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COMMENCEMENT2005 Emory sends off next generation of grads

BY ERIC RANGUS thousands of parents, gradu- ates (both new and old), special The more than 3,400 members guests and friends to campus. of Emory’s graduating Class “The name Tom Brokaw of 2005 represent the best and evokes for millions of Ameri- brightest of their generation. On cans the virtue of integrity in the sunny morning of Monday, news reporting,” said master May 16, they received their of ceremonies President Jim degrees and were addressed by Wagner. “Mr. Brokaw repre- a master chronicler of genera- sents all that is right and good tions both present and past. about journalism—the persistent Tom Brokaw, anchor of the digging for the facts, tough- minded analysis of reality, the NBC Nightly News for more clear reporting of important sto- than two decades and a best- ries, and the fair and unbiased selling author on the side, deliv- presentation of a witness to our ered the keynote address at time.” Emory’s 160th Commencement. Clocking in at more than The University-wide gather- 22 minutes, Brokaw’s was the ing on the Quadrangle, fol- longest commencement speech lowed by individual school at Emory in several years. And diploma ceremonies across one of the largest audiences in University Photography University campus, marked the final day years (to go along with 3,423 of Emory’s five-day gradua- ’s Class of 2005 numbers 3,423 (now) former students, and the 160th Commencement students, one of the largest tion celebration. Paired for ceremony on the Quadrangle, Monday, May 16, celebrated the accomplishments of every one of them. classes in years) came out to the second year with Emory Recently retired NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw delivered the keynote speech. Following Brokaw’s hear him. address (and the presentation of honorary degrees and several faculty and student awards), the main Weekend, the Association for Brokaw had a little more stage was turned over to Emory College. Each student seen above walked across the platform to receive Emory Alumni’s year-end jam- his or her diploma—a ritual duplicated across campus at the individual school ceremonies. boree, Commencement brought See COMMENCEMENT on page 6

COMMENCEMENT2005 OXFORDGRADUATION Diploma ceremonies offer range of good wishes Sunny day greets newest FROM STAFF REPORTS Interim Dean Maryam Alavi presided and quoted from school ollowing are reviews of namesake Roberto Goizueta’s Oxford grads the various school diploma 1995 graduation address. Fceremonies that followed Joining her on stage to present BY CHRISTI GRAY Emory’s main Commencement diplomas was Goizueta’s widow exercises. and emeritus trustee, Olga. On the Oxford Quadrangle, Lisa Allen, ’01MBA, wel- Saturday, May 14, it couldn’t ALLIED HEALTH comed 581 new graduates to have been a more perfect spring Speaking to the 143 graduates the roster of more than 9,000 morning for Oxford graduates of the Allied Health programs in Goizueta alumni. “You are to walk. Commencement began the School of Medicine, former the best and the brightest—of at 10 a.m. with the traditional U.S. Sen. Max Cleland (’68G, course, that’s what they told us, bagpipe procession, as families ’79H), said he felt like he has too,” Allen quipped, adding that watched the line of 251 gradu- earned a Ph.D. in rehabilitative her degree not only hangs on ates march onto the Quad. medicine. her wall, but also served as a job “Look to the near past at “I spent 37 years in it,” application because it gave her your time at Oxford,” said Dana Cleland said, referring to the the confidence to start her own Greene, opening her final gradua- ongoing process of rehabilitation, business. tion ceremony as Oxford dean. both physical and mental, that The Class of 2005’s mem- “I hope your experience here began when he lost both legs bers include School of Medicine stands you in good stead as you and his right arm in Vietnam. Professor Pawel Jastreboff move on to your next stage of “In many ways, the trauma trail who, along with his son Peter, education.” never ends. What I looked for in earned Modular Executive MBA Greene then introduced the eyes of those who laid their degrees.—Eric Rangus poet laureate of Georgia David hands on me was a confidence, Bottoms to give the commence-

a hope that tomorrow would be EMORY COLLEGE Ann Borden ment address. “Although he did better than today, and that next Dean Bobby Paul introduced Dean Russell Richey of the Candler School of Theology was all smiles not graduate from Emory, his year would be a little better than senior class orator Molly as he urged his graduates to devote time weekly for quiet reading commitment to humanistic values this year. Rehabilitation is an act Harrington, congratulating her and reflection. Candler’s was one of several school ceremonies across make him one of our own,” she of faith in and of itself.” for working to eliminate the campus that followed the morning’s main event on the Quad. said of the speaker. Krissy Sinclair, who received stigma on campus associated “There’s still fascinating She encouraged the class As he held up and read from her doctorate of physical therapy with mental health problems, potential for discourse waiting to to be active members of their a doctoral diploma, graduate at the ceremony, found Cleland’s and for her work with the be realized,” Bottoms told gradu- communities. “It is immoral to speech inspiring. “Since I was Candler School of Theology and school interim Dean Bryan ates. “You must look at who you ignore [our] part of a larger about 12, I’ve wanted to help the Servant Leadership pro- Noe emphasized three words: are, how you got there and where global community and family,” someone walk who was told they gram. “honors, rights and privileges.” you are going with an open would never walk.” With a “We cannot afford to be she said. “We can not afford “This degree represents mind. You are citizens of the new job waiting at Progressive indifferent and distracted,” to be silent onlookers in more than honors, rights and city of ideas but this comes with Sports Medicine in Marietta, Harrington said to her 1,762 today’s troubled world.” privileges,” he said. “It also many responsibilities,” he said. Sinclair may get that chance. fellow classmates. “We must —Katherine Baust implies new responsibilities, “Don’t forget where you —Mary Loftus face the problems that exist in BUSINESS our society.” GRADUATE SCHOOL See CEREMONIES on page 7 See OXFORD on page 6 2 May 31, 2005 Emory Report

NUMBERCRUNCH FIRSTPERSON TOM BROKAW

Total number of 2005 graduates: 3,423 The mark of the latest generation Total number of degrees awarded: 3,462 lege of taking their newfound ing college as your country was them all to change. skills back home. beginning a shooting war. As a So as you leave here in Undergraduate degrees I’m also humbled by the clash of cultures and ideals was pursuit of your dreams, try to awarded: 1,763 sacrifices of so many who have altering political and economic imagine their dreams. Stand helped you to this promising and spiritual landscapes far tall. Don’t apologize for what Graduate degrees place in your lives: your family, beyond these leafy environs, you you have or what you believe awarded: 1,217 your teachers and some whom found sanctuary here and the in, but get to know what they you may not have considered at comforting certainty that if you don’t have and why. Take the Professional degrees this moment. There are at this played by the rules, this impor- lead in establishing a common awarded: 471 moment young men and young tant passage in your life would ground between generations, a women in uniform in harm’s way be successfully completed in four common ground of appreciation Joint degree recipients: 39 in far-off places who are dedicat- years. and understanding, a shared ing their lives to your security, Alas, there is not a compa- destiny of self-determination Percent of female and you must remember them as rable orderliness about the other and economic opportunity. graduates: 55.1 well on this occasion. passage—the rough ride as a See the ancient Arab culture as I’m also envious of what you result of the horrific events of something much more than just Number of international carry from here. More than the 9/11. We are still working our a pipeline from their natural graduates: 371 degree or honors, what you will way across open water, forced riches to our insatiable appetite come to treasure are the friend- to navigate by the stars as the Ann Borden for energy. Countries represented (in ships and the fellowship, some old navigational charts are of ***** addition to the U.S.): 79 Tom Brokaw is the former of which will accompany you little use to us. Our destination The world requires every anchor of NBC Nightly News. the rest of your years. I envy remains uncertain. Some seas day personal, hands-on, be U.S. states represented: 48 hank you all very much, you the experience of exploring have been rougher than expect- brave, speak-out, individual new frontiers of knowledge while ed. Certain forecasts proved to courage. We, as the most pow- Age of youngest especially those of you who are graduating. But as rediscovering the ancient truths. be perilously wrong. And unex- erful political, military and graduate: 19 T Most of all I envy you the pected currents keep pushing us a parent, let me say to those of industrial superpower ever road ahead—the 21st century, closer to dangerous shoals. Our imagined, require citizens more Age of oldest graduate: 66 you who are gathered around the perimeter of this felicitous with its transformational tech- direction is not of our choosing. than ever to understand that nology, emerging democracies, It is time, as they say at sea, patriotism means to love your Age of oldest bachelor’s setting—remember that today developing economies, shifting for all hands to be on deck. For country but always believe degree recipient: 53 you’re not just gaining a college graduate in your family, you’re power centers and, yes, cultural this is a common journey and it it can be improved. And that conflicts demanding great atten- requires a common effort and the improvement comes not exclu- Number of degree regaining a checking account. tion. collective wisdom of the crew recipients over 50: 44 I’m very happy to come back sively from the left or the right, These are the themes of and passengers alike. to ; it was one of the most but much more often from the commencement speeches across Your individual dreams and Number of honorary important stops in my career. center; from the arena of public the broad spectrum of cam- plans will be seriously com- degree recipients: 5 I was a young man working in debate and participation, where puses this spring, and I am fully promised if the ship of state is Omaha, Neb., in the mid-1960s ideology always has a place but prepared to expand on them allowed to drift or steer a haz- Average GPA of Emory when I received a call and was where ideological bullies must momentarily. But first I am com- ardous course. We cannot pretend College graduates: 3.33 summoned to Atlanta to work at be confronted. pelled to offer somewhat less that, simply because there has WSB. If we present ourselves lofty but useful observations. not been another 9/11, the world Percentage of Emory It was, for me, the begin- to the world as the patrons of You have been hearing all of is as it once was. We are not College graduates with a ning of a real education about democracy and the oxygen it your life that this occasion is a near the end of this epic struggle GPA of 3.5 or higher: 41.5 the South. Now, there were some requires—free speech without big step into what is called “The between the Western ideal of the things I had to learn once I got fear of punishment—then we Real World.” What, you may rule of law, tolerance, pluralism Time of Tom Brokaw’s here. I had to learn to say “hey” must be the vigilant stewards of ask, is that Real World all about? and modernity and the advocates keynote address: 22:40 not “hi.” I had to learn to love it at home as well. What is this new life? Ladies and of a crazed vision of Islam. We biscuits and gravy and butter- We have another obliga- gentlemen of the Class of 2005 cannot wish away the complex Number of 1GB cards tion. It will do us little good beans with a little fatback. I espe- at Emory, real life is not college. set of conditions that fuel a rage shot by University to export democracy and cially learned to love chili dogs at Real life is not high school. Here across a broad band of the globe, Photography: 16 economic opportunity, to use The Varsity. But I never found a is a secret that no one has told where too many young men taste for boiled peanuts in all the our military power wisely and Number of chairs in the you. Real life is junior high. and young women your age are efficiently, to nurture tolerance time I was here. The world you are about to caught in a crossfire of claims on Quadrangle: 14,000 Most of all I came to appreci- and cross-cultural apprecia- enter is filled with junior high, their faith and another way of tion, if we wind up at the end ate and love the many layers of adolescent pettiness, pubescent life playing out on the ever-wider —Katherine Baust this rich culture in the southeast- of the day on a dead planet. rivalries, the insecurities of 13- screens that reflect the images of Mindless consumption of the ern part of the United States, and year-olds, and the false bravado a world they don’t understand— basic resources of this precious especially this city, because I was of 14-year-olds. Forty years from of unveiled women and material place we inhabit is a form of witness first hand to the defining now, I guarantee it, you will still excess, secular joy, disconnected blasphemy and suicide, nothing moral struggle of our time: the make a silly mistake every day. from their lives of depravation less. struggle for civil rights. You will have temper tantrums and uncertainty. They don’t rep- In my generation, we have And when people ask me Emory Report and your feelings will be hurt resent the whole world of Islam, been witness to the power of now about my most memo- Editor: for some trivial slight. You’ll say but they represent a great band awareness, of an environmental rable moments in a broadcasting Michael Terrazas something dumb at the wrong of Islam. consciousness and of modest career, I often refer to those days [email protected] time and you will wonder at They are not incidental to triumphs of renewal, but we in the dark of night in Americus, least once a week, “Will I ever the world you are entering. They continue to lose ground and Senior Editor: in Selma, in Haneyville, Ala., and grow up?” are the fastest growing popula- clean water, creatures large Eric Rangus other places where there was a [email protected] You can change that. In tion in an already overcrowded and small, at an alarming rate great conflict between those peo- your pursuit of your passions, part of the world where self- every day. Slowing the destruc- Staff Writer: ple who were determined to keep always be young. In your rela- determination is at best a work tion and reversing the damage Katherine Baust the old ways and those people tionships with others, always be in progress, a faint rumor or a does not require sackcloth and [email protected] who were determined to have the a grownup. Set a standard and distant promise. Hobbit huts. But it does require rule of law in America applied Designer: stay faithful to it. In this new life, For most of the 20th cen- imagination and temperance. It to people of all colors. The great Christi Gray you’ll also have to think about tury, Christianity represented does require a redefinition of courage I saw then stays with me [email protected] money in a new way. Life, after 30 percent of the world’s popu- convenience and need. It does now. all, is not an ATM. Now you have lation, and Islam represented require you and all the rest of Photography Director: ***** to earn the money. Think about about 20 percent in the closing us to love our mother, Mother Jon Rou Take a moment and take in how you can hang on to some of days. By the year 2025, those Earth, and live our lives in a [email protected] this setting. This is the realization it. And if you are fortunate, use numbers will change. Many of manner that will allow future of the American dream. These Editorial Assistant: the money that is beyond what those young people—and I have generations to know her succor cherished ceremonies are for Diya Chaudhuri you need to save a life, to save a encountered them in Afghanistan and wonder. me annual rituals of renewal. I neighborhood, to save the world. and Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, Let me conclude by briefly come to these academies across EMORY REPORT (USPS705-780) You may be surprised to learn it the universities in Baghdad, in sharing with you another gen- is published and distributed free America with a sense of awe, is that use of money which is the Indonesia—understand our cul- eration of young Americans. to faculty and staff of Emory humility and envy. Awe that the most satisfying and gratifying. ture and speak our language. But Sixty years ago this spring and University, weekly during the American dream is so fully real- ***** to them we show no interest in academic year, semimonthly summer, they were beginning ized in these environs where the But before you get to that, returning the favor. So many of to return home to restart their May-August; by the Office of working class and the privileged let’s assign your class a marker them love the idea of America, University Communications, 1627 lives after more than a dozen N. Decatur Road, Atlanta, GA mingle in common pursuit of and explore the consequences. but hate our government, envy years of brutal depravation, 30322. Periodicals postage is paid learning and advancement. Where The marker, of course, is 9/11, our freedoms and deeply resent sacrifice, separation, death and at Atlanta, GA. Postmaster: Send immigrants fresh from foreign the terrorist attack on America, what they see as our sense of grievous wounds. off-campus address changes to lands have equal claim to eco- the worst single physical assault entitlement. The worst among Sixty years ago, Nazi Emory Report, c/o Development nomic opportunity and rule of in this nation’s history. You are them had to be punished, and Germany and imperial Japan Services, 795 Gatewood, Atlanta, law in our great system and, if the class of 9/11. You have the the fight goes on. But no army 30322. they choose, they have the privi- dizzying experience of enter- can conquer them all or force See FIRST PERSON on page 7 Emory Report May 31, 2005 3

SCHOLAR/TEACHERAWARD the award onstage at the main John Wieland, founding chair of the vulnerable humanity of each Commencement ceremony, May the advisory council, for his lead- of your students.” 16, but five days earlier the well- ership and for generously invest- As it loses the wisdom and Retiring Fowler takes wishers gathered to pay tribute as ing in the future of the center. guidance of the only full-time Fowler steps into retirement. “Emory can be—and is— director it has known, the eth- Scholar/Teacher Award “The majority of our col- unique in having created a place ics center may itself appear leagues end up teaching and where faculty, staff and students somewhat vulnerable. But with publishing, but only a few achieve can gather together and discuss a University administration that third kind of immortality—to things that matter from an ethi- that takes its ethical obliga- build,” Provost Earl Lewis said of cal point of view,” Fowler said. tion so seriously it’s written Fowler’s achievements since the “Many people have invested in into Emory’s vision statement, ethics center’s founding in 1994. helping Emory become the most Fowler knows the center is des- “It is the University’s plea- ethical place it can be.” tined for even greater things. sure,” President Jim Wagner said, Fowler, a Candler School of He expressed a wish for initia- “to say it can reach credibly for Theology faculty member since tives like the D. Abbott Turner [an ethical] vision because of the 1977, later offered his hopes Program of Ethics and Servant leadership Jim Fowler and the for the center’s future, as well Leadership, and the Science, ethics center have shown.” as advice for young faculty who Ethics and Society Program, to “That this is a remarkable aspire to be the kind of scholar- grow, and he looked forward to man,” said Kathy Kinlaw, associ- teacher he himself has been for ate director of the ethics center. some four decades. the completion of the new home Ann Borden “All of us have been touched by “Do what you can to help whose physical foundation may Emory Center for Ethics Founding Director Jim Fowler retired this [him] in so many ways.” form and sustain a sense of have yet to be laid, but whose year after leading the center for all 11 years of its existence. When it came his time to community, and care for the intellectual and spiritual footings he’s long helped pour. BY MICHAEL TERRAZAS They were the friends, speak, Fowler with characteristic University,” he said. “This means “With imaginative and family and colleagues of humility deflected much of the keeping in mind how your disci- well-prepared leadership, and Jim Fowler, Charles Howard credit for the Center for Ethics’ pline and the substance of your hey gathered in the Emory success to colleagues such as teaching may interact with other a full partnership with the col- Candler Professor of Theology Conference Center’s Kinlaw and Paul Ficklin-Alred areas students may be pursuing, leges and graduate and profes- and Human Development, TSilverbell Pavilion, late (assistant director for administra- and it means intentionally culti- sional schools, Emory’s Center afternoon sun streaming through founding director of Emory’s tion) and to his faculty and staff. vating conversation and engage- for Ethics has the potential to the room’s windowed walls, and Center for Ethics—and 2005 He made a point to thank Jeff ment with colleagues in other become the most comprehensive they used words like Dreamer. winner of the University Rosensweig, associate dean of fields and professions. and effective ethics enterprise Visionary. Builder. And, most Scholar/Teacher Award. , for “And, insofar as you are in American higher education,” appropriately, Scholar and Teacher. Fowler formally received leading the faculty board; and able,” he added, “be attentive to Fowler said.

JEFFERSONAWARD Levinson builds 33 years of bridges

member for significant service est in health issues acquainted BY ERIC RANGUS in the areas of teaching, scholar- him with a wide range of ship, University advancement, Emory academics—a minister, hen Dick Levinson community service and work a clinician, a philosophy profes- received written con- with students. Levinson has sor—who came together and Wfirmation he had won offered that service all across formed a group that focused the Thomas Jefferson Award, he campus for more than 30 years. on biomedical ethics. That Ann Borden thought the note meant some- “I think we’re a discovery group included faculty in the thing else. He figured the letter, With President Jim Wagner’s help, public health’s Dick Levinson profession,” Levinson said of his School of Medicine’s (SOM) which arrived on presidential let- shows off the 2005 Thomas Jefferson Award. adopted home in public health. preventive medicine program. terhead, was notification he had “People find out about it late in Conversations started and bridges across schools, some- graduate students, he has taught been assigned to another com- their careers. Everybody knows eventually a new SOM program thing he feels is crucial to undergraduate classes abroad in mittee (he chairs the campuswide student experience. “I think England, and he has helped cre- Honorary Degree Committee and medicine and law, but you don’t sprung from them: a master’s Emory College students ate a new dual-degree program sits on the School of Medicine really figure out what public program in community health (a should benefit from a univer- that combines an MPH and a curriculum committee). health is until late.” precursor to “public health”—a “It wasn’t until I looked He speaks from experience. term that had yet to be born). sity with a school of public master’s in mathematics. closer [that I saw it was about] Levinson doesn’t have a public In 1978, Levinson joined health, and I think we can And it’s those new degree the award,” said Levinson, profes- health degree. Trained in sociol- the SOM faculty, where he was have a significant impact on programs where Levinson is sor and executive associate dean ogy, he earned his doctorate in based until he moved to the undergraduate education,” now focused. This summer, in the Rollins School of Public that subject at the University of new Rollins School of Public said Levinson, who continues he will finalize two new PhD Health, who had been on the Wisconsin-Madison in 1975, hav- Health was founded in 1990. to teach “Social Aspects of programs in public health— phone when he opened it. ing joined the faculty of Emory It’s Levinson’s broad range of Health” in the college. behavioral science and health The Jefferson Award is given College three years earlier. experiences at the University Levinson has sat on dis- education and health services to an administrator or faculty Levinson’s lifelong inter- that give him an ability to build sertation committees for research and health policy.

CUTTINOAWARD Student ties remain close to honored mentor Benston

“One of my former students in Performance,” team-taught candidates get hands-on teach- wrote just the other day to tell with Associate Professor Tim ing experience. me he’s still living out of the McDonough and designed to She wanted “a very care- courses he took with me over incorporate both staging pos- fully structured program” that 20 years ago,” said Benston, sibilities and literary criticism of would help graduate students associate professor of theater Shakespeare’s work. But then develop practical teaching skills, studies and the 2005 recipient again, “to teach Shakespeare such as making a syllabus or of George P. Cuttino Award for is everybody’s treat,” Benston getting experience in the class- Excellence in Mentoring. said. room. She envisioned a close Benston’s classes in theater Prior to joining the Emory relationship between profes- studies and comparative litera- faculty in 1966, Benston taught sor and student, in which the ture are based on active student at the universities of Rochester student could receive feedback

Jon Rou Jon participation through discus- and Chicago and at Northwest- about teaching style and address Theater studies’ Alice Benston received this year’s Cuttino. sion and student presentations. ern University; she received her questions that might not come “Teaching, to me, is a conversa- Ph.D. in comparative literature up in a classroom setting. BY CHANMI KIM three decades ago. In fact, they tion,” she said. “I work very from Emory in 1961. Benston Benston’s idea became are her close friends. Former hard to try to help students to has published essays on play- known as the Teaching Assistant students not only call to ask for learn, to think and to write on wrights from Shakespeare to Training and Teaching Opportu- friendship with someone advice or to tell her about an their own. As much as I can, I Strindberg, and has done drama- nity (TATTO) program and was for more than three years exciting show in town, but they treat my students as interesting turgical work for both Theater adopted by the Graduate School A is meaningful. When the even invite Benston to their and interested adults. We have a Emory and the Georgia Shake- of Arts and Sciences in 1992. number of years exceeds 30, it’s weddings and introduce her to lot of fun.” speare Festival. In fact, it is now an academic extraordinary. their children. Many write to tell While Benston enjoys While a doctoral candidate requirement for graduation and Alice Benston still keeps in her how much she has impacted teaching all her classes, she at Emory, she saw the need for a model for similar programs touch with her students from their lives. particularly favors “Shakespeare close mentorship to help Ph.D. around the country. 4 May 31, 2005 Emory Report

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This page (clockwise from top left): The Atlanta Pipe Band escorts the Class of 2005 onto the Quadrangle; Nursing grads Patrcia Odom and Joyce Chaskin take their seats; clutching their Oxford diplomas, identical twins Shairoz and Shamroz Sultan smile for the camera; posing with Board of Trustees Chair Ben Johnson III (top row, left) and President Jim Wag- ner (top row, right) are honorary degree recipients Lord Robin Butler, Tom Cousins (top row, l-to-r), Ben Johnson Jr., Sue Hegyvary and Tom Brokaw (bottom row, l-to-r); a cast on her leg didn’t stop Tina Edgerly from walking at her graduation; a big grin was on everyone’s face at Commencement 2005. Ann Borden Ann Borden Emory Report May 31, 2005 5 Julie Hale Julie Ann Borden University Photography University

This page (clockwise from top left): Tom Brokaw dispenses wisdom; the windows of the Carlos Museum reflect a beautiful scene; staff volunteers (l-to-r) Allen Nelms, Yumi Cutter, Angel Harris, Floyd Bushey and Myra Willis are quick to offer up a cool beverage; Corpus Cordis Aureum shone in their golden Ann Borden robes; “Hey, Mom, I graduated!” So say public health grads (l-to-r) Barrot Lambdin, Heena Shah and Daniel Abbott; John- son & Johnson: Son Ben III (left), chair of the Board of Trust- ees, shared the stage with father, Ben Jr., an honorary degree recipient and former School of Law dean. University Photography University Kay Hinton Kay 6 May 31, 2005 Emory Report

BRITTAINAWARD WILLIAMSAWARDS The faculty members pictured below received Emory Law student’s service dedication Williams Awards at their designated school ceremonies. nets Emory’s highest honor Ann Borden Photography University Steven Baker Barbara Kaplan Oxford Nursing Jon Rou Jon Jon Rou Jon Frank Lechner Laurie Patton Emory College Emory College Ann Borden Bharath Parthasarathy (right), shown here with Senior Vice President and Dean for Campus Life John Ford, shows off the Marion Luther Brittain Award, which he received at the main Commencement cer- emony. His three years at Emory were notable for their remarkable devotion to service.

BY BEVERLY CLARK see him leave.” tee. In addition, Parthasarathy After graduating with hon- took the unusual step—for a law ors and highest distinction from student—of twice representing or most students, just mak- the University of North Carolina the School of Law as an SGA Rou Jon Rou Jon ing it through law school is at Chapel Hill in 2002, Par- legislator. Eve Rosenzweig Barry Yedvobnick Fenough of an accomplish- thasarathy entered Emory’s law That SGA involvement Business Emory College ment, but for School of Law school and immediately sought led Parthasarathy to share his *Jack Kinkade, Medicine, is not pictured graduate Bharath Parthasarathy, ways to become involved. talents with the larger Emory his time at Emory also was a “I didn’t want to be defined community. He served as execu- fresh opportunity for service. as just a law student, and I want- tive counsel to SGA and was While balancing the demands of ed to make the most of my time the only graduate/professional COMMENCEMENT from page 1 South Dakota, he said the posi- his studies, he worked on numer- tion gave him a crash course in here,” said Parthasarathy, a grad- student on the SGA’s executive time to work with because, for ous initiatives across the Univer- uate of Dunwoody High School. board. One particularly notable Southern culture and cuisine— sity to make a difference in his the first time since 2000, the cer- particularly the legendary “It’s a privilege to be in law accomplishment was his work emony featured just one address. community. Varsity on North Avenue—but school and in higher education with the Emory Pact, a proposed (During the last four years, each Whether it was through pro in general. With that privilege financial aid program that would most importantly he saw what bono legal work, two terms as honorary degree recipient was comes great responsibility and allow highly qualified students he called “the defining moral a Student Government Associa- given a chance to step to the an obligation to serve others. from low-income households to struggle of our time”: the civil tion (SGA) representative, or in microphone.) I don’t think my involvement is enroll and graduate from Emory rights movement. his weekly student newspaper Regardless of length, not exceptional. I’ve just done the debt-free. Parthasarathy said Brokaw saved perhaps his column that regularly pushed a word of Brokaw’s address right thing. I wish every student he will continue to support and most poignant words for the students to advocates for change, (see page 2) was wasted as he would find a cause or two and work on the proposal even after end of his address, when he Parthasarathy tirelessly worked touched on themes as wide- devote themselves to it.” graduation. shared the story of a previous the past three years to make a ranging as chili dogs at The As a first-year law student, In addition, Parthasarathy generation that first survived difference. Described as a “mod- Varsity and the sacrifices of the Parthasarathy volunteered as a completed a human rights field the Great Depression then el of the engaged student-schol- millions men and women who caseworker for Student Legal placement internship at The fought a World War, yet its ar,” his achievements earned him came of age during the Great Services and did research for Carter Center and served as the members were no older than the University’s highest student Depression and fought the Axis Common Cause of Georgia. graduate student representative the graduates gathered on the honor, the Marion Luther Brit- in World War II—Americans tain Award, given to a member of With that project, he worked to on the University’s Commence- he has dubbed “The Greatest Quadrangle. the graduating class in recogni- improve governmental ethics ment speaker advisory commit- “When that war was over, laws in Georgia by researching tee. He also founded a student Generation.” tion of his or her service to the this generation of Americans models for ethics legislation organization, the Emory Law Brokaw, who has won every University. your age returned to their and drafting memoranda with Young Democrats, and assisted major award in broadcast jour- “More so than any student homes or established new recommendations for action. His the Georgia General Assembly nalism, warned graduates about I have met, Bharath is tirelessly communities,” Brokaw said. supervising professor wrote that House Democratic Caucus dur- what to watch for after they put committed to making Emory “Some are here today in their University a better school and “as with many of his activi- ing the 2005 session. Finally, he away their caps and gowns and distinctive gold robes,” Brokaw a better place to live and learn,” ties, the ethics project allowed found time to write a regular enter life after college. said, acknowledging the mem- said law Professor Michael Kang. Bharath to combine his legal column for the Emory Wheel, “You have been hearing all “Bharath has been involved with acumen and his passion for which addressed topics ranging of your life that this occasion bers of Corpus Cordis Aureum, nearly every student initiative public service.” from unemployment to educa- is a big step into what is called members of the Classes of to improve the law school. He is Parthasarathy continued to tion to national politics. ‘The Real World,’” said Brokaw, 1955 and before, who were one of those people who makes serve the law school and its stu- After graduation, who retired from his anchor seated up front. “I call them his surroundings a better place dents for the next two years as Parthasarathy will join the At- post in December. “Ladies and The Greatest Generation. They by force of his personality and a student interviewer for faculty lanta law firm of Alston & Bird, gentlemen of the Class of 2005 asked so little of us, and yet we hard work. Emory is lucky to candidates and as a member of working in health care compli- at Emory, real life is not college. owe them so much. Remember have him here, and we’re sad to the Class of 2005 gift commit- ance and regulatory matters. Real life is not high school. Here them as you put the mark of is a secret that no one has told greatness on your generation.” Mixed in among the con- OXFORD from page 1 dean for campus life, presented tinued, which included lunch, you: Real life is junior high. “The world you are about to ferring of degrees was the came from and how you got here the Eady Sophomore Service special events and freebies. enter is filled with junior high, awarding of honorary degrees. today,” he continued. To conclude Award to Alexandra Vinson for This year is the first year adolescent pettiness, pubescent Provost Earl Lewis presented he recited Sign for My Father, a her “unadorned, even sacri- Oxford Weekend coincided Brokaw with Doctor of poem he wrote to thank his own ficial,” service to campus life with Commencement, which rivalries, the insecurities of Humane Letters degree. Also father for putting him through at Oxford. Dean of Academic gave graduates, alumni and 13-year-olds, and the false college. Affairs Kent Linville presented friends greater opportunity bravado of 14-year-olds.” awarded honorary degrees After Bottoms’ address, an Emory Williams Award for to participate in campus-wide While his national news were Oxford University admin- awards were presented. Greene Distinguished Teaching—the events. Those events includ- job took him across the globe, istrator Lord Robin Butler, presented Bottoms with the University’s most prestigious ed: Sophomore Banquet, Brokaw spent some of his for- nursing scholar Sue Hegyvary Dean’s Medal, which honors a teaching award—to Steve Baker, Continuee Reception, Alumni mative years in Georgia and he (’66N), former law school person who through their life associate professor of biology. Lunch, Golden Robe Breakfast reminisced about his days as a Dean Ben Johnson Jr. (’36C, and work foster the ideals of Following commencement, Reception and class reunion news anchor at Atlanta’s WSB- ’40L), and Atlanta businessman Oxford College. Then Joe Moon, Oxford Weekend activites con- parties. TV in the 1960s. A native of Thomas Cousins. Emory Report May 31, 2005 7

MCMULLANAWARD FIRST PERSON from page 2 day in and day out, they fought bloody, face-to-face battles of were defeated in a great war by unspeakable cruelty and death. these young men and women At home, farmers grew more Leadership, hardwork, service your age and their allies—in food and civilians ate less so a war that has been described that soldiers could be well fed. by the British military his- Young wives and children didn’t pay off with Kim’s $20K award torian John Keegan as “the see their husbands or fathers or greatest single event in the his- hear from them for months at a BY BEVERLY CLARK tory of mankind.” These young Americans had come of age in time, if ever again. Women left the Great Depression, when the house and put on overalls and work boots and hard hats ervice and leadership life was about depravation and and carried lunchboxes and went have defined the college sharing—sharing clothing, shoes onto the assembly lines. career of graduating senior and food and jobs and what lit- S When that war was over, and past student government tle money a family could mus- when the terrible, hateful evils president Jimin Kim. Her dedi- ter. Children dropped out of of the Third Reich and imperial cation and hard work did not school in the eighth grade not Japan had been defeated, this go unnoticed by the University, to buy a $110 pair of sneakers generation of Americans your which named Kim the 2005 Mc- but to put food on the table or to pay for medical care for their age returned to their homes or Mullan Award recipient—worth mothers and fathers. established new communities. $20,000, no strings attached. Ragged bands of hungry They gave us new laws expand- The Lucius Lamar McMul- men rode the rails looking for ing the freedoms of those who lan Award, endowed by Emory any kind of work. Families left had been left behind too long. alumnus William Matheson, their dried up family farms for They did something that had ’47G, in honor of his uncle, is hard labor in California. City never been done in the history given to a graduating senior who kids slept four to a room in of warfare. They rebuilt their exhibits “outstanding citizen- a walk-up apartment. Banks enemies. They gave us new art, ship, exceptional leadership and failed, and hope had to be new science and new industries. potential for service to his or renewed every 24 hours. And They gave us no less than the her community, the nation and just as these young people, your Ann Borden lives that we have in this country the world.” The donor’s inten- age and younger, were begin- now. Jimin Kim, Emory’s outgoing Student Government Association tion is to allow a student to do ning to emerge from those dark They did not lay down their president, will use her McMullan Award to teach English in South something he or she wouldn’t and difficult days, they were arms and say as they could’ve, Korea. “I want to direct my energy toward finding ways to facili- otherwise be able to do. summoned to the great cause “I’ve done my share.” Instead tate peace on the Korean peninsula,” she says. “I was incredibly shocked to of defeating Nazi Germany and they came home and became receive the McMullan Award,” Emory neighbors to resolve a on the Atlanta Collegiate Coun- imperial Japan. immersed in their communities said Kim, a native of Madison, 7-year-old conflict regarding cil, an advisory board to Atlanta These young men and their and their churches and their families answered the call with Ala. “There are so many great outdoor concerts, and helped Mayor Shirley Franklin, and the schools. They ran for political alacrity. In 1938, America had people in my class. It’s a tremen- push Emory to form a mental campus life committee of the office. They formed service clubs been the 16th military power dous honor, and I am deeply health task force. University Senate. and never gave up on the idea in the world. But overnight, we humbled by it.” Next year, Kim will teach An outstanding student of common cause and their role stopped the production of civil- As president of Emory’s English in a public high school who also held down a part-time in it. ian vehicles and began the pro- Student Government Associa- in South Korea—just as she did job at the University Bookstore, Some are here today in duction of tanks and warplanes tion (SGA) during the 2004–05 their distinctive gold robes. They last summer, but this time as a Kim is a member of the Mortar and heavy bombers that were school year, Kim oversaw a Fulbright Scholar. As part of her Board, Omicron Delta Epsilon are looking on with pride and 13-person cabinet, a three- drawn by night and produced Fulbright fellowship, Kim, an and John Gordon Stipe honor by day. Young men went from humility at the promise of your person staff and $1.7 million economics major, also plans to societies, and is a National being bellhops in Rochester, generation—the opportunities budget, and represented 11,000 research the political and eco- Merit Scholar. In addition to her Minn., to flying multiengine available to you that would students to the University com- nomic development of North community service work and bombers in nine months. City have been unimaginable to munity and administration. The Korea. scholarship, Kim paints, plays kids went to sea, and every- them. I call them The Greatest year before, she served as execu- “This subject is where my piano and writes poetry. where in America, everyone Generation. They asked so little tive vice president of SGA. passion lies and is very close to After next year, Kim plans joined in by making one kind of us, and yet we owe them so During her tenure as SGA me,” says Kim, whose parents to study international law and of a sacrifice or another. much. Remember them as you president, Kim worked to devel- immigrated to the United States hopes eventually to develop a When they answered that put the mark of greatness on op the Emory Pact, a proposed from South Korea in 1979. nongovernmental organization call, they were forced to fight your generation. Good luck and financial aid program that would “Right now I want to direct my to promote human rights, social their way across North Africa, Godspeed. allow highly qualified students energy toward finding ways to justice, economic development the deadly beaches of France from low-income households to facilitate peace on the Korean and education, particularly in and Italy, the freezing winters This is an edited excerpt of Tom enroll and graduate from Emory peninsula.” East Asia. “For the long term, of central Europe, in the sear- Brokaw’s 2005 Commencement debt-free. She also successfully Touted as a lifelong leader, as long as I am an active citizen ing heat of little-known islands speech. For a full transcript, visit negotiated an agreement with organizer and mentor by one of causing change, I know I will be across the South Pacific, and in www.emory.edu/EMORY_ students, administrators and her nominators, Kim also served happy,” she said. all the seas and all the skies, REPORT.

gift established a scholar- grandiose materialism or from throughout North America, the had with a 15-year-old in a CEREMONIES from page 1 ship in memory of classmate personal gain, but will come Caribbean and Australia. rural South African village Michael Gullett, who died from your ability to serve your In her address, Higham whose father had died of some you don’t even know yet. last fall. The class presented a patients, your community and stressed the important impact AIDS. Although the father Many times you will believe check to Dean Tom Arthur for your profession. Seek out your they will make in the lives of had been sexually active for the responsibilities greatly out- $16,132.09, which (along with passion, for it will breathe life others, “You are the newest several years with various weigh the honors and privileg- all subsequent contributions into you. Make some waves, trailblazers of nursing’s future. partners and knew how to es. Be responsible citizens; you through 2010) will be matched don’t forget to laugh, don’t be You are an inspiration to your protect himself, he didn’t use have a responsibility to make dollar-for-dollar by an anony- afraid to cry. Live with pas- country and continent, [and] condoms. positive contributions, whether mous 1978 law school alum- sion, compassion and cour- you will touch lives in more “He said his [father’s] to your field or to society in nus.—Elaine Justice age.”—Jan Gleason ways than you can imagine.” friends and girlfriends would general.” —Amy Comeau think less of him, consider The school honored 122 MEDICINE NURSING him weak,” Hendy said. “The master’s recipients and 160 Jonas Shulman, professor of “We believe these are the PUBLIC HEALTH social pressures were too PhD recipients.—Christi Gray medicine, gave the valedic- graduates who represent the The Rollins School of Public strong. He laughed at the idea tory address, “Our Paths Are future of caring,” said Dean Health ceremony recognized that he could get HIV.” LAW Intertwined,” to a packed Marla Salmon, paying homage 281 MPH graduates, 16 MS —Mary Loftus Class speaker Glenn Kirbo, house of families and well- to the nursing school’s 100- graduates, nine new PhDs in who received the most out- wishers in Glenn Auditorium. year legacy and its 99th gradu- epidemiology and biostatis- THEOLOGY standing third-year student He told the medical school ating class. tics, and seven graduates who At the Candler School of award, recalled his first days graduates, “My wishes for you The graduates included gained certificates in public Theology’s midday diplo- at Emory, including his sur- are a simple tapestry and very 81 BSN students—14 with health. ma ceremony in Glenn prise at learning the parallels interwoven. Never forget that honors—four MSN-MPH dual “The good news is that we Auditorium, Dean Russell between law school and junior being a doctor is a privilege; degree students, 73 MSN stu- know what works—creating Richey counseled graduates to high. treat your patients just as you dents and three PhDs. political will and marshalling follow Jesus’ example as rabbi Professor David would wish to be treated; care “Nurses truly are the the resources to get the job or teacher and heed the call to Bederman, Kirbo recalled, for your loved ones and your- backbone of health care,” done,” said speaker Sandra be rabbis themselves. introduced himself as the self as kindly as you treat your said speaker Andrea Higham, Thurman, president and CEO “Set aside a weekly time students’ new “homeroom patients. director of Johnson & of International AIDS Trust for sustained reading and teacher” and told them their “Always go beyond what Johnson’s Campaign for and AIDS czar under former reflection,” he said. “Guard lockers were right outside the is merely expected,” he con- Nursing’s Future, a major President Bill Clinton. the treasure you’ve been given classroom. tinued. “And remember that image campaign that has Lara Hendy, ’05MPH, by continuing to grow intel- The Class of 2005 broke happiness in your professional increased the recruitment spoke for the graduates and lectually, theologically and with tradition and for its class career will never come from and retention of nurses recounted a conversation she spiritually.”—Elaine Justice 8 May 31, 2005 Emory Report

FACULTYAWARDS RETIRINGEMPLOYEES

Schools honor top faculty/staff The following individuals are retiring members of the faculty, administration and staff. Date indicates year of • Donald R. Keough information analysis. FROM STAFF REPORTS initial employment at the University. Awards for Excellence: • BBA Distinguished Edu- Maryam Alavi, Lucy and John cator Award: Mary Allison FACULTY AND ADMINISTRATORS Cook Professor of Information n addition to the Emory Burdette, assistant professor of Joseph Ansley, Medicine (1959) Strategy, and James Freeman, Williams Award winners (see business law. Turner Ball Jr., Medicine (1961) senior office assistant. Ipage 6) some of the Univer- Donna Brogan, Public Health (1971) sity’s schools give out their own • Modular Executive MBA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE Rose Cannon, Nursing (1975) teaching awards. 2005 recipi- Distinguished Educator • Evangeline T. Papageorge Joe Craver, Medicine (1974) ents for these teaching citations Awards: Richard Makadok, Award: Bhagirath Majmudar, Philip Dembure, Medicine (1974) include: associate professor of organiza- professor of pathology. Robert Donahoe, Psychiatry (1980) tion and management, and Joe Peter Fong, Physics (1966) Porac, professor of organization EMORY COLLEGE SCHOOL OF LAW David Ford, Mathematics and Computer Science (1965) and management. • Center for Teaching and • Most Outstanding Profes- James Fowler III, Ethics Center, Graduate School (1977) • Weekend Executive MBA Curriculum Awards for Ex- sor Award: John Witte, Jonas William Fox Jr., Senior Vice President, External Affairs (1971) Distinguished Educator Robitscher Professor of Law and Suzanne Gebhart, Medicine (1984) cellence in Teaching: Nancy Award: Jeff Rosensweig, Religion. John Griffin Jr., Surgery (1965) Gourash Bliwise, senior lecturer associate professor of finance. of psychology; Alex Escobar, Woody Hunter, Provost and Executive Vice President for • MBA Teaching Excellence Academic Affairs (1976) senior lecturer of biology; and Awards: Patrick Noonan, ROLLINS SCHOOL OF James Meyer, associate professor PUBLIC HEALTH Noel Lehner, Animal Resources (1986) associate professor of decision Edwin Macon, Medicine (1967) of art history. and information analysis, and • Professors of the Year: Paul Weiss, associate professor Nancy Marshall, Art History/Visual Arts (1988) Kristy Towry, assistant professor Kermit McKenzie, History (1960) GOIZUETA BUSINESS of biostatistics, and David Holt- of accounting. Judith Morgan, Biology (1978) SCHOOL grave, professor of behavioral • Evening MBA Distin- Richard Muth, Economics (1983) • Marc F. Adler Prize for sciences and health education guished Educator Awards: Jeffrey Pine, Medicine (1973) Excellence in Teaching: Charlie Goetz, adjunct lecturer, • Thomas F. Sellers Award: Barbara Ann Ruelle, Health Sciences Library (1982) Robert Kazanjian, professor of and Steve Walton, associate Jay Bernhardt, professor of Hugo Sanchez-Moreno, Medicine (1994) organization and management. professor of decision and finance. Sandra Bishop Sexson, Psychiatry (1984) Mark Silverman, Medicine (1966) John Sitter, English (1980) CLASSDAY Robert Smith III, Medicine (1966) Mary Ellen Templeton, University Libraries (1982) Quarterback scores with speech Doris Zumpe, Psychiatry (1972) STAFF BY ERIC RANGUS ness consultant Peter Drucker. (Twenty-five or more years of service) One of the NFL’s biggest Anna Marie Alexander, Community Education Services (1967) or one evening, football at stars, Manning was drafted Thelma Barnes, Medical Care Foundation (1977) Emory was alive and well. No. 1 overall in 1998 by the Betty Bell, Emory University Hospital (1978) Indianapolis Colts quar- Colts following a standout col- Helen Birchfield, (1979) F legiate career at the University terback and reigning National Ruby Bolden, Emory UniversityHospital (1974) Football League Most Valuable of Tennessee. Twice he has been Annalee Boyett, Pathology (1988) Player Peyton Manning was the named the NFL’s Most Valu- Sondra Brewer, Clinical Research (1977) keynote speaker for Class Day, able Player, making five Pro Glennis Elaine Brown, Custodial Services (1978) Thursday, May 12, in Glenn Bowl appearances. In 2004, Jacqueline Castellaw, Oxford College (1974) Auditorium. Manning’s 49 touchdown passes Larry Christopher, Respiratory Care (1971) Manning’s 20-minute ad- set a new league record. Carolyn Denton, Emory Healthcare (1974) dress—delivered with minimal Leadership was a central Luella Dunagan, Emory Healthcare (1977) use of notes and maximum use theme of his address, and he Ann Edens, Health Sciences Development (1979) of self-deprecating humor—was stressed that Emory’s senior Marcella Elmer, Emory Healthcare (1979) motivational (“Our rewards are class should not be afraid to Michael Ewanowski, Information Systems (1973) William Folsom, Emory Healthcare (1969) directly proportional to the ef- make mistakes. It was a point Glynda Gerron, Clinical Research (1956) forts we make.”); thankful (“It’s he drove home several times. Kay Hinton Kay Patsy Getz, Medicine (1952) always exciting for me to be “You have to be willing to take Peyton Manning Juanita Hartman, Laundry (1963) among people who think big and a risk,” Manning said. “The Donna Lightsey, Medical Records (1979) have a vision for themselves.”); greatest risk is not in taking the knocked the Colts out of the Danny McCluskey, Respiratory Care (1976) and he appeared eager to pass wrong action; it’s letting our playoffs the past two years) as Russell Mildner Jr., Emory University Hospital (1976) along the many life lessons he fears keep us from taking action well as a supportive handful in Thelma Palmer, Finance (1979) learned in college and the pros. at all.” Tennessee orange. If there was Lillian Ragland, Radiology (1967) “Everyone throws an inter- As President Jim Wagner any Colts-wear in the house, it Anne Bracewell Ranne, Laboratory Administration (1978) wryly noted in his closing com- ception once in a while, but not was well hidden. Betty Ann Sherman, Emory University Hospital (1977) ments, Emory is a Div. III uni- everyone has the gumption to Eloise Sims, Environmental Services (1976) versity noted for its undefeated None of that bothered get back in the game,” said Man- Joy Smith, Network Communications (1974) football team (the joke, of Manning, who not only told ning, making one of many foot- Vivian Smith, Environmental Services (1975) ball references on the evening. course, is that Emory has never an amusing story of a dream he had that identified God as Richard Stone, Custodial Services (1968) He quoted not only his father had one). But that doesn’t mean Roy Weems Jr., Animal Resources (1962) (two-time All-Pro and College the student body is devoid of a Patriots fan, but read aloud a Football Hall of Famer Archie fans. letter from a fourth-grader in Manning) and four-time Super More than 1,000 graduat- Albany, N.Y., who asked Man- Bowl-winning coach Chuck Noll, ing seniors attended, several ning for autograph from his but also Napoleon Bonaparte dressed in New England Patriots younger brother Eli, a quarter- and internationally known busi- jerseys (the team that has back with the New York Giants.

COURTESYSCHOLARS The following Emory employees were scheduled to earn degrees this year through the University’s Courtesy Scholars program:

Cynthia Alcoba Liang Chen Rex Kizzort Adlene McElroy Franco Scinicariello Elizabeth Angelette Po-Yung Cheng Trisha Kline Joseph Miller Kimberly Siljestrom Dawn Aycock Joanne Costolnick Kimberly Knotts Summer Mullin Robert Simkins IV Haley Barnett Frances Davis Lisa Kobrynski Karen Nielson Lisa Simmons Michael Bauman Tiffany Dothard Kimberly Koporc Heather Norton Melissa Snarr Ashley Bird Robert Farmer Jodie Lane Cecilia Nwogu Binwei Song Michelle Blade Leeta Grayson Titilola Laosebikan Marian O’Brien David Taylor John Blevins Antionette Harrell-Ward Nicole Larsen Lutissa Parker Molly Tripp Erin Brantley Marsha Hendricks Susmita Mallik Timothy Rice Cynthia Trotta Jason Brennan Richard Hunter Tracey Marshall Susan Roberts Judith Tsui Richmond Bryant Ajmal Hussain Patrick Massaquoi Cicely Ross Sandra White Hannah Cecil Amanda Imming Thomas Maxwell Andre Roy Latoya Williams Suzanne Chalk Saveria Jones Elizabeth McDowell Nalini Santanam