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Trustees Elect Underwood Next President MERCERIANTHE A Publication for Alumni and Friends of Mercer University Spring 2006 • Volume 16, Number 1 Trustees Elect Underwood Next President he Board of Trustees of Mercer University unanimously elected ber of the faculty of the Baylor Law School since Getting to Know law scholar William D. Underwood as the University’s 18th 1990. He held The Leon William D. Underwood Jaworski Chair in Practice Underwood was born in Ft. Morgan, Colo., to president at their semi-annual meeting in December. and Procedure and directed William H. and Mary E. Underwood. He and his the rigorous Practice Court four younger siblings — Becky, Debbie, Jim and T program, which has received Mary — spent their childhoods in Texas, Underwood, who served as interim president of Baylor University Kansas, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and Michigan. high marks from The Underwood says he was inspired to become in Waco, Texas, until Jan. 2, will take office on July 1, upon the retirement of Dr. R. Princeton Review and a lawyer when he was studying history. “I was Litigation News. In 2004, struck by how often our country had turned to Kirby Godsey, who has been the University’s chief executive officer for an Baylor awarded Underwood exceptional lawyers for leadership in times of the prestigious designation of crisis,” he notes. “In a very real sense, excep- Master Teacher for his com- tional lawyers have been our nation’s great prob- unprecedented 27 years. lem solvers.” In 1990, Underwood went from mitment to teaching and practicing law to teaching it, and says the oppor- At the press conference held follow- cy at the University. tion of the University. During his six- scholarly research. Only nine tunity to play a significant role in developing the ing the Trustees’ vote, David Hudson, During his term at the helm of month presidency, he received a vote of of Baylor’s current 800 facul- next generation of lawyers was an attractive one. presidential search committee chair- Baylor, Underwood was credited for affirmation as well as a standing ova- ty members have received the Underwood says that, prior to becoming the man and newly-elected chairman of Master Teacher designation. interim president at Baylor University,he the Board, recalled the group’s first Underwood, the son of a received the best advice from a successful col- lege president. “He advised me not to be cruci- meeting with Underwood. Baptist preacher, earned his fied on six-inch crosses, and never to lose my “One member said, ‘Call in the undergraduate degree at desire and capacity to listen to others,” dogs, put the water on the fire, the hunt Oklahoma Baptist University. Underwood recalls. “That was great advice from is over,’” recalled Hudson. In an inter- A summa cum laude grad- Kirby Godsey.” view with the Waco Tribune-Herald, uate of the University of Underwood is married to the former Lesli Hudson said Underwood stood out as a Illinois College of Law, he Pearson, a third-grade teacher at an inner-city public school in Waco, who is a past president of candidate because of his background was a member of the Board the Waco Chapter of Parents for Public Schools teaching in the Baylor Law School since of Editors of the University and a past board member of National Parents 1990 and his experience as interim of Illinois Law Review and a for Public Schools organization. They are the president the past six months. member of the Order of the parents of two children, Jessica, 17, and Underwood said he plans on Coif. After law school, he William, 12. “picking up where Kirby left off” and completed a federal judicial continuing many of Godsey’s clerkship with the Honorable al law. After joining the faculty of ph initiatives, including continuing to ra Sam D. Johnson of the United States Baylor’s College of Law, he continued eleg upgrade the quality of the faculty and T Court of Appeals for the Fifth Court. to successfully represent clients in a the student body, with an eye on The Macon He became a high-profile attorney variety of civil and criminal cases. making Mercer “a premier, nationally bell, practicing civil trial law with An elected member of the recognized university.” Beau Ca Carrington, Coleman, Sloman & American Law Institute, the American Underwood will follow in the aca- President R. Kirby Godsey speaks with President-Elect William D. Underwood following the Blumenthal, a prominent litigation Bar Foundation, and the Texas Bar demic tradition of Mercer’s 16th presi- Dec. 2 press conference. firm based in Dallas. Underwood has Foundation, Underwood has served as dent, Dr. Rufus C. Harris, who also was bringing unity back among the faculty, tion from the faculty senate and strong published extensively in the field of Reporter to the Civil Justice Reform a nationally noted law scholar and staff, students and alumni, which had support from the alumni association. civil practice and procedure, including Act Advisory Group to the United who had served as a law school dean become fractured during the previous Prior to his appointment to interim articles that have led to significant States District Court for the Western before beginning his 19-year presiden- administration over the future direc- president, Underwood had been a mem- changes in federal and state procedur- District of Texas. Mercer Breaks Ground for New Science and Engineering Building By Mark Vanderhoek uring the festivities sur- groundbreaking, outstanding materials-testing system. rounding the School of along with university “... Our School has a longstanding DEngineering’s 20th officials, students, partnership with the Warner Robins Air Anniversary on Oct. 21, 2005, Mercer graduates and former Logistics Center,” Aldridge said, “and also passed another important mile- deans of the School of this new facility will help us address stone by breaking ground on its new Engineering, College two of its greatest needs: the teaching Science and Engineering Building. The of Liberal Arts Dean of short courses and graduate building will further the educational Richard C. Fallis and education.” mission of Mercer University and United States Rep. Jim The new building will feature new cements the ties between Robins Air Marshall, D-Macon. laboratories, specialized classrooms, Force Base and the University. The new “This new state- study rooms and a 150-seat auditori- building will increase the level of activi- of-the-art teaching um. Students from the nine under- ty under Mercer’s longstanding and research facility Construction on the new Science and Engineering Building began on Oct. 21. Helping in the groundbreaking were: (left graduate and graduate engineering Education Partnership Agreement with will further advance to right) Michael Hatcher, director of engineering at Warner Robins Air Logistics Center; Richard C. Fallis, dean of programs, as well as the core sciences, the Warner Robins Air Logistics Center the University’s posi- the College of Liberal Arts; United States Rep. Jim Marshall, R-Georgia; M. Dayne Aldridge, dean of the School of such as physics, will study in the new Engineering; Elizabeth Embury, president of Tau Beta Pi, the engineering honor society; Donald LaTorre, chair of (WRALC) at Robins, which is the largest tion as a leader in the National Engineering Advisory Board; and Mercer President and CEO R. Kirby Godsey. facility. The new facility will provide single employer of Mercer engineers. engineering and sci- specialized classrooms and laborato- A number of representatives from ence education in the state of dean of the School of Engineering. ty the finest laboratories and special- ries to meet the growing needs of the the WRALC were on hand for the Georgia,” said M. Dayne Aldridge, the “It will provide our students and facul- ized classrooms possible as well as an — Continued on page 2 MERCERIANTHE AROUND THE UNIVERSITY Spring 2006 • Vol. 16, No. 1 President and CEO R. Kirby Godsey Executive Vice President and Provost Mercer Horace W. Fleming Senior Vice President for University Advancement, University Admissions and External Affairs Emily P. Myers Senior Vice President for Finance Summit Confirms Mercer’s Baptist Commitment Thomas G. Estes, Jr. Senior Vice President for Administration Richard N. Goddard Senior Vice President – Atlanta n January, Mercer University power of one person, and the Baptist that represent their religious roots to endorsements ... if Mercer is to become Richard V. Swindle called together some 200 church Idea [is] the power of freedom and the the nation, Shurden called upon the kind of national Baptist University Dean, College of Liberal Arts Richard C. Fallis and lay leaders to begin a dia- power of grace,” he said. Mercer to follow their lead and become that is needed,” he explained. Dean, School of Engineering I M. Dayne Aldridge logue concerning the sustainment of “Mercer is about the convergence the nation’s Baptist university. “We William D. Underwood, who will Dean, Eugene W. Stetson School of the University’s Baptist identity. of the power of thought and the power really should think of becoming noth- become Mercer’s 18th president upon Business and Economics Roger C. Tutterow The two-day “Baptist the retirement of President Godsey on Dean, Tift College of Education W. Carl Martray Summit,” held on the July 1, 2006, closed the forum on an Dean, College of Continuing and Macon campus, resulted exciting, but cautionary note. He told Professional Studies Thomas E. Kail from the November vote those in attendance that a Baptist uni- Vice President for University Advancement Administration by the Georgia Baptist versity has a distinct advantage over Kenny Daugherty, CLA ’80, EDU ’82 Convention (GBC) to end not only state-sponsored schools, Senior Associate Vice President for University Advancement its 172-year relationship which mandate that discussions of Gloria O.
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