Publishedfor Alumni and Friends ofthe University ofthe South Winter 1993

Light Fall: Paintings and Poetry by Edward Carlos

' Illuminating the 'Dark Ages SEWANEEJOURNAL

I drove through the uct is known throughout the SEWANEE Asbayou country of South world is immensely satisfying. Winter 1993 Louisiana to interview "It's fun to know that when you

Paul Mcllhenny, C'67, I remem- have a party in New York, Peter Stephen Becker, Director of Public Relations bered stories from my childhood Jennings and Bryant Gumbel are Robert Bradford. Editor about the pepper sauce that coming by to see you because Joe Romano, Staff Writer

Mary E. Henry. C'93, Class Notes Editor Paul's family has produced for they're devout Tabasco sauce

Robert Ingram, C'93. Intern the last 125 years. fans," he says. "And our sales base My father used to talk about a continues to expand. We just got Associated Alumni Officers man from the small town where our second order from Russia. N. Pendleton Rogers, C'72, President he grew up in Texas. During the We're going into Belarussia, John W. Tonissen Jr., C'70, Vice President

for Planned Giving Depression, this man would offer Georgia, and the Ukraine. Jack Blackwell, C'44, National Chairman to drink an entire bottle of Through our agent in Hong the Annual Fund for Tabasco sauce, teaspoon by tea- Kong, we're into China. How Elizabeth McDonough Howick, C'81, spoon, for $5. He would occa- these people can afford Tabasco Vice President for Admission sionally get a taker, my father sauce at $2 or $3 a bottle, I don't The Rev. Henry N. Parsley Jr., C'7(),

Vice President for Church Relations said, and slowly and methodically know." The Rev. Dr. James K. Yeary. C'64, T'69, he would drink the bottle. To- Mcllhenny says he had no

D.Min. '89, Vice the Presidentfar ward the end, tears would run idea that he would be helping to School of Theology out of his eyes. But it was the De- lead an international company Janet A. Kibler, C'80. Vice President for pression, and was a lot of when he was studying political Career Sen/ices $5

H.W. "Yogi" Anderson III. C'72, money then. science at Sewanee 25 years ago.

Executive Director As I grew up in Southern Cali- But he says the lessons that he fornia, we had some neighbors learned on the Mountain have

from Louisiana. The matriarch been invaluable in his role as vice Photography: Stephen Alvarez, C'87, Lyn of the family had a strange of president for the that Hutchinson, Charley Watkins, way company T'90 disciplining her children when produces the world's most fa- Design: Dick Posan, Two P's they talked back to her. She mous pepper sauce. would have them open their "We're a relatively small com- Sewanee magazine is published mouths, and then she would pany so we often have to cross quarterly by the University of the a of sauce disciplinary lines of traditional South, including the College of pour drop Tabasco on Arts and Sciences and the School their tongues. It never really business management. I get in-

of Theology, and is distributed cured her problems, but it got volved in varying degrees in mar- without charge to alumni, parents, her children's attention. keting, production, trademark- faculty, and friends of the Tabasco sauce has created a ing, and sales," he says. "My University. Copyright ©1993 kind of folklore in America and strong liberal arts education has Sewanee magazine. All rights reserved. Postmaster: Send address abroad. Its influence has been allowed me to communicate

changes to University of the South, subtle but pervasive. It's been well, to cross those traditional Office of University Relations, 735 mentioned in cartoon strips business lines with ease." University Ave, Sewanee TN 37375- ranging from Blondie to the Wiz- —RB 1000. ard of Id. Tiny bottles are stan- dard issue in the meals of every

American soldier. In the late 19th century. Lord Kitchener

brought it with him on his relief

expedition to the Sudan. In the

late 20th century, when astro- nauts aboard the Skylab space station complained that their food was too bland, NASA sent up Tabasco sauce. For Paul Mcllhenny, being a part of a company whose prod- CONTENTS

Illuminating the 'Dark Ages '

The Sezvanee Mediaeval Colloquium sheds light on a largely

misunderstood historical period

LiglitFall

Fine arts professor Edward, Carlos translates a m* mystijyi?ig experience into art

In the Land of Tabasco Sauce Paul McRJienny, C'67, helps lead afamily-owned company which

has produced an American iconfor more than a century

Departments

I Vice-Chancellor's Corner

On the Mountain

Alumni Affairs On the cover: The worfd 's mostfamous pepper sauce. Developments Illustration courtesy ofMdlhenny Company

Sports

| Theology VICE-CHANCELLOR'S CORNER

A DAY IN THE LIFE Fear when a siren wails, discusses issues of local concern. collegiate institution. We are OF THE 'MAYOR complaints about gar- These meetings provide a committed to ensuring that this chance to review the community atmosphere remains as undis- OF SEWANEE' bage pickup, a cable sys- tem that goes blank at the most services budget (most of which turbed as possible. inopportune time, the provision goes for fire and police protec- Yet, we also know some

of emergency services for resi- tion), and to approve contracts change must come. We need a dents, a community recycling for garbage service. Other new elementary school building, program, whether there can be agenda items in recent years some of the housing for our more restaurant opportunities: have included the quality of older residents needs improve- these are not the normal con- cable television service, the estab- ment, summer recreational pro- cerns of most college or univer- lishment of a recycling program, grams for young people require

sity presidents. But at Sewanee location of a county landfill, traf- expansion (the sport and fitness

they form a part of the vice- fic regulations, leasehold rules, center will help with this), day- chancellor's agenda, a function and the land use study: Domain care needs will require more sus-

of the University's status as owner 2020. tenance, and the welfare of our

of nearly 10,000 acres. Since the In its work, the council has senior citizens deserves more

University's inception, these du- been assisted by the vice presi- emphasis. In all of this we seek to

ties have given the vice- dent for business and commu- enhance the quality of life for

chancellor's job a special role in nity relations, a new position cre- those who work and teach at the the enhancement and quality of ated in 1988. Dr. Tom Kepple, University, or who have done so

life on the Domain. who holds this position, func- in the past. In this way we assure In earlier days, the University tions as a town manager. He the continuing dedication of a

attempted to provide everything: deals with day-to-day operational highly trained staff and welcome

water, police, fire protection, and issues that affect community life. others who move to Sewanee. we even operated a farm. Over Some of the recent issues have Some features of our commu- Since the University s the decades some of these re- been beautification of the busi- nity life deserve special mention.

sponsibilities have been priv- ness district, new signs for streets, The Fourth of July celebration inception, the vice- atized, put under other supervi- the location of new lots for home will stir the soul and heart of any- sion, or discontinued. Elk River construction, traffic patterns, one who comes to see America's chancellor has had a supplies the natural gas, Duck and the operation of emergency birthday celebrated; the commu- River Electric the lights. South services. Emergency services are nity clean-up days with towns- Central Bell the phone system, given special attention by Profes- people and students working to special role in the and the Sewanee Utility District sor of Religion Gerald Smith, improve the appearance of the

the water and sewer service. Still. and these services rank—thanks Domain will buttress your faith in enhancement and the University remains respon- to the professional staff and the idealism and commitment. The

sible for fire and police protec- devoted time of students, staff, presence of excellent medical fa- faculty, community cilities and highly trained doc- quality of life on the tion, and continues to negotiate and mem- contracts for garbage removal. bers—among the best in the tors provides reassurance to all state. Helping Kepple in his work those who live within the gates. Domain. The cost of these services is shared between the University has been a trustee Committee on This facet of the vice-chancellor's (83 percent) and the local lease- Community Relations, chaired responsibilities, while perhaps holders (17 percent). In addi- by John Caldwell, which meets hidden from many of you, re- tion, the leaseholders who own twice a year to discuss issues and mains one of the most important homes pay a property tax to provide a forum for views. The and most satisfying; the people Franklin County for the assessed work of this committee has been who live here are, just as the value of their homes; the land, of great value to all of us. place itself, special.

which is leased, is considered in Sewanee remains a place

this assessment. where crime is infrequent, where <>ZLu~l0 l/w Since the 1960s, a Commu- children can cycle to the public

nity Council has advised the vice- school, where cars routinely re- chancellor on community mat- main unlocked, and where

ters. Meeting monthly, this group people wave to one another. This

of 12 elected members, two stu- small town atmosphere provides dent members, and four mem- the University with an asset bers appointed by the University nearly unmatched by any other ON THE MOUNTAIN

FOURTH SEWANEE also include novelists John Casey, Ellen Douglas, Stanley Elkin, WRITERS' CONFERENCE Amy Hempel, Susan Minot, Tim SET FOR JULY, AUGUST O'Brien, Joe Ashby Porter, and

Dcick Walcott, the 1992 Nobel Mark Richard, and poets Emily Grosholz, Mark Prize winner for literature, will Jarman, and Maxine Kumin. Horton Foote he among the distinguished fac- and will ulty to participate in the fourth Wendy Hammond work Sewanee Writers' Conference. with participants interested in playwriting. In addition, a group

of eminent writers, critics,

agents, and editors will visit the conference. Among others, Jason Forrester is the 17th Sewanee student to receive an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship. Georges and Anne Borchai dt, C. Michael Curtis, Peter Davison, since joining the team. He was JASON FORRESTER Robert Giroux, David Godine, RECEIVES voted team captain in 1992 and TWO MAJOR Dave Smith, J. D. McClatchy, and was a first-team all-conference se- AWARDS Henry Hart will discuss writing lection in both 1990 and 1991. from the point of view of editing Jason Forrester of Columbia, He appeared in the SportingNews and publishing. Monroe Spears, Ala., a senior in the College of pre-season All-America team in Peter Taylor, and Richard Wilbur

Arts and Sciences , has received a 1902. will be in residence in Sewanee prestigious $5,000 postgraduate Forrester is studying political Nobel Ian rente Derek Walcott during all or part of the confer- scholarship from the National science at the University. A mem- ence. All will give readings or lec- Held from mid July until early Collegiate Athletic Association ber of the Order of Gownsmen, August, the conference, sup-

(NCAA) . The NCAA awarded 29 he received the Robert "Red" ported by the Walter E. Dakin such scholarships to collegiate Lancaster Award, given to the Memorial Fund established football players across the na- top junior political science stu- through the estate of the late tion. dent. He intends to pursue his Tennessee Williams, has grown NCAA postgraduate award interest in political science in tremendously—both in terms of winners must, earn at least a 3.0 graduate school, concentrating stature and the numbers of par- grade point average and perform on international affairs. In 1991, ticipants—since it first began in with distinction in the varsity- he got a taste of working for the 1090. Last year, more than 1,200 level sport for which they were United States Foreign Service inquiries were received com- nominated. The student also when he interned in the Aneri- pared with just over 500 for the must intend to continue aca- can Embassy in Georgetown, conference's first year, according demic work, on a full-time basis, Guyana. to Cheri Peters, conference ad- beyond the bachelor's degree. A member of the Red Ribbon Playwright Morton Foote ministrator. The 90 spots avail- This is the second major Society and the Baptist Student tures and will frequent visitors able are filled through a com- be award for Forrester in recent Union, Forrester was chosen to to the proceedings. petitive admission process. To- months. In December 1992, he represent the University at the day, the Sewanee Writers' Con- An added prospect lor this was named a National Scholar- 23rd annual Student Sympo- year's playwriting students is the ference is regarded among the Athlete by the National Football sium, and went to Oxford, En- Sewanee theatre year's strongest gathering of writ- department's Foundation and College Hall of gland, last summer in conjunc- ers anywhere. plan to produce a participant's Fame. The award qualified him tion with the British Studies Pro- script. Conference and College From its inception the confer- for a postgraduate fellowship. gram. ence, under the direction of faculty will consult to choose a The National Football Founda- Forrester credits Sewanee script Wyatt Prunty, C'69, Carlton pro- from the 1993 and 1094 tion and College Hall of Fame is with giving him the opportuni- summer workshops which will fessor of English, has intended to be a national organization with ties to pursue a wide range of in- produced gather a distinguished faculty during the 1994-95 more than 80 chapters and 8,000 terests. "I've been able to explore who provide instruction and academic year. members throughout the United many different avenues at the criticism through workshops and For more information about States. University," he says. "My experi- the conference, craft lectures in fiction, poetry, contact Cheri A four-year letterman at of- ences at Sewanee will prove in- and playwriting. Peters at (615) 598-1141. fensive tackle for the Tigers, valuable when I enter graduate This year's regular faculty will Forrester started every game school." ALUMNI AFFAIRS

POET LAUREATE AMONG Manning Mason Pattillo Jr. recognized by the Ruth Lilly-Po- ALUMNI OFFICERS HOLD HONORARY DEGREE c urrently etry Magazine Award and a grant JANUARY MEETING from the National Endowment RECIPIENTS serves as hon- orary chan- for the Arts, among others. A resolution supporting the University's Businessman and publisher Earl cellor of Og- Van Duyn earned a master's upcoming capital Gilbert Graves of New York City, lethorpe Uni- degree from the Lhiiversity of campaign was approved, and plans for next year's Oglethorpe University honorary versity in At- Iowa before becoming an in- celebration of the 25th anniversary chancellor Manning Mason lanta after 13 structor at that institution. She of women at Sewanee were initiated Pattillo Jr., C'41, of Atlanta, Poet years as that has also taught at the University by officers of Laureate Mona Van Duvn of St. institution's president, a position of Louisville, the Salzburg Semi- the Associated Alumni during their Louis, and the Rev. Lavan from which he retired in 1988. nar in Austria and was a visiting winter meeting held Baltzell Davis, C'49, T'52, of During his tenure, Oglethorpe Hurst professor at Washington in Nashville. Pensacola, Fla., received honor- became one of the three most University. She has taught for The campaign resolution, which will be presented ary degrees during Easter convo- selective institutions in Georgia. several summer writing pro- to mem- bers of the Alumni Council for i ation. Before his installation as grams across the country, includ- their approval, states that Earl Gilbert Graves is a na- Oglethorpe's 12th president, ing the Sewanee Writers' Confer- the "enthusiastically tionally recog- Pattillo was associate director of ence and conferences in body endorses the objectives of nized author- the Lilly Endowment, vice presi- Breadloaf, Vt., New York, Minne- the campaign [which is to begin later this year] ity on black dent for the Danforth Founda- sota, and Texas. and encourages all alumni business de- tion, and president of New York's Lavan Baltzell Davis retired to ™ contribute to its velopment Foundation Center, respectively. from his post successful and early completion." and a past re- He also served on the faculty of as rector of St. Founders' is cipient of the the University of Chicago. The Christopher's Day 1994 the planned National author of two books and numer- Church in celebration date of 25 years of at Award of Excellence in recogni- ous articles in professional jour- Pensacola, women Sewanee. A steering committee is being orga- tion of achievement in minority nals, Pattillo has served as a direc- Fla., in 1991, nized, and suggestions for the business enterprise. Named in tor or trustee of many institu- a church that celebration are being actively so- 1974 by Time magazine as one of tions and organizations. Pres- he helped es- licited. the country's 200 future leaders, ently, he is chairman of the tablish and then served for 34 "This was a very successful today he is president and chief board for the Atlanta College of years. Davis' first assignment in meeting," according to Yogi executive officer of Earl G. Art as well as the DeKalb Cham- the ministry was as assistant rec- Anderson, executive director Graves, Ltd., the parent company ber of Commerce and the tor of Christ Church in of the Associated Alumni. "With the for several businesses and the DeKalb Council on Aging. He is Pensacola. While there, he also help of alumni volunteers, publisher of Black Enterprise vice chairman for the Woodruff helped to found and organize we have been able to run a program magazine. Graves is also the Arts Center. two other churches in the that is the envy of much larger chairman and chief executive of- Pattillo is a Phi Beta Kappa Pensacola area: St. Monica's and schools." ficer for Pepsi-Cola of Washing- graduate of Sewanee who went St. Francis of Assisi. He con- Associated Alumni members ton, D.C., L.P., the largest minor- on to earn both a master's and a ducted the first services at each. also learned of plans to imple- ity-controlled Pepsi-Cola fran- doctorate from the University of Adept at combining the chise in the country. Chicago. church and secular worlds, Davis ment the Career Services Net- work, designed to complement Graves' career began as ad- Mona Van Duyn is the has long been active in commu- the Office of ministrative assistant to the late nation's Poet nity activities. For nearly a de- University's Career Services. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy before cade and a half, Davis was on the Jan Kibler, C'80, vice £p| Laureate and president for career services, says he his ryjgr,""* ' formed own management h! a consultant board of the J. Hugh and Earl W. that the network will help secure consulting firm. An ROTC to the Library Fellows Memorial Foundation, job interviews for Sewanee graduate who completed his U.S. of Congress which is dedicated to improving alumni and students. Army career with the rank of cap- in Washing- the quality of health care in "The Associated Alumni con- tain, Graves received a bachelor's ton, D.C. Dur- northwest Florida. tinue to make important contri- degree in economics from Mor- ing the course A former regent and trustee butions to the University," says gan State University in Balti- of her career, Van Duyn has re- of Sewanee, Davis has been a del- Penn Rogers, C'72, president of more, Md. He has lectured at ceived numerous awards, includ- egate to seven general conven- the association. Yale University as a Poynter Fel- ing the National Book Award, tions and he has chaired or "We look for- ward to continuing efforts to in- low. the Bollingen Prize, and the served on numerous diocesan volve alums more actively in Uni- Pulitzer Prize. Her work has been committees. versity programs and activities." DEVELOPMENTS

EDWARD TOGGLE APPOINTED DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT

Following a nationwide search, Edward A. (Ned) Tnggle has

been appointed as Sewanee's di- rector of development. Tuggle,

who has held various positions in the development offices of Co-

lumbia Lhiiversity is expected to

be at his new job by early March. Tuggle's most recent position

at Columbia was director of in-

formation services. Prior to that, he was a development officer for A gift from the estate ofKatherine Nesbit of Memphis will support the School of Theology. major gifts at the institution and also served as director of devel- MEMPHIS WOMAN LEAVES that of West Tennessee. Though Sewanee graduate, and his opment in charge of individual not graduate — $900,000 ESTATE a of Sewanee, grandfather. Proceeds from the giving—for the Columbia Uni- Nesbit had a long history of sup- sale of the land are to be used for TO SEWANEE versity Graduate School of Busi- porting the University that dates a scholarship fund, the scope of ness. His previous experience The University has received * gift to the 1960s. which is yet to be determined. includes extensive fund-raising of more than $900,000 from the "We are delighted to accept work in the non-profit sector. estate of Katherine Nesbit of UNIVERSITY RECEIVES this valuable and meaningful gift "Ned Tuggle brings a wealth Memphis. The gift will be used LAND FROM THE REV. on behalf of the institution," ac- of experience to his duties at in support of the School of The- cording to Tom Watson, vice EDWARD HARRISON, C35 Sewanee," says Tom Watson, vice ology. president for university relations. president for university relations. Nesbit had previously estab- The Rev. Edward Harrison, C'35, "Gifts-in-kind, such as this "We are fortunate to have found lished the Robert H. Nesbit Me- of Pensacola, Fla., has donated to land, often enable people to someone who has the breadth morial Scholarship Fund, in the University a parcel of land in make much larger gifts than they and depth of experience that he honor of her late husband, Crystal River, Fla., that has been might otherwise have thought does as we anticipate embarking which gives preference to stu- valued at $144,000. Harrison is a possible. In fact, some of the on a significant campaign. He dents from the Diocese of West third-generation trustee of the largest gifts ever made to institu- will play a critical role in that ef- Tennessee. University whose son, the Rev. tions such as Sewanee, have been fort." Mrs. Nesbit was a well-known Edward H. Harrison Jr., ofJack- gilts ( >1 land. In this case, we have Tuggle earned a bachelor's philanthropist in the Memphis sonville Beach, recently com- received a very welcome and gen- degree from the University of area, contributing a large tract of pleted his own term as a member erous gift from an alumnus and Virginia and an MBA at the Co- land for a city park. She was also of that board. former trustee whose family has lumbia University Graduate an avid skeet shooter and very ac- Harrison's gift was made in long ties to the University," says School of Business. tive in working with the various memory of both his father, the Watson. dioceses in the state, especially Rev. George H. Harrison, also a SCHOLARSHIP

PHOTOGRAPHER OWEN reputation as a teacher extends BUTLER A BROWN across the Atlantic into Europe FOUNDATION FELLOW and his talents as a photographer are considerable," says Malde.

Joking that he cannot go any- Butler says his aim while visit- where in the world—even ing Sewanee will be to help stu- Sewanee—without running into dents understand the long-term a former student, Owen Butler discipline required of an artist. "I has taken up residence at the am concerned that they clearly University as a Brown Founda- decipher the aspects of commit- tion Fellow for the Easter semes- ment," he says. ter. The acclaimed photogra- Having had his work exhib- pher, who has been a member of ited everywhere from the Mod- the faculty of the School of Pho- ern Museum of Art in New York tographic Arts and Sciences at to II Studio Internacional De Rochester Institute of Technol- Tecnologias De Imagem in Sao ogy, will teach two courses to Paulo, Brazil, Butler says that Sewanee fine arts students, offer- Sewanee has been a perfect cam- ing them the benefit of his nearly pus for teaching because of stu- four decades of experience. dents' strong background in the

This is Butler's second trip to liberal arts. "That's the wonder- Sewanee. Last year, the Univer- ful thing about Sewanee. There sity Gallery hosted an exhibition is a philosophy and a permission of photographs by him and Eliza- to overlap the disciplines and the beth Motlow, one of Butler's passion." Butler points to a stu- former students. That exhibit, ac- dent-poet in one of his classes cording to Pradip Malde, chair- who approaches photography man and assistant professor of through poetry. fine arts at Sewanee, was intrigu- "He has already infected our ing because it allowed the explo- department with his vitality," said ration of the relationship be- Malde soon after Butler's arrival. tween the "teacher/fellow artist "He is going to expose our stu- and the student/fellow artist." dents to his depth and breadth of

"I feel extremely privileged to experience, his commitment to Broivn Foundation Fellow Owen Butler' photography has appeared in muse- have gotten to know Owen. His the medium and to teaching." urnsfrom New York City to Sao Paulo, 1Brazil.

BUREAUCRACY AND THE period. At one point, it em- Edwardian period. Perry also of- POST OFFICE ployed nearly a quarter million fers an understanding of the rise people—a staff that accounted of public ownership in Britain,

In his newly published book, The for one third of the entire civil m cording lo the rimes. Victorian Post Office: The Growth of service—and was the govern- Perry says the book required a Bureaucracy, history professor ment arm that nationalized the several trips to London where he

Charles Perry explores the telegraph and telephone systems spent time in the national ar-

growth of the institution that be- in Great Britain. It also sold life chives poring over thousands of came England's largest business insurance and became the documents.

by the end of the 19th century. nation's largest saving's bank at The book was the 64th to be

Perry, who is also associate one point in its history. published by England's Royal

dean of the College of Arts and According to the London Historical Society. Sciences, says the idea for the Times, Perry's book provides a

book was born out of a desire to detailed accounting of the first

study the expansion of Victorian two cases of nationalization in

government. The post office, be- Britain that is "of considerable

cause of its size, became an ideal interest to anyone seeking to un-

marker, or case study, to assess derstand the nature of the state" History professor Charles Perry tracks llw growth of Victorian bureaucracy bureaucratic growth during the during the late Victorian and through tin' post office. 8 Illuminating the 'Dark Ages'

The Sewanee Mediaeval Colloquium sheds light on a largely misunderstood historical period % /% / hile the rest of ^/ m/America settles in to w watch a rerun of

Cheers, a group of 70 scholars from throughout the world gath- ers in Rebel's Rest on a warm

spring night. In the living room, a historian from Oxford, an En-

glish professor from Yale, and a philosopher from the University of Munich carry on a spirited discussion about Saint Augustine. A few feet away, an archaeologist, an art historian, and a women's

studies professor talk about the role that minorities

played in the life and thought of the thirteenth century.

For the last 20 years, an eclectic group of specialists on

the Middle Ages has gathered at the University to partici-

pate in the Sewanee Mediaeval Colloquium. Founded in

1974 by former Sewanee history professor Edward B. King

to create a forum for medievalists of all disciplines work-

ing in the southeastern United States, the conference

rapidly rose to a position of national and international importance.

10 Since 1990 the colloquium has been directed by Susan J. Anglo-Saxon royal saints and how interesting their lives were.

Ridyard, an assistant professor of history at Sewanee. For At the end of it I heard one of the elderly Fellows in the col-

Ridyard and her colleagues, the Middle Ages represent a dy- lege explaining to one of the undergraduates who had come

namic time in world history, and the impact of the period on in late. 'That was all about the Dark Ages,' the Fellow said. 'We

20th century political, religious, and social thought must not call it that because we don't know a single thing about it.'"

be underestimated. While Ridyard maintains that a study of the Middle Ages is

"I see this period not as a period of collapse, not as a period indeed relevant to our time, she says the conference's focus

of retrogression, but rather as a period of cultural fusion. It's a extends beyond what has become trendy or fashionable in in-

period where you certainly have the old classical order over- tellectual circles. Over the past few years, the colloquium has

turned, but at the same time elements of the classical order addressed a wide range of topics: "Saint Augustine and his In-

survived, mostly through the church. When the church began fluence in the Middle Ages," "Monks, Nuns and Friars in Me-

the process of converting the barbarian kingdoms, you have diaeval Society," "Law in Mediaeval Life and Thought," "Man

this great fusion of barbarian Germanic culture with Christian and Nature in the Middle Ages," "Minorities in Mediaeval Life

culture and, through the church, certain elements of classical and Thought," and "Barbarian Europe and Its Legacy."

culture. And that creates something which is distinctive and "Our main priority in choosing themes and papers for the

new," she says. Mediaeval Colloquium is to find fields where important—in

"It's that fusion which lays the foundations for the kind of the sense of significantly enriching our understanding of the

culture that we have now. Most people would concede that it past—scholarly work is being done by individuals of talent and might be helpful to know something about the earlier twenti- to make those fields the focus of our meetings," says Ridyard.

eth century or even the nineteenth but might have difficulty "If the integrity of scholarship is to be preserved, 'relevance' in seeing the connection between the Middle Ages and our to specific and immediate political and social issues cannot be own time. But the connections are in fact strong and influen- the only, or even the primary, criterion by which a body of

tial: How are we to grasp the full significance of the American work is judged. Perhaps it is the duty of the academy to main-

constitution without some familiarity with the medieval tradi- tain the broader view that all things are relevant which enable

tion of monarchy to which it and all other constitutional ex- us better to understand the complex cultural heritage with

periments of the eighteenth century were in some degree a re- which we have to work."

sponse? What are we to make of the concept of separation of This philosophy makes the colloquium attractive to some of

church and state if we have no idea that there was a time when the world's most prominent medievalists. John V. Fleming,

kings freely controlled ecclesiastical appointments and when C'58, a Rhodes Scholar who is Fairchild Professor of English it seemed to everybody that this was a perfectly normal thing at Princeton University, praises the colloquium for its intellec- to do?" tual balance. "During the past two decades the Sewanee Me-

Ridyard was born in England and educated at Cambridge. diaeval Colloquium has undoubtedly earned its reputation

She was a Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, from among professional medievalists in this country and in Europe

1982-89, gaining considerable teaching and administrative ex- as one of the most congenial and productive academic confer-

perience. In 1988, she published her first book, The Royal ences of the year.

Saints of Anglo-Saxon England: A Study of West Saxon and East "It enjoys many advantages: a comparatively small size, a

Anglian Cults, in the series Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life clarity of intellectual focus, a manageable program offering

and Thought. Working with Ridyard to organize the tempting variety without cloying surfeit, and a civil and hospi-

colloquium is a committee of Sewanee faculty members from table arena in which young scholars may share a podium with

several departments: Professor of English Robert Benson, As- their graying teachers. Nor does it hurt, naturally, that this in-

sistant Professor of Fine Arts Gregory Clark, Associate Profes- tellectual feast takes place in one of the world's most beautiful

sor of English Pamela Macfie, and Professor of Spanish Eric spots at dogwood time."

Naylor. For this year's conference, which will be held April 2- Prominent scholars like Fleming often meet with Sewanee

3, the committee has established the theme, "Saints and Their students and professors, either informally outside of class or

Cults in the Middle Ages." during classroom lectures. "This is a first-rate opportunity for

As she sits in her Walsh-Ellett office, Ridyard recounts a students to see new faces, hear new ideas, and gain added in-

story that illustrates popular misconceptions about the Middle sights into the way professional scholars work," says Ridyard.

Ages, a period which is considered arcane by many, even by "The students usually warm to the visitors and greatly appreci-

some of her peers in academia. ate working with them; the visitors in turn enjoy the students

'When I was at Cambridge, there was one occasion when I and begin to feel a sense of connection with the University, so

gave a presentation about my research on saints. I spent a that it becomes something more to them than simply 'some-

whole hour explaining what I had found out about these where I once went for a conference.'" 11 LIGHT FALL

Fine arts professor Edward Carlos translates a mystifying experience into art

Twenty-two years ago, fine arts professor Edward Carlos went to Iona, part of the Scottish Inner Hebrides Islands, on sabbatical. Intrigued by the Celtic myths and legends that were so much a part of Iona's history, he returned two years ago to paint and photograph the island's beautiful landscapes.

On that trip, he took a hike on Easter Sunday. What started as a leisurely walk turned into a strange odyssey for

Carlos. Six hours into the hike, as he stood on Iona's rugged coastline, he lost consciousness. He awoke to a haunt- ingly beautiful image—a beam of light reaching down from the skies into the ocean—and photographed it (on

facing page) . "It was probably the most beautiful natural event I ever witnessed," Carlos recalls.

That event mystified him, and compelled him to return to Iona to continue to paint. What has developed

from Carlos' experiences is "Light Fall," an exhibit of around 150 paintings and photographs, many of which are accompanied by poems that Carlos wrote for the show. The exhibit was shown in the University Gallery during the

fall semester and is scheduled to be shown in Mississippi and Florida this year.

"Light is the subject of all of this," says Carlos, who has taught at the University for 23 years. "What I have

learned from my experiences is the universe is a living consciousness."

In the following pages are selected paintings and poetry from "Light Fall."

12 13 an abstract verb this ineffable mist, this. . .

a flagrant wash-away wave

a clond darkening when the earth knows

twilight, such a thought

a process in repetition, a process

ascending, although. . .

the lasting sun is buried in the

night, agitating

sinking into the frequency of bliss

14 embryonic phosphorous sea crystals steal the light alternating expansions and spread the theft within surges of boiling consciousness blossoming forth from the great void a white walrus surfaces from the sea of darkness, the instancy of illumination music rises from the mist vibrating in the space of the mind, the mind's then as sound ringing own heart

with words hidden in that song heart's spirit, in our dreams we carry it

not so inviolable, the soul is home this sacred corruption, the subversion of space pain and all first as an idea, broken, then as seduction

time is rhythm broken, fallen found between pieces, porcelain found on the earth

15 ^ In the Land ofTabasco Sauce

Paul McRhenny, C'67, helps to lead afamily-owned company which has produced an American iconfor more than a century

by Robert Bradford

the desert of Saudi Arabia, an American sol- In a chic Paris restaurant on the Left

Indier sits down to eat lunch. Tired, homesick, and Bank, where patrons begrudgingly accept

hungry, he opens his MRE (meal ready to eat) things American, Tabasco sauce is served and shakes his head as he stares down at the day's with steak tartare. special, turkey chow mein. Then he breaks out a tiny In an oyster shack in South Louisiana, bottle of standard-issue Tabasco Cajuns end the day with sauce and pours a good shot on his a ritual that has been go- chow mein and thinks about barbe- ing on there for more cued ribs and red beans and a cold than a century—they eat beer and knows that he will get jambalaya and gumbo and home again. crawfish etoufe, all infused with In Tokyo, a group of businessmen healthy doses of the pepper sauce gathers for dinner, passing a botde of that has made that part of the coun- Tabasco sauce among them which try known throughout the world. they dash on their pizza. Tabasco sauce has become a cul- In the Himalayas, a Sherpa guide tural icon, as distinctly American as consumes an entire bottle of jazz and cowboys, as hot dogs and Tabasco sauce with his evening meal, baseball A amazing the group of British climb- For Paul Mcllhenny, C'67, vice ers who can tolerate only a few drops president and secretary of on their freeze-dried food. Mcllhenny Company, which has In a raucous bar in Calgary, produced Tabasco sauce for 125

Alberta, a orders Bloody years, it is far more than an Ameri- woman a The process of making Tabasco sauce has Caesar. The bartender concocts a 1 can symbol. It has been a way of life

Mcllhenny, above right, trailed the recipe. . mixture of tomato juice, clam juice, Pickers still harvest the peppers by hand. for his family through four genera- vodka, and a healthy shake of Photo courtesy ofMcllhenny Company tions. Tabasco sauce. "Mcllhenny Company was

16 founded in 1868 by my great-grandfather, He then added Edmund Mcllhenny. He was a successful French wine vinegar banker in New Orleans before the Civil War," and aged the mixture Mcllhenny says from company headquarters in for another 30 days,

Avery Island, La., located 130 miles southwest hand stirring it at of New Orleans in the heart of Acadiana. "The regular intervals to banking industry in New Orleans, which before blend the flavors. Af- the war had been very progressive, was defunct ter straining, the after the Civil War. So he moved back to Avery sauce was transferred Paul Mcllhenny, right, often goes to the fields dur- Island, which was his wife's family's place, and ingharvest time In overseee the weigh-in ofpeppers. to small cologne-type Photo courtesy a/ Mcllhenny Company. lived here. He loved to garden. He had a fine bottles with narrow vegetable garden and grew all of the vegetables for necks, which were then corked and dipped in green the plantation home. He had some items like arti- sealing wax. A sprinkler fimient was attached to the chokes, which were then exotic. And he also had a neck of the bottle. ^ special variety of red pepper, which had survived the "That Famous Sauce Mr. Mcllhenny Makes" was devastation of the war."

That pepper, Capsicums frutescens, had been given couraged to market it commercially He selected the to Mcllhenny by a friend returning from Mexico. A Uademark Tabasco, a word of Central American In- bon vivantwho enjoyed the superb cuisine of New Or- dian origin, which means "land where soil is humid." leans before the war, Mcllhenny became bored with In 1868, Mcllhenny sent 350 bottles of Tabasco the bland food of the Reconstruction South. So he sauce to wholesale grocers throughout the country. began experimenting with the peppers that he grew The primary markets were the seaboard cities of New on Avery Island and eventually hit upon a formula York, Boston, San Francisco, and New Orleans, cities which involved crushing the ripest, reddest peppers, where people consumed oysters, clams, and shrimp mixing a half coffee cup of Avery Island salt (the salt with pepper vinegar. Almost immediately, however,

mine on the island is the oldest in the country) , and the market expanded overseas as orders poured in aging the concoction in crockeryjars for 30 days. for thousands of bottles at a wholesale price of one

17 Peppers are processed immediately after picking. Likefine wine, they are aged in while oak barrels for three years. Photo courtesy ofMcIlhenny Company. 18 dollar each. By 1872, Mcllhenny had established a product was made from the ground tip, so to speak,"

sales office in London and waswa: distributing his sance Mcllhenny says. to several foreign countries.^ The method by which the peppers are harvested

and Tabasco sauce is made has changed little in the Today, Mcllhenny Company distributes Tabasco company's 125 years. Workers hand pick peppers

sauce to more than 100 foreign countries and prints using a petit baton rouge, a small red stick which indi-

its labels in 15 different languages. In marked con- cates the proper color of a ripe pepper. The fresh U ast to the 350 bottles that Edmund Mcllhenny pro- peppers are ground with Avery Island salt—about 8 duced in 1868, die company produces 300,000 of the percent salt—and the mash is aged in 50-gallon white

two-ounce Tabasco sauce bottles a day. oak barrels for three years. The aged mash is trans-

Paul Mcllhenny has worked for the company for ferred to huge vats where natural vinegar is added,

die last 25 years, a period during which its scope and and the sauce is mixed and aged for another 30 days

activities have expanded dramatically. before it is strained and then bottled. \ Mcllhenny grew up in New Orleans where his fa- Until the 1960s, when demand forced the com-

ther had a marine insurance brokerage business. His pany to expand its farming operations, all peppers

family made frequent weekend trips to the idyllic were grown on Avery Island. "Now we use Avery Is- Avery Island, where Paul began learning the history land as a seed crop," Mcllhenny explains. 'We have a

and traditions of Tabasco sauce and the island. farm here, but most of our farming is done in Hon-

He left Louisiana to attend a private high school in duras, Colombia, Venezuela, and the Dominican Virginia and then returned for a year to go to Tulane Republic. All of the seeds for our pepper plants come

University. "I had a fun and frivolous year at Tulane, from Avery Island. Our plant is susceptible to several

but didn't win many quality points," he recalls and diseases so we spread out our farms to get it away

laughs. "I then went in the Marine Corps on a six- from diseases, as well as hurricanes and revolutions." year, six-month reserve program before returning to While the operations have expanded and diversi-

school. My oldest and best friend, David Milling fied, family members still carry on some of the

[C'66] from New Orleans, was at Sewanee. I went up company's age-old traditions. Inspecting the aged

to visit him and fell in love with the school. I'm not peppers in oak barrels, the pungent smell burning

sure if it was because of party weekend or because it his sinuses and his throat, Paul Mcllhenny approves was such a beautiful setting in the woods. The repu- the mash—the essence of Tabasco sauce—before it's tation of the LTniversity as a top-drawer undergradu- made into sauce. Company president Ned Simmons ate school was atUactive." goes into the pepper fields on Avery Island every

Paul joined Mcllhenny Company immediately af- summer to select the seed crops, laying a piece of

ter graduating from Sewanee. "I was married my last twine across each chosen bush. Those seeds are then two years at Sewanee. My cousin, Walter Mcllhenny, stored in a bank vault in nearby New Iberia, La., to

who was then president of the company, during my ensure the perpetuity of the plant. \ senior year at Sewanee asked me to come to work for Yet Paul's duties with the company involve far

the company. It was then a very small but a very well- more than inspecting the mash. On a given day, he known company. We didn't have a great many family may be helping to close a deal for an order in one of members involved in the company—just two in the the new Russian republics, approving a trademark day-to-day operations: Walter and my cousin, Edward issue with an attorney in New York City, or talking

Ned Mcllhenny Simmons, who is president today," with long-time friend, food writer, and restaurant

he says. <\ critic Craig Claiborne about a new Tabasco sauce

"When I first came to work for Mcllhenny Com- recipe. pany in the summer of 1967, Walter put me in kha- "We have had visitors to the island for a long time

kis, and I went out in the fields during the harvest of who are leaders in the food-writing world—-James

the peppers. While I didn't actually harvest the pep- Beard, Jacques Pepin, orJeff Smith, the Frugal Gour-

pers, I picked up the boxes and learned how the met. We religiously court and have an ongoing dia- 19

logue with food writers and the leading chefs in the goes back to the 1890s, when E.A. Mcllhenny, son of country," Mcllhenny says. In recognition of the 125th company founder Edmund Mcllhenny, established a year celebration of the company, Mcllhenny himself bird rookery on the island to protect egrets, which

has written the first hardbound Tabasco sauce cook- were on the verge of extinction as commercial hunt- book, drawing recipes from local Avery Island cooks, ers killed them for their plumage, then the rage for family favorites, and prominent chefs. women's hats. The bird rookery now hosts more than

Many of those chefs swear by Tabasco sauce. Paul 100,000 egrets a year, and the island is considered a

Prudhomme, Louisiana's best-known chef who al- wildlife sanctuary. most single-handedly introduced Cajun cooking to He also created a 200-acre garden, now known as

Americans in die 1980s, says of Mcllhenny 's product: the Jungle Gardens, where native azaleas and huge

"I may use 10 drops of Tabasco sauce, but I can trust live oaks thrive among imported Chinese and Japa- that 10 drops. It pushes the natural flavor of the food. nese wisteria and bamboo. Thousands of visitors There's an afterglow in your mouth." come to the island each year to learn about Tabasco

Clearly, Mcllhenny is pleased with the name recog- sauce and make their way through the Jungle Gar- nition and prominence of Tabasco sauce, but he re- dens. alizes that there are a lot of Tabasco satice wanna-bes "E.A. Mcllhenny probably was the greatest center in the market, and competition is fierce. Although of focus for conservation and preservation of the

Tabasco sauce commands the biggest market share environment," Paul says. "But all of us are imbued among hot sauces—more than one third of it—Paul with a spirit of responsibility that we can'tjust tamper

Mcllhenny says the company is not content to rest on with the surface and the minerals underneath it with- its laurels. Sixteen years ago, the company created a out being mindful of preserving as best we can the Tabasco sauce Bloody Mary mix which has been suc- natural beauty of the island." cessful; recently it introduced a new brand line of "We are all loath to cut a live oak tree unless it's condiments, Mcllhenny Farms, which are being mar- absolutely necessary. In the fields you'll occasionally keted for gourmet sections of grocery stores. "We're see live oaks growing among the peppers." looking at new products, at new acquisitions. We The peppers, the island, and the company are all want to continue the tradition that has made Tabasco inextricably intertwined for Mcllhenny and his fam- sauce such a winner. I don't know if we'll ever have a ily. He still marvels at the international scope of a winner to the degree that the pepper sauce has been, company that started almost fortuitously. As he sits in but we're sure trying," he says. his Avery Island office, he recounts a story that cap- tures maybe better than any other the subtle influ- While issues relating to new product development ence that Tabasco sauce has had on the world. and marketing are of paramount concern to "My great-grandmother, Mary Eliza Avery

Mcllhenny, there is far more to life than just business Mcllhenny, was the grande dame of the family. Dur- on Avery Island. ing the turn of the century, three of her sons were in

Mcllhenny and his wife, Judy, live in a renovated different parts of the world. My grandfather, Paul, schoolhouse that used to be used for workers' chil- was in Pretoria, South Africa. His older brother, dren. He still enjoys many of the things he enjoyed Rufus, was in Petrograd, Russia. Their older brother, on the island as a child: bass fishing on ponds that are John, was in Peking, China. Legend has it that grande occasionally disrupted by the splashing of nutria and mere got three letters from each of those sons on the alligators, bird watching, and admiring the 300-year- same day and that each letter began: 'Dear Mother, old live oaks on Avery Island, which is not actually an you will be pleased to know that this morning I was island but a 2,300 acre patch of high land, sur- served a bottle of Tabasco sauce with my breakfast rounded by marshes and swamps and bayous, that egg-'" rises above the flat country of South Louisiana. The Mcllhenny family has long worked to pre- serve Avery Island's pristine beauty. That tradition

21 MEN'S BASKETBALL MEN'S AND WOMEN'S The Sewanee men's basketball SWIMMING team has exceeded most Coach Mary Kay Samko's Tigers

everyone's pre-season projec- are enjoying successful seasons to tions. The team has already more date. The men's and women's

than doubled last year's four squads have compiled 3-2 and 1- wins. Senior captain John 3 records respectively. Samko has Richards has provided invaluable been especiallv pleased with the

leadership and inspiration to the performances of senior captain young squad—there are seven Hayes McDonald in the sprints freshmen and four sophomores and butterfly, senior captain on the team—while contributing Libba Manning in the distance a team-leading 13 points per freestyle and breaststroke, sopho- game. The team was bolstered by more Serena Vann in sprint the return of junior Chris Millen freestyle, and freshman Jason at the semester break, but the de- Vinton in a number of events.

termining factor in this team's The women's team has bettered

success has been an aggressive, last year's times in nearly all

active style of play. Head coach events. The Tigers were looking

Joe Thoni often uses as many as forward to the Liberal Arts Swim- ten players in a game. Atten- ming and Diving (LASDI) con- dance has climbed considerably ference meet. Samko believes since the beginning of the season that both squads should have

and with some hard work, the strong performances and is opti- Tigers hope to finish the 1992-93 mistic that a majority of the swim-

season with a winning record. mers will post personal bests.

Samko added that, "We are really WOMEN'S BASKETBALL looking forward to our new pool Coach Gabby Lisella's young in the fall." squad is steadily improving, al- though the Tigers were dealt a devastating blow in January when senior captain Lynda Motes was

sidelined for the season after sur- gery. Coupled with some person- nel losses to study abroad, the

team consistently fields only nine

players. Coach Lisella is optimis-

tic about the prospects for the

remainder of this season and next, however. "With four fresh-

men and a sophomore and sev- eral proven players returning

next season, we will be in a much

better position with regard to

depth. I believe we are on the verge of turning the corner. These are a great bunch of hard- working kids, and they are learn-

ing with each game," she says.

The Tigers have been ranked as

high as fifth nationally in defense Junior Chris Millen. in Division III and have led the SCAC in forcing turnovers.

Freshman Myranda Davis. 22 SPORTS

NCAA PLACES SEWANEE ance with and understanding ON PROBATION of NCAA rules and regula- tions and file an annual re- The National Collegiate Ath- port with the NCAA for the letic Association (NCAA) two-year period regarding the Junior MacJefferson. Committee on Infractions has progress of this program. placed the University of the The NCAA considered the South on probation for a pe- case unique and imposed less riod of two years, citing viola- than the full set of minimum tions in the men's basketball penalties. The report states program. The probation car- that the University promptly ries no sanctions. The ruling detected the violations, con- does not prevent the ducted a thorough investiga- University's student-athletes Ju n ior Libba Ma n n ing tion and forwarded a thor- or athletic teams from partici- ough report to the NCAA, pating in NCAA post-season and initiated strong disciplin- competition nor does it affect ary and corrective actions to lifi student recruiting. FALL SPORTS ensure that the institution will elude senior Frank Greer; inn- ™ XT ^. . • • • I he NCAA action was miti- AWARDS iors Russ Young, Sean Holland, comply with the principles of , », r , , ated in February 1992 after an and Marc Flmore; sophomore institutional control and rules Sewanee athletes received nu- unauthorized tuition pay- Brad Mall; and freshman James compliance. merous accolades during the fall. Spriggs. Seniors Alan Bible, ment was made to the parents Perhaps the most notable, was Vice-Chancellor Samuel Ladson Hart, David Merrell, of a student-athlete on the seniorJason Forrester's selection Williamson informed the Tony Neill, and Roman Farrar men's basketball team. The as the University's 17th NCAA Sewanee community immedi- received honorable mentions. Postgraduate Scholar, which is payment was immediately re- Coach Bill Samko was the SCAC ately after learning of die deci- highlighted in this issue of turned to the University by coach of the year and thejosten's sion. "We acknowledge the Sewanee. the parents after it was discov- Division III coach of the year. findings of the NCAA report Athletes and coaches receiv- In men's cross country, junior ered. On March 5, 1992, the and have taken steps to en- ing awards in field hockey in- Matt Kenney was the SCAC con- head coach of the men's bas- clude senior Katie Teague, first sure the future integrity of our ference champion. ketball team was dismissed. team regional All-American and athletics program," said Will- In women's volleyball, fresh- r^, , ., The investigation by the K.I.T. (Kentucky-Indiana-Tennes- iamson. man Melissa Riley received first-

see) All-Conference as well as „. „ . , . University and the NCAA also team SCACc honors, and junior "We have benefited from conference MVP; junior Buffy found a number of minor vio- Missy Trushel and sophomore this process of inquiry, and we Gilman, second-team regional Elizabeth Foss were named to the lations by the men's basketball All-American and KI.T. All-Con- recognize the NCAA could second-team All SCAC. coach involving the inappro- ference; junior Anne Farmer, have imposed more signifi- Selections for men's soccer in- priate provision Qf benefits second team regional All-Ameri- cant penalties. We are con- eluded: Chris Cairns, , ,- , sophomorer , can; and Jane Chapman Kern, such as merchandise and second-team All-South and first- vinced the men's basketball

1992 Great Lakes Region coach .„„„.„ , . transportation to student-ath- team All-SCAC; named to the K program is back on track and of the year. letes and technical violations second-team All-SCAC were se- - confident that all areas of the In football, several players nior Stephen Gidiere, sopho- in the administration of finan- report are being ad- were honored as first-team All- NCAA more Burnsjones, and freshmen cial aid. The University initi- SCAC (Southern Collegiate Ath- dressed by the University. We Will Vaughan and Page Kalish. ated proCedures to correct letic Conference) selections: se- must now place the process of . . In women's soccer, senior , , niors Jason Forrester, Mike this problem prior to receiv- Carla Finch and junior Jeri Lee inquiry behind us and move Johnson, Sean Bebbington, and j c ** mS the NCAA report. The were named tirst-team All-SCACAncr*r ° r forward in full compliance Mike Mondelli; juniors Adrian University will also establish a selections, and senior Judy Bans with NCAA rules and regula- Fryer, Carl Cravens, and Eddie and junior Susie Weston were program to ensure compli- Maze; and sophomore Dan'l tions." named to the second-team All- Moulton. Second-team picks in- —by Stephen Becker SCAC. 23 THEOLOGY

HONORING FAITHFULNESS For more than a century, vows, and, for some of us, our to secure it. A spire with a shallow

Sewanee graduates have served wedding vows and our ordina- foundation will topple and fall,

their church and their society tion vows. These vows set a stan- to the destruction of the Church

with distinction. Both the Col- dard of expectation for us and and those around it. Digging a

lege and the School of Theology mold the inner character that we foundation is not glamorous and have produced a considerable each hope to develop. exciting work, but digging a

number of bishops, deans, and Faithfulness is also about do- foundation is essential to the life

canons; scholars and preachers; ing. I have always loved St. Paul's of inspiration and faithfulness

rectors and lay leaders of all sorts. wonderful images of ministry: that all hope will follow.

Most of these graduates, both "Always be steady, endure suffer- Let me ask, through this col- men and women, have been ac- ing, do the work of an evangelist, umn, that you take a look around

knowledged by their dioceses, fulfill your ministry. As for me, I at your former classmates and their communities, and on occa- am already being poured out as a other School of Theology gradu- sion by honorary degrees from libation and the time of my de- ates whom you know in the

their alma mater. All of them are parture has come. I have fought Church. Identify and nominate

deserving of such recognition, the good fight, I have finished to us those alumni/ae in whom

and I hope that Sewanee will the race, I have kept the faith. "(2 you see great qualities of faithful- At the seminary, we are continue to produce important Tim. 4:6) Or, Christ's admoni- ness. In turn, we want to recog- leaders for God's work in both tion to us, "He who would find nize them publicly as models for

the current and future genera- his life will lose it and he who all of us as we seek to carry out trying to construct tions. would lose his life for my sake will our vocations in the Church.

But the Christian understand- find it."(Matt. 10:39) Being faith- The Alumni/ae Council and I spiritual foundations ing of vocation requires a ful is responding to the needs of have established a committee to

broader and more profound others, being a pastor, being a receive these nominations, dis- deep enough tn istain a definition of achievement than teacher, even at times being an cuss them, and to make recom-

that often promoted by the secu- administrator for the work that mendations. I hope that you will

lar world. We are not, as Chris- Christ has given us to do in this plan now to be with us in the fall lifetime j ministry in a tians, called to be a "success." We world. The world's reward for to hear the inspiring lectures of are called instead always to be faithfulness in such doing may Walter Bruggemann as our 1993 world that neither faithful, faithful to God with all often simply be a feeling of tired- DuBose lecturer, to participate in

our hearts, and minds, and bod- ness at the end of the day. I want the practical workshops sur-

understands it nor ies, and souls; and faithful in our to honor and sanctify that tired- rounding those lectures, and to love and service to our neigh- ness as a mark of faithfulness to join with us in a banquet of rec-

bors. Viewed in one way, faithful- God's call and our response. ognition for all Sewanee gradu- values it very much ness is by definition its own re- The principle purpose of a ates as they serve the Church, but

ward. But I believe that it is terri- seminary and its formation pro- especially for several among us anymore. bly important to hold up out- cess is to develop those qualities whom we want to honor as out-

standing models of faithfulness, of personal character and being, standingly faithful servants. I wel- especially in this age that seems of commitment, and of knowl- come your thoughts and nomi-

to respect no one and debunks edge and skill that are necessary nations. God bless.

all values and ideals. Accordingly, for doing the work that God has — Very Dr. Fitch I have proposed to the vice-chan- called us to do. At the seminary, The Rev. Guy

cellor and the regents, and they we are trying to construct spiri- Lytklll have strongly endorsed, the idea tual foundations deep enough to that the School of Theology be- sustain a lifetime of ministry in a

gin at next fall's DuBose/St. world that neither understands it

Luke's Convocation to recognize nor values it very much anymore. long years of faithful service by Several years ago, Alan Jones and

our alumni/ae. I suggested the image of the soar-

Faithfulness is a combination ing cathedral spire as one picture

of being and doing. Our being is of the spiritual life. The spire can

shaped by and reflected in the reach as high into the sky as we

vows that we have taken: our bap- wish, as long as the foundation

tismal vows, our confirmation built beneath it is deep enough

24 CLASS NOTES

'20 of Tullahoma, Tenn., became '54 '58 great-grandparents in December 1990.' James Deupree, of Memphis, Arthur Ben Chitty of W. Gilbert Dent III Henry Slier rodJr.

Term., is 97 years old and has been Sewanee, has been busy co- 205 Sherwood Drive 1 730 Ingleside Avenue married to his wife, Elizabeth, for authoring the book 99 Iron and Laurens, SC 29360 Florence] AL 35630 73 years. writing the introduction to the book The Mountain Goat. He also Leonard Wood of Nashville, Tenn., Albert Jones of Signal Mountain,

does prospect research for the Pre- married Clara Creighton Rather Tenn., is working with Merrill '31 siding Bishop's Fund. on February 29, 1992. Lynch in Chattanooga, Tenn.

C.R. Kellerman, of South '49 '56 "fi« Pittsburg, Tenn., says that the good

news is "he's still alive." John R Guerry John Pennington Bowers Howard W. Harrison fr.

1000 West Brow Road Route 3, Box 374 435 Spring Mill Road Lookout Mountain, TN 37350 RocheUe, VA 22738 Villa nova, PA 19085 '32 Crit Currie runs Crit Currie & Co. John David Lindholm of Atlanta, Gerard Moser of Geneva, Switzer-

Robert B. Sears real estate in Memphis, Tenn. Ga., graduated with a law degree land, is in his 17th year as rector of 2818 Avenel Ave. Howard M. Smith III and his wife, from Georgia State University in Emmanuel Church, oftentimes re- Roanoke, VA 24015 Nita, have sold their family home August 1992. ferred to as the American Church. and bought eight acres of land and He married Carole Hambleton

William P. Richardson Jr. of New a log home in Dade County, Ga. from Philadelphia on July 10, Orleans celebrated 57 years in the 1992. priesthood in December 1992. For 7 23 of those years, he was rector of '50 Oliver Wlieelerfervis St. George's Episcopal Church in 1013 Catalpa Lane New Orleans. Since retiring from Richard B. Doss Naperville, IE 60540 m full-time ministry in 1976, Bill has 5555 Del Monte, #1007 Gerald H. Summers

spent a summer in London, where Houston, TX 77056 In July 1992, Oscar Fowler was ap- 199 S. Crest Road he was priest-in-charge at St. pointed head of the Department Chattanooga, TN 37404 John's, Hyde Park Crescent. He Edward Brooks reports that he's of Management in the College of served five months in a similar post retired and trying to stay healthy in Business at the University of Ten- A British educational television at Christ Church, Kona Coast, Ha- Gainesville, Ga. nessee at Knoxville. network has made a film about the art of Joseph Winkelman of Ox- ford. Winkelman, who specializes F. Newton. Howden, C'40, Looks at Afterlife in original printmaking, has had '33 prints exhibited in galleries The Rev. F. Newton Howden, C'40, is the author of a new book, throughout England and America.

Edwin I. Hatch Sr. Life Here and Hereafter, a study and discussion of life after death. 3425 Wood Valley Road, N.W. Now retired and living in England, Father Howden re- Atlanta, GA 30327 searched this book over 40 years of parish ministry, when he '65 in York, Vermont, and Con- Edwin Hatch of Atlanta, Ga., re- served Episcopal churches New Douglas J. Milne ports that at 79 years old he's still necticut. 3547 Richmond Street "going strong." Jacksonville, FL 32205-9421 Though the book is anchored securely in Christian theol-

ogy, Howden reaches into other religions and ancient cultures Charles E. Goodman Jr. of Milton, '34 to give us a better understanding of the origins of human Tenn., has a dermatology practice in Murfi eesboro where his remod- thought about life beyond death. He draws upon the cases of /. Fain Cravens eled office, a two-story home, was experi- 30 Ridgeland people who have undergone mystical and near-death on the fall tour of houses spon- Tuscaloosa, AL 35406 ences to help shed light on Christian concepts of eternal life. sored by the Association for the Preservation of Tennessee Antiqui- In his introduction, the Rt. Rev. John M. Allin, C'43, de- Dudley Fort of Nashville, Tenn., ties. His Hollow Farm was named scribes Life Here and Hereafter as "thought provoking and pleas- made a trip to New England in commercial producer of the year October with his brother, Rufus E. ant reading." for 1992. Fort Jr. Life Here and Hereaftermay be ordered direcdy from the pub-

lisher, Proctor's Hall Press. Copies are available in hardcover '35 '66 ($22.50) and paperback ($15.75). For mail order, please in- Edward Harrison clude $2.50 for postage and handling—checks payable to John Day Peakefr. 360 West Brainerd Street P.O. Drawer 2527 Proctor's Hall Press. Send to Proctor's Hall Press, P.O. Box 856, Pensacola, FL 32501 Mobile, AL 36622 Sewanee, TN 37375.

John Brandon and his wife, Jane, Donald Shannonhouse lives in

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Sewanee where he is "indulging in '71 '73 and was recorded by Michael Mar- photography, writing, community tin Murphey. Carol released her JosiahM. Daniel HI service, and EFM." Ralph Walke Herndon Inge III fourth independent cassette of Winstead, McGwire, Sechrest Minick and his wife, Kari, of Dublin, Ga., 4059 Stein Street & original songs last August. Kevin 5400 Renaissance Tower have a son, Campbell Wallace Mobile, AL 36608 Harper and his wife, Denise, of Walke, born July 28, 1992. Joe 1201 Elm Street Alpharetta, Ga., have a second Dallas, TX 75270 Webb of Atlanta, Ga., retired from Kenneth Ezell and his wife, Carol, child. Chase Murphy, born No- business and is developing a family of Nashville, Tenn., had their third vember 25, 1992. Graham Melissa Rogers Young of Athens, enterprise on their 160 acres in the child, Katherine Armstrong, on Nicholson and his wife, Gay, of Ga., teaches all levels of Spanish at North Georgia mountains. September 15, 1992. Bill McCord Rex, Ga., have a new son who was Augusta College and is in charge born on August 18, 1992. Melody of Brentwood, Tenn., is a staff anes- of coordinating the foreign lan- thesiologist for the faculty of the Bock Womble married Gary guage education program there. Womble on February 8, 1992. They '67 School of Medicine at Vanderbilt University. Erie Newton of Ken- live in Louisville, Tenn., where Albert Sidney Polk III nesaw, Ga., opened Buffalo's Cafe Melody is an attorney. 2101 Harbor Drive 74 in Rome, Ga., on November 3, Martin R. Tilson Annapolis, Ml) 21401 1992. Gary Wright of Dunwoody, Jr. 508 Broadland Road Ga., was recently made vice presi- '77 Atlanta, GA 30342 J.E. Sturdivant Jr. of Memphis, dent of investments with Dean Term., is a flight crew member of Witter, where he has been em- Nora Frances McRae Richard Dunavant and his wife, Federal Express, "working mostly ployed for 14 years. 1515 North State Street nights to make sure that your pack- Jaretha, are living in Pulaski, Jackson, MS 39202 age absolutely, positively gets deliv- Tenn., taking care of two old ered on time." Dan T. Work ot houses, two farms, and 14 horses. Richard Courtney of Nashville, Jr. '72 Germantown, Tenn., is a newlywed He is an assistant district attorney Tenn., is a real estate broker with working with a firm specializ- for the state of Tennessee. Charles Fridrich and Clark. recently re- CPA TV. Pendleton Rogers He ing in services to B. Morton Jr. of Nashville, Tenn., leased his second book, Buyers Are automobile 115 North 1st St., #117 received his MBA in December dealerships. Richmond, VA 23219 Liars and Sellns Are, Too. Joe from Belmont University's Gradu- DeLozier III and his wife, Jan, of ate School of Business. Nashville, Tenn., have a daughter, Bill McElveen of Columbia, S.C., is '68 the president of Radio South Caro- Sarah, born August 14, 1992. Tuscaloosa, Ala., is lina, Inc. He married Katie Walter Smith of S. doctoral student in commu- Thomas Rue McCaslin of Washington, D.C.. on '75 a mass P.O. Box 1988 nication at the University of Ala- August 22, 1992. Kyle Rote Jr. of Mobile, Robert T. Coleman 111 bama. also teaches political sci- AL 36633 Memphis, Tenn., is the president He The Liberty Corporation of Athletic Resource Management ence part-time at the University of P.O. Box 789 Tracy Lightcap of Atlanta, Ga., is and manages some 30 NBA and Alabama, Birmingham. Rebecca Greenville, SC 29602 of Athens, is an assistant professor of political NFL players. Williams Wood Ga., a science at LaGrange College in designer for R. Wood Studio, LaGrange, Ga. John Hoover ol Memphis, Tenn., which designs hats and tableware owner ofJohn Hoover Flowers, has that are sold worldwide. signed a contract to do all of the When you read about great composers, you'll find flowers for the new movie The Firm. Sewanee in the middle of them! Hank Rast and his wife, Rebecca '78 demons Rast (C'78), have three , '(r ¥//-/ yr/woerf- ^/c//rmee children and live in Riverdale, Ga., R. Philip Carpenter wdfity Grfsu/a/iee • )2D(/craa- (~ where he serves as the chairman 1465 Northlake Drive of the English department at Jackson, MS 39211-2138 zsuj-j////- ^jac/z-UA/yjM-Q^uvcwee Sandy Creek High School. Rebecca serves on the board of di- Martin Bailey graduated from the rectors of Crossroads Christian University of Tennessee College of School and works with a crisis Law in May 1992 and now works as

( pregnancy center. Will- ^i- rrao/ierraa/ier-- Jy&i'&/>a/iee an attorney for Hunton and iams in Knoxville, Tenn. Blair

Dickerson of Cairo, Ga., is a ninth grade social studies teacher. ^zJeoaJM -lyi(a/?Jer- Ocfj/a/x/- Q^wcmee '76 Burney Durham of Gallatin, Tenn., Festival Jaynes H. Grier was recently appointed chief clerk Sewanee Music 1520 Barberry Lane of the House of Representatives June 26 through August 1, 1993 Spartanburg,'SC 29302 for the Tennessee General Assem- bly. Instrumental Training • Focus on Orchestra and Chamber Music • Carol Elliott of Nashville, Tenn., WoddrCIass Faculty and Quest Artists received an award from the Na- tional Cowboy Hall of Fame for

Write: Sewanee Summer Music Center, Sewanee TN 37375 Western Song of 1991. The song is Call: (615) 598-1225 or 598-5881 entitled "Corn, Water 8c Wood"

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79 Fred, born June 29, 1992. Beth ber 3, 1992. They live in Knoxville, of King of Kleen, Inc., a full-service Taylor Lemm and her husband, Tenn., where Gary is a sales repre- conveyor operated car wash in Roberta Bartusch Goertz John, of Cordova, Tenn., adopted sentative for Northwestern Mutual. Chattanooga, Tenn.Jimbo King of

36 South Hillside Place a son, Braxton, in February 1992. Wade Turner is living in Macon, Chattanooga, Tenn., is the director

Eidgewood, NJ 07450 Paige Wood Marlow ot Houston, Ga., where he is vice president of of boarding school admissions for Texas, is in Conoco's in-house commercial real estate lending for Baylor School. The Rev. Daniel P.

George Clarke is vice president of management training program for First Liberty Bank. Matthews Jr. is (he assistant rector Galbreath Insurance Agency in environmental affairs. John at St. Mark's Episcopal Church in

Memphis, Term. He also teaches a Nicholson of Newark, Del., is an Jacksonville, Fla. Rosemary Gra- continuing education course at assistant professor of classics at the ham Mora of Gainesville, Ga., is an Memphis State University on the L'niversity of Delaware. Susan environmental scientist at KBN history of the Civil War. Ramsay Pryor of Atlanta, Ga., is Stewart A. W. Low Engineering. Kathryn Newman at- the catering coordinator for a law 215 Homer Avenue tends the University of Tennessee

firm. She runs a catering kitchen Voorhees, NJ 08043 at Knoxville where she is working '80 and 25-room conference facility on a master's degree in elementary for the firm. Jeanne Heuerman Victor Johnson clerks for the Ala- education. Teresa Owen of Dallas, Suzanne L. DeWalt Sauder and her husband, Larry, bama State Supreme Court. Susan Texas, married Andrew Schaeck- 1066 Old Gate Road were married on April 25, 1992. Nunley Marttala of McMinnville, enback of Los Angeles on Novem- Pittsburg, PA 15235 They live in Charlotte, N.C., where Tenn., and her husband, David ber 21, 1992. Jim Rox graduated she works for the public school sys- Marttala, have a daughter, Shelby from Vanderbilt Divinity School

Peggy Barr and Chris Stuart live in tem in a new magnet school. Brian Lane, born on December 12, 1992. and is entering the Ph.D. program Dryden, N.Y, where Peggy is a vet- Simpson and his wife, Diane, have Stuart Murray of Savannah, Ga., in religion and literature at the erinary virologist and Chris has a a second child, Devin, born June practices anesthesia at St. Joseph's University of Chicago. He and his band called Cornerstone whose 18, 1992. Elizabeth Brailsford Hospital. Paul Pearigen and his wife, Ann, had a daughter, Julia, song, "Maggie's Daughter," was Stein of Lookout Mountain, Ga., is wife, Kim Kerr, of San Diego, Ca- born last March. Richard Roland

#29 on the National Bluegrass Sur- an artist exhibiting in galleries in lif., have a daughter, Jessica Marie, Spore III and his wife, Trish, of vey in November. Mary Beth Berry Nashville and Chattanooga. Billy born August' 19, 1992. Brad Memphis, Tenn., have a daughter, and her husband, Dale, have a son, Ray Smith and his wife, Valerie, of Trammell married Kate Caroline Dare, born June 27, 1992. James Allen, born September 8, Tinker AFB, Okla., have a son, McClintock of Tunica, Miss., on Stephen and Beth Templeton have 1992. Rob Campbell of Atlanta, Timothy Jeremiah, born July 5, April If, 1992. They live in Mem- a third daughter, Julia Catherine,

Ga., is the owner of RJ's Uptown 1992. Hugh Stephenson and his phis, Tenn., where Brad is an attor- born October 1, 1992. Stephen is Kitchen & Wine Bar. He was se- wife, Amy Rhodes (C'84), of At- ney. Davis Turner of Nashville, completing a fellowship in lected for the Board of Directors of lanta, Ga., have a second child, Tenn., is corporate counsel in the dermopathology at Emory Univer-

Atlanta Wine Guild. Jim Clausen Jack L. Stephenson II, born Febru- legal department of the Hospital sity. Amie Tuten Whittemore and and his wife, Lisa, have a new son, ary 5, 1992. Hugh is working in the Corporation of America. her husband, Robert Lewis, were James Garrett, born July 1, 1992. portfolio management program married on December 5, 1992. Bette Brown Cleland of Jackson- with Oppenheimer and Company. They are living in Canaan, Conn. ville, Fla., works part-time as a Allison Sundberg Lane lives in Del '84 medical/surgical nurse. Katy Mar, Calif. Emily Fuhrer Swan of Hamilton Cook and her husband, Brunswick, Maine, is the co-chair- Stewart Thomas "35 Reuben, of Tuscaloosa, Ala., have a person for the local Amnesty Inter- 5530 Montrose son, Hamilton Wright, born Au- national group. John Tucker of Dal/as, TX 75209 Laurie C.Jarrett Rogers gust 17, 1992. A. Brian Craven of Alexander City, Ala., is an anes- 115 North 1st St., #117

Eustis, Fla., has been promoted to thesiologist and was the 1992 presi- Tricia Bowers of Atlanta, Ga., is Richmond, VA 23219 advertising and corporate ID man- dent of the medical staff of Russell working with inner-city youth ager for United Telephone of Hospital. Bill Wilson married through an organization called Mark Balte and his wife, Cindy, of Florida. Pat Dilworth will finish his Cathy Elender on May 9, 1992. Moving in the Spirit. Dorothy Decatur, Ga., have a daughter, urology residency at the Mayo They live in Houston, Texas, where Defore Buck of Monteagle, Tenn., Elizabeth Grace, born October 8, Clinic in 1994. Rose Mary Drake Bill practices law. teaches English at East Middle 1992. Barry Brent Bean married of Goodlettsville, Term., opened a School and is going to law school. Vicki Davis on December 23, 1992. bed and breakfast at a family farm Christopher Campbell and his They live in Memphis. Christopher near Nashville in August. Laurie '81 wife, Kendle, of Atlanta, Ga., have Behnke married Erin Fitzpatrick Fowler of Athens, Ga., is an attor- a son, Ian Douglas, born August 1, on October 24, 1992. He is run- ney and professor at the University Brent T. Minor 1992. Jan M. Rodgers Dale and ning a family business in Decatur, of Georgia Law School and Mercer 400 Commonwealth Avenue, #204 her husband. Bob, had a daughter, 111. Arthur Brantley of Japan is University. She recently published Alexandria, VA 22301 Stuart Gough, on August 31, 1992. working as a representative for the two handbooks, A Georgia Guide to Jan is vice president of Third Na- state of Montana. Gibbons Burke

Envirotimental Protection at the Gov- Cindy Albrecht Durham of tional Bank in Nashville, Tenn. of Chicago, 111., started working in ernment Level, Vols. I and II. Angus Gallatin, Tenn., is the director of Paul Flusche of Falls Church, Va., March for Futures magazine, a

W. Graham III and his wife, Sumner County Court-Appointed was a speech writer for Interior monthly publication serving the fi- Caroline Clark Graham, of Special Advocate program. Susan Secretary Manuel Lujan. Leslie nancial futures, options, and de- Gainesville, Fla., have a son, Will- Folwell Massa and her husband, Cunningham Forrester and her rivatives markets. Phil Campbell iam Percy, born October 31, 1992. Jim, of Afpharetta, Ga., have a husband, Michael, of Kingsport, lives in Memphis, Tenn., and re- Carolyn Kinman Lankford and her third son, Oliver Hopkins, born Tenn., have a second daughter, cently left a career in television husband, Frank (C'71), of Bir- November 3, 1992. Gary Rowcliffe Anna Carleton, born January 24, news to attend law school at Mem- mingham, Ala., have a second son, married Sandra Shurden on Octo- 1992. Chip Headrick is president phis State University. Ann

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Chapleau Edmonds <>1 Memphis, last year. Hank Hopping < >l Chatta- Arbor, Mich., where she has a new ployment for the Rev. Canon E

Term., is a learning specialist in the nooga, Tenn., is the head baseball pb m geriatric rehabilitation as a Clayton Matthews. Jessica Elliott Educational Support Program at coach .u the McCallic School. physical therapist of an extended Boyd married Edward Wallis

Memphis State University. Myles Becca Stevens Hummon of Nash- care family. Laurie Jarrett Rogers is Carter D7, (C'88), at All Saints' and Rachel Davis Elledge are living ville, Tenn., is an Episcopal priest director of development for the Chape] in Sewanee on June 13, in Kensington, Md., after return- organizing a jail visitation pro- Valentine Museum, an urban his- 1992. Rose Bedford Hafley has ing from a 15-month tour of duty gram. Freeman Jelks married tory museum in Richmond, Va. had much success selling her stud- with a Japanese consulting associa- Heather O'Neill in Atlanta on Sep- Tina Rose of Tullahoma, Tenn., ies of drawings from the Renais- tion in Tokyo. Jay Faires of Los An- tember 26, 1992. Kate Engleby owns T Michelle, a fine apparel sance Masters at the Swan Coach geles, Calif., recently completed a Kelderman and her husband, and ladies specialty shop, and is House Gallery in Atlanta. Fox world-wide joint venture agree- Theo, of Charlottesville, Va., have the general manager of Tullahoma HelmsJohnston Jr. marriedJarmin ment with Time-Warner subsid- a son, Harry Keene, born Novem- Machinery and Tool Corporation. Lee Steffner at St. Paul's Episcopal iary, Atlantic Records. Griffith Gar- ber 23, 1992. Andy Kohler oi John Shaw and his wife, Lynne, of Church in Chattanooga, Tenn., on ner and his wife, Sarah, have a Caldwell, N.J., recently joined In- Sacramento, Calif., have a son, November 21, 1992. Michael daughter, Jessica Anne, born June formation Resources, Inc. James William, born November 20, McSurdy of Nashville, Tenn., is the 20, 1992. Martha Hodgkins Green Cornelia Barrett LaRussa and her 1992. William Tonks of Athens, regional director for the Youth Vil- of Alexandria, Va., is working as a husband, Joe, of Birmingham, Ga., was married last May. His lages Families program. Ashley writer/editor with the Nature Con- Ala., have a daughter, Cornelia country band. Redneck Greece Jackson Spencer and her husband, servancy. Jill Gajda Hart and her Barrett, born July 5, 1992. Eliza- De-Lux, released a 12-song music Peter, of Alexandria, Va., have a

husband, Bill, of Charlotte, N.C., beth Fuller Oliver is living in Ann compact disc called Good Eatin '. second child, Jackson Davies, born have a third child, Cooper, born John Winstead was recently mar- June 25, 1992. Ashley works part- ried and lives in Memphis, Tenn. time in a Washington, D.C. law Todd Williams, C90, Studyi?igin China firm, splitting her time between day care and freelance artwork. Who would have picked a 6- foot-3 political science major 5JP 8b out of the commencement '88 Read Carson Van cle Water crowd in May 1990 and 2214 38th Street, N.W. Kyle Elisabeth Dice guessed he would spend the Washington, DC 20007 1217 Lyncrest next three years halfway Jackson, MS 39202 Louise Gibbs Basarrate of Atlanta, around the world in China? Ga., is the development director of Elizabeth Brown of Brentwood, Probably not even the gradu- Jerusalem House, a non-profit per- Tenn., is the director of human re- ate himself, Todd Williams, of manent housing program for sources for a home health care

people with HIV/AIDS who would age nc v. Allen Buck of Monteagle, Jacksonville, Fla. Two-and-a- Todd Williams works with a student. otherwise be homeless. John Tenn., is a systems programmer for half years later, Williams has been in Asia studying Chinese at Wesley Clayton, of Huntsville, Ala., OAO Corporation in Tullahoma,

two different universities. He was given this opportunity was named vice president at Mor- Tenn. Russ Furman is a student at through a Southern Baptists' aid organization entitled Coop- gan Keegan and Company, Inc the Fuqua School of Business at Robert H. Johnson Jr. lives in At Duke University. Savas Kyriakidis erative Service International(CSI). Having experienced a lib- lanta, Ga., and works as a manage married Carrie Phelps on Decem- eral arts education at a small school in America, he was ready menl associate in corporate fi- ber 31 , 1992. Shae Espy Minnick of for a change of scenery and culture. At Fudan University, nance for Citibank. Darby Ray is Soddy-Daisy, Tenn., teaches kin- finishing her Ph.D. in theology at dergarten through eighth grade where he first studied, he lived in a compound with other for- Vanderbilt and is planning to Spanish at The Senter School. eign students of the university and was not able to immerse teach philosophy and religion at a Robert Bryan Murphy married himself in the Chinese culture and way of life that he wanted liberal arts college. JoAnne White Julie Michele King (C'89). at All

of Cordova, Tenn., is working Saints' Chapel in Sewanee on De- to experience; so, he took the initiative to change that. Ray on her Ph.D. in psychology and cember 12, 1992. Roger Taylor Williams looked into being reassigned to a setting that of- counseling adolescents at Lakeside married Natalie Watts on October fered an atmosphere in which he could use the language he Hospital. 24, 1992. The Taylors live in At- was studying in conversations with Chinese students and lanta where Roger is a loan officer for Mt. Vernon Federal Savings friends. Fortunately for the Sewanee alumnus, a retired Chi- Bank. Lee-Ford Tritt was in a English teacher, C.K. looking at the same time nese Zhang, was '87 scene on the ABC-TV soap opera. for foreign Christian students for his school in Wuhu. Before All My Children, in October. Now he Robert Morales is reading for other soap opera long Williams was enrolled at the Teachers University in Wuhu. 2588 Winslow Drive, N.E. parts. Williams was the only foreign student at die teachers' uni- Atlanta, GA 30305-3743 versity last year. He finished his two-year journeyman assign-

Acuff of Malibu, Calif., is ment and worked this past summer with CSFs summer teach- Howie studying law at Pepperdine Univer- ing program. So sure is he of his place in Wuhu that Williams sity. Henry D.W. Burt II of Rich-

decided to spend anothei yeai there instead ol coming back mond, Va., is working for the Epis- to the states and thinking about business or law school. copal Diocese of Virginia in de-

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'89 publications coordinator with the student all. in s ad\ ism al the I m Schermerhorn ol Chattanooga, Tennessee Health Care Associa- versity of Georgia. Brandon Dixon Tenn.. is a special agent forensic

John Patten Guerryjr. tion. Patricia Pyle of Nashville, of Maryville, Tenn.. is a first-year s( ientist lor the Tennessee Bureau 1619 T Bridge Mill Drive Tenn., is pursuing her Ph.D. and student at the Lhiiversity of Ten- of Investigation. Marietta, GA 30061 teaching French at Vanderbilt Uni- nessee Veterinary School in Knox- versity. Michael Reeves of Chapel ville. Andrew Jones of Nashville,

Laura Jane Atchison attends the Hill, N.C., is the director ol the Tenn., has been named assistant University of Georgia in Athens Young Alumni Program at Duke manager of the new downtown SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY where she is pursuing her master's University. Last summer, he re- branch of the Nashville Bank of degree in English education. Ivan ceived one of five national awards Commerce. Missy Meredith ol

Boatner graduated from Tulane given for excellence in fund rais- Cordova, Tenn., is teaching 11th '55 Law School in May 1992, married ing management by the Council grade American literature and Joseph L. Peacock is retired and Elizabeth Johnson on August 8, for the Advancement and Support Spanish I at Bolton High School. livins in Decatur, Ga. and passed the Bar exam in Octo- of Education (CASE). Nancy Adrienne Paul ( if Maryville, Tenn., ber. He is now an attorney in Oak Reiser is the associate University is in her third year of living in Ridge. Tenn. Shawn Graham mar- organist and choirmaster at Rwanda, this year teaching English ried Anna Beasnett (C90), on Oc- Sewanee for the Easter semester. after two years of Peace Corps work '60 tober 24, 1992, in Gulfport, Miss. there. Tracey Ellis Spang of At- H. Don Harrison of Stockbridge. The Grahams live in Sewanee, lanta, Ga., is teaching second '90 Ga., is an adjunct professor in hu- Tenn. He works as an assistant pub- grade at Midway Elementary man resources at Mercer Univer- lic defender for Coffee County. C. Katy Morrissey School. Neill Touchstone of At- sity and a consultant in govern- Anna works as the assistant area 3103 Wheat Street lanta, Ga., is leasing office space mental administration. campaign director for the Univer- Columbia, SC 29205 for Piedmont Center Associates. sity of the South. Kim Hatfield is David Wright of Crestwood, N.Y, is living in Sewanee and working in Becky Budd of Lawrenceville, N.J., in his second year of studies for an the development office as associate has her master's degree in voice M.Div. at St. Vladimir's Orthodox '63 director of annual giving. Rebekah from Westminster Choir College Seminary. The Rev. John D. Bolton of McClatchey lives in Atlanta, Ga., and now works both as a member Roswell, Ga., is a part-time assistant where she serves as the director of of the voice faculty at Westminster at the Church of Our Savior in At- the After-School Enrichment Pro- and in the Dean of Students' Of- '91 lanta and a part-time chaplain at gram at Pace Academy. Laura K. fice at Princeton University. Kathy West Paces Medical Centre in At- Millard of Nashville, Tenn., is the Gotko Bruce of Athens, Ga., is a Marsey L. Waller lanta. 3741 Gunston Road Alexandria, VA 22302

Julie McClure of Knoxville, Tenn., '69 Sewanee Summer School has begun graduate school at the The Rev. Hendree Harrison of University of Tennessee in library Roswell, Ga., was elected to 1993 and information science. Lauren Sewanee's Board of Trustees from McDonald of Fayetteville, Ga., is the Diocese of Atlanta for a three- teaching drama at Fayette County year term. High School. Jim Wells of Colum-

bia, S.C., is working on his master's degree in English at the University of South Carolina. Jenny Wilson of '84 Atlanta is the assistant to the direc-

tor of discipleship at North Avenue J. Alfred Thigpen is now a music Presbyterian Church, working with critic and features writer with the Young Life, and ministering to the Grand Rapids, Michigan press. homeless and drug users.

June 6 through July 18 '87 '92 The Rev. Carter N. Paden III of

This year's summer session will offer more than 25 courses LeeD. Cogburn Norris, Tenn., is the rector of St. in subjects ranging from anthropology to theatre. 710 Hinman Ave. #3B Francis' Episcopal church. He was Evanston, IL 60202 awarded a fellowship at the Col- For more information on summer school, please unite to: lege of Preachers in Washington, Professor John V. Reishman Kristi Lee is living in Nashville, D.C. in May 1992. Director the of Summer School Tenn., where she is an alumni and University of the South development staff assistant at '92 735 University Avenue Vanderbilt University. Wil Mills is a Sewanee, TN 37375-1000 researcher in Sewanee 's Office of Dr. Paul B. Isom is the pastor at University Relations. Jessie Murray Central Christian in Murfreesboro, Or call the summer school office at (615) 598-1248. is taking pre-veterinary courses at Tenn. the University of Georgia. Patrice IN MEMORIAM

Alfred T. Airth, C29, of Live Oak, the board of Atlantic Realty Conway, N.H. is survived his Com- We have learned of the death of He by Fla., died 2, 1993. He was pany which he founded in 1952 wife, Barbara, a brother, January James H. Henson, C'66, of a son, a a retired attorney and active mem- and was a trustee of Courts Foun- daughter, and six grandchildren. Skiatook, Okla., on May 23, 1992. ber in the Episcopal Diocese of dation which gives grants primarily Florida. of Phi in Georgia. was a good friend A member Gamma He Quintardjoyner, C20, of Sewanee, James W. Moody Jr., C'42, of Delta, he received his law degree of Sewanee, having been one of Pensacola, Fla., died October Tenn., died November 11,1992. 7, from the University of Florida at the donors for Courts dormitory, 1992. He was a lieutenant in the After serving in the U.S. Army in Gainesville. He served in the U.S. in memory of his brother, Malon, U.S. Navy during World War II and World War I, he attended the Uni- Navy from 1942-45, and served in 1964. He is survived by his wife, did graduate work in English at versity of Nebraska law school and both as a trustee of the University Virginia. Vanderbilt University. He was ex- practiced law in Omaha, Neb. He of the South and as a member of ecutive secretary of the Tennessee later moved to New York City the Florida legislature. He is sur- James Havis Dawson C32, of Historical Commission, director of Jr., where he worked in the legal de- vived by his wife, Elizabeth. Daphne, Ala., died May 3, 1992. the Virginia Historic Landmarks partment of the American Sugar He was a retired school teacher, Commission, and was director of Refining Company. He retired in Gov. Ellis Gibbs Arnall, C'28, administrator, and sports coach. Historic Pensacola Preservation 1962, and his family moved to H'47, of Atlanta, Ga., died Decem- He was an outstanding athlete Board until he retired in 1986. He Camden, S.C. He and his wife ber 12, 1992. A member of the while at Sewanee, playing and ex- is survived by his wife, Elizabeth. moved to Sewanee in 1971 and Kappa Alpha fraternity at celling in many sports, and a mem- have lived near Proctor's Hall ever Sewanee, he went on to earn his ber of Sigma Nu fraternity. He is Robert Porter Moore A'55, since. He was a member of the Phi Jr., law degree from the University of survived by his wife, Estelle. C'59, of Boston, Mass., died De- Delta Theta fraternity while at Georgia in 1931. At the age of cember 31, 1992. He was a profes- 25, Sewanee. He was also a devoted the future governor was elected W. Earnest, C'28, of Colorado sor of art at the Massachusetts Col- Joe Episcopal churchman and had a speaker pro tempore of the Geor- City, Texas, died 24, 1992. He lege of Ait and an internationally June special love for All Saints' Chapel, gia House of Representatives, at 31 was a of Delta Tau Delta recognized artist. was also the member having given the money for one of He he was Georgia's attorney general, fraternity while at Sewanee. He co-founder and art director of The the small memorial windows in and by age 35 he was governor of earned his master's degree in En- Graphic Workshop. He is survived memory of his father, and a marble Georgia. The "boy wonder" was glish from Columbia University by his mother, Katryne Moore, of statue of the Virgin Mary in the known for his reforms of the 1940s and his law degree from the Uni- Sewanee, two brothers, and three reredos in the high altar in including his paving the way for versity of Texas. He was a lawyer nephews. memory of his mother. He is sur- school integration in the state, and long-time trustee of the Uni- vived by his wife, Georgia abolition of the poll tax, and the versity. The Rev. Paddy Joseph Poux, McCague Joyner, of Sewanee, a lowering of the voting age to 18. T'76, of North Miami, Fla., died daughter, a son, and two grand- instrumental in C. C'29, of October 15, 1991. served as an He was the repeal Benjamin Eastwood, children. He of "preferential rail rates," a post New Orleans, La., died December Episcopal priest in Ohio, Louisi- Givil War practice by which rail- 5, 1992. He attended Tulane and ana, and Florida, he is survived by Dr. Oliver Charles Leonard Sr., roads discriminated against south- Washington and Lee universities his wife, Marie. C49, of Pensacola, Fla., died De- ern farms and manufacturers. He after Sewanee and became man- cember 24, 1992. While at was a University trustee from 1948- Orleans Choral have learned of the death of ager of the New Sewanee he was a member of the We 51. He is survived by his second Svmphony. Brian Wesley Ross, C'90, on De- Sigma Nu fraternity. He graduated wife, Ruby; a son. Alvan S. Arnall, cember 1, 1992. He is survived by from the Loyola University Dental C'60; a step-daughter; a brother, have learned of the recent his mother, Nancy Ross of We School in New Orleans and prac- J. Frank M. Arnall II, C'37, three death of Robert F. Evans, C'26, of Johnston, S.C. ticed dentistry in Pensacola for 35 grandchildren and two step-grand- Nashville, Tenn. He was a retired years. He is survived by his wife, children, including Ham- president of Southeastern Capital Hugh Todd Shelton 37, of James Alice, two sons, a daughter, two Jr., C ilton Campbell, C'94. Corporation. is survived by two Columbia, Tenn., died December He brothers, and eight grandchildren. daughters. 24, 1992. While at Sewanee, he was Herman E. Baggenstoss, C'33, of a member of the Sigma Alpha Ep- F. Ross C. Marbury, C'63, of San Tracy City, Tenn., died December The Rev. Arthur C. Freeman, T'46, silon fraternity. He served as a lieu- Francisco, Calif., died December 13, 1992. He was the owner and <>l Fremont, < lalii., rc< entlv died. tenant colonel in the U.S. Air 30, 1992. He was a teacher of En- publisher of the Grundy County Her- was a retired Episcopal priest, Force in World War II. He received He glish to foreign students in Califor- ald and a prominent environmen- having served in both Mississippi his law degree from George Wash- nia and director of Berlitz English talist in is ington University. He was a retired Tennessee. He served in and California. He survived by USA. He held degrees from Johns environmental posts, includ- his wife, Eugenia. Columbia attorney and retired many Hopkins University and the Uni- ing with South Cumberland Recre- chairman of the board of directors versity of Minnesota, from which ation Area Commission and James A. Hamilton C36, of at First Federal Saving and Loan, Jr., he received the Ph.D. in 1971. Grundy County Conservation Nashville, Tenn., died November of which he was a founder. He is

I'n mi (I. I [c was .i hlc l< land survived by his wife, Ann, three mg membei 4, 1992. He was a registered The Rev. Jonathan Nesbitt of Christ civil land- daughters, one son, H. Todd Church Episcopal in surveyor, engineer, and Mitchell, C'38, T'46, of Conway, Tracy City. He is survived by his scape architect and headed his Shelton III, C'70, of Knoxville, N.H., died November 29, 1992. He wife, Mary, three brothers. firm of consulting engineers. four grandchildren, and two great- and own was a member of Phi Beta Kappa After graduating from Sewanee, grandchildren. and Phi Delta Theta at Sewanee. Carl Webster Bear C'67, of received degrees from the Jr., he Before attending seminary in Mathews, Ala., died in early No- University School of Marvin K. Travis, C'35, of Cumberland 1943, he received an MBA from vember 1992. Decherd, Tenn., died November He was president of Law, Samford University, and Harvard Business School and Bear, Inc., a river barging com- Vanderbilt University School of 18, 1992. He was a retired restau- taught economics at M.I.T. and pany. He is survived by his father, a Engineering. was a member of rant owner and operator. He is sur- He Cornell universities. After semi- sister, and a daughter. the Royal College of Organists and vived by his wife, Mary Steed, two nary, as an Episcopal priest, he a Knight of the Royal Order of daughters, a sister, five grandchil- served in Arkansas, Tennessee, Richard W. is his dren, and three great-grandchil- Courts of Atlanta, Ga., Scotland. He survived by New Hampshire, and Ohio before died December 31, 1992. was a wife, Lela. dren. He retiring in 1978 and moving to director and retired chairman of 30 —

AFTERWORD

THE LIFE OF A that. Even living and working as I vice-chancellor, I am one of the ing people in spiritual direc- UNIVERSITY CHAPLAIN do in the setting of an Episcopal two pan-university officials re- tion —those are some of the university, I find myself daily fac- sponsible for the life of the entire many facets of our steady minis- University. by the Reu Samuel L Lloyd ing the same powers I struggled That means that a try of pastoral nurture, both in with in the parish—a deep hun- great deal of my work is institu- the college and the seminary.

I find ger for meaning and for expe- tional as I take part in administra- never expected to myself an In addition to all this, we have tive and strategic planning back on a college campus. Even rience of God coupled with com- made outreach service a major mittees and participate in though my life has continually doubt about the possibility of Uni- dimension of our work. We em- vacillated between the academy finding either; immersion of all versity debates over everything phasize it for two reasons: To and the church, I have of us in a culture of Social Dar- from curriculum reform to the been communicate the conviction that clear from the days when I was winism in which worth is often timing of fraternity rush to the a life can't be truly or Christianly finishing a Ph.D. in English that measured solely in personal design of a new seminary chapel. lived apart from a commitment priesthood was calling and that achievement and financial well- The most significant event of to service; and to offer an avenue the local parish was my home. being and the chief substitutes the week, though, is the Univer- for students who are determined Eve never seriously doubted for the loss of a common culture sity service on Sunday morning to avoid church at all costs to that decision, but I have been are found in sports events, TV, when the community gathers for meet Christ unexpectedly in a surprised at how often my road and movies that celebrate vio- Holy Eucharist. Many University child they are tutoring or in the has bent back to a university set- lence and sex; fear of giving one- administrators and faculty join owner of a home they are repair- ting. And in the process I have self to a Lord who might ask students, community members, ing. discovered that the setting for something of us; ignorance of and visitors for a service in the Evangelism is the essence of ministry matters little: the deeper the Bible and Christian teaching cathedral tradition —an 85-voice our work. As another college challenges of being the church and of what an intelligent and student choir carrying on a chaplain recently put it, our task in our time, especially as we live honest encounter between Chris- splendid musical tradition, in a is to nurture the seed-corn for through all the turbulence of the tianity and contemporary culture magnificent building, with a the next generation of the end of the 20th century, are fun- might reveal. deep commitment to preaching church. That takes offering as damentally the same. Sewanee must be one of the and to powerful liturgy. Every- broad and diverse a range of ways I think at some level all of us few universities left in America, thing we do the rest of the week of exploring the mystery of God in ministry today are living and the only Episcopal one, flows out of that time of self-offer- as we can, always with our Sunday through a time of transition where the church is central to its ing, confession, nurture, and worship as the radiant center. what some are calling "the end of life. I had been leery of returning praise. It is our most important And then it takes just being Christendom." Most of us were to campus ministry because of and radical act as we week-by- there, being available for the nurtured in a fairly homoge- my love of parish life, my convic- week place all that we are living chance conversations over lunch neous, relatively harmonious tion of the importance of Chris- and struggling with into the in the dining hall, along the side- church, esteemed and at ease in tian community in the work of hands of the One who made us, lines at a football game, at inter- a broadly Christian culture. Now evangelism and my awareness of redeemed us, and lives among mission at a concert. everything seems up for grabs. how difficult it is to form such us. We're in the seed-sowing busi- The mainline churches are communities on campus. But I I share this and the rest of the ness, and as even our Lord shrinking. Our culture is careen- found in Sewanee something I Sewanee ministry with four col- found, you have very little con- ing on a binge of consumerism didn't know existed—a small, in- leagues, as well as an organist- trol of the results. "Teach us to and self-indulgent individualism, timate academic community in choir-master and a secretarial care and not to care"—T.S. and ordinary Americans seem to which the church plays a central staff. The work here is vast, and Eliot's words are a constant inter- be finding themselves more root- role. lacking the steady nurture of be- nal refrain for me. In them I hear less, afraid, and self-absorbed My task as LIniversity chaplain ing part of a parish community, the gospel passion to bring and than ever. is to hold before the University we depend greatly on our own to be good news to our fellow What is the church's task in its Christian vocation—to bring mutual encouragement and sup- castaways, and I hear too the such confusing times? I have together the liberal arts and sci- port. peace that knows this is God's spent a lot of time in my ministry, ences and the truth of the Gospel Leading a contemplative work, not ours, and that finally all both in the parish and on the in the context of life in a commu- prayer group, teaching classes, is grace. campus, trying to get as clear nity that is different, that seeks to preparing people for baptism about that as I can, because in embody the Christian faith in its and confirmation, organizing fel- Samuel Lloyd has served as times of disorientation and con- life inside and outside the class- lowship and Bible study groups, University Chaplainforfive years. fusion, I think we have to be as room. bringing in speakers on current sharply focused as possible about I meet with faculties of both issues in the life of the church our mission and task. the College and the School of and society, conducting preach- Fortunately, the campus has Theology and on occasion teach ing missions, carrying on per- in been a good place to think about both schools. 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Sewanee in Entertaim SEWANEEJOURNAL

Miles Watkins, C'67, ternative music label in Chapel SEWANEE Assat in the Sewanee Hill, N.C. He hadn't even signed Spring 1993 Union Theatre at one his first group.

in the morning watching bad Through the years, they have Stephen Becker, Director ofPublic Relations movies with his rowdy friends, he all heard similar advice from Robert Bradford, Editor had no idea that he wanted to be Joe Romano, Staff 'Writer friends and critics. "Don't do it,

E. C'93, (V«ss Afofcs Editor a director. He was more inter- Man- Henry, you'll never make it." "You're Robert Ingram, C93, Intern ested in shouting lines back to crazy." "When are you coming the host of "C" movie actors who Associated Alumni Officers home and getting a real job?" paraded across the screen while N. Pendleton Rogers, C'72, President But they had the good sense not his friends threw popcorn at John W. Tonissenjr., C'70, Vice President to listen. They have persisted in fm Planned Giving those actors and each other. A an industry that eats up people Jack Blackwell, C'44, Vice President few years later Watkins was in Los for the Alumni Annual Fund Angeles, where he knew no one, every day. Elizabeth McDonough Howick, C'81, studying directing at the USC And each of them will tell you Vice President for Admission Film School. that Sewanee has had an The Rev. Henry N. Parsley Jr., C'70,

Vice President for Church Relations The other people featured in important role in why they have Rev. Dr. K. Yeary. C'64, T'69, The James this magazine who have made it endured while others have not. D.Min. '89. Vice Presidentfor the in the fiercely competitive "At Sewanee," Watkins says, School of Theology industry did intensely, then Janet A. Kibler, C'80, Vice Presidentfm entertainment "you studied and

Career Semites much the same thing as Watkins. you socialized intensely. I have H.W. "Yogi" Anderson III, C'72, After graduation, Radney Foster, always enjoyed that total immer- Executive Director C'81, took the acoustic guitar sion in one thing or another. Di-

that he played at dormitories and recting is like that. When you Photography: Stephen Alvarez, C'87, Lyn occasional frat jaarties with him work, you work 80 hours a week Hutchinson. Charley Watkins, to Nashville. He sang his songs and forget about sleep. When T'9<)

Design Dick Posan, Two P's for a succession of music industry you're off, you totally relax."

types who responded with indif- Smith adds: "The older I get Seivanee magazine is published ference or the perfunctory, and the more I get into the quarterly by the University of the South, including the College of Arts "Sounds promising, we'll keep business, I realize that because of

and Sciences and the School of The- you in mind," until he got his first my liberal arts background I have ology, and is distributed without break a few years later. a leg up on a lot of people who charge to alumni, parents, faculty, Actor Gil Johnson, C'83, go into acting. Acting requires students, staff, and friends of the University. Copyright ©1993 Sewanee threw his belongings in a pickup that you know a lot about the magazine. All rights reserved. Post- truck and headed to LA. Fellow world and a lot about art and master: Send address changes to actor and Alabamian Mary-Beth history and literature. Many University' of the South, Office of University Relations, 735 University Smith, C'84, went to San peojole without a liberal arts

Ave, Sewanee TN 37375-1000. Francisco to study her art. background have a harder time

Neither had ever seen the Pacific when it comes to researching

Ocean. Screenwriter Chris roles. I felt it was important to get

Sturgeon, C'86, and Universal a real education before I went

Studios publicist Tom Lakeman, into training."

C'86, went to Hollywood, a place —RB where connections are every-

thing, to tell their stories. They had no connections. Record

company president Jay Faires, C'85, forsook the music industry centers of Los Angeles, Nashville,

and New York to establish an al- CONTENTS

Rodney

Mj^*l^\ With a number-one country hit and a burgeoning

career, Rodney Foster, C81, isn't lonesome anymore

A Tale of Two Actors Mary-Beth Smith, C'84, and Gil

Johnson, C'83, have come a long xoay

from their native Alabama to the bright

lights of California

Departments

Vice-Chcmcellor 's Corner

On the Mountain | Alumni Affairs Chi the cover: Rodney Foster, C81.

^Developments Photograph courtesy ofArista Records

Scholarship

Sports

| Theology VICE-CHANCELLOR'S CORNER

A NEW CALLING November 1987 the Board position is now underway. Dean chaplaincy will be in the capable

FOR THE LLOYDS Inof Trustees elected the Rev. Robert Keele will chair this ef- hands of a friend as we search for

Samuel T. Lloyd as chaplain fort, which will be in full swing by a new chaplain. Chancellor

of the University for a four-year mid-summer. We would like to Duncan M. Cray Jr., who had al-

term; he was elected to a second have a new chaplain for the Uni- ready decided to retire as bishop

four-year term in May 1991. He versity by late spring. ol Mississippi, has agreed to as-

has now accepted the call to he- Few positions are less con- sume duties as interim chaplain

come rector of Trinity Church in spicuous, yet so essential to the in early October. The presence

Boston, one ol tin- threat pulpits operation of the late twentieth of Bishop and Mrs. Duncan Gray

and parishes in the Anglican century university as that of legal at Sewanee will sustain the efforts

communion. He and his family counsel. Marguerite Lloyd, who of All Saints' Chapel while pro-

will leave Sewanee over the sum- became associate counsel in 1988 viding the entire community

mer to good wishes of the entire and succeeded Edward Watson with two people whose long asso-

Sewanee community, yet with in 1990 as legal counsel, has oc- ciation with the University make

great regret at their departure. cupied a special place in my ad- them welcome friends.

The chaplain, along with the ministration. Valuable, confi-

chancellor and vice-chancellor, dent, reach to challenge and to 0^jJ)\rVa

represents one of the three of- dissuade when necessary, Mar-

fices elected by the Board of guerite helped to draft new per-

Trustees. Serving as chaplain lot sonnel policies and to expedite

the entire University, the Rev. Dr. contract arrangements. Ever the

A splendid preacher, an Samuel T Lloyd has done an ad- first line of defense for all extra-

mirable job in his five years at mural legal problems, she has as-

able counselor; a superb Sewanee. His recent Sewanee ar- sisted faculty and staff with visa

ticle reflected his philosophy, his hassles, helped with the opera-

teacher, and a tireless theology, and his approaches. A til >n ol the Honor Code, and for-

splendid preacher, an able coun- mulated the University's success-

participant in all selor, a superb teacher, and a tire- ful negotiations with the NCAA.

less participant in all campus ac- Tactful, thoughtful, and occa-

campus activities, Sam, tivities, Sam has set a high stan- sionally steely tough, she has ex-

dard for those who follow. Com- panded the duties of her office

Lloyd has set a high ing to Sewanee after a successful and made them an essential part

rectorship, his academic hack- of our operational patterns.

standardfor those ground enabled him to leach in This position, which must

both the College and the School work so closely with the vice-

whofollow. of Theology. A consummate stu- c banc ellor and the Board of Re-

dent of contemporary theology, gents, will always be defined by

Sam has the rare ability to blend the personalities holding it. For

literature and spiritual experi- the last five years Marguerite

ence into coherent expositions Lloyd has enabled the vice-chan-

that touch ,i listener's spiritual cellor to work more effectively

needs. Students have responded and efficiently. For that, and for

to Sam's sermons, to his confir- all ol those whom she has

mation classes, and to his obvious helped, I say thank you.

commitment to his faith. While we regret the loss of the

The search for the- chaplain's Llovcls, we are grateful that the

— ON THE MOUNTAIN

nary, lie tended to a mission llieii home, Meanwhile, at

church in the valley—sometimes Sewanee. Jones became the first traveling there on horseback University chancelloi since

which he had helped to build Bishop Frank Gailor, who lived at

with his own hands. Sewanee during the early part ol

After graduating from the century, to reside on the

Sewanee, Jones served first as rec- Mountain. At Sewanee, Jones be-

loi ol Trinity Church in Pass came even m< >i e deeply involved

Christian, Miss., before becom- in the life ol the University. In

ing ictloi ol St. Andrew's 1981 and 1982, he served as the

Church in New Orleans. During interim dean of the School ol

his early years as a rector, he mar- Theology and participated in

ried the former Kathleen Piatt, in numerous other University activi-

July 1935, in Jacksonville, Fla. In ties. He also wrote several books

19 1!», little more than two de- during his years at Sewanee in-

cades after his graduation from cluding Menihei in Particular and

Sewanee, the University awarded his memoirs, titled That Reminds

him an honoi ary doctorate ol di- Me.

vinity. It was the same year that "Girault is the saindiest man I

he became seventh bishop ol know," says long-time friend and

Louisiana and served in thai role Sewanee Professor of Religion

for 20 years. Gerald Smith. "I don't know ol

As bishop, Jones personally any clergyman who is of wiser or consecrated 89 men into the sweeter disposition than Girault

ministry, founded the diocesan Jones. He has been the incarna-

The Rt. Rev. Girault /ones has served the University in a variety of roles — newspaper, Churchwork, and es- tion of the love of Christ on this

( hancellor, interim dean of the School of Theology, ami adviser mat friend to tablished the Diocesan Loan Mountain. faculty, students, and lined residents. Fund to assist the conversions of "He is the most outstanding

numerous missions into parish Sewanee man I have met. And, SEWANEE BIDS FAREWELL bachelor of divinity degree from

1 the School of Theology. Even at churches. He served as a deputy there have been so many line TO A 'SAINTLY MAN the beginning of his career in the to the General Convention of the and good people. But he is the

\i< th; 500 members of the ministry, Jones was deeply in- Episcopal Church four times. giant in a field of giants. We need University community gathered volved with the Sewanee commit He retired as bishop in 1969, to rejoice in the gift that he has in All Saints' Chapel on February nity. While attending the semi and he and Kathleen moved to triven this University."

21 to honor the achievements of the Rt. Rev. Girault M. Jones,

C'28, H'49, and his wife,

Kathleen. After living on the Mountain for the past 24 years, the Jones moved to a retirement community in Nashville.

During his years on the Mountain, Bishop Jones served the University in a variety of roles—chancellor, interim dean ol the School of Theology, and adviser and friend to faculty, stu- dents, and local residents.

Born in Centreville, Miss., Jones graduated from the Staunton Military Academy be- fore attending the University of Mississippi. In 1928, he earned a More than 300 undergraduates anil seminarians received degrees during commencement ceremonies on May 16. ALUMNI AFFAIRS

REGENTS' CHAIRMAN with far more honor than they DUPREE INDUCTED INTO deserve." He adds that he has enjoyed working with his fellow ALUMNI ASSOCIATION board members, calling them

Thomas Parmelee Dupree Sr., the "most interesting and ster- outgoing chairman of the Board ling kind of people. That associa- ot Regents, was elected to honor- tion has been enormously lultill- ary membership in the Associ- ing," he says. ated Alumni of the University of A resident of Lexington, Ky., the South in recognition oi his Dupree is president of Dupree contributions to the institution and Company, Inc., an invest- over the years. The honor was ment banking firm. He also presented to Dupree while he serves on the board of directors was at Sewanee for a regents and executive committee of Ap- meeting in May. palachian Computer Services,

Dupree has served the Uni- Inc. He is the founder and presi- versity as a founding member of dent of the Kentucky Tax-Free the Parents' Council, as a regent, Income Fund, as well as a found- and as chairman of the Board of ing member and former chair- Regents. Four of his children man of the Kentucky Governor's Homecoming 1993 willfeaturefootball against rival Washington is? Lee. have attended Sewanee—Tho- Commission to the Division of Saturday, October 23, 1993 mas P. Dupree Jr., C'78, David Securities. PLAN NOW FOR a.m. to Noon Galtnev, C'81, Harriet Dupree Dupree attended the Colum- HOMECOMING 1993 8 Bradley, C'83, and Lamar bia Military Academy before Registration Homecoming 1993 is set for Oc- Dupree Grimes, C'87. earning a bachelor's degree in 10 a.m. tober 22-24. Following is a tenta- "Through his energetic and economics from Yale University Associated Alumni Meeting, tive schedule for Homecoming enthusiastic efforts, Tom Dupree in 1952. He has been active in Convocation Hall events. The Office ofAlumni Re- has strengthened the ties oi the outreach ministry in the area of lations will send a complete University with its alumni and in health care in Appalachia and Noon schedule to alumni this summer. Lunch under the Alumni Tent so doing has brought good will t( > has been a longtime member of If you have any questions about Sewanee," says Yogi Anderson, the Appalachia Regional Hospi- 12:50 p.m. Homecoming, feel free to call executive director of the Associ- tal Corporation. In addition, he Alumni Parade the alumni office at (800) 367- ated Alumni. has served as senior warden of 1179. We hope to see von this Dupree says he has "im- Christ Church in Lexington and 1:30 p.m. fall. mensely enjoyed his association has worked on various commit- Football Game—Sewanee vs. with the University" while joking tees for the diocese. W & 1. that "Sewanee treats chairmen Friday, October 22, 1993 After the game reunion parties

5 a. in. to 6 p.m. (years, times, & places to be Registration/ticket sales announced)

3 p.m. la 5 /i.m. 6 p.m. Alumni Seminars Alumni Dinner BBQ& Blue- grass under the Alumni Tent 6 ji. in. Social Hour, Lower Cravens Sunday, October 24, 1993

8 a. m. /p.m. Holy Eucharist. All Saints' Alumni Dinner, Upper Cravens Chapel

Hall; Presentation of the 9:30 a.m. Distinguished Alumnus/a Associated Alumni Memorial Awards Service, St. Augustine's Stone

9 p. in. to Midnight 10:30 a.m. Alumni Dance, Cravens Hall University Service, All Saints' Chapel alumnus Tom DuPree has four children who have attended

ice. ALUMNI AFFAIRS

UNIVERSITY AWARDS of a city hospice program, and 1980 gift to Sewanee endowed with U.S. institutions and groups expanded the weekly publication the William R. Kenan Profes- that not necessarily a re- HONORARY DEGREES Jr. do have ParishLIFE. sorship. He and the trust have ligious focus. AT COMMENCEMENT Admiral Frank B. Kelso II, also been instru-

The University awarded six hon- C'55, (Doctor of Civil Law) in mental in providing orary degrees during com- 1990 was named the U.S. Navy's long-term institu- mencement ceremonies mark- 24th Chief of Naval Operations. tional support to ing the end of the academic year He attended Sewanee for two historically bl.u k on May 16. Following are profiles years before entering the U.S. colleges and univer- of each of the recipients. Naval Academy in 1952. In 1980, sities in the South,

Dr. Yerger Hunt Clifton ( D< >c- after serving in a number of posi- as well as to the tor of Letters) has been dean oi tions, he was selected for promo- Southern Regional the British Studies at Oxford pro- tion lo the rank oi rear admiral. Education Board. gram since the program began at At the same time, he was named Among the hon-

Rhodes College in 1967. A director of the Strategic Subma- ors bestowed on graduate of the Sewanee Military rine Division in the Office of the Kenan during the

Academy, Clifton attended Duke Chitl of Naval Operations. Six course of his career

University, where he received a years later, Kelso was promoted is an honorary doc- bachelor's degree in English. to admiral and assumed duties as torate of law from

Clifton earned a master's de- commander in chief of the U.S. the University of gree at the University of Virginia Atlantic Fleet. He became the Su- North Carolina, that before teaching at the College of preme Allied ( lommander Atlan- institution's Univer-

William and Mary. After two tic and Commander in Chief, sity Award, and the The Rt. Rev. Pete) Lee, who received an honorary years, he enrolled at Trinity Col- U.S. Atlantic Command, in 1988. Distinguished Citi- degree during commencement, was the baccalaure- lege in Dublin, Ireland, to pur- Kelso has been awarded the zenship Award from ate spec sue a doctorate. At Rhodes, he is Defense Distinguished Service the North Carolina professor of English literature Medal, the Navy Distinguished Citizens for Business and Indus- The Rt. Rev. Peter James Lee and dean of British and Euro- Service Medal, the Legion oi try. (Doctor of Divinity) is the bishop pean Studies. In 1988, he devised Merit, Navy Commendation, and The Most Rev. Manasses of the Diocese ofVirginia, one of and directed a semester abroad Naw Achievement Medals. Kuria (Doctor ol Divinity) has the oldest and largest dioceses in program, Rhodes in Europe, Frank Hawkins Kenan (Doc- been Archbishop of Kenya and the Episcopal Church. Lee be- which was offered in Oxford and tor ol Civil Law) is chief execu- Bishop of Nairobi within the came the 12th Bishop of Virginia on the European continent that tive officer of Kenan Transport Church of the Province of Kenya in 19S5. year. Now called European Stud- Company of Chapel Hill, N.C. since 1980. He was educated at Lee graduated magna cum ies, it is jointly sponsored by Kenan attended the University of Fort Hare University of South Af- laude from Washington and Lee

Rhodes and Sewanee. North Carolina at Chapel Hill rica, St. Paul's United Theologi- University in I960, where he was

The Rev. E. Dudley Colhoun when- he received a bachelor's cal College, and Moore College elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He

Jr., C'50, (Doctor of Divinity) is degree in commerce in 1935. In in Sydney, Australia. Since at- received his M.Div. cum laude the retired rector of St. Paul's the year following graduation, tending seminary, Kuria has from Virginia Theological Semi-

Episcopal Church in Winston-Sa- Kenan founded the Kenan Oil served as priest, archdeacon, nary. Lee served as a deacon at lem, N.C. After his graduation Company, of which he is chair- area bishop, and bishop ol St. John's Cathedral in Jackson- from Virginia Theological Semi- man of the board. Kenan Trans- Nakuru. ville, Fla., before becoming assis- nary, Colhoun served three port Company was founded in As Kenya's foremost religious tant minister at St. John's Church churches in Virginia and St. 1942. Through the William R. leader, Kuria is a proponent oi in Washington, D.C. In 1971, he

Anne's in Atlanta before going to Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust, and multi-party democracy, human became rector of the Chapel of St. Paul's in Winston-Salem by his own personal commit- rights, and numerous social wel- the Cross, Chapel Hill, N.C.. the where he remained for 31 years. ment, Kenan has made a signifi- fare issues. One of his most re- parish that serves both the corn-

Throughout his career, cant impact on higher education cent projects is to create a center munity and the University of Colhoun has been involved with throughout the United States. for Nairobi's homeless where he North Carolina, and continued numerous diocesan, civic, and Since its creation in 1966, the plans to offer temporary and per- as rector there until he was con- other community activities. trust has focused on education. manent housing, a soup kitchen, secrated bishop. Lee is a member Among many other accomplish- More than 90 chairs and en- and vocational training. During of the board of directors of the ments, Colhoun has helped to dowed professorships have been this visit to the U.S., Kuria is par- Presiding Bishop's Fund for establish the Street People's Shel- established at more than 50 col- ticularly interested in discussing World Relief and is chairman of ter, assisted in the development leges and universities. Kenan's human rights and social issues its grants committee. II sssENTS

teer and service organizations table Securities became nation-

throughout middle Tennessee. ally known in the corporate and

She was the recipient of numer- municipal finance field. Ulti-

ous awards and tributes for her mately, the company was ac- many charitable contributions quired by American Expresss. that benefited her church and In Nashville, Henderson was a community. In 1986, she was member of Christ Episcopal

awarded an honorary degree Church and helped establish St.

from Sewanee. George's Episcopal Church in 1952. SEWANEE FRIEND Henderson also served on the BEQUEATHES $1.6 MILLION advisory board of the Salvation TO UNIVERSITY Army, the Belle Meade Country Club, and the Cumberland Club. Sewanee has been given a $350,000 bequest from the estate WHITEHEAD FOUNDATION of Barlow Henderson. Uni- The PROVIDES $45,000 versity will also be the beneficiary FOR SCHOLARSHIPS oi a (rust from Henderson that

will contribute toward a total gift The University has been awarded

of more than $1.6 million to the a $45,000 grant from the Letlie University. Pate Whitehead Foundation that

Henderson was an Aiken, will be used for scholarships dur-

S.C., native who graduated from ing academic year 1993-94. Princeton University before serv- The Atlanta-based Whitehead

ing in the U.S. Navy during Foundation is a charitable pri-

World War II. He then entered vate organization dedicated to

the field of investment banking, the support of needy women in A portion oj the $3. 1 million gift from Lulu (horn will be used to renovate for Harris, Forbes nine southeastern states. The tlir third floor o] Woods Laboratories for the anthropology and psychology working and departments. Co., in New York City, before foundation provides scholarship joining Equitable Securities in grants to schools and colleges as date our long-term goal of an un- SEWANEE RECEIVES $3.1 Nashville, the city where he lived well as operating grants to a small dergraduate student body of until his death. number of institutions serving MILLION FROM ESTATE 1,300." Through his efforts. Equi- the needs of elderly women. OF LULU OWEN, H'86 "Mrs. Owen was a long-time

friend of Sewanee. This gift is an The University has received a be- eloquent testimony to her strong quest of 150, 000 shares ofAmeri- belief about the role of the Epis- can Express common stock, val- copal Church in higher educa- ued .ii approximately $3.1 mil- tion," said Tom Watson, vice lion, from the estate oi Lulu president for unversity relations. Hampton Owen, H'86. A resident of Nashville, Mrs. Sewanee Provost Fred Croom Owen previously endowed the said that a portion of the gift will Ralph Owen Distinguished Pro- be used to renovate the third fessor of Economics Chair at floor of Woods Laboratories. Sewanee in memory of her hus- "This generous gift will allow the band, who was the chairman of psychology and anthropology the board of the Owen Graduate departments to move to the third School of Management at floor of Woods, where they will Vanderbilt. have significantly increased oper- Mrs. Owen was a member of ating space. It will in turn free up Vanderbilt's board of trustees room for oui other science de- and was a member of St. partments, allowing the Univer- George's Episcopal Church in sity ultimately to have adequate Nashville. Throughout her life, science facilities to accommo The I. elite Pole Whitehead Foundation grant will support undergraduate she was active in a host of volun- women at Sewanee. SCHOLARSHIP

Fee Settle, and Katherine Anne written The Origins of U.S. Nik tear Portei are among the writers dis- Strategy: 1945-1953. a definitive

cussed. history ol the early part <>l the

Whether taking new looks at nuclear era. such major figures as Montaigne, Williamson and Rearden

Eliot, Auden, and Wilbur or mak- show how American policy-

ing a case lor the little-read mas- makers, including President

ter David [ones, Spears writes Truman, never expected nuclear

with intensity, wit, and wisdom. weapons to play such a major

I lis own occasional reminis- strategic role. And yet, in re- cences of meeting a number of sponding to the Soviet Union, his subjects during his years as Truman found himself Ultimately editor of the Sewanee Review add with no other choice.

to this collection. The authors not only docu-

As he reflects on his long ment and analyze the origins and friendship with Robert Penn early evolution of U.S. nuclear Warren, Spears writes: "He was strategy, they also clearly demon- lor me always part of those rare strate the close relationship be- occasions, over some 30 years, tween decisions affecting such

when iIk- literary life seemed to diverse matters as foreign policy,

me i<> be most wh.it it ought to new technologies, vand the bud-

be, or what I alwavs hoped it getary process. The result is a would be. Not a guardian angel fresh analysis containing many

but a genius presiding over mo- new insights and timely remind-

ments of secular grace, when 1 ers of the myriad complications

felt that I was participating in a created by reliance on nuclear

kind ol life that was freely weapons. FonwerSewanee Review editor Monroe Spears analyzes writers rangingfrom higher

Montaigne to Faulkner in his new hook. given, not earned." Ernest R. May, Charles War-

Spears, who has returned to ren Professor of History at MONROE SPEARS humanities, and interchanges Sewanee where he lives with his Harvard University, observes: between America and France. REFLECTS ON wife, Betty, is the author of many "This book is written with marvel- His topics range from Montaigne COUNTRIES OF THE MIND books, including The Poetry ol ous conciseness and clarity, and it and Tocqncvillc to cosmology 11.7/. Auden: The Disenchanted Is- is informed by deep knowledge Over the past three decades, and the historical novel. land and Dionysus and the City: of sources only recently released Monroe Spears, who edited the Beginning with T.S. Eliot and Modernism in Twentieth-Century to public view."

Sewanee Review from 1952-61 , has continuing with W.H. Auden, the Poetry His own poetry has ap- Williamson's previous books established himself as one of other great transplant who put peared in a number of periodi- include Austria-Hungary and the America's finest critics. In Coun- down new roots in his adopted cals and in a collection entitled Origins of the First World War and tries of the Mind: Literary ExpUxra- country, the second section deals The Levitator. Spears was Moody The Politics oj Croud Strategy: Brit- tions, a series of literary explora- with literary relations between Professor of English at Rice Uni- ain and Frame Prepare for War, dons of British. French, and Britain and the United States versity until his retirement in 1904-1914. American writers, he investigates and between poetry and criti- 1986. He recently was inducted not other geographical conn- cism. Spears considers other to the South Carolina Academy tries, but countries of the mind - modern poets and critics, includ- of Authors and to the Fellowship the different cultural worlds that ing Richard Wilbur, Howard of Southern Writers. have shaped these writers and Nemerov, Robert Graves, from which their art sprang. The Stephen Spender, and Frank book has been published by the Kermode, as well as other ques- ON THE BEGINNINGS OF University of Missouri Press. tions of literary criticism and his- THE BOMB AND U.S. In the first section of this col- tory. NUCLEAR STRATEGY lection of new and recent essays, The third section focuses on

Spears examines relations be- the American South, real and fic- Drawing extensively on previ- tween the worlds of past and tional. Caroline Cordon, Allen ously classified material, Vice- present, communications be- Tate, Andrew Lytle, Thomas Chancellor Samuel Williamson tween the worlds of science and Wolfe, William Faulkner, Mary and Steven L. Rearden, have ARTHUR KNOLL BECOMES WILLIS EXPLORES POST- FIRST UNDERDOWN CIYIL WAR DELTA PROFESSOR WITH NEH GRANT

Professor ofHistory Arthur Knoll John Willis, assistant professor of has been named the University's history, has received a National first David Underdown Professor Endowment for the Humanities for European History. The en- Summer Stipend to pursue his dowed chair was established (<> research on a book about the honor David E. Underdown, who Mississippi Delta after the Civil taught as a member of Sewanee's War. history department from 1953- Focusing on the Yazoo-Missis-

62. Underdown is now a profes- sippi Delta between 1865 and sor of history at Yale Lhiiversity. 1920, the book explores the fron-

Knoll joined the Sewanee fac- tier stage of what is now the ulty in 1970 after teaching at South's leading plantation area.

Southern Connecticut State Col- Although the Delta is currently lege and Middleburv College in home to some of the nation's

Vermont, lie was educated at largest cotton plantations, as late Bates College, New York Univer- as 1900 two-thirds of the region's sity, and the University of Heidel- farm owners were black fieed- berg in Germany before earning mcii. Willis has concluded re- a doctorate in African and Euro- Music professors Steven Shrader (top) and Kristin Lindley have been selected search on the economic and so- to participate in the prestigious Aston Magna Academy at Rutgers University Dean historv from Yale University cial aspects of small farmer and

. , „„ , this summer. in 1964. planter life in the postbellum

The author of numerous and he received a Sewanee TWO SEWANEE STUDENTS era; this last stage of research is books, articles, and op-ed com- Mellon Fellowship in L990 to re- RECEIVE WATSON devoted to showing the connec- mentaries, Knoll has war and society. tions between economic and so- received search FELLOWSHIPS many awards during his career. Since arriving at Sewanee, cial conditions and the area's po-

While in graduate school, lie was Knoll has been instrumental in Tammy Haston, C'93, and Jason litical experience. named a Fulbright Research Fel- developing several new courses, Forrester, C'93, are among 65 "This research focuses on low at Heidelberg. He also has including those concerning undergraduates from through- prominent politicians and key participated in a number of semi- Middle East history, African art out the country to receive presti- partisans as part of a larger stud)' nars conducted by the National and culture, imperialism, and gious Watson Fellowships for dedicated to explaining why tens Endowment for the Humanities, warfare. 1993-94. of thousands of African-Ameri-

The Thomas [. Watson Foun- cans migrated to the Yazoo-Mis-

dation is a charitable trust estab- sissippi Delta in the 1870s and

lished by Mrs. Thomas Watson to 1880s, and win the region be- honor her husband, the founder came the springboard for the of IBM. Each year awards are Great Migration north during

given to senior college students World War I," says Willis. "This is

for the year following gradua- the final research component for

tion. The grant is to be used for a book integrating politics into a independent study outside the social and economic study of the

United States. legion." Willis will spend a total

Haston, a psychology major of two months in Memphis,

from Shelbvville, Tenn., will Tenn., Oxford and Jackson,

travel to Australia to study access Miss., completing the project.

and equality in the Australian The NEH awarded 210 such educational system. Forrester, a grants to professors in the

political science major from Co- United States this year; the

lumbia, Ala., will study political awards are specifically intended participation of East Indians to support promising research

while visiting England, Guyana, projects.

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Then, as the big, red velvet curtains profession. He expected to follow in

rise, and the Opry square dancers open their footsteps.

the program's first segment, as they do "I always thought music was just going

With a number-one country each week, a certain order rises from the to be a hobby. I assumed that I would go chaos. With one eye on the clock, singers to Sewanee, then go to law school and go

and musicians will end conversations in home. Music was supposed to be an avo- hit and a burgeoning mid-sentence to take their turn on the cation, not a vocation," Foster recalled

spot where Hank Williams, George during a recent tour stop in Dallas. Bui, career, Foster, Radney C'81, Jones, Loretta Lynn, and so many other when he got his first guitar—a $20 instru- country idols have stood. At each perfor- ment that came from across the Mexican

mance of the Opry, the lineup will boast border, and learned the first simple isn i lonesome anymore many familiar names. And on a particu- songs his father taught him—he was lar evening in late January of this year hooked. By the time he was 14, listening byJoe Romano veteran performers like Little Jimmy to all different kinds of music and play- Dickens and Hank Snow as well as mem- ing in garage bands, Foster began to

Got a fever that they call rodeo bers of the "young country" set like Rickv write his own songs. He says he would

Just enough winnin s to make the Skaggs and Patty Loveless were in the read the liner notes from his favorite

next .show star-packed cast. But on this night there record albums and realize "those guys

Sometimes you make eight, was a new name among the Opry regu- wrote the songs, they didn't go out and

sometimes you hit dirt lars: that of Radney Foster. record somebody else's all the time. I just

Go on pin another numbei to the hock In the moments before he was to ap- decided that I would write them, too."

of my shirt pear, Foster was interviewed for a pro- As a Sewanee student, he was intro- gram broadcast on The Nashville Net- duced to Nashville producer Brown Ban-

1 , 1 nd, 'II ride' that pony fast work (TNN). Then, with a sizable entou- nister—through fellow Sewanee student Like a cowboy from the past rage of friends and family in tow, he Dale Berry, C'80— who heard some of

Be young and wild and free walked to the stage where, like the song his songs and offered Foster encourage-

Like Texas in 1880 he wrote about the rodeo, he would have ment. So, the next year, instead of regis- pest like Texas in 1880 to ride the pony fast. tering for his final year at the University,

(from the song Texas in 1880by Radney Foster was on his way to Nashville. Foster) / can hear the wind whisper my name Foster spent the whole year waiting

retting me it's time to head out again tables and knocking on doors at

ackstage at the Grand Ole Opry My horses are traikred and the lights are Nashville's Music Row, mostly without on a Saturday night in Nashville shut down success. Blown Bannister continued to It is best described as organized And I'm long overdue for headin ' out oj offer encouragement and moral sup- confusion. Dozens and dozens of town port, but wasn't able to propel Foster's people—country music stars, record in- (Texas in 1880) career forward. dustry types, their families and friends "I could pitch songs to Brown for art-

crowd the wings to the stage of the As a boy in the South Texas border ists he was recording, but I had a lot of world's most famous and longest-run- town of Del Rio, Radney Foster listened country songs and he was mostly a gospel

ning radio show. Performers who have to his father and friends playing guitar producer. He'd say, 'I know this guy, call

been out on the road swap stories with on Saturday nights, but he never be- him.' I would, but he wouldn't return my old friends, while musicians—carrying lieved singing and songwriting would calls. But, because I kept trying, his secre- their guitars, fiddles and banjos—tune become something he would do for a liv- tary would put me in touch with some their instruments and prepare for the ing. His father, and a number of other other guy in the office. That guy would

evening's show. family members, had chosen the law as a listen to my songs, then tell me they were

13 lousy and that I was out of luck. It was a We told some tales, he told 'em best Much of the writing he does has a very series of doing those things for a year." Real life can always use a good stretch personal side to it. Foster says the next

The next fall, Foster returned to But that don 't change the things zee did single to be released from his album is

Sewanee, fulfilling a promise to his par- 'Cause the truest thing was the life that the most confessional song he has ever ents that he would finish his degree. But we lived written. Easier Said Than Done is about a music never strayed from his focus and (from Went For A Ride on Del Rio, Texas, man who has an affair. "I've not had one, he intended to return to Nashville once 1959) but it is about my realization that some- he graduated. He signed up for an inde- times you do things, to hurt your spouse, pendent study with English professor that take more than saying, 'honey I love

Doug Paschall, C'66, that forced him to 3 oday, Foster is riding the wave of you,' to make it better. You have to re- write one poem every week. He says he a burgeoning solo career. The build that trust by actions." wrote "some real lousy poetry," but I first single from his debut solo He remembers another personal ex- through the experience he learned to album, Del Rio, 'Texas, 1959, reached the perience as the inspiration for a song work with words, which helped sharpen country music chart's top ten. In early his ability to write song lyrics. April, the second single release, Nobody

Finished with his schooling, Foster Wins, made it all the way to number one, headed back to Nashville. It would be a first for Foster as a solo artist. His album another five years of knocking on doors, sales are approaching gold record status singing in small clubs, and waiting tables (500,000 units), and that would be an- before anything happened. He made other first for him. some good friends during that time, "The great thing about being a solo though. Randy Goodrum, who has writ- artist is that you get to make all the deci- ten some of the biggest pop songs of the sions, the lousy part is that yoti get to past decade, (Bluer Than Blue, You Needed make all the decisions," says Foster. "It's

Me) offered guidance and help, fre- kind of a double-edged sword. I really quently putting Foster in touch with dif- enjoy it from a performance standpoint, ferent people in the industry. "My wife, but it's so different from Foster and

Mary Springs, and I would baby-sit for Lloyd. From a writing standpoint, it's

Randy's kids and he would make demo more personal because I've been doing tapes for me in return. I Ie was really kind most of the writing on my own." that was eventually released as a single to me." Foster found out that learning to be a from Foster and Lloyd's first album. The

When the big break finally came, songwriter is a slow process, requiring song was Texas in 1880. Inspiration came things moved very fast. It was 1986 when lots of perseverance. The biggest part of on the day he was packing to leave for another songwriter introduced him to it, he says, is listening to other songs and Nashville the first time. "You know you

Meredith Stewart of MTM Publishing. "I learning what makes a great one. "Some got to watch out about this music stuff, played her four or five songs, just sitting of the greatest songwriters were guys who it's like the rodeo, it'll get in your blood in her office with my guitar. She told me broke all the rules, from Roger Miller to and you can't get it out," warned one of to come back the next week. I did, and Bob Dylan to Roy Orbison. All three of Foster's family friends. He remembered played her four or five more." By the them wrote great songs, but they broke that conversation for years until one day time he had played her some 15 songs rules left and right." when, driving along, "bang, the whole over several weeks, Stewart offered Foster When it comes to writing his own first verse hit me and I wrote that down. a job as a staff writer. "The first money I songs, Foster says there is no single Two clays later I worked out the whole made was $200 a week writing songs for method that works every time. Ideas, he song. I think you have to go through that

MTM. Most postmen make more than says, come "every which-a-way. Some- kind of process to get to where the muse that." times you'll get a lyric idea when you're will come sit on your shoulder and whis-

That was the beginning of a big year driving along in your car, so you pull over per to you." for Foster. On the country charts, a song and write it down. Other times, I set aside No matter how the writing process he co-wrote with singer IIollv Dunn time, sequester myself and spend the day occurs, if it is successful and a song starts

{Love Someone Like Me) reached number trying to write a song. It might be produc- climbing the charts, Foster says the re- one, his first. And, at MTM, Foster met tive but it might not be. Or you could ward is like nothing he has ever experi- fellow staff writer Bill Lloyd, beginning a make an appointment to write with enced. When Nobody Wins peaked at five-year partnership. The pair was someone else. Sometimes you waste a number one, Foster called it amazing. signed by RCA Records and scored a morning, other times you end up with "It's funny, once the record is released it number of top ten hits along the way. something really wonderful." kind of has a life of its own and it's noth-

14 — ing you can control or do anything about. It's really exciting at the same Providing 'Clear Alternatives' to the Mainstream time. You've already done your work, but

his love i < » i music and busi- essary to reach long-term goals and move it comes to fruition much later. You're Combining ness, Jay Faires, C'85, lias created a suc- them beyond the "alternative" label. kind of removed, you get this feeling like cessful record company despite the warnings To do that, Faires says his company lakes that's not me, that's somebody else." ( >l advisors who said he was crazy to try. Faires an extremely active role in artist develop- If country music continues to grow founded Mammoth Records in 1988 in ment by helping them select the right stu- and prosper as it has the past several Chapel Hill, N.C., far from the major music dios, producers, arrangements, and art work. years, Foster can expect to experience centers ol Nashville, New York, and Los An- In return, the aitists have to provide "the hit more highs as his records the charts. geles, in older to develop a business that was right songs and the right record."

He will be on the road until the middle free from the hype and influence of the in- In the five years since Mammoth's found- of November this year playing his music dustry in those cities. ing, the company has grown by leaps and for audiences all over the country Plans "There is a real follow-the-herd mentality bounds. In August 1992, Mammoth signed a call for him to appeal' with Vince Gill, in the music business and that's not what deal with industry giant Atlantic Records. Dwight Yoakam, Brooks & Dunn, and we're about. II we had started this business in The agreement will give selected Mammoth New York, there may been a artists access to Atlantic's massive distribution Mary Chapin Carpenter as he works his have tendency for our executives to follow (he executives network. Faires says Atlantic is "the best in way from coast to coast and into Canada. down the street instead of going after a band the business" once a record has sold the first Comfortable in small theaters and clubs that they really fall in love with," says Faires. 50,000 to 100,000 units. that seat from 1,000 to 5,000, Foster now The Chapel Hill area has also gained a repu- He is now busy working out distribution plays some very large arenas. In April, lie tation as a breeding ground for alternative deals for Mammoth with other companies performed at Texas Stadium in Dallas be- acts, he adds. around the world. He already has agree- 40,000. fore an audience nearing A former Sewanee Purple record reviewer ments with companies in Europe and Austra-

In spite of the huge crowd in Texas and WUTS disc jockey who used to book lia, and he hopes to complete a deal in Japan that night, it's unlikely he was as nervous bands for college parties, Faires says lie in- during fune of this year. as he was the night of his Grand Ole tends for the acts that he signs to provide With 10 artists already in Mammoth's

Opry debut. "It wasn't the audience or clear alternatives—the >ugh they may have var- stable, Faires says 1993 will be the company's ied influences to the mainstream. Develop- most active year with the probable signing of because it was television—I've been on — ing a particular label "sound," lie says, isn't as five new acts. He also expects that Juliana television many times—but it was just re- important as Inning an intrinsic quality that Hatfield, whose first solo album on Mam- alizing who has been there before you." music fans will associate with Mammoth. moth is selling well, should cross over into The Opry had long held a special place The company's first signing was a band the Top 40 radio charts. for Foster. As a Sewanee student, he and from Tucson, Ariz., known as the Sidewind- "I really enjoy the challenge of dealing a group of friends would fill a car and ers. Shortly alter that acquisition, Faires' with artists, finance, and legal people all in head to Nashville to see the Opry live at company worked out a deal for the band with the same day," says Faires of his job. "I get to the spring beginning of each semester. RCA Records. Since then, Faires has contin- wear a lot ofhats and there's a new challenge " And, though he couldn't tune in the ued to refine his philosophy. His goal is to every day.

Opry signal in Del Rio, Foster knew of it lincl new artists and then devote the time nec- and thought of that famous show as "Mecca." When the moment for his Opry per- formance arrived, Foster was ready. He held onto the pony and rode the full eight. A packed house cheered his ener- getic offerings. Backstage again, Foster was crowded by family members and well wishers. He had lived his dream. "It was kind of magical and it's hard to describe.

You think about all the history that's been there before you, from Hank Will- iams to Bob Wills to Marty Robbins hundreds of people who've made the music that you love great." ^

"There is a realfollow-the-herd mentality in the music busini is, and that's not what we're cdinul record produce) fay Faires, C'85. 15 • SHCW

The life ofdirector Miles Watkins, C'67, as told infive

episodes.

by Robert Bradford

It's 9 a.m. and Miles Watkins has already been shooting

for two hours. He has 12 more hours to shoot before the

day ends and it's not going well. He has a guest star on

Northern Exposure who's blowing a scene. Watkins knows

it. The executive producers know it. The other actors

know it. Andjust to make things a little more interesting,

it's Watkins' first time directing Northern Exposure, and

this is his first test. The regulars and the producers want

to see how he handles it. If he handles it right, he's a

hero. If he can't get it right, there are a couple of sce-

narios. He doesn't get invited back to do another show

or he gets fired on the spot. So here's the $1.5 million

question: How do you get the actor to get it right with-

out ruining his confidence? You have to lie. So Watkins

I . Hn m, — —

Watkins on the set with a tress and model Kim Alexis.

"That's great," he says. "I think you got that momentjust mensely popular television show. Watkins already has di- right. But we didn't get it on camera. We ran over the rected some of the major hour-long episodic television grip's foot and there was a hump in the camera. Let's do shows L.A. Law, The Commish, Life Goes On. And he's it again. This time when we do it, let's see if we can get a done some shows that haven't survived the ruthless tele- little more emotion. And let's try walking to the door a vision ratings game Jack's Place and Likely Suspects. little more slowly." It's nice to have some big shows under your belt, but

They shoot again. They get it right. Now the crew has Watkins knows that the job is won or lost in the meeting. to drive an hour and half from the soundstage outside of Each episode of a major television show like Beverly Hills

Seattle to the Washington mountains where the fictional 90210 can cost between $1 million and $1.5 million to town of Cicely, Alaska, has been created for millions of produce. The right director can keep the momentum of television viewers. And there are still 1 1 pages of script to the show going and maybe even add something to it. The shoot. Hundreds of decisions to make. Dozens of make wrong director can ruin a show. So the producers want to or break scenes. A handful of tense discussions with ac- know something about the man or woman in whose tors, the director of photography, the costume people, hands they're going to put that money. The decision in the soundman, and the producer. And Miles Watkins this town is always made in a face-to-face meeting. couldn't be happier. The meeting is casual and relaxed, but the producers ask Watkins some very pointed questions. . "What do you like about the show?" a producer asks in Back in Hollywood, Watkins meets with the executive between sips of coffee and small talk about new restau- producers of Beverly Hills 90210 about directing the im- rants and traffic and drive-by shootings. "What are its

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weak points?" "What do you think about the cast?" and Hollywood, where he knew no one, to try to make it

Watkins, who knew little about the show before the as a director. meeting, has done his homework. He is well prepared, Still he's been out of film school for five years and he's but casual about his answers and assessment of the show. been working hard and he has no feature film to show for

The meeting is never as intense as a show. it. He's doing the educational films, reading scripts at $25

A week later, the producer calls up Watkins at his home a pop lor the studios, and selling pencils and office sup- office in Santa Monica. plies lor a telemarketing firm. In 1979 his father gets can-

"Hey Miles, how would you like to do an episode of cer, and he goes back to Birmingham to be with him for

Beverly Hills 902 JO next month?" his last six months. It hurts him that his father, who never

quite understood why he had forsaken finance for films,

THE ROAD never saw him make it.

Watkins sits in his house in L.A. in the 1970s and waits for He comes back to Hollywood and wanders. He focuses a studio executive to contact him about a feature film. on screenplays, writing alone in his house And then his

These are the dark years. They should he calling me, he wife tells him she's pregnant, and he realizes that he thinks. I have more talent than a lot of the hacks oat there who needs some steady work. He gets a job as manager of the are directing. And he has the credentials to prove it. Beverly Hills Playhouse and starts to re-focus his life. He

There's the MFA from the University of Southern Cali- sells a screenplay to a studio. He goes back to studying fornia film school, where he received awards and his the- acting and directing. And he understands that the studios sis film was named best picture and he was named best di- will never call him. He is going to have to sell himself, to rector. There's the two-year directing fellowship at the put himself out there in front of the executives and show

American Film Institute's Center for Advanced Film them what he has. Studies. There are the years of studying acting so he can understand how actors think, how they talk—so he can be a better director. There are even roles in local plays and a few feature films The Day of the Locust, Dark Star and the blockbuster Great Texas Dynamite Chase. And there are the educational films and industrial films that he directed, many of them award win- ners.

But he's still sitting in his house and he hasn't gotten the call. And every now and then he's ask- ing himself why he ever strayed from his initial plan—to be an investment banker in Birmingham like his father. He had started on that road, graduating from Sewanee Gonnegtions, Meyer Wolfsheim told Jay Gatsby, you got to and then spending a year as a Joseph P. Wharton Fellow have gonnegtions to make it. at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Fi- It's a sunny day in California in 1989, and Miles Watkins nance. He could be driving a Jaguar now, living in a nice and his wife are at a dinner party with three other home in Mountainbrook, playing golf every weekend. couples. There's a guy named Rick Wallace who was in an

Maybe it was the Felini film, 8 1/2, that he and his acting class with Watkins several years back. Now Wallace friends watched in the Sewanee Union Theatre that got is co-executive producer of L.A. Lena which is consistently him off track. They stayed up through a good part of the winning Emmys for the best drama on television. Watkins night talking about it, realizing that film could be Art. Or and Wallace are reminiscing about acting school and perhaps it was the job reviewing films for the Penn news- Wallace is telling entertaining anecdotes about L.A. Law paper while he was at Wharton that compelled him to and everyone is getting along well. Watkins talks to leave the comfort of business school and head to USC Wallace about an educational film that he's working on

19 and the producer seems interested. The evening ends the industry from critics, academics, and industry insid-

uneventfully and everyone agrees that they should do this ers have not dissuaded Watkins from his goal.

again. "I have a lot of complaints about television and movies. A few days later Wallace calls Watkins and says he wants But there are so

to meet with him. It's a friendly meeting, and at the end many people who

of the meeting Wallace asks him if he wants to direct an have a lot of com- "As long as it's possible episode of L.A. Lata plaints. I'm not too

After struggling to get a major directing job for more interested in just for smallerfilms to than a decade, Miles Watkins stands on the set of L.A. joining the band-

Law for his first day of shooting. Around him are the wagon. I don't have make it, then I don 't stars: Harry Hamlin, once hailed as the sexiest man in the anything new to say world by People magazine; Susan Dey, who has come a that 10,000 people have any quarrel with long way since her days on the Partridge Family, Michael haven't said before.

Tucker, one of the firm's partners and a mainstay of the I'm hopeful that featurefilms. I show. The list goes on. cable and the pro- Watkins should be scared and nervous, but he's not. liferation of understand that most He's comfortable. He handles the actors with a calm that choices will make it

they don't expect from a first-time television director. But easier for quality

Watkins has been working toward this day for years. He's programs to sur- people would rather see

ready. vive.

At the end of the first day of shooting, Watkins goes "I don't have any Total Recall than

home. He is exhausted and his feet and legs are killing big quarrel with fea-

him—he realizes that's he's been standing on the con- ture films. It's easy Barton Fink, but I crete studio floor for 14 hours. He remembers a line to criticize them, to

from director Elia Kazan: With a director, it's the legs that go say they're car- think it is very first. toons, or they're

He shoots for eight days, getting more and more com- about the big ma- important that movies fortable each day. He spends several days editing after the cho guy or there's

shoot, and the job is done. Wallace takes a look at the fi- too much sex and like Barton Fink nal product and is very pleased, telling Watkins it's one of violence. Frankly, I

the best episodes that's been produced. Watkins will be like sex and vio- " are made. "invited back" to do another show. lence. When I'm in

the mood for it, I

i , THE FUTURE like Terminator 2.

"I had this prejudice against television," Watkins says "As long as it's possible for smaller films to make it, then

from his 1930s home in Santa Monica, a few blocks from I don't have any quarrel with feature films. I understand

the Pacific Ocean. "When I started meeting some people that most people would rather see Toted Recall than Barton

in television, I realized that I wasn't necessarily brighter Fink, but I think it is very important that movies like

or wittier or more sophisticated at all than, for instance, Barton Fink are made."

David Kelley, who is the head writer for L.A. Latt/and now So Watkins will go to more meetings, bouncing film

does Picket Fences. I think he is an artist and brilliant. ideas off studio executives. He will see friends and occa-

"I'm thrilled making a comfortable living doing some- sionally the powers that be in the obligatory parties, and

thing that I love to do, that I would secretly pay to do. But maybe there he will find someone like Rick Wallace who

at the same time I'm getting restless now." will offer him a film. "I'm just on the brink of getting to

The next step, the reason he came to Los Angeles al- do films," says Watkins. "In the meantime I'm enjoying

most 20 years ago, is to make feature films. The attacks on myself. It's better than selling pencils.

20 The Screenwriters' life in LaLa Land

Tom Lakeman (left) and ('.litis Sturgeon ofte n get together to talk about their screenplays. Tiey came to Los Angeles with nothing but a vision. They He reads scripts on the side for a Japanese production com- had no jobs and few connections—their common convic- pany and does computer graphics for a huge advertising firm. tion to break into the movie business as screenwriters drew "It's junk mail. Tree killers," he says and shrugs. "I've been out them to California. here four years. I work hard. I never, ever lose sight of the vi-

Now, just a few years after they arrived in LaLa Land, sion. It's a struggle lor me to write more than an hour and a

Chris Sturgeon, C'86, and Tom Lakeman, C'86, sound like in- half or two hours a day. But I know I have the talent and the dnstry pros. stories to make it. I can make a career out of this, no problem."

Sturgeon sits in Hugo's, a Hollywood breakfast and Sturgeon's friend Tom Lakeman came to Los Ange- lunch hangout that occassionally draws stars, and talks about les partly at Chris's urging. A Watson Fellow who studied writing screenplays. playwriting in England after graduating from Sewanee, an in playwriting "Writers are at the bottom of the totem pole in I lollv- Lakeman earned MFA from Carnegie wood," he says. "They get very little respect; they have very little Mellon University and then joined Sturgeon in Los Angeles.

input. If von write a screenplay, chances are that Company A "I had none of the things you're supposed to have in

I recalls. buys it and develops it. In that development process, they may L.A. didn't even have a car," Lakeman He signed up assigned to Stu- put three or four writers on it. By the time it gets to the screen, with a temporary agency which him Universal his as I may get a story credit but the screenplay credit goes to some- dios. He has worked way into a position a lull-time pub- body else." licity writer for the studios, handling media for Universale fea- He pauses for a second and looks up from his bacon ture films.

"In the movie business, our audience is shrinking. It and eggs. "See that guy behind you. He's a soap opera star. I don't know his name. Look up there near the cash register. used to be that the studios had lots and lots of money that they

Isn't that the actress who was Hot Lips in the movie M*A*S*H? could throw away like Monopoly money," Lakeman explains.

What's her name? Sally Kellerman. No, I guess not." "While the overall population has grown, the movie-going au-

Sturgeon has had some success as a screenwriter. He- dience has not grown. The movie business is not recession got an agent after graduating from the MFA program in proof. There is going to be a higher reliance on marketing and screenwriting from the University of Southern California. And market research."

he's sold a screenplay to a small production company. "It's a While he works at Universal during the day, Lakeman struggles during his time off the job to pursue writing screen- modern-day adaptation of Huck Finn called Hut I; and the King

ofHearts," he says. Production started on the project in May, plays. "I consider myself an aspiring writer. But working in the and the cast includes Oscar-winner Graham Greene as well as movie business, I understand very well what I'm up against. In Dee Wallace and Joe Piscopo. this industry, if you use the word art, you have to use it with a He hopes this project will be a major break for him, small 'a.' You have to be very realistic about the chances a giving him more credibility as he pitches stories to the studios. screenplay is going to reach the screen in the form you as the

At this point in his career, he can't make it on his writing alone. writer intended it to be."

21 A Tale of

Mary-Beth Smith, C'84, and GilJohnson, C'83, have come a long wayfrom their native Alabama to tlie bright lights of California

uring a San Francisco write the Bard's plays.

Shakespeare Festival, Mary- While Smith and [ohnson have never D Beth Smith, C'84, plays the met, their lives have converged in curi- role of Titania in A Midsummer Night's ous ways. Both from Alabama, they

Dream. It's the fourth time she's per- made their way to California to study act-

formed in the play, and she has become ing and have since endured to make it as

a fairly regular actor in Bay Area actors.

Shakespeare productions. For Smith, the actor's life has been a

Four-hundred miles south of San lifelong goal. "I guess I wanted to be an

Francisco at the Colony Theater in Los actress from the time I was a little thing.

Angeles, Gil [ohnson, C'83, plays a 25- But when I entered Sewanee, I planned

year-old William Shakespeare in Oxford's to do what my parents wanted me to do,

Will, a new play that addresses the much which was to be a doctor, and I schemed

discussed question of who really did how I could act on the side."

-Smith plays Katherine in Love's Labour's Lost during a Shakespeare Simla Cruz production.

22 Two Actors

Giljohnson plays a 25-year-old William Shakespeare in Oxford's Will.

Robber Bridegroom. The choreographer log from the American Conservatory

for that play hired her to do Carouselfor Theatre in San Francisco and told me

a dinner theater production in Indiana that I should either go there for some

during the summer between her sopho- training or go to New York."

more and junior years. "I was amazed At the American Conservatory The-

that 1 could get paid for acting. That did atre, Smith found the ideal blend of

it. I came back to school and switched training and opportunities for perfor-

my major to theatre and English." mance. She can move easily from

Acting in several more student pro- Chekov to Shakespeare, from Lanford

ductions and directing one play at Wilson to Clifford Odett.

Sewanee, Smith graduated from the "When I start on a role, I answer every

University and returned to her native question you possibly can about the

Huntsville, Ala., for a year to decide how character. I find out exactly who this per-

she wanted to pursue her acting career. son is. Then I have to find out where I

She started at Sewanee as a biology She returned to the Mountain and and the character meet and diverge,"

major, but during her sophomore year, talked with her mentor and theatre pro- she says.

she got a role in a student production of fessor Peter Smith. "He tossed me a cata- "I do everything I can to make sure

2:; "

that I have a net around me on every plan to leave California i( Both side to help me remain in the world of We were all told when we went this summer to hone their the phi}'. II I do that work thoroughly acting skills. Johnson has to school that the best thing you enough, I don't have to work much on been accepted to attend a series of stage. Those kind of safety nets keep me master's classes at Oxford University, can doforyourself is make your from being nervous. 1 am no longer where he will learn Shakespeare from

Mary Beth Smith, the actress exposed on the likes of Kenneth Branagh and Jer- own opportunities, " says Smith. stage. I am the character." emy Irons. Smith will reprise a role in a

u stage adaptation of Franz Kafka's Meta- My goal is tofound a theatre Although Gil Johnson uses a nioiphosis; she will then produce that play similar method to immerse at the Fringe Festival, off- where I can perform, where I can Edinburgh an -himself in a role, he says shoot of the prestigious Edinburgh Fes- " that he always has anxiety on opening do the things I want to do. tival in Scotland. night. "People ask me why I want to be Despite the struggles, Johnson and an actor. I don't have a good answer. It's Johnson's acting mainstay has been Smith have not lost their determination a terrifying thing— it's like jumping off on the stage, where he has been able to to act for a living. "I console myself with

Foster Falls." stretch out as an actor and has met with the fact that this business has a huge at-

With little more than a desire to see some critical success. The LA Weekly trition rate. Every year you stay in the new places, Johnson came to Los Ange- called his performance in Lanford business, the better your chances get," les seven years ago. He got an apartment Wilson's Fifth ofJuly "beautifully under- says Smith. "We were all told when we and was looking for work when he came stated." He received accolades from lo- went to school that the best thing you across an advertisement in a local paper cal media lor his role as a young can do for yourself is make your own lor auditions with the American Acad- Shakespeare in Oxford's Will. On the opportunities. My goal is to found a the- emy of Dramatic Arts in Pasadena. "I stage, Johnson says he Finds an imme- atre where I can perform, where I can never acted a day in my life, but I had diacy and a power to "touch people's do the things I want to do." always been interested in plays and lives" that it is not possible in film work. "I had never intended on doing this," playwriting. In the back of my mind I "I did this play called Could I Have fohnson says. "There seems to be a cer- had thought about coming to LA. to ThisDance? which is about Huntington's tain amount of destiny to it. Things are write. The academy accepted me, and I Disease. It won the American Theatre falling in place. I'm in this for the long ended up studying acting there for two Critics prize for best new play produced haul." years and then was with their acting com- outside of New York. Huntington's Dis- —Robert Bradford pany for a year. ease is a degenerative, genetic disease. If

Since graduating from the acting pro- your parents have it, there's a 50-50 gram, Johnson has had a gamut of chance that you'll get it. There were roles—he's had bit parts in a couple of people that came to see the play who bad horror movies and had a small role, were at risk for the disease. The play which ended up on the cutting room changed their lives." floor, in Oliver Stone's The Doors. He Those are the moments that Johnson reads occasionally for other television and Smith live for as actors. But those and film roles, hoping to get the one moments are, they admit, few and far break that will put him on the map. "Pro- between. Neither can survive on acting ducers and directors are scared to take a alone. Smith manages the ticket office of risk on somebody new, so you get a lot of the American Conservatory Theater. rejections. It's a tough road, and il When he's not acting, Johnson works breaks your heart, but in this business part-time at a restaurant to make ends you learn to live with it." meet.

24 THEOLOGY

LIBRARIAN ED CAMP [n the last issue I wrote about our ties so valued by St. Benedict, highest possible way. Our church

stabilitas. finds one's is plagued with the inability to RETIRES AFTER 35 YEARS plans to begin recognizing faith- When one

Hue calling in life, it is an ex- communicate directly with one OF SERVICE TO SEMINARY lul service by our alumni/ae in the callings for which they were ample of great serenity of spirit another. This is the source ol so

trained at the School of Theol- I() be willing to stay in that call- much of our frustration, anger,

ogy. One of the purposes of these in g, carrying out its obligations, and misunderstanding. By his

honors each year at the St. Luke's experiencing its joys and disap- mature, Christian behavior, Ed Convocation/DnBose Lectures pointments, avoiding the restless- showed all of us how we should

will be to raise up role models for ness of soul that is so common in relate to one another.

those who are coming after- almost all of us in our modern Ed Camp is not a graduate of

society. of is wards. I appreciate your favor- In Sewanee, Ed found the School Theology, and he

able and often moving letters in both vocation and friendships. therefore not eligible to be rec- stayed. a "faithful response. Here I would like to say And so among us he ognized as alumnus"

a few words about one of those In addition to his work as a li- at next fall's gathering. So I want very special role models. brarian and teacher at the to call attention, in this way, to

This past month, T. Edward School of Theology, Ed, along the outstanding service that Ed

Camp retired as the head librai with his wile, 1 1/ has long been i has given to this seminary, to the

ian of the School of Theology Li- very active and committed mem- University, to the church, and to

brary. Ed had served faithfully in ber of the community and espe- our society. It is just such people When onefinds one's that position for some 35 years. cially in groups devoted to ad- whom we hope to honor from In recognition of thai service, vancing causes of peace and jus- among our own alumni/ae. I am true calling in it is life, some of his colleagues tried in a tice. He has been an integral part sure all of you join me in wishing resolution to define Ed's contri- of the Cumberland Center for Ed health, happiness, and show- an example ofgreat butions to the University. Justice and Peace, and he contin- ers of God's blessings in his re- They spoke of Ed's service to ues this work into retirement. tirement.

the faculties of the School of I have only recently learned serenity ofspirit to be Theology and the College ofAits of Ed's considerable talents as a —The Very Rev 'd Dr. Guy and Sciences and his "outstand- musician, and I want to add his Filch Lytk III willing to stay in that ing professional skill and unself- many years as Otey parish's or-

ish dedication." The resolution ganist to those things for which calling. In Sewanee, Ed emphasized that Ed had built the we recognize him now. theological collection into one of Most of all, I admire Ed's per- the finest among denomina- sonal qualities. Twice since I be- Campfound both tional seminaries and that Ed "is came dean, Ed heard rumors or worth 50 electronic catalogs and perceived a situation that vocation and a hundred databases." troubled him. On both occa- sions, to It has been both my pleasure Ed came me immedi- friendships. and very much to my benefit to ately. He did not avoid me, sulk know and work with Ed Camp, and speculate about what I might We only met one another two have said or done, or try to imag- years ago. But even in that short ine what I might think about some issue. did not project period of time, I have come to He understand the profound truth his anxieties onto students or col-

of this resolution. As a theologi- leagues. Rather, he came to me directly calmly, and asked cal librarian, Ed is outstanding, and the equal of any throughout the nie specifically what the truth country. Sewanee has been fortu- was. In both cases, we were alie-

nate to be able to keep his loyalty almost immediately to resolve issue, to and his service for all these many the clear up the confu-

years. His willingness to remain sion, and to proceed in agree-

at Sewanee when he could have ment and harmony and friend-

gone to other, perhaps more ship to complete the tasks that we

overtly prestigious positions in each were called to do. I believe the academic world demon- that this models Christian behav- strates one of those great quali- ior and colleagueship in the

25 SPORT

SOFTBALL the Division III championships at Division III finals ranked #3) in Kalamazoo (Mich.) College after the SCAC finals. Coach Conchie In their second intercolle- graduation, the team's third trip Shackelford's team upset Emory

giate season, the Softball to the national finals. The SCAC (then ranked #7) twice during squad showed consider- triumph was an especially sweet the season to help secure a tour-

~~ able improvement. The win, a 5-4 nail-biter, which was nament berth. In addition to the B team finished 3-6, with lied 3-3 following the singles team competition, sophomore one weekend set ol matches. All three doubles Linnie Wheeless and freshman

games lost to a snow- matches went to three sets, with Ki isten Ialacci, competed in the

storm in Kentucky. The the Tigers winning the decisive individual doubles at Carleton last weekend in Sew- m. itch 6-4. The squad finished (Minn.) College. Senioi anee. the Tigers went 3- 1 7-5 ( in the season with a #8 rank- Cameron Tyer finished the sea-

4^ 1, with two wins over ing headed into the final polls. son ranked #4 in the nationals in

' Agnes Scott College Besides the team finals, fresh- singles and teamed with junior and a doubleheader split man K..C. Home (ranked #22) Becky Jo Doncaster to end the with Berea College. In the and sophomore Brian Morrow year ranked #5 in doubles, but

Berea series, the voting (ranked #49) will compete in the duo has decided to forego

squad lost the first game 1 5-0, singles competition; Home and individual competition, allowing

and then came bat k to win I 1-10 sophomore Stephen Jackson will Tyer to participate in commence-

in extra innings. compete in doubles. ment in Sewanee.

MEN'S TENNIS WOMEN'S TENNIS MEN'S TRACK

Ihe women's tennis team went The men's tennis team, coached The men's track team finished a to the Division III national finals by John Shackelford, started strong second to Rhodes College for the fourth time in five years. strong and held their intensity in their bid for a third-straight Following a 16-5 season, (he through the SCAC- champion- SCAC title. The team lost by five squad the season ships, where they avenged last ended ranked points after a heartbreaking #5 in Division III. only set- year's defeat at the hands ofTrin- The missed hand-oil in the 4\1 00m back in a great year was a close 5- ity and again captured the SCAC relay. Coach Al Logan was proud 4 loss to Trinity (also going to the crown. The Tigers competed in of his team, which set four new Senior Doug Mi may. Sewanee records in the confer- ence meet. Although slowed by a

late-season injury, sophomore BASEBALL Brad Mall led the Tigers, placing

Under coach Robert Black, the in four events. Records were set Tigers again were plagued by by junior Jamey Goss in both the lack of playing time, with 20 200 and 400m dashes; freshman games rained out during the sea- Shann Williams in the discus; son. The team finished a mis- and junior Brad McLane in the leading 1-15. Even with an 0-5 1500m run. Sophomore Scott slate in SCAC competition, Black Branting won both the 110m indicated the team was in every high hurdles and the 400m inter- game. The Tigers were led by se- mediate hurdles. Coach Logan nior pitcher Doug Murray, who was especially pleased with the did a great job pitching lor lour team's captain and lone senior, years. Junior first-baseman Greg Alan Bible, who provided great

Greene led the team in hitting at leadership and improved person- ally the season. .389 with an outstanding .(ill throughout slugging percentage, and junior shortstop Tony Richards hii a solid .2 (.)

WOMEN'S TRACK EQUESTRIAN TEAM

The women's track team com in- \ The equestrian team, led by tied Eg their winning ways with their coach Amy Beth Skelton and as- second consecntive SCAC title in sisted by Kim George, finished

the season-ending meet in San 15th in (he intercollegiate na-

Antonio. Under the guidance of tional championships at Lake

coach Cliff Afton, the Tigers Erie College in Cleveland, Ohio,

added three conference records on May 1-2. For the second time at the meet, bringing Sewanee's in three years, the squad won the total to eight. records The new Region VI title. Besides the team were by freshman Michelle Parks competition, freshman K.K. in the 400m inn; sophomore Christie finished fifth in the Tricia Woods, junior Kiisha Cacchione Cup in the open divi- Walker, Parks, and sophomore sion; senior Margaret Kni«>ht in Qnisha White, the 4\1 00m re- competed in the open fences di-

lay; and Parks, Walker, White, vision; and sophomore Sally

and junior Daphne Skipper in McClatchey competed in the in- the 4x400m relay. White, Woods, termediate fences division. The and Parks all hail from Central highlight of the regular 'III season High School in Memphis. Addi- was the win over Midway (Ky.)

tional SCAC winners were White College that came down to the in the 100m and 200m dashes; lasi class. Christie won the open

Skipper in the 800m, 1,500m, flat class to secure the champion-

and 3,000m runs; senior captain ship; she had needed to place Stacy Jnckette in the 5,000m run; second in the class for the team and freshman Jolene Tucker in to go to the nationals. Christie

the high jump. For the meet. also finished the season as the

White was the high point scorer high point rider for Region VI. and Skipper was second. Senior Margaret Knight. —by Stephen Becker

Kiisha ' Junior Walker hands off to Quisha Wliite in the 4 X 400 relay. Walker and White helped lew. n 's track team to their second SCAC title. 27 CLASS NOTES

'33 Texarkana and has served as a sup- '62 '70 ply priest in the two nearby towns Edwin I. Hatch Si: W. Landis Turner John W. TonissenJr. of Atlanta and New Boston. 3425 Wood Valley Road, N.W. P.O. Box 556 Park Avenue, North 36218 Atlanta, GA 30327 Hohcnwald, TN 38462 Charlotte, NC 28236 '57

Robert Fort is living in Donald EUis of Atlanta is a partner Oliver WheelerJervis Edward "Sparky" Edgin, an En- Beachwood, Ohio, where he has with Ellis, Funk, Goldberg, 1013 Catalpa Lane glish professor and the depart- been retired as CEO of Medusa Labovitz & Campbell, PC. Most of Naperville, IL 60540 ment chair at David Lipscomb Uni- Corporation for the past 15 years. his time is devoted to litigation versity in Nashville, Tenn., received matters. David Hillier is living in Thomas Darnall of St. Louis, Mo., the David Laine Faculty Travel Asheville, N.C., where he practices Fund award on March 3, 1993. It is '43 is the executive vice president and law, emphasizing bankruptcy law. chief investment officer for given to encourage faculty travel W. Sperry Lee Boatmen's Trust Company. He has and research. 4323 Forest Park Road been with this organization since Jacksonville, FL 32210 '73 1973. '65 Josiah M. Daniel HI The Rev. Domenic Cianella, T'45, Winstead, McGwire, Sechrest & Douglas J Milne retired as rector of Holy Trinity Minick '59 354 7 Richmond Street Episcopal Church in Hicksville, 5400 Renaissance Tower CarlN. Whatley Jacksonville, FL 32205-9421 N.Y., on January 6, 1993. He and 1201 Elm Street 9006 Langdon his wife now live in Huntington, Dal/as, TX 75270 Houston, TX 77036 James Baird of Malvern, Pa., is the N.Y., where he is serving as interim administrative director of the Pros- pastor at St. John's Episcopal. Susan Rogers is vice president and thetics and Orthodontics Depart- Norman E. McSwain Jr., professor tax counsel at R. Duffy Wall & Asso- of surgery at Tulane University ment at MossRehab Hospital in ciates, Inc., in Washington, D.C. '48 School of Medicine, has published Philadelphia. Price Stone, Orrin Nancy Cave Scoville of Nashville, his 13th textbook, Retroperitoneal Harrison, (C'71), and Bruce George G. Clarke Tenn., teaches French at the Trauma. He is currently associate Mulkey, (C'66), all lawyers in Dal- 1893 Harbert Avenue Ensworth School. She recently professor of surgery at the Univer- las, Texas, recently worked with Memphis, TN 38104 spent four weeks in Besancon, _ .i sity of Tennessee School of Medi- Habitat for Humanity on a project France, at a program for French cine in Memphis. sponsored by the Dallas Bar Asso- The Rt. Rev. Judson Child Jr. of teachers from around the world. ciation. They pose the question, Atlanta was selected by the "Want to buy a house built by law- Sewanee Club of Atlanta as the Dis- '60 yers?" tinguished Alumnus. '74 Howard W. Harrison Jr. Martin R. Tilson Jr. 435 Spring Mill Road '66 508 Broadland Road '49 Villauova, PA 19085 Atlanta, GA 30342 John Day PeakeJr. John P. Guerry Robert Gaines of Darien, Conn., P.O. Drawer 2527 1000 West Brow Road Jim Palmer of Birmingham, Ala., is vice president of food marketing Mobile, AL 36622 Lookout Mountain, TN 37350 chairman of the English depart- for the Newspaper Association of ment at the Altamont School. America, is the corporate director Robert H. "Bobby" Hood ol Harry Hall of Knoxville, Tenn., is of marketing for Ottaway Newspa- Charleston, S.C., has been in- active in the outreach programs in pers, Inc. cluded in the latest edition of The the diocese of East Tennessee and '76 Best Lawyers in America. the Church of Ascension in Knox- James H. Grier ville. '61 1520 Barberry Lane '67 Spartanburg, SC 29302 Robert N. Rust 111 '50 4461 Kohler Drive Albert Sid my Polk 111 Allen Reddick married Henriette Allenlown, PA 18103 2101 Harbor Drive Richard B. Doss Herwig, a German professor at Annapolis, Ml) 2141)1 5555 Del Monte, #1007 Berne University, last July. He is Thomas S. Tisdale Jr. of Charles- Houston, TX 77056 leaving Harvard University in June ton, S.C., has been included in the Bill Bassett of Gallatin, Tenn., is a to assume the position of professor latest edition of The Best Lawyers in representative for the Tennessee The Rev. Edward Rutland of of English literature at the Univer- America. Democratic Party. Texarkana, Texas, is enjoying his sity of Zurich, Switzerland. retirement. He is a pastoral assis- tant at St. James Church in 28 Nominations are being sought for the 1993 Distinguished Alumnus/a Award and the 1993 Distinguished Young Alumnus/a Award (the Distinguished Young Alumnus/a Award honors an individual who has graduated within the last 15 years). Once a year at Homecoming, the Associated Alumni honors two of its members with the presentation of these special awards. If you know of someone you think should be recognized, please fill out and return this form.

The purpose of these awards is to recognize individuals who have distinguished themselves in their vocation and who have shown loyalty to and support of the University. The recipient must be a living alumnus or alumna of the University of the South (College of Arts and Sciences or School of Theology). The recipient may not be an active member of the Associated Alumni Board, the Board of Trustees, or the Board of Regents. The recipient may not be a current employee of the

University. Please submit your nomination by August 1, 1993.

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'80 '85 and Koont/ in Chattanooga, lumbia. S.( '... works as an environ- Tenn., as an associate. Elizabeth mental scientist with Tank and En- Suzanne L. DeWalt I jiii ne (',. /arret! Rogers Klots married Michael John vironmental Testing, Inc. Christina 1066 Old Gate Road 2012 Park Ave. Apt. 2 Skrynecki on November 21, 1992. Reid teaches English in San Jose, Pittsburgh, PA 1523> Richmond, VA 23220 They live in Atlanta, Ga. Costa Rica.

Onic McKenzie and her husband, Shap Boyd and Beth Garcia Boyd a new Ray Brastow, have a new daughter, have daughter, Elizabeth, '89 SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY 1993. McKenzie Elizabeth. Onie works at born April 15, fohn Patten Guerryjr. Longwood College. 1619 T Bridge Mill Drive '60 '86 Marietta, GA 10067 The Rev. H. Don Harrison serves '82 Read Carson Van de Walei as rector of St. Joseph's Episcopal 2214 38th Street. NW Kristen Dietrich F.rdman works for Church in McDonaugh, Ga. DanielJohnson Washington. DC 20007 Coca Cola in Gaithersburg, Md. P.O. Box 3759 Pat Guerry of Atlanta, Ga., is the Memphis, TN 38104 Gretchen Rehberg, an assistant '63 new vice president of the Sewanee professor of chemistry at Bucknell Club of Atlanta. Last September, the Rev. Gedge Price is John the president and University, is working on develop- Gayle of Metairie, La., served as CEO of Spiffy's Shoes, Inc., in At- ing new synthetic methodologies acting vicar of St. John the Evange- lanta, Ga. toward the synthesis of pharmaco- '90 list Church, Cambridge, as part of logically interesting compounds. C. Katy Morrissey a parish exchange with the Rev. Frederick Rudolph of Marietta, '83 3103 Wheal Sheet Canon Brian N.Jones. In October, Ga., is a human factors engineer- Columbia. SC 29205 he was a scholar-in-residence at Stewart A. W. Low ing scientist lor Lockheed Aero- Coates Hall, the theological col- 215 Homer Avenue nautical Systems Company. He Lisa Humberd Rung is enrolled in lege of the Scottish Episcopal Yoorhees. 08043 NJ completed his master of science the MBA program at the University Church in Edinburgh. degree in engineering psychology of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Daphne Davis and her husband, last June. Garland Head (C'85), live in Texas. '70 She is still at Southwestern Medical '87 Jim Bingham has left the active Center in Dallas and helped au- Marsey L. Waller ministry of the Episcopal Church thor two articles published in the Robert Morales 3741 Gunstem Road and is the vice president for devel- Journal of Clinical Investigation and 2588 Winslow Drive. NE Alexandria. VA 22302 opment and community relations the New EnglandJournal ofMedicine. Atlanta. GA 30305-3743 of Naples Health Care, Inc., in Lisa Stiles married Mark Joseph Bill Monroe and his wife, Sharlene, Tom Broughton of San Antonio, Naples, Fla. Licata on January 2, 1993. They of Silver Spring, Md., have a Texas, is a stockbroker with the live in Richmond, Va., where she is daughter, facqeline, born Decem- firm ol Ihe Principal/Eppler, an attorney. Keith Taylor and his Guerin & Turner. Coast Guard En- '84 ber 1 7, 1992. Paul Todd Nicks mar- wife, Alisa, of Nashville, Tenn., The Rev. Stephen Eichler is the ried Julie Ann Alsip at All Saints' sign Kathryn Dunbar of Columbia, J. have a second son, Kyle Alexander, rector of St. Mary Magdalene Epis- Chapel on February 13, 1993. S.C., was recently commissioned in born August 10, 1992. copal Church, Coral Springs, Fla. They now live in Jackson, Tenn. her present rank upon graduation He had been rector of St. Albans Brian Perrone of San Francisco, from Officer Candidate School.

Paul Streckmann is living in At- in Chattanooga, Tenn., since 1986. '84 Calif, is an analyst with VISA Inter- national. He holds an MBA from lanta where he works in the audit A n n e FreeIs Bley not Belmont University and a master division of NationsBank. 2415 Dettwood Drive '90 of international management de- Greensboro, NC 27408 The Rev. Lada E. Hardwick is the gree from the American Graduate '92 vicar at St. John's Episcopal School of International Manage- John Evans of Atlanta, Ga., has LeeD. Cogburn Church in Marlinton, Va. ment. been awarded the Chartered Life 710 Hi n ma u Ave. #38 Underwriter professional designa- Evanston, IL 60202 tion. He is also the new president '88

of the Sewanee Club of Atlanta. Kyle Elisabeth Dice Shari Garber oi Knoxville, Tenn., 1217Lyncrest is working as a graduate associate Jackson, MS 39202 and attending graduate school in

Randall Scott Hammer has joined political science at the University the law firm of Kennedv, Fulton of Tennessee. Baron Jordan of Co-

29 IN MEMORIAM

The Rev. E. Lloyd Ballinger, T41, He was an Episcopal priest and and music director of two cho- certified public accountant. He is of Poughkeepsie. N.Y., died on longtime rector of the combined ruses, the Fiesta Chorus of survived by his mother, a daugh- fanuary 3, 1993. An Episcopal churches of St. James, James Is- Pensacola and the Emerald ter, a son, two brothers, and a sis- priest, he served parishes all over land and St. John's, John's Is- Coast Chorus of Fort Walton ter. the state of New York. In 1960 he land, S.C. After attending Beach. He was a member of moved to Poughkeepsie where Sewanee, he graduated from the Sigma Nu fraternity. He is sur- C. Paul Phelps Jr., C54, of Baton he taught French, Latin, and En- University of Pennsylvania vived by his wife, Alice, a daugh- Rouge, La., died March 10. 1993. glish at Franklin D. Roosevelt School of Law and started a ca- ter, two sons, and two brothers. He was a retired secretary ol the High School in Hyde Park and reer in law. He later graduated Louisiana Department of Cor- served as a supply priest at several from Virginia Theological Semi- The Rev. Fred L. Meyer, T'62, of rections and Public Safety and a churches in the area. Survivors nary. He was an Army chaplain in Eatonton, Ga., died December 6, U.S. Air Force veteran with the include his wife, Charlotte, three World War II. As a clergyman, he 1992. He was an Episcopal clergy- rank of Captain. He is survived by sons, a daughter, and a brother. served churches in Virginia, man. He is survived by his wife. his wile, Betty, his mother, two North Carolina, and South Caro- Hazel. daughters, and a brother.

The Rev. Robert O. Clement, lina. A long-time trustee of

T'51, of Pordand, Maine, died on Sewanee, he also served as a Hilliard E. Miller Jr., C'42, of Thomas R. Waring Jr., C'27, February 21, 1993. He was a re- trustee of Porter Military Acad- Colorado Springs, Colo., died H6L ol Charleston, S.C, died tired priest of the Episcopal emy in Charleston, chairman of February 26, 1993. He was a March 8, 1993. He was the re-

Church. After graduating from the board of directors of what is cattle rancher and operated tired editor of The News and Cou- the University ofNew Hampshire now the Bishop Gadsden Episco- ranches in Mississippi, Montana, rier of Charleston and a member and before attending seminary at pal Community, and on many and Colorado. He bred regis- of The Evening Post Publishing

Sewanee, he served in the L^.S. various committees in the Dio- tered and commercial Hereford Company board. After graduat-

Army during World War II. Upon cese of South Carolina. After he Cattle and registered quarter ing as Sewanee's valedictorian in ordination to the priesthood, he left active ministry, he was ap- horses. He was one ol the first 1927, hi- went on to start working served at churches in New Hamp- pointed as honorary canon of cattle breeders in the nation to al his uncle's newspaper. The shire, Connecticut, and Maine. the ( lathedral in the diocese of do performance testing for the News (iiul Courier. He left to work

After retiring from active ministry South Carolina. He is survived by selection ol improved genetic at the New York Herald TribunehwX in 1978, he was honorary canon his wife, Ella Hoffman Guerry. traits of cattle. He served as a cap- returned in 1942 to Charleston. at the Cathedral Church of St. tain in the U.S. Marine Corps in In 1951 he became editor of The

Luke in Portland. He is survived The Rev. James A. B. Haggart, World War II. He was a member News 0)1(1 Courier. In 1974 he be- b\ a brother. C'30, ol Healdsburg, Calif., died ol Phi Delta Theta fraternity. He came editor of The Evening Post

July 22, 1992. Fie was a retired is survived by his wife, Zoya, his and retired in 1977. He was a re-

The Rev. Robert M. Cook, T'45, Methodist minister. He was pre- mother, a sister, and two sons, Jef- cipient of honorary degrees from of Hudson, N.Y, died in August, ceded in death by his wife, Marie, frey Arnot Miller, and Hilliard E. both Sewanee and The Citadel.

1992. He retired from active Epis- and is survived by a daughter. Miller III, C74, and three grand- He is survived by his wife, copal ministry in 1978. He is sur- daughters. Hermine, a daughter, and a son. vived by his wife and lour daugh- ol Lewis J. Holloway Jr., C49, ters. Louisville, Ky., died on Novem- Lancelot Cabell Minor, A'21, William E. Walker Jr., friend and

ber 2, 1992. He was a retired tex- C'25, ol Birmingham, Mich., great supporter of the University,

We have learned of the death of tile salesman for Bibb Manufac- died January 6, 1993. He was a died February 24, 199.3. In the

Olive Saloma Dameron, C'78, of turing Co. in New York City, a retired manager and vice presi- past decade, Mr. Walker and the

Charleston, S.C., on May 5, former sales promotion manager denl of the Michigan office of W. E. Walker Foundation have

1992. She was a retired computer for Glenmore Distilleries, and an the American Surety Company given Sewanee money to endow consultant. Army veteran of World War II. of New York. While at Sewanee the Bishop Allin scholarship

He was a member of Sigma Al- he was a member of the Delta fund at the School of Theology',

The Rev. W. Russell Daniel, T'44, pha Epsilon fraternity. After be- Tan Delta fraternity and a star of to enhance All Saints' outreach of ( lookeville, Tenn., died April (>, ing a German prisoner of war for the track team. He served eight chaplaincy program, and to sup-

1993. He was an Episcopal priest. fifteen months he wrote a book years on the Birmingham Cilv port St. Mary's Conference and He is survived by his wife, Alles, aboul his experiences entitled Commission and was mayor pro- Retreat Center. The foundation and two sons, including W. Medium Dark. He is survived by tem from 1953-54. He is survived yvas established in 1972 and gives

Russell Daniel Jr, C67. two sisters. by his wife, Dorothy. mostly to independent schools, youth agencies, and human ser-

The Rev. Canon Edward B. Dr. Oliver C. Leonard Sr., C'49, Francis Joseph Pelzer III, C'62. vice agencies.

Guerry, C23, T'52, of Charles- of Pensacola, Fla., died Decern- ol Charleston, S.C, died March ton, S.C, died October 18, 1992. |>cr 24, 1992. He was a dentist 27. 1993. He was a self-employed

30 — — AFTERWORD

ol THE RHYTHM knew I would find nothing like bridge I did not remember—one the generations, .in awareness OF THE MOUNTAIN that at (lie ATO House because it of those sandstone bridges arch- the consequence of each in ils had been gutted by hie since my ing over the watery sinew ol passing. Mv mind called die roll

time there. So I went to the en- Abbo's botanical garden. The of the names ol those men I hold byJohn W. Boult, C'55 trance hall ofjuhan Gymnasium plaque embedded in the sand- responsible lor this place: Ed

It was one of those country roads when- the sports mementos aie stone told me the bridge was McCrady, James Otey, Abbott in North Alabama, one of those displayed. Examining the indi- dedicated to the memory of Cotten Martin, William Mercer meandering ribbons of asphalt vidual photos ol the "All Ameri- Theodore Dubose Bratton. An- Green, John Webb, Leonidas intruding, uninvited it seemed, cans" I noted that Bobby Parkes, other connection? When inv Polk, Robert Lancaster, Stephen upon the stillness of those hid- probably the finest pure athlete mother was 16 in 1922 her pat- Elliott. How could I merge the den mountain coves in the re- in Sewanee's history, is not ents put her on the train in her n. uncs ol men who lived a cen- gion where Appalachia grudg- then-—a glaring omission. Fi- sin. ill home town in North Missis- tury apart? What had they ingly gives way to Dixieland. The nally I went to the giant spindle sippi bound loi college al a small wrought here; what had they sus- mountains, on the horizon in all containing the group photos ol girl's school in Vicksburg. Her tained here on this mountain directions, are truncated and football teams from years gone travel arrangements called for bastion? I do not pretend to subdued, rising only a thousand by. I found myself her to change know the answer But as a child of feet or so above the valley door. in the 1951 pic- trains at Jack- this place, I have to hazard a

These are the unlikely moun- ture and for some son, but she guess. Maybe it has something to tains ol North Alabama which reason I found it missedher con- do with the knowledge that, un- tell us that Tennessee cannot be necessaryto touch nection there less one is callous beyond re- far away. my name in die and found her- demption, he cannot take his

Alter crossing the Tennessee lisi below. The self stranded. seat, even hall asleep, in dial line and after passing through connection was It must have chapel named lor all the saints, the town of Sherwood, the road real but somehow been a I light- and hear tor a thousand limes began a more ambitious climb. tenuous. ening experi- the old words, "the lord be with

As I started ascent, in a rush lor v< per- the From there I ence a >u" and not be persuaded— of memory and expectation, I drove out to voting girl away suaded down deep in the bone said aloud to myself and to tin- Green's View from home for marrow where thought becomes trees and smaller flora crowding that stately head- the first time conviction—that He surely must the roadside, "This mountain be- land which lor alone. When I be. Aid maybe it has something longs to me." I know the trees centuries has asked her what to do with isolation, with the were surprised to hear that be- stood watch over she did, she- homage paid here to individual cause I had not even visited the the misty valley below. This is a said, "Why, Honey, I just called privacy. Perhaps Sewanee's some- place more than a half do/en place where old man angst sel- Bishop Bratton and he came and what presumptuous adaptation limes in the past 33 years. dom goes and never tarries. Suf- got me." I guess there can be no of the Oxford model is deeper

Nonetheless, the possessive fused with the quiet serenity ol doubt, Sewanee anticipated my and more lasting than the cos- impulses grew as I reached the the place, I thought ol the man arrival on this planet. metic things—soaring towers, top of the mountain. Then, as I for whom it was named. I sup- As I walked on along the the parapets, the arches. reached Sewanee, I was stunned pose I did so, again in search of a banks of Abbo's mountain As I left the mountain that as never before by its awesome connection. I remembered that stream, I sensed the ancient day, I thought again about my beauty, its symmetry, its unyield- my great grandfather had been rhythms Abbo understood so connection with the place. The ing rectitude. baptized by Bishop William Mer- well ,\)\(\ tried, with regrettably best I could do was to wonder

I stopped at the bookstore to cer Green almost a century be- little success, to tell us about what misfortune might have be- buy T-shirts for my son and fore I was born. The thought oc- the greening, the browning, and fallen me in this life if, in my daughter who know far too little curred to me then that maybe the inexorable splendor of re- youth, before I was seized by this about this wondrous place. Seyvanee got an early start in put- birth; ever changing, ever staying somewhat sinful world, my life

There were people there who I ting its claim on me. the same. had not been touched by this didn't know, and I reminded my- My solitary wanderings took Here on this mountain the wonderful place. self that I would spend an after- me next to Abbo's Alley, that pre- rhythms of human history are noon on this mountaintop and I ternatural ravine King at the honored as well. Sewanee has John Boult is an attorney in would not recognize a soul, nor heart of this lovely campus. made its peace with the passage Tampa, Fla. would anyone recognize me. For There, too, old mister angst is sin- of time, with the relentless cur- this reason, I suppose, I went in gularly unwelcome. On this day rents of change. There is a linger- search of some tangible proof of of late summer, oblivious to a ing sense of continuity here, and my connection with the place. I misting rain, I came upon a foot- awareness of the steadv flow of

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Up in Smoke? Linda Mayes, C'73, Looks at Crack Babies SEWANEE JOURNAL

work of few Americans have not al- a dedicated people. SEWANEE ways cherished their In the 1960s, a timber company September 1993 forests. My distant an- took initial steps to log Dick

cestor, the pilgrim William Cove. Biology professor George Stephen Becker, DirectoroJ Communications

Roberl Bradford, Editor Bradford, viewed the forests and Ramseur and others argued that Romano, Joe Associate Editor wilderness of Massachusetts with the University must preserve the Susan Blettel, Graphic Designer fear and disdain. He called the precious remnant of eastern old Roberl Ingram, C'93, Cfatt M>ta Editor land of New England "hideous growth; University officials heed-

Associated Alumni Officers and desolate." He and his follow- ed their call. N. Pendleton Rogers. C'72, President ers embarked upon an "errand Today, Sewanee students and John W ronissen Jr.., C'70, Vice President into the wilderness." Their mis- professors make use of the living foi Planned Giving Thomas S, Rue, C'68, Vice President sion was to tame the wilderness, laboratory in Dick Cove; it is an

for the Alumni Annual Fund to fight it. to destroy it. asset that few universities in the Elizabeth McDonough Howick,C81, A writer who captured the country can claim. Sewanee for- Vice President for Admission rhe Rev. Henry N. Parsleyjr., C'70, fears of New Englanders as well estry professor Sarah Warren ex-

Vice President for Church Relations as anyone before or after him, plains the importance of the 100 Hie Rev. Dr. James K. Yeary, C'64, T'69, Nathaniel Hawthorne crafted a acres of undisturbed forest on D.Min. '89, Vice President foi the the Domain. "Old growth in the School oj Theology storv about the Pilgrim's uneasi-

|anei A. Kibler, C'80, Vice President fm ness with the wilderness. In Southeast is extremely critical Career Services "Young Goodman Brown" because there is remarkably little H.VV. "Yogi" Anderson [II, C'72, of it," she says. "As a teacher, I Executive Director Hawthorne brings his protago-

nist into the forest (surely it was want my students to work in old-

old growth) to battle his demons; growth areas so they can have a Photography: Stephen Alvarez, C'87, Goodman Brown, overwhelmed benchmark, so they can say that Woodrow Blettel, Lyn Hutchinson,

Charley Watkins,T'90 by his experiences in the forest, is they have seen old growth and

forever changed. they can compare it with cut for- Sewanee magazine is published In Virginia, closer to the Do- ests or other old-growth forests." quarterly by the University of the South, including the College of Arts main, the early settlers viewed —RB and Sciences and the School ofThe- the forests with similar trepida- ology, and is distributed without tion. The old-growth forest of the charge to alumni, parents, faculty, students, staff, and friends ol the 17th century was an obstacle to University. Copyright ©1993 Sewanee agriculture, specifically the grow- magazine. All rights reserved. Post- ing of tobacco. Historian Tho- master: Send address changes to mas R. Cox concludes that "the University of hit South, Office of University Relations, 735 University attitude was widespread among Ave, Sewanee 37383-100(1. TN settlers in Virginia that 'the exter-

mination of the forest' was a nec-

essary and vital preliminary to economic progress." The 100-acre patch of old

growth in Dick Cove may very

well have fallen prey to this de-

sire lor economic gain were it

not lor the University and the CONTENTS

On the Outside Looking In

"I'm not a politician. I don 't need tfiejob, "declares businessman

Winton Blount III, C'66, as lie runsfor governor ofAlabama

Sewanee's Old-Growth Forest

A walk through one of t/ie East'sfew remainingpatches ofundisturbedforest that's a mere 10-minute drive

from tJie center ofcampus

Up in Smoke?

Yale medical school professor Linda

Mayes, C'73, argues that "crack babies"

must not be written offas America 's next

lost generation

Departments

Vice-Chancellor's Corner

On the Mountain

Alumni Affairs On the cover: An old shagbark hickory in Dick Cove Developments Photograph by Stephen Alvarez

Scholarship

Theology vk :k-( :hanc :ellor\s corner

GIFTS OF SELF OLUNTEERS HELP provide valuable insight into the the University of the South. Sewanee achieve its success of their own educational

educational mission. experience at Sewanee. More- On June 13, 1993, Robert D. V;Whether helping with over, their presence in the par- Fowler, C'52, who served as a re- the admission process, alumni ishes often assists in new student gent, died from complications events, or fund-raising endeav- recruitment and future job following heart surgery in April.

ors, volunteers provide the en- placement for current theolo- Sewanee alumni love the Do- ergy and assistance to improve gians. These activities, now facili- main, but Bob loved and cared

the effectiveness of University tated by the Rev. Robert for it with a special passion.

staff and faculty. In addition, they Creamer, T'71, as director of Whether supporting his beloved

often provide talents and skills church relations, have prompted KA order or making a campus that add value to their support more sustained volunteer partici- appearance or providing support for the institution. pation for which we are grateful. for major new University facili-

Alumni activities, work on the Less visible but increasingly ties, Bob gave of his time, his en- Parents' Council, and participa- an integral part of our network of ergy, and his talents. Committed tion on the governing boards are assistance, the Sewanee Parents' to fiscal prudence and to the

specific examples of volunteer as- Council emerged during the forthcoming capital campaign.

sistance. Successive generations 1980s. Organized by the indefati- Bob Fowler served on the Board gable Richard Chapman, the of Regents throughout my Vice- Whether helping with of devoted, determined alumni leaders have ensured that gradu- council has attracted loyal and Chancellorship. Just as Judy and

ates feel a part of the ongoing life committed parents. Meeting her family have lost, so has the the admission process, of the current University. In the three times a year, council mem- University. And I have lost a col- decade of the 1980s the Associ- bers have students in theirjunior league and a friend.

alumni events, orfund- ated Alumni received still further or senior year at Sewanee. The encouragement to expand its parents provide a continuous ba- 0^jJ)\^u raising endeavors, range of involvement. Not only rometer of students—our cus- have the officers and members tomers—and their attitudes to- encouraged Sewanee Clubs and ward their Sewanee experiences. volunteers provide the Sewanee events, they have be- If Gailor food has often attracted come an integral part of our ad- attention, so have sensitive issues energy and assistance to mission network. Their help like fraternity rush, alcohol poli-

means college fairs are covered, cies, and co-ed residence halls. applicants are identified, and ad- Moreover, communications, ca- improve the effectiveness mitted students are urged to be- reer services, and a phonothon come a part of the Sewanee fam- to parents have seen spirited con- of University staffand ily. More recently, the officers tributions from council mem- have decided to help recent bers. As one of the set of "ex- faculty. graduates with a job network, perts" on the current Sewanee

seeking to facilitate the transi- scene, parents have been a vital tions from Sewanee into the addition to our volunteer ranks. competitive job market. Atlanta Membership on the govern-

and Washington will be the first ing boards, whether the Board of

two cities, but more are expected Trustees or the Board of Regents,

to follow. Officers such as Penn represents still another stage of Rogers, C'72, Lisa Howick, C'81, volunteer assistance. Regents and Jan Kibler, C'80, along with and trustees provide the Univer- Executive Director Yogi Ander- sity with invaluable insight on is- son, C'72, provide some of the sues ranging from strategic plan- leadership. Others are welcomed ning to business management.

to join these devoted volunteers. Without their vigorous input, the Seminary alumni have also church's support and involve- begun to play an increasingly im- ment in its only University would

portant role. Meeting annually at be far less effective. Their volun- the time of the DuBose lectures, teer commitment helps to shape School of Theology graduates the complex institution known as ON THE MOUNTAIN

SIX NEW MEMBERS Board of Trustees. ELECTED TO BOARD The Rt. Rev. Robert H. OF REGENTS Johnson is bishop of the Diocese of Western North Carolina.

Six new members have been Johnson was ordained to the elected to the University's Board priesthood in 1964 after attend- of Regents. They are: David K. ing the Virginia Theological Beecken, C'68, of Hinsdale, 111.; Seminary. He served a number of Dr. Ann Dobie of Lafayette, La.; parishes in Florida and Georgia Thomas M. Goodrum, C'60, of before being consecrated bishop Rt. Winston-Salem, N.C.; the Rev. in 1989. He is a member of Robert H. Johnson, H'90, of Sewanee's Board of Trustees. Black Mountain, N.C.; Edgar L. Edgar L. Powell owns Edgar

Powell, C'50, of Fort Sumner, L. Powell Enterprises in Fort New Mexico; and the Very Rev. Sumner, N.M., and co-founded

Hill C. Riddle of New Orleans. At Innovation Industries, Inc., of the same time, Robert Dale Russellville, Ark. Powell attended Grimes, C'75, of Nashville was the University of the South be- elected chairman of the Board of fore completing his bachelor's Regents. degree from the University of

David K. Beecken, senior New Mexico. He is a member of managing director at The Chi- the Episcopal Church of St. cago Dearborn Company, John. earned graduate degrees from The Very Rev. Hill C. Riddle the University of Chicago and is rector of Trinity Episcopal the London School of Econom- Church in New Orleans. Edu- ics. Active in community affairs, cated at the University of Virginia

Beecken is a director of the Rob- and the Virginia Theological Self Portrait with Grandchildren in the Funhouse, 1955 will be one of ert Crown Center for Health Seminary, Riddle was ordained 80 photographs featured in The Breath of All Things 1970. 1993, The Imogen Cunningham Trust, all rights reserved). Education. He is a member of into the priesthood in 1965. He (© Grace Episcopal Church in served several parishes in Vir- SEWANEE HOSTS IMOGEN Breath ofall Things " features over Hinsdale, 111. ginia and Louisiana before com- 80 prints. Many of these were Dr. Ann Dobie is professor of CUNNINGHAM EXHIBIT ing to Trinity Church. Riddle is a printed by Cunningham, and English at the University of past member of the University's The University is hosting a major several have never been shown Southwestern Louisiana in of Trustees. Board exhibition of photographs by publicly. Lafayette. She holds degrees Robert Dale Grimes is an at- American artist Imogen Cunn- "In going through her work, I from the University of Oklahoma torney and partner in the Nash- ingham that will run through Oc- was constantly being surprised by and the University of Southwest- ville law firm Bass, Berry of and tober 24. sudden changes of direction, ern Louisiana and received a Sims and a junior warden of The selection is representa- new areas of investigation," says doctorate from Columbia Uni- Christ Episcopal Church. He tive of Cunningham's 70 years of Malde. "Even at the age of 90, versity. Dobie also is a member of earned law degree from the a photographic activity. Working she was photographing with the the University's Board of Trust- University of Tennessee in 1978. from 1906-76, this extraordinary youthfulness and vivacity nor- ees. She is the editor of the an- Grimes has been a member of photographer witnessed the dra- mally possessed by those just re- thology, Something in Common: the University's Board of Regents matic cultural developments of cently introduced to the me- Contemporary Louisiana Stories. since 1989 and is a former mem- this century with a sensitive eye. dium. Maintained throughout Thomas M. Goodrum is first ber of the Board of Trustees. This is the first touring exhibi- her long career, this approach vice president for investments at "I very pleased with the am tion of Cunningham's work de- marks her as one of the most Dean Witter Reynolds, Inc. After election of the six new regents," signed specifically for the small- eclectic photographers of this graduating from Sewanee, he at- Vice-Chancellor says Sewanee's to medium-sized college gallery. century." tended the University of Florida, Williamson. "I look Samuel Organized by Pradip Malde, An Oscar-nominated film and the Wharton and Harvard foward to the contributions that chairman of Sewanee's Depart- Portrait of Imogen, produced by business schools. Goodrum is a they will make and to the leader- ment of Fine Arts, in collabora- Cunningham's daughter, Meg member of St. Paul's Episcopal ship of Dale Grimes as chair- tion with the Imogen Partridge, accompanies the Church in Winston-Salem, and man." Cunningham Trust, the exhibi- exhibition. he also serves on the University 's tion "Imogen Cunningham: The ALUMNI AFFAIRS

JUDSON CHILD NAMED ees to increase the number of ATLANTA CLUB'S Associated Alumni-elected mem- bers serving on that board. The DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS proposal will be made to trustees

The Rt. Rev. Judson Child, C'44, at their spring meeting. Ander- T*48, H78, of Atlanta, Ga., re- son said the resolution was cently received the Distinguished passed in an effort to bring Asso- Alumnus Award from the ciated Alumni representation on

Sewanee Club of Atlanta. the Board of Trustees closer to its After his ordination, Child historical level of 12 percent of

served for 16 years as rector of St. the board total. The addition Bartholomew's Church in would also provide for greater

Hohokus, N.J., until he was geographical diversity of trustees, called to be the canon pastor at as all but two of the board's 125

the Cathedral of St. Philip in At- members are from the Univ-

lanta, Ga., in 1967. Ten years ersity's owning dioceses.

later, he was elected suffragan Volunteers wrapped up the bishop of the Diocese of Atlanta weekend with a dinner and en- and was consecrated in 1978. In tertainment by a bluegrass band November 1983, he was installed at Clement Chen Hall, hosted by as the bishop of the Diocese of Vice-Chancellor and Mrs. Atlanta. He remained in that po- Samuel Williamson. sition until 1988 when he retired

as bishop and went on to serve as Homecoming 1 993 will be here soon. Mark your calendars for October 22-24. SEWANEE CLUB OF interim rector of St. Paul's ATLANTA RAISES FUNDS Church in Augusta, Ga., for two shaping this event held a "lively FOR REICH SCHOLARSHIP years. ALUMNI COUNCIL HOLDS brainstorming session," accord- During his years in the minis- SUMMER MEETING The Sewanee Club of Atlanta ing to Anderson. The quarter- try, Child played an active role in raised $1,500 at its 1993 Blue- A record number of volunteers century milestone will be marked both local and national work grass and Barbecue Skeet Shoot by a gala, fun-filled celebration who revitalized their energy and with the Episcopal Church. In benefiting the Dale Reich Schol- October 9, 10, 1994. enthusiasm for Sewanee during a on 8, and 1965, he spent four weeks in the arship. The funds will be do- Volunteers also had the weekend on the Mountain at- Missionary District of Liberia nated to the endowed Dale tended August's annual meeting chance to meet with members of training and developing leader- Reich Scholarship for worthy stu- Operations of the Alumni Council. the University's Com- ship in the church. As a bishop, dents from Atlanta who attend mittee. Vice-Chancellor Samuel Yogi Anderson, executive di- he chaired the House of Bishops' Sewanee. Williamson, Alvarez, rector of the Associated Alumni, Laurence Music Committee at the 1982 The scholarship was created associate provost; Mary Sue says the annual get-together pro- General Convention and was in- in 1968 in memory of First Lt. students; the vided an opportunity for club Cushman, dean of strumental in presenting the pro- Merrill Dale Reich Jr., C'66. Rev'd Fitch Lytle III, presidents, class representatives, Very Guy posed hymnal to the convention. Reich was an outstanding leader of the School of Theology; planned giving agents, admission dean Child has actively worked on and a member of the Order of Robert Keele, dean of the Col- network and career services vol- behalf of the University of the Gownsmen. He joined the mili- lege; Thomas Kepple, vice presi- unteers to meet with each other South. A former trustee, regent, tary upon graduation and be- dent for business and commu- and compare notes on their ef- and officer of the Associated came a Green Beret. He was relations; and Tom G. forts from the past 12 months. nity Alumni, he served as chancellor killed in combat action two "The contributions from Watson, vice president for univer- of the University from 1985-91. weeks after arriving in Vietnam. sity relations, offered look at these people are the keystone of a The Sewanee Club of Atlanta the workings of the University the Associated Alumni's effec- has 1,400 members and is com- during a questions and answer tiveness and invaluable to the posed of alumni, current stu- session in Convocation Hall University," said Anderson. dents and their parents, Episco- of the Associated Plans for the 25 Years of Members pal clergy, and friends of the Uni- Alumni's Trustee Committee, Women at Sewanee Celebration C'69, versity. took firm shape over the week- chaired by Ned Boehm, approved resolu- end. Chaired by Libby Baird unanimously a University trust- Thoni, C'82, the committee tion that will ask The Rt. Rev. Judson Child DEVELOPMENTS

SEWANEE DONORS SET The record gifts will aid the NEW GIVING RECORD endowment, annual fund, and campus construction projects Unwilling to let last year's giving and included a substantial num- record stand, Sewanee's support- ber of bequests. More than 7,600 ers put fiscal 1993 into the books donors contributed during the as a new all-time high for the record-setting year. Even more

University. During the past year, significant is the contrast to fiscal

members of the Sewanee family year 1991, which closed at $4.6 donated a total of $12.2 million, million. topping last year's total by some "We are clearly gathering mo- $300,000. mentum as we prepare for the

"This is very special time in a upcoming capital campaign. I The new endowed Fori and Nelms scholarships will help Sewanee undei graduates. the history of this institution," am encouraged and gratified by said Samuel Williamson, vice- the support for this institution, DUDLEY FORT, C'34, chancellor. "This very strong sup- have a Fort Scholar from one of and I believe we are off to a good CREATES SCHOLARSHIP these areas. port provides an opportunity for start for next year," said Tom G "Sewanee is indeed fortunate us to sustain and expand upon Watson, vice president for univer- FUND the vision of Sewanee's founders. to have benefactors with the re- sity relations. Long-time Sewanee supporter They would be very proud, in- sources and commitment of and club president, Dudley Fort, deed." Dudley Fort," said Tom G. C'34, of Nashville, has estab- Watson, vice president for Uni- lished the Dudley and Pearl Fort versity Relations. "In order for Total Giving Endowed Scholarship Fund. the University to continue at- Affectionately known as 14 tracting the most gifted students, "Uncle Dudley" by members of the endowment for financial aid the Sewanee family, Fort spent and scholarships must increase. nearly three decades working in Dudley Fort's gift is another step the Atlanta office of the National 12 in that direction." Life and Accident Insurance Co.

Active in University events, Fort served as Sewanee Club presi- NELMS SCHOLARSHIP TO dent while in Atlanta. When he 10 BENEFIT TEXAS STUDENTS returned to Nashville in the mid- The William A. and Madeline 1960s, Fort and his late wife, Welder Smith Foundation of Pearl, regularly hosted Sewanee Houston, Texas, has established Club events in his role there as 8 the Frank Chadwick Nelms En- president. He also received the dowed Scholarship Fund at the Dobbins Trophy, in recognition University with an initial gift of If" of the best Sewanee Club in the $50,000. The new fund will be country. A second-generation vj 6 used to provide scholarships for Sewanee graduate, whose two the benefit of students from sons, Dudley Fort Jr., C'58, and Houston, and if that is not pos- Arthur G. Fort, C'62, both at- sible, any student from Texas. tended the University, Fort con- The fund has been named for tinues to reside in Nashville. the son of Frank Constant Fort has stipulated that Nelms, C'52, of Houston, who Davidson County students, along was instrumental in securing the with those from Robertson gift for the University. County, where his father was "I am particularly delighted to born, are to be given first consid- announce this scholarship," says eration for the scholarship. If no Tom G. Watson, vice president students apply from these coun- for university relations. "En- '93 '92 '91 '90 '89 ties, then it will be awarded to a dowed scholarships help the Uni- Tennessee resident. He hopes versity attract superior students." Sources: Total Giving Annual Fund I that each class will eventually DEVELOPMENTS

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levels, amount of their de- duce or eliminate additional tax increase. the peal of the AMT for charitable ductions, and other factors. taxes that might be incurred due gifts and the record highs set on Some taxpayers will find that the to this tax legislation, while meet- the stock exchange, now may be

The key provisions of the tax taxes paid on a portion of their ing other important personal the perfect time to consider a gift legislation are as follows: income will rise by as much as planning goals as well. All tax de- c >f appreciated stock or similar in- • Gifts of non-cash property 28% when new brackets and sur- ductions will be worth more to vestment. can be especially attractive be- charges are taken into account. you if you are affected by the new If you would like more infor- cause Congress has restored full This will result in some dollars higher tax rates. For that reason, mation on how a charitable gift deductibility for gifts of appreci- being taxed at rates approaching one way to help minimize new made prior to December 30 can ated securities and other quali- 40%. taxes will be to accelerate deduc- help with your tax planning fied property. Such gifts will no • The increase in tax rates is tions into 1993 which might oth- please call the Office of Planned longer be considered "prefer- retroactive to the beginning <>/ this erwise have been taken next year. Giving at (800) 367-1179 for a ence" items for purposes of alter- year, even though withholding or Examples of deductions that copy of our booklet, "Charitable native minimum tax (AMT), so estimated tax payments will have you may be able to accelerate in- Giving and the 1993 Tax Act." those who may have foregone been based on rates in effect be- clude payment of state and local such gills in recent years can fore the passage of the new law. taxes, home mortgage interest, again enjoy the benefits of giving Because of the retroactive nature and other expenses, to the ex- appreciated property and de- of the rate increases, main tent allowed by law. There are ducting the full fair-market value. people will thus owe additional limits to the flexibility afforded

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Scott Bali Stephen Puckette George Ramseui

FOUR LONG-TIME SEWANEE ogy at Sewanee for 30 years. A and Oregon, he worked toward trips throughout the Southeast. PROFESSORS RETIRE native of Georgia, he served in his M.S. in forestry which he George Ramseur taught at the U.S. Army during World War completed in one year. He did Sewanee for 35 years. Born near

A. Scott Bates, Charles W. Fore- II. He entered the University of not pursue a career in forestry Morgantown, N.C., he graduated man, Stephen E. Puckette, and North Carolina at Chapel Hill in but instead entered the graduate with an A.B. in physics and math-

George S. Ramseur, four long- 1940, received his B.A. in 1949, mathematics program at Yale ematics from Elon College in time professors at Sewanee, re- and went straight to Duke Uni- where he received his M.A. in 1948. Beginning in 1949, he tired at the end of the 1992-93 versity for graduate studies. Fol- 1951 and his Ph.D. in 1957. For taught science courses at academic year. lowing completion of his Ph.D. one year after completing his Reynolds High School in Win-

Scott Bates, professor of in 1954, Foreman taught at M.A., he was a Fulbright Scholar ston-Salem, N.G While teaching French and theatre and speech, Wofford College, the University in France. His teaching career high school, however, he worked was a member of the Sewanee of Maryland, and Pfeiffer College began and ended at Sewanee. toward his M.Ed, in secondary faculty for over 30 years. After re- before coming to Sewanee in From 1956-66 he taught at education at the University of ceiving his BA. from Carleton 1963 as an associate professor of Sewanee. He then left the Uni- North Carolina at Chapel Hill

College, he went on to earn an biology. It took only three years versity for three years to serve as and was awarded that degree in

MA. and Ph.D. from the Univer- for him to be named a full pro- the associate chairman and the 1953. In 1954, he left his teach- sity of Wisconsin at Madison. fessor. During his career, Fore- director of the undergraduate ing job at Reynolds High School While at Sewanee, he taught a man published a number of program in mathematics at the and entered the graduate pro- wide range of courses from scholarly articles, many of them University of Kentucky. When he gram in botany at the LIniversity French literature classes to dealing with the genetics of he- returned to his alma mater in of North Carolina. Ramseur classes on the history of women moglobin structure and func- 1969, it was to a different set of came to Sewanee to teach in in film. Among his books are tion. He also received four Na- duties. Not only was he teaching 1958 and received his Ph.D. in

Guillaume ApolUnaire, Poems oj War tional Science Foundation re- in the mathematics department, 1959. In addition to serving as Resistance from 2500 B. C. to the search grants and has been a but he was also elected to be the the chairman of the biology de- Present, Petit glossairedes motes litres member of the board of trustees dean of the College during the partment from 1984-89, he was d'Apollinaire, Lupo's Fables, and lor the Highlands Biological years in which Sewanee first be- also a consultant for USAID/ The ABC of Radical Ecology. In ad- Foundation since 1961. came a co-educational institu- NSF Summer Science Institutes dition, Bates' poems have ap- Stephen Puckette, C'49, pro- tion. In 1979, he resigned his at Punjab and Banaras Hindu peared in The New Yorker, The Par- fessor of mathematics, was a post as dean but continued to Universities in India in the late- tisan Review, the New Republic, and member of the Sewanee faculty teach until the end of the Easter 1960s and a member of the scien- the Sewanee Reviexv. Bates was ac- for 37 years. A native of Semester 1993. He is the author tific advisory committee for the tive in local affairs. campus and Ridgewood, N.J., he came to of two books, Trees of the Seiuanee Tennessee Department of Con- An officer in the local chapter of Sewanee as a Ruge Scholar and Area and Modern Coordinate Geom- servation since 1980. His schol- the NAACP since 1958, he has graduated with a B.S. in math- etry as well as many scholarly ar- arly publications have appeared been a member of the High- ematics as the valedictorian of ticles which have appeared in in such periodicals as the Journal lander Board of Directors, an ad- the Class of '49 and a member of such magazines as American Scien- of the Tennessee Academy of Science, visor the to Black Student Union, Phi Beta Kappa. From Sewanee, tist and Mathematical Reviews. Castanea, and the Journal of the and a member of numerous fac- he headed to Yale University Puckette is also an avid F.lisha Mitchell Scientific Society. ulty committees at Sewanee. where, inspired by experiences outdoorsman who has led many

Charles Foreman taught biol- in the forests of Idaho, Ontario, Sewanee students on canoeing

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At a call-in radio show on a small AM station in Ath- ens, Ala., Winton Blount III, C'66, waits to field his first call. He's a little nervous; he's never done this before. The show's host, a conservative partisan named Brent Woodall who takes occasional shots at The Democrats and The Liberals, briefs Blount.

'Just speak with a lot of emotion," Woodall says. He starts the show by asking Blount why he's run- ning for governor of Alabama. "We're sick and tired of what's been going on in this state. We're mad as hell, and that's why I'm inter- LOOKING ested in taking this plunge. We can run things differ- ently in this state. I don't like what I see in Montgom- ery, and that's why I want to offer some different ideas," Blount says. There's the emotion. For the next two hours, Blount answers a variety of calls. He gets more and more comfortable, standing and moving around the small studio. The callers dwell on two themes: education and the economy. This heartens Blount, who has picked these themes as the focus of his campaign. There are the crackpot calls that Blount seems to enjoy. A caller named

Sahid, a regular anarchist on the show, is on the line. "You say you are for free enterprise and yet you are against the legalization of drugs. There's an inconsis- tency there," Sahid says.

"I don't understand the logic of what you're talk- ing about. That's the craziest thing I've ever heard the legalization of drugs. That's outrageous," Blount roars. He likes to say that things are outrageous. As the show winds down, Blount hammers home the ideas that he hopes will get him into the governor's office. "I I'll the only guarantee that be By Robert Bradford candidate that's running next year understands who Photography by Chip Cooper the free enterprise system. You can't run government in average citizens, either like Jimmy

Stewart in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, or military leaders, or businessmen, who proclaim that they have the knowledge and experience to set things right," says Brockett.

"The appeal is a traditional one. I

think what's different is that the oppor-

tunities are greater now. It used to be that the selection of our candidates was tightly controlled by the party appara- tus. That's loosened up considerably in recent decades. There's greater oppor-

tunity for the person outside the politi- cal structures to become a major can- didate. "There are certain periods when like a business, but we feel more kindly disposed to our leaders than at you can sure bring business principles to govern- other times. Clearly we're in a time now when there's

ment. We have to make our government more user a great deal of distrust of politicians. So there is more friendly, more customer friendly. And the customer opportunity now."

is the taxpayer," he says. Brockett believes, however, that should Blount be

"Vote for me next year because I'm not a politician. successful in his run for office, he will face some sig-

I don't need the job. Vote for me because I'm quali- nificant problems.

fied and I want to help the people of Alabama to a "The fact is that government is not a business,"

better economic future." Brockett says. "You have a fragmentation of power in If Blount sounds at times like Ross Perot, there's a government that you don't have in a corporation. In clear connection. Blount, a wealthy businessman who a corporation you have a clear line of control, a clear

has never before run for political office, is riding the line of authority. Our political system intentionally wave of national dissatisfaction with traditional solu- fragments power. A president or a governor can't dic-

tions to political problems. Like Perot, he says that if tate that the house will pass his legislation. The essen-

he's elected, he'll give his government salary back to tial problem is that the political system was created to

the people. Like Perot and Richard Riordan, a make it difficult to get anything done." wealthy real-estate wizard who was recently elected mayor of Los Angeles, Blount believes that solutions Blount remains undaunted by the inherent to political problems must be attacked by a political problems of governing. While he has never outsider. And like Perot and Riordan, he believes that been a candidate, he has been active in politics

a successful businessman, someone who has proved since his days at Sewanee. "My first political experi- that he understands the market economy, can create ence was at Sewanee in 1964, working for Barry jobs and solve the seemingly intractable problems of Goldwater's campaign. I'll never forget walking door gridlock and pork-barrel spending and government to door asking people to support Barry Goldwater,"

inefficiency. Blount recalls. "I remember going to a man's house Charles Brockett, a Sewanee political science pro- and giving my spiel for Barry Goldwater. This woman

fessor, says Blount is part of a continuum of "outsid- came around the corner and said if he thought he ers" who have run for political office. 'There's been a was going to vote for a Republican, she'd shoot him

long-standing tradition in American politics that the and me, too. I didn't realize it was dangerous in that problems with politics are our politicians. And the FDR territory to be a Republican." solution lies in getting rid of politicians and putting After graduating from Sewanee and then earning

12 an MBA from die Wharton Graduate School at the governor elected in Alabama since Reconstruction, University of Pennsylvania, he returned to Alabama was unceremoniously thrown out of office earlier this to work for his family's construction business, one of year on ethics charges. the largest in die South. In 1983, he was named chair- But some analysts consider Blount a front runner man and chief executive officer of Blount Interna- in the Republican primary and give him a good tional, Ltd. He was responsible for what was at the chance of winning the elecdon in November 1994. time the largest fixed-price construction project in "Blount is doing everything at the moment that I history—the $2 billion King Saud University project think he needs to do to win," says Tom Lindley, capi- in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Over the next several years, tol bureau chief and columnist for the Birmingham he served as senior vice president and later vice chair- News, the state's largest paper. 'There's a lot of anger man of Blount, Inc., a $1.2 billion per year construc- about politics in Alabama. Blount is doing the right tion and manufacturing firm. In 1989, he left the thing to present himself as an outsider." family construction business to establish Win ton Lindley anticipates a bitter Democratic primary

Blount III & Associates, a diversified investment firm race between current Governor Jim Folsom Jr. and that includes automobile dealerships and a plastics challenger Paul Hubbard. "If there is a blood bath in company. the Democratic primary, Blount's chances improve,"

Throughout his career, he has remained active in he says. politics. As a registered lobbyist, he has supported Blount is not concerned about the Democrats causes linked with business and the Republican right now. He is focused on the Republican primary,

Party, immersing himself in batdes over tax reform, traveling throughout the state to increase his visibil- tort reform, and educa- tion. "We have Late last year, Blount made the decision to to make our move from the outside of the political system to the government inside. "All my life Fve en- couraged good people to more userfriendly, run, raising money for more customer them, working on strategy, working on background, friendly. putting out yard signs. It came my time and my And the customer turn, and people were en- " couraging me," he says. is the taxpayer. 'The big decision is cross- ing the barrier of giving up my personal privacy. It's not just an issue for me, ity and spread his message of economic development but for my wife and our children. They are the ones and education reform. who may suffer the most. I'll be in the arena, but they Before he spoke to an assembly of the Rotary Club have their own private lives. I worry about them." and the Kiwanis Club in Decatur, a newspaper pho- He and his family will be working hard through tographer and a member of the local Rotary Club the Republican primary on June 7. For Blount, that milled about the conference room. "Why do you means politicking five to six days a week. He hopes only show up to take pictures of politicians?" the there will be several candidates in the Republican pri- Rotarian asked. "They are the lowest creatures on mary to spark interest in the party. Republicans have earth." not been a force in Alabama gubernatorial politics While Blount was not around to hear that com- during this century. Guy Hunt, the first Republican ment, he might agree with it.

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Dick Cove quietly. At the trailhead, we see nothing spec- tacular—-just the typical young hardwoods that one would encounter almost anywhere on the Cumberland

Plateau. Soon, however, we begin to see the big trees. A yellow poplar shoots up 60 feet into the sky, straight as an arrow. Two huge white oaks grow within a few feet of each other, intersecting at 30 feet above the ground and then continuing for another 50 feet. They seem to be dancing, like rattlesnakes before they mate.

My guide on this hike through a forest that has re- mained virtually undisturbed by humans since recorded history, Sewanee forestry professor Sarah Warren, does not concern herself only with the large, dramatic trees. Maple saplings, above, wait in the

understory to grow. Dick Cove is She points to some maple saplings, about 10 centimeters home to a wide array of wild/low- in diameter. "They may hang out at this size for a long ers, left. On the opposite page, a time until they get the opportunity to grow. And then large down tree, typical ofold- they take off," she says. She identifies other inhabitants of growthforest. this 100-acre patch of old-growth forest, located on the

University's Domain, that is a mere 10-minute drive from the center of campus. There are hickories and sugar maples, red oaks and ash. Spice bush, red bud, grape vines, maple-leaf viburnum, May apple, trout lily, violets, crane's bill geranium, wild ginger, and the ubiquitous poison ivy dominate the understory.

Occasionally, though, Warren cannot contain her ex- citement about the big trees. She sees a white oak, almost

80 centimeters in diameter. "Look at that monster." A shagbark hickory juts up on our right. "That's a beauty," she says.

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This forest has all of the elements of classic old growth.

There is a wide range of large, mature trees and smaller ones, creating a multi-layered canopy; sunlight comes in through openings in the canopy, giving smaller trees the opportunity to grow. Snags and down trees are scattered throughout the forest floor and in a stream that runs down the cove, providing the essential nutrients to sus- tain the old growth.

While down trees are fundamental to the old-growth ecosystem, the number of large dead trees in this forest at times rivals the living ones. This concerns Warren and

rf*- ,.M others who have studied this rare patch of eastern old- growth forest. In the early 1 980s, Charles E. McGee, then The strmm that rum through Dkk Cove provides essentiai nutrients the principal silviculturist at the Sewanee Silviculture to the lush understory.

Laboratory, did a comprehensive analysis of the mortal- ity in the Dick Cove old growth. He identified more than

600 down trees, most of which had died within three years of his study. The oldest tree, a dead hickory, was growing in Dick Cove around the time the first settlers landed in Jamestown.

McGee hypothesized that the sudden mortality rate in

Dick Cove could be attributed to a variety of factors: a drought in the summer of 1978, record-breaking heat, and an increase in the number of insects that feed on the trees. While McGee's conclusions are plausible, no one is certain why so many trees died in Dick Cove. The phe- nomenon in this area raises some larger questions about human intervention in old-growth forests.

David Loftis, C'70, U.S. Forest Service Project Leader for Ecology and Management of Southern Appalachian

Hardwoods, says scientists, the Forest Service, and envi- ronmentalists are struggling with how to define old

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Elliot A. Norse, a senior ecologist for the Wilderness

Society, has addressed this issue as it pertains to western old-growth forests. "Biological diversity is the key to sustainability. Whatever goals we have, the first and fore- most among them must be preventing the loss of genes, species, and ecosystems."

But there is a quandary. If scientists or foresters "man- age" the old growth to protect the diverse flora and fauna in the forest, does it cease to be classified as old growth because humans have intervened?

"We haven't had the knowledge and the data that we need to address comprehensively the complex social, political, economic, biological, and ecological issues re- lated to old-growth forest," says Loftis.

Scientists from throughout the region have been drawn to Dick Cove to look at the mortality rate in the forest and to ponder the larger questions about old growth. The forest is a living laboratory for these scientists as well as for Sewanee students whom Warren regularly brings to study it.

They come to Dick Cove for a simple reason: old growth in the East is so very rare. Far less than one per- A fern, above, on the Dick Coveforest floor. On the opposite page, a cent of the deciduous forest in the East can be classified viewfrom the canopy. as old growth. In contrast to the West, where there are dramatic but threatened ancient forests that range for hundreds of thousands of acres, the few large eastern tracts of old growth, like the area in North Carolina's

Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest, span only a few thousand acres. The 100-acre patch of forest in Dick Cove contin- ues to attract people from throughout the region who want to see some old growth, any old growth.

The old growth in Dick Cove endures as an island in the sea of second- or third-growth eastern forest because the University took measures to preserve the fragile eco- system.

Forests throughout the University's 10,000-acre Do- main have been logged since the 19th century. The steep coves were the last to be logged largely because of their

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20 " inaccessibility. In the late 1960s, however, a timber com- pany took steps to cut in Dick Cove, building a road into the area. Biology professor George Ramseur, who under- stood the tremendous importance of the old-growth eco- system in Dick Cove, told University officials it would be a grave mistake to log in this area. The University took his advice.

In the early 1970s, when the National Park Service pro- posed placing Dick Cove in the Registered Natural Land- mark Program, the University expressed concerns about the impact national publicity would have on the area.

Responding to the Park Service proposal, Vice-Chancel- lorJ. Jefferson Bennett stated the University's policy con- cerning Dick Cove, which endures to this day: "The Uni- versity has every intention of maintaining this unique area in its present natural condition. We have no inten- tion whatsoever of commercial use of the timber thereon.

The University is convinced that it is fortunate enough to The forest as seen from above. hold this area as a sort of public trust. Hardwoods can stay "pruned" treks in George Ramseur continues to take the un- by a kick of light and waterfor touched forest, observing the magnificent trees and the 50 to 100 years, waitingfor a

space in the canopy to open. At wildflowers. I ask him why it's so important to preserve left, a small buckeye in the tinder- areas like Dick Cove. He responds quickly. "Worldwide, story awaits its opportunity. old growth is a disappearing phenomenon, so it's great to have this asset. We need to save everything that's here, simply because it's here."

21 Yale medical school professor Linda Mayes, C'73, argues that "crack babies"'' must not be written off

as America s next lost generation

By Joe Romano

Illustration Iry Woodrow Blettel

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7^ SEEMED LIKE A VERY SIMPLE QUESTION to started, however, with a look at possible effects of cocaine Linda Mayes, C'73: Does exposure to cocaine in the on a newborn's physiological development,

womb affect an infant's development? But when she In a preliminary study, published in the journal, Pedi-

began her research, Mayes learned quickly that the an- a dies, Mayes and her colleagues found that cocaine-ex-

swer to her question was not to be neat or clean. Far from posed babies were fairly normal with the exception of

it, in fact. What Mayes had hoped would be a tidy little re- their ability to notice novel stimuli in familiar surround-

search problem has forced her to look outside of the sci- ings. This ability, known as habituation, is the reason a

entific arena into a wide range of political and social is- person will sense—perhaps not being able to point it out sues to explore a question which she says will probably immediately—that something is different in a room

never be answered fully. where, say, the color of the

What she has learned is that drapery has been changed.

valid concern over cocaine use "To label them as cocaine kids With the cocaine-exposed ba-

by pregnant women has led to bies Mayes has studied, the re- puts them in a class of their not necessarily valid conclusions sponse is there, but it's much about developmental problems more impaired, much more own, in which tliey don V their offspring may experience. fragile. Habituation, says " These views, says Mayes, who belong, says Mayes. "We know Mayes, is often a very strong

teaches at the Yale Child Study indicator of the likelihood for how to intervene: tliey may need Center, a department in the Yale future learning capacities. She

University School of Medicine, adds that the small number of smaller classes, tliey may need have been propagated by the lay children she has studied to

media despite a lack of hard evi- more skilled teacliers, bat tliey date makes it difficult to draw

dence to support them. In an any broad conclusions about

don 't need a class with a sign article she co-authored for the them. But whatever the find-

Journal of the American Medical ing, Mayes says the real con- over it saying 'cocaine Association (JAMA), Mayes says cern is that "premature con- " infants exposed to cocaine in exposure. clusions about the severity and

the womb are "often repre- universality of cocaine effects

sented as severely or even irrevocably brain damaged are in themselves potentially harmful to children."

to the point that they may never function normally in That is why Mayes insists that it does no good to stig-

society. On this account, a very large group of children is matize such children as underachievers. 'To label them

in danger of being written off." Indeed, the May 25, 1990, as cocaine kids puts them in a class of their own, in which

issue of the New York Timesspeaks of children whose "neu- they don't belong," says Mayes. "Suppose these children

rological, emotional, and learning problems will severely do have developmental problems, difficulty focusing

test teachers and schools..." their attention; we have known how to intervene on these

A soft-spoken native of Winchester, Tenn., Mayes be- for a number of years."Just because those problems were

gan the work with so-called "cocaine babies" as a natural potentially caused by cocaine exposure, she adds, doesn't

extension of her study of normal infant development, make them more difficult to treat. "We know how to in-

The longer she explores the issue, the more she realizes tervene: they may need smaller classes, they may need

that cocaine mayjust be another symptom, and not a root more skilled teachers, but they don't need a class with a

cause of problems for children who live in a world sign over it saying 'cocaine exposure."'

fraught with violence and uncertainty. Her investigation Beyond the simple treatment of the physical manifes-

to tationsof cocaine exposure, Mayes urges examination of "The attribution of irremediable damage makes it the environment that leads people to drug use. The na- more difficult to find services for these children, and ture of addiction, she reminds us, is that humans don't such services may be geared to caretake rather than to use drugs in a vacuum. Cocaine, like every drug abused challenge children's capacities or to remediate effec- since the time of the Romans, she says, carries with it an tively," Mayes wrote in the JAMA commentary. What she entire social context. Prenatal exposure to the drug com- and her colleagues suggest is a "one-stop shopping" ap- bines with the postnatal social context to create partial- proach to care for expecting and new mothers, lar vulnerabilities within a child. A cocaine-exposed child "When I started this work, I never thought I would be who has difficulty focusing attention as things around talking about any of this. Designing services and pro- him get more exciting will do grams is not my major interest, fine in a very structured, well- but if a mother has a problem modulated environment. "Put getting to the different agen- the same child in a home where cies she needs—because care is inconsistent or unpre- they're at four or five different dictable," Mayes explains, "and places around the city—it's he will have more problems." quite possible that she'll say, 'I

While cocaine may have created don't need to do all this,' and a certain vulnerability, the envi- she won't go," says Mayes. On ronment is often what brings the other hand, a one-stop ap- that condition to the fore. proach would put needed ser-

"There's no such thing as a vices like Women, Infants, and

functioning crack [cocaine] Children (WIC) , Headstart, family," according to an Octo- prenatal and postnatal medical

Photograph Alvarez ber 1990 article in Rolling Stone by Stephen care, and drug treatment pro- magazine. "Boarder babies are grams in a single location that what you end up with when a mothers would be more likely iC Wlien I started this work, I never man, a woman, and crack get to- to use because of the conve- gether. As for the children who nience. The result would be thought I would be talking about any of aren't abandoned, child-abuse improved health and well-be- rates have more than tripled in this. Designing services and programs is ing of both mothers and chil- some urban areas since crack dren as well as a reduction of not my major interest, " says Mayes. came to town." duplicated services, Mayes be-

When a parent spends most lieves. of each day trying to find enough cocaine for a half- A member of the first class to graduate women who at- dozen highs, Mayes says, a child is bound to suffer. "What tended Sewanee for four years—she would have gone to is it that makes people who live in poverty and chaos turn Vanderbilt if Sewanee hadn't changed its policy—Mayes to cocaine as the answer to their problems?" she asks. hasn't always spent her days pondering political and so-

In an era of intolerance, blanket condemnation of "co- cial implications of cocaine use in the inner city. There caine babies" won't make the problem go away, Mayes was a time when her intended career path seemed a bit says. She also argues that labels have a way of becoming more straightforward. As a graduate of the Vanderbilt self-fulfilling and that, at best, expectations for these chil- University School of Medicine, she completed a resi- dren will be lowered. dency in pediatrics and a fellowship in neonatology in

24 Nashville before moving on to Yale University. Mayes off steam when we ramble through our thoughts—but it thought she would eventually settle in to a career as an in- is especially crucial for children. You have to be able to tensive care neonatologist until she became captivated by suspend a great deal ofworry in order to sit on your front questions of child development. porch and daydream," Mayes explains. "That freedom

"I was interested in the outcome of premature infants, may not be so available to children growing up in the

I wanted to find out what happens to them 20 years later, midst of daily violence and turmoil—it means they can-

That took me to Yale to do a fellowship in general clini- not find safe haven even in their thoughts." cal research to work on those messy questions of longitu- Today, a principal investigator funded by the National dinal studies. I had every intention of going back to Institute on Drug Abuse, a division of the National Insti-

Vanderbilt, but when I discov- tutes of Health, Mayes says she ered the Child Study Center I still enjoys the research, al- stayed at Yale." The center has a WJien a parent spends most ofeach though she does a fair amount long tradition of supporting fac- of clinical work. Though ad- day trying to enaugh cocaine ulty members who have training find ministrative duties associated in more than one discipline in- with the research can be a for a half-dozen highs, Mayes says, cluding pediatrics, psychology, "hassle," Mayes especially en- psychiatry, social work, law, and joys the part of her a child is bound to suffer. "What is work when history. It emphasizes multi- someone poses a question and disciplinary collaborative re- it that makes people who live in she has the chance to design a search programs addressing project that might provide an- poverty and chaos turn to cocaine questions ranging from molecu- swers. "I love it when the data lar genetics to psychoanalysis start to come in, to see what as the answer to theirproblems?" and has been committed to in- shape they take. There may be depth clinical services for chil- sJie asks. In an era of intolerance, surprises that you never pre- dren and their families. The fac- dicted. And, I love to write blanket condemnation of "cocaine ulty there is bound together by about the research." its dedication to the under- " Mayes' love of writing babies won 't make the problem go standing of the mental life of and learning, for pleasure's children from these multiple away, Mayes says. sake, was nurtured during her biological and humanistic per- days on the Mountain and spectives. These qualities have steeped in the southern liter- made it an ideal place for Mayes to carry otit her work. ary tradition. "Sewanee was a very important place to me,

Of late, Mayes has become keenly interested in the de- there's no question about that. What I carried from the velopment of the mind and is completing her training as University is that there's an enormous pleasure in just ex- a psychoanalyst with adults and children. What is it, she ploring what one can explore, be it medieval poetry or asks, that gives one child such pleasure to explore a pile quantum physics. It's not in the facts. The facts are there of rocks in the yard, while another will have no curiosity and they're useful to have and they will certainly give you about the world around him. She suspects that, much a Uade, but it's in the pleasure of learning it. To me, at like her work with cocaine, a child's environs will have a Sewanee there is a great respect for the individual. That great deal of influence on his or her curiosity and imagi- is the gift of the place. That's what I kept. That and the nation. "Daydreaming is vital to our everyday lives—we sense that no question has one answer." solve problems, think of new ideas, ease our tensions, let

25 THEOLOGY

REFLECTIONS ON TWO tus for people's interest in the tion, and the exercise of faithful the subsequent book. John ANGLICAN CONFERENCES conference sprang from dissatis- reason. In our current situation, Booty, one of Hooker's modern faction with some aspects of the one of the most relevant voices of editors, will speak and preach.

national church, the final highly our tradition is Richard Hooker, And many Sewanee alums will be diverse roster of speakers—some A deep, complex, sometimes in attendance. of the "right," some of the "left," slightly opaque thinker and Taken together, these two and a whole bunch of us claim- writer (not unlike Sewanee'sown gatherings seem emblematic of

ing the "vital center"—presented saint—DuBose) , Hooker tried to Anglicanism going about its busi- a series of powerful theological, establish and articulate a broad ness: studying and building

ecclesiological, and practical per- catholic and reformed center firmly, but not uncritically, on the

spectives that will certainly echo way for a church divided and un- past; and debating and planning

throughout the church during der fierce challenge by its more loyally, but not uncritically, the

this year before another General extreme members. Hooker best ways to proclaim the Gospel,

Convention. Not every group was to revive our spiritual life, to ad- heard, although there were two Hie Episcopal Church vance the causes of justice and open forum sessions where they peace, and to structure the

could have been. In many ways it church in a more responsive way. needed a major occasion The August and September cal- was good to have a conference The answers to profound endar marks two important gath- largely of loyal "centrists," a questions are, as Jesus taught us, to erings of Episcopalians (and a group that has not always been transcend the both amazingly simple and few interested others). One has adequately heard in the councils deeply complex. I think both of and debates of the contemporary these conferences help us see im- just concluded in St. Louis, destructive grumblings

church. portant truths more clearly. I where more than 1 ,200 people

came together to listen to a num- Sewanee was well-repre- hope that our wills will follow our ofcurrent discontent ber of presentations; worship, sented. Bob Creamer organized vision.

talk, and have fellowship to- a wonderful Sewanee reception, With hope to see many of you gether; and make plans for and it was a great pleasure to see into a netv hymn of at the DuBose lectures in Octo- "Shaping Our Future" as a so many alums (seminary and ber, I am church. The other conference college), regents, trustees, commitment will gather on the beautiful former bishops-in-residence, and Yours faithfully other friends. At that gathering in Christ Jesus, grounds of Mount St. Alban and showed m ^ tQ be reasonable and throughout the weekend, the National Cathedral on Sep- and toIerant and reSpectful of unlike the feeling at some other The Very Rn< 'd tember 24-26 to remember, the inherited Christian tradition meetings in recent years, it Dr. Guy Fitch Lytk III honor, and study the defining was compatible with strength, seemed to be a good and positive Dean Anglican theologian, Richard with willingness to criticize con- thing to be an Episcopalian. Hooker, and to celebrate the temporary abuses that deserved Everything was not perfect. Copies Dean Ly lie's talk in St. completion of the great 20th criticism, and with the desire to of did grumble that more Louis, "Leadership and Followership: century edition of all of his writ- Some evangelize and build a church was not thrown at the pre- Reflections on a General Crisis and ings. mud relevant to the needs of his con- siding bishop and others with the Episcopacy, "can be requested pom The Episcopal Church temporary society. whom they disagree; some com- the Reii'd Robert Creamer, director of needed a major occasion to look Several hundred people will plained of too much glitz and a church relations, The School Theol- at important issues, make bold come together with leading Re- of hubris here. Still, on bal- ogy, The University the South, 335 new suggestions for further de- whiff of naissance and Reformation of

ance, I think this revived the old Tennessee Avenue, Sewanee, TN bate, hear calls for personal and scholars from this country, En- tradition of church congresses 37383-1000. Details of Dean Lytle's collective spiritual revival, and gland, and Europe to studv into a potentially prophetic real- writings on Richard Hooker and transcend the negative and de- Hooker both in his own context ity for our time: the people of other English Reformation topics will structive grumblings of much and for his possible guidance for God gathered to focus attention be listed, along with the publications current discontent into a new us today. Again, Sewanee will be on the work of Cod in and for other School Theology faculty hymn of commitment, fresh vi- well represented. We are co- of of the world. members, in future issues o/Sewanee sion, and joyful confidence in sponsors of the event and offer it In its own way, the Hooker and //^Sewanee Theological Re- our mission as people of God. I as one of our Continuing Educa- Conference is also very signifi- view. The Easter 1 993 issue of the think that, for the most part, that tion experiments this year. I have cant. When in need of new inspi- STR was devoted to Richard Hooked- is just what happened in St. been one of the three co-plan- ration and guidance, Anglicans copies are still availablefor $6. 00. Louis. ners of the conference and will have turned to Scriptures, tradi- If some of the original impe- contribute to the program and

26 THEOLOGY

NEW PRIESTS FOR A she came to the School of Theol- NEW CHURCH ogy. Her daughter, Catherine, was a Sewanee undergraduate In the late 1980s, Jim Cook,T'93, when her mother began the led the ideal life of a young ur- M.Div. program. "There was an

ban professional. He was work- initial moment of horror," ing in Minneapolis for a major Gaumer recalls and laughs. "But national accounting firm, han- then she realized that I wasn't

dling marketing and media rela- coming to keep an eye on her." tions. He had a wife and two chil- Gaumer had known she dren. But something was wrong. wanted to attend an Episcopal "Despite my success, I had a seminary while she was an under-

lot of dissatisfaction with what I graduate at Mount Holyoke Col- was doing. I knew that I was not lege. But that was before the

doing everything with the gifts church allowed women to enter that God has given me," Cook the priesthood. For 12 years be- says. fore she entered the School of

In 1990, he left the account- Theology, she served as chaplain to ing firm enter the M.Div. pro- of St. Martin's Episcopal School

gram at the School of Theology. in Metairie, La., leading daily It was a hard decision, but one he worship, teaching religion would not regret. He and the 26 classes, and doing pastoral work. other graduates class Jim Cook: "Despite my success, I had a lot of dissatisfaction with what I was of the of "I had a good background be- doing. I knew that I was not doing everything with the that God has 1993 who were called to Sewanee gifts fore I came to Sewanee. But the have very different stories, but School of Theology has allowed they share a common bond to me to focus my vocation, to take ministry a belief in the im- and what I think is really needed in portance of their experiences on the church out there. It's been the Mountain. like walking through a rich and

"Although we feel this call to wonderful garden. And I've ministry, we're all incredibly dif- loved the opportunity of taking ferent," says Cook. "In the small three years out of my life to be- at community Sewanee, you're come a student," Gaumer says. able to see and appreciate the Gaumer has returned to New differences in people's ideas Orleans as curate of St. about theology ministry. and Augustine's Parish, and she is able You're to become part of also associate for pastoral care at people's lives fully. that is at And Children's Hospital. "I would like once very enlightening and very to be rector of a parish some difficult." day," she says. "But more often in transition to The seminary my life and in my vocation things was relatively easy for Cook. have not turned out like I felt "Once you make the decision," they were going to, but it has he says, "it is very liberating." He been fine and has felt like God's his wife, and Karen, had dis- plan all along." cussed the possibility of seminary Like Cook and Gaumer, Ed even " before they were married. Lovelady spent years contemplat- Susan Gaumer: "Sewanee has allowed me to focus my vocation. "We came here as a family, and ing seminary before coming to full-time student since high of St. Luke's Episcopal Church in we left as a family," says Cook. Sewanee. After serving 22 years school. But he says that the Jamestown, N.Y "We are ready to become part of in the Air Force, Lovelady made School of Theology faculty "I come out of seminary," a new community." Cook now his way to the Mountain. "I had helped him to make the transi- Lovelady says, "with a well-devel- serves as associate rector of As- been working toward this since tion more smooth. "I think oped theology. But it is not so cension Church in Frankfort, Ky. 1976," he says. Sewanee offers the best overall narrowly defined that it limits my Susan Gaumer also had Seminary was challenging for education in the Episcopal ability to serve people." strong family connections when Lovelady, who had not been a Church." He now serves as curate

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CLASS NOTES

'35 Md., and plans to retire next year. '60 Dick Leche of Woodbridge, Va., '70 Edward Harrison works for Delta Air Lines. David Howard W. Harrison Jr. John W. Tonissenjr. West Brainerd Street McQuiddy runs McQuiddy Print- Spring Mill 360 435 Road P.O. Box 36218 Pensacola, 32501 ing Company in Nashville, Tenn. Villanova,PA 19085 FL Charlotte, NC 28236 Loren Mead continues to serve as

Ralph H. Ruch <>l Louisville, Ky., is president of Alban Institute, a con- William H. Barnwell is the associ- Art BaUard is president of Art's a field underwriter for Mutual Life gregational development organi- ate rector of Trinity Episcopal Work, an ornamental metal and Insurance Company of New York. zation in Washington, D.C. Merrill Church in New Orleans, La. security business. He lives with his Miller is rector of St. Philip's Epis- wife, Kathleen, and their three copal Church in Brevard, N.C. Bill children in Goulds, Fla. '37 Stough has retired as senior execu- '63 tive for mission planning of the

Augustus T. Graydon Episcopal Church in New York. Gerald H. Sum mm

P.O. Box 6135 Sandy West is retired but volun- 199 S. Crest Road '71 Columbia, 28260-6135 teers his time as business manager Chattanooga, 37404 SC TN Herndon Inge 111 of the Syracuse Symphony Orches- 4059 Stein Street of Charlotte, N.C., tra. collapsed fi- K. of Ted Heyward The symphony Howard Edwards Orlando, Mobile, AL 36608 the founder and first president of nancially in midseason last year, Fla., serves as the director of the Metrolina Food Bank, was and he is part of the effort trying to emerging technologies for Cincin- Owen F. McAden of Coral Gables, named 1993 recipient of the get the organization back on its nati Bell Information Systems in Fla., has left the Miami Herald feet again. Maitland, Fla. McMahon Appreciation Award. Robert Freyer of where he served in senior manage- is Orlando, Fla., is The McMahon Award given by an attorney with ment. He has accepted a senior the of the Carolinas in the firm in Foundation of Shutt & Bowen Win- editorial position with The State in recognition of "special service to ter Park, Fla. Tom Gaskin of Bir- '52 Columbia, S.C.J. Clark Plexico of the community." mingham, Ala., is the president- Hendersonville, N.C., was re- R. Andrew Duncan elect of the Alabama division of the elected to the North Carolina Sen- 315 Hyde Park Avenue American Cancer Society. He is ate. '50 Tampa, FL 33606 president of the Surgeon's Group in Birmingham. Richard B. Doss Mercer L. Goodson and his wife, 5555 Del Monte, #1007 Barbara, of Austin, Texas, cel- '72 Houston, TX 77056 ebrated their 39th wedding anni- '67 N. Pendleton Rogers versary in George M. June. 115 North 1st St., #117 John Marchand of Henderson, Ky., Thurmond of Del Rio, Texas, is a Albert Sidney Polk III Richmond, VA 2321 recently retired from the practice district judge for the State of Texas. 2101 Harbor Drive of diagnostic roentgenology. The Annapolis, MD 21401 Robert J. Moore received his Rev. Edward C. Rutland is retired D.Min. from the School of Theol- and recently gave the School of Edward A. Francisco of Dallas, '54 ogy at Sewanee in May. He serves his library is Theology a part of which Texas, a principal with Towers as vicar of the Church of the Resur- Gilbert III consulting contains a unique collection of W. Dent Perris, a management rection in Houston, Texas. Episcopal Church histories and bi- 205 Sherwood Drive firm, and is currently the western ographies. He and his wife, Laura, Laurens, SC 29360 region sales management practice live in Texarkana, Texas. leader for that company. Gilbert Marchand of Houston, 74 Texas, has started an investment, Martin R. Tilson Jr. '51 financial, and organizational plan- '68 508 Broadland Road ning and counseling firm with Atlanta, GA 30342 Angus W Graham jr. branches in Denver, Colo., and Thomas S. Rue 8012 1st Avenue, West Houston. P.O. Box 1988 William Ray Folger is a veterinar- Bradenton, FL 34209 Mobile, AL 36633 ian with the Memorial Cat Hospi-

tal in Houston, Texas. Virginia E. Edward Ball remains active selling ' Edwin Lee Conner, of Frankfort, Kft Graybiel of Pensacola, Fla., is a re- »-'*-' residential real estate in Charles- Ky., was recently awarded tenure at porter for the Pensacola News Jour- ton, S.C. Jim Bell is the rector of John Pennington Bowers Kentucky State University. nal. historic Christ Episcopal Church in Route 3, Box 374 Jefferson, Texas. Mellick Belshaw Rorhelle, VA 22738 '69 of Princeton, N.J., is chairman of '75 the board of General Theological Carol Prim Wood Jr., of Boca Dennis M Hall Robert '/.' Coleman III Seminary. John Bratton of Sewanee Raton, Fla., is the owner and vice 2919 Momington Drive NW The Liberty Corporation works in local industry and health president of manufacturing for Atlanta, GA 30327 P.O. Box 789 and human services in the area of Lowenstein Furniture Group, Greenville, SC 29602 alcohol and drug recovery among Don McCammon, a licensed men- adolescents and adults. En- tal health counselor, owns and op- Tom Edward H. Harrison Jr., and his gram serves as rector of St. John's erates the Adolescent Counseling wife, Teresa (C'77), and their two Episcopal Church in Mt. Ranier, Center in Winter Park, Fla. children have moved to Pensacola,

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Fla., where he serves as rector of St. spelling of his surname, which is Fla. Ruth Cardinal Seawell and her '84 Christopher's Episcopal Church. Lonie. Cameron J. Welton of husband, Robert, have a new son, Cermantown, Term., was recently Robert Hails, born April 12. Karen Anne Freels Bley not named administrator of Methodist Starnes Wilkinson and her hus- 2415 Dellwood Drive

Hospital Cermantown which is band, Ronald, of Orlando, Fla., Greensboro, NC 27408 76 owned by Methodist Hospitals of have a new daughter, Christinia

James H. Grier Memphis (MHM). Lillie, born April 26. William A. Eaves Jr., was recently 120 Barberry Lane named pastor of Silverlake United Spartanburg, SC 29302 Methodist Church in Woodburry, '79 '82 Minn. John Evans of Atlanta, Ga., David F. Etzold is a broker consult- has been awarded the Chartered

ant for Best Real Estate, Inc., in El Roberta Bartusch Goertz Daniel S. Johnson Financial Consultant professional Paso, Texas. He was awarded the 36 South Hillside Place IS34 Cowden designation. Laura Chatham Lone Star Trophy by the Texas As- Ridgewood, NJ 07450 Memphis, TN 38104 Mrachek and her husband, Bruce, sociation of Realtors in July 1992 of San Antonio, Texas, have a new for making the top commercial Walter D. Givhan and Frances John H. Barrett recently finished child, Alexis Fontaine, born July 6. real estate transaction in the state Beeland Givhan have a new son, his first year teaching English at of Texas. David Jefferson of Bir- Walter Bratton, born May 31. The Episcopal School of Dallas af- mingham, Ala., married Virginia Addison Hosea serves as research ter attending graduate school at '85 Lynn Sims on November 21, 1992. coordinator at Kentucky Sport Fordham University in New York He recently began a new job as di- Medicine, a sports injury surgery City. Amelia Campbell Bishop has Laurie C.Jarrett Rogers rector of non-automotive advertis- and rehabilitation clinic. He and been appointed chairperson of the 2012 Park Ave. Apt 2 ing for Strong Automotive Mer- his wife, Kim, live in Lexington, Ky. Probate and Trust Law Committee Richmond, VA 23220 chandising in Birmingham. On May 15, Alexandra Smith mar- of the American Bar Association ried James B. Gunderson in New Young Lawyers Division for 1993- Barbara Francis Arrants works as a

Jersey. The Gundersons live in 94. William K. Bruce Jr., and his trial attorney for the Davidson '77 Naples, Fla. Gail Montague Trigg is wife, Clare, have a new daughter, County Metropolitan Public vice president of Montague & As- Mary Clare, born August 19, 1992. Defender's Office in Nashville,

Nora Frances McRae sociates, Inc. She lives with her hus- G. Allen Meighen Jr. is a trust of- Tenn. Jack Barden and Kat Green 1515 North State Street band, Stephen, and their two chil- ficer with AmSouth Bank in Bir- Barden of Middlesboro, Ky., have a Jackson, MS 39202 dren in Jacksonville, Fla. mingham, Ala. He continues to new son, John Sawyer, born Febru- serve in the U.S. Marine Reserves ary 5. Jack also has a newjob as pas- Logan Browning serves as the asso- as a judge advocate. Mona Saliba tor of the First Presbyterian ciate editor of Studies in English Lit- '80 Parker and her husband, F.B., of Church in Middlesboro. David erature and as a lecturer in the hu- Scottsboro, Ala., have a new son, Binger and Lynetta Cox Binger manities at Rice University. He and Suzanne L. DeWalt George Bowers, born June 26. both work for Hanover College in

his wife, Julie, live in Houston, 1066 Old Gate Road Dawn S. Taylor of Birmingham, Hanover, Ind. He is an assisant pro-

Texas. Caroline Liljenwall Crider Pittsburgh, PA 15235 Ala., is the director of marketing fessor and director of academic

of San Antonio, Texas, has a new witli Vazda Studios. computing while she is an assistant job as associate director of devel- Wayne Davis serves as the head professor of biology. Laurie Keyser opment for The Nature Conser- football coach at UMS-Wright Brunner and her husband, Russ, vancy of Texas. Kathryn Bernal School in Mobile, Ala. Paige Wood '83 live in Potomac, Md. She is the Henslee of Tuscaloosa, Ala., has Marlow and her husband, O.L., of staff manager for the vice presi- been the coordinator of commu- Houston, Texas, have a new son, Stewart A.W. Low dent of South region sales at

nity support for the public radio O.L. Marlow III, born June 12. Ann 215 Homer Avenue AT&T. Laurence Butcher is taking station WUAL at the University of Benners Travis and her husband, Voorhees, NJ 08043 a break from surgery residency to Alabama since November 1992. Ed, of Austin, Texas, have a new do preventive medicine residency

daughter, Kate Jordan, born June Douglas B. Freels is in orthopedic at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He and 22. surgery residency at Tampa Gen- his wife, Catherine (C'87), live in '78 eral Hospital. He and his wife, Baltimore, Md. Phil Campbell of Vicki, and their son live in Tampa, Memphis, Tenn., had the highest R. Philip Caipentei' Fla. Carla M. Nimocks and her grade in the first-year class in torts

1 465 Northlake Drive m husband, Mallory, of Forrest City, at Memphis State University Law

Jackson, MS 39211-2138 Brent T. Minor Ark., have a new daughter, School. Doug Cadett recently com- 400 Commonwealth Avenue, #204 Caroline, born January 11. Jay pleted his MBA at the University of Millie Finch of Birmingham, Ala., Alexandria, VA 22301 Poss of Baton Rouge, La., serves as Tennessee at Knoxville. Paty Daves received her MBA from Samford a probation and parole officer for married Dede Chunn on January

University in May. John Henry Pamela Jordan Anderson is a legis- the Louisiana Department of Cor- 30. Angela Parrott Deatsch of Si- Hardin Looney lives in lative analyst and an attorney with rections. Timothy T. Tenhet mar- erra Madre, Calif., has finished her Lincolnshire, England, with his the Florida State Senate. She and ried Meri Wilkinson Schmitz on second year at the Southwestern wife, Hilary, and his two children, her husband, Paul, live with their June 26 in Seaside, Fla. University Law School. She was re- Catriona and Elliot. He works for two children, Jordan and Eliza- cently chosen to that school's law an American company, Engineer- beth, in Tallahassee, Fla. Martin review. Myles Elledge and Rachael

ing-Science, helping it become es- Pyle serves as the minister of Davis Elledge of Kensington, Md., tablished in the United Kingdom, preaching at the Mandarin have a new son, Collin Fletcher, and has reverted to the original Church of Christ in Jacksonville, born March 15. Elizabeth Fuller-

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Oliver and her husband Will, of born April 30. Frank Shoemaker Randolph Buckner, of Birming- with the German imperial court in Ann Arbor, Mich., have a new son, and his wife. Randy (C'86), have a ham, Ala., is a fourth-year resident the late-Elizabethan and early- Simon Fuller, bornJanuary 29. Wil- new son, Thomas Francis in general surgery at the University Stuart era. Jeff deGraan lives in liam A. Gage, married Waverly McDowell, born March 24. Jenni- of Alabama at Birmingham Hospi- Elma, Wash., and works for the White in Houston in August 1992. fer Nettles Sluis of Auburn Hills, tal. Hildreth Budd of Atlanta, Ga., Washington Department of Natu- Tracie Gill of Elkins, Ark., contin- Mich., married Ted Sluis on March is a producer for the nationally- ral Resources. Evelyne Wynne

ues to work on her M.Ed, at the 20. Lawrence Wall has just finished televised show Backyard America. DeLong and her husband, Billy, University of Arkansas. She has his first year as the assistant head- Cornelia Todd Harrison Byrd, of recently celebrated their fifth wed- been involved in a design and de- master at St. Timothv's-Hale Gary, N.C., started a new job in ding anniversary. They live in velopment program in the educa- School in Raleigh, N.C. Mark N. December as a plaintiff medical Manvel, Texas, with their son, tion department at the Walton Art Waller recently graduated from malpractice litigation paralegal Lamar. Susan Harrison Edmonds Center for over a year. John the University ol Arkansas Law with the firm of Beskind, Rudolf, and her husband, Stewart, of Bir-

Guglielmi and his wife, Carrie School and is preparing to take the and Maher in Chapel Hill, N.C. mingham, Ala., have a new son, Beth, have a new daughter, Jodi Arkansas bar exam. Karen Dynkiuk Alison Riopel Cayton practices real William Harrison, born in May

Murray, born on April 1 1. Garland Walker and her husband, John, estate law with the firm of Man- 1992. Brenda E. Ellis of Chatta- Head works as a lending manager have just arrived in the United ning, Fulton, and Skinner in Ra- nooga, Tenn., works at the Chatta- with IBM Credit Union and in his States back from Italy and En- leigh, N.C, where she and her hus- nooga-Hamilton County Public Li- spare time volunteers for the Con- gland. They live in an historic band, Ellis, live. Liza Martin brary. Robbie Fisher of Key West, federate Air Force, a group that home built in the 1830s in down- Chapman works at the U.S. Em- Fla., practices law in the Florida

maintains World War II airplanes town Charleston, S.C. Richard W. bassy in Bonn, Germany. Margaret Keys. Hollis Fitch and Anne in dying condition. He and his Westlingand his wife, Bronwyn (C Hill Cohn and her husband, Elie, Mengedoht Fitch of Tarpley, Texas, wife, Daphne Davis Head (C'83), 87), have a new daughter, Morgan of Los Angeles, Calif., had their have a new daughter, Elsa Stoeling, live in Dallas, Texas, and cel- Elizabeth, born March 9. Jay C. first son, Jonah, in August 1992. born April 23. After recently earn-

ebrated their first wedding anni- Zeleskey <>l Dallas, Texas, works as Sandra Gregg Connolly and her ing a bachelor's degree in marine

versary on November 15, 1992. an attorney with the law firm of husband, Bryan, live in Fairfield , engineering from Texas A&M Uni- Ann Jessup of Birmingham, Ala., McCauley, Macdonald, Love & Conn. She runs the office for the versity at Galveston, he now sails as works for the trust department at Devin. Vineyard Christian Fellowship. a third engineer for ARCO Marine AmSouth Bank. She tutors in an Wendy Lu Keith Cook and her hus- out of Long Beach, Calif., while

adult literacy program in her spare band, Christopher (C'84), have a she is busy rearing their new time. Todd Lemons of Aptos, Ca- '86 new daughter, Audrey Claire, born daughter. Marichal Gentry attends lif., is a partner at Western Interna- February 1, Dennie Crabtree con- graduate school in social work at

tional, a company which is in- Read Carson Van de Water tinues as a resident in surgery at the University of North Carolina at volved in international trading of 2214 3Hlh SI mi, NW Ei finger Medical Center in Chat- Chapel Hill. Rudolph Gilchrist of lumber and agricultural products Washington, DC 20007 tanooga, Tenn. Laura Bowen Antioch, Tenn., teaches Spanish at with Chile, and spends four to six Crumbaugh and her husband, Antioch High School. Virginia months each year in Santiago, Kimra Anderson recently moved to Robert, of Birmingham, Ala., have Hipp received a master's degree in Chile. Roma Lenehan of Madison, Boston, Mass., where she works for a new daughter, Morgan Prescott, international business studies in

Wis., is nearing completion of her Cambridge Energy Research Asso- bom in November 1992. She May 1992 from the University of Ph.D. in genetics at the University ciates as commercial manager for teaches AP government and eco- South Carolina, ranked the num- of Wisconsin. Scott Miller and his Asia. Laura Andress Beaver, and nomics at Berry High School in ber one international business pro- wife, Robin, of Tampa, Fla., have a hei husband, Scott, ol Rocky Birmingham. Carleton Cunn- gram in the United States by US new son, William [ames, born Feb- Mount, N.C, have a new son, ingham, of Charlottesville, Va., has Nnas & World Report since 1990. ruary 6. Jon M. Moreland III is the Fleming Russell, born fanuary 5. completed the course work at the Her focus in the program was Ara-

manager for Shilson & Associates Beth Girardeau Beltron is a senior L'niversity of Virginia for a Ph.D. in bic culture, and her three years of

in Houston, Texas. Rebecca planner for Tri-County Commuter European History and is currently study included intensive summer Nelson of Gross Pointe, Mich., Rail. She and her husband, Chris- doing research for his dissertation language school, one year of busi-

continues to work with new publi- topher, live in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. which concerns English relations ness studies at the University of cation developmenl at Gale Re- Maia Boswell continues to work on search, Inc., in Detroit, Mich. She her Ph.D. in English at the Univer- planned to attend the Publishing sity of North Carolina at Chapel Ninety-Nine Iron Institute at the University of Den- Hill. Adrienne Briggs, ol Birming- by Wendell Givens with Arthur Ben & Elizabeth N. Chilly vei this summer. Deborah ham, Ala., finished her residency

Overdorff ( ontinues to teach bio- in internal medicine in (tine and Ninely-Nine Iron, which logical anthropology at Duke Uni- began a fellowship in hematology- chronicles the famous 1899 versity and plans to spend the next oncology in July at the University Sewanee football team, is avail- two summers in Madagascar to ol Alabama at Birmingham. able to alumni and friends of continue her research on lemurs. Nancy Brim ol Doraville, Ga., the University at a special price She and her husband, Michael spent the summer in California of $16.50, which includes post- Winslett (C'86), live in Chapel 1 [ill, working on her master's degree in age and handling. Orders may N.C. Serena Satcher is in her sec- secondary science education al be sent to: ond year of residency in physical San Jose State University. She re- medicine and rehabilitation at the turned to Georgia to teach in Au- Wendell Givens Loyola Medical Center iti Chicago, gust. Sarah W. Brown of Boulder. 107 Von Dale Drive III. Beth Godwin Sawyer and her Colo., continues to work as an en- Birmingham, AL 35215 husband. Bob, of Houston, Texas, vironmental scientist for Jacobs

have

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South Carolina, one year of McClendon of Charlottesville, Va., Poitevent Shoemaker and her hus- Alaska. Grant King of Decatur, Ga., Middle Eastern studies at the has finished his coursework at the band, Frank (C85), of Jackson- graduated magna cum laude from American University in Cairo, six University ofVirginia for a Ph.D. in ville, Fla., have a new son, Thomas the College of Law at Georgia State- months working as an intern with English literature and is currently Francis McDowell Shoemaker Jr., University in June. He now works an international corporation, and working on his dissertation. Rob born March 24. They both practice as an attorney with a law firm in the a final semester of study back at the Mcintosh lives in Dallas, Texas, law in Jacksonville. Margaret Sage Atlanta area. Polly Phillips Link University of South Carolina. where he works for Airborne Ex- Smith ol Washington, D.C., at- and her husband, Randy, of Stuart, Caroline Morton Huffman of Ra- press. Tom Milton and Stuart tends Georgetown University Law Fla., have a new daughter, Anne leigh, N.C, works as a clinical trials White Milton live in Charlotte, Center at night. Sam Smith and Stuart, born March IS. Steven L. coordinator at Duke University N.C, with their two children, Jeanette Sommers Smith live in Sullins married Jacquelyn Corley Medical Center. She and her hus- Maggie and Frazer. Tom serves as Richmond, Va. She recently re- Myers in Huntsville, Ala., on band, Dane, spent their first wed- vice president of sales for Ameri- ceived her M.Ed, from Virginia March 20. ding anniversary m July in Italy can IMC. Brian Mullaney earned Commonwealth University and is Ruth Sanchez Imizcoz teaches his M.D. and Ph.D. in pharmacol- now looking for a counseling posi- Spanish at Mars Hill College in ogy from Vanderbilt University in tion in a high school. Meanwhile, '88 North Carolina. Anne Laigle Jack- May. He will begin his residency he has started his own general con- son teaches pre-kindergai ten work at the University of California tracting company, Stonewall Con- Kyle Elisabeth Dice classes at the Kincaid School in at San Francisco in the fall. Jeff struction Company. Gene Snead 1217 Lyncrest Houston, Texas, where she and Murray of Arlington, Va., works as lives in Sewanee and works as a Jackson, MS 39202 her husband, John, live. Randolph the manager for state, local, and production supervisor at CKR, a

Scott Jackson Jr., and his wife, political affairs for the American company which makes automotive Laurie E. Andrus of Houston,

Elizabeth, of Lookout Mountain, Gas Association and runs that weatherstripping for Nissan, Texas, is an accountant of Transco

Tenn., had their first child, organization s political action Honda, Ford, and General Motors. Energy. Chris Bratcher is working

Randolph Scott Jackson III, in De- committee. Lisa Kincaid Odom Phillip Stafford, of Seattle, Wash., on his doctorate at the University cember 1992. Amy Jenkins works and her husband, Frank, of Ox- is a graduate student at the Univer- of Texas at Austin. He and his wife, for South Carolina National Bank ford, Miss., have a new son, Frank sity of Washington. Melissa Adelaide Davenport Bratcher in Charleston, S.C Lynn Kaiser of King Odom III, born April 20. She Buckley Stump has spent the last C91, live in Austin. Peggy Hillsborough, N.C, works in the plans to begin pharmacy school at two years flying helicopters in the Hodgkins of Houston, Texas, PM Gross Chemical Labs at Duke the University of Mississippi in the Arctic and Antarctic. She married works as a geologist for Amoco

University. Charles D. LaFond of fall. J. Perry Patton ol Greg Stump on February 1.S.Jane Production Company. Joan M. Richmond, Va., serves as vice-presi- Lawrenceville, Ga., works for the Scarborough Vallejo and her hus- Keeton married Michael C. Hurst dent of the YMCA of Greater Rich- consulting engineering firm band, Vicente, recently moved on May 22 at St. Martin of Tours mond. Mary Lane Lennon and her EBASCO Services, Inc., in from Dallas, Texas, to Quito, Ecua- Church in Louisville, Ky. husband, Thomas (C84), of Knox- Norcross, Ga. Don Pearson and his dor. Read Carson Van de Water ville, Tenn., have a new daughter, wile, Katie Curran Pearson (C89), works as the director of govern- Mary Elizabeth, born in February have recently moved from ment and legislative affairs for '89 Melanie Krosnes Lewis and her Stockholm, Sweden, to Atlanta, Northwest Airlines and is headed husband, Richard, of Ga. where he works for McKinsey into her last year of law school at John Patten Guerryjr. Bloomington, Ind., had their first & Co., Inc. Karyn Pennington Georgetown University. She and 1619 T Bridge Mill Drive child, Claire, in January. Joe Liles Reina and her husband, Domenick her husband, Mark, live in Wash- Marietta, GA 30067 of Lakewood, Co., works for (C82), live in Tampa, Fla., where ington, D.C Laura Dusek Wolfe in Merrill Lynch. John J. Lipsey lives she substitute teaches and is active works as a mortgage banker Chi- Kimberly Brown Abel and her hus- in Alexandria, Va., and among with the local YMCA. Ray Powell of cago, III. Sarah Preston Woods band, Ashley, have a son, Ash other projects, serves as a consult- Athens, Ga., finished his master's works as the manager of corporate Newman, born November 17, ant to his parents' business, British degree in English from the Univer- communications at First Pacific 1992. Laura Jane Atchison of Ath-

Isles Originals, an English cottage sity of Georgia in May and is teach- Company Limited in Hong Kong. ens, Ga., recently completed her shop specializing in crafts, col- ing a group of at-risk teenagers She also serves as the secretary of master's degree in English educa- lectibles, and artwork. Brian from Madison, Ga., this summer in the Hong Kong Association of tion from the University of Geor- Mainwaring lives in Eagan, Minn., a program sponsored by the Pri- Business and Professional Women gia. Cathy Carlisi married Joe where he works for the Depart- vate Industry Council. Kathryn and as the program chairman for Paprocki in Rome, Italy, on May 5. ment of Defense. Louise McCrosen Ryan, works at All the International Association of Kevin Crosslin graduated in June Richardson Manzella has recently Saints' Episcopal Church in Aus- Business Communicators. from Wayne State Medical School moved to St. Louis. Brian Masters tin, Texas. After serving five years in Detroit, Mich. He and his wife, and his wife, Elizabeth Klopstock in the United States Navy, Walter Carol Snead Crosslin, are moving

Masters (C'87), live in Sewanee on Sechriest is now a naval reservist to Lexington, Ky., where he will 15 bluff acres with a pond. He training out of the National Secu- begin his residency in obstetrics teaches science and coaches foot- rity Agency and is working on a Robert Mora If and gynecology at the University of ball and wrestling at Grundy master's degree in national secu- 2588 Winslow Drive, NE Kentucky. Lisa D'Ambrosia gradu- County High School. Susan rity studies at Georgetown Univer- Atlanta, GA 30305-3374 ated magna cum laude from the

Fleming McAllister of Eugene, sity. Mike Salisbury of Chatta- University of Mississippi Law

Ore., spent two years teaching En- nooga, Tenn., works for Shannon Dudley is finishing her School. She will attend New York glish in China, where she met and NationsBank. Robert Sharp and pediatric residency at the Univer- University in the fall to pursue an married her husband, Edwin. Now Lisa Reynolds Sharp live in Rogers, sity of North Carolina Hospital in L.L.M. in tax law. Elizabeth both are working toward doctorate Ark. He has just started a design Chapel Hill, N.C, and spent five Henson Dukes recently married degrees in English at the Univer- and construction company called weeks this summer on a fellowship William Weston Jones Dukes sity of Oregon. Mark Emory Town Creek Builders. Randy working with Indian health in (C'87) in Mobile, Ala. They live in

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Charleston, S.C Gwen Colwell Mary Jo Livengood Shankle works Jonas and her husband, Kenneth, for the National Trust for Historic MARY ADELIA MCLEOD, recently graduated from the Uni- Preservation at Drayton Hall Plan- T'80, ELECTED FIRST versity of Alabama at Birmingham tation in Charleston, S.C. Reg Medical School and began their Stambaugh and Wende Hall DIOCESAN WOMAN residencies in Arizona in June. Stambaugh live in West Palm BISHOP Steve Kenney is working on a mas- Beach, Fla. He recently passed the

at Florida bar is ters degree in kinesiology the and vice-president The Rev. Mary Adelia McLeod, University of Texas while still and general counsel for Down- who earned a licentiate in theol- coaching at Southwestern Univer- town Group, Inc., a research-based ogy from the University's School sity in Georgetown, Texas. David real estate company. She works for

King plans to attend Syracuse Uni- NationsBank where she is an of- of Theology in 1980, has been versity in the fall to study journal- ficer in consumer banking. Keith elected as the ninth Episcopal ism. King Lauren Laviano Stein has Jeff and been accepted into the Bishop of Vermont. Once conse- King live in Scottsdale, Ariz. He veterinary school at Auburn Uni-

crated on November 1 , pending was recently promoted to the posi- versity for the fall. Colleen Peek consents from a majority of standing committees tion of airline support manager for Sullivan and her husband, Tom, and bishops, the Pacific region at B.F. Goodrich have moved back to their home- she will be the first woman to lead a diocese of the Episcopal

Aerospace Company while she is a town of Albany, Ga. Scott Yeager is Church. group manager for Micro Age a corporal in the U.S. Marine McLeod will begin her work in Vermont after serving as co- Computer Centers. Eric Love, in Corps and now serves at the rector, with her husband, the Rev. Henry McLeod III, at St. correspondence school at the Uni- Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in John's Church in Charleston, W.V A native of Alabama, versity of Texas at Austin, works for Cuba. He will be serving for one Measurement, Inc. In his free year with the U.S. Marine Ground McLeod was archdeacon for the western region of West Vir-

time, he volunteers at Can Sur- Defense Forces stationed there. ginia. She was the first Alabama woman to become an Episco- mount where he counsels other pal priest in 1980, just four years after the American church cancer victims and survivors. Eliza- began ordaining women. She also has worked as a member of beth Schooler Mastrion recently '90 the diocesan council and was a deputy to the General married and moved to Dallas, Conven-

Texas. Elizabeth McKay of Cleve- C. Katy Morrisey tion in 1988 and 1991.

land Heights, Ohio, sells plastic for 3103 Wheat Street "I accept with all my heart," McLeod told the diocese. "I am B. F. Goodrich in the wire and Columbia, SC 29205 ready to live my life among you. I have fallen in love with you cable market on a North American and Vermont and I am ready to join with you in doing our account basis. William Meadows Caroline Merrill attends the Culi- Lord's work." Jr., of Greenville, N.C., graduated nary Institute of America in Hyde from the University of South Ala- Park, N.V. Kristine Strieker contin- bama College of Medicine on June ues to work on her master's degree '92 Austin in All Saints' Chapel on July (i. He will begin his general surgery in elementary education at the Lee I). Cogburn Walsh 1 1 . Mary E. Henry married residency at East Carolina Univer- University of Arkansas at Little 7 10 Hin man Ave. #3B Jonathan A. Webster in All Saints' sity in the fall. John Norman and Rock. Evanston, IL 60202 Chapel on June 26. Aimee Akers Norman live in Okla- homa City, Ok. He recently gradu- Michael Andreu plans to attend ated from the Oklahoma City Law '91 Duke University in the fall to work SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY School and is currently working on on his master's degree in forestry. an international extradition trea- Marsey L. Waller Elizabeth Crane married William tise for an attorney while she works 3741 Gunston Road Benjamin Swent on July 24 at St. '62 as a paralegal. J.J. Paul recently Alexandria, VA 22302 Michael's Episcopal Church in Or-

married Tom Langston (C'86) and lando, Fla. Mark Henry is an envi- Joseph Drawdy of Brandon, Fla., they now live in Augusta, Ga. Gary Gibson of Dallas, Texas, ronmental geologist with Ogden works as a psychotherapist with Michael Reeves will attend Duke plans to enter the University of Environmental and Energy Ser- Personal Growth Consultants in University's Fuqua School ol Busi- Texas at Dallas to work on an MBA. vices Company in Huntsville, Ala. Plant City, Fla.

ness in the fall. He was also re- William G. Kohn works as a parale- He is temporarily assigned to work cently elected the new president of gal in Birmingham, Ala. John in Hawaii for the company. the Sewanee Club of the Triangle. Pieper of San Antonio, Texas, is a Katherine Reynolds married Will '80 Betsy Bernal Reineke is working logistics manager with Tubacero Anderson in All Saints' Chapel on on a M.Ed, in human development International Corporation. Char- July 24. They will reside in Nash- Wayne P. Wright of New Orleans, at the Peabody School at lotte Thomas married R. Clement ville, Tenn. Fairlie Scott married La., and the rector of Grace Epis-

Vanderbilt University. Emily Riddle in fune at Trinity Episcopal Mark Herron on July 3 in Mont- copal Church yvas recently elected Robinson graduated from the Uni- Cathedral in Charleston, S.C. She gomery, Ala. president of the National Network

versity of Texas at Houston Medi- is a medical student at the Medical of Episcopal Clergy Associations. cal School in June and will soon University of South Carolina in '93 begin her residency in general sur- Charleston while he is employed

gery at the University of Alabama by Law Companies Environmental Miriam A. Street at Birmingham. Kevin B. Seaver Inc. in Charleston. SI 4 W. Addison #202 lives in Tokyo, Japan, where he Chicago, IL 60613 serves as editor of ICS Magazine. Tammy M. Haston married J.C. 32 IN MEMORIAM

Felix H. Tucker, C29, of majored in French and was a mem- Kellogg Business School, lie was Todd A. Cheek, C90, ol Atlanta, Nacogdoches, Texas, died January Ixi of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, chairman of the department ol sur- Ga., died in (une 1993. A magna nun 12, 1993. A member of Phi Gamma the Order of Gownsmen, and Phi gery at Columbus-Cuneo-Cabrini laude graduate of Sewanee, he was a

Delta fraternity, he was the retired Beta Kappa. He was also a proctor Medical Center in Chicago, 111., sales associate with Property Systems

treasurer and comptroller of South- and the chairman of the Discipline former chairman of Columbus Real Estate in Atlanta. He is survived western Steel & Container. He is sur- Committee. Cabrini Medical Foundation, and a by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William vived by his wife, Ruth, and a son physician at that hospital for nearly G. Cheek.

and daughter. Kirkman Finlayjr., C'58, of Colum- 20 years. He is survived by his wife, bia, S.C., diedJune 27, 1993. An En- Leigh, a daughter, a son, his lather John D. Simpson Sr., C36, of At- glish major, he was a member of Al- and mother, his brother. Bill, C68, lanta, Ga., diedJuly 11, 1993. Before pha Tan Omega fraternity, the Or- and two other brothers. ROBERT FOWLER, RETIRED entering Sewanee, he attended der of Gownsmen, the Wellingtons, PUBLISHER AND REGENT Emory University for one year. Dur- and the Debate Council. After K. Logan Jackson, C7I, ol

ing World War II, he served in the graduating from Sewanee, he en- Gaithersburg, Md., died [une 9, Robert D. Fowler, C'52, of First Division of the U.S. Marine tered Harvard University School of 1993. An English major who gradu- Alpharetta, Ga., died June 13, 1993. Corps in the Pacific. He had a long Law from which he received his law ated cum laudefrom Sewanee, he was An economics major, he served as

and varied career in the insurance degree in 1961 . His first job was with a member ol Alpha Tan Omega fra- president of Kappa Alpha Order business, specializing in cotton in- Boyd, Bruton, Knowlton &Tate,one ternity, the Order of Gownsmen, the and as editor of the Sewanee Purple. surance and ocean marine under- of the largest law firms in Columbia. Discipline Committee, and the Red He was also a member of the Order writing and production. He is sur- By 1967, he had made partner. Dur- Ribbon Society. He also served as a of Gownsmen, Omicron Delta vived by a son and two daughters. ing the 1970s, he became active in proctor and as chairman of the Kappa, the Green Ribbon Society, Columbia politics, first being Honor Council. He received the the Highlanders, the English-Speak- We have learned of the death of elected to the City Council and then Award for Excellence in English Lit- ing Union, the Cap Gown stall and Alan C. Hinshelwood, C41, of Ft. serving as mayor of Columbia from erature and the Sewanee Rei'ieiti Prize & the Mountain Goat staff. Walton Beach, Fla., on February 9, 1978-86 during which time he mas- for Critical Writing. Alter graduat- After graduating from 1992. He is survived by his wife, terminded the construction of many ing from Sewanee, he attended Ox- Sewanee, Frances, and his son, Ian Bruce new buildings to help rejuvenate the ford University in England for a year he served in the U.S. Air Force as a Hinshelwood, C'69. city's economy, pushed the city to and received an M.Div. from Vir- navigator from 1952-56. After finish-

change the method of electing its ginia Theological Seminary. After ing his service in the military, he the job of editor of Harold Lewis Belew, C'45, < >f Milan, council, opening the way to black ordination, he served in various took on the Tenn., died March 21, 1993. He members, and encouraged the ex- posts in Tennessee and Kentucky. In weekly Cobb County Times from 1956 served as a sergeant in the U.S. Army penditure of public funds for cul- 1985, however, he left a pastorate at -58 and of the Marietta Daily Journal Air Force during World War II. He tural programs. After leaving public a flourishing parish in Pewee Valley, from 1958-64. received his B.S. degree from Bethel office, he worked for the Columbia Ky., after he felt called by God to de- In 1965, Fowler bought the College in 1949. He worked as a pro- Development Corporation. He is vote his life to serving needy chil- Lawreneeville News-Herald, a weekly duction supervisor for U.S. Rubber survived by his wife Mary Fleming dren. He sold all his belongings and newspaper without a press, renamed

Company in Milan and was a retired and a son and daughter. moved with his wife and three chil- it the Gwinnett Daily News and con-

specification specialist for Alsto dren to Washington, D.G, where the verted it into a six-day daily. He built

Packaging Company at the time of J. Proctor Hill Jr., C'60, of El family soon began a street ministry, the paper up to the point that, in his death. He is survived by his wife, Dorado, Ark., died May 27, 1993. A called Exodus Youth Services, Inc., 1987, he and his partners drew na- Bobbie, and two children. history major at Sewanee, he was a for runaways and homeless, refugee, tional attention when they sold the member of the Order of Gowns- and latchkey children. He is sur- News Company, including the Blackburn of the Club, the vived by his wife, Mary Lyman, two Hughes Jr., C48, men, German English- Gwinnett Daily News, Widner News, Charleston, S.C., died April 20, Speaking Union, the University sons and a daughter, his parents, and Forsyth County News to the New 1993. During World War II, he Choir, and the Sewanee Purple. After and one brother. York Times Company for a reported served as a first lieutenant. He re- graduating from Sewanee, he served $88.2 million. This sale triggered a ceived his M.Ed, from Harvard Uni- in the U.S. Air Force from 1963-69, Steven C. Lembesis, C78, < >f Wash- five-year newspaper "war" between versity in 1955 and taught English He joined Whitney National Bank in ington, D.C., died June 7, 1993. An the Times Company and Atlanta- and coached tennis at St. Andrew's New Orleans, La., in 1964 and re- honors political science graduate based Cox Enterprises, which owns School in Middletown, Del., for 19 tired as an assistant vice-president in from Sewanee, he served as presi- the Allan la Journal-Constitution. years before joining the faculty at December 1987 before moving back dent of the College Democrats and Fowler was also active in the com- Porter-Gaud School in Charleston in to his hometown of El Dorado. as commander of Sigma Nu frater- munity serving as a board member 1967. He is survived by a brother. nity and was a member of the Order of the Atlanta Crime Commission, Robert P. Davis, C'64, of Winnetka, of Gownsmen. He worked as a vol- the Georgia Family and Children John B. Shober Jr., C'50, of Mobile, 111., died July 7, 1993. A biology ma- unteer tutor at the Sewanee Public Services, the Georgia Press Educa- Ala., died in April 1993. He served in jor, he was a proctor, president of School and wrote for the Saoanee tional Foundation, the Gwinnett the U.S. Navy during World War II. Beta Theta Pi fraternity, a member Purple. After graduating from Foundation, An economics major at Sewanee, he of the Order of Gownsmen, Blue Sewanee, he went on to Florida State the Gwinnett YMCA was a member of Phi Delta Theta Key, Red Ribbon Society, and Los University where he was a research and the Gwinnett County Chamber fraternity, a proctor, and a member Peones. He was captain of the unde- fellow from 1982-84 and where he of Commerce. He also served on the of the track team. For a number of feated football team of 1963. An received a master's degree in urban Board of Regents for Sewanee from years, he worked in Baton Rouge end, he earned All-CAC honors and and regional planning in 1984. He 1988 until his death. and New Orleans, La., as a sales en- was an honorable mention selection was the director of development in He is survived by his wife, Judith; gineer for Metal Goods Corpora- to the Little All-America football Washington, D.C., of the Panos Insti- two daughters, Nancy F. Bivins, tion. At the time of his death, he was team. After graduating from tute, a nonprofit policy institute. His C'80, and Louise Chernecky; a step- an administrative assistant with the Sewanee, he went on to earn his work included the securing of fund- mother; two brothers, Ralph W.

City of Mobile. He is survived by his medical degree from Northwestern ing for small AIDS service groups Fowler Jr., C'47, and John W. Fowler, wife, Patsy, and his son, John B. University Medical School in 1969 throughout the Americas. He is sur- C'56; a sister; four grandchildren; a Shober III, C'76, and a sister. and performed his surgical resi- vived by his mother, Celia Jebeles nephew, Charles M. Fowler, C'80; a dency at Northwestern from 1969 to Lembesis, and a sister. niece, Laura Ann Fowler, C'80; and Floyd W. Leonard, C'51, of Los 1975. In 1989, he also received an a cousin, Otis A. Brumby Jr., C'62. Gatos, Calif., died April 27, 1993. He M.M. degree from Northwestern

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AFTERWORD

FROM THE FOREST Sewanee, if it has done its means to learn to live in the city learned that here. And that hon- work you, has introduced as citizens, TO THE CITY with well-prepared a voca- oring occurs most fully in a city you to the great classical tradi- tion especially appropriate to where differences can be seen as

by the tions, and it is distinguished in people nourished by the Chris- gifts that enhance the whole Rt. Rev. PeterJames Lee, HV3 the most rigorous contemporary dan tradition where Athens and body in a community of mutual

intellectual disciplines. It is also a Jerusalem meet, honor. I hope you invest your

place where men and women to- Cities, by definition, bring to- learning in urbane service to the Forty years ago I set foot on this gether begin to understand what gether different groups and dif- communities where you live. mountain for the first time and I have been enchanted with they want to be. ferent interests. Cities are the This weekend you leave the Of all the characteristics that places of specialization in the enchantment of the forest Sewanee ever since. I was a high for school student attending a con- are unique to Sewanee, none is professions, like medicine and the excitement of the city. more significant than its identity law, of creativity and achieve- Cities are trend-setters. ference nearby at Monteagle. I They had heard of Sewanee for years as a liberating center of educa- merit in the arts and commerce, are places for experiments, for from my childhood rector and tion in the context of faith. And The mix of a city is that it encour- change, for new beginnings that many Sewanee graduates. Their it is that faith identity of Sewanee ages rather than eliminates spread from cities to the world that gives healthy differ- affection for this place, their sto- the beyond. Today you are called to

experience of ences. It is no leave this a civiliz- ries about this place, told me that g] mountain on enchantment in accident that a ing adventure. You are called to I was not the only one en- chanted. But when the time the forest pur- faith that cel- leave the forest and enter the cit- pose and mean- ebrates the di- ies. What a necessary vocation came for me to attend college, I had moved away from that ing as it pre- versity of hu- that is! For it is the absence of ci- pares to gifts be- vility, in the chinch involvement that was ac- people | man deepest sense of that live in the city. gan in a city word, that is at the root of vio- cess to Sewanee for me. I was still The purpose and flourished lence in the Balkans, at the root enchanted. I was accepted by two colleges, one of them the Univer- of the University in cities. cause of the instability of the re- of the South is What a publics of the former Soviet sity of the South, but I declined

to educate transgression it Union; it is the absence of civility, admission here because I was young men and women in the is against that Gospel to make of the capacity of human beings afraid that if I came to this moun- broadest and deepest intellectual cultural conformity a prerequi- to live together with dynamic dif- tain of enchantment I would end

cultural traditions, while site to faith. It is battle fight ferences, that cities up in the ordained ministry of and a we paralyzes our the Episcopal Church. they are nourished in a commu- today, beginning in our own with fear and suspicion. You are nity of faith, a faith whose forma- hearts. Many city dwellers act too to fulfill Isaiah's promise to re- For me to be here today is a sign of God's sense of humor, of tive story begins in a garden, in a often as if the city's diversity were pair the ruined cities. the mirth that G.K. Chesterton lush green forest in the Book of a threat and not a gift. The 21st Century will need once wrote was too great for Genesis and ends in the Revela- The Gospel of Jesus Christ people who have come away, into St. Divine with a unites people, not erasing the forest, into the wilderness, as Jesus to display on earth except tion of John the by vision city their erasing left his ministry for in parables. Forty years late I'm radiant of the of God differences but by Jesus often gift barriers at prayer, so that back on this mountain to stand descending as a to the hu- the among them so the time away when among you and the Class of 1993 man race. differences can be shared. Cities you enter the dynamism and di- love the forest of en- that are robust strong in- versity of cities are richly pre- as you leave this enchanted forest You may and you for the adventure of uncertainty chantment here but if you re- elude that healthy balance of pared with minds alive in a

here, will fixed in il- honoring the diversity of their search for truth, hearts open for and risk that characterizes lives of main you be fulfillment and purpose. lusion and betray your experi- people and making the diversity compassion, souls aflame for For me, the enchantment of ence here. You are called to leave accessible to one another, God's reign ofjustice, and ready city. cities are places live as citizens in a Sewanee had something to do the forest for the Healthy where to common with making decisions about That city may be Atlanta or individuals can excel, whatever life.

Atmore, it could Huntsville or the circumstances of their family You leave the forest of en- what might happen next in my be Houston, or Loudoun or of their birth. chantment on a civilizing mis- life. London

County, for the city is not neces- So the city as a model for hu- sion. The God who is making all I suggest to you that the sarily massive the hon- things new invites you to help uniqueness of Sewanee as a place a concentration of man community means of enchantment echoes one of population, but rather a vision of oring of two important truths, shape that Holy city that is God's are as individuals, the gift to us all. the oldest spiritual journeys of the human community. The edu- Who we

cation you have received here in distinctive gifts of each of us, are Bishop of'Virginia PeterJames Lee humankind—which is going into the context of faith includes the to be honored because they are preached this sermon during the the forest to learn how to live in

vocation to civilize, and that the gifts of God. I hope you 1 993 baccalaureate service. the city.

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