I went to work for Time- "It's a lightish red wine, but I've the week and a "discovery" sec- Life's book division." been very happy with it. It's 11 tion for special wines—both new Working with noted author years old now, and some bottles and rare or older wines that she Alec Waugh and photographer are still quite good, especially the considers to be of exceptional Arie deZanger, Ensrud had to magnums (double bottles). But quality. check everything that went into not any wine will last forever." the book. Consequently, she Ensrud, who curtailed her says, she learned a lot about travel while caring for her wine very quickly. "I started mother, is back on the road going to tastings, met a lot of again. In late fall, she flew to wine experts and read every- Paris and Burgundy, where thing I could get my hands on, she met old friends at the although there wasn't very famous Hospice de Beaune much about wine back then." charity wine auction and the Ever the student as well as ensuing festive dinner at the the teacher, Ensrud says that neighboring 600-year-old "learning about wine is really Château Clos de Vougeot. The learning about the histories of auction, she says, features bar- different cultures. For instance, rel lots of wine from the new the health benefits of wine have vintage that only shippers buy. been known since the time of The château is headquarters Hippocrates, and it's very nice for the prestigious Confrerie that modern science is now con- des Chevaliers du Tastevin firming some of the ancient (Brotherhood of the Knights of knowledge about wine." the Winetaster's Cup). In fact, a heartening study This year, she plans to spend reported in the Aug. 1, 1995 time visiting friends, vineyards Tufts University Diet & and wineries in California and Nutrition Newsletter flatly perhaps Australia. During these states that red wine is the best visits as in past ones, she talks alcoholic beverage for protect- to the winemakers, finds out Wines and Spirits by Alec Waugh ing against heart disease. It has what they're doing, if they've (top), which Ensrud researched and to do with the antioxidants red where she found her calling, and two changed the style of their wine of the five books she has authored, wine contains that keep "bad" or are developing new ones. Wine with Food with an introduction LDL cholesterol from forming As always, the information by noted writer M.F.K. Fisher and plaque that can block arteries. she gathers will go straight to Best Wine Buys. Her personal label, What's more, the article said, top right, was a true labor of love. her readers, and not necessarily Photo by Martha Shepard these antioxidants may prevent via the printed page. Another clotting in the blood, according ongoing project is creating a It wasn't a revelation gained to some preliminary evidence. home page on the World Wide by, say, a great glass of Pouilly- Ensrud, a champion of modera- Web to share current knowledge Fuisse that launched Ensrud's tion and a true connoisseur, is as she does in her Wall Street career, but her sober work as a pleased that wine is "so much more Journal column. researcher for Time-Life's 1968 a part of American culture now" "I do wine tastings all the time, book Wines and Spirits. than when she began her career. and the web page will be an outlet "I certainly didn't grow up "I don't like to see it become for that," says Ensrud. "In New with wine in any way, but I was too elitist or too snobbish or too York I went to three to five tast- living in New York at the time complicated," she says. "As long ings a week, and that was average and married. My husband and I as you enjoy it—that's the main between September and June." were very interested in learning thing." Winter 1997 Rhodes 31 Clary Relinquishes Coaching Post To Be Full-lime AD Mike Clary, head football coach Ferrum College 34-13. We've added four women's pro- at Rhodes for 13 years and athletic "I am extremely proud of what grams—cross country, golf, track director for seven, announced in our intercollegiate athletics pro- and softball—in the past seven late fall that he will grams have accom- years, and we plan to add wom- resign his gridiron plished since I became en's field hockey next fall." responsibilities to director of athletics in Clary, a 1977 Rhodes graduate, tackle the full-time 1990," said Clary. was a three-year starter at line- post of Rhodes ath- "We have nationally- backer and center for the Lynx letic director. A ranked soccer, cross- and served as a co-captain on the national search country and tennis pro- 1976 team. He earned a B.S. began immediately grams. Our men's bas- degree in biology and was named for a new head ketball team competed as a scholar athlete by the coach. in the NCAA tourna- National Football Foundation and Clary relin- ment a few years ago. Hall of Fame. He was also a two- Mike Clary quished his football Photo by Trey Clark We are excited about the year letterman in golf and was a duties after the Lynx potential of our wom- member of the 1975 Lynx golf final home game against Centre en's basketball program under team that won the Collegiate College. He entered the season new coach Lori McConnell. Athletic Conference title. finale as Rhodes' all-time win- ningest football coach. His career record is 69-46-6. Burger King Honors Glorioso, "I made this decision last February in the aftermath of our Awards Rhodes $10,000 1995 team tying for the SCAC After three years of starring on Fellowship of Christian Athletes. football championship," Clary the gridiron and in the class- He has also been named to the said. "Beating Millsaps and room, Lynx quarterback Jimmie 1996 All-Southern Collegiate Centre on the road to close the Glorioso '97 was honored for his Athletic Association First Team 1995 season was definitely one of outstanding academic, athletic and was selected 1996 SCAC Co- the highlights of my head coach- and community Preseason Player of the Year. ing career. But the scope of my efforts at the The Burger King College duties as athletics director has final game of the Football Scholarship pro- increased tremendously since season. gram chooses scholar ath- assuming the dual role in Burger King letes from institutions that September 1990. I came to the Corp. named represent each of the four conclusion I could not devote the Glorioso National college football divisions time and energy necessary to College Football (1A, 1AA, 2 and 3). keep our football program at the Scholar Athlete of In addition to athletic level we desire at Rhodes." the Week and achievements, award winners The Lynx, who were nationally donated $10,000 to Quarterback Jimmie must be starting football play- Glorioso ranked six out of seven seasons Rhodes' general Photo by Trey Clark ers in their final year of eligi- between 1985 and 1991, won the scholarship fund bility, have a GPA of more 1985 and 1987 CAC champi- in his name. The halftime award than 3.0 on a 4.0 scale and be active- onships, and the SCAC crown in presentation was held during the ly involved in the community. 1995. Perhaps the highlight of home game against Centre. Recipients are chosen by a panel of Clary's head coaching career was Glorioso, a Chalmette, La., National Football Foundation mem- Rhodes' 1988 team which posted native and biology major with a bers and Burger King Corp. repre- an 8-1 regular season record and 3.64 cumulative grade point aver- sentatives. This year, the program was selected to participate in the age, has been involved with the donated $1 million to 100 general NCAA Division III national play- Rhodes Adopt-a-Friend program scholarship funds in the names of offs. Rhodes was defeated by and is an active member of the outstanding college athletes. 32 Rhodes Winter 1997 Calendar

ty of Chicago and a lead- matinee April 20, all other — 2:30 p.m. Tickets: $16 ing authority on medical performances at 8 p.m. adults, $8 students and ethics; topic: "Why Doc- Tickets: $12 adults, $6 seniors. For information, RT tors Must Not Kill"; series students. For information, call the McCoy Theatre theme: "Critical Issues of call the McCoy Theatre box office, (901) 843-3839. FEB 22-MAR 22 Paint- Public Philosophy"; box office, (901) 843-3839. ings by Alonzo Davis and Hardie Auditorium, 8 p.m. MAY 2 Wool Socks Con- sculpture by Greely Myatt; FREE cert, Rhodes barbershop opening reception Feb. 21, ensemble; Hardie Audito- 5-7 p.m. Gough-Hanson rium, 8 p.m. FREE Gallery, Tuesday-Satur- M day, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. irsir MAY 16 The Rhodes (Closed during spring APR 14 Rhodes College Choral Music Series fea- break March 8-16) FREE Community Orchestra turing the Rhodes College Concert conducted by Singers, Tony Lee Garner, APR 5-18 Juried Student Charles Clark. Hardie conductor, and the Music Exhibition featuring works Auditorium, 8 p.m. FREE Academy Children's Cho- by Rhodes students; open- rus, Susan Van Dyke, ing reception April 4, 5-7 APR 27 The Rhodes director, presenting music p.m. Clough-Hanson Choral Music Series pre- of Gian Carlo Menotti and Gallery, Tuesday-Satur- sents Johann Sebastian Spain; Evergreen Presby- day, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. FREE Bach's Mass In B Minor terian Church, 613 Univer- featuring the Memphis sity St., 7:30 p.m. Tickets: APR 26-MAY 17 Senior Symphony Chamber $5 adults, $3 students and Thesis Exhibition; opening APR 24 The M.L. Seidman Orchestra, Rhodes Mas- seniors. Free for reception April 25, 5-7 Memorial Town Hall subscribers to the Rhodes p.m. Clough-Hanson Lecture Series presents Choral Music Series. For Gallery, Tuesday-Satur- Michael Leslie, Rhodes information, call the day, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. FREE professor of English and McCoy Theatre box office, dean of British Studies at (901) 843-3839. Oxford; topic: "Knowl- edge and Networks: Com- munication and Ideas in LECTURES the Scientific and Informa- tion Revolutions"; series Ca0 MAR 25 The Rhodes Phi theme: "Critical Issues of Beta Kappa Lecture Series Public Philosophy"; MAY 16 Baccalaureate, presents Dante scholar Hardie Auditorium, 8 p.m. Mississippi Boulevard Prof. Rachel Jacoff of FREE Christian Church, 70 N. Wellesley College; topic: Bellevue, 3:30 p.m. "The Poetics of the After- life." Blount Auditorium, May 17 Commencement, 7 p.m. FREE tersingers Chorale and Hubert M. Fisher Memori- THEATRE Rhodes College Singers al Garden, 10 a.m. Rain APR 2 The M.L. Seidman and alumni conducted by location: Bryan Campus Memorial Town Hall APR 10-12, 17-20 Ernest Tony Lee Garner; Ever- Life Center. Lecture Series presents in Love, a musical directed green Presbyterian Leon Kass of the Universi- by Barry Fuller. 2 p.m. Church, 613 University St.,

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Past and Present The social room floor of White Hall, the men's An article in the November/December 1996 residence hall constructed 1924-25, is inlaid with issue of Preservation magazine describes Mercer tiles from Henry Chapman Mercer's Moravian Tile (1855-1930) as a first-class manufacturer of Arts Works in Doylestown, Pa., according to University and Crafts-style tiles. He designed several series of of Louisville professor of fine arts William Morgan tiles, one of which was the discovery and in his 1989 book Collegiate Gothic—The Architecture exploration of America. of Rhodes College (University of Missouri Press). —Photo by Kevin Barre