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VOLUME 83 • NUMBER 1 • SPRING 2002 VOLUME 83 • NO.. 1 • SPRING 2002 MAGAZINE

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12 Change of Command For many, command of a nuclear submarine represents the pinnacle of a naval career. Alumnus Clarence Earl Carter has just transferred his command of the USS Scranton to a new generation.

18 A Question of Justice Some argue the question of capital punishment is really one of morality and values, not rights. If killing a criminal is the appropriate legal consequence, does that mean we should do it?

12 27 Are Civil Liberties at Risk? Law Professor Don Hall poses some serious questions about the new Patriot Act legislation. Kenneth Schexnayder, Editor GayNelle Doll, Assistant Editor

Victor Judge, BS’77, MS’79, Assistant Editor 30 18 Donna DeVore Pritchett, Art Director American Terrorism Nelson Bryan, BA’73, Class Notes Editor Historian Sam McSeveney suggests Joanne Lamphere Beckham, BA’62 · Bonnie Arant that while the September 11 attacks Ertelt, BS’81 · Lew Harris, BA’68 · Beth Matter · on the U.S. were unprecedented in Phillip B. Tucker · Skip Anderson · David F. Salisbury U.S. history, they are not a new Contributors phenomenon. Anthony J. Spence, E’75, Executive Director of Communications and Publications 34 Vanderbilt Magazine is published quarterly by Vanderbilt Assaulting the Mosquito’s University from editorial and business offices at 110 21st Avenue South, Suite 1000, Nashville, TN 37203. Sense of Smell The editor welcomes letters and comments from readers Sometimes called nature’s most effective regarding articles published in Vanderbilt Magazine. bioterrorist, the end of the mosquito’s DEPARTMENTS Readers may correspond via U.S. mail to: Vanderbilt reign of terror might be in sight. Magazine, VU Station B 357703, 2301 Vanderbilt Place, Nashville, TN 37235-7703. Phone: 615/322-3988. Fax: 2 On Campus 615/343-8547. E-mail: [email protected]. 36 10 Sports Send address corrections to Gift Records Office, Vanderbilt The Fine Art of Doing Stuff University, VU Station B 357727, 2301 Vanderbilt Place, 41 Alumni News Nashville, TN 37235-7727. Vanderbilt University is commit- Performance artist? Sculptor? For retiring ted to principles of equal opportunity and affirmative action. fine arts professor Don Evans, art should 43 Class Notes Copyright © 2002 Vanderbilt University invite participation. Cover: illustration, Andy Warhol, “Little Electric Chair,” 1965 Artist Rashida Marijani Browne, MTS’99, created the linoleum block print titled The Minister as Theologian for the cover of the © 2002 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts/ARS, winter 2002 issue of Vanderbilt Divinity School’s The Spire magazine. The Divinity School alumna currently teaches drawing and New York photography in the studio art department at Montgomery Bell Academy, a college preparatory school for young men, in Nashville. Browne’s piece, Electric Chair Quilt, can be seen on page 18 of this magazine. New Teachers Learn fr om the Pros L E T T E R S ■ Every yea r , abo u t 9 percent of ne w tea ch- ON CAM PU S ers in metropolitan Nas h vill e , overwhel m e d An Influence On and Off the Court by cl a s s room re s pon s i bi l i ti e s , pre s su res to I just received my Vanderbilt Magazine.As a librarian,I knew upon perusal that I needed to im p rove stud ent performa n ce , and bure a u - save the article on the brain for our school vertical file. As I looked more closely, I discovered the Stroop article.I attended David Lipscomb 1969-1973,and one of my roommates was Bioweapons Experts Hot Licks cra t ic red tape ,c a ll it qui t s . Some tou g h it out for the ac ademic year and then find other Catherine Stroop, granddaughter of J. Ridley Stroop. Of course,his home, to which you refer Seek Position; in the article,was in the shadow of the Lipscomb ■“M usic is like a big jigsa w puzzle,”said gui- j ob s ; o t h ers are gone after the first week or Willing to Relocate campus.I was privileged to visit in that home tar legend Ma rk Kn opf l er, who open ed the even the first day. numerous times. Also several of my buddies and ■ A Va n derbilt re s e a rch er is Blair Scho ol of Mus i c ’s Conversa ti o ns Serie s Pea b ody educ a t ors say it does n ’t have to I had the opportunity to play tennis with Dr. on Februa r y 1.“You begin to rea l i z e that it all one of the first in the cou n t ry be that way. Th ey are lending their ex pert- Stroop. He beat us easily! f rom a priva te insti tuti on to conn e cts , and then all the different kinds of ise to the Va n derbilt Men toring Progra m , I really enjoyed reading about how his work become invol ved with eff orts music begin to influen c e your writi n g .”Kno pfl e r whi c h tea ches ment ors how to use their own had a long-lasting impact on his field of study. to help tra n s i ti on form er and his tou r ing band, whi c h includ es some ex peri en ce as a basis for helping newcom- I might add that I found copies of his other Sovi et Un i on bi owe a pon s of Na s hvi ll e’s best session players , dem on- ers to the cla s s r oom. works in a library in Vienna, Austria, where I res e a r che rs to more con- s tra ted this con n ectivi ty and more to a ca- “The goal is to retain new tea che rs by pro- worked last summer. What a delight to know st ruc tive ent erpris e s . pac i t y crowd in the Blair Schoo l ’ s new Ing ram viding the sup port they need to become suc - our influence can linger after we are gone. D r.Yi - Wei Ta n g, Hall . The program fea tu r ed an in-depth dis- ces s f u l , ”sa ys Mar ga r et Smi t h e y,sen i o r lectur er Thank you! assistant profes s o r of cu s s i o n of his work as a guitari s t ,s on g writ er, in educ a ti on . Over the past nine yea rs , Smi t h e y Anne Johnson Ridinger, MLS me dicine and pathology and compo s e r for film and includ ed exa m - and Caro l yn Everts on , profes s o r of educ a ti o n Vanderbilt/Peabody 1980 and director of the Mol - ples of s on g wri ting co ll a bora ti on and in- and assistant to the provo s t ,h ave develo ped Florence, Alabama ecular Inf ectious Dis - s tru m ental vi rtu o s i ty cen tered aro u n d and evalu a t ed works h o ps to help new tea ch- Pass It Around eases Lab, recen t ly Kn opf l er ’s disti n ctive guitar licks and deep ers develo p. To date ,m ore than 3,000 tea ch- return e d from a trip to the State Res e a r ch In- s ome of the worl d ’s most ex peri en ced ba ri t one . ers in Haw a i i , Ill i n oi s ,O h i o, and Ten n e s s ee Vanderbilt Magazineis regularly outstanding, and I mean by comparison with alumnus s ti tute for Vi ro l ogy and Bi o tech n o l ogy Re- bio wea p ons exp erts . The conc ern is that some ha ve been trai n e d throu g h the program . magazines of other universities.I especially enjoyed “Invasion of the Brain Scientists” and se a r ch in Novos i bi rs k , also known as VE C TO R . m ay now be em p l oyed by rogue nati ons to Now, ap proxi m a t ely 100 seasone d tea ch- “The Possibility of Progress” in the fall 2001 issue. These articles are so good that I would like to be able to send copies to three individuals who are not Vanderbilt graduates but who I His visit was in conju n c tio n with a pro- develo p or perfect bio l o gic wea p ons program s . ers from several Na s hvi lle sch ools have un- believe will appreciate both the quality of the publication and in particular one or both of gram funded by the U.S . Depa r tme nt of De- VE C T OR is the onl y other faci l i t y in the derg one training des i gn e d to help them help these excellent featured articles. fense and the Dep a rtm ent of Health and world bes i d es the Cent ers for Disease Con- ne w tea che rs .E ach is paired with no more than Oscar C. Beasley, M.D. ‘52 trol that is off i c i a l ly recogni z ed to contain liv- Human Servic es and overse en by the newly tw o new tea che rs. Iowa City, Iowa forme d Int erna ti o nal Scienc e and Techn o l - ing strains of sm a ll p ox. While there, Tang got The ir training includ es works h o ps to help ogy Cent er (ISTC ) ,l oc a ted in Mos c ow. The to visit the building that houses small pox th e m refl e ct on their own tea ching exp erien ce , Good Medicine st rai n s . Des p i t e the exodus of sc i en ti s t s , Tan g I S TC pairs U. S . re s e a rch ers with Ru s s i a n define their role as a men tor, i den tify need s I wish to compliment you on the Vanderbilt MagazineFall 2001 issue. It may be obvious that cou n t erpa r ts for coll a b orati on . Tang coll a b - sa ys,s ec u ri t y remains high at VE C TO R . “The and conc erns of ne w tea che rs, determine strat e- the subject matter is of concern and interest to me. orat ed with Dr.V l a dimir S.Petrov,a Rus s i a n vir uses are very safely guarded. ” gies for helping new tea che rs with cla s s r oom As a physician,I have always stated that good health starts above the ears. The topics of viro l o gis t . Tang and Petrov are laying the gro u n d- ma n a g eme nt and planning, give feedb a ck to the issue confirm my opinion,even the subject of the sports physician. The study of the “The purpose of the program is to do rea l work for res e a r ch on Crim e a n - C ong o Hem- th e ir prot é g é s , and develo p an actio n plan. brain and the influence on thought and action is fantastic. sc i en c e throu g h coll a b orati o n and to moni - orrha g ic Fever (CCHF).From the same family Du ring the sch ool ye a r, m en tors in the I was also much impressed with the importance of the topics in sharing thoughts of edu- tor res e a r ch of our cou n t erpa rt s , ” Tang says. of hem o rrha g ic fevers as the drea ded Ebol a Nas h vil le program partic i p a t e in four foll ow - cators that are different by encouraging students to think and to question.Only with differ- “I f we don’t ask them to do scien ce ,s om eone viru s , CCHF is pres e nt in south e rn parts of up sessions and add r ess ment oring problem s . ent views can a learner develop the desire to pursue progress by thinking.In my experience else will . ” the forme r Sovie t Uni on . Ment ors and new tea che rs are given time off many teachers have a tendency to demand agreement instead of encouraging pursuit of knowledge. We must all continue the pursuit of information and its application to living. At the time of the Sovie t Uni o n’s brea k u p , “Wha t ’s interes t ing abou t CCHF is there to obs e rve each other in the cla s s r oom and dis- We will only know fragments of knowledge and we should be willing to share our fragments the comm unist governm e nt emp l o yed more a re app a ren t ly va rying sym ptoms for dif- cuss var ious aspects of tea chi n g . with others with larger fragments. We both become better and mankind benefits. than 4,000 scient ists in res e a r ch to crea t e and ferent races , ”he says .“ Because Russia is suc h “Our res ults show that providing forma l ly Thanks again for a wonderful visit with academia. Keep up the good work. produc e bio l o gic wea p ons that could be used a raci a l ly diverse cou n t ry,people of di f f erent A long - t ime frie nd and coll a b orat or wit h trai n e d ment ors helps new tea che rs at the be- Warran A. Ross,MD ‘51 for mass genoc i de . The res e a r ch was mainly races get the disease. We can look at how the late Che t Atk i n s , who was the Conversa - ginning of th e ir career,”sa ys Smi t h e y.Prot é g é s Austin, Texas ca r rie d out at VE C TO R . Now,VE C T OR is a the different host’s pol ymo rphism may affect tio ns Series first guest, Kno pfl e r admits that of men t ors partic i p a t ing in the ment or work- dec ayi n g, f i n a n c i a lly tro u bl ed com p l ex of ho w the disease affects them. ” as a you n gs t er, he never listene d to cou n t ry s h ops could more ef fectively or ga n i ze and abo u t 40 bui l d i n gs . Abou t 2,000 emp l o yees Sin c e the events of Septemb er 11,the pro- mus i c . “You cha n ge , ”he said,“y ou learn to re- m a n a ge instru cti on at the beginning of t h e WRITE TO US We welcome readers’ letters. Please address them to Editor, Vanderbilt Magazine, remain at VE C TO R . gram has taken on rene wed signi f i c a n ce . Tan g sp ect mus i c , and in picking togeth e r,Che t and year and establish more worka b le cla s s r oom VU Station B 357703,2301 Vanderbilt Place, Nashville,TN 37235-7703. You can also Ma ny in U. S . re s e a rch and intell i gen ce sums up the situ a ti on .“ By doing good for I rea l i z ed we had many things in comm on . ” rou tin e s . The ir stud ents demon s t rat ed bett er reach us by fax at (615) 343-8547, or by e-mail at [email protected]. commu n i t ies wond er what happene d to th em , we are doing good for ourse lves . ” Steve Earle will be featured April 27. cla s s r oom beha vio r and aca demic enga g emen t . Letters may be edited for clarity and length.

2 V A N D E R B I L T M A G A Z I N E SPRING 2002 3 Cannibalism Revisited Enzyme Study on “Cell Suicide” May Lessen Stroke Activity a b

■ Cannibalism is one of the last real taboos ■ Crit ical new data on a comp l e x enz y me that i n ti m a tely invo lved in tri g- of mo dern soci e ty, evoking a mixtur e of fa s - lies at the cros s r oad betw een cell sui c i d e and gering the process of pro- c i n a ti on and revu l s i on . A Va n derbilt an- tu m or su ppre s s i on has open ed a prom i s i n g gram m e d cell dea t h , but they t h ropo l ogist argues that our own ne w front in the battle to find eff ective trea t - don’t know how. The deter- preconc eptio ns of cannibalism have led bot h me nts for strok e and cancer. m i n a ti on of the dom a i n’s the public and the scien tific com mu n i ty to Mar tin Egl i ,a s s oc i a te profes s o r of bio l o g- s tru ctu re and the abi l i ty to regar d cannibalism as an aggres s i ve ,b a rb a ri c , ical scienc es at Van d erbilt Uni versi t y, and D. evalu a t e DAP K ’ s activit y pro- and degrading act. Mar tin Wat t erso n at North wes t ern Uni versi t y, vi de an important fo u n d a- “Cannibalism can have po s i tive mean- ha ve determi n e d the three- d i m en s i o nal struc - tio n for futur e inves ti ga ti on s i n gs and motives that are not that far from Two diff e rent re p resentations of the kinase region of DAPK depict tu re of a cri tical regi on of “death assoc i a ted add r essing this que s ti on . its molecular structure (a) and electrostatic surface configuration (b). our exp erien ce , ” sa ys Beth A. Con k l i n ,a s s o- prot ein kinase”(D APK) and crea t ed a qua n - “Whe n we started this proj- c i a te profe s s or of a n t h ropo l ogy. Con k l i n’s tit a t ive assay capable of me a su r ing its activit y. ect, we didn’t think abou t it as a drug target, ” in the animal studies com bi n ed with its es- persp ective is based on an intens i ve stud y of These res ults — publi s h e d in the October said Egl i .“ But we are gett ing a num b er of ca ll s ta bl i s h e d role in initia t ing cell death raise the the Wari’, a group of native people who live is s ue of Natu r e Struc tur al Biolo g y and the Oct. fr om drug comp a n y res e a r che rs. ” pos s i bi l i t y that DAPK inhibit ors could reduc e in the Ama z on rai n f ores t . Her field work pro- 19 issue of the Jou rnal of B i ol o gical Chem- This interest is based pri m a ri ly on ani- neu r onal cell death dur ing this crit ical period . vides detailed confirmation about how and is t ry — are gene rat ing cons i d er- Actin-microfilament mal studies publ i s h ed in DA P K ’s invo lvem ent in cancer may also why the Wa ri ’ practi ced an el a bora te form ab le interest in the pha rm a ceutic a l 1999 that showed sign i f i- prove to be importa n t . The vie w of ca n c er as The body of a warrior is being prep a r ed for a pre-contact funeral. In-laws, who prep a r ed the body for P Loop of cannibalism until the 19 6 0 s , wh en gov- in du s t ry because DAPK provide s cant increases in DAPK pre- a disease of un c ont roll e d cell growth is grad- the funeral service, wear scarlet macaw feathers, the symbol of a killer of enemies. Microfilament- ern m ent workers and mission a ries forced a new target for the develo pmen t Ankyrins binding Domain ceding epi s o des of neu r on ua l ly being exp a n d ed by its add i ti o nal cha r - them to abandon the practice. Conklin has foc u s ed on the less under- by accounts of mi s s i on a r ies and governm en t of d ru gs that could redu ce cell dea t h . The re is current l y a acteri z a ti on as a disease re su l ting from “The Wa ri ’a re unus ual because they prac- s tood practi ce of f u n era ry cannibalism in off i c i a l s . Conklin intervie wed dozens of ol d er da m a g e foll o wing brain injuri e s “time wi n dow of u n m et m a l f u n cti ons in the process of cell de a t h . CaM ti ced two disti n ct forms of cannibalism in h er new boo k , Co n suming Gri ef: Co m pa s- Wa ri ’ who rem em bered life before con t act Regulatory and stroke . Region ne ed” for therap eutics fol - Redu cti ons in DAPK ex pre s s i on have been wa rf a r e and funeral s , ”Conklin says. “The two s i o n a te Cannibalism in an Am a zonian Soci- and talked freely abo ut ob s erving and par- Previous res e a r ch has impli- lo wing a strok e or brain in- found in a vari e ty of di f f erent types of hum a n practi ces had very different meanings .E a t- ety [Uni versi t y of Texas Pres s ] . From 1985 to ti c i p a ting in funerals in wh i ch cannibalism c a ted DAPK in a wi de ra n ge of ju ry. Du ring this peri od , ca n c er.In this case,res e a r che rs wil l be search- ing en emies was an inten ti onal ex pre s s i on 198 7 , the anthropol o gist spent 19 months in was practi ced . She learn ed that some older ap optot ic syst ems and sug ges t s Death Domain whi c h can last from hours ing for agents that can rea ctivat e program m e d Kinase of a n ger and disdain for the en emy. But at Wa ri ’ com mu n i ties plus seven months co l- people were uncom fort a ble with the prac- that it is activa ted very early in Domain to days ,n eu rons conti nu e cell death in tum o r cells . The newly publi s h e d funerals, when they consumed members of l ecting data at an indigenous health cl i n i c ti ce of bu ri a l .“ In the past, the idea of l e av- the proces s . C-terminal Tail to die, adding signi f i c a n t l y re s e a rch provi des an important knowled g e t h eir own group who died natu ra lly, it was and in natio nal archi ves . She later made three ing the body of a loved one in the dirt and S c i en tists have determ i n ed The schematic shows the com- to the initial damage . Th e base for the search for DAPK sub s t rat es in nor- done out of af f ectio n and res p ect for the dea d additional trips. letting it rot was as repulsive to the Wari’as that DA P K ’s kinase domain is plex enzyme’s diffe r ent domains. timing of DAP K ’ s increa s e mal and diseased tis su e . pers on and as a way to help su rvivors cope The case for Wa ri ’ cannibalism is based the idea of ea t ing human flesh is to us,”Con- with grief.” on the testimony of the Wari’, corroborated klin says.

Conklin conc lud ed that the practic e was O V E R E A S Y deeply rooted in the worldview of the Wari’ Triangles. Cones. Square boxes. Inflated bags and their understanding of h ow mem ori e s and parachutes. Even a Leonardo da Vi n c i - af f ect the grie ving proce s s .L i ke a num b er of like flying screw . They came hurtling from the o t h er groups in So uth Am eri c a , the Wa ri ’ veranda of the Overcup Oak Lounge in Sar- ratt Center onto the brick pavement three sto- have rituals designed to help bereaved rela- ries below, while a cheering crowd of several tives cope with sorrow by eli m i n a t ing things hu n d r ed participants and observers watched as s oc i a t ed with the dead . Wari ’ bur n the dea d fr om the ground below. All were entries in the annual engineering egg-drop competition spon- perso n’s po s s e s s i on s ,i n cluding the house in s o red by FedEx and held Dec. 7. School of which he or she lived. Engineering professors Ken Frampton and Al “Con suming the body is part of t h i s Strauss clocked flight times and judged whether the raw eggs they carried survived the expe- proce s s ,” Conklin says .“ Far more than we rience intact. do, the Wa ri ’s ee the body as a place wh ere Teams of one to three engineering stu- person a l i t y and individu a l i t y res i de , and so, dents were given an hour to surround their egg of a ll the things that remind you of peop l e , with a container capable of protecting it from the drop, made out of a FedEx box and a vari- the corpse is the strongest reminder.” ety of other materials filling a zip-lock bag. A total of 136 students participated in the exer- cise and produced 60 entries, making it what o rganizers said was the University’s larg e s t In pre-contact funerals, body parts were roasted on a special rack. The palm leaf bundles contained eg g - d r op competition to date. This year’s win- internal organs that were removed and wrapped for roasting. ner was Timothy Brian Jones, an engineering sophomore. His entry was a slender cone.

4 V A N D E R B I L T M A G A Z I N E SPRING 2002 5 Black and Gold Medical Professor Helps Language Classrooms and Read All Over Start Medical School in Nepal Extend Into Community S C H W A R Z K O P F ON LEADERSHIP ■Two new stud ent news- ■Nepal is one of the poorest cou n t ries in the ■ Stu d ents in two sectio ns of sen i o r lectur er “Y our circumstances at birth have nothing to do p a pers have sprung up world , with 90 percent of the popu l a ti o n eking El e na Ola z a ga s ti - S egovia ’s “Spo k en Spanish” with you as a leader,” said retired general Nor- on the Va n derbilt cam- ou t a living farming the mountainous ru ra l class got more than they bargai n e d for whe n man Schwarzkopf at the Impact Symposium 2002 held recently on the Vanderbilt campus. pus this yea r , repres en t - are a s . Yet 90 percent of the cou n t ry’ s physi - th e y regis t ered for the cou rs e . Ins te a d of pro- Schwarzkopf used his two dogs as an example ing oppos i t e ends of th e cians work in the capital city of Kat h m a n du . nun c i a ti o n and listeni n g - c omp rehen s i o n drill s , that a leader is not always the individual one i deo l ogical spectru m . Sh i va Gauta m , assistant profes s o r of pre- 29 stu dents each spent 28 hours working as might initially suspect. Orzo is a ninty-one-pound German Shepherd, and Griz is an eighteen-pound The O rbi s, wh i ch aims vent ive medicine at Van d erbil t , is working to bilingual vo lu n teers within Na s hvi ll e’s bu r- dog with wiry hair he described as “a cro s s to repre s ent mu l ti c u l- im p rove health care access in his native cou n - geoning Hispanic commu n i t y. between a hot dog and a toilet brush.” tural and minority per- try,whe re the life exp ectancy is onl y 57 yea rs . Trad i ti on a lly, the co u rse requ i res wee k ly “Griz is a leader because he’s never looked sp ectives ,p u bl i s h e d fou r This sprin g , Ga u tam wil l retur n to Nepa l , col - time in the labora tory wh ere stu dents hon e in the mirror,” Schwarzkopf said. “I call this the ‘Griz Principle of Leadership.’ You must perce i v e is s ues before Chri s tm a s la b orat ing with medical facu l t y at Van d erbil t , th e ir skills . This fall ,h owever, ma r ked the first yourself as a leader to be a leader.” He added bre a k , ad d ressing su ch Har vard , and a handful of ot h e r instit ution s time the two particular sectio ns were taught that being a leader also takes competence and topics as vi o l en ce and to help ensu r e the suc cess of a new non- p rofi t using a service - l e a r ning approach. character. “Ninety-nine percent of leadership failure s n on - vi o l en ce ,a bortion , me dical schoo l . Ola z a ga s ti - S egovia was inspired to tea ch ar e failures of character,” Schwarzkopf said, cit- the death pen a l ty, a n d Kat h m a n d u Uni versi t y Medical Scho ol en- the co u rse after en ro lling in the first “Ser- ing Enron Corp., the controversial French figure di versi t y on campus. The roll e d its first 45 stud ents last Aug u s t . The new vic e Lea r ning Facu l t y Semi n a r ” last yea r .The skating judge from the 2002 Winter Olympics, and presidents Nixon and Clinton. p a per, wh i ch takes its s ch ool wi ll con cen tra te on public health is- sem i n a r —no w in its second yea r —was tea m - “The ethical climate of every organization is name from a Latin word sue s . “The goal is to recr uit stud ents from re- ta u g ht by Jan e t S.Eyle r, profes s o r of the prac- set by its leaders,” he said. “Whether they like for “w orld , ”has attracted mo t e areas who retur n to those regio ns after tic e of edu c a ti on ;S h a ron L. Sh i el d s , profes s o r it or not, they lead by example.” a staff of a bo ut 60 stu- Junior Michael O’Malley and his colleagues at Or b i s plan to publish nine th e y receive a medical educ a ti on , ” sa ys Gau- of the practic e of human and orga n i z a ti on a l dent contributors. issues of the new, liberal-oriented student newspaper during the 2001- ta m . “We also hope to increase the num b er of devel opm en t ; and Peter Fel ten , assistant di- 02 academic year. Me a nwh i l e , con s er- wom en parti c i p a ting in med i c i n e .” Nep a l ’s rector of the Cent er for Tea ching and co- d i - rect ly rel a te to their co u rse obj ective s . A m eeting the co u rs e’s ac ademic goal — im- vat ive stud ents have started the Tor ch, whi c h P h i l o s ophy John Lachs on the inef fective- ethnic divis i o ns and caste syst em undersc ore rector of the Servic e Lea r ning Tas k F orce. Ten m a j ori ty of the sites needed tra n s l a tors and proving their spok en Spanish. She has tran s - premi e red in Novemb er.In his inaugural col - ness of non-violent resistance as a response the need for a medical scho ol that is open to fac u l t y memb ers partic i p a t ed in the semi n a r . En g lish Language Lea r ning instruc tors. Sev- form ed a trad i ti onal ac ademic co u rse into um n , edi t or in chi e f Jacob Grie r says he and to terrorism. The Torch has attracted about mo re stud ents and provid es scho l a r ships and The stud ents enro ll e d in Spok en Spanish eral stud ents who taught ELL were requi r ed som e thing rea l ly innovat ive. ” fello w stud ents launche d the paper “to rai s e 35 contributors. ot h e r financial sup port, he says. chose the servic e work from several agenc i e s : to attend up to ei ght hours of training ses- Oth e r classes have more obvious correla - awa r eness of the liberties that have been lost, St a f f ers at the Hus t l e r,Van d erbil t ’s long - Alt h o u g h Nepal has two governm e nt med- S t .E dw a rd Chu rch and Sch oo l , Be acon Lit- si on s . Nas h vil le Adult Literacy Council trai n ee s tio ns to servic e learning suc h as the new Hum a n and to promo t e the pres e rva ti on of those we es t a bl i s h e d stud ent newsp a p er, sa y they wel- ical coll e ges and several other for-p rofit med- eracy Program , var ious Catholic cha ri ti e s ,G i r l received certif i c a ti o n as ELL instruc tors. and Organ i z a ti o nal Develo pme nt “Val ues and sti l l pos s e s s . ”The first issue includ ed a com- come the new kids on the block. And Chris ical training instit uti on s ,t h ey are not highl y S co ut s’ Hermanitas progra m , Big Bro t h ers Servic e vari e d depending upon each site. Commu n i t y Servic e”la b orat ory cou r se taught m en t a ry ti t l ed “ Boy Sco ut s ,G ays and the Ca rro ll ,d i rector of s tu dent media for Va n- regar ded outs i d e the cou n t ry. and Big Sis t ers of Mid d le Tenn e s s ee , His p a n i c Some sites were wit h o u t proper materi a l s ,s o by Shield s . One hun d r ed fres h m e n each vol - Freedom of Ass oc i a ti on , ”a forum on the pros derbilt Stu dent Com mu n i c a ti on s , s ays the Dur ing his three weeks in Nepal this sprin g , Fam i l y Res o u r ce Cent er at Woodb ine Com- stu d ents brou g ht their own books and other un t eered 35 hours this seme s t er at 30 Uni t ed and cons of l egalizing pro s ti tuti on , and a f lu rry of p u blishing activi ty is “a good sign Ga u tam wil l tea ch and help develo p a sylla bu s . mun i t y Cent er,Nas h vil le Adult Literacy Cou n - su pp l i e s . Two pre - m ed stu dents worked as Way sup ported agenc i e s . Alt h o u g h many dea l t guest ed i torial by Cen tennial Profe s s or of that students are passionate.” He wil l be join e d by Van d erbilt col leagues Bon- c i l , Na s hvi lle Un i on Rescue Mi s s i on and St. tra n s l a tors at a local clinic serving the Hi s- with gen eral com mu n i ty need s , s ome agen- nie LaFleur , assistant profes s o r of prevent ive Ann Catholic Chur ch. panic pop u l a ti on . Some vo lu n teered at the cies dealt with the Hispanic popu l a ti on . med i c i n e , who is cont a cting publi s h e rs in hopes Stu d ents volu n t eered in capaci t ies that di- Nas h vil le Uni o n Rescue Mis s i o n and greeted One of the Val ues and Commu n i t y Servic e Law School Hosts 6th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals of gett ing dona ti o ns of me dical books or jour- male guests in the food line, commu n i c a t ed classes took a bus tour of the city, l oo k i n g n a l s , and Art Dall ey, profe s s or of cell bi o l- in f orma ti o n abou t servic es and assistance pro- for opportu n i ties for servi ce ,o t h ers vo lu n- C O R R E C T I O N S ■ How do you mark the dedi c a ti o n of a law Eug ene Sil e r,BA’ 5 8 ;G i l bert S. Merrit t ,J D’ 6 0 ; ogy, who is helping devel op a program in vid ed, and assisted the Latino chaplain dur - teered at Woodb ine Commu n i t y Cent er. “Invasion of the Brain Scientists” in the fall 2001 s ch oo l ’s new auditorium with appropri a te and Martha Craig Daughtrey, BA’64,JD’68. ing reli g ious service s . New cou r ses are being planned for the ac- cl i n i c a lly ori en ted anatomy. Th ey wi ll be issue of Vanderbilt Magazine in c o r r ectly quoted fa n f a r e? Van d erbilt came up with a way that Merritt and Daugh trey both taught law at taking with them dona t ed micros c opes for the Sohee Park, associate professor of psychol- Stu d ents were requi r ed to make four oral ademic year 2002-03 to bring in elem e nts of was a hit with stu den t s , f ac u l ty, and well - Va n derbilt before they began their ju d i c i a l ne w schoo l . Oth e r Van d erbilt medical facu l t y og y , as stating that understanding of the brain pre s en t a ti ons thro u gh o ut the sem e s ter and se rvic e learning and expand the initia t ive. The wi s h ers : Th ey bro u ght a session of the 6th careers. ar e working to secu r e used comp u ters and ad- could cure or treat hypertension and card i o- one final portfolio pres en t a ti o n that refl e cted focus on servic e learning has seen a recent in- Cir cuit U.S . Cou r t of Appeals to the new fa- The 220-seat venue was named for Bi ll di ti o nal equi pm en t . vascular problems. on their exp erien c es and includ ed an audio- cr ease in popu l a ri t y, but the conc ept has been The closing quote accompanying Park’s cility. R . F lynn and Ka t h erine N. F lynn of Hop- G a ut a m’s last trip coi n c i ded with a tu- vis ual record. The stud ents shared anecdote s , a round for some time at Va n derbi l t . Eyl er, photograph on page 22 should have re a d : On Septem ber 24, fo ll owing ded i c a ti on ki n s vi ll e , Kentu c ky.The y are parents of Tom mul t uous perio d in Nepa l ’ s history, comi n g “Better understanding of the brain will lead to no t ed crit ical mome nts in their res p ective pro- who taught the facu l t y semi n a r ,has been tea ch- of the Flynn Aud i t orium , the cou r t heard ar- Flynn, BA’96,JD’99. just days after the killi n g s of se veral memb ers intervention, management, and treatment of gra m s , and discussed how they solved par- ing cou r ses on servic e learning at Pea b ody for gu m e nts in three cases.The rar e session awa y The Flyn n s ’gift capped a suc cessful bui l d - of the cou n t ry’ s royal family and unrest in the all psychiatric disorders.” ticular probl em s . The stu dents also kept a fi ve yea rs . f rom the co u rt’s home base in Ci n c i n n a ti ing campaign that ra i s ed more than $22.6 st reets of Kat h m a n du . A trip by Gautam three Vincent van Gogh did not have schizo- jo u r nal of th e ir exp erien ce s . “Overall , the Servic e Lea r ning Task Force d rew hu n d reds of s tu dents who wanted to m i ll i on to fund 74,000 squ a re feet of n ew yea r s ago coin c i d ed with the publi c a ti o n of a p h renia, as implied by inclusion of his self- According to Peter Felt en ,“ E l en a’s class is is working to enh a n c e the underg radua t e ex- portrait in the accompanying article “Managing se e the cou r t in action . The three jud g es hear- te ach i n g, s tu dent and ad m i n i s tra tive space book of his poems in Nepa l i , the cou n t ry’ s na- Schizophrenia.” a model because the stu dents are provi d i n g peri en ce and re ach out to the com mu n i ty,” ing arguments are all Vanderbilt graduates: added to the building. tive language. real servic e to the commu n i t y while they are said Felt en.

6 V A N D E R B I L T M A G A Z I N E SPRING 2002 7 Lotions and potions: do anti-bacterial products work? Zeppos, Williams named Vanderbilt to Build Children ’ s Outpatient Clinic to newly created positions ■ You try scrubbing, rinsing — but are you Wi lliam Sch a f f n er, ch a i rman of the de- ■ Van d erbilt Uni versi t y Medical Cent er has ki l ling germs? And for how long? It depend s pa r tme nt of prevent ive medicine at Van d er- ■ Pl ed g ing “si m p l i c i t y, cla ri t y,agi l i t y and ac- an n o u n c ed plans to build an 11-story outpa - on what yo u’re using. The pro l i fera ti on of bilt Uni versi t y Scho ol of cou n t a bi l i ty ” in the Uni versi ty ’ s seni o r lead- tie nt clinic parall e l to the new Monr oe Car ell germ - f i gh ting produ cts on the market fall s Medi c i n e , said Tricl o s a n , ersh i p ,Cha n c ello r Gordon Gee announced a Jr .Chi l d r en’s Hospital current l y under con- ro u gh ly into two categori e s : instant hand the main ingred i ent in reorga n i z a ti o n and two key appoin tm e nts in s tru cti on . The $20 mill i on fac i l i ty wi ll con- sa n i ti z ers, and lotio ns and poti o ns with anti- most anti- b a cterial soap s the areas of aca demic affairs and stud ent life. ne ct to Chi l d r en’s Hospital and wil l provid e bacterial properties. on the market , ad d s Nic holas Zeppos , a legal s p ace for all Ch i l d ren’s Hospital outp a ti en t Popular anti- b a cterial hand soap s st a ying power to soap , sc holar who served for the clinic service s . provid e ext ra prot ectio n against nasty wh i ch is import a n t past year as vi ce ch a n cel- Servic es are current l y sprea d over five dif- germs like staph ,e . coli and salmo- because most peo- lo r for instit utio nal plan- ferent bui l d i n g s throu gh o u t Van d erbilt Uni - ne lla ; but they aren’t new; th e y don’t ple eit h e r don’t wash ning and advan c emen t ,h a s versi t y Medical Cent er.The 169,000-squa re - f oot s teri l i ze hands; and they aren’t ap- th e ir hands at all or been named to the newly building wil l provid e almost a three- f old in- proved by the Food and Drug Adm i n - eno u gh . “Wha t ’s im- cre a t ed pos i ti o n of provos t cr ease in total outpa ti e nt clinic space. For the istration. portant is washing and vic e cha n c ello r for ac- fi r st time in its 30-year history,Chi l d r en’s Hos - Nonet h el e s s , consu m e rs have made your hands,” s a i d ademic affairs. He suc ceeds Tho mas G. Bur - pital wil l be able to off er all inpatie nt and out- an ti - b a cterials a big bus i n e s s . Sch a f f n e r.“Wha t ’s less is h , who return e d to the facu l t y after 10 yea r s pa ti e nt servic es in one loca ti on . Yet many experts say thor- im p ortant is what you as provos t . The first three floors of the outpa ti e nt cli n i c ou g h hand washing with reg- use.” D avid Wi ll i a m s , t h e wil l be comm o n floors with Chi l d r en’s Hos p i - ular soap is stil l the best way In as little as 15 sec- Uni versi ty ’ s gene ral cou n - ta l , while floors four throu g h 11 wil l house the The planned outpatient clinic is on the far left of this rendering of the Monroe Carell Jr. Children ’ s Hos- s el and sec ret a ry, and in- pital as seen from the corner of Capers Avenue and 22nd Avenue South. to clean hands and preven t JIM HSIEH ond s , rin s e less antis e ptic ou tpa ti e nt cl i n i c s .E ach floor wil l have a con- the sprea d of di s e a s e . Some are hand rubs and gels kill bacteria and other dis- terim vi ce ch a n cell or for ne cting corrid or to Chi l d r en’s Hos p i t a l . conc erne d that anti- b a cterial produc ts might ease-causing or ga n i s m s ,i n cluding clo s t rid - stu d ent life, was named vic e Dr . Ian Bur r, as s oc i a t e vic e cha n c ello r for near futur e to finish the interio r and provid e Bur r says. “We have the cranes in place and all lead to bacteria-resistant strains. ium (the bot ulism toxi n - p roducing orga n i s m ) , cha n c ello r for stud ent life ch i l d ren’s health servi ce s , s ays planning is equi pm e nt needs . of the other equi pm en t . A cons e rvat ive esti- Purported germ-killing soaps have been sa l m on e lla , and staphylo cocc u s .G erm exp erts and universi t y affairs ,a l s o sti l l ong oing and that the $20 milli o n wil l pro- “We are saving a cons i d erab le amount of ma t e would be a savin g s of up to $5 milli on . ” on the market since the 1920s, according to sa y that abou t 80 percent of al l comm o n in- a new pos i ti on . vi de for the outp a ti ent clinic core and outer mon e y by beginning cons t ruc tio n at the same L i m i ted space in the current Ch i l d ren’s the Soap and Deterg ent As s oc i a ti on .O n ly in fecti ons are spre ad direct ly to eye s ,n o s e s , “Ni c k Zeppos and David Wil liams share s h ell . Ad d i ti onal funds wi ll be sought in the time that the hospital is under cons t ruc tion , ” Hospital has promp ted the need for the new recent yea r s has the term “an ti - b a cteria l ” be- mo ut h s , and open wounds from our hands. the cha r acteris t ics that are most important to ou tpa ti e nt cli n i c . Chi l d r en logged more than Do they work? A 10-mon t h Van d erbilt at this point in our history: grea t 160,000 clinic visits last ye a r, a nu m ber stu d y invol ving 6,000 elem en t a r y in t elli g enc e and crea t ivit y, bou n d less ener g y that conti n ues to ris e . Sin c e 198 0 , adm i s s i on s 15 percent of Americans are so afraid of germs sch oo l ch i l d r en found that stud ent s and ent hu s i a s m , and a zealous comm i tm en t to Children’s Hospital have increased by 45 they avoid contact with other humans in cla s s r ooms with an instant hand to excellen ce , ” said Gee. percen t , and clinic visits have ri s en by 215 As the chi e f aca demic and advan c emen t percent say they never drink from sa n i ti z er were sick 19.76 fewer days percent. 79 off i c er,Zeppos overse es Van d erbil t ’s aca demi c someone else’s water glass than stud ents in cla s s r ooms wit h - Dr . Arnold Stra u s s ,d i rector of Van d erbil t ou t it. activit ies and planning, as well as the forth - Chi l d r en’s Hospital and the James C. Overal l 53 percent say they try to fight germs by The stu dy was spon s ored by coming Capital Cam p a i gn . He also cha i r s the Profes s o r and Chair of Pedi a t ric s ,s a ys the num - constantly spraying disinfectant Pur ell in cooperati o n with the Na- Int egrat ed Financial Planning Cou n c i l , whi c h bers wil l conti n ue to rise dram a ti c a l ly.“Wit h i n was establi s h e d last year to bring a comp re- percent refuse to touch dirty tio nal Ass oc i a ti o n of Sch o ol Nurs e s . the first two yea r s of occu p ying the new Chi l - 23 hen s i ve approach to the Uni vers i ty ’s bud g et doorknobs and handrails Are sanitiz ers bett er than plain dr en’s Hospital and cli n i c , we wil l see an in- old soap and water? Not rea l ly,but process and ensu r e that aca demic prio ri ti e s cr ease in patie nt visits of at least 20 percent , ” 5 percent never use public bathrooms oft en they are more conveni en t . dr ive funding deci s i on s . St rauss predi ct s . “Aft er those first two yea rs , Only 2 percent admit they never wash Hand-washing studies show Wil liams leads the Divis i o n of Stu d ent Life, we exp ect growth to level off to 5 to 7 percent their hands after using the toilet. that the ri n s e - f ree saniti zers on as well as the Un ivers i ty ’s legal affairs and per yea r .” But then, who would admit that? the market rely on heavy conc en- the Office of the Boar d of Trus t . He, too, wil l The new main Chi l d r en’s Hospital is ex- trati o ns (abou t 60 percent) of eth yl conti n ue his tea ching and res e a r ch as a pro- pected to open in fall 2003. The fac i l i ty op- al c ohol and are flammable . The y fes s o r of la w. Over the past yea r ,Wil liams di- era tes as a com mu n i ty re s o u rce , with more work by breaking down the cell rected the crea ti o n of a new stu dent affairs than 45 percent of the chi l d r en adm i t t ed to come a buzzword in the soap industry, said wa l ls of germs , causing them to die and fall off i c e as part of the Uni versi ty ’ s rene wal of st u- Chi l d r en’s Hospital covered under Tenn Ca r e A B I P A R T I S A N A F F A I R Keith Hos t etl e r, vic e pres i d ent of Ciba Spe- of f your skin. The saniti zers don’t provi de dent life . He also has stre a m l i n ed the Un i- or out - of - s t a te Med i c a i d . No child is de- c i a l ty Ch em i c a l s’ a n ti - b acterial produ ct s la s t ing prot ection ; onc e the stuf f evap orate s versi ty ’ s stud ent judicial syst em and add re s s e d Former Vice President Al Gore (right) and former Tennessee Governor Lamar Alexander (left) con- ni e d care on the basis of li m i t ed abil i t y to pay. ducted a bipartisan workshop at Vanderbilt last August for more than 100 young Democrats and di vis i on . Swis s - b a s e d Ciba makes Tricl o s a n , fr om your hands, the germ- k i l ling stops . l on gstanding con cerns abo ut Greek life on Republicans from across the country. The “Young People’s Political Leadership Workshop,” held in More than 73 percent of the ch i l d ren cared a bacteria - k i ll e r and growth inhibit or crea t ed Carolyn Poirot and Elizabeth A. Davis ca m p u s . the Wyatt Center, focused on citizenship, political advocacy and grassroots civic involvement. Chan- for in the pedi a t ric acu te care clinic are cov- in 196 5 . Knight Ridder Newspapers cellor Gordon Gee (middle) met with politicians/educators at a reception following the sessions. ered under Tenn Ca re .

8 V A N D E R B I L T M A G A Z I N E SPRING 2002 9 Si d e l i n e s Thr ee Van d erbilt footb a l l players were named to the 2001 SEC All - Freshman te a m : of- SP ORT S fens i ve lineman Jus t in Geis i n g er,li n eb a cker Pat Bru n n er and defen s ive back Loren zo Pa rker. G ei s i n ger played in the first nine is a leader who has the res p ect and affectio n games before gett ing injur ed. Brun n e r was of his players, and who has instill e d a sense of the tea m ’s fifth-leading tackl e r with 59 and winning and exci t eme nt in his program . ” Pa rker was the secon d a ry ’s third - l e ad i n g Joh n s on , who inherits a Van d erbilt foot - ta ckl e r, also with 59. b a ll program that lost nine out of 11 ga m e s Va n derbilt received the 2001 Am eri c a n last season, took a lacklu s t er program at Fur - Foo tb a ll Coaches Ass oc i a ti o n’s Aca demi c man and built it into a Divis i o n I-AA nation a l Awa rd , pres en t ed annua l ly by the Tou c h- powerho u s e . He led the Pal a dins to the NCAA down Club of Memph i s . Van d y shared the pl a yoff s four tim e s , was Sout h e rn Conf erenc e aw a rd with No tre Dame. Both Sch oo l s cha m p i o n or co- ch a m p i o n twice , and nation a l recorded a 100 percent gradua ti o n rat e for cha m p i o n run n e r-up once . In Janu a r y,he was m em bers of the foo tb a ll team wh en all na m e d the AF C A ’s 2001 Divis i o n I-AA Coach mem b ers of the freshman classes of 199 5 - of the Yea r . 96 earne d a degree. It’s Van d erbil t ’s second “I ’ m here to make Van d erbilt footb a l l suc - wi n ,h aving shared the awa r d in 1996 wit h ce s s f u l ,”Jo h n s on said. “The ch a ll en ges are Bos t on Coll e ge and Duke . “Van d erbilt takes grea t , but the opportun i t ies are grea t er.” great prid e in off ering stud ent - a t h l e tes the Amo ng the cha ll en ge s , Joh n s o n listed re- dual opportun i t y of comp eting in a grea t cru i t ing qua l i t y footb a l l players to an aca demi c footb a l l conf erenc e as well as some of th e in s ti t utio n by operat ing under the phi l o s o phy best cla s s r ooms in the nation , ”said forme r that aca demics are an advan t a ge , not a disad- he a d footb a l l coach Woody Wid enh o fer. van t a ge . Johnson tapped to lead Commodore football team C. M . Newton, forme r men’s head basket- He stres s e d the importa n c e of“un i t ing the ba l l coach, was sele cted as chi e f execu tive ■ Bobby Joh n s on , forme r head coach of Fur - proven com m i tm ent to excell en ce , and we Va n derbilt foo tb a ll family ” by being an ac- of f i cer of the World Ba s ketb a ll Ch a m p i- man Uni versi t y, was named head coach of th e wa n t ed some one who would have the exp eri- ces s i b le head coach, being honest with the fans, on s h i p, wh i ch wi ll be held this su m m er Comm o dores footb a l l team on Dec .2 3 ,2 0 0 1 . enc e to put our program on a path towa r d suc - develo ping prid e and gett ing the program in- in Ind i a n a po l i s . He was an assistant coach He is the 25th head coach in the Uni versi ty ’ s ces s . We found that perso n in Bobby Joh n s on . ” vol ved in the commu n i t y. Jillian Danker’s Basketball Odyssey on the 1984 U.S . Olympic gold medal tea m 11 1 - y ear footb a l l history,and suc ceeds Woody Joh n s o n had a winning percent a g e of 62 . 5 A native of Co lu m bi a , S . C , Jo h n s on let- that includ ed forme r Van d erbilt standou t ■ Jil lian “Ji l ly ”D a n ker comes by basketba l l to play the game facing the basket, ”sa ys wome n’s Wid enh o fer, who announced his intent to re- percent (60-36) dur ing his eig ht yea r s as Fur - tered three yea r s at Clem s on . He was a two- Jeff Turn e r. n a tu ra lly. A sen i or guard / forw a rd with the ba s k etba l l coach Jim Fos t er. “I t’s an enti r ely si g n midwa y throu g h the 2001 season. m a n’s head coach . He was recogn i zed three time Atl a n t ic Coast Conf erenc e All- Ac a demi c Comm o dores , she hails from Mas s a chus et t s , di f f erent game than it is with your back to the “I am very pleased we were able to find the times as the Ame rican Footb a l l Coaches As- hon o ree, and gradua t ed in 1973 with a bach- Forme r head footb a l l coach Art Gue pe died birt h p l a ce of ba s k etba ll . Her older sister, Sh ei l a , ba s k et. The n you need a base from whi c h to i deal match for the profile we establ i s h ed at soc i a ti o n (AFCA) Regio n II Coach of the Yea r . el or ’s degree of s c i en ce in managem en t . In last Novemb er.He suf f ered from Alz h ei m er ’ s st a r red at the Uni versi t y of New Ham p s h i r e operate . Her initial instin c ts were to put the the beginning of our search, ”said Todd Turn e r, “I am conf i d ent that we have rea che d for 1979 he earne d a master’ s degree in educ a ti o n di s e a s e . Gue pe led the Comm o dores from and played profes s i on a l ly in Eur ope. ba l l on the floor. She needed to be shot-ori- Van d erbilt director of at h l e tic s . “We wanted a and captu red the best head coach for Va n- f rom Fu rm a n . He is marri ed to the form er 1953 throu g h 1962 and finished with a record “She actua l ly had a lot of in f lu en ce , but I ent ed firs t ,t h en find the opportun i t y to put proven wi n n er. We wanted som eone with a derbil t , ”said Cha n c ello r Gordon Gee said.“H e Cat h e rine Bonn e r of Cha rl e s t on ,S . C . of 39 win s , 54 losses and seven tie s . don’t know how muc h she rea l i z es it,”Jill i a n the ball on the floor. She had to learn to be- Bil l Stewa rt , fou n d er of the Nati o nal Com- sa ys of he r sister. come a bett er shoot er. It’s a long ,ha r d battle.” m odore Clu b, d i ed on April 19 ,2 0 0 1 . He Woody Resigns In high sch oo l , Ji llian played the po s t Dur ing the cou r se of he r meta m o rpho s i s , was a decorat ed veteran of the Korean War po s i ti on wh ere she won two state titles and she suf f ered knee and leg injur ies but perse - ■ Woody Wi den h ofer re s i gn ed as Va n dy ’s gone as I’d hoped .I ’ve come to the con clu- Und er Wid enh o fer’ s tutel a ge ,m ore than and was pres en t ed two Stars and the Pur - sc ored 2,179 career poin t s . But at 6-1,the pos t vered . She led the SEC last season in three - he a d footb a l l coach, eff ective Dec .3 1 .A pop- s i on that significant ch a n ges are needed— ten Comm o dores were draf t ed and are play- ple Hea r t on the Whi t e House lawn by Pres - po s i ti on was hardly an opti on amon gst the point percent a g e (47.8) and scored 19 poin t s ular coach with the fans,players and media, and exp ected—for this program to rea ch the ing professional football. id ent Eis en h o wer. He came to Van d erbil t towering cent ers of the SEC. in Van dy ’ s win over Tenn e s s e e in Knox vi ll e . he had an overal l record of 5-40 in five yea r s level of excellence we all want.” “I f I have one regret—ot h e r than not win - as sports informa ti o n director and fou n d ed “ In high sch ool I shot maybe five three s A commu n i c a ti o n studies major,she isn’t as head coach. “This is a sad day for me person a l ly and ning eno u g h gam e s—I wish the current ad- the Com m odore Club in 19 6 4 . He also my whole career,”she says. “I was a post player, sur e what to do after schoo l , but is wil ling to “Many of you realize this has been a dif- for our athletics program , ” said Ath l e tics Di- mi n i s t rati o n had been in place whe n I started se rved as assistant athletics director on Bil l som e body who cle a n e d up the gla s s . I had to l et the winds of h er sport carry her wh er- ficult season for me,” he said du ring his rector Todd Turn e r.“Woody is as good a col - f ive ye a rs ago.”Wi den h ofer said.“Ch a n cel- Pace’s staff in the early 197 0 s . He was mar- tran s i ti o n to guard or else I wasn’t ever goin g ever they migh t . It’s en o u gh now to dwell res i gn a ti o n announcemen t .“ I ’ m an optim i s t , league and frie nd as I have worked wi t h ,a n d lo r Gee, the Boar d of Trust and Todd Turn e r rie d to June Stewa rt , forme r assistant ath- to play.” on the rug ged SEC sche dule and tou rn a m en t and I thought we were poi s ed for a bre a k- we have all enj o yed our associ a ti o n with him h ave a clear vi s i on that wi ll def i n i tely hel p le tics director at Van d erbil t . “The first thing you have to learn is how pl a y that rema i n . th ro u g h yea r .Unf ortun a t ely, th i n g s have not and his staff.” the next coach.”

10 V A N D E R B I L T M A G A Z I N E SPRING 2002 11 The saying goes that the

worst day as commander

of a nuclear submarine

is better than the best

day behind a desk.

Commander Clarence By Sam Smith Earl Carter, BE’80, knows CHANGE of both sides of command.

PHOTO BY NEIL BRAKE a bo ut this ship. He de s c ri bes it with exc i te- cha r g e of the ship’s $3 milli o n supp l y bud g et Car ter listens , his eyes darting around in- Commander Clarence Earl Carter could have m ent and awe , the same way he talks abo ut and res p ons i b le for finding space for the nearly sp ecting the space for himself . Taking a flash- the responsibility of commanding it. 25,000 supplies onboard—smiles apprecia- l i gh t , he lies down on his back ch ecking the been describing a dream he’d had the night before. “The mome nt whe n that ship pulle d awa y tively at his commander. underside of a set of valves and pipes. f rom the pier for the first ti m e ,” he rem em- The re is rela t ively little military forma l i t y “This ga u ge here ,” he says . “This fitti n g He was standing before a crowd, he explains, bers , “that was a dra m a tic mom en t . Su re , I down here . By Navy reg u l a ti on there’s no has a little oil on it;it’s collecting dust.” was a little scared . You know all your tra i n- s a luting on board , no snapping to atten ti on Res p ons i bi l i t ies are strict l y defi n e d aboar d looking out over a sea of faces. ing bro u ght you there , but you have to be wh en Ca rter en ters a room . Th ere is a dis- the ship, and each crewmem b er is trus t ed to lo oking ahead ,m on i toring everyth i n g . It’s an ti n ct air of mutual re s pect bet ween of f i cers ca r ry them out. But you get the feeli n g ,i fn eed There was his Boy Scout leader from Louisville, awesome responsibility.” and enl i s t ed men. It is some thing Car ter has be , the com m a n der of the ship could step But Ca rter loves a ch a ll en ge ,s om et h i n g s o u ght to cultiva te as a matter of pers on a l in and provid e backup anywh e re onb oard . It Ke n t u c k y , where his parents had moved when the Navy has always provided. conviction as well as necessity. seems to endear Carter to his crew. “Aft er gradua t ing from Van d erbil t , my ini- “As mu ch as these people are relying on “I n some sense I like to aspire to be a ser- he was eight. There were the parents of his best tial requirement was to serve four years,” he m e ,” he says , “a ll of my su ccess depends on vant leader,”he exp l a i n s . “The re’s no que s ti o n sa ys .“ But my perso nal comm i tm e nt was then t h eir abi l i ti e s . Th ere’s no way I can watch abo u t who is in cha r ge ; the syst em builds in- friend growing up. There was his favorite professor from Vanderbilt, ex act ly as it is tod ay: I ’ ll quit wh en they get every person . You have to tea ch them the righ t stant credi bi l i t y whe n you step into this pos i - ti red of me or I get ti red of doing the job. s t a n d a rds and what you ex pect , and tru s t ti on . But you have to en su re that the crew ’s Louis Cohn, with commanding officers from throughout Carter’s service in the Navy To this day neither has happened.” them to handle specifics.” ne eds are met, that they know how muc h they While Ho lly wood may have miscast its Car ter winds his way throu g h more nar- ar e appreci a t ed. The y wil l go so muc h farth e r close by. His parents were there and so was just about every cousin in the family. su bm a rine com m a n ders , it has go t ten the row halls and down steep ladd ers to the ma- in exceeding your ex pect a ti ons wi t h o ut yo u lo ok of a subm a r ine correct. Belo w the dou - chi n e ry room, whe re a zone inspectio n is abou t standing over them and giving them direction . ” His wife of sixteen years, Lea, was there with her family. bl e - hu ll ed ex teri or of the USS S cra n to n a re to begin . Amo ng the many specifics to be han- You just can’t pictur e Gene Hackman say- just the kind of n a rrow passagew ays and dle d onb oar d the Sc ra n to nis the never-en d - ing something like that. “It was like ‘This is Your Life,’” he says with a slight disbelief at his own recollection. here is actually a reason people have ha d to rely on Hol lyw ood to educ a t e hat March day in 1999 was a dream, that Car ter set his sights on becoming a com- Standing aboa rd the USS S cra n to n du r- Tt h em abo ut su bm a ri n e s : the Nav y ’s of so rts ; Car ter had let himsel fi m a g- manding officer. ing that 1999 cerem ony, l ooking out at his not going to do it. Tine this day for a long ti m e , the day L i ke most aspects of the military, t h ere f ri ends and family, Car ter knew those seni o r Wh en airc raft carri ers were dep l oyed to he would take command of a nu clear su b- is an establ i s h ed pro tocol by wh i ch you ad- comm a n d ers had been telling the truth . Thi s the Persian Gu l f in re s ponse to the Septem- marine. And the crowd of well-wishers who van c e to a command pos i ti on , and from 198 2 was worth all the work. ber 11 attack s ,t h ere was great fanfare. Te a ry - had turned out for the change of command until 1999 Carter followed that path to a ‘T.’ eyed farewells were shown on the night l y news, ceremony aboard the USS Scranton was tes- From the Sand La n ce he moved to Su bm a- hen you meet Commander Earl and CNN broadcast from the carrie r decks as tament to the weight of the occasion. rine Group 9 in Bangor, Washington, where Car ter,it becomes clear how muc h planes took flight . The purpose of those eno r- “I t was incredi b ly exci t ing and hum bl i n g he served as flag lieutenant and aide to Rear Wthe popular percepti on of su b- mous ships is to launch attacks , but it is also at the same tim e , ”sa ys Car ter.“Whe n you say, Adm i r al W. E. Ric kman (an exp erien c e Car ter m a rines and su bm a rine com m a n ders is in- a show of force, a meth o d of in ti m i d a ti on . ‘I reli e ve you of your comm a n d , ’ you ’re tran s - holds as the most va lu a ble of his to u rs of forme d throu g h Hol lyw ood. You notic e how While it was never menti on e d on the news, form ed . I had been training for this for 18 duty) . Aft er more trai n i n g , he reported to the he looks nothing like Gene Hackman in Crim - and the Navy would never con f i rm it, t h ere ye a rs , but nothing prep a res you for the ex- USS Q u e en f i s h ,a n o t h er nu clear su b, as en- son Tid e or Sean Conn e ry in The Hunt for Red should be no do u bt that the U. S . su bm a- citement of that moment. gi n eer of f i cer. In 1991 he served as materi a l October,mu ch less Rock Hu d s on in Ice St a- rine fleet—the Si l ent Servi ce as it’s known “I t was a pinnacle of profes s i o nal achi e ve- of f i cer in the U. S . Pacific Fleet Su bm a ri n e tion Zebra . If an yth i n g , his che rub ic face and —was also depl o yed. Or it was there alrea dy. ment for me.” Force. He returned to Bangor in 1994 as ex- light hazel eyes bring to mind Kelsey Gram- “One of our ad m i rals on ce said that 70 Ca rter had grown up bel i eving he’d fo l- ecutive officer of the USS Florida, a ballistic me r in Down Peris cope, but even that’s a stretch. c ra m ped qu a rters one ex pect s , with fre s h - ing cycle of u p keep and “pm ,” preven tive percent of the eart h’s su rf ace is covered in lo w his father into the Air Force and fly planes. submarine,and after training at the Air War His looks and deme a n o r just seem too pleas- f aced young Navy men darting in and out ma i n t ena n ce . From deta i l e d bi- m on t h l y in- subm a ri n e s , ”sa ys Car ter.“Sin c e you don’t re- But dur ing his jun i o r year at Van d erbil t , whi l e Coll e ge at Max w ell Air Force Base in Ala b a m a ant for a subm a r ine comm a n d er — or at least doorw ays . And Ca rter maneuvers thro u gh , sp ectio ns of onb oar d fire exti n g u i s h e rs to the a lly know, you have to assume su bm a ri n e s enro ll e d in the sch oo l ’s Naval Re s erve Offi- took a pos i ti o n within the Joint Staff in Was h - a submarine commander in Hollywood. his head cocked to one side talking, wi t h broader week l y zone inspection s , the Sc ran - ar e there ,e s peci a l ly if you ’re up to no good. ” cer Training Corps , he got a tour of a nucl e a r ington, D.C. But as he strid es aboar d the USS Sc ran to n the su refoo tedness of a man who has spen t ton is cons t a n t l y analyz ed for any degrada ti on . The U. S . su bm a rine fleet tu rn ed 100 in submarine. This journe y took him all over the world , on a sun n y day last October and the sailor on half his life in these underwater ant farms. The machi n e ry room houses a mammoth 20 0 0 , and the Navy held an uncha r acteris t i- “I t amazed me then like it stil l does toda y,” but each step was taken with one goal in mind: wa t ch sounds the bell announcing his arrival “Chi e f Amb ros i n o , I’ m here to ext end my di e s el , and Pett y Officer Abrah a m s o n is stand- ca l ly high- p rofile cele brati on . The bulk of th e he says .“ It’s a techn o l o gical marvel, the most becoming the commander of a nuclear sub- — two bells wh en his foot first to u ches the condolences to the entire New York Yankees ing by to walk Carter through. a t ten ti on du ring the cen tennial was on the com p l ex piece of equ i pm ent man has ever marine. s h i p’s bow, t wo more as he crosses it, and a family,” he says with a laugh as he passes the “We’ve got some dust on the vertical sur - techn o l o gical advan c eme nts in subm a r ine de- built.” “Talk to seni o r comm a n d ers, ”Car ter says, “s ti n ger ” as he steps on the ship’s deck — s h i p’s store keeper ch i ef , whose head is sti ll f aces in the overh e ad ,” Abra h a m s on poi n t s si g n and warfa re . Muc h of that advan c emen t It was dur ing his first tour of duty,in 198 2 “and they tell you there is no tour like yo u r there is no question who is in charge here. h a n ging from the Ya n kee s’ World Series de- out . “The re’s some water and oil coll e cting in has foc u s ed on ste a l t h , on de s i gning su b- ab oar d the nuc lear subm a r ine USS Sand Lan ce , command at sea tour.” Car ter knows everything there is to know feat the night before. Amb ros i n o—who is in the bilge.” ma r ines to dive deeper, to move faster, and to

14 V A N D E R B I L T M A G A Z I N E SPRING 2002 15 Student, alumnus break ice for The Scra n ton’s ru bberl i ke outer coa ti n g who their favorite baseball team is. The man who reli e ved Car ter, Comm a n - historic mission to North Pole ab s o rbs sonar waves , making the ship nearly The re is a unique camaraderie that’s forg ed der Chu ck Mel ch er, has many of the same in vis i bl e . Its own sonar — housed in the ship’s 800 feet belo w the sea — a perk of subm a ri n e feeli n g s his predeces s o r had on the eve of hi s tudying history wasn’t enough for Van d e r - nose cone — is the most modern , s t a te - of - li f e that’s kept retenti o n of sa i l o rs in the sub ascendancy. Sbilt student James Dilg; he wanted to make the-art system currently in use by the Navy. f l eet high er than the Navy avera ge and re- “You go thro u gh a lot of wi ckets to get it. Dilg, a member of the Naval ROTC, was aboard The S cra n to n can attack land or sea tar- cru i tm e nt on a stea dy climb while other bran ch e s h ere ,” he says .“ It’s a on ce - i n - a - l i fetime op- the attack submarine USS S c r a n t o n last June gets, but its “bread and butter,”according to of the military have seen dram a t ic falls . portun i t y. It’s hum b ling and it’s a little daunt- when it became the first submarine of its class Carter, is surveillance and reconnaissance. “We’re very clo s e , ”sa ys Car ter.“Tha t ’s the ing for similar reasons. to surface through the ice at the North Pole. Dilg, a midshipman, participated in a historic The re is very little that Car ter has not en- thing you don’t have on a ship with anywh e re “ Most guys wi ll tell you the worst day in mission in June that tested whether the improv e d jo yed abou t his command at sea.But the high- fr om 500 to 5,000 folks on board . Asi d e from command is bet ter than the best day after Los Angeles-class submarine can puncture the li g hts were his two depl o yme nts as Comm a n d er serving my country, serving with these peo- comm a n d . If I were [Car ter] I think I wou l d thick ice at the North Pole. Commanded by of the su b : a military dep l oym ent to the ple is the thing that to me has made it a re- h ave been relu ctant to tu rn the ship over. I Cl a r ence E. Carter ’80—a five-year manager of Med i terranean and sout hwest Asia du ri n g ally special experience.” couldn’t have blamed him for that.” the Vanderbilt basketball team who graduated the Y2K scare;and a research mission to the For Ca rter ’s wife , Le a , i t’s a tra n s i ti on as with a double-major in civil engineering and math- Arcti c , wh ere the S cra n to n became the firs t a rt of Navy cultu re is the con s t a n t well. The couple has develo ped tric ks to make ematics—the ship surfaced in the rugged white Los Ang ele s - c lass sub to su rf ace throu g h the reloc a ti o n of se rvic emen . No one stays th e ir rela ti o nship work with Car ter at sea for terrain 450 miles north of Greenland. people. “At first I was a little scared; it’s very, very ing the desolate area via submarine, and has fr ozen ocean (another “i m p rovemen t ” is the in one place for lon g ;t h a t’s as true for months on end. Carter would order flowers A senior on a full Navy scholarship, Dilg spent cramped. After a while, you get used to it,” he told been committed to helping scientists safely rea c h P a month on board the S c r a n t o n for his final the Vanderbilt Register via satellite phone soon the region since the early 1900s. In the past, other la ck of di ving planes on the ship’s sail, whi c h com m a n ders as for seamen . While an of f i- before he left port to be del ivered while he session of Navy ROTC. For the past three sum- after the submarine surfaced in the North Pole. submarines loaded with civilian scientists made allows for surfacing through ice.) cer may have worked yea r s to become the com- was gon e . He call ed Lea on her bi rt h d ay mers, he has trained in diffe r ent aspects of naval “B a s i c a l l y , it’s like standing in your own home if their way to the depths of the Arctic. Those sub- The trip was a test of the sub and crew ’s ma n d er of a sub , it ’s not a perma n e nt pos i ti on . one year and told her wh ere she could find service. The experience will help the history major you close the windows off. ” marines have been phased out over the years, re ad i n e s s , but also a fact-finding mission , In fact, it lasts onl y three ye a rs .O n ce that pin- the pres e nt he’d hidden for her in the house. decide what naval career path he’ll take upon Although the S c r a n t o n is not the first sub- leaving scientists without means to conduct ex- ga t h ering scien tific data on oce a n ogra ph i c na cle of profes s i o nal achi e veme nt is rea ch ed , Lea would send with Car ter a stack of le t- gr a d u a t i o n . marine to surface at the North Pole, it is the periments in the region. The improved Los An- and environmental conditions. the comm a n d er has to come back down. And ters dated every two week s , so he’d have some - He requested to be assigned to a submarine first time any of the decade-old Improved Los geles-class submarines will take over where the But it wasn’t all work . The crew played th r ee yea r s after assuming comm a n d , Car ter thing to look forward to at sea. to see if underwater excursions were in his fu- Angeles Class submarines attempted to do so. others left off. footb a l l on the ice. And tip ping a hat to Hol - Ca rter now works from an t u re. Dilg was one of only three midshipmen The submarine was designed with a special For its June mission to the North Pole, the selected for the polar mission. The chances were sail made of hardened steel to force its way throu g h Sc r a n t o n had to pierce ice about four feet thick lyw ood, Car ter pho t ograph e d crewme n stand- off i c e in Norfolk as depu ty com- slim to be chosen, one in 10,000 according to up to six feet of ice. be f o r e surfacing. Air was blown out of the sub- ing around a large “ Z ”t h ey ’d carved in the m a n der for re adiness in Su b- the U.S. Navy. The mission demonstrated the Navy’s ability ma r i n e ’ s ballast tanks, making the ship very buoy- ic e to send to Ernest Borgn i n e , a frie nd of th e m a rine Squ ad ron 6. He’ ll sti ll Dilg spent most of the two weeks it took to to operate anywhere, anytime. It also allows sci- ant. It slowly moved up, using 7,000 tons of pres s u re . sub and a costar in Ice Station Zebra. spend some time at sea, but not reach the North Pole from Norfolk, Va., studying entists a way to conduct important re s e a rch in After surfacing, crew members were able to leave the long stretches he and Lea are the activities of the ship’s cre w. He said he will the isolated region. Scientists around the world the ship and enjoy the scenery before moving sc r eechi n g , kl a x on horn sounds, an d u s ed to. Th ey ’re both loo k i n g take a more active role in future exercises and will use the data collected on this trip for a vari- on to other exercises the following day. over the loudspe a ker a ste ady voi ce forw a rd to more time toget h er, will even try his hand at driving the ship. When ety of purposes, including predicting future cli- “I t ’ s nice to be the first to accomplish anything,” c a lls the alert :“ F l ooding in the en- but they’ re awa r e of the difficult Dilg ret u r ns to Vanderbilt this fall, he will be clas- mate tren d s . Carter said. “[Surfacing at the North Pole] is some- A sified as a battalion executive offi c e r . The only feasible way for scientists to gather thing in particular that this very hardworking crew gine room! Flooding in the engine room!” changes, too. It didn’t take Dilg too long to adjust to living data from the North Pole is from under the sur- has trained for in the past months, and have now S cra n to n c rewm em bers prep a re for an “The tran s i ti o n is going to be underwater and sharing space with 140 other face. The Navy is the only body capable of rea c h - been able to successfully execute.” emergency rise. They remain calm and hold muc h harder on him than on me,” — JESSICA HOWARD on as the control room tips back at a 45-de- sa ys Le a .“ It’s sad. The re are some gree angle and their con trol panels cl i ck of f rea l ly great people here. We’l l stil l the rising depth. The surface alarm rings. st ood for a second cha n g e of command cer- be in the area , so we can remain clo s e , but you st a y down long er, al l wit h o u t detection . into U.S.ships. m ore spec i f i c ) . It is equ i pped with verti c a l - Standing a few feet away, Carter watches emo ny. Except this time some one said to him, ha ve to maintain some distance. ” One hun d r ed and one yea r s ago, the Navy The first nuc lear subm a ri n e , the Nau ti l u s , l a u n ch tu bes for Tom a h awk missiles (that’s the cont rol room activit y in the Norfolk Naval “I reli e ve you of your comm a n d . ” The new off i c e Car ter occupies at Squad r on comm i s s i on e d the Hol land VI , a 53-foot sub - was built in 19 5 5 , and ch a n ged everyt h i n g. the “i m p roved ”p a rt) and carries Mk 48 tor- Base Subm a r ine Training Faci l i t y,a short drive Ca rter knew he’d have to leave the hel m 6 is palatial comp a r ed to his jai l - c ell- s i z e state- m a rine that could dive to 75 feet and move No long er were subm a r ines surf a ce ships that pedoes and mines. from where the real Scrantonis docked. The of the Sc ran to n eventu a l ly,but it does n ’t make room aboar d the Sc ran to n (wh i c h looks pala- at 6 knots. Powered by gas and ele ctric i t y, it s dove whe n neces s a r y; th e y were ships meant Very little is publ i cly known abo ut the sailors complete the exercise and their com- the tran s i ti o n any easier. For the sailors under tial comp a r ed to the enl i s t ed men’s qua r ters) . endu ra n c e was short. As one Naval historia n to live underwater. ship’s nuclear reactor; it is one of the Navy’s mander congratulates them. hi m , it is a tran s i ti o n as well, but more prac- Car ter looks around the room, sur veying the p ut it, “She was small , u n derpowered ,a n d The first Los Ang ele s - c lass subm a r ine was most highl y guarded secr ets . It is known that Car ter is qui c k to point out that the tech- tical than emotional. changes in store. could not operat e in the open sea — but she comm i s s i on e d in 197 6 , and repres en t ed an ad- the re actor, t h eoreti c a lly, a ll ows for the su b no l o gical marvel of the Sc ran to n would be so “I know what his rules are, ”sa ys the Sc ran - “I t’s a little big ger than my stateroom, ”he was the first.” van c e in size ,s peed ,f i repower, and endu ra n ce . to stay underwa t er indefi n i t ely. The onl y lim- much useless metal if it weren’t for the crew ton ’s command master chi e f Bud Padd ock of says, “but a smaller crew.” Techn o l o gy hadn ’t caught up with the fleet The USS Sc ran to n , an “i m p roved” Los Ang e- i ting factor in the Scra n ton’s en du ra n ce ,i n inside who bring it to life. Car ter.“So there’s going to be an adju s tm en t . In his po s i ti on ,h e’ ll have the opportun i t y by WWI, where submarines played a minor le s - c lass sub , was comm i s s i on e d in 199 1 . fa ct, is food. The rea ctor makes fuel; onb oar d The crew of a modern- d a y sub is rela t ively Wha t ’s the new comm a n d er’ s pet peeve? Wha t ’s to get aboa rd the S cra n to n on occ a s i on . He ro l e . The fleet took on gre a ter prom i n en ce The Sc ran to n is 360 feet long , 33 feet wide , de s a l i n a tors purify water; air is produ ced sm a l l comp a r ed with other military divis i on s . he going to look for? The re might be a cha n g e looks forward to that. du ring WWII and saw a tech n o l ogical rev- with a subm er g ed displaceme nt of 6,900 tons . th ro u g h ele ctrol ysi s , whe reby hydr ogen atoms Th ere are abo ut 135 crewm en aboa rd the of pa ce. For me, it ’s a matter of taking a deep “That ship wi ll alw ays be mine,” he says . ol utio n foll o wing the war, whe n German U- It travels at gre a ter than 25 knots and dive s are separated from water molecules,leaving S cra n to n . Ca rter knows them all by name, breath and finding out what the new focus is “ Just as it bel on gs to the com m a n ders wh o boats were seiz ed and their des i g ns incorporat ed deeper than 800 feet (the Navy wi ll be no only oxygen behind. kn o ws their wif e or girl f ri en d ’ s name, kn o ws going to be.” served on it before me.”

16 V A N D E R B I L T M A G A Z I N E SPRING 2002 17 By Gayle Roger s , BA ’ 0 1

a question of justice

The Uni t ed States death row popu l a ti o n is the largest of an y cou n t ry in the world . Sin c e 197 6 , 751 convic ted felo ns have been execu ted. 149 were ele ctro- cu ted, ele ven gas s ed , th r ee ha n g ed, tw o shot, and 586 in j e cted with lethal drugs . Eigh t een were execu ted for cr imes comm i t t ed as juveniles and 34 were ment a l ly reta r ded. Racial disparit ies have influen c ed sen t encing and execu tion s .

Should this be our legacy ?

ILLUSTRATION BY RASHIDA MARIJANI BROWNE, MTS’99

18 V A N D E R B I L T MAGAZINE SPRING 2002 WINTER 2002 19 DALLYING WITH THE INFINITE In 199 7 , Hou s t on attorne y Rich a r d Bur r,BA’7 1 , t h ro u gh the morass of a n ger, gri ef , and loss tal of fen s e s ,i n cluding cut ting down a tree The Battle over the First Electric Chair took part in the most vi s i ble capital trial in that they have ex peri en ced . My most im- and robbing a ra bbit warren , but reform s The electric chair was unveiled in New York in the the Uni t ed States in yea rs . The forme r direc- portant revela ti o n in working on the McV eig h qui ck l y foll o wed and finally gave way to pris - late 1880s as a more humane alternative to hang- tor of the NAA CP Legal Defense and Educ a - ca s e , ”Bur r says, “was that defense lawy ers don’t ons . As profes s o r of la w and history and Mil - ing. At the time, electricity was a technological tio n Fun d ’ s much - l a u d ed Capital Pun i s h m en t ha ve to be adversa r ial to vic tim s . Tha t ’s part ton R. Un derwood Chair in Free Enterpri s e bre a k t h r ough, and New Yo r k ’s two most powerful Proj ect served as co - co u n s el for Ti m o t hy of the legal process that needs reconc i l i a ti on . ” James Ely note s ,“Capital punishment was utility companies, Edison and Westinghouse, were engaged in a bitter duel for a share of the burge o n i n g McV eigh , who was pros ec u ted by the federal From dec ades of i n tense work on de a t h util i z ed heavil y at a time whe n few other meth - home electricity market. Westinghouse originally govern m ent for bom bing the Al f red P.Mu r- pen a l ty cases before and after the Mc Vei gh ods of p u n i s h m ent were ava i l a bl e . Th o u gh had the upper hand with their AC current, which rah building in Oklahoma City. c a s e , Bu rr sees no hope of ju s ti ce in capital comm on p l a ce to us, the develo pme nt of pris - had proven superior to Edison’s DC, yet Edison did Cons i d ered a foremost auth o rit y on dea t h p u n i s h m en t .“ If we think that onl y the most ons as large-scale instit utio ns to confine crim - not acquiesce. He began a smear campaign to AG A I N S T : pena l t y defense in Ame r- des e rving people get it, inals is of rel a tively recent ori gi n .” Before convince the public that We s t i n g h o u s e ’s AC cur- ica and veteran of over that it’s a fair proce s s , pris on s ,p u n i s h m e nts were eit h e r capital, cor- rent was unsafe. Hiring scientists to travel around “An execution is not simply one hu n d red capital that it re a lly is a rel i- poral, or monetary, with a variation on cap- and give public demonstrations of the dangers of ca s e s , Bur r beli e ves that ab le proces s , we’re fool - ital punishment being ex i l e . Corpora l AC current by electrocuting dogs, cats, and horses, Edison stirred doubts about death. It is just as different the citiz ens and the gov- ing ourse lve s .L i ke any p u n i s h m ent gen era lly inclu ded wh i pp i n g, We s t i n g h o u s e ’s safety. Later, it was learned that Edison had helped develop the chair and ensured that AC current was used to power it. The final victory for Edison from the privation of life as ern m ent of the Un i ted o t h er sys tem that we bran d i n g , fa cial disfigurati on , or cropping of S t a tes are con ti nu a lly as humans opera te ,i t’s the ears or nose, while mon et a ry fines cou l d came when the state of New York announced that its first execution by electric chair enga g ed in a cycle of vi- very flawed .” He says of ten be ruinous and leave criminals de s ti- in 1890 would be powered by a Westinghouse AC generator, despite appeals by a concentration camp is Westinghouse. o l en ce wh i ch capital that inef fective co u n- tute .“ Lon g - term impri s on m en t ,” E ly says , PHOTO: U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, NATIONAL PARK SERVICE, EDISON NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE from prison. For there to be p u n i s h m ent on ly per- s el , i n adequ a te com- “was not an optio n before the early nineteent h an equivalency, the death petuates. To the oft-re- pen s a ti on for publ i c centu r y since jails were used on ly to det a i n se a r ch for more “hum a n e ”suc ces s o rs to hang- The salient que s ti o n now facing the Uni t ed pe a ted maxim that “ If defen ders , and rac i a l criminals while they awaited sentencing.” i n g, the el ectric ch a i r, the gas ch a m ber, a n d St a te s , as Ely sees it, is less abou t what is hu- penalty would have to punish an ybody des e rves to die, bias plague the tri a l As the Ame rican col o nies began formi n g lethal injections were introduced. mane or abo ut racial bias than abo ut “a p- Tim o t h y McV eig h does , ” process, but most sig- in the New Worl d , h owever, t h ey adopted a S t a ti s tics speak vo lumes abo ut ideo l ogy propri a te” p u n i s h m en t . “I don’t think the a criminal who had warned Bur r replies simply that “no body des e rves to n i f i c a n t ly, we are overs tepping our bo u n d s less stri n gent sys tem of capital punishmen t in the Un i ted State s . In 1930 the U. S . gov- pu bl i c , gene ral ly spea k i n g , has muc h symp a - his victim of the date at die.”He welcomed the challenge to preserve as hu m a n s .“We ought not be dallying wi t h than the Brit ish and emp l o yed pris o ns more ern m ent began keeping official stati s tics on th y with perso ns who commit crim e s . We’re McVeigh’s life. the infinite using finite resources,” he says. broadly. El y notes that “the Pur itans res e rved exec ution s , and from then until 19 6 7 ,3 , 8 5 9 qui t e wil ling to have them punished— t h a t ’s which he would inflict a Put ting Mc Vei gh to de a t h , Bu rr says , i l- capital punishment more for serious crim e s , persons were executed under civil (nonmil- why our pris o ns are oft en suc h dum p s . And AS LONG AS horrible death on him and lu s tra tes the ef fect of the cycles of vi o l en ce su ch as mu rder, while abolishing exec u- i t a ry) ju ri s d i cti on in the U. S . The stati s ti c s most people feel fairly conf i d ent that person s that he aims to end . He argues that McV eig h THERE HAVE BEEN LAWS ti ons for thef t .” Abo l i ti onist movem ents in fr om this era refl e ct the prejud i c es of the tim e s : found guilty of mur der are actua l ly guilty.But who, from that moment was cri ti c a lly affected by “the vi o l en ce that As long as there have been laws ,t h ere has been Eu rope in the wri ti n gs of su ch hu m a n i s t fi f ty - f our percent of those execu ted were bla ck the qu e s ti on is, what is the appropria t e sanc- the govern m ent carri ed out in a public and capital punishment. Its existence dates back t h i n kers as Monte s qu i e u and Vo l t a i re com- and forty - f ive percent were wh i te , and sixty tio n? The re is cle a r ly some ambival en c e here. ” onward, had confined him broad way with its attacks on citiz ens at Rub y at least to the Code of Ham mu ra bi , an eig h- bi n ed with the doc- percent of al l execu tion s at his mercy for months.” Rid g e and Waco, for whi c h many people felt teent h - c entu r y b.c . e . text held by scho l a r s to trines of n onvi o l en ce took place in the Sout h , INSIDE THE COURTS tremen do u s l y angry and wanted some retri- be among the first exi s t ing sets of la ws .L a ter, in Quaker ideology to with Georg ia having the The path by whi c h we arrived at our current —Albert Camus,Algerian-French author buti on .” While Mc Vei gh’s brand of retri bu- the Mosaic Laws of the Hebrew Bi ble out- st ir the first movemen t s h i ghest to t a l . Wh i l e practic e of capital punishment does not sat- and philosopher ti on was unqu e s ti on a bly wron g,Bu rr doe s l i n ed capital of fenses including practi c i n g ag ainst capital punish- most exec uti ons were isfy some that it is a fair and defens i b le form not see his execu tio n as having solved the un- m a gi c , c u rsing on e’s paren t s ,i n ce s t ,h om o- m ent in the Un i ted for mur der,455 (twelve of pu n i s h m en t . Henr y Mar tin , BA’ 7 1 ,J D’ 7 4 , derlying probl em s . He says that “ i f our goa l s ex u a l i ty, and kidnapp i n g. The infamous S t a tes after the Revo- percent) were for rape , federal public defend er for Mid d le Tenn e s s ee , as a nation is to try to understand why we’re D raco of At h ens made death the sole pun- lution a r y War . Pris on s of wh i ch an over- sa ys that after sixteen yea r s in his current of- vi o l ent tow a rd one another and help each is h m e nt for all crim e s ; Rome foll o wed suit to became an increa s i n g ly wh elming ninety per- fi ce , “the lessons I’ve learne d in capital defens e o t h er tra n s cend it as best we can, the de a t h s ome degree ,u su a lly drown i n g, be a ting to via b le alterna t ive to cap- cent of those put to rein f orced the opi n i o ns I had alrea dy begu n penalty is absolutely at odds with that.” dea t h , bur ning alive ,i m p a l i n g, or most infa- ital punishmen t , a n d death were bl ack . to develo p in criminal defen s e :[ t h ere exists a] Dealing with capital cases for ye a rs has mously, crucifying offenders. corporal punishmen t Mo u n ting social pre s- l ack of f a i rness and all oc a ti on of re s o u rce s weigh e d heavil y on Burr ’ s cons c i en ce , but the Wh en the Normans invaded England in fell into disfavor. E ly su res led to a nation a l in the criminal ju s ti ce sys tem , a con ti nu ed Mc Vei gh case was disti n ct ly life - a l teri n g. In the ele venth centu r y,Wil liam the Conqu e ror sa ys that “i n c re a s i n g ly, mo rat orium on execu - pres en c e of raci s m , and discrim i n a ti o n agai n s t his practice , Bur r says that the case “opene d b a n n ed the com m on practi ce of h a n gi n g capital punishment in the nineteenth cen- tio ns in 1967 that lasted until 197 7 . Sin c e then, poor peop l e .”Ma rtin de s c ri bes his gre a te s t me up to vic tims in a way that I had never ex- a m ong Bri t s ,t h o u gh Hen ry VIII rei n s t a ted tu ry was re s erved for mu rder, and in som e annual executions have slowly climbed each profes s i o nal strug gle as watching a cli en t , Robert peri en ced before .” He now bel i eves defen s e execu tio ns on a massive scale for crimes ran g - juri s d i c tion s , for rape . ”Han g ing was the norm, yea r , with the late 1990s marking a statis ti c a l Gl e n Coe, become the first perso n execu ted in l aw yers have a re s pon s i bi l i ty to “defend our ing from marrying a Jewish perso n to failing and public execu tio ns were qui t e popular for w a ters h ed . In 2001, t h i rty - ei ght states had Tenn e s s e e in forty yea r s in April 2000. cl i ents in ways that don’t re - tra u m a ti ze the to confess to a crime. In eighteenth-century a ti m e .L a ter, as states began to cent ral i z e ex- the death penalty, while twelve and the Dis- Mar tin sees num e rous misconc eptio ns in vi cti m s , and help su rvivors find their way E n gl a n d , 222 crimes were on record as capi- ec uti on s ,u su a lly at the state pri s on , and to trict of Columbia did not. the publi c ’s ideas of capital punishmen t :“ Peo-

20 V A N D E R B I L T M A G A Z I N E SPRING 2002 21 ple bel i eve that on ly the worst of the wors t gets the death pena l t y and what does n ’t, I have so ever of the guilt of the pers on .O n ce we are a ‘t hu m bnail sketch’ of who the vi ctim was icy dispute s , both the reten ti onists and the ar e pros ec u ted capitally or sent enc ed to dea t h , a difficult time understanding how anyon e certain of the crim i n a l ’ s guilt, we weig h fac- and the em o ti onal and financial du ress on abo l i ti o nists can off er serious cons i d erati on s that people in capital cases are getting good could say that the death pena l t y is appropri- tors suc h as prio r record, who the vic tims were, the family since the mur der. Every time I get for their pos i ti on s . But at the same tim e , bot h repre s en t a ti on , and that everything that a te , or cert a i n ly that it is appropri a tely ad- and any mitiga t ing informa ti on — b a ckg rou n d , involved on the trial level, seeing the release rely on con f u s i ons and false or du bious as- can be done is being don e .” Not so, he says . mi n i s t ered. ”Int erna ti o nal crit icism certa i n l y age ,m e ntal cond i ti o n—in determining whet h e r it gives to vic tim s ’ families to be on the stand sumptions.” “Sin c e the stakes are so high, errors are more has been lodg ed against the Uni t ed States for or not to seek the death pena l t y.” for two minutes talking abou t the vic tim and Tlumak sees a clash of genuine,indivisi- l i kely because of the intense em o ti ons in- its appl i c a ti o n of the death pena l t y.The Uni t ed Jo h n s on firm ly bel i eves that, in his ju- the effect that it’s had on them satisfies me.” ble val ues taking place in the deb a te ,i n clud - vol ved. It’s more likely that cops wil l lie, pros - Na ti ons ousted the U. S .f rom the Hu m a n ris d i c tio n at least,in d i vid uals facing the dea t h At least in the legal re a l m , t h ere are no ing freedom , ju s ti ce , and well - bei n g.Th e s e ecu tors wil l wit h h o l d ,m i s s t a te , or manuf a ctur e Rights Committee and the European Union pen a l ty do have adequ a te repre s en t a ti on by cle a r- c u t solutio ns to the persi s t ent que s ti on s . values must be ranked to decide who wins a evi den ce , or appell a te ju d ges wi ll overl oo k has repe a tedly sco l ded Wa s h i n g ton . Abo l i- qu a l i f i ed attorn eys and access to mon ey to Susan Kay,clinical profes s o r at Van d erbilt Law pa r ticular deba te . Arg u m e nts over val ues are F O R : obvious errors and make the wrong dec i- tio nist groups rank the U. S .a l on gs i de Chi n a , in ves ti ga t e the case and S ch ool whose co u rs e gen era lly heated and difficult to set t l e , but si on s . ”He also notes that “almost wit h o u t ex- Ira n , Ira q , the Dem oc ra tic Rep u blic of t h e pre s ent their defen s e . “Po s t - c onvic tio n Crim - Tl umak off ers a logical way of lo oking at the “If we execute murderers cepti on , wh en ju rors are told after the fact Con go, and Saudi Ara bia in our practi ce s . Sti ll , deciding whet h e r inal Procedur e”in c lude s is su e . A fundamental que s ti o n must be asked: ei t h er what a pro s ec utor had su ppre s s ed or Looking forwa rd , Thom p s o n says ,“ Even the or not to seek the dea t h covera ge of a ppe a l s , Is capital punishment a ju s ti f i a ble form of and there is in fact no what a shodd y lawy er failed to inves ti ga t e and most ardent death pen a l ty advoc a tes wi t h pen a l ty is som et h i n g ha b eas corpu s , and the p u n i s h m ent? If s o, u n der what con d i ti on s ? present,they change their minds about vot- wh om I’ve discussed this issu e , wh en asked he calls “ wi t h o ut a death pen a l ty, en c a p- And after all considerations,is it something deterrent effect, we have ing for death.” to envi s i on our co u n try one hu n d red ye a rs dou bt , the hardest task sul a t es the legal issue s soc i e ty wan t s to do? “The re’s more to moral - killed a bunch of murderers. Sab in Th om p s on ,J D’ 7 9 , a seni o r partne r from now, say that the death penalty has no prosecutors face.” well: “The death pena l t y it y than righ t s , ” Tl umak reminds us,“so even at Wil liams & Prochaska in Nas h vi ll e ,a grees future. Why, then,is it permissible now?” Assistant distric t at- in vol ves intric a t e con- i fk i lling the criminal gives him his just des e rts , If we fail to execute with Ma rti n’s esti m a ti on of c riminals and The exp erien c es of Bur r,Mar tin , and Thom p - torne y Kat h y Moran t e sti t utio nal theories and it doesn’t mean we should do it.” murderers, and doing so trial proceed i n gs . O n ly becoming invo lved so n are comp elling and thought - p rovok i n g , echoes Johnson’s sen- comp l e x legal analysi s , Tl umak notes that most people share sev- in a capital case at the request of a frie nd mid- but at the same time repres e nt onl y one side tim en t s . Exp erien c e has but it also has a signi f - eral assu m pti ons abo ut payb ack in propor- would in fact have deterred wa y throu g h his profes s i o nal career, Thom p - of the legal issue . From the pros ec u tio n’s side, sh a p ed Moran t e’s vie ws icant public policy com- tion : “tortur ers shouldn’t be tortur ed, rap i s t s son worked with Brad MacLean,JD’81,and Va n derbilt alumni including Vi ctor Jo h n- m ore than data, s h e pone nt—and for many s h o u l d n’t be ra ped , and assaulters should- other murders, we have Sue Pal m e r, JD’ 9 0 , on a capital case in Nas h vill e . s on ,J D’ 7 4 , and Ka t hy Mora n te ,J D’ 8 1 ,h o l d s ays : “I was oppo s ed to capital punishmen t peop l e , a rel i gious dimen s i on . It’s hardly an n’t be bea t en silly.”Not onl y do these action s allowed the killing of a “I felt a sense of duty,” he rec a ll s , “that it promi n e nt pos i ti o ns as attorne ys of the peo- dur ing my educ a ti o n until I started handli n g es o t eric legal issue ; rat h e r, people in the com- se em inhu m a n e ,t h ey would also fail to brin g was one of the causes for wh i ch I should ple in Nas h vill e . The y see the same proceed- some criminal cases. The work I’ve done on mun i t y bring to the table their own moral i t y, a bo ut the de s i red con s equ en ces—a ra p i s t bunch of innocent victims. use my tra i n i n g.” i n gs and the same beha l f of the state in serious mur der cases has eth i c s , and beli e fs whe n discussing it.” who was ra ped as punishment would likely Th om p s on says that in d i vid uals from a dif- made me feel more comfortable in working Kay attri butes the current re su rf acing of I would much rather risk “the stress factor was ferent pers pective on capital cases. I can hone s t l y say that, even the capital punishment deba t e to the issue of the former. This, to me, is en orm o u s . I stayed equ a lly inform ed by a f ter intense revi ew, in every case I’ve seen p ut ting innocent people to de a t h — perh a p s Northwestern aw a ke at night wor- edu c a ti on ,s t a ti s ti c s , the death pen a l ty was the appropri a te sen- an inevit a b le part of the syst em .“ Peopl e ’s at- University’s Study not a tough call.” rying that some one ’s and rea l i t y. tence under the law.” tenti o n has been focu s e d on the death pena l t y N o r t h w e s t e rn University held the Na- tional Conference on Wrongful Con- — John McAdams,Marquette University l i fe depen ded on As the distric t at- Like Johnson, Morante notes that popu- largely due to Northwestern University’s re- wh et h er I was su c- torne y gene ral for met- lar op i n i on favors capital punishmen t ,a n d se a r ch abou t the num b er of in n o cent peopl e victions and the Death Penalty in Department of Political Science, ces s f u l . It might have ropolitan Na s hvi ll e she sees hersel f as an advoca t e and repres e n- on death row,”she says ,“ wh i ch conc erns even November 1998, which discussed the qtd.on www.prodeathpenalty.com been easier if he had and David s o n Cou n t y, t a tive of the peop l e . “I bel i eve the state has those who favor the death pen a l ty. We have findings of a joint project between the schools of law and journalism on cap- been the most hein o u s Vic tor Joh n s o n makes a legi ti m a te moral ri ght to seek the de a t h no re a s on to think Ill i n ois is different from ital cases. Researchers found alarm- mu rderer I co u l d the final dec i s i on on penalty,” she says. Her most important con- ot h e r states , so this poses a serious problem . ” ing rates of innocence on death ro w i m a gi n e , but on ce I whet h e r the state wil l trib utio n to the field has been in the vic tim s ’ due to a number of inmates having been got to know the de- se ek the death pena l t y ri ghts movem en t . A previ o u s ly overl oo ked THE MORAL QUESTION exonerated by DNA evidence, and later fendant and the cir- in mur der cases.Fi rs t as p ect of ma n y capital tria l s , Moran t e asserts , Any menti o n of what is “ap propria t e”or “fa i r ” invited back freed prisoners for a spe- cu m s t a n ce s , I though t ,‘ Maybe this isn’t even becoming invol ved after comp l e ting law schoo l , was the tes ti m o ny of the vic tim s ’ sur vivors— im m ed i a t ely leads to que s ti o ns of eth i c s . The cial follow-up conference. The evi- the one?’” he has served in the local distric t attorney ’ s of- mothers,fathers, husbands, wives, children. que s ti o n of jus ti c e has preoccu p i e d phi l o s o - dence presented in the study and Th om p s on bel i eves the dissem i n a ti on fi c e for more than twent y yea rs . Joh n s o n poin t s She argued su cce s s f u lly before the Un i ted ph ers since Plato’s Repu bl i c and con ti nu e s co n f e r ence was so compelling that Gov- of i n form a ti on abo ut our practi ce of c a p i- to the stric t requi r eme nts that a case must meet S t a tes Su preme Co u rt the case of Payne v. tod ay in the social and po l i tical wri ti n gs of e rnor George Ryan called for a mora- tal punishment wi ll even tu a lly bring abo ut in Tenn e s s e e even to be cons i d ered dea t h - el i - Tennessee, in which the court ruled that vic- abo l i ti o nist Hug o Beda u , retenti o nist Erne s t torium on executions in the state, fearing its end.“When you show the public that the gibl e : “The death pena l t y can onl y be sought tim impact tes ti m o ny is adm i s s i b le in the sen- van den Ha a g, and con s equ en tialist Peter that innocent people could be wrong- Un i ted State s’ w ay of i m posing the de a t h in first - d egree mur der cases in Tenn e s s e e in tencing phase of a capital case. Si n ger, to name a few. As s oc i a te Profe s s or fully put to death. However, a more re- cent study has cast doubts on the pena l t y is shared with natio ns we would oth- wh i ch there is at least one statutory aggra- Mora n te is proud of this vi ctory. “ It was of Ph i l o s o phy Jeff r ey Tlumak frames the de- accuracy of Northwestern ’s original erwise cons i d er ‘rogue nation s , ’ or whe n you vat ing factor. Next , we cons i d er the streng t h the ri ght dec i s i on ,” she says .“ In Ten n e s s ee , bate philosophically: project, says Kathy Morante. i n form the public abo ut what kind of c a s e of the case;th e re cannot be any que s ti o n wha t - lo ved ones of the vic tim are permi t t ed to give “As in most fundamental,persistent pol-

22 V A N D E R B I L T M A G A Z I N E SPRING 2002 23 rap e another pers on ,t hus remaining a men- Gradua t e Scho ol of Man a g emen t . His res e a r ch tio n eff ect”on soci e ty from execu tion s — t h a t cha n g es in the social envir onm e nt that occu r ish bl ack people more qu i ck ly than wh i te s . ace to soci e ty.If ma n y people who favor cap- on the actual costs of cr ime to a soci e ty and is , an increase in certain kinds of mur der as- over time to affect crim e . ” Amo ng whi te s , on the other hand, the notio n ital punishment do not favor l ex talionisi n his ex a m i n a ti on of recent studies with rel i- soc i a t ed with increa s e d execu tion s . Jens e n has Data from pol ls play an indisputa b le rol e of a threa t ening bla ck male is deepl y emb ed- le s s e r cases,th e n the que s ti o n becomes whet h e r ab le data sug gest that “the death pena l t y does done significant res e a r ch on crime rat es over in any legis l a t ive process toda y, and Ass oc i a t e ded ,e s peci a l ly in the Sout h . ”While suc h cla i m s murder is a case worthy of exception. in d eed deter crim e—e s p eci a l ly homi c i de . We the past centu r y and on juvenile deli n qu en c y , Profe s s or of Po l i tical Scien ce Ri ch a rd Pri de ad m i t tedly gen era l i ze the data, capital pun- T lumak explains the need to be even - would exp ect it to have the grea t est eff ect on a parti c u l a rly rel evant topic as our co u n try keeps a finger on the pulse of Na s hvi ll i a n s is h m e nt does appeal to the coll e ctive psyche s ha n d ed phi l o s o phe rs whe n we approach the mur ders that take place in the comm i s s i o n of pond ers the que s ti o n of execu ting perso ns who th ro u g h a cou r se he has taught oft en over the of Ame rican groups in different ways. A per- i s su e : “The familiar deb a tes repre s ent argu- an o t h e r crime (e.g., robbery ) ,s i n ce crimes of comm i t t ed crimes before the age of eigh t een. past fifteen yea rs , “Cam p a i g ns and Electoral so n’s vie ws on pol i t ical topi c s , Prid e note s ,a re ments that are unfair to the other side.Peo- ‘pa s s i o n’ar e less sens i t ive to sanction s . ”A bank In looking at a ra n ge of data on deterrence , Beh avi or.”In the cl a s s , Pri de’s stu dents su r- of ten driven by how cl o s ely the stories they AG A I N S T : ple are of ten bet ter at purporting their own robber or street mu gger might think twi ce Jens e n says that “cons i d ering all the res e a r ch, vey approx i m a tely 500 Na s hvi lle citi zens by hear from pol i t icians or from the media “fi t cases than crit icizing the others, whe n in fact a bo ut shoo ting his vi ctim if the pen a l ty is the safest con clu s i on is that there is no evi- tele phon e , asking their opi n i o ns on issues suc h with the underlying met a n a rra tives of peo- “I shall ask for the abolition th e y should hold their own vie ws to the same dea t h , Coh e n asserts ,t h o u g h barroom brawle rs denc e of a significant deterrent impact of ca p - as income tax, t h e p l e’s live s — with wh a t ri gorous logi c .” Most issues of s ocial ju s ti ce would not likely heed su ch con s i dera ti on s . ital punishment as we use it tod ay. Th a t , of sch o ol syst em, and the the ord i n a ry citi zen of the punishment of death can be cha n g ed or undone , but this one is ut- On the other hand, debunking a popular as- co u rs e , could ch a n ge in ei t h er directi on if death pen a l ty. Pri de mi g ht alrea dy know.” terly irreversible. sum p tion , Coh e n says that “given our current we altered our practice s . ” Jens e n agrees wit h found that sup port for Claims of i n ju s ti ce until I have the infallibility l egal standard s , it is actu a lly ch e a per to put Coh e n that the costs of execu tio n are highe r capital punishmen t , a re serious con s i dera- of human judgment demon- UNIVERSITY RESEARCHERS s om eone aw ay for life than to put them to than the costs of l i fe impri s on m en t .“ Doi n g whi c h gene ral ly hovers ti ons for our nati on’s AND PUBLIC POLICY dea t h . I have seen figures as high as $11 mil- awa y with capital punishment would not in- betw een sixty and eigh t y cou rt s . Bruc e Bar ry, as - strated to me.” While most univers i ties strive for po l i ti c a l l i on for a death pen a l ty case in Ca l i forn i a . cr ease the costs of correctio ns in Ame ric a , ”he percent ,i n c re a s e d whe n soc i a t e profes s o r of or- n eutra l i ty, t h eir re s e a rch draws atten ti on Forty yea r s in jail proba b ly costs the state less no te s , “and given that there’s no evid enc e of no execu tio ns were im- gan i z a ti o n studies at the — Marquis de Lafayette, France,1830, whi c h shifts the publi c ’s ideas of th e m in one than one milli o n doll a rs . ” deterrent eff ect, it might be linked to some sav- m i n ent in Ten n e s s ee Owen Gradua t e Schoo l following the French Revolution d i recti on or the other, as we know from the In a sepa ra t e res e a r ch proje ct ,A . B.Lea rn e d in g s in the criminal jus ti c e syst em. ” and waned as the rea l - of Man a g emen t ,s e es is- Vietnam era. Faculty at Vanderbilt and uni- Profes s o r of Li ving State Physics John P.Wik s w o Suc h cons i d era ti ons may be irrele vant in i ty of an exec uti on in sues of jus ti c e and per- vers i ties ac ross the co u n try have the ben ef i t s tu d i ed the phys i o l ogical ef fects of el ectro- ma n y peopl e ’s minds, th o u gh . Sett ing a pric e the state drew near in cepti ons of f a i rn e s s of res e a r ching capital punishment obje ctively cu tio n and subm i t t ed affidavits for six capi- on safety or on some one ’s life is a problem a ti c recent yea rs . He beli e ves ent wi n e d in the current without being driven by ideologies. There is tal cases based on his findings. Having revie wed ta s k . The soci o l o gical issues underlying these that it takes suc h “cri t ical event s ”to sway pub- deb a te abo ut capital punishmen t . Ba rry re- no con s en sus amon g de s c ri pti ons of phys i- que s ti o ns may help us frame our underst a n d i n g lic senti m e nt signi f i c a n t l y. se a r ches what he calls “the social psycho l o gy f ac u l ty re s e a rch ers or o l ogical trauma from of capital punishmen t ,h owever. Jens e n says While the tid e of pu b lic opi n i o n is cruc i a l of processes in or ga n i z a ti on s ,i n cluding con- th e orists on capital pun- l i gh tn i n g, acc i den t a l that “most soci o l o gists stud ying capital pun- in determining the death pen a l ty ’s lega l i ty, fl i c t negoti a ti on , in terms of power, in f lu en ce , i s h m ent—in fact ,d i f- ele ctrocu tion , and ele c- is h m e nt vie w it as some thing not sup ported the issue is not so simple as public op i n i on and ju s ti ce .” He bel i eves that “ ju s ti ce in or- ferent studies have troconvul s i ve therap y, for its deterrent ef fect , but part ly out of t h e d i ct a te s . Pri de’s su rvey also yi elds insigh t s ga n i z a ti ons means procedur al jus ti ce , whi c h produ ced con f l i cti n g Wik s w o conc lud es that fear that some groups have of ot h e r groups in abo u t specific groups in the commu n i t y.“U pon requi r es examining the fairness of procedure s re su l t s . While su ch a exec uti on by el ectro- s oc i ety.”This group con f l i ct model implies an a l ysi s , ”he state s ,“ we see that men are more us e d to adju d i c a t e conf l i ct s . ”Fai rn e s s , Bar ry sc ena r io may seem de- c uti on is “ex trem ely that those people who cont rol the judicial sys- l i kely to favor exec uti on than women , o l der con ten d s , is not an obj ective qu a l i ty meas- st ruc tive, it actua l ly rep- painful and does not tem are the least likely to be exec uted , wh i l e people are more likely than you n g er peopl e , u ra ble by any universal standard s ; ra t h er, i t re s ents the ac adem i c i n du ce instantaneo u s those who least res em b le them are most likely. and that whi t es are more likely than bla cks . ” is a su bj ective percepti on of the functi on of s ys tem working at its a n e s t h e s i a ,a n a l ge s i a , “Soci o l o gists may look at capital punishment , ” Why is this so? Prid e sees cultur al ideol o gie s a proce s s . The fairness of ad ju d i c a tive pro- Soc ra tic be s t . If u n i- or uncon s c i o u s n e s s .” Jens e n notes , “in terms of the fea r s and con- as the driving forces behind these op i n i on s . cedu res in capital cases in Am erica has be- versi t y res e a r ch begin s Death by ele ctrocu tio n fl i c ts among raci a l , econom i c , reli g ious grou p s For exa m p l e , in segme nts of the bla ck com- come “a corne rst one issue in the deba t e abou t to tilt in one direction , is not instantaneous ei- in Ame rican soci e ty.”He also says that the var i- mun i t y, Prid e notes a “fu n d a m e ntal idea that capital punishmen t , rep l acing some of t h e Profes s o r of Soci o l o gy Gary Jens e n says, voice s th e r and “comes by suf f oca ti o n due to paral - a ti ons in exec uti ons among different state s the state is a racist instit utio n that wil l pun- a r g u m ents abo ut mora l i ty at times and fo- fr om the other side wil l speak up:“I f res e a r ch ysis of the res p i ra t ory mus c les and res p i ra t ory ma y refl e ct these fe a rs ,e s peci a l ly those root ed su pporting liberal con clu s i ons tends to be ar res t , and by thermal heating of the brai n . ” in race . “The data show that the gre a ter the For Further Study dominant, you’ll find a whole range of con- He adds that the minimum vo l t a ge ,c u rrent , bla ck popu l a ti o n of a state, ”Jens e n says, “th e • Death Penalty Cases: Leading U.S. Supreme Court Cases on Capital Punishment by servative researchers making a career out of and du ra ti on needed to exec ute an indivi d- mo re likely it is that a state wil l use the dea t h Barry Latzer—landmark rulings which shaped capital punishment’s legality c ri ti quing them .” By open ly ex p l oring and ual wil l var y sub s t a n ti a l ly from perso n to per- pena l t y.Texa s , a very diverse state, has a treme n- • The Death Penalty by Louis P. Pojman, Jeffrey Reiman—two prominent philosophers excha n g ing ide a s ,u n iversi t y res e a r che rs brin g son . Wik s w o’s work raises the que s ti o n of wha t dous num b er of racial and ethnic groups sus - go head-to-head, arguing and then rebutting one another balance to the public debate. is “cru e l and unusu a l , ”a phr ase whi c h has been picious and afraid of one another, wh i ch • The Death Penalty in America: Current Controversies by Hugo Adam Bedau (Editor)— Van d erbilt facu l t y who have condu c ted re- in c re a s i n g ly appl i e d to ele ctrocu tio ns as they cont rib utes to its using the death pena l t y most a volume of essays on hotly-debated topics se a r ch on issues directl y linked to capital pun- become less freque nt in Ame ric a . oft en. ”Jens e n conc lud es that “soc i o l o gists have • University of Alaska at Anchorage’s Justice Center information center: is h m e nt includ e Mar k Coh en ,a s s oc i a t e profes s o r From a soci o l o gical standpoin t , Jens e n says alw a ys presu m e d that most things we can do www.uaa.alaska.edu/just/death of econo mics and strat egy at Van d erbil t ’s Owen that some theorists argue for a “brut a l i z a- a bo ut crime are less con s equ en tial than the

24 V A N D E R B I L T M A G A Z I N E SPRING 2002 25 cusing on the traves t ies of jus ti ce , ”Bar ry says. Go d as a command must be good. But wha t He sees the new conc erns abou t capital pun- if it tur ns out that God isn’t absolutely just and ishment as “questions of procedural justice: good? The theol o gical proble m is how to bal- Are Civil Libertie s Do the parties invol ved perceive that the pro- an c e our notio n of di vine command with God’ s cedu res are fair? Is the appeals process fair? jus ti c e and the taking of a life. ”That is,sh o u l d Are defendants fairly repres en t ed, jur ies fairly s oc i ety exercise mercy as a moral po s i ti on , s el ected , and do ju ries act appropri a tely ? ” or is the command to take another’ s life more Six weeks after the Septemb er 11 terrorist attacks , Ba rry ’s re s e a rch inve s ti ga tes these qu e s- powerful? And while bib lical stories are fram e d At Ris k ? F O R : ti ons in pon dering “ wh et h er the indivi du- ar ound a theol o gical notio n of retrib ution — Cong ress passed Att orne y Gene ral John Ash c r oft ’s als invo lved , rega rdless of the outcome or that is, the assum p tio n that God’ s divine law R ecorded on Novem ber 30, 2 0 01 an ti - t errorism bill . Rena m e d the USA Pat riot Act, “Most of us continue to of statistics, perceive the procedures as hav- is the onl y law—the que s ti o n toda y conc erns ing been fair.” the state’s form of retrib ution , not God’s . Lyn n e : A flurry of rec ent legis l a t ion resu l t ed in believe that those who show Capital punishment has been practic ed in the USA Pat rio t Act. Can you help us under- the legis l a ti o n caused a flur ry of comm e nt among RELIGION AND Chri s t ian and Islamic states for centu r ies throu g h stand the Act’s defi n i t ion of terro ri s m ? utter contempt for human THE DEATH PENALTY eccle s i a s t ical cou rt s . In Muslim nation s , its jus - at t orne ys and legal scho l a rs . Van d e rbilt Lawy er Don : In its current defi n i ti on , dome s t ic ter- As muc h as the phr ase “sep a ra ti o n of chur ch ti ce is pred i c a ted on divine holiness; h ow- life by committing remorse- rorism applies to off enses that are deeme d to edi t or Lynne Hutchi s o n sat down with criminal and state”is heard in Ame ric a , reli g ious moral - ever, Am erican capital punishment rests on be dangerous to human life and in vio l a ti o n less, premeditated murder it y has alwa ys been fundamental in our legal claims of so cial jus ti c e in non- t h e ocra t ic cou rt s . of the criminal laws of the U.S . or of an y state. la w exp ert and Van d erbilt law profes s o r Don Hal l codes . The issue of capital punishment crys- Is its jus ti f i c a ti o n wit h o u t reli g ious imbuem en t , justly forfeit the right to Th a t’s important because it basically covers t a ll i zes the ten s i on bet ween the two insti tu- th o u g h? And erso n notes that “reli gi o n in mod- a ny serious fel ony under ei t h er state or fed- to discuss what this new legis l a ti o n rea l ly means tion s : a profou n d ly moral issue set in a legal ern times has of ten functi on ed to legi ti m i ze their own life.” eral law. But then the defi n i ti o n is limited by con tex t . Some of t h e the state and its interes t s adding that the act has to appear to be in- for U.S . ci ti z ens . —Alex Kozinski,U.S.9th Circuit qu e s ti ons asked — “Are with regar d to crim i n a l tend ed or have the eff ect of in ti m i d a t ing the Court of Appeals we playing God? ”“ D oes jus ti ce . At the same tim e , c ivilian pop u l a ti on or influ encing govern- (www.prodeathpenalty.org) capital punishment vi- it has function e d as a con- and wit h o ut infor ming the sub jec t of that sea r ch. li s h e d precedent in this cou n t ry. me ntal policy by intim i d a ti o n or coerci on , or ol a t e the comm a n d m en t sc i en c e of the state,h el p - Is that cor rect ? An important qu e s ti on becom e s ,“ How a f fecting govern m ent con du ct by mass de- not to kill? ” — s t rik e in- ing it to balance its jus ti c e lo ng is ‘rea s on a bl e’ ? ” The cou r ts are proba b ly st ruc ti on ,a s s a s s i n a ti on , or kidnappi n g . Don : Actua l ly, th a t ’s not correct ,a l t h o u gh it tense deba t es abou t the with mercy .” was reported in some publ i c a ti ons (news- going to have to rea l ly stud y what kinds of fa c- ba l a n c e of reli g ious and Iron i c a lly, m a ny Lyn n e : Do you see that that could ever be used pa p ers, ma ga z i n e s , etc.) that the warrant re- tors go into determining how mu ch ti m e l egal ju s ti ce . An active Chri s ti a n s , des p i t e off i - ag ainst domestic activist groupsu sc h as Gree n qu i rem ent had been el i m i n a ted in cert a i n should el a p s e . That is a po ten tial probl em pa r ticipant in the move- cial platforms and pro- Pea c e or PETA? ci rc u m s t a n ce s . The re is a sectio n that allo ws in the appl i c a ti o n of the statute. I think we all m ent for social jus ti ce , no u n c eme nts from their ha ve to agree that’s a very loose and ambig u - Don : The oretic a l ly it certa i n l y is po s s i bl e ,a l- not for the eli m i n a ti o n of the warrant but for the Van d erbilt Divin i t y chur ches against capital ous standard. th o u g h I think we have a prett y good sense of a dela y in providing notic e to the home owne r Sch o ol commu n i t y has p u n i s h m en t , s ti ll su p- of the exec uti on of a search . Un der its pro- what Cong ress had in mind whe n it adopted Lyn n e : Does the Pat rio t Act allo w oth e r actio n s regis t ered ideas throu g h several venue s . Mos t port the practice . And erso n attrib utes this in vis i on s , the governm e nt is permi t t ed to dela y this defi n i ti on . One facet of le gis l a t ive draf t - su rrounding se a rch wa rrants that were not recent l y, a num b er of gradua t e stud ents held pa r t to the chur ch’s waning cont rol over peo- providing noti ce of the search warra n t’s ex- ing is the rule of un i n t end ed cons e quen c es — all o wed before ? a highl y vis i b le prot est outs i d e the governor ’ s p l e’s lives and the many other interests that that you draft a law in a certain way and then ec uti on but the del ay is aut h ori zed on ly in ma n s i o n against the execu tio n of Robert Glen fa ctor into them. He reit erat es that “the cle a r Don : Und er the Pat riot Act a search warran t l e ave it up to the discreti on of pro s ec utors , cases whe re the governm e nt has demon s t rat ed Coe in Nas h vill e . me s s a g e of Chr ist and of Chri s ti a n i t y is to love can now be issue d for a search that is literal ly federal pros ec u tors in this case, to determi n e rea s on a b le cause to beli e ve that providing that Vi ctor An ders on , a s s oc i a te profe s s or of me rcy and to show comp a s s i on , even to those out s i d e the juri s d i c tio n of a particular federal wh et h er a pers on is guilty of “dom e s tic ter- no ti c e would have an adverse res ult on the in- Chri s t ian et h i c s ,s ays that mur der and retri- who vio l a t e and off end the state and its citi- di s t ric t cou rt . So hypot h e tic a l ly, an FBI agent roris m ”and depending upon the good sens e ve s ti ga ti on . For ex a m p l e , the adverse re su l t butio n appear in the beginning of Ge nesis in zens . The re is a cont radi c tio n betw een sayin g could be given a search warrant that could be or the bad sense of the pro s ec utor you may mi g ht be the loss of certain evid enc e or coer- the story of Cain and Abel. Rat h e r than spilli n g ‘an eye for an eye’ and claiming one s el f as a execu ted in the state of Tenn e s s ee , the state of se e the statute appl i e d in ways that Cong res s ci o n of witn e s s e s , that sort of th i n g .Also this Cai n ’s blo od, “Go d instea d punishes him wit h Ch ri s ti a n .” He sees this idea of retri buti on Ala b a m a , and the state of Cal i f orn i a .L aw en- m ay not have con tem p l a ted wh en this lan- provis i o n requi r es giving notic e within a rea - os t racism and aliena ti o n and curses his legacy , b a s ed on ex act ju s ti ce as missing the et h i c a l forceme nt would not have to go to individu a l gu a g e was adopted. The que s ti o n is whet h e r s on a ble time after the search has en ded . So, le a ving him utt erly alone in the world . ”Asi d e poin t . “Suc h an idea is simply venge a n ce , ” he jud g es in each one of those locales in order to an or ga n i z a ti on that sets out to cha n g e gov- i t’s not as though the indivi dual wi ll never f rom God ’s acti ons upon Ca i n , bi blical ac- beli e ve s ,“ wh i ch the Scrip tur es do not advo- execu te the search. ern m ent policy commits a federal or state k n ow of a search . Th ere actu a lly have been counts of Go d putt ing to death enti r e nation s ca te . It’s merely the ethics of venge a n ce . ”As a What drove this provis i on , I beli e ve, is that cr ime that’s dangerous to human life. so me earli e r federal cou r t deci s i o ns holding at times certa i n l y promp t us to que s ti o n the ca vea t , And erso n finally reminds us that Chri s t un d er tradi ti o nal search and seiz u r e law that, it allo ws FBI agents to act qui ck l y in the case w ay divine command and ju s ti ce functi on . h i m s el f was the vi ctim of a state exec uti on , Lyn n e : From my unders t a n d i n g ,u n d er the Pa- on a case-by-case basis, it is permi s s i b le some - of i n tra s t a te criminal con du ct . Th ey don’t And erso n says ,“ i f Go d is absolutely just and and among his final words were ,“ Fa t h er, for- trio t Act ,l aw enfo r ceme nt is now authoriz ed to times to dela y giving notic e of the search. So ha ve to appear repea t edly before jud g es in this good ,t h en those acti ons wh i ch fo ll ow from give them, for they know not what they do.” en ter and se a rch prem i ses wi t h out a wa rra n t this provi s i on is not wi t h o ut alre ady estab- di s t ric t and the next distric t and the next state.

26 V A N D E R B I L T M A G A Z I N E SPRING 2002 27 Tha t ’s the plus side. The down side is that it’s not U. S .c i ti zens in custody and we’re talking provis i o n and it got a very cool receptio n be- pos s i b le to lose the kind of di r ect ,c a reful su- onl y abou t a seven- d a y period . But if you are fore the Judiciary Committee. pervis i o n of these searches so long as onl y one a lawful immigrant and you ’re being deta i n e d Ano t h e r issue being deba t ed is the use of cou r t in one distant loca l i t y has the auth o r- si m p l y because the Att orne y Gene ral certif i e s m i l i t a ry tri bunals to try terrori s t s . My un- i ty to permit these more nati onal search e s . that there’s rea s o n to think that you meet this derstanding is that that order was in fact is- Tha t ’s the danger that I see— a ccou n t a bi l i t y def i n i ti on ,s even days can have a horrendo u s sue d by the Pres i d ent , and would allo w non- U. S . ma y suf f er a bit from allo wing off i c ers to travel im p a ct upon your life. It remains a provis i o n ci ti z ens to be trie d in military tribu n a l s . The far and wid e with a natio nal search warran t . that many civil liberta r ians are very conc erne d procedur es are not at all clear in terms of wha t abo ut . preci s e ly wil l be allo wed at trial although we Ly n n e : Can the FBI access personal er co rd s do know the fo ll owi n g : Un der this rule evi- ( m edical re co rd s ,f i n a n cial re co rds) wi t h ou t Lyn n e : How does the Atto rn e y Gene ral certif y PHOTOS BY NEIL BRAKE denc e would be adm i s s i b le if it is deeme d to sh o wing evid en c e that a person is involved in a an individ ual as a terrori s t ? be proba t ive. Now what that proba b ly means criminal inves ti ga ti o n ? is the Exclus i on a r y Rul e , and rules of evid enc e Don : The certif i c a ti o n must meet crit eria in Lyn n e : Do all provisions in the Act expi r e? Do Don : Tha t ’s a very good que s ti on . One bene - Don : Big Brot h e r wil l conti n ue to watch. For Don : It depends upon the natur e of the record. wi ll not app ly in military tri bunal heari n gs . the Immigration Act or reasonable grounds th e y all sun s et? fit is that we now have , I think, a rea s on a bl e a lot of the moni t oring that we’ve been talk- Typi c a l ly any record must be acces s e d eit h e r Convic tio n and sent encing can occur as a re- to beli e ve, and that’s cons i d ered by most cou rt s D on : In gen era l , that is correct . One provi- s t a tutory def i n i ti on of dom e s tic terrori s m , ing abo ut ,h owever, the Pat riot Act gives citi- t h ro u gh su bpoena or by means of a search sult of a two- t h i r ds vot e of a jur y and the pun- to be signi f i c a n t l y less demanding than a prob- s i on I’m fairly certain is going to remain in whi c h we rea l ly did not have before. A second zens the secu ri t y of kn o wing that there is redre s s . w a rra n t . But under the Pa triot Act it’s per- is h m e nt may includ e up to life impris on m en t ab le cause determi n a ti on . the lon g - term is the so-call ed Roving Wi re bene fit is that the Pat riot Act includ es a recog- The re is a way to que s ti o n whet h e r or not sur - mi s s i b le to access the identi t y of your outg o- or de a t h . According to the su m m a ry that I For ex a m p l e , u n der the new provi s i on s , Tap . It’s rea l ly not a profound cha n g e beca u s e ni ti o n that the vi ctims of the events of Sep- veill a n c e was done properly and whet h e r the ing e-mail add re s s ee . The governm e nt is not ha ve, these trib unals would be allo wed to pre- the Att orne y Gene ral could have heard from the Dome s t ic Wir e Tap statute alrea dy has a tem ber 11 need to be taken care of in som e cou r t determi n e d proba b le cause properly.So a ll owed to access the con tent of the e-mail si d e over any case invol ving a perso n who was an informant that a particular non - c i ti zen Roving Wir e Tap provis i on . So, this provis i o n res p ons i b le way, fi n a n c i a l ly and otherwis e . it ’s not as though we are giving all the auth o rit y m e s s a ge but it is all owed to access the e- a mem ber of Al Qaeda or was en ga ged in m i ght be invo lved in certain terrorism ac- brin g s the Foreig n Act up to the same level ,i f The major pitfa ll s , I think,ar e the ones that to law enf orceme nt wit h o u t the abil i t y to cha l - mail ad d re s s ee . That doe s n’t re a lly give yo u in t erna ti o nal or dome s t ic or rat h e r interna - tivi ty and that there was evi den ce to indi- you will , as the Dome s t ic Wir e Tap Act. expand the auth o rit y of la w enf orceme nt wit h - len ge , wit h o u t the abil i t y to litiga te . But I wou l d the kinds of i n form a ti on that yo u’re asking tio nal terrorism or knowin g ly harbored one ca t e this to be the case. The Att orne y Gene ral ou t careful thought as to the long - t erm con- sa y the pos s i bi l i t y of in c re a s e d listening to the a bo ut , wh i ch are med i c a l ,f i n a n c i a l ,m en t a l or more of the individ uals des c ri b ed as a ter- mi g ht deci d e that based upon an informa n t ’s Ly n n e : The media has cri ti ci zed Co n gress fo r s equ en ce s . I think the seven - d ay deten ti on avera ge citi zen has cert a i n ly escalated as a health records . My understanding of the Act rorist or as a mem ber of Al Qaed a . While it s t a tem en t — wi t h o ut any ad d i ti onal corrob- passing this legi s l a tion wi t h out su f f i ci ent de- provis i o n is one that remains problem a ti c . I res ult of this statute. as it pre s en t ly stands is that those very per- does not app ly to U. S .c i ti zen s , it does sig- orat ive inves ti ga ti o n to determine whet h e r or bate , wit h o ut enou g h time allot t ed to the proce s s think you ’ve got to be very careful abou t en- s onal and pre su m a bly con f i den tial items of Ly n n e : What are some of the latest devel op- ni f i c a n t l y cha n g e the rules and procedur es for not there re a lly is prob a ble cause—there is and that some memb ers of Con g ress didn’t dare la r g ing the power of the governm e nt to acces s in f orma ti o n are acces s i b le onl y throu g h search me nts? those people trie d in military tribu n a l s . rea s o n to beli e ve that the perso n is a terror- oppos e som e thing labele d pat rio tic . Do you have i n form a ti on wh et h er it’s over the tel eph on e wa r rant or sub poena . a vie w on that? or e-mail or Web site. The re is alwa ys a dan- D on : App a ren t ly on October 31 a rule was i s t . It is very case spec i f i c , very fact spec i f i c , Lyn n e : Bott om line: Sho uld peo ple be wor rie d ger that accessing that informa ti on , whet h e r p u bl i s h ed under wh i ch the Bu reau of Pri s- Lyn n e : Can they also monitor a person ’s Web and the dome s t ic case law indicates that the D on : I don’t profess to be a po l i tical scien- ab o ut our civil libertie s ? rea s on a b le sus p i c i o n standard is very favor- tist but I wi ll tell you that given the magn i- with a co u rt order or not, is going to re su l t ons would immedi a t ely begin permi t t ing in- traf f i c ? Don : Well, I think that you have to look at the ab le to the pros ec u tio n in terms of its low stan- tud e of this legis l a ti o n and all of the vari o u s in a significant intru s i on upon privacy and terceptio n of commu n i c a ti o ns betw een federal D on : Th ere is a secti on in the Act that au- po s t - Septem ber 11 re acti on of our govern- d a rd of prova bi l i ty. Prob a ble cause, on the comp one nt parts to this anti- t errorism legis - perso nal freedom. These are the kinds of me a s - i n m a tes and their attorn eys . This new ru l e th o riz es what are calle d Trap & Trace orders m ent in a broader sen s e . Let me just ti ck of f ot h e r hand, is muc h more dema n d i n g ; in fact, l a ti on you would ex pect that it would take u res that I think we may have adopted in a a ll ows for the mon i toring if t h ere’s re a s on- that are valid anywh e re in the nati on ,a ll ow- the categories that I have in mind: 1) the mag- th a t ’s the phr ase that you find in the Fou rt h s everal mon t h s ,i f not even a year or two, to som e what preci p i t ous way and that we rea l ly ab le sus p i c i o n to beli e ve that a particular in- ing law enf orceme nt off i c ers to captur e rou t- ni tu d e of the Pat riot Act in and of it s el f ; 2) the Am en d m ent to the U.S . Cons ti t ution . pass some thing of this nature . Yet it was ap- ne eded to think abou t a lot more carefu l ly. mate may use communications,let’s say the ing and add r essing inform a ti on for Int erne t Pres i d ent ’s deci s i o n to try non- c i ti z ens in mil- proved by the House on October 24. The vot e telephone, with the attorneys to facilitate or us e rs, but it does not auth o riz e interceptio n Ly n n e : Do you think su rvei ll a n ce ofe - m a i l , it a r y tribu n a l s ; 3) eaves d r opping on tele phon e Ly n n e : Un d er the Act can the At to rn ey Gen- was 357 to 66.It passed October 25 in the Sen- f u rt h er acts of terrori s m . This is a very in- of the cont ent of commu n i c a ti on s . voi c ema i l , and Web traf f i c king might spill over commu n i c a ti o ns betw een federal inmates and eral use sec ret evid en c e to certify a person as a at e by a vot e of 98 to 1. The re is a distin c t pos - teres t ing provis i o n and it raises a num b er of i n to co rpora t e wo rk ,em pl oyee rel a ti o n s ,t h a t l aw yers ; and 4) the fact that we have severa l terror ist threa t ? s i bi l i ty that there was not the kind of very i s su e s . If t h ere’s no co u rt order, wh i ch is al- Ly n n e : The aspe ct of this legi s l a tion that has sor t of thing or is it strict l y for law enfo r cemen t hu n d red ,i f not close to a thousand pers on s D on : Ye s , u n der this particular provi s i on c a reful and del i bera te deb a te abo ut this Bi ll l owed under this Act ,a ny mon i toring mu s t a t tra cted the most atten tion is the deten ti o n pur pose s ? n ow arre s ted or det a i n ed in this co u n try. If the Att orne y Gene ral is not obli ga t ed to pres - that you would norma l ly exp ect and that there be preceded by a notic e to the inmate and the of ci ti zens or non-ci ti zens su s pe cted of terro r- you put all of this togeth e r in a broad pictur e ent this evid enc e to a co u rt . He has to abid e was proba b ly an underst a n d a b le and perceived Don : I’ m incli n e d to think that this is going to a t torn eys explaining that inmate - co u n s el is m . Can they be deta i n e d indefi n i t ely or is there sen s e , it ought to give us some rea s o n to que s - by the law but is he enti t l e d to use secr et ev- se nse on the part of ma n y people in Cong res s be limited to law enf orcemen t . Workp l a ce mon- commu n i c a ti o ns may be moni t ored. In other a limit? tio n whet h e r the res p onse of our governm en t id enc e that is never rea l ly made publi c . that this had to be done qu i ck ly. We had to it oring is condu c t over whi c h the governm en t word s ,t h ey ’re put on noti ce that their con- Don : Con gress mod i f i ed the At torn ey Gen- has been appropria t ely measur ed to the exi - If th e re’s an attemp t to deport, for exa m - ha ve the provis i o ns in place to deal with pros - has very little cont rol . To the ext ent that a cor- vers a ti ons may be mon i tored . So on the era l ’s ori ginal proposal so it now re ads that gency before it; that is, whet h e r we have over- p l e ,t h ere are deporta ti o n provis i o ns and then ec uting those in this co u n try who were in- porati o n des i r es to moni t or the use of com- one hand, this particular Rule is de s i gn ed the At torn ey Gen eral does possess the au- re acted and mod i f i ed our criminal ju s ti ce evid enc e has to be pres en t ed at that tim e . The vol ved in terrorist acts . p uters by its em p l oyee s , for the most part to allo w officials to gat h e r informa ti o n abou t th o rit y to certify that an alien meets the cri- sys t em to become that whi c h we espou s e d not s even - d ay deten ti on provi s i on is based uni- the laws in this cou n t ry rea l ly don’t regu l a t e acts of terrorism in the future.On the other teria for terrorism under the def i n i ti on that to be. I hope that these new measur es are re- l a tera lly upon the certi f i c a ti on of the At tor- Lyn n e : What do you see as long-term, big pic- th a t . Those practic es are likely to conti nu e . h a n d , we tell people up front that the gov- we talked abou t earli e r but that the limit upon vie wed very carefu l ly, and that this cou n t ry’ s ne y Gene ral , and it’s onl y after the passage of tu re ben efits of this Act? And what are os m e ernment might be monitoring your conver- the length of time dur ing whi c h a perso n may Lyn n e : Big Broth e r has bee n wat ching and he tradi ti o n of em bracing strong civil liberti e s that time that there would be a rig ht to an ad- th i n g s that should not have gott en throug h and sation. This notice then,may guarantee that be deta i n e d is seven days. Some people jus ti f y wil l con ti n ue to wat ch. Is that a prett y fair sum - wil l not be diluted or abandone d in a preci p - versa r ial hearin g . that wil l probab ly come bac k to haunt us? the very convers a ti on that you think migh t the deten ti on by poi n ting out that these are m a ry ? occur is not going to occ u r. It’s a very od d it ous way.

28 V A N D E R B I L T MAGAZINE SPRING 2002 29 Terroris m : premed i t a t ed, pol i ti c a l ly motivat ed vio l en c e perpetrat ed against nonc ombatant targets by subn a ti o nal groups or cla n de s t ine agent s , usu a l ly intend ed to influen c e an audience . 1

he above words provid e me with a use- ful l ega l def i n i ti on of terrorism as I A HISTORIAN’S REFLECTIONS Tref l ect on the mass mu rder of Sep- tem ber 11 and the later cases of a n t h ra x , ON fi ve of th e m fatal, the forme r an unsurp a s s e d act of i n tern a ti onal terrori s m , the latter an AM E R I CA N un p recedent ed case of bio t errorism by mail by a perso n or perso ns as yet unknown. I do so well awa r e that I am not a historian of Ame r- ican foreig n rela ti o ns (or of biow a rf a re ) . Rat h e r TE R R O R I S M I am a historian of the Un i ted State s ,a l bei t one with ext ens i ve exp erien c e tea ching under- AND TERRORISM IN AMERICA gradu a te sem i n a rs on Am erican vi o l en ce in a ll its form s . Is sues of def i n i ti on lead me to by Sam McSeve n e y exclu de from analysis vi o l en ce du ring two ma j o r conf l i c ts very largely fou g ht on our soil , the War for Ame rican Ind epend enc e and the Hofs t ad ter also ob s erved that most ter- al i z a ti o n of ne ws coverag e by netw ork tele vi- War for Sout h e rn Ind epend ence . I do so though rorism and other dome s t ic vio l en c e have not s i on , wh i ch re ach ed nati onwi de audien ce s I appreci a t e the viciousness of both those wars, been “radi c a l , ”se eking the overth r ow of in s t i- with the sights and sounds of vi o l en ce and whi c h pitted Ame ricans against one another, tuti ons and the social order, but “con s erva- terrorism against civil rig hts activis t s . By the as well as against Brit ons in the forme r. tive, ”se eking to maintain them. Certa i n l y this same to ken , TV news pre s en t a ti ons of t h e Fa m i l i a ri ty with Am erican history doe s was the case with whi t e terror against bla cks . si g hts and sounds of bla ck ghet t o rio t ing dur - not diminish my horror and anger regard i n g Und er slavery, this meant horrific public exe- ing the mid- and late - 1960s would short ly the carn a ge and de s tru cti on of Septem ber, cu tio ns of sl a ves implicated in revolts and the cont rib ute to a broad public insistenc e on law but it does serve to remind that terrori s m ,l i ke prom i n ent public display of the revo l ters’ and order throu gh o u t the land. o t h er forms of p u blic vi o l en ce , has been a corp s e s , both to en co u ra ge terri f i ed wh i te s S ti ll , it be a rs em phasizing that terrori s m rec u rring ph en om en on in our nati on . As and terrify wo u l d - be slave rebel s . Over the has been by no means con f i n ed to the con- Rich a r d Hofst ad t er poin t ed out some thirty cen tu ry fo ll owing the abo l i ti on of s l avery, se rvat ive Rig ht in the Uni t ed States . At tim e s , yea r s ago, Ame rican public vio l en c e pales by so me south e rn whi t es anxious to achi e ve or va rious revo luti on a ries and radicals of t h e comp a ri s o n with that in num e rous and var - maintain racial domi n a n c e emp l o yed terror— Left have emp l o yed it. Suc h was the case dur - i ed forei gn set ti n gs over the cen tu ri e s ,f rom mur der, ma s s ac re s , rio t s , lyn ch i n g s (oft en pub- ing the First World War and postwar Red Scare. an c i e nt Rome to Ind onesia dur ing the mid- lic and sadi s ti c ) ,a rs on , bombi n g s—in var yin g Repre s s i on of a n tiwar and radical elem en t s 196 0 s . To these we may add sub s e que nt large- proportio ns to achi e ve their purpos e s . The y was evid ent dur ing those yea rs , but also rad- scale atroci t ies suc h as those in Rwanda,Alg eria , did so especi a l ly dur ing perio ds of raci a l - po l i t - ical terrorism—the bomb ing of a Prepa r ed- Sud a n , the forme r Yugo s l a via , Iraq , Sri Lanka, ical cri s i s , Recon s tru cti on (1865–1877), t h e ness Day parade in San Fra n c i s co in 19 1 6 , and East Tim o r. At the same tim e , Hofst ad t er era (c. 1 8 9 0 – c . 1910) du ring wh i ch su f f ra ge whi c h kille d ten and wou n d ed 40, and vari e d and others , mys el f a m ong them ,h ave also res t ric tio n and de jure racial segregati o n were bombi n g s dur ing 1919 – 19 2 0 . Deca des before been struc k by the “ext rao rdi n a r y frequen c y ,” achi e ved, and the 195 0 s – 19 6 0 s , the epoch of an t h r ax by mail, bombs were pos t ed to three the “sh e er comm on p l a cene s s ” of pu b lic vio - the Civil Rig hts Movemen t . Thro u gh o u t the dozen public figures to mark May Day, a Left l en ce , terrorism inclu ded , in Am eri c a ,t h i s l ong peri od before the 195 0 s – 19 6 0 s , terror- h o l i d ay, in 1919 , a ll but two of wh i ch were at vari a n c e with a natio nal beli e f that suc h has ism was oft en sup ported or tol e rat ed by whi t e in t ercepted (including 16 held back beca u s e not been the case. Democ ra t ic pol i t icians and other public fig- of in su f f i c i e nt pos t a ge ) . A month later, bomb s ur es and the pres s . were exp l o ded at public and privat e bui l d i n g s 1 Title 22 of the United States Code, Section Man y factors cont rib uted to the suc cess of in eig ht citie s . In all ,t wo were kille d (includ - 2656 f (d), as quoted in John Whiteclay Cham- bers II, editor in chief, The Oxford Companion to the Civil Rig hts Moveme nt dur ing the 196 0 s , ing a bomb er) and two wou n d ed (by an exp l o d- American Military History, p. 715 (1999). but one des e rves attenti o n here, the natio n- ing mailed bomb ) . The worst was to come on

30 V A N D E R B I L T M A G A Z I N E Septemb er 16,192 0 , at Wal l and Broad streets era ti on of terrorists ac ross the worl d .O n ly S t a tes and other neutral nati ons were cl a n- in New York Ci ty—less than on e - h a l f m i l e onc e did FALN seek to inflict casua l ti e s — i n des ti n e ly infected by German agents with that fr om the futur e site of the World Trade Cen- its bom bing of New York Ci ty ’s ven era bl e disease or gla n d ers. ter. Th ere , at the nerve cen ter of Am eri c a n Frau n c es Tavern at lun ch ti m e ,k i l ling four and Cont emp orar y techn o l o gical cha n g es faci l - hen Ted Add erle y and Davis “D eeg” Sez n a fi n a n c e capitalism,exp l o s i ves in a horse - d r awn wounding 55 on Ja nu a ry 24, 19 7 5 . Nobody i t a ted small-scale but dangerous terrori s m : W gradua t ed from the Coll e ge of Arts and wa g on were detona t ed as the lun c h hour began , cla i m e d res p ons i bi l i t y for the period ’ s blo od- terrorists (and others) now easily gain acces s Sc i en c e in May 2001, th e ir futur es look ed brigh t . k i lling 33, wounding over 400, and leavi n g iest terrorist bombi n g , at La Gua r dia Air port, to manifes t oe s ,a poca l yptic tracts , and instruc - The two econo mics majors enj o yed living and gou g es in the wall of a bui l d i n g , no w that of New York Cit y, whi c h kille d 11 and wou n d - ti onal materials on the In tern et and vi deo- Mor gan Gu a ra n ty Trust Com p a ny. Po s t w a r ed 75 that Decemb er. ta pe s , as well as in publi c a ti on s . Tele vis i o n and working in the Big Appl e , landing coveted pos i ti on s Radical terrorism fed the fires of the Red Scare, Dur ing the late twenti e th centu r y, Ame r- the press covered major dom e s tic terrori s t with Man h a t t a n - b a s e d comp a n i e s . Add erle y worked exp res s e d in newsp a p er edi t orials and publi c ic a ’s dome s t ic terrorism underwent cha n ge s . acts of the 1990s and reported on the growth as a secu ri t ies analyst for Fred Alg er Man a g emen t add r esses by pol i t ical figures and in govern- It again largely became a wea p on of the Righ t , of sel f - s t yle d militias and other param i l i t a r y Inc . , a mone y manageme nt comp a n y on the 93rd me nt actio ns on all levels . emp l o yed in attacks on governm e nt faci l i ti e s , groups hostile to the federal governm en t , but fl o or of the north tower of the World Trade Cent er. Conf l i c ts in the Uni t ed States dur ing the a borti on cl i n i c s , and gay and lesbian ven- it bea r s emp hasizing that these orga n i z a ti on s Sezna worked acr oss the plaza on Floor 104 in the 196 0 s – 1 970s arising out of the natio n’s war in ue s . Alt h o u g h terrorists of the Rig ht struc k at did not launch terrorist attacks . so u th tower. He had been emp l o yed by San dl e r- Vie tnam also gave rise to radical activism and, ta r g ets different from those of ea rl i e r terror- Mea n wh i l e ,a broad, terrorism has figured on the part of s om e , terrori s m . Over nine ists of the Lef t ,s ome obs e rvers have discerne d promi n en t l y in many setti n g s since the 196 0 s , O’N eill , an inves tm e nt-banking firm, for onl y six mon t h s , 196 9 – 19 7 0 , ext remists were invol ved si m i l a ri t ies in the anger, whet h e r trig gered by but onl y recent l y has its interna ti o nal dimen- da ys on Sept .1 1 ,2 0 0 1 , whe n he, Add erle y, and Mar k in over two hun d r ed bombi n gs ,t a r g eting cor- govern m ent policies or social ch a n ge s ,t h a t s i on ex ten ded into the Un i ted State s . Mo s t Hin d y, a Pea b ody alum nu s , lost their lives in the porat e of f i ce s ,b a n k s ,d raft boa rd s ,i n du ctio n un d erla y the two grou p s ’ vio l en ce . i m portant from the pers pective 2001–2002 worst terrorist attacks ever on the U. S .m a i n l a n d . cen ters , and ROTC bu i l d i n gs — f ac i l i ties the Recent dome s t ic terrorists have operat ed in Ame rica has been terrorism origi n a t ing in A former member of the Commodore baseball bomb ers identi f i e d as instrum e nts of Ame r- in small ,a uton omous groups or alon e . Two the Muslim worl d ,e s pec i a lly its Arab are a s . team, Mark Hindy, BS’95, grew up in Brooklyn with ic a ’s corporat e libera l ,i m perialist state. Att a ck- m en , Ti m o t hy Mc Vei gh and Terry Ni ch o l s , From its early days suc h terrorism has invol ved V A N D E R B I L T M O U R N S T H E L O S S O F A L U M N I sp ecta cular action s — e . g. ,h i gh j acki n g s of com- his parents,George and Virginia, and his brother, 9/ 1 1 Gregory. After Sept. 11, Mark’s Vanderbilt team- …the nation’s only known experience as a target of anthrax m ercial airc raft of va rious nati on a l i ti e s , t h e ki l ling of Isr aeli athletes at the 1972 Olymp i c s mate, Josh Paul, a catcher for the White Sox, wore in vo l v ed sabotage, not terrorism—during World War I in Mun i ch , the blo wing up of a Pan Am air- Mark’s Vanderbilt #41 on his chest protector to c raft over Scotland (19 8 8 ) , the massac re of draft animals being privately exported to the Allies from honor his friend. foreig n tou r ists at Lux or, Egypt (199 7 ) . Suc h Ted Add erle y was from Blo omf i e ld Hill s , epi s o des , in c re a s i n g ly blo ody, ha ve captur ed Mich i ga n , a Detroit subu r b. His parent s , Van d erbil t the United States and other neutral nations wer e world wid e attenti on ,i n s p i r ing fear and anger, clandestinely infected by German agents… ent h usiasm and adm i ra ti on . Ame ri c a n s ,c ivil - trus t ee Mar y Beth Add erle y and Terenc e E. Add erle y ians and military person n e l alike ,h ave been Sr., pres i d ent and CEO of Kelly Service s , were jus t l y ca su a l t ies in terrorist attacks overse a s . proud of th e ir onl y son. So were his five sisters and ers sought to damage, not kill ;t h ey struc k at perpetrat ed the truc k bomb ing of the Alf r ed The 1990s finally bro u ght intern a ti on a l his gran d m o t h e r, Mar ga r et Kelly. “Ted was a top stu- n i ght and som etimes ph on ed attack warn- P.Mur rah Federal Building in Oklahoma Cit y terrorism to the Un i ted State s , in the 19 9 3 dent , ” said his forme r profes s o r, Peter Rou s s e a u . i n gs .O n ly in August 1970 did they kill—at the (1 995) that kille d 168 in the blo odiest act of truc k bomb ing of World Trade Cent er Tower Dur ing scho ol brea k s , Ted oft en worked for Kelly Uni versi t y of Wis c ons i n , whe re a late- w ork- dome s t ic terrorism in Ame rican history. On e 1 and in planned attacks on major sites in New ing re s e a rch er fell vi cti m . Me a nwh i l e ,t h ree m a n ,E ric Rudo l ph , was alle gedly res p ons i bl e York Ci ty and on Los An geles In tern a ti on a l Service s , whi c h his gran d f a t h e r, Wil liam Rus s e ll rad i c a l s ,m em bers of the Wea t h e rme n or the for the Atlanta and Bi rm i n gham bom bi n gs Ai rport that were thw a rted . Trials and con- Kelly, A’2 6 , fou n d ed. Wea t h e r Peopl e ,h a d alrea dy blo wn thems e lves (19 9 6 – 1 998) of Cen tennial Olympic Pa rk , a vi cti ons of c a ptu red terrorist con s p i ra tors , Da vis “D eeg” Sezna grew up in Wil m i n g t on, up in an el egant New York Ci ty town h o u s e ni gh t club catering to lesbia n s , and two bui l d - cr iminal inve s ti ga ti ons of Osama bin Laden Delaw a re , with his parent s , Gail and Davis G. Sez n a while making bom b s ,i n cluding antip erso n- i n gs housing aborti on clinics (leaving three and Al Qaed a , and indictm ents (inclu d i n g Sr., and two you n g er brot h e rs. Tragi c a l ly, one brot h - ne l device s ,a ll e gedly for use at Colu m b ia Uni - dea d and 124 wou n d ed) ; over 17 yea r s The odore one of bin Laden) fo ll owed .S ti ll , just as the er, Tedd y, di e d in a boat ing acci d ent in Jul y 2000. versi t y.As dur ing 1919 – 19 2 0 , radical vio l en c e Kacz y n s k i , the Una b omb er, ki ll e d three and na ti o n had largely failed to recogni z e its his- A forme r memb er of his high scho ol vars i t y gol f cont rib uted not to pol i t ical gains for the Left , wou n d ed 23 (including a Van d erbilt Uni ver- tory of dome s t ic terroris m , so it appea r ed to but to gains for the Ri gh t . si t y staff mem b er) with mailed bomb s . Some i gn ore the mounting threat of in t erna ti on a l tea m , Deeg learne d to love the game from his father, Oth e r bombi n gs , these dur ing 197 4 – 19 7 7 , sus p ects pos s e s s e d biow a rf a r e agent s , but until terrorism within the Uni t ed States—at least whose comp a n y, the 1492 Hos p i t a l i t y Grou p , owns were perpetra ted by Pu erto Rican nati on a l- the recent unexp l a i n e d anthrax epi s o de s ,t h e un t il Septemb er 11. the Har tefeld Nati o nal Golf Club . ists of Fue rzas Arma das de Liberación Naci on a l na ti o n’s onl y known exp erien c e as a target of As far as we know, no other alumni lost their lives (FA L N ) , who chose targets that gene ral ly sym- a n t h rax invo lved sabo t a ge , not terrori s m — in the Sept. 11 attacks . If you are awa r e of ot h e rs, bo l i zed co l onialism and assu red prom i n en t dur ing World War I draft animals being pri- please cont a ct the director of Alumni Rela ti o ns at me dia covera ge , the latter a growing cons i d - vat ely exp orted to the Allies from the Uni t ed Ca r olyn. S ch m i d t @ va n d e rbil t . e du.

32 V A N D E R B I L T M A G A Z I N E SPRING 2002 33 B y D a v i d S a l i s b u r y the mosquito’s sense of smell he mosqui t o may be natur e’s most eff ec- tive bio t erroris t , accou n t ing for milli on s As s a u l t i n g t of deaths each yea r .But the end of its eons - lo ng reig n of terror may be in sight . Sc i en ti s t s bon dioxi de . “We all produc e a cloud of che m- h ave begun to app ly the power of gen om i c s icals and mosqui t oes can track the odor trai l and molecular bio l o gy to understand how the that we leave for qui t e a distance, ”sa ys Zwie bel. toes don’t res p ond as strong ly to human odors mo s qu i t o detects the sub tle che mical cues that Ma ny of these ch emical cues are cre a ted by as they do norm a lly. The Va n derbilt gro u p le a d it to its targets . the bacteria that cover our bod i e s .S tu d i e s found that one of the new receptors is ex- “The mosqui t o is the most dangerous an- h ave shown that fewer mosqu i toes attack a pres s e d onl y in female antenn a e and exh i bi t s imal on the planet. It relies on its sense of sm e ll pers on after he or she has taken a shower. If decre a s e d exp res s i o n levels dur ing this pos t - to find the source of its blo od meals. So un- the perso n showers with anti- b a cterial soap , feeding period . derstanding how its olfactory sys tem work s the num b er drops even furth e r. The re s e a rch ers hope that these kinds of at the molecular level should sug gest new and Des p i t e the large evol ution a r y distance be- d i s coveries wi ll eventu a l ly su ggest new and n ovel ways to keep it from spre ading cata- t ween man and mosqu i to, at the molec u l a r eff ective ways to keep mosqui t oes from prey- s trophic diseases,” s ays Lauren ce J. Zwi ebel , le vel both are equi p ped with basically the same ing on people that wil l be less pois o nous than assistant profe s s or of bi o l ogical scien ces at chem o s en s o ry syst em .“ Ever since evol utio n the insecti c i de and repell ent sprays now in Van d erbil t . His laborat ory is the first to have fi g u r ed out how to sense different chem i c a l s , comm o n use.For exa m p l e , a comp ound might i den ti f i ed the genes that code for pro tei n s , it has kept the same molecular swit ches and be found that redu ces the mosqu i toe s’ re- ca ll e d odorant receptors, whi c h are a key part ma chi n e ry. The syst em in your nose and my sp onse to human odors. The re are other pos - of the mosqui t o’s olfactory syst em. These pro- nose reca p i tu l a t es that found in insects , ”sa ys si b le approaches as well. If a pot ent mosqui t o teins ex tend out s i de olfactory neu rons and, Zwie bel. at t ractant could be fou n d , it could be used to wh en they come into con t act with spec i f i c The fact that the olfactory sys tem is so lu re them into a con t a i n er fill ed with in- ch emicals in the form of odors ,i n i ti a te the hi gh l y cons e rved help ed the res e a r che rs iden- secticide. c a s c ade of el ectroch emical events that pro- tify the A . ga m bi a e odorant receptor gen e s . “Mo l e cular bio l o gy provid es a new arrow duc e the sense of sm e ll. The y found four pot ent ial genes by scanning in the qui ver of both high and low tech meth - Wri ting in the Novem ber 27 issue of t h e the six percent of the mosqui t o geno me that ods that the World Health Organ i z a ti o n and online versi o n of the Proce ed i n g s of the Nati o n a l was then avai l a b le for sequen c es that look ed ot h e r groups are using to combat this scou r ge , ” Aca d e my ofSci en ce s , Zwie bel and his coll e a g u e s similar to odorant receptor genes found in says Zwiebel. at Van d erbil t , the Uni versi t y of Illi n o is at Ur- Dro sop h i l a. O n ce they iden ti f i ed the gen e s , Van d erbilt Uni versi t y has filed for a patent ba n a - Ch a m p a i gn , and Yale Uni versi t y report th e y were able to determine that all four were on the newly discovered genes because there is o l a t ing four genes from the geno me of Anop h e - onl y exp res s e d in the antenn a e and maxilla r y is con s i dera ble com m ercial intere s t . Wh i l e les gam bi a e —an Afr ican mosqui t o that feeds palps that are part of its olfactory syst em and m a l a ria has been largely el i m i n a ted in in- prim a ri l y on humans and sprea ds malaria — not in any other tis su e s . In the fruit fly some dus t ria l i z ed cou n t ries like the Uni t ed States , that are ext reme ly similar to genes gene ral ly 60 receptor genes are invol ved in olfacti on ,s o th e re is stil l cons i d erab le interest in mosqui t o cons i d ered to code for odorant receptors in the Zwie bel and his col leagues exp ect to find abou t repellant sprays, and recent outbreaks of Wes t fr uit fly Dros oph i l a ,whi c h serves as a scienti f i c the same num b er in the mosqui t o. Nile fever indicate that the threat of m o s- mo del for insects . The res e a r che rs also deter- Furt h e rmo re, the res e a r che rs were able to quito-borne diseases cannot be ignored. mi n e d that these genes are onl y exp res s e d in s h ow that one of the newly iden ti f i ed odor- In ad d i ti on , the high ly con s erved natu re the mosqui t o’s antenn a e and maxilla r y palps, ant receptors appe a rs to be assoc i a ted wi t h of the olfactory sys tem means that similar whi c h serve a role similar to the nose. the bl ood feeding patterns of the female A . ap proaches are likely to work in other insects The re is a gene ral misconc eptio n that mos- ga m bi a e. In mosqui t oes , it is onl y the fema l e that pose threats as agri c u l tu ral pe s t s . So qu i toes pick prey based on the taste of t h ei r that is res p ons i b le for bit ing people and sprea d- re s e a rch of this sort may ulti m a tely lead to blo od. Actua l ly, previous studies have shown ing disease. The female needs bl ood to re- w ays to redu ce insect damage to crops and that mosqu i toes are pri m a ri ly attracted by produce . Previous studies have found that for s tored food , a l ong with a nu m ber of o t h er body odor and other em i s s i ons su ch as car- abo u t 72 hours after feedi n g ,female mosqui - useful applications.

34 V A N D E R B I L T M A G A Z I N E BY ANGELA WIBKING

Performance artist? Sculptor? For Don Evans art should invite p a r t i c i p a t i o n . His Little Marrowbone Repair Corp. has drawn a community of artists dedicated to that aesthetic. TheThe FineFine ArtArt ofof ‘Doing‘Doing Stuff’Stuff’

rowing up in the 19 5 0 s , Don Eva n s d re a m ed of being a scien ti s t . A draw- g ing of a rocket done by Evans wh en he was a boy tes t ifies to that early fascination . A deci s i o n to major in chem i s t ry upon ent erin g the Uni versi t y of Tenn e s s e e in 1957 seeme d to conf i r m his career path. In the en d ,t h o u gh , the exh i l - ara ti o n of ar t trum p ed the accel- erati o n of rockets . “I rea l i z ed as a sc i en t ist I wasn’t going to be tur n- ing base metals into gold or blo w- ing things up,”reca l ls Evans of hi s “h a ppen i n gs” wom en’s lib as it was call ed then , and the deci s i o n to pursue art instea d of i n corpora ti n g war in Vi etnam had all become hot issu e s . sc i en ce . Ironi c a l ly, his career as a f i re w o r k s , Commu n e s ,h i pp i e s , yip pies and acid rock— mul ti - m e dia artist and a Van d er- sc u l p ture , per- it was rea l ly a revol ution . ”It was also a revela - bilt art profe s s or would bri n g form a n ce art tio n to Evans in terms of his art, whi c h veered Evans muc h clo s e r to alche my and exp l o s i ves and music at his farm in north west David s o n of f in a mu l ti - m edia co ll a bora tive directi on than he ever drea m e d as a boy growing up in Cou n t y are legend a r y. fr om whi c h it has never strayed. “I started using Tenn e s s e e and Ohio. Evans was born in Murf r ees b oro and grew fi l m ,i n f l a t a b le struc tur es and ele ctronic sound,” Evan s , who retir ed in Decemb er 2001 after up in To l edo, Ohio and Mc Mi n nvi ll e . Af ter he rec a ll s .“ Mine was alw ays a low - rent ap- a 32-year tea ching career in Van d erbilt Uni - gradu a ting from UT, Evans joi n ed the mili- proach—I just did it.” versi ty ’ s Art and Art His t ory Depa r tm en t ,i s ta r y and spent three yea r s in Alaska with his One of his art proje cts invol ved hug e in- best known for his co ll a bora tive works in- wif e Sheryl. “I had a studio there, and the paint- fl a t a b le pol yeth yle ne struc tur es in the footb a l l vo lving ph o togra phy, vi deo, f i l m , s l i de pro- in g s I did in Alaska are what got me into grad- s t ad ium at Ch a pel Hi ll—a proj ect that he j ecti on , com p uter gra ph i c s , el ectron i c ua t e scho ol at the Uni versi t y of North Caro l i n a in c lud ed on his res ume whe n he appl i e d for a music—and fireworks . His works have been at Cha p el Hi ll ,” Evans says. te aching po s i ti on at Va n derbi l t . Evans was performe d or installe d in suc h diverse places Coming back to the So uth from the iso- hi r ed and moved with his wif e to Nas h vil le in as the front lawn of the Part h en on , the Cor- l a ti on of Alaska du ring the tu rbu l ent 19 6 0 s 196 9 . The couple purcha s e d a farm on a road coran Galle ry of Art in Was h i n g t on, D. C . ,a n d was a jolt to Evan s ’sys t em—and to his art .“ It ca ll e d Little Mar rowbone (a name that wou l d the Tenn e s s e e State Pris on . Evan s ’ an n ual art was a real cultur e shock, ”he reca ll s . “Civil righ t s , become synonymous with Eva n s’ a rt) and

SPRING 2002 37 “I think everyone is potentially creative,” Evans says. “I motivate, cajole, push and get in the way I don’t teach.”

with things on your own is the most edu c a- l oo ked upon as a peer more than in a stu- rot echnic performa n ce . ”In 1988 Hal l coll a b - tio nal proces s , ”sa ys Irvin . “Some of Don’s dent / te a che r rela ti o nship even though I was orat ed with Evans on the “Tower of Bab el, ” a s tu dents found that onl y 21 at the tim e . ” mul ti - m e dia and pyrot echnical performa n c e terrif y ing but I cli c ked Ge rber’ s interest in ele ctronic music meshed for the Al tern a te Roots conven ti on held at with it.” with Evan s ’ mul ti - m e dia approach to art and the old site of Bla ck Mountain Coll e ge, Bla ck the two began a coll a b orat ive rela ti o nship that Mountain,N.C. sti l l exists toda y. Ge rber credits his partic i p a - “The rag e in art these days is ‘commu n i t y,’” tio n in Evan s ’ mul ti - m e dia events in the early s ays Ha ll . “Well , to para ph rase the co u n try began to raise a family.Da u gh t er Amy 1980s with paving the way for Space for Mus i c , s on g, ‘ Don was commu n i t y before com mu- n ow lives in Pittsbu r gh ;s on Jonathan died Ge rber’ s own crea t ive coll e ctive whose mus i c n i ty was coo l .’ Don draws people of va ri o u s tragi c a l ly in a car acci d ent in 198 9 . was recent l y includ ed on the soundtrack of t a l ents and abi l i ties into the Little Ma rrow- In f l a t a ble sculptu res were amon g the Tom Cruise film Van i l la Sky . “The first bone Repair Corp., whi c h he would say is like Evan s ’ fi r st coll a b orat ive ventu r es in Sp a ce for Music performa n c e gat h e ring was a living librar y.Some people don’t underst a n d Nas h vil le and on the Van d erbilt cam- actu a lly at Don’s farm in 19 8 5 ,” rec a lls Ger- what Don does because he works in so many p u s . He and his stu dents—most of ber.That initial gat h e ring of ar tis t / mu s i c i a n s di f f erent ways and media and because they are t h em non - a rt majors — c re a ted gi a n t has evol ved to includ e a suc cessful record label, gene ral ly obs e rvers rat h e r than partic i p a n t s . ” i n f l a t a ble sculptu res in a va ri ety of webs i t e and yea r ly performa n c e fes t ival that Ind eed, the chi e f coro ll a ry to Evan s ’“ju s t sh a p es (including a subm a r ine crea t ed Countless other stud ents and fello w artis t s travels to different cities each yea r ,relying on do stuf f ”mo t t o is that partic i p a ti o n is manda- by the swim team) on the lawn in front of th e h ave cl i cked with Eva n s’ ph i l o s ophy over a netw ork of ar tis t / m usicians around the glo be. tory.“The main rule is that there are no spec- old gym. A few yea r s later, Evans coll a b orat ed the ye a rs ,i n cluding Nas h vil le compo s e r and Moog synthesizer pione er Gil Tryth a l , who ta t ors, ”he says. It’s a rule borrowed from the on a series of bl ack inflatable sculptu res on musician Tony Gerber.“D on is one of the pri- t a u ght el ectronic music at Pe a body Co ll ege in t erna ti on a l ly reno wne d Bur ning Man per- the lawn at the Ch ee k wood Mu s eum of Art m a ry inspira ti ons and catalysts that shaped in the 19 7 0 s , was another key co ll a bora tor form a n ce art ex trava ganza held annu a lly in and Botanical Gardens . The heat from the sun the way that I look at perform a n ce , a rt ,a n d with Evans in the early yea rs . Trythal and other the middle of the Nevada des e rt. The event , was su ppo s ed to lift the stru ctu res sky w a rd li fe , ”sa ys Gerber, who first met Evans in 198 2 m em bers of the Little Ma rrowbone Rep a i r in whi c h Evans has partic i p a t ed several tim e s , but ,a f ter rising on ly a little high er than the at the su gge s ti on of Na s hvi lle painter Ca ro l Corp. (as Evan s ’lo ose-knit group of coll a b o- c u l m i n a tes in the bu rning of an en orm o u s trees , the figures co ll a p s ed ,d raping the trees Mode. “I sat in on one of Don’s classes at Van - ra tors is call ed) staged a mem ora ble per- wooden figure over Labor Day week end . Evan s ’ with bl ack plasti c . The po lyet hyl ene re s ti n g derbilt and immedi a t ely was forma n c e art piece on the lawn of the Part h en o n own vers i on of Bu rning Ma n ,s ome wo u l d on the grass also steril i z ed the lawn and in 198 0 . “We recre a t ed in human tableaux the sa y, ar e his Bur ning Banjo even t s ,s t a ged for Chee k w ood had to re- s o d the f ri e zes on the Pa rt h en on , using 21 peop l e ,” the past few yea r s on Evan s ’ fa rm . The event en ti re are a .“ If you do stu f f , Evans rec a ll s .“The Buf f oon Mobile (a work- cu l m i n a t es in the igni t ing of fi r eworks affixed so one r or later, you wil l get in ing vehi c le that is one of Evan s ’ si gn a tu r e cre- to 30-foot tall figures playing banjos and other tro u bl e ,” Evans obs e rves . ati o ns) carrie d on a wic ker trellis fille d wit h musical instrum en t s . Neverth el e s s , Evan s ’ mo t t o fi r eworks and crea t ed a smoke screen to ob- remains exa ctl y that—“just do st ruc t the audienc e’s vie w while the table a u x ea ching art at Van d er- at ive, ”Evans says. “I motivate ,c a j o l e , push and stu f f . ”That also sums up his ap- was gett ing in place. ” bilt Un ivers i ty has its get in the way—I don’t tea ch. ” proach to tea ching art.“ D on does - The Pa rt h en on proj ect marked the firs t tch a ll en ge s , ob s erve s John Gui d er wasn’t planning to be an artis t n’t hold your hand as a time Evans used fireworks in perform a n ce Evan s . “The scho ol as a who l e whe n he enro ll e d in Van d erbilt Uni versi t y as te ach er—he demands that yo u and led to other pyrot echnic even t s ,i n clud - has no sense of the arts , ” he an engi n e ering major in the mid-1960s— until cre a te , ”sa ys pho t ograph e r Stacey ing proj ects with David Ha ll .“ Don and I sa ys.“ B ut if you come to Van - he took one of Eva n s’ cl a s s e s .“ Don was the Irvin , a 199 8 gradua t e from Van - shared an interest in fireworks,so we spent derbilt and are motivat ed you one perso n in the world who said to me that derbilt and win n e r of the Mar ga r et ma n y hours at his farm playing with and ex- can certa i n l y do crea t ive things it was okay to be an artis t , ” sa ys Gui d er, who S ton ew a ll Woo l d ri d ge Ha m bl et peri m en ting with firework s ,f i re a rms and in any med i a . On the other gradua t ed with a degree in engi n e ering in 196 7 Awa rd . With the $16,000 Ham bl e t cheap beer,” s ays Ha ll , a Mi n n e s o t a - b a s ed ha n d , you don’t have a cadr e but went on to become a fine arts pho t ogra- grant Irvin journe yed throu g h Chi n a , ar tist known for his pyrot echnic perform- of ot h e r stud ents to bou n c e phe r.“Some of Don’s stud ents exp res s e d frus - Tib et, Nepal and Pakistan for fou r an c es who met Evans while tea ching a de- t h i n gs of f of .” That never trati o n that he didn’t tea ch art from a ‘ho w to’ mo nths shoot ing the pho t ograph s sign class at Vanderbilt. Fascinated by the st opped Evans from enco u r - persp ective, ”sa ys Gui d er.“To Don ,a rt is a state- that were fea tu r ed in an solo exh i bi t po s s i bi l i ties of we a ra ble firework s , Ha ll ag ing his stud ents to exp l o re me nt of ho w you live your life rat h e r than wha t at the Van d erbilt Fine Arts Galle ry and Evans spent six months re s e a rch i n g t h eir arti s tic side s . “I think you produce . ” in 2001. “To be forced to come up the idea and crea t ed Hall ’ s first “li ving py- everyone is po ten ti a lly cre- Evan s ’ tea ching career has not been wit h -

38 V A N D E R B I L T M A G A Z I N E SPRING 2002 39 se eing Van d erbilt stud ents prote s t - everyone got into the act, covering the fram e - in g ,”Evans says. “The y marche d work with the cont ents of the shopping bags. and carri ed signs re ading ‘ Don At the same tim e ,s om e one found a rol l of blue Evans for Ch a n cell or ’ and ‘Na z i t a pe and form er stu dents began to spon t a- U.’I’ d have been fired if not for the neo u s l y affix bits of ta p e to Evan s ’fra m e d art- AL U M N I NEWS s tu dents because they made the work—a nod to the practic e of at t a ching a bit is s ue publi c . ” of pa p er to the strong est works on display dur - On the occa s i o n of Evan s ’re- ing Eva n s’ cl a s s room cri ti que session s . Th e tir eme nt in Decemb er 2001,Van - cr owd also enj o yed refre s h m en t s ,i n c luding a Clubs In Actio n derbil t ’s Sar ratt Galle ry pres en t ed m i n i a tu re Bu f foon Mobile made of veget a- News from Nashville California Cruisin’ “D on’s Big Show,”a retros p ective bl e s ,c re a ted by forme r stud ent and pho t og- ■ Van d erbilt Club memb ers and basketba l l ■ Ch a n cell or Gordon Gee joi n ed exh i b it that includ ed 100 works raph e r Buffy Hol t on. fans cele brat ed 50 yea r s of “M emo rial Magi c ” Alumni Ass oc i a ti o n Pres i d ent Steve by Evans and a qui n te s s en t ial Evan s Most art exh i b its includ e a prin t ed artis t ’s on Feb.2. More than 450 cele brants gat h e red Riven, BA’6 0 , at alumni club event s coll a b orat ive art installa ti on . Whe n s t a tem en t ,u su a lly con s i s ting of e s o teric re- at the Uni versi t y Club prio r to the Van d erbil t in Los An geles and San Fra n c i s co. guests arrived at the gall e ry, th e y fl e ctio ns on the artis t ’s crea t ive proces s . Evan s ’ versus Tenn e s s e e gam e . The Nas h vil le Van d erbil t The cha n c ello r spok e on topics ran g - s aw 100 of what Eva n s’ c a lls his st a t eme nt was prin t ed on the back of a paper Club ’s special events comm i t t ee, cha i r ed by ing from his goals for the universi - “di n k y little digital images ”fra m e d fan—the front of whi c h bore the likeness of Bil ly Ray Cal d well, BA’ 8 5 ,p l a n n ed the event . ty, stu d ents and alumni to the futur e and hanging on the wall. On the the artist himsel f . “The one hu n d red small Roy Neel, BA’7 2 , emc eed the program that of Comm o dore athletic s . Cha n c ello r fl o or in neat rows of ten were 100 di g ital images , the stage performa n c e (if you recogni z ed the 1952-53 men’s basketba l l tea m , Ge e also plans to travel to Memph i s , s h opping bags fill ed with wh a t can call it that) and the One Hu n d red Ba g the first to play in Memo rial Gym .E l even tea m Ch i c a go, Co lu m bus and Ch a t t a- Evans would call “stu f f ”gle a n e d Event pret ty mu ch sum up how I feel abo ut mem b ers and coaches return e d to campus for n ooga a lumni clubs in upcom i n g f rom his home and stu d i o.Th e th i n gs , ” Evans write s . “I have worked my way the cel ebra ti on , and the team was hon ored months. c rowd of n e a rly 300 people was th ro u g h art and come out the other side. I no dur ing a special half-time ceremo ny. Neel, a us h e red by a bagpi p er into the au- lon g er feel it neces s a r y to jus t ify my work as Vanderbilt student Monica Wattana, ’03, and her father form er Com m odore basketb a ll manager, i s Way Out West di t orium , with ran d om audienc e eit h e r art or not. In fact, to quo t e from Mar - Montri Wattana visited with Chancellor Gee in Los Angeles. aut h o r of Dyna m i t e! 75 Yea r s of Van d e rbilt Bas - ■ Hou s t on res i d ents Joh n n y,BE’ 6 7 , mem b ers receiving a slip of pa p er sh a l l McLu h a n , I would like to think ‘I do every- ketbal l, pu bl i s h e d in 197 5 . (Trivia item: The and Ann , BA’6 7 , Joh n s o n wil l serve corres p onding to a label on one thing the best I can.’” book was ded i c a ted to Va n dy icon Rich a r d as the gene ral co- ch a i r s for Reun i on , of the shopping bags. Bak er, cre a t or of the dou b le dust mop tech- pa r t of the ext raV U ganza 2002 alum - In the auditoriu m , ni q ue used to rene w the hardwood cou r t sur - ni week end (Oct .2 5 - 2 6 ,2 0 0 2 . ) the audien ce was fa ce at halftim e ; “To Rich a r d Bak er whose smile Also in Hou s t on ,a lumni join e d ou t cont roversy .In 199 4 , a female stud ent who trea t ed to a vid eo comp i l a ti o n of is like a 10-point lead with a minute to play.”) to watch the Van d y-UT gam e .D a ll a s was off end ed by images shown in one of Evan s ’ Eva n s’ a rt proj ects from 19 6 7 - The Na s hvi lle Va n derbilt Club also wel- ar ea alumni did the same. pho t ograp hy classes levele d cha r g es of sex u a l 20 0 1 , ele ctronic mus i c ,f l a m i n g o com ed Bobby Jo h n s on , Va n dy ’s new head Ho u s ton alumni launch ed the h a ra s s m ent at Eva n s .S tu dents had been as- d a n c i n g, and a vi deo firework s foo tb a ll coach . He plans to visit nu m ero u s n ew “lu n ch eon clu b” with spec i a l si gn e d by Evans to report on the pho t ograph e r fi n a l e . al umni clubs in the near future . guest Don North , BA’ 6 9 ,h e ad m a s- of th e ir choi c e and images by the cont roversi a l The n the partic i p a ti o n began ter of the Kinkaid Schoo l , Hou s t on’s Robert Mapp l et h o rpe were pres en t ed duri n g in earn e s t . Those who had re- A Taste of the South la r g est privat e schoo l . one stud ent ’s report. Evans also displayed some ceived a slip of p a per were in- ■ Alumni in Lou i s vi l le and Lexi n g t on vis i t - Mea n whi l e , in Aus ti n , club mem- of his own work ,i n cluding nud e self - p ortrai t s . st ruc ted to retrie ve the appropria t e ed the Speed Art Mu s eum in Lo u i s vi lle for bers en j oyed happy hour at the (left to right) Janet Lee, BS’00, Jan Riven, and Lisa Koch, The matter was eventu a l ly dropped but not be- sh o pping bag and begin using its BA ’92, joined alumni to hear Chancellor Gee speak at San “ Brush with Hi s tory: Pa i n ti n gs from the D ra u ght House Pub and Brewery. fore muc h pain was inflicted on Evans and his cont ents to crea t e on a wooden Francisco alumni gathering. Na ti onal Portrait Gall ery.”Va n dy assoc i a te The re was a great turn o ut . f a m i ly, who were caught up in the en su i n g f ra m ework at one end of t h e profe s s or of a rt history and Am erican and The San Ant onio club join e d to watch the Fun in Florida me dia circ u s .“ It’s the onl y time I remem b er gall e ry. Over the next two hours, Sout h e rn studies Vivie n Fryd lectur ed on the Van d y-UT basketba l l dou bl eh e a der. ■ In Gainesville,alumni showed their sup- 75 paintin g s of Ame rican state s m en ,a rtis t s , Alumni in the Little Rock and Kansas Cit y port for Van d y men and wome n’s basketba l l i nven tors , wri ters , edu c a tors and scien ti s t s clubs also gat h e red to watch the gam e . at the Cent ral Florida Club ’s “An Aft erno on da t ing back to the 18th centu r y. of Ba s ketb a ll .” The group met for lu n ch at In At l a n t a ,a lumni atten ded the At l a n t a East of the Mississippi The Swamp and ven tu red to the Va n dy - Symph o ny Orche s t ra with Mich a el Ale c Ros e , ■ Pi t t s bu r g h alumni gat h e red for drinks and Florida game. a s s oc i a te profe s s or of com po s i ti on at the conversa ti o n at a happy hour at Doc’s Place Alumni in Orl a n do and Palm Be ach / Blair Sch ool of Mu s i c . Rose lectu red on in Shadyside. Brow a rd Co u n ty ga t h ered for the tel evi s ed Beeth o ven’s Overtur e to Egmo nt and Conc erto The Memp his and North Car olina Tria n gl e game. No.3, and Smet a n a ’s Thr ee Symph o nic Poems clubs ga t h ered in their re s pective cities for fr om Ma vla s t , performe d later in the eveni n g . the VU-UT basketball games.

40 V A N D E R B I L T M A G A Z I N E SPRING 2002 41 ww w. va n d erbil t . e du/ a lu m n i All FIND OUT WHAT YOU CAN DO ONLINE he Van d erbilt alumni Web site has in- VU res e a r ch advan ce s , and Comm o dore CLASS NO T E S form a ti on abo ut everything we do at h l e tic s . It’s a great way to stay in tou c h wit h stu d ent s , in Alumni Rel a ti on s ,i n cluding the what is happening on campus. To sub s c ri be , T ews for this sectio n should be lus t rat or and facu l t y memb er at the fa m i l y farm in Pikevill e , Tenn . , whe re Ad ri on Bai r d, MA , is now a Alumni Ass oc i a ti on , the upcoming ext raV U - u p d a te your e-mail ad d ress thro u gh se nt to Nels o n Bryan , cla s s Rin g ling Scho ol of Art and Des i g n in she was born. She is the Bled s o e Cou n t y fr uit farme r and cou n t y com- pa r ent s , ganza week end (Reun i on / H ome comi n g , Oct . Dore2 D ore, or e-mail Lew.Ha r ris @ va n d er- Nno t es edi t or, Van d e rbil t Sa ra s o t a ,F l a . , is the reci p i e nt of 20 0 1 hi s t orian and previo u s l y worked for 42 m i s s i on er in Cam p bell Cou n t y, 25-26 2002), na ti o nwid e alumni event s , on- bil t . e du your full name, degree/ c lass yea r , Maga z i n e , Box 7703 Statio n B, Nas h vill e , Dis ti n g u i s h e d Educ a t or in the Arts yea r s with the Bled s o e Cou n t y Depa r t- ’59 Tenn . His previous career in- line gi f t s , online event regi s tra ti on ,a lu m n i and your current e-mail add re s s . T N ,3 7 2 3 5 ,f a x :6 1 5 / 3 4 3 - 8 5 4 7 , or e-mail: Awa rd , pres en t ed in New York by the me nt of Edu c a ti on . Fred Taylo r,BA, clud ed working with the Georg ia fri en d s , van d erbil tm a ga z i n e @ va n d erbil t . e du. Soci e ty of Illus t rat ors. Es t h e r Kin g was named a Was h i n g t onian of the Yea r , Depa r tme nt of Edu c a ti on , U.S . Depa r t- travel program s ,a l umni club s , young alum n i / s t u- Alumni Club Events and Web pages: Wit h Please includ e your degree, yea r ,an d , “Ja n i e ”Ma rs h, BA’5 1 , of Some rvill e , 20 0 1 , by Was h i n g to n i a n ma ga z i n e . For me nt of Edu c a ti on , and as a director of dent informa ti o n and muc h more. whe n app l i c a bl e ,m a i den name.You also Tenn . , finds that her English major is 35 ye a rs , he has headed For Love of al t erna t ive tea che r certif i c a ti o n to for- 70 Van d erbilt alumni clubs acr oss the natio n & alum n i can send us news or update your add re s s sti l l a help . She works part time at a Chi l d r en (FLOC) , building from a part- me r Tenn e s s e e Governo r Lam a r Here are a few highl i g hts of what you wil l ho s t ing 250 events annua l ly, th e re’s alwa ys and other bio grap hical informa ti o n sm a l l librar y in Whi t evill e , Tenn . “I am time program to a 130-staff, $10 milli o n Alex a n d er, BA’6 2 . He also edi t ed Pag e di s c over onl i n e : som e thing going on. Upcoming events are ele ctroni c a l ly throu g h forms on the the staff,”she write s , “and enj o y the non p rofit program serving 1,200 chi l - One , the publi c a ti o n of the largest edu- welc ome ! pos t ed on the alumni Web site, or you can al umni home page at work ,a f ter qui t e a few yea r s working in dr en a yea r . c a ti on orga n i z a ti o n in Georgi a . J. O. Do re 2 D o re : VU ’ s free online alumni com- ww w. va n d e rbil t . e du/ a l u m n i . a book s t ore in Memph i s . Keeps the Bass Jr., BA ,L L B’ 6 1 , of Nas h vil le was link directl y to the individ ual alumni club mu n i ty. At ww w. d ore2 d ore. n e t we off er mind worki n g ! ” James M. Sl oa n , Paul H. Barnett,BA,MD’58, sel e cted for inclus i o n in the 2001-2002 BA’5 1 , of Little Rock, Ark. , writ es that Web pages for informa ti on . REUNION OCTOBER 25-26, 2002 was appointed clinical director edi ti o n of The Best Lawy ers in Ame ric a al umni an online alumni directory, a perma - he retir ed from the practic e of gyn e col - of medicine at Vanderbilt Med- for his practic e in banking law and cor- Celebrate n ent alumni e-mail ad d re s s , and the Alumni Publications: Now you can rea d Lang Wrot on, BA’3 6 , ogy in 199 5 . ’55 ical Center. He and his wife, porat e law. Jane Holmes Dixon,BA, Comm o dore Car eer Conn e ctio n netw ork. c u rrent and recent issues of Va n d erbi l t L’3 8 , G’3 7 , of Sal em , Paula,are very proud of their four little MA T’6 2 , was named a Was h i n g t oni a n O re . ,h ad a poem ,“ I Ken Berryhi l l,BA, of grandsons,“all of whom are avid Com- of the Yea r , 20 0 1 , by Was h i n g to n i a n Alumni can also update their cont a ct infor- Maga z i n e or individ ual schoo l ’ s alumni pub- the Class QUINQBeli e ve” pu bl i s h e d by Nas h vill e , was hono red whe n a modore fans.”As a Vanderbilt student, ma ga z i n e . She is Epi s c opal bis h o p of ma ti o n online with VU , or volu n t eer to help li c a ti o n throu g h the alumni Web site. Perus e the Int erna ti o nal Librar y of Poetry. room in the Van d erbilt radi o Barnett was on the varsity swim team, Was h i n g t on pro temp ore and is known stu d ents and other alumni with their career a rti cles from the most current issue or Eun i c e Moe Brock, BS N ’ 4 1 , writ es that ’52s t a ti on WR VU was named for freshman basketball team,and played for tea ching tol e ran c e and togeth e r- of 2002 hi m . He operat ed the first campus sta- in the marching band. ne s s . She is pres i d ent of the Int erfa i t h choi ce s . rerea d a favorit e artic le from a past issue . she return e d to China (whe re she was born to missiona r y parents 82 yea r s tio n while a stud ent and enco u ra g ed All i a n ce , whi c h promo t es reli g ious and To access these password- p rot ected serv- Alumni can fill out an online form to subm i t Dance to before) to live in a vill a g e near whe re the adm i n i s t rati o n to establish a full- REUNION OCTOBER 25-26, 2002 so cial jus ti c e and has been at the fore- ice s , please visit www.d ore2 d ore. n e t and fol - “Class Note s ” to Van d e rbilt Maga z i n e . she grew up. A local hospital in the city fl ed g ed broadcast stud i o . He conti nu e s fr ont of the fight for fair housing and KC and the lo w the instruc tio ns for first time users. If ma de her hono rar y pres i d ent at the on the air with a week l y two- h o u r Alan I. Kirshner,BA,was hon- fair trea tm e nt of those on welf a re . Other Services: The alumni Web site also dedi c a ti o n of the rena m e d Liaochen g broadcast and bil ls himself as the ored by the Richmond,Va., Mar y Kennan Herbert,BA ,p u bl i s h ed you don’t have your PIN , fi l l out the Help Sunshine Band off ers an online “Find an Alum ” se rvic e in Int erna ti o nal Pea ce Hos p i t a l . She is “World ’ s Olde s t - L i ving Disc Jockey.” chapter of the National Confer- Coasts: A Colle c tion of Poems Bound by Desk form to obtain one . working towa r d brin g ing Har ry Old - E. Allan Bla i r , BA’5 2 , of Fl a gs t a f f , Ariz . , ’57 ence for Community and Jus- the Sea (Me a dow Green Pres s ) . She is add i ti o n to Dore2 D ore’s online directory. fi e ld from England to demon s t rat e his was gran t ed the Blue C ross Blue S h i el d tice for humanitarian contributions to an adju n c t associ a t e profes s o r of En g - .C o m m o d o re e-newsletter: This free , Add i ti on a l ly, we off er free “Van d - e - g ram ” Pol ycont rast Int erferenc e Photograp hy of Ariz ona 2001 Ageless Hero Awa r d the Richmond community. Chairman lish at the Brook l yn campus of Long Is- Thursday, online mont h l y alumni newsl et t er is sent to online pos tc a rd s , and secu r e online giving so that shows ener g y fields of the body in for Vig or and Vit a l i t y. He also was fea - and CEO of the Markel Corp.,he is ac- land Uni versi t y. M .T h omas Ing e, MA , tur ed on the front page of the Arizo n a tive in many philanthropic organiza- Ph D’ 6 4 , Bla ckw ell Profes s o r of E n gl i s h al l alumni who have provid ed an e-mail al umni may give to VU via the Int ernet . col o r on a comp u ter. Wal t er A. Sne ll, May 9, 2002 BA’4 2 , a retir ed pha rm a ceutical sales- Dai l y Sun . F.Beth Stone , MA , of tions. He is co-founder of the Autism and Hum a n i t ies at Ran do l ph - M acon add r ess to VU . It is e-mailed onc e a mont h Links to these servic es and to the Class Note s man from Ram on a , Cal i f . , writ es that Eva n s vi ll e , Ind . , writ es that she stil l Center of Virginia and founder and Coll e ge in Ash l a n d , Va. , was given the 9:00-11:30pm and contains informa ti o n abou t VU in the form may be found at www.d ore2 d ore. n et . cu r rent l y he is a house owne r and land works part time practicing clinical psy- chairman of the Partnership for the Go verning Boar d Awa r d by the Ame ri- cho l o gy at the Sout h wes t ern Ind i a n a ne ws, na ti o nwid e alumni event s , cla s s m a t e (U pcoming servic es includ e alumni discus- develo per and comp l e ted and sold a Future,a group of businesses that hires can Cu l tu re Ass oc i a ti o n for “out s t a n d - Hill Center Lawn, 33 0 - ac r e 28-lot sub d i vis i o n in Ram on a . Mental Health Cent er. She also en- minority students for summer jobs ing cont rib uti on s”to the stud y of accomp l i s h m e nts and favorit e profes s o rs, si o n grou p s , so stay tun ed ! ) Fred Cloud, BA’4 4 , Md iv ’ 4 7 ,D Mi n’ 9 0 , roll e d as a part- t ime stud ent at Van d er- and helps them go to college. He is a Ame rican civil i z a ti o n and soci e ty. Peabody Campus of Nas h vill e , comp eted in the Ten- bilt Divin i t y Sch oo l ,“and I care abou t past recipient of the Jewish Communi- ne s s e e Seni o r Games in swim m i n g rea ding learne d artic les by profes s o rs! ” ty Center’s Bernstein Award for out- Tom Brag g, BE , is in his 13th event s , winning three gold medals in standing community service. year at the Army’ s Reds t one Arse - his age group (75-79), the 50m, 10 0 m , Art Paty,BA, writes that he nal in Hun t s vi ll e , Ala . , as depu ty $10 General Admission Celebrate Vanderbilt Basketball and 200m backs t roke . It was his and his wife, Katharine,are ex- Alicia Gull e tt Kemp ,BA ,m a r- ’61di r ector of the Technical Man a g e- Cash Bar/Light Fare ele venth year of comp etiti on . T.G. cited about the pending publi- rie d Georg e O. McC ormi c k on me nt Dir ectorat e of the Res e a r ch Devel- In Your Home cation this spring of her new June 25, 20 0 0 . She is a retir ed opme nt and Engin e ering Cent er. Free admission for all Pap p a s ,A’ 4 8 ,L L B’ 4 9 , was sele cted for ’53 in c lus i o n in the 2001-2002 edi ti o n of book, The Paty Plan: Flavor Without ’58 me ntal health cou n s el o r, and he Previo u s l y he spent ten yea r s in the U.S . Basketball legend Jerry Southwood, BA’67, and graduating VU students The Best Lawy ers in Ame ric a for his Fat, An Eight-Week Guide to erP manent is a minister in the Chur ches of Chri s t Navy on nuc lear subm a r ines and 18 other NVC volunteers produced an exciting le gal abil i t ies in the practic e of corpo- Weight Loss.They live in Atlanta. and a seni o r mechanical engi n e er. In at- yea r s with TVA as a plant sup erin t end - 30-minute video that relives the magic of rat e law. Susie Sims Irvin , BA’ 4 9 ,h ad tend a n c e at the wedding were her two ent at Belle font e Nuc lear Power Plant. Dot t y Jac obs ,BA, received the Memorial Gym,including the most memorable he r first hardb a ck book , Cl o uds for the da u gh t ers ,i n cluding Elaine Kemp Rus s e ll F.Morris Jr.,BA ,J D’ 6 4 , was se- Questions? www.vanderbilt.edu/theparty Tabl e , pu bl i s h e d by Provid enc e Pub - Young Fam i l y Awa r d for Profes - Kig er, BS’ 8 2 , and his two daught ers. le cted for inclus i o n in the 2001-2002 E-mail us at [email protected] moments in Commodore men’s and women’s lishing in Fran k l i n , Tenn . The book si o nal Excellen c e from the Jew- The y live in Dalton ,G a . Sa r ah Byrn edi ti o n of The Best Lawy ers in Ame ric a or call (615) 343-7787 basketball history. Copies of the video are contains her poetry and pho t ograph s ’54ish Endowme nt Fou n d a ti o n in Evans Rick m a n ,BA, of Cent ervill e , in the field of la b or and emp l o ymen t available for purchase for $10 (plus $3 postage of he r paintin gs . She rea d from the New Orle a n s . She was hono red as an Oh i o , is auth o r of The Orig inals: Th e la w. Ed Thacks t on, BE ,P h D’ 6 6 , Van d er- book at the Sout h e rn Fes t ival of Book s at t orne y who “dem on s trat ed ext rao rdi - Wom e n’s Auxi l i a r y Ferrying Squadron of bilt profes s o r of ci vil and envir onm en t a l and handling) from the Alumni Relations on a panel that includ ed Van d erbil t na r y conc ern for the futur e of Jud a i s m Wor ld War II, the true story of the first engi n e erin g , was sele cted Engin e er of Office. Call 615-322-2929 or e-mail Boar d of Trust memb er Rebecca Webb and for her cli e nts by enco u ra g ing tax- 28 wome n pilots to ferry airplanes for the Year by the Mid d le Tenn e s s e e Cha p - [email protected]. Wil s o n, BA’6 5 , who is auth o r of So n g s wise planned giving to JEF.”Eli z a b eth the Army. The book is publi s h e d by ter of the Tenn e s s e e Soci e ty of Profes - of Natu re . Th o mas B.Alle n,A’5 0 , an il- P.Robnet t , M A ,E d S’ 5 7 , is living on the Dis c - U s Books of Sa ra s o t a ,F l a . si o nal Engin e ers.

V A N D E R B I L T M A G A Z I N E SPRING 2002 43 REUNION OCTOBER 25-26, 2002 tion of The Best Lawyers in America in hospital’s mechanical systems. He is Truman Memorial VA Hospital,and Nas h vill e , was sele cted for inclus i o n in Virginia Caruso,BA,was pro- Douglas C.Welsh,BA, featured his REUNION OCTOBER 25-26, 2002 the field of tax law and trusts and es- executive vice president and an owner an investigator with the Mount Desert the 2001-2002 edi ti o n of The Bes t filed in the June 24,2001, edi- original portrait oil paintings in his Wade H.Coleman,BA, a Val- tates. Doug Ligon,BA,was a national of Cates Sheetmetal Industries in Island Biological Laboratory in Maine. Lawy ers in Ame ric a in the field of em- tion of the Huntsville Times first one-man show,“Portrait Stories, Roger Jackle, DMin,was elect- dosta,Ga.,attorney, became a finalist for the Country Doctor of the Lenexa, Kan. Fred Thompson, JD,U.S. Kevin E. Grady,BA, of Atlanta,was pl o yee bene fits law. Jeff B. Lo ve,BA, ’73 newspaper for her community Time Redeemed,” last spring in Rich- ed to the Senate, which is the Fellow of the American College Year Award. He was honored at Trinity Senator from Tennessee,was presented elected vice chair of the American Bar was ele cted managing partne r of th e involvement and serving as chair- mond, Va. In 1999,he was featured in governing body of the Acade- ’62 of Trial Lawyers during a cere- Hospital in Erin, Tenn., with a com- a Good Guy Award by the Nashville Association’s Section of Antitrust Law Hou s t on off i c e of Locke Liddell & Sap p. woman of the 2001 Symphony Ball article in Hamburger Abendblattabout ’77my of Senior Professionals at mony at the College’s annual meeting memorative lab coat and plaque for Women’s Political Caucus for showing at the annual ABA meeting in Chicago. He also was hono red by the Jewis h fundraiser for the Huntsville Sympho- his efforts to locate lost family mem- Eckerd College in South Petersburg, in New Orleans. Peter C.(Cheng L.) being a finalist. Jerry Reves,BA,was extraordinary support for women’s is- Shirley M. Jones, MA’69,former assis- Commu n i t y Cent er and the Scott De- ny Orchestra. Carol Castleberry,BA, bers in Germany. Fla. Joan C. Mahery, BS,married Lai, MS,PhD’66, retired from the U.S. appointed vice president for medical sues and the promotion of women in tant dean of students at Vanderbilt pa r tme nt of Urol o gy at Baylo r Coll e ge joined the Tampa,Fla.,law firm of David Charles Vogt on April 12,2001. Government Printing Office in 1999 affairs and dean of the College of Med- the workplace. (1969-1974),was named outstanding of Medicine for his leadership cont rib u- Fowler White Gillen Boggs Villareal & Murfy Alexander,BA,joined She and her husband live in Asheville, after 25 years of service. His retirement icine at the Medical University of faculty member in school counseling tio ns to the commu n i t y. Joe McLa u g h- Banker as an associate in the casualty the Nashville public relations N.C., where she is a real estate parale- plans include overseas travel and vol- South Carolina in Charleston. Previ- Lee Barfield,BA,JD’74,was at the University of Texas at Tyler by li n ,BA ,M A’ 7 3 ,P h D’ 7 9 , was appoin t ed department. Kacky Fell,BA,MEd’85, firm of Dye, Van Mol & gal with the law firm of Roberts & unteer work. Miriam Meyers,BA, ously he was professor and chairman selected for inclusion in the the Psi Chi chapter of the National by Tenn e s s e e Governo r Don Sun d qu i s t changed careers after 23 years in an in- ’75 Lawrence as senior vice presi- Stevens. Jeffrey B.Markel,BA,was released a new book, Mothers’ and of the Department of Anesthesiology 2001-2002 edition of The Best Psychology Honor Society and Associ- to direct the newly crea t ed Chi l d r en’s formation technology job at American dent and group director. She formerly named managing partner and presi- Daughters’ Connections Through Food. at Duke. Betty Schonrock,BA, of ’68 Lawyers in America in the fields ation of Psychology Students for 2000 Health Ini ti a t ive, a program to coordi - General Insurance Company. She now was vice president of public relations dent of Longboat Capital Manage- She is a professor of literature and lan- Huntsville, Ala.,was awarded the Gov- of business litigation,health care law and 2001. Edward A. Swabb, BE,was na t e var ious health servic es provid ed to works full time at her photography for the Swatch Group U.S.Barbara ment,a Pittsburgh, Penn.-based guage at Metropolitan State University ernor’s Arts Award in recognition of and personal injury and civil litigation. named senior vice president and head Tenn e s s e e chi l d r en. A child psycho l o - studio,Hatcher & Fell Photography in Chandler, BSN,a pediatric nurse investment management firm. S. Lane in Minneapolis, Minn. her many years of contributions to the Florine Watson Harper, BS,MA’70, of development of Myriad Pharmaceu- gis t , he had been in privat e practic e in Nashville, with business partner Phil practitioner in Atlanta, traveled with a Rutledge,BA,is an associate professor arts.She has supported the Huntsville writes that her husband, Buford,died ticals. He is responsible for pre-clinical Brent w ood since 199 4 . Lar ry Moore, Hatcher, BA’71. Don Johnson,BA, a medical team sponsored by the Presby- of pediatrics and neurology at the Uni- Barbara Hansen Cleveland, Museum of Art Foundation, in June 2001,two months shy of their and clinical studies through regulatory BA, is an assistant profes s o r at the Uni - priest in the Episcopal Church,was terian Church of America to the earth- versity of Alabama at Birmingham.She BA, of Nashville,was selected Huntsville Symphony Orchestra, 60th anniversary. A retired speech approval on therapeutic programs. Ed versi t y of Memp his Coll e ge of Bus i n e s s . consecrated in Memphis as the new quake region of India to provide writes that she is “the proud mother of to represent Tennessee at Geog- Constitution Hall Village, Historic therapist from the Tennessee School Turner, BE,was appointed vice presi- He is a past pres i d ent of the Sout h e a s t - Episcopal bishop of West Tennessee, medical care to survivors.She then Mary Rose Rutledge,” adopted in Nan- ’63raphy Awareness Week 2001, Huntsville Foundation, Community for the Blind,she now sp ends time be- dent of strategic alliances and solu- ern Aca demy of Legal Studies in Bus i - spiritual leader of 13,000 members. traveled on to Bangladesh to visit chang,China. David Simmons, JD, a national workshop hosted by the Ballet Association, Burritt Museum, tween her children in Pelham, Ala.,and tions at Gadzoox Networks,a San Jose, ness and has writ t en a num b er of Edward Lauing, MDiv, was named Vandy alums Cheryl Shephard was elected to the Florida House of National Geographic Society, the Con- and Huntsville Botanical Garden, Fredericksburg,Va. John H. Martin, Calif.-based supplier of intelligent ar ticl e s , pres en t a ti on , boo k s ,m a ga z i n e president and CEO of NUASIS Corpo- Schroeder, BSN,and her husband Representatives in November 2000. He servation Fund and Coca Cola. Jane among others. BA,a Dallas attorney, is a recipient of storage area network (SAN) products. ar ticl e s , and appea r ed in two independ - ration,a developer of IP-based multi- Don Schroeder, BE, who are mission- was appointed to the rules, ethics and M. Fabian,BA,managing director of the Outstanding State Leadership Steve Turner,BA,and his wife, Judy, ent films. Bob Sweene y,BA, was ap- channel contact center software aries. Nancy Wells Finnerty,BA, of elections committee,the committee on the Nashville Ballet,was awarded the John Steele Gordon,BA, a Award from the Defense Research In- were named Outstanding Nashvillians poin t ed by the Bank of Ame rica to the located in San Jose, Calif. Zephyr Hills,Fla.,was appointed by insurance,and the elder and long-term 2001 Equinox Award by the Advisory writer and commentator on stitute,the nation’s largest association of the Year by the Kiwanis Club of pos i ti o n of in ves tm e nts execu tive for Florida Governor Jeb Bush to the care committee. He is an attorney in Committee for Nashville Ballet’s public radio’s Marketplace, was of civil litigation defense attorneys. Nashville. They spearheaded the rede- Nas h vil le and the lower Mid west regio n Skip Bayless,BA,last spring board of directors of the Florida Longwood,Fla.,and was listed by Masked Ball. The Award recognizes in- ’66featured in the final two Max Michael,BA,was named dean for velopment of Nashville’s Gulch and that includ es Ark a n s a s ,O k l a h om a ,a n d was named Illinois Sports- Healthy Kids Corporation,Florida Florida Trend Magazineas one to dividuals who have made outstanding episodes of Ric Burns’ New York: A the School of Public Health at the Uni- have long been champions of nonprof- Sp rin gf i el d , Mo. writer of the Year by the Na- Academy of Physicians. J.Andrew watch as a future leader in the Florida contributions to dance in America. Documentary Filmon PBS last fall. versity of Alabama at Birmingham. it and civic organizations that impact a ’74 tional Sportscasters and Goddard, BE, of Nashville,was select- legislature. Larry Utley,BA,lives in Jim O’Hare,BA,JD’65, of Nashville, Frisco, Texas, with his wife, Cindy, and Randy Humble,BA, of Knoxville,was spectrum of issues, ranging from the REUNION OCTOBER 25-26, 2002 Sportswriters Association for his ed for inclusion in the 2001-2002 edi- was selected for inclusion in the 2001- elected and currently serves as presi- Heraclio E.Atencio Bello,BA, arts to healthcare. columns at the Chicago Tribune. He tion of The Best Lawyers in America in three children. He works in the optical 2002 edition of The Best Lawyers in dent of the Tennessee Trial Lawyers As- practices law in Caracas, Chris Barnard,BA,was pro- has since moved on to write for The the field of environmental law and nat- networking industry developing tech- America in the field of tax law and sociation. William N.Ozier,BA, Venezuela. He is president of James Patterson, MA,was fea- moted to senior vice president Mercury Newsin San Jose, Calif. Perry ural resources. Johanna Guehl,BA, nology to reduce the size of telecom- trusts and estates. JD’69, of Nashville,was selected for in- ’69the Canadian-Venezuelan tured in the St. Petersburg at Clariant Corporation’s Char- Brandt,BA,JD’77,is a lawyer in and her sister, Allysn Hurley, BS’79, munications equipment while clusion in the 2001-2002 edition of Chamber of Commerce, president of Timesnewspaper last April. A ’72 lotte headquarters. J. Zachary Kansas City, Mo., with the firm he launched Whiskers ’n Wags,an e-com- extending its capacity. Martin Zorn, Aubrey Harwell,BA,manag- The Best Lawyers in America in the the Venezuela Positive Foundation, ’70popular novelist,his book, Bedford, BE,was named vice p resi- helped found in 1997, Berkowitz Feld- merce site designed for cats, dogs,and BA,left Wachovia Bank after 20 years ing partner in the firm of Neal field of labor and employment law. and president of the Writer’s Circle. Along Came a Spider, was made into a dent of management practices for the miller Stanton Brandt Williams & their owners based in Pittsburgh, and joined Integra Bank in Evansville, & Harwell,was presented a Cheryl Blackburn,BA,MA’72, judge movie and debuted in theaters last western region of Pleasanton, Calif.- Shaw. He practices business litigation Penn. Ind.,as executive vice president and Good Guy Award by the manager of commercial banking and ’64 REUNION OCTOBER 25-26, 2002 of Division III Criminal Court of spring.Another of his books in the based ATC Associates,a national and was named in the 2001-2002 edi- Nashville Women’s Political Caucus for Davidson County, was elected a Fellow same Alex Cross series, Kiss the Girls, provider of professional services ad- tion of The Best Lawyers in America. James A.Hoobler, MA,was metro markets. showing extraordinary support for Howard C. Derrick III,BA, of the Tennessee Bar Foundation. debuted in movie theaters in 1997 with dressing environmental, building and Gail A.Canizares,BA,and her hus- elected chair of the Curators women’s issues and the promotion of was elected president of the Brian E.Carlson,BA,was nominated actor Morgan Freeman playing the geotechnical/construction services. band moved to Dallas after spending Committee of the American Michael L. Gernhardt,BA, women in the workplace. Lawrence medical staffat Baylor Univer- by President Bush and subsequently main character. Judith Heffron Kevin J.Burke, MA,was named CEO more than six years in Hong Kong and ’76Association of Museums. He was one of the astronauts who Florida in Jacksonville and clinical ’67sity Medical Center in Dallas by appointed to be Ambassador to the Re- Sweeney, BSN,MSN’75,was promot- of New York-based Cadre Financial the Netherlands. They have children in serves as senior curator for art and ar- installed a new entryway ($164 professor of radiology at the University the center’s 750 physicians. He has public of Latvia. He is a career member ed to associate professor in nursing Services, which offers cash manage- Los Angeles and Boston and plan to chitecture at the Tennessee State Muse- ’78 million airlock for spacewalks) of Maryland, where he was formerly practiced general surgery at Baylor for of the Senior Foreign Service and and received a 25-year teaching chair ment and advisory services to more take a year’s sabbatical to “slow down um in Nashville. He recently on the International Space Station last director of the division of nuclear 20 years. Ronald F.Knox,BA,an agent served as senior advisor to the Under at the Vanderbilt School of Nursing. than 2,700 school districts and public and smell the flowers!” Parker Ran- completed Nashville from the Collection July. David J. Huyser, A, of Holland, medicine. Archie McLaren,BA,was with Northwestern Mutual Life Insur- Secretary for Public Diplomacy and She and her husband, Matt, JD’76,are institutions. Julia Smith Gibbons,BA, som,BA,was profiled in the Oct.12, ofCarl and Otto Giers, a two-volume Mich.,was certified as a Diplomate by featured in MUS Today, the alumni ance Company in Nashville,is the re- Public Affairs since 2000.Austin excited to have their daughter, Cara L’75,was nominated by President Bush 2001, edition of the Business Journal: set on the photographic work of the fa- the American Board of Orthodontics. magazine of Memphis University cipient of the 2001 Todd Baker Chinn,BA,was nominated to serve on Acklen Sweeney as a Vanderbilt fresh- to serve on the Sixth Circuit U.S.Court Serving Triangle’s Business Community ther and son team who worked in Barbara A. Kennedy,BA,was named School. He is founder and director of Exceptional Achievement Award from the major gifts committee of the Fund man,the fourth generation to attend of Appeals. The court reviews appeals in Raleigh,N.C. He is senior vice presi- Nashville from 1855 to about 1910. a partner in the Fort Worth, Texas,law the California KCBX Central Coast the Nashville Association of Insurance for the Met at the Metropolitan Muse- the University. Michael L. Turnbull, from federal district courts in Ten- dent and executive group director for Read D.McNamara, MA,was named firm of Shannon, Gracey, Ratliff & Wine Classic. The charitable wine auc- and Financial Advisors. Virginia um of Art in New York City. David BA, of Grosse Pointe, Mich.,is author nessee, Kentucky, Michigan and Ohio. McKinney & Silver, a national advertis- president of Fuller Brands companies, Miller. She practices in the areas of real tion is one of the top five most success- Banks “Gigi” Lazenby,BA,MBA’73, Comperry,BA,was named senior pas- of The Best of Dot Com Humor, pub- Richard E.Jackson,BA,joined the ing agency. Irv Rubenstein,BA, including Fuller Brush Company of estate, business and corporate law. ful in the United States. CEO of Bretagne GP, an independent tor of Bartlett United Methodist lished by Xlibris,a division of Random Tennessee Board of Regents as an assis- PhD’88,is president of S.T.E.P.S., a Great Bend, Kan., Cleaning Technolo- Rees Mitchell, BS,married Jessica oil and natural gas production compa- Church in Bartlett, Tenn. Leonard R. House. The book offers more than 600 tant general counsel. Barry L. Master, personal fitness training center in gies Group, and Stanley Home Prod- Leigh Daw in Nashville on June 16, Jane Evans,BA,was profiled in ny based in Nashville,was awarded the Forte, PhD, received the Doutor Hon- stories,jokes,tall tales,and parody BA, accepted a position as juvenile trial Nashville. He has released his second ucts. Fuller Brands is part of CPAC, 2001.“We went on a marathon honey- the May 25,2001, edition of 2001 Leadership Award by the Inde- oris Causa degree from the Universi- photos offered over the internet. court administrator, helping process exercise video,“Rock, Roll ’n Reggae.” headquartered in Leicester, N.Y. Merri moon which started in St. Lucia, fol- Business Journal(Phoenix and pendent Petroleum Association of dade Estadual do Ceara in Fortaleza, abuse and neglect cases for Buncombe Robert W. Scott,BA,MD’78,was Rudd,BA,was sworn in as probate lowed by three weeks of camping in ’65Valley of the Sun) of Phoenix, America. Paul T.Russell Jr.,BE, Brazil. The honorary doctorate was Jim Bac chus ,BA, was awa r ded County (Asheville),N.C. Richard T. named president of Miravant Cardio- judge on Jan.15,2001,in Albu- the Northwest and concluded with a Ariz. In June she was appointed chief joined other Vanderbilt alumni men- presented to him for discovery of the an hono rar y doctorat e and gave York,BA,this year celebrated the 20th vascular in Santa Barbara, Calif. Mar- querque,N.M. Formerly an attorney cruise to Alaska.” Olin G.Shivers,BA, executive officer of Opnix,an IP traffic tioned in the last issue of VAN D E R B I L T peptide hormone. He is professor of the comm en c eme nt add r ess last anniversary of the opening of his art garet “Sissy”Wade,BA,EdD’93,was and author on behalf of senior citizens, JD’82,joined the Tampa,Fla.,law of- management company in Tempe. fice of Foley & Lardner practicing in MAGA Z I N E in the construction of Van- pharmacology in the School of Medi- ’71 May at the Coll e ge of Arts and gallery, Richard York Gallery in New named head of Franklin Road Acade- she was unanimously appointed to the James C.Gooch,BA,JD’67,was select- derbilt Children’s Hospital. He is in- cine at the University of Missouri,sen- Sc i en ce , Uni versi t y of Cent ral Florida in York City. His gallery specializes in my in Nashville. Previously, she was post by the Bernalillo County Com- corporate,taxation,estate planning, ed for inclusion in the 2001-2002 edi- volved with the installation of the ior research career scientist with the Orl a n d o. James W.Berry Jr. ,B E , of American art from 1750 to 1950. head of Nashville’s Oak Hill School. mission. trust and probate law.

44 V A N D E R B I L T M A G A Z I N E SPRING 2002 45 Andy D. Bennett,BA,JD’82, Ra y Bran d on,BA, and his wife , educational method in a private Birm- ter, Mary Claire Hopson Fox, born on chief deputy attorney for the D a n a ,a n n o u n ce the bir th of Ben ingham school. Judy Pangborn Harri- September 14, 1999,joining brother state of Tennessee,was elected a Wil s o n Bran d on, born on Mar ch son, BS,was featured in the June 2001 Andrew. They live in Little Rock, Ark. J. Craig Reed OUR MAN ON RUSSIA ’79 Fellow of the Tennessee Bar ’81 2 7 ,2 0 0 1 . Ray is CEO of Bran d on issue of Atlanta Buckhead newspaper Charles Lee, MDiv, was named pastor Foundation. Greg Miller,BA,associate Financial Planning, a third- g ene rati o n for writing Getting Together with God, of Huffman United Methodist Church ■ J. Craig Reed ,B S’ 8 8 , works in the epi c ent er of a world that seems more di r ectors and scient ists receive a maximum daily pay rat e of $30 U.S . dol - professor and chair of English at Mill- financial advis o ry corporati o n based in a book to teach her children about in Birmingham, Ala. He is the first li k e a clo ak and dagger myst ery novel than the rea l i t y it is. A proje ct man- l a rs .L a bora tory technicians and ad m i n i s tra tive su pport pers on n el are saps College in Jackson, Miss.,is au- Memph i s . Ch a r les W.Cok er Jr. ,B S , prayer. Johanna G.Hendrix,BA,and black pastor of the predominantly thor of Rib Cage, a book of poetry. was named divis i o n vic e pres i d ent and her husband, Andrew Jacobson, wel- white 1,600-member congregation. R. ag er in the Che mical and Bio l o gical Defense Divis i o n of Sout h e rn Res e a r ch typi c a l ly paid less. Sli gh t l y more than 800 Russians are working on these Catherine B. Reynolds, BS,was fea- gene ral manager of prot ective packa g - comed their third child, Isabella Marie Scott Massengill, BS,was named vice In s ti tute (SRI), Reed works with Russian scien tists who form erly de- projects. tured in the May 5,2001, edition of the ing at Sono co’s Cus t om Des i gn e d Pro- on Sept.1,2001. They live in Prince- president and treasurer of American veloped some of the most lethal biological weapons in the world. Reed is part of a team helping VE C T OR adm i n i s t rat ors and scien ti s t s Washington Postfor her plans to do- tective Packa g ing Business in ton,N.J.,and Johanna maintains a law Standard Companies in Piscataway, SRI is a not-for-profit organization that has been awarded a num- id ent ify marketa b le product s , processes and techn o l o gie s , whi c h may be nate approximately $35 million to the Ha rt s vi ll e ,S . C . Rob Horowit z , MA , practice in New York.Annemarie N.J. Jay Mohr,BA,was named vice ber of federal contracts and subcontracts to perform work in Russia. a ble to gen era te a stream of revenue to su pport their re s e a rch insti tute Smithsonian Institution’s National Ph D , an Albu qu e rque psycho l o gist and Iverson,BA,was named editor-in- president of business development and Congress,through the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) and into the future. Museum of American History to es- aut h o r, ha d his book , Bi r thing from chief of Seventeen and editorial direc- marketing at Variagenics,a Cambridge, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA),funds the “The U.S.support of Russia’s former bioweaponeers is beginning to tablish a new “hall of achievement.” Within: An Extra- O rd i n a r y Guide to tor of Primedia’s Teen Magazine Mass.-based leader in pharmacoge- The gift comes from Reynolds’ charita- Ch i l d bi r th Prepa ra ti o n, na m e d to publishing unit in New York. Carol nomics. contracts. p ay divi dends and wi ll conti n ue to do so,”he says . “These scien tists are ble foundation.She has lived in the La m a z e Int erna ti on a l ’ s all- t ime top ten Freeman Lindberg,BA’83,MBA’84, of The obj ective is two - fo l d : to assist the Russian govern m ent in dis- making adva n cem ents in medical co u n term e a su res su ch as vacc i n e s , Washington, D.C.,area since the lat e list of books recomm en d ed for parent s Atlanta,married Larry Lindberg on Michael Andry,BA,was mantling their bi owe a pons infra s tru ctu re and to red i rect the talents of pha rm a ceuticals and medical diagno s t ic tools that wil l have a direct pos - 1980s, where she made her fortune in and families. Co- w rit t en with Pam January 6,2001. Vandy friends who at- named market executive for these scien tists tow a rd pe aceful re- it ive impact on healthcare and civil - founding an innovative financial serv- En gl a n d , the book is “an unusu a l tended the wedding included Susan Bank of America Private Bank s e a rch that may yi eld market a bl e ian bio - d efense in both cou n t ries for ices company. Donald D. Strench,BA, mé l a n g e of ps y cho l o gy, mi d wif ery, a rt , Bates Brantley, BS’84, Dan Deckbar, ’85 in Asheville,N.C. Kevin Can- products or technologies. years to come.” was named senior vice president of fi- hypno s i s , and Zen. ” C h ri s tophe r L. BA’84, Michelle LaLonde,BA, Carol tor, BS, writes that he has been work- nance and administration and chief fi- Mar tin , BS , of Sh r eveport ,j oi n ed Cen- Magruder Luther, BA’84,and Susan ing for Jennison Associates,a New York “The end goal is not on ly to re- Reed has become fri ends wi t h nancial officer at BizJet,a business tena r y Coll e ge of Louisiana as the new Blewer Sullivan, BS’84. Lee Payne, investment management firm in mid- m ove the sco u r ge of bi o l ogi c a l m a ny of the Russian scien tists and aviation subsidiary of UAL Corpora- dean of the Frost Scho ol of Bus i n e s s . MD, was promoted to the rank of town Manhattan for 10 years.He and wea p onr y, but also to keep these sci- has spent lei su re time with them tion in Chicago. Robert G. Wilson III, colonel in the U.S.Air Force and was his wife, Sarah,live on the Upper West ent ists in place so they don’t take their wh en he visits Russia or wh en they BS,joined the Minneapolis securities REUNION OCTOBER 25-26, 2002 assigned as commander of the 39th Side with their four-year-old son,Sam. k n owl ed ge and skills to the wron g visit the U.S. and banking firm of Dain Rauscher Medical Group Incirlik Airbase Turkey. “I’d love to hear from old friends at peopl e , ” Reed says. “The re are scien- “Sp ending qua l i t y perso nal tim e Wessels as managing director and head Mary Floye Federer,BA, of R.Scott Reid,BA, of Louisville, Ky., [email protected].” Melissa Nor- tists unaccou n t ed for who may have with other scient ists is as valu a b le to of its healthcare investment banking Houston,was promoted to di- was promoted to vice president of ton Carro,BA,and Gabriel Carro, team. rector of missions at First Pres- global marketing at Brown-Forman MS,PhD’90,announce the birth of dep a rted for forei gn co u n tri e s . the scient ific rela ti o nship as the col - ’82 byterian Church of Houston. Corporation. Phil Risley,BA,was fea- their third child,Emily Maria Carro, Und erst a n d a b ly, th e re is conc ern that laborative research itself,” he says. Mar k D.Arons ,BA, of Ea s t She manages local and global mission tured in the May 25,2001, edition of born on April 20,2001,joining sisters terrorist or ga n i z a ti ons may have ac- Reed, a molecular bio l o gy major Haven, Conn . , was boar d certi- ministries and also is earning a mas- the Business Journal of Jacksonville, Anna and Elena.Gabe is director of re- qu i red Russian scien tists with bi o- at Van d erbil t , has fond memo ries of fi e d as a trial advoca t e by the ter’s degree from the School of World Fla.,as one of the top executives of search and development for Windsor logical weapons expertise.” his undergraduate days. After earn- ’80 Nati o nal Boar d of Trial Advo- Mission at Fuller Theological Semi- Jacksonville area automotive dealer- Forestry Tools in Milan, Tenn.,and Reed ’s work takes him to Ru s s i a ing his PhD at the Un ivers i ty of cac y . Byrd Bonn e r,BA, of San Ant o- nary in California as a long-distance ships. He is president and general Melissa is director of university rela- abo u t four times a yea r . He visits the G eor gi a , he was poi s ed to do po s t - ni o , Texa s , was named the first student. Elizabeth Musser,BA,is manager of Sunrise Nissan. Stephen B. tions for Lambuth University and execu tive director of the Uni t ed author of The Swan House, a fictional Schaller, BS,MBA’86,joined Northern owner of Norton Carro Communica- S t a te Re s e a rch Cen ter for Vi ro l ogy doctoral studies Van d erbilt Medi c a l Meth o dist Chur ch Fou n d a ti on . Ca t h y novel centered around the historic Trust Bank in Houston as a portfolio tions,a writing and marketing consult- and Bio t echn o l o gy (VE C T OR) in the Sch o ol with Dr. Har old Mo s e s ,n ow Go rdon Cutl e r, BS N , and her hus b a n d , Atlanta landmark. The Buckhead,Ga., manager. Sandy Severino,BA,and his ing firm. They live in Jackson, Tenn. Si berian com mu n i ty of Ko l ’t s ovo. Ben jamin F. Byrd Jr. Profe s s or of Jim , of Win t er Spri n gs ,F l a . ,a n n o u n ce native,her husband and children live wife,Sheri,announce the birth of their Julia Hall, BS,was promoted to direc- Al ong with the Cen ters for Di s e a s e Clinical Onco l ogy and director of the bir th of a daught er, Kat h e rine Eliz- in Montpelier, France, where they serve first child, Isabel Grace Severino, born tor of Brown-Forman Media Services Con trol and Preven ti on in At l a n t a , the Van d erbil t - In g ram Can c er Cent er. ab eth , born on Sept .2 8 ,2 0 0 0 . Er ic L. as missionaries. Carol Evans Poynter, on June 7,2001. They live in Manhat- in Louisville. Charles M. Hansen,BA, VECTOR is one of two places in the The U. S . Army, h owever, h ad other Har ry,BA ,M BA’ 8 3 ,J D’ 8 4 , was pro- BA, won the Chicago Magazine/Mer- tan on the Upper East Side where he of Alexandria,Va.,joined the firm of mo t ed to vic e pres i d ent and associ a t e cedes Mentor Award in 2001.She rep- works as a director in the debt capital National Environmental Strategies as a world of f i c i a lly sancti on ed by the plans for the forme r ROTC scho l a r - gene ral cou n s e l at Apa che Corporati on , resented the Junior League of Chicago, markets group of Deutsche Bank cov- lobbyist. He also started Hansen Gov- World Health Organization to store ship stu den t ,c a lling Reed to active a Hou s t on- b a s e d gas and oil independ - where she is on the board of directors. ering Latin American clients. Janet F. ernment Relations to serve existing and perform re s e a rch on the vi ru s duty a week before he was sche dul e d ent with operati o ns in North Ame ric a , David M. Smith, JD, an attorney in Smith, PhD, was named president of clients. Cynthia Mitchell, MBA,and that causes small pox .V E C TOR sci- to move to Nas h vill e . While station e d Egypt, Wes t ern Aus t ral i a , Poland and Birmingham, Ala.,was elected to the Rich Mountain Community College in her husband,Steve Mallett,announce ent ists also work with suc h highl y in- at the Army’ s premi e r infectious dis- Chi n a . Stephe n Hayn e s ,BA ,a s s oc i a te board of trustees at Birmingham- Mena, Ark. the birth of Georgia Caroline Mallett, fectious vi ruses as va ri o l a , E bo l a , ease res e a r ch faci l i t y at Fort Detric k profes s o r of reli g ious studies at Rho des Southern College. Tracy Pride Stone- born on May 18,2001. Cynthia teaches Marburg and other hemorrhagic fever viruses. in Mar yla n d , Reed directed a lab inves ti ga t ing the molecular mecha n i s m s Coll e ge in Memph i s , was pres en t ed the man,BA, of Colorado Springs,is Eugenio Cersosimo, PhD, was journalism at Georgia State University Cla r enc e Day Awa r d for Outs t a n d i n g co-author of Brokerage Fraud–What appointed medical director of in Atlanta while working towards a Reed also works with scien tists from the State Re s e a rch Cen ter of res p ons i b le for plague pathogene s i s . SRI off ered him a job after he com- Tea chi n g . Jeff Horne r, BS , works wit h Wall Street Doesn’t Want You to Know. clinical diabetes research at the Ph.D. Ivan J. Reich,BA,JD’88,an at- Appl i e d Mic r obio l o gy (SRC A M ) ,l oc a ted not far from Mos c ow. SRC A M pleted his Army obligation. the Hou s t on law firm Bracewell & Pat - ’84Texas Diabetes Institute. Cecil torney in Ft.Lauderdale,Fla.,was scientists still work with the deadly bacterial agents that cause anthrax, “Alt h o u g h I thorou gh l y enj o y my current work, I some times wond er terso n as the firm’s hiring partne r. He Thomas C.Gardiner, MAT, an M. Cooper, BE,and Ruth S. Cooper elected secretary of the Young Mem- plague, brucellosis and tularemia. what was down that other path at Vanderbilt,” he says. was appoin t ed to the boar d of di r ectors associate professor of English announce the birth of their first child, bers Section of the Commercial Law “ Du ring the Cold Wa r, S RCAM scien tists worked to isolate the —L ew Har ris , BA’6 8 of the Sou th Texas Coll e ge of La w. He at Augusta State University in Alexander Cooper, born on June 15, League of America. Amy Young,BA, most vi ru l ent bacterial stra i n s ,” Reed says . “Tod ay, t h eir re sults have and his wi fe ,L a u ri e ,h ave three chi l - Georgia since 1984,was grant- 2000. They live in Ft. Worth, Texas. was appointed director of obstetrics ’83 a pp l i c a ti ons tow a rd new clinical diagn o s tic tools and medical thera- Edi to r ’ s note: Dr. Yi- W ei Tan g , assistant profes s or ofmed i c ine and pat h ol o g y dr en, Al ec ,E m i ly, and John Cam e ron. ed tenure in the fall semester 2001. Mary Huddleston Earthman, BS,and and gynecological residency at Baylor David M.Vic t or,BA ,J D’ 8 3 , was ele ct- Susan Guritz Grier, BS,and her hus- her husband, John,announce the birth College of Medicine in Houston. peutics.” and direc tor of the Van d e rbilt Molecular Infe c tio us Dise a s es Lab , al s o work s ed to a three- y ear term as a part- ti m e band, Paul,announce the birth of their of a daughter, Anne Keeble, born on The econ omic co llapse of the Sovi et Un i on left the state unable to pay with VE C T OR rese a r che rs under the auspices of then It erna t ional Scien c e and municipal jud g e for a su bu rb of Mil - second child and first daughter, Davida April 14,2001. They live in Nashville. Palmer Ball, MBA,and the onc e well- c omp ens a t ed scient ists or to maintain their labs. That prob- Te ch n ol o gy Cen ter in Mo scow. He is the first Va n d erbilt faculty mem ber, wa u k ee Cou n t y. He has a full- ti m e Elizabeth, born on April 27,2001. Lisa Carla Elise Eichler, MEd,EdD’94, Michael Ball announce the le m has been partia l ly add re s s e d with Depa r tme nt of Defense funds dis- and one of the first erse a r che rs from a privat e institu ti o n , to bec ome involved practic e as seni o r liti ga ti on cou n s e l for A. Grupe,BA, received a Ph.D. in de- married Louis Gayden Flexter on April birth of a daughter, Anne Dob- trib uted throu g h DTRA and DAR PA . Russian proje ct directors ,l a borat ory with the project . CAN Insu ra n c e Comp a n i e s , conc en- velopmental psychology from the Uni- 14,2001. They live in Nashville. Caro- ’86son Ball, born on July 7,2001. trat ing in the defense of property and versity of Alabama at Birmingham in line Ward Fox, BS,and her husband, They live in Spartanburg, S.C. Aimée ca su a l t y lawsui t s . August 2001.She teaches the Waldorf Mark,announce the birth of a daugh- Favrot Bell, BS, of Metairie,La., writes

46 V A N D E R B I L T M A G A Z I N E SPRING 2002 47 that she is “truly happily married” with the birth of a son, Logan McCubbin Reproductive Specialists. In addition to on May 14,2001,joining brother Grif- Ch ri s t ine Come r Alf a r o, BS , ceptor who dated and then marrie d his child, Donovan DeVane Richart,born Van d y receiver, Derric k Grag g, B S ,i s three children,“loved being at Prof. Starr, born on April 17,2001. They live his clinical practice,he remains active fin Townes. They live in Long Valley, was named a partne r in the St. VU ceptee, ” he write s . Sa r a Eli z a b eth on March 8,2001. They live in the director of comp l i a n c e for the Uni - John Murrell’s retirement reception at in Atlanta. Gay Zimmerling,BA, in research and presented his work on N.J. Bob, BE,and Ashley Scoggins, Louis off i c e of the law firm Taylo r Wend t , BS , and her hus b a n d , Lawrenceville,Ga. Claire Ferguson versi t y of Arka n s a s . Peabody in Oct.2000,” and “had a kick joined the Nashville accounting firm of human blastocyst development by in- BA,announce the birth of Sydney Jane ’90 Sonn en s ch e in Nath & Ros e n- Da n i e l Paul Wen d t ,a n n o u n ce the birt h Tudor,BA,and her husband,Geoff, at the 15-year reunion.” James Bing- Williams, Crosslin,Sparks & Vaden as vitation to the Royal Society of Medi- Scoggins, born on Nov. 9,2000,joining th a l , whe re she practic es in the health of a daught er, Ma r ga ret “Ma g gie ” welcomed their first child, Olivia Jeff Brothers, BS, will be head ham, MBA,and his wife Kristi,an- a marketingmanager. cine in London. Karen Turner,BA, sister Sarah, eight,and brother Ryan, ca r e area . Mar k Behr ens , JD , was ele ct- Kat h e rine Wend t , born on June 14, Lafette, on June 13,2001,in Austin, football coach at Pope John nounce the birth of twin girls, Hayden joined the commercial loan depart- five. They live in Huntsville,Ala. Barry ed a partne r in the Was h i n g t on, D.C . , 20 0 1 . The y live in Jacks o nvi ll e ,F l a . Texas. Sarah Smith Zacharias,BA, Paul II High School in Hender- and Gretchen, born on April 4,2001. REUNION OCTOBER 25-26, 2002 ment of First National Bank in M.Weinberg, EdD, moved to New la w firm of Sh o ok Har dy & Bacon. Co ll een McD owell Whi t e,BA ,a n d MSN’92,and Eric Neil Zacharias, ’93 sonville, Tenn., when the They live in Holly Springs,N.C. Keo Pearisville, Va.She assumes the posi- York State to assume the presidency of Mar tha L. Boyd,BA ,J D’ 9 9 , practice s Stu a r t Whi t e, B E ,a n n o u n ce the birt h MD’93,announce the birth of Kather- school opens in the fall of 2002. He Cavalcanti, MA,PhD’90,was awarded Geoff r ey W.Arthu r ,BA ,j oi n ed tion of vice president/commercial Fulton-Montgomery County Commu- la b or and emp l o yme nt law in Cin c i n - of tw in daught ers, Nic ole Kend a l l and ine Kline Zacharias, born on June 11, currently is assistant head coach at tenure at the University of Richmond the Columbus,Ohio, law office banking representative. Gail S.Ward, nity College in Johnstown,N.Y. na t i with the firm of Frost Brown Todd . Ash l e y Elizabeth . Nic ole was born on 2001,joining older brother Luke Har- Christ Presbyterian Academy in in Virginia and promoted to associate of Arden & Hadden, focusing BA,MEd’90, of Brentwood, Tenn., Ang ela Bla n t on Bui k ema ,BA ,a n d August 11 and Ash l e y was born on Au- rison Zacharias. They live in Boulder, Nashville. Jennifer Brundige,BA, professor of sociology. Laura Walsh ’87 on general corporate and secu- works as a private tutor for five high Mar ian Casey,BA ,a n d Paul Bui k ema , J D’ 9 2 ,a n n o u n ce the gust 12, almost four hours apart. Colo. joined the Nashville law firm of Waller Forrest, BSN,sends an update:she rities law as well as oil and gas, real es- school students in a teenage singing/ Ch ri s tophe r D. Cas e y announce bir th of th e ir first chi l d , Seth Har ris “These are our first chi l d r en. We are ex- Lansden Dortch & Davis as an associ- married Paul Forrest in May 2000; tate and e-commerce law. Susan M. dancing group. Formerly, she spent a the bir th of th e ir third son, Bui k ema , born on Ja n .1 8 ,2 0 0 1 . The y ha u s t ed, but very proud parent s ! ” The y REUNION OCTOBER 25-26, 2002 ate in the area of regulatory law. daughter Julia Lyn Forrest was born on Bash,BA,was named vice president of year in Oxford,England,as curator of ’89 Rawle y Powell Cas e y, born on li ve in Wes tm on t , Ill. Rodn e y Carter, li ve in Lou i s vi ll e , Ky. Julie Mari e Claude C. Dolly Jr., BA,was awarded May 13,2001;Laura earned the MSN client services and marketing at Edu- C.S. Lewis’ former home. Aug . 2 3 ,2 0 0 1 ,j oining brot h e rs BE , was profi l e d in the Feb. 2 3 ,2 0 0 1 , Wi ll i a m s, B Mu s ,m a rrie d Har ry Fred- Mar k Agah , B E ,j oi n ed the six top honors by the John Marshall degree from Hahnemann University ventures,an independent market re- Chri s t ophe r and Bowie . The y live in edi ti o n of the Pit t s bu r gh Post Gaz ett e eric k Dit z el on Dec .1 6 ,2 0 0 0 . She is a Min n e a po l i s - b a s e d firm of Law School in Chicago:highest rank on May 18,2001,and is currently em- search firm in Boston. Elizabeth Rice Susan Alexander,BA, of Mari- Hou s t on. Amy Castle,BA ,j oi n ed the ne wsp a p er as one of a few Afri c a n - fl utis t , and he plays Frenc h horn, bot h Dain Rau s ch e r Wes s e ls as an honors for his first,second,third years, ployed as a pediatric nurse practition- Basinet,BA, ran her first distance race, na, Calif.,married Fred Watson Da l las law firm of Thom p s o n & Kn i gh t Ame rican men under 40 who are sen- with the U.S . Mil i t a r y Aca demy Ban d ’92equi t y res e a r ch analyst . and entire study course;the Lexis Law er. They live in Willow Grove, Penn. the San Diego Rock & Roll Marathon. of Melbourne, Australia, on in the trial depa r tmen t . Em i l y io r managers at high- t ech indus t rie s . in West Poi n t ,N . Y.The y live in New- Th o mas And r ew And ru s s ,BA ,m a r- Publishing Prize for highest honors in Rodolfo A. Franconi, MA,PhD’87,as- She married Rick Basinet on June 17, ’88 July 6,2001.She is an associate Grie s i n g er, Ph D , received the Cha rl e s He is execu tive director of Mar coni bu r gh ,N . Y. Kecia L.Wil s o n,BA ,m a r- rie d Mi ch elle Spino on Oct .6 ,2 0 0 1 . the third year; and West Publishing sociate professor of Spanish and Por- 2000,and after 11 years in the semi- professor of earth systems science and J. Mill e r Chri s t ian Scho l a r ’ s Awa r d Commu n i c a ti on s . Lag enia Belch e r rie d Robert Rowan Jr. on Aug . 6 ,2 0 0 0 . The y live in New York. Hun t er J. Prizes for scholarship during his first tuguese languages and literatures was conductor business,started a public policy, and he is a research scientist at fr om the C h ri s tian Schol a r ’ s Revie w for Cl a r k, BS , and her hu s b a n d ,D avid , be- The y live in Aus ti n , Texa s , whe re she is Brownl e e,BA ,j oi n ed the Ta m p a ,F l a . , year.He now practices with Piper Mar- named the recipient of the Dartmouth relations firm specializing in workforce Cal State University-Monterey Bay. he r artic le “‘ Your Daught ers Shall came parents of tw in sons , Jar ed and a cons ultant with Comp u ter Science s la w firm of Fowle r Whi t e Gille n Boggs bury Rudnick & Wolfe in Chicago. Distinguished Teaching Award, voted development.She and her husband live Jeffrey D. Critser, BE,is president and Prophe s y ’ : The Ch a ri s m a tic Spiritu a l i t y Ju s ti n , on Dec .5 ,2 0 0 0 . She writ es that Corporati on . Vi ll a real & Ban k er as an associ a t e in the Danielle Heyman Feist, BS,and Sam on by the undergraduate senior class. in San Diego with their dog, Cisco. CEO of Trin i t y Converg ence , a Ral ei gh , of Hil d egar d of Bin g en. ” She is associ - she has “temp orari l y ‘retir ed ’ ”f rom tax grou p . Kelli Staples Burn s ,BA, Feist, BA’91,announce the birth of a Thomas Mark Hodges,BA,and his Bob Boniface,BA,was appointed N.C.-based software firm that provides at e profes s o r of En g lish at Azusa Paci f i c working in medical devic e sales and Brad Blonkvist,BA,earned an and Corey Burn s , B S’ 9 3 ,a n n o u n ce the daughter, Morgan Julia, born on June wife, Sandy, welcomed their first child, chief of advanced product design at packet voice and fax software for Uni versi t y. Eli z a b eth Bou ch e r Law, lo ves staying at home with the boys in M.B.A. degree from the Darden bir th of th e ir first chi l d , Griffin Spenc er 15,2001. They live in Arlington, Va, Seth David, born on January 30,2001. DaimlerChrysler Corporation in telecommunications equipment sup- BS , received a doctorat e in educ a ti on a l Bella i re , Texa s . Jil l M. DeT emp l e ,BA, School of Business at the Uni- Bu rn s , born on Dec .7 ,2 0 0 0 . The y live where Danielle teaches English and They live in Arlington, Va. Thomas Auburn Hills, Mich. He also was lead pliers. Vaughn E. Davis, BE, writes le a dership from the Uni versi t y of Ge or- ma r rie d Gordon O’B rie n on Sept .1 , ’9 1versity of Virginia in 1997 and in Smyrna , Tenn . Bla k ely Grig gs,BA, film studies at McLean High School, studies Estonian at the State Depart- designer on the recently launched Jeep that he returned to the U.S.from Ox- gia in May 2001. Amy Lockh a r t Pa rk s, 20 0 0 . The y live in downt own Chi c a g o. currently works for Deloitte Consult- and Trey Grig gs,BA ,a n n o u n ce the and Sam is an executive producer at ment’s Foreign Service Institute in Liberty. Karen Booker, BS,a former ford,England, to set up a new business B E ,m a n a ger of engi n e ering training at Connie Klinefelt er Dickey, MS N , a ing.He and his wife live in New bir th of th e ir second ch i l d ,E l i z a CNN in Washington. Kevin Joiner, preparation for assignment as a public All-SEC and All-American basketball unit of Oxford Instruments in Massa- Texas Ins t rum en t s , writ es that she mar- geronto l o gical nur se practiti on e r and Canaan, Conn. Susan M.Fittipaldi, Lesesne Grig gs, born on Sept .2 9 ,2 0 0 1 . MS,joined Georgetown College in affairs officer at the U.S.Embassy in player, was hired as the women’s head chusetts. He adds that he built a new rie d Stephe n I. Par ks on Nov. 1 1 ,2 0 0 0 . fu ll - t ime mother, provid es educ a ti o n to BA,married Paul Moloney Koch, The y live in Philadelph i a . Cl i f t on Hud - Kentucky as assistant professor of Tallinn. David Schnasa Jacobsen,BA, basketball coach at the University of house in York, Maine,and is “looking The y live in Plano, Texa s . Deni s e families of gero- p s y ch patie nts at Bap - JD’93, on May 13,2000. They live in so n,BA ,M E d ’ 9 7 ,m a rrie d Min a k o Sat o math, physics and computer science. MA’93,PhD’97,director of the the South in Sewanee, Tenn. David A. forward to 10-year anniversary with Urz end owski Scofi el d ,BA, recent l y tist Hospital in Knox vi ll e . JoAn n Columbia,S.C. Elizabeth Settembrini on Dec .1 7 ,2 0 0 0 . The y live in Ham p - Marios Kendrick, was married last homiletics program at Waterloo Boyd, a lieutenant in the U.S.Navy, Laura Innocenti Davis,BA,” and their comp l e ted a term as pres i d ent of th e Gras s ,BA, was named director of com- Hurd,BA,and Steve Hurd, BS’90,an- ton, Va. Pat ricia Bar ry Jone s ,BA ,m a r- year and took command of the med- Lutheran Seminary in Ontario,Cana- graduated from medical school at the new son, Justin Connor. Yoniece Hou s t on Young Lawy ers Ass oc i a ti on . mu n i c a ti ons for the Nas h vil le Techn o l - nounce the newest addition to their rie d Mat t h e w Ott is Jones on May 19, ical company at Keller Army Hospital da,was invited to become visiting pro- Uniformed Services University of the Mitchell Dixon,BA,and her husband, She was ele cted to the Hou s t on Bar ogy Cou n c i l , an affiliate orga n i z a ti o n of family, Katherine Settembrini Hurd, 20 0 1 . The y live in Atl a n t a . Bla k e at the United States Military Academy fessor in practical theology at the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md.,and John,announce the birth of their sec- Ass oc i a ti o n boar d of di r ectors and the Nas h vil le Area Cha m b er of Com- born in October 2000,joining older Col lins Krus e , B S ,m a rrie d Dawn Alli - at West Point,N.Y. Mary Jennifer University of Kiel,Germany. Greg was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha ond child, Clarissa Elizabeth, born on ap poin t ed to the boar d of di r ectors of me rce. Mich e le A. Han l e y,BA, of brother, Clayton Matthew Hurd,who so n Cur d on Dec .3 0 ,2 0 0 0 . The y live in Lambeth,BA,married William Lyle Mayback, BE, of Hollywood,Fla., Honorary Medical Society. He and his June 14,2000,joining sister Madeline. Hou s t on Volu n t eer Lawy ers Program . Bou l d er, Col o. , writ es that she marrie d was born in April 1999.They live in Dick s on , Tenn . Stephe n Bruc e Mil n e , Hinds III on Oct.6,2001. They live in writes that his intellectual property law family live in Jacksonville,Fla., where They live in Tampa,Fla. David Dyson, Her hus b a n d , John Scofi el d ,BA, T. Neal Gibson on April 21, 20 0 1 . Nashville. Catherine Mall Long,BA, M S ,P h D’ 9 5 ,m a rrie d Ginger Jo Loh r Nashville. Ashley E. LaRoche,BA,was firm, Lerner & Greenberg, was named he is an intern at the Jacksonville Naval EdD, was appointed to serve on the joi n e d Cadd ell & Cha pm a n , a plain- “Ali c e Joh n s o n,BA, and Lar a Berkl e y, and Jeffrey Long,BA, welcomed their on Aug . 4 ,2 0 0 1 . The y live in Nas h vill e . named editor of the travel division at in the Top-40 of all patent firms in the Hospital. Bang Jee Chun, MA, Norton Advisory Board for manage- tif f ’s law firm. The couple had their BS , were bea u tiful brid esmaids in first child, William, on May 15,2001. Jas o n Par ker,BA ,M A’ 9 5 , won Journal Communications in Franklin, world for obtaining patents from the PhD’92,was named to a prestigious ment and professional education at th i r d chi l d , John “J ack” Blue III in Dec. blue ! ” Nancy Bran s c ome Hig gin s , They live in Silver Spring,Md. Anne $125,000 on the June 1, 20 0 1 , taping of Tenn. Allegra Lewis, BE,married John U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in presidential commission in her native Birmingham Southern College. He is 20 0 1 . Lynn Sum l i n ,BA, was named a Ed D , received the 2001 Hal l of Fam e Mattingly, BS,joined Brown-Forman “Who Wants to Be a Mill i on a i r e”TV Erickson on June 3,2000. They met the year 2000. Dan McCormick,BA, South Korea.She is a faculty member president of Dyson Leadership Insti- pa r tne r in the Atlanta law firm of Pow- Awa r d Certif i c a t e of Hono r and Appre- Corporation in Louisville as a senior game show. The previous yea r , he won while attending the Kellogg Graduate MBA’93,his wife Carrie, MBA’92,and at Hoseo University. Lina,BA, tute and the Plan for Life Alliance Net- ell ,G o l d s tein , Fraz er & Mur phy in the ci a ti o n from the Mont g ome ry Cou n t y, financial analyst for the North Ameri- $60,600 on “J eopa r dy.” Mar gar et School of Management and now live in son Riley moved to Chicago where MEd’90,and Joe Ellis,BA, of Atlanta, work. Chris Hardcastle, BE, of Cocoa, ar eas of business tran s a ctio ns and cor- Md. , Human Rel a ti ons Comm i s s i o n can Group. Tyler McMullen,BA,and Meyer Sil va, BS , and her hus b a n d , New York City. Elizabeth Shannon Dan is director at Credit Suisse First announce the birth of a son, Matthew Fla.,joined the astronaut office after porat e finance. Eli z a b eth Melt on for her dedi c a ti o n and comm i tm e nt to Stephanie McMullen,BA,MS’95,an- Fra n k ,a n n o u n ce the bir th of th e ir first Martin, BS,and her husband, Bill,an- Boston in institutional equities. Ann Joseph, born on July 4,2001. Randy working ten years with the space sta- Sweene y, B S N ,M S N ’ 9 2 , and her hus - human rig hts for the res i d ents of nounce the birth of their second child, chi l d , Samantha Belle , born on Dec .1 7 , nounce the birth of a daughter, Made- Donoho Melhuish,BA,and her hus- Lee, BE,and his family left California tion and space lab programs with Boe- ba n d , Sea n , welc ome d their second son, Mont g ome ry Cou n t y. She is a profes s o r Merritt Olivia, born on Feb. 14,2001, 20 0 0 . The y live in Mia m i . Sh a n n o n line Elizabeth Martin, born on Jan.9, band, Mark,announce the birth of and moved to Brentwood, Tenn., ing.The office performs pre-flight Colin Mich a el on Jul y 3, 2 0 0 1 ,j oi n i n g in the manageme nt depa r tme nt at joining brother Tucker. They live in Sull i van , M A ,P h D’ 9 4 , assistant profes - 2001. Nichelle Stone McKennie, BE, their third son,John Bondurant Mel- where he works as a personal financial testing of space station and shuttle ol d er brot h e r Evan . The y live in Wes t Mont g ome ry Coll e ge in Rockvi ll e . Cincinnati where Tyler works with so r of phi l o s o phy and wome n stud i e s was promoted to SAP process advisor huish, born in November 2000. He is advisor for TrustMark Financial Ser- hardware for astronaut training. Beth Rich l a n d , Was h . Nancy Duncan Swen- Sh a r i Schwa r tz Wal t er, B E ,m a rrie d MarketVision,a family owned firm. at Penn s y lvania State Uni versi t y, is au- for supply chain management at Delta the grandson of Jane Kirkpatrick vices. Daniel Lovinger,BA,was Harrington,BA,joined the Owen so n,BA, and her hu s b a n d ,S teve ,a n- Seth Wal t er on June 4, 20 0 0 . The y live John Lyons Meadows,BA,joined the th o r of Living Across andT h r oug h Ski n s Airlines in Georgia. Robert L. Mitchell Donoho, BA’62,and Burnett W. named senior vice president of inte- Graduate School of Management as as- no u n c e the arrival of th e ir second in Ast on, Penn . , near Philadel ph i a . Nashville law firm of Manier & Herod (I ndiana Uni versi t y Pres s ) , a book Jr.,BS,married Elizabeth Turner Jones Donoho, BA’61. James Henry Snider, grated sales of Primedia’s Business-to- sociate dean for institutional planning chi l d , Megan Amy, born on Mar ch 6, Beverly Wal t h e r, B S ,M BA , was gran t - as an associate in litigation. Brooks P. whi c h examines var ious implicatio ns on April 21,2001. They live in Atlanta. EdD, was one of 100 teachers nation- Business Group in New York. Jack L. and advancement. Sloan Schickler, 2 0 0 1 ,j oining sister Elysa Beth . The y ed tenur e at the Kello gg Gradua t e Milling,BA, became a member of the of tran s a ctio nal bodi e s . Ca rl o s Holly E. Noonan, BE,joined a private wide to be honored by the Radio Shack Morris,BA,was named senior vice JD, and her husband Paul Riska be- li ve in Overland Pa rk , Kan . David Sch o ol of Man a g eme nt at North wes t - Mobile, Ala.,law firm of Hand Aren- Th om a s , BS , a forme r Van d erbilt run - practice group of ob/gyns in Knoxville. Corporation with a National Teacher president over the preconstruction came parents of Julia Danielle Riska, Wyman Wal k er, MBA , and his wif e Si- ern Uni versi t y, whe re she tea ches and dall. Kelly Byrd Mullins,BA,and ning back, and current instruc tor at Janet Titus Parkhurst,BA,and her Award. He is math department chair, services team at Centex Construction born on Jan.26,2001. They live in mo ne Rene e Scot t - Wa l k er, J D’ 9 3 ,a n- res e a r ches in the areas of cost and man- Bryan D.Mullins, BE,MBA’94,an- LS U , writ es that Mar cus Wil s o n, BS , husband, Jason,announce the birth of curriculum and technology coordina- Company in Dallas. E.Scott Sills ,BA, New York Cit y, whe re she is a partne r no u n c e the bir th of th e ir first chi l d , ag erial accou n ti n g . Her hus b a n d , Mik e nounce the birth of their first child, forme r Comm o dore qua r terba ck, is the their first child, Kathleen Shea, born tor, math team coach,and faculty advi- and his colleagues in Atlanta celebrated in the law firm of Sch i ck l e r & Schi ck l e r. Da vid Wyman Wal k er Jr., born on Aug . Wal t h e r, B S’ 8 9 ,M BA’9 0 , was promo t - Betsy Claire Mullins,born on Oct.11, host of an interna ti on a l ly tele vis e d on Sept.25,2000. They live in Wyckoff, sory committee chairman at Nashville the first year of their new medical Andrew Townes Smith, MBA,and 1 7 ,2 0 0 1 . The y live in Hou s t on. ed to seni o r manager in the privat e 2001. They live in Lexington, Ky. gos p el music show,“Vid eo Gospel, ” N.J. Marcia Leonor Parra, BS,mar- School of the Arts. Leonard Starr, practice limited to reproductive en- his wife, Penny Patterson Smith, wel- cli e nt servic es divis i o n of Arth ur An- Deena DeVane Richart, BS,and her sh o wn on Bla ck Enterta i n m e nt Tele vi- ried Walter Deon Kucaba on Jan.21, MBA,and his wife, Nancy, announce docrinology and infertility, Georgia come d their second chi l d , Tyle r Duga n , derse n in Chi c a g o.“N ot bad for a VU - husband,Dan, welcomed their first si on . Car los also notes that forme r 2001. Bridesmaids included Sylvia

48 V A N D E R B I L T M A G A Z I N E SPRING 2002 49 Steve Bistritz, EdD, is a man- England. Katherine B.Ross, MS, Spring 2001.She is an officer with the were married July 14,2001. They live aging partner with Siebel Mul- PhD’99, of Scottsdale, Ariz., received a Epidemic Intelligence Service at the in Nashville. Lindsay Alexander Rasheedat Fetuga tiChannel Services,an rehabilitation research and develop- Center for Disease Control and Pre- Owen, BMus,married Lee Owen, international sales training and ment research career award from the vention. BA’98, on Oct.28,2000. They live in IN DEFENSE OF THE CHILD ’95 consulting firm based in Atlanta. Department of Veterans Affairs for her Greensboro, N.C., where she accepted Rhonda Blades Brown,BA,MSN’96, proposal,“Psychological Attitudes of REUNION OCTOBER 25-26, 2002 a position as associate director of ■ Pea b ody alumna Ras h e edat Fetu ga ,B S’ 00 , is onl y 23 yea r s old but has was named girls basketball coach at Stroke Survivors and Normal Adults.” music for children and youth at a Pres- al re a dy done more as an advoc a te for ch i l d ren than most people do in Brentwood Academy in Tennessee. She also is co-investigator on a grant, Reid Alexander, EdD, served as byterian church. Steven Palumbo, BE, Sharling Chen,BA,MBA’99, works in “Q u a n ti f ying and Predi c ting Quality of professor and chair of the an ophthalmology consultant and Mi- a lifetime. Nashville with Dell Computer Corpo- Li f e Outcomes in Strok e Sur vivors. ” Piano Pedagogy Division at the crokeratome specialist in Milford, Sin c e enro l ling at Van d erbilt in 199 6 , she has worked with the Chi l d r en’s ration as program specialist for the Mol ly Sim s , P,a model and TV hostes s , ’97University School of Music Mass.,was named the top representa- Defense Fund as a Freedom Scho ol tea che r in her home town of Cin c i n n a ti , workforce development program. was profi l e d in the June 17, 20 0 1 , edi - during the 1999-2000 academic year. tive of Becton Dickinson Ophthalmic des i gn e d an after-s ch o ol program to link mainstream chi l d r en with kids Megan Doll,BA,married Brian tio n of the New Yor k Times ne wsp a p er He then returned to his professorial Systems for 2000, receiving the Win- who have Down syndrome , and develo ped a commu n i t y servic e and so- Crump on April 28,2001. They work for “cele brat ing her birt h d a y with 195 position at the University of Illinois at ner’s Circle Award. Mindy Peirce, BS, cial action group for girls called Sister/Sister. for the Vanguard Group and live in close frien d s ” at “Che rry, Ran d e Ger- Urbana-Champaign. Brent Borders, married Chad Pierotti,BA, on June Last spring she was a pre s en ter at the Ch i l d ren’s Defense Fund con- West Chester, Penn. Lauren Ford Ged- ber’ s new night s p ot in Mur ray Hi ll .” BS,is a graduate student at Cornell 16,2001. They live in Charleston,S.C. des, BS,married Louis Dunlap “Ted” Heat h e r Tan n e n, B S ,e a rn ed an M.B.A . University studying human resource Alice M. Pettigrew,BA,joined the feren ce speaking on the topic “Tra n s forming the World for Ch i l d ren .” Duff III on June 24,2001. They live in and master’ s of i n du s trial and labor re- management. Katherine Elaine Bush, Nashville law firm of Stites and Harbi- Her list of commu n i ty - s e rvic e activit ies is qui t e leng t h y and includ es vol - New York. Charles Grummon,BA, la ti o ns at Corne ll Uni versi t y in Decem- BA,married Michael John Loyco Jr. on son in the business and finance service un t eer work with Stand for Chi l d r en, a nati on a l ,n on p a rtis a n , gras s r oot s MBA’99,was designated as a certified ber 2000. She works as a program Oct.20,2001. They live in Alexandria, group. Jonathan Chad Simmons, or ga n i z a ti on that seeks to give all ch i l d ren an opportu n i ty to grow up financial manager and works as a fi- ma n a g er for Fideli t y Inves tm e nts in Va. John J.Faldetta,BA,MBA’01, MEd,was accepted at the University of healthy, educated,and safe. nancial advisor at Merrill Lynch in Bos t on, Mas s . John Chaffee Thorse n, joined the Nashville law firm of Waller Alabama-Birmingham School of Op- “Ch i l d ren are my passion and my life ,” s ays Fetu ga . “I want to make Nashville. Alison Roberts Guzda, and M E d ,m a rrie d Laura Win s t on Mors- Lansden Dortch & Davis and practices tometry and began school last August. sure every child gets a fair chance in life.” her husband, Brad,announce the birth man on Jul y 14, 20 0 1 . The y work at in the area of business transactions. Kristen L. Stephenson, BMus, writes of their first child, Mack Donavan Mercersb urg Aca demy in Penn s y lvan i a . Vanessa Ale xia Fieve, JD , ma r rie d Scot t that she gave up corporate life for a job In the first year after earning her Pe a body bach el or ’s degree in el e- Guzda, born on Jan.11,2001. They live Verno n Will e tt on Aug . 4 ,2 0 0 1 . The y at Nashville’s Exit/In, where she is in- men t a r y educ a ti o n and early child develo pmen t , Fetug a was a first - g rade in Celina, Tenn. Alison works as a case Lance Cargill, JD, was elected li ve in New York. Th o mas E.Fry, M BA , volved in many aspects of the club. tea che r at Nas h vi ll e’s Eakin Elemen t a r y Sch oo l . This aca demic year she’s law editor with Lexis-Nexis,and her to the Oklahoma State House and Mar y Leig h Fry announce the birt h Jennifer Wambach, BS,MD’01,is a a fourth-grade teacher at Carter-Lawrence Elementary. Elementary schoolteacher Rasheedat Fetuga, shown here with her fourth husband is a goaltender for the of Representatives representing of th e ir first chi l d , Mat t h e w Thom a s , resident in pediatrics at Children’s Fetu ga became heavi ly invo lved in servi ce to the com mu n i ty as an graders, says her mission is to make sure every child gets a fair chance in life. Knoxville Speed hockey team. ’96his home town of Harrah. born Feb. 2 8 ,2 0 0 1 . The y live in Cha r - Memorial Hospital at Northwestern Ingram Scholar at Vanderbilt, while also learning the skills necessary to Stephanie M. King,BA,married John Thomas Everett, BE, received a Ph.D. l o t te ,N . C . Kar en D.Ham m a c k,BA,is University in Chicago. Butler Horton Jr., BA’94, on June 9, in biomedical engineering from the working on a Ph.D. in clinical psychol- convi n ce others that her cause as a te ach er and ch i l d ren’s advoc a te is “Pe a b ody pre s en ted me with intense ch a ll en ge s , and I bel i eve I emer g ed 2001. They live in Manhattan. Bryon University of Virginia. He now has a ogy at the University of Mississippi. Michelle Bargeron, BS,mar- e s s en ti a l . She cites several Pe a body profe s s ors as important men tors in a stronger, more passionate individual because of them.” L. Koepke, BS, received the L.L.M. de- post-doctorate position in cardiology She also teaches undergraduate classes ried Scott R.Taylor on July 28, he r own life: Kat h y Hoover-D emp s e y, as s oc i a t e profes s o r of ps y cho l o gy, A proj ect in Fetu ga’s firs t - grade class last year exemplifies her ide a l s : gree from Georgetown University Law at the Krannert Institute of Cardiology and works as a therapist on campus 2001. They live in Kiev, who m she calls “my hero; ” Ann Neely, as s oc i a t e profes s o r of the practic e She h ad her students sew baby blankets for local children in need. Such School last May and accepted a posi- at the Indiana School of Medicine. and in a local children’s home. Alicia ’98Ukraine. Brandon T.Barnes, of education and director of the Ingram Scholars program, who helped proj ects ep i tom i ze her overa rching mission . “I want to see ch i l d ren in- tion with the U.S.Securities and Ex- Sarah Maxwell,BA,earned a master’s Hayes, BS,moved to San Francisco BS,married Ellen Hunt Baum on April her fine-tune her skills of conversation,punctuality, and poise;and Kay volved in their own movement and advocating for themselves.” change Commission. Kira Leap,BA, degree in comparative literature at the from Chicago and loves the warmer 28,2001. They live in Nashville. Mc Cl a i n , assistant profe s s or of m a t h em a tics edu c a ti on , who “bel i eved Local publ i c a ti ons have prof i l ed Fetu ga because of h er out s t a n d i n g and Jeremy Paul Roberts,BA, University of London.She now works weather. “This beats a Chicago winter Joshua Brainard,BA, works with Ac- MBA’00, were married on Sept.15, at Bear Stearns in the equity research any day!” Colleen E. Hughey,BA, centure and lives in Tampa,Fla. in my crazy dreams.” ded i c a ti on , and she wel comes e-mail from anyone intere s ted in her 2001. They live in Nashville. Kathy department in New York City. Kevin joined the Nashville law firm of Bass Brooke Alexandra Brown, BS,mar- “M y work has been inspired and sup ported by these and others in my work by wri ting fetu ga r @ a ol . co m. Martin, PhD, was named director of Carson Moore, BS,is in his fourth Berry & Sims as an associate in the cor- ried William James Helmstetter III, l i fe who have taught me not to begru d ge small begi n n i n gs ,” she says . —Gayle Rogers, with additional reporting by Carrie Ferguson the School of Nursing at Austin Peay year of graduate school at Rutgers Uni- porate and securities practice area. BS’97, on June 23,2001. They live in State University in Clarksville, Tenn. versity pursuing a doctorate in clinical Ryan Keiser, BS,married Jennifer Alexandria, Va. Patricia Glen Bryan, Andy Miles, BE, received the designa- psychology. He writes that he “misses McKay on May 21,2001. They live in MSN,married Francis “Frank”Mari- tion of professional engineer from the McGill, Frisbee on Alumni Lawn,and Dallas. Angela Gay Kinkead, MDiv, on Bass III, BA’95, on March 24,2001. Commonwealth of Virginia’s Depart- the intellectualism of Vanderbilt.” was named dean of the Chapel at West The couple lives in Nashville.She is the Lucia Parra, BS’94,MD’98,and Dean- Eun i c e Bax t er Jack s o n Col - th r ee- y ear tour at Ram s t ein Air Force so r at Cal i f ornia State Uni versi t y at ment of Professional and Occupational Michael T. Morris II, BS,earned an Virginia Wesleyan College in Buckhan- daughter of Worcester Allen Bryan na Dill Smith,BA’92. Marcia and Walt mo re, B S ,M E d ’ 9 5 ,m a rrie d Base in Germa n y. Bram Pinkley, BS , Stanislaus and serves as gradua t e direc- Regulation. He is a project engineer M.D. degree from Morehouse School non,W.V. Rachel Levine,BA, graduat- III, BE’61,and Frances C. Bryan, live in Beaufort,S.C., where she is a pe- Dou g las Stewa r t Rodman on received the 2001 Humanism in Medi - tor of the English depa r tmen t . David and project manager with Lane Engi- of Medicine and is a resident in inter- ed with double master’s degrees in BA’65. Jeremy Chaussee, BS,was mar- diatrician in the U.S. Navy, and he is a May 19 ,2 0 0 1 . The y live in cine Awa r d from East Tenn e s s e e State W.Sug g,BA ,m a rrie d Julie Bonn e r on ’9 4 neering. Matt O’Keefe,BA,was pro- nal medicine at Mount Auburn Hospi- social work from the University of ried on June 26,2001, took his wife’s flight surgeon. Kris Jonsson Porotsky, Nas h vill e . Ca n d a c e Dawn Frui n , BS , Uni vers i ty ’s James H. Qu i ll e n Coll e ge Dec .1 ,2 0 0 0 . The y live in Pot oma c filed in the June 3,2001, edition of the tal-Harvard Medical School. He is Pennsylvania and Jewish communal name,and writes that he is now Jeremy BS,and Rick Porotsky, BS,JD’93,an- M S N ’ 9 5 ,m a rrie d James David Stefa n - of Medi c i n e . He is a res i d ent in pedi - Fall s , Va. Van d y grads in attend a n c e in- Wilmington, Del., Sunday News Jour- married to Faye Vargas Morris. They studies from Gratz College.She is the Poehnert. He works in the Simmons nounce the birth of a daughter, Gina si c , M S’ 9 6 ,P h D’ 0 0 , on June 23, 20 0 1 . at rics at Eastern Vir g inia Medi c a l clud ed Bryan Tharpe, BE ; Jeff Kur z , nal.The article reviewed his novel, The live in Boston. Theodore E. Patrick, assistant director of Pinemere Camp. College Learning Office in Boston. Nicole, born on March 1,2001,joining The y live in Nas h vill e . Hays Thomp - Sch o ol in Norfol k . Melissa McGu i r e BS ; Dan Bate s , BS ; Mar k Mik l i s , BE ; Day Action Band: YouThink You Hear, BE,and Rebecca J.Kimbrell, MA’98, Meredith Leigh Martin, BS,married Anna-Marie Laime,BA,married brother Brent Daniel. They live in so n Han e y,BA, and John Ash l e y Pric e, BS , and Jay Pric e,BA ,J D’ 9 7 , of and Lau r a Perha c h,BA. Lei g h Win d - written about his six-week stint as road were married on Aug. 11,2001. They Jonathon Jason Meyer, on March 31, Brian Claassen, BE, on Aug. 11,2001. Cincinnati. Kristin Heather Rother- Han e y, B S’ 9 3 ,a n n o u n ce the bir th of Birm i n gh a m , Ala . , welc ome d their first so r Taylo r, B S ,m a rrie d Brian Thom a s manager of his high school friends’ live in Nashville. Joseph C. Soto, BE, 2001. They live in Chicago. Brad E. They live in Corona del Mar,Calif. mel,BA,married John Burdet Collins th e ir first chi l d , Hol land “Ho l ly” He- chi l d , Wil liam McGu i re , born on Feb. Koch on Jul y 21, 20 0 1 . She is emp l o yed rock band. Kim A.Perkins, BMus,and MD’00,is a resident in otolaryngolo- McCall, BE,married Isabelle Godbout Vandy grads in attendance included Pilant, BE’95, on Oct.7,2000. They le ne Han e y, born on Feb. 7 ,2 0 0 1 . The y 1 7 ,2 0 0 1 . Melissa is an en gi n eer wit h by Onslow Cou n t y, N . C . ,s ch oo l s ,a n d her husband, Matthew, BE’93, wel- gy-head and neck surgery at the Uni- in September 2000. They live in Plano, Scott Claassen, BA’01; Lauren Gris- live in Philadelphia where she is a li ve in Dalla s , whe re John is a vic e pres - Mercedes Benz and Jay is an associ a t e he serves in the U.S . Mar ine Corps in comed their second child, Caroline versity of Colorado. His wife, Caulley Texas. Lori Pryor Morrow,BA,was manauskas,BA; Mark Lockwood, brand manager with Johnson & John- id ent with Sol om o n Smith Barn e y, an d with Bur r & Forma n . Eli z a b eth Rein - New River, N. C . Ann Greenwood Wat - Elizabeth Perkins, born on March 11, Fonvielle Sotto, BS,MD’01,is a resi- promoted to a captain in the U.S. Air BE’00; Laurel Miller, BS; Dennise son. Alison Disher Smith, BS,and Hays is a corporat e cou n s e l for Aff i l i a t - ha rd t , BS , and Ryan Sta n s bu r y, BE’ 9 6 , so n, B S ,M S N ’ 9 6 , and her hus b a n d , 2001,in The Woodlands, Texas. John dent in pediatrics at the University of Force last June while serving a three- Mulvihill,BA; Courtland Rae,BA; Richard Wettersten Smith,BA, wel- ed Comp u ter Service s . Alan Han s o n, were marrie d on May 19 ,2 0 0 1 . The y Dr ew, an n o u n c e the arrival of th ei r Burdet Collins Pilant, BE,married Colorado. Bob Wilkinson, MSN, a month deployment to Riyadh, Saudi, Edward Robbins, BE; Charlotte comed a son, Tyler Marshall Smith, B E ,j oi n ed the staff of U.S . Repres en t a - li ve in Pittsbur g h whe re Ryan attend s fi r st chi l d , Ann Lawton Wat s on , on Jul y Kristin Heather Rothermel, BA’93, nurse practitioner at Burkhart Rural Arabia in support of Joint Task Force- Walker,BA;and Kim Pralle Krotts, born on March 3,2001. They live in tive Anne North r up (R-K y.) as legis l a - the Carn e gie Mello n Business Sch oo l . 1 0 ,2 0 0 1 . The y live in Owens b oro, Ky. on Oct.7,2000. They live in Philadel- Health Clinic in Salem, Ky., writes that Southwest Asia.She and her husband BA. Scott A.Cormier, BS,a first lieu- Alexandria, Va. Charles F.Treadway tive director. Ch ri s t ophe r M.Hud s o n, Arnold Schm i d t , Ph D , ma r rie d Becky Rub ery Wetz el, and her hus - phia. Griffin Reidy,BA,and his wife, he married his wife,Shelia, on March “are enjoying our last year in Alaska, tenant in the Marine Corps,was desig- II,BA,was promoted to vice president B E ,M D’ 9 8 , comp l e ted his res i d ency in Cat h e rine And ers on , an art historia n ba n d , Mik e Wetz el, JD’ 9 5 , welc ome d Mary, welcomed their second daugh- 23,2001. Kristina Zierold, MS,earned and expect to move next summer nated a Naval Flight Officer while for business development of Medical fa m i l y practic e from Saint Louis Uni - sp ecializing in the stud y of ni n e teent h th e ir first chi l d , Macy Elizabeth , on ter, Nora, on Aug. 19,2001,joining sis- a Ph.D. in environmental health sci- courtesy of the U.S.Air Force.” Katy serving at Naval Air Station at Pen- Properties of America. He lives in versi t y on June 30, 20 0 1 . A captain in centu r y Brit ish art. He received tenur e O ct .2 6 ,2 0 0 0 . The y live in Portl a n d , ter Elizabeth. They live in London, ences from the University of Illinois in Noyes, BS,and Morgan Parker, BA’96, sacola,Fla. Amy Erbesfield, BS,mar- Nashville. the Air Force, he was assigne d to a and was promo t ed to associ a t e profes - Ore .

50 V A N D E R B I L T M A G A Z I N E SPRING 2002 51 ried Trey Clayton,BS’97, on Aug. 4, ters for excellence in and service to Kilchenman, MS,PhD’01,and John master of music in organ performance Mark E. Eastin Jr., BA’29, of Madis- He practiced internal medicine in John Kiser, BE’38, of Avon, Conn., mem b er of the Uni o n League of 2001. They live in Atlanta. Among lawyering skills competition at Wash- O’Malley, BE’96,MS, were married degree at Indiana University in Bloom- onville, Ky., May 25,2000. Rome from 1946 to 1987. Survivors in- BE’38, April 1999. Nas h vill e , the Cent ennial Club , th e those in attendance at the wedding ington University School of Law in St. Aug. 18,2001. They live in Houston. ington. Ellen Murphy,BA,and O.J. clude a son,a daughter and four League of Wome n Vot ers and the Mary Breazeale, BA’30, of Raleigh, W.David Seyfried, BE’38, of Austin, were Sloane Wyatt Alford, BS; Laura Louis. Ingrid S.Schuster,BA,is sta- Yoshi Kittaka, MBA,and his wife, Fleming, BS,announce the birth o f grandchildren. Da u gh t ers of the Ame rican Revol ution . N.C.,Oct.23,2000. Texas, May 7,2001. Nuechterlein Weenig, BS; Amanda tioned near Wuerzburg, Germany, on a Louise,announce the birth of their Caleb James Fleming, born on May 29, Inf lu en c ed in her you th by her exp eri- Emma Sloop Fink, MD’36, of Cross- Hicks, BS; Charlie Cox, BE; Jim three-year tour with the U.S.Army. She daughter, Marin Shanley, born on Jan. 2001. They live in Spring Hill, Tenn. Samuel Caldwell,A’30,LLB’32, of Milton Wells “Tokyo”Williams Jr., enc es with the Girl Scou ts of Ame ric a , nore,N.C., Aug. 11,2001.She was a Echols,BA; JeffLeonard, BE’97; Ben is a signal platoon leader providing 10,2001,joining siblings Tsuyoshi and Andrew H. Tam, BS,was commis- Brentwood, Tenn., Feb. 19,2000. BA’38, of Greenville,S.C., June 19, she served as scou tma s t er to two Cub physician in Avery County in rural Ellis, BE’97; Tom Mueller,BA;and tactical communications and automa- Reina. They live in Tokyo. David May- sioned as an ensign in the Navy after 2001. He attended Vanderbilt on a Sco u t troops and several Girl Scou t Harold Curry,A’30, of Memphis, western North Carolina. football scholarship and was a member Brett Lawton, BA’96. Jodie Lynn tions in the 1st Infantry Division. nard, MBA,and his wife,Stephanie, completing Officer Candidate School Tenn., May 24,2000. troops . Sur vivors includ e her hus b a n d , Fritch, MSN,married Kevin Richard Brian Stephens,BA,married Amy announce the birth of a daughter, Alli- at Naval Aviation Schools Command Mary N.Gamble, GN’36, of Nashville, of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. A Cobur n Dewees Berry III, BA’4 3 , Donovan on Sept.2,2001. They live in Sautebin on May 12,2001. They live in son Brooke, born on May 11,2001. in Pensacola,Fla. Patricia Shuttles,A’30, of Asheville, Oct.9,2000. veteran of World War II,he served in J D’ 4 8 ;s ons C. Dewees Berry IV, BA’7 3 , N.C., June 9,2001. the 4th Marine Division and fought in Nashville. Robyn Alayne Gerth, BS, Nashville. Sarah Ann Stewart, MS, They live in Winston-Salem,N.C. Jack Scheiner, BA’36, of Wynecote, JD’ 7 6 ; Dou g las Berry, JD’ 7 9 ; Will i a m battles at Saipan, Tinien and Kwajalein. married Robert Michael Schapiro, PhD’01,joined North Central College Michelle L. Niknejad,BA, received a Elizabeth Broyhill,BA,lives in James A.Still, MA’30,of Hindman, Penn., March 22,2001. Tyle r Berry; da u gh t ers Mar y Sus a n BA’97, on May 27,2001. They live in in Naperville, Ill.,as an assistant pro- master of public policy degree in social Manhattan and works in both Ky., April 28,2001. An All-American and national cham- Berry Kenn e dy, BA’7 8 ; and Ama n d a San Francisco. Katie A. Halloran, BS, fessor of mathematics. Doug Sullivan, and behavioral sciences from Boston New York and Paris for CE- John McElroy Crowell, BA’37, of pion in Senior Olympics track and McNa i r y Berry Moody, M E d ’ 9 3 ;a n d Miller W.Swaney, BE’31,MS’32, of married Matthew Buesching,BA, BA,a government affairs analyst with University School of Public Health last LINE,a French fashion house Black Mountain,N.C., Aug. 19,2001. field,he earned the nickname “Tokyo” ten gran d chi l d r en. ’01 Lake Barrington, Ill.,Oct.18,2000. JD’01, on June 30,2001. The live in St. Pace Suburban Bus in Chicago, writes May. Andrew M.Purdy,BA,joined the designed by Michael Kors. David Ray- He was pastor emeritus of Central for winning a trip to Japan in an essay Abraham King Conditt, BA’41, Louis where Matt practices real estate that he was “named one of Chicago’s law firm of Latham & Watkins’ New mond Carr,BA,was selected to partic- Louis H.Zbinden,E’31, of Signal Presbyterian Church (USA) in Mobile, contest. He was a member of First MD’44, of Mobile, Ala.,Oct.1,2001. law and Katie is a second-grade most eligible bachelors for 2001 by York office as an associate in the cor- ipate in the Japan English Teaching Mountain, Tenn., March 30,2001. Ala. During World War II,he joined Presbyterian Church. Survivors in- He was a captain in the U.S.Army dur- teacher. Among those in attendance at Win d y Cit y Wee k l y.” Cregg Lee Watn e r, porate finance group. Sara Rogers, (JET) Program and is spending a year the U.S. Navy and served as chaplain clude his wife,two daughters,a son, Wayne Lamb, MA’32,of Bellevue, ing World War II and served on hospi- the wedding were Chris Hubbuch,BA; BA,married Katherine Lacey Murphy BA,is a third-year law student at the as an assistant language teacher in aboard the USS Freemontin the Pacific eight grandchildren and a brother. Neb.,Oct.11,2000. tal ships. He practiced medicine in Emily Culver, BS; Sarah McDougal, on Sept.29,2001. They live in Malibu, University of Alabama. Julie Kather- Fukushima. Cheryl Friedrich,BA, theater. He served as chaplain to the Pauline Amerine, N’39, of Birming- Mobile for 50 years and was a member BA’97; Lissa Davis, BS’97; Sara Lus- Calif. Hazarizal Zainodin, BE,is a re- ine Rosser,BA, received a teaching also was selected to participate in the Marion B.Mills, BA’32, of Moline, Ill., Mobile Naval Reserve Unit for 21 ham, Ala.,Oct.28, 1999. of the American Medical Association combe, BS’97; Joanne Luzietti searcher with MIMOS Berhad at the certificate in bilingual education,early Japan English Teaching (JET) Program May 5,2001. years, achieving the rank of captain. and the Moss Hill Gun Club.Survivors Rusina, BA’97; Heather McGill, BA’97; Knowledge Management Group in childhood and elementary education. and is spending a year as an assistant Survivors include his wife,two daugh- Nancy M. Hackney,A’39, of Nashville, William Webster Porter Jr., BE’32, of include his wife,a son,three daughters Erety Shoemaker Smith, BS; Heather Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia. After two years of teaching Spanish/ language teacher in Togane City, ters, four grandchildren and one great- April 20,2001.She was a member of Richland, Wash., June 25,2001. and seven grandchildren. McNew,BA; Margaret Laurie Comer English in Texas,she moved to Xi’an, Chiba. Fred White Henry, MBA,mar- grandchild. Gamma Phi Beta sorority. She is sur- William Prather, BA’32, of Charles vived by a daughter, a son,five grand- Wright, BS; Amy Vondra, BS; Jane D’Lorah Butts-Lucas, BS, of China, to teach English at a children’s ried Mary Bethany Harris on June 2, Robert Harvey, BA’37,LLB’39, of Hardy Noland Dietz, BA’41, of Town, W.V.,June 28,2000. children,12 great-grandchildren and a Osterman, BS; John Schmieg,BA; Tallahassee,Fla.,was promoted boarding school. Kyoko Taguchi, 2001. They live in Birmingham, Ala. Swifton, Ark., May 19,2001. Greenville,S.C.,Oct.13,2001.She is sister, Jesse Booth Doyle, BA’41. John Nutter,BA; Robb Bigelow, to state project manager with MBA,and her husband, Michio, an- Emily Kiang, BS,is teaching a multi- Willie D.Johnson Buntin, BA’33, of survived by her husband. Henry Hoyt, JD’37, of Vero Beach, BA’99;and Ben Wince, BE. Robert L. the Paxen Group for a welfare- nounce the birth of a son, Takumi handicap class at Dickson County Nashville,Oct.17,2001. Albert Fenno Whitman II, BA’39, ’99 Fla., Feb.,3,2000. Tina Hellerman,A’41, of Eugene, Hess II, BE,JD’01,married Karen to-work program.She received a min- Christopher, born on April 22. They High School in Tennessee. Emily JD’44, of Sylacauga, Ala., June 16, Richard King, BA’33, of Atlanta, Ore., Feb. 13,2000. Anne Pohlman on Dec.30,2000. ister’s license on Jan.14,2001.She live in Durham,N.C., where she is an Grace Maddux, BS,and John Jackson Cole Morrow,E’37, of Brooklyn, Md., 2001. He was past president of Peoples March 27,2001. Catherine Roesel, BA’41, of Augusta, Michael B. Heister,BA,is notes and plans to attend law school and “even- executive assistant for Nortel Net- Routh, BS’98,MEd’99, were married June 7,2000. Bank and Trust of Sylacauga and exec- comments editor of the Arkansas Law tually practice sports and entertain- works. John Wetenhall, MBA,was June 2,2001. They live in Nashville. Ga., Aug. 13,2001.She earned a Ph.D. Mary Hicks Proctor,A’33, of Patti King O’Connor, BA’37, of Smyr- utive vice president of the Sylacauga Review.He graduates from the ment law.” Lana L. Cella,BA,was profiled in the Aug. 12,2001, edition Joellyn A.Schulz, BS,an ensign in the from Washington University and Nashville,Oct.22,2001.She worked as na, Tenn., May 22,2001.She was a Chamber of Commerce. He served in Arkansas School of Law in 2002 and commissioned as an ensign in the Navy of the St. Petersburg Times.He is the Navy, is stationed aboard the aircraft served as a fellow in tropical medicine an air traffic controller and later was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta frater- the U.S.Army as a medical administra- will then clerk for the Honorable after completing Officer Candidate executive director of the Ringling carrier USS John F. Kennedy after train- at Louisiana State University. In 1987, real estate broker. She was a member of nity, majored in mathematics,and at- tor and rose from the rank of private to Richard Arnold on the Eighth Circuit School at Naval Aviation Schools Museum of Art. ing in naval aviation in Pensacola and she received the Distinguished Faculty the DAR, Colonna Club, Ladies of tended Juilliard School of Music.She major. He is survived by his wife,two U.S. Court of Appeals. Danielle Hicks, Command, Naval Air Station, Pensaco- Corpus Christi. Sarah E. Seljeskog, Award for her work as a professor of Charity, Vanderbilt Alumni Associa- taught mathematics in high school in sons,three stepdaughters,three grand- BA, received an M.B.A. degree from la,Fla. Kaori Ann Church, BS, of Michelle L. Allen, BS, works BA,is in her first year of study at the cell molecular biology at the Medical tion and served on the board of Los Nashville and Smyrna for more than children and nine step-grandchildren. Wake Forest University and works in Yokohama, Japan, writes that she at- with Maxim Healthcare in Minnesota Law School.She is in the Ninos & Peguenos Orphanage in Mex- College of Georgia. 20 years.She was a member of the Nezzie S.Allgood, N’40, of Madison, Winston-Salem,N.C., for the Sara Lee tended the wedding of Joy Dyer, BS, to Pueblo,Colo.,and plans to same section as Gina Nelson,BA. ico. Survivors include two daughters James P. Sanders, MA’41,BD’43, of Daughters of the American Revolu- Miss., Nov. 11,2000. Corporation as a marketing assistant Simon Gray in Belfast, Ireland, on start law school next fall. ’00 and a granddaughter. tion,the Sam Davis Association,the Sacramento, Calif., March 10,2001. in the sock division. Jennie Garth April 27,2001,as did Caitlin Cottrill, Frank W.Burns III, BS,was awarded Melver T. Griffin, BE’40, of Camden, Ann B. Kendall, BA’34, of Randolph, Rutherford General Federated Kenneth C.Vance,E’41, of Opelika, Lovvorn, BS,married Jason Bailey BA. Angela R. Cottrell, BS,is in her the Army Commendation Medal for S.C., June 2,2000. Vt., Jan.31,2001. Women’s Club, Smyrna Parks Advisory Ala., Dec.21, 1999. Needham on June 23,2001. They live second year of law school at George meritorious service while assigned as D E AT H S Board,and the Reviewers Club. She Katherine Green McGregor,A’40, of in Nashville. Marianne Culpepper Washington University Law School. a combat engineer platoon leader de- Harry E. Stark, BE’34, of Daytona Swan Burrus,BA’42,MD’45, of Jack- also served as chairman of both state Lynnville, Tenn., March 7,2001. Macomber, BS,and Hunter McPher- Margaret DeSilver, BS, writes that she ployed in Korea. Beth Chamblee,BA, Dorinda H. Knopp, BA’23,MA’28, of Beach Shores,Fla., April 27,2001. He son, Tenn., Sept.30,2001. and local chapters of the American son Rice, BS, were married on October “was married to my high school sweet- last July finished a year of working St. Paul, Minn., Dec.21,2000. spent his career working with the fed- Sue Bra dl ey Dou g las Berry,BA’4 1 , of Cancer Society and received the Victo- Ann Fensterwald Eisenstein,A’42, of 6,2001. They live in Nashville. Gina heart,Dan Bleicher, on July 21,2001.” with economically deprived children eral highway system and was regional Fran k l i n , Tenn . , Nov. 2 7 ,2 0 0 1 , at her Esther Cooper Cannon, BA’24, of At- ry Lifetime Service Award for her work Nashville, April 30,2001.She was a Marie Maggi,BA,married Colby They live in Jacksonville,Fla., where in Belfast, Ireland.She now attends administrator for the southeast, retir- ho me on the family farm. A native of water, Calif., April 11,2001. in the community. Survivors include volunteer for numerous organizations, Clarence Crenshaw on March 31,2001. she teaches first grade and he is a Naval Florida State Law School “to specialize ing in 1973.He is survived by his wife. Atl a n t a , she was affection a t ely known as cousins Jan Patterson Eason, BA’65; including the Metro Action Commis- They live in Beaumont, Texas. Melissa flight officer. Among those in atten- in children’s advocacy work.” Cathleen George L.Garrett, BS’25, of Waynes- “Sue Bab y.”She was a psycho l o gy major Jane Sutherland, BA’34, of Nashville, James C.Gardner III, BA’90;and sion,CASA, Foster Care Review of Ju- L.Marglous,BA,was selected to the dance at the wedding were Tara Orr, Margaret Cook,BA,and Jonathan E. boro, Va., April 14,2001. at Van d erbilt and a memb er of Ka pp a Aug. 6,2001. AVanderbilt employee Janet Gardner Master,BA’95. venile Court, Conference of Christians Order of the Coif for academic excel- BS; Alisa Petti,A’97; Alecia Heil, Green, BA’98, were married on Aug. 4, Alp ha The ta frat erni t y. Aft er gradua - J. Handly Wright,L’26, of Williams- for 43 years,she se rved as registrar of and Jews, National Council of Jewish lence at Washington University School BS’98; Maryl Weissblatt, BS;and 2001. They live in Atlanta. Lauren A. William W.Berry, BA’38,JD’40, of tion , she worked as a medical secr eta r y burg,Va., Nov. 25,2000. the College of Arts and Science from Women, Bill Wilkerson Speech and of Law in St. Louis. Scott McEwen, Laura Duos,BA. Ashley Drummond, Denney, BMus,attended the Universi- Nashville, Nov. 6,2001, of heart failure. at the Van d erbilt Scho ol of Medi c i n e 1953 to 1978. As a student,she was a Hearing Center, United Givers Fund, MEd,joined Birmingham-Southern BA, works in Washington, D.C.,as a ty of South Carolina’s Conductor’s In- Amy Elizabeth Niles, BA’28, of Pen- He was an attorney with the law firm and served with the Red Cross in Eu- member of Delta Delta Delta, Women’s Family and Children’s Services, Ann F. College in Alabama as assistant direc- scheduler in the executive office of the stitute last June.She was one of 14 sacola,Fla., June 13,2001. As a Vander- of Bass Berry & Sims,specializing in rope dur ing World War II. She was Student Government Association and Eisenstein Women’s Cardiovascular tor of alumni affairs. David Mongin, President. Jesse Randall Hale, EdD, is people chosen for the associates pro- bilt student,she was Phi Beta Kappa tax law. During World War II,he a founding memb er of Fran k l i n ’s Her- the women’s basketball team.She Symposium and the Jewish Communi- BE,MS’00, works with SpectRx as a re- principal of Towns County High gram and conducted chamber groups and a member of Kappa Alpha Theta served as a field artillery officer in the it a g e Fou n d a ti on , the Pione er’ s Corne r, served as secretary to two deans, ty Center. She is survived by her hus- search scientist in the development of School in Hiawassee,Ga. Zach Hicks, and the orchestra. Bethany C. Flynn, sorority. She taught history at Pensaco- Pacific theater. He had been an elder the Chur ch Wome n of Fra n k l i n ,a n d Franklin Paschall and Madison Sarratt band,a daughter, a son,six a biophotonics device to detect cervical BA,joined the Peace Corps in July BS,is pursuing a master of science de- la High School for 38 years, retiring in and deacon at First Presbyterian the His t oric Franklin Pres b yteria n and during her tenure worked with 17 grandchildren and a great-grandson. 1971.She was a member of the Colo- Church and member of Hillwood and Chur ch .E a rl i er last yea r , she received a cancer. He lives in Decatur, Ga. Chris- 2000, working in the Dominican Re- gree in nursing at Vanderbilt. John deans and four chancellors.She is sur- nial Dames of the 17th Century, Belle Meade country clubs. Survivors Li f etime Achi e veme nt Awa r d from the Jim Folk, BE’42, of Tallulah,La., tine M.Pirozzi,BA,married David public on crop production. Debra Paul Fougerousse,BA,and Carter vived by a sister, nieces and nephews. Talley on Sept.15,2001. They live in Renee Johnson, BS,married Julian Lee Heyward Morris, A, were married Daughters of the American Revolu- include his wife,a daughter, two step- Herit a g e Fou n d a ti on . She sup ported March 19,2000. tion,and the First Baptist Church of Emmett Smyer Brannon, MA’35, sons,a stepdaughter, 14 grandchildren Meals on Whe els , the Clothes Clo s e t (an Ft.Orange,Fla. Russell C. Riggan,BA, Bibb IV on June 16,2001. They live in Dec.30,2000. They live in Columbia, Gl e nn Ham m on d s , BA’ 4 2 ,M D’ 4 4 , of Pensacola. MD’40, of Rome,Ga., June 26,2001. and three great-grandchildren. in t erracial day care cent er) , and was a was selected to the Order of the Barris- Franklin, Tenn. Marcia Elaine S.C. Aaron Goen, BMus,is pursuing a Nas h vill e , Jul y 5, 2 0 0 1 ,a f ter an intes ti n -

52 V A N D E R B I L T M A G A Z I N E SPRING 2002 53 al disorder. He was forme r chi e f of sur - tack.She is survived by her husband, Temple, Chattanooga Scottish Rite, John Kelly Breast Jr., BA’5 1 , of Union and Zeta Beta Tau fraternity. of St.George’s Episcopal Church and Lucy C.Rowland, BA’60, of Calera, Judith Crawford, BA’65, of Nashville, gery at Bap tist Hospital and co- fo u n d ed Roy G.Osborne, MA’48. Beekeepers Association, American Le- Nas h vill e , Dec .2 5 ,2 0 0 0 . He served in Survivors include his wife,a son and a Belle Meade Country Club.He also Ala., May 1,2001. June 7,2001.She was a longtime vol- Mill e r Medical Grou p .Dur ing World gion, Chattanooga Hamilton County the U.S . Air Force and was vic e pres i - daughter. was active in quail hunting and train- unteer who dedicated her time and ef- Evelyn Crozier Shaw, BA’47, of Birm- Don H.Shac kelford, BA’60 of Bolivar, War II, he served in the Army medi c a l Medical Society and the Tennessee dent and inves tm e nt off i c er in the trus t ing cutting horses and setter bird dogs. forts to Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital ingham, Ala., Nov. 7,2001. Harry Schmeisser, BA’52, of Mem- Tenn., Dec.31,2000. corps . Aft er retir ing in 198 9 , he enj o yed Medical Association. Survivors include depa r tme nt of Thi r d Nati o nal Ban k . Survivors include his wife and two and worked to create the Junior League phis, Dec.1,2000. writ ing poetry and bir d watchi n g .Sur - William David Epstein, BA’48, of San his wife,two sons,a daughter, two Aft er his retir emen t , he served for 10 sons. John Klein Wigginton, BA’60, of Tal- Family Center there.She also taught vivors includ e his wi fe ,t h ree daught ers, Rafael, Calif., Sept.12,2001. He was a stepchildren and 15 grandchildren. yea r s as assistant trea su r er of Van d erbil t Larry Beisel, BA’53,MD’56, of Evans- lahassee,Fla., May 1,2001, of Parkin- Sunday School at Westminster Presby- George F. Heege III, JD’56, of St. a son, a stepd a u gh t er, fi ve gran d chi l - self-employed insurance and invest- Uni versi t y. He was an eld er of Fi rs t ville, Ind., Sept.3,2001,at his home of son’s disease. He was judge of the First terian Church. Survivors include her Howa r d F.Huf f , BD’ 4 9 , of Tu l s a ,O k l a . , Louis, June 29,2001. dr en and one step- g rea t - g ran d chi l d . ment counselor. A native of Nashville, Pres b yterian Chur ch whe re he sang in complications of lymphoma. He was a District Court of Appeals in Tallahas- husband, George V.Crawford Jr., Sept .1 6 ,2 0 0 1 . He was a Fou n d er’ s he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the cho ir for 22 yea rs . He is sur vived by pediatrician at Welborn Clinic from Bernard Ferguson Jones, BA’56, of see. At Vanderbilt,he was member of BA’62,LLB’67;a son;a daughter; a Mar cus Gurl e y, B D’ 4 2 , of Pi n s on , Medalist at Van d erbilt as well as a stu- Zeta Beta Tau fraternity, and lettered in his wife , Win i f r ed Smith Breas t , BS’ 5 2 ; 1961 to 1996 and served on the board Columbus,Ohio, Feb. 7,2001. SAE fraternity, the student senate and grandson and her mother. Tenn . , Sept .2 1 ,2 0 0 0 . dent pastor. He and his wif e were mis- freshman track at Vanderbilt. He tw o daught ers ,i n cluding Susan Odom, of trustees. He served as a captain in ROTC. He is survived by his wife, si on a r ies to Japan with the Uni t ed Elizabeth Wade Roberts, BA’56, of Patrick Glavin Hogan Jr., PhD’65, of Hir am Lar ge, MD’ 4 2 , of Cha rl o t te , served as a radio officer in the Navy BA’8 4 , a son, and six gran d chi l d r en. the Air Force from 1959 to 1961. His Martha Gene Abell Wigginton,BA’60; Chri s t ian Mis s i on a r y Soci e ty of th e Roswell,Ga.,2000. Houston,Oct.22,2001. He worked at N. C . , Feb. 19 ,2 0 0 1 . during World War II in Okinawa and community affiliations included the a daughter and two grandsons. Chri s t ian Chur ch, Disciples of Chri s t , J. Travis Crews,A’51, of Little Rock, the University of Houston for 23 years Shanghai. Before moving to California, Crossroads Christian Church, Rolling Don R. Bundy, BD’57, of Geneva, Ill., Har ris o n B.Rue , BA’4 2 , of Cha r - for ten yea rs . He taught Chri s t ian eth i c s Ark., on Aug. 29,2001, of complica- Cavin Cotey, BA’61, of Peyton, Colo., teaching literature, with a specialty in he worked in news and sales at Hills Country Club and the Kennel Sept.27,2000. lo t te s vi ll e , Va. , Sept .6 ,2 0 0 1 . As a Van - and Old Tes t a m e nt at Japan Bibl i c a l tions following a heart attack. He is Aug. 8,2000. He is survived by his wife. Renaissance literature. He served in the Nashville radio and television stations. Club.Survivors include his wife, a derbilt stud ent , he was captain of th e Semi n a r y and served as execu tive direc- survived by his wife, Jeanne Tyler Alan Lamar Goar, BA’57, of Nashville, Army Air Corps during World War II He loved poetry, novels,theatre, daughter, a son,and four grandchil- Robert DuBose “Dick”Dickins Jr., ba s k etba l l te a m ,n a m ed Bachel o r of tor of the Literatu r e Comm i s s i o n of th e Crews, BS’79. Aug. 21,2001,at his residence. As a and taught at several universities be- movies, jazz and classical music. He dren. BA’61,MD’64, of Little Rock, Ark., Ugliness and was a memb er of OD K Nati o nal Chri s t ian Council of Jap a n . Vanderbilt student,he was member of fore joining Houston. was a patron of Marin Symphony for B. Leslie Huffman Jr., BA’51,MD’54, April 24,2001. He was a neurological and SAE frat erni ti e s . He join e d the Aft er retur ning to the U.S . , he accepted a Ray B. Gill Jr., BA’53, of Charleston, Alpha Tau Omega fraternity and the more than 40 years and a lifelong stu- of Grand Rapids,Ohio,Aug. 28,2001. surgeon and served as chief of medical Ch a r les C.Wil l Jr., BA’6 5 , of Lou i s vi ll e , Mar ine Corps dur ing World War II and profes s o rship at Phillips Gradua t e Semi - Mo., Jan.25,2001. Navy ROTC. He was a veteran of the dent of world history and current po- He founded Fallen Timbers Family staff, vice chief of medical staffand Sept .1 7 ,2 0 0 1 . A Navy veteran of th e rose to the rank of ma j o r. He had a suc - na r y in Enid, Ok l a . , and later beca m e U.S. Navy and served as a captain in litical events. He was a volunteer at Physicians and served on the staff of John Q. Horner, BA’53, of Pine Bluff, chief of surgery at Baptist Medical Vie tnam War , he was past pres i d ent of cessful business career, se rved as a dea - mi n i s t er of Beth a n y Chri s t ian Chur ch in the U.S.Naval Reserve. He was a for- Whistlestop in San Rafael, providing Medical College Hospital,St. Luke’s Ark., Sept.7,2000. Center. He also served on the medical Lo u i s vi lle Federal Savin g s & Loan . con and eld er in the Rye Pres b yteria n Tul s a . He is sur vived by his wi fe ,t h ree mer employee of Genesco in Nashville investment and tax advice to seniors. Hospital,and the Toledo Hospital. He staffs of St. Vincent Medical Center Sur vivors includ e two daught ers ,h i s Chur ch and was active in pris o n min- da u gh t ers, a son and five gran d chi l d r en. David Gist Howell, BD’ 5 3 , of Modes t o, and worked in the field of mortgage Survivors include his wife,a daughter, received the Distinguished Citizen and Saline Memorial Hospital. He later mo t h e r, si s t er and his comp a n i on . is t ries and the local Repu b lican Par ty Cal i f . , Ja n .2 7 ,2 0 0 1 , He was an or- banking.Survivors include his sister, two sons,and seven grandchildren. Lawrence L. May, BE’49, of Nashville, Award from the Medical College of reduced his neurological surgery prac- in San f ord ,N . C . Sur vivors includ e his da i n e d minister in the Cong regati on a l Amelia Goar Trickett, BA’50,and her Edwina “Punch” Case Davis, BS’66, of Aug. 8,2001. He was the retired man- Ohio in June 1987. Other community tice and served as associate medical wi fe ,t h ree chi l d r en ,f ive gran d chi l d r en Robert Sneed Norman, BA’48, of Chur ch (Uni t ed Chur ch of Chr ist) and husband Bill;and nieces and nephews Glasgow, Ky., Nov. 2,2001,after a two- ager at United Shoe Machinery Com- affiliations included the Boy Scouts of director at Arkansas Blue Cross/Blue and one grea t - g ran d chi l d . Nashville, Aug. 5,2001, of cancer. After se rved chur ches in Iowa , Wis c ons i n , including Gail Trickett Trapp, BA’73, year victory over breast and liver can- pany. He was a Navy veteran of World America,First Presbyterian Church, Shield. His interests included long- retiring from the practice of oral sur- Sie rra Madr e and Redwood Cit y, Cal i f . and her husband, Rusty Trapp, BA’73; cer. As a Peabody student,she was Sa r ah “S a ll y ”C a rn ey Kirk p a t ric k War II and a member of Kappa Sigma Masonic and Zenobia Shrine organiza- distance running, gourmet cooking gery in Atlanta,he returned to Aft er retir ing from the ministry, he be- Laura Trickett Riley,BA’74,and her student government president, Miss Frederic k,A’4 3 , of Memph i s , Jul y 9, at Vanderbilt. Survivors include his tions and team physician at Ostego and music. He was a member of The Nashville and served as a court officer came the owne r of Ed s o n Conval e s c ent husband, Steve Riley, BA’74;and Reed Peabody and the recipient of the Alger- 20 0 1 . She is sur vived by three chi l d r en. wife,two daughters and two grand- schools and St. John’s High School. Country Club of Little Rock and Sec- in Davidson County Criminal Court. Cent er in Modes t o. He served on the Trickett, BA’77,and his wife, Rosie non Sydney Sullivan Award.She taught daughters. Survivors include his wife,a daughter, ond Presbyterian Church. Survivors John L. Kni gh t , MA’ 4 3 , of Tempe , He served in the U.S.Army as an oral boar ds of the Wis c onsin and the North - Price Trickett, BA’77;and a cousin high school math at Glasgow High two sons,five grandchildren and a include his wife, Nancy Eakin Ariz . , Jul y 21, 20 0 1 . He retir ed as pres i - surgeon with a MASH unit during the Robert Sneed Norman, BA’49, of ern Cal i f ornia conf erenc es of the Uni t ed Sherry McTyeire, BA’55. School and Glasgow Christian Acade- great-grandchild. Dickins, BA’64;a daughter, Margaret dent of Wes l e y Theo l o gical Semi n a r y Korean War.Survivors include three Nashville, Aug. 5,2001. Certified as an Chur ch of Chr ist and the Nati on a l my. She also taught in the children’s Katherine Prichard Marsh, BA’57, of Avery Dickins, BA’90;and a son, in Was h i n g t on, D.C . , and dur ing his ca- daughters,three grandchildren,two oral surgeon,he served in the Korean Daryle C. May, BE’51, of Jacksonville, Boar d of World Mis s i on s . Sur vivors in- church ministry at Immanuel Baptist Brownsville, Tenn.,Oct.29,2001, of a Robert DuBose Dickins III, BA’92. reer served as minister of the Meth od i s t clud e his wif e and son. brothers and a sister. Conflict as a captain in the medical Fla., June 29,2001, following a long ill- heart attack.She was a member of Church for 29 years and directed its Chur ch in Co lu m bu s ,O h i o, and Syra- corps. He was an oral surgeon in At- ness with leukemia. He was a longtime Craig D. Guthrie, BA’61, of Nashville, Vacation Bible School ministry as well James F.Baxter, MS’48,PhD’52, of Robert Ray Harlin, BA’54, of Atlanta, Gamma Phi Beta sorority and is sur- cu s e , New York. He also served as pres i - lanta and returned to Nashville after educator in Duval County Schools and Aug. 5,2001,at home. He was a former as participating in mission activities Hendersonville, Tenn., Sept.29,2000. May 10,2001. He was senior chairman vived by a daughter. dent of Nebraska Wes l e yan Uni versi t y his retirement in 1991 and served as at Jacksonville University. For 18 years reporter and editor with the Ten- and trips. Survivors include her hus- He was in the Naval Reserve during of the Atlanta law firm of Powell Gold- and Bal d win - Wa ll a ce Coll e ge. Sur - court officer in Division IV of the he was chairman of the division of ed- Ronald J.Dusenbury, JD’59, of nesseannewspaper and owner of Na- band, Walter H.Davis, BA’65,JD’68, World War II and trained in RADAR stein Frazer & Murphy. He is survived vivors includ e his wi fe ,t wo daught ers Criminal Court of Davidson County. ucation at Jacksonville. As a Vanderbilt Kankakee, Ill., Sept.7,2001. tional Bond and Security Corp. and their four children. technology at Bowdoin College in by his wife,three daughters,a son, a and five gran d chi l d r en. He was a member of the Chefs Club of student,he played both football and Previously, he had owned Tyson- Maine before serving on the battleship stepdaughter and nine grandchildren. James C.Gardner Jr., BA’59, of Dorothy Remington Pollard, BA’66, Nashville and the Kiwanis Club of At- baseball. Survivors include his wife, White,a pharmaceutical firm,and Jos e ph Gersh b ock, BA’4 4 , of La s USS Washingtonas a RADAR techni- Nashville, June 1,2001. As a Vanderbilt MLS’69, of Gastonia,N.C., June 29, Paul U. Gerber Jr., BA’55,MD’58, of Sims Music Company. In 1978,he re- Vegas , Nev., Jul y 22, 20 0 0 . lanta. Survivors include three daugh- two daughters,a son and nine grand- student,he was a member of Phi Delta cian. He later was employed at E.I. Coral Gables,Fla.,Oct.2,2001. He 2001. ters and three granddaughters. children. Theta fraternity and an English major. tired as a captain in the Tennessee Air Ear l K. Nis h i mu r a, LL B’ 4 4 , of Hon- DuPont in research and development joined the U.S.Army in 1967 and Following graduation,he completed National Guard. He worked in the Roxie W. Cassidy, MA’67,of Nashville, olu lu , May 15, 20 0 1 . He is sur vived by for 30 years. Survivors include his wife, Fred Schoepflin Jr., BA’49, of San Jeanne D.Milburn,A’51, of Louisville, served in Thailand for a year.He prac- Officers’ Candidate School and served presidential campaign of Hubert June 16,2001.She was a retired school his wife . a daughter, two sons,including James Francisco, June 2001. He worked as a Ky., April 5,2001. ticed general surgery at area hospitals. with the U.S.Navy in Norfolk, Va.,and Humphrey and Edmund Muskie in teacher with the Metropolitan David- F.Baxter Jr., BA’70,and Jere W.Bax- chemist with several large firms in the His other interests included classical Arnold N. Wennerberg, MS’44, of David Randolph Osborn, BA’51, of with NATO in Europe. He was a senior 1968. Survivors include two sons,and son County School System,a member ter, M’81,and four grandchildren. Middle East and Merck in the U.S. music, geology and boating.He was a Chicago, Aug. 4,2000. Jacksonville Beach,Fla., March 28, vice president with Fidelity Federal two grandsons. of Delta Kappa Gamma,the Democra- William D.Epstein,BA’48, of San Kenneth O.Williams,BA’49, of 2001,at his home. He was a retired member of the Metropolitan Opera tic Women of Davidson County and Savings and Loan before becoming af- S.Cleveland Laub Jr., BA’61, of Snow Robert Hall,D’45,MA’48, of Rafael, Calif., Sept.12,2001. Clarksdale, Miss.,Oct.26,2000. high school teacher and an active Guild of New York,the Florida Grand Edgefield Baptist Church. Survivors in- filiated with Gianikas Property Man- Hill, Md., Feb. 7,2001. Staunton, Ill., Jan.17,2001. member at Beach United Methodist Opera, Fairchild Tropical Gardens, clude a sister, nephews and a niece. Jean Jones Bradfute, BA’49, of Mem- Lee C. McKinley Jr., BA’50, of Walnut agement. He was a member of Church. Survivors include his wife, a Miami Geological,the Historical Mu- George Sloan, BA’63,LLB’65, of Sara Ellen Bowen Gardner, BA’46, of phis, Feb. 26,2001, of Parkinson’s dis- Creek, Calif., July 18,2001. Westminster Presbyterian Church and Fred Glass,A’67, of Atlanta, May 22, son,a daughter and six grandchildren. seum of Southern Florida, Marine Brentwood, Tenn.,Oct.9,2001, of an Nashville, April 3,2001. ease. the Downtown Exchange Club. A long- 2001, of cancer at his Buckhead resi- Harold D.Ricketts, JD’50, of Bowling Council and Miami Shores Communi- accidental gun accident while crossing Robert Drake, BA’52,MA’53, of time Vanderbilt athletics supporter, he dence. He was executive vice president Norma Sims Gomilla, BSN’46, of Kate Haggerson, BSN’49, of Tempe, Green, Ky., July 7,2001. ty Church. Survivors include his wife a fence on his farm. An avid steeple- Knoxville, Tenn., July 1,2001. He was a was proud that his children also at- of brokerage and corporate services at Hammond,La., April 23,2001. Ariz., May 4,2001, of a heart attack. and four adopted children. chase jockey, he won Nashville’s Iro- William Stennis,BA’50,MA’52, of retired University of Tennessee English tended Vanderbilt. He is survived by Carter & Associates,a commercial real Ann Bernard Martin, MA’46,of She is survived by her husband, Nelson quois Steeplechase four times and won Santa Fe,N.M.,2001. He is survived by teacher and author. During his career, Jacob McGavock Dickinson Brans- his wife;a son, James C.Gardner III, estate services firm. He was the Atlanta, Aug. 27,2001, of respiratory Haggerson, BA’49. 105 U.S. races from 1954 to 1995. In his wife. he also taught at the University of ford,A’56, of Franklin, Tenn., May 7, BA’90;and a daughter, Janet Gardner youngest person to receive the Atlanta failure.She worked as a librarian at 1988 he founded the International Richard Gail Hofmeister, MD’49, of Michigan, Northwestern University 2001. He worked at Old Hickory Box Master,BA’95. Commercial Board of Realtors’ Silver St. Mary’s School,Atlanta Public William Vick Jr., BE’50, of Nashville, Steeplechase Group, a non-profit or- Chattanooga, July 25,2001. He owned and the University of Texas. and Lumber Company and American Phoenix Award for completing trans- Library, and was medical librarian at Oct.20,2000. William G. Harris, BD’59, of Burns, ganization to support the sport,and and operated Rivermont Medical Cen- Health Profiles before moving to Dal- actions totaling more than $1 million Russell Bellman Library of St. Joseph’s Robert S. Jacobs, BA’52, of Cupertino, Tenn., July 12,2001. He is survived by also created the Royal Chase, one of ter for 33 years before retiring in 1987. Cullen C. Woods,BA’50, of Edmund, las and starting Executive and Employ- for 25 years.Survivors include his wife, Hospital. Calif., Sept.16,2001. He was a certified his wife. the sport’s richest events. He is sur- He was an elder at Rivermont Presby- Okla., April 26,2001. ee Benefits Company, a specialty health two daughters,a son and his father. public accountant with Robert Jacobs vived by his mother, two brothers,and Louise Shoemaker Osborne, MA’47, terian Church and a member of the insurance business. He returned to Roy Wilson, BA’59, of Savannah,Ga., John Bowman, MD’51, of Ft.Laud- Accountancy.As a Vanderbilt student, two daughters. Raymond L.Cohen, BA’68, of Cincin- of Nashville, Aug. 3,2000, of a heart at- Masonic Lodge, Alhambra Shrine Tennessee in 1985 and was a member Jan.5,2000. erdale,Fla., May 20,2001. he was a member of the Jewish Student nati,Ohio, May 10,2001.

54 V A N D E R B I L T M A G A Z I N E SPRING 2002 55 Anthony Raymond Mansfield, JD’68, projects. He was fluent in Spanish and special medallist, Jazz Band in Col- fore his tenure at Vanderbilt, he played of Middletown, N.J., Oct. 16, 2001. He Portuguese and had a working knowl- orado and Outstanding Cadet in the basketball at the University of Florida YOU’LL LAUGH…YOU’LL CRY…YOU’LL THANK was a partner in the law firm of Seward edge of Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Latin, Colorado Civil Air Patrol. He was a for one year and then became a com- YOUR LUCKY STARS YOU’RE A COMMODORE! & Kissel in the practice of litigation. Hebrew and Greek. His interests in- member of the National Space Society, batant in the Korean War. His heroism Survivors include his wife, two sons, cluded gardening, baseball, cuisine and the Cahaba River Alliance and the Na- in the heat of battle earned him two two daughters and two grandchildren. music. He is survived by his wife and ture Conservatory. Survivors include Silver Stars and the Purple Heart, pre- extended family. his wife, Catherine Pauza Robinson, sented on the White House Lawn by Two BIG Events… Richard A. O’Neill, MA’71, PhD’72, of BSN’85, a son, a daughter, his mother, President Eisenhower. Survivors in- Lexington, Ky., June 3, 2001, at his Ralph Maurice Platt, BA’73, of Santa Come together for ONE amazing weekend in… a brother, nieces and a nephew. clude his wife, June Stewart, former home of cancer. He was a philosophy Ana, Calif., Oct. 6, 2000, of a heart at- Vanderbilt assistant director of athletics professor and chairman of the human- tack. Haeseong Park, BA’91, of Seoul, for non-revenue sports, a son, two ities division at Transylvania Universi- Korea, Oct. 13, 2000, of a heart attack. George Robinson Bonds, JD’74, of stepchildren and two granddaughters. ty. He was president of the Kentucky Nashville, March 17, 2001, at his home Mark Hindy, BS’95, of New York City, Philosophical Association in 1994- of a heart attack. He served as execu- Sept. 11, 2001, in the terrorist attack on 1995. He previously worked at Emory tive secretary of the Tennessee District the World Trade Center. At Vanderbilt, CORRECTIONS and Henry College. Survivors include Attorneys General Conference from he was a member of the baseball team. Richard L. Harwood, BA’50, of his wife, a son and a daughter. 1969 to 1993 and worked as a prosecut- David Mackersie, MSN’00, of Tulla- Bethesda, Md., March 19, 2001, is sur- Denny Brewington, BA’69, JD’73 of ing attorney in the Davidson County homa, Tenn., February 2000. vived by Bea Mosby Harwood, BA’50. Nashville, June 2, 2001, following a district until his retirement for health She was not listed as a Vanderbilt grad- heart transplant. He was an entertain- reasons in June 2000. He was a mem- Terrence E. Adderley Jr., BA’01, of uate in the last issue’s obituary of Mr. ment/sports attorney and was recog- ber of the Vanderbilt Commodore New York City, Sept. 11, 2001, in the Harwood. We are glad to correct our nized by the Tennessee House of Club and Cumberland Presbyterian terrorist attack on the World Trade error. Representatives in 2000 for Nashville’s Church. Survivors include his wife, a Center. He was a research associate for Joy Marsh White, BSN’63, of Music City Bowl collegiate football daughter, a son and two grandchildren. Fred Alger Management, which had of- Maryville, Tenn., was incorrectly listed game. A former state president of fices on the 93rd floor of the trade cen- Homecoming Friends Reunion Alumni Robert “Bob” Stern, PhD’74, of Itha- as deceased in the last issue of Vander- Tennessee Young Democrats and of ter’s north tower. * * ca, N.Y., April 21, 2001, after a long bilt Magazine. We regret the error and State Young College Democrats, and struggle with complications from Davis Grier “Deeg” Sezna Jr., BA’01, are pleased to set the record straight. an assistant regional director and pub- childhood diabetes. He was a full pro- of New York City, Sept. 11, 2001, in the lic relations director of ASCAP,he also fessor of organizational behavior in the terrorist attack on the World Trade served on the staff of Governor Bruce Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Center. He was employed with the in- LIMITED ENGAGEMENT Babbitt (Arizona). He was a co-organ- Relations for 27 years. He was a mem- vestment firm of Sandler, O’Neil & izer of the“Welcome Home Vietnam ber of Temple Beth El, served on the Partners on the 104th floor of the trade Veterans” benefit concerts; a founding board of the GreenStar Cooperative center’s south tower. He also was a OCTOBER 25–26, 2002 board member of the Nashville Music Market and the Fingerlakes Indepen- trustee of the Teddy Sezna Memorial Association and Nashville Film and dence Center and was a baseball card Foundation. Survivors include his par- Showing Exclusively at Vanderbilt University Video Association; and co-founder of enthusiast. Survivors include his wife, a ents, a brother, and grandparents. the Phoenix Formula One Grand Prix; daughter, a son, mother, brother and a and assisted Harry Chapin on World cat named “Greyhound.” Hunger Foundation projects. He FACULTY/STAFF Larry A. Wooden, BS’74, of New Or- FEATURING: founded the Hendersonville High William J. Darby Jr., of Thompson’s leans, April 14, 2001. He is survived by School Alumni Association and Schol- Station, Tenn., June 6, 2001. He was Dinner, Dancing, Homecoming Parade, Tailgating, his wife. arship Fund. Survivors include his wife, professor emeritus and former chair- Football, Educational Programs, Reunion for pro- Deborah Hightower Brewington, Robert Lee Stanley, PhD’76, of man of biochemistry at Vanderbilt P’75, brothers, and sisters. Huntsville, Ala., June 16, 2001. Medical School from 1949 to 1971 and fessional schools and undergraduate class years was president of the Nutrition Foun- Ruth Kinnard, JD’70, of Franklin, Susan Lynn Ray, BME’80, of Glendale ending in “2” and “7,” Class Parties… dation in New York from 1972 until Tenn., May 17, 2001. In 1972, she be- Heights, Ill., Dec. 31, 2000. came the first woman to hold a federal 1983. Survivors include his wife, three No one could stop these alumni! judicial position in the state of Ten- Jean Corlette Hall, BSN’81, of sons, four grandchildren and four nessee when she was appointed a U.S. Bradenton, Fla., Jan. 28, 2001, of breast great-grandchildren. cancer. Bankruptcy judge for the Middle Dis- Art Guepe, of Nashville, Nov. 4, 2001. trict of Tennessee. Louis Rutledge Sanders III, D’81,of He was Vanderbilt’s head football “A TRIUMPH!” Walter W. Haller Jr., MA’71, of Wash- Homewood, Ala., March 29, 2001. coach from 1953 to 1962, previously ington, D.C., Feb. 27, 2001. Frances Ann “Ralph” McKay, BA’83, having been head football coach at the –Gordon Gee, Chancellor University of Virginia. He graduated James David Bryant, JD’72, of Bowl- of Clearwater Beach, Fla., Jan. 29, 2001. from Marquette University and served ing Green, Ky., Nov. 7, 2000. She was a volunteer for missions in Zaire and director of volunteers for the in the U.S. Navy during World War II. “NOT TO BE MISSED!” Katherine S. James, BA’72, of Hous- Food Bank and Project Open Hand, Survivors include his wife, a daughter, ton, April 25, 2001. Atlanta. Survivors include her parents, two sons and eight grandchildren. –Steve Riven, Alumni Association President Paul W. Borgeson Jr., MA’73, PhD’77, a brother and a sister. William Rushing,ofOld Hickory, of Chicago, May 1999. Windol Jay Robinson, BE’85, of Ves- Tenn., January 2001. He was a Vander- bilt professor emeritus in sociology. He Peter P.Mikuliak, O’73, of Post Falls, tavia Hills, Ala., July 15, 2001, after a A Vanderbilt Alumni Association Production is survived by his wife. Idaho, Sept. 5, 2000, of cancer. He long illness. During his career, he (615) 322-2929 served in the Peace Corps in Brazil worked at Teledyne-Brown Corp. in Bill Stewart, of Franklin, Tenn., April [email protected] from 1969 to 1971. From 1984 to 1993, Huntsville on the space station and 19, 2001. He was formerly Vanderbilt’s he was associate regional director for later as a project manager for Hoar sports information director, founded (615) 322-6034 the Cherry Hill, N.J., office of Church Construction in Birmingham. He also the National Commodore Club in 1964 [email protected] World/CROP,raising money to fund owned College Park Apartments in and served as assistant athletics director worldwide relief and development Cullman, Ala. His honors included: under Bill Pace in the early 1970s. Be- SNEAK PREVIEW (including hotel information) now showing at www.vanderbilt.edu/alumni 56 VANDERBILT MAGAZINE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY NONPROFIT ORG. U.S. POSTAGE VU STATION B 357703 2301 VANDERBILT PLACE PAID NASHVILLE, TN 37235-7703 NASHVILLE, TN PERMIT NO. 219

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Katharine Haven’s sculpture, Come Play, captures a mood that seems uniquely spring-like while tapping into a turbulent emotional undercurrent. The piece was commissioned by friends of the late Professor Nicholas Hobbs to celebrate his work developing programs for emotionally disturbed children. The piece stands on the Peabody campus. GERALD HOLLY