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Special topics courses enrich curriculum Touring Transy The Transy Top 5 Alumni and Inauguration Weekend April 28-May 1, 2011

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The inauguration of R. Owen Williams Program highlights: as Transylvania’s 25th president will be Thursday a unique highlight of this year’s gather- Alumni Day at the Races ing of alumni, friends, and faculty. The event begins a day earlier than Friday usual with racing at Keeneland on Installation ceremony for President R. Owen Williams Inauguration celebration brunch Thursday. It concludes on Sunday Inaugural ball morning with a special brunch for Robert Barr Society members at the Saturday home of President and Mrs. Williams. Alumni celebration luncheon All alumni reunion reception All alumni were mailed an invitation Class reunion events in March. Check the Transy website at www.transy.edu (For Alumni, News & Sunday Events, Reunion/Alumni Weekend) for Chapel service Robert Barr Society brunch a detailed schedule and online registration. For more information, contact Natasa Pajic Mongiardo ’96, director of alumni programs, at (800) 487-2679 or [email protected]. TransylvaniaUNIVERSITY MAGAZINE SPRING/2011 Features 12 SPECIAL DELIVERY / Special topics courses prepare Transylvania students to take on real-world issues 16 TOURING TRANSY / Student tour guides play key role in new student recruitment as they show off the university 18 BACK ON TRACK / Winning election as district attorney validates a comeback from addiction for Jon Alexander ’71 20 THE TRANSY TOP 5 / Transylvania faculty and staff members present their favorites in a variety of areas Around Campus 2 Harvard law professor speaks on race 3 Class of 1967 funds merit scholarships 4 Quidditch goes from sport to campus craze 6 Pollard receives Chief Academic Officer award 8 Shearer awarded Henry Clay Medallion Sports 9 Volleyball wins HCAC for first time Junior Kelsey Fulkerson played No. 1 singles and doubles for the Pioneers and was named Player 10 Men’s soccer wins HCAC titles, plays in NCAA of the Year in the Heartland Collegiate Athletic 11 Women’s soccer wins HCAC, makes NCAA Conference. Transylvania finished 8-3 for the season and won the HCAC flighted tournament. See story on page 10, and see pages 9-11 for Alumni News and Notes wrap-ups of all fall sports. Photo by Joseph Rey Au 23 Class Notes 25 Alumnus Profile: Nelson Parker ’96 27 Alumna Profile: Emily Prather Rodgers ’04 29 Marriages, Births, Obituaries

Associate Vice President of Communications and Public Relations: Sarah A. Emmons Director of Publications: Martha S. Baker Publications Writer/Editor: William A. Bowden On the cover: Editorial Assistant: Tyler Young From left, Spanish professor Jeremy Paden, Publications Designer: Barbara Grinnell history professor Greg Bocketti, and anthropology professor Chris Begley team-taught a special topics Transylvania is published three times a year. Volume course entitled Latin America and the Natural World. 28, No. 2, Spring 2011. Produced by the Office of For a look at how special topics courses enrich the Publications, Transylvania University, Lexington, KY Transylvania curriculum, see story on page 12. 40508-1797. Send address changes and alumni news to Alumni Office, Transylvania University, 300 North Photo by Joseph Rey Au Broadway, Lexington, KY 40508-1797, fax to (859) 233-8797, or e-mail to [email protected]. Harvard law professor speaks on race and conversation

these terms in his writing and speaking. “People have all sorts of views on nomencla- ture related to race,” he said. “It is a subject in which intelligent, well-intentioned people will continue to have divergent points of view.” During the question-and-answer session following his address, Kennedy responded to a query about a new edition of the 1884 novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, in which the word “nigger,” which appears 219 times in the book, has been replaced with the word “slave.” Creation of the edition (NewSouth Press) was overseen by Alan Gribben, an English professor and Twain scholar at Auburn University Montgomery, with the intention of making it more palatable to modern

Joseph Rey Au readers. Kennedy felt the editing was well Harvard University law professor Randall Kennedy presented his Kenan Lecture under intentioned but wrong-headed. the title, “Can We Talk? Problems in Race and Conversation.” “We should not repress the inclusion of ‘nigger,’” Kennedy said. “Twain put a lot of Harvard University law professor For instance, Kennedy said that references thought into the words he used. That’s what Randall Kennedy, one of the premier to African heritage went out of favor with he did—he was a writer. Don’t cover it up. scholars on race and ethnicity in America, many blacks when the American Coloniza- Don’t deodorize it—let’s grapple with it. gave his audience a historical tour of tion Society was formed in 1816 to send If we remove the word, we will not know nomenclature related to Americans of free blacks back to Africa. “Negro” was what Twain was trying to get us to see.” African descent during his Kenan Lecture used by prominent blacks such as the late Kennedy authored the best-selling book in Haggin Auditorium on February 16. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Kennedy’s talk revealed how a range of Marshall and civil rights leader Martin Word, which sparked a firestorm words and phrases have fallen in and out Luther King Jr., then gave way to “black” of national debate. He is also the author of favor in the history of African Americans. in the 1960s from leaders such as Stokely of Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal Black, Negro, African American, Afro Ameri- Carmichael. Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, and Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, can, Americans of African descent, colored, said Kennedy, is given credit for bringing Identity and Adoption. people of color, colored citizens, and “African American” to prominence in 1988, The lecture was part of Transylvania’s oppressed Americans were all discussed which he characterized as the most influen- William R. Kenan Jr. Lecture Series and and placed in historical and philosophical tial recent development in the nomenclature. was funded by a grant from the William context. In the end, Kennedy said he uses all of R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust.

Sophomore philosophy major Kaitlin Hizny and The inaugural class of the Kentucky Entrepreneur Hall of junior philosophy major Nathan Sames have been Fame included three people with Transylvania ties. Trustee accepted for the 2011 Yale University Bioethics Summer Pearse Lyons, who founded Alltech; trustee and executive Internship. The internship class comprises an international committee member Warren W. Rosenthal, former CEO of group of undergraduates and graduate students (including Jerrico, Inc.; and the late former chairman of the board medical and law school students) who will investigate con- William T. Young, who created Big Top Peanut Butter, temporary bioethical issues. now Jif, were all inducted. • • • Junior psychology major Remy Miller, a veteran of the Yale University Bioethics Summer Internship, had her article, “Establishing a ‘Duty of Care’ for Pharmaceutical Companies,” chosen from 195 articles and published in the prestigious bioethics journal, The Hastings Center Report. • • • Transylvania’s admissions viewbook received an Award of Excellence from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, District III.

Junior Nathan Sames and sophomore Kaitlin Hizny were accepted to the 2011 Yale University Bioethics

Summer Internship. Applause Joseph Rey Au

2 TRANSYLVANIA Class of 1967 funds merit scholarships Members of the class of 1967 have established an endowed merit scholarship with the aim of bringing to campus stu- dents who mirror the intellectual curiosity and range of interests they themselves showed when they arrived at Transylvania nearly five decades ago. “We were a very diverse group of philosophers, music makers, scholars, writ- ers, athletes, political pundits, and social leaders,” said Jan Allinder Anestis ’67, who spearheaded creation of the Class of 1967 Scholarship. “Much of our development occurred in the classroom, but perhaps as important were the lessons we learned from each other.” The scholarship (two have already been awarded) is being used to help attract stu- dents with exceptional talent or extraordi- nary leadership skills that will enhance the Many members of the class of 1967 have contributed to a diversity of the student population. It is scholarship named after the class. Shown above at the class awarded in honor of the class and in reunion during Alumni Weekend 2007 are, front row, from memory of those who have passed on. left: John Mansdorfer, Jay Gross, Virginia Neuhoff, Kathy Morris Riester, Jan Allinder Anestis, Connie Mumford “We are using the word ‘diversity’ in Houston, Brenda Bell; second row: Steve Hombach, Georgia the broadest possible sense,” Anestis said. Green Stamper, Grady Lehman, Mac Harris, Chris Leonard “Having students from different parts of Watkins, Wanda Poynter Cole, Bettye Stehle Burns, David the country is one possible consideration, McFadden; back row: Bud Fairchild, Ernie Stamper, Steve Merriman, Rich Buchbinder, Jim Wheeler, Larry Webster, Jeff as are such factors as particular talents in Abele, Bill McDonald. Right: Senior Holly Milburn, a star player on the women’s music or drama, or students with high lead- basketball team, is the second recipient of the Class of 1967 Scholarship. ership profiles. We are not limiting ourselves in how we view diversity.” The idea that diversity has a broad posi- Transylvania’s William T. Young Scholarship a letter of appreciation to the class of 1967. tive effect on the student body is captured (full tuition and fees) might target students “For this, I extend my thanks. Your contri- in a core belief of the scholarship founders, who narrowly missed being chosen for the butions have helped make all of this possi- stated in a letter establishing the award: Young award,” said Georgia Green Stamper ble for me.” “The exceptional talent or extraordinary ’67, a member of the scholarship commit- Wandaleen Poynter Cole ’67 is also a skills of one student benefits everyone tee. “The more we talked about this, the committee member and has derived great within that community.” more we realized that it was just about as personal satisfaction from her work on the Anestis said the impulse to begin the easy to think big as to think small.” scholarship. scholarship can be traced back to the for- “It’s very exciting to imagine that decades “Having a class scholarship and contribut- mation of a scholarship at her husband’s from now, a merit scholarship from our ing to it makes me feel united again with alma mater, Yale University, in memory of class might enable an exceptional young my classmates for a very special purpose,” a baby the couple had lost. The couple woman or man to attend Transylvania,” she said. “It’s kind of like an ongoing class received letters from student recipients that Anestis said. reunion that refreshes memories and makes brought them much pleasure. In the meantime, the first Class of 1967 me an active part of the Transy community. “Years later, it occurred to me that many Scholarship was awarded to Brittny Congle- Jan’s incredible generosity, thoughtfulness, people do not have the funds or the time to ton ’09, a drama major and women’s and clarity of purpose have given our class devote to forming an endowed scholarship studies minor. She is currently pursuing her something of which we can be very proud.” on their own,” she said. “That’s when the dream of being an actor by attending class- Echoing the statement from the 2007 idea of a scholarship from our entire class es at Second City Training Center for Improv letter announcing the scholarship, Stamper was born.” and Musical Improv in Chicago. The second said, “I believe the committee feels that if Since beginning the ongoing campaign award went to senior Holly Milburn, a social Transylvania is to move forward, attracting to fund the scholarship in 2007, the class’s justice major and star player on the women’s the best students is essential. The leavening 40th reunion year, more than $90,000 has basketball team. She hopes to earn a mas- effect of the best and brightest raises the been raised, including a lead gift from ter’s degree in international development university experience for all Transylvania Anestis and her husband. This has been suf- and a certificate in humanitarian students.” ficient to award the first two scholarships, assistance. Other committee members from the but the class has more ambitious plans—to “When I graduate this May, I know that I class of 1967 include Brenda Bell, Bettye eventually create a full-tuition scholarship. will be fully prepared to take the next step Stehle Burns, Carl B. Fairchild, Stephen C. “It occurred to me that funding a merit and offer to others all the wonderful things Hombach, John B. Mansdorfer, and Ernie scholarship at or near the monetary level of that Transy has given me,” Milburn wrote in W. Stamper.

SPRING 2011 3 The Transylvania Quidditch team played Quidditch goes from sport to campus craze in the Quidditch World Cup at DeWitt Clinton Park in New York City. Quidditch came to Transylvania’s The event picked up major steam around campus in 2009 and hit the ground flying— social networks and eventually into main- er—running. Since then, the activity has stream media. The Animagi were one of two Quidditch, it’s community service that gives evolved from a novelty sport to a campus- teams featured on MTV’s The Seven when the members the most fulfillment. The main wide social experience with 200 members host Kevin Manno suited up with the Ani- focus of the International Quidditch Associ- and an impact that extends past Transylva- magi and played a match on camera, and ation (yes, it exists) is to promote the love of nia’s campus into Lexington and the rest of Transy was one of the teams featured for literature to youth, and Transy has joined the state. Time magazine’s story on the World Cup. right in. The sport comes from the popular book “Time said we were perhaps their The team organized a book drive in the series Harry Potter, which imagined wizards favorite team,” senior Kristin Grenier, quid- fall that collected more than 650 books for flying around on broomsticks and playing a ditch organizer and team captain, said. underprivileged people in Lexington and full-contact game in which, at its simplest But the sports side of Transylvania participated in Read Across America Day in form, players try to throw flying balls Quidditch is only a small part of the student March. This summer and fall, the team will through three hoops. Muggle quidditch organization. The campus involvement work with the Seventh Street Kids’ Café to (“muggles” referring to non-magical aspect has seen quidditch players throw a do reading programs. people) was created on college campuses Yule Ball dance and deliver chocolates to “We will encourage kids to read books across the country and employed most of dorm rooms on broomsticks. During a Sort- for rewards like T-shirts and the chance to the same rules except, presumably, flying ing Hat Ceremony in which students were have us come play an exhibition match for is considered cheating. placed into Harry Potter houses, President them,” Grenier said. “It’s a way to promote Transylvania’s quidditch team—the Tran- R. Owen Williams surprised everyone by literacy to these kids.” sylvania Animagi—competes against other dressing up in full headmaster garb and The team has helped start quidditch colleges in the region, and in November, the delivering a taped introduction. Chemistry teams at other schools in the area, including team went to New York City to play in the professor George Kaufman has played the Henry Clay High School in Lexington and Quidditch World Cup with 45 other colleges. role of Golden Snitch (the elusive player Harrison County (Ky.) High School, and it whom both teams try to catch to win the will host the Tri-State Tournament with game), and Diane Fout, director of student teams from Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio in activities and Campus Center, and Karen the spring. Transylvania will also host the Anderson, coordinator of community service Kentucky Cup featuring college and high and civic engagement, have donned Harry school teams in the state, and over spring Potter garb to participate in quidditch break the traveling team played exhibitions functions. at college campuses across Kentucky. Even with all the iterations of Transylvania “There are so many things for people to latch onto in quidditch,” Grenier said. “We want to see it remain a fun thing for stu- The Quidditch team delivered chocolate dents to participate in and not see it take Golden Snitches to students in their dorm rooms as a fund raiser. itself too seriously.”

4 TRANSYLVANIA Jagger named associate vice president and associate dean Kathleen Jagger beyond the essential task of helping to help our new faculty members under- was recently named students choose a course schedule. stand the culture of Transylvania and what’s to the full-time posi- “When I speak to entering students in expected of them. We want them to tion of associate vice the fall, I tell them that our purpose as become the best teachers, researchers, and president and associ- advisers is to have you imagine what would scholars they can be.” ate dean of the col- be the most fulfilling life, and then help you In the area of curricular development, lege. She was create the possibilities that will let you real- Jagger said a faculty task force has pro- formerly in a half-time ize your dreams,” she said. “We want our posed a new outline for the curriculum that position as associate dean of the college advisers to help students become intention- includes a three-week August term for while continuing her teaching as a full al about their overall academic plan and to entering students. professor of biology. develop the habits of becoming a scholar in “The purpose of this course is to help “Kathleen has brought enormous energy a community of inquiry.” students make the adjustment from high and creativity to her work as associate dean Among the specific areas students will school expectations to college expecta- of the college,” said William F. Pollard, vice be encouraged to explore more fully, said tions,” she said. “A lot of students, even president and dean of the college. Jagger, are planning ahead for study abroad the very good ones, struggle in their first “Although this position was originally and looking into internships and shadow- semester because of that adjustment. This created as half-time, her efforts have always ships that put them in a working environ- non-graded course will give them an idea of been full-time. I am pleased that her new ment to help them with career choices. the depth of investment in academics that position will provide her with greater oppor- “We want to be sure that students will be required of them.” tunities to work on behalf of the college appreciate all the opportunities here at Jagger takes both a specific and a very and our students.” Transylvania that are relevant to their broad view of her role, and sees her new Jagger’s responsibilities, which officially goals,” she said. “To me, that’s the most position as giving her the opportunity to began January 1, include the development precious part of advising. Every time you impact many areas of the university’s aca- of new initiatives in such areas as student meet with your students, you want to con- demic life. advising, faculty mentoring, and curriculum tinually expand their knowledge of them- “I consider myself to be a person who’s development. She will also teach one course selves and the possibilities in their future.” nurturing the advancement of our institu- per academic year. Jagger will also work to enhance the tion through our faculty members and our Enriching Transylvania’s already extensive process of acclimating new members of students,” she said. “I like to work with program of student advising will be a pri- the faculty to their responsibilities. peoples’ ideas, their imaginations, to take mary focus for Jagger in her new role. She “We have to bring everybody into the the best of those ideas and make them views advising as something that goes far fold, not just students,” she said. “We have happen.”

Sustainability House stresses living in community As a culture of sustainability continues to spread around the The group took several measures, including hang-drying clothes, Transylvania campus, some students decided to make that culture a riding bikes around Lexington, rarely using the dishwasher, eating lifestyle. They started the campus Sustainability House, committing meals together, and using the heat and air conditioning as little as themselves to living sustainably and in community. possible. They volunteered cleaning up watersheds around the com- The idea sprung from some members of TERRA, the Transylvania munity and picking up trash, went on nature hikes, and attended a environmental rights club. Ten students got together and decided to conference on mountaintop removal mining in Washington, D.C. get a house where they could practice sustainability together. A They also created a blog to keep the Transy community up on their house on Upper Street efforts, and they organized a opened up, and they moved party where they baked pies in at the beginning of the with local ingredients to serve school year. to visitors. “When we moved into the Those activities taught the house, we had to set our residents about the benefits own rules for what we want- of living sustainably and, more ed to see happen throughout importantly, living with others. the year,” junior Julia Peckin- “It changed our outlooks paugh said. “There wasn’t a on sustainability,” Pekinpaugh faculty member in charge; said. “We realized as the term this was just a bunch of stu- went on that sustainability is dents trying to figure out more than just being eco- what we as a group wanted friendly and trying to use to do. We decided early on natural ingredients. It’s a com- that we were going to try to munity. It’s depending on and live as eco-friendly as possible drawing from the community and buy as much local food The members of the Sustainability House held a Pie Night to raise and creating that aspect of as we could.” awareness about the work the students are doing. sustainability.”

SPRING 2011 5 See exhibits online at Morlan Gallery Web page Transylvania’s website, www.transy.edu, website. Can’t remember which exhibit you saw last is a great resource for information about For those who may be visiting the cam- time you were here? The calendars are also the college, and new pages are added fre- pus in the future, there is a calendar of archived for reference. quently to keep the community up-to-date exhibits posted for each school year. The The community outreach page outlines on campus and alumni activities. You may calendar is updated each academic year. some of the efforts that Morlan Gallery is not know that Morlan Gallery has a making to be involved in the down- page on the site; it has a wealth of town Lexington community. Past proj- information about exhibits that are ects have included the Empty Bowls presented at the gallery. Project, which raised money to feed The exhibitions page tells not only the hungry in Lexington, and North what exhibits are currently in Morlan Limestone Gathers, an exhibit that Gallery, but it shows photos of some displayed interesting collections, of the artwork so that even those out- objects, and stories from the neigh- side the area can view some of the borhoods around Transy’s campus. amazing paintings, sculptures, ceram- For more information, questions, ics, photos, and more that come to or to view some of the exhibitions the gallery. Visitors can also look at that have been on display at Morlan archives of past exhibitions to check Gallery in recent years, visit out what they may have missed. www.transy.edu/morlan/index.htm, There are currently 28 past and cur- or contact Andrea Fisher, Morlan rent exhibitions on display on the Gallery director, at (859) 233-8142.

Pollard receives Chief Academic Officer award Hall retires from DPS with

William F. Pollard, Transylvania President R. Owen 27 years of service Transylvania vice presi- Williams said, “Dean Pollard is very Buddy Hall’s best memories dent, dean of the col- deserving of this national honor. He is of his 27-year tenure in the lege, and professor of an active scholar and is well respected Department of Public Safety at English, was honored by by his colleagues. His appreciation for Transylvania center on his the Council of Independ- the liberal arts is remarkable.” involvement with students. ent Colleges with its Pollard, who came to Transylvania in “The most rewarding thing 2010 Chief Academic 2004, has published on medieval English about my job was the relation- Officer Award. The award literature and is co-editor of Mysticism ships you build with students,” recognizes his contribu- and Spirituality in Medieval England with said Hall, who retired in tions to colleagues at independent col- Robert Boenig and Vox Mystica: Essays December 2010. “Occasionally they would leges and universities across the country. on the English Mystical Tradition Honor- even send me thank you letters.” As a member of the CIC’s Chief ing Valerie Lagorio with Anne Bartless, Hall also played a role in admissions by Academic Officers Task Force (2006-09), Thomas Bestul, and Janet Goebel. helping to facilitate campus visits by prospec- Pollard helped develop programs and Prior to coming to Transylvania, he tive students and their families. “I would help chaired sessions at the annual institute was provost and dean of the college at them with directions around campus or with for chief academic officers. For over 15 Georgetown College and vice president, knowing where to find promotional materi- years he has been an evaluator for the dean of the college, and professor of als,” he said. “I probably helped bring a lot Southern Association of Colleges and English at Huntingdon College. of students to Transylvania.” Schools Commission on Colleges. He is a “I appreciate the opportunities given Hall, who retired with the rank of lieu- member of Phi Kappa Phi and Omicron me by the CIC to work for the past 16 tenant, was mostly assigned to night patrol, Delta Kappa national honorary societies, years with my fellow chief academic except for his final two years when he was a the American Conference of Academic officers from across the country,” dispatcher. His supervisor upon retirement, Deans, and has served as president and Pollard said. “I have also been blessed to Director of Public Safety Richard Cook, had secretary of the Association of Chief work on behalf of faculty and students nothing but praise for Hall’s service to the Academic Officers of the Southern at Huntingdon, Georgetown, and now university. States. Transylvania.” “Buddy was a valuable asset to the Depart- “Bill Pollard exemplifies the purpose The CIC is an association of more ment of Public Safety,” Cook said. “His years of the CIC Chief Academic Officer than 600 independent, liberal arts col- of experience and his ability to use that expe- Award,” said Ginny Coombs, CIC vice leges and universities and higher educa- rience in a positive way made him a leader in president for annual programs. “He has tion affiliates and organizations that our department and well respected by faculty, always made himself available to col- work together to strengthen college and staff, and students. He will be missed not leagues and generously shared his time university leadership, sustain high-quality only in DPS, but throughout the Transy com- and expertise without regard for person- education, and enhance higher educa- munity.” al gain or public accolades.” tion’s contributions to society.

6 TRANSYLVANIA Appiah urges students to learn from other cultures

Princeton University philosophy professor Kwame Anthony view morals and ethics in an increasingly global society. He Appiah delivered the fall Kenan Lecture October 20 in Haggin described cosmopolitanism as the idea that everyone is “a citizen Auditorium. of the world,” and only when we understand other cultures in the Appiah is one of the world’s leading scholars on cosmopoli- world can we approach those cultures ethically. tanism, a philosophy of universal ethics. His book, Cosmopolitanism: Appiah, who was born in London and raised in Ghana, has a Ethics in a World of Strangers, won the 2007 Arthur Ross Award Ghanaian father and an English mother. But, as he noted humor- from the Council on Foreign Relations. ously, heritage was not what defined his parents. Appiah explained that cosmopolitanism says people ought to “Many people told them that their mixed marriage was going to be difficult,” he said. “And my parents agreed because my father was Methodist and my mother was Anglican.” The lecture encouraged audience mem- bers to branch out and study other cultures and develop real relationships, not just be content with American people and ideals. Only then, he pointed out, can we truly be citizens of the world. “There is a magic power in crossing boundaries wherever you are and whatever your vocation,” he said. The lecture was part of Transylvania’s William R. Kenan Jr. Lecture Series and was funded by a grant from the William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust.

Kwame Anthony Appiah meets one-on-one with students after his Kenan Lecture in October. Joseph Rey Au

Gathering space named after retired art professor

An outdoor gathering Faculty members and stu- ed in September. Course offerings tripled, and space has been created in the dents use the space for informal Girard said it was appropriate Morlan Gallery became a pro- rear of the Charles L. Shearer meetings, social interaction, and to name the space after Selter fessional-grade exhibition space Art Building adjacent to the some small studio classes. The because of the role he played in during Dan’s years.” kiln. It’s named in honor of art garden includes benches and advancing the university’s art professor emeri- landscaping fea- program during his tenure. Below: Morlan Gallery director tus Dan Selter, turing azaleas. In “Dan was the driving force Andrea Fisher speaks during a who retired in warm weather, behind the evolution of Transyl- dedication service for the 2010 after 35 the area is sunlit in vania’s art and art history pro- Shearer Art Building gathering space. Left: Art professor years on the fac- the morning and grams,” he said. “During the emeritus Dan Selter and his ulty and whose shaded in the 1970s, it was Dan who steered wife, Kay, pose beside a self- area of expertise evening. It was the program during its early created ceramic interpretation was ceramics. completed over years in the Mitchell Fine Arts of Selter that now resides “Dan was the summer of building when many courses indoors over the entrance to the ceramics area of the art always an advo- 2010 and dedicat- were partial-unit activity classes. building. cate for the development of stimulating and alternative gath- ering spaces on campus,” said art professor and fine arts divi- sion chair Jack Girard, whose 30-year tenure on the faculty overlapped most of Selter’s. “The Dan Selter Outdoor Garden is very consistent with his vision.”

SPRING 2011 7 Shearer awarded Henry Clay Medallion

Transylvania President Emeritus Charles L. Shearer was awarded the 2010 Henry Clay Medallion for Distinguished Service from the Henry Clay Society during a black tie dinner at the Kentucky Gover- nor’s Mansion in December. A committee of the Henry Clay Memorial Foundation selected Shearer for the honor in recognition of his personal and professional Paul Atkinson

Joseph Rey Au achievements that reflect Clay’s principals of Charles T. Ambrose, right, receives congratulations from statesmanship and compromise for the good of mankind. Shearer Transylvania President R. Owen Williams on his Outstanding retired from the presidency of Transylvania in July 2010 after a Community Honoree award. 27-year tenure, the longest such service in the university’s history. His tenure was marked by enhancement of the academic culture, rising Ambrose honored for enrollments, endowment growth, and many new campus facilities. “Whether it was his relationship with the chairman of the board service to Transylvania and other trustees, or with faculty, staff, and students, Charles’s use Charles T. Ambrose, a champion of Transylvania’s heritage as a of diplomacy has always been most evident,” said Warren W. Rosen- pioneer in medical education in the nineteenth century, received a thal, a member of the Transylvania Board of Trustees, in introducing 2010 Outstanding Community Honoree award from the Association the honoree. “For 27 years President Shearer was highly respected, of Fundraising Professionals Bluegrass Chapter at a National Philan- deeply appreciated, and loved by all.” thropy Day luncheon in November. Noting the many illustrious individuals who had preceded him in The program celebrates those who have made a significant receiving the Henry Clay Medallion, Shearer said the award was a contribution of time and resources to nonprofit agencies, thereby signal honor. Among the previous winners are Sandra Day enhancing the quality of life in the community. Ambrose, a profes- O’Connor, Edward Kennedy and Nancy Kassebaum-Baker, and sor of microbiology, immunology, and molecular genetics at the Mitch McConnell and Elaine Chao. University of Kentucky College of Medicine and a widely published “I am honored to be included in such extraordinary company expert on medical history, was nominated by Transylvania. with Henry Clay,” Shearer said in accepting the award. “This is an Soon after his first visit to Transylvania in 2007, Ambrose evening and an honor that I will always remember and cherish.” embarked on a mission to tell the world about the books and instruments used in the old Transylvania medical department from 1799-1859 that are housed in the university’s Special Collections. Parents fund pushes to meet 2011 goal His first act was to conceive and sponsor a symposium on Transylva- nia’s role in early medical education. Held in the summer of 2007, The parents fund is trailing where it was at this point last the event attracted historians, physicians, teachers, and others, year. As of February 15, it had raised $55,000 of its $100,000 including a Smithsonian Institution curator who studied Transylva- goal with a June 30 deadline looming. This year’s goal is the nia’s collection of surgical instruments. highest ever for the fund. To continue the conversation among symposium attendees and “I remain hopeful that we will get there,” Lori Burlingham, make others aware of Transylvania’s unique holdings, Ambrose assistant director of development, said. “The fall appeal had an offered to underwrite a publication, Transylvania Treasures, that excellent return rate, and the fall phonathon numbers were up. would tell the story of the school’s rich past. Eight issues have been So there are some good pledges out there; the phonathon published since 2008, and Ambrose is a frequent contributor. team has been fabulous.” Transylvania Treasures has been extremely well received and has The parents fund goes to support Transylvania’s J. Douglas won numerous awards, including the 2009 Gold Award—the Gay Jr./Frances Carrick Thomas Library, which has embarked on highest available—in a competition sponsored by the Council for a $5.2 million fund-raising campaign. If the library meets that Advancement and Support of Education, which has 3,400 members goal, it activates a $1 million grant that will bring the total to in 61 countries. $6.2 million to enhance the library and its collections and “Dr. Ambrose has raised awareness of Transylvania’s rare books, staffing. The parents fund counts toward that $5.2 million. documents, scientific artifacts, and portraits, but more importantly “Parents and grandparents have really been stepping up in he is helping to ensure that these treasures are properly preserved recent years to give for this fund, and we are excited to see and that students and scholars continue to have access to them,” that continue,” Burlingham said. “Every one of our students said Mark Blankenship ’81, acting vice president for alumni and benefits greatly from our library, and we want to make it an development. “The university is very fortunate to have him as a even better experience.” benefactor.” Carmen Covert, mother of alumna Lauren Covert ’08, said she continues to support the parents fund because of how special the school was to her daughter. Board member elected “I love Transylvania,” she said. “It’s a quality education, and Jeffrey P. Williams was recently elected to the Transylvania the way it challenges the students and develops them is great. Board of Trustees. A native of Cincinnati, he holds a bachelor of The library is a wealth of information and has lots of resources architecture degree from the University of Cincinnati and an MBA to open doors for students to do things they didn’t think they from Harvard Business School. He is president of Jeffrey Williams & could ever experience.” Company, LLC, and has over 30 years of experience in investment banking, private equity, and corporate management.

8 TRANSYLVANIA Joseph Rey Au Volleyball wins HCAC for first time

By any measuring stick, the volleyball sea- University (3-1), Transylvania (4-0), and son was one for the record books. Winning the College of Mount St. Joseph (3-1). the program’s first-ever regular season The Pioneers opened HCAC play with a Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference 3-2 victory at Hanover College before drop- championship, hosting the HCAC tourna- ping their only conference contest, a 3-2 ment for the first time, and finishing with a decision at Rose-Hulman Institute of Tech- sparkling 26-8 overall record and an 8-1 nology. A highlight came when they defeat- mark in conference play all set standards ed HCAC kingpin Mount St. Joseph, an the program had long been aiming for. 11-time conference champion, on the Lions’ The Pioneers were also the surprise of the home floor. Transy won 11 of its last 12 conference as league coaches had picked matches, including nine in a row. them to finish seventh in a pre-season poll. Hosting the HCAC tournament in the “Going into the season, we thought we Beck Center, Transy blanked Hanover 3-0 in had the kind of team that could move us to the semifinals but could not prevail against the next level,” said second-year head Mount St. Joseph for a second time, drop- coach Casey Dale, who played at NCAA ping a 3-2 contest in the finals and missing Division III powerhouse Juniata College, out on a chance to represent the league in where he was a part of four national cham- NCAA championship play. pionship teams. “Our players had the physi- Senior middle hitter Jordan Geisen, senior cal ability, but just as important, they had libero Sarah Sams, and first-year outside hit- the right mental outlook. They were deter- ter Katie Ash were named to the All-HCAC mined to be a better team.” first team. Geisen finished as Transy’s all- Since beginning NCAA Division III and time leader in kills while Sams was the all- HCAC play in 2002, the team’s best show- time digs leader and was also HCAC ing before this season had been a 15-17 Defensive Player of the Year. Ash was sec- record (4-4 in the conference) in 2007. ond in kills to Geisen for the season. Transy fashioned a 13-5 pre-conference “We’ve had a taste of success,” said record that included winning marks in invi- Dale, “and now we want to take that next tational tournaments at Washington & Lee step and qualify for the NCAA tournament. I think we are well positioned to have a Senior middle hitter Jordan Geisen was strong volleyball program for years to named to the All-HCAC first team. come.”

Invitational II to finish second with a team Women’s golf is second score of 337, just three shots back of win- ner Hanover College. Bellarmine (353), in HCAC tournament Franklin College (369), Mount St. Joseph The women’s golf team capped off a suc- (412), and Spalding (456) rounded out the cessful season with a second-place finish in field. Transy’s Foley again took medalist the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Confer- honors with a 75, the only player in the ence tournament under head coach Mark field to break 80. Turner ’77. Highlights of the regular season Hanover also won the HCAC tourna- included a win and a second-place finish ment, played at the Anderson Country Club against strong fields in the two iterations of in Anderson, Ind., with a 16-stroke (667 to Transylvania’s own invitational tournament, 683) win over Transy. After Foley (82-79) both played at the University Club. and Hanover’s Molly Burpo (78-83) finished Transy kicked the season off in high style tied at 161, Burpo took medalist honors by with a 27-stroke victory in the first Transy defeating Foley in a one-hole, sudden-death Fall Invitational. The Pioneers’ team score of playoff. 354 easily outdistanced second-place Bel- Both Foley and Millet, who finished third larmine University (372), the College of in the HCAC medalist competition at 164 Mount St. Joseph (423), and Spalding (84-80), won All-HCAC first-team honors, University (471). Transy junior Megan Foley which go to the top eight finishers. was medalist with an 80, while senior Sarah Slattery added an 85 and junior Janca Junior Janca Millett joined junior Millett an 86. teammate Megan Foley on the All-HCAC first team. The Pioneers came back in the Transy Fall Joseph Rey Au

SPRING 2011 9 Men’s soccer wins HCAC titles, competes in NCAA championship The men’s soccer team com- onship for the second straight HCAC individual honors, with Lange, first-team All-Conference pleted one of its finest seasons year and their sixth overall senior forward Brian Williams recognition went to senior with a 16-3-2 record that appearance, Transy journeyed to taking Offensive Player of the defender Kevin Jones, junior included regular season and Lynchburg, Va., to take on Year, senior defender Zach midfielder Peter Mikhail, and tournament championships in Lynchburg College in an NCAA Lange Defensive Player of the first-year forward Kyle Smith, the Heartland Collegiate Athlet- first-round contest. The Pioneers Year, and head coach Brandon who also won Co-Freshman of ic Conference. The stellar year gave up two goals within a Bowman Coach of the Year for the Year. ended with a first-round loss in three-and-a-half-minute span in the fourth time. Williams was the NCAA Division III national the second half to let a tight also named to the All-Great Senior forward Brian Williams championship. game get away from them. Lakes Region second team. was named Offensive Player Transylvania concluded the Transy swept the top three In addition to Williams and of the Year in the HCAC. pre-conference portion of its schedule with a 2-1 loss to Maryville College for a 4-2-1 mark. That was the last loss for the Pioneers until the NCAA tournament as Transy then went on a 12-0-1 tear, which includ- ed an 8-0-1 HCAC record. The only conference blemish came in a 2-2 overtime tie with Rose- Hulman Institute of Technology. Transy hosted the HCAC tour- nament on Thomas Field. The Pioneers dispatched Manchester College 3-2 in overtime in the semifinals, then defeated Anderson University 2-0 in a tough defensive battle for the conference title. The Pioneers had beaten Anderson 1-0 in overtime just one week earlier to clinch the HCAC regular sea- son crown.

Playing in the NCAA champi- Joseph Rey Au

Women’s tennis wins HCAC flighted tourney The women’s tennis team finished second tourney. Transy winners were junior in regular season Heartland Collegiate Kelsey Fulkerson (No. 1 singles), Athletic Conference play, won the HCAC senior Sarah Ridley (No. 3 singles), flighted tournament, and finished second in junior Stephanie Townsend (No. 4 the HCAC tournament on the way to a suc- singles), and sophomore Kaitlyn cessful 8-3 season record under head coach Hizny and senior Abby Newcom Chuck Brown. (No. 3 doubles). The Pioneers dispatched five HCAC foes In the HCAC tournament, also in a row to begin the season, then fell to played at the West Indy Racquet Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology 6-3 in Club, Transy easily eliminated a home match. The only other loss before Franklin College in the semifinals the conference tournament was to Centre 5-0, then fell to top seed Rose- College by a 6-3 score on the Colonels’ Hulman 5-2 in the championship Joseph Rey Au home courts. match. For the Pioneers, Fulkerson won in Senior Sarah Ridley was named to the All-HCAC first team. Transy took first place in the HCAC No. 1 singles, then teamed up with Ridley flighted tournament, played at the West to take the No. 1 doubles match. Indy Racquet Club in Indianapolis. This meet Fulkerson, who was a perfect 14-0 in on the All-HCAC first team by Ridley, determines individual singles and doubles league matches (16-0 overall), was named Townsend, and senior Katie Boone. Brown winners among all nine conference teams. HCAC Player of the Year, the first Transy shared Coach of the Year honors with The top four teams advance to the HCAC woman to win that honor. She was joined Manchester College’s Eric Christiansen.

10 TRANSYLVANIA Women’s cross country fifth in Field hockey team gets HCAC championships home win over Earlham The women’s cross country team runner Dylan Stearman in a time The field hockey team started out the season finished fifth in the Heartland of 30:26.94 over the 8,000-meter with a new coach and high hopes, but found the Collegiate Athletic Conference course. Manchester also won the going tough in a 1-14 season highlighted by a championships, the best showing in men’s meet. 2-1 home field victory over Earlham College that the history of the program. Transyl- Jason Moncer is head coach for reversed an earlier vania hosted the event for the first both the women’s and men’s teams. loss to the Quakers. time, at Falling Springs Park in Under head coach Versailles, Ky. Tiffany Underhill, the Transy’s Betsy Heines led the way Pioneers were 0-4 Joseph Rey Au for the Pioneers with a 20th place before hosting Earl- Joseph Rey Au overall finish in a time of 25-min- ham on Hall Field in utes, 5.17 seconds over the 6,000- late September. meter course, good enough for Junior forward Alexis All-HCAC honorable mention team Schuman and sopho- honors. Manchester College won more back Brittany the event. Rebalsky each scored A highlight of the women’s regu- a goal for Transy lar season came in their first outing while senior forward when they won the R. J. Corman A. Annie Donelan had J. Special, hosted by Asbury Univer- both assists. The sity in Wilmore, Ky. Transy finished Pioneers outshot ahead of second-place Georgetown Earlham 35-4, led College, followed by Berea College, by first-year forward Asbury, Kentucky State University, Sydney Katz with Indiana University East, and Midway 13 and Donelan College. Heines again paced the Pio- with six. neers with a time of 22:18.27 over the 5,000-meter course, good for Junior forward Alexis second place overall. Schuman (rear) led The men’s team finished ninth in Junior Betsy Heines was Transy’s top the Pioneers over the HCAC meet, led by first-year runner in the HCAC championship. Earlham College. Women’s soccer wins HCAC title, plays in NCAA championship The women’s soccer team was co-cham- to advance to the finals, hosted by Earl- pion of the regular season Heartland Colle- ham College. The Pioneers prevailed 2-0 in giate Athletic Conference, then won the the rematch against the Lions to win the

HCAC tournament and represented the conference’s automatic bid to the NCAA Joseph Rey Au league in the NCAA Division III champi- meet. onship, both for the second straight year. Waiting for Transy at host Emory Univer- The Pioneers’ outstanding season featured sity in Atlanta was Lynchburg College. The a 16-4-1 overall record and an 8-1 mark in Hornets scored just 12 minutes into the conference play under head coach Michael first-round NCAA contest, then made that Fulton. goal stand up for a 1-0 victory and an end The Pioneers breezed through their pre- to Transy’s season. conference schedule with a 6-1-1 record, Transy players won two of the HCAC’s the only loss coming against Denison top awards when senior defender Sarah University in a 1-0 decision on Hall Field. Zembrodt was named Defensive Player of Transy then hosted Maryville College and the Year and midfielder Amy Ghibaudy battled the Scots to a 2-2 overtime tie. won Freshman of the Year. They led four In HCAC play, Transy’s lone defeat was a other Pioneers in being named to the All- 1-0 decision against Earlham College on HCAC first team: sophomore midfielder the Quakers’ home field. The only other Natosha Boden, junior goalkeeper Kara loss of the regular season came when the Hansel, junior midfielder Elizabeth Schmitt, Pioneers stepped out of league play to visit and senior forward Kristin Tenhunfeld. Wittenberg University and went down 3-2 Zembrodt and Tenhunfeld were also in overtime. named to the All-Great Lakes Region first Transy hosted the College of Mount St. team, and Zembrodt was selected as a Joseph in an HCAC tournament semifinal second-team All-American by the National Senior forward Kristin Tenhunfeld was one of six game and easily outclassed the Lions 5-0 Soccer Coaches Association of America. Transy players named to the All-HCAC first team.

SPRING 2011 11 Special Delivery Special topics courses prepare Transylvania students for real-world issues

Senior Stamatis Kandris presents part BY TYLER YOUNG of a student group project about brain-to-computer interfaces from the Mental Organs special topics course with professors Jack Furlong any outsiders looking in to Tran- Special topics courses are meant to and Kenny Moorman. M sylvania are intrigued by some be taught once, or at least not regularly. of the more unusual courses in the cur- The faculty Committee on Programs riculum. These kinds of classes are and Curriculum (CPC) does not have known as special topics courses, and to be presented the courses unless they while some may seem odd, they offer are under consideration to be included Transylvania students opportunities to in the regular course schedule rotation. tackle real-world issues using the knowl- “These courses are usually developed edge they’ve obtained from Transy’s because of current student or faculty liberal arts curriculum. interest, and they are often

“This is where the important questions are being asked, in an interdisciplinary course. If you’re going to graduate school or you’re going out to make policy, there is no way you can put your philosophical blinders on or your biological blinders and solve a problem. For example, these days, any biomedical innovation immediately comes with ethical and political concerns, so we would be remiss in our duties if we did not offer courses that are interdisciplinary.” —Philosophy professor Jack Furlong

12 TRANSYLVANIA interdisciplinary, or reflective of a pro- and I are both very interested in,” fessor’s special expertise or interests,” Moorman said. “We decided to focus Transylvania offers variety Vice President and Dean of the College on the two areas we love. Mine was lan- of unique courses William F. Pollard said. “We look for guage, and his was consciousness. We Transylvania professors teach a wide courses that will be likely to complement got an on-campus grant, got resources, the regular course-catalog courses that and spent the whole summer planning variety of special topics courses each term. a student takes. We want the courses to it with wide-eyed wonder.” Some are unique May term courses that have substance, depth, and meaning.” One of the roadblocks that surprised involve travel, and some are courses in the Many of the classes are team-taught, the professors was the amount of time fall and winter terms that tackle issues not with two or more professors either in a they had to devote to compiling the normally explored in traditional classes. classroom at the same time or taking vocabularies specific to philosophy and The following are some interesting courses turns teaching. These professors are computer science and what was meant almost always from different disciplines, by certain terms. that have been offered lately or are being so students are able to look at topics “The vocabulary that is used in cog- offered this academic year. from a stimulating variety of angles and nitive science these days is still in flux,” methods. Furlong said. “The problem early on “In some ways the biggest benefits was that when Kenny said words like come from allowing a student to inves- ‘process’ or ‘programming’ and I said tigate a subject reflective of personal terms like ‘mental processes,’ we weren’t interest but connected to the broader on the same page with what we meant curriculum,” Pollard said. “These can by the word ‘process,’ and we didn’t lead to significant undergraduate even know we weren’t on the same research. The courses often help page.” students to understand that disciplinary They taught the course in 2007 as a boundaries are meant to be crossed and 2000-level course and continued to are often artificial to begin with. These work out the kinks even as they were courses either show connections well into the term. At the end of the between and among disciplines, or they course, both professors considered it a allow a student to pursue a narrow area success and continued to work together of emphasis. So they go both ways and on the cognitive science topic, constantly Interactive Music and Multimedia can speak to depth or breadth.” sharing articles back and forth and Music Professor Tim Polashek “This is where the important having discussions on the evolving This music course, which was taught in questions are being asked, in an inter- trends in the complex field. fall 2010, explored a new wave of music disciplinary course,” philosophy When they decided to do the course that has evolved from the digital revolu- professor Jack Furlong said. “If you’re again in fall 2010, they bumped it up tion. The class focused on the idea of going to graduate school or you’re to a 3000-level to ensure the students “interactive” multimedia, including going out to make policy, there is no had a firm foundation of the various interactive musical performance, interac- way you can put your philosophical subjects. They picked different texts, tive video capture and rendering, inter- blinders on or your biological blinders and they tightened the focus to active multimedia installations, and and solve a problem. For example, these explaining consciousness from a interactive dance technology. Students days, any biomedical innovation imme- narrative perspective, using works of used computer programs to design mul- timedia projects that had some degree diately comes with ethical and political narrative to understand what people are of interactivity with the user. The stu- concerns, so we would be remiss in our thinking. dents could program sounds and video duties if we did not offer courses that The professors moved through the to create a whole new medium to enjoy are interdisciplinary.” term team-teaching from the textbook, music and video. then alternated presenting journal The science of how we think papers. The course culminated in group Mental Organs is a course that has projects where the students would The Qur’an now been taught twice, in fall 2007 and become experts and teach the class Religion Professor Carole Barnsley fall 2010. Furlong and computer science about one topic from the course. The professor Kenny Moorman began groups presented on non-human intel- The Qur’an is a religion course that talking about consciousness, free will, ligence, brain-to-computer interface, looks at the Muslim holy book and the language, and related issues that artificial intelligence in video games, different ways of reading it. Students researchers of artificial intelligence have and moral machines. learn about the Qur’an in the context of with philosophers. The idea intrigued “These are all topics that have revelation and prophecy and about the prophet Muhammad. They also study them, and they decided to try to turn incredible relevance in the world,” ways the Qur’an has been interpreted the issues into a special topics course. Moorman said. “One of the things we and used by Muslims in various cultural “In one sense, it was going to be a brought up in class with the moral contexts. study in an area of science called machines is we do a lot of our killing cognitive science, something that Jack now with predator drones. They’re (more on pages 14, 15)

SPRING 2011 13 More unique courses always controlled by a human sitting model. back in relative safety. That changes the “It was team-designed and dynamics of war quite a bit if you’re able sequentially taught,” Bocketti said. Health Studies to kill the enemy and there’s no fear in “Team teaching at its best is when two Psychology Professor Mark Jackson your mind that you’re going to die.” teachers are doing everything together, Physics Professor Jamie Day Now that the other side has learned picking out the readings, showing the to jam those signals, it creates a new students a model of interdisciplinary This interdisciplinary May term course wrinkle in the debate. There is work work. This was more of a studies health care issues and is aimed at students who are looking to become being done that will allow those drones multidisciplinary class. We took one idea health care providers, health care to autonomously target enemies rather and positioned the students so that by administrators, health care economists, than shut down when they lose those the end of the term, they had seen this researchers, writers, and medical signals. In essence, the drone learns to issue from three different perspectives anthropologists. Some of the issues dis- “choose” whether to attack. and three different people with three cussed include public health, ethics, eco- “The term ‘autonomous’ is a heavy different sets of training.” nomics, business, education, popular moral term,” Furlong said. “It is As its name implies, the course was culture, the role of the media, and the wrought with all kinds of responsibility. designed to explore the views of the role of scientists. As bioethics becomes a It is possible to program a machine to natural world in Latin America from out- widely discussed topic, the course pairs follow a set of rules, but whether you siders such as seventeenth- and eigh- medical science with psychology to can get the rules to be a matter of choice teenth-century explorers, from the tackle the medical field from varying and a ‘moral’ choice is a good question.” natives, and from contemporary and levels and angles. The idea that special topics courses modern-day authors and eco-tourists. explore real-world subjects in the The professors chose several readings classroom is what draws both professors from a span of around three centuries to teaching these kinds of issues. Then and from the Caribbean and northern there’s the added bonus of getting to South America all the way to Argentina. learn from each other as scholars in very Begley went first, looking at how the different disciplines at the same time as natural world in Latin America was rep- the students are learning. resented during the first arrival of “As a professor, you’re not the boss European explorers. anymore,” Furlong said. “Students learn “We talked about how the perception to think at a much more complex level changed over time and how the repre- when they don’t have a sage on the stage sentation of the natural also blended saying yes and no. You have two people, over to cultural representations of people and they’re both sweating.” and societies that were in this area,” he “I’m having to justify things that a said. “There were ways in which people student may not call me on, but Jack were dehumanized, associated with the American Women and WWII will call me on things, and I’ll call him natural world rather than the cultural on things,” Moorman said. “Students world—they’re savages, they’re wild.” History Professor Melissa McEuen said they enjoyed it when he and I would Paden used literature to compare and This history seminar, scheduled for really get into conversation or argument, contrast the writings of natives to Latin May term 2011, will look at the experi- whatever you want to call it. I hope they America and travelers from North ences and roles of women during World realize that this is what they learn all the America and Europe, looking at how War II. McEuen recently published a way back in Foundations of the Liberal they viewed the natural world. He book on the subject, entitled Making Arts, that this is how you carry a explored some of what were perceived War, Making Women: discussion with somebody over points to be challenges and advantages Femininity and Duty on you may disagree on, without resorting presented by nature, particularly in the the American Home- to name-calling.” nineteenth century following the front, 1941-1945. She Romanticism movement. will use her research to Multidisciplinary approach “The way nature gets talked about help students analyze to Latin America first-person texts from in the nineteenth century, either it’s the time period and Latin America and the Natural looked at as inherently moral and as a conduct independent World, a course taught by three spiritual space so it should be respected research. The course professors in fall 2010, took a somewhat as such, or a nature that should be trans- will explore some of different approach to interdisciplinary formed by human work, and that’s what the sacrifices women teaching. Anthropology professor Chris makes it moral,” Paden said. “That made and opportuni- Begley, Spanish professor Jeremy Paden, divide is really something that you can ties they enjoyed dur- and history professor Greg Bocketti still see in development questions in the ing the war, how women were depicted each took a month to approach the same twentieth century.” in the media, and the cultural move- subject from three different disciplines Bocketti’s section looked at more ment that resulted. instead of the traditional team-teaching recent developments in

14 TRANSYLVANIA environmentalism and ecotourism. The Paden noted that this type of students studied ecotourism operators learning, which examines a topic in con- and how they attract clientele, and junction with other worldviews, is not whether or not those operators and eco- just a product of liberal education. When tourists play into stereotypes about Latin students move on to postgraduate America environmentally and cultural- studies, they will be required to have ly. the skills to do research from a broader “When I talked about environmen- range than what comes with general talism, saving nature, and ecotourism, undergraduate education. They are organically it corresponded very well being prepared for learning after Tran- with what the other guys were doing,” sylvania because of the skills they are Bocketti said. “When it comes to some- learning in interdisciplinary courses. thing like environmentalism, you have “Gone are the days where all you do environmental actors and local environ- is sit down and explicate a poem,” mental actors. Then in tourism, you Paden said. “Typically what we do in have foreign tourists who are coming postgraduate seminars is read the Field Methods in Archaeology in to be eco-tourists. So a lot of these literary texts next to philosophical texts, Anthropology Professor Chris Begley things resonate.” next to anthropological texts. We place This 2011 May term course will teach the poem or novel within a specific his- techniques and methods that archaeolo- Model of the liberal arts torical context and see how it enters gists use during field work. Part of the On the surface, the course seemed into the ideological debates of the time. class will be taking the students to an broad, but tackling it from so many dif- A course like this is modeling to the excavation site near Lexington where ferent angles created a common thread students the kinds of questions and the some research and digging is currently that wove through the three months. kinds of approaches they’ll be asked to being done by archaeologists from the “What you begin to understand is do should they go to do postgraduate W.S. Webb Museum of Anthropology at the historical component, the scope of studies.” the University of Kentucky. The research the context that you really need to under- That idea is what differentiates Tran- the students do during the May term stand something,” Begley said. “So here sylvania’s undergraduate education course will be included in the museum’s you had these three sections, different from that of so many other schools, research. Techniques students will learn in some ways, but all serving to contex- that students are prepared for not only include mapping, excavation and tualize this idea of how this natural world graduate school, but also learning recording skills, and laboratory tech- is envisioned or represented.” beyond that into careers and everyday niques. “In lots of ways it’s modeling what life. Many of the special topics are we mean when we talk about liberal arts anything but traditional; however, because you can’t understand something today’s students need to have a broader Sociology of Mexican Immigration in isolation,” Bocketti said. “You only understanding of the world than can Sociology Professor Brian Rich get an isolated view of it. Transylvania’s be offered in narrow-discipline courses. The sociology course that is currently trying to improve our interdisciplinary And if the number of biology majors being taught explores the history, offerings. Latin American studies and becoming lawyers and English majors processes, experiences, and policies that this particular course can be a model for becoming successful entrepreneurs is have influenced the course of Mexican how we might be able to do some of any indication, students are getting just immigration to the United States. The those interesting things and still honor that at Transylvania. n class examines Mexican immigration the disciplines that we’re retaining.” policies, flows, settlement, and integra- tion issues. The relationship between Mexico and the United States is investi- gated at several levels, as contiguous nation-states; distinct, yet related and intertwined people; and complex and dynamic cultures. A central focus is placed on how these past and present complex relationships can help students “Gone are the days where all you do is sit down and explicate a understand the future of Mexican immi- poem. Typically what we do in postgraduate seminars is read the gration to the United States. literary texts next to philosophical texts, next to anthropological texts. We place the poem or novel within a specific historical context and see how it enters into the ideological debates of the time.” —Spanish professor Jeremy Paden

SPRING 2011 15 “We tell prospective students that a campus visit is the most important thing they can do,” said Kari Kolb, assistant TOURINGStudent tour guides play key role in new student recruitment director of admissions and coordinator of BY WILLIAM A. BOWDEN Transy’s student tour guides, known as Transylvania Ambassadors. “We know from experience that it has a huge influence on their decisions.” The best visit experience from Tran- TRANSYAnyone who works in college admissions will sylvania’s point of view, said Kolb, is one tell you that the campus visit is almost always a that emphasizes many of the essential crucial element in the decision-making process qualities of the university—small size, personal attention, caring professors, a by prospective students and their families. That’s friendly campus community, and an urban why so much thought and effort goes into location in Lexington that makes Transy ensuring that a campus tour or an overnight visit special when compared with many of its at Transylvania is the best possible experience. sister colleges. The responsibility for conveying all of that, and more, during a campus visit falls on the shoulders of the student tour guides. “They’re really the front door to the university,” Kolb said. “We encourage them to share their personal stories with our visitors. There is a certain amount of factual information they convey about Transy, but we don’t want them to just ‘fact dump.’ High school students don’t care about that. They want to know about the tour guide’s personal experiences on campus, who they hang out with, where they eat, what they study, what professors they have.” Becoming a Transylvania Ambassador is a very competitive process, and a real honor for those selected. About 50 students applied for the 2010-11 school year, and 18 made the final cut. “A passion for Transylvania is the num- ber-one quality we’re looking for,” Kolb said. “We want them to be excited about being a tour guide and be a positive role model for the university. It’s a huge leadership position—they’re responsible for a big part of our recruitment efforts. We’re fortunate to have so many students who are that dedicated to Transylvania.” Here are some of the thoughts and experiences of four Transylvania Ambassadors for the current academic year.

Meredith Norman is a junior elementary education major and Span- ish minor from George- town, Ky., whose ambition is to become an elementary school teacher. “When I first started giving tours, I was nervous about all the things I felt I Luke Baker discusses Transylvania with visiting student Myra Black, right, a junior at Lexington’s would have to remember to say about Henry Clay High School, and her sister, Sarah. 16 Photos by Joseph Rey Au TRAN- buildings and programs. I learned that porch of Old Morrison, you can look out you when we get back.’ And then I’ll notify wasn’t really the most important thing stu- and see how close we are to downtown the admissions counselor of that interest.” dents want to hear. They want to know Lexington. We tell them about the social about your experiences as a Transy student benefits of Lexington, such as Luke Baker is a senior and the experiences they might have here. entertainment, and the practical benefits, biology major originally We don’t talk about a lot of numbers— like internships and shadowships. I’ve from Owensboro, Ky., parents are usually the ones who ask about shared my own experiences as a summer who plans to attend grad- that, and we try to leave those questions intern with the waste management uate school for a Ph.D. in for the admissions counselors. company that serves Lexington, as well as molecular genetics. “It’s all very personalized. Instead of my friends’ experiences at law firms or in “I have three things I just saying, ‘This is Cowgill, where you’ll healthcare. always talk about on tours. take your business classes,’ we try to incor- “When we show them a student room The fact that Transy is in Lexington blows porate our own stories about courses in Clay-Davis or Forrer, we don’t have any most colleges in Kentucky out of the water. we’ve had so they can picture themselves ‘show’ rooms. We show them an actual The relationship between faculty and being in that classroom. We want to help room of an ambassador who hosts students is exceptionally strong here. And them see a home for themselves at Tran- overnight visits. When a question comes that Transy is a welcoming community sylvania. up about communal bathrooms, which with students who are very tightknit and “Sometimes we’re asked questions that many of these high school students aren’t trusting of one another. I think families are difficult or awkward to answer, or are used to, I always sell the fact that one of feel that when they come here. They unexpected. You always try to be honest, the benefits is that you don’t have to clean recognize that we’re genuine and friendly because that’s what they expect. One your own bathroom—someone cleans it and interested in them. student asked me point-blank, ‘Is it hard for you.” “The hardest questions I get—usually to get into Transy?’ It kind of caught me from the father—are when they’ll look at off-guard—I don’t think I’ve ever been Jessica Obi is a sopho- me and say, ‘What did you get on your asked that question before. I talked about more from Lexington ACT?’ Or, ‘What kinds of scholarships do the fact that one of the big advantages at who has not declared a you have?’ Or, ‘How am I supposed to pay Transy is that your admissions counselor major but is leaning for my son or daughter to go here when will look at your whole application, not toward English. I’m a single working father?’ Even though just one aspect, like an ACT score. We want “When I did my we’re encouraged to share our personal students who will become a meaningful overnight visit to Transy stories, that kind of information is more part of the Transy community, so we look as a high school student, private. at things like involvement in student organ- it was important to me to feel comfortable, “I deflect those questions by talking izations and community service.” like I would fit in here. So drawing from about them in general, such as telling them that, my goal as a tour guide and overnight the minimum ACT we generally accept, Eli Glass is a junior host is to connect with the student and or the average ACT of our incoming classes. double major in make them feel at home. I’m exposing I tell them I know our financial aid packages economics and business them to the Transylvania environment so are usually very good for families who are administration (finance they can see if they picture themselves as deserving. concentration) from a Transylvania student. “Dorm life is one of my favorite parts Metropolis, Ill., who is “If a student has an interest in English, about being in college, so I enjoy hosting planning on a career in I can share my experiences in classes I’ve a student for an overnight visit. We pick business. had in Haupt Humanities. But also, as I them up at six, eat dinner, hang out, see a “One of the most complete my general education play on campus or a ball game—just intro- important things to me about our campus requirements, I can tell them about a psy- ducing them to various aspects of campus tours is that we don’t have anything chology class I took that I didn’t think I’d life. We hang out in the residence hall with remotely close to a script to go by. My tour be interested in, but changed my mind. I one of the doors open so there’s lots of will be completely different in many ways can talk about how these different classes traffic in and out. Overnight students get from one Meredith might give, but we’re connect with one another. to meet each other and can share their expe- both doing the same thing—we want them “I’ve become a very good listener while riences. to know what it feels like to be a student giving these tours. I love meeting students “I love meeting that student that you at Transylvania. That’s the theme of our and their families, hearing their stories. really click with, who wants to know every- tours and our training as ambassadors— Then I tell them about our close thing about you, and you want to know we’re supposed to tell our Transy stories community here at Transy, how much fun about them. I’ve had students get so com- to the students. we have, and use the example of students fortable with me, they’ll tell me about their “You can tell someone about the kind and professors dancing in front of the stage girlfriend problems. And then you see them of close community we have here, but then when Tiempo Libre (a Cuban band) per- at a reception, you send them postcards, it’s more immediate when they experience formed in Haggin Auditorium. you form this relationship with them, and that on a tour. In a lot of cases, professors “We aren’t going to know the answer you want them to come to Transy so bad. will come up and speak to the students and to every single question we’re asked. The The best reward of all is when you see them their families. I’ve had a lot of Transy thing is not to make up answers or stories. on campus the next fall. That’s the best students chime in. It’s being honest and saying, ‘I don’t know outcome you can hope for.” n “When we begin a tour on the front the answer to that, but I can look it up for SPRING 2011 17 Back on track BY WILLIAM A. BOWDEN on Alexander ’71 began his inaugural “I did not have a law career in mind Jremarks in early January as the newly at that point,” Alexander said. “I did have elected district attorney for Del Norte a love of letters and of reading that my County (Calif.) with a reference to Jerry mother instilled in me.” A sociology major Garcia and the Grateful Dead by quoting and philosophy minor, he was listed in the familiar line “What a long, strange trip the 1971 edition of Who’s Who Among it’s been” from the band’s song Students in American Colleges and Uni- “Truckin’.” versities. It was an apt theme—and was probably After graduating from Transylvania in putting it mildly, at that—for the life June 1971, Alexander embarked on an Alexander has led that brought him, over odyssey of self-discovery that he the course of four decades, from characterized as “graduate studies in Transylvania to a public servant’s job in Kerouac 101.” This was a reference to the the small oceanside town of Crescent City spirit of 1950s Beat Generation writer Jack in California’s far north. Kerouac and his rambling, free-association, Though he would eventually earn a law autobiographical novel, On the Road. degree and establish very successful careers “I went to the Outer Banks of North in both private and public practice, Alexan- Carolina that summer to surf and ended der’s journey has included some adven- up staying there for eight years,” he said. turesome—and at times disturbing and “It was a kind of wanderlust, off to find dangerous—side trips. America as well as myself, as a lot of my When he won a close election for D.A. brethren and sisters were doing at that in November 2010 and was sworn in on time.” January 3, it marked the high point, thus Alexander leased an antebellum hotel far, of a remarkable comeback from a on the ocean in Nags Head and ran a recent agonizing period in his life. The nightclub where artists like Mary Chapin stressful experiences of those few years Carpenter and George Thorogood played. drove him to the depths of methamphet- The house band included musicians who amine addiction and homelessness—and eventually worked with Bob Dylan, Ricky very nearly cost him his life. Skaggs, and Reba McIntyre. “My entire Winning election staff lived in the hotel—we rented one as district attorney Coming to Transylvania room just to keep it legal,” Alexander said. Those grim events would have been “For several years my best friends and I validates a determined unimaginable to Alexander when he celebrated life.” comeback from addiction arrived at Transylvania in the fall of 1967 An accident while working as a com- from his hometown of Florham Park, N.J. mercial fisherman on the trawl fleet in for Jon Alexander ’71 He had chosen Transy partly because of the North Atlantic, which he did for five the late Robert Bush, a 1967 Transy years, landed him in Norfolk, Va., for graduate and neighbor. “He got me inter- recuperation. It was there his life turned ested in the school, and I visited and fell toward the law. in love with the place and the people,” “I remember sitting in a bar in Norfolk Alexander said. with about $60 in my pocket, reading The He was very active on campus as a Washington Post before starting to member of Pi Kappa Alpha social fraternity hitchhike back to Nags Head,” he said. and Lampas leadership honorary, president “There was an ad for Western State of the Student Government Association, College of Law. Something about the and a varsity athlete in baseball, cross activist in me made me decide to get back country, and soccer. into what I considered a productive life.

18 TRANSYLVANIA I acted on impulse. I got in my car, drove what the gun tasted like in my mouth.” Northward bound straight to Transy, got my transcript, took Alexander pulled himself back from the Deciding he had played out his string I-40 the southern route, and was in brink, but that was only the beginning of in Orange County, Alexander headed to Orange County, California (just south of his climb back to sanity. The next night Brookings in 2003 to be near his sister Los Angeles), three days later to apply to he was assaulted while on a drug buy when and mother (who died in 2006), doing law school.” a thug broke his neck with a baseball bat. odd jobs until he got his law license back. He woke up in a hospital with four inches He joined the D.A.’s office in Crescent Living the good life of steel and 12 screws in his neck. City as a prosecuting attorney, then went By 1985 when he graduated from West- Two of Alexander’s closest friends— into private practice as a contract public ern State, Alexander was on his way to state appellate Justice William Bedsworth defender before his successful run for D.A. success in law. He had been a student law and criminal defense attorney Lloyd Free- last fall. clerk in the Orange County District Attor- berg—found him in the hospital for an Now that he has his life back, Alexander ney’s office, was in private practice for a intervention and put it up to him—check is dedicated to his role as D.A., with the year, then signed on with the Orange into a residential rehabilitation program methamphetamine crisis being at the top County public defender’s office. or lose their friendship. Alexander found of his list. “I left the public defender’s office in his way to the Salvation Army and its 12- “My opponents in the campaign threw the early ’90s and opened my own shop,” step program and has been clean since the drug addict thing at me,” he said, “but he said. “I was on the fast track and did March 19, 2003. Thinking about what his my former addiction makes me a better very well. In a few years I was living in an parents meant to him helped inspire district attorney. If you’re an addict trying $800,000 house overlooking Dana Point Alexander to take back his life. to turn yourself around, you will find no Harbor, had two cars, a boat, a nice girl- “Every morning when I hit my knees, one who is more sympathetic. But if you friend.” I look at pictures of my mother and my are selling that poison on the streets of my And then things began to go sideways father,” he said. “My mother’s greatest county, I’m coming for you.” for Alexander. His father died in 1995, joy in life was helping someone who had Alexander says meth is by far the biggest and his mother suffered a stroke, followed fallen down. My father was a hard man, problem in his community, with 80 percent by the onset of Alzheimer’s disease, at but the most honest person I ever knew. of felonies related to the drug. which time Alexander moved her in with He didn’t know the definition of the word “Our enemies in their wildest dreams him. And soon he found himself in way quit. That’s the blood that runs in my could never have created a weapon of over his head. veins. I said, ‘I’m better than this, I’ve still mass destruction comparable to what “Between staying up all night with got something to offer this world. I’m meth is doing to this country,” he said. her—her internal clock had just gone going to try to crawl back.’” “Close to 80 or 90 percent of it is coming away—and then trying to run my practice from Mexico—they’re flooding this during the day, it turned into the 36-hour country with it.” day,” he said. “I started chipping away on The good life in Del Norte County methamphetamine to stay awake. Within consists of his work as D.A. and a couple of years I couldn’t take care of volunteering in the community. Alexander Mom anymore. Sheer exhaustion, using “My opponents in the is grateful for the second chance in life that meth, seeing my best friend slowly going not everyone gets. insane in front of me, I was devolving at campaign threw the drug “A lot of people in this town took a a rapidly increasing rate.” chance on me—I plan on giving them a Alexander moved his mother to Brook- addict thing at me, but my good return on their investment.” ings, Ore., just across the border from Del Talking with Alexander today, you get Norte County, to live briefly with his sister former addiction makes me the feeling that this moment in time is a before she moved their mother to a care a better district attorney. If real high for him—a high of the best kind, facility. He returned to Orange County rooted in honest work, dedication to a and graduated to smoking meth. Within you’re an addict trying to cause, and devotion to community that a year, the house, the cars, the boat, and validates the strength he found to turn the girlfriend were all gone. turn yourself around, you away from the artificial and destructive “I lost everything,” he said. “All of a will find no one who is high of addiction. sudden, I was living under a house on a Crescent City is a long way from the filthy mattress. My only possessions were more sympathetic. But if glamorous years when he lived in Orange a Fender Stratocaster guitar, a .32 pistol, County, but Alexander has found an my mother’s dog, and 15 beautiful Italian you are selling that poison authentic life here consisting of a clear suits hanging from the floor joists.” purpose and a sense of knowing who he On March 18, 2003, Alexander was at on the streets of my county, really is. the point of ending it all. I’m coming for you.” He conveyed all of that when he said, “I had had the best that life could offer, “They say when one door closes, another been tremendously proud of what I had one opens. These days, every one that achieved, but had lost it all. With no opens seems to be letting me more out qualms whatsoever, I can still tell you today into the sunlight.” n

SPRING 2011 19 POEMS – Writing, Rhetoric, and Communication Instructor Martha Gehringer

“Binsey Poplars,” Gerard Manley Hopkins This poem is not just beautiful—it’s heart-wrenchingly beautiful. If you have ever mourned the felling of a tree, he you know the pain the poem delivers. If you have ever witnessed the devastation of an entire avenue or field of trees, you know the exquisite horror Hopkins describes in the poem. ransy “To Make a Prairie,” Emily Dickinson To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,— One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, op 5 If bees are few. Transylvania faculty and staff present their picks That’s it. The whole wonderful poem! What more can be said about creativity? COMPILED BY TYLER YOUNG “Stolen Child,” William Butler Yeats Especially the phrase, “…and the reddest stolen cherries.” The Transylvania faculty and staff are an eclectic It’s terrifying—and it’s delicious. group, with interests and expertise ranging all over “Frau Baumann, Frau Schwartz, and Frau Schmidt,” the charts. A few of those faculty and staff members Theodore Roethke used that expertise to compile lists of their five favorite It’s as full and rich as a very good movie. Reading it is being in it. pieces from each of their areas of study to show what they’re watching, whom they’re reading, where they’re “Blackberry-Picking,” Seamus Heaney Another “delicious” poem. going, and what they’re doing.

AT-HOME WORKOUTS – Fitness and Wellness Director Ashley Hinton-Moncer

Squat Thrusts knee is nearly touching the ground, then return to the starting Begin this exercise with your feet shoulder-width apart. Crouch position. It can be varied so many different ways (side lunge, down from the standing position and place your hands on the reverse lunge, walking lunge, crossover lunge). ground in front of you. Kick your feet back behind you, extend- Family Fun ing your body into an upright pushup position. End the repeti- It’s amazing how much exercise you can get just by playing. tion by kicking your feet back up underneath your body and And the best part is you are interacting with the ones you standing back up. love. My children and I often do yoga or superman push-ups Push-ups (using the child as weight). They think it’s playtime, but really it The military had it right with this one. If you are serious about is my workout. increasing your strength, try the 100 push-up challenge by going to www.hundredpushups.com. Push-ups are not only great for your chest, but do a tremendous job of defining your abs, triceps, shoulders, and torso. Wall Squats For the lower body, take a break with this static exercise. Stand with your back facing the wall about two feet from it and lean against it. Then slide down until your knees are at about 90-degree angles and hold, keeping the abs contracted, for 20-60 seconds. Lunges The greatest leg workout, the lunge, is done by standing with the feet shoulder-width apart, then stepping forward, landing with the heel first. The knee should be at 90 degrees and Ashley Hinton-Moncer plays with her son directly above the toes. Continue the motion until the back Logan Cole Moncer as a fun way to exercise.

20 TRANSYLVANIA SOUTH AFRICAN AUTHORS – English Professor and South Africa Native Anthony Vital

Sindiwe Magona She writes fiction that shows the influence of her activist work on women’s issues in Africa. I look forward eagerly to her next book, Beauty’s Gift, which examines the impact of HIV/AIDS on South Africa’s communities and which will be sure to give voice to women’s lives in ways much needed. Ingrid de Kok She has written some of the finest poetry to come from South Africa recently. K. Sello Duiker Before his untimely death at age 31, he wrote fiction that is gritty, disturbing, and that explores the experience of young males trying to survive on the streets of the “new” South Africa. J. M. Coetzee The winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 2003, he always writes narrative that pleases for its brilliant clarity and for the emotional and intellectual demands it makes on its readers. Nadine Gordimer The winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1991 has a large body of work, supplying an extraordi- narily rich analysis of South African society through novel and short story. A brilliant, though sometimes difficult, writer, her last novel, Get A Life, examines with rich irony the lives of a privileged family and their acquaintances in post-apartheid South Africa.

FUN WEBSITES – Library Director Susan Brown

Exploratorium.edu/gardening/index.html Are you new to gardening? Sick of the winter? Do you do all right with plants but don’t know why? Explore this fun site to learn about the science of gardening. MUSEUMS – It’s put together by the Exploratorium Museum in San Art History Professor Nancy Wolsk Francisco.

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Salon.com This is the museum I knew first as a youngster, the place It’s a great site for news and culture. where my mother introduced me to painting. Visualthesaurus.com The Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. This is a for-pay site but shows a very interesting way I was assistant curator of drawings there, so got to know the to visualize the relationships of words. You can try it collection from the storerooms up through the galleries—one for free. of the best drawing collections in Western art anywhere. And Arstechnica.com it’s a comfortable, fusty place. Ever wonder about net neutrality? Or the current state The Cloisters (Metropolitan Museum of Art), New York City of tablets? Read up on that and much more on this site Bits and pieces of medieval architecture form the setting for covering technology news. cloister gardens for exhibiting important works of medieval art. Humanclock.com/clock.php When I was in graduate school, I used to lead school groups This strangely addictive site tells the time with images through the museum; I got to know every nook and cranny submitted by users all over the world. Analog and of the place. digital versions are available. The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. The best collection in the world of works by Pierre Bonnard (one of the artists who figured in my doctoral dissertation). Also, because of the environment—a house with comfortable furniture and a reflection of one person’s (Duncan Phillips’s) consistent taste. Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C. Again, the architecture together with the treasures inside make this one of the top. Great collections of Byzantine and Pre-Columbian art coupled with an amazing garden.

SPRING 2011 21 VIDEO GAMES – Computer Science Professor – Transy music faculty CLASSICAL RECORDINGS Kenny Moorman ’91 The Powers of Heaven: Orthodox Music of the 17th and 18th Cen- turies; Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir; Paul Hillier, conductor. Galaga A selection of sacred choral masterworks from the Slavic tradition of This 1980s arcade game is “Divine worship.” The performances are thrilling; the choir is singing with one of the most playable exceptional blend and purity of tone. And the power of music is evident human-vs-space-aliens at every moment. This is music for the soul, for the heart, and for the ear. shoot-em-ups. Running —Gary Anderson on fairly limited hardware, it still remains my favorite Johannes Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2; Rudolf Serkin, piano, with game to fall back on for the Cleveland Orchestra; George Szell conducting a quick play session. And, Kenny Moorman’s big win at Gattitown This is the first classical recording that has stayed with me since I fell in I turned the machine at love with it at age 10. Serkin’s command of subtle rubato and his crys- Gattitown over talline cross-rhythms are a perfect match for Szell’s unwavering demand (>1,000,000 points). of absolute precision and power from his orchestra. —Larry Barnes Welltrix Mari Kimura: Polytopia: Music for Violin and Electronics; Bridge A three-dimensional version of Tetris Records, 2007 available on the Amiga line of home Mari Kimura is an absolutely brilliant violinist and composer with a computers. It’s a great time waster; I passion for performing with electronic and interactive computer know this from personal experience. technology. She joins the sound of her violin with string-playing robots, strains of recited poetry, a player piano, and other twenti- Lemmings eth- and twenty-first-century sound worlds created by composers A fantastic and whimsical game Jean-Claude Risset, Conlon Nancarrow, Frances White, Robert Rowe, where you try to keep a group of and Tania Leon. —Tim Polashek lemmings from killing themselves. You can build walls to contain Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 (“Romantic”); Chicago Sym- them, have them dig holes, give phony Orchestra; Daniel Barenboim conducting (recorded 1973) them umbrellas to slow their From the crystalline perfection of the pianissimo horn solo at the open- falling, and so on. The high- ing, I was riveted every second upon first hearing this truly transcendent pitched “oh no!” that the lemmings say if you fail to recording. The playing is as good as anything I’ve ever heard, the save them is strangely adorable. venue and the engineering unsurpassed, and the conductor’s concept supple and powerful, with a sense of understatement Total Annihilation that is usually missing in interpretations of Bruckner. —Ben An early (mid-90s) real-time Hawkins strategy game where you act in the role of a commander coordinat- Frederic Chopin: 19 Nocturnes; Artur Rubinstein ing the building of various army collection, vol. 49 units to fight a war with your The Nocturnes are some of the true gems of the romantic piano eternal enemy. Although I regularly literature, but it takes an interpreter with the heart, mind, ears, lose (badly) to my math colleague Mike LeVan, it is and hands of Rubinstein to reveal their emotional depth and psy- still one of my favorite games to spend an hour or chological complexities. With golden sound and impeccable, aristocratic two at. musicianship, this recording will satisfy the most and least experienced listeners; it’s a disc that never wears thin. —Greg Partain Baldur’s Gate The first computer role-playing game that I felt came close to having a human running the FILMS – English Professor Tay Fizdale, Faculty leader of the game. I started to play Dun- Transylvania Film Junkies geons and Dragons in middle school and collected a large 8½, directed by Federico Fellini number of computer RPGs, but A brilliant evocation of cinematic writer’s block amid the satiric they all fell short in the experience. BG was the first wonders of Italian culture. to capture the unique feel of a human game master. 7 Samurai, directed by Akira Kurosawa The greatest samurai film ever made. Stroszek, directed by Werner Herzog An offbeat German look at the absurdities of the American dream, complete with a dancing chicken. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, directed by Luis Bunuel The title says it all, ironically. Happiness, directed by Todd Solandz The slickest, sickest American black comedy

22 TRANSYLVANIA We believe this registration photo was taken in 1960. Do any Transylvania readers recognize themselves, classmates, or professors?

Transylvania would like to publish your photos of alumni events and personal milestones. For consideration, please send photos to Transylvania Magazine, NEWS & NOTES Transylvania University, 300 North Alumni Broadway, Lexington, KY 40508-1797. Robert M. Delcamp and Dorothy Wallace C. Rose, Lexington, and his William S. “Smitty” Lucas, Cumming, ’39 Hackworth Delcamp, Cincinnati, cel- ’50 wife, Susie, celebrated their 64th wed- ’58 Ga., and his wife, Sue, celebrated their ebrated their 70th wedding anniversary in ding anniversary August 2, 2010, and became 51st wedding anniversary in 2010. They November. great-grandparents October 23, 2009. both love life in Georgia with daughters Melissa Bernardino ’86 and Susan Ginac ’90 Lorraine Kerfoot Betty Hadus Reneau, Albany, Ky., was and five grandchildren nearby. Smitty sings ’41 Lawrence, Cincinnati, ’55 inducted into Clinton County Care at 14 nursing homes monthly, in the St. bought a Pashmina shawl & Rehabilitation’s Hall of Fame in Columba’s Episcopal Church choir, and with from Transylvania that is September for her leadership and the Community Playhouse Singers. embroidered with the TU volunteerism on behalf of the Clinton logo. County community. Brents Giltner Oliphant, Des Moines, ’61 substitute teaches and works part time Martha Jane Stone, Lexington, Autumn J. Stanley, Portola Valley, Calif., has for Weight Watchers. She is also involved ’43 retired in October from the written a new children’s book entitled with two choirs at her church and serves as Lexington Philharmonic Orchestra after 46 Marcie’s Daffodil, which is available from an elder. years as a cellist. Amazon.com and XLibris. The book is illus- trated by watercolors artist Ji Young Lee and Carol Carter Morgan and Michael W. Charles W. Bare, Des Moines, has tells the story of a little girl waiting for a ’68 Morgan live in Charleston, S. C., with ’49 been the chaplain for his 75th infantry daffodil to bloom, associating it with her four grandchildren in the area. Carol has division association for 10 years, giving mother’s loss of a baby. been retired for more than five years and is memorial addresses and writing a monthly involved in volunteer work including the column for the newsletter The Bulge Buster. Leonard “Ricky” Rykaczewski, Vero Congressional Medal of Honor Convention ’56 Beach, Fla., directs the choir at St. last fall. James P. Graham is living in Largo, Fla., and Luke’s in Barefoot Bay. During the summer would love to hear from his classmates and he visits his five children and seven Michael R. Nichols, Versailles, Ky., other friends. His phone number is (727) grandchildren in New Jersey and Maryland. visiting professor of psychology at 535-3993. Transylvania, received the Cheryl

SPRING 2011 23 M. Hogle Distinguished Service Award from Robert E. Swisher, Richmond, Va., works as Brienne H. Loftis, Plano, Tex., National Omicron Delta Kappa Honor a tour guide at the Virginia capitol and invites ’74 received the Distinguished Service Society in October. everyone to come visit. Award 2010 from the American Research Center in Egypt Board of Governors in April Sherry Monthie Ederheimer, Louis- Jon M. Alexander, an attorney 2010. She was recognized for her exceptional ’69 ville, teaches full time as an online ’71 practicing law in Crescent City, Calif., service and extraordinary contributions to English instructor for JCPSeSchool, a virtual has been elected Del Norte County District the organization. branch of Jefferson County High School, Attorney. (See article, page 18). and as an adjunct in the University of Larry W. Moore, Frankfort, Ky., is continuing Louisville Graduate School of Education. Oakley H. Coburn, Spartanburg, S.C., rep- the work of his late wife, Jane Chancellor She enjoys her three grandchildren, singing resented Transylvania in October at the Moore ’73, in the Kentucky Employees Credit in the church choir, and writing. Furman University presidential inaugura- Union’s Jane Chancellor Moore Gallery, tion. which was named for her in recognition of Herschel Sparber, Los Angeles, has her work as its curator. Larry is also completed his service as a member of the L. Scott McCauley, Lexington, has been appointed senior vice president for PNC publishing books under the Broadstone Screen Actors Guild negotiating team that Books imprint. included Morgan Fairchild and Steven Wealth Management. Collins. The team helped to close a new Martin L. Voiers, Flemingsburg, Ky., Diane Woodford Arnold, Lexington, three-year deal with the Alliance of Motion ’73 was elected mayor of Flemingsburg ’75 retired from Fayette County Public Picture and Television Producers. and took office on January 1. He had served Schools at the end of the 2007-08 school on the city council since 1986. He is also year. She taught for 33 years at Southern Sharon Young Pastras, Manahawkin, Elementary School in Lexington. ’70 N.J., represented Transylvania in serving as minister of the Mill Creek Christian October at the Cumberland County College Church (Disciples of Christ) in Mason Alyce Sterling Emerson, Lexington, presidential inauguration. County and is an instructor at Morehead ’77 has completed her doctorate in edu- State University in the master of arts in cational leadership from the University of teaching program. Kentucky College of Education department of leadership studies. She retired after 30 years in the Fayette County school system Rabin presented Lifetime Achievement and continues to work part time in education as well as doing community and volunteer Award for musical career work. Her most recent adventure was vol- Marvin Rabin ’38 was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement unteering for Lexington’s 2010 Alltech FEI Award in Music Education, an award given by the Wisconsin Founda- World Equestrian Games as a loader/greeter tion for School Music. He was presented the award at the Madison in the transportation department. She also enjoys spending time with her husband of

Crimson Area Music Association Awards in May 2010. Rabin, 94, studied history and political science at Transylvania, but 30 years, Wendell, and other family mem- 1936 he built a remarkable career in orchestral music. He is emeritus pro- bers. Marvin Rabin fessor of music at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and conduct- Nancy L. Allf, Las Vegas, has been ed orchestras all over the world, including 48 states, Canada, South America, Australia, ’79 elected to the district court for Clark New Zealand, Malaysia, and Europe. He was the founding director of the Wisconsin Youth County, Nevada. Symphony Orchestras and the Greater Boston Youth Orchestras and founded the National String Workshop. He was a charter member of the Lexington Philharmonic, playing the Libbi Justice Taylor, Lexington, a viola at its first-ever concert. ’80 realtor with RE/MAX Creative in “I feel very honored and privileged to receive something like this, especially at my age Lexington for the last six years, was recently and in my so-called ‘retirement years,’” Rabin said. “It’s quite a surprise.” elected delegate at-large for the Kentucky He has been honored throughout his career, receiving the Distinguished Service Award Association of Realtors and will serve a three- from the Wisconsin Music Educators Association in 1977, the University of Wisconsin year term. She also serves as chairwoman of Extension Distinguished Service Award in 1984, the Mid-West International Band and the association’s Legislative Quick Response Orchestra Clinic Distinguished Medal of Honor, and the Governor’s Award in Support of the Team and has been elected to the Realtor Arts in 2000. The American String Teachers Association created the Marvin J. Rabin Award, Political Action Committee. She serves on which is presented to individuals or organizations making contributions in their communi- the government affairs committees for both ties through orchestra. The Wisconsin School Music Association established the Marvin J. organizations. Rabin Orchestra Library. Rabin did a lot for school music programs around Wisconsin and the rest of the country, Vinson W. Miller became the regi- particularly in times when such programs were struggling financially and on the verge of ’81 mental chaplain, 6th Marine shutting down. He continues to consult for conducting programs, and he expressed grati- Regiment (2nd Marine Division) in January tude that he is able to see the fruits of his labor. 2010. In July, as the result of severe injuries, “It’s very gratifying,” he said. “The most gratifying thing is the result of my participation he was transferred to Joint Base Little Creek- in upgrading string teachers and orchestra programs in Wisconsin. I would not have been Fort Story Chapel in Norfolk, Va. Currently, able to do that without the support of the University of Wisconsin and their willingness to he’s on temporary duty as Acting Regional let me spend a third of my time with the extension program.” Chaplain, Navy Region Mid-Atlantic. The Lifetime Achievement Award was first presented in 2004 to guitar pioneer Les Paul. John E. Oberst, Monmouth, Ore., was elected Rabin is the third person to receive the award.

24 TRANSYLVANIA Nelson Parker ’96 THIS HARD ROCK BRINGS GOOD LUCK

Getting stuck between a rock and a hard place is a figurative ref- cably linked to the chain’s use of rock ‘n’ roll memorabilia to deco- erence to misfortune for most of us, but not for Nelson Parker ’96. rate its cafes. Today, the company has 168 venues in 52 countries, When the words are transposed into the familiar corporate name of including 132 cafes. Hard Rock Cafe, they become a symbol of opportunity that Parker The rock ‘n’ roll sensibility got its start in 1979 when renowned took advantage of in May 2010 guitarist Eric Clapton donated a when he became head of develop- Fender guitar. It has since grown to ment, Americas, for Hard Rock include more than 72,000 objects, Hotels and Casinos. making Hard Rock the holder and Operating under the umbrella of exhibitor of the world’s largest col- Hard Rock International, headquar- lection of rock ‘n’ roll memorabilia. tered in Orlando and owned by the Among the treasure trove of classic Seminole Tribe of Florida, the hotels guitars, posters, costumes, music and casinos segment of the company and lyric sheets, album art, platinum has a growing portfolio of 15 and gold LPs, photographs, and lots upscale properties. They include more are Jimi Hendrix’s Flying V gui- beach resorts throughout Asia and tar and John Lennon’s handwritten high-end properties in locales such as lyrics to “Help!” Orlando, Las Vegas, and San Diego. The company’s website includes Parker’s responsibilities include devel- this statement: “Here’s our philoso- opment opportunities in North Amer- phy of hospitality: rock ‘n’ roll makes ica, Central America, South America, people feel great.” and the Caribbean. “The rock ‘n’ roll sensibility is real- “Even when I came to Transylva- ly the core of our company and our nia, I already knew I wanted to work brand,” Parker said. “We see our- in business in an entrepreneurial selves as a very authentic representa- way,” said Parker, who completed a tion of rock ‘n’ roll. And even business administration major (man- though our hotels and casinos are a agement emphasis) at Transy. “My different product from the cafes— position at Hard Rock involves me in they’re more upscale and sophisticat- creating new deals all over the ed—they still have a sampling of world, but particularly in the Americ- rock decor.” as. There’s a different challenge every Parker brought 14 years of busi- day, and I really enjoy that.” ness experience to his position at Parker’s specific duties involve Hard Rock. His career began just identifying potential locations and after graduation in 1996 when he franchise, management, and equity joined his family’s food products partners, as well as planning and company in Springfield, Mo. He executing development initiatives for moved to St. Louis in 1998 to accept the proposed properties. Extensive travel and presentations are a big a position with Kasten Group, a private equity firm, where he was part of his job. involved in mergers and acquisitions. He started there as a business “In the past three months I’ve visited Puerto Rico, Mexico, Costa analyst and left as investment manager. Rica, Panama, and Columbia, as well as many cities in the U.S.,” Parker got his first taste of the gaming industry in 2003 when he Parker said. “In my prior positions, I traveled throughout the U.S., joined Argosy Gaming Company, followed by a stint with Foxwoods the Caribbean, Asia, and Canada. I evaluate opportunities to see if Development Company, where he left as vice president of develop- they’re a good fit for us as a company and explain what Hard Rock ment for resort casino activities to join Hard Rock. is all about.” “I loved the gaming industry immediately,” he said. “It’s a unique Parker typically meets with hotel and casino owners, developers, business. It’s exciting, fun, and has a lot of great components to investors, and government agencies regarding potential hotel, it—lodging, gaming, food and beverage, hospitality.” hotel/casino, and casino projects. His role also calls for structuring And although gaming can be addictive, Parker knows that for the and negotiating transactions. vast majority, it’s nothing more than one of the many options for His work requires a high degree of analytical and communication leisure activity. skills, abilities that Parker said he honed while at Transylvania. “You can spend a few hours on the golf course, go shopping, or “In particular, I believe I developed my critical thinking skills, and spend that time in the casino,” he said. “I think most people come my writing skills improved exponentially while at Transy. The whole to a casino with a budget, and their gaming is done in a responsible environment there—faculty members and students—was of a very way. They know the odds are in favor of the casino, but sometimes high quality.” they get lucky.” The Hard Rock brand name got its start in 1971 in London, Eng- Parker lives in Orlando with his wife, Jill, and the couple’s land, when two Americans opened the first Hard Rock Cafe. The 1-year-old daughter, Lily. brand name would eventually go international and become inextri- —WILLIAM A. BOWDEN

SPRING 2011 25 for a third term as mayor of Monmouth in November.

James Drane Stephens, Eminence, ’83 Ky., was elected mayor of Eminence in the November election.

Mindy Gute Barfield, ’85 Lexington, a partner in the law firm of Dinsmore & Shohl, received a special recog- nition award from the Fayette County Bar Association for her work as co- founder of the Fayette County Domestic Violence Advocacy Project and in recognition of her efforts to make equal access to justice a reality to those in need.

Jennifer Curry Hoertz, Louisville, is a marriage and family therapist at Brooklawn Child and Family Services working with adolescent boys. Gregory J. Mitchell, Simpsonville, Ky., Bassett, Taylor have new books ’86 retired from the Louisville Metro Police Department in September 2009 with An autobiography by Transylvania Life trustee Ted Bassett and three books relating to the rank of lieutenant. He is currently the 75th anniversary of Keeneland in 2011 that were either produced or co-produced by working in a civilian capacity as the Transylvania trustee Fran Taylor ’75 were published last year. accreditation manager for the Shelbyville Bassett describes his life as a “fascinating blur,” but that blur is brought into sharp focus Police Department. in Keeneland’s Ted Bassett: My Life, published by the University Press of Kentucky and avail- able at www.amazon.com. Stephen P. Schindler, Lexington, has joined Written by Bassett and two-time Eclipse Award-winning journalist Bill Mooney, the book the Lexington practice of Colorectal Surgical chronicles Bassett’s extraordinary life, from his days at Kent School and Yale University & Gastroenterology Associates. through his service as a U.S. Marine in the Pacific Theater during World War II, his position as director of the Kentucky State Police during the 1960s, to his more than 40 years with William O. Cooper, Nashville, pro- the Keeneland Association in Lexington as president and general manager, chairman of the fessor of pediatrics and preventive ’87 board, and trustee. He also writes of his tenure as president of the Breeders’ Cup and his medicine at Vanderbilt University’s School role as an international ambassador for Thoroughbred horse racing, which made him an of Medicine, has been named director of the influential figure on six continents. newly accredited Master of Public Health Taylor has produced or helped to produce three books as part of a legacy series devel- program. The program began in 1996, and oped for Keeneland’s 75th anniversary in 2011. Profits from their sale will go to qualified Bill has served as its associate director since nonprofit agencies through the Keeneland Foundation. All three titles are available at the 2001. Keeneland gift shop or at www.keeneland.com. Billy F. Van Pelt, Lexington, program director Taylor is the co-author, with Keeneland staff photographer Matt Anderson, of Keeneland for Lexington's Purchase of Development Then; Keeneland Now. One side of this two-sided picture book features sepia-tone photo- Rights Program, has been elected to a three- graphs chronicling the history of the National Historic Landmark racetrack and auction sales year term on the Vestry at Christ Church company from its 1935 groundbreaking and 1936 opening day through the 1970s. The Cathedral. In May, he graduated from the other side has full-color photos capturing Keeneland as it looks today. Midway College MBA program and in June Taylor is the author of Keeneland Entertains: Traditional Bluegrass Hospitality and Favorite was elected to the LexArts board of direc- Recipes, which illustrates the lifestyle that has evolved around racing and sales at tors. Keeneland and in the Bluegrass. Tips on entertaining range from tailgating to elegant brunches, elaborate dinners for charity, or a children’s birthday party. Included are over Lori B. Shelburne, Lexington, an 260 recipes and a primer on racing. ’88 attorney with Gess Mattingly & For Keeneland: A Thoroughbred Legacy, Taylor acted as project manager and editor for Atchison, has been named a fellow in the this collection of articles and photographs from noted contributors that offers fresh insights American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. into the history of Keeneland. H. Lytle Thomas, Lakeside Park, Ky., has been elected president of the Heritage Bank, which has 10 locations in the northern Kentucky of the world cup veterans team to take the Damon L. Preston has been appoint- region. bronze medal. By taking the bronze, Dawn ’91 ed deputy public advocate in the was able to renew her C rating, which allows Department of Public Advocacy, Kentucky’s Dawn J. Wilson, Louisville, com- her to fence in Division I competitions. Dawn public defender system. He lives in ’90 peted in the North American Cup has also been appointed to the Human Georgetown, Ky., with his wife, Amy, and Women’s Veteran Saber competition in Relations Commission Board and will serve their daughters, Abbie and Marissa. Cincinnati in October and defeated members for one year.

26 TRANSYLVANIA Emily Prather Rodgers ’04 UNIVERSITY LIBRARIAN BALANCES HISTORY, FUTURE

Emily Prather-Rodgers ’04 morning,” she said. “In a lot admittedly didn’t spend much of ways, it’s made the research time in Transylvania’s library. process easier. It’s right there; “I was one of those dorm everything’s online.” room studiers; I went to the North Central students exe- library only when I had to,” cuted more than half a million she said. database searches in the 2010 But Transy’s library staff fiscal year and used 265,000 made enough of an impact online articles. The library has on her studies that she names also begun purchasing them as an inspiration in her e-books, which allow current position as technical students to flip through entire services coordinator at North books on their computers or Central College’s Oesterle electronic reading devices. Library in Chicago. Gone are the days of physical Prather-Rodgers’ job library buildings being the only includes managing the library’s places students can get their special collections, which have materials. a special tie back to Kentucky. “They can use the e-books A bevy of “Lincoln-ania,” as as mini-databases,” Prather- she calls it, brings authors Rodgers said. “For the most and scholars from around the part, people don’t read a country to study up on our whole book when they’re 16th President. The collection doing research. It used to be includes books and informa- that you flipped to the index tion on Lincoln’s life and of a book, found the informa- presidency. tion you needed, and went “That gets a lot of attention from there. This is taking it a from scholars; it’s unbelievable step further and making it how many people are writing much easier to get right to the books about Lincoln still today,” she said. piece you need without going to the rest of the book.” In addition, one of the more unusual treasures is a collec- Some traditionalists may scoff at the idea that being able tion of signatures from almost every U.S. President from to skip major parts of a book or journal is a good thing, and George Washington through Richard Nixon. Washington’s Prather-Rodgers understands the sentiment. She said there is particularly rare. His signature is on a land survey he did are challenges to giving students a sort of free online reign when he was 16 years old. over the materials they use. Other pieces include a 1632 first edition of Galileo’s “You may miss out on that serendipitous discovery that Dialogue and a jazz music library. Being the curator of the you would get if you had a book in your hand,” she said. special collections is right up the alley for Prather-Rodgers, “And there’s so much (online) that’s not good. We have no who was an art history major at Transylvania. problem with (online user-generated encyclopedia) Wikipedia, “That actually worked out really well,” she said. “I but we have to make sure students know not to use it as a interned at the University of Kentucky art museum, and that source.” steered me in the direction of, ‘OK, this is really interesting, Interaction with both students and the public in so many but I don’t want to work at a museum.’ Then this sort of fell different venues is Prather-Rodgers’s favorite part of her into my lap, because we’re similar in that we’re collecting position. She gets to have significant contact with students things and offering them to the public. There’s no point in through in-person conversation and online presence. having the special collection if it’s not being used by people.” “Even though I didn’t take a lot of time in Transy’s library, I Prather-Rodgers gets to wear a lot of hats at the small lib- knew who the librarians were and felt comfortable approach- eral arts institution. Another one of her main responsibilities ing them,” Prather-Rodgers said. “We had that one-on-one is to manage the library’s catalog, which includes the tradi- contact. I appreciated that as a student, and now I want to tional collection of physical books and a growing number of be able to do that for students. They may not step foot in the online texts that she says are changing the way higher-educa- door. But I’m always surprised how many students, even on tion students around the world study and research. the first day of classes, are in the library studying. Despite the “Our goal is to go as paperless as we can with our journals challenges of a small building, it’s really a popular place on and things like that because we know that students prefer to campus.” get their stuff from their dorm rooms at 3 o’clock in the —TYLER YOUNG

SPRING 2011 27 Angeles but will also practice estate planning for Kentucky clients. His website is Marcie Hawkins Smith turns environmental LucasLegal.com. awareness into environmental change Patricia A. Pankey, West Haven, Utah, will Marcie Hawkins Smith ’09 has been interested in environmental advocacy be moving back with the U.S. Air Force to ever since she got to Transylvania, and now, as a volunteer with SustainUS, she Ohio next summer, and she looks forward has a chance to speak her mind to the most influential policymakers in the world. to reconnecting with friends. She and her SustainUS, the U.S. Youth Network for Sustainable Development, has been husband, Kirk, will miss the skiing, but their sending young volunteers to United Nations Framework Conventions on Climate horses won’t miss all the snow. Change for over 10 years, and Smith has gone to the last three hoping to influ- Shelby Spanyer Hartmann married ence negotiations. The last conference, held over the first two weeks of December ’95 Thomas Hartmann in 2009 and 2010, was in Cancún, Mexico. moved to Coronado, Calif. Shelby is an Smith and 20 other American volunteers with SustainUS took a three-pronged attorney at Walter Lansden Dortch & Davis approach to having their voices heard at the convention. as well as owner of Take Flight Multisport, “We have three avenues for affecting the process at meetings like that,” Smith a triathlon and endurance sports coaching said. “You can affect the policymakers themselves, kind of traditional lobbying; you business. can do media outreach, getting stories in the paper about what’s going on so that people are aware; and you have actions, staging highly visual displays that make Natasa Pajic Mongiardo, Lexington, statements.” ’96 Transylvania’s director of alumni pro- A large part of her work was with the latter. The organization recruited hun- grams, was elected president of the Council dreds of volunteers in the U.S. to be “rapid responders” who received messages for Advancement and Support of Education from Smith’s group about what topics were being discussed at the meetings and in Kentucky for 2011. CASE Kentucky is what kinds of actions they could take to raise awareness about those issues. the state chapter of alumni, communications, “In Cancún, one of the really big issues that was being debated was mitigation and development professionals. targets, how much are countries going to pledge to reduce their carbon pollu- Stacy N. Taylor has been named fundraising tion,” she said. “Part of what we do, in conjunction with other civil society organi- director for Global Witness, an environmental zations, is really examine evidence ourselves and figure out what we think just and and human rights organization in London, effective mitigation targets would be. Once we’ve decided that, we can start England. advancing those messages in the media and to those policymakers themselves.” SustainUS is an entirely volunteer-run organization that was founded and man- Rebecca Bianchi Gulock lives in aged by young people. Part of the intrigue of working with an organization like ’97 Somerset, Ky., with her husband, this is meeting so many concerned people like herself. Scott, and their three children, Anna-Marie, “With the U.N. process, a really exciting thing is being involved with young 7, Grayson, 5, and newborn Gage. She enjoys people from around the world,” Smith said. “It’s not just young people from the working part time from home coordinating United States that showed up in Cancún, it’s young people from across the world, therapeutic services for developmentally and working with these extremely inspiring people is hands down the most delayed children in the First Steps Program, rewarding part of the whole experience.” Kentucky’s early intervention program.

Sarah Magruder Lyle, Alexandria, Va., has been named vice president of external affairs Jacques R. Brousseau, Richmond, Va., Joey A. Tucker, Lexington, has been for America’s Natural Gas Alliance in Wash- ’93 has been elected chapter adviser for promoted to manager of Milward Funeral ington, D.C. the Lambda Chi Chapter of Pi Kappa Alpha Directors’ new location on Trent Boulevard. at Virginia Commonwealth University in Charles E. “Chip” McElearney and his wife, Richmond. He welcomes any Pikes in the William Dale Amburgey, Springfield, Sandra Love, live in Seattle, where Chip is Washington, D.C., and Virginia areas to ’94 Pa., was awarded a master of science attending Seattle University School of Law. contact him via Facebook for alumni activ- degree in business intelligence from Saint Hope Tipton, Baltimore, has ities. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia in May 2010. He was selected for membership in been admitted to practice in the Catherine Roberts Eads, Duluth, Ga., the Alpha Iota Delta and Beta Gamma Sigma Supreme Court of the United achieved membership in the Usborne Books academic honoraries and awarded the MS States. Chief Justice John and More President’s Club for the spring Business Intelligence Award. His thesis was Roberts administered the oath. and fall terms of 2010. This award is given selected for publication in the International Kirsten Winn Carr, Portland, Ore., to consultants who reach personal and group Journal of Business Intelligence Research. has opened a solo family practice clinic sales growth and team growth in the top five ’98 and invites classmates and friends to visit her percent of the company. Cathy was also Brent P. Little, Atlanta, is assistant professor website at themfcc.com or follow the seventh in school and library sales for 2009 of cardiothoracic radiology at Emory progress of the clinic on Facebook under and 11th in matching grants for 2009. University in Atlanta. Multnomah Family Care Center. Amy Collignon Gunn, St. Louis, a personal Sam E. Lucas, Los Angeles, passed the Erica N. Johnson, Lexington, received injury plaintiff attorney with The Simon Law Kentucky Bar exam and was sworn in to the her Ph.D. in educational policy Firm, has been named a 2010 Missouri and Kentucky Bar in December. He continues ’00 studies and higher education from the Uni- Kansas Super Lawyer. to practice family law/estate planning in Los

28 TRANSYLVANIA versity of Kentucky College of Education in May 2010.

Erin Smallwood Wathen, Glendale, Ariz., a Disciples of Christ pastor at Foothills Christian Church in Glendale, was awarded the 2010 Fred Craddock Award for Excellence in Preaching in August. The award is presented annually by the Disciples of Christ Historical Society in partnership with the Craddock Center to an individual who exhibits outstanding skills in the pul- pit.

Kristie L. Young, Nashville, is finishing her pediatric cardiology fellowship at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt University.

April Sample Matiasek, Chesapeake, Natasa Pajic ’96 and Vincent Anthony Mongiardo ’89 were married on December ’01 Va., has begun her radiology 29, 2010. Pictured, from left: Lorna Petty Harrell ’69, Laura Weathersby ’96, Deana residency at the Naval Medical Center in Ison ’95, Aimee Paul ’96, Leigh Ann Jordan ’94, Nathan Underwood ’98, Melissa Portsmouth, Va. Keach Underwood ’98, Natasa and Vince, Daniel Mongiardo ’82, Matt Morton ’89, Stephanie Dixon Sutphin ’89, Ryan Atkinson ’91 and Dave Johnson ’92. Jeffrey B. Sharp, Lexington, has been ’02 elected secretary of the Mortgage Bankers Association of Kentucky for 2011. Tenn., at the law firm of West and Rose. Prior to his appointment, he served as After graduating from Appalachia School of president of the Mortgage Bankers Law in May 2009, he passed both the Association of the Bluegrass. Jeff is a senior Tennessee Bar and the Virginia Bar. loan officer at Walden Mortgage Group in Lexington. Mary V. Goldie, Lexington, has joined ’07 the Latitude Arts Community of Lex- David J. Verville, Lexington, has joined Amer- ington’s LifeLab program. She received her ican Founders Bank as assistant master’s degree in social anthropology from vice president/portfolio manager Goldsmiths, University of London in fall and team leader. 2008. Mary Kathryn Shuffett ’07 and Jamie Noonan were married on July 3, 2010. Rachel B. Goodman, A. Dillon Lawson, Louisville, an assistant Gulfport, Fla., has joined the law firm From left: Haley Riney ’07, Christy ’04 baseball coach at Morehead State University, Sutherland ’07, Matt Berry ’05, Karen of Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick in their has been named head coach of the Kentucky Bucy Berry ’97, Kay Kay Speer Berry Sarasota office as an associate in the litigation Baseball Club’s 13-year-old White team. ’06, Neil Barry ’08, Robert Kapp ’06, and bankruptcy, insolvency, and creditors’ Jamie and Mary, Kevin Fisher ’05, rights departments. David T. Riley, Jonathan Kincheloe ’05, Brooke Kincheloe ’06, Rachel Wilson ’07, Mayfield, Ky., Mary Rose French, Lexington, has Kim West ’07, April Young ’07, and (right, in photo) Courtney Johnson ’07. ’06 been promoted to store manager of graduated in Dots at Regency Center in Lexington. She December with is one of the youngest store managers in her his J.D. from the University of Kentucky Irish Dancing Championships to be held in company and was promoted from sales College of Law and his M.A. from the Dublin, Ireland, in April. She is the first associate to store manager in less than four Patterson School of Diplomacy and Inter- dancer from the Kentucky McTeggart Irish years. national Commerce. In September 2011, Dancers to qualify for this prestigious event. Jonathan B. Hall, Tustin, Calif., has been he’ll begin a federal judicial clerkship with Chief Judge Thomas Russell (left) in the Raymond S. “Trey” Kramer, Versailles, named senior pastor of the First Christian Ky., has joined The Louisville Church in Ventura, Calif. Western District of Kentucky. Within the ’10 past six months, he has had the opportunity Lightning of the Professional Arena Soccer David L. Haney, Louisville, graduated from to meet two U.S. Supreme Court Justices, League as goalkeeper. the University of Louisville law school and Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito. passed the Kentucky Bar exam. He is currently employed in the legal department Emily M. Richardson, Nashville, is Marriages working at Whole Foods and enrolled of E.ON U.S. (Kentucky Utilities and ’08 Ana-Claudia Everton ’92 and James Dunne, Louisville Gas & Electric) as a law clerk. at Lipscomb University working on a master’s degree in sustainable food systems. November 21, 2010 J. Christopher Rose, Elizabethtown, Ky., is Charles Edmond “Chip” McElearney ’97 and an attorney in his hometown of Kingsport, Allison Asay Duvall, Lexington, Sandra Love, November 5, 2010 ’09 qualified in November for the World Kendall Hunt ’00 and Matt Anderson,

SPRING 2011 29 December 31, 2010 Erin Smallwood Wathen ’00 and Jeremy Lisa Jean Merlo ’00 and William Greene, Wathen, a son, Silas Ray Wathen, October Obituaries August 28, 2010 22, 2010 Only alumni survivors are listed. Karen Marie Wall-Hughes ’00 and Steven Juanita Randolph Chakerian ’28, Corvallis, Brent Anderson, September 24, 2010 John M. Davidson ’01 and Kris- Ore., died December 11, 2010. She was Kristie Lynn Young ’00 and Matthew A. ten Davidson, a son, Calvin a member of Delta Delta Delta sorority. Borgman, July 3, 2010 John Davidson, May 28, 2010 She was the adopted daughter of Kentucky Stephanie Jamie-Lynn Ketron ’01 and Samuel U.S. Senator Mills Logan and was a Adam Schallock, September 25, 2010 Ann Jonczy Pendley ’01 and Daniel Pendley, member of the Daughters of the American Paul Dong Hyun Kim ’01 and Eun Yeong a daughter, Lucy Jeanne Pendley, Revolution. Jeong, September 25, 2010 November 30, 2010 Fannie Sue Johnson Noltemeyer ’31, Bethany Carol Cox ’05 and William Alexander Elizabeth Harrell RoBards ’01 and John Louisville, died October 24, 2010. She Wilson ’05, August 28, 2010 RoBards, a daughter, Riley Elizabeth was a member of the Glee Club and the Cole Mahone Adams ’06 and Mark B. Maier, RoBards, May 18, 2010 YWCA. She received an education degree October 15, 2010 and later earned her doctorate from the Robert Lee Kapp IV ’06 and Emily Austin Joseph B. Conrad ’02 and Lori University of Kentucky. Rhoads, November 20, 2010 Anderson Conrad ’04, a Mary-Ingle McGill Shelton ’35, Fort Worth, Christopher Combs Coldiron ’07 and Kayleigh son, Lucas Vincent Tex., died December 10, 2010. She was Laura Witt ’09, May 15, 2010 Conrad, October 30, president of Chi Omega sorority, with Elizabeth Perri Browning ’08 and Brent Allen 2010 which she stayed active for years, including Roach ’08, March 13, 2010 delivering the memorial address at the Chi Kylie Sheridan Stocker ’08 and Joshua Qualls, Kristen L. Byrd ’02 and Daniel T. Smith ’02, a Omega National Convention in 1982. She November 11, 2010 son, Daniel Tysen Smith III, October 25, was also president of her senior class and 2010 was elected Miss Transylvania. She was Allison Ashley Asay ’09 and Christina Henson DeYoung ’02 and Keith involved in the Panhellenic Society, Clay Thomas Duvall ’09, DeYoung, a daughter, Hailey Anne Lampas, Pi Kappa Delta, Stagecrafters, September 4, 2010 DeYoung, October 12, 2010 band, and the glee club. Joseph C. Williams ’02 and Ellen Underwood Franklin Moosnick ’36, Lexington, died Denise Daniela Sachtler ’09 and Justin David Williams ’02, a daughter, Alice Elizabeth January 4, 2011. He was a medical pioneer Luedeke, August 28, 2010 Williams, October 7, 2010 in Kentucky and nationally, developing a cardiopulmonary resuscitation program Cameron Culbertson ‘03 and for physicians and paramedics in Lexington. Births Serena Britt Culbertson ‘04, He was one of the champions for polio a daughter, Anne Merry Cul- immunization in central Kentucky and was Kimberly Beth Johnson ’94 and Joel bertson, recognized for his diagnosis and treatment Northwall, a son, Garrett William December 12, 2010 of the disease. He had an internal medicine Northwall, September 10, 2010 practice for 48 years and was an attending William D. Jones ’96 and Heather Jones, twin Rebecca Klausing Frazer ’04 physician at Good Samaritan, St. Joseph, daughters, Scarlett Jewel Jones and Ruby and Tyler Frazer, a son, and Central Baptist hospitals in Lexing- Helena Jones, September 17, 2010 Tyson James Frazer, October ton. Rebecca Bianchi Gulock ’97 and Scott Gulock, 6, 2010 Evelyn Ballingal Orme ’41, Louisville, mother a son, Gage Charles Gulock, October 4, of Ann Orme Windley ’65, died October 2010 Kathleen Frommeyer Segura 18, 2010. She was a teacher in Fayette Gregory O. Shenton ’97 and Kara Shenton, ’05 and Patrick Segura, a son, County Schools until her retirement in a son, Logan Mitchell Shenton, April 13, Gage Arthur Segura, July 30, 1982. 2010 2010 Loraine Landrus Meyer ’43, Houston, died April 7, 2010. She graduated with degrees Benjamin J. Bentley ’98 and Jessie Goodloe Field ’06 and Matt Field, a in theater and English. She was president Hope Bentley, a daughter, daughter, Ella Rue Field, of Phi Mu sorority. Andolyn Sophia Bentley, Sep- November 7, 2010 Glen M. Foster ’44, Lexington, died October tember 14, 2010 26, 2010. He served in the U.S. Air Force Trista Johnson Opell ’06 and during World War II. He worked for IBM Julie M. McDonnell ’98 and Eric Opell, a son, Joseph for 23 years. Steve Klimesh, a son, Ryan Opell, November 7, 2010 Ann Elizabeth Wainscott ’44, Hilton Head Connor Alexander Klimesh, Island, S.C., died July 19, 2010. She was June 1, 2010 Rebecca Reiling Redden ’06 and Jason involved in Stagecrafters and the choir. She Redden, a daughter, Chloe Noelle Redden, was inducted into the Robert Barr Society Adam C. Simon ’98 and Samantha Wirth October 28, 2010 in 1994. Simon, a son, Logan Ansel Simon, Brian C. Fox ‘08 and Jennifer Broughton Fox James R. Dodson ’47, San Antonio, died Sep- December 7, 2010 ’11, a son, Cameron James Fox, October tember 21, 2010. He was a member of Pi Amy Kidd Crittenden ’99 R. Benjamin and 7, 2010 Kappa Alpha fraternity. He received a Crittenden ’99, a daughter, Beatrice Anne master of divinity degree from Lexington Crittenden, October 21, 2010 Theological Seminary and became a mis-

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Alumni travel destinations Transy hosts luncheon at DOC General Assembly

Trains of the Colorado Rockies—nine-day tour departs Make plans now to attend the Transylvania luncheon at August 6, 2011, and includes 12 meals (eight breakfasts the General Assembly of Christian Churches (Disciples of and four dinners). Highlights are: Denver • Rocky Mountain Christ) in Nashville on Tuesday, July 12, at 12:15 p.m. at National Park • Georgetown Loop Railroad • Grand Junc- the Nashville Renaissance Hotel. Cost per person is $20. tion • Colorado National Monument • Durango & Silverton For more information, contact Tracy Dunn ’90, assistant Railroad • Durango • Mesa Verde National Park • Royal director of alumni programs, at (800) 487-2679, (859) Gorge Railroad • Colorado Springs • Pike’s Peak Cog Rail- 233-8512, or [email protected]. way • Garden of the Gods. Per-person cost based on dou- ble occupancy of $2,399 includes roundtrip airfare from Lexington, Cincinnati, or Louisville. Deposit of $250 due at 2011 Pioneer Hall of Fame celebration to be held in time of reservation—first come, first served. conjunction with Transy Golf Classic Canadian Rockies and Glacier National Park—eight- day tour departs September 10, 2011, and includes nine Join Transylvania’s athletics department and the alumni meals (six breakfasts, three dinners). Highlights office for the 2011 Pioneer Hall of Fame induction cere- are: Waterton Lakes National Park • Glacier National Park mony and dinner on Sunday, May 22, at 6 p.m. in the • Going to the Sun Road • Banff • Columbia Icefields • William T. Young Campus Center. Athabasca Falls • Jasper • Calgary. Per-person cost based The Transylvania Golf Classic, a four-player scramble, on double occupancy of $2,499 includes roundtrip airfare will take place the next day, Monday, May 23, at the Uni- from Lexington, Cincinnati, or Louisville. Deposit of $250 versity Club of Kentucky. Registration and lunch will be at due at time of reservation—first come, first served. 11 a.m., followed by a noon shotgun start. Sponsorship Beijing City Stay—nine-day tour departs October 25, opportunities are available. 2011, and includes 15 meals (seven breakfasts, four For more information on the Hall of Fame dinner or the lunches, and four dinners). Highlights are: Beijing Zoo • tournament, contact Jack Ebel ’77, director of athletics, at Peking Duck Dinner and Opera • The Great Wall • Temple (859) 233-8548 or [email protected], or Natasa Pajic Mon- of Heaven • Rickshaw Tour. Per-person cost based on dou- giardo ’96, director of alumni programs, at (859) 233- ble occupancy of $2,589 includes roundtrip airfare from 8213 or [email protected]. Lexington. Deposit of $250 due at time of reservation but before May 26, 2011. For a trip brochure, go to www.alumni.transy.edu or Let’s go for four in a row in Battle of the Bumpers contact Tracy Dunn ’90, assistant director of alumni pro- Transylvania alumni, students, parents, and friends pur- grams, at (859) 233-8512 or [email protected]. chased 768 Transylvania license plates in 2010. That num- ber ensured a third straight win over second-place Centre College and third-place Georgetown College in the annual Ways to stay connected Battle of the Bumpers with the other independent col- There are lots of ways to keep up with your alma mater leges in Kentucky. Let’s make it four in a row in 2011. and fellow alumni: Cost of the license plate is $44 the first year and $31 in www.alumni.transy.edu — Alumni online communi- subsequent years to renew. Personalization is available for ty, where you may register for alumni events and browse an extra $25. Take photo identification, vehicle title, and the alumni directory for the latest news on classmates. proof of insurance to the county clerk’s office. Vehicle www.facebook.com/TransylvaniaUniversityAlumni owners with regular issue “Unbridled Spirit” license plates — If you are on Facebook, this is the quickest way to get must return the old plate to the county clerk’s office to alumni news and information on events. obtain a Transy plate. If you already have a Transy plate, http://www.linkedin.com/groups?mostPopular=&g please renew it each year. id=3021249 — If you are interested in professional net- For more information visit the Kentucky Motor Vehicle working, join the Transylvania University Alumni group on Licensing System website at http://mvl.ky.gov. LinkedIn.

To contact the Alumni Office: Mark Blankenship’81, associate vice president for alumni affairs, [email protected] Natasa Pajic Mongiardo’96, director of alumni programs, [email protected] Tracy Stephens Dunn ’90, assistant director of alumni programs, [email protected] Elaine Valentine, administrative assistant, [email protected] Phone: (800) 487-2679 or (859) 233-8275 / Fax: (859) 281-3548 Mail: 300 North Broadway, Lexington, KY 40508 / E-mail: [email protected] / Web: www.transy.edu

SPRING 2011 31 sionary to Congo, Africa. Carolyn Crossfield Angelotti ’48, Inverness, Fla., wife of Robert Angelotti ’50 and sister Longtime psychology professor of Ann Crossfield Jones ’50, died July 13, 2010. She was a member of Lambda Richard Honey dies Omega sorority, Lampas, the Panhellenic Richard David Honey ’58, Gerry, N.Y., died May 3, Council, the YWCA, the Association of 2010. Honey, 82, taught psychology at Transylvania from Women Students, and the Transy Day 1964-91. He was also a clinical psychology consultant to Community. the Veterans Administration from 1967-73. Elizabeth Cavinall Bell ’49, Campbellsburg, Honey began his Transylvania career as a 27-year-old student following a stint in Ky., died December 9, 2010. the U.S. Army during World War II and the Korean War. A member of Phi Kappa Robert C. Barker ’51, Gary, Ind., husband of Tau fraternity, Honey graduated from Transylvania with a degree in psychology Lida McCaw Barker ’49, died October 18, and was a student assistant to the late psychology professor Hahns Hahn. He had 2010. He received a degree in music and planned to go into the ministry until he earned a Danforth Fellowship, which he was a member of Phi Kappa Tau fraternity, could not use to go to seminary. Instead, he went to the University of Chicago, musical productions, and intramural sports. where he earned a Ph.D. in clinical psychology. He worked as a psychologist at the He was inducted into the Robert Barr Psychiatric Institute of Chicago until the late Transylvania Vice President of Aca- Society in 2001. demic Affairs Leland Brown convinced him to return to Transylvania to teach. Marion Spears Lacker ’51, Hanover, Va., wife Over his 27 years at Transylvania, Honey was known as a no-nonsense professor of William R. Lacker ’51, died January 3, who instilled his passion for psychology into his students. 2011. She was a member of Phi Mu “To do well in his class, you had to arrive 30-40 minutes early,” Ingrid Allen ’89, sorority, of which she served as District IV associate director of admissions, said. “He would hand-write all of his class notes alumnae director. She was also active in on the board, and you had to get there early or you wouldn’t have time to write Lampas and Arena Summer Theatre, and them all down and listen to his lecture.” she was president of Delta Theta. “He loved psychology and was very protective of it,” registrar Jim Mills said. “If Mary Green Shiner ’51, Glen Allen, Va., died you wanted to be a psych major, you had to cut the mustard, as Dick saw it. On October 4, 2010. She was a member of occasion, Dick would get on his high horse and let the rest of the faculty know Chi Omega sorority and graduated with how he saw an issue, but he was always caring of students. He had a warm smile degrees in business administration and and was a kind person.” foreign languages. She was president of Honey’s commitment to his work saw him recognized throughout his life and the Association of Women Students and career. In addition to serving as program chair, he earned a Distinguished Service was involved with Playmakers and the Award from Transylvania in 1991 and was included in Who’s Who in Medicine and YWCA. Health Care in 1997-98. Joel Frisch ’53, Rockville, Md., died April 11, “Dr. Honey was legendary for having almost 24-hour office hours,” Allen said. 2010. He graduated with an economics “He was always available outside of the classroom and more than willing to meet degree and worked for the U.S. Geological with you one-on-one. I took his general psychology class as a first-year student, Survey for 32 years. and it inspired me to major in psychology and go on to do my master’s work in Robert C. “Peter” Moon ’57, Edgewood, Ky., clinical psychology.” husband of Jacquelyn McPhearson Moon “I remember him being very supportive of me as a young registrar, something I ’59, died November 14, 2010. He was a appreciated a great deal,” Mills said. “As Transylvania moves through the years, it member of Phi Kappa Tau fraternity and would be a shame for us to forget people such as Dr. Honey. He championed the earned a philosophy degree. cause, carrying the baton honorably and passing it on when the time had come.” George V. Forbes ’59, Lexington, died Sep- tember 27, 2010. He played on the baseball team. Ronald E. Warfel ’63, Boynton Beach, Fla., November 12, 2010. He was a member September 28, 2010. He was a member father of Robin M. Warfel ’87, died of Lampas, the basketball and baseball of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity and received September 22, 2010. He was president of teams, and he served as Student degrees in biology and history. He earned Circle K and was on the T-Day committee. Government Association treasurer, vice a master’s degree in biology from William He graduated with a degree in business president of his senior class, and head bas- and Mary College and worked as an archae- administration. ketball trainer. He majored in physical edu- ologist and research biologist. Marjorie Peace Lenn ’68, Alexandria, Va., died cation, sociology, and economics. October 16, 2010. She served as president James W. Price ’75, St. Louis, brother of of Sigma Kappa sorority and was a member Steven R. Price ’81, died November 9, n Obituaries in Transylvania are based on of Lampas. She received Transylvania’s 2010. He was a member of the Transylvania information available in alumni office files Distinguished Achievement Award in 1998 Science Honorary, the International Com- and from newspaper obituaries. Please for her role as founding president of the munications Club, the Holleian Society, send information concerning alumni deaths to the attention of Elaine Center for Quality Assurance in and the Rambler staff. He graduated with Valentine in the Transylvania Alumni International Education, which she had a degree in chemistry and went on to Office, 300 North Broadway, Lexington, served since 1991. She had previously become medical director of Group Health KY 40508-1797. Newspaper obituaries worked as vice president of the Council on Plan. He earned his M.D. from the with complete listings of survivors are Postsecondary Accreditation. University of Louisville. preferred. Thomas G. Williams ’69, Bardstown, Ky., died Jeffrey Douglas Hager ’92, Faber, Va., died

32 TRANSYLVANIA Wayne ’40 and Virginia Marsh ’44 Bell were college sweethearts when Wayne was pursuing graduate work in the College of the Bible (then located on the Transy campus) and Virginia was a Transy student. As they approach their 67th wedding anniversary this June, they look back on their Transy days with fond memories and gratitude for the education they received. “I’ve always felt I got the very best education at Transylvania,” said Virginia. “I am very indebted to being in a school that concentrated on teaching you to think, not just to memorize things, and one that prodded you to develop your sense of values,” said Wayne. Virginia has become a pioneer in the field of Alzheimer’s care, and Wayne is a former president of Lexington Theological Seminary. The couple raised five children, three of whom graduated from Transylvania. They have chosen to give back to Transylvania through the creation of a charitable gift annuity that provides them with a regular income at a very favorable interest rate. Both feel a sense of responsibility to help provide for coming generations, just as others provided for them.

“One of the things that gives meaning to life is to care about For more information on how what happens to other people, even after you’re gone. Others to support Transylvania, contact Mark Blankenship ’81 supported us in our Transy years, and we are glad to be able to in the development office at support future generations of students.” (800) 487-2679, (859) 233-8402, —Virginia Marsh Bell ‘44 or [email protected]. Non-Profit Org. U.S. Postage PAID Lexington, KY Permit No. 122 300 NORTH BROADWAY LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY 40508-1797

An en-chanting evening

The haunting sounds of medieval chant were inter- twined with music from Renaissance, contemporary, folk, and gospel sources when the a cappella singing group Anonymous 4 presented the Dorothy J. and Fred K. Smith Concert in Haggin Auditorium December 8. Above, from left are Susan Hellauer, Marsha Genensky, Ruth Cunningham, and Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek. Right: The group also offered instruc- tion to the Transylvania Singers, the university’s women’s a cappella group. Photos by Joseph Rey Au.