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William E. Troutt The 19th President of Rhodes College FROM THE EDITOR RHODES (ISSN #1075.3036) is published four times a year in winter, spring, summer and fall by Rhodes College, 2000 North Parkway, Memphis, TN 38112-1690. It is published as a service to all alumni, students, parents, faculty, staff and friends of the college. Summer 1999—Volume 6, Number 3. Periodical postage paid at Memphis, Tennessee, and additional mailing offices. EDITOR Martha Hunter Shepard '66 ART DIRECTOR Kevin Barre GRAPHIC DESIGNER Larry Ahokas EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS John Kerr CONTRIBUTORS Trey Clark '89, Virginia McAfee Davis, Susan Hughes '01, Andrew Michta, Michael Nelson, Commencement Andrew Shulman '00, Kasey Sweeney '01, Valerie Witte '00 Commencement is a beginning. It's the moment when Rhodes seniors enter POSTMASTER: Fisher Garden as undergraduates, then with degree in hand, go out into the Send address changes to: RHODES, 2000 North Parkway, world. Rhodes marked its 150th commencement this year, the end of a century Memphis, TN 38112-1690. and a half, and the bright beginning of another. CHANGE OF ADDRESS: This issue of RHODES features several kinds of beginnings: Please mail the completed form below and label from this issue of RHODES to: Alumni Office, Rhodes College, 2000 North • A profile of the college's new president, William E. Troutt, who Parkway, Memphis, TN 38112-1690. took office July 1 Name

• The hopes and plans of seven members of the class of '99 Street • Prof. Michael Nelson's report on Rhodes' Teaching the City State Zip Humanities conference and other national institutions' efforts Home Phone Business Phone to establish similar interdisciplinary courses E-mail Employer • Prof. Andrew Michta's view of NATO as it begins its next 50 Title years CLASS NOTES: Please send all Class Notes • An update on campus innovations and renovations for this fall's news including marriages, births and incoming and returning students obituaries to: Alumni Office, Rhodes College, 2000 N. Parkway, Memphis, TN 38112-1690. Phone: (901)843-3845 "Look with favor upon a bold beginning," wrote the poet Virgil. Now is the Fax: (901)843-3474. E-mail Brian Mott, time. director of alumni: [email protected] LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Please address postal correspondence to: —Martha Hunter Shepard Martha H. Shepard, Editor, Rhodes Magazine, Rhodes College, 2000 N. Parkway, Memphis, TN 38112-1690. E-mail: [email protected] Phone: (901)843-3544 Fax: (901)843-3553.

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Introducing the Troutts 2 A profile of Rhodes' new president and first lady Campus News 8 News of Rhodes events, faculty, students and friends Glimpses 13 A look into the pasts and futures of seven '99 graduates

Summer Update 19 Important information for new and returning students

Is There Life after 50? 22 NATO in the post-Cold War world

Teaching the Humanities 27 A report on the national conference held at Rhodes

In Print 30 13 New books by faculty and alumni

Athletics 32

Alumni News 33 Features, Class Notes, For the Record

COVER — President William E. Troutt. Photo by Trey Clark '89 22 RHODES is printed with soya ink on recyclable paper. U H

Introducing the Troutts The 19th president and the first lady of Rhodes

By Martha Hunter Shepard

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eet Bill and Carole acquire the necessary credentials. He worked Troutt, and right away in admissions at Union, earned a M.A. in you feel that you've higher education/philosophy from the known them forever. It University of Louisville and a Ph.D. in higher happens that fast. Your education at Vanderbilt. He worked as assis- firstM impressions go far beyond their warm tant director of the Tennessee Higher smiles and handshakes, eyes that look Education Commission (THEC), a senior straight into yours, the direct questions they associate at the McManis Associates Inc. man- pose. These are two people who enjoy every agement consulting firm in Washington, DC, moment of what they do. and executive vice president of Belmont William Earl Troutt, president of Belmont before becoming president in 1982. University in Nashville for the past 17 years, on July 1 became the 19th president of Rhodes College. He brings with him the love of the office along with solid leadership expe- rience and scholarly credentials. He has called Rhodes "a special place, one of the nation's finest liberal arts colleges," where he looks forward to working with "a great community of students, faculty, staff and trustees in making a truly outstanding college even better." Bill Troutt comes to Rhodes with a most impressive record. Under his leadership, Belmont's enrollment increased by 75 percent, average ACT scores of entering first-year stu- dents went from 16 to 25 and the university raised more than $125 million for endow- ment, facilities and operating needs. At Rhodes, he has said that he plans "to President Troutt with rising seniors Christine Knipscheer (foreground) build on Rhodes' solid accomplishments." and Casey Williams To Troutt, that certainly means numbers— with equal weight given to academics, At THEC he was involved in a national scholarship and inclusiveness, the very base project that assessed how Tennessee's fund- of a highly successful, nationally-recognized ing formula could include recognition of liberal arts institution. institutional performance. His experience in these matters is deep and "It gave me an opportunity to learn wide. Bill Troutt knew he wanted to be a col- finance, instruction and assessment. We lege president when he was a student at became national consultants on these topics. Union University in the late 1960s. At first, It was a great time of learning for me." the philosophy/religion major was on track As it turns out, every endeavor he under- to be a Baptist minister, but his "journey as takes is a learning experience. From 1997-98 an undergraduate student was a time for clar- he chaired the National Commission on the ification about a lot of things," he says. Cost of Higher Education, an 11-member "It became clear to me that I could be a panel of the nation's top educators authorized responsible steward of my gifts and do by Congress. The panel members elected him something besides be a minister," explains chair. The commission's findings served as a Troutt. "College, especially my major profes- guide for the Higher Education sors, meant so much to me that I really Reauthorization Act of 1998. Sen. Trent Lott wanted to spend my life doing that. I (R-MS) appointed Troutt to the commission at wanted to be a college administrator. So the recommendation of a Belmont parent who when I graduated, I had my course set on is a longtime associate of Sen. Lott. trying to be a college president." "It was a great opportunity to lead and It was a far-off goal, yet Troutt set out to make a difference on an issue many people in

SUMMER 1999 3 "It's terribly important to let people know that they're cared for. Often in higher education we act like love must be distributed on the curve."

A hallway conversation with Katherine Owen Richardson '83, director of international programs

the country think is the number one issue in spectacular job as chairman of the National higher education—affordability. It was another Commission on the Cost of Higher Education, great learning time for me," says Troutt. and his exemplary administrative work at He serves on the board of directors of the Belmont has made the university a most effi- American Council on Education, an umbrella cient and effective institution. He is among the organization for all higher education associa- handful of the very best and brightest." tions. In February he will become chairman of the Washington, DC-based National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU). The spring board meeting, which will be in Memphis, will include a tour of Rhodes. "There will be a lot of issues on the table at that meeting—regulations that affect colleges and universities, federal financial aid—in general how we make the case for indepen- dent higher education," Troutt says. According to David Warren, NAICU presi- dent and former president of Ohio Wesleyan University, there's nobody like Bill Troutt to a make that case. "He has done a stunning job for all of us in Checking the calendar with administrative assistant higher education," says Warren. "He did a Marci Hendrix

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In the beginning ill Troutt met Carole Pearson, a petite, urged him to go to Rhodes, while another suggested blue-eyed beauty from Bells, TN, when the physics whiz attend MIT, and another, Union. they were students at Union University. He didn't go to Rhodes, but he got Rhodes to come Troutt hailed from Bolivar, another West to Bolivar. TennesseeB town. They had one date her freshman "When I was a senior I was head of the student year, "but it didn't take," she laughs. However, their committee to select a graduation speaker for our senior year found them in the same comparative reli- class at Bolivar Central High School. So, I thought if gion class. As part of the course, they went to services we could get the president of Rhodes, David Alexander, that would be a wonderful thing for the school. And he came! Our high school graduation speaker for the class of 1967 was young President David Alexander. That was my earliest encounter with Rhodes." Closeups he Troutts have an Old English sheepdog named Martha and a cat called Nietzsche. They rise in the morning to Bach's "Jesu T Joy of Man's Desiring" sounding from their wakeup alarm. He's a treadmill runner; she, an outdoor runner who also practices the yoga she learned in a Belmont physical education class last fall. Both enjoy reading, he, biography; she, fiction. When it comes to food, he prefers not to eat chicken, but will eat turkey. He loves seafood and enjoys beef on occasion, and both like almost any Reviewing a conceptual drawing of plans for a new residence kind of ethnic food. hall with Allen Boone '71, dean of administrative services They love music, especially President Troutt, who, as a young musician in the 1960s, enjoyed at a synagogue together. Soon after, their relationship fleeting fame on a national television show. began to "take," and they married in 1970. A saxophonist in his high school band, he also "We have a great deal of love in our hearts for played with a put-together group he and his friends that synagogue," he says. called the Bolivar Brass. The Brass won the Children came a few years later—Carole Ann, Hardeman County Fair talent contest, then pro- who is working on a master's degree in systems gressed to Memphis' Mid-South Fair, where one of engineering at the University of Virginia and who Ted Mack's agents spotted them and got them a gig will be married in August, and Jackson Cunliffe, or on the Original Amateur Hour. Jack, a student at Arizona State. "We had a wonderful time, but did not win," he Though raised in the Baptist tradition, the Troutts says. "But it was something for a bunch of boys made the decision early in the Rhodes interview from a small town in West Tennessee to appear in process that if he were to become president, they the studio where The Beatles had played a short would follow in the steps of past Rhodes Presidents time earlier on the Ed Sullivan show." Peyton Rhodes, David Alexander and James He hints that a kinescope recording of that show Daughdrill and join Idlewild Presbyterian Church. might be seen on request. For Carole Pearson Troutt, coming to Rhodes is Troutt also lent his talents to Belmont's annual something she always wanted to do. In high school, President's Concert, playing saxophone with the Rhodes was her number one choice of colleges. But jazz band, even conducting a 300-member chorus, with two younger brothers coming along and an for which he learned choral conducting. One year attractive scholarship offer from Union—her moth- he learned to tap dance for the show. er's alma mater—the good daughter chose Union. "That's the one time I did bring the house At the same time, one of Bill Troutt's teachers down," he laughs.

SUMMER 1999 RHODES 5 Dr. Troutt greets Dr. Paul Tudor Jones '32, pastor emeritus of idiewild Presbyterian Church, before the two head out to lunch

"As I have come to learn about management, if you can build a culture based on governing ideas rather than pages and pages of policies and procedures, it's a better environment for people to thrive and grow."

Leadership o his former colleagues at Belmont, Eleanor Dunn, Troutt's administrative Troutt always brought the house assistant for 14 years, says she "never down—not necessarily as a per- expected the friendship" the Troutts T former, but definitely as a leader offered her. "We will be close friends as and friend. long as we live." "He truly promotes open, honest commu- Richard Fallis, dean of Belmont's School nication. And he's not afraid of feedback," of Humanities and Education, says that Troutt declares Belmont religion professor Ben "is one of the main reasons I left Syracuse four Curtis. "He has a ton of savvy in relating to years ago and took the job at Belmont. Bill different kinds of people. He's well-trained, Troutt is one of the most creative college presi- but he's not forgotten where he comes from. dents in the country. He's built a very strong He has a clear commitment to what higher sense of community. He is a genuine, warm education is all about: to equip young peo- human being who doesn't pay a lot of atten- ple with skills and values to make a solid tion to a person's title and rank." contribution in helping others. And," he Belmont provost and interim president Jerry admonishes, "he looks like a choirboy, but Warren says simply, "It's interesting to have a there's a lot of toughness underneath." mentor who's 15 years younger than you." lal

6 RHODES SUMMER 1999 In His Own Words sk Billill Troutt about his oped, a vision is a guiding force fessional development programs ideas on leadership in peoples' hearts. for faculty and staff. Leadership and you quickly dis- "It's something that comes training and the opportunity to cover that the subject over a protracted dialogue. I look learn how to work and lead well is his passion. Here are some of forward to getting that conversa- foster unusually high levels of his thoughts: tion underway at Rhodes. teamwork and innovation. It lib- Leaders, if they're doing a good erates people to do some very "I come to Rhodes College job, ask people what lasting con- creative things. knowing it from the outside in. tributions they want to make and "Again, it's terribly important The first job I have is learning how their work can help the to let people know that they're Rhodes from the inside out. organization achieve its vision. cared for. Often in higher educa- "First of all, letting people Building a truly shared vision is tion we act like love must be dis- know they're loved is so impor- very important work, but it takes tributed on the curve. We must tant, and building a place where time. I look forward in these always remember that people people's spirits can soar is an early days at Rhodes to learn long for authentic trust, respect ongoing and fairly complex man- from people's hearts what they and love. We have a limitless agement task. want to create. capacity to grow in that regard. "You have to keep information "It is important that all mem- "Part of being governed by flowing, or else rumors will run bers of an organization have their ideas is being governed by val- the organization. People live off of own specific vision of what they ues. Values serve as guiding information, and if leaders do not want to achieve and what they principles that shape daily provide good information, people want to create. People are com- actions. They provide a frame- will simply create their own. mitted to what they really care work for daily decision-making. "Once you've got information about. Leaders help people con- At my last place of service, we flowing, a number of things can tinually think about their own embraced three simple values: be happen. Mainly, you begin to let personal vision and how it can be honest, treat every person with ideas govern. Workplaces are lived out through their work. respect and listen and learn from governed by one or two ways— "Information flow, letting everyone. When you genuinely they can be bound by rules or ideas govern, letting people learn embrace these kinds of values it governed by ideas. As I have and create—that's where I have is a very liberating thing forpeo- come to learn about manage- been involved in all sorts of pro- ple and the organization." 1.t ment, if you can build a culture based on governing ideas rather than pages and pages of policies and procedures, it's a better envi- ronment for people to thrive and grow. As the ancient proverb says, 'The more rules you have, the more unhappy people are.' "When I think about govern- ing ideas, at the top of the list is vision. Vision represents a shared sense of the type of organization people want to create. In study- ing successful organizations, I find they all seem to have a shared sense of aspiration. A vision is not just something on which people have agreed, or something they see simply as an President Troutt in conversation with Judith Rutschman, associate director of the abstract concept. Properly devel- Computer Center; Lemuel Russell, media services manager; Tim Huebner, assistant professor of history; and Frank Mora, assistant professor of international studies

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CAMPUS NEWS Commencement '99 Photos by Trey Clark

Honorands, left to right: Joseph R. Hyde, Douglas Oldenburg, President Daughdrill, Pauline Jones Hord '29, Sen. Bill Frist and Roger Malkin Phi Beta Kappa Award Lisa Roy, an honors graduate in history, received the college's highest academic honor, the Phi Beta Kappa Prize. The award is given to the graduating senior who exemplifies the highest quali- ties of scholarship, achievement, creativity and commitment to the liberal arts and sciences.

Distinguished Service Medal Trustee Beth LeMaster Simp- Sullivan Awards son '58 was the recipient of this The Algernon Sydney Sullivan year's Distinguished Service Award is bestowed annually to Medal. The honor is bestowed to two graduating seniors and a one who has selflessly given time non-student who have given and talent for the betterment of selflessly to the college. Gradu- the college. Simpson, chair of the ates Gini Cogswell and Greg Margaret Hyde Council, was a Sims and Dean of Development founder and later director of the Arthur Criscillis were this year's Kinney Program. Lisa Roy recipients.

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Two Rhodes Professors Win Top Faculty Honors A historian and a religious teaching profession. dered her second book, Her Image studies scholar are the 1999 A published authority on Chi- of Salvation: Female Saviors and recipients of Rhodes' highest nese and Inner Asian history, Formative Christianity. Her third faculty honors, announced dur- Drompp has presented his and most recent book, The ing the annual spring Awards research findings at meetings Strange Woman: Power and Sex in Convocation. More than four throughout the United States and the Bible, was published in 1997. dozen departmental and special Europe. In 1989, he awards and scholarships were was invited to presented to students during speak at the Smith- the convocation. sonian Institution in Associate professor of history Washington, D.C. Michael Drompp received the Drompp holds Clarence Day Award for Out- bachelor's, mas- standing Teaching, which ter's and doctoral includes a $7,500 honorarium. degrees from Indi- Gail Streete, associate professor ana University and of religious studies, received the is a member of Phi Clarence Day Dean's Award for Beta Kappa. Outstanding Research and / or Streete is noted Creativity, which carries a for her biblical $4,000 prize. scholarship, with a Both awards, first given in focus on women 1981, were established by in early Christianity and the Streete has taught at Rhodes Memphis businessman New Testament. Her research since 1990 and has served since Clarence Day and are provided interests also include a 14-year 1992 as director of Women's by the Day Foundation. study of asceticism—the prac- Studies. Streete holds a bache- Drompp, chairman of the tice of abstinence as a measure lor's and two master's degrees Rhodes Department of History of spiritual discipline—during from State University of New and the Asian Studies Program, early Christianity. York at Buffalo. She earned a has taught at the college for 10 Streete has presented papers third master's and the doctor- years. He is recognized as an and published extensively in her ate in biblical studies from innovator in developing new field. A year's work as research Drew University. courses and study materials associate and guest lecturer at the and for his dedication to the Harvard Divinity School engen- Rhodes Hits Yahoo's 100 "Most Wired" List Again Yahoo! Internet Life magazine teria: hardware, academics, free has designated Rhodes as one of services and miscellaneous ser- the most wired colleges in Amer- vices, including Web restrictions ica for the second consecutive and seeing-disabled services. year. Questions were grouped in 39 Rhodes ranks 74th in the top sections and e-mailed to 571 four- 100 four-year institutions listed year institutions. Rhodes com- in the magazine's May issue and pared especially favorably in the published online at sub-category of availability of http: / /www.wiredcolleges.com . computer technical support. The survey of Internet capabil- 1999 Rhodes was the only ity in higher education consid- university's "wired life." Rank- Tennessee college listed in the ered all aspects of a college's or ings were based on four main cri- magazine's top 100. SUMMER 1999 RHODES 9 CAMPUS NEWS

Faculty Members Barnhardt, Bolch Retire Allen Barnhardt, associate pro- After earning his M.S. from and outside of the academy fessor of physics, and Ben Bolch, Vanderbilt University in 1961, made him an ideal choice as a professor of economics, retired Barnhardt taught at Western Ken- mentor for Rhodes economics this spring. tucky State University for three and business students," said col- Barnhardt, a 1959 graduate of years before coming to Rhodes. league Mark McMahon. "He has Rhodes who joined the Rhodes Bolch retires as the Robert former students literally all over faculty in 1965, has taught McCallum Professor of Econom- the world, and every one of them courses in electromagnetic the- ics and Business Administration. knows that she or he owes a ory, electronic and tremendous debt to microprocessors and Ben Bolch." advised Sigma Pi Bolch's work has Sigma, the physics appeared in numer- honor society. ous scholarly and While reminiscing professional jour- about Barnhardt's 34 nals, and he pub- years at Rhodes, asso- lished two widely ciate professor Jack used textbooks Streete hailed his while at Vanderbilt. "dedicated teaching, His 1993 book, Apoc- research and service to alypse Not: Science, the college," noting Economics and Envi- that Barnhardt has ronmentalism, co- served as faculty mar- authored with shal for the past 16 Ben Bolch Rhodes professor years. emeritus Harold Barnhardt was chairman of the When Bolch joined the Rhodes Lyons, was cited by several Department of Physics from faculty in 1987, he brought a national publications for its crit- 1976-79. He also has headed the combination of scholarship and icism of the environmental Health Professions Advisory success in a business career. He movement. Committee for pre-med students. had been chief financial officer Bolch earned bachelor's and His career has included research for Racetrac Petroleum Inc. for master's degrees from Emory and consulting work with the four years after teaching at Van- University and his Ph.D. from U.S. Air Force, and in 1993 he derbilt University for 14 years. the University of North Carolina won a three-year grant from the "Ben's combination of educa- at Chapel Hill. National Science Foundation. tion and experience both within

Publications Merit Top Honors from TCPRA The Rhodes Communications among dozens of entries in 23 cate- video program category. and College Relations staff won gories. The book also garnered a A third-place bronze award four awards in the Tennessee gold, the first-place award in the for photography went to the College Public Relations Asso- special publications category. cover photograph for the winter ciation's annual competition RHODES magazine also won a 1999 issue of RHODES, pho- this spring. first-place gold for tographed by Trey Clark Rhodes 150: A Sesquicentennial university/ alumni magazine. The awards were presented Yearbook, commemorating Rhodes' Rhodes College: 150 Years, a during TCPRA's annual spring 150th year and edited by Bennett video produced by John Rone, meeting, held at Vanderbilt Wood, won Best of Show from claimed another first place in the University in Nashville.

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P.K. Seidman, CPA, Attorney And Rhodes Trustee, Dies Rhodes benefactor and life Grinspan said. trustee Phillip Kenneth "P.K." One of Seidman's best-known Seidman died June 23 after a legacies to Rhodes and Memphis brief illness. He was 92. is the annual M.L. Seidman Seidman, a certified public Memorial Town Hall Lecture accountant and attorney, was a Series in which recognized retired partner of BDO Seidman authorities on current public LLP, an accounting and issues participate in a town hall consulting firm and the U.S. arm forum. The popular series has of BDO International. continued for 33 years. Born in Brooklyn, NY, in 1907, Seidman was appointed to the Seidman was the youngest in a college's board of trustees in 1977 family with 14 children. He grad- and in 1980 was named life uated from Columbia University trustee. He was the 1986 recipient in 1927 and joined Seidman and of Rhodes' Distinguished Service Seidman, a New York-based Medal and received an honorary accounting firm founded in 1910 doctor of humanities degree from by his late brother, M.L. Seidman. P.K. Seidman Rhodes in 1988. Seidman also Now known as BDO Interna- received an honorary doctor of tional, the firm is one of the the Seidman Awards in Econom- public service degree from Chris- world's largest accounting and ics and Political Science for stu- tian Brothers University in 1990. consulting organizations. Seidman dents; the J.S. Seidman The P.K. Seidman Distin- served as the company's chair- International Studies Fellowship guished Professorship in Political man of the board from 1971-73. for faculty and the Frank E. Seid- Economy at Rhodes was estab- Seidman was managing the man Distinguished Award in lished in his honor in 1990 by firm's Grand Rapids, MI, office Political Economy, both named Memphians Robert Buckman and in 1933 when the federal gov- for brothers of P.K. Seidman; and Mertie Buckman. ernment charged the firm to the Leone White Seidman Schol- Seidman was a founding help enforce the National arship, a memorial to Seidman's member and president of the Recovery Act (NRA), a measure wife, who died in 1987. Charles E. Diehl Society at designed to help lift the coun- The Frank E. Seidman Distin- Rhodes and served on the col- try from the Great Depression. guished Award in Political lege's President's Council. The firm was to monitor the Economy, first given in 1974, is A 1934 graduate of the Uni- lumber, milling and furniture considered to have been second versity of Memphis law school, industries to ensure compliance in international prestige to the he co-authored the four-volume with NRA regulations. Nobel Memorial Prize in Eco- Seidman's Legislative History of Because Memphis was a hard- nomic Science, according to Mel Federal Income and Excess Profits wood lumber center, the firm sent Grinspan, Rhodes distinguished Tax Laws and The Man Who Seidman to open a Memphis office service professor emeritus, Likes Memphis. to handle the NRA requirements. longtime associate and friend of Seidman served as a lieutenant Seidman's long association Seidman and director of the commander in the U.S. Navy with Rhodes (then Southwest- award program. Torpedo Bombing Squadron VT ern) began soon after his arrival Six recipients of the Seidman 47 in the Pacific Fleet during in Memphis. In 1937, he created award in political economy later World War II. Rhodes' Tom Seidman Memor- won the Nobel Prize. The award Throughout his life in Mem- ial Award for excellence in was terminated in 1998 because it phis, Seidman distinguished him- scholarship and athletics, named had accomplished its mission of self as one of the city's civic, for his nephew. bringing international recogni- cultural and philanthropic lead- Later contributions included tion to Rhodes and to Memphis, ers. And wherever he went,

SUMMER 1999 11 CAMPUS NEWS whether to a board meeting, Seidman served on many more than two dozen arts, civic, social function or a brisk walk boards of directors and won professional and military veter- from his midtown home to his numerous accolades for his ans' organizations. downtown office, he always accomplishments. He was a P.K. Seidman leaves a brother, wore a fresh white carnation member of the Tennessee and Henry R. Seidman of Coconut pinned to his lapel. American Bar associations and Creek, FL.

Rhodes Benefactor Mertie Willigar Buckman Dies Memphis civic leader, philan- who died in 1979. traveling east to St. Mary's Epis- thropist and Rhodes benefactor In 1990 Mertie Buckman and copal School for Girls, the Mer- Mertie Willigar Buckman died her family provided the initial tie W. Buckman Performing and June 1, 1999. She was 94. major gift to construct Buckman Fine Arts Center is a landmark She moved to Memphis with at the campus. her family in 1941, when her hus- Her philanthropy also reached band, Dr. Stanley J. Buckman, and out to the YWCA, Girls Inc., the a friend established Central Labo- Salvation Army, Memphis ratories, a chemical wood preserv- Brooks Museum of Art and the ative manufacturing business. The public library, to which she'd Buckman' relationship with recently donated $1 million to the Rhodes began soon after when a children's department. fire destroyed the company's lab- In a 1990, shortly after ground oratory facilities. Rhodes offered had been broken for Buckman Dr. Buckman the use of its labs on Hall, in a RHODES interview campus until the company's facili- with Mertie Buckman writer ties could be rebuilt. From that Helen Watkins Norman said: time forward the Buckman fami- "In many ways, Buckman Hall ly's history has been inextricably will be as ageless as the matri- tied with the college's. arch of the family whose name it In 1945 Dr. Buckman started holds. It will be elegant and Buckman Laboratories (now stately on the outside, sophisti- Bulab Holdings Inc.), an indus- cated and modern indoors. And trial and agricultural chemicals Media Buckman like her, it will help overturn bar- manufacturer, which today has riers to learning and challenge plants and sales offices around Hall, which houses the interna- young people to be their best." the globe. From the beginning, tional studies, business and eco- Mertie Buckman held a seat on nomics and political science the company's board, retiring departments, along with the as assistant secretary-treasurer computer center. Alderson Takes in 1993. The Buckman name is also The New Hampshire native found at Rhodes in the mathe- State Title earned two degrees at the Uni- matics library, an international Allison Alderson '99, who was versity of Washington—a B.S. in studies chair and professorship, voted Miss Memphis this spring, home economics, majoring in endowment for the Kinney Pro- went on to win the Miss Ten- textiles, and a master's. Through gram and international studies nessee title in June. a mutual friend she met Stanley student fellowships for summer The Jackson, TN, native will Buckman, who was working on internships abroad. compete in the Miss America his Ph.D. in forestry. They mar- A few blocks down East Pageant in September. ni ried in 1933 and had two sons, Parkway from Rhodes, another Robert, who is chair of Bulab Buckman Hall stands at Christ- and a Rhodes Trustee, and John, ian Brothers University, and 12 RHODES SUMMER 1999

n a glowing May morning, the Rhodes Class of '99 gathered in Fisher Memorial Garden for the second-to-last time as undergraduates. The occasion was com- mencement rehearsal followed by a champagne toast to their futures by Rhodes International Alumni Association President Doug Fancher. "May you know the joy of a million sunsets," By Virginia McAfee Davis said Fancher, raising a glass of bubbling liquid. Communications Specialist "May you never be apart from your family, your Rhodes Office of Communications friends and your God. May the community you created here at Rhodes sustain and inspire you the rest of your lives. May you cherish each adventure Photography by Trey Clark you will encounter in your life. And may you encounter a lot of adventures. And may you always find your way back to Rhodes College." years, remembering triumphs and disappoint- Clad in sandals, shorts and T-shirts covered ments and good times. At least one was dream- by black academic regalia and holding their own ing of running through the rain forest. glasses aloft, most seniors wore expectant looks, Here are glimpses into the lives of seven grad- perhaps anticipating the world awaiting them uates of the Class of '99. Their reasons for com- after commencement. Some appeared to reflect ing to Rhodes are as diverse as their plans for inwardly on the experiences of the past several the future.

Gini Cogswell Bound to Her Convictions Two Outward Bound trips into the wilderness during her high school years instilled in Gini Cogswell a deep respect for nature and a conviction that she had to do some- thing to help conserve the environment. At Rhodes, she majored in biology, minored in anthropology / sociology and discovered that she could make a difference on her own college campus. Cogswell, who hails from Atlanta, led a revival of Campus Green, a group of environmentally con- cerned students who helped establish a campus recycling program for paper, aluminum and cardboard. The group undertook a "garbology" study in "So much was going to landfills when it could be which they analyzed, for three days, the trash of recycled," Cogswell says. "There was a need for five selected campus buildings and recorded their someone to step in, and it had to be a student. I findings. The audit indicated that 50 percent of took that opportunity and it changed my life." campus trash was paper. Campus Green's activism

SUMMER 1999 RHODES 13 also resulted in Burrow Refectory switching to chlo- mission to Panama to observe the sun's corona rine-free, less-expensive napkins made of recycled during a full solar eclipse. He recalls wearing an paper, Cogswell says. oxygen mask in the unpressurized cabin of a C-130 Cogswell was awarded Rhodes' 1999 Algernon aircraft and having only four minutes in which to Sydney Sullivan Award for her outstanding record precise measurements through a small hole achievements and was selected for the Rhodes Hall in the fuselage. of Fame. The experience was thrilling for a man who did- Championing conservation isn't an easy cause— n't think he'd have a chance to attend Rhodes until some people don't realize the importance of it—but he won a Morse scholarship. it brings its rewards, Cogswell says. "If you had told me before I came here that I "I've followed my heart in the things I value, in would be a part of something like that, I'd have what I thought I could do best. I've stepped out on told you to 'go home," Tansey says. a limb in this interest. I'm a minority, but I can take Math was always Tansey's first love, but he fell pride in that," she says. hard for physics during the first course he took at Cogswell, who graduated cum laude, will enter Rhodes. His professor's challenge to "work harder the master's program in conservation ecology at the than in all my other courses put together" only University of Georgia this fall. She says her career stimulated Tansey's appetite to learn more about options could include working for the National the field. Park Service or the National Wildlife Federation "Understanding what goes on in the world, and advising corporations on issues involving sus- how nature works—I couldn't get enough of it," tainable development. he says. "And math provided the perfect language "I doubt if it's Rhodes' goal to make activists of their for studying physics. I consider math to be like art, students, but if it is, I'm a prime example," she says. and the art is in the logic. Your only restriction is your imagination and logic." Mathematicians often answer questions that Gerry Tansey haven't been asked yet, Tansey says, offering the Chasing the Sun example that Euclid's fifth postulate provided the basis for a new geometry that Einstein used for his Gerry Tansey of Florissant, MO, literally chased theory of relativity. the sun during his sophomore year at Rhodes. The On his way to joining Phi Beta Kappa during mathematics and physics major joined a scientific his junior year and then graduating summa cum

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laude with a 4.0 grade point average, Tansey found Riches edited the student newspaper during her time to do peer tutoring in physics and to captain sophomore year, at which time she also started Rhodes' College Bowl team, which managed to painting. It wasn't long after discovering a new place second in its first regional tournament. way to express herself that she abandoned plans for College Bowl naturally attracted Tansey, who a career in journalism and dedicated herself to her competed in the national championship semi- art and to completing requirements for the college's finals for the TV show Jeopardy during his high honors program. school years. "I wanted to do something different and to really Tansey was accepted to graduate programs at challenge myself," says Riches, a native of Cape Yale, Brown, Cornell, Wisconsin, Michigan, Girardeau, MO. Washington University and California Institute of Riches describes Rhodes' faculty as the college's Technology, but decided to enter graduate school "greatest strength." "My professors taught me in in mathematics at Emory University this fall. He such in a way that I could integrate the different says he wants eventually to teach at a school like disciplines of learning," she says. Rhodes, "where the students are motivated, bright Riches, who graduated cum laude with honors, and interested in learning." co-edited the spring 1999 edition of Confluence, the "I would like to be able to share my love for college's journal of humanities and social sciences. what I do with younger people, to inspire them," She is the 1999 recipient of Rhodes' Dionysian Tansey says. "It's the one gift I can give." Award for Studio Art and the Sally Becker Grinspan Award for Artistic Achievement. Her art was included in this summer's MAX '99 show, a Erin Riches and Melody Barnett University of Memphis exhibition of works by con- Shared Interests temporary artists. Riches plans to establish a studio in Los Angeles Erin Riches and Melody Barnett shared more during the next year and eventually earn a master than a dormitory room at Rhodes. Both were schol- of fine arts degree. arship students, Riches with a Bellingrath and Graduate school is also a goal for Barnett, but Barnett with a Cambridge. Both discovered a love of that plan is on hold as she marries and begins her art during their four years at Rhodes and changed career this summer. She has accepted a job in the their majors, Riches to studio art and Barnett, to art museum education department at Memphis Brooks history. And both were editors of The Sou'wester. Museum of Art.

Erin Riches and Melody Barnett

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An emphasis on teaching the classics and the on the tour was Rhodes. reputation of the college's Department of English "I was impressed by the campus and how I was drew Barnett to Rhodes from her hometown of treated during a tour of it," Elder recalls. Arlington, TX. Rhodes' interdisciplinary approach "Afterward, when I visited the other schools, I kept to teaching and Barnett's double major in English comparing them to Rhodes, and none of them stood and art history enriched her interest in critical the- up to it. Rhodes was what I had always pictured as ory of contemporary art, says the cum laude gradu- the place I wanted to go to college." ate and recent inductee into Phi Beta Kappa. A 1995 U.S. News and World Report ranking of Barnett counts among her accomplishments an Rhodes in the nation's top 100 liberal arts colleges also improved Sou'wester, where she was a staff member influenced Elder's decision. He wasn't disappointed. for four years and editor her senior year. A political science major, Elder planned to enter "It gave me a real sense of accomplishment to the law field as an avenue to a political career. He see it come out every week," she says. "I wanted it found, however, a growing interest in the law itself, to be a paper that everyone on campus could use as and attributes this to intellectual challenges posed a reliable news source." by Rhodes political science professor Marcus Barnett is the 1999 recipient of Rhodes' Pohlmann. Apollonian Award for Art History and the Allen "He sparked and nurtured in me a greater Tate Creative Writing Award. understanding and appreciation for the study of law," Elder says. Outside the classroom, Elder joined Rhodes' David Elder mock trial team, which consistently places in the Expectations Exceeded top 10 rankings of the National Intercollegiate Mock Trial Tournament. Elder served as captain for one David Elder's college shopping list included of Rhodes' two groups competing in the 1999 tour- Rhodes, Wake Forest, Washington and Lee, nament in Des Moines, IA; his team placed second Vanderbilt and William and Mary. As a high in the nation behind Bellarmine College. school student in Oklahoma City, Elder embarked Elder also wrote for The Sou'wester and partici- on a tour of those campuses, looking for a school pated in Rhodes' Adopt-A-Friend program at with a good academic reputation, small classes Snowden School. He served as president of Phi where he could get to know his teachers and fellow Sigma Alpha political science honor society and students and a challenging curriculum. First stop joined Phi Beta Kappa his senior year.

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A magna cum laude graduate, Elder is the 1999 improving her grades. Now the owner of a bachelor recipient of Rhodes' Abe Fortas Award for of arts degree in accounting, Rasaki is proud that Excellence in Legal Studies. He will enter Harvard she continually raised her grade point average until Law School this fall. it reached its highest peak during her senior year. Of his experience at Rhodes, Elder says: "It's a While a student at Rhodes, Rasaki plunged into great place. What makes it so great, aside from the many campus activities and organizations, includ- aesthetics, are the people you meet, especially faculty ing Habitat for Humanity and International House. and staff, from the top down. I've found everyone to She was a member of the track-and-field team for be genuinely concerned about the students here." four years, was an all-conference champion and set the school record for shot put and discus-throwing. She choreographed dance performances on campus Bolatumi Rasaki and, as a member of the college's Multicultural Learning on Many Levels Affairs Programming Committee, helped plan and present Multicultural Awareness Week. Growing up in Nigeria, Bola Rasaki detested "Being involved with the many diverse student school but enjoyed extracurricular activities. She organizations really made a deep impact in my won dance contests and ran on winning track education at Rhodes," says Rasaki. "Sure, I learned teams. economics, accounting and other subjects, but these "I was good at everything that had nothing to do organizations really enriched my knowledge about with school," she says, noting that her mother con- other ethnicity, races and cultures. stantly encouraged her to focus on her studies and "I believe that in order to succeed, you have to make good grades. be able to interact with all kinds of people. Being The fourth of 11 children, Rasaki was 12 when involved with these groups has helped me in her mother died and the family moved to Stone appreciating other people's differences." Mountain, Georgia, U.S.A. "I then decided to become a very diligent student," Rasaki says. "I guess my mother basically shaped the way that I Emily Ferguson think and my priorities even today." A Penchant for Plants Rasaki graduated from high school as a member of the National Honor Society. She says she strug- Emily Ferguson's passion for flora sprang from gled in her college studies but never gave up on summers spent working as a teenage tour guide in

SUMMER 1999 RHODES 17 Bermuda Botanic Gardens. Her interest in plants, worked with a local healer who had apprenticed ecology and the environment led her to the Rhodes with one of the region's revered shamans. biology program, where she steeped herself in the "I learned to harvest plants and prepare reme- study of botany. dies that the farm would sell," Ferguson says. "The Ferguson took advantage of study-abroad profits from selling the medicines go back into pro- opportunities during each of her summer breaks tecting the rain forest." while attending Rhodes because she wanted to Ferguson experienced culture shock when she experience other cultures and enhance her class- returned to Rhodes after her sojourn in the rain for- room learning. She participated in the college's est, but she soon settled into a routine she had Coral Reef Ecology program in Honduras after her grown to cherish. She served for a third year as a first year. Following her sophomore year, Ferguson resident adviser to students: "That was a key expe- traveled to Egypt, where she studied women's rience for me—getting to know and become friends roles in society and culture, and then to England, with so many people on campus," she says. For the where she worked as a horticulturist at Hampton fourth year, she ran on Rhodes' track-and-field Court Palace outside London. teams, qualifying for the NCAA Division III cross- The high point of Ferguson's summer travels country national championships. was the break between her junior and senior years, This summer, Ferguson has returned to her when she spent three months in Belize's rain forest native Bermuda to work again in its botanical gar- working on the Ix Chel (meaning "Lady Goddess dens, for which she has written five self-guided of the Rainbow") farm, living with the natives and walking tours to be published by the Bermudian learning about medicinal uses for plants. government. She has applied to the graduate pro- "I've always had a quest for knowledge," gram in ethnobotany at Florida International Ferguson says. "I'm interested in helping to find University and plans to earn her Ph.D. from the cures for diseases for which there aren't cures." University of Hawaii. Ferguson conducted tours of the farm's trail of Teaching could be in the future for Ferguson, medicinal trees and plants and directed a bush who enjoys working with children. She has another camp for children during that summer, a time dream to realize, as well. "I want to work in a vine- when she learned to speak Mayan and Spanish- yard in Florence, Italy, and then hang out in the based Creole. She escaped sickness during a rain forest and collect plant samples. That's an ide- cholera epidemic and encountered tarantulas and alist's dream, but it's O.K. to have those kinds of snakes during jogs through the jungle. She also dreams," Ferguson says. rd

18 RHODES SUMMER 1999 night. DeanofAdministrative night inthedormsuntilFriday Friday morning.However, Thursday nightandcouldregis- we willhaveonThursdaynight." Charles Landreth. ate DeanofStudentAffairs orientation, accordingtoAssoci- Aug. 19,willbethestartof early thisyear.Thursdaynight, Their averageSAT-Iscoreis 1288 most academicallytalentedin Indianola, IA,andSouthernIlli- Lindquist hasbeenhiredtoserve not betheonlynewfaceson that process. available tohelpspeedup an additionalI.D.makerwillbe Services AllenBoonesaidthat students stillcannotstaythe ter eitherThursdaynightor students arealreadyhereon said Landreth. at Fridaymorningregistration SUMMER 1999 Rhodes' history, withstudents most geographically diversein and theaverageACTscoreis 28. a gradepointaverageof3.55. school graduatingclassand have the top15percentoftheirhigh the fallsemester. dents areexpectedtoarrivefor first-year and20transferstu- Rhodes' history.Morethan445 to bethelargestandoneof graduate ofSimpsonCollegein and leadershipprograms.A as directorofstudentorientation campus atorientation.Marie Orientation toBeginThursdayEvening Entering ClassIsLargestEver AtRhodes Landreth saidthatmany Orientation willbeginalittle The Classof2003isprojected The first-yearstudentswill The Classof2003isalsothe Students, onaverage,rankin "Everything thatwehavehad By AndrewShulman'99,RHODESStaffWriter SUMMER UPDATE Dave Wottle,deanofadmissions. percent arefemaleand43per- minority students.Fifty-seven District ofColumbia.Twelveper- rent andformeremployeeswho Mount Vernon,IA. years asassistantdirectorofstu- she hasservedforthelasttwo nois UniversityatCarbondale, college: academic excellence, Rhodes apremier liberalarts characteristics thatmake an increasedinterestinthe and nationallyareshowing of studentstoRhodes,"said such alargeandtalentedgroup cent, male. cent oftheincomingclassare representing 36statesandthe students, recentalumniandcur- at Rhodes,Italkedwithcurrent dent lifeatCornellCollegein "Students regionally "We areexcitedtowelcome "As Iexaminedtheposition RHODES nity," saidLindquist."Ilook opment ofvalues." professional lifeandthedevel- opportunities forintellectual one oftheareasstudentaffairs looks forwardtoorientation— of it." forward tobecomingapart the RhodesCollegecommu- can donothingbutbragabout growth, solidpreparationfor that sheenjoysthemost. Welcomes ton willlivein theWilliford Residence Life (ADRL);Hamil- Evans joinRhodesthissummer as theAssistantDirectorsof College New ADRLs Lindquist alsosaidthatshe Keira HamiltonandScott 19

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Apartment and Evans in the administration of the residence at Sewanee. A three-year member Glassell Apartment. life program. of the residence life staff there, The position is a graduate Hamilton has a B.A. degree his mentor was former Rhodes assistantship through the Uni- from Connecticut College in ADRL Michelle Thompson. versity of Memphis, where the psychology based human rela- Evans most recently has been ADRL is also a full-time stu- tions. As an undergrad she working at a residential facility dent, according to Carol Casey, supervised a residence hall and for troubled boys. Rhodes director of residence was a member of her college's "I am really excited about life. Each ADRL is responsible track and field team. Most Keira and Scott," said Casey. for one side of the campus, recently, she has worked as a "With their previous experience, chiefly supervising resident teacher/ counselor at Youth Vil- I think that they will make excel- assistants, building rapport with lages in Memphis. lent additions to our Residence residents and assisting with Evans was a psychology major Life staff."

Renovations Make Student-Friendly Campus Even Better As soon as students left cam- Rhodes Tower. pus in May for summer break, • Kennedy Hall is undergoing workers began several extensive extensive renovation. New renovation projects. Ranging mechanical systems have been from adding new laboratories in added, providing air condi- Kennedy to painting the fence tioning for the whole build- that surrounds the campus, there ing, including the laboratories. has been a lot going on at The three major labs have all Rhodes. Dean of Administrative been renovated. Services Allen Boone provided • Returning students will the following information. notice that the Bailey Lane • The Voorhies-Townsend- entrance has been repaved, Trezevant quad has been the along with the Glassell park- a few surprises when they beneficiary of several improve- ing lot. And yes, the speed return to campus. The social ments this summer. As resi- bumps have been replaced, room has been repainted and dents who lived in these tougher than ever. new furniture will be awaiting dorms this past year know, a • The rooms in Ellett are getting residents in August. There also lot of work has gone into new furniture, and all the will be a kitchen added in upgrading the heating and air- rooms in the Bellingrath- Room 112. conditioning systems. Radia- Robb-White-Ellett quad are • Williford is undergoing roof tors have been ripped out, as being outfitted with mini- repairs, and second floor resi- have the window air units, to blinds. New boilers have been dents will find new furniture be replaced by a new central added to the quad, allowing in the central social room. system with individual room for a more efficient heating • Physical Plant has moved to its controls. There also is new car- system. The new system is new building and no longer peting in the hallways, and energy efficient and environ- occupies the Austin Building. each room has mini-blinds and mentally friendly. The garage structure next to a fresh coat of paint. • In the refectory, Servery A Austin has been torn down, • Three new "smart classrooms" will be renovated either in affording a view of the Bryan will be coming online this August or during winter Campus Life Center. year, each with a projector, break. The new servery will • Theater patrons will notice VCR and a computer for look more like Servery B, that the McCoy lobby has instructor use. The new smart with an improved traffic flow been renovated. classrooms are located in 201 and more individual stations. • In the Bryan Campus Life Kennedy, 302 Clough and 410 • Residents of Stewart will have Center, new equipment will 20 RHODES SUMMER 1999 SUMMER UPDATE

allow a more complete work- added, and according to Dean dation to refurbish some of the out than before. of Administrative Services laboratories in the Frazier • Rhodes is becoming more Allen Boone, students may see Jelke Science Center.The two technologically oriented with the key system changed in the introductory labs have become the conversion of the library's next few years to a proximity- "smart labs," with the same catalogue to a web-based sys- based card system. The stu- amenities that the "smart tem. Students will be able to dent's ID card will not only classrooms" have, plus four use the new computers in the check out books and pay for new tangerine-colored iMacs. library to access the web- meals, it will also open resi- The imaging lab also received based catalogue. According to dence hall outer doors. Dean some new computers—three Lynne Blair, directory of the Boone also said that all sys- new Macintosh blue and white Burrow Library, the web tems on campus are Y2K com- G3s. Two new photo quality allows for information to be pliant and that most if not all printers have been purchased disseminated to students of the college's immediate and a digital camera that can and will provide links to vendors have certified that capture images on the micro- online journals. their systems are Y2K compli- scope has been installed. The • A new "Y2K-compliant" fire ant as well. grant money also provided for alarm system has been • Biology Professor John Olsen a new scanner. installed. The system allows headed a group that received a for expansion modules to be grant from the Plough Foun-

Calendar of Events Aug. 19-24 New Student Orientation. Meal plan Jan. 11 Enrollment clearance/registration begins for new students with dinner on Aug. Jan. 12 Classes begin 20. Returning students check in Aug. 22-23, Jan. 19 Drop/add period ends 8 a.m.-4 p.m. at Residence Life Office or Feb. 1 1999-2000 housing deposit due 4 p.m.-8 a.m. at Campus Safety. Meal plan March 3 Spring recess, 5 p.m. March 3 until 8 a.m. begins with dinner on Aug. 22. Enrollment March 13. Residence halls close 10 a.m. March clearance/registration Tuesday, Aug. 24 4 and open 8 a.m. March 12. Meal plan ends Aug. 25 Classes begin with lunch on March 3 and resumes with din- Aug. 31 Drop/add period ends ner on March 12. Oct. 15 Fall break, 5 p.m. Oct. 15 until 8 a.m. Oct. March 21-23 Housing selection for return- 20. Residence halls remain open.* Meal plan ing students ends with lunch on Oct. 15 and resumes with March 24 Withdrawal period ends dinner on Oct. 19. Lair remains open. April 19 Easter recess begins, 10 p.m. April. 19 Oct. 8-10 Parents' Weekend until 8 a.m. April 24. Residence halls remain Oct. 29-30 Homecoming open.* Meal plan ends with dinner on April 19 Oct. 29 Withdrawal period ends and resumes with dinner on April 23. Lair Nov. 23 Thanksgiving break, 10 p.m. Nov. 23 remains open. until 8 a.m. Nov. 29. Residence halls close May 1-6 Final exams 10 a.m. Nov. 24 and open 8 a.m. Nov. 28. May 7 Non-seniors check out of halls, 3 p.m. Meal plan ends with dinner on Nov. 23 and Meal plan ends with lunch on May 7. resumes with dinner on Nov. 28. May 13 Commencement, 10 a.m. Seniors' meal Dec. 10-15 Final exams. Residence halls close at plan ends with breakfast. 10 a.m. Dec. 16. Meal plan ends with dinner on May 14 Seniors check out of halls, 3 p.m. Dec. 15 and resumes with dinner on Jan. 9, 2000. *On campus housing will be available in Blount and Jan. 9 Residence halls open Robinson Halls.

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949 999 ON IS THERE LIFE AFTER 50? NATO IN THE POST-COLD WAR WORLD

By Andrew Michta The Mertie Willigar Buckman Professor of International Studies

he North Atlantic Treaty Organization has been the most successful American foreign policy ven- ture in this century. It was formed in 1949 by riBelgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom and the United States as an alliance of Western democracies against the communist threat in Europe. In addition to collective defense, NATO provided postwar Europe with a requisite security framework for democratiza- tion and political and economic integration. It deterred Soviet expansionism, bound the security of Europe and the United States and provided a formula for Western control and gradual

22 RHODES SUMMER 1999 Although the end of the Cold War has led to an increase in isolationist sentiments in the United States, the recent experience of the Balkan wars has demonstrated to all but the most skeptical how important NATO and the American leadership of the alliance remain for the future of peace and stability in Europe. reintegration of Germany. Though its original mis- ventional defense. The Soviets responded in May of sion was to "keep the Russians out, the Americans 1955 by forming the Warsaw Pact signed by eight in, and the Germans down," over the years NATO East European nations. evolved to become a wider security community. In As NATO matured, it developed a set of political 1952 NATO brought in Greece and Turkey, and in and military institutions to become the most highly 1955, restored Germany to its proper place in bureaucratized alliance in history. Still, even as the Europe. Spain became a full member of the alliance European contribution to common defense in 1982. In 1999 NATO again increased in size, from increased, NATO continued to rely primarily on 16 to 19 members, reaching into post-communist American military power, and the U.S. maintained Central Europe to include Poland, Hungary and the its position of first among equals in the allied coun- Czech Republic. This last round of enlargement cils. This situation has not changed since the Cold coincided with a fundamental redefinition of War, and America continues to provide the bulk of NATO's mission and its future role. As the transat- NATO's military capabilities. lantic alliance celebrated its 50th anniversary in The original framing of the transatlantic alliance April 1999, it confronted its most difficult challenge rested on the special relationship between Great since the Cold War: an intervention in Kosovo to Britain and the United States (London was instru- stop Serbia from ethnically cleansing the province. mental in launching the NATO initiative). France, as The key to NATO's success during the Cold War a quintessentially continental power, saw the was the principle of collective defense adopted under "Anglo-Saxon" underpinnings of NATO as a threat Article 5 of the 1949 Washington Treaty, whereby an to its power position in Europe. Franco-American attack on the territory of a member-state would trig- tension within the alliance led in 1966 to the French ger a collective response from the alliance. In the withdrawal from the NATO military structure, early years, however, the principle of mutuality though France remained part of the political struc- existed largely on paper. Until the late 1950s NATO ture of the alliance. In 1967 NATO opened its new was essentially a unilateral U.S. security guarantee to headquarters in Brussels and adopted a two-sided Europe, backed up by American nuclear power. strategy of deterrence and detente. At the same time, Under the "New Look" strategy of the Eisenhower the doctrine of "flexible response," which combined administration, we were committed to the strategy of conventional forces with the traditional nuclear massive retaliation with nuclear weapons as a way to option, replaced massive retaliation. Over the years, deter a Soviet attack. As long as the continental enlargement accompanied the evolution of NATO's United States remained relatively invulnerable to a mission. The alliance, which had been originally Soviet nuclear strike, the strategy was credible, but as chartered with the defensive function as its principal progress in missile technology put the United States raison d'etre, by the 1980s began emphasizing the within the reach of Soviet weapons, the credibility of institution-building function as a formula to acceler- an American security guarantee to Europe was ques- ate democratic transition and consolidation. NATO tioned. NATO responded by developing a conven- also played a key role in constraining the Greek- tional defense option and relying on enlargement as Turkish conflict. When in 1982 post-Franco Spain the formula to implement it. In 1955 West Germany joined as the 16th NATO member, the defensive was brought into the alliance and its armed forces function and the institution-building function coex- (the Bundeswehr) became the core of European con- isted in rough balance.

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The Kosovo strife is not likely to be over for years to come, with NATO's resources now committed to the stability of the Balkan peninsula. Short of a partition and internationally supervised population transfers, it is unclear at this point how the crisis may be ultimately resolved.

Why enlargement? The implosion of the Soviet empire in Eastern Europe in 1989, the unification of Germany in 1990 and the decomposition of the Soviet Union itself in 1991 revolutionized the security dynamic in Europe. As the Warsaw Pact collapsed, Moscow's initial posi- tion was that both alliances should disappear and that unified Germany should become a non-NATO state. Critical to the future of NATO was a gradual change in the Soviet position, sealed in the July 1990 agreement between Mikhail Gorbachev and Helmut Kohl, that allowed for unified Germany to remain in NATO. The incorporation of East Germany into the German state was in effect the first post-Cold War round of NATO enlargement. It set an important precedent for the future by prohibiting the stationing of NATO troops in the newly incorporated territory and reaffirming Germany's commitment not to acquire weapons of mass destruction. The long- standing principle of the "forward deployment" of NATO troops to defend the allied territory was replaced in NATO's 1991 "Strategic Concept" with the idea of defense through reinforcement, with no actual NATO troop presence in the East. The impact of German unification on Europe's Andrew Michta geopolitics had to be addressed by the framers of the post-Cold War security architecture. The new Europe while also enhancing the security of its east- Germany, with a population of 80 million and a gross ern periphery. By 1993 the pro-enlargement stance domestic product twice that of France, emerged as was progressively adopted by the Clinton adminis- Europe's undisputed leader. At the same time, tration, which in 1994 initiated the Partnership for Germany's continued commitment to the existing Peace program as an interim step to full membership. European and transatlantic institutions meant that In 1995 NATO launched its first "out-of-area" opera- the stability and security of Central Europe, espe- tion in Bosnia-Herzegovina in support of the Dayton cially Poland, was of vital national interest to the uni- Peace Accord. fied German state. The NATO enlargement policy The NATO enlargement issue also had an was largely driven by Germany, with German chan- American domestic policy dimension. During the cellor Helmut Kohl and defense minister Voelker 1996 U.S. presidential campaign both the Democrats Ruhe becoming the most vocal proponents of and the Republicans pledged their support for bring- enlargement. Germany argued that by expanding to ing the three new members, Poland, Hungary and the East, NATO would stabilize the "gray zone" of the Czech Republic, into the alliance by the end of

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The question of NATO-Russian relations will remain the most difficult for the alliance to manage for years to come because of the pivotal role Moscow played in ending the Serbian air campaign. Russia remains committed to the dismantling of NATO, or at least to halting any future enlargement to the East.

the decade. In May 1997 in Madrid the 16 NATO ing on a consensus principle, would be able to members issued a formal invitation to the three to remain united as they waged a war that lacked uni- apply for full membership. At the same time, in form support among their publics. order to gain Russia's acquiescence, the allies offered The three months of air war against Serbia Moscow the "NATO-Russia Founding Act." It estab- brought about mixed results. On one hand, the air lished a special security partnership between NATO campaign and Russian diplomacy convinced Serbian and Russia, and created the Permanent Joint Council leadership that continued all-out resistance would be to give Russia a voice in NATO's deliberations. too costly and that an international force with NATO Following the ratification by the legislatures of the 16 at the core would have to be allowed into Kosovo. NATO members, Poland, Hungary and the Czech Most important, NATO remained united (except for Republic were formally admitted into the alliance on the issue of ground troops) and demonstrated that it March 12, 1999, several weeks before the 50th can see through a commitment of military power, anniversary NATO summit in Washington. notwithstanding the political pitfalls and frequent During the debate preceding enlargement, there differences of opinion. In short, NATO has survived was considerable argument in the American and its first combat test. European foreign policy communities about the However, the lessons for NATO from the Kosovo impending shift in NATO's mission away from col- war remain ambiguous. The intervention was under- lective defense toward collective security. The propo- taken largely because of America's view that NATO nents of change saw it as the necessary precondition should stand for a "community of interests" that for the survival of the "new NATO" after the Cold transcend narrowly defined national defense goals. War, while its critics warned that NATO's principal Though NATO prevailed in its determination to con- role would be diluted in the process. The Balkan tinue the air war, it will have to pause to review the wars would provide the first test case for NATO's economic and political costs of the operation. As new mission. NATO's peacekeeping units entered Kosovo in June 1999, the alliance was undertaking an open-ended commitment to garrison and rebuild the region. The The lessons from Kosovo mission will remain dangerous, with NATO forces In the spring of 1999 the Kosovo crisis escalated to placed at risk of being drawn into a civil war. The an all-out war between NATO and Serbia, raising a most ambiguous lesson of the war fought in the number of questions about the direction of NATO's name of human rights and self-determination was evolution and its future. The allied intervention was that, in the end, NATO seemed to have no alternative the first case of NATO actually going to war, and it but to establish a protectorate in the Balkans extend- marked a clear shift from defense to offense. There ing from Kosovo through Albania and Macedonia. was much to criticize about the direction of American The Kosovo war has also cast serious doubt on the and European diplomacy leading up to the war, but future prospects for NATO enlargement. If the next once NATO engaged in the air campaign it became round of enlargement happens at all, the process will imperative that the alliance should remain united likely slow down considerably and it may emphasize and that it prevail. Though the Kosovo conflict was again fundamental strategic considerations when joined over the plight of ethnic Albanians, the core choosing future members. question for NATO was whether its 19 members, act- The question of NATO-Russian relations will

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The most ambiguous lesson of the war fought in the name of human rights and self-determination was that, in the end, NATO seemed to have no alternative but to establish a protectorate in the Balkans extending from Kosovo through Albania and Macedonia.

remain the most difficult for the alliance to manage The 1999 round of enlargement, notwithstanding for years to come because of the pivotal role the procedural shortcomings and the often contradic- Moscow played in ending the Serbian air campaign. tory rationales for policy, has accomplished a historic Russia remains committed to the dismantling of shift in the political balance of power in Europe. The NATO, or at least to halting any future enlargement ultimate long-term success or failure of NATO to the East. Having brokered the deal that ended the enlargement has an important American foreign pol- air campaign, Russia is now in a position to stake a icy dimension. Although the end of the Cold War has claim to a special role in Serbia as the protector of led to an increase in isolationist sentiments in the its southern Slavic brethren. It may be that Russia's United States, the recent experience of the Balkan policy in Kosovo will make partitioning the wars has demonstrated to all but the most skeptical province its objective, putting the Russians on a col- how important NATO and the American leadership lision course with NATO. of the alliance remain for the future of peace and sta- bility in Europe. The Kosovo strife is not likely to be over for years At a crossroads to come, with NATO's resources now committed to Over the first 50 years of its existence, the North the stability of the Balkan peninsula. Short of a par- Atlantic Treaty Organization has built a remarkable tition and internationally supervised population record. It has successfully deterred the Soviet Union transfers, it is unclear at this point how the crisis and served as the principal tool of American foreign may be ultimately resolved. NATO troops in policy. It has pushed the security perimeter of the Kosovo may find themselves in the middle of a low- United States across the Atlantic, and in doing so laid intensity war in which they will become a target for a foundation for projecting U.S. interests and values both sides, as they are committed to demilitarizing across the globe. At the institutional level, in the past both the Serbs and the Kosovo Liberation Army. half century NATO has defined the central role of the The economic costs of rebuilding the region will West in the international system. It has ushered in also be considerable. Still, the fact that NATO has the longest period of sustained peace the West has survived its first military test is a vivid testimony to known in its history. By partially "de-nationalizing" the vitality of the alliance. NATO will continue to the armed forces of its member states, NATO has evolve as it adapts to the post-Cold War interna- made them less likely than ever before to become tional system. It is likely to endure in the years to tools of individual states' expansionist policies. come because it embodies the core shared American In the political sphere, NATO has created a frame- and European security interests. 13 work for transforming international relations in Western Europe from confrontation to cooperation. It Andrew Michta's new book, America's New Allies: brought Germany and France into a common secu- Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic in NATO, will rity framework that (guaranteed by American power) be published this fall by the University of Washington Press. has made Franco-German reconciliation possible. The inclusion of Poland in NATO in 1999 has initiated an equally difficult process of Polish-German reconcilia- tion, which holds potential for a historic shift in the security of Central Europe.

26 RHODES SUMMER 1999 he official title of the way to keep students interested in public controversies about the conference was lectures?" "Is that new translation content, strategies and methods of "Teaching the of Machiavelli any good?" general education that are appro- THumanities," but it The occasion for the conference priate for colleges and universities. could just as easily have taken its was Rhodes' sesquicentennial. Those controversies marked name from the old Dave Brubeck- What better way to mark that mile- both a departure from and a conti- Gerry Mulligan jazz album: stone than by lifting high the col- nuity with the experience of ear- "Together Again for the First lege's major contribution to lier decades. From the 1920s Time." Nearly 200 professors, rep- American higher education: the through the 1940s, general educa- resenting more than 50 colleges 54-year-old humanities program tion in the humanities usually and universities from California to called "The Search for Values in meant "Western Civ," sometimes Nova Scotia—the largest interna- the Light of Western History and in the form of close study of the tional gathering of scholars on the Religion"? (Davidson, Louisiana "Great Books." The two world wars had brought the United States into affiance with Great Britain and other European nations, reminding Americans of Teangmi the their Old World roots, both intel- Humanities BY MICHAEL NELSON Rhodes campus in its 150-year his- PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL SCIENCE tory—came together last November out of a common inter- est in the Search (ne Man) course State University, Sewanee, Eckerd, lectual and personal. The wars and in Search's many cousins and Millsaps, and Hampden-Sydney- also had roused concerns in edu- offspring around the country. schools that borrowed extensively cational circles that Americans For many of these classicists, from the Search course in creating needed to be immersed in the historians, musicologists, literary their own interdisciplinary human- ideals for which they were fight- scholars, philosophers, political ities programs—are among the ing on the battlefield. scientists, Bible scholars and oth- direct beneficiaries of this contribu- The Cold War with the Soviet ers, it was their first encounter tion.) And what better service to Union that followed World War with colleagues at other schools Rhodes' sister institutions than to II had a different effect. The com- who, like them, are engaged in the create a forum in which those who bination of the Soviet explosion of enterprise of general education in are engaged in similar enterprises a hydrogen bomb in 1953 and the the humanities. Yet they recog- at other colleges and universities Sputnik launch in 1957 provoked nized each other instantly as fel- could come together to share their such widespread anxiety about low workers in the same vineyard ideas, experiences and problems. American science education as to and, without introductions or pre- Why has such a forum not prompt a hasty turn away from liminaries, rapidly set about the existed before? Not because wide- general education in the humani- task of discovering one anothers' spread discussion about the char- ties and toward academic special- answers to the questions they all acter of the humanities has been ization. In addition, the global had to deal with in their own pro- lacking—it hasn't. But that discus- rivalry with the Soviets in the grams every semester, previously sion has become singularly emerging nations of the Third in isolation, now in community. unhelpful in recent years. In the World diverted scholarly atten- "Does your program incorporate broad swath of academe that tion from Europe to Asia, Africa art and music?" "Do you read encompasses the humanities, the and South America. Responding non-Western works?" "How do final decades of the 20th century to those changes, many colleges you recruit new faculty to your have been marked by endless, and universities ceased to require program?" "Have you found a sometimes bitter, and often highly general Western civilization

SUMMER 1999 RHODES 27 courses of their students. dents needed, Bennett concluded, the methods of approaching "When compulsion stopped," was "access to the best that them." Like Bennett, Bloom laid the historian Gilbert Allardyce [Western] tradition has to offer." much of the blame for the decline reported in an article in the Specifically, he listed "such princi- in general education on a '60s- American Historical Review, "enroll- ples as justice, liberty, government spawned combination of political ment dwindled, and across the with the consent of the governed pressure from faculty activists on nation, one after another, Western and equality under the law," all of the humanistic left and acquies- Civ courses were decommissioned them "descended directly from cence from timid colleagues and like old battleships." great epochs of Western civiliza- administrators in the middle. Allardyce's study was pub- tion—Enlightenment England and Supporters of Bennett and lished in 1982. In 1984 National France, Renaissance Florence and Bloom (known to their critics as Endowment for the Humanities Periclean Athens." the "Killer Bs") seemed to find chair William J. Bennett offered a Bennett's report struck a respon- grist for their mill everywhere different explanation for the sive chord among editorial writers they looked. In 1988 conserva- declining interest in Western Civ and other opinion leaders, as did tives jeered when Stanford and other humanities courses, one University of Chicago philosopher University revised its Western grounded in the anti- civilization require- western and libertar- ment to assure that a ian pressures that wider range of had been aroused by authors would be the campus protest studied and that movements of the "substantial atten- 1960s. Bennett began tion" would be given his widely publi- to "the issues of cized report, To race, gender, and Reclaim a Legacy, by class." Two years declaring that educa- later "P.C." entered tors "too often have the national vocab- given up the great ulary as shorthand task of transmitting a for a congeries of culture to its rightful "politically correct" heirs." Blaming "a opinions and prac- collective loss of tices that suppos- nerve and faith on edly had become the part of both fac- the new academic ulty and academic orthodoxy concern- administrators during the late Allan Bloom's The Closing of the ing race, gender, sexual orienta- 1960s and early 1970s [that] was American Mind, a polemic on the tion and other cultural matters. undeniably destructive of the cur- subject of (to quote its subtitle) Defenders of the changes that riculum," Bennett issued a "How Higher Education Has were taking place in the humani- wideranging indictment of col- Failed Democracy and ties were slow to respond to their leges and universities for failing to Impoverished the Souls of Today's critics. As the literary scholar require more humanities courses of Students" that led the nonfiction Gerald Graff, who identified him- their students; of humanities bestseller lists for more than six self as one of the "academic radi- departments for assigning the months in 1987. Bloom argued cals" he describes, noted in 1992, teaching of general education that colleges and universities had "having trained themselves for courses to inexperienced or part- embraced relativism and aban- two decades to speak in voices that time faculty; and of politically radi- doned their responsibility to give would be resistant to cooptation by cal humanities scholars for labeling students "the good old Great the dominant discourses, academic the traditional teaching of their Books approach, in which a liberal radicals find themselves almost subjects as, alternately, "hand- education means reading certain without an idiom in which to con- maidens of ideology" and devoid generally recognized classic texts, test the misrepresentations being of "inherent meaning because all just reading them, letting them made of them....Thus the right has meaning is subjective." What stu- dictate what the questions are and been able to coopt the rhetoric of

28 RHODES SUMMER 1999 democracy and populism, and those who attended the Rhodes the programs are old, some are turn labels like 'elitist' and 'author- conference, this debate has been fairly new. Some are centered on itarian' against the academic left." highly unsatisfactory, consisting the West, others are global in Graff was right: the jargon-rid- almost entirely of polemical argu- scope. Some concentrate exclu- den, self-referential responses of ments that were ungrounded in sively on written works, others academic radicals to conservative evidence about what particular incorporate art and music. Some critics in pamphlets such as the colleges and universities were regard themselves as traditional, American Council of Learned actually doing in the realm of gen- some as nontraditional. The Societies' Speaking for the eral education in the humanities. schools whose programs are rep- Humanities and anthologies such Yet deciding what to do and how resented also are varied: small and as The Politics of Liberal Education, to do it is precisely the challenge large, public and private, church- edited by Darryl J. Gless and that every institution of higher affiliated and secular, urban and Barbara Herrnstein Smith, education is required to face. It is small-town, liberal arts colleges reached the general public mainly a challenge that can be met not and universities, north, south, and through the caricatures of conser- with ideological manifestos, but all other points on the compass. vative writers like Roger Kimball with specific courses, reading This fall, Teaching the Humanities: and Dinesh D'Souza. Yet the radi- lists, assignments and instructors. Strategies for General Education, a cals remained influential within Fortunately, some progress has book containing these papers the humanities community itself. recently been made. In 1996, along with essays by renowned Their argument, loosely trans- Vanderbilt University Press pub- humanities scholars Martha lated, generally went something lished Celebrating the Humanities: A Nussbaum and Roger Shattuck, like this: the history of the West is Half Century of the Search Course at will be published by Jossey-Bass in large measure a history of Rhodes College. The book Publishers in San Francisco. oppression—of women, who have described, in a nonpolemical way, The book will be the most tan- been degraded; of ethnic, racial Rhodes' long experience in offer- gible legacy of the Rhodes confer- and cultural minorities, who have ing a substantial majority of its ence. But it will not be the only been enslaved or exploited; and of students a 12-credit course on the one, and perhaps not even the nonwestern peoples, who have history, religion, philosophy, liter- most important one. The confer- been made subject to imperialism ature and politics of the West. At ence will endure in the ideas and colonialism. White males about the same time, Simon and sparked in one professor by have been the main villains in this Schuster published David Denby's another, in the seeds pollinated historical drama, and the so-called Great Books, a widely-discussed from one college to another, in "great books" of Western civiliza- journalistic account of Columbia the friendships that were begun, tion (almost all of them authored University's core curriculum. The and in the shared sense that while by white males) have been, in the advantage of both books was that academic controversialists may philosopher John Searle's phrase, they descended from the airy trade ideological volleys in the "the official publications of their precincts of rhetorical posturing public arena, many more scholars system of oppression." Bennett, and described what particular will continue to do the actual Bloom and other conservatives schools actually were doing in the work of general education in the wanted general education in the realm of general education. humanities for generation after humanities to serve as a vehicle to In 1997, in preparation for the generation of students. Ei "transmit" (a word that Bennett, "Teaching the Humanities" con- in particular, used a lot) this sys- ference, Rhodes commissioned 13 Michael Nelson teaches politi- tem to future generations of stu- papers from scholars around the cal science and Search at Rhodes, dents, thereby "assuring assent to country who teach in general edu- and has published several books a political and economic establish- cation humanities programs at on the presidency and American ment." Instead, the radicals their respective institutions, politics. He is the editor and coau- argued, education should liberate including Columbia, Davidson, thor of two of the books men- students by unmasking the Temple, Stanford, Berkeley, the tioned in this article: Celebrating the oppressors and lifting up the University of North Carolina at Humanities: A Half-Century of the voices of the oppressed. Asheville, St. John's College, and Search Course at Rhodes College and Distressingly, especially for King's College in Canada. The Teaching the Humanities: Strategies professors in the front lines of programs were chosen for their for General Education. humanities education, such as excellence and variety. Some of

SUMMER 1999 RHODES 29 Trr PRINrr

J.S. Mill's work for the East India Company topic with scriptural and subject and his personal philosophy. indexes as well. Information Encounter With Martin Moir is former deputy about each hymn's purpose and India director of the British Library's creation is presented in the back. Oriental and India Office Collec- "A circle is a rich and sugges- Edited by Martin Moir, Douglas M. tion. Douglas M. Peers is an asso- tive image, with particular reso- Peers and Lynn Zastoupil, Rhodes ciate professor at the University nance for women of the past and associate professor of history. 264 of Calgary. present," Duck writes in her pref- pp. Toronto: University of Toronto ace. "When we join hands in a Press. $40. circle, there is always room for Circles of Care: one more. When we move in a circle, the leader is still a part of Hymns and the group. The women's groups in the Methodist church my fam- Songs ily attended when I was a child By Ruth C. Duck '69. 144 pp. Cleve- were called circles. Women have land: The Pilgrim Press. $14.95. joined in knitting and sewing cir- Ruth Duck, assistant professor cles. Thus, the image of circles of worship at Garrett-Evangelical evokes memories of shared tasks, Theological Seminary in talk, laughter and sometimes Evanston, IL, is also a noted tears or conflicts." hymn writer whose texts appear "The circle," she adds, "is a in several Protestant hymnals. symbol of eternity, for it has no beginning or end, and is thus an appropriate symbol for the divine presence in life."

. e•Cir C,/ rt. cf, C C Shakespeare's Nineteenth-century British philosopher John Stuart Mill Christmas worked for the East India Com- By Charlaine Harris '73. 214 pp. pany in London for 35 years. This New York: St. Martin's Press. book of 10 essays by noted Mill $20.95. scholars from around the world examines the character of Mill's role in British Indian govern- 11011001111.P.'...... 0 . M.,. ment. The analyses are based on the draft dispatches Mill wrote at RUTH C. DUCK India House and comparisons of HAKESPEARE'S their practical and theoritical con- cerns with the broad themes of Circles of Care presents 48 of her CHRISTMAS his major writings on political newest hymns that address issues CHARLAINE HARRIS philosophy and economics. of healing and reconciliation. The essays explore specific Musical settings include both tra- aspects of Mill's approach to ditional tunes and new composi- Indian issues and place him tions by modern composers. within the broader currents of The book is designed as a wor- utilitarianism. The writers also ship and meditation resource for present different perspectives on individuals, groups and congre- the ideology in Mill's pragmatic gations. Titles are organized by

30 RHODES SUMMER 1999 IN PRINT

This is Harris' third and most pathology at the University of Body Speak: complex Lily Bard mystery. Bard, Texas School of Medicine, Houston. who lives in Shakespeare, AR, is Dowsing Your a karate devotee by choice and Body cleaning woman by trade. She is also a woman with a dark past By Anna Belle Verdeojos Y Pecas and a crack amateur sleuth. (Anna Belle Whiting '66). Tucson: In Shakespeare's Christmas, Bard Peggy's Prints. 130 pp. $12.75. heads home to Bartley, AR, for Dowsing is not just a method her sister Varena's wedding. So of searching for an underground does her private-detective water supply. One can also body boyfriend who is investigating a dowse in the quest for good four-year-old unsolved kidnap- health, and A.B. Whiting shows ping. Three fathers of eight-year- how to do it. Body Speak is a old girls, including her sister's step-by-step manual that pre- husband-to-be, are under suspi- sents an easy, straightforward don, keeping readers guessing way to divine answers regarding right up to the end. body symptoms. The book paints an excellent "Our evolution is taking us to portrait of family and small-town a place of balance," she writes in life. What's more, it places the her introduction. "Instead of our heroine in situations quite unlike Never Buried reliance on an immune system to past Lily Bard novels, opening By Edie Claire (Edie Vincent DEFEND our bodies, we will be up to the reader her heretofore Swihart '87). 248 pp. New York: moving toward BALANCE that tightly-guarded personality. Signet. $5.99. makes defense unnecessary for Leigh Koslow, an out-of-work good health....No matter what copywriter in Pittsburgh, is stay- our path or perspective, we are Understanding ing with her cousin Cara in her all here to heal and to integrate Victorian house overlooking the body, mind and spirit." M Anemia Ohio River. On a warm June By Ed Uthman, M.D. '74. 156 pp. morning Leigh makes a most Jackson: University Press of Missis- gruesome discovery—a 10-year- sippi. $37.50. old embalmed corpse lying in her "Anemia is one of the most cousin's hammock. What's more, common conditions encountered the house has a sinister history in medical practice, yet it is dating back to two mysterious poorly understood by the general deaths in the summer of 1949. public and can even give experi- Someone obviously wants enced doctors problems," Ed Uth- Leigh and Cara out of the man writes in his introduction. house. Not easily threatened, Written for the lay person, they set about finding out Understanding Anemia provides a who's threatening them and fairly sophisticated understand- why, and if the scandalous ing of the various causes of ane- deaths of 50 years ago were mia, the methods used to make accidents, suicides or murders. diagnoses and the principles The author, a veterinarian- of treatment. turned-novelist, keeps the reader Uthman is director of the med- on edge right up to the end. ical laboratory at Polly Ryon Memorial Hospital in Richmond, TX, and an adjunct assistant of

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ATHLETICS

Men's Soccer England for a month the summer men sixth in conference action. In before he entered college. their first seasons, both teams Team Makes "It made a great impression on performed above average, estab- Third Trip To me," he says, "and I'm a firm lishing themselves as rising believer that our students should forces against conference foes. Europe benefit from it, too." As the winter sports season Lynx soccer Coach Andy wound down, Rhodes' spring Marcinko and 15 players from Lynx Play Hard, sports were off and running. the men's soccer team will travel GOLF to Germany in August. There, Meet New Agnes Surowka finished 21st they'll play 4-5 matches against in a field of 63 at the NCAA Divi- German, Austrian and Czech Challenges In sion golf championship in teams, plus undergo regular Year Of 'Firsts' Orlando. One of two players training sessions. selected selected for the tourna- They'll also do some sightsee- By Susan Hughes '01 ment from the Eastern region, ing in Munich, Stuttgart, Bercht- This year was a year of firsts she beat her season average of 85 esgaden and Salzburg. in the Rhodes Athletic Depart- by two strokes. "It's an excellent opportunity ment. New physical education TRACK AND FIELD for students to During competition at the Uni- face different versity of the South in February, competition in both the men's and women's another part of teams finished a strong second to the world," says Depauw University. Individual Marcinko. honors included senior Jason This is the Walter's provisional and full third European qualifying for the NCAA tourna- trip for the ment. Matt Wilkinson placed sev- men's team. The enth in the javelin in the NCAA women have Division III track and field cham- been twice. pionships in Berea, OH, receiving According to All-American honors. NCAA rules, a TENNIS team can go Both tennis teams started the only once every season with ITA South regional three years. rankings, 15th for the men and "During our fifth for the women. Rising junior first trip in 1993, Kasey Sweeney advanced to the we went to the round of 16 at the NCAA Divi- Czech Republic Brian Stevens '02 ready to serve sion III Tennis Championships, and Slovakia qualifying as an All-American. when the Communist bloc was classes such as bowling and fenc- SOFTBALL breaking up," says Marcinko. ing were added to fulfill core The Lady Lynx took part in There were several international requirements, while varsity play history, attending the first SCAC studies majors on the team, and expanded to include two more softball tournament ever. In its it was an amazing educational sports. Not only did the Lady second year, the team added sev- experience to see it firsthand." Lynx field their first field hockey eral more road stops to a gruel- Only a few other U.S. colleges varsity team, producing an all- ing schedule of away games, make similar kinds of trips, says conference selection in Jill Peter- including a trip to Emory Univer- Marcinko, who had such an oppor- feso '00, but members of the sity in Atlanta. 13 tunity when he was 17. Selected to inaugural swimming and diving be on an all-star team, he went to teams placed women fifth and

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Brian Mott Named Rhodes' Director Of Alumni Brian Mott '88 has been named volunteer programs. media at Rhodes, is a noted Rhodes' director of alumni. He He has also worked as actor and director in Memphis succeeds Sally Jones '81 who held special events coordinator at community theater. the post for five years before the Memphis recently joining the Department Zoo and Aquar- of College Relations and ium, and for Communications as coordinator two years for college relations. directed the Mott comes to his alma mater Southern Opera from the Memphis in May Theatre, the International Festival (MIM), education / out- where he served as artistic reach arm of director for six years. Among his Opera duties at MIM were developing Memphis. and producing international Mott, who cultural programming and earned his B.A. managing the fine art poster and in theater/ Brian Mott Sally Jones

Make Your Plans For Homecoming, Oct. 29-30, 1999 Make plans now to come Memphis Hepcats and the rock bers of classes with years back to campus for the last 'n roll of The Bouffants. ending in '4 and '9 will Homecoming of the On Saturday, get a jump on celebrate reunion parties, and millennium. Even if it's not the day by participating in the young alumni will have the your reunion year, come stroll Homerunning 5K race opportunity to get together at a down memory lane, meet old sponsored by Rhodes students. downtown hot spot. friends and take advantage of Afterward, come hear Rhodes' While on campus, please all the weekend has to offer. new president, Dr. Bill Troutt, take the opportunity to visit the Homecoming provides a host at the Alumni Convocation. Clough-Hanson Gallery, shop of exciting activities for people Class and alumni award recipi- in the college bookstore and of all ages. Friday's schedule ents and this year's faculty por- browse Burrow Library's exhib- includes the Athletic Hall of trait honorand will also be it of memorabilia from Fame Luncheon, the Academic recognized at this time. Follow- Homecomings past. Festival with current and ing the convocation, enjoy the Homecoming weekend is retired faculty members and a annual Homecoming picnic always a busy one in Memphis, chamber music recital in the before cheering on the Lynx as so please make your travel Cloister. The day will end with they face the Trinity Tigers at plans early. For information an alumni and campus Fargason Field. As in years about hotel rates or Homecom- reception and dance in the past, the fifth year reunion class ing activities in general, call the Bryan Campus Life Center. will sponsor the "victory party" Alumni Office at 1-800-264- Musical entertainment will fea- during the game. LYNX or 843-3845 locally. ture the swing of The New On Saturday evening, mem-

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Alumni And Their '99 Graduates

Three generations of Rhodes alumni gath- ered at commencement for a family photo in the Bryan Campus Life Center. They are: 1. Dudley Baker '99 2. Rick Baker '65 3. Olivia DeLoach Baker '67 4. Ellen Baker '94 5. Ben Ball '99 6. Jean Mac Locke Ball '75 7. Mary Reid Colter '99 8. Ron Colter '70 9. Ellen Lackey Colter '71 10. Emily Dodson '99 11. Frank Dodson '71 12. Cathie Yongue Dodson '72 13. Lee Engwall '99 14. Wyatt Engwall '69 15. Helen Houston '99 16. Ellen Sams Nichol '73 17. Ferrol Sams H'94 18. Kacey Johnson '99 19.Cyrus Johnson '34 20. W.T. Johnson '99 21. Erin Stukey Johnson '73 22. Dagon Percer '99 23. Elizabeth Gale Nelson '32 24. Neely Sharp '99 25.Lee Sharp '70 26. Laura Simpson '99 27. Joe Simpson '71 28. Shelton Cole Simpson '74 29. Robert Walker '99 30. Otey Walker '68 31. Scott Gregory '63 32. Ruth Decker Seal '64 33. Julie Decker '99 34 RHODES SUMMER 1999 ALUMNI R.J. Harper Named Top PGA Professional R.J. Harper '78, director of golf PGA of America. also tournament director of the at California's famed Pebble Harper, who oversees the Peb- AT&T Pebble Beach National Beach, was recently named PGA ble Beach Golf Links, Spyglass Pro-Am and championship direc- Professional of the Year by the Hill and the links at Spanish Bay tor of the upcoming U.S. Open Northern California section of the and Del Monte Golf Course, is Championship in summer 2000.

Hampton Takes Post At SBA A Rose For

Elbert Hampton '88 has He has served as a Senate aide Hoffmann been appointed deputy to Al Gore as well as in the vice Shelley Hoffmann '96 has a assistant administrator for president's office, and for six years new job as production coordina- congressional affairs at the was a special assistant in the office tor for the nightly PBS Charlie Small Business Administration of the secretary of defense. Rose Show in New York. in Washington, DC.

Walters Returns Jane Walters '56, Tennessee commissioner of education for 4 1 / 2 years, has retired from Gov. Don Sundquist's cabinet. The former principal of Craigmont High School in Memphis has returned to her hometown to head the non-profit group Part- ners in Public Education, which helps raise funds for Memphis City Schools.

Hall Featured Jacquelyn Dowd Hall '65, who German football players, left to right: Brent Keller, Daniel Keel, Kyle Ryan founded the University of North and Don Purvis Carolina at Chapel Hill's oral history program 25 years ago, Lynx In Germany coach of the Kempten Comets was featured in the April 4, 1999 this spring, called Purvis when edition of The Chapel Hill News. Lynx alumni Don Purvis '97 he needed a receiver. He also along with Brent Keller '98 and needed a quarterback, so Daniel Keel and Kyle Ryan, Purvis gave Keller a call. Sharp Writing both '99, played football for the "Brent and I arrived on the Kempten Comets in Germany. first of April and as we say, the Todd Sharp '83 is currently a this year passing connection lives on!" staff writer for Chicken Soup for the "This was my second year The pair scored six Soul on the PAX-TV network. Each playing football in Germany," touchdowns in five games. episode of the hour-long anthology Purvis says. Last year I played Ryan and Keel, both defen- television series, based on the pop- for the Landsberg Express, and sive players Purvis also recom- ular books, features various film while I was there I became mended "to keep it in the and television actors starring in good friends with Gary Jungin- family," arrived in Germany short dramatic works. ger, a German player there." May 20. The show airs Tuesday evenings. Junginger, named head

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Crenshaw Named A 'Top Professor Doctor' Gordon Martha Crenshaw, a family Southard Dies practitioner in Stone Mountain, Gordon Douglas GA, was selected by Atlanta Southard, professor emer- magazine as one of Atlanta's itus of Spanish since 1984, "top doctors." She was featured died April 22, 1999 in in the May 1999 issue spotlight- Memphis. He was 81. ing the "area's best physicians." Dr. Southard joined She will also be included in a the faculty in the spring book, Top Doctors, published by of 1946. He received his the non-profit Center for the A.B. degree from the Col- Study of Services. lege of Wooster, A.M. from State University of Iowa and Ph.D. from the Correction University of Chicago. At Rhodes, he was chair Jerome Franklin '89 was given of the Spanish and Modern byterian Church, he leaves his the wrong job title in the spring Languages Departments, wife of 59 years, Louise Har- issue of RHODES. He is a developed and taught a ris Southard; a daughter, commercial mortgaged-backed course in English for interna- Christine Southard Darnall securities analyst with Univest tional students and was for '71 of Pueblo, CO; a son, Dou- Financial Services in Memphis. many years secretary-treasur- glas K. Southard '75 of Mem- Candace Keirns, M.D. '73 is a er of the college's chapter of phis; a sister, Jeannette Merrill senior investigator rather than a Phi Beta Kappa. of Toledo, OH; and three surgeon at the Institute Nacional An elder at Evergreen Pres- grandchildren. de la Nutricion in Mexico. RHODES regrets these errors.

Gail McClay Dies Program (REAP) for students in need. She was a member of the Gail C. McClay, associate Memphis Better Schools professor of education, died Committee and the Leadership May 9, 1999. She was 62. Memphis class of 1986. Dr. McClay came to Rhodes She held her B.S. degree from her hometown of from Upsala College, M.E. from Jacksonville, FL, in 1976 as an the University of North Florida adjunct professor, and was and Ph.D. from Washington named assistant professor in State University. 1981. She chaired the She leaves her husband, Jim department from 1982 until her Gilbert; three daughters, Laurie death. A member of numerous Cavallaro and Kimberly Warren academic committees, she of Atlanta, and Lisa Mullikin of received the Charles E. Diehl Memphis; three sons, Kevin Society Award for Faculty Ser- Cavallaro of Memphis, George vice in 1992. Cavallaro of Fort Lauderdale, The author of two books on FL, Brian Cavallaro of teaching, she founded the Jacksonville, FL, and a stepson, Rhodes Educational Assistance Justin Gilbert of Memphis.

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By Andrew Shulman '00 College in Springfield, MO, this SALLY CROSS Valerie Witte '00 spring. He was a professor of COLEMAN, Susan Hughes '01 music at the college. 01 SAM DRASH, CO-PRESIDENTS Rhodes International JIM TURNER, Nocr REUNION: FALL 2001 Alumni Association PRESIDENT Potter Cynthia Bringle's work was President Do NEXT REUNION: recently exhibited in a retrospec- Doug Fancher '64, Oxford, MS FALL 2001 tive at the Folk Art Center in Ann Barr Weems has written her Asheville, NC. HARTE THOMAS, seventh book, Putting the Amazing PRESIDENT Back in Grace, which will be out in FRANK JACKSON, NEXT REUNION: the fall. PRESIDENT Ocr. 29-30,1999 NEXT REUNION: Memphian Charles Crump this JIM AND MARGARET FALL 2002 spring received a 1999 ANN FAGAN EIKNER, Susan Huffman and Margaret Humanitarian Award from the CO-PRESIDENTS Minyard Dement recently traveled National Conference for Commu- NEXT REUNION: to Berlin and the former East nity and Justice. The award FALL 2002 German cities of Weimar, recognized his role as a founder Charlene Jayroe Allen has retired Eisenach, Erfurt, Leipzig, of Memphis Community Leader- from the University of Memphis, Potsdam, Wittenberg and the is- ship Training in 1968 and for where she taught in the English land of Rugen. paving the way for the Department for 38 years. integration of the Memphis Area Don Parker serves as chair of the MARGARET ROWE Chamber of Commerce and Yale Divinity School board of ad- FANCHER, PRESIDENT Rotary Club. visors. He is president of Parker NEXT REUNION: Consultants Inc. in Greenwich, CT. Ocr. 29-30, 1999 TOOF BROWN, John Dean was named the 1998 PRESIDENT SARA JEAN JACKSON, Land Realtor of America by the NEXT REUNION: PRESIDENT Realtors Land Institute at its win- FALL 2002 NEXT REUNION: ter meeting in Atlanta. He is B.J. Jones recently visited Bhutan Ocr. 29-30,1999 president and principal broker of and Northern India. A retired ge- Jane Barker Konitz has retired as Landmart Inc. and Dean Land & ologist with Chevron Oil Corp., director of Christian education at Realty Co. in Leland, MS, special- he lives in Encinitas, CA. New Hackensack Reformed izing in representing buyers and Church in Wappingers Falls, NY. sellers of investment grade farm- NEXT REUNION: She has been in education land throughout the South. FALL 2002 ministry for 40 years, the past 27 Challace McMillin, associate pro- Ben Shawhan is serv- at NHRC. She also recently fessor at James Madison Univer- ing as interim rector served as a delegate to the Gener- sity, was awarded the of St. Francis Episcopal Church in al Synod of the Reformed Church Distinguished Faculty Award by Victoria, TX. in America, representing the the university's Alumni regional synod of New York. Association. TO TAYLOR Ed Stock was recently elected Frances Freeman Paden has THRELKELD, president of the 3,800 alumni of been named the Charles Deering PRESIDENT Union Theological Seminary in McCormick University NEXT REUNION: Virginia. Distinguished Lecturer at OCT. 29-30, 1999 Northwestern University. Anne Riley Bourne of Camden, TN, KIM BAXTER HENLEY, recently received a leadership PRESIDENT Lou ELLYN HINDMAN award from the American Cancer NEXT REUNION: GRIFFIN, PRESIDENT Society. A 27-year cancer Ocr. 20-21, 2000 NEXT REUNION: survivor, she chairs the Cancer Morris Reagan retired from his ra- OCT. 20-21, 2000 Survivors of Benton County. diation oncology practice in July. Llewellyn Wood Bensfield, a trustee Pat Riegle Morehead of This fall he plans to teach chem- of the National Cathedral School Malden, MO, is chairman of the istry at St. Andrew's Episcopal for Girls in Washington, DC, is board of the Bootheel Youth Mu- School in Jackson, MS. chairing an effort to construct an seum and a member of the advi- $18 million underground athletic sory council of the Bootheel center on the Cathedral Close. Educational Consortium. The mother of four, she is educa- Sidney Vise retired from Drury tion coordinator for the Biotech- SUMMER 1999 RHODES 37 CLASS NOTES nology Industry Organization was featured as one of five she is a study coordinator in the trade association. Her husband, "Women Who Could Be Adult Psychiatry Department at Jim, practices law in Washington. President" in the February 7, Vanderbilt University. SEE MAR- Terri Skinner Chadwick of Hous- 1999 issue of Parade magazine. RIAGES ton is a psychologist with ADAPT The others who were featured Bob Doolittle of Greensboro, Counseling, working with sexual- were Hillary Rodham Clinton, NC, has been appointed medical ly abused and reactive children Elizabeth Dole, Dianne Feinstein director of the Guilford County and their families. and Christine Todd Whitman. School Health Affiance, a system Sterling "Jim" Greenwood, Jim Roper is senior pastor at of school-based clinics that will Aspen, CO, was quoted in the ar- Maury City-Floyd's Chapel Unit- eventually deliver medical and ticle "Wild Nights at the Jerome" ed Methodist Church in Maury psychological social services to in the May 1999 issue of Cowboys City, TN. more than 60,000 students. and Indians magazine. Bill Shepard is working on his Betty Cole Thompson is an asso- first novel which he hopes to re- BETTE DALE GARNER, ciate broker with McEnearney lease in the fall. He teaches at ANN GOTSCHALL Associates Realtors in McLean, Georgian Hills Junior High 72 SHARP , VA, and a member of the School in Memphis. CO-PRESIDENTS Northern Virginia Association of NEXT REUNION: FALL 2002 Realtors Multi-Million Dollar RUTH ANN SADLER Marianne Mussett has been elected Sales Club. HANEY, PRESIDENT vice president of Zonta Club of U NEXT REUNION: Toledo. A law librarian serving KRIS PRUITT, Ocr. 20-21, 2000 the federal judges there, she is PRESIDENT Causaundra Owens Bradley has re- also a volunteer wedding coordi- NEXT REUNION: ceived her Ph.D. in educational nator at her church and is learn- 67 FALL 2002 psychology and research from ing to be a webmaster. Dell Bailey Kinlaw is assistant the University of Memphis. Sylvia Thomas Williams is work- director of the South Carolina Terry Hawkins, chairman and ing on a second bachelor's degree, Budget and Control Board in CEO of OneSource Group Inc., a in communications, at the Univer- Columbia, SC. Clearwater, FL-based insurance sity of Texas at Arlington. She has Bob Mehrle of Lambert, MS, is a broker, was featured in the Jan. worked as a flight attendant with partner at Mid-South AgData, 15, 1999 edition of the Tampa Bay Delta Airlines for almost 26 years. managing and analyzing site spe- Business Journal. cific data in agriculture. Randall Mullins was featured in IAN MANNING SAMPLE, the Feb. 14, 1999 edition of the PRESIDENT JANE BISHOP BRYSON, Memphis Commercial Appeal. He NEXT REUNION: RON GIBSON, BOB is an ordained United Church of FALL 2003 MORRIS, Christ minister living near Seattle Susan Witt of Greenbrae, GA, is a CO-PRESIDENTS who has gone on missions of distributor for Rexall Showcase NEXT REUNION: FALL 2003 mercy around the world. International. Ron Gibson is a senior analyst pro- Cynthia Gladney Steele works as grammer at Federal Express. director of development and vol- LARRY ANDERSON, Ellen Plants Massey retired last unteers at the Housing Crisis PRESIDENT August and is "busy doing every- Center, an agency whose mission NEXT REUNION: thing that I didn't have time to is to prevent homelessness in Ocr. 29-30,1999 do while working." Dallas. Ward Archer received the 1999 Marketer of the Year award from NEXT REUNION: BETHA HUBBARD the Memphis chapter of the Ocr. 29-30, 1999 GILL, LAURIANN American Marketing Association. Mahlon DuPree is a LINES HEISLER, He serves on the national board system specialist with CO-PRESIDENTS of the American Association of Bergen Brunswig Corp. in NEXT REUNION: FALL 2001 Advertising Agencies in New Orange, CA. Jim Cogswell, an art professor at York and the National Ann Marie Hudson Hanlon has a the University of Michigan, had a Advertising Review Board. new job as the 7th grade chair recent show titled "The Susan Clark has been appointed and world history teacher at Anthropomorphic Alphabet" at a member of the Burch, Porter & Wesleyan School in Atlanta. the Maitland (FL) Art Center. Johnson law firm in Memphis. John Hills is now vice president Duncan Currey and Barbee Smith Houston Craddock, Memphis, is of advancement and marketing at '72 live in Nashville, where he is product manager of Askew, Juniata College in Huntingdon, PA. a clinical psychologist with Eve- Nixon, Ferguson Architects. Army Lt. Gen. Claudia Kennedy lyn Frye Clinical Associates, and 38 RHODES SUMMER 1999 CIASS NorrEs

VICKERS DEMETRIO England, will air in the U.S. on Southwest region, headquartered IOHNSON, PRESIDENT the Learning Channel this year. in San Antonio, TX. He manages 70 NEXT REUNION: In addition, she contributes to a the Road Runner High Speed on- FALL 2001 political column in the Washing- line service. Marilyn Buford is the national pro- ton Post Sunday Magazine. Elizabeth Bourne Webb was gram leader for quantitative ecol- Carol Fuqua Koenig, Brentwood, named Outstanding Graduate ogy research with the USDA TN, owns a marketing consulting Student in Social Work at the Forest Service in Washington, DC. firm and a travel agency that spe- University of Southern Indiana. Paul and Wanda Webb Carruthers cializes in group, inventive and She will receive her graduate de- '78 live on a mountain overlook- leisure travel. She recently served gree in August 1999. ing the Blue Ridge Parkway in as president of the Direct Market- Roanoke, VA. Wanda received an ing Association of Tennessee and JIM TAYLOR, honorable mention award for a vice president of fundraising for PRESIDENT short story she wrote, titled "Say Edmundson Elementary School. NEXT REUNION: Goodbye to Memphis," at the Lisa Longmire of Nashville has FALL 2002 Virginia Highlands Festival been promoted to oncology spe- Philip Howie had a solo exhibit of Creative Writing contest. cialist with Rhone-Poulenc Rover sculpture and drawings at the Nancy Ferrell recently accepted Pharmaceuticals, where she has AAA Gallery in New York City a position as epidemiologist with worked for the past 10 years. this spring. He has also exhibited the HIV / AIDS program of Public at the Art Dealers Association of Health in Seattle and King JOHN CHANDLER, America and at the Arnot Art County, WA. She works with the GWEN JONES PARRISH, Museum in Elmira, NY. HIV Incidence Study, a research CO-PRESIDENTS Greg Peters, chief executive of project in collaboration with the NEXT REUNION: Vignette Corp. in Austin, TX, was Centers for Disease OCT. 29-30, 1999 recently featured in an article in Control and Prevention and the Kelli Walker-Jones is associate pas the Austin American-Statesman. FDA. It is one of five field studies tor at Highland United Methodist in the U.S. funded to research Church in Raleigh, NC. PERRY DEMENT, LS-EIA, an HIV test that may de- PRESIDENT termine whether a person has DEBORAH LEGG NEXT REUNION: been recently infected. SEE SULLIVAN, GLORIA FALL 2003 MARRIAGES 80 WHITE , John Adams has been named Arthur Kellermann, director of CO-PRESIDENTS director of equity research at the Center for Injury Control at NEXT REUNION: Ocr. 20-21, 2000 Dain Rauscher Wessels in Emory University, was Ray Methvin is a music producer Minneapolis. He leads the securi- interviewed on NBC and CBS na- at Mercury Records in Nashville. ties firm's analysts in seven cities. tional news regarding gun He produced a Jenny Simpson al- Navy Lt. Commander Russ violence and the Littleton, CO, bum last year and a recent come- Ashford is head of the China shootings. dy project with Shane Caldwell. research group at the U.S. Pacific Command at Pearl Harbor. MIKE CLARY, STACY ABERNETHY, J. Pat Beaird is the director of PRESIDENT KATHLEEN WILLS inside sales for Innovative 77 NEXT REUNION: 81 CHANDLER, Knowledge Products in Atlanta. FALL 2002 CO-PRESIDENTS John Bock is teaching in the an- Cathy Coates of Miami has recent- NEXT REUNION: FALL 2001 thropology department at the ly retired from FENDI. She is Melissa Appleton, Memphis, has University of New Mexico. He is now traveling and doing volun- been named director of the also doing research in the teer work related to local history region's only adult AIDS clinic. Okavango Delta of Botswana on and the environment. Jim and Emily Parke Balch of population, ecology and econom- Little Rock co-own Jimily's ic development among the BRUCE GUYTON, Gourmet Provisions, a gourmet indigenous peoples of the PRESIDENT food /cheese shop /home meal re- Okavango. 78 NEXT REUNION: placement/catering business. Lewis Kalmbach recently served FALL 2003 Mike Olcott has taken the posi- as chair of an event for Pets Are Anne Herbers Farris was an tion of research associate in the Wonderful Support (PAWS) at interviewer for a British Channel Department of Biochemistry and Union Square in San Francisco. 4 documentary about President Biophysics at Oregon State The event raised $65,000 to help and Mrs. Clinton. The documen- University. AIDS patients remain with their tary, which has been nominated Stuart Seal is vice president of pets for as long as possible. for a Broadcast Award in marketing for Time Warner, Scott Rye's article, "Burn the

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Rebel Pirate," appeared in the for the Parts Plus Group Inc. in David Porter is a DRG coordina- June 1999 issue of Civil War Memphis. tor with PBMC-E in Easley, SC. Times, the journal of the Dudley Boren Selinger works at American Civil War. The piece AMY DONAHO HOWELL, First American Bank in Nashville. details a September 1861 raid on PRESIDENT In her spare time she works with a suspected Confederate priva- tib NEXT REUNION: her husband on their "fixer- teer at the Pensacola Navy Yard. FALL 2001 upper home" and serves on the Joe Sansone's company, TMC Keith Compton is a research associ- board of the American Diabetes Orthopedic Supplies Inc. in ate for the International Institute Association. Bellaire, TX, was included in Inc. for Applied Systems Analysis in Mark Stamps is president of magazine's Inc. 500 list. Austria. Stamps Financial Associates in Dennis Sossaman is 1998-99 John Marr has been appointed Franklin, TN. chair of the Tennessee Bar director for the Perry Al Taylor has advanced to Association Divorce and Family Foundation's Caribbean Marine fellow status in the American Law Section. He is with the Research Center in West Palm College of Healthcare Executives. Lucas, Thompson, Ryan & Beach, FL. He and his family now He is the administrator of Milan Sossaman law firm in Memphis. live in Jupiter Beach. (TN) General Hospital.

Elizabeth McCraven, Somerset, Jennifer Thomas-Starck is assis- AMY DOVILLE, TRACY NJ, recently purchased a home tant director of the center for in- VEZINA PATTERSON, and has started a company, CRK ternational studies at Boston CO-PRESIDENTS Media, which specializes in mak- College. NEXT REUNION: ing internal corporate web sites, Nate Tipton received his M.A. Ocr. 29-30, 1999 as well as web sites for small and in English literature from the Richard Barnes is associate general medium-sized businesses. University of Memphis and is counsel at Scientific Atlanta Inc. Mose Payne, who previously now in the English Ph.D. SEE BIRTHS worked as supervisor in the legal program at the University of Edgar Howard is an division at Blue Cross/Blue Mississippi. In the winter, he pre- attorney/partner with the firm of Shield of Tennessee in sented a paper on Thomas Mann Ford & Howard in Gadsden, AL. Chattanooga, was recently and Allan Gurganus at the Joanna McIntosh of Alexandria, promoted to the position of staff University of Louisville's 20th VA, is leaving the office of the attorney at Blue Cross/Blue Century Literature Conference. U.S. Trade Representative, where Shield Tennessee. she has been an attorney for Scott Sweetser has been KATE ZEITLER VERGOS, almost six years, to become the promoted to major in the U.S. PRESIDENT vice president for international Army. He is a senior fellow at the NEXT REUNION: affairs at AT&T. George C. Marshall Center for FALL 2003 European Security Studies in Lance Baker works as assistant KAREN LARSON, Germany. He recently completed district attorney in Clarksville, BEV THOMAS a four month internship as a liai- TN. He and his wife Sherry have WILLIAMS, son officer to the Russian two children, Amber, 9, and CO-PRESIDENTS Separate Airborne Brigade in William Addison, 2. NEXT REUNION: Ocr. 20-21, 2000 Bosnia-Herzegovina. Virginia Henley Matheny, Uvy Brien has begun a private prac- John Telford is senior vice presi- Memphis, is a senior member ser- tice, Advanced Diagnostic Imaging, dent of commercial foreign vice sales representative for in Nashville. SEE BIRTHS exchange for the Americas at Harrah's Entertainment. SEE Robin Newcomb Miller of Thomas Cook Group in Toronto. MARRIAGES Germantown, TN, has started a Joel VVIINams is a plastic surgeon home—based business called at Williams Plastic and BOB COLEMAN, EILEEN Sweet Celebrations, which Reconstructive Surgery in Dalton, RUFFIN WOOD, specializes in custom—designed GA. CO-PRESIDENTS cakes and desserts. SEE BIRTHS NEXT REUNION: Julia Weaver recently started a SAM BRIDEN, Ocr. 29-30, 1999 consulting business, Healthy PRESIDENT William Holden recently received Community Consulting. Based in NEXT REUNION: his M.S. degree in instruction and Denver, the company provides FALL 2002 curriculum leadership from the services to non-profit Laura McKinney, who has finished University of Memphis. He is the organizations, philanthropies and her second year of law school at proprietor/developer of local governments. the University of Arizona, is GreenSkies Web Design Services Christie Vallandingham Weir is Jerking with the Pima County in Memphis. marketing program coordinator Attorney's Civil Division. Greg Krosnes of Memphis

40 MIMFL SUMMER 1999 CLASS NarEs played emcee Frankie Cavalier in finished his M.B.A. at Xavier Pathology" and has received his the Circuit Playhouse production University in Cincinnati. Ph.D. in pharmacology from the of Pageant. Rob Swords has a fellowship in University of Alabama at Russell Porter is with Powell infectious disease medicine at the Birmingham. He is currently Tate, a Washington, DC, public Medical College of South Carolina. working as an actor and model in affairs firm. Last year he received SEE BIRTHS Birmingham under the name his M.A. degree in international Joe Tamborello graduated from Michael Leslie. economics and Latin American the Florida State University Ann Nichol received her law de- politics from The Johns Hopkins College of Law and is an associ- gree from the University of School of Advanced International ate attorney with Fisher, Oregon. She is an associate at Studies. Rushmer, Werrenrath, Dickson, Perkins Coie in Portland, OR, Becky Delugach Ruddle is a Talley & Dunlap in Orlando. where she practices general Minneapolis Public Schools Perri Tantiilo is a financial litigation. psychologist. services professional for Ray Rando works for ESPS in Chuck and Elizabeth Orr Wade MassMutual / Levin Financial San Diego, promoting and selling '91 live in Little Rock, where Group in Tampa, FL. software to biopharmaceutical Chuck now works with Univest Kimten Williams Wade has been companies on the West Coast. Financial Systems. Elizabeth appointed assistant training Shlipa Reddy recently left recently completed her master of director for the Mississippi State Capitol Hill and is now a health administration degree at Hospital psychology pre-doctoral program manager at the the University of Arkansas, Little internship program. Department of Justice, Office of Rock and is now teaching two Walker Weliford has joined the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency evening classes for the master's commercial real estate firm of Prevention. program. SEE BIRTHS Grubb and Ellis in Atlanta. Katie Jacobs Stanton of Menlo Wes Williams is an attorney Dave Williams is senior network Park, CA, is now working as in- with Markow, Walker & Reeves engineer at AT&T Solutions in ternational finance producer for in Ridgeland, MS. Durham, NC. Yahoo!, responsible for building and maintaining all Yahoo! JOHANNA VANDEGRIFT MARJORIE THIGPEN finance sites worldwide. LEHFELDT, PRESIDENT CARTER, PRESIDENT Ray Turcotte is an associate in NEXT REUNION: NEXT REUNION: the commercial litigation section Ocr. 20-21, 2000 FALL 2001 of Adams and Reese law firm in Cay Chastain has accepted a posi- David Agee is national sales officer New Orleans. SEE BIRTHS tion as assistant professor of art for Regions Bank in Birmingham. Kim Wright is now an assistant history at North Georgia College Dany Beylerlan is director of global vice president with and State University in Dahlone- corporate relations at Eurasia Citicorp in New York. ga, where she will also direct the Group in New York. SEE college art galleries. In addition, MARRIAGES SCOTT PEATROSS, she has been appointed new John Borden has been named a PRESIDENT artists review coordinator at the NEXT REUNION: partner in Red Hot Law Group of 92 FALL 2002 Center Gallery in the Nacoochee Ashley, a law firm in Atlanta that Valley. She previously taught at specializes in the representation Greg Bateman of Alexandria, VA, Piedmont College. of high technology companies, in- was recently promoted to Laura Harper works as a sales cluding venture capital financing business development manager manager for Hilton Hotels in San and intellectual property matters. for Enterprise Applications at Diego. Kay Sessoms Jacobi has a new Microsoft. He is responsible for Michael James recently accept- position as a clinical social worker knowledge management and ed a position as account supervi- in the Welfare to Work Program business operations marketing sor for Thompson & Baker, the in Arlington County, VA. for the Mid-Atlantic district. public relations division of JoAnn Lynen lives in Costa Rica Kimberly Brawner is marketing Memphis-based Thompson & where she is the director of oper- coordinator at Wang's Company. He was formerly asso- ations at ILISA Languge School. International Inc. in Memphis. ciate publisher for the book divi- SEE BIRTHS Erica Blank Bronson is director sion of Towery Publishing. Seth McDaniel joined Deloitte of international trade Tony Jernigan is a senior and Touche in Atlanta as a senior development for the Greater computer specialist at Columbia manager. Dallas Chamber of Commerce. Service Group in Atlanta. Mike Miller recently defended Laura Cabanlllas is a senior sys- Marcus Kimbrough is a trade his doctoral dissertation, "A pu- tems analyst for Ellerbe Becket in marketing manager for Borden tative role for tissue transglutam- Minneapolis. She recently Foods in Chicago. He recently inase in Alzheimer's Disease finished her M.B.A. in SUMMER 1999 RHODES 41 CLASS NarEs

information decision sciences and for for the Greenville, MS, Area Tare Odle recently graduated is "avidly pursuing my English Chamber of Commerce. from Texas Tech medical school equitation hobby, training for Katie Braden is a senior associ- in El Paso. dressage shows and jumping." ate with Fierce and Isakowitz in Katherine Goodioe Peatross is se- Kimberly Colyer Coleman lives in Washington, D.C. nior clinical manager at Raleigh, NC. She recently Doug Brumley is a freelance Dogwood Village, a section of received a master's degree in writer and proofreader for the Youth Villages in Memphis. nursing from the University of Nashville Scene. He also maintains Navy Lt. Art Record was Missouri-St. Louis. the official web site for the band recently awarded the Navy and Catherine Cooper was recently Sixpence None the Richer. Marine Corps Commendation promoted to the private banking Lynn Crabb is an academic Medal for service as a legal assis- department at AmSouth bank in adviser for the College of tance attorney and defense coun- Birmingham and has passed the Engineering at the University of sel. He currently lives in series 7 securities exam. Maryland, Baltimore County. Washington, D.C., where he is a Rankin Payne Cox is a supervi- Melissa de Celles is a computer legal adviser in the office of the sor for Intercept, Youth Villages' programmer at SAIC in Falls Judge Advocate General. home-based counseling program Church, VA. Shelley Smith of Savannah, GA, in Memphis. Chris Geiger is an accounting owns the Venus de Milo and Dana Peterson Forlano is a manager at Comdata in Athena Gallery and is in the senior tester for Ericsson Ltd.'s Brentwood, TN. process of opening a wine and Intelligent Network in Great Katherine Gore exhibited her dessert bar. Britain. SEE MARRIAGES work at the "New Artists One" Paula Porter Snyder is director Allison Fuss has a new position show presented by Delta Axis of financial management at Hub- in the American history and Marshall Arts in Memphis bard Health Care in Boone, NC. department at the U.S. Naval this past winter. Academy. She was formerly an Drew Henry has been accepted NANCY TURNER, assistant professor of American as a candidate for the ministry. PRESIDENT history at Notre Dame. He is completing seminary in Ar- 94 NEXT REUNION: Steve Horn has received his gentina. OCT. 29-30, 1999 Ph.D. in New Testament from the Erin Hubbell recently moved Liz Boucher is the MIT New Orleans Baptist Theological from Utah to Boulder, CO, where publications processor and refer- Seminary. she teaches literacy at Mead Mid- ence assistant at the Kelly Leach recently received dle School. Massachusetts Institute of Tech- her M.B.A. from Columbia Paul and Amanda Gatlin nology Institute Archives. She is Business School. She has joined Knapstein '94 live in Helena, AL. completing her master's degree the Time Inc. unit of Time Paul is a teacher and coach at in library science at Simmons Warner as an associate marketing John Carroll High School, and College. manager in New York. Amanda is a senior staff accoun- Samantha Burkett has been pro- Jane Ann Lampton Moore recent- tant with KPMG Peat Marwick. moted to council manager at the ly graduated from the University SEE BIRTHS United Way of Metroplitan of Mississippi School of Medicine Caroline Knight is assistant vice Nashville. and is beginning a residency in president in credit and market Alan and Amanda Coe Burton live the Department of Family Medi- analytics at First Union in in Stone Mountain, GA. Alan com- cine at Duke University. SEE Charlotte, NC. pleted his master's degree in health MARRIAGES John Little is a financial consul- promotion and works for the Shelby Scott recently graduated tant with Robinson-Humphrey in Peachtree Center Athletic Club. from the South Texas College of Hilton Head Island, SC. Amanda works for Andersen Con- Law at Texas A&M University. Ken Mllman will begin pursuing sulting. SEE BIRTHS Trey White is a computer scien- his M.B.A. at the University of Chip Campbell works as a fixed tist at Oak Ridge National Labo- Texas at Austin this fall. SEE income portfolio manager for ratory in Oak Ridge, TN. MARRIAGES Trustco Capital Management in Sean Nighbert completed his Atlanta. He graduated from the LYNN CRAM M.F.A. in creative writing at University of South Carolina law PRESIDENT Southwest Texas State University. school in 1998. NEXT REUNION: He is currently director of the Marlene Cardoze is a FALL 2003 Macintosh Writing Lab at South- relationship manager, financial Scott Alexander is an attorney west Texas State, where he teach- institutions, for Citibank in with Murphy Austin Adams es writing. He also teaches Panama City, Panama. Schoenfeld in Sacramento, CA. developmental writing at Austin J. Briggs Cormier is a graduate Doug Bacon is executive direc- Community College. teaching associate at the Ohio 42 RHME SUMMER 1999 CLASS NOTES

State University Department of CLYDE HENDERSON, Memphis, teaching social and Theatre. PRESIDENT competitive ballroom dancing. Doug ComIlle will attend the `AD NEXT REUNION: She and partner Jay Huff are the Fuqua School of Business at Ocr. 20-21, 2000 current champions in the Ameri- Duke University in the fall. Daniel Bowker received a master's can Closed Smooth Dances for Carol Culpepper has been degree in philosophy from the the southern regions. She also de- promoted to marketing director University of Kentucky, where he signs and makes costumes for at Towery Publishing in now works as a teaching assistant. amateur and professional Memphis. Susannah Bowles has been ap- competitors. Stacey Greenberg recently pointed director of collections Donna Halloran has graduated received her master's degree in and programs for the Peoria, IL, from the University of Texas-San urban anthropology from the Historical Society. Antonio medical school and will University of Memphis. She cur- Aaron Brenner is director of begin a residency in pediatrics at rently works as an account Projecto Derecto Del Corazon, Vanderbilt University. research analyst at Memphis the Donna Cultural Arts Center, Buck Knott is a financial Light, Gas and Water. SEE which he established. In 1998 he analyst at Suntrust Banks Inc. in MARRIAGES was named Donna, TX, District Atlanta. Darin Hornsby is a senior Teacher of the Year. Adin Lam has joined the law systems specialist in call center Jorge de Castro, a project firm of Baker, Donelson, operations for Capital One in consultant at Intersky Inc., plans Beaman & Caldwell as an asso- Richmond, VA. to pursue his M.B.A. at the Uni- ciate in its Nashville office. Andy Likes is a news producer versity of Wisconsin-Madison in Christy McDowell works in the for KSDK-TV News Channel 5 in the fall. foster care department of Youth St. Louis. SEE MARRIAGES Brian Coldren is assistant direc- Villages in Nashville. Rachel Wooldridge McCone is di- tor of campus recreation at Camille Napier will enter rector of career development at Creighton University in Omaha, Harvard University's Graduate Hendrix College. NE. School of Education in the fall to Sean McCrary is assistant vice Ronald Coleridge works at the pursue an M.Ed. degree and president at Collins Associates, a Latin American division of teaching certification in middle reinsurance broker, in Dallas. Standard Chartered Bank in school language arts. Rossanna Punzalan is an area di- Miami. Laura Lyons Chamfer is a financial rector for the Department of Andrea Dexter teaches planning associate and service co- Residence Life and Judicial kindergarten at Mountain Brook ordinator at Asset Planning Corp. Affairs at Rutgers College. Elementary School in in Knoxville. She is a certified fi- Greg Stewart is a resident in or- Birmingham. nancial planner candidate enrolled thopedic surgery at the Eddie Dieppe is a CPA at in the College of Financial University of Mississippi. SEE Morrison, Brown, Argis and Co. Planning's CFP curriculum. BIRTHS in Miami. Judd Peak is an attorney with Mark Strickland recently passed Julie Walker Eaton was recently Bateman, Gibson & Childers in the CPA exam and is associated promoted from admissions coun- Memphis. with Marston-Gordon in selor to assistant director of Attorney Keith Rivers works in Memphis. admissions at Christian Brothers Knoxville, TN, for the Tennessee Valerie Webb is an attorney at University in Memphis. Court of Criminal Appeals. Bass & Sims in Nashville. Elisabeth Estes has joined Shelby Scott recently earned Scott Wells and Amy Hall '96 Fitzgerald & Co. in Atlanta as di- her J.D. degree from Texas A&M live in Austin, TX. Scott is a rector of communications. University. senior software engineer for Melinda Ewert - Kincses works at Carrie Shollmier is a loan officer Vignette, an Internet software Mercedes-Benz Lease Finanz in in executive banking at First company, and Amy is a produc- Stuttgart, Germany. She and hus- Tennessee, Memphis. tion editor for Publishers band Wilhelm-Emil live in Teresa Tenpenny is doing her Resource Group. Tubingen. residency in family practice at Ashley White is director of Katy Garrett graduated from Deaconess hospital in St. Louis. international marketing at Tyson the University of North Carolina She received her M.D. degree Foods Inc. Dental School this spring and is from the University of Arkansas practicing dentistry in Cary, NC. Medical School. Dipak Ghosh is manager of ap- Stephanie Wesson Thompson is plication support at re:Member an applications specialist in the Data Services Inc. in Indianapolis. product management department Hillary Gottemoeller works at the of Computational Systems Inc. in Fred Astaire Dance Studio in East Knoxville. SUMMER 1999 RHODES 43 CLASS NorrEs

Chris Williams is an environ- MARRIAGES Law in the fall. mental scientist at Bhate Environ- Thu Hoang of San Antonio Amy Alderson is an assistant to mental Associates Inc. in recently graduated from St. the chief of staff for U.S. Senator Birmingham. Mary's University School of Law. John McCain (R-AZ). She previ- Ron Workman recently began a Albert Johnson signed with the ously worked with former House general surgery residency. He Hague Jumpers basketball team in Speaker Newt Gingrich. graduated from Vanderbilt The Netherlands earlier this year. Julie Battacharya will begin her School of Medicine this spring. Sara Kraabel is a research tech- third year of law school at the SEE MARRIAGES nician in the Department of University of Memphis this fall. Radiology at Duke University She is managing editor of the SCOTT BROWN. Medical Center. Law Review and after graduation PRESIDENT Emily Kurzeka is an assistant will clerk for the Hon. William C. NEXT REUNION: publicist with Dennis Davidson Koch, Tennessee Court of FALL 2001 Associates in Los Angeles, where Appeals. Matt Bettrldge has returned to she has been doing international Allen Boudreaux, a rising third- Memphis after a two-year stint in publicity for movies for two year law student at Tulane Law the Peace Corps teaching AIDS years. She is moving to Asia to School, has been elected awareness in Malawi. SEE teach English as a second president of the Tulane Graduate MARRIAGES language in August. and Professional Student Myles Bogner is a computer sci- Jennifer Larson is associate Government. He is the founding ence research assistant at the director of public relations for the editor-in-chief of the Tulane Jour- University of Memphis. Church Health Center in nal of Technology and Intellectual Heather Hamby Bonnett is a pro- Memphis. Property. gram coordinator at the Christy McFarland is the urban Heather Coleman recently American Prostate Cancer Center missions coordinator for Christ received a master of music in Atlanta. United Methodist Church in degree in vocal performance Nell and Courtney Poole Brunetz Memphis. from the Boston Conservatory. '97 live in Knoxville, where he is Phuong Kim Nguyen will attend Rachel Day is a security analyst in law school and she is market- the University of Tennessee, at Mastrapasqua & Associates in ing manager for the Tennessee Memphis College of Pharmacy in Nashville. SEE MARRIAGES State Soccer Association. the fall. David Dunlap teaches business Ravi Chauhan recently graduat- Athena Petropoulas received her English at Corporate Communi- ed from the University of M.F.A. in graphic design from In- cations in Budapest, Hungary. Tennessee, Memphis College of diana State University in Terre Army Lt. Ben Gohman spent Medicine, where he is doing his Haute this spring. the winter in Central America residency in surgery. SEE Corey Saba recently completed helping with the relief effort in MARRIAGES her first year of veterinary school the wake of Hurricane Mitch. Rob Downey, Memphis, is lease at Lousiana State University. Chris Landis is a residential case administrator in ServiceMaster's Christie Smith is teaching K-5 manager at Children's Community real estate department. science lab at Snowden School in Services Agency in Memphis. Derek and Julie Walker Eaton '95 Memphis. Christina St. Clair Lynch is direc- live in Memphis. Derek is in den- E. Smith is an associate with tor of quality management for tal school at the University of PwC in Atlanta. ComTrans in Phoenix. ComTrans Tennessee, Memphis, and Julie is Jennifer Warren is a network works in conjunction with a crisis pursuing her master's degree in marketing and compliance coor- center to provide behavioral leadership and policy studies at dinator at McKesson HBOC in health services to the indigent the University of Memphis and San Francisco. population of Phoenix. SEE working in the admissions office Cort and Robin Foliowell Winsett MARRIAGES at Christian Brothers '95 have moved to Nashville, Rob Marus received a second University. where Cort is executive director place award in the 1998 Associated Phuong Nguyen Fay of at Winsett-Simmonds, and Robin Church Press awards competition Hermitage, TN, works as a quali- is with First American Bank. for a recent article regarding a law- ty assurance analyst at Healthcare suit filed by the ACLU against the Management Systems Inc. She CATHERINE CARTER city of Republic, MO, because of and her husband Eric are youth PERRY, ALISON Republic's refusal to remove a advisers for their church and ac- SANTILLO WOODROW, Christian symbol from its city logo. tive in Hands on Nashville. CO-PRESIDENTS Holly Miller is with the Ryan Feeney recently graduat- NEXT REUNION: FALL 2002 Randolph Partnership Inc. public ed from the University of Missis- Leslie Abernathy will attend the relations agency in Atlanta. sippi Law School. SEE University of Denver College of Mollie Mills, education outreach

44 RHODES SUMMER 1999 Cuss NarEs coordinator at the Tennessee Marshall Arts this past winter in in philosophy at the University Performing Arts Center in Memphis. of Nebraska, Lincoln. Nashville, plans to take dasses at Suzie Wells, who recently Kate Maffei is an account asso- Watkins Film School in the fall, received her M.B.A. from ciate at Oden Marketing & where she will pursue a certificate Louisiana State University, now Design in Memphis. in film production. works as a staff auditor at the Maggie McDonald will pursue Sadler Norris is with UNUM United Parcel Service headquar- her master's degree in social Life insurance in Nashville. ters in Atlanta. work at Washington University David Norton is an analyst with Katherine Wooten was promot- in St. Louis. She plans to concen- Univest Financial Services in ed from counselor to placement trate in social and economic Memphis. specialist at Youth Villages in development, specializing in so- Chris Nunn, Memphis, is a CPA Memphis. cial service management. with KPMG Peat Marwick. Susan Meredith, a graduate stu- Anthea Perkerson is a trade as- DAMON NORCROSS, dent at the University of Georgia, sistant for the Canadian MICHAEL FABER, will work at Arthur Andersen in consulate in Atlanta. CO-PRESIDENTS Atlanta this fall. Brooke Porter exhibited her NEXT REUNION: Kathy Muth has joined the staff work at the "New Artists One" FALL 2003 at Rhodes' Burrow Library as the show presented by Delta Axis Danette Anding teaches second day circulation supervisor. and Marshall Arts in Memphis grade at Oakhaven Elementary Chad Myers, Memphis, has this past winter. School in Memphis. joined Morgan Keegan as an as- Joy Richmond, Memphis, is an Amy Anthony joined the staff of sociate, fixed income banking. investment analyst at First Sossaman Bateman & Associates Ryan Prewltt is with Tennessee Bank. She recently in Memphis, where she monitors Infospace.com in San Francisco. graduated from the Southeastern the development of creative ma- Navy Ensign Kristen Richards School of Commercial Lending. terials and works with all was commissioned as a naval of- Jennifer Smith has a new job as account service support staff. ficer this spring. She completed a research chemist at Luminex Scarlett Caldwell is working Officer Candidate School at Corporation in Austin, TX. for the Shelby County Naval Aviation Schools Rebekah Sobel of Richmond, Department of Children's Services Command in Pensacola, FL. VA, is a branch manager at First in Birmingham, AL. Tehsin Syed is an application Market Bank. Catherine Cook is a meeting ser- developer at Cerner Corp. in Josh and Ginger Crouch Spickler vices coordinator at Travel Kansas City, MO. live in Memphis. Ginger, an asso- Technology Group in Chicago. Lan To works with Eagle Rock in ciate equity analyst at Morgan Randy Ford recently began Colorado, a free residence school Keegan, was recently promoted physical therapy school at for students who are unsuccessful to associate vice president. Josh is Louisiana State University. in traditional high schools. a law clerk for a judge in the Di- Laura Goza is an English Emery Van Hook works for vision 5 Circuit Court in Shelby teacher and theater director at St. Dickie Brennan & Co. in New County. He will begin his third Andrew's Episcopal School in Orleans. year of law school in the fall. Jackson, MS. Angle Wellford will complete Ann Michelle Stanley will attend Beth Haag attends the Univer- the master's in accounting Harvard University School of sity of Memphis graduate school program at Rhodes in December Public Health this fall, pursuing a in sociology and works at the and plans to work at KPMG in doctor of science degree in the Center for Research on Women. January. environmental science and engi- Sarah Koehler is a development Fred Wix is a financial installa- neering program. assistant at the Community tion specialist at Health Care Charlotte Tumlpseed is an Foundation of Greater Memphis. Management Systems in auction coordinator at State of She previously worked as an edi- Nashville. the Art, an art auction company tor in the equity research depart- in Nashville. ment at Morgan Keegan. Beth Walls is an investment ad- Gerrltt Lageman was recently ministrator with the Capital admitted to a Ph.D. program in Group in Los Angeles. physics at Stanford University. Heather Tyler is lead sales rep- Sally Landham works at resentative for Chicago's Shake- Breckenridge Brewery in Memphis speare Repertory Theater. while pursuing her M.B.A. at the John Weeden was the curator University of Memphis. for the "New Artists One" show Clayton Littlejohn received a full presented by Delta Axis and fellowship to the Ph.D. program

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'95 Molly E. Caldwell to Andrew Marriages Keller Crosby, March 27, 1999, Births '57 Margaret "Peg" Jones Carter '77 Kelley Hinman and Callan Dallas. to Francis M. "Bud" Morris, Feb. White-Hinman, a daughter, '95 Maria Cawood to Paul 14, 1999. Elizabeth Anne, July 25, 1998. Edward Wright, Jan. 16, 1999. '59 Elizabeth Stafford to Fyke '79 Nathan and Margaret Bane '95 Jay M. Ezelle to Caroline Farmer, March 15, 1997. Schatzman, a son, William Elliot, Travis Turner, April 10, 1999, '72 Dorothy Barbee Smith to M. Jan. 22, 1999. Tuscaloosa, AL. Duncan Currey '71, March 15, 1999, '80 Joel and Kaycee Strickland '95 Kimberly Farmer to Richard Nashville. Hansel, a daughter, Susanna Finch '96, May 1, 1999, Memphis. '76 Nancy Ferrell to Michael Kathryn Hansel, Feb. 22, 1999. '95 Ron Workman to Liz Gundy, John Yde, Feb. 14, 1999, Alberta, '80 Robert and Amy Shankman, May 29, 1999. Canada. a daughter, Celia May, March 5, '95 Sarah Sears to Hakan Egeli, '87 Alan Harris to Carrie Hope 1999. May 7, 1999, Birmingham. Frazier, April 17, 1999, Houston. '82 John and Laura '96 Ravi Chauhan to Heather '88 Virginia B. Henley to Joey Holiandsworth Jernigan '84, a son, Evangeline Pearson, May 15, Darin Matheny, April 10, 1999. William Davis, Feb. 7, 1999. 1999, Memphis. '89 Anna-Catherine Wylie to Paul '82 Andy and Anca Marr, a '96 Ryan Feeney to Sandra E. Super, March 1998. daughter, Andrea Grace, Aug. 21, Holzhauser, Dec. 19, 1998. '91 Margaret D. Campbell to Joel 1998. '96 Jennifer Foster to Joe Mills Griffith, Sept. 19, 1998. '84 Richard and Bridget Barnes, '94, May 8, 1999, Nashville. '91 Dany Beylerlan to Felicia a son, Richard Tucker, March 12, '96 Sarah Frinks to Jon Michael Swindells, May 15, 1999. 1999. Morgan, April 17, 1999, '91 Kristal Marlow to Craig '84 Price and Johanna Glenn Tallahassee, FL. Gibson '90, May 29, 1999, Gillenwater, a daughter, Georgia '96 Marce Moreno to Matt Bet- Memphis. Glenn, Oct. 2, 1998. tridge, July 10, 1999, Memphis. '91 Courtney Ward to Jerry '84 Pete and LeVan Kimbrell '96 Cassandra Whetsell to John Chavez, June 12, 1999, Austin, TX. McClain '86, a son, William Theodore Runnels, October 1998, '92 Patrick Gamble to Anne Samuel, Jan. 7, 1998. Atlanta. Latane Lewis, June 5, 1999, '84 Edmund Plass and Barbara '96 Jill Schenk to Kingsley Memphis. Schweizer, a son, Jonathan Rutters, Dec. 19, 1998, Knoxville, '92 Jane Ann Lampton to Alan Schweizer Plass, April 23, 1999. TN. Rather Moore, June 5, 1999. '84 Todd and Mary Elizabeth '97 Barbara J. Bear to Jim Brice '92 Dana Peterson to Chris Tapp, a daughter, Rachel Kinney, April 17, 1999, Memphis. Forlano, Sept. 24, 1998. Elizabeth, Jan. 27, 1998. '97 Rachel Day to Aaron White, '92 Bradley Andrews Todd to '85 Uvy and Robyn Brien, a July 31, 1999. Elizabeth Coleman, April 10, daughter, Elizabeth Corinne, '97 Kelly Mallett to Rocky Hidal- 1999, Johns Island, SC. Dec. 20, 1998. go '96, May 30, 1998. '93 Ken Milman to Marcy '85 Neal and Amy Hazelwood '97 Amy Riddle to David Berlanstein, March 1999. McAtee '86, a son, William Neal McCollum, June 19, 1999. '93 Marlinee Clark to Eric Jr., May 4, 1998. '97 Alison Santillo to David Iverson, Feb. 13, 1999. '85 Stephen and Robin Woodrow, July 31, 1999. '93 Julie A. Montgomery to Dan Newcomb Miller, a son, Henry '97 Christina St. Clair to David C. Wood, Oct. 10, 1998. Terrell II, Jan. 6, 1999. Lynch, March 6, 1999. '94 Stacey Greenberg to Warren '85 Rand and Kelley Ashby Paul, '98 Amanda L. Grebe to Patrick Oster, March 14, 1999. a son, Robert Ashby, April 7, Michael Tamburrino, June 5, '94 Pace M. Harrison to Jeff 1999. 1999, Joplin, MO. Clark, May 22, 1999, Sevierville, '85 Virgil and Donna Starks, a '98 Allen Bernard Groves to TN. daughter, Anastasia Lea, March Victoria Lee Wessels, May 29, '94 Rakshanda M. Hussain to 2, 1998. 1999, Slidell, LA. Matthew Thomas Young, '86 David Dietrich and Cheryl '98 Nicole Horvath to Anthony March 6, 1999. Bowers, a son, Jacob Bowers Di- Patrick Roy, July 11, 1998. '94 Andy Likes to Brandy etrich, March 4, 1999. '98 Audrey K. O'Donnell to J. Eric Marshall, Oct. 17, 1998. '86 Matt and Patti Marsden, a Patrick '97, March 13, 1999, '94 Mary Elizabeth Neville to son, Jacob Andrew, Feb. 15, 1998. Nashville. John Richard Martin '95, Dec. 19, '87 Robert and Melinda Gard 1998. Henson, a son, Devin Andrew, '94 Patricia R. WhItehurst to Eric Sept. 13, 1998. Felton Johnson, Feb. 20, 1999. '87 Cary and Wendy Tallent

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Rotter, a son, Jacob Charles, Dec. 29, 1997. Montgomery, AL, Feb. 11, 1999. March 3, 1999. '92 Michael Low and Vikkie She was a volunteer with the '88 Scot and Michelle Rogan Holland, a son, Chapin Boer Low, United Way. Cowan, a son, Quinn Michael May 19, 1999. '31 Franklin E. Glass of Dayton, George, Sept. 22, 1998. '92 Kevin and Christine Kennedy TN, Feb. 24, 1999. A retired attor- '88 Guy and Tobl Lefebvre- Tilley '90, a son, Jackson Reed, ney, he leaves his wife, Mary Ballard, a daughter, Clarisse March 31, 1999. Stewart Glass '31, and three chil- MaIence Eloise, May 9, 1999. '93 Andy and Irmtraud Cowell, dren, Franklin Glass, Mary '88 Chris and Hope Lewis, a a daughter, Sophia Dessie Rose, Winifred Glass Rogers '52 and daughter, Kayley Grace, Nov. 8, June 8, 1999. Charles Glass. 1998. '93 Shea and Laura Jones Kent, '32 Pat. M. Barrett of '88 Bo and Anna Young, a a son, Garrison Eastin, April 20, Lexington, TN, Dec. 24, 1998. daughter, Mollie Wilkerson, 1999. Founder of the Barrett Law Firm, April 23, 1999. '93 Paul and Amanda Gatlin he received the Life Achievement '89 Dan and Robin Bearden Knapstein '94, a daughter, Eva Award from the Cumberland Gibson, a son, Daniel Nevin, Nov. Caroline, Oct. 30, 1998. School of Law in 1995. He served 17, 1998. '93 Jim and Keri Perry '94, a as Holmes County's first elected '89 Scott and Nancy Brown King son, James Murray, IV, Sept. 5, county prosecuting attorney for '90, a son, William Scott, April 1998. 35 years and as Holmes County 16, 1999. '94 Alan and Amanda Coe Board of Supervisors' board '89 Thomas and Virginia Nisbet Burton, a son, Vaud Alexander, attorney for 26 years. The Kittleman, a daughter, Ashton May 17, 1999. widower of Sarah Stephens Bar- Grace, Dec. 13, 1997. '94 John and Heather Fahey, a rett, he leaves two sons; two '89 Chuck and Elizabeth Orr daughter, Lane Ashton, July 31, daughters; and 15 grandchildren. Wade '91, a son, Ross Alexander, 1998. '33 Meta Russell Beal of July 21, 1998. '94 Scott and Lane Franklin, a Memphis, March 11, 1999. A '89 Don and Beth Havercamp daughter, Hayes Elizabeth, Nov. Member of St. John's Episcopal Willingham, a daughter, Allison 10, 1998. Church, she also belonged to the Lehmann, March 8, 1999. '94 Matthew Middleton and Woman's Club, the Little Book '90 Larry and Sheltie Ruoff Erika Ragan-Middleton, a son, Alex Club and Colonial Dames. She Creson, a daughter, Julia Barkley, Christian, April 30, 1998. leaves two sons; two sisters; and July 1998. '94 Bill and Kristin Horton Ritter, a grandchild. '90 Perry and Cheryl Anderson a daughter, Anne Helen, Jan. 7, '36 Jerry M. Porter of Memphis, LeBlanc, a daughter, Madeline 1999. April 18, 1999. Retired president Grace, April 14, 1999. '94 Greg and Amber Stewart, a of Rex Oil Co. in Florida, he '90 Rob and Stephanie Swords, daughter, Mary Keaton, July 8, leaves his wife, Jane Hulen Porter; a daughter, Annelise Delaney, 1998. a daughter; a son; a stepdaughter; Feb. 27, 1999. '94 Brad and Michelle a sister; five grandchildren; and '91 John and Lisa Borden, a McCormick Wyatt, James Chase, two great-grandchildren. daughter, Abigail Emily, June 15, June 9, 1999. '36 Norma Lee Willey of 1999. '95 Drew and Davis Laughlin Memphis, May 17, 1999. '91 Rich Buffington and Kaleigh McIntyre, a son, Andrews Chairman of fund-raising for the Donnelly '92, a son, Roland Lind- Newman, Jr., Nov. 10, 1998. Symphony Ball and board of as- say Donnelly-Bullington, April 6, sociates member of the Garden 1999. Club of America, she volunteered '91 Robert and Kern West Obituaries at the Neighborhood Christian Barclay, a son, Ryan Alexander, '30 Effie W. Porter of Memphis, Center, MIFA and the Church Dec. 30, 1998. May 26, 1999. A retired school Health Center. She received the '91 Manuel Joaquin and JoAnn teacher for Memphis City Norfleet Trophy, the Zone IX Lynen, a son, David Heitkamp Schools, she was selected as the Award for Creative Leadership Nicaragua Lynen, Jan. 29, 1999. Women's Executive Council's and the Outstanding Christian '91 Ray and Tammy Turcotte, a Business Woman of the Year in Service Award. The widow of W. daughter, Delaney Elizabeth, 1972. She was a member of Holy Howard Willey Jr., she leaves a Feb. 9, 1999. Trinity Episcopal Church, Altru- daughter; two sons; six '92 Brad and Amy Hill Dickerson sia Club, Beethoven Club and grandchildren; and a great- '94, a son, Braden Hill, April 29, Opera Club. She leaves five god- grandchild. 1999. children, a great niece and a '37 Allete Gates Caldwell of '92 Hill and Maria Ray cousin. Memphis, March 21, 1999. A for- Goodspeed, a son, Connor Patrick, '31 Mary Helen Freeman Beale of mer advertising manager for

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Levy's, she leaves her husband, surgeon in the Pacific during fore retiring in 1984. He leaves Jerome L. Caldwell; a daughter; World War II, he taught for 25 his wife, Mary Worrall Frissell; a and four sons. years at the University of daughter; two sons; and four '38 Edward R. Atkinson Sr. of Tennessee, Memphis as associate grandchildren. Clarksville, TN, Feb. 18, 1999. A professor of dermatology. He co- '46 Ann Bradshaw Portlock of member of the U.S. Army Marine founded the Flying Physicians Winter Haven, FL, June 11, 1998. Corps during World War II, he Association and the North Amer- She leaves her husband, Sam W. was also a flight surgeon with ican Clinical Dermatology Portlock, two daughters; and the Army Air Corps. A pediatri- Society. He was also a member of four sons. cian, he co-founded the Cutaneous Therapy Society, and '47 Martha Pittman Huey of Children's Clinic, was chief of he owned and flew private Hughes, AR, January 1999. She staff at Clarksville Memorial planes from 1953-89. He leaves was self-employed as a voice and Hospital and was a member of his wife, Florence de Luca Baird. piano teacher. the hospital's ethics committee. '41 Frank Z. Jemison Sr. of '48 Daymon G. Sutton of He co-founded the Clarksville- Memphis, Feb. 22, 1999. Realtor, Birmingham, Feb. 8, 1999. A Montgomery County Council of builder and chairman of the World War II Navy veteran, he Community Services and was a board of Jemison Inc., he worked with Goodyear Tire and member of the Montgomery developed the first co-op Rubber Co. for 33 years. A mem- County Board of Health and the apartment system. A lifelong ber of the Church of Christ, he United Way board of directors. A member of Second Presbyterian leaves his wife, Ruthie Sutton; deacon, elder and trustee of First Church, he leaves his wife, Peggy two daughters; two sons; 11 Presbyterian Church, he leaves Boyce Jemison; a daughter; two grandchildren; and three great- his wife, Anna Kathryn Wall sons; seven grandchildren; a sis- grandchildren. Atkinson; two sons, Edward ter, Joy Jemison Thierman; and '49 Dudley R. Cannon Sr. of Rudolph Atkinson, Jr. '67 and two brothers, W.D. Jemison Jr. Memphis, Aug. 3, 1995. He William Hunter Atkinson '72; '40 and John M. Jemison '44. leaves his wife, Sandra Cannon and a daughter, Elizabeth '42 Frances Fulmer Barnes of '49; and a daughter, Mary Dale Atkinson Gibson '68; a sister; and Memphis, March 5, 1999. She '91. two grandchildren. was a member of the Women's '49 Jo Ann Hancock Hassell of '38 Eugenia Tully Farrell of Auxiliary Corps during World Hernando, MS, May 10, 1999. A Memphis, May 20, 1999. A com- War II and was a retired member of Hernando Baptist municant of St. Louis Catholic Memphis City Schools teacher. A Church and the widow of James Church and the widow of Henry member of Buntyn Presbyterian Bowe Hassell, she leaves four Patrick Farrell, she leaves one Church and the widow of James daughters; a son; a sister, Bettye daughter, Genie White; four Richard Barnes, she leaves one Hancock Drew '47; and seven grandchildren; and four great- son, Richard F.D. Barnes; a sister; grandchildren. grandchildren. and a brother. '49 Donald Walton of Memphis, '39 J. Richard Barnes of '43 J. Winston Cocke of Jan. 31, 1997. He leaves his wife, Memphis, Dec. 31, 1998. A mem- Hernando, MS, April 17, 1999. Shela. ber of Buntyn Presbyterian Retired service manager for the '50 Carrie Mae Johnson Friesen Church, he leaves a son, Richard Coca-Cola Bottling Co. and a of Shawnee Mission, KS, May 14, F.D. Barnes; a sister; and a broth- member of Hernando Church of 1999. Organizer of the Junior er. Christ, he leaves his wife, June Tennis League and an avid '39 W. Edward French of W. Cocke; three daughters; a son; bridge player, she leaves her hus- Memphis, April 10, 1999. A two brothers and four grandchil- band, Will; three daughters; a World War II Army veteran, he dren. son; and two brothers, Curtis served as a captain in the Army '43 Joseph McGehee of Conroe, Johnson '36, Roy Johnson, and Medical Corps. He was former TX, March 1, 1999. A retired Robert Johnson. president of both the Memphis Presbyterian minister, he served '58 Sara Lee Ford Brown of Surgical Society and the seven churches in 40 years. He Deland, FL, May 20, 1999. An el- Department of Surgery at Baptist leaves his wife of 52 years, Coline der at First Presbyterian Church, Memorial Hospital. A member of "Toto" McGehee; a son; a daugh- she leaves her husband, Dr. Riveroaks Reformed Presbyterian ter; two brothers; and four grand- William David Brown '50; a Church, he leaves his wife of 57 children. daughter; two sons; six years, Betsye Fowler French '39; '44 Harry L. Frissell of grandchildren; her mother, three daughters; a brother; and Beaumont, TX, Sept. 22, 1997. He Lyllian R. Ford; and, three sisters, six grandchildren. was former head of the English Anne C. Robinson '60, Mary L. '40 John W. Baird Memphis, department at Lamar College, Herron '61, and Martha J. Taylor. May 8, 1999. A naval flight where he taught for 26 years be-

48 RHODES SUMMER 1999 Not Just Another Face In The Crowd

ndividuals use planned giving to strengthen Rhodes for a variety of reasons. For many, these reasons develop years after graduation. Others, like Robert Lee Stewart, Class of 1953, know during their college days that I one day they will give back to the College. "Not Just Another Face in the Crowd" on campus in the early fifties, Bob knew then that his experiences at Rhodes were life changing.

Like many of his generation, Bob Stewart served in the military. After his discharge, Bob returned to his native state of Texas. Looking for a new direction, a chance reading of an article about Rhodes forever changed his life. Bob came to Rhodes in 1950 and learned and lived the Rhodes ideals of truth, loyalty, and service and found a new direction in life. He married a Memphian, Nell Belue, and spent the next 46 years in Memphis. Bob and Nell recently established two charitable gift annuities at Rhodes "paying in part the debt owed Rhodes for opening doors in Memphis" and "as a token of appreciation for all that Rhodes has meant to our lives."

Young people are an important part of Bob and Nell's lives. They currently sponsor ten children around the world through the Christian Childrens Fund and, with their recent charitable gift annuities, they are supporting future generations of Rhodes students who may also find their lives forever changed.

From wills and gift annuities to unitrusts and annuity trusts, there are many planned giving techniques that will allow you, like the Stewarts, to make a difference at Rhodes while meeting your other financial goals and personal interests.

FOR MORE INFORMATION on the benefits of a deferred gift for Rhodes, please contact Roberta Bartow Matthews, J.D., Director of Planned Giving, Rhodes College, 2000 North Parkway, Memphis, TN 38112-1690 Phone: (901) 843-3919 or 1-800-264-5969. Fax: (901) 843-3093. E-Mail: [email protected] RHODES 2000 North Parkway Memphis, Tennessee 38112-1690