THE MAGAZINE OF MEMPHIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL | SUMMER 2015

Feasting on Memphis and Atlanta Food Scenes

Campaigning for International Happiness

Transporting History Through the Streets

OVERTON SQUARE OVER AGAIN Midtown Center Owes Birth and Rebirth to Owl Visionaries

Tom Hayes ’83 and Bob Loeb ’73

Mikell Hazlehurst ’04 rides through tea country in Sri Lanka. Read about his adventures in India and Southeast Asia on page 22.

MUS TODAY – SUMMER 2015 1 MUS TODAY contents FEATURES: DEPARTMENTS:

Student Lauds 39 Class News 48 26 Milestones 60 A Trio of Vanderbilt Honor Faculty News 68 Council Presidents Gifts in Memory and Honor 78 The Last Word 82

4 ON THE COVER: Bob Loeb ’73, right, and Tom Hayes ’83 lead a contingent of MUS alumni who have been renovating Overton Square. A generation earlier, four Owls Bring Overton Square friends from the Class of 1963 launched the first Overton Square. Read about these multigenerational efforts on page 4. Photo by Lance Murphey to Life, Then and Now

Director of Advancement Director of Alumni and 30 Perry Dement Parent Programs [email protected] Ann Laughlin United Nations Advisor [email protected] Campaigns for Happiness Editor Managing Editor Liz Copeland Marci Woodmansee 12 [email protected] [email protected] Creative Director – LeeAnn Christopherson Journalists Capture Memphis and Atlanta Food Scenes Inside MUS and Social Media – Rebecca Greer

Contributors Christopher Blank, News Director at WKNO-FM in Memphis and Freelance Arts Writer 32 Genevieve Bettendorf, MUS Communications Intern Lisa Buser, Freelance Photographer based in Memphis ‘MUS is Who We Are; Dr. John E. Harkins, MUS Archivist and Historian SLAM is What We Do’ Mikell Hazlehurst ’04, World Traveler Lance Murphey, Freelance Photographer based in Memphis Susan Puckett, Food Writer and Author based in Atlanta Gaye Swan, Freelance Writer based in Memphis 22 Norman Thompson, MUS Instructor in English World Traveler Studies in India, with Trips on the Side

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You Can Get There From Here t has been several years since I arrived on the white- character. They harnessed the power of the MUS community, columned doorstep of Humphreys Hall, a refugee, enlisting a host of fellow Owls to renovate, repurpose, and of sorts, from the shrinking newspaper industry. rebuild a new Overton Square for a new millennium. Jayme Illien ’98 describes the convergence of two life stories of interest on this new beat, at the intersection II wondered, at the time, if I would find enough of Park Avenue and Ridgeway Road. I soon discovered as a human right through the United Nations-backed these 94 acres have cultivated a bountiful harvest for the Internationalinfluences that Day shaped of Happiness. his passion One to is promote his adoptive happiness mother, pages of MUS Today – stories of civic involvement, career accomplishment, family devotion, artistic expression, orphaned and abandoned children worldwide. The other is innovation, and adventure. This issue of the magazine is hisAnna alma Belle mater: Illien, “MUS who taughtfinds permanent, me the importance loving homes of ethics, for no exception. values, and academic excellence, and introduced me to some Author and journalist Hampton Sides ’80 says what of my best friends,” he says. he does “is at the intersection of English and history.” His Two journalists, John Klyce Minervini ’03 in Creative Director – LeeAnn Christopherson latest best-seller, In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Memphis and Evan Mah ’09 in Atlanta, have taken different Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette, is a case in roads to discover the intersection of food and culture at the Inside MUS and Social Media – Rebecca Greer point. Remembering his MUS days, he talks about reading Southern table. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. “It’s a story about dark Walter Wills ’67 took his 180-year-old family home on adventure and hardship and extreme climate situations. the road – through the streets of East Memphis – to preserve Contributors Probably a lot of that book rubbed off on me.” This from the historic Kirby Farm House for his children and future Christopher Blank, News Director at WKNO-FM in Memphis and Freelance Arts Writer the author who brings to life American history adventures generations. Genevieve Bettendorf, MUS Communications Intern and hardships – often set in extreme climates. Some of his These are just a few of the stories in the summer 2015 Lisa Buser, Freelance Photographer based in Memphis teachers rubbed off on him as well, he says, mentioning issue of MUS Today, stories of well-rounded young men Dr. John E. Harkins, MUS Archivist and Historian titans of English Bill Hatchett and Ellis Haguewood (who who used what they learned at the intersection of Park and Mikell Hazlehurst ’04, World Traveler marks two decades as headmaster this year) and history Ridgeway to forge new paths with their lives. I am grateful Lance Murphey, Freelance Photographer based in Memphis teacher Mike Deaderick. to be along for the ride. Susan Puckett, Food Writer and Author based in Atlanta A concrete intersection – the juncture of Cooper and Gaye Swan, Freelance Writer based in Memphis Madison in Memphis – has been the focus of revitalization Norman Thompson, MUS Instructor in English efforts by Lou Loeb ’71 and Bob Loeb ’73. A quartet of their predecessors from the Class of 1963 zeroed in on – Liz Copeland that same Midtown intersection in the ’70s, developing the Director of Communications original Overton Square. Over the years the once-bustling [email protected] entertainment district had deteriorated, and in 2009 it faced being razed and turned into a retail center by out-of- towners. The Loeb brothers had other plans, for a theater district and town center that retained the neighborhood’s

MUS TODAY – SUMMER 2015 3 HIP REPLACEMENT Overton Square Owes its Birth and Rebirth to Alumni Visionaries by Christopher Blank

4 MUS TODAY – SUMMER 2015 Every big city has a signature neighborhood street corner – the hip and happening place outside of downtown proper where the locals flock and the tourists visit if they know better.

hat was Overton Square in the 1970s, conceived by a group The storefronts were bare. of young and ambitious businessmen. They transformed Out-of-town owners balked at the cost of renovation. Tthe quiet Midtown intersection of Cooper and Madison into Bulldozers would flatten the block. In its place would rise a Memphis’ premier destination for a good time. strip mall and a discount grocery store. Judging by recent Friday night crowds, one might imagine Fortunately, Overton Square was reclaimed by Memphians that the mojo never subsided – that the patios have always been a who wanted their good times back. swirling mix of theatergoers, bachelor parties, yoga students, It required a special group of people to build – and then rebuild and foodies. – the heart of Midtown Memphis. But then, Overton Square has But not only did Overton Square spend nearly two decades on always benefited from bold and progressive backers – many of life support, it nearly flatlined a few years ago. whom call Memphis University School their alma mater.

MUS TODAY – SUMMER 2015 5 Today’s Overton Square bustles at twilight. Photos by Lance Murphey “It’s been very gratifying and energizing for my brother, Lou, and me, who are in our 60s, to work on projects that help attract and retain Millennials in the heart of Memphis. The best part of the Overton Square story is that we’re not alone in this momentum shift. Since we started this, there’s been Crosstown, the Tennessee Brewery, the Medical District. All of these projects have been very collaborative.” -Bob Loeb ’73, president of Loeb Properties

6 MUS TODAY – SUMMER 2015 The Gold Mine women to hang out in bars unaccompanied. Friday’s was ready for business. In the late 1960s, two intersections got Where the girls hung out, the boys “Charlie Hull drove up to Nashville together and made a love child called followed. So did the money. and got the license,” Robinson says. “The Overton Square. The first was the intersec- Doggrell had stumbled upon the liquor distributors (in Memphis) had their tion of Madison Avenue and Cooper Street, world’s first Friday’s (later TGI Friday’s), trucks loaded up, waiting for the license a small commercial zone that had sprung up a place that became regarded as the gold number. Within an hour of him getting back, around a long-gone trolley stop. The second standard of the 1970s singles bar – the the trucks were unloading the liquor. We was the intersection of changing fashions wood-clad interior, the stained-glass were in a position to sell drinks by about 4 and mores during the peak of the sexual lampshades, the eclectic décor and, of p.m. that afternoon. By 8 p.m. the line was revolution. course, the potted ferns. around the corner. The line stayed around At least, that’s how it felt for James Doggrell and Robinson saw an the corner for the next four years.” Robinson ’63, or Jimmy, as he was known opportunity. The first full-service singles bar in at the time. “I flew back to Manhattan and talked Memphis was a sensation. After a couple of years at MUS, he fin- to the owners of Friday’s and told them “You went into Friday’s and you ished high school at a military academy we wanted to build one in Memphis,” says weren’t in Memphis anymore,” Robinson near Nashville. He returned to Memphis post-college as a motorcycle-riding hippie with a Prince Valiant haircut. “There weren’t many hippies in Memphis at the time, so it was kind of groundbreaking when I started a hippie bar there on that corner,” says Robinson, now president and managing partner for Flightline Air Charter and ground services, based in New Orleans. “Very avant-garde. Not very successful.” His beer joint was called The Perception, open from 5:30 p.m. to whenever. Psychedelic posters tacked to Founders of TGI Friday’s in Memphis and Overton Square are pictured shortly after the opening of the the walls glowed under the black lights. restaurant. Surrounding James Robinson (on the motorcycle) are, from left, Ben Woodson, George Saig, He played Hendrix on the jukebox. Charlie Hull, and Frank Doggrell. At right, Robinson enjoys a drink in the restaurant in 1970. Photos by The bar served everything from Charles Nicholas, The Commercial Appeal beer to beer, as Memphis had not yet legalized liquor sales in bars. Doggrell, now a retired financial executive says. “We didn’t do any advertising, really. As Robinson remembers it, the who still lives in the city. “They were like: It just caught on. It was a gold mine.” Madison Avenue of post-war Memphis ‘Where’s Memphis?’” Considering what TGI Friday’s became “consisted of honky-tonk redneck beer Doggrell and Robinson partnered with over the next four decades – a suburban joints. Low-end, grubby little places. There their friends the late Ben Woodson ’63 family chain restaurant – it’s hard to imag- wasn’t much in the way of contemporary and Charlie Hull ’63 (Hull attended MUS ine the hip factor of the original Overton music. Memphis was a pretty dull place.” for seventh and eighth grades). They built Square franchise. The band Big Star (which One day an old friend, Frank Doggrell the bar in an “ad-libbed” semblance of the featured Andy Hummel ’69 and Chris Bell ’63, showed up at The Perception during original, scouring antique stores and old ’69) is seen hanging out there on the back a visit home to Memphis. He had been buildings for decorations. cover of their milestone record Radio City, training in Manhattan to be a stockbroker, To conserve funds Robinson took on released in 1974. and he found himself increasingly drawn the role of general contractor. The venture Woodson, the money guy, had been in to a cool bar around the corner from his teetered on bankruptcy several times before the real estate business. Knowing that the apartment. the doors even opened. property value could skyrocket if the bar There wasn’t anything like it in “We were on a serious shoestring,” was successful, he negotiated a ground lease Memphis. For one, it sold drinks. Real Robinson says. “It came very close to not with Union Planters Bank with the option drinks. For another, there were girls in this happening.” to buy later. It turned out to be a savvy bar. Single girls. In 1969 Memphis finally passed a decision. Inspired in part by Ghirardelli The changing social mores of the late referendum to sell liquor and wine in bars. Square in San Francisco and flush with ’60s had made it more acceptable for single The day the new law came into effect, Friday’s cash, the group went on a

MUS TODAY – SUMMER 2015 7 developing boom, buying up nearby There was one property the young Commercial real estate agent James properties and installing new businesses. developers could not acquire, a convenience Rasberry told the local media that he They added a concert venue, Lafay- store and laundry on the corner of Madison couldn’t attract national tenants to Overton ette’s Music Room, which had a French and Cooper owned by the Loeb family. Square because the household income of the Quarter theme. Billy Joel played there “Back in the day when Overton Square surrounding neighborhoods was too low. For Jackie Nichols, executive producer of the neighborhood’s Playhouse on the Square, the real problem was that the long-distance owner just didn’t understand Memphis. “He was living in Colorado,” Nichols says. “He had nothing at stake. He didn’t care about our community, just about the bottom line.” In 2009 Memphians got word that Overton Square would be razed. Five new retail buildings, including a grocery store, would rise in its place. Groups such as Memphis Heritage, a Facebook forum called Save Our Square, and Midtown Ac- tion Coalition marshaled public sentiment against the demolition permit. In December 2009 then-City Council member Shea Flinn ’91 called an informal meeting between opponents of the redevelopment plan and property owners. Developers agreed to delay and later drop the demolition request, Some of the alumni involved in the creation and recreation of Overton Square, include, front which cleared the way for a hometown plan. row, from left, Tom Marshall, Justin Grinder, Brett Grinder, Tom Hayes; back row, Shea Flinn, Bob Loeb, and Frank Doggrell. Revival On a rainy Wednesday night in October several times in the 1970s, along with Barry was cooking, it was a seedy convenience of 2011, Playhouse on the Square hosted a Manilow, Maria Muldaur, and even Kiss. store,” Robinson says. “We approached Bob one-night, standing-room-only performance Across the street, they opened the Loeb’s ’73 father and uncle a dozen times by a man who could change Overton Bombay Bicycle Club, where Bosco’s to get them to sell it to us or do something Square’s destiny. is now. with it, but they refused to even discuss it. Developer Bob Loeb dazzled hundreds “We coined the named Overton Square Here we are a generation later, and Bob has of development-anxious Midtowners with to make it homogenous,” Doggrell says. decided to do the big number.” a presentation titled “Overton Square “It was a reference to Overton Park, pure Rebirth.” geography.” A Property in Peril Loeb Properties, a Memphis company Overton Square would swell to about Tastes and trends changed over the known for rehabbing old buildings, would 11 acres of prime Midtown real estate and next 30 years, as did the owners of Overton invest $19.2 million in the acquisition, 80,000 square feet of retail space. Square. The property was eventually renovation, and revitalization of the Square. Memphians could now drink freely in acquired by an out-of-state owner who had The proposed venture would keep bars such as Silky O’Sullivan’s and Trader little interest in the character of Midtown the storefronts intact, help the city with a Dick’s, enjoy the “buttercrust toast” at Memphis. much-needed water detention project and Burkle’s Bakery or popovers at Paulette’s. The wild nightlife had migrated parking garage, and offer prime real estate There was an ice skating rink at one time, to a rejuvenated Beale Street. By 2003, for a new black repertory theater company. and an assortment of other stores and TGI Friday’s bore little resemblance to After the ovation died down, the real nightspots. the popular singles bar it once had been. work began on what Loeb, the president of In 1977, a year of record profits, The Dallas-based corporation closed the Loeb Properties, would later call one of the Overton Square had 11 restaurants, 27 shops restaurant to concentrate on what a compa- most time-consuming projects of his career. (including Maggie’s Pharm, which is still in ny representative called its “free-standing “In dollar terms, we’ve been involved business), and 800 employees. suburbia concepts.” in larger projects,” Loeb says. “But in

8 MUS TODAY – SUMMER 2015 “I think some of the confidence I had starting Overton Square was acquired at MUS and by having associations with people who had good things going for them. They were keen on creating their own businesses, had good business sense.” -Frank Doggrell ’63, one of the first partners in Overton Square

MUS TODAY – SUMMER 2015 9 terms of community impact and hours of Overton Square.” real estate business in the early ’80s – “on a executive time dedicated to a single project, The space once designated for a shoestring,” Lou Loeb says. “We developed this has everything beat.” grocery store was sold to the City of a knack for renovating older properties and His biggest challenge was, simply, Memphis. A massive concrete tank, then upgrading the tenant base. This made addressing the concerns of all of the area’s designed to temporarily hold millions of the Square a natural target for us. Even “stakeholders.” He solicited input from gallons of floodwater, now sits under the though it presented extensive obstacles preservationists, business owners, residents, city’s three-level parking garage. It is as and city officials. deep as the garage is tall. It was the beginning of Loeb’s “Loeb’s vision could have worked interest in “New Urbanism” – the idea that without the parking structure,” Flinn says. redevelopment should respect the character “He didn’t need it. But the city desperately of a place while creating a renewed sense needed it.” of community. Sure, there was space Architect Tom Marshall ’77, of O T for California-based Cardio Barre and Marshall Architects, undertook the master Chicago’s Zebra Lounge, but he wanted planning for the parking garage and served to support local endeavors as well, such as as managing architect. Breakaway Running, Local Gastropub, and “The biggest challenge was the duality Sweet Noshings. purpose,” Marshall said. “We had to dig a Keeping non-tenant businesses such as 35-foot-deep hole and then put a garage on Side Street Grill in the redevelopment loop top that had to be aesthetically pleasing.” Montgomery Martin and his eponymous company built the Overton Square parking and water was both a matter of preserving the existing While Marshall developed the concept detention structure. economy and being a good neighbor. of “connectivity” for the parking lot, Loeb Adding to the final design was the was thinking about the big picture, and with its deteriorated infrastructure and city’s need for a large chunk of Loeb certainly about the future of business. left-for-dead image, we believed in its Properties’ newly acquired land. What would Overton Square be known intrinsic value.” for in the years to come? Patrons of the Square in the ’70s, the Early on, he asked fellow Loebs understood the Midtown commu- developer Henry Turley ’59 to nity’s passion for its place in local history. lunch to discuss possible themes However, the brothers were not looking for the new Overton Square. to recreate the nightlife scene that had “It’s a theater district, what launched the original Overton Square. else do you need?” Turley told “We wanted to establish a family him over the phone, saving Loeb atmosphere that appealed to Memphians of a lunch bill. all ages and backgrounds,” Lou Loeb says. Loeb then asked Playhouse “Ultimately, we would like to be perceived on the Square’s Nichols: “What as a community center where friends and would make Overton Square a neighbors go to shop, dine, and enjoy better theater district?” special events.” “More theaters,” Nichols Hayes, meanwhile, had to match the replied. new feel of Overton Square with its new Loeb mentioned that Hattiloo look. He was one of the best minds in the Theatre was pursuing a new city for the job. As a native Memphian, home in the district. he respected the neighborhood’s artistic Would Nichols’ larger, integrity. With art degrees from both the well-established theater company Memphis College of Art and University An outdoor concert rocks Overton Square in the ‘70s. want more competition? Nichols of Memphis and a business background, was fully behind the idea. he could balance the aesthetics with the “We had a flooding issue,” says As building got underway, Bob Loeb business side. Flinn, the former city councilman who is relied on his brother and executive vice “I’m a renovator by trade,” Hayes now senior vice president for the Greater president of assets, Lou Loeb ’71 (who says. “I have a natural propensity Memphis Chamber’s Chairman’s Circle. attended MUS in seventh through ninth for reuse.” “Every time there was a big storm, one grades), and his vice president of construc- In the same way the early Friday’s of the neighborhoods nearby would get tion, Tom Hayes ’83, to give the project creators scoured the city for stained glass flooded. We needed a detention pond, direction and coherence. and old objects – anything they could reuse and the No. 1 place to build it was in The Loeb brothers ventured into the – Hayes looked for ways to repurpose parts

10 MUS TODAY – SUMMER 2015 of the old Overton Square, while adding the stores and restaurants, Overton Square new artistic flourishes. has a formal event space – an Art Deco Overton Square is located “There are lots of little details that the multipurpose room called The Atrium. at the intersection of Cooper community knows about,” Hayes says. MUS students held their last two spring Street and Madison Avenue “We consider them artistic touches, but formals there. in Midtown Memphis. they are also tidbits of goodwill to the The Atrium is one of three areas To learn more about the neighborhood.” available for events, including Tower Square and its special events, One of his favorite “goodwill” projects Courtyard, with its performance space and visit overtonsquare.com. is a large mural by artist David Lynch on giant wind chime. In the intimate Griffin the side of Bari Ristorante e Enoteca, which Garden behind Robata Ramen & Yakitori he topped with one of the original lighted Bar, one can find pieces of the fountain that Today’s Overton Square is a thriving signs from Overton Square. once stood in the middle of Palm Court. commercial district that draws over a Over several years various MUS With a new theater and entertainment million visitors a year with its theaters, alumni contributed to Overton Square’s district in place, Bob Loeb began courting restaurants and bars, shops, fitness centers, renewal. new tenants. He turned to former classmate and special events. It occupies about 20 On the west side of the former parking Tommy Peters ’73 to bring live music back acres of land, including the properties not lot, builder Montgomery Martin ’73 to the Square. owned by Loeb Properties. The final cost completed the massive parking and flood Peters, a founder of B.B. King’s of buying and renovating the property for detention structure. “The combination Blues Club on Beale, was excited about Loeb, after negotiating with the city, was of these two elements saved a good deal developing a concept, but realized that to be $15 million. But the total investment in the of money for all involved,” Martin says. sustainable, a new Lafayette’s Music Room area is much higher, including $3.3 million He and classmate Bob Loeb have a long couldn’t be a stand-alone music venue. for Hattiloo and $16 million for the parking garage. Plans are in the works for the property on the northeast corner of Madison at Cooper, site of the long-vacant French Quarter Inn. At press time Ballet Memphis had a contract on the property and a plan to build a new 30,000-square-foot headquar- ters, which would house rehearsal studios and performance space. Previously, NCE Realty & Capital Group had planned a new 75,000-square-foot hotel with 137 rooms there. Talks are also underway to find uses for the empty parking lot north of Hattiloo Theatre. Bob Loeb says that Overton Square’s history, going back to their youth and “The original Lafayette’s shared a sustainability for the next generation will extending to their careers. “Bob and I have kitchen with Friday’s, and food was an depend on young people wanting to move enjoyed working together through the years afterthought,” Peters says. “We had to focus closer to where the action is. on a variety of projects.” on food. It’s the stabilizing factor in our “My youngest son [Jackson Loeb ’13] Brothers Brett Grinder ’91 and Justin business. People may come for the music, told me when he moved back to Memphis Grinder ’97 of Grinder, Taber & Grinder but 60 percent of our volume is food.” that he wasn’t going to live in the suburbs Inc., each had different jobs. Brett built Peters says that making locals feel like me,” says Bob, who currently lives the 10,000-square-foot Hattiloo Theatre at home is what will keep Overton in River Oaks and plans to move closer to designed by architecture firm archimania on Square viable. Midtown. “It’s just one sign that attitudes the southeast corner of the parking lot. “One of the most important things is are changing.” Justin oversaw the remodeling of keeping sharp young people in Memphis,” Local Gastropub, the Tower Courtyard, he says. “Beale Street is a tourist and Overton Square’s primary building, destination, but Overton Square is 99 Christopher Blank is news director formerly known as Palm Court. Walls had percent local. It’s the amenity that Midtown at WKNO-FM in Memphis. to be stabilized. New mechanical engineer- and Memphis needs.” ing was installed. Peters recently undertook the operation Now, on the sunlit second floor above of The Atrium, as well.

MUS TODAY – SUMMER 2015 11 WILL WRITE for

Minervini and Mah Toast Farm and Table in Memphis and Atlanta 12 MUS TODAY – SUMMER 2015 MUS TODAY – SUMMER 2015 13 Photos by Lance Murphey At the Intersection of Food, Farm, and Philanthropy, cites the rebuilding of Cozy Corner. After the restaurant John Klyce Minervini was damaged by fire, a group of local chefs held a fundraiser and Discovers a collected $25,000. “In other cities, food can feel like a Fresh Memphis zero-sum game,” he says. “But here in Memphis, food is collaborative. The chefs, the writers, the restaurateurs – MEMPHIS they work together. They share tips and recipes. If you want to start something, people will help you. That’s rare.” The more time he spent with local chefs, the more he wanted to pitch in. So last December he launched The Fork (thefork.me), a hyper-local food website that helps Memphians figure hen John Klyce Minervini doctors had given her two to four weeks out where to eat, what to eat, and why. ’03 headed off to Harvard, he to live. Minervini flew home to Memphis, He kicked it off with a celebration called thought he would never move expecting to say goodbye. But almost as Hungry Holidays. back.W The area east of I-240, where he soon as he returned, Pearson’s condition The idea, Minervini says, was to “help had grown up, struck him as “a suburban began to improve. Memphians discover great local food, and at wasteland,” and he was eager for a change So he decided to stick around. On the same time, make their city a better place of scene. But a family illness brought him a whim, he circulated writing samples to live.” By working together with 11 local home and showed him a side of Memphis he to local editors, and before long he was chefs, he raised more than $1,700 for the had never known. Now he’s sinking his teeth working full-time as a freelance journalist. Urban Bicycle Food Ministry, a nonprofit into a whole new city. In Portland, he had written about books and organization that delivers hearty meals to After earning his English degree, visual arts, classical music and opera. But in hungry Memphians by bike. Minervini landed in Portland, OR, where he Memphis he found that readers and editors The event was such a success that he worked as an arts and culture reporter for wanted one thing: food. has continued it on a rolling basis under the alternative weekly newspaper Willamette “The Memphis food scene is the name Hungry Everydays. Once a Week. He loved Portland’s bohemian vibe, exploding,” he says. “So it’s natural that month Minervini hosts a segment on Local its bike-friendly streets, and the wide variety people are hungry for coverage. Food has Memphis Live (ABC 24), in which he invites of eco-friendly food choices. He reveled in become the way the local culture expresses a local chef to prepare a dish with him. If offbeat assignments such as his cover story itself.” viewers go to the restaurant and order the on vegan bodybuilding, which won him Minervini was captivated by the raw dish, 20 percent of the proceeds are donated an award from the Society of Professional talent of chefs such as Jason Dallas of to a local nonprofit. In just three months, the Journalists. Interim and Ryan Trimm of Sweet Grass, program has raised more than $1,000. Then, in fall 2013, he got a phone call as well as their commitment to working “I think it’s really cool how John has that caused him to change directions. with local farmers and artisans. More than used the food scene to support nonprofits,” His beloved grandmother, Esther that, though, he was struck by the way says Katie Raines, continuum of care Pearson, had fallen ill. At the time the they worked together. As an example, he coordinator at the Community Alliance for

14 MUS TODAY – SUMMER 2015 the Homeless. Minervini wrote about the in handy. He is not shy about standing in alliance last year for the weekly digital front of a microphone, especially if it means magazine High Ground and designated raising awareness for causes he’s passionate the homeless organization the recipient of about. He recently hosted a half-hour Hungry Everydays proceeds for March. special on WKNO-TV, and he has appeared “For a lot of small nonprofits – and on local news broadcasts to promote for us, without a development staff – causes such as Friends for Life, a nonprofit fundraising can be very time-consuming assisting people with HIV/AIDS. and often pulls away from daily tasks,” When he’s not writing about food, Raines says. “When an opportunity Minervini manages digital media for like this presents itself, it really is a Crosstown Concourse, the $200 million win-win for the nonprofits and the local redevelopment project transforming the restaurants.” long-abandoned Sears Crosstown building Minervini also writes a weekly food into a center for the local community. At column for The Memphis Flyer, including 1.1 million square feet, the mixed-use what he calls the Farmers Market redevelopment will include loft apartments, Challenge. He and a local chef head to retail, and restaurants, as well as office the farmers market and make lunch with space for local clinics, schools, and whatever’s fresh. A recent effort resulted nonprofits. (McLean Wilson ’96, principal “Summer is a perfect time for the bold, in a salad of strawberries, goat cheese, of Kemmons Wilson, Inc., is a co-leader of fresh flavors of Central Mexico. In this light asparagus, butter lettuce, and mint, the project.) summer salad, a playful reimagining of created by chef and cookbook author “Call it a vertical urban village,” guacamole, I ditch the corn chips in favor Jennifer Chandler. Minervini says. “It’s all the building blocks “That salad was out of this world,” of a great neighborhood, stacked vertically of fresh sweet corn and leave the avocado he says. “It was like a jazz combo. One in a single structure.” in chunks. Add some zesty red onions and moment, the strawberries would step to Crosstown Concourse represents spicy jalapeno peppers, and the results the front of the stage, while the mint and what’s new in the city since he left 10 years are muy rico!” – John the goat cheese kept up a lively chatter ago. “But there’s a lot that has been here in the background. The next moment, it all along, and I just didn’t know about it. Sweet Corn Salad was the asparagus’s turn.” Shelby Farms Park, the Church Health While at MUS, “JK” Minervini Center, Overton Square,” Minervini says. Five ears of corn, shucked served as editor of The Owl’s Hoot and “So it’s a new me, discovering a new Handful of minced cilantro captain of the Mock Trial team. He had Memphis. Frankly, I’m charmed.” One jalapeno pepper, minced lead roles in several plays and hosted Read John Klyce Minervini’s food Two avocados, rough diced a video on school spirit (tinyurl.com/ writing at thefork.me. Half a red onion, julienned MUSspirit). All those skills have come Juice of half a lime Salt and pepper

Boil corn 4 minutes in a pot of salted water. Drain corn and shock in a bowl of ice water. Cut kernels off cobs, hewing close to the cob. In a large bowl, combine corn, cilantro, jalapeno, avocado, onion, and lime juice. Salt and pepper to taste. Serve cool or at room temperature. Makes 6 servings.

BEVERAGE PAIRING: Serve with a crisp sauvignon blanc or a light Mexican lager.

John Klyce Minervini enjoys writing about hyper-local, farm-to-table cuisine.

MUS TODAY – SUMMER 2015 15 Chess Moves, a Zealous Palate, and an ‘Owl’s Hoot‘ Hatchet Job Helped Launch Atlanta Food Journalist Evan Mah ATLANTA

is entrée into the world of food “People laughed,” Mah says. writing began with a rant. “They thought it was funny. They kept One Sunday in 2007, encouraging me to write more, and I did.” Evan Mah at work. Evan Mah ’09 treated his At age 24 Mah is now the food Hmom to a Mother’s Day dinner at The Inn editor for Atlanta magazine, overseeing He devoured the work of top national at Hunt Phelan, at the time a top-rated all restaurant reviews and food-related food critics and even sought their advice via antebellum mansion-turned-fine-dining content for both the print publication and email. The New York Times’ Frank Bruni restaurant. But the experience fell short the website. He manages buzz-generating and Bravo’s Top Chef Masters judge Jay of his expectations. feature packages such as the 50 Best Rayner of The Guardian both responded; Being only 16, he turned to his best Restaurants and the 50 Best Bars, and he Rayner even volunteered to critique some of option for publicly expressing his displea- supervises eight writers, including several his work. sure: The Owl’s Hoot student newspaper. whose food careers began before he had Mah followed in his sister, Cybil’s, The goat cheese salad was so small, “I teeth. (I am one of them.) footsteps to Emory University in Atlanta, wondered if somebody had already eaten He blushes and rolls his eyes as he where he became editor of the campus it,” he wrote. The steak knife was “dirty.” re-reads those rookie reviews as the student newspaper, The Emory Wheel. One of He had to remind the “quirky” and “unre- newspaper’s self-appointed dining critic. his journalism professors was Rebecca fined” waitress three times to bring lemons “Looking back, what I wrote was horrible Burns, who also worked as deputy editor for his water. He slapped the restaurant with and obnoxious. But at the time, I really saw for Atlanta magazine. She invited the a stinging 2 out of 5 stars and a warning that this as a public service.” publication’s food editor and dining critic, “if you go to The Inn at Hunt Phelan, Though Mah excelled in most subjects Bill Addison, to speak for a session. you will be paying big bucks for the at MUS and was active in numerous Mah seized the opportunity. “He came restaurant’s reputation, atmosphere, and school activities – yearbook editor, Beg To prepared with a litany of smart questions,” mediocre food.” Differ singer – he was single-minded in Addison says. “I was impressed, and I The feedback from his target audience his career goal. When the newspaper gig remembered him.” – classmates, parents, and faculty – came ended upon graduation, he picked up his Soon afterward, Mah secured an instantly. culinary commentary on a personal blog, internship. “Working together, I saw that Patagonian Toothfish. Evan quickly and intuitively grasped the

16 MUS TODAY – SUMMER 2015 direction of modern magazine sections — food editor. Within six months, he proved or uncovering regional Chinese food in a punchy interplay of words and visuals, himself up to the task and assumed the role Atlanta, or working with the magazine’s a need to surprise readers, the importance officially last year. art department to make a layout come alive of covering the broad subject of food from “I’m pretty astounded by Evan’s laser on the page. In 10 years I’ll probably be many angles,” Addison says. focus on his career so young,” Addison working for him.” When Addison departed to become says. “He pinpoints an interest and throws Mah’s Atlanta magazine colleagues national dining editor and critic for the himself into it, whether it’s memorizing aren’t the only ones impressed. Last website Eater, Mah stepped in as acting the wine-growing regions of Burgundy, year the University of Mississippi-based

“As someone who spends most of his time in restaurants, I do like the occasional break from the formality of dinner service. This simple recipe takes almost no time to make and highlights the misunderstood chicken thigh, which has far more character and flavor than a lean breast. Do not skimp on the butter. We’re cooking dinner, not making a salad. While the chicken bakes, chill the Chardonnay, pick out something on Netflix, take a quick shower, and switch into your pajamas. This is bachelor dining at its finest.” – Evan

Roasted Chicken Thighs with Garlicky Mashed Potatoes and Pan-Roasted Asparagus

For the chicken: Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Arrange the bottom of the pan. Add asparagus and 8 chicken thighs the thighs in a casserole dish and season sauté quickly until tender-crisp, about 2-4 with salt and pepper (both sides). Slip 2 to minutes, depending on thickness of the Kosher salt 3 cubes of butter underneath the skin of asparagus. Cracked black pepper each thigh. Bake until the skin is crispy and 1/4 cup (1/2 stick) butter, cut into small cubes golden, about 50 minutes. When the chicken is ready, pour any liquid from the casserole dish into a separate 1/4 cup white wine Meanwhile, place the potatoes in a saucepan set over medium heat. Add 8 fresh thyme sprigs, divided medium saucepan, cover with water and wine and 4 thyme sprigs and simmer until bring to a boil. Cook until very soft, 15-20 reduced, about 5 minutes. For the potatoes: minutes. Drain all of the water and mash. Spoon potatoes on each plate and place 2 1/2 pounds Yukon Gold potatoes, peeled In a separate saucepan, combine the heavy two thighs on top along with some aspar- and quartered whipping cream with the minced garlic, butter, and 1/2 teaspoon salt. Simmer agus spears. Spoon sauce over the chicken 1 cup heavy whipping cream over medium heat until the liquid smells and garnish with thyme sprigs. 4 cloves garlic, minced as garlicky as you want the potatoes to Makes 4 servings. 1/4 cup (1/2 stick) butter taste. Gradually add to the potatoes while Salt whipping with an electric mixer. Salt to taste, if needed. WINE PAIRING: White Burgundy (Chardonnay) is a logical pairing with this For the asparagus: Blanch the asparagus in boiling, salted buttery chicken. The 2011 Maison Roche 1 bunch asparagus, trimmed of woody ends water until they turn bright green, about 2 de Bellene Montagny is an easy-drinking Olive oil minutes. Drain on paper towels. In a skillet match that, at $30, you won’t mind over medium heat, add olive oil to cover uncorking on a weeknight.

MUS TODAY – SUMMER 2015 17 Southern Foodways Alliance selected him Houston’s menu from memory. That’s how Mendenhall, whenever they come back to as one of four inaugural Smith Symposium often we went.” Memphis. Fellows to advance the conversation of Mah also credits his tight circle of With old friends back home and the food as a cultural compass at the nonprofit’s school friends and their parents with new ones he has made in Atlanta, he enjoys much-ballyhooed annual symposium, which helping him cultivate his palate. He dined pouring fine vintages procured from his attracts food experts and Southern history regularly at the home of his friend Drew favorite neighborhood wine store where, he aficionados from all over the country. Cornaghie ’09, whose mother, Jan, was “an says, most of his disposable income goes. Mah owes his tenacity in part to a skill intensely passionate and talented cook.” “I love sharing wine with friends – it’s he had developed before he entered first Mah also credits Dave Rea, father of his when I have the most fun.” grade at Presbyterian Day School: chess. buddy Harrison Rea ’09, for teaching Such occasions don’t happen often, His dad taught him to play about the time he him to appreciate wine with some of his though. He estimates that he dines out six was learning to read, and by the fifth grade most rare and expensive bottles when the or seven times a week, mostly for research he had won three U.S. Chess Federation budding food journalist was on break from purposes. One of his biggest thrills, he says, his studies at Emory. is following a story tip and discovering a Mah coached chess on talent such as Samuel Smith, Jr., the owner the side and used the money of a bakery called Sammy Cheezecake he earned to go to expensive near Atlanta’s international airport. Mah restaurants so he could write had enjoyed Smith’s red velvet cake and about them. And he would cheesecakes when his sister served them often drop by the offices of at her home. He paid a visit and wrote a favorite faculty members full-fledged feature about Smith and his after class to share his humble start selling cheesecakes from the anguish and aspirations. back of his pickup truck for six years. The One of those was Lin baker was so grateful he called Mah and Askew, Sue Hightower said a prayer for him over the phone. Hyde Chair of English. “I’m not officially a food critic who national championships and one world title. Askew describes Mah as “one of the most hands out stars to restaurants, but I do make “Chess is all about long-term outstanding young men I have had the critical decisions about who gets covered planning,” he says. “How do you prepare pleasure of knowing in my 36 years of by the magazine,” he says. “Being a critic yourself for the next move? Every action teaching. means giving up a certain degree of social has a consequence.” “What strikes anyone who has ever flexibility, and I enjoy talking with people Over pinchos (snacks) and craft met Evan is the unbridled joy he takes in far too much to give all of that up.” cocktails at Cook & Soldiers, a stylish life, a joy certainly evident in his enthusi- Askew recalls how Mah once new Basque-themed restaurant in Atlanta’s asm for food and wine,” Askew says. “His bemoaned that he would never be able to Westside district, Mah traces his food joie de vivre never dimmed even when he afford to eat at all the Michelin-starred obsession back to his Memphis roots. had a serious illness during his junior year restaurants he longed to patronize. “Maybe “People meet me and they think, you in high school. He was always a welcome as a food editor for a major city magazine, must be an expert in lo mein,” Mah, who is guest in my office, where we talked about he has found an ideal career to accomplish of Chinese heritage, says, laughing. “But food, yes, but also about literature, travel, his goal,” Askew says. “I hope the next time actually, I was born in Southern kitchens. and myriad other topics. I became an avid I see him he’ll share a bottle of some of that Neither my mom or dad could make fried fan of his blog. Now I salivate over his wine he’s been tasting.” rice to save their lives.” Instagram photos of the lavish meals he Southern food has long been the enjoys and long for a taste of the wines he family business. Mah’s father, Gavin, ran samples.” Atlanta food writer and editor Susan several restaurants in northern Mississippi, Mah’s illness was a debilitating kidney Puckett is author of Eat Drink Delta: A including Evans Country Buffet in Horn condition that landed him in the hospital for Hungry Traveler’s Journey Through the Lake, and he now operates Bus Stop BBQ a week and required a three-year recovery Soul of the South (University of Georgia in Byhalia. His mom, Ansie, ran Magnolia period. Press, 2013). While researching the book Café in Olive Branch, where Mah swept “That all taught me what real stress she was captivated by the eclectic Memphis floors and washed dishes. His older brother, looks like,” he says. “It also showed how food and dining scene, and she chaired Jonathan Mah ’98, is the chef/proprietor much I had taken for granted. For a while a convention for the Association of Food of nearby SideStreet Burgers, an innovative I had to go on a low-salt diet. It was terrible. Journalists in the city last fall. Puckett is sandwich joint. I made a list of every single thing I wanted also the co-author of Citizen Farmers: The His parents, Mah says, “had two priori- to eat once I got better.” ties for their kids: an amazing education and His MUS relationships remain strong. Biodynamic Way to Grow Healthy Food, great food. They spent heavily on both.” He and his friends talk regularly by phone Build Thriving Communities, and Give When the family ate out, it was typically at and email, take vacations together, and Back to the Earth (Stewart, Tabori and Houston’s on Poplar. “One time, I was so reunite at old haunts, such as Huey’s near Chang, 2014), and she blogs at bored in algebra class, I wrote out the entire Paradiso Theatre and Las Delicias on susanpuckett.com.

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MUS TODAY – SUMMER 2015 19 Photo by Sergey Gorshkov In his research for In the Kingdom of Ice, Hampton Sides traveled to Wrangel Island, a nature preserve off the coast of Siberia known as the last refuge of the wooly mammoth. Here Sides poses with a 10,000-year-old mammoth tusk.

NORTHERN FLIGHTS at Colorado College, he’s likely boosting where two of the Jeannette’s boats made For Kingdom of Ice his frequent-flyer miles conducting research landfall at different points. Securing permits Hampton Sides Adds for magazine articles and American history for these adventures required a trip to narrative best-sellers. Moscow and navigation of the Russian the Siberian Arctic to Sides’ desire to understand the 1879 bureaucracy. Fact-finding also took him to North Pole expedition led by Navy Lt. France and Germany and to points around His Travels. Up Next: Cmdr. George Washington De Long landed the United States. North Korea? him on a Russian icebreaker in the Bering For Kingdom of Ice Sides continues his Strait, crashing its way to Wrangel Island tradition of exploring incidents or characters by Liz Copeland off the northeastern coast of Siberia. About in American history and bringing them to 600 miles northwest of Wrangel, the life through masterful narrative storytelling. ampton Sides ’80 has been three-masted steam yacht Jeannette became Previous works include Ghost Soldiers on the move this summer, on trapped in ice for nearly two years before it (Doubleday, 2001), detailing the rescue of a 16-stop tour promoting the was crushed by the ever-shifting ice pack survivors of World War II’s Bataan Death paperback release of his 2014 and sent to the bottom of the sea. So began March; Blood and Thunder (Doubleday, Hbest-seller, In the Kingdom of Ice: The the crew’s grueling three-month exodus 2006), following the life of Western Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the across the treacherous Arctic Ocean ice frontiersman Kit Carson; and Hellhound on USS Jeannette (Anchor, 2015). But then, floes – 33 men, 33 dogs, three small boats, His Trail (Doubleday, 2010), focusing on Sides doesn’t seem to stay home for long. and eight tons of provisions. the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. When he’s not writing in a Santa Fe, NM, Sides also explored Siberia’s desolate and the hunt to capture James Earl Ray. coffee shop or teaching narrative nonfiction and mosquito-plagued Lena River Delta, Editor-at-large for Outside magazine,

20 MUS TODAY – SUMMER 2015 Sides also traverses the globe reporting do it. Failing to find them, he turns around these stories, I often wonder if I would have for periodicals. For a June cover story a few months later and does it again. survived [in that situation]. Or would I have on the science of marijuana in National It’s just unbelievable, the scope of that caved early on? Geographic, he traveled to Jerusalem to wilderness, the Lena Delta. It’s the size of What’s your answer regarding the interview an organic chemist, to Madrid to three Everglades. Heading out into that, in Jeannette expedition? speak with a biochemist, and to Denver and lethally cold weather – it’s a great testament I wouldn’t have gotten on that boat. I Boulder to meet with a commercial grower to his courage and his sense of duty. don’t like tight spaces. I don’t like ship life. and a geneticist. What are your impressions of the Lena I don’t like a lot of military rules. I can just This fall he expects to be fairly station- Delta and Wrangel Island? imagine how I would have crumbled in that ary, as he will be “in residence” at Santa Fe The Wrangel trip was really fasci- kind of environment. Institute as a Miller Scholar. The research nating. It’s an extremely remote place. People often say to me, “It’s crazy institute awards the prestigious visiting As we were smashing through the ice in a what they were doing. They must have been position to “highly accomplished, creative Russian icebreaker, we came to a complete mad.” But these men were not insane. They thinkers who make profound contributions halt. Although we were never in danger of were serious, sober-minded, professional to our understandings of society, science, sinking – we just backed up and rammed sailors and whalers. They had ambitions and culture.” Sides expects to spend much the ice – I got a feel for the power of the to reach the North Pole, and they were of his time researching his next book, the ice pack and what De Long and his crew operating on the best science of the times. tale of another monumental and icy struggle experienced in those two years of drifting. It’s hard for us now to understand just for survival, the Battle of Chosin Reservoir The ice is constantly moving and forming how desperately people wanted to know during the Korean War. pressure ridges – shrieking, and shuttering, what was up there. There were so many The Miller Scholar position will be a and shaking, and warring with itself, and theories about what might have been at the novel experience, but the biggest change warring with the ship. It would be terrifying pole – a civilization, a continent, a warm for Sides and his wife, journalist Anne if you were in a wooden ship, to think that water basin, a species that had never been Goodwin Sides, will be their empty nest. at any moment the hull could be punctured seen before. This was one of the leading This fall their youngest son, Griffin, heads and breached. That was one of the most planetary enigmas. The expedition involved to Pitzer College in Claremont, CA. Their important sensations that came out of that science, it involved nationalism, and of oldest, McCall, is at Colorado College in trip, the feeling of the ice. Looking out and course, personal ambition and glory. So Colorado Springs, and middle son Graham seeing polar bears and whales, the sense when you peel back those layers and go is at Occidental College in Los Angeles. of the wildlife was great. But I had never back to the mindset of the times, you begin “So my job really just becomes paying stopped to think about the ice as being kind to see these men weren’t crazy at all. the bursar at three private colleges,” Sides of a living force. I don’t know, maybe if I had been says. “But my oldest will be graduating As for the Lena Delta, I was obsessed alive back then I would have overcome my next year, so the hemorrhaging does end. with the idea that I had to find this place fears and claustrophobia and signed up. We miss having our sons around, but called America Mountain [where some of Can we expect to see this story portrayed we’re excited to move on to the next big the crewmen were once interred]. It’s really in film or on TV? adventure.” remote, in a part of Siberia that’s pretty In another new phase of my life, We recently caught up with Sides to sketchy. If you want to get anything done I’ve joined with some other investors in talk about his exploits in search of The you have to fork over a lot of money, or a company called Atalaya Productions. NORTHERN FLIGHTS Kingdom of Ice and where the “next big a lot of vodka and a lot of cigarettes. You We formed the company to get Blood and adventure” may take him. have to have guides, and the guides have to Thunder turned into a miniseries. That What most impressed you about the have guides. But eventually we found it. project is still ongoing, and we have others brutal trials the Jeannette crew endured? At the America Mountain memorial, you in the pipeline. We have optioned Kingdom The 92 days it took the crew to get to left a note with the words nil desperan- of Ice, and we have a screenwriter working open water [after the Jeannette sank] is dum, never despair. It seems De Long’s on it [for a miniseries]. probably the most excruciating. But in a oft-repeated phrase resonated with you. Any new adventures coming up? weird way it was the happiest, because they As soon as the Jeannette sank, these I’m now working with a joint team of were struggling together as a team to save men were in a nearly hopeless situation. Russian and American scientists who’re their own lives, and there was this brother- But until the very end De Long didn’t give hoping to undertake an ambitious new hood of suffering. De Long did such a good up. He wrote in his journal every single day. expedition, by way of Russian icebreaker, to job of keeping it together and putting down He was an eternal optimist and believed find, photograph, and explore the wreck of any sign of a mutiny. They stayed together there had to be a way. He also felt an the Jeannette in Russian waters off the De until they got in the water. Fate intervened enormous responsibility to his men, to get Long Islands in late summer 2016. in a profound gale that separated the boats. them home safely. It’s kind of a miracle that Any chance for a trip to the Chosin The other part that really blows my any of them made it. Reservoir site in North Korea? mind is [Chief Engineer George] Melville’s I’ve written a number of books that Obviously, I’m curious about it. I’d story. When he learns that [fellow crewmen] explore the themes of survival and com- love to go look at the battlefield, but I are alive, he turns around and goes on radeship under extreme conditions and why don’t want to serve 12 years of hard labor an epic, month-long search to find his some people live and some people don’t … or worse. Maybe I need to get to know comrades and risks his life repeatedly to make it. When I’m researching and writing “Ambassador” Dennis Rodman.

MUS TODAY – SUMMER 2015 21 ASIAN

STUDIESPhotos and Story by Mikell Hazlehurst ’04

View from Hazlehurst’s beach hut in El Nido, Philippines

like to call India one of those love-hate countries. Mikell Hazlehurst’s Semester Everyone I spoke to before leaving would tell me, “You’re in India Yields an Education in gonna love it!” or, “Don’t go, it’s awful!” Traveling to the country for a semester-long exchange program through the Business and Culture, Plus a University of Memphis MBA program, I decided I would Ikeep an open mind. Few Side-Trip Adventures I discovered that India can stimulate your senses in ways that

22 MUS TODAY – SUMMER 2015 ASIAN STUDIES

The Taj Mahal in Agra, India

will leave you bewildered but entranced. Initially, you may be remember, and for that reason, grow to love the country that boasts shocked by some Indian behaviors and practices. For example, 1.28 billion people. there seems to be no concept for waiting in line. Public trash cans After a three-week sojourn through Southeast Asia I met a young do not exist or, if they do, I never saw one. The traffic is absolutely nurse on the flight from Singapore who told me I would love insane, with men hopelessly attempting to direct the never-ending Bangalore. I began to anticipate what the fourth-largest city in India flow of vehicles. You’ll see a motorcycle carrying three people, one would offer. The campus at the Indian Institute of Management of whom is holding a baby. But these are the images you’ll forever was flawless. Architecturally, it was one of the most impressive

MUS TODAY – SUMMER 2015 23 View from atop a pagoda in Bagan, Myanmar

campuses I had ever seen. Regardless of my whereabouts, I always the opening scene of The Bourne Supremacy. I also took a bus to felt as if I were outside because of the gigantic, open-air windows visit the UNESCO-protected ancient village of Hampi and explored and skylights that filtered rays of sunshine onto the concrete and its timeless ruins. Sri Lanka was one of my favorite countries in all stone walkways. The plant life was extraordinary, and the local of Asia, and I spent 10 days on a motorbike traveling around the landscapers were meticulous in their maintenance of the grounds. southern beaches and national parks. My peers at IIMB were brilliant. I wasn’t surprised to see the I ended my stay in India with a trip to Rajasthan, starting off school listed among the top 100 MBA programs in the Financial in its capital, Jaipur, which is the city featured in The Best Exotic Times Executive Education 2015 rankings. When figuring out Marigold Hotel. I rented a motorcycle for two days and weaved my where I wanted to study abroad, it was the prestige of IIMB that way through The Pink City, as Jaipur is called, to world-famous was the deciding factor – that and my fascination with Asia. This sites such as the Amer Fort. Approaching the fort, I was surprised to was my third visit to the continent. see a man riding an elephant through one of its gates. The ramparts I was one of two Americans on campus that semester. The sprawled throughout the surrounding mountains, and I spent several other student was from the University of Chicago, and we bonded hours hiking up to various vantage points to snap photos. I escaped instantly. All of the other exchange students were from Europe, the death several times amongst the lawless traffic, but my experience majority coming from France or Germany. We had many group in Jaipur was exhilarating. My last stop was the Taj Mahal in projects, comprising both exchange and Indian students. The Indian Agra, and I cannot describe the sight of the world’s most beautiful students rarely slept more than a few hours each night and would building other than to say it is exactly that. I woke up to a nearby schedule meetings that often ran well into the wee hours of the mosque’s call to prayer, and I had breakfast on the rooftop of a morning. hotel while waiting for the gates of the Taj to open. I kept imagining The experience greatly enhanced my communication skills, as I that not much had changed since Richard Halliburton 1915 spent was usually selected as spokesman for our presentations because the night there more than 90 years ago. my native language is English. One of my favorite courses was I had to catch a flight back to the USA the next day, and it took Self-Transformation – An Indian Approach. Each class began me roughly 33 hours to get from Agra to Tennessee. The months with 15 minutes of silent meditation and explored the different I spent in India certainly tested my patience and taught me to not theologies that focus upon meditative techniques. Our professor take anything for granted. Reverse culture shock can be an issue would bring in experts in the field, and one of our best visitors was for people who spend significant time abroad. It was only upon my a Pranayama breathing guru. Proponents of meditation such as return that I began to miss those honking horns and smelly streets. Al Gore and Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister, swear by its The saying, “You don’t know what you got till it’s gone” resonated benefits. Since returning from the program, I have used meditative with me not only in India but also when I returned home. techniques during times of the day when I need rejuvenation. I hope my story will inspire you to venture out and explore the When our classes were not in session, there were countless world. Memphis has a special place in my heart, but I’m glad to opportunities for adventure. Trains were the cheapest and most have seen what else the world has to offer. If you’re interested interesting means of transportation. For one of my first breaks, I in reading more about my travels, please check out my blog at headed to the west coast of India and spent a few days in Goa at a giffengoods.weebly.com. beach called Palolem, which is where Matt Damon was running in

Over the past decade, Mikell Hazlehurst ’04 has explored more than 50 countries on six continents. He recently graduated with an MBA from the University of Memphis and is now living in Nashville, TN. He aspires to visit every country represented by the United Nations.

24 MUS TODAY – SUMMER 2015 Hazlehurst feeding giraffes at the Calauit Safari Park, Philippines Hopscotching Through Southeast Asia

efore beginning my semester quality of the wood that held me above the at the Indian Institute of water. I almost fell through several times, Management in Bangalore, I but that only added to the adventure. Every- took three weeks to check out one living in these stilted homes commutes Bthe remaining countries in Southeast Asia into town via water taxis. We hailed one of I had not yet visited. After arriving in the the wooden boats because the Kiwi couple Philippines via Hong Kong, I flew to one wanted to see some proboscis monkeys. of the archipelago’s most remote islands, Our driver didn’t speak a word of English, Palawan. It was here that Alex Garland was but he did take us into the jungle, and we inspired to write his novel The Beach, which managed to catch a glimpse of the later was adapted into a movie starring long-nosed monkey. Leonardo DiCaprio. The limestone cliffs and In Myanmar I spent about a week blue water in El Nido were all I needed to climbing pagodas in Bagan and riding boats forget about the 24-plus hours it took me on Inle Lake. I spent my last days before to get there. I paid maybe $15 to sleep in a starting classes in Bangalore in Singapore, A cow on the beach in Goa, India rustic cottage that had waves breaking at where I was able to tour a Cummins Inc. my doorstep. facility. I worked for Cummins’ Global I then ventured over to the island of Logistics in Memphis the summer before my Borneo to touch down on Brunei soil. When trip, so I was able to set up a meeting with I landed in Bandar Seri Begawan, it was several leaders. I was impressed by the about 2 o’clock in the morning, and my hotel sheer wealth and amount of commerce in driver was waiting for me. I began to notice Singapore. The tiny city-state is running out how clean and modern this petroleum-rich of land, so the warehouses were stacked country looked. I didn’t see a speck of trash. up like skyscrapers. I made the mistake of I took a bus to the city center to grab booking a room next to a mosque, which some breakfast and met a Kiwi couple who began to sound the Friday call to prayer had also just arrived. We decided to tour around 4 o’clock in the morning. Needless the Sultan’s Royal Regalia Museum, which to say, I didn’t get much sleep, but my celebrates more than 600 years of the royal time in Singapore convinced me to return family’s rule. We then took a stroll along sometime. The museums, food, and under- the stilted walkways on the Kampong Ayer, ground shopping malls made for an exciting a water village people often refer to as couple of days before I flew to India. the Venice of the East. It sounds romantic, Pagodas near Inle Lake, Myanmar and it might have been if it weren’t for the – Mikell Hazlehurst HONOR BOUNDby Gaye Swan Michael Edwards, students and graduates alike. For an Vanderbilt Honor Council, encouraged him example, look no further than Vanderbilt to apply, he jumped at the chance. Richard Twardzik, University, where three of the last four “The Honor Code at MUS is ingrained and Garrott Graham Honor Council presidents have been MUS in the culture. I never worried about theft or alumni – Michael Edwards ’09, Richard cheating around me,” he says. “I knew that I Serve as Vanderbilt Twardzik ’11, and Garrott Graham ’12. wanted to help that be the case at Vanderbilt Honor Council Presidents Like the MUS Honor Council, the Van- as well.” derbilt Honor Council comprises student Members of the Vanderbilt Honor or many students and alumni, one representatives who adjudicate charges Council are chosen through a process of aspect of Memphis University of dishonesty and set consequences for written application, an interview with the School stands out as a symbol of violations. current council, and election by their class. what makes the school unique: the While at MUS, Edwards admired the The council elects its own officers; a presi- FHonor System. Designed to uphold the val- Honor Council and says he often wished dential candidate must be a junior or senior ues of honor and integrity within the school, he had gotten involved. When a friend’s and serve at least one year before election. the system becomes a way of life for older brother, who was a member of the Elections are held in mid-November with

26 MUS TODAY – SUMMER 2015 At left, Garrott Graham, Michael Edwards, and Richard Twardzik drop by their alma mater on winter break. All have served as Vanderbilt Honor Council presidents.

presidents taking office in January, typically members of the council, who share a desire I don’t think I would have wanted to run serving the spring of their junior year and to maintain and promote the welfare of the for president,” he says. fall of their senior year. Edwards served as campus. He found his primary challenge Edwards graduated from Vanderbilt president in 2012. in striking a balance between treating each in 2013 with a degree in medicine, health, Twardzik followed him in 2014. His case as individual and unique while being and society. He and his wife, Mary Taylor, experience with the Honor System at MUS guided by the principles of Vanderbilt’s married in May 2014, and the couple is played into his decision to join his college rigorous Honor Code. The most important making their home in Memphis while he council – the code showed him what a lesson he learned links back to his attends medical school at the University of community looks like when it is centered on MUS days: Tennessee Health Science Center. He has truth and honor, he says. “A seemingly small decision can have not yet decided on a discipline but is leaning “Being a part of the MUS community an enormous impact on your life. Coach toward areas that encompass global health. during my formative years helped to create [Bobby] Alston used to quote Emily Dick- Whatever his future medical career holds, an appreciation for truth, drawing me from inson and say, ‘If you take care of the small he says he expects his experience on the the start to the Vanderbilt Honor Council. In things, the big things take care of them- Honor Council will serve him well. addition, looking up to Michael “Having to tell a student that Edwards as a role model and he or she is suspended or expelled example clearly confirmed to from Vanderbilt, a school to me that the Vanderbilt Honor Oath of Honor which they likely put in years of Council was an admirable work to be accepted, is a very student organization and a difficult moment. That news is ex- worthwhile investment of my We, the students and faculty at Memphis University School, tremely burdensome to give, but time and energy. Knowing that hereby pledge our full support to the Honor System. obviously much more challenging Michael and I shared similar I pledge to be honest myself, and in order that the spirit to accept. I think these experienc- beliefs and backgrounds gave and integrity of the Honor System may endure, I pledge es prepared me in a small way for me a greater confidence and that I will make known to the Honor Council any case moments of despair in the health stronger motivation to follow of dishonesty which I may observe at MUS. care arena, when I can’t help a in his footsteps as president.” patient anymore. I can’t imagine Graham first served on how tough moments like that the MUS Honor Council as Statement of the will be, but at least I will have an eighth-grade representative Vanderbilt Honor Code some background in difficult and represented his grade each conversations.” year thereafter, serving as Vanderbilt University students pursue all academic Twardzik, who majored president his senior year. He endeavors with integrity. They conduct themselves in economics and history with began his term as president of honorably, professionally, and respectfully in all realms a minor in corporate strategy, the Vanderbilt Honor Council of their studies in order to promote and secure an graduated in May. He is a project in January. atmosphere of dignity and trust. The keystone of our honor manager/implementation consul- “Without a doubt my inter- system is self-regulation, which requires cooperation and tant at Epic Systems in Madison, est in serving Vanderbilt in this support from each member of the University community. WI. His experience on the Honor particular way stems from my Council honed the development experience at MUS,” he says. of abilities – leadership, commu- “A commitment to excellence nication, and organizational skills by Gaye Swan partnered with a deep-rooted dedication selves.’ Carrying a commitment to truth and – that surely will benefit his employer. He to the cultivation of integrity forms the honor in every little decision you make has says it has heightened his dedication to truth cornerstone of both the Vanderbilt and MUS a huge effect on the rest of your life.” and honor in all aspects of life. communities. I knew that was a tradition I Before serving as president, Edwards Graham is working on a double wanted to be a small part of maintaining.” was the advising chairman, a position that major – English literature and human and All three alumni describe their expe- allowed him to learn the stories behind the organizational development with a focus in rience on the Vanderbilt Honor Council actions brought before the council. Every education policy – with plans to graduate in as rewarding and challenging. Twardzik accused student is provided an advisor, and May 2016. He, too, sees his Honor Council recalled the hard work, long hours, and Edwards says this experience gave him service as life-altering. sometimes-difficult conversations as a great excellent perspective and preparation for “Education without principle is responsibility, but also an honor. leading the council a year later. ultimately worthless. My experience on “One of the greatest lessons I have “It helped me understand just how both honor councils will hopefully saturate learned is the importance of honor and much weight fell upon the decisions that we the rest of my life to the point that every integrity in a community and in the life of made. Each case did not just affect the in- endeavor, whether personal or professional, each person,” he says. tegrity of our school but had the potential to becomes inseparable from a commitment to For Graham one of the most rewarding radically alter a student’s life. If each guilty the underlying principles of truth and honor aspects has been serving alongside the other decision did not affect me emotionally, that I learned at MUS.”

MUS TODAY – SUMMER 2015 27 28 MUS TODAY – SUMMER 2015 Luke Jensen and Patton Orr following their Hyde Chapel presentation on TEDx

TALKPatton Orr and Luke Jensen Help SHOW Organize First TEDxMemphis n August 29 Memphis will An acronym for technology, entertain- applauds the efforts of his young partner. experience its inaugural TEDx ment, design, TED is a nonprofit organiza- “The whole idea of TEDxMemphis conference, featuring 18 speakers tion started in 1984, dedicated to spreading started with Patton. He has been instrumen- whoO have turned ideas into action. The ideas, usually in the form of its talks, tal not only in applying for and obtaining a roster includes Dr. Scott Morris, CEO of recorded in more than 100 languages. TEDx license but also in the planning and the nonprofit Church Health Center in The organization sponsors major TED execution of the event,” Jensen says. “I was Memphis; Kimbal Musk, co-founder of conferences and parallel TEDActive lucky enough to be asked early on to be a The Kitchen restaurants (opening at Shelby conferences (with live simulcasts of the part of it.” Farms and Crosstown Concourse) and talks) as well as smaller, independently Together Orr and Jensen attended a Learning Gardens (opening at 100 Memphis organized TEDx conferences in cities TEDActive conference in Whistler, British schools); and Cliff Goldmacher ’87, around the world. Columbia, in March 2014. (MUS sponsored songwriter, producer, and musician. Orr started a TED club at MUS, where their trip.) Afterward, they gave a talk in Co-organizer Patton Orr ’16, who students watch the talks and discuss the sub- Hyde Chapel on their experience. Now, began turning his idea for a conference into ject matter. He also launched a similar club with the help of a team of local organizers, action two years ago, says he is excited to for teens in the community that meets up the conference is set for the University of see TEDxMemphis coming to life. once a month at Benjamin L. Hooks Central Memphis Michael D. Rose Theatre “More important, I’m excited for Library. And he set his sights on organizing August 29 from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Memphis,” Orr says. “The goal and mission a conference. Orr, who expects close to 1,000 people from the very beginning was to create an “For some reason, TEDx had never at the event, says interest has been growing. event that highlights all the great ideas caught on in Memphis as it had in other “What has absolutely blown me away coming out of Memphis – for the people cities,” Orr says. “I recognized a huge is all of the enthusiasm generated over so- of Memphis.” opportunity for our city to host an event.” cial media,” Orr says. “There were so many Orr first learned about TED con- He discussed the idea with Lower steps that our team took to get to this point. ferences when his sister, Caroline Orr School Principal Clay Smythe ’85, who I’m already looking forward to hearing the (Hutchison ’12), worked on the organizing encouraged him to seek a “loaned execu- buzz around Rose Theatre on August 29.” committee for TEDxUNC (University tive,” who could help with the process. (The of North Carolina) in 2013. He became term comes from the United Way program fascinated by TED Talks, short (18 minutes of enlisting business executives to help For more information, or less) recorded presentations by experts with campaigns.) The name that came to visit tedxmemphis.com and follow and thinkers from around the world that can Orr’s mind was Luke Jensen ’07, whom @TEDxMemphis on Twitter. be seen via ted.com. He began a campaign he knew from church. Jensen, an associate to drum up interest at MUS and in the with Cushman & Wakefield/Commercial community. Advisors agreed to join the campaign. He MUS TODAY – SUMMER 2015 29 Jayme Illien Works to Spread Happiness Around the World

arch 20 marks the vernal equinox and the first day of spring. It is also – thanks in large part to Jayme Illien ’98 – the International Day of Happiness. M“The vernal equinox is a universal phenomenon felt around the world, and as such is a great day to celebrate happiness,” Illien says. “No matter your race, ethnicity, religion, or gender, the start of spring is all about new beginnings and is usually a happy time, with the anticipation of more leisure time with family and friends.” The day is designated by the United Nations to recognize happiness as a fundamental human goal and to call on countries around the world to approach their public policies in ways that improve the well-being of their people. Illien founded the day by drafting U.N. Resolution 66/281: International Day of Happiness and lobbying the U.N. General Assembly to adopt it. In 2012 all 193 member nations adopted the resolution, and on March 20, 2013, the world celebrated the first annual International Day of Happiness. Three years later, Illien says, U.N. campaigns, celebrity support, and grassroots awareness have made the day known around the world. In 2014 mega-star Pharrell Williams Jayme Illien started the Illien Foundation for Children joined with the U.N. in a call for videos of people dancing to fund projects for kids who are not adopted. to his hit song “Happy” to create a 24-hour music video. Building on that idea, the U.N. campaign in 2015 aimed to create the World’s Happiest Playlist – a social media push to get the public to submit favorite songs with the hashtag #HappySoundsLike. Illien says the effort got a boost from music industry stars such as Williams, Ed Sheeran, John Legend, James Blunt, David Guetta, Stevie Wonder, Gwen Stefani, A.R. Rahman, and Cody Simpson. For the 2015 U.N. campaign Illien requested that U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon wish everyone a happy International Day of Happiness. The secretary-general did just that in his speech on March 20. “It was a great personal honor to have the secretary- general incorporate the concept of happiness for all directly into his speech celebrating this new global day,” Illien says. The United Nations passed Resolution 66/281: Illien is chairman of the Board of Advisors for Illien International Day of Happiness in 2013. Adoptions International; chairman, president, and CEO of Illien Global Public Benefit Corporation; and an advisor to the U.N. In each of these roles, he says, he seeks to promote happiness. Founded in 1982 by Illien’s mother, Anna Belle, Illien Adoptions finds permanent, loving homes for orphaned and abandoned children worldwide. In his role as chairman of the board, Illien provides strategic leadership and oversight of the company, while his mother serves as executive director. A bachelor with no children, he views the children he helps as his own. “That’s enough for now until I meet the right person and have the privilege of adding even more members to the OH, HAPPY OH, HAPPY DAY! Illien family,” he says. Jayme Illien and his mother, Anna Belle Illien, 30 MUS TODAY – SUMMER 2015 founder of Illien Adoptions International by Gaye Swan He adds that his favorite aspect On the other hand, he continues, to think I’ve been able to draw from her of working with children is seeing the the world is facing extraordinary crises, strength and sense of purpose in creating the difference when a child goes from an including poverty, youth unemployment, International Day of Happiness.” orphanage or the streets to a loving, terrorism, climate-based problems, the The idea is also rooted in the lessons permanent family. mistreatment of women, and the spread of he learned at MUS, which provided “It is absolutely incredible to see how international infectious diseases such as an essential foundation in his personal their faces, demeanor, and energy all change Ebola. development and education, he says. once they are in a family,” he says. “The As a U.N. advisor, Illien works with “MUS taught me the importance of children go from a noticeable look of fear ambassadors, ministers, diplomats, business ethics, values, and academic excellence, and and suffering to smiles and happiness.” leaders, heads of state, and other nonprofit introduced me to some of my best friends, Adopted as an infant from Calcutta, entities to address these challenges. He including the Chairman of the Illien Global India, Illien is passionate about children’s serves as an advisor on U.N. meetings Board of Trustees, Brian Armstrong ’98,” issues. In 2006 he started a sister nonprofit regarding key international policy issues, Illien says. organization called Illien Foundation for agreements, and initiatives – including those Armstrong, a consultant Children to fund projects for children relating to the status of women, sustainable ophthalmologist at Cleveland Clinic Abu who are not adopted. The foundation energy, and nuclear disarmament. In Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, has provides programs in education, health, the addition, Illien represents the economic served as chairman since 2011. A close empowerment of women, and economic think tank Economists for Peace and friend since they met in eighth grade, development. In 2011 he founded Illien Security at the U. N. on matters of Armstrong says he has confidence in Illien’s Group Inc. – the strategy, management, international policy. The Board of Trustees long-term vision for the organization. and policy consulting company responsible of the think tank includes 18 Nobel Prize “Jayme has always been very vocal for the International Day of Happiness recipients as well as former Prime Minister about global happiness, ending poverty, resolution – “to consolidate all of the of Greece Georges A. Papandreou, former hunger, suffering, and generally helping organizations and activities under a single U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, and those less fortunate. He’s caring, genuine, brand mission: happiness for all.” former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert S. intelligent, and passionate, and that’s Illien Global is organized into four McNamara. why it’s a pleasure to work with him,” operating divisions: Youth, Women, and Now that the Day of Happiness has Armstrong says. Family; Markets, Business, and Economy; passed the three-year mark, Illien says he Illien earned a degree in economics Policy, Security, and Government; and hopes to see further growth in the day’s and international relations from Tufts Science, Technology, and Culture. Each popularity, leading to increased awareness University in 2002. He also spent a year division works independently to promote of the importance of both individual at one of the top political science schools human happiness in its focus area. Illien pursuit of happiness and governmental in France, Institut d’Etudes Politiques et is responsible for leading and overseeing responsibility to make happiness a priority Sciences Sociales, receiving an international global operations and advancing initiatives in formulating public policies. degree in economics and international such as the International Day of Happiness. “It’s rewarding to see how something relations. Before joining his mother at Illien There is widespread agreement that was just an idea a few years ago – and Adoptions, he was a managing director at among academia, think tanks, and which some understandably laughed at – FXCM, a currency trading company. intergovernmental agencies on the is now celebrated worldwide as a success,” Based in New York, Illien travels conditions that produce happiness, he says, he says. to Illien Global headquarters in Atlanta including the most basic requirements: The success of the idea rested on years frequently, visits the corporation’s satellite peace, an absence of fear, freedom from of preparation. Illien and his team members offices in Ethiopia and India, and loves to persecution, and the fulfillment of needs met with delegations from countries around explore new places, foods, and experiences. such as food, water, and shelter. Beyond the world, asking business leaders for His two sisters, Elizabeth and Juliana Illien, that, he says, there is a growing consensus their endorsement, before they drafted the work with Jayme and their mother at Illien that happiness depends on time spent resolution. Global, and he says he is fortunate to have with friends and social connectivity, good “The multiyear campaign was tough his family as a part of the company. governance, economic opportunity, jobs, stuff, given the unorthodox nature of the “I really am telling the truth when I helping others, and freedom. He describes original idea,” he says. say that I love my job. It includes all of a world in which the need to focus on Illien gives credit to his mother and the things that are known to make people happiness has never been greater. MUS as two of the inspiring forces behind happy, including spending time with family, “We are standing at a crossroads his passion to promote happiness as a basic giving and helping others – especially between hope and fear. On one side human right. children – and spreading happiness to all,” the technological advancements in “My mother is a global citizen who he says. communication that we hold in our hands sees all people as human beings, regardless “Spreading happiness has to be one of have opened everyone’s eyes to new of race, ethnicity, gender, or nationality,” the single greatest ways to increase your possibilities and opportunities for unlocking he says. “The quote in the signature of her own happiness.” economic growth, solving previously email is from Nelson Mandela: ‘Everything insurmountable global challenges, and is impossible until somebody does it.’ Gaye Swan is a freelance writer based building a sustainable future of opportunity My mother lives that out every day in in Memphis. and economic growth for all people.” promoting human happiness, and I like MUS TODAY – SUMMER 2015 31 GRANDSLAM graduates from 2008 with special guest Shelby County Mayor A C Wharton, in front. Pictured,SLAM front row, from left, are Richard Ouyang ’15, Kamar Mack ’15, Tony Eskridge, Xavier Greer ’15, Roberto Olvera ’15, Darian McGhee; back row, Headmaster Ellis Haguewood, Daniel Camuti ’13, Pablo Sandoval (an exchange student from Colombia), Josh Johnson, Malik Hollingsworth, Caleb McCoy ’13, SLAM Director Judd Peters ’81, and Lars Nelson (Rhodes College intern).

“SLAM was a very important SLAM was hugely important. “I remember Summer Program factor in my life, because that’s how I public speaking vividly, especially with Builds Leaders for was introduced to MUS,” says Olvera, Coach [Orlando] McKay. He said, ‘Tell who served as Student Council project them what you’re going to tell them. Tell Class of 2015 – manager and secretary of the French Club them. And tell them what you told them.’ and received a Clarence Day Scholarship I also remember Mr. [Whit] Tenet’s ’00 and Beyond to Rhodes College. “I think it does help English class when I was a rising fifth build well-rounded young men with strong grader. He would make us do spelling tests photo of 2008 SLAM graduates moral character. One of the things I learned on words I had never heard – spelling test taken with then-Shelby County the most was responsibility – that was every day, spelling bee at the end. He was a AMayor A C Wharton says much something Mr. [Judd] Peters ’81 [program passionate teacher.” about the students who come through the director] talked about every single day. Mack describes the SLAM experience MUS summer program for leadership, Whenever something didn’t go as planned, as a representation of MUS. “You go academics, and physical fitness. Within it was always, ‘responsibility, responsibility, through the day of academics, athletics, and the group are four Class of 2015 graduates responsibility.’” leadership, building well-rounded students. – Xavier Greer, Kamar Mack, Roberto For Mack, who served as president Big thanks are due to Mr. Peters – what he Olvera, and Richard Ouyang – who of the MUS returned to become SLAM counselors and Government Club grew to become top students and leaders and became a Gates at MUS. Before they headed off to the Millennium Scholar University of Tennessee, Georgetown, (see page 40), Rhodes, and Harvard, we asked them what the academic and the SLAM experience meant to them. skills instruction at

Reprising their 2008 SLAM photo are, from left, Ellis Haguewood, Richard Ouyang, Kamar Mack, Xavier Greer, Roberto Olvera, and Judd Peters.

32 MUS TODAY – SUMMER 2015 does is so important. The impact he has had is amazing.” ‘SLAM Is What We Do’ Both Mack and Olvera say working as SLAM counselors broadened their experi- ike many great ideas, the SLAM Today SLAM is a comprehensive ence. “[That] helped me mature and realize I summer program came about as a summer program involving academics, needed to be a role model,” Mack says. Lresult of conversation – and a bit leadership, and physical fitness that “I’m very thankful for the role I got of nostalgia. enrolls some 120 rising fifth through to play as a counselor,” Olvera says. “Mr. About a decade ago Athletic ninth graders annually. Two three-week Peters always reminded us that we have to Director Bobby Alston was talking sessions draw high-achieving students set the example for the kids, because they’re to School and Community Relations from the Memphis area, allowing them the ones looking up to us now.” Director Judd Peters ’81. Alston was to meet and develop friendships with Greer, Student Council president, says wishing out loud for a summer program like-minded, goal-oriented boys from SLAM prepared him for a rigorous school that would allow students to get help many schools. More than an average environment. “It teaches you life lessons,” with academics, participate in athletics, summer camp, Peters says, “SLAM is he says. “How to handle an interview. How and even work a little to earn some an accelerator for fast-forward students to talk to a CEO or a professional basketball money. For Peters that brought to mind who are identified and recommended player. One of the big things is the word of the day – self-control, responsibility. his MUS summer day camp experiences to the program by their teachers and We defined those words and put them into in the early ’70s – sports, crafts, games, administrators.” practice in everyday life.” camp-outs on campus, movies in The curriculum includes public Richard Ouyang, valedictorian, Owl’s Hyde Chapel. speaking, leadership seminars, prep- Hoot editor, and Presidential Scholar (see “For many elementary and middle school level academics, guest speakers, page 39), says SLAM is what helped him school kids, it was a great introduction physical fitness training, games, and a decide to come to school at MUS. “At to MUS,” Peters recalls. “At the end of variety of MUS athletics camps. Fifth and SLAM I took a math class from Coach every day, we would raise our right hands sixth graders receive instruction in math, [Joe] Tyler and an English class from and say, ‘On my honor I will always try English, and reading comprehension, Mr. [Flip] Eikner ’77, and what I learned to do my best, to be a good sport, and to while seventh, eighth, and ninth graders in those classes really helped me in my get along with others.’” are placed in the school’s Academic first couple of years at MUS. It’s a valuable Soon after Peters’ conversation Adventures summer courses. Students program.” with Alston, another discussion with may participate in basketball camp or Staley Cates ’82 sparked an idea. football camp for their athletic compo- “We were talking about New Hope nent, depending on which session Christian Academy and some of the other they choose. schools he was involved with,” Peters By offering need-based financial says. “He said, ‘We’re doing great things assistance for students who qualify, with students during the school year. SLAM has presented an opportunity But the problem we have is that in the for Memphis University School to open summer, they take three steps backward. its doors to the broader community, It would be great if we had something Peters says. Some participants end up where they could get some academic enrolling in MUS and returning to serve 2015 SLAM campers Xzavier Ornelas, Kemen Rosario, work done.’” as counselors in the summer. Beginning and Samy Paul work in robotics. In thinking about both of those as rising sophomores, students who conversations, Peters began working on demonstrate leadership can become Greer agrees. “My life would be so a solution and launched the first SLAM counselors–in–training, progressing on different if I had not gone to SLAM,” he session in the summer of 2005 with 19 to paid counselors as juniors, seniors, says. “I grew up in South Memphis. [Here] rising seventh graders. and college students. you are with people from all walks of life “The name came from banners we “What we look for are great students for three weeks. When you surround yourself had up at the time that read Scholars, and great citizens; those are the two cri- with people who have your mindset, who Leaders, Athletes, and we added teria,” Peters says. “As our Lower School have dreams and goals, and know what they want to do, it makes you better … motivates ‘Memphis’ to that in coming up with the Principal Clay Smythe ’85 likes to say, you to improve your character. SLAM is title,” Judd says. “But what this program ‘MUS is who we are; SLAM is what we doing something right. I love being a is about, is excellence. One of the do.’ I think that’s true because we want all role model and influencing other boys,” definitions of the word slam is a signif- MUS students to be well-rounded young Greer says. icant impact. I believe SLAM is having men of strong moral character, we want “Some day I want to send my son to a very positive, significant impact on the them to be scholars and leaders.” SLAM.” students who attend – and on MUS.” TRANSPORTING HISTORY Photos by Lisa Buser Walter Wills is working to restore Kirby Farm House to its 1898 appearance.

took several days, delayed by a broken axle had been the site of joyful times for the Walter Wills and flat tire on the moving truck. children growing up – birthday parties, Today the seven-room, three- Christmas celebrations, hayrides, and Preserves Ancestral chimney gingerbread house is a surprising the like. anachronism in a neighborhood of modern “I wasn’t going to go to the expense Home Along with brick homes. Wills, managing partner at and trouble of moving the house, but my the commercial real estate company Wills children said, ‘Dad, if you only do one thing Slices of & Wills LP, is renovating the residence, the rest of your life, you need to save that which survived the journey relatively intact. house. If you don’t, it will be gone forever, Mid-South Lore His intent is to preserve the home, which and you will regret it, and we will regret holds so much family history. Fellow Kirby it,’” Wills says. by John E. Harkins, Ph.D. descendent Scott May ’61 will live there Accompanied by Walter IV, Wills leads and Liz Copeland once the update is complete. The extensive a visitor on a tour of the property one sunny process has required building a foundation alter D. Wills III ’67 was not a for the structure; replacing the crumbled great history scholar in school, plaster on the 14-foot walls with drywall; Wbut hands-on history is something updating the bathroom and expanding he cannot let go of. To the residents along the kitchen; repairing cracked chimneys, Satinwood and Hickory Crest drives in East sunken hearths, and other damage; and Memphis, that characteristic was driven replacing the ducts and heating and air- home when Wills’ historic family residence conditioning equipment. The roof over the inched through their neighborhood last cistern, which collapsed during a storm after October. He relocated the 1830s Kirby the move, will also have to be raised. Farm House and several outbuildings from For Wills the project is primarily 6792 Poplar Pike about one mile due south a labor of love, tied to his love for his In October 2014 Walter Wills IV, pictured with to 6797 Messick Road, across from the children: Mary, who lives in Charleston, fellow Brooks/Kirby descendant Kirby May ’94, southern edge of Holmes Park. The move SC, and Walter IV, of Memphis. The home led the relocation of Kirby Farm House.

34 MUS TODAY – SUMMER 2015 spring day, pointing out the room where Wills, at right, tells of the restoration process. Below, his mother, Dorothy Kirby Wills, was born, pictured in this 1898 photo are John Anderson Kirby, Ann Eliza Brooks Kirby, Joseph Brooks Kirby, the parlor where his family gathered, the Merle Williams, and Agnes Rebecca Kirby May. fingerprints pressed into handmade bricks, the horse hair that strengthens the plaster, smokehouse, and chicken coop to the 1890s and many other historical details he has appearance. He received assistance from collected. John L. Hopkins, art historian and former Col. Eppy White, for whom the executive director of Memphis Heritage. In community of White Station was later 1986 Kirby Farm House was listed on the named, first occupied the three-room home National Register of Historic Places that was later known as Kirby Farm House (a designation Wills hopes to regain after and expanded over generations. In 1838 current restoration efforts). White sold his 143 1/2-acre Pea Ridge farm Wills explored various uses for the to Wilks Brooks, a former North Carolina property that would sustain assemblyman who lived on an adjoining its antiquities for the land grant. education and enjoyment Following Brooks’ death in 1849, of Mid-Southerners, his heirs sold the land, and it changed including developing a hands nine times between 1853 and 1869, country inn, but none a testament to the speculative nature of proved viable. Over landholding in Shelby County at the time. the years he and his The farm served as a refuge from yellow family made the home fever contagion during the 1870s, and the available to numerous house received its Victorian ornamentation historical groups, scouting in the 1890s. In 1898 John Anderson Kirby, organizations, American a Virginia-born transplant and Confederate history classes, garden veteran, bought the property. Fittingly, clubs, neighborhood Kirby had married Ann Eliza Brooks, a associations, MUS class granddaughter of Wilks Brooks. Kirby reunion groups, and various political, civic, had extensive holdings in the Mid-South, and patriotic organizations. Whenever HIGHWAY and the house was the headquarters for feasible, Wills personally conducted tours his diverse 8,000-plus acres of farming of the property, explaining details of 19th HOMESTEAD operations. His son, Joseph Brooks Kirby, century rural life to visitors. He estimates continued the agricultural operations of the the homestead hosted 30 or more such Situated on a natural ridge, Kirby Farm homestead, where Walter III’s mother was gatherings each year. Eddie Batey, faculty House originally looked southward born in 1922. She married Walter D. Wills, sponsor of the MUS student leadership upon a series of “highways” over Jr., and the Kirby Farm House along with its program, took students on tours of the house the last 200 years. The old Cherokee 70 acres remained in the Kirby-Wills family and property. Trace footpath, which probably until recently. When practical considerations dictated took advantage of existing buffalo As population moved east from that Wills sell the 10 acres on Poplar trails, became Alabama or State Line Memphis and west from Germantown in Pike, he included in the sale a provision Road during European settlement. the 20th century, real estate values moved that allowed him to keep and relocate the Eventually, a plank road was built upward, and most of the Kirby estate buildings. to accommodate heavier traffic, and was developed for commercial use. In This was his family’s second rescue travelers paid tolls to use it. In 1848 1982 Walter Wills III – great-great-great- of an antebellum home. In 1973 Wills’ toll fees ranged from no charge for grandson of Wilks Brooks, great-great parents moved the Brooks home, known as herding small groups of animals to 20 grandson of Joseph Brooks, great-grandson Woodlawn, several blocks south of Poplar cents each for wagons drawn by four of John Anderson Kirby, and grandson Pike. It was so large it had to be cut in half or more draft animals. By 1852 the of Joseph Brooks Kirby – inherited the and reconnected after the move. Built in Memphis and Charleston Railroad ran dilapidated Kirby Farm House, which sat 1835 Woodlawn had served as a hospital past the farmstead of Wilks Brooks on 10 acres between Poplar Avenue and for Union troops during the Civil War. Now (great-great-great grandfather of Poplar Pike, about one block east of Kirby at 2000 Old Oak Drive, the home has been Walter D. Wills III ’67), providing Parkway. thoroughly renovated, modernized, and is a relatively rapid and inexpensive “Virtually no maintenance had been available for rent or purchase. connection between downtown done since Jo Kirby died in 1950,” Wills Wills has not limited his participation Memphis and Germantown. Currently, said, referring to his grandfather. in local history solely to managing his the Norfolk and Southern Railroad Wills and his parents devoted an family’s historic properties. He has also retains a right-of-way easement across enormous amount of time and effort to been actively involved with several local the southern border of the former accurately restoring the house, cookhouse, history groups. He served on the Shelby Kirby Farm House property.

MUS TODAY – SUMMER 2015 35 County Historical Commission, the boards family documents for future generations. In of Memphis Heritage, the West Tennessee addition, Wills says, at Memphis University Historical Society, the Descendants of Early School the legendary Leigh W. MacQueen Settlers of Shelby County Tennessee and had figuratively “just beat history” into him. Adjoining Counties, and the Germantown The Wills family is also involved in Museum. He has assisted in the efforts the history of MUS. Walter III’s father to restore Germantown Historic Church. greatly influenced the choice of a site for (Editor’s note: For more than 10 years Wills regenerating the superb preparatory school & Wills has sponsored Dr. John Harkins’ that had been dormant for two decades. “The Best in Memphis History” column Walter Wills, Jr., offered the school’s current running monthly in the senior magazine, 94-acre site at a bargain price and donated The Best Times.) $8,000 (a significant sum in the 1950s) for Wills’ family has long been prominent construction costs. in Shelby County history. Indeed, he cannot In a way Wills, like his ancestors, is escape his ancestral influences – about honoring tradition as he contributes to the 25 streets have “Kirby” in their names, enlightenment of generations to come – who will have a window on Shelby County history should they pass by the structures at 6797 Messick Road.

John E. Harkins, Ph.D. is MUS Archivist and School Historian.

Additional Reading * The ancestors of Walter D. Wills III ’67 are notably featured in two local history books published by the Descendants of Early Settlers of Shelby County Tennessee and Adjoining Counties. These are Settlers of Shelby County Tennessee and Adjoining Counties (1989) and Early Families of the Memphis Area (2008). John Anderson Kirby, 1870, great-grandfather of * For details on founding the post-World Walter Wills III War II Memphis University School, please plus at least 20 local businesses, including see the MUS Century Book, pages 97-100. Kirby Gate, an 83-acre commercial center * About half of “The Best in Memphis at Kirby Parkway and Quince Road that History” essays from The Best Times have Wills & Wills continues to develop. He been republished in Memphis Chronicles: is a compendium of stories about his Bits of History from The Best Times, part predecessors, many of whom he admires of the American Chronicles series, by The for their principles and accomplishments. History Press (2009). “The families that lived in the Kirby * The most thorough biographical Farm House had high ethics and a strong treatment of Frances Wright’s life is Celia desire for a better quality of life with Morris’s Fanny Wright: Rebel in America education and peace,” he says. “They (1992). Wright organized Nashoba, the attracted other people with similar beliefs.” Shelby County community created to The land adjacent to Kirby Farm was prepare slaves for emancipation. the site of the 1820s Nashoba project, – John E. Harkins, Ph.D. where Frances Wright worked to create a self-sustaining community to educate and After Hurricane Elvis in 2003, the Wills family had this log structure built from fallen oaks on the Poplar Pike property emancipate slaves. Wilks Brooks and his where Kirby Farm House was located. To achieve authenticity family – who shared similar egalitarian in its construction, they learned from demonstrations at the sensibilities – were members of the biracial Ames Plantation Heritage Festival as well as consultations New Hope Church, donating land to the with experts at the plantation, which is near Grand Junction. Walter Wills III and his son, Walter IV, moved the log house community in 1841 and later building the and several other outbuildings to Messick Road in East parsonage. Memphis, along with the Kirby Farm House. Wills attributes his interest and Before he moved Kirby Farm House one mile south to involvement in history to his parents and Messick Road, Wills opened his historical family home to his grandfather Kirby. His mother had visitors. The home and décor, pictured at right, told a story made it her business to preserve and protect about life long ago.

36 MUS TODAY – SUMMER 2015 MUS TODAY – SUMMER 2015 37 Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame Inducts Jake Rudolph and Billy Dunavant Two giants in Memphis University School history are among the 2015 Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame induction class: the late, great coaching legend Jake Rudolph and regional sports patron – and MUS benefactor – Billy Dunavant, Jr. They were inducted along with other honorees in a June 6 banquet at the Omni Hotel Nashville.

ake Rudolph, who coached football Rudolph was named to the TSSAA at Memphis University School from Hall of Fame in 2011; he was inducted into J1959-1997, grew up winning. In an the Tennessee Football Coaches Association interview posted on the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame last December; and he will Hall of Fame website, his son Courtnay be inducted into the Georgia Tech Athletics Rudolph ’77 notes that his father played on Hall of Fame in October. six undefeated football teams in less than A native of Clarksville, TN, Rudolph a decade – two years at Clarksville High joins his late brother, professional School, two at Georgia Tech (1951 and golfer Mason Rudolph, as a member of the 1952), and two for U.S. Air Force champi- Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame. onship teams in Germany. He also enjoyed Jake Rudolph was also a golfer, an undefeated season as the head coach at Courtnay Rudolph says, competing for the Darlington School in Rome, GA, before Georgia Tech in 1952. He went on to coach he joined the staff at MUS. golf at MUS. In his 39 years coaching football for Jake Rudolph, who died in 2008 the Owls, Coach Rudolph won 295 games, following a stroke, was married to Carolyn Rudolph. Their three sons – Courtnay, Steve Rudolph ’74, and David Billy Dunavant’s portrait hangs in Dunavant Rudolph ’81 – are MUS alumni, as well Upper School. as grandsons Stephen Rudolph ’00, Jason Rudolph ’04, and Jake Rudolph At MUS he is known as father, ’10. Grandnephews Goodman Rudolph grandfather, trustee emeritus, benefactor, ’17 and Mason Rudolph ’17 are current and great friend. students. Dunavant served on the Board of Trustees from 1967 to 1982, and his n the sports world, Billy Dunavant, generosity helped build the Dunavant Jr. is recognized as the former owner Upper School, the Dunavant-Wellford Iof the United States Football League’s Tennis Center, and the Field House indoor Memphis Showboats, founder of the sports facility. Racquet Club of Memphis, and a force in Headmaster Ellis Haguewood has bringing big-time professional tennis to described Dunavant as a visionary: the Mid-South. He invested in the attempt “He is in an elite category of men who to draw an NFL franchise, the Memphis understand the true value of building the Jake Rudolph coached the Owls for 39 years. Hound Dogs, to the area. He is also a patron future of Memphis, and the world, through of Ducks Unlimited, instrumental in getting education.” once the record for career wins in Shelby the national headquarters in Memphis. Dunavant, married to Tommie County. His record included a 1985 state In the business world, he is known Dunavant, is the father of alumni Bill championship, two second-place finishes, for Dunavant Enterprises, Inc., once the Dunavant ’78, John Dunavant ’82, and a total of 16 trips to the playoffs. world’s largest cotton merchandising Buck Dunavant ’90, and Woodson While at MUS he earned many honors, company. He remains chairman of the Dunavant ’97; and the grandfather including Tennessee Coach of the Year, board for the company, which sold its of alumni Galloway Allbright ’98, Lawrenceburg Touchdown Club Coach cotton interests five years ago and now William Adams ’03, Hunter Adams ’06, of the Year, and Memphis Quarterback comprises a global logistics company, a real Dobson Dunavant ’13, Billy Dunavant Coach of the Year. He also received the Rex estate development group, and a capital and ’16, Buchanan Dunavant ’18, and Dockery Award. private equity investing company. Harry Dunavant ’18. Ouyang Recognized as Presidential Scholar

lass of 2015 Valedictorian Richard Ouyang was one of 141 students nationwide and only four students from CTennessee recognized as 2015 U.S. Presidential Scholars. The scholars were honored for their accomplishments and each received a Presidential Scholar Medallion during a BRINGING ceremony in Washington, DC, this summer. Ouyang earned a perfect 2400 on the SAT, a perfect 36 on the ACT, perfect 5s on 13 Advanced Placement tests, and perfect 800s on five SAT subject tests. A National Merit Final- HOME ist, Ouyang was one of 300 semifinalists in the Intel Science Talent Search 2015. He was also one of 400 U.S. semifinalists THE LAUDS in the 2015 International Physics Olympiad. Ouyang’s non- academic record includes co-founding and running a high school math contest and serving as editor-in-chief of Richard Ouyang The Owl’s Hoot. He is also an accomplished pianist. Ouyang plans to attend Harvard College in the fall.

Nine Owls Named National Merit Finalists

ine members of the Class of 2015 Nearned a place among 15,000 Finalists of the 60th National Merit Scholarship Pro- State championship competitors, from left, Jake Meskin, Mason Rudolph, Goodman Rudolph, gram – Mitchell Apollonio, Mike Frymire, Hays Moreland, Ross Redmont, Trent Scull, and Coach Cliff Frisby Jack Gray, Jack Hirschman, Ahmed Latif, Richard Ouyang, Azeez Shala, Golf Team Earns Second Straight State Title Hamid Shirwany, and Yunhua Zhao. About 1.5 million juniors entered the 2015 uccess was just as sweet the second time around when the golf team National Merit Scholarship Program by Sdefeated Ensworth for a second straight state title at the TSSAA Division II-AA taking the 2013 Preliminary SAT/National tournament in Manchester last fall. The state team consisted of Hays Moreland ’15 (defending individual state champion), Ross Redmont ’15, Goodman Rudolph ’17, Merit Scholarship qualifying test. Finalists Mason Rudolph ’17, Jake Meskin ’17, and Trent Scull ’17. compete for some 7,600 National Merit With rain and high winds in the area, Coach Cliff Frisby’s Owls shot 304 (total of Scholarships worth about $33 million. To be the top four players’ scores) on the first day, tying with Briarcrest for first. On day two the considered for the honor, a National Merit Owls’ experience came through as the team shot 295, winning by 11 shots over Ensworth. Semifinalist must meet several requirements, Every Owl scored better on the second day when the pressure was greater. Goodman including the demonstration of an excel- Rudolph shot 69 (-3) to finish regulation play tied for first. Mason Rudolph shot 74, Moreland 74, Redmont 78, and Scull 78. Battling for the individual title, Goodman lent academic record and endorsement by Rudolph lost to Ensworth’s Brock Ochsenreiter in a sudden-death playoff on the fifth a school official. In addition the candidate hole. However, Rudolph’s nine birdies through two days was the most of any participant, must have an SAT score that confirms the and the trio of the Rudolph brothers and Moreland combined for 22 birdies, a remarkable PSAT/NMSQT performance. tally on such a challenging course with tough weather conditions.

MUS TODAY – SUMMER 2015 39 BRINGING HOME THE LAUDS

From left, Spencer Richey, Edward Apple, Christian Schneiter, Michael Apple, Frederick Danielson, Paul LaHue, and Andres Carro with the championship trophy

Tennis Swings Mack Named Gates Third Consecutive Millennium Scholar Championship Kamar Mack ’15 arsity tennis upheld its legacy as the most earned a Gates Vdecorated tennis program in the state this Millennium Schol- season, easily winning its 16th Tennessee arship, a program Secondary School Athletic Association title – initiated by the the most team tennis championships in Bill and Melinda the state. Gates Foundation. But the Owls did much more than just Administered by secure last year’s record-breaking title and the United Negro third straight team championship; for the College Fund, the third consecutive year, the Owls also won program provides the doubles title. Christian Schneiter funds for recipi- Class of 2015 players Michael Apple, Kamar Mack ents to attend any Alex Carruthers, Paul LaHue, Spencer Richey, David Scharff, Christian accredited college Schneiter, and Arnav Thakur led the team, finishing their high school careers on a or university in the United States. The high note. Apple and Richey defeated scholarship may provide for up to 10 years Baylor to claim their third consecutive of a recipient’s education, to the doctoral state doubles title. level. The second MUS student named a In the state team competition in Gates Millennium Scholar since the pro- Murfreesboro, Coach Bill Taylor and gram’s inception in 1999, Mack was among Coach Phil Chamberlain’s squad shut only 1,000 recipients chosen from more than out McCallie in the semifinals, with 57,000 minority applicants nationwide. A Schneiter, Andres Carro ’16, and semifinalist in the 2015 National Achieve- Frederick Danielson ’17 winning ment Scholarship Program and an Advanced their singles matches in straight sets. In Placement Scholar, he was president of the doubles action, Apple and Carro won, Andres Carro Government Club and a member of national as did the team of LaHue and Schneiter, Latin, history, and math honor societies. advancing the Owls to the finals against Baylor. The Owls won the doubles point early Mack begins studies at Georgetown Uni- as they took the first two matches with wins from Apple/Carro and LaHue/Schneit- versity this fall, where he plans to study er. They finished off the Red Raiders by winning three singles matches, collecting computer science, mathematics, and Italian. straight-set victories from Danielson, LaHue, and Richey to win overall, 4-0.

40 MUS TODAY – SUMMER 2015 Owls Victorious at Pro2Serve ixteen MUS students traveled to University of Tennessee, Knoxville in SNovember for the 14th Pro2Serve math tournament, coming home with top honors, including sweeping the math bowl competi- tion as both small-school division and overall winner. Competing against 800 of the best math students in the state were Class of 2015 team members Andrew Elsakr, Kamar Mack, Richard Ouyang, Azeez Shala, Jason Stein, Yunhua Zhao; Class of 2016 members Murray Morrison, Patrick Murphy, Josh Myers, Daniel Tancredi; The 2014-15 fencing team, front row, from left, Jackson Howell, Jon Staffel, Omkar Hosad, Jason Brooks Eikner ’17; and Class of Wang, Landon Springfield, Ethan Lam; back row, Coach Brad Kroeker, Coach Mike Harber, Zack 2018 members Omkar Hosad, Whicker, Dylan Riggs, Andrew Elsakr, Wesley Wells, Nick DiMento, Jacob Webb, Jeffrey Zheng, Jackson Howell, Jackson Moody, Alec Scott, Will Tomes, Michael Sweeney, Coach Steve Dobbs, and Coach Sergey Petrosyan Rick Reinhard, and Chang Yu. Tancredi and Yu both placed in the Top 5 of the Fermat I competition and in the Fencers Take Fourth Top 10 of the Fermat II, thereby winning $24,000 scholarships to UTK. Ouyang and Straight Championship Zhao had placed among the top scorers of each contest in previous years (their schol- or the fourth consecutive year, the fencing team won the Tennessee State arships increased from the former rate of Secondary School Fencing Championship. Strong showings in more than 20 local $16,000 to $24,000). Fand regional events led up to the state championship, held at MUS in April. The team of Nick DiMento ’15, Zack Whicker ’15, Jeffrey Zheng ’15, Dylan Riggs ’17, and MUS also fielded two three-person math Jon Staffel ’18 fell just short of Baylor’s fencers in epee. However, the team of DiMento, bowl teams in the 64-team, double-elimi- Whicker, Zheng, Riggs, and Jacob Webb ’18 took the foil field with five of the top six nation tournament. The team consisting of places, besting Baylor in the event for the first time in school history. The saber team also Morrison, Yu, and Zhao progressed deep showed great strength and depth with Class of 2015 fencers DiMento, Andrew Elsakr, into the field before elimination. The other Ahmed Latif, Whicker, and Zheng contributing critical points, enabling foil and saber team of Murphy, Tancredi, and Ouyang teams to secure the overall team championship trophy. swept the entire field without losing a Coach Brad Kroeker was pleased with the Owls’ outstanding season: “We owe single match, thus winning both the much of our success this year to incredible senior leadership and the work of coaches small-school division and the overall Steve Dobbs, Mike Harber, and Sergey Petrosyan.” math bowl competition.

Latin Program Scores Octo-peat he Latin program won its eighth consecutive overall title in the Tennessee TJunior Classical League State Convention in Gatlinburg in April. Highlights of the 30-school competition included an MUS sweep in Certamen, with the Owls winning first place in all three categories (Novice, Intermediate, andAdvanced). Richard Ouyang ’15 won Level Four/Five of the Academic Heptathlon, auto- matically qualifying him for a full scholarship to attend the NJCL convention in San Antonio this summer, a prize worth about $500. In individual points Jackson Moody ’18 tied for first place, and four other MUS students finished in the overall top 10: Ouyang, Yunhua Zhao ’15, Brooks Eikner ’17, and Charlie Evans ’18.

Latin Club members Yunhua Zhao, Richard Ouyang, and Forest Colerick with the TJCL first-place trophy

MUS TODAY – SUMMER 2015 41 Class of 2015

yesterdays at Memphis University School – closing lines about taking the road “less such a short passage from this vantage point traveled by” do not disclose the poem’s true Parlays – as well as the opportunities that stretch meaning. into their tomorrows. “‘The Road Not Taken’ is not the road Yesterdays into Student Council Chaplain others didn’t take. It is the one we didn’t Jack Christenbury led the congregation in take,” Zhao said. He explained the poem’s prayer, looking forward in his invocation. assertion that the roads were about the same Tomorrows “Father,” he said, “I would pray that in terms of merit but that the one selected by Genevieve Bettendorf you would bless these graduates and all made all the difference to the narrator. Communications Intern their future endeavors and that everywhere Drawing a parallel with the many col- they go they would give instead of take, leges and universities his classmates have ike all endings, this one came they would be producers instead of consum- chosen, he said, “At graduation, we observe with a past behind it and a future ers, they would make this world a better this moment together, when the Class of ahead of it. As the Class of 2015 place, and they would leave things better 2015 stands at a crossroads, before we each and their loved ones gathered in than they found them.” take our own path.” LSecond Presbyterian Church for graduation In his salutatory address Yunhua Zhao Zhao emphasized the inevitable dura- May 17, the words sung by Beg To Differ drew from Robert Frost’s poem “The Road bility of the memories he and his classmates likely rang true. Yesterday came suddenly. Not Taken” to illustrate the significance of have made with one another – some excit- Commencement celebrated the graduates’ graduation. He noted that the oft-quoted ing, some mundane, some ridiculous – that

42 MUS TODAY – SUMMER 2015 collectively form the traditions of the Class graduations just to mention them all.” many accomplishments as he highlighted of 2015. Others they encounter will not Following his words of congratulations, their leadership, service, and perseverance. know about this experience, he said, “but he delivered even more of gratitude. “These “Some of you have led and served we will remember these things.” past few years weren’t all our doing,” he without regard or even hope for recognition. After Beg To Differ’s interlude, said, acknowledging the great role the Some of you have endured disappointment. valedictorian Richard Ouyang invoked graduates’ predecessors, families, and teach- Many of you have overcome obstacles “the masterful literary genius Kanye West,” ers played in their successes. Extending along the way, some known only to you,” who once said, “‘I feel like I’m too busy his sincere thanks to all, especially faculty Haguewood said. “But you prevailed, and writing history to read it.’” Ouyang encour- members who have left their mark on the all of you are leaving us now, having made aged his classmates to reflect on the history class, he asked the question, “What’s next?” MUS a better school for those who follow.” they have written at MUS. Their legacy, he “Let’s continue to do great things in At the completion of the ceremony, the reminded the audience, is a distinguished college – and beyond. Let’s use our pas- Class of 2015 processed through the sanc- one, marked from its early days by athletic sions, interests, and strengths to make tuary and down the front steps, soon tossing excellence, by academic and artistic merit, positive impacts on our communities, and their caps into the clearing sky. and by community outreach and ultimately on the world.” As they welcome the future before volunteerism. After the conferring of diplomas and them, they surely will embrace their past, “We as a senior class had so many the presentation of awards, Headmaster holding fast to fond memories of their other awards that we’d need a few more Ellis Haguewood praised the graduates’ time at MUS.

SENIORS LED THE WAY National Merit Scholarship Corporation recognition: Led award-winning student newspaper 9 National Merit Finalists, 10 National Merit and yearbook teams Semifinalists, 2 National Achievement Semifinalists, and 13 National Merit Commended Students Launched and led MUS Drum Corps 55 percent scored 30 or higher on the ACT, Took the lead in producing Shakespeare’s Comedy of and two seniors earned perfect scores Errors and the musical Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, singing with Beg To Differ, and playing in Studio Band Led state-level Pro2Serve math bowl team to victory Accepted to 141 colleges and universities in 34 states Led state championship teams in fencing, as well as the District of Columbia, Canada, and the golf, Latin, and tennis United Kingdom Led state runner-up teams in swimming, Offered more than $10 million in merit-based cross country, and lacrosse scholarships

MUS TODAY – SUMMER 2015 43 Alex Carruthers William Merriman Arnav Thakur Mike Carrier

Jeffrey Zheng, Richard Ouyang, and Wayne Mullins, Yunhua Zhao with his parents, Xiaolin Zhao and Hua Liu, instructor in physics and brothers, Joseph and Kerry Zhao

Pictured, from left, with their senior awards presented April 22 are Baker Ball, Ethan Pretsch, Brad Jarratt, Richard Ouyang, Yunhua Zhao, Wesley Grace, William Merriman, Jerry Oates, Nicholas Manley, Sherman Tabor, Stewart Love, and Jack Gray.

44 MUS TODAY – SUMMER 2015 Leigh W. MacQueen Dean’s Choral Music Award Commencement Cup for Academic Excellence for Excellence Richard Ouyang Nicholas Manley and Named in 1998 in honor of the first academ- Sherman Tabor Awards and ic dean of MUS, Leigh Windsor Mac- Queen, this award was originally donated English Award Honors by Mr. and Mrs. MacQueen in 1967. The award is given to a senior who, based on Sherman Tabor Valedictorian Award his academic record and his performance Richard Ouyang on both a written and an oral examination, French Award This award is presented to that senior with has demonstrated a high level of academic Jack Gray the highest average over eight semesters of achievement along with a marked depth of work at Memphis University School. intellectual maturity and curiosity and who, Wayne E. Duff Latin Award in the minds of the examining committee, Salutatorian Award has indicated sound intellectual attainment. Richard Ouyang Yunhua Zhao This award is presented to that senior with Scott Miller Rembert Spanish Award the second highest average over eight Senior Service Award Hayden Meacham semesters of work at Memphis University Mike Carrier School. This award, established by family and History Award friends, is made in memory of Scott M. William Merriman Faculty Cup for Rembert, Class of 1970. It goes to that General Excellence senior who has shown the most unselfish Christa Green Warner Richard Ouyang service to the school. Mathematics Award The Faculty Cup for General Excellence is Richard Ouyang and the highest honor given to a member of the Mark Cooper Powell graduating class. The recipient has demon- Memorial Award Yunhua Zhao strated qualities of leadership and strength Alex Creson and Arnav Thakur of character, which have earned him the The Mark Cooper Powell Memorial Award Margaret Owen Catmur highest respect of his peers and his teachers. is given in memory of Mark Cooper Powell, Science Award He must have given generously of his time, Class of 1980, by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. talent, and energy in service in a way that Richard Ouyang and Edward L. Powell, to the graduate who, Yunhua Zhao reflects his devotion to the school and his through persistence and courage during dedication to the ideals for which it stands. his career at MUS, has shown the greatest development of character and scholarship. Religion Award Ross McCain Lynn Award Jerry Oates William Merriman, Sherman Tabor, Griffin Wilson, and Yunhua Zhao Distinguished Community The Ross McCain Lynn Award is given in Senior Awards memory of the school’s former headmas- Russell Johnson Creative Service Award ter. This award recognizes distinction in Nicholas Manley the areas of school citizenship, leadership, Writing Award service, and character. Stewart Love Paul Trowbridge Gillespie Scholar-Athlete Award D. Eugene Thorn Award William D. Jemison III Award Alex Carruthers, Jack Christenbury, Griffin Wilson Jack Gray, Ahmed Latif, Hamid for Excellence in Dramatics Shirwany, and Zack Whicker Baker Ball James R. Haygood III Best The D. Eugene Thorn Award is given in All-Around Athlete Award memory of the school’s former headmaster. Brescia Award for This award is presented to those members Colton Neel and Carlton Orange of the Senior Class who best demonstrate Unselfish Service in the dignity, integrity, humility, and sincerity Dramatics Al Wright Christian that characterized Thorn’s years as coach, Brad Jarratt and Ethan Pretsch Character Award teacher, and headmaster at Memphis Bennett Wilfong University School. Art Award Wesley Grace

MUS TODAY – SUMMER 2015 45 Class of 2015 Matriculations Cole Adams, The University of Alabama MaLeik Gatewood, Butch Matthews, University of Mississippi David Scharff, University of Tennessee, Knoxville University of Tennessee, Knoxville Mitchell Apollonio, University of Michigan Robby Matthews, Vanderbilt University Samuel Gordon, Christian Schneiter, Michael Apple, Carter McFerrin, University of Mississippi University of Tennessee, Knoxville Southern Methodist University Middle Tennessee State University Hayden Meacham, Wesley Grace, Spring Hill College Azeez Shala, Rhodes College Evan Arkle, Furman University University of California, Los Angeles Jack Gray, Andrew Shelton, Elon University Baker Ball, William Merriman, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University of Tennessee, Knoxville Sewanee: The University of the South Hamid Shirwany, Rhodes College Xavier Greer, Marvin Banks, Howard University Max Meyer, Tulane University Max Simpson, The University of Alabama University of Tennessee, Knoxville Chris Boswell, Selden Montgomery, Dub Sorrells, University of Arkansas Jeff Guenther, Mississippi State University University of Tennessee, Knoxville University of Tennessee, Knoxville Jason Stein, Lehigh University Jack Hawkins, The University of Alabama Hays Moreland, University of Cincinnati Charles Brandon, University of Mississippi Grant Stevenson, University of Arkansas Thomas Hayes, Clemson University Mackenzie Mosby, Chandler Braxton, Rhodes College Connor Stewart, Will Hays, University of Arkansas Birmingham-Southern College Mike Carrier, University of Mississippi University of Tennessee, Chattanooga Ted Helmhout, University of Mississippi Jack Mullins, College of William and Mary Alex Carruthers, The University of Georgia Ian Susser, College of Charleston Lewis Hergenrader, Auburn University Nevin Naren, University of Chicago Jack Christenbury, Sherman Tabor, University of Virginia Jack Hirschman, Daniel Nathan, The University of Alabama Caleb Taylor, University of Arkansas The George Washington University University of Tennessee, Knoxville Mitchell Clark, Eason Taylor, Belmont University Texas A&M University A.J. Hunt, Birmingham-Southern College Colton Neel, The University of Memphis Arnav Thakur, Rhodes College David Clarke, Hayden Hunt, Brant Newman, Murray State University Southern Methodist University Sewanee: The University of the South Connor Truitt, University of Arkansas Jerry Oates, Alex Creson, Clemson University Will Hunt, University of Tennessee, Knoxville University of Tennessee, Knoxville Augie Van Deveer, Emerson College Baty Daniel, Michael Jacobs, Roberto Olvera, Rhodes College Corwin Vinson, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Sewanee: The University of the South Middle Tennessee State University Carlton Orange, University of Arkansas Austin Darr, Brad Jarratt, Jim Waggoner, Richard Ouyang, Harvard University Sewanee: The University of the South University of Tennessee, Knoxville University of Tennessee, Knoxville Peter Phillips, , Avery Johnson, Baylor University Zach Walker, Tulane University Christopher Davis Loyola University New Orleans United States Military Academy Keegan Jones, Townsend Warren, University of Arkansas Joseph Preston, , University of Southern California Patrick Demere University of California, Los Angeles Zack Whicker, The Ohio State University University of Tennessee, Knoxville Peyton Jones, The University of Memphis Ethan Pretsch, Furman University Preston White, Nick DiMento, Texas Christian University Pierce Jones, University of Arkansas Birmingham-Southern College T.J. Purnell, The University of Memphis Win Duncan, August Klinke, Furman University Gaines Whitington, Ben Reaves, University of Tennessee, Knoxville University of Colorado at Boulder Ashish Kumar, University of Virginia University of Tennessee, Knoxville Nick Dunn, Pepperdine University Bennett Wilfong, University of Mississippi Paul LaHue, Michael Reddoch, Andrew Elsakr, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga University of Mississippi Griffin Wilson, University of Missouri, Kansas City Southern Methodist University Ahmed Latif, Georgetown University Ross Redmont, , Marcus Evans University of Tennessee, Martin Ty Wolf, Southern Methodist University University of Central Missouri Walker Lee, Rhodes College Spencer Richey, The University of Alabama Brock Wright, Tulane University Will Farnsworth, The University of Georgia Stewart Love, Rhodes College Drew Richmond, Connor Wright, The University of Alabama Proctor Ford, Texas Christian University Kamar Mack, Georgetown University University of Tennessee, Knoxville Christian Yarwood, Mike Frymire, Texas A&M University John Madden, The University of Alabama Preston Roberts, University of Southampton Nicholas Manley, Tom Garrott, Southern Methodist University Washington and Lee University Yunhua Zhao, Vanderbilt University University of Tennessee, Knoxville Pierce Rose, Mississippi State University Jeffrey Zheng, University of Toronto Luncheon Celebrates Tradition Passed Through Generations

Evan Arkle ’15 and Jay Arkle ’84 Albo Carruthers ’78 and Jack Christenbury ’15 and Beau Creson ’06 and Matthew Daniel ’84 and Alex Carruthers ’15 Craig Christenbury ’83 Alex Creson ’15 Baty Daniel ’15

Mott Ford ’83 and Tom Garrott ’15 and Wesley Grace ’86 and Tom Hayes ’83 and Ted Helmhout ’15 and Proctor Ford ’15 Murray Garrott ’85 Wesley Grace ’15 Thomas Hayes ’15 Ron Helmhout ’82

Lewis Hergenrader ’15 and Hayden Hunt ’15 and Dade Hunt ’77 August Klinke ’15 and Max Meyer ’15 and Greg Meyer ’79 Charlie Oates ’77 and Steve Hergenrader ’77 Russell Klinke ’79 Jerry Oates ’15

Peter Phillips ’15 and Rob Preston ’78 and Scott Rose ’82 and Richard Scharff ’80, David Scharff ’15, Bruce Stein ’78 and Jason Stein ’15 Clif Phillips ’77 Joseph Preston ’15 Pierce Rose ’15 and Jon Scharff ’80

Each year we invite legacy family members to gather for a luncheon with their graduating seniors.

Not pictured: Nick Dunn ’15 and Karl Dunn ’75, Butch Matthews ’15 and Tom Matthews ’82, Ben Reaves ’15 and Paul Reaves ’84, Eason Taylor ’15 and Kimbrough Taylor ’84

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[email protected] ‘15 Connor Wright ...... [email protected] Christmas and other vacation time with Allen Malone is with Burch, Porter ’58 them in New Zealand. & Johnson and has been named by the publication The Best Lawyers in America as Les Nicholson reports: “Since there was Fowler Cooper is a Christian psychothera- 2015 Lawyer of the Year for litigation-en- no news from my class in the last issue, I pist and a volunteer board member for two vironmental law in the Memphis area. Most thought I should write something. Early local Christian drug and alcohol recovery of his work relates to corporate transactions. this year I accepted an offer from ICA, the centers in Boone, NC. He recently joined He and his wife, Mary, will celebrate their largest construction/infrastructure company the board of his local Crime Stoppers USA 50th wedding anniversary this September. in Mexico, to return to work full time as organization. His son, Fowler, is with Bank They have three children and four grand- the executive vice president and chief of America in Charlotte, NC. His daughter, children ages 8 and under – two on the East legal officer of the Facchina Construction Rebecca Jane, is with Samaritan’s Purse, an Coast, two on the West Coast. Slowing Company. ICA acquired Facchina last year international Christian relief organization down, he says, but not quite retired. (Is in order to expand into the U.S. market. So headquartered in Boone. Allen the first in our class to celebrate far, I am having a great time and working 50 years?) on my Spanish. Last April, I played for the Eugenia and Howard Ellis live in International Tennis Club of the United Richmond, VA, and recently returned Ginny and Bryan Nearn own and operate States of America in a 10-country event from a long-planned trip to Ireland. In a Holiday Inn in Asheville, NC, and his in Mexico City where our 70-and-over early June, he was preparing to speak at company, Mountaintop Management, owns team finished third. In the fall I was part the awards ceremony and graduation for and operates a Hampton Inn & Suites in of a 12-man U.S. team ranging from 45 to Elk Hill Farm, a residential facility for the Pigeon Forge, TN. They have two sons, Ben 70+ that defeated a French team in Nice care of adolescent boys who have been and Andrew, and five grandchildren. Ben to regain the President’s Cup. My tennis abandoned, abused, or otherwise headed in is a movie producer (The Way, Way Back highlight, however, was returning to MUS the wrong direction. Elk Hill started outside and Begin Again) and is in the process of to participate in the dedication of the new Richmond in 1972, and was patterned after releasing two more movies, Mississippi indoor tennis facility along with my 1958 Cal Farley’s Boys Ranch near Amarillo, TX. Grind and The Hollars, due out this fall. teammates, John Bondurant ’60, Mac Howard has been a trustee of the organiza- Andrew recently became head pediatrician McLaren ’60, Carl Olsen ’60, Ferrell tion for 20 years, during which time it has at Christ Community Health Services’ Varner ’60, and Alex Wellford ’60. Carl grown to serve both boys and girls through Broad and Tillman location in Memphis. In treated us to a wonderful dinner that night four group homes, three accredited schools early June Bryan and Ginny were headed to where we became increasingly charming at the middle and high school level, and five Beirut, Lebanon, with their church, Second and funny as we consumed all of the wine summer camps. Elk Hill offers day-treat- Presbyterian, on a mission trip to conduct Mac supplied. Look forward to seeing ment and community services (elkhill.org). a vacation Bible school for young children everyone in 2018 and hopefully sooner.” Daughter Erin Ellis Kane lives in St. Louis at the Philemon Project, a Christian school Wellford commented: “The last word was with her husband and is raising 12-year-old in the midst of a heavily populated Muslim that Les and Laureen were scheduled to go twins (a girl and a boy). Daughter Nicole area. They have also been to China in the to Mexico City in July, where he may be Anderson Ellis lives in Richmond with past several years with the church, conduct- able to use his entire Spanish vocabulary: her husband and 10-year-old daughter, and ing Christian business conferences. Bryan sí, buenos días, adiós, mucho gusto, she teaches critical thinking at Virginia and his family spend as much time in North demasiado, and tengo hambre.” Commonwealth University. Carolina as possible, often summering in Cashiers. Inside Memphis Business named Clyde John Lawo is president of Magazine Media Patton, president of Patton & Taylor Strategies, specializing in magazine media Jamie and Bill Simmons spend a lot of time Construction Company, to the Construction publishing and business development visiting their daughter, Mary, who lives in Power Players list. and management. He works locally with Denver with her husband, Tom, and their national teen magazine Justine, and consults two boys (ages 1 and 2). Bill retired from with Shweiki Media of San Antonio, TX. a career in banking and financial services

’59 His son, John III, is a computer analyst in in 2011, and for several years he has been Turner Askew has retired from politics Eugene, OR. Daughter Caroline in Kailua, involved in urban youth ministries, taking for health reasons after eight years on the HI, is pursuing a nursing degree after the Christian message to kids to help them Whitefish, MT, City Council and an completing her B.S. several years earlier. become better and more productive citizens. unsuccessful run for mayor. John and his wife, Beth, who is a lead He recently stepped down after 10 years pre-kindergarten teacher at St. George’s as chairman of Repairing the Breach, a Don Austin is in the construction business Independent School in Germantown, have community outreach organization minister- in Memphis. His son, Don ’84, and family a daughter, Farrell, in Houston, who is the ing to youth in the Alcy-Ball Community live in Hong Kong where he does IT work, marketing coordinator covering Dallas and of Memphis. and his wife, Kelly, is a lawyer. They have Houston for Urban Publishers’ Papercity two boys, ages 9 and 11. Don enjoys magazine; and a daughter, Maddie, who will be a senior at Ole Miss next year.

MUS TODAY – SUMMER 2015 49 ’60 Laura and Allan Gold vacationed with friends in Italy this summer. Highlights included a week at a beautiful villa in Sorrento; tours of Pompeii, the Amalfi Coast, and Naples; sightseeing in Ravello, Anacapri, Siracusa, and Segesta; and multiple servings of gelato and limoncello, along with many wonderful meals. Gold captured this image at the Valley of the Temples outside Agrigento, Sicily. See more photos at tinyurl.com/1goldpix.

Frank Smith has lived in Bowling Green, Turley Company, a Power Player in its send you a green bag to fill with food for KY, since 1974. In 2006 he left his solo Business Hall of Fame. the hungry. For more information visit law practice and joined Kerrick Bachert memphianscare.org. Attorneys at Law as “of counsel.” He and his wife, Betty Tee, have three children: ’60 Kathy and Scott Ledbetter were hotel Shannon, a wildlife biologist in Scottsboro, Inside Memphis Business named guests on opening night for the newly AL; Fran, a teacher and real estate agent in Met Crump, president of The Crump Firm, completed Bass Pro Shops at the Pyramid. Nashville who is pregnant with their second to the Architecture Power Players list. Scott headed the committee that decided on grandchild; and Sam, a 6-foot, 270-pound the use for the vacant Pyramid. They are martial arts expert, who teaches tai chi As part of his organization Memphians building a home adjacent to their Hardeman at a local hospital in Bowling Green and Care, William Gotten has been collecting County farm, which is slated to be pur- is forming his own company of personal food and cash donations for Mid-South chased by the state for a 4-H center. trainers. In early June Frank received Food Bank. He delivers green bags to Inside Memphis Business named correspondence from the Supreme Court donors who fill them for pickup the second Allen Morgan, co-founder and chairman of Kentucky putting to rest a case in favor Friday every other month. With food emeritus of Regions Morgan Keegan, a of one of his clients. This is of interest, and cash donations, Memphians Care Power Player in its Business Hall of Fame. Frank points out, because the case had recently delivered 574 pounds of food and $65, the equivalent of 673 meals, to the three appeals and began in 1991. He invites It has been years since anyone has called Mid-South Food Bank for distribution to classmates to join him on the Tennessee Carl Olsen “Bobo.” John Bondurant tells needy families. From February through River at mile marker 126 on I-40 where us that Carl never liked the nickname, even June Memphians provided more than 1,300 he has a home – to fish, boat, or share a though it came from a boxer, Carl “Bobo” meals. The next pickup dates are October cold one! Olson, who was the world middleweight 9 and December 11, and Gotten invites all champion between 1953 and 1955. Inside Memphis Business named real estate MUS alumni to participate. Contact him developer Henry Turley, founder of Henry at [email protected], and he will

50 MUS TODAY – SUMMER 2015 Todd Slaughter is hoping to come to the I had retired; my answer, of course, was England and Scotland. His older daughter, 55th reunion, if it can fit around his no. Finally, we have a report from Louie Laura, is a lawyer/prosecutor in Miami schedule at Ohio State, where he has been Spencer, our confirmed bachelor, who says married to a former prosecutor who is an art professor for years. Check out this he spent another boring year, as his life is in private practice now. They have two video he made about an imaginary conver- the ‘same old, same old.’ After spending daughters, Lucy, 2, and Madeline, 7 months, sation between two turkeys representing three months in Paris and hiking in France, so Laura is not working for a couple of Henry Thoreau and Eric Rudolph, the he headed in midsummer to his home in years. bomber of the Atlanta Olympics: Sun Valley, ID, for more hiking. Somehow I Jerry adds: “Hopefully you saw the story vimeo.com/101851437. have a hard time feeling sorry for Louie.” about Pete’s brother, Tom Shearon ’65, in the Spring 2015 MUS Today and realize that Inside Memphis Business named Pitt Hyde, they are two amazingly talented guys! One president of Hyde Family Foundations and person who was working up until recently ’61 founder of AutoZone, a Power Player in its Scott May reports: “Snow and Henry – Dan Work – sent the following account, Business Hall of Fame. Morgan and Tammy and John Bell all which may serve as incentive for anyone left to chase trout in southwest Montana still working to go on and retire.” this summer, but they assured me they will be back before dove season starts in ’62 “Billie and I both retired last year,” Work early September. Lisa and Jody Brown On June 17 the FedEx Board changed the says. “We have been overseas for seven visited Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada, for mandatory retirement age for directors from weeks this year, a month in South America the George Bernard Shaw Festival and to 72 to 75. Of course, Fred Smith is still on and three weeks in Europe. South America see several plays, as well as Niagara Falls the job. With that in mind, Jerry Bradfield included a cruise around Cape Horn, nine (there was some mention of a barrel being decided to ask why so many of the Class of days in Buenos Aires, and several days involved). They also went to Stratford, just 1962 are still working. Although time was in Santiago. We traveled Europe by train outside Toronto, to see a little Shakespeare short, the request did elicit a few replies. beginning in Rome with days in Lugano, and think about how lucky we all were to Brussels, and ending in Amsterdam. Day From Philip Crump: “Still working pretty have had Mr. [Bill] Hatchett as our English tours included Pisa, Bruges, and Ghent. I much full time as a mediator and facilitator. teacher. In late summer, Jody and Lisa have been devoting more time to playing I tell those who ask whether I am retired, planned to take the train from Vancouver, golf. Billie and I have decided that when ‘I can’t retire until I have a steady job to B.C., to Banff in the Canadian Rockies. we are too old, decrepit, blind, senile, and retire from!’” Betty Gayle and Felix Laughlin returned deaf, we will buy a big Cadillac and cruise the U.S. highways at 50 miles per hour in March from a great trip to Vietnam, From Pete Shearon: “I don’t exactly know or slower. Will let everyone know when Cambodia, Thailand, and Japan; they used why, just never thought about retiring. that time arrives. We currently have 11 local guides in the first three countries, and Contributing factors could be that I just grandchildren, which we suspect will be a friend showed them around in Japan. They started this career about 10 years ago after the final count.” stayed in the new Aman Hotel in Tokyo, and wanting to do something related for 15 while Betty Gayle was soaking in the tub years before that. Also, I still have a child “I know there are more of you in our class next to the large bathroom window on the in college at Rhodes. But I just don’t see who are still slaving away each day and 37th floor, a window washer appeared just retiring. I imagine I’ll work until I drop willing to impress us with your longevity outside the window and about six inches or until no one will let me work for them and success stories,” Jerry says. “Let’s hear from her shocked expression. They are now anymore.” from more of you.” back in Asheville, NC, after having visited When asked to expand on his second career, Washington, DC, where they attended Pete said, “I’m a research associate with Inside Memphis Business named Fred festivities at the National Bonsai & Penjing the Center for Research in Educational Smith, founder, chairman, president, and Museum. Doris and Dee Gibson took a Policy at University of Memphis. We CEO of FedEx Corporation, a Power Christmas trip to Paris, which included evaluate a broad range of ‘what works’ in Player in its Business Hall of Fame and to a cruise up the Seine to Normandy. They education for clients around the country, the CEOs-Local Public Companies Power will attend Dee’s 50th Reunion of the U.S. mostly in K-12, but also at the preschool, Players list. Naval Academy Class of 1965 this October. post-secondary, and graduate level. I had Dee, a pretty good golfer, spent the week wanted to do something related to learning, of June 1 in Myrtle Beach on his annual either clinically or in research, ever since ’65 golf outing with 23 buddies; he reports that I ran a mentor program for at-risk kids in Rick Ferguson is vice chairman of the he won money on the second day but not city schools in the ’80s, with Rotarians as board of trustees of BRIDGES. enough to break even. Dee and Doris still volunteers. Finally took a deep breath and have season tickets to UT football, and did it.” Inside Memphis Business named they say excitement is high in Big Orange Pete’s daughter, Elizabeth, a junior at Mac McKee, partner and broker at McKee country for the upcoming season. Dee still Rhodes College on a Clarence Day and McFarland, to the Commercial Real works four days a week and inquired if Scholarship, is just back from studying in Estate Power Players list.

MUS TODAY – SUMMER 2015 51 ranked sixth among the 18 listed advisors tiny cursive script. Like Mr. Hatchett, you ’66 in Tennessee. Pettey’s team offers various probably wouldn’t read more than one page. Herbo Humphreys continues to work on financial services while managing more I remember a day sitting in geometry class the SS Merida, which sank in 1911 off the than $975 million in client assets. and thinking, ‘When will I ever need to use coast of Virginia, and he says he has a bid any of this?’ But when I became a carpenter, in to purchase the 220-foot Woods Hole I dusted off that old Pythagorean theorem. Oceanographic Institution research vessel ’68 I learned other things that I didn’t [realize] After the suicide deaths of two classmates Atlantis II. “My son Gil ’16 will be working at the time would provide a foundation for a in late 2013 and early 2014, Terry Wilson with me on the ship part time this summer – career that didn’t even exist as a reasonable started what he calls a Stay in Touch pro- maybe Alex ’18, as well,” Herbo says. “My possibility when we graduated from high gram to better communicate with the Class daughter, Courtney, is living in Hampshire, school. After transitioning from a career in of 1968 and bring them together again. He England, and has two daughters, ages 1 and construction to computer software develop- reports: “I said to myself that this would 3, my first grandkids.” M10 Construction, ment, I eventually caught the Internet wave never happen to any of my classmates ever the Memphis company his son Herbo III to work with Oracle Corporation, where I again. People commit suicide when they ’02 runs, also continues to grow, he says. have been for the last 18 years. I’ve settled feel they have no other option. We share (Note: In the Spring 2015 issue of MUS down in Austin, TX, where I met Peta, my the uniqueness of a small graduating class Today, we mistakenly listed Gil and Alex wonderful wife of 30 years. We have two from a very special school. Many of our as Herbo III’s kids.) awesome kids, William and Emily. If you’re classmates have not been seen nor heard ever in Austin, look us up!” from since the day of graduation. We have ’67 no idea where they are, their successes, their Thanks to the Stay In Touch program, failures, their joys, and their sorrows.” Inside Memphis Business named Henry Myar had a wonderful reunion Wilson picks a name out of a box and Mark Halperin, executive vice president with David Cunningham during the contacts that individual to ask a few and chief operating officer at Boyle spring. David was in Los Angeles visiting questions: “Is there anything your Investment Company, to the Chief his daughter and son-in-law. Henry had classmates can do for you? How can we lift Operating Officers Power Players list. not seen David since UVA 43 years ago, you up at this time? Do you have any news and says, “It was grand reminiscing and Inside Memphis Business named Mike to share? May I share it with the class?” catching up. He is doing great. After our Harris, president of Hope Christian The response has been tremendous, he breakfast, he was headed toward San Diego Community Foundation, to the Philanthropy said. “The encouragement, kind words, and for lunch with Bill Hoehn.” Power Players list. stories have meant so much to us. I have heard stories of classmates who were never From Bayard Snowden: “It has been 50 friends in school visiting each other. I have years since I left MUS. Boarding school, heard stories of sharing and caring. I have Sewanee, three years active duty in the been blessed by this whole program. I have USMC, and almost 40 years of marriage probably pulled about half of the names out and real estate in Memphis provide the of the box. Let’s hope the other half will framework for a life enjoyed with Lisa and find even more incredible stories.” two children whose own life stories, though brief by comparison, are travelled down Bob Caldwell reports: “I’ve enjoyed hear- paths less taken. Though riches or fame or ing from so many of my former classmates adventure may have been on our minds as John Pettey speaks at the dedication of the due to our 40th reunion and Terry Wilson’s we received diplomas in 1968 and listened Sherard Chapel renovation at Methodist efforts with his Stay in Touch emails. These to admonitions of ‘follow your bliss’ or University Hospital in May. The great-grandson have brought back a lot of memories that ‘it matters not how many times you are of Methodist Healthcare founder John Holmes are stored in the attic of my mind. Some of knocked down, only that you get up once Sherard, Pettey joined with other family members my best and most vivid memories are from more,’ we now may be more interested in to fund the renovation. He said that a frequent our times at MUS, although often I think of the nature of happiness and the living of a expression at family holiday functions going the really dumb things I did, which I won’t happy life. If nothing else, 50 years adds back to the 1950s was “never sell your land and confess here! I’d wager if we all submitted that perspective to our view. I hope all of us always love the Methodist Hospital.” He added, can find our way in search of those things “Well, the world has changed in many ways. The the three dumbest or most awkward things land has been sold. But our love for the hospital we did in high school and voted on them, we seek. From the Dalai Lama we learn has never changed; particularly, as the mission mine would be voted the dumbest or most that the secret to a happy life is threefold: of this hospital has never changed.” awkward. Forgiveness, Optimism, Gratitude. Here’s to “I remember that Mr. [Bill] Hatchett the Class of 1968. May we all walk the path John Pettey, managing director with always insisted on themes that did not in a FOG. Best regards to all.” Pettey Moore Advisory Group of Raymond exceed one single-spaced, handwritten James, is on the Barron’s list of “The Top page. So that remains my challenge here, 1,200 Advisors” in the country. Pettey also even though I know a lot of us developed a

52 MUS TODAY – SUMMER 2015 ’69 Joel Bailey and John Keesee rock out to the Stones at the wedding of Joel’s daughter, Nina.

’70 Tom Berdeja enjoyed a trip to Israel in May. From Steve Bledsoe: “This photo is proof that at least one graduate of the Class of 1970 is still abusing camels.”

MUS TODAY – SUMMER 2015 53 ’72 ’77 Inside Memphis Business named John Inside Memphis Business named Heflin, member at Bourland, Heflin, Ray Brandon, founder and CEO of Alvarez, Minor & Matthews, to the Brandon Financial Planning, to the Business Litigation Law Power Players list. Financial Planning Power Players list.

Inside Memphis Business named Henry Inside Memphis Business named Bob Hutton, president/dealer for Chuck Hutton Fockler, president of the Community Chevrolet, Chuck Hutton Toyota, Scion, and Foundation of Greater Memphis, to the Mid-South Accessory Center to the Auto Philanthropy Power Players list. Dealers Power Players list. ’73 Bob Loeb and Headmaster Ellis Haguewood Inside Memphis Business named at the February PRSA luncheon. Reb Haizlip, principal of Haizlip Studio, to the Architecture Power Players list. Inside Memphis Business named Montgomery Martin, founder and CEO George T. “Buck” Lewis was named of Montgomery Martin Contractors, to the to University of Tennessee’s President’s Construction Power Players list. Council in April. Lewis, a shareholder in Baker Donelson’s Memphis office and the past president of the Tennessee ’74 Bar Association, will serve a three-year Inside Memphis Business named Nathan term. The council, comprising more than Bicks, member at Burch, Porter & Johnson, Missy and Jim Rainer ’77, right, were at Denison 50 members, meets four times a year to to the Business Litigation Law Power University to watch son, Wil ’13, in his Sewanee advise UT President Joe DiPietro on issues Players list. lacrosse game, when they ran into Nancy and affecting the university. Lewis serves Ted Powell ’77, whose son, Teddy, plays for as chair of Baker Donelson’s Appellate Inside Memphis Business named Denison. Practice Litigation Group, where he focuses Will Chase, founding president and on complex business, personal injury, insur- CEO of Triumph Bank, to the Banking Inside Memphis Business named Joey ance coverage, Consumer Protection Act, Administration Power Players list. Schaeffer, president of Wolfchase Honda health care, and class action. He received and Wolfchase Nissan, to the Auto Dealers his Bachelor of Science degree from UT Power Players list. and also completed UT’s joint JD/MBA ’76 program. He has been a member of the UT Keith Anderson was selected by the College of Law Alumni Council since 1994, Tennessee Medical Association to serve ’78 serving as chair from 1994-1998, and is the as its president-elect for 2015, and he will Inside Memphis Business named recipient of the UT College of Law Alumni become the organization’s 162nd president Bill Dunavant, CEO and president of Leadership Award, Outstanding Service in 2016. Anderson is a cardiologist and Dunavant Enterprises, to the Logistics Award, and the Alumni Service Award from president of Sutherland Cardiology Clinic. Power Players list. the National Alumni Association. Hugh Francis has been named chairman Inside Memphis Business named of the board at State Volunteer Mutual ’79 Bob Loeb, president of Loeb Properties, to Insurance Company. He is a general surgeon the Commercial Real Estate Power Players at Memphis Surgery Associates. Drew Banks is head of international list. In addition, the Memphis chapter of business at Prezi. Inside Memphis Business named Neely the Public Relations Society of America Mallory, president of Mallory Alexander honored Bob in February as its 2014 Bill Knight is the administrator at International Logistics, to the Logistics Communicator of the Year. He was selected Ear, Nose & Throat Associates in Power Players list. for his leadership in the transformation of Johnson City, TN. Overton Square. (Read more on page 4.) Inside Memphis Business named Johnny Pitts, partner and owner of Lipscomb ’80 & Pitts Insurance, to the Commercial Inside Memphis Business named Insurance Power Players list. Sam Graham, CEO and co-founder of

54 MUS TODAY – SUMMER 2015 Diversified Trust Company, to the Financial Planning Power Players list. Eddie Murphey celebrated his 29th year with FTN Financial in Memphis in June. Inside Memphis Business named Robin Smithwick, managing principal at John Sharp’s daughter, Mimi, just Diversified Trust, to the Financial Planning graduated from St Mary’s and will be Power Players list. attending the University of Oregon this fall. His oldest son, Marshall ’13, will begin his junior year at Wharton at the University of ’81 Pennsylvania and will be studying abroad for the fall semester at the Katholieke Universiteit in Leuven, Belgium. His Norris McGehee youngest son, Owen, will be a fourth Norris McGehee was presented with the grader at Grace-St. Luke’s. Distinguished Alumnus Award for private practice from the University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine during ’82 Commencement for the graduating class of Inside Memphis Business named 2015. He currently practices small animal Doug Carpenter, principal at Doug medicine and surgery at McGehee Clinic for Carpenter & Associates, to the Marketing Animals in East Memphis. He has a special and Public Relations Power Players list. interest in cardiology, internal medicine, and orthopedic surgery. Norris has been Virginia Tech has appointed Bill Lansden married to Lauren for 16 years and has as senior associate athletics director for three sons, Ian, Hud, and the late Norris development and executive director of McGehee, Jr. When not working, he can the Hokie Club. In this role, Lansden is be found landscaping the yard, canoeing responsible for the leadership of all facets Philip Freeburg, Philip Cox, and Jeff Harris a river, spending time in the woods, or on of a comprehensive athletic development attended the races this year at Churchill Downs. a slope. He has a Golden Retriever named program and charged with the continued From Jeff: “This photo was taken before we hit Blossom, a Labrador named Cotton, and a growth and evolution of the Hokie Club. the superfecta in the last race of the day.” junk-dog millionaire named Charlie.

’81 Boyd Wade and his daughter Larson, 17, made it to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro this past spring break. “I kept trying to get my daughter to do something special with me. She said, ‘Let’s climb a mountain,’ and I called her bluff,” Wade said. Through her climb Larson raised $4,555 for the Memphis Child Advo- cacy Center. She certainly earned her pledges during the final ascent, when the climbers battled 60 mph sustained winds that knocked them off their feet and stole their breath. “The winds were brutal. My daugh- ter probably caught me three or four times, but we made it. It was one of

the greatest experiencesMUS TODAYof my – SUMMERlife.” 2015 55 world. Check out some of Dave’s Roc Johnson is director of web services at ’83 recent Bold Leadership podcasts at Methodist Healthcare. Inside Memphis Business named theevansgp.com.

Mott Ford, vice chairman and CEO of Inside Memphis Business named Commercial Bank and Trust Company, ’90 Richard Hussey, chief operating to the Banking Administration Power Richard Vining is the new director of officer and principal at Southeastern Players list. development for Visible Music College Asset Management, to the Chief in Memphis. Inside Memphis Business named Brian Operating Officers Power Players list. Sullivan, principal and CEO of Sullivan Inside Memphis Business named Carl Branding, to the Marketing and Public Morrison, shareholder at Ogletree Deakins, ’91 Relations Power Players list. to the Employment Law Power Players list. Inside Memphis Business named Darrell Cobbins, president and principal Dr. Arun Ramanathan is the CEO of Pivot broker at Universal Commercial Real ’84 Learning Partners, a San Francisco-based Estate, to the Commercial Real Estate Frank Watson has been appointed to the non-profit organization of K-12 education Power Players list. Tennessee Ethics Commission, which experts who address the biggest challenges oversees the state’s lobbyist disclosure and that schools, school districts, and charter Inside Memphis Business named David public official financial disclosure laws. schools face. Waddell, CEO of Waddell & Associates, to the Financial Planning Power Players list. Coach Jeff Ruffin led the St. George’s basketball team to the Division II-A state ’85 championship. ’92 Lon Magness serves on the investment Inside Memphis Business named John committee of the Community Foundation Laughlin, principal, senior vice president, of Greater Memphis. He is a principal with and advisor at Summit Asset Management, Reliant Investment Management. ’88 Inside Memphis Business named Jay to the Financial Planning Power Players Keegan, president and CEO of Adams list. Laughlin has also joined the board of Keegan, to the Employee Benefits and Memphis Opportunity Scholarship Trust ’86 (MOST). Brad Conder was married in May in Staffing Power Players lists. Jamaica. Classmates Shelley Harrison, Inside Memphis Business named Gary Inside Memphis Business named William Andy Shelley, Evan Speight, Ken Wunderlich, founder of Wunderlich Tayloe, president of Financial Federal Webber, and David Zarfoss were in Securities, to the Investment Brokers Power Bank, to the Banking Administration Power attendance. Players list. Players list. ’87 Damon Bell is Pinnacle Financial ’89 ’93 Partners’ Memphis president and leads Kevin Cubbins remains instrumental to the the client advisory group in the market. ongoing success of Beale Street Caravan. Pinnacle recently merged with Magna Bank Now in its 19th season, BSC broadcasts a in Memphis in an $83.4 million transaction. commercial-free hour of Memphis-centric Bell was previously with First Tennessee music every week to 2.4 million listeners Bank for more than 23 years. worldwide on more than 400 radio stations.

Inside Memphis Business named Paul Boyle, president of the Boyle Investment ’94 Company, to the Commercial Real Estate Amanda and Cole Whitaker moved from Power Players list. San Francisco to Boston in July. They As part of National Police Week in May, After serving 22 years in the Air Force Tupelo Police Department officer and patrol would love to connect with MUS alumni in several key leadership roles, Dave shift corporal Rob Edwards, right, organized a living in New England. Evans has returned to the private sector in ceremony to commemorate the fallen officers of Oklahoma City and runs The Evans Northeast Mississippi, which included a special Consulting Group. Dave’s primary focus focus on their spouses. As reported by the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, Edwards is on mentoring young professionals to said, “Sometimes [spouses] get lost in the shuffle help them improve their communication when an officer is killed. The spouses continue skills and grow as leaders in the business to suffer.”

56 MUS TODAY – SUMMER 2015 ’95 Chattanooga radiologist Trey Carr has settled down in Lookout Mountain, GA. He and his wife, Anne, recently welcomed their third daughter, Margaret Elizabeth, who joins two excited big sisters, Caroline, 4, and Catherine, 2.

Jake Lawhead is a real estate agent with Marx-Bensdorf in Memphis. He has accepted a position as an agent on the Artesian Residences condo project downtown, which is the former Horizon Building that was recently bought out of foreclosure. Give him a call for all of your real estate needs.

Michael Tauer and his business partner, Taylor Berger, have opened a new restaurant in Germantown called Maui Brick Oven. The general manager is Dana Doggrell ’03.

’96 The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal featured Richard McCluney in an article this spring detailing his experiences during the tornado that hit Tupelo last April. Heading home after a shift at the North Mississippi Medical Center, McCluney was caught in the storm, which shattered the windows of his truck and threw him out of the cabin. A Tupelo resident picked him up off the side of the road and took him to a day care center, where they waited for the tornado to pass. McCluney marveled at Tupelo’s recovery process, saying that “see[ing] that and all these people coming out to help, it just reminds you of how great ’96 Tupelo is.” State Sen. Brian Kelsey, left, ran with the bulls in Pamplona in July. From Brian, as reported by The ’97 Commercial Appeal: “The adrenaline rush was In February Laura Lee and Trey Jones amazing. Everyone starts bouncing up and down chaired the 2015 Hands of Hope Auction Party in nervous anticipation of the bulls, and then you benefiting the Exchange Club Family Center. hear screams, feel the rumbling of the bulls, and The event raised more than $50,000. see this mad wave of people coming at you. I stuck with my Spanish friend in a relatively safe part of the course. He said if we hugged the inside of the first curve, the bulls should swing outside. ’99 Thankfully, he was right. Just as soon as the whole Dale Crow left Nashville law firm Lewis experience has begun, it is over, because the Thomason to become general counsel for bulls are so fast, they pass you right by. I was in Crow Friedman Group, a Risk Strategies Pamplona for the wedding of a friend of mine, and Company, which is a national insurance and most of us, including the bride and groom, stayed benefits brokerage and risk management firm. in town for the opening of the festival. The bride’s In addition to serving as general counsel, he little brother, Pedro, [right] was kind enough to let will assist clients in risk management, contract me run with him.” review, and the placement of their professional liability and property and casualty insurance.

MUS TODAY – SUMMER 2015 57 Gil Schuette is a commercial litigator in technology that bridges the gap between the Nashville office of Butler Snow. doctors and patients. He still remains heavily involved with fundraising for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and is ’00 proud of his Memphis roots. Avery Reaves is an attorney in the Boston office of WilmerHale, where he Eric Beaty retired from professional golf counsels domestic and foreign companies and is now focusing on his career in busi- on debt and equity financings, mergers ness. After a successful golf career that and acquisitions, corporate governance, included the TSSAA State Championship and general corporate law. He also advis- in 2000, Eric decided that he would let es early-stage companies and nonprofit someone else give it a go. He now resides corporations on formation, financing, in Memphis and still enjoys golfing on a governance, and compliance matters. recreational level. He is looking forward to his 15-year reunion coming up in 2016 and thinking about hosting the party at his ’01 house. More details to come on that. Logan Abrahams has been at International Paper in Memphis since Rob Byrd was recently promoted to 2008. He has held numerous supply chain director of consulting and management services at The Advisory Board Company roles and is currently a regional sales manager. He is getting married in October (Washington, DC). In this role Rob is to Rachel Peters. leading consulting engagements across PRACTICING the country related to health system After his career in Memphis at the revenue maximization and clinical doc- FedEx Corporate headquarters working umentation improvement. Rob relocated MEDICINE on company-wide healthcare finance to Denver in 2014 to oversee expansion He’s not a real doctor, but he plays and benefits strategy, Mark Awdeh has of the consulting division’s footprint in one on TV. Harry Ford ’01 has landed a relocated to New York City to co-found the Western states, and he is managing all role in a new TV show, Code Black, which a healthcare software company with consulting junior staff located in the San premieres September 30 at 10/9c on CBS. some of his former classmates from Yale. Francisco office. He joined the Advisory Ford plays first-year resident Angus Drawing on his medical school training, Board in 2012 after practicing as a Leighton, whom viewers encounter on his Mark is working to simplify complex healthcare lawyer in Memphis first day of residency in the most notorious medical information to offer innovative and Atlanta. emergency room in the nation – Angels Memorial Hospital. “I don’t think any of us is prepared for what happens that first day. It’s un- imaginable,” Ford says of the life-or-death challenges the characters face. Fellow cast member Luis Guzmán calls it “medical ’01 NASCAR.” Austin Hulbert, pictured here in his former Code black situations – where there office, decided to leave the Navy after aren’t enough resources or personnel to 10 years and will be heading to Harvard provide care for the patients – occur an Business School this fall to start his MBA. unprecedented 300 times a year at Code Black’s Angels Memorial, compared to an average of five times a year at hospitals nationally, Ford says. “Our show centers around a taxed ER and an area called center stage, an open room with six beds that have the most critical patients in them. During a code black on the show, all six beds are full of people who could die within minutes, if not seconds.” Known as Harrison while at MUS, Ford got his first taste of theater when Flip Eikner ’77 drafted him as a freshman to play a role in a school musical. 58 MUS TODAY – SUMMER 2015 ’01 Harry Ford ’01, center, stars in Code Black, which premieres 10/9c Wednesday, September 30 on CBS (cbs.com/shows/code-black). The cast includes Luis Guzmán (How to Make It in America), and Academy Award winner Marcia Gay Harden (Pollock).

“I had taught Harrison in the seventh I had to sing and dance, and I’d never done an ER with maxed resources, bloated grade, and I knew he was extraordinarily either publicly and certainly not particularly bureaucracies, under- or uninsured patients, outgoing and charismatic. I thought well. I was in nearly every show after that, underfunded and understaffed nursing and his involvement would be good for the and after junior year, Flip sat me down and physician staffs, and that’s Code Black. production,” Eikner says. “He also had a said, “This doesn’t have to be just a hobby How much fake blood have you sense of social responsibility. Along with for you. This can be a career.” washed off? Ben Adams ’01, he was central to the effort Andy Saunders [then-director of Gallons and gallons and gallons. We want to compose and win approval for the MUS theater] added, “But you need training. the audience to feel like they’re right in the Community Creed.” (Adams is also in Serious training. Plus, you have an enor- middle of our experiences. television, working as a writer and writer’s mous head, and the camera will eat it up.” What moments from your time at MUS assistant on ABC’s The Middle.) I did pursue acting seriously, but I helped prepare you for this experience? Ford went on to graduate with a BFA always relied on the skills that were central I think MUS prepares you for every from Southern Methodist University’s to my success at MUS – the ability to experience if you’re paying attention, Meadows School of the Arts and received balance time and prioritize tasks. cultivating curiosity, being kind, and his Master of Fine Arts from New York In drama school I found it was pursuing your passions. Specifically, University’s prestigious Tisch Graduate absolutely possible to learn five acts for the Terry Shelton’s dreaded automatic 69 for Acting Program. titular role of Macbeth, rehearse a Chekhov a comma splice taught high stakes. Coach His life changed overnight when he scene for acting class, work on a song for Barry Ray’s ever-present eyebrow raise went from teaching clowning in New York singing class, run lines for a camera class inspired me to be on my toes. My dear, City to being a TV series regular. audition with Marci Phillips – the executive beloved John Hiltonsmith’s endless pursuit “I still pinch myself multiple times a director of casting at ABC, who incidentally for laser-like perfection and accuracy in day – whether it’s during a red carpet with cast me in Code Black – and prepare for the Beg To Differ taught me that a love for my mom, or after a scene with 200 extras final presentation of collaboration class, all something is nurtured best through constant swarming around, or even during a quiet in the same week. It’s not unlike managing rehearsal and the pursuit of sweet overtones. moment in the makeup chair at 6 a.m., it’s my time in the seven-period rotating And most important, and central to my a dream that keeps coming true.” schedule at MUS, actually. life as an actor, Flip Eikner’s demand for On a break in production, Ford What is most interesting about excellence in my art, precision in my craft, answered a few questions about life on the playing a doctor on Code Black? generosity in my heart, authentic expression set and the road that led him to practice I find myself wanting to practice good of myself in this life, and humility and medicine – on TV. medicine – go figure. Code Black is the first gratitude in all matters of success, groomed How did you go from the football medical show of its kind in that we rely on me to play this role in the high-stakes, field to Code Black? the foundation that “we are our brothers’ heart-pounding, hesitate-and-someone-dies Flip Eikner personally took me out of foot- and sisters’ keeper.” The storylines deal environment of Code Black. ball practice and walked me to my first real with questions about ethics, public health, My time at MUS is incredibly special audition for Mr. Cinders. If it hadn’t been access to proper healthcare, social justice, to me, and in the back of my head, I’m for his personal escort, I never would’ve and the consequences of bureaucracy secretly always prepared for 15 snappy rahs showed up to any audition. It was terrifying. and politicking. Throw these issues into and a hearty Go, Owls!

MUS TODAY – SUMMER 2015 59 Robbie Caldwell is still in St. Louis Battle Williford graduated with an MBA practicing plaintiff employment law and in from the University of Maryland’s Robert H. an ongoing class action suit he originated. Smith School of Business. He and his wife, He recently won a major victory creating Ann, currently reside in Nashville, where he some good law for plaintiffs in Missouri. works in commercial real estate finance for Walker and Dunlop. Barry Grimm and his wife, Mary, live in Nashville with their three children, twins Joseph Wurzburg recently moved from Christen and Lila, 5, and Anna Cate, 1. He New York back to Memphis to start a new is an assistant professor of clinical obstetrics job as director of mergers and acquisitions and gynecology at Vanderbilt University for Monogram Foods. School of Medicine. Trevor Knight ’02, left, of Wepfer Marine, led a McKee Humphreys is teaching fifth grade ’02 tour in June of Wepfer Marine Docks, and social studies at Presbyterian Day School. Herbo Humphreys III and Louis Muller have founded M10 Construction, which Neil Taylor ’04 was among the group. Taylor, Michael McLaren recently bought a specializes in interior and exterior home a depot manager with Intermodal Cartage new house and will be moving around the renovations. M10 recently finished remod- Company, was part of a University of Memphis corner from classmates Paul Gillespie, Jim eling a kitchen for classmate Scott Adams. Transportation Leadership class highlighting the Hopkins, and Tread Thompson. He said Please contact Herbo and Louis for any economics, operations, safety, and environmental he is excited to be in the new neighborhood of your remodeling or construction needs: benefits of river transportation. and hopes he can get some good games of m10construction.com. hide-and-seek going again. Trevor Weichmann has a new job as an Brett Meeks has joined the health profes- application coordinator with HCI Group in James Shelton has been teaching at sional staff for the U.S. Senate Committee Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia. He is integrating Resurrection Catholic School (a Jubilee on Health, Education, Labor, & Pensions Epic electronic health record software School) for the last three years and became (HELP). for Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare principal in July. Trying to climb the Company. He also plans to write a blog educational ladder as fast as possible! about international travel.

Kimbrough Taylor ’09 to Madelyn Effertz Hope and Will Covington ’02, a daughter, MARRIAGES on July 26, 2014 Annie Elizabeth, born April 27, 2015 Judd Peters ’81 to Nicole Graham Cort Gatliff ’10 to Abby McAtee Ivy and John Phillips ’03, a son, John VI, on February 14, 2015 on July 11, 2015 born May 28, 2015 Brad Conder ’86 to Erin Davis on May 1, 2015 Faye and Jimbo Rainer ’05, a daughter,

BIRTHS Ruth Ellen, born March 31, 2015 Robert Dow ’96 to Bethany Huddleston Christie and John Summers ’05, a daughter, on June 5, 2015 Murff and Duncan Galbreath ’94, a daughter, Alyssa “Allie” Grace, born December 10, Michael Black ’98 to Laura Phelan Mary Abbay, born February 25, 2015 2014 on June 13, 2015 Anne and Trey Carr ’95, a daughter, Malaney and Mason George ’06, a son, Jason Lewin ’98 to Ashley Line Margaret Elizabeth, born June 1, 2015 Pierce Browning, born February 10, 2015 on May 30, 2015 Leslie Ann and Michael Thompson ’97, Brown Burch ’99 to Betsy Brackin a daughter, Camille Cameron, on October 25, 2014 born March 21, 2015 DEATHS Robert Freeman ’04 to Erica Walters Lizzie and Galloway Allbright ’98, a son, Robert Mitchell Metcalf III ’59 on February 28, 2015 Charles Kermit, born March 10, 2015 Daniel Thomas McGown, Jr. ’61 John Evans Petree ’66

MILESTONES Ben Bleustein ’05 to Irina Kotchach Taylor and Richard Moore ’98, a daughter, on March 14, 2015 Caroline Cabell, born March 18, 2015 Nelson Fraser Freeburg, Jr. ’69 David Curran ’08 to Kallie Ernest Margaret and A Thompson ’98, a son, Clarence Hillman Robbins III ’75 on April 18, 2015 Samuel Alexander V, born June 4, 2015 Montgomery Bates Sernel ’90 Joshua Sullivan Benton ’93 Kent Francis ’08 to Ann Tipton Lesslie Megan and Robert Caldwell ’01, a son, Charles Jackson Woodall, Jr. ’08 on June 5, 2015 William West, born April 20, 2014 Frank Gaines Whitington ’15 Will Stokes ’09 to Grier Darnall Christina and Kip Gordon ’01, a son, 60 MUS onTODAY June – SUMMER 6, 2015 2015 Alexander Wakefield IV, born March 5, 2015 Dylan Baker is working as a software Alexander Folk and his brother ’03 developer at FedEx. He graduated from the Winston ’05 brought home silver University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 2011 medals from the Denver International Eli Atkinson lives in Brooklyn, NY, where with a degree in political science and has Spirits Competition and the Los Angeles he is a lawyer focusing on Japan-related worked as a music producer and disc jockey International Spirits Competition for their litigation. for several years. His electronic tracks can Pyramid Vodka, made with Delta-grown Clay Chapman is now an investment sometimes be heard at Memphis Grizzlies corn and water from our local artesian officer/portfolio manager at Independent games. wells. Skål, y’all! Wealth Management (Independent Bank). Cage Carruthers is assistant business Tyler Horn is a financial advisor with Dana Doggrell is the general manager of manager with Fogelman Management Merrill Lynch in Fort Myers, FL. a new restaurant in Germantown, Maui Group. John Reinhardt has moved to Fairchild Brick Oven. Check out the review written Beau Creson is a commercial litigation trial Air Force Base in Spokane, WA, where he by John Klyce Minervini in the Memphis attorney with Butler Snow in Nashville. He works as a logistics officer overseeing the Flyer: tinyurl.com/MauiBrickOven. The focuses his practice on complex business deployment and distribution of all personnel restaurant is co-owned by Michael Tauer litigation, data breach litigation, fiduciary and cargo. He was promoted to the rank of ’95 and Taylor Berger. duty claims, and arbitration. captain in May. Inside Memphis Business named John Adrian Doggrell is a business develop- Ben Waller is working as a product Phillips, chief investment officer at Red ment/account manager at Revenue River marketing coordinator for Fitbit. Door Wealth Management, to the Financial Marketing in Denver, CO. After spending Planning Power Players list. a year and a half on the creative side of the business – writing copy and managing ’08 campaigns – he has now moved into a Hudson Atkins is senior vice president ’04 business development role with the agency. of Duncan Williams Asset Management, a Cosmic Coconut owner Scott Tashie is He says he is tasked with two things: new enterprise formed to meet the needs of opening a new restaurant, I Love Juice building sustainable partnerships that will individual investors, business owners, and Bar, at 553 S. Cooper Street. The Midtown help the digital marketing agency reach foundations. location will feature fresh-made smoothies new heights, and making fat stacks. Adrian and juices and grab-and-go food items. David Curran is the advancement director would also like this community to know for JH Ranch, a high-adventure guest ranch Blake Wiedman was inducted as part of that he can now grow a wicked-good beard. in northern California, though he lives in Nashville’s Top 30 Under 30 for 2015. This Not so much for the hair directly under his Birmingham where the company’s winter year’s class raised more than $150,000 nose, but no one good ever cared about offices are located. He married Kallie Ernest for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and having hair there anyway, so he isn’t too on April 18. learned a tremendous amount about the worried about it. disease while meeting a lot of interesting, Walter Klyce backpacked 100 miles of the Kent Francis graduated magna cum laude courageous people (nashville30under30. Appalachian Trail in New Hampshire (from from the University of Tennessee College of com/honoreebio/blake-wiedman). Hanover to Crawford Notch). He returned Law and is working for Wiseman Ashworth to Providence, RI, to do summer research Law Group in Memphis. on hand hygiene in third-world countries ’05 and has completed his first year of medical Sam Goldstein, an iOS developer in San Hays Doan was named executive editor school at Brown University. Francisco, competed in Esquire Network’s of the University of Arkansas at Little American Ninja Warrior competition, Rock Law Review for the 2015-16 school Lance Minor recently started a new job Season 7, Episode 1. Check out Sam’s feats year. He has also been selected to serve as with VTS, which produces leasing and asset of strength and agility in his video contest judicial law clerk to the Honorable Bobby management software for commercial real submission here: tinyurl.com/samg08. Shepherd on the United States Court of estate. VTS clients include Blackstone, Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (El Dorado, JP Morgan Chase, Prudential, and CBRE Connell Hall is back in Memphis and AR) from August 2016 to August 2017. Global investors (vts.com). Lance is still working as a grain analyst at McVean in San Francisco and is getting certified in Trading. Jimbo Rainer has been promoted to vice skydiving. president at Newmark Grubb Memphis. Mark Vives is a financial analyst with Wright Medical Technology in Memphis. ’07 ’06 Brandon Byrd has a new job at FTN After completing an intensive FastTrack’D Financial as a municipal credit analyst. training course with Cook Systems,

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’01-’09 Emerging Leaders recently enjoyed a tour of Tennessee Brewery and dinner with a Congressional Medal of Honor winner.

Billy Orgel ’81, pictured below with Headmaster Ellis Haguewood, led Emerging Leaders on a tour of the Tennessee Brewery, the centerpiece of his planned $28 million residential and commercial development. Above, on the roof of the building, are Andy McArtor ’86, Hunter Adams ’06, Garrott McClintock ’06, Pat Hopper ’89, Russell Nenon ’06, Donnie Malmo ’06, Philippe Blais ’06, Patrick Boyer ’08, Buck Towner ’07, Hugh Francis ’06, Orgel, and Elliot Embry ’04 EMERGING LEADERS MAKE CONNECTIONS ounger alumni are connecting with Memphis leaders, as well as with one another, through the Emerging YLeaders program. Designed for Owls who have recently launched their careers (currently class years 2001 to 2009), Emerging Leaders provides opportunities for members to network, reunite with old friends, and stay abreast of school and community developments. Recent group events have included lunch with Memphis Mayor A C Wharton, a tour of Crosstown Concourse with developer McLean Wilson ’96, a downtown tour with Shelby County Historian Jimmy Ogle ’70, an evening at Lafayette’s Music Room with Overton Square developer Bob Loeb ’73, and a tour of the Tennessee Brewery with developer Billy Orgel ’81. Emerging Leaders support their alma mater on a graduated scale of $100 - $900 annually, becoming members of the D. Eugene Thorn Society. “The Emerging Leaders program has allowed me to give back to the school that gave me so much academically, athleti- cally, and socially,” Derek Clenin ’03 says. “Additionally, the programs each year offer an insight into current community projects, events, and issues. I can’t think of a better way for young alumni to be involved with the school.”

Philippe Blais ’06 and Patrick Boyer ’08 For more information about Emerging Leaders, contact Karen Skahan, [email protected]. 62 MUS TODAY – SUMMER 2015

Dallas Embry and Emerging Leaders president Elliot Embry ’04

Emerging Leaders gathered for dinner and a presentation by Congressional Medal of Honor winner Lt. Michael Thornton. Above: Jack Steffner ’09, Walter Barnett ’09, Will Anthony ’09, Worth Morgan ’05, Buddy Morrison ’09, Paul Morrow ’06, Reid Wesson ’06, and Rhobb Hunter ’09.

Lt. Michael Thornton greets Rhobb Hunter ’09.

Below: Haynes Vaughn ’07, Neely Mallory ’07, Jack Steffner ’09, and The first floor serves as a rustic art gallery. Paul Morrow ’06

MUS TODAY – SUMMER 2015 63 Alumni begin to gather in the Tennessee Brewery courtyard. Alabama. He will be attending the ’09 University of Kentucky in the fall to pursue a master’s degree in health George Coors has joined the administration. Memphis office of Stephens Inc., where he is a financial consultant in ’11 the private client group. Forrest Baty will be attending ’10 graduate school in Austin, TX. Robert Counce has moved back Wylie Coleman, to Memphis and works in vendor owner of Southern Hunter McLendon will start medical relations for IMC Global Solutions. Quest Safaris, school at the University of Mississippi shared this photo Brandon Parrish has completed his Medical Center this fall. online of a 10-foot first year of law school at the College Matt Montsinger graduated from gator from of William & Mary. Southern Methodist University with St. Charles Parish, degrees in accounting and Spanish LA. “Amazing literature and will pursue a master’s hunt! Follow ’10 Stephond Allmond started a small in accounting at SMU as well. He has @WylieColeman production team in Johnson City accepted a full-time position at Ernst on Instagram so doing a series of short documentaries & Young to start in 2016. we can get you a on college students’ lives at East trophy gator!” Tennessee State University; he has Wells Prather will be attending completed the first series. medical school in Memphis.

Tyler Efird is a product development Joel Saslawsky is attending Southern engineer in Memphis with Grace College of Optometry in Memphis. Medical, which manufactures an extensive range of products to treat Carson Smith will be attending disorders of the ear, nose, and throat. medical school at the University of South Florida Morsani College of This summer marks the fifth anniver- Medicine. sary of a cross-country bike ride Cort Gatliff and Christian Kauffman undertook to benefit residents of Haiti after the devastating earthquake. Check out the August 2010 issue of MUS Today to read an earlier article about their tour, or visit tinyurl.com/ bikeanniversary to read the reflective essay Gatliff wrote this spring.

Wade Laycook graduated from Harvard in May and began work as an investment banking analyst for Goldman Sachs in Houston.

Paul Stephens was part of the Andrew Wilensky ’12 and management team for the Memphis Aaron Wolf ’11 pose for a photograph seasonal event, Tennessee Brewery: after being recognized at the University of The Revival, during its limited run Alabama Honors Dinner in the Culverhouse this spring. College of Commerce. Andrew graduated Rocky Stone is an investment banking in May with a degree in finance. After analyst with Raymond James & working as an intern this summer at a Associates in Memphis. New York hedge fund, he will return to the University of Alabama to pursue a master’s Peterson Wellford was recently in finance. Aaron will graduate this named a 2015 Outstanding Senior December with a double major in account- of the Year by the National Alumni ing and finance and plans to continue as Association of the University of an intern for Ernst & Young in Atlanta.

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’13 Dalton Dulin played for the Northwest Mississippi Community College Rangers before signing with the Washington Nationals’ Class A affiliate, the Auburn (NY) Doubledays. Photo by Gather Lacefield/NWCCRANGERS.COM

Dalton Dulin Signs with Washington Nationals ormer MUS baseball standout and Vanderbilt commit sign. As reported on the Northwest Mississippi Community College Dalton Dulin ’13 received exciting news on the final day website, Dulin began his college career with the University of Mis- of the Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft. A sissippi, where he hit .264 in 38 games (with 11 starts) on the Rebel sophomore second baseman for Northwest Mississippi team that advanced to the 2014 College World Series. Transferring FCommunity College, Dulin was selected in the 17th round by the last year to Northwest, Dulin hit .354 with a school-record and Washington Nationals. After signing his contract at the Nationals’ nation-leading 46 stolen bases this season. Viera, FL, spring training site, he joined the Auburn (NY) Double- Dulin says his time at MUS gave him a strong foundation and days, the short-season Class A affiliate of the Nationals, in the New great preparation for whatever comes next. “I think about my tran- York-Penn League. sition into Lower School, and how Mr. [Clay] Smythe ’85 just took “I am beyond excited to finally start my career,” Dulin says. me in and really mentored me,” Dulin says. “I value the experience “This is something I’ve dreamed about since I was a little kid. I so much, and I am forever grateful for what I learned there.” knew I had a great opportunity to go to Vandy if this didn’t work Dulin has another former pro to turn to for advice now – his out, but I’m really happy that I’m finally getting to pursue my father, Tim Dulin, who was a star second baseman for the Universi- dream of playing Major League baseball.” ty of Memphis before joining the Baltimore Orioles. Dulin was drafted out of high school by the Philadelphia “This is a culture shock,” Dulin admits, “but Dad played seven Phillies in the 36th round of the 2013 MLB Draft, but he did not years professionally, so I kind of knew what to expect.”

’12 this July. He has also been advancing his Ben Benton is continuing his college own musical pursuits as Lean Quatifah, football career at Arkansas State. and he has just reached 1,000 followers on Soundcloud. Garrott Graham was elected Honor Council president for Vanderbilt University Crews Wellford will be a senior at the (Read more on page 26). University of Alabama and was named captain of their swim team for 2015-16. David Lee has returned to Memphis to work for his family business, Complex Industries Inc. He has been traveling with ’13 top U.S. sales representatives as well as University of North Carolina sophomore Wil Rainer and Selby Austin helped lead making trips to China and India with the lacrosse player Peyton Klawinski has been the Sewanee Tigers lacrosse team in the company’s product development team. named to the 2014-15 Atlantic Coast conference championship over Berry College. They played in the first round of the NCAA Lane Sally has co-founded an independent Conference Honor Roll, comprising tournament and despite an outstanding effort, record label and artist collective called student-athletes who participated in a lost to Lynchburg, finishing with an 11-4 season Proper Vibes in Washington, DC. They varsity-level sport and registered a grade- record. Sophomore keeper Austin had a have a show planned in New York City point average of 3.0 or better for the full academic year. match-high 15 saves.

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JustJust beforebefore presspress time,time, TheThe CommercialCommercial AppealAppeal reportedreported thatthat HarrisonHarrison WilliamsWilliams ’14’14 andand CarltonCarlton OrangeOrange ’15’15 TwinTwin wonwon goldgold atat thethe 20152015 JuniorJunior PanPan AmericanAmerican GamesGames inin Edmonton,Edmonton, Canada.Canada. OrangeOrange tooktook firstfirst placeplace inin thethe 800800 GoldsGolds metersmeters withwith aa timetime ofof 1:48.06.1:48.06. WilliamsWilliams tooktook firstfirst placeplace inin thethe decathlondecathlon whilewhile settingsetting aa newnew juniorjunior AmericanAmerican aaTT record.record. HeHe finishedfinished withwith 8,0378,037 points,points, breakingbreaking thethe oldold markmark ofof 8,018,8,018, setset inin 2012,2012, andand turningturning inin aa personal-bestpersonal-best PanPan aam!m! 4:29.204:29.20 inin thethe 1,500.1,500. WilliamsWilliams wonwon sixsix ofof thethe 1010 eventsevents andand setset oror tiedtied personalpersonal recordsrecords inin threethree ofof them.them. 20 15 reConnect: MUS Homecoming and Reunion Weekend Friday, September 25 • Pep Rally in Hyde Chapel - 9:30 a.m. School tours to follow if there is interest. • Alumni Golf Scramble, Links at Galloway - 12:30 p.m. Shotgun Start • Homecoming Dinner in the Campus Center - 5 p.m. • Homecoming Game: MUS vs. Ridgeway High School on Hull-Dobbs Field - 7 p.m.

Saturday, September 26 • 50th Reunion Luncheon for the Class of ’65 - Noon • Individual reunion parties for class years ending in 5 and 0 (1960, 1965, 1970, 1975, 1980, 1985, 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2010)

Contact your class rep for more information on all events or check the website, musowls.org/NetCommunity/AlumniReunionsAndEvents. Look for us on social media using #MUSconnect FACULTY NEWS END OF A CLERICAL ERA A Historical Perspective on Miss Easum’s 53 Years of Service by Barry Ray, Upper School Principal

Col. Ross Lynn was headmaster in pecially dachshunds) and has been a church – A momentous 1962. He would hire Miss Easum, who had pianist for many years. Her office skills are 1962 graduated from Blue Mountain College in legendary. In addition to her computer, she year in history. Here are Mississippi with a teaching certification in still uses a regular typewriter – she taught history and English. She had worked as an typing at MUS for a number of years. When a few historic events assistant in the registrar’s office while in she applied for the job in 1962, she was from that year: college and had applied to do general secre- typing over 70 words per minute and took tarial work at MUS. By the time I was hired notes by shorthand at 120 words per min- The Beatles released their in 1978, Miss Easum was a fixture here. ute. A meticulous record keeper, she served first single, “Love Me Do.” The Cuban Missile Crisis brought the world to the brink of nuclear war. K Mart and Wal-Mart both opened for business. James Meredith became the first African-American admitted to the University of Mississippi. AT&T launched Telstar, Kim Justis Eikner paid tribute to Miss Easum during a faculty lunch in May. its first earth-orbiting She has remained so to this day. as the school’s registrar for as long as I can communication satellite. In 1978 the names of two people remember. Best of all, she is a good friend inspired fear among faculty members upon to me and to all the people who work in The 7-foot-1 center for the hearing that either one wanted to see them the Upper School Office. Her institutional – Lou Green, the financial secretary, and memory will be missed, but her friendship Philadelphia Warriors, Mary Nell Easum. I think Miss Easum will be missed more. Wilt Chamberlain, helped many a young and naive teacher The principles of the Community scored 100 points in a learn the proper way to turn in assignment Creed, written by the Class of 2001 as ide- sheets and get grades in on time, basically als and virtues for students, are hallmarks regulation-length game – showing them how to be as professional in of Miss Easum’s life. Truth and honor, still an NBA record. their jobs as she was in hers. scholarship, service, respect, humility, My interaction with Miss Easum taught involvement, and accountability – these are To Kill a Mockingbird me that the stern reputation I worried about ideals and virtues she has lived every day. in 1983 was totally unfounded. It has been On behalf of all of us – including past stu- opened in theaters. my distinct pleasure to work closely with dents, teachers, and co-workers with whom Miss Easum for the past 18-plus years. I she had contact over the last 53 years – I Miss Mary Nell Easum have found her to be a delight and a true extend our appreciation to Miss Easum for responded to an ad in the lady in all respects. She has a wonderful her professionalism and her friendship. Memphis Press-Scimitar sense of humor (enjoying a good forward- Mary Nell – we are glad you answered ed joke), understands the importance of that newspaper ad in 1962. MUS is the newspaper for a position at discretion with sensitive information, and is better for it, and we will miss you. Memphis University School. a caring individual. She loves animals (es-

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Ode to Mary Nell Easum by Kim Justis Eikner and Flip Eikner '77

Mary Nell What will we do without Miss Easum? I think you're swell Tho' she deserves to catch some Z's, chum, In these halls you'll always dwell From acting as our school police, some, But you'll never have to hear that bell By tracking down the absentees from Or answer calls for the unwell Homerooms -- make them surely flee from To early school no boys compel Counce and Ray -- now this will ease some. With your skies a sunny blue pastel, The B-End queens, our distaff threesome You'll now click X to kill Excel We'll miss our third, the Lady Easum Head on out to raise some ... hijinks Our duo will be a weak cartel Ginger and Wrigley with whom you dwell Without our leader, Mary Nell, Will have a fit you'll have to quell Her neck we want to hug and squeeze some As home you stay even when you're well She must come often to visit -- please -- some! (Except to go ring a church handbell!) We'll miss her sweet and sly gig-gell At shorthand you have no parallel Our IBM Selectric stock we now must sell At the office ball you are the belle We'll never have the personnel Blueberry Gibson's is your fuel cell To replace our favorite mademoiselle Along with a daily lunch pret-zell It will be hard to say farewell Accompanying the latest mystery nov-el To my hero, Mary Nell. As the real B-End boss you always daz-zell

Long Legacy of Service and Professionalism t is hard to imagine the MUS commu- to MUS. She is also an accomplished nity without the presence of Mary Nell musician, playing the piano at Cordova IEasum in the Upper School Office. Presbyterian Church for 34 years and Rarely missing work in her 53 years, she now also playing the bells at Balmoral served in a variety of roles, including Presbyterian Church. headmaster’s secretary, typing instructor, At a chapel presentation honoring registrar, admissions secretary, college retirees, Easum expressed gratitude admissions secretary, and Upper School for her 53 years in the administrative administrative assistant. She also kept office. “From day one this has always the minutes of the Academic Council and been an interesting, changing, and faculty meetings. exciting place, with the best people. Easum, a graduate of Blue Mountain I’ve enjoyed every minute of it. College with a teaching degree, was the … I will miss all of you.” first recipient of the Jean Barbee Hale Award for Outstanding Service in 1999, and she received the Tennessee Association Miss Easum posed as Rosie the of Independent Schools Loyalty Award in Riveter for the Annual Fund 2002 in honor of her 40 years of dedication campaign in 2013.

Editor’s note: Barry Ray presented his tribute to Mary Nell Easum at a chapel assembly honoring the school’s retirees. Kim Justis Eikner performed “Ode to Mary Nell Easum” at a faculty luncheon.

MUS TODAY – SUMMER 2015 69 FACULTY NEWS Shelton Packs up His Pen But His Legacy Lives On in Thousands of Corrected Essays erry Shelton retired this spring after 38 years as an instructor in English. He earned a bachelor’s degree in English and comparative literature and a master’s degree in English from Memphis State University, Tgraduating magna cum laude. He served in the U.S. Navy, and after teaching at the university level, joined the faculty of MUS in 1978. He taught a variety of classes over the years, including AP English, Twentieth Century Literature, Junior English Review, seventh- and eighth-grade vocabulary, and eighth- grade English. He is revered – or perhaps feared – far and wide for his formidable ability to wield a red pen. Shelton held the A. Robert Boelte, Jr. Chair of Excellence in Teaching and received other awards during his tenure, including the Presidential Scholars Distinguished Teaching Award in 1997 and the Distinguished Teaching Award in 2006. Along with Faculty Emeritus Jim Russell, Shelton created The Owl English Handbook, an essential reference for students and faculty since 1985. He was involved with numerous MUS organizations and other endeavors related to the craft of writing, including advising the Lower School newspaper and the Lower School Honor Council, directing awards programs, editing MUS Today, coaching entrants in the National Council of Teachers of English Writing Awards competition, and serving as a writing judge for the University of Memphis Wordsmith contest. At the chapel ceremony celebrating his retirement, Shelton quipped: “I thank all the headmasters since Col. Ross Lynn for not having fired me, so that I stand here today. To all of my students over the years, my faculty colleagues, the administra- Terry Shelton becomes The Most Interesting English tion, the students’ parents ­– who are sometimes understanding Teacher in the World for an Annual Fund campaign. – I want to give you all of my thanks.”

and the gods said, “OK, Shelton, you think concision, directness – to hormone-crazed A God Among Us you’re so smart – we’ll condemn you to eighth graders. If collected, his comments by Lin Askew grading eighth-grade essays and book would probably comprise his own version Sue Hightower Hyde Chair of English reports for all eternity.” Sort of a combina- of The Elements of Style. Seeing all that red, tion of Sisyphus and Cassandra – every few eighth graders – in fact all students – take Did you know that if all the red pens weeks a new set, and every helpful com- it as some kind of character assassination, Terry Shelton has drained grading eighth- ment ignored. If you listen carefully, you when actually it’s an expression of care grade papers were laid end to end, they may hear his scream resounding through the and concern. With every paper graded, Mr. would stretch from here to the moon and heavens still. Shelton tries to lead them down the path of back? Did you know that all the red ink Terry once told several of us that he clear thought, insightful reading, direct ex- he has expended in grading eighth-grade has always appreciated irony. Nothing pression. It’s a form of tough love. And that papers would fill Lake Huron? could be more ironic than his fate. As many guidance and love often goes unheeded. Ok, I made that up. But as we all know, English teachers do, Terry worships at the But now the gods have somehow fiction often expresses a deeper truth. And altar of clear, concise, direct prose. All the granted you a reprieve, Terry. No more in this case, the truth reveals a tragic irony. red he washes those papers in expresses his red pens, no more book reports – as that It’s as if Terry somehow offended the gods, desire to communicate that trinity – clarity, rock god Alice Cooper sings, “School’s out 70 MUS TODAY – SUMMER 2015 FACULTY NEWS St. Francis Among the Squirrels by Elizabeth Crosby, Chair of the English Department

erry and I like to feed the birds. It’s absurd many times since. to the little squirrels: possessives before not something we do together. He’s I think Terry’s tolerance of and gener- gerunds, commas before coordinating Tin charge of the birds on Hampshire osity to the squirrels explains a great deal conjunctions when joining independent Avenue, and I tend to the ones on Vance. about why he is such an excellent teacher clauses, and so on. And what his students But sometimes we talk about it – types and beloved friend. We’re the squirrels – love about Mr. Shelton and trust about him of feeders, types of seed, types of birds Terry’s friends and colleagues, his students’ showing up for the season. parents, his students, and especially his Years ago I expressed some frustration eighth graders. (They’re his favorites.) to Terry about the fact that I couldn’t figure They are – we are – pretty weird – and out a way to keep the squirrels out of the silly looking – needy and greedy – but feeders in my yard. I’d tried all sorts of sometimes surprisingly clever (in an inferior things to keep them away. Terry asked, kind of way) but then even more silly in our “Why are you trying to keep the squirrels trying. out of the feeders?” And I said, “Well, And Terry walks through the intimate because they’re eating all the food!” And backyards of friendship and school every Terry said, “Why wouldn’t you want to feed single day, engaging in the repetitive act of the squirrels?” feeding us exactly what we need, though Terry Shelton and Elizabeth Crosby at the It was an excellent question. He certainly don’t deserve. His friends and his faculty luncheon in May pointed out that the squirrels are hungry, students trust him to do that. too, and that they especially like corn on To his unworthy friends he brings is that despite the stern front, they instinc- the cob and peanuts. (Terry’s father used a practical and faithful presence at life’s tively know – as creatures always do – that to hand feed peanuts to the squirrels in his celebrations: Terry is the giver to his he means them very well – that he enjoys yard.) He added that they’re fun to feed friends’ children of mysterious and absurd them – that he is watching how silly they because they’re so silly looking, generally, offerings of stuffed buffalos, flashlights, are when they go for that corn cob – that and because they’re so clever about the way and messages that need decoding. He is not he wants them to get it – and he knows that they actually end up getting the food. Terry one to shy away from life’s disasters as they they can get it if they just work on it. And knows some of the squirrels he feeds by occur in his friends’ lives. He has questions, he’s glad when they work and then get it. sight. words, or silence – and leaves his favorite Terry – St. Francis Among the Squirrels After this conversation, my relationship farmer’s market bread and a bottle of wine – thank you. Thank you for coming here with the Midtown squirrels improved on the kitchen counter. to this garden every single day – for your dramatically. And I’ve thought a lot about With his students he engages in the patience and your steadfast devotion to the what Terry said and have applied this basic same daily, faithful, and repetitive act of important, repetitive, and absurd task of lesson in the practical enjoyment of the feeding what’s needed, what’s necessary, feeding us all.

forever.” What are we – those left behind – first to help, to visit us or our children in to do without you? We’ll not see your like the hospital as you have done for Sally and again. Though we’ll have the invaluable me and for countless others. We’ll miss Owl English Handbook – short and to the your wit, your laugh, your codgeriness. point, much like you – we’ll miss your We’ll no longer hear “doody” when we say integrity, your refusal to compromise your “howdy.” Now the gods have condemned principles and standards, though you would us to a school without you. Now you might probably demur. We’ll no longer hear your hear the collective cries of the innumerable muffled voice issuing from your office alumni who revere you as a god – “No! before school, after school, during free pe- Don’t leave!” Terry, ironically, for a short riods, as you patiently impart your wisdom fella, you cast a very long shadow. Thank to students seeking help. We’ll no longer you, Terry. We’ll miss you. have that faithful friend who is always the Early Terry Shelton

Editor’s note: Lin Askew presented this tribute to Terry Shelton at a chapel assembly honoring the school’s retirees. Elizabeth Crosby presented her tribute, “St. Francis Among the Squirrels,” at a faculty luncheon. MUS TODAY – SUMMER 2015 71 FACULTY NEWS Diana Moore Retires, Leaving Trove of Math Notebooks ecognized for her kindness, generosity, and a library of edge, experience, ideas, and handouts with fellow teachers. geometry notebooks that would have made Euclid proud, “Your masterful legacy of mathematical handiwork will live RDiana Moore was honored by her colleagues this spring in our classrooms forever,” Gates said during a chapel presenta- upon her retirement from the Math Department. tion honoring the school’s retiring faculty members. Gates called the prealgebra notebooks Moore had created “treasures” that have wound their way throughout her colleagues’ classrooms. Moore graduated from the University of Mississippi with a degree in mathematics, and studied psychology at the University of Memphis, ultimately earning her master’s degree in counseling. “There is no wonder that she knew how to get inside students’ heads to help them visualize, understand, and appreciate the beauty of geometry,” Gates said. Moore and her husband, Bill, sent their sons, William ’99 and Ryves ’03, to be educated at MUS. In retirement she is planning to spend more time with her growing family, particularly her first grandchild, Darby. Her kindness also extends to countless rescue dogs she has taken under her wing, who are likely to claim some of her time as well. In 2008 she began the nonprofit organization Family members joined Diana Moore and husband, Bill, at a reception Grace Rescue for Southern Paws Inc., which seeks to find homes held to honor MUS retirees. From left, their son Ryves Moore ’03 with his for adoptable dogs. daughter, Darby, and wife, Mary Chris; brother-in-law Ben Moore; “Taking care of those in need, nurturing students, and giving grandniece Helen Grace Toohig with her mom, Sha; sister-in-law of herself – all that comes naturally to Diana,” Gates said. Patricia Moore; and son William Moore ’99. While Moore may not be on campus to take care of the next generations of students, she will long be remembered. Moore joined the faculty in 1993 as a mathematics instructor “We will think about you each time we solve a right triangle, in the Lower School, and she taught the full range of algebra and whenever we write down some statements with reasons, view geometry classes during her tenure. Her friend and colleague tessellations in the tiling on the bathroom floor, pass Bass Pro at the Nancy Gates, chair of the Math Department, described her as a Pyramid, or even when we fly a kite,” Gates said. “The visions of leader in curriculum who was always willing to share her knowl- your lessons will remain.”

Library Says Goodbye to Maxine Molasky

ibrary Assistant Maxine Molasky, “A regular day for Mac could include Barnes added. “I will personally miss her who always demonstrated an engag- helping a student use a database, trouble- immensely. It has been a great run, and Ling, cheerful personality and genuine shooting a computer or photocopy machine, MUS will not be the same without her.” interest in the students and faculty, retired working with AV equipment for faculty, in July. She joined the staff in 1999 after greeting guests and workmen, finding working for 10 years at what was then the misplaced books, training volunteers, man- Germantown branch of the Memphis and aging magazines, forgiving fines for a sick Shelby County Public Library. She immedi- student, and reminding other library staff ately became an invaluable member of the members of things they might have forgot- school’s library team, managing student/fac- ten. She gave of herself, [going] above and ulty services, circulation, and periodicals. beyond the call of duty many times – com- Longtime friend and Director of Hyde ing early, staying late, and working extra Library Bonnie Barnes said Molasky had days during the summer,” Barnes said. been the library’s “point guard and a cata- “As one of the people Maxine helped lyst for library improvement” throughout to keep on track, I’m certain that we will all her 16 years, meeting every challenge with miss her cheerful disposition, her profes- patience and grace. sionalism, and her many competencies,” Maxine Molasky

72 MUS TODAY – SUMMER 2015 FACULTY NEWS After 20 Years Technology Director Judy Rutledge Reboots

he speed of change in the field of 2012. Patient and determined, technology makes “trailblazer” an Rutledge made it her job Tapt description for the instructor to find an answer to every involved in guiding such pursuits. For technology question, no matter Judy Rutledge, the label fits perfectly, as how complex, and generally Academic Dean Flip Eikner ’77 explained provided baffled co-workers with in paying tribute to Rutledge upon her explanations in what seemed like retirement this spring after 20 years at mere nanoseconds. MUS. “She never left a colleague Rutledge received her bachelor’s stranded in the tangled digital degree at Arizona State University. Her first forest – a forest she tamed with appearance on campus was actually as a her unflagging research and guest, in 1976, when she brought her Basic application; scores of classes, Programming students from Lausanne to workshops, and Tech Tips; and thousands 2015 retirees gather at a reception in their honor at run their programs on the school’s refrig- of always-cheerful office calls to doctor our Dixon Gallery & Gardens, from left, Diana Moore, erator-sized computer with magnetic-tape bafflement,” Eikner said. Judy Rutledge, Terry Shelton, and Mary Nell Easum. input. Her official start at MUS came as a Described as devoted and ever-gen- fill-in geometry teacher, but she soon found erous to the school, Rutledge was the first Rutledge is looking forward to herself teaching a computer applications recipient of the Hale Fellowship for Faculty relaxation and reading during retirement, course, and quickly realized the school’s Development award, which the Hale family in addition to spending more time with need for an in-house technology liaison. established in 2003 to honor what they her son, Bill, here in Memphis, and her “In under five years, she was guiding called the heroes of MUS. She received the daughter, Sara, and 21-month-old grandson, our technology use full time and was soon award again in 2012, using the stipend to Lucas, in Alabama. working at Pepperdine University on a exercise the right side of her brain by taking “Mrs. Rutledge, we thank you for your master’s in education tailored to support her art classes. heroic pathfinding, for always wanting to work here,” Eikner said. Outside of MUS she served as president get it right, for your many kindnesses, and Having become a full-time sev- of the Memphis Association of Independent for always being there,” Eikner said. “We enth-grade math and computer teacher in Schools Technology Consortium for the are grateful to you, we have depended upon 1997 and then coordinator of educational 2003-04 school year, facilitating the sharing you, and we will miss you.” technology in 1999, she eventually was of technological information among local named director of academic technology in independent schools.

Colleagues Pay Tribute to Susan Quinn ittingly, math instructor Loyal Murphy ’86 created a word own math ability before,” Gates problem to pay tribute in May to departing colleague and said. “[Rather than] slowing a Fmath instructor Susan Quinn. course down for students, Susan “Susan Quinn came to MUS in 1999 and stayed for five years, always asked, ‘How can I pull teaching a variety of classes from Lower School math to precalcu- them up?’” lus,” Murphy said. “She returned in January of 2010 and stayed for As Murphy described, five-and-a-half years, focusing on Algebra II. So if Susan’s pattern Quinn’s exceptional teaching continues in an arithmetic fashion, when will we see her again, and techniques and unwavering how long will she stay?” encouragement will be greatly Calling her a natural at teaching, Murphy said Quinn’s caring missed by all. “Thank you for and encouraging style inspired both students and teachers alike, strengthening the math depart- making it no surprise that she had been described by some as “won- ment,” he said. “Thank you for Susan Quinn and Loyal Murphy derful,” “welcoming,” “supportive,” and “the nicest teacher ever.” being such a positive role model Nancy Gates, chair of the Math Department, agreed. “She for us. We’ve learned a lot about the profession from you. I know brought out math abilities in students who hadn’t believed in their that I have. Thank you for teaching me. We wish you the best.”

MUS TODAY – SUMMER 2015 73 FACULTY NEWS Dement Honored with Hale Award for Outstanding Service

orking in fundraising requires a wide-ranging skill to grow. Perry launched the Thorn and Lynn Societies, which are set. The successful development professional must responsible for 73 percent of the Annual Fund. Under his leader- be charming, diplomatic, and tenacious. Persuasive, ship, the Annual Fund now raises over $1.3 million per year. He determined, and patient. A great sense of humor is a has secured a number of endowed funds during his time here, and Wplus; a head for numbers is a must. established a planned-giving program – Crest and Cornerstone – in As Memphis University School’s Director of Advancement, addition to managing our recent capital campaign.” Perry Dement has all these gifts and more. Well-regarded by his fundraising peers, Dement was named the With an almost all-encompassing knowledge of MUS and an Outstanding Fundraising Professional of the Year in 2006 by the abiding belief in the importance of the school and its mission, he Memphis chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals. has for 18 years ably guided fundraising efforts. “Although he did leave us for one year in 2003 to try his hand His keen eye for detail informs every aspect of his work. Real- at fundraising for the arts in Memphis, we had to forgive him,” izing just how important it is to get the small things right, such as a Haguewood said, “because the year he returned, our Annual Fund thank-you note, is part of what makes him so good at the big things, went up 32 percent.” such as managing the $22 million Doors to New Opportunities Cap- Director of Alumni and Parent Programs Ann Laughlin said ital Campaign, the largest in MUS history. Dement’s co-workers in the Development and Commu- nications offices trust and admire him. “His expecta- tions are high, but he never asks his staff to do anything that he wouldn’t do himself,” she said. “His wisdom and leadership set a strong example for those working with him on a daily basis, and his humor and wit pro- vide a bright spot long after the bell rings at 3:15.” Longtime MUS Board of Trustees member Trow Gillespie ’65 said Dement has made his involvement at MUS – and the involvement of so many others – a labor of love. “As the definitive team player – creative, superbly organized, dependable, and in possession of remarkable leadership skills – he not only leads the school’s development endeavors but acts as one of our most important ambassadors.” With a degree from Rhodes College in inter- national studies, Dement concedes that he did not expect to begin a career in fundraising after graduat- ing. However, a job in development at Georgetown University set him on a new path. “When I first started working, I used to say that fundraising From left, Steve Hale, Perry Dement, and Ben and Betty Hale was what I was doing until I figured out what I wanted to do,” he says. “But I’ve really enjoyed it, and I love it here at MUS. There In recognition of his exemplary work, Dement received the are a whole lot of wonderful people associated with this school, and 2015 Jean Barbee Hale Award for Outstanding Service. This award it has become like a family. It’s been a good run!” is given each year to a member of the MUS family who has exhib- ited outstanding loyalty, responsibility, dedication, and commitment to excellence in service to the school. Ben Hale endowed the Jean Barbee Hale Award for “Perry embodies all the virtues associated with this award,” Outstanding Service in honor of his wife upon her retirement Headmaster Ellis Haguewood said at a faculty luncheon in May. in 1998. She was a valued member of the staff for 24 years. “He manages our every effort to raise money for facilities, pro- The Hales’ three sons attended MUS: Scott ’78, Dennis ’80, grams, and endowments, and his list of accomplishments continues and Steve ’84.

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Loyal Murphy Celebrates 25 Years on Faculty

pon reaching the 25-year mark for service to MUS, most faculty members are deemed honorary alumni. Since Loyal Murphy ’86, instructor in math, is already a bonafide alumnus, his milestone was celebrated with an honorary master of science degree, Upresented by Headmaster Ellis Haguewood at a luncheon in May. “Since joining our faculty in 1990, Loyal has endeared himself to students and colleagues for his outstanding ability, his extensive involvement, his genuine concern, and his conscientious approach to all that he does,” Haguewood said. Murphy holds the Anne and Glenn A. Crosby Chair of Christian Ethics, established by Nancy and Glenn Crosby to recognize an outstanding educator who is an exemplar of Christian ethics in the classroom and in daily life. Mur- phy is the embodiment of this description, Haguewood said, demonstrating a continuing willingness to pitch in wherever there is a need. Currently teaching AP Calculus AB and Accelerated Algebra I, Murphy has instructed nearly every mathematics course the school offers. He has also taught physics, coached soccer, and coached math students for academic competitions. He has served as interim chair of the Mathematics Department and assistant principal in charge of discipline in the Upper School, and he cur- rently chairs the Graduation Committee. Always seeking to broaden his skills, he has participated in a variety of professional development workshops in mathematics, and he used a portion of the 2013 John M. Nail Outstand- ing Teaching Award to attend an independent school scheduling work- shop. (He also won the Distinguished Teach- ing Award in 2000 and the John M. Nail Excellence in Teaching Award in 2002.) Outside the classroom Murphy Several Class of 2014 alumni visited MUS in May often volunteers to and congratulated Loyal Murphy ’86 on receiving an drive the bus to student honorary master of science degree for his 25 years of competitions and lends service on the faculty. From left are Kyle Naes, Murphy, his soulful vocals to Dennis Parnell, and Trey Moore. holiday concerts and theater productions. On summer days he can often be seen in Morgan Foyer tutoring some Lower School student on the intricacies of algebra. Before joining the faculty, Murphy earned his degree in civil engineering from Rice University. His wife, Lisa, is lead tech for the Flow Cytometry lab at Methodist Hospital, and their son, Patrick ’16, will be a senior this fall.

Loyal Murphy shares his honorary master’s degree with his classmates from the Class of 1986.

MUS TODAY – SUMMER 2015 75 FACULTY NEWS Schooled in Education Nail Award Recipient Jason Peters Recognized for Teaching and Coaching by Genevieve Bettendorf, Communications Intern

s the son of MUS coaching legend School tennis team went 8-0 and won the and teacher Jerry Peters, Shelby League Tennis Championship. Jason Peters ’88 realized Finally, his spring golf team competed early on that he wanted to for the first time in the Tennessee Middle follow in his dad’s footsteps. School Golf Association, posting a 10-0 A“I always wanted to become a teacher record and capturing both the district and and a coach,” he says. “The school way of regional championships. life is all I have ever known.” Peters approaches his athletic responsi- Now an accomplished educator and bilities from the standpoint of an educator. winning coach in his own right, Peters “It’s a pleasure to demonstrate to received a special honor this year from student-athletes how effective the ingre- the Class of 2015: the John M. Nail dients of preparation, attention to detail, Outstanding Teaching Award. and unselfish work can be in building a “What makes Jason Peters a remarkable successful team,” Peters says. “Ultimately, person is his ability to blur the line between you hope that the experience extends teacher and role model,” Xavier Greer ’15 beyond the playing court and that larger says. “It’s that personal connection that I lessons are learned.” will miss, and his die-hard commitment to The Nail Award means a great deal, the hometown Grizzlies.” Jason Peters with the spoils from the undefeated Peters says, because of the value he places A native Memphian, Peters nurtured seasons of his 2012-13 teams on the education he received at MUS. his passions for basketball and politics from “It was very exciting to receive an early age. He credits his father, the 2004 did when I was a student,” he says. “The this award because some of my favorite recipient of the Nail Award, as a major daily interactions and connections with teachers when I was a student here are past player not only in his development as a students are the most enjoyable aspects of recipients,” he says. “To share an award coach and educator but also in his interest in teaching for me.” with the likes of Mr. [Jim] Russell and Mr. government. Max Meyer ’15 says he has chosen [Lin] Askew and others is surreal because “When there was not a college to pursue a minor in political science this they were so influential in my educational basketball game on TV, Dad would be tuned fall at Tulane University because of his experience.” into C-SPAN or a history program on PBS,” experience in Peters’ classroom. Looking forward, Peters is ready for Peters says. “Also, my late grandfather “Mr. Peters only had us for a semester, the challenge of reaching new generations Weldon Burrow was a member of the but he took time out of his schedule during of students. Tennessee General Assembly for many the second semester to meet with us before “The caliber of students I have the years, and he shared fascinating stories the AP exam,” Meyer says. “Mr. Peters opportunity to work with here amazes about his political experiences.” taught me a lot, made me laugh, and me,” he says. “I know what I’m doing is Upon graduating from Rhodes College influenced my life. My one complaint is that important, and I must be prepared and with a degree in political science, Peters be- [it was] only one semester!” make each day count.” gan his career in education at Germantown In addition to his accomplishments High School, coaching basketball and in the classroom, Peters has excelled The John M. Nail Outstanding Teaching teaching American government. He then as a coach of several sports. During the Award was established in 1988 in memory spent nine years at Lausanne Collegiate 2012-13 school year, all four of Peters’ of John M. Nail by his former students. School as athletic director and boys’ varsity Lower School sports teams went undefeated Nail taught English and history at MUS head basketball coach and three years at with a combined record of 53 wins and in the late 1950s, instilling in his students The Out-of-Door Academy in Sarasota, FL, no losses, including nine league and an enduring love of learning. Nominations where he held the same positions. invitational tournament championships. for the John M. Nail Outstanding Teaching Award are made each year by a selection At MUS he teaches Honors U.S. The perfect year began when the fall golf committee of student leaders from the senior Government and Advanced Placement U.S. team went 10-0 and won both the junior class, and the recipient of the Outstanding Government and Politics. His dedication to and senior divisions of the Shelby County Teaching Award is determined by a majority teaching stems from his own experiences as League Golf Championship. That winter vote of the class. The recipient receives an Owl. Peters’ seventh-grade hoopsters went 25-0 a handsome salary stipend, and money “I hope to motivate students to fulfill and captured the Shelby County League is made available for professional the mission of MUS the way my teachers Basketball Championship. Then his Lower development and departmental resources.

76 MUS TODAY – SUMMER 2015 FACULTY NEWS Beck Receives Teaching Award

incent Beck accepted the 2015 Distinguished Teaching Award to a standing ovation led by stu- dents in Hyde Chapel May 8. It was a spontaneous testament to Beck’s popularity both in Lower School, where he teaches Earth Science, and Upper School, Vwhere he teaches Honors Geology, as well as on the soccer field, where he serves as head coach. Beck, who had just spotted his family two minutes before Headmaster Ellis Haguewood announced the award, held back emotion as he took the podium. “I’m kind of shocked. My mom and dad just came back from China, and they were supposed to be arriving in Virginia Beach just now,” he said, as he gathered his thoughts. “I feel very honored, given the faculty that’s here at the school. I can’t say how honored I am to receive this award. Thank you very much to the students here and the students of the past. I look forward to many more years here.” Lower School Principal Clay Smythe ’85 has witnessed how Beck works to help younger students embrace scientific principles. “He is compassionate, and he wants the boys to succeed,” Smythe said. “He clearly and thoroughly presents expectations and objectives in what is often the first real content-driven science class for his first-semester seventh graders.” Beck’s Honors Geology course is a popular science elective, with a curriculum that includes a field trip to Coon Creek 2015 Distinguished Teaching Award winner Vincent Beck surrounded by Science Center in McNairy County to unearth fossils in the 70-mil- his family, including his parents, Bob and Sandra; and in back, from left, lion-year-old environment once covered by a sea. Students return to daughter Casey; wife, Laura; brother, Anthony; and daughter Mary. Twin the lab to extricate fossils and analyze them. 4-year-olds, Ewan and Ethan, were in school. “It’s a great opportunity for students to get out of the classroom and see and experience some real geology,” Beck said. A soccer player from an early age, Beck grew up in Scotland in 1997, Beck led the 1998 squad to the state quarterfinals, and and studied at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA, where his teams have reached the state tournament every year since. His he was a three-year starter in soccer and two-year captain, and he 2004 team won the state title, and that same year, The Commercial earned a degree in geology with emphases in oceanography and Appeal named Beck the Soccer Coach of the Year. geography. He played Upper School Principal Barry Ray said Beck’s dedication to indoor/outdoor soccer his subject, his sport, but most of all to his students, make him a professionally for superior teacher and coach. 12 years. He was “Coach Beck communicates his passion for geology and soccer named to the All-Star in such a way that his students and players feel passionate about it, team three times and as well.” served as a player-as- Beck, who is married to Laura, has four children, daughters sistant coach for two Casey, 24, and Mary, 21, and twin 4-year-old boys, Ethan years. Earlier in his and Ewan. career he coached high school soccer The Distinguished Teaching Award is a permanent endowment for boys and girls, in- fund established in 1990 through a generous bequest by cluding a boys’ team John Murry Springfield. Springfield joined the Memphis University in Tulsa, OK, that School faculty in 1958 and served as an instructor in English and won the 1991 state mathematics until 1971. From 1971 until his death in August championship. 1989, Springfield served as principal of the Hull Lower School. Joining the facul- The monetary award is given annually to an MUS faculty member Ellis Haguewood, right, congratulates ty to coach soccer who demonstrates excellence in both the classroom and Vincent Beck. and teach science extracurricular activities.

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GIFTS IN MEMORY AND HONOR

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

IN MEMORY OF MARGARET CLACK ASKEW COOPER KAY JACKSON Mr. and Mrs. W. Frederick Bailey ’59 Mr. and Mrs. Bobby A. Alston Anonymous Mr. and Mrs. William L. Askew III DIANA CARR BAILEY Mr. Perry D. Dement Mr. Perry D. Dement BOB DODSON CRENSHAW Mrs. Claire K. Farmer Dr. and Mrs. Wiley T. Robinson ’75 Mr. and Mrs. Ellis L. Haguewood HAL P. BAILEY, JR. Dr. and Mrs. John E. Harkins Mr. and Mrs. W. Frederick Bailey ’59 G. GOODLOE EARLY, JR. ’59 Mr. and Mrs. Erin L. Keel Mr. and Mrs. W. Frederick Bailey ’59 Mr. Jonathan M. Large DOROTHY C. BARGER Ms. Kimberly F. McAmis Mr. Perry D. Dement DIANE MACK FAIR Dr. and Mrs. A. Ryves Moore ’03 Mr. and Mrs. Ellis L. Haguewood Mr. Perry D. Dement and Miss Darby Moore Mr. and Mrs. William F. Moore, Jr. ELIZABETH STOUGH BERG NELSON F. FREEBURG, JR. ’69 Mr. and Mrs. Loyal W. Murphy IV ’86 Ms. Kimberly F. McAmis Dr. and Mrs. Wiley T. Robinson ’75 and Mr. L. Patrick Murphy ’16 Mr. and Mrs. H. Jerry Peters MURRIEL GRAVES BLOW DAVID M. GEER Mr. and Mrs. S. Clay Smythe ’85 Mrs. Claire K. Farmer Mr. and Mrs. Dallas M. Geer ’95 Ms. Kimberly F. McAmis HELEN OGLE JAMES MICHAEL A. GUIMIL ’94 Mr. Perry D. Dement A. ROBERT BOELTE, JR. Mrs. Harriet Guimil Mr. Donald G. Austin, Jr. ’59 ROBERT O. C. JOHNSON, SR. ’63 Dr. and Mrs. Kelly K. Koeller ’74 WALKER HALL ’35 Mr. and Mrs. H. Robert Heller III ’65 Dr. and Mrs. A. Ryves Moore ’03 Mrs. Grace Upshaw Mr. and Mrs. William F. Moore, Jr. KERMIT BOYSEN “KAI” KAISER, JR. Mr. William F. Moore III ’99 BILLY HARKINS Mr. and Mrs. William L. Askew III Mr. and Mrs. H. Jerry Peters Dr. and Mrs. John E. Harkins Mr. Skip Daniel Dr. Ann E. Williford and Mr. and Mrs. Ellis L. Haguewood Mr. W. Battle Williford ’01 HERBERT ALLEN HART Mr. John H. Keesee ’69 Dr. Robert H. Winfrey, Jr. Mr. Perry D. Dement Dr. and Mrs. Stephen J. Mrs. Claire K. Farmer Maroda, Jr. ’75 JUDY BOUCEK Mr. and Mrs. Ellis L. Haguewood Ms. Kimberly F. McAmis Mr. Ronald L. Boucek Mr. and Mrs. Erin L. Keel Ms. Kimberly F. McAmis JOHN HOWARD LAMMONS, JR. ’74 JOHN J. BRANNON Mrs. Jean L. Saunders Dr. Lea Gilliland and Mr. and Mrs. Ellis L. Haguewood Mr. and Mrs. S. Clay Smythe ’85 Dr. Charles A. Gilliland IV ’95

SYDNEY JOHNSTON BUTLER JOHN F. HILTONSMITH MARY CATHERYNE MCCALLA Mr. and Mrs. Sydney J. Butler ’60 Mr. and Mrs. William L. Askew III Mr. Jon K. Hampton ’01 Dr. Lea Gilliland and FLORENCE WOLF CALAWAY Dr. Charles A. Gilliland IV ’95 CARTER LEE MURRAY ’94 Mr. Perry D. Dement Mr. and Mrs. Loyal W. Murphy IV ’86 Mrs. Sarah M. Brody and Mrs. Claire K. Farmer and Mr. L. Patrick Murphy ’16 Mr. Bradley H. Cohen ’94 Ms. Kimberly F. McAmis Dr. and Mrs. Kit S. Mays Mrs. Jean L. Saunders Dr. and Mrs. A. Ryves Moore ’03 MARY ELIZABETH OVERTON Mr. and Mrs. William F. Moore, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. William L. Askew III GENE D. CARLISLE Mr. William F. Moore III ’99 Mr. and Mrs. Bobby A. Alston JEFFREY R. PERKINS Mr. Perry D. Dement GEORGE E. HOLMES IV ’73 Mrs. Charlotte D. Farrelly Mr. and Mrs. Ellis L. Haguewood Mr. and Mrs. Wise S. Jones, Jr. ’73 Mr. and Mrs. Craig D. Farrelly Mr. and Mrs. S. Clay Smythe ’85 Mrs. Olive B. Summerford

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LAWRENCE J. PERLBERG Mr. and Mrs. William L. Askew III Mr. and Mrs. Chris A. Cornaghie Mr. and Mrs. J. Courtnay Rudolph III ’77 Mr. and Mrs. Michael Enright Mr. and Mrs. Philip W. Cruzen Mr. and Mrs. Scott J. Gruber Mrs. Warren B. Cruzen JOHN E. “BUTCH” PETREE ’66 The Gusmus Family Mrs. Claire K. Farmer Mr. and Mrs. D. Dwight Drinkard ’66 Mr. William Hackett Mr. Robert L. Fitts Mr. and Mrs. Joel A. Fulmer IV ’67 Mr. and Mrs. Ellis L. Haguewood Dr. and Mrs. Hugh Francis III ’76 Mr. and Mrs. P. Trowbridge Mr. and Mrs. David P. Halle, Jr. and Mr. R. Kent Francis ’08 Gillespie, Jr. ’65 Mr. and Mrs. Carl O. Hood Mr. and Mrs. Cecil A. Godman III ’78 Mr. W. Brigham Klyce, Jr. ’66 Dr. Mary Leigh Keegan Mr. and Mrs. Ellis L. Haguewood Mr. and Mrs. J. Ralph Muller and Dr. Robert M. Jones and Ms. Tina Hartman and Family Mr. R. Keegan Jones ’15 Mr. and Mrs. John J. Heflin III Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Smith, Jr. ’66 Mr. and Mrs. Geoffrey C. Knowlton and Mr. John F. Heflin ’08 Mr. Walter D. Wills III ’67 Mr. and Mrs. J. Stephen LaHue Mr. and Mrs. Bruce B. Hopkins, Sr. ’68 and Mr. Paul S. LaHue ’15 Mr. and Mrs. Wallace J. Huggins SCOTT M. REMBERT ’70 Mr. Jonathan M. Large Mr. and Mrs. Leo R. Jalenak, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. W. Frederick Bailey ’59 Mr. and Mrs. George M. Moreland Mrs. Toni L Kaiser and Mr. G. Hays Moreland ’15 Mr. Gunther S. Lee ’09 C. HILLMAN “PUTTER” ROBBINS III ’75 Mr. and Mrs. Terry Newman Dr. and Mrs. David P. Manuel Dr. and Mrs. Stephen J. Maroda, Jr. ’75 Mr. Jerry G. Oates ’15 Dr. and Mrs. Stephen J. Mr. and Mrs. J. Courtnay Rudolph III ’77 Mr. and Mrs. Maurice R. O’Keefe, Jr. Maroda, Jr. ’75, Mr. Stephen J. and Mr. Maurice R. O’Keefe III ’16 Maroda ’08, and Mr. Andrew J. JOHN J. SHEA, JR Ms. Sarah Palazola Maroda ’09 Mr. and Mrs. William L. Askew III Dr. and Mrs. S. Gregory Portera Jim and Bond Moore Mr. Ethan Soldan Pretsch ’15 MSK Group, P.C. RICHARD LEE “BUBBA” SMART Mr. and Mrs. Cary G. Rotter Mr. and Mrs. Robert Neal Mr. and Mrs. Frederick A. Saint Agnes Class of 2007 Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Neal DeBardeleben IV Mr. Ryan G. Sellers Mr. and Mrs. Gregory A. O’Brien Mrs. Claire K. Farmer Jimmie, Janet, and Elizabeth Smith Mr. and Mrs. John Phillips IV ’76 Ms. Kimberly F. McAmis Mr. John D. Stewart ’78 Mr. and Mrs. John R. Pitts ’76 Mr. Ian M. Susser ’15 and Family Mr. and Mrs. Charles Reaves MR. AND MRS. RICHARD SMART Ms. Barbara Tollison Mr. and Mrs. Richard R. Roberts Mr. and Mrs. William L. Askew III Mr. and Mrs. H. Michael Walsh Mr. and Mrs. Hugh A. Shackelford Mrs. Murrey M. Watkins Mr. Eric G. Sheppard ’08 DOROTHY ROBERTSON “ROBBIE” Mr. and Mrs. James Williams Mr. and Mrs. Louie P. Sheppard SMITH Mr. and Mrs. Andrew C. Wilson Ms. Susan H. Sutton Mr. Perry D. Dement and Mr. A. Griffin Wilson ’15 Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd R. Thomas, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey R. Wright, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Steven M. Turner JOHN MURRY SPRINGFIELD and Mr. Connor M. Wright ’15 Mr. and Mrs. Warren T. Wilson Anonymous Mrs. Murrey M. Watkins Mr. James F. Springfield RUSSEL L. WIENER Mr. and Mrs. J. Kyle Webb Mr. and Mrs. William L. Askew III Mr. Russell Willis ILA KELLEY THORN Mr. Perry D. Dement Mr. Walter D. Wills III ’67 Mr. and Mrs. Ellis L. Haguewood Mrs. Claire K. Farmer Dr. and Mrs. George F. Wortham III Mr. and Mrs. Alexander W. Dr. and Mrs. Kenny Wong Wellford, Jr. ’60 JUDSON OLIVER WILLIFORD Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm B. Wood ’71 Mrs. Claire K. Farmer and Mr. Malcolm B. Wood, Jr. ’08 DENNIS CLARK TURMAN Mr. K. Phillip Stalls, Jr. ABBEY WINFREY Dr. Robert H. Winfrey, Jr. ALSTON BOYD WADE, JR. Mr. and Mrs. W. Frederick Bailey ’59 CHARLES JACKSON WOODALL, JR. ’08 Mr. and Mrs. Paul N. Akin SUZANNE WARREN Dr. and Mrs. Steven L. Akins, Sr. Dr. Donna M. Dabov Mr. and Mrs. William S. Amos and Dr. Gregory D. Dabov and Mr. W. Andrew Amos ’08 Dr. and Mrs. Edward Atkinson III ’73 F. GAINES WHITINGTON, JR. ’15 and Mr. E. Sayle Atkinson ’08 Mr. and Mrs. Bobby A. Alston Dr. and Mrs. William Bourland Mr. M. West Askew, Jr. ’07 Mr. and Mrs. David C. Brandon, Jr.

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IN HONOR OF BENJAMIN L. DANIEL, JR. ’16 MARK H. HAMER ’84 Mrs. Kay N. Daniel Mrs. Hilda C. Mullen ROBERT I. ABBAY V ’20 Mr. and Mrs. James L. Westbrook PERRY D. DEMENT CAROL AND AL HENDERSON Mr. and Mrs. Doug McDonald Mr. and Mrs. Stephen S. McHugh, Sr. LOUIS F. ALLEN III ’19 Mr. and Mrs. Richard Middlecoff MARY NELL EASUM BARRY C. HENDON ’77 Mr. Skip Daniel Mr. and Mrs. J. Courtnay BOBBY A. ALSTON Mr. Perry D. Dement Rudolph III ’77 Mr. and Mrs. Wesley H. Mrs. Claire K. Farmer McCluney ’94 Mrs. Judy Hurst M. JESSE HOMAN ’18 Mr. Jonathan M. Large Dr. and Mrs. Guy C. Lewis, Jr. E. WEBSTER AUSTIN ’17 Mr. and Mrs. Andrew F. Saunders III Mrs. Kay A. Cohen Mr. and Mrs. S. Clay Smythe ’85 E. JAMES HOUSE IV ’16 Mr. and Mrs. Alexander W. Mrs. Jean J. House A. TATE BAILEY ’18 Wellford, Jr. ’60 Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Wallace R. DAVIS HOWE III ’14 REEVES ELLIOTT EDDINS ’17 The Reverend Amy C. Howe REED TAYLOR BARNES ’16 Ms. Catherine C. Eddins and Mr. R. Davis Howe, Jr. The Reverend Senter Crook and Dr. Joe McFadden KIM JUSTIS EIKNER WILLIAM D. HUFFMAN ’18 Mr. and Mrs. S. Clay Smythe ’85 Dr. and Mrs. Allen H. Hughes JACKSON C. BEARD ’21 Mr. and Mrs. James G. Beard ’79 CHARLIE FABER ALLEN H. HUGHES III ’19 Dr. and Mrs. William W. Tomford ’63 Dr. and Mrs. Allen H. Hughes JAMES W. BLATCHFORD IV ’19 Mr. James W. Blatchford, Jr. JACK FABER S. AVERY JOHNSON ’15 Dr. and Mrs. William W. Tomford ’63 Mr. and Mrs. S. Darrell Johnson CLASS OF ’70 Mr. Fontaine B. Moore III ’70 CHRISTIAN H. FAUSER, JR. ’16 ANDREW L. JONES ’97 Mr. and Mrs. Rodney H. Fauser Mrs. Margaret L. Samdahl CLASS OF ’90 Commander and Mrs. William M. EDWARD K. FOCKLER ’10 MICHAEL P. JONES ’01 Gotten, Jr. ’90 Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Fockler ’77 Mrs. Margaret L. Samdahl

CLASS OF ’05 MATTHEW L. FOGELMAN ’16 AMMAAR Y. KAZI ’17 Mr. and Mrs. C. Cody Curtis ’05 Mr. and Mrs. Avron B. Fogelman Dr. and Mrs. Mazhur Kazi

CAMDEN R. CLAYTON ’18 THOMAS F. FOWLKES ’16 R. AUGUST KLINKE ’15 Mrs. Marie Russum Mr. and Mrs. Albert Fowlkes Mr. and Mrs. Russell S. Klinke Mr. and Mrs. Meredith S. Luck CHANDLER M. CLAYTON ’16 RAVI A. LIPMAN ’17 Mrs. Marie Russum WILLIAM H. GARLAND ’19 Mr. and Mrs. Marshall S. Lipman Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth R. Garland, Sr. VIRGINIA D. COCHRAN S. DYLAN LOMAX ’19 Mr. and Mrs. Larry M. Heathcott NANCY N. GATES Mr. and Mrs. Wayne E. Lomax Mr. Francis B. Langston ’02 BENJAMIN C. COX ’19 Mr. and Mrs. Joseph M. Morrison ’78 KAMAR R. A. MACK ’15 Dr. and Mrs. C. E. Cox Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Quinn Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. White

JACK H. CROSBY ’17 DAVID M. GRABER II ’17 THOMAS B. J. MATTHEWS, JR. ’15 Ms. Ann M. Carlton Mrs. Margaret Newton Davis Mr. and Mrs. William R. Cooper

WALKER M. CROSBY ’19 SAMUEL N. GRAHAM II ’80 DANIEL E. MCGOWAN ’13 Ms. Ann M. Carlton Dr. and Mrs. Stephen D. Graham ’75 Mrs. Marguerite Earp McGowan

BROCK D. DALLSTREAM ’19 ELLIS L. HAGUEWOOD AEDAN J. MCKAY ’18 Mr. Robert E. Dallstream Mr. and Mrs. Doug McDonald Ms. Karen McKay

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ORLANDO R. MCKAY SUSAN B. QUINN FREDERICK W. SMITH ’62 Ms. Karen McKay Mr. Perry D. Dement Mr. and Mrs. J. Courtnay Ms. Ellen Cooper Klyce Rudolph III ’77 SETH A. MCKAY ’20 Ms. Karen McKay MICHAEL L. REDDOCH, JR. ’15 HAYDEN A. STARK ’18 Mr. and Mrs. L. Max Dula Dr. Susan L. Stark and Mr. SMITH R. MCWATERS ’19 Ms. Diane C. Reddoch Sherwood Stark The Honorable and Mrs. John R. McCarroll, Jr. SAMUEL P. REESE ’16 ALEXANDER SHERMAN TABOR ’15 Mr. W. Earl Wakefield Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Bartz DANIEL J. MESKIN ’20 Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Meskin RICHARD M. REINHARD ’18 FRED TAYLOR Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Glancey Mrs. Clara Waddell JACOB L. MESKIN ’17 Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Meskin JAMES D. RUSSELL MATTHEW R. TEMPLE ’18 Mr. W. L. Crews Wellford ’12 Mr. and Mrs. John Temple MAXINE MOLASKY Mr. and Mrs. Paul B. Temple Mr. Perry D. Dement JUDY A. RUTLEDGE Mr. Skip Daniel LOYD C. TEMPLETON IV ’19 THOMAS M. MONAGHAN ’20 Mr. Perry D. Dement Mrs. John W. Willingham Dr. and Mrs. J. Tom Morris Mrs. Claire K. Farmer Mr. Jonathan M. Large W. ANDREW THIBADO ’11 DIANA B. MOORE Mr. and Mrs. Andrew F. Saunders III Mr. and Mrs. James L. Yarbro Mr. Skip Daniel Mr. and Mrs. S. Clay Smythe ’85 Mr. Perry D. Dement Mr. and Mrs. Alexander W. WESTON L. TOULIATOS ’19 Mrs. Claire K. Farmer Wellford, Jr. ’60 Ms. Betty Kendrick Mr. and Mrs. S. Clay Smythe ’85 Mr. and Mrs. Alexander W. DAVID AARON SCHARFF ’15 H. WALKER UPSHAW ’84 Wellford, Jr. ’60 Mr. and Mrs. Douglas M. Menz Mrs. Grace Upshaw

G. HAYS MORELAND ’15 WILLIAM R. SCHNEIDER ’17 JEFFERSON D. UPSHAW ’74 Beth, Whit, and Hallie Robison Mrs. Hilda C. Mullen Mrs. Grace Upshaw

LOYAL W. MURPHY IV ’86 CATHERINE S. SCHUHMACHER WALKER H. UPSHAW ’19 Mr. and Mrs. Wesley H. McCluney ’94 Mr. and Mrs. William L. Askew III Mrs. Grace Upshaw Mr. and Mrs. Frederick A. WILLIAM F. MURRAH ’18 DeBardeleben IV JAMES P. WAGGONER, JR. ’15 Mr. and Mrs. Van Manning Mr. Perry D. Dement Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Bartz Mr. and Mrs. S. Clay Smythe ’85 MUS FACULTY AND STAFF H. GRAHAM WEST ’20 Ms. Lynn W. Thompson HEWES P. SCULL ’20 Mr. W. Tommy West, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Forrest L. Morgan SAMUEL C. NELSON ’19 WILLIAM T. WEST ’18 Mr. and Mrs. William G. Underwood W. TRENT SCULL, JR. ’17 Mr. W. Tommy West, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Forrest L. Morgan RICHARD L. OUYANG ’15 CONNOR A. WHITSON ’16 Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Bartz TERRY N. SHELTON Mr. and Mrs. H. Morgan Society for Science & the Public Mr. and Mrs. William L. Askew III Brookfield III Intel Science Talent Search Mr. Skip Daniel Mr. Perry D. Dement GARY K. WUNDERLICH, JR. ’88 W. KAEDMON PENNEY ’19 Mrs. Claire K. Farmer Mr. and Mrs. William L. Askew III Mr. and Mrs. Lake Smith, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Wesley H. McCluney ’94 Mr. and Mrs. Andrew F. Saunders III PHILIP S. WUNDERLICH, JR. ’19 JERRY A. PETERS ’20 Mr. and Mrs. S. Clay Smythe ’85 Mr. and Mrs. John Aaron Mr. and Mrs. H. Jerry Peters Mr. and Mrs. Alexander W. Wellford, Jr. ’60 JONATHAN L. PETERS ’16 Mr. and Mrs. H. Jerry Peters W. MAXWELL SIMPSON ’15 Mr. and Mrs. Barry Gerald

MUS TODAY – SUMMER 2015 81 THE LAST WORD Illustration by Greg Cravens Of Ellis Haguewood on His 20th Year as Headmaster of Memphis University School by Norman Thompson If, as has been observed by thinkers and artists throughout recorded history, a hero is the intersection of the right man (or woman) and the exigencies of the time, then Headmaster Ellis Haguewood is a hero, at least so considered by the MUS community. Now, Ellis Haguewood would be nonplussed, even mortified, to be branded with this (he would say) hyperbolic epithet.

82 MUS TODAY – SUMMER 2015 But he stepped forward from the ranks Supporting many campus works and also a day in which the value of education of his peers, where he had been soldiering, operations, under his watch the Annual and good character is reaffirmed. Many fighting the good fight as a respected Fund has grown from $250,000 annually of us are grateful also to him as friend English teacher for a couple of decades, to in 1995-96 to $1.3 million today, and the and role model. guide MUS through dark and murky waters. Doors to New Opportunities Campaign On an even more personal note Ellis The school at the time was not entirely raised $22 million. He has led all these Haguewood is a hero to me for his many rudderless, but was deemed by many to be efforts, and more, continuously exhibiting kindnesses ladled on me over the last listing, faltering with an unsteady hand on the noblest character. 43 years. Not least among these was his the helm, a time of low morale and uncer- Board member and past chairman willingness to deliver the eulogy at my tainty. It was then that Ellis Haguewood, Bob Loeb ’73 summed up the consensus father’s funeral. Though he had never met like Shakespeare’s young Prince Hal, the opinion when he recently wrote, “Ellis my beloved and respected father, he listened future King Henry V, the English national Haguewood is the consummate gentleman, to me speak of him, the chief influence for hero, rose “... from the ground like a man of supreme honesty, compassion, and good in my life, and then he delivered an feathered Mercury, service. His character is manifested in his encomium that I could not hope to approx- And vaulted with such ease into his seat roles as leader, educator, and friend. He has imate on my best day. I could not then, nor As if an angel dropped down from the served MUS as headmaster for 20 years, can I now, find words adequate to express clouds.” leading the school to its highest standing my gratitude. And so he seemed to many here at the ever, both academically and in extracurricu- His kindnesses to me go back decades. time, a turbulent time now 20 years past. lar activities.” Twice my wife, Carole, was hospitalized, Ellis Haguewood’s accomplishments My assessment of Ellis Haguewood once for an invasive operation, and later, before and since assuming the office of includes, but is not limited to, his myriad in 1979, for the birth of our daughter. On headmaster are beyond the scope of my accomplishments and deserved accolades. both occasions, long before he became remarks here, but when I say that they are He is the epitome of the traditionalist, as his headmaster and might then feel some daunting, I understate them. Glancing over many writings and speeches will attest. His employer/employee obligation, he visited a list compiled to mark this milestone, I belief system is founded on centuries-old her almost every day of her confinement. am awed by his accomplishments, many traditions: the Bible and the literature of the She asserts that he spent more time visiting unknown to me, as he in characteristic Western World. Regarding education, he is, her than did I, an assertion perhaps not humility does not vaunt them. Director of as the current cliché goes, “old school,” a far from the truth. Those visits, which she Athletics Bobby Alston recently noted that label that I mean as the highest praise. But remembers fondly to this day, have made under Ellis Haguewood’s leadership, MUS he is much more than a wise and learned Ellis Haguewood one of her heroes. teams have won more than four dozen teacher. He is, as Shakespeare has Hamlet These few brief anecdotes and observa- athletic state championships and had numer- say of his mentor, “a fellow of infinite jest, tions merely hint at my debt to and respect ous runner-up finishes and regional champi- of most excellent fancy.” His wry humor for the man. And I know that what he has onships. He also observed that the athletic (sometimes not apparent to those who don’t done for me he has done for many others. accomplishments “have come at no expense know him well) makes him not only an Joseph Campbell, the great American to the school’s academic mission. MUS is amiable acquaintance but also a mesmer- mythologist, remarked that “a hero is consistently among the top five schools in izing communicator. Many a time have I someone who gives his or her life to the state in the number of National Merit heard excellent speakers express trepidation something bigger than oneself.” Does this Semifinalists that it produces. The average and frustration at having to follow him to not define Ellis Haguewood, a man who has ACT score for MUS students over the last the podium microphone. given the greater part of his life to an ideal, five years is 29.” But Ellis Haguewood is more than a place where excellence in all things is the During the Haguewood era the campus a hidebound traditionalist. He is also, mandate, and where it is sought by the light has been largely made over. Improvements paradoxically, an imaginative innovator. of moral and spiritual transcendence? The include the construction of Dunavant Upper He habitually makes something out of goal? To forge well-rounded young men of School, the Campus Center, and Thomas nothing. Back in the day (as another cliché strong moral character. Amphitheater, plus technological additions, goes) when he was yearbook advisor, he I ask about Ellis Haguewood, as did such as computer labs, an AP chemistry transformed the drudgery of taking student Mark Antony about his hero Julius Caesar, lab, and a robotics lab. He has overseen the photographs into the legendary “School Day “When comes such another?” renovation of athletic facilities, including Picture Day,” a day of mock grandeur and the stadium and track, baseball diamond and stupefying silliness. He instituted the more Norman Thompson has been an MUS grandstand, lacrosse fields, tennis center, recent (and more serious) Convocation Day, instructor in English since 1972, and he and multisports building, featuring four a day in which much preparation for the holds the L. Edwin Eleazer III Chair of indoor tennis courts. first days of school is accomplished, but Excellence in Teaching.

MUS TODAY – SUMMER 2015 83 Photo by Lance Murphey 84 MUS TODAY – SUMMER 2015 Works of art, including this whimsical cityscape by artist David Lynch, dot Overton Square. The Midtown Memphis center is experiencing a renaissance thanks to the efforts of Loeb Properties and a host of MUS alumni. Read about the planners and builders of this reimagined district, as well as Class of 1963 alumni behind its ’70s incarnation on page 4. (Lynch was the 2012 artist-in- residence at MUS, creating a campus-scape in a similar style, which hangs in Humphreys Hall.)

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