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VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY • SUMMER 2000 Dwelling on the past “Edgehill” house provides a window to Peabody’s history Volume 69 No. 2 Summer 2000 Contents

CO U R T E FEATURES S Y S T E V E N E . C Pillars of Peabody 13 R O O K D A study of campus as character The Equation of Elizabeth Goldman 18 Peabody bids adieu to a longtime friend and powerful leader Those Were the Days 20 The “Fabulous ’40s and ’50s” return to the Rotunda The 20th Century’s Best and Worst 22 Education Ideas A panel of experts debates hits When Peabody “Edgehill” on its and misses in education Normal College be- original site, approxi- came George Peabody mately where the John F. Out of the Shell 26 College for Teachers in Kennedy Center’s MRL Build- 1909, the ﬂedgling insti- The Child Language Intervention Project ing now stands, in 1889 tution required a new is helping kids with language delays to campus. The property se-

PEYTON HOGE speak for themselves lected for that campus was located just east of “Edgehill” on its present site, 14 years Vanderbilt University after an extensive renovation by the across Hillsboro Turn- current owner DEPARTMENTS pike (now 21st Avenue), p. 22 and bordered to the Colonial and Classical Revival styles. Typical Around the Mall 2 north by Edgehill Av- Italianate detailing is found in the wide eaves enue. It would be an- century and until supported by decorative brackets and in the Alumni News 29 other five years before its closure in 1932, well-defined entry doors. The tall, narrow Visit Peabody College’s the College would open the store was a windows have a suggestion of an arch on the World-Wide Web site at its doors at the new Nashville staple, lower level. http://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/ Class Notes 32 site—the site where it re- serving as a social Steven E. Crook, an investment manager mains today. gathering place for and former Nashville grocer who is the cur- ON THE COVER: Coming Attractions inside back cover the city’s gentry. The architecture of the Peabody campus is linked to But before the land rent owner of Edgehill, undertook an exten- the College’s founding philosophies on what shape the best was cleared and buildings were erected, a In October 1910, Edgehill was purchased sive restoration and revitalization of the house human environment should take. See story on page 13. large house called “Edgehill” sat at the corner from the Thompsons by Peabody College, and in 1986. Some of the elaborate wooden and (Photographs by David Crenshaw) of Hillsboro Turnpike and Edgehill Avenue, in 1911 the house was dismantled and moved glass cabinetry from the original Thompson situated in a beautiful 12-acre grove and sur- from the site—approximately where the John F. and Company mercantile, designed to protect Camilla Persson Benbow, Dean rounded by magnificent gardens. Kennedy Center’s MRL Building now stands— goods from the dirt of the street, are now used Clarence E. (Tres) Mullis III, Director of Development Built in 1879, Edgehill was the family home to its present location on Bowling Avenue, a as the home’s bookcases and cabinets. A his- couple of miles southwest of the Vanderbilt Phillip B. Tucker, Editor of Charles A.R. Thompson, the founder of a torical marker in front of the house tells about Bonnie Arant Ertelt, Staff Writer successful Nashville dry-goods store. In fact, campus. Moved along with the house were 12 its history and connection to Peabody. THE PEABODY REFLECTOR is published biannually by George Peabody College of Amy Perry Blackman, Designer Education and Human Development at Vanderbilt University, Box 161, Peabody Thompson and Company, located downtown magnolia and ginkgo trees, which continue to Mr. Crook, who now calls his home “The Station, Nashville, TN 37203, in cooperation with the Vanderbilt Office of Alumni on Fifth Avenue, was the city’s most promi- grace the property today. Edge,” graciously shared with the REFLECTOR Nelson Bryan, Beth Fox, Lew Harris, Elizabeth P. Latt, Publications. The magazine is mailed free of charge to recent graduates and to alumni nent merchant for silver, china, furs, wools, Edgehill’s architecture is of the Italianate the vintage photograph shown on this page, Margaret W. Moore, Amy Pate, Jan Rosemergy, and friends of Peabody who make an annual gift of $25 or more to the College. Gifts should be mailed to the address above. Other correspondence should be mailed to: THE linens, and laces, as well as exquisite items style, which dominated American home con- which was given to him by a relative of Ned Andrew Solomon, Contributors PEABODY REFLECTOR, Office of Alumni Publications, Box 7703, Station B, Nashville, TN such as ball gowns, bridal trousseaux, gloves, struction between 1850 and 1880 and was Charles A.R. Thompson. It is the only early 37235. Comments about the magazine in the form of e-mail are welcome by writing the © 2000 Vanderbilt University editor at [email protected]. shawls, and parasols. For most of the 19th popular as a departure from the more formal photograph of Edgehill known to exist. PEYTON HOGE BACK SR Building Is New Home Peabody’s merger with Van- feed for Faye and Joe Wyatt Center derbilt 21 years ago that a Peabody structure has MERGER MERIT I thought the entire winter issue an outstanding and had a difficult time. I notice while com- Five years ago, under the leadership of Van- been named in honor of a one, in content and appearance. The “Where posing this letter that, under fluorescent light derbilt Chancellor Joe B. Wyatt, Peabody Col- University leader. It fol- The article about the Peabody and Are We Now?” article [within the “Part- and at a particular angle, it is easier to read. lege’s historic Social Religious Building was lows in the venerable tra- Vanderbilt merger (“Partners in Time,” Win- ners in Time” article] is a great overview and Might some consideration be given to this? transformed from a landmark in disrepair to dition of Old Main ter 2000) strikes me as excellent. My first- reflection, especially, I think, for the growing —HAROLD IVAN SMITH, EDS’74 one of the nation’s most advanced learning Building, later called Col- hand knowledge ended, of course, with proportion on campus who weren’t here when Kansas City, Missouri environments. As a permanent tribute to the lege Hall and permanently my retirement on June 30, 1982. You han- the events happened. And I loved the article enthusiasm with which Chancellor Wyatt sup- renamed Kirkland Hall in dle the complexities and sensitivities before on a longtime friend—and grandfather to one EDITOR’S NOTE: Mr. Smith is referring to the ported the model partnership between tech- 1939 in memory of James that date very well, and from what I can tell of my own children’s best friends—Charlie metallic teal ink used throughout the mag- nology and education that now is embodied H. Kirkland, Vanderbilt’s from a distance following that date, the same Allen (“Dream Builder”). So thank you on azine as a background color within boxed within it, the building has been renamed for second chancellor who led is true of the more recent treatment. all counts! articles and the “Department Notes” sec- Wyatt and his wife, Faye. the University for 44 for- Lettering behind the front columns of the Social Religious Building The tone, sensitivity, and attention to the —KATHY HOOVER-DEMPSEY tion. The metallic properties of the ink During a gala celebration held in the mative years. And the Joint heralds the new Faye and Joe Wyatt Center for Education. The important dimensions of the story all con- (Chair, Department of Psychology and create the glossy shine that has been a prob- Wyatts’ honor April 29, Board of Trust Chair- University Libraries com- original name of the SR Building remains engraved in stone above tribute to an understanding of the wisdom Human Development, Peabody lem for Mr. Smith and some of our other man Martha Ingram announced that the build- plex, built in 1941 to house the columns near the building’s dome. and success of the merger. Thank you for College), Nashville readers who have voiced the same concern. ing will now be known as the Faye and Joe the cooperative venture in- the careful hard work that made the arti- Beginning with this issue, a flat ink of a lighter Wyatt Center for Education. volving Vanderbilt, Peabody, and Scarritt Col- downlink and broadcast capabilities, and cle successful. color is replacing the troublesome metallic. “The Social Religious Building is one of lege, was renamed in 1983 as the Jean and video editing suites. TOO MUCH REFLECTOR REFLECTION —ALEXANDER HEARD this institution’s signature buildings, one of Alexander Heard Library to honor Vander- As Board Chairman Ingram stated April (Chancellor, Vanderbilt University, the most recognizable and prominent,” she bilt’s fifth chancellor and his wife. 29, the building is a “crossroads of the com- I wanted to write and voice appreciation for GETTING HIS MONEY’S WORTH 1963–1982), Nashville said. “It is the centerpiece of one of the great- This latest honor is fitting, both for Peabody munity,” hosting tens of thousands of people the last two issues of the REFLECTOR (Sum- est successes of the Wyatt years—the and for Joe B. Wyatt, who has been a cease- each year for symposia and social events. mer 1999, Winter 2000). Makes me proud I enclose a modest donation as an alumnus renaissance of Peabody College.” less champion of the College’s work. When “From this day forward,” she continued, “the My congratulations to you on the to be one of those 25,000 alumni of Peabody. because I’ve neglected in the past to do so, Now housing Peabody’s administrative he assumed the chancellorship in 1982—three Faye and Joe Wyatt Center for Education will Peabody–Vanderbilt story in the REFLECTOR. I found it an interesting read to recall my partially. I also was motivated by the superb offices, the Department of Teaching and Learn- years after the merger—Peabody faced an un- serve as a focal point for improvements in ed- The story’s historical orientation helped days on campus before that [merger] tran- issue of the REFLECTOR (Summer 1999)— ing, and the Learning Technology Center, the certain financial future and a serious enroll- ucation—improvements that will advance immeasurably in defining the issues and plac- sition and the many conversations I had with not that I had not read previous issues. 85-year-old building has been the focal point ment decline. Recognizing a deficiency in our University as well as the cause of edu- ing them in perspective. Dr. Ida Long Rogers. But this one had interesting stories about the of the Peabody College campus since its con- K–12 education, Wyatt oversaw a revitaliza- cation in our country and around the world.” The merger is a success story of tremen- That said, I want to offer a word of con- new dean (“Simply the Best”) and the schol- struction in 1915. The naming of the build- tion of Peabody’s campus that preserved its dous proportions, thanks to the vision and cern about the readability of the sidebars. ar who is researching multicultural, inter- ing in honor of Vanderbilt’s sixth chancellor history, architecture, and distinguished rep- E. Gordon Gee Named efforts of so many dedicated and wonderful My 52-year-old eyes have great difficulty national issues and problems (“A Man of and his wife is not only a recognition of Joe utation while ushering the school back to the people both at Vanderbilt and at Peabody. reading the sidebar contents due to the strength the World”). Other shorter articles were also B. Wyatt’s contributions to the improvement forefront of education research and instruc- New Vanderbilt Chancellor Prominent on that honor roll should be the of the hue and the glossy shine. I read the quite interesting. of K–12 education and his tremendous sup- tion, as well as fast-developing technology. E. Gordon Gee, 56, president of Brown Uni- names of the many distinguished lay mem- issue under conventional light this morning —EDGAR M.RICHARDSON, MAT’55,EDS’60 port of Peabody during his 18-year tenure, Wyatt took a personal interest in several versity, was named Vanderbilt’s seventh chan- bers of the boards of both institutions. Their Cincinnati but it also illustrates in a concrete way the programs being developed at the College, par- cellor in February. His appointment is effective dedication and steadfast commitment con- ALUMNI APPROVAL importance of the College to the entire ticularly the Learning Technology Center August 1. tinues to this day, and they deserve great honor. Vanderbilt community. (LTC). He utilized his connections in the busi- Gee’s unanimous election at a special Feb- Your positive emphasis on the mutual Dear Pygmalion, What a job of merchan- The action marks the first time since ness world, for example, to help secure the ruary 7 meeting of the Vanderbilt Board of advantages of the merger was particularly dising! (Summer 1999, Peabody Profile, backing of corporate executives in the early Trust came after a nine-month national search inspiring and appreciated. Today Peabody “Where Everybody Knows His Name,” p. implementation of the innovative mathe- that began last April when Chancellor Joe is a very strong institution of unqualified 31) You can take common clay, Eliza, and even matics-education videodisc series The Ad- B. Wyatt announced his intention to retire prominence and excellence providing glob- JOHN RUSSELL David Brown can come out a Peabodian as tall ventures of Jasper Woodbury, developed by in July 2000. al leadership in many areas vital to mankind. as the pillars. Thank you. —Mr. Galatea the LTC and now in use in classrooms through- President of Brown since 1997, Gee— The same may be said of Vanderbilt. That —DAVID BROWN PARRISH, BA’50, MA’52 out the country. pronounced with a hard “g”—also held a the merger contributed to these accom- Gallatin, Tennessee By the early 1990s Peabody’s growth faculty appointment as professor of educa- plishments is a legacy of which we may all was fast outpacing the space available on cam- tion and public policy. Under his leadership be proud. I know I am. pus and the decision was made to renovate the Providence, Rhode Island, university —JOHN DUNWORTH and expand the Social Religious Building, launched new interdisciplinary programs in (President, George Peabody College for which by that time had fallen into disrepair. human values and life sciences and doubled Teachers, 1974–1979), Pensacola, Florida Letters may be submitted to THE PEABODY Outgoing Chancellor Joe B. Wyatt and his Today, $15 million later, it is once again the its annual contributions in the span of two REFLECTOR, Editor, Box 7703, Station B, wife, Faye, react to the April 29 announce- hub of Peabody’s administration and houses years. He will hold a faculty position at Nashville, TN 37235. ment by Board of Trust Chairman Martha state-of-the-art technologies, including en- Vanderbilt Law School. Ingram that Peabody’s Social Religious hanced computer classrooms, videoconfer- Constance Bumgarner Gee, wife of the Building has been named in their honor. encing and multimedia seminar rooms, satellite chancellor, is a well-regarded scholar of arts

2 PEABODY REFLECTOR 3 DAVID CRENSHAW education policy who now brings her talents American Psychological Association DEPARTMENT NOTES to Peabody College as an associate professor in Constance Gee Joins Peabody Faculty (1996), and the Career Scientist Award

VANDERBILT REGISTER from the Academy of Mental Retar- Human and Organizational the Department of Leadership and Organiza- onstance Bumgarner Gee, wife of new tion Policy Review. dation (1998). Development tions (see story, right). Vanderbilt Chancellor E. Gordon Gee She married E. C He also was named Vanderbilt’s Human and organizational development is no “Over the past few months, I have heard and a scholar of arts education policy, has Gordon Gee in 1994 Harvie Branscomb Distinguished Pro- longer an “interim” department but has achieved time and again that Vanderbilt is a special joined Peabody’s Department of Leadership during her tenure at place, and I have come to believe it,” Chan- fessor for the current academic year. formal departmental status. The announcement and Organizations as an associate profes- Ohio State. was made in late April. Howard Sandler, profes- cellor Gee said at a February press confer- sor of public policy and education. While pursuing her sor of psychology, is chair of the new department. ence announcing his new appointment. “There Gee’s early professional training was in doctorate at Penn State, Library Lecture Hall is no other university in the country that Dwight Giles Jr., professor of the practice of human fine arts with an emphasis on painting and a very public nation- Funded by Cox Gift and organizational development, is co-author with already does so many things so well and yet sculpture. She holds a bachelor’s degree in al debate on arts pol- Peabody’s Education Library soon Janet Eyler, associate professor of the practice of has almost limitless possibilities and a solid fine arts from East Carolina University— icy piqued her interest. In the summer of education, of a new book, Where’s the Learning will be home to a high-tech lecture foundation on which to build for the future. located near her hometown of Raleigh, 1989, a U.S. Senate appropriations sub- in Service-Learning?, published by Jossey-Bass hall, thanks to a recent $50,000 Vanderbilt is blessed with rich traditions and North Carolina—and a master’s degree in committee unanimously approved a five- Publishers. even richer opportunities for learning, for grant from the James M. Cox Jr. fine arts from the Pratt Institute in New year funding ban of two art groups that Richard Percy, associate professor of education discovery, and for service.” Foundation of Atlanta. York. During her graduate studies at Penn funded controversial art exhibits, includ- The same foundation that is now making possible a and director of the human development counsel- The new hall will be connected A committee of trustees led by Board of State University, from which she earned ing the works of photographer Robert new Education Library lecture hall provided funds in ing program, has been named president-elect of to the Social Religious Building’s Trust Vice Chairman Dennis C. Bottorff con- the Ph.D. in arts education in 1991, she Mapplethorpe. 1998 to revitalize the library’s Curriculum Laboratory. Chi Sigma Iota International. His term began May existing audio and video routing sidered more than 150 candidates before became focused on arts education and pol- “I was fascinated by the intensity of That $50,000 grant has enabled the lab to update its 1 and extends through April 2002. system, providing the library with nominating Gee to be chancellor. icy issues. the controversy and the questions that holdings, provide easier access to materials through instant access to satellite down- Leadership and Organizations A native of Vernal, Utah, Gee was grad- Arts education policy is a small field, were being asked about public support state-of-the-art technology, and offer the latest versions links that may be viewed live in the Jacob Adams, associate professor of education and uated from the University of Utah in 1968 but Gee has emerged as an active and rep- of the arts,” says Gee. “Should govern- of computer-based instructional materials. lecture hall. As in several other build- public policy, has joined the editorial board of the with a bachelor’s degree in history. He earned utable scholar. She served as director of ment support the arts? That lured me in ings on the Peabody campus, this technology across the country or in a videoconference new Journal of Educational Resources: Leader- a law degree and a doctorate in education the Arts Policy and Administration Program and sort of sealed my fate.” will allow students and faculty to participate, with practicing teachers at some other site. ship & Policy. from Columbia University in 1971 and 1972, at Ohio State University before joining the In the years since, Gee has published for example, in a symposium taking place respectively. Brown University faculty as assistant pro- and presented around the nation on the A four-year tradition of generous support John Braxton, associate professor of education, presented “Scholarship Inventoried: A Hands-On Gee, who began his career in academia fessor of public policy and education. Gee subject and plans to do more of the same is continued with this latest gift from the Workshop in the Inventory and Assessment of as assistant dean of the law school at the also is executive editor of the Arts Educa- in Nashville. Cox Foundation and Cox Enterprises Inc., University of Utah, first served as a chief ex- which heads a multibillion-dollar family Boyer’s Four Domains” at the American Associ- ation of Higher Education’s recent Forum on Fac- ecutive officer at the age of 37 when he was of media and other communications com- ulty Roles and Rewards. Co-presenters included elected president of West Virginia Univer- “Pioneer” Travis Thompson STEADY panies. In 1998 another $50,000 Cox grant doctoral students Patricia Helland, Wanda Coneal, sity. He became president of the University disorder characterized by mental retar- funded the revitalization of the Education Sylvia Carey, and William Luckey. of Colorado in 1985, and in 1990 he was Receives Top Research Award dation and behavior problems. Library’s curriculum laboratory holdings. Bruce “Woody” Caine, assistant professor of the named president of Ohio State University. He also recently took on the role of di- AT 6TH Travis I. Thompson, director of the John “We are fortunate to have this relation- practice of human and organizational develop- With more than 50,000 students, 30,000 F. Kennedy Center for Research on Human recting Vanderbilt’s new program in genomics March 2000 U.S. News & World ship with Cox Enterprises,” says Tres Mullis, ment, presented three workshops at the recent 38th faculty and staff, and an operating budget Development and a leading researcher in the of brain development and behavior, an effort Report magazine’s ranking of the Peabody’s director of development. “The li- National Conference on Student Services in New of $2 billion, Ohio State is the nation’s largest field of developmental disabilities, is recip- involving Peabody College, the College of Orleans. nation’s top graduate schools of edu- brary lecture hall project is a natural exten- single university campus. As president, Gee ient of the 1999 Earl Sutherland Prize for Arts and Science, and Vanderbilt Medical cation (among 187 programs): sion of their previous support of the lab and Wilburn Clouse, associate professor of education, led a major academic and administrative re- Achievement in Research. Center designed to expand crit- furthers our goal of transforming the library has been elected vice president of the Corporate structuring and initiated a billion-dollar cap- The prize is Vanderbilt Uni- ical neuroscience initiatives of the into a 21st-century learning center.” Entrepreneurship Division of the U.S. Association ital campaign. versity’s top research award and Kennedy Center. 1 Harvard & WORLD REPORT Pending completion of some additional for Small Business and Entrepreneurship. For additional information, visit www.van- was presented to Thompson in “Professor Thompson is quite Stanford library improvements, work on the new Clouse made two presentations on entrepreneur- derbilt.edu/chancellorsearch/ on the Web. 2 News November by the University’s simply a pioneer,” said Chancellor ship at the recent National Conference of the Unit- Columbia lecture hall should begin within the next year. board of trust. Recipients of the Joe B. Wyatt of Thompson’s award. 3 U.S. ed States Association for Small Business and prize are selected by the chancel- “His remarkable and continuing 4 California, Berkeley Entrepreneurship in San Antonio, and he chaired lor at the recommendation of the impact to the field is most evident “Catalyst” Grant Awarded for a session on “Practitioner Partners” with gradu- 5 California, Los Angeles ate student Terry Goodin. PEYTON HOGE University Research Council. in the fact that an overwhelming Technology Training Thompson, who is a pro- majority of treatment programs Peabody 6 As demand grows for new teachers with tech- Marvin Dewey, who earned his doctoral degree in fessor of psychology, psychia- for the mentally retarded in our higher education administration in 1998, has Travis Thompson nological experience, more of them will be try, and special education, as country is based on his innovative received the Dissertation of the Year Award from trained at Peabody, thanks to a prestigious, well as co-director of the Kennedy Cen- analytic practices. He is a leader and a trail- Ranking of Peabody’s academic the Association for the Study of Higher Education, $2 million “Catalyst” grant recently awarded ter’s Research Program on Genetics, Brain, blazer for others to follow.” specialties: headquartered at the University of Missouri–Colum- and Behavioral Development, is known Since joining the Vanderbilt faculty in by the U.S. Department of Education. bia. John Braxton was Dewey’s dissertation supervisor. This is the second time in four years that a nationally for his work in mental retar- 1991, Thompson has been recognized with Issued through the department’s “Prepar- 2 Special Education graduate of Peabody’s higher education adminis- dation research. He currently is princi- an impressive array of honors that includes ing Tomorrow’s Teachers to Use Technology” Administration/Supervision tration program has received the award. pal investigator of more than $5 million the Research Award from the American 5 program, Catalyst grants provide three years in research grants dedicated to the study Association for Mental Retardation (1995), 9 Elementary Teacher Education of support to national, regional, or statewide James Guthrie, department chair, professor of pub- E. Gordon Gee, Vanderbilt’s seventh of developmental disabilities and to the the Distinguished Research Award from The consortia that have the expertise and resources lic policy and education, and director of the Peabody 10 Curriculum/Instruction Center for Education Policy, has been named chancellor, meets students after the February to stimulate large-scale improvements in the genetics and behavior associated with Arc of the United States (1996), the George A. editor of the next edition of the Encyclopedia of press conference announcing his appointment. Prader-Willi syndrome, a severe eating Miller Award (with David Lubinski) from the development of technology-proficient teach-

4 PEABODY REFLECTOR 5 tories; and function technology for the de- DEPARTMENT NOTES ers. Vanderbilt is one of only 14 colleges Sue Swenson, commissioner of the De- ing Technology Center to develop bioengi- DEPARTMENT NOTES and universities nationwide to receive the grant. partment’s Administration on Developmen- neering educational technologies and curric- livery of bioengineering teaching materials Education. The encyclopedia, which will consist Peabody researchers in the Learning Tech- tal Disabilities, addressed a John F. Kennedy ula for the future. throughout the world. James W. Pellegrino, Frank W. Mayborn Profes- of eight volumes and more than two million words, nology Center (LTC), the Department of Center Community Forum in February re- The multi-institutional grant, which pro- sor of Cognitive Studies, has been appointed to the is scheduled for worldwide distribution in 2004. Expert Panel System’s Impact Review Panel (IRP), The last edition was published in 1974. Teaching and Learning, and the Department garding the ways in which she believes the vides $2 million annually for at least five years, Dean Benbow Elected which is under the direction of the U.S. Depart- of Psychology and Human Development will world will be changing in the new millennium also calls for the creation of a national Cen- ment of Education’s Office of Reform Assistance Joseph F. Murphy, professor of leadership and use the grant money to develop curricula, for people with developmental disabilities. ter for Bioengineering Educational Technologies. to AACTE Board of Directors and Dissemination. The IRP was established to organizations, is author of a new book, The Quest teaching methods, instructional materials, What’s coming next, she says, is a better un- The first of its kind, the Center strives to sup- Peabody College “advise the expert panels on decisions related to for a Center: Notes on the State of the Profession evidence of effectiveness for programs the panels of Educational Leadership, published by the and other models of teaching technology. derstanding of how intimately federal pro- port and enhance the education of the next Dean Camilla P. Peabody and a consortium of 11 other in- grams are connected at the data level. generation of bioengineers while helping to PEYTON HOGE Benbow has been are considering recommending to the Secretary [of University Council for Educational Administra- Education] as promising or exemplary.” tion, Columbia, Missouri. stitutions then will put research into practice A person with developmental disabilities, strengthen an industry that has produced such elected to the board by disseminating information to schools of she explained, is likely to be dependent on nu- cutting-edge technologies as pacemakers, of directors of the Pellegrino also participated in a U.S. Department Psychology and Human Development education nationwide. merous federal services and supports through- artificial kidney machines, and defibrillators. American Associa- of Education-sponsored National Forum on Edu- “The Catalyst grant provides an exciting out his or her lifetime. But current procedures Researchers from Vanderbilt, Northwest- tion of Colleges for cational Technology Standards in Teacher Educa- Leonard Bickman, professor of psychology and tion, held in Washington, D.C., in December. psychiatry and director of the Vanderbilt Institute opportunity to capture the wisdom and re- and computer systems do not allow for an ef- ern University, the University of Texas, and Teacher Education for Public Policy Studies Mental Health Policy Cen- sources of our faculty at Peabody and Van- fective exchange of information between agen- the Harvard/MIT Health Sciences and Tech- (AACTE). Georgine Pion, research associate professor of psy- ter, has been awarded a $35,702 research grant by derbilt and share them with other colleges cies that provide these services—or for useful nology Program are participating in the new Camilla Benbow Benbow is one of chology and human development, presented “The J.C. Penney for “Evaluation Project Between Cus- of teacher education,” says John Bransford, feedback from citizens as to the value of those Center. Vanderbilt serves as the lead institu- seven new members of the 20-member board. ‘Black Box’ of Research Training: Research and Evaluation Priorities” at the annual meeting of the tomer and Contractor.” professor of education, Centennial Profes- services—and the result often is frustration tion, drawing upon the combined expertise of Her three-year term began March 1, immedi- American Association for the Advancement of Sci- Bickman is editor of two new volumes sponsored sor of Psychology, and director of the LTC. for the people who need them most. the School of Engineering and Learning Tech- ately following the annual AACTE meeting in ence, held in February in Washington, D.C. by the American Evaluation Association and Bransford and James Pellegrino, the Frank “We are uniquely ill served by federal nology Center. Chicago. published as the AEA’s major memorial to Don- Mayborn Professor of Cognitive Studies, are systems that are not integrated with each other,” “The scientific and engineering literature “Board members will have major chal- Jeanne Plas, associate professor of psychology, is co-author (with Susan E. Lewis, MS’94) of a ald Campbell’s contributions to evaluation and project co-principal investigators. William said Swenson, who herself is the mother of a of bioengineering is vast, and yet tested teach- lenges to confront,” says AACTE President new book, Person-Centered Leadership for Non- the social sciences. Volume one is titled Validity Corbin, assistant director of the LTC and lec- son with developmental disabilities. “For peo- ing materials are scarce and unsatisfactory,” David Imig of Benbow’s appointment. “The and Social Experimentation: Donald Campbell’s profit Organizations, published by Sage. turer in education, is project coordinator. ple with disabilities and their families, if one says Thomas G. Harris, chair of biomedical Association’s board of directors focuses its Legacy, and volume two is titled Research Design: system fails, often the whole house of cards engineering at Vanderbilt and director of the energies on providing leadership for the con- Daniel Schwartz, associate professor of psycholo- Donald Campbell’s Legacy. gy, has been awarded a $149,878 research grant collapses.” new Center. “There is a need to synthesize tinuing transformation of professional prepa- by the National Science Foundation for “Symbol- Judy Garber, associate professor of psychology, The Next Step for The government’s massive efforts the and integrate the knowledge and make it avail- ration programs.” izing to Prepare for Learning: Web Environ- assistant professor of psychiatry, Institute for Pub- People with Disabilities past few years to evade computer failure by able digitally, in module units, to professors, Based in Washington, D.C., the AACTE ments That Increase Student Readiness for Deep lic Policy Studies senior fellow, and Kennedy Cen- Federal programs that serve people with de- ensuring systems were “Y2K compliant” re- researchers, and professional engineers.” is a national, voluntary association of 700 Understanding in Statistics.” Gautam Biswas of ter investigator, has been awarded a $34,117 research Vanderbilt’s computer science department is a co- grant by the W.T. Grant Foundation for “A Fam- velopmental disabilities need computer sys- vealed the extent to which the various systems Harris and John Bransford, Centennial private, state, and municipal colleges and investigator. ily Cognitive-Diathesis Stress Model of Depression tems that talk to each other, says a top official lacked intercommunication. Swenson sug- Professor of Psychology and director of the universities that offer undergraduate and in Children and Adolescents.” with the U.S. Department of Health and gested that solutions to the problem may have Learning Technology Center, are credited graduate teacher education programs. Special Education Human Services. been unapproachable in the past because of with creating the partnership that now an- Susan Goldman, professor of psychology, has been existing technology, but that the development chors the work of the Center for Bioengi- Doug Fuchs and Lynn Fuchs, professors of special awarded an $80,000 research grant by the Met- Award Honors Sibling Educators education and co-directors of the Kennedy Center ropolitan Nashville-Davidson County Public Schools of systems that can analyze data from other neering Educational Technologies. Research Program on Learning Accommodations for “Evaluation of the Schools for Thought Pro- systems should now be in reach. Among other goals, the new Center seeks Mary Craighead and Sandra Smithson, two for Individuals with Special Needs, have been named PEYTON HOGE gram.” John Bransford, professor of education and Advocates for people with developmen- to provide bioengineering lecture and course sisters who have devoted their lives to help- winners of the 2000 Council for Exceptional Chil- Centennial Professor of Psychology, is co-princi- tal disabilities can do their part, too, she said, support material on levels ranging from mid- ing children raise themselves out of poverty dren (CEC), Division of Learning Disabilities, pal investigator. by taking advantage of today’s available tech- dle-school to postgraduate study; develop through education, received Peabody Col- Samuel A. Kirk Award for the exemplary practice article from Learning Disabilities Research and Kathleen Hoover-Dempsey, associate professor of nologies to communicate with other advo- new teaching technologies, as well as adapt lege’s “Changing Lives” Award in January. cates and share mutually beneficial information. existing strategies; develop virtual labora- The awards presentation was one of three Practice (1998 volume). Their article was “Researchers psychology and education, has been named chair and Teachers Working Together to Adapt Instruc- of the Department of Psychology and Human Devel- “People are starting to get on the Inter- tion for Diverse Learners.” The Fuchses received opment. A respected faculty member who has taught net and ask, ‘If you can do that in Minnesota, A Challenge for Brain Researchers their award in April at the CEC 2000 Convention at Peabody since 1973, Hoover-Dempsey has why can’t I do it in Iowa?’ It’s our job in the in Vancouver, British Columbia. received numerous University honors for her teach- federal government to support the content John T. Bruer, president of the James S. McDonnell Foundation of St. Louis, addresses ing and service to the Vanderbilt community. Doug Fuchs has been awarded a $55,000 grant by on the Internet to make those kinds of dis- an overflow Peabody crowd in February as distinguished speaker for the 15th annual May- the Flora Family Foundation for “Outreach for David Lubinski, associate professor of psycholo- coveries possible, but it’s your job as advo- cie K. Southall Lecture on the theme of public education and the futures of children. Bruer Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies.” Lynn Fuchs is gy and a Kennedy Center investigator and fel- cates in the states to start hooking up with is author of the controversial 1999 book The Myth of DAVID CRENSHAW co-principal investigator. low, gave a recent invited address at the Novartis your counterparts across the country and the First Three Years: A New Understanding of Early Brain (formerly Ciba) Foundation in London to open a Carolyn Hughes, associate professor of special edu- ask those questions. Because, frankly, if Development and Lifelong Learning, in which he challenges cation and a Kennedy Center investigator and fel- symposium about the nature of intelligence. His it’s possible in Minnesota, then it is possible the prevailing theory that the most crucial brain develop- presentation, “Intelligence: Success and Fitness,” low, is co-author (with Erik W. Carter, MEd’98) in Iowa. The tools are in our hands.” ment occurs before age three. Critical “learning and cog- of a new book, The Transition Handbook: Strate- will be published by John Wiley and Sons as part gies High School Teachers Use That Work!, pub- of the proceedings. nitive development occur throughout childhood and, indeed, throughout one’s entire life,” he argues. His lecture sup- lished by Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co. Inc. Laura Novick, associate professor of psychology, Engineering and LTC Sue Swenson, far right, who is commissioner ported the use of brain science to help bridge under- Craig Kennedy, professor of special education and presented, with Patricia Cheng, “Assessing Inter- Collaborate in New Center standing of parenting, learning, and teaching behavior a Kennedy Center fellow, was named Educator of active Causal Influence” at the 40th annual meet- of the U.S. Administration on Developmen- through identification of the active parts of the brain that the Year by the Nashville Mayor’s Advisory Com- ing of the Psychonomic Society in Los Angeles. tal Disabilities, visits with guests of her Feb- A $10 million National Science Foundation ruary lecture, “Developmental Disabilities in grant is bringing together research scholars in make those behaviors possible. mittee for People with Disabilities at an October the New Millennium.” the School of Engineering and Peabody’s Learn-

6 PEABODY REFLECTOR 7 that offers remedial help to some of Nashville’s value of education, although was told by a Peabody student that the academically among the top two percent of DEPARTMENT NOTES they had little opportunity most disadvantaged children by combin- School of Engineering had organized a large students in the nation. All will be entering ceremony at Vanderbilt. He was recognized for his PEYTON HOGE to receive it themselves. ing high academic standards with indi- group to support Douglas Fisher, associate eighth through 11th grades this fall. teacher training and research to promote the inclu- Craighead, now 84, started vidual understanding. professor of computer science and com- Many young people throughout the re- sion of children and adults with severe disabilities teaching when she was 16. “Teach,” says Craighead. “That is the puter engineering, because the winner would gion lack the opportunity to take advanced or with behavior problems. She established the ﬁrst kinder- solution.” be assessed according to the applause he or placement courses because they are not of- Daniel Reschly, department chair and professor of

garten in the Metro Nashville- DAVID CRENSHAW she received. Also fered in all local schools. The VPTY was cre- Established three years ago, the Chang- education and psychology, has been named recip- Davidson County school ing Lives Award is sponsored by Peabody’s competing for the title ated to provide those students a challenging, ient of the 2000 Career Achievement Award from system, served as principal of departments of psychology and human de- of “survivor” was Bar- technologically enriched course of study as the National Association of School Psychologists. four Nashville schools, and velopment and special education. The award bara Kilbourne, as- well as a chance to interact socially with their The award was presented to Reschly on March 31 worked for Peabody as co- is presented annually to recognize the power sistant professor of mentors and peers—an important aspect of in New Orleans during the organization’s annual ordinator of the Early Train- of ideas to bring about positive change and sociology in the Col- the program because gifted students often convention. ing Project and as an adjunct to honor persons who have used knowledge lege of Arts and Sci- lack acceptance by their classmates. Teaching and Learning math professor. in the service of those with special needs. ence. “The program’s instruction is aimed at Smithson also started her “Basically, I took the very characteristics that make students David Bloome, professor of education, Kevin Lean- der, assistant professor of language and literacy Mary Smithson Craighead (far left) and her sister, Sister Sandra career as a teacher before be- what I know about gifted: their ability to make connections Charles Myers education, and Ann Neely, associate professor of Smithson (third from left), chat with Peabody Dean Camilla coming a Franciscan nun. The How to Survive in Choppy Seas teaching and practiced among seemingly disparate ideas, to assim- Benbow and professors John Rieser and Daniel Reschly after the practice of education, presented papers in Den- 74-year-old has taught in Mil- Three people—a sociologist, an engineer, the things that we preach,” says Myers about ilate new information rapidly, and to be chal- ver at the National Council of Teachers of English receiving this year’s “Changing Lives” Award in connection with waukee, Chicago, and Latin and a teacher—are adrift on a raft in the his participation in the debate. “Commit- lenged by the subject matter,” says Patrick annual meeting. Bloome presented “Erica’s Read- the Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Series. America and is author of a ocean with only enough food and water for ment to the profession itself was key. I planned Thompson, professor of mathematics edu- ing: A Sociolinguistic View of a Miscue Analysis events sponsored by Peabody as part of the book about black Catholicism in America. one. Which person should be saved? very carefully what I wanted to present to cation and co-director of the VPTY. Reading Event”; Leander presented “Impressive University’s 2000 Martin Luther King Jr. In 1994 the sisters became determined Charles Myers, professor of social stud- them, realizing this was a persuasive task Peabody Dean Camilla Benbow has spent Speakers, Poor Writers: Tracing Positional Litera- cies in the Multicultural Classroom”; and Neely Commemorative Series. This year’s series that the children in the impoverished com- ies education, knows. During last fall’s “Raft that had a lot to do with assessing the au- the last 20 years researching and tracking presented, along with graduate students Lynne featured two weeks of lectures, film view- munities around them, who were frustrated Debate,” an event held in conjunction with dience and meeting them where they were.” the progress of academically talented youth. Bercaw, Virginia Dubose, and Meredith Shull, ings, and discussions organized around the and disenchanted with school, be given op- new-student orientation, Myers convinced Each faculty member had 10 minutes to She was an associate with former Peabody “Cross-Cultural Literature Discussion Partner- theme “Conflict, Cooperation, and Com- portunities that could only be accessed freshmen and fellow students serving as ori- sum up why someone in his or her particu- professor Julian Stanley, who established the ships: Connecting Prospective Teachers and Ele- munity: Bringing Us All Together.” through education. Foregoing retirement, entation counselors that the most noble lar profession should be saved from the first summer program of this type at Johns mentary Students Via the Internet.” Craighead and Smithson grew up in north they founded the Project Reflect Educa- course of action was to save the teacher. choppy waters. Hopkins University, and she created and di- David Bloome and graduate students Mary Beth Nashville with parents who respected the tion Program (PREP), a nonprofit program Arriving early to assess the crowd, Myers “I pointed out that all of us making an rected a similar summer program at Iowa Morton, Sheila Otto, Stephanie Power, and Nora appeal on stage were teachers in addition to State before coming to Peabody last year. Shuart-Faris presented the paper “Texts, Practices, whatever our discipline was,” says Myers. Vanderbilt’s chancellor and provost were and Discourse Analysis” at the recent National Project Set to “Achieve Dreams” “Then I asked everyone to think for a mo- eager to draw on Benbow’s expertise and Reading Conference in Orlando, Florida. Also pre- ment of a teacher who had made a signifi- asked her to take the lead in developing the senting papers at the conference were Charles Kinz- eginning in 2003, more Nashville inner-city high-school stu- Public Schools, the Ford Foundation, and the Inner City Founda- er, associate professor of education, with “Issues Bdents will have the opportunity to attend college thanks to a tion, was launched in November with the help of General Colin cant difference in his or her life. I paused collaborative, University-wide program that of Phonics Software Design: Optimizing Instruc- new program called Project GRAD (Graduation Really Achieves Powell, retired head of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, who visited and then said, ‘Don’t let that teacher die.’” is now the VPTY. Serving with Thompson tor and Learner Goals,” and Victoria Risko, pro- Dreams). The idea traveled to Nashville through the efforts of Van- Pearl-Cohn and spoke to students. The program earlier received The applause was so resounding that as co-director of the project is Matthew fessor of education, with “Reflection and the derbilt student Katie Dunwoody and her father, Mac Dunwoody. a certificate of recognition at Vanderbilt’s 1999 ceremony acknowl- moderator John Lachs, Centennial Profes- Gould, professor of mathematics in the Col- Beginning Teacher of Reading: A Review of Pro- fessional Education Research.” Modeled after a successful VANDERBILT REGISTER edging campus affirmative action and sor of Philosophy, proclaimed Myers the lege of Arts and Science, and coordinating program in Houston, the pro- diversity initiatives. winner beyond doubt. the program is Petrina L. Jesz. Lynne Bercaw, Ann Neely, Victoria Risko, Charles ject guarantees college schol- In addition to scholarship money, Pro- Thompson says the VPTY continues Van- Myers (professor of social studies education), and arship money for any student ject GRAD will provide instruction in math- Inaugural Summer Program derbilt’s tradition of serving the nation’s graduate student Lisa Stookesbury made presen- at Pearl-Cohn High School— ematics, reading/language arts, and behav- brightest students and hopes the program tations at the 42nd annual meeting of the Ameri- a comprehensive inner-city ior management as early as the primary Serves Talented Youth will help put the University at the top of par- can Association for Colleges of Teacher Education (AACTE), held in February in Chicago. Peabody Peabody College’s longstanding commitment ticipating students’ college lists. But the pro- school serving the north and and middle-school grades. Metro Nashville Dean Camilla Benbow also participated as a newly west Nashville areas—who schools will provide staff development to educating underserved members of the gram’s greatest benefit may be realized further elected member of the AACTE board of directors. takes college preparatory class- needed to implement the program, and community went a step further this summer down the line when it is better established. es, attends special summer ses- Vanderbilt will host the summer acade- with the creation of a three-week program “Eventually, we hope the VPTY will pro- Carolyn Evertson, professor of education and assistant to the provost, gave an invited presentation for academically gifted middle and high vide a site for researchers to study gifted- sions at Vanderbilt, and grad- mic institutes for students. The first insti- on “Professional Development and Implementa- uates in four years or less with tute was at Vanderbilt this summer. school students. ness, thereby gaining greater insight into tion of Class Size Reduction” in December at the a minimum grade point aver- “The strength of Project GRAD is The inaugural Vanderbilt Program for what makes some students develop such spe- National Invitational Conference on Class Size age of 2.5. its comprehensive approach,” says Marcy Talented Youth (VPTY)—a collaborative ef- cial talents,” explains Thompson. “Perhaps Reduction in Washington, D.C. fort by Peabody, the College of Arts and Sci- we then can use those insights to improve “Giving back to the com- Singer Gabella, Peabody assistant pro- Clifford Hofwolt, associate professor of science munity is consistently encour- fessor of education, assistant provost for ence, and the Vanderbilt Office of programs for gifted and high-achieving stu- General Colin Powell launches Project GRAD with a fall education, was installed as president of the Mid- aged at Vanderbilt,” says Dun- initiatives in education, and executive Undergraduate Admissions—ran from June dents more broadly.” appearance at Nashville’s Pearl-Cohn High School. South Educational Research Association at its annu- woody, a rising senior. “I had director of Project GRAD. “The program 18 through July 8, drawing to campus 85 For more information about the Van- al meeting in November. He previously served as the opportunity to see the tremendous success of Project GRAD in seeks to prove that, while there is no simple formula, we can over- students from the mid-South for concen- derbilt Program for Talented Youth, visit the program chair, secretary/treasurer, vice president, Houston and, together with my family, wanted to bring this oppor- come many of the challenges of inner-city school systems by putting trated, advanced study in chemistry, math- program’s Web site at http://peabody.van- and president-elect. tunity to the community of Nashville.” the right resources, strategies, and school-community collabora- ematics, computer science, and writing. derbilt.edu/progs/pty/, or contact Petrina L. The project, sponsored by Vanderbilt, Metropolitan Nashville tions at the service of student learning.” Participants selected for the program had Jesz by phone at 615/322-8261 or by e-mail earned SAT or ACT scores that ranked them at [email protected].

8 PEABODY REFLECTOR 9 Black Cultural Center. Boateng, who had these issues of character development, moral DEPARTMENT NOTES Spring Lecture Series HOD a Big Hit DEPARTMENT NOTES been teaching a doctoral seminar on diver- deliberation, civic engagement, and social Kevin Leander was chosen by the Education Alum- Focuses on Diversity sity and equity during the semester, died at Florida Conference justice with our students in a sequential way.” ing to children with disabilities through their ni Association of the University of Illinois to receive personal and professional lives. the Outstanding Student Medal at the doctoral The challenge of achieving cultural diversity April 26, one week after the final lecture of Eight faculty members from the Department In addition, the conference served as a degree level for the 1999–2000 academic year. The and equity in education was the focus of a the series (see faculty deaths, page 40). of Human and Organizational Development catalyst for empowering the faculty to con- Vicki Harris, Center investigator and associate, award is given to one doctoral student graduating spring series of lectures co-sponsored by the Co-sponsoring the lecture series with the (HOD) stole the show at a February con- sider reformatting the presentation in book research assistant professor of psychiatry, and from the college of education in recognition of Department of Teaching and Learning. Department of Teaching and Learning was ference at Florida State University on “What form. “Once we got all the pieces together,” Institute for Public Policy Studies fellow, has been scholarship and service. Leander received the award awarded a $117,559 research grant by the U.S. Each week, from mid-January through Peabody’s Office of the Dean, the Black Cul- College Presidents Are Doing to Promote says Shields, “we realized there was great Department of Education for “Improving the at the May commencement and delivered a brief mid-April, invited lecturers from around the tural Center, the Vanderbilt Center for Teach- Moral Character and Civic Responsibility.” interest by other schools to know how we convocation address. Preparation of Personnel to Serve Children with nation shared their visions of equitable ed- ing, and the NSF. The conference was sponsored by the John had framed our HOD curriculum. We feel High Incidence Disabilities.” Charles Myers directed the National Standards ucation in an effort to present varying per- Templeton Foundation, a nonprofit organi- very compelled to share that now.” Jan Rosemergy, Center director of communica- Assessment Criteria Project, which produced a spectives and stimulate an exchange of ideas. zation dedicated to stimulating excellence The Florida presentation’s content stemmed Wyatt Heads National tions and community relations, was presented Guidebook for Colleges and Universities Seeking Carol Lee of Northwestern University, for in the scholarly understanding of moral and in part from weekly faculty lunches among to Meet NCSS/NCATE Program Standards for the the 2000 Mary Jane Werthan Award by the Mar- example, espoused the importance of cul- School-Reform Effort spiritual dimensions. Peabody’s contingent— HOD faculty during which the philosophi- Initial Preparation of Teachers of Social Studies. garet Cuninggim Women’s Center at Vanderbilt As project director, Myers now is directing a study ture in designing learning environments. Former Vanderbilt Chancellor Joe B. Wyatt which included Patricia Arnold, Bonita Barger, cal and intellectual core of their work is dis- in recognition for her efforts as a leader in the of university and state implementation of new per- David Dennis of The Algebra Project de- is chairing a blue-ribbon panel charged with Kimberly Bess, Gina Frieden, Brian Griffith, cussed and developed. drive for gender equity at the University. The formance-based standards for the preparation of clared that education reform is not possible setting standards to help determine whether Bob Innes, Robert Newbrough, and Sharon “It was out of some of that discussion award includes a $1,000 cash prize. Rosemer- gy is a 20-year Vanderbilt staff member who has social studies teachers. without first reforming one’s community. public schools are getting their money’s worth Shields—made an extensive and well-re- that Dean Benbow felt we should go to this served in leadership roles in numerous univer- Patrick Thompson, professor of mathematics edu- Gloria Ladson-Billings of the University from the burgeoning school-reform market. ceived presentation on the HOD program particular meeting,” explains Shields. “The sity and community organizations that contribute cation, has been named chair of the Department of Wisconsin challenged the definition of eq- More than ten percent of America’s pub- as a model for promoting character devel- effort brought our faculty together, changed to the advancement of women. of Teaching and Learning. A specialist in advanced uitable education and asked, “Are we in pur- lic schools, educating five million students, opment in undergraduate education. our own framing with one another, put us Jeffrey D. Schall, Center investigator and fellow technology in the learning and teaching of math- suit of equity or sameness?” And Rochelle are now contracting with nonprofit and for- For three days the Peabody faculty mem- into a teamwork experience, and spurred us and professor of psychology, has been awarded a ematics, he came to the Peabody faculty in 1997 Gutierrez of the University of Illinois af- profit providers of school-reform assistance— bers exchanged information with teams from to do a lot of good thinking. We were prac- from San Diego State University. $174,327 research grant by the Public Health Ser- firmed the power of the teacher community a service that was nonexistent five years ago. other colleges and universities, many of which ticing what we preach.” vice for “Training Grant in Vision Research.” Thompson is co-editor (with Leslie P. Steffe) of a in advancing mathematics preparation among Despite the explosive growth of these ser- are featured in The Templeton Guide: Col- new book, Radical Constructivism in Action: Build- urban and Latino youth. vices, no standards exist by which the pub- leges That Encourage Character Develop- Center Director Travis Thompson, professor of ing on the Pioneering Work of Ernst von Glasers- Media Fellows Explore psychology, special education, and psychiatry, is The lecture series was actually one ini- lic may assess whether they are worth the ment. In the guide, Peabody is listed as having feld, published by Falmer Press. He also has been High-Tech Education co-editor (with Frank Symons, PhD’96, and David named a Spencer Foundation mentor of Spencer tiative of a greater research project titled “Is- cost. one of 45 nationally recognized programs Felce) of a new book, Behavioral Observation: Ph.D. fellows in mathematics education. sues in Diversity and Equity: A Synthesis of New American Schools, a private non- in faculty and curriculum development and Peabody College and the Learning Tech- Technology and Applications in Developmental Literature Relevant to Mathematics Class- profit organization that seeks a dramatic one of 60 recognized programs in volunteer nology Center took center stage last fall when Disabilities, published by Paul H. Brookes Pub- John F. Kennedy Center rooms Which Emphasize Understanding,” raise in American student achievement, is service development. eight journalists from around the country lishing Co. Inc., Baltimore. Thompson and sev- The Center’s Susan Gray School for Children has which is funded by the National Science leading a national initiative to develop such “We had a very strong presence at this visited Vanderbilt to explore how new tech- eral Vanderbilt faculty and staff members are among the high-profile researchers who contributed chap- received a $5,000 grant from the foundation of the Foundation (NSF). Paul Cobb, Peabody pro- standards, and formation of the panel ear- conference,” says Sharon Shields, professor nologies are being used to enhance learning. ters to the book. National Hockey League’s Nashville Predators. fessor of mathematics education, is princi- lier this year was the first step. of the practice of health promotions and ed- The journalists were recipients of the lat- The grant will be used to purchase Montessori- pal investigator on the project, and speakers “Unless those of us committed to quality ucation, “but we also heard about other pro- est in a series of “Technology in Education” Learning Technology Center tested math and science materials for use in the School’s two preschool classrooms, both of which for the lecture series serve on a national ad- band together, this opportunity to raise grams from very compelling speakers who fellowships offered by Vanderbilt’s Division The Division of Instructional Development (DID), include children from low-income families. visory panel providing feedback on the de- achievements among larger numbers of our informed us of ways to take our program in of Media Relations and the Council for Ad- the largest division within the Association for Edu- veloping work of the NSF project. nation’s children will be lost, money allo- new directions. vancement and Support of Education (CASE). cational Communications and Technology, has Dale Farran, professor of education and director Lynn Liao Hodge, a Peabody doctoral cated for school reform will be exhausted, “We’re examining places where we can They represented the Nashville Tennessean, presented the 1999 Outstanding Journal Article of the Susan Gray School for Children, along with Award to Center staff members John Bransford School staff members Lisa Archer, Nina Harris, student, is co-principal investigator on the and the public will see another promising, take a more in-depth approach with the cur- Philadelphia Inquirer, Chicago Tribune, De- (director), Sean Brophy, Xiaodong Lin, and Daniel Amy Harris-Solomon, Kristen Koenigsberger, project and was one of the lecture series or- but failed, attempt to improve our educa- riculum in order to make sure it connects troit Free Press, Richmond Times Dispatch, Schwartz. They were co-authors of “Software for Mamie McKenzie, and Michelle Wyatt, made pre- ganizers. “Often times we focus so much on tion delivery system,” says Wyatt, a mem- Managing Complex Learning: Examples from an

sentations in December at the annual meeting of solutions that we do not take the time to ber of the New American Schools Board LARRY WILSON Educational Psychology Course,” which appeared Kids’ Stuff the Division for Early Childhood (DEC) of the think about what diversity and equity really of Directors. in Educational Technology: Research and Devel- Council for Exceptional Children in Washing- mean,” she says. “The series emphasized an The panel includes the heads of national Children create their own multi-colored opment (vol. 47, no. 2). The award was present- ton, D.C. Farran’s poster presentation, “Parent understanding of these organizations representing teachers, princi- ed in February at the AECT Conference in Long and Teacher Definitions of Learning in Young, necklaces at the first-ever Family Fun- Beach, California. Low-Income Children,” was co-presented by grad- issues rather than a rush pals, school boards, superintendents, gov- Ball, a play festival for kids ages two uate student Laura Flower. to solutions.” ernors, and major employers. In addition to through 12 held last fall at the John F. Bransford has been awarded a $90,000 research PEYTON HOGE Serving as coordina- Wyatt, Vanderbilt is represented on the panel Kennedy Center’s Susan Gray School for grant by the Metropolitan Nashville-Davidson Farran was named Professional of the Year in Octo- tor of the lecture series by James W. Guthrie, director of the Peabody County Public Schools for “Metro Challenge.” ber by the Nashville Mayor’s Advisory Commit- Children. In addition to such activities Susan Goldman, professor of psychology, is co- tee for People with Disabilities in recognition of was Felix Boateng, pro- Center for Education Policy and chair of the as face painting, caramel-apple making, principal investigator. her commitment to improving the development fessor of education and Department of Leadership and Organiza- cookie decorating, and a kick-pass-throw and education of young children with and with- director of Vanderbilt’s tions, and Chester E. Finn Jr., professor of contest, the children enjoyed storytelling Education Library out disabilities, and her advocacy for children and Bishop Joseph Johnson education and public policy. and multicultural music and dance per- Jean Reese, librarian and associate director of early childhood educators. Also honored were A wide range of issues influencing a school formances. Proceeds benefited the Susan the Education Library, is author of a new book, Kennedy Center research analyst Ned Solomon, Internet Books for Educators, Parents, and Stu- Erna Yackel, professor at Purdue University- reform’s effectiveness—from the research base Gray School, which provides early child- Susan Gray School coordinator Amy Harris-Solomon, dents, published by Libraries Unlimited. The book Calumet, speaks in February on “Developing underlying the reform to the efficiency of a and their children, Skye and Lizzy B, as Family hood education for all children and early is an annotated guide to the most appropriate, cur- Autonomy in the Mathematics Classroom” as of the Year. The Solomons were recognized for car- provider’s business operations—is being con- intervention services for children with rent, and complete Internet books for the K–12 ing, creative parenting and for extending their car- part of a spring lecture series on equity and sidered by the panel in drafting the set of stan- developmental problems. education community. diversity in education. dards, which is expected this summer.

10 PEABODY REFLECTOR 11 VANDERBILT REGISTER ries. They also stepped into the classroom for her longstanding support of and assis- of Malcolm Getz, associate professor of eco- tance to the College’s graduate and profes- nomics, who has developed an electronic sional students of color. McIntire has been textbook for his statistics class, and visited instrumental in developing handbooks for with Chancellor Joe B. Wyatt, who talked these students, identifying networks for the about his involvement in promoting class- mentorship programs, and arranging ori- room technology. entation receptions for new and returning Leading discussions were several LTC students of color. As Commencement co- researchers, local teachers, and faculty mem- ordinator, she also is responsible for sensi- PILLARS bers from Peabody’s departments of teaching tive planning and one-on-one rehearsals and learning, leadership and organizations, with graduates with disabilities to ensure and special education, and from Vanderbilt’s Commencement is a comfortable and pos- electrical engineering department. itive experience for them. In addition to the awards, a certificate of ofPEABODY merit was presented to Ellen Brier, adjunct Diversity Efforts Recognized professor of education and director of un- Three members of the Peabody community dergraduate student services, in recognition were among several people and organiza- of her commitment to making her office a A study of campus as character tions honored by the University last fall for welcome place for all students, especially by Christine Kreyling their individual efforts to support Vander- those with disabilities. bilt’s affirmative action and diversity goals. VANDERBILT REGISTER The 13th annual Affirmative Action and Diversity Initiative Awards ceremony rec- Architecture is an empty vessel into which we pour meaning. ognized Vera Stevens Chatman, professor of the practice of human and organizational Buildings look the way they do because of what we expect them Sheri Zieman, a freelancer with the Chicago development, for her “unrelenting passion Tribune, learns a lesson from two first and understanding for all students ... in par- to contain. And buildings contain not mere functions, graders at Nashville’s Julia Green Elemen- ticular Peabody students of color.” Chat- but aspirations as well. tary School about the Little Planet literacy man chairs the reception committee for application they are using. Peabody Graduate and Professional Students The academic campus holds meaning beyond the architecture of Color, serves on the advisory committee Washington Technology, Education Tech- to the mentoring program for students of of its individual structures. Thomas Jefferson’s belief in mind over matter— nology News, and Newton Kansan. color, and is financial adviser to the “The program is designed to engage jour- Organization of Black Graduate and Chancellor Joe B. Wyatt congratulates in the power of rationality to subdue chaos—is expressed on the grounds of his nalists, teachers, Vanderbilt faculty, and other Professional Students. Professor Vera Stevens Chatman for her experts in discussions about educational tech- Also awarded was Suzan B. McIntire, efforts to support diversity and affirmative University of Virginia in Charlottesville no less than on the hilltop called Monticello. nology as a potentially powerful, effective staff assistant in the Peabody Dean’s Office, action at Vanderbilt. tool that can enhance learning when prop- In the United States we have been front-loading the campus plan with ideological erly managed and applied,” says Mike Schoen- feld, vice chancellor for media relations. significance ever since. Rhythm of Research Not only did the media fellows attend In Nashville are two formerly unallied campuses resting side by side— sessions about trends in educational tech- Nathan Hoeft, a senior musical arts major in the Blair School of Music, plays the nology and questions of policy ensuring the embaire, an instrument of Uganda similar to a xylophone, at a fall Peabody poster Peabody College and Vanderbilt University—that convey two very different meaningful use of that technology, but they session spotlighting research of student participants in Vanderbilt’s Undergraduate also were treated to examples of concrete, Summer Research program. The program partners young Vanderbilt researchers with architectural messages while at the same time today representing the successful ways in which computer tech- faculty members and provides each stu- VANDERBILT NEWSSERVICE nology is being used in classroom settings. dent with a $3,000 stipend. “It’s one of same institution. And I know of no better way to explain the John Bransford, professor of education, the few University-wide programs that Centennial Professor of Psychology, and di- truly brings students together from all the Peabody College campus than by verbally crossing 21st Avenue to the rector of the Learning Technology Center undergraduate colleges,” says Howard Vanderbilt campus. For the wandering and sometimes confusing (LTC), provided an overview of some of the Sandler, Peabody professor of psychology multimedia tools developed by the LTC, in- and chair of the program’s coordinating paths of Vanderbilt illuminate, by way of contrast, the clarity and cluding the Little Planet Literacy Series and committee. “We really want to encourage Adventures of Jasper Woodbury videodisc these kids to go to graduate school.” Hoeft order that is Peabody. series. The journalists then got some hands- spent last summer with Gregory Barz, Blair on experience solving a Jasper Woodbury assistant professor of musicology, travel- adventure problem in math. ing through Uganda, Kenya, and Tanza- Next it was off to two Nashville ele- nia to study the music traditions of the mentary schools where the fellows talked Lake Victoria culture. with first graders using the Little Planet se-

12 PEABODY 13 1897 map of ing up later—is, of course, a fiction, but one that is inten- The 1912 original the Vanderbilt tional. Bishop Holland McTyeire, Vanderbilt’s co-founder plan of George University campus and first president of the University’s board, was a com- Peabody College pulsive planter, and the largest of the magnolias are for Teachers cele- his handiwork. Nevertheless, we feel when we walk the brates classicism– Vanderbilt campus that somehow we have wandered into a world of right a beautiful, natural arboretum. That is by design. angles, symmetri- The informal and Romantic plan appeared in America cal facades, and in the second half of the 19th century, first in cemeteries rectangular lawns. and slightly later in suburbs, with their curving tree- lined streets and cul-de-sacs. We call this plan “organic” because the intention was to celebrate the irregular shapes and textures of nature at a time when industrialism was replacing nature with roads and factories, right angles, and machines. The buildings of this vintage are medieval rather than classical in inspiration because the Victorians felt this style of architecture was more organic in outline. The Romantic philosophy contended that a human being is at his or her best when closest to nature. And to the extent that we imitate the irregular forms of nature A Celebration of Nature in the built environment, we create a place in which man and woman feel most at home. Such places are the very opposite of the urban grid and call attention to them- he Vanderbilt campus is a place for insiders, for peo- selves as the “not-city”: where we reside, not where we ple who already know their way. As the inset 1897 map T do business. by Granberry Jackson illustrates, the plan determined that the campus would function in this way from the begin- of education. In 1873 the Commodore gave $1 million ning. Architectural historians would describe the Van- to realize Bishop McTyeire’s vision of a central southern derbilt campus as an example of the Romantic or organ- The Vanderbilt and Peabody campus plans and university to rival such northern institutions as Harvard ic ethos, with few right angles and lots of curves. And and Yale. In 1867 George Peabody established the Peabody architectural styles reflect the distinct educational the architecture is primarily medieval in inspiration, with Education Fund with an eventual endowment of $2 mil- uneven roof lines and textured facades characterizing A Celebration of Rationality philosophies and missions of their institutions. lion to grant funds to teachers’ schools in the South. At such early buildings as Kirkland Hall and the Old Gym. that time, no southern state had free public The landscaping style is also organic, with irregular he Peabody campus operates from an entirely dif- schools, and as the states moved to estab- massings of trees scattered about. The impression that ferent perspective on what is the best human envi- T lish them, they needed teachers to teach in the trees just grew up naturally—with the buildings spring- ronment. Peabody is a place any outsider can quickly and them. The Peabody Fund was to provide easily comprehend. Its plan and its architecture celebrate the help necessary to train those teachers. the obviously manmade: a world of right angles and sym- metrical facades, of straight allées of trees and smooth rectangular lawns. This is the more ancient language of classicism, a lan- Vanderbilt’s Old Gym, now guage of calm and order designed to encourage people to home to the Department of think clear thoughts and believe in the perfectibility of The Kirkland and Payne Fine Arts and Fine Arts mankind. It was the language of Thomas Jefferson, who Gallery, was built in 1880 believed that the architectural style of the Greeks and Romans Philosophies and is an example of Victori- could be used to tame the wilderness of his Virginia. an architecture—medieval in In the Peabody plan, the buildings grouped along the he money might have come from similar inspiration and organic in central axis define the central mission of the college— Timpulses, but the Vanderbilt and Peabody

teaching and learning, library, and administration—with campus plans and their architectural styles reﬂect VANDERBILT PHOTOGRAPHICARCHIVES outline. Thomas Jefferson’s plan for the University of the space for communal gathering, where all were to the distinct educational philosophies and missions of their Virginia inspired the Peabody campus design. come together in social and religious equality, holding institutions. Vanderbilt evolved into a place for insiders pride of place at the crest. The buildings for residence because James H. Kirkland, the Vanderbilt chancellor who and eating are grouped around the secondary axes because, really shaped the character of the University, was an edu- while necessary, they do not define the primary pur- cational conservative, a man who believed in a pose of Peabody. The Peabody plan celebrates rational- certain degree of intellectual and social elitism. Payne came to Peabody from the Uni- ity as the highest of human virtues. Bruce Payne, the president who oversaw the planning versity of Virginia in 1912 and wanted to Both Vanderbilt University and Peabody College were of the Peabody campus, was an educational egalitari- create in Nashville the same kind of college environment Bruce Ryburn the result of northern philanthropy in the post-Civil War an. Payne believed strongly in education for the mass- Jefferson had established in Charlottesville. To do so Payne, president of South—Yankee gestures on the part of Commodore Cor- es, for social outsiders as well as insiders, and wanted Payne hired the New York ﬁrm of Ludlow and Peabody Peabody College nelius Vanderbilt of New York and George Peabody of to use the latest in progressive techniques to provide and the eminent landscape architect Warren Manning to from 1911 to 1937 Massachusetts to help heal a devastated land by means that education. design an “academical village” like Jefferson’s.

14 PEABODY REFLECTOR 15 The University of Virginia plan is college fabric. Until the late 1950s and early 1960s, with simpler than Peabody’s. Jefferson the construction of the Hill Student Center and John F. grouped his buildings along a single Kennedy Center buildings, no architect had the nerve to axis and assigned primacy to the attempt it. library’s rotunda. The two-story struc- In the 1970s, Peabody College faced a series of eco- tures contained a series of depart- nomic crises that ultimately led to merger with Vander- ments, with professors living in the bilt in 1979. Today, however, despite the alliance of the pavilions marked by columned facades two institutions, the Peabody campus retains a distinct and the students living below in rooms identity because its original outlines have not been blurred, that ﬂanked the central green. Each as Vanderbilt’s have, by the accretion of later buildings pavilion reflected a different classi- in various styles. cal order—Doric and Ionic, Corinthi- Architecture is not merely a range of styles, but a way an and Tuscan—so the students could of perceiving the world and using the art of building to study the classical styles, the only persuade others to see it likewise. A walk across the styles Jefferson thought worth study- Peabody campus tells teacher and student alike that they ing, in three dimensions. have arrived in a place where they can focus on the rationality of intellectual discipline, the clarity of social purpose exercised democratically, the belief that we all share a common and harmonious culture.

GERALD HOLLY And the Peabody message gains greater strength and greater distinction from its proximity to the Vanderbilt campus, with its organic perplexities. Nowhere else in The Campus as a City America can we find, side by side across one busy avenue, The majestic Social Religious Building, completed in such contrasting examples of collegiate architectural his- Erected in 1926 y the turn of the 20th century, when the Peabody Unlike the rectangular Peabody campus, the Van- 1915, crowns the Peabody campus mall with its ten tory, such clear expressions of opposing philosophies as a gift from Bcampus was planned, the “academical village” had derbilt site itself is irregular, bounded on the north by Corinthian columns. The building was a personal gift of what shape the best human environment should take. Nashville art evolved into the ideal of the campus as a city unto itself. West End Avenue and then by 21st Avenue as it heads from John D. Rockefeller. In western architecture there have been, since the Renais- But these academical cities would not be the morally, eth- south and curves west. And at the heart of the old Van- collector George sance, yin-and-yang revivals of the classical and medieval Etta Brinkley nically, and physically disorderly spaces of the Indus- derbilt campus, the buildings known as Old Central and styles, always with new permutations that signify evolv- trial Revolution metropolis. These academical cities would Old Science (now Benson Hall) are not aligned with any Cohen, the Cohen ing ideologies. The campuses of Peabody and Vanderbilt Building repre- be disciplined by the theory of urban planning derived street axis but are located at the intersection of these curv- illustrate this tension in one place, and simultaneously. from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and known in this coun- ing coordinates. This is why any attempt to add a more sents the purest example of classi- try as the “City Beautiful” move- classical order to the placement of buildings at Vander- Freelance writer Christine Kreyling holds a master’s ment. bilt called for the demolition of these two buildings. Van- Buildings That “Talk to Each Other” cal styling on the degree in art and architectural history from Vanderbilt Peabody campus. The 1893 Columbian Expo- derbilt administrators eventually came to realize that a and serves as the award-winning architecture and urban sition in Chicago—with its hier- formal regularity could not be made from irregular parts; he first new buildings on the Peabody campus were The building’s planning critic for the Nashville Scene newspaper. She elegant interior archy of primary and secondary Old Science and Old Central still stand today. Tthe Industrial Arts (Mayborn Hall) and Home Eco- also contributes to national architectural magazines and axes, its strong sightlines, and Peabody did not have to be retrofitted to express City nomics buildings, both of which opened in 1914. The Social features marble is co-author of the book Classical Nashville, published columns, balus- monumental buildings—had Beautiful theory because President Payne and his team Religious Building followed in 1915, and soon after the in 1996 by Vanderbilt University Press. demonstrated to America these of designers were starting with a blank slate of land. The Jesup Psychological Laboratory. All were designed by Lud- trade, wainscot- principles of city planning. Frag- low and Peabody. The Carnegie endowment, which paid ing, and marble ments of the City Beautiful sur- to construct Nashville’s old downtown library as well as mosaic flooring. vive today in such cities as San The Vanderbilt campus still-standing branch libraries in north and east Nashville, Francisco, but we find the most is a place for insiders, funded the Peabody library. This 1918 building by Edward complete manifestations at col- Tilton suggests the abundance of knowledge contained leges and universities, where a for people who within the collection of books through the roof cornice controlling discipline is more eas- already know their way. detail of stone baskets filled with sculptural fruit. ily achieved because there is a sin- The best structure on the Peabody campus from the gle property owner. Peabody is a place standpoint of purity in classical styling is the Cohen Build- Vanderbilt administrators, any outsider can quickly ing, erected in 1926 and designed by New York’s McKim inspired by City Beautiful theo- Mead and White. Despite gems like Cohen, however, the ry, hired a series of nationally and easily comprehend. real importance of the Peabody campus is not lodged known planners and design pro- in the design of any individual architect but in the aggre- fessionals to make rational order gate collection of buildings that talk to each other in a from their organic campus. But George Peabody College for Teachers was built on the common tongue across time. The 1905 proposed plans for the Vanderbilt campus by Richard Morris Hunt site of what was once Roger Williams University, an insti- Until the 1950s Peabody was architecturally unified (1902), the Vanderbilt family architect, and George Kessler tution founded shortly after the Civil War for the edu- because the Beaux-Arts plan disciplined not only the redesign of the GERALD HOLLY Vanderbilt campus (1905), the designer of the City Beautiful plan for the St. cation of emancipated African Americans. By the time placement of buildings but their style as well. Because by George Kessler Louis World’s Fair, as well as a 1920s plan, faced phys- the Peabody Fund purchased the site, the university had the campus plan is so orderly, it was visually difficult ical challenges that hindered implementation. been abandoned, its buildings damaged by fire. to imagine non-classical architecture as part of the

16 PEABODY REFLECTOR 17 Peabody also felt like the natural place for her, in light Teacher €ducation Goes High Tech of her family ties to the College. Her aunt and grandmother had attended Peabody, and her great-grandfather he next phase of Goldman’s career began in 1987 had earned a medical degree from the University of Twhen she left the dean’s office and began directing Nashville, one of Peabody’s forerunners. or co-directing a number of funded research projects, including three major projects sponsored by the Nation- Changing Times, Changing Roles al Science Foundation. The purpose of her research, which was in collaboration with Research Associate Professor The quation of s a faculty member in a university, one can change of Education Linda Barron and others, was to measure Aone’s environment as she feels the desire to do so,” the effectiveness of certain types of instructional tech- says Goldman. nology in mathematics and science teacher education. PEYTON HOGE Her exceptional career with Peabody College is a case Using videotape to demonstrate the positive dynam- in point. While variety is inherent in teaching, as pro- ics of a typical middle-school classroom, argued Gold- fessors see new faces or develop new curricula from one man, was more efficient than sending students out on Peabody College bids adieu semester to the next, opportunities also abound in admin- actual observations each time. “Often when students are € istration, research, and faculty leadership. That, to Gold- sent out to observe a classroom,” she says, “either what to a longtime friend and powerful leader man, is one of the most attractive aspects of a career in you hope will happen doesn’t happen, or it does happen higher education. but is so subtle that the novice teachers don’t catch it.” by Jane Salem

n May 1998, with his commencement only days away, IPeabody senior and Army ROTC cadet Kevin Longinot- ti died as the result of injuries suffered when a pair of tor- € nadoes tore through Nashville 18 days earlier. lizabeth Goldman The tragedy required Vanderbilt administrators to make difficult decisions in a short time period—decisions Goldman has been able to take on a new role every Videotape and the use of multiple cameras, on the they knew would create a precedent. Longinotti had been few years, earning several prestigious University honors other hand, allow the student teacher to focus upon indi- “You a model student, but were his professors comfortable along the way. In 1983 she won the Ellen Gregg Ingalls vidual children and their reactions to the instruction, not only awarding grades based upon an incomplete semester of Award for Excellence in Classroom Teaching, and in 1988 enabling in-depth analysis. Such techniques, coupled with want work? Should a diploma be presented? she received the Thomas Jefferson Award for her extra- live classroom observation, are central to Peabody’s meth- A delicate balance between sensitivity to the griev- ordinary contributions as a faculty member to the ods courses today. Liz on your ing family and preservation of the University’s integrity University’s councils and government. She has chaired As a professor and administrator, Goldman has faced committee– had to be maintained. both the University Faculty Senate and Peabody’s Fac- numerous challenges through the years, from managing Serving as Vanderbilt’s associate provost for academ- ulty Council. crises to grappling with the fluctuating nature of the stu- you want ic affairs during that arduous time was Elizabeth Spencer Having begun her career in 1965 as a secondary math- dent body. Her contributions as associate provost, which her Goldman, associate professor of mathematics education ematics teacher, Goldman gravitated early toward math- capped off her years with Vanderbilt, included service as and a respected Peabody faculty member since 1968. The ematics teacher education and joined the Peabody faculty self-study director for the laborious process of reaf- running decision regarding Longinotti’s academic record fell to in 1968. In the years that followed, she taught under- firming the University’s accreditation by the Southern it.” her and a handful of other administrators. Ultimately, graduate and graduate mathematics courses and math- Association of Colleges and Schools. As overseer of Van- with confirmation from Longinotti’s instructors that he ematics methods courses for prospective elementary derbilt’s ROTC units, she also was selected by the Pen- had, in fact, met all requirements for graduation, the stu- The €ssence of Teaching teachers, and she supervised field placements. She also tagon as one of 60 civilians to participate in the military’s dent’s degree was conferred to his mother at Commencement taught two years in the College of Arts and Science after 1997 Joint Civilian Orientation Conference, a one-week ceremonies. lizabeth Goldman learned to love math early in life Peabody merged with Vanderbilt in 1979. nationwide tour of military bases. “It was the right thing to do,” says Goldman resolutely. Ewhile growing up in the tiny town of Waterproof, It was Willis Hawley, Peabody’s first post-merger dean, Vanderbilt is fortunate in that Goldman continues “I believe it showed the character of the University.” Louisiana. She credits an aunt who was a university math- who urged Goldman to try her hand at administration to serve the University as a consultant in her retirement. The decision reflected Goldman’s character, too. As a ematics professor—one of several teachers in her fami- when he asked her to serve as associate dean for under- But her colleagues lament the loss of her day-to-day distinguished educator, researcher, and administrator, she ly—with fostering her interest in the subject. But her own graduate student affairs for the new Peabody College of influence. has earned a reputation for being a careful, compassionate elementary and secondary teachers exerted positive influ- Vanderbilt University. She accepted the job, but the new “Liz has a way of working through dilemmas so leader—as well as “a consummate team player,” adds ences as well. administrator and her colleagues faced an immediate pair that everyone feels they’ve been heard and the most Professor of Education Carolyn Evertson, who served as “There was a lot of encouragement, which is the essence of formidable tasks. has been achieved from deliberations,” concludes Pro- assistant to the provost from 1996 until last year. of teaching,” says Goldman. “It made me interested in First, they needed to restore enrollment—which dropped fessor Carolyn Evertson. “That is such a rare strength. “Liz is the person you want when an important task learning—and the most important thing I learned was to to 336 at its lowest point in 1982—because the College’s We’ve really lost a powerful leader from the Vanderbilt is at hand. You not only want Liz on the committee; you learn on my own.” financial base was undergraduate tuition. And second, the community.” want her running it. That’s because she is organized, After earning her bachelor’s degree from Tulane, Gold- College’s academic policies had to be reformulated to make ≤ ÷ =incredibly − thoughtful, and respectful+ of individuals’ (∞ dif- man came to Vanderbilt≥ in 1964× to pursue a master’s= ÷)−them consistent with Vanderbilt’s.≤+ Both goals(∞) were met, Jane Salem≥ is a Nashville ×≤ freelance writer ÷ who also serves= − fering opinions.” 2 degree 3and then a Ph.D. in mathematics. She1 enjoyed her but Goldman is quick not to take sole credit. She says Haw- as editor-at-large for Wisconsin Opinions, a weekly news- 2 That kind of leadership is the legacy Goldman leaves time as a student at Vanderbilt and in Nashville, so when ley’s efforts in developing new programs and attracting paper for Wisconsin lawyers. A former practicing attor- behind in her retirement, which was effective at the con- she was presented with the opportunity in 1968 to distinguished faculty helped to increase enrollment, which ney and high-school Spanish teacher, Salem also has taught clusion of the fall 1999 semester. In honor of her 32-year teach at neighboring George Peabody College, it seemed today stands at 1,040 students, and she cites Professor as an adjunct professor at Ottawa University. career, the University conferred “emerita” status upon like both a wise career move and a way to remain in her Joseph Cunningham and others as key to the College’s suc- her January 1. new hometown. cessful integration into the Vanderbilt system.

18 PEABODY REFLECTOR 19 An eventful evening was made even more so when the Social Religious Building’s ﬁre alarms unexpectedly—and falsely— sounded during Saturday evening’s Grand Reunion Dinner. he 1940s and 1950s were prosperous, T exciting years in America, and Peabody

PEYTON HOGE College reaped the beneﬁts through record growth

in enrollment and in its distinguished academic Lydia Caroline Plank (MLS’58) of Harrisonburg, Virginia, programs. More than 7,000 alumni from those E peruses through the reunion’s

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G E all bound by their Peabody memories. other memorabilia. In September nearly 250 Peabodians from the PEYTON HOGE classes of 1940 through 1959 migrated to campus for the second “Fabulous ’40s & ’50s” Home- coming Reunion—a weekend celebration that

Dressed to the included campus and city tours, a look at Peabody’s nines, reunion guests dance the history and architecture, compelling demon- night away in the Carolyn H. Hite (BA’59) of Nashville, Rotunda of the strations of today’s technology advancements William James Calhoun (BS’42, MA’48) of Opelika, Alabama, and Social Religious Richard L. Stockard (BA’57) of Hendersonville, Tennessee, Building. in teacher education, entertainment, dancing, get reacquainted with old friends. and plenty of food and reminiscing. A committee of 46 dedicated alumni, led by T. Earl Hin- PEYTON HOGE ton (BMus’51, MMus’54, EdD’69), planned the Minnie Pearl—a.k.a. Anne Rogers—greets Edna Threlkeld Scales (MA’49) of Nashville and Gene Glass Wozniak (BA’48) of New Smyrna reunion, which built upon the success of a Beach, Florida, while Doris Tippens, wife of the Rev. James Tippens (BS’50) of Epland, North Carolina, looks on. Anne is the daughter of similar event held in 1994. Norman and Estelle Ansley Worrell (both BA’51) of Nashville, who turned the reunion into a family affair. Each dressed

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THOSE IC H PEYTON HOGE REFLECTOR’S cameras were on hand to capture ﬁlm; and Estelle as a clown representing the summer circuses produced by the elementary physi- the fun. —Phillip B. Tucker cal education department.

PEYTON HOGE Reunion

PEYTON HOGE WERE Committee Chairman T. Earl Hinton (BMus’51, COLLEGE REUNION 1999 MMus’54, EdD’69) welcomes guests to opening night. JASON LEVKULICH THE DAYS Charles Kinzer, associate professor of reading education, gives a high- tech demonstration of some of the ways in which Peabody is using the The “Fabulous ’40s and ’50s” return to the Rotunda latest technologies to enhance the teacher education process.

20 PEABODY REFLECTOR 21 The 20th Century’s Best and Education Ideas by James W. Guthrie

A panel of experts debates abled students are guaranteed places in classrooms. Federal and state programs assist finan- hits and misses in education cially in the schooling of recent immigrants. Community colleges have been created or every endeavor of mankind, the 20th century rep- to bring higher education closer to home. Fresented a time of rapid change and new discov- College and university enrollments have vast- ery. Advancements in science and medicine eclipsed those ly expanded, and public loan programs now made during all previous centuries combined. We flew financially enfranchise many more college students Worst to the moon, constructed 100-story buildings, and sur- than ever before. vived two world wars. Technology and commu- But opening our schools and colleges to all cit- nication became industries, and human rights izens was not the only high point of the centu- became a movement. Consolidation ry’s education efforts. Great strides also have The American education landscape dur- was the beginning been made in the theories underlying the ing the past century certainly saw its share of the end for measurement of human ability and in the of hills and valleys, too—great successes intimate neighborhood technical practices of testing. Much of the as well as failures. But what were those schools that closely fundamental understanding of scientific successes? What were the failures? And linked teachers to measurement of human abilities occurred what is the state of American education today parents. in connection with World Wars I and II and as we enter a new century? thereafter. Performance testing programs, now Last fall a panel of Peabody College faculty used by more than 40 states and in most school members and other education policy experts* con- districts and classrooms—as well as increasing use vened on campus to discuss and debate these ques- of computer technology to instruct and appraise stu- tions. The spirited conversation ranged widely, and some dent performance—are grounded in these measurement of the people, policies, and practices that did not make developments. the century’s “best dressed” list of education ideas are as Participants were quick to assert that efforts during significant for their exclusion as several that did. the past 25 years to equalize finances available to sup- Of course, these being academics, agreement was port students in school districts and states were anoth- far from complete regarding any particular idea. er significant development. Earlier in the century, some Still, a general consensus of opinion emerged among districts had more than 20 times the dollars per pupil to these experts regarding the 20th century’s education spend than did neighboring schools in the same state. In strengths and weaknesses. the last quarter of the century, governors, legislatures, and courts vastly narrowed, although not yet eliminated, Education for All these resource gaps. Today, two-thirds of the nation’s per- articipants concluded that the 1954 Brown v. Board pupil spending differences occur among states rather than Pof Education U.S. Supreme Court decision desegre- among local districts, an inequity that really only the fed- gating the nation’s once racially separated schools may eral government is in a position to redress. well have been the most significant education event of the century. Indeed, it may even have been the centu- Demand for Higher Achievement ry’s most important domestic policy decision for the entire he 20th century is also notable for the firm recogni- The society, let alone for our schools. Ttion that out-of-school factors influence a student’s 1954 Brown v. The Brown decision triggered other significant academic performance. Perhaps the most symbolic crys- Board of Education efforts to make the nation’s schools more demo- tallization of this idea resides in the 1965 enactment of the ruling may have been cratic. Prior to the last quarter of the 20th cen- Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which autho- the century’s most tury, most students did not graduate from high rizes federal funds for improving the schooling of young- important domestic school and only an elite few went to college. sters from low-income households. policy decision for the Kindergarten and preschool were rarities, and A result of that act, for example, is Project Head Start, entire society, let if you were physically or mentally disabled or the federal preschool child development program for chil- alone for our did not speak English well, public schools may dren and families who live below the poverty level. The schools. not have held a place for you at all. program, which has served more than 13 million chil- Today our schools are free from legally enforced racial dren since 1965, was inspired by the celebrated research segregation, kindergarten has become universal, and of the late Peabody psychology professor Susan Gray. preschooling is headed in the same direction. More than The recognition of out-of-school influences on learn- 90 percent of students graduate from high school. Dis- ing is not a one-sided blessing. Some school critics con- ILLUSTRATIONS BY DREW WHITE

22 PEABODY REFLECTOR 23 a major impediment to gathering useful knowledge for more productive. practitioners about how students learn and how teach- This is the legacy of A Nation at Risk, the Charlottesville ers might effectively instruct. Summit, and the actions of literally dozens of states in Desegregation of Efforts to equalize New forms of setting student performance standards, implementing the nation’s once funding among school schooling (charter and The Century Ahead of Us statewide testing systems, and designing accountability racially separated districts and states magnet schools, hat about the current hot-button issues in education plans. BEST schools with the “whole school reforms”) today? Not many of them held up when subjected And what about technology and the Internet? landmark Brown v. The Elementary that are injecting W to the perspective of an entire century of significant This is a difficult topic to address because it Board of Education and Secondary variety into public developments. is still too early to predict the impact. Stu- ruling of 1954 Education Act of school systems The 19th For example, panelists omitted school violence from dents are certainly learning from com- 1965, which created century was character- serious consideration because, despite television and puters and the Internet, but they may Provision of equal programs such as Publication of 1983 ized by efforts to make newspaper hype over incidents such as the Columbine be learning more on their own and education resources Project Head Start to report A Nation our schools public while the High School tragedy in Colorado, schools are actually more at home than they are at school. for students with improve the schooling at Risk, which, 20th century was spent safer now than they have been in half a century. Interest Although exciting instructional soft- disabilities of children from despite its flawed making our schools accessible. in school uniforms comes and goes and, whatever the ware relying upon the Internet is emerg- low-income families thesis, sparked The 21st century could be current concern, no real evidence yet supports the claim ing rapidly, teachers are not yet being Assessment of societal demand concerned with rendering that uniforms influence student learning. trained appropriately in the use of tech- student progress for higher levels schools effective and Teaching methods, such as phonics versus whole-lan- nology for instruction. Peabody is lead- through standardized of academic more productive. guage approaches to reading, are a tempest in a teapot ing the way in technology training for performance tests achievement that excites lawmakers and some parents. However, good tomorrow’s teachers, and the impact could teachers have long known that a blend of instructional be dramatic, but a reassessment of these devel- methods, tailored to the needs of the individual student, opments is needed a bit further downstream. is always the right approach. It is difficult to find an ele- In response, the participants agreed to convene in 2099 mentary teacher who is not an eclectic when it comes to to undertake a similar conversation. Red Tape and School Closures tend that such knowledge too easily provides educators phonics and whole language. with excuses for not succeeding with low-income and he negative side of the education reform ledger also What about growing private-school enrollments? They (*In addition to the author, panel participants included Peabody non-English-speaking students. Texas Governor George Tgarnered plenty of attention by the Peabody pan- aren’t. Private-school enrollments are actually declining faculty members Jacob Adams, associate professor of edu- W. Bush, for example, refers to “the soft bigotry of low elists. High on the list of detrimental ideas was the inven- nationally. What about taxpayer revolts in paying for cation and public policy; Dean Camilla Benbow, professor expectations” in criticizing this phenomenon. tion of the Carnegie Unit with which most schools and schools? They aren’t. Education now costs the nation of psychology and Kennedy Center investigator and senior Panel participants contended that the recent evolution colleges today measure student progress. This measure nearly $2 billion per day, with the trajectory climbing. fellow; Ellen Goldring, professor of educational leadership of new forms of schooling such as magnet schools and counts time spent in a class, rather than performance, as So what lies ahead? Participant Joseph Murphy observed and senior fellow in the Institute for Public Policy Studies; charter schools, and “whole school reforms” such as Suc- the numeraire of schooling. Participants collectively that the 19th century was characterized by a nationwide Joseph Murphy, professor of educational leadership; Claire cess for All, Roots and Wings, Waldorf Schools, Edison lamented that the nation is so willing to accept the num- effort to make our schools public while the 20th centu- Smrekar, associate professor of educational leadership and Schools, the Modern Red Schoolhouse, and possibly even ber of “units” or hours in subjects, rather than measures ry was spent making our schools accessible. (This is the fellow in the Institute for Public Policy Studies; and Kent voucher plans were hopeful because they may of knowledge, as the coin of educational success. GE “democratization” effort for which the Brown decision Weeks, professor of the practice of education and former HO N O T inject great variety into what is, in too many The federal government, or at least the manner in Y Nashville School Board member. Also participating was Sally E was so crucial.) When seminar participants turned to P places, a moribund public school system. which it has chosen to structure financial aid to schools, their crystal balls, they concluded that the 21st century, Kilgore, president of the Modern Red Schoolhouse.) Finally, on the positive side, the pan- also came in for a substantial share of criticism. Many or at least the early part of it, would be concerned with elists unanimously claimed that the 1983 participants blamed federal funding programs for evis- efforts to render the nation’s schools effective and publication of the bombastic report A cerating the fundamental integrity of the instructional Nation at Risk was a good thing for the process by intrusive accounting procedures and unjusti- United States. We now see in retrospect fiable regulatory measures. that the report had a flawed thesis, in that The massive “consolidation” effort at the turn of the it claimed a flabby school system was plac- century, which eliminated literally tens of thousands of Creation of the Consolidation of small, Miscommunication ing the nation at risk in terms of international the nation’s small and rural schools and combined them Carnegie Unit as a rural schools into regarding the state of Author James economic competition. Today, with the benefit of hind- into larger schools and school districts, was seen by many measure of student dysfunctionally large public education in the W. Guthrie is sight and with the United States’ occupying the top rung on panelists as a bad idea. Consolidation was the beginning progress districts with United States chairman of the world’s economic ladder, we can see that it was sloppy of the end for intimate neighborhood schools that close- impersonal Peabody’s management far more than inept schooling that was ham- ly linked teachers to parents. And early 20th-century Arcane structuring bureaucracies Department of pering U.S. trade efforts. “Progressive Era” reforms were the beginning of dys- of federal financial aid Leadership and Still, seminar participants believed A Nation at Risk functionally large city schools and insensitive school to schools Acceptance of critical Organizations, was a significant and valuable publication because it bureaucracies as the nation gathered its burgeoning num- theory by academics, professor of pub- spurred societal demand for higher levels of achievement. bers of pupils into ever-larger, big-city systems. Intrusive government which has led to loss of lic policy and edu- It fueled today’s concern for measuring schooling out- Finally, on the negative side, seminar participants red tape and regulatory rigorous intellectual cation, and comes, for assessing the academic performance of pupils, expressed disappointment in the widespread abandon- measures procedures for director of the and for legislative calls for more effective schools. And ment, in schools of education and many college acade- discovering knowledge Peabody Center it stimulated the historic 1989 Charlottesville Summit at mic departments, of rigorous intellectual procedures for for Education which the president and the nation’s governors specified discovering and verifying knowledge. Acceptance by aca- Policy. the first-ever set of national education performance goals. demics of so-called “critical theory”—which purports Thus, even if wrongheaded analytically, A Nation at Risk that the biases of a researcher can never be overcome and worst was influential in the evolution of better schools. doubts the utility of the scientific method—was seen as

24 PEABODY REFLECTOR 25 director. “We had come up

with similar kinds of interventions from very different theoretical perspectives. It seemed as if we had stumbled upon some general learning principles for language. The idea with CLIP was to bring together different interven- by Ned Andrew Solomon tions and have cross-discussions for ideas. It made sense “Out of the Shell” to find out what pieces were universal, and then figure The Child Language Intervention ing Articulation & Grammar (TAG) project, headed up out how to adjust them for individual children.” by Paul Yoder, research professor of special education After years of groundwork, the proposed project was

Project is helping kids with language PEYTON HOGE and investigator and senior fellow with the John F. Kennedy recognized by the National Institutes of Health, along delays to speak for themselves Center, and Stephen Camarata, associate professor of with $4.5 million in funding and the designation as a hearing and speech sciences and special education, and “The CLIP topping by a Sonic restaurant on her way home, Kennedy Center deputy director for behavioral research. SEvelyn Threet asks the small boys in the back seat project Finally is the Teaching Expressive Language (TEL) Evelyn Threet uses balls and chutes in a Kennedy Center what they want to eat. “Hamburger, fries, ketchup, no project, whose co-principal investigators are Stephen training room to help elicit language from her five-year-old son, taught me to cheese, and a Coke,” says five-year-old Ashton. This perky Camarata and Keith Nelson, who is professor of psy- Ashton, who is demonstrating dramatic progress in just six months response gives Mom great pleasure. It wasn’t too long ago give my son chology at Pennsylvania State University. of CLIP language intervention sessions. The sessions also have that she would have been guessing Ashton’s order from Although each of the sub-pro- helped Evelyn, who has been trained to be a language guide for her son. unintelligible sounds and gestures, his speech, jects identifies and specializes kind of like charades. so that he in a slightly different seg- “Now he can tell us what ment of the language-delayed national center for the study of language intervention. he wants instead of just would have it population, commonalties abound, Additional funding from the Scottish Rite Masons of crying,” says Evelyn. including a by-product of improved rela- Nashville and other private donors help pay for the ini- to give back Ashton and Evelyn are clients of tionships between parents and children as tial screenings and language interventions. a Peabody program called CLIP—the to me.” communication develops or improves. The “national center” label has brought with it major Child Language Intervention Project. Take the case of Christopher Chambers. responsibilities, including the necessity to make the pro- Although the intervention has required He and his older brother, Nicholas, both par- “Sometimes ject accessible to a global community eager for the latest mother and son to attend two 50-minute ticipated in the TEL program, and Mom and news from the language research front. Long-distance language intervention sessions a week for six Dad couldn’t be more grateful for it. Christo- trying to sites collaborating with CLIP have surfaced in Kansas, pher, whose language delay was less severe, was Chicago, Tampa, Philadelphia, and Santa Barbara, months, Evelyn believes Ashton’s progress has communicate been swift and dramatic. “I feel like I went to seen for only a year, while Christopher will be California. Camarata and his staff exchange objectives Vanderbilt a couple of times,” says Evelyn, “and in language training for nearly three years or was and research findings with countless others every day by when I came home I didn’t have the kid I went until he’s ready to join his peers in kindergarten. e-mail, phone, and fax. aggravating. there with.” According to Heather Chambers, the boys’ CLIP is now serving 200 local children and 400 chil- Evelyn is not alone in her perception. CLIP, now mother, the intervention has paid off big in only a He would get dren in other states and countries. Participating families in its second year of operation, is helping to put words short time. Christopher has progressed from speak- are referred by a number of different sources, including in the mouths of many young Middle Tennessee chil- ing a total of five to ten words at two years old to upset when pediatric groups, school systems, child-care centers, early dren, and is helping families navigate the sometimes regularly constructing sentences of five or six words we didn’t intervention centers, Tennessee Early Intervention Ser- difficult world of language services. after only one year in the study. “At this point, find- vices (TEIS), the Child Development Center at Vander- A Collaborative Vision ing new language targets is getting very difficult,” understand bilt Medical Center, Tennessee State University, and the laughs Heather, realizing it’s a pretty good prob- y most research standards, Christopher’s TEL speech Lentz Health Clinic. An equal number of participants “He’s My Success Story” him. It’s so lem to have. “He’s my success story.” Bpathologist, Valerie Parsons, goes far beyond the call wind up on CLIP’s doorstep through word-of-mouth LIP, which is housed at the Vanderbilt Bill Wilker- She also is fully aware of the changes that of duty to make sure her trainee gets the language sup- much easier referrals. At certain times of the year, the waiting list son Center for Otolaryngology and Communica- have occurred in her relationship with her younger port he needs. She meets regularly with Christopher’s becomes lengthy, but CLIP has pledged to see families C now that he tion Sciences and the John F. Kennedy Center for son. “It was very difficult for us to have a preschool speech pathologist to exchange ideas and relate within a month of the time they first call, even if that Research on Human Development, consists of three relationship because it was so hard to under- his latest language targets. has a larger means hiring extra people or working late into the evening. sub-projects. The first is the Milieu Teaching Pro- stand him,” recalls Heather. “Sometimes That kind of scenario is just what Stephen Camara- In some cases, a particular child with language needs ject (MTP), under the direction of Ann Kaiser, trying to communicate was actually ta had in mind when he and his colleagues first envisioned vocabulary.” may not qualify for any of the sub-projects, but rather professor of special education and psychology aggravating. He would get upset when the project eight years ago. The idea for a collaborative than allow such families to drift aimlessly, CLIP is also and director of the Kennedy Center Research we did not understand him, and that, language-skills effort arose when Camarata, Kaiser, Yoder, committed to referring them to other language services. Program on Communication, Cognitive, and in turn, would upset us. It’s so much Nelson, and former Peabody faculty member Steve War- Once the initial assessment is completed, CLIP tracks Emotional Development. Next is the Teach- easier now that he has a larger vocab- ren began brainstorming. qualifying and non-qualifying families through follow- ulary and can communicate his “Several of us were working up phone calls and often supports them in other ways, wants and needs.” independently,” explains including accompanying family members to IFSP (Indi- Camarata, CLIP’s project vidualized Family Service Plan) and IEP (Indi-

26 PEABODY REFLECTOR 27 that we simply don’t label the child, especially at two years old. Instead I might say, ‘We need to give him some A Common Love for Peabody extra support in the area of expressive language.’” Leadership Dinner Honors Educators Margaret Seebert passed away last Septem- choolteachers, principals, college pro- PEYTON HOGE But often there are other emotional obstacles to over- ber, just one month shy of her 100th birthday, Sfessors, deans, clergymen, and other come. “Parents come in feeling a lot of responsibility, believ- leaving Peabody College a life insurance educators were honored in November at ing they did this to their child,” says Camarata. “But our policy worth $1,200. Robert Betts, a Flori- the annual Leadership Dinner sponsored message to them is very clear: We are not indicting you at da librarian who had been a wise investor of by Peabody’s donor society, THE ROUND- all. You did not do this. You need to interact normally with his salary through the years, died in 1998, TABLE. your child, and we want you to have fun doing it.” leaving stock worth nearly $3 million to Peabody With their gift of $1,000 or more, ROUND- To that end, most intervention sessions revolve around in his will. And Franklin and Betty Parker, TABLE members are given the opportunity a popular toy or play activity. The hope is that the whose association with the College has inspired to recognize an outstanding educator at the child will be reinforced to talk by attending to an activ- years of research on the life of philanthropist dinner. More than 300 people attended the ity he or she really enjoys. George Peabody, have created a charitable gift 1999 celebration, which was chaired by annuity that beneﬁts both them and Peabody former Peabody Alumni Board president College as they grow older. Bernice Weingart Gordon, BS’56. Serving Parents as Students ROUNDTABLE charter members Lavona Although each of these stories is unique, as co-chairs of THE ROUNDTABLE for 1998–99 and John Dunworth of Pensacola, Florida,

PEYTON HOGE the people in them share one thing in com- lay is what worked for Alan Mullins. Connie Mullins were Jan Riven and Stephen S. Riven, BA’60 attended November’s dinner. Dunworth, mon: a love for Peabody College and a feel- Speech pathologist Valerie Parsons, left, uses a picture book to assess the Psimply didn’t realize her son was having difficulty (Arts & Science). who was the last president of George ing of indebtedness for the difference their language development of young Christopher Chambers, a participant in communicating. At three and a half years old, his speech Outgoing Vanderbilt Chancellor Joe B. Peabody College for Teachers before its CLIP’s Teaching Expressive Language program, while his mother, repertoire consisted almost entirely of grunts and animal educational experiences made in their lives. Wyatt gave the evening’s invited address, merger with Vanderbilt in 1979, was hon- sounds, but Connie was convinced his behavior had more Many alumni desire to express their appre- Heather, looks on. One year in the program has enabled Christopher to after which he was recognized by Peabody ored at the 1999 dinner with a ROUND- to do with boys starting to talk later than girls than a spe- ciation for Peabody’s influence by making pro- HE OUNDTABLE progress in his communication from speaking only a few words to con- and T R for his “tireless efforts TABLE gift from Cherry Allen, BS’41, and structing complete sentences. cific language disorder. Besides, she and her son had no visions to give of their means either while they as a champion of education.” He was Jack Allen, MA’38, PhD’41, Peabody difficulties communicating. “I could figure out everything are living or after they have died, but often presented with an original painting by local emeritus professor of history. Alan wanted,” says Connie, “so I just got it for him.” they do not know what options are available artist Ronald Porter, who also is a lectur- Luckily, Connie happened upon an article in a local for doing so. The stories of Margaret Seebert, er in fine arts at Vanderbilt. parenting magazine that mentioned the new CLIP pro- Robert Betts, and Franklin and Betty Parker For more information about THE ROUND- vidualized Education Program) team meetings with the ject. She decided to have her son tested and discovered illustrate three typical examples of such planned TABLE, contact Tres Mullis, Peabody Col- school system. All testing, treatment, and support ser- there was more to the situation than male immaturity. giving opportunities. lege’s director of development, by calling vices are offered free of charge. CLIP is “I shudder to think my lack of knowledge could have Margaret Seebert earned her bachelor’s 615/322-8500. really harmed my child,” she says, “but I didn’t really degree from Peabody in 1922 and lived in Lex- Support Without Labels helpful to see it as a problem. Then, thanks to CLIP, this tremen- ington, Virginia, at the time of her death at dous transformation took place. I can’t praise it enough. age 99 last fall. For 20 years she had paid on he initial screening process conducted by CLIP steers families who The day we finished the program, I was in tears.” After the insurance policy for which Peabody was

each family toward the project best suited to the PEYTON HOGE T have six months of intervention, Alan is communicating quite named the beneﬁciary—an effort of which she child’s language needs. Children between the ages of two well with his parents and with his young peers. was proud. Miss Seebert had been unable to and five with speech that is difficult to understand, or wondered

Evelyn Threet describes her son’s language transfor- give to the College during her lifetime but was PEYTON HOGE ROUNDTABLE member Dr. language that is immature for their chronological age, about their mation in poetic terms. “Before, I felt like Ashton was in gratiﬁed in knowing that the policy ensured Thomas F. Frist Jr., BA’61 comprise the target population. The screening includes a shell that was partially cracked,” she explains. “And she could do so at her death. (Arts & Science), HO’65 language assessments, an articulation evaluation, a video- child’s now the whole top of it is open, and he’s standing out- While a $1,200 bequest may not seem like (Medicine), stands with taped language sample, an IQ test, and hearing and oral language side the shell. It’s an entirely different world. It brought a large sum of money, it should be remem- Leadership Dinner chair motor examinations. If the child’s language skills seem out the real Ashton that I guess was hiding.” bered that small gifts represent the lion’s share Bernice W. Gordon, BS’56, appropriate for one of the sub-projects, further screen- development Christopher Chambers and Alan Mullins received of alumni giving to the College and do, in fact, and ROUNDTABLE co-chair ing may take place. direct treatment from trainers with TEL and TAG, respec- add up. The College’s general scholarship fund, Stephen S. Riven, BA’60 Mary Camarata, CLIP coordinator and speech pathol- but were tively. In Ashton Threet’s case, Mom was the one trained in particular, is rooted in such giving. (Arts & Science). ogist at the Vanderbilt Bill Wilkerson Center, believes this perhaps to be a language guide for her own son by a parent train- Equally important are the occasional major aspect of families starting at one point is the program’s Flanking Peabody Dean Camilla Ben- er with MTP. gifts, which alone can provide full funding for greatest asset. Alternatively, parents can spend weeks hesitant to bow and outgoing Vanderbilt Chancel- “The CLIP project taught me to give him his speech, a particular College need. Such is the case with researching various programs and visiting potential sites. lor Joe B. Wyatt at the Leadership PEYTON HOGE assign a so that he would have it to give back to me,” says Eve- the gift of Robert Betts through his will. Mr. “It’s so difﬁcult just to get one good appointment,” she Dinner are Irwin and Lucy Roberts of lyn. “I know that’s how kids learn—by how their par- says. “People’s lives are extremely busy.” diagnostic Betts, who lived in St. Petersburg, Florida, Raleigh, North Carolina. The Robertses’ ents teach them. But sometimes parents have to be taught CLIP also is helpful to families who have wondered earned his bachelor’s degree in library science son, Hanes, graduated in May 2000 name to their how to teach their kids.” about their child’s language development but were per- in 1943 and had always been thankful for the with his bachelor’s degree in human and haps hesitant to assign a diagnostic name to their sus- career opportunities made possible because organizational development, earned suspicions. Ned Andrew Solomon is a program coordinator in picions. “Many of our parents have been told all sorts of his Peabody education. He lived quite mod- through Peabody. Peabody’s special education department and John F. Kennedy of things about their children,” says Mary Camarata. estly, and those who knew him were com- Leadership Dinner entertainment is Center. His research includes work with the CLIP pro- “They’re nervous about coming in. They’re afraid of their pletely unaware that he had amassed a fortune provided by Blair School of Music senior ject. More information about CLIP is available by call- children being labeled. I allay their fears with the fact investing his librarian salary. Christopher Hughlett of Lancaster, ing 615/936-5125. Mr. Betts’ gift to Peabody of nearly $3 mil- Pennsylvania, and the Dodecaphonics lion was offered, in part, to establish a grad- vocal group. uate fellowship in honor of his mother, Lois

28 PEABODY REFLECTOR 29 PEABODY COLLEGE OF Autrey Betts, and those wishes are being National Awards In June, Chaney and the other award VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY carried out. With the blessing of Mr. Betts’ recipients attended the annual Milken Fam- Recognize Peabody Alumni A Word of Thanks surviving family, plans also are being made ily Foundation National Education Con- July 1998–June 1999 for the larger portion of the gift to endow a Two Peabody graduates—one a seasoned pro- ference, a three-day professional development new academic chair that will attract to Peabody fessional and the other a first-year educator— conference in Los Angeles. Since 1987, Peabody College’s annual list of alumni and friends who sup- a scholar of exceptional talent. Details of this are recipients of prestigious national the Milken Family Foundation has award- ported the College financially during the previous fiscal year effort will be forthcoming. teacher-recognition awards presented last fall. ed more than $37.5 million to 1,502 edu- (July 1998–June 1999) appeared in the Winter 2000 PEABODY Gifts also may be made that benefit Peabody Sharon Henderson Chaney, EdD’91, an cators nationwide. Criteria for selection REFLECTOR. Thanks to the enthusiastic support of the entire and the donor during his or her lifetime, such advanced-placement senior English teacher include exceptional talent, promise, and dis- Peabody community, gifts totaling $6.1 million were received as with a charitable gift annuity. A gift annu- at Hunters Lane Comprehensive High School tinguished achievement in developing inno- during that year. Regrettably, a computer error resulted in ity enables a person to make a gift while in Nashville, was awarded a Milken Fami- vative curricula, programs, and/or teaching the deletion of a large number of people from the Donor also receiving an income-tax charitable deduc- ly Foundation National Educator Award in methods. Report. The names of those people appear below. The staff tion, favorable capital-gains treatment, and October. The nation’s largest educator awards Also honored was Heather Crisp Dent, of THE PEABODY REFLECTOR and the Peabody Office of Alum- an annual income until death. Upon the per- program surprised 172 elementary and sec- BS’98, a special education teacher at Glen- ni and Development offer their sincerest apologies to these son’s death, Peabody receives the balance of ondary schoolteachers, principals, and other coe South Elementary School near Chicago, individuals for the omission and are pleased to honor them the fund. A gift annuity may be created for as K–12 educators in 41 states with the award, who received the Sallie Mae First Class here for their generosity. DONOR little as $10,000. which includes a cash prize of $25,000 for Teacher Award for the state of Illinois. THE ROUNDTABLE Donald W. Shira Jr. Franklin Parker, EdD’56, and Betty June each recipient. The awards program, which is administered Dean’s List David L. Shores Parker, MA’56, of Pleasant Hill, Tennessee, by the American Association of (gifts of $5,000 to $9,000) Judith C. Siegrist each of whom has written several books, gave School Administrators and spon- Ann and Monroe J. Carell Jr. Stephanie F. Silverman REPORT Vola P. Simpson appreciated shares from a mutual fund to cre- sored by the Sallie Mae Trust for THE ROUNDTABLE Benita R. Sims ate their gift annuity. Mr. Parker recalls that DAVID CRENSHAW Education, annually recognizes one Members Level H. Craig Sipe the life of George Peabody was the subject of exemplary, first-year K–12 teacher (gifts of $1,000 to $2,499) Susan M. Smartt his doctoral dissertation. That research even- from each state and territory with Patricia and Kent Kyger Edgar O. Smith James O. Smith ADDENDUM tually led to his book George Peabody: A Biog- a $1,500 cash prize and an all- Century Society Diane L. and James P. Smith raphy, published by Vanderbilt University expenses-paid trip to Washington, (gifts of $100 to $249) Jane H. and Carl E. Smith Press in 1971, as well as 50 or more articles D.C., for a U.S. Department of Edu- Clara B. Riley Mildred K. Smith Minnie M. Ripy Stewart P. Smith written by the Parkers about George Peabody. cation symposium on education Tracy V. Robb Marjorie S. Snyder The book was reissued in 1995, with addi- issues. About 1,400 nominations Wayne B. Roberts William D. Spears tions, in celebration of the bicentennial of were submitted last year by school Jean T. Rochelle Beth D. Spenadel George Peabody’s birth. districts nationwide for award con- Beverly A. and Joe T. Rodgers Jr. Frank P. Spence Elizabeth M. Rodgers Susan W. Stare “We’ve often thought that George Peabody sideration. Glenn B. Rogers Ann G. St. Clair was a neglected hero,” says Mr. Parker, who Now in her second year of Frances W. and Robert C. Rollins Beth W. and Frederick V. Standley is the retired Benedum Professor of Education teaching, Dent teaches seven chil- John D. Roper Helen C. and Donald J. Stedman at West Virginia University in Morgantown. dren, ages six through eight, who Alvin C. Rose Jr. Mae B. and Jean W. Stephens Robert C. Rothman Helen W. Sterling “His was the first multimillion-dollar foun- have a variety of developmental Judith K. Rovins Linda Y. Street dation in the United States, created at a cru- disabilities. “Her classroom is a Mary S. Rowan Louise V. Sutherland cial time for the development of areas defeated happy, productive place to be,” Sarah C. Rowan Kathleen O. Swann Ann E. Rudloff Anne P. Swift in the Civil War, and it helped the whole coun- says Jean Prindiville, an adminis- Joannene and Frank Russo Esther C. Swink try. We have a great respect for him, great pride trator with Dent’s school district. Virginia A. Rust Vicki A. Switzer in the man and in the institutions estab- “She is one of those people who Anne R. Rutan Kate F. Sykes Sharon Chaney, EdD’91, an advanced-placement senior lished by him, including Peabody College. We really hears children’s voices, fills Mamie S. Rye Daisy L. and Colin S. Tam English teacher at a Nashville high school, is recipient of a Joseph P. Samaritano Jr. Mary E. Tanner have seen what good it did in our time and her classroom with things they 1999 Milken Family Foundation National Educator Award. Frances F. Sampsell Martha M. and Arthur B. Tappan Jr. since, and we are proud of it.” love, and follows their lead to build Diane and Howard Sandler L. Duane Tennant The award included an invitation to the Foundation’s “We just feel we owe our lives, in part, to interest and motivation. She is a Judith Saunders-Burton Betty T. Thackston professional development conference in Los Angeles and Donna L. and Thomas R. Schiff Debra W. Thomas Peabody College because it launched our quick study and enters new teach- a check for $25,000. N. Marshall Schools Sophronia L. Thomas careers,” says Mrs. Parker, a former high-school ing strategies smoothly into her Aimee L. Schory James E. Thompson and college English teacher who has worked Chaney was recognized for holding teaching repertoire.” Patrice A. and William F. Schottelkotte S. Kenneth Thurman the past 25 years as a freelance writer and edi- her students to a high standard of intellec- “I wake up every morning excited about Edwin D. Schreiber Joanna Todd Boyd B. Schultz Barbara F. Tolbert tor. “We’ve always believed that the fact George tual rigor. For example, for her indepen- what I am doing,” says Dent, “and I always Florence T. Schultz Charles A. Tollett Peabody was a philanthropist should inspire dent literature project, “An Assignment try at the end of every day to think about Sara K. Schwam Elbert T. Townsend Peabody alumni to be equally generous in pro- That Speaks,” each student chooses an what I can do to help the children’s learning Daniel Schwartz Nevin C. Trammell Jr. portion to their means. All of us who received author, writes an in-depth analysis of at to be more meaningful for them.” M. Kirk Scobey Jr. Karen D. Treadwell Samuel E. Scott Richard W. Trollinger a good education at this institution, which was least three of that author’s works, and then Chaney and Dent are the latest among an Claudia C. Shanks Martha S. Tucker made possible by someone else’s benefac- delivers a presentation about the author in impressive number of Peabody graduates who Alice N. and Samuel H. Shannon Ida P. Tyer tion, should be encouraged to give back to it.” front of parents and peers. Students’ top- have received significant teacher awards over Leslie C. Shaw Barbara N. Upchurch For more information about these and other ics have ranged from “Euripides: A Man the last several years, particularly awards hon- giving opportunities, please contact Peabody’s of the People” to the search for individu- oring early-career educators. This heritage of Office of Alumni and Development by calling alism and recognition in Alice Walker’s excellence is a testament to Peabody’s teacher 615/322-8500. female characters. training program and its top national ranking.

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PEABODY PROFILE Alumni news may be submitted to tributions to the community and their THE PEABODY REFLECTOR, Class Notes careers in education. editor, Box 7703, Station B, Nashville, Bess Fullerton Tipton (BS’28) TN 37235. Who was your ’53 A Life Touching Three Centuries “Dowdy” Evelyn Hardy Miller, MA, of Summerville, South Carolina, was he ides of March this year returned to Florence and joined the ’27 honored by her family on her 70th Carrie Boals, BS, MAL’31, was pro- birthday in December 1999 with the Tmarked a milestone in the life staff of the University of North favorite filed in the Jackson (Tennessee) Sun establishment of the Dowdy Hardy of Bess Fullerton Tipton as she cel- Alabama as a dormitory head res- newspaper for having lived in three Miller Fund, which is administered by ebrated her 106th birthday. Sur- ident. She later served as hostess of centuries. At 102 years old, she lives the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Foun- rounded by friends, former students, a campus social center, her last posi- in a Jackson retirement home. dation and designed to benefit Chris- Peabody professor? tian children’s ministries of the and longtime colleagues, the retired tion before retiring in 1973 at age Summerville Presbyterian Church. Her Florence, Alabama, teacher spent 79. ’41 husband of 44 years, John N. Miller, her day laughing and enjoying life— “My mother has entertained us Arthur W. Brewington, PhD, of Green is a former pastor who writes that a life that has touched three CAROL LYLES/UNIVERSITY OF NORTH ALABAMA for years telling of her early teach- Valley, Arizona, is emeritus professor Dowdy always insisted on contribut- centuries. ing experiences in one-room schools, of speech science at Towson State Uni- ing to Peabody’s Annual Fund, despite versity. His biography is included in his modest salary, reminding him, “I Born March 15, 1894, in Shiloh teaching Native American children the 2000 edition of Who’s Who in the want to give back something on the National Park, Tennessee, Tipton in Oklahoma, and driving from United States. opportunity Peabody College gave me!” graduated from National Teachers school to school as supervisor of Dowdy taught school for a few years Normal and Business College (now education over unpaved roads in before marrying and rearing the cou- Freed-Hardeman University) in 1915 rainy weather,” says her son, James ’42 ple’s two sons. She had hopes of start- Al Hurwitz, BS, MA’43, of Baltimore ing her own kindergarten, but a stroke and from Florence State Normal C. Tipton of Richardson, Texas. was honored last fall at the Maryland at age 36 prevented her from doing so. School (now the University of North “On one occasion, she had to be Institute College of Art. Art educators Still, says her husband, Dowdy has Alabama) in 1918. In 1928 she pulled from the ditch seven times from across the country feted him at lived a life dedicated to the educa- earned her bachelor’s degree from by farmers with teams of horses!” tion of children, particularly in her a luncheon as a suite of classrooms was George Peabody College for Teach- Today Bess Tipton continues named after him. A former student active church service. Bess Fullerton Tipton, who still lives in her own gave $50,000 to create the Hurwitz ers and went on to earn a master’s Florence, Alabama, home, celebrates her 106th birth- to live in her own home, a memen- Study Center in honor of Hurwitz, a degree from the University of Alaba- day with friends, former students, and longtime col- to-filled cottage at the edge of the renowned art educator who came out ’54 ma in 1940. She also pursued grad- leagues from the University of North Alabama. University of North Alabama cam- of retirement in 1983 to oversee the Gladys Massey, MA, is retired and uate study in teacher supervision at pus. According to her son, she In the last issue of THE PEABODY REFLECTOR, we asked for living at Country Cottage, an assist- Institute’s art education programs. At Auburn University. sor of education for Blount County, “remains alert, enjoys a wide circle of your stories about the Peabody professor who most influ- 78, Hurwitz also occasionally tries his ed-living facility in Russellville, Alaba- hand at acting and has appeared in ma. Massey, who grew up on a cotton, Tipton’s teaching career began in one- Alabama, and from 1948 to 1957 she friends, and a delightful sense of humor. enced your career or character, who went the extra mile minor roles in three films—Sleepless corn, and dairy farm, taught first grade teacher schoolhouses of rural Alabama, was supervising teacher at Auburn. She She must surely be among your oldest in Seattle, Lost Highway, and The Vir- for 40 years in several Alabama com- followed by four years at Patton School married William R. Tipton in 1931 and living alumni. Living into her third cen- for you when you were a student, or with whom you munities. ginian—all of which starred his son- in Florence. After earning her Peabody reared four children. tury, and being aware of that fact, is quite in-law, actor Bill Pullman. shared a humorous experience. Several submissions were degree, she served 20 years as supervi- In 1957, in her early 60s, Tipton an accomplishment.” received from readers, but we’d like to give the rest of you ’56 ’48 J. Ann Ritch Brantley, MA, of Char- June Cruce O’Shields, BA, writes that lotte, North Carolina, writes that one more opportunity to join them! ing U.S. citizenship. He now lives in University of Kentucky’s College of she now lives in Castroville, Califor- although she and her husband, Paul, last spring received the Sara Rodes Seattle. Education. nia, in a community of active seniors. were married in 1962, “it took us 37 ’63 Community Service Award from Crit- Take a few minutes to stroll down memory lane James L. Delaney, MA, of Lebanon, She runs an exercise class, works on a years to become grandparents. The tenton Services, a 125-year-old orga- Tennessee, married Butterfly Rose Chris- and tell us your story in 250 words or less. Then drop it monthly bulletin, and walks daily. newest citizen of Greensboro, North nization and national leader in services tian on July 17, 1999. Carolina, is Melissa Brantley Kobvin: ’59 ’62 for pregnant and parenting teens. in the mail to THE PEABODY REFLECTOR, Vanderbilt Uni- seven pounds, five ounces—and cute.” Jesse Edgar Nichols Jr., MA, EdS’61, Joyce Parker, MA, retired in June 1998 writes that he paints and writes poet- as professor of English at Coastal Car- Karol Rose, BS, MA’68, is managing versity Office of Alumni Publications, Box 7703, Station ’49 ry at his home in Piggott, Arkansas, olina University. She received the uni- Mary Dolphy Park, MA, is retired from ’64 director of DCC Consulting in West- and in Florida during the winters. versity’s Distinguished Teaching Award Patricia Hugghins Morrow, MA, is teaching in the Memphis, Tennessee, port, Connecticut. She previously served B, Nashville, TN 37235. Or you may fax your story to ’57 in 1971. director of Project Key, a service for public school system and now volun- Roland Bauer Wurster, MA, an emer- as a principal with the New Jersey office students with learning disabilities based 615/343-8547 or e-mail it to phillip.b.tucker@vander- teers as a teacher of English to inter- itus professor of Whitworth College of Pricewaterhouse Coopers. Geneva Sparling, MA, reports that she at Faulkner University in Montgomery, national students. “This has been a in Spokane, Washington, was honored ’60 Bill Chappell, MA, of Dalton, Geor- has been retired for five years after Alabama. Last year she presented a bilt.edu. The deadline for submissions, which may be edit- rewarding experience,” she writes. at Peabody’s 1999 Leadership Dinner Vinson Thomas, MA, retired as direc- gia, has been named to the Georgia being an assistant principal in Geor- paper on accommodations and mod- “Now I have friends in many parts by Mildred Scheel, BS’55, with her gift tor of Obion County, Tennessee, Schools ed for space limitations, is September 15, 2000. Please Sports Hall of Fame. He is the third- gia and Indiana for 38 years. She lives ifications for students with learning last July after more than 20 years of of the world.” to THE ROUNDTABLE. Wurster taught in Fortville, Indiana, and spends time disabilities in the postsecondary class- 20 years in Alaska before enrolling winningest coach in the history of Geor- service. include your full name, class year, and current address on her numerous hobbies and with her room at an international conference at Peabody, where he says he partic- gia high school football. grandchildren. “Loved my summers on higher education and disabilities with your submission. The stories will then be featured in ularly appreciated Professor Susan Harry Whitver, BA, was featured in ’50 Billy O. Wireman, PhD, president at Peabody—some of the greatest pro- held in Innsbruck, Austria. Glen Byers, MA, and his wife, Bonnie, Riley’s poetry studies and readings. Nashville’s Sunday Tennessean news- of Queens College in Charlotte, North fessors and experiences of my life,” the next issue of the REFLECTOR, so let us hear from you! were featured in the Lebanon, Mis- After retirement in Spokane, Scheel paper for his 20 years of creating tech- Carolina, has been named a mem- she writes. souri, Daily Record newspaper last introduced him to the teaching of Eng- nical illustrations for Nashville ber of the Alumni Hall of Fame in the ’65 companies. His drawing of the new November in recognition of their con- lish as a second language to those seek- Mary Lee Manier, MLS, of Nashville

32 PEABODY REFLECTOR 33 and continuing education programs in nessee Library Association for pro- O’Bryan Community Center in Nashville. al conventions and at the Center for the area. Franks, who is the mother of moting resource sharing among and Western Studies at Augustana Univer- PEABODY PROFILE 12 children, practiced law indepen- within Tennessee libraries. Donald T. Hales, MA, principal of sity in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. dently in Nashville from 1971 to 1978, Columbia Elementary School in Mis- specializing in trial law. sissippi, was named 1998–1999 Admin- (EDD’90) Yvonne Simmons Howze ’71 istrator of the Year for the Columbia ’72 Fran Marcum, BS, chairman of the Cecilia Joyner Baker, MLS, of Batesville, School District. Brian Burr, BMus, of Nashville was Secrets of Success board and chief executive officer of Arkansas, is a library media specialist named chief financial officer for Dol- Micro Craft Inc. in Tullahoma, Ten- for grades seven through 12 with the Janet Jernigan, MA, executive direc- lar General Corporation last March. pend a few minutes talking with of supporters of inclusive education. But, nessee, has been elected to the 77- Cord-Charlotte School District. She tor of Senior Citizens in Nashville, was S Yvonne Howze, and you get the as she explains, “It’s not about separate. member Commission on Colleges of recently moved into a new library facil- profiled in a May 1999 issue of the Frances N. Coleman, MLS, dean of the Southern Association of Colleges ity and is webmaster of the library’s Nashville Business Journal. libraries at Mississippi State Universi- impression she’s the world’s best-kept MARY BUTKUS It’s about support. Not enough profes- and also elected chairwoman of the new Web site at http://Char- ty, has been named to a five-year term secret—except for the fact that someone’s sionals are being trained in the field of board of the Nashville branch of the lottesweb.K12.ar.us. Martha Kathryn “M.K.” Key, BA, on the Mississippi Library Commis- already let the cat out of the bag. Her visual disabilities, and a residential school Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. MA’73, PhD’75, founding partner sion Board of Commissioners. remarkable accomplishments as superin- can provide a concentrated effort in terms Robert L. Early, BA, MDiv’76 (Divin- of Key Associates, published two tendent of the Missouri School for the of expertise and resources.” Jim Van Hook, MME, was featured ity), has been named associate vice books in 1998: Corporate Celebra- John R. Lindahl Jr., BS, has received Blind in St. Louis are well documented. Howze currently is one of only two last September in the business sec- chancellor for major gifts at Vander- tion: Play, Purpose and Profit at Work the Silver Beaver Award, one of the tion of the Sunday Tennessean news- bilt, overseeing and monitoring the Uni- (Berrett-Koehler) and Managing highest honors presented by the Boy A few years ago the future of the 148- known African Americans in the nation paper as chairman of the successful versity’s major gift fund-raising. He Change in Healthcare: Innovative Scouts of America to volunteers who year-old residential school was in serious with a doctorate in visual disabilities, Provident Music Group, a Christ- previously served as associate execu- Solutions for People-Based Organi- have provided youth with noteworthy doubt. Suffering from high staff turnover, which she earned at Peabody. She believes ian recording company based in tive director of development for the zations (McGraw-Hill). service of exceptional character. less-than-stellar student scores, and the her experience at Vanderbilt aided her in Franklin, Tennessee. University. In his new role, Early directs Lindahl is senior vice president of several specialized areas, including cor- Phil Mathis, EdS, biology professor at marketing for State Industries and real possibility that the institution would many ways, but most important, she says, porate and foundation relations, planned Middle Tennessee State University in president of Reliance Water Heater Co. be closed down, Howze led the charge to the experience helped to move her from ’68 giving, the undergraduate parents pro- Murfreesboro, received a national 1999 in Ashland City, Tennessee, as well rebuild an establishment that the students, simple practitioner to capable researcher. Jean Litterer, MA, EdS’71, PhD’81, gram, and the regional and athletics Outstanding Undergraduate Science as Pacesetter chairman for the 2000 staff, parents, and community could be “Peabody caused me to look outside has retired from the Metro Nashville major gift offices. He also oversees the Teacher Award. Friends of Scouting Campaign. proud of. the traditional way I’d been trained. It school system and is now interim direc- Office of Prospect Development, which tor of the University School of Nashville, identifies, researches, and tracks major Leo J. Neifer, PhD, a retired professor Katie Rawls, MA, of Nashville has Last year the school won the Missouri introduced me to a level of professional- formerly the Peabody Demonstra- prospects. Early is a minister in the Pres- of English, is involved with the Ger- been appointed vice president of eco- Quality Award presented by the Excel- ism that I had no idea really existed.” tion School. byterian Church, U.S.A., and chair-elect mans from Russia Heritage Society. nomic development for the Tennessee lence in Missouri Foundation, an entity In August, Howze celebrated her 50th of the board of directors of Martha He has spoken at several internation- Valley Authority. created by the governor of Missouri nine birthday. That, along with her comple- Paul Joseph Valleroy, MA, was hon- years ago. The school is the first K–12 tion of a decade of service to the Missouri ored last July 4 by St. Augustine’s Roman Catholic Church in Signal Mountain, program in the state to receive the honor. School for the Blind, has caused her to do Tennessee, for his 25-year service to Today the school not only flourishes, some serious thinking about her future. Yvonne Howze, here with two of her stu- the diocese of East Tennessee. but it has extended its outreach locally, That doesn’t mean retirement, she says— Lost Your Yearbook? dents, revitalized the Missouri School for nationally, and globally, becoming a role just a shifting of gears. the Blind, which had been in danger of model for other educational institutions “I’m looking for a gifted boss, some- ’69 We Have a Free One for You! closure. Tina Alston, MA, PhD’83, of Gatlin- for the blind and visually impaired. A full one who’s not intimidated by my creativity burg, Tennessee, has joined the Moun- The Peabody College Office of Alumni and Development has several extra copies of Peabody’s for- roster of students is served on-site, and and intelligence, and who recognizes that tain Press newspaper as a staff writer mer yearbook, The Pillar, and is offering them to you free of charge. We ask only that you pay a ship- another 1,300 children are served through- program involving visually impaired stu- whatever I do will benefit us both.” It’s covering feature material and Pigeon ping fee of $5 per book. Supplies are limited, so hurry and return this form today! out the state. dents from Spanish-speaking countries. the approach Howze has tried to take in Forge city news. In addition, Howze has jump-started As effective as Howze’s efforts may be, her own supervisory position, “and it’s To receive your yearbook(s), simply complete this form, clip it, and mail it along with your check for Terry Kopansky, BS, MA’70, EdD’95, a distance-learning initiative to educate occasionally her advocacy for separate taken its toll!” she admits. “Now it’s of Nashville has been selected a mem- $5 per book. Copies are available only for the following years. Please circle which book(s) you are students in remote locations through the schooling for students with visual impair- my turn to find that kind of boss.” ber of the Fulbright Memorial Fund ordering: Internet, as well as a foreign-exchange ments butts up against the philosophies —Ned Andrew Solomon Teacher Program’s U.S. delegation to ✁ visit and study in Japan during Novem- ber 2000. Kopansky is principal of the Harris-Hillman School. U.S. military aircraft V-22 Osprey the financial needs of battered women ciation in June. She is only the second 1955 1963 1972 Name ______appeared on the November 1998 cover ’66 and their children. The organization, woman to hold that office in the asso- of the Smithsonian Institution’s Air & Elaine Atkins Harriss, BME, MME’67, based in Boston, uses the microcredit ciation’s 120-year history. Edge is a ’70 1956 1964 1973 Space magazine. EdS’68, has been elected national pres- model developed by 1996 Vanderbilt partner in the Nashville office of region- Mary Lu Batey, BS, a former teacher Address ______ident of the Kindermusik Educators Distinguished Alumnus Muhammad al law firm Miller & Martin LLP. in Metro Nashville schools, is now an 1957 1965 1974 Jean Templeton Williams, MA, of Association. She is director of Kin- Yunus, PhD’71 (Graduate School), and agent with the Hendersonville, Ten- City ______McMinnville, Tennessee, is included dermusik of Martin, Tennessee, and makes small grants to domestic-vio- Elizabeth Jane Franks, BS, was hon- nessee, office of Crye-Leike Realtors. 1958 1966 1975 in the sixth edition of Who’s Who ored as an outstanding alumna of principal flutist of the Paducah, Ken- lence programs that loan money to Among America’s Teachers. Williams the Nashville School of Law (1971) at tucky, Symphony Orchestra. women who are living independently Gania Tidwell Clayton, BS, is an asso- State ______ZIP ______is associate professor of psychology the school’s annual recognition dinner ciate with Fridrich & Clark Realty in 1959 1968 1976 and sociology at Motlow College, where with their children after fleeing a bat- in April. Now retired, Franks served Earline Kendall, MA, PhD’77, former Nashville. she is faculty sponsor of the Psychol- terer. as the only general sessions and juve- Make your check payable to Vanderbilt University and mail to: Peabody professor of the practice of 1960 1969 1977 ogy Club and Phi Theta Kappa honor nile court judge in Williamson Coun- education, and Sheryl Jaynes-Andrews, Annelle Huggins, MLS, interim direc- society. She also is listed in Who’s Who ty, Tennessee, for nearly 20 years, Vanderbilt University MTS’92 (Divinity), have formed a non- tor of libraries at the University of 1961 1970 1978 in the South and Southeast and received ’67 beginning in 1978. During that time Memphis, received the 1999 Tennessee profit organization, Financial Resources Kathryn Reed Edge, BA, was installed Peabody College Office of Alumni and Development Motlow College’s Faculty Excellence she created numerous child advocacy Resource Sharing Award from the Ten- Award for the 1998–99 school year. for Women and Children Inc., to address as president of the Tennessee Bar Asso- 1962 1971 1979 Box 161, Peabody Station • Nashville, TN 37203 ✁

34 PEABODY REFLECTOR Suzanne Scott, BS, of Brentwood, Ten- her husband, Marc, JD’91 (Law), and her husband, Brooks, BA’91 (Arts nessee, married Lawrence Emerson announce the birth of their second & Science), announce the birth of their PEABODY PROFILE ’76 Phyllis Unger Hiller, MS, an author, Hayes Jr. on July 24, 1999, in Wight- child, John Patrick (“Jack”), Septem- son, Brooks Pitman Milling Jr., July composer, and counselor in Petaluma, man Chapel at the Scarritt-Bennett ber 9, 1999. They live in Columbus, 1, 1998, joining sister Nell. They Charlotte M. McBee (MA’72) California, was profiled in the Octo- Center in Nashville. Georgia. live in Mobile, Alabama. ber 6, 1999, edition of the Petaluma The Buzz in Ms. McBee’s Room Argus-Courier newspaper. Ann Dupree, MEd, of Griffin, Geor- Betsy Almoney Reale, BS, and her ’85 gia, was featured last August in a Grif- husband, Mark, announce the birth strange phenomenon is taking place at them, jump up and down, do cart- three decades ago. At the time, she was Erice Doss, EdD, a psychologist, coun- fin Daily News article profiling her of their first child, Andrew Balfour at McGavock Comprehensive High wheels—just about anything to keep their earning her master’s degree at Peabody ’77 selor, and teacher at Tennessee State work as a public services librarian. Reale, April 27, 1999. They live in A Martha Burton, MS, has been named University in Nashville, has been named San Francisco. School in Nashville: Students are con- attention. They like to ask me, ‘You real- College, which she says gave her “a broad- Metropolitan Nashville-Davidson to the board of the National Society Pamela Schroering, MEd, married stantly talking with exclamation points. ly like this stuff, don’t you?’” er sense of knowledge regarding my teach- County Public Schools’ 2001 Teacher of Experiential Education. Mark Perkinson on January 22, 2000, Adelaide Vienneau, BS, has been named Investigation reveals that the source of Ironically, much of what fuels McBee’s ing techniques. It definitely grew me up of the Year for the high school divi- in the Louisville (Kentucky) Presby- community outreach manager in the this bizarre behavior seems to be Char- engaging attitude about teaching biology some.” While in the program, McBee sion. A vocational education teacher Ruth Stone, EdD, was named a Poet terian Theological Seminary’s Cald- communications department at of Merit by the International Society well Chapel. Nashville’s new Frist Center for the stems from high school and college sci- wrote a nature trail guide for the Sycamore at Pearl-Cohn High School, Burton lotte M. McBee’s Honors and Advanced also has taught at the Tennessee Tech- of Poets in Washington, D.C., Sep- Visual Arts. Placement Biology class. And Hills Girl Scout Camp that was nology Center, run her own day-care tember 4, 1999. She was inducted into Rebecca Norman Webb, BS, MEd’92, the society and given the award after and her husband, Scott, announce the McBee herself is the apparent insti- used for several years. center, and worked as a child devel- REUNION JUNE 1–2, 2001 gator—the “queen bee” of the Today McBee spends a great deal opment specialist at General Hospital her poem “Snow” was selected by the birth of their first child, Brian Evan, ’91 positively punctuated utterance. of time writing labs for her students in Nashville. “I worked so long with National Library of Poetry for inclu- May 7, 1999. They live in Franklin, Meera Ballal, BS, is an attorney with DAVID CRENSHAW new teen-age moms that I wanted to sion in its publication, The Other Side Tennessee, and Rebecca works for the the Nashville office of Miller & Mar- “Biology is wonderful!” McBee and for Bio-Rad, a company that return to the classroom where I knew of Midnight. She teaches psychology City of Brentwood in human resources. tin LLP, a regional law firm. She con- exclaims, selling the point with produces DNA-analysis equipment I could be on the prevention side, ver- at Northwest Shoals Community Col- centrates her practice on litigation, the most earnest of expression. for schools and forensics labora- sus the crisis-management side, of peo- lege in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. representing national and regional “It’s wonderful because it changes. tories. Retirement from teaching ple’s lives,” she says. ’89 clients in the areas of medical mal- Holly Middlebrooks Albright, BS, practice defense, insurance defense, You don’t go outside and find the may be in her near future, but slow- REUNION JUNE 1–2, 2001 ’86 MEd’90, and her husband, Erik and worker’s compensation. Ballal is same thing every year. Last week ing down is not. She looks forward ’78 Bob R. Agee, PhD, president emeritus Albright, JD’90 (Law), announce the a member of the Nashville and Amer- I collected mosses. This week it to consulting and writing for Bio- Sister Barbara Wheeley, MS, PhD’81, of Oklahoma Baptist University in birth of their son, Jared Thomas, Jan- ican Bar Associations and serves as was ferns. Looking at a real spec- Rad, painting, getting involved with has been elected to a four-year term as Shawnee, has been named to the Okla- uary 25, 2000. The Albrights live in membership co-chair for the Lawyers imen is so very different from look- church activities, and taking senior president of the council of the Sisters homa Higher Education Hall of Fame Greensboro, North Carolina, where Association for Women. ing at one on a computer. Students citizens for nature walks. of Mercy in Baltimore. The Baltimore in Oklahoma City. Since his retirement, Holly works for The Canterbury School native had been serving as the coun- the Jackson, Tennessee, resident has and Erik is a partner with the Smith Katie Kelly Bell, MEd, and her hus- need to touch, feel, and see!” Her impressive awards and writ- cil’s vice president. served as executive director of the Asso- Helms law firm. band, David, announce the birth of McBee’s enthusiasm for bringing aside, McBee’s legacy most like- ciation of Southern Baptist Colleges their second son, Harrison Decherd ing the outside world inside—and Charlotte M. McBee entertains and educates her ly will be the love for learning she and Schools. Suzanne Boone, MEd, of Nashville Bell, July 9, 1999. They live in her biology students outside—has Advanced Placement Biology class at Nashville’s has imbued in her students. Two of ’82 has been named executive director Decatur, Georgia. Carol Ann Hilton, MEd, of Arlington, of High Hopes, a nonprofit therapeu- garnered her two prestigious edu- McGavock High School. her current crop are living proof. Gary Burns, BS, baseball coach at Rock- hurst University in Kansas City, Mis- Virginia, is working as a proposal writer tic center serving children with special Camille Brown McMurray, BS, and cation awards recently. In 1999 she was ence experiences that were less than fas- “I haven’t really liked science class souri, was named NCAA Central Region for Deloitte & Touche. needs and their families. her husband, Chris, announce the birth named High School Educator of the Year cinating. The dull textbooks and uninspired before,” says Karen Baer, “but this one is Baseball Coach of the Year in 1999 of their second child, Meghan Allison, by the National High School Association, lab work she encountered did not enhance different. She teaches stuff that I can go after his team finished fourth in the Sally Holmes Thomas, BS, is a poet Shannon Davis, BS, married Charlie July 16, 1999, joining three-year-old as well as Tennessee Teacher of the Year her affinity for living things, instilled in home and tell my mom—practical, use- NCAA II World Series. He was a mem- living in Cambridge, England, with her Blocker on August 28, 1999. Vander- sister Madeleine Jane. They live in ber of Vanderbilt’s 1980 SEC cham- husband, Ron, six-year-old daughter, bilt friends in the wedding included Bellingham, Washington, where Camille by the National Association of Biology childhood by her mother and grandmother. ful things like how to kill weeds or salt pionship team under Coach Roy Ada, and two-year-old son, Joel. The Terri Egan Follis, BS, Nancy Clarke is a stay-at-home mom “loving every Teachers. “I thought, Labs should be better than pork. It’s not just learning how far away Mewbourne. family moved from Salt Lake City to Mannon, BS, MEd’93, and Kristen minute and using every day the edu- Both acknowledgements were initiat- this,” says McBee. “It should be more the earth is from the sun.” Cambridge one year ago so Ron could Cook Oliver, BA’90 (Arts & Science), cation degree I earned!” ed with nominations by her peers and take than preserved specimens. Everyone thinks “Maybe one day one of my kids will pursue a Ph.D. in systematic theology. MEd’91. The couple lives in St. Louis. into consideration her writings, curricu- of biology as dissection, but that’s such a ask, ‘Dad, what is that flower?’” says Dar- ’83 In the last ten years, Sally’s poetry has Laura Elaine Monson, MEd, married Pamela Jean Estes, MLS, has been appeared in such publications as The Stephen Edward Gravatte on August lum, objectives, and personal philosophies small part of it. I do like for everybody to ron Word, another advanced-placement appointed senior pastor of the First New Yorker,The New Republic, First ’90 28, 1999. They live in Louisville, about teaching. get a feel for loving life!” student, “and I’ll think back to ninth- United Methodist Church of Blytheville, Things, The Greensboro Review, Ascent, Julienne Marie Brown, BS, MEd’91, Kentucky. McBee sums up her philosophy sim- McBee has been teaching her life- grade biology and say, ‘That’s an iris! My Arkansas (North Arkansas Confer- and Willow Springs, among others. married Randall Vaughn Parker on ply. “I like to have fun and laugh with my loving course at McGavock High School, teacher, Ms. McBee, taught me that!’” ence) after serving ten years in the Lit- July 10, 1999. They live in Danville, students. I might stand on a stool. I wave one of Nashville’s largest, since it opened —Ned Andrew Solomon tle Rock Conference. Leaving Little Virginia. ’92 Rock means leaving behind her work ’87 Vera Blake, EdD, principal of Falls as board member of Friends of the Mary Kaye Milmoe Chryssicas, BS, of Stephanie Barger Conner, BS, has been Church (Virginia) High School, last Central Arkansas Libraries and pres- Wellesley, Massachusetts, announces appointed executive director of the November was named Fairfax Coun- John V. Richardson, MLS, professor Elbert Thomas Townsend, EdS, of of the National Association for Year- Glenda Brown Hayes, MLS, was pro- ident of the Order of Bookfellows, one the birth of her son, Grant James Chrys- Tennessee Film, Entertainment, and ty Public Schools Principal of the Year in the graduate school of education at Wilmington, North Carolina, was hon- Round Schools last February. filed in the Demopolis Times newspa- of Little Rock’s oldest clubs, but she sicas, January 24, 1999, joining sisters Music Commission by Governor Don and received the Washington Post Dis- the University of California-Los Ange- ored for his service to veterans over per in Demopolis, Alabama, where she writes that she looks forward to serv- Tyler and Ashton. Sundquist. tinguished Leadership Award. les, has been reappointed by the Uni- the past 15 years in an article in the is a librarian and reading and vocab- ing in a new place. “I’ve already checked versity of Chicago Publications Board Army-Navy-Air Force Times. ’75 ulary teacher at John Essex School. the alumni directory!” she says. Wendy Hamilton Hoelscher, MEd, Maggie Bollar, MEd, has been named to another five-year term as editor of Nancy Hardin, BA, was featured in a ’88 EdD’93, has joined Duke University youth services librarian at the new The Library Quarterly. He also was Sunday profile in the Dyersburg, Ten- Bob Watson, MLS, of Chicago is includ- Mike Bell, MEd, has joined the Hos- as manager of the major interventions Carlisle, Ohio, Library after an eight- project director of a team that cre- ’73 nessee, State Gazette newspaper in ed in the latest edition of Who’s Who ’84 pice of the Florida Suncoast as vice practice team in learning and orga- month search. ated a bilingual library and informa- Robert Smotherman, PhD, superin- recognition of her 20 years as a for- in America. Leslie Rawlings, BS, MTS’90, married president of development and com- nizational development. tion science dictionary in Russian on tendent of the Bardstown City Schools eign language teacher at Dyersburg Victor Slezak on August 4, 1999, on munity relations in Largo, Florida. Jerry Mansfield, EdD, has been appoint- the Internet. in Kentucky, was named president-elect High School and her world travels. Great Diamond Island, Maine. Sydney Rutherford Milling, BS, MEd’91, ed by Kentucky Governor Paul Patton Catherine Dietrich D’Antonio, BS, and

36 PEABODY REFLECTOR 37 to the Kentucky Emergency Response named president and CEO of the Alison E. Roberts, BS, has married in Fayetteville, Georgia. Marshall L. Williams, BLS’39, of Vivian Lorraine Hoyle, MA’50, of Ben T. Sheppard Jr., MA’53, of Colum- Commission. Jerry is an emergency Greenville Hospital System Founda- Brad Guzda, a professional hockey ’99 Bridgewater, Virginia, August 20, 1999. York, Nebraska, January 17, 2000. bus, Georgia, August 3, 1999. management specialist with the Unit- tion, a 1,200-bed system that oper- player with the Bakersfield Condors. Toby G. Cannon, MEd, of Nashville Brian Diller, MEd, and Dayle Savage, ed States Enrichment Corporation in ates four hospitals throughout upstate Vanderbilt alumni attending the wed- has joined music performing-rights orga- MEd, have opened a human resource Elizabeth Spears Castle, BLS’40, of George D. Reagan, MA’50, of Mem- Ruby Nell Sisk, MA’53, of Dawson Paducah. South Carolina. ding included Greg Roberts, BE’94 nization BMI as director of training and service firm in Nashville called Spi- Hopkinsville, Kentucky, March 6, phis, January 20, 2000. Springs, Kentucky, 1999. (Engineering), Macon Miller, BS’97, development and general licensing. raLearning. 2000. Florence Helen Walde, BLS’50, of Orin- Margaret Chapman Esler, BS’54, of Rachel Beth Nuber, BS, MEd’93, of Carolyn Grace Millican, BS, married Colleen Hughey, BA’97 (Arts & Sci- Thomas D. McDonald, BS’40, of da, California, January 4, 1999. Platte City, Missouri, May 19, 1999. Memphis married Rick Kuykendall on Charles Ivor Berry on July 31, 1999. ence), and Paul Hopkins, BS. A grad- Tammy Green, MEd, has been named Courtney Felber, BS, has joined the Huntsville, Alabama, September 4, January 22, 2000. They live in Nashville. uate of the University of Tennessee Law banking officer at Franklin National Nashville office of international career 1999. Marshall T. White, BS’50, of Acme, Nancy Jane Kelly Herring, MLS’54, School, Alison and her husband moved Bank in Tennessee. management consulting firm Lee Hecht North Carolina. of Auburn, Alabama, January 9, 2000. Kimberly Royer Patton, BS, and her Linda L. Roberts, MEd, teaches Span- to California where she is now the drug Harrison as job developer, for which James Leland Bethurum, MA’41, of husband, Spencer, announce the birth ish I and II at Calvert High School in coordinator for Kern County. Ross J. Loder, MPP, is research direc- she serves as liaison between clients Colorado Springs, Colorado, Sep- Joe Ed Wilhite, MA’50, of Sparta, Ten- Charlie C. Maupin, MA’54, of Atlanta, of their daughter, Madison Hughes, North Beach, Maryland. She also is tor for the Tennessee Municipal League and the hiring community during the tember 19, 1999. nessee, January 1999. December 26, 1999. assistant cheerleading coach during October 22, 1999. They live in Atlanta REUNION JUNE 1–2, 2001 in Nashville. He previously served as job search and placement process. She where Kim is an advertising manager football season and dance-team coach ’96 senior research associate for the Ten- previously was a marketing coordi- Lucie Boyd Jamison, MA’42, of Otto, Warren G. Dixon, BS’51, MA’52, of Mabel Galloway Field, BS’56, of for the Coca-Cola Company. during basketball season. Lisa Marie Budd Blackmon, BS, writes nessee Advisory Commission on Inter- nator with the Principal Financial North Carolina, April 12, 1999. Prospect, Tennessee, September 21, Shawnee Mission, Kansas, February that 1999 brought many changes. She governmental Relations. Group. 1999. 20, 2000. Robin Cernuda Perry, BS, and Will Allison Withers, BS, MEd’94, has joined married Matthew Blackmon, BS’98 Elizabeth T. Maves, BS’43, of Evans- Loraine Young Duncan, BS’51, MA’52, Edward A. Hartel, MA’56, of Perryville, Perry, BS (Arts & Science), announce the Houston law office of Fulbright & (Arts & Science), on June 19, nearly Megan von Gremp Morgan, BS, ville, Indiana, July 21, 1999. of Punta Gorda, Florida, January 20, Missouri, August 28, 1999. the birth of their son, William Rhett Jaworski as an associate in the prac- five years after they met at McGill Hall. MSN’98 (Nursing), writes that she was Deaths Nora Gilliam McNutt, MA’43, of Win- 1997. Perry IV, March 24, 1999. They live tice of commercial litigation. Other “McGillites” in the wedding married in October and bought her first Margaret S. Seebert, BS’22, of Lex- ter Haven, Florida, November 29, Lyman “Buddy” Davis Howard, MA’56, in Atlanta. party included Arts and Science alum- home in Bentonville, Arkansas. She also ington, Virginia, October 24, 1999. 1999. Leslie George Flick, MA’51, MEd’55, of Lithonia, Georgia, September 21, Anita Gail Worley, MEd, married ni Jennifer Howard, BA, Don Strawser, enjoys a busy primary-care practice as of Carrollton, Illinois. 1999. Bonnie Leigh Terwilliger, BS, MEd’94, Dahlen T. Jordan on May 11, 1999. BA’95, and Michael Kincaid, BA’97. a family nurse practitioner. Mary Elizabeth Lowry Rowan, MA’26, Alice Wray Myers, BS’43, of Quincy, married Grant D. Leadbetter on June They live in Spring Hill, Tennessee. The couple moved to Houston where of Nashville, April 1, 2000. Illinois, January 24, 1999. Vernon Russell Parks, MA’51, MLS’52, Ethel Sams, MA’56, of Richmond, Ken- 19, 1999. They live in Atlanta where he works as a software engineer for of Lewiston, Idaho, March 8, 2000. tucky. she teaches elementary school. Enron Communications and she teach- B.C. Langley, BS’27, of Providence, Huldrich H. Kuhlman, MA’45, of Col- ’98 Emmett Louis Williams, BA’51, MA’60, Lois Rogers Knittel, BS’57, of Atlanta, ’95 es fourth-grade math and science. Jacquelyn K. Hutson, BS, a second Kentucky, March 1999. legedale, Tennessee, October 5, 1999. PhD’63, of Waynesville, North Car- February 20, 2000. Melanie Lynn Conwill, BS, MEd’97, lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps, married Christopher Patrick Beck on Sarah “Sally” Bright, BS, is merchan- Clyde Arrendale Pleasants English, Aileen Lucas, BLS’45, of Bridgeport, olina, April 6, 2000. ’93 last September reported for duty with Mary G. Martin, MA’57, of Geraldine, Andrea Pieser Dickstein, BS, writes July 31, 1999. They live in Nashville. dising coordinator for Mephisto Inc. BS’28, MA’44, of Tiger, Georgia, August West Virginia, December 28, 1999. the Second Radio Battalion, Second August Wright Bazemore, MA’52, of Alabama, April 10, 1999. that she is taking time off from teach- in Chicago. She writes that she has 21, 1999. Surveillance, Reconnaissance, Intelli- Marjorie Minton Sloan, MA’45, of Valdosta, Georgia, June 22, 1999. Layne Harris Heacock, BS, MEd’98, enjoyed learning her way around Chica- ing first grade in Atlanta to be a full- gence Group at Camp Lejeune, North Harriet Johnson O’Malley, BS’29, Dunlap, Tennessee, September 5, 1999. Ethel Mildred Stewart, MA’57, of time mom to her daughter, Alison married Robert B. Pickett, BE’93 (Engi- go while reuniting with great Vander- Carolina. MA’40, of Louisville, Kentucky, July Mae Newcomer Burford, BS’52, of Mooresville, North Carolina, Decem- Frances Dickstein, born December 8, neering), on September 18, 1999. They bilt friends Tina LaPlant Reilly, BA’96 16, 1999. John Ethel “Johnny” Measells, MAL’46, Potosi, Missouri, August 3, 1999. ber 1999. 1999. “She loves her class of one!” live in Nashville. (Arts & Science), Kelly Coopersmith, Christine Robinson, EdD, has been BLS’51, of Amory, Mississippi, Decem- says Andrea. BA’96 (Arts & Science), and her new named director of academic affairs for Marion Ferguson, BS’30, of Wash- ber 20, 1999. John Sherman Crubaugh, MEd’52, of Raymond Donald Weaver, MA’57, of Ingrid Lang, BS, married David Beede roommate, Peabody alumna Mered- the graduate program in the Extend- ington, D.C., October 13, 1999. Shannon, Mississippi, January 19, West Plains, Missouri. Ennis Hillhouse Everette, BS, and her Jr. in Darien, Connecticut, May 20, ith Martin, BS’97. ed Studies Division at Indiana Institute Charles Martin Murphy, MA’46, of 2000. Annie Jo Carter, BS’31, BLS’38, of Douglas R. Jones, EdD’58, of Greenville, husband, Sam, announce the birth of 2000. Her maid of honor was Engi- of Technology in Fort Wayne. She pre- Murfreesboro, Tennessee, January 31, Westmoreland, Tennessee, August 7, Letitia Phillips Hakim, MA’52, of Agra, North Carolina, July 6, 1999. their second child, Madeline Ennis neering School alumna Jennifer Foley, Murray Fournie, MEd, formerly a viously chaired Peabody College’s men- 1999. and serving as a bridesmaid was Kather- planned giving officer for the Florida 1999. India, 1999. Everette, December 16, 1999, in Birm- toring program. Raymond S. Larsen, BA’58, of Okla- ine Majowka, BS’95. The Beedes live Division of the American Cancer Soci- Martha Kinney Chernault, BS’47, of ingham, Alabama. Hoy Harol Isaacs, MA’52, of Reidsville, homa City, February 17, 2000. in Tampa, Florida. ety, has been appointed director of Elizabeth “Lib” Huggins, BS’31, MA’32, Ormond Beach, Florida, August 20, Amanda W. Rusch, BS, is teaching a of Nashville, February 9, 2000. 1999. North Carolina, December 28, 1999. Catherine E. Freeman, BS, of North development at St. Bonaventure Uni- second and third grade bilingual class O. Alden Smith, MA’58, of Tulsa, Okla- Potomac, Maryland, received the Ph.D. Bennie Gerald McMorris Jr., EdD, has versity in New York. in Chula Vista, California. Frances E. Potts, MA’31, of Commerce, Barbara Clarke Inman, BS’47, of St. Lorrin Kennamer, PhD’52, of Austin, homa, October 18, 1997. in education policy from Vanderbilt been named dean of students at Hamp- Texas, November 13, 1997. Simons Island, Georgia, April 2, 2000. Texas, December 23, 1999. Graduate School in May. ton University in Virginia. In this posi- Susan B. Holmes, MEd, writes that Ada Aliece Silva, BS, married Bradley Avis Irene Synco, MA’58, of Troy, Alaba- tion he oversees all policies, programs, she has accepted the position of asso- King on May 27, 2000. Members of Lela Eloise Henry Carter, BS’33, of John Waldo Power, MA’47, of Audrey Maxine Logan, MA’52, of ma, August 23, 1999. Kathryn O’Neill Garrett, BS, and her and departments that affect the stu- ciate vice president for academic affairs Dyersburg, Tennessee, May 25, 1999. Cookeville, Tennessee, February 22, Rosa, Alabama, April 25, 2000. the wedding party included Vanderbilt Walter Washington, EdS’58, of Jack- husband, Weston Ross Garrett, BA’94 dent population at Hampton. McMor- at Chattanooga State Technical Com- alumni Elizabeth “Bitsy” Clark, BS’98; 2000. Verna Bloodworth Mason, BS’34, of Eual Shelton McCauley, MA’52, of son, Mississippi, December 1, 1999. (Arts & Science), announce the birth ris most recently was director of the munity College. She also is “having Heather Dent, BS’98; Laura Gerhardt, Gulfport, Mississippi, April 1, 1999. Gladys Mann Boyd, BS’48, of Nashville, Crawfordsville, Indiana, March 6, of their daughter, Hayden Kendall, Higher Education Opportunity Pro- fun running a weekend B&B in a BS’99 (Arts & Science); Garth Savidge, Ester Leona Munsterman, MA’59, of September 30, 1999. She joins her two- gram at the Pratt Institute in New York. restored 1872 home in Sewanee, Ten- March 1, 2000. 2000. BS’98 (Arts & Science); and Lily Usta- H.E. “Bert” Hamilton, MA’35, EdD’54, Alexandria, Virginia, December 4, year-old brother, Harrison James. The nessee,” with her husband, Greg riz, BS’98. Ada is director of education of Macon, Georgia, October 12, 1999. Marian Schap, MA’48, of Naperville, Charlotte Gould Owens, MLS’52, 1999. Garretts live in Charlotte, North Car- Carrie Renee Mitchell, BS, married Maynard, and their nine-year-old at the Carnegie Center for Art and His- Illinois, December 16, 1999. of Ventura, California, April 5, 2000. olina, where Weston is a vice president Anthony Van Ess in September 1999. son, Robert. tory in New Albany, Indiana. Eleanor Southern Hill, BLS’37, of Lenore Percell, MA’59, of Osceola, with First Union Capital Markets and They live in West Bloomfield, Michi- Greenville, South Carolina, Febru- Omar Stevens, MA’48, of North Lit- Eugene Tennison, MA’52, of Booneville, Iowa, 1999. Kathryn is a full-time wife, mother, gan, where she is procurement man- Kathryn P. Styne, BS, is in law school ary 15, 2000. tle Rock, Arkansas, July 5, 1999. Mississippi, September 23, 1999. James Ausie Carpenter, EdS’60, of and community volunteer. ager for the glass fabrication group of ’97 at the University of Memphis after serv- Jacob Kenneth Wells, MA’52, of Mar- Bowling Green, Kentucky, August 28, Guardian Industries. Phil Ayres, BS, is the anti-submarine ing 18 months as a criminal investi- John Wilbur Pursell, BS’37, BD’40 James Wilburn Byrd, MA’49, PhD’55, ble Hill, Missouri, August 1, 1999. 1999. Melissa Merriman, MEd, married warfare officer aboard the USS McIn- gator with the public defender’s office (Divinity), of Jefferson City, Tennessee, of Kemp, Texas, February 24, 2000. Robert Armistead Frist Jr. on Septem- Judy Jones Pointer, MEd, has been erney (FFG-8) in Jacksonville, Florida. March 7, 2000. in Nashville. Luther Denton White, MA’52, of Birm- Carmen J. Traylor, MA’60, of Arab, ber 11, 1999. She also has been named appointed executive director/admin- John Malcolm Crothers, BA’49, MA’50, Samuel Joseph Todd Jr., MA’38, of of Nashville, March 5, 2000. ingham, Alabama, August 15, 1997. Alabama, September 4, 1999. development manager for the Dede istrator of the Walter N. Ridley Schol- Brent Borders, BS, was profiled in the Allyson Young, MEd, has been named Wallace Center in Nashville and serves arship Fund at the University of January 6, 2000, issue of the Atlanta Rock Hill, North Carolina, January senior vice president of operations for Hazel Hill, BLS’49, of Crossett, Bess Hullender, MA’53, of Waldron, Belle Speer Burks, EdS’61, of Glasgow, as development counsel for Luton Men- Virginia-Charlottesville. The fund is Journal-Constitution newspaper after 22, 2000. Bethlehem Centers of Nashville. She Arkansas, January 19, 2000. Arkansas, August 3, 1999. Kentucky, January 15, 1997. tal Health Services. operated through the Alumni Associ- completing a seven-month trek along previously was assistant executive Mrs. Lewis McLendon, BS’39, of Mait- ation and was created by the UVA the Appalachian Trail, which stretch- Mildred Carson Lentz, MAL’53, of Flo- director. land, Florida, August 9, 1999. Mrs. Bill Lasher, MA’49, of Pompano Betty Ann Cannon, MA’61, of Frost- Anthony J. Meyer Jr., MEd, has been Black Alumni Association. es from Georgia to Maine. Brent lives Beach, Florida, October 7, 1999. rence, Alabama, November 23, 1997. proof, Florida, August 17, 1999.

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Marion Thomas Payne Jr., MA’61, of Park, Illinois, December 11, 1999. Lynchburg, Virginia, June 26, 1999. BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE Lisa Marie Fucile, MEd’95, of Hol- ATTRACTIONS Pearl Massey Brakonecke, MA’62, of brook, Massachusetts, 1999. PEABODY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Columbus, Georgia, March 23, 1998. Frances Chalker Medlock, MA’62, 1999–2000 AUGUST 2000 of Norcross, Georgia, December 29, Faculty 1999. Felix Boateng, 57, director of Van- 4 Module 2 for professional students ends derbilt’s Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Jerry Stephens Imogene Forte Logan Wright, MA’62, PhD’64, of Oklahoma City, December 18, 1999. Cultural Center, professor of African 11 Second-half summer session for undergraduates ends President Past President American studies, and a professor of Hendersonville, Tennessee Nashville, Tennessee Genevieve L. Esterling, BA’64, of education in Peabody College, died at 23–26 Squirrel Camp Orientation for registered freshmen 615/851-1800 [email protected] Dundee, Illinois. Vanderbilt University Medical Center 26 Orientation begins for new undergraduate students on April 27, 2000, after a brief illness. Marion Pearl Taylor Roberts, MAL’64, A native of Ghana, Boateng set out to 30 Fall classes begin Gene Baker James Barrett Hawkins of Washington, D.C., November 13, make the Black Cultural Center a home Brentwood, Tennessee Birmingham, Alabama 1999. away from home at Vanderbilt for African American students but also SEPTEMBER [email protected] [email protected] John L. Sellers, MA’64, of Chaumont, developed programs aimed at helping New York, April 5, 2000. Thomas A. Battan Mary Cain Helfrich the entire University community bet- 14 Conversation on performing and visual arts for students with ter appreciate and understand cultur- Brentwood, Tennessee Nashville, Tennessee Shirley Smith Danielson, BA’65, of al diversity. He initiated a series of disabilities, followed by reception for “Touch the Sky,” an [email protected] [email protected] Easley, South Carolina, January 17, 2000. weekly one-hour conversations with black faculty members and worked exhibit of photographs, video, and student art and writing Frank A. Bonsal III John Lifsey Alma Ingram Malone Leavell, EdD’65, closely with the Association of Black documenting the production of the original musical “Touch the Ruxton, Maryland Nolensville, Tennessee of Houston, January 21, 2000. Graduate Students to develop men- [email protected] [email protected] toring and tutorial programs for African Sky” by Nashville’s Madison School; Foyer, John F. Kennedy Burleigh Brae Turner Jr., MA’65, of American students. Boateng began his Newark, Delaware, October 23, 1999. Center MRL Building, begins 4 P.M. Mary Brockman Fran Marcum career as a high school teacher in 1968, receiving an award for Most Out- Franklin, Tennessee Tullahoma, Tennessee Helen H. Thomas, EdS’67, of Rich- 23 Freshman Family Weekend; contact Bonnie Daniel, director of standing Teacher of the Year follow- mond, Virginia, June 17, 1999. [email protected] ing his first year of teaching. He went the Parent and Family Office, 615/322-3963 Robert H. Bruininks Dottie M. Griffith, BS’68, of Atlanta, on to serve as assistant director of the Minneapolis, Minnesota Betty Jean Overton-Adkins January 2, 2000. Center for International/Intercultural Battle Creek, Michigan Education at the University of South- OCTOBER LeRoy Cole [email protected] Laverne Ashby Martin, EdD’68, of ern California-Los Angeles and as direc- Staatsburg, New York Independence, Missouri, November tor of both the Heritage House-African Through December: “Creative Expressions 6,” an art exhibit organized by 1998. Barbara Ann Moore Pulliam American Educational/Cultural Cen- ter and the Black Studies Program at the Nashville Mayor’s Advisory Committee for People with Disabilities and Leslie Crosby St. Louis Park, Minnesota Allen C. Eastman, MA’70, of Amherst, Washington State University in Pull- Huntsville, Alabama Massachusetts, October 26, 1999. man. He then served as director of the the John F. Kennedy Center; Foyer, Kennedy Center MRL Building [email protected] Hal Reed Ramer Marjanna Joan Frising, MLS’71, of Black Education Program at Eastern Nashville, Tennessee Hopkinsville, Kentucky, January 20, Washington University, receiving the Demetrios Datch [email protected] 1999. Black Educator of the Year Award from 20–21 Vanderbilt Homecoming Weekend St. Louis, Missouri the Black Education Association of 20 Peabody Alumni Association Board of Directors fall meeting [email protected] Rachel Rogers Catherine Fontaine Jones Richardson, Spokane in 1991. Considered a walk- ing encyclopedia of African culture Washington, D.C. MLS’71, of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, 21 Homecoming football game against South Carolina, Dudley and history, Boateng earned his bach- Daniel B. Eisenstein January 6, 2000. elor’s degree in history and African Field, 1 P.M. (time subject to change); contact Donna Johnson, Nashville, Tennessee Joseph J. Scherer William Howell McDonald, MA’72, studies from the University of Ghana New York, New York of Pensacola, Florida, March 22, 1999. and his master’s degree in international 615/322-2929 Ashley Lightfoot Evans and intercultural education from the Frances Helen Verble, MLS’76, of Lex- Richmond, Virginia Linda Welborn University of Southern California in ington, Kentucky, November 12, 1998. NOVEMBER [email protected] Sheffield, Alabama 1972. Five years later he received a [email protected] John “Chip” H.H. Forsythe Jr., EdS’77, doctorate in social and philosophical 8 Peabody ROUNDTABLE Leadership Dinner, Stadium Club (date Gerald D. Fridrich Jr. of Allegany, New York, November 29, foundations of education from USC. His research and scholarly writing Nashville, Tennessee Anne Whitefield 1999. focused on African American studies, subject to change); contact Peabody Office of Alumni and [email protected] Nashville, Tennessee Virginia Lee Stephanz, EdD’79, of education in Africa, African cultural Development, 615/322-8500 [email protected] Annandale, Virginia, October 30, 1999. traditions in America, and cultural rel- Kathleen A. Halloran evance and diversity in the curriculum. 6 Spring registration Nashville, Tennessee Patricia C. Williams Dossie C. Phillips Jr., EdS’80, EdD’83, He was a member of the National Board of St. Meinrad, Indiana, February 2, 18–26 Thanksgiving holidays [email protected] Nashville, Tennessee of the Council for Black Studies. Boateng 2000. is survived by his wife, Ophelia, and two daughters, Brenda and Michelle, Curtis R. English, EdD’85, of Madi- DECEMBER all of Nashville; his mother, Felicia If you have questions or suggestions about the Alumni Association sonville, Tennessee, November 13, Agyako Mensah, of Ghana; and six and its activities, please contact the Board member in your area. 1999. 12 Last day of fall classes

brothers and sisters. JASON LEVKULICH Noel Andre Le Veaux, EdD’92, of Oak 13–21 Final examinations and reading day

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Parker Grifﬁn Jr., right, a sophomore economics and psychology major from Birmingham, Alabama, serenades Lauren Bayuk, a sophomore psychology major from Cincinnati, outside Gillette Hall, their Peabody campus residence. Gillette Hall was named in memory of Peabody trustee

DAVID CRENSHAW Frank E. Gillette.