The Mysterious, Magnificent Brain

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The Mysterious, Magniﬁcent Brain

VOLUME 82 • NUMBER 4 • FALL 2001 VOLUME 82 • NO.. 4 • FALL 2001 MAGAZINE

FEATURES

14 Yellow Leaves Alumnus takes stock of what makes him return to Vanderbilt football year after year

16 Invasion of the Brain Scientists 16 JEFF FRAZIER Vanderbilt neuroscientists collaborate to solve Mary Tom Bass, MEd’85, Editor the mysteries of the mind Kenneth Schexnayder, Managing Editor Victor Judge, BS’77, MS’79, Assistant Editor 32 GayNelle Doll, Assistant Editor The Possibility of Progress Suzanna Spring, Designer Vanderbilt philosophers look at just how far we’ve come 14 Nelson Bryan, BA’73, Class Notes Editor Joanne Lamphere Beckham, BA’62 · Gene Cook, 40 BA’94 · Bonnie Arant Ertelt, BS’81 · Lew Harris, BA’68 Beth Matter · Gayle Rogers, BA’01 Tall Healer Phillip B. Tucker, Staff Writers For 35 years alumnus has tended the aches and pains Skip Anderson · Jim Bacchus, BA’71 · Clinton of the Atlanta Falcons Colmenares · Tara S. Donahue, BA’00 · Dan Gordon · Nancy Humphrey · Elizabeth P.Latt · Leigh 43 MacMillan, PhD’96 · James McConnell · Ann Marie Deer Owens, BA’76 · Jessica Pasley · Jon Parrish Peede, A Monumental Journey BS’91 · David F. Salisbury · Patrick Shade, MA’96, Serbian graduate students hope to help preserve PhD’97, Contributors their homeland’s artistic heritage Anthony J. Spence, E’75, Executive Director of Communications and Publications DEPARTMENTS Vanderbilt Magazine is published quarterly by Vanderbilt University from editorial and business offices at 110 21st 2 On Campus Avenue South, Suite 1000, Nashville, TN 37203.

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Cover: illustration, Billy Renkle

Sailboat by alumnus Tom Allen, A ’50 See page 51 for a profile of Allen and his work. 43 VOLUME 82 • NO.. 4 • FALL 2001 MAGAZINE

FEATURES

14 Yellow Leaves Alumnus takes stock of what makes him return to Vanderbilt football year after year

Cover: illustration, Billy Renkle

43 Graduation Draws 17,000 An estimated crowd of 17,000 turned out to see 2,699 students receive degrees from Vanderbilt’s 10 schools on May 11. Sixteen ON CAMPUS of these students received two degrees. NCI Designation Puts Cancer Center at the Top VUMC Develops Tool for Understanding Tumors The National Cancer Institute has desig- Frist, a Vanderbilt faculty member since nated the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center 1986, is on leave from his position as assistant Move over Kodak. Vanderbilt University as a Comprehensive Cancer Center, the high- professor of cardiac and thoracic surgery. Medical Center investigators have developed est such ranking awarded by the federal To earn designation as a Comprehensive a new way to take a picture—of the mole- government. Cancer Center, a facility must go through a cules in a slice of tissue, that is. The VICC is the only center in Tennessee competitive review process and meet rigor- The technique, called Imaging Mass to join the top tier of cancer centers nation- ous standards, specifically in three areas: inno- Spectrometry, offers scientists a new tool for wide. This network of 39 institutions includes vative and comprehensive research into the visualizing where proteins are located in cells such respected centers as Memorial Sloan- causes, development, prevention, and treat- and tissues. This information is important PEYTON HOGE Kettering Cancer Center, the University of ment of cancer; leadership in the development to understanding how proteins work and Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, and Johns and study of new therapies; and commitment how they change in disease states. Hopkins Oncology Center. Sen. Bill Frist made to the community through programs for can- The Vanderbilt team applied the new the announcement on campus in March. cer information, education, and outreach. technology, described in the April issue of SOARING TO NEW HEIGHTS PEYTON HOGE “It is the Comprehensive Cancer Centers Relatively few Comprehensive Cancer Nature Medicine, to taking molecular pho- If you haven’t driven by campus in the past year, hold onto your steering wheel as you cruise down the stretch of 21st Avenue South that curves past Vanderbilt Law School. The plain brown like Vanderbilt that are the leaders of this bat- Centers are found in the southeast. Six states tographs of normal and malignant brain tis- wrapper of a building that formerly housed the law school has been transformed beyond tle [against cancer], and the places where the that border Tennessee do not have Com- sue slices. In his first Commencement address as head of recognition. A $23 million renovation is in its final months and targeted for completion in Janu- cures for cancer are most likely to be found,” prehensive Cancer Centers. “One of our goals is to look at tumor tis- the University, Chancellor Gordon Gee urges ary 2002. Law students, faculty, and staff already are enjoying more spacious classrooms in two he said in a written statement.“I’m proud that The designation does not directly bring sues and attempt to find changes in expressed the Class of 2001 to “stretch” moments of cele- new wings, and renovation of the building’s central core is also complete. The final phase, renovation of faculty offices, will complete the project. Vanderbilt has worked so hard to earn this dis- more money to the VICC. However, the pres- proteins that are the result of, or contribute bration and guard against distractions during times of joy. tinction, and I’m pleased that the NCI has tige that comprehensive designation brings to to, tumor development,”says Richard Caprioli, awarded this prestigious designation in recog- the center is expected to help make it even director of the Mass Spectrometry Research nition of Vanderbilt’s commitment to fight more competitive in recruiting new talent and Center.“We know from this and other work, cancer.” attracting new funding from both government for example, that the pattern of proteins ex- What Your E-mail Says About You and private sources. pressed in the outer edge of a growing tumor If you think sending out error-free e-mail prised to find that status and typing skills is different from that of the interior, and that messages is impressive, you may want to think are inversely correlated,”he says. both of these are different from the normal again. Research by David Owens, assistant In addition, lower status employees are tissue right next to the tumor.” professor at the Owen Graduate School of more likely to send messages with emoti- RENO SPEAKS Caprioli hopes someday the technology Management, suggests that people with high cons—the smiley, winking, and frowning ABOUT VIOLENT CRIME can be used to assess tumor margins during status in organizations tend to use the worst faces formed by colons, semicolons, and Janet Reno, America’s first female attor- surgery and to detect molecular changes spelling and grammar in e-mails. parentheses. (Owens, who did not coin the ney general, delivered the 11th annual Cecil in a biopsy sample before a tumor has start- Sims Lecture at the Vanderbilt Law School Owens looked at informal organizations word emoticons, says it comes from a con- ed any significant development. on April 9. Reno used her experiences as within companies, and his findings suggest traction of emotions and icons.) both a state attorney in Dade County, Fla., He is working with Vanderbilt-Ingram that while e-mail doesn’t provide face-to- “Sending out smiling or giggling faces and as the nation’s highest prosecutor under Cancer Center investigators to image pro- President Bill Clinton to convey a critical face visual information, it does offer clues can signal submission. A lower-status work- teins in prostate, colon and brain tumors message about violent crime in America. about the correspondents’ status. Lower sta- er may send out an e-mail with the sentence “We can approach violent crimes in a com- and “determine what new molecular events tus employees attempt to impress higher- ‘Hi! How are you :-) !’ using emoticons prehensive way as a course in a university are occurring,”he says. setting, or we can continue to do it piece- PEYTON HOGE ups by sending out properly composed and exclamation points.” meal,” Reno said. Calling Vanderbilt the “most JONATHAN RODGERS messages, whereas those with high status are Although he cautions that his research is exciting” law school she has visited because of its potential to bridge medicine and law writing to subordinates and are not as con- preliminary, Owens’s findings may have an for the benefit of society, Reno pointed to Amy Palma, who received a B.S. degree from the cerned with grammar and spelling. impact on working relationships down the the school’s cross-disciplinary coursework College of Arts and Science, celebrates while the names of her 1,301 undergraduate classmates Owens suspects that high-status employ- road.“If people are aware of the social impli- as a prototype for future legal inquiry. Attor- ees may not have the typing or computer cations of the e-mail they send, they can make neys, for example, may study emergency room admissions data to understand and combat pat- are called. For the fourth consecutive year, Com- terns of violent behavior such as spousal abuse through curricula such as Vanderbilt’s. mencement exercises were cybercast over the skills that employees working in lower sta- a choice about how to present themselves.” Internet, with about 1,100 viewers tuning in to the tus positions may have.“I would not be sur- Web cast.

2 VANDERBILT MAGAZINE FALL 2001 3 The Commodore’s Got a Brand New Bag University’s Impact on Mid-State Rare Books on Exhibit Economy Nearly $3 Billion It had to happen, given the combined power However, Urban Legends Reference Pages, Throughout the spring semester, the Heard of the Internet and the $13 billion snack chip a Web site devoted to examining urban leg- Vanderbilt’s impact on the local economy Library and the First Amendment Center Stats on Wheels industry. ends (http://www.snopes.com), disputes the totaled at least $2.8 billion last year. The Uni- cosponsored an exhibit of rare and signifi- 2000–2001 Academic Year Cornelius Vanderbilt, that rags-to-riches tale, arguing that while the basic story may versity’s economic activity in Middle Tennessee cant historic books and manuscripts loaned 19th-century railroad magnate who spawned have some validity, the likelihood that Cor- in fiscal year 2000 was up from $2.4 billion in to the library by the Remnant Trust, a foun- a family dynasty and shared a cool million nelius Vanderbilt was the dissatisfied diner FY’99—a seventeen percent increase. dation based in Hagerstown, Indiana. to found a southern university, now is being is extremely slim. The University financial analyst who con- Known as the Wisdom of the Ages credited widely as the man indirectly respon- Like many of his contemporaries, Cor- ducted the study used standard methods for Athenaeum, the collection consists of more sible for the potato chip’s invention. nelius Vanderbilt was a devotee of séances assessing economic impact, taking into account than 400 first and early edition texts on “lib- The story, promulgated by Frito-Lay Inc. and seers: Maybe it’s time to haul out the direct expenditures such as salaries and wages, erty, fraternity, and equality,”according to and fueled by the Idaho Potato Growers, Ouija board, go to the source, and settle this fringe benefits, vendor payments, capital con- Trust founder Brian Bex. Items loaned to Van- among others, goes like this: In 1853, Cor- once and for all. struction and equipment, taxes and fees to state derbilt included the Magna Carta, the first

nelius Vanderbilt, while dining at Moon’s Whatever the truth, at least one potato chip and local government, as well as the spending public printing of the Emancipation Procla- NEIL BRAKE Parking spaces on campus Lake House in Saratoga Springs, New York, manufacturer, Boyd’s of Lynn, Massachusetts, Vanderbilt employees, faculty, students, patients, mation in the New York Times (1862), the 8,340 ordered fried potatoes with his meal and repeats the legend of the churlish Cornelius and visitors inject into the economy. first edition of Milton’s Areopagitica (1644), Handicapped parking spaces found them too thick for his taste. Back to and the irascible chef on their chip bags. “Universities and medical centers are tremen- one of only three known copies of St. Thomas This edition of the Magna Carta was printed in 1542. 155 the kitchen they went. In any case, we predict there’s no turning dous economic engines, but the numbers only Aquinas’ Summa Theologiae (1475), and 41 The mission of the Remnant Trust is to Registered cars The cook, George Crum, was—depending back: When has truth ever stood in the way of tell part of the story,”explains Chancellor Gor- other works of literary, political, social, and make great works that advance the ideas of 7,941 on which source you believe—prompted by a good PR gimmick? Don’t be surprised if one don Gee.“By creating new ideas, educating religious interest. freedom and democracy accessible.“We want either a fit of chefly pique or pranksterism of these days while channel surfing you dis- future generations, and providing the most “We could hardly believe it was true when to make the original texts available so peo- Registered bicycles 260 to slice a new batch of potatoes paper-thin, cover the Commodore reinvented as snack sophisticated health care, Vanderbilt’s prior- we first heard about this exhibit,”says Paul ple can form their own opinions. The great fry them to a crisp, and salt them heavily. food spokesmodel, à la Charlie Tuna and the ity is to improve the quality of life for the peo- Gherman, University librarian. “Librarians ideas belong to everybody; they should be Parking tickets issued The result reportedly was such a hit with Jolly Green Giant. ple of the Nashville area. We are citizens of this tend to be somewhat schizophrenic between shared,”says Bex. 16,317 the Commodore and his cronies that Crum community and have as much at stake in its wanting to preserve historic materials in Students in history and political science Parking ticket appeals put them on the menu. From there the “crunch continued economic vitality as anyone.” their most pristine condition and allowing classes at Vanderbilt used the books during the 1,268 potato slices” became all the rage at fash- The largest private employer in Middle people to have access to them. The two rarely spring semester, as did students from Nashville’s Success rate of appealed tickets ionable East Coast watering holes, and by Tennessee and the second largest in the state, go together.” Overton High School and University School. 14 % 1895 they were being manufactured for sale Vanderbilt employs about 15,000 individuals. in grocery stores. Creative excuses for appeals Physicists Develop New Technique Diarrhea, suicide, feminine problems to Find Hidden Corrosion Cars towed by Corrosion can run, but now it can’t hide. Skennerton reported that they have suc- Martin’s Towing Service Vanderbilt physicists have developed a new cessfully used a super-sensitive piece of 1,824 ENGINEERING PROF remote-sensing technique that can detect cor- microelectronics, called a Superconducting GETS A NATIONAL NOD Wrecks on campus Bridget Rogers, assistant professor of chem- rosion hidden deep within metal joints where Quantum Interference Device or SQUID, and adjoining streets ical engineering, has won the prestigious Career conventional detection methods fail. to detect subtle changes in magnetic field 158 Award from the National Science Foundation According to a 1996 study, corrosion in strength that are generated when small (NSF) for her research on alternative materials Instances of accidentally locked that could be used to make faster and more roads, bridges, passenger and freight railway amounts of metal corrode. vehicles requiring assistance economical computer components. Consid- systems, pipelines, harbors, airports, water “SQUIDS are extremely sensitive mag- 805 ered NSF’s most significant honor for junior treatment plants, solid waste disposal facil- netometers,”says Wikswo.“Relative to their Jumpstarts faculty members, the national award will fund ities—virtually every part of our nation’s sensitivity, a tremendous amount of mag- five years of her research. Rogers and her asso- 796 ciates are studying alloys that could replace complex infrastructure—may be costing the netic flux is generated when a small amount the silicon dioxide used in transistors and other country as much as $300 billion per year. of metal corrodes.”Moreover, the tiny high- Sources: Vanderbilt Traffic & Parking and Police & Security microelectronic devices that are the heart of About a third of this deterioration can tech devices do not need to make physical computers. As transistors continue to shrink, the silicon dioxide layer also must be reduced be prevented using conventional electro- contact with a metal specimen to detect the in thickness, ultimately becoming too thin to chemical methods, the study estimates. presence of corrosion, and they can meas- control the transistor’s electrical current. Rogers But corrosion also occurs on hidden surfaces ure corrosion hidden from view. and her team are studying materials strong enough at the molecular level to replace sili- where it is extremely difficult to detect. Funded by the U.S. Air Force, their study con dioxide. Left, Rogers works with Virginia In a paper presented at the March meet- tested the SQUID’s ability to image magnetic Wahlig, a senior in the School of Engineering. ing of the American Physical Society, John fields associated with hidden corrosion in Wikswo, A.B. Learned Professor of Living metallic specimen samples removed from

BILL DENISON State Physics, and research associate Grant aging military planes.

4 VANDERBILT MAGAZINE FALL 2001 5 Nursing Shortage Hurts Patients Sharp Increase in Applicants KEEPING IN TOUCH Lands Vanderbilt on ‘Hot’ List VANDERBILT SCHOOLS AMONG THE BEST “Is he in trouble?” a worried mother begged, convinced A School of Nursing researcher has found that her son must have erred to provoke a call from the a direct correlation between nurse staffing and A report released recently by Newsweek/Ka- dean. Her fears were calmed, though, as Dean Ellen Brier, patient health and survival, according to a plan listed Vanderbilt atop eight other col- th director of Peabody student affairs, explained that she Peabody5 College telephones all freshmen twice a year simply to ask how study released by the U.S. Department of leges and universities deemed to be “America’s they are doing. Brier’s dedication to this task has yielded Health and Human Services. Hot Schools.” salient results: the retention rate among Peabody fresh- The findings from the report, the most What makes schools such as Vanderbilt, th men reached 95 percent in the fall of 2000, an improve- School16 of Medicine ment over previous years. Brier credits her years of research comprehensive to date on the topic, show that Vassar, Tulane and Emory hot? While the pri- on student retention with helping her gain the expertise low nurse staffing directly impacted patient mary consideration was the number of stu- necessary for dealing with this age-old administrative chal- th outcomes, ranging from urinary tract infec- dents competing for admission, weight was Law17 School lenge. “While it’s not my goal to retain every student,” she says, “it is my goal to ensure that every student has the tions to shock and bleeding. given to subjective criteria as well. opportunity to find out whether or not Vanderbilt is the “This is the largest and most sophisticat- “All [schools on the list] boast rises in ap- right fit.” In exemplifying the University’s commitment to ed study to date concerning the relationship plications that sharply outstrip the national th Owen Graduate26 School of students’ happiness and academic success, Brier has DAVID CRENSHAW between hospital nurse staffing and patient averages,”according to the article, which ap- helped many students find personal, lasting connec- Management tions to the school. outcomes,”says the study’s co-director, Peter peared in a special newsstand issue of the Buerhaus, senior associate dean for research Newsweek/Kaplan publication How to Get In March, U.S. News & World Report’s annual and Valere Potter Distinguished Professor of Into College. Citing Nashville, the article said survey of the nation’s top graduate and professional schools placed four of Vander- Nursing. “it helps to be in or close to a vibrant city.” bilt’s schools among the best. U.S. News “We have provided evidence that nursing Competition to attend Vanderbilt has did not rank nursing schools this year. In last year’s survey, the School of Nursing Latino Sorority, Fraternity Diversify Greek System staff matter in what happens to patients. Per- increased dramatically in recent years, NEIL BRAKE was 27th. haps the results will enable us to move health with the number of undergraduate applica- Vanderbilt’s Greek community was broad- say student and school representatives. policy forward and make it possible to pro- tions increasing by 14.7 percent from 1999 ened last spring with the addition of its “We have organizations on campus that vide hospitals and nurses with the kind of to 2001, said Bill Shain, dean of undergrad- first Latino sorority and fraternity. are for Latino students, but we wanted a Greek students “look beyond the Ivy League,”due “To choose a college as though it were a resources that will enable them to enrich staff- uate admissions. The sorority, Lambda Theta Alpha, empha- organization, just to be reflected within that to a herd mentality that oftentimes leads per- brand of sneaker is to forget to match your ing levels to the point where adverse patient “The past five years were the highest in sizes academic success and community serv- community,”says Gloria Rosario, a junior sons to choose a school because of a name, needs to a school’s strengths,”wrote the ar- outcomes can be reduced,”he adds. terms of freshman applications in the ice. It received a green light from a sorority from New York. The 208 Hispanic students rather than other important factors such as ticle’s authors. Utilizing 1997 data from more than 5 mil- University’s history,”said Shain. “This year expansion committee and Vanderbilt offi- at Vanderbilt last year comprised nearly 3.5 specific programs. lion patient discharges from 799 hospitals is absolutely a record.” cials to launch a campus chapter earlier in percent of the undergraduate population. in 11 states, researchers found there were con- The other schools on the list, in order of the year. Administrators also approved Lamb- The new Latino sorority and fraternity, sistent relationships between nurse staffing appearance in the article, are Hampshire Col- da Theta Phi, a Latino fraternity that had along with the campus’s three black sororities University, School of Engineering Move Up variables and five patient outcomes—urinary lege (Massachusetts), Wesleyan University already begun to organize. Both will diversi- and three black fraternities, mirror a national in Latest U.S. News Rankings tract infections, pneumonia, shock, upper (Connecticut), University of Michigan at Ann fy the University’s Greek system while offer- trend among Greek systems to diversify. gastrointestinal bleeding, and length of stay Arbor, Oberlin College (Ohio),Vassar College Vanderbilt and the School of Engineering Princeton, No. 1; Harvard and Yale, tied ing a new option for minority undergraduates, in medical and major surgery patients. (New York), Franklin Olin College of Engi- each advanced one spot in the latest rank- at No. 2; California Institute of Technology at The report also showed higher RN staffing neering (Massachusetts), Emory University ings by U.S. News & World Report. fourth and Massachusetts Institute of Technology was associated with a 3 to 12 percent reduc- (Georgia) and Tulane University (Louisiana). The University is listed as 21st in the mag- at fifth. Stanford and the University of VANDERBILT STEERS INTO tion in certain adverse outcomes and higher “[Vanderbilt’s] offerings are vast and sur- azine’s survey of the nation’s best national Pennsylvania advanced from sixth place last AMERICA’S FASTEST- staffing at all levels of nursing was associat- prising,”wrote the authors of article.“It boasts universities, while the engineering school is year to a tie with MIT for fifth place. GROWING SPORT ed with a 2 to 25 percent reduction in adverse one of the most advanced programs in the ranked 43rd among undergraduate programs In determining best values, the magazine’s Vanderbilt entered the world of profes- outcomes. nation for studying online commerce.” at schools offering Ph.D.s. Among schools editors said they used a formula that relates a sional automobile racing recently, as the No. 28 Monte Carlo owned by Gary Last year, Buerhaus published a study in The report cited a current student who considered “best values,”Vanderbilt jumped school’s academic quality, as indicated in the Baker, JD’71, debuted in a NASCAR the Journal of the American Medical Associa- said she chose Vanderbilt over the University from 46th place to a tie with five other insti- magazine’s ranking, with the net cost of at- Busch Series race bearing Vanderbilt’s tion projecting that the pool of registered nurs- of Pennsylvania and Rice because of the tutions for 36th place. tendance for a student who receives the aver- name, logo, and colors. Driven by Baker’s es will fall drastically by the year 2020. In blend of rigorous academic programs and “Rankings like this represent just one way age level of financial aid. son Brad, the car will run a 15-race schedule in 2001, which began with the comments about the impending shortage, “Southern gentility.” to assess the quality of the University,”said The full rankings and additional infor-

NEIL BRAKE NAPA Auto Parts 300 at Daytona Inter- he said that the consequences of the lack of “Vanderbilt’s popularity has been in- Chancellor Gordon Gee.“By that standard, mation will be in the newsstand book America’s national Speedway on February 17. staffing put patient care at risk. creasing rapidly for the past few years, and Vanderbilt is doing very well. But the real meas- Best Colleges and the Sept. 17 issue of U.S. Baker was excited to put his alma ma- ter’s colors and name on his car, call- “Improving patient safety is a critical the record number of applications proves it,” ure comes from our faculty, students and alum- News & World Report, both of which went ing the relationship between Baker Racing and Vanderbilt “a natural.” Through the contract with issue, and our study puts the impact of staffing said Chancellor Gordon Gee. “Our reputa- ni who make Vanderbilt an excellent, dynamic on sale Sept. 10. Galaxy Marketing of Lexington, Tenn., Vanderbilt will not only benefit from merchandise sales asso- mix and levels before the nursing profes- tion continues to catch up with the reality and constantly improving university.” This is the 12th year that Vanderbilt has ciated with the car but also will receive a full-sized replica for use at charity events. The car was unveiled for local viewing at Memorial Gym on February 24 as Vanderbilt and Tennessee battled sion, hospital industry, insurers, and policy that Vanderbilt is a hot school thanks to our The first five positions in the “best nation- been chosen by the magazine as one of the na- in men’s basketball. makers,”he says.“It now remains to be seen excellent faculty, students and staff.” al universities” rankings are held by the same tion’s top 25 universities. what they will do. The list is intended to help prospective five schools as last year, plus two new ones:

6 VANDERBILT MAGAZINE FALL 2001 7 President Bush Nominates Vanderbilt Hillel Breaks Ground for New Jewish Center Alumnus as Ambassador to Latvia Vanderbilt Hillel held a groundbreaking President Bush recently nominated a Van- VU Alumni, ceremony in April for the new Schulman derbilt alumnus to serve as ambassador ex- Center for Jewish Life. traordinary and plenipotentiary of the United U.S. Ambassadors The 10,000-square-foot building is being States to the Republic of Latvia. Nominee constructed at the corner of Vanderbilt Place Brian E. Carlson earned a bachelor of arts in Alvin P. Adams Jr. and 25th Avenue South, next to Branscomb history from the University in 1969. Graduated: 1967 (Law) Quadrangle and across the street from Memo- PHOTO COURTESY OF BRIAN AND MARCIA CARLSON Ambassadorships: According to information provided by the Haiti (1988–92), Djibouti (1983–85) rial Gym. For many years, the site was home White House, Carlson is a career member of to the Zeta Beta Tau house, the historically the Senior Foreign Service, and has served as K. Terry Dornbush Jewish fraternity. senior adviser to the undersecretary for pub- Graduated: 1955 (A&S) Among guests on hand for the ground- Ambassadorship: Netherlands (1994–98) lic diplomacy and public affairs since 2000. breaking was Ben Schulman, BE’38, who con- Guilford Dudley Jr. Previously, he was director of public diplo- tributed $1 million to the new center named Construction has begun on the new Schulman Center for Jewish Life. macy in the State Department’s Bureau of Graduated: 1929 (A&S) in his honor. Ambassadorship: Denmark (1969–71) European Affairs and held the post of pub- Vanderbilt Hillel, a program of the Jew- undergraduates are Jewish. The new facility will feature a sanctuary lic affairs officer in Spain from 1994 to 1998. U.S. ambassador to Latvia nominee Brian E. Carl- Samuel F. Hart ish Federation of Nashville, has begun a cam- “Being Jewish is central to who I am,” adaptable for educational and social events, From 1991 to 1993, he was director of Euro- son, will soon go before a Senate confirmation Graduated: 1969 (Graduate School) paign in partnership with the University to Ambassadorship: Ecuador (1982-85) explains junior Ilene Wolf, vice president of a dining area, student lounge, kosher kitchen, pean Affairs at the United States Information vote. Marcia, his wife, graduated from the School raise funds for the new center. The drive of Nursing in 1969. Vanderbilt Hillel.“The Schulman Center will student work center, library/reading room, Agency. His earlier overseas assignments Marshall F. McCallie includes goals of $2.2 million for construc- provide our community not only with a much seminar and conference rooms, and space for include service as deputy public affairs offi- confirmation vote has not been determined. Graduated: 1967 (A&S) tion and $2.5 million in endowment to meet Ambassadorship: Namibia (1993-96) needed home, but also a place to explore what a rabbi’s study and executive offices. Com- cer in London, public affairs officer in Oslo, If confirmed, Carlson will join W. Robert maintenance and programming needs. it means to be Jewish.” pletion is slated for August 2002. Norway, and Sofia, Bulgaria, and assistant Pearson as a Vanderbilt graduate currently W. Robert Pearson Approximately 4 percent of Vanderbilt’s information officer in Belgrade and Caracas, serving as U.S. ambassador. Pearson gradu- Graduated: 1965 (A&S) Venezuela. ated from the College of Arts and Science in Ambassadorship: Turkey (2000–present) Latvia, a Baltic state, is located in north- 1965 and was confirmed as U.S. ambassador Jim Sasser eastern Europe bordering Estonia, Lithuania to Turkey in 2000. Graduated: 1958 (A&S) 1961 (Law) Class of 2005 Boasts Highest Enrollment Yield, Other Records and Russia. Carlson and his wife, Marcia, who grad- Ambassadorship: China (1996-99) As with all upper-level presidential appoint- uated from the Vanderbilt School of Nurs- The Class of 2005 is smaller than in year’s percent increase over last year. and Hispanic students (68) in the Universi- ments, Carlson’s nomination must be con- ing in 1969, currently live in Virginia. past, which, according to University officials, Even with the decrease in admissions, the ty’s history. This year, 288 of those enrolled firmed by the U.S. Senate. The date for the is a healthy sign of a University able to be all-important enrollment yield — the per- classified themselves as minority. Ninety-two more selective in the admission process. centage of those applicants who were accept- of the 1,557 entering freshmen did not spec- “This is, by far, the most competitive year ed and actually enrolled — soared to a record ify race, according to University Registrar in Vanderbilt’s history,”said William Shain, level of 34.4 percent, the highest since 1991. Gary Gibson. dean of undergraduate admissions. Last year’s enrollment yield rate was 33.8 per- The freshman class came from 46 states This year, 1,557 freshmen enrolled in the cent, according to the Office of Admissions. and the District of Columbia, with Tennessee ENGINEERING STUDENT HAS THE ANSWERS University. According to the “10 -Day Report” “This is when admissions work is really as the top state followed by Texas, Georgia, Engineering junior Matt Keller matched wits last spring with top nation- issued Sept. 11 by the University Registrar’s exciting; Vanderbilt is clearly on a roll,”said Florida, Illinois and a tie between Ohio and al students as a contestant in the annual JEOPARDY! College Cham- Office, 86 fewer students enrolled than in Shain. “It is a remarkable and appropriate Alabama. The class of 2005 represents 44 pionship. Keller fared well, walking away a few thousand dollars 2000. The report details the University’s offi- compliment to the institution that our visi- countries, according to the July 2001 enroll- richer and having achieved his first 15 minutes of fame via national tel- cial enrollment figures for the academic year. bility and popularity are growing nationally.” ment profile. evision. He also provided the University with free advertising, wearing his Vanderbilt sweatshirt proudly. “It was definitely one of the greatest Fewer freshmen are on campus this fall The entering class is also topping the charts The University as a whole boasts robust experiences of my life,” he reports. “I got a free trip to Seattle, met bright due to an 8.4 percent decrease in the rate of based on testing, academic performance and numbers. The total number of students enrolled students from around the country, had a lot of fun and, of course, made admissions, which translates to an all-time leadership qualities. The Class of 2005 boasts in the University has increased from 10,194 some money.” Keller won the first of his two games handily before being edged out in the semifinals by “a guy from Harvard.” He blanked dur- low admission rate of 46.4 percent. The decrease a number of top students: 123 class presi- in 2000 to 10,496 this year. Retention rates ing the Final Jeopardy round on the name of U.S. House Majority Whip was enacted by the Admissions Office to hit dents, 172 first- or second-ranked students for each of the entering classes over the Tom DeLay. “I’m not into politics, so I had no idea on that one.” His the desired planned class size. The previous and 514 athletic team captains, as well as other past three years are higher than the past. The favorite question, though, was a breeze. An Iowa native, Keller quickly identified the University of Iowa’s mascot as Herkey the Hawkey. two entering classes exceeded the Universi- appealing characteristics, according to a July retention rate for the class of 2004 is at a Keller qualified for the show through a national audition, testing, and ty’s targeted size. 2001 enrollment profile. record 94.34 percent. interview process last fall. Here he is shown with JEOPARDY! host Alex The past five years have seen the largest The Class of 2005 has the largest number Trebek. numbers of applicants in Vanderbilt’s histo- of minorities — regardless of citizenship — ry, with this year’s 9,738 applications break- ever. The freshman class represents the largest ing previous records. This number is a 9.4 number of African-American students (105)

8 VANDERBILT MAGAZINE FALL 2001 9 Following the tragic events of September 11, many alumni have contacted the University asking for information about alumni caught in the attacks. If you have an experience you’d be willing to share with your fellow alumni, please contact Vanderbilt Magazine’s editor, Ken Schexnayder at (615) 322-3988 or [email protected].

Terrorist Attacks Pull Vanderbilt Campus Together Like many communities across the country,Vanderbilt Uni- versity reached out to its regional and global neighbors, while turning its focus inward to support students, faculty, and staff affected by the September 11 terrorist attacks in Washington, New York, and Pennsylvania. While the magnitude of the tragedy’s impact on Vanderbilt remains uncertain, the images and words that follow offer some insight into the community’s dedication to preserving its sense of morality and helping others to heal.

Students, faculty, and staff gathered at the Sarratt Student Center and Benton Chapel for discussions and memorial services, including a gathering with Chancellor Gordon Gee (above). Eleni Binioris joined nearly thirty students who In the days after the attacks, the Sarratt Student Center and the Student Recreation Center remained took advantage of a bus chartered by the university to take them home to New open 24 hours a day offering students counseling, toll-free long-distance service to reach family (photo at York to be with family and return them to campus for classes (top photo). right), and a place to gather. Meals from a canceled conference at the Kennedy Center were delivered to feed those who waited hours for the chance to donate blood. Alumni Lawn became a place for gathering and memorials such as the “Moment of Silence” service, at which Navy ROTC student Andrea Alvord held the American flag (above). Prayer flags were hung from a tree outside Sarratt to honor victims of the attacks PHOTOGRAPHY BY NEIL BRAKE and offer thoughts and express feelings about the future (top photo).

10 VANDERBILT MAGAZINE FALL 2001 11 Women Advance to Elite Eight Whitt Edges Toward Goal Round of NCAA Tournament Lauren Whitt is steadily getting closer Youth Soccer Select The women’s basketball team reached the to her goal. A goalkeeper with the team and earned PORTS Elite Eight round of the NCAA tournament women’s soccer team, she spent the past the most valuable S in March, losing to eventual national cham- two soccer seasons recovering from sep- goalkeeper award. pion Notre Dame, 72-64. The Commodores arate ACL injuries and should start the As a starter in the Coach’s Approach to Winning Serves Up Historic Title Run for Women’s Tennis finished the season with a 24-10 record and fall season in the award-winning form of first game of her placed second in the SEC tournament, includ- This year, women’s tennis coach in these classrooms and also compete at this her freshman year. sophomore season ing a win over Tennessee. PEYTON HOGE Geoff Macdonald led a Vanderbilt level is very much a challenge,”he says.“I sim- Whitt began her soccer career in her against Alabama, Several Vanderbilt players earned nation- athletic team further than any other ply won’t sign a player if I don’t think she under- hometown of Birmingham at age five. she suffered her al honors. Sophomore center Chantelle Ander- coach in the school’s 128-year his- stands the academics involved at Vanderbilt.” She got goal fever one rainy day five years first ACL injury. son was named to the NCAA All-Tournament Lauren Whitt tory. Macdonald’s foray into tennis is by acci- later during a muddy game that ended in Her second ACL team, Associated Press All-SEC first team, On May 21, his team competed for dent—literally. As a seventh-grader in Naples, a shootout.“Nobody wanted to play goalie,” injury occurred the following June. Coaches All-SEC first team, SEC Tourna- the national championship—a Van- Fla., he missed out on little league baseball she recalls.“I didn’t mind playing there. We “Training is going great,”she says of her ment Most Valuable Player, and Women’s derbilt first—against Stanford Uni- tryouts when his mother was injured in a made a save or two, won the shootout, and I rehabilitation. “My knee is stronger than it Basketball Journal All-American. Junior for- versity, the New York Yankees of car accident. Instead of playing baseball that fell in love with the position. I’ve been a goalie was before.” ward Zuzi Klimesova was named to the women’s collegiate tennis.Vanderbilt summer, he took the tennis lessons she had ever since.” Whitt is an academic junior with two NCAA All-Tournament team, Coaches All- lost the match, but the team returned bought for herself. In her freshman year at Vanderbilt, Whitt remaining years of soccer eligibility. She SEC second team, Associated Press All-SEC to campus as heroes. “I hit the first two balls over the fence, but earned NSCAA Third-Team All-Central Region hopes to play professionally, and eventually

NEIL BRAKE second team, SEC Academic Honor Roll, “I don’t think the players under- I totally fell in love with the difficulty of it. honors and was named to Soccer Buzz magazine’s plans to work in sports management and pro- CoSIDA/Verizon District IV All-Academic stood how historic this was for our I was drawn to the fact that in tennis, no one Freshman All-American team (honorable motions. But first, she wants to play again for Team,and All-Academic third team. Sopho- school, and that we were a part of some- can sub for you.” mention) and to the All-Central Region freshman the U.S. national soccer team with an eye on Coach Geoff Macdonald offers a helping hand to freshman more guard Ashley McElhiney was named team. She also played for the under-19 U.S. the Olympics. thing meaningful,”Macdonald says. Kori Scott during Vanderbilt’s near-championship season. That’s the approach he takes in training to the SEC All-Tournament team. His team advanced very far, very his student-athletes. Other honorees included SEC Academ- quickly. But this accomplishment is no iso- coach of the year, including at Vanderbilt in “My whole attitude on coaching is one of New Memorial Gym Exhibits Celebrate the Past ic Honor Roll members Jillian Danker, Jack- lated blip on the radar of athletic achieve- 2000. At Vanderbilt, his team has finished no ‘This is really hard, yet you can do it.’ Not, Historical exhibits celebrating the people may have significant memorabilia. ie Munch, and Candice Storey. ment; it’s the result of years of hard work and lower than No. 15 nationally in each of the ‘Hey, how could you miss that? That was so and traditions that have shaped Vanderbilt “Over the years, fans collect rare items,” the convergence of talent Macdonald and his past five years and has ranked in the top three easy.’ One of the biggest things we work on basketball will be unveiled as part of the $24 says Rod Williamson, associate athletic direc- staff successfully recruited to the University. of the SEC in four of the past five years. is respecting every shot and not falling prey million renovation to Memorial Gym. tor. “Someone may have the game jersey of In his first job as head coach, Macdonald During his career, Macdonald has devel- to overlooking the so-called easy shots. “We have tremendous tradition with our an All-American or an old radio recording, took the Southeastern Conference cellar- oped nine All-American players, including “Winning takes moment-to-moment basketball programs,”says Todd Turner, someone else might have a one-of-a-kind dwelling LSU Tigers to the NCAA champi- Julie Ditty, Vanderbilt’s first. He also has nur- focus,”he adds.“When [junior] Kate Burson athletics director, “and we want people to photograph or a rare game program. Experts onship as the No. 13 seed in only three short tured future physicians, attorneys, and teach- beat an All-American, she wasn’t thinking of know we are proud of it. We want to bring tell us that as our display gains momen- years. Later at Duke, he guided the Blue Dev- ers who could hold their own on the tennis winning. She was thinking of playing each our legends back to life with a display that tum, people will surprise us with neat things ils to the Final Four. At each of his three head court in the competitive SEC. point and putting the points together in

NEIL BRAKE will be both enlightening and entertaining.” they would like to share.” coaching positions, he was voted conference “To recruit student-athletes who can thrive the right way.” The gym renovation will be complete Williamson asks that fans who have a relic by fall. New features include a practice gym, from either the men’s or women’s program The women’s basketball team celebrates with coaches’ offices, and an enlarged eastside contact him by phone at 615/322-4051, Coach Jim Foster after beating Colorado 65-59 entrance and corridors featuring exhibit sites. by e-mail at [email protected], Leadership Program Aimed at Improving Football Team to win the NCAA Midwest Regional Tournament While Vanderbilt has many archival materials, or by mail at P.O. Box 120158, Nashville, on the road to the Elite Eight. A critique of Vanderbilt’s 3-8 football rec- is often an attitude of ‘you are or aren’t a captain by your teammates,”he says.“I want the University is putting out a call to fans who Tenn., 37212. ord for the 2000 season led Coach Woody leader.’ the team to think hard about who their captains Widenhofer to establish a leadership pro- “I’ve always thought true leaders were should be. We expect more leadership from gram aimed at improving team perform- born,” he admits, “but I also think a lot of our captains, so this election will be important Sidelines ance, discipline, and camaraderie. people have varying levels of leadership to our success.” Vanderbilt has assumed ownership of Women’s United Soccer Association’s supple- John Hall, BE’55,Vanderbilt’s first Academic A leadership committee of players qualities that can be developed. Even great Widenhofer also created the Commodore the Legends Club of Tennessee in Franklin. mental draft. All-American in 1954 and a magna cum representing each class serves as a liaison leaders must hone their skills. As coaches, Chain Gang. “Every single player has a role The 36-hole golf course will provide a home David Lee, BS’75, quarterback and cap- laude graduate, was inducted in June into the between the team and coaching staff. The the most important thing we can do is help and every player is a link,”he explains.“Like course for the Vanderbilt men’s and women’s tain of Vanderbilt’s 1974 Peach Bowl Verizon Academic All-America Hall of Fame. group gathers weekly for a leadership seminar. our players become better leaders.” a chain, we’re only going to be as strong as golf teams. The transaction was completed football team, joined the football staff at the He is one of only 60 members of the organization. “Vanderbilt students can attend classes in Because of the program, Widenhofer our weakest link. To remind us of this, we’re using private funds from an anonymous donor. University of Arkansas as quarterbacks coach. Retired chairman and CEO of Ashland Inc. in leadership development,”Widenhofer observes. delayed the annual election of team captains. going to issue chain links to players doing May graduate and soccer defender For the previous seven years, he was offen- Kentucky, Hall has been a University trustee “And many companies send their staff members “The greatest honor you can receive as a things the right way as a constant reminder Laurie Black, BS’01, was selected by the sive coordinator at Rice University under for- since 1987, serving as chairman of the board to seminars. Yet in the world of sports, there Vanderbilt football player is to be elected of our chain gang.” Atlanta Heat in the fourth round of the mer Arkansas head coach Ken Hatfield. from November 1995 through April 1999.

12 VANDERBILT MAGAZINE FALL 2001 13 I have wondered about these people, now that I am one of them. plenty of room, and the atmosphere was usually peaceful. The sight I have watched them over the years entering the stadium in their yel- of the Parthenon over my right shoulder inspired my study, and in low garb, but I have never detected much open excitement in their a reassuring way it put everything on the field into its ephemeral per- voices. They speak quietly and politely with each other as would befit spective. attendance at a solemn or serious occasion. I have seen aging, wiry I have tried to maintain that perspective through the years, but men who still carry themselves as men who might have been athletes I can’t; for I love Vanderbilt, and I love those boys who run out week fifty years ago, when they were young and bright of eye and Vanderbilt after week to collide with a fate that only young men could presume was a winner. And I have seen very old people staring raptly ahead to change. The rest of us know that we will not change Vanderbilt, by Wayne Christeson, B.A.’ 70 toward the stadium, being helped along by younger friends or and we glance askance at each other as the final quarter wanes, won- family members who know how much this means to them. They are dering at the power which defeats us but keeps us clinging to our a touching group. seats. “That which we are, we are,” Tennyson said, but at some vis- Toward the end of the Vanderbilt/South Carolina football game last week, with the Gamecocks firmly in What distinguishes them is an ageless suffusion of light in their ceral level we also know that somehow, obdurately, intractably, and eyes. They seem pilgrims who care nothing about the cost or the probably foolishly, we are truly “one equal temper of heroic hearts” control, the stands began to empty and the sparse crowd began to thin. Most of the people who remained pain of their journey. They are not here because they expect Vanderbilt and lifelong fans of Vanderbilt. to win, but because they believe perhaps a miracle will happen— As I watched the yellow-clad spectators hanging on in small clus- something beyond expectation, but not beyond their tireless imag- ters against the growing gray of autumn and the emptying stands, seemed loyal to the point of unconsciousness. As I gazed across the field toward the alumni section, in the inations; something unseen by anyone before; something these peo- I thought of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 73: ple want to be present to witness. growing gloom of the overcast afternoon, the expanse of dull gray metal began to grow as the vanishing They have seen it before, in glimpses— in ’69 against Alabama That time of year thou mayst in me behold and in ’82 against Tennessee— and in the minds of these pilgrims When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang spectators left the stands and entered the dark tunnels into their lives outside. All that remained after a those wins might have been just last week, so vivid and immediate Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, are their memories. Even so, the wait for something larger and more Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang ... permanent at Dudley Field has been long. Maintaining faith has while were isolated gatherings of indistinct people dressed in the paling yellow of their Vanderbilt shirts been hard. and I caught fire at the beauty of these people and their lives. There is something magical about Vanderbilt football. How can You see them every fall at Vanderbilt: they are the natural cycling and jackets. These people would hang on until it was time, too, for them to go. a team compile a losing record every year for 18 straight years? Robert of our seasons. Service might call it a spread misere, in the desperate hands of Dangerous Dan McGrew. Yeats might suggest that some portent of the millennium was slouching toward Dudley Field, as yet unborn October 25, 2000 and unsuspected: could an entire generation of losing augur a shift within the planetary arcs of the SEC— a split at the center of the Wayne Christeson took a B.A. in Philosophy from gyre? The prospect is compelling because of the price which has Vanderbilt in 1970, with honors. He is a retired been paid. And so we wait, in quietly wild surmise. attorney and lives with his wife Anne on a farm The students do not feel this power yet. They have not experi- in Leiper’s Fork, Tennessee, where they raise enced the slow tread of insistent failure, year after year, from one horses. Anne Christeson graduated as Founder’s decade to the next. Maybe they think there’s plenty of time left to Medalist from Vanderbilt in 1971 and cur- begin winning— but there isn’t. Maybe they think it doesn’t mat- rently teaches Latin at Montgomery Bell ter— but it does. Maybe they think they can remain indifferent— Academy in Nashville. but they can’t. They will become like the rest of us in time. My undergraduate indifference was formed early when I began taking my books to the games to study— really! There was always

14 FALL 2001 15 Invasion of theBrainBrain ScientistsScientists

by GayNelle Doll

s species go, Homo sapiens were not the most promising creatures ever to come down the evolutionary pike. We lacked the cheetah’s speed, the boar’s Acompact strength, the owl’s acute sense of hearing. When the going got tough, Homo sapiens could not fly down to Rio for the winter or burrow into the mud and dream of better days. Human reproduction, more- Jon Kaas, Centennial Professor of over, was slow and inefficient. When a healthy infant did arrive on the scene, it took Psychology, professor of cell biology, and years to reach self-sufficiency—months just to support its own impossibly large head. Ah, but that head. Kennedy Center investigator, has stud- It housed our secret weapon—a huge brain with the capacity for language and ied the brain for some 35 years, most of logic, poetry and physics. Without it, we would surely have followed the 98 percent of species on earth that have gone the way of the dinosaur and the dodo bird. them at Vanderbilt. Kaas and his col- Our brain has been our ticket to survival, but as much as we have become masters leagues have found that when large parts of our world, fathoming how the earth was born and how stars die, we still know of sensory systems are deprived of their amazingly little of the three-pound organ that makes everything else possible. “We have a good understanding of the kidneys and liver, of heart organization, normal input, they can grow new con- and as a result we have good methods of treatment and repair for those organs,” nections to restore activity—even in says Jon Kaas, Centennial Professor of Psychology, whose research has revolutionized thinking about brain circuitry (see opposite page). “But the brain is so mature brains. Kaas’s insights have rev- much more complicated that our understanding of it is now at perhaps the level olutionized thinking about brain plastic- that Aristotle had of the heart.” ity and helped lead the way for his induction “We still don’t understand why we get Alzheimer’s or schizophrenia or psychotic depression,”says Elaine Sanders-Bush, professor of pharmacology, profes- last year into the National Academy of sor of psychiatry, investigator and senior fellow at the John F. Kennedy Center, and Sciences, one of the highest honors be- director of the Vanderbilt Brain Institute. stowed on an American scientist. Not one All of that is rapidly changing. “The explosion in technology has given us unprecedented opportunities to understand how the human brain works,”Kaas says. to rest on his laurels, Kaas says, “Plasticity “Molecular neuroscience is giving us tools to understand organization of brain is only part of what interests me. I’m also systems. Functional magnetic resonance imaging, miniaturization of recording efforts, and computer technology are allowing us to make tremendous progress. interested in trying to determine normal “Sixty percent of our genes are expressed only in the brain, which means the brain organization. We don’t know enough greatest amount of new knowledge will be related to the brain,”says Lee Limbird, about brain systems, how they’re organ- associate vice chancellor for health affairs for research and professor of pharmacology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. ized, and how they function.” “At least two-thirds of the money granted by the National Institutes of Health relates to brain research,”adds Limbird, who led a group of Vanderbilt planners that first proposed formation of a brain institute. Mental disorders, according to the U.S. Surgeon General’s Report on Mental Health issued in 1999, collectively account for more of the overall burden of disease than do all forms of cancer. In the next 10 years, Vanderbilt will invest $250 million to be at the leading edge of neuroscience research and clinical care.“By un-

VANDERBILT NEUROSCIENTISTS COLLABORATE TO SOLVE THE MYSTERIES OF THE MIND 16 VANDERBILT MAGAZINE FALL 2001 17 JEFF FRAZIER The Mysterious, Magnificent Brain

for example, we can put them in contact with Research Center and the new Center for last year to increase the impact and visibili- the right person at the Kennedy Center.” Integrative and Cognitive Neuroscience.“When ty of neuroscience and related behavioral sci- “It’s rare for a university to have such I was recruited to Vanderbilt, Jon Kaas invited ences at Vanderbilt. In this capacity he has breadth of expertise on one campus,”says me to his house and said,‘We want the kind of been instrumental in helping recruit a num- Ever wondered how a fruit fly Limbird. “Vanderbilt offers students train- colleagues who make us look forward to going ber of new faculty to Vanderbilt, including acts under the influence of ing ranging from the very basic molecular to work.’The investigators on this campus like David Noelle, who joins the department of hallucinogenic drugs? Elaine level to the study of human behavior.” each other, which is a rare thing.” electrical engineering and computer science Researchers in the College of Arts and Schall directs the Vanderbilt Vision Research in the School of Engineering and Susan Hespos, Sanders-Bush, professor of Science, Peabody College, the School of Center, which draws on expertise in low vi- who joins the department of psychology and pharmacology and director Medicine, School of Engineering, and the sion rehabilitation at Peabody, sophisticated human development at Peabody this fall; and Kennedy Center are working together to un- vision testing and functional brain imaging Gordon Logan, Centennial Professor of of the Vanderbilt Brain Institute, derstand how brain cells, circuits, and sys- in Arts and Science, computational proce- Psychology, who came to Vanderbilt last year. has. Sanders-Bush has spent tems change during development, through dures and devices developed in the School of Logan’s studies of automaticity (acting years studying serotonin and learning, and in response to injury or illness. Engineering, and clinical populations avail- spontaneously or unconsciously), impulsiv- “Neuroscience is by nature interdiscipli- able through the School of Medicine. Schall ity (acting uncontrollably), and how we con- serotonin receptors in the ac- nary,”observes Jeffrey Schall, professor of psy- also directs the Center for Cognitive and trol our actions are particularly important in tion of hallucinogenic drugs. chology and director of the Vanderbilt Vision Integrative Neuroscience (CICN), formed understanding schizophrenia and attention “Serotonin is an ancient neu- rotransmitter that’s been car-

ried down through evolution. Bridging the gap between engineering and medicine, It has been linked to so many Bob Galloway has developed techniques that help different brain functions and surgeons navigate the intricate terrain of the brain. behaviors that it’s astound- Galloway, professor of biomedical engineering and ing,” she says. “Hallucinogenic neurosurgery, and director of the Center for Technology- drugs are fascinating because Guided Therapy, has pioneered development of image-

JEFF FRAZIER guided software and instruments that facilitate tracking they produce in humans al- of a surgeon’s position during operations. derstanding the brain better, we’ll be able to cure Which is precisely the aim of the Vanderbilt tered perception. We’re work- or treat stress-related disease like hypertension Brain Institute. Formed two years ago, the The Vanderbilt team of surgeons, radiologists, ing to understand how we and cardiovascular problems,”says Sohee Park, Vanderbilt Brain Institute is a means of pro- biomedical engineers, electrical engineers, computer associate professor of psychology in the College moting discovery efforts of neuroscientists, humans conceive of ourselves scientists, and radiation oncologists with whom Galloway of Arts and Science. training of undergraduate, graduate, medical, and who we are.” Sanders- Concepts such as awareness, intention, and post-doctoral students, and coordination works is a unique assemblage. “Only one or two other Bush also directs the three- desire, and emotion that were once the exclu- of public education and outreach in brain places in the world can approximate what we have sive domain of philosophers and psychologists sciences. It brings together researchers working year-old neuroscience Ph.D. here,” he says. are now the focus of experiments in brain in such diverse areas as nerve communication, program. Shown here in her science at Vanderbilt, which enjoys a long and learning and memory, behavioral and cognitive Variations on Galloway’s image-guided technology, distinguished history in neuroscience. science, neurogenetics (genetic basis of nerve lab, she oversees the work which provides for three-dimensional mapping of the “During the next decade we anticipate major tissues), neural development, sensory sciences, of graduate students such as area targeted for surgery, are also used for spinal and changes in the ways people are treated for learn- bioengineering, and clinical neuroscience relat- Efrain Garcia, a 2nd-year phar- ing disabilities,”says Kaas.“We will have access to ed to neurological and mental disorders. liver surgery at Vanderbilt. Plans are under way to apply a host of new behavioral methods, including com- “Vanderbilt needed some kind of organizing macology student. the technology to cochlear implants. Galloway also puter-driven programs that will be incorporated structure for neuroscience because we’re spread expects a version of his software to be commercially with neuropharmacological treatments. The amount out in so many parts of the University,”Sanders- available in the near future. of new information is so vast that just keeping up Bush explains.“The Vanderbilt Brain Institute is with new procedures and new information is a a virtual structure for representing neuroscience

huge challenge. That’s why collaboration is to the outside world and getting national recog- JEFF FRAZIER essential. None of us can be an expert in every- nition for our strengths in individual areas. If something, but we can share our knowledge.” one is interested in developmental disabilities,

18 VANDERBILT MAGAZINE FALL 2001 19 The Mysterious, Magnificent Brain

deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), leadership and enthusiastic teaching of Leslie trinsically interesting subject,”says Terry Page, room does not convey and he works in close collaboration with re- Smith in the Department of Psychology. who directs the Neuroscience Studies Program. the kind of insight that Vanderbilt’s four-year-old un- searchers at Vanderbilt’s John F.Kennedy Center. So many interested students were, in effect, Page is professor of biological sciences, pro- students gain by being “We’re all working on pieces of the same creating their own neuroscience major by fessor of biology and chair of the department. subjects themselves. dergraduate neuroscience puzzle,”Logan says. “There’s a sense of syn- choosing the independent study course and “The program appeals to students because “Students often come major now boasts more than ergy that comes from the fact that we’re all then taking every psychology and neuro- it’s interdisciplinary. They can take advan- into an introductory working toward a common purpose, and science course they could get their hands on tage of courses and faculty in several differ- class with preconceived 100 students. Neuroscience that really important work is going to be done that administration responded by approving ent departments and schools at Vanderbilt.” notions about psychol- courses are increasingly pop- at Vanderbilt in the next ten years. I think a neuroscience major. One of the strongest components of the ogy,”Logan adds.“They ular with students from other about some of my work differently than I Neuroscience majors have chosen a great major is the chance to do research.“Nearly all think it will help them did a year ago as a result of being exposed to time and place to study the brain. The new neuroscience majors spend time doing understand why their disciplines as well. Here, psy- other researchers here.” dean of the College of Arts and Science, research in faculty laboratories,”says Page.“We mother is like she is, or chology major Amanda Researchers like Logan and Park, who also Richard McCarty, is a respected authority in have about 35 faculty engaged in all aspects why someone cut them Vaughn, neuroscience major joined the Vanderbilt faculty last year, were the closely aligned field of psychology. Powerful of neuroscience who are part of our research off in traffic. But aca- lured here not only by opportunities to col- new ways of monitoring brain activity in hu- program for undergraduates. They come from demic psychology real- Jinnie Kim, and science com- laborate with other first-rate researchers, but mans as well as completion of mapping the engineering, the medical school, Peabody, and ly isn’t about individual munications major Robyn also by the presence of a young, flourishing human genome have accelerated the rate at Arts and Science—everything from the people at all. It’s about neuroscience undergraduate major and a fast- which new knowledge of the brain is un- molecular level to human behavior.” how the mind func- Brown put in lab time with growing Ph.D. program. folding. Researchers are uncovering essential Having the chance to see what it’s like tions—how attention Jeffrey Schall, professor of Now only four years old, Vanderbilt’s un- clues to understanding disorders which have to be a research subject is also a valuable works, how choices are psychology and director of dergraduate neuroscience major is attracting profoundly affected millions of lives and experience.“Being a subject in a psychology made, things like that.” more students each year. More than 100 un- defied understanding—autism and Alzheimer’s experiment is an important educational One challenge for the Vanderbilt Vision Research dergraduates are now majoring in neuroscience. disease, schizophrenia and addiction. experience,”says Logan, who taught a fresh- Kaas is getting students Center and the new Center The decision to offer a neuroscience major “Students are drawn to the neuroscience man psychology seminar last year. “Just focused on normal brain grew out of student demand spawned by the major by outstanding instructors and an in- describing how experiments work in the class- organization.“We don’t for Integrative and Cognitive know enough about Neuroscience. how brains are organized and how they func- JEFF FRAZIER tion,”he says.“Students “The Stroop effect shows that when you have two C.M. (1991), John Ridley Stroop: Creator of A THE EFFECT like to rush on to the StroopStroop dimensions of stimuli and you’re paying attention Landmark Cognitive Task, Canadian Psychology] to one, you can’t ignore the other,” says Gordon told me the paper didn’t get a lot of attention up next question because normal brain organ- industry. Large pharmaceuticals and small we’re always happy to show them how we One of the most widely cited attentional tasks in Logan, Centennial Professor of Psychology. “The until the 1960s, when people became interested ization is not as exotic to talk about as some start-up companies are both looking for conduct it. It’s highly regulated by the govern- psychology had its origins during the 1930s at reason the word intrudes over the color is that we in cognition and how reading worked. By that time of the disorders, but our greatest lack of knowl- neuroscientists, says Sanders-Bush. “It’s an ment for the animals’ benefit, and people who Peabody College, long recognized for its strengths process words automatically. We’ve all had so Stroop was close to retirement, and he had written edge is in how brain systems are organized. expanding area because we still lack good tour our labs are usually surprised by the level in psychology and cognition. The concept is relatively much practice reading words that we process them books on religion and God.” In fact when an academic simple and went largely unnoticed for decades. automatically, and even if we’re trying to focus on group contacted Stroop with the intention of doing “Neuroscience is a very challenging major treatments for many brain diseases and of care our animals receive.” Known as the Stroop effect, it was the work of the color, the word competes with the response.” a brief biography, he was unimpressed. “It was just with a heavy load of requirements and a behavioral disorders.” Since 1997 Vanderbilt has increased doctoral student J. Ridley Stroop, who earned a The Stroop effect is used in dozens of other something from his past that he didn’t care about tremendous amount of work. It’s not some- Until a few years ago, scientists’ abilities overall public understanding of the brain, B.S. in 1924, M.A. in 1924, and Ph.D. in 1933, all domains. Logan and his wife, Jane Zbrodoff, senior much,” Logan says. thing a student would choose lightly,”adds to examine and study the human brain func- issues surrounding the brain, and the latest from Peabody. In 1935, Stroop published a paper lecturer in psychology, have come up with a But these days Stroop’s legacy looms large. in the Journal of Experimental Psychology which mathematical variation of the Stroop effect. “I might “From November 1970 to November 2000, the Kaas. “It is attracting bright, enthusiastic tion were limited to autopsy. Magnetic scientific findings by partnering with the described experiments conducted a few years say, for example, are these problems true or false: Stroop effect has been cited more than 2,000 students who are thinking about careers in resonance imaging and PET scans have rev- Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives to present earlier at Peabody’s Jesup Psychological Laboratory, Three plus four equals twelve? Or three times four times,” Logan says. “It’s been replicated millions medicine or research.” olutionized research—but humane animal a highly successful Brain Awareness pro- demonstrating how easily the brain can become equals seven? Those things are hard to reject of times.” Vanderbilt’s transinstitutional grad- research still plays a critical role in scientif- gram. Vanderbilt also sponsors programs for confused. because they would be true if you were doing Not only does Logan know by heart the number Here’s how it works: Name the colors of these another mathematical function,” Logan explains. of Stroop citations—when he joined the Vanderbilt uate neuroscience program, just three years ic understanding of how the brain works. children and the Brain Bee, an electronic words as quickly as you can—not what the words J. Ridley Stroop himself apparently was never faculty and moved to Nashville last year, Logan old, already has 27 Ph.D. students and offers Vanderbilt researchers rely on a wide vari- statewide competition in which high school say, but the colors themselves. terribly impressed with what he had done, and found out where Stroop had lived as a student and both integrative and molecular tracks. “By ety of species, from cockroaches and mollusks students test their knowledge of neuroscience. soon turned to other interests. He was a faculty drove by the address. Since then Logan has even this fall we expect to have 40 Ph.D. students. to star nose moles and monkeys.“Animal re- Throughout the year, Vanderbilt invites world- BLUE member and administrator at David Lipscomb driven interested colleagues visiting Nashville past College in Nashville for more than 40 years, teaching the unassuming house where Stroop once lived. It’s astounding,”says Sanders-Bush.“Admin- search has been crucial to any number of break- renowned experts in neuroscience and relat- GREEN chemistry and the Bible. “It’s white,” Logan says with a wry smile. istration has viewed a strong graduate pro- throughs in understanding the brain,”says ed disciplines to come to Nashville and share “His Ph.D. thesis was one of the most famous Schall, who frequently gives qualified students their discoveries. YELLOW gram as crucial to building the University’s ever done anywhere,” says Logan, who has been —GayNelle Doll strength in neuroscience.” tours of the animal labs he and his colleagues New technology, innovative faculty, and lobbying for some kind of display at Peabody that rely on to conduct their research.“We try to bright students are all contributing to a bright As you probably noted, the words themselves have would acknowledge Stroop’s contibution. “A friend Many of those doctoral graduates will pur- a strong influence over your ability to say the color. of mine who did a biography of Stroop [Macleod, sue academic careers, while others will enter educate people as to why it’s necessary, and outlook for neuroscience at Vanderbilt.

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provides additional patients, but not as many both benchside and bedside is Dr. Herbert the chance to collaborate with people like “We’re studying the most as researchers would like. Meltzer, Bixler/Johnson/Mays Chair in Psy- Sanders-Bush and Robert Kessler, professor interesting thing of all—our- If finding enough hours in the day is a chiatry, professor of psychiatry, and professor of radiology and radiological sciences and challenge for most neuroscientists, it is dou- of pharmacology. (For more on Meltzer’s work associate professor of psychiatry—“world selves,” says Sohee Park, bly so for those who also maintain clinical on schizophrenia, see page 30.) experts in the work I do.” associate professor of psy- practices. “I tell my students to think long “I try to span the whole spectrum. That That was before TennCare, Tennessee’s chology in the College of and hard before they decide to become a has always been my way of research,”says insurance system for low-income residents, clinician scientist,”says Vivian Casagrande, Meltzer. “I’m involved in studies from the added more restrictions on mental health Arts and Science. An ex- professor of cell biology, professor of psy- very basic level of what controls processes in services. The result has had profound rami- pert in schizophrenia, Park chology, professor of ophthalmology and the brain relating to memory and learning fications for scientist clinicians like Meltzer. visual sciences, and investigator and senior and hallucinations and delusions. But I’m “Care of the mentally ill in Tennessee has joined the Vanderbilt fac- fellow at the Kennedy Center. also, at the other end, involved in studies about deteriorated in the five years I’ve been here, ulty last year for the chance “It is nearly impossible to do both research how we can help people with schizophrenia and it’s getting worse all the time. It’s impos- to collaborate with neu- and have a clinical practice and do them both get jobs and lead productive lives. And at the sible to treat patients when their insurance will well. You cannot do science when you’re intermediate level I’m looking at issues of only pay for them to be hospitalized for four roscientists, cognitive psy- constantly wearing a beeper and on the physiology and neurochemistry of people or five days.You can’t get patients into a stable chologists, and clinical phone all the time. You have no time to go to with schizophrenia.” living situation in that time. But if the hospi- the library and read the latest research, Now at an age when many of his con- tal took on the burden without insurance psychiatrists. “By under- to reflect quietly.” temporaries are retiring, Meltzer came to reimbursement, it would go bankrupt. So standing the brain better, One faculty member who does manage Vanderbilt in 1996, attracted, he says, by the mentally ill drift in and out of crack hous- we’ll be able to cure or treat es and face exploitation. Nash- ville is appalling in terms of stress-related disease like its housing options for the men- hypertension and cardio- tally ill. But that’s what our so-

JEFF FRAZIER vascular problems.” ciety has said it’s willing to pay.” The human toll aside, from For children with delays in learning a practical standpoint the small communication and language, risk fac- number of patients with schiz- Still, a few persistent clouds looming on the For faculty like Robert Galloway Jr., pro- “Vanderbilt’s traditional insistence that tors are often evident in infancy—yet ophrenia that Vanderbilt can horizon worry people like Ford Ebner, professor of biomedical engineering and neuro- each department be fiscally separate and admit is not enough to meet intervention efforts rarely begin before fessor of psychology, professor of cell biolo- logic surgery and director of the Center for responsible for its own activities breaks down research demands. “It’s an gy, and investigator and senior fellow at the Technology-Guided Therapy, the demands can when you try to cross barriers,”Ebner says. age three and often not until later. Paul enormous struggle for me to John F. Kennedy Center. be extraordinary. Galloway puts in an average “It discourages investment in activity which Yoder, research professor of special find enough patients to par- Ebner voices concerns shared by many of of 75 hours a week on the job (see page 19), brings power and glory to something that’s ticipate in research studies, and his colleagues.“More than a hundred kids are knowing full well the graduate students he no longer part of you. Enthusiasm for an education and investigator and senior I spend far too much of my now majoring in neuroscience, which for teaches leave Vanderbilt making far more activity can get bogged down in the reali- fellow at the John F. Kennedy Center time and energies trying to do Vanderbilt is a pretty big major,”he says. lucrative salaries, and that he could triple or ties of fiscal responsibility.”Vanderbilt’s so,”Meltzer adds. for Research on Human Development, “At least a dozen kids every semester want to quadruple his income by accepting one of administration, Ebner adds, seems to recog- That Meltzer still faces his work in my lab. One of the problems we will the offers from private biotechnology firms nize the problem and be increasingly willing is working to develop methods of teach- work with enthusiasm and have to face eventually is that we don’t have that frequently come his way. to do find creative fiscal solutions that foster ing pre-language skills to young chil- optimism says something about enough faculty dedicated to meeting the de- Instead, he stays at Vanderbilt for the interdisciplinary work. both the nature of his work, dren at risk for language delays. Here, mand. Right now a rather large undergradu- chance to see his surgical innovations reach In addition to money, another crucial and the caliber of his colleagues. ate major is riding on the voluntary contribu- broader applications—and, he says, some- component of neuroscience research is Yoder uses play to assess the language “If it wasn’t exciting I’d be retired by now,”he concedes. tions and good will of several departments.” thing else.“Every year they give me a new set patients.“We need to be able to capitalize on skills of three-year-old Emily Heim, who “Most of us are in academia because we of really bright students to play with, and that our existing strengths in the basic sciences by “But we have an extraordinary love teaching and mentoring students,”says keeps me fired up. I wouldn’t be doing this if translating that into the clinical area, which takes part in the Kennedy Center’s TAG opportunity at Vanderbilt, and Sanders-Bush. “But because neuroscience I weren’t passionate about it.” has not been as well developed at Vanderbilt,” (Teaching Articulation and Grammar) I want to keep going. I want to is interdisciplinary, we’re having to double While everyone agrees that interdepart- says Sanders-Bush. The new Children’s Hos- be there when some of the next program. dip with many of our faculty who must com- mental collaboration is crucial to finding pital currently under construction will have set of answers arrives. It’s going

mit to teaching and mentoring students in solutions to many of neuroscience’s tough- a clinical research unit that includes devel- JEFF FRAZIER to happen in the next ten the neuroscience program as well as in their est problems, the reality of working togeth- opmental disabilities, providing a greater pa- years—it won’t be quite like home departments.” er across disciplinary lines is not always easy. tient base. Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital the dramatic effects of finding

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a cure for polio, but we’ll have huge advances this article, inviting the interviewer to her like to do for my birthday, I’d tell them over what we can do now.” home a few blocks from campus. I’d like to go to work all day without being Neuroscience:Neuroscience: Casagrande, who is only a few years younger “Neuroscientists study the most interest- interrupted. That would be my reward.” than Meltzer, echoes his sentiments.“I would ing thing of all—ourselves,”she says.“I look TheThe EarlyEarly YYearsears love to be around long enough to see some at my son and it’s fascinating to think about of these things we’ve worked so hard on come how fast his brain is growing and changing.” to fruition. It’s sad to think that I can’t go Neuroscience, she says, is like the old back and do more science—but I’m filling American frontier—full of exciting discov- Where to up my synapses. I’d need a whole new hard eries.“People have gone to the moon, we have Learn More drive.”Then she adds wistfully,“I wish I could a space station—but we don’t really under- Vanderbilt Vision return several more times, each time as a dif- stand ourselves. In this field, we are fortunate Research Center ferent type of scientist.” that our work is so captivating. I’d have http://vision-research.vanderbilt.edu When the answers come, it will be in no to live another 150 years to do everything I’d small measure due to the dedication of re- like to do.” John F. Kennedy Center www.vanderbilt.edu/kennedy Cosmeticaly deformed craniums, Hieronymous Bosch, The Cure Theodore Gericault, Old Woman searchers like these, who love their subject so “I think back to where we were when I start- 700B.C.–100A.D. of Folly, 1475–1480 Obsessed with Envy, 1822–1823 much they can’t get enough of it. Many are ed my career in the 1960s and it seems like the Vanderbilt Brain Institute married to other researchers in related fields. dark ages,”says Kaas.“Back then we had only 40,000 B.C. Prehistoric man creates holes in Middle Ages Barber-surgeons 1791 Luigi Galvani discovers www.vanderbilt.edu/neuroscience the skull presumably for religious rituals and roam the European country- that nerves can be stimulated Even their websites bubble with a geeky en- a quiver with a couple of arrows. Now we have treatment of medical conditions. side, offering to remove the by metallic electricity, thusiasm, complete with cartoons of labora- a whole arsenal of weapons that we can apply. Center for Molecular pierre de follie or “stone of providing the first insight tory rats on hallucinogenic drugs and tinny But it’s still not well appreciated how much we Neuroscience 2500 B.C. Egyptian papyrus records the madness” which was said to into how signals are www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/vumc/ earliest reference to effects of brain damage. exist inside the skulls of transmitted in the nervous renditions of the William Tell Overture. have yet to learn about the brain. centers/neuro mentally deranged people. system. Park, juggling teaching and research “People in neuroscience work hard be- 400 B.C. Hippocrates regards the brain as the with the responsibilities of a newborn son, cause they’re intrigued by their work,”Kaas seat of intelligence. 1649 Rene Descartes develops 1808 Franz Joseph Gall a theory that describes the describes how different enthusiastically agreed to be interviewed for concludes. “If someone asked me what I’d 800–1200 A.D. An Islamic school of brain mind as distinct from the functions are located in surgery flourishes during the height of brain. different parts of the brain. Islamic influence in the world. This gets unnecessarily elaborated as phrenology.

ON THE EDGE as remarkable and immediate as the cessation of Medtronics Tremor Control Therapy device to set CuttingCutting essential tremors or as empowering as interrupting electrical probes inside the thalamus, along a por- the brain signals that start epileptic seizures. New tion of the ventral intermediate nucleus, to stop technology has made implantation of devices to tremors. “High-frequency stimulation overrides control tremors and movement disorders faster, eas- the abnormal signaling,” Konrad explains. ier, and better for patients. Implanting electronic de- Because the device can be turned on and off vices that offer such relief is the work of Dr. Peter “we can tell if what we’re doing really affects the Konrad, assistant professor of neurological surgery. person,” Konrad says. “Before, we could only “Across the country, medical centers are shifting the guess if there was really a problem” in the treated way Parkinson’s is treated. We’re leading the way,” portion of the brain. Konrad says. “Technologically, we’re on the threshold of a Implants target a very small, specific area of lot of exciting advances,” he adds. Computer-guid- the brain. With an implant into the thalamus, many ed imaging gives surgeons real-time images of the patients’ tremors from Parkinson’s or other move- device as it’s being implanted in the brain, offer- Salvador Dali, Suburbs of the Paranoiac-Critical Town, 1936 ment disorders—shakes that limit their lives and ing a constant view into the body with minimal in- 1990 Seiji Ogawa and Tso-Ming Lee 1938 B.F. Skinner publishes cause constant discomfort—are instantly settled. vasiveness. “It allows for more accurate procedures develop functional magnetic resonance The Behavior of Organisms 1852 Hermann von Helmholtz measures A device set on the vagus nerve, the primary link with higher degrees of success,” Konrad says. imaging making it possible to monitor that describes how behavior the speed of a nerve impulse transmission between major organs of the body and the brain, “Overnight stays (following the surgery) will be rou- brain function in human subjects is shaped by rewards. which leads to the use of reaction time to not only decreases the progression and severity tine in the next year.” engaged in many activities. study mental processes. of seizures, it gives patients the ability to abort a 1962 F.O. Schmitt first uses seizure when they feel one beginning. the word “neuroscience” 1879 Wilhelm Wundt establishes the first Tremors result from faulty wiring, the brain’s to describe a new interdisci- experimental psychology laboratory and inability to regulate outflow of movement. Until re- plinary approach to under- writes the first psychology textbook. cently, the standard of treatment has been lesioning standing the mind and brain. ew technologies have made procedures unsuspected brain cells and rendering them com- 1929 Hans Berger demonstrates the first N heard of a few years ago almost routine and pletely ineffective. Lesions, in effect, destroyed human electroencephalogram, a weak brought deeper understanding to perplexing con- cells, in the process wiping away evidence of electrical signal recorded on the scalp but ditions. Few medical interventions produce results the problem’s sources. Now, Konrad uses a originating in the brain.

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Kaas says a whole range of mechanisms In the developing brain of an unborn child, of their sensory information from their are at work following brain injury, includ- however, the effects can be devastating. whiskers. When researchers trim the whiskers ing the growth of new connections over con- “Typically the fetus is only exposed to alcohol off one side in young rats, says Ebner, “the siderable distances in the brain. “We think until birth, and then unless the mother drinks animals are okay and there’s little damage Parietal Lobe Frontal Lobe sense of the body in space plasticity accounts for great recoveries even heavily while nursing the child, there is no to the nervous system—but they don’t get planning and control of actions after massive strokes that have left the vic- further exposure to alcohol. So the puzzling much information from those whiskers. Just tim unbelievably impaired,”he says. But there part is that deficiencies caused by prenatal that simple manipulation, once the rats have may also be highly undesirable effects of alcohol exposure don’t seem to self-correct.” grown up, leaves their cortex unable to mod- plasticity—phantom pain in parts of the Just why alcohol at an early age is so dev- ify the synapses in order for learning to occur body that have been amputated, or tinnitus at a normal rate.” Occipital Lobe (ringing in the ear) after damage to the Early intervention may be crucial in vision auditory system. ...when large parts of improving the outlook for develop- “We have two goals: Understanding how sensory systems are ing brains that have experienced sensory to make the brain repair itself and work deprivation. Ebner and his colleagues have better when it is damaged, and preventing deprived of their normal discovered that when rats are exposed to al- unfortunate outcomes” such as phantom cohol throughout gestation, the whisker Temporal Lobe pain or tinnitus. input, they can grow neurons adapt to change slowly. He believes hearing, visual recognition, Throughout most of our lives, Kaas thinks, new connections to that the slowed rate of plasticity—the abil- memory Cerebellum our brains continue to remodel themselves in ity of circuits to adapt and reorganize in balance and movement subtle ways. In the early stages of Alzheimer’s restore activity—even in response to experience or sensory stimula- disease, for example, circuits work to repair tion—could explain the mental retardation Brain Stem themselves.“Finally the system is so deterio- mature brains... that accompanies fetal alcohol syndrome. controls breathing, heart rate, rated that it has exhausted all possibilities, and blood pressure, digestion after injury, the brain that’s when we start to see the symptoms. But ncreasing brain activity by raising systems can lose 80 percent of their neurons is not stable for a very prenatal alcohol-exposed rats in an BRAIN BASICS 101 before that happens.” Ienriched environment, with plenty of That knowledge holds great promise for long time. So there is a stimulating toys, restores about half of the the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease, very long time in which brain’s plasticity. Now, Vanderbilt researchers Kaas believes. “If we can prevent the pro- are looking for a way to restore the rest of rain damage: The phrase is spoken with Kaas, Centennial Professor of Psychology, prived of their normal input, they can grow gression, I think we could reverse symptoms we can perhaps influence the function to fetal alcohol-exposed neu- the same gravity as terminal cancer or professor of cell biology, and Kennedy Center new connections to restore activity—even in to a considerable extent.”Specifically, treat- rons. Prenatal alcohol-exposed rats, they Bthird-degree burns—with good reason. investigator, has studied the brain for some 35 mature brains. ment might involve training individuals the outcome. have discovered, have reduced levels of the Injuries inflicted on the brain by accidents, years, most of them at Vanderbilt. His insights Scientists have known that following brain to keep their brains active. NMDA receptor, a protein that is important stroke, or disease have long been regarded as have revolutionized thinking about brain plas- injury from stroke or accident, people are One condition in which the brain’s abil- to nerve cell communication. A drug now largely irreversible. Scientists agreed that once ticity. Last year he was inducted into the National initially unable to perform some functions ity to adapt seems to be limited is prenatal astating is still subject to debate, but Ebner being tested appears to increase NMDA human—or animal—brains reached maturi- Academy of Sciences, one of the highest hon- but show improvement over time. But the exposure to alcohol. Ford Ebner, professor thinks sensory deprivation plays a role. receptor activity and help rats learn faster. ty, they were fixed. ors bestowed on an American scientist. mechanism for this phenomenon wasn’t of psychology, professor of cell biology, and “We know that alcohol regulates some indi- “If the results are positive, they could be Now, thanks to the research of Jon Kaas, we “Normally, mature brains have inhibito- well understood. investigator and senior fellow at the John F. vidual molecules that are important for learn- translatable to humans,”says Ebner. know that brain plasticity—the ability of cir- ry factors that prevent much growth,”Kaas “Now, we have seen that brain changes Kennedy Center, is probing how prenatal ex- ing and memory. The brain at the time of birth, —GayNelle Doll cuits to adapt and reorganize in response to explains. Under ordinary circumstances, that start rapidly—within minutes or hours—but posure to alcohol inhibits learning.“If adults after a period of alcohol exposure, is in a state experience or sensory stimulation—may slow is a good thing.“You wouldn’t want to form some changes take six to eight months. go on a drinking binge, we would come out where formation of new synapses can’t take with maturity, but it continues to occur through- new connections in the mature brain because That means that after injury, the brain is not of it with no detectable difference in our in- advantage of sensory experiences.” out life. Understanding how plasticity works it would just cause ‘noise.’” stable for a very long time. So there is a very tellectual abilities,”he says.“Alcohol’s effects Ebner’s research with rats has shown that is vital to developing new and better interven- Kaas and his colleagues have found that long time in which we can perhaps influence on the adult brain are reversible for a very long early sensory deprivation has negative ef- tions to help overcome brain damage. when large parts of sensory systems are de- the outcome.” period of time.” fects. Nocturnal creatures, rats derive much

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magine having a seemingly perfect emotions and social reciprocity. They may developed other ways of communicating, in- screening tool. The children are screened, then chromosome 7. Using genome databases devel- infant. Then slowly, unusual behav- exhibit fear in peer relationships. They have cluding sign language and pictures. Many have followed for two years. At age four, a defini- oped by the National Institutes of Health and Iior and delays in development begin difficulty interacting and establishing been successfully mainstreamed. tive diagnosis will be made by a trained clini- the company Celera Genomics, they are iden- to surface. eye contact or using and reading facial ex- Research has shown that parents begin to cian who has not seen the child before. tifying genes in the region and testing them autism’s profile Welcome to the topsy-turvy world of pressions and gestures that facilitate so- become concerned about their children at the “Children lose valuable intervention time for mutations in patients with autism. Characterized by: Difficulty forming so- autism, a common, yet complex develop- cialization.” average age of 17 months. The first concern if autism is not detected early,”Stone says. James S. Sutcliffe, assistant professor of cial relationships, impaired understanding mental disability. In many cases, therapists find that if they is usually lack of language development. But “The brain appears to be more plastic at molecular physiology and biophysics and and use of language, restricted patterns “Twenty years ago, autism was pretty can help children with autism gain com- children often don’t receive a definitive diag- early ages.” Kennedy Center investigator, is pursuing of activities and interests, and a need for much thought to be hopeless,”says Stephen munication skills at an early age, the odd or nosis of autism until preschool or early ele- Isabel Gauthier, assistant professor of psy- the link to chromosome 15. Some of the symp- sameness. Children with autism may exhibit Camarata, acting director of the Kennedy inappropriate behavior people associate with mentary school. chology, is studying the theory that children toms of autism mirror those described for repetitive body movements and may be over- Center and associate professor of hearing autism may be circumvented. with autism have trouble recognizing faces. Prader-Willi syndrome, a complex disorder ly sensitive to sights, noises, touches, smells, and speech sciences.“Now we are seeing big The Vanderbilt Bill Wilkerson Center ssociate Professor of Pediatrics Wendy Her work, done in collaboration with col- of cognitive disabilities, overeating, and obe- and tastes. advances in earlier diagnosis and treatment. for Otolaryngology and Communication Stone and her colleagues hope their leagues at Yale University, shows that young sity involving chromosome 15 gene deletions. Affects: As many as one in 500 individu- Children who are truly autistic have improve- Sciences serves approximately 85 children Awork will help make early detection of adults with autism do not rely on the face- “We think that multiple genes may align als. Autism is four times more prevalent in ment in function, as well as the ability to go on a weekly basis through its Autism Spectrum autism easier. In 1999, armed with a four-year area recognition system to discriminate be- in some way so that combined, they produce boys, but girls with autism are affected more to school and to function in larger settings.” Disorders Program. It offers communica- grant from the Department of Education’s tween faces as much as their peers. Instead, an overall level of susceptibility and risk for severely. Vanderbilt physicians and researchers tion intervention and training, parent and Office of Special Education Research, they they tend to rely on another part of the brain the disease. Genetic studies are looking at how Manifests itself: Typically by age three. are working on a variety of studies to find professional education, and advocacy in the began studying a test she and colleagues at associated with identification of objects. Her they may align.” the cause of autism and are developing new community and school systems. Vanderbilt developed—STAT (Screening Tool work may provide new ideas for the treat- “Identifying genetic defects in autism will Possible causes: Autism’s cause is un- tests that will allow earlier diagnosis. The Wilkerson Center’s communication- for Autism in Two-year-olds). ment of autism and similar conditions. give us tools to understand the biology and known. Cerebellums of many children with Camarata, who works with autistic based intervention program is the only “We want to be able to identify chil- “Autism is one of the more strongly ge- thereby to help better treat, or possibly even autism have decreased size, often up to 30 children, is clinical investigator of a Nation- program of its kind for preschoolers with dren with developmental delays and lan- netic complex trait disorders,”says Jonathan prevent, the disorder,”says Haines. percent smaller. About 70 to 80 percent of children with autism have mental retarda- al Institutes of Health program project autism in the Middle Tennessee area. Speech guage delays who also have autism, from Haines, professor of molecular physiology tion as well. Genetic factors may be involved. grant and the director of the Scottish Rite pathologists help the children improve those who may just have developmental or and biophysics and director of the Program —Nancy Humphrey and Leigh MacMillan Child Language Disorders Center at Van- language skills, and occupational therapists language delays,”says Stone. in Human Genetics and of the Kennedy Treatment: Children who receive spe- derbilt. More than 100 children with autism cialized early intervention can make con- or autism spectrum disorder are evaluat- siderable gains in their cognitive, social, and Though they look like something out of ed through the center. a Star Wars sequel, these Greebles were behavioral functioning. TRIAD (Treatment “There has been a reported increase devised as a research tool. Greebles are for Research Institute for Autism Spectrum helping scientists like Isabel Gauthier, Disorders) at Vanderbilt offers programs in in the incidence of autism,”Camarata assistant professor of psychology at behavior management and social skills, par- says. “But it’s hard to know if it’s a real Vanderbilt, learn more about how humans ent training, family consultations, teacher increase or a change in identification distinguish between faces. For most of us, recognizing the face of a friend in a training, and more. characteristics.” crowd is relatively easy. We use a small Raising children with autism is chal- region at the bottom of the brain called lenging. About 70 to 80 percent of children the fusiform face area (FFA). In studies with autism also have mental retardation. with colleagues at Yale, Gauthier has observed research subjects’ brains as Camarata says that three overlapping they try to distinguish between up to 60 domains characterize autism: delayed or Greebles divided by gender and family absent language, impaired social interac- groups. Persons with autism frequently experience great difficulty in recognizing tion, and rigidity that includes repetitive work to help desensitize children to stimuli The test uses a play-based interactive kit. Center’s Program of Genetics, Brain, and and distinguishing between faces. behavior and inflexibility.“One child might that might overwhelm them. While they play with cars, trucks, dolls, and Behavioral Development. Gauthier’s research could provide ideas be more affected by language issues while Approximately 60 percent of children other toys, children are screened in three cat- Although no specific genes have yet been for improved methods of treating autism. another has more problems with repeti- who enter the Wilkerson program as egories—functional play, imitation, and com- linked to autism, estimates of the number of tive behavior or social adaptation,”he adds. non-verbal are classified as verbal two years munication. Stone and her colleagues are genes that may contribute range from three “People with autism have deficits in later, and the remaining 40 percent have assessing the reliability and validity of the to 20. Haines and colleagues are focusing on

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reat wits are sure to madness near searchers are making exciting discoveries computers or in other solitary pursuits,”Park lucinations that result from too much animals. One group of studies overseen by allied,”wrote poet John Dryden in in schizophrenia. Park is particularly in- says. “We’re questioning that assumption. dopamine in the brain. Treatment strategy Sanders-Bush, for example, examines the vi- “G1681, “And thin partitions do their terested in how deficiencies of the frontal It may be that the brain function of schizo- was based on blocking dopamine.” sual perception of fruit flies that have been bounds divide.”Dryden was neither the cortex might produce symptoms of schiz- phrenics would improve with more social Meltzer, by contrast, viewed the disease administered hallucinogenic drugs. first nor the last to observe the link between ophrenia. “The frontal cortex is propor- interaction.” holistically, which meant looking at learn- “We still don’t know much about 90 creative genius and mental instability— tionally much larger in humans than in Studies such as these are significant, but ing, memory, attention, and executive func- percent of the genes that are expressed in particularly the hallucinations, paranoia, other species, possibly because it evolved to give the most complete picture of what’s tion—the capacity to make good judgments. the human brain,”says Meltzer. “The ex- and disturbed emotional responses that to cope with complex social organizations going on in the human brain, functional Cognitive deficit problems such as these are pectation is that some of them will be linked characterize what we now call schizophrenia. that characterize our species,”she says. neuroimaging is a giant step forward. The not helped by dopamine receptor blockage. with schizophrenia, which will allow us “The list of poets, artists, political lead- “Social situations are more difficult than collaboration of two other Vanderbilt re- Meltzer’s work showed that clozapine, and to develop drugs to increase or decrease ers, and other creative people who have any laboratory cognitive problems. You are searchers has produced a major breakthrough subsequently developed drugs, could sub- their expression.” suffered from psychoses like schizophre- constantly updating information in your in our ability to study brain disorders like stantially improve cognitive deficits. Researchers like Park look forward to a nia and manic depression is staggering,” memory, observing the other person’s be- schizophrenia. Drs. Robert Kessler, profes- “Now that we understand better that schiz- time when schizophrenia will be managed Vincent van Gogh, Self-Portrait Dedicated to Paul Gauguin, 1888 says Sohee Park, who joined the College of havior and anticipating what they might sor of radiology and radiological sciences, ophrenia is a cognitive illness, we’re in a po- in much the same way as other diseases like Arts and Science faculty last year as asso- be thinking and programming your re- director of neuroradiology, and director of sition to focus on exploring cognitive diabetes. “It’s a goal for all of us studying ciate professor of psychology. sponse while inhibiting any inappropriate PET research; and Herbert Meltzer, impairment and how better to treat it,”says schizophrenia,”she says. schizophrenia’s profile The prospect of having one’s creative ge- actions. We all do this automatically yet it’s Bixler/Johnson/Mays Chair in Psychiatry, Meltzer, who believes his research will also “Treatment is continually getting better. Characterized by: Hallucinations, delu- nius immortalized may provide a measure really much more complex than solving professor of psychiatry and of pharmacol- enhance understanding of Alzheimer’s dis- Many schizophrenia patients are creative sions, disturbed thought processes, dis- of compensation for the Vincent Van Goghs, differential equations.” ogy, and director of the Mental Health Clinical ease, other forms of dementia, and even people with much to contribute, and if we turbed emotional responses, motor symptoms. Sylvia Plaths, and Edgar Allen Poes of the Park and her colleagues have found that Research Center at Vanderbilt, have devel- age-associated memory impairment. can find intervention strategies to help chil- To date, no single confirming marker for world—but for the average person living persons with schizophrenia exhibit severe oped brain imaging methods that allow them Because the class of drugs Meltzer helped dren before the disease devastates them, schizophrenia has been identified, making with mental illness in the here and now, sim- deficits in the type of short-term memo- to look at basic defects in the dopamine sys- develop produces fewer side effects than pre- they will be able to realize their potential positive diagnosis difficult. ple tasks like brushing your teeth can rep- ry called working memory, which is the tem and how new antipsychotics differ from vious anti-psychotics, they can be used more rather than waste away in homeless shelters. Affects: 1 to 2 percent of the population resent a monumental struggle, says Park. system for maintaining information in brief older ones in their ability to block receptors. broadly for treating depression, mania, We may not be able to cure schizophrenia, worldwide. Much higher rates are found in “Traditional antipsychotic drugs can storage to guide behavior. Dopamine is known best as the neuro- Alzheimer’s disease, senile sarcoses, charac- but we hope to help people lead fruitful, small pockets of northern Finland, Western alleviate the more florid psychotic symp- In simple short-term memory exercis- transmitter involved with Parkinson’s dis- ter disturbances, and personality disorders. productive, normal lives.” Ireland, and Palau in Micronesia. toms of schizophrenia like delusions and es, they have found that positive rein- ease. In Parkinson’s patients, the cells that One of the more intriguing sources of —GayNelle Doll hallucinations,”she says, “But they’re less forcement from another person in the same make dopamine degenerate. Until recently, information about schizophrenia comes Manifests itself: In late adolescence or early adulthood. Males tend to have earli- effective in addressing the lack of drive that room produces improved memory per- only the area of the dopamine system in the from hallucinogenic drugs like LSD and PCP, er onset and more treatment-resistant prob- makes some schizophrenics unable to get formance. By comparison, positive rein- brain related to Parkinson’s disease had been also known as phencyclidine or angel dust. lems; psychosis in females may increase out of bed for days, much less hold down forcement in the form of computer messages quantified. Now, with an imaging compound Elaine Sanders-Bush is professor of phar- after menopause, leading researchers to be- a job. People with schizophrenia are often or recorded voice produces no apprecia- Kessler developed last year, researchers are macology, professor of psychiatry, and in- lieve estrogen may afford some protection. perceived as lazy, when in fact their lack of ble improvement. able to image the rest of the dopamine sys- vestigator and senior fellow at the John F. drive is part of the frontal lobe syndrome In another test, Park measured work- tem and examine key areas of the brain re- Kennedy Center. She has spent years exam- Possible causes: Schizophrenia has been solidly linked as a genetic disease. Relatives that characterizes schizophrenia.” ing memory in schizophrenia patients as lated to psychosis and memory impairment. ining the role of serotonin and serotonin re- of schizophrenia patients face a tenfold risk Learning more about schizophrenia is they viewed two film clips—one a light, ceptors in the action of hallucinogenic drugs. of developing the disorder. Complications made all the more difficult by the very con- funny scene from the movie “Grumpy Old eltzer has been a key figure in devel- “Hallucinogenic drugs are a fascinating in the second trimester of expectant moth- ditions that make it so devastating. For schiz- Men” and a second from an upbeat Home oping an improved class of antipsy- class of drugs because they produce an al- ers seem to place offspring at increased risk ophrenic patients who have trouble functioning Shopping Network pitchwoman selling Mchotic drugs, particularly clozapine, tered perception and some of the same symp- for developing schizophrenia. in the real world, taking part in research stud- skin care products. With the direct “I’m which, unlike earlier antipsychotics, im- toms found in humans with brain disease,” Treatment: New antipsychotic drugs such ies is difficult at best.“A patient who is para- talking to you” approach of the pitchwoman, proves cognition. Sanders-Bush says. By discovering which as clozapine alleviate both cognitive im- noid might refuse to enter a scanner because subjects’ working memory improved. “Schizophrenia has been difficult to treat genes are altered by these drugs, scientists pairment and hallucinations. he thinks the researcher is trying to steal his “Most people assume that persons with because we don’t fully understand all its mul- hope to identify genes important in schizo- brain, for example,”Park explains. schizophrenia don’t like other people, that tiple aspects,”Meltzer explains. “For years, phrenia. Hallucinogenic drugs can be used Despite the challenges, Vanderbilt re- they’re better off left alone, working with people focused on the delusions and hal- to produce behavioral effects in laboratory

30 VANDERBILT MAGAZINE FALL 2001 31 Are things getting better or falling ilies, and life in the triple-zero decade’s apart? Did the bombs that leveled fast lane, who has time to stop and think Hiroshima and Nagasaki stop the about big questions like these? Anyway, lights of civilization from going out or what does it matter? show humanity’s darkest capacity for David Wood thinks it matters a lot. mass destruction? In an era of global The Vanderbilt philosopher organized a warming, ethnic cleansing, and drug- series of three public lectures in March resistant bacteria, does on “The Possibility of Progress.” The anybody still think speakers—John Lachs, John Compton, the world is im- and Gregg Horowitz—are all distinguished proving? And professors of philosophy at Vanderbilt, with all the but their takes on this issue could hard- busy-ness ly be more different. What follows over of jobs, fam- the next few pages is an abridgement of their lectures.

Introductory text: Beth Conklin, Associate Professor of Anthropology

TheThe PossibilityPossibility ofof ProgressProgress VANDERBILT PHILOSOPHERS LOOK AT JUST HOW FAR WE’VE COME

ILLUSTRATION BY TORNE WHITE Both by John Lachs Better Off o victims of 20th-century atrocities, dieval Europe were infested with parasites what would satisfy them cannot deny that ions with a claim. and Better: my argument may seem sinister and hol- and found themselves at the mercy of tyran- ingenuity, inventiveness, and sustained labor Momentous changes take place in Tlow. To intellectuals who equate so- nical rulers and a poorly understood, ter- have made human life immeasurably better. human relations when people realize Moral Progress phistication with cynicism, it will appear naive rorizing world. The peasants of the Black In assessing what good there might be in that trade is a better way to relieve oth- and perhaps shallow. To seekers after perfec- Forest Heidegger so admires lived in cramped the world, human welfare cannot be disre- ers of their goods than force. It is no Amid Continuing tion who find each number wanting because discomfort and suffered from painful de- garded. Might it nevertheless be true that overstatement that replacing war with it falls shy of the infinite, it will be a lesson in generative ailments. People everywhere were growing comfort entails moral loss? If only commerce is a turning point in the moral Carnage futility. But to the rest of us, what I have to decimated by war, malnutrition, persecu- austerity can build character, our good for- evolution of humankind. Instead of say may serve as a useful reminder of how for- tion, tuberculosis, and venereal disease. tune in living well and long must surely hur- wanting other people dead, we want tunate we are to live today and not even just The relatively few who survived past the age tle us into spiritual decline. Active virtues are them to live and prosper. We begin to a few hundred years ago. It may also evoke of twenty-five suffered from digestive mal- likely to atrophy, the imagination may shriv- view our trading partners in the same reasonable hopes for the future and establish functions and rotting teeth. Persons of the el, and we will be tempted to turn inward favorable light in which we bathe ourselves. John Lachs is an optimist a standard by which to measure the magni- wrong religion were executed, people were to wallow in our happiness. Their habits become interesting, their choic- whose family left war-ravaged tude of the tasks on the road ahead. deprived of property on the basis of accu- Contrary to the fears and warnings of es respectable, their fates important. We are I wish to show that in spite of the misery sations alone, and those in debt went to Luddites, the means our prosperous indus- ready to protect them, as we did in Kuwait, Europe to find hope and and wickedness that still remain in the world, jail never to return. trial world provides directly promote the and admit them as valued persons into our possibility in the United States. the human race has enjoyed significant moral A better understanding of the human body, growth of virtue. Consider the power of community. progress over the course of history. At the very the development of technology, and the spread telecommunications. Medieval villages re- Those who wish to argue that trade and He thinks Americans don’t least, the ways in which being better off con- of democratic values made life better in large ceived virtually no news from the outside. wealth and communication change only our give themselves enough credit tribute to being better are poorly understood and small ways that are nearly impossible to Today, e-mail, the telephone, CNN, and fax actions and not who we are need to develop for how much better— and inadequately appreciated. I hope to be detail. The best summary of these blessings is machines have forged indissoluble links be- a better understanding of the intricate rela- able to clarify the connection. to note that they improve the human lot by tween us and people around the globe. Once tions between “external”actions and the inner and better off—we are these Let me begin by acknowledging that increasing the range of our choices. we know what happens to them, we cannot person. What we do again and again penetrates days, both morally and materially. the 20th century was full of events ranging We can now do things prior generations be indifferent to their fates. the soul and shapes it in its image. from the lamentable to the awful, and the could hardly imagine the gods perform- Those who think there has been no moral On the whole, humans today are not only 21st century is following suit. Religious ining: sending messages to each other in the progress through the ages should recall that better off but also better than previous gener- tolerance, ethnic hatreds, and national ri- dark of night, making hot rooms cold by for thousands of years humans struggled ations. And by “better” I mean not only valries contribute to the misery of hundreds turning a knob, and growing food in desert without an impartially administered law pro- that we do good things more often, but also of millions of people. Random violence erupts sand. Such choices mean that we can de- tecting their lives and property. When laws that we are, on the whole, morally more even in the most civilized countries, and termine our own good: we can still permit proscribing and punishing criminal acts first admirable people. fraud, lying, cheating, and coercion consti- our teeth to rot or the heat to suffocate us, emerged, as in the code of Hammurabi, they Being on the whole better is consistent tute ways of life all over the globe. We must but we don’t have to. were a magnificent step in the direction of with there having been a few people in prior also consider that morality does not progress As with all good things, progress comes at human security. ages who were more virtuous than anyone at the same rate everywhere. a price. The use of penicillin has admittedly Rapid transportation, instant communi- living today, and it does not even suggest that For most people in most of the industri- caused a number of deaths and its availabili- cation, and universal commerce make us par- we are in some absolute and final sense “good.” ally advanced countries, life today is strik- ty may have contributed to less than optimal ticipants in the lives of others. The leisure and All injustice has not been overcome, all pain ingly easier, safer, richer in choices, more caution in sexual relations. But the millions wealth generated by highly efficient economies has not been stilled, all needs have not been diversified, healthier, more just, longer, and of lives it saved is out of proportion to the rel- provide the wherewithal to aid our fellows. met. We find throwbacks and face reversals more satisfying than ever before. We eat bet- atively few whose loss or diminution may be Without the infrastructure of the industrial again and again. But taking all of this into ac- ter, suffer less pain, are ravaged by fewer dis- attributed to it. world, large-scale concern for others would be count, we still feel the tides of decency rising eases, exercise greater control over our Heroic self-sacrifice may be more uncom- impossible. The only sure source of decency is and see shafts of light to guide our actions environment, face brighter prospects, have mon today, because it is less necessary. But we the imagination that enables us to place our- and to feed our hope. a better chance of enjoying worthwhile ex- are amply compensated for such losses. selves in the position of others. Sensory con- periences, and live more peaceful lives than Individual generosity has placed 12 percent tact with the distant functions as a mechanized any previous generation. of our vast national wealth at the permanent imagination. Television brings us the distant To learn what life was like in prior cen- service of education, the arts, and the helping scene and we are no longer required to con- turies, we need to read about the travail of professions. Government considers it a sacred struct for ourselves how others might live and John Lachs is Centennial Professor of Philosophy ordinary persons, not the exploits of the high obligation to take care of the sick and the eld- what they believe. Sympathies expand as more and a senior fellow at the Vanderbilt Institute and mighty. The little people who built the erly. Even those who want to argue that hu- of the world enters our consciousness until for Public Policy Studies. pyramids of Egypt and the cathedrals of me- mans lack good will or an ultimate vision of people we have never met become compan-

34 VANDERBILT MAGAZINE FALL 2001 35 New and by Gregg Horowitz Not Improved: hen we speak of progress we arrange me to offer readers a reason for thinking that what Photoshop has begun to reveal to us Gursky’s images try to show how the Is There Progress historical moments along some yard- the history of art is not progressive at all. is that a world in which invention and intel- face of the world, which is now only Wstick of improvement and then meas- Photoshop is a technological advance, but it ligibility are so entirely riven, a world in which a mask, has gotten away from us. in the Arts? ure particular moments as better or worse. is bringing to an end one of the dominant painting and photography, hand and eye, Our technology allows us just The concept of progress thereby allows us visual arts through which we have made our are, in the words of the philosopher Theo- enough distance to remain un- to treat historical change as an unfolding world intelligible for the last 150 years. It ex- dor Adorno, two halves that do not add up moved by this mask even when drama with a coherent narrative structure emplifies how new technologies, regardless to a whole—that this is an impossible it grimaces in pain. It is a touch-up of beginning, middle, and end. Let us con- of whether they bear with them new forms world. technology that is driving our Greg Horowitz, a Gen-Xer with sider how, if at all, this sort of historical of art, have the awesome power to destroy artistic ability to represent the an attitude that matches his awareness is relevant to understanding art. the expressive possibilities of the ones that world’s claim on us backwards We need works of art to anchor our think- they displace. rather than forwards. The world that all-black wardrobe, shrugs off the ing about historical progress, and I have At the same time, the thought cannot touch us visually is the world whole idea of societal progress. chosen the work of Andreas Gursky, a con- that Photoshop is the final blow without a face. “It’s a generational thing,” temporary German photographer who is the to painting also holds an This problem of whether subject of a mid-career retrospective at the immediate attraction be- the world can be visually meas- he says. “I never had that kind of Museum of Modern Art in New York City. cause one of the charac- ured is at the heart of Gursky’s an expectation, to be either Gursky is the first serious photographer to teristic features of the photographs. It is also what have made significant aesthetic use of the new technology is that ties his work to the history disappointed or to reaffirm it.” technology for photographic manipulation it allows photogra- of painting understood as He points to art as an example of called Photoshop. It is computer software phers to develop ca- the effort to render the with which one can manipulate photographs pacities for inven- world visually intelligi- how irrelevant it is to talk about in seemingly endless ways. tion that remained ble. The reiteration of things getting better. “Art doesn’t While Photoshop is not the first and no largely the proper- elements in Gursky’s get more beautiful over time. In doubt will not be the last such technology, it ty of painting in overstuffed Photoshop is the first with sufficient power to break the the era of straight images is, in a sense, the fact, the art we really like is almost evidential link between photography and the photography. photographic equiva- always older, from at least one world. Philosophers typically characterize this The invention lent of impressionism, evidential link in terms of counterfactual de- of photography in- an art of the disappear- generation earlier.” pendence: were the object not present in front deed was a disaster ing world. of the lens when the shutter opened, the pho- for painters and With Photoshop, Gur- tograph would not be able to show it. painting in many re- sky has, perhaps, given a What is ironic about the impact of spects, and it is part of face to the faceless world. Photoshop on photography is that in at- my interpretation of It is a surprisingly beautiful tacking the basis of what was a specifically Gursky that he knows it face, a fact I have not even re- photographic practice, i.e. the use of the cam- was. The invention of pho- ferred to until now, but its beau- era to make counterfactually dependent pic- tography nonetheless was a ty is a mask for something. Whether tures, the new technology is flinging the consequence, and not a cause, this sort of masking eventually be- art of photography into the modernist of the crisis in the history of paint- comes expressive will have some bearing whirlpool just as photography, when it was ing. Not surprisingly, therefore, the on the future of art and is therefore a ques- a new technology, seemed to do to the art of techniques of painting continued to mat- tion of pressing concern for aesthetes. painting. Photoshop transforms photogra- ter so much that the question of their fate But whether we can craft a face at all that phy from a technology with a uniquely pow- generated both one of the most dynamic pe- Gursky’s is fit to measure a world that has unhanded erful capacity to show us our world into an riods in Western painting as well as a per- working procedure is some- us is a problem for the future of the human antiquated technique, and that, to all ap- manent case of painting envy in artistic thing like this: he first makes photographs that world in general, and, as such, its significance pearances, was exactly the fate that photog- photographers. But Photoshop threatens to are counterfactually dependent on the world, for us all is immeasurable. raphy imposed on painting. Photography wreck photography’s inner life and so also but he sees them as a forms of misrepresenta- might continue to exist as a hobby or a spe- threatens the remnants of painting. tion. Because they are so immediately recog- cialty taste, as does painting, but its privilege Photography’s automatic nature may have nizable, they lie. Gursky then uses Photoshop Gregg Horowitz is associate professor of in capturing the visual world is passing away. let the world take care of itself, but it did so to fill out the image so that it becomes simul- philosophy. The crisis in recent photography permits by leaving the hand out of the picture. Perhaps taneously incomprehensible and all too vivid.

36 VANDERBILT MAGAZINE FALL 2001 37 Knowledge by John Compton and Power: full assessment of the impact of scien- forth as a matter both of religious duty and seems to have ultimate consequences. When to treat the earth simply as our re- Some Social tific and technological progress shows public policy: If we would only organize sci- we vote, we are forced to attend to momentous source. We have to reconceive our Athat it has utterly transformed our way entific societies and give them governmental environmental issues and to assess policies situation, to realize that we are not su- Consequences of being-in-the-world. Not only do we have support, we could bring humankind to its which will have far-reaching, and often quite perior to, but only different from, our marvelously enhanced powers to advance the rightful dominion over nature and permit us, unpredictable, effects for generations to come. fellow creatures. There is no basis for di- of Scientific and human good, but those very powers set be- in his words, to “effect all things possible.” We seem propelled into a kind of speculative viding the world into the human and the fore us far-reaching social and ethical choic- Astonishing and prophetic words for the goal thinking that used to be the preserve of utopias. non-human any more. It is surely time Technological es that entail huge, unprecedented risks. of science—to “effect all things possible.” We know there’s been broad progress in to act on what we know, to renew our sense Increased scientific and technical knowl- Scientifically based technology, thus scientific, technical, and economic terms. But of common destiny with all the citizens of Progress edge has all along brought unsettling disloca- understood, fundamentally transforms the one is forced to ask whether there has been the planet, human and non-human alike. tions with it. New scientific understanding has meaning of human action. For centuries, moral progress, progress in giving human Happily, there are strands in our often challenged traditional religious and human activity had largely local and tempo- meaning to our lives. Yes, surely, in impor- philosophies and religions that support philosophical ideas—as happened with the rary effects.“Technai,”the arts and crafts, were tant ways. Through the sciences, we under- this kinder, gentler view of human beings Copernican and Darwinian revolutions, or, relatively simple and human in scale, with stand who we are and where we come from in the natural world. This is not a matter of The son of a Nobel Prize winner as we sense today, in the rigorous probing of limited environmental impact. far better than before. And, thanks to re- some fanciful “going back to nature”—a pure, who led the development of the physical basis of mind. And new tech- In recent years, with newer technologies markable advances in agricultural, industri- wild Thoreauian nature that never existed in nologies have always brought with them trans- and more and more people to employ and al, and medical technologies, human beings the first place. What we do have to do is the atomic bomb, John Compton formations in social practice. be served by them, the impacts have been can (and probably do) do more good things recognize that our neighbor and distant is especially concerned about But “Big Science” pervasively linked to dramatically magnified—irreversible for more people than ever before. non-human creatures count ethically. Their the double-edged consequences “Big Technology,”as we now know it, is a com- depletion of water and mineral resources, But we can see the dark side of this as well. interests have to be taken into account in the pletely new phenomenon, with unprecedented irreversible loss of old forest lands, of top- There are too many people—within our own decisions we make, just as we take into of science and technology. social and environmental impact. Today, there soil in farm land, and of thousands of plant country and elsewhere—for whom scientific account our own interests and those “August 6, 1945, was the day that is not a manufacturer or business that does and animal species, polluted surface air and and technological “progress”is little more than of our neighbor and distant not feed off basic scientific research, and there water, nuclear waste that won’t go away for a word. And the environmental consequences human beings— even if not in called the whole idea of progress is no basic research in the physical and bio- 10,000 years, ozone holes, and, in and through of many technologies threaten planetary the same way or as decisively. into question for me,” he says. logical sciences without foreseeable—and of it all, global warming. health and survivability. True moral progress— We see that if we don’t do this, course, also, unforeseeable—consequences The conclusion is clear: human actions insofar as we can speak of it at all—depends we impoverish our lives. In the in practical application. In the process, now have a power and reach we earlier upon our success in facing the immense glob- long run, what promotes the entire social role of the sciences has been contemplated only in myth. And with this al problems we have helped to create. ecological vitality and transformed. The scientist has become an transformation of the meaning of human I think by now most of us see what it will well-being promotes agent of social change. action comes a transformation in the mean- take for us to approach a more sustainable ours as well. New science and new technology are every- ing of ethics. relation to the environment—it is taking and I am optimistic. where—in our consumer goods, our hous- The only object of traditional ethics had will take a fundamental shift in our culture. I believe we’re on the way. es, our foods and medicines, our automobiles, been to bring order and improvement to human There is still an immense amount of denial. But there is an undercurrent of critical roads, airplanes, and computers, in our busi- life. We had earlier supposed that nature could We Americans waste energy—and food and doubt that we need to keep with us. There is ness and government services, and even in take care of itself. But it is now plain that the other resources—in amounts beyond belief. no way of completely avoiding the risks that music, education, and the arts. entire natural order is vulnerable to human We tend to resist policies—or new, more en- go with the promise of new knowledge and We have come to see that the link between power. Along with the human good, we have vironmentally salutary technologies—that technical power. What we can do is to tem- science and technology is not accidental; sci- to consider the well-being of the land and the we think might limit our freedom or our per anxiety with caution, constant vigilance, ence is, in fact, essentially technological. plant and animal communities around us— lifestyle. And political obstacles are world- and a profound sense of our global role. This was hardly visible before. The time not only as they affect us, but for themselves. wide—the global village is a tremendously What was once the responsibility of a few span between theory and any application was There’s only the sketchiest provision for this complex and contentious place, where water scientists, inventors, and policy makers is now often quite long. But William James saw it in traditional ethics. Nature just doesn’t fig- and land and economic development are the responsibility of us all. clearly: Any theoretical investigation that seeks ure except as a backdrop to human life. bound up with deep and long-lasting polit- law-like explanations of phenomena is ready- We can see a further consequence—it is ical conflicts. There is much to be done. made for application, a formula for action. what one philosopher, Hans Jonas, recently But the challenge is more than economic Descartes was right about this link between called the almost “utopian drift” of everyday and political, it is ethical and philosophical. As knowledge and power when he told us that choices and, therefore, of many of our politi- I’ve tried to tell my students over the years, the the “new science”could make us “masters and cal decisions as well. Everything we do—what so-called “environmental crisis”isn’t any longer John Compton is professor of philosophy, possessors of nature.”Francis Bacon put it we buy, what we eat, how much fuel we burn— a crisis, it’s a “condition.”We are not licensed emeritus.

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ome people call Dr. Charlie ed me out. We didn’t start dating until the Harrison “The Tall Healer.” following summer, when I was taking a Colleagues took to calling him “Doc whole year of physics in summer Hollywood”when the longtime Atlanta school plus a graduate course at SFalcons team physician started appearing be- Peabody.”He and Betty married after fore television cameras to talk about head coach his first year at the Emory School of Dan Reeves’ dramatic recovery from heart by- Medicine. They have three grown sons. pass surgery in 1998. His favorite nickname, “That entire family are such good however, is “Chick,”the nickname used by his people,”says Tommy Nobis, an NFL Hall of five grandchildren. Fame linebacker for the Falcons who is now The same adjectives keep coming up when “It’s fun to work with the team’s vice president of corporate devel- longtime associates describe Harrison—great people who are tremendously opment. “When you get to know Betty and doctor, smart, honest, humble, personable, car- Charlie, you just can’t help but like them. ing, friendly, funny, a good family man. He’s motivated to get well. They’re a perfect couple.” also an accomplished amateur photogra- Harrison completed his residency at Duke pher, an avid Bible reader who serves on his A high performance athlete University Medical Center. He was complet- church board, and once won the blue ribbon who makes his living ing a tour of duty with the Air Force in 1966. for a flower arrangement at a competition be- The Falcons and Braves both came to Atlanta tween two garden clubs. playing a particular sport that same year, and Harrison became their Team physician for the Falcons for thirty- team physician by a quirk of fate. five years, Harrison is among the best in the wants to get back (from an Still in the Air Force, he traveled to Atlanta business. In February he received the Hawk injury or illness) as soon as looking for office space in March of 1966. He Award, emblematic of the NFL Physician of ducked into a delicatessen and bumped into the Year, from the Professional Football Physicians he can.” two physicians who had taught him at Emory Society this past February. His three and a half Medical School. They were members of an decades with the Falcons is one of the longest orthopedic group that had been selected by doctor affiliations in NFL history. both the Braves and Falcons. “I love it,”he says.“It’s fun to work with All-American Clyde Lee came along about a “They were getting ready to go to spring people who are tremendously motivated to get decade later. Harrison ranks second to Lee training with the Braves and didn’t have an well. A high performance athlete who makes in the highest rebounding average ever by a internist to help them give physicals,”Harrison his living playing a particular sport wants to senior (14.3), and is third in the same cate- says. “They said, ‘Could you get time off in get back (from an injury or illness) as soon gory for juniors (12.9). He still ranks either a couple of weeks to come down to West Palm as he can. It keeps the competitive fires burn- fourth of fifth in four other Vanderbilt re- Beach and help us do the physicals? We also ing just being around these players.” bounding records, forty-five years after play- just learned today that we’ve been selected Jerry Rhea, who worked with Harrison for ing his last game. He helped lead Vanderbilt by the Falcons to do their orthopedic work.’ twenty-five years as the Falcons trainer before to 16-6 and 19-4 records his junior and sen- “I said, ‘Why don’t we do a doublehead- moving into the team’s front office, believes he ior years, respectively. er, and I’ll do the Braves if you’ll let me do knows the keys to Harrison’s success. More important than the rebounding the Falcons, too. You think about it and call “First of all, he’s a fine doctor who doesn’t records, Harrison also met his future wife at me when you decide.’ They called me that

JON ROU JON have any arrogance about him,”says Rhea.“He’s Vanderbilt. Betty Ponder Harrison, B.A. ’56, night and agreed to that arrangement.” intellectually astute but he’s very down home, transferred to Vanderbilt after attending Agnes A few years later the Atlanta Hawks came humble, kind of foot-shuffling smart. He is Scott College for two years. The 5’10” young on the scene, and Harrison added them to terribly good with people, too. When he talks woman asked one of her brothers, who was his “roster.” He also took care of the Atlanta to you, you know it’s honest. Also, there’s a dif- attending Vanderbilt, if he had any tall friends soccer team, the Chiefs. About the time the ference in being a good doctor and being a or fraternity brothers. He replied that 6’7” Chiefs dissolved, the Atlanta Flames hockey good team physician because of the psyche basketball player Charlie Harrison was a fra- team was formed and, you guessed it, Harrison of taking care of athletes. He was an athlete ternity brother. She immediately looked up became their team physician. at Vandy and he thinks like one.” Charlie’s picture in her brother’s yearbook. Over the years, Harrison was forced to FOR 35 YEARS ALUMNUS HAS TENDED THE ACHES AND PAINS OF THE ATLANTA FALCONS Harrison, B.A. ’56, was a scholarship bas- “The first day Betty was at Vanderbilt, I limit his team physician duties to those with Tall Healer ketball player who set Vanderbilt rebound- walked into Irelands,”Harrison says. “She the Falcons. ing records that were not broken until was in there with her brother and he point- “It was running me ragged,”he says of

40 VANDERBILT MAGAZINE FALL 2001 41 those days when he was ministering to every my wife, he loved my mother-in-law, and I on the sideline in four weeks,’”Reeves recalls. Atlanta professional team. “I just couldn’t cover really think he liked me. I knew if I could “That goal helped me focus. Instead of feel- all the bases and practice medicine, too. My survive five years with Norm Van Brocklin, I ing sorry for myself, and thinking that I’m A MONUMENTAL sports medicine really amounted to about twen- could survive anything.” getting ready to die or something, I had some- ty or thirty percent of my time early on, but as Harrison’s greatest fame as a “jock doc” thing to shoot for. Sure enough, exactly four J my practice grew, I had to cut back on sports.” came when he diagnosed Dan Reeves’ heart weeks later I was back coaching the first play- Still, his time in the sports world has pro- condition and then cared for him so that the off game and six weeks later I’m out there by Victor Judge ourney vided some priceless memories of working Atlanta coach could return to the sidelines coaching in the Super Bowl.” with great players like the late “Pistol Pete” just weeks after undergoing triple bypass The feel-good story of Reeves’ road to re- Maravich in basketball, Hank Aaron and Joe heart surgery. covery was national news, particularly as the Torre (a four-time World Series champion Following a victory over the Saints in New team kept winning. The media descended manager with the New York Yankees) with Orleans, Reeves, who had two episodes of on Harrison’s office. SERBIAN the Braves, and Falcons stars like Nobis, Claude heart difficulty in previous coaching stints “The media frenzy started the week be- GRADUATE STUDENTS Humphrey, and “Neon Deion” Sanders. at Denver and New York, confided about fore we played Minnesota for the NFC cham- Harrison has also worked with every Fal- danger signs he had been experiencing for pionship,”Harrison said. “Then when we WILL HELP PRESERVE cons coach in the history of the team, from a few weeks. beat Minnesota and it was apparent we were THEIR HOMELAND’S Norb Hecker to Reeves. The most unique coach “After the game was over, I said,‘Charlie, going to the Super Bowl, the media was in on that list was the late Norm Van Brocklin. I’m having those same symptoms in my throat my office from dawn until sunset. It con- ARTISTIC HERITAGE “Norm had a nickname for everybody,” that they told me would always be my cue tinued all during the week we were in Miami says Rhea. “Norm named Charlie ‘The Tall that something was wrong with my heart. for the Super Bowl.”That’s when he earned Healer.’ Our orthopedic surgeon, Dr. James I’m going to wait until the season is over and the “Doc Hollywood” nickname. Funk, was about 5’6” and Norm nicknamed then get it checked out. Do you think that’s Charles Elbert Harrison is an imminent- him ‘The Mini Healer.’” okay?’ He looked at me and said, ‘That’s ly successful internist. The American College Van Brocklin, a Pro Football Hall of the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard in my life. of Physicians conferred the title, Master, upon Fame quarterback during his playing days, We need to get this checked out and checked him in 1998, an honor shared by only about was from the old school, and was known out now.’” 300 internists in the world. as “Stormin’ Norman” for good reason. One Harrison, who had given Reeves a phys- At age 66, Harrison has no plans to retire. WOODIE S. KNIGHT a a of his first decrees, upon arriving as head ical and stress tests when he first came to He says he took up golf four years ago, Upon completing masters’ degrees in art history, Jelena Bogdanovi and Ljubomir Milanovi plan to return to their native Serbia to teach and help restore the monuments attacked during the undeclared coach of the Falcons, was that there would Atlanta, was aware of the previous episodes and jokes that “it’s a lot more expensive than war of 1999 between their country and a NATO alliance. be absolutely no water on the sidelines for of heart trouble. He immediately examined skiing so I’ve got to keep on working to pay the players to drink during games. He held the coach and then got on his cell phone to for it.”His longtime friend, Rhea, predicts, to that dictum for the first exhibition game, arrange for an angiogram to be performed “He’ll practice until he dies because heir introduction to the American South occurred in a Belgrade cinema. Harrison recalls. on Reeves early the next morning. He had a he enjoys it.” Silhouetted against the Georgia dawn, an unvanquished Scarlett “So there was a little conference the next good idea of what it might reveal. As for the nickname Chick, he got it from T Monday and I said,‘Norm, I don’t know any- “I knew it was probably going to show the oldest of his grandchildren, Charles O’Hara, in dubbed Serbo-Croatian, proclaimed from the radish patch thing about coaching football and you don’t that he needed heart bypass surgery. The rea- McGregor Harrison.“I’d sing Charlie McGregor that with God as her witness she would never be hungry again. know anything about doctoring. We’re not son I knew this was the time interval between had a farm and go through all the animals This melodramatic scene from David O. Selznick’s 1939 production of “Gone going to take the liability of not having flu- the first difficulties he had experienced and when he was little. I would save the chickens With The Wind” and contemporary glossy advertisements depicting Nashville ids on the sideline and if that’s the way it’s this one. The angiogram showed that he did for last and he would absolutely just guffaw as Music City USA were the only images of the South that Jelena Bogdanovic going to be, you’re going to have to get your- have multi-vessel obstructions, one of which with gales of laughter. So he started calling and Ljubomir Milanovic had seen before arriving last August at Vanderbilt self another doctor.’He backed off.” was ninety-nine percent closed.” me Chick Chick. As he got a little older, it Indeed, Harrison is credited with first in- Reeves was devastated when he learned shortened to Chick. All the rest of the grand- University. Having completed their first year of graduate studies in art troducing the administering of I.V. fluids for he needed immediate open heart bypass sur- children picked it up, so I’m Chick.” history, their perspectives of the South now extend beyond scenes staged for players suffering from dehydration during or gery, thinking it would prevent him from the 70-millimeter wide screen and travel brochures. after games. Administering I.V.fluids to play- coaching the remainder of the year. Having Bogdanovic and Milanovic have found Nashvillians to be amiable and the ers in danger of dehydration is now a standard anticipated that reaction, Harrison had fig- University’s administration and faculty to be supportive of international practice in both college and pro football. ured out the first playoff game would be four students. They continue to be amazed at the libraries’ plentiful resources and Despite Van Brocklin’s volatile temper — weeks away if the Falcons won their division he once threatened to throw Harrison off the and earned a first round open date. how readily accessible books are for research. The most challenging adjust- team plane but later apologized—the Tall “Dr. Harrison said,‘Realistically, if things ment the two art historians have had to make, however, is to the weather; both Healer still has fond memories. “Norm loved go the way they should, you could be back prefer the South’s winter and spring to the humid dog days of summer.

42 VANDERBILT MAGAZINE FALL 2001 43 of Belgrade.“To deny myself the opportunity to study in the United Peter Reed, acting dean of the Graduate School, informing her that A States because of political reasons would be to lock myself in a small she had been awarded the University’s highest honorary graduate Peaceful Translation ghetto where I close my eyes, my ears, and my mouth. I witnessed fellowship. But as Milanovic approached customs officials at the As they enter their final year at Vanderbilt and begin writing their Yugoslavia become a ghetto during the past decade of economic sanc- Serbian-Hungarian border, he feared being denied passage because masters’ theses, Bogdanovic and Milanovic anticipate returning to tions. Our intellectual maps cannot be restricted by the same bound- of a secret that accompanied him. Serbia where they plan to teach on the university level. They also aries that divide geographical maps.” Although he had fulfilled his obligation of military service in the hope to apply their graduate coursework in Byzantine and medieval For Bogdanovic to make the transition from architecture to art Yugoslavian military a decade earlier, Milanovic knew there was a art history to projects dedicated to the restoration and preservation history, she would need to enroll in a university outside Serbia be- possibility of being conscripted for the defense of Belgrade during of Serbia’s religious monuments—such as the monasteries that cause cross-disciplinary studies in higher education had been dis- the attacks by the NATO alliance. He remembers the evening of March Bogdanovic sketched as a young girl when she and her parents trav- couraged since Tito’s death in 1980 when experimental educational 24, 1999, sitting in his room and reading when the first sirens were eled to the seaside, or the cloisters where Milanovic walked as a “reforms” were implemented. “During the six years I studied ar- heard at 8 o’clock. “My sister living in the Netherlands had warned boy when his grandmother took him to church. International laws chitecture, I acquired skills in design, but I never thought about con- us that the American-led force would bomb Belgrade and Kosovo; theoretically protect such monuments during conflicts, but in real- structing buildings,”she admits.“I was more interested in studying however, my father thought the sirens were signaling a practice drill, ity they are often targeted by bombs and later dismissed as the col- architectural history and preservation and in gaining more knowl- but within 20 minutes the cities were under attack,”he says. “As we lateral damage of war. edge about my country’s artistic legacy. Whereas I fail to see archi- were taking shelter I kept thinking how I could be called up for mo- By working to preserve Serbia’s artistic heritage, Bogdanovic and tectural history and art history as unrelated disciplines, the educational bilization in the army and how my work and education could be dis- Milanovic will be making their contribution to a country where the system did not promote opportunities for researchers in interdis- rupted. The next morning as I was on the bus traveling to work, first priority is not restoring cultural patrimony but promoting eco- ciplinary studies.” the sirens sounded again, and all the passengers fled to seek refuge nomic reform, where ideas about “restorative justice” are discussed in bomb shelters dating back to World War II. That’s when I decid- more frequently than restoration of Palaeologan-style frescoes in ed to go into hiding.” Gracanica. c A To avoid conscription, Milanovi hid for 15 days in a friend’s Both students contend that Serbia’s evolution toward democracy Cybernetic Discovery apartment and pretended to be out of the country while Serbian mil- must be approached as delicately as turning the pages of a medieval il- itary authorities interrogated his parents about his absence. Because luminated manuscript, yet they are optimistic about the new govern- The primary reasons that motivated Bogdanovic and Milanovic to of the pressure to which his parents were subjected, Milanovic resur- ment led by Vojislav Kostunica and his ability to help the people achieve apply to American institutions were the high rankings of the coun- faced, reported to the military authorities, and served in the army’s a catharsis after years of divisiveness. If they were asked by the recent- try’s graduate programs among the world’s universities and the avail- defense reserve. ly elected leader of Serbia to make recommendations for the transi- ability of research scholarships. Although the two applicants had “When I was preparing to cross the border into Hungary, I had no tional government, their advice to him would be expressed in a single, Maps studied for their undergraduate degrees at the same time and were idea what records the government had entered about me in the com- unequivocal statement: “Don’t steal from the people.” Without Borders residing and working in the same city, Bogdanovic and Milanovic puter and whether I would be forbidden to leave because of my earli- The Serbia to which they will return next May will be a country had never met. Both had conducted research, via the Internet, for er disappearance,”explains Milanovic.“Fortunately, there was no negative that could be compared to a “translation,”a metaphor that Bogdano- When Bogdanovic and Milanovic announced they were leaving Yugoslavia graduate schools that offered courses in Byzantine and medieval art. documentation preventing me from proceeding to Budapest.” vic finds particularly appropriate in light of a recent e-mail she to matriculate at a university in Tennessee, friends responded skepti- When the search engines linked them to Vanderbilt University’s home But his departure from eastern Europe was not without sadness. received from a friend in Belgrade. Recounted in the letter was a story cally to their decision.“You’re going to a desert,”declared one of Milanovic’s page and directed them to the name of Ljubica Popovich, associate Living in a country torn by civil strife and worrying about his son’s wel- about a television documentary featuring Serbian author Vladimir colleagues at Belgrade’s Gallery of GrafiCki Kolektiv, the city’s oldest art professor and director of graduate studies in fine arts, the futures of fare proved to be too difficult for Milanovic’s father who died from the Arsenijevic who had returned from exile in Mexico. Viewers of gallery where Milanovic , 32, worked as a historian. this pair of scholars soon would be linked. effects of a stroke before seeing his son leave for Vanderbilt. the program heard Arsenijevic read his translations of poems by Other peers questioned why they wished to study in the country Bogdanovic and Milanovic investigated the graduate programs And Bogdanovic’s year in America also was marked by sad news Xhevdet Bayray, a Kosovo Albanian writer who also had been exiled that led the NATO alliance of 19 nations during the 1999 undeclared at more than 50 universities, and Vanderbilt occupied a place on their from home. Her great uncle—who had entered self-imposed exile in from the Balkan States and lived as Arsenijevic’s next-door neigh- war against Serbia—when bombs fell for 78 days in an effort to over- short lists of schools to which they hoped to be accepted. Among the Paris since the Communist rule of Yugoslavia and who vowed he would bor in Mexico. throw Slobodan MiloSevic’s regime—an attempt that resulted in the inducements for attending the University was the opportunity to never set foot on Serbian soil until his country was liberated—died just “The idea of two Balkan literary artists of different ethnic back- destruction of human lives and Serbian cultural patrimony as low- study with Popovich, a fellow Serbian who had been given permis- seven days before the bloodless People’s Revolution of October 5, 2000, grounds exiled together in a foreign country, residing side by side, grade uranium blanketed the Balkan republic’s cities and countryside. sion to leave Communist-ruled Yugoslavia in 1957 and whose schol- and the resultant capitulation and arrest of Milosevic. and translating each other’s ideas into their respective languages rep- Milanovic, who earned the diploma of philosophy from the University arship on her country’s patrimony was familiar to both applicants. Neither student’s family experienced casualties as a direct result resents my hopes for Serbia,”she says.“I like to ponder that one day, of Belgrade, defended his decision to study in America by telling his Upon learning they had been granted admission, Popovich contacted of the bombings, but as Bogdanovic emphasizes,“Every Serbian fam- we will not be divided so strictly and that art will help us to coexist friends,“You cannot have borders in your mind if you wish to lead a the yet unacquainted classmates and encouraged them to meet in ily ultimately was affected by the war because Serbians are strongly peacefully.” scholarly life,”a defense shared by his Vanderbilt classmate, Bogdanovic. Belgrade and plan their first trip to America. connected by family ties, and within our extended families, rela- “As I was preparing the applications to different graduate schools, Departing for the United States by way of Budapest, Hungary, tionships are not narrowly defined. A second cousin is regarded as a I considered the possibility of American prejudice against Serbs, but was not only more economical but easier because of the restricted brother, and a great uncle is respected as if he were one’s grandfa- I also believed that universities would look at me as a student and number of flights from Belgrade to America. Bogdanovic and her ther. Since I have been in America, I have heard references to the ‘im- not as a member of an ethnic group,”explains Bogdanovic, 27, a na- husband, astrophysicist Dusan Danilovic, left their country without mediate or nuclear family,’but for Serbians, relationships are defined tive of Bor and an architect who also was graduated from the University any complications. Awaiting her in America would be a letter from more inclusively and extensively.”

44 VANDERBILT MAGAZINE FALL 2001 45 and suicide and divorce, and when do you open your eyes and United States. Although some members of Congress still cling say, this is all a sham.”Or,“do you keep the blinders on and mow to the illusion that the legislative branch consists of 535 “Secretaries the grass.”Or “do you put your foot down”and not listen to those of State,”the executive branch makes almost all the important who tell you “this is not enough.” decisions. There was no Congressional declaration of war in In this, his first novel, Majors, a nephew of University of the Persian Gulf or in the Balkans. There probably won’t be B OOKS Tennessee football coach Johnny Majors, writes with admirable one the next time American troops are sent into combat. restraint, avoiding high drama, too-colorful descriptions and All this is ably assessed, historically and otherwise, by these overly snappy dialog to give us a rings-true portrait of a modern political scientists, who identify what they describe as four “modes” THE MIRROR CRACK’D The scope of Oliver’s book is wide ranging, both in articulating young everyman coping with his entry into adulthood. or “models” of legislative conduct where foreign policymaking the central vision that animates James’s philosophy and in Body of a Girl by Leah Stewart, BA’94, 320 pp., Viking The author lives in Tullahoma and teaches at Motlow State is concerned: Congressional assertiveness, Congressional acquies- showing the enduring value of that vision in relation to current Press, $23.95 hardcover Community College. —Dan Gordon cence, bipartisanship, and, finally, what they describe as “the academic discussions and living issues. By focusing on division-of-labor model” in which the legislative and executive transcendence, Oliver weaves together James’s positions on To call Body of a Girl a mystery novel would be like calling Moby branches share in foreign policy decision-making. subjectivity, mystery, naturalism, evolution, religion, personal LOVE AND WAR Dick a fish story. Leah Stewart has, in her first novel, crafted a It is the last “model”that the authors see as accurately describing flourishing, and social solidarity. James’s contemporaries (most Always in My Heart: The World War II Letters of Ann well-paced whodunit in which a crime and its solution are just “the pattern of executive-legislative relations in foreign affairs notably Santayana and John Dewey) receive due attention, as the bottom layer of an absorbing, frightening psychological and Coleman Harwell, compiled and edited by Ann about 75 to 80 percent of the time.”In their view, this is the “norm” do some of our own (Daniel Dennett and Richard Dawkins). profile of a young woman slipping into insanity. Harwell Wells, BA’58, MA’60, 304 pp., Hillsboro Press, in the American foreign policy process today. Importantly, Oliver also provides an insightful commentary on Olivia Dale, reporter for a Memphis newspaper, becomes $19.95 paperback As they point out, the 1991 decision to go to war in the Persian

the perils of super-mediation made possible by computer genius entangled in the details of her latest police beat story, the discovery Gulf is the best example of this “division of labor.”Yet in truth Bill Gates. Oliver succeeds most, though, in redirecting our of a body. The victim, beaten, raped, and run over by a car, is Affection and respect abound in the wartime correspondence it is the President who, invariably, takes the lead. Much of the attention to those personal delights that animate our daily lives Olivia’s age and bears more than a passing resemblance to of Coleman “Colie”Harwell,editor of the Tennessean from 1939 reason for Congressional ceding of initiative in foreign policy can and fund our happiness. —Patrick Shade her. to 1957 and later editor of the Cookeville Herald and Citizen,and be traced to inattentiveness by many Americans to all but personal The ambitious reporter demonstrates a willingness to do his wife, Ann McLemore Harwell.They were a couple happy and and local concerns. And when a member of Congress can serve whatever it takes to get the story and keep it on the front page. SMALL-TOWN STORIES comfortable in a world of words. Their daughter, Ann, a writer for years—as I did—without once being asked by a constituent What begins as Nancy Drew, however, rapidly becomes Dosto- The Picture Frame and Other Stories by Robert Drake, and publisher in her own right, carries on the family tradition, about bloodshed in the Balkans, starvation in Africa, or the global evsky. As she uncovers more and more details about the victim BA’52, MA’53, Mercer University Press, 175 pp., $23 and in this volume presents a portrait of her parent’s devotion scourge of AIDS, what electoral incentive does Congress have for and her dangerously lived life, Olivia becomes more and more hardcover to each other during separation brought on by World War II. asserting its constitutional prerogatives in making foreign policy? empathetic, and her empathy swells to a terrifying obsession. Written from 1943 to 1945, the letters put a practical and Members of Congress generally spend most of their time on issues That a 26-year-old writer combines the potent ingredients In this collection of autobiographical tales, Robert Drake takes informative face on the war, both at home and abroad, but they that most concern their constituents. Thus in foreign policy, the of murder, drugs, music, wealth, and privilege, and does so with us once again to the west Tennessee town of Woodville, a place also detail on paper the intricacies of a loving relationship that President leads, but often by default.

such deftness is itself a mystery. Former Vanderbilt faculty that bears a striking resemblance to his own birthplace of Ripley. could at any moment be blown to bits by all-too-real bombs. Crabb is professor emeritus of political science at Louisiana member and critically acclaimed novelist A. Manette Ansay calls Drake, an English professor at the University of Tennessee–Knoxville, There is,in the context of that impending uncertainty,a sense State University and author of several books on U.S. foreign policy. her former student’s debut “a smart, sexy literary page-turner, recreates a quiet, if quirky community where the women gossip of the importance of correspondence, of words exchanged and —Jim Bacchus a fully imagined and stunning portrait of two young women’s at bridge games and the men swap opinions of FDR outside the cherished. That importance is turned on its head when death lives and loves.” courthouse. marches through the home front rather than through Coleman MAKERS OF MYSTERIES Stewart, now a resident of North Carolina, grew up with Here no one bats an eye when an aging county judge is “retired Harwell’s unit in Italy. The delay of correspondence to Italy fol- an Air Force father, the family living in nine states and two Women of Mystery: The Lives and Works of Notable by his family because they wanted to get him ready for Judgment lowing the deaths of Harwell’s father and brother at home in Ten- countries. Her short stories have appeared in publications Women Crime Novelists by Martha Hailey DuBose, Day.”And it is Judgment Day that slowly enters these stories nessee reminds the reader that it was not too long ago that including the Kenyon Review. —GayNelle Doll BA’68, with additional essays by Margaret Caldwell at the margins as the decades pass and the beloved begin to communication was not an instantaneous occurrence. succumb to old age. Each funeral brings not only an erosion of Ann Harwell Wells lends a deft hand to shaping these let- Thomas, BA’68; 437 pp. plus chronologies, references, EMBRACING OUR DELIGHTS the town’s character but also a deepening sense of urgency for ters—that were never meant to be anything more than corre- resources,and index;St.Martin’s Press;$26.95 hardcover William James’s “Springs of Delight”: The Return to someone to chronicle the complex lives of these simple folk. spondence between two people who loved each other—into a terse and compelling epistolary novel about the importance of Life by Phil Oliver, PhD’98, Vanderbilt University Press, Drake answers this calling and, in the process, discloses his Women of Mystery is a pleasure to read, a treat for all who indulge love and home during worldwide crisis. The difference is that in what the author calls the “guilty pleasures” of reading mystery 280 pp., $34.95 hardcover own bittersweet journey through small-town life at its twilight. Though The Picture Frame is not his finest collection, it holds this story is true, and it had a happy ending. Coleman Harwell novels. Dubose, with a little help from Thomas, her 1968 Vanderbilt returned to his family just months before the Allies celebrated classmate, offers us a look into the lives of many talented women William James, the American psychologist and philosopher, his most intimate portraits. —Jon Parrish Peede V-E day in May 1945. —Bonnie Arant Ertelt mystery writers: from Anna Catherine Green and Mary Roberts insisted that philosophers address the real problems and expe- Rinehart to modern favorites P.D. James, Mary Higgins Clark, riences of real people, even as they address their academic col- JOURNEY TO GROWNUP and Ruth Rendell. leagues. Nashville writer Phil Oliver charts James’s success in GLOBAL DECISIONS Swimming in Sky by Inman Majors, BA’86, 241 pp., The book, Dubose’s first, has been nominated for an Edgar doing just this by countering charges that James lacks a philos- Congress and the Foreign Policy Process: Modes of Southern Methodist University Press, $19.95 hardcover Award by the National Association of Mystery Writers, an Agatha ophy of transcendence and that transcendence detaches us Legislative Behavior by Cecil V.Crabb Jr., MA’48,Glenn Award by Malice Domestic, and an Anthony Award by Böuchercon, from subjective experience. Oliver’s new book is a welcome They are legion in America, adult children still living at home, J. Antizzo, and Leila E. Sarieddine, 280 pp., Louisiana State three of the highest accolades a mystery book can garner. addition to those volumes that demonstrate the continuing rel- the 20-somethings whose primary trait seems to be a complete University Press, $39.95 hardcover, $24.95 paperback In Women of Mystery, DuBose combines extensive research evance of American philosophy to contemporary life. lack of motivation. In Swimming in Sky, Inman Majors writes into the lives of the writers with critical essays on their work, The author’s special contribution is to help us rethink tran- about Jason Say, an unemployed Vanderbilt graduate sleeping How much say does the U.S. Congress really have in American anecdotes, contemporary reviews and opinions, and some of their scendence as an exalted awareness rooted in our subjectivity. on Mama’s couch in Knoxville. foreign policy? Vanderbilt graduate Cecil V.Crabb Jr.and his col- own comments. With sparkling prose, she relates the writers to Oliver characterizes Jamesian transcendence as personal, in He’s a young man of intelligence, but not exceptional intelli- leagues Glenn Antizzo and Leila Sarieddine ask this question in their times, their personal lives, and, above all, to their books. contrast to the “impersonal” variety common to traditional gence, of average appearance, of less-than-admirable morals, and their fine new book. Their answer is: not much. She takes the reader from the beginning of the genre in the late thinkers (including James’s own student, George Santayana). with no outstanding skills or talents. And he has no job. Jason There was a time when Henry Clay and his fellow “War Hawks” 19th and early 20th centuries to today’s modern period. Personal transcendence turns toward, rather than away from, doesn’t have much in the way of role models. His football star- could ignite the War of 1812. Indeed, for much of our history The book’s final chapter briefly describes still other women the world and indicates an active engagement with life. The uncle is dead, his mother is divorced, his friends are tending Congress dominated the making of our foreign policy. The fine writers of suspense. Dubose’s lament,“So many mysteries; so little book’s thesis underscores James’s celebration of the varieties of bar and sharing drugs with him. print in the U.S. Constitution still provides that only Congress time,”could be echoed by all those who love a mystery and subjective experiences, rooted in pluralism and radical empiricism, So, Jason stands alone at a crossroads, unsure what the American can declare war. who may also love Women of Mystery. which enables him to develop a philosophy of transcendence

dream is for a young man with no obvious destiny: “… the Yet, in this third century of our republic, Congress has long

—Joanne Lamphere Beckham that Oliver argues is neither selfish nor blind to the future. American dream like any other dream, cloudy with dark splotches since ceded leadership on foreign policy to the President of the

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Alumni in Boston and Washington, IMAGES OF VANDERBILT D.C., had the opportunity to hear Chancellor Gordon Gee share his The Vanderbilt Bookstore is offering a new collection vision for Vanderbilt in May at the ALUMNI NEWS of 12 images of Vanderbilt, classic scenes ranging from Boston Harbor Hotel and the Nation- Benton Chapel and Peabody Commencement to Kirkland al Press Club. New York alumni also hosted a Hall and Commodore football. Shown is an image called CLUBS IN ACTION Reunion and Homecoming Unite in Fall 2002 “Conversation with Chancellor Gee” “Quiet Time” taken in the Peabody Education Library. in April at the Warwick Hotel in mid- IN VANDY’S BACKYARD The prints are available in two sizes, 8" x 10" or 11" x What do you get when you combine two black and move Reunion weekend from the customary spring town Manhattan. During May, Big 14". For more information call 615/322-4438 or go to Nashville Vanderbilt Club members gold celebrations into one action-packed weekend? date to fall. Apple alums “tripped the light fan- dined at a southern buffet and heard www.vanderbilt.edu/alumni, scroll down and click on A Vanderbilt extravaganza—replete with a parade, A combination of these events on October 25–26, tastic” during an Argentine Tango colorful anecdotes from the history Vanderbilt Bookstore, then Gifts. Party at the 92nd Street YMCA. of Nashville’s businesses during a tailgate party, football game, lectures, class parties, 2002, will offer many opportunities for alumni to re- Pittsburgh club members per- March panel discussion held in con- and campus tours. turn to a vibrant campus and see their classmates as formed a day of community service junction with the publication of For- Next fall, Reunion and Homecoming will be well as students from all schools within the University. in March for the Greater Pittsburgh tunes, Fiddles & Fried Chicken by Bill Community Food Bank. Carey, BA’87. celebrated on the same weekend. After careful delib- The Office of Alumni Programs promises plenty of Oops, We Goofed The black and gold spirit was alive Players from the legendary erations, the Alumni Association Board of Directors class-specific activities for Reunion participants in “The report of my death was an exaggeration.” in February at the Rush Creek Sports 1989–1990 Commodore basketball and the University’s administration have decided to addition to campus-wide Homecoming festivities. —Mark Twain Bar & Grille where Columbus alums team returned to campus in Febru- gathered for a viewing party as the ary for a reunion in the Stadium Club Due to a data collection error, the following alumni were errone- Commodores battled the Kentucky with more than 350 Nashville alum- ously listed in the 2001 Vanderbilt Alumni Directory as deceased. Wildcats. ni and friends. Vanderbilt deeply regrets the error.

HEADING WEST James F. Arthur, BA’67 DOWN SOUTH James C. Bethshares Jr., BA’56 The spirit of the wild, wild West ALUMNI GATHER FOR REUNION 2001 Palm Beach/Broward County alums Margaret Reynolds Dudley, BA’60 descended upon Dallas club mem- enjoyed a palatable breakfast before Webb C. Rizor Jr., E’52 bers in April when they gathered at viewing paintings from the palettes Campus was abuzz with 2,350 alumni and William Ledford Stone, BA’66, MD’69 the Seventeen Seventeen Restau- of 30 artists represented in The Tri- rant in the Dallas Museum of Art to friends who returned to Vanderbilt June 1–2 Charles M. Woodruff Jr., BA’66, MS’68 LYNN CRADICK umphs of French Painting: Master- for Reunion 2001. Reuniting alumni included hear Associate Professor of Fine Arts pieces from Ingres to Matisse exhib- 10 undergraduate classes ending in ‘1’ and Vivien Fryd lecture on American land- ited in March at the Norton Museum ‘6’ plus Quinqs, alumni who graduated 50 scape painter Thomas Moran. After of Art. Associate Professor of Fine Dore2Dore Open for Business years ago or more. Fred and Claudia Lummis, learning how Moran’s depictions of Arts Robert Mode lectured on the 55 Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon general chairs of Reunion 2001 and both paintings from one of the most dynam- • Click on “Activation Screen Link for First-Time influenced Congress to establish BA’76, presented a check to Chancellor ic periods in Western art. Users” to obtain a VUNetID and password. the National Park System in 1916, Gordon Gee for $14,165,774. The check Following a March luncheon at • Click on “Register/Activate your alumni alumni toured the Thomas Moran represented gifts and five-year La Madeleine and a lecture on World services account.” and the Spirit of Place exhibition. War II by Associate Professor of His- pledges made by 2,275 alumni Colorado alumni sported their Enter your information exactly as it appears on tory Sam McSeveney, New Orleans and exceeded the reunion fund- • black and gold on March 24 as they alumni toured exhibits displayed at raising goal by more than $1 the mailing label of the brochure that was mailed to cheered the Lady Commodores to the D-Day Museum. million. More than 1,600 Quinqs Vanderbilt’s new online community, Dore2Dore, you and your PIN or VU student ID number. victory in their Sweet 16 game against Baton Rouge alums enjoyed con- contributed an additional $12.7 Iowa State. has enjoyed an overwhelmingly favorable reception • Return to the Dore2Dore Homepage and begin versation and libations during a March million in gifts, pledges, and using the services. Seattle Vanderbilt Club members happy hour at the Fox & Hound Pub since its launch date of March 7. Thousands of alumni recently observed the refined aristo- bequests. Top: Wayne S. Hyatt If you experience any problems, refer to the Fre- & Grille. (left), BA’65, JD’68, hands the and current students have registered for the free serv- crats, business tycoons, and elegant Huntsville quently Asked Questions page or e-mail our Help Desk Vanderbilt Club mem- presidential reins of the Alumni ices available to Commodores. ladies immortalized by artist John bers went “LIVE! at the Huntsville- Association Board of Directors Members can update their alumni records, find a by following the links provided. Singer Sargent in the March exhibi- Madison County Library” in April to to Stephen S. Riven, BA’60, during tion The Sensualist at the Seattle Art hear Inman Majors, BA’86, discuss lost classmate, receive an online newsletter, establish a Museum. Alumni were introduced to the Saturday luncheon. Riven ALUMNI ASSOCIATION SEEKS his new book, Swimming in Sky. permanent e-mail forwarding account, get career ad- Sargent’s artistic legacy during a lec- is a principal in Avondale Partners, NOMINATIONS FOR They know him as the crooner of ture by Vivien Fryd, associate pro- a Nashville investment banking vice, and search a directory of more than 100,000 Van- DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS AWARD such musical hits as “Crocodile Rock” derbilt alumni. The most recent statistics from the Office fessor of fine arts. and “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road,” firm. Top right: Jennifer McClennon, BS’96, Kansas City alums paid tribute but Atlanta alumni gained another and Janice Feagin Olson Britton, BSN’44, of Alumni Programs indicate that 4,100 alumni have The Alumni Association of Vanderbilt University presents to Bacchus in March when they held perspective on Sir Elton John during put their heads together during the Meet- updated their online directory entries, 1,365 have signed the Distinguished Alumnus Award to an alumnus or alum- a wine tasting party at the Classic an outing in January to the High Muse- the-Faculty cocktail hour. Right: Sandy M. up for e-mail forwarding, and 10,795 have registered as na whose extraordinary achievements have had a posi- Cellar. um. After viewing the exhibition Cho- Moore, A’51, enjoys a dance with his wife, volunteers for the Commodore Career Connection. tive and significant impact on society. If you would like to Alumni in the City of Angels met rus of Light, club members learned Sue Ann Kaeser Moore, A’52. If you haven’t signed up, it’s not too late. Becom- place a name in nomination, please use this form or other in March at the Staples Center to the British singer also owns one of written document with the information and mail to: Stephen watch the Los Angeles Kings ice the To see more Reunion 2001 photos, visit the world’s most extraordinary pri- ing a member of the Dore2Dore online community can S. Riven, President, Alumni Association, Vanderbilt Colorado Avalanche 4–0. www.vanderbilt.edu/alumni vate collections of photographs. be accomplished in five easy steps: University, 117 Alumni Hall, Nashville, TN 37240. Nom- Professor Leonard Folgarait, chair of • Go to www.vanderbilt.edu/alumni, the link to inations are due by December 1, 2001. the fine arts department, lectured on Dore2Dore. selections from the 320 masterpieces comprising the singer’s collection.

48 VANDERBILT MAGAZINE FALL 2001 49 Symbiosis on a Grand Scale Vanderbilt has enriched the lives of a hundred thousand living alumni. In turn, your input keeps the University grounded and growing. Please stay in touch. ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS CLASS NOTES PRESIDENT: Stephen S. Riven, BA’60, 423/821-2037 Memphis: Karen Thomas Fesmire, School of Nursing Liaison: Melissa Coate 615/269-9377 BS’80, 901/757-1828 Hauck, BSN’72, 615/259-4438 ews for this section should be PRESIDENT-ELECT: James H. Morgan, REGION IV: NORTHEAST Nashville: Janet Carney Schneider, sent to Nelson Bryan, class BA’69,704/896-1788 (Ky. and Va. northward) BA’73,MAT’76, 615/352-2023 EX OFFICIO notes editor, Vanderbilt Tom Allen AN AMERICAN ILLUSTRATOR Sheryll Cashin, BE’84, 202/723-9596 Past Presidents: John R. Loomis, BA’51; N VICE PRESIDENT: Ronald D. Ford, New York: Jeanette Warner-Goldstein, Magazine, VU Station B 357703, 2301 Richard A. Engle, BA’77,JD’81, Wayne S. Hyatt, BA’65,JD’68 MBA’92, 404/252-9141 BA’82,JD’89 Vanderbilt Place, Nashville, TN, 37235- 401/273-1303 Association of Vanderbilt Black Alumni Country music star Marty Stuart was eight years old Washington, D.C.: Casey M. Carter, 7703, fax: 615/343-8547, or e-mail: REGION I: NASHVILLE Donald E. Townswick, MBA’92, Liaison: Randi Y. Greene, BA’94 BA’85,202/543-1360 [email protected]. when he first encountered the artistic talent of Tom Mary Frist Barfield, BS’68, 615/665-1563 860/563-5268 Divinity School Alumni/Alumnae Blair School of Music Liaison: Lauren Please include your degree, year, and, Allen, A’50.Stuart bought a copy of Flatt and Scruggs’ Elizabeth Crow Dayani, BSN’71, MSN’72, Darell Eugene Zink Jr., BA’68, Miller Utterback, BMus’90, President: Trudy H. Stringer, MDiv’88 Greatest Hits at a five-and-dime store in Philadelphia, 615/371-5173 317/255-1915 School of Engineering Alumni President: when applicable, maiden name. You 901/323-6516 also can send us news or update your Miss., and was captivated as much by Allen’s cover illus- Fran Keltner Hardcastle, BA’59, Divinity School Liaison: William E. Robert L. Brown Sr., BE’50 REGION V: WEST address and other biographical tration as by the bluegrass duo’s music. 615/292-4338 McConville, PhD’83, 518/783-4147 School of Law Alumni President: (all states west of Mississippi River) information electronically through Owen Graduate School of Management Richard S. Aldrich, JD’75 “It was the first time I’d ever seen anything other REGION II: TENNESSEE Sharon Maginnis Munger, BA’68, forms on the alumni home page at Liaison: Bradford J. Williams III, School of Medicine Alumni President: than a photograph on a record sleeve,”Stuart writes on (exclusive of Nashville) 214/350-5084 www.vanderbilt.edu/alumni. MBA’94,JD’94, 212/619-8237 Joe Arterberry, MD’76 Allen’s Web site (http://thomasballen.com/about.html). David M. Chatman, BA’85,615/904-1635 Jeff B. Love, BA’71,713/226-1200 Peabody College Liaison: Bernice School of Nursing Alumni President: “I thought it was brilliant. It gave the musicians a kind Sarah Williams Hunt, BS’67, 931/684-2140 Nancy Trevor, MSN’97 Atlanta: Joe Ellis, BA’87 Weingart Gordon, BS’56, REUNION OCTOBER 25–26, 2002 of immortality. It truly was an eye opener for me to see Owen Graduate School of Management REGION III: SOUTHEAST Birmingham: J. Ralph Jolly, BE’85, 615/352-6030 Lester and Earl in color; we didn’t own a color TV.”

Alumni President: James Herring, BA’88 Rolla A. Nausley, ED CLARK (Ala., Fla., Ga., Miss., N.C., S.C.) 205/870-4234 School of Engineering Liaison: Andrew Peabody College Alumni President: DDS’22, lives in Allen went on to do illustrations for seventeen William R. DeLoache, BA’41,MD’43, Chicago: Dina Kodjayan, BS’96 W. Dozier, BE’69, MS’71, PhD’74, Frank A. Bonsall III, MEd’93 Flatt and Scruggs records as well as numerous others in 864/288-6417 Dallas: Paul B. Stevenson, BA’84, 256/885-1579 Murfreesboro, Tenn., 2002 General Reunion Cochairs: TBA country, gospel, and jazz. He also was a noted freelance Scott C. Hatfield, BE’87, JD’93, 214/696-0467 Law School Liaison: Van Oliver, at the age of 103 years. Tom Allen, A’50, with a fan, country music star Marty Stuart Vice Chancellor for Institutional QUINQLaurence Grossman, BA’38, MD’41, illustrator for Esquire, Sports Illustrated, Life, Look, 919/846-5148 Houston: Amy Ragan Weitzel, BA’71,JD’74, 214/987-3777 Planning and Advancement: John B. Neeld Jr., BA’62,MD’66, BA’85,713/522-5406 School of Medicine Liaison: George W. was honored by Nashville’s St. Thomas McCall’s, Colliers, the New Yorker, plus CBS-TV and his art with academia since 1958, when he was hired Nicholas Zeppos 770/396-4375 Los Angeles/Orange County: Beth Holcomb, BA’43,MD’46, Hospital with the creation of the Lau- Columbia Records. to teach at the School of Visual Arts in New York. He A. Alexander Taylor II, JD’78, Cormier Pearson, BA’84,949/673-0369 615/298-1373 rence and Dorothy Grossman Chair of His work took him from the jungles of Nicaragua to also has taught at Syracuse University, where he was Excellence in Cardiac Research, the the Nevada desert. In the latter locale, Allen spent three chairman of the Department of Visual Communica- first of about 10 endowed chairs at the VANDERBILT CLUB PRESIDENTS weeks in 1960 on the movie set of “The Misfits,” doing tions; Kansas University, where he served as the Hall- St. Thomas Clinical Research Institute. Esquire illustrations of stars Marilyn Monroe and Clark mark Distinguished Professor for 12 years; and the Arizona: Frederick Eugene Powell III, B. Herron, MDiv’80, JD’80, Dresden, Johnson, MSN’97, 407/894-9342 St. Louis: William F. James Jr., William B. Hunter, MA’39, PhD’46, Gable. Ringling School of Art and Design in Sarasota, Fla. He BA’80,602/582-0483 Tenn., 901/364-5782 Minneapolis: Joshua Lee Kammerer, BA’73,314/995-5341 continues his retirement in Greens- Atlanta: Bruce Elder, BA’92, MBA’93, Hong Kong: Michael Todd Miller, BA’96,651/290-2015 San Antonio: Kenneth W. Thomas Jr., boro, N.C., and publishes papers on Directed by the legendary John Huston,“The Mis- recently stepped down as head of Ringling’s illustration 404/329-2029 BA’88,852-2913-3783 Mobile: Evan Austill Jr., BS’93, BE’70, and Susan Upshaw Thomas, John Milton and Shakespeare. In the fits”proved to be the final movie ever made by Monroe department, but continues to teach there. Austin: Catherine Fendrich, BS’94, Houston: Douglas Atnipp, BA’82,and 334/476-2507 BA’70,210/828-8771 spring, the South Central Renaissance and Gable. Gable died of a heart attack two weeks after His first teaching assignment, however, came at Van- 512/502-8311 Veronica Obermayer Atnipp, BA’82, Montgomery: Robert S. Hill III, San Diego: Election pending Society established an annual lecture- completing the film; Monroe died of a drug overdose derbilt, where he was a scholarship football player. Mar- Baltimore: Election pending 713/827-1962 BA’65,334/834-7471 Seattle: William Sadler, BE’94, and Allison ship in his name. Al Whitman, BA’39, nearly two years later. Also on the set was the movie’s ion Junkin, the only art professor at Vanderbilt at the Baton Rouge: Natalie Martin, Huntsville: Election pending Murfreesboro: Election pending Valuch Sadler, BE’97, 425/898-9496 JD’69, of Sylacauga, Ala., published a screenwriter, Arthur Miller, noted playwright and hus- time, became ill and selected Allen to teach the final six BE’98, 504/767-8654 Indianapolis: Eric Michael Douthit, Muscle Shoals,Ala.: Election pending Shelbyville/Highland Rim: Joan Todd World War II novel, As You Were, band of Monroe. weeks of his studio art class, a rare compliment for a Birmingham: Clarke Houston Gillespy, BS’94, 317/824-0197 Nashville: James Littlejohn, Gray, BS’65, 931/684-2833, and John under the pen name Whit Whitman. Allen met the stars at a small cocktail party the evening sophomore. After leaving Vanderbilt, Allen earned a BA’94,205/871-7599 Jackson, Miss.: John Ditto III, BE’76, 615/371-0008 Pitts, BA’76,931/684-2561 Blair E. Batson, BA’41,MD’44, was Boston: Thayer Swartwood, BA’94,601/982-4574 New Jersey: David M. Kupfer, BA’78, Shreveport: Election pending honored with the 2000 Humanitarian he arrived. But he will never forget Marilyn’s appear- degree in fine art from the Art Institute of Chicago and BA’96,617/859-9604 Jackson, Tenn.: John Garrard, JD’81, Chester, N.J., 908/879-4662 South Carolina-Piedmont: H. Mills of the Year Tribute by the Epilepsy ance on the set the next morning. then spent two years as an officer in the Marine Corps. Bowling Green: Election pending MBA’90,901/424-6343 New Orleans: M. Lisette Carter, Gallivan, BA’73,Greenville, S.C., Foundation in Jackson, Miss. Robert “Marilyn Monroe emerged from her dressing room Last year Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium hosted a Central Florida: Harvey Baxter, Jacksonville: Christopher Martin Thomp- BA’87,504/818-0262 864/271-5341 O. Bickley, E’42, writes that he and his trailer—white hair, white skin, red lips, white dress spot- retrospective of Allen’s work. An opening concert fea- BA’67,352/378-8621 pson, BS’87, and Stephanie Bures New York: Meghan Cobleigh Medlock, Tampa/St.Petersburg: Ryan Barack, wife moved to Smyrna, Tenn., in ted with red strawberries, white shoes, and beneath a turing Marty Stuart and Earl Scruggs raised $9,000 Charlotte: David Smith, BA’89, Thompson, BE’87, 904/287-4044 BA’97,212/535-0317 BS’95, 813/251-6689 November 1999 to be near their white parasol that protected her from the white hot for the Thomas B. Allen Scholarship at the Watkins Insti- 704/334-3127 Kansas City: Diana Bliss Kreiling, Northern California (San Francisco): Tri-Cities/Johnson City, Tenn.: John daughter, son-in-law, and grand- Chattanooga: Joy Ammer Irwin, BA’90,816/636-6117 Matthew R. Nemer, BA’96, Adams Butler, MBA’96,423/915-0240 desert sun that reflected off the white Nevada salt tute, where Allen began taking art classes at age 10. daughter.“We find it an enjoyable BE’89, 706/820-7718 Knoxville: Election pending 415/292-5213 Tri-States: E. Phillips Malone, flats. She glowed.” The Ryman exhibition is being reorganized for touring community.” Ullin Leavell, A’43, Chicago: Melanie Oh, BS’97, 773/327-9155 Lexington: William L. Montague Jr., North Carolina Triangle/Cary, N.C.: BE’63, Owensboro, Ky., 270/685-2041 Allen was commissioned by Life to do a series of with the first show scheduled for Washington Univer- received the Honorary Alumnus Award Cincinnati: Sarah Raup Johnson, BA’88,859/269-8331 Ryan Putman, BE’97, 919/380-8715 Tulsa: G. Lawrence Fox, BA’80, paintings of Harry Truman to be used in the event of sity in St. Louis in August and September. BA’77,513/871-2575 Little Rock: John Earl Tull III, Oklahoma City: Stephen Bond Payne, 918/743-9397 from the University of Kentucky. A graduate of Duke Medical School, he the former president’s death. Allen went out to the Tru- Both Vanderbilt and the Cheekwood Museum of Art Clarksville/Hopkinsville: Robert Preston BA’80,501/221-3315 BA’92,and Lori Renee Duphorne Tupelo: Daniel Brasfield, BA’64,and man Library in Independence, Mo., to look at a multi- have held exhibitions of Allen’s work and number his Kennedy, BA’92,MBA’93, Los Angeles: Beth Cormier Pearson, Payne, BS’92, 405/524-0906 Frances Joyner Brasfield, BA’64, established the dermatology section at 931/645-8476 BA’84,949/474-4403 Palm Beach/Broward County: 601/844-3490 UK in 1961 and served as associate tude of pictures and material. paintings among their collections. Cleveland: Ann Hamilton Womer- Louisville: David Jason Hale, Brad Helicher, BA’99,954/489-2395 Washington, D.C.: Eric S. Purple, professor of pathology and professor “I did the paintings but the only problem was that “His work is as timeless as the music itself,”Stuart Benjamin, BA’75,330/562-4861 BA’89,502/292-0335 Pensacola: Robert W. Moulton, BA’90,703/524-3899 and chairman of Department of Medi- Harry outlived Life,” says Allen. “Truman was still liv- says.“He is a master who can bring art to life in its most Colorado: Leila Hahn, BA’95, Maury County (Tenn.): Manuel DeWayne BA’62,850/432-5617 West Alabama: Alyce M. Spruell, BA’80, cine Division of Dermatology. Janice ing when the magazine folded. So the very last issue of complex form, yet his genius is knowing how to pres- 303/222-5405 Young, BE’85, 931/388-9755 Philadelphia: Stroud Hellebusch, Tuscaloosa,Ala., 205/752-3330 Feagin Britton, BSN’44, returned to Life had three of my paintings of President Truman in ent it in a way that even an eight-year-old child in a dime Columbus: Rodd S. Lawrence, Memphis: Joel Benjamin Sklar, BS’87, 215/855-4470 Western Kentucky: Election pending Spanish Fort, Ala., in the summer of a spread.”Allen donated the paintings to the Truman store can understand.” —Lew Harris BA’84,JD’87, 614/221-7633 JD’92, 901/543-8016 Pittsburgh: Susan Wagner, BA’78 Western Michigan: George L. Whitfield, 2000 after serving with the U.S. Peace Library, where they still are on display. Dallas: James Kerins, BE’95, 214/521-6828 Miami: Victoria Arsenis, BS’98, Richmond: Heather Hewitt Daniel, BA’82, BA’60,LLB’63, Grand Rapids, Mich., Corps in Zambia.“This was a mar- Allen, 73, a native Nashvillian who attended Van- To see more of Allen’s work, turn to the inside front Detroit: Carrie Renee Van Ess, BS’95, 305/695-0013 804/353-5873 616/752-2000 velous opportunity to live with ordi- 248/340-2035 Mid-Florida: Thomas Kimbrough Rome (Ga.): Robert M. Hammond Jr., nary people in a culture quite different derbilt’s College of Arts and Science, has combined cover. Four Corners (Tenn.-Ark.-Ky.-Mo.): Roy Johnson, JD’97, and Gina DeLuca BA’71,706/291-4259

50 VANDERBILT MAGAZINE FALL 2001 51 than any I ever knew.” Irwin Eskind, Lillian B. Clark,MAT,was BA’45, MD’48, a life member of the named Citizen of the Year by University’s Board of Trust and mem- VANDERBILT’S JACK LALANE Diana Coogle HER SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN the Campbellsville, Ky., ber of the Medical Center Board, Business and Professional received the Joe Kraft Humanitarian ’64Women’s Club and selected Carl Dudley Hewitt, Jr., BE’49, could be a spokesman When one realizes the pull of nature and the power 1999, “I thought that listening to the human world Award from the Community Founda- “Phenomenal Woman of the Year”by for the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and of words to shape the soul, very little else in the way of might be important, too.” tion of Middle Tennessee. Eskind prac- Sports. The 78-year-old logs 500 push-ups a day the Louisville Courier-Journal, January material needs may be required. Diana Coogle, BA’66, Cars, however, cannot make it to her home. “One ticed internal medicine in Nashville along with a two- to four-mile walk. He rises at 4 A.M. 2000. She is an adjunct professor at from 1954 until 1996. He supports a and exercises for about an hour before breakfast, a who lives on the side of Grayback Mountain in the of the special, poetic things about the house is that Campbellsville University. Richard number of Vanderbilt schools and pro- routine he’s followed for “a long time,” he says. Siskiyous of southern Oregon, can attest to this. there have never been any vehicles around it at all.You Colson McCord, BA, married Shalynn grams, including the medical and “I’ve been doing it for years, to the point now where Living in a home she built by herself in 1974 then have to walk to get here.” Mary Gillespie on Dec. 2, 2000. They nursing schools, athletics, Peabody I’m afraid to quit. Who knows what would happen if expanded some years later, this writer, playwright, and If all this sounds as though Coogle is an austere live in Santa Fe, N.M., and Smyrna, College, Blair School of Music, and I did?” Hewitt, a chemical engineer with E.I. Dupont teacher coexists in harmony with nature around her. woman, think again. She studies guitar with a former Tenn. Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy De Menours & Co. in New Johnsonville, Tenn., has In listening to the earth she student of Segovia, prac- Studies. Also, he and his wife estab- not missed a day of work due to illness or injury for finds a thread that weaves tices yoga, and teaches writ- Patrick G. Hogan Jr., PhD, is lished the Annette and Irwin Eskind more than 56 years. His penchant for exercise rubbed its way seamlessly between ing at Rogue Community professor, emeritus, at the Biomedical Library at Vanderbilt. University of Houston. He was off on one of his two daughters, who regularly runs her life on the mountain College in Grants Pass, Ore- David Scobey, BA’45,received the marathons. editor of South Central Bulletin, Outstanding Football Official Award PEYTON HOGE and the creative nonfiction gon. She has written plays ’65the official publication of the South from the National Football Founda- she writes. for children and adults, all Central Modern Language Association, tion and College Hall of Fame at the “Those who knew me at of which have been pro- for 15 years and was president of the Waldorf-Astoria in New York last Vanderbilt know that I’m duced, and continues to South Central Renaissance Society and December. Harold D. Murphy,MA’49, they spent summers in Sewanee, Tenn., of Governors, American College of Roger Beckham, BE, and not a very practical person,” write essays, which she founder of the South Central College EdD’62, of Commerce, Texas, was and winters in Fernandina, Fla., as Surgeons, for 2000–2001. Carroll Chambliss, BE, wrote laughs Coogle.“I wouldn’t reads weekly on Jefferson English Association. Lola Llewellyn, the cover story in the awarded the Truax Founders Award by children at the turn of the century. have thought during my Public Radio. It is most BSN, was honored at a surprise recep- Robert A. Rutland, PhD, of Tulsa, Dorothy Evans Fisher- International District Energy the Texas Counselors Association. The years at Vanderbilt that I’d often through the essays tion last September by the establish- ’61Association’s III-Q 2000 issue of award is given for contributions to the Okla., is editor-in-chief and contribu- Campbell, BA, was profiled in be the most likely person that she communicates ment of an endowed professorship at counseling profession in Texas and tor to Clio’s Favorites: Leading the Dec. 4, 2000, edition of the District Energy magazine. Titled the Loewenberg School of Nursing at to live alone up in the how she listens to nature other parts of the nation. He is profes- Historians of the United States, Greenwich Time newspaper for “Adelphia Coliseum: the NFL’s ‘Cool’ the University of Memphis. The pro- 1945–2000, published by the her’58 work as a portrait artist. A resident New Stadium,”the article describes mountains.” But she has through all her senses. sor emeritus of counseling at Texas fessorship was established by A&M University–Commerce. Edward University of Missouri Press. The es- of Greenwich, Conn., her portraits are how the Nashville thermal plant con- lived in her house now for Her winter passion is Methodist Healthcare. She is a long- P.Ellington, BE’51, writes that he is says, one of which was contributed by numerous in Greenwich; Westchester verts the city’s trash into energy and more than 25 years,“and I cross-country skiing, and time associate and vice president of “restin’ in Destin,”Fla., with his wife of Vanderbilt history professor Paul County, N.Y.; New York City; and uses that energy to cool the 960,000 love it,”she says.“This house her summer passion— nursing for Methodist Healthcare- 50 years, Joanna.“Stop by and say hi.” Conkin, begin with Bernard Baclyn overseas. Edward C. Stevens,BA,a square feet of enclosed space in the sta- suits me very well. Because and the source for an Memphis hospitals. Bob Pearson,BA, Robert M. Holder Jr., BE’51, was pro- and end with C. Vann Woodward. member of the ’55 Gator Bowl football dium. Joel Rochow, BA, G’62, writes I built it myself, I complete- upcoming book—is back- was confirmed in June 2000 by the U.S. that he is enjoying retirement in filed in the December 1, 2000, issue of team living in Doswell, Va., and ly created my own space. packing to and swimming Senate as the U.S. Ambassador to Gerald E. Stone, BA, MD’57, of Naples, Fla., married Judge Nina Peace Arlington, Va., after 22 years on assign- the Atlanta Business Chronicle for his People’s reactions to it when in high altitude lakes. “I Turkey. Previously, he had a three-year 37 years as head of the Holder Corp. Pittsford, N.Y., was a pioneer in in March 2000. They were joined on ments in Reykjavik, Iceland; Calcutta, they visit are something swam in Crater Lake last appointment to Paris, France, where and its subsidiaries. James M. Sloan, performing renal biopsies in their honeymoon in the Caribbean by India; provincial Vietnam; Warsaw, Bob was deputy chief and his wife, like their reactions to me, summer for more than 30 BA’51,is a retired gynecologist in Little the 1960s. The specific needle other Gator Bowl team members. Jack Poland; San Francisco; Yaounde, Maggie, was embassy press spokesper- ’54he used, the Franklin modification of a B. Turner, BA, of Clarksville, Tenn., re- Cameroon; and Bangkok, Thailand. because they’re really re- minutes and really felt the Rock, Ark. son. Rowena Porter Sewell, BSN, was Vim-Silverman liver biopsy needle, ceived the 2000 John Newton Russell sponding to an expression kind of at-oneness that named president and CEO of Hospice Beth Stone, MA, continues to was donated to the Smithsonian Memorial Award from the National of my personality.” people talk about. These lakes are very blue and very of Rockingham County, a private, non- practice clinical psychology Institute’s National Museum of Association of Insurance Financial REUNION OCTOBER 25–26, 2002 The house began as a 10-foot by 12-foot room with deep. Most are glacier-fed, and to be in the middle profit organization in Reidsville, N.C. part time at the Southwestern History, Division of Medical Sciences. Advisors, the insurance industry’s a loft and skylights that she built by herself for $300 of this very cold, blue lake with snow-covered peaks Indiana Mental Health Center highest individual award. He is presi- Lamar Alexander, BA, joined in 1974. At the time, her son was two years old. As surrounding me was just ecstasy.” J. Randolph Humble,BA, in’52 Evansville. She also commutes to Paul H. Barnett, BA, MD’58, dent of Jack B. Turner & Associates. the board of directors of he grew, she added to the structure (this time with the Spring and summer near her home bring not only was elected president of the was appointed full clinical pro- Beacon Education Manage- Nashville once a week to take a theolo- help of a carpenter friend), and the 120-square-foot backpacking and swimming, but also tending to her Tennessee Trial Lawyers gy course at the Vanderbilt Divinity fessor of medicine at E. Duncan Hamner Jr.,BA, ment, a school management Association for 2000–2001. ’62services company in Westborough, house became 500 square feet. She has no electrici- steep, mountainside garden.“I have a lot of peonies School “just for the fun of it.” Vanderbilt University Medical JD’64, retired in 1997 after 28 He’66 is an attorney with the Knoxville Center.’55 As an undergraduate, he was a years as a civilian lawyer for the Mass. Terry Foster, BA, retired after 30 ty, no refrigeration. She cooks on a propane stove, and foxglove, Shasta daisies and daffodils,” says firm of Rainwater & Humble. John Dana Coggins, BA, wrote and member of the varsity swim team, U. S. Navy’s Military Sealift years of medical practice in Louisville, heats with wood, and showers outside. She does have Coogle,“but I need to build a cage around my roses. McClellan Marshall, MA, freshman basketball team, student sen- ’59Command (MSC). He also is a retired Ky. He and his wife of more than 38 a phone now, because, as she explains in the intro- The deer and I are coming to terms with what I can published Nine Lives—And introduced American law to Polish Forty-Five Days That Changed ate, and marching band. He writes that U. S. Naval Reserve captain (JAG years, Virginia Aber Foster, BA’63,di- duction to her book Fire From the Dragon’s Tongue, and cannot grow around here.” academia when he started a series of Them (Buy Books), a novel he and his wife, Paula Kramer Barnett, Corps). He and his wife, Trish, live in vide their time between northern which was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award in —Bonnie Arant Ertelt four-week courses in American his- about’53 a baseball team made up of six are proud of their four grandchildren, Tallahassee, Fla., where he plays golf Wisconsin, Florida, and Louisville. tory and Constitutional law at the men, two women, and a boy. After all “very avid Commodore fans.” and consults for MSC. Their daughter, Alexandra, practices Marie Curie Sklodowska in Lublin, practicing law for 40 years, he retired law in Longview, Texas. Terry’s pursuits Poland. He also oversaw the creation and lives with his wife on Pease’s Point Robert D. Fraley,MDiv,of George P.Ford, BE, became a include sailing, golf, furniture making, Johnson Sparling, MA, a retired ele- the Advancement of Teaching and the J. Thurston Roach, BA, was of a local chapter of Phi Delta Phi in the village of Mattapoisett, Mass. Show Low, Ariz., writes that he fellow of the American College and painting. Brett W.Hawkins, MA, mentary school teacher and assistant Council for the Advancement and elected to the board of directors International Legal Fraternity, which Rene Dudney Lynch, BA, of Los Altos, celebrated 50 years of marriage of Trial Lawyers. He is a partner PhD’64, of White Fish Bay, Wis., re- principal in Fortville, Ind., is helping Support of Education. Linda of Deltic Timber Corporation in was named in his honor. He is a Calif., published two companion to his wife, Ruth, with their four in the law firm of Ford & tired after 37 years as a college profes- raise her ten-year-old grandchild who Windrow Veirs, MLS, participated in El Dorado, Ark. He is president judge in the Fourteenth Judicial ’56children, 10 grandchildren, and four Howard’60 in Gadsden, Ala. George L. sor at Washington and Lee University, books, Rebel’s Rest Remembers: attends the school from which she re- the groundbreaking ceremony for the ’63and CEO of HaloSource, a chemtech District of Texas in Dallas. John Sewanee Summers When We Were Very great-grandchildren.“Hope to retire in Whitfield, BA, LLB’63, an attorney in the University of Georgia, and the tired. She also was elected to the local new East Granby Public Library in company in Seattle, Wash. Mazach, BA, was named vice presi- Young (Proctor’s Hall Press) and A the near future.” William F.Sasser,BA, the Grand Rapids, Mich., firm of University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. school board. Leah Marcile Taylor, Connecticut. She is director of the ex- dent and integrated project team Fernandina Folly: The Fairbanks Family a thoracic surgeon in St. Louis, was Warner Norcross & Judd, was named He is author of numerous publications BA, a history professor at Wesleyan isting library and leads the fundraising leader of the new aircraft product in Florida (The Shambles Press). The elected president of the Southern to the 2001–2002 edition of The Best in peer-reviewed professional journals College in Macon, Ga., was named and planning stages for the new facili- support and services organization for books are based on the memories of Thoracic Surgical Association for Lawyers in America in the field of em- and seven books. Listed in Who’s Who Georgia Professor of the Year in 2000 ty. She and her husband, James W. Northrop Grumman’s Integrated her mother and mother’s cousin when 2000–2001 and secretary of the Board ployee benefits. in America for the past 14 years, he by both the Carnegie Foundation for Veirs, BS, MS’69, live in North Granby. Systems Sector, working with air- currently writes short fiction. Geneva

52 VANDERBILT MAGAZINE FALL 2001 53 borne early warning and electronic water carriers, and Great Lakes port fa- solutions and e-business consultancy Cummings Conners & Berry, was an trusion company with plants in Dallas Systems/Loral, designing commercial based developer of handheld tools for nounce the birth of their second son, warfare systems located in cilities. Steven A. Stinson, BA, JD’72, as a director. Richard Wallman, BE, adjunct professor of bankruptcy at the and St. Louis. They live on a 450-acre satellite systems and broadband physicians. Jeanette Warner- Stephen Antonio “Anthony” Human, Jacksonville, Fla. He joined Northrop joined the West Palm Beach, Fla., office senior vice president and CFO at Vanderbilt Law School during the fall ranch in Forney, Texas. Gamiel Internet services. He, his wife, Karla Jo, Goldstein, BA, JD’89, and her husband, born on Aug. 20, 2000, joining brother Grumman in 1999 after serving in of Gunster Yoakley as a member of the Honeywell, was named to the board of 2000 semester. Thomas F.Parrish Jr., Ramson, BA, an attorney in New York and their daughter, Aubrey Anna, live Paul Goldstein, announce the birth of a David, 10. They live in St. Louis. the U.S. Navy for 32 years and reach- litigation department. Bill Young,BA, directors of Breakaway Solutions, a BE, MS’77, of Tullahoma, Tenn., mar- City, and his wife, Amy Jocelyn, an- in Cupertino, Calif. Deborah Osborne son, Jerome Blakeman “Blake” Alexander Jackson IV, BA, married ing the rank of vice admiral. writes with a correction to a class note full-service provider for e-businesses. ried Angela K. Young on Sept. 30, 2000. nounce the birth of a daughter, Joëlle Holtsclaw, BS, was elected regional di- Goldstein, born on Sept. 13, 2000, in Andrea M. Kirchgessner on July 29, that appeared in the Fall 2000 issue of Marty Singer, MA, PhD’77, was ap- Nathalie, born on Feb. 11, 2000. rector of alumnae for Kappa Kappa New York City. 2000. He is a private investment fund VANDERBILT MAGAZINE. He was hon- Nancy Oliver Gray, BA, presi- pointed president and CEO of Ultra Gamma fraternity for the Midwestern manager for Whitney & Company in REUNION OCTOBER 25–26, 2002 ored in 1999 by the secretary of de- dent of Converse College in Fast Optical Systems, an optical Tom Alderson, BA, writing region of the country. She lives in Harry Campbell, BA, was pro- Stamford Company, and she is a senior fense as an active-duty representative Spartanburg, S.C., was named switching technology company with under the name T.A. Alderson, Carmel, Ind., with her husband, moted to CEO of uclick, an on- technical designer with Ann Taylor of William C. Caldwell,BE, of the Vietnam War. Young received to the board of trustees at offices in New York City and is author of Subversion Michael, daughter Susan, 12, and son line syndication company in New York. Michael Shepard, BS, a ge- joined Hydraulic Energy Prod- the Navy Cross for a combat rescue of ’73Princeton Theological Seminary in Northbrook, Ill. Daniel Surface,BA, (Broadway Books). He lives in Stephen, 15. Terry W. Saltsman, BS, Kansas City, Mo. Lisa Miller ology professor at Bloomsburg ucts in Denver in systems a downed pilot in North Vietnam. The New Jersey. She was vice president of joined Nashville Public Radio as direc- Takoma’78 Park, Md. Michael C. joined the Nashville accounting firm of Makepeace’83 , BA, received an M.B.A. in University in Pennsylvania, was fea- design, component sales, and ceremony also honored many previous seminary relations at Princeton tor of development and marketing. McChesney, BA, was profiled in the Williams Crosslin Sparks & Vaden as December 1999 from the University of tured in Press-Enterprise newspaper for ’67distribution of fluid power applications. medal of honor winners. Seminary from July 1998 to June 1999. Bruce Trimble, BA, of Jacksonville, Oct. 13, 2000, edition of the Atlanta director of operations/information Richmond. She works part-time for his creation of a goniometer, a device Lydia Luttrell Grub, MSN, an instruc- Fla., was promoted by SunTrust Bank Business Chronicle. He is founder and technology. Steve Stuehrk, BS, joined the accounting firm of Deloitte & that will help NASA scientists deter- Joe Lena Collins, MA, EdS’75, Samuel D. Sapp, A, is a mem- tor of nursing at Aquinas College in to executive vice president and line-of- president of WebTone Technologies, an the Ft. Lauderdale-based FTTrust Co. Touche as targeting coordinator for the mine what the surface of asteroids and a retired Nashville educator, ber of the Georgia Pharmacy Nashville, is author of Doing business manager of private client e-business solutions company. Peter as vice president of institutional sales global resources group, and keeps busy other heavenly bodies is like. Michael was selected Who’s Who of Association and the Academy Chemistry: A Story for Women (1st services for the North Florida market. Oldham, BA, JD’82, an attorney with for the midwestern region of the with her three children, twins J. Zambetti, BA, MBA’86, was promot- American Women 2000 and as of Pharmacy Technicians. He Books Library, Bloomington, Ind.). Harwell Howard Hyne Gabbert & United States. Chandler and Austin, six, and Daniel, ed by First Union National Bank to ’68“Woman of Purpose” by the United writes’70 that he had a letter to the editor Paula Lovell, BA, president of Lovell David N. Jewell, BS, of Manner in Nashville, received the three. Jerzy Patoczka, MS, PhD’88, senior vice president and site manager Methodist Women-Belle Meade United published in the November 2000 issue Communications in Nashville, was Lexington, Ky., was promoted Chairman’s Leadership Award from Elizabeth Damato, BSN, joined presented a photography exhibit, of the North Florida commercial real Methodist Church. George S. Drag- of Smart Money magazine. Mary Fitch reappointed to a second three-year to IT specialist with IBM the YMCA of Middle Tennessee for the Frances Payne Bolton School Impressions from Four Continents, last estate underwriting and portfolio nich, BA, is counselor for labor and White, BA, of Ann Arbor, Mich., pub- term on the Atlanta Fed’s board and Corporation and continues to providing exceptional leadership and of Nursing at Case Western September at the Skulski Art Gallery of management units. His wife, Karen social affairs and deputy chief of the lished a novel, Second Families, avail- reappointed as deputy chairman of the ’76specialize in software performance service to the community. Charles F. Reserve University in Cleveland, the Polish Cultural Foundation in Thompson Zambetti, BS, a substitute economic section at the American able on the web at amazon.co.uk. board. Dan Prince, BA, is director of testing analysis. Creighton Michael, “Rick” Rule, BA, joined the Ohio,’81 as an assistant professor. She is a Clark, N.J. Sandy Severino, BA, mar- teacher in elementary school, stays ac- Embassy in London and was promoted Self Taught Artists Resources in MA, was featured in the January 14, Washington, D.C., office of Fried specialist in neonatal nursing. George ried Sheri Meryl Ptashek on Jan. 13, tive with their two daughters,“and is a to the rank of minister-counselor in Steve Dougan, BA, was appoint- Franklin, Tenn. Audrey Talley, BA, was 2000, edition of the Greenwich Time Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson as an Fandos, BS, was named chief customer 2001. He is director of bond sales in terror on the tennis courts!” the U.S. Foreign Service. Jim Fuqua Jr. ed by the Lansing, Mich., city elected vice chancellor of the newspaper in Connecticut for his art antitrust partner. Kurt Schmalz,BA, officer at Realeum, a provider of Web- Manhattan for Deutsche Bank was elected mayor of Hendersonville, council as city clerk, filling out Philadelphia Bar Association and will show Creighton Michael: JD’83, became a “name” shareholder in based property management and asset Securities, specializing in Latin Robin Thomas Baskin, BS, Tenn., in November 2000. John H. the remaining year of a four-year head the organization in 2003. She is Haiku/Innuendo. He displayed paint- the Beverly Hills, Calif., law firm of optimization solutions for real estate American bonds, and she is a vice pres- and her husband, Robert, an- Martin, BA, was elected to the board of term.’71 He is responsible for overseeing chair of the business law section at ings from both his Haiku and Lurie Zepeda Schmalz & Hogan, a owners and managers based in ident and director of investor relations nounce the birth of their first directors of the Defense Research Insti- four elections during the year. Howard Drinker Biddle & Reath. Innuendo series. He lives in Bedford, business litigation law firm. Alexandria, Va. Ross Staine Jr., BA, for Citigroup. child, a son, Henry “Hank” tute, the nation’s largest association of C. Irwin, BE, moved to Kingsport, N.Y., and maintains a studio in New was named a partner in the Houston Thomas’85 Baskin, born on June 2, 2000. civil litigation defense lawyers. He is a Tenn., to work with Willamette Vivian Shipley, PhD, was York Cit y. Suzanne Ortega, MA, M. Hayne Hamilton Jr., BA, law firm of Fulbright & Jaworski, prac- Laura Beth Warren Billings, Robin resigned her position as pro- senior partner and head of the trial Industries as construction manager. presented a Southern PhD’79, was named vice provost for MBA’84,purchased Brandau ticing in the areas of project and com- BA, lost her husband, B. Welby gram manager at St. Mary Villa in department at the Dallas firm of Beth McCoy, MME, last year was pre- Connecticut State University advanced studies and dean of the grad- Printing, an 88-year-old mercial finance and corporate law. Alexander Billings, to acute t- Nashville to be a full-time mom. Thompson & Knight. G. Patrick sented the Conductor’s Award by the Faculty Scholar Award for her uate school at the University of Nashville-based company. He cell leukemia on Aug. 25, 2000. “Hank has already attended three foot- Maxwell, BA, MD’72, a Nashville plas- Johnson City Symphony Orchestra in third’74 book of poetry, Devil’s Lane. Missouri–Columbia. bought’79 the business from Seawell J. ’84She lives in Dallas with their children, ball games and Homecoming!” Ann tic surgeon, was named by Town and Tennessee. She was chosen because of She is a professor at the university Brandau, BA’58. Hayne and his wife, REUNION OCTOBER 25–26, 2002 Sarah Caroline, eight, and Benjamin, Boehlke, BS, announces two releases Country and W. magazines as one of her contributions to the development, and editor of Connecticut Review. Laura, have two children, Whatley, four. Tracy Ginter Bushkoff, BA, and in August 2000: the birth of son Josiah the top plastic surgeons in the United promotion, training, enjoyment, and Harold Ivan Smith, EdS, last REUNION OCTOBER 25–26, 2002 four, and Hayne III, three. P. Ste ven William W.Horton, BA’82,and her husband announce the birth of Mackinlay Polhemus on August 16, States and world. Steffen H. Rogers, appreciation of music. She is director December was a pulpit guest on Kratsch, BA, JD’82, of Decatur, Ga., his wife, Judilyn, announce the daughter Rebecca Kathryn, born on and the video release of “The Scottish MA, PhD’69, was named 15th presi- of the East Tennessee Children’s Choir. Robert Schuller’s “Hour of Power” Susan W. Caro, BSN, director joined the national law firm of Kurak birth of their third child, July 4, 2000 (“our firecracker”), joining Tale” on August 15, a movie produced dent of Bucknell University in Lewis- She also teaches private piano lessons, television broadcast from the Crystal of the Family Cancer Risk Rock and continues his practice in Lindsay Grace Horton, born on sister Jessica, four. They live in by and starring Ann that was written burg, Penn. Previously he was vice writes scores for choirs, organizes the Cathedral in Garden Grove, Calif. He Service at Vanderbilt’s Ingram bankruptcy, finance, corporate law, July’82 11, 2000, joining sister Denise, six, Arlington, Va., where Tracy is a self- and directed by her husband, Mack president for academic affairs and Annual Handbell Extravaganza for the was interviewed for his work as a Cancer Center, received the and commercial litigation. Joanna and brother Reid, five. They live in employed psychotherapist. John L. Polhemus. The video is available at provost at Clemson University. David Virginia Highlands Festival, and is ac- grief counselor and about his book, A Frances’77 Williams Preston Award for Ormiston Long, MA, published her Birmingham. Matthew Kisber, BA, and Feininger Jr., BE, and his wife, Hollywood Video stores nationwide. S. Williams, BA, was elected secretary- tive in church music programs. Robert Decembered Grief (Beacon Hill). A Breast Cancer Awareness. Patti A. fourth novel, An Artist Now Unknown his wife, Paige Lowe Kisber, MEd’92, Elleanore Lawwill Feininger, BA’85, Whitney C. Broach, BS, was named treasurer of the Southern Association B. Thompson, BA, was named to the resident of Kansas City, Mo., he also Christensen, BS, was appointed to the (Providence House Publications), announce the birth of a son, Harrison announce the birth of their third director of business development and of Orthodontists. He has an orthodon- newly established endowed New York wrote Friendgrief: An Absence Called St. Johns County Court, Seventh about an artist in Renaissance Italy. Lowe Kisber, born on April 14, 2000. daughter, Ansley Elleanore, born on process management at Hitachi Data tic practice in Columbia, Tenn., with a Alumni Chancellor’s Chair at the Presence (Baywood). Susan Vanhook Judicial Circuit, by Florida Governor She also is an artist and currently is at They live in Jackson, Tenn. Anita Oct. 9, 2000, joining sisters Sterling Systems, a Denver-based provider of branch office in Lawrenceburg. Vanderbilt Law School. Previously he Williams, BA, was installed as presi- Jeb Bush. She lives in St. Augustine. work on an illustrated songbook for Timbrock Kontilis, BS, and her hus- and Harrison. Elleanore is on a leave of information technology infrastructure was a professor at Washington dent of the Shreveport Medical Michael Goldston, BA, president of children. She lives in Nashville. Nancy band, Jim, announce the birth of a son, absence from Georgia Pacific, and services and products to large organi- Diane Reese, BA, joined Data University School of Law and served as Society. She is an assistant professor Cambridge Equity Advisors in Pellegrino, BA, joined Mellon Private Thomas Alexander Kontilis, born on John was promoted to marketing man- zations. John Burchfield, BS, and his Management & Research in editor of Corporate Practice of medicine at LSU Health Sciences Nashville, was named one of “The 150 Asset Management in Seattle as a sales Dec. 17, 1999, joining sister Karis, ager at Kawneer Company. They live in wife, Mary, announce the birth of their Nashville as national director of Commentator. Center and is board certified in inter- Best Financial Advisors for Doctors” manager for the Pacific Northwest. seven, and brothers Nikolas, five, and Norcross, Ga. Joseph Henderson, third child, Elisabeth Erann Burchfield, quality and client services. nal medicine and rheumatology. by Medical Economics. M. Williams Brad Stach, MA, director of audiology Lukas, four. They live in Houston. EdD, was named to the Alabama A&M born on April 9, 2000, joining brothers ’69Gene Shanks, BA, president and CEO Goodwyn Jr., BA, joined and clinical services at Central Carol J. McDonald, BS, works as a soft- University Hall of Fame last summer. Michael and John. After working in the of NetRisk management software and REUNION OCTOBER 25–26, 2002 Anthony A. Joseph, BS, a part- Birmingham-based Coca-Cola Institute for the Deaf in St. Louis, was ware engineer for Sun Microsystems in He was a track and field coach at department of ophthalmology at the advisory services company in ner and co-chair of the white- Bottling Company United as vice pres- appointed to the Missouri Burlington, Mass., after 13 years abroad AAMU where his teams garnered four University of Rochester (N.Y.), John Nashville, was appointed to the board W. Ladd Bodem, BE, was collar criminal defense practice ident and general counsel. Ann Commission for the Deaf by interim in Germany, France, and Switzerland. national championships, 10 NCAA re- has accepted a position in private prac- of directors of The New Power named vice president of client group at the Montgomery, Ala., McDaniel, BA, was named senior di- Missouri Governor Roger Wilson. Juliann H. Panagos, BS, joined the gional championships, 16 consecutive tice with Vision Associates in Toledo, Company, the first national residential services at Authoria Inc., a law’75 firm of Johnston Barton Proctor & rector of human resources of the Houston law office of McGlinchey conference outdoor championships, Ohio. Martin L. Craig, BE, was pro- and small business energy provider. provider of Web-based human Powell, is in the midst of a three-year Washington Post Company. Previously Mark D. Arons, BA, of East Stafford in the practice of labor and and 11 consecutive cross country moted to district sales manager with Thomas W. Sterling, BE, was elected resource’72 communication applications term as an Alabama State Bar she was managing editor of Newsweek Haven, Conn., married Audrey employment law. Mike Walters,BA, championships, with more than 50 All- Eli Lilly in Houston and promoted to president and CEO of Transtar, a headquartered in Waltham, Mass. Commissioner for the 10th judicial and head of its Washington bureau. Craemer on Nov. 4, 2000. Eric was named senior vice president of Americans and several Olympians. the rank of commander in the U.S. Monroeville, Penn., holding company David Tussey, BE, joined the New district. Bill Norton, BA, JD’82, an at- Nancy Pierce, BE, and her husband, Butte, BE, was promoted to di- provider services at Parkstone Medical Marisa Longrais Human, BS, and her Naval Reserves. Margaret Douglas that includes seven railroads, two York City office of Sapient, an Internet torney with the Nashville firm of Boult Dennis, operate their own plastics ex- ’80rector of system development at Space Information Systems, a Ft. Lauderdale- husband, David Human, BA’81,an- Hamilton, BA, and her husband, Joe,

54 VANDERBILT MAGAZINE FALL 2001 55 announce the birth of their fourth ments, at the Venice, Fla., office of daughter, Mary Charles Hamilton, Raymond James & Associates. He and born on July 24, 2000, joining sisters Heidi Ueberroth NBA STANDOUT A HERO TO WOMEN his wife, Lisa, have three children: Tillman, eight; Catherine, six; and Megan, 10; David, six; and Tara, four. Frances, four. They live in Atlanta. For her successful work in helping women escape Heather Weller, BA, and her husband, An all-American girl with a global perspective— pany, and the following year she was “drafted” by Keith R. Haupt, BE, was named a the dangerous cycle of chemical dependency and Jeff, announce the birth of their first partner in the Cincinnati law firm of that’s Heidi Ueberroth, BA’87. the NBA as director of international media programs. prostitution, the Rev. Becca Stevens, MDiv’90, was child, Laurel Anne, born on Sept. 9, Wood, Herron & Evans, practicing in- Ueberroth, 35, is executive vice president of Glob- Although she never donned a basketball jersey for named Nashvillian of the Year 2000 by the Nashville 2000. They live in Petaluma, Calif. tellectual property law.“My other full- al Media Properties and Marketing, NBA Entertain- Vanderbilt, the fit and focused California native knows Scene. Stevens serves as executive director of the Alan Willig, JD, is employed by WEST time pursuits,”he writes,“include ment—the marketing and media arm of the National her way around the sport and around the globe.“Susan Magdalene project, a nonprofit organization dedi- GROUP in New York City, a legal soft- husband and father to two-year-old Basketball Association. She is the highest-ranking Wiltshire [classics professor] once told me that every- cated to providing sanctuary, support services, and ware and online services marketing triplets (Bradley, Meagan, and female executive in the four major one should travel around the world before educational opportunities to women with a criminal company. history of drug abuse and prostitution. Magdalene’s Rachel).” Eric T. Helman, BA, was pro- professional sports leagues. the age of 25,”she says.“Tell her it’s tak- filed in the Sept. 22, 2000, edition of residential program provides long-term and secure Katrina Gwinn-Hardy,MD, Her responsibilities are divid- ing me a little longer, but I’m getting housing as a haven from the social and economic the Tampa, Fla., Business Journal. He is ed between overseeing the mar- there.”And indeed she is—from Hong works as an assistant professor president and CEO of SourceTrack, a factors that drive women to prostitution. In addition of neurology at the Mayo Clinic keting partnerships (with Kong, Sydney, and Paris to Warsaw and business-to-business e-purchasing to providing transitional housing and meals for up to Jacksonville (Fla.) studying the service for mid-sized companies and sponsors such as Coca-Cola, Yahoo, Mexico City. two years, Magdalene services include chemical ’91genetics of Parkinson’s disease with her their suppliers. Cynthia Green and American Express) and world- With a television presence in more dependency treatment, technical training and tuition husband, John Hardy. She is the Higgins, BA, and her husband an- wide television distribution for than 200 countries and offices in 15, the assistance, legal support, medical and dental assis- “proud mother of three stepchildren.” nounce the birth of a daughter, Claire the NBA and the WNBA (the five- NBA is deluged with requests to enter tance, and transportation. Stevens also serves as Jill Bensonhaver Healey, BA, and Episcopal chaplain at St. Augustine Chapel on the Lane Higgins, born on Oct. 4, 2000. year-old women’s professional more countries. “We’re seizing the oppor- ERIC ENGLAND Mike Healey, BA’92,announce the They live in Charlotte, N.C. Kerri basketball league). tunities as fast as we can,”says Ueber- Vanderbilt campus. birth of their first child, Brendan Cole Woodberry, BA, was profiled in the Ueberroth’s position with the roth. In fact, the number of television Healey, born on Aug. 1, 2000. They live June–July 2000 issue of Contempora sports organization combines two networks carrying NBA games and spe- in Lexington, S.C. Julie Cox Kennon, magazine. She is a plastic surgeon in of her main interests—television cial features has doubled since she came MD, and Jerry Kennon, MBA’95,an- St. Louis specializing in hand surgery Kendra Lynn Farn, BA, married Noah Jennifer Oldham Hatcher,BA, Brian J. Donnelly, BA, was nounce the birth of their third child, and international business. Her on board in 1994. and is an assistant professor of surgery Robert Finz on December 30, 2000. She and her husband, Christopher, named life and disability sales Cole Everett, born on Sept. 3, 2000, in the division of plastic and recon- love of far-flung climes dates back These days, there’s nowhere she is a correspondent for WCBS-TV in announce the birth of a daugh- manager for the Nashville and joining sister Isabel, four, and brother structive surgery at St. Louis to her formative years, when her parents were involved can go without bumping into the NBA. She remem- New York City, and he is sports director ter, Caroline Webb Hatcher, Memphis territories by Will, two. They live in Nashville. Scott in the travel industry. They gave their middle daugh- bers a side trip several years ago to Guilin, China. and anchor at WTNH-TV,the ABC af- ’89born on June 21, 2000. They live in Prudential’90 Group Insurance. Stephen University. Allen Rhodes, BS, married Christina ter a vision of the world as marketplace. Her inter- A young guide there welcomed her to the “sister city filiate in New Haven, Conn. Anne Arlington, Va. Laura Ferman Farrior, D. Hurd, BA, JD’99, joined the Adams Meza on Oct. 21, 2000. They Ashish K. Bahl, BE, and his est in sports also comes naturally, as her father, Peter to Orlando, home of the Orlando Magic and Shaquille Hyman, BS, married Stuart Aaron BA, and her husband announce the Nashville law firm of Sherrard & Roe live in Nashville. Leslie Turner company, CyberStarts, were Ueberroth, once served as commissioner of major O’Neal.” Says Ueberroth, “I was looking around at Fierman on June 17, 2000. They live in birth of their third child, a son, Wyatt as an associate in the areas of health Schuster, BS, MBA’93, and her hus- profiled in the Oct. 13, 2000, league baseball and was head of the 1984 Olympics my bags for an NBA-something sticking out, but no, Atlanta. Walt Massey, BS, writes that John Nunnally, born on Feb. 17, 2000. care and corporate finance. Stephen band, James, announce the birth of four Vandy engineering graduates In December, Laura ran her first LaMastra, JD, was promoted to execu- edition of the Atlanta Business in Los Angeles. that was just how he greeted all his guests. He was their first child, Lucille Elizabeth, born Chronicle’86 . Wende Gladfelter serendipitously wound up at the proj- marathon. They live in Tampa, Fla. tive vice president and general counsel on June 15, 2000. They live in After graduating from Vanderbilt with a degree in proud of that connection.” Gaikema, BE, and her husband, Jeff, ect team meeting for the construction Laura Mazar Meanwell, BE, and her of Atlanta-based Wolf Camera. Kelly Delaware, Ohio. Kristen Ann Steele, English, she took a job in Paris, marketing the men’s It’s just more proof that Heidi Ueberroth is doing announce the birth of their third son, of the new Vanderbilt Children’s husband, Mark, announce the birth of Cambias Miles, BA, and David Miles, MBA, married Kurt Adam Schilling on Andrew David Gaikema, born on Jan. professional tennis tour for Ohlmeyer Communica- her job. —Judith DeMoss Campbell Hospital. Joining Massey at the meeting their second child, Jeremy Ian, born on BA, announce the birth of their second May 20, 2000. They live in Hamden, 18, 2000. They live in Glen Ellyn, Ill. tions. In 1993, ESPN/Capital Cities bought that com- were Scott Johnson, BE’87, Don Jost, Dec. 5, 2000, joining brother Cameron child, Patrick Gaffney Miles, born on Conn. Kate Malone Stout, BA, and Brian Hopper, BS, a board certified BE’65, and Jim Stephenson, BE’77. Alan, two. They live in Memphis. Jodi Oct. 4, 2000, joining sister Sarah Jane. her husband, Richard, have twin sons, Todd Miller, BA, is managing director Carpenter Nevels, BS, and her hus- They live in Atlanta. Karen Napoli Ob/Gyn, opened a new practice in City. Michael D. Marselli, BA, was ap- Ian Burnett, BS, and his wife, born on Dec. 27, 2000. They live in REUNION OCTOBER 25–26, 2002 of pan-Asian television for Sony band, Chris, announce the birth of Schulz, BS, and her husband, Garth, Bartow, Fla. Inman Majors, BA, is au- pointed by Los Angeles-based Informa Jane, announce the birth of a Nashville. Frances DeLaGarza Pictures, AXN, in Singapore, a channel their third daughter, Parker Grace, announce the birth of their second thor of Swimming in Sky (Southern Dan Bean, BA, was profiled in Research Services to lead their newly son, Colin James Arthur Thompson, BA, and Davison Robert focused on action/adventure.“We see born on Nov. 10, 2000, joining sisters child, a daughter, Ainsley Jane, born on Methodist United Press). See “Books,” the Oct. 20, 2000, edition of the formed Syndicated Business Market Burnett, born on Dec. 21, 2000. Thompson, BA, announce the birth of ourselves as adventurous, irreverent, Avery, five, and Carson, three. They live August 1, 2000. They live in Rye, N.Y. page 36. He lives in Tullahoma, Tenn., Financial News and Daily Research division. Cathy Morello They’88 live in Atlanta. John J. Burton, Dorothy Joiner Thompson, born on and daring, and current projects in- in Suwannee, Georgia. Jennifer Hood Samantha Gerow Stichter, BS, and and teaches at Motlow State Record in Jacksonville, Fla., as a Miller, BA, and her husband, Robert, EdD, is the principle author of Jan. 18, 2001, joining brother Davison Community College. Nancy ’87law clerk for U.S. District Court Judge clude ‘Action Babes’ and the Eco- Peppers, BA, returned to her home- Michael Stichter, BA, announce the Thompson. They live in St. Louis. announce the birth of their fifth child, Hypnotic Language: Its Structure and Challenge.”Anyone who will be in that town of Franklin, Tenn., to work as a birth of their second child, John Christensen Schultz, BE, and Walter John H. Moore II. Chris Crain,BA, Katherine Elizabeth, born on Oct. 17, Use (Crown House, Whales, U.K.). He Kelly D. Turney, MDiv, assistant direc- area of the world can reach him at general surgeon with Franklin Surgical Stanford Stichter, born on May 26, David Schultz, BS, MBA’89, announce was profiled in the Oct. 11, 2000, edi- 2000, joining sister Lauren and broth- has a private counseling practice in tor for equity at Emory University in [email protected]. Rebecca Specialists. She attended medical 2000, joining brother Andrew, three. the birth of a son, Garrett Christensen tion of the Atlanta Constitution as edi- ers Douglas, Christian, and Craig. Greenville, S.C. Paul Collins, BE, and Atlanta, compiled and edited an ecu- Horton Penovich, BA, was named di- school and general surgery training at Samantha and Michael run Oak Schultz, born on Oct. 31, 2000. They tor and co-publisher of Southern Voice, They live in Darien, Conn. Gail his wife, Valerie, announce the birth of menical book of inclusive worship re- rector of brand communications at Tulane University and spent a year in Inheritance, a Web-based children’s live in Nashville. Maxine Kijek Sims, an Atlanta-based gay and lesbian news- Stenstad, MA, PhD’88, was appointed their first daughter, Anna Meredith, sources entitled Shaping Sanctuary: Maryland Public Television. Ivan J. London training in laparoscopic sur- furniture retail store. Gail Burke BSN, and her husband, Craig, an- paper. Todd Foster, BA, joined HQ chair of the East Tennessee State born on Sept. 22, 2000. They live in Proclaiming God’s Grace in an Inclusive Reich, BA, JD’88, was made a share- gery. Jim Philip, BA, was named a Tway, BS, and her husband, William T. nounce the birth of their second child, Global Workplace in Dallas as vice University department of philosophy Bridgewater, N.J., and Paul is a research Church, published by Reconciling holder in the Ft. Lauderdale law firm of partner with Thomas Weisel Partners, Tway, announce the birth of their sec- Conner Edward Maxwell, born on president of e-commerce develop- and humanities. Dwight Turner, BE, fellow for Merck & Co. Cathy Gordon Congregations Program in Chicago. Becker & Poliakoff. Shawn A. Taylor, a San Francisco-based merchant bank. ond child, William Burke Tway, born Aug. 25, 2000, joining sister Emily, ment. Celia Waddell Leggett, BA, and his wife, Elizabeth, and their children, Cutler, BSN, and her husband, Jim, an- Lydia Arnold Turnipseed, BA, and her BA, married Eugenie Honore Provosty Palmer Pillans, BA, was named an as- on July 12, 2000, joining sister Lily, three. They live in Dallas. Courtney her husband, Paul, announce the birth Julia and Eric, relocated from San nounce the birth of a daughter, husband, Terry, announce the birth of on Nov. 11, 2000. They live in sociate with the Nashville law firm of three. They live in Louisville. Jeffrey Allen Van Winkle, BA’86, was named a of their fourth child, Grace Anne, born Diego, Calif., to West Palm Beach, Fla., Katherine Elizabeth, born on Sept. 8, their first child, Lucile Mae, born on Charleston, W.Va. Jane Vaden Miller & Martin practicing in estate Ullom, BA, finished a doctorate at the shareholder in the Richmond, Va., law on Sept. 22, 2000, joining sisters where Dwight joined Infineon 2000, joining brothers Jamie and Aug. 27, 2000. They live in Thatcher, BA, was elected to serve on planning, probate and taxation, and University of Illinois and joined the firm of Allen Allen Allen & Allen. She Caroline and Christen and brother Technologies as a senior field sales en- William. They live in Winter Springs, Washington, D.C. Lydia writes that she the board of directors at the Savannah corporate law. Tina Hayes Wilkinson, faculty at Vanderbilt’s theatre depart- handles complex automobile and Matthew. They live in Houston. Felicia gineer covering Motorola cellular Fla. Rebecca Edwards Dugan, BS, and ran into her Pi Phi little sister, Mary Bank in Georgia. She is general manag- BA, and her husband announce the ment. Jennifer Plisky Vido, BS, and product liability cases. Breck Wheeler, Rose Marockie, BS, married Michael phone design in South Florida and Ft. her husband, Bob, announce the birth Burwell Espy Schorr, BS’92, last sum- er at Dan Vaden Chevrolet- birth of their first child, Benjamin Durbin Paul Vido, BA’88,announce BA, MBA’89,joined Baltimore-based Jay Fisher on Oct. 21, 2000. She is re- Worth, Texas. He also is a lieutenant of their third child, Samuel Monaghan mer. Oldsmobile. Jordan Wilkinson, born on July 5, the birth of a son, Samuel Paul Vido, Legg Mason Capital Markets as a man- gional vice president of sales and mar- commander in the Naval Reserves and Dugan, born on March 30, 2000, join- 2000. They live in Dunwoody, Ga. born on Dec. 28, 2000. They live in Bel aging director and senior analyst in the keting for Loews Hotels, and he is says “hello to both the ’87 engineering ing sister Madeline, five, and brother Air, Md. Michael A.Voigt, BA, was equity research department’s sports, president of Allied International. They school and ROTC graduates.” John, two. They live in Nashville. media, and entertainment group. live in Scarsdale, N.Y., and New York promoted to vice president, invest-

56 VANDERBILT MAGAZINE FALL 2001 57 REUNION OCTOBER 25–26, 2002 McKinnon, BA, married David on May 20, 2000. They live in daughter, Delanie Skye Mikesell, born announce the birth of a daughter, Robertson Frame on Oct. 16, 1999. She Hoboken, N.J. Krista Renee Kuhnert, on Dec. 22, 2000. They live in Geneva, Caitlyn, born on May 31, 2000. They Christopher Barbic, BS, cre- works for Ivillage in London, England. MSN, married James Vincent Gainer Ill. Patricia Wade Eichner Mouer, Denise Lasprogata BLIND AMBITION live in Lacey, Wash. Charlton Henry ator of the YES College Katie Shasteen Proctor, BA, and III on Oct. 27, 2000. They live in MDiv, was ordained as an Episcopal Calhoun IV, BA, married Shannon Preparatory School in south- Collins Proctor, BA’91,announce the Nashville. Joseph William Lester III, priest on Dec. 9, 2000, in Asheville, Elizabeth Looney on July 22, 2000. east Houston, was named one birth of a son, LeRoy Collins Proctor BA, married Lisa Hunt Parker on Oct. N.C., where she lives with her hus- In 1990, Denise Lasprogata’s close high-school friend They live in Decatur, Ga. Jocelyn ’92of America’s Best Young Community lost her sight in a car accident and went from doling Jr., born on Sept. 6, 2000. They live in 7, 2000. They live in San Francisco. J. band, Joe, and two sons. Dave Sugg, Deering Challas, BA, and William Leaders by Rolling Stone magazine and Atlanta. Greg Shockro, BA, and Herb Rowanne McIntyre McKnight,BA, BA, married Julie Bonner on Dec. 1, out fashion tips to relying on others to help her dress. Howard Challas, BA, announce the Do Something, a national youth lead- Allen, BS’94, last November celebrated writes that she moved back to 2000. Bryan Tharpe, BE, and Mark Although an estimated 8.5 million Americans are birth of a daughter, Abigail Jane ership organization. He was recognized the third anniversary of The Trace, a Nashville with her husband, Jay Miklis, BE, were groomsmen. Honey legally blind or sight impaired, Lasprogata, BA’95,dis- Challas, born on Jan. 5, 2001. They live at an awards ceremony in New York Nashville restaurant they established McKnight, MBA’97, and their one- Taylor, BA, married Jed Nachman on covered that no system had ever been developed to help in Chapel Hill, N.C. Bill Curran,BA, City and received a $10,000 grant. that generates annual revenues of more year-old son, James. Monica Ann Oct. 21, 2000. They live in New York these individuals make independent decisions regard- joined Baptist Hospital in Nashville as Leah Krauth Bentley, BS, and Eric than $2.4 million. Susan B. Steelman, Robilio, BA, married Trevor J. Dean, City. ing their clothing choices. She decided to change that. Web site coordinator. Tiffany Jason Bentley, BA, celebrated their BA, JD’95, joined the Nashville law MBA’97 on Oct.7, 2000. They live in Franklin, BA, was promoted to assis- After several years of research on properties of var- sixth wedding anniversary in firm of Greenbaum Doll & McDonald Boulder, Colo. She completed a mas- Nancy Austin, BMus, married tant director of the Career September 2000. Eric is the director of as an associate in the health care and ter’s degree in museum studies at San Steven Patterson on Oct. 7, ious papers and plastics, Lasprogata has patented a Management Center at Drexel operations of Turnberry Homes in the insurance practice group and corpo- Francisco State University. Scott 2000. They live in Memphis. clothing label that identifies the color and fiber con- University in Philadelphia. Kady R. Brentwood/Franklin, Tenn., area, and rate and securities practice group. Seder, BA, of Chicago, writes that Troy Elizabeth Bannan, BA, was tent of a garment and provides care instructions in Garcia, BS, MEd’97, married Robert Leah opened her own business, Social Kimberly A. Sullivan, BA, MBA’97, Duncan, BA, and Jennifer Gries ’95featured in the Sept. 25, 2000, edition both Braille and raised letters. The labels are produced Numerick on Dec. 30, 2000. Her new Graces, a store specializing in invita- was named vice president of marketing Duncan, BA, had their first child, of the Marin Independent Journal on a specially coated plastic paper that is washable, name is Katherine Numerick, and they tions, stationery, and entertaining ac- at Transcender Corp. in Nashville. Jay Elizabeth Duncan, born on Oct. 12, newspaper in Novato, Calif., for choos- withstands the heat of a clothes dryer, and is nonabra- live in Jefferson City, Mo. Mark cessories. Stephen Russell Berry,BA, Turner Jr., BA, JD’99, was named a 2000,“the same day that Troy Duncan ing a career as a high school English sive to skin. Horenkamp, BA, married Dorae Haag MEd’94, is pursuing a Ph.D. at Duke partner and assistant development di- turned 30 years old! What a great teacher. Edward Chin, BS, married Her small product’s big idea has made Lasprogata ERIK FREELAND/SABA on Aug. 5, 2000. They live in Lebanon, University. He and his wife, Dana rector at Marketstreet Equities birthday present.” Sarah Townswick, Melanie Dorado on Nov. 11, 2000. At a pioneer in the fashion industry. Ill. Carrie Jackson, BMus, MSN’98, Thomas Berry, BS, MEd’93, had their Company, a private investment firm MBA, and Donald Townswick, the wedding were Courtney Chan, BS, married Lewis Lanier Scruggs III on “The blind population is one that has been over- second child, Stephen Russell Berry Jr., located in Nashville. Walter L. MBA’92, announce the birth of their and Minh Huynh, BS. The couple lives Nov. 4, 2000. Bridesmaids included on May 30, 2000. They live in Durham, Woodrick, BS, and his wife, Wendy, first child, Charlotte Margaret Elise in Allen, Texas, and Edward practices looked,”says the Philadelphia native.“Dressing rooms Ann Farkas Twadell, BS, Stephanie N.C. Chris Eades, BA, and Nicole announce the birth of their first child, Townswick, born on Dec. 8, 2000. They law at Fred Misko Jr. Heather O. Hale, have to be handicapped accessible, but where are the Ann Parks,BA,Natalie Nicole Denise Lasprogata (right), with consultant and customer Clark Eades, BA’93, announce the Whitney Lauren Woodrick, born on live in Wethersfield, Conn. Bill BS, of Nashville, was named produc- products and services for the blind? No one’s called Bridget Blanchet, BS, and Kelly Rachel Graff, displays separates from her clothing line that birth of their first child, a daughter, Oct. 15, 2000. They live in Panama Trocchi, BA, and his wife, Amy O’Dell tion controller and quality assurance attention to it.” conveys sequined messages in Braille. Moore Coopersmith, BA. Carrie is a Alexandra, born on Sept. 28, 2000. City, Fla. Trocchi, BA, announce the birth of a chemist at Quality Systems for In 2000 Lasprogata moved to New York City and nurse practitioner with a cardiology Chris is an equity analyst at UBS son, Tyler Samuel Trocchi, born on Permacrete’s product line and develop- launched her own company, DEE DEE (her nick- really gave me the tools I needed to interpret a visu- group in Athens, Ga. Jennifer Warburg in New York, and Nicole Tanya Capeling, BS, and Oct. 8, 2000. They live in Nashville ment. Michael Kula, BA, married name), offering a signature line of women’s dresses al world into a tactile world,”says Lasprogata, who Pentecost, BA, moved from New York works at Camilla Dietz Bergeron Ltd., Curtis Capeling, JD, announce where Bill works with Meagan Ivers on Sept. 3, 2000. They to the Bay area of California to work and casual wear that features her patented labels. reads Braille by sight and spent five years volun- a New York antique and estate jewelry the birth of a son, Maximilian, smallbusiness.com with numerous live in Boston. Jennifer Adams with Hewlett Packard. She lives in San firm led by Camilla Dietz Bergeron, born on July 18, 2000, joining other Vanderbilt alumni. McArthur, BA, and her husband, The labels are manufactured by the Brooklyn Asso- teering as a personal shopper for the blind. “I am Jose. Bo Ranney, BA, and his wife, BA’64, a Vanderbilt trustee. The Eades sister’93 Madison, four. They live in Jason, announce the birth of their first ciation for Retarded Citizens, which employs dis- better able to understand how the mind works to Harriette McClure, BA’97,were co- live in Darien, Conn. Emily Claire Nashville. Jennifer Farnette Caver, Charlotte Christine Ecker, BS, child, William Jackson, born on July abled adults and, says Lasprogata, “reinforces the perceive, whether it’s through sight or without sight.” stars aboard the Holland America Eddins, BA, married William Lance BA, and her husband, Giles, announce married Frank Michael Davis 31, 2000. They live in Boca Raton, Fla. point of the product line, which is the promotion Lasprogata hopes cruise ship Volenaam, according to a Conn on April 22, 2000. They live in the birth of twin sons, William Albert Jr., on Oct. 14, 2000, at her par- John Stephen Moody Jr., BA, married of independence.” her clothing line will note sent in by Bo’s parents, Bruce London, England. Jay Frein, BA, and and Henry Adam, born on July 8, 2000. ents’ home in Purcellville, Va. Rachel Janece Poinsett on Oct. 7, 2000. “Clothing has always been a problem for me,” encourage major de- Ranney, BA’70, and Valerie Ranney, Elizabeth Goodwin Frein, BS, moved They live in Charlotte, N.C. Catherine ’94The couple lives in Chevy Chase, Md. They live in Houston. Sepand BME’70. JoAnna Watson, BS, earned explains Rachel Graff, a blind East Village resident signers and retailers ERIK FREELAND/SABA to Nashville from Chicago. Jay works Christie, BS, a physician in internal Hill Ferguson IV, BA, MBA’00,mar- Moshiri, BS, is a health care represen- an M.Ed. degree in reading from Salem and one of Lasprogata’s consultants.“First you have to adopt her tag tech- for Fisher Investments in sales, and medicine with Eastern Shore Rural ried Genevieve Mitchell Frazer on Oct. tative with Pfizer in Houston. Andrew State College in May 2000 and teaches Elizabeth is an art teacher at Walnut Health in Franktown, Va., received a 9, 2000. They live in San Francisco. Murr, MS, transferred from Nashville to have someone tell you the color, then you have to nology, and she also middle school French in Bass River, Grove Elementary School in Board of Internal Medicine Alan Haguewood, BA, JD’98, and his to the Birmingham office of Barge manually make your own labels. Nothing beats hav- is lobbying for gov- Mass. Williamson County. Katherine Kemp, Certification. Youndy C.Cook,BA,is wife, Vickie, announce the birth of a Waggoner Sumner & Cannon as an en- ing a washable tag already sewn on the clothes.” ernment-mandated BA, married Dean Collis,BA’91,on an associate at the labor and employ- son, Elias “Eli” Graham, born on vironmental engineer. Doak Procter Already the DEE DEE line is being sold in Man- Braille labeling. Lasprogata’s clothing labels are made using a special heat- Oct. 21, 2000, (Homecoming weekend) ment law firm of Ford & Harrison in March 31, 2000. They live in Memphis IV, BS, joined the Houston office of hattan’s high-end department store Henri Bendel’s, “This is more sensitive plastic paper. REUNION OCTOBER 25–26, 2002 in Nashville. They live in Louisville, Tampa, Fla., and was co-editor of Wage where Alan works in house at FedEx. Fulbright & Jaworski in the interna- as well as in trendy boutiques in New York, Los Ange- than simply a trendy where she is a human resources man- and Hour Answer Book. She writes that Katherine Johnson, BS, MEd’95, tional law firm’s intellectual property les, and Philadelphia. A Web site, www.deedeedot.com, idea with civic interest,”she urges. “For the blind, Tania Archer, BA, JD’00, was ager for Tricon Global Restaurants, she enjoys getting together with “my writes that after five years of teaching and technology department. Barbara is also in the works. Braille is a functional necessity. These tags are open- named a member of the and he is a physician practicing pain friend and fellow alumna, Holly middle school and high school science McBain Sniezek, BA, of Nashville, 2000–2001 Fellowship Class of “My Vanderbilt psychology degree—particularly ing exciting new doors for them.” management anesthesia. Jennifer Hammette Mann,BA.”Allison in Alabama and New Jersey, she is writes that she had a great time run- NAPIL (National Association Clayton Kolar, BA, and her husband, Withers Edwards, BS, MEd’94, is an working toward a master’s degree in ning the New York marathon last courses in cognitive psychology and perception— —Phillip B. Tucker for’97 Public Interest Law). In her NAPIL Alan, announce the birth of a son, associate with the Austin, Texas, office geology at Ohio University in Athens. November with Michelle Lambert, project, she worked with Legal Services Clayton Edward Kolar, born on August of Fulbright & Jaworski, in the practice She specializes in sedimentology and BS’94, and Sharon Russ, BS’94. of Southern Piedmont (Charlotte, 1, 2000. They live in Atlanta. Valerie of intellectual property and technology paleontology and spent the summer in Barbara adds that she is “moving to cial, business, and bankruptcy law. Atlanta. Among the Vandy grads in at- neering and electrical engineering. He N.C.) to strengthen the local Hispanic Lightfoot, BA, and Warren Lightfoot, law. Mary Fowler, BS, and Chad Utah looking at Flagstaff limestone. Oahu, Hawaii, in the summer of 2001.” Alison Wille, BS, was the 2000–2001 tendance were matron of honor Beth earned a master’s degree in electrical community through legal representa- JD’91, announce the birth of their Fowler, BE, announce the birth of a Kevin P.Kimery, BA, joined the Tricia A. Thornton, BA, is pursuing a recipient of the Charles T. Lebovitz Moore Bender, BS; bridesmaids engineering from Georgia Tech in tion. Ellen Renae Carr, BS, married third child, first daughter, Valerie daughter, Claiborne Parke Fowler, on Nashville law firm of Waller Lansden Ph.D. in neuroscience at Vanderbilt. Award at Tuck School of Business at Kristen Gahagan Weber,BA,Mimi 1996. Nicholas Edward Robinson on Sept. Bennett, born on Jan. 12, 2001. They Aug. 10, 2000. They live in Dortch & Davis as an associate in the Richard J. Wallace III, BA, married Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H. Addicks Decker, BS, and Nanette 30, 2000. They both attend the live in Birmingham. Beth Lucas, BS, Charlottesville, Va., where Mary is an area of general business transactions. Elizabeth Ann House on June 17, 2000. The award recognizes outstanding Thompson, BA; and scripture reader Philip Atteberry, BE, married University of Kentucky College of and Todd Lucas, BS, announce the assistant professor and Chad is a sys- John L. King, BA, was awarded a Ph.D. He is an attorney at the Dallas firm of contributions to the daily life of the Molly Henneberg, BS. The couple Mary-Audrey Proups on Sept. Medicine. Lori Aeryn Flanagan,BA, adoption of their daughter, Sydney tems analyst. Dorothy Elizabeth in economics from Vanderbilt in Passman & Jones, and the couple lives school. Robin Crews Wilson, BS, lives in Atlanta where Brittany works at 23, 2000. They live in Chicago. and James Burton Vincent, BA’94, Romdoeul Collins Lucas, from Friedricks, BA, married Travis Todd December 2000,“bringing roughly a in Addison, Texas. Robin Bicket serves as an ordained United Deloitte Consulting, and Robert is a David Baay, BA, joined the were married on Sept. 30, 2000. They Methodist minister at First United manager in e-procurement consulting ’96Houston office of Fulbright & Jaworski Cambodia on June 5, 2000, joining Curtis on Oct. 28, 2000. They live in decade in Nashville to a triumphant White, BA, JD’98, joined the Nashville work in New York City. Lisa brother Jackson, two. They live in Nashville. Frederick William Fuller finish.” Mark Mikesell, BS, and his law firm of Mendes & Gonzales as an Methodist Church in Montgomery, at i2 Technologies. Ernest C. in the international law firm’s health Katherine Gohmann, MEd, married Barrington, R.I. Malia Gaye IV, BS, married Kristin Lynn Alfano wife, Season, announce the birth of a associate in the practice of commer- Ala. Brittany Windsor, BA, married Woodward, BE, attends graduate law litigation department. Stacey Michael Laurence Orrick on Oct. 27, Robert Harrell on Sept. 9, 2000, in school at MIT, studying ocean engi- Carstens Bell, BA, and her husband

58 VANDERBILT MAGAZINE FALL 2001 59 2000. They live in Franklin, Tenn. pursuing an M.D. degree at the Raleigh, N.C. Becky Williams, BS, television programs. After her Judicature Society, and a fellow of the Battle Star of Pearl Harbor, Battle Star Memphis, where he taught for 30 Samuel Igou Yarnell, BA’40,of Kristin Rebecca Hedgepath, BE, mar- University of Alabama Medical School, MEd’00, and Allen MacKenzie, BE, husband’s death in 1957, she earned a American College of Trust and Estate for the Battle of Guadalcanal, and, in years. After earning the Ph.D. at Chattanooga, Oct. 14, 2000. A former ried Daniel Alan Gilchrist on Sept. 16, and he is employed by Hoover School were married on June 17, 2000. They certification in nursery and Counsel. He was a member and past the European Theater, the Battle Star Vanderbilt, he worked for the Procter member of the Vanderbilt Board of 2000. They live in Stanford, Calif. District. Brooke Gallagher Reusch, live in Ithaca, N.Y., where Becky is a kindergarten teaching. She was a president of the Downtown Little Rock of Central Europe under the American & Gamble Defense Corp. Wolf Creek Trust, he was president and chairman of Douglas R. Hilfiker, BA, joined the BA, is membership services coordina- special education teacher in an ele- community volunteer in programs for Rotary International and the Central Victory medal. He was a member of Ordnance Plant in Milan, Tenn., and at the board of American National Bank Rochester, N.Y., law firm of Harter, tor for the Philadelphia Museum of mentary school, and Allen is working young children. Survivors include four Arkansas Rose Society, and a member Ogden Memorial United Methodist the Gulf Ordnance Plant in Prairie, and served on the board of the Federal Secrest & Emery as a practice associate Art. Her husband, Jason Scott Reusch, toward a Ph.D. in electrical engineer- children, 11 grandchildren, and eight of Temple B’Nai Israel. He also was a Church and was a recipient of the Miss. In 1943 he received a Navy Reserve of Atlanta. He was a past in the trust and real estates group. BA’99, is vice president of technology ing at Cornell University. great-grandchildren. Scottish Rite Mason. Survivors include AMA Physician Recognition Award commission and was attached to the campaign chairman for the United Way Sarah Anne McBean, BS, MSN’98, at Theados Corp. Diane E. Rockwell, his wife, a son, a daughter, four and Princeton Kiwanis Outstanding electronics division of the Bureau of of Chattanooga and was chairman of and Austin Edward Garza, BS’96, MSN, married Jerry A. Merrill on July Frank W. Burns III, BS, a sec- Leah Rose Werthan, A’29, of grandchildren and three great- Citizen Award. Survivors include two Ships. His last active duty assignment the boards of trustees for Bright School MD’00, were married on Sept. 23, 22, 2000. They live in Charlotte, N.C., ond lieutenant in the U.S. Nashville, Oct. 11, 2000. A community grandchildren. daughters, two sons, nine was atomic weapons testing on the and Girls Preparatory School. During 2000. They live in Nashville. Jason where Diane is an acute care nurse Army, is on a one-year tour of and cultural leader who devoted grandchildren and two great- Pacific atoll of Bikini in 1946. He World War II, he served as an Army Northcutt, BA, passed the New York practitioner at the Sanger Clinic. duty at Camp Hovey, South herself to the well-being of Louise C. Bennett, BA’32, of grandchildren. retired as a captain from the Naval weatherman and landed on Utah Beach State bar exam last November and is Rebecca Torok, BS, married Ryan ’00Korea, serving as a combat engineer Nashvillians, she was a founder of the Brentwood, Tenn.,Aug. 3, 2000. Reserve in 1973. Survivors include his on the third day of the Allied invasion. employed by Paul, Hastings, Janofsky Hinton on July 29, 2000. Vandy alumni platoon leader. Ghangis DeDan Bill Wilkerson Speech and Hearing Joyce L. Jones, BA’36, of Huntsville, wife, two daughters, and four He was a member of the board of & Walker in New York City. Nicole in attendance included Leila Ghabriel, Carter, MEd, was named assistant di- Center, the Green Hills Health Center, Winn Ownbey Chappell, BA’35, Ala., March 31, 2001, at her home. She grandchildren. trustees of First Centenary United Underwood, BS, married Kenden BS, and Navjyot Vidwan, BS. The cou- rector of programming at Vanderbilt’s the Nashville Family Shelter, Social MA’36, of Montgomery, Ala., March taught at Huntsville High School and Methodist Church, a member of the Maynard on Sept. 30, 2000. They live ple lives in Pittsburgh where Rebecca is Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Action Group on Aging, and Nashville 28, 2001. She was a professor at was a photojournalist for the Cal Turner Sr., E’37, of Scottsville, Ky., Rotary Club, Chattanooga Golf and in Nashville. a corporate recruiter for a B2B e-com- Center. Martin M. Gibson, BS, joined Memorial Hospital, among others. She Huntingdon College in Montgomery Huntsville Times, the Birmingham Nov. 14, 2000. He was founder of Dollar Country Club, and the Mountain City merce company. First Republic Bank on Park Avenue in also helped establish and served on the for more than three decades and News and the Birmingham Post-Herald. General Corp. In 1994 he was named to Club. Survivors include his wife, Ellen Laney Blessey, BA, married New York City as a personal banker. boards of the Dede Wallace Center, sponsored many student Her stories and photographs appeared the Discounting Hall of Fame by Cameron Yarnell, BA’43; a son; two Matt Bataille,JD’99,on Sept. David Benson, BS, writes that Kasie Kline, BS, teaches fourth grade Senior Citizens Center, Cumberland organizations. She was a member of in numerous national publications Discount Store News, an honor given to daughters, including Nancy Yarnell- 3, 2000. They live in New he attends law school at Kent at Mittlestadt Elementary School in House for Emotionally Disturbed First United Methodist Church and including Life and Look magazines and only one person per year. He and his Houser, BA’76; and five grandchildren. Orleans, where she is a cus- College of Law in Chicago. He Houston.“I am teaching with four of Children, Council Home for participated in numerous civic she wrote “The Cat With A Thousand late wife established the Laura Kemp ’98tomer relations manager at Crescent notes that two of his room- my former teachers,”she writes.“One Convalescent Children, and the Leah organizations. Survivors include her Faces.”She was a member of Gamma Goad Scholarship at the Blair School of Rosamond Carey, BSN’41, of City Motors. Lauren J. Eck, MSN, and mates’99 also returned to school: Mike of them is the principal.” Lou Pham, Rose Residence for Senior Citizens. husband, Gordon T. Chappell, E’33, Phi Beta sorority at Vanderbilt. Other Music and supported the Methodist McAlester, Okla., Feb. 9, 2001, at her her husband, Steven, announce the Wilde, BS, at the University of Miami BA, joined the Nashville office of New Her support for Vanderbilt spanned MA’36, PhD’41; a son, Charles affiliations included the First Christian Studies Program at the Divinity School home. birth of Regan Jessica Eck, born on College of Law, and Eric Whittier,BA, England Financial insurance and in- the entire University. She was a life Richard Chappell, BA’65; a daughter, Church, the Neaves Davis Detention and the Kim Dayani Human Sept. 21, 2000, joining sister Natasha at medical school in Philadelphia. Nick vestment agency as a registered repre- member of the Chancellor’s Council Winn Chappell Tarver, BA’67; and five Center for Children, Salvation Performance Center. In 1994, his son, Jane Sheaff Gilreath, A’41,of Carmel, Lauren, two. They live in Garrettsville, Ellinger, BA, MBA’00,joined sentative. Frank John Scarangella, and a member of donor societies at the grandchildren. Advisory Board, Friends of the Library, Cal Turner Jr., BA’62,established the Ind., Nov. 13, 2000. Ohio, and would love to hear from Healthstream, a Nashville technology BA, moved to Boston to attend gradu- Divinity School and Heard Library, International Services Council, Cal Turner Program in Moral classmates at [email protected]. David firm, as a customer relations manager ate school at Emerson College. Privott and she supported the National John Long Wilson, BA’35, of Palo Historic Huntsville Foundation, Leadership at Vanderbilt to honor his William David Hudson Jr., BA’41,of B. Farnsworth Jr., BE, and Vanessa A. for the marketing department. John Sledge, BS, joined the Nashville law Commodore Club, Vanderbilt Institute Alto, Calif., April 5, 2001. He was a Huntsville Humane Society and the father. The program is a cooperative Clarksville, Tenn., Dec. 30, 2000. Wyscoki, BA’99, celebrated their first Griffin, BE, lives and works in both firm of Boult Cummings Conners & for Public Policy Studies, Blair School professor of surgery emeritus at Huntsville Botanical Garden. She is effort between the schools of law, wedding anniversary on Nov. 20, 2000. Houston and New York City as an en- Berry as the human resources and fa- of Music, School of Nursing, Peabody Stanford University. He served with the survived by a daughter and one medicine, business, and divinity Katherine “Katsy”Aycock King, They live in New York City. Becca ergy investment banker with JP cilities coordinator. Laura Tarumianz, College, the Mary Jane Werthan Chair U.S. Navy as a flight surgeon during granddaughter. designed to inspire honest and BA’41,of Lexington, Ky., Jan. 1, 2001, of Harbin, BA, works as an account coor- Morgan Chase. Adam Harder, BA, and BS, works in Washington, D.C., as a in Jewish Studies at the Divinity World War II and spent 15 years as visionary leadership. Cal Turner Sr. also a heart condition at her home. A former dinator for Ketchum, a public relations Megan Taylor, BA’00, were married on staff assistant for U.S. Congressman School, and the Albert and Bernard professor and chair of the surgery Frank Mitchell Farris Jr., BA’37, of was a benefactor to the town of St. Louis businesswoman, she was agency in Atlanta. Maeve Elliott July 9, 2000. They live in Boston where Van Hilleary (R-Tenn). Elizabeth Vise, Werthan Chair at the medical school. department at the American University Nashville, Sept. 26, 2000. He was Scottsville and area churches. He is owner of King’s Row Gallery where she Hughes, BE, and Chris Hughes, BS, she is an actuarial analyst with BS, joined Coastal Living magazine in Survivors include a daughter, two sons, of Beirut. Survivors include his wife, founder of one of Nashville’s most survived by two daughters; another son, sold English antiques and furniture. She work for Brown & Root Services sup- Tillinghast-Towers Perrin, and he at- Birmingham as a promotion assistant. 11 grandchildren, 18 great- five children and four grandchildren. prominent law firms, Farris Warfield & Steve Turner, BA’69; eight served on the women’s board of the St. porting the NATO peacekeeping oper- tends Tufts Medical School. Jane grandchildren, and a sister. Kanaday. Prior to that, he founded the grandchildren; and 16 great- Louis Symphony and was a board ation in the Balkan region as a cost Elizabeth Harrison, BS, married Howard H. Patrick, BD’36, of law firm of Farris Evans & Evans after grandchildren. member of the Missouri Botanical specialist and estimator. Maeve is lo- James Louis Mazurek Jr. on Aug. 19, Emily Almon Anderson, BA’31, Columbus, Ohio, Sept. 23, 2000. serving with the Navy during World Garden. Survivors include two cated in Ferizaj, Kosovo, and Chris in 2000. They live in Savannah, Ga. DEATHS MA’32, of Rockport, Texas, Sept. 2, War II. He was a trustee and general Thomas L. Edwards, A’38,of Sarasota, daughters and four grandchildren. Kumanovo, Macedonia. Mary Love Jessica Liess, BS, MEd’00, teaches spe- 2000. Leon J. Epstein, BA’37, MA’38, counsel for George Peabody College Fla., Dec. 24, 2000. He is survived by his Peters, BS, MS’00, works with children cial education at New Trier High Katharine Ogden Adams, A’26, PhD’41, of San Francisco, Nov. 6, 2000. for Teachers until its merger with wife. John C. O’Connor, E’41, of Naples, with speech and language disorders at School in the Chicago area. David L. MA’28, of Jacksonville, Fla., Jan. 19, E. Stanley Matthews, BA’31, of He was a longtime professor at the Vanderbilt in 1979 and elected to the Fla., Jan. 1, 2001. Vanderbilt’s Bill Wilkerson Center. Maynard, MBA, joined Merrill Lynch 2000. Shreveport, La., Nov. 21, 2000. University of California–San Francisco Vanderbilt Board of Trust that same Sam Wood Boone, BA’39,of Winter Gabrielle Prisco, BS, returned to New as a financial consultant. He lives in who did groundbreaking research into year. He later was voted a lifetime Park, Fla., Sept. 5, 2000, of cancer. He is Daphne Myrlee Teague Strickland, York City to begin law school at New Winston-Salem, N.C., with his wife, Elizabeth Rutherford Hayes Elliott, Lora Devault McCormick, BA’31, of manic-depressive disorders and trustee and was a former member of survived by his wife. N’41, of Birmingham, Ala., Feb. 2, 2001. York University. After finishing a two- Stephanie. Matthew Bruce McClellan, BA’26, of Memphis, Oct. 10, 2000, of Johnson City, Tenn., Nov. 11, 2000. pharmacological treatment of mental the Board’s executive committee. As a year stint as assistant debate coach at BS, teaches 9th and 10th grade English heart failure. She was a retired teacher illness in seniors. He served as a Vanderbilt student, he was elected Merrill Rust Stone Jr.,BA’40,of Hannah Abramson Greenfield, BA’42, the University of Alabama, she earned at the Lovett School in Atlanta. Allen and homemaker, a member of Second Evangeline Hemplemann Parrot, lieutenant commander in the Navy president of his freshman and junior Nashville, Nov. 19, 2000, of heart MA’43,of Northfield, Ill., Oct. 3, 2000. a master’s degree in communication X. Romero, BE, writes that he works Presbyterian Church and was honored BA’31, of Louisville, Ky., Aug. 4, 2000. during World War II and pioneered the classes. He won the Frank K. Houston failure. He worked for General Shoe She taught high school Latin and and last summer taught debate to stu- with his brother’s Internet start-up as a 75-year member of Kappa Alpha As a Vanderbilt student, she was development of psychological profiling Prize for oratory during his junior Corporation and in 1955 founded the English in Chicago for more than 25 dents and teachers in Latvia, Lithuania. company, E-Tang.com in San Theta sorority. She is survived by two affiliated with Delta Delta Delta, the to establish the suitability of year. He also served as business Merrill Stone Company, a supplier to years and was chairman of the school John E. Pizzi, BS, accepted a job as a Francisco.“I have lost 25 pounds and daughters, including Elaine Elliott Girls Glee Club, and Three Arts. She is individuals for positions in active manager for the Commodore yearbook shoe and boot manufacturers. He board of Congregation Kehilath Israel. product manager with NOVO, an feel better than ever. I frequently take Crews, BA’59, four grandchildren and survived by three children, Penelope combat. Survivors include a daughter, and was inducted into Omicron Delta served in the Navy during World War II Her civic activities included Internet services firm in New York advantage of the beautiful Northern two great-grandchildren. Parrot Pearson, BA’61; Ted Parrot, son, and five grandchildren. Kappa national honorary fraternity. A and was awarded the Silver Star. He involvement with the League of Women City. Armand Brook Rabinowitz, BS, California landscape … hiking, moun- BE’63; and Kenneth Parrot, BA’69. director emeritus of Third National retired from the Navy as a lieutenant Voters and formulating is an assistant agent at the William tain biking, swimming in the ocean.” Ann Leslie Nichol Moore, A’28, of Ralph L. Cash, BA’36, MD’40, of Bank, he was an elder with First commander. He was affiliated with the recommendations for the Illinois Morris Agency’s motion picture talent He encourages Vandy alumni to look Concord, Mass., Jan. 6, 2001. A native Leonard Scott, BA’34, of Little Rock, Princeton, Ky., March 11, 2001, at his Presbyterian Church. Survivors Southeastern Shoe Trades Association, Constitutional Convention. She was an department in Los Angeles.“At least him up when in the Bay area. Michael Nashvillian, she moved to Boston in Ark., March 25, 2001. He received a home. He was retired from the family include his wife and daughter. Hillwood Country Club, Cumberland avid reader, gardener, and solver of the long hours have some incredible B. Rustici, BS, married Elizabeth 1931 with her husband and started a J.D. degree from Harvard University medical and surgery practice that he Club and First Presbyterian Church crossword puzzles. Survivors include perks,”he writes. Katherine Elizabeth Autumn Bowie on Oct. 7, 2000. They family. During World War II, she and served in the U.S. Army during took over from his father in 1946. A C. Carroll Ijams, MS’37, PhD’41, of where he had served as a deacon. He is her husband; a son; daughter; sister, Reeder, BA, married Mark Lowell live in Franklin, Tenn. Ivan Tang, BE, volunteered at the James Jackson World War II. He was a member of the World War II Army veteran, he was a Memphis, Dec. 8, 2000, of heart survived by a son, Merrill Rust Stone Sonia Abramson Doochin, BA’47; and Hayes, BA, on December 30, 2000. and Kathleen Rands, BS, were mar- Putnam Children’s Center and later Pulaski County Bar Association, captain in the Medical Corps and failure. He was retired chairman of the III, A’81. two brothers, including Jerome They live in Birmingham where she is ried on May 22, 1999. They live in worked with children’s educational American Bar Association, American received the American Defense Medal, physics department at the University of Abramson, BA’48,MD’52.

60 VANDERBILT MAGAZINE FALL 2001 61 George Plummer Wood Jr., A’42, of English faculty at the University of where he worked for 35 years. He began two sons, and seven grandchildren. Appeals. Survivors include his wife, Virginia Emery Hendrickson, interviewed and recruited students for Lawrence E. Friedman, BA’61, of Macon, Ga., July 23, 2000. Mississippi in Oxford. Her teaching work in Memphis classifying cotton and Richard Harwood, BA’50, of Bethesda, two sons, and two granddaughters. MAT’55, of Princeton, N.J., March 6, Vanderbilt NROTC. Survivors include Tucson, Ariz., Nov. 7, 1999, from career included stints at Southern also worked in Houston; Sao Paolo, Md., March 19, 2001, of lung cancer at Carmen Carolyn Cooke Wilkins, 2001, of breast cancer. She was a high his wife, two sons, a daughter, a complications of cancer. He practiced James Abernathy, A’43, of Mississippi, Ohio University, North Brazil; Lausanne, Switzerland; and his home. He served with the Marine BA’50 of Athens, Tenn., Sept. 26, 2000. school English teacher for a number of grandson, and a brother. internal medicine at the Thomas Davis Birmingham, Ala., Jan. 1, 2001. A Carolina College and the University of Guadalajara, Mexico. He is survived by Corps in the Pacific Theater during She was a member of St. Paul’s years and an editor and freelance Medical Center for 25 years. He is Vanderbilt football player, he was a North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After his wife, a daughter, a son, and two World War II and participated in the Episcopal Church and a board writer at Harcourt Brace and Sidney James Landman, MA’58, survived by his wife, Linda Lyon longtime supporter of the National her retirement, she worked at the PTA grandchildren. invasion of Iwo Jima. He was a noted member of the McMinn County Company in New York. She founded PhD’67, of New York City, December Friedman, BA’61, MS’62, a daughter, Commodore Club. Survivors include Thrift Shop, the Village Advocate, and Washington, D.C., newspaperman who Museum and Museum Guild. the Breast Cancer Resource Center at 18, 2000. A retired professor of English two sons, and two grandchildren. his wife, Aileen Harper Abernathy, the North Carolina Department of Herman Gray, BE’49, of Nashville, June started his career in Tennessee and Survivors include two sons and two the Princeton YWCA and worked for literature, he taught at Vanderbilt, A’48, and two children. Motor Vehicles. She was a volunteer 20, 2000. Louisville. He was hired by the daughters. several years as its first director. She Texas Christian University, and Benjamin W.Rawlins Jr., BA’61, of with a special reading program at Grey Washington Post in 1966 and served as a was a volunteer with McCarter Theatre Louisiana Tech University. After Memphis, Sept. 12, 2000, at home of a Henry M.“Bull” Bailey Jr., BE’43, of Culbreth Junior High School, the UNC J. Paul Johnson, LLB’49, of Bristol, national reporter, ombudsman and Robert L. Firnberg, A’51, of Wisner, and a member of Nassau Presbyterian retirement, he moved to Brooklyn and heart attack. He was chief executive Sacramento, Calif., April 23, 2000, at program of reading to the blind, Meals Tenn., Dec. 1, 2000. He practiced law in editor. He retired in 1988, but La., December 21, 1999. Church, where she was a deacon, elder became a sales associate at Villeroy and officer of Memphis-based Union his home after a short illness. He was a on Wheels and worked as a Bristol until his retirement several years continued to work for the Post as an and member of the cancer support Boch store on Madison Avenue. He was Planters Bank. He is survived by his member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon coordinator with the Host Family ago and continued to assist individuals ombudsman or weekly columnist until Janet Lemley Stone, PhD’51, of group. Survivors include her husband, a member of the Empire State Society, wife; three children, Benjamin Wade fraternity and Tau Beta Pi honorary Program for foreign students at UNC. with their personal affairs on a case-by- 1999. Survivors include his wife, a Nashville, January 12, 2001. During two daughters, a son and two Sons of the American Revolution, Rawlins III, BA’80, Martha Virginia society. He served in the Navy during Survivors include a daughter and case basis. daughter, three sons, and eight her career, she worked as a research grandchildren. National Association of Watch and Rawlins, BA’92, and Ellen Austin World War II and the Korean War. He granddaughter. grandchildren. chemist with Lion Oil Company, Parke Clock Collectors, and a benefactor of Uzarowicz, BA’94; and a grandchild. retired from the Department of Clyde E. Medford Jr.,BE’49,of Davis Laboratory, Marquette Louise Aland Levin, A’55, of the National Trust for Historic Defense in February 2000 where he Patricia Kavanagh Payne, BA’46, of Crossville, Tenn., Dec. 31, 2000. Daniel M. Etter, BE’50, of Nashville University, and the Vanderbilt Birmingham, Ala., Dec. 23, 2000. She is Preservation. Ben W. Sharpe, A’61, of Humboldt, was a microelectronics support Alexandria, Va., Nov. 9, 2000. At and Viola, Tenn., Jan. 13, 2001. He was University Heart Station. She was survived by two children and five Tenn., Jan. 6, 2000. He was a engineer at McClellan Air Force Base. Vanderbilt, she was a member of Kappa Patricia Macdonald Merrill, N’49, of assistant director of new construction at affiliated with the Centennial Club, grandchildren. G. Wayne Sullivan, BE’58, MA’61,of pathologist at Jackson-Madison Alpha Theta and Phi Beta Kappa. She is Salado, Texas, Nov. 21, 2000. Vanderbilt from 1950 through 1985, Four Seasons Garden Club, Polk Madison, Tenn., Aug. 10, 2000. County General Hospital since 1970 Dallas B. Reynolds,MD’43,of survived by four daughters, including working on more than 25 projects, Association, Cheekwood, Hillwood Thomas C. Binkley, JD’56, of and is survived by his wife. Huntsville, Ala., March 3, 2001. He was Mary Payne Frank, BA’74; four Harry H. Stephenson Jr., BA’49,of including Memorial Gymnasium, Rand Country Club, and the University Nashville, Dec. 3, 2000. A Nashville Julia F.Stifler, G’59, of Nashville, May one of the first board-certified grandchildren; a sister, Joyce Kavanagh Albany, Ga., Dec. 17, 1999. Hall, Kissam Quadrangle, the Divinity Club. She was preceded in death by her attorney, he was former president of 2000. Cordell Thomas Taylor, BE’61, of OB/GYN physicians in North Alabama. Wendt, BA’51; and a brother. School, University Club, and Olin Hall, husband, Merrill Rust Stone Jr., the Tennessee Bar Association and the Franklin, Ky., July 25, 2000. It was estimated that he delivered more Jane Carlisle Trabue, BA’49, of among others. During World War II he BA’40, and is survived by their son, Tennessee Mental Health Association Sally Randolph Frierson Cook, BA’60, than 12,000 babies during his career. He Martha Franklin Lovett, BSN’47, of Franklin, Tenn., March 25, 2001, at her was an aerial photographer with the Merrill Rust Stone III, A’81. and was affiliated with the National May 8, 2001, at her residence. During Robert Morris Varn, BA’61, of was a member of the American College Alexandria, Va., June 10, 2000. She is home. She was director of Nashville’s Marine Corps. He was an honorary Mental Health Association, Tennessee her career, she was employed by the Atlanta, Dec. 20, 2000. He attended of Surgeons, the American College of survived by a son, a daughter, two Florence Crittendon Home for lifetime member of the Building & Katherine Manier Jones, BA’52, of Department of Employment Security, Tennessee Department of Public Vanderbilt on a Naval ROTC Obstetrics and Gynecology and served grandchildren, and two sisters. pregnant teens and worked in social Owners and Managers Association of Anniston, Ala., Oct. 19, 2000. She was a Nashville Bar Association, American Welfare and Helen Moskovitz & scholarship and was a member of on numerous committees and boards at services for various Nashville and Nashville, a member of the Engineering teacher at Cohn High School in Bar Association, and the Tennessee Associates. She was a junior warden Kappa Alpha Order, secretary of both Huntsville and Crestwood Morton V.Malin, MA’47,of Strafford, Franklin hospitals and nursing homes. Association of Nashville, and the Nashville, Anniston High School, and Trial Lawyers Association. Survivors and vestrywoman at Christ Church student affairs, and a member of the Hospitals. He was on the executive Penn., Jan. 18, 1999. He is survived by Survivors include a son, two daughters, Tennessee Association of Professional the Donoho School in Anniston. She include his wife, two daughters, and Cathedral, and also served as a member student senate. He achieved the rank of board of Hospice, was a founding his wife, Edyth L. Malin, BA’47. six grandchildren, and a brother. Surveyors. sang in numerous church and civic three grandchildren. of the Altar Guild and Sunday school captain in the Marine Corps during member of Trinity Methodist Church chorales. Other civic affiliations teacher. Her community affiliations the early years of the Vietnam War and and was awarded the Bronze Star in James E. Cunningham, BA’48, of Marvin Brown Wilkes, BE’49, of Boyd Gaines Jacoway, BA’50, of included the Matron’s Study Club, the Donald A. DuPlantier, BA’56, of included the YWCA, Planned served on the counterintelligence World War II. Survivors include his Houston, Nov. 27, 2000. Houston, Sept. 18, 2000. He was a Nashville, Sept. 12, 2000, at his home. Reveler’s Club, and Parents Hilton Head Island, S.C., September Parenthood of Middle Tennessee, team. An investment banker, he was wife, Lorene Wilson Reynolds, BSN’42; World War II veteran who was awarded During World War II, he served in the Anonymous. She is survived by her 2000. Before moving to Hilton Head in Nashville Public Education active in the Atlanta business two daughters, including Miriam Fred N. Forsberg, JD’48, of Levittown, the Purple Heart. He was an electrical Pacific Theater with the Navy. At husband, R. Earle Jones Jr., BA’45, 1990, he was employed by BATUS, Foundation, Belle Meade Plantation, community and involved in many Reynolds Keat, BA’67; two sons, Pa., March 2000. He is survived by his engineer with Anderson, Clayton & Vanderbilt, he was a member of Beta MD’48, and two daughters. now Brown & Williamson, in Junior League of Nashville, Dubious Atlanta civic and charitable including James A. Reynolds, MD’82; wife. Company until his retirement. Theta Pi and played varsity football. He Louisville, Ky. He was a weekly Diggers Garden Club, Richland-West organizations. He was honored by the five grandchildren and two sisters. Survivors include his wife, a son, a started Boyd Jacoway and Company as O.Vance Mason, BD’52, of Chickasaw, volunteer at the Hilton Head Public End Neighborhood Association, United Boys and Girls Club of Atlanta with Charles W.Lyon, BA’48, of daughter, and six grandchildren. a manufacturers rep business and Ark., December 25, 2000. Library and a member of St. Luke’s Way, Polk Memorial Association, the John Conant Award for service to Leonard H. Seitzman, BA’43, MD’46, Chattanooga, March 23, 2000. retired in 1997. Survivors include his Episcopal Church. Survivors include Ladies Hermitage Association, Le Petite Atlanta’s youth. Survivors include his of San Antonio, Texas, Aug. 9, 2000. Melvin B. Butler, LLB’50, of Nashville, wife, six children, and eight James H. Hunt Sr., BE’53, of Lakeland, his wife, Lucy E. Stites DuPlantier, Salon, the Centennial Club and Kappa wife, a son, a daughter, and a John G. Coniglio, PhD’49, of Nashville, Nov. 29, 2000. grandchildren. Fla., Nov. 9, 2000. He was a retired BA’57, a son, two grandchildren, and a Alpha Theta Alumni Association. She is grandson. Mary Elizabeth Tyler, BSN’44, of Feb. 26, 2001, at his home. He was an engineer for Alcoa Industries, a veteran sister. survived by her husband, three sons, Portage, Mich., March 20, 2001. After emeritus professor of biochemistry at Arnold E.“Bud”Curtis, BA’50, of Earl Bishop “Smokey” Stover, BA’50, of the Korean War, and a retired captain and a granddaughter. Sarah Pauline “Polly” Stone Glover, earning her Vanderbilt degree, she was Vanderbilt and worked and studied Nashville, March 10, 2001. He is L’52, of Silsbee, Texas, Dec. 9, 2000. He of the Navy. Survivors include his wife, Robert G. Jones, BE’56, of Nashville, MAT’62, EdD’87, of Obion, Tenn., director of the Huron Road Hospital here for more than 40 years. In 1949, he remembered as a star of the nationally had a private law practice until he was a daughter, two sons, and a Nov. 11, 2000. Donald W.Fortner, BE’61, of Nashville, June 19, 2000, at home of cancer. She School of Nursing in Cleveland, Ohio. was an Atomic Energy Commission ranked Vanderbilt football teams of the elected Hardin County attorney and granddaughter. March 31, 2001. At Vanderbilt, he was was a professor of English at the She returned to Vanderbilt as an postdoctoral fellow in biophysics at the late 1940s when he played defensive also served as associate justice of the William C. Stevens, PhD’56, of captain of the 1961 baseball team. He University of Tennessee at Martin. instructor in the School of Nursing Colorado University School in Denver end, offensive end and kicker. A native Texas 9th Court of Appeals. He served Robert Rutland, PhD’53, of Tulsa, Abilene, Texas, July 22, 2000. later pitched for Nashville Sporting During her career, she was named to and later earned a master’s degree in and in 1969 was appointed editor of of Philadelphia, he earned the rank of with the U.S. Army in Germany after Okla., Dec. 30, 2000. Goods in the city league and was elected Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers public health at Harvard. Survivors Lipids, a journal in the fields of lipid Eagle Scout and was a highly decorated World War II and was honorably Steven Lewin Grossman, BA’57,of to the Nashville Amateur Baseball Hall and Who’s Who of American Women. include her husband, a son, a daughter chemistry and metabolism. He also World War II veteran, winning the discharged as a sergeant. As a Leonard A. Wright, A’53,of Nashville, Wheaton, Md., Jan. 7, 2001, of cancer. of Fame. He coached numerous World She also was named the first recipient and a sister. taught medical and graduate school Purple Heart, Silver Star, and Bronze Vanderbilt student, he was a four-year Sept. 11, 2000. He was a member of He was an administrative law judge Series teams in the Dixie Youth and of the Cunningham Teacher/Scholar courses. The annual John G. Coniglio Star. He was a partner in the Nashville letterman in football; president of Hillcrest Methodist Church, Iron since 1975 at the Federal Energy Babe Ruth leagues. He worked for the Award at UTM, recipient of the UT Melba Sherman Brandes, MA’45, of Prize in Biochemistry is awarded to a insurance firm of Stokes, Brady and Omicron Delta Kappa, Beta Theta Pi, Workers Union 492, Musicians Local Regulatory Commission, an Tennessee Department of National Alumni Association Chapel Hill, N.C., March 2, 2001. top medical student who advances the Curtis, which later merged with E.H. and his junior and senior classes; 257, and Tennessee Art League. independent department in the Energy Transportation and retired as a civil Outstanding Teacher Award, and re- Before attending Vanderbilt, she field of biochemistry. Survivors include Crump Company of Memphis. He editor of the Hustler; and elected Survivors include three children and six Department. He served in the Navy engineer manager in the structures cipient of the Outstanding earned degrees from Whitworth his wife, three sons, and five served as president of Insurors of Bachelor of Ugliness. He served on the grandchildren. from 1957 to 1959 and retired from the division. He also owned and managed a Developmental Educator Award, West College in Brookhaven, Miss., and grandchildren. Nashville, Insurors of Tennessee and the boards of the Silsbee Chamber of Naval Reserve in 1989. He was a land surveying business. He was a Tennessee. She was a member of the Millsaps College in Jackson, Miss. She Travis Morris Douglas, BA’49, of Santa Southern Agents Conference. He also Commerce, Silsbee Independent Jesse C. Crowe, PhD’54, of Bowling member and past president of Temple member of Two Rivers Baptist Church Tennessee Library Association, taught at Ward-Belmont School in Monica, Calif., Nov. 18, 2000. After was active in Belmont United School District, and Kiwanis Club, and Green, Ky., Feb. 3, 2001, at home of a Shalom in Chevy Chase and past and First Church of the Nazarene. Tennessee Advisory Council on Nashville after earning the master’s graduating from Vanderbilt, he joined Methodist Church. Survivors include was active in the Boy Scouts of heart attack. He is survived by his wife president of the Wheaton Urban Survivors include his wife, two sons, two Libraries, Obion County Public degree at Vanderbilt before joining the Anderson Clayton Cotton Company his wife, Jean Thomas Curtis, BA’48, America, local theatre, and United and a daughter. District advisory committee. He also grandsons, parents, and brothers. Library Board, Reelfoot Regional

62 VANDERBILT MAGAZINE FALL 2001 63 Library Board, and was a Sunday Thomas B. Warren, MS’67, PhD’69, of Wilson scholar. He was an attorney Survivors include a daughter, seven school teacher at First Baptist Church, Arlington, Texas, Aug. 8, 2000. with the Cincinnati law firm of Strauss grandchildren, 18 great-grandchildren, Obion. & Troy practicing in the areas of and one great-great-grandchild. Hugh F.Glynn, BA’68, of Titusville, mergers and acquisitions, securities John Shelby Coffey III, BE’63, of Fla., Nov. 30, 2000. law and commercial transactions. He Howard Edward Smith, a professor of Carlsbad, Calif., Nov. 11, 2000. A served as a coach and supporter of the chemistry for nearly 40 years, Sept. 23, registered professional engineer, he was Stephen Michael Trautman, BA’68, athletic programs of Anderson High 2000. He was a fellow of the American a self-employed consultant and served JD’74, of Nashville, Sept. 21, 2000, School and Anderson Township. Association for the Advancement of in the Air National Guard. He is suddenly of an aneurysm at home. He Survivors include his wife and three Science and a member of the American survived by his wife, a son, a daughter, practiced law in the private and children. Chemical Society, Royal Society of and two sisters. corporate sectors. He was active in Chemistry, Sigma Chi, and the United Way, Big Brothers of Nashville, Thomas J. Hartland Jr., JD’77, of Tennessee Academy of Science. He is Averil Collins Lashley, A’63,of Boston, Special Olympics, and the Downtown Atlanta, Sept. 19, 2000. survived by his wife, a son, two Mass., January 2001. She was a publicist Kiwanis Club. Survivors include his daughters, and a grandson. who established her own communica- wife, a son, a daughter, mother and Anthony LeRoy Dunnavant, MDiv’79, tions services firm in the Back Bay area. father, and a sister. MA’81, PhD’84, of Lexington, Ky., Feb. Nancy A. Walker, first director of Survivors include a son and a daughter. 2, 2001. He was dean and professor of women’s studies at Vanderbilt, died William G. Walker, PhD’68, of church history at Lexington Dec. 12, 2000, from complications of Joy Marsh White, BSN’63, of Maryville, Owensboro, Ky., Jan. 24, 2001. Theological Seminary. He is survived lung cancer. She was named director of Tenn., March 20, 2001. by his wife. the women’s studies department in Thomas L.“Tommy” Ryan, BE’69, of 1989 and held that post for seven David Zager, BE’63, of Columbus, South Pittsburg, Tenn., March 17, William Luther Legg, BA’81, of years. During that time, she also served Ohio, May 13, 2001. He worked in the 2001, at home. He is survived by two Winnetka, Ill., May 2, 2000. as an associate professor of English construction business for more than 30 sisters and two brothers. and attained full professorship in years and was past president of BIA of Q. Jean Elissa (Qi-Chao Huang), English in 1992. Her areas of study Central Ohio. Survivors include his wife, Constance R. Charlton, BSN’71, of BE’85, of Dayton, Ohio, Dec. 22, 2000. included American women’s and 19th Rhona Dermon Zager, BA’58,MA’62, Antioch, Ill., January 2001. She was a licensed engineer in the state and 20th century literature, American and two daughters. of Ohio and a member of the Church studies, and American pop culture. She Marcella M. Mosely, BS’72, MS’73, of of the Incarnation. Survivors include wrote more than 10 books on women’s Lawrence E. Marshall, LLB’65, of Nashville, November 2000. She taught her husband, two sons, and adopted literature and women’s humor and was Midlothian, Va., Jan. 22, 2001. speech pathology and audiology in the family. a contributor and editor for a variety Bettejean Charlee “Twink”Hagen Department of Communications at of professional journals. She is Giusti, BA’66,of Cranberry Township, Tennessee State University. She was Timothy R. Phillips, PhD’86, of survived by her husband, Bert Augst, Pa., May 22, 1999. named Outstanding Teacher of the Wheaton, Ill., Sept. 27, 2000. He was a compliance analyst for Vanderbilt’s Year five years in a row, received the professor of historical and systematic Opportunity Development Center. Amanda Griffin Hyatt, BA’67,MA’74, Distinguished University Service theology at Wheaton College. He is of Atlanta, August 22, 2001, at her home Award, and was listed in Who’s Who survived by his wife, two sons, mother, after a long battle with cancer. She was Teacher Hall of Fame. She also ran a two brothers, and a sister. active in community advocacy and successful private practice. Survivors activism and had been chairman of the include two brothers, nieces, aunts, Erin L. Richey, JD’88, of San Diego, Georgia Governor’s Welfare Reform uncles, and cousins. Calif., Jan. 2, 2001. Task Force, Georgia Council on Vocational Education, and Council for Emily S. Crandall, JD’73, of Palm City, Douglas Andrew Durando, BS’91, of Competitive Georgia. The United Way Fla., Nov. 6, 2000. She was an attorney Forest Hills, N.Y., Feb. 24, 2001, of named its highest volunteer award for with the Guardian Life Insurance cancer. He was employed with Catalina her in honor of her contributions to the Company for 17 years before moving Marketing in Greenwich, Conn. Douglas, Ga., and Metropolitan Atlanta to Palm City. Survivors include her Survivors include his parents and a organizations. She is survived by her husband, father, and three brother. husband, Wayne Hyatt, BA’65,MA’74,a stepchildren. Vanderbilt Board of Trust member and Paul David Miller, MA’91, of immediate past president of the Thomas E. Blase, BS’75, BE’78, of Brookline, Mass., April 2000. Vanderbilt Alumni Association Board of West Palm Beach, Fla., July 25, 2000. Directors. Nathaniel Goodall Thompson, BA’95, Kurt Decker, JD’76, of Sinking Spring, of South San Francisco, Calif., Sept. 4, Tucker White King, BA’67,of Penn., May 21, 2000, of a heart attack. 2000. Jacksonville, Fla., January 20, 2001, of He was a partner in the law firm of complications following cancer surgery. Stevens & Lee in Reading, Penn., and Donald Evers “Dusty”Wheaton Jr., He served with an Army artillery unit author of numerous books and BA’98, of Gastonia, N.C., June 7, 1999. until his discharge in 1971 and became a articles. Survivors include his wife, a He was a lifetime member of Alpha Phi real estate broker with Cushman and son, and a daughter. Omega Service Fraternity. Wakefield in Jacksonville. He was a member of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Charley Ann Reichley, PhD’71, of FACULTY/STAFF Meninak Club, Seminole Club, Nashville, Dec. 9, 2000. Timuquana Country Club, Florida Philip Grant Davidson Jr., head of Yacht Club, the YMCA and the Alan C.“Chip” Rosser, JD’72, of Vanderbilt’s Graduate School from Traveler’s Aid Society. Survivors include Cincinnati, Ohio, Jan. 27, 2001, of a 1942 to 1948 and provost until 1951, his wife, two daughters, two step- heart attack. At Vanderbilt, he was died Oct. 13, 2000, at his home in daughters, a stepson, his mother and associate managing editor of the Nashville. He was a longtime leader in a brother. Vanderbilt Law Review and a Patrick the Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee.

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