Winter/Spring 2018 Winter/Spring 20 Years of the Shepherd Program
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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 Offi ce 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. If Published by Washington and enjoined students not to engage college. you try to simplify a complex Lee University, Lexington, VA in “lawlessness.” When shown NEELY YOUNG ’66 story to substantiate a simple 24450. All communications and proposition, what you produce POD forms 3579 should be sent will be a distortion at best and to Washington and Lee a lie at worst. We owe University, Magazine, Lee accepted a commission in the Confederate States 7 Courthouse Square, 204 W. ourselves and those who came of America army before Virginian voters even ratified Washington St., Lexington VA before us more than that. 24450-2116. Periodicals postage their ordinance of secession. Lee metamorphosed W. STEVEN JONES ’69 paid at Roanoke, VA. quickly from a USA colonel to a CSA brigadier general, from a Washingtonian unionist to a Confederate UNIVERSITY ADVANCEMENT secessionist. Lee deserted Washington’s and his own Dennis W. Cross position on unionism-versus-sectionalism by Vice President for University Advancement sentimentally following a belligerent Virginia into SUBMIT A CLASS NOTE war against the nation. Online at Colonnade Connections: Jessica L. Willett ’95 colonnadeconnections.wlu.edu or Executive Director of HALFORD RYAN, Professor of English and Speech Emeritus via email: [email protected] Communications and Public Affairs Use [email protected] for sending: • Wedding and other photos Julie A. Campbell CORRECTION • Changes of address/subscription Associate Director of Stay in Touch In the last issue, the photo on p. 16 questions Communications and of all the living W&L presidents is • Letters to the editor Letters selected for publica- Public Affairs the work of University Photographer Call 540-458-8466 tion should refer to material in Patrick Hinely ’73, who also tells us (subscription questions only) Waller T. Dudley ’74, ’79L the magazine. 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. math) topics. The pioneering girls ‘bruhs,” boys are Lovelace (1815–1852), a calling boys ‘bruhs.’ My mathematician and writer, mom even calls me ‘bruh’ envisioned the algorithmic sometimes.” possibilities of the so-called Analytical Engine, an early GOAT (GREATEST OF ALL 9. LAX PREZ computer. Her namesake day TIME): “Although the celebrates women in STEM. phrase is often used in The United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association reference to athletes, one might find a GOAT pegged (USILA) appointed Gene McCabe, head men’s lacrosse in all walks of life or as a coach, as president for a two-year term. member of every social group! To express gratitude for the legitimacy and importance of their existence, the word has goat to get there!” flw<:l\1111Jfhtrdl11ffr \f."!,nM"l111nn•- HANGRY: “It’s a real ...111,r.t..r.t·111U\\i..- thing!” LOW-KEY: “Once my . . . professor told us, ‘Low-key I don’t feel like grading your exams.’ The entire class 10 burst out laughing because Jenefer Davies, associate professor of dance and theater, “Aerial Dance: A Guide to it means that something Dance with Rope and Harness” (Focal Press), an introduction for the beginning fun is happening or going to aerialist, with photos by Kevin Remington, university photographer. happen.” FACULTY BOOKS Roger B. Jeans, Elizabeth Lewis Otey Professor of History Emeritus, “The CIA and WOKE: “It’s important to Third Force Movements in China During the Early Cold War: The Great American stay informed and enlight- Dream” (Lexington Books), which explores the dilemma of U.S. policymakers when ened about the world the Chinese Communists defeated the Chinese Nationalists and occupied the around you. That is what mainland in 1949–1950. this term embodies.” Roberta Senechal de la Roche, professor of history, “Blind Flowers” (Arcadia Press), YAS: “Because yes just a poetry chapbook that expresses a rage against transience, a sense of alienation from doesn’t cut it when nature, and a search for the lost supernatural in a secular age. It won the Arcadia something is yas-worthy!” Press Chapbook Prize in 2016. Lesley Wheeler, Henry S. Fox Professor of English, “Propagation” (Dancing Girl YEET: “It’s fun to say and Press & Studio), a poetry chapbook whose main character, a woman in crisis, walks means nothing bad.” away from her ordinary life on a looping trail — as time gets slippery.
4 THE WASHINGTON AND LEE MAGAZINE ATHLETICS Developing Mind, Body, Spirit The Richard L. Duchossois Center for Athletics and Recreation
WASHINGTON AND LEE will name its new indoor athletics and recreation facility for Richard L. Duchossois ’44, in recognition of his leadership support of the project. The Richard L. Duchossois Center for Athletics and Recreation includes a restoration of the existing Doremus Gym- nasium and a rebuild of what has been known as the Warner Center. The design phase of the facility, which was approved by the Board of Trustees in February 2017, is nearing completion. Pending the completion of fundraising by June 30, 2018, the construction, by the firm of Whiting-Turner, will begin this summer. Completion is expected by the summer of 2020. President Will Dudley said that the name was a fitting tribute to a man who has been steadfast in An artist’s rendering provides a look at the new facility, which should be ready for action in two years. his support of W&L’s athletics programs, including leadership gifts to the Duchossois Tennis Center and the Wilson Field renovation. finest honor system in the world. I gym devoted solely to intramural “Dick Duchossois’ support for am pleased to support programs and recreational use. W&L athletics has enabled us to that make that kind of education The project will also increase provide top-notch facilities for our possible.” the square footage for the fitness students,” said Dudley. “But more The restoration of Doremus will center by 32 percent and will importantly, Dick sets a personal occur during the summer and will relocate and expand the wrestling standard to which we should all be scheduled around the universi- room by over 84 percent. It will aspire. His leadership, humility, ty’s academic calendar to allow for also allow the racquetball and generosity and dedication to the use of the fitness center, and squash courts to become regula- service of others are an inspiration Doremus gym will remain tion size, while doubling the scope In 1991, Dick Duchossois ’44 to all those who know him. We are available for use by the varsity of the athletic training facilities. received an honorary degree indebted to him for his ongoing wrestling program. The former Other key features are greater from W&L. In 2015, he commitment to W&L.” Warner Center will be demolished handicap accessibility, a showcase became the fifth recipient of “A W&L education provides all to its foundation, and the new for the Athletic Hall of Fame, an the Washington Award, which of the ingredients that produce facility built on the current site. increase in locker room amenities recognizes extraordinary acts leaders,” said Duchossois, the The entire project will encom- and features, expanded golf of philanthropy in support of W&L and other institutions, founder of Duchossois Industries pass 165,489 square feet and will practice facilities, expanded and distinguished leadership Inc. and chairman of Arlington capture over 10,700 square feet of multi-purpose facilities for group and service to the nation. His Park Race Course. “W&L combines assignable space for new athletic exercise, and improved offices for daughter, Kimberly T. opportunities to develop the mind, and recreation programs. The new coaches and athletics staff. Duchossois, is a W&L trustee body and spirit through an natatorium has allowed for emeritus; his grandson is outstanding academic program, additional space within the facility Tyler R. Lenczuk ’08. an athletic program focused on that will increase from two gyms dedication and teamwork, and the to three gyms, including a new
MAGAZINE.WLU.EDU 5 NOW HEAR THIS “We can’t continue to let racism poison our civic and our national and our political life. We cannot, as a people, allow this to happen.” Charles Dew, Ephraim Williams Professor of American History, Williams College, “The Making, and Unmaking, of a Racist,” Founders Day/Omicron Delta Kappa Convocation address, Jan. 18, 2018
“W&L is unique because it gives undergraduate “ No matter when and how long you choose students the chance to work directly with profes- to study abroad, the experience will be sors to conduct research, and the Geology Depart- ment takes it one step beneficial to you for your entire life. Let’s further by supplying us with funding to attend one explore the world, expand our horizons and geology conference a year. It was truly an invigorating enjoy the adventures.” feeling standing in front of my poster and sharing our Xiaoxia Yin ’19, “Should I Stay or Should I Go?,” Ring-tum Phi, Jan. 20, 2018 results with other members who were intrigued with our work.” Kameko Landry ’19 to the Ring-tum Phi, Nov. 7, 2017, “STUDENT ACTIVISM HAPPENS WHEN YOU about her attendance at the Geological Society of START WITH ONE PERSON, ONE IDEA.” America Conference Rossella Gabriele ’19, Past, Present and Future: An Inquiry into Social Activism at W&L, panel discussion, Jan. 15, 2018
“It really does warm my heart to see so many people showing up to enjoy “ARC has been successful beyond our wildest dreams. good soup, to enjoy good conversations, and to help those in need.” We’ve brought in two ARC cohorts now — fantastic Dannick Kenon ’19, Campus Kitchen Leadership Team, to the Ring-tum Phi, Jan. 30, 2018, students — and they’ve had a about the Souper Bowl fundraiser. (See the inside front cover for a photo of the event.) powerful summer experience that then carries over into their W&L experience as first-years and beyond.” “THE LEGACY OF DR. KING CALLS FOR US TO Provost Marc Conner, on the selection of the Advanced Research Cohort as W&L’s OPERATE FROM A HIGHER PLANE. . . . WE’VE next Quality Enhancement Plan. It was submitted by Carrie Finch-Smith, associate GOT TO LEARN HOW TO CONDUCT OURSELVES professor of mathematics, and Kiki Speizio ’18. ARC brings to campus 12 incoming first-year AS BROTHERS AND SISTERS.” students with an interest in STEM; they spend five weeks Bernice A. King, civil rights activist, daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott doing research with existing King, CEO of the King Center, Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. faculty-student teams. keynote address, Jan. 21, 2018
6 THE WASHINGTON AND LEE MAGAZINE IN THE LEAD So Much Good We Can Do The president of the Panhellenic Council likes seeing sororities join together to help the local community
SERVING AS PANHELLENIC One of the most profound ways Seeing so many Greek women PRESIDENT for the past year has that countless other Greek women work side-by-side has been an been a gratifying experience, as it and I have been able to serve the incredible experience. One of my has allowed me to see all the ways Lexington community is through goals as president was to have a the different sorority chapters on Campus Kitchen. Six members of Panhellenic-wide philanthropy the Washington and Lee campus the leadership team are in event. This term, I am excited give back. The Fall Term is always sororities. I first got involved my about Panhellenic’s co-hosting a a busy time, with every chapter sophomore year, and when I found build with Habitat for Humanity. I putting on a host of fundraisers out one of my sorority sisters led a can only hope this will be the first and philanthropic events to benefit shift, it motivated me to keep of many Panhellenic partnerships their respective charities. From going. I know countless women in with charities in the Rockbridge ADPiHop to Tie Dye for Blue Sky, my sorority, and across all the area. There is so much good we every year the chapters raise sororities, commit time each week can do, and what better way to do
PHOTO BY KEVIN REMINGTON KEVIN BY PHOTO Anna Daccache ’19 thousands of dollars for their to volunteer in the kitchen, at a it than together? national charities, and countless retirement home, or at an members get involved in various after-school program. service projects.
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Faculty Award from the Shepherd Program prior Harlan and Tom Shepherd FROM DIVINITY State Council of Higher to graduation, whether in formed the Shepherd Education. Admired for his its poverty-related Higher Education Consor- SCHOOL TO keen intellect and easy courses or community- tium on Poverty (SHECP), a smile, Professor Beckley service activities. The nonprofit that has helped POVERTY served as acting president affiliated Campus Kitchen, create and support poverty of W&L 2005–2006. staffed by W&L students, studies programs at over Larry Connolly ’79 STUDIES: But perhaps Harlan’s serves over 40,000 meals 25 schools. most significant and annually to residents of On the occasion of the HARLAN BECKLEY lasting achievement was the Rockbridge area, and 20th anniversary of the in poverty studies. In 1997, each summer, 40 Shepherd Program and In 1974, a young professor thanks to a gift from Shepherd interns work your retirement as of religion made his way Nancy and Tom Shepherd full-time for anti-poverty executive director of from Vanderbilt Divinity ’52, Harlan created what agencies from Vermont to SHECP, I salute you, Harlan Beckley School to Lexington. Who is now known as the New Mexico and beyond. Dr. Beckley, and all your knew then what a lasting Shepherd Program for the It’s exciting to imagine accomplishments. I am impact Harlan Beckley Interdisciplinary Study of the impact these W&L gratified to be among would have on the Poverty and Human graduates will have your legions of mentees university and on the Capability. From humble through their professional and friends. town he still calls home and uncertain beginnings, and civic contributions. BY LARRY CONNOLLY ’79 more than 40 years later? the Shepherd Program As if that were not Dr. Beckley enjoyed a is, 20 years later, one enough, Harlan has spent Connolly serves on the distinguished career on of W&L’s signature the years since his SHECP governing board the faculty at W&L, being academic programs. retirement from W&L and is a generous supporter named Fletcher Otey Poverty studies is now spreading the Shepherd
PHOTOS BY PATRICK HINELY ’73 HINELY PATRICK BY PHOTOS of the Shepherd Program Thomas Professor of the university’s most vision. In 2011, with the and the Shepherd Alliance. Religion in 2002, the popular minor, and more financial support of W&L See pp. 10–15 for more on same year he received than a third of each class and the partnership of 13 the Shepherd milestone. Virginia’s Outstanding participates in the colleges and universities,
MAGAZINE.WLU.EDU 7 ASK PRESIDENT DUDLEY - It imposes a new operate. The avowed goal of the Q. What is the and unprecedented tax is to force colleges and tax on private universities to use their endow- colleges and ments to lower the cost of impact on W&L universities that education and to enroll more 11 middle- and lower-income have endowments worth $500,000 of the Tax Cuts or more per full-time student. students. This is exactly what we Washington and Lee is one of already do: At W&L the endow- and Jobs Act? fewer than 30 institutions subject ment covers 40 percent of our to the tax, which we estimate will annual budget, and fully half of it cost us $1 million this year. Those is dedicated to financial aid. dollars — the equivalent of 20 Sending $1 million to the federal full-tuition scholarships, 150 government each year will force us internships, or nine faculty to reduce educational quality or positions — will be unavailable to increase prices. We hope Congress support our students. There will will revisit and eliminate this be a long-term, cumulative effect, misguided provision in 2018. gradually reducing the purchasing Please see the piece I published power of our endowment. The tax on this topic in The Washington is counterproductive and based on Post on Jan. 17, 2018: go.wlu.edu/ a misunderstanding of how we Dudleytaxop-ed.
WHAT’S YOUR W&L IQ? STUDENTS SERVE IT UP
ANSWERS: encourages diversity through social, The Executive Committee recognizes 1. In 1986, Jerry Darrell, then head of W&L recreational and educational program- 79 student organizations. As you would Dining Services, founded the Students ming designed to bridge the gap between Against Multiple Sclerosis (SAMS) lip-sync diverse groups on campus. Members expect, a healthy proportion of them have contest (at left). In 1993, the group support the recruitment and retention of became Students Against Rockbridge qualified students and foster their a service or philanthropic component. Area Hunger. The lip-sync contest success and happiness. continues to raise money — now about 4. Students interested in Middle Eastern Do you know what groups $9,000 a year — for local food banks. these acronyms stand for, culture, in encouraging intercultural 2. English for Speakers of Other understanding, and in promoting a and what they promote? Languages facilitates communication for positive dialogue about the Middle East the increasingly diverse population in belong to the Association for Middle 1. SARAH Rockbridge County. Although it has Eastern Interests. focused on the Latina/o community, the 5. The Student Environmental Action 2. ESOL program works with speakers of all League supports sustainability on languages. Members offer formal ESOL campus and within the local community, classes and one-on-one tutoring, Spanish 3. MSA increases student awareness of classes for adults, free translation of environmental issues, and strives to documents (Spanish-English/English- preserve, research and enjoy the natural 4. AMEI Spanish), and a hotline to provide environment. SEAL aims to create a immediate interpreting services better, healthier and more sustainable 5. SEAL 3. The Multicultural Student Association community at Washington and Lee and in helps students develop an appreciation the Rockbridge area, and to raise for and interaction with students of awareness about local, national and different social, ethnic and racial global problems. backgrounds. MSA promotes and
8 THE WASHINGTON AND LEE MAGAZINE DUBYUHNELL DAY ANGEL VELA DE LA GARZA EVIA ’18 The senior created STEMito, an educational summer program for children in his hometown of Monterrey, Mexico
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1. HANDS-ON 2. GLASS HALF-FULL 3. A CALL TO SERVICE 4. FAVORITE CLASS: Vela (chemistry-engineering At home, Vela, the youngest in the A Bonner Scholar, Vela must SPECIAL EFFECTS major, mathematics minor) grew family, takes full advantage of complete 1,800 hours of service up in a family of chemical hiking opportunities. At school, and leadership training during Vela enjoyed a Spring Term engineers, which influenced his when he isn’t busy with academic his time at W&L. Bonners also class, Special Effects for Theater. development of a STEM (science, responsibilities, he hangs out with are encouraged to complete two “I enjoy building and creating technology, engineering, mathe- friends on his hall and plays summers of full-time service. He things,” he explained. “We also matics) program in Monterrey, basketball in the gym. Vela credits chose Campus Kitchen and visited a company that makes Mexico, with a $10,000 Davis his girlfriend, Valeria Garcia, as English for Speakers of Other the sets for many music artists Projects for Peace grant. He his greatest influence. “She has Languages (ESOL). “I am that go on tour.” introduced 30 children to STEM always supported my decisions, committed to giving back to through fun experiments and believed in my ability to fulfill my others,” he said. “When I saw the activities, and later transformed a goals, helped me found STEMito, Bonner program and its mission, classroom at Escuela Eduardo and taught me to enjoy life.” I immediately applied.” Caballero Escamilla into a STEM Definitely a man who sees the center. “My goal was for the glass as half-full, he draws students to get their hands on the inspiration from Abraham experiments and to teach them Lincoln’s words: “A drop of honey the concepts,” said Vela (at right in catches more flies than a gallon the photo). “They may not of gall.” remember the specifics, but they will remember the opportunity.”
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10 THE WASHINGTON AND LEE MAGAZINE CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF THE SHEPHERD PROGRAM
The Head and the Heart
TWENTY YEARS AGO, seven course and conducting research on W&L professors created a new social justice and economic issues. class to answer those questions. After a failed bid to secure money What are the root Today the Shepherd Poverty from the Luce Foundation to hire a Program has blossomed into the visiting professor, the proposal causes of poverty? biggest minor on campus. And landed in front of the Shepherds. with a legacy stretching from “They agreed to fund a pilot And why can’t mobile food pantries to prison program that was to last all of six education programs, the program’s years,” said Beckley. we do something 1,300 alumni have left an The Shepherd Program has lived unmatched service footprint. well past its expiration date and about them? has grown from a single class to A MEETING OF MINDS one of the university’s signature BY LOUISE UFFELMAN “We need to do something.” That’s programs, with multiple introduc- ILLUSTRATION BY ØIVIND HOVLAND what the late Tom Shepherd ’52 tory sections, interdisciplinary told his wife, the Rev. Nancy courses, a capstone course, Shepherd, in 1992, after the L.A. off-campus internships and riots sparked by the acquittal of volunteer opportunities all leading police officers in the beating of a to a minor in poverty studies. black man, Rodney King. As President Will Dudley The Shepherds approached the summarized in the keynote address W&L Law School with the in November marking the intention of supporting students program’s milestone year: “The who were interested in public Shepherd program exemplifies interest law. “It was the first time what is so good and distinctive T in our lives we had given money about W&L. It is educationally for a specific cause,” said Nancy. innovative. It has a practical In 1996, Tom joined the Board application. It is dedicated to of Trustees and crossed paths with service. All of that is reflective of Harlan Beckley, professor of the unity of the head and the heart religion, who was teaching a that I think are at the core of this
MAGAZINE.WLU.EDU 11 program and the way it incorporates rigorous, started the post-graduate program that became County, which is such an amazing part of W&L. serious analytical thinking in the service of the Elrod Fellowship. Kelly Stewart Nichols ’00 –Sonia Siu ’07, global strategy mergers and solving important problems.” initiated community-based research when she acquisition manager, Accenture Here’s the Shepherd Program story — as told worked as an intern supervisor for the by those responsible for creating it, supporting program. Ingrid Easton ’06 started the Campus Poverty is the social equivalent of cancer. What it and nurturing it. Kitchen on her own — and Robbie Turner ’02 better program to equip our students with this and Jenny Sproul Davidson ’08 were early intimate knowledge about poverty and its GRAND, INNOVATIVE IDEA directors. causes and ramifications. Not only is it good When Harlan [Beckley] first called Tom –Harlan Beckley for the students, but I think it’s changed the [Shepherd] to talk about his vision for the whole landscape of the campus — from the Shepherd Program, that led to many conversa- When you’re working with students there’s a faculty to the administration to the students, tions and many meetings almost every time we constant four-year turnover. As students and to the agencies and the people they serve. came down to Lexington. They respected one graduate, we’re losing our most expert –Richard “Duke” Cancelmo ’80, Shepherd another’s ideas. Sometimes they saw things just volunteers, but we’re also gaining new students Alumni Advisory Committee and Elrod the same way, and other times saw things who are eager and full of fresh new ideas. Fellowship coordinator for Houston slightly different. Whenever there was a call That’s really pushed us forward and helped us from Harlan, I knew that Tom would be on the to grow and respond to community needs. It’s The program attracts a higher caliber of phone for quite awhile. great for the program to constantly have new student to W&L. What was at one time a niche –The Rev. Nancy Shepherd energy driving it. set of course offerings for a small group of –Jenny Sproul Davidson ’08, co-curricular students has evolved into a robust program From its inception, the program was intended service coordinator and unique point of differentiation for my to weave together coursework and intern- ships. It was not about creating a major. It was always about enriching majors in all fields and helping to prepare students “Everything Shepherd does is rejection of headed into all sorts of professions where they might encounter poverty as part of their excessive individualism in pursuit of a more professional and civic lives. –Harlan Beckley, Executive Director collaborative community. The program is all Emeritus, Shepherd Consortium; Founding Director, Shepherd Program about recognizing both our own limitations and the value of others.” Everything Shepherd does is rejection of excessive individualism in pursuit of a more –Howard Pickett, director, Shepherd Program collaborative community. Getting there requires community engagement, participa- tion in internships, working with community partners and examining a complex problem SIGNATURE PROGRAM alma mater. As I reflect, I am so grateful that from different disciplines. The program is all As citizens, we want to understand challenges when I began to grapple with one of life’s big about recognizing both our own limitations and and questions our society faces. Certainly questions — what is poverty and what is our the value of others. poverty is a big challenge in America — both responsibility to address it — I had a professor –Howard Pickett, director, Shepherd Program rural and urban. For our students to be able to who guided me, an intellectual framework to walk out of here with insights from an support me, and an institution that champi- In my wildest dreams, I would never have interdisciplinary perspective will make them oned asking these questions. imagined that a day would come when the better citizens, better able to serve their –Victoria Kumpuris Brown ’98, senior Shepherd Program would be the largest minor communities. Understanding society to a program officer at The Robert Wood Johnson on campus. When Harlan first brought a group greater extent, especially those who are Foundation; member of the Shepherd Alumni of us together to talk about his grand, innova- struggling or have challenges, always positions Advisory Committee tive idea for a program where we would study you to be a more empathetic, and informed, together —faculty, students and staff — about professional leader. LIGHT BULB MOMENTS the causes and consequences of poverty, we just –Art Goldsmith I remember one case from my Shepherd wanted to know how we could help. internship — a young woman who had been –Art Goldsmith, the Jackson T. Stephens The Shepherd Program ties together all the arrested for violating the terms of her Professor of Economics best parts of the university. There’s the core probation. To see that case from start to finish curriculum aspect of it with its interdisciplin- — a six-week process — was powerful. And I STUDENTS DRIVING THE ENGINE ary approach. You can take classes in child remember glancing at the manila folder that Almost every new initiative in the Shepherd psychology, economic development and held her case file and seeing that she had been Program was first proposed and acted on by a literature that are all related in some way or born four months before I had. I easily could student. Dan Birdwhistle ’01 recommended the another to poverty. Then there’s also the have been that young woman. Here I was, this Pov 102 course to expand community service. extracurricular component where you can take lucky kid who was going to this incredible Stacy McLoughlin Taylor ’02 and Claiborne part in the Nabors Service League or the university where I got to learn about cases like Taylor ’02 initiated the pre-orientation Bonner program. It’s a way to be engaged with hers. When you get to know your client, it program, Project Outreach (now Volunteer your fellow students in learning about the really gives you a different perspective that Venture), and the Nabors Service Day (now the community of Lexington and Rockbridge I had not appreciated. Nabors Service League). As an employee, Stacy –Mason Grist ’18
12 THE WASHINGTON AND LEE MAGAZINE < 1. Dinner at Harlan Beckley’s house during the first Shepherd Alliance closing conference. From l. to r.: Roshni Nirody ’00, Tom Shepherd ’52, Harlan Beckley and Travis Winfrey ’99. 2. Every November, the Campus Kitchens Project 3 network serves a special holiday meal to celebrate Thanksgiving. From l. to r.: Caitlin Schopp, CK coordinator 2006-2007; Christopher Kramedjian, RUF intern; Alice Shih LaCour ’08; and Jenny Sproul Davidson ’08. 1 < 3. Stacy McLoughlin Taylor ’02 (right) with Kelly Stewart Nichols ’00 (left) and Lucy Baldwin Cavett ’95, who both served as service learning 4 coordinators. < 4. Claiborne Taylor ’02 helped initiate the pre-orientation program and the Nabors Service League. < 5. Helping hands: A day of volunteering with Nabors Service League.
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During my internship in the Dominican different political ideas. It’s our hope that The Shepherd Program put me on a completely Republic, it wasn’t about me teaching them students will learn how to participate different trajectory. It gave me a new “why,” for how to succeed in a Westernized world. It was passionately and respectfully in conversations all the striving. I consider alleviating others’ really a question of getting to know what kinds about these pressing moral and social suffering to be a core component of my life. It of assumptions I had come with from America. problems related to poverty with people who made me kinder, more nuanced in my thinking, I ended up questioning everything I had don’t always agree with them. and helped me to understand the overwhelm- known and thought to be true. –Kate Donnelly ’11, manager of accounting ing complexity of human capability. –Kiki Spiezio ’18 operations at Goodwill of Greater –Brent Beshore ’05, Alumni Advisory Washington, D.C. Committee, CEO of adventur.es LIKE A PUBLIC POLICY SCHOOL When I teach a course that’s cross-listed with HARLAN’S ARMY the Shepherd Program, such as The Economics I work closely with stakeholders in Connecticut GET MORE INFORMATION of Social Issues or Economics of Race and on the improved marketing of local food Watch the 20th anniversary video: Ethnicity, I end up having students with every products, and I have ongoing research projects go.wlu.edu/shepherd20video imaginable major in the classroom. So it gives that examine the safety of meat sold to the View the timeline: go.wlu.edu/ me a chance to bring students together who National School Lunch Program, the historical shepherd20slideshow are majoring in religion and sociology and evolution of the food-waste problem and biology and economics and psychology to have economic implications of pending federal conversations about interesting papers and ask regulation that will require disclosure of questions that I think are important and genetically engineered ingredients in many A-i11IA1119ik relevant to today’s society. And that’s thrilling. foods. All of these projects are, at least Poverty Studies I WiL –Art Goldsmith indirectly, inspired by my time at W&L and my experience in the Shepherd Program. Shepherd has always been committed to –John Bovay ’07, assistant professor and bringing different people with different voices extension economist for the Department of together around the table — people with Agriculture and Resource Economics at the different experiences, different backgrounds, University of Connecticut different disciplines, different career paths and
MAGAZINE.WLU.EDU 13 SHEPHERD PROGRAM HISTORY BY WENDY LOVELL ’90 6. SERVICE LEARNING September 2000: Hannah V 1. THE BEGINNING Gilmore ’16 tutors a student October 1996: Nancy and in the Elrod Commons as Tom Shepherd ’52 make a part of her POV 102 learning gift to W&L to fund what 6 experience. became the Shepherd 7. ALTERNATIVE BREAK Program for the TRIPS February 2001: The Interdisciplinary Study first Alternative Break trips of Poverty and Human went to Nicaragua and to Capability. Charleston, South Carolina. > 2. POV 101 September These students served in 1997: Professor Harlan Shreveport, Louisiana, in Beckley teaches the first 7 2010. POV 101 class. > 3. SHEPHERD ALLIANCE 2 INTERNSHIPS June 1998: Students from W&L and Berea and Spelman colleges take part in the first Shepherd Alliance summer internship program. This group attended in 2003.
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V 9. COMMUNITY-BASED RESEARCH June 2004: Marisa Charley (right), coordinator of student service leadership and research, discusses a community-based project on housing assistance with Jen Handy, executive director at Rockbridge Area Relief Association, during a 2017 poster session.
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5. VOLUNTEER VENTURE August 1999: A new pre-orientation trip engages students in poverty work before they start classes. Here’s the 2010 Volunteer Venture Roanoke group. 9
14 THE WASHINGTON AND LEE MAGAZINE < 10. ELROD FELLOWS June 2005: The John and 16 Mimi Elrod Fellowship program connects recent A 16. GLOBAL SERVICE graduates with non-profit HOUSE August 2012: The jobs. John Nolan ’70 meets 10 Campus Kitchen at W&L with interested students. moves to its permanent < 11. CAMPUS KITCHEN home in the basement of May 2006: Ingrid Easton the Global Service House, ’06 lays the foundation for 17 on Lee Avenue. David the Campus Kitchen at Hanson ’00 (left) joins the W&L, which begins Campus Kitchen crew providing meals to while visiting campus. community members in A 17. NEW DIRECTOR September 2006. May 2013: Howard Pickett < 12. POVERTY AND is named director of the 11 HUMAN CAPABILITY Shepherd Program, September 2006: The succeeding founding Registrar’s Office adopts a director Harlan Beckley. Poverty and Human A 18. MOBILE FOOD Capability course designa- PANTRY June 2014: tion. Art Goldsmith, AmeriCorps VISTA member Jackson T. Stephens Paige Missel helps establish Professor of Economics, the mobile food pantry to has been teaching courses serve Goshen, Buena Vista and advising students from and Natural Bridge. 12 the program’s inception. 18 ==l======I======’05-’11 ’12-’16 < 13. CAMPUS GARDEN May 2008: The Biology Department partners with the Campus Kitchen to propose a campus garden to support education, research and community involvement. Jonah MacKay ’17 leads a YMCA summer program. 19 < 14. MINOR IN POVERTY STUDIES June 2009: For A 19. INNOVATIVE the first time, 26 students LEARNING April 2015: 13 graduate with minors in Visiting Assistant Professor poverty studies. Alvin Kelly Brotzman ’05 Thomas ’14 is one of many developed a Spring Term Shepherd minors. course pairing undergradu- ates with incarcerated < 15. AMERICORPS learning partners at the VISTA November 2011: Augusta Correctional AmeriCorps VISTA Center. Stephanie RiCharde (far 20 left) and Kelly Brotzman ’05 < 20. SOCIAL IMPACT (second from left), visiting SUMMIT November 2016: 14 15 assistant professor, deliver Jamie Goodin ’12 (left) and books to the Rockbridge Justine Sessions ’05 (right) Regional Jail, one of many share professional VISTA positions that have pathways at W&L’s first partnered with W&L. Social Impact Summit.
MAGAZINE.WLU.EDU 15 Upper right: Paul Knight ’85. Lower right: A group of former Knight interns at a celebration of the program’s 25th anniversary, in Idaho; Al Knight ’51L is front row, center, with hands clasped. All other photos are of the Henry’s Fork, in Idaho. Photos courtesy James Chandler/Henry’s Fork Foundation, Al Knight, Chris Brand and Gary Franke.
16 THE WASHINGTON AND LEE MAGAZINE INTO THE GREAT WIDE OPEN The A. Paul Knight Internship Program in Conservation, named in memory of a late Washington and Lee student, turns 30 this year. It has provided internships to 132 students and is still going strong.
BY LINDSEY NAIR
MAGAZINE.WLU.EDU 17 LESS THAN TWO WEEKS after Liz Todd ’19 In the months after his death, Paul’s parents created a comprehensive catalog of access returned to W&L from her 2016 summer could think only of what they had lost: a points to the Henry’s Fork for the HFF. internship with The Nature Conservancy in gregarious, free-spirited and passionate young Outside the day-to-day work, most interns Idaho, she unequivocally declared her majors man who loved the outdoors and family develop an appreciation for the outdoors, in geology and environmental studies. If it traditions. It was, as Al Knight wrote in a 1988 especially in that rugged and beautiful hadn’t been for that opportunity through the A. article in this magazine, “a struggle . . . to put territory. “Part of Al’s original intent was to Paul Knight Internship Program in Conserva- more meaning into a life suddenly sapped of give students the experience of being out tion, she might still be searching for her calling. most of its significance.” West,” said Rob Van Kirk, senior scientist at “As a freshman applying for the program, I Together, the Knights and the McDaniels HFF. “That has really been a successful never imagined it would have an impact of this created the A. Paul Knight Internship Program component of the program. I think all of the scale on my academic path and my future at W&L. With generous contributions from Al interns I have met are quite moved and aspirations,” said Todd, who has since worked Knight’s own funds, along with matches from influenced by that experience.” in the Brazilian Amazon, and plans to return to his then employer, Merck and Co., and modest Jon Stiehl and Rich Paini, both Class of ’93, Idaho this summer. “I have found myself in donations from others, the program placed its were so enamored with the Henry’s Fork that places I never thought I would be and going in first intern in 1988. The number of internships they built a business there, TroutHunter Lodge. directions I never would have anticipated.” has varied over the years, but the program now It started as a small fly shop and guide service; Al Knight ’51L delights in such stories, accommodates two law students and five today it is one of the world’s foremost because he helped establish the Knight undergraduates each summer. outfitters. Stiehl credits their internship at the program as a tribute to his late son, Paul Law students secure their own positions, HFF with setting them on that path. Knight ’85. In the past 30 years, 132 W&L then apply for a Knight stipend. They have “It was such a cool, eye-opening experience,” undergraduate and law students have landed worked for a diverse array of organizations, he said. “It changed the course of my life in a internships in environmental protection and including the Natural Resources Defense really valuable way.” conservation through the program, and many Council, the Southern Environmental Law have gone on to work in those fields. Center, the U.S. Department of Justice, and the AN INTANGIBLE DIMENSION “It’s better than I hoped it would be, and it’s U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Some The success of the Knight program over three had a bigger impact on students than I still work in environmental law, such as Mary decades can be measured by the number of anticipated,” Al Knight said. “Paul would be Cromer ’06L, who represents coal miners and young lives changed, and by the impact their very enthusiastic about it — there is no their families through the nonprofit work has had on the environment through question in my mind about that.” Appalachian Citizens’ Law Center, in Kentucky. those nonprofit organizations. None of that “Without exception, they come back having would have been possible, however, without CHANGING THE COURSE OF A LIFE learned a lot and having obtained a lot of the network of people who have lovingly John McDaniel, professor emeritus of anthro- practical experience,” said Brian Murchison, shepherded it through the years. pology at W&L, first met Paul Knight during a the Charles S. Rowe Professor of Law at W&L. McDaniel and Murchison have helped to lunch break on an archaeological dig. The men “They also see firsthand that these are complex administer the program from Lexington since bonded over a mutual interest in fly-fishing, issues that need really dedicated and smart its inception, as has W&L wrestling coach Gary and during the summers of 1983, 1984 and people working on them.” Franke, who also owns a home on the Henry’s 1985, Paul visited the McDaniel family at their Undergraduates work for one of three Fork. In a twist, McDaniel now works every summer home on the Henry’s Fork of the Snake organizations located within close proximity in summer as a fly-fishing guide for TroutHunter River, in Idaho, one of the premier fly-fishing eastern Idaho: the Henry’s Fork Foundation Lodge. Kirk Follo, instructor emeritus of spots in the world. (HFF), The Nature Conservancy’s Flat Ranch, German and Italian, who served as Outing Then, in June 1985, Paul went missing during or the Friends of Harriman State Park. Tasks Club adviser during his time at W&L, was also a backpacking trip at Yellowstone National Park. include everything from mending fences and involved. Two days later, rangers discovered that he had planting water lilies to conducting extensive Al Knight’s involvement in and enthusiasm suffered a fatal fall. He was 22 years old. projects. In 2017, for example, Sam Cochran ’18 for the program has never flagged. He and his L18 THE WASHINGTON AND LEE MAGAZINE “I think it sort of gives me a tie back to Paul, meeting people who are young and vibrant.”
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wife, Gail (Paul’s mother, Betsey, passed away a On the 25th anniversary of the program, few years after his death), travel to their own Chris Brand ’89, a former Knight intern who summer place in Idaho every year to meet the serves on the HFF board of directors, interns and see what they are learning. When organized a reunion of interns and their it became difficult to find summer housing in families. The crowd of more than 550 treated the area for the interns, the Knights bought a the Knights, McDaniels and Frankes to a four-bedroom condo to accommodate them. standing ovation. In 2017, the Friends of In 2009, when Al Knight decided to contact Harriman State Park awarded the Turkey all of the alumni who had interned in the Feather Award to Al and Gail Knight for program thus far, he was showered with their impact on the organization. responses of deep gratitude. “This is the most human and involved “To me, one of the phenomenal things about fellowship that I have seen at W&L,” said the program was how important it was to the Murchison. “I’m sure there are others that Knights, and the extent to which the W&L are comparable, but Al Knight’s level of students seemed to instinctively know that,” personal engagement really adds this McDaniel said. “They would extend their intangible dimension to the whole thing. So relationship with the Knights beyond their I think we should all be grateful to him for three months in Idaho, and I was always what he has done.” stunned by the long, thoughtful letters they would write about how important the program For more information about the A. Paul was to them.” Knight Internship Program in Liz Todd, who calls Al and Gail Knight “the Conservation, see go.wlu.edu/ most fantastic humans,” feels forever indebted Knight_Internship. to them. “To offer that scholarship at no cost, in addition to a quite generous stipend, means PAUL KNIGHT it is a financially plausible experience for almost any student,” she said. For Knight, the benefit is clear: “I think it sort of gives me a tie back to Paul, meeting people who are young and vibrant,” he said.
MAGAZINE.WLU.EDU 19 2017 FINANCIAL REPORT MEANINGFUL INVESTMENT
n 2018, as we look to the next LIABILITIES Investing in strategic plan, we do so while We have liabilities totaling $263.7 million. being mindful of what has Three types comprise 93 percent of this total: faculty and stu- worked so well over the years: debt, future annuity payments, and postretire- dents preserves I investing meaningfully in the ment benefits. Our largest liability, long-term future of our faculty and students. This core debt, supports capital building projects. W&L’s quality objective has led us to understand our role and Total debt stands at $190.8 million and place in higher education and remain comprises seven different tax-exempt issues education — and committed to providing long-term value to our through either the Virginia College Building students and alumni. Authority (VCBA) or the Lexington City builds long-term The result: an endowment per student that Industrial Development Authority. Of the places W&L in the top 25 of all higher-educa- outstanding debt, 85 percent is fixed rate and value for alumni tion institutions in the U.S.; a financial aid 15 percent is variable rate. Maturities extend to program that has expanded the level of 2043 with interest rates ranging from 2.25 BY STEVE MCALLISTER accessibility to deserving students of lesser percent to 5.75 percent. The 1998 and 2001 means; an academic program that strives VCBA notes, totaling $90.4 million, are consistently to find greater opportunities to non-callable. engage students; and an environment that Our debt is rated Aa2 and AA by Moody’s prides itself on the traditions and values of the and S&P, respectively; has a “Stable” outlook past, while being diligent to ensure an even from the agencies; and reflects their evalua- brighter future. tions of our financial health and our ability to We experienced a 3.7 percent increase in repay our obligations. Debt will play a role total assets over the past year, from $1.947 with the next strategic plan; however, we will billion to $2.019 billion, and the aggregate remain mindful of the limits created through endowment grew to a new high-water mark our debt policy and current ratings. of $1.547 billion.
20 THE WASHINGTON AND LEE MAGAZINE OVERVIEW FOR W&L STUDENTS
$63,136 $25,859 Instructional and Average tuition and fees student-services cost paid by families after TOP 25 per student In endowment per student financial aid among all U.S. universities $1.54 BILLION Our endowment’s $48.3 high-water mark MILLION STUDENT FINANCIAL AID AWARDED 3.7% Year-on-year increase in total assets
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3.4% Year-on-year $10.55 MILLION 51% increase Annual Fund donations Of undergraduate in net tuition reached a record high alumni donated revenues
39% Portion of W&L operating expenses covered by endowment distributions
#1 For lowest percentage of expenditures that go toward administration, including fund-raising, among the nation’s top 25 liberal arts institutions.
MAGAZINE.WLU.EDU 21 Highlights of this category are the completion Highlights in this area: • We received new gifts and pledges of or substantial completion of these integral • We offered faculty 162 summer Lenfest $37.2 million, with $9.8 million of the total elements of the last strategic plan: Grants and 11 full-year Lenfest Sabbaticals. toward endowments and $10.3 million to • Tucker Hall, the last building of the • We offered students 102 Johnson Opportunity capital projects. Colonnade restoration. or Johnson Enhancement grants, and 226 • The natatorium. additional grants for summer experiential, OPERATING EXPENSES • The Red House (now home to the LGBTQ research or internship endeavors. We use these resources to fulfill our core Resource Center and the Women’s, Gender, • We awarded grants and scholarships to 50.6 mission: education. Instruction and academic and Sexuality Studies Program). percent of the undergraduates; in 2008, the support (libraries, information technology • The final phases of Stemmons Plaza. corresponding figure was 39.3 percent. services, etc.) compose nearly 60 percent of total expenses. NET ASSETS ENDOWMENT ALLOCATION Only 12 percent of expenditures go toward Unrestricted net assets increased by $25.3 Endowment distributions accounted for 39 administration, including fund-raising. We million to $358 million. percent of the operating revenues, at $63.8 recently affirmed this figure with the method- Temporarily restricted net assets increased million. This source has grown in importance ology outlined by the American Council of sharply, from $378.5 million to $420.4 million, as a portion of the revenue stream. As a result, Trustees and Alumni in “How Much is Too largely a result of the strong investment-return diligence of management of the underlying Much? Controlling Administrative Costs environment. assets and considerations of payout allocation through Effective Oversight.” For the year Permanently restricted net assets, where models are as important, if not more import- covered in the report (FY 2015), W&L posted W&L invests the funds and benefits from the ant, than a decade ago. The university followed a ratio of 0.20, the lowest among the top 25 return, underpin the endowment and include its normal spending formula of increasing liberal arts institutions, where the mean of the many of the outside trusts managed in endowment spending by inflation plus group was 0.35. perpetuity for our benefit. The value of these endowments increased by $11.9 million to $976.9 million.
OPERATING RESULTS Compared to the top 25 liberal arts colleges, This strong financial base is critical in W&L consistently spends a higher percent- helping faculty and staff deliver a high-qual- ity education and student experience. While age of its budget for educational expenses endowment resources make an enormous contribution to the revenue stream, they are than the peer average (60.3 percent versus not the only revenues available. 52 percent). In 2016-17, W&L incurred instructional and student-services costs on average of $63,136 per student. The stated tuition and mandatory fees were $48,267. The average 1 percent. This yielded a payout rate of 4.83 Compared to the top 25 liberal arts colleges, tuition and fees paid by families after financial percent. Law School endowments retained the W&L consistently spends a higher percentage aid were just $25,859. Every student received a supplemental increased payout adopted by of its budget for educational expenses than the subsidy toward their education of at least the Board of Trustees for a second year and peer average (60.3 percent versus 52.0 $14,869, and for one-half of the population, the utilized a 7.5 percent payout rate. percent). However, our aggregate expenses per subsidy was expanded through financial aid. Current gifts and grants also play a student fall below the average expense per This is the financial-value proposition of a W&L significant role in providing a robust and student of the peers by nearly $9,000. education and will continue to be an area of vibrant educational program. These unre- focus as we expand accessibility to all qualified stricted gifts underwrite all aspects of IN SUMMARY applicants. university life. W&L received $18.9 million in The W&L community can look to future Net tuition revenues increased by 3.4 percent expendable contributions and grants to opportunities from a perspective of success to $59.4 million, even as we reduced the underwrite operations. If we had to rely on our and financial strength. Following a year when undergraduate enrollment by 1.4 percent. In the endowment to generate the same level of investment markets were down, 2016-2017 Law School, the number of students increased contribution, we would need an additional saw the expected long-term growth rate of the by 3.8 percent, reflecting a steadying in the $391 million. endowment exceeded with the knowledge volatile legal-education marketplace. Financial that, in its simplest form, it is the driver of a aid continues to be strongly supported through Endowment highlights: sustainable business model in higher education. endowment and gifts (49.8 percent). • The Annual Fund exceeded $10.55 million, a Within revenues, financial aid is shown as a new high-water mark, and we maintained a NOTE: This article is adapted from the reduction of tuition ($41.54 million); this is also high undergraduate alumni participation rate financial report prepared for 2016-2017 the case with auxiliary enterprise revenues (with of 51 percent. by Steve McAllister, vice president and aid reduction of $2.41 million). Within expenses, • Endowment per student (including funds treasurer, which you may read at go.wlu.edu/ a line item for financial aid ($4.36 million) held in trust by others) increased to $717,595. financials-1617. Unless otherwise noted, represents awards that exceed tuition, room and At June 30, 2007, this value was $466,299. beginning and ending dates mentioned board. Combined, student financial aid that We captured this increase in value of 54 throughout are June 30, 2016, and W&L awarded was $48.3 million, reaching 51 percent over the past decade even as the June 30, 2017. percent of the undergraduate student population endowment distributed between 4 percent and 90 percent of law students. and 5 percent of its value annually.
22 THE WASHINGTON AND LEE MAGAZINE ENDOWMENT ASSETS ENDOWMENT VALUE ($MILLIONS) LIABILITIES $263.7 MILLION $2.019 BILLION JUNE 30 73% Debt 77% Endowment 12% Annuity obligations 16% Plant, net of depreciation 1,800 8% Post-retirement benefits 3% Other investments 7% Other 3% Contributions receivable 1% Other 1,000
We experienced UNIVERSITY a 3.7 percent OPERATING increase in total REVENUES 0 assets over the 2008 2012 2017 $163.5 MILLION past year, from 39% Endowment allocation and ■ Internally ■ Trusts held distributions from trusts $1.947 billion to controlled by others $2.019 billion. endowment 36% Net tuiton 12% Gifts and grants 12% Auxiliary enterprises The aggregate endowment 1% other grew to a new high-water mark of $1.547 billion.
ENDOWMENT ALLOCATION 2% 70,000 45% UNIVERSITY OPERATING 8% EXPENSES 12% $160.9 MILLION
40,000 46% Instruction 46% 17% Auxiliary enterprises 12% 20% 12% Institutional support 12% Academic support 8% Student services 17% 2% Other
0 0% 2007-08 2016-17
■ Endowment ■ % of revenues allocation
Endowment distributions accounted for 39 percent of the operating revenues. All figures as of June 30, 2017, for the 2016–2017 fiscal year.
MAGAZINE.WLU.EDU 23 ON THEIR HONOR Owings Fellows Take the Honor System on the Road
BY JULIE CAMPBELL
24 THE WASHINGTON AND LEE MAGAZINE ELIZABETH MUGO ’19, WILL SHANNON ’19 AND BOWEN SPOTTSWOOD ’18 love the Honor System so much that they’re spreading MEET THE 2017–2018 OWINGS FELLOWS the gospel of academic integrity through in-person testimonials at high schools BOWEN SPOTTSWOOD ’18 and middle schools across the country. Major: Religion Last September, these current holders Minor: Poverty and human capability studies of the S. Cullum Owings Jr. Fellowship Activities past and present: Key Staff, Outing Club; Peer made their first foray, to Spottswood’s Counselor; trip leader, Appalachian Adventure; member, Reformed alma mater, Bayside Academy, in University Fellowship; leader, Young Life; tutor, English for Daphne, Alabama. “Before we go to each Speakers of Other Languages; mentor to local eighth-grader. Why it’s an honor: “It’s a really incredible way to get involved with school, we try to gauge the atmosphere,” the Honor System and promote what it does even outside of W&L.” she says. “Some campuses already have strong honor codes or systems in place, and some do not yet have an honor code or system at all.” ELIZABETH MUGO ’19 At the presentation, the three start by Major: Sociology and anthropology talking a bit about themselves. (“I felt Double minor: Africana studies and poverty and human like I was giving a TED talk,” says capability studies Shannon of his debut.) They also show a Activities past and present: Vice president, Executive PowerPoint that includes a good example Committee; member, University Committee for Inclusiveness and Campus Climate; co-president, Student Association for of bad behavior: swimmer Ryan Lochte, Black Unity; trip leader, Volunteer Venture Program; senior who told a whopper about a nonexistent intern, Bonner Program; student representative, Commission robbery during the 2016 Olympics. on Institutional History and Community. Having Mugo on board — she’s the How it matters: “We all love the Honor System. It’s something vice president of the Executive that we all cherish and see in different ways.” Committee — is especially helpful when the high schoolers want to know about the nitty-gritty of W&L’s Honor System. The Bayside students, for example, WILL SHANNON ’19 pricked up their ears at the mention of Double major: Politics and history W&L’s single sanction. When they break Activities past and present: Member, White Book Review Committee; assistant head Peer Counselor; member, Kathekon; into smaller groups, the Fellows have campus tour guide; coach for local soccer team of 10- to frank conversations with the younger 12-year-olds. students about how they deal with issues How to get ready: “I usually give the presentation to myself in of honor, and about what to do in my hotel room the night before, and in the shower the day of. As hypothetical situations. cliché as that sounds, it works for me.” “The students at W&L talk about or think about the Honor System often,” says Mugo. “At these high schools, they may not talk about it the same way.” Accordingly, the Fellows stress that each school needs to decide what works best ABOUT THE OWINGS FELLOWSHIP for its community. They send a post-visit The fellowship honors the late Cullum Owings ’03. His parents, Susan and Steve, and report to the school containing its pupils’ his brother, Pierce ’06, find it rewarding that the Honor System is being shared with general concerns on the topic, while younger audiences. “It is also an area of general behavior which can use some extra keeping confidential the names of the emphasis today,” they note. students they’ve talked with. The fellowship’s origins stretch back to 2000. That year, at its 40th reunion, the “The feedback that we hear from the Class of 1960 endowed the W&L Institute for Honor, which gave rise to the Initiative for visited schools is always positive,” reports Academic Integrity in Secondary Schools. The Owings Fellowship carries out that the family of the late Cullum Owings ’03, initiative and provides partial tuition grants for the Fellows. whose name graces the fellowship (see Cullum Owings’ classmates remembered him after his 2002 death and at their 10th sidebar). “These young people can relate reunion with contributions that, along with support from his family, have increased the to and communicate with middle and number of Fellows from two to three and expanded the geographic reach. “We are secondary students to address the delighted to see the evolution and growth,” say the Owingses. current issues in their school in a way Beau Dudley ’74, ’79L, W&L’s executive director of Alumni Affairs, coordinates the that adults with the same message program, building on a foundation laid by professors emeritus John Gunn ’45 and the cannot. We are convinced that these late Lew John ’58. “Our Fellows are very effective ambassadors for W&L,” he says. school visits have lasting impact.” “The fact that they applied for this fellowship assures us they feel strongly about the W&L students can make their own Honor System,” says the Owings family of the Fellows, “and are excited about the impact by applying for the fellowship. opportunity to share how it impacts their lives in the classroom, in their choices, and in “It’s an opportunity to take part in the their behavior outside life at W&L.” Honor System,” promises Mugo, “in an unconventional way.”
MAGAZINE.WLU.EDU 25 26 THE WASHINGTON AND LEE MAGAZINE OFFICE HOURS - Seth Michelson The assistant professor of Spanish, who devotes time both inside and outside the classroom to writing and translating poetry, recently compiled a book of poems written by incarcerated undocumented teens.
BY LINDSEY NAIR • PHOTO BY KEVIN REMINGTON • ILLUSTRATION BY FEDERICO GASTALDI
international border, both I enjoy working intimately WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNED OUTSIDE THE with and without docu- with and learning from the IN YOUR WORK WITH mentation, and for a original texts of other UNDOCUMENTED TEENS CLASSROOM diversity of reasons. And I writers. Less selfishly, I THAT YOU WISH YOU COULD couldn’t help but notice, take pleasure, too, in SHARE WITH EVERYONE WHEN I’M NOT WORKING: I enjoy even as a child, the helping monolingual- IN AMERICA? cooking, traveling and seeming caprice, cruelty Spanish poets, for example, Among other things, I’d try camping with my sons. and injustice of many of to reach previously to emphasize the power of IF I HADN’T BECOME A SPANISH the impediments to and inaccessible readers, such a bureaucratic adjective PROFESSOR: I might have permissions for crossing. as my non-Spanish- like “undocumented” to become an immigration speaking friends, whom I influence individual and lawyer, an astrophysicist often know would love the collective life. For example, WHAT SPARKED YOUR or a chef. INTEREST IN LATIN WHY DOES POETRY work of certain poets if the ascription of the AMERICAN STUDIES? TRANSLATION MATTER only able to read it. So I’m adjective to a child can MY FAVORITE PLACE: Is impos- I grew up on the U.S.- TO YOU? motivated by a desire to drive her to suicide, and sible to choose. I’ve loved Mexico border and lived in It’s important to me that I connect writers and the ascription of the living in and visiting many San Diego, and my father use my linguistic and readers, which also adjective to communities different places. Recently, worked in Tijuana, Mexico. literary skills and privileges happens to motivate my can mobilize racism in all I’ve enjoyed my time in I was always fascinated by in the service of helping teaching and writing, of our lives. So perhaps it’s Mexico, Germany, Kenya the overlapping cultures, others to share their voices meaning those three a crucial misstep to begin and India. languages and identities and diversify the literary interests nourish one conversations today about comprising the 500-year- landscape. For this reason, another. the 17,000-year-old story of old San Diego-Tijuana I’m specifically committed human migration up and To read more about conurbation, not to to translating feminist down the hemispheric Michelson’s book, mention the rhetoric and poetry into English. Also, in WHAT IS THE MOST Americas with adjectives “Dreaming America: legislation used variously the U.S., literature in IMPORTANT LESSON YOU like “illegal,” “alien” and Voices of Undocumented to separate and connect translation composes a WANT TO TEACH YOUR “undocumented.” Perhaps Youth in Maximum- Security Detention,” the communities. I loved mere 3 percent of the W&L STUDENTS? they toxify the waters see columns.wlu.edu/ each side, as well as their literature being read, so I’m One of my most important before we can even enter dreaming-of-freedom. entanglements, and it concerned that we’re aims in the classroom is to them to try to swim? seemed both amazing and unintentionally pre- encourage each student’s Against such nullity, we commonplace to me that selecting, endorsing and intellectual passions. To need language helping us we lived these transna- perpetuating an isolationist that end, I try to help them to conceive of alternative tional lives in constant worldview via our national to learn to read more ways of living well together, motion, with friends, literary culture. As a slowly, broadly and and the beautiful poetry of neighbors, classmates, translator, I can work rigorously; to listen more the incarcerated teens with coworkers and family actively against this. attentively, critically and whom I’ve worked might members continuously I also find the process of generously; and to cultivate exemplify this. migrating back and forth translating to be a deep the courage to raise their across the construct of the pleasure. As a poet myself, voices whenever necessary.
MAGAZINE.WLU.EDU 27 28 THE WASHINGTON AND LEE MAGAZINE LIVES OF CONSEQUENCE - Greg Hunt ’97 An FBI agent credits his father, the Honor System and his W&L education with shaping his career.
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As a kid, Greg Hunt ’97 DISASTER AVERTED Washington, D.C. There, VALUES FOR LIFE MORE ABOUT was intrigued by the On Aug. 10, 2016, Hunt Hunt, along with others As he looks back on his professional adventures of provided Royal Canadian who had worked the case, education, Hunt can see GREG his dad, an FBI agent who Mounted Police (RCMP) received the 2017 Director’s parallels between the W&L worked several high-profile with intelligence about an Award for Excellence in Honor System and the JOB: Coordinator, Joint investigations in New York impending terrorist attack. Counterterrorism. They FBI’s core values of Terrorism Task Force, during the ’80s and ’90s. The RCMP intercepted have since received a respect, fairness, compas- FBI Roanoke But Hunt wanted to carve Canadian Aaron Driver, 24, SHIELD Award from the sion, accountability, MAJOR: History; J.D., his own career path, so he who had just left his home Anti-Defamation League, integrity, leadership and University of Richmond followed up his W&L with a homemade explosive as well. diversity. “Those seven history degree with a J.D. device. According to “They’ve given me words capture the Honor FAVORITE TEACHER: Too many from the University of Canadian newspaper The entirely too much credit, if System,” he said. “We kind to name! Jefferson Davis Richmond, then took a job Globe and Mail, Driver was you ask me, but it was an of get those values from Futch, Marshall Jarrett, with a Roanoke law firm. about to leave in a taxi, and interesting case to work our parents, but it was at Taylor Sanders, Henry In 2006, two events had just requested a ride to on, and I was glad I was in W&L that I first chose Porter, Roger Jeans and caused Hunt to reconsider: a popular shopping and a position to make a those as my own values more His first child, a son, was recreation area. When positive contribution,” and owned them.” born, and his father, Paul, confronted by authorities, Hunt said. “Everybody MOST MEMORABLE CLASS: The small classroom History of Venice (Futch) who had recently retired Driver detonated his works together. I was the setting at W&L pushed from the FBI, suffered a device. He was killed by case agent, but it took a Hunt to hone the FAVORITE PASTIME: Spending fatal heart attack after the RCMP during the village, as they say, communication skills he time with the kids running a 5K. “My dad was encounter. including personnel from calls on every day at work. one of the hardest-working “He wanted to detonate FBI Headquarters, FBI “You can’t hide in a W&L people I have ever known, an IED and kill as many offices around the world, classroom. Everyone is and, as an agent, he Canadians as he could,” and our Canadian challenged to think worked tirelessly to protect Hunt said. “Fortunately, counterparts. critically, and encouraged others,” Hunt said. “I don’t the Canadians were able to “I do this work because to express his or her think I appreciated what act on the information once you are exposed to it thoughts. Critical thinking motivated him until I had quickly.” and see the threat that is and the ability to commu- children of my own.” out there, you can’t ignore nicate, both orally and in Today, Hunt is the Joint it,” Hunt said. “It would writing, are essential skills Terrorism Task Force ‘EVERYBODY WORKS haunt me if I didn’t do for any investigator.” coordinator for 24 counties TOGETHER’ something about it. If I in Southwest Virginia, In October 2017, Hunt and could unlearn what I know including Rockbridge. He is his family, including his about the counterterrorism based out of the Roanoke wife, Cassie Ritter Hunt ’01, threat, I would — and I Resident Agency. His work director of development would probably sleep is mostly classified, but a operations for W&L, better at night.” 2016 case grabbed traveled to FBI international headlines. Headquarters in
MAGAZINE.WLU.EDU 29 Alison Krentel Wheatley-Price (pink scarf), in Yadgir District, India, with community leaders and researchers from the Vector Control Research Centre (Indian Council of Medical Research) and the Bruyère Research Institute. 30 THE WASHINGTON AND LEE MAGAZINE LIVES OF CONSEQUENCE - Alison Krentel Wheatley-Price ’94 The medical researcher travels, teaches and conducts research to eliminate neglected tropical diseases.
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GLOBAL REACH TACKLING LF A HIGHER GOAL MORE ABOUT FAVORITE TEACHER: J. Holt Alison Krentel Wheatley- Currently, she’s focused on Krentel entered global Merchant Jr. ’61, Price’s classroom is the lymphatic filariasis (LF), a health because of her ALISON: Professor of History world. She not only teaches disease spread by mosqui- desire to travel and Emeritus a master’s-level class to toes that deposit a parasite because of family members WORK: Researcher, 300 students worldwide, when they bite. Subsequent who devoted their lives to Bruyère Research GRADUATE EDUCATION: M.S., Ph.D., London but she also travels the damage to the lymph helping others. Her Institute; Senior School of Hygiene globe seeking the elimina- system can cause serious grandfather, in particular, Research Fellow, WHO and Tropical Medicine tion and control of tropical swelling of limbs and was a model for compas- Collaborating Center for diseases. frequent bacterial sion; a doctor in rural Knowledge Translation MEMORABLE PROF AND and Health Technology She focuses on some of infections. In the past year, Quebec, “he had a heart for : As a confident Assessment in Health COURSE the 20 diseases known as this project has taken her helping people.” Her first-year taking Equity, Centre for Global neglected tropical diseases. to Indonesia, Haiti, Papua minister father and mother Sidney M.B. Coulling Health, University of “These are diseases that New Guinea, India and invited “stray people” to ’46’s English course, Ottawa; Honorary Fellow have been neglected and Ivory Coast. join the family for Sunday she was surprised to and External Faculty, that affect neglected Funded by the Bill and dinner, so “for our family, receive a D on her London School of people,” she said. Most Melinda Gates Foundation, this was normal.” first paper, with a Hygiene and Tropical maim or disable their Krentel’s work on LF Krentel lives in Ottawa, “see me” written in Medicine. She also victims, and some cause focuses on tracking how Canada. Work-related red across the top. collaborates with blindness. people in the affected travel might seem Under his and others’ researchers at Washing- A former Peace Corps regions accept the drugs to glamorous, but “it can be a guidance, “I learned ton University, in St. volunteer, Krentel worked treat LF, even if they lack hard job with a lot of to write. It was a Louis, and the Task Force in Gabon, in central Africa, symptoms of the disease. sacrifices.” She needs a great foundation for for Global Health, and is my education.” during the height of the In order to completely reason “outside myself” to a founding member of HIV-AIDS crisis in the eliminate LF, everyone leave her husband, Paul the Canadian Steering 1990s, spearheading a needs to take the medica- Wheatley-Price, a physi- GREEK LIFE: A member Committee for Neglected of Kappa Kappa communications campaign tion each year for four to cian, and two children, Tropical Diseases. Gamma sorority, she to help people understand six years. Thomas, 9, and Charlotte, noted that hers was the disease. A stint with “In the field, we can 7, to work in sometimes MAJOR: English and art one of the first Doctors Without Borders work under difficult challenging conditions. history, with a focus on classes with female in Indonesia taught her the circumstances sometimes “I try to remember a 17th-century Dutch students in all four business side of humani- — no electricity or running higher goal and the people painting. She uses the levels. tarian work and what water,” she said. One night I’m trying to help,” she French required by the issues needed attention. her team killed 10 said. “I need to see them art history major in her scorpions in their room and hear their stories.” medical profession. before going to bed.
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32 THE WASHINGTON AND LEE MAGAZINE MAYBE YOU CAN’T TEACH AN OLD DOG a Lab/Chow mix, as a surprise for Sharon. NEW TRICKS, but you can certainly give it “She was speechless,” he laughed. “Even- a wonderful new life. Even better, an old tually she and Samson became BFFs. And dog can contribute much to your happi- though he likes our two cats, Mr. Black and ness. Just ask Ollie Cook ’60. Chiquita, they, in turn, ignore him.” Cook is an attorney in Beverly Farms, Samson is indeed one lucky dog. He lived Massachusetts. He grew up in Ohio in an with his first family for eight years until animal-loving household, and he and his they moved into a rental property that did wife, Sharon, an author of mystery novels, not allow pets. He was surrendered to a have adopted many pets over the years. local shelter, where Elaine adopted him However, after their black Labs, Chester when she was 91 and loved him for two and Tubbs, died, six years elapsed before years. He is now the light of the Cooks’ they realized how much they missed canine lives, getting “three walks and two squares companionship and began to look for a day,” celebrating his birthday with his another dog. favorite snack of baby carrots, and sleeping “We started looking around for a with his eyes open, which Cook admits is a OLIVER COOK ’60 replacement, experiencing a few false little disconcerting, especially when the starts, such as the Border collie who dug dog snores. under our fence and ran away twice in one Cook recalls that a former rector at afternoon,” Cook said. “However, things his church claimed that adopting a dog A Leap turned when I attended a memorial service was a leap of faith. “He said that most in Ipswich for Elaine, a long-time friend likely we’d outlive our pets, yet we don’t and client. At one point the minister asked let that fact stop us. Adopting an older of Faith if anyone was willing to give her 10-year- dog is a huge leap of faith. For those who old dog a home. I raised my hand.” Two are on the fence, I encourage you to make BY BARBARA ELLIOTT days later, Cook brought home Samson, that leap.”
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Dr. James L. McLeod Joseph Rosenbloom wrote Robert R. Jensen retired wrote “Flannery O’Connor “Redemption: Martin as dean of fine arts of and Me” (Xlibris) about his Luther King Jr.’s Last 31 Fullerton College in June acquaintance with the late Hours” (Beacon Press) 2015. He received the .... Dr. James L. McLeod ’59 author. “By sharing some after interviewing people Above and Beyond award Joseph Rosenbloom ’66 FLANNERY O’CONNOR of these memories of her, immersed in the Memphis for his work on the REDEMPTION: MARTIN AND ME, Xlibris I am very imperfectly events and reading Fullerton College LUTHER KING JR.’S trying to pass on some of recently released Centennial. He finished a LAST 31 HOURS, Beacon Press the knowledge and humor documents from Atlanta rim-to-rim hike in the BUILDING she shared with me.” archives. Grand Canyon. !ii GOOD LIFE M. Neely Young II wrote FOR ALL “Trans-Atlantic 1972 Sojourners: The Story of an Americo-Liberian John Mello completed Family” (University of service as immediate past 60s Virginia Press), which president and begins in the 1850s with 1965 board member of the the formerly enslaved Appraisal Institute .... patriarchs, Othello Massachusetts/Rhode L. Shannon Jung wrote Shannon Jung ’65 Richards, of Rockbridge Island Chapter. He is a “Building the Good Life BUILDING THE GOOD LIFE County, and William professionally designated M. Neely Young II ’66 FOR ALL: TRANSFORMING for All: Transforming Coleman, of Kentucky, and SRA member of the TRANS-ATLANTIC INCOME INEQUALITY IN OUR Income Inequality in Our traces their journeys to Chicago-based Appraisal SOJOURNERS, University COMMUNITIES, Westminster Communities” (West- the African republic. Institute. In 2015, Mello of Virginia Press John Knox Press minster John Knox Press) (cont.)
MAGAZINE.WLU.EDU 33 REFLECTING FORWARD It’s Personal BY MIKE MCGARRY ’87 PRESIDENT, ALUMNI BOARD OF DIRECTORS
ON AUGUST 27, 1983, I stepped onto the Washington and Lee following a campus interview. We still live in Charlotte, and both of campus for the first time. I had never visited Lexington or met a our children (one of whom is recently engaged to a fellow General) W&L student or alum. I was 950 miles away from my home, family graduated from W&L. Attending W&L turned out to be the most and friends. Without a cell phone, the internet or a car, I was cut influential decision of my life. off from everyone and everything I had known. Before long, I The W&L experience is personal. When alumni talk about the learned that sweaters and coats purchased in Louisiana offered university, the conversation quickly turns to the individuals who little resistance to Shenandoah Valley winters. shaped us. Perhaps it was a professor who captured your imagina- I also learned the hard way that college professors were much tion and challenged your intellect. For those of us far from home, it more demanding than high school teachers. The scholarship that was people like Wilson, who took care of Gilliam dorm and always allowed me to attend W&L required me to keep a 3.0 GPA. After had a kind word. Evan and Buddy Atkins ’68 welcomed me into just one semester, I found myself meeting with financial aid their home and continue to do so today. Ms. Vera in the old Co-op director John DeCourcy, discussing whether and how I might stay took time to get to know and help me, and did it again with my at W&L. He asked me for the names of my professors and disap- daughters 25 years later in the new D-Hall. Murph, Baner, James peared. Thirty minutes later, he returned, presumably having talked Dick, Ms. Isca in the D-Hall, Traveller John; I could go on and on. with some of those professors, and told me to come see him every As Alumni Board president, on behalf of all alumni, semester, and that “we would work something out.” THANK YOU to the hundreds of the devoted and talented staff Mr. DeCourcy took a chance on me, and because of him, I at Washington and Lee. They keep the university running, give was able to stay at Washington and Lee, where I met my wife, it heart and soul, and even made an out-of-place kid from graduated, and got my first job, in Charlotte, North Carolina, Louisiana feel at home.
retired, after serving for Donald W. Weir Jr. Baltimore, Charlie Stieff genealogical research. He 22 years as a seven-term received the 1976 ’78, and I were pleased to is a long-time weatherman elected assessor and professionalism award of see an update to the on Houston’s KPRC-TV chairman of the Rochester, the year for his tireless Joseph M. Finnerty, chair Sigma Society listing in station. Massachusetts, board of and unselfish of Barclay Damon’s media Wikipedia. This well- assessors. During that contributions in and first amendment law known news site added time, he also served as representing indigent practice area, has been another General to its list 1983 president and board minors in Juvenile Court honored by the of Sigmas. This will surely member of the Plymouth by the Shreveport Bar Investigative Post for his give positive exposure to Jackson R. Sharman III County Assessors Association. contributions to journalism this often-overlooked has been recognized as a Association. He continues and his support for the organization that has a Litigation Star in the 2018 his professionally publication. long list of Generals still Edition of Benchmark designated activities with 1975 out there wearing their Litigation. the Massachusetts Board rings and telling stories of of Real Estate Appraisers Lawrence B. Cahoon 1977 the famed cabin.” and the Massachusetts received the UNCW Association of Assessing Distinguished Teaching Joel W. Mohrman was Officers. Prior to beginning Professorship for 2017. recognized in the a private appraisal September 2017 edition practice in 1990, Mello Guy H. Kerr was been of Managing Intellectual pursued a 15-year career named president of the Property magazine’s IP in international financial Salesmanship Club of Stars ranking as both a 80s and capital projects Dallas, a 97-year-old Patent Star and management, which began non-profit organization Trademark Star. 1982 with serving in the U.S that owns and operates FRANK B I LL I NGSLEY Peace Corps (Mali, West Momentous Institute and Franklin P. Billingsley Africa, 1974-76). Mello hosts the AT&T Byron 1978 wrote “Swabbed and continues his appraisal Nelson Championship. His Found: An Adopted Man’s Franklin P. Billingsley SWABBED AND FOUND: AN practice in southeastern classmates Steve Van DNA Journey to Discover William G. Turner noted, ADOPTED MAN’S DNA Massachusetts and Cape Amburgh and Bowman “The distinguished His Family Tree” (Bright JOURNEY TO DISCOVER HIS Cod and resides with his Williams are also involved. gentleman from Sky Press) about his FAMILY TREE, Bright Sky wife, Margo, in Rochester. Press
34 THE WASHINGTON AND LEE MAGAZINE A PHONE CALL from a fellow W&L alum build luxury apartments for citizens of all launched Gerry Barousse ’80 into a venture incomes. The first residents arrived in March that has transformed a once-blighted area of 2010. Of the 685 households in Columbia Parc, New Orleans into a model purpose-built 493 receive public housing or reduced rent. community. The positive impact is already evident, with After Hurricane Katrina ravaged his home crime reduced by nearly 100 percent from the city in 2005, Barousse received a call from pre-Katrina years. Charles Yates ’70, who had coached and taught BDF has also initiated what it calls a him in middle school, and with whom he had cradle-to-college-education pipeline, with an stayed in touch through his real estate early-childhood education center already open development business. Yates had since moved and a K-8 charter school scheduled to open back to Atlanta, where he invited Barousse to next year. A permanent on-site health clinic tour East Lake, a mixed-income community that opened in September 2017, and a grocery store replaced a crime-ridden housing development and a pharmacy will begin this year. bordering the East Lake golf course. BDF and City Park New Orleans have Inspired, Barousse returned home and partnered to build a world-class, Rees helped found the Bayou District Foundation Jones-designed, 18-hole golf course that (BDF), which he serves as chairman. Since its replaces two damaged former golf courses. GERRY BAROUSSE ’80 inception in 2006, the foundation has been Through this partnership with the park, BDF developing Columbia Parc, a community that will share net income from golf operations replaced the flooded St. Bernard Housing (approximating $500,000 annually for BDF), Project in the Gentilly neighborhood. which will support BDF’s community A Powerful “That visit got us off and running,” Barousse programs. said. “Here we are 12 years later, still working Barousse jokes that his wife, Jeanne, is ready to finish. Our partners included the city, state, for him to divert some of his formidable energy school district, and the City Park.” (He’s on the back into non-volunteer activities. Don’t count Connection right in the photo, showing off the project to on it. He is eager to share the success of none other than Warren Buffett.) Columbia Park with other communities, just as BY BARBARA ELLIOTT The scope of the 18-block project is Charlie Yates shared East Lake with him in enormous. The foundation’s philosophy is to that fateful call.
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R. Temple C. Cone Jr. Mary Catherine Burdine Dr. Ashley Wohler Gerrish Joseph A. Stusek received published his fourth 00s was named The 2018 was appointed to the his J.D. from UNC-Chapel collection of poetry, Outstanding Volunteer in Dean’s Council on Hill and his LL.M. from the “Guzzle” (FutureCycle 2001 2018 by the New York Advancement for the University of Florida. He is 2016), which was nomi- Junior League (NYJL) for Virginia Tech Carilion an associate in the Naples, nated for a Pulitzer Prize. Frederick M. Heiser exemplifing “the highest School of Medicine. The Florida, office of Cum- (’04L) joined Klinedinst qualities of leadership, committee of volunteers mings & Lockwood and a PC in its Los Angeles and commitment to volun- provides guidance, member of the firm’s tax, Orange County offices as teerism, and service to assistance, advocacy and estate planning and counsel and is a member the New York City philanthropic investment business associations of the firm’s business and community.” in support of the school’s group. commercial litigation, strategic objectives. William B. Larson (’11L) commercial general 2013 liability, and employment joined the administration practice groups. of Wilmington, Delaware’s mayor, Mike Purzycki, in Madeleine S. Greskovich Stephen L. Philipson was January 2017 as an joined Starnes Davis Florie Temple Cone ’85 promoted to head of fixed assistant city solicitor. In LLP as an associate. She GUZZLE, FutureCycle Press income and capital November, he was 10s focuses on medical markets by U.S. Bank. promoted to senior city malpractice defense. solicitor. He represents 2010 1986 the City of Wilmington in 2006 litigation and advises the Thomas D. Frith IV (’15L) 2014 Lee M. Hollis has been mayor and other joined Frith and Ellerman recognized as a Litigation Allan C. Galis became a administration officials on Law Firm PC as an Lauren Michnick (’17L) Star in the 2018 Edition of partner at HunterMaclean. strategic initiatives. associate. He resides in joined Seward & Kissel Benchmark Litigation. Roanoke. LLP as a law clerk.
MAGAZINE.WLU.EDU 35 CHRISTINE STARER-SMITH’S LOVE OF services to more than 500 animals,” she said. ANIMALS developed early, when she saved The group of 50, including 10 vets, three baby rabbits as a child. Later, she brought her vet technicians, 30 vet students, and support horse to Washington and Lee and started the staff, transported everything they needed to riding team. set up a full veterinary hospital, including Now a veterinarian at Banfield Pet Hospital, five surgical tables, anesthesia machines, in Virginia Beach, Virginia, Starer-Smith recovery tables, and supplies. “We set up in says she had to succeed at University of gyms and had primitive living conditions,” Pennsylvania’s vet school — “I had no Plan B,” she said. Although they came from all she laughed. backgrounds and geographic areas, “we “Veterinary medicine is a wonderful career worked together as a team.” for women,” she said. It provides a better In a Facebook post, Starer-Smith noted work-life balance, which the mother of two that they had no running water, no showers, young daughters appreciates. “Your career and no flush toilets. “I feel like I am on an inevitably takes turns that you can’t predict,” so un-filmed reality TV show,” she commented. she advises that women get a broad liberal-arts Working in such isolated conditions gave education, and if they go to vet school, to also Starer-Smith an opportunity to use some skills study widely there. she doesn’t use in her day-to-day practice in CHRISTINE STARER-SMITH ’99 Because of her love of horses, Starer-Smith Virginia Beach. Many of the animals weren’t joined an equine practice out of vet school and vaccinated, and “we saw more contagious worked with the large animals for nine years. diseases, such as parvovirus, in some dogs.” But after being trampled by a horse and At home, she has the luxury of performing She Talks spending 23 days in the hospital with several surgery on animals at the optimal time. In surgeries, she turned to relief work for Banfield the Dakotas, however, animals needed while recuperating. For the past two years, she surgery in less-than-ideal conditions. She also has worked there part-time, caring for dogs spayed older animals and performed risky to the and cats, and she loves her flexible schedule. surgery on a dog with new puppies. While in vet school, Starer-Smith took two She said the communities appreciated their trips with Rural Area Veterinary Services work. Many days, people lined up at 5:30 a.m. (RAVS), a program that combines community for the 8 a.m. opening. Animals service and veterinary education to bring free On top of traveling to remote areas to vet services to underserved rural areas. provide pet care, treating animals at Banfield, BY LINDA EVANS Recently, she traveled again with RAVS, now and raising two daughters and two dogs, affiliated with The Humane Society, to two Starer-Smith recently fostered a kitten that communities on the Standing Rock Reser- needed feeding every two hours. The little girl vation in North and South Dakota. “We who wanted to save baby rabbits is grown up, provided spay, neuter and preventative care but still can’t resist an animal in need. CELEBRATING A PLACE LIKE NO OTHER All revenues from the University Store support W&L A. Under Armour Fly Short $40.00 B. Full-Color Crest Hat B. $19.99 C. Ultimate Softlock A. Short Sleeve Performance Tee $24.99 C. D. Smathers & Branson Pillows $165.00
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36 THE WASHINGTON AND LEE MAGAZINE HARRY PEMBERTON, PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY EMERITUS
HARRISON J. PEMBERTON JR., professor of At W&L, he taught the history of philosophy, Plato and existential- philosophy emeritus, died on Nov. 16, 2017, in ism, and a popular seminar on Martin Heidegger’s book “Being and Lexington, at age 92. He taught at W&L for 42 Time.” His wartime travels in Asia kindled an interest in Eastern years, from 1962 until 2004. thought. Even after his retirement, he taught occasional classes at “For over four decades, he inspired students W&L and at VMI. with his love of philosophy and of interna- Pemberton established the Harrison J. Pemberton Fund for tional study,” said President Will Dudley. “His International Study at W&L, saying, “When you travel abroad, you dedication called him to continue teaching have to adjust to another culture. You learn so much about other well after his official retirement. Professor countries and their cultures, and you often find out just how strong Pemberton exemplified the best of what we you are. It is an incredible learning experience for our students and seek in our teacher-scholars.” one I have supported throughout my career.” Pemberton was born on March 3, 1925, in Orlando, Florida. He In 2015, a former student of Pemberton’s, Tony Walker ’64, obtained his B.A. in philosophy (1949) from Rollins College, and his donated a painting to the university, by artist David Brewster, in M.A. (1951) and Ph.D. (1953) from Yale University. Pemberton’s honor. He attended Georgia Tech in 1943, before serving in the Army during Pemberton wrote an acclaimed book, “Plato’s Parmenides: The World War II in New Guinea, the Philippines and with the occupation Critical Moment for Socrates” (1984), with several W&L under- forces of Japan. graduates helping him with research. Pemberton worked as an instructor at Yale from 1951 to 1954; an Another book, “The Buddha Meets Socrates: A Philosophical assistant professor at the University of Virginia from 1954 to 1962; and a Journal” (2008), detailed the five weeks in 2004 that Pemberton visiting associate professor at the University of Texas in 1962. In 1972, he spent teaching Western philosophy to young Buddhist monks at taught western philosophy at Chung Chi College of the Chinese University the Shri Diwakar Vihara Buddhist Research and Educational of Hong Kong, and in 1976, he served as a visiting philosopher at Lebanon Institute in Kalimpong, India. Pemberton also tutored privately Valley College. His professional affiliations included the American one of the students, His Holiness the Karmapa, the head of the Philosophical Association, and he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Karma Kagyu school.
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THE OFFICE OF SPECIAL PROGRAMS, which provides world-spanning trips through W&L Traveller as well as intellectually enriching events on campus with Alumni College, now goes by the name of Office of Lifelong Learning. The new appellation reflects the office’s mission and importance in keeping all of you — alumni, current and past parents, friends — connected to W&L through learning opportunities that draw upon our academic resources. That’s not the only change to the office, for Susie Thompson, associate director, has retired. Along with her husband, Wayne Thompson (both at left), she provided travelers with unforgettable experiences. Rob Fure, director, and Tracey Riley, senior programming assistant, continue to offer a full slate of programs. And congratulations on the Education Award they recently received as part of the Educational Travel Consortium’s 2018 Community Distinction Awards.
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MAGAZINE.WLU.EDU 37 WEDDINGS
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1. Noble Stafford ’05 to Carrie Lee ’06, Hattie May 20, 2017, in Louisville, Calvin Awkward ’06, ’09L, alumni Peter Lawrence Ryan Coventry on July 16, Gruber ’04, Caroline Kentucky. She is an Julian Ledford ’06 and ’08, Kendell Massengill ’10, 2017, in Charleston, S.C. Osborne ’06, Caitlin internal medicine Alex White ’07. Maxwell Courtney ’07, The two were featured in Williams ’06, Emily Haight physician for Kaiser 4. R. Walker Humphrey II Courtney Nelson, Britt an episode of The Cooking ’06, Susanna Shannon ’06 Permanente in ’07 to Tricia Dudek on Oct. Jamison ’08, John Channel’s “Cake Hunters.” and SB Baldock ’06. The Washington, D.C. Derrick is 28, 2017, in Charleston, Christopher ’09, Rob Terrin Alumni in attendance Reutters reside in an assistant U.S. attorney. South Carolina. The couple ’09, Erick Gagne ’08, included Lyndsay Polloway Spartanburg, South Front row, l. to r.: Keturah live in Mount Pleasant, Ashley Gagne ’08, Jeffrey ’06, Sarah Strassel Carolina, where Cole is the Akida Henderson ’06, South Carolina. Walker is Muenzer ’08 and Jesse Robertson ’06, Sarah executive director of sales, Kynai Johnson ’06, an attorney with Sataloff ’08. Leigh is an Murray ’06 and Jordan southeast, for Dstillery, an Christina Snowden Willoughby & Hoefer PA, ICU nurse at UPenn, and Anderson ’07. advertising technology Thomas ’06, Bethlehem and Tricia is a pediatrician Anthony is completing his 2. E. Cole Boyle ’06 to company based in New Dammlash ’06, the bride, with Coastal Pediatric orthopedic residency at Richard Reutter on April 1, York City. Richard runs his Cami Morrison ’07, Jessica Associates. Drexel. 2017, in Campobello, South family’s mail-order bakery Taylor White ’04, Kristen 5. Anthony Boniello ’08 to 6. Allison Rogers ’08 to Carolina. Over 40 Generals business, Caroline’s Cakes. Youngblood Archer ’06, Leigh Meeker on Sept. 16, Michael Marsocci at attended the wedding, and 3. Dr. Ashlee Metcalf ’06 Ted Archer ’06 and Hajrah 2017, in Tuckahoe, New Woodlawn in Alexandria, the bridal party included to Derrick Williams on Ahmad ’06. Back row, l. r: Jersey. In attendance were Virginia, on May 6, 2017.
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Allison and Michael were attendance included Joey Jill Morris Bustamante ’09, From l. to r: Taylor Maxey married Palmer Simpson in thrilled to celebrate with Converse ’08 and Taylor Chris Martin ’09, Sarah ’12, Dwyn Jolly ’09, Charleston, South Carolina, classmates Jessica Cobb Rains ’08. The couple Atkinson Ball ’09, Erik Ball Christian Roden ’11, Sharon on June 17, 2017. The Dowling, Audrey Horn, reside in Washington, D.C., ’09, Michael Tyler ’09, Chu ’10, the bride, the wedding party included Rachel Hull, Christine where Abby manages Jennifer Nunes Elium ’10, groom, Queenie Wong ’10, maid of honor Rachael Flood Jones, Jillian Roper public relations in the Sarah Catherine Welch ’11, Aparajita Singh ’10 and Langdon ’10 and brides- Kyle and Kate Shellnutt restaurant industry, and SoRelle Peat ’12, Jacob Lauren Sturdy ’11. Pioneer maids Caroline Haeberle Minnicks. Dan is a regional vice Elium ’12 and Camie Peak is in the background. Tiller ’10, Samantha 7. Abigail A. Steinbock president for Columbia- Carlock ’13. The couple 10. Caroline Head ’10 to Hogans ’10 and Lissie Cain ’08 to Dan O’Shea on Oct. Threadneedle Investments. reside in Washington, D.C., Kyle Garcia ’07, October ’09. Other alumni in 22, 2016, in Boston. 8. Alexandra Utsey ’09 to where Alex is a policy 2017, in Rosemary Beach, attendance were the Bridesmaids included Sally Christopher Jones on April advisor in the Department Florida. The couple met on groom’s father, Kennedy Bittinger McGrath ’08, Kim 8, 2017, in Charleston, of Defense, and Chris is a a beach weekend in Simpson ’75, along with Alfery Tingey ’08, Jackie South Carolina. Generals in vice president and counsel Fenwick Island, Delaware, Patrick Clossin ’14, Preston Neilson Coleman ’08, Kat attendance included Lloyd at a trade association. through mutual friends Cory ’14, Will Moore ’09, Allen Crowe ’08 and Sams ’78, Jennifer Sutton 9. Sarah Engrstrom ’10 to Sarah Jo Trimble Luby ’10 Bill Rust ’97, Bill Crawford Madeline Mayer Gil ’08. ’08, Natalie Murphy Biondi Andrew Coulson on Sept. and Kyle Luby ’08. ’76, Edmund Seibels ’75, Other Generals in ’08, Yuji Huang Newby ’09, 3, 2017, in Palmer, Alaska. 11. Jessica Jones ’10 (cont.)
MAGAZINE.WLU.EDU 39 WEDDINGS ALUMNI NEWS
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Barry Barlow ’77, Neal Cory Michigan. Generals in the ’77, Tim Chriss ’72, Harry wedding party included Wall ’75, Mac Cushing ’75, Katie Salvati ’12, Lauren Terry Tyler ’72 and Robbie Warkentin Laskowski ’12, Grey ’75. Jessica and Summer Gabriel Goldberg Palmer live in Charleston ’11, Jon Guest ’12, Kyle with their dog, Teddy, Bond ’12, Stockton Bullitt where Jessica is an ’12 and Zac Burke ’12. The attorney at Moore & Van couple live in Charlottes- 3 Allen and Palmer works at ville, Virginia, where they tech startup Launchpeer. run the W&L Blue Ridge 12. Graham Sheridan ’11 to Alumni Chapter. Annie is a 1. A few members of the 2. On Sept. 6, 2017, David 3. A group of 1978 Victoria Ball on Oct. 21, neurosciences clinical Class of 1954 gathered for W. Benn ’62 (at left in graduates and significant 2017. Groomsmen included pharmacist at the lunch in December 2017 photo) received an Order of others met for their annual Alex Newell ’11 and Brian University of Virginia with their wives and Australia Medal for “service Pawleys Island beach Cherry ’11. Also attending Medical Center, and Will is guests at Westminster to the Community through weekend conversation, were Charlotte Cornbrooks a senior associate at Canterbury, Richmond. L. Church, social welfare and consumption and ’11, Jerzy Kessler ’11, Colin Harren Equity Partners. to r.: Gordon Leggett, Stan educational foundations,” camaraderie. Perhaps the Neal ’11, Abhishek Bhatt ’11, 15. Dana Fredericks ’12 to Flinn, Tink Williams, including national chair- separation of these years Alex Uhlir ’11, Henry Stewart Hargrove on Aug. Larry Palmer, Jim Trimm, manships of Habitat for sharpens one’s Benedict ’11, Adrian Tapia 19, 2017, in Richmond. Bob Cross, Reno Harp, Humanity and the Fulbright understanding of how ’11 and Jed Dunn ’82. 16. Amy Clayton ’13 to Roy Matthews, Opie Commission, as president special that time, at that 13. Sarah Catherine Welch Ryan Parrish on May 27, Pollard, Dave Drum and of the American Club, place, with these men was ’11 to James Roberts, on 2017, in San Antonio, Texas. Fletcher Lowe. Sydney, as director and for all of us. The bonds Nov. 18, 2017, in Atlanta. Alumni in attendance senior vice president of grow stronger, and the Alumni in attendance included Liz Bell ’12, Tilden the Australian-American losses are felt more included the bride’s father, Bowditch ’13, Emmie Curry Chamber of Commerce, keenly, every year. And the Richard Welch ’88L, and ’13, Christina Douglas ’14, and service to the Uniting need to honor the past bridesmaids Jennifer Joseph Doyle ’12, Sarah Church. Benn, an interna- while not being unmindful Nunes Elium ’10, Sarah Foster ’13, Susan Haysom tional banker for 25 years, of the future is a common Hagan Issner ’11, Ellen ’13, Collier McLeod ’13 and subsequently headed the belief. L. to r.: Tommy Tift Stauffer Hatcher ’13, and Sarah Stiefvater ’13. Australasian operations for ’78, John Martin ’78, Rob Rachael Petry ’13. Korn/Ferry. He and his wife, Sult ’78, Matthew Professor Haley Sigler and Carolyn, have lived in Hampton ’06, Mark Professor Emeritus Harlan Australia for over 43 years; Putney ’78, Mark Beckley also attended. they have three children Hampton ’78, Erik 14. Annie Bernacchi ’12 to and nine grandchildren. His Greenbaum ’78, Mike Will Smith ’12 on Sept. 9, continued love of moun- Cleary ’78, John Hill ’78 2017, in Three Oaks, tains has taken him to and Travis Bass ’78. We Kilimanjaro and Everest hope to see the event and Base Camp. the group grow every year!
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Dr. Scott Anderson ’98 and his wife, Chelsea, a son, Williams, on May 22, 2017. Williams joins his brother Sutton, braving the hurricanes in Tampa, Florida.
Tarik Bateh ’02 and his wife, Melissa, a daughter, Genevieve Janan, on March 1, 2017. The family reside in Jacksonville, Florida. 4 5 Sarah Stanton Craft ’04, and husband George Craft ’05, a son, Peter Henderson “Pete,” on June 23, 2017. He joins brothers James, 4, and Tommy, 1, and sister Mary, 3.
Romney Willson Beebe ’05 and L. Courtenay Beebe ’06, a daughter and 6 7 son, Miller Lee and Clark William, on May 15. The twins join brother Luke, and the family reside in 7. There’s a new podcast in 4. Hunt Russell ’11 reset 5. Dick Szlasa, former 6. The Rev. Lauren R. Richmond. the South Carolina lacrosse coach at W&L, Holder ’03 visited the the world, and it’s hosted swordfish state record at was inducted into the Rev. C. Scott May ’53 at by Graham Frankel Smith Susan C. Somers ’05 and 532 lbs. The last time this Intercollegiate Men’s his home in Atlanta. She ’02 (right) and Kirsten her husband, Jason record was set was in Lacrosse Coaches said, “Scott’s room is Gladding Dunlap ’02 (left). Briggeman, a daughter, 1978, at 500 lbs. Go, Association Hall of Fame covered with mementos of The pair, both broadcast Opal Vincenzina, on April 13, 2017. She joins sister Generals! on Dec. 8, 2017, with WLU, as is his wardrobe. journalism majors and best Lena, 8. many W&L folks in It’s always a treat to visit friends since 1998, took a fellow Episcopal priest over an existing podcast attendance. Front row, l. Celia Landgren Van and General.” called “The Home Hour,” to r.: Dick Szlasa, Roy Lenten ’05 and her sponsored by the Life Skinner (former W&L husband, Graig, a son, assistant lacrosse Listened Network. The John Francis, on June 7, coach). Second row, l. to show covers all matters of 2017. They live in r.: Bryan Chasney ’74, home, design, entertaining Baltimore. Whitney Morrill ’71, Chip and lifestyle elements and Tompkins ’73, Skeet features interviews with a Hayley Skinner Brown ’06 and Christopher James Chadwick ’74, Scott variety of current taste- Brown ’06, a son, Elliott Neese ’72, Butch West makers. “Very fluffy,” they say — but hopefully good Richard, on Feb. 17, 2017. ’65, ’70L, Ed McLaughlin The family live in Boise, for a laugh. “The Home ’73 and Don Eavenson Idaho. ’73. Third row, Hour” is ranked among the l. to r: John Rogers ’73, top design podcasts on Brooke Sanden Miller ’06 Sam Englehart ’73, Skip iTunes, and Kirsten and and her husband, Chris, a Lichtfuss ’74 and Jim Graham are enjoying their daughter, Addallee Farrar ’74. new venture. They’ve Marigold, on Oct. 22, 2017. snagged some interviews She joins siblings Tracey, with a few classmates, Howard and Caroline in including Kathleen Baird Rifle, Colorado. Dr. Howard Jennings ’02 and Caroline V. Sanden ’54 is their grandfather. Dumas Malatesta ’02. (cont.) Check it out at lifelistened. com/category/home-hour.
MAGAZINE.WLU.EDU 41 Lilla Theus Colpini ’08 OBITS World War II. He was the Leonard P. Eager Jr. ’43, served in the Army. He and her husband, Ty, a grandfather of Elizabeth of Evansville, Wisconsin, belonged to Phi Alpha daughter, Laura McCants Crenshaw ’14, uncle of died on Oct. 29, 2017. He Delta. “Lolly,” on July 24, 2017. 1940s Charles Dobbins Jr. ’70 served in the military She joins brother William, and Luther Jones III ’70, during World War II. He Frank E. Tercek ’49, of was the father of Prentice Mentor, Ohio died on Nov. 2. They live in Columbia, Hamilton Hertz ’40 of and great-uncle of Charles Eager III ’74 and belonged 1, 2015. He was a World South Carolina. Allentown, Pennsylvania, Dobbins III ’96. He to Pi Kappa Phi. War II veteran. died on Oct. 2, 2017. He belonged to Alpha Tau Tess Hayden Frenchik ’11 was the uncle of Dr. Omega. Thomas O. Davis Jr. ’44, C. Tait Trussell ’49, of and her husband, Ryan, a Edward Brown ’62, Dr. of Center, Texas, died on Manistee, Michigan, died daughter, Findley Rae, on Douglas Brown ’92 and E. Austin McCaskill Jr. Dec. 30, 2017. He on Oct. 4, 2017. He served April 29, 2017. The family Laurence Brown ’94. He ’41, ’42L, of Little Rock, belonged to Kappa Alpha. in the Navy during World live in Anchorage, Alaska. belonged to Zeta Beta Arkansas, died on Dec. 15, War II. He was the father Tau. 2017. He served in the Schereeya Taylor Reed Army. He was the father of John H. Sherman ’44, of of Galen Trussell ’78 and Wilmington, North belonged to Beta Theta Pi. ’14 and Anton Reed ’14, a Louis F. Plummer ’40 of Roddy McCaskill ’75 and Carolina, died on Nov. 8, son, Nelson David Lee Alamo, California, died on the Rev. Elmer McCaskill 2017. He served in the Air Reed III, on Nov. 24, 2017. Aug. 27, 2017. He served III ’73. He belonged to Force during World War II. 1950s in the Army during World Sigma Chi. He belonged to Phi War II. Russell G. Browning ’42, Gamma Delta. Richard F. Bidwell ’50, of Roanoke, died on Sept. 14, Howard W. Dobbins ’41, of Beaufort, South Dr. Herbert L. Cover ’45, 2017. He served in the ’42L, of Richmond, died Carolina, died on Aug. 28, of Harrisonburg, Virginia, Navy during World War II on Dec. 25, 2017. He 2017. He served in the died on Dec. 5, 2016. He and the Korean War. He served in the Navy during Army. He belonged to Sigma Chi. belonged to Sigma Nu. was the father of Amy Bidwell Reding ’90 and Austin S. Callaway ’46, of belonged to Kappa Alpha. Greenville, South Carolina, died on Sept. 2, 2017. He Edward A. Goodrich ’50, BILL FISHBACK ’56, served in the Navy during of Bakersfield, California, the Korean War and World died on Aug. 27, 2017. He TRUSTEE EMERITUS War II. He belonged to Pi served in the Air Force. He Kappa Alpha. belonged to Sigma Nu. William H. Fishback Jr. ’56, a member of the Russell M. Drake ’47, of Frederick H. W&L Board of Trustees from 2000 to 2010, died Miles, Texas, died on Oct. Klostermeyer ’50, of on Dec. 15, 2017, in Charlottesville. He was 83. 25, 2017. He served in the Richmond, died on Aug. Fishback held a B.A. in journalism from W&L. Army during the Korean 21, 2017. He served in the He was a reporter and editor with the Richmond War. He was a cousin of Air Force during the Times-Dispatch from 1956 to 1966, when he Drake Leddy ’71 and Korean War. He belonged joined the administration of President Edgar F. belonged to Sigma Alpha to Delta Upsilon. Shannon Jr. ’39 at the University of Virginia and Epsilon. embarked upon a distinguished career there. He The Hon. John S. Lane II served as UVA’s chief public relations officer for Mitchell L. Harris ’47, of ’50L, of Long Beach, 25 years, becoming associate vice president of University Relations; a special Scottsboro, Alabama, died California, died on Dec. 21, adviser to President John T. Casteen III; and a special consultant to the on Aug. 26, 2017. He 2016. He served in the university’s first billion-dollar campaign. He retired from the administration in served in the Marines Navy during World War II, 1995 but continued as a senior lecturer, teaching newswriting and advising during World War II. Korea and Vietnam. He student publications. He retired from the faculty in 2008. belonged to Phi Delta Also at UVA, Fishback served on the founding boards of the Center for The Rev. Canon L. Roper Theta. Politics and the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership. He belonged to the Shamhart ’47, of New Raven Society, the oldest and most prestigious honorary society at UVA, and York City, died on July 30, Christopher S. Moore ’50, received its Raven Award in 2004 for his scholarly pursuits and his dedication 2017. He belonged to Phi of Williamsburg, Virginia, to the ideals of UVA. He also belonged to Omicron Delta Kappa. Gamma Delta. died on Oct. 4, 2017. He While a student at W&L, Fishback was a dormitory counselor, the president was the uncle of Timothy of Pi Kappa Phi, a member of Sigma Delta Chi (Society of Professional J. Coleman Bean ’48, of Moore ’76 and Freddy Journalists), a member of the Ring-tum Phi staff, and senior class secretary. Falls Church, Virginia, died Moore ’80. He belonged to Fishback served W&L as a trustee, as a class agent, as chairman of the on Dec. 17, 2017. He served Phi Delta Theta. Communications Advisory Board, and as a member of the 250th Anniversary in the Air Force. He was a Commission. In 1993, he and his wife, Sara, established the Fishback Program brother of William Bean Jr. James N. Paradies ’51, of for Visiting Writers in memory of his parents, Margaret Haggin Haupt Fishback ’51. Atlanta, died on Dec. 22, and William Hunter Fishback. The program brings outstanding writers to W&L 2017. He served in the to meet students and give lectures. J. Willard Greer ’49L, of Navy. He belonged to Zeta Among his survivors are his wife, Sara, and son William Fishback ’82. South Boston, Virginia, Beta Tau. died on Sept. 3, 2017. He
42 THE WASHINGTON AND LEE MAGAZINE William A. G. Boyle ’57, JEFFERSON DAVIS FUTCH III, of Bermuda, died on Sept. 14, 2017. He belonged to PROFESSOR OF HISTORY EMERITUS Delta Tau Delta. Photo by Patrick Hinely ’73 H. Alfred Tarrant Jr. ’57, ’59L, of Newark, Jefferson Davis Futch III, professor of history emeritus, who taught at Washington Delaware, died on Dec. 17, and Lee for 46 years until his retirement in 2008, died on Sept. 21, 2017, in Lexington. 2017. He was a cousin of He was 85. John Cover ’63. “Though I’ve been here only a short time, I have learned about Professor Futch’s enduring commitment to his profession and his students,” said President Will Dudley. Charles J. Cella ’58, of “My thoughts are with his friends, his former colleagues in the History Department, Saint Louis, Missouri, died and the rest of the Washington and Lee community as we reflect on his life and his contributions to the university.” on Dec. 6, 2017. He was Futch was born on April 16, 1932, in Baltimore, Maryland, to J.D. Futch Jr. and Mildred Hopkins Futch. He held the father of Louis Cella an A.B. (1955) in humanities and a Ph.D. (1962) in history from Johns Hopkins University. He titled his disserta- ’87 and belonged to Sigma tion “U.S.-German Diplomatic Relations, 1929–1933.” He served as an instructor in history at Johns Hopkins Nu. (1956–1957), held a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship (1955–1956), and studied in Italy (1958). Futch served in the U.S. Army, in Italy, from 1957 to 1960, which he called “a perfectly mad, simply wild Rodger P. Doyle ’58, of experience.” Pensacola, Florida, died He joined the W&L faculty in 1962. He became an associate professor in 1966 and a full professor in 1970. He on Nov. 9, 2017. He served taught the history of Europe since 1815, of Venice and of the papacy. Futch served on W&L’s admissions committee in the Marine Corps. He from 1966 to 1969. He belonged to Phi Beta Kappa and the German Honor Society. was a brother of Rev. “Dave was revered by generations of W&L history students,” said his longtime colleague David S. Peterson, Peter Doyle ’54 and professor of history. “His lectures, delivered without the aid of notes, are legendary. He was a master of detailed, belonged to Delta Tau Delta. witty, enthralling historical narration. He will be deeply missed and fondly remembered.” “He was a renowned teacher, very popular with students and a mainstay in the History Department,” said John H. Esperian ’59, Provost Marc Conner. ”His lectures on 20th-century German history were famous, as was his Spring Term course of Las Vegas, Nevada, on the Papacy. He was a champion of traditional conservative thought, and scores of alumni remember him with died on June 25, 2017. great affection.” He served in the Marine Futch was honored by students at a 1973 testimonial dinner, and in 1987 he received the William Webb Pusey Corps Reserves. He Award III for outstanding service and dedication to the university. His retirement in 2008 was even noted in the belonged to Phi Kappa Congressional Record. Psi.
1960s J. Hugh Gordon Jr. ’52, of The Rev. J. Jacob Robert L. Matthews ’55, the Army. He was the DeLand, Florida, died on Schilthuis Jr. ’53, of of Clayton, New York, died father of Ellis Drew III ’84L Dr. R. Franklin Adams July 27, 2017. He served in Richmond, died on Oct. on Oct. 1, 2017. He served and belonged to Kappa ’60, of Memphis, the Navy. He was the 4, 2017. He belonged to in the Navy. He belonged Sigma. Tennessee, died on Sept. father of James Gordon III Pi Kappa Phi. to Phi Kappa Sigma. 20, 2017. He served in the ’81 and belonged to Kappa The Hon. James H. Navy. He was the father of Alpha. Earle S. Bates Jr. ’54, of Walter J. McGraw ’55L, of Harvell III ’56, of Newport Dr. Lee Nichols Jr. ’83 and Lexington, died on Aug. Richmond, died on Sept. News, Virginia, died on Meriwether Nichols ’93, John C. Heslep ’52, of 29, 2017. He served in 13, 2017. He served in the Oct. 8, 2017. He served in and a brother of Dr. Richmond, died on Sept. the Navy. He belonged to Navy. the Army. He belonged to William Adams Jr. ’57. He 21, 2017. He served in the Phi Gamma Delta. Phi Kappa Psi. belonged to Sigma Chi. Korean War and received Joseph F. Rowe Jr. ’55, the Bronze Star. Dr. Ronald S. Deitch ’54, ’58L, of Hampton, Virginia, The Hon. William H. Rardon D. Bevill III ’60, of Washington, D.C., died died on Dec. 21, 2017. He Hodges ’56L, of Norfolk, of Ft. Collins, Colorado, Richard Owen Jr. ’52, of on Nov. 8, 2017. He served in the Army. He Virginia, died on Sept. 14, died on Oct. 5, 2017. He Aiken, South Carolina, died belonged to Phi Epsilon was the father of Dr. 2017. He served in the served in the Army. He on Sept. 3, 2017. He served Pi. Joseph Rowe III ’89 and Coast Guard. He belonged was the father of Emily in the Navy during the belonged to Pi Kappa to Phi Kappa Sigma. Bevill Lordi ’89 and Daniel Korean War. Jacob A. Sites ’54, of Alpha. Bevill ’91. He belonged to Germany, Ohio, died on John K. Kane II ’56, of Kappa Sigma. Albert W. Daub ’53, of Dec. 4, 2017. He served Gene L. Bennett ’56, of Yorktown, Virginia, died on The Villages, Florida, died in the Army Counter- Thurmont, Maryland, died Dec. 16, 2017. He served in on Aug. 16, 2017. He intelligence Corps in on Nov. 25, 2017. He the Marine Corps. He served in the Army during Germany, and retired as served in the Air Force belonged to Phi Kappa Psi. the Korean War. He was a lieutenant colonel in during the Korean War. Raymond Stults Jr. ’56, of the father of Steven Daub the Army Reserves. He The Hon. Ellis B. Drew Jr. Moscow, Russia, died on ’83 and David Daub ’87. belonged to Delta ’56, ’58L, of Anderson, Nov. 10, 2016. He belonged He belonged to Phi Upsilon. South Carolina, died on to Beta Theta Pi. Gamma Delta. Oct. 21, 2017. He served in (cont.)
MAGAZINE.WLU.EDU 43 ROBERT HUNTLEY, PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH EMERITUS
Robert Huntley, professor of English led the task force responsible for the school’s transition to coeduca- emeritus and former dean of freshmen, tion. He said, “You cannot effectively or accurately teach literature to who taught at Washington and Lee for 32 men in the absence of the female perspective.” years until his retirement in 1994, died on In addition to a definitive book, “The Alien Protagonist of Ford Oct. 6, 2017, in Lexington. He was 89. Madox Ford,” Huntley published many articles about Ford, Flaubert “The W&L community will remember and Henry James. Bob Huntley with gratitude,” said At his farm in Rockbridge County, called Upper Meadow, Huntley President Will Dudley. “Not only was he a kept bees, played with his dogs, and brewed beer. A world traveler, dedicated professor of English, but he also served as a caring dean of he visited and studied all over the globe, and he served as faculty freshmen. He supported our first African-American students and adviser to the international club at W&L. advocated for coeducation. Clearly, his legacy is one to cherish and to The avid outdoorsman also supported W&L’s Outing Club. emulate.” Nicknamed “English Bob” to distinguish him from Robert E.R. Huntley was born on Sept. 13, 1928, in Virginia, Minnesota, and Huntley ’50, ’57L (W&L’s president from 1968 to 1983), he served as grew up in Black River Falls, Wisconsin. He held a B.A. in English faculty adviser to Phi Eta Sigma and belonged to Phi Beta Kappa. In and history from Wisconsin State University (1953), and an M.A. in 1981, he received the Ring-tum Phi Award for exceptional service to English (1956) and a Ph.D. in English and history (1965) from the the university as dean of freshmen. University of Wisconsin. He worked as an instructor at Northern “The very qualities which endeared him to his freshmen have Illinois University from 1956 to 1958. endeared him to his colleagues and his students for over three Huntley joined the W&L English faculty in 1962, and taught decades,” noted his colleagues upon his 1994 retirement. “As courses in composition, English literature, and Soviet literature. He genuinely interested in students’ overall welfare as in their growth as also served as the dean of freshmen and associate dean of students, readers and writers, Bob has always given them the sense that their helped recruit the university’s first African-American students, and academic work is a team effort in which he shares.”
James N. Dazey Jr. ’60, Shugart ’87 and belonged James W. Reynolds ’63, of John A. Stewart ’67L, of of Ojai, California, died on to Phi Kappa Sigma. Morrisville, Pennsylvania, Woodbridge, Connecticut, 1970s Oct. 1, 2017. He served in died on Aug. 23, 2017. died on April 12, 2017. the Marine Corps Dr. Firth S. Spiegel ’61, of Hartley E. Roush ’71, of Reserves. He belonged to Cutler Bay, Florida, died Joseph L. Dennison Jr. John A. Cliett ’68, of Chesterfield, Virginia, died Sigma Chi. on Oct. 11, 2017. He served ’66, of Richmond, died on Tivoli, New York, died on on April 15, 2017. He in the Air Force. He Nov. 18, 2017. He belonged Nov. 24, 2016. He was a belonged to Phi Kappa Psi. Fred L. Fox II ’60, of belonged to Zeta Beta to Delta Tau Delta. brother of Matthew Cliett Fairmont, West Virginia, Tau. ’71. Robert L. Hillman ’73, died on Nov. 27, 2017. He Charles E. Hubbard ’66L, ’76L, of Raleigh, North served in the Marine Harry G. Farrow Jr. ’62L, of Roxboro, North R. Bruce Commander ’68, Carolina, died on Dec. 30, Corps and received two of Harrington, Delaware, Carolina, died on Nov. 24, of Lady Lake, Florida, died 2017. He was the father of Bronze Stars, the died on Nov. 2, 2017. He 2017. He served in the on Aug. 17, 2017. He David Hillman ’08L and Vietnamese Cross of served in the Army during Navy. He belonged to Pi served in the Army. He belonged to Phi Delta Gallantry and a Purple the Korean War. Kappa Alpha. was a brother of Charles Theta. Heart. He belonged to Commander III ’62 and Delta Upsilon. Hiram S. Mersereau Jr. The Rev. Paul E. Quante belonged to Phi Delta John H. Curtis Jr. ’74, of ’62, of Newberry, South ’66, of San Diego, died on Theta. Memphis, Tennessee, died Dr. Robert M. Bourdeaux Carolina, died on Aug. 20, Dec. 9, 2017. He belonged on Oct. 18, 2017. He was a ’61, of Pittsboro, North 2017. He served in the to Sigma Phi Epsilon. Richard T. Zacharias ’68, brother-in-law of John Carolina, died on Aug. 16, Army. He belonged to of Deposit, New York, died Watlington III ’72 and 2017. He belonged to Pi Kappa Alpha. Robert A. Bolen ’67L, of on Oct. 16, 2017. He uncle of Chandler Kappa Alpha. Blairsville, Georgia, died belonged to Delta Upsilon. Watlington ’13. He The Rev. Mark A. Sellers on April 1, 2016. He was belonged to Pi Kappa Robert M. Hall ’61, of Jr. ’62, of Grand Rapids, the brother of Richard Christopher H. Mills ’69, Alpha. Valdosta, Georgia, died on Michigan, died on Oct. 21, Bolen ’65. of Chatham, New Jersey, Nov. 12, 2017. He belonged 2017. He belonged to died on Sept. 6, 2017. He James M. Eastham ’74, of to Pi Kappa Phi. Sigma Chi. Dr. Jeffrey Kugel ’67, of served in the Navy during Front Royal, Virginia, died Berkeley, California, died the Vietnam War. He on Nov. 17, 2017. He Col. J. Walter Shugart III Keith A. Carr ’63, of on Dec. 25, 2017. He belonged to Sigma Chi. belonged to Pi Kappa ’61, of Midlothian, Virginia, Washington, D.C, died on served in the Army. He Alpha. died on Oct. 26, 2017. He Oct. 28, 2017. He belonged belonged to Lambda Chi Mark G. Schuster ’69, served in the Army. He to Beta Theta Pi. Alpha. died on Nov. 10, 2017. He Killis T. Howard ’76L, of was the father of Dave served in the Navy. He Lynchburg, Virginia, died belonged to Pi Kappa Phi. on Nov. 15, 2017.
44 THE WASHINGTON AND LEE MAGAZINE Thomas N. Keigler ’77, of Baltimore, Maryland, died on Oct. 11, 2017. He was LEW JOHN ’58, the father of Will Keigler ’10 and belonged to Delta PROFESSOR OF POLITICS EMERITUS Tau Delta. Lewis George John ’58, professor of politics emeritus, died on Nov. 6, 2017, in James H. Penick III ’77, Lexington. He was 80. of Little Rock, Arkansas, “Lew John served generations of W&L students in two capacities — as a caring died on Nov. 10, 2017. He dean of students and as a respected professor of politics,” said President Will belonged to Beta Theta Pi. Dudley. “His devotion to the university was unmistakable. How fortunate we are that we can also claim him as an alumnus.” J. Clayton Crouch ’78, John was born on Nov. 25, 1936, in Waco, Texas, and grew up in Olean, New of Lookout Mountain, York. He held a B.A. in economics from W&L (1958), an M.P.A. from Princeton Tennessee, died on University (1961), and a Ph.D. in social science from Syracuse University (1973). Nov. 17, 2017. He studied at Syracuse under a Lehman Graduate Fellowship for outstanding graduate students. He studied political economy at the University of Edinburgh as a Fulbright Scholar, and was a Woodrow David G. McDonald ’78, of Wilson Fellow at Princeton. Memphis, Tennessee, died During his Princeton year, he worked as an executive trainee in the Office of the Secretary of the Defense on Nov. 1, 2017. He in Washington, D.C. A graduate of ROTC, he served as a first lieutenant in the U.S. Army from 1961 to 1963, belonged to Sigma Chi. commanding the Nike Hercules Battery in Edgemont, Pennsylvania. John returned to his alma mater in 1963 as the assistant dean of students and director of financial aid. 1980s He served as dean of students from 1969 to 1990, when he turned to full-time teaching in the Williams School. He taught American government and public administration, and researched consumer protection for students. Ricey C. New ’82, of Charlottesville, Virginia, “We have tried to build on some of the academic initiatives that he helped cultivate, not the least of died on Nov. 24, 2017. which is our British politics program,” said Rob Straughan, Crawford Family Dean of the Williams School. “It has since inspired a similar program in South Africa. We hope to have additional programs in Latin Daniel E. Schott-Bardol America and Asia. We have Lew to thank for paving the way.” ’82, of Hickory, North John’s publications included contributions to two books, “The Fall of the Iron Lady, 1990” and “Legal Carolina, died on Dec. 26, Deskbook for College Administrators,” and to several journals. 2017. He was the brother In 1985, John received the William Webb Pusey III Award from the Executive Committee of the Student of Dr. Peter Schott ’80. Body for his outstanding service and dedication to the university. His classmates honored him with the Class of 1958 Lew & Annette John Honor Scholarship. In 2013, he received the Distinguished Alumnus Robert M. Nash Jr. ’83L, Award from W&L, and in 2016, the university unveiled Lewis John Avenue in the new Village for third-year of North Chesterfield, housing. Virginia, died on Oct. 17, Among his survivors are his wife of 56 years, Annette Church John, a former W&L librarian, and his son 2017. Christopher John ’86.
Susan DeVine Baglien ’85L, of Potomac, Maryland, died on Oct. 31, 2017. She was a cousin of Helen V. Starrett, the Alpha Delta Pi sorority Retirees and house director of Delta from 2011 to 2017, died on Liz Wiseman ’81L. This list contains notices Other Friends Tau Delta and Sigma Nov. 14, 2017. Before about deaths that we Alpha Epsilon in the early coming to Alpha Delta Pi, Eric P. Holtry ’85, of received before our Ronald Blake Irvine, who 1990s, died on Oct. 10, she was the house Elgin, Texas. died on Aug. deadline, which is about worked at W&L for 29 2017. director of Phi Kappa Psi 22, 2017. three months before an years, from 1986 to 2015, fraternity. issue lands in your mailbox. as a custodian, died on Leonard Joseph Reiss, Dr. Robert D. Brickman If you have any questions Sept. 1, 2017. who worked at W&L for 25 Jane Butterworth Riegel ’89L, of Charlottesville, about our revised format years, from 1985 until his died on Jan. 24. She was Virginia, died on Nov. 19, for obituaries, please email Robert G. “Bobby” retirement in 2010, died 108 and had lived in 2017. us at [email protected]. Henderson, who worked at on Oct. 31, 2017. He Lexington and Rockbridge W&L for 25 years, from worked in Information County since 1930. The 1990s 1978 to 2003, in Dining Technology Services as an widow of O.W. “Tom” Services and as a chef, electrical technician and Riegel, professor of died on Sept. 6, 2017. His Seth R. McKinley ’98, of as a technical services journalism, she was well wife, Mamie Jefferson Beaufort, South Carolina, specialist. known in the W&L Henderson, worked at died on Nov. 1, 2017. He community. Among her W&L as a custodian from belonged to Phi Kappa Psi. Mildred Kessinger survivors are her son, 1986 to 2007. Hatcher, who served as Mark Riegel ’75L. the house director of
MAGAZINE.WLU.EDU 45 Alumni, Athletes, Accolades
Five-Stars returned to campus last fall, as did top athletes and geology majors. And in January, on Founders Day, ODK welcomed new initiates.
1. At the Geology Reunion on Sept. 7. During the Five-Star Festival, we 23-24, 2017, Ed Spencer ’53, the Ruth honored five winners of the Distinguished Parmly Professor of Geology Emeritus, Five-Star Alumni Award: L. to r.: Warren signed his recent book, “Guide to the Welsh ’57, ’61L; Beau Dudley ’74, ’79L, Geology and History of the Blue Ridge executive director of Alumni Affairs; John Mountains,” for a fan. Alford ’57, ’59L; Peter Agelasto III ’62; President Will Dudley; Jim Sagner ’62. 2. On Founders Day, Jan. 18, these four Not pictured: Dr. John Poynor ’62. Read worthy recipients became honorary about their accomplished lives and careers members of Omicron Delta Kappa. L. to at go.wlu.edu/DDA2018. r.: Marcia France, the John T. Herwick, M.D. Professor of Chemistry and associate provost at W&L; Colonel James T. (Ty) Seidule ’84, professor of history and chair of the history department at 1 the U.S. Military Academy at West Point; the Rev. Dr. John M. Cleghorn ’84, pastor of the Caldwell Presbyterian Church, in Charlotte, North Carolina; and Joan Manley, advocate for the safety, opportu- nity and access of the Lexington and Rockbridge County community. Read more about them and the student inductees at go.wlu.eduODK2018.
3. The 2017 inductees into the W&L Athletic Hall of Fame took a bow on Oct. 14, joined by Jan Hathorn, director of athletics. L. to r.: Amanda Haines Ritter ’07, Meg Spalitta Holliday ’09, Katie Kingsbury Gritter ’07, Dr. Wiemi Douoguih ’92, Jan Hathorn, Cinda Rankin, Rebecca 2 Timmis Russell ’08, Kristen McClung Payne ’07, Lauren Caire ’10, Emily Applegate ’07, Ginny Wortham ’07, Katie Bouret Laurens ’10, Megan Babst Lange ’02, Kelly Will Sheppard ’08, Mike Ginder ’07, Leah Weston Carmalt ’08, Blair Brzeski ’10.
4. The Geology Reunion “was a tremen- dous success, and everyone had a really great time,” reports Lisa Greer, professor of geology and head of the department.
5. Former U.S. Sen. John Warner ’49 caught up with friends during the Five-Star Festival, Nov. 2-4, 2017.
6. Five-Star Generals graced the campus for their festival.
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One imagines Dean Leyburn (left) would approve of the dazzling renovation that Leyburn Library’s Northen Lobby (above) recently underwent thanks to the Friends of the Library’s Light It Up fundraiser. The popular study space outside Special Collections is now bright and even more welcoming. W. Franklin Barron ’52 made the generous challenge gift, and the Friends of the Library brought it on home.
rushing up against While his own education encom- ideas that were, well, Olympian. . . . Leyburn a James Graham passed Duke (then called Trinity Every year, students, alumni, and Leyburn is the College), Princeton and Yale, he parents packed his classroom and reason for going to had W&L roots, for his great- gave him a standing ovation for Mattered B a liberal arts grandfather had been a trustee his emotional lecture, ‘The Death college,” wrote Joe Slay ’72 last fall and rector; his grandfather and of Socrates.’ For Dr. Leyburn, the BY JULIE CAMPBELL in an op-ed in the Richmond father earned their diplomas from figures of antiquity, both historical Times-Dispatch. “His nickname W&L in the nineteenth century. and mythological, were not just (behind his back and only After he came along, Dean statues. They mattered.” whispered) was ‘Zeus.’ ” Leyburn made an indelible mark When the building that bears The man with the catchy (yet on the university during his Leyburn’s name opened in 1979, respectful) nickname, Leyburn quarter century in Lexington. folks called it simply the (1902–1993) served as dean of the Why “Zeus”? Slay continued: University Library. In 1994, university from 1947 to 1956, and “He was approachable. At the however, the university named it taught history, sociology and same time, he was on a different after the legendary dean. anthropology from 1947 until 1972. plane, seeming to breathe air and
48 THE WASHINGTON AND LEE MAGAZINE SUSAN AND ROPER VAUGHAN ’67
W.A. ROPER VAUGHAN ’67 HAS BEEN AN what is unique about the W&L experience: a ENTREPRENEUR since his undergraduate world-class liberal arts education and a top A Lasting days. As a junior, he began his career with undergraduate business program, all of which buying and building coin-operated car washes. feature ethics, morality and character as Since then, he has engaged in a variety of defining features,” affirmed Provost Marc Impact: ventures ranging from the food service Connor. “It’s a huge contribution to the industry and furniture manufacturing and university.” retailing, to a payroll business and a “Susan and I have a strong commitment to The Susan and flight-training academy. While some of his the university and to the 50th reunion, which ventures were more successful than others was a significant milestone,” Vaughan reflected. — he describes his stint in the food industry “It was important to both of us to participate Roper Vaughan ’67 as “a wash” — W&L’s Honor System has in all aspects of it, including supporting the always guided him. class gift, which was our strongest gift to date.” Endowment for “W&L has been a sustaining force and The couple made their gift to the reunion continues to have a huge impact on how I project and to the Annual Fund with a credit behave in my life and business,” said Vaughan, card. “Just a couple of clicks online and the Business Ethics who now serves as a consultant to a younger job’s done,” noted Vaughan. “We got the added generation of entrepreneurs. “I try to convey benefit of getting points on our credit card that the process of developing a business that we’ll be able to use toward travel or other requires you to embrace certain principles awards. It was a win-win situation. and behave accordingly. I wasn’t born with “We’ve had five decades of living life since these principles. I learned them first from my graduating,” he continued. “As I’m not sure parents, and they were reinforced by my time how many decades I have left, a legacy gift at W&L.” is a strong way to promote the survival and To promote these principles and to honor his continuation of the university. It is truly 50th reunion, Vaughan and his wife of 35 years, satisfying to know that my wife and I will be Susan, have made an estate provision for the able to have a lasting impact on promoting Susan and Roper Vaughan ’67 Endowment for the progression and continued growth of Business Ethics. The 50th reunion is the the school. With good fortune comes the occasion when a planned gift counts in overall incumbency to do all possible to ensure that reunion giving totals. “The Vaughan Endow- the university retains the personality of its ment for Business Ethics speaks to exactly original benefactors.”
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