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Native Lands | Lessons at Sea | Long Live the King prelude Going to Graceland on the era with the aim of posting a short video determined to capture the trip on cam- natural curiosity about Graceland, was ences. Mary, in addition to indulging her deeper understanding of those influ- so I was especially interested in gaining a sissippi and grew up in the era of Elvis, for an old-fashioned road trip. our two middle school kids (Elvis who?) but my slower, safer Honda to pile into the car—no Shelby Mustang, didn’t need much more encouragement year to William Faulkner country. We 79G 83 tracing the route that planned a detour to Oxford, Mississippi, nus Elvis Presley fashion created by alum - had an excuse in the form of a book on of the South—Graceland. Luckily, we lists and visit one of the ultimate sites decided to cross an experience off our taking a pilgrimage of our own. So we get into the spirit of the thing without and I decided we couldn’t properly Magazine, Associate Editor Mary Loftus they talk about them for years. sands, and wait for hours to do. Then days, walk for miles, line up by thou - ences—the things that people travel for Pyramids, are near-archetypal - experi to individuals, but others, like seeing the we did. Some are undoubtedly unique perhaps more correctly, to be able to own list of things we’d like to do—or it, but I suspect that most of us have our is, honestly, or what’s so special about skydiving, drive a Shelby Mustang. before they die—see the Pyramids, go complete a list of essential experiences as unlikely companions who set out to Nicholson and Morgan Freeman star In the movie Both Both my parents were born in Mis- While planning this issue of I have no idea what a Shelby Mustang Michael Michael Feder 91MBA, and we also PhD travels with her students each Emory Magazine website. The The Bucket List Sally Sally Wolff-King CRV Emory —with , Jack Jack , say

our video. B. attempting to interview passersby for Street, taking in the ambiance and sandwich—Elvis’s favorite. shared a fried peanut butter and banana gently, to take a decent picture. Then we I had to elbow them out of the way, afternoonthere wereso manypeople gravesite, where even on a hot weekday den where he played pool. We filed by his beloved horses and the plush basement We saw the stables where Elvis rode his rate stage costumes worn by the King. with cases of music awards and elabo- Room, the paneled walls lined 1960s décor, the fabled Jungle Graceland, soaking up the DNA my son said, “Oh my god. ally buy one of Elvis’s hairs, discovered that you can actu- (Which may be why, when we switching to utes before getting bored and gave it about forty-five min- Blue Hawaii, and they gamely made them play the classic On the way to Memphis, we ing road, eating junk and watch - be out of school and on the olds, they were just happy to desire to find not just place, but purpose; what these travels have in common is a set to the strains of Joni Mitchell. But reservations in Montana, a midlife flight quest, an exploration of Native American ambitious sailing trip, an annual literary of much weightier journeys than ours: an your style) and ate burgers at Huey’s. open windows (kids can really cramp caught snatches of music through a few blues bar and the place was hopping. We Later that evening, we walked Beale We took the As for our twelve-year- This magazine isfilled with accounts DVDs in the back seat. . We could Jurassic Park.

B. King was playing in a clone VIP tour of Elvis!”) it was strangely delicious.—P.P.P. sandwich. And you know, we all agreed, eaten a fried peanut butter and banana I can say I’ve been to Graceland and human experience. Now, for example, connect us with others through shared that become stories—the stories that thing to be said for making moments you can check off a list. Butthere’s some - the ritual once again. who journeyed to campus to take part in So, too, would those hundreds of alumni ence during Commencement this spring. they reflected ontheir university- experi agreed with his reverent description as Emory’s 3,810 new graduates would have mation. I have no doubt that any one of universities to sites of profound transfor students to “pilgrims of the mind” and President James Wagner likens college relished and retold. will take on new meaning in memory, rience that won’t fade into oblivion, but across space and time; to create an - expe to share a common event with others Life isn’t a series of landmarks that In his message for this issue, -

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20 Catching the Breeze Navigating a fifty-one-foot sailboat in the British Virgin Islands was the final challenge for graduates of the Goizueta Advanced Leadership Academy. By Christopher Wang 03BBA 09MBA

24 Faulkner Found Each autumn, a group of Southern literature students and their professor set out for Oxford, 16 Mississippi, to seek the spirit of William Faulkner. By Sally Wolff-King 79G 83PhD departments 28 Long Live the King Elvis remains an icon, judging by the crowds that 3 Letters

n gather at Graceland—and the success of a new

to 4 Of Note in book by Michael Feder 91MBA. Winship Named NCI Cancer Center

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ia Flu Fighters c 30 Circle of Darkness, Circle of Life pe s A journey to Northern Cheyenne and Crow Documenting Sustainability

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ryan m ryan How Joni Mitchell’s hejira inspired a kindred soul to 36 Campaign Emory Update : b t For many who give, philanthropy is an act of love. en become a “hitcher on the free, free way”—at least m e c

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comm By Susan Carini 04G From the EAA Emory Commencement Weekend Alumni Ink: From Russia with Love 20 A Man of Two Worlds online only

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The recent issue of Emory Maga- Editor Associate Editor zine is exceptionally well done. I have spring 2009 Paige P. Parvin 96G Mary J. Loftus received the magazine for many years, [email protected] [email protected] but questioned the lack of diversity in Living t he Art Director Lead Photographer coverage, especially given the demo- Erica Endicott Kay Hinton D r e a m graphics of the metro area. Emory is The voices of civil righT s speak on—aT T he pulpiT, Production Manager Copy Editor an outstanding institution; however, in on paper, and in pracT ice Stuart Turner Jane Howell my opinion, it hasn’t positioned itself Contributors Photographers as having significant connections in Susan Carini 04G Ann Borden Beverly Clark Bryan Meltz certain ethnic communities. Emory’s Nina Dutton 11C value to the Atlanta community, in New Centers for Civil Rights Gary Hauk 91PhD particular, is immeasurable; we simply The True Story of the Breanna McDaniel 09OX 11C Atlanta Times need to enhance its image within those Campaign Emory: Eric Rangus Financial Aid Alice Walker communities. Christopher Wang 03BBA 09MBA Linda Torrence Franchesca Winters 10C Atlanta publisher, Girl Friends Health who was my city editor on the Atlanta Sally Wolff-King 79G 83PhD Guide for Women of Color Constitution where I was a reporter in On the cover: Festival of Lights, ©2000 by John August Swanson. Tucker the early fifties after graduating from Serigraph, 30 ¾ x 24 inches. www.johnaugustswanson.com. Emory. Luke Greene was a soft-spoken, Full-color posters and cards of Swanson’s work are available from the I have read with much satisfaction highly respected newspaperman, who National Association for Hispanic Elderly, 234 East Colorado Blvd., almost every word in the latest issue skillfully, along with the late Lee Rogers Suite 300, Pasadena, CA, 91101; 626.564.1988. See story on page 9. of Emory Magazine. It is gratifying to and other associates, guided the news read of all that is happening at Emory coverage and editing of that paper Emory Magazine Editorial Advisory Board to further improve race relations in our whose editor was the famed Ralph society. In the 1930s, Emory contrib- McGill. Luke treated young report- John Dunn Karen Martucci Editor Emeritus, Georgia Tech Director, Academic Services, uted much to my commitment to ers like me with the same respect he Magazine Oxford College seeking improved black-white relation- accorded a group of more experienced Crystal Edmonson 95C Jeff Molter ships. The account of the desegregation “older hands,” including some of the Atlanta Business Chronicle Associate Vice President, Health of Emory and the roles in this played by South’s best newspaperwomen, Celes- Samantha Ehrlich 10C Sciences Communications Fink, Bowden, and Martin is of special tine Sibley being one. He and Lee Rog- Copresident, Student Alumni Santa Ono interest to me. Having been president ers gave me many interesting assign- Association Vice Provost for of Randolph-Macon Woman’s College ments, including covering three or four Ginger Cain 77C 82G Academic Initiatives University Archivist and Isabel Wilkerson from 1952 to 1978, I know from my own times a week for about a month one of Director, Library Public Cox Professor of Journalism experience the struggles in bringing Billy Graham’s first “crusades” at the old Programs Ex Officio about desegregation of a college. Ponce de Leon ball park. I also inter- Ozzie Harris Susan Carini 04G William F. Quillian Jr. 35C viewed Congressman James C. Davis, Senior Vice Provost for Executive Director, Lynchburg, Virginia one of the principals of the Atlanta Community and Diversity Emory Creative Group Times, in a downtown hotel long before Tim Hussey Allison Dykes I’ve been reading Emory publica- the Times was founded. Mr. Klibanoff’s Director, Marketing Vice President for and Communications, Alumni Relations tions of all varieties for sixty years, story utilized the papers at Emory of my School of Law Gary Hauk 91PhD including writing and editing some as a good friend Joe ­Cumming. . . . Joe and Jan Love Vice President and Deputy student. Rarely, if ever, do I remember his predecessor at Newsweek’s Atlanta Dean, Candler School of to the President an Emory publication more representa- bureau, Bill Emerson, were among Theology Ron Sauder tive of the best of journalism than your the best newsmen ever to report on Dan Macaluso Vice President for spring issue of Emory Magazine. As a the South in dynamic days. I’m glad Vice President for Development Communications and Marketing close observer professionally and a par- to see his papers utilized to such good ticipant in the media world of Atlanta purpose in a good story. Emory Magazine (USPS-175-420) is published quarterly by Emory Creative Group, 1762 Clifton Road, Plaza 1000, Atlanta, since 1948, I especially enjoyed Hank Richard E. (Dick) Hodges 50C Georgia 30322, and is distributed free to all alumni and to Klibanoff’s “True Story of theAtlanta Marietta parents of undergraduates, as well as to other friends of the Times.” With public relations and University. Address changes may be sent to the Office of Alumni There is an important fact left out and Development Records, 1762 Clifton Road, Plaza 1000, advertising agency roles for many years, Atlanta, Georgia 30322 or [email protected]. If you are an I had relationships with most Atlanta of the story about the Atlanta Times individual with a disability and wish to acquire this publication media organizations and many of their and Charles Weltner’s [congressio- in an alternative format, please contact Paige P. Parvin (address respective staffs, including the Atlanta nal election] defeat of James Davis. above) or call 404.727.7873. Periodicals postage paid at Atlanta, Georgia, and additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: send Times. But I learned much that I either That defeat was made possible by the ng 89C lo address changes to the Office of Alumni and Development never knew or forgot. I was especially overturning of the county unit system. r

Records, 1762 Clifton Road, Plaza 1000, Atlanta, Georgia o fu pleased to read about Luke Greene, Charles and a group of progressive y 30322. No. 109001-7 © 2009, a publication of Emory Creative o Group, a department of Communications and Marketing. arie p m Photos courtesy of Emory Photo/Video. To see a broad portfolio Visit Emory Magazine online at www.emory.edu/magazine. and arrange a shoot, or to view the video collection and com- anne mission a video, go to www.photo.emory.edu. letters pastors and lawyers had brought suit in court enslaved persons in my forthcoming book on entitled “Radicals Threaten Emory’s Name” to change the way that votes were counted in how the Andrew-Kitty story has been remem- in the issue of November 10, 1960. It’s enough Georgia, and it resulted in the defeat of the bered over time, in white and African Ameri- to raise a smile even now. Old times there are county unit system, which determined the can communities. In support of this research, not forgotten! way votes were counted. That court decision I would be enormously grateful to any readers Errol M. Clauss 61G 65PhD remains the law in Georgia today. Jim Davis of Emory Magazine who might be willing to Clemmons, North Carolina stood for everything destructive and corrup- share their recollections of the Andrew-Kitty tive of the Southern system of segregation. story or of the slave quarters known as Kitty’s The controversy over Dr. Braxton’s com- Charles’s victory meant a Southern vote in Cottage, especially during the time the build- pensation (“The Audacious Thing”) looms support of the landmark civil rights legisla- ing served as the Kitty Cottage Museum at larger to me than it does in the Emory Maga- tion enacted under Lyndon Johnson. Salem Campground. zine article, where one might almost miss it. Nyta Weltner Richardson Mark Auslander With that $600,000 figure in mind, I had a Conyers Department of Anthropology hard time appreciating the article’s descrip- Brandeis University tion of his many accomplishments. Thank I was delighted to read Stacey Jones’s you for the article on the Emory Woman’s thoughtful and moving piece on the Trans- Someone once coined the phrase “the past Club, especially since I know Blair Major and forming Community Project (TCP) in the is prelude to the future.” The Prelude article Eleanor Joslin. The article told me a lot about spring 2009 issue (“Facing Race”). For the provided interesting and informative local the club that I didn’t know. I also appreciated past four years it has been my privilege to cultural perspective of the struggle for equality the mention of Randy Fort in Prelude. He was lecture each spring to the annual TCP faculty- that took place in the schools and continues a family friend. Finally, thank you for the fine student seminar, exploring the dynamics today in various arenas. Emory’s complexity work you do on Emory Magazine. I always and legacies of slavery in the early history of and diversity is unique because its mission is look forward to seeing it. Emory College. Readers will be interested to both acknowledge our differences and unify George Wiley 71T 78PhD to note that as of last spring, the historically us in a common vision of service to human- Baldwin City, Kansas African American section of the Oxford City kind, which is a wonderful goal. Cemetery now contains a handsome memo- Ann Byrd Bullock-MacGowan 83MBA This article about an energetic, coura- rial, erected by the city of Oxford, honoring Vienna, Virginia geous African American pastor touches those many persons of color buried in the on the question of biblical support for the cemetery, who, in slavery and freedom, laid I read with interest the spring issue institution of human slavery. In fact, slavery so many of the foundations of Emory College of Emory Magazine with its emphasis on existed as a global phenomenon despite, and the city of Oxford. I should correct a the civil rights movement in Atlanta. I was and perhaps partly as a result of, widespread minor historical inaccuracy in the article. At dismayed, however, by the lack of mention geographical extension of both Christianity the time of the fateful May 1844 conference of the involvement of Emory students in that and Islam. Indeed the eleven million Africans of the Methodist Church, which led to the historic struggle. A very small minority of taken trans-Atlantic to the “new world” church’s nearly century-long schism between students were active in the biracial Com- fueled trade and industry enriching primarily northern and southern wings, Bishop Andrew mittee on Appeal for Human Rights (later the coffers of nations professing Christianity. did not own only two slaves (although this subsumed in SNCC) during the fall, winter, The answer to this paradox lies in the concept is erroneously asserted in many published and spring of 1960 to 1961. Emory students of Progressive Revelation, elucidated in the sources). In addition to the enslaved woman and a handful of Agnes Scott students mid-nineteenth century by Baha-u-llah. It is known as Kitty (whose origin remains participated in sit-ins, demonstrations, and high time that a systematic, in-depth study mysterious) and the enslaved man known as picket lines (especially around Rich’s Depart- of the life and teachings of this majestic, Billy (the property of his late, first wife Ann ment Store, where Dr. King was arrested) in nineteenth-century, unschooled teacher Amelia, who died in 1842), he also was the downtown Atlanta with the students from and of the highly diverse worldwide Baha’i legal owner of at least fourteen other enslaved the Atlanta University colleges. The Emory community of his followers be undertaken. men and women who had come into his students were subject to expulsion if arrested Thank you for this stimulating and informa- household through his marriage to his second (which the movement leadership allowed us tive article on Reverend Brad Braxton and the wife, Ann Leonora Greenwood, in January to avoid) while the Scott women were subject opportunity to express thoughts generated by 1844. We know the names of these fourteen to expulsion for mere participation. Thus, reading it. persons because on April 12, 1844, Bishop we had to pick them up on street corners in Ashburn P. Searcy 59C Andrew and his close friend, Emory College Decatur! Our membership included under- Kennesaw President Augustus Longstreet, participated graduates, graduate students, and medical in a complicated legal transaction, evidently students. The high points included election Has something in Emory Magazine raised aimed at disguising the extent of the Bishop’s day 1960, the confrontation with the Klan your consciousness—or your hackles? Write to slaveowning, in anticipation of abolitionist in late November, and the desegregation of the editors at Emory Magazine, 1762 Clifton criticism at the upcoming New York confer- the downtown lunch counters in March, Road, Suite 1000, Atlanta, Georgia, 30322, or ence. Bishop Andrew deeded, for ten dollars, 1961. The anticlimax came with Malcolm via email at [email protected]. We fourteen slaves to President Longstreet, who X’s appearance to denounce the achieve- reserve the right to edit letters for length and then promptly transferred the slaves back to ment at the victory celebration. TheEmory clarity. The views expressed by the writers do Bishop Andrew and his wife in the form of a Wheel reflected majority opinion on campus, not necessarily reflect the views of the editors trust. I recount the diverse stories of all these however, with its over-the-masthead editorial or the administrators of Emory University.

sUMMER 2009 magazine 3 of Note First in State Winship is designated a National Cancer Institute Cancer Center

When facing multiple melanomas, Winship. “My first surgery for Nell Phelps of Villa Rica had no doubt melanoma was there in 1996, where she wanted to receive treatment—­ and it came back in 2005.” Emory’s Winship Cancer Institute (WCI). To Phelps’s relief, her most “It was the first place I wanted to go,” recent test revealed no cancer. says Phelps, eighty, who drives about Previously, however, she had forty-five miles each way to be seen at to visit Winship every three months, and had several melanomas removed. “The What an NCI Cancer staff tries to do things to make Center means for Georgia it easier,” she says. “Since I live • NCI cancer centers have become the out of town, it was important model for research and treatment, trans- to me to be able to schedule great expectations: Winship Cancer Institute lating laboratory findings into thenext my blood work, oncologist, joins the nation’s NCI cancer centers. At the announce- generation of therapies and cures. X-rays, and other treatments ment in April were (from left) Georgia Cancer Coalition CEO Bill Todd, WCI Director Brian Leyland-Jones, Gover- • Clinical trials developed and carried all on the same day. nor Sonny Perdue, President James Wagner, and Execu- out at NCI cancer centers have resulted “I was so happy to read tive Vice President for Health Affairs Fred Sanfilippo. in cures for many childhood cancers, in the newspaper that they Hodgkin’s disease, testicular cancer, and leukemia, and improved treatments for got that designation as a cancer center,” Thirty-five thousand Georgians get solid tumor cancers including colon, lung, Phelps adds. cancer every year, according to Governor and breast. In April, Winship became Georgia’s Sonny Perdue. “Through initiatives like • Side effects from even the most inten- first National Cancer Institute (NCI) the Georgia Cancer Coalition and the sive therapies have been reduced by NCI Cancer Center, a coveted designation Georgia Research Alliance (GRA), we are cancer centers’ work to refine treatments that is expected to bring in more public working hard to eliminate this disease,” and reduce toxicity. and private research dollars and attract he said. “Winship has served as a model • NCI cancer centers have been the site top doctors and scientists to Atlanta. in establishing collaborative research of key research discoveries, including “We are on the brink of great advances programs and in working statewide to cancer-related genes that promote or in cancer research, and our ability to address the pressing issues related to suppress tumors. Hundreds of genes translate those advances into therapy is treatment, education, and access to care have been identified, and this knowledge e has been used in cancer prevention, significantly enhanced by theNCI desig- for cancer patients.” s nation,” says Fred Sanfilippo, executive TheNCI will give nearly $4.3 million

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Emory president, professor of neurology named to AAAS Emory among 2009 “Great Colleges to Work For” President James Wagner, an engineer, teacher, and scientist, Emory University has been named to the honor roll in the and William Timmie Professor of Neurology Mahlon DeLong, an Chronicle of Higher Education’s 2009 Great Colleges to Work expert on the brain’s role in movement and movement disor- For program, its second annual nationwide survey of forty-one ders, have been elected fellows of the American Academy of thousand administrators, faculty, and staff of two- and four-year Arts and Sciences. colleges and universities.

4 magazine SUMMER 2009 of Note Braxton leaving Riverside Church Brad Braxton 99PhD, who was featured congregation on the cover of the spring 2009 issue of are concerned Emory Magazine, recently announced his that the church resignation as senior minister of the River- is drifting away side Church in New York City. His decision from its social to leave Riverside after nine months as activist history pastor comes amidst growing discord in and toward a survivor: Nell Phelps was treated the congregation. more conserva- for melanoma at Winship Cancer Institute. “The decision to resign seemed to be tive, traditional a prudent pastoral act,” Braxton says. “By form of reli- to expand its research into cancer’s stepping down, I hope the church will be gious practice. causes and cures. Many clinical trials, able to address the internal structures that Race and generational differences are experimental treatments, and new hinder the leadership of any pastor and to also at play. Black membership increased technologies are available only at the resolve the tensions so that the congrega- markedly under Braxton’s predecessor, the nation’s sixty-fiveNCI cancer cen- tion, along with a new senior minister, can renowned James Forbes, whose preach- ters. “This enables us to continue to move forward in unity.” ing style was more evangelical than that Braxton was selected to lead the of previous Riverside pastors. The shift in develop research initiatives that will landmark church last September after an tone and direction made some longtime result in new therapies for patients exhaustive search process. But the week members uneasy. throughout Georgia and beyond,” before his formal installation in April, a “I had become the embodiment of says Brian Leyland-Jones, WCI group of members mounted a protest, long-standing divisions in the congrega- executive director and a GRA Eminent objecting to Braxton’s compensation tion concerning governance structures, the Scholar. “Robert Woodruff’s vision— package and his leadership style. They balance of power between the laity and the that no one should have to leave went to the State Supreme Court in Man- clergy, the relationship between spirituality Georgia to receive excellent cancer hattan and sought to halt the ceremony, and activism, and faithful manifestations of care—is alive and well in Winship.” but the judge refused, asking that both multicultural worship,” Braxton says. Emory has been steadily working sides try to find compromise. “I do think leading a multicultural for many years to receive an NCI des- “Any congregation of this size, with congregation is a very tough challenge c ignation, which it applied for some nationally renowned pastors who tend to for any pastor,” says Love, who was a

ng 89 have long stays, is likely to experience ten- member of a historically black church for

lo fifteen years ago but did not receive. r sions in the transition to a new leader of more than twenty years. “There are mul- Cancer centers must demonstrate the o fu y a similar stature,” says Jan Love, dean of ticultural congregations that succeed, and o highest quality research, patient care, Candler School of Theology. “It takes time this one has, by and large, but it’s tough arie p m education, and community outreach. for the congregation and the pastor to get to meet everyone’s expectations in a way In three years, the NCI will review to know one another and adapt. Some- that will help everybody rise to be their n: anne Emory’s designation for a five-year times the chemistry just doesn’t work.” best rather than falling into factions.” xto ra renewal. Recently, Emory also was At issue are the core identity and mis- Braxton says he and his family plan ; b l ia c recognized as one of the top-fifty sion of the church, a widely recognized to leave New York later this summer and pe s center of liberal activism and progressive “take a few months for renewal.” n/ cancer centers in the country by U.S. to p theology known for its diverse, inter- “He’s young and energetic and deeply

m News & World Report and received racial membership. According to cover- committed,” Love says, “and I expect him

ll Ha the Blue Cross Blue Shield Designa-

: Ji age of Braxton’s tenure in the New York to continue to be one of the nation’s lead- s p tion for Treatment of Rare and Com- l e

h Times and other media, dissidents in the ing pastors and scholars.”—P.P.P. p plex Cancers.—M.J.L.

Institute for Drug Discovery created Anthropologist receives Darwin Achievement Award An Emory Institute for Drug Discovery (EIDD) has been estab- Goodrich C. White Professor George Armelagos, a pioneer in lished to carry out early stage discovery and drug research while bioarcheology (the study of skeletal remains of human popula- training the next generation of researchers. The multidisciplinary tions), received the Darwin Lifetime Achievement Award from EIDD will focus on neglected diseases, global partnerships, and the American Association of Physical Anthropologists for his mentored research. studies of evolution and human diet.

sUMMER 2009 magazine 5 of Note Flu Fighters Emory scientists are on the front lines in the H1N1 flu pandemic

Late on the evening of April 22, Hubert Professor of Global Health Carlos del Rio 86mr received a call at home from the secretary of the treasury in Mexico, who is also a good friend. “Please tell me all I need to know about swine flu,” he said. “I am going to an emergency meeting with the presi- dent to discuss a possible outbreak.” The next day, del Rio was on a plane outbreak: to Mexico—his home country, and Hubert professor of where he attended medical school—and Global Health Carlos Del Rio is just “The pairing of Emory’s expertise was soon working with colleagues in del Rio was one of the one of dozens with strengths at UGA in animal pathol- Mexico City to try to understand the first experts called of scientists at ogy creates a uniquely effective combina- outbreak, develop sound policies, and when the H1N1 virus Emory working tion for studying crossover viruses such serve as a liaison with the Centers for (above, as seen by an to stem the H1N1 as swine flu,” says Richard Compans, electron microscope) Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). broke out in his home (swine flu) out- director of the Emory-UGA center. “On one side the city was empty, country of Mexico. break, advising This unique flu strain—which like a ghost town. On the other the public health and includes genetic material from human, population was frightened and anxious, government officials here and abroad, avian, and swine flus—can spread from asking for information,” he says. “In the developing diagnostic tests and therapies person to person. Scientists in Emory’s hospitals, there was a sense of crisis. for H1N1, and working on producing flu research center are looking at how Emergency rooms were full of patients quick, effective vaccines. the H1N1 virus enters cells, how it is cdc

with influenza-like illness, and wards A group of Emory’s infectious transmitted, and whether prior expo- / sh i and ICUs were full of patients with viral disease experts, vaccine scientists, sure to other influenza viruses may help l pneumonia.” immunologists, and microbiologists immune responses to the new virus. . Ba d A On June 11, the World Health Orga- helps make up the Emory-University Upon his return to Atlanta, del Rio th an i nization (WHO) declared H1N1 the first of Georgia Influenza Pathogenesis and joined a think tank of outside experts pandemic in forty-one years, with the Immunology Research Center, one of who act as advisers to the CDC’s Influ-

disease present in more than seventy six national NIH Centers of Excellence enza Team. Foege Professor of Global : C. S. Goldsm countries. By midsummer, there were for Influenza Research and Surveil- Health Keith Klugman is also a member en; flu d more than thirty-seven thousand cases lance. According to Vice President for of the group. “My role is to consider bac- r in the United States, including 138 in Research David Stephens, this network terial infections that may cause severe : ann bo Georgia; the first student case at Emory of centers is directed to be on the front pneumonias associated with influenza o l ri e was announced on June 19. lines in a pandemic. epidemics,” he says. Associate Professor d

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Jones scholars will study at St. Andrews in Scotland Vaccine Center director elected to NAS The 2009 Bobby Jones scholars and areas of study: Kevin Immunologist RafiA hmed, director of the Emory Vaccine Center, Kelly 09C (peace and conflict),A feef Nessouli 09C (Middle East professor of microbiology and immunology in the School of and Central Asian studies), Katherine Sheehan 09C (environmen- Medicine, and a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar, was tal sciences and history), Joel LeoGrande 09C (literature). Marie elected to the National Academy of Sciences for his discoveries Walters 09C (neuroscience) is the Jones fellow. on immune memory.

6 magazine SUMMER 2009 of Note sustainable efforts of Pathology Jeannette Guarner worked with colleagues in Mexico to obtain autopsy/biopsy materials, which she Student Documentary took to the CDC for testing. Emory Vaccine Center Director Rafi Makes Prime Time Ahmed and colleagues, working long For her senior honors thesis in jour- proves that,” says Kris Wilson, a senior hours in the lab, have discovered a way to nalism, Allison Archer 09C knew she lecturer in the journalism program. speed up the production of large quanti- wanted to produce something lasting. The video highlights Emory’s efforts ties of infection-fighting antibodies, “I liked the idea of a documentary, so to maintain more than half its campus called human monoclonal antibodies, I could show all the skills I had learned as green space, to motivate students to that can boost the immune system. These as a multimedia journalist,” she says. “I reduce personal energy consumption, antibodies, which could target H1N1, are just had to decide on a subject.” and to host farmers markets and create created by using just a few tablespoons of Archer remembered coming to educational gardens—as well as its blood drawn from volunteers inoculated Emory as a freshman from Sugar Land, intention to extend this environmental with the influenza vaccine and can be Texas, and seeing signs about sav- awareness beyond the campus gates to used as a diagnostic or a therapeutic tool. ing energy, “green” buildings under the broader community. construction, and other “The National Institutes of Health examples of environmental have asked us to redirect our efforts to stewardship across campus. H1N1,” says Jens Wrammert, a researcher The experience inspired her at the vaccine center. “Immediately, we eighteen-minute docu- are seeking a potential treatment.” mentary, Sustainability at Emory and CDC researchers also are Emory: Building Commu- using virus-like particles to develop a nity by Going Green. quicker, more efficient alternative to the She interviewed every- current method of making flu vaccine by one from fellow students growing it in chicken eggs. to faculty to the University Allison Archer 09C Microbiologist Ioanna Skountzou president, shot B-roll mate- and her team at the influenza center are rial, and edited it all into a coherent “I loved how President Wagner whole. “I really enjoy producing; there said he hopes we lose our designation working on skin patches that contain are so many layers,” she says. as the campus with the most LEED- microneedles as an improved vaccina- Facilitated through her internship certified buildings—that we don’t want tion method. The center has been grow- at CNN.com, Archer’s thesis didn’t to just be a leader, we are trying to be ing the H1N1 virus from a sample. only earn high marks academically—it an example,” Archer says. “It’s not an easy thing to grow a also reached a broader audience when For Archer, who has known she virus—especially a new virus that hasn’t a condensed version aired on the wanted to be a journalist since serv- been processed before,” she says. CNN.com website. (See www.emory. ing as editor of her elementary school The pandemic, Skountzou adds, may edu/magazine for a link.) newspaper, the documentary is another still pose a threat. “In cold weather, people “It was the best broadcast work I’ve step toward her career goal of becom- are more prone to diseases. We will have seen from a student in my more than ing a broadcast journalist and producer. to wait and see what happens.”—M.J.L. twenty-plus years of teaching college, She’s also proud that plans are in the and the fact that CNN used the work works to show her video to incoming n to For more Emory H1N1 coverage, go to www. exactly as she wrote and produced it classes at orientation.—M.J.L. in whsc.emory.edu/home/news/media-tool-kit/

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U.S. News 2010 ranks Emory graduate schools Islamic Law Expert An-Na’im is 2009 Carnegie Scholar U.S. News & World Report’s “America’s Best Graduate Schools” Human rights scholar and activist Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im ranks as No. 2 the Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering; of the School of Law has been named a Carnegie Scholar. An- African history, 8th; social psychology, 9th; law, 20th; business, Na’im, an expert on Islamic law and international human rights, 22nd; medicine, 22nd; English, 26th; history/political science, is working on the project “Enhancing Citizenship: American 28th; psychology, 36th. Muslims and American Secularism.”

sUMMER 2009 magazine 7 of Note Inspiring Scientists Oxford Biology Professor Eloise Carter is both teacher and field guide Field Botany, in which students investigate the native plants of the Piedmont region of Georgia with Professor of Biology Eloise Carter, is one of Oxford College’s most popular courses. “Together we closely observe this world, learn- ing how to read the characteristics of plants in the diverse habitats of field, outcrop, forest, and urban swamp,” says Carter, who teaches the class each spring semester. And Carter’s students often continue their explo- rations long after leaving Georgia’s oaks and redbuds behind, crediting their former professor with setting It’s a Wild world: Professor Eloise Carter (above) of Oxford College them on the path to science careers. helps students develop a dual passion for field and lab work; Nick ­Pyenson 00OX 02C (right) kneels by the fossil remains of whales on Vancouver Island; a Nick Pyenson 00Ox 02C, a paleo- mosquito sketch (left) by entomologist Catherine Young 00OX 02C. biologist who has done field research in Africa, New Zealand, Europe, and Carter, who has taught mentoring, she says, has proven the Pacific coast, says his experiences at more than two decades of Oxford results. “Students are exposed to Oxford—and especially in Carter’s course—“taught students, says the opportunity for the process and rigor of research by

me that science happens both inside the classroom hands-on research is crucial, as is a participating in a faculty research ng and outside. It all goes back to learning my trees and smaller class size: she never accepts project,” she says. “Several have gone ou

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Brownley receives humanities award Emory leads consortium in National Children’s Study Goodrich C. White Professor of English and Winship Distin- A center headed by Emory was awarded $28.5 million in a guished Research Professor Martine Watson Brownley has second wave of federal funding for the National Children’s Study, received the 2009 Governor’s Award in the Humanities for her which will examine the effects of environmental influences on work as the founding director of Emory’s Bill and Carol Fox Cen- the health and development of 100,000 American children, from ter for Humanistic Inquiry. before birth to age twenty-one.

8 magazine SUMMER 2009 of Note Biblical Scripture for the Eyes Two of Emory’s libraries are contributing century by Christopher Plantin, one of items to a national exhibition showcasing the greatest early printers, is perhaps the Biblical illustrations, which will come to most significant item loaned byE mory, the Michael C. Carlos Museum says Walter Melion, Asa in the fall. Griggs Candler Professor of Scripture for the Eyes: Art History and cocurator of Bible Illustration in Nether- the exhibit. The Antwerp Bible landish Prints of the Sixteenth was published in several dif- Century is the first major ferent languages, printed side exhibition to explore the form, by side. function, and meaning of “We have one of the printed Biblical images pro- most beautiful copies,” says duced in the sixteenth-century Melion. “It’s a grand folio Low Countries. book, so it’s very large. And The show will run through September several of the volumes have exquisite borrowed collecting equipment on at the Museum of Biblical Art (MOBIA) in pictorial title pages.” weekends to see what was living in the New York before coming to Emory Octo- Pitts Theology Library contributed Oxhouse pond, or did Gram stains of ber 17 to January 24, 2010. The Antwerp five of the eight volumes comprising the random environmental samples.” Polyglot Bible, published in the sixteenth Antwerp Bible. Young has combined her talent in art with her zest for science through 31¾ x

8 ¹⁄ projects such as watercolor illustra- Journeys of , 22 h tions of the mosquito species she studies. “I’m interested in the beautiful the Spirit n. Serigrap and fascinating world of loathsome, John August Swanson’s art, so an bloodsucking creatures,” she jokes. featured on the cover of this w Colin Russell 99Ox 01C planned issue, speaks of celebration and ust S g to become a physician until he took transformation, religious parables n Au and spiritual self-discovery. oh Carter’s classes. “Eloise is a fabulous y J Swanson, who lives in Los and inspiring teacher,” says Russell, Angeles, spoke at Emory in March who studies viruses at the Univer- ”, ©1993 b ”, about the myriad inspirations for tch a sity of Cambridge. “She was the first the brilliant paintings and original prints that grace the walls of Emory’s Candler School t c person to give me a shot at research, of Theology, the Center for Ethics, and Cannon Chapel. Candler holds the largest col- e grea . working on a previously undescribed lection of Swanson’s works—some thirty-eight pieces in all. Swanson’s art also is found th ; “ com l caterpillar that lives on rock outcrops in the collections of the Smithsonian Institution, the Vatican Museums’ Collection of n. ia c so pe in eastern Georgia. By that time, I Modern Religious Art, the Tate Gallery, and the Bibliothèque Nationale, among others. s an “The rich colors, glorious skies, lively landscapes, and fascinating people depicted in gen/ was convinced that I wanted to be a ustsw

g Swanson’s art reflect both the beautifully divine yet often quite mundane character of u scientist.”—M.J.L. everyday life—for us as well as for those in Bible stories we have heard so often,” says y Goldbo na joh m . To listen to an interview with Professor Candler Dean Jan Love. “We experience them anew when we encounter these vibrant, Eloise Carter at Oxhouse Science Center, www n: Jere . . gripping pieces of art.”—M.J.L.

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Supporting veterans through education J. B. Fuqua family creates $2 million endowment Emory will participate in the Veterans Administration’s Yellow Helen Mayberg, professor in the departments of psychiatry and Ribbon GI Education Enhancement Program beginning in the behavioral sciences and neurology at the School of Medicine, will 2010–2011 academic year. Last year, the University financially be named to the Dorothy C. Fuqua Chair of Psychiatric Neuroim- assisted fifty-four veterans enrolled in undergraduate, graduate, aging and Therapeutics with a $2 million endowment from the and professional programs. J. B. Fuqua family.

sUMMER 2009 magazine 9 of Note Blushing babies perfect pitch emory in the news No Barrier to Erosion: ABC’s Put on some music and invite a rambunctious Good Morning America inter- two-year-old to dance and you’ll likely get an unabashed viewed environmental studies show. But an intriguing transition occurs between the ages faculty member Anthony of two and three, says Philippe Rochat, professor of psychol- Martin on how climate change ogy. Three-year-olds are more likely to hesitate before mov- has affected Jekyll Island. ing to the music. Those who dance may blush—especially if someone laughs at the performance. Science and Faith: “Many of “The fear of social rejection is the mother of all fears,” America’s most contentious Rochat says. “It’s a very powerful phenomenon—I think it’s social and political debates . . . Pat Marsteller probably even stronger than the drive for sex. It helps define involve clashes between ­science and religious Customer Service: Business us as a species, and it cuts across all cultures.” belief. Integrat- professor Charlie Goetz, who Rochat’s latest book, Others in ing ethical and specializes in entrepreneurship Mind: The Origins of Self- social context into and small business, spoke with Consciousness, draws on the fabric of science both NPR and CNN in April nearly two decades of research education will enrich those about the reasons some busi- into infant and child developmental debates and make them more nesses survive and even thrive psychology, integrating scientific findings productive—and, ideally, during a recession. with his personal and professional intuition result in fewer citizens who are about why we behave the way we do. permanently alienated from Credit Due?: USA Today quoted Dorot Professor of The need for affiliation has long been science,” wrote Arri Eisen, Jewish Studies Deborah recognized as an inherent human trait. senior lecturer in biology, Lipstadt in a profile of a new Rochat argues that this basic need fuels a in a coauthored essay on “Teaching Science, with Faith book that details previously fear of rejection and a struggle for recogni- in Mind” for the Chronicle of unknown efforts by President tion that is central to cognitive psychology. Higher Education. Franklin Delano Roosevelt to “The worst thing that can happen,” find havens forE uropean Jews Rochat says, “is to have a feeling of Problem Solving: in the 1930s leading up to the being transparent—the invisible Pat Marsteller, director of Holocaust. “This is consensus- man.”—Carol Clark the Emory College Center for changing,” she said. “He may deserve a lot more credit than To read about Rochat’s book The Infant’s World, visit www.emory. Science Education, spoke with he is getting.” edu/EMORY_MAGAZINE/spring2006/babies_know.htm. Georgia Public Broadcasting about teaching students science using problem-based New Party, Old Habits: Emory What Is a “Winner”? learning rather than the rote political scientist Randall Stra- memorization of pedagogy han told USA Today that it is a Watching Jeopardy! with his family as a kid ;

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10 magazine SUMMER 2009 of Note Legitimate Children Professor john witte explores attitudes toward illegitimacy in Sins of the fathers When Jonas Robitscher Professor of Law John Witte Jr. was a young boy in Ontario, the minister of his church banished a single mother and her child from the congregation with these words from the Bible: “Bastards have no place in this assembly of the Lord; even to the tenth generation none of his descendents may enter here.” Brotherly Love: Professor John Witte remembers being shocked by Witte dedicates The Sins of the Fathers to his this action. “How could the church banish late foster brother, Robert, who was taken in this little baby and withhold from him the by the Witte family. sacrament of baptism? Was fornication so much worse a sin against the Decalogue them with the help of local synagogues than the sins of lying, stealing, or dishon- and churches. Later, medieval and early oring parents—all of which were already modern church and state hardened their on my ample roll of youthful follies? Per- Witte, director of Emory’s Center stance against illegitimate children, haps I was next out the door,” he recounts for the Study of Law and Religion and offering them few remedies: the stand- in his twenty-third book, published this McDonald Distinguished Professor of ing to sue their parents for support, the year by Cambridge University Press, The Christianity, was left with the seed of an option of entering a monastic order, and Sins of the Fathers: The Law and Theology idea that became The Sins of the Fathers. the slender possibility of legitimization of Illegitimacy Reconsidered. “Even worse, For nearly two millennia, posits or adoption. The English common law what would come of my little foster- Witte, religious and secular laws have was even firmer, as Henry VIII found brother, Robert, given his illegitimate wrongly judged illegitimate children by out in his futile attempt to legitimize his birth? Surely he would be banished soon, the sexual impropriety of their parents. “bastard son” to be his successor to the too. I remember being terrified.” Traditionally, any child born out of throne. Under English common law, a The decision, however, proved to be lawful wedlock was deemed a bastard: child was either born in marriage and controversial within the church even the product of fornication, adultery, con- was legitimate or was born outside of then, Witte says. The minister soon left, cubinage, incest, prostitution, or other marriage and, thus, was not. “Illegiti- and with him went the “stark discipline sexual “crime and sin.” macy was tantamount to an immutable and dark sermons that marked his Historically, “a bastard was at once condition like gender or race; it could troubled tenure.” a child of no one and a child of every- not be undone,” Witte says. No doubt a young Witte felt relief one—born without name and without During the colonial era, England’s that Robert, or “Ponkie,” as the Witte home, the perennial object of both pity laws of illegitimacy were carried over family called him, remained welcome— and scorn, charity and abuse, romance into the New World. After the Revolu- e tt i although it took several more years and ribaldry,” writes Witte. “For many tion, Americans began to reform these n w before the church baptized him, and the centuries, bastards lived in a sort of legal laws in favor of the rights of the child, y joh s Ontario authorities never allowed the limbo . . . assuming they escaped the as, eventually, did much of the modern e t r family to adopt him. Despite Robert’s not-so-uncommon historical practice Western world. “Conservative churches abandonment by his biological parents of being secretly smothered or exposed today that want to resurrect the doctrine nkie: cou o and severe handicaps that took his life upon birth.” of illegitimacy might do well to remem- en; p d by age sixteen, he was the “best model Early rabbis and church fathers, how- ber that Jesus himself was regarded as r I have ever seen of the pure faith and ever, worked to incorporate these chil- illegitimate in his own day,” says Witte,

e: ann bo simple joy that become the true Chris- dren into their communities, Witte says, “and was yet cherished by his parents, tt i w tian life,” Witte writes. and commanded everyone to care for both human and divine.”—M.J.L.

sUMMER 2009 magazine 11 Campus beat

on campus,” Akharume says. “It’s just great to see your fellow classmates get praised for being themselves and doing something that they may not think is out of the ordinary.” But when Oxford’s Williams Hall was vandalized in the 2008 spring semester, Dooley posted a letter asking students to take responsibility for their actions and called out some suspected vandals, members of the on-campus social club Sigma Gamma, by their names. “Common experiences and traditions help to build community, so Dooley defi- nitely enlivens—no pun intended—the Oxford community,” Moon says. double trouble: Left, Oxford’s Dooley; right, Emory’s. Hauk agrees that Dooley’s role as the cloaked campus critic is stronger at Oxford, where he “has been more of a throwback, or more consistent with the Dueling Dooleys earlier tradition of Dooley as a commen- From time to time, on both the “While they look alike and have simi- tator on the specifics of life on campus.” University’s main campus and its Oxford lar characteristics, they are completely Though the main-campus Dooley is campus, the indomitable spirit of Emory different entities; both have evolved also known for his statements on current takes human form to walk amongst along different paths from the same University affairs, he tends to be more mortals. But each campus’s incarnation source,” says Joseph Moon, Oxford’s energetic, approaching death with a of Dooley has a distinct personality. dean of campus life. sense of whimsy—as evidenced by the The tale of two Dooleys springs from The crouched, mysterious Oxford “Soulja Boy” dance Dooley performed a common source at Oxford, Emory’s first Dooley contrasts with the more gen- with orientation leaders at SongFest in campus. The University’s unofficial, rather teel, yet carefree, Dooley at the Atlanta 2007, Willard recalls. The lively dance morbid mascot made his first appearances campus, according to Assistant Director performance also demonstrated Dooley’s in 1899 and 1909 by writing letters to the of the Office of Student Leadership and changing nature. student publication the Emory Phoenix, Service Tanya Willard, who wrote her The Oxford and main-campus according to Gary Hauk, vice president master’s thesis on Dooley. personalities of Dooley seem to have and deputy to the president. From his “Oxford’s Dooley is slightly rougher switched places over time. afterlife in a science laboratory, Dooley around the edges. He’s definitely not “Even in the time when I first started wrote letters featuring observations on as polished as the Dooley on the main here, the Dooley at Oxford was really students, faculty, and society. campus,” Willard says. playful and had a lot of personality, and Lord James W. Dooley, who takes his When Dooley appears at Oxford, his the one here was very slow-moving and first name and middle initial from the original home, the focus is usually on rigid and didn’t have a lot of personal- current University president, is repre- what he might have to say to the stu- ity,” says Willard, who began working at sented on each campus by a student— dents through his spokesperson. On a Emory in 2000. whose identity is kept secret—dressed campus of 753 students, the seemingly But both Dooleys stand with one foot as a skeleton with a black cape, a black omniscient Dooley is always up to date in the present and one set of metatarsals top hat, and white gloves, surrounded with—and ready to pass judgment on— firmly planted in the past. n

by bodyguards in black clothes and dark the latest community news. “He embodies a lot of the history at to shades. While the main-campus Dooley Oxford sophomore Emilomo Emory,” Willard says. “But he has fairly in : kay h strolls upright, black cane in hand, the ­Akharume 10OX is president of Oxford’s successfully changed with the times.” s

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12 magazine SUMMER 2009 Eagles score

Game, Set, Match Lorne McManigle 11C netted the singles title at the 2009 NCAA Division III Women’s Tennis Championships. Paired with Michael Goodwin 09C’s win in the men’s singles tournament, it marked the third time in NCAA Division III history that the men’s and women’s individual champion has come from the same school. Earlier in the week, McManigle helped the Eagles take third place at the NCAA Team Championships.

sUMMER 2009 magazine 13 dynamic Forces

rise of the maChine: Surgeon John Pattaras says the da Vinci robot reduces patients’ recovery time.

On a recent May morning, a simi- on the patient’s stomach, indicat- lar scene is taking place in an Emory ing where the incisions will be. “Is he University Hospital operating room. relaxed all the way?” he asks the anes- I, Robot Associate Professor of Urology John thesiologist. He then makes four keyhole The Da Vinci Surgical Pattaras, director of Minimally Invasive incisions, inserting a hollow cylindrical System is changing Surgery, is prepping for two back-to- port into each. the face of surgery back surgeries using the state-of-the-art “Bring in . . . the robot,” Pattaras da Vinci robot—and colleagues who intones, clearly enjoying the moment. In this spring’s season finale of will be assisting him seem every bit as Surgeons from the Department of Grey’s Anatomy, Chief of Surgery Rich- captivated by the high-tech tool as the Urology use the da Vinci system fre- ard Webber—in a bid to keep his chief fictional doctors of Seattle Grace. quently, averaging three to four robotic resident from a prestigious pediatric Pattaras’s first surgery of the day surgeries per week, with prostatectomies fellowship—buys the hospital something involves the reconstruction of a congeni- being the most common. Emory cardiac he knows will lure Dr. Miranda Bailey tal blockage of a kidney (pyeloplasty); surgeons are performing single-vessel back to general surgery: the da Vinci HD his second is the removal of a cancerous coronary artery bypass grafting with

robotic surgical system. prostate (prostatectomy). the da Vinci as well, and several other n to

“Care to take it out for a spin?” Web- Wearing a Washington Redskins departments have used the robot for a in

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This morning, Pattaras is tutoring After making sure the da Vinci is strange, multilegged mechanical creature Assistant Professor of Urology Nedra correctly attached, a nurse dims the straight out of a science fiction film. Hood on the da Vinci; she will soon use lights, and Elvis begins to sing “All Shook The color monitor above the patient’s the robot to correct female incontinence Up” from Pattaras’s Creative Zen MP3 head, however, reassuringly displays the in her patients. player in the corner. Pattaras sits down, finely tuned actions taking place within Pattaras’s team wheels over da Vinci’s unscrubbed, at the da Vinci’s surgical con- the patient’s body. The surgeon, not the large mechanical base, positioning its sole a few feet to the left of the patient. robot, is in complete control. four interactive arms strategically over “The table doesn’t move after the Pattaras guides dual instruments—a the patient’s midsection and attaching robot is in place,” he says, reminding scissor and a grasper—through the small each arm to a port. The da Vinci’s arms everyone in the room that precision quarter-inch ports, moving the intestines hold an endoscopic camera and, as is critical. And then, looking down out of the way to allow access to the swol- needed, scissors and graspers. A fourth through the console’s viewport at a len left kidney, which was not draining port allows a member of the surgical magnified image of his patient’s internal properly. He makes careful, steady prog- team to assist manually in the operation. pathways and organs, Pattaras begins ress, pushing organs and tissue aside. As the miniature camera, which has the operation—hands moving fluidly He uses the scissors not only to cut but to cauterize tis- sue. Pressing a foot pedal can make the instruments hot enough to seal off small bleeds, an action that is often accompanied by a puff of smoke. Another foot pedal allows Pattaras to move the cam- era, adjusting his line of vision. By switching instru- ments to needle drivers on the robotic arms, he can perform the precise suturing neces- sary for the reconstruction. Da Vinci at a glance The kidney surgery is over in a few The da Vinci Surgical System (yes, the name is a nod to Leonardo, who designed hours. The ports are removed and Pat- the first robot) was approved for select surgeries by the Food and Drug taras begins stitching up the patient’s four Administration in 2000 and costs about $1.8 million. More than one thousand incisions. “With the da Vinci, patients da Vinci robots are now in use around the country. Emory University Hospital heal faster, and there’s less bleeding and acquired its da Vinci system in 2008. Below: the surgeon sees in 3-D through a downtime,” he says. For instance, this stereoscopic viewer; a depiction of the da Vinci system set up for a patient. surgery would have required a “shark bite” of an incision had it been performed its own light source and relays three- beneath the viewer, maneuvering con- through traditional open methods, Pat- dimensional, high-definition images to trols that translate his actions into paral- taras says, and recovery would have taken . c n I

the surgeon’s console, is guided down lel movements by the robotic arms. months instead of days or weeks. l a c one of the ports and into the patient’s It’s an odd sight, initially, to see the “We are just at the beginning of rgi u abdomen, it produces a soft glow. The robot in action, metallic arms flexing robotic surgery,” says Pattaras, as the ive S t i patient’s abdominal cavity is inflated rapidly over the patient’s body. Were it upbeat tempo of the B-52s’ “Love Shack” tu n I with CO2 gas to provide more space for not viewed in the context of a present- fills the room and he begins prepping his

©20 0 9 working and viewing. day OR, the da Vinci would seem to be a next patient.—M.J.L.

sUMMER 2009 magazine 15 ‘The World is Waiting for You’

‘The World is Waiting for You’ Commencement 2009

Top: Former president of Mexico Vicente Above right: College gradu- Fox Quesada, the keynote speaker at Com- ate Rajashree Chaudhury 09C mencement, told graduates that they are stands out from the crowd.

leaders who need to “reshape the world, z Right: Ray DuVarney, associ- lt to reinvent it, to bring new order and new ate professor and chair of the justice, as the founding fathers of this great physics department, in his final nation started two hundred years ago.” Fox, march as the University chief Bryanry: Me who received an honorary doctor of laws udhu

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16 magazine SUMMER 2009 Emory’s 164th Commencement Exercises

By the numbers

3,810 total 2009 graduates

3,867 total degrees awarded

43.4% male graduates

56.6% female graduates

48 states represented

78 countries represented

20 age of youngest graduate

58 age of oldest undergraduate

61 oldest degree recipient (master of divinity) Top left: In keeping with tra- dition, bagpipers set the tone for 24 military service the Commencement ceremony. veterans graduated Above left: A nine-minute 3.35 average shower brought out thousands of y l i GPA of Emory m colorful umbrellas on the Quad, a but the sun soon returned. College graduates tts f e pi Top right: Kendall Boyd 09C 11 minutes, y th s e of Minnesota proudly carries her 4 seconds t r diploma down the aisle. Vicente Fox’s : cou Commencement tts Above right: A new grad address n; pi practices his communication to in skills. 14,000 Number

: kay h left: Hats fly; spirits soar. of chairs on the Quad ts off a , h s a 9 minutes ll re Left: Robert Pitts 09C beat his son, William, to an Emory College Total time it rained ­diploma by just a few minutes, due to an alphabetical advantage. during main z; umb lt e Pitts, now fifty, enrolled at Emory in 1977, but when he was accepted ceremony to the School of Medicine in his junior year, he skipped his senior ryan m ryan year and graduation altogether. Now a doctor in Carrollton with 175 e’: b three sons, Pitts decided to investigate obtaining his undergraduate Commencement ire m h degree when William started at Emory in 2005. It turned out that he volunteers , ‘ d y had adequate biology credits from medical school to qualify. Pitts’s , bo s youngest son, Matthew Emory Pitts 09OX, graduated from Oxford 3,183 frames this year. shot by University agpiper b Photography

sUMMER 2009 magazine 17 Emory’s 164th Commencement Exercises Broadening Her Mind McMullan award winner Monique Dorsainvil Thailand, India, Tanzania, Ethiopa, Those things helped earn­Dorsainvil Haiti—they may not top most lists of the 2009 Lucius Lamar McMullan Award, vacation hotspots, but apparently luxury one of Emory’s highest student honors, travel is not what Monique Dorsainvil which also comes with $20,000—no 09C had in mind. strings attached. “I am extremely grateful, A Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fel- thankful, and humbled all in the same low, she spent a summer in Thailand to breath,” says Dorsainvil, a women’s stud- study the transgender Kathoey culture. ies major and global health minor. As a sophomore, she traveled to Pune, Dorsainvil is donating a portion of India, to volunteer with the Ashraya the award to the Tiana Angelique Notice Initiative for Children (founded by Foundation, an organization founded Elizabeth Sholtys 07C). She’s traveled by Sasha Smith, assistant director of with the Emory Development Institute to the Center for Women at Emory, after Tanzania and Ethiopia as an intern. And the murder of her younger sister. The last summer, she went with her thesis namesake foundation seeks to prevent adviser to Haiti, the home country of her domestic and intimate partner violence. maternal grandparents. In addition to saving up for graduate “Emory really throws you in there school, Dorsainvil, an Emory scholar, most liberating and enabling gifts that and gives you mind-blowing oppor- also plans to start college savings can be given,” says Dorsainvil. “With the tunities. I’ve done things here I never accounts for her two younger brothers. education I have, I really feel like I can dreamed of,” she says. “I believe that education is one of the do anything now.”

the Dobbs Foundation for the establish- Giving Greeks a Good Name ment of a $300,000 endowment to award Brittain award Emory’s highest student honor, the grants to members with financial need. winner nicolai lundy Marion Luther Brittain Award. Lundy was cofounder and codirector “When I look at the others who’ve won of the Greeks Go Green Sustainability this award, it’s a humbling experience to Initiative. By introducing competi- be a part of that history,” says Lundy. “I’ve tions, film screenings, campus speakers, simply tried to be of benefit to the groups and educational programs involving I’m involved in and to not sit back and hundreds from the Greek community, take what I have for granted.” Lundy helped make them one of the key The Brittain Award, which comes elements in the University’s strategic with $5,000, is presented each year at sustainability initiative on campus. Commencement to a graduate who has “Out of everything I did at Emory, demonstrated exemplary service to both I’m most proud of Greeks Go Green. It the University and the greater commu- was fun, it was meaningful, and it got nity without expectation of recognition. people involved,” Lundy says. en d

Lundy served as president of Alpha As an athlete, Lundy is a four-year r Tau Omega fraternity this past year, and varsity letterman in track and field and

Greeks and jocks may have a saw Emory’s chapter recognized as one was elected cocaptain of the team for the anny: bo d reputation for putting partying ahead of the three best ATO chapters out of 2008–2009 academic year. An Emory n z; lu of study and service, but Nicolai Lundy 5,500 in North America, as well as the Scholar and Phi Beta Kappa Scholar, lt 09C turned that stereotype upside down. top chapter in the nation and at Emory. Lundy majored in philosophy and plans : Bryan Me His quiet leadership and dedication He also led an effort to generate a schol- to work the next two years in the non- l ainvi

to excellence in athletics, academics, arship fund for ATO members and suc- profit sector before pursuing degrees in s r o and volunteer service have earned him cessfully secured a challenge grant from medicine and/or public health. D

18 magazine SUMMER 2009 Oxford’s 164th Commencement Exercises

Oxford Commencement 2009 Above left: Eady Award recipient Helen Suzanne Hill 09OX with and Ryan Valeriano 09OX show off their new diplomas at Oxford’s Dean of Campus Life Joe Moon. “Helen brings her head and heart to 164th commencement. Oxford’s Class of 2009 was 351 members all she undertakes,” Moon said. Above right: Graduates (front to strong, and its class gift was furniture for East Village Residence Hall, back) Tina Thapor 09OX, Telani Thomas 09OX, David Topping 09OX, a tree, and a contribution to the Class Scholarship Endowment Fund.

Above left: Oxford grad Rachel Laney 09OX with parents, Thomas Laney 83T and Robin Laney, and grandparents, Berta Laney and Emo- ry President Emeritus James Laney, who served as keynote speaker at Oxford’s Commencement. “We have seen where excellence without a soul leads us,” Laney told graduates, urging them to be guided not by “self-preoccupation but by a loftier sense of purpose.”

Above right: Oxford’s Class of 2009 processes across the Oxford quad. Dean Emeritus William Murdy officiated, standing in for Dean Stephen Bowen, who was attending his daughter’s graduation from Earlham College.

Left: SGA President Suleman Malik 09OX processed with the bedel. n Also in attendance were more than forty members of Corpus Cordis to in Aureum, alumni who graduated fifty or more years ago—the greatest

kay h number the college has had participate since the tradition began.

sUMMER 2009 magazine 19 Catching the Breeze Goizueta program culminates in a sail on the high seas by Christopher Wang 03BBA 09MBA jim Scheiner/special electrical switches,electrical or even more doors. different: emergency gear,the freezer, flat surface opening to revealsomething a fifty-one-foot Beneteau, with every veled at the efficient interior of the ship, drinks wherever they would fit. I mar bags into cabins and stowed food and assigned boat, the ghy’s yellow towline in hand. Aboard our waited with his arms crossed and a din- raced to find our skipper, William,who up and down, as if to salute us. swayed gently with their bows nodding behind them, a cluster of white sailboats of the path. In the luminous blue water ered on a heap of boulders at the edge Up ahead, our sailing instructors gath- bay. island’s southern the of view panoramic astounding the taxi finally emergedfrom the dense vegetation, revealing an clenched my hand tightly around the handle in front of me until ourselves bouncing along a gravel path through the woods. I exactly when we veered from the road, but we suddenly found violently from surfing deepscallops in the roadway. I’m not sure shook minivan the though even Island, Beef around sped we Our taxi driver never lifted his footfrom the accelerator as The six of us leaptfrom the taxi and Laurasia, we crammed -

together in an unfamiliar environment a week, we tested our ability to work groups interact. Isolated on sailboats for learning behaviors that influence how ing the dynamics of teamwork and students in emy ). (GALA Theseventy-eight Goizueta Advanced Leadership Acad- the capstone activity of this year’s of sailing in the British Virgin Islands, to arrive unloading their gear. glanced at the island, I saw the last team back on deck to begin our training. As I sleeping quarters before clambering I looked over the similarly compact Laurasia was the start of fivedays The dash to board the GALA spent the year examin- MBA

MBA program. vague, a common theme of Goizueta’s in which information is insufficient or the notion of dealing with situations lives; the circumstances fitsquarely with we often encounter in our professional experience in business school and what else. The test was not unlikewhat we right (starboard call it a map!—and even left (port William Baird. 09MBA, andinstructor Colburn, PaulColoma development director Jeff Moore 09MBA,Goizueta Kocan 09MBA,Serena 03BBA 09MB,Mike Christopher Wang Tyler Crain09MBA, Katherine Liu09MBA, tion determined on equipment is secured by obscure to the landlocked, a world where We had to adapt to terminology that is as we tackled the various assignments. sate for our sparse knowledge of sailing nize ourselves and find ways to compen- command of our ships, we had to orga - were not allowed to assist us. Placed in many of the challenges, our instructors participants had sailed before, and in relaxing tropical cruise. Only a few year, but the adventure was hardly a among the as occasional fodder for speculation questionable academic value had served crews and locate their vessels. to be first to assembletheir six-person foot on Tortola, with students hurrying competition began the minute we set as we tackled a series of challenges. The That aCaribbean sailing trip posed s 2009 UMMER (from left), Laurasia Crewing the MBA class throughout the ) are called something charts—don’t ever

lines and - loca magazine ) and GALA

21 Anxiety gripped our throats as we sat that we had not yet practiced—our quietly and waited for our hands-on train- skipper was not allowed to help us ing to begin that first afternoon. I looked during the race. Without William over the web of lines spun across the guiding us, everyone needed to contrib- boat’s deck. It had been fifteen years since ute whatever knowledge he managed to I learned to sail a small Sunfish at Boy absorb in our crash course the day Scout camp and more than a decade since before. The lack of a defined leader I last set foot in a sailboat. The names of components and almost everything else Below: The crew of the Spindrift III listens for directions from its skipper about sailing conveniently escaped me. on how to operate a winch. For five Sailboats don’t enjoy the luxury of days, the GALA teams competed in challenges forces like gravity pulling on a downhill in pursuit of the winner’s flag, shown below. slope; they require a succinct orchestra- tion of their components to achieve and maintain speed. Even though operating sails and steering are simple actions, proper timing is critical to preserve a boat’s momentum. Two hours into our first sail, the frustration showed in our slumped shoulders as we struggled with our coordination. “That’s what you want,” William barked, pointing at a boat with full sails tacking gracefully in front of us. “You want to be sailing pretty.” A moment later he called for a starboard tack and turned the ship, but the jib, still trimmed to the windward side, inverted itself and brought the boat to a halt. Eventually we managed a handful of crisp maneuvers and ended the day on a positive note as the sun made its colorful descent to the horizon. I felt encouraged by our progress, but wondered if we’d have a comparable performance the next day. After we anchored, the facilitator accompanying our team, Jeff Colburn, asked us to voice some thoughts about our first time sailing together, but few of meant we faced the thorny dichotomy of us had the energy to speak. Exhausted being both leaders and listeners. from a long day of traveling, we antici- Whatever energy we began the day pated a hot meal and a peaceful night in with dissipated quickly when a mechani- the secluded bay. cal problem kept us from starting the race on time. A sense of defeat lingered We rose the next day over the crew as we watched our rivals energized and anxious about fade into the distance. Rounding the first the first race of the trip, which involved of the Dog Islands, however, we passed circling several small islands and then a boat from our fleet zigzagging aim- well as we circled two more islands and sailing to the finish line at Anegada. It lessly and another sitting motionless, then turned north to Anegada, the boat was arguably the toughest challenge we its sails flapping noisily in the strong keeling sharply until water spilled onto would face: Not only did we need to sail easterly wind. Although we suffered a the leeward deck. Later that day, we in circles—a mildly difficult maneuver rough beginning, we sailed increasingly made the bittersweet discovery that we

22 magazine SUMMER 2009 over roiling swells that pitched our boat The scene on the water was comi- in every direction. cal during the fourth day’s challenge: Despite turning in the day’s stron- The fleet slowly circled the bay barking gest performance, we were disqualified Morse code at each other through plastic because our partner vessel, Mythos, used horns like a flock of lost geese. Our its motor to power through rough waters objective was to relay a series of mes- from a passing storm. For a while we sages to their correct recipients, with the dwelled on the disappointing result, but added complications of our vessels being the six of us eventually stole away in the renamed and restrictions on radio com- dinghy to explore our surroundings. munication. Unable to speak directly Beyond a nearby outcropping we with each other, we used frenzied hand found a shallow cove shielded by a wall gestures and horns to trade informa- tion before heading to our destination, Peter Island. We sailed through turbu- lent waves, the ocean spraying us as we slammed into each rising swell. As we neared Peter Island, we convened with the rest of the fleet before parading single file through the island’s picturesque bay.

At three o’clock the next morning, I flipped on the cabin lights and started a pot of coffee the crew would certainly need for the final leg of our voyage. A light rain began to fall outside as we readied the boat in almost total darkness. A half hour later, we raised anchor for the last time and slipped away into the predawn mist on a Top: Shaun Caldwell 09MBA drives the Tanis Marie while Prasanth Ramani return course to Tortola. 09MBA and Darren Pham 09MBA prepare to lower anchor. Above: Aboard The dark face of Tortola slowly mor- the Spindrift III, Meredith Swartz 09MBA mans the helm as Alok Gupta phed into silhouettes of sailboats as the 09MBA checks the jib sail for proper trimming. Although most of the students had never sailed before, the crews were on their own after just a few hours of instruction. sun crept higher behind the island. From behind the wheel I thought about how had sailed from last place to of rocks battling the sea and waded our crew had evolved during the trip and second, missing first by just into knee-deep water. The day’s debacle felt immensely proud that we overcame four minutes. faded from my mind as I listened to our anxieties and learned to run the boat With a less technically demanding ferocious waves exploding against the independently in a handful of days. I had challenge before us, the third day felt rocks and watched the sky fill with no doubt that what we experienced with somewhat anticlimactic. Paired with shades of orange. regard to communication and collabora- another ship from the fleet, we were rac- Strong winds came racing from the tion would prove invaluable, and many ing to put as much latitudinal distance east the morning of day four, beating the of those situations lingered in my head between us as possible before finishing waters around Jost Van Dyke into rough for weeks afterward. at a cove near Jost Van Dyke. Our linear waves that slapped at the Laurasia’s hull. Reunited with our classmates in path of travel meant little maneuver- Mike and I made our way to the mast to Tortola, we couldn’t help but assign our- ing and thus a leisurely day aboard the put in a second reef, which shortens the selves one last challenge: finding a time Laurasia, with a restriction on talking main sail to provide better control of the to return together to the Caribbean’s l ia c

pe compounding the idleness. In silence boat. Our crew seemed to have found pristine waters. s we sailed ten miles into the blue noth- its rhythm that morning, with everyone Christopher Wang 03BBA 09MBA is a einer/ ch ingness northwest of Anegada before promptly rising to the deck and picking freelance writer and designer living in S m i j returning south on a downwind course up whatever tasks needed to be done. Princeton, New Jersey.

sUMMER 2009 magazine 23 Faulkner

Exploringf the placesoun and people of Faulkner country d by Sally Wolff-King 79G 83PhD

Fifty years ago, Floyd Watkins, Candler pated in one of these excursions in the Jimmy thus spent many weekends Professor of American Literature, went to 1970s; several alumni have told me that with his uncle and knew details about Mississippi in search of William Faulkner. they, too, remember traveling with Wat- Faulkner’s life, such as what he ate for That trip, and Watkins’s study of the kins on these trips. breakfast (eggs, bacon, toast, orange writer, was the beginning of an Emory Professor Watkins and I subsequently marmalade, and coffee). He recalled, as tradition now a half-century old. Each interviewed Faulkner’s nephew James M. well, what Faulkner said to Jimmy when autumn, a group of Southern literature Faulkner extensively and later pub- Faulkner won the Nobel Prize. Jimmy l ia

students and their professor set out for lished these interviews. James (Jimmy) went to see him and offered his congrat- c pe

F s Faulkner country—Oxford, Missis- Faulkner knew his uncle well. Jimmy’s ulations. His uncle replied, “Fine, thank an/ m

sippi—to see Rowan Oak, Faulkner’s father, John Faulkner, William’s brother, you. Let’s go hunting.” Jimmy also said ge d

home, and its environs. As an Emory dropped Jimmy off at Will Faulkner’s William—or “Brother Will”—gave him b ri

graduate student in English, I partici- house when he had to go out of town. advice on many matters. For example, gary

24 magazine SUMMER 2009 Left, William Faulkner’s office at Rowan Oak, his home in Oxford, Mississippi. Right, Faulkner’s grave.

he said, “Anytime you can trade money to Oxford. After Jimmy Faulkner’s death for pleasure, do it.” Will also gave a blank in 2001, I asked Meg to host our annual check to Jimmy and said, “If you ever trip as her father had done for many need to, cash it.” years. Meg now gives Emory students This Emory literary pilgrimage to the impressive tour her father gave but FPO Faulkner country, now in almost its adds her own female Faulkner voice and fiftieth year, takes us to see the places and perspective to the visit. people of Faulkner’s stories and novels. A young woman when I first began I begin the planning process with a trips to Oxford, Meg was present as call to Meg Faulkner DuChaine, Jimmy’s her father regaled classes of students daughter and William’s great-niece, to with stories of Faulkner’s life and times. arrange a time to visit. This task is chal- Seemingly shy then, Meg did not appear lenging because she is a busy paralegal to be listening hard to her father’s sto- and also shows horses in the show ries. She was listening intently, however, ring in Memphis, Tennessee. Even that as it turns out, and I discovered this fact equestrian activity that keeps her so busy is essentially Faulknerian: she inherited a A few brazen students slipped past me and onto the front yard. love of horses and horseback riding from her Nobel Laureate great-uncle. Then one yelled to the rest of the group, When all preparations and reserva- tions are complete, the students, and ‘Oh my God, the door is ajar!’ sometimes alumni, and I load into rented vans and take off on a Friday as she led our tour for the first time and which he named Rowan Oak, built by morning for a weekend. We seek South- gave verbatim accounts of her dad’s sto- the same architect who built her home. ern landscapes and people, complete ries. Meg and John welcome Emory stu- Both are antebellum structures with with a little Elvis and plenty of Faulkner. dents to their pre-Civil War home and long histories. Our first taste of the South begins share family stories about their famous The tour continues. We look for ways with lunch at the Golden Rule barbecue great-uncle. They display and discuss to see and understand sites in town and restaurant in Birmingham, Alabama. the family heirlooms that belonged to around the county that Faulkner wrote Exploring the places and people of Faulkner country We stop at Elvis Presley’s two-room, William Faulkner, including his hunt- about in his stories. Rowan Oak is a vital foundshotgun-style birth home in Tupelo, ing rifles and bird-dog whistle; pocket part of the visit. Now on the National Mississippi, for a look at a songwriter’s watches of his father, grandfather, and Historic Register, Rowan Oak has a cura- modest Southern roots. The birth home great-grandfather; the family Bible and tor, and more than a hundred thousand is distinct from the expansiveness of genealogy; and sailing equipment from visitors a year walk the cedar-lined drive Graceland. This simple, wood-frame Faulkner’s sailboat, the Ringdove. We see and enter the doorway to see the sights, house and museum offer much informa- a first edition ofThe Sound and the Fury, including the library, where Faulkner tion about Elvis’s early years as a boy autographed to Nan and Jim Faulkner, sat to read; his manual typewriter; and in Tupelo; his introduction to music at and other signed first editions dedi- the famous walls of the bedroom on home, in church, and in the bluegrass cated to Faulkner’s brothers and their which Faulkner outlined his novel A and jazz nightclubs of Memphis; and his wives. Meg shows us the fabric book Fable and where he stacked draft copies

l rise to fame. jacket handmade by William Faulkner’s of each chapter. The backyard reveals ia c pe

s Then we wade into Faulkner terri- mother, Maud Butler Faulkner, to cover the old kitchen, separated from the main / d

ar tory. Our first stop is the home of Meg the signed first edition ofThe Sound and house in the old days to keep the heat ow and her husband, John. I met Meg in the the Fury, which Meg now owns. She also of cooking away from the main sleep- y H ll

Bi 1970s on one of the early trips we made leads us on a tour of Faulkner’s home, ing quarters. Faulkner’s riding stables

sUMMER 2009 magazine 25 are also there, and an old cabin built of hand-hewn logs. The current kitchen, indoors, still boasts a fireplace and mantel with wine bottles used in former times. Faulkner liked to cook game over FPO the open fire and use the wine for bast- ing. All give us a sense of what Faulkner’s domestic life was like and how that life was reflected in his stories and novels. We see also some of the other ante- bellum houses in town, such as Shadow- We visit St. lawn (also known as the Neilson-Culley Peter’s Episcopal House), which many believe Faulkner Cemetery, where used as a model for his famous story the Faulkner fam- “A Rose for Emily.” We visit, too, the ily members are Chandler House, which Faulkner appar- buried, and we pay ently had in mind in writing The Sound our respects at the and the Fury. I like to take students to grave of William see this home twice in one visit—during Faulkner and his daylight hours, but also at midnight, to wife, Estelle. We show them what the huge home looks visit the grave of like in moonlight and shadow. On the Mammy Callie, night of one particular visit, the sky was Faulkner’s beloved mammy and men- painted, wooden home with very dark, and the atmosphere especially tor, depicted in The Sound and the Fury. an upstairs balustrade and eerie in the almost-green light of a lunar When Mammy Callie died, Faulkner features reminiscent of those eclipse. I asked the students to stay on delivered her eulogy and lovingly dedi- portrayed by Faulkner in his the sidewalk and away from the grand, cated his novel Go Down, Moses to her. novel Absalom, Absalom! looming house, since the current owners Other graves in this cemetery are note- Other more impressive struc- of the home were clearly at home. worthy, including those of Faulkner’s tures of this kind are already In defiance of my instructions, how- parents and other relatives, such as returned to dust; the one we ever, a few brazen students slipped past “Auntee” (Faulkner’s paternal aunt), who see is the only one remaining me and onto the front yard. Then one some believe was the model for Granny in the county. We see Yellow yelled to the rest of the group, “Oh my Millard in The Unvanquished; and Sallie Leaf Creek, which Faulkner God, the door is ajar!” Peering carefully, Murry, a cousin and one of the plausible renamed White Leaf Creek, and we note eyes adjusting to the dark, I eventually models for Caddy Compson, the heroine the seemingly endless miles of pine and could see that the door was not ajar, but of Faulkner’s most famous novel. Augus- oak forest in the northwest corner of the the shadows cast by the luminescent tus Baldwin Longstreet, famous author county that characterize the hundred ; l

evening made the black door, framed of Georgia Scenes and former president square miles of wildernesses of Absalom, ia c pe s

against the white house, appear mysteri- of Emory, and Lucius Quintus Cincin- Absalom! and the dense woods of Go / d l a r ia

ously open. The once fearless students natus Lamar 1845C, Emory College Down, Moses. c pe how s

gasped in fright, “What if the ghosts of graduate, lawyer, statesman, and United The Yocona River is next on our y ll an/ i b m

Caddy and Benjy appear in the door- States Supreme Court justice, also rest in list. The original name of the river was g d ri way?” I scolded them first for disobey- this cemetery. “Yocanapatafa,” although two variant kn er : ul a f

ing, but later noted their imaginative Trekking deeper into the county, historical spellings include “Yockeny s e m ign: gary b Ja interpolation of The Sound and the Fury. we observe an old, weathered, never Petafa” and “Yockny Pattafan.” Faulkner s

26 magazine SUMMER 2009 Far left, William Faulkner’s nephew, Jimmy, who used to host the Emory group on their annual trek to Mississippi; left, Rowan Oak.

A dogtrot in his pure accent and good stories. house is also on Another time, we met Motee Daniels, our list of places who was reputedly Faulkner’s bootleg- to visit. Few ger and who regaled us with tall tales structures of this about the author. kind remain in We travel next to the College Hill the county. The Presbyterian Church, where Faulkner dogtrot house, a married his childhood sweetheart, common dwelling Estelle Oldham Franklin. Previously she in the nineteenth- was married to Cornell Franklin, with century South, whom she had two children; she married has two rooms Faulkner after her divorce. Faulkner separated by an depicts aspects of their wedding in his open passage- novel Absalom, Absalom! The church way—through also bears clear evidence of slavery—the which a dog could bricks were handmade by slave labor. We trot from the front pay our respects, too, at both the white yard straight to cemetery in the back of the church and the back. Faulkner the slave cemetery nearby with mostly describes this unmarked graves, a residual reminder of style house in a segregated past. several novels: The town bookstore, Square Books, It was dusk. He is the place to look for Faulkner editions emerged from the and other Southern literature titles, and bottom and looked we spend time there admiring and sifting up the slope of his through books, including signed copies meager and sorry of famous works. We view Faulkner corn and saw it— manuscripts in the archives of the Uni- the paintless two versity of Mississippi. Then the group room cabin with dines on fried, broiled, or blackened cat- an open hallway fish at a down-home country restaurant between and a known as Taylor Grocery, a landmark lean-to kitchen . . . steeped in lore with walls plastered with transmutes them into the name of his which was just like the one he had been mementos of the past. mythical county: “Yoknapatawpha.” We born in which had not belonged to his Much of what Faulkner knew of cross the river at an old bridge, a likely father either, and just like the one he would his surroundings is now deteriorated source for the place where the Bundren die in, if he died indoors. (The Hamlet) or almost gone. But through our class family crossed the river in As I Lay At times, we have been privileged to preparations, studied observations, Dying, as they proceeded on their long meet townspeople with family names examination of his home, and opportu- journey to bury their mother. We see that Faulkner wrote about. Once we nities to hear relatives and townspeople the tree-lined landscape where Jimmy met a living Bundren—the name that tell their recollections of the great writer, Faulkner’s great-grandmother Harkins appears in Faulkner’s novel As I Lay Faulkner’s time and place breathe life

arvin hid her livestock from Yankee soldiers. Dying. We talked to this forty-year- once again. . P Faulkner chronicles a similar story in his old man about his family home in the Sally Wolff-King 79G 83PhD is assistant vice aige P P novel The Unvanquished. southeast part of the county and reveled president and adjunct professor of English.

sUMMER 2009 magazine 27 Long live the From fashionKING to Facebook, Elvis Presley still leads theKING way to Graceland • by Mary J. Loftus

lvis is on Twitter. day of Elvis’s death—attracts nearly fifty The iconic King of Rock, thousand. “So many people walk by, we who died in 1977, neverthe- have to resod the grass around the grave less has thousands of follow- afterward,” Kern says. Audio tours are ers who micro-blog about available in eight languages. “listening to the King on the way to the Despite a light drizzle on this June Elvis festival in Tupelo” and how Elvis is afternoon, a line of tourists is wait- standing paper dolls—with captions E“shaking things up in Vegas at the licens- ing to walk through Elvis’s home, his such as “Making the world a better place, ing expo.” He also has official MySpace, car museum, and his private jet, the one purple double-breasted suit at a Facebook, and Bebo pages (and many Lisa Marie, which is parked beside the time.” It retails for $12.95 and is available more unofficial ones). Graceland shops, where you can get your through Graceland’s shopelvis.com. Elvis has been a trendsetter since he photo taken with a life-sized Elvis like- “It’s a very different book and has first rocked America in 1954, so his solid ness and sample his favorite fried peanut been quite popular,” Kern says. “It’s gold status on social media sites isn’t butter and banana sandwiches. interactive in the sense that you can pop really surprising, says Kevin Kern, direc- According to Forbes Magazine, Elvis out the various Elvi in different states of tor of public relations for Elvis Presley was the top-earning dead celebrity fashion.” (Yes, apparently, Elvi—plural for Enterprises. “He’s still very much an in 2008 for the second year in a row. Elvis—is a word that’s used at Graceland.) influence in popular culture, from Elvis “Without so much as lifting a finger, the Most of the archival images in the night on American Idol to YouTube vid- Memphis Flash earned a whopping $52 book are from Elvis movies, such as Jail- eos and iPhone apps for Elvis sightings,” million in the last year,” writes reporter house Rock and Blue Hawaii, and Feder’s Kern says, sitting in a plush conference Peter Hoy. “The thirtieth anniversary wife, Karan, a Hollywood costume room at Graceland’s corporate offices. of Elvis’s death helped boost attendance designer, painstakingly colorized the “Nobody was like Elvis. He changed the and merchandise sales at Graceland, black and white images, pixel by pixel. world in terms of a musical revolution and new ventures such as an Elvis Sirius Michael and Karan, who now live but also in terms of a sexual revolution Satellite Radio show add to a long list of in Nevada, eloped to Vegas in 1994 and and a fashion revolution.” publishing and licensing deals.” were married at the Graceland Wedding The relatively modest Graceland Licensing deals such as the one that Chapel there. “The Graceland Chapel estate, off Elvis Presley Boulevard in allowed Michael Feder 91MBA to cre- now carries our Elvis book,” he says, “so a well-worn section of Memphis, still ate the Amazon bestseller, Elvis: Your it all comes around.”

draws more than six hundred thousand Personal Fashion Consultant. The “Punch Feder, who guest-lectures at Goizueta n to

visitors a year. The annual candlelight Out and Play” book features full-length Business School, launched his company, in ay h ay vigil the night before August 16—the photos of Elvis that can become free- Fame Farm, in 2005, when he acquired K

28 magazine SUMMER 2009 Elvis: Your Personal Fashion Con- buy from me!’ ” Lansky remembers the sultant is in its first printing of fifteen first outfit he custom-fit for Elvis: the thousand copies and has already tux for his junior/senior prom. After achieved “top-selling Elvis book” status Elvis became a millionaire in his early on Amazon. twenties, he was true to his word, and the Feder recently launched a third Lanskys custom-made most of his casual “Punch Out and Play” book of Star Wars clothing for decades. figures and is working on a fourth on While the Lansky Brothers main shop Marilyn Monroe. has moved to the lobby of the Peabody “It’s extremely difficult to predict Hotel in downtown Memphis, the store’s who will become an iconic celeb- close association with Elvis remains: rity, except in hindsight,” Feder photographs of Elvis and Bernard says. “Will Michael Jackson Lansky can be found on every wall, Elvis become as iconic as Elvis? memorabilia is plentiful, and sweat- We might not have thought ers just like the one Elvis wore in Blue so six months ago, but recent Hawaii are arranged neatly on a table. events have shown how fast the land- Julie Lansky, who works in the store, and KING OF BLING: Elvis remains a scape can change.” her twin, Melisa (who recently married style icon, whether Elvis Presley Enterprises generates Steven Weisman 98C), as well as their clad in black or gold income from two main areas: Graceland cousin, Rebecca Belz 08B, are the next lamé. Above, display tours and licensing deals. About 250 generation of Lanskys. “My grandfather at Graceland; left, licensees offer more than five thousand is the best,” says Belz. “He has stories and book creator Michael Feder 91MBA. products made in the King’s image, one-liners for every situation. He once from wine bottles to M&M figurines to a took my mom to Graceland to deliver clothing line.“Elvis had a unique fashion some clothes, and my mom was scared to exclusive rights to the image and brand sense,” says Kern. “He knew what looked death because there was a stuffed alliga- of Liberace. He and Karan produced good on him.” tor on [Elvis’s] couch.” their first book,Liberace: Your Personal In evidence everywhere at Graceland An aged but spry Bernard Lansky Fashion Consultant, through Abrams of is Elvis’s singular style: his white jump- is still a familiar fixture in the store, New York in 2008. suits and cowboy hats, form-fitting black helping customers find the “We wanted to show that Liberace leather and gold lamé suit—several of right size or color. He some- was cool, funny, and kitschy, and could the outfits featured in the Feders’ book. times has fan encounters of attract a whole new generation of fans,” Well before his flashy stage outfits his own with customers he says. (most of which, like his gold lamé suit, who want to hear insider After consulting with sales reps, they were designed by Hollywood tailor stories. “Is this you?” decided the second in the series should Nudie Cohn), the young Elvis had a asks one visitor— feature Elvis. “I adore the brand,” Feder sense of style that he couldn’t afford pointing to a poster of a says. “Liberace’s fan base was older, but to indulge quite yet. “He hung out on young, bow-tied Lansky Elvis’s was young and rabid during his Beale Street back in the day, which was a standing in his original day. I used to live in Memphis and drove blues alley then, but it was also where he store beside an equally by Graceland all the time when he was bought his clothes,” says Kern. young Elvis. living there. I was hoping when I turned One day he walked up to the Lansky Lansky, standing among sixteen he’d buy me a Cadillac. But I Brothers’ family-owned clothing shop. racks of dress shirts and n y y s to never had an Elvis encounter.” As Bernard Lansky recalls, “I looked up suit jackets, just smiles e in t r Everything in the book had to be and saw this young man looking at our and gives a quick

: kay h approved by Elvis Presley Enterprises, displays in the window. I walked outside nod—gratified to er: cou d e says Feder, from the photos to the cap- to greet him and told him ‘Come on in have been, for many

arvin; f tions. “Anything with Elvis has to be very and let me show you around.’ He said, ‘I years, Elvis’s personal er; paper doll . P d

e carefully done,” Feder says. “The fans don’t have any money, Mr. Lansky, but fashion consultant. l f aige P ae

: P know if a sideburn is too long, and they when I get rich, I’m going to buy you t ch i More Elvi: video at www.emory.edu/magazine i su m will write Graceland.” out.’ I told him, ‘Don’t buy me out, just

sUMMER 2009 magazine 29 circle of darkness, circle of life Exploring America’s history and modern-day life “on the rez”

by Gary S. Hauk 91PhD

hirtless and barefoot, hands and knees along with four other and that last journey preceded by two wearing a pair of running men and five women to participate in a months the death of my sixteen-year- shorts, I sit in darkness so ritual of the Native American Church. old son, Thomas. In the past week, since complete that I cannot see Seven of us are from Emory, neo- our group landed in Billings, his spirit my fingers in front of my phytes unbaptized into these mysteries, has been as fiercely present to me as an face. Heat more intense than on a Journey program sponsored by the old shaman. any Atlanta August afternoon envelops Office of Religious Life. The other three I am also aware of the others in the me;S sweat pours down my face and arms are brothers of indeterminate middle age darkness with me, friends with whom and off my elbows like water from a from the Medicine Bull family, members I’ve made this pilgrimage. Students, faucet. In this thick atmosphere I wonder of the Northern Cheyenne nation and alumni, and staff members, we have whether I can tolerate the claustrophobia college-educated teachers. This morning spent six days meeting with profes- for more than ten minutes. So far I have they are our priests, as it were, our expert sionals in the Indian Health Service been sitting here, Indian-style, maybe guides through two hours of prayer, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs BIA( ), two. The schedule calls for two hours. burning of herbs, chanting, ablutions, law enforcement officers, and Indian “Here” is a small sweat lodge in a field and alternating periods of darkness and artists, educators, and legislators. We a hundred yards from the Tongue River, light. And much sweating. have aimed to understand the different on the Northern Cheyenne reservation In these circumstances—heat, blind- cultures that mix and overlap and some- in Montana. Shaped like an igloo, some ness, close confinement with others—I times clash here.

four feet high at its center and no more become conscious of two competing One of the great paradoxes of Native s age

than ten feet in diameter, the sturdy, wil- claims on my attention. First is my American life in the twenty-first century, m y i

low-frame structure is draped by thick awareness of my own state of being— especially as that life is lived out on the tt e layers of canvas and tarpaulins staked to my breathing; the sweat dripping off reservations of the American West, is G ivian/

the ground to keep the light out and the my chin to my chest; the condition of that tribal affiliation is as much as ever a ll

heat in. On this sun-filled May morning my soul. It has been seven years since source of pride and rooted personhood, o Ba

I have crawled into this artificial cave on my last journey to “Indian country,” while the realities of the twenty-first Sergi

30 magazine SUMMER 2009 century-American economy can dra- imagery: eagle-feather crucifixes; images What would it mean to educate people matically erode the individual’s connec- of Madonna and Child as Indian mother so that they could, themselves, gener- tion to that source. and baby; a medicine wheel in the center ate jobs, build structures of opportunity On the reservations in this part of the cross. Our ritual in the sweat lodge where none existed, and exercise a of Montana, for instance, unemploy- itself has elements of baptism and other creativity that extends to the creation of ment ranges as high as 60 to 65 percent, symbols of death, descent, and resurrec- livelihoods, forging of communities, and according to the BIA. The solution to this tion. Such resources of spiritual strength flourishing in a land that does not easily problem has proven elusive for more than are vital to people facing the stark chal- yield its bounty? Some Emory gradu- a century. Initially the federal government lenges of their world. ates surely operate outside traditional proposed simply eliminating the problem In southeastern Montana the scarcity structures of work and institutional life. by stamping out Indians’ sense of “Indian- of employment remains a hard fact, for But in general, “Trailblazing 101” has yet ness,” through programs that encouraged young Native Americans especially. How to make it into the curriculum. assimilation. In this way, it was thought, they resolve the difficulty may affect The tribes have both the freedom and the bane of unemployment would vanish their connection to family, tribe, and the burden of figuring out for themselves along with an outmoded way of life. land. According to Curtis Brien, a Crow the political economy that will work best Of course, Native Americans were and a health educator for the Indian for them. For the Crow and Cheyenne in not eager to give up so much. During Health Service, the only job crying out this part of the world, their large tracts the past forty years the resistance stirred to be filled is that of nurse. The modern of southeastern Montana real estate are by the American Indian Movement, IHS facility where he works has some both an obstacle and a boon. Unlike the growing awareness of whites about injustice to Native Americans, and the recognition of tribal sovereignty by the The very concept of tribal identity federal government all have reaffirmed sometimes raises conundrums, especially in regard to proposals for the power and value of the tribe. Inside the sweat lodge I feel that power economic development. and value coming through the chanted prayers of Burt Medicine Bull and his twenty nursing positions unfilled. Doc- their eastern or southwestern cousins brothers. During one of the periods of tors also are needed to address the health (the Wampanoag and Mohawk in New light, as the door flap is raised and water problems that seem to afflict Native England, for example, or the Apache and is passed clockwise (always clockwise) Americans disproportionately: obesity, Pueblo in Arizona and New Mexico), around the circle, Burt invites us each, hypertension, diabetes, alcoholism, and these northern Plains tribes inhabit less in turn, to “express yourself”—say what drug addiction. populous areas that make it difficult to deep need or calling moves us—and then, Unless they have a career in health create tribal wealth—and jobs—with when darkness falls again with the door care in mind, however, young men and casinos. On the other hand, their land flap, to offer a prayer as he and his broth- women have little incentive to leave the is rich in minerals, especially coal and ers chant in Cheyenne. reservation for education if they want to coal-bed methane. I cannot make out the words of the return to live among their tribe; the rez As happens so often, however, forces prayers being offered but only hear that offers few jobs for engineers, lawyers, in the larger culture work against the prayers are being said, as the Cheyenne accountants, computer programmers, Indian: in an age that seeks to be green, chants on top of the prayers—male or biologists. Teachers will have some the natural resources on the rez are sud- voices, “hey-yo han’na,” gourd rattles— opportunities. The rest will make their denly less clean and less desirable than transform the prayers into an ancient way with low-paying work or crime. alternatives like solar and wind power. appeal from the depth of the heart that This harsh reality prompted a discus- Potential investors in mining coal and blends with the darkness around us. sion during one of our group’s daily gas have been slow to step forward. The Native American Church and reflection sessions—really a challenge to Although Montana has begun to test the other forms of spiritual discipline clearly Emory’s vision of “working for posi- possibility of harvesting wind for power ground tribal members with internal tive transformation in the world.” For (it is the fifth-windiest state in the coun- strength and eternal verities. Many Crow middle-class students preparing for jobs try), so far none of the seven reservations and Cheyenne are Roman Catholics but in cities like Atlanta, where structures in Montana has been able to forge an bring a kind of syncretism to their wor- of work already exist, that phrase really alliance with any of the utility companies ship, drawing on traditional icons and means “doing good while doing well.” supplying electricity to the state.

sUMMER 2009 magazine 31 The very concept of tribal identity sometimes raises conundrums, especially in regard to proposals for economic development. Jo’etta Plumage-Buck- house, a Gros Ventre Sioux who works as an archaeologist for the BIA, told us that the question of how, or even whether, to develop a tribe’s natural resources some- times cannot be resolved by the tribe itself. For instance, some members of the Northern Cheyenne tribe believe that the coal and gas beneath their ranches and towns should be harvested for the well-being of the tribe; others believe that the tribe holds the sacred land in trust and should not exploit it simply because America wants energy. While a new gen- eration of tribal leaders might help find the way forward, for now the question stands at an impasse. Further complexity abounds in Indian country—a term used by both “In this life,” Whiteman says, “we are all related. You are not here Native Americans and whites to describe by accident, just as Sitting Bull did not come here by accident. not only a geography but also a state of mind. As Michael Elliott, an associate professor of English at Emory, recounts It was meant to happen this way.” in Custerology (University of Chicago, 2007), nothing underscores that com- plexity so breathtakingly as the site of the National Park Service). Abutting the working with the U.S. Army was that in one of America’s most famous battles, Crow reservation to the east—and only a 1825 the tribe signed what was called “the the so-called “Custer’s Last Stand,” more fifth as large for a population about half Friendship Treaty,” a document whose properly referred to as the Battle of the the size of the Crow—is the Northern title and commitments the Crow took Little Bighorn. Our group of journey- Cheyenne reservation, home of those more seriously than the whites. ers spent a full and arduous day on that who killed Custer. Little question remains that the battlefield with an expert guide, a former The Crow will say, however, that their betrayal of political promises and the history teacher named Steve Adelson, rez represents only a minuscule portion of murder of leaders has left room for who for twenty years has brought groups the land that “was always our homeland,” lasting bitterness. In the circle of the to this terrain at the western edge of the according to Lawrence Flatlip, a Crow sweat lodge, however, we are invited to Crow reservation. artist and oral historian. Flatlip’s presen- know each other as human beings, not as Elliott recounts the history of how tation to our group, on the first evening ethnic beings divided by history. Larry that battle has been interpreted and, in our dormitory at Montana State Medicine Bull, in prelude to his prayer, often, manipulated for various ends by University-Billings, included a map that reveals that his twenty-four-year-old whites and Indians both. Just as interest- showed ancient Crow territory extend- daughter has died within the past week, ing is the continuing friction among the ing across most of what is now Montana, leaving a child behind. The brothers also five tribes who rode on opposite sides on into northern Wyoming, and north into have recently lost a sister. No causes are that hot June day in 1876. The Crow, who Canada. (In fact the first reservation for mentioned, no details given, only the scouted for Custer, were rewarded for the Crow established by treaty comprised most basic fact, that here are men joined their friendship with the United States some 33 million acres, compared to in grief. As the door flap descends and

by being awarded the largest reservation today’s reservation of about 2.2 million light changes to dark, the brothers chant n to

in Montana, including the battlefield acres.) Some Crow historians also say, as their grief, and I find myself humming in

(except for two small parcels managed by Flatlip did, that the reason for the Crows’ wordlessly in unison with them. kay h

32 magazine SUMMER 2009 Deer Medicine Rocks, the place where Sitting Bull received his vision of “soldiers without ears.” The site now is part of the ranch run that circle and eventually comes back by Jack Bailey, whose family has owned around. In my tradition we call that this land since 1883. A courtly gentleman circle the Medicine Wheel. You are not who speaks with equal pride about his here by accident, just as Sitting Bull did grandparents and his grandchildren, Bai- not come here by accident. It was meant ley represents a critical generation in the to happen this way.” preservation of this land. He invites us to The way it happened for Sitting Bull this space as if to a corner of the Vatican. was that when he found these rocks, he He and his family take seriously their fulfilled his promise to Wakan’ Tanka, the stewardship of this sacred place and are Great Spirit, that in return for a vision he working with a private trust to see to the would sacrifice “a scarlet blanket” of his long-term preservation of the site. own blood and dance the sun dance. To Bailey has brought his friend Phillip prepare for the sun dance, Sitting Bull sat Whiteman to interpret the signs on the still and prayed while his brother cut fifty rock. A chief of the Northern Cheyenne small pieces of flesh from each of Sitting Council of Forty-Four, traditional dancer, Bull’s arms using an awl and a razor-sharp and horse trainer, Whiteman has led us knife. With blood flowing from these in our vehicles from Bailey’s ranch house wounds, Sitting Bull danced before the up the half-mile dirt track to the mono- sun dance pole from noon, through the lith. Thirty yards from the Deer Medicine night, and until noon the next day, when Rocks, he kneels to clear a small circle he was laid out to receive his vision. At the end of our sweat, we pil- of dirt in which he burns his “tobacco Within a day of carving onto the rocks grims crawl out of the lodge and drape offering”—half of a cigarette that he lights the stick figures of Sitting Bull’s vision, ourselves in lawn chairs or across mats and puffs on to get it burning well, then the great camp of Indians moved on, strewn outside as we recover; the enerva- sets in the middle of the bare patch of leaving petroglyph messages for anyone tion of the experience has left us physi- earth. As he does so, the wind picks up who came after and an unmistakable cally drained and emotionally spent. We and brings cooling relief from the hot sun trail to the Little Bighorn. The next week still have one more pilgrim’s journey to overhead. Custer and the Seventh Cavalry arrived at make on this last day of our trip, how- Standing with us at the base of the the Deer Medicine Rocks, where Arikara ever. After cooling off and driving half rocks, Bailey points across the valley to scouts interpreted the foreboding signs. an hour to the town of Lame Deer, we the small log cabin that his grandparents Custer had no ears for their warning but refuel with lunch in the tiny café of Chief built in 1883. At the time, he says, the sun- followed the trail to destiny. Dull Knife College (the Cheyenne tribal dance pole used by Sitting Bull still stood Leaving the Bailey ranch for the college), and then we set out for our des- about a hundred yards from the cabin. long drive back to Billings and a night’s tination four miles north of town. Before us the rock face rises up and rest before flying home, I ponder those The sandstone monolith called Deer away at a slight angle, thirty to forty feet. carved images of men falling to their Medicine Rocks rises from the val- Spread across it are petroglyphs, some doom because they would not hear. The ley floor along Rosebud Creek. In this of them predating Sitting Bull by hun- Emory motto, Cor prudentis possidebit valley Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, and an dreds of years. As Whiteman speaks, he scientiam, is the first half of Proverbs estimated fifteen thousand Sioux and interprets the carvings from right to left, 18:15 and is usually translated, “The wise Cheyenne men, women, and children, and from bottom to top, at odds with heart seeks knowledge.” The other half along with their twenty-eight thousand our Western way of reading. Here we of the verse reads, “The ears of the wise horses, paused for perhaps a week before see a jagged blue scar from an ancient seek it out.” We are wise to use our ears, moving to the banks of the Little Bighorn lightning strike running from the top of but I wonder what we are not hearing. and the fated meeting with Custer— the largest rock to the ground. The streak I do know that my ears seemed most “fated” because Sitting Bull himself had runs through the carving of a deer, which, acute as I sat in the dark of the sweat seen a vision of soldiers “coming down with the nearby image of a medicine man, lodge, listening closely to the sound of like grasshoppers,” tumbling headfirst gives the rocks their name. my breathing and to the presence of into his camp, their hats falling off, their “In this life,” Whiteman says, “we those men and women who, for centu- ears missing because they refused to use are all related. All of life travels within ries, found their way to the same sacred them and listen. a circle. Everything is connected within circle.

sUMMER 2009 magazine 33 on a great escape in the mid-1970s,When Jonishe tacked Mitchell a fancy name onto decided it befitting her evolving icono- clast image: hejira. The story is that she drove from the eastern United States to the West with no license, a somewhat tenuous grasp of the rules of the road, and that blonde head in those famous clouds of hers as she contemplated another self-destructing romance. Enviable art results from nearly everything she does, and no less so with the recording that followed once she had showered off the dust. Mitchell has given us few photographic images of her on the albums— instead, she settled into a pattern of providing painted self-portraits (some with cats, all with tongue in cheek). Which is why the Hejira album is so arresting, especially in an era before Photoshop. A road runs straight through Mitchell, who is stunning in a black cloak with her windswept hair and the ubiquitous cigarette. The wind machine FPO never worked so hard; bohemianism may have no higher expression; and Mitchell made it so difficult for the rest of us to undertake a great escape on lesser terms. One can argue that Mitchell’s career has been fueled by these comings and goings, by the allure of being a “hitcher” on the “free, free way,” as she describes herself in the song “Coyote.” It is certainly no accident that, in summing

by Susan Carini04g Illustration by Yan Nascimbene

up the work of her career on a two- disc set in 2002, she settled on the title oniTravelogue. Unlike Hejira, Travelogue did not produce any photographs of the young,& lithesome Mitchell in a sundress holding a forearm up against J the blazing desert sun. But damned if she didn’t again travel unforgettably, this time a startling number of miles back across a brilliant career. Knowing that the glamour odds and gods surely would be against me, knowing that I can hardly remember how to hold a cigarette (one wisely gives those up, Joni) and that a wind machine is of little use for hair that is about three inches from root to tip, I nonetheless got out of the office chair that is my prison and took my own version of a hejira. And I decided, my own tongue firmly in cheek, to make Mitchell the heart of my quest. HowM she became thus, I am still note sure. Like the rest of you, I curl my lip with contempt at those wayward souls who scramble over the front gates of David Letterman’s residence or try to tackle Sharon Stone com- ing out of the grocery store. I assured myself that Mitchell was a meta- phorical destination, that if she was at the top of a lonely mountain peak strumming her guitar (something that having had polio as a child makes increasingly difficult), I might huff and puff my way to the top, only to head back down the other side without so much as a glance in her direc- tion. The journey is the thing. Smile all you want, I had this situation under control, The temperatures in western Canada were lovely—cool. despite having grown to love her music in a way that surprises And I tried to be similarly cool as I counseled myself that even me. For I have lived most of my life in the world of books Mitchell probably would not be at the performance—that and was happy to claim that world, to any doubters, as the sole although she had been at early performances, a superstar has source of all wisdom. When I died, I long ago decided, a friend better things to do than see the same ballet over and over. or family member would read someone’s funny, profound The hired limousine driver got me there early, so I loitered words to hasten me on my way. Music was something you in the lobby, casting a scornful editor’s eye on the typo in turned on while bored in a car. Mitchell’s statement in the program (Yeats spelled “Yates”). I How, then, did Mitchell enter the pantheon of this literary tried to act as if it were somehow natural for a workaholic from snob? One-word answer: story. Consider the scores of brilliant the southeastern U.S. to be standing alone in the somewhat stories she tells us in such songs as “Furry Sings the Blues,” shabby Eric Harvie theater, her Pakistani driver waiting out- about the world of W. C. Handy; “Edith and the Kingpin,” side, himself probably nervous about the intentions of the large about a drug lord and the woman he enslaves; or “Shades caribou that we passed a block earlier. of Scarlett Conquering” about—hell, I don’t know what it is A dancer in street clothes was in the lobby explaining to his about, actually, but the storytelling is magnificent, with its parents that “Joni will be here,” that she had been working with twice-repeated final line, “A woman must have everything.” the dancers for several weeks. Having proof in that program of A woman must indeed have everything or, at the very the way words are twisted, I thought: “Joni” and “here” could least, a big bite of that pie. And so I bit, with my fiftieth birth- mean a lot of things. It could mean that she is backstage or at a day looming like a billboard on the highway of my life. As I hotel nearby or in my limo, for that matter. Responsibly tamp- did so, I was keenly aware of the great escape my father made ing down my expectations, I took my seat in the auditorium. at roughly this same age. But she was there, and there came a moment at the end He began an affair that, after five years of back and forth when my hard-won seat became a goldmine. As we stood with my too-gracious mother, ended in divorce. Although the applauding the ballet in the dark, three figures glided past us family car never landed with finality on empty holding hands: the (my mother, sister, and I patched ourselves artistic director, the back together), it also would never again set designer, and register “full.” I was ever so conscious of not nd so I bit, with my fiftieth Mitchell. As she wanting to make that kind of journey, of trip- birthday looming like a billboard passed seat B2, my ping into selfishness and ego. spot in the uni- But do not mistake me: I understand some- on the highway of my life. verse at that exact thing of what he felt, of wanting to peel back the layers of age moment, she smiled at someone who greeted her. The smile and mortgage payments and responsibilities. It was no accident was that of a twenty-five-year-old, not the nearly sixty-five- that, as we reached our end with him, he increasingly was hold- year-old grandmother that she is. As my friend Nancy said ing up the newspaper between us. Any shield, however flimsy, when we emailed about the moment later, “I can picture her will do for the battle-weary. exactly as you describe, and it is no surprise that she is young- Okay, so now the impetus for my travel—what Mitchell old and wise-weird and altogether fascinating.” described as the “urge for going” in an early song—was coming Mitchell participated in a question-and-answer session. from two dubious sources: an aging rock star and my adulterer- Several brilliant questions formed, then stuck in my throat. I father. But why couldn’t I, as Mitchell described it in “Amelia,” could talk about my home in Atlanta, close to the Savannah “sleep on the strange pillows of my wanderlust”? that she charmingly describes in “Blue Motel Room” (“Here in Ultimately, I decided that I would travel to Banff in Alberta, Savannah/it’s pouring rain/palm trees in the porch light stick Canada, to see a ballet—The Fiddle and the Drum—on which like cellophane”). Mitchell collaborated. It began with a giddy romp through Or I could reveal that I already have stipulated in my will Canadian Ticketmaster (I did, in fact, get the last ticket) and that songs of hers will be played at my funeral. (“Hejira” and progressed to my tidy, new black suitcase in the foyer as I “Refuge of the Roads.” Nobody better read from any boring awaited the cab that would take me to the airport. book.) I could ask her about this crazy rumor that she writes Before I left, I deliberately launched trial balloons of irre- the music first and then all those glorious words second. I sponsibility. “I may never come back,” I told family, friends, could ask about the long-awaited autobiography. I could . . . and coworkers alike. No one budged. Their disbelief was as Get back in my limousine. Go quietly. I am, after all, not a powerful as an onion sandwich. Did no one get this urge-for- stalker. Instead, I am—or, better, now have become—“a hitcher, going thing and the fact that it had made a new woman of me? a prisoner of the fine white lines of the free, free way.”

sUMMER 2009 magazine 35 Grassroots GIVING This spring I attended an event honoring the nearly eleven thousand alumni and friends who have given to Emory each year for at least the past twenty-five years.T ogether they have raised more than $42 million. Their Lane Frostbaum 86C 89L and his son, Cameron, thirteen, completed a two-hundred-mile, two- status as consecutive donors earns day bike ride this spring to raise money for the Emory Vaccine Center. They’re among thousands them entry into the Judson C. Ward of Emory alumni and friends combining life’s passions with philanthropic goals. Consecutive Giving Society, named for Emory’s beloved “Jake” Ward 33C 36G, Philanthropy 101: Support What You Love who has an eighty-year relationship with the University that includes at Philanthropist. The word conjures images of multimillion-dollar gifts, Woodruff and least forty-one years of consecutive Candler, Buffett and Gates. But the word translates from the Greek as “to love people,” gifts. I say “at least” because Emory has and anyone can be a philanthropist, from the student who makes her first $25 class only been keeping records for forty- gift to the former Emory patient who makes an estate gift to honor his physician. one years, and Dr. Ward’s generosity is as great as his spirit. “The challenge for all of us who care about Emory and the world is to find the intersec- tion between our own commitments and the University’s strengths,” says President James The commitment of donors like Jake W. Wagner. “What do we want to accomplish with philanthropy? Emory can be a power- Ward is unwavering. Despite a difficult ful means for us to fulfill those aspirations.” economy, Emory alumni and friends are as dedicated to supporting the Since Campaign Emory began in September 2005, nearly sixty-six thousand alumni University as ever and are finding and friends have invested in the University, supporting everything from scholarships countless creative ways to do so. As and medical research to construction projects, academic programs, professorships, you’ll read in the story at right, anyone and information technology. Remarkably, 87 percent of those donors made gifts of can be a philanthropist. I urge you to less than $1,000 each; 43 percent gave less than $100 each. follow your heart with a gift to Emory. There has never been a better time. “The impact of those gifts is enormous, resulting in nearly $9 million in support for Emory so far. It’s gratifying to see donors realizing important life goals through philanthropy,” says Susan Cruse, Emory’s senior vice president for development and Susan Cruse, Senior Vice President, alumni relations.

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36 magazine SUMMER 2009 percent of the proceeds going to the Emory Vaccine Center, one of the world’s largest academic vaccine centers.

Friends and family of the late Stefanie Canright 00C have made nearly eight hundred gifts to support the Stefanie Erin Canright Endowed Scholarship Fund in Emory College of Arts and Sciences. Created to honor her memory after she passed away in 2004, the scholarship reflects her commit- ment to Emory, love for travel, and engagement with the community. The fund is administered by the college’s Center for International Programs Abroad and enables a student to spend time in another country each year, completing a proj- ect that combines academics and public service.

“The tremendous response of Stefanie’s family and friends is a great testament to her, and the success of this grassroots Alumni, members, and friends of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity are fund-raising effort is a remarkable achievement,” says Philip raising $150,000 to match a challenge from the R. Howard Dobbs, Wainwright 85C 85G, associate dean for international and Jr. Foundation. summer programs. for the past eleven years each, making more than two hundred Alumni, members, and friends of Emory’s Alpha Theta gifts to support scholarships, strengthen endowments, and chapter of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity are working to raise provide unrestricted funds that can be used for the most $150,000 by the end of 2010 to match a challenge grant from pressing needs. the R. Howard Dobbs, Jr. Foundation. The total raised will create the Alpha Tau Omega Leadership Development Fund One of Emory’s newest consecutive donors, Casson Wen at Emory, offering fifteen $500 grants per semester for quali- 08OX 10C, spoke to the Jake Ward Society at its spring event. fied ATO brothers on financial aid. A philosophy major from Houston, Texas, Wen has given to Emory in each of the past three years. “Each member of Alpha Tau Omega has benefitted from his association with the chapter, and we are asking them to “Your contributions to Emory not only help better the institu- continue their commitment to service by supporting young tion as a whole,” he said, “they also inspire others, including stu- men who are beginning the journey they have been on them- dents, to follow your lead.” selves,” says Paul McLarty Jr. 63C 66L, chapter adviser for the Alpha Theta chapter and incoming president of the Emory Alumni Board (EAB).

The EAB has an enthusiastic approach to giving, with all A Challenge for the Class of 1982 of its forty members supporting the Emory Alumni Board ...... Leadership Scholarship, along with many other Emory pro- Wendy Rosenberg-Nadel 82C and Mary Rahmes 82C have grams and priorities. McLarty alone has made 166 gifts to started an Emory Advantage scholarship fund in the name Emory over thirty consecutive years, an achievement that earns him membership in the Judson C. Ward Consecutive of the Emory College of Arts and Sciences class of 1982. Giving Society. (See “Grassroots Giving,” opposite page.) Their challenge to the class: Raise $1 million by December 31, 2012, which marks the end of Campaign Emory. Nadel, The Ward Society’s 1,084 members—donors who have given Rahmes, and six other classmates already have donated consecutively for at least twenty-five years—have generated a total of $100,000. Email Patricia Dean White at more than $42 million for Emory. Among them are Dusty [email protected] for details. Porter 85C and Ed Cloaninger 91OX 93C, cochairs of the EAB campaign committee. They have been consecutive donors

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Journey to Emory, Journey to Mars We humans seem to have a need better. What a robot could not tell us, for liberating our spirits by liberat- however, is what it must mean to walk ing our feet—for trekking because we on another planet and know oneself to believe that experiencing a journey and be almost impossibly cut off from some a different place will lead us to a kind of the most basic experiences of being of inner transformation. It’s not just human—a vision of blue sky, a feeling any journey or place that will foster this of wind on the face, earth under the transformation, however. It’s not tour- feet. No robot could feel the poignancy ism; it’s pilgrimage. of being human in a place devoid of all For many of us who set out on signs of human passing or human possi- pilgrimage, this inner need plays out bility. Only a pilgrim would understand through a determination to connect in a the significance. physical way with the spiritual landscape Human beings long to go on pilgrim- Jame s w. Wagner, preside nt, of others. People stand at the site where age for the sake of an outward experi- emory university Pickett’s Charge began at Gettysburg, ence that renders, in the old formula of not simply to view the landscape but to the sacraments, “an inward grace.” We Walker. In breathing the atmosphere of imagine what thousands of men must sense that taking ourselves off to a place these sites, fitting our spirits temporar- have felt like as they faced each other beyond our ordinary, everyday realm ily to their architecture and landscape, across a mile of fields on July 3, 1863. of experience is the prerequisite to deep we perhaps imagine that we participate Christians, Jews, and Muslims travel to transformation of our tired or underedu- in some small way in the greatness of Jerusalem not merely to visit particular cated or parochial selves whom we wish heart of those who left their shimmering sites but to try to experience how stony to be no longer. For that reason, going legacy there. streets and bare hills helped shape a to college will always be an important This enlargement of the self, which distinctive sense of the Holy among pilgrimage for some men and women, is also a transformation of one’s under- the city’s ancient peoples. Devotees of whether it be leaving home for a univer- standing, is the principal mission of a Shakespeare journey to his tomb not to sity across the country or driving across university like Emory. At the core of all touch a piece of marble but to stand as town for evening classes. the research, teaching, service, scholar- close as possible to the mortal remains One reason why great universities ship, and social action in which Emory of someone they would love to have had appeal to prospective students is that people engage daily burns a bright a dinner conversation with. Behind the they are not only home to superior conviction that these are the paths to urge to pilgrimage lies a deep, irrational scholars but also appropriate destina- growth, change, and improvement, to need for an understanding of history, tions for pilgrims of the mind: here, in participation in the maturing of human- emotion, and transcendence beyond our Magdalen College, at the University of ity—both our personal humanity and ordinary experience. Oxford, C. S. Lewis had his rooms and humanity in general. This need is not always about the wrote The Chronicles of Narnia; here, Something innate in the human past, but it is about significance and in the Cavendish Laboratory, at the psyche spurs us to pilgrimage. As long meaning. Consider a “pilgrimage” to University of Cambridge, Watson and as universities are worthy places for such Mars, which would be a significant and Crick, with the help of Rosalind Frank- pilgrimage, they will satisfy that drive, meaningful undertaking indeed. Most lin’s data, mapped the structure of the will be necessary, and will flourish. scientists agree that there is no earthly DNA molecule; here, in the First Parish reason, so to speak, to send a human Church near Harvard Yard, Emerson passenger in a spacecraft to the red delivered his era-shaping Phi Beta Kappa planet. Robots could do everything that oration, “The American Scholar.” Here, an astronaut could do there—gather in the Manuscript, Archives, and Rare

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Golden Years 42 Coming Home Oxford’s Class of 1959 marks a half-century during Emory Commencement Weekend. 44 Alumni Ink Photo by Kay Hinton. 52 Coda: Alice Walker from the EAA

Dear Friends, Catch the Spirit! One place where we’ll see a lot of For the past several autumns dur- Emory shirts September 24 through ing Emory Homecoming Weekend, the 26 is campus, but Spirit Day is just one Emory Alumni Association—the entire aspect of Emory Homecoming Week- Emory campus, really—has encouraged end. From Oxford to Atlanta, Emory alumni and students alike to Catch the alumni, students, parents, faculty, and Spirit. staff will be celebrating our community For Homecoming 2009, “Catch the at dozens of events. Spirit” has taken on additional meaning. Among our thousands of campus We’ve designated September 26, Home- visitors will be hundreds of alumni coming Saturday, as Emory Spirit Day. who’ve returned to Emory for their class On Emory Spirit Day, we want to blanket reunions. If your graduation year ended allison dyke s, vice pre side nt the world in blue and gold. in a “4” or a “9,” whether you were an for alumni relations No matter where you are on Septem- undergraduate or graduate student, this ber 26, we hope you’ll wear an Emory is your reunion year. During the past few emory.edu/econnection) is our online shirt, don an Emory cap, fly an Emory years, Emory’s reunions have exploded social and professional community that pennant, drink out of that plastic Emory in popularity (and fun). So many things now boasts more than three thousand cup you picked up at Dooley’s Ball, and have changed about campus (classroom members. If you want to connect with show the world that you’re proud to be buildings, residence halls) and your your fellow alumni, E-Connection is the Emory alumni. classmates (hairlines, waistlines), yet place to do it. There are more than 110,000 alumni so many things have stayed the same Have a great summer, and I hope I’ll out there. The man living next door and (friendliness, attractiveness of both the see many of you—especially our reunion the woman who manages the bank could campus and, I’m certain, you and your classes—on campus this fall for Emory be fellow alumni, and you might never friends)—your class reunion is an expe- Homecoming Weekend. And don’t know it. On Spirit Day, we hope to break rience not to be missed. forget to include a trip to the Miller- down all those barriers and have a lot of You can find out more informa- Ward Alumni House during your visit. fun while doing it. As an extra bonus, tion on our Reunions webpage at www. It truly is the house that you built. And we’ll look really sharp, too. Blue and gold alumni.emory.edu/reunions. TheEAA if you can’t make it back, I look forward are an excellent color combination. sends most of its reunion updates to browsing all of your pictures from On Spirit Day, you can wear your electronically, and we don’t want you to Emory Spirit Day no matter where you colors for a day, but we hope you’ll make miss a message. If your address informa- are. If you have any questions about the the memories last a lifetime. We invite tion isn’t up to date, please visit the EAA’s EAA or Emory in general, please send all our spirited alumni to send us your main website at www.alumni.emory.edu me an email at [email protected]. It’s pictures in Emory gear. We’d like to and click on “Update Your Info.” always a pleasure hearing from you. know your stories, too. Did you hold At reunion time or anytime, there a cookout with your Emory friends or are many ways to stay connected to your make a new friend after seeing her in the alma mater. TheEAA ’s website is your grocery store with her Emory shirt? Let most comprehensive source for alumni us know, and we just might post your news, and it’s updated nearly every day. picture or reprint your story on the EAA You can register for alumni events any- website or in an alumni publication such where in the world, update your alumni as this one. information, and much more. To learn more about Spirit Day, You can follow the EAA on Twitter including how to submit photos and (www.twitter.com/EmoryAlumni) or z

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reunion: Above, from left, Genie Fulcher 59OX 62N and Mervin Gould 59OX 62B share a hug; Jeanette Dookwah 09C and her sister Michelle share cotton candy. Generations gather to celebrate newest alumni The Class of 2009 numbers some on the list of this year’s Corpus Cordis 3,800 new graduates; one wonders just how Aureum inductees. “It was wonderful to many times the word “congratulations” was see so many people from our past and to spoken, whispered, or shouted during the remember those who were not present.” five-day celebration of Emory Commence- While the Class of 1959 made its mark ment Weekend May 7 through 11, 2009. once again on campus, it was the Class of “Everything about Commencement 2009 that was star of the show. From the Weekend was spectacular. We had record moment they crossed the Houston Mill attendance at several events,” says Cassie bridge during the Candlelight Crossover Young 07C, the EAA’s coordinator for to the moment they crossed the stage to alumni programs. “In some cases, like receive their diplomas, the new gradu- the Legacy Reception for families with ates’ energy and excitement pulsated multiple generations of alumni, it was across campus. standing room only.” “The Candlelight Crossover in par- Perhaps no group was more excited ticular was very meaningful,” said Erin than the undergraduate Class of 1959, Crews 09C 09G, a new alumna from on campus for its fifty-year reunion. Raleigh, North Carolina. “Receiving Attendance at the reunion numbered such a warm welcome from generations more than two hundred guests, and of Emory alumni on the other side was more than 135 alumni were inducted surprisingly emotional.”—Eric Rangus into Corpus Cordis Aureum, the EAA’s special group of alumni from half a century ago and earlier.

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on Commencement Monday wearing k pa r celebration:Clockwise from top, a proud family gets in the swing at the Block Party; z; Lega lt e specially designed gold robes. bloc seniors on the bridge; Maria Town 09C, Student Government Association president, carries a n ;

“We so much enjoyed the events flame; Bill Daniel 73OX 75C and Linda Daniel 75C celebrate their son Thomas 07OX 09C, the to ryan m ryan in associated with the reunion,” said Nancy third generation of Daniels at Emory, at the Legacy Brunch; the Gregory family, Susan 77OX h ver: b King Scoggins 59C, who attended with 79C, Kate 09C, and Luke 76OX 78C, whose father taught at Oxford and whose mother served : k ay ox osso

as a librarian there; and Anna Heilbrun 09C with her grandmother, Marian Heilbrun 75G. r ’59 husband Bob 53C 57M 60MR and was c

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alumni ink From Russia with Love Pioneering airwoman Anna Yegorova piloted combat missions for the for- mer Soviet Union during World War II, survived imprisonment at a Nazi camp, and was later freed only to be suspected of treason by her coun- try’s secret police. Through compel- ling anecdotes, Yegorova tells her inspiring life story in Red Sky, Black Death: A Soviet Woman Pilot’s Memoir of the Eastern Front (Slavica Publishers, 2009). The memoir was edited and cotranslated from Kim Green 92C with Anna Russian by Kim Green 92C, a Russian major at Emory Yegorova at her home in who also has worked as a flight instructor.Red Sky, Moscow. Black Death delves not only into the war itself, but also into the meaningful camaraderie Yegorova shared with the other members of her regiment.

Spiritual Connections: The daily demands were thought to produce virtue and of work, school, family, and friends often sophistication, reinforced an aristocrat’s leave little time for reflection.I n Simply elite position in society. Trudy Eden 77L Connect: Morning and Evening Prayers explores the history of this social phenom- for 31 Days (The Peppertree Press, 2008), enon and its influence on the colonization retired United Methodist pastor Archie of America in The Early American Table: Buie 71T helps readers reconnect with Food and Society in the New World God in their everyday lives. The book (Northern Illinois University Press, 2008). provides a month-long spiritual journey founded around simple, unique, and Close Encounters of the Psychic Kind: uplifting prayers. Following a series of phone calls with Greta Alexander, a woman who believed Building History: In Bungalow Homes for she gained psychic abilities after being the Nation (Shawnee County Historical struck by lightning, Leon E. Curry 59C Society, 2008), Max Movsovitz 85C, who 62M conducted some of the first sci- has a background in historic preservation, entific experiments in psychic medical explores the architectural legacy of a small diagnosis. In The Doctor and the Psychic Midwestern bungalow plan company that (BookSurge, 2008), Curry discusses these grew into one of the nation’s largest house experiments and Alexander’s tested ability plan companies. Filled with illustrations, to diagnose patients’ diseases by simply the book examines architectural styles examining a handprint. Curry’s story from Tudor Revival to Cape Cod. Recently, encourages scientists to continue their Movsovitz restored a historic home of study of the connection between psychic

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sUMMER 2009 magazine 45 register emory abroad chose to remain in Per- A Man of Two Worlds ere at the request of his Beninese friends and Until January, Ryan Smith 95C hadn’t set because nothing else has host family, expect- foot on American soil for nearly five years. arrived to take its place,” ing to stay no more He hasn’t had daily access to electricity, Smith says. than another year or running water, or the Internet for more Smith enlisted a two. He continued his than a decade. Smith, who joined the young villager to tutor work with the reserve Peace Corps in the summer of 1998, now him in the local Baato- and also assumed lives in Perere, a traditional African village. num. He founded an responsibility for ten “Coming back has been strange, environmentally focused children who had been because in almost eleven years, I’ve only youth club and secured orphaned by the death Ryan Smith 95C been back three times,” Smith said during a small grant from the of a member of Smith’s a recent visit to Atlanta. Peace Corps when his students expressed host family in 1998. Smith spent three years working with interest in starting a tree nursery. During Smith now serves as executive direc- local environmental groups after graduat- the club’s first year, Smith and his students tor of the reserve’s Regional Council and ing from Emory College with a degree planted nearly three thousand trees and of the reserve itself, the Antisua Commu- in human and natural ecology. Then, the project gained the interest of both nity Forest, which has grown to include without telling his family or friends, he Perere’s chief and the region’s king, who nearly fifteen thousand acres.A lthough rode his bicycle into downtown Atlanta suggested that Smith establish a nature he has wholeheartedly embraced his life and underwent the Peace Corps’ rigorous reserve.“They set aside a little piece of in Africa, Smith remains unsure where application process. land, and then we had a party and went the next few years will take him. “I feel Fluent in French, Smith was sent to the out and planted the trees,” Smith says. every bit at home in that village now, but th Republic of Benin, a small, poverty-stricken “There was traditional music, dance, food. I miss my life here too,” he says. “My i Francophone country on Africa’s western It was a big success.” big challenge in life will be to find out y ryan smy ryan s Smith didn’t leave Benin when his Franchesca e

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50 magazine SUMMER 2009 register tribute John Spurgeon Howett, who died April 8 at eighty-two, was an ardent advocate for the arts and a distin- guished professor and mentor at Emory. Born in Kokomo, Indiana, Howett served with the U.S. infan- try during World War II. He went on to earn a BFA in from the John Her- ron Art Institute in Indianapolis and a PhD from the University of Chi- cago. A specialist in the art of the Italian Renaissance, he was recruited by Emory in 1966 to help build its new program in art history. During his thirty-year career, Howett received many awards for teaching and service, including the 2009 Woolford B. Baker Award for lifelong service to Emory and to the Carlos Museum. Howett and his wife of fifty-two years, Catherine, had four daughters: Meghan 80C 83L, Maeve 82C 85N 97MN 06G, Catherine 84C 99G, and Ciannat 87C; Maeve, Ciannat, and Catherine hold positions at Emory, and Meghan serves on the Board of Visitors.

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Thursday, December 4, 2008 Today, a few hours before sunset, I went with friends to place sixty-four tiny turtles back into the ocean. They had come ashore months before as embryos in their mothers’ bodies. The mothers had laid the soft, leathery eggs in deep, under- sand nests, covered them carefully, and left them to hatch, before returning to the ocean’s depths. My sweetheart and I had walked our dog along their nesting trail in May, marveling at the igloo-like bubbles that covered the beach. Now, in early December, under large plastic buckets, dozens of baby turtles wriggled and crawled, over and over each other, and into our lucky hands. That is what I felt, incredibly lucky to be there to help them go home. Home to a giant sea that, even as we lifted the tiny dark gray milagros de la vida (miracles of life) from the sand, roared and crashed against the shore, sending foam and spray well above our heads. I have been coming to this beach in Mexico, this same stretch of ocean, for twenty years; but never at the right time. Usually I have been writing in such seclusion I’ve missed this astonishing event. Two years ago I came to help with the turtles for the first time. It was one of my most intense spiritual experiences. Them, so dark, suede Milagros de la Vida—Turtles scaled, and determined; me, speechless to find them so tiny that five of them, if they were still, might fit By alice walker in one hand; yet knowing their way home. Scooping them out of the bucket, we barely had a moment to prevent them from falling from our hands, before they, flippers working ceaselessly, followed the smell of the sea, the spray on their bodies, and began making a dash, their kind of dash, more like a happy waddle, to the water. Going back to Mother. Not many of them will survive their journey to adulthood. They will fall prey to many preda- tors before they are the huge size a few of them will attain. But some will make it, and come ashore years from now as mothers themselves, ready to start the cycle all over again. I said to my sweetheart how odd it must seem to the turtles to have lived eons without needing the help of humans to keep their numbers viable, after having been hunted almost to extinction. Then I thought of how long it would take for our intervention in the cycle to become a part of what the turtles expect; a part of their DNA. We laughed, thinking of ker. z l a the baby turtles to come, scrambling around in the coming lt e w c i thousands of years, patiently waiting for us. Where’s that l ryan Meryan human hand that’s supposed to appear around about now, y a ker: b 2008 b l a ©

they would ask themselves. We laughed more, if soberly, ; w hoping that, with still more luck, we—as that human hand— ht com . pyrig

would always, if still needed, be there. co hoto kp Alice Walker is the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Color Purple turtles stoc and more than two dozen other works. She placed her archive at — a/i j e

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