The Magazine of Rhodes College • Summer 2008 SUMMER 2008 Contents VOLUME 15 • NUMBER 2

4 Arts Gain Center Stage What CODA means to Rhodes

12 Banking on the Future 4 Cary Fowler ’71 stores the world’s seeds

20 The Places You’ll Go Students experience a world of internships

26 A Focus on Important Things Geology’s Carol Ekstrom looks back—and forward

28 Summer Reading 12 Faculty and staff proffer their picks

32 Alumni News Class Notes, In Memoriam

56 President’s Page A message from President William E. Troutt

On the Cover CODA fellow Charlotte Ashford ’10 raises the question. 20 (R(Read about CODA, past, present and future, on page 4). PPhotography by Baxter Buck

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is published three times a year by Rhodes College, 2000 N. Parkway, Memphis, TN 38112 Visit the Rhodes Web site at rhodes.edu to fi nd current campus, as a service to all alumni, students, parents, alumni and athletics news, upcoming events and much more. faculty, staff and friends of the college. Summer 2008—Volume 15, Number 2 Get up-to-the-minute news with a RSS feed. EDITOR Go to rhodes.edu/6208.asp Martha Hunter Shepard ’66

GRAPHIC DESIGNERS Larry Ahokas See more at rhodes.edu/magazine Robert Shatzer Rhodes Online offers Web-only content extras. RHODES ASSOCIATE Visit rhodes.edu/magazine to see and hear these special Rachel L. Stinson ’08 features: CONTRIBUTORS Baxter Buck, Justin Fox Burks, Daney Daniel Kepple Photo Album LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: • Commencement 2008 Please address postal correspondence to: Martha H. Shepard, Editor, Rhodes Magazine, • A Family Portrait—Alums and their graduating seniors Rhodes College, 2000 N. Parkway, Memphis, TN 38112-1690. Video E-mail: [email protected] Phone: (901) 843-3544 • Bill Short ’71, Barret Library’s coordinator of public services, Fax: (901) 843-3553. talks about his summer reading list CLASS NOTES: • Cary Fowler ’68 featured on “60 Minutes” Please send all Class Notes including marriages, births and obituaries to: Alumni Offi ce, Rhodes College, 2000 N. Arts Extra-Arts in the Future Parkway, Memphis, TN 38112-1690. Phone: (901) 843-3845 Campus News Fax: (901) 843-3474. • In Print—new books by faculty and alumni/ae E-mail: [email protected] • Professors Mark Muesse and Mary Miller win Clarence Day RHODES ALUMNI OFFICE: Awards 1 (800) 264-LYNX • Physics students receive grant for summer NASA RHODES ADMISSIONS OFFICE: 1 (800) 844-LYNX experiment POSTMASTER: • Top scholarships go to fi ve grads Send address changes to: RHODES, 2000 North Parkway, • Creative writers take honors at Southern Literary Festival Memphis, TN 38112-1690 • Brooks Royer ’10 selected to national SAAC committee CHANGE OF ADDRESS: • Senior to serve as a volunteer at the Beijing Olympic Games Please mail the completed form below and label from this issue of RHODES to: • Society of Physics Students receives grant Alumni Offi ce, Rhodes College, 2000 North Parkway, Memphis, TN 38112-1690. • Rhodes to Travel accepting reservations for trips to Quebec and Antarctica Name • Kiplinger names Rhodes a Best Value Street Talk Back City State Zip Look for the Talk Back feature at the end of online articles.

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Title PROFILES Spence AND IN GIVING Becky Webb Wilson

emphis businessman Spence Wilson is a BURKS FOX JUSTIN longtime member and chair of the Rhodes MBoard of Trustees. He is also chair of the national Campaign for Rhodes. It may surprise some people that he and his wife Becky are graduates of Vanderbilt University, where he majored in economics and business, and she majored in Spanish, minored in French and studied Russian and Portuguese. Spence began his career in 1969 as assistant to his father Kemmons Wilson, founder of Holiday Inns. Since that time, Spence’s primary focus has been in the areas of real estate development and private equity investments. As president of Memphis-based Kemmons Wilson Inc., he oversees the fi rm’s diverse business interests. Spence fi rst joined the Rhodes Board of Trustees in 1971, and has served as chair for the last eight years. Becky, an attorney who served as an assistant Becky and Spence Wilson with President Troutt (left) at their induction U.S. attorney for the Western District of Tennessee into the Benefactors’ Circle, fall 2007 for several years, also founded Bridge Builders, a youth leadership program. She has served as president of the Vanderbilt Alumni Association and vice chair as with many areas of life, the more you learn about of the Vanderbilt Board of Trust, of which she is something, the more you appreciate it, and the more currently a member. In addition, the couple support the excited you get. Finally it kind of turns into passion.” Spence and Rebecca Webb Wilson Fellowship in the The Search course sparked their interest in Rhodes, Humanities at Vanderbilt. but Memphis is what lights their fi re. So how did the Rhodes Lynx attract two devoted “Spence and I both love Memphis so much. We both Commodores? feel very strongly about improving life here as much as As a Rhodes trustee for a total of 37 years (with only a possible,” says Becky. “Rhodes is such a jewel. It’s a vital little time off between terms), Spence says, “Becky and college that enlivens and refreshes this community and I both read widely. During my last year at Vanderbilt, I brings people to Memphis who often decide to stay here.” became very interested in history and the humanities, and At Rhodes, as in the community, the Wilsons have a that’s been the focus of most of my reading since then. You history of fi nding needs and providing resources to fi ll have to read about business to be in business, but reading them. In addition to being longtime members of the in these other areas is where I get most of my pleasure. Charles E. Diehl Society, they have created the Spence “From the beginning I’ve always loved the Search L. Wilson Service Scholarship Program and the Spence course at Rhodes,” he says. “It’s a broad survey of faith, Wilson Faculty International Travel Fund. With their religion, philosophy and history. That just resonated support, the Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation with me. I thought, ‘This is powerful and worth being established a service scholarship as well. Currently, a involved in and supporting.’ With courses like Search, faculty search committee is at work looking to fi ll the

{ 2 } S U M M E R 2 0 0 8 • R H O D E S r h o d e s . e d u Spence L. Wilson Distinguished Chair in Humanities. Spence, a pilot, also greatly enjoys providing Spence is clearly enthusiastic about the chair: “When occasional side trips, like the two times he has taken I was thinking about what to do in the way of giving, I physics students up in his plane to experience 0 gravity asked the college, ‘What are your real needs here that before they actually fl ew to perform experiments aboard might intersect with my interests?’ We decided on the NASA’s “Weightless Wonder.” chair in humanities that will help the Search course and It’s the joy of learning and giving that inspires the at the same time offer interdisciplinary and community- Wilsons’ generosity. oriented initiatives.” “We’ve been very blessed, but blessings without The idea for the faculty travel fund came to him at a gratitude are dead ends. We derive great satisfaction board meeting a few years ago. from passing them on,” says Becky. “I was really intrigued when some professors who had “We are blessed,” Spence agrees. “Rhodes has had traveled to Italy spoke about how defi ning it was to three capital campaigns since I’ve been on the board. them to have seen so many of the things they had read, And we feel really fortunate at this time in our lives that thought and written about. That inspired me to fi gure we’re able to do something of signifi cance at Rhodes out a way to provide some monies each year so that and Vanderbilt and are alive to see some of the fruits of others could have similar experiences.” our giving.”

Your Annual Fund Dollars—A Living Endowment

The Annual Fund lies at the heart of the college and is participation (the percent of alumni who make gifts to vital to the Campaign for Rhodes. Serving as the college’s the college) remains one of the highest in the country. Our living endowment, it provides the necessary resources to alumni participation rate for the duration of the campaign maintain the quality of excellence our students, parents is 71 percent, which means 8,722 alumni have made a gift and alumni expect from Rhodes. Alumni, parents, trustees, at some point during the campaign. faculty, staff, corporations, foundations and friends individually contribute between $5 and $100,000 each year to the Annual Fund. These gifts provide nearly $3 million annually to support all aspects of the college, including student scholarships Where We Are and faculty support. Rhodes depends heavily on Annual Fund (through May 15, 2008) support; every gift, no matter the size, has a signifi cant impact. It would take $60 million in new endowment dollars Cash Commitment $126,875,000 to provide the same support the Annual Fund provides to Deferred Commitments $26,900,000 Rhodes each year. Campaign Total $153,775,000 Fortunately, Rhodes benefi ts from a long history of Annual Fund support from our constituents. Since the beginning of The Breakdown the Campaign for Rhodes, the college has received $ 17.5 Scholarships/ Fellowships $54,800,000 million in gifts to the Annual Fund—more than 11 percent Academic & Faculty Support $77,500,000 of the current Campaign for Rhodes total. The success of the Rhodes Annual Fund is a result of consistent, consecutive giving. In fact, Rhodes alumni

Update: The Campaign for Rhodes Now in full swing, the Campaign for Rhodes aims to raise visit “Giving to Rhodes” on the college Web site, rhodes. $250 million to provide funds to help attract—and retain— edu, or contact the Development Offi ce at 901-843-3850 to the very best faculty, students and staff. learn how you can support these goals. For more on the exciting aspects of the campaign, please rhodes.edu SUMMER 2008 • RHODES { 3 } ARTS CENTER By Daney Daniel Kepple

Steve Abrams, general manager of the Harris Theatre in Millennium Park, conducts tour for CODA fellows

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n an otherwise routine evening in 2004, two OTexans attended a symphony concert in Dallas. As a result of their experience, the arts scene at Rhodes will never be the same. The concert goers were Robert and Ruby Priddy whose foundation had

rhodes.edu SUSUMMERMMER 20082008 • RHODESR H O DES { 5 } previously provided funding for the Rhodes Institute founding director Tim Sharp has a hard time forcing for Regional Studies, the Rhodes St. Jude Summer himself to recall the early days. Plus program and summer service fellowships. Bonner “There were no role models,” says Sharp. “There was Scholarship recipients also received a generous stipend nothing like this anywhere else in the country. We had from the Priddy Foundation. to make it up from scratch.” Mr. Priddy recalls that he looked around the concert Sharp, who came to Rhodes in 2000, has served as hall that evening and noticed that everyone in the the Elizabeth Gay Daughdrill Chair in the Fine Arts, audience was approximately his age. dean of academic affairs for fi ne arts and conductor of “I wondered what would become of the arts when our the Rhodes Singers and MasterSingers Chorale. While generation was gone,” he says. he may have made CODA “up from scratch,” the proof Not one to sit idly by, Priddy contacted the is in the pudding. institutions that had responded well to his earlier Sharp recruited John Weeden ’97 as assistant director. generosity and asked for proposals for programs to The two immediately got the program off the ground inspire a new generation of arts leaders. A few months by choosing six CODA fellows from several applicants. later, CODA (Center for Outreach in the Development Leadership Memphis, a local nonprofi t, was engaged to of the Arts) was born at Rhodes. provide leadership training, and Weeden conducted a Now in its third year, the program is so vibrant, and weekly two-hour practicum. Adjunct faculty members has had such a profound impact on campus life, CODA were retained in art, music and theater. The CODA

CODA students at the home of John and Neville Frierson Bryan, both ’58, in Chicago, January 2008. First row, left to right—Natalija Kokoreva ’10, Meghan Wilcox ’11, Katharine Gentsch ’11, Christine Zhu ’09, Werner Viser ’10, Charlotte Ashford ’10, Elizabeth Tyson ’02, Neville Frierson Bryan ’58. Second row—John Bryan’58, Daniel Frankel ’09, Andrew Whaley ’08, Luke Branim ’10, Lauren Kennedy ’08, Crews Baggett ’11, Tim Sharp, John Weeden ’97

{ 6 } S U M M E R 2 0 0 8 • R H O D E S r h o d e s . e d u fellows traveled to New York City in January 2006 to confl ict resolution. meet with arts leaders, including Rhodes alumni/ae, and An arts leadership symposium brought national arts learn fi rsthand how things are done at the professional fi gures to campus, and CODA presented its fi rst Award level in that major arts capital. for Outstanding Service to the Arts. The CODA fellows The next year the program began to grow legs. Sharp traveled to San Francisco, where they visited the Yerba developed an interdisciplinary course, Aesthetics and Buena Center for the Arts, American Conservatory the Politics of Culture, in collaboration with political Theater, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and science professor Dan Cullen and art historian David Magic Theatre, where they were joined by actor Bill McCarthy, and the CODA staff issued a call for Pullman. Artistic director Chris Smith inspired the proposals to the entire faculty for ideas for new courses students to think strategically about communicating or enhanced current offerings. English painter George their passion for the arts with the broader society. Each Shaw became the fi rst CODA artist in residence. The fellow researched one of the venues, performances or Accademia dell’Arte Summer Fine Arts Program was exhibitions and shared with the Rhodes student body established in the historic Tuscan city of Arezzo, Italy, his or her analysis of signifi cant arts issues encountered where Rhodes students and others study art, theater, during the trip. music and aesthetics. The leadership training was This year CODA took another leap toward expanded to include listening and communication, time accomplishing its mission which, Sharp says, is “to management, facilitation, meeting management and develop students dedicated to promoting and sustaining the arts because they see the arts are vital to individuals and communities. Underlying all CODA activities is the goal of helping a broad spectrum of faculty, students and community partners discover their capacity as community advocates for the arts.” Just before the spring semester began, Sharp and Weeden escorted the CODA fellows to Chicago where they were hosted and mentored by John ’58 and Neville Frierson Bryan ’58 who are major patrons of the arts. Neville is a musician and John, the former chairman of Sara Lee Corp., was a moving force behind the creation of downtown Chicago’s 24.5-acre Millennium Park. Natalija Kokoreva ’10, Lauren Kennedy ’08 and Charlotte Ashford ’10 “Our previous two trips were focused on the on tour of the Art Institute of Chicago Musuem with Bob Eskridge, production side and gave our students multiple museum curator of education opportunities to interact with working artists,” Weeden explains. “In Chicago we got an incredible behind-the- scenes look at public policy and patronage. Mr. Bryan opened many doors for us in addition to giving us the kind of access to his home and collection that nobody else gets. He and Mrs. Bryan could not have been more wonderful.” Thanks to the Bryans’ good offi ces, the Rhodes group got a tour of the Art Institute of Chicago by its curator of education, a behind-the-scenes tour of Millennium Park and a two-hour audience with the department heads of the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs. “In Chicago there is a government mandate to provide free art to the citizens of the city because it is viewed CODA fellows visit with two staffers of Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs (foreground). Left to right: Charlotte Ashford as a public good,” Weeden continues. “We got to meet ’10, Natalija Kokoreva ’10, Crews Baggett ’11, Lauren Kennedy ’08, with the people who make that happen.” Katharine Gentsch ’11, Meghan Wilcox ’11 rhodes.edu SUMMER 2008 • RHODES { 7 } Touring the Pritzker Pavilion in Chicago’s Millennium Park

Weeden was not the only one who was impressed by the experience. For Charlotte Ashford ’10, a Chicago native, it was an eye-opener. “I always knew Chicago was cool, but I think I took it for granted,” she says. “Seeing the behind-the-scenes picture and looking through the eyes of others, I was very impressed. I don’t think I realized that the city wasn’t always the way it is now. I defi nitely learned that it takes strong leaders and really committed people to create an asset like Millennium Park which, in the beginning, was envisioned as just a little park to cover up some railroad tracks. Thanks in part to Mr. Bryan, the city ended up with an internationally-acclaimed Christine Zhu ’09 working with students at Springdale Elementary space, which is such a great thing for Chicago and its School. “CODA developed the model for the after-school art program which the Tri-Delta sorority now continues,” says John Weeden. “That people. It all made me a little homesick even though I is the primary ambition of our projects—to facilitate partnerships, love being in Memphis.” develop viable project models, then train others to lead the projects.” Katherine Gentsch ’11 terms the experience “Amazing. Entering Millennium Park was like walking into a dream. I can’t even imagine pitching such an idea, but it made me raise my sights.” Gentsch, whose ideal summer would include performing in a musical and traveling, pitched her own idea while on the trip.

{ 8 } S U M M E R 2 0 0 8 • R H O D E S r h o d e s . e d u “I talked to people at the Neo-Futurists theater group into downtown Memphis storefronts and developing in Chicago about an internship and they were very a major mural production on a downtown property receptive. I’m keeping my fi ngers crossed.” owned by Rhodes trustee Chick Hill. They’re also Luke Branim ’10 became acutely aware of his passion renovating a local church basement into an art studio for the arts during the trip. When his family moved and theatrical rehearsal space along with more than from Memphis to Laredo, TX, his sophomore year in a dozen other projects, including arts programs at high school, he plunged into activities such as theater, Springdale Elementary and Cypress Middle schools. debate and public speaking as a way to make new “Having developed the model for the program, we’ve friends. been able to train members of Tri Delta sorority to take “I didn’t think of myself as arty,” he says. “In Chicago on the program as a primary philanthropy,” Weeden and during our conversations afterward it began to says. “They have six times as many members as there dawn on me how much I care about the arts and are CODA fellows, which enables CODA students to how much I want to do something to help. While we move on to other efforts such as partnering with more were there I began to narrow the focus on what the organizations, build new project models and train other community needs—a farmer to plant a seed that grows partners.” and spreads. Before, I thought I could just work with Coda is also becoming recognized for other efforts. local artists and small-scale projects to generate interest. Last fall’s arts leadership symposium was another solid Now I know you have to start at the top. So now I’m hit, and the Award for Outstanding Service to the Arts thinking about what I can do after college in the has become a coveted honor in the city’s arts circles. political realm.” CODA fellows are also making connections On campus, CODA and its programs have become so internationally. They are working with the prestigious entrenched, incoming students assume the program has Van Abbemuseum in the Netherlands, developing an always been part of Rhodes. And in Memphis, Weeden arts residency in Memphis that began earlier this year. reports, “Rhodes is increasingly seen as a source for Otto Berchem, a Dutch-American multimedia artist arts expertise. In fact, we now receive more requests for based in Amsterdam, was in town from mid-February assistance than we can fi ll.” to early April working with CODA and art department It’s a nice problem to have and one that’s expected students to develop work for the “Heartland” exhibition to grow. For example, the ArtsMemphis organization which opens at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, has appointed CODA fellows to help develop student Netherlands in October 2008. He also did a number of audiences. The students are working on infusing arts guest teaching sessions with Clough-Hanson Gallery director Hamlett Dobbins’ Alternative Media and Methods art class. Back on campus, the CODA Nights Out program, which began last year, provides $5 tickets to a variety of performances by Ballet Memphis, Opera Memphis, the Memphis Symphony Orchestra and dramatic works at professional and community theaters. It continues to grow in popularity. “As wonderful as Rhodes is, we’re in a bubble unless we go off campus. CODA is great at getting us out,” says Stephanie Cassel ’10. JoBeth Campbell ’08, a recipient of the Mrs. Billie J. Scharding Scholarship adds, “Memphis is a great place to be a music major because there’s so much going on. I love CODA’s cheap tickets and they’re not just for arts majors. They affect everybody.” And everybody in the community—faculty, staff and Charlotte Ashford ’10 in San Francisco during the CODA fellows’ fi eld students—takes advantage of the opportunities. trip, January 2007 rhodes.edu SUMMER 2008 • RHODES { 9 } “The goal of our ticket campaign is to develop Another innovation is an event billed as a campus further the already rich culture of creativity at Rhodes,” arts walk. The evenings showcase an art exhibition in Weeden says. “Attending these arts events in large the Clough-Hanson Gallery, a music concert in Hardie groups enables students, faculty and staff to know Auditorium or Tuthill Performance Hall and a dramatic one another through a series of common cultural production in McCoy Theatre. Such occasions, along experiences outside the classroom. It’s a great feeling to with continuing artist-in-residence visits and CODA overhear people talking about the performances they fellows’ projects in nearby schools and downtown bode saw together over the weekend. The response has been well for the arts at Rhodes. overwhelmingly positive.” For more on CODA, visit rhodes.edu/magazine

Nothing Succeeds Like Success Tim Sharp and John Weeden ’97 helped established CODA and put the program on a rock-solid footing. Each is now pursuing new opportunities. In May, Sharp became executive director of the prestigious American Choral Directors Association headquartered in Oklahoma City, and Weeden was tapped to serve as executive director of the UrbanArt Commission, a nonprofi t organization formed in 1997 that facilitates public art projects in Memphis and Shelby County. Weeden and the UrbanArt Commission will be a valuable partner for the CODA program.

Lauren Kennedy ’08, who spent her junior year in Paris, at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

CODA’s Future Fortunately, Rhodes is deep in talent and leadership in Opera Memphis performance of “Treemonisha” in 2009. the fi ne arts. Beginning this summer, CODA will be guided McCarthy has played a key role in the Rhodes partnership by four outstanding faculty: longtime theater professor and with Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, particularly in the 2008 Algernon Sidney Sullivan award winner Julia “Cookie” research and production of the soon-to-be published Ewing, fellow theater professor David Jilg ’79 and art catalogue of photographs from the mid-20th-century professors David McCarthy and Victor Coonin. newspaper, Memphis World. Last fall, McCarthy taught a “Throughout their careers at Rhodes, each has adhered class on the topic, for which students researched and wrote to the highest standards of work and creativity that will essays about several of the photographs. enhance the CODA program,” says Russ Wigginton ’88, Coonin, who will be on sabbatical during the spring Rhodes vice president of College Relations. 2009 semester, has served as chair of the art department Most recently, Ewing directed Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” at since 2002. He has worked closely to guide CODA students, Memphis’ Hattiloo Theatre with a cast that included several helping them think about their work across disciplines. Rhodes students and alumni as well as community actors. “The collective insights, experiences and expertise of The performances played to standing-room-only audiences. these faculty will undoubtedly help take this already This summer, Jilg is working as a Curb faculty fellow excellent program to new heights by providing students with three Curb student fellows on the history of and with deep understanding of and meaningful experiences in costume design for ragtime composer Scott Joplin’s opera, the arts,” says Wigginton. “Treemonisha.” Their work is expected to contribute to the

{ 10 } S U M M E R 2 0 0 8 • R H O D E S r h o d e s . e d u CODA Fellows Continue To Build At this year’s commencement, the fi rst two CODA fellows Goner Records, a labor of love established by Zac Ives ’97, walked across the stage and through the gates—Lauren exposed him to “a part of the musical scene—underground Kennedy to Sotheby’s Institute of Art in New York for a M.A. rock—I hadn’t seen before.” And that led to an involvement in art business and Andrew Whaley to seminary to study with the start-up project that is now Rhodes Radio. theology. As members of the fi rst class of CODA fellows, Even as a sophomore, Branim understood that he was Kennedy and Whaley helped build the program to what it gaining maturity in his approach to the arts. “I’ve gone has become. Now they leave it in the good hands of a diverse from performing—theater, debate, public speaking, etc., and talented group of students with big plans of their own. in high school—to being socially involved through CODA to Life changed dramatically for Natalija Kokoreva ’10 preparing myself to be an advocate,” he says. when she was 12 years old. A native of Riga, Latvia, she Meghan Wilcox ’11 has big ideas and is chafi ng to bring grew up enjoying Europe’s great art museums. them to fruition. “My mom took me everywhere,” she recalls. “Paris, every “It’s frustrating to be young and naïve!” she says, adding, major city in Italy, Poland, Germany, Belgium, Amsterdam, “I think I’m making progress.” Russia …. ” Her voice takes on a dreamy tone. “I loved to Her goal is no less than raising the consciousness of the hear the stories behind the paintings.” people of Memphis. That all changed abruptly when her family moved to “So many people just go to work, go home, eat and sleep,” Memphis to join her mother’s new husband. Fluent in two she laments. “They don’t get to experience anything but TV. languages, neither of which was English, Kokoreva spent They don’t even know about the Brooks and all the other cool her middle and junior high school years translating her arts facilities here. I think everyone can appreciate every textbooks word for word. Life became easier in high school, type of art. It’s just a matter of education and awareness.” and got downright great when she came to Rhodes. Wilcox is forcing herself to learn from the ground up by “CODA is just perfect for me,” she says. “I get to do tackling grant requests and proposals, talking with artists service and make art matter for others.” and voraciously attending lectures, shows and gallery Kokoreva is working to defi ne her senior CODA project openings while managing the transition of the Springdale and trying to decide between medical and dental school. arts program to the Tri Deltas in addition to managing a “I’m leaning toward dentistry because it’s more artistic,” mural project downtown. she reports. “I would get to work with my hands on very Katherine Gentsch ’11 chose Rhodes because of CODA small, detailed work, particularly in the lab which sometimes after a high school career that encompassed singing in a choir requires shaping a particular form and choosing color.” and starting an a cappella group, dancing, acting, directing Charlotte Ashford ’10 also has a background in European and conducting. Her artistic life at Rhodes is just as frenetic. art but she acquired it a very different way. She is a member of the Rhodes Singers and Lipstick on Your “I interned in a gallery in Geneva because I wanted to Collar and is studying piano, music theory and conducting. see how the arts function abroad,” she explains. “I got to “I study when I’m not doing art,” says this rising sophomore travel to arts festivals in Italy and Switzerland and practice who is also a Rhodes Student Government senator. my language skills. I love studying different cultures.” At last fall’s CODA-sponsored Arts Leadership Symposium, The Chicago native also loves being involved in the arts Gentsch met the head of the Student Advocates for the in Memphis. Arts chapter at Columbia University and spawned the idea “So much is still in the growing stage here so we can have of establishing a chapter in Memphis. She is now working an impact,” she explains. “Chicago is so dense, everything with students at Memphis College of Art and the University is going to be great but it’s harder to play a part in it.” of Memphis to try to form an intercollegiate organization. At Rhodes Ashford started the after-school arts program “I have met so many incredible people through CODA,” she at Springdale Elementary School and will manage the mural marvels. “I’ve only been involved with the program for a program sponsored by Rhodes trustee Chick Hill. Later she few months and have had four years’ worth of experiences. will tackle the task of expanding the program to other It’s not hard to be a go-getter in this group. They just hand buildings to fi ght graffi ti, beautify the city and give local you the opportunities and say, ‘Go!’” artists an opportunity to showcase their talents. Luke Branim ’10 has been a generalist so far, working See also: goner-records.com/ and rhodesradio.org/ on the mural project, the spring Juxtap’art campus festival and arrangements for the Chicago trip. An internship at rhodes.edu SUMMER 2008 • RHODES { 11 } Banking on By Martha Hunter Shepard ’66

Inside the seed vault’s main tunnel

{ 12 } S U M M E R 2 0 0 8 • R H O D E S r h o d e s . e d u MARI TEFRE/GLOBAL CROP DIVERSITY TRUST the Future MARI TEFRE/GLOBAL CROP DIVERSITY TRUST DIVERSITY CROP TEFRE/GLOBAL MARI

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault

ying deep in a mountain in the far north of Norway are three icy Lchambers. Inside those rooms at the top of the world are seeds—hundreds of millions of them—that someday could be the world’s dinner. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, which opened in February 2008, has been called many things—The Doomsday Vault, Noah’s Ark, The Fort Knox of Food. Cary Fowler ’71, executive director of the Global Crop Diversity Trust in Rome, Italy, who spearheaded the project, has been dubbed The World’s Seed Banker. The vault drew worldwide attention at its grand opening. On live television that day, shivering, parka-clad reporters brought the news into warm living rooms around the world that this fail-safe cold storage facility for seed samples is an unprecedented effort to protect the world’s diminishing biodiversity. According to Fowler, crop varieties are lost on a

rhodes.edu SUMMER 2008 • RHODES { 13 } daily basis through drought, lack of water supply, natural other problems, like climate change. I don’t think it’s at disaster, war, even seed deterioration in gene banks. But all conceivable that human beings will adapt to climate with the vault expected to remain naturally frozen for up change if agriculture doesn’t. And agriculture isn’t to 200 years, stored seeds could withstand severe climate going to adapt if crops don’t. The mechanism for crop change or restart agricultural production in the wake of adaptation is diversity. We have the genetic resources, natural or human-caused disasters. the technology, the people and the institutions to “There are many huge problems in the world,” Fowler maintain crop diversity in current and changing says. “But I can actually look people in the eye and say, climates, and the cost-benefi t ratio is astronomical.” ‘We can solve this one.’ And if we solve this problem of The seed vault, built by the Norwegian government maintaining global crop diversity, we’ll help solve many and maintained by the Nordic Genetic Resource Center, currently contains 268,000 samples of seeds from the JUSTIN FOX BURKS FOX JUSTIN largest of more than 1,000 existing seed banks all over the world, and more samples are on the way. “Each room can hold 1.5 million samples of seeds,” Fowler explains. We think about 1.5 million exist, so we planned for the future. It will take thousands of years to fi ll it up.” The seeds are stored in small metal-foil, heat-sealed packages placed in boxes that are shelved in the chambers. “Each room is about 30 yards long, 10 yards wide and 5-6 yards high,” says Fowler. “The temperature is naturally about -4 C (24.8 F) and we’re making it -18 C to -20 C (-.04 F to -4 F). Even if the power should fail, the seeds would last for decades. “The longest-lasting seed we know of is sorghum. We have some indication that in these conditions it could survive some 20,000 years. However, all seeds deteriorate eventually. So a seed bank from somewhere else in the world will deposit seed in the vault. When Cary Fowler during a campus visit, March 2008 the seed starts to lose viability, the depositing bank

Artist’s rendering of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault

{ 14 } S U M M E R 2 0 0 8 • R H O D E S r h o d e s . e d u CIMMYT of seeds in an abandoned coal mine, which is terribly unsafe. So the idea for a fail-safe seed vault had been kicking around a little bit, but put on the back burner. “I was also working with a group of international agricultural research centers in 2003,” Fowler says. “They were undergoing a process of upgrading their seed banks. At the end of the day, we took a look around and said, ‘This is great. We now have the best seed banks in the world in terms of capacity, equipment, etc., but many of them are located in developing countries that often experience natural disasters or political unrest. How safe could this be? Do we have a Plan B?’ We knew there was going to have to be a completely new plan involving new legal arrangements, new physical structure, new management—everything was going to have to be different.” “So we wrote a letter to the Norwegian government asking if it would consider looking into the feasibility of establishing a seed vault—though we didn’t call it that at the time—as a backup safety net for existing seed bank collections.”

Seeds going into bags at CIMMYT, an international research and training center, Mexico Water Water conservation water goes hand-in-hand with takes it out, grows new plants from it, gets new seeds developing drought- and heat-tolerant crops, Fowler from the plant and deposits fresh seeds in its own says. facility as well as in the vault. So we’ll have a steady “Agriculture takes 70% of the world’s fresh water supply of fresh seed coming in.” supplies, and there’s a lot of competition for water now. How secure is the vault? That’s going to be the cause of many serious geopolitical “Seed banks have never been the targets of any kind of confl icts in the future. There are 200 major river systems terrorism or military action—but sometimes they get in going through multiple countries—it’s a setup for the way because they’re just buildings,” says Fowler. problems. The vault is engineered to withstand severe hazards, “The world’s aquifers are on a timetable toward their including nuclear war and earthquakes. It passed the own destruction. We’re overdrawing water from them now. In China and India that overdraft is quite severe. earthquake test a week before its grand opening, when “So if we think that water is never going to run out or a 6.2-magnitude temblor shook the surrounding region, climate change isn’t going to be a problem, well fi ne— but not the vault. In addition, security is plentiful, tight which seems to be the way we’re acting right now. and high-tech at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. “We also have the lowest food reserves since the early 1970s. So we’re actually positioned for that overused Plan B metaphor, ‘a perfect storm.’ The idea for the vault came about in 2003 when “Right now everything has to go right because we have Fowler was professor and director of research at the no particular resilience in the system. That’s what I think Department for International Environment and motivates the staff I work with because by occupation and Development Studies at the Norwegian University of inclination they are some of the most forward-thinking people on planet Earth. Most people look 5-10 years down Life Sciences. the road. We quite seriously are looking 500 years down “The fi ve Nordic countries (Norway, Sweden, the road. It gets you to ask different questions.” Denmark, Finland, Iceland) had a backup collection rhodes.edu SUMMER 2008 • RHODES { 15 } A couple of weeks later, Fowler got a call from a TRUST DIVERSITY CROP TEFRE/GLOBAL MARI government offi cial. Norway, the caller said, intended to take that letter seriously. Soon after, the government established a committee, fi rst to assess the feasibility of, and then develop a plan to build such a facility. Fowler was asked to chair the committee and work with architects and engineers to design it. Once the plans were completed, the structure was built in short order—between March and December 2007.

Getting there Fowler’s career in conservation and use of crop Filling the shelves diversity spans 30 years. He was program director for the National Sharecroppers Fund/Rural Advancement States—in 1996. That same year he served as special Fund, a U.S.-based nongovernment organization assistant to the secretary general of the World Food (NGO). In 1985 he received the Right Livelihood Summit. He is a past member of the National Plant Award (often called the “alternative Nobel Prize”) in a Genetic Resources Board of the U.S. and the board ceremony in the Swedish Parliament. of trustees of the International Maize and Wheat The Norwegian University of Life Sciences offered Improvement Center in Mexico. him a teaching position in 1990, but he was by no These days Fowler serves as full-time executive means confi ned to campus. During the ’90s, he headed director—and chief fundraiser—for the Global Crop the International Conference and Programme on Plant Diversity Trust in Rome. The trust, an independent, Genetic Resources at the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture international organization based at the Food and Organization (FAO). The conference produced the Agriculture Organization of the U.N., was established organization’s fi rst global assessment of the state of the in 2004 to coordinate and maintain the more than world’s plant genetic resources. 1,000 gene banks around the world. It aims to build He also drafted and supervised negotiations of FAO’s a $260 million endowment through donations from Global Plan of Action for Plant Genetic Resources, governments, foundations and corporations. The adopted by 150 countries—including the United interest from the endowment, says Fowler, will guarantee effective conservation and ready availability A week with the king of the seeds to those who need them. Besides fundraising for the trust, he’s the leader in Last year Fowler spent a week in Greenland with King trying to formulate a global conservation system. Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden. “We were looking at how past civilizations coped with “That sounds pretty logical on paper, but we’re climate change—or didn’t. He was interested in how dealing with 180 or so countries and they all have their the Norse had fared in Greenland. They didn’t cope with ideas,” says Fowler. “What they want may make a lot climate change. They didn’t learn how to make kayaks of sense from their individual perspectives, but it may from the Inuits or how to fi sh from the ocean. They not add up to a globally rational, effi cient, effective or wanted to continue to raise their cattle and eat beef. sustainable system. We want good facilities with the They were entering into a small ice age and the climate highest standards. We want to match up the unique was getting colder. There wasn’t enough grass produced diversity with the right seed banks. There’s a lot of to overwinter the cattle. diplomacy involved, a lot of working through the “We visited the ruins of a stone church. The last wedding science of it to try to fi gure out what we need to be ceremony was performed there in 1408. We saw what doing and how to do it.” happens to societies that think they’re invulnerable, that In addition to banking seeds, the trust is funding the they’ll last forever. They think they can beat the climate, creation of a database and information system for plant but it’s a game of biological Russian roulette. You don’t end up winning very often.” breeders worldwide. “In the past, a plant breeder who needed resistance to

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Cary Fowler greets seed vault construction crew a particular disease probably went to a U.S. gene bank. If that bank didn’t have it, the plant breeder was out Diversity of luck,” Fowler says. “But maybe the variety with the There’s more to beans than meets the eye. resistance is in the Polish gene bank, but the problem “There is diversity within species, not just between there is the Polish gene bank doesn’t run off an Excel species. There are 200,000 kinds of rice, 30,000 kinds of spreadsheet; it runs off something that a Polish software beans,” Fowler says. developer made and nobody understands it because “There are more than 1,000 seed banks worldwide. The it’s in Polish. So we’re making a sort of Amazon.com Global Crop Diversity Trust is trying to create a global for plant breeders that will be translated into fi ve or system, and in our minds that global system is composed six languages. Now they’ll be able to search the entire not of 1,000 seed banks but of a rather small, discrete diversity of agricultural crops to get what they need.” number of seed banks that are operating at full capacity. “You have to match up the diversity with the proper Preparation seed bank and try to eliminate redundancies. You don’t want to ensure the conservation of biodiversity 49 out of Fowler grew up in Memphis, the son of now-retired the next 50 years. That’s not quite good enough. It really General Sessions Court Judge Morgan Carrington does have to be 50 out of 50. We make a dis t inc t ion—we’re Fowler ’44. His aunt and uncle, Ed and Betsye Fowler not conserving seed banks; we’re conserving diversity. So French, both graduated in ’39. Fowler spent summers we’re not interested in conserving 1,000 buildings and at his grandmother’s farm near Jackson, TN, where he being called on to repair the roof every day.” says his love of agriculture took root. rhodes.edu SUMMER 2008 • RHODES { 17 } At Rhodes, Fowler wanted to major in sociology, process, change, movement—not ‘what’ things were, which wasn’t offered as a major at the time (the closest but ‘why’ they were, how they got to be that way and discipline was anthropology) so he chose a bridge why and how they changed. Sociology, I thought, major—political science and psychology. offered the opportunity to range a bit more broadly. “It seemed to me at the time that political science The borders were not as constraining.” had an ‘institutional’ focus, that is, it was concerned It was the height of the Vietnam War, and though with institutions, structures, government, etc., and active in campus life, he attended Rhodes for only 2½ anthropology was mostly concerned with distinct years before transferring to Simon Fraser University in cultures—groups, tribes, etc.,” Fowler explains. “Of Vancouver, B.C. these two, I was defi nitely more interested in political “It’s a regret of mine that I didn’t fi nish at Rhodes,” science, yet I also wanted to study and understand says Fowler. “Those were hard times. There was a lot of struggle going on within people on campus, and I Breeding and screening was one of those people. I ended up getting a degree in It’s essential to make a match between crop and sociology at Simon Fraser, but I think that if my life consumer, says Fowler. depended on it I couldn’t tell you the name of a single “We have a huge number of crops in this world for which person in my graduating class there. When I went to there is no scientifi c plant breeding going on. Then you that university I just disappeared. I really studied.” ask, how are the farmers and people who live on those He completed his degree 1½ years later and at the crops going to deal with a rapidly-changing climate? By recommendation of a Canadian friend, enrolled at screening the diversity of crops, we’re prioritizing fi nding Sweden’s Uppsala University for graduate work. The traits for drought- and heat-tolerance and that will venerable university, founded in 1477, had a well- provide better nutrition for the world’s poor. established and respected department of sociology. In “Most projections are that we’ll increase food production the sciences, botanist Carl Linnaeus and astronomer by 20% to 30% by 2030. But look at southern Africa where maize contributes 50% of the diet—we’re predicting a Anders Celsius served on the faculty in the 18th century. 30% decrease in maize production there. And of course, Fowler completed the course work for his doctorate, the population is going to rise. then left to work for NGOs and write. He even spent “In Ethiopia last year I saw a poor woman growing a year as a visiting professor in the Department of lathyrus, a drought-resistant legume. But it contains a Agronomy at the University of California, Davis. neurotoxin and if she eats enough to save her life in a Eventually, he returned to Uppsala to complete his severe drought situation, she’ll become paralyzed. So one doctorate. of the things we’re doing—I’m really committed to this In 1990 the Norwegian University of Life Sciences crop because it does have a great potential—is to fi nd a offered him a faculty position. He served as director low-toxin variant of lathyrus and get it into the hands of research in the Department for International of the breeders who can produce a variety that is both Environment and Development there before accepting drought-tolerant and low-toxin. his current position at the Global Crop Diversity Trust. “We lose diversity in seed banks all the time—sometimes At the university he met his wife, faculty member catastrophically like in Iraq and Afghanistan. Other times it’s a steady drip, drip, drip of extinction inside a seed Mette Wik, a noted agricultural economist who, bank because of mismanagement or equipment failure. A while currently on leave from the university, works typhoon took out the Philippine seed bank. A seed bank as a consultant to the U.N. Food and Agriculture after being covered with four feet of water and mud is Organization as well as to the Bill & Melinda Gates not a pretty sight. Foundation. “Down the road people will wake up to the fact that Their two sons, Martin (15) and Thomas (11) attend the seed vault will protect THE resource that is going an American school in Rome. Norwegian is their fi rst to allow us to cope with climate change in the future. language; English, their second. Both are studying Without it, how would we explain to future generations, Italian, and Martin, French. or even to ourselves a few years from now, that we just “If you know Norwegian, you also know Swedish didn’t think it was worth our time or trouble to conserve and Danish—they’re so interrelated,” Fowler says. “In this resource?” Norway, to graduate from high school, you have to be

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The town of Longyearbyen, Norway, near the seed vault

fl uent in a foreign language, and English doesn’t count. to go to a liberal arts college. I wouldn’t trade it for Children study English from kindergarten all the way anything.” through. Everybody in the country speaks English.” Fowler believes the lessons learned at Rhodes have Fowler says his time at Rhodes informed his entire wider applications. career. “In the U.S. we have the Department of Commerce, “I think being at Rhodes was really important to that the Department of Agriculture, the EPA—as if our process. It is a special place. When I was at Rhodes I problems in this world fi t neatly in those packages. was trying to cobble together a different kind of major Most of the problems in this world span those because I was stubborn. But the reality was there was institutions. How do you get those people to work so much learning that went on in the residence halls, together when they’re all in their little pigeonholes? I and the students didn’t really see many borders between think institutions like Rhodes and the Global Crop disciplines. We stayed up late talking about the lecture Diversity Trust teach us that we could possibly break in this class or that class. down those barriers and work together to solve many “There was a lot of struggle going on and I think the problems.” students were very keen, very smart, and challenged each other. There was an idea that you weren’t necessarily preparing yourself for some job. You were For more on Cary Fowler and his work, visit croptrust.org. trying to learn. People took seriously what it meant rhodes.edu SUMMER 2008 • RHODES { 19 } Sean Evins, left, and Rob Purple

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n India, Emily Donelson saw families napping, bathing and cooking meals on Ithe sidewalks of Kolkata. In the Big Apple, Merrill Lynch co-workers introduced Rob Kneip not as an intern but as their colleague. Rob Purple and Sean Evins learned about how Memphis FBI agents operate. And Emma O’Hagan discarded every theory she had about tackling poverty in Accra, Ghana. Through internships, fi ve Rhodes seniors faced myriad realities last summer, absorbing all of them into their growing body of knowledge. rhodes.edu SUMMERSUMMER 20082008 • RHODESR H O DES { 21 } Rob Purple and Sean Evins Aside from Gun Day, Purple enjoyed learning about For Rob Purple and Sean Evins, the fi rst day of a the many cases the bureau actually handles. new internship elicited a mutual response: “Holy____! “Working with a lot of big cases got me to see We’re in the FBI!” how branches interrelate and work together in the Purple, an international studies/economics major government,” Evins says. from Nashville, and Evins, a political science major and After working on those cases, he created a project native of Greenville, SC, were the fi rst two interns ever on mortgage fraud that his leader took to schools and in the Memphis FBI branch. businesses. The friends and fraternity brothers came across the In addition to a top-notch learning experience, the internships through Rhodes Career Services. They seniors enjoyed excellent offi ce relations. applied in May 2006, neither knowing the other “There was a mutual respect because everyone had was applying. Once they passed the fi rst step, they gone through, more or less, the same process and discovered the coincidence. clearance to get where they were,” Purple says. “After we were tentatively accepted through our essays Now, Purple and Evins are looking toward and recommendations, we got background checks, drug Washington, DC. Purple will work at a government tests and polygraphs in fall 2006,” Purple says. consulting fi rm, and Evins will pursue political strategy, For Purple and Evins, the 2½ -hour-long polygraph with hopes of practicing law eventually. was a memorable experience. Purple recalls, “You think “It’s interesting to compare what you fi rst think of exams are tough, and then you take a polygraph.” the FBI and then, after working there, what you really In January 2007, after learning they had passed, think of it,” Purple says. Purple and Evins waited for their background checks to Evins adds, “For me, it was very rewarding going to clear. Finally, they both received their clearances. the courthouse and seeing the cases unfold, to see the Purple and Evins were assigned to different squads, fruits of your labor.” each focusing on a specifi c aspect of FBI work. Now, Purple and Evins are no longer the new interns “I was assigned to White Collar Crime, which deals at the FBI. with embezzlement and fraud,” Evins says. “Also, I As Purple says, “The fact that they’ve hired seven worked with the Public Corruption task force, which more interns from Rhodes is a testament to the included working with the Tennessee Waltz statewide character of the college.” public corruption case. I worked a little with Secret Service and the U.S. Attorney’s offi ce, and I saw trials Emma O’Hagan and some of the pretrial work for different fraud cases.” Almost every night, after a day of interning for the Purple worked with “the uglier side of things” when Sovereign Global Mission (SGM) in the capital city he was assigned to the Violent Crime Squad, or of Accra, Ghana, Emma O’Hagan sat down with her Criminal Enterprise as it is also called. 60-year-old host grandmother and watched MTV. “That’s the nice way to put it,” he says, laughing. “I The international studies major and music minor was assigned under a specifi c special agent, and he had spent May 20 to Aug. 1, 2007, across the world, me examining cases, looking at evidence, building providing fi rst aid to children, teaching them English databases on seized evidence, tracing the original owner and fi nding foster parents for them, as well as working of the goods, and more or less following a couple of on grant proposals for SGM. cases that dealt with drug rings.” “SGM works with impoverished urban youth within Purple says that work in the FBI differs considerably the community, mostly in the worst slums in the city,” from the stereotypical police movie, with kicked-down O’Hagan says. doors and a small army of gun-wielding agents. Founded in 1992, SGM is a nondenominational, But for both seniors, the most memorable experience nongovernmental organization that ministers to could have been plucked from an FBI movie. children with a variety of needs. Some, for instance, “On Gun Day, we were able to participate in fi rearms can’t afford to go to school, or if they can, many training at the shooting range at Shelby Farms,” Purple become bored with it and leave. Others are orphaned explains. because of AIDS.

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Outside Accra, O’Hagan spent three weeks in a rural preconceived ideas out the window.” Ghana community teaching English and math to the Throughout her stay, O’Hagan lived with a family equivalent of a fi fth-grade class. that included a grandmother, an aunt and three “They hadn’t had a teacher in two weeks because the children. She fondly remembers time spent with her teacher was sick and there aren’t substitute teachers in host grandmother. Similarly, O’Hagan embraced rural Ghana,” O’Hagan explains. “There were about 30 Ghanaian culture, including local food. She explains students of varying levels. Some of the older kids barely that most of the food there contains an abundance of knew the alphabet.” oil because the country suffers from a water crisis; the O’Hagan, a Birmingham, AL, native, applied for people use palm oil instead. the internship through the Mertie W. Buckman “Everything is run by hydroelectric dams, so there’s International Internship Program in Rhodes’ also an energy crisis,” O’Hagan says. “You get electricity International Studies Department. Then Peacework, an for 24 or 48 hours, and then it’s off for 12.” international volunteer organization headquartered in When O’Hagan left Ghana, her host family hadn’t Blacksburg, VA, found an internship for her with SGM. had running water in nine months. Instead, a water Going into Accra, O’Hagan says, “I wanted to learn truck came to the house every couple of weeks. about the problems and the ways people were trying to Despite the lack of modern conveniences, O’Hagan fi x t h e m . ” meshed into the laid-back Ghanaian way of life. She She soon realized that the problems there “are says, “My favorite thing is that when you visit people, so multifaceted that I had to throw most of my you just show up at their house. They may have never rhodes.edu SUMMER 2008 • RHODES { 23 } met you before. They’ll sit down and talk to you for BURKS FOX JUSTIN hours. Also, Ghanaians accept that if a person is tardy, he or she simply has been giving time to someone else. People call it ‘African Time.’” During O’Hagan’s stay, Leigh Bonner ’07 lived in Ghana, interning for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). The friends traveled for a week in the northern part of the country, staying in a small village in a guest house, sleeping on a roof. Bonner took drumming lessons from musicians at The Arts Centre in Accra, and O’Hagan occasionally accompanied her. O’Hagan recalls, “There were people playing soccer, and the Gulf of Guinea was right there as we learned how to play Ghanaian-style drumming. I remember one time it started to rain, and the drummers were listening to Celine Dion.” O’Hagan says she hopes to teach at a similar school in India this fall.

Rob Kneip The day after Rob Kneip returned from a 2007 Rob Kneip, who worked in New York, at the Memphis Merrill Lynch international business Maymester in Belgium, he offi ce hopped another plane—this time to his home city of New York, where he would be introduced not as an intern but as a colleague. An international business major with a Chinese studies minor, Kneip had also studied in China for a semester. But from June to mid-August 2007, he left academics behind to enter the world of fi nance at Merrill Lynch. Rhodes helped him fi nd the internship. “I had talked with Matt Semko ’98 (Rhodes assistant director of Alumni Relations), and he made contact with Merrill Lynch,” Kneip says. When Kneip arrived at Merrill Lynch, he worked in the wealth management department, mainly in the Reserve Share Program. He brought with him a solid base in fi nance from Rhodes: “Prof. Pittman’s fi nance class and Prof. Planchon’s marketing class helped a lot and gave me confi dence going into the internship.” When he began, Merrill Lynch was busy opening more than 500 accounts for the Reserve Share Program. After conquering that mountain of documents, “It was all research and choosing mutual funds portfolios,” Kneip says. “I had to choose whether they would Emily Donelson at the Loreto School, Kolkata, India be stock-based or bond-based. Then, I had to

{ 24 } S U M M E R 2 0 0 8 • R H O D E S r h o d e s . e d u defend my choices to the team. As I grew, so did my Through its Rainbow Homes project, Loreto houses responsibilities—they gave me a lot more authority than and ministers to more than 100 girls who used to live on I expected.” the streets. Additionally, Loreto trains teachers for rural Looking back to his fi rst meeting with the portfolio schools and gives aid to other children and the elderly. managers, Kneip recalls that he didn’t say a single word. There are 1,000 students enrolled in the school. But when supervisors encouraged him to ask questions, The principal is Sister Cybil, a nun from Ireland who he spoke up, and eventually “found myself in a position has led Loreto for more than 40 years. She assigned of power.” Donelson the task of organizing the school library. In Kneip also grew to know his co-workers outside of addition, Donelson taught English to a group of 15-20 the offi ce. Rainbow children, aged two to four. “The line between colleague and intern blurred when Donelson lived at the school, wore traditional we started hanging out,” he says. “I got to know the clothing, craved Indian food and adapted to local ways. people even better outside of the offi ce.” Electricity and running water were accessible only two Kneip’s internship ended at the summer’s close, but hours a day, so she bathed in a bucket. In a country he keeps up to date with his Merrill Lynch colleagues. where temperatures reach 115 degrees, there was no air “I go to see them all the time when I’m in the city,” conditioning. At night, Donelson slept one room away he says. from the Rainbow children. Though he enjoyed the personal aspect of his The children, with their scarred backgrounds, internship, Kneip says he wants to pursue more touched Donelson profoundly. business-to-business interactions in his future career. “I probably learned as much from them as they learned from me, and the lessons I learned were incredibly Emily Donelson humbling,” she says. On her taxi ride from the Kolkata airport to the city, Donelson describes the children as “amazingly happy Emily Donelson spotted 12 people in an autorickshaw with what they have.” Once, she was helping a young driven by one man. Bicycles, small scooters, people on girl write an essay about three things she liked and foot, cows and chickens were all part of the traffi c. three things she didn’t like. The international studies major and religious studies “She said she liked her friend, and she liked a book, minor arrived in India in June 2007. For the next eight she liked the sunshine,” Donelson recalls. “She went weeks, she interned at the Loreto School in Kolkata, on and on and on, and she couldn’t think of a single one of six such schools in the city. (Kolkata, known as thing she didn’t like. This girl is an orphan who lived Calcutta for 300 years, was offi cially renamed in 2001 on the streets for the fi rst four years of her life, and she to refl ect the Bengali pronunciation.) couldn’t think of anything bad.” Like Emma O’Hagan, Donelson landed the Now, Donelson is preparing to expand her internship through Rhodes’ Buckman International international knowledge. This fall, she’ll pursue Internship Program. Peacewok made arrangements with a master’s degree in international relations at the the Loreto School. University of Chicago. Her time in Kolkata will, no “The fi rst time I heard that was an option, I knew that doubt, remain with her. was defi nitely where I wanted to go,” Donelson says. “We hear of people living on one or two dollars a day,” “Kolkata is a very different India from what you’d fi nd Donelson says, “but we don’t necessarily know about in Delhi or other cities with higher economic growth.” people who raise their families on the street in front of you.” The Loreto School aims to address socioeconomic The internship, she says, “put a face to every fi gure.” and educational problems, most of which begin with At the Loreto School, each face was that of a girl with poverty. The school has grown tremendously since it a past—but also a girl with a future. was established in 1842 by the Loreto Sisters, a religious order founded in 1609 by Englishwoman Mary Ward. “Half the students pay tuition, and the other half come from families that can’t afford to send their children to a private school,” Donelson says. rhodes.edu SUMMER 2008 • RHODES { 25 } A Focus on Important Things

By Daney Daniel Kepple JUSTIN FOX BURKS FOX JUSTIN ’ve always thought that retiring in the area where you have lived and worked would be “I a real luxury,” says Carol Ekstrom. But after 34 years at Rhodes, it turns out she won’t be doing that at all. Her husband Peter, former chair of the Anthropology/Sociology Department who retired last year, has a low tolerance for hot weather, so the couple decided long ago that they would end up in Michigan. It’s where they’ve spent many summers and have several good friends. Still, she says, “It will be hard to let go.” There’s a great deal to let go of, for Carol Ekstrom has spent her career building bridges, programs and relationships at Rhodes. Not surprisingly, she has witnessed many changes. One that gratifi es her is the college’s recent embrace of experiential learning, a pedagogy in which she has always been involved. In the days of the three-term academic calendar, for 10 years she and Peter took students to study “rocks and ruins” in the Southwest. She then taught coral reef ecology in Honduras for another 10 years. And, of course, technology has changed, bringing a major impact on “the ease with which we do things. We can make our own maps with GIS (Geographic Carol Ekstrom Information Systems) and get anything else we need online.” The fi rst woman to teach science at the college, Today, its offerings include four courses and supporting Ekstrom admits her entrance wasn’t a traditional one. labs—Earth Systems Science, Evolution of the Earth, Her husband began his tenure in 1974. Students on Global Environmental Change and Environmental the search committee that recruited him noticed his Geology—plus a semester-long research opportunity undergraduate degree in geology and inquired whether and an internship. And that’s been just part of her job. he could teach classes in that discipline as well. He In 1986, she began to think about creating a minor in responded, “No, but I know someone who can.” His Earth Systems Science, a program that launched three wife did just that, beginning in January 1975. years later. Ekstrom says that her career at Rhodes divides rather “Ours was one of the early programs although it’s the neatly into three phases. approach most colleges take today,” she says. Her early years on campus were spent building a She has been heavily involved in trying to develop an geology program. In the beginning she taught only one Environmental Studies program to augment the Rhodes course and gradually increased the offerings. Ekstrom curriculum. That was phase two. has been the lone instructor in the geology program Phase three might be termed the outreach era, which that is housed within the Department of Physics. began when she heard something at a meeting of

{ 26 } S U M M E R 2 0 0 8 • R H O D E S r h o d e s . e d u the neighboring Vollintine Evergreen Community (ACS) conference at Davidson College. Association in 2000. “At the Sustainable Campus Development Clinic “The county was applying for an EPA grant to we realized that we worked very well as a team, so we study water quality in Cypress Creek, which runs decided to establish a committee to continue cross- just north of the Rhodes campus,” she recalls. “It campus communication about sustainable practices,” was to be a cooperative program including three Ekstrom recalls. “In the van on the way back from higher-ed institutions and three city schools. They the meeting we decided to call ourselves the Rhodes included the University of Memphis, LeMoyne-Owen Planning Cooperative, the RPC, making sure not to and Christian Brothers, but not Rhodes. I thought, mention the word ‘green’ so we wouldn’t be labeled ‘Cypress Creek is in our area!’ and called the grant ‘tree huggers.’” writer. She wrote us in. I fought hard to get to work Ekstrom then became the Rhodes ACS Environmental with Cypress Middle School.” Fellow for three years. She led the drive to institutionalize Ekstrom went on to form close relationships with the the committee. In 2001,the Environmental Planning science teachers at Cypress. When the EPA funding for Cooperative (EPC), as it is now known, was made an the Cypress Creek project lapsed, she wasted no time offi cial administrative committee with a budget and a securing a grant from the Associated Colleges of the mission statement. The EPC was the catalyst for such South to fund SWEEP (Storm Water Environmental popular campus fi xtures as the recycling project and the Education Project). When the college established the bike program that provides students free two-wheeled, Rhodes Learning Corridor with funding from the U.S. cross-campus transportation. Department of Education and, later, from the U.S. Late last year Rhodes joined forces with more than Department of Housing and Urban Developement, 500 other institutions of higher education in an effort SWEEP was incorporated into it. to reduce the carbon footprints of campuses all over Ekstrom was named coordinator for the Learning the country. The effort is known as the Presidents’ Corridor, a Rhodes partnership with nearby Climate Commitment, and today, says Ekstrom, neighborhoods, public schools and other community “Under the able leadership of Tracy Adkisson (associate and educational organizations that provides learning director of Physical Plant), the EPC has stepped opportunities for Rhodes students as well as for those in forward to oversee this effort.” Rhodes has made the immediate community. signifi cant progress in this area in a short time, thanks In that position she has developed 20 programs that in large measure to data gathered by the students in provide opportunities for Rhodes students to work in Ekstrom’s Geology 214 class. the community. Ekstrom’s Learning Corridor contract runs through Ekstrom is proud of two more involvements at July, and in May she still had big plans: “I want to start Rhodes, both of which began about 10 years ago. a larger solar energy project before I leave,” she said, The GIS program was initiated by a small group of referring to the one her students accomplished during faculty including Steve Ceccoli, the P.K. Seidman spring semester. Distinguished Professor of Political Economy; both That interest isn’t likely to lapse when she departs Ekstroms; David Kesler, Biology; and Mike Kirby, the Rhodes. After an extended trip to Argentina she Plough Professor of Urban Studies. These pioneers plans to get involved as a volunteer in environmental climbed the steep learning curve to implement the education in the local Michigan schools. complex software, trained any other faculty who were “In Michigan there is so much snow (an average willing and gradually convinced others of its wide 270 inches a year) that I will try wind generation on utility as a teaching and demonstration tool. Lake Superior instead of solar energy,” she says. “I “It was made for analyzing and displaying data,” think of retirement as time off from multitasking, an Ekstrom says. “That was such a great collaborative opportunity to focus on a few important things.” effort. It was very satisfying to be involved in it.”

Another such effort arose when Ekstrom and Kesler For more on the Rhodes Learning Corridor, visit accompanied two students and comptroller Mac rhodes.edu/academics/1120.asp McWhirter to an Associated Colleges of the South rhodes.edu SUMMER 2008 • RHODES { 27 } Summer Reading Photography by Justin Fox Burks

Deseree Meyer Brittingham Assistant Professor of Physics onfession #1: I didn’t always know I wanted to be a nuclear Cphysicist, and I began my undergraduate years as an English major. Confession #2: I love to read. Not in that “of course all academics love to read” way, but in the passionately seeking, desperately needing, head-over-heels way. Confession #3: Science is neat (I really enjoy being a physicist), but in my free time only about one quarter of the books I read are nonfi ction and the rest are novels. As for summer reading recommendations, I’ve selected three novels and two popular physics books. Though I don’t normally read science fi ction, The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger intrigued me. It describes the exhilaration of time travel and exploration while also pointing out how those achievements can affect important family relationships. At times, the main character just starts to evaporate. He reappears in the midst Deseree Meyer Brittingham of his ordinary life, fresh from a new adventure with stories and trinkets that directions as he tries to decide what path his life should can’t possibly compensate for the time take. The confl icts between what he wants to do, what away from home. It put the idea of time travel into a he thinks he should do, what he was brought up to new light for me, and it’s not your typical futuristic do, what his family thinks he should do and what he sci-fi book. ultimately winds up doing make for a very heartfelt I highly recommend The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri. account of being a part of—and between—two very In this book, Gogol is often pulled in many different different cultures.

{ 28 } S U M M E R 2 0 0 8 • R H O D E S r h o d e s . e d u When I moved to Memphis, I began reading books Shadrack Nasong’o featuring the South. I came across Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt. I enjoy the Assistant Professor of International colorful characters and lush settings in this murder Studies mystery set in Savannah, GA. The intertwined For me, the joy of summer reading is the freedom to mysteries come together in captivating ways, and I shift from perusing academic tomes to fi ction, especially couldn’t put it down. the thriller variety. One such thriller I have thoroughly The thing I love most about physics is its elegance. enjoyed is Jeffrey Archer’s Honor Among Thieves, set in Physics is such a beautiful fi eld that explores the spring 1994. As Bill Clinton settles into the White House intricacies and complexities of our world. At the and focuses on his domestic policy agenda, Saddam end of the day, physicists work to explain these Hussein hatches an improbable plot to steal America’s complexities in simple, concise ways. I fi rmly believe most treasured historical document, the Declaration of that scientifi c literacy is just as important as any Independence, and destroy it before the world’s news other in defi ning what it means to be an educated person. Science and technology impact so much of our everyday life that it’s really a shame not to be at least a little curious about how things work. My last two recommendations are physics recommendations, specifi cally books that are easy to understand and aren’t scary. (Keep an open mind—physics doesn’t have to be diffi cult.) Since nuclear physics is near and dear to my heart, I recommend Nucleus: A Trip into the Heart of Matter by Ray Mackintosh, et al. This book is beautifully illustrated and is a great introduction to the atomic nucleus. It talks about the structure of the nucleus and applications of nuclear physics, including power, medicine and fusion in the sun. It’s my favorite popular physics book. For those of you looking for something a little more whimsical, I recommend The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics by Gary Zukav. The lofty goal of the author is to explain modern physics and quantum mechanics without using any math. In the process, the author draws parallels between modern physics and eastern religions. I read it in high school and plan to reread it this summer. It’s a fun book, and it will give you a fl avor of the kinds of problems that modern day physicists try to tackle.

Shadrack Nasong’o rhodes.edu SUMMER 2008 • RHODES { 29 } media on July 4 to avenge his ouster from Kuwait. Using is George Lamming’s In the Castle of My Skin, a tens of millions of dollars, Saddam weaves an intricate Caribbean classic novel that is partly autobiographical. web of treachery, deceit, corruption and terror and Oscillating between allegory and realism, and manages to steal the historical document. As the clock employing both fi rst- and third-person narratives, the ticks decisively toward July 4, two unlikely agents are author credibly shows how Boy G, the main character, detailed to stop Saddam’s diabolical plot and retrieve the comes of age and discovers how his political, economic historical document—Scott Bradley, a Yale law professor and sociocultural environment has shaped his working undercover for the CIA, and Hannah Kopec, a personality. Implicit in the author’s deliberate choice Mossad operative who has lost so much in her life, she not to give the main character a name is the message no longer trusts anyone nor fears anything. This action- that the character is culturally universal, or at least packed, suspense-fi lled saga spans four continents and climaxes in a dramatic multiple twist that is bound to leave the reader breathless. For readers looking for a “serious” read in this era of the global war on terror, I recommend Mahmood Mamdani’s provocative and lucidly written Good Muslim, Bad Muslim. The book focuses on political Islam, tracing the rise and emergence of its terrorist strategy to Cold War dynamics—from Indochina through Afghanistan to Iraq. Although penned by an academic, the book is written for readers who are ready to have their conventional wisdom challenged and, in the process, gain a deeper understanding of one of the most contentious issues of our time. Speaking of serious reading, why have the most diabolical dictators strutted the world stage with abandon for so long and hobnobbed with the mighty and powerful in the most liberal and democratic societies? The answer is provided by Michela Wrong in her book, In The Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz. Set in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire), the book focuses on Zaire’s President Mobutu. The author weaves a narrative that details a network of bilateral and multilateral actors that abetted and benefi ted from Mobutu’s 32-year reign and plunder of the country. Her name may be Wrong, but the author is right on the money. For lovers of biographies, two recommendations are in order. First Bill Short

{ 30 } S U M M E R 2 0 0 8 • R H O D E S r h o d e s . e d u emblematic of the entire Caribbean. Indeed, people former contributing editor at New York. It’s about interested in knowing who they are and how they three singers/songwriters from the 1960s and came to be what they are will fi nd something of value 1970s—Carole King, Joni Mitchell and Carly Simon. in this novel. Half the book is a collective biography, the other half My second recommendation in this genre is Long is gossip (after all, summer reading should be fun). It Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela, one of the covers breakups to breakdowns, all of which may or foremost political leaders and moral icons of the may not have informed their work. Maybe it’s one of last century. For those interested in understanding those books you should read at the hair salon, but it the stuff that legends are made of, let Nelson helped me sort out Joni Mitchell. All three encapsulate Mandela take your hand and walk you through a lot of memories for people my age. The book may the momentous journey of his life, which, as the inspire you to get out your CDs and start listening Washington Post avers, is “one of the most remarkable again, especially if you’re not familiar with some of lives of the 20th century.” the music mentioned in the book. A little farther back in history, fun came in heavy doses in the 1920s with the Algonquin Round Table, the group of New York writers, critics and actors who Bill Short ’71 met every day for lunch at the Algonquin Hotel. The Algonquin Wits, edited by Robert E. Drennan, is a light Coordinator of Public Services read based on the group’s individual memoirs. There’s The Paul Barret Jr. Library a wonderful 55-minute documentary about the Round To me, summer reading is something that is playful, Table called “The Ten-Year Lunch.” entertaining and lighthearted. I work with academia, so Working as I do around people who should read I look forward to having something fun to read. Among books, but don’t read the ones they should be reading, the books I’m suggesting, some are some current titles, I recommend How To Talk About Books You Haven’t others look back to a time when reading for pleasure Read by Pierre Bayard, a psychoanalyst and professor and wit were highly regarded matters. of French literature at the University of Paris. The The Star Machine by Jeanine Basinger, professor author is playful about this: When you meet an author of fi lm studies at Wesleyan University, Middletown, and it’s presumed that you’ve read his/her work, but CT, deals with the phenomenon of the motion you haven’t, you can talk in generalities—and always picture industry’s studio system from the 1920s remember to praise the work. Saving face, keeping through the 1950s. I’m a fairly frequent viewer of your job—these are little tactics he recommends. The the Turner Classic Movies TV channel and I think I real purpose of the book is to get you interested in know the fi lm canon of these years pretty well. Yet, reading and more important, thinking about what authors continually fi nd some lost or minor fi lm that you’re reading and how you can respond to it, and how intrigues me and makes me want to know a little bit you may have different responses to a work every time more about a performer. Basinger writes about people you read it. like Tyrone Power, Ann Sheridan, Deanna Durbin, In that vein, British novelist and essayist Nick Hornby Irene Dunne, Lana Turner—“normal” people who usually writes about men in situations that challenge were plucked from obscurity, in some cases. Basinger them and how they respond to those challenges. His goes through the process of how studios knew only novels made into fi lm include “Fever Pitch,” “High too well how to transform someone into a product, Fidelity,” “About a Boy.” But his book Housekeeping vs. a commodity. The book also discusses people who the Dirt is actually an accumulation of book reviews defected, who threw over the traces and left the he’s written for Believer magazine in San Francisco. business, saying, “I’m glad you like me, but I don’t It’s interesting to see how he looks at making reading want any more of it.” choices. He really talks to you. A similar book, and certainly not an academic one, is Girls Like Us by Sheila Weller, senior contributing See and hear Bill Short recommend other books editor at Glamour, contributor to Vanity Fair and a for summer reading at rhodes.edu/magazine rhodes.edu SUMMER 2008 • RHODES { 31 } AlumniClass Notes News From the Alumni Relations Offi ce Dear Alumnus/a, Greetings from the Alumni Relations Offi ce! •Donate frequent fl ier miles—You can help students This column provides a couple of announcements, take advantage of opportunities to travel to academic makes one request and showcases opportunities through conferences, conduct research or study abroad by which alumni/ae may become involved in remarkable donating frequent fl ier miles. Contact the Alumni learning experiences. Relations Offi ce [email protected], 901-843-3845, to Educational Program Opportunities learn how to help. Through the Meeman Center for Lifelong Learning, By the time you receive this issue of Rhodes magazine, we are building a fi rst-class travel program. For 2009, I will have served fi ve years on the staff. Within that the lineup includes trips to Antarctica, India, Peru and span of time, I have now seen an entire cycle of classes Scotland, with another possibility under development. returning to campus for their reunions. Remaining trips for this calendar year include Quebec in September and Vienna for New Year’s Eve. Alumni/ae and parents of students are welcome to join Rhodes to Travel programs. For further information, please call the Meeman Center, 901-843-3965, or visit the Web site at rhodes.edu/academics/1278.asp and click on the “Rhodes to Travel” link. Many Memphis alumni are aware of the fi ne classes offered through the Meeman Center. A routine check of the course offerings on this same Web site is worth your time. Over the course of the 2008-09 academic year, Dan Cullen, associate professor of political science, will conduct seminars for alumni/ae in locations where Rhodes Chapters exist. The seminar, “Understanding Bud Richey Justice, Equality and Liberty, or, Why Is the Supreme Court Interpreting the Rules of Professional Golf?” You have been so good in embracing me as the is a two-hour program that will be offered in 15-17 college’s alumni director. Beyond thanking you for all communities. that you do to help Rhodes advance, I thank you for Announcements your support and friendship. In the “Save the Date” category, mark your calendars I look forward to beginning the cycle again. for the following: •Homecoming/Reunion Weekend ’08 will be held Best regards, Oct. 3-5, 2008. •The 40 th anniversary of the Black Student Bud Richey Association’s founding will be celebrated with an Associate Vice President and alumni/ae weekend April 17-19, 2009. Director of Alumni Relations Requests •Recruit students—Summer is a period of high activity for campus visits by rising high school seniors and their families. Anything you can do to speak about your Rhodes experience to friends or family members who are making college decisions will be helpful.

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By Rachel L. Stinson ’08 Helen Swartzfager Ridley is professor emerita of Rhodes College political science and dean of The Alumni Association the College of Humanities President and Social Sciences at Charitable Marcus Kimbrough ’90 Kennesaw State University. Memphis She has four sons, eight Annuity: grandchildren (seven boys and one girl) and one great- The Gift grandchild. Helen spends 1940 time on her 80-ft. houseboat In March 2007, Priscilla That Keeps at Lake Allatoona and at her Shumaker Heard was named condo on Okaloosa Island, a Music Teachers National Giving FL. Association Foundation fellow at the MTNA Betty Sue Wilcox Shaw is convention in Toronto. She a committed community was also recently inducted volunteer: She is an AARP into the Gilewitz Hall of tax-aide training specialist The charitable gift annuity is an increasingly popular Fame by the University of for Michigan; serves on the way to make a planned gift to Rhodes while enjoying Mary Hardin-Baylor in AARP tax-aide National Tax fi xed income for life and possible tax benefi ts. In Belton, TX. Priscilla has Training Committee; is state exchange for a contribution of $10,000 or more, in taught piano privately for 60 treasurer for the Michigan cash or appreciated stock, Rhodes can offer you a fi xed years in the Belton area and Association of Retired School annual payment for life, based on your contribution, was a professor of music at Personnel; and is secretary for your age and the current annuity rates established by Temple College for 25 years. the local Michigan Education the American Council on Gift Annuities. Association-Retired. She also serves on the IRS Test Annuity rates are subject to change, but the amount 1953 Development Team for of your lifetime annual payment is determined at 55th Reunion National Volunteer Tax the time the charitable gift annuity is funded. Your Homecoming: Oct. 3-4 Preparer Certifi cation and annual payment will never change and will continue Mary Nell Wendt Hardin the audit committee for Flint regardless of how long you live. writes, “Estes Park is a Presbyterian Church. In her destination for thousands free time, Betty plays bridge. Age Annuity Rate each year to Rocky 70 ...... 6.1% Mountain National Park. I 75 ...... 6.7% would be pleased to hear 1958 80 ...... 7.6% from alums when they visit. I 50th Reunion 85 ...... 8.9% am involved with various Homecoming: Oct. 3-4 90 & over ...... 10.5% charitable/nonprofi ts, our Reporter: Lorraine Rayburn library and, of course, my Abernathy You may establish a charitable gift annuity for you fi ve teenage grandchildren.” 30 Willway Ave. and your spouse or any other loved one, but the René Lemarchand is Richmond, VA 23226 annuity rates will be slightly lower for two people. For retired but still active in 804-353-4202 additional information, please contact: professional organizations [email protected] (African Studies Association, In October this sterling Roberta Bartow Matthews Middle Eastern Studies). class of 1958 will celebrate Director of Planned Giving His next book, Confl ict in our golden anniversary, with 901-843-3919 or 800-264-5969 Central Africa, is coming out many of us heading back to rhodes.edu/plannedgiving in February (University of the campus to enjoy being Pennsylvania Press). He is together. also working on an edited Marion Forsythe Miebaum volume titled Forgotten in Ripley, TN, has added Genocides while living part some serious physical activity of the year in Tunisia and to her busy schedule. She learning Arabic. “pumps iron” three times rhodes.edu SUMMER 2008 • RHODES { 33 } Class Notes a week, walks 5Ks and is had already scheduled a says Richard Dortch in Jones,” who at age 92 is training for a half marathon Hawaiian cruise in October Jackson, from considering still on top of his game this summer. She said that during our reunion, but they being my fi ctional poet and looking forward to she gets lots of trophies due send their best wishes to old laureate for state of our reunion. Mike was to there being few in her age friends. Mississippi. Instead he says, recognized in April, the 40th group! Karen and Robert “I’m now retired after 42 anniversary of Martin Luther Jettie Bowen and wife Templeton in Virginia Beach, years in the lawyering trade. King’s death in Memphis, as Glenda enjoy family and VA, have been doing some Friends occasionally ask what one of Memphis’ 10 Civil some traveling. He had heard kitchen remodeling and I’m doing to stay busy. The Rights Pioneers in an article from Jimmy Breazeale, who are starting a new business. answer, I’m proud to say, is in Memphis magazine. Mike with wife Peggy has retired They joined the Bowens on a nothing. I have discovered and his law fi rm represented from the real estate business cruise not too long ago. that there is no requirement Dr. King in court the day in California to Sardis, MS. Tom Reed writes from to be busy. To the contrary, King was assassinated. He is enjoying golf now. Richmond, KY, that he my goal in retirement is to Once again Kip and Also enjoying golf, completed his 37th year as give new meaning to the Louis Zbinden fl ew off to including local tournaments, professor of criminal justice concept of worthless. In Zambia from January till is Betty Russell in Piggott, and police studies at Eastern pursuit of this goal, there are March, where Louis taught AR. Her father, who lives Kentucky University this books to be read, music to theological students at Justo with her, will turn 100 this spring. He plans to retire: 1. be enjoyed, grandchildren Mwale Theological College fall. when he is either physically seeking a playmate, trips and Kip taught “remedial Nancy Carter Burnidge or mentally unable to to be taken, fi sh to be English with a Southern sent along a great catch-up continue working, or 2. has a caught, civic duties to be accent.” The median age letter. A longtime resident better career alternative. performed, church tasks to there is 38, so Lou’s turning of Elgin, IL, Nancy raised From chilly Rochester, be undertaken and friends to 72 while there was cause a family (son and daughter), MN, comes word from enjoy. I like to tell lies about for consternation, as well as taught school, did volunteer Arnold and Linda Hardesty how successful I’ve been.” I celebration. Their son and work and 10 years ago took Schroeter that Arnold retired like his attitude, don’t you? his family joined them, and a course for certifi cation as a dermatologist at Mayo Another member of the they went on safari. They in massage therapy, which Clinic Jan. 31 and began Southwestern track team are looking forward to the she still does part time. working half time Feb. 6. He with Richard was Bob Booth, 50th reunion. Says Kip: “I She enjoys traveling (and was chair of the Dermatology who will retire from banking remember the big crowd shares my enthusiasm for Department at Wright in 2009 after 50 years, with we had at the 45th because Elderhostels), and visits her State University School of some of his experience in everyone was afraid they daughter and twin toddlers Medicine for eight years, Baton Rouge, Nashville and might not make it to 50!” in Buffalo, NY, as well as her but the rest of his career NYC, but most in Memphis. Jane Dean Sohm checked son in Denver. She keeps up has been spent at Mayo. He is co-authoring, with in with the interesting with old Rhodes friends like Linda enjoys gardening but Dr. Ed Morler, a book called history that Dr. Tuthill put Barbara McClaren Matthaei, fi nds Minnesota’s season Good People/Bad Credit. “I her (a music student of Lois Mary Jane Smalley Roberts, a bit short. Their travels, hope to race Mike Cody Maer) on the preparatory Jane Barr Stump-Green and with family or to medical in a 100-foot race at the faculty at the School of Anne Underwood ’59. meetings, have included trips reunion. If he is mending Music after graduation and This is by way of old, to China, Egypt and Israel. from a broken hip, I might she taught there for 30 years. but happy, news: Denton They have four children, just beat him for the fi rst She is the widow of Dr. J.J. McLellan and Mary Allie three in the Midwest and one time in my life. That will Sohm, who was a young Baldwin ‘61 married July in California. Arnold, who give me a lifetime won/loss Memphis doctor when she 28, 2007, at Idlewild enjoys woodworking and record against him of 1/123, was a student at Cumberland Presbyterian Church in photography, worked on their therefore qualifying me for College in Lebanon, TN, so Memphis, where Denton cabin on a lake in northern the Rhodes Athletic Hall of they were married and she serves part time as parish Minnesota. Fame!” transferred to Southwestern. associate, and Mary Allie Mary Ann Breese Brendel Might as well round out She enjoyed other music is on the session and wrote from Britain that the track folks with news students such as Neville sings in the chancel choir. they were there for an April from Mike Cody. He walks Frierson Bryan and Marion Congratulations! wedding and would then several times a week in Forsythe Miebaum. She is Mike Ivy, a possible travel with friends for three Overton Park with “our affi liated with Evergreen candidate for a knee weeks. friend Jameson Jones, still Presbyterian Church. replacement, and wife Jane Modesty prevents him, known to all of us as Dean Having moved to Vero

{ 34 } S U M M E R 2 0 0 8 • R H O D E S r h o d e s . e d u Beach, FL, three years ago and challenges I’ve had and Hopkins Foreign Service anniversaries this year. and loving condo living are the contributions I’ve been Graduate School. Danny and Karen Boyce Jack and Jane Alexander able to make. Our class has From Lubbock, TX, we Logan ’60 encourage folks Biedenharn ’59. Jack is still certainly lived through a hear from Dolly Cooke Green, to contact them about their working full time as a tennis transformative period in our where she and her husband work with their Synod’s pro at the Orchid Island nation’s history.” retired to be near one of water purifi cation project, Tennis Club and their son, Celebrating their 50th their three daughters (“as Living Waters for the World. Joe, is head tennis pro at wedding anniversary this we age”). They, like the They recently returned from another club in Vero. Last year, Billy ’57 and Sue Templetons, are dealing with a week in Haiti and plan November, Jack and Joe Robinson McLean have kitchen remodeling and its to continue this mission played in a national father- planned a Grand Circle river mess. Dolly is retired from involvement. son super senior doubles cruise from Amsterdam to teaching special education, San Andrews Robertson tournament. Jack had both Vienna. Sue is still enjoying and her husband is a retired loves the travel afforded by knees replaced in May more than 25 years in real Episcopal priest. her fl ight attendant job, and 2007 and obviously made estate and will stick with I have no horn to toot. enjoys life with husband Bill. a remarkable recovery. Jane it as long as it’s fun. Billy I retired from teaching And, kudos to Bates reports that he still paints owns a company, Dauphin kindergarten in Midlothian, “Calendar Girl” Peacock and draws fairly often, Environmental Equipment, a Richmond suburb, after Toone (ask her!) for many plays golf as much as he where son Nolan ’89 works 35 years. My husband, art achievements, including can, and most of all enjoys full time. They were on Jack Abernathy, was a a watercolor/photography spending time with their two campus last fall for Billy’s publicist and writer with show with son Edwin and for granddaughters who live in 50th reunion, where he an advertising agency here. winning the poster contest Vero. The Biedenharns were received the award for He died in 1998. We have for the annual Wilmington thrilled last October to see Volunteer of the Year. three daughters spread Art Show. Bates also reports the changes to the Rhodes Martha Sigler Guthrie, over creation (Charlotte, recent contact with Joan campus when they were there back at home in Metairie, Jacksonville, Hoboken), Waggoner Bacchus. for Jack’s induction into LA, after the destruction of who thankfully got their the Rhodes Athletic Hall of Hurricane Katrina, has been dad’s brains and writing Fame. doing some traveling: China, skills. I retired six years 1961 Paul Thompson writes Caribbean, Palm Beach, New ago and thoroughly enjoy Reporter: Sam Drash from Massachusetts that York and elsewhere. The New taking classes at the Virginia 4541 Solomon Seal Tr. he continues ministerial Orleans Academy of Fine Museum (lecture, not studio), Chattanooga, TN 37415 duties as part-time associate Art is back in session, and the Virginia Historical 423-875-3580 at St. Peter’s in Osterville she is teaching an advanced Society, at a seniors program [email protected] and as priest at St. Andrew’s watercolor class, as well as an called The Shepherd’s Center, Bob Barret retired from a by the Sea summer chapel oil painting class. She plans and going on Elderhostel 30-year teaching career at the in Hyannis Port. Paul has to join us for the 50th. trips, visiting children, University of North Carolina a deep interest in Scottish Lew Murray, along with grandchildren (two of them), at Charlotte. He continues clans (his is Clan MacTavish/ wife of 40 years, Giorgina, family and old friends. I also to be active in his practice of Thompson) and was honored divides time between Chevy enjoy hearing from you folks clinical psychology. His essay to be asked by the chief Chase, MD, and Italy and gratefully appreciate “I Believe in Integrity” can of his clan to serve as clan (home for Giorgina.). Lew’s receiving your news to pass be heard on NPR’s Web site, chaplain. In July 2009 he career in the foreign service on. Would I make up stuff if npr.org. Once you reach the will go to Scotland for “The took him to Italy, Mexico, you didn’t send news along? site, click on “This I Believe.” Gathering,” a homecoming Dominican Republic, France, Guess! Then go to the bottom of of sorts. He and wife Bunny Tunisia, Venezuela, Jamaica that page and click on “More have another commitment and fi nally, Australia. Essays.” On the new page, so won’t be with us for the The Murrays have three 1959 scroll down to “Living with 50th, but he wrote, “I am children and fi ve “unusually Reporter: Sara Jean Integrity.” You will see a grateful to Rhodes for the bright, advanced, lovely (Shiney) Jackson picture of Bob to the left of education I received and the grandchildren.” At the [email protected] his article. Click the title that friends made. I had no idea reunion you must ask Lew Marguerite Livingston reads “Listen: Bob Barret when I graduated where my how he parlayed half a dozen Stone and husband Scott Reads His Essay.” You will life’s journey would take me. words of Italian, Spanish and live in Decatur, AL, and are fi nd it is a very interesting and Looking back on it now, I am French into a U. of Bologna, among others of our class honest article. You can also grateful for the adventures Italy, scholarship from Johns celebrating 50-year wedding click on “Print” to get a copy. rhodes.edu SUMMER 2008 • RHODES { 35 } Class Notes Cynthia and Edwina Drash ’66 had two Christians,” focused on the and vice president.” Bringle are helping as interesting trips this spring. fi ction of Lewis and several Bill Reed has asked if any auctioneer and spotter for We drove to Atlanta for of his Christian friends: of our classmates recall civil two fundraising auctions Grandparents Day at our J.R.R. Tolkien, Dorothy L. rights activities on campus in Asheville, NC, in June. granddaughter’s school. Sayers and Charles Williams. when we were students. Edwina attended a Sheep Emma (7) is in the second Ed says it is powerful stuff, Since it was 40 years ago and Wool Festival in May, grade. Her brother Billy and the students seemed this year that Dr. Martin and in July will teach at the is four years old. Their to enjoy it. However, Ed Luther King was killed, Penland School of Crafts. parents are Genny and says the real pleasure is his. Bill is trying to assemble Cynthia’s DVD, produced Wayne Drash. Wayne is After all, the purpose of recollections for his children by the National Council on the coordinator of CNN the university is to educate and grandchildren dealing Education for the Ceramic Internet. We celebrated the faculty, right? Last with how things were when Arts, is out and has been Ginny’s birthday while September, Ed and Tricia we were growing up. well received. She will we were there. Two weeks traveled to a conference Bob Taylor and his wife teach in North Carolina later, we fl ew to see our son, on science and religion Barbara are celebrating the in September, and in Mike Drash ’91, for his 39th in Oxford, England. Ed birth of their fi rst grandchild, October will do a workshop birthday. He is the wine presented a paper on “The a beautiful little girl. Boy, for The Clayworkers maker for Luna Winery. He Personal Matrix,” which are they going to have fun Guild of Illinois. Cynthia and his wife Tracy have a dealt with ideas about how spoiling her! Their son now has a Web site: darling daughter, Tallulah, God acts in the world as Ryan and his wife Allison cynthiabringlepottery.com who will turn two in July. understood by science. are the proud parents. They John Curlin retired as an Speaking of birthdays, on Their son, Harris, and his live in Atlanta, where Ryan OB/GYN about 2½ years April 4, 1968, Ginny’s wife Casey had their fi rst was recently designated as a ago. Since then, he and birthday, we went out to eat child in February. He is director with the accounting his wife Leeba sold their at a nonintegrated restaurant Edward Owen Henderson, fi rm Alveraz and Marseau. home in Jackson, built a in Montgomery, AL. While and they are calling him Bob and Barbara live in new one in Humboldt and there, we heard the news Owen. Harris is fi nishing Corbin, KY. I imagine they purchased a second home that Dr. Martin Luke King his second year of law school may have to purchase some in Panama City, Panama, had been killed in Memphis. at the University of Georgia. new tires this year since I am where they spend six Needless to say, that was a Before law school, Harris sure they will start visiting months of the year. Their very tense time as I am sure tried to break into the movie Atlanta quite often. On a daughter, son-in-law and all of us remember. business and was involved visit in April, they took a few fi ve grandchildren live in Shortly after Christmas, with two fi lms shown last things Ryan had as a baby. I Panama. They have a total Jerry Duncan and his year at the Sundance Film wonder how they thought of of two daughters and fi ve wife Martha took Mary Festival: “Low and Behold,” doing that. I’m sure none of sons, plus 23 grandchildren. Johnson, the president of about post-Katrina New us ever has! John is involved in a prayer the Tennessee Chapter of Orleans, and “The Great In January of this year, ministry that involves sites the Nature Conservancy, to World of Sound,” about the Jack Thompson underwent in Panama, Guatemala, El Italy for the wedding of a music industry. two operations. One was to Salvador and Mexico. One medical colleague. Jerry said Kathleen O’Leary says, “As remove a nodule on his lung, of their sons is in Iraq at it was a great trip, but he you might know, I am active a pseudo tumor, and a mass the present time and two told me that you had better in Democratic politics. I in his thyroid gland. In both others are in the Army, be ready for a big difference have been on the Platform cases, neither was malignant. both having served tours in American money and the Committee several times Jack’s thyroid had to be in Iraq. John had a radical Euro if you travel to Europe. and have gone to all the removed because of the size prostatectomy in April and Ed Henderson is still conventions, including the of the growth on it. He is is learning to deal with the working, teaching at LSU national convention in 1996 doing well now and is still postoperative complications and fi nishing his 43rd at Chicago. This year, at our practicing law in Nashville. of that procedure. Once they year there. He says that district convention, I was Starting in September, Jack receive the results of a PSA he is having more fun honored when they elected and his wife Emma Young test by June, John and Leeba than ever. He has shed me the Iowa elector from Thompson will become will know more about his all of his administrative the district. So, I will gather home-school teachers for prognosis. I would ask that responsibilities and is free to with six other electors at fi ve of their grandchildren all of us keep them in our concentrate on his teaching. the Iowa State Capitol in in Nashville. Emma will prayers. His most recent course, December to cast the fi nal teach home enrichment Sam and Ginny Taylor “C.S. Lewis and the Oxford Iowa vote for U.S. president to the children, including

{ 36 } S U M M E R 2 0 0 8 • R H O D E S r h o d e s . e d u such things as cooking, frequently that each Dan says. “I am honorably sewing, etc. Jack is to teach adversity is an opportunity 1962 retired after 23 years as geography and history. in disguise!” Residing in Traverse City, senior minister of the First Judi Vestal appreciates Sandy Winter writes that MI, Diane Clark is director Presbyterian Church in Bill Reed’s suggestion for she’s “learned how much of The Grand Traverse Carthage, MS. I’m also us to try to remember how fun spring breaks can be Chorus of Sweet Adelines retired from service as a different times were for for retired grandmothers.” International, a 32-member member of the board of blacks and whites when During the latest spring women’s barbershop directors of the Carthage we were younger. She said break, she spent four days ensemble and the fi fth Bank, The First Carthage that in April 1968, she was at the Atlantis Resort in highest-scoring small chorus Corp. and the Heritage living in London and had the Bahamas with her in the world in 2007. The Banking Group.” He is been there for a little over son, Ricky, and grandsons, Rhodes associate professor currently vice president of a year. I quote Judi: “The Richard and William. emerita of music also teaches ENVISION, a Mississippi Memphis riots and then the After one day at home, she private voice lessons and is limited liability company, assassination of Dr. King accompanied 10-year-old a certifi ed adjudicator for and is still involved in were all over the news. I was grandson William on a trip the Michigan School Vocal farming and management of at once embarrassed, angry to visit his Uncle David in Music Association. timberlands in Alabama and and frightened for those who Washington, DC. Sandy is New Orleans coffee Mississippi. were closer to the action. currently enjoying working shop owner Bob Patience My British friends were part time as a resource writes, “Marigny Perks now incredulous that I could person for the Presbyterian has a sister shop, Magazine 1964 be from a place like that. I Campus Ministry at the Perks, at 4332 Magazine St. Nancy Wasell Work found myself in a position University of Tennessee at at the corner of Napoleon. writes, “Liz Currie Williams of wanting to support Chattanooga. She is assisting Magazine Perks has the and I spent Memorial Day Memphis and its culture to the interim campus minister same menu, plus panini weekend at her Estes Park, people who had no concept and board during a time sandwiches. Come say hello CO, mountain home. It of the history and evolution of major transition. She to the friendly staff there!” was a great comfort to of such issues. There was writes, “In a way, this seems me following the recent not a clear explanation of like coming full circle, as I death of my husband, what was happening and was director of Presbyterian 1963 Henry H. Work, a child it was futile to try to make Campus Ministry at UTC 45th Reunion psychiatrist who was active sense of it. My British from 1968-77 before Homecoming: Oct. 3-4 in the Episcopal Church. contemporaries had nothing attending seminary. My Kaye McKnight Beavers His funeral was held at with which to compare the heart is with the ministry reports, “I am fi nally at the Washington National situation and were unable to and I’m glad for the a time of my life where I Cathedral.” relate to what was happening opportunity to be of help to can indulge myself in my in Memphis. Consequently, them at this time.” favorite pastimes: reading, they were also unable to Gerry Knight White spent bridge and Mah Jongg. This 1965 relate to my own feelings. last winter taking care of has been a long time coming Reporter: Virginia Lowry This became one of very her granddaughter, Karis and may not last, so I’m Ives few times I have felt totally Patton, while Karis’ father, taking advantage of it to the virginiaives65@bellsouth. isolated and much like a Gerry’s son, was deployed to fullest.” net ‘stranger in a foreign land.’ Columbia, South America. Brenda Blackshear Smith Ted Morris has been Back to the 21st century: He returned to the U.S. and husband Edward are named a professor at Illinois Tom and I are continuing May 27. Karis’ mother is in retired and live in Decatur, Wesleyan University. He to remodel a condo in the Air Force Reserve and AL. They have three joined IWU in 2000 as Memphis. As a result, we has been on active duty at married sons and seven an associate professor of have developed a great various bases in the states grandchildren and divide philosophy. respect for contractors, the since Jan. 21. Karis turned their time between Decatur Jim Collier writes, “I complexity of the problems two years and six months and Gulf Shores. retired as pastor of First they solve and the diplomacy on July 9. This is a fun Carolyn and Dan Gilchrist Presbyterian Church in with which they do their time to get to know your have been married 44 years. Wooster, OH, at the end jobs! Remodeling a kitchen grandchildren! “I am the proud father of of 2007. My wife Janelle and two bathrooms has been three outstanding children also retired in 2007. We one ‘challenge’ after another. and grandfather of four spent the winter in Santa Fe, We have to remind ourselves exceptional grandchildren,” NM, enjoying the abundant rhodes.edu SUMMER 2008 • RHODES { 37 } Class Notes sunshine and a minimum children drew pictures of In May, Susan Fisher George writes, “I hope my of snow. We returned to trees in honor of Arbor Day, Cheairs and husband colleagues will take a peek Ohio this spring and have April 21, and their written Tommy met Walter and at it on Amazon and let me no defi nite plans for the poetry was incorporated into Nancy Cox Howell ’67 and know what they think about immediate future. We may their pictures. Bill and Nancy Jackson it.” George also reports that relocate but are uncertain Charles Robertson Williamson in North he “recently had coffee with about our destination. The received the Distinguished Carolina for a little hiking. John Boswell, and he looks agenda for now is to enjoy Service Medal at Dixie De Moville Johnson terrifi c and is amazingly retirement, travel a bit and Commencement for is an active member of successful. We caught up do as little as possible for dedication and service to Germantown Presbyterian on old times. He lives right awhile. After 40 years of Rhodes. Church, where she currently up the street from me in responsibility as a 24/7 serves as an elder. She and Manhattan.” pastor, the leisure feels really Bob have been doing some Arnie Pittman has been good.” 1966 garden renovation and with spending more and more Ann Dow Lee says, “Both Reporter: Sammy Primm the help of a friend have time in Hollywood as his Bayliss and I are happy and Marshall built a potting shed. She daughter Joelle continues to content working on Prince samamarshall@comcast. thinks she might be able to pursue acting opportunities. Edward Island in Canada. net help Larrie Del with Habitat Noni and Bill Buchanan I invest—or try to—and Bob Frank has a new houses now. enjoyed a one-week “Sea- keep house, paint paintings album out on the Memphis Tim Greaves and wife E-Cruise”(continuing (and rooms if necessary), etc. International label, titled Georgea live in Greenville, education cruise) with the Hope to get a show together “Red Neck, Blue Collar, or SC, where he is still University of Mississippi soon. My six sons and seven What Happens to You When practicing law. He is now School of Dentistry, where grandchildren all live away, You Major in English.” The with the Ogletree, Deakins Bill is the associate dean in Canada and the U.S.. Commercial Appeal gave it a fi rm. Tim still paints, and for academic affairs. They They visit as much as they good review in the April 4, his work is on exhibit in report, “We were to visit can.” 2008, edition. several galleries. His Web Montego Bay, Grand Carter Osterbind taught at Ray Bye reports that his site is timgreaves.com. He Cayman and Cozumel, Jacksonville State University son Phillip married Easter reports that one daughter Mexico, but someone on in Alabama for 28 years and weekend. Phillip and his is teaching in Charlotte; board developed a ‘serious currently is interim head bride completed their law another is teaching in medical emergency’, so we of the art department. He degrees at Suffolk University Greenville; and their third had to go back near New plans to retire in December. in Boston in May. His daughter works in Arlington, Orleans to allow a Coast His wife Kelly is registrar daughter, Eleanor, married VA. Guard helicopter to medevac at JSU. They have six Barrett Haga ’01, last April. the person to N.O. We had children, ages 13 to 27, and Eleanor and Barrett live and a great trip visiting with a granddaughter, Charlotte work in the Washington, 1967 friends and snorkeling (almost 2). DC, area. Ray travels often Reporter: Jeanne Hope in Grand Cayman and Teri Tate Hornberger is to DC for Florida State Jacobs Buckner Cozumel. We need to do the artist in residence for University, seeking funds for Box 345 something like this with our her new community and is the research faculty. He also Winter Harbor, ME 04693 class!” teaching the entire Juliaetta does consulting work with [email protected] Kris Pruitt writes that Elementary School in an a DC fi rm and with Hill Bill Breytspraak recently she is fi nally a grandmother art program she designed. & Knowlton in its Florida received his chair for 30 by her son and his wife. There are 166 students, a big offi ce. He and Kathy travel years of service as a faculty Additionally, she will serve stretch from where she left as much as possible and member and administrator as president of the Milton off in Watertown, SD, where try to work in golf games at Ottawa University. He Society of America in San she taught a total of 30 together. teaches adult classes at Francisco at the Modern students in one week. Three Becky Smith Kissel’s Village Presbyterian Church Language Association, weeks of classes culminated son married in April. She and started piano lessons which marks the 400th on “Academic Day” May 1, is spending more time one year ago. anniversary of Milton’s birth when parents came to the painting in her studio and is George Abraham’s book and the 60th anniversary school and the kids proudly looking forward to traveling The Seven Deadly Work Sins of the society. Kris says, displayed their projects out west this summer with was recently named the “Thank you, John Quincy and showed what they had her husband and their three best business book of 2007 Wolf. All goes well here learned about art. The rescued dogs in their RV. by booksandauthors.net. in middle Tennessee, and

{ 38 } S U M M E R 2 0 0 8 • R H O D E S r h o d e s . e d u Charley says ‘Hi’ to his new recognize each other. If you the board of directors lives and form friendships friends.” are interested in ordering of the Girl Scouts of the that have continued to grow Elizabeth Hewgley reports, one for old times’ sake, Appalachian Council. She over the years. I am in the “My husband, Mike Hewgley, e-mail Susan. They are really and her husband Bruce live Atlanta area (Peachtree City) and I attended the reunion fun! in Jonesborough, TN, in and retired from teaching. this year and had a great I recently received a a golf course community Bill in Nashville, Jim in time. I am not sure if you copy of Brother Timothy where they play as often as Richmond and David in remember that Mike was Jolley’s book, Of Silence and their schedules permit. They NYC are continuing their married to Canon Thomas Refl ection, which includes also have the blessing of a careers. My wife Beverly and Hall, and during this time an introduction by Jim Cole. beautiful grandson, Finn I defi nitely plan on being at they had three terrifi c sons. It is a beautiful collection (3 ½). She hopes to come the reunion.” Two of these sons and our of columns written for to the reunion unless her From Mary Currey daughter are the kids you the monastery newsletter golf team wins the regional Zseltvay: “I’m a ‘late mentioned in your article. I during Timothy’s 11-year competition in Tunica and bloomer’ as far as career agree Canon did a fabulous tenure as prior. If you would goes to the fi nals in Oregon. goes. I received my M.Ed. job preparing the dinner. like a copy, please contact Carey Bryan got hitched in human development I just thought that it was me, and I will give you the in April. His bride is Qilan counseling from Vandy in amusing that Mike and my information to order one. Meng Bryan of Shanghai. 1994, but didn’t decide to 15-year-old daughter brought Timothy is in Grahamstown, She is a career journalist, pursue the LPC (licensed to our attention that Canon South Africa, where he is following six years on a professional counselor) and Clay were her parents the prior of Mariya uMama horse farm during the until 2006. So I went back and that Clay was the father weThemba Monastery. cultural revolution. After to school to get the last 12 of her brothers. I thought This spring, a business graduation and Vietnam, hours I needed, and fi nished you might fi nd this slight associate of my husband Carey started work for them while continuing faux pas as amusing as we came to visit with his wife. Boys & Girls Clubs of to work as a school-based did.” Oops! I took an immediate liking America and now lives in counselor for Centerstone. Ketti Tyree’s Christmas to her and should have Ennis, TX, where for the I pursued the LPC-MHSP letter contained another guessed she had gone to past fi ve years he has been (mental health service great story about her Southwestern because she the organization’s chief provider) and received my granddaughter Brynn: is so cool. Carol Millwee professional offi cer. Civic license in November ’07. “Daughter Kristin gave Rudolph was class of ’73. and church activities include Yea! I’m now the project a baby shower in which She transferred to Arkansas prez-elect of Ennis Rotary, director for a grant, Project one of the games was to her junior year and now chairman of the trustees SELF in Columbia, TN. I complete missing words lives in DC, where she is of First United Methodist live in Franklin outside from nursery rhymes. When a professional capitol city Church of Ennis and co- Nashville so I have a long presented with “Old Mother guide. Small world! chair of the world mission drive to Columbia. Project Hubbard went to the committee. “Loving married SELF is an evidence-based cupboard to fetch______,” life—people say I am always program for adolescents, Brynn responded with, “to 1968 smiling. Hello to all.” 12-18 years old with drug/ fetch some chardonnay?” 40th Reunion Steve Cole wrote: “Bill alcohol problems. Probably Like grandmother, like Homecoming: Oct. 3-4 Hubbard, Jim Stewart, David won’t retire any time soon. granddaughter! Ketti went Reporters: Bob Morris Lehmann and I stay in Counselors just don’t seem on to say that she enjoyed [email protected] touch. In the past few years to give up! No grandchildren the class reunion in October Drue Thom White we have attempted to get yet. My daughter Catie is and found her classmates by [email protected] together once a year. This married and ran the Boston looking for anyone with grey Suzanne Troth Donaldson past March, we and our Marathon April 21! My son or white hair. Luckily, she’s a completed the course work spouses met in Savannah, Rob is still searching for the natural blonde! and exam required to be GA, where Jim grew up. We ‘perfect woman’ (good luck- Susan and Pat Osoinach designated as a certifi ed had a great time reliving right?) and has his own lawn did a terrifi c job making a fi nancial planner and is memories of our years at service business. Both live in DVD from the pictures and continuing her career at Rhodes and catching up on Franklin, too. My husband videos of our reunion. To Wachovia Securities in our lives. In recent years we is retired and maintaining help us all out, they included Johnson City, TN. She is have met in New York City the house—the joys of home pictures from yearbooks president of the Johnson and Atlanta. We have found ownership! Hope to attend along with pictures from City Morning Rotary that the experiences we had the reunion with Ellen the present so we could Club and a member of at Rhodes helped shape our Brown Rust.” rhodes.edu SUMMER 2008 • RHODES { 39 } Class Notes Lindley Darden was the life. Maybe we will actually which bugs me about once a assistant superintendent and Clark-Way-Harrison Visiting get to the 40th reunion, quarter. I generally want to fi nally ran a division at the Professor at Washington although I just don’t think talk about the future more education service center in University in St. Louis, it’s possible that we are at than the past. Ginger and San Antonio. When I retired, where she taught philosophy that milestone—certainly I I have been married almost I started doing what I really of biology during the am far too young!” 39 years. We’ve embraced love to do—garden, write, 2008 spring semester. She Barbara Lesh Borleske and conquered her cancer quilt, paint, make music and returned to the University writes: “I retired from and our oldest daughter’s act. The latter has become of Maryland in June. She teaching high school near death. We have two a true passion and I’m in writes that the April chemistry last June, and daughters, two sons-in-law, plays and fi lms whenever earthquake that was felt in I have decided that three grandchildren. Life is they need a ‘character.’ My St. Louis was the second retirement is the best part calm.” husband Jim and I retired she has ever experienced; of life. I didn’t just rest Jon Jackson was the to our dream home in the fi rst was a very mild one and eat bonbons, because recipient of the Lifetime the woods in the Texas while she was a student at on retirement I took the Achievement Award from hill country, overlooking Rhodes. job (volunteer and no pay!) the Tennessee Counseling Canyon Lake. Life treated Jane Mando Meeks as director of Delaware Association; Honors of the us well until last year, but writes: “Ken (brother of Science Olympiad. I am also Board from the Southeastern Jim is now in a nursing Pat Meeks ’67) and I live in a member of the board of Association of Colleges and home in the fi nal stages of Watkinsville, GA (Athens), directors of the Delaware Universities; and Counselor Alzheimer’s. I am managing where he is the general Nature Society and I belong of the Year from the West on my own for the fi rst time presbyter for Northeast to a garden club and the Tennessee Counseling in my life, with the help of Georgia Presbytery and I Delaware African Violet Association. an aged blind dog and an am an elementary school Society. Steve and I have Mike Hettinger is the aged female cat who has counselor in Barrow four grandchildren who recipient of the R. Townley adopted me. I enjoy hearing County. Our two sons live nearby and we see them Paton Award from the news of our class members.” remain Tarheels—Josh frequently. It is a joy to take Eye Bank Association Dottie Johnson Pounders, lives in Charlotte, teaches them to the Philadelphia of America—the highest with the Memphis law fi rm classical guitar, works with Zoo or on a nature walk in award given to a physician of Pounders Coleman, has a production company the back yard! A few years from the EBAA. In Kansas been selected as one of that plans festivals, plays ago we built a house in City, he is chairman of the the 2008 Best Lawyers in whenever he can (solo and eastern North Carolina on advisory board of Midwest America, a distinction she with friends) and does a creek that feeds into the Transplant Network, has received for the last 10 whatever work it takes to Albemarle Sound. Steve an organ procurement years. She was also named to continue the lifestyle of a and I celebrate 39 years of organization. Mike has the Super Lawyers Top 100 starving artist. Ian lives marriage in August. I hope served on the board of Lawyers in Tennessee and to nearby in Conover, is a I can talk him into a trip to directors of the EBAA for 22 the Top 101 Lawyers in TN high school counselor and the reunion in October. My years. by Business TN Magazine. the soccer coach—his parents still live in Jackson, In February 2008, The In 2005, she received the boys won the conference and I am sure they would Peacemaking Committee Lawyer’s Lawyer Award, the championship this year love to host us if we decide of the Presbytery of Greater highest honor presented and made it to the state to go.” Atlanta, Presbyterian by the Memphis Bar quarterfi nals. The girls From Luther Nussbaum: Church (U.S.A.) recognized Association. She practices are on the same path. “After 33 years accumulating Nibs Stroupe and his wife in the area of family law, Recently we spent time at 4 million American Caroline Leach with the domestic litigation and Ft. Meyers, FL, a little too Advantage miles and Peacemaking Award. Nibs mediation. close to spring breakers more than 1 million on and Caroline became pastors Carol Colclough Strickland who took us back quite other airlines, at the end at Oakhurst Presbyterian writes: “Sid and I hope a few years, and Sanibel of ’05 I decided to stay Church in Decatur, GA, to make the reunion this Island where we enjoyed home and look at the view. in 1983. They celebrated fall. As for what we’ve been a more peaceful, relaxing Semiretirement has two their 25th anniversary at up to, we both had books time. Retirement is still a sides: 1. a wonderful ability Oakhurst in February. published last fall. My two few years away for us, but to dabble in investments and Ellen Plants Massey wrote: were a second edition of we are beginning to check projects, to learn new things, “I retired from a career in my art history book, The out the NC mountains for to travel and to live and 2. a education in 1998—was Annotated Mona Lisa, and the next exciting phase of lack of a defi ning identity a teacher, school principal, The Illustrated Timeline

{ 40 } S U M M E R 2 0 0 8 • R H O D E S r h o d e s . e d u of Western Literature. Sid National Center for Physical term as vice president of the from three years of teaching and our daughter co-wrote Acoustics at the University board for the Affordable in Seoul, Korea, and live in The Illustrated Timeline of of Mississippi. Housing Alliance of Chicago. Science. Both timelines are Midland County. And, I part of a series (dreamed have been appointed to the up by John Boswell ’67 1970 Council of Ambassadors for 1971 and sold to Barnes & Reporter: Hud Andrews Eagle Village of Michigan, a Reporter: Betha Hubbard Noble’s press) providing [email protected] residential treatment facility Gill an overview of individual Beth Marr Lee was voted for children and youth.” 1365 Yorkshire Dr. subjects through text and one of “Greenville’s 25 Joyce McConnell Memphis, TN 38119 images. (I did The Illustrated Most Beautiful Women” Underwood has a new 901-685-6712 Timeline of Art History in the October 2007 Talk grandson, Jonathan Daniel [email protected] for the series.) Now I’m Magazine, a publication of Underwood, who was born Jim Cogswell and Sarah working on a historical novel the Greenville News. “The March 13, 2008. “He is the Stitt ’72 live in Ann Arbor, about the lives of Empress full-page photo was a work fourth child of our son Mark MI, where Sarah is general Theodora and Emperor of art by the photographer and his wife Alanna, who counsel for Washtenaw Justinian of the Byzantine (he took out all the also have Alecia, Katrina Community College and Empire, set in sixth-century wrinkles!), but I think (named just before the Jim is a professor at the Constantinople. Sid’s still (hope) the nomination and storm arrived) and Julia. University of Michigan dean of graduate students selection were made based We’re planning a trip to School of Art and Design. at Rockefeller University on community involvement Ft. Campbell to visit our Their son, David (17) will in Manhattan and runs a and volunteer effectiveness,” daughter Anna and their attend Oberlin College in neuroscience lab. He’s hot she says. You can fi nd it two children Wesley and September, and daughter on the trail of what causes online via greenville news, Marianne. Her husband Katherine will be a junior Alzheimer’s.” talk magazine. Mark is currently in Iraq.” in high school. Jim was Betty Foley Wentworth Ron Eades is retiring after recently designated an says, “When I am not 31 years of teaching at the Arthur F. Thurnau professor 1969 selling real estate in Law School at the University by the regents of the “My wife Linh and I have Nashville, I am painting in of Louisville, and moving to University of Michigan been doing some traveling Seaside, FL. I have a new Charleston, SC. He and his in recognition of his again recently,” writes John grandson, born last July. My wife Lillian Aivazian Eades outstanding contributions Walters. “I look forward daughter and her husband ’71 are looking forward to undergraduate education. to more as I retire. In are Presbyterian ministers to being closer to their Information on Jim’s recent November, we’ll visit my living in Manhattan. I children and grandchildren. artwork can be found at father in Pennsylvania for recently returned from Their son Matthew lives umich.edu/~jcogs. his 88th birthday. My best San Francisco, visiting in Columbia, SC, with his to all of you at Rhodes. We with my son and family wife Mary and two children. will make my class reunion (three granddaughters). Daughter Emily lives in 1973 in October 2009!” This followed a two-week Charleston with her husband 35th Reunion Sam Morgan and Marion painting workshop in Brian and one child. Homecoming: Oct. 3-4 Birge married Feb. 17, 2007. Tuscany. My paintings are Hud Andrews was Reporter: Margaret Marion has retired from in several galleries in the presented the Juror Emeritus Lawson Headrick teaching English and Latin south. Some of our alumni Award upon his retirement [email protected] and is serving as a college in Florence, AL, can check from active service as a Meriwether Montgomery adviser with the Shelby them out at Artifacts.” jury chairman for the and Judy Brooks Tygard County Schools. Sam is a One of Wallace Mayton’s Professional Photographers are co-chairs of our 35th professor in the Psychology daughters passed her bar of America. He had served reunion, Oct. 3-4. Look for Department at the exam on fi rst take. “To in that capacity since more information to come. University of Memphis. realize one’s investment is 1993. His daughter Amy is You won’t want to miss this In February 2008, Rich a good thing. All we do is graduating this May from one!! Raspet gave a lecture live through our children!” naturopathic medical school Pam Pulliam Cleveland is at Rhodes titled “Wind he says. “I’m serving a in Toronto, where she will still teaching Spanish and Noise and Atmospheric second term as president of be living and practicing with French and looking forward Turbulence.” Rich is a the board for Big Brothers her husband Chris Murphy. to spending time with her physics professor and a Big Sisters in the Heart His son Trey and daughter- daughter and grandchildren principal scientist at the of Michigan and a second in-law Rachel have returned in Connecticut this rhodes.edu SUMMER 2008 • RHODES { 41 } Class Notes summer. She and her North Rim of the Grand “Recently, my son, Uriah, has opened a recording studio, husband Howard have six Canyon on the back of a been seen on TV in episodes which he still owns and grandchildren. mule in mid-September. of “The Ghost Whisperer” operates. He has been Frannie Taylor currently Amy Bailey Evans’ oil and “Without a Trace,” and writing and performing manages the Global Goods painting “High Country has an upcoming made- music for 30 years and has Fair Trade Store at First Hike” was selected as for-TV. movie called Death received numerous awards, Congregational Church in the artwork for the 2008 Match. The movie will be including Juno, Felix and Memphis’ Cooper-Young Breckenridge Annual Music his fi rst lead role since he Critics Choice awards. neighborhood. The weekend Festival poster. has been in L.A. Uriah was Additionally, Niko has store manager’s position is Russell and Margaret picked up by a Hollywood written a few hit songs and, spiritually rewarding, but Lawson Headrick have agent when he was 8 and has most recently, founded the she hopes that ever-evasive moved to Knoxville, TN, done numerous national TV instrumental group Voodoo weekday job is just around to be closer to family and ad campaigns. Village. the corner. (She worked for the mountains. Russell will Financial adviser Paul two Fortune 500 companies continue to practice law Renfroe is enjoying before being “right-sized.”) with Baker Donelson in 1975 certifi ed senior advisor She has the good fortune the Knoxville offi ce, and On Jan. 3, WKNO designation. He is the host of getting to see and hear Margaret has taken a job Memphis broadcast of RetireRadio.com, G.P. Rhodes psychology professor with the State of Tennessee, a segment about the of Sure Thing Builders, Marsha Walton at First Division of Special restoration of a 19th- a licensed residential Congregational Church and Education. century carousel organ contractor in Tennessee and is frequently reminded of David Francis has released on its “Southern Routes” a licensed mortgage broker. our alma mater and what a a new CD, titled “Be program. Vincent Astor was Paul has been married to special place it is. Still, My Soul—American interviewed. He also wrote Diane for 28 years and is the Levi Frazier is still the Hymns Revisited (Volume parts of the segment and father of actor/model Will managing director of the Two).” David recorded the arranged for the shoot. Taylor. Blues City Cultural Center CD in the historic Studio The Zimmerman, Kiser & and assistant professor of A at Capitol Records in Sutcliffe law fi rm in Orlando, theater and communications Hollywood, where legends 1977 FL, recently named Steve at Southwest Tennessee such as Judy Garland, Frank The American College Hatcher as president. Community College, where Sinatra, Nat King Cole and of Bankruptcy inducted he directed “A Star Ain’t many others have recorded. Mike Coury as a fellow at its Nothin’ But a Hole in Natalie Honan Vernon annual meeting in March. 1980 Heaven.” His living history writes, “Minor ’71 still Mike, a member of the Jane Dawson and Luke museum production at practices pediatrics. Our Memphis law fi rm Farris Coley Jr. married July 7, the National Civil Rights youngest child attends the Bobango & Branan, was 2007. Museum closed April 25 University of Georgia, so one of 29 nominees from Liz McGeachy writes, “I after a three-month run. He we are ‘empty nesters’ now. the U.S. and abroad to be recently released my fourth was commissioned by the We’re enjoying our fi rst inducted. He is also the recording with my husband museum to write and direct grandchild, who was born in fi rst practicing attorney Tim Marema. We have been the show, which played to April 2007.” in Memphis to receive performing Americana, folk visitors both young and old. James and Jennifer the honor and the only and traditional Appalachian Jane Howze has written Worsham Newman are inductee this year from music as Liz&Tim for 20 a chapter for the recently- dividing their time between the Sixth Circuit federal years. The new CD, “Here published book titled Inside homes in Jacksonville, judicial district (Tennessee, We Go,” features some the Mind—Best Practices FL, and Brevard, NC. Kentucky, Ohio and traditional songs done for Executive Search Firms James retired from Michigan). in a new way, along with (Aspatore Books), an PricewaterhouseCoopers in more contemporary songs. authoritative, insiders’ June, and they are looking Samples can be heard on our perspective on key strategies forward to spending a lot of 1978 Web site, lizandtim.org.” for both fi lling executive time in the mountains and 30th Reunion positions and growing a doing some traveling. Homecoming: Oct. 3-4 profi table search fi rm. In 1980, Niko Lyras, 1981 After making a reservation who received a M.A. in Nancye Schmucker 18 months ago, Meriwether 1974 economics from the McCowan has been named Montgomery will ride the Allen Shelton writes, University of Memphis, director of the Division of

{ 42 } S U M M E R 2 0 0 8 • R H O D E S r h o d e s . e d u Dermatology and associate Tennessee River. We hope years! The best thing was role is consulting in the professor of otolaryngology to make the transition to meeting my husband, Janos same area, mostly around and communicative living in Iuka, MS, within Libor, six years ago in New developing employee skills/ sciences at the University of a couple of years. In the York. We married three capabilities.” Mississippi Medical Center. meantime, I am still years later in San Francisco Frank Baker sends Her interests include general working more than full and lived there until he got greetings to the class and and cosmetic dermatology. time at Perkins and Dean a job offer that moved us says, “I am working on my Paul Ward and Laura and managing our rental to Gibraltar, of all places! I third college degree this year Lamps married April 4, properties in Memphis. like being in Europe, and we at Auburn University. At 2008, in Little Rock, where Check out our Web site at travel every chance we get. I Rhodes, I learned the value they currently reside. eastportonpickwick.com.” used to have my own import of learning and have the I received a nice e-mail business, but after 15 years, lifelong passion for it that is from Ann Webb Betty who put an end to it due to our part of its vision. My passion 1982 reports that she’s “retired” move. Now I work part time is early modern European To mark the 25th from the YMCA of Middle in his offi ce, fi nally taking history with emphasis on anniversary of the Tennessee and currently the advice of Prof. Sue Legge the Renaissance through the Southwestern/Rhodes between careers. “After 10 and doing accounting!” French Revolution. I taught Singers tour of Western years doing IT at the Y, it I got a chance to catch high school science for about Europe in 1982, a Power became apparent that that up with Ed Scott recently. 20 years and now have Point slide show of the had run its course and there We’re having a great returned to school at this tour was shown at last fall’s is another chapter to open. conversation on how many tender young age to pursue a Homecoming. Anyone So I am taking a break.” guitars a middle-aged guy doctorate in another subject wanting a CD of the slide Brigid Elsken Galloway should own. By way of I love very well. I plan to get show (at no cost) should reports, “My husband Drew background, he tells me he my doctorate in about seven contact Mike Lupfer at and I moved to Birmingham worked for nearly 20 years years and teach and research [email protected] or four years ago with our son, in the safety business at 3M, in European history at the 901-276-0818. Jack, who is now six. Thanks including designing systems college/ university level. to the help of fellow class for homeland defense and My thoughts of Professors of ’85er Richard Banks, I leading 3M’s global avian Hatfi eld, Apperson and 1983 was hired last year by Time infl uenza activities. Ed Wright have come to mind 25th Reunion Inc. Content Solutions says, “I recently moved a lot this year as I remember Homecoming: Oct. 3-4 to help start its southern to Austin and a job in the the courses in history I had Brian Russell created offi ce in the Southern utility market. My plan is to from them during those the altar, ambo (pulpit) Progress Headquarters get traction on writing and magical four years at Rhodes. and baptismal font for the here in Birmingham. I am music—it is a great town for I have a long way to go, but new St. George’s Episcopal now deputy editor, over it. Me, and 10,000 others, am loving every step of the Church in Germantown, six custom publications. right?” way. I hope all is well with TN. Giving up the freelance In March, I reconnected everyone. I see Virgil Starks Nancy Graham Barker life was diffi cult at fi rst, with Karen Howland, who some. He’s in administration is the mother of “two but since Jack is now in found me through LinkedIn. in the Auburn Athletic wonderful 9-year-old kindergarten, the timing We’ve exchanged a number Program. Always good to sons, who are academically seemed right. The old gang of great e-mails since then. see a fellow classmate here at thriving.” Living in Atlanta, (Blair Gatewood Norman, Karen says, “I ended up Auburn.” Nancy continues to enjoy a Margaret Bryan French, getting a Ph.D. in industrial career in health care. Kelley Ashby Paul, Kathleen organizational psychology. 1986 Albritton Fittro, Meg Waters Then I went to work for Reporter: Colleen Grady Lambert and Sevgi Curtis) Bell Atlantic (now Verizon). [email protected] 1985 are planning another get- Climbed the ladder there Justin Lennon reports, “I Reporter: Jim Golden together this summer.” then bailed on the executive have been working as the [email protected] I was delighted to get a lifestyle a year ago. I’ve base metals analyst for Greetings from note from Sevgi Curtis, who been working for a small Mitsui Bussan Commodities Connecticut. took time from her exciting consulting fi rm. Most of my in New York. I research Karen Larson writes: “In and intercontinental life to career has been focused on and report on aluminium, May 2007, my husband and catch me up on the last two employee performance— copper, lead, nickel and zinc.” I bought Eastport Marina decades. She says “So much how to get the most from Tim Bullard started a new at Pickwick Lake on the has happened in the last 23 your workforce. My current year with a new career as rhodes.edu SUMMER 2008 • RHODES { 43 } Class Notes a technical writer for the that she is in her 17th year us for a worship and music you can use your liberal arts ThyssenKrupp elevator with Coke. She writes, “My conference at Idlewild. Last degree!). In 1996 I married company that, he reports, job is pretty much all sports October, Jim and I ran the Ken Blow, who is the has its “ups and downs.” and entertainment, all the Chicago Marathon, my fi rst director of risk management Plans to spend Easter in time. I just fi nished working time, his second. It was the for Old Dominion Paris had him dredging up on a Diet Coke project with fi rst year ever they canceled University in Norfolk. 20-year-old textbooks from Heidi Klum. And yes, she is the race because of course We live in Portsmouth. I Prof. Vest and Madame great.” conditions and the heat. Jim got a second degree at Lewine, as well as joining and I fi nished, fortunately Old Dominion, a B.S. in the Alliance Française de without incident, and hope interdisciplinary studies with Memphis. Life in Midtown 1988 to do it again this year under an emphasis in elementary allows Tim to run into other 20th Reunion different circumstances.” education (that’s hard to 1980s alumni in Schnuck’s. Homecoming: Oct. 3-4 Allan and Kitty Riley rattle off at cocktail parties). In June, Lt. Col. Scott Reporter: Mandy Bond Bacon ’87 have three Just as I was considering Sweetser concluded Judd daughters, Erin (13), Meg getting my master’s and duty as Eurasia Branch [email protected] (10) and Kate (10). “We’ve actually becoming a teacher, Chief, Strategy, Plans, and Jane Vahlkamp Andrus lived in Charlotte, NC, for I got a job as a technical Policy Directorate (J5) lives in Lexington, KY, with the last 12 years and are writer for AMERIGROUP at Headquarters, United her husband and three sons. involved in church and Corp. in Virginia Beach. States European Command, (Her husband grew up in community activities. All Three and a half years later, Stuttgart, Germany. He the Parkway House, right three girls are thinking I’m now a supervisor of now serves as the Security next to Rhodes, and all his about Rhodes!” Allan wrote instructional design in the Cooperation Branch Chief friends went to Rhodes.) from Tokyo, where he was training department. I have at the Defense Threat They have twins who are on business. “Our big family never been happier and more Reduction Agency, Fort 13, and a 3-year-old. Jane plan for 2008 is a summer excited with a job.” Belvoir, VA. On April 1, his has two master’s degrees in living in Paris. Currently, Ahad Mahootchi wrote wife Becky gave birth to art from the University of I’m VP of business when I inquired about their fi fth child. They reside Kentucky and has worked development and sales at an interesting story: “I in Springfi eld, VA. in the arts for many years, Tessera in San Jose, CA, proposed to my wife while Terri Wilhite Johnson was teaching and at the art working on developing the visiting some friends in appointed last year to the museum. business for new technology London. We had left a party Madison City (AL) Schools Anne Kaiser Apple writes: to make cell phone at the aquarium. Earlier, I Board of Education. She and “In 2008, Jim ’89 and I and cameras.” Allan is also doing had suggested that we try to her husband Greg have three our three children Betsy photography and will have see the sunset from the top sons attending Madison City (16), James (13) and Abigail a show of portraits from a of the London Eye, which Schools. (5) celebrated fi ve years in study of Japanese culture was a short walk away. So Lilla Magee and family Memphis after our move this fall in Charlotte. He has I checked the paper and were featured in a home from Mobile, where we also taken up bass guitar in found out when sunset was improvement show, had lived for 10 years. In the last year. going to be. Everything went “Greenovate,” documenting September we’ll mark 19 Jim Chase writes: “Meg perfectly, the line wasn’t too “green” upgrades on their years of marriage. I am a and I are living in Little long and we got into the 1940 bungalow in northern minister in the Presbyterian Rock and will celebrate our giant Ferris wheel’s pods, California. “Greenovate” can Church (U.S.A.) and 20th wedding anniversary in which are about the size of a be seen on Discovery Home currently serve as a parish June. Wow! Time fl ies, huh? small school bus. The thing and TLC. The name of their associate at Idlewild Life is good and we’re having turns pretty slowly and there episode is called, fi ttingly, Presbyterian Church. I fun raising our family: Jake were 20 or so other people “Lilla & Ilisa.” mostly am a mom full (16), Meredith (13) and with us. When we got to Amy Donaho Howell time, but write curriculum, John (8).” the top, I proposed to her. reports that she bought lead retreats, teach Sunday From Marty Story Blow: We’re still happily married out her partner and that school and lead as needed “Right after graduation, I and living in Tampa. She’s her company is now called at Idlewild. We welcomed went to work for Virginia a pharmacist at Moffi tt Howell Marketing Strategies. in the new year with Joanna Stage Company in Norfolk, Cancer Center and I practice Her kids are now 12 and 8 and Brad Priester ’86 and where I stayed, off and on, ophthalmology at The Eye and they are her other full- their daughter, Halle. Evelyn for 10 years, working my Clinic of Florida.” time job! Edwards Graham headed way up to be an equity stage Jon Cox says, “I look Susan Stribling reports to Memphis to stay with manager (and no one thinks forward to seeing everyone

{ 44 } S U M M E R 2 0 0 8 • R H O D E S r h o d e s . e d u at our upcoming 20th honored with the Clinical which she helped start in David Lewis has joined the reunion. I live in Franklin, Research/Endocrinologist 2006. Nashville offi ce of the Wyatt, TN, and am a commercial Scientist Training fellowship Paul and Leslie Rea Tarrant & Combs law fi rm real estate appraiser. After sponsored by the NIH and Quirion had their second as a partner in its corporate years of bachelorhood, I the American Society of son, Caden James, Dec. 18, and real estate practice married a Kentucky gal in Reproductive Medicine.” 2007, in Centreville, MD. areas. Previously, David was 2005 and have a 14-month- John ’86 and Tammy John Paul (9) is a very proud a partner in the Corbett old son, John Jr. My wife Golden Schmidt have brother. Crockett & Lewis fi rm. Martha is a medical sales rep, relocated to Jackson, MS. William Holden was Susan Badelt Rocco so between work and trying They renovated a house in recently selected to serve reports, “Since our days at to manage John Jr., we’re the Belhaven Heights area on the board of examiners Rhodes, Rich and I have pretty busy, but having a near downtown. Tammy for the Delaware State been living in Collierville, continues her work as a Quality Award. As an great time.” TN, with our children Steve Beckham works as a sales director for Mary Kay examiner, he promotes Andrew (12), and Isabelle senior fi nancial manager for Cosmetics. John now spends the development of high- (8). That’s all about to information technology with much of his time traveling performance organizations change! After 20 years a global insurance company. around the world in sales for aligned with the National of corporate life, Rich is Steve, wife Madera and his new employer, Metaris Institutes of Standards about to fi nish his Ph.D. their two boys Jack (10) and Hydraulics. Their daughter Malcolm Baldridge Award. Wesley (7) live in the Green Lee is 11. He currently serves as and begin a second career Hills area of Nashville. “The Andi Williams and Charlie the national editor of as a professor of sales boys love skateboarding, Landreth ’87 live in the the American Society for and marketing at DePaul basketball, soccer, baseball, mountains, 30 minutes Quality Biomedical Division University in Chicago. We’re video games, music, outside Asheville, NC. They newsletter while working so excited about all of the swimming and diving. They are learning to rock climb, at Agilent Technologies opportunities that Chicago won fi rst and second in the canoe and kayak. For the Inc. In addition, he gained and DePaul have to offer our City Dive Meet last summer,” fi rst time since Noah (12) certifi cation in regulatory family—what an adventure says Steve. “In my spare and Celia (10) were born, affairs from the UCSD, we have ahead! Best wishes time, I enjoy leading a pack Andi is working full time as allowing him to promote to everyone!” of 90 Cub Scouts, coaching a clinical nurse specialist at the development of gene Ben and Stacy Gerard soccer and baseball and Transylvania Community regulation identifi cation Miller of Salt Lake City being active in West End Hospital. Charlie has started tools into medication have adopted a son, Lincoln United Methodist Church.” his own company, Landreth devices. Gerard, who was born Jan. Coleman and Kate Landscapes, in Brevard. 8, 2008. Gilliland Connell married in 2006, and they have three 1990 great kids: Gil Humphreys 1989 Reporter: Rod White 1991 (10), Alex Humphreys (8) Larry Hayes was recently rodw@white-associates. Veronica Lawson and Kate Connell (1). Kate net honored as the fourth lawyer Gunn has been named stays busy with the family, is from Nashville and the Allen ’91 and Laura Brown chief medical offi cer for a certifi ed fi nancial planner 12th lawyer from Tennessee McHan’s twin daughters, the State of Tennessee and works as an investment to be named a fellow in Faith Evelyn and Sarah Department of Health. manager at Gilliland the American Academy of Elizabeth, born Nov. 20, Veronica comes to the Investments while the kids Matrimonial Lawyers. 2001, in Atlanta, are now in Department of Health from are in school. John and Amy Sherrod kindergarten. Wright ’87 and Kim welcomed a daughter, Molly Chris and Kirsten the Tennessee Governor’s Collins Bates recently Elizabeth, Sept. 17, 2007, in Williams Schwehm welcomed Offi ce of Children’s Care moved to Birmingham Atlanta. a son, Lukas Charles, Oct. Coordination, where she with their two children, Kim Ross and Bill Strang 12, 2007, in Baton Rouge, has served as medical Joshua and Rachel. Wright married June 30, 2007, and LA. Sister Olivia (3 ½) is director since 2005. She reports, “I have returned live in Arlington, VA. Kim loving her brother. also currently serves as to my med school alma continues to work at the Will Mitchell and Lori an assistant professor of mater (UAB) as an associate University of Maryland Olcott had a daughter, pediatrics at Vanderbilt professor in the division of as executive director of Trianna Danger Mitchell, University School of reproductive endocrinology. the Center for Integrative Feb. 9, 2007, in Boulder, Medicine, a position she has In addition, I was recently Environmental Research, CO. held since 2002. rhodes.edu SUMMER 2008 • RHODES { 45 } Class Notes she concentrates her practice Jamie and Kati Randolph 1993 1994 on general civil litigation, Rouse are proud to 15th Reunion Reporter: Judy.Brown with a focus on employment announce the birth of their Homecoming: Oct. 3-4 [email protected] law and complex business daughter Allison Hayes, Jan. Reporters: Chandlee After working at TV litigation. 12, 2008, in Memphis. Bryan stations in Memphis, Bartley and Tonya Mary and Tim Ballard [email protected] Nashville, Chattanooga Vaughn Pickron welcomed welcomed their son William Kelley Slagle Funk and St. Louis, Andy Likes a daughter, Lindsay Warren, Clyde Nov. 15, 2007, in Robert and Katherine made the jump to public Dec. 10, 2007, in Houston. Memphis. McCaa Baldwin welcomed relations in 2006. He Brother Noah turned 2 Dec. Zack and Angela Kreuter a daughter, Sophie Louise, accepted a job with The 13. Rogers had a daughter, April 10, 2007, at the Vandiver Group Inc. in St. Jeff Carlton recently Laurel Finley, July 10, 2007, University of Colorado Louis. He now heads up the accepted a position as a in Virginia. Big brother Hospital. Henry (10) and PR fi rm’s media practice market analyst at SynXis, a Jacob is teaching little sister Richard (3) are being very group and does much of the division of Sabre Holdings, the ropes. sweet to their sister. media training and crisis in Southlake, TX. He was Lynn Crabb and Tammy communications training. previously employed at First 1996 Seltzer had a daughter, In November 2007, Andy Horizon. Reporter: Jennifer Larson Dana Elizabeth Seltzer- was promoted to senior Battle Ground Academy larsonj96@rhodes-alumni. Crabb, Dec. 12, 2007, in team leader. He was also has named Anne Locke net Washington, DC. recently appointed to the as director of major gifts David Overend recently Wade and Britt Rodgers board of directors for the and planned giving. Most accepted a position as Bugby married Nov. 24, Mid-America chapter of recently, Anne served as the development offi cer (annual 2007, at Pine Ridge Ranch the National Academy of Southeast fi nance director giving) at Children’s in Valdosta, GA. They Television Arts and Sciences. for Sen. Fred Thompson’s Healthcare of Atlanta. He currently reside in Valdosta. Tanya Gant Ward recently presidential campaign. and wife Willson keep busy Nancy Braam and John transferred from Frankfurt, with their 22-month-old son Little married Nov. 18, Germany, to Mbabane, John. 2006, in Chattanooga, TN, Swaziland, where she is the 1995 Scott and Kelley Brown and currently reside in public affairs offi cer for the Reporter: Sarah Sears- announce the birth of a Atlanta. Lelia Hood Savory U.S. Embassy. Egeli son, Samuel Carter, Jan. 29, ’94 served as a bridesmaid. Horacio and Marlene 703-971-9417 2008. Other Rhodes alumni in Cardoze Mendoza had a [email protected] Jeb and Katherine attendance were Tom ’91 and son, Nicolas Alberto, May It’s a girl for Richard ’96 Hoge had a son, Matthew Sara Blankenship Dilworth, 31, 2007, in Panama City, and Caroline Cater Reynolds. Russell, Nov. 28, 2007, in Lisa Mancini Harden, Ben Panama. Nicolas joins Diego Mary Bains was born Feb. Midlothian, VA. Andrew Hillhouse ’92, Jennie Beth Alonso (6) and Victoria 15, 2008. She joins older loves his big-brother status, Harris Johnston, Caroline Isabel (4). sister Anne (1). and the two siblings are Knight, David Rice and Scott and Caroline Lenac The St. Louis Charitable separated by just over three Rebecca Miller-Rice and Lee Lord welcomed a son, Foundation presented years. Wilkes. Bennett Patton, Aug. 24, Natasha Westrich Wood The Studio 804 design/ CPA Ronald Weiss is 2007, in Atlanta. Charlotte a Crown Award for her build program in which now a member of the (2) loves helping out with work as an art therapist Josh Somes is enrolled at the Memphis fi rm of Thompson her brother and enjoys with pediatric oncology University of Kansas School Dunavant. He joined having a new playmate. patients. Also, Natasha was of Architecture is building Thompson Dunavant in fall Mike Rushin writes, “I one of four St. Louis artists a sustainable community 2000 as a senior tax associate am on track to be elected accepted to the Foundry arts center in Greensburg, and was promoted to tax the potentate of Scimitar Art Centre’s National KS, site of a devastating manager soon after. Shriners for Arkansas in Photography exhibit this F-5 tornado in 2007. The Greg and Kelly Ritter December 2008 for the past spring. The photo entire town of Greensburg is announce the birth of a 2009 calendar year. featured the legs of Jennifer rebuilding green. The CBS son, Ryan Carlton, April Susan Baird has joined Jenkins. Natasha and her “Early Show” chronicled 11, 2008. Baby and mother the Salt Lake City offi ce of husband Brendan celebrate it this spring, and the are doing well; sister Katlyn Parsons Behle & Latimer. 10 years of marriage this year. Discovery Channel’s Planet (10) and brother Garrett (2) She is a member of the They have two children, Green plans to air a series on think he’s very handsome. litigation department, where Ethan (6) and Sarenna (4). the rebuild in mid-June.

{ 46 } S U M M E R 2 0 0 8 • R H O D E S r h o d e s . e d u Phuong-Linh Nguyen Fay, she is now board certifi ed in Witkowski, Mitchell Klink husband Eric and daughter immigration and nationality 1998 and Marc Knight. Laura is Isabel welcomed daughter law by the Texas Board of 10th Reunion a postdoctoral fellow in Amelia Nguyen Fay, July 26, Legal Specialization. Homecoming: Oct. 3-4 clinical neuropsychology 2007. They live in Jackson, Reporter: Amanda Grebe and neuroimaging at TN. Tamburrino Dartmouth Medical Alejandra Briseno and 1997 1805 Central Ave. School. Paul is continuing husband Helge Alsleben Reporter: Leslie Beck Memphis, TN 38104 his graduate studies in celebrated the birth of their Norman 901-278-1093 architecture at Parsons daughter Amelia Isabel Jan. 321 S. Watkins [email protected] School of Design in New 29, 2007. They live in Ft. Memphis, TN 38104 Creswell and Marcia York City. Worth, TX, where Alejandra 901-276-7529 Planchon Gardner had a has a contract position with lesliebnorman@yahoo. daughter, Mary Ruth, Oct. the Parenting Center, a com 9, 2007, in New Orleans. 1999 nonprofi t agency. Frank and Aubrey Farmer Sister Eleanor also welcomed Reporter: Leigh Powell Matt and Marcé Moreno had a daughter, Layla Claire, Mary. [email protected] Bettridge celebrated the Sept. 28, 2007, in Jackson, With eight years of Charles and Cobbie birth of their second child, MS. “Layla is doing great, banking experience, Marc Phillips Llewellyn ’01 a daughter, Lydia Madison, and we are adjusting nicely Knight has been promoted welcomed a daughter, Sept. 4, 2007. Marcé writes, to parenthood,” Frank writes. to branch executive of the Katie, Dec. 8, 2007. The “Lydia and her big brother “What a joy!” Southcoast Community Llewellyns call Austin, TX, Jonah love making each Robert and Emily Wiggins Bank at the Goose Creek, home. Charles is assistant other laugh.” Little had a daughter, SC, offi ce. Previously, vice president area leader for Allen Brown graduated Meghan Grace, Aug. 16, he was vice president/ Mid-America Apartment from the Nashville School 2007, in Columbia, MO. commercial loan offi cer. Communities, and Cobbie of Law in May 2007. Ricky Stephenson writes, Chip Lane reports, “I is assistant controller at He is with the Workers’ “We’ve moved up the road recently changed law fi rms Cypress Real Estate Advisors. Compensation Appeals a bit to be closer to Julie’s and now work for Johnson, Kelly Ensor and Emily Division of the Tennessee parents. I’ve left the shoe Spalding, Doyle, West Waller ’00 married April Department of Labor and discount behind at Genesco & Trent in Houston. I 12, 2008. Members of the Workforce Development. and joined Symbion in a defend several different tire wedding party included Chip and Elizabeth similar role as senior auditor.” manufacturers in product Holly Kroll Smith ’00, Sheila Goings Harrell married Feb. Sean and Anne Hardwick liability cases around the Jacobson ’01, Elizabeth 2, 2008, in Birmingham, Hudson announce the birth country.” Smith Ritter ’00, Matt AL. Ginna Maxwell Rauls of a daughter, Mollie Anne, Jennifer Williams and Semko ’98, Eric Swindle was the matron of honor. Dec. 28, 2007, in Boulder, Robert Beckley married Dec. ’02 and Alok Madan. Julie Johnston Lowder, CO. Parents and sister Sadie 15, 2007, on the Rhodes Other Rhodes alumni in Allison Lindsey Foster, are exhausted, happy and campus. Jennifer writes, “I attendance included Michael Mary Kent Harrison Bowen, looking forward to new am so thankful to everybody Faber ’98, Harrison Willis Carter Patton Price and adventures as a family of at Rhodes for helping make ’97, Marc Lissauer ’04, Peden Heather Green Talbot were four. our wedding weekend Harris ’00, Matt Dekar ’00, all in the wedding as well. Rob and Jenn Robinson absolutely perfect! It was so Andrew Robertson ’00, Roy Elizabeth and Chip live in had a son, Baylor David, memorable and fun!” Meyeringh ’01, Jordi Cuervo Atlanta, where Elizabeth is March 26, 2008. Rob Laura Hoskins and Paul ’03, Mike Davis ’01, Peter ’00 still employed in Human reports, “Mother and baby Hasty married July 21, 2007, and Laura Odom Matthews, Resources with The are doing well, while big in Cumberland Island, Nicole Gibson Davis and Southern Co., and Chip is brother is trying to fi gure GA, and currently reside Lee Spitzer. The couple an attorney at Carlton Fields, out what to think about in Hanover, NH, and New honeymooned in Jamaica practicing mergers and all this. Baylor is alert and York City. Laura writes, “We before returning home to acquisition law. healthy and has had a very were blessed to have close Germantown, TN. Emily Kurzeka Burns and un-Robinson shock of friends and family join us Laura Simpson is a husband Jerrod welcomed brown hair from the start.” for our ceremony, including librarian at the University of a daughter, Charlotte Anne, Chris Palazzolo received Jennie Vee Keith (maid of Alabama-Birmingham. Dec. 27, 2007. They live in a Ph.D. in political science honor), Leah Daniels ’97 Matt Beck has accepted a St. Petersburg, FL. from Emory University in (matron of honor), Michelle sales representative position Joy Al-Jazrawi reports that August 2007. Hall, Elise Schudy ’99, Chuck with Power Equipment rhodes.edu SUMMER 2008 • RHODES { 47 } Class Notes Specialists Inc. in Denver. currently in residency at the Saint Francis.” to Asia for two or so years, Matt Breaux and University of Kentucky; she Robert ’99 and Erin Mann where I will do fi eld work on Katharine Farmer also live will complete her training Markel welcomed a daughter, highland ethnic minorities in Denver. Matt works in adult psychiatry and Lillie Elizabeth, Oct. 21, and access to citizenship in for Dividend Capital, and begin training in child and 2006, in Greenville, SC. Thailand. Daniel will work Katherine works for New adolescent psychiatry in July. Cameron and Amy Dundas on the environmental and Hope Natural Media. She is Jeremy is vice president of Matheson had a daughter, social impacts of market- in the process of launching a mechanical and electrical Hailee Evelyn Mackenzie, based tourism in Laos. a new tradeshow, Healthy engineering fi rm. The Dec. 19, 2007. Mom and Foods International, that couple had their fi rst child, a baby are doing well. aims to get healthier son, Evan William, Nov. 14, In December 2007, Tanner 2002 products on mainstream 2007. Jackson received a Ph.D. in Reporter: John Ramsey grocery shelves. cognitive science from the jtramsey@rhodes-alumni. An active-duty captain University of Memphis. He net in the U.S. Air Force, Kate 2000 now works as a research Jackie Ehrentraut Dion O’Leary is completing her Kevin Brick planned to scientist for Sandia National has accepted a position with OB/GYN residency at the run with Atlanta Team in Labs and as adjunct faculty the U.S. Secret Service and San Antonio Uniformed Training in the Rock ’n’ Roll at the U of M. will be stationed as special Services Health Consortium. Marathon June 1 to raise Rob and Emily Cassidy agent in Baton Rouge, LA, She begins her three-year awareness for leukemia and Sustar welcomed a son, upon graduation from the fellowship in reproductive lymphoma. Zachary John, March 6, federal academy. endocrinology and infertility Stu ’99 and Susan 2008, in Lexington, SC. John and Leslie Redington at Stanford in July. Brombacher Fallen announce Catherine Neely has Roberts welcomed a Margaret Yerger Elliott the birth of a daughter, been named one of three daughter, Juliette Olivia, and her husband Michael Sydney Charlotte, April 19, Lilly Endowment pastoral Feb. 19, 2008, in Huntsville, welcomed a son, Paul Hite, 2008. Everyone is excited residents at Central AL. Oct. 28, 2007. He joins his and doing well. Presbyterian Church in brother James Rucks. The Atlanta. She begins her family lives in Memphis. residency in July. 2003 Kevin Willoughby works 2001 In March 2008, Meredith 5th Reunion as a full-time photographer Reporter: Amanda Flaim Davis was appointed Homecoming: Oct. 3-4 and promoter for Azimuth amandafl [email protected] assistant administrator of Reporter: Kim Kirkpatrick Artz Multimedia’s DJ Scott and Shelley Stenshol the U.S. Small Business [email protected] and promotion crew, the Thompson had a daughter, Administration in Matt and Kate Christrup 12InchPimps. Kevin also Emma Kate, Sept. 19, 2007, Washington, DC. She Bleecher are moving to teaches fashion marketing at in Thousand Oaks, CA. is responsible for policy Rome, Italy this summer, El Centro College and does Marty and Tiffany Jo formation and initiatives where they plan to teach at corporate event photography Padgitt McDonald married important to small an international school for and copywriting on a May 19, 2007, at First businesses, namely health two years. freelance basis. United Methodist Church in care, international trade Anne Schaberg Summerour Eric and Sally Mercer Jackson, TN. They currently and export opportunities, teaches fi rst grade at the Johnson welcomed a son, reside in Saint Francis, MN. energy costs and economic Louise S. McGehee School Ethan Clark, Jan. 15, 2008. Mary Allison Cates ’99 and development in underserved for girls in New Orleans. The family lives in Memphis. Neely Kristin Draughon were communities. Last June, she and William William and Alina Raines bridesmaids. Other alumni I married Daniel Ahlquist Summerour married in New Bjerke had a daughter, Lucy in attendance were Andy June 17, 2007, in Ithaca, Orleans. Many Rhodes Gene, Nov. 15, 2007, in Cates ’98, Jeff Crader and NY, where we are both alumni attended, including: Ridgewood, NJ. Siblings Laura Simpson ’99. Tiffany Ph.D. students at Cornell Pat Browne, Jodie McEnery Luke and Brooke are writes, “I was ordained University. Christie Brewer ’04, Lawton Fabacher ’02, enjoying their baby sister. as an elder in the United Boyd ’01 presided as offi ciate. Lindsay Bond, Rachel Luck, After graduating from Methodist Church June Also in attendance were Elizabeth Cooper, Carol the University of Kentucky 10, 2007, in Jackson, MS. Patrick and Elisabeth Meyers Durham Meyer ’02, Kelly medical school in 2005, Bishop Hope Morgan Ward Yoder ’01, Jeremy Boyd Ransom and Elizabeth Julie Atkinson and Jeremy presided. I am now serving ’01 and Laura Henderson Townsend ’04. Kate Dietzen Smith married June 11, as pastor of Saint Francis Bodwell ’01. We live in and Lauren Deen were 2005, in Lexington. Julie is United Methodist Church in Ithaca but will be moving bridesmaids. Other alumni

{ 48 } S U M M E R 2 0 0 8 • R H O D E S r h o d e s . e d u in the wedding were collaboration of alumni/ kindergarten and elementary (“longer if I can work it groomsmen Parke McEnery ae and community folks school students in Seoul, out!”). and Neal Meyer ’02 and who have come together as South Korea, where she’s Residencies: Aditya usher Mike Mann ’01. writers, directors, actors and enjoying kimchi but misses Bagrodia will graduate from In December 2007, sound crew to create audio Neapolitan pizza and medical school in May 2009. Margaret Love was plays available for free on espresso. Also, Austin Lutz is starting promoted to the position of chatterboxtheater.org.” a residency in urology at acquisitions editor for the Elizabeth Heller is LSU/Ochsner in New children’s book department pursuing her second 2004 Orleans. Shaunna Torrance at Publications International bachelor’s degree in fi ne Reporter: Kyle Russ Mason is beginning an OB/ Ltd. in Lincolnwood, IL. arts at Columbia College in [email protected] GYN residency at UT- She is enjoying singing with Chicago. Summer greetings to all. Houston. Peter Igoe and the DePaul Community Joey and Katherine The themes for this update wife Alyson and are living Chorus and living by the Norman Sherrard had a are graduations, residencies in New Orleans, where Peter lake in Chicago. son, Joseph Holmes, March and weddings. attends dental school. Their Hunter and Lisa Doody 26, 2008, in Starkville, MS. Graduations: High honors daughter turned one May 13. Hasen married Aug. 18, Katherine writes, “We are so go to Sezen Oygar, who Oddly enough, in February, 2007. Several Rhodes excited to welcome this little graduated with a MBA and a Peter lost the three smallest alums were involved in the boy to our family!” law degree—all in less than toes on his left foot in a ceremony, including Sarah Joel and Cayce Yates four years. Sezen passed the boating accident. Peter says Clark, Lauren Copper DeMoss, Harris ’04 have moved to Florida bar in March and that it looks pretty weird but Dave Miller, Jonathan Large San Antonio, TX, where moved to San Diego, where he has no trouble walking. and Jordan DeMoss. Joel will open a new KIPP she is currently studying Weddings: Susan Ratcliff Jon Zarandona recently (Knowledge Is Power for the California bar. and Kevin Corbyn married completed his master of Program) high school Congratulations! Sezen’s best at her childhood home education at Ole Miss. He as founding principal in friend Emily Costarides also in Alexandria, LA. The and Lauren Glas Zarandona 2009. In preparation for graduated from law school wedding party included will celebrate four years of his new position, Joel has (Emory) and has accepted numerous Rhodents. In case marriage this summer. been awarded a Fisher a position with Woble you didn’t know, Richard Jordan Badgett Barré Fellowship, a year-long Carlyle. Matt and Dorothy Frost and Alice Turner ’06 writes, “For the last year leadership development Crimi Laymon just bought a married. The couple lives in and a half, I have been program that begins at New home in Birmingham. Matt Mobile, AL, where Richard working in the development York University, then sends graduated from Cumberland attends med school. And last department at the Memphis fellows to do residencies law school, and Dorothy but not least, Catherine Ogle Brooks Museum of Art. at top-notch college is working as a publisher’s and Andrew Egenes married. Also on the job front, Kevin preparatory schools all over representative for Pearson Catherine reports that they and I made Kevin Barré the nation. Cayce and the Education. spent their honeymoon in Photography an offi cial LLC boys are very excited to be in Farther north, Sam New Spain. They plan to stay in December 2007. You Mom’s hometown, where she graduated from George in the Atlanta area, where can visit us on the Web will continue building her Washington’s MBA program, Catherine works for KC at kevinbarrephotography. photography business. accepted a position with Public Relations. com. I spend my free Shawn McCarthy spent Raytheon and is moving Also in Atlanta, Matt time volunteering for 2007 as a TEFL (Teaching to Boston this summer. Hoffburg is “still producing the Humane Society English as a Foreign Farther east, much farther Atlanta’s Country Morning of Memphis/Shelby Language) instructor in east, Veena Rangaswami Show on KICKS 101.5.” County. My sister, Eden Italy, splitting her time completed a month-long Matt reports that the early Badgett ’07, and I walk between Naples, Sicily and TESOL (Teachers of English hours can be dreadful, but dogs every Monday night Grottaglie (in the Apulia to Speakers of Other that “it’s all worth it,” as he’s and volunteer at off-site region), and primarily Languages) certifi cation able to spend the daylight events on weekends. I’m teaching employees of course in Kolkata, India, hours with his two-year-old also currently working Alenia Aeronautica, which and is working for a NGO Hershel. as marketing director for manufactures pieces of the based in Bangalore with Marcus Cox is still living Chatterbox Audio Theater. fuselage for Boeing’s new which she previously the dream out in Austin, TX. Bob Arnold ’02, Kyle Hatley 787 Dreamliner. Shawn has volunteered (peacechildindia. Cus recently began work ’02 and Andrew Sullivan changed scenery for 2008 org). Veena will be in at a real estate investment ’01 are among an amazing and now teaches TEFL to India through January ’09 fi rm, Seraphim Investment rhodes.edu SUMMER 2008 • RHODES { 49 } Class Notes Group. Seraphim invests in a couple parts of the CPA news. We love to hear it. franchisees on how to run raw land and residential and exam and am awaiting Best, their businesses. commercial developments scores on a couple of other ckyle Kevin Davidson will in and around Texas. Cus sections. I hope to have attend Texas Tech University and his wife Karrie are about passed the entire exam by for his MBA in the fall. the celebrate “the big two- this summer.” 2005 Thayer Hutcheson teaches year anniversary.” For all Jody Mitchell and Sarah Reporters: Brandon high school biology in who know Cus, celebrating Hall married Dec. 29, 2007, Couillard Houston. She also spends is something he does well. at Trinity Episcopal Church brandon.couillard@gmail. time as a grief group Congratulations! in Houston. Lindsay Moody com facilitator for high school Palmer Snodgrass is was maid of honor, and Molly Fitzpatrick students who have lost mastering fl ying Hueys in bridesmaids included Jamie mhfi [email protected] family members. Thayer also North Cackalacky, NC. Eubanks, Tricia Hughes, Laura Grey Teekell has applied for an internship In August, Palmer will Leslie Isaacman and Jen been working as special at the Elephant Sanctuary deploy overseas for about Richelson. Following a projects coordinator for the in Hohenwald, TN, for the seven months with the honeymoon in Los Cabos, Soulsville Foundation in summer. 26th Marine Expeditionary Mexico, John and Sarah Memphis for almost two Meg Brodman is an Unit. Also abroad, Daniel reside in Houston. years. This summer she will account executive at Head is training for the Natalie DuMont received be heading to Australia with archer>malmo advertising in Cancun Half-Ironman. He her M.D. from the 16 high school students from Memphis. and Jessie Flanders will be University of Texas Health the Stax Music Academy Lauren Woods has “tossed traveling to Mexico for it in Science Center in San as the tour manager of the to the wind everything she September. Antonio in May. She begins Summer Soul Tour program learned in school” and taken In the Bluegrass State, her pediatric residency funded by FedEx. a turn for the artistic side Maggie Goodman is currently at Children’s Hospital in Lindsey Spellings and of life. Lauren manages and teaching AP literature, Dallas (University of Texas/ Joseph Barzizza married orchestrates special events journalism and senior Southwestern) in June. Oct. 27, 2007. Lindsay for an upscale boutique. In English at Fulton County Emily Hoermann recently is currently working at her spare time, she is also a High in Hickman, KY. She bought a house in Alamo Youth Villages, where she freelance wardrobe stylist was named the 2006-07 Heights, San Antonio, TX. was recently promoted to for the music video, TV and teacher of the year for FCHS Katie Walsh, who has a clinical consultant. She fi lm production industry. and is currently directing fi nished her second year of graduated in May with Susie Weller works as a the publication of the law school at University of a master’s in community research assistant for the school’s fi rst newspaper. She Memphis, is working this agency counseling and Research and Analysis serves as vice chair of the summer in law enforcement has been accepted to the Department at the U.S. High School Leadership and special prosecution for counseling psychology Humane Society in Team, yearbook sponsor and the attorney general’s offi ce doctorate program at Washington, DC. Model UN adviser. Well in Nashville, where she is Tennessee State University. Nat Wyeth lives in done Maggie! living with Leslie Isaacman. In August, Brad Romig Washington, DC, where he In DC, Anders Reynolds Reading over all your will move to Athens, GA, works as the deputy director reports that “I’m busy reports I feel, well, under- to pursue a M.Ed. degree of south fi nance for the contributing to Congress’ accomplished: I do not have in college student affairs Democratic Congressional 18% approval rating, any secondary degrees, I administration at UGA. Campaign Committee. handling education, labor, will not be getting married Currently doing her Katie Jameson joined housing and defense as anytime soon and I have graduate work in historic the San Francisco chapter a legislative assistant for no hopes of buying a house preservation at Georgia State, of Team in Training, an Congressman Marion Berry.” in DC. Where have I gone Lillie Ward has only one offshoot of the Leukemia Anders tutors weekly, runs wrong?! That said, things semester to go! Lillie is also and Lymphoma Society, daily and attends every Nats are just fi ne on my end; I still working in the adoption which teaches people how baseball game he can. went to Belize over Easter unit at Families First, a to run a marathon and raise Rhett Butler writes, “Since and needless to say, it was nonprofi t in Atlanta. money for cancer research. I graduated, I worked for un-Belize-able. Next trip, Coming up on her third- Katie trained for the June about two years in sales and New Zealand. year anniversary at Lenny’s 1 San Diego Rock ’n’ Roll then started working at a As always, please send Franchisor, Molly Fitzpatrick Marathon. public accounting fi rm in me your funny, interesting, is now in the training Craig Cooper graduated June 2007. I have passed mundane and life-changing department, training from the University of

{ 50 } S U M M E R 2 0 0 8 • R H O D E S r h o d e s . e d u Missouri School of Law in continuing care retirement and serves as an icebreaker one of his friends opened May and will sit for the bar communities. In November and buoy tender. Since their own small business in in July. 2007, she joined Greystone reporting to the Mackinaw, Bentonville, Phat Tire Bike Carrie Wieners accepted Communities as a senior Emily has enjoyed driving Shop (phattirebicycles.com). the position of curator at associate in the Planning the ship and navigating the Brian Steinert and Ashley The Durham Museum in and Finance Department. In Great Lakes. Honeycutt of Hoover, AL, Omaha, NE. She will move January, she completed the Laura Dallas recently married in July 2006. He there later this summer. Big D Texas Half Marathon, fi nished her Teach for recently completed a M.S. Tripp Hullender recently and is happy to rest her legs America commitment and in materials engineering at started his new job in private until training begins for the master’s in Washington, DC. the University of Alabama banking at Regions Bank in Dallas White Rock Half this She plans to remain in early at Birmingham and in June, Memphis. November. childhood education. began a career with NASA Hailey Hopper David Susannah Morse will at the Marshall Space Flight graduated from the complete her graduate Center in Huntsville. University of Memphis 2006 degree in speech language Marie Francis lives in Law School May 4. She Reporter: Nicole Vasquez pathology in August from Washington, DC, where and her husband Matthew nicolev@rhodes-alumni. the University of Memphis. she is a press assistant for are moving back to their net Rob and Claire Singleton Sen. Evan Bayh of Indiana. hometown of Jackson, TN, Caroline Ferrari is Williams married Jan. 19, She recently ran the Credit where Hailey has a job with currently living in 2008, in Memphis. Jenny Union Cherry Blossom 10 Waldrop & Hall. downtown Memphis Rogers, Callie Brooks and Mile Run. Jason Cheek recently and working at ABC24, Tess Waechter ’07 were Laura Caroline Johnson quit his job at Ernst & writing and selling local bridesmaids. Tiane Leonard is currently living in Young in Atlanta and has commercials. She shares an ’07, Rene Orth ’07, Addie Memphis and working as moved to Florida, where apartment with my one- Peyronnin and Bethany the project coordinator for he has launched an ice year-old gray tabby kitten, Lindamin ’07 were also the UrbanArt Commission, vending franchise; he places Delilah. involved in the ceremony. a nonprofi t public art freestanding ice machines Emily Davis has signed Claire is loving married organization. on beaches and in small on for a third year with life and enjoying their new Daniel Jones and Andrea rural fi shing communities. The Langley School in home in Boone, NC. She Moore ’08 married May 24, Business appears to be McLean, VA. In February, recently began working as 2008. robust; he expects to have she was promoted to the a shelter case manager for Adam Keckler is a project 20 different locations in 10 position of assistant director OASIS Inc., a nonprofi t engineer and survey manager different Florida cities by the of Advancement. She also serving victims of domestic for DART CMGC-1 in end of this year. continues to run road violence and sexual assault. Dallas. Kelly Forehand, who races on a monthly basis in Alice Turner and Richard Nicole Vazquez completed graduated from the the DC-Metro area, most Frost ’04 married June 9, her role as the Fortune University of Alabama recently the Cherry Blossom 2007. Teller in the musical “Side School of Law in May, will 10 Miler, and will compete Jenny Rogers has been Show” with Arneson take the Alabama Bar in the Afl ac Iron Girl accepted into the journalism Productions during the Examination in July. She Triathlon (her very fi rst!) graduate program at the premier performance last fall. looks forward to practicing June 29 in Atlanta. University of Missouri this Soon after, she took on the law in Montgomery. After graduation, Emily fall. role of Mary Boleyn during Jane Anne Miller Chlum spent the summer Tim Robinson currently the Texas Renaissance graduated in December in New Orleans assisting lives in Bentonville, AR, Festival where she not only from Trinity University the Coast Guard with where he works at the acted and sang, but also with a M.S. in health Hurricane Katrina relief Wal-Mart. Merchandising directed, choreographed care administration. She before heading to Coast Finance Division as a and participated in armed now works as associate Guard Offi cer Candidate strategy fi nance manager. and unarmed stage combat administrator for Southwest School. She graduated from In his spare time, Tim and throughout the Faire. Nicole General Hospital in San OCS, became an ensign in friends have been actively recently accepted a position Antonio, TX. February 2007 and reported involved in building bike as a brand ambassador with Joanna Young recently left to the USCGC Mackinaw, trails (slaughterpen.com) De Beers Diamond Jewellers Bank of America Corporate home ported in Cheboygan, and developing the cycling in Houston, where she is Debt Underwriting to MI. Mackinaw is the largest community in Northwest enjoying selling luxury high- pursue a career in the fi eld of cutter in the Great Lakes Arkansas. Last July, Tim and end diamond jewelry. rhodes.edu SUMMER 2008 • RHODES { 51 } Class Notes According to Alice King, I am accountable for fi ve the career that I have.” Germantown’s Shelby Sun “I’m teaching Texas history percent of all of Sara Lee’s Josh Tesreau and Rachel Times newspaper. She is and United States history business (or $105 million). Ozbun married Aug. 4, also a member and soon- at Burnet Middle School, a So how did a 22-year-old 2007, in their hometown to-be ambassador for the Title I school in Austin, TX.” less-than-stellar history of Doniphan, MO. They Germantown Chamber of major from Rhodes College currently reside in Westville, Commerce. obtain such a demanding IN, about an hour outside role? Simple. The history of Chicago. The couple 2007 professors challenged my honeymooned at a private Korey Betts writes, “I mind and spirit daily. They beach resort in Negril, 2008 have recently accepted a role found qualities in me that I Jamaica, before returning Commencement honors on the Wal-Mart Account did not know I had. More to Indiana, where Rachel went to: Joan Campbell, the Management Team for Sara important, they developed is a graduate student and Peyton Nalle Rhodes Phi Lee. My responsibility is to my mind to think critically Josh is a United States Steel Beta Kappa Award, and manage all aspects of the and analyze and interpret. manager. Francesca Davis and Brian Wal-Mart distribution centers Without these skills I would Courtney Ambrosia is Darrith, Algernon Sydney in the Western United States. not have been able to land an account executive for Sullivan Awards.

In Memoriam ’35 Rosalie Keenan and Dixie Gas Inc., and nephews. years Mary Ann Simonton Watkins of Memphis, they farmed Caledonia ’38 Cornelia Battle Spence ’43; a daughter; a son, Sept. 24, 2007. She taught Plantation. He was an elder Crinkley of Memphis, March John Wilson Spence III ’74; school for many years, in the Marks Presbyterian 7, 2008. She taught in the and two grandchildren. primarily second grade Church, a past moderator Memphis City Schools for ’40 William Dearing at East Elementary. She of Covenant Presbytery more than 40 years, mainly Jemison Jr. of Waycross, was an active member of (PCA) and a past president at Central and White GA, formerly of Memphis, Second Presbyterian Church, of the Marks Rotary Club, Station High schools. An March 12, 2008. He was where she took part in the in which he was named avid bridge player, she active in real estate, home Mary and Martha Circle, a Paul Harris fellow. He was a longtime member building and Holiday Inns. volunteered in the church was also a member of the of Idlewild Presbyterian A World War II Army library and was a member Chancellor’s Trust at the Church, where she belonged veteran, he was president of of the A.B. Curry Sunday University of Mississippi, to the Hannah Circle. She W.D. Jemison and Sons as school class. She was a the University of Mississippi leaves a great-niece and fi ve well as the Home Builders member of the Lelia Heuer Loyalty Foundation and a caretakers. Association of Memphis, Kings Daughters Circle, board member of several ’39 John Wilson Spence of and vice president of the Listeners Book Club and professional and civic Memphis, March 11, 2008. Memphis Board of Realtors. DAR. The widow of Lt. organizations. He leaves his He served as a navigator of A member of several civic Harry Beaumont Watkins Jr., wife of 64 years, Frances a B17 crew that was part organizations, he was a who died in World War II, Clark Graeber; a sister; a of the fi rst U.S. bomber member and life elder of she leaves a daughter, three brother; a daughter, Geri group to cross the Atlantic Lindenwood Christian grandsons, a great-grandson, Graeber Pitts ’68; three sons; to England during World Church, where he taught a sister, numerous nieces and seven grandchildren and one War II. He was shot down Sunday school to both nephews and fi ve caretakers. great-grandchild. in combat over France and teenagers and adults for ’36 Lewis Adolphus ’37 Ann Sledge Crain of escaped with the help of 50 years, served as board Graeber Jr. of Marks, MS, Dallas, Jan. 21, 2008. She French Underground. He chairman and sang in the March 22, 2008. A lifelong was a dedicated longtime was a reporter for The Press choir. He leaves his wife of resident of Marks, he served volunteer at Presbyterian Scimitar, for which he wrote 60 years, Eva Lee Williams; in the Navy in World War Hospital of Dallas. She crusading articles against three sons; seven grandsons; II, was stationed at Pearl also worked with the fl ower boss politics and segregated one granddaughter; and Harbor and was dispatched guild at Preston Hollow schools, and served as three great-grandchildren. a lieutenant commander. Presbyterian Church, where assistant commissioner of ’41 Catherine Ramsey He, his brother and their she was a member for many the U.S. Commission on Broadfoot of Williamsburg, father founded Graeber years. She leaves a grandson Civil Rights during the VA, March 7, 2008. She Brothers Inc. in 1937 and several nieces and 1960s. He leaves his of 62 lived in Memphis, as

{ 52 } S U M M E R 2 0 0 8 • R H O D E S r h o d e s . e d u well as Ohio, Iowa and Beach, FL, Feb. 21, 2008. grandchildren. Women’s Club, the Sauk North Carolina during He was retired from Baptist ’46 Stephen Allen Pridgen Trail Chapter of the DAR, her husband’s career with Memorial Hospital’s of Memphis, February 2, Friends of the Park Forest Firestone Tire and Rubber administrative staff, where 2008. An Air Force surgeon Library and Girl Scouts. Co. She was involved he had served as a vice during the Korean War, he The widow of Arthur Frank in charities, church and president. He was a member also served as county health Spengler Jr., she leaves a education. The widow of H. of several professional offi cer in Washington sister, two daughters, a Lynn Broadfoot, she leaves associations and the recipient County, MS, for one year. grandson and many nieces two daughters, a son, seven of many awards. He also Afterward, he returned to and nephews. grandchildren and three played the piano and sang in Memphis, where he was ’48 Tremon (Ted) O. great-grandchildren. the Memphis Dixie Cotton resident surgeon at John Baucum Jr. of Memphis, ’42 James Jones Jackson Boll Barbershop Chorus Gaston Hospital. He began March 25, 2008. He served Jr. of Memphis, Dec. 3, for 25 years. An active private practice in 1955 in the Navy during World 2007. Retired from Fulmer member of First Presbyterian and was on staff at Baptist War II and later, managed Hardware, he was a member Church of Destin and an Memorial Hospital for 41 Sterick Garage. He was of Gideon International elder in the Presbyterian years. He was a fellow of president of SERTOMA and a charter member of Church (U.S.A.), he leaves the American College of from 1973-1974 and the Dixie Rose Club. He his wife of 55 years, the Rev. Surgeons and a member of treasurer of Boy Scout belonged to St. Luke’s Kathleen Hardison Hodgson the Memphis and Shelby Troop 75 at Mullins United United Methodist Church, ’55; three children; and four County Medical Society Methodist Church. He also where he was a member of grandchildren. and the Southern Surgical taught children’s Sunday the Men’s Prayer Breakfast ’46 Clyde Austin McLeod Society. He was a founding school at First Evangelical Club and Loyalty Fellowship of Jackson, MS, Dec. 9, member of the International Church. He leaves his wife Class. He leaves his twin 2007. A World War II Phalaenopsis Alliance. He of 58 years, Marjorie Allen sister, Marie Jackson Tribble. Navy veteran, he began his attended First Evangelical Baucum ’50, two sons and a ’42 Josephine Gilfi llan career as an apprentice with Church for more than 50 brother. Seabrook of Memphis, the Frisco Railroad and years. He leaves his wife ’48 Gene Ruffner Page of Nov. 12, 2007. She was a ended his tenure as western of 60 years, Sally Lundy Memphis, Jan. 25, 2007. A former member of the TNT division superintendent in Pridgen; three daughters; World War II Navy veteran, Investment Club, Eastwood Ft. Worth, TX. In 1960, the a son; a sister; fi ve he was a surgical oncologist. Garden Club, Thalia Circle family moved to Jackson, grandchildren; and three From 1962 he practiced at of the King’s Daughters MS, where he worked with great-granddaughters. the Page Surgical Oncology and Sons and The Woman’s the Mississippi Research ’47 Mary Gideon Schillig Clinic and the Memphis Exchange. She was an and Development Center, of Davidson, TN, Nov. 10, Cancer Center. He was on active member of Idlewild served as lobbyist for the 2007. She was a member of staff at Baptist Memorial Presbyterian Church, where Mississippi Economics Christ Church Cathedral Hospital, where he held a she was among the founding Council and as director in Nashville and for many teaching appointment in the members of the LeMaster of public affairs for the years served on the Altar Intern Residency Program. Sunday school class. She Mississippi Manufacturers Guild and was a volunteer He was also on staff at the leaves her husband of 66 Association before retiring at St. Luke’s This-n-That University of Tennessee years, Conrad Seabrook; two in 1987. He was an active Thrift Shop. The widow Medical School. A member daughters, Gail Ganier ’68 member of Broadmoor of Dr. Stephen Schillig, of several professional and Lee Duncan ’73; and Baptist Church for 40 she was active in several organizations, he was three grandchildren. years and later belonged organizations, including an elder at Shady Grove ’43 William Southall to Northminster Baptist the Medical Auxiliary, Presbyterian Church. He Wills of Memphis, June Church. After retirement, Windemere Garden Club, leaves his wife of 53 years, 24, 2007. He was a retired he volunteered as a Wednesday Study Club, Ella Howard Pickens Page salesman for Three States mediator for Christian Southern Writers Book ’52; three daughters; and a Supply Co. A member Conciliation Services and Group and the Wednesday brother, Roy C. Page ’52. of Idlewild Presbyterian served as a docent for the Emmaus Group. ’48 Maclyn (Mac) Neil Church, he leaves his wife Alsace to America exhibit ’47 Mary Rhea Spengler Turnage of Atlanta, March of 28 years, Mary Wills; a hosted by the Institute of of Sun City, AZ, formerly 19, 2008. A retired granddaughter; a grandson; Southern Jewish Life. He of Park Forest, IL, Dec. Presbyterian minister, and a great-grandson. leaves his wife of 55 years, 1, 2007. She was active he served pastorates in ’46 Hubert (Hugh) Carey Ruby Langley McLeod; in various organizations, Mississippi, Texas, Tokyo Hodgson of Fort Walton fi ve children; and 16 including the Park Forest and North Carolina. He rhodes.edu SUMMER 2008 • RHODES { 53 } In Memoriam served on the faculty at II of Sarasota, FL, and Frederick Link ’52. Award for service in 1990. Union Theological Seminary Memphis, Dec. 25, 2007. ’54 Bettie Worthington A member of the American in Richmond, VA, and spent He served as a captain in the Shenk of Kingston, TN, Guild of Organists for retirement in Texas, South U.S. Army from 1950-53, Dec. 20, 2007. She and her 50 years, he led the local Carolina and Georgia. He and his professional career husband, a Presbyterian chapter as dean many leaves his wife, Anne Shaw spanned four decades, with minister, lived in Alabama times, and served as a board Turnage; a daughter; two 16 years spent at Dow and Tennessee, where he member of the Sewanee sons; six grandchildren; and Corning. In 1977, when held pastorates. An avid Church Music Conference. two great-grandchildren. Dow acquired Wright church worker, she also He leaves a sister and an ’50 William Edward Leland Manufacturing Company, served as a VISTA worker aunt. of Tarboro, NC, Oct. 14, his family business, he and hospice volunteer. She ’63 Paul Thomas Hicks 2007. A World War II became president of the leaves her husband of 52 of Memphis, April 18, Navy veteran, he retired as resulting entity, Dow years, the Rev. William E. 2008. He was the author of senior vice president of CIT Corning Wright. In the Shenk ’55; a daughter; a son; four books pertaining to Financial. He leaves his wife following decade, he was three grandchildren; and the history of Methodist of 59 years, Joanne Hall appointed vice president and several nieces and nephews. churches in Memphis, as Leland ’50; three children; general manager and later ’58 Lewis Langley Wilkins well as an author and and 10 grandchildren. chairman of Dow Corning’s of Lubbock, TX, Jan. publisher of Christian music. ’51 Gus Kaiser Bell Health Care Business. He 31, 2008. A Presbyterian He was a member of the of Nashville, TN, Jan. leaves his wife, Kay Bolin minister, he served in West Tennessee Historical 19, 2008. One of the Rylee; a son; two stepsons; a variety of positions, Society; examination fi rst psychologists at the and four grandchildren. ranging from the local organizer of the American Nashville Mental Health ’52 Camilla Van Dyke church to denominational Guild of Organists, Center (later named Thomas of El Dorado, AR, and interdenominational Memphis Chapter; member DeDe Wallace Center), Feb. 29, 2008. A volunteer organizations in the U.S. of the Beethoven Club; he taught at several local grammar school tutor for and abroad. In later years, and organist for Memphis colleges and universities. many years, she also was a he worked in partnership Theological Seminary. He served as president of Camp Fire leader and Cub with his wife in the Plains He served as organist Tennessee Psychological Scout den leader. She was a Institute for Organizational and/or choir director for Association and later as the member of the El Dorado Consulting and Coaching. Underwood, St. Luke’s, organization’s historian. Service League and an He was an honorably retired Trinity and First United In 2006, he received the acolyte master at St. Mary’s member of Sierra Blanca Methodist churches, and Outstanding Contribution Episcopal Church. She Presbytery and an associate was interim organist and in Psychology by a leaves her husband of 57 member of Shepherd carillonneur at Idlewild Psychologist award from years, Charles E. Thomas King Lutheran Church in Presbyterian Church. He the association. A charter II; a daughter; a son; four Lubbock. He leaves his wife, leaves two sisters and a member of Brookmeade grandchildren; and a brother. Judy McDonald Wilkins; brother. Congregational Church, he ’53 Rose Link Mosby of two sons; two daughters; ’63 Robert Clinton leaves his wife of 55 years, Memphis, March 27, 2008. two grandchildren; and a Threlkeld of Greer, SC, Dec. Norma Jean Maddox Bell Beginning in 1966, she was brother. 30, 2007. He served as a U.S. ’51; a daughter; a son; a a professor of Spanish at ’61 David Ramsey of Army medic and had a long brother; and his parents. Rhodes, and continued as Memphis, Jan. 17, 2008. career in banking and real ’52 Bristol Sherman an adjunct instructor from Distinguished Service estate. He was active in the Baggett Jr. of Memphis, Feb. 1987-92. She also taught Professor at Rhodes, he Presbyterian Church and 12, 2008. For 14 years, he at Miss Lee’s School of also served as director of served on the New Church was a senior management Childhood for 20 years. She music and organist at First Development Committee. analyst at the Pentagon. was the widow of Charles Presbyterian Church, as well He leaves two sons, a sister, Subsequently, he taught at L. Mosby ’51, a longtime as organist for the Memphis two brothers and several the University of Memphis member of the Rhodes Redbirds Baseball team. He nieces and nephews. and Christian Brothers music faculty who also began his teaching career ’65 Harvey Goldner of University. He leaves his chaired the department at Rhodes in 1965, where Seattle, July 4, 2007. A wife of 35 years, Claudia for many years. She leaves he was accompanist for the Tennessee native, he spent Sawyer Baggett; a daughter; a daughter and two sons, Rhodes Singers and later more than half his life in two sons; a sister and four Kathleen ’88, Michael the MasterSingers Chorale. Seattle. He wrote several grandchildren. ’86 and Charles ’85; six He received the Charles volumes of poetry, including ’52 Robert Tilman Rylee grandchildren; and a brother, E. Diehl Society Faculty The Resurrection of Bert

{ 54 } S U M M E R 2 0 0 8 • R H O D E S r h o d e s . e d u Ringold, which recently was Conception High School children’s basketball teams, to complete a master’s published posthumously. and Rhodes. She leaves a despite being legally blind. degree in curriculum and He previously edited his son, John M. Munden ’73, a He leaves his wife, Tracy instruction in spring 2008. own quarterly poetry daughter and a brother. Vezina Patterson ’84; three She was in her third year magazine, Roar Shock. In ’76 Kathleen Stevenson children; his mother; a of teaching world history earlier years, he worked of Davidson, NC, Nov. brother; a nephew; two at Cheyenne East High in hospitals, mainly as an 27, 2007. She was the aunts; and two uncles. School, where she was the X-ray technician. Later in senior associate dean of ’88 Kellie Elizabeth step team sponsor. She life, he drove a taxi part admission and fi nancial Lartigue-Ndiaye of Mali, also served as an instructor time. He read his poetry aid at Davidson College. West Africa, Dec. 21, 2007. at the Community Based at Frye Art Museum and She served on the College She served in the Peace Occupation Education Poets West and for the Scholarship Service’s Corps in Senegal, where center in Cheyenne. She Seattle City Council’s poetry Financial Aid Standards she met her husband. maintained her membership program, Word’s Worth; and Services Advisory She worked with AIDS with the First Presbyterian he also frequented open- Committee, as vice president prevention, testing and Church in Jacksonville. mic nights. He leaves two for the North Carolina counseling projects in She leaves her parents, a daughters, two sons and Association of Financial Rwanda, Zambia and Mali. grandmother, two brothers eight grandchildren. Aid Administrators and She joined the Center for and a niece. ’72 William Hunter as a faculty member for Disease Control in 1997 ’02 Frank Winter Hardie of Atkinson of Clarksville, TN, organizations that supported and served for fi ve years as Houston, formerly of Mobile, Feb. 25, 2008. A professor new collegiate fi nancial a training specialist and a AL, Dec. 26, 2007. He was a of biology at Hopkinsville aid offi cer workshops. She public health analyst. Most counselor at Camp Mac near Community College’s Fort leaves her parents, a sister, a recently, she was recognized Talladega, AL, for many Campbell branch, he was an brother and two nephews. for her role in the formation years and a former editor of Army veteran, a Kentucky ’78 Cynthia (Cindy) Elam of the CDC Avian Infl uenza the Civil War Book Review at Colonel and member of First Hall of Jackson, TN, March Group. Additionally, she LSU. A member of St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church. He 19, 2008. She was employed and her husband established Episcopal Church in Mobile, leaves his mother; a brother, by Madison County Juvenile a nonprofi t organization, he leaves his wife, Elaine Edward R. Atkinson Jr. ’67; Court Services until she Jef Jel (“Give and Take”) de la Houssaye Hardie; his a sister, Betty Gibson ’68; became a stay-at-home mom. that brings help to the parents; two brothers; a and two nieces. She was active in United remote village of Ndangane, sister; and a nephew. ’72 Joseph Standridge Way, Regional Inter-Faith Senegal. She leaves her ’06 Matthew David McLain (Stan) Hamilton of Association Soup Kitchen husband, Karim Ndiaye; of Huntsville, AL, April 4, Cookeville, TN, April 15, and the Children’s Ministry three sons; her parents; a 2008. A fi rst-year student 2008. A retired educator, at First Baptist Church. She brother; and two sisters. at Cumberland School he taught for a number of leaves her husband, Tom ’96 Timothy Paul Rhodes of Law in Birmingham, years at Grace-St. Luke’s Hall; two children; a sister, of Clarksville, TN, formerly he leaves his father and Episcopal School in Susan Flexner ’80; and her of Atoka, TN, Oct. 26, mother, two sisters, four Memphis. He later held mother. 2007. The owner of Balique stepsisters, a stepbrother, various positions as an ’85 Scott Douglas World Spa, he was an active his grandmothers and a education administrator. He Patterson of Memphis, April member of Hilldale Baptist grandfather, two aunts and leaves a brother, a nephew, 17, 2008. After graduating Church, a Gideon and a three uncles. a niece, a great-niece and from Rhodes, he joined world traveler. He leaves his great-nephew. Merrill Lynch, where he wife of fi ve years, Dr. Lisa ’72 Daniel E. Hieber of was named to the Executive M. Rhodes; his parents; and Gatlinburg, TN, Oct. 22, Club. In 1993, he joined a sister. 2007. He leaves a daughter, American Express Financial ’01 Adah Laura Coultas of a granddaughter, his father, Advisors and achieved his Cheyenne, WY, formerly two brothers and sister. certifi ed fi nancial planner of Jacksonville, IL, Feb. ’73 Margarita Rey Munden designation. During his 17, 2008. She began her of Memphis, Dec. 9, 2007. 12-year career as fi nancial teaching career at Central A resident of Germantown, advisor, he was awarded High School in Memphis, TN, for 40 years, she loved the Quality of Advice where she also coached the to travel and often visited Award for Excellence and girls’ cross-country, track her native country, Spain. the President’s Recognition and soccer teams. She moved She taught at Immaculate Award. He also coached to Wyoming and planned rhodes.edu SUMMER 2008 • RHODES { 55 } Enduring Strengths By President William E. Troutt

ith our Campaign for Rhodes now in full BURKS FOX JUSTIN swing, I have the privilege every week of Wtalking with alumni/ae, parents and other faithful friends of our college about what matters most at Rhodes. Our conversations always focus on the student experience here and what makes it so distinctive and life-changing. In talking with alumni/ae, the conversation quickly turns to their experiences and what continues to matter most to them from their student days here. What I inevitably hear early in our conversation is how the personal attention they received from a faculty mentor changed their lives. While they pay tribute to professors such as A.P. Kelso, Laurence Kinney, Mark McMahon, Cynthia Marshall and a host of others, the basic story remains unchanged: A dedicated professor took the interest and the time to provide direction,

encouragement and sometimes, an extra dose of tough At President and Mrs. Troutt’s reception for Rhodes Student Associates, love, to be sure students discovered their gift s and Rachel Stinson ’08 and Hai-Ching Chang ’09 admire Boomer, the Troutts’ Old English sheepdog, while Laura Sellers ’08 (top left), Elizabeth found their way. Welch ’09, Margie Smith ’09 and President Troutt look on Th ese are the stories I began to hear nine years ago when I arrived at Rhodes—how students connect study abroad, community service and creative activity. with faculty here in life-changing ways. It is one of the Fellowship opportunities for students will further enrich college’s enduring strengths that underlies our Vision for the distinctive academic experience we provide at Rhodes. Rhodes and now our Campaign for Rhodes. I am very encouraged by how alumni/ae, parents and Th is is our fi rst campaign that focuses almost friends are responding to this opportunity to invest in exclusively on supporting and connecting students, Rhodes and ensure we continue to have this interchange faculty and staff . It proposes that we build on between the very best students and the very best faculty. our historic strengths in new and exciting ways. A You read earlier, on page 2, how our chair Spence chief component of the campaign is to increase our Wilson has set an inspiring example in his support of endowment to provide fi nancial aid for more students. faculty and students here. I continue to be encouraged Th at fi nancial aid will take the form of fellowships by everyone’s response so that their stories of Rhodes’ rather than traditional scholarships. enduring strengths can be told for generations to come. A fellowship at Rhodes is an opportunity for a student to receive extraordinary faculty mentoring through classroom learning combined with research, internships,

{ 56 } S U M M E R 2 0 0 8 • R H O D E S r h o d e s . e d u Rhodes Empowered Anna Olswanger to be Creative Now she’s saying Thanks Considering her career as an award-winning playwright, cre- ator of children’s books and literary agent, it’s hard to imagine that Anna Olswanger ’75 ever marched to the beat of anyone else’s drum. Yet she says that when she came to Rhodes she had never been encouraged to think creatively.

“I attended a private girls’ school where the teacher told you the one right answer,” Anna says. “At Rhodes, where I was a communications arts major and Ray Hill was head of the department, he urged me to think for myself and explore many options. He started me on the career path I Anna Olswanger, fi rst-year student am still following today.” Anna graduated Phi Beta Kappa, then earned a master’s degree in creative writing. Currently, she is a literary agent for a New York publisher while continuing her own writing career.

Anna’s father was popular Memphis musician Berl Olswanger, her mother was an artist and her aunt was an opera singer. People tell her that creativity is in her genes.

“But you need an environment that values creativity to bring out your tal- ent fully,” she says. “That’s the kind of environment I found at Rhodes.”

In 2003, Anna made Rhodes the benefi ciary of one of her fi nancial accounts. The deferred gift will one day establish the Anna Olswanger Endowed Fund at Rhodes which may enable Jewish students to study in Israel and bring Jewish speakers or faculty to campus.

Now living in New Jersey, Anna admires the college’s growing reputa- tion. She says, “It’s still a place where students are encouraged to fi nd their own right answers. Anna Olswanger Anna named Rhodes the benefi ciary of one of her accounts. You may also designate Rhodes the benefi ciary of all or any portion of your IRA, other qualifi ed retirement plans or U.S. Savingsvvininingsgs BBonds.onndsddifi. ForFoF r informationiniinformation,fof rmattioi nn,, contactcontact:contat ctt:

Roberta Bartow Matthews Director of Planned Giving 901-843-3919 or 800-264-5969 [email protected] Additional information is available at rhodes.edu/plannedgiving NONPROFIT ORG US POSTAGE PAID SENATOBIA MS PERMIT NO. 109 2000 North Parkway Memphis, TN 38112-1690 www.rhodes.edu

Family Portrait Katherine Diehl ’68 with her sons Rob Purple ’08 (left) and Chad Purple ’03 gathered at Commencement for a family photo session with the college’s portraits of Dean Charles I. Diehl ’31, father and grandfather, and President Charles E. Diehl, grandfather and great- grandfather. JUSTIN FOX BURKS