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TTFall 2007ransylvaniaransylvaniaUNIVERSITY MAGAZINE MEDICAL HISTORY SYMPOSIUM ■ TRANSY TIP SHEET ■ ROBERT O. BUCK JR. ’68 A LOOK AT THE ENTERING CLASS The 349 members of the entering class for fall 2007, the second largest class in Transylvania’s history, arrived in September and brought overall enrollment to a record 1,153. Their academic quality is the strongest in 10 years: 137 National Honor Society members / 120 Beta Club members / 44 Governor’s Scholars / 5 Governor’s School for the Arts participants / 4 National Merit Scholars They have diverse interests: 3 published authors / 6 Kentucky Youth Assembly delegates / 1 All-American mascot / 1 harp player / 6 Eagle Scouts / 1 refugee from the Sudan / 1 Dolphin Research Center summer intern / 1 volunteer firefighter / 6 U.S. Pony Club members / 4 Reserve Officer Training Corps participants Fall2007pages_9x_TransSummer04a 4/20/17 12:48 PM Page 1 TransylvaniaUNIVERSITY MAGAZINE FALL/2007 Features 10 CELEBRATING TRANSYLVANIA’S MEDICAL HISTORY Symposium highlights 1799-1859 Medical Department of Transylvania and medical history of the region 14 TRANSY TIP SHEET Transylvania professors offer tips on wilderness survival, public speaking, reading the classics, and lots more 20 BUCKING THE ODDS Life dealt Robert O. Buck Jr. ’68 a tough hand, but he overcame it to build a fulfilling and rewarding life Around Campus 2 Transylvania welcomes six new faculty members 4 Freyman, Upchurch named Bingham-Young Professors 5 Mary Robinson delivers Kenan Lecture page 14 6 Wright Scholarship created for history majors 7 225th Anniversary Campaign focuses on remaining needs Alumni News and Notes 22 Class Notes 25 Alumni Profile: Debby Grimm ’85 27 Marriages, Births, Obituaries 28 Alumnus Profile: Rob Hill ’95 31 Alumni Bulletin Board On the cover The extraordinary history of Transylvania’s 1799-1859 Medical Department was celebrat- ed in a summer symposium held in the Director of Public Relations: Sarah A. Emmons � Director of Publications: Cowgill Center. Pictured are two of the Martha S. Baker � Publications Writer/Editor: William A. Bowden � Editorial approximately 1,800 manuscript medical stu- Assistant: Lori-Lyn Hurley � Publications Designer: Barbara Grinnell dent theses housed in the University’s Medical Library, and a sampling of the rare Transylvania is published three times a year. Volume 25, No. 1, Fall 2007. and valuable scientific apparatus used by Produced by the Office of Publications, Transylvania University, Lexington, Transylvania students and faculty members, KY 40508-1797. Send address changes and alumni news to Alumni Office, also a part of the University’s collections. Transylvania University, 300 North Broadway, Lexington, KY 40508-1797, fax to (859) 233-8797, or e-mail to [email protected]. Fall2007pages_9x_TransSummer04a 4/20/17 12:48 PM Page 2 Around Campus Transylvania welcomes six new faculty members Six professors joined the Transylvania faculty for the 2007-08 academic year. APPLAUSE Their diverse research interests include Asian religious traditions, transnational feminism, number theory, and plant invasion biology and biological control. They have lived and stud- Hobbs presents award-winning paper ied in such locales as Micronesia, India, and the Czech Republic. Darren Hobbs ’07 received the Best Sarah Bray, assistant professor of biology, Simona Fojtova, assistant professor of Undergraduate Student Paper Award for his most recently was an women’s studies, was paper “Economic Analysis of Expanded assistant professor of biol- most recently a visiting Gambling” at the annual Kentucky Econom- ogy at Midland Lutheran assistant professor in ics Association conference in Lexington on College in Nebraska, women’s studies at Tran- October 13, 2006. He received funding from where she was also cura- sylvania. She earned M.A. the Kenan Student Summer Research Pro- tor of the Nebraska degrees in English and gram to work on the project with economics Statewide Arboretum. She Czech at Masaryk Univer- professor Alan Bartley. The award was earned a B.A. degree in sity in Brno, Czech Repub- accompanied by a stipend and publication in biology and environmental science from lic, and in American studies at the University the proceedings of the conference. Coe College and a Ph.D. in botany from the of New Mexico. She holds the Ph.D. in University of Florida. Her research has American studies from the University of Deaton named forensics Coach of the Year focused on the pedagogy of science and on New Mexico. Among her teaching and feedbacks among plants, ecosystem research interests are feminist and queer After a successful year for the speech and processes, and microorganisms. theory, women’s writing, ethnic and cultural debate team, Gary Deaton, professor of studies, and central and eastern European writing, rhetoric, and communication, was Anthony M. Cerulli, assistant professor literature. named the Kentucky Forensics Association’s of religion, was most Coach of the Year for 2006-07. He was rec- recently a research associ- Robert E. Rosenberg, associate professor ognized at the association’s state champi- ate at the Wellcome Cen- of chemistry, was most onships, held February 16-17 at Berea Col- tre for the History of Med- recently assistant profes- lege. icine at University College sor of chemistry at Salem London and formerly was State College in Massa- Cecil receives a lecturer at Loyola Univer- chusetts. He earned a B.S. national leadership award sity Chicago and a teach- degree in chemistry from ing assistant at Northwestern University and the Massachusetts Insti- Dave Cecil, director of financial aid, the University of Chicago Divinity School. tute of Technology and a recently received the National Association of He earned a B.A. degree in theology and Ph.D. in chemistry from Yale University. He Student Financial Aid Administrators leader- political science from Loyola University was also a National Institutes of Health ship award in recognition of his sustained Chicago and an M.A. in religious studies postdoctoral research fellow at Columbia outstanding leadership and contributions to from Yale University, and is a Ph.D. candi- University. His research focuses on mecha- the financial aid profession. He has received date in the history of religions at the Univer- nistic organic chemistry and the use of com- similar awards from the Southern Associa- sity of Chicago Divinity School. His scholar- putational chemistry and nuclear magnetic tion of Student Financial Aid Administrators ship focuses on the history of religions, par- resonance (NMR) to solve problems in struc- and the Kentucky Association of Student ticularly Asian religious traditions. tural biology, while his teaching interests Financial Aid Administrators. include NMR spectroscopy and organic Elizabeth Corsun, assistant professor of chemistry. Glenn honored by international group English, most recently was a visiting assistant profes- Ryan Stuffelbeam, assistant professor of James F. Glenn, a member of the Transyl- sor of English at the Uni- mathematics, was most vania Board of Trustees, recently received the versity of Iowa. She recently VIGRE (Vertical Felix Guyon Medal from the Societe Interna- earned her B.A. degree Integration of Research tionale d’Urologie, a worldwide organization from the University of Cal- and Education in the for urologists. The award was in recognition ifornia at Santa Cruz and Mathematical Sciences) of his many contributions to the field of her Ph.D. in English from Ross assistant professor of urology, particularly the textbook he pro- the University of Iowa. Her dissertation was mathematics at The Ohio duced in the early 1960s, Glenn’s Urologic titled Comic Pragmatism: Dickens and Early- State University. He Surgery, now in its seventh edition. The Victorian Stage Farce, and her research and earned a B.A. degree in mathematics and Guyon Medal has been given only three teaching interests include Charles Dickens, computer science from Knox College in Illi- times in the society’s 100-year history. the British novel tradition, literary humor, nois and a Ph.D. in mathematics from the Glenn’s award was presented at the society’s and nineteenth-century literature, culture, University of Iowa. His research interests 100th anniversary dinner in the King’s Dining and theater. focus on number theory and representation Room at the Palace of Versailles in France. theory. 2 TRANSYLVANIA Fall2007pages_9x_TransSummer04a 4/20/17 12:48 PM Page 3 Brown is visiting Fosl’s new book provides tools writer in residence for answering moral questions Learning how to evaluate Philosophy professor Peter Fosl contends that all the suggestions of others and people are natural thinkers and that everyone encounters philo- make intelligent use of valid sophical issues and moral questions. What philosophers do is criticism is a lesson that Asbury come up with ways of working through these things, providing College English professor Devin conceptual devices to use as tools. Brown, who has joined the This is the idea behind The Ethics Transylvania faculty this year as Toolkit, published this year by Black- a visiting writer in residence, found himself at the center of a well Publishing Limited. Fosl co- hopes the students in his Art of whirlwind of media attention as wrote the book with Julian Baggini, Persuasive Writing class will take sales of his book, which quickly a fellow philosopher living in Eng- to heart. became known as an excellent land, as a follow-up to The Philoso- “Beginning writers are some- guide to understanding the pher’s Toolkit, which the pair what averse to taking sugges- novel and the movie, passed the released in 2002. tions, but advanced writers are 40,000 mark. Rather than just explaining philo- thrilled when someone gives Brown is also the author of sophical concepts, the Toolkit books them an idea they hadn’t Not Exactly Normal (Eerdmans offer ways to use philosophy and thought about,” said Brown, Books for Young Readers, think practically about the concepts. who feels this ability to use con- 2005), a novel about a sixth- “We’re thinking of ourselves as structive criticism is key to a grader at a New England Epis- empowering people or giving people writer’s development.