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Hosting the Conference USA championship We Are His Namesake See page 39 for ALUMNI NEWS and more Autumn 2016 www.marshall.edu Marshall President Jerome Gilbert Senior Vice President for Communications and Marketing Ginny Painter Executive Editor Susan Tams Marshallmagazine Director of Communications The official magazine of Marshall University Dave Wellman Autumn 2016 Publisher Jack Houvouras Managing Editor features Rebecca Stephens Art Director 4 COVER STORY • Life of Chief Justice John Marshall Suzanna Stephens continues to shape his namesake university in the 21st century. Graphic Designer Stephanie Hall 10 INVESTITURE • Investiture ceremony officially welcomes President Gilbert to Marshall. Advertising Manager Ashley Thompson 14 CAMPUS • The Marshall community remembers the Contributing Photographers making of “We Are Marshall” 10 years after the film’s Rick Haye and Rick Lee release. Contributing Writers 20 PRESIDENT’S HOUSE • The home of Marshall’s James E. Casto, Pat Dickson, president receives a makeover for the ages. Jean Hardiman, Jack Houvouras, Keith Morehouse, Katherine Pyles, PROFILE • Dr. Gary Rankin named vice dean of Samuel Speciale and 26 Rebecca Stephens basic sciences and chair of newly formed biomedical sciences department. Alumni Editor Pat Dickson 30 SPORTS • Conference USA men’s soccer championship to take place at the Veterans Memorial Editorial Advisory Board Soccer Complex. William “Tootie” Carter, Maurice Cooley, Jeff O’Malley, 34 YEAGER SCHOLARS • The Society of Yeager Sherri Smith, Leah Payne, Scholars celebrates 30 years of breaking barriers. Susan Tams, Ralph J. Turner 14 Marshall Magazine is distributed three times a year by: Marshall University One John Marshall Drive Huntington, WV 25755 departments ADVERTISERS’ CONTACT: 2 WITH THE PRESIDENT HQ Publishing Co. P.O. Box 384 Huntington, WV 25708 304-529-6158 Hosting the Conference USA championship everGreen [email protected] YOUR ALUMNI CONNECTION For subscription information contact: MU Office of Alumni Relations at 39 BENJAMIN M. SANDY 304-696-3134 40 HOMECOMING SCHEDULE Comments or suggestions should be ALUMNI AWARD NOMINATIONS addressed to: We Are His 43 [email protected] Namesake 44 ON THE MOVE 46 SPOTLIGHT: FOR THE HEALTH OF IT Designed & Published by: 48 CLASS NOTES 52 LETTER FROM MUAA HQ Publishing Co. P.O. Box 384 See page 39 for ALUMNI NEWS and more Autumn 2016 www.marshall.edu Huntington, W.Va. 304-529-6158 www.hqpub.com Marshall University remembers the life of Chief Justice John Marshall, and teaches students, faculty and the on the cover Marshall community of his important legacy. Photo by Rick Lee. © 2016 by Marshall University president Summer with President Gilbert 1. 1. President Gilbert gave a 2. State of the University address to West Virginia’s congressional delegation and alumni and friends of Marshall in the Washington, D.C., area June 14. 2. After the devastating flooding in West Virginia this summer, President Gilbert assisted with a collection drive on the Huntington campus for cleanup supplies. 3. 3. Dr. Vicki Stroeher, professor of music at Marshall, presented a copy of her book, My Beloved Man, to President Gilbert July 6. The book is a compilation of the letters of composer Benjamin Britten and his life partner, tenor Peter Pears, to each other. 4. 4. A dedi- cated bicy- 5. clist, President Gilbert joined the participants in the Lose the Training Wheels camp July 22. The camp is a joint effort among Marshall, the iCanShine Foundation and the Huntington YMCA, which helps students with special needs learn to ride a two-wheel bicycle. 6. 5. President Gilbert and senior administrators at Marshall helped with a Habitat for Humanity project in Huntington July 15. 6. President Gilbert organized this selfie with the members of the UNI 100 class of which he is the instructor. 2 AUTUMN 2016 AUTUMN 2016 3 cover story We are his NAMESAKE How university officials continue to honor the life and legacy of Chief Justice John Marshall By James E. Casto Photos by Rick Haye ohn Marshall, the chief justice of the United Marshall was elected to Congress in 1799 and ap- States, dominated the Virginia Constitutional pointed secretary of state in 1800. The following year, JConvention of 1829-1830, making a deep and President John Adams named him chief justice. He lasting impression on his fellow convention delegates. would occupy that post for 34 years, handing down One of those delegates was John Laidley, a lawyer a series of historic opinions that defined the role of from Cabell County. Laidley returned home and in the Constitution, the Supreme Court and the nation. 1837 was one of the founders of a small school that The famed jurist died in 1835, two years before the he successfully urged to be named Marshall Academy founding of Marshall Academy, thus he never knew in honor of the great chief justice. Over the decades, the school had been named for him. Marshall Academy would evolve into today’s Marshall “I’ve read a great deal about John Marshall and University. think he would be extremely honored to have our Like the school that carries his name, John Marshall university named after him,” said Marshall’s President was born in a log cabin on the Virginia frontier. At age Jerry Gilbert. “When I speak to prospective students 20, he fought in the Revolutionary War, spending the who visit our campus, I tell them John Marshall is frigid winter of 1777-1778 with George Washington right up there with the Founding Fathers. He played a and the American troops encamped at Valley Forge. significant role in the development of our legal system During his time as chief justice, John Marshall made a number of decisions After the war, he established a highly successful law and helped define the U.S. Constitution. He stood for that set the course for the Constitution, practice in Richmond and by 1790 had become the protecting individual rights and for interpreting the U.S. the Supreme Court and the country. leading appellate lawyer in Virginia. Constitution so everyone could benefit from the rights 4 AUTUMN 2016 AUTUMN 2016 5 various objects and artifacts the nation’s young people, from his life. would be prompted to ac- The school also produced quaint themselves with the an hour-long documen- Constitution and study its I have a profound respect for tary on the chief justice, importance. “John Marshall: Citizen, “Sen. Byrd’s action in- John Marshall. I think his legacy is significant Statesman, Jurist,” which spired us here at Marshall aired on West Virginia to inaugurate our own cel- Public Television and was ebration,” said Dr. Alan and I want the university to be made available to the state’s Gould, director of the John schools and public libraries. Deaver Drinko Academy Distribution of the docu- for American Political associated with him and his career. mentary was made possible Institutions and Civic by a grant from Mary and Culture, which sponsors — Marshall President Jerry Gilbert Churchill Hodges. the yearly event. In 2004, Sen. Robert While Constitution C. Byrd sponsored legisla- Week at Marshall has a se- tion that designated Sept. rious purpose, it also has 17, the date of the sign- a fun side — the annual and privileges outlined in offered a clear oppor- ing of the Constitution President’s Invitational it. He stood for justice and tunity to erect a statue in 1787, as Constitution Quoits Tournaments. respect. I have a profound which would enhance Day. In shepherding the “There was more to measure to enactment, Sen. John Marshall than the respect and fondness for the profile of the uni- Former Interim President Gary White participates in a quoits John Marshall. I think his versity’s namesake on Byrd said it was his hope tournament during the 2015 Constitution Week. Quoits was tremendously important legacy is significant and campus. that Americans, especially John Marshall’s favorite game. decisions he made,” Gould I want the university to The statue portrays be associated with him the chief justice in his and his career.” judicial robes, stepping A highly visible sym- forward. The book bol of the university’s held in the left hand respect for its namesake symbolizes his early is an eight-foot bronze education at home statue of Marshall that on the Virginia fron- stands outside the John tier. The six-foot base Deaver Drinko Library is engraved with the facing John Marshall words “Revolutionary Drive. Created by noted soldier. Definer of the American sculptor Constitution. Devoted William Behrends of husband and father.” Tryon, North Carolina, In 2001, the univer- the giant statue was un- sity commemorated veiled in 1998. the 200th anniversary The desire to erect a of the inauguration life-size statue of John of Marshall as chief Marshall on campus justice by sponsoring became a reality with “The Face of Justice,” the construction of the an exhibition at the Drinko Library. A plaza Huntington Museum or commons area was en- of Art. The exhibit in- visioned adjacent to the li- Constitution Week at Marshall includes a number of activities, cluded 20 portraits of The John Marshall Fife and Drum Corps is a musical group made up of students and faculty of Marshall’s music brary and its construction including a visit from a John Marshall re-enactor.