Issue 6 ★ Fall 2006 DECADE OF CARROLL VSC celebrates the ten-year anniversary of Chris Carroll as director of student media at Vanderbilt … Page 2.

FAMILIAR VOICES NEW PUBLICATION ALUMNI UPDATES TALENTED TENTH Keep up with those who Students start publishing helped shape African-American tunnelvision Student Media at Vandy… newspaper… A publication for alumni of student media at Vanderbilt University pages 4-7 page 2

TUNNEL NEWS CONVERGING FUTURE VANDERBILT STUDENT MEDIA MOVES TO NEW ONLINE MODEL

WRVU REUNION PLANNED FOR FALL During Vanderbilt’s Reunion/ Homecoming weekend, Oct. 12-13, a special time will be set aside for WRVU alumni to tour the studio and re-live those Vandy days with some on-air time. Please email [email protected] if you’d like to receive updated details as they develop.

WRVU RECEIVES TOP HONORS IN NASHVILLE POLL The Nashville Scene's Reader's Poll during October 2006 named WRVU the 3rd Most Favorite Pop/Rock Radio Station in Nashville.

HUSTLER REUNION PLANNED FOR FALL A group of Hustler alumni are planning a reunion get- together during Homecoming weekend, Oct. 12-13. If '06 '07 '08 '09 '10 you’d like to receive emails with updates on the Hustler Reunion plans, please email [email protected]. by Anne Malinee InsideVandy is the product of student HUSTLER WINS director, InsideVandy.com media groups working together, sharing PACEMAKER office space, staff and resources to produce anderbilt student media is better coverage that can be delivered both The Vanderbilt Hustler was changing the way students digitally and in traditional print formats. awarded the 2006 Associated think about news thanks to Student journalists have used InsideVandy Collegiate Press Pacemaker newsroom convergence and to provide breaking coverage of campus, in October at the National V College Student Media the launch last fall of InsideVandy.com, from Homecoming Week to living wage Conference in St. Louis. The student media’s new Web site and online proponents’ protests at a Board of Trust award is considered the highest community. meeting. national award presented to InsideVandy is a bold experiment in col- college media outlets, and the lege media, attempting what few universities Some highlights from Fall 2006: Hustler has won the Pacemaker have tried by combining 24-7 news, features, four times in the past five years. commentary, photos, video and other cre- • When the Wall Street Journal published a ative content produced by student media controversial front page story in September photo by Chris Thompson INDEX… with community journalism and grassroots on Chancellor Gordon Gee, student jour- Freshman Chris Thompson, InsideVandy’s mul- participation. nalists posted updates throughout the day, timedia editor, captured the excitement of the Guest Column 2 St. Louis Cardinals’ World Series championship. New leaders 3 The VSC board of directors voted unani- including reactions from students, adminis- Alumni Column 3 mously last spring to create InsideVandy trators, and alumni, and a podcast interview VSC Briefs 8 after a semester-long study by student media with Gee. They used the Web to post follow media convention in St. Louis, joined the WRVU Honors 8 leaders prompted by concern about chang- up stories for weeks afterward. celebrations at Busch Stadium, shot photos, ing technology and consumer preferences • Student journalists covered Election recorded audio interviews and posted the dramatically affecting the media industry. Day 2006 on InsideVandy, following their multimedia with a story on InsideVandy In order to keep Vanderbilt at the fore- classmates as they headed out to the polls that night. front of college media and serve as a model during the day and later as they waited for In addition to providing new opportuni- for other universities, VSC decided to dra- the results to roll in. ties for student journalists, InsideVandy also matically alter the way student media is pro- • After the Cardinals won the World provides an opportunity for members of duced and delivered, adopting a collabora- Series in October, student journalists, who Vanderbilt Student Communications, Inc. Celebrating 39 years tive model with digital delivery at its center. happened to be attending a national college see CONVERGED, page 2 2 tunnel vision

new voices student media groups…

Introducing Talented Tenth DECADE Vandy student-produced African-American newspaper hits campus TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY Student Media celebrates Chris Carroll's decade as director

by Paige Orr Clancy, Assistant Director of Student Media

The visionary behind the "mothership" of student media at Vanderbilt University celebrated his 10-year anniversary as director of student media on Dec. 9. In his first decade of service leading Vanderbilt Student Communications, Chris Carroll oversaw the creation of seven new media groups and six new staff positions. So far during his tenure, Vanderbilt media groups have netted 31 awards, and Carroll’s leader- ship recently has transformed student media into a national model for digital converged media operations. Carroll envisioned and created with student leaders a converged newsroom to support multiple publications, with a focus on InsideVandy.com, the “mothership” of student media at Vanderbilt. With his finger on the pulse of the rapidly changing newspaper industry, Carroll realized the nationwide shift to digital media meant Vanderbilt student media also would have to change, preferably out- pacing the broader industry. The creation of InsideVandy in September heralded a new chapter for student media at Vanderbilt – and across all of higher education. Carroll worked tirelessly to develop the site as a place for readers to access traditional media at Vanderbilt and for students to report breaking news to a worldwide audience. Furthermore, in keeping with industry leaders, the site encourages community participation through blogs, story comments, photo submissions and citizen journalism. Senior Gavin Fletcher started the Talented Tenth newspaper as a way to address racial and cultural issues This latest evolution in student media at Vanderbilt was not the on campus. The new paper was approved by the VSC Board in early Fall 2006. first time Carroll led dramatic change. When he first set foot on campus in 1996, he found himself involved in a coup led by the Hustler editor, who was unhappy about financial scrutiny over the The newest addition to Vanderbilt Student said. newspaper’s use of student activity fees. As is typical with Carroll at Communications was created in September by At the helm, Nathan Ford has been editor in the helm, the metaphorical lemon was turned into lemonade as he students who wanted to cover stories about the chief of Talented Tenth since its creation. Ford, a worked with students to give the Hustler independence, replacing African-American community and other groups senior from Brooklyn, N.Y., said the goal of the activity fees with bolstered advertising revenue as the paper’s primary with more depth than they found in existing stu- newspaper is to engage the campus in a cultural income source. dent publications. conversation that perhaps wouldn’t exist other- In the span of the last 10 years, Carroll has created jobs, restruc- Published twice in the fall, the newspaper wise. tured the VSC board of directors to a more streamlined membership, created an outreach effort for student media alumni, launched Tunnel Talented Tenth was named by student creators who “I recognize it’s difficult to talk about the Vision to relay news to former staffers, improved financial oversight share W.E.B. DuBois’ view (outlined in his 1903 elephant in the room,” Ford said. “When issues of student media groups, created a high school press organiza- article with the same title) that black people “have deal with race and ethnicity, it’s difficult to talk tion, expanded that organization statewide, and led College Media a contribution to make to civilization and human- about.” Advisers as national president. He oversaw the relocation and office ity, which no other race can make.” Ford wants to make sure people know that upgrades of all student media groups during the Sarratt Student The idea for Vanderbilt’s Talented Tenth news- Talented Tenth is not a black newspaper – it’s a stu- Center renovation in the late ’90s, and he has reorganized, moved, paper developed in June, when Gavin Fletcher, a dent publication started by black students. painted and furnished VSC’s offices countless times over the years. senior from Augusta, Ga., began to formalize his “Also, it’s not an opposition to the majority Carroll has been a hands-on leader, a visionary and a transform- vision for the newspaper. newspaper,” Ford said. “It’s that some of our writ- ing force. All who call him friend, adviser or confidant are grateful “Considering the efforts being made to make ers do share a racial background, but we have for his dedicated service and continue to look forward to witnessing the Vanderbilt community intentionally diverse, diversity in the schools we attend at Vanderbilt, his future accomplishments. we want to ask why that is and what efforts are the geography of our hometowns and socio-eco- being made,” Fletcher said. “And when an incident nomic backgrounds. comes up, why is that, and is it systemic?” “The only thing everyone on our staff shares is About 30 staff members, including writers, being a Vanderbilt student. The different things we editors photographers and cartoonists, have bring to the table make us diverse,” he said. tunnelvision been working to produce Talented Tenth, which A publication for alumni of student media at Vanderbilt University is expected to publish six issues in the spring Both Fletcher and Ford ask for alumni support semester, according to Fletcher, who serves as in the form of readership, suggestions and content Tunnel Vision is published by Vanderbilt Student Communications, Inc. advertising director. The newspaper is distributed submissions. If you would like to contact them, Edited by on Vanderbilt’s campus and on the campuses of please email [email protected], and they Chris Carroll nearby Tennessee State, Belmont and Fisk universi- encourage you to read Student Media’s online com- Additional stories by Paige Orr Clancy and Anne Malinee ties as a way of building a bridge between people munity InsideVandy.com for updates on the progress of Additional Photos by at Vanderbilt and others in the community, he Talented Tenth. Paige Orr Clancy and Chris Carroll Layout and Design by Jeff A. Breaux Printed by CONVERGED, cont. from page 1 Franklin Web Printing, Co.

Please send address updates via mail, phone, fax or e-mail to: Vanderbilt Student Communications the Vanderbilt community to connect with one information for the Vanderbilt community. Attn: Alumni Mailing List 2301 Vanderbilt Place • VU Station B 351669 • Nashville, TN 37235 another. Registered users can create their own InsideVandy has allowed student journalists to

615-322-6610 (phone) • 615-343-2756 (fax) content through the interactive Web site which experience the rush of reporting breaking news,

[email protected] allows them to post comments, start blogs, upload the creative thrill of telling stories with words and www.vscmedia.org photos and submit items to a community calen- multimedia, and the challenge of covering more, dar. An experiment in community journalism, faster, better. It’s made reporting fun again. InsideVandy asks students, faculty, parents and In doing so, it has also helped prepare students VANDERBILT alumni to join in the conversation. to work in a rapidly changing new media environ- STUDENT COMMUNICATIONS, INC. InsideVandy is still a work-in-progress, but ment. Student Media at Vanderbilt University it’s growing every day. With more than 11,000 If the Web is where media is going, Vanderbilt users logging on each month, InsideVandy aims student media is leading the way. to become an indispensable source of news and Issue 6 • Fall 2006 3

bright lights an alumni column… MEDIA LEADERS Vandy's age of innocence The VSC Board of Directors elected the following media leaders for the Spring 2007 academic semester: by Lucius W. Carroll II, Class of '63

Lucius W. Carroll II (B.A., 1963) shares some memories of his days in college. He was a staff member of the Hustler and had many other adventures. Today, he is president of L.W. Carroll & Co. in Nashville, where he lives with his wife Lucie.

Having grown up in Norwich, Conn., with deep family roots in New England, most of my relatives — as NATHAN FORD GLENNA DEROY JEAN SON far back as the early 1700s — went Talented Tenth The Vanderbilt Hustler Versus to Brown and Yale. So when it came Lucius W. Carroll II editor-in-chief, (06-07) editor-in-chief, (SP '07) editor-in-chief, (SP '07) time to apply to college, I applied Brooklyn, N.Y. Madison, Miss. Queens, N.Y. there too, as well as to Vanderbilt, a Senior, A&S Junior, A&S Junior, A&S school recommended to me by a girl from Chattanooga, Tenn., who was visiting relatives in Connecticut during the summer of my 17th year. She had blonde hair and blue eyes, and she taught me how to kiss — really kiss. So, I applied to Vanderbilt without an interview or a visit. At Vanderbilt, I was probably one of three people from New England. I think they call it “geographical distribution” in Admissions. I remember asking the taxi driver who took me to Vanderbilt Hall if people wore shoes in Nashville. I had only ever Summer Media Training Retreat heard of Tennessee hillbillies. Not too diplomatic, but it was still the Age of Innocence! New VSC Student Media Retreat produces quality results and eager staffs My roommate was from Boise, Idaho, a Mormon who was dat- ing a Southern Baptist, and the only dorm phone rang incessantly with family members calling to tell him that world would explode if he did not cease and desist such activity. Anyway, I decided quite early that I needed a new roommate because I did not like listening to all these threats. Soon thereafter, I started rooming with an Englishman named Charlie Churchill, who I had met the summer preceding my freshman year. The girls we were dating that summer were sis- ters, and we were surprised to learn that we were both going to Vanderbilt. Once we arrived, we both loved Vanderbilt because neither of us had ever gone to school with girls. We were different: We talked funny, everyone told us. We wore neckties to classes. We started working the crowds, and soon we knew everyone on campus. It did not take long for Nashville to learn Charlie’s uncle was A team of eight Vanderbilt freshmen produce the first episode of VTV Freshman Steve Daroci and Senior Winston, and that his dad was the Duke of Marlborough of News: The Freshman Edition. The show was played on campus during Allison Malone work on a writing Blenheim Palace. One day, Charlie’s Uncle Harold came to town, move-in day. project during the training retreat. and we went to Rotier’s for lunch. We got into the beer pretty good, and the next thing I knew, he invited us to go sailing on our next Nearly 70 students, including 29 incoming sion about ethics in journalism. vacation. We became fast friends, but what Charlie had not told freshmen, traveled to campus in August for a • Attendees were introduced to InsideVandy. me was that Uncle Harold’s three-day media training retreat with instruc- com by Anne Malinee, director of InsideVandy. last name was Vanderbilt and tion from professional journalists and Vanderbilt com, and Lee Clontz, multimedia developer and that he was chairman of the Student Communications advisers. faculty member in the Emory University Journalism board of trustees of the uni- The students arrived before fall semester classes Program. Clontz has worked at CNNSI.com and versity. There were many more started to get a jumpstart on their work at brand- The New York Times on the Web. Clontz also dis- trips to Rotier’s when Uncle new InsideVandy.com, the Hustler, Vanderbilt cussed with the students the changing world of Harold visited, and we had Television, Versus magazine and the Commodore blogs. enjoyed visits to his house in yearbook. Sophomores, juniors and seniors who • Beth Fortune, who is principal deputy to New York City, Southampton, had been working in the various student media Vanderbilt’s vice chancellor for public affairs and and all our summers were groups met the incoming freshmen and encour- oversees the university’s news and communica- spent at Blenheim. We learned aged them to join their groups. tions functions, spoke to the students about the to party and met people from The 29 incoming freshmen earlier in the sum- Division of Public Affairs. all over the world. mer had submitted applications to attend the • Bill Elsen, veteran journalist who formerly When Harvie Branscomb retreat. VSC advisers selected them – from among worked as an editor and recruiter at The Washington was in his last year as chancel- twice as many applicants – for their experience Post, introduced the presentation of the film All the lor, he would pick Charlie and and high level of interest in student media. President’s Men. Elsen also led a discussion about me up in his old Packard and

The retreat was sponsored by VSC and was held careers in journalism. Lucius Carroll at Bradley Field in Windsor take us to the old chancellor’s in the First Amendment Center on the Peabody • David Hudson, a First Amendment Center Locks, Conn., on Sept. 13, 1959, the day he mansion at Harding Road and campus. VSC advisers were grateful for the hospi- research attorney who writes regularly on First left home for Vanderbilt, flying in a TWA Lynnwood Drive. I think we tality and generosity of John Seigenthaler, veteran Amendment and employment law issues, spoke Super Constellation airplane. That trip was the first time he saw the university. were the only two students he journalist and founder of the First Amendment about media law and recent court cases. knew. We would wear him out Center, and the center's staff for hosting the Two groups of students broke off from the talking about how apathetic retreat. main group for specialized training. Those work- a place Vandy was, how we did not understand why there were The events kicked off Tuesday, Aug. 15, with a ing in student media advertising participated in no people of color at Vanderbilt and that life at Vandy was pretty barbeque dinner at the First Amendment Center, intensive advertising sales training, and eight much all about social life. where “Freedom Sings!” was performed for stu- incoming freshman who had expressed an interest I also remember great professors like Walter Sullivan and dents, advisers and university administrators. in television news took part in a unique training Vereen Bell. And Dean Sarratt told me that I was the only person “Freedom Sings!” features hit songwriters, musi- experience. The Vanderbilt Television students that had ever awakened him from his Saturday afternoon nap: I cians and Grammy Award winners in a multime- filmed and conducted interviews around campus had invited the entire campus to celebrate my twin sister Sally’s dia presentation that shares the stories of banned to create the first VTV News program of the school and my 21st birthday, and we had two bands that played 12 hours or censored music in America. year. The special show aired during Move-In Day straight. Best I remember, the dean had a pretty good time. Students returned to the retreat on Wednesday, and featured topics of interest to new Vanderbilt I was a staff member of the Hustler, and we had the big names Aug. 16, for two full days of journalism training freshmen (photo of staff above). involved in the leadership of the Hustler: Roy Blount, who was and writing exercises: editor and was/is the funniest man I ever met; Frank Woods, the • Gene Policinski, executive director of the Alumni: If you are interested in volunteering your time nicest man I ever met; and Lamar Alexander, who ran everything First Amendment Center and founding editor and talents to help us educate the students at our next on campus and was planning to run for president even when he of USA TODAY, greeted the students with a talk training retreat, tentatively scheduled for mid-August, was at Vanderbilt. about the First Amendment. He also led a discus- please contact us at [email protected]. And we had fun, lots of fun. 4 tunnel vision

distant voices alumni updates… A glimpse into a few lives that helped shape student media at Vandy

1952 PA, and said: I quit writing abut sports when I left have a day job), but about my bride since 1971 of doctors and dentists. I took early retirement Vandy, but I write about American history, which — Anne Alexander Armstrong (BA 1966, from IBM in 1992 and subsequently worked for Stephen D. Potts is a kind of sport. SPECTRUM editor). Anne is the publisher and MCI WorldCom until its financial shenanigans (left), B.A., L.L.B., 1952 business leader of 1105 Government Information brought it down in 2002. Because my career was and 1954 (The Commodore Richard Walker Overbey, B.A., 1956 Group based in Falls Church, Virginia. On never my identity, I was just happy to have a head yearbook) Potts lives in (The Vanderbilt Hustler, Commodore yearbook) December 8, 2006, 1105 Media, the parent com- start on real retirement, one of the great things Chevy Chase, Maryland Overbey lives in Mobile, Alabama, and said: pany of 1105 Government Information Group about which is that I have time now to serve on and said: To supplement Currently actively involved as Travel Consultant reached an agreement with the Washington Post the board of a chamber-music recital series here the bio info that follows, and Contractor with Brownell Travel in Mobile... Co. to buy Post Newsweek Tech Media, which pub- in Maryland, having recently moved after 39 I was co-editor of the year- designing and leading group trips abroad with my lishes, among other things, Government Computer years in Virginia. book in 1952, played #1 wife, Marion Mitchiner Overbey, 1960 News and Washington Technology. It also includes on the varsity tennis team the FOSE trade show. 1105 Media also publishes 1966 1950-1952 and currently chair a committee 1957 Federal Computer Week and Government Health IT. appointed by the president of Johns Hopkins to The combined circulation of the 1105 publica- David Jay Leibson, B.A., 1966 (The make recommendations to him regarding orga- Michael Grafton Qagner, B.A., 1957 tions is approximately 200,000. On June 8, 2006, Vanderbilt Hustler) Leibson lives in Louisville, Ky. nizational ethics. On a personal note, I married (WRVU) Qagner lives in Nashville, Tennessee. Media Business Magazine named Anne ‘Innovative a classmate, Irene Potter, in 1953. We have publisher of the year.’ FYI, Ann McDaniel, vice Larry Creekmore, B.A., 1967 (The Vanderbilt Hustler) Creekmore lives in Miramar three grown children and eight grandchildren. In 1958 president of the Washington Post Co. and also June, 2007 all 16 of us are going on an animal a Vanderbilt grad headed the begotiations for Beach, Florida, and said: After spending 33 years viewing safari in Tanzania. We are blessed with David Halpern, B.A., 1958 (WRVU) Halpern the Post Newsweek Tech Media. According to a as CEO of a family owned retail grocery opera- good health and spirits. Mr. Potts’ bio: In July lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and said: From a pend- blurb from Better Management.Com [http:// tion, my wife and I moved to the Destin Florida 2004, Stephen D. Potts became Chairman of ing news release: (New book offers insightful www.bettermanagement.com/seminars/semi- area in 2003. I am currently in my second career the Ethics Resource Center Board of Directors. view of landscape photography) ‘The explorer nar.aspx?l=14172], Anne helped found the first as in the financial services/insurance field. Previously, he had served as Chairman of the travels to discover and investigate; the pilgrim publication in the 1105 Media group in 1987. ERC Fellows Program. Prior to assuming the travels and investigates to discover the sacred. She worked in a number of editorial positions, 1968 When the eye beholds the sacred, one begins to Chairmanship of the Fellows Program, Mr. Potts including editor in chief. During her time as edi- Carl Cawood Cassell, B.E., 1968 (WRVU) better see oneself.’ When award-winning fine- was actively involved in the program as a Senior tor, Federal Computer Week won dozens of edito- Cassell lives in Union, Kentucky. Fellow, representing the United States Office arts and landscape photographer David Halpern rial and design awards. From 1999 to 2002, Anne (Vanderbilt, B. A. 1958) explains how he titled of Government Ethics. Mr. Potts was appoint- was president of Virginia’s Center for Innovative 1970 ed Director of the US Office of Government his new book, he’s providing a revealing glimpse Technology (CIT). CIT is a nonprofit corporation Ethics by both President Bush and Clinton. into the insights readers will discover throughout that was created by the Virginia General Assembly Rick Geyer, B.A., 1970 (WRVU) Geyer lives He served two-five year terms, beginning in Pilgrim Eye. Presented as a lifelong journey of to spur the growth of technology and technology in Austin, TX, and said: Splitting my work time 1990. Prior to that time, Mr. Potts was a Partner self-discovery, Pilgrim Eye looks at landscape pho- businesses in the commonwealth. Anne has spe- about 50-50 between producing special interest at Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge, one of tography not only through the eye of Halpern’s cialized in the business of IT and been active in video programs and development consulting for Washington’s largest law firms, from 1961 until camera, but also through the sensitive eyes of his the field for more than 25 years. She was founder nonprofits, I have just produced a 3-DVD series 1990. He also held the position of Vice President spirit and mind. In this book, Halpern retrospec- and president of Langley Publications, a research which ‘merges’ both careers. PEOPLE GIVE TO of Cherokee Life Insurance Company from 1959 tively showcases more than fifty years of photo- publishing company, and she edited the CD Data PEOPLE. It’s all about Relationships — is designed to 1961, and was an Associate Attorney at Farris, graphing the American landscape with images Report newsletter. During her career, she has been for board members and staff of nonprofits that Evans & Evans in Nashville, Tennessee from that are accompanied by self-revealing stories part of the management team at four start-up want to take their development program to the 1957 to 1959. In addition, Mr. Potts served and thoughts, most of which are pulled from businesses. In addition to running a freelance next level. Enjoy video clips and info at www. as a 1st Lieutenant in the U.S. Army, Judge his meticulously created and preserved photo business that provided information to corporate peoplegivetopeople.fepi.com If you’re on a non- Advocate General’s Corps. Recently, Mr. Potts was journals. As readers enjoy the images throughout clients, she served as Washington, D.C. editor of profit board, your favorite organization should selected to serve on the Ethics Education Task the book, they will often learn how it was done, publications such as Digital Design and Abacus, get a set — these are immensely helpful and Force of the AACSB Internationally, the Steering and more unusually, how the experience affected a journal for computer professionals. She also motivating. Committee on Engineering Ethics of the National Halpern. Halpern, who lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma, edited the primary publication of the American Academy of Engineering, and the Blue Ribbon has served eleven times as a National Park Artist- Society for Information Science and Technology. William E. Livingston, B.A., 1970 (The Commission on Conflict of Interest Policy of in-Residence, at Colorado’s Rocky Mountain Anne serves as Chair of the Tower Club (McLean, Vanderbilt Hustler) Livingston lives in Cleveland, the National Institutes of Health. In addition, he National Park and Black Canyon of Gunnison, Virginia) Board of Governors. Ohio, and said: I have been a sports columnist has served on the board of a number of compa- Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah, Glacier at the Cleveland Plain Dealer since 1984. Before nies and non-profits, including the US Olympic National Park in Montana, and Acadia National Roy Blount Jr., B.A., 1963 (The Vanderbilt that, I covered the Dr. J 76ers and Penn State Committee and the US Tennis Association and Park in Maine. His work has been exhibited at Hustler, Spectrum) Blount Jr. lives in Mill River,, football at the Philadelphia Inquirer (1973-84.) is a past president of the Washington Tennis museums and galleries across the country, and MA, and said: In May Knopf will publish my Before that, 2 years at the Dallas Morning News and Education Foundation. A competitive tennis has been featured in previous books such as Tulsa twentieth book, Long Time Leaving: Dispatches (1971-73) as a high school reporter. Before that, player all of his life, he takes greatest pride in hav- Art Deco, An Architectural Era. Halpern has taught from Up South. My oline column at time.com, one year of laughing and unsuccessful pursuit ing won with his son Dek five national and one photography for more than three decades and ‘Blount’s Week,’ has just started appearing, every of a mAsters at the University of Texas. I have international father-son championships. he was a 2004 inductee in the Tulsa Historical Friday. covered Super Bowls, NCAA Final Fours, NBA Society’s Hall of Fame. Pilgrim Eye is a 10’ x 12’ Finals, BCS Championship Games (including 1954 hardbound book of 168 pages, containing 128 Lucius Wyman Carroll II, B.A., 1963 the one Jan. 8), a Stanley Cup final, all four color and tri-tone black and white images, and (The Vanderbilt Hustler, Commodore yearbook) golf majors, Indy and Daytona 500s, U.S. tennis Bob Youngerman, B.A., J.D., 1954 and will be available in February, 2007 through local Carroll II lives in Nashville, Tennessee. Open, 5 Summer and 2 Winter Olympics, been 1959 (The Vanderbilt Hustler) Youngerman lives booksellers or online through Amazon, Barnes & in the San Francisco earthquake at the World in Brevard, North Carolina, and said: I am now Noble and Borders. 1965 Series and gone down the Olympic bobsled run retired but am still trying to keep active by writing in Norway. Have appeared on “Jeopardy!” and a column (opinion on any subject of my choos- 1960 Tom Barber, B.A., 1965 (WRVU) Barber was 2nd; appeared on “Pardon the Interruption,” ing) every other week in the Asheville Citizen- lives in Houston, TX. ‘ESPN’s Outside the Lines,” “ESPN News,” “ESPN William Fredrick Humphrey, B.A., 1960 Times, the major daily newspaper in western Classic,” and “CBS Evening News.” Had a letter (The Vanderbilt Hustler, Commodore yearbook) Marcia Haynes Cassell, B.A., 1965 North Carolina. I am also on the Board of Health read on CBS Mailbag on “The Late Show” with Humphrey lives in Trinity, Florida, and said: After (Commodore yearbook) Cassell lives in Charleston, and Planning Board for Transylvania County David Ltetterman. Three children: Sondra 26, my ‘career’ as photographer for the Commodore South Carolina, and said: Retired chairman of where my wife Bonnie and I live. My major Julianne 23, Billy 20 with my wife Marilyn. Am and Hustler, I have continued to be interested in the English department at Virginia Intermont volunteer activity is with the Carolina Mountain working on a book with 2004 Olympic pole vault journalism as a hobby...in retirement, I publish College. Presently involved with mission efforts Land Conservancy, the local land trust for our gold medalist Tim Mack. Numerous state and the newsletter for our 900 home community in Poltava, Ukraine. I am doing layout and county and two neighboring counties. There is no national journalism awards. more beautiful place in our country to retire than and do frequent letters to the editor of the local brochures for the mission’s projects (orphan- age, crisis pregnancy center, prison ministry, and in the mountains. papers. There was a story on CNN last month Howell Warner, B.A., 1970 (Versus maga- family wellness) and speaking to groups in South that showed a quick shot of Kirkland Hall and zine) Warner lives in Fort Worth, Texas, and Carolina to gain support for the work. I plan to it reminded me of the many times I used it’s said: DK76, darkroom, Offset printing, midnight 1955 make my third trip to Ukraine this summer. I am clock tower as background for a photo - it is one paste-ups at the printer, ‘inky face’ who printed also providing British and American literature Ormonde Plater, B.A., 1955 (The Vanderbilt constant on the campus I knew some fifty years and delivered, confiscated deliveries - just a few courses for home schooled high school students. Hustler) Plater lives in New Orleans, LA, and said: ago. I recently sold one of the cameras I used on memories of the late ’60s Versus, the ‘conservative’ My husband and I live on a barrier island, not far In 2005 I retired as archdeacon of the Episcopal campus, a Rolleiflex f2.8C, on eBay for way more weekly answer to the Hustler. Time and technol- from Charleston. After teaching environmental Diocese of Louisiana. I now serve as deacon at than in cost me in 1957! My daughter wouldn’t ogy - I’ve been in the field of transplantation literature for several years, I am living with the Trinity Church, New Orleanss. let me sell the Leica though! since 1971 and still have deadlines.... environment in a different way. Deer, snakes, Raphael F Smith, B.A., MD Harvard, 1961 alligators, raccoons, and who knows what else Geoffrey R Waters, B.A., 1970 (Versus 1955 (WRVU) Smith lives in Nasville, TN, and meander through my yard daily. Additionally, I magazine, Spectrum) Waters lives in Glendale, James Victor Jeffreys, B.E., 1961 said: I have retired from full-time medical teach- have 2 faithful dogs that have me well trained. California, and said: White Crane, my translation (WRVU) Jeffreys lives in New Albany, Ohio, ing and cardiology practice at VU and VA Medical from Tibetan of the love poetry of the Sixth Dalai and said: Retired after 28 years in US Airforce, Don DeGeorge, B.E., M.S., 1965 (WRVU) Centers but continue to teach one course and Lama (died 1706), will be published in early consulting for 3 years. Spend winters in Crystal DeGeorge lives in Ellicott City, MD, and said: supervise cardiologists in training one day per 2007 by White Pine Press. week. River Florida. I was a classical music announcer on WRVU, and I used part of the Mozart Clarinet Concerto 1971 1956 1962 as theme music for my program. 2006 was the 250th anniversary of Mozart’s birth, which I cel- Andrew McKinnon, B.A., MBA, 1971 Walter R. Courtenay, Jr., B.A., 1956 Geoff McClelland, B.A., 1962 (WRVU) ebrated by going to his birthplace, Salzburg and, (Versus magazine, Commodore yearbook) (The Vanderbilt Hustler, Commodore yearbook, cov- McClelland lives in Chicago, Illinois, and said: I for the first time, to the world-famous festival McKinnon lives in Atlanta, GA. ers for Vandy football games) Courtenay, Jr. lives spent 30+ years in the advertising agency business that occurs there every summer. I first heard a in Gainesville, Florida, and said: I am Professor in Chicago and was a media planning executive broadcast of the festival as a Vandy sophomore, Richard O Patterson, B.A., 1971 (WRVU) Emeritus of Zoology from the Boca Raton cam- (Sr. VP)with DDB Chicago (2nd largest ad agency when a particularly stirring performance caused Patterson lives in Houston, Texas, and said: At the pus of Florida Atlantic University and a volunteer in the market). I retired 5 years ago, have a small me and several dormmates in Barnard Hall to reunion this year, I was impressed by the facilities Research Fishery Biologist with the Biological media consulting company and do a lot of pro- burst out into the hallway full of excitement. One at WRVU. I was the last station manager when Resources Division of the U.S. Geological Survey. bono volunteer consulting projects. of those worked-up music afficianados became we were broadcasting via carrier current. It was My involvement in photography during my a friend; and as often happens with univer- my pleasure to work on the application that got years at Vandy (when I was often called ‘Flash’ 1963 sity friendships, we had significant influences the mighty Werve on the air. Keep up the great Courtenay) served me well during my profes- on each other’s lives: We happened both to end work!! sional career as a biologist. Arthur John Armstrong, B.A., 1963 (The up in the Washington, D. C., area, and we have Vanderbilt Hustler, Commodore yearbook, Spectrum, remained lifelong friends, leading to all sorts of Charles R. B. Stowe, B.A., 1971 (The Sheldon Hackney, B.A., 1956 (The CrossCurrents, Preface) Armstrong lives in McLean, other connections. I thus trace many things, from Vanderbilt Hustler, WRVU) Stowe lives in Vanderbilt Hustler) Hackney lives in Philadelphia, VA, and said: This is not about me (although I do an ever-expanding love of music to my choice Huntsville, Texas, and said: Charles R. B. Stowe Issue 6 • Fall 2006 5

MBA, JD, Ph.D VU ’71 has been appointed are attracting seasoned writers and photographers 1979 time since I’ve been in touch with any alumni, so Director, Entrepreneurship Institute, a unique and take great pride in the quality of our publica- this may be a somewhat long-winded update. I’m collaboration between Sam Houston State tion. This has been an exciting, although incred- Fred Buc, B.S., 1979 (WRVU) Buc lives in looking forward to finding out what other old- University College of Business Administration ibly demanding, second career. Who knows, this Nashville, TN, and said: After serving as WRVU’s timers are doing! After spending almost 20 years (where he teaches entrepreneurship and law could make a great TV show! Station Manager in 1978-1979, I spent nine years working at various electrical engineering jobs in courses) and Montgomery College, a community at WKDA-AM and WKDF-FM/Nashville in vari- southern California, I decided it was time for a college that is part of the North Harris County 1975 ous on-air and operational capacities, rising to change. I got together with my high-school sweet- Community College District. The Institute may Program Director of WKDA in 1980. I spent a heart and bought a 7-acre farm in rural eastern be the first such 4 year-2 year collaboration in Winfield Scott Davis, M. DIV., 1975 few years away from Nashville at Jefferson-Pilot Washington. After a few years of getting settled in, the state to promote economic development (WRVU) Davis lives in Chesapeake, Virginia, and Communications in Charlotte, NC (1989), as an I found work as a technical and marketing writer through entrepreneurship according to Dr. Tom said: I am now retired from the Navy and work- air personality at KCFX-FM/Kansas City (1990- at Key Technology in Walla Walla. I’m now also Butler, President of Montgomery College. Due ing as a Financial Planner for First Command 1992), and while in Kansas City, I co-founded doing photography and video production for to the nature of community college, the insti- Financial Planning. I am also Associate Pastor a national advertising agency before returning Key as well as writing on-line help for the optical tute has a very interactive ‘virtual’ web presence. of Foundry United Methodist Church. My oldest to Nashville in 1992 as Production Manager for inspection equipment they produce. Although The institute sponsors a student entrepreneurs son, Chirstopher, is now a sophomore at the Lightning 100 (WRLT-FM). I was promoted to the farm, my wife, Mae, and all the work keep me organization that promotes unique case com- Naval Academy. Director of Operations for the station’s parent pretty busy, the pace of life here is much more petitions promoting creativity and innovation, group (Tuned In Broadcasting, Inc.) in 1995. I to my liking (compared to California). Mae has an E Squared Network (linking students to vol- Pamela Funderburg Heckel, B.S., 1975 later expanded that role as Director of Operations been running a restaurant in near-by Dayton unteer entrepreneur/mentors), a Virtual busi- (WRVU) Heckel lives in Cincinnati, OH, and and Administration in 1996, and have been (Weinhard Café) for about five years and is hav- ness incubator, and a virtual business accelerator said: Please visit my online ministry at http:// General Manager for Tuned In Broadcasting’s ing both great fun and success with it. All-in-all, programs. www.fiveminutechurch.com I currently have a five Nashville-area properties: WRLT-FM, WRLG- a pretty good life! radio show on WWNL in Pittsburgh, PA called FM, WYYB-FM, WDBL-AM & FM since 1998. In ‘First Steps to Faith’ that consists of 5 minutes of addition to a long on-air history with the station, 1980 reading from the Bible (KJV 1611). I am looking I’ve also hosted Lightning 100’s popular ‘Retro for a sponsor for air time on WWNL. I’d like to Lightning’ program (heard every Saturday morn- Kevin B. Barnard, B.A., 1980 (The develop a nationally syndicated show and am ing from 8am-12Noon) since 1993. Locally, I Vanderbilt Hustler, WRVU) Barnard lives in Tampa, seeking a partner to underwirte it. have served on the Communications Advisory FL, and said: My son, Daniel, became a teenager Council for the Nashville Area Chamber of in 2006. Luckily, he’s fairly well-behaved so far. Chuck Myer, B.A., 1975 (WRVU) Commerce and University School of Nashville’s Otherwise, I am still the features copy desk chief Myer lives in Cincinnati, Ohio, and said: I am Alumni Board of Directors, and currently serve at the Tampa Tribune and Florida is still too now apediatric otolaryngologist at Cincinnati on March Of Dimes’ Board Of Governors and the freaking hot. Children’s Hospital and residency director in Tennessee Association of Broadcasters’ Board of Otolaryngology at the University of Cincinnati. Directors. I am a 2000 graduate of the Nashville Alex S. Heard, B.A., 1980 (The Vanderbilt My wife, Virginia (Place), and I are active with Area Chamber of Commerce’s ‘FastTrac Planning’ Hustler, Versus magazine, The Vanderbilt Review) the local and national alumni association. Our executive management program, and a 2004 Heard lives in Santa Fe, NM, and said: I work at youngest son graduated from VU in 2005 and alumnus of Nashville’s professional entertain- Outside magazine, where I’m the editorial direc- now is at Loyola in medical school. Our older son ment industry program, Leadership Music. My tor. Only other news: in 2006, I sold a book pro- graduated from UNH and went to Wright State wife, Jodi and I have three sons - Michael (current- posal to HarperCollins. The book will be a non- Mary Margaret (Alsobrook) Peel (’71), right, for medical school. He is now one of our ENT ly a sophomore at Indiana University), Harrison fiction account of a rape and execution case that with husband Joe Peel (VU ’65 and ’69) and residents in Cincinnati. and Dylan (both at Hume-Fogg Academic High took started in Laurel, Mississippi, and evolved their daughter, Margaret, at her graduation from School in Nashville). into a controversy that was around the world. The Sewanee in 2001. 1977 defendant’s name was Willie McGee. Van Bunch, B.A., 1979 (The Vanderbilt Mary Margaret (Alsobrook) Peel, B.A., Jefferson Perry Knight, B.A., 1977 (The Hustler, Versus magazine) Bunch lives in Signal 1981 1971 (The Vanderbilt Hustler, Commodore year- Vanderbilt Hustler, The Vanderbilt Review) Knight Mountain, Tennessee, and said: Unlike others in book) Peel lives in Nashville, Tennessee, and said: lives in MIAMI, FLORIDA, and said: I still practice my era at VU, I never moved past student media Nathan John Churchill, B.A., 1981 (The Peel worked for the Hustler and the yearbook International and Business Law in Miami. I am to participate in media-at-large or the ‘MSM.’ I Vanderbilt Hustler, WRVU, Versus magazine, all four years at VU. She was art editor of the continuing to be active in Republican politics in did, however, continue my ‘writing’ career as an Commodore yearbook) Churchill lives in Sao Commodore during her junior and senior years. Florida and nationally. I am currently co-chair attorney. As a consumer rights advocate, I have Paulo, SP - Brazil, and said: I own a business in She has worked for over 30 years as a professional of the Florida Chapter of Republican National persistently advocated for ‘plain language’ writ- Brazil. Two kids, Andrew (16) and Arthur (13). I Medical Illustrator at the Department of Veterans Lawyers Association. From 2004 to 2006 I was the ings to foster real advancement in communica- still love taking pictures. Affairs Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, Chair. In late December 2006 my wife and two tion between the legal system and the consumers where she has been Chief of Medical Media children and I will be traveling to visit a Spaniard its workings affect. Mary Beth Pendley Ray, B.A., 1981 (The Service for almost 20 years. As Chief of Medical who I met when we lived in the same dormitory Vanderbilt Hustler) Ray lives in Washington, DC, Media, she directs illustration, photography, in downtown Madrid in 1975, when I attended Chuck Kaiser, B.A., 1979 (Commodore year- and said: I am writing book reviews and author computer graphics, desktop publishing, video, Vanderbilt-in-Spain. We have kept in touch for book) Kaiser lives in Saint Louis, MO, and said: interview scripts for The Diane Rehm Show on and closed circuit television. Her medical illus- 31 years and have visited each other often. I was sports editor for the Commodore in 1978. National Public Radio. The interviews are acces- trations, primarily of surgical procedures, have Fortunately, our wives and children get along Thankfully, most of the heavy lifting for the sports sible live and as archives on WAMU.org. Just been published in books and numerous medical quite well, even though his wife and kids speak section was handled by the photographers. Copy finished one this week on a new book called journals. Her most extensive collection of medi- very little English and mine speak ze ro Spanish. for each sport was usually handled by a coach The Faith Club, about three mothers, a Muslim, a cal illustrations can be found in Techniques for My 15-year old daughter’s high school has no or reporter. In 1979 I was the business manager Christian and a Jew who struggle to understand student newspaper. I am encouraging her to start Surgeons by J. Patrick O’Leary and Eugene A. for the Commodore. In those days, 50% of the their religious faith. one and become the founding Editor-in-Chief, so Woltering. Some of her work is included in the yearbook profit was split between the business Howard exhibit “Eighty Years of Medical Illustration at I am thinking these days a lot about manager and the editor. We had a great year! 1982 Orenstein and Kurt Schmalz, who were Vanderbilt” which hung at Vanderbilt Medical the talented Hustler Editors-in-Chief under whom Richard E Gottlieb, B.A., 1982 (WRVU) Center and Eskind Library from May through Steven Lippman, B.A., 1979 (WRVU) I served. I also recently met a guy whose last Gottlieb lives in Glencoe, IL. August 2006. She did graduate work in art history Lippman lives in Boca Raton, Florida, and said: name is ‘Winstead,’ so that made me think about at Vanderbilt and continued to study studio art. Steve has been living in Boca Raton for 18 years. Clint ‘Funky Winnie’ Winstead, Kurt’s Paul Mathis Sulins, B.A., 1982 (Commodore Her interest in painting and portraiture has led He’s married with 2 children and a poodle. He is right hand man. yearbook) Sulins lives in Wilmington, NC. her to study with the internationally known por- an insurance broker and financial planner serving trait painters Daniel Greene and John Howard South Florida and beyond. At WRVU he did regu- Bob Schlussler, B.E., 1977 (The Vanderbilt Sanden and she is a member of the Portrait lar sports reports and covered the basketball and 1983 Hustler, WRVU, Versus magazine) Schlussler lives baseball teams. Today he coaches youth soccer Institute founded by John Howard Sanden. She Dawn Sutton LaFalce, B.S., 1983 (The in Orlando, FL. and hockey in Boca. Steve continues to be an avid has continued to study fine art locally with sev- Vanderbilt Hustler, Versus magazine) LaFalce lives eral other notable artists. She is married to Joe sports fan closely following the Florida teams as Robert L Walker, B.S., 1977 in Triangle, VA, and said: I have worked for the Peel (B.A. ’65, and M.A.T. ’69) and they (The Vanderbilt well as the Commodores. Hustler) Walker lives in Tustin, California, and Army for 20+ years. It has been a wonderful have a daughter, Margaret, who graduated from experience: I met my husband at work and we Sewanee in 2001. said: I recently received the CMB designation Erich W. Merrill, Jr., B.E., 1979 (WRVU, from the Mortgage Bankers Association of Commodore yearbook) Merrill, Jr. lives in Portland, have moved 7 times. The best tour was 3 years America. CMB is the highest professional desig- in Germany - skiing in the Alps, second honey- 1972 Oregon, and said: My work at WRVU and engi- nation awarded for the residential lending profes- neering degree have come in handy when serving moon in Paris, riding a camel in Egypt. Many Peggy Jo Shaw, B.A., 1972 (The Vanderbilt sion. I manage a team of AVM developers at First as a business attorney for high tech companies happy Tunnel memories: Our stinky couch from Hustler, senior class newsletter editor) Shaw lives American. AVM stands for Automated Valuation in the Pacific Northwest. My son Erich III is Goodwill in the Versus office. The party at the in Decatur, Georgia, and said: I have two new Model. Lenders use this technology to value resi- continuing the technology tradition by spending Hustler where the PGA Punch was so strong that Sesame Street books just out: What Makes You dential properties in lieu of appraisals. We just all his free time on computer programming and it stripped the wax off the floor and the cleaning Giggle and Rosita’s Easter. I also have an original finished developing an AVM for Australia. We will object rendering, while daughter Alex focus- staff made us do the rewaxing. The first computer storybook illustrated by Dona Gelsinger titled soon be working on the UK. es on French, German, and math. The Pacific system for Hustler (with WordStar). The Charlie Heaven on Earth. (Most are at Borders.) My com- Northwest is a great place for taking up running. Daniels Band jamming at WRVU. Using Jim pany, Dalmatian Press, just transferred me to the 1978 I just finished my third Portland Marathon, and Leeson’s farm to make a western movie for Intro Atlanta office. I have a condo in Decatur, and fourth Hood-to-Coast 197 mile relay race. to Film Study. would love to see Vandy friends! My new office F. Scott Anderson, B.A., 1978 (Versus phone is: 678-891-4532. magazine) Anderson lives in Bloomington, Bill Nettles, M.S., Ph.D., 1979 (WRVU) James Todd McLean, B.E., 1983 (WRVU) Indiana, and said: My ‘media experience’ was Nettles lives in Jackson, TN, and said: In Fall, McLean lives in Indianapolis, IN, and said: Still 1974 limited to VERSUS. It was a great deal of fun, 2006, I moved to Jackson, TN, to be Professor of working for RATIO Architects and serving as the particularly when we brought out The Hamster. I Physics at Union University. It’s great to be back lead architect on the Architectural Review Board Laurie Durbrow Hyhndman, B.A., 1974 penned a piece which still might be my favorite in Tennessee and close to Nashville. for an upscale residential neighborhood Carmel, (Commodore yearbook) Hyhndman lives in of all the ones I wrote while at Vanderbilt. A IN. Cumberland, Maine, and said: My first career couple of people on the staff, perhaps Allen Pat Nunnally, B.A., M.A., 1979 (The after graduating from Vanderbilt was in televi- Boyer among them, know which one it is. Vanderbilt Hustler, Versus magazine, Commodore Donna A Parramore, B.A., MDiv, 1983 sion. It took me from a PBS station in Cincinnati Since then, I’ve grown up and actually had to yearbook) Nunnally lives in St. Paul, Minnesota. (The Vanderbilt Review) Parramore lives in New all the way to Hollywood where I was director work for a paycheck. After teaching English for Johnsonville, Tennessee, and said: I am now the of development at a TV production company. 15 years, I’ve been making a transition into the David Peeples, B.A., 1979 (Versus maga- pastor at Ebenezer United Methodist Church in After a move to Maine I spent a number of years area where most of us will find ourselves, if not zine) Peeples lives in West Memphis, Arkansas, New Johnsonville, TN. A few years after I gradu- working in the community and raising three already, then in about twenty years. Healthcare. and said: After Vanderbilt, I completed law school ated in 1983, I become involved with WRVU. My children. I started to write for a regional maga- I figure I might as well be working in the field at the University of Arkansas and I have practiced time slots were on late nights Friday or Saturdays zine, something I had never done before, then before I need its services. I also grew up enough law in Arkansas since 1982. I have served as the when the current students wanted to be out on had the opportunity to buy the magazine. I am to get married, for the first and I hope only time, City Attorney for West Memphis for the past 20 the town. I have fond memories of Carter, celebrating five years as owner and publisher of to Paula Banks in 2001. I hope my fellow Versites years. My wife, Leslie, and I have an 18 year old Laura Mitrovich, Emily Johnson, Tom Port City Life, a regional lifestyle magazine that will feel that some sort of reunion is in order. If daughter and a 15 year old son. Woods, and Kirk Porter. At that time, the celebrates live in Maine. Check it out at www. so...contact me. music on the local scene was on the cutting portcitylife.com. In this five year period we have Charlie Schorner, B.E., 1979 (The edge and there was an innocence and excitement grown from a modest publication to a significant Ben Signer, B.A., 1978 (WRVU, Commodore Vanderbilt Hustler) Schorner lives in Prescott, about Nashville as alternative groups from every- addition to the Maine publishing landscape. We yearbook) Signer lives in Beachwood, OH. Washington, and said: It’s been an awfully long where came to Music City to play. 6 tunnel vision

alumni updates…

Philip Tate, B.A., 1983 (The Vanderbilt recently published by Windstorm Creative of Port were born. We ended up near Cincinnati, where 1992 Hustler, WRVU, Commodore yearbook) Tate lives Orchard WA. It’s an adventure story with some John is a landscape architect, and after years as a in Charlotte, NC, and said: Philip Tate, Vice comedic and fantasy elements, about a group of stay-at-home mom, I earned a PHR and entered Kelli Staples Burns, B.A., 1992 President with Luquire George Andrews advertis- kids who make a low-budget TV comedy show. HR management. Our boys are 11.5 and 13. I (Commodore yearbook) Burns lives in Lutz, ing agency and PR firm, is currently serving as In many ways, it’s a tribute to the time I spent continue to read voraciously, and I enjoy cooking Florida, and said: Kelli Staples Burns (1992) President of the Charlotte Chapter of the Public working on the Nickelodeon series, You Can’t Do and games, though there’s far less free time for is an assistant professor in the School of Mass Relations Society of America. He is also active That On Television, which I did while I was still at any of it these days. I’ve lost touch with many VU Communications at the University of South with the YMCA of Greater Charlotte on various Vanderbilt. Windstorm will also be publishing friends over the years and would love to recon- Florida in Tampa. She recently had an article committees and fundraising activities. my next book, Lunar Pioneers, which is a science nect, so drop me an email! published in the Newspaper Research Journal about fiction story about a 22nd century family that USA Today’s reporting of pre-election polls. 1984 moves to the Moon. (My nickname for the book 1989 is, Little House in the Crater.) I don’t have a con- Anne Michelle Manzo, B.A., 1992 (The Whitney M. Eckler, B.A., 1984 (The firmed release date yet, but it should come out James William Aaron, B.A., M.B.A., Vanderbilt Hustler) Manzo lives in New York, Vanderbilt Hustler, Versus magazine) Eckler lives in sometime in late 2007. I now have an ‘official 1989 (The Vanderbilt Hustler, WRVU) Aaron New York, and said: Though I still don’t know Freising (Munich), Germany. author website’ of my own, so feel free to stop by lives in Nashville, TN, and said: In January 2007 what I want to be when I grow up, presently and check out the latest news about my books. I’ll begin my sixth year working for the Metro I am an Associate Director of Medical Affairs Steven David Hall, B.E., 1984 (WRVU) It’s at: http://www.rablack.com/ Nashville Government, where I’m responsible at Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Hall lives in Fort Myers, FL, and said: We have for strategic planning and performance measure- My areas of specialty include measuring quality lived in Ft Myers FL for six years. We have a 12 Lisa Dorsey Glass, B.A., 1986 (WRVU) ment as well as a portion of Metro’s operating of life in patients with Parkinson’s disease and year old son Sergey. I (Steve) am a Engineering Glass lives in Irvine, California. budget process. My daughter, Ellis Aaron, is in Restless Legs Syndrome. Napping and snacking Manager for Sprint-Nextel. My wife Julie is a the second grade. I’m a founding member of the are what I do best. teacher at South Ft Myers High School. Despite Thomas Mark Hodges, B.A., 1986 Free Beer & Fried Chicken Men’s Gospel Quartet. my experience at WRVU, I have only had an MP3 (WRVU) Hodges lives in Taipei, Taiwan. Andrew Maraniss, B.A., 1992 (The player for a few months, though my son is quite 1990 Vanderbilt Hustler) Maraniss lives in Nashville, Elliott New, B.E., 1986 (WRVU) New lives a ways ahead of me in that area. Katherine M Bragdon, B.A., 1990 TN, and said: I am entering my ninth year at in Columbia, SC, and said: Engineer by day... (WRVU) Bragdon lives in New York, New York, McNeely Pigott & Fox Public Relations and have bluesman by night. Spend days working at Intel. Erin Maloney, B.S., M.P.P., 1984 (The and said: I work for the City of New York, as begun working on a book on Perry Wallace, Enjoy nights as the leader of Elliott and the Vanderbilt Hustler, WRVU, Versus magazine, Deputy Director of Land Use. Vanderbilt’s first African-American basketball Commodore yearbook) Maloney lives in Ankara, Untouchables Blues Band. www.ElliottAndTheU player and the first in the SEC. Turkey. ntouchables.com Jeff Martindale, B.A., 1990 (The Vanderbilt Hustler) Martindale lives in Collierville, TN, and Brennan T. Price, B.A. 1992, (WRVU, The William Spencer, B.A., 1984 (WRVU) Tom Wood, B.A., 1986 (The Vanderbilt said: I have just published my second book, a Vanderbilt Hustler, Versus magazine) Price lives in Spencer lives in Washington,, DC. Hustler, WRVU, Versus magazine, Commodore children’s picture book for young readers (ages 2- Hartford, CT, and said: He continued in radio yearbook, The Vanderbilt Review, Vanderbilt Poetry 6) titled Going to the Beach. It chronicles a family’s when attending graduate school at Georgia Tech 1985 Review) Wood lives in Nashville, TN, and said: exciting beach vacation from the perspective of a and spent three years after graduation at WGST- Tom Wood, ’86, who was involved in both print young boy. This wonderfully-illustrated book will AM in Atlanta, mostly doing network operations Kevin B. Cantor, B.S., 1985 (The Vanderbilt and radio as a Tunnel-Rat, is part of the editorial evoke unforgettable experiences of sand castles, with a periodic shift thrown in. He left broadcast- Hustler, Commodore yearbook) Cantor lives in team that took over NashvillePost.com at the end seashells, and sunsets. To learn more about ing for good in 2000, moved to Connecticut, and New York, NY, and said: I am currently a Vice of 2005. The locally owned business/political published books by Jeff Martindale and how to went to law school at UConn. Since January 2005, President at Jennison Associates, an institutional news service has more than doubled its reader- order your very own copy, go to: http://www.jef- he has been an associate at the Hartford office of investment advisory firm in New York City, ship in 2006, breaking numerous big stories and fmartindalebooks.com Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider, practicing patent and responsible for Equity and Fixed Income trading seeing its reporting cited by blogs such as DailyKos antitrust law. Even though he’s long since left the and portfolio accounting systems. I was recent- and The New Republic’s ‘The Plank.’ NashvillePost. media, he attributes his success in radio and in ly re-married in June ‘06 (widowed in 2001), com also filed and won an open-records lawsuit 1991 law school to a lesson learned in the Tunnel and and live in Manhattan with my 9-year old son. against Tennessee’s state lottery. Sam Feist, B.A., 1991 (Vanderbilt succinctly expressed by Leah Stewart in her Photography remains a hobby, and the digital Television) Feist lives in Arlington, Va., and now first novel: “Verb follows subject. Object follows format sure beats messing around with chemicals 1987 is CNN’s political director. He said: I’m par- verb.” He remains single and, at least for the near in the darkroom! ticularly proud of CNN’s coverage of the recent future, happy about it. Jane Judd Deming, B.A., 1987 (WRVU) Midterm Elections. On election day, more people Robert Franke, B.A., 1985 (Commodore Deming lives in San Antonio, Texas, and said: I turned to CNN for election news than any other Mark Aaron Widerman, B.A., 1992 (The yearbook, Versus magazine, The Vanderbilt Hustler) live in San Antonio with my two sons, Reed and news source in America. And the 2008 presiden- Vanderbilt Hustler, Versus magazine, Vanderbilt Franke lives in Santa Monica, California, and Blake. I am working as the Marketing Director for tial campaign is going to be like none other. For Television, The Vanderbilt Review) Widerman lives said: I worked as assistant sports editor for the a local company and enjoying it very much. I am the first time since 1952, there is not a sitting or in New York, New York, and said: I am still per- Commodore Yearbook of 1984; I wrote fiction planning to attend reunion in October. Can’t wait former President or Vice President on the ticket forming and recording music under the stage stories for VERSUS magazine in 1983 and 1984; to see how the campus has changed! – which makes this the most wide-open presiden- name, Mark Aaron James. My new CD, Use Both I worked in layout for the HUSTLER newspaper tial race in our lifetimes. I just feel lucky to have Hands, is scheduled to be released in late January in 1982; I served on the Sarratt Film commit- Greg Pohl, B.A., 1987 (The Vanderbilt a front row seat to watch what’s shaping up to of ‘07. Several of my songs were used in TV shows tee 1983-1985 and was president of the Film Hustler, Commodore yearbook) Pohl lives in Salt be an amazing presidential election. Also, from a and Movies this year and I made an appearance Committee for 1984 and 1985. As Film prez, I Lake City, Utah, and said: Business Manager CNN news release Aug. 3: Feist, senior executive on the David Letterman show. I will be on tour also served on the Sarratt Arts Board in 1984 and for The Vanderbilt Hustler in 85-87... where I producer of political programming for CNN/U.S., throughout most of the spring. Dates, music, 1985. This is my multimedia experience while think there are still no windows. Received MBA also became the network’s political director. As a video and info can be found at www.markaaron- at Vanderbilt. Currently, I am a screenwriter & from Pepperdine University in Malibu, California senior executive producer since 2003, Feist has james.com and www.myspace.com/markaaron- producer in film and television represented by which was closer to the beach than Nashville. overseen the network’s political programming, james. I hope to run into a lot of you out there. the William Morris Agency since 1996 in all Previously employed with CB Richard-Ellis in LA including The Situation Room. With his additional media. After Vandy, I went on to the Univ. of for too long and currently a real estate investor in duties, Feist will coordinate all facets of CNN’s 1993 Southern California and received a master’s in California, Tennessee, Ohio and Utah. Travel and daily political coverage. Jon Klein, president of Isabel Lasater Hernandez, B.A., 1993 Screenwriting in 1990. I have been in the film snowboard as much as possible and having fun. CNN/U.S, said, “As we look to assert our primacy (Versus magazine, Commodore yearbook) and television business since 1993, working pre- in political coverage throughout the upcoming Hernandez lives in Grapevine, TX, and said: Two dominantly in feature films as a screenwriter. I Adrien Seybert, B.E., 1987 (The Vanderbilt midterm and presidential elections, we wanted books I designed last year received some good have done features for every major studio in Los Hustler, WRVU) Seybert lives in Brooklyn, NY. to put in place the strongest political team off the press. Glenn Dromgoole, in his syndicated news- Angeles except one and have worked on televi- air as we have on the air. The vision, intelligence paper column, chose Historic Texas Courthouses as sion shows for every broadcast network except 1988 and ability that Sam showed in launching The the best Texas book of 2006. ‘It is not only the ABC. As far as I can tell, I am the only Vandy Situation Room will now be applied more broad- Arch (‘Trey’) Adam Beasley III, B.A., best Texas book of 2006, I think it ranks as one alum to join the WGA (Writers Guild of America) ly to make political news even more interesting 1988 (WRVU) Beasley III lives in Athens, of the best Texas books I’ve seen in the past five since 1980. At the moment, I am writing a crime to our viewers.” Since joining CNN in 1990, Feist Georgia, and said: I currently reside in Athens, years.’ He also chose Best Remudas as another of thriller film for director Greg Hoblit (Primal Fear, has worked on numerous political programs. He GA. My wife, Vanessa (Class of ’88), his best Texas books of 2006. Hart’s War, Frequency), another feature for direc- formerly oversaw the production of Inside Politics is a professor in the Department of Speech tor Stephen Sommers (Mummy, Mummy Returns, and Crossfire. Prior to joining Crossfire, Feist was Communications at The University of Georgia. Veronica Marie/Wilborn Karas, B.A., Van Helsing), and I am writing/directing a feature the founding executive producer of CNN’s daily However, we remain true to our Vandy roots and 1993 (WRVU) Karas lives in Boynton Beach, FL, called BRACE with Ice Cube and writing/produc- newscast Wolf Blitzer Reports. He also served as the pull for the Commodores whenever they are in and said: I am now married and have a 9 month ing a feature with LL Cool J called OVERNITE. I executive producer of CNN’s weekend programs town. We have two wonderful boys, Adam (8) old son name PJ. I got my Masters in Education live in Santa Monica, California most of the year Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer, The Capital Gang and and Charlie (4). After a stint in radio broadcast- and am a high school Social Studies teacher. but I am frequently in Nashville as a large part Evans & Novak. of my family is here. I adored my experiences at ing (news reporting) after Vanderbilt, I received There’s not much of a music scene here but I Vanderbilt and would love to see more alumni in my MBA from The University of Texas and have Laurie Houston, B.A., 1991 (The Vanderbilt stay involved by volunteering with a yearly event the film/TV business. been a real estate investment banker for JPMorgan Hustler, WRVU, Vanderbilt Television) Houston called Sunfest. I get to drive around famous musi- Chase for the past 16 years. I fondly remember lives in Lake Mary, FL, and said: I’m currently a cians; it’s cool. I miss Nashville terribly. Philip Kang, B.S., 1985 (The Vanderbilt my days as a DJ, in News, Sports, and as GM morning news producer at the FOX station in Hustler) Kang lives in Redmond, WA. of WRVU. However, one feels pretty old when Orlando, FL. Joe E. Peebles, B.S., 1993 (WRVU) Peebles you’re listening to the Alternative ‘Oldies’ chan- lives in Accokeek, MD, and said: Promoted to Leigh Nacht, B.A., 1985 (WRVU, Versus nel on XM! I was recently back at Vanderbilt and Dana Adams Sills, B.A., 1991 (WRVU) Regional Sales Manager with Emerson Network magazine) Nacht lives in Norwood, New Jersey, saw the re-modeled studios and media center... Sills lives in Atlanta, Georgia, and said: Dana Power. Second son born on July 25, 2004. Joshua and said: My wife Sarahjane (Wilhite, A&S wow! A long way from the mid ’80s. Congrats to works for RBS Lynk in Atlanta, Georgia. January Edward Peebles. Hobbies incude being a wed- ’87) and I live in a small town outside NYC. We all the students currently in VU’s Media! 2007 will mark her twelfth year with RBS Lynk. In ding DJ in DC, MD and VA. have 3 children, Abigail 17, Dylan 15, and Lily her spare time she tries to make time for creative 12. I own a web-based retail jewelry business in Daniel W. Gehr, B.A., 1988 (The Vanderbilt endeavors like painting and playing the piano, William Trocchi, B.A., 1993 (The Vanderbilt NYC, antiqueengagementrings.com, that keeps Hustler, WRVU) Gehr lives in Hamilton, Ohio, but it’s alot harder to find time than it used to Hustler) Trocchi lives in Atlanta, GA, and said: me busy and out of trouble (with my wife). My and said: I am a solo, general practice attorney in be and Atlanta’s just not the same as Nashville. After five years at Athlon Sports in Nashville, I kids refuse to believe I ever did anything as ‘cool’ Hamilton, Ohio (near Cincinnati). I have been She misses the radio station very much and still was hired to be a producer for Sports Illustrated’s as DJ’ing at the campus radio station. They do, married to my wife, Angela, since 1995. We have prefers the diverse sounds that WRVU offered up website, SI.com, in July. This position offers some however, completely accept that I was the book- two children, Simon (9 years old) and Lydia (6), as an alternative to commercial radio. She’s also a writing opportunities, but the main responsibili- keeper for the school magazine. as well a 2-year old Olde English Sheepdog. fan of talk radio. To all my friends - stay creative!! ties include editing and publishing stories that It helps to keep you young at heart. appear on the website. The Atlanta office of 1986 Jennifer Jasper Joplin, B.S., M.A., 1988 SI.com handles the nights and weekends, while (The Vanderbilt Hustler, Versus magazine) Joplin Troy V. Underwood, B.A., 1991 (Versus the New York office handles the days. My wife Bob Black, B.E., 1986 (The Vanderbilt Hustler, lives in Cincinnati, OH, and said: After college, I magazine) Underwood lives in Los Angeles, CA, Amy and I had a successful move to Atlanta after WRVU, Versus magazine, Commodore yearbook, taught jr. high for a year, then returned to Vandy and said: I’m currently a literary manager at The 10 years in Nashville and our three children have The Vanderbilt Review) Black lives in Moorpark, earn a masters in sociology. I married my high Gotham Group, a Los Angeles based manage- adjusted nicely. We have hosted some of our California, and said: My second novel for mid- school sweetheart John in 1992 and we moved ment and production firm. Nashville friends here and have already made a dle-grade readers, The Real Life Channel, was to Michigan for a time, where our two boys few trips back to Music City. Issue 6 • Fall 2006 7

1994 Peterson family with the birth of their first child, Vanderbilt, I joined the Air Force. I have been sta- Jennifer O’Neill Schiffer, B.A., J.D., Owen Toms Peterson. Owen and dad enjoyed tioned in Washington, Korea, Italy, and now work 2003 (The Vanderbilt Hustler) Schiffer lives in Lucia Folk, B.A., 1994 (The Vanderbilt watching the Vandy football upset of Georgia and at Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado Springs. I Fairfax, VA. Hustler, Versus magazine) Folk lives in Nashville, basketball win over Geogria Tech. Go ‘Dores. have deployed 3 times, inlcuding a trip to Africa. Tennessee, and said: Lucia Folk is the Director of I’m loving the Colorado snow, skiing, and being Adrienne Elizabeth Spain, B.A., 2003 Public Affairs at CMT heading up the network’s 1999 able to travel with the Air Force. I am a human (The Vanderbilt Hustler, Versus magazine, Orbis) outreach efforts, specifically the pro-social cam- resources officer and just finished my Master’s Spain lives in Bend, Oregon. paign: CMT One Country, which has the mission Michael A. Gleason, B.A., 1999 (The degree through Univ of Oklahoma. Vanderbilt Hustler) Gleason lives in Washington, of mobilizing one million viewers to volunteer Tanya Fletcher Wheeler-Berliner, B.A., D.C.. in 2007. Stephen Lindsay Jenkins, B.A., 2001 2003 (Versus magazine) Wheeler-Berliner lives (Commodore yearbook) Jenkins lives in San in Denver, Colorado. Georgia Stitt, B. Mus., 1994 (The Justine Schuchard Holcomb, B.A., 1999 Ramon, California. (Versus magazine) Holcomb lives in Atlanta, GA, Vanderbilt Hustler, Versus magazine, Ripple) Stitt 2004 lives in Los Angeles, USA, and said: Georgia Stitt and said: Justine Schuchard Holcomb (B.A. 1999) Holly Meadows, B.A., 2001 (The Vanderbilt is the vocal coach on NBC’s reality TV series You’re works in marketing and communications for the Review) Meadows lives in Nashville, TN, and said: Jodi Rachael Edelstein, B.M., 2004 The One That I Want about auditioning for the Georgia Governor’s Office of Customer Service. I’m working as an commerical Interior Designer (Orbis, The Torch, VSC Board Member (Member- 2007 Broadway revival of the musical, GREASE. She lives in Atlanta with her husband, Matt, and at Gresham Smith and Partners in Nashville, at-large)) Edelstein lives in Miami, Florida, and She has a solo CD entitled Pieces coming out this their dog, Grover. and I just moved into a condo in the brand new said: Currently a third year law student at the year on the PS Classics label featuring 12 of her Viridian on Church street! University of Miami School of Law (FL), I will songs and a slew of fantastic Broadway singers. Lee E Jenkins, B.A., 1999 (The Vanderbilt take the Vermont Bar exam in the summer She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, com- Hustler) Jenkins lives in Los Angeles, California, Daniel Hoang Vo, B.S., 2001 (Versus maga- of 2007. I also work as the Graduate Advisor poser Jason Robert Brown, and their one-year- and said: Lee Jenkins re-located to Los Angeles to zine, The Vanderbilt Review) Vo lives in New overseeing University of Miami’s Undergraduate old daughter Molly. be a west-coast correspondent for The New York York, NY, and said: Daniel Vo graduated in 2006 Honor Council. On May 20, 2006, I married Times. His wife, Elizabeth, will be an editor in the from Washington University in St. Louis School Sebastien Cloutier. We plan to work and travel 1995 west-coast office of InStyle Magazine. of Medicine. He is currently in his first year of in Japan the year of 2008. Pediatric residency at Columbia Presbyterian in Keith Alberstadt, B.A., 1995 (The Kelley A Kaminsky (Devereaux), B.A., NYC. Robert Shaw, B.S., 2004 (The Vanderbilt Vanderbilt Hustler, WRVU) Alberstadt lives in New 1999 (The Vanderbilt Hustler) Kaminsky Hustler, Vanderbilt Television) Shaw lives in York City, NY, and said: I moved to New York City (Devereaux) lives in Fort Myers, Florida, and Dan Wolken, B.A., 2001 (The Vanderbilt Tallahassee, Florida, and said: Rob Shaw is cur- in April of ‘06, working on stage at comedy clubs said: My husband David and I are anticipating Hustler) Wolken lives in Memphis, TN, and said: rently a Sports Anchor/Reporter in Tallahassee. like Gotham, the Improv, and Carolines, among the arrival of our first child in April 2007. We’re Dan Wolken moved to Memphis in October to He has also created a fantasy sports show and a few others. But I’m still working the road quite very excited! After a stint writing and editing for take over the University of Memphis basketball website: Shports.com that airs on WCTV, the CBS a bit too, so when I perform in your city, please a newspaper and a trade magazine I am now beat at The Commercial Appeal. He spent the affiliate in Tallahassee. come check out a show. I’ve also been working teaching 7th grade language arts and reading and previous five years with the Colorado Springs with Comics On Duty, which sends comics across absolutely love it. Gazette, where he covered a variety of topics, most 2005 the world to entertain American troops. I also recently Air Force athletics. write for National Lampoon’s syndicated Sports Ashlie Lauren Thomas, B.A., 1999 (The Ashley Victoria Jane Mallinson, B.A., Minute. Please visit my website... www.keithcom- Vanderbilt Hustler) Thomas lives in Dallas, Texas, 2002 2005 (The Vanderbilt Hustler) Mallinson lives in edy.com and said: Ashlie Thomas is now an Associate with New York, NY. the Gunnstaks Law Office in Dallas, Texas. Ashlie Andrea Sims Frankenfeld, B.S., 2002 William Chip Brantley, B.A., 1995 (The was named a Texas Monthly Magazine ‘Rising Star’ (Commodore yearbook) Frankenfeld lives in 2006 Vanderbilt Review) Brantley lives in Montague, Attorney in 2005 and 2006. To be eligible for Thompsons Station, TN, and said: Married to MA, and said: My book about the pluot, the selection, an attorney must age 40 or younger, or Harry Frankenfeld in October of this year, I Ryan Edward Denzer-King, B.A., 2006 fruit business and the development of central in practice for 10 years or less. Only 2.5 percent of have started devoting more time to writing and (WRVU) Denzer-King lives in Atlanta, GA, and California will be published by Bloomsbury in the attorneys in Texas are selected as Rising Stars. learning to be a wife. We are both very active in said: I am currently working at The Cottage 2008. This past year, I’ve also been developing our church, Grace Community Church and enjoy School in Roswell, GA, a high school for children a cooking website called Cookthink. The site will 2000 living in Thompsons Station. We are looking with learning disabilities, teaching math, person- launch in early 2007. For now, check us out at forward to all of the joys and challenges that mar- al finance, and computers. I am getting married http://www.cookthink.com/blog. Melissa Jane Thompson Beltrame, B.A., riage promises to bring. in the spring, and am applying to graduate school 2000 (The Vanderbilt Hustler) Beltrame lives in to pursue a degree in linguistics. Bryant Palmer, B.A., 1995 (The Vanderbilt Kansas City, Kansas, and said: Career: changed Jennifer Whatley Ogilvie, B.A., 2002 Hustler, The Vanderbilt Review) Palmer lives in jobs, moving from Hallmark Cards to YRC (The Vanderbilt Hustler, Editor-in-Chief) Ogilvie William Brad Hughes, B.S., 2006 New York, New York. Worldwide as their Marketing Communications lives in Longview, Texas, and said: Jennifer (Vanderbilt Television) Hughes lives in Nashville, Manager in March 2006 Personal: happily mar- and her husband, Landon recently celebrated TN. ried in November 2003; no children 1997 their second anniversary and are enjoying life in Longview, Texas. Jennifer has just accepted Elizabeth ‘Jodi’ McShan, B.S., 2006 Jessica Allen, B.A., 1997 (The Vanderbilt Sarah Creekmore, B.A., 2000 (The a new job as a Marketing Representative for (Commodore yearbook) McShan lives in San Review) Allen lives in New York, New York, and Vanderbilt Hustler) Creekmore lives in Nashville, an international franchise, Certified Restoration Diego, CA, and said: I’m now in law school at said: I’m an editor at an educational publish- TN. Drycleaning Network, a companry that special- University of San Diego and loving it! It’s been ing house in New York City owned by Barnes & izes in textile restoration after fire and smoke amazing so far... guess we’ll see if it continues :) Noble. On the side, I write book reviews, encyclo- Matt Grace, B.A., 2000 (Versus magazine) damage. pedia articles, and general interest pieces. Grace lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Zachary Michael Norton, B.A., 2006 and said: I spent six years in Nashville working Sarah Janan Savage, B.A., 2002 (WRVU, (The Vanderbilt Hustler, Versus magazine) Norton 1998 at the CFO for two area nonprofit organizations. Versus magazine) Savage lives in Philadelphia, lives in New York City, New York, and said: Zach This summer marked a major career change—I PA. Norton is working as an associate with UBS in Bil Childress, B.A., 1998 (The Vanderbilt moved to Winston-Salem, NC to begin medi- New York. He writes and illustrates freelance in Hustler) Childress lives in Spokane, WA. cal school at Wake Forest University School of Chad Wilcox, B.A., M.Ed., 2002 (Vanderbilt his spare time. Medicine. I’ve been married to Sarah Grace for Stephanie Brooke Clayton, B.S., 1998 Student Communications, Inc.) Wilcox lives in six years. Arlington, VA, and said: I’m currently living in Neal Palmer, B.S., 2006 (WRVU) Palmer (Commodore yearbook) Clayton lives in Nashville, lives in Weihai, China. Tennessee. the DC area and working at the Institute for Erika Gordon Huddleston, B.A., 2000 Humane Studies, an educational nonprofit based (Versus magazine) Huddleston lives in Dallas, at George Mason University. I’ve recently accepted Daniel Adam Ross, B.A., 2006 (The Jeff Kettle, B.A., 1998 (WRVU, Versus Texas, and said: I am in Dallas, Texas as of a few Vanderbilt Hustler, WRVU) Ross lives in New magazine) Kettle lives in Los Angeles, CA, and a new position as Director of Alumni Relations, months after working in New York for several and will be working to provide assistance for York City, New York, and said: Currently I am said: Sound Editor; Foley Mixer; Dialog Recordist; years after school. I went to Parsons and studied an Analyst at a Management Consulting firm For cartoons, live action, etc program graduates seeking careers in academia, interior design and then worked for a com- public policy, journalism, and creative media. in Manhattan. I miss the days of being a DJ on pany where I did interiors and oversaw the fabric WRVU and spending time with the Advertising Dot McElhone, B.S., 1998 (Versus maga- design business. It was lots of fun! I am now staff of the Vanderbilt Hustler. I promise a visit zine, The Vanderbilt Review) McElhone lives in San painting and starting to write freelance. I hopeful- 2003 back to Nashville to see all those involved in Francisco, California, and said: I’m about half ly will start my own company soon, doing fabrics media, but look forward to meeting more of you Emily Faye Abbott, B.A., 2003 (The way through a Curriculum and Teacher Education and interiors. I enjoy collecting contemporary art up in New York City! Vanderbilt Hustler) Abbott lives in Seymour, PhD program at Stanford after living in Portland, and tracking fashion and culture trends. Oregon for 6 years teaching middle school and TN, and said: Emily Faye Abbott is the newest Assistant District Attorney for the 4th Judicial singing in a rootsy rockafunk band. I married Doug Jennings, B.A., 2000 (Versus maga- IN MEMORIAM… District in Tennessee. She is relocating to Sevier Dan Toulson (the best man ever) on August 13, zine) Jennings lives in New York, New York, and County (home of Dolly Parton!), and is glad 2005 in Capitola, California. We’re hoping to said: I’m currently pursuing my LL.M. in interna- Paul Mathis Sullins, B.S., 1982, that all her hours watching ‘Law & Order’ finally move back to the Pacific Northwest ASAP and tional legal studies (with a focus on international of Wilmington, N.C., Aug. 2, 2006. paid off. Dan is planning to do a PhD in Environmental trade and intellectual property law) at the New He was a partner and realtor of Network Real Ethics & Philosophy. I’m healthy and happy and York University School of Law. I’ll be graduating Shobhana Gupta, B.S., 2003 (The Vanderbilt Estate and was named Realtor of the Year for living the good life all the way around! in May of 2007. Hustler) Gupta lives in Nashville, TN. 2006. Survivors include his parents, a brother, four sisters, nieces and nephews. (From Vanderbilt James McCallum Noble, B.S., 1998 Melissa Warak, B.A., 2000 (WRVU, Versus Kelly Ann Lawver, B.S., 2003 (The magazine) (WRVU) Noble lives in Bogota, NJ, and said: magazine) Warak lives in Austin, TX, and said: I Vanderbilt Hustler) Lawver lives in Boston, MA. Jamie, Annie, and Josie welcome the newest married former WRVU General Manager David Noble, Salvatore ‘Sonny’ Henry Noble, born Haffner in August of 2005. We live in Austin, June 15, 2006. Jamie completed neurology resi- TX, and own a record store called Friends of Jonathan Levine, B.A., 2003 (The Torch) dency the same day and is currently a postdoctor- Sound. I am also a doctoral student in art history Levine lives in Brooklyn, New York. al clinical fellow in dementia and behavioral neu- at The University of Texas at Austin. My disserta- CONTACT FELLOW ALUMNI! rology at Columbia University Medical Center. tion focuses on interactions between music and Zhubin Parang, B.S., 2003 (The Vanderbilt But he still listens to and talks about music with art from about 1956 to 1966. Dave and I love Hustler, The Slant, Orbis) Parang lives in New In lieu of publishing individuals’ anyone who will listen, like his son—probably and miss WRVU! York, New York, and said: After graduating from the youngest Don Caballero fan on the planet. the Georgetown University Law Center in 2006, contact information in Alumni Updates, we invite you to visit 2001 Zhubin is now an associate at a law firm in New Tim Peterson, B.A., 1998 (The Vanderbilt York. Hustler) Peterson lives in Reston, VA, and said: Jen Clarke, B.S., 2001 (The Vanderbilt www.dore2dore.com Tim Peterson (BA 1997) former Advertising Hustler) Clarke lives in San Francisco, California. Matthew Saul, B.A., 2003 (Vanderbilt Manager for the Hustler now resides in Reston, VA Television) Saul lives in Beverly Hills, CA, and Vanderbilt Alumni Relations’ with his wife Danielle. Tim works in Mergers and Erin L Hancock, B.A., 2001 (The Vanderbilt said: I am currently working at the William online directory, Acquisitions in the DC Metro area. In June, Tim Hustler) Hancock lives in Colorado Springs, Morris Agency in the non-scripted television to look up fellow alumni. and Danielle welcomed a new addition to the Colorado, and said: After graduating from department in Beverly Hills, CA. Issue 6 • Fall 2006 tunnel vision the alumni newsletter for student media at vanderbilt university 8

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William R. Frazier (B.A., 1968) said, “I am writing his fifth unpublished Presenting a Noble Prize novel, The Education of Edra Cain, based A new annual prize for an out- ming with just about every one of on the death by breast cancer of my sec- standing WRVU student staff mem- the hundred or so DJs complaining Anne Malinee Zoe Nguyen Ally Smith ond wife.” ber was established this fall, thanks about their slot or putting together STUDENT HONORS to a generous gift from a former sta- the work schedules of 26 residents Irv Muchnick (A., 1976), Hustler tion manager. last year with the same complaints. Malinee editor 1974-75, said, “My book Wrestling Jamie Noble, MD (A&S ’98) “Either way, you’re messing with Anne Malinee, a senior and the direc- Babylon: Piledriving Tales of Drugs, Sex, has endowed “The WRVU Nashville people’s livelihood at some point. I tor of InsideVandy.com, was among Death, and Scandal will be published in Award for Dedication to Excellence learned a valuable lesson at WRVU four student editors to lead a panel on March. It has received advance praise in Radio Broadcasting,” which will — don’t take the gripes personally. I online media at the ACP/CMA National from, among others, Roy Blount Jr. be presented each year to a student couldn’t have survived the year with- College Media Convention in St. Louis (bestselling author and 1962-63 Hustler executive staff member who exhibits out that bit of knowledge.” in October. This summer Malinee will editor). For more information, visit excellence beyond expectations for Noble has also managed to inte- intern in the online department at the http://wrestlingbabylon.com.” his or her position. grate his love of music with his work Austin American-Statesman, working on “I hoped at some point to be in a in medicine. content for the paper’s news and enter- Other alumni have book news, including position to support one of my most “As a part of my music and art tainment sites, Statesman.com and David Halpern (1958), Roy Blount cherished experiences, the privilege of related dementia research, I had Austin360.com. Jr. (1963), William E. Livingston working at and later running WRVU the privilege of visiting the Woody (1970), Peggy Jo Shaw (1972), Alex Nashville,” Noble said. Guthrie archives this past spring. It Nguyen Heard (1980), Bob Black (1986), Noble recently completed his was probably one of the best days of Vanderbilt Television student manager Jeff Martindale (1990), Andrew neurology residency and is currently my entire residency,” he said. and executive producer of VTV-6 News Maraniss (1992), Isabel Lasater a clinical fellow in the division of “From 1936-1956, I have a sam- Doan Phuong Nguyen was accepted Hernandez (1993) and William Aging and Dementia at the Columbia pling of both personal and profes- into the National Press Foundation’s Chip Brantley (1995). Find out University Medical Center and work- sional letters. I just need to figure out Introduction to Washington D.C. for more about their books by reading their ing towards a master of science in the best objective measurements to College Journalists. This prestigious Alumni Updates in this newsletter. epidemiology. use before I tackle this topic. But I program, designed for college students Upon completion, Noble said he can’t wait.” with an interest in careers in journal- NATIONAL AIR hopes to be a clinical researcher based Noble resides in Bogota, N.J., with ism, accepts only 15 college journalists at Harlem Hospital, (a CU affiliated his wife Annie, two-year-old daugh- nationwide. The program was held in Jadzia Butler hospital), where he’s already accom- ter Josephine and 6-month-old son Washington D.C., January 25-28, 2007. was part of a live plished some research on African- Savatore “Sonny.” shot on MSNBC American stroke related issues. The WRVU Nashville Award is Smith that aired Oct. According to Noble, the skills he open to additional donations Allison Smith, a sophomore and news 26. She was inter- gained running the radio station con- from WRVU and VSC editor for The Vanderbilt Hustler, will viewed via satellite tinue to serve him well. alumni, or other inter- Jadzia Butler intern at The Tennessean summer as a by MSNBC anchor “This January marked ested parties. Contact Chips Quinn Scholar. The Chips Quinn Alex Witt. The interview included ques- 10 years since I took over as VSC for information Scholars program, sponsored by the tions about the war in Iraq, the Mark WRVU GM,” he said. “I don’t on how you can Freedom Forum, offers journalism stu- Foley scandal, and negative ads and know what was harder, putting contribute. dents of color hands-on training in jour- how they were affecting the Ford/Corker together a week of program- nalism and mentoring by news veterans Senate race in Tenn. Butler is now part of in an effort to open doors to new careers the MSNBC pool of “College Reporters”, Former WRVU General Manager and bring greater diversity to the nation’s and will more than likely develop addi- Jamie Noble (A&S ’98) takes daily newspaper newsrooms. tional stories for MSNBC this Spring. Sonny, 6-months, and Josie, 2, on a mid-November pumpkin picking trip to Alstede Farms in www.dore2dore.com Chester, NJ. To make sure you continue to receive Tunnel Vision, please update your contact info at www.dore2dore.com, Vanderbilt Alumni Relations’ online directory. We keep our database updated through Dore2Dore. PRSRT STD PAID U.S. POSTAGE FRANKLIN, TN PERMIT NO. 357