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OMEN at RHODE 75 Years Counting from The OMEN AT RHODE_ 75 Years Counting From The Rhodes (ISSN #1075-3036) is Commitment published four times a year in winter, spring, summer and fall by Rhodes College, This issue of Rhodes takes a look at some current students 2000 N. Parkway, Memphis, TN 38112-1690. who are making their mark on the history of the college. Also It is published as a service to all alumni, students, featured are some alumni who have made history at Rhodes parents, faculty, staff and friends of the college. and in the world beyond. Their achievements are the result of Fall 1996—Volume 3, Number 4. their unflagging commitment to the tasks they've found at Periodicals paid at Memphis, hand. Tennessee, and additional mailing offices. The student profiles (page 26) reveal what Rhodes students EXECUTIVE EDITOR: Helen Watkins Norman are like these days. The stories of four students—ranging from EDITOR: Martha Hunter Shepard '66 the first through the senior year—tell of their commitment to ART DIRECTOR: Kevin Barre the college and their thoughts and aspirations beyond the CONTRIBUTING EDITOR: Susan McLain Gothic village. Sullivan The Honor Code is a familiar topic to Rhodes alumni, and PRODUCTION ASSITANT: Kevin Olsen the signing of the code by this year's incoming students (page DESIGN CONSULTANT: Eddie Tucker 15) gave the ceremony itself a new dimension that calls for sincere POSTMASTER: Send address changes to: commitment. Rhodes, 2000 North Parkway, Memphis, TN Students of long ago—and not so long 38112-1690. ago—are featured, too. CHANGE OF ADDRESS: Please mail the completed Margaret Trahern Patch '21 was the form below and label from this issue of Rhodes first woman to graduate from Rhodes, to: Alumni Office, Rhodes College, 2000 North and this year marks the 75th anniversary Parkway, Memphis, TN 38112-1690. of that momentous occasion. One of the five women who first enrolled at the college in 1917, she was committed to Name graduating and earning her M.A. afterward. An account of the life and Street times of the woman who shattered the City State Zip glass ceiling is on page 17. Breaking records—not "glass"—is John Margaret Trahern Patch '21, Rhodes' Home Phone Business Phone Bryan '58, chairman of Sara Lee Corp. (page 7). A former Rhodes trustee, Bryan first woman graduate Employer is an international businessman and philanthropist who, with his family, has given much to Rhodes Title over the years. Their commitment to the college is most visible CLASS NOTES: Please send all Class Notes in the Bryan Campus Life Center. news including marriages, births and obituaries Rhodes' "torch has touched their hearts with flame," as the to: Alumni Office, Rhodes College, 2000 Alma Mater says—the flame of commitment. N. Parkway, Memphis, TN 38112-1690. Phone: (901)726-3845 Fax: (901)726-3474. —Martha Hunter Shepard, Editor E-mail Sally Jones, director of alumni: [email protected] LETTERS To THE EDITOR: Please address postal correspondence to: Martha H. Shepard, Editor, Rhodes Magazine, Rhodes College, 2000 N. Parkway, Memphis, TN 38112-1690. E-mail: [email protected] Phone: (901)726-3875 Fax: (901)726-3553. ,Q,Qntents FEATURES 7 17 The Women at Bryan Rhodes-75 Success Years and Story Counting What Rhodes Students 15 26 are Like Today. Are New Rhodes Students Trustworthy? Honest! DEPARTMENTS 2 CAMPUS NEWS 24IN PRINT News of Rhodes events, faculty, students and friends New books by faculty and alumni A-1 ALUMNI NEWS 31 ATHLETICS Features, Class Notes, For the Record 32 CALENDAR 22 CAMPUS VOICES Roger Kennedy, director of the U.S. National Park Service, speaks about the state of the parks COVER—The 1919 Southwestern Presbyterian Rhodes magazine is printed with soya ink University women's basketball team on recyclable paper. Campus News New Beginnings Entering students found an action- packed orientation waiting for them at Rhodes. Just some of the activities included: moving in, meeting other stu- dents and faculty advisers, attending small and large group sessions, signing the Honor Council pledge, adjusting to refectory food and finally, crashing at night. Parents, new students and their faculty advisers meet at noon over box lunches. Photo by Enrique Espinosa '97 Sophomore Kate Roommates Ben Bail '99 of Columbia, O'Leary of Tenn., (left) and Jeff Millings '99 of Joplin, Mo., gets Charleston, S.C., help move new students a rinse after a into the residence halls. muddy, hard- Photo by Enrique Espinosa '97 fought tug-of- war. Photo by Enrique Espinosa '97 At day's end, Renee Montminy of New faculty for the 1996.97 academic year and their departments Tewksbury, Mass., bids Mom goodbye are FRONT ROW, left to right: Faan Tone Liu, mathematics and before heading toward an evening computer science; Gigi Ray, chemistry; Anita Davis, psychology; riverboat ride on the mighty Carey Walsh, religious studies; Patricia Calvert, psychology; Anne Mississippi. Photo by Enrique Espinosa '97 Bromley, English; Carol Stewart, art. SECOND ROW: Tod Marshall, English; Patrick Shade, philosophy; Marshall Boswell, English; John Kaltner, religious studies; Brent Hoffmeister, physics; Russell Wigginton, history; Will Coleman, religious studies; Robert Bartlett, political science. Not pictured: William Townsend, psychology. Photo by Russell Hays Rhodes Fall 1996 Campus News Dean Mark McMahon To Return To Teaching hodes Chancellor David Harlow decide about the selection and nam- McMahon is regarded as one of Rannounced earlier this fall that ing of a permanent dean. Rhodes' most gifted teachers. He Mark McMahon, dean of acade- Prior to becoming dean of aca- was selected in 1982 as one of the mic affairs since demic affairs, McMa- college's first recipients of the 1994, has decided to hon served as associate Clarence Day Award for Outstand- return to the class- ing Teaching. In 1972 McMahon room. arrived at Rhodes as assistant pro- "Dean McMahon fessor of economics. He became a has decided to take a full professor in 1983. During the well-earned period late '70s and '80s he served 10 years of leave this acade- as chair of the department of eco- mic year and then nomics and business administration. resume teaching next In his capacity as acting dean of fall as professor of Mark McMahon academic affairs, Planchon will be economics," said responsible for supervising the Chancellor Harlow. Associate Dean dean of John Planchon work of all academic departments John Planchon agreed to assume the academic affairs from August as well as the supporting offices duties of acting dean of academic 1991 until spring 1993 when he including the registrar's office, affairs effective Sept. 16, 1996, was named acting dean of acade- library, computer center and according to Harlow. mic affairs. His appointment as Music Academy. The chancellor said the college dean of academic affairs came in would wait until next spring to March 1994. To receive your copy of Celebrating the A SPECIAL OFFER TO RHODES ALUMNI Humanities at more than a 20% discount, fill out this form and mail it to:Vanderbilt University AND FRIENDS Press, Box 1813, Station B, Nashville, TN 37235. Celebrating the Humanities Please include $3.50 for shipping/ handling for A Half-Century of the Search Course at one copy and $1.00 for each additional copy. Rhodes College Tennessee residents add 8.25% sales tax. Michael Nelson, editor With essays and personal perspectives by Please send me copies of more than a dozen members of the Rhodes com- Celebrating the Humanities at $23.00 each munity, this book offers a reflective account of the Search course, which has long been a defin- Subtotal Shipping ing part of the character of the College. "In this wonderfully conceived and engag- TOTAL ingly executed book, the dedicated keepers of the Search flame at Rhodes College accomplish Check enclosed or something remarkable. They offer solid ground for hope...that our culture may yet have the Charge to: Mastercard Visa resources with which to renew itself and to go Card number on creating generations of scholars, seekers, and Expiration date citizens." from the forward by Jean Bethke Elshtain, University of Chicago Signature 288 pages, 12 illustrations, appendixes, index Phone Regular Price $28.95— Special Discounted Price $23.00 This special offer will be honored through December 31, 1996. Fall 1996 Rhodes 3 Campus News Chuck Orvis Presented Diehl Society Award harles C. "Chuck" Orvis, asso- Orvis serves as the campus transportation, Orvis has been a Cciate professor and former ROTC coordinator. His career in member of numerous profes- chair of the department of eco- the U.S. Army Reserve spanned sional organizations, including a nomics and business administra- more than 36 years, beginning with charter member of the Mid-South tion department at Association of Business Rhodes, received Economists and the the Charles E. Diehl Southern Economic Society Award for Association, has served Faculty Service at as an expert witness in the college's anti-trust and has con- Founders Convoca- sulted in economic value tion in early fall. of life cases. He currently The award, which is a member of the carries a $3,000 hon- National Association of orarium, is endowed Forensic Economists. by an anonymous Orvis received his Rhodes trustee and Ph.D. in economics in recognizes excep- 1975 from the University tional service to the of Minnesota, where he college. The convo- served as assistant direc- cation formally Dunbar Abston (left), Prof. Orvis and President James H. tor of the Center for Eco- opened the 148th aca- Daughdrill Photo by Enrique Espinosa '97 nomic Education, and as a demic year of the college. his enlistment in 1954 to his retire- research fellow. Orvis, who joined the Rhodes ment as a colonel in May 1991. The faculty as an assistant professor last five years of his military career, in 1973, is known for his interac- he served as Plans and Programs A Good Buy tion with and support of students officer at the Pentagon and as the nce again Rhodes was named during college and beyond as area coordinator for the U.S.
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