Winter/Spring 2018 20 Years of the Shepherd Program MAGAZINE.WLU.EDU 1 2 THE WASHINGTON AND LEE MAGAZINE - IN THIS ISSUE FEATURES 10 The Head and the Heart The Shepherd Program celebrates 20 years. 16 Into the Great Wide Open The A. Paul Knight Internship Program in Conservation. 20 Meaningful Investment The annual financial report. 24 On Their Honor The mission of the Owings Fellows. DEPARTMENTS 3 Columns 26 Office Hours Seth Michelson, Assistant Professor of Spanish 28 Lives of Consequence Greg Hunt ’97 Alison Krentel Wheatley-Price ’94 32 Alumni 48 Chronicles COMMUNITY MEMBERS AND W&L STUDENTS addressed childhood hunger in the Rockbridge area one soup sample at a time at the 6th Annual Souper Bowl, in Evans Dining Hall on Jan. 28. All proceeds supported the Campus Kitchen’s Backpack Program, which supplies over 700 children with a bag of non-perishable food items every weekend. Jenny Elmes ’91 (left), who owns Full Circle Catering, served Rebecca Morris ’18. PHOTOGRAPH BY KEVIN REMINGTON MAGAZINE.WLU.EDU 1 SPEAK FROM THE EDITOR Thank you to everyone who answered our call for memories about the Volume 95, Number 1 Vietnam era — John Rutherford ’66, who explored the stories of our Winter/Spring 2018 alumni who died in Vietnam; Robert Buxton ’69, a veteran himself, JAl,!£5 HOWMD MONROE who informed us that many class agents maintain lists of those who Julie A. Campbell served; Richard Coplan ’64 and Bruce Rider ’66, for thoughtful letters; Editor and Don McFall ’64, ’69L who wrote with pride of James Monroe ’66, Louise Uffelman who won the Medal of Honor and is memorialized with this plaque in Managing Editor Columns Lee Chapel. For that material and more, including a 1986 essay from Kelly Martone this magazine by Rider about Monroe, please see go.wlu.edu/Vietnam. BETH BOWMAN BY PHOTO Class Notes Editor JULIE A. CAMPBELL, Editor, W&L: The Washington and Lee Magazine Lindsey Nair Senior Writer Patrick Hinely ’73 HERE ARE REPRESENTATIVE EXCERPTS FROM LETTERS Shelby Mack Kevin Remington ABOUT “WHAT A UNIVERSITY SHOULD DO” (FALL 2017) University Photographers Lee’s views on slavery were that students participated in We have been watching Henry moderate to progressive, and he violence, he expelled them. Lee’s Louis Gates Jr.’s PBS program, Larry Connolly ’79 | Anna freed his personal slaves by “sin” was that he placed loyalty “Finding Your Roots.” If you Daccache ’19 | Barbara Elliott 1852. Lee did not violate his oath to Virginia above loyalty to the watch, you see that if you are Linda Evans | Wendy Lovell ’90 to the Constitution. He resigned Union. Still, he conducted his an American, your story is Steve McAllister | Erica Turman his commission, became a life according to a simple code way more complicated than Contributors private citizen, and made a — serve God, do one’s duty, act anybody appreciates or Rebecca Logan | Zehno private decision. When Virginia honorably, and behave imagines. We are not a simple Design seceded, Lee took up arms to courteously. These values he group of people with a simple defend it. In Lexington, Lee did brought to Washington College, backstory. We are an incredi- Mary Woodson not “allow” students to engage where he did not merely “shore bly diverse bunch that often Director of Publications in racist attacks. He publicly up” the school but saved it and followed almost impossibly denounced such attacks, and transformed it into a modern convoluted trails to get here. 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They may be that his predecessor Mickey Philipps Executive Director of edited for length, content and And there’s still good old mail: ’64 took the photos on p. 15. W&L Magazine Alumni Affairs style. Letters reflect the views Washington and Lee University of their authors, not necessar- © 2018 Washington and ON THE COVER: Illustration by 7 Courthouse Square ily those of the magazine’s 204 W. Washington St. Lee University Øivind Holland. editors or of the university. Lexington VA 24450-2116 2 THE WASHINGTON AND LEE MAGAZINE ColumnsNOTEWORTHY NEWS AND IDEAS BY ALL ACCOUNTS 2Beta Alpha Psi, the accounting honor society, hosted a school-supply drive for two school districts — in Houston, Texas, and Leesburg County, Florida — affected by last fall’s hurricanes. The society solicited donations from all corners of campus and shipped everything with help from the Accounting Department. Hermione Wang ’18 snapped her fellow members of the society’s executive committee (at left) as they hit Walmart to round up the supplies. L. to r.: Jack Lenz ’18, Jane Chiavelli ’18, Andrew Kim ’18 and Claire Meyers ’18. 3. MORE MINORS The College added two new minors: one in archaeology, and W&L faculty, students and staff another in Middle East and South A DECADE OF contribute significant time and Asia studies. The latter can include resources to the local causes and a language emphasis. DONATING agencies throughout the year, the Ten years ago, the W&L Community Grants Program has Community Grants Program been yet another way for the sprang into action, formalizing the university to assist in addressing TRIO OF university’s financial support for those needs.” 4 1 worthy local causes that benefit Last November, during the first TRUSTEES Lexington and Rockbridge County phase of its two rounds of grants The W&L Board of Trustees has and their citizens. for 2017-2018, the program awarded three new members: Ellen “The Community Grants $30,760 to 19 organizations. The Fitzsimmons Rogowski P ’17, Program has proved to be a money will, among other things, executive vice president of law substantive addition in addressing help individuals coping with house and public affairs at CSX Corp.; the many needs of the local fires; feed horses in a therapeutic Brodie Gregory Riordan ’03, community,” said Jim Farrar ’74, riding program; enable a local manager of partner learning and senior assistant to the president, police officer to patrol on a bike; development, McKinsey & Co.; and who chairs the Community Grants equip the girls’ basketball and Cliff Holekamp ’96, co-founder, Committee. “Through the program, soccer teams at Buena Vista’s Parry Cultivation Capital, and academic Washington and Lee has provided McCluer High School; provide director and senior lecturer for over $500,000 in funding to local equipment for a dental clinic; and entrepreneurship, Olin Business nonprofits in the last decade. While promote youth literacy. School, Washington University. MAGAZINE.WLU.EDU 3 LAUDED AT LEWIS HALL Hernandez Stroud ’15L, a visiting assistant professor at the W&L School of Law, landed on Forbes’ 2018 5 list of the top 30 Under 30 in Law & Policy. 6. YAS, BRUH 8. CH-CH-CH-CHANGES SHOWING W&L’s Student Health 101 Scott Abell, head football coach, faculty at Hamilton College, online magazine (wlu. left in January to take the same job Clinton, New York. LOVELACE readsh101.com) asked at (Division I) Davidson College. He Brian C. Murchison, the students what slang terms led the Generals to three ODAC Charles S. Rowe Professor of SOME LOVE they would add to a titles, the most of any coach in Law, will be the Roger Mudd The University Library dictionary, and why. A few 7 program history. Garrett LaRose ’07 Professor of Ethics and director celebrated Ada Lovelace Day responses: takes the reins as head coach. of the Mudd Center for Ethics. last fall with a two-hour BROMANCE: “It’s a real Suzanne Keen, dean of the He succeeds Angela Smith, the Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon of thing. My boyfriend has one College and Thomas H. Broadus Mudd Center’s inaugural director, entries about women and and so do my brothers and Professor of English, starts a new who is returning to her full- about STEM (science, every other guy I know.” chapter on July 1: as vice president time faculty role as professor technology, engineering and BRUH: “Girls are calling for academic affairs and dean of of philosophy.