THE MAGAZINE FOR ALUMNI AND FRIENDS • SPRING 2003 BUILDING FOR OUR FUTURE - HONORING OUR PAST Then April 2002 Perpetuating the Muskingum Legacy Now April 2003 Communications Arts Complex OPENING FALL 2003 VOL. 93, No. 2 THE MAGAZINE FOR ALUMNI AND FRIENDS • SPRING 2003 LONG MAGENTA LINE COMMUNICATION ARTS COMPLEX Then and Now - perpetuating the legacy inside front cover Brick by Brick- a photo essay inside back cover DEPARTMENTS 4 Coach Jim Burson ’63 Convocation with Howell Forgy ’32 “Praise the Lord The Princeton Offense guest speaker Dan Hughes ’77 and pass the ammunition.” The Disseminator - The Long Magenta Limelight Sports Illustrated 8 Book Notes Page 2 Page 5 10 Faculty Retirements and Awards 12 Muskingum Traditions 14 Sports News 16 Class Notes 28 Advancement News Jackie ’89 & Tim Palmer ’88 William Bradford Ross III, Guest Alumni Entrepreneurs- Speaker, Women’s History Mon th in-Residence Nellie Tayloe Ross, Muskingum Leadership America’s first woman Initiative governor Page 6 Page 7 About the cover: Before every football game, each Fighting Muskie touches this boulder in A publication of the Office of Institutional recognition of Muskingum’s continuing heritage and tradition. Muskingum’s Edgar A. Sherman Advancement of Muskingum College, Field honors Coach Ed Sherman ’36, a distinguished member of The Long Magenta Line. New Concord OH 43762 (740) 826-8211. Sherman is a legend in the history of college football and, during his long Muskingum career, Fax (740) 826-8404 www.muskingum.edu. the Muskies captured six OAC championships and recorded three undefeated seasons. Sherman is equally remembered for his ability to teach his students and players great lessons Designed by Sarel Ltd. art & advertising, of life. As one colleague said, “anyone around him became a better person.” Zanesville, OH. The plaque reads: “EDGAR A. SHERMAN FIELD. Dedicated October 4, 1986. A teacher and coach of young people at Muskingum College from 1943-1979.” Muskingum College Magazine • Spring 2003 1 Front cover photo: S. Walker Communications Arts Complex photos by C. Crook and J. Baumann www.muskingum.edu THE LONG MAGENTA LINE “Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition” The story of Howell M. Forgy ’32 To read Howell M. Forgy’s account of the surprise WWII attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan provokes chilling associations with the surprise attack in New York City just two years ago on September 11. His story begins on Sunday, December 7, 1941; his vantage point was from the Navy heavy cruiser, U.S.S. New Orleans, docked at Pearl Harbor. As a chaplain, Forgy was not permitted to handle munitions or fire a weapon, but his words of encouragement to his comrades that day are etched permanently in the American lexicon: “Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.” Born in Philadelphia in 1906, Howell M. Forgy was an all-Ohio football tackle at Muskingum. He graduated in 1932 with a call to the ministry which was founded on a belief in combining the spiritual and the practical. After spending two years as a miner in Colorado, Forgy entered Princeton Seminary, where he #A beautiful, serene morning was interrupted by an obtained his atrocity that a moment ago had been unimaginable. theology degree and was ordained as a Shock, bewilderment and denial were soon replaced Presbyterian minister. His first with a fierce spirit of unity, patriotism and resolve to congregation (Kentucky) prevail over the tragedy. consisted of nine people, one hundred dollars and a vacant lot. 2 Muskingum College Magazine • Spring 2003 www.muskingum.edu When he left a year later to mechanical hoists that were songs of the war years – report for active duty, there was used to lift artillery shells from “Praise the Lord and Pass the a new church with a congre- storage within the ship to the Ammunition”, written by Frank gation numbering over one guns above were inoperable. Loesser. The Kay Kyser hundred. Orchestra recording of this song As a result, all available sold over two million records and As a Navy chaplain (nicknamed personnel worked tirelessly to a million copies of sheet music. “Padre”) Forgy’s popularity with transport 100-pound shells— At the height of its popularity the his congregations was unabated. either by manually loading them Office of War Information To be a ship’s chaplain during this onto the hoist or by carrying restricted its performance over period was to serve not only as a them on foot two decks above the airwaves to once every four spiritual leader, but equally as to the artillerymen who would hours so that the public wouldn’t father figure, counselor, psychol- fire them as quickly as they were tire of it. All royalties were ogist and friend. He drew donated to the Navy Relief strength from his faith and # Society. sound advice from the Muscoljuan 1932 experiences of his There have been multiple childhood, his time at accounts of the source of Muskingum, and his rural this expression. With ministries. characteristic humility, Forgy himself encouraged On that fateful Sunday the misconceptions, morning aboard the New believing that the slogan Orleans, he lay in his bed would endure more contemplating that day’s powerfully as a legend sermon “We Reach Forward”. received. All day Forgy made his rather than as the uttering of a Using the words of Paul, he way throughout the ship, single man. Nonetheless, the planned to tell the men that their inspired by the spirit of the men. words are indisputably Forgy’s, as fate lay in the days ahead and “They could keep going only by attested by the U.S. Navy. not in those that had passed. The keeping faith in their hearts. I message was uncannily fitting slapped their wet, sticky backs Forgy served the Navy through for the events about to transpire. and shouted, ‘Praise the Lord the remainder of World War II, The deafening sound of the ship’s and pass the ammunition.’” then returned to his civilian alarm brought him abruptly to his ministry with the rank of feet and up to the deck. Miraculously, the New Orleans Commander. Forgy lived from suffered no casualties during the January, 1908 until January, 1972. Forgy watched in disbelief as attack. Forgy’s next duty was to sinking American battleships relay the happy news to the littered the harbor with oil and wives and families on shore. In smoke; anti-aircraft guns his narrative of his war service, seemed defenseless against the …And Pass the Ammunition, he incoming Japanese bombers. He describes his deep feeling of raced below deck to help seal the satisfaction and relief at being ship’s portholes, there he found able to reassure the men’s loved that the New Orleans had no ones. In poignant contrast, he electrical power—someone, in an had the sad duty a few years attempt to quickly free the ship later of extending condolences to from the dock, had cut the power some of these same families. This essay began as a research project by line. The lack of power meant Melissa Lunn ’03, who is assisting Dr. William Kerrigan, Assoc. Professor of History, in his not only darkness in the bowels Forgy’s famous phrase inspired ongoing inquiry into The Long Magenta Line. of the ship, but also that the one of the most beloved patriotic Muskingum College Magazine • Spring 2003 3 www.muskingum.edu THE LONG MAGENTA LINE “Do something every day, starting today, to build a bridge from where you are to where you want to be.” - Dan Hughes ’77, Convocation speaker Muskingum conducted its time-honored Convocation learning you’ve borrowed and pass them along to others ceremony on August 27, 2002. President Anne C. Steele as you go through life …. What I learned at Muskingum welcomed the College’s 166th entering class (490 has served me every day.” freshmen and transfer students) to the Muskingum 2001 Coach of the Year, Hughes is head coach of the community saying, “Today, you assume your rightful WNBA Cleveland Rockers. He majored in history and place as heirs to the Muskingum legacy.” physical education at Muskingum, then received his Daniel Hughes ’77 began his keynote address by master’s degree in education from Miami University citing the lyrics of the Beatles song “There are Places (Oxford, Ohio). Commenting on the ceremony, President I Remember” to describe his feelings about Muskingum – Steele said that Hughes exemplifies the “long magenta “this is a place I remember and love. I want my children line” of Muskingum College. to have things to love in their lives – places like Muskingum.” He emphasized the profound impact that Muskingum’s faculty made on him. “They taught me the art of teaching – how to facilitate the transfer of knowledge.” He urged the students to “borrow from the very best … take those things, that knowledge, that 4 Muskingum College Bulletin • Spring 2003 www.muskingum.edu THE LONG MAGENTA LINE The Connector hen writer Grant “IT ALL Wahl from Sports W Illustrated began to STARTS speak to Division I, II, and III HERE coaches around the country who are involved with the Princeton Hatched in New Jersey Offense, every one of them decades ago by irascible pointed to Jim Burson ’63 as genius Pete Carril, the wellspring of this strategy. the intricate ballet of the Consequently, Wahl traveled to PRINCETON New Concord to spend two days OFFENSE with Coach Burson during the is suddenly the height of 2002-03 basketball season in hoop fashion, winning order to gain his personal games and converts from perspective. In this article Burson sixth grade to the NBA” reveals how he ‘cracked the code’ of Carril’s Princeton Offense BY GRANT WAHL and offers insight into his own philosophies of the game PRINCETON of basketball.