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TOP OF HIS GAME MIKE MCCARLEY GUIDES TO ITS BIGGEST YEAR YET

1 Eugene Smith ’73, right, and fellow canine handler Jody Cornmesser prepare for a search-and-rescue training session with Smith’s German Shepherd, Elke. Smith volunteers for the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office Emergency Services. Read about his work on page 12. Photo by Karen Pulfer Focht

Ken Farmer’s production company, Wild Dogs International, presented video collage artist Marco Brambilla’s installation Creation (3D) at the Basilica of St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral in Manhattan in 2013. On page 5 Farmer ’03 talks with Faculty Emeritus Andy Saunders about life after lacrosse and Latin at 6191 Park Avenue and creating what he calls “immersive installations of light, sound, performance, and projection.”

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5 Inspirational Illuminations: Ken Farmer Talks Creativity 10 Mike McCarley’s Links to Success 16 Steve Maroda Spreads Smiles in Ethiopia 22 Pyramid Vodka Makes a Splash 26 U-Plate Special: David King’s California Hutch 29 Faculty Profile: Dr. David Jackson 32 Headmaster Search Update

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Memphis University School IN EVERY ISSUE ON THE COVER Founded 1893 15 From the Archives When injuries sidelined Mike McCarley ’93 from participating in HEADMASTER Ellis L. Haguewood 20 Covers triathlons, the competitive athlete 29 Faculty News was determined to stay engaged in BOARD OF TRUSTEES sports. In this issue we follow the Samuel N. Graham II ’80, Chairman 34 Student Lauds path that took him from the NBA Gary K. Wunderlich, Jr. ’88, 36 Class News to the Olympics to NBC Sports to Vice Chairman Golf Channel. Photo courtesy of D. Stephen Morrow ’71, Treasurer Andrew R. McCarroll ’86, Secretary 52 We Saw You Golfweek. R. Louis Adams ’70 53 Gifts in Memory and Honor James F. Burnett ’83 Suki S. Carson 58 The Last Word Glenn A. Crosby II ’77 William B. Dunavant III ’78 Robert M. Fockler ’77 P. Trowbridge Gillespie, Jr. ’65 J. Brett Grinder ’91 Director of Advancement Managing Editor Mark J. Halperin ’67 Perry Dement Marci Woodmansee Joseph R. Hyde III ’61 [email protected] [email protected] E. Carl Krausnick, Jr. ’79 Robert E. Loeb ’73 Director of Alumni and Inside MUS and Social Media Johnny B. Moore, Jr. Richard C. Moore, Jr. ’63 Parent Programs Rebecca Greer Joseph M. Morrison ’78 Ann Laughlin William E. Orgel ’81 [email protected] Creative Director Wiley T. Robinson ’75 LeeAnn Christopherson Chris R. Sanders Editor Frederick C. Schaeffer, Jr. ’88 Liz Copeland Owen B. Tabor, Jr. ’85 [email protected] William E. Troutt 34 ALUMNI ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVE BOARD Harry E. Sayle IV ’92, President Contributors Jason J. Fair ’89, President-elect John T. Crews, Jr. ’84 Greg Cravens, Illustrator based in Memphis David J. Frazier ’01 Robert C. Freeman ’04 Ralph Ellis, Freelance writer based in Decatur, GA Andrew E. Garrett ’03 Paul T. Gillespie III ’01 Dr. John E. Harkins, MUS Archivist and Historian J. Walker Hays IV ’84 Joel M. Kaye ’84 Alan Howell, Freelance photographer based in Memphis Albert E. Laughlin III ’94 Andrew A. McArtor, Sr. ’86 Kristin Laughlin, Photographer based in Austin, TX R. Allen McCool, Jr. ’77 William M. McDonald, Jr. ’97 Jeff Shain, Golf writer for The Island Packet in Hilton Head Island, SC Kelly L. McGuire ’70 J. Worth Morgan ’05 Norman Thompson, MUS Instructor in English Michael N. Murphy, Jr. ’03 Edward F. Nenon, Jr. ’03 Robert B. Preston ’78 James A. Robinson, Jr. ’68 Matthew J. Saenger ’98 Scott S. Sherman ’89 MISSION STATEMENT Joseph L. Steffner, Jr. ’09 Memphis University School is a college-preparatory school dedicated to academic excellence, cultivation John D. Stewart ’78 of service and leadership, and the development of well-rounded young men of strong moral character, Charles W. Summers III ’94 consistent with the school’s Christian tradition. John M. Summers ’05 Alexander W. Wellford III ’89 © 2016 Memphis University School. All rights reserved. The name, seal, and logos of Memphis Brandon L. Westbrook ’92 University School, as well as MUS Today, Inside MUS, The MUSe, The Owl’s Hoot, The Owl, and Beg Henry Wetter III ’70 To Differ, are registered marks of Memphis University School and use in any manner is prohibited Craig H. Witt ’85 unless prior written approval is obtained from Memphis University School. Andrew D. Wright ’86

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Past-Life Reflections

“My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. After a pair of hip surgeries sidelined Mike McCarley I do not see the road ahead of me. ’93 from top-level triathlon competition, he signed on as I cannot know for certain where it will end.” an assistant in his university’s sports information office. – Thomas Merton Over the years his efforts – and opportune associations with influential mentors – led to roles with the U.S. Olympic Going through some papers in my parents’ home this Committee and NBC Sports. Now he oversees Golf Channel spring, I came across a journal I wrote my senior year in as president of golf with NBC Sports Group. high school. It was a classroom assignment, and one I did Oral surgeon Steve Maroda ’75 was disappointed not relish – a point that was the subject of several entries. when, as a resident at Georgetown University Hospital, I must say now, forgive my whining, Mrs. K., for the diary his trip to East Africa with a medical and dental team was opens a window to my 17-year-old self, and that era comes cancelled because of instability in the area. In 2012 he rushing back. accepted an invitation from his son, Andrew Maroda ’09, It was a time of some struggle for our family – to participate in a medical/dental trip to Ethiopia. “The seeds my dad had lost his job, and he was living apart from us for my service had been planted but were left unattended doing consulting work. Mom was keeping things going at for 30 years,” Steve says. Now providing dental care to home, juggling life with five children and preparing for a Ethiopians in need has become an annual mission – and likely move. “a spiritual experience.” My words handwritten on notebook paper reveal some When his urban planning career seemed to be more aspects of the family situation, including our joy in Dad about planning and less about doing, Ken Farmer ’03 coming home at Christmas. To surprise him I insisted that all and friends started creating their own community-building the tree ornaments be handmade, and I enslaved my younger projects in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Now his company brother and sisters stringing popcorn and cranberries and produces over-the-top exhibitions of light, sound, and stitching felt ornaments. performance that range from concerts and fashion shows to The overriding theme of the journal, however, is entire streetscapes. uncertainty about my future. Where would I go to college? As for my family, Dad found a position in North Florida How would we pay for it? What would I study? I took long and bought a little house on a bayou where we swam and runs in the pastures surrounding our Central Texas home to skied and had many joyful family reunions over the years. ponder such quandaries. On a whim I took a reporting course in college that resulted Forestry was my aspiration at the time. A friend and I in several class assignments that served as writing samples took a road trip to Louisiana Tech University to explore the when I applied for – and landed – my first newspaper job. program there, only to meet with the professor’s discour- My resume did not include the fact that I could barely aging words about the dearth of jobs and low pay. He also type. I spent many early mornings in the empty newsroom told us it was a male-dominated profession, and seemed to painstakingly hunting and pecking my words, handwritten imply that there was good reason for that. We were appalled on notebook paper, into the system. by this, of course, and on fire to prove him wrong. But that I am grateful even for this clerical obstacle in my path indignation – along with my romanticized notion of a career and now for the chance to type – quite adequately, I might among the trees – soon cooled. It wasn’t the right fit. add – about the roads and detours you Owls have taken in It is timely that I went on my reverie this spring, when your lifetimes. We always enjoy learning and sharing your our seniors are facing similar decisions about where they stories, so please keep them coming. And if you kept a will go and what they will do. There is no shortage of journal for a class, you just might want to dig it out, relive angst about securing that perfect match that will launch a past journeys … and express your appreciation for the young man into the studies and career of his dreams. To be assignment. sure, these are important decisions, but it seems that life – Thank you, Mrs. K. Providence to me – has a way of leading us by the right road, as Thomas Merton says in his prayer, “though I may know nothing about it.” When I look back at the twists along my road, I now see LIZ COPELAND many difficulties and disappointments as blessings. Several DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS alumni profiled in this issue likely would agree that their [email protected] seeming detours turned out to be the right road after all.

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New York City streets become the canvas for Ken Farmer’s art production company, Wild Dogs International. In this installation for the New Museum’s IDEAS CITY event, his team closed a block in SoHo to feature all-night installations from 16 multimedia artists. 5 Exhibition Producer Ken Farmer Curates Eclectic Conversation with Mentor Andy Saunders

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sk Ken Farmer ’03 about his In his diverse work, Farmer has curated a memories of Memphis series of site-specific projections by 15 artists for University School, and sooner the 174-foot facade of the New Museum in New or later he is bound to tell York City. He has transformed Washington, DC’s, you about watching Andy legendary 9:30 Club for its World’s Fair-themed Saunders lick chalk off his 35th anniversary celebration. And he has collabo- fingers. More on that later, rated with London-based artist Conrad Shawcross but according to Farmer, to transform an automobile assembly-line robot into his experiences with the an elegant kinetic sculpture accompanied by a live opera-singing theater, performance at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. After science, and even mechani- working in a partnership for several years, Farmer cal drawing teacher helped has formed his own New York City-based company, unbutton his perception Wild Dogs International. of a button-down world. When we contacted the curator/producer/artist Saunders’ multifaceted, about a story in MUS Today, he suggested, as you unconventional might expect, an unconventional approach – a persona may even conversation with Faculty Emeritus Saunders. have contributed to his student’s career, creating Following is an excerpt from their free-form avant-garde events and exhibitions of light, sound, phone exchange, touching on art, theater, literature, performance, and projection at museums, fashion ambition, character building, and Saunders’ appetite shows, concerts, and on streetscapes. for calcium carbonate.

Andy Saunders: I saw examples you may look at the brush work and the of spontaneous, what is it, spontaneous of your work, which is extremely style, but fundamentally, it’s about the overflow of powerful feeling? impressive. It reminded me of what direct connection that you have with that AS: That is the phrase, yeah. were called Happenings in New York work of art. City in the ’60s. Artists were trying KF: And that is just an incredibly AS: What I’m reminded of is to create new environments with art powerful way of describing what I’m Wordsworth, in the Preface to Lyrical and performances. It seems the work striving for. Ballads, when he’s talking about the you’re doing is a direct descendant of AS: It’s something that can’t be quan- idea of the sublime. It’s like when some- this – except that it is technologically so tified. It’s just something that happens one goes to a waterfall and says, ‘Well, much more advanced and sophisticated. to you when you’re looking at a great that’s really awesome,’ but somebody You’re trying to create an environment work of art or when you’re listening to a else says something that indicates to that produces a particular feeling. poem or to music. them it’s ineffable, it’s transcendental. Ken Farmer: The intersection of tech- KF: This is at the core of the value of KF: Mr. Saunders, it’s incredible that nology and emotion is a core aspect of art, and it comes in many, many forms. my approach. The work really becomes you mention Wordsworth because I AS: What insights led you to go this provocative and meaningful when the was thinking about what lessons have direction? technology isn’t so blatant, but rather a come out of MUS, and it reminds me tool used to elicit a visceral feeling. It’s of something that Mr. [Flip] Eikner KF: It’s been an interesting road. At like when you look at a great painting, ’77 drilled into our heads ... the notion MUS I took just about every art class

6 l MUS TODAY SPRING 2016 available, including independent studies – mouth, the festival attracted over 10,000 try to create iconic moments, to create and had amazing mentorship from people New Yorkers. something that is live, that is memorable, like [art instructors] Mr. [Curt] Schmitt At that point I still had my day job, that is here and now. Those are strong and Mr. [Peter] Bowman. They gave me but based on the success of the festival, moments for each individual but also as a the freedom to try things, to get outside the New Museum contacted us to do collective experience. the box, and that started to ingrain an some big installations. I went from being AS: Your work is actually countering interest in the arts. a weekend warrior to working with some the cultural phenomenon of people in At Colorado College I pursued of the top contemporary artists. I realized a theater using their cell phones, which Urban Studies, which was born out of I needed to create a company and do this irritates the hell out of me. They aren’t an interest in the controversy over future full time. Over the years, the projects using that event as a way of connecting development on the Memphis waterfront. Considering what it meant to privatize the waterfront really got me thinking about the potential of public spaces and quality of life in the city. After college I started working for Project for Public Spaces, a New York

nonprofit supporting community-driven Photo by Alan Howell design. I worked there for a few years, but I got a little bit jaded – there was a lot of planning without a lot of action. AS: Welcome to the bureaucratic world. KF: Yes, exactly. In response to that, some of my friends who were working in complementary fields – architecture, industrial design, art – and I started a group called DoTank: Brooklyn, a play on think tank. We were a weekend-warrior Farmer credits Saunders, among other MUS instructors, for inspiring him to kind of group, living in an industrial but pursue a profession in art and design. rapidly gentrifying part of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. We found discarded shipping have diversified, and I’m now doing pallets on the sidewalks, took them apart with the people who are in the event. fashion shows, stage design for concerts, It seems to me like that is an essential and made Adirondack chairs, creating installations with museums. seating around the neighborhood. feature of theater, connecting people to The next project was a 100-foot- AS: Where do your commissions come whatever is going on – certainly that was long, shipping-pallet table underneath from? the purpose of the ancient Greeks. an elevated expressway in Brooklyn. KF: The funding comes from grants, arts KF: Yeah, absolutely. And I’m really A few hundred people came out for an organizations, companies, public-sector trying to break that frame a little bit, open, pop-up dinner. And then we scaled and private developers. of the actors on stage and the audience up again and closed off a block in the AS: It strikes me that a lot of what as passive voyeurs. I recently did a neighborhood to create a pop-up park. you have done is an attempt to create project in DC with a band from New We were looking at how these connection, to create community, to create York in collaboration with a local high temporary, low-cost actions could a feeling of being together, being one. school drum line. I called it a Nomadic make significant changes in quality of Performance. The idea was that the drum KF: That’s a really good point. The life. Obsessed with scale, we turned line would be scattered throughout the notion of sociability being mitigated by to projection to create an ephemeral site, kind of enveloping the audience and technology – I think we’re all grappling intervention throughout a neighborhood. almost herding them toward the central with [that] as a society now. Recently, I So we did this festival in October of 2010 performance point. saw an article about how parties aren’t in an isolated waterfront neighborhood happening as much anymore because kids AS: It seems to me your purpose here is in Brooklyn. We had 50 artists producing are staying home and communicating exactly what drew me to theater initially. installations ranging from building-scale via [social media]. Through my work I And that was getting people involved. to handheld. Simply through word of 7 I’ve certainly been to a number of plays in over us, clothes covered in chalk, licking reminding us that we need to get some which I did not feel like a voyeur. I really the remaining dust off his hands. He hay in the barn – don’t cram too much. felt as though I were a participant in the would respond to our shock with a quip And more philosophical lessons, like Mr. drama onstage. along the lines of, “What’s the big deal? Eikner talking about the birth of roman- KF: I think you’re right about that. I Everybody needs calcium.” In an abstract ticism, and the spontaneous overflow think about the Shakespearean notion of way, that ties back to a key element of of feelings, and emotion recollected in catharsis. You can be sitting in your seat my education – creating the space and tranquility [Wordsworth]. watching yet still having an incredibly learning structure that works for you and AS: Well, I’ve been retired for five years, active and dynamic experience. your interests. but MUS was a great place to work. And AS: When that happens, it becomes an LC: Based on your experience, what is a primary reason it was a great place to ineffable experience, an experience that your advice to current students? work was because of students like you. you can cherish, relish, and enjoy forever. KF: I was thinking back on MUS and There were many guys who were good what makes it such a privilege to attend. I students, and you have gone on to be KF: I’ve got to check my literary good people. reference for Mrs. [Elizabeth] Crosby think truth and honor, the school’s motto, and Mr. [Norman] Thompson. Is it OK are such critical life lessons at the core. KF: I think it traces back to the funda- to attribute catharsis to Shakespeare? And there’s a push to be a well-rounded mental values that transcended at MUS person. But I think that, at least in my and as much as anything else, that’s about AS: All kinds of writers have used own experience, it’s easy to fall into a community, character development, and catharsis throughout the years – including siloed trajectory – you strive to succeed in being well-rounded. It doesn’t end when academics and maybe also athletics, but you graduate. There are relationships I have a lot of admiration for the students and lessons that continue. The longevity who are able to merge excellence in the of the relationships created at MUS is academics, athletics, arts, and student remarkable – and critical to Memphis, as life. I was ‘too cool’ for theater, pep band, well. Memphis is still my hometown and and that’s a big regret. MUS provides will remain a core part of what I do, who tremendous resources for cultural I am. So I think that we were all lucky to engagement. I would strongly encourage have this experience. students to push themselves beyond their AS: I think you’re right to use the word comfort zone to really take advantage of character. Education is about helping the these offerings. You know, once you get young man or young woman develop out of school, you’re probably not going good character. There are situations that to be the starting quarterback for the rest Wild Dogs International, Farmer’s company, help us develop character – whether it’s of your life. recently designed the 35th anniversary in sports, in theater, in art, in student exhibition for the 9:30 Club, a legendary AS: I think MUS has been good about government, working on the annual. The music venue in Washington, DC. hiring different kinds of teachers, and the activity doesn’t matter as much as the curriculum exposes the student to a lot of values instilled. Shakespeare – but I think we would diverse ideas. KF: That leads back to my strong desire attribute its origination to Aristotle and KF: MUS gives students the feeling that to encourage students to pursue a range of his discussions of the effects of Greek they have the tools to achieve whatever activities so that they can have a diversity tragedy on audiences. they desire. That has instilled tremendous of engagement. They’re going to need it Liz Copeland: Ken, what are your ambition in me and influenced the way later in life. memories of Mr. Saunders? What I approach life. It’s absolutely critical. LC: Ken, you were in a business partner- prompted you to suggest this interview? In addition to the aesthetic foundation ship, and now you are on your own. How we’ve touched on, I learned leadership is that going? KF: One memory that comes to mind and competitiveness in sports through KF: Before, I was working more in a is Mr. Saunders wiping down the amazing mentors like [lacrosse coaches] creative capacity, rather than a managerial chalkboard and licking the chalk off his Elliott Dent, Pat DiMento, and [cross capacity. Mr. Saunders knows when fingers. We were these young, seemingly country coach] Joe Tyler. And you get into something like a theater well-behaved boys feigning decorum for servant-mindedness from [then-religion production, oh, man, there are so many fear of lunchroom duty. And you have instructor] Clay Smythe ’85. I remember different roles you have to play, from this dynamic of Mr. Saunders, towering anecdotes from Coach [Jerry] Peters therapist, to accountant, to being on a ladder. And I’m still doing all of those to some extent. There’s not a job I do that I’m not on a ladder at some point, and then liaising with a client at another. Being able to cope with this high-intensity juggling act, I think, traces back to my diversity of experience. At graduation I received the art award and the service award, and we had won a state championship in lacrosse the night before. AS: I remember that. Well, I tell you, however far you rise, continuing to work in the trenches keeps you honest, right? KF: And you’ve got to do it. You can create all kinds of technical schematics, but when it’s time to start implementing some kind of wild idea that exists in your head, you have to get your hands in there. AS: Ken, what is your most memorable project? KF: One of the biggest highlights would be a project I did last year in Camden, NJ, where we had a black-light basketball tournament in a neighborhood that Rolling Stone magazine had referenced as the most dangerous in the country. It was called Camden Night Gardens. The championship of the tournament featured local high school all-stars playing against the police department team. This was a rivalry that might even go beyond MUS vs. CBHS. The high school kids were losing in a hard-fought game, but they came back to win and beat the police with a buzzer-beater 3-pointer. It was an incredible moment. AS: Sounds great. More about a part of our culture that we need to maintain – and that’s the feeling of community, the feeling of being connected.

And with that, student and mentor disconnected, for now. Saunders went off to Germantown Community Theater to For Experiments in continue building his latest set, and Farmer Motion, a collaboration returned to his Brooklyn studio to continue with Columbia University’s building Wild Dogs International. Graduate School of Architecture, a scale For more examples of Farmer’s work, check model of Manhattan was out wilddogsinternational.com, or contact projection-mapped and him at [email protected] mirrored onto the floor.

9 From Pebble Beach to Pine Valley Golf Club, Augusta National to ’s Bay Hill Club & Lodge, Mike McCarley enjoys a wide range of playing options as president of golf for NBC Sports Group, which includes overseeing Golf Channel. He is pictured here at Pebble Beach Resort.

10 l MUS TODAY SPRING 2016 JOURNEY MEN LINKS TO SUCCESS Powerful Mentors Helped Shape NBC Golf President Mike McCarley’s Career

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ack when a teenaged provided sports headlines for more than joined the USA Triathlon staff, getting the Mike McCarley ’93 spent a decade – overcoming cancer, the seven Olympic assignment that never came as an all his free time training for Tour de France titles, the lifetime ban for athlete. B triathlons, he recalls being doping. As for McCarley, the exchange Ascending the ladder at NBC Sports, taken aback when the guy might have been the first instance of what McCarley spent time absorbing wisdom everyone pegged as a rising star told him he calls the “Forrest Gump thing” that has from pro-football Hall of Famer John he was leaving the sport. helped shape his career in the business Madden and Emmy-award winning “I remember talking to Lance of sports. sportscaster Jim McKay before former Armstrong in 1989 at the USA Triathlon Remember bits of the movie where NBC Sports Chairman took National Championships when he was Gump shows a young Elvis how to shake him under his wing. Now in his sixth year 18 years old and I was 15 years old,” his hips, stumbles upon Watergate, inspires at Golf Channel, McCarley counts none says McCarley, now President, Golf, John Lennon to write “Imagine,” and starts other than golf legend Arnold Palmer as a NBC Sports Group, which includes Golf the running craze? trusted advisor. Channel. “He told me he wasn’t going to For McCarley, a college gig of keeping “They’re unique ways to learn,” do triathlons anymore and shift completely stats for visiting broadcast teams included McCarley says of spending time in the to cycling. It’s kind of interesting to look an NBA preseason game with the Lakers company of legends. “I understand that back on. Wow, if I only knew then what and the team’s beloved, long-time announc- I’ve been very fortunate to be surrounded I know now.” er, the late Chick Hearn. That helped lead by some pretty interesting people at the Indeed, Armstrong’s rise and fall to a job with the Dallas Mavericks. He later right times of my career.”

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11 Of course, McCarley still has had to yourself to how you did yesterday, or last one knee – the “Tebowing” pose – to greet make the most of the opportunities in week, or the same day a year ago.” him. The crowd ate it up. Not 10 minutes front of him. That bold “Football Night At the same time, numbers can’t be later, producer Keith Allo and McCarley, in America” label NBC builds around its everything. If there’s one thing McCarley who often sits in the TV production truck Sunday NFL broadcasts? McCarley helped has learned along his career path, it’s that for high-profile programs, decided to extend bring it to life in 2006. relationships are invaluable – a point driven the show. Allo then whispered into his star’s

“I’VE BEEN VERY FORTUNATE TO BE SURROUNDED BY SOME PRETTY INTERESTING PEOPLE AT THE RIGHT TIMES OF MY CAREER.” -MIKE McCARLEY

It was the same blueprint for a broad home by Ebersol, who became a mentor. earpiece: “We’re going to two hours.” marketing strategy to lure non-sports “You should take the time to get to know “It was terrific,” McCarley says, “and fans to NBC’s biggest events that was people on a personal level,” he says. “Not we’ve now kind of made it a franchise.” developed for the Olympics – presenting because at some point it’s going to benefit More than that, really. Last fall, Feherty around-the-clock coverage for some of the you in business, but because it’s the right parted ways with CBS, where he’d spent most-watched events in U.S. television thing to do. Dick was big on that.” two decades as an on-course analyst, to cast history. Not only did that strategy help NBC With relationships comes trust. And that his lot entirely with Golf Channel and NBC. elevate the Olympics to new heights, but it trust sometimes allows a person to take a The deal not only includes an extension also helped the network set a Super Bowl gamble that pays dividends. of his Emmy-nominated show Feherty, viewership record, the highest Kentucky McCarley recalls a dinner conversation but further entertainment projects to be Derby ratings in 20 years, and most- in late 2011 with David Feherty, the analyst/ developed. watched NHL action in nearly four decades. funnyman from Northern Ireland whose McCarley says: “You push people out of Since joining Golf Channel in February now-acclaimed interview show had just their comfort zone a little bit by letting them 2011, McCarley has guided the network completed its first season. McCarley saw know you have confidence in them, and to its most-watched years in two decades the potential for more. you believe in them. Tell them you think of existence. Despite a cold start to 2015 Feherty had an informal standup routine they’re going to succeed – and if they don’t, when Tiger Woods was both ineffective and that he did casually at various stops, telling they can always come back to what they injured, the year wound up being the second stories of his days as a European Tour were doing. Looking back at it now, I see most-watched ever as Jordan Spieth and pro. McCarley suggested they incorporate that my parents always gave me that type of Jason Day took center stage. that, along with guests, into a live special. support, and it helped instill a spirit in me to “Thankfully the transition from Tiger Feherty’s response, laced with his familiar never be afraid to fail. It may be one of the to these young stars didn’t last very long,” Irish lilt, was as panicky as it was short. best lessons I’ve learned.” McCarley says. “Mike, no!” he said. McCarley has taken a quite a few steps All of which prompted SportsBusiness “C’mon, you’re going to be great. I outside his own comfort zone. After gradu- Journal to feature McCarley, 42, three times promise,” McCarley replied. ating from MUS, he chose the University of on its annual “Forty Under 40” list of top “I don’t want to get fired,” Feherty said. Arizona without much of a plan. young executives and name him to its Hall “And I don’t want you to have to fire me.” “Why Arizona? The short answer is I of Fame. He now stands No. 8 on Golf Inc. Eventually, McCarley talked Feherty was chasing the sunshine,” he says. “The magazine’s ranking of the “Most Powerful into doing the show – though there was long answer is it was the winter home for a People in Golf” – ahead of Donald Trump a second moment of panic when he told lot of the best triathletes around the country and U.S. Golf Association CEO Mike Feherty it would be during Super Bowl and North America. They’d go and train Davis. week. But the show went on, set for one there, so I thought it’d be a good place “If you’re a competitive person, this is hour with Tim Tebow – at the height of for me.” a great business to work in because you Tebow-mania – and Fuzzy Zoeller headlin- While McCarley ran cross country do get that ratings scorecard every day,” ing the guest list. for MUS, his real focus was the triathlon. McCarley says. “You can compare yourself When the former Heisman Trophy Mornings would find him in the pool at 6 to your competition; you can compare winner was introduced, Feherty dropped to a.m., often followed by a . Only after

12 l MUS TODAY SPRING 2016 that would he slip into his first class of Photo courtesy of Golf Channel the morning. Weekends were often spent traveling, leaving school early on a lot of Fridays. “The school was great about giving me time to do that,” he says, noting that his schedule taught him early on how to be disciplined with his time. McCarley also served on the Student Council and recalls days when Mr. Ellis Haguewood would step back from a particular discussion to remind everyone that their decision was going to affect people. “He gave small lessons in leadership along the way,” McCarley says. “That’s something that didn’t necessarily stick with me in those days, but it really helped reinforce some important learnings – espe- cially for my role now.” A career choice, though, wouldn’t come until his sophomore year at U of A. “I had McCarley counts golf legend Arnold Palmer, founder of Golf Channel, no idea,” he said. “I was focused on sports.” as a mentor and trusted advisor. As two hip surgeries took a toll on his competitive career, McCarley started “And without knowing who the compa- McCarley already had spent the better looking for ways to remain in sports. He ny was, without knowing what the job was, part of a year as McKay’s primary contact became an assistant in the university I said yes,” McCarley says. “I didn’t know in the months leading up to the 2002 Winter sports information office, which led to the how much it paid, I didn’t know when it Olympics in Salt Lake City. McKay had stat-keeping and spotter jobs for visiting started, I didn’t know where I was going to been ABC’s seamless Olympic host for a broadcast crews. live. But he was such a good guy and had generation, and NBC had given him a small “I would show up in the press box – a lot been a great mentor for me.” on-air role as a way to close his career. of times in flip-flops and shorts – and was The company turned out to be NBC Later as NBC launched Sunday Night getting great experience,” he said. “I was Sports, where Sullivan headed up media Football, McCarley spent more than a few working alongside some really interesting relations. McCarley joined his staff and road trips on Madden’s bus – the former people, really understanding how this soon caught Ebersol’s eye. coach had stopped flying years earlier. business starts to come together.” “I really don’t know why, even looking “ and Arnold Palmer share A contact with the Lakers led him to back on it now,” he says. “But he and I a quality that they are as genuine as it gets,” an interview with the Dallas Mavericks, became very close.” McCarley says. “What you see is what you where he spent a year before being told When McCarley was mulling over get. They treat people well, whether the he ought to find a job somewhere else. It whether business school would help further cameras are on or not.” wasn’t personal. His boss, Kevin Sullivan, his career, he says Ebersol closed that door No discussion of Golf Channel can go pointed out there wasn’t much room for with one sentence: “Nah, just stay here and very long without some mention of Palmer. McCarley to grow within the organization. get your MBA from me.” The 86-year-old icon was golf’s first TV McCarley latched on with the U.S. Olympic “It was his way of saying he was giving star, endearing fans with a go-for-broke Committee, which assigned him to help me a unique opportunity,” McCarley says. style that won four Masters and three USA Triathlon prepare for the sport’s “And from that moment on, I pretty much other majors. Olympic debut in 2000 in Sydney, Australia. had a seat next to him in most of the really He’s also one of Golf Channel’s found- Two years later, Sullivan called. He was exciting things that NBC Sports was doing ers, joining with Alabama businessman Joe moving to New York to work for another at the time.” Gibbs in a 1995 venture that had potential, outlet – he couldn’t say which – and needed It didn’t hurt to draw on some of the if not a lot of programming. to hire someone with Olympics experience. other relationships that came his way. “They didn’t know exactly how to make

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“IF YOU’RE A COMPETITIVE PERSON, THIS IS A GREAT BUSINESS TO WORK IN BECAUSE YOU DO GET THAT RATINGS SCORECARD EVERY DAY.” -MIKE McCARLEY

Before heading up Golf Channel, McCarley learned the television business from Dick Ebersol of NBC Sports.

it a reality, but it became one,” McCarley Not only does he offer his services, but he more. He gets all the prime invitations – says. does it in a way that is only helpful. And he Pine Valley, Augusta National, Cypress eventually bought the network, is absolutely genuine about it. Point – but a shoulder injury stemming then acquired NBC Universal, which gave “If I call him and ask him something, from his triathlon days has cut his rounds Golf Channel even greater resources. That’s he gives me his opinion. If I call him and severely in recent years. when McCarley moved from New York to really need him to do something, he McCarley underwent surgery in January, run the newly combined golf business for does it.” and he was still wearing a sling when he sat NBC Sports in Orlando, where he now lives This year, two new ventures have the down with MUS Today. with his wife, Amy, and their four children, network poised for perhaps its biggest “When I finally get this fixed,” he says, ages 7 and under. And last year Golf year yet. In July NBC Sports Group takes “I will be playing more than I ever have.” Channel televised 189 tournaments, ranging over broadcast of , from the PGA Tour to other world tours to golf’s oldest trophy. One month later the the NCAA championships. sport makes its return to the Olympics Palmer still drops by the studios once in after a 112-year absence. McCarley will be JEFF SHAIN WRITES ABOUT GOLF a while – thanks to McCarley, the closest working on his 10th Olympics in Rio then. FOR THE ISLAND PACKET IN HILTON reserved parking spot bears Palmer’s famed Golf Channel also will add to its original HEAD ISLAND, SC, AND OTHER signature. More often McCarley will drive programming with a 30-year retrospective OUTLETS. HE PREVIOUSLY SPENT 18 over to Bay Hill Club & Lodge for the of Jack Nicklaus’ stunning triumph at the YEARS IN FLORIDA AS GOLF WRITER occasional lunch meeting. 1986 Masters, following on the success of FOR THE ORLANDO SENTINEL AND “He’s absolutely terrific,” McCarley its “Arnie” trilogy two years ago. says. “He has been nothing short of “It’s an exciting time,” McCarley says. THE MIAMI HERALD. everything that you want from a founder. Now, if he can just get out on the course

14 l MUS TODAY SPRING 2016 Photo courtesy of Golfweek

FROM THE ARCHIVES Wanted: Information on ’80s Civil Rights Interviews BY JOHN E. HARKINS, PH.D., SCHOOL ARCHIVIST AND HISTORIAN

ore than two years ago War on Poverty its chairman he served as interim Memphis Doug Sims ’83 came by the Committee, and mayor for 20 days. Consequently, he was Archives Department to look she was an active the city’s first African-American mayor. He M into videos recorded when he participant in the ran for mayor in the ensuing special election was a student and worked in local League of but was defeated by Richard C. Hackett. He the school’s television studio. His interest, Women Voters, the was consecrated a COGIC bishop in 1985 knowledge, and action got us started iden- American Asso- and spent the rest of his career in various tifying and digitizing videotapes. In doing ciation of Univer- aspects of church work. His grandfather was so we encountered a number of surprises, sity Women, the COGIC’s founder, Bishop Charles Harri- including the fact that we no longer had Junior League, son Mason, and his father was COGIC’s the equipment to work with ¾-inch tapes. and the YWCA. first international presiding bishop, J. O. Doug furnished what was needed and got As the most Patterson, Sr. us started. Courtesy of Memphis Public progressive of the Library & Information Center VASCO A. SMITH, JR. We also discovered a mysterious 1983 school board’s recording of three prominent local civil then all-white membership, she attempted Dr. Vasco Smith (1920-2009) speaks rights leaders – Frances Coe, Vasco Smith, to reach across the racial divide. In spite about African-American political empow- Jr., and J. O. Patterson, Jr. – talking about of her efforts, the city’s African-American erment achieved in pre-1960 civil rights the progress of race relations in Memphis community embarked on a campaign of efforts, including during the ’50s and ’60s. When asked about Black Monday boycotts of schools to draw a 1955 voter the civil rights turning point, each of the attention to educational and socio-economic registration drive three interviewees described it in relation discrimination. A class-action lawsuit later and black can- to his or her primary area of interest (see brought about racial integration of the city didates running details below). schools. Because of her work, the school for public office. board’s administrative office building was Smith – a dentist, We have posted this unedited interview named in her honor in August 1984. Air Force vet- footage on the MUS YouTube channel (bit. eran, successful ly/1RXmyxs) and would greatly appreci- JAMES OGLETHORPE politician, and ate learning more about the project and its PATTERSON, JR. major civil rights creators. Who conducted it? Did it have any advocate – served Bishop J. O. Patterson, Jr. (1935-2011) MUS faculty or administrative participation on the Shelby County Board of Commis- also speaks about the powerful effect of or encouragement? Was it part of a larger sioners from 1973 to 1994, being the first the Black Monday boycotts of schools. project? If you know the story surrounding African-American to serve at large on the The non-violent activities and death of these videos, please contact me at commission. His impact on Memphis and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., he says, were [email protected]. Shelby County was even more profound pivotal in the fight for civil rights. Patterson because his wife, Maxine Atkins Smith, The political contributions of Coe, had careers in business, law, politics, and served as executive secretary of the Mem- Patterson, and Smith, plus a recap of their the Church of God in Christ (COGIC). He phis Branch of the NAACP for decades. She interviews are described in brief below: served as a state representative, state sen- also served on the Memphis City School ator, Memphis Board, and she organized and directed pro- FRANCES E. COE City Councilman, test marches and sit-ins. The Smiths pushed Frances Edgar (Mrs. R. Lawrence) Coe and as a delegate voter registration, filed lawsuits, raised (1910-2003), an elected member of the to several Dem- money, and helped get other African-Ameri- Memphis City School Board from 1955 ocratic National cans elected to public office. Shelby County to 1979, speaks in her interview about the Conventions. He Government named its administration non-violent school integration process that was one of the building at 160 North Main Street in Vasco began in 1961. Coe, who also served as first three Afri- Smith’s honor, and Southwest Tennessee president of the Tennessee School Boards can-Americans Community College named a center on East Association, provided a vital voice for racial to serve on the Shelby Drive in Maxine Smith’s honor. integration of the city’s public schools. In Memphis City addition she served as chair of the Memphis Council, and as

15 SPREADING SMILES Steve Maroda Finds Mission Serving Ethiopians in Need

BY MARCI WOODMANSEE

MUS Today: Spring 2015 Section: Features Approval: pending Steve and Andrew Word Count: 1600 Names Checked: yes… Photos: from Steve, see my notes at end. Also think we need to run a map of Africa, or Ethiopia - LeeAnn pick

Villagers wait to see the visiting medical team.

16 l MUS TODAY SPRING 2016 undreds of people begin in 2012 at Andrew’s invitation (see next Photo by Kristin J Photography lining up at dawn outside page). Four years later Maroda is a seasoned the schoolhouse-turned- veteran when it comes to preparing for the H dental clinic in the remote, almost 17,000-mile round trip he has taken mountainous village of annually to this African country nine time Dube Bute, Ethiopia. Small children sit zones away. next to the very elderly. It will be a long “You get lots of shots, of course,” day, but they are patient. Living as they Maroda says. “You pack everything you do without regular access to health care need for two weeks in one bag that goes on services, they know this medical visit is board the plane with you. Everyone is also one they cannot miss. allowed two 50-pound bags that get stowed Pressure cookers used to sterilize underneath, and that’s what you hope the instruments are already hissing on tables customs airport officials don’t look through outside the makeshift clinic. Inside, or send through x-ray scanners. They will light streams through large windows confiscate any commercially viable items Maroda says the team begins work in the into two classrooms that will quickly that could be resold in country, such as capital city of Addis Ababa, treating widows fill with patients. Tables lined up against eyeglasses, shoes, computers, or extra chalkboards are filled with bags of phones. It’s a tricky time at customs, and a in need, children at orphanages and schools, American medicines and trays of gleaming few $20 bills [offered as a] friendly bribe “anywhere we’re invited.” instruments. Native translators in green can help get us through.” T-shirts receive final instructions about On a typical trip the team packs those how to help calm nervous patients, many of big bags with diapers, formula, clothing, treat people in need. One of the highlights whom will be experiencing dental care for shoes, and any other requests that have of the most recent trip, in January, was the first time. been made in advance by the orphanages an invitation to visit the Missionaries of In the middle of it all, Memphis oral Charity complex founded by Mother Teresa surgeon Dr. Steve Maroda ’75 gets ready EthiopiaSmile, founded by and treat people there. After the urban phase to work alongside some 10 other health care of the mission, Maroda says, the team is Arlington, TX, orthodontist Dr. Moody volunteers from around the United States. always eager to get out of the city and head The doctors and nurses in scrubs all wear Alexander and his wife, Emily, after south to begin the second week of the trip headlamps; they will need them to examine the adoption of their first child from in their “MASH unit” in the village of teeth, because there is no electricity. No Dube Bute, is a loosely organized Dube Bute. overhead lights, no suction, and only local Despite improvements in recent years, group of friends coming together anesthesia for extractions. The team is poverty remains a constant in Ethiopia, delighted to have five portable dental chairs, to love and serve the people of especially in the rural areas. The country which they successfully passed through Ethiopia, primarily by caring for their ranks 174th out of 187 countries on the airport security upon arrival. These will health needs. Since the inception United Nations Development Programme remain in the village for next year’s visit. Human Development Index. Villagers in of the project, significant quality- The scene is a stark contrast to Dube Bute live at the subsistence level, and Maroda’s Germantown practice, where he of-life improvements have been daily activities revolve around gathering has up-to-date medical equipment at his made in Dube Bute, including the water and tending livestock and crops. fingertips, not to mention electricity and construction of a bridge to the “It’s not unusual to see two oxen yoked clean, running water. There he might do five together with one man plowing behind,” village, an elementary schoolhouse, surgeries a day. On this mission, organized Maroda says. “Most people outside the city by EthiopiaSmile, it is not unusual for each and 27 fresh water wells. walk or ride in overloaded donkey carts. It doctor to do 20 surgeries a day. The group is a step back in time… it’s biblical.” will see 200 patients before driving out at they will visit, plus all the medicines, With no electricity or cell phone dusk, happy to get a good night’s rest in a anesthetics, disposable supplies, and service in the village, “you are literally off nearby hotel before returning the next day instruments they will need. the grid,” says Maroda, whose wife, Julie, to do it all again for the rest of the week. The annual mission trips begin with accompanied him for the second time on LIKE SON, LIKE FATHER a flight out of the United States to Addis the trip in January. “But the people are so Ababa, population 3 million. The team welcoming and caring, it’s unreal. They sing Maroda, the father of Stephen ’08 and generally spends the first week of the trip in us into the village when we arrive.” Andrew ’09, made his first trip to Ethiopia the city, visiting orphanages and charities to Midway through his first trip, Maroda

17 knew he would return. “It’s really a spiritual had to learn that I didn’t know what his “You can’t do everything, but you can do experience. Every morning we start with assistants who’d been working with him for something. It doesn’t have to be in Africa. It a little prayer time where we [remind 20 years knew!” Andrew says. “But it was can be in your backyard, or Binghamton, or ourselves], you can’t come blowing in like really cool to work side-by-side with him. wherever you are. Just do something!” an American, wanting to fix everything. His heart has gotten really excited about it, It takes about three days to get out of that and now it’s a way that he’s found purpose, [mindset], because you can’t fix everything. [a way] he can give back, and engage the For more information, visit ethiopiasmile.com We tell the first-timers to stop and take a skills he’s developed to help people. I deep breath. We humble ourselves to serve, hope we will be able to do it together See photos from the most recent trip to meet an unmet need. You have to empty again some day.” on Instagram: #ethiopiasmilevi yourself, and let it go.” There should be more opportunities, Andrew Maroda, now a first-year as Steve Maroda says he plans to continue On Facebook: Ethiopia Smile student at the University of Texas School serving through EthiopiaSmile. He hopes On Vimeo: of Medicine in San Antonio, has fond his experience will inspire others to give in vimeo.com/153667395 - “Dube Bute memories of the 2012 trip to Ethiopia, when similar ways. “We all have unique talents Clinic, 2015” Setting up clinic in village he served as his dad’s dental assistant. “He and gifts that we should share,” he says. (Steve Maroda at :45)

A Dream Fulfilled BY STEVE MARODA ’75

My dream of serving on a foreign mission team His girlfriend (now wife), Emily Archer, had invited us was born some 30 years ago during my time in to join her family friends, the Alexander family, on a Washington, DC, when I was a general practice mission trip to Ethiopia to serve and treat the villagers resident at Georgetown University Hospital in the of Dube Bute and widows and orphans in the capital city oral surgery department. Our world-renowned faculty of Addis Ababa. encouraged each of us to broaden our own training Since then, I have been on the past four trips. We and our horizons, and I became interested in short-term have had teams ranging from 40 to 60 people who come foreign medical mission care. I planned to join a team [from across the U.S.] to serve the beautiful Ethiopian of dental and medical students and residents who would people. We primarily provide dental care to relieve pain accompany several faculty members on a two-week trip and primary medical care for common skin and eye to east Africa. But the trip was cancelled due to political ailments. The teams have been composed of four to 10 instability and safety concerns. This was the time of dentists with at least one physician, dermatologist, and the great famine in Ethiopia that inspired the Live Aid nurse (and once, a veterinarian). We are assisted by the Concert in 1985. remainder of the team members, who provide logistics, So the ‘seeds’ for my service had been planted medical support, children’s activities, and pastoral but were left unattended for 30 years, until the spring training. of 2012. My son Andrew, then a college junior at If you would like to know more about the trip, Vanderbilt University, asked me to join him on a please feel free to contact me at (901) 754-8002 or medical/dental mission trip called EthiopiaSmile. [email protected].

18 l MUS TODAY SPRING 2016 Photo by Kristin J Photography

Clockwise from top left: Andrew Maroda, left, and his father, Steve Maroda, on their trip to Ethiopia together in 2012. Andrew Maroda, center back, and his wife, Emily, center front, served as the catalyst for Steve Maroda’s first mission trip. Maroda wears a headlamp to check the teeth of a patient in their “MASH unit” clinic in the village, where there is no electricity. A traditional round, thatched roof hut dwelling in Dube Bute Maroda describes Ethiopia in simple terms: “Beautiful people and beautiful country.” He says the village boys are always happy to see American visitors.

Photo by Kristin J Photography

19 COVERS Rob Baird Comes Into His Own

Photo by Greg Giannukos - El Ojo Photography

Rob Baird at Whisler’s cocktail bar, a popular East Austin venue for live music.

ook out, Austin: Rob Baird is my favorite place in the world, and be and it really came out in the music.” ’05 is back. After a sojourn with my friends.” in Nashville, TN, where Baird ended up recording his latest placed him in a classic-country category, L he worked for a year with album with his regular band in a garage While Baird’s first albumsWrong may Side have the Carnival Music record studio in north Austin. “I’ve recorded of the River as true Americana. “You label, Baird has returned to his wheel- with studio musicians before, but these hecan identifies hear the gritthe soundwhen youof listen to house and is eagerly anticipating the are the guys who’ve played live with release of his third album, Wrong Side me for three years, and it’s fun to have lot of grit in this music.” of the River, this May. With a full slate a group so talented that we were able [Americana],Besides working and we definitelyon his own have music a of shows scheduled in support of the to do all of it,” he says. “I think it’s more and performing – he has about 75 shows release, Baird is also working on songs authentic. There’s more blood, sweat, on the schedule in support of the new for his next CD, as well as producing and tears in the game.” LP – Baird is excited about continuing records for other artists. to work on other artists’ recordings “Life is moving!” he says with a what he’s been trying to do all along. through Rattle Trap Studios in Austin. laugh. “It’s good. I can handle it.” NowBaird 29, he’s says had this some album time better to grow defines up “I’ve gotten into the production game, Most of all, Baird is happy to be and it’s a really nice balance with being back in Texas after his year away. “My outside songs from friends in Nashville, on the road. I’m getting to scratch that Nashville journey!” he says. “I really butand therefine rest his of vision.it I wrote,” “We hecut says. a couple “A lot itch more often, which is kind of fun. I’ve got other projects in the works, and thought, this isn’t who I am. So it has that inspired me. Leaving Nashville and beenfelt like nice a fishto come out of back water to Austin,[there], which and comingof it [comes back from] home real-life was a big situations deal for me, record after this one comes out.” hope to finish up songs for my fourth

20 l MUS TODAY SPRING 2016 “Ain’t Nobody Got a Hold on Me,” the behind the name; we just thought it lead single from Wrong Side of the River, was funny,” says guitarist and singer was released in the fall and is available Nicholas Manley ’15. now on iTunes. Manley and his Class of 2015 bandmates, Jerry Oates, Jim Waggoner, to date, and I think it accurately and Joseph Preston, and St. George’s represents“It’s definitely what I’ve my wanted favorite to [album] do my senior Harrison Schutt started playing music together almost two years ago. got to the place where this is making sense,entire career,”art-wise, he and says. I’m “I really think excitedwe finally about it.” self-titledThey booked Jenette their McKurdy first show, by last the spring,end of For more info on Baird, his theand year. had recorded their first album, music, and upcoming shows, visit “Our friend and mentor Ty Garvey, robbairdmusic.com. Jonezetta, recorded and mixed the albumthe bassist for us, from and the we [indie] couldn’t band be more Jenette McKurdy’s first self-titled release grateful for all the hard work he put in Young to make it happen,” says Manley, who sings all of the songs on the album the Hi-Tone at our show last summer, except for one. “Jerry plays guitar, so the owner asked us to play again at Alumni Record Harrison plays bass and sings, Jim plays Christmas, which we did,” Manley says. drums, and Joseph plays keyboards. Our “We also played for a Valentine’s bash music has a pop, indie-rock feel, and in Chattanooga with a band called Rock First CD we’re excited to have it out there for Eupora.” people to listen to.” With the world of possibilities he band is young, and the Manley, Oates, and Waggoner ahead, Manley can’t predict how long name is Jenette McKurdy. are now freshmen at the University Jenette McKurdy will continue, although T Not to be confused with the of Tennessee, Knoxville; Preston is he feels sure they will all keep playing actress, Jennette McCurdy, a and singing, one way or another. “If we singer and songwriter in her own right, would be through playing together once keep getting asked to do things, we’re best known for her role as Sam Puckett everyoneenrolled at headed UCLA. toThey college, figured but they they not going to say no!” on the Nickelodeon sitcom iCarly. keep getting calls to perform. Listen to Jenette McKurdy on “There’s no particular meaning Spotify: bit.ly/McKurdy

“We filled up the small room at

From left, Joseph Preston, Jim Waggoner, Harrison Schutt, Nicholas Manley, and Jerry Oates

21 YOUTHFUL

Folk BrothersSPIRIT Distill Vodka with Home-Sourced Ingredients and Under-30 Zeal

BY RALPHRALPH ELLISELLIS

22 l MUS TODAY SPRING 2016 Photos by Alan Howell he heart and soul of Pyramid Vodka stands inside a cavernous brick building in north Memphis, glowing in the afternoon sun and surrounded by smaller vats and tanks. Made T of stainless steel and copper, the 22-foot-tall still is where water and mash are cooked and transformed into liquor. Alexander Folk ’07 calls it “the mother ship.”

The young entrepreneurs behind Pyramid Vodka, from left, brothers Alexander and Winston Folk

Pyramid Vodka launched in November 2014 and quickly scene. Their grandfather, Humphrey Folk, started Folk’s Folly became a recognizable brand around Memphis, thanks to old- Prime Steak House. The brothers worked there during summers fashioned hustle and networking by Alexander, the chief executive and college holidays. officer, and his brother and business partner, Winston Folk ’05, Alexander attended the University of Alabama and studied the chief operating officer. (Winston attended MUS for seventh restaurant and hospitality management, figuring, “I’d graduate and eighth grade.) from college and work in a restaurant and go from there.” Their company, Big River Distilling, is a small operation with He did, in fact, spend a year managing Itta Bena, the fine-dining only five employees, all under 30. Their casual enthusiasm fits the restaurant located above B.B. King’s Blues Club on Beale Street River City’s growing craft beer and artisanal food scene. (Tommy Peters ’73 is president). But he kept thinking about a “We wanted to do something that was exciting for young people trend he had observed in college. to look forward to,” Alexander says. “People were gravitating toward microbrewers,” he says. The brothers have roots in the Memphis food and beverage “Nobody here was doing it with micro-distilleries.”

Photos by Alan Howell 23 “FROM THE TIME WE GRIND THE CORN UNTIL THE TIME IT GOES IN THE BOTTLE, IT’S 10 TO 14 DAYS.” -ALEXANDER FOLK

24 l MUS TODAY SPRING 2016 Company CEO Alexander Folk ’07 cocktail recipes to be found on the Pyramid What does describes it like this: “We look for a very Vodka website and Facebook page. subtle nose to it,” he says. “It’s a little Folk’s favorite drink is a Basil Sour. sweeter than most vodkas and a little Here’s how he makes it: Pyramid smoother.” Tastings.com’s description is more 1.5 ounces Pyramid vodka Vodka taste expansive: “Bright, clear color. Bright, nutty aromas of pistachio nougat and gelato, 1 ounce fresh lemon juice hazelnut latte, and toasted coconut with a 1 ounce simple syrup like? glycerous, bright, dry-yet-fruity, medium- to-full body and a tingling, medium-long Muddled basil green apple custard, cajeta, pepper spices, Shake with ice and chalk finish. A wild-and-wooly spirity vodka with a lot of charm.” Pour into a rocks glass and garnish with a lemon wedge and a sprig of basil. The traditional way to drink vodka is neat, without ice or water. There are many Cheers!

Financial backing came from Richard Despite the newcomer status, Pyramid and Cannon Smith, sons of FedEx Vodka is already winning plaudits from the Chairman Fred Smith ’62, and about spirits industry, having earned silver medals 20 other investors. at competitions in Denver and Los Angeles Why did the brothers decide to make and the platinum medal at the Spirits vodka, rather than whiskey, the spirit more International Prestige Awards. Big River closely associated with Tennessee? For one was also recently named Tennessee Vodka thing, it’s faster. Vodka doesn’t have to be Distillery of the Year at the New York aged for years in barrels. International Spirits Competition. “From the time we grind the corn until The company has raised its local the time it goes in the bottle, it’s 10 to 14 profile by sponsoring community events, days,” Alexander says. They do their own including the Moon River Music Festival, bottling and labeling at their plant. and by serving Memphis Grizzlies fans Another reason, per Alexander: “Vodka is at the Pyramid Vodka Studio inside the what lends itself to the natural resources we FedExForum. Numerous restaurants and have access to.” bars in Memphis pour Pyramid Vodka, and He’s talking about the corn from nearby it’s sold in area liquor stores. Right now the Arkansas, which is used to make mash, and company is producing about 400 cases of the city’s clear and plentiful water from the vodka a month. Locally made Pyramid Vodka has won awards Memphis aquifer. Most vodka producers in What’s next? The company is offering in international spirits competitions. the United States use base alcohol shipped tours, and the Folk brothers hope to start from Indiana that is flavored with charcoal contract distilling for other brands. They Winston, who had served in the Coast filtering and local water. plan to expand east and place their product Guard and worked for the offshore oil The Folk brothers took a different route, in other cities. Nashville is their first target. industry, joined Alexander for the dive into deciding to make vodka from scratch. “It That means more work by the Folk the micro-distilling industry. gives us full control over the product,” brothers – something Alexander anticipates They spent about two years studying Alexander says. with arguably youthful fervor. how to make vodka, filling out government The centerpiece of the Pyramid operation “In this business,” he says, “the younger forms, acquiring operating space, and is the still, which was manufactured in the better.” purchasing equipment. The networking China based on Winston’s design and came easy because, as Winston says, shipped to Memphis for assembly. Learning RALPH ELLIS IS A FREELANCE WRITER “Memphis is a big city with a small- to make vodka that tasted good was a trial- BASED IN DECATUR, GA. town feel.” and- process.

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BY MARCI WOODMANSEE

fter almost 16 years working cocktails with interesting titles, including in other people’s restaurants and that’s what’s most exciting for me.” the Curl of the Burlatron 3000 (a refer- – in the South, on the West There’sWith definitely seating for a bounty 50, Hutch in the is locatedarea, ence to Burl Caine, the pseudonym King ACoast, and abroad – chef David in a narrow, industrial space that man- used as bass player in one of his early Scott King ’94 went on hiatus in 2012 to ages to seem wide open and cozy all at bands). contemplate the future. With his wife’s the same time, thanks to great lighting King’s regionally inspired Southern strong encouragement (“Actually, it was and lots of wood furniture and accents, comfort food includes fried chicken, more like insistence,” King says), the time including the original redwood ceiling. deviled eggs, bacon-braised collards, Oakland blacksmith Jon Sarriugarte cre- and a number of dishes that are paired venue. He had found the perfect location ated the 10-foot wide custom chandeliers with Delta Grind cheese grits, such as infinally uptown seemed Oakland, right CA,to open an artsy, his own eclectic based on photos from Turkish mosques his Louisiana-style shrimp creole or his area that reminded him of the Memphis that restaurant architect Benjamin Cooper-Young neighborhood, and he had McGriff had visited on his honeymoon. my personal favorites is a local farm trout negotiated a favorable lease agreement. The focal point of the restaurant is the thatMemphis-influenced we cure with a little fried bit catfish. of bourbon,” “One of He even had the concept worked out – bar, and the focal point of the bar is the King says (see recipe). “And of course we Southern comfort food, a little something whiskey. With more than 100 brands of are known for raw oysters; we sell more different to tempt palates in Northern American whiskey at the ready, patrons California. The varieties we offer just depend on What he didn’t have was a name that - whatPacific I thinkcoast isoysters freshest than and anything closest else. would bring it all to life. That’s when keycan easilyClub. There’s find something a wide range to sip of on. craft True to home.” his wife, Cindy May Sum Lui, reminded aficionados can even join Hutch’s Whis King exercised his creative side as him that his grandfather, Byron Monroe far back as high school, when he served Hutchison, taught him how to eat oysters as co-editor of The MUSe and began play- and sip bourbon. “He was what I’d call a ing bass and singing (“Screaming might bon vivant – he just loved food and drink be a better word for it,” King says) in a and fellowship. And so my wife said, band called Skycow alongside Class of ‘If you’re thinking about some kind of 1994 friends Hal Bartlett, Duncan Southern oyster and whisky bar, and you Herrington, and Jay Sansing, and don’t name it after him, you’re an idiot!’ Elliott Ives ’96. Later, he played in His nickname was Hutch, so that’s what Rabid Villain with Jeff Burch ’94, we did.” Blake Rhea ’94, and Ives. Now, almost three years since its In transitioning to food as his cre- opening, Hutch bar & kitchen is thriving, and King is enjoying the opportunity to but particularly to Ben Smith, chef/owner be creative and in control of a restaurant ofative Tsunami outlet, in he Memphis, points to whomany hired influences, King all his own, in a region he has always in 1998 after he graduated from Rhodes. considered a gastronomic mecca. “I consider him my mentor,” King says. “Everyone follows the common man- “He hired me as a total greenhorn to tra of California fresh – using seasonal, work in the pantry as garde manger [cold regional produce, humanely raised ani- foods chef]. He’s a great guy.” In San Francisco, Ryan Prewitt ’94, “My sous chef and I get email alerts every now the James Beard Award-winning chef nightmals, aboutand sustainable what’s available fishing,” the King next says. day, of Peche in New Orleans, worked with King for some time at a creole-Caribbean specials the meat purveyors are pushing. restaurant called Erzulie. King followed Producewhat fisherman reports havealso comepulled in out, every what week, Hutch is a joint venture for David King and his that with a stint at Bay Area chef Craig and we build specials around [all of] that. wife, Cindy May Sum Lui.

Stoll’s acclaimed Delfina, several 273 restaurant gigs in Copenhagen and King is also grateful for his 18-month- Memphis-style barbecue restaurant. Thailand, and a brief return to Memphis old son, William Blake King, who has “Just a real simple, counter-service kind (Automatic Slim’s and the Grove Grill) already spent a fair amount of time in before settling again in San Francisco to the restaurant, and for the foundation he menu,” he says. “Although one thing I’ve help open a barbecue restaurant called received at MUS. “The whole reason I got learnedof place iswith that only booze four doesn’t or five spoil items and on the Southpaw. to go to school there is because my other Now running Hutch with the help of grandfather, William Scott King, worked especially on spirits – are huge. So maybe for [MUS donor] Margaret Clack Askew, myfood next does. step Plus should the profit not be margins food-focused – and a small but hardworking team, King who offered to pay the way for my dad … it may be a bar!” isLui, grateful who handles to be in the year back-office three with duties, his [William Scott King, Jr. ’66] to attend. restaurant and optimistic about the It’s hard for me to verbalize my apprecia- Hutch bar & kitchen future. “That’s kind of a milestone in this tion. It’s a very special place.” 2022 Telegraph Ave., Oakland, CA 94612 industry,” he says. “I feel fortunate to have Looking ahead, King has talked (510) 419-0622 passed that mark.” to a few investors about opening a hutchoakland.com

FENNEL SALAD 2 bulbs fennel, sliced thinly; reserve fronds for garnish 2 tablespoons cider vinegar 2 oranges, juiced Kosher salt and ground white pepper to taste

In a medium-size bowl, toss fennel with cider vinegar and orange juice. Allow to marinate for 30 minutes. Add salt and white pepper to taste.

MUSTARD VINAIGRETTE 1 clove garlic, smashed Bourbon-Cured Trout with Crostini and Fennel Salad 1/2 shallot, roughly chopped 2 tablespoons cider vinegar “It’s important to build relationships with your local fishmongers and ask them what is 4 tablespoons Zatarain’s Creole fresh, and specify what you need. For this you need a filleted and cleaned trout fillet. Mustard or stone-ground mustard Salmon may be substituted, but it will require a longer curing time.” – David Scott King 7 tablespoons canola oil 3 tablespoons olive oil

mustard vinaigrette; garnish with fennel Place garlic, shallot, and vinegar in Dry Cure (recipe follows) fronds and serve with crostini. (Or serve blender or processor and blend. Add Bourbon1 pound trout or salmon fillet all atop crostini.) Serves 4 as a generous mustard and blend again. Combine oils Crostini (recipe follows) hors d’oeuvre. together. While the blender is running, Fennel Salad (recipe follows), drained Mustard Vinaigrette (recipe follows) DRY CURE consistency. Makes about 2/3 cup. 1/2 cup kosher salt Refrigeratedrizzle in oil unused in fine portionstream untilfor future desired use. 6 tablespoons raw cane sugar 1 tablespoon ground toasted* Pat dry fish fillets and thoroughly rub CROSTINI coriander seed 1 fresh baguette cut in 1/2- to 3/4-inch inwith a large Dry Cureplastic on bag, both and sides refrigerate of fish. for 1 tablespoon ground toasted* slices Tightly wrap fillets in plastic wrap, place fennel seed Softened butter and gently rinse off dry cure, then pat 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder 24-48 hours. Remove and unwrap fish 1/2 teaspoon onion powder Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spread your favorite bourbon to cover, gently 1/2 teaspoon ground toasted* white baguette slices with butter on both sides squeezingdry. Place fishair outin large of bag. plastic Refrigerate bag, add peppercorn and place on baking sheet. Bake until another 24-48 hours, turning occasion- golden brown, turning once, about Combine dry cure ingredients in a small 15-20 minutes. bowl. Makes about 1 cup. (*Note: toast plates,ally. Remove top marinated, fish, pat dry drained with paperfennel spice seeds and peppercorns in dry saladtowels, with and sliced slice fishtrout thinly. and drizzle On small with skillet over medium heat until fragrant.)

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Beyond Belief David Jackson Shares Gifts of Faith, Knowledge, and Compassion

utting a successful career in teaching aside to answer a call P to ministry was a move that required both courage and faith. Fortunately for Religion Department Chair Dr. David Jackson, who did just that after his first eight years at MUS, he has both traits in abundant supply. Jackson began teaching here in 1974, when he joined the staff to serve as chair of the Religion Department. With a bachelor’s degree from Harding University, a master’s in theology from Harding School of Theology, and a doctorate in ministry from Abilene Christian University, Jackson quickly became an essential part of the school community, teaching a wide range of biblical, ethics, and comparative religion classes. But after several years he felt compelled to follow a different path, and ended up leaving MUS in 1982 to serve as a minister, first at a church in Jackson, MS, and years later in Knoxville, TN. Jackson did not expect to go back to teaching. So when the opportunity to return to MUS emerged after almost two decades in ministry, he saw it as a plan directed by forces beyond his control. “I never dreamed I’d be back at MUS; that had never even entered my mind,” Jackson says. “But [by 2005] I was feeling stressed, really more than I realized. When Ellis [Haguewood] called and said, ‘I need Dr. David Jackson brings a wealth of experience to his role as chaplain and Religion you back in the same position you had Department chair. “I think it’s absolutely vital to be genuine,” he says. 23 years ago. Are you available?’ it was just perfect.” Sometimes, for those with faith as chaplain (the school’s first) and spiritual Hussey, Sr. Chair of Religion, teaches strong as Jackson’s, life’s twists and turns guide for students and faculty members. Comparative Religions and Old and New lead back to a place that feels like home. In 2013 he received the Distinguished Testament and coaches the varsity bowling Teaching Award. CARING FOR A COMMUNITY team. He is also responsible for scheduling “I enjoyed ministry thoroughly, but at Wednesday chapels. Several times a year he Now 11 years into his second tenure this stage of my life, I feel like this is where takes the opportunity to make thought- here, Jackson brings the maturity and I’m supposed to be,” Jackson says. “It’s a provoking presentations himself, such as wisdom that comes with years of experi- privilege … to find a career path where a recent talk on the importance of being ence and the perspective that life’s hardest you can do what you feel you were put your brother’s keeper. lessons impart. Beyond teaching religion on Earth to do.” “In picking chapel [topics], I try to be courses, Jackson also serves as both Jackson, who holds the Robert J. sensitive to what’s going on in the school

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community,” he says. “So the ideas can the gate and that was neat. This family come from anywhere and everywhere.” Three Life had a boy who was about my age, so we Upper School Principal Barry Ray played before and after dinner. Then we says Jackson’s talks always make him went home and nothing [more] was said think, although Jackson’s primary focus is Lessons about it, but years later, I heard my par- the young men sitting in the chapel seats. ents talk about what that night meant to “Dr. Jackson puts the students’ best Worth them. The man was a lieutenant colonel, interests at the forefront of his interactions African-American, and that was the first with them, and he’s really good at helping Sharing time either of my parents had been to a them continue their growth spiritually, black family’s home for dinner. My dad regardless of [their] religious background. David Jackson grew up as the oldest grew up in northern Alabama in the rural I think he’s a great role model.” of four siblings in a tight-knit family, and countryside where society was segregat- For Jackson, coaching bowling is his parents had a powerful influence on ed, and my mother grew up in central just as important and meaningful as his his life. “They didn’t say, ‘Here’s what Kentucky, farming. Same thing – seg- you do,’ Jackson says. “It’s how they regated. That night, we came and went, lived.” By observing their actions, he and it was nothing special to me. But to learned several important principles. hear them talk about it [later], my dad’s fear about what the reaction of the church A GIFT YOU MAKE FOR SOMEONE might be … They handled that with such IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN grace, it didn’t even register to me that SOMETHING YOU BUY. it was anything unusual. Sometimes you “In fourth or fifth grade, I made a don’t know what the consequences [of card for my mother,” Jackson says. “I an action] are going to be, but you do it just took a piece of construction paper, because it’s the right thing to do.” Jackson and future bowling team drew a rosebud on the front, and wrote standouts from the Class of 2018: William something about Mother’s Day inside. DON’T DO SOMETHING JUST Dellinger, Jimmy Morrow, Macon Orr, and She was very appreciative of it, and that FOR THE MONEY. Jackson Moody made an impression on me. But what Jackson was living with his parents really let me know [its] significance is and siblings in Kentucky when his father academic instruction or his Wednesday that about five years ago, she showed me told the family they were moving back to chapel talks. “Bowling keeps me involved that card. She still has it, and it meant eastern Virginia to honor a commitment outside the classroom, and I think it’s so much to her. I’ve found this with my he had made to a small mission church. important for students to see a more daughter. There’d be gift-giving times “It was a hard move for me because that well-rounded faculty,” he says. when she didn’t have any money, and I was the end of my sophomore year,” says But it is teaching, Jackson says, would say to her, ‘I’d much rather have Jackson. “In fact, the whole family didn’t that gives structure to his day, and in something you made.’ Those things are want to move. But my dad had given his second tour of duty here, he feels a the most meaningful.” his word.” deeper sense of doing something that Because the church there was so has the potential to pay dividends in the DO THE RIGHT THING, REGARD- small, others questioned the move and future. “For someone in my role, I think LESS OF THE CONSEQUENCES. how Jackson’s father would be able to it’s absolutely vital to be genuine,” he Jackson spent much of his childhood support the family on a very small salary. says, “to teach and to approach students in eastern Virginia. In the early ’60s, at Jackson recalls his father saying, “The with who you are – and not some persona the height of the civil rights movement, Lord will just have to provide.” As it you’re trying to adopt – especially when his father was serving a church located turned out, with loans and scholarships, you’re dealing with the Bible, and values, in the midst of several military locations. Jackson was able to go to college. His and how to structure your life.” While the military was integrated, society sisters were able to attend too, thanks to That authenticity helps explain at large still was not. the generosity of a family friend. “It Jackson’s ability to connect with this “One night we went to one of the was covered!” Jackson says. “I learned community, a place where he believes bases because a church family had from the faithfulness of my parents that people really do treat one another like invited us to dinner. This happened all you don’t ever decide something for family. He remains profoundly grateful the time so for me it was unremarkable, the money. That’s just not the most for the support and comfort the school except that we went through the guard at important thing.” community offered upon the death of his wife, Kay, in May 2015, and

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church community at Highland Church of remarkably, heavier than the highly-repre- Christ. sented one,” Richardson says. “There is a Jackson has drawn from his experience delicious irony to this teaching because one of loss in offering comfort to students of the essential implications is that, in order and colleagues facing equally difficult to best think for yourself, you must hear situations. “I had a student whose father as many external opinions as practically was very ill this year, so I’d just ask every possible.” few days how things were going, how his With the benefit of perspective devel- mother was doing,” says Jackson. “I think oped on campus and away from it, Jackson it really meant something to him that I’d feels blessed by the opportunity to push walked a very similar path. Sometimes students a little further, to dig a little deeper. people try to help you by saying, ‘I know “I’ve changed, but I don’t think students how you feel,’ [although] they don’t. But he have changed that much, and certainly the knew I meant it.” standards of the school haven’t changed John Richardson ’14 cites other at all,” Jackson says. “I view my role at strengths that benefited him as a student, MUS as being able to have an impact on including Jackson’s willingness to “go the future of Memphis and even the world, against the grain,” and his belief in the because these boys will become leaders, importance of the opinions of the minority. all kinds of leaders – some just locally, but takes further solace in visits with his own “Dr. Jackson taught me the personal value some internationally. So if I can get them to family. His daughter, Jill, and two young of secondary opinions; that is, that minority think about larger-picture things than just grandsons live in East Tennessee. His groups can still have compelling and succeeding in terms of [their] bank account mother and three siblings are in Georgia substantiated arguments, even to the point and personal status, that’s very exciting and and South Carolina. He is also close to his that the weights of such arguments are, rewarding to me.”

School Earns Top Workplace Honors Memphis University School received the Top Workplace Award and the Lead- ership Award in the Education Division of The Commercial Appeal’s 2015 Top Workplaces program. Headmaster Ellis Haguewood accepted the awards at a ceremony in December honoring the best places to work in the Mid-South. The Top Workplaces are determined based on employee feedback in a survey that was conducted last fall by WorkplaceDynamics, a leading research firm on organizational health and employee engagement. The school was profiled in a special section in The Commercial Appeal on Dec. 6: bit.ly/MUSTopWorkplace. Barry and Patti Ray attended the Top Workplaces ceremony with Peggy and Ellis Haguewood.

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Photo by Lance Murphey

Headmaster Ellis Haguewood will retire after the 2016-17 school year.

Search Process Paves the Way for Leadership Change

n early February Headmaster leadership. “Through his exemplary service, committee includes a balanced selection Ellis Haguewood announced he has guided our school with uncommon of trustees, parents, and alumni, all with I his decision to retire at the end wisdom and prudence and a steadfast proven commitment and dedication to of the 2016-17 school year. In commitment to doing what is right and the school. a letter to the MUS community, Haguewood honorable.” “We are very fortunate to have a said he was confident that with his early The Board of Trustees Executive committee that has significant breadth and announcement the Board of Trustees would Committee met regularly before depth of experience regarding the history have time to secure the next headmaster, Haguewood’s public announcement to set in and culture of MUS as well as very good “one who will take Memphis University motion the process of recruiting a successor. experience with independent schools and School to new and greater heights.” The first step was to appoint a search education,” Graham said. Board of Trustees Chairman Sam committee, which Graham announced at The board also enlisted Dr. Bill Weary, Graham ’80 praised Haguewood’s the end of February (see sidebar). The president of Fieldstone Consulting, to assess

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current strengths and opportunities in Committee established a seven-member advance of the search process. Weary, Faculty Advisory Committee (FAC), who has provided consulting services to representing a blend of academic, arts, the school in years past, visited campus and athletic disciplines, and long-tenured Headmaster in March to conduct interviews with a and newer faculty. cross section of the MUS community, “The Faculty Advisory Committee Search including faculty, administration, current will contribute experientially based and former trustees, parents, alumni, and questions centering on candidates’ Committee Lower and Upper School students. He professional educational leadership presented his findings to the Board of experience and overall fit with MUS Ben Adams ’74 - former trustee (1990– Trustees and Search Committee in March. culture. Academic Dean Flip Eikner 2010); former chair, Board of Trustees “Dr. Weary provided valuable ’77 will serve as the chair of the FAC,” (1996-2004); Alumnus of the Year (2006); insights on the many ways the school Graham said. father of two alumni is excelling as well as advice on possi- The FAC members, with year Rick Broer - former faculty (1973-1980; bilities for continued improvement,” of appointment to the faculty, are 1996-2011); former Lower School princi- Graham said. as follows: pal (1996-2005); former academic dean The Search Committee reached out (2005-2011); father of two alumni to representatives from peer schools that Bobby Alston (1977) - director of have experienced a headmaster transition athletics, head football coach, head track Jim Burnett ’83 - trustee (2010-present); in recent years and examined proposals and field coach, father of alumnus Volunteer of the Year (2001); father of from respected search firms who work two students (7th and 9th grades) and one Grant Burke (2008) - acting chair of the with independent schools. After a alumnus Department of Fine Arts, instructor in comprehensive evaluation of six national fine arts Suki Carson - trustee (2008-present); search firms, the committee invited chair, Strategic Planning Committee three firms to interview on campus. One Michelle Crews (2012) - instructor in (2012-present); mother of three alumni firm, Spencer Stuart, stood out and was English, Mock Trial faculty advisor, unanimously selected for its ability to wife of alumnus, mother of alumnus and Glenn Crosby ’77 - trustee (2011- provide a very tailored and customized current student present); father of two students (9th and search approach. 11th grades) “Their approach is a bit different Flip Eikner ’77 (1983) - academic dean, Sam Graham ’80 - trustee (2004- from other search firms, and we believe instructor in English, father of current present); chair, Board of Trustees (2013- they best fit the unique culture and student present); chair, Search Committee; father needs of MUS,” Graham said. “A host Jonathan Large (2008) - Ross McCain of two alumni of top college-prep schools endorse Lynn Chair of History, instructor in the Spencer Stuart approach. One very history, assistant trapshooting coach Mark Halperin ’67 - trustee valuable reference was Thurston (1998-present) Moore ’64, who is the board chair for Laura McCormick (2013) - instructor Musette Morgan - former trustee St. Christopher’s School in Richmond, in science (1999-2007); former vice chair, Board of VA. He reported they had recently Phillip Stalls (2011) - instructor in Trustees (2004-2007); mother of alumnus completed their headmaster search with mathematics Spencer Stuart, and he could not have Chris Sanders - trustee (2007-present); been more pleased. Thurston is the Representatives of Spencer Stuart chair, Academics Committee; mother of brother of current trustee Rick Moore visited campus in late April, giving alumnus; spouse of alumnus ’63, and both are sons of Col. Ross M. faculty and administration the chance Fred Schaeffer, Jr. ’88 - trustee Lynn. Thurston strongly recommended to offer input and learn about the search (2012-present); chair, Development Spencer Stuart, which has led several process ahead. Committee searches involving the replacement of a “The Search Committee is very long-serving, much-beloved headmaster. inspired and encouraged by the work Gary Wunderlich, Jr. ’88 - trustee They understand how to evaluate internal thus far,” Graham said. “We appreciate (2008-present); vice chair, Board of candidates and treat them with the same the support and wise counsel we have Trustees; father of alumnus; son of care, confidentiality, and due diligence as received from the community during this alumnus external candidates.” critically important time in the history of To assist in the process, the Search our school.”

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Mathletes Get First Perfect Score in National Team Scramble

The school’s math team achieved a perfect score this November on the national Team Scramble math contest, marking the first time since the competition began in 2003 that any team entered has scored 100 out of 100. This year, teams from 106 schools (including a half-dozen internationally) participated

Happy swim team members in Knoxville after capturing the school’s first-ever state title in the sport Owls Swim to First State Title The varsity Aquatic Owls claimed state-record-setting relay team. MUS

the first state swimming championship in topped the field in two other races: Berry Double-checking answers: Ohm Patel ’17, school history in February. The win marks in the 50-free and Robinson, Parker Kaye Chang Yu ’18, and Jacob Suppiah ’17 the first Tennessee Interscholastic Swim ’17, McCaghren, and C.J. Turner ’16 in Coaches Association title for any high the 200-medley relay. In addition the Owls school from West Tennessee since 1968, set a dozen new school records. in the test, administered by National when the first TISCA meet was held. Parker praised the hard work and Assessment & Testing, based in Seattle, “This is a big accomplishment for these camaraderie of the team and the leadership WA. The next highest score was 81. 18 guys who were a part of this,” Coach of the seniors, led by Team Captain The Owl team comprised about Bryan Parker said. “MUS beat Baylor by Henry Keel. 100 students, including a few from St. a score of 344.5 to 295, and we did it with- “We were successful because every Agnes Academy, who gathered in the out a diving team. The [boys] capped it off single guy on the team had one goal: Dining Hall after school November 4 by setting the state record in the 400-free Win the state championship,” Keel says. and got to work. The 100-question exam relay by 1.16.” “Everyone believed in that goal and fed off encompassed math problems ranging MUS swimmers Henry Keel of the each other’s energy throughout the meet. from simple subtraction to basic calculus, Class of 2016 and Christian Berry, Alex It was a special weekend that we will all of which had to be completed within Robinson, and Jack McCaghren of the all remember.” 30 minutes. Class of 2017 were the members of the After brainstorming discussions

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Ramiz Somjee ’17 proofs a submission by Gus Carter ’20.

among Advanced Topics math students prior to the contest, Patrick Murphy ’16 devised and implemented a new National Merit Finalists are, front row, from left, Chandler Clayton, Forest Colerick, Saatvik organizational system for proofing and Mohan, Murray Morrison; middle row, Sam Bartz, Reed Barnes, Grayson Lee; back row, Colin scoring that contributed to the success of Threlkeld, Patton Orr, Witt Fesmire, and Daniel Tancredi. Gil Humphreys is not pictured. the event. Daniel Tancredi ’16 helped keep the fast-paced event moving smoothly. Underclassmen Chang Yu ’18 and Ohm Patel ’17 also made 12 Owls Advance as valuable contributions, completing more challenging problems as well as National Merit Finalists proofing calculations and correcting errors that had been overlooked in easier The National Merit Scholarship scholarship recipients from March problems before the final answers were Corporation honored 28 seniors earlier through May. submitted. this year, fifteen as Semifinalists and 13 To become a Finalist, a Semifinalist and “I am still stunned by the amazing as Commended Students. Twelve of the his high school must submit an application performance of the MUS math team in Semifinalists have advanced to National detailing the candidate’s academic record, achieving the first perfect score in the Merit Finalist status: Reed Barnes, participation in school and community 13 years of this contest, which is given Sam Bartz, Chandler Clayton, Forest activities, demonstrated leadership abilities, across the nation and even overseas,” Colerick, Witt Fesmire, Gil Humphreys, employment, and honors and awards said Dr. Steve Gadbois, instructor Grayson Lee, Saatvik Mohan, Murray received. Finalists must have an outstanding in math. “It happened because of a Morrison, Patton Orr, Daniel Tancredi, academic record throughout high school, fortunate confluence of four factors: an and Colin Threlkeld. provide endorsement from a high school abundance of talent, past experience, an As finalists they will compete for 7,400 official, write an essay, and earn an SAT effective new organizational system, and National Merit Scholarships worth more score confirming his earlier performance a bit of luck.” than $32 million. The NMSC will announce on the qualifying test.

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acquired the lofty status as a school at MUS, and going as long as possible. My wife ’61 Relais & Chateaux property and on to graduate from Yale and and I joined the Kroc Center was featured in Architectural eventually work on Wall Street. last summer and enjoyed their Digest. “On arrival we were The presentation was titled, wonderful facilities. We experi- welcomed with a tour of the “Beyond Ruleville: A Delta Jew mented with the water aerobics mansion with its Queen Anne Discovers the North.” classes and enjoyed their huge architecture and interior de- hot tub afterward. Another sign,” Felix said. “Later, Miles Many thanks to Pete Shearon convenience is its proximity to led me through the extensive who graciously agreed to help our Midtown home, which my gardens, describing outstanding with the Alumni Phonathon last family has now occupied for displays of both native and, November. The calling went over 100 years. (Can anyone top as he said, exotic (non-na- faster, but neither of us had that?) We also joined Calva- tive) trees and shrubbery. The much success reaching anyone ry Episcopal downtown after property offers expansive views by phone. I guess that tells us visiting for over 10 years. It was of the magnificent surrounding we are definitely becoming part hard to leave Idlewild Presby- volcanic mountains, and it is an of the electronic generation. In terian after 70 years! Calvary excellent point of departure for any case, Pete and I had fun be- didn’t waste any time asking several other exciting ornamen- ing with the other graduates and me to co-chair the Emmanuel From left, Felix and Betty Gayle tal gardens in the Christchurch hearing their stories. Do any of Meal, which feeds about 300 Laughlin with Hall Cannon and area. Betty Gayle first discov- you do Twitter or Instagram? homeless each year the week Miles Refo ered Otahuna Lodge on the Most of my family and friends before Christmas. I also learned

Relais & Chateaux and Andrew are texting now. Pete says: “I’m to make waffles for the first Betty Gayle and Felix Laugh- Harper websites. But the article still running and doing every- time at their annual Waffle lin recently relaxed at Otahuna in MUS Today, Summer 2014, thing else. My older daughter is Shop. Pat and Nat Ellis drive Lodge outside Christchurch, cinched our decision to spend still trying to put the bad guys in from Collierville for services New Zealand. Otahuna Lodge time there. It was definitely a away; the younger one is now downtown at Trinity Luther- was the largest private historic highlight of our trip.” president of her sorority (Tri an; they recently came over to residence in New Zealand, built Delt) at Rhodes. I haven’t talked join us for Sunday breakfast at in 1895; it is now owned and to [my brother] Tom [Shearon] Calvary. They also joined us for operated by Hall Cannon ’95 ’62 ’65 lately, although I’m sure an interesting organ recital by and his partner, Miles Refo, he’s still biking, playing his the chief organist at St. Paul’s who have brought it back to Gene Dattel spoke at Baron guitar, and skiing.” Cathedral in London. Since life. They bought the mansion Hirsch Synagogue in Memphis Pat is an accomplished pianist/ and its 30 surrounding acres in in January about his experience That’s inspiring, for although organist, she was able to explain 2006, and due to their substan- growing up Jewish in a small we are not as spry as we used a lot of it to me. Pat adds: “In tial renovations, the estate has Mississippi town, attending to be, I intend to keep moving December we visited Nat’s

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family who live near Washing- hands from years of surgery, but labor of love over the last five deep history, gracious citizens, ton, DC. Our niece takes part in the artistic side was a surprise or so years. She has researched and fantastic cuisine. We are still the Christmas Revels at George to many of us. We hope to see and photographed about 130 enjoying living in Beverley’s Washington University. It’s a more of his work when we try to churches. I have enjoyed being handiwork [Beverley designed celebration of the winter solstice get more of the guys and spous- her chauffeur and visiting so their gorgeous new home from medieval times and a es together later this year. many out-of-the-way locales overlooking Santa Fe] and being wonderful retelling of the origin Speaking of the spryness I all over the colonial region. only four blocks from grandchil- of many Christmas carols and mentioned earlier, Dan Copp Fabuloso! The work will consist dren. Bonuses for living in such early hymns. We also had the and much of his family spent primarily of photographs, with a truly wonderful city.” chance to hear the Washington Christmas skiing near Santa text discussing the sites from an National Chorus at the Kennedy Fe. He missed seeing Philip architectural viewpoint. It will As an aside, very few mentioned Center performing their annual Crump, but he did see Tom be published by the University seeing my picture in the Annual Christmas candlelight concert. Shearon. “We had lunch togeth- of New Mexico Press sometime Report. My “claim to fame” [We had] our annual gathering er in Santa Fe. He took the train in mid-2017. I come away with was a total surprise after Annual in Knoxville for the four-day up and back to Albuquerque. In a deep admiration for Mexicans Fund Director Claire Farmer family Thanksgiving feast at our past years he’s instructed my and concern that the tales of asked me to come out one day daughter Julie’s house, all 18 of niece and nephew, Marion and horror have discouraged visitors. for a photo shoot. The thrill at us. Our daughters and sons-in- Church Humphreys, at Ski Santa It’s a wonderful country, with this age for anyone to want a law do most of the cooking, Fe, but he’s now retired from the and we get to enjoy the grands ski instructor life. He still skis, – ages 5 to 18. Julie takes off ev- however, and looks tanned, fit, ery year to plan this for us. What and buff as always, rather like a gift! She’s a busy gal with two his brother (except for the tan). children. Her husband, a veter- Stayed at La Posada de Santa inarian, has his own clinic, and Fe, which is very comfortable she is a family practice doctor in and convenient to town. En- charge of her clinic and chief of joyed the Plaza Cafe, as always. staff at the University of Tennes- Philip arrived back in town two see Hospital. For Nat and me, days after we departed. Christ- our proudest accomplishments mas is not the best time to enjoy have been raising the girls and at Ski Santa Fe since it’s a very their brother Eddie (who died in popular ski mountain for New 2007) and being able to enjoy Mexican locals and is therefore our treasured grandchildren.” quite crowded during school vacations, perhaps especially A group of us tried to get [last] year since the area had together Christmas weekend, good snow from Thanksgiving but many were out of town or through December.” indisposed, so it was a sparse crowd that gathered at our Philip, who has lived in Santa favorite location, the attractive Fe for many years, has been home of Canon and Jamie Hall, traveling through Mexico with who also hosted our last two his wife, Beverley, who is an reunions. They are the best hosts architect and writing a book on ever, always gracious to provide Mexican churches. In fact, they a fine meal, as well.Russell were in Tlaxcala, Mexico, when Patterson brought along a Dan was in Santa Fe skiing. Featured in The Commercial Appeal’s Mid-South Memories on March selection of his beautiful (and in Philip writes: “Beverley and I 28, 2016: A young Bayard Snowden ’68 helps break ground for the my opinion, museum-quality) made one last research trip to construction of a new MUS at Park and Ridgeway on March 28, 1955. wooden bowls and other objects. Mexico over the holidays. She is Snowden is pictured with his father, Robert Snowden, the building You would have to see them to just about to submit her book on committee chair (center);George Treadwell 1918, the Alumni believe it. They are truly works 16th century Spanish Colonial Association president (left); andAlex Wellford ’30, the head of the of art! We knew he had talented churches in central Mexico, a new school’s Board of Trustees (right).

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photo of me was too tempting to resist. The one or two who ’68 ’71 did notice thought that I had either given or raised the entire Les Passees presented Ray Gill Don Alexander is running as a amount listed under my picture. with its Community Leader Green Party candidate in 2016 I can assure you neither was the Award for exemplary service for Connecticut State Senate in case! Thanks to the above class- and assistance. the 30th District. He is a quality mates and wives, and I hope to assurance engineer at Dymotek hear from more of you in the Corp., a plastics and silicone near future. - Jerry Bradfield ’70 injection molder in Connecticut.

Shelby County historian Jimmy Philip Gould and David Gould ’65 Ogle was featured in The Com- ’78 opened a new Gould’s mercial Appeal in February; location in downtown Memphis Al Varner shares that his son, columnist David Waters called in January. Alexander, was chosen to him “the Google of Memphis.” run on a USA Track & Field bit.ly/JimmyOgle national team for the first time. This USA team finished second of 36 countries at the 2015 IAU The Owl, 1966 Trail World Championships in Annecy, France. Al and his wife, Eileen, have enjoyed more Homecoming traveling since his retirement 2016 and are looking forward to Alexander’s upcoming Class of 1966, mark your wedding this September. calendars for our 50th reunion weekend. We hope you will plan to be in town to celebrate and ’66 watch the Owls take on the Eagles of SBA on Stephen Crump, an artist, September 30, 2016. The furniture maker, and founder school will host an alumni of the Cooper-Young Business golf scramble as well as Association, was featured in a luncheon for us. More a Q&A in the January 2016 Mark Schandorff ’71 and his wife, Patsy, attended the Ole Miss - Coastal details to come as issue of Memphis magazine. He Carolina University baseball game this spring in Myrtle Beach, SC, and we plan our events. talked about his Memphis roots, enjoyed visiting with players who share the MUS connection. Pictured memories of Midtown, and the from left are Schandorff (Ole Miss ’75),Holt Perdzock ’12 (Ole Miss ’16), Cooper-Young Festival. Michael Fitzsimmons ’14 (Ole Miss ’18), and Marc MacMillan ’92 (Ole Miss ’96), who is in his first season as an Ole Miss volunteer assistant coach and who coached baseball at MUS from 1999 to 2008. Schandorff ’67 says, “Holt Perdzock had a big game, going 2 for 4 in an 8-2 Ole Miss vic- tory. Ole Miss baseball is nationally ranked. Holt Perdzock is also known John Pettey, managing for his huge, bases-clearing triple that propelled Ole Miss to Omaha director with Raymond James & in the super regional finals two years ago. Michael Fitzsimmons was Associates, was recently named red-shirted as a freshman and is now just getting some playing time. to Barron’s list of “Top 1,200 In a recent game, Michael got two at bats in the late innings Advisors” in the country. Pettey in another Ole Miss win, producing a two-run and an rbi also ranked No. 9 overall in double. I believe he will be getting more at bats and more playing time the state of Tennessee. as the season progresses. Holt is tearing the cover off the ball – he flat out can hit. MUS can be quite proud of these two young men!”

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regulation ice rink open year- was a priority, and many of the ’73 round in the Greater Memphis ’77 building materials used came metropolitan area. He recently from repurposed products. Montgomery Martin, founder enjoyed celebrating an import- of Montgomery Martin ant regional hockey win with Contractors, was recognized his son, Webster ’17, who plays ’79 in the Memphis Business for the Germantown Red Devils Journal’s 2016 Building club team that practices at the Memphis Awards for his firm’s Ice House. The team had a 4-2 work renovating AutoZone victory over rival CBHS in the Park, the first substantial Southern Amateur Hockey As- updates to the stadium since its sociation league championship construction in 2000. He won in March, winning the state title in the category of Best/Pub- for their division. “It’s always lic Private Project Under $10 good to beat the Purple Wave!” Million for work that included Chip says. improving the fan experience Inside Memphis Business with an upgraded Home Plate featured Bob Fockler on the Club level, a state-of-the-art cover of its philanthropy issue LED videoboard in right field, this winter. He is president of Rush Waller, medical director four-top table seating, additional the Community Foundation of of Methodist-Le Bonheur’s berm seating, and an expanded Greater Memphis. adult congenital heart disease concourse. The project was also program, recently became one cited by Ballpark Digest as the Tom Marshall, principal mem- of the first cardiologists to be year’s Best Ballpark Renovation ber of O.T. Marshall Architects, board certified in adult con- in the $6-$20 million category. was awarded top honors in the genital heart disease (ACHD) Memphis Business Journal’s medicine, after passing the Tommy Peters reports, “We 2016 Building Memphis Awards first-ever ACHD Board exam. are very proud that Open Table, for his firm’s work in designing He is working to build a robust the country’s leading restaurant Bass Pro Shops at the Pyramid program at Le Bonheur that reservation system, listed two of in downtown Memphis. Mar- supports the ongoing and our BB King’s Blues Clubs lo- shall’s architectural and design complex needs of adults living cations, Memphis and Orlando, work was recognized as the best with congenital heart disease. among its top 100 restaurants John Marcom has been named in two categories: Project of the in the country. We are the only senior vice president of strate- Year and Best Public/Private restaurant company in the coun- gy and business development Project. Marshall’s design of ’80 try with more than one restau- for Time Inc. International. Big Cypress Lodge, a 103-room rant listed. We are the only Marcom will oversee the overall hotel that is part of the Bass Barry Frager and friends restaurant in Tennessee and one strategy for Time Inc. Interna- Pro project inside the Pyramid, recently hosted “Your Last of only three in Orlando, which tional, including new media also was recognized recently by Holiday Party,” a festive is one of the most competitive expansion, multi-platform Forbes magazine as one of the karaoke party supporting markets in the country. This product development, marketing nation’s 10 best hotels opened South Memphis Alliance. listing is based upon millions communications, and mergers in 2015. of customer reviews, which and acquisitions. to me is the best way to gauge Charlie Oates of Oates ’81 a business.” bit.ly/100BBKings Commercial Properties served as broker for the Whole Foods Robert Shy had his knee Market - Germantown, recog- replaced with a custom knee ’75 nized in the Best Private Project from ConforMIS March 31. Under $10 Million category “It’s the best and only custom Chip Austin is co-owner of the in the Memphis Business device on the market,” he says. Mid-South Ice House in Olive Journal’s 2016 Building “Looking forward to skipping Branch, MS, the only NHL Memphis Awards. Sustainability once again.”

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Greg Thompson was profiled and loves Fayetteville. Sophie Tim Deaton, Drew Harris ’83, in the Memphis Business Jour- is 14, a competitive swimmer, Jack Kelley ’81, and others ’89 nal in November in his capacity and obsessed with getting her that Bill and I would both have as president of LifeLinc Corp., learner’s permit. I also stay in- daughters going to college Andy Cates outlined plans which manages anesthesia prac- volved with my nephews [sons together. to transform Mud Island tices in 10 states and recently of Al Lawrence ’83] as much River Park in a proposal to opened a pain management as they will let me. Jesse is a Michael Marsh lives in Dallas the Riverfront Development clinic in Germantown. junior at Arkansas State study- where he’s managing director Corporation in January: bit.ly/ ing business, and Cooper is an for healthcare solutions with MudIsland-Cates airborne ranger at Fort Benning, Jones Lang LaSalle. ’82 GA. I am enjoying my 22nd William Harris is a professor year with Aromatique, serving in the English Department at Steve Lawrence reports that all as CEO. Downtime is spent on ’83 Shippensburg University of is well in Heber Springs: “First, the lake during the summer; [we Pennsylvania. let me say that I am writing this do] a lot of weekend travel in Brian Sullivan has joined on the day that I received word the winter. I keep up with a few the board of directors of the This past September Kenneth that Ellis Haguewood will be classmates like Bill Lansden; Memphis Development Lee and his wife, Mary, moved retiring. One of my all-time he and I try to get together a Foundation, the nonprofit into the village of Hopewell, favorites; what a great job he couple times a year. Congrats organization that operates the NJ, with their children Reaves, has done. He will be missed! to him for his big new job at Orpheum Theatre and the new 7, and Annie, 3. Their kids Beth and I are celebrating 23 Virginia Tech! Bill Proctor Halloran Centre for Performing attend Waldorf School of years of marriage this year and is another classmate I try to Arts & Education. Princeton. In 2014 Kenneth still very much involved in the keep up with when he comes merged his money management parenting thing. My oldest, to Heber for the weekend and practice into Tocqueville Asset Mary, turns 20 this year and is when we go visit our Razor- ’84 Management in New York City. a sophomore at the University back daughters in Fayetteville. of Arkansas. She is studying Never would have guessed in Troy Benitone is the execu- nursing and wants to be a nurse 1981 when we were driving the tive director of Hands of Hope ’90 practitioner. She is doing well Death Mobile on campus with Foundation and the directing pastor of Community of Faith Commander William M. (Will) Church in Marion, IL. Gotten, Jr. has been selected by the aviation major command screen board to be commodore ’87 of a strike fighter wing, whose mission is to provide fleet Jeff Ruffin was named the Best commanders with combat-ready of the Preps Coach of the Year strike fighter squadrons. The in boys’ varsity golf for leading wing is responsible for the the St. George’s Gryphons to readiness, training, administra- the state championship in 2015, tion, and maintenance support their second title in three years. of all AOR Fleet F/A-18A-F This is his third time to be Hornet and Super Hornet squad- honored as coach of the year. rons. There are only two people handpicked from numerous candidates considered by the ’88 board that are chosen for the position as commodore. Will Mark Fogelman, CEO of Photo courtesy Daily News/Andrew J. Breig is currently assigned to the Fogelman Management Group, Pentagon as a military assistant Doug Carpenter ’82 is reintroducing his advertising agency’s services says the company has estab- to Thomas Hicks (the deputy to the marketplace and has rebranded with a new name - DCA - and a lished a new regional office undersecretary of the Navy new website, dcamemphis.com: “We’re not reinventing or rethinking, in the Orlando area. for management). In an email we’re taking the time to repackage ourselves.” announcement of the selection,

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his boss said, “This selection is and Josh Lawhead. Darrell full-service catering facility. DEATHS recognition for his devotion to Cobbins showed for the the mission and his operational reception and reminded us all Josh Poag is developing the aplomb. Captain Gotten during that “the wedding ceremony is $40 million Graceland West his tour as my military assistant like a Monday, my ’91 friends, project that will showcase Elvis has shined as a trusted advisor and we all know I don’t do Presley’s automobile collection who [is] always willing to go Mondays – I show for the and movie career while also the extra mile in support of his primetime, cheers!” upgrading the dining options assignment. Our loss here in for Graceland visitors. the Pentagon is the gain of the Brett Grinder has been United States Navy.” Will, his featured in Memphis publi- Rhodes Scott moved to Ox- William N. “Nugent” wife, Jennifer, and children, cations for his involvement ford, MS, with his wife, Betsy, Treadwell ’68 Claire, 14, and Trey, 12, in the Crosstown Concourse and three children (Tucker, February 27, 2016 will be moving to Lemoore, construction effort. He recently Coker, and Annie) last sum- CA, in June 2016. - William lead a tour of Crosstown for mer. There were a handful Gotten ’60. 1991 alumni, including Will of reasons for the move but Deupree, Shea Flinn, Ellis the driving factor was family. Haddad, Bryan Smith, and Skipper Scott ’89 lives in ’91 Jeremy Alpert. He was also Oxford; Scotty Scott ’83 and recognized in the Memphis Rhodes’ parents live in Mem- Trevor Benitone recently Business Journal’s 2016 Build- phis. Betsy has just about all of married Carrie Evans Han- ing Memphis Awards category her family in the Jackson, MS, lon, a ’93 St. Mary’s graduate of Best Private Project Over area. Rhodes works from home and local Hobson Realtor. $10 Million for Grinder, Taber and kept the same job after the Robert W. Hummel ’70 To ensure the nuptials were & Grinder’s work building relocation. He works for Aspen December 16, 2015 valid, numerous 1991 grads downtown’s new Halloran Dental as the dentist recruit- snuck in the ceremony and/or Centre for Performing Arts ment manager. Tucker, 15, is 6 cocktail reception, including & Education. Designed to foot 3, and yes, Coach Peters, Will Deupree, Brett Grinder, LEED standards, the building he can jam. Coker, 12, is a solid Jeremy Alpert, Rhodes Scott, includes a state-of-the-art musician and plays piano and Ellis Haddad, Trey Watkins, theater, rehearsal hall, and percussion. Annie, 9, is brilliant and is a member of Mensa International. Rhodes says, Go, Rebs! According to classmate Trevor Benitone, Rhodes, as the former unofficial mayor of Columbia, TN, has now estab- David C. Stewart ’70 lished himself in Oxford as the February 23, 2016 man to know, but he does not agree that Oxford is a suburb of Memphis.

In lieu of starting his own church, Graham Sexton has founded his own radiology practice in Corinth, MS. In December MUS music instructor Matt Tutor ’91 jammed on Hyde Chapel stage with the B.B. King Blues Club All-Stars. Tutor also David Waddell is back spoke during chapel in January about his musical influences and the from China, making things Benjamin L. “Lane” long-lasting impact of his education.”Without my years at MUS, the happen, and he can often be Carrick, Jr. ’13 best years of my life probably wouldn’t have happened,” he said. On found growing his investment December 24, 2015 April 22 he celebrated the release of his CD, The Barnabas Project: company in the Nashville Volume Two, with a Hyde Chapel concert. market when not in Memphis.

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your belief structures chal- ’92 lenged, especially about the South. A belief structure that Marc MacMillan, a four-year can’t broker negotiation is letterman for the Ole Miss valueless. Being challenged is baseball team during the 1990s, the soul of a liberal arts edu- has been named the Rebels’ cation, which is what you’re new volunteer assistant coach. participating in here.” MacMillan moves into the new position after serving as the Crank has edited a book of team’s director of operations essays on Gone With the Wind, over the past two seasons. which was released in De- cember by LSU Press: bit.ly/ AndyCrank Alumni participated in the Kick It 5K to Cure Pancreatic Cancer in support ’94 of Peggy Drinkard, wife of Dwight ’66 and mother of Don ’98. Their group, State Sen. Brian Kelsey, of Peggy’s Posse, was the top fundraising team in the race, held in early John Houseal is on the the 31st District, announced he April at Shelby Farms. Pictured front row, from left: Class of 1998 alumni alumni board at Grace-St. is running for Tennessee’s 8th Matt Saenger, McCown Smith, Jason Lewin, Michael Morgan, Philip Luke’s Episcopal School. District congressional seat that Lewis, Michael Black; back row, Parks Dixon ’69, Justin Lohman, ’98, is being vacated by current U.S. Dwight Drinkard ’66, Chip Campbell ‘99, and ’98 alumni Don Drinkard, Ben Doane and his family Rep. Stephen Fincher. A. Thompson, Michael Taylor, and Lawrence Dow. live near Philadelphia, where he is director of cybersecurity Cameron Mann has a new services at SageNet, a compa- position in business devel- transforming Enoble Business Berry & Sims in Memphis ny that designs, implements, opment and marketing with Capital’s new headquarters into where he advises corporations, and manages communications Memphis-based EdR, one of one of the city’s most energy- partnerships and other entities networks. the largest developers, owners, efficient facilities. He won in in connection with mergers and and managers of high-quality the category of Best Renovation acquisitions and capital markets collegiate housing communities. or Conversion Project Over transactions, as well as general ’96 EdR is a self-administered and $5 Million. corporate matters. A certified self-managed real estate in- public accountant with an vestment trust (REIT) publicly Will Pace has been named a LL.M. (Master of Laws) in tax, traded on the New York Stock member of the CPA firm Frazee he has significant experience Exchange (NYSE: EDR). In Ivy Davis in Memphis. with real estate investment his spare time he’s also run- trusts and regularly counsels ning Young Avenue Sound, REITs with respect to which was recently featured in ’98 corporate and tax issues. an article in The Commercial Appeal. Jay Gardner, a cardiologist Drew Long and his wife Steffi with Stern Cardiovascular announce the birth of their son, University of Alabama En- Foundation, was quoted in the Max Thomas. So far he’s a hap- glish Professor Andy Crank ’97 fall issue of Medical Society py baby (and future bilingual). (pictured with Instructor of Quarterly about the MitraClip They have yet to determine if English Lin Askew) was a guest David Bowlin recently Therapy program, a less-inva- his coos are in his mother’s speaker in chapel this winter. He accepted a position as director sive alternative to the standard German or dad’s English. addressed the myths of Southern of investments with Stifel in treatment option of open heart culture and urged students to Atlanta, GA. surgery: “This technology is challenge negative stereotypes, exciting, and I think our patients ’99 especially when they deny or Justin Grinder of Grinder, are going to show increased marginalize groups of people. Taber & Grinder was recog- interest in this treatment.” Wilson Baird has opened “Be thoughtful about your en- nized in the Memphis Business his own custom home and gagement with regional Journal’s 2016 Building Mem- Philip Lewis has become a remodel business named FG3 fantasies. Be open to having phis Awards for his firm’s work member of the law firm Bass Construction in Memphis.

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Richard Burt reminds you Charley Foster has moved to that Will Levy is set to de- Helena, MT, to accept a job at Alumni Honored in but Oak Hall Nashville in the Silverman Law Office where he Hill Center in Green Hills this does transactional legal work. Building Memphis Awards spring. This is good news for our Nashville alumni who for Chris Hamilton serves on the In February the Memphis Business Journal recognized the city’s years have been known as the board of directors of Memphis best building projects through its fourth annual Building Mem- lesser-dressed alumni. Rise Academy, a northeast phis Awards. Six alumni were among the developers, contrac- Memphis charter school, and tors, architects, and brokers who took home awards, including Coach Logan Taylor, along he has recently accepted the Project of the Year. A panel of five independent judges, which with the help of fellow alum position of board chairman. included Jack Morris Auto Glass President and former Down- Webster Cannon ’02, won yet He continues to work at town Memphis Commission President Paul Morris ’92, consid- another Shelby 7/8 Basketball General Truck Sales and Service ered numerous factors – including functionality of design, Championship for Grace-St. doing legal, accounting, and attention to sustainability elements, and number of jobs created Luke’s Episcopal School. finance work. – to select the winners in each of six categories.

Best Public/Private Project over $10M & Project of the Year: Neal Weinrich was promoted to Evan Linder’s newest Bass Pro Shops, architect Tom Marshall ’77 shareholder at Berman Fink Van play, Byhalia, Mississippi, Horn law firm in Atlanta, GA. premiered in January in Mem- Best Public/Private Project under $10M: phis at TheatreWorks and was AutoZone Park Upgrades, contractor Montgomery Martin ’73 also staged in Chicago, Toronto, and Charleston, SC. Best Renovation or Conversion Project over $5M: ’00 Enoble Business Capital, contractor Justin Grinder ’97 Oscar Carr recently earned a Brian Parks was married to Ta- Best Renovation or Conversion Project under $5M: master’s degree in counseling tiana Erbstoesser at Torrey Pines LYFE Kitchen, owner/developer Chance Carlisle ’01 from the University of Memphis Golf Course in La Jolla, CA, and contractor Brett Grinder ’91 and has joined the staff at the in October. Chris Hamilton, Experiential Healing Center in Scott Fletcher, Constantine Best Private Project over $10M: Memphis where he is a coun- Economides, and Josh Tom Halloran Centre, contractor Brett Grinder ’91 selor and program manager. He were all there to partake in the Best Private Project under $10M: works with individuals, cou- wedding festivities. Brian and Whole Foods Market - Germantown, broker Charlie Oates ’77 ples, and families with a focus Tatiana now live in Denver. on trauma, substance abuse, For selected photos, visit: bit.ly/BuildingMemphis depression, stress management, Kristi and John Winford have sexual and relationship issues, relocated to Atlanta from Bir- men’s issues, and religious and mingham, AL. John is with Lee spiritual issues. He also works & Associates, a commercial real with licensed professionals in estate firm, where he focuses on high-stress jobs with a risk of industrial leasing and sales. burnout, including physicians, lawyers, pilots, clergy, and business owners. Previously, ’01 he was an attorney at a large Memphis law firm where he Russell Bloodworth has helped find solutions for been busy helping restart complicated business and Walmart Radio. personal legal problems. Chance Carlisle, owner and Constantine Economides has developer with Carlisle Corp., Six Men and Five Babies accepted a new job as an associ- and contractor Brett Grinder Alumni from the Class of 2000 brought babies to their holiday gath- ate attorney at Greenberg Trau- ’91 were recognized in the ering, from left,Roger Soun with Reese, Eric Osborne with Charlotte, rig in West Palm Beach, FL. Memphis Business Journal’s Michael Flynn, Collins Rainey with James, Sina Yeganeh with Rory, 2016 Building Memphis and Andrew Shelton with Elizabeth.

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Awards for the creation of LYFE and corporate law, real estate Metcalf Symposium Kitchen in the former beach- law, health care, and estate themed Sharky’s Gulf Grill planning, probate, and trusts. Welcomes Paul McClure space in East Memphis. They Prior to joining the firm Stafford were honored in the Best Ren- worked as a law clerk in the Paul McClure ’01 returned to campus in February as the ovation or Conversion Project Mississippi Supreme Court for 2016 Metcalf Symposium speaker. He discussed how digital Under $5 Million category, for Justice Josiah Coleman. communications technology has affected our lives, focusing meeting the challenge of sustain- especially on its influence on interpersonal relationships, ability in using as much of the politics, and religion. He encouraged students to be aware of existing restaurant’s structure as ’06 how – and how much – they interact through the Internet and possible, including siding and smart phones. When Lower School Principal Clay Smythe metal roofing. Daniel Lansky has taken over ’85 suggested initiating “Phone-Free Fridays,” McClure his grandparents’ Memphis commented, “You can just feel the anxiety rising business, Mister Hats, and added in the room.” ’02 a new Nashville location. A third-year doctoral student in the sociology of religion program at Baylor University, McClure focuses on religious John Adrian has accepted a Max Prokell shares that his son trends and the effects of technology on our religious beliefs new position as business man- Jaxtin, 2, has welcomed new and behaviors. He earned a degree in philosophy at Wash- ager for academic affairs at the baby brother, Jett. ington and Lee University and for six years taught world University of Mississippi. He religions and ethics at Episcopal High School in Houston, will serve as financial advisor After 10 months in the sales where he also served as varsity tennis coach. He has a to academic units concerning department at Signpost, a local master’s degree in theological studies from Regent College business matters and University marketing startup in Denver, in Vancouver, Canada. He said he still considers his “crown- financial and operational policies Alex Rainer has been pro- ing scholarly achievements to be the successful completion and procedures. He starts in July moted multiple times to reach of Mr. Terry Shelton’s eighth-grade English class and Mr. and will move to Oxford in June his new role as sales manager. Loyal Murphy’s ’86 AP Calculus class.” with his wife, Elizabeth, and their son, Jack. Zack Rutland has been Bubba Halliday ’82 and Smythe founded the Metcalf promoted to investment Symposium to encourage student reflection on the great consultant at TD Ameritrade ethical traditions of Western civilization and an exchange of ’05 in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. ideas about the arts, humanities, the sciences, civic service, and popular culture – all from a perspective consistent with Rob Heflin married Alexandria the school’s Christian tradition. The symposium honors the “Alex” Roberts on October 24, ’07 late Robert M. Metcalf, a businessman, friend of MUS, and 2015, in San Luis Obispo, CA. former service elder at Second Presbyterian Church. They reside in Memphis where West Askew spent two years Rob is a senior consultant at GoogleX helping to build with Deloitte. their life sciences division (now called Verily), where the mission Worth Morgan is chairman of was to use advanced sensors the public safety and homeland and analytics to change health security committee for the care from reactive to proactive. Memphis City Council. He left GoogleX last May to found FLO LABS, which is a Brent Phillips is in health care data company for the outdoors. investment banking with FLO LABS is using connected Raymond James Financial in sensors and machine learning New York City. to help people make faster and more reliable decisions about Warren Stafford is an associate their next adventure by giving Clay Smythe, Paul McClure, Coach Bill Taylor, and at Harris Shelton Hanover Walsh them the information they need Bubba Halliday in Memphis and focuses his at just the right moment. practice in the areas of business

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Phillip Flinn flashes a perfect U in the campus courtyard.

to perform. It was a big hit.” Today, more than 10 years later, it’s Celebrating 10 When basketball season rolled around common for students to throw up the U at and homecoming festivities got underway, athletic events as well as academic compe- Years of the U the idea of making another rap emerged. titions. The 2012-13 Annual Fund mailing This time, Flinn collaborated with was actually a field manual for flashing the Anyone who has attended an MUS friend Jimbo Welch ’05, captain of the perfect U. Lower School Principal Clay sports event within the last decade has basketball team. Smythe ’85 even teaches new students how surely seen a familiar rallying sign for the “We decided to make our own rap for to properly display the symbol as part of community – the two-handed U symbol. the pep rally to get the crowd going,” Flinn their Owl Camp orientation every August. Football fans are no doubt aware that the says, “so we came up with what we called sign is also used at the University of Miami. the ‘Buzzard Clap,’ after a song by local As reported in a 2012 article in the univer- rapper Yo Gotti called the ‘Burna Clap.’ We sity’s student newspaper, cheerleader Bill had a couple of basketball players up with Tigano first introduced the hand gesture us during the pep rally, and a few teachers in 1992 for a home football game against like Mr. [Lin] Askew, and we did this clap Florida State. to the beat, which didn’t really catch on. But So now, you may be wondering, how along with that, Jimbo and I had the idea to were the Owls able to make this powerful, do the U, based off the University of Miami. iconic symbol their own? Let the origin of There are lines in the rap about ‘Where the our U symbol be shrouded in mystery no north at, where the south at …’ which we more. According to Phillip Flinn ’05, it changed to, ‘Where the U at!’ and put our came down to creative genius, a really great hands together and held up the U sign. We rap, and an inspiring performance. thought it could be a big thing if it caught From left, Jimbo Welch and Phillip Flinn In the fall of 2004, as Flinn recalls, on – a little mark of our basketball team and channel Yo Gotti at Basketball Homecoming his friend Sloan Abernathy ’05, then our senior class – if it spread to the student 2005 and prepare to introduce the U symbol vice-president of the Student Council, body. We had a great class and a lot of on campus for the very first time. recruited him to perform a rap for Fall Fest. school spirit.” Flinn, a football and basketball player and That night at the game, much to Flinn’s “I love hearing that,” says Flinn, now a president of the Honor Council, was up for delight, he noticed students doing the first-year radiology resident in the Univer- the challenge. “We collaborated and came U when the players were shooting free sity of Tennessee/Methodist Healthcare up with a song we called ‘White Fleece,’ throws. “They would hold it up, then turn program. “The U is a short-but-sweet story based off the rap song ‘White Tee’ by Dem it down when the ball went into the basket, that needs to be a part of MUS lore since it’s Franchize Boyz, and decided it would be and that’s how it all started. It just kind something that has lived on. funny to dress in white fleeces or sweaters of spread.” “I should have trademarked it!”

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of government and political Miles Tamboli made the annual Several alumni collaborated on ’07 campaign roles. Chris previous- Memphis Flyer list of Hotties, the Cheez Whizards team at the ly worked with McAuliffe as which featured “14 of Memphis’ Grilled Cheese Festival held at Miles DeBardeleben has begun senior policy aide on his 2013 best-looking and most inter- the Hi-Tone Café in December, his first year as a medical stu- campaign. esting people.” Photo courtesy as reported in The Commercial dent at University of Mississippi Memphis Flyer. Appeal. Team member Sisco Medical Center in Jackson, MS. Larson said, “We started off with Texas toast. Then we put Sisco Larson is on the alumni on thick-cut bacon, bologna, board at Grace-St. Luke’s Spam, Jalapeño Spam, sharp Episcopal School. cheddar cheese, Easy Cheese, Cheez Whiz, and pimento Chris McDonald was ap- cheese. We also had Velveeta.” pointed by Virginia Gov. Terry The double-decker sandwich McAuliffe to serve his admin- Erim Sarinoglu is an assistant was champagne-battered and istration as special advisor public defender in the Shelby deep-fried, covered in hot for energy policy. Prior to his County Public Defender’s of- sauce, and then garnished with appointment, Chris received his fice. He and classmatePreston a Twinkie. The crowd reaction? J.D. from Washington and Lee Battle helped prepare MUS “They actually liked it,” Jordan University School of Law, was students for the 2016 Tennessee said. Team members, pictured at admitted to the Virginia State State High School Mock Trial right, are Larson, Ben Jordan, Bar, and served in a number Competition this winter. Mike Hanna, and Jim Kyle.

’06 After Christmas Lance Minor spent over two weeks traveling through Southeast Asia, riding motorcycles through Vietnam and then backpacking through Cambodia and Thailand. From left, Minor and friend Matt Richardson near the Mekong River in Vietnam.

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Photo courtesy Michael Dona- John Straton is an analyst in John Hudson is living in Tem- hue/Commercial Appeal ’09 the public finance group at Ray- pe, AZ, where he is enrolled in mond James in Memphis. the MBA program at Arizona Will Anthony is an account State University’s W.P. Carey executive with Entercom Mitchell School of Business. He also Communications in Memphis. Thompson is works as an account manager in his first year for Yelp. Mark Beanblossom is a com- as the defensive mercial real estate analyst with back coach at Wilson Luttrell is finishing the Pinnacle Financial Partners in Oberlin College. Master of Accountancy program Memphis. He spent the prior two seasons at the University of Tennessee, as a defensive intern and outside Knoxville. He has accepted a ’08 Will Carter is a commercial linebackers coach at Amherst job offer from Deloitte and will credit underwriter with Regions College. He was involved in all be living in Nashville this fall. Scott Edwards is an associate Financial in Memphis. aspects of the Amherst defense, in the Atlanta office of King & assisted with special teams and Ben Roberts visited campus in Spalding and a member of the Thomas Ivy is an engineer strength and conditioning, and February and spoke to students firm’s corporate practice group, with Turner Construction in recruited players from Texas, during chapel about his work in where he focuses on merg- Charlotte, NC. California, and other states in politics. A recent graduate of the ers and acquisitions, general the southwest region. Thomp- University of Alabama, Roberts corporate matters for public and Will Paxton is in Houston son was a two-time time Old has done fieldwork for Ben Car- private companies, and capi- where he is a senior analyst Dominion Athletic Conference son’s presidential campaign and tal raising activities. Edwards at GDF SUEZ Energy North Champion and two-time All- worked for U.S. Rep. Stephen received his bachelor of science America, working in retail ODAC defensive back at Wash- Fincher (R-TN) in Washington, in mathematics from the Univer- portfolio management for ington and Lee University. DC. He encouraged students to sity of North Carolina at Chapel Texas power and gas assets. get involved in politics: “Vote. Hill. He earned his law degree Jesse Wade has recently been Take part in the process. Let from Vanderbilt University, promoted to manager on the your voice be heard.” Next up where he was a member of ’10 customer success team at Main for Roberts, his MBA. the Vanderbilt Law Review. Street Hub in Austin, TX. Main Patrick Massey is an energy Street Hub has been listed in After graduating from law software consultant at Allegro Inc. magazine’s Inc. 500 as one school in 2015, Jack Heflin Development Corp. in Dallas. of the fastest-growing compa- joined the law firm of Bour- nies in America for the past land, Heflin, Alvarez, Minor Keith McBride attended the two years. & Matthews in Memphis as an United States Naval Academy associate attorney. and later transferred to Wil- From left, , liam & Mary where he played John Edwards ’11 ’11 Evan Sousoulas ’11, Roberts, and Scott McClintock is the special football and majored in econom- Barrett Heffington (CBHS ’11). projects coordinator for the ics. He graduated from William James Akers moved to New 2016 Republican National & Mary last May and started York City in November and Convention. working as an associate auditor works in business development at FedEx in August. at ResiModel. Launched in ’12 Michael Stein was promoted 2013, ResiModel was created to Toby Baker, the Razorbacks’s to associate in the real estate Holman Moores is a ju- revolutionize the way deal infor- junior punter, served as tour structured finance group at nior associate with Ozanne mation is shared and analyzed guide during his team’s visit to Bank of America Merrill Lynch Financial Services in Dallas. for the roughly $250 billion in Memphis to play in the Au- in Charlotte, NC. He recently multifamily dwelling transac- toZone Liberty Bowl. Baker structured and closed the sale Travis Nauert is on the alumni tions completed in the U.S. was awarded a scholarship in of a $330 million construction board at Grace-St. Luke’s each year. facility in the TriBeCa neigh- Episcopal School. December at the team’s senior banquet. borhood in New York. Proceeds Rob Dickinson is an investment were used to finance the con- Peter Rainer is a clerk at the banking analyst at Stifel in New Drew Stevenson graduates in version of a landmarked office law firm of Farris Bobango in York City. May from Southern Methodist building into a luxury mixed-use Memphis. University with a degree in project.

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finance from the Cox School of Business. He has accepted a job in Little Rock, AR, as an equity research analyst with Stephens Inc. ’12 Rhodes Senior Teaches Technology

With the help of Google and the Clarence Day Foundation, Thomas Threlkeld, a senior computer science major and Day Scholar at Rhodes College, spent last summer teaching middle school girls how to do computer coding through a camp he created called Camp Codette. Profiled on the Rhodes Ole Miss football player Ben College website, Threlkeld was required Still (far right) enjoyed a Sugar to meet with the other nationwide grant Bowl win with his teammates winners at Google to discuss the project, Alex Givens and Jacob Feely. which was a particular highlight of the process. Camp Codette attracted more Trip Underwood is the president than 70 participants from throughout of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity the city, and planning is underway for at the University of Tennessee, this summer’s camp, which will expand Knoxville. to include instruction on virtual reali- ty. In other recent news, Thomas and two classmates won the overall prize ’13 in the RhodesHack 0 competition for the development of an iOS app that, Pace Clark placed second with among other features, allows musicians a time of 1:40.80 in the 200 But- to find other local musicians to practice terfly at the 2016 SEC Swimming with. Read more about him here: bit.ly/ and Diving Championships. ThrelkeldRhodes

Camp Codette 2015; photo courtesy of Rhodes College A member of the University of North Carolina men’s lacrosse team, junior midfielderPeyton Klawinski was tapped for third-team honors on the preseason All-America

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Lacrosse team, as announced summer during his eight-week MARRIAGES Ginger and Frazier by Face-Off Yearbook and stay with a host family. The Baker ’99, a daughter, Bob Loeb ’73 to Mary Anne Beach “Annie,” Inside Lacrosse magazine. program will include work with Seay, Thanksgiving 2015 Klawinski had a breakthrough an outreach organization to help born November 14, 2015 Trevor Benitone ’91 to year for the Tar Heels in 2015, serve the country’s poor and Betsy and Brown Burch ’99, Carrie Evans Hanlon on starting 13 of 17 games in the disenfranchised. a daughter, Lucille Blayne, February 6, 2016 first midfield. He was UNC’s born December 12, 2015 fifth-leading scorer with 22 Jonathan Magallanes ’93 Meredith and Michael points. Klawinski had 19 goals to Lauren Whiteside on Lafferty ’99, a son, Cooper and three assists and scored on December 6, 2015 43.2 percent of his shots: bit.ly/ Michael, born October 28, Cory Prewitt ’96 2015 Klawinski. to Meg Parker on Bridget and Elliot Pope ’99, November 14, 2015 Christian Sanders was a daughter, Louise Patricia, recognized on the University Paul McClure ’01 to Kate born December 21, 2015 Bradley on August 8, 2015 of Memphis’s Dean’s List for Tulane students Tejvir Vaghela Liz and Bert Stemmler ’99, the fall 2015 semester. and Max Meyer ’15 caught Rob Heflin ’05 to Alex a daughter, Isabel Jane, born up with fellow Grizz fan Billy Roberts on October 24, 2015 December 1, 2015 Sports Illustrated’s Campus Orgel ’81 to see the Grizzlies Rush website featured a story beat the Pelicans in December Mari and Constantine BIRTHS about Jonathan Wilfong and in New Orleans. Economides ’00, a daughter, Andrew Renshaw and the Lindsay and Will Adams Sora Lia, born June 10, 2015 nonprofit charity they founded ’93, twins, Louisa Florine Ellie and Eric Osborne ’00, almost four years ago, and William Franklin, born a daughter, Charlotte Jane, Coaching for Literacy. January 14, 2016 born September 15, 2015 Kimberley and Neill Ayres Ruth and Andy Garrett ’03, ’94, a son, Phoenix Walker, a son, Harvey Edward, born ’14 born November 24, 2015 November 17, 2015 Rhodes College Alysson and Spencer Reese Catherine and Alex Lawhorn ’94, a daughter, Willow sophomore ’03, a daughter, Lucia Eliza- Rosalind Thèrése, born Renn Eason beth “Lucy,” born September Stanford sophomore Harrison December 9, 2015 broke Rhodes’ Williams excelled in the 4x400 2, 2015 school record in relay leadoff spot in the Big Rebekah and Rusty Sophie and Price Edwards the high jump Meet vs. rival Cal this April, Shappley ’96, a son, Silas ’05, a son, Charles Trapp with a leap of 2.11 meters helping lead his teammates to a Robert, born August 7, 2015 “Charlie,” born December (6’11”) in the Emory Univer- sweep and breaking a three- Sara and Reynolds 29, 2015 sity Crossplex Invitational in year losing streak in the compe- Hillyer ’97, a son, Samuel Joy and Paul Morrow ’06, Birmingham, AL, in January. tition (bit.ly/WilliamsBigMeet). Townesend “Townes,” born a daughter, Mayfield Mary, Eason’s mark ranks him first Williams was named Pac-12 November 11, 2015 born February 8, 2016 nationally among NCAA Field Athlete of the Week Steffi and Drew Long ’98, Division III schools. Austin and Max Prokell ’06, April 5 after winning the Texas a son, Max Thomas Relays decathlon with 7,842 a son, Jett, born July 30, 2015 Paul Stevenson was recent- points, the highest score by a Rachel and Matthew ly selected to take part in the collegian or an American this Ware ’98, a daughter, University of Notre Dame’s year, and No. 4 in the world. Abigail Gardner, born highly competitive Internation- He also placed fourth in the January 23, 2016 al Summer Service Learning heptathlon at the Indoor NCAA Program. He will learn about Championships in March, international issues/relations setting a school record of 5,937 and poverty and get a chance points. Here’s hoping he is on to serve others in Brazil this the road to Rio…

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Fayetteville, made the Dean’s 25th nationally in the MCLA List in the Sam M. Walton Division I Coaches Poll. College of Business, and he was initiated into the Phi Delta Theta fraternity.

Alumni strengthen SMU men’s Owl Counselors at Camp Bear Track last summer: Andrew Shelton ’15 lacrosse: from left, Griffin Cole Adams and Julia (second from left),Pierce Jones ’15 (third from left),Ted Fockler ’10 Wilson, Myatt McClure ’14, Greenstein attended the (sixth from left),Cal Edge ’14 (seventh from left),Will Ansbro ’14 and Tom Garrott, after a 17-11 Memphis Junior Cotillion (eighth from left) win over Oklahoma this spring. Club Presentation and The Mustangs are ranked Holiday Ball in December. movie Billionaire Boys Club, ’15 scheduled for release this year. A.J. Hunt’s notable perfor- mance on the field for Birming- ham-Southern College was recognized by the Southern Athletic Association in a post Feb. 15: “Freshman A.J. Hunt had an impressive start to his career, helping No. 8 BSC go 2-1 this past weekend including a win against No. 7 Trinity on Friday. He hit .500 Carlton Orange, a freshman at (4-8) over the three games, with the University of Arkansas, won a double, an RBI, and a stolen the men’s 800-meter race at the base. Defensively, he made 17 Razorback Invitational in Janu- putouts with two assists and no ary with a time of 1:47.38. The errors, including a huge pick-off finish looked like this. Photo Alumni Owls Got Game against Centenary in the bottom courtesy NWA Democrat- Three former Owl basketball players (spanning six decades!) con- of the eighth on Sunday to Gazette/BEN GOFF verged on the court at Rhodes College before a game between Rhodes help preserve the victory for and Emory & Henry over the holidays. Pictured from left, Rhodes the Panthers.” Harrison Schutt, Jerry Oates, basketball player Danny Galvin ’12, scorekeeper Jimmy Ogle ’70, and Nicholas Manley, and Jim Emory & Henry coach David Willson ’99. The common thread was Max Meyer is serving two Waggoner celebrated the basketball and Coach Jerry Peters: All played for him at MUS. Galvin’s presidencies as Tulane’s Sigma release of their self-titled CD, team won Coach Peters’ 1,000th game in 2012. Ogle’s team won Coach Chi pledge class president and Jenette McKurdy, in December Peters’ 100th game in 1970. Ogle also played at Rhodes (1970-72), and the Sharp Hall president. He is at the Hi-Tone in Memphis (see Coach Peters graduated from Rhodes (then Southwestern at Mem- a Green Wave Ambassador and Covers article on page 21). phis) in 1960. Coach Willson’s Emory & Henry team won the game, 78- writes for the school’s online 68; Galvin of Rhodes had 13 points and seven rebounds. Also spotted in publication, The Hullabaloo. Grant Stevenson, a freshman the stands watching the game were Rick Moore ’63, Paul Gillespie ’01, Watch for him as an extra in the at University of Arkansas in Tread Thompson ’01, and Webster Cannon ’02.

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Young Alumni Holiday Brunch A morning game of dodgeball was scheduled in December, but when these guys gathered, they decided Front row from left, Edward Francis ’12, Michael Jacobs ’15, Xavier Greer ’15, Griffin Wilson ’15, it would be more fun just to eat Salman Haque ’14, Jeremy Boshwit ’14, Connor Wright ’15; back row, Jack Christenbury ’15, Ted and catch up. Helmhout ’15, Mitchell Clark ’15, Preston White ’15, James David Duke ’12, William Merriman ’15

Emerging Leaders Luncheon Young alumni welcomed new Memphis City Council members Frank Colvett ’88 (District 2) and Worth Morgan ’05 (District 5) to campus in January for the Emerging Leaders luncheon. Colvett and Morgan talked about their areas of interest and the sense of optimism they feel about the city and its future. They also enjoyed visiting with fellow alumni.

From left, Elliot Embry ’04, Colvett, Morgan, and Headmaster Ellis Haguewood Rob Park ’05, Chase Carlisle ’03, and Eric Beaty ’01

Jack Steffner ’09 and Paul Stephens ’10 Reid Wesson ’06 and John Summers ’05 Garrott McClintock ’06 and Xander Batey ’09

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Your gifts in memory of loved ones or in honor of special friends directly enable young men at MUS to receive the best education available. Memorials to Memphis University School support the Annual Fund program. Families of those whose memories are honored will be notified by an appropriate card with an acknowledgment to the donor. We gratefully acknowledge the following gifts to the school:

In Memory Of GEORGE H. EFIRD W. THOMAS HUTTON ’61 Mr. and Mrs. Ellis L. Haguewood Mrs. Linda H. Hutton A. ROBERT BOELTE, JR. Ms. Patricia J. Boelte JAMES E. EIKNER, JR. DICK LANSDEN JOHNSON Mr. Raymond W. Moore, Jr. ’81 Mrs. Claire K. Farmer Mrs. Claire K. Farmer Dr. and Mrs. Wiley T. Robinson ’75 Mr. and Mrs. Ellis L. Haguewood Dr. and Mrs. Jonathan M. Jones Dr. and Mrs. Jonathan M. Jones Ms. Kimberly F. McAmis DAVID BOWIE Mr. Jonathan M. Large Anonymous Ms. Kimberly F. McAmis MOLLY HILL LOCKWOOD Mr. and Mrs. Douglas R. Perkins Mrs. Claire K. Farmer ELNA J. BRUNETTI Mr. and Mrs. S. Clay Smythe ’85 Mrs. Julia M. DeBardeleben EDITH ROSE LOEB WILLIAM D. EVANS, JR. ’61 Dr. and Mrs. Edward Atkinson III ’73 MR. AND MRS. FORREST N. BURNETT Mr. Carter M. Evans Mr. Perry D. Dement Mr. and Mrs. James F. Burnett ’83 MR. AND MRS. WILLIAM D. EVANS, ROBERT P. LONERGAN, JR. GENE D. CARLISLE JR. ’61 Dr. and Mrs. Robert P. Lonergan III Mr. and Mrs. Chaseton R. Carlisle ’03 Mr. and Mrs. Alexander B. Evans JOHN C. MARSHALL B. LANE CARRICK, JR. ’13 JOHN EDWARD FOLEY, SR. Mr. Perry D. Dement Mr. and Mrs. B. Lane Carrick, Sr. ’75 Dr. and Mrs. Robert P. Lonergan III Mrs. Claire K. Farmer Mr. Perry D. Dement Mr. and Mrs. Ellis L. Haguewood HUGH FRANCIS, JR. ANGELÉ K. MCCLURE Mr. and Mrs. Stephen D. Hickman ’76 Mrs. Claire K. Farmer Mr. James McClure, Jr. Mr. Jonathan M. Large Dr. and Mrs. Wiley T. Robinson ’75 NELSON F. FREEBURG, JR. ’69 MADGE MCNEIL MCFALL Ms. Lynn W. Thompson, Mr. Walker C. Mr. and Mrs. Alexander W. Mr. Perry D. Dement Thompson ’13, and Wellford, Jr. ’60 Mrs. Claire K. Farmer Mr. Mitchell C. Thompson ’10 DONALD F. GARVEY MARTHA M. MORROW BOB D. CRENSHAW Mrs. Linda Garvey Meisler Mr. John H. Morrow Mr. and Mrs. John H. Grayson, Sr. JAMES D. GROAT, JR. CARTER LEE MURRAY ’94 LARRY B. CRESON 1924 Mrs. Claire K. Farmer Mr. Duncan M. Chesney ’92 Mr. and Mrs. Larry B. Creson, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. W. Seldon Murray III JOHN F. HILTONSMITH LARRY B. CRESON III ’83 Ms. Gina G. Webb BILL CARTER PARK Mr. and Mrs. Larry B. Creson, Jr. Mrs. Nancy Welsh Smith THOMAS GARVIN HOLLINGER CHARLOTTE SPRUNT DOWELL Mr. Perry D. Dement SCOTT D. PATTERSON ’81 MUS Owl Campers, MUS Lower Mrs. Claire K. Farmer Mr. and Mrs. Brett Patterson School Faculty and Staff Mr. and Mrs. Andrew F. Saunders III

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STEPHEN H. RHEA, JR. ’68 KATHERINE POTTS WELLFORD T. HALL CANNON ’95 Mr. and Mrs. W. O’Neal Frazier Mr. and Mrs. Harry W. Wellford, Jr. ’72 Mrs. Kathryn G. Cannon Mrs. Linda W. Rhea Summit Asset Management LLC JANICE CAROL WESTBROOK CHASETON R. CARLISLE ’03 Mr. and Mrs. S. Alexander Thompson III Mr. and Mrs. Brandon L. Westbrook ’92 Mrs. Ginger G. Owings

JACOB C. RUDOLPH ELEANOR A. WILSON DUNCAN M. CHESNEY ’92 Mr. and Mrs. James F. Burnett ’83 Mrs. Claire K. Farmer Dr. Carolyn M. Chesney and Mr. and Mrs. C. Swift Treadwell, Jr. Dr. Thomas M. Chesney JOSEPH S. SIMS Mr. and Mrs. Ben C. Adams ’74 CAMDEN R. CLAYTON ’18 Mr. Perry D. Dement In Honor Of Mrs. Marie Russum Mrs. Claire K. Farmer BOBBY A. ALSTON CHANDLER M. CLAYTON ’16 Mr. and Mrs. James F. Burnett ’83 HARRY GEORGE SOLDAN Mrs. Marie Russum Mrs. Deborah Dunklin Tipton Mr. and Mrs. William J. Pretsch ELIZABETH R. COPELAND NICHOLAS D. ANTONELLI ’13 JOHN MURRY SPRINGFIELD Mrs. Jean L. Saunders Mr. and Mrs. Daniel S. Antonelli Mr. and Mrs. Steven J. Kramer ’95 Mr. James F. Springfield BENJAMIN C. COX ’19 E. WEBSTER AUSTIN ’17 Mr. Christopher Paul Todd ’91 Mr. and Mrs. Ben Beard Mrs. Lawrence L. Cohen JENNIE S. SPRINGS ALEXANDER E. CRESON ’15 ANDREW TATE BAILEY ’18 Mr. Perry D. Dement Mr. and Mrs. Larry B. Creson, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Wallace Mr. and Mrs. D. Hamilton Eggers Mr. and Mrs. Ellis L. Haguewood BEAU C. CRESON ’06 MATTHEW D. BAKKE Mr. and Mrs. Andrew F. Saunders III Mr. and Mrs. Larry B. Creson, Jr. Mrs. Deborah Dunklin Tipton NANCY CAROL WYATT STONE DAVID W. DABOV ’16 REED TAYLOR BARNES ’16 Mr. Perry D. Dement Mr. and Mrs. David W. Dabov The Reverend Senter Crook and Dr. Joe McFadden GEORGE M. STRATTON, JR. ’66 JOHN G. DABOV ’19 Mr. and Mrs. Bruce C. Taylor Mr. and Mrs. Henry P. Doggrell ’66 Mr. and Mrs. David W. Dabov Mr. and Mrs. Henry H. Haizlip III ’66 BEG TO DIFFER Ms. Ellen Cooper Klyce SKIP DANIEL Les Passes Fine Arts Club Mr. W. Brigham Klyce, Jr. ’66 Ms. Beverly A. Holmgren Mr. and Mrs. Bruce M. Smith ’66 MICHAEL C. BETHELL, JR. ’18 PERRY D. DEMENT Dr. John P. Bethell ROBERT E. TIPTON, JR. ’09 Mrs. Jean L. Saunders Mrs. Deborah Dunklin Tipton JAMES W. BLATCHFORD IV ’19 PHILLIP B. EIKNER ’77 Mr. James W. Blatchford, Jr. WILLIAM NUGENT TREADWELL ’68 Mr. James E. Eikner, Jr. Mr. Gilbert A. Robinson III ’68 W. STEVENSON BLEDSOE, JR. ’70 JUDSON T. FAIR ’21 Dr. and Mrs. George B. Elder ELIZABETH H. VAUGHN Mr. and Mrs. Dennis N. Koehn Mr. and Mrs. W. Haynes Vaughn ’07 JOYCE BRADY CLAIRE K. FARMER Dr. Donald W. Brady ’82 SUZANNE WARREN Mrs. Jean L. Saunders Dr. Donna M. Dabov and R. HOWARD CANNON ’80 Dr. Gregory D. Dabov Mrs. Kathryn G. Cannon 54 l MUS TODAY SPRING 2016 Includes gifts received 12-2-15 to 4-12-16. GIFTS IN MEMORY AND HONOR

HUNTER C. FINNEY ’16 SEAN E. GOULD ’03 WILLIAM D. HUFFMAN ’18 Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy D. Finney Mrs. Ginger G. Owings Mrs. Peggy W. Huffman

J. KYLE FINNEY DAVID M. GRABER II ’17 ALEXANDER M. HUMPHREYS ’18 Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy D. Finney Mrs. Margaret Newton Davis Dr. Anne W. Connell

LANDON K. FINNEY ’11 P. MILLER GRISSINGER ’18 J. GILLILAND HUMPHREYS ’16 Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy D. Finney Dr. and Mrs. Richard Colditz Dr. Anne W. Connell

MATTHEW L. FOGELMAN ’18 ELLIS L. HAGUEWOOD BETH AND TONY HUNT Mr. and Mrs. Leonard J. Cohen Mr. and Mrs. Albert M. Dr. and Mrs. Jonathan M. Jones Mr. and Mrs. Avron B. Fogelman Alexander, Jr. ’84 Mr. and Mrs. John C. Carson, Jr. JEFFREY M. INCE ’21 ALBERT RANKIN FOWLKES Mr. Hal D. Fogelman ’81 Mr. Jeffrey L. Ince Mr. and Mrs. Albert Fowlkes Mr. and Mrs. Samuel N. Graham II ’80 Dr. and Mrs. Landon B. Pendergrass R. MCKNIGHT JOHNSTON III ’21 MR. AND MRS. A. RANKIN FOWLKES Mr. and Mrs. Clifton B. Phillips ’77 Mr. and Mrs. Warren A. Jennings Mrs. Murrey M. Watkins Mrs. Carol W. Redden WARREN A. JOHNSTON ’21 SAMUEL R. FOWLKES ’14 MARK J. HALPERIN ’67 Mr. and Mrs. Warren A. Jennings Mr. and Mrs. Albert Fowlkes Mr. and Mrs. Kelly Truitt ’81 CHARLES G. JONES ’17 THOMAS K. FOWLKES ’16 DR. AND MRS. JOHN E. HARKINS Mrs. Louise E. Jones Mr. and Mrs. Albert Fowlkes Mr. and Mrs. Jerry M. Bradfield ’62 Mr. and Mrs. Meredith S. Luck JOHN MATTHEW KAKALES ’16 DANNY H. HARRIS III ’16 Dr. and Mrs. Charles E. Harbison ANDREW E. GARRETT ’03 Mr. and Mrs. Danny H. Harris, Sr. Mrs. Ginger G. Owings Mr. and Mrs. L. Charbonnier Miller ZACHARY W. KLINKE ’17 Mr. and Mrs. Wayne O’Shields HARVEY EDWARD GARRETT MR. AND MRS. TIMOTHY O. HART Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm B. Wood ’71 Mrs. Murrey M. Watkins J. CARTER LANDIS, JR. ’03 Mrs. Ginger G. Owings NANCY N. GATES BEBA C. HEROS Mr. Francis B. Langston ’02 Mr. R. Renn Eason ’14 ANN H. LAUGHLIN Dr. and Mrs. Emmel B. Golden, Jr. Mrs. Jean L. Saunders BENJAMIN T. GILLILAND ’19 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gilliland WILLIAM B. HICKY ’99 MARTIN W. LIFER III ’79 Mr. and Mrs. Bliss Y. Hicky Mrs. Martin W. Lifer, Jr. CHARLES F. GILLILAND ’17 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gilliland DAVID P. HOLMES ’19 RUSSELL E. LINKOUS IV ’19 Ms. Caroline B. Nance Mr. and Mrs. Thomas V. Rushing ANDREW Y. GORDON ’06 Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Gordon HENRY S. HOLMES ’17 JOHN E. MARCOM, JR. ’75 Ms. Caroline B. Nance Mrs. Mary Lee Marcom CHARLES M. GORDON, JR. ’03 Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Gordon D. WALKER HORN ’17 STEPHEN J. MARODA, JR. ’75 Mrs. Ann E. Horn Dr. and Mrs. Mark E. Wiygul ’75 J. WELLFORD GOULD ’13 Dr. and Mrs. Richard H. Gould JOHN WALKER HUFFMAN ’17 J. TAYLOR MAYS ’12 Mrs. Peggy W. Huffman Mr. James McClure, Jr.

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WILLIAM T. MAYS III ’08 SAM C. NELSON ’19 H. CLAY SHELTON IV ’97 Mr. James McClure, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Stephen C. Nelson Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Shelton III ’68

KIMBERLY F. MCAMIS JOHN S. NEWMAN ’12 WILLIAM W. SHELTON ’99 Mrs. Jean L. Saunders The Honorable and Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Shelton III ’68 Mrs. John R. McCarroll, Jr. ANDREW A. MCARTOR, JR. ’16 DANIEL C. SHUMAKE, JR. ’18 Mr. and Mrs. Allan McArtor R. EVERARD MEADE NICHOL III ’19 Mrs. Carolyn C. Shumake Dr. and Mrs. David R. Dantzker JOHN P. MCBRIDE ’18 KAREN M. SKAHAN Mr. and Mrs. Phil McBride EDWARD O. O’BRIEN ’77 Mrs. Jean L. Saunders Mr. and Mrs. Clifton B. Phillips ’77 J. JUSTIN MCCLURE ’81 BENJAMIN M. SKLAR ’20 Mr. James McClure, Jr. JOHN H. PETTEY III ’67 Mr. and Mrs. Jerald H. Sklar Ms. Mary Pettey Garrett ORLANDO R. MCKAY BRIDGER B. SMITH ’16 Mrs. Deborah Dunklin Tipton JOHN PHILLIPS V ’03 Dr. and Mrs. Vincent D. Smith Mrs. Ginger G. Owings J. LAWRENCE MCRAE ’70 STANLEY C. SMYTHE, JR. ’18 Ms. Debra McRae DREW W. RAKERS ’20 Mr. and Mrs. S. Clay Smythe ’85 Mr. and Mrs. George Voehringer SMITH R. MCWATERS ’19 JACKSON S. SOLBERG ’17 The Honorable and TYLER G. RAKERS ’18 Mr. and Mrs. Ronald A. Solberg Mrs. John R. McCarroll, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. George Voehringer R. TATE SOLBERG ’14 DANIEL J. MESKIN ’20 WILLIAM P. RANTZOW ’16 Mr. and Mrs. Ronald A. Solberg Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Meskin Mrs. Dixie B. Power Mr. and Mrs. Arnold E. Perl HAYDEN A. STARK ’18 W. BARRY RAY Dr. Susan L. Stark and JACOB L. MESKIN ’17 Mr. and Mrs. James F. Burnett ’83 Mr. Sherwood Stark Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Meskin Mr. and Mrs. Arnold E. Perl JOHN A. RICHMAN ’16 ALBERT W. STEMMLER ’99 Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Richman Mr. and Mrs. John A. Stemmler JAMES B. MITCHUM ’14 Dr. and Mrs. James R. Mitchum ’75 C. THOMAS ROGERS ’20 JOHN A. STEMMLER, JR. ’94 Mr. and Mrs. Donald Pritchard Mr. and Mrs. John A. Stemmler JAMES R. MITCHUM ’75 Dr. and Mrs. Mark E. Wiygul ’75 GLENN E. ROGERS, JR. MATTHEW M. STEMMLER ’97 Mrs. Deborah Dunklin Tipton Mr. and Mrs. John A. Stemmler JACKSON P. MOODY ’18 Mr. and Mrs. Jerry E. Moody COLLINS ROLL ’03 CHARLIE J. STREET ’20 Mrs. Ginger G. Owings Mr. and Mrs. Zachary H. Street, Sr. JAMES M. MORROW ’18 Mr. John H. Morrow AIDAN G. SAUNDERS ’21 ZACHARY H. STREET ’18 Mr. and Mrs. Andrew F. Saunders III Mr. and Mrs. Zachary H. Street, Sr. MUS DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY AND SOCIAL STUDIES MICHAEL D. SCHAEFER ’03 CARRIGAN C. SULCER ’21 Dr. and Mrs. Jonathan M. Jones Mrs. Ginger G. Owings Dr. and Mrs. Richard Colditz

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HENRY B. TALBOT ’03 JOSEPH S. TYLER JONAH N. WEXLER ’20 Mrs. Ginger G. Owings Mrs. Deborah Dunklin Tipton Mr. and Mrs. James Jalenak

BETH T. TAYLOR JONATHAN A. VAN HOOZER, JR. ’21 HARRIS M. WHITE ’20 Dr. and Mrs. Jonathan M. Jones Mr. and Mrs. David R. Van Hoozer Mr. and Mrs. C. Cody White

WILLIAM S. TAYLOR W. HAYNES VAUGHN ’07 PEGGY E. WILLIAMSON Dr. Mandy Dailey and The Marston Group PC Mrs. Patresha A. Mandel and Mr. Zachary B. Dailey ’00 Dr. Barry L. Shulkin T. WHITMIRE WAGGONER ’17 MATTHEW R. TEMPLE ’18 Mr. and Mrs. Leighton L. LeBoeuf SPENCE L. WILSON III ’20 Mr. and Mrs. John Temple Mr. and Mrs. Ben Beard DAVID S. WALLACE III ’16 JAMES A. THOMAS ’20 Mr. and Mrs. David S. Wallace MARCI AND KEN WOODMANSEE Ms. Margie R. Farese Dr. and Mrs. Jonathan M. Jones JASON H. WANG ’18 NORMAN S. THOMPSON, JR. Dr. and Mrs. James J. Wang GARY K. WUNDERLICH, JR. ’88 Mr. and Mrs. J. Spencer Medford ’89 Mrs. Julia M. DeBardeleben HENRY L. WELLS ’19 S. MCLEAN TODD ’17 Dr. and Mrs. Rodney Wolf CAMERON J. WYATT ’18 Mrs. Leon W. Bell, Jr. Mrs. Jimmie Ann Wyatt H. GRAHAM WEST ’20 HENRY E. TRAMMELL ’17 Mr. W. Tommy West, Jr. CHASE H. WYATT ’14 Mrs. Katherine G. McClintock Mrs. Jimmie Ann Wyatt WILLIAM T. WEST III ’18 RYAN E. TURNER ’10 Mr. W. Tommy West, Jr. GRANT L. YOUNG ’19 Mr. and Mrs. Steven M. Turner Ms. Nancy C. Cofield

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57 THE LAST WORD Illustration by Greg Cravens View From the Teachers’ Lounge by Norman Thompson

“Plus ça change, plus c’est la même turned on as it rendered the lounge lizards would have described it. In Wodehouse’s chose.” (“The more things change, the visually repugnant, even to themselves. Drones Club there was a rule against mak- more they remain the same.”) This epigram, As the faculty then was almost exclusively ing speeches. This rule was observed in the penned by a Frenchman in the middle of the male, it reminded me somewhat of P.G. lounge, because any speechifier found him- 19th century, is a universal truth, at least it Wodehouse’s Drones Club. It was, during self declaiming to an unreceptive audience seems so from my point of view. free periods, inhabited by what P.G. called given to hurling barbed commentary, nasty In my callow years at MUS, when the Eggs, Beans, and Crumpets, and a goodish invective, or exuding total indifference. world was young and before Time had deal of smoke (then permitted), but, alas, The denizens of this place, teachers of envisaged the shape of things to come (i.e., no gin-and-tonics. (Mr. Jonathan Large’s the first water, men who forged the tradi- the early ’70s), the campus and physical present-day classroom is reminiscent of tions and the reputation of MUS, were also plant were very different places. Then, a the crepuscular ambiance of that murky characters as memorable as those inhabiting black hole of Calcutta existed on campus, refuge, offering brief asylum from students’ a Mel Brooks movie or a Charles Dickens ironically called the teachers’ lounge. It was inventive excuses for having not completed novel. Among them was a dyspeptic World a gloomy dungeon, the only light filtering the paper due or read the material assigned.) War II decorated veteran, whose salty through a begrimed window, because the The lounge was a place “fit for treasons, (and unquotable) denunciations of certain overhead fluorescent fixture was seldom stratagems, and spoils,” as Shakespeare students and their ineptitudes would singe

58 l MUS TODAY SPRING 2016 his auditors’ ear hair. His baleful glance time, outraged and blustering, he famously cool air flooded the room. But open would silence the Pollyannaish optimism of described a student prank, saying that the windows and spring breezes were a thing a young teacher, who in his world-weary, young miscreant had placed a “conundrum” of the past. experienced view, had not yet crashed into on a classroom doorknob. In chapel he Today the air conditioning is very the Wall of Reality. Despite residing in an frequently berated students, calling them effective. On hot, steamy days now the exclusive neighborhood, he was eccentri- “yahoos” for their misconduct in the Dining glass in the entrance to the west wing of cally frugal. Once he entered the lounge in Hall. His sarcasm (and his torturing of the the Upper School fogs over, and the area is a shabby but serviceable overcoat, asking English language) was boundless as he held actually chilly. In the summer the AC is so us in attendance to guess how much he up forks (silverware was made of metal frigid that ladies in the administrative wing had paid for it. All our guesses were high then) bent into interesting geometric shapes. often crank up space heaters. So, while (though very low). “Five dollars at Salva- Attentive listeners in the lounge began to much has changed, apparently the discom- tion Army!” he beamed. Later in the semes- take notes as he spoke, with the tongue-in- fort level has remained the same. ter he entered the lounge, asking me (as I cheek intention to publish a book titled The The student body, of course, constantly was his only audience) to guess what he had Sayings of Chairman O. changes. It renews itself completely every paid for the pants that he was then wearing. Today’s faculty also comprises superior six years. And yet it remains the same. Fooled once, this time I guessed “$2.” Grin- teachers whom the casual observer might One first day of school several years ago, ning broadly (something he seldom did), deem eccentric, as one of them dresses on I looked at the new class for the first time he said, “Wrong. Free! I found them in the occasion as a dead ringer for the Incredi- and had a Twilight Zone experience, for street near my house and changed into them ble Hulk. Another impersonates Sherlock there sat a young man I had taught more in my van when I got to school.” Holmes and has the honor of being a than 20 years before. Momentarily non- Another frequenter of this arid oasis was member of the Baker Street Irregulars. Yet plussed, I soon realized that this was the an iconic English teacher, whose portrait another is comfortable in the worlds of son of my erstwhile student. I have long now graces the walls of the Dining Hall, Harry Potter and Mr. Spock. noticed that students, when observed over along with other legends who forged the Though the teachers’ lounge exists a span of years, seem to fall into types or brand of excellence that defines MUS. Mr. no longer, not much has changed today. categories. Many physically resemble their William Hatchett could be seen in the Teachers now – including a goodly number peers from the past. Many have talents and same spot on the couch, his hands clasped of female teachers – forgather in individ- personalities that are carbon copies of their across his expansive midsection, his black- ual offices, in the Dining Hall, and in the predecessors. The years go by apace, but the framed spectacles on the tip of his nose, cig- “workroom,” where coffee is on tap, and aspiration to excellence by these young men arette in mouth, smoke filtering up behind snacks are often to be had. The conversation remains the same. his glasses, as he hummed atonal melodies in these places is still, as in days of yore, The faculty, too, like all things in this known only to himself. He was a reposito- snarky, arch, and often laden with groan-in- mutable world, changes. Only one teacher ry of arcane knowledge that he was more ducing puns. on the faculty today was here when I was than happy to share with such a fledgling Back in the day, as the idiom goes, fortunate enough to be admitted to the teacher as I then was. From him I learned classrooms were very different places as MUS faculty. And yet, the standard of – and came to believe – that Keats was the well. Rooms were vaulted and therefore excellence in the interim has been main- greatest of the Romantic poets. It was Bill cold in the winter and hot in early months tained or improved. A significant number of Hatchett who introduced me to the magi- of the school year. Window air conditioners present teachers are MUS alumni. One new cal, mythic world of Wodehouse. I reveled were noisy and ineffective. One spring day teacher, a highly accomplished musician, in his readings of the poetry of Robert W. long ago, I had opened a window to let in Matt Tutor ’91, recently spoke in chapel of Service. Where some would see eccentricity some fresh air. A new and much improved how he was transmogrified by his tenure at in a teacher steeped in the sublime work air-conditioning system had recently been MUS. He testified that his time as a student of Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Milton, but installed, one with overhead ducts and may not have been the best time of his life, who also thrilled to “The Shooting of Dan vents. Standing at the chalkboard lectur- but it made possible the best times and the McGrew,” Bill Hatchett saw none. ing, I was interrupted unceremoniously in even better time to come. Among the many larger-than-life mid-sentence by an overall-clad workman, So, the more things change, the more teachers who from time to time inhaled the who looked neither left nor right as he they stay the same. What goes around, smoky air of the teachers’ lounge was the walked to the window, dropped an exten- comes around. Shakespeare speaks of “the pipe-smoking chemistry teacher affection- sion cord out the window, and left the room. whirligig of time,” that temporal carousel ately known as Mr. O. Respected as a teach- He went into the courtyard adjoining the that manifests the truism that there is noth- er and mentor to students scientifically chal- classroom and loudly drilled a number of ing new under the sun. lenged, he was nonetheless a serial purveyor holes in the window frame. He then re-en- of malapropisms. Despite concealing in his tered my classroom, looking neither left or briefcase copies of books with titles like right again, shut the window, unplugged the 10 Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary, extension cord and retraced his steps to the his public verbal gaffes became legendary. courtyard, where he bolted the window for- Norman Thompson has been an MUS In chapel he once spoke about previous ever shut. During the whole of this incident instructor in English since 1972, and he headmaster Mr. Gene Thorn, whom he not a word was uttered by the workman, the holds the L. Edwin Eleazer III Chair called “Headmaster Emetrius.” Another class, or me. When the weather warmed, of Excellence in Teaching.

59 On one of the four mission trips Steve Maroda ’75 has made to Ethiopia, the team brought baseball gear and taught some of the local children, including Samuel Degife, how to play the game for the first time. “We introduced the sport to this mountainous village,” Maroda says. “They had never seen anything like this because they are totally off the grid. They have no electricity and have never seen a TV or a ‘moving picture.’ It’s amazing and pure.” Read about Maroda’s mission work on page 16.

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