THE MAGAZINE OF MEMPHIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL | FALL 2012 Special 3D issue Glasses Inside!

The Red and Blues Brothers Paulo Aur ’81 and Jason Lewin ’98 are on a 3D mission from Memphis Dr. Allan Gold ‘60 and his wife, Laura, are joined at the dinner table by an uninvited but welcomed guest while on safari in South Africa and Botswana in 2009. The photos at right were taken by Gold during the past five years while on his travels to Africa, Churchill Wild, Arctic Svalbard, Alaska, and The Great Basin. “I have been fortunate to travel and explore numerous wonderful places,” Gold said. “I am enam- ored and intrigued with wildlife, and it seems that photography enhances the wonders of what I am able to see and experience. I’ve dragged Laura to far-off places for many years, although more recently she’s taken a firm stance against really cold locales like the Arctic and Antarctic.” Director of Advancement Perry Dement [email protected] MUS TODAY Director of Alumni and contents Andrew Payne Parent Programs From the Editor Ann Laughlin [email protected] features My first 3D experience In the last 20 years, the company has Editor produced more than one billion paper 3D Andrew Payne was watching the 1954 [email protected] Red & Blues Brothers’ 3D Vision glasses for its A-List clients. 6 B-movie mystery Gorilla Paulo Aur ’81 and Jason Lewin ’98 are 10 ’67 Football: One Perfect Season Managing Editor 10 at Large in the living room integral to the success of APO today. Aur is Liz Copeland Baking an Oven-Fresh Cause of my boyhood home chief operating officer and Lewin serves as [email protected] 16 director of marketing. These two alums are Stipple Connects the Dots in Heflin, AL. The NBC featured on the cover of this issue of MUS Graphic Designer 18 out of Birmingham aired the Michael Guthrie affiliate Today as our “Red and Blues Brothers.” Not Family Ties Drive a Dream 20 film, starring Cameron Mitchell, Anne only did they donate the 3D eyewear you Contributing Writers: Bancroft, and Raymond Burr, one summer will find inside MUS Today, but they were Filmmaker Pedals Memphis Dean Atyia ‘04 22 Sunday night in the early ’80s. For weeks also fantastic sports as they pulled off our Noah Black MUS Brings Home the Lauds leading up to the well-publicized occasion, all parody of the iconic Jake and Elwood image Steve Bledsoe ‘70 30 the McDonald’s restaurants in the viewership Erin Floyd 35 like professional soul men. area stuffed 3D glasses in Happy Meals. Dr. John Harkins Junior Golfer’s Big Win 33 I came across Aur’s name and APO’s Ashley Johnston The young boy hype engine was firing on information my second week on the job Faculty Honors and Retirements Aimee McMillan 34 all cylinders. Talk of the glasses, acquiring as director of communications. His is an Andrew Millen ‘08 the glasses, angles from which to watch the intriguing story of a man who has traveled Norman Thompson movie, and lighting techniques – which Dev Varma ‘07 the world and returned to Memphis as an when properly employed would intensify disappointed. I was betrayed by my own entrepreneur and a leader at APO. When Photography: departments the effects of the third dimension – imagination. I had allowed the pregame I discovered this feature lead in March, Liz Copeland dominated our discussions. Nothing else ballyhoo to go to my head. Why else I knew my first issue of MUS Today Rebecca Greer Headmaster’s Letter on earth mattered. would I have held a Louisville Slugger was also going to be the first 3D issue of Erin Floyd 4 Coach Wallace Winston was our throughout the viewing if I didn’t at some MUS Today. Jack Kenner From the Archives elementary Sunday school teacher. On point expect that bloodthirsty gorilla to Andrew Millen ‘08 5 More than 30 years have passed since the morning of the premiere, he knew he burst through the Panasonic glass and try my 3D encounter with the Gorilla at Large. Lance Murphey Graduation Highlights Kathy Daniel Patterson 24 was up against a non-stop secular chatter to get his hairy opposable thumbs on my Perhaps I am still but a kid at heart with Board of Trustees Changes train engineered by a killer gorilla. So, he Orville Redenbacher’s? hopeful and unrealistic expectations, but 24 37 cut a number of Job’s trials short from his Bummed, and somewhat relieved, I I am thrilled today to provide you, our ON THE COVER: Gifts in Memory and Honor 38 lesson and allowed us a multidimensional slumped off to bed. readers, with this 3D issue of MUS Today film symposium in which we discussed the But that’s life on the sell end of a brilliant – an engaging visual publication I believe is Covers 40 movie, made predictions as to what in-your- marketing campaign. Great expectations both vintage and cutting-edge. It has been face stunts would occur, and pontificated might not have been met, but the enthusiasm Class News a joy to put this together with our staff and 43 about the elegant optical nuances of 3D and excitement of the event had sustained the impressive MUS alumni featured here. technology. None of us had any clue as to my friends and me for weeks. We had I look forward to getting to know you how 3D actually worked or what we could invested with all our hearts in this worthy as I move headlong into my new journey 56 expect from the gorilla fight scenes, but we and harmless endeavor. And for that, I am at MUS. It is both a tremendous honor spoke like a group of pencil-thin-mustached grateful. Creative promotions are inspiring. and great responsibility to serve you and Hollywood producers in a corner booth at 3D technology has traveled light tell your stories to the MUS community The Brown Derby. Anticipation boiled. years from the Gorilla at Large days. The and to the world. The movie played. I watched every effects are more brilliant, dramatic, and Photography: Lance Murphey Please enjoy this issue. You can leave Creative Direction: Andrew Payne second. It met few, if any, of my extravagant realistic. Televisions are designed with the baseball bats in the garage. However, Art Direction: Michael Guthrie expectations. As he applied a salve to the 3D capabilities, and most any advertising a football helmet may come in handy on The Blues Mobile provided by Tee-Bone Blues Mazar paper cuts on the bridge of my nose, my campaign worth its salt will include some page 15, and you might feel the need to father asked me what I thought of the type of 3D component. This is where duck on pages 58 and 59. at-home picture event of my lifetime. Memphis-based American Paper Optics © 2012 Memphis University School. All rights reserved. The name, seal, and logos of Memphis University School, as well as MUS Today, Inside MUS, The Muse, The Owl’s Hoot, The Owl, “It was neat, Dad,” I said. comes into the picture. APO is the world’s and Beg To Differ, are registered marks of Memphis University School and use in any manner is prohibited unless prior written approval is obtained from Memphis University School. But, I was disappointed. Deeply largest manufacturer of paper 3D eyewear.

2 MUS TODAY FALL 2012 MUS TODAY FALL 2012 3 Headmaster's Message

From the Archives Memphis University School Founded 1893 by Ellis Haguewood Mission Statement What’s in Memphis University School is a college-preparatory school dedicated An Archival Bolt from the Blue to academic excellence and the development of well-rounded young by Dr. John Harkins, School Archivist and Historian men of strong moral character, a Number? consistent with the school’s Christian tradition. ow does any organization to a science. Academic excellence cannot be fully lightly more than 100 years after a 1910 postcard Headmaster measured in numbers. We can suggest excellence was sent to her grandmother, Frances Crawford Ellis L. Haguewood or company support when we say that the library has more than 85,000 S Catmur approached me at a West Tennessee Board of Trustees its claim of excellence? books and e-books or that we offer Advanced Historical Society meeting at MUS and briefly described the Robert E. Loeb ’73, Chairman Placement classes in 19 subjects or that 66 percent postcard depicting our school’s football players. Samuel N. Graham II ’80, HIn most cases, they look for quantitative measures of our faculty members have advanced degrees or I had never seen or heard of such a card and expressed Vice Chairman (numbers) to support their case – 85 out of Gary K. Wunderlich, Jr. ’88, Treasurer that the average class size is 17 students. But these a strong desire to see it. She later scanned the card on both 100 people surveyed said they prefer Dr Pepper W. Thomas Hutton ’61, Secretary numbers point only to the possibility of academic sides and emailed the images to me. Then we both began our R. Louis Adams ’70 to Phillips’ Milk of Magnesia, for example. excellence. True excellence depends in largest part James F. Burnett ’83 historical detective work, and details began to emerge. Schools, however, do not generally compare on the quality of our faculty, and teaching is not a Suki S. Carson The card features 37 student athletes, faculty manager Glenn A. Crosby II ’77 themselves directly with others schools in science; it is an art. Academic excellence depends on Robert M. Fockler ’77 marketing. We would not see an ad that reads, “MUS the depth of knowledge a teacher has, to be sure, Adrian F. Smits, Coach Robert E. Denny, and janitor P. Trowbridge Gillespie, Jr. ’65 Henry Fields. The boys look a bit scruffy, perhaps wearing J. Brett Grinder ’91 has 14 National Merit finalists; school X has 2.” but it depends as much on his moral character, his Ellis L. Haguewood, Ex Officio In sports or academic competitions, it’s a little ability to build rapport with students, and his ability their practice garb. They vary considerably in size and age, Mark J. Halperin ’67 easier to compare our school to others, especially to inspire and motivate. so they were not all varsity players. The message on the Joseph R. Hyde III ’61 E. Carl Krausnick, Jr. ’79 when we go head to head with them. We don’t Our mission statement also commits us to reverse side reads “M.U.S. plays [Central] High School Andrew R. McCarroll ’86 have to say much about excellence when we have the “development of well-rounded young men Thanksgiving Day at Red Elm [later renamed Russwood] Johnny B. Moore, Jr. a football team that goes undefeated, a lacrosse of strong moral character, consistent with the Richard C. Moore, Jr. ’63 Park, 3 p.m.” It is addressed simply to “Miss Salisbury, Joseph M. Morrison ’78 team that wins a state championship, a Quiz Bowl school’s Christian tradition.” This is hardly a 1150 Union Av., City.” player and were pregame favorites to win. And win they did, beating D. Stephen Morrow ’71 team that beats all challengers, a Latin team that quantifiable goal. The end of education, I believe, Presumably, such cards were sent to help turn out fan support for the Owls 14-6. Sports-lingo-peppered clippings from The Commercial Wiley T. Robinson ’75 brings home the state title, a MathCounts team is to produce virtuous men – men of courage, the big, final game of the season. Usually, the Memphis Scholastic Appeal, furnished by local sports historian J.J. Guinozzo, describe the Chris R. Sanders that tops the state ranks, or a theater cast and Frederick C. Schaeffer, Jr. ‘88 integrity, compassion, perseverance, generosity, and Championship was decided at the annual turkey-day contest. This game’s highlights. These clippings show that Central played more Charles F. Smith, Jr. ’66 crew that earns Orpheum High School Musical selflessness. The ideals we promote in our classes game drew the largest crowd of the 1910 season. It was the eighth substitutes in the second half, and MUS enjoyed late-game success Owen B. Tabor, Jr. ’85 Theatre Awards. and assemblies, the lives we live before the students William E. Troutt in moving the ball and scoring. However, “wait ’til next year” was Every year, we are blessed to cite numbers that we serve, and the readings we assign from the best time these two teams had met, and it followed a scoreless tie in 1908 suggest excellence: that has been written – these, we hope, will have and a 3-0 Central victory in 1909. probably the prevailing MUS postgame sentiment. Alumni Association lasting effects on the boys with whom we work. The In the 1910 season the Central Warriors outweighed the Owls Indeed, MUS did defeat Central High 3-0 in 1911, a triumph Executive Board 85 Number of seniors in the Class of 2012 MUS celebrated by extending its Thanksgiving break with a victory Robert I. Abbay IV ’92 activities we design, the civility we demand, the by about 12 pounds per Albert M. Alexander, Jr. ’84 36 Percentage of seniors recognized by the Honor Code we uphold – these, we hope, will holiday the following Monday. Sadly, football manager Smits, fourth Oscar P. Atkinson ’96 National Merit Scholarship Corporation have their effect. But for this generation, we must from the left, second row from the top, died before the 1911 victory Jonathan A. Ballinger ’87 (highest percentage in Tennessee, by far) John B. Barton, Jr. ’95 wait to see whether what we are doing at MUS will over Central. The students memorialized him for his loyal support G. S. Clark Burrow ’95 72 Advanced Placement Scholars ultimately have the noble effects we desire. of the teams in their 1912 yearbook. Albert B. Carruthers II ’78 Nevertheless, when I take stock of the faculty Edward J. Dobbs ’89 19 One wonders whether Miss Helen Salisbury made it to the Number of 5’s (highest possible) by 19 at MUS and the men who have graduated from Jason J. Fair ’89 boys who took Calculus BC AP exam game. If she attended, was she among the lovely, lively young David J. Frazier ’01 this great school in years past, I take more than ladies the newspaper referred to as “sponsors” and included in their Andrew E. Garrett ’03 529 Applications to college by the senior class simple hope. I take solid assurance. Our teachers Paul T. Gillespie III ’01 sports coverage? The Commercial Appeal wrote: “Each eleven was have never been more competent or more engaged Patrick F. Hopper ’89 1,001 Number of wins by Coach Peters- represented along the side lines by sponsors, gaily bedecked in the Joel M. Kaye ’84 coached varsity teams since 1964 in professional development or more dedicated to Albert E. Laughlin III ’94 their work. And when I see alumni who are giving colors of their cause.” Andrew A. McArtor, Sr. ’86 On March 24, 2011, Catmur and her mother, Eleanor Abernathy R. Allen McCool, Jr. ’77 At MUS, we have always had excellent numbers. shape and vision to the future of Memphis, I am Daniel H. McEwan ’88 For me the real issue is whether we are excellent in confident that we are doing the right things at MUS. Crawford, made a special trip to the MUS campus to donate their Gregory H. Meyer ’79 those parts of our mission that are less quantifiable. They are leading in business, medicine, law, and original postcard to the school Archives. Thank you, ladies, for Edward F. Nenon, Jr. ’03 Charles P. Oates III ’77 Our mission statement says we are “dedicated education, and they are serving the community on helping MUS recapture a page from its past and for setting a fine James A. Robinson, Jr. ’68 to academic excellence.” We can hardly define nonprofit boards in great numbers. example for other potential archival donors. Harry E. Sayle IV ’92 academic excellence with numbers. Our teachers’ commitment to excellence and Scott S. Sherman ’89 Cleo W. Stevenson, Jr. ’68 In one of his late 19th century lectures, scientist our alumni’s virtue provide conspicuous evidence Although the card is postmarked “11 PM Nov 22 1910,” the game John D. Stewart ’78 William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) said, “When you that “dedicated to academic excellence and the was played on November 24, only 40 hours later. Perhaps because John M. Summers ’05 cannot express it in numbers … you have scarcely development of strong moral character” are more Miss Helen Salisbury saved this card, she received it in time, William R. Tayloe ’92 Jonathan A. Van Hoozer ’88 advanced to the stage of science.” than mere words. attended the game, and cheered for the Owls. Scott D. Williams ’85 And that’s the point. Education cannot be reduced They are reality. Craig H. Witt ’85 MUS TODAY FALL 2012 5 three months before the toss of the had a massive job providing specialized lens Brothers University, where he earned a commemorative coin, with a red-and materials to McDonald’s for a Happy Meal master’s degree in accounting. Thereafter, blue-lensed Hail Mary thrown from toy. We provided them with 130 million units he landed a position at Deloitte & Touche, Memphis to Madison Avenue. of our Holospex film. I guess 130,000,000 which took him and his wife, Jeanne Canale Supporting the massive Super Bowl 3D is the magic number for APO.” Aur, to Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, a city on the promotion with mountains of glasses – Persian Gulf in the eastern province. produced on a highly compressed schedule The Roads Back Aur worked for Deloitte & Touche for – was an accomplishment worthy of a to Memphis three years before transitioning to Saudi SportsCenter highlight. Lewin had just begun An outstanding lacrosse player, Lewin played Aramco, the national oil company of his job as director of marketing, and the on the Owls varsity squad from 1996-1998, Saudi Arabia and the world’s most valuable company only had 90 days to manufacture earning All-State honors three times. His company. He worked for Aramco for six 130,000,000 sets of 3D glasses for the event. senior year the Owls won the state title, years before he, his wife, and their young son, “Our glasses were distributed to the and he earned first-team All-American Ford, returned to the Mid-South in 2003. public in what was called the biggest 3D honors. Upon graduation Lewin went to the “We were made to feel very comfortable media-advertising event in history,” Lewin University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where while in Saudi Arabia; it was an amazing said. “Naturally, we had to increase our he earned a BA in finance. He then moved place, an incredible experience,” Aur production 50 percent while still keeping up to Memphis to work as an analyst in the said. “The area where we worked and with all of our normal day-to-day operations. acquisitions group for International Paper. lived was Westernized, and everything A great game plan and a more than willing Aur took a more circuitous route back to was done at the highest level possible. I staff allowed us to complete this massive Memphis and to his COO/CFO position remember the Little League fields – they project before the actual deadline. You could at the 3D company. Originally from Brazil, say that we scored a touchdown.” Aur’s family moved to The River City when Aur serves as chief operating officer and his father, a pediatrician, joined the staff of chief financial officer for Memphis-based St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. APO, which was founded in 1990 by John “I transferred to MUS in the eighth grade Jerit. Aur said APO was making close to from a school where manners and respect for 72,000 pairs of glasses per hour – 20 per others and their property were not taught,” second – from the moment production began Aur said. “Come to think of it, respect for on the DreamWorks Super Bowl promotion. yourself was not instilled either. MUS gave “Once the clients gave their final approval, me confidence and instilled principles I live the production of the glasses was fairly by today, which include treating others with straightforward – the challenges at that point became matters of mechanics and logistics,” by andrew payne he said. “We simply had to keep the presses Paulo Aur ‘81 running. And that’s exactly what we did. It was a great project, but as the world’s largest were immaculate. The grounds were kept Paulo Aur ’81 and Jason Lewin ’98 these MUS brothers hustle with their teammates at American Paper manufacturer of this 3D product, we are to Major League standards, it seemed. It Optics (APO) to score big-name contracts, including one of their accustomed to fulfilling some large orders.” was a great experience, but we missed our have scored their share of goals. greatest wins to date during Super Bowl XLIII. Today APO manufactures more than family. I had been gone for nine years.” Memphis University School elite athletes When the Pittsburgh Steelers teed off against the Arizona Cardinals a dozen different types of paper 3D An entrepreneur at heart, Aur from different eras – one a former to battle for the Lombardi Trophy in early 2009, DreamWorks glasses in an unlimited number of frame rediscovered his stateside business footing professional soccer player, the other a Animation, Intel, and SoBe collaborated with APO to present the designs for clients all over the world. in short order. He and a friend started a first 3D movie trailer and commercial in Super Bowl history, just The company provided 4.5 million transportation company in 2006. In a recent inductee into the SouthEastern before halftime. It was an epic effort to promote the upcoming film ChromaDepth newspaper inserts for a Commercial Appeal story, Aur spoke about

Lacrosse Conference Hall of Fame – they Monsters vs. Aliens, along with a 3D spot for SoBe Lifewater that Verizon advertisement that was distributed Jason Lewin ‘98 the confidence it took to start the company: find themselves today working together featured NFL linebackers dancing to the Swan Lake theme. in 11 major newspapers including the L.A. “The entrepreneurial spirit is something on a corporate team, seeking victories on For the millions of football fans and media-spectacle Times, The New York Times, the Chicago to be proud of. It takes a lot of courage to aficionados huddled around their high-definition screens in Tribune, and the Houston Chronicle in respect, being a gentleman, having good pull the trigger on something like this.” the playing field of innovative marketing. living rooms throughout the nation, the Super Bowl was a 2010. Subsequently, APO produced manners, and being accepting of others.” Aur attributes this confidence, in part, to The game-winners, buzzer-beaters, long shots, and decisive blows thrilling six hours of action that began with the National Anthem millions of 3D magazine inserts for After graduating from MUS Aur went his MUS experience in the late ’70s and early of sporting days past will always hold a special place in their hearts. and ended with confetti, fireworks, and pronouncements from large promotions in multiple magazines to Mississippi State University, where he ’80s – and to one instructor in particular, Though they no longer don the Havard red and Yale blue from their the MVP that he would soon be vacationing with Mickey including Maxim and GQ. played on the Bulldogs’ soccer team two years Tom Brown, who had a profound impact respective years at 6191 Park Avenue, the orange and blue of The and Goofy – all happening one chilly February evening. But “[The Super Bowl promotion] ranks before finishing his collegiate soccer career on him as a young boy. Memphis Storm, or the “big orange” of the Tennessee Volunteers, from APO’s vantage point, the real action had taken place up there as one of the top orders,” Lewin at Memphis State University while earning “Tom Brown, geometry,” Aur said. “I said. “But there are many others now. We a BA in finance. He went on to Christian really can’t put my finger on it, but he 6 MUS TODAY FALL 2012 MUS TODAY FALL 2012 7 was somehow able to encourage me to tough, but also fair. We were being given relationship. work harder, which in turn improved my back our final papers one day. I needed a B “Paulo and I talk about it all the time,” Owls Now classroom performance and grades – all of in order to have a 4.0 for the semester. My Lewin said. “We have a lot of school pride. Claim a which gave me more confidence in myself entire class knew that I needed a B – including It often comes out when [we’re] meeting Hall-of-Famer and developed [in me] a passion for math.” Mr. Thompson – as I had announced this with John Jerit, APO’s CEO, who graduated Lewin shares similar sentiments about to him and my class on many occasions in from CBHS. Paulo and I stay current with Coach MUS – the academic, athletic, personal, and hopes that he would maybe feel bullied into MUS athletics and often talk about our Former All-State lacrosse player for interpersonal confidence it instilled in him. giving me the B. own individual highlights. The older we He also speaks of the powerful influence a “He kept my paper as the last one, and get, the better we were.” the Owls’ 1998 state championship masterful instructor had on him. he slowly approached me. At this point While their high school athletic careers team, Jason Lewin has returned to “MUS truly defined what a preparatory everyone had kind of gathered around me, in days past may improve with time, the MUS as a volunteer assistant coach experience should be,” Lewin said. “I was as they knew he would not give me a B if here-and-now in their professional fields of for the Lower School team. very fortunate to have been given the I had not deserved it. He turned the paper play needs no embellishment. Their list of opportunity to attend the school and still over face down, and he walked away. As he clients includes Coca-Cola, McDonald’s, When MUS asked if I would be thank my parents to this day for making that walked away he let me know that he would DreamWorks, NBC, Warner Brothers, part of the coaching staff, it was decision for me. MUS instilled values in me not give me any other grade than the one that Sports Illustrated, Target, and now Memphis kind of a no-brainer for me,” he that simply can’t be learned in your everyday I deserved. I slowly turned it over to see a B+ University School – APO designed, said. “What the Big 3 [Coach Elliott Dent, classroom. Not only that, the relationships at the top. The class erupted in cheers, and produced, and donated the 3D eyewear Coach Pat DiMento, and Coach David I developed as well as the experiences I had I could not have been happier. Amidst the included in this issue of MUS Today. Gearhardt] have done for MUS and lacrosse has been absolutely amazing. I felt that it was while there are things I cherish to this day.” high-fives I turned to look at Mr. Thompson Though they temporarily traded in their my time to be part of what they were doing.” One such experience for Lewin took only to see a smiling face that clearly let me customary business attire for Jake and In addition to Lewin’s recent contributions place his senior year in Norman Thompson’s know that I had deserved the grade. Those Elwood’s skinny neckties and fedoras, to the MUS lacrosse program, the former English class, when one grade on one are memories that you keep. For the record, these MUS red-and-blues brothers will “Owls standout was honored this spring with assignment would make or break his grade I still would like to think that my bullying continue to make multidimensional music induction into the SouthEastern Lacrosse point average. tactics might have given me the extra plus.” together while landing some of the biggest Conference Hall of Fame. The inductees “I had a lot of great teachers in my time at Though at MUS during two different gigs in town. were selected by a panel of current and past MUS,” Lewin said. “I’d have to say that Mr. eras, Aur and Lewin have a common bond coaches, players, and administrators of the Thompson stands out. He was notoriously upon which they have built a professional conference. This was the inaugural class of honorees, and it was made up of six former players and one contributor. The induction ceremony took place at halftime of the Division I championship game in Atlanta, GA, on April 29. Jason Lewin played his high school lacrosse at MUS from 1996-1998, “MUS gave me confidence receiving All-State honors three times. and instilled principles I His senior year the Owls won the state title, and he earned first-team, All- live by today, which include American recognition. His arrival at the University of Tennessee, treating others with Knoxville, in 1999 marked the beginning of strong success for the Vols program. An respect, being a gentleman, attackman, Lewin was All-Conference and a having good manners, and first-team All-American three years. Tennessee won back-to-back SELC championships his being accepting of others.” freshman and sophomore seasons, and he was the recipient of the Horn Award as the –Paulo Aur conference Offensive Player of the Year his freshman and junior seasons. He still holds the Tennessee single-season points record with 94 points, a record he set in 1999. He also holds the all-time scoring record for the Vols. Still active in lacrosse, Lewin plays for Team Music City as well as The Flying Elvis, in addition to his volunteer coaching for the MUS Lower School team.

8 MUS TODAY FALL 2012 MUS TODAY FALL 2012 9 The Red and Blues Brothers Scott Wellford ’68 remembers the Bolivar game for a different reason: “In our goal-line defense Bob Wilson [’70] and I were next to each other. We both weighed 140 at best. A fullback who was All-State scored just about the only rushing touchdown all year right over us, three straight plays. He weighed 240 by himself.” The game against archrival Germantown was memorable for the battle and the battle scars. Quarterback Weber Laughlin ’69 was tackled and hit the ground so hard that his helmet split open. He had a concussion and was out of the game, so Henry Cannon ’68 took over. The team would later learn that Cannon broke his hand yet continued to play. Then at the end of the third quarter with the score tied 7-7, Germantown’s running back popped through the line of scrimmage and got down to the 6-yard line before Wiley O’Neal ’68 tackled him. It was first and goal. McMillin called for a timeout, and Haynes McBride ’69 went over to the sideline. “We were sucking air, trying to catch our breath, and wondering, ‘What’s the secret? What are we going to do?’” John Cady ’69 said. “Haynes came back, leaned in, looked us in the eyes and said, When they posed for their team photo, the ’67 varsity team was on the cusp of their perfect season. ‘Challace said to hold ’em.’ “No strategy. Just hold ’em. Everybody went nuts, like we were

, and Steve Bledsoe move Billy Ayres, Kelly McGuire, David Dow Quarterback Players, from left, Weber Laughlin Cary Whitehead off the field on a ping-pong table after, supervises. he dislocates his shoulder ` sidesteps the defense. One Perfect Season in The Bolivar game. Cary’s father, Cary Whitehead, JR. shot with adrenaline, and we stopped them.” ’67 Football Team Shares Tales of the Undefeated The Owls ended up winning the game 14-7. The Little Cotton Bowl game against McKenzie in Brownsville was another unforgettable contest. Although MUS was favored to by Liz Copeland win, McKenzie led 14-0 at the end of the first quarter on a brutally cold night. About this time 45 years ago, the Owl varsity football players were poised and versatile to meet the demands of the season. They would have “We were all wandering around on the sidelines, feeling sorry for record-breaking success. They would go on to be undefeated and untied to slug it out and forge a team. for ourselves, trying to get warm,” Cady said. “And several of the in all 10 games that season, allowing their opponents only 33 points. “They really worked us to death from a physical standpoint,” said seniors challenged us – Sam Pepper [’68] and some of the other In celebration of the team’s anniversary, MUS Today sent out a call David Gingold ’68, who played fullback, among other positions. guys, walking up and down the sidelines, saying, ‘This game is not for alumni athletes to share their stories for a video presentation. Their “We had to be in better shape than the other teams that could freshen over.’ Sam literally took it upon himself to run over their defense, recollections paint a picture of grit and glory, of extraordinary athletes their squads at any time.” and we wound up beating them 21-14.” and great coaching, of brotherhood forged in competition and tempered The hard work paid off in their very first game, when they beat Gingold’s recollection of that night still makes him cringe. Pepper through the years. Whitehaven – a team with 100 players on the sidelines – 30-6. had run for a 60-yard touchdown, and the crowd went wild – until Eight other regular-season victories would follow. For most of the play was called back because Gingold had jumped offside. “I elly McGuire ’70 was a 15-year-old new kid the the players, three games stand out: Bolivar, Germantown, and the summer of 1967 when he joined the MUS football postseason Little Cotton Bowl. team. He remembers hearing cows nearby as he hit The Bolivar game left an impression not for the outcome (20-6) the practice field to drill with the older varsity players. but for an injury, one of many that season. The Owls were playing “It began there with that dirt and heat and sweat at home when linebacker Cary Whitehead ’68 went up to block a Kand banging heads, and once we got hitting in practice, I forgot all punt and came down on his arm, dislocating his shoulder. For about about not knowing anybody and being alone,” he said. 30 minutes, the team doctor tried to get it back in joint. The practice field was where the brotherhood was born. “As the seventh and eighth graders of that year remember, Records that still stand College Football Players Points allowed, season - 33 John Cady ’69 - Southwestern (Rhodes) Hal McGeorge ’70 - Memphis State Head Coach Jake Rudolph and his two assistants, Challace they learned most of their great curse words from listening to me Points allowed, per game - 3.3 Mike Coop ’68 - Millsaps Kelly McGuire ’70 - Southwestern McMillin and Jim Wright, knew that with only 40 mostly average- screaming in pain,” Whitehead said. Total offense allowed - 40 (vs. Bishop Byrne) Lynn Green ’70 - Vanderbilt (Rhodes) size players, sweat and head-banging and bonding were crucial to The team stretcher was ripped, so several sophomore players were Total offense allowed, season - 1,265 yards Ernie James ’68 - Southwestern (Rhodes) Mike Murphy ’70 - Memphis State the team’s success. The players would have to be strong, and agile, dispatched to get a ping-pong table and haul Whitehead off the field. Total offense allowed, per game 126.5 yards Weber Laughliln ’69 - Memphis State Wiley O’Neal ’68 - Vanderbilt Net rushing allowed, season - 904 yards Haynes McBride ’69 - Oklahoma John Remmers ’69 - Vanderbilt Most shutouts – 6 (tied in 2007)

10 MUS TODAY FALL 2012 ONE PERFECT SEASON McMillin’s power to teach and inspire. “He would literally go head-to-head with remember Sam coming back to the huddle Tales of that undefeated season are us, and he was in super shape,” Wis Laughlin and just looking at me,” he said. peppered with other names – Mike Coop said. “So if you didn’t do a good job on Pepper had a reputation for being tough, ’68, Wilson and Wellford for their skills as defense, you would get your ears knocked which tailback Webster McDonald ’69 well a receivers; Gingold for his record-breaking off. He devised a whole series of defenses recalled after he hit the senior tailback with punt and kickoff returns; Curt Taylor ’68 that were designed to beat Shelby County an ice ball during a parking-lot snowball and Tommy Adams ’68 for their utility on football teams.” fight, and Pepper promised revenge. both offense and defense. “The next day he called me behind McDonald recalled the intelligence of Webster McDonald goes for the goal. the gym, and I thought it was all over,” linebackers Charlie Chapleau ’68 and McDonald said. “And Pepper said, ‘Look, Whitehead, who would propose plays to I’m gonna stuff a bunch of snow down in McMillin. [your clothes] and ruffle your hair up. Take Wis Laughlin ’68 spoke about playing your shoes off and act like you just got your second-string middle guard behind John butt kicked.’” Remmers ’69, who later played for McDonald believes he was saved by Vanderbilt. “To run into Remmers felt like football-team brotherhood. sticking your hand in an electrical socket. Another unforgettable character was He was really good.” Weber Laughlin, who became a legendary Hal McGeorge ’70, who would play field general. He died of Lou Gehrig’s for Memphis State, remembers watching disease in 1992, but his teammates have Remmers, McBride, and Weber Laughlin. vivid memories of his drive and skill. “It helped set my football career for the next “Weber was fearless,” Cady said. “He seven years. It was a lot of good competition. Ernie James kicks a field goal. could outrun you; he could run over you. I definitely wanted to be like them.” David Gingold spots the ball. He had a good sense of what was happening Impressively, 12 players from the ’67 on the field all the time. If you were stupid team would play on college teams. on video: the boys of ’67 enough to object to one of his calls, he would For all their skill the players agree that recall the guts and grab your facemask and pull your face up great coaching molded them. Rudolph was Whitehead said McMillin taught the to his and say, ‘After the game, I’ll kill you the visionary, on the cutting edge of football glory of their undefeated players how to block and tackle, but he also if you don’t do what I’m telling you to do.’” at the time, but many alumni remember season http://tinyurl.com/8up5l8o put the image of success in their minds and made them believe in themselves. “He told us, ‘This is how we’re going to go undefeated this year: No one’s going to score a touchdown on us, and we’re going to pick up three or four yards every single time we that phenomenal record. self-discipline he learned through the team run the ball,’” Whitehead said. For many of the ’67 team members – who experience. “It taught me how to set goals McMillin would go on to start the football went on to become doctors, dentists, lawyers, higher than I thought I could achieve and still program at James Madison University in educators, businessmen and, incidentally, to achieve them – and have fun while I did it.” Virginia, coach an undefeated team three years marry five MUS cheerleaders – the impact of For Cady that undefeated season helped later, earn his doctorate in sports psychology, the experience lasts to this day. guide him into a 40-year career in education and become a professor of kinesiology. Wis Laughlin, now an attorney in Memphis, and coaching, much of it at MUS. He The coaching, the leadership, the said playing on that team taught him not to be has helped coach three undefeated teams, athleticism, the spirit – it all came together afraid of physical obstacles. “We learned to do including the 2008 and 2009 Owls. in that shining season. things we didn’t think we could do, and that’s “There’s a certain amount of satisfaction For all their success, MUS ended up a what it’s all about,” he said. that comes from knowing you did your best,” disappointing 10th in the state polls, which Steve Bledsoe ’70, a Memphis dentist, said Cady said. “But if you have the good fortune the players say favored middle-Tennessee the experience boosted his self-confidence. “I to be a part of a team where there are so many teams. The Owls won the Shelby County think it affected our psyches forever. I was 15 great guys and good coaches, you have an League title, but there was no playoff system years old – and who knows what they are at experience that really lasts the rest of your life.” to prove their prowess. An undefeated season 15 – but by the end of that year, although I was It’s not the high point of his life – his is impressive in itself. Not until 2008 would not an integral part, I was part of an undefeated children hold that honor. Still, he added: The ’66 season helped prepare the ’67 team for their undefeated run. the Owls claim another perfect season on the team. To me, it changed my confidence level.” “It’s still with me – 1967 is still with me.” Here Weber Laughlin hands off to fullback Steve Bain ’67 in the Millington game. gridiron, going 13-0 and winning the state Whitehead, a senior vice president at It’s likely his brothers from that undefeated championship. The 2009 team would repeat Boyle Investment Company, spoke about the season would agree with him.

MUS TODAY FALL 2012 13 by Steve Bledsoe ’70

n the late 1960s the Beach Boys – MUS guard/linebacker and Vanderbilt and the MUS football Owls were at fullback – came to see his teammates and I the top of their games. I know this former defensive coach. because, as a 15-year-old sophomore, I Last year a few of us put together a saw the Beach Boys at Ellis Auditorium, last-minute team reunion for the 2011 A Spirited Team, and I watched from the sidelines as my MUS Homecoming game. Fifteen players Owl teammates racked up 10 consecutive sat together in Stokes Stadium and then victories. Now 45 years later, the Beach went to the home of Scott Wellford ’69 Then and Now-- Boys are still on tour, and the undefeated for an after-game party. As in 2010, Lynn 1967 Owls are still celebrating their Green ’70 won the farthest-travel award championship season. for flying in from his home in Phuket, 45 Years Later, After the last game – and an unforget- Thailand, beating out Phillip Crawford table celebration in Collierville – the seniors ’69, who came in from Texas, and Bobby The Celebration went on to college, and the nucleus of Davis ’68 from Alabama. the team returned to post a 9-2 record As expected, the conversations started in 1968 and another Little Cotton Bowl with children and grandchildren. It Continues victory. In September 2010 the Class got serious as we discussed how much we missed our friends who had passed away – quarterback Weber Laughlin ’69, linebacker Wiley O’Neal ’68, tackle Photography: Jack Kenner Haynes McBride ’69, and the legendary Coach Jake Rudolph. The rest of the evening was filled with stories about our individual and collective greatness in the fall of 1967. Those tales come easily to members of this undefeated and untied championship team – a team that sent players on to Memphis State (University of Memphis), Vanderbilt, Oklahoma, Georgia, Millsaps, and Southwestern at Memphis (Rhodes College), and its quarterback on to win the Memphis Golden Gloves Heavyweight Championship. Over these 45 years many of us have been there for our teammates, standing at altars to celebrate their marriages, visiting hospitals to see their newborns, attending funerals to mourn their losses. We may Players from the ’67 football team gather at the home of Donna and Scott Wellford after the not have the state championship rings 2011 homecoming game. Pictured are, front row from left, Kelly McGuire, Henry Wetter, that many younger Owls can wear – the Steve Bledsoe, and Wis Laughlin; second row, Phil Crawford, Hal McGeorge, and Lynn Green; TSSAA didn’t have a playoff in 1967 – but back row, Scott Wellford, Lawrence McRae, Bobby Davis, and Terry Wilson. Ralph Braden and Webster McDonald, who were also at the party, are not pictured. we know how good the team was, and that’s all that matters. If I took a poll of a certain group of 60- to 62-year-old men, I’ll bet they of 1970 had their 40th reunion and would agree the 1967 Owls were the best brought back Coach Challace McMillin, ever to step onto Hull-Dobbs Field. If now a professor of kinesiology at James in the next 45 years an MUS football Madison University in Virginia. All 14 team goes undefeated and holds its sophomores who had played on the ’67 opponents to 3.3 points per game, we squad returned. Even John Remmers ’69 will take another vote. John Cady, left, was a junior, Hal McGeorge a sophomore, and David Gingold a senior in the fall of ’67, when they helped the Owls go undefeated and untied on the gridiron. They hit the field again for a nostalgic photo

14 MUS TODAY FALL 2012 shoot. Pull out your 3D glasses for the full effect – and you might want to call for a “fair catch.” he latest – and tastiest – venture hand truck and beach chair. An MUS Owl version of his NFL scoreboard alarm clock is available in the school’s bookstore. for entrepreneur and inventor “It may drive my wife, Mitzi, crazy,” Oates said, “but I’m always Bill Oates ’76 is housed in thinking of new products to develop, new concepts to market.” Indeed, his innovative nature has led to involvement with the an unassuming cinderblock Entrepreneur Center, a Nashville-based nonprofit organization T that seeks to foster creativity and innovation in business. building on Summer Avenue in Memphis. “Welcome to the world headquarters of Tender Loving Cake,” he According to Chief Operating Officer Sam Lingo, the center said, opening the door to a commercial bakery. “Which flavor is weighing the feasibility of inventor-based programming. coffee cake would you like to try: cinnamon pecan or sour “Bill has discussed his ideas with the Entrepreneur Center and cream blueberry pecan?” is a very creative individual who would be a great candidate for Developed with Ed Crenshaw, a longtime friend and owner an inventor-focused program,” Lingo said. of The Butcher & Baker commercial bakery, TLC is simple in Invention requires attention to detail, a skill Oates said concept but long on outreach. he practiced at MUS in the classrooms of Ellis Haguewood, “Tender Loving Cake is based on the One For One, cause- A. Robert Boelte, Jr., and William Hatchett. marketing model perfected by TOMS Shoes,” Oates said, referring “They were some of the finest teachers ever,” he said. “They Tender Loving Cake Gives Back, Slice for Slice by Aimee McMillan Oven-Fresh Cause to the company’s donation of shoes to needy children. “For every all insisted on perfection. You knew not to turn in a paper with coffee cake ordered through TLC, we’ll deliver a freshly baked a speck of Liquid Paper on it, or you failed. You learned to pound cake to the Mid-South Food Bank.” operate and thrive within the confines of their boundaries, and The idea came to Oates after he saw his college-age daughter’s you learned to excel.” enthusiasm over the TOMS mission and learned of Crenshaw’s After graduating from MUS, Oates headed to Southern desire to bring his upscale coffee cakes to market. Oates, a Methodist University in Dallas, TX, where he majored in fine corporate identity specialist and owner of Oates Design in arts. His career in graphic design and brand identity took him Memphis, had long worked with Crenshaw on labeling and from a large Dallas advertising agency to a mom-and-pop firm branding his commercial bakery products, and both men were before an economic downturn in 1987 caused him to reconsider looking for a way to build a cause-oriented business. his city of choice. Launched in December 2011 and sold exclusively online, the “I started to wonder what future I might have there,” he said. fledgling company ships cakes to any address, but the donated “So I made two decisions: I asked Mitzi to marry me, and we pound cakes currently are delivered only to Mid-South Food Bank. relocated to my hometown of Memphis so that I could start (As of July 1 the company had sold 134 cakes and donated 132.) something for myself.” Next-phase plans are under way, including a revamped website He launched Oates Graphic Design & Illustration that and expanding TLC food-bank delivery to Nashville; Little Rock, same year and worked for more than 18 years to build his AR; and Jackson, MS, markets. business while helping his clients build theirs. He and Mitzi “We’re hoping someday to designate a local food bank of the also grew their family, welcoming daughters Amanda, Sara buyer’s choice and ship there,” Oates said. He also plans to work Lane, and Taylor. Now under the name Oates Design, he with business owners who may want to send a smaller version of focuses on corporate identity and digital media. the coffee cake to clients or customers as thank-you gifts. Oates and his family relocated to Nashville this summer so he Tender Loving Cake is one of many products that Oates has can get involved with the Entrepreneur Center as Mitzi pursues her dreamed up, several of which are posted on his blog site (www. career in the healthcare industry. All the while, he will continue to wilddreambook.com), along with videos of his banjo playing. manage his graphic design and branding clients, dream up products There’s the FantastiClamp hand-held clamp, StakeOut video- we didn’t know we needed, and grow and develop the mission of capture, motion-sensor floodlight, and the Carry-It Chariot Tender Loving Cake.

Bill Oates ’76 at the Memphis bakery of Tender Loving Cake Photography: Lance Murphey For more about Bill Oates and Tender Loving Cake, visit www.tenderlovingcake.com and his blog at www.wilddreambook.com.

16 MUS TODAY FALL 2012 MUS TODAY FALL 2012 17 Rey Flemings ’91 says he has the solution to always be home in his heart, he has lived in this problem with Stipple, an online platform San Francisco for the past four years with he launched in 2010 that allows users to label, his wife, Christina (who works at Google); monetize, search, and track content within son, Jackson, 8; and daughter, Madelaine, images, while providing multilayered stories 6 months. about them. Buoyed by a recent $5 million Before moving to California, Flemings Rey Flemings with his wife, Christina, and children, Connecting the D ts investment, Stipple released an updated Jackson, 8, and Madelaine, 6 months. served as commissioner of music for Memphis version July 26 with what it calls “Intelligent and Shelby County and as president of by Liz Copeland and Image” to permanently connect data to Web browser extension, available at the Memphis Music Foundation. These Ashley Johnston pictures – and not just within the Stipple the company website, which makes the opportunities gave him insight into the inner network, as had been the case. The initial embedded information visible. (After sign-up, workings of media, which has enabled him platform aimed primarily at advertisers, but an email message provides the link). to apply consumer Web technologies to the the new version also embraces image sharing Analytics is another feature of Stipple, music and entertainment industries. Ultimately, on social sites such as Facebook and Twitter. which tracks the behavior of every one he looks on his education at MUS as the In addition, the company announced improved of its dots across the Web and shares the searching and automatic tagging of large information with clients in real time. The data catalogs of images. reveal which photos are compelling to users, REY FLEMINGS ‘91 “In the software business you have which items in the photos attract attention, It’s our goal to Co-founder and CEO to learn, and you can’t learn without and how much product demand is being Stipple Inc. having a product in the marketplace,” generated by specific items or photos. make“ it possible to Flemings, Stipple co-founder and CEO, said. “As an image generates revenue from all “Generation 1 of Stipple was insufficient to sources – searching, advertising, or shopping shop every image solve all the problems that our customers – it essentially builds into a bucket, and that and every product in needed to have solved. We believe the new revenue is shared back,” Flemings said. “So version of Stipple answers the challenge.” your photos become portable storefronts.” that image, wherever By signing up for a free Stipple account, Stipple recently made these storefronts www.stipple.com anyone can link pictures to items with a even easier to create with the introduction the image lives on web address – videos, related products, ads, of an automatic tagging solution for catalog commerce sites, attribution, recipes, maps. and e-commerce images. The feature is the Web. The process involves labeling images with designed to help clients ranging from large translucent icons that users mouse over to commercial companies to individuals selling ” reveal the hidden information. their handiwork on Etsy.com, an arts-and- foundation for his success as an entrepreneur. For example, if a blogger copies a crafts e-commerce website. “Our 20-year class reunion was last Stipple-tagged image of a celebrity wearing The technology behind the concept is year, so I’m officially an old man,” he said. the hottest new jeans onto her site, a complex, and competition is fierce, but “I can remember our graduation like it was reader can click on an unobtrusive icon Flemings said Stipple already has the largest yesterday. There are experiences that you Photos are a hot cyber within the picture to pop up the actor’s body of tagged images on the Web, and it is don’t really know how to put in words that latest movie trailer. Clicking another icon, adding one million more each month. He also help build your character and stay with you. commodity these days. the user can link to a retail site and buy the claims that 4,000 publishers participate in It was a community of people who meant jeans. The movie gets a plug; the consumer the network, resulting in more than one a tremendous amount to me in terms of With the growth of photo-pinning gets the jeans; the retailer gets the sale; billion page views per month. Plus, Stipple sending me down a great path. If we were and depending on the specific program, engineers are working on new developments, in the city, I’d be sending my son there.” and reblogging sites such as the blogger may get a commission. The including a mobile app, which is due later Speaking of his MUS experience, Junior blogger also can label pictures on her site this year. English Review comes to mind. Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr, with additional content that will remain “We believe we have a highly “I’ll be talking to someone, and some images are copied and pasted from site to site at an exponential rate. The embedded wherever they are republished. differentiated product, and we want to get 10-dollar word will come out of my mouth, context for those pictures – caption information, retail links, attribution – often “It’s our goal to make it possible to it into the market as broadly and deeply as and I’ll think, ‘Where does that word come has been lost along the way, leaving users with questions: Who took this shop every image and every product in that we can,” he said. from?’ Even if I don’t know what it means, photo of an erupting volcano? Where can I buy that racing bike? What’s the image, wherever the image lives on the A Web entrepreneur for much of his career, if I go and look it up, I will have used it recipe for this coconut cake? How can I find out more about that dog breed? Web,” Flemings said. “If the impulse to buy Flemings previously served as CEO of Justin absolutely correctly.” something begins when you see it, why Timberlake’s tech investment fund, Tennman can’t it end there?” Digital. Timberlake was among the initial To sign up for a free Stipple account, Images are also searchable with Stipple, investors in the $2 million Stipple startup fund. visit www.stipple.com. but first users must download the Stipple Although Flemings said Memphis will

18 MUS TODAY FALL 2012 MUS TODAY FALL 2012 19 hose,” he said. “We didn’t know anyone and in his pursuit of sport but said he most but he has a special affinity for Gospel-themed in California. When we first started, we values the love of his family and living his Rembrandt etchings from the 1650s. sold maybe 1,000 cars. This past year, we faith. One way he puts his faith to work is “It is an unusual thing to collect,” he said. sold 8,000.” by serving on the boards of the San Diego “And it picked me. I had collected Old Master The family tradition continues, as Bill’s County YMCA, Fuller Theological Seminary, prints for a long time and then was just drawn son, Ted, is the general manager of the Infiniti and World Vision. He also remains thankful to these particular works. It was an obsession dealership, and his son-in-law, Josh Sherman, for the legacy of Hoehn Motors. for a time, but the collection is now complete.” is sales manager for the Audi dealership. “I’m very grateful to have been put in this His Rembrandt etchings have been Drivingby Aimee McMillin “Family businesses are always challenging,” position for the growth of the auto industry, exhibited at the San Diego Museum of Art, Bill said. “It’s very important to have clear the growth of North County San Diego, and the Timken Museum of Art in San Diego, and boundaries of authority and that you clearly the growth of the brands we represent,” he the University of San Diego’s Founders Gallery. define each role. It’s equally important to have said. “And I’m proud that it will provide for Karen and Bob are generous supporters of boundaries outside of the business.” future generations.” the arts, founding the Robert and Karen His passion for swimming started about Hoehn Family Galleries at University of San the Dream 15 years ago when fellow MUS alumnus aith, family, art, freediving – for Diego. Bob has served on the boards of both Hoehn Brothers’ Keys to Success Include Faith, Family, Philanthropy – and Cars Will Newbern ’72, who lives in nearby La Bob Hoehn ’70 these eclectic the San Diego and Timken museums. Jolla, convinced Bill to try ocean swimming. F passions help define a very full This past summer, the couple hosted He was hooked. life, made possible through hard work, a dinner in London to raise money and “La Jolla Cove is the nexus of the open- dedication, and his father’s California dream awareness for the British Museum’s collection Hoehn Motors, now a dynasty of auto dealerships in Carlsbad, CA, has its origins on Union Avenue in Memphis. Theodore “Ted” Hoehn, grandfather to Bill ’68 water swimming culture,” Bill said. “I love of Hoehn Motors. of prints and drawings. One of the top three and Bob ’70, bought a Chevrolet dealership in 1938. The business passed to Bill’s dad, Theodore W. “Bill” Hoehn, Jr., until 1970, when he sold it and moved to being out in nature – that’s a huge part of it. When Bill Jr. bought the Carlsbad collections of its kind in the world, it holds La Jolla, CA, for semiretirement. In 1974 he heard about a multiline dealership for sale in nearby Carlsbad. His retirement short-lived, Bill Jr. convinced Bill and Swimming with seals, sea turtles, occasionally dealership nearly 40 years ago, Bob was a 50,000 drawings and more than two million Bob to help him grow the company. The sons learned from their business-savvy father, who put a high priority on hiring and maintaining a quality workforce. getting bumped. I do this because I love it.” senior at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, prints dating from the 15th century to the Over the next 37 years, the Hoehn family turned the one struggling store into 11 thriving dealerships with more than 500 employees. Today, Hoehn Motors sells He has completed what he calls “the Triple ME, studying English and art history. Upon present day. Mercedes-Benz, Jaguar, Audi, Infiniti, Acura, Honda, Porsche, Cadillac-Buick-GMC, and Land Rover. Bill Jr. passed away in 2000, but the brothers remain at the Crown” for American open-water swimmers: earning his degree he briefly moved to As for business, Bob is both proud and the English Channel, Manhattan Island, and California, only to return to the northeast protective of the brand the family has built helm of his company, maintaining his legacy for the next generation of Hoehns. Catalina Channel. An occasional triathlete, he to coach squash at the prestigious Phillips in Hoehn Motors. was hit by a car last September while riding Academy at Andover, MA. He was back full “In many ways, we’ve raised the bar for his bike. His recovery has required shoulder time at Hoehn Motors by 1976 and has called the car industry in the San Diego area – sk Bill Hoehn ’68 how he would In addition to his friends, Hoehn cites dealership, Bill placed his divinity degree on surgery and taken him out of the water at Southern California home ever since. professionalism, integrity, a place where like to be remembered, and he D. Eugene Thorne, Leigh MacQueen, E.E. hold and moved with Susan, then pregnant least until fall. Always looking ahead, he has Bob met his wife, Karen Gregg, on a people prefer to work and to do business. A doesn’t immediately mention “Bubba” Bland, and John Springfield as with the couple’s first child, to California. His already set a training goal: swimming the blind date in 1984, and they welcomed two I’m honored to watch this next generation.” Hoehn Motors. Nor does he say that he being influential. brother would follow the next year. Straits of Gibraltar in 2013. daughters, Jo Hannah and Susanah. For all his success, to Bob Hoehn – like has completed open-water swims across the “At MUS there’s always an emphasis on “It was like drinking water out of a fire Bill Hoehn has achieved much in his career A former flight attendant, Karen loves to his brother Bill – it all comes back to family English Channel and around Manhattan character education,” he said. “Character travel, an interest shared by her husband. In and to faith. He converted more than 30 Island. And the fact that he survived being development was just as important as addition to enjoying their primary home in years ago to Catholicism, a decision that was hit by a car while on a training ride on his academic achievement, and it was an Del Mar, CA, they love to visit their second influenced in part by his love of religious art. bike – well, that might be an event he would institutional philosophy. This greatly home in the Exuma Islands, Bahamas. There, He has served his faith as a board member like to forget. influenced me at that time and for all time.” they pursue the Hoehn love of open water but for the University of San Diego (a Catholic What he will mention without hesitation Bill never thought he would join the in a different way than distance-swimmer institution) and Catholic Charities in the is Susan, his wife of more than 40 years. He family business. He pursued English and Bill. Both he and Karen enjoy freediving. Diocese of San Diego. will talk about their three grown children, religious studies at Stanford University, “Karen and I have been trained to dive to Jo Hannah, a general manager at Hoehn Rebecca, Adrienne, and Ted, and their four and after earning his degree, he enrolled about 100 feet without a tank. It’s a beautiful Jaguar/Land Rover, and Susanah, an assistant grandchildren. He will talk about his faith at Vanderbilt University Divinity School. way to experience the water,” Bob said. “And general manager at the Honda dealership, are and the importance of being a fair employer. He married Susan Hughes, a Memphis girl I love to spearfish, as well. In the Bahamas, the first female Hoehns to have an active role It was during his early years at MUS that who lived across the street from his family, you are only allowed to spearfish with a in the family business. Hoehn says he first learned about being part although the two did not officially meet slingshot, not a gun. And we only do it for “I actually may work for them,” he said, of a team and working with others toward a until he was home on a college break. Bill consumption, never for sport.” laughing. “I’m very proud of what they common goal. and Susan lived for a year in the U.S. Virgin As much as Karen and Bob love the water, bring to Hoehn Motors as part of the fourth “I think the highlight of my MUS career Islands working with A Christian Ministry art is their passion. She has a great fondness generation. If I’m known for something in was my junior high football team,” he said. in the National Parks. for the Scottish Colourists. His tastes range the art world that would be fine … but my “It was just a great group of guys.” After his father bought the Carlsbad from medieval art to contemporary works, daughters are my true legacy.” Susan and Bill Hoehn Karen and Bob Hoehn Photo Courtesy of Giving Back Magazine Photo courtesy of Vincent Knakal/Ranch & Coast Magazine

20 MUS TODAY FALL 2012 MUS TODAY FALL 2012 21 Wheels to Reels Filmmaker reveals

by Erin Floyd a bike’s-eye view of Memphis Robert Rowan’s YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/user/ripro83/videos

Do you have any advice for aspiring uring his MUS days Germantown house after house boarded up. It gave me a decided I wanted to go into film. I moved or Chicago, you have to be a jack-of-all- YouTube Best Rides in Memphis Dnative Robert Rowan ’02 balanced desire to bring exposure to these areas. Maybe to Austin, TX, for a year and a half and got trades and learn a bit of everything, from filmmakers? Pick projects carefully. It should his excess energy by playing soccer and if people could see them, they’d want to help, assimilated into the cycling culture there. screenwriting to cinematography to [Adobe] be something personal or something you football. Nowadays, he sticks to bicycling or it would at least change their perception. While I was biking through Austin, I started After Effects. You find out through this process care about, since it’s likely going to be with Here are some of Robert Rowan’s favorite places to bike: and filmmaking – and recently, both at the to miss home and think about all the parts of what you’re good at and what you like to do. you for a long time. A good way to gain real, Describe the production of the film. same time. His eye-opening, wide-angle Memphis I had never seen, so I moved back hands-on experience is to get an internship South Parkway - “There are bike lanes, along I did Meditations on Two Wheels from start to documentary, Meditations on Two Wheels, and started exploring the city by bike. After What is it like being a cyclist in Memphis? at a production house. I also recommend with scenic older homes and huge oak trees in finish in about three weeks this past April. I chronicles his explorations of Memphis, taking some film production classes at the It’s actually not as bad as one would think. maintaining your connections. the residential areas. It’s especially gorgeous biked 200 miles in seven days, documenting between Bellevue Boulevard and Lamar Avenue.” armed with nothing but a bike, an emergency University of Memphis, I started freelancing Kyle Wagenschutz [City of Memphis One of the best connections I’ve maintained Memphis the way I see it: on a bicycle. I tool kit, a water bottle, and his helmet cam. and filmmaking full-time. bicycle coordinator] has made some big from MUS is Mr. John Hiltonsmith Orange Mound - “Spottswood Avenue to did almost everything on this film – from We caught up with Rowan at a Starbucks pushes to make Memphis a bike haven. It’s [chairman of the Fine Arts Department]. Semmes Street is very interesting to bike through. developing the idea, to shooting, to editing – he often writes at coffee shops to get out of How did you learn filmmaking?Most of coming along rapidly, even though there When I needed a track for the Pastiche You can tell this area is coming to life again.” it down to nine minutes. I wanted to have his apartment – where he shared his views on my film skills are self-taught – there are are some hardships, such as bad roads, not sequence that’s an homage to Stanley Kubrick, French Fort - “Definitely a hidden gem – there shots of myself at the beginning and end of biking, filmmaking, the Memphis landscape, so many great tutorial websites online that enough bike lanes, and crazy drivers. In I called him. We met during the middle of are old defensive mounds, a pretty park, the film, so I enlisted the help of videographer and the value of connections. can teach you the basics. I’ve also been very some instances, when there’s heavy traffic June in Bloodworth Studio, where I used to and a unique neighborhood that looks like it’s Patrick Churvis and my sister, Barrett Rowan. inspired by the work of [directors] Stanley congestion, you can get to your destination stuck in the early 1960s.” [Start at the Metal What is the message behind Meditations on have homeroom. I told him what I was going What has the reaction been? I submitted Kubrick, Martin Scorsese, Wes Anderson, faster than you would in a car. As city- Museum and explore the surrounding area.] Two Wheels? When you’re in a car, you’re kind for, and he played and recorded an amazing it to the Memphis Bikesploitation Bike David Cronenberg, Federico Fellini, and Paul dwellers, we can get wrapped up in working North Parkway - “Taking it all the way to Har- of shielded from everything. When you’re on rendition of Handel’s “Sarabande,” which I’ve and Film Festival in May, which features Thomas Anderson. I didn’t do much in terms obsessively and forget about taking a break. bor Town always makes for a beautiful ride.” a bike, it slows down the pace of life – you’re put in the film. It was fun getting to work independent, bicycle-themed films, and it of production at the University of Memphis, Biking can help you decompress. taking in your surroundings, and there’s a with him, and he did a phenomenal job. Jefferson Avenue - “It’s probably the best received the Audience Award. Right now but I did a lot of writing. Most of the stuff more visceral feel. Living in Germantown Do you have any big projects in the works? What are your future plans? I plan on way to get from Midtown to Downtown. The I’m in the process of raising money so I can they had me doing was theory-based, and I during my teen years, I pretty much stuck I’m working on a 25-minute short called doing filmmaking for the rest of my life. roads are wide.” send it to more festivals, along with some of actually felt more challenged logically when to the Poplar/Union corridor in the city. As I Pastiche. It’s a narrative, experimental comedy If I can expand Meditations on Two Wheels The Bluff Walk - “This is the sidewalk that my other work. I was taking English classes at MUS. began biking in Memphis, I discovered many about two filmmakers struggling to find their into a feature documentary or pitch it to a sits atop the bluff and gives you one of the most wonderful, intriguing areas, but also some How did these two passions, filmmaking What is it like being a filmmaker in voice, and as they begin to discuss the styles network to see if they would buy a series of beautiful views of Memphis. I think the best incredibly depressed, almost like developing and bicycling, develop? I went to the Memphis? To make a living I do freelance of well-known directors, the film takes on shows, that would be great. I could ride my way to enjoy this route is to take Main Street to Butler Avenue. There’s a resting area where you world-style neighborhoods. One day I was University of Tennessee and earned degrees videography projects on the side. I recently the feel of that particular director – from the bike through different cities, filming along can see a wonderful panorama of the Mississippi in English and political science, thinking I riding through South Memphis, and I began did a sound-operating project for a friend and acting style and music to the look of the film the way, and cover similar themes. If there’s River along with Tom Lee Park and the Pyramid.” to feel nauseated – not just from the heavy would go to law school – but just two months an editing gig for a month. Since Memphis itself. The trailer is on my YouTube channel a market for it – we’ll see. industry smell, but from the anxiety of seeing before graduation, I had an epiphany and isn’t a big film town like LA, or New Orleans, (www.youtube.com/user/ripro83/videos). Robert Rowan

22 MUS TODAY FALL 2012 MUS TODAY FALL 2012 23 or all the tradition of the MUS commencement, each Before his farewell, Haguewood quoted a poem from the 1930 ceremony is distinct, defined by the personalities and MUS yearbook, noting the tradition that connects that year’s accomplishments of the graduates. On May 20 the graduates to the Class of 2012 and every other alumni class. members of the Class of 2012 marked their passage at The race has been run, the prize has been won. FSecond Presbyterian Church with tradition and grace but also with And was the goal worth the effort? wit and humor. The answer is yes, for all will confess Student Council Chaplain Mitchell Marino opened the ‘Twas great to have run it together. proceedings with a prayer for wisdom, discernment, and revelation. “Help us to be sensitive to the voice of the Holy Spirit saying, ‘This “Please know that you will always be part of us,” Haguewood said, is the way. Walk in it,’ ” he said. “and we hope that we will always be part of you.” Salutatorian Eli Goldstein delivered his address with both depth Pomp and levity, opening with a quote from the official Twitter account of the Dalai Lama that defined his message: Circumstance “‘Unlike the body, when it comes to training the mind, there is no limit to how far we can go.’ ” Reflecting on lessons of self-discipline and determination learned Waiting in the Wings: A 2018 Grad through wrestling, Goldstein shared his belief that willpower, the and a Few Laughs product of a well-trained mind, is the single most important factor welve-year-old Jackson Howell watched commencement in success. He praised teachers and coaches for encouraging mental from a unique perspective. He was not at Second discipline in their students, and he suggested that fellow graduates Presbyterian Church to celebrate a particular 2012 grad, Class of 2012 Launches in Style – by Liz Copeland utilize this training to excel in future endeavors. rather to envision receiving his diploma with the Class of In conclusion, Goldstein said, “I started out with the Dalai Lama. 2018. He joined the incoming seventh-grade class this fall. I am going to go with the only wiser man that I know. As the great T His parents, Mark and Kathy Howell of Collierville, brought him Dr. Seuss once said, ‘You have brains in your head. You have feet in to the ceremony so he could understand his ultimate goal at MUS. your shoes,’ ” he said, raising his foot to reveal a Seuss-like multicolor “We wanted him to be very appreciative of the tradition and striped sock. “‘You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. heritage he is about to become a part of,” Mark Howell said. You’re on your own.’” Jackson said he enjoyed the proceedings, including the symbolism Valedictorian Mark Sorensen spoke on the relationships and of the D. Eugene Thorn Academic Mace – the owl for wisdom and activities that fostered the graduates’ success in academics, athletics, the icons representing the liberal arts. civic service, and leadership. “I liked the organ music, the speeches – they were funny – and “I’ll admit it – I started fencing partly to get out of P.E. – Coach how each student got his own five seconds as he received his diploma,” [Glenn] Rogers’ P.E. class is unpredictable,” he said, to a burst of he added. audience laughter. “But I soon found out it was the sport for me.” Jackson is looking forward to math and science classes at MUS, The common thread connecting every MUS activity is perhaps joining the Knowledge Bowl and fencing teams – and most teamwork, Sorensen said, which allowed the students to reach of all, he said, the cafeteria food. great heights. He cited the basketball team helping Coach Jerry Peters to reach his 1,000th victory, Beg To Differ singers winning a gold medal at the New York Heritage Music Festival, and 36 percent of the class garnering recognition from the National Merit Scholarship Corporation. After the conferring of diplomas and awards, Headmaster Ellis Haguewood saluted the graduates and their achievements. “Those to whom much is given, much is expected,” he said. “You have met and often exceeded that which was expected of you.” He listed many of the class accomplishments: • 53 percent scored 30 or higher on the ACT, with three students receiving a perfect score. • 91 percent of the graduates received merit scholarship offers totaling $8.4 million. • An all-senior team won the WREG News Channel 3 Knowledge Bowl Tournament. • Seniors led the Latin and lacrosse teams to state championships, Mark and Kathy Howell brought their son, seventh grader the tennis and baseball teams to regional titles, and the swimming Jackson Howell, center, to commencement. Graduation photos by Kathy Daniel Patterson team to a Shelby County championship.

24 MUS TODAY FALL 2012 MUS TODAY FALL 2012 25 D. Eugene Thorn Award Choral Music Award Commencement Will Forsythe, Jake Greenstein, for Excellence George Ormseth, Nicholas Rouse, Nathan Feler Awards Mark Sorensen, Ross Warner, and Eli Goldstein and Honors Alex Weinstein Aaron Noble The D. Eugene Thorn Award is given in memory Art Award of the school’s former headmaster. This award David Brandon Faculty Cup for General Excellence is presented to those members of the Senior Garrott Graham Class who best demonstrate the dignity, integrity, Trip Underwood humility, and sincerity that characterized Thorn’s The Faculty Cup for General Excellence is the English Award highest honor given to a member of the graduating years as coach, teacher, and headmaster at Danny Galvin class. The recipient has demonstrated qualities of Memphis University School. leadership and strength of character, which have French Award earned him the highest respect of his peers and Mark Cooper Powell Sam ’80, Garrott ’12, Margaret, and Nelson Graham ’08 Gail Palmer-House, Carson ’12, and Jim House his teachers. He must have given generously of his Memorial Award Alex Weinstein time, talent, and energy in service in a way that Jackson Darr reflects his devotion to the school and his dedica- Wayne E. Duff Latin Award tion to the ideals for which it stands. The Mark Cooper Powell Memorial Award is given Eli Goldstein in memory of Mark Cooper Powell, Class of 1980, Nicholas Rouse by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward L. Powell, to Ross McCain Lynn Award the graduate who, through persistence and courage Spanish Award Britt Colcolough, Charlie Freeburg, during his career at MUS, has shown the greatest Mark Sorensen Scott Freeburg, Danny Galvin, Eli Goldstein, development of character and scholarship. and Ashish Nathani History Award Valedictorian Award The Ross McCain Lynn Award is given in memory of Jackson Darr the school’s former headmaster. This award recog- Mark Sorensen nizes distinction in the areas of school citizenship, This award is presented to that senior with the Christa Green Warner leadership, service, and character. highest average over eight semesters of work at Mathematics Award Leslie, Jackson ’12, and Bryan Darr Danny Galvin ’12 Nelson ’69, Trip ’10, Scott ’12, Charlie ’12, and Carole Freeburg Memphis University School. Eli Goldstein Scott Miller Rembert Senior Service Award Salutatorian Award Margaret Owen Catmur Science Award Jack Stukenborg Eli Goldstein Mark Sorensen This award, established by family and friends, is made This award is presented to that senior with the in memory of Scott M. Rembert, Class of 1970. It goes second highest average over eight semesters of work Religion Award to that senior who has shown the most unselfish at Memphis University School. service to the school. Mitchell Marino Distinguished Community Leigh W. MacQueen Dean’s Cup Service Award for Academic Excellence Senior Awards Townes Buford Carson House Mary, Jack ’12, and Fred Stukenborg Lisa, Caitlin, Britt ’12, Cameron, and John Colcolough Kimi, Asha, Ashish ’12, and Vinnie Nathani Russell Johnson Creative Named in 1998 in honor of the first academic dean Writing Award Paul Trowbridge Gillespie of MUS, Leigh Windsor MacQueen, this award was Lee Downen Scholar-Athlete Award originally donated by Mr. and Mrs. MacQueen in Eli Goldstein 1967. The award is given to a senior who, based on William D. Jemison III Award for his academic record and his performance on both a Excellence in Dramatics James R. Haygood III Best written and an oral examination, has demonstrated Ashish Nathani All-Around Athlete Award a high level of academic achievement along with a Toby Baker marked depth of intellectual maturity and curiosity Brescia Award for Unselfish and who, in the minds of the examining committee, Service in Dramatics Al Wright Christian has indicated sound intellectual attainment. Carson House Character Award Nicholas Rouse Mitchell Marino

George Ormseth ’12 Bobby, Nicholas ’12, and Elizabeth Rouse Mike, Mark ’12, and Angie Sorensen Susan, Ross ’12, and Bill Warner MUS TODAY FALL 2012 27 The Legacies

Wil Hergenrader ’12 and Steve Hergenrader ’77 Charlie Oates ’77 and John Oates ’12 John Sousoulas ’12 and George Sousoulas ’78 Trip Underwood ’12 and Dean Underwood ’79

Class of 2012 Matriculations David George ’75 and William George ’12 Billy Harris ’80 and Daniel Harris ’12 Lee Marshall ’75 and Lee Marshall Jr. ’12 Townes Buford ’12 and Tiger Buford ’78 Obaid Anwar...... Rhodes College Nick James...... Georgia Institute of Technology Ali Ayyoub...... Rhodes College David Lee...... Southern Methodist University Toby Baker...... University of Arkansas Mitchell Marino...... University of Tennessee, Knoxville Max Barzel...... Rice University Lee Marshall...... University of Tennessee, Knoxville Charles Belina...... New York University Taylor Mays...... University of Mississippi Ben Benton...... University of Arkansas Carlton McCord...... University of Memphis David Brandon...... Vanderbilt University Sadler McLendon...... University of Mississippi Durham Bryce...... Auburn University Daniel McLeod...... Vanderbilt University Townes Buford...... United States Military Academy Joe Morrison...... Auburn University John David Christman...... Millsaps College Ashish Nathani...... Saint Louis University Edward Francis ’12 and Hugh Francis IV ’06 Britt Colcolough...... Princeton University John Newman...... Vanderbilt University Jim Wilder ’82 and Heath Wilder ’12 Nate Utkov ’12 and Neil Utkov ’77 Edward Good ’12 and Jay Good ’80 (Hugh Francis III ’76 not pictured) Victor Cole...... University of Memphis Aaron Noble...... University of Memphis Daniel Cunningham...... Cornell University John Oates...... University of Tennessee, Knoxville Alex Dale...... University of Cincinnati George Ormseth...... University of Southern California Jackson Darr...... College of William and Mary Holt Perdzock...... University of Mississippi Lee Downen...... Southern Methodist University Brayden Phillips...... University of Tennessee, Knoxville James David Duke...... University of Tennessee, Knoxville Ryan Reisner...... University of Tennessee, Knoxville Chris Eddings...... University of Memphis Nicholas Rouse...... University of Chicago Nathan Feler...... Indiana University at Bloomington Lane Sally...... George Washington University Will Forsythe...... Texas Christian University Tunkie Saunders...... University of Colorado at Boulder Edward Francis...... University of Tennessee, Knoxville Jack Shawkey...... Southern Methodist University Nathan Franklin...... University of California at Santa Barbara Jazz Singh...... Rhodes College Joe Morrison ’78 and Joe Morrison Jr. ’12 Thomas Threlkeld ’12 and Rob Threlkeld ’78 Hugh Holt ’76 and Patrick Holt ’12 Crews Wellford ’12 and Scott Wellford ’69 Charlie Freeburg...... Davidson College Mark Sorensen...... Harvard University Scott Freeburg...... Kenyon College John Sousoulas...... Rhodes College Healy Fuess...... University of Colorado at Boulder Drew Stevenson...... Southern Methodist University Danny Galvin...... University of Southern California Ben Still...... University of Mississippi William George...... Auburn University Jack Stukenborg...... University of Tennessee, Knoxville Eli Goldstein...... Williams College Thomas Threlkeld...... Rhodes College Edward Good...... Auburn University Trip Underwood...... Southern Methodist University Garrott Graham...... Vanderbilt University Nate Utkov...... Southern Methodist University John Grayson...... University of Virginia Henry Valk...... Wake Forest University Michael Green...... Lehigh University Nicholas Vergos...... University of Richmond Durham Bryce ’12 and John Bryce ’73 Scott and Charlie Freeburg ’12 and Nelson Freeburg ’69 Garrott Graham ’12 and Samuel Graham ’80 Jake Greenstein...... University of Texas, Austin Chris Walker...... University of Memphis Spencer Gruber...... University of Alabama Ross Warner...... Middlebury College Twenty-two members of the Class of 2012 William Hammond...... Southern Methodist University Jace Watkins...... University of Mississippi Daniel Harris...... University of Tennessee, Knoxville Alex Weinstein...... University of Virginia share the MUS experience with their Sam Henke...... Clemson University Max Weiss...... University of Michigan fathers. They were honored at a luncheon Wil Hergenrader...... Georgia Institute of Technology Crews Wellford...... University of Alabama in April. Those who could not attend are Anthony Hodges...... Washington and Lee University Heath Wilder...... University of Tennessee, Knoxville Joe Hoffsommer...... University of Alabama Andrew Wilensky...... University of Alabama pictured here, along with yearbook photos Patrick Holt...... University of Tennessee, Knoxville Markus Williams...... Baylor University of their fathers. Carson House...... University of Pennsylvania Tate Yawn...... Southern Methodist University John Grayson III ’12 and John Grayson Jr. ’78 Tunkie Saunders ’12 and Jake Saunders ’82 Morgan Hunt...... University of Alabama

28 MUS TODAY FALL 2012 MUS TODAY FALL 2012 29 Owls Score in Academics, Athletics, Bringing Home the La ds and the Arts In the individual saber competition, Hutson placed second, followed skill combined with the talent of the younger players made the Owls a by Jeffrey Zheng ’15 in seventh place, Utkarsh Mishra ’13 in formidable team. Offensively, attackmen Jackson Loeb ’13 and Patrick ninth, and Andrew Elsakr ’15 in 10th. With these finishes, the saber DiMento ’14 along with Duke led the team to average more than 11 team claimed the top spot in the division for the second year in a row, goals per game. Contributing to that offensive output were the Free- beating out four other teams. burgs and Wilder; Class of 2013 middies Peyton Klawinski, Andrew Miller, Remy Rea, and Fort Robinson; plus Lucas Crenshaw ’14 The foil division saw Sorensen place fifth and Zheng seventh, with and Hayden Hunt ‘15. Leaders of the defensive unit included Morrison, point contributions from Doug McClew ’14, Sam Ostrow ’14, and Grant James ’13, Wil Rainer ’13, and Jackson Roberts ’14. Goalie Kevin Tu ’16. The team finished second behind a powerful Baylor Selby Austin ’13 proved to be one of the best in the state. squad, gaining ground from last year’s third-place finish. In the hotly contested epee team competition, MUS bested 11 other schools for the first-place finish. Taylor just missed the medal round with a strong fifth-place finish.Aaron Clifft ’13 (who finished ninth) and Jared Ashkenaz ’13 (14th), William Lamb ‘14, and Nick DiMento ’16 all added to the team score. “Our team depth and really courageous performances by every person on each weapon team put us over the top,” Head Coach Brad Kroeker said.

For the fifth consecutive year, the Owl contingent took first place at the Tennessee Junior Classical League State Convention. Lacrosse Team Wins Eighth TENNESSEE Title Latin Scholars Claim Fifth State Title Fencing Team Foils State Competition The varsity lacrosse team took a second straight lacrosse state title, Latin scholars took first place at the Tennessee Junior Classical With first-place finishes in the epee and saber divisions and a second- making this the eighth Tennessee lacrosse victory for MUS. League State Convention for the fifth year in a row. With a school place finish in foil, the fencing team brought home the state fencing In the finals against Brentwood Lacrosse Club in Nashville, the team record 1,497 points in the sweepstakes competition and numerous championship title. looked as if they would win handily, as they led at the end of the first athletic, arts, and academic awards, it was a runaway victory for the This year’s Tennessee State Secondary School Fencing Championships, quarter and seemed in control. But early in the fourth, Brentwood Bubones (Owls). organized and hosted by Cheney Fencing in Franklin, drew a record 12 gained momentum and led 11-8 with less than four minutes left. The Producers cast members perform “Along Came Bialy” at the Orpheum’s High School Musical The- “Even though we had won the state convention the past four years, high school and homeschool teams and 71 individual competitors. However, the Owls scored four straight goals, including the game- atre Awards. (front row, left to right) Jules Jordan, Sam Shankman, Paul Stevenson, and Jace Watkins, our students did not become complacent,” Ryan Sellers, instructor in winner with just 11 seconds remaining, to secure the title. Head Coach (back row, left to right) Margaret Shaul, Allison Blankenship, Caroline Bush, and Kacey Alexander Latin, said. “They remained focused and motivated, and they held off Elliott Dent was elated with the outcome. The Producers Captures Orpheum Awards tough challenges from Nashville’s Hume-Fogg Academic Magnet and “What an awesome comeback,” Dent said. “Everything that had to White Station to win their fifth consecutive championship.” be done, was done. It was perfect team play the last three to four The MUS production of Mel Brooks’ classic, The Producers, garnered a dozen Salman Haque ’14, William Lamb ’14, Aditya Shah ’14, Richard minutes. We just never panicked, and it showed.” nominations in the 2012 High School Musical Theatre Awards. At the Tony Awards-style presentation at the Orpheum Theatre in May, members of Ouyang ’15, and Yunhua Zhao ’15 all finished in the top 10 for indi- He attributes much of the success to players from the Class of 2012: vidual points scored among a field of 800 competitors. the cast performed “Along Came Bialy,” and the production claimed awards James David Duke, Charlie Freeburg, Scott Freeburg, Garrott for Outstanding Music Direction, Outstanding Scenic Design Tier I, and Graham, Joe Morrison, Ross Warner, and Heath Wilder. Their Outstanding Actor in a Lead Role. The Varsity lacrosse team celebrates winning the state title.

The 2011-12 fencers at the state Junior Olympic Qualifying Tournament in November: (front row, left to right) Mark Sorensen, Ben Taylor, Aaron Clifft, Bennett Mercer, Doug McClew; (back row) Coach Brad Kroeker, Jared Ashkenaz, Drew Hutson, Andrew Elsakr, Nick DiMento, Utkarsh Mishra, and Andy Sorensen

The three MUS weapon teams, led by team captains Mark Aditya Shah, William Lamb, Yunhua Zhao, Richard Ouyang, and Salman Haque Sorensen ’12, Ben Taylor ’13, and Drew Hutson ’13, performed finished in the top 10 at the TJCL convention. well against programs from across the state, including McCallie, St. George’s, Christian Brothers, and Baylor School. 30 MUS TODAY FALL 2012 MUS TODAY FALL 2012 31 Bringing Home the Lauds

From painting the sets to operating the spotlights, to dancing, singing and acting, the impressive commitment of everyone involved in Confidence The Producers – especially Director of Theater Tim Greer – made it a praiseworthy experience. Junior Sam Shankman ’13, the Best Actor in a Lead Role recipient, joined 59 other regional winners in New York City at the National to a Tee High School Musical Theater Awards, known as The Jimmys. He Golfer Olsen Scores His ‘First Big Win’ attended five days of intense private coaching and rehearsals in June at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in preparation for a by Erin Floyd Tony Award-style performance on Broadway.

when I could,” he said. “It takes more focus “I spent a lot of time talking with him on Owls Swim in Olympic Team Trials Zachary Olsen ’13 has a lot to be excited about. He is beginning to succeed in weather like that.” the phone, and it just seemed like the best Crews Wellford ’12 and Pace Clark ’13 both qualified to swim at his senior year, looking forward Preparation is the key to that focus. fit for my personality.” the 2012 U.S. Olympic Team Trials in Omaha, NE, this summer. “During the school year I normally go Olsen is not quite sure of his major, but to taking Lin Askew’s Southern “It was the craziest thing I’ve ever experienced in my life,” Clark said. out [on the course] every afternoon from he is considering business. If golf does not “If you put a pool in the FedEx Forum, that’s what [the CenturyLink Renaissance Literature class, and 3:25 to about 5 or 6. During the summer work out as a professional career, he hopes Center in Omaha] looked like. Every final was sold out.” celebrating a win at one of the it’s pretty much an all-day thing,” he said. to go into law. Clark swam in 200-meter and 100-meter butterfly preliminary heats. most prestigious tournaments in His father, Brad Olsen, is director of golf The lessons he has learned through golf In the 200-meter, he bettered his qualifying time of 2:02.68 with a junior golf. at Colonial Country Club in Cordova, TN, – discipline, persistence, and focus – should and his mother, Julie, also plays. Both have serve him well throughout life. Cliff Frisby, time of 2:02.58, coming in 59th out of 139 swimmers. His qualifying Olsen closed the Junior Invitational at time for the 100-meter race was 55.12, and at the trials he swam helped nurture his talent. head golf coach at MUS, has witnessed all Sage Valley in Graniteville, SC, in April, 55.23, finishing 88th out of 122 swimmers. “Zachary started coming to the golf course of these attributes, plus one more: Walker Sims returns a well-placed drop shot. with 73 to finish at 7-under 209, winning Wellford, who has signed with the University of Alabama, quali- at age 9 to spend more time with Brad,” Julie “Zachary’s most important quality is his by three shots. said. “We’ve never pushed him to practice. dedication to his family,” Frisby said. “The fied in the 200-meter backstroke with a time of 2:04.75. At the trials “It’s really exciting because it’s my first big he came in 85th out of 107 swimmers with a time of 2:06.43. Sims Claims State Tennis Title We’ve just tried to help him figure out what heart within often gets forgotten.” win,” he said. he needs to work on to get where he wants “It was a lot of pressure, and I got nervous before my race, but the It took Walker Sims ’14 only 45 minutes to claim the TSSAA state Although he had never held the lead in a to go with his game.” experience will help me tremendously in the future,” Wellford said. singles tennis championship, beating Palmer Campbell of Montgomery major tournament, he said he felt confident According to his parents, Olsen’s main Both athletes are young in the field of Olympic hopefuls, and they Bell Academy, 6-0, 6-1. Coach Bill Taylor said it was one of the best going into the competition. strength is how he handles the highs and MUS singles matches he has seen in 35 years, with Sims dictating the look forward to getting another shot in 2016. “I had a lot of good practice sessions lows of the game. His mom says he responds match from the opening point to the finish. A Golf Pro’s at home and shot a few good rounds,” to achievement with humility and gets “Walker beat a talented and tough player from MBA, making at most Olsen said. fueled by setbacks. His dad says he has Fatherly Advice one or two unforced errors in the whole match,” Taylor said. “He has He maintained his confidence throughout relentless determination to reach his goals. been one of the most focused and hard-working boys on the team the the tournament, despite rain showers Along with this determination comes Brad Olsen, director of golf at Colonial last three years.” making play more difficult on the last day quite a bit of self-discipline, and both parents Country Club in Cordova, TN, and of the competition. Sims’ victory continued the Owls’ dominance of the singles champion- agreed their son should be a little easier on father of golfer Zachary Olsen ’13, “I made a lot of pars and a few birdies ship. Marshall Sharp ’12, who struggled with injury this season and himself. However, they were excited to see advises parents to let their children lost in the semifinals, claimed the title the past two years. his efforts pay off when he accepted the determine how good they want to be Gibbs Trophy at Sage Valley and put on the at a sport. “Then help them understand Fourteen Named National Merit Finalists winner’s gold blazer. that without making sacrifices, they Olsen says his father’s advice has helped Fourteen members of the Class of 2012 were National Merit Scholar- can’t expect great results,” he said. him throughout his golfing endeavors. ship Finalists for the 2011-12 school year: Max Barzel, John David “Make sure they understand that not Christman, Jackson Darr, Nathan Feler, Nathan Franklin, “My dad always stresses that you should play your own game and not get caught up in succeeding is okay as long as they Danny Galvin, Eli Goldstein, Garrott Graham, Carson House, prepared to the best of their ability. Ashish Nathani, John Newman, George Ormseth, Nicholas anyone else’s – that way you can stay focused Rouse, and Lane Sally. on playing to the best of your ability,” he said. Parents need to be honest with their His next goal is to make the Junior Ryder children and be their biggest fans at The finalists, combined with the school’s 14 National Merit the same time.” Commended Students and two National Achievement Semifinalists, Cup team, and once he finishes his senior make up 36 percent of the senior class. year, to attend Oklahoma State University. Zachary Olsen wins the Junior Invitational at Sage “[OSU Golf] Coach Mike McGraw was Pace Clark and Crews Wellford Valley in Graniteville, SC. a big influence on my decision,” Olsen said.

32 MUS TODAY FALL 2012 MUS TODAY FALL 2012 33 Faculty Honors and retirements

Bakke Takes Over As Head Varsity Seniors Choose Mullins for Hollinger Receives Hale Award for With his vast safety, rescue, and preparedness years. He received numerous teaching awards, Basketball Coach John M. Nail Award Outstanding Service experience, Hollinger is a popular public speaker, We Bid Farewell to including the John M. Nail Outstanding Teaching sharing his knowledge at schools, clubs, churches, Award, the TAIS Hubert Smothers Award, and New Varsity Basketball Head Coach Matt The Class of 2012 presented the John M. Nail When Director of Facilities Willie Hollinger Four Distinguished and civic organizations. He has created several he held the A. Robert Boelte, Jr., Chair of Excel- Bakke looks back on a decade assisting retiring Outstanding Teaching Award to Wayne Mullins, received the 2012 Jean Barbee Hale Award for videos of regional and national disasters that are Family Members lence in Teaching at MUS. Coach Jerry Peters with great respect, as he looks physics instructor, at commencement. Presenting Outstanding Service at the faculty luncheon, there shown during CERT classes, and he has built many Speaking at the faculty luncheon, Mark forward to continuing a 48-year winning legacy. the award, Wil Hergenrader ’12 described was no doubt it was well deserved. The award is life-size props used for hands-on demonstrations. Counce ’77, assistant principal of the Upper “Coaching alongside Coach Peters was one Mullins as an exceptional teacher and mentor who given each year to a member of the MUS family Jerry Peters of the greatest experiences I have had in my who has exhibited outstanding loyalty, responsi- The Shelby County Office of Preparedness named School, rhetorically asked Peters the secret of In his 48 years as varsity basketball head life,” Bakke said. “He has been a mentor, a role bility, dedication, and commitment to excellence in Hollinger the 2011 Reserve Officer of the Year, his influential career. coach, Jerry Peters had 1,001 career wins, more model, and most importantly, a great friend. He service to the school. According to fellow faculty praising his dedication to educating the public “Is it that you supported the traditional values than any coach in the Shelby-Metro area. He provided me with a broader understanding of all and staff members, Hollinger embodies those traits. about the importance of disaster preparedness and of the school and embraced the vision for change ranks 12th nationwide on the all-time-win list the details required to run a successful basket- Director of Business Operations Rankin response. (For more information on CERT training, necessary for the school to grow?” Counce said. of the National Federation of State High School ball program, and I will use that knowledge Fowlkes described him as a true renaissance man, visit www.mscema.org.) “Or is it simply that you came to a place 52 years Associations. every day as the MUS head basketball coach.” with an uncanny breadth of knowledge and a Dedication to the task at hand also describes his ago, showed up for work, and ended up finding Having joined MUS in 1960, he took over the Bakke said he fully recognizes the importance heart for service. work at MUS. a home? Either way, congratulations, Coach, and head coaching position four years later and led of this new position. Over the years he watched “Whether you are talking about gardening or “Whatever the request, Willie is always willing well done.” his first team to a 24-4 record. Under Peters’ Peters continually raise the bar for excellence grease traps, woodworking or wall mounts, public to take care of it,” Fowlkes said. “Once he ‘has it,’ leadership the MUS basketball program has both on the court and in the classroom. speaking or public restrooms, fire codes or codes of you know the situation will be addressed in the been one of the best in the state. John Cady ’69 “Academics come first at MUS,” Bakke ethics, AEDs or HVAC, cats or construction, he can right way.” Peters’ low-key demeanor and selfless devo- Student, athlete, teacher, coach, counselor, said. “All of our sports teams enjoy remark- speak about it – knowledgably,” Fowlkes said. “For Hollinger accepted the award with character- Wayne Mullins tion to the team defined his coaching style. advisor – John Cady ’69 had a varied and distin- able success, and athletics are a vital part of a the MUS family, he is a true public servant.” istic humility. “It was always team first,” said former Owls guished career at MUS. In 1967 he played tackle student’s experience here. However, our primary Analice Sowell, instructor in chemistry, said it “I truly appreciate this, but I don’t feel worthy star Jim Barton ’85, who went on to a record- for Coach Jake Rudolph’s celebrated undefeated objective is preparing the students for college is willing to work one-on-one with his students would take four or five people to replace him. of it. It’s always my pleasure to help those who are breaking career at Dartmouth. “It was discipline football squad. He also received the distinction of and beyond.” to help them understand concepts – even to visit “It’s uncommon to have all that knowledge pack- willing to help themselves, and trust me – without and fundamentals, all woven within the concept being the friendliest in his senior class – the honor Before coming to MUS in 1999, Bakke them at home if they had missed school due to aged into one brain, yet he is never arrogant about all of you, I couldn’t do my job as well as I do.” of the team.” is announced in the yearbook with a photo of him coached at two Memphis-area schools – Mill- illness. Hergenrader also cited Mullins’ support of his knowledge and is always willing to teach anyone Peters will be remembered not only for his pretending to choke a seventh grader. ington High School and Rhodes College – where physics programs in the Memphis City and Shelby who wants to learn. He freely gives of his time, Ben Hale endowed the Jean Barbee Hale Award impressive record as a head coach, but for He went on to play football for Southwestern he guided students in basketball and track. County school systems. energy, and talent,” she said. for Outstanding Service in honor of his wife his lifelong devotion to teaching. Bringing his at Memphis (now Rhodes College), where he Since starting with the Owls 12 years ago, Dr. Michael Schwartz, chairman of the Depart- Hollinger came to MUS in 2003 after nearly two upon her retirement in 1998. She was a valued coaching tenets of hard work and prepara- earned a B.A. in psychology. After studying at Bakke has taken on multiple positions in the ment of Science, has witnessed Mullins’ dedication decades in facilities management at Methodist member of the staff for 24 years. The Hales’ three tion into the classroom, Peters served as an Southwestern Seminary in Fort Worth, TX, Cady Athletic Department, from serving as the current to his students. Healthcare in Memphis. His alternative career for sons attended MUS: Scott ’78, Dennis ’80, instructor of history and government for 50 returned to MUS in 1982 to teach psychology department chair to coaching Lower School “Mr. Mullins is one of the most conscientious and Steve ’84. cross country, track, and varsity basketball. He teachers that I have ever known,” he said. “He is also serves on the Academic Council and as a always devising better ways to help his students member of the Admissions Committee. Because understand physics.” of his dedication to building scholar-athletes of For Mullins it seems to be a passion bordering strong moral character, Bakke was awarded the on obsession. 2011 Distinguished Teaching Award. “My wife says that I am the only person she knows whose work is also his hobby,” Mullins said. “I eat, sleep, and breathe how to deliver the physics lesson to the classroom.”

The John M. Nail Endowment Fund was established in 1988 in memory of John M. Nail Willie Hollinger by his former students. Nail taught English and history at MUS in the late 1950s, instilling in his the past 25 years has been as a volunteer public students an enduring love of learning. Income servant, beginning as a firefighter for the Raleigh from the endowment provides funds to support Volunteer Fire Department. In 1995 he joined the faculty development, including the John M. Shelby County Emergency Management Agency Nail Outstanding Teaching Award, the John Reserves (now under the Shelby County Office of M. Nail Teaching Fellowship, and the John Preparedness/Homeland Security), where he helped Matt Bakke M. Nail Departmental Award. Each year, the launch the Community Emergency Response Team seniors choose an Upper School instructor as the training program to help citizens learn how to take recipient of the awards and fellowship. care of their families in a disaster. Al Shaw, Marge Roosa, Jerry Peters, and John Cady enjoy their retirement party at The Tower Room.

34 MUS TODAY FALL 2012 MUS TODAY FALL 2012 35 Faculty Honors and retirements (continued) Changing of the Guard

and religion and coach football and track. He also practice honesty, discretion, and integrity – and to Board Thanks Retiring Trustee, Welcomes New Member served as head baseball coach for four years. In wear gloves and a hat to work. 1990 he received a master’s in education from the “Mrs. Roosa left the gloves and hat up North,” University of Memphis. Smith said. “Instead, she brought her pleasant S. Alexander Thompson III Frederick C. Schaeffer, Jr. ’88 As an assistant football coach, he helped the smile, sunny disposition, and her time-keeping skills 1989 freshman team to an 8-1 record, including – she is always quick to cuckoo, ‘It’s 4 p.m.’ lex Thompson announced his retirement from eadership in education is a family tradition for the their first victory over Germantown in 14 years. “Thanks for the reminder, Marge.” Cady also assumed the role of director of coun- Roosa will return in the fall for a couple days a the Board of Trustees at the May meeting, having Schaeffer family. The late Frederick C. Schaeffer, Sr., seling, implementing several new programs. week in the Upper School office, but she intends A served for 16 years. Thompson was chair of the Lserved on the boards of Presbyterian Day School and Before moving to Charlotte, NC, with his family, he to spend most of her time with her family and, Endowment Committee for 13 years, and his financial Memphis University School. Frederick C. Schaeffer, Jr. ’88 received the John M. Nail Outstanding Teaching sometime in the near future, to travel to Europe. insight proved an invaluable asset. Joining the board in 1996, he continues this tradition and will be joining the MUS Board Award in 1995. became a founding member of the Thorn Society, served on of Trustees this fall, while continuing his service on the Cady returned in 2007 as the director of student the Task Force for the Doors to New Opportunities Capital PDS and Hutchison boards. He is also a deacon at Second life, and he served as the faculty advisor for the Al Shaw Student Council and the Civic Service Organization. Al Shaw joined the science faculty in 2003 as Campaign, and as a frequent Phonathon volunteer. Presbyterian Church. He rejoined the football coaching staff, and in 2008 the Ruth McCaughan Morrison Chair of Science “MUS is a better place as a result of the Thompson family,” “Fred, Sr. was a dynamic trustee who served MUS helped lead the varsity team to their first unde- and the head of the Science Department, bringing Board of Trustees Chairman Bob Loeb ’73 said. “Alex has been extremely well at a critical time in our school’s history,” feated season since his own in ’67, a feat repeated a wide range of academic experience and inspiring a thoughtful and persuasive trustee, Bob Loeb ’73, chair of the Board in 2009. ideas about science education. guiding the school through several of Trustees, said. “All of us on the “I want our curriculum and our classroom Bobby Alston, director of athletics, spoke with sensitive issues over his 16-year tenure. board look forward to Fred [ Jr.] admiration about the longtime coach and teacher: activities to reflect the excitement and challenge of “John has always been someone I respected science,” he said. Frances [Norfleet Thompson] and continuing the family legacy of for his love of MUS and his love for his students In his nine years at MUS, Shaw was instru- Alex have parented three outstanding service, bringing his enthusiastic, and players,” Alston said. “As a coach, he always mental in updating the science curriculum and Set in Concrete sons [A ’98, Norfleet ’99, and Tread positive spirit. Fred will serve on the championed his guys and gave them the confi- renovating a number of the labs. During his tenure ’01], who are now, in turn, serving the Athletic and the Admissions and Buchman’s Sculptures Featured at The Dixon dence to overachieve.” as head of the department, he helped expand the school. The MUS community will be Public Relations committees as well Lower School science program with the addition n a contraption-rigged Midtown Memphis studio forever indebted to the Thompson as being a liaison for MUS with of year-long courses in the seventh and eighth that would make Rube Goldberg proud, Instructor Marge Roosa family for their service.” Second Presbyterian Church, PDS, grades. In the Upper School he worked to add I in Art Jim Buchman sculpts 7-foot-tall concrete In paying tribute to Marge Roosa, Brian K. more AP courses and electives such as Molecular columns that are at once fanciful and dramatic. More A 1973 graduate of Vanderbilt and Hutchison.” Smith, director of College Counseling, recalled the Biology. He increased the use of technology by than a dozen of Buchman’s 1,800-pound sculptures University, Thompson played both basketball and baseball while A 1992 graduate of the University of Mississippi, old saying, “It takes a village to raise a child.” equipping the labs with advanced probes that along with some smaller works will be featured earning a bachelor of arts degree in philosophy. He pursued Schaeffer earned a bachelor’s degree in business “During the past 19 years, that village has allowed students to collect and analyze data on at the Dixon Gallery and Gardens in Memphis, post-graduate studies, completing coursework in accounting administration. He then joined his father, grandfather, and consisted of one Mrs. Marge Roosa,” he said at computers. September 23 through December 2. and retirement planning and earning Chartered Life uncle at Strategic Financial Partners in Memphis, providing the faculty luncheon. “She worked tirelessly over Shaw may best be remembered by his students Using a series of homemade hoppers, pulleys, Underwriter and Chartered Financial Consultant designations. insurance and wealth management services. the years to make sure the various colleges and as the teacher of AP Physics B, a college-level bridles, and hoists, Buchman mixes and forms the universities received all the required documents physics course he introduced. He also achieved columns, cures the forms to a semi-solid state, and He is chairman and CEO of Summit Asset Management Active with the MUS Alumni Association for many years, – perfectly packaged – for our graduating seniors. success as the coach of several academic teams, turns them on a lathe of his own design. The resulting LLC, where he has worked since 1999. Prior to joining Schaeffer served on the Alumni Executive Board from 1998- She hunted down many a student and teacher to and he was instrumental in getting MUS involved works are studies in texture, shape, light, and Summit, Thompson was a representative for The Equitable 2004 as secretary, vice president, and president. He has been make sure everything was mailed on time.” in statewide science competitions. Shaw coached shadow, which bring to mind ancient architectural for more than 20 years. He was inducted into The Equitable’s the representative for the Class of 1988 for the past seven years In addition to helping seniors through the the first Knowledge Bowl and Quiz Bowl teams, structures or sand-drip castles made at the beach Hall of Fame, became a Life Member of the Million Dollar and serves as a frequent Phonathon volunteer. He also played college application process, she processed more which went on to many years of success. He also – at some angles, both at the same time. Buchman Round Table, and served on the Executive Committee of The in the Alumni Basketball League for many years. than 600 transcripts during admission season. As teamed with Elizabeth Crosby, English instructor, to has been creating the cement sculptures for nine an administrative assistant, she has been a familiar coach the Mock Trial team for two years. years, and he received a Hale Fellowship for Faculty Equitable’s National Agent Forum. Now retired from the ABL, Schaeffer enjoys golf, running, face to almost anyone who has visited the school In a moving tribute at the faculty luncheon, Development for the project in 2009. Thompson has been an elder at Second Presbyterian biking, and spending time with his family – wife, Courtney, for nearly two decades. Shauna Miller, science instructor, described her For the Dixon exhibit his large-scale works will Church for many years and a longtime board member of and children, Courtney, 14, and Frederick III, 9. “Her sense of humor, wit, and stick-to-itiveness stepdad’s passion for teaching, deep dedication to be installed outdoors around Garrott Court, with Presbyterian Day School, serving two terms as chairman. have been constants that I – and the students – his students, and constant thirst for knowledge. his smaller creations on display in the Mallory and He also serves on the professional advisory group of the have appreciated,” Smith said. “She has definitely “Thank you for your unparalleled support as a Wurtzburger Galleries. The opening reception for the Jewish Foundation of Memphis. helped us raise a village.” dad for the last 20-something years,” Miller said. exhibit will be Thursday, September 20, from 6-9 p.m. The seeds for her excellence may have been “And thank you for quietly showing me what it The public is invited to attend. For more information, planted at the Katharine Gibbs secretarial school takes to be a great teacher along the way. visit www.dixon.org. in New York, where the students were taught to

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M E M O R I A L S DOUGLAS C. ROCKETT ’83 MR. AND MRS. GARY OLIN GILES Ms. Nancy B. Katz and Mr. Richard C. Greenwald ’83 Mr. A. Robert Boelte, Jr. Memory W. MAXWELL ROSE ’07 J. WELLFORD GOULD ’13 Nelson Fraser Freeburg, Sr. (1920-2012) CLAIRE B. AUSTIN Mr. and Mrs. M. Vincent Mutzi Mr. and Mrs. R. Alan Pritchard ’80 In of Mr. Skip Daniel VIVIAN WALKER SIMS DAVID M. GRABER II ’17 Nelson Fraser Freeburg, Sr., a Board of Trustees member L. EDWIN ELEAZER III ’94 Anonymous Mr. and Mrs. Haywood S. Davis III Mr. and Mrs. Talmai O. Vickers, Jr. ’91 from 1963-1985 and an honorary trustee for 27 years, ROBERT E. TIPTON, JR. ’09 JOHN S. GRAY ’15 died on May 14 after a brief illness. He was 92 years old. NELSON F. FREEBURG, SR. Dr. Sam J. Cox III Ms. Charlotte P. Schenken He grew up in Memphis and served in the Third Army in Mrs. Claire K. Farmer Mr. and Mrs. Mark B. Guenther, Mr. Jefferson B. Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Fisher ’72 Guenther ’15, STEWART D. LOVE ’15 Europe under Gen. George Patton during World War II. Mr. and Mrs. Ellis L. Haguewood Mr. Stewart Guenther, and Miss Anne Mr. and Mrs. J. Larry Dixon Upon returning to Memphis, he founded Freeburg Brothers, Mr. and Mrs. Jeffery R. Harris ’81 Morgan Guenther Mr. and Mrs. Alexander W. Wellford, Jr. ’60 Mrs. S. Herbert Rhea STEPHEN S. MCHUGH, JR. ’16 a home-construction firm, with his brother, Charles, and Mr. and Mrs. Richard Smart Mr. and Mrs. Alvis C. Henderson, Jr. together they built thousands of homes. Freeburg married DAVID M. GEER Mr. and Mrs. W. Harold Ware, Mr. Matthew R. Ware Helen Hobson Hull, daughter of MUS trustee Horace H. Mr. and Mrs. Dallas M. Geer ’95 ’98, and Mr. William M. Ware ’07 STONE R. MCSPADDEN ’13 Dr. Susan W. Warner and Dr. William C. Warner, Jr. Mr. Gilbert R. McSpadden, Jr. Hull, in 1950, and they had four children. MYRON ASHNER HALLE, SR. 1916 Dr. Robert H. Winfrey, Jr. Mr. Robert M. Halle ’76 JOHN S. NEWMAN ’12 BEE WALLIS The Honorable and Mrs. John R. McCarroll, Jr. His father-in-law introduced him to the James K. Dobbs family, beginning an enduring RANDALL L. HOLCOMB ’03 Mr. and Mrs. Howard L. Cleveland IV ’88 professional and personal relationship. From1963-1970, Freeburg served as the national Mr. Francis B. Langston ’02 DENNIS R. PARNELL, JR. ’14 Mr. and Mrs. John A. Stemmler, Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Ms. Sara A. Fields director of real estate for Dobbs House Corporation. In 1970 he began a career as a M. Stemmler ’97, private investor, creating an office over his garage at home. Freeburg and his wife enjoyed Mr. John A. Stemmler, Jr., ’94 H O N O R A R I U M S H. JERRY PETERS Mr. Albert W. Stemmler ’99 Mr. Perry D. Dement traveling the world together, including two memorable European trips with their children. Mr. John H. Edmonson ’81 He was an avid fisherman and a familiar figure in the Chickasaw Gardens neighborhood, MR. AND MRS. JACK JOE, SR. BOBBY A. ALSTON Mr. and Mrs. David S. Walker where he could be seen daily, impeccably dressed and wearing his Liberty of London tie, Mr. Christopher M. Joe ’87 Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Fisher ’72 Dr. and Mrs. Jess M. Wesberry, Jr. ’71 walking his beloved standard poodles. ROSS M. LYNN NICHOLAS D. ANTONELLI ’13 JIANYIN ROACHELL ’11 Mr. Kingsley W. Hooker, Jr. ’60 Mr. and Mrs. Daniel S. Antonelli Mr. and Mrs. Brian S. Roachell The Freeburgs have been longtime supporters of MUS, and their contributions helped to DONALD C. MCCLURE, SR. PHILIPPE M. BLAIS ’06 MARJORIE E. ROOSA build Hull Lower School and to renovate Hull-Dobbs Athletic Field at Stokes Stadium, Mr. and Mrs. R. Hunter Humphreys, Sr. ’70 Mr. and Mrs. Daniel S. Antonelli Mr. Perry D. Dement Mrs. Judy Hurst both named in honor of Horace H. Hull. ELEANOR JANE MCSWAIN JOSEPH O. BOONE ’89 Mr. Perry D. Dement Mr. and Mrs. Albert M. Alexander, Jr. 84 W. REYNOLDS RAIFORD ’14 Mrs. Claire K. Farmer Mr. and Mrs. Leslie K. Estes Nelson Freeburg is survived by Helen, his wife of 62 years, and his four children, Mr. and Mrs. Ellis L. Haguewood GEORGE R. BYARS III ’13 Nelson Fraser Freeburg, Jr. ’69 (Carole), Houston Lanier Freeburg ’72 (Pamela), Dr. and Mrs. John E. Harkins Mr. and Mrs. George R. Byars, Sr. L. WILKINSON RAINER ’13 Emily Hull Freeburg Kay (Harvey ’75) and Philip Hayden Freeburg ’81 (Debbi); his Mr. and Mrs. James C. Rainer III CARTER LEE MURRAY ’94 JOHN R. CADY ’69 sister, Phyllis Freeburg Willis of Nashville; along with 10 grandchildren, including Mr. Duncan M. Chesney ’92 Mr. Perry D. Dement ALBERT L. SHAW Harvey L. Kay IV ’01, Nelson F. “Trip” Freeburg ’10, twins Charles J. and Mr. Bradley H. Cohen ’94 Mr. Perry D. Dement CLASS OF ’87 Scott H. Freeburg ’12, and Philip H. Freeburg, Jr. ’16; and one great-grandchild. MAX W. PAINTER, SR. Mr. and Mrs. L. Patrick Kelly ’87 NICHOLAS T. VERGOS ’12 Mr. and Mrs. Max W. Painter, Jr. ’88 Mr. and Mrs. O. John Norris III ’87 Mrs. John R. Zeitler

MR. AND MRS. HENRY K. QUON, SR. ALEXANDER E. CRESON ’15 DANIEL J. WARLICK ’93 Mr. Christopher M. Joe ’87 Dr. and Mrs. Daniel G. Boeh Mr. and Mrs. James R. Haygood IV ’93

STEPHEN H. RHEA, JR. ’68 JOHN R. ESTES ’14 LOUIS E. WITTENBERG III ’17 Mr. Perry D. Dement Mr. and Mrs. Leslie K. Estes Mr. and Mrs. James A. Wittenberg Mrs. Claire K. Farmer Mr. and Mrs. Ellis L. Haguewood GEORGE S. FLINN III ’91 Mr. and Mrs. R. Hunter Humphreys, Sr. ’70 Mr. and Mrs. Leslie K. Estes Dr. and Mrs. Wiley T. Robinson ’75

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38 MUS TODAY FALL 2012 MUS TODAY FALL 2012 39 COVERS plays the different spheres against each other. The story sees Berger a writer for the website Dutch Progressive Rock Pages, praised including Jackie Fargo, “Superstar” Bill Dundee, “Handsome” Jimmy Translating the Stark Beauty questing ever forward for some fragment of relevance in an arcane Saunders’ musical vision. Valiant, and Jerry “The King” Lawler. of Vienna Spring and unfeeling world. “Saunders has a lot of ideas and the skills to implement those Memphis Heat had a run in select Southern movie theaters last by Noah Black In the early decades of the 21st century, Zweig’s early work ideas. The results will prove to be more than acceptable to the modern year. It is available on DVD, packed with more than four hours of still rings true – if only because the social ideas that he glimpsed progressive rock fan,” Hughes said. interview footage, at www.memphis-heat.com and on iTunes. William Ruleman ’75 recently have been magnified. So often, Modernists like James Joyce and As is usual with Saunders’ two previous albums, the tracks on translated a collection of the William Faulkner are seen as the best products of that time, but Undone range from 2-14 minutes long and carry the listener on a Austrian writer Stefan Zweig’s Zweig’s countervalent voice, thematically reinforced by Ruleman’s whirlwind journey. short stories. The collection, titled translation, deserves its place, too. But where does that journey lead? The newly released album’s Glorie’s Musicianship Vienna Spring: Early Novellas and official description provides an intriguing roadmap, stating the Manifests Glorie Stories (Ariadne Press, 2010), music is “the undoing of three idealistic rock and rollers, a maritime contains five narratives linked poet who can’t remember how to write, a love-struck pawn on by Ashley Johnston the Western front, and those immortalized lovers who blew it for by their setting in the titular Glorie’s self-titled album, Progressive Rocker’s Electric Everyman. It is set to music that comes undone at the end of an European metropolis. released on May 17, 2011, electric concerto before finally asking who will set things right.” Tipsy with enthusiasm for the Concerto Becomes Undone by Memphis-based label To sample some of Saunders’ music and purchase his albums, visit new century, the characters slowly by Dev Varma ’07 Makeshift Music, is a richly www.zenrockandroll.com. but inevitably – and for Zweig, complex experiment in the tragically – come to glimpse some Before becoming assistant post-rock instrumental sliver of the catastrophic events director of information Operatic Duo – As part of a Hale Fellowship for Faculty Development, Jonathan Saunders is composing an opera with his father, former MUS genre. Jason Paxton, about to engulf Europe. As a writer technology at MUS, former front man of the abreast of but apart from the strands of Modernism that were Director of Theater Andy Saunders. The scenario is a modernization of The Jonathan Saunders toiled Tales of Hoffmann, an opera by Jacques Offenbach, based on popular band The Satyrs, evolving in the first decade of the 20th century, Zweig crafted stories away at the mellotron, several short stories by German author E.T.A. Hoffmann. joins with Jonathan that are fascinating anachronisms. They are more romantic than the microphone, and Kirkscey ’93, Andrew modern, naturalistic instead of mechanical, and at once informed the mixing console in his Saunders, Jeff Hulett, by and reacting to the elements they reject. home studio. Using the and Robert Brimhall to create an introspective emotional tapestry that The particular quirk of Ruleman’s translation is his reliance on name Zen Rock and Roll, is both complicated and beautiful. dashed, parenthetical interjections – like this – to capture Zweig’s he recorded his first solo Wrestling Fans Can Still Catch Far from the ambient, monotonous flavor usually style. As a grammatical feature, parenthetical comments clarify album, End of the Age, in ascribed to modern instrumental music, Glorie reflects an and modify the object that they describe. Here, Ruleman is at his 2002 (ProgRock Records). Memphis Heat unparalleled musicianship and thoughtful consideration that cleverest. Zweig’s own sentiments, his humanity, sympathy, and Since that time, Saunders has kept producing his own music. In May by Andrew Millen ’08 layers vibraphone, keys, and strings with conventional rock quiet metropolitan enthusiasm, were a product of their time but he released a third album, Undone, also with ProgRock. instrumentation on each track. ran perpendicular to the dominant cultural currents. These ideas Saunders is no stranger to making music. In fact, his music has When Sherman Wilmott ’84 Paxton achieves an ominous mystery with delicate strings and a found in his stories were parenthetical to their own time, explicating been featured in several theater productions. A jack of all musical was publishing Ron Hall’s strong vibraphone presence accompanied by rock grooves that make and modifying the experience of early 20th century Europe. By trades, he composes, performs, records, and mixes all his music. book Sputnik, Masked Men and for a sort of universal grandeur. Prominent melodies rise and fall to increasing the density of parentheticals within the text, Ruleman Recent examples could be heard in the MUS productions of The Midgets (Shangri La Projects, compliment every instrument and create a dark and contemplative makes manifest in a textual way a portion of what made Zweig’s Tempest, Metamorphoses, and Death of a Salesman. 2009), about the history of composition with the final track, “Gunshot City,” as the apex of writings so celebrated upon their first release – the outsider’s look But his musical experience goes deeper. During the late ’90s, Memphis wrestling, the two the album. into the thoughts of man at that time. he played numerous live shows around Memphis with a variety of decided to make a documentary The overwhelming talent within the band is evident through The opening story, “The Loser,” encapsulates this theme – that cover bands, including a Led Zeppelin tribute band. After playing to promote the book. Two the highly polished final product. Hulett is a member of the of a man frustrated by a time and culture that have raced ahead of these shows for a while, Saunders had an epiphany that pushed him years later, the small-budget much-loved Mid-South bands Snowglobe and Jeffrey James and him. Ruleman’s work with the story’s distinct voice shines in this toward self-recording. production had burgeoned the Haul. Kirkscey has been a cellist in the Memphis Symphony story. The narrator’s thoughts lurch forward, then screech to a halt, “I looked at the dozens of other musicians around me who had into the feature-length film Orchestra since 1999, and he has performed with the likes of Jay and stagger forward again. Sentences often begin with conjunctions hard lives, and I didn’t want to end up like that,” he said. Memphis Heat: The True Story Reatard, Cat Power, and Al Green. He also has scored local films, and adverbs that could link the thoughts together in a more fluid Saunders also had difficulty finding people with enough interest of Memphis Wrasslin’. including Craig Brewer’s The Poor and Hungry, among myriad structure. But Zweig and Ruleman deny the characters both modern and talent to help him produce his kind of music. Yet, he felt the Memphis Heat is an other musical endeavors. machine-like precision and the Modernist stream-of-consciousness urge to keep creating, so he retreated to his home studio and started inside look at the wrestling excess. The story’s voice is distinctly beautiful in its rejection of making the symphonic, progressive rock-inspired music he loves. phenomenon that gripped local conventional beauty. Zen Rock and Roll’s second album, The Birthright Circle, sports fans for decades, drawing huge crowds to Ellis Auditorium Glorie’s debut album is available for free download Conflicts of identity continue in “Scarlet Fever,” where Berger, a came out in 2004. With it, Saunders thoroughly stated his taste from the 1950s into the 1970s. They were drawn by the entertaining at www.glorierock.com, but the band members are shy young medical student strives to find his place in the increasingly and talent through an intricate incorporation of progressive rock storylines, over-the-top characters, and celebrity endorsements – even grateful for donations to keep the music going. complex Vienna. Zweig deftly charts Berger’s desires – his longing structures and 19th and 20th century art music. The sophomore Elvis was a fan. They plan to release an EP this fall. for professional, personal, civic, and romantic fulfillment – and release garnered the attention of many reviewers. Mark Hughes, The film features then-and-now interviews with some of the colorful personalities that once filled the Memphis sports pages, 40 MUS TODAY FALL 2012 MUS TODAY FALL 2012 41 COVERS(continued) Dishing the Truth about Diet and Nutrition Claims by Norman Thompson

gnoring the wisdom of the ages, I knew on sight everwell.com – explodes, in the most amiable way possible, here was a book I could judge by its cover, and do deeply ingrained myths about diet and nutrition. His book so adoringly. And so will you if you are a coffee is replete with good news: Coffee drinkers have no greater addict or a chocoholic. The second book by Robert risk of heart attacks or strokes; indeed, they appear to have IJ. Davis ’82, Coffee Is Good for You: The Truth About Diet a slightly lower risk than non-java drinkers. Coffee does Send news to your class representative listed below or to Ann Laughlin at [email protected]. and Nutrition Claims (Perigee, 2012), is as entertaining not increase the risk of cancer. Chocolate does not raise ’59 John Lawo...... [email protected] ’92 ChuckHamlett...... [email protected] and compelling as his earlier The Healthy Skeptic: Cutting cholesterol levels. In fact, cholesterol from food appears to ’60 Met Crump...... 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If you consume fewer, ’65 Bob Heller...... [email protected] ’95 Gideon Scoggin...... [email protected] ’65 Rick Miller...... [email protected] ’95 Will Thompson...... [email protected] People fail to ask who is behind information and what might you lose weight. In general, it doesn’t matter whether those ’66 Chuck Smith...... [email protected] ’96 Nelson Cannon...... [email protected] their motives be?” This exhortation advising critical thinking calories come from carbs, fat, or protein.” ’67 John Pettey...... [email protected] ’96 Robert Dow...... [email protected] also informs Coffee Is Good for You. Here is reading that Is raw milk better for you than pasteurized milk? No. ’68 Bill Ferguson...... 901-278-6868 ’96 Matt Weathersby...... [email protected] enlightens as it charms. It is Mythbusters lobbing intellectual Is milk necessary for strong bones? No. ’69 Scott Wellford...... [email protected] ’97 Trey Jones...... [email protected] ’70 Warren Ayres...... [email protected] ’97 Michael Thompson...... [email protected] rather that actual C4 hand grenades. Is bottled water safer than tap water? No. ’71 BarlowMann...... [email protected] ‘98 Erick Clifford...... [email protected] Davis – who teaches at Emory University’s Rollins Is irradiated food unsafe? No. ’71 Phil Wiygul...... [email protected] ’98 Don Drinkard...... [email protected] School of Public Health and serves as editor in chief of These and many other commonly held beliefs are examined ’72 Denby Brandon...... [email protected] ’98 Justin Lohman...... [email protected] in light of recent research and found wanting. To allay any ’72 Joel Hobson...... jhobson@hobso ’99 Richard Burt...... [email protected] ’73 Cecil Humphreys...... [email protected] ’99 Chip Campbell...... [email protected] lingering doubts about his assertions, Davis begins his book ’73 Wise Jones...... [email protected] ’00 Michael Liverance...... [email protected] with an easily-digested discussion of how media distorts ’74 Mark Ruleman...... [email protected] ’00 Ryan Miller...... [email protected] science and, he says, “how many who advise us about diet and ’74 Walker Sims...... [email protected] ’01 Paul Gillespie...... [email protected] ’75 Lee Marshall...... [email protected] ’01 Daniel McDonell...... [email protected] nutrition have an agenda – whether selling a product, pushing ’76 Gib Wilson...... [email protected] ’01 Battle Williford...... [email protected] a weight-loss regimen, or simply trying to get attention – and ’77 Bruce Moore...... [email protected] ’02 Gene Bledsoe...... [email protected] they misleadingly pick and choose studies to help further ’78 Joe Morrison...... [email protected] ’02 Frank Langston...... [email protected] their cause.” He then explains how nutrition studies are ’79 ArthurFulmer...... [email protected] ’02 Will Saxton...... [email protected] ’80 Mel Payne...... [email protected] ’03 Jamie Drinan...... [email protected] conducted and how misleading they can be if one does not ’80 George Skouteris...... [email protected] ’03 Edward Nenon...... [email protected] understand the procedures. ’81 Rob Hussey...... [email protected] ’04 John Collier...... [email protected] Davis warns us that this explanation “may seem a bit ’81 Kelly Truitt...... [email protected] ’04 Elliot Embry...... [email protected] dry and technical,” but he need not have worried, for ’82 John Dunavant...... [email protected] ’05 Kane Alber...... [email protected] ’83 Jim Harwood...... [email protected] ’05 Sam Sawyer...... [email protected] the discussion is brief, clearly outlined, and absolutely ’83 Trey Jordan...... [email protected] ’06 Sam Coates...... [email protected] essential. Besides, the technical, statistical, and scientific ’84 Bob McEwan...... [email protected] ’06 Chad Hazlehurst...... [email protected] language of the book is leavened by ingratiating wit and ’85 Craig Witt...... [email protected] ’07 West Askew...... [email protected] ’86 Brad Conder...... [email protected] ’07 Blake Cowan...... [email protected] numerous allusions to popular culture – from the hallowed ’86 Andy McArtor...... [email protected] ’08 Michael Cross...... [email protected] Vitameatavegamin routine from the 1950’s sitcom I Love Lucy ’86 Ted Miller...... [email protected] ’08 Connell Hall...... [email protected] to Snooki Polizzi of Jersey Shore. ’87 JonnyBallinger...... [email protected] ’09 Jim Moore...... [email protected] While enormously entertaining, Coffee Is Good for You is a ’87 Bo Brooksbank...... [email protected] ’10 Stephond Allmond...... [email protected] ’88 Max Painter...... [email protected] ’10 Hank Hill...... [email protected] serious compendium of scientific studies. The book includes ’88 Fred Schaeffer...... [email protected] ’10 Jake Rudolph...... [email protected] 40 pages of references to these studies, and it contains a ’89 Scott Sherman...... [email protected] ’11 Blake Hennessy...... [email protected] detailed index to guide the reader. In conclusion, Davis gives ’90 Brian Eason...... [email protected] ’11 Chase Schoelkopf...... [email protected] us “Ten Tips for Deciphering Diet and Nutrition Claims.” ’90 Philip Wunderlich...... [email protected] ’11 Scooter Taylor...... [email protected] ’91 Trent Allen...... [email protected] ’12 Edward Francis...... [email protected] Somewhere else in the book he warns us of the limited ’91 DarrellCobbins...... [email protected] ’12 Anthony Hodges...... [email protected] efficacy of multivitamins. One would do well to forgo the ’91 Brett Grinder...... [email protected] ’12 Lee Marshall...... [email protected] vitamins and buy this book, for these tips are worth the price of Coffee Is Good for You.

42 MUS TODAY FALL 2012 MUS TODAY FALL 2012 43 “Tell them simply, ‘I hope you can stay as long as New York, one in Philadelphia, one in Toronto, We plan to send out some pictures with the help discussed his dad’s legacy to the school and his plan to meet Friday and Saturday nights. By now three days.’” one in Seattle, and his namesake now in West of Dr. Harkins, who has been very gracious with passing the 1,000th-win milestone. we have probably sent out some definite loca- Hartford, CT, newly in charge of acquisitions for his time and efforts on our behalf. We met with tions for those get-togethers. (See p. 58) ’58 A picture in The Commercial Appeal with news I know Jimmy Garner is making plans to come Stanley Black & Decker. him in the refurbished library and were most Vanderbilt Law School has renamed its Shaw of bygone days showed PDS classmate Camp- back. Jim has been in the Dallas area for many impressed with the updated facility. The rest of Pittman Scholarship. It is now named the Steve bell Kensinger and family in 1953, including years, having gone there for another job. He got the campus is also impressive, and I trust some Potts and Les Nicholson Scholarship after Les his 97-year-old grandfather. Campbell’s father, into insurance, gradually added other prod- of you will want to take a tour of it while you are Nicholson and his longtime friend, co-worker, a manager at Hull-Dobbs, pulled him out of ucts, and now has his own financial planning ’63 here that weekend. We ran into Jerry Peters’ son and Vanderbilt classmate. PDS when Col. Lynn divided the class into two company. His son’s family lives nearby in Austin, Henry Grenley has been practicing law for 42 Jason Peters ’88, who is on the faculty. We sections, which the boys called the “smart TX. He is looking forward to coming back to the years, and retirement is not even in sight. At section” and the “dumb section.” Kensinger, reunion to see everybody. He has fond memories Phonathon he commented that he still has great who became a notorious biker and bodyguard, of his MUS days. memories of MUS and his class. was shot to death at age 32. Classmates ’60 John Fry and Ardent Studios were on the cover exchanged emails about their memories of Last year, Kay and George Owen had dinner of Mix magazine in November 2011. The feature Kensinger. Hooker noted that it took six bullets with John Pettey ’67, and Alex Wellford in story covered the 45th anniversary of Ardent to kill him. Sam Rembert recalled seeing Kens- Beaufort, SC, while Pettey and Wellford were on and its many contributions to the recording arts ’65 inger at a “dive” where Ronnie Milsap played, a team tennis trip to Hilton Head. Kay continues industry. In January, Henry Klyce was named CEO of to teach belly dancing to the South Carolina and Kensigner was the bouncer. Kensinger Active Implants, a Memphis-based company natives, and Owen takes off from his appraisal offered to help Rembert with anyone who I caught up with Mike Saliba during Phona- that is a leader in cushion-bearing technology for work for various hobbies, including hunting, gave him trouble. No one could remember the thon, and he informed me that he now has five orthopedics. fishing, and cabinet making. Of the many dive until Syd Butler emailed that TJ’s, where grandchildren, four girls and a boy. He is still wonderful pieces of furniture he has crafted for Milsap got his start before Nashville fame, Dr. Robert Dillard ’60 with the statue using his structural engineering degree from dedicated in his honor at Forsyth University of Tennessee with his business, their attractive home, he says that he recalls was a fairly nice night spot between Poplar Medical Center. Chuck Smith Trow Gillespie every single mistake, none of which is visible to and Madison, near Evergreen. He recalled that Saliba & Associates. others. After winning cliff-hanging matches with Kensinger “would always arrange a good table” For the last two years, Bobby Byrd has jour- Gillespie and Smith Honored ’66 Fred Smith tied for No. 3 on Fortune magazine’s John Romeiser reports that his life continues teams from South Carolina, Georgia, Missis- for his PDS classmates and pals. (Kensinger’s neyed from El Paso, TX, to spend a month in a Ducks Unlimited and ArtsMemphis list of executives who make their employees to be pleasantly boring, but high points include sippi, and Louisiana, Pettey and Wellford’s team story is detailed in It Came From Memphis by friend’s apartment on West 107th Street in New will honor Trow Gillespie ’65 and happy. The magazine also ranked FedEx Corp. 36 years of marriage to Carole and surviving a moved on to the nationals in Phoenix for the 4.0 Robert Gordon ’79.) York City. His time there is chronicled in his blog, Chuck Smith ’66 for their support No. 6 on its list of the “Top 50 World’s Most bout with cancer in 2007. Romeiser now teaches division of players over 60, where they lost all which you can find by Googling “Bobby Byrd A practicing lawyer in Jacksonville, FL, and throughout the years with a celebration Admired Companies.” graduate and undergraduate courses in French the close matches. blog.” Son Johnny, who is starting to head Bobby general counsel for Stein Mart, Mitch Legler is dinner November 10. The dinner is part language, literature, and culture at the University and Leigh’s publishing company, was recently If you haven’t already noted Homecoming on Ever since French teacher David Morelock also now heading a company that repairs railroad of Conservation Through Art, a weeklong, of Tennessee, Knoxville, as well as directing married, a wonderful occasion, Bobby reports, your calendars, please do so now and be sure extolled the virtues of Le Roi Soleil, classmates bridges. Check out www.enconbridges.com. community fest that raises awareness the school’s summer study program in Paris, but not yet the subject of a Byrd blog. to join us for the various activities that will be have cherished the notion of someday being At our 50th Jimmy Allen was a bit uncertain and funds for wildlife conservation and planned that weekend. We will have a special France. From time to time he runs across recent a king, an honor Met Crump enjoyed while about his position after Supply Technolo- the arts. Since 2005 Ducks Unlimited luncheon provided by the school on Saturday, MUS graduates in his classes; the most recent serving his subjects as King of Memphi during gies purchased Lawson Products. Now the and ArtsMemphis have collaborated to September 22. Spouses are invited. We will also Preston Battle ’07. Carnival this past year. Serving the lesser oldest employee at Supply Tech (owned by a produce this biennial event. creatures, Crump also co-chaired the Rotary closely held public company, Park Ohio), Jimmy Several MUS alumni, parents, and ’62 grandparents who founded the event Club’s Memphis Animal Shelter Evaluation continues helping national customers with Nat Ellis joined me [Jerry Bradfield] recently Fred Smith ’62, FedEx founder and CEO, Committee, which presented a report to Mayor bolts, screws, and other industrial fasteners, still hold leadership roles on its advisory for a meeting with the Advancement Office council, including Tommie and Billy returned to his alma mater for a chapel A C Wharton Jr., in November. The report led working full time. Before founding Allen & about our reunion weekend, September 21-23. He to significant improvement in the operations at O’Hara, Jimmy’s father, Harwell Allen, once Dunavant, Elizabeth and Trow Gillespie, presentation on April 13. and Lee McCormick have been working on a Snow and Henry Morgan ’61, Susan and the shelter. worked at J.C. Dilworth, a company purchased questionnaire concerning our old school days to by the Wellford family in the late 1940s. It also Chuck Smith, and Anne and John Stokes. Retired from several businesses – an oil field be sent out to everyone prior to the reunion. I’m Current committee members include business that morphed into trucking and handled bolts and screws, as well as various sure we’ll all be looking forward to that and antici- mill supplies. chairs Kim and Bryan Jordan, Katherine construction – Andre Bollaert reports that pating seeing former classmates in September. and John Dobbs ’85, Hilary and Bruce he and Sandy spend spring, fall, and summer Now that Robert Dillard has retired, his The 2007 reunion was very successful, so I’m sure Harrison, Nancy and Steve Morrow ’71, in Ashton, ID, at their 200-acre farm (a tenant schedule allows him to teach first-year medical this year will be even better. A couple of weeks Amy and Bill Rhodes, Abbie and Duncan grows barley and potatoes) on the banks of students as a professor emeritus at Wake ago, Nat and I met with Dr. John Harkins, who Williams, and Barbara and Henry’s Fork River and the winter months in the Forest University. Earlier in the year a bronze is the school archivist and historian. We looked Lewis Williamson. high desert at St. George, UT. Golf continues to sculpture depicting six life-sized infants was through some old editions of The Owl’s Hoot and For more information and a full be a passion, with scores in the low to mid 80s. dedicated to him at the Forsyth Medical Center got a chuckle out of the pictures of our senior schedule of CTA events, visit In response to a comment that some relatives in Winston-Salem, NC, where he dealt daily class officers. How many of you can recall them http://about.artsmemphis.com and descend on him and Sandy for long stays at their with newborns. Robert has two children in from memory? click on “Conservation Through Art” Idaho or Utah homes, Kingsley Hooker advised: under the “Events” tab.

44 MUS TODAY FALL 2012 MUS TODAY FALL 2012 45 a junior in high school and played in the state championship football game last fall. This got ’70 ’74 Rise thinking about the ’77 Owls, although the is doing continuing education in Sarah and Jimmy Haygood ’93, Anna and Ben Wunderlich ’97, Marion and Hunter Humphreys recently added Chuck Day son is much bigger than the dad. Lucy is a moun- Marriages LEED building [Leadership in Energy and Environ- a son, James Raymond V, a daughter, Alice Bays, grandchild number three, but Herb Davis leads tain climber who headed for the Mount Everest Boyd Wade ’81 to Lucy Hardy on born September 22, 2011 born July 28, 2011 mental Design] and wondering why commercial our classmates with nine. base camp in March. Rise has a small hospitality October 29, 2011 kitchen equipment has no information on this Carrie and Jack Irvine ’93, Kimbery and Kevin Bohannon ’98, company that develops, owns, and operates Clark Burrow ’95 to Valerie Robilio on This spring David Morris returned to the important building certification. It’s like Jerry twins, a son, John Alexander III, a son, Fletcher Douglas, hotels and apartments. April 7, 2012 and a daughter, Virginia Tobin, born April 18, 2011 Ukraine for his 16th visit to provide free dental Omundson’s chemistry class all over again! Justin Grinder ’97 to Cara Baskin on born May 24, 2011 care to orphans. Anne and Robert Faber ’98, Alston Palmer is pleased and proud to report October 15, 2011 Renee and Jody McCormack ’94, a son, Richard Allen, Shep Tate, a partner at Bass, Berry & Sims, has that his son McLean Palmer ’05 has joined Reynolds Hillyer ’97 to Sara Haiar on a daughter, Hazel Ray, born May 31, 2012 October 15, 2011 born October 11, 2011 been elected as a fellow of the Tennessee Bar Palmer Logistics in Batesville, AR. His son Palmer and Richard Burt ’99, Foundation. Amanda and Cal Ruleman ’94, a daughter, Finlay Carlisle, Allan ’10 is having a wonderful experience as ’79 Richard Moore ’98 to Taylor Norrid on Marty Lifer, Sr., pastor of Providence Presbyte- December 30, 2011 a son, Caleb, born November 4, 2011 Victorian Village Inc. has recognized Randy a sophomore at Sewanee and is a star on their born January 25, 2012 rian Church in Hilton Head, SC, is active in local Bridget and Elliot Pope ’99, Witherington, associate professor of archi- equestrian team. Stephen Vogel ’03 to Sarah Keesee on and international missions. His congregation June 9, 2012 Lea and Chuck Gilliland ’95, a son, Alan James (A.J.), tecture at the University of Memphis, with has developed a significant partnership with a daughter, Margaret Ann, born January 5, 2012 the Victorian Village Preservation Award for Hugh Francis ’06 to Natalie Duke on born March 5, 2011 the Ministry of Hope in Malawi, strengthening June 23, 2012 Sarah and David Thompson ’02, his efforts to share the history of 19th century ties between the Central African Presbyterian Lauren and Ben Keras ’95, a son, Joseph Moody (Moody), Memphis with his students and community. Christopher Bloodworth ’08 to Lindsey a daughter, Molly Beal, born September 19, 2011 ’76 Church and the Ministry of Hope. Over the past Crider on June 2, 2012 born November 4, 2011 Emily and Josh Williamson ’03, Shelley and David Preston have been married year he has continued to visit or provide mission Julie and Joe Abrahams ’96, a son, Joshua Clinton, Jr., for 31 years and have a daughter, Sarah-Allen, support to a number of countries and served on Births a daughter, Emma Kathryn, born January 24, 2012 who will get married in May. Their son, Will, the advisory council of the Jinishian Memorial born April 1, 2012 Rachel and Kepler Knott ’87 ’71 works in New York City. Foundation. At home in Hilton Head, SC, Lifer a daughter, Sylvie Grace, Ashley and Donny Kwon ’96, Deaths Philip Gould is in the process of converting helps to coordinate efforts by work groups born October 21, 2011 a son, Joseph Ledger (Ledger), a portion of the old Plaza Theater/Bookstar from his church with the Deep Well and Gullah born September 2, 2011 Jennifer and Chuck Baker ’90, Nasseem F. Saliba ’63 at Poplar Plaza into a day spa and salon – a Heritage programs for people in need. a daughter, Lyla Adkins, Valerie and John Russell ’96, William W. Aycock, Jr. ’67 welcome addition for all of his classmates who ’78 After 25 years in the medical industry, Cameron born May 27, 2012 a son, Alec Wood, Stephen H. Rhea, Jr. ’68 could benefit from a good makeover. born September 15, 2011 McCaa decided to follow his passion for real Erin and Alan Herzog ’91, Daniel P. Goodwin, Sr. ’72 Tiger Buford is vice president of global Mike Perkins is trading his Harley-Davidson estate and launched Your Intown Home Property a daughter, Kelsey Elisabeth, Gina and Matt Weathersby ’96, Ronald A. Caldwell ’74 research and development for Active Implants, a a daughter, Anna Kate, motorcycle for a truck – look out! Management in May 2011. Based in Atlanta, born August 31, 2011 Bryan D. Thompson ’76 leading company in cushion-bearing technology born December 28, 2011 McCaa’s company focuses on tenant placement Allison and Preston Miller ’92, James M. Chambers IV ’77 Harrell Schaeffer and his family recently for orthopedics. a son, William Baker, Christy and Will Askew ’97, S. Timothy McGowan ’79 returned from a pheasant hunt in South Dakota. and asset management for real estate owners born March 15, 2011 a son William Linwood Askew V, Robert E. Tipton, Jr. ’09 Bill Dunavant has been elected as chairman and investors in the city’s most interesting and born April 19, 2012 Erin and Harry Sayle ’92, Phil Wiygul caught up with Peter Turnbull of the board of trustees for the Leadership charming neighborhoods (www.YourIntown- a daughter, Sara Grace, Mary Elizabeth and Fletcher Maynard ’97, during Phonathon. Turnbull sends his regards to Academy for 2012. Home.com). McCaa has been married to born July 19, 2011 a daughter, Bliss, born October 2, 2011 everyone from Silver Springs, MD. Stephanie for 16 years and has two daughters: Cecil Godman was recently elected an elder Schuyler, 10, and Ainsley, 9. at Idewild Presbyterian Church, and he and his wife, Summer, have taken on the roles of co-chairs for the 2012 JDRF Gala to benefit diabetes research. His daughter, Becca, is in her Bill Love has cut back on being a dentist and is ’73 Rob Jones reports that his son, Robert, gradu- junior year at Harding University, majoring in not working as hard, but is still in Jacksonville, FL. youth ministry and playing on their girls’ varsity ’80 ated magna cum laude in philosophy from the Robin Smithwick has been named managing ’67 golf team. ’69 Terry Reilly has left the Big Apple for Texas to University of Memphis in December and now principal of the Memphis office of Diversified Hugh Bosworth reports that he has two After several years of playing non-competitive reconstruct a play he did in 1974. plans to get his master’s degree. Jones would Jess Ossorio is a commercial real estate broker Trust, an employee-owned comprehensive new knees. sports, Joel Bailey recently won his flight in like to think that he inherited his brain power with Crump Commercial LLC and has been wealth management firm with over $4 billion of a golf tournament at Spring Creek Ranch in Nancy and Woods Weathersby have down- John Pettey was recently named to Barron’s from his dad, but says that could be a stretch. staying busy by helping Goodwill establish new client assets under management. Collierville. sized and moved from Kirby Woods to The list of the “Top 1,000 Advisors” in the country. locations for both donation centers and retail Village at Germantown. Buck Lewis became the chair of the Red Cross’ Boyd Wade and his daughter, Larson, ran a half The 2012 list, published in February, ranked Everett Cook and his family left the city and stores. His son, Alec, is a senior at MUS. Mid-South Chapter in June. marathon in New Orleans in March. 1,000 financial advisors from all 50 states and were scattered over New England before the Recently, the class of ’67 football team met at Lucy and Carter Rise moved to Richmond, the District of Columbia. Pettey ranked seventh hurricane hit last summer. He stated that it Scott Wellford’s house to celebrate the fact VA, 10 years ago after 15 years in Manhattan. out of 15 qualifying advisors in the state of was luckily a nonevent for him. that their undefeated record and records for Tennessee. points allowed per game and per season were They have four children. The oldest, Elise, is a Trip Farnsworth is currently on sabbatical still intact. freshman at Princeton University. Carter Jr. is from his law practice.

46 MUS TODAY FALL 2012 MUS TODAY FALL 2012 47 the helicopter,” unlike the spitballs in eighth cooling systems that serve large buildings in a Charles Yukon continues to practice pediatrics Todd Watson was named a state vice co-chair grade study hall. He married Carolyn Chappo on green-friendly fashion. with his two-physician group in the heart of for Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign. November 28, 2009. Germantown. Watson served as the regional finance leader for ’82 Preston Rogers and his wife, Anna, will be ’90 Thomas Johnson was recently inducted into Memphis. Chuck Blatteis has been elected for another Mott Ford has been named to the board of celebrating 12 years of marriage. They live in the Rhodes College Athletic Hall of Fame. By day term as chairman of the board of directors of directors of the Memphis branch of the Federal Germantown with their two children, Jenny and Thomas is an attorney in Orlando, but in his free the Memphis branch of the Federal Reserve Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Ford is vice chairman Beren, who both attend Lausanne. Rogers is a time he is a Hollywood screenplay writer. The Bank of St. Louis. He also serves on the boards and CEO of Commercial Bank and Trust Co. volunteer at the Memphis Freethought Alliance. of the Greater Memphis Chamber of Commerce, ’85 Jack of Spades is Johnson’s recently released During Phonathon, Mac McCarroll observed Jeff Smith has retired from his first profession Don Lake has been named to the board of direc- motion picture about murder and mystery in ’93 Friends of the Levitt Shell, and the Memphis Hemant Gupta was selected as one of the “Top that Trey Jordan has grown a mustache that and spends his time broadening his horizons. tors of the Memphis World Trade Club for 2012. New Orleans. Chapter of the National Hispanic Professionals 40 Under 40” by the Memphis Business Journal doesn’t seem to have improved his appearance. Lake is vice president of global operations for Organization. Jeffrey Kerlan has been named a fellow of the in November. Dunavant Global Logistics. David Knodel continues his career at Allied Heart Rhythm Society. He is a cardiologist with Jon-Paul Hickey has been promoted to first Ring Corp. as an engineering manager. He and the Stern Cardiovascular Foundation. vice president at Morgan Keegan & Co. his wife, Heidi, will be celebrating their 20th ’84 anniversary and have three children: Jonathan, Bruckner Chase and his wife, Michelle, are the Jack Irvine has partnered with Barry ’83 Daniel, and Rachel. recipients of one of eight grants offered by the ’86 McWhirter to form the new law firm McWhirter Dan Cruthirds works on a helicopter-based 2011 Ernest F. Hollings Ocean Awareness Trust Bo Allen has been elected to the board of & Irvine PLLC. Irvine focuses his legal practice in sniper detection system at BBN Technologies Harry Loewenberg reports that his nest is ’91 Fund. Their project, “2Samoas/1Ocean,” offers the Memphis Development Foundation, which the areas of criminal defense and civil litigation. in Cambridge, MA. He’s flown aboard Black empty with both children, Hannah and Phillip, The Memphis Urban League Young Professionals ocean swimming clinics and inspirational presen- supports the Orpheum Theatre. Hawks during dozens of live fire tests, but never now in college. organization announced the 2011 Agents of tations to youth, businesses, and community without the required body armor, known as Michael Higginbotham and his family moved Change honorees, recognizing 11 professional James Rantzow has recently taken a job with groups in Independent and American Samoa. “chicken plate.” He adds, “In theory, the rounds to Pittsburgh in August. He is still working with and civic leaders for their commitment to their Evaporcool. This firm specializes in evaporative You can find more information about Chase and should never get closer than 20-30 meters from FedEx, and his new position is managing director professions and to Memphis. Darrell Cobbins ’94 his work at www.brucknerchase.com. of the legal department at FedEx Ground. received the Agent of Change Award. Jason Whitmore graduated from the Memphis Police Academy in March. He is now protecting Andy McArtor is now a captain on the B-757 Chris Lamberson has been named to the our city and is based out of the MPD Union recently sent this letter to Headmaster Ellis Haguewood, at FedEx. He is taking a break from instructing management committee of the Glankler Brown Dean S. Atyia ’04 Precinct. and he agreed to share it with the readers of MUS Today. in the training department. That means he’ll be law firm. The management committee addresses Why I Give flying more, and he hopes to visit classmates firm matters and advises other members and across the country. staff on administrative issues. Dear Mr. Haguewood, Gregg Mitchell is currently president of the Whit McCrary continues to dominate the Tennessee Academy of Family Physicians and ’95 Nashville real estate scene and was recently David Bradford is president-elect of the sporting a single-digit golf handicap. I am writing after having recently seen the video commemorating Coach Peters’ long tenure at MUS. I completed my named to Nashville Business Journal’s “Top 40 American Council of Engineering Companies of Under 40.” first three semesters of law school at the University of Michigan and have relocated to San Diego to work at a law firm Gavin Murrey reassures everyone that he gets Tennessee. emple Brown ’81 of Los Angeles, drove down to visit, and he screened the video during the summer. Another alumnus, T better-looking every day. Giri Swamy just finished making a TV show Chris Decker is vice president of Harpeth for me. called Headshop. The Facebook page (http:// Trent Scull is raising three children, two boys Capital LLC of Nashville, a private investment As the film concluded, many of the subjects interviewed were asked what they would like to say to Coach Peters, and www.facebook.com/HeadshopSeries) has a link and a girl, and navigating the turbulent credit and merchant bank specializing in mergers and the majority simply said, “Thank you.” The less explicit message of the film, however, was that Coach Peters’ lessons did to the trailer on top. He is deep into post-produc- markets for Robert W. Baird & Co. as director of acquisitions, private placements, and corporate not have their full impact until long after the players had graduated. tion, and the show will be completed by the end It is only with a matured perspective that I am able to recognize and appreciate, at least to some extent, the tremendous Fixed Income Capital Markets. financial advisory services for private and public of summer. Swamy is also a hospice doctor in middle market companies. influence my time at MUS has had over my accomplishments. I am sure you have encountered far more students than I Memphis. have headmasters, but if you recall, I required more oversight than many of my peers. I spent my junior year at boarding Owen Morse has recently taken a position with school, and I never contemplated not returning to MUS. Considering what little sense I had at the time, I am thankful it Gore Medical and is still living in Little Rock, AR. included that resolve. ’89 When I returned to MUS for my senior year, I was greeted with warmth and encouragement. I will never forget Coach Matthew Crosby was promoted to senior vice [Barry] Ray telling me at a graduation party that he never would have imagined seeing the young man I had become after president at Morgan Keegan & Co. ’92 Mid-South Super Lawyers named Spencer Clift knowing the boy I once was. I wish I could have articulated at that very moment how much those words would mean to me through the years. But that is the nature of perspective; it is not an immediate illumination but a long overdue Jay Galyean returned in April from a two-year to its 2011 list of “Mid-South Rising Stars.” Clift ’96 incorporation of lessons learned in the past. advisory role to the Kuwait Air Force. is an attorney at Baker, Donelson, Bearman, David Barnes was promoted to senior vice president at Morgan Keegan & Co. The faculty and administrators at MUS knew what was good for me long before I did, and they had the patience and Spence Medford has continued his career in Caldwell & Berkowitz. commitment to tell me over and over again. My time at MUS taught me to discern knowledge, respect authority, seek out the nonprofit arena and joined the staff of The Matt Ducklo created a website for Memphis perspective, and empathize with others. I would like to say thank you. Henry Ford, America’s Greatest History Attrac- Heritage Inc. that showcases the photography of MUS ANNUAL FUND tion. Medford and his wife, Gini, live in Michigan Don Newman, who is celebrated for his images Kind regards, with their two dogs. To make a gift to the Annual Fund, call (901) 260-1350, give online at www.musowls.org/donate, or of mid-20th century Memphis: newmansmem- Dean S. Atyia ’04 mail a contribution to 6191 Park Avenue, Memphis, TN 38119. phis.org.

48 MUS TODAY FALL 2012 MUS TODAY FALL 2012 49 for points, which impacted placement at the to represent Tennessee at the event, called He is currently completing a one-year clinical 2012 London Paralympic Games. the Superbowl of Rodeo. “Going into the 2011 internship in Newport News, VA, after which he ’97 NFR, York was sitting 10th in the world stand- will begin his radiology residency at Brigham and has been promoted to first vice Jimmy Comella ings for team roping heelers,” Lizzie Gill said. Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA. president at Morgan Keegan & Co. [The heeler, on horseback, ropes the hind feet Jamie Drinan is an administrative fellow with works as a campus minister of a steer after the header ropes the horns or Fletcher Maynard HealthONE in Denver, CO. ’99 neck.] “Only the top 15 cowboys in the world at Duke University. Tyler Cannon received his medical degree from each event are qualified to compete at Dustin Geer has joined the law firm of Bass, from the University of Tennessee Center for NFR. York won $32,885, and he has more than Berry & Sims in their Memphis office. Health Sciences and is currently in the residency $250,000 in career earnings with the Profes- program at Campbell Clinic in Memphis. Charlie Gordon has begun his first-year resi- sional Rodeo Cowboys Association alone.” dency at Vanderbilt University Hospital. ’98 Mason Cousins has joined Silverleafe Capital Now living in Stephenville, TX, he is hoping Kevin Bohannon completed his nursing Partners LLC as director of client planning and to qualify for the top rodeo competition again Philip Lewis was recently promoted to the degree at Union University in December 2011, operations. this year. Read his bio at www.prorodeo.com. position of director at Fulcrum Equity Partners, where he was president of his class. He is an Atlanta-based growth equity fund. now employed in the cardiac ICU at Methodist Chad Keller has been promoted to first vice Jay Kaufman is currently working for BMO University Hospital. president at Morgan Keegan & Co. Global Asset Management in Chicago, where Edward Nenon is a new associate at the he is doing long-only quantitative equity private equity firm SSM Partners in Memphis. Matthew Decker is the member relations portfolio management. director for the Traffic Club of Memphis. Stephen Vogel is an associate with Diversified Michael Liverance has been promoted to Trust Co. in Memphis. Jay Gardner is currently living in Indianapolis, ’00 foot and ankle sales manager for the Dallas/ IN, with his wife, Dr. Tonia Gardner, and is a Brad Whiteside is manager of The Grove Grill. Blake Barnes is an associate appraiser in Ft. Worth and surrounding North Texas cardiology fellow in the Indiana University the Memphis office of Grubb & Ellis Co., a markets for Wright Medical Technology Inc. Lt. Austin Hulbert ’01 displays essential reading while flying over Afghanistan. School of Medicine. commercial real estate services and invest- Liverance was a foot and ankle corporate Philip Kirsch works for Team Epic, a sports/ ment company. sales manager in 2009 and won the Corporate Our class president continues to make us proud. lifestyle marketing agency based just outside Sales Manager of the Year award at the 2011 Zach Dailey has been promoted to first vice Will Saxton is in the JAG Corps of the U.S. ’04 of New York City, where he manages strategy/ National Sales Meeting. president at Morgan Keegan & Co. Marine Corps, specializing in criminal defense planning and execution of sponsorships for ’01 Dean Atyia is currently attending the University Justin Monday graduated magna cum laude Austin Hulbert is a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy work. He has been serving our country in JPMorgan Chase & Co. (with Madison Square York Gill competed in the National Finals of Michigan Law School. from Cleveland Marshall College of Law in May and flies F-18s in the Checkmates squadron. Afghanistan for the past six months, where Garden) and Samsung Electronics (with the U.S. Rodeo in Las Vegas last December and carried has relocated to Houston, TX, 2011. He passed the Ohio bar examination in He sent me some pictures of him refueling he was stationed at Camp Leatherneck in the Hays Mabry Olympic Committee). One of his most recent the Tennessee flag in the opening ceremony. where he is a senior analyst with LINN July, and in August he began practicing law at and reading an MUS Today while flying over southern region of the country (in the Helmand projects involved the UCI Para-cycling Track His sister, Lizzie Gill, MUS instructor in Energy LLC. the Cleveland, OH, law firm, Gallagher Sharp. Afghanistan. Province, near Pakistan). Saxton was recently World Championships. These cyclists competed science, said it has always been York’s dream promoted to captain, the highest ranking for Will Vestal was featured by the Memphis a company grade officer. Now permanently Flyer in its annual “Hotties” issue for 2012. stationed at Camp Lejeune, NC, Saxton was Questioned about his most humiliating memory, glad to make it back to the U.S. in time for Brice Vestal replied, “I don’t know… this? I’m going to ’05 Bailey’s wedding on October 8. Welcome home, catch hell for this.” David Delugach is a financial analyst with and a sincere thank you to, Captain Saxton. Consulting Services Group in Memphis. Justin Willingham was recognized by the Trevor Weichmann has his first customer, Chil- Memphis Flyer as one of its “Top 20 Under 30.” Ryan Freebing has been working for White/ dren’s Hospital & Medical Center in Omaha, NE. The list features 20-something Memphians Thompson Advertising in Nashville since 2010. Over the next 15 months, he will be working with working to make the city a better place. This group of advertising companies was them to develop their emergency room software. recently bought by Brian Sullivan ’83 and In addition, he has been selected to serve on the renamed Sullivan Branding. consultant relations team. Dan Gibson is a senior analyst with Western & ’02 Southern Financial Group in Cincinnati, OH. Jay Fulmer has achieved the designation of Cooper Hopkins is a relationship manager at professional engineer. He works in Nashville United Capital Financial Partners in Memphis. with Barge, Waggoner, Sumner & Cannon Inc. Geer’03 Alexander is an associate at Dixon Sam Sawyer is a sales associate with Briggs Hughes Goodman LLP. Wes Phillips is graduating from the University Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty in Dallas, of Tennessee College of Medicine. Following Paul Bunch recently graduated from the TX. Call him up for all of your real estate needs. graduation, he will move to Atlanta to start his University of Virginia School of Medicine and internal medicine residency at Emory University. married Susannah Haskett in Greensboro, NC. York Gill ’00 competes in the National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas.

50 MUS TODAY FALL 2012 MUS TODAY FALL 2012 51 Wylie Coleman’s summer plans had him selling Emmett Montgomery will head to St. Peters- Michael Wilder has started a crawfish-cooking Freight Inc. and has accepted a new position topsoil in St. Charles Parish to private corps hired burg, Russia, in the fall to study at St. Petersburg venture called J and J Catering. as corporate sales executive for Cornerstone by the government to reconstruct the levees State University. Conner Davis was on the Dean’s List for the ’06 Systems Inc. based out of Memphis. around New Orleans. He worked with and Louis’07 Amagliani is working at Morgan Keegan Allan Palmer spent six weeks hiking across spring 2011 semester at Samford University. managed around 25 people. Phillip DeBardeleben has been hired as an & Co. John Reinhardt was commissioned as a second northern Spain. Ted Fockler has been selected as an admis- associate at the accounting firm of Dixon Hughes lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force after completing Cameron Crawford conducted psychology John Catmur is attending law school at the Matthew Schaefer had a summer internship sions greeter at Boston College. Goodman LLP. the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps research at Sewanee this summer, where University of Memphis. with UBS Financial Services Inc. in Knoxville. He program and graduating with a bachelor’s he studied a behavioral phenomenon called Evans McCaul received admission to the Chad Hazelhurst is an associate at Launch- also worked for Kanakuk Kamps. Memphis, a nonprofit organization that supports Luke Jensen is an analyst at MB Venture degree from the University of Tennessee. temporal delay discounting. His research specifi- Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University the earliest stages of entrepreneurship in Partners in Memphis, a venture capital firm that cally focused on the delay discounting’s effect in Alasdair Smith has been gaining work of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. provides equity capital and strategic direction to parenting behaviors. experience at the Royal Institute of Interna- Memphis with dynamic programs designed Rocky Stone has become a member of Sigma companies specializing in life sciences. tional Affairs, also known as Chatham House, to help potential entrepreneurs take the first Andrew Gardella spent the first part of the Alpha Lambda, a national leadership and honors in London. He spent a week researching the actionable steps of starting a new business. Neely Mallory is an associate with Cushman & summer studying in France through a University organization, at the University of Alabama. His Nelson’08 Graham will be a part of the Teach for current political and economic developments in Wakefield/Commercial Advisors in Memphis. of Tennessee program. leadership potential continues to be apparent as Bryce Hendry is an analyst with Pittco America program in the Mississippi Delta for the the Middle East and North Africa. In September his group project was selected as one of eight Management LLC. Philip May is working for Payscape Advisors upcoming 2012-2013 school year. Cort Gatliff is working as a college intern at he will assist with an event for the Young Arab to compete for funding in the UA Center for in Atlanta. Cedar Springs Church in Knoxville. Analysts Network International project. “Initially John Klinke is a market analyst with Stream Ross Montague was accepted early into Ethics & Social Responsibility Tornado Recovery designed and facilitated by the British Council, Realty Partners in Dallas, TX. Lee Moore competed in the 400-meter hurdle Vanderbilt’s Owen Graduate School of Manage- Chase Harriman’s summer included waiting Initiative. Stone’s group’s presentation, “Arts for YAANI aims to develop a network of young event in the USA Olympic Track and Field Trials ment and is part of the 3-2 joint-degree engi- tables at Bonefish Grill before spending the fall Alberta,” is designed to help students of Alberta Garrott McClintock is an associate at South- Moroccan, Algerian, Tunisian, Egyptian, and in Eugene, OR, on June 28. He previously ran neering/MBA program. semester in Edinburgh, Scotland, a trip arranged Elementary recover from mental devastation ernSun Asset Management. Jordanian policy analysts who will be able to for the University of Mississippi and is currently through Butler University. many have experienced since the tornado. Paul Yacoubian is CFO of Wellspring Manage- in medical school at University of Tennessee make a significant contribution in their societies ment LLC in Memphis. Health Science Center. Matthew Harriman spent the fall 2011 and impact government policy development,” he semester attending the Disney College Program. said. Since graduating from the University of He studied at La Universidad de Alcalá in John Straton will be interning at Northwestern Tennessee with a degree in business administra- ’09 Madrid, Spain, this summer. Mutual this summer. He is the secretary on the ’11 tion - logistics and marketing, Julian Prewitt Evan Elmore was on the Dean’s List for the A Hollins University program put Hank Hill in Henry Dickinson played all fall semester as has finished his operations training at Conway spring 2011 semester at Samford University. Interfraternity Council as well as secretary for London for seven weeks this summer for an his fraternity at Washington and Lee University. a true freshman for the University of Illinois’ Evan Mah made the Dean’s List for the fall 2011 internship and a politics class. Fighting Illini football team. semester at Emory University. Will Taylor worked on an experiment called Christian Kauffman is an intern for junior “Spider” this summer. He built and calibrated Hunter Krauch reports that he was morale Austin Smith is the newly elected eminent high students at Second Presbyterian Church in various components. He explained that this leader for the Up ’Til Dawn event at the Univer- Leaders in the Making chairman for the Texas Delta Chapter of Sigma sity of Memphis, which raised $75,000 for St. Memphis. experiment focused on the cosmic microwave City of Memphis Mayor A C Wharton, Jr., urged young alumni to get involved in Alpha Epsilon background and aimed to uncover data about Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Wade Laycook attended the London School of the community, saying, “Get in where you fit in.” He spoke at the Emerging Leaders inflation theory. Economics this summer. Scooter Taylor is thoroughly enjoying life at D lunch in the Weiner Hospitality Room on March 7. Again this summer, Peterson Wellford was Morehouse College. He reports that his classes, Michael Lewandowski spent the summer meeting, welcoming Wharton and City Councilman erekS Clenin ’03 opened the the pool manager and head swim coach for the as well as the city of Atlanta, have been treating studying art and architecture in Paris, France. commented that the term “Emerging Leaders” was a misnomer.hea F “Inlinn fact, ’91 these. Wharton young ’10 University Club in Memphis. him well. men are at the perfect age to lead,” he said. “They are at the age when they see the Class rep Hank Hill checked in with classmates world as it should be – with a passion to change things.” to see what their summer plans included. The Class of 2010 will be scattered all over the world, taking advantage of internships, school Memphis Leaders Talk Dollars and Sense Paul Yacoubian ’06, Garrott McClintock ’06, and programs, and job opportunities. Chip Campbell ’99 talk with Mayor Wharton. US freshmen recently learned about financial responsibility At the Falls Building Leigh Anne Downes, director of economic Kyle Anthony is still working at Apple Inc. and money management straight from alumni with real-world development at the Greater Memphis Chamber, explained the role of the in Knoxville. experience. In a Memphis Leaders excursion entitled “Money Chamber of Commerce. The expedition continued at City Hall, where MMatters,” the boys learned about personal finance, which provided context James Arnold worked an internship at Memphis City Councilman Shea Flinn ’91 delivered a message about for their classroom lessons. Arkansas Rep. Rick Crawford’s office in Wash- current issues. From the staff of the Mayor’s office, Kerry Hayes screened “It was a great opportunity to connect the MUS Community Creed ington, DC, this summer. the video Memphis Highlight Reel, showing off the city’s attributes. pillars of accountability and involvement to personal and business life,” After a quick lunch, everyone reconvened in City Hall, and Paul Daryan Barnes is part of a study abroad Eddie Batey, director of the Memphis Leaders program, said. Morris ’92 shared information about the Downtown Memphis program in Ghana. The day began in Wunderlich Auditorium, where Gary Wunderlich Commission. The day concluded with a trek back to the MUS Dining ’88 spoke to the students about wealth and resources. After traveling to Derek Clenin ’03 greets Mayor Wharton. Hall, where the students completed their group projects. Barnes Chism was extremely busy bartending, the Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law at the University of Memphis, “It is gratifying to see former MUS students making significant tutoring in math, and working as a summer they were welcomed by third-year law student Ben Katz ’05. Speaker contributions in so many different areas of civic life,” Batey said. “I am camp counselor. Spencer Clift ’92 discussed bankruptcy and its consequences for both consistently impressed with our alumni’s responsiveness when asked to individuals and the community. support an MUS program or event.”

52 MUS TODAY FALL 2012 MUS TODAY FALL 2012 53 LAW: BUSINESS LITIGATION PHILANTHROPY PRIVATE SCHOOLS Nathan A. Bicks ’74 - Member, Burch, Porter & Robert M. Fockler ’77 - President, Community Ellis L. Haguewood - Headmaster, Memphis Johnson PLLC. Named by Business Tennessee one Foundation of Greater Memphis. University School since 1995; with MUS more than Power Player Alums of “150 Best Lawyers in Tennessee.” 40 years. Named a 2010 Distinguished Service Michael J. Harris ’67 - President, Hope Christian Honoree by Tennessee Secondary Schools Athletic John J. Heflin III ’72 - Member, Bourland, Heflin, Community Foundation. Oversees largest Christian Inside Memphis Business, a supplement to Memphis magazine published this spring, named several dozen Association. Past president, Memphis Association Alvarez, Minor & Matthews PLC. Former president, community foundation in the U.S. with assets of of Independent Schools. MUS alumni plus Headmaster Ellis Haguewood among its 541 Power Players for 2012. For the complete roster Memphis Bar Association. more than $80 million. and more extensive descriptions, visit www.mbqmemphis.com and click on “Power Player Lists.” STAFFING LAW: EMPLOYMENT James “Jay” F. Keegan, Jr. ’88 - President, CEO, Bruce M. Smith ’66 - Member, Apperson Crump and director, Adams Keegan. Former COO, CFO, firm, actively engaged in the acquisition, develop- PLC. Serves as ethics officer for the firm. Serves BUSINESS HALL OF FAME BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS and vice president of sales. Founded Staff Line LLC; Joseph R. “Pitt” Hyde III ’61 - President, Hyde Paul H. Morris ’92, President, Downtown Memphis ment, management, and marketing of commercial as general counsel to Memphis Area Transit co-founded The James Group LLC. Family Foundations. Founded AutoZone in 1979. Commission since 2010; past president, Memphis and industrial properties. Authority. Allen B. Morgan, Jr. ’60 - Co-founder and chairman Area Legal Services. Kelly Truitt ’81 – President, CB Richard Ellis emeritus, Morgan Keegan & Company, which he Memphis LLC. More than 27 years of commercial LOCAL PUBLIC COMPANIES COMMERCIAL INSURANCE Frederick W. Smith ’62 - Founder, chairman, pres- launched in 1969. John R. Pitts ’76 - Partner and owner, Lipscomb & real estate experience, specializing in corporate ident and CEO, FedEx Corporation. Launched and brokerage advisory services. Frederick W. Smith ’62 – Founder, chairman, Pitts Insurance LLC. With partner, Mat Lipscomb, Federal Express in 1973. president and CEO, FedEx Corporation. Launched purchased firm from their fathers in 1992. EMPLOYEE BENEFITS Federal Express in 1973. James “Jay” F. Keegan, Jr. ’88 - President, CEO, LOGISTICS: LSPs CONSTRUCTION William B. Dunavant III ’78 - CEO and Henry M. Turley ’59 - Founder, Henry Turley David C. Dando ’64 - President, MCDR Inc., special- and director, Adams Keegan. Former COO, CFO, president, Dunavant Enterprises Inc. Services Company. Real estate developer at the center of izing in hotels, corporate headquarters, office and vice president of sales. Founded Staff Line LLC; include global 4PL logistics, real estate, and 1990s downtown Memphis renaissance. Created buildings, churches, retail and distribution centers, co-founded The James Group LLC. capital and private equity investment. Harbor Town on Mud Island and developed South hospitals, and sports complexes. Bluffs and Uptown Memphis. ENTERTAINMENT: MUSIC MARKETING/PR Henry H. Haizlip III ’66 - Vice president and John E. Fry ’62 - CEO and founder, Ardent Music Douglas B. Carpenter ’82 - Principal, Doug partner, Grinder-Haizlip Construction Company. LLC. Former national president, Society of Profes- ARCHITECTURE Carpenter & Associates LLC, an adver- Metcalf Crump ’60 - President, The Crump Firm Inc. Firm’s services include commercial and industrial sional Audio Recording Services. Former chairman, tising, public relations, and consulting firm. Clients include FedEx, Smith & Nephew, St. Jude construction. Tennessee Film, Entertainment, and Music Brian Sullivan ’83 - CEO, Sullivan Children’s Research Hospital, Baptist Memorial Commission. H. Montgomery Martin ’73 - CEO, Montgomery Branding. Co-founded firm in 2011 after Health Care. Martin Contractors, specializing in healthcare, FINANCIAL PLANNING acquiring Thompson & Co. Selden P. “Reb” Haizlip ’73 - Principal, Haizlip industrial, institutional, multifamily, and office Raymond W. Brandon ’77 - CEO, Brandon Financial Studio. Local projects include Children’s Museum construction. Planning. Certified financial planner, chartered of Memphis, Rock ‘n’ Soul Museum, Gibson Guitar, Clyde L. Patton, Jr. ’58 - President, Patton & financial analyst, chartered life underwriter, and and University of Memphis University Center. Taylor Construction Company, offering general chartered financial consultant. Writes weekly construction, construction management, and value column in Memphis Daily News. AUTO DEALERS Henry A. Hutton ’72 - President/dealer, Chuck engineering. Robert “Robin” Smithwick III ’80 - Managing prin- Hutton Toyota, Scion, Mid-South Accessory Center, cipal, Diversified Trust, Memphis office. COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE: and Chuck Hutton Co. David S. Waddell ’91 - President, CEO, and chief BROKERS AND DEVELOPERS Joseph H. Schaeffer III ’77 - President, Wolfchase Darrell T. Cobbins ’91 - President and principal investment strategist, Waddell & Associates. Honda and Wolfchase Nissan. broker, Universal Commercial Real Estate LLC. Contributor to The Wall Street Journal, CNBC, and Certified Commercial Investment Member Insti- Fox News. BANKING: ADMINISTRATION tute; Mid-South Planning & Zoning Institute. William J. Chase, Jr. ’74 - Founding president and INVESTMENT BROKERAGE CEO, Triumph Bank since 2005, specializing in Robert E. Loeb ’73 - President, Loeb Proper- Stephen H. Rhea, Jr. ’68 - Principal, co-chief commercial banking. ties Inc. Portfolio of more than 2 million square manager and secretary, Summit Asset Manage- feet of office, multifamily, and industrial space. ment LLC. (Rhea passed away on May 16, 2012.) R. Molitor “Mott” Ford, Jr. ’83 - Vice Chairman and Current projects include the redevelopment Gary K. Wunderlich, Jr. ’88 - CEO and founder, CEO, Commercial Bank and Trust Company. of Overton Square Theater District and Broad Wunderlich Securities. Sits on Financial Industry Avenue Arts District. William R. Tayloe ’92 - President, Financial Federal Regulatory Authority National Membership Savings Bank since 2008. Lewis K. McKee, Jr. ’65 - Partner and broker, Committee. Entrepreneur of the Year Award, 2009. McKee and McFarland Inc. Full-service real estate

54 MUS TODAY FALL 2012 MUS TODAY FALL 2012 55 Former players, friends, and fans celebrated Coach Jerry Peters WeCOACH PETERS’ 1000th Sawon January 30 after his 1,000th career victory. Will Presley ’04 and Mauricio Rapalo ’03 Chase Carlisle ’03 and John Hammons ’05 Andrew Rock ’02 and Field Norris ’02 YOUNG ALUMNI SOCIAL Alumni gathered at The Brass Door in Memphis on February 23 for a chance to catch up with fellow Owls. Warner Russell ’05 and Hutchison grads Martha Campbell ’05, Jennings Pitts ’05 Hunter Mills ’01, Rob Park ’05, and Chad Hazlehurst ’06

Southwest Tennessee Community College basketball David Preston ’76, Coach Jerry Peters and his wife, Buddy Best ’71, Jimmy Ogle ’70, coach Verties Sails, Jr., and Jimmy Ogle ’70 Ruth Peters Mark Schandorff ’71, and Kelly McGuire ’70

Peters’ supporters gathered at Patrick’s in Memphis to toast the milestone. (seated at table, left to right) Spencer Bryan ’02, Frank Langston ’02, and Craig Hilsenbeck ’94 John Marcom ’75, Sean Alpert ’97, and Eddie Aftandilian ’97 John Harkins, Paul McClure ’69, Kelly McGuire ’70, Headmaster Ellis Haguewood, Ben Adams ’01, Oliver Luckett ’92, and Temple Brown ’81 Classmates Andy McArtor ‘86 and John Buddy Best ’71, and Mark Schandorff ’71; (standing in back, left to right) Steve Bledsoe ’70, David Morris ’70, Tully ‘86 recently caught up in Washington, Jimmy Ogle ’70, and Skip Daniel. D.C., at the St. Jude Children’s Research Alumni and guests gathered at the Hollywood Hills home of Oliver Luckett Hospital 50th Anniversary Gala. GOLDEN GATE GATHERING LA CONNECTIONS ’92 for a cocktail reception on June 21. Press Club, a San Francisco wine bar, was the setting for an alumni reception on June 20. John Marcom ’75, West Askew ’07, Shea Conaway ’06, Spencer Bryan ’02, Bill Threlkeld ’76 and Malcolm Aste ’77 Frank Langston ’02, Craig Hilsenbeck ’94, Hugh Sprunt, Jr. ’67 Cole Whitaker ’94, Amanda Whitaker, Rey Flemings ’91, and Christina Flemings Joe Lazarov ’82, Jill Lazarov, Sam Ragsdale ’90, and Sara Ragsdale

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