TransylvaniaUNIVERSITY MAGAZINE SPRING 2012

Features 12 LOOKING TO THE FUTURE / Planning initiatives will have broad implications for Transylvania in the years ahead 16 SUSTAINABILITY / Pioneers from all over campus work together to revolutionize sustainability 22 TAKING HER TURN / Angela Ray ’86 garners awards, honors as Northwestern University communication professor Around Campus Students from physical education/exercise 2 Professors give Lexington “Good Morning” message science professor Sharon Brown’s course Nutrition and Energy Balance visit Berries 3 Richardson is Rhodes Scholarship finalist on Bryan Station Organic Farm, where 3 Covert is new associate vice president for advancement they worked in the fields digging sweet 4 Poet Maurice Manning joins Transylvania faculty potatoes, picking golden raspberries, and gathering eggs. From left, Tabitha Keown 5 Radio TLX “bringing fun back to radio” ’11, senior Charles Mayhem, senior Kennedy Barnes, and Corey Rogers ’11. Sports 8 Transylvania adds equestrian to varsity sports 9 Men’s soccer wins HCAC regular-season title 11 Women’s soccer rolls to high national ranking 11 Women’s tennis wins trip to NCAA championship Alumni News and Notes 24 Class Notes 26 Alumnus Profile: Jim Chambliss ’86 28 Alumna Profile: Ana Reyes ’96 29 Marriages, Births, Obituaries

Associate Vice President of Communications and Public Relations: Sarah A. Emmons Director of Publications: Martha S. Baker Publications Writer/Editor: William A. Bowden Editorial Assistant: Tyler Young Publications Designer: Barbara Grinnell On the cover: Angela Dossett is Transylvania’s Transylvania is published three times a year. Volume sustainability coordinator. For an overview 29, No. 2, SPRING 2012. Produced by the Office of of the university’s sustainability initiatives, Publications, Transylvania University, Lexington, KY see article on page 16. 40508-1797. Send address changes and alumni news to Alumni Office, Transylvania University, 300 North Photo by Joseph Rey Au Broadway, Lexington, KY 40508-1797, fax to (859) 233-8797, or e-mail to [email protected]. Professors give Lexington residents ‘Good Morning’ message Perceptive eyes in Lexington may have a reach like a basketball player,” Gohde to visit. noticed a strange message slowly making said. Eventually, after a run-in with a suspi- its way across the sign of the now-demol- After making replica letters that were cious Lexington police officer, they realized ished American Inn on New Circle Road last missing, they went to work, returning each nobody was going to make a fuss if they summer. Some poignant, some cryptic, night to change the sign to a new line were caught, so they started going during new phrases appeared on the sign almost from the song. They spray painted marks in the day, getting photos of themselves every day for several weeks. the parking lot to show where to set up a changing the sign. They took all the photos The source can now be traced back to tripod and photographed the sign each and compiled them into a stop-motion Transylvania and the Creative Disruption day. video that was synced with the song and course that art professor Kurt Gohde and “Kurt originally wanted to just do it until sent it to Heidinger, who had no idea what English professor Kremena Todorova taught the end of the class, but we didn’t realize it they were up to. during May term 2011. would take so long to get the whole song “We sent him the video while they were For part of their credit, students had to up,” Todorova said. “It took us the whole on tour, and they saw it and really liked it,” do one creative disruption per day, pulling summer to do.” Gohde said. “They came to Lexington on stunts that shook up normalcy. Gohde and They had some fun with it as well, even their tour, and we thought it would be cool Todorova couldn’t just sit by while their stu- displaying the word “welcome” in Bulgarian for them to play it live with the video in the dents had all the fun; they decided to join when Todorova’s mother came to Lexington background. It’s a song they never play, so in as well. Gohde had been interested in it took them several tries to get it to sync the old sign, which advertised a motel that right, but they did it.” was torn down approximately eight years With a full-fledged multimedia project ago. The two debated what to do with it— on their hands, Gohde and Todorova Gohde wanted to write trick questions presented their work at the Little/Gaines about the United States to commemo- Collaborative Artist Series, spon- rate Todorova’s recent citizenship sored by the University of test, and she wanted to display the Kentucky Gaines Cen- first lines of great American novels. ter, in November. After They ultimately settled on the lyrics their talk, a man came to a song called “Good Morning” up to them who had by Vandaveer, an alternative rock suffered a flat tire while band fronted by Mark Charles riding his bicycle on that Heidinger ’00. section of New Circle “Vandaveer had recorded a song using Road. Frustrated, he had another project we did, and it worked happened to catch a out great,” Gohde said. “They gave glimpse of the sign, us a CD called A Minor Spell, and which at the time was dis- we liked the song and decided we playing a melancholy would put the lyrics on the sign phrase—Gohde and Todorova and change the letters every aren’t sure which one—and he said he felt day.” like he was almost being mocked by it. But The professors went to after riding past it several more times and the sign in the middle of seeing the new messages, he realized the the night, and Todorova sign wasn’t meant to be forlorn—but it managed to figure out was art, and he started to enjoy seeing how to get the let- what it would say next, not knowing at the ters out—“She has time that he was the recipient of a creative

Kurt Gohde

English professor Kremena Todorova and art professor Kurt Gohde put lyrics on the American Inn sign. To see the “Good Morning” video, go to http://bit.ly/goodmorningvandaveer.

2 TRANSYLVANIA Richardson is a Rhodes Scholarship finalist Senior Lee Richardson was very well pre- banner in such an exemplary manner.” pared for his Rhodes Scholarship finalist inter- Richardson gives a fair amount of credit to the Transylvania view, but that didn’t mean the Rhodes panel community for helping him get as far as he did. wasn’t capable of throwing him a curve ball “When it was learned that I had an interview, President Williams or two in the way it posed its questions. was on the phone to professors and people from the Lexington Lee Richardson “Probably the most difficult question that professional community, asking them to come in and help me pre- threw me off a bit at first involved a hypotheti- pare through mock interviews,” he said. “I also had one-on-one cal situation where I was dealing with a deficit reduction plan for interviews with my professors, trying to understand the process of the United States government,” Richardson said. “The committee reflecting on my past by reviewing what I had learned in their could cut $500 million from the budget of either Medicare or the courses. The Rhodes organization values that exercise very much.” National Endowment for the Arts. The experience also left him with lasting benefits. “I thought they would ask me to choose one and defend it, but “‘Believe in yourself’ is something very important that I got out they told me to make a case for cutting Medicare and saving the of this,” Richardson said. “It may sound trite, but I felt that, even arts. They did this, knowing full well that healthcare was my pas- though I didn’t get the scholarship, I was very competitive for it. sion and my future career.” Afterwards, several of the judges told me that I had held my own In his response, Richardson said he referenced the importance against the two winners, who were from Princeton and Harvard. of the arts and crafts heritages of places like Berea, Ky., and even They said, ‘If you’re like the other students at Transylvania, then threw in a James Joyce reference when he pictured the arts as we are very impressed with your institution.’” offering “portals of discovery” that can illuminate the past and Richardson is a biochemistry and Spanish double major from show us our mistakes as well as our triumphs. Nicholasville, Ky., and a recipient of a Transylvania Scholarship. He The experience of stretching his mind and fielding the interest- has a strong interest in Latin America, as shown by his extracurric- ing questions coming from the panel members was a highlight of ular activities. He has been to Ecuador as a medical intern, Costa what Richardson took away from his Rhodes application, prepara- Rica for storm relief, and Mexico to construct sustainable housing tion, and interview process. for homeless families. As one of 12 finalists in District IX, which includes Kentucky, As an aspiring physician, Richardson has been applying and Indiana, and Ohio, Richardson was invited to Indianapolis in interviewing at medical schools and is also applying for a Fulbright November for the interview that would determine the two winners research grant to study sexual health, education, and youth in from that group. Though he was not offered a Rhodes Scholar- Ecuador. ship, just being a finalist put him in an elite group of 830 finalists “Transylvania has given me this environment where I can suc- from 299 colleges and universities across the country. ceed, not only in the classroom but outside of it as well,” Richard- “We are all very proud of Lee for being selected a Rhodes final- son said. “It has helped me with the crucial process of evaluating ist,” said President R. Owen Williams. “We congratulate him on myself, understanding why I have been drawn to things I have his extraordinary accomplishment and for carrying the Transylvania already achieved, and seeing how that projects into my future.”

Covert new associate vice president for advancement

It was homecoming for Kara expansion and progress are make sure they believe you are Little Covert ’90 when she more extensive than any we an institution they can invest in rejoined the Transylvania staff have envisioned before,” she wisely.” in January as associate vice said. “It will take exceptional Kirk Purdom, vice president president for advancement. leadership from individuals, cor- for advancement, believes Covert, who previously porations, and foundations to Covert’s experience in higher worked in admissions and help us realize those goals.” education makes her a perfect development at Transylvania, Covert feels the university’s fit for her new position. has more than 20 years of move toward becoming a “Kara has worked in every Kara Little Covert higher education administrative somewhat larger school and area of development, from experience. She returned to her enhancing its academic and annual fund to major gifts, and minor, Covert earned a master’s alma mater from her position campus-life offerings is in tune has proven her abilities in a of education in institutional as associate vice president for with the times. small college setting from her advancement from Vanderbilt development at Eastern Ken- “There have been points in earlier work at Transylvania,” University. She was an admis- tucky University. the history of higher education he said. “Her undergraduate sions counselor at Transylvania Covert is in charge of a when you could maintain the experience here gives her great from 1991-93, then joined newly formed major gifts status quo and do very well, insight into what makes this Washington University in St. section that will play a key role but we’re not in one of those college tick. We are delighted Louis, working in the alumni in fund-raising efforts as Tran- periods now,” she said. “Partly to have her rejoin our staff and office and the annual fund pro- sylvania aims to expand enroll- because of economic factors, take on this critical fund-raising gram. She returned to Transyl- ment and create new academic people are in a different frame responsibility.” vania in 1996 and was director and student-life programs over of mind. You have to be that After completing her Transyl- of annual giving and director of the coming years. much better to even catch vania bachelor’s degree with a development before leaving for “The university’s plans for somebody’s attention, and then psychology major and English EKU in 2003.

SPRING 2012 3 Prominent Kentucky poet Maurice Manning joins Transylvania faculty Transylvania University has hired notable Kentucky poet come back to Kentucky to write poems for a book tentatively titled Maurice Manning as professor of English. He will join the faculty The Gone and the Going Away. He was also recently appointed to full time in September; until then he will organize readings on the faculty of the Sewanee Writing Conference at Sewanee: The campus during the winter and May terms. University of the South in Tennessee. Manning, who currently resides at his farm in Washington “As the reviews of his books, his Guggenheim Fellowship, and County, Ky., while on a Guggenheim his nomination for the Pulitzer prize attest, Maurice Manning has Fellowship from Indiana University, has established himself as one of America’s most important younger published four books of poetry, including poets,” William F. Pollard, vice president and dean of the college, his most recent, The Common Man, said. “We are delighted that he will be joining us at Transylvania which was one of three finalists for the University and that he will be moving back to teach in his home 2011 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. His first state of Kentucky.” collection, Lawrence Booth’s Book of Manning earned a B.A. in English from Earlham College in Visions, was selected for the 2000 Yale 1988, an M.A. in English from the University of Kentucky in 1996, Series of Younger Poets. He has had and an M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Alabama in works in publications including The New 1999. He describes his teaching style as “congenial”; he conducts Yorker, Washington Square, The South- ongoing conversations about literature with his students. ern Review, Poetry, Shenandoah, and “More than anything, I think I teach my students how to read in The Virginia Quarterly Review. a particular way,” he said. “Yes, understanding the content of a “I am delighted to be coming to Tran- poem or play or a novel is essential, but I also want my students to Maurice Manning sylvania and certainly look forward to this learn how to appreciate the internal qualities of good writing. For wonderful opportunity,” Manning said. example, I would explain the ‘logic’ and beauty of a simile or an “My mother’s parents were Transylvania grads, and so are some of image. These are literary devices, of course, but writers use them my cousins. It feels as if I have a family connection, and the warm to give their writing rigor and purpose.” atmosphere of the campus makes that sense of connection all the Good writing is an integral aspect of a liberal arts education, more pleasant. I can tell good things happen at Transylvania, and I and Transylvania puts an emphasis on helping students improve will be glad to be part of that.” their writing in all classes and about all subjects. Manning said he Manning has taught the past seven years at Indiana University sees good writing coming from good thought, and that is what he as associate professor of English and assistant director of creative hopes to teach his students. writing after four years as assistant professor of English at DePauw “There is a powerful connection between reading and think- University. He also teaches in the M.F.A. Program for Writers at ing,” he said. “If a student learns how to read with depth and Warren Wilson College. IU granted him the prestigious John Simon focus, then he or she will most likely start thinking that way, too. Guggenheim Fellowship in April 2011, and he used the award to And then the student’s own writing will develop and mature.”

Letha Mattingly retires after 32 years working in Forrer Dining Hall For 32 years, Transylvania students walk- Mattingly was well known by the campus plans recorded electronically. ing into Forrer Dining Hall for a bite to eat community for her smile and kind words as “Ms. Letha was arguably one of the most have seen the same smiling face greeting she greeted each person who walked into dependable and determined employees we them and taking their cash and Crimson the dining hall. She experienced a lot of had at Sodexo at Transylvania,” Sodexo Cards. Letha Mattingly, 82, retired Novem- changes in how the dining hall operates operations manager Nicki Covey said. “She ber 30, and Transylvania celebrated by serv- and learned everything she could about was a pleasure to work with and had a ing up a lunch menu of her favorite items, new systems and new managers. When she distinguishable laugh that would light up including country fried steak, fish, mashed started working at Transylvania, she had a the hallways and dining hall. She always potatoes, peas, hushpuppies, and all the handheld clicker she would use to count wanted to do the right thing and learn new cupcakes anyone could eat. The price for the students coming in when they showed ways to do her job, and she was quick to lunch was $1.75—the cost in 1979 when their student IDs. Today’s system is a net- offer a smile and ask how you were doing. Mattingly started. work of card swipes with varying meal Ms. Letha’s top priority was always making Mattingly, who is originally from sure the students were happy.” Bath County, Ky., received a bevy of Mattingly remains at her home in thank you cards and well wishes from Lexington for her retirement. She said students, faculty, and staff, and Transyl- she’s spent much of her time so far vania gave her a rocking chair that will writing thank you letters to those who get good use in her retirement years. gave her cards and gifts. “I just love Transylvania and all the “I’m so thankful for everyone at students, faculty, and staff,” Mattingly Transylvania, and I pray every day for said. “They were all so nice—I got so them,” she said. many cards, and I love my rocking chair. Transylvania takes a real interest in the Letha Mattingly sits with an students, and I think it’s such a great assortment of cupcakes—her favorite school. I will miss everyone there.” dessert—prepared by Sodexo. Mollie Eblen

4 TRANSYLVANIA Radio TLX is ‘bringing the fun back to radio’ College radio has an illustrious but said. “Scott began teaching at Transylvania work get to hear the unique creative outlet understated history of students tired of in 2006. The first day I met him I found out that is Radio TLX. Sixteen shows weekly top-40 stations where they could listen about his background and interest in col- offer wildly different formats and musical only to what the charts said was good lege radio stations, and I recruited him to flavors, and listeners never know what music. The result was genre-bending radio, be the adviser.” they’ll hear on a given day. Last Halloween, where during any given segment you could He immediately began to help students DJs had some fun with their formats. One hear punk rock next to fusion jazz next to revive the station. “Our goal was to move show featured two DJs trying to best each folk next to hip-hop. Transylvania’s student- to a web-based station,” said Emmons. At other’s song choices—one playing only Hal- run station continues that tradition online, that time, Internet radio was still in its early loween music and one playing only Christ- streaming music by artists both popular years, and copyright laws were insufficient- mas music. and undiscovered with inventive and fun ly governing webcasters. Then in 2008, the “There are some DJs who read poetry, shows by student DJs. Webcaster Settlement Act passed through some do sports shows, hip-hop shows—all Radio TLX (formerly WTLX) streams on Congress, which extended the laws to kinds of things,” senior Casey Berry, direc- the Transylvania network Monday through webcasting with new rules and fees. Whid- tor of external programming, said. “I have Thursday from 6 p.m.-midnight and Friday don brought in Brian Powers, an attorney, a show, and it’s whatever I want to play. It’s and Sunday from 8 p.m.-midnight. Approx- consultant, and musician, to help the been interesting to see how much the DJs imately 32 students volunteer at the station group sift through legal issues. When have stepped up and been responsible (for in roles ranging from producers to on-air Whiddon decided to step down as adviser, their programming).” DJs, and shows are two-hour spots with Powers stepped in. “There’s a rawness about it that’s not a variety of formats produced live in the “The sands are still shifting in this area,” amateurish, but it’s visceral,” Powers said. Radio TLX studio in the lobby area of resi- Powers said. “The legal and technical “It’s bringing the fun back to radio.” dence halls Clay/Davis. requirements, fees, the whole thing can The operation is completely student run. “Basically it’s a wonderful experiment in change from year to year. The good thing Radio staff members go through training DIY (do it yourself), making the best of lim- is, Transylvania is a non-commercial educa- at the beginning of every term, learning ited means, and showing what Transylvania tional webcaster, which allows us a lot of about aspects of radio ranging from legal students can do,” assistant professor of leeway in what we can do, and the fees requirements and ethics to on-air behav- writing, rhetoric, and communication Scott aren’t exceptionally harsh.” ioral standards and technical training. An Whiddon said. “It harkens back to the old The goal to take Radio TLX beyond cam- executive board made up of seven students days when radio was more exciting. Col- pus and allow the rest of the world to hear sorts out the day-to-day operations, and lege radio allowed for bands like REM, the station is almost within reach. Powers, the students program and run their own the Smiths, and U2 to get a foothold in Whiddon, and the student executive board, shows. They also DJ special events on the states. That’s where real, interesting led by senior Cat Cummins as general campus and organize concerts, through radio is.” manager, have worked through issues like which several bands have come to Transyl- “Our campus radio station has broadcast server load and equipment demands. The vania including These United States, The in various forms over the years, but its station will test broadcasting outside Tran- Doloreans, The Vicious Guns, Vandaveer, most recent iteration is a result of the very sylvania’s network at the end of March, Fanged Robot, and Coralee and the Town- high costs of broadcasting traditional radio and if all goes well, will begin the 2012-13 ies. It’s a full-time job, and students are over the airwaves,” Sarah Emmons, associ- academic year broadcasting to the world. learning to apply their knowledge in a lot ate vice president for communications, For now, those on the Transylvania net- of different areas. “I’m convinced that the way these stu- dents are going to survive this job market is by using their degrees but not relying on their degrees,” Whiddon said. “They’ll sur- vive by showing creativity, by taking A and B and making C, and by using the depth of thinking, breadth of reading, and the cre- ativity that comes from a liberal education. “Most of these students aren’t going into broadcasting, but they’re learning to be responsible citizens of a community. We’ve been given this benefit and are going to act accordingly and still have an awesome time because we are of this com- munity, and we want to see it thrive.” For more on Radio TLX, go to radiotlx.transy.edu.

Radio TLX sophomore DJs Ariel Milby, left, and Malynda Clark do their weekly show, Mood Swings,

Joseph Rey Au from the TLX studio.

SPRING 2012 5 Yale constitutional law scholar to Philanthropy honorees have deliver Harlan Lecture Transylvania connections

Yale University law and politi- A life member of the Transylvania Board of Trustees, a cal science professor Akhil Reed current trustee, and a benefactor of the university were Harold Shapiro Harold Amar, one of this era’s most among individuals and organizations honored by the accomplished constitutional law Association of Fundraising Professionals Bluegrass Chapter scholars, will deliver the second at a National Philanthropy Day luncheon in November. John Marshall Harlan Lecture on The program celebrates those who have made signifi- Thursday, April 26, at 6:30 p.m. cant contributions of time and resources to nonprofit in Carrick Theater. agencies, thereby enhancing the quality of life in the Amar, who will speak on community. “America’s Symbolic Constitu- Transylvania life board member James E. “Ted” tion,” is Sterling Professor of Akhil Reed Amar Bassett III was given the organization’s most prestigious Law and Political Science at Yale, honor, the Distinguished Philanthropist Award. He was where he teaches constitutional The Constitution and Criminal recognized for his wide-ranging philanthropic interests law in both Yale College and Procedure: First Principles (Yale that have included several multi-million dollar fund-raising Yale Law School. He earned his University Press, 1997), The Bill campaigns throughout central Kentucky and beyond. A B.A., summa cum laude, in 1980 of Rights: Creation and Recon- highly respected figure in the global Thoroughbred indus- from Yale College and his J.D. struction (Yale University Press, try, he has served as president, trustee, and chairman of in 1984 from Yale Law School, 1998), and America’s Constitu- the board of the Keeneland Association in Lexington and where he served as an editor tion: A Biography (Random as president of Breeders Cup Limited. of The Yale Law Journal. After House, 2005). clerking for Judge Stephen The lecture series is named Breyer, U.S. Court of Appeals, after U.S. Supreme Court Justice 1st Circuit, he joined the Yale John Marshall Harlan, who faculty in 1985. graduated from Transylvania’s Amar is co-editor of a leading law department in 1852. It is constitutional law casebook, made possible by a gift from the Processes of Constitutional Lexington law firm McBrayer, Decisionmaking, and the author McGinnis, Leslie & Kirkland, of several books, including PLLC. Paul Atkinson Transylvania life board member Ted Bassett, right, and David Cupps, president, Association of Fundraising Professionals Bluegrass Chapter

Bassett joined the Transylvania board in 1970 and became a life member in 2005. A former member of the Executive Committee, he chaired the Nominating and Governance Committee and the Student Life Committee. He also served on committees for strategic planning, hon- orary degree selection, and architect selection for the Clive M. Beck Athletic and Recreation Center. Two scholarship programs at Transylvania are associated with Bassett’s service to the university. The Keeneland Association Scholarship was established in 1974, and the James E. Bassett III Scholarship was created in 2010. Bassett was awarded the Transylvania Medal in 1985 Diversity website spreads conversation for promoting Transylvania through his friendship and Those from outside the Transylvania campus community interested outstanding service. The university presented him with in learning about diversity and the university’s initiatives in this area an honorary degree in 1987. can now keep up with the latest happenings by visiting the new Fran Taylor ’75, principal, My Giving Advisor, LLC, and diversity and inclusion website at www.transy.edu/diversity. a member of the Transylvania board, was recognized as The site will continue to develop, but it already has features of an Outstanding Community Honoree. She was nominated interest to alumni and prospective students. The front page features by the Child Development Centers of the Bluegrass, a summary of what diversity and inclusion mean to Transylvania and where she has invested more than 18 years of volunteer includes a mission statement that guides the initiatives. A News tab work. As an emeritus board member of the non-profit takes you to all the latest updates. organization, she continues to give of her time and

6 TRANSYLVANIA Applause Economics professor G. Rod Erfani received the 2012 Distin- guished Advisor Award from the Executive Board of international economics honor society Omicron Delta Epsilon, one of the world’s largest academic honor societies. Erfani was recognized for his longtime service as Transylvania’s ODE Chapter Advisor at the annual meeting of the American Economic Association in Chicago in December. He was one of 672 potential honorees. • • • Sophomore Zoe Snider had her Foundations of the Liberal Arts paper, “Vampires, Werewolves, and Oppression: Twilight and Female

Paul Atkinson Gender Stereotypes,” accepted for publication in the spring 2012 From left, Child Development Centers of the Bluegrass edition of Young Scholars in Writing. board member and former board chair Steven Loy, • • • Transylvania trustee Fran Taylor ’75, David Cupps, AFP. Mathematics and computer science professor emeritus James E. Miller has published Elementary resources to benefit children with disabilities. She has also Theory & Application of Numerical Analysis (Mineola: served on over 17 other non-profit boards, sharing her Dover Publications), a completely revised edition of a expertise in marketing, communications, special events, classic 1967 text by David G. Moursund and Charles and strategic planning. S. Duris. The book is designed as a text for an under- Taylor has been a Transylvania board member since graduate course (junior/senior level) in modern 2008, and before that was a member of the Board of numerical analysis. It also covers some of the basic Visitors from 2001-08. She has served on several class concepts from elementary calculus, with emphasis reunion committees. on theory and proofs. The law firm of McBrayer, McGinnis, Leslie, & • • • Kirkland, PLLC, was also given an Outstanding Commu- Kenan Visiting Writer Richard Taylor did an interview for the TV nity Honoree award. Transylvania nominated the firm for show Ghost Hunters, which aired on the Sci-Fi channel. The interview its vision and generosity in supporting the John Marshall relates to the history of Buffalo Trace Distillery, where Harlan Lecture Series at Transylvania. The series brings to there are alleged to have been a number of ghost the campus and community highly esteemed legal figures sightings. Located on the banks of the Kentucky River of national and international prominence who have dis- in Frankfort, the distillery is one of the three oldest and tinguished themselves in constitutional law or history. continuously operating distilleries in the United States. William Wiecek, legal and constitutional historian and Taylor is the author of the book The Great Crossing: professor emeritus at Syracuse University College of Law, Historic Journey to Buffalo Trace Distillery. gave the inaugural Harlan Lecture in September. • • • The invitation to the inauguration of R. Owen Williams as presi- dent of Transylvania received an Award of Excellence in a competition sponsored by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education District III. The judges called the invitation “a piece of artwork.” It was the work of the Transylvania publications office: Martha Baker, director; Bill Bowden, writer/editor; Barbara Grinnell, designer; and Tyler Young, editorial assistant. The inauguration event earned a Special Merit Award in the competi- tion. The judges commented that, although a presidential inauguration is not a unique or new event in and of itself, Transylvania took this as an opportunity to showcase the entire university. They added: “The event generated materials still being used six months later, including the new president’s inauguration speech and a DVD of the Civil War Symposium.” Paul Atkinson From left, Transylvania major gifts officer Lori In addition to the publications staff, those recognized were Sarah Burlingham; Josh Markham ’97 and Stephen Amato ’87, Emmons, associate vice president of communications; Mariana Shochat, both with McBrayer, McGinnis, Leslie, & Kirkland, PLLC; web development manager; Mollie Eblen, public relations associate; and David Cupps, AFP. Kelly Lavy, events coordinator. CASE District III includes nine states in the southeast U.S. The law firm was honored for helping Transylvania real- • • • ize its commitment to community outreach and diversity, The Rambler, Transylvania’s student newspaper, had its best showing as well as the college’s mission of preparing its students ever in the Kentucky Intercollegiate Press Association’s awards competi- for a humane and fulfilling personal and public life tion. The yearly competition features a variety of categories designed to through independent thinking, open-mindedness, and showcase the talent of student journalists. The Rambler staff brought creative expression. home 30 awards, including 11 first-place honors, and—for the third Transylvania was a Silver sponsor of the luncheon, year in a row—first place for senior John Johnson in the deadline copy which was chaired by Susan Ware ’84. Committee mem- editing competition. Johnson bested copy editors from both the large- bers included Mark Blankenship ’81 and Jack Hillard ’82. and small-school divisions.

SPRING 2012 7 Pollard stepping down as vice Transylvania adds equestrian to president and dean of the college intercollegiate sports lineup At press time, President R. Owen Williams Transylvania will take full 10 minutes from the Transyl- announced that William F. Pollard, vice presi- advantage of its location in vania campus, which she dent and dean of the college and professor Lexington, widely known as began in 2010. The facility of English, is stepping down as vice presi- the “horse capital of the offers a number of fenced dent and dean of the college, effective July world,” when it adds fields for various training 31, 2012. After a one-year sabbatical, he equestrian as its 23rd inter- options, a riding ring, and will return to teaching as professor of collegiate sports program ample horses for team prac- English on the Transylvania faculty. beginning with the 2012-13 tices. The farm also supports Pollard came to Transylvania in 2004. His school year. boarding, lessons, training, Ph.D. is from Duke University, and he did Transylvania will compete in and sales. William F. Pollard post-doctoral study at the University of the Intercollegiate Horse Show “I’m thrilled to have the Oxford. His areas of scholarship are English, Association, which was estab- opportunity to work with medieval English literature, and medieval lished in 1967 and stresses Transylvania,” Wax said. “I’m theology. education, sportsmanship, looking forward to having a Williams also appointed Associate Vice and team spirit. More than great team of riders and President and Dean of the College Kathleen 370 college teams and 8,300 competing in the IHSA. I Jagger interim vice president and dean of riders are part of IHSA. can’t wait to see where this the college, effective August 1, 2012. She program is a year joined the faculty in 2002 as professor of from now.” biology. Transylvania’s riders A more extensive article will appear in the will compete in Eng- Kathleen Jagger summer Transylvania magazine. lish riding, or “hunt seat” division, which includes eight levels and nine competition Nationally known women’s advocate classes. These range from walk-trot to speaks at Transylvania walk-trot-canter, and Sarah Weddington, nationally known for her work on issues include both flat and fence work. Hunt seat affecting women through her roles as an attorney, legislator, pres- Darcy Wax, head coach, idential assistant, and professor, delivered an address titled “Some equestrian is based on the tradition of Leaders are Born Women” in Carrick Theater January 17. fox hunting and is one of the In 1973, Weddington appeared before the U.S. Supreme Court The Pioneer equestrian most popular forms of for- and successfully argued the winning side of the landmark Roe v. team, which will include both ward seat riding. Transylvania Wade case on the issue of abortion. A long-time advocate for women and men riders, will eventually hopes to compete women, she was the first woman to be elected from Austin to be led by head coach Lorah in the Western division as the Texas House of Representatives. As an assistant to President “Darcy” Wax. She started well, which includes walk-jog, Jimmy Carter from 1978-81, she led White House efforts to riding as a child and is a for- horsemanship, and reining. extend ratification time for the Equal Rights Amendment and mer Pony Club member with Riders in both divisions are assisted in the selection of women for federal judiciary appoint- experience showing her hors- judged solely on their equi- ments, among other activities. es in dressage, eventing, and tation, or effectiveness. Pos- hunter/jumpers. She also has ture, positioning, and the experience with top Olympic ability to make riding seem riders, three-day events, effortless are all taken into dressage shows, English and account. Western riding instruction, Transylvania is only the clinics, horse sales, and second private school in showing. Kentucky, after Midway “Darcy is an accomplished College, to offer an rider who has instructed IHSA equestrian program. competitors,” said athletics State schools with the director Jack Ebel ’77. “She program include Eastern has done a great job prepar- Kentucky University, More- ing her farm for our team. head State University, Murray She is the perfect person to State University, Northern develop what we believe will Kentucky University, the be a very popular program.” University of Kentucky, the Joseph Rey Au Women’s advocate Sarah Weddington speaks with, from left, Wax operates Dreamer’s University of Louisville, and seniors Austyn Gaffney, Viktoria Safarian, and Lindsey Jagoe. Run Farm, a 45-acre farm just Western Kentucky University.

8 TRANSYLVANIA Field hockey wins Earlham tournament The field hockey team got the year off to a great start by winning the Kookaburra Clas- sic, hosted by fellow Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference member Earlham College. The Pioneers, under head coach Tiffany Underhill, were able to secure just two more wins in a 4-14 season. Transylvania defeated Saint Vincent College 1-0 in the opener of the Earlham tourna- ment on a goal by sophomore forward Sydney Katz. In the championship game, the Pioneers got a pair of goals by senior back Ruth Kloha to down host Earlham 2-0.

One of Transylvania’s losses Chris Gross was a thrilling 3-2 overtime host Tigers made a pair of early Valuable Player in the Kook- Junior forward Molly Dean game at Oberlin College. goals stand up in a tight defen- aburra Classic. Kloha, Transylva- was Most Valuable Player in the Kookaburra Classic. The Pioneers outshot the sive struggle. nia’s top offensive player with Yeowomen 24-14 and held a Junior forward Molly Dean, 14 points on seven goals, was 2-1 lead late in the second half. third leading scorer for the year named to the Kookaburra All- sophomore Caroline Durham, Transylvania also played well at with eight points (three goals Tournament team, as were and first-year goalkeeper Sara Sewanee in a 2-0 loss as the and two assists), was the Most senior back Laura Hammer, Aschbacher. Men’s soccer wins HCAC season title The men’s soccer team completed the right to host Earlham on Thomas an undefeated season in the Heart- Field. After neither team could net land Collegiate Athletic Conference, the ball during regulation play and then fell to Earlham College in the two 10-minute overtime periods, the semifinals of the conference tourna- Quakers won a shootout 4-2, along ment to finish with an overall record with the HCAC’s automatic bid to the of 11-4-4 and an 8-0-1 mark in the NCAA Division III championship. The HCAC. During the season, head Pioneers had been to the NCAA tour- coach Brandon Bowman notched his nament the past two years and had 150th win as a college coach. played in the HCAC title game every It was the second straight year for year since 2002. the Pioneers to claim the regular-sea- Sophomore back Evan Sizemore son title without losing a conference was named co-Defensive Player of game. Their only blemish came in a the Year in the Heartland Confer- two-overtime, scoreless tie at Defi- ence. He anchored Transylvania’s ance College. Transylvania played league-leading defense, which four of its last five conference games allowed just two goals in HCAC play on the road, and clinched the season and was the best conference team crown with a 1-0 win at Anderson overall with 12 shutouts. University on a goal by sophomore Sizemore was joined on the midfielder Christian King. All-HCAC first team by seniors The Pioneers edged out Rose-Hul- Peter Mikhail, Tony Spero, and King. man Institute of Technology, which Mikhail, a midfielder, tied for third- finished at 8-1. The Engineers’ lone leading scorer on the team with 12 loss came at the hands of Transylva- points (five goals and two assists), nia when the Pioneers visited Terre while Spero was fourth with 11 Haute, Ind., and came away with a points (four goals and three assists).

Joseph Rey Au 3-1 victory. King led the Pioneers in goals with Senior midfielder Peter Mikhail was a first-team That gave Transylvania the No. 1 eight and added three assists to be All-HCAC player. seed in the league tournament and the top scorer at 19 points.

SPRING 2012 9 Volleyball shares HCAC season title A tie for the regular-season Heart- College Invitational and went 2-1 land Collegiate Athletic Conference with wins over Franklin & Marshall crown and a first-ever national rank- College and Randolph-Macon ing were among the rewards for the College. The Pioneers then swept their volleyball team in a 19-11 season that three matches in the Centre College included a 7-2 league record. Invitational with shutouts over Fisk Under head coach Casey Dale, the University, Kenyon College, and Pioneers finished in an extraordinary Marietta College. five-way tie for the HCAC title with Transylvania hosted Rose-Hulman Bluffton University, Hanover College, in the Beck Center in a first-round the College of Mount St. Joseph, and HCAC tournament matchup. After Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, taking a 2-0 lead, the Pioneers each with a 7-2 record. Transylvania, dropped the next three sets, and the the preseason favorite in a coaches’ Engineers advanced to the conference poll to win the HCAC, lost conference semifinals. matches to Bluffton and Mount St. Luking finished as Transylvania’s sin- Joseph, both times in the Beck Center. gle-season and career record holder The Pioneers won their last regular- for both assists (1317/3492) and serv- season conference match, a tight 3-2 ice aces (69/165). She was joined on battle at Manchester College, to the All-HCAC first team by sopho- clinch the season title tie. First-year more middle blocker Meghan Bowers, outside hitter Lauren Ketron came who topped the Pioneers in kills for through for Transylvania with 25 kills, the season with 301. and senior setter Rebecca Luking Ketron and libero Rachel D’Agnillo added 44 assists. were named to the HCAC All-Fresh-

After a slow start to the season in man team. Ketron was second in kills Joseph Rey Au the Thomas More College Invitational, for the Pioneers with 283 while First-year outside hitter Lauren Ketron, where the Pioneers were 1-4, Transyl- D’Agnillo led in digs with 410. right, goes for a kill. vania played well in the Juniata

Women’s soccer rolls to high national ranking A high national ranking and a 10-game win streak were among the highlights of the women’s soccer season, which saw the Pioneers finish with a 14-3-1 overall record and a 7-2 Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference mark, good for third place. Under head coach Michael Fulton, the Pioneers served notice of their talent level in just their fourth game by defeat- ing then-No. 3 ranked Otterbein University 2-1 in double over- time on Hall Field. Otterbein was an NCAA Division III Final Four team the previous season. That was the second victory in a 10-game win streak that propelled Transylvania to a No. 14 national ranking. Transylvania swept its last three conference games, including a 7-0 blowout of Anderson University on the Ravens’ home field in its regular-season finale. The Pioneers were pitted against home-standing Hanover College in the HCAC tourna- ment semifinals, where they fought the Panthers to a scoreless tie before Hanover won a shootout 4-2 to advance to the finals. Transylvania placed five players on the All-HCAC first team, led by senior midfielder Elizabeth Schmitt, third leading scorer on the team with 14 points (six goals and two assists). Junior midfielder Natosha Boden scored nine points on four goals and an assist. Sophomore midfielder Amy Ghibaudy was second in scoring with 21 points (nine goals and three assists), while Joseph Rey Au sophomore Anne Marie Dumaine was named for her defensive Senior midfielder Elizabeth Schmitt was a first-team prowess. First-year forward Alyssa Kruse led Transylvania in All-HCAC performer. goals with 10 and added five assists for a team-high 25 points.

10 TRANSYLVANIA Women’s golf finishes second in HCAC tourney Leading after the opening day of the Heart- St. Joseph at 406 and Spalding University at 453. land Collegiate Athletic Conference women’s golf tournament, Transylvania fell back on the second and final day to finish as runner-up for the third Senior Megan Foley straight year under head coach Brian Lane ’90. made the All-HCAC The Pioneers held a three-shot lead over first team. Franklin College after day one on the Eagle Creek Golf Course in Defiance, Ohio, home of tournament host Defiance College. The Grizzlies Senior Betsy Heines (front) came back the final day to trim 24 shots off their opening score and win with a total of 676 to Transylvania’s 700. Heines wins The Pioneers were paced by senior Megan All-HCAC honors Foley, who carded a 169 on rounds of 81-88, good for third place in medalist competition. in cross country First-year golfer Jerra Kelsey was fourth with a Senior Betsy Heines became 170 (89-81), a performance that earned her the first Pioneer to win All- Freshman of the Year honors in the HCAC. Both Heartland Collegiate Athletic golfers made the All-HCAC first team. Conference first team honors in Senior Janca Millet, bidding for a fourth cross country when she finished straight All-HCAC honor, just missed, finishing in fifth in the conference champi- a tie for 11th at 179. First-year golfers Alex onship, which was hosted by Smith and Tiara Harris played well, Smith taking Anderson University. 15th with a 182 and Harris finishing 20th at 189. Heines ran the 6,000-meter Earlier in the season, Transylvania won its own course in 24-minutes, 20.36 invitational tournament, played at the University seconds, helping the women’s Club of Kentucky in Lexington. Foley’s 80 took team to an eighth-place show- medalist honors and paced the Pioneers to a ing. Senior April Myers was

team score of 341 to best the College of Mount Joseph Rey Au 45th with a time of 27:06.72, followed by junior Ria Keegan in 46th in 27:07.15, junior Women’s tennis wins trip to NCAA championship Laura Clark in 57th, and sopho- The women’s tennis team won a trip to this In the HCAC tournament, played at the West more Erica Noe in 60th place. spring’s NCAA Division III championship by win- Indy Racquet Club in Indianapolis, Transylvania Manchester College won the ning the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Confer- rolled over Franklin College 5-1 in the semifinals meet for the third straight year. ence tournament after finishing in a tie with before defeating Anderson University 5-3 in the For the Transylvania men, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology for the reg- finals. In the title contest, senior Kelsey Fulker- senior Daniel Chartier led the ular season HCAC title. son, playing at No. 1 singles and doubles, won way with a time of 30:59.29 Both Transylvania and Rose-Hulman fashioned her singles match and teamed with senior over the 8,000-meter course, 8-1 season marks in the conference. The Pio- Stephanie Townsend to take a doubles match. good for 77th place, as the neers’ record included four straight shutouts over Townsend won her No. 2 singles match, and jun- team placed 10th. First-year Defiance College, the College of Mount St. ior Kaitlyn Hizny captured the No. 3 singles. runner Stephen Hall was 87th Joseph, Earlham College, and Bluffton University. Hizny teamed with senior Andi Mong to win the in 32:14.39, followed by first- Pioneers’ fifth point in the No. 2 doubles match. year runner Shane Metzger in Fulkerson also became Transylvania’s first 97th in 34:12.61 and juniors women’s player to gain a seed and win a match Jordan Evans in 101st and Jett in an Intercollegiate Tennis Association event. Glass in 108th. Playing in the ITA regional tournament that was In the NCAA Great Lakes hosted by Kalamazoo College in Michigan, she Regional, Heines came within defeated Laura Steele of Allegheny College in just over five seconds of eclips- straight sets, then lost to Brittany Miller of Ohio ing the Transylvania school Northern University in the round of 16. record of 23:53.5, established Townsend dropped her first-round match to by Shannon Price in 2003. Kelsey Keppner of Denison University. Heines’s time of 23:58.l7 led Fulkerson was named HCAC Most Valuable the women to a 33rd-place Player for the second straight year. Townsend showing. Hall paced the men’s and Hizny joined her on the All-HCAC first team. team with a time of 32:28.45, Head coach Chuck Brown was voted Coach of leading the team to a 35th- Junior Kaitlyn Hizny was a first-team the Year in the HCAC for the third straight year place showing. All-HCAC player. in a season when he recorded his 200th career Both teams are led by first-

Joseph Rey Au win in both the women’s and men’s programs. year coach Heidi Pinkerton.

SPRING 2012 11 10-acre addition googlemaps.com

A variety of Looking to the BY WILLIAM A. BOWDEN sion. planning initiatives It’s all part of a drive to enhance Campus planning and long-range Transylvania’s national reputation and will have broad strategic thinking are underway that will secure its standing as one of the nation’s have far-reaching effects for Transylvania finest liberal arts colleges. implications for in the years to come. Although many of “We are all part of a universe that op- the details have yet to be formulated, erates on two gears—forward and back- Transylvania in there is consensus that this is a pivotal ward,” President R. Owen Williams time for the university as it seeks to said. “There is no neutral. If you try to the years ahead grow and progress in its liberal arts mis- stand still, you are effectively going

12 TRANSYLVANIA Current campus boundaries

being devised are all pieces of the intri- ning now underway focuses on those cate planning puzzle. Taken together, ideas while shaping the vision of the they will create a larger, more diverse, campus for the next 20 years. and more attractive Transylvania poised Future to provide new opportunities for many _____ backwards. In today’s higher education generations of Transylvania students to Hard at work______world, the notion of simply surviving is come. Williams has appointed a 15-person not enough. You have to thrive in order Williams alluded to many of these Campus Planning Committee consisting to be a meaningful player.” themes in his presidential inaugural ad- of board members, faculty, staff, stu- The Strategic Planning Committee dress in April 2011 when he envisioned dents, and alumni. While the committee of the Board of Trustees, the Quality a rise in enrollment of several hundred will benefit from the input of a profes- Enhancement Plan submitted as part of students, a more robust endowment, a sional design firm, Williams stressed the the university’s recent reaffirmation of campus dedicated to sustainable prac- role of the Transylvania community in accreditation, a Strategic Enrollment tices, and a more international student Plan, and a new physical campus plan body, faculty, and curriculum. The plan- Continued on page 14.

SPRING 2012 13 reimagining the campus. which to fashion large-scale natural set- would,” Young said. “Before that pur- “Campus planning will be done by tings, a premium has always been placed chase, we really had no additional land Transylvanians,” Williams said. “Our on making the most of the green spaces available for any type of use. So it gives outside firm will serve as consultants. that are available. More of that kind of us options and flexibility we didn’t pre- They will provide their planning services thinking will be needed to help Transyl- viously have. according to our specifications.” vania in its transformation into a top-tier “Transylvania has a huge advantage Sasaki Associates in Boston, an inter- college. in being located in the middle of a city disciplinary firm that employs more than “If we want to be one of the top col- like Lexington, but at the same time we 270 professionals, will work with Tran- leges in the country—and that is a very have the disadvantage of not having easy sylvania to create a campus plan to be achievable goal—we have to plan our access to additional land as some other presented to the board. The firm was campus accordingly,” Williams said. schools do. Having this new land is im- founded in 1953 and is known for William T. Young Jr., chairman of the portant to our future.” grounding its recommendations within Board of Trustees, echoed those Marc Mathews ’80, vice president for the cultural, historical, geographical, en- thoughts when he said, “We need to finance and business, feels the property vironmental, social, and economic con- make the campus and everything that it acquisition is a “game changer.” texts of its clients. offers as attractive as it can possibly be.” “Expansion ideas require us to look Anthropology professor Barbara beyond the land we currently have,” he LoMonaco, a committee member, said _ said. “At times, our hopes have been that representatives from Sasaki have al- Fourth Street property__ tied off because we are landlocked. We ready provided the members with infor- A key piece of the campus expansion don’t want our dreams to be bound by mation the firm gathered on a fact-find- picture recently fell into place when the the current geographic layout of the ing visit. university purchased a 10-acre plot of campus.” “The working relationship between land along Fourth Street that is just a Development of the new Fourth Sasaki and the planning committee is a block away from the current western Street property will draw Transylvania dynamic one, where we offer input and edge of campus. The land is envisioned more into its surrounding neighbor- they help us translate that into realistic as the home of new athletics facilities for hoods. A key element of the success of projects that match our vision,” men’s and women’s outdoor intercol- the new planning is to create an avenue LoMonaco said. “In the end, we will legiate sports, as well as recreational and of movement from the university’s cur- come up with something that is practical, intramural use. rent campus down Fourth Street and that draws on existing resources, and en- “The idea is for this new site to serve across Jefferson Street to the new prop- compasses all aspects of design—envi- a multitude of purposes that include var- erty. ronmental sustainability, transportation, sity sports but also offer more recre- “We’re discussing how to create an landscaping, renovation, new construc- ational opportunities for students, inviting ‘spine’ down Fourth Street that tion, and placement of facilities.” faculty, and staff,” said Jack Ebel ’77, di- connects the new with the old,” As a faculty member, LoMonaco rector of athletics. “It will function LoMonaco said. “We want to be good feels a special kinship with ideas the much like the Beck Center, which is a neighbors and stewards of the new areas committee is considering that will create lively place for all levels of athletics and that our students will traverse.” more locations where both formal fitness activities.” classes and informal en- That projected use is __ counters can enrich the the focus of the first Excitement in the air___ very personal nature of The idea is for this phase of campus plan- Implementation of the plans now the learning experience new site to serve a ning. Consolidating being discussed will occur over the next at Transylvania. many sports on the new several years, with the first phase focus- “We need a campus multitude of purposes site will free up current ing on creation of the new athletics whose physical character that include varsity athletics areas, such as complex. Succeeding phases will look at promotes our values as a Thomas Field, that can residential and academic projects, along university,” she said. sports but also offer be repurposed as class- with landscaping considerations. “Students identify more more recreational room and/or residence The visionary aspect of the planning, shared public spaces— space, which will occur however, has already sparked interest patios, green spaces with opportunities for in later phases. and excitement from all areas of the tables, outdoor learning students, faculty, Young said acquisi- Transylvania community. environments—as a pri- tion of the Fourth Street Norwood “Buddy” Cowgill ’65, a ority. I imagine living and staff. property was an oppor- Transylvania trustee, has seen such ex- and learning spaces that tunistic success that citement in the past, especially when he —Jack Ebel ’77 foster greater social in- opens up new possibili- and his wife, Judy King Cowgill ’64, director of athletics teraction and integra- ties for many aspects of provided the lead gift for the Cowgill tion, along with a con- campus expansion. Business, Economics, and Education nection to nature.” “When that land became available so Center, which opened in 1999. He’s Since Transylvania does not have the close to our campus, we figured that if now serving on the campus planning luxury of hundreds of acres of land from we didn’t jump on it, someone else committee.

14 TRANSYLVANIA “I have no doubt that the next 10 rience is something we will maintain at years will be one of the most exciting all costs.” ■ times in Transylvania’s rich history,” he Big plans call for big support said. “President Williams, with the full Transylvania is dreaming big with its plans for campus expansion and enhance- support of the board, will lead the uni- ment of its national reputation. Along with those dreams come big opportunities for versity into a period of unparalleled donors to have a profound and lasting impact on the quality of education offered at progress.” the university. Ebel has been part of Transylvania “The university is thinking large-scale with the purchase of the Fourth Street prop- since coming to the college as a first- erty and plans for improving the residential and academic facilities,” said Kara Little year student in 1973. He sees the cur- Covert ’90, associate vice president for advancement. “We hope our potential sup- rent planning in a historical context. porters will also be bold and dream big.” “I think this expansion and improve- Kirk Purdom, vice president for advancement, sees the recent land acquisition as a ment plan has the potential to be the turning point for Transylvania. most transformative thing for the uni- “We have been in this same footprint for so long,” he said. “Being able to pur- versity in the past 100 years,” he said. chase this land just one block away from our campus is incredible. I think it will change the future of Transylvania profoundly.” “It’s going to be a very fascinating time Just as the details of campus expansion are being studied, so, too, are the exact to be around Transylvania.” funding requirements that will become necessary to put the plans into action. Still, Added LoMonaco: the time is now for members of the greater Transylvania community to consider the “This is an incredibly stimulating various roles that each can play in this project. time for Transylvania. It’s an opportu- William T. Young Jr., chairman of the Board of Trustees, pointed to the underlying nity for our campus to take a big step financial picture as critical to the progress the university envisions. forward and to grow into our potential. “That’s what I would see as the key, just having the financial resources to accom- The campus plan will reflect our invest- plish our goals,” he said. “We probably need to double the size of our endowment.” ment in cultivating intellectual curiosity As an alumna, Covert feels a special connection to this important time in Transyl- and exploration.” vania’s history. Senior Josh Edge, president of the “There are certain moments in Transylvania’s past that have been crucial to the life Student Government Association, serves of the university,” she said. “I truly believe this is one of those pivotal moments. on the board’s Strategic Planning Com- What we do over the next few years will impact the entire future of the college. mittee. He feels that extension of the There’s nowhere else I’d rather be than helping to facilitate that at my alma mater.” campus down Fourth Street will con- President R. Owen Williams believes all alumni will be able to relate to the ambi- tinue a trend for Transylvania students tious goals of campus expansion and reputation enhancement. to relate to their neighbors. “There are many things we are doing that alumni will care about,” he said. “We “What’s unique about Transylvania is invite them to participate in the process of enhancing campus life at Transylvania. that we live in an urban area,” he said. We welcome their ideas and their financial support.” “Students in general want to go out into For more information on supporting Transylvania, contact Purdom or Covert in the the community and engage in the kind development office at (800) 487-2679. of dialogues made possible by that sort of environment.” Junior Sarah Tipton serves on the campus planning committee and is look- ing forward to the environmental as- pects of new facilities. “Sustainability is a huge thing for me,” she said. “I hope we can reduce our carbon footprint with any new buildings while ensuring they’re aesthet- ically pleasing as well. I think we’re doing a great thing by buying up more land and broadening our reach. Every- thing that’s happening is so exciting.” Through it all, Williams has pledged to maintain the focus on Transylvania’s traditional values as a small liberal arts Young Tyler college devoted to personal attention to Bookstore moves to Third Street learning. The Transylvania bookstore has been relocated from the Glenn Building on campus to a “The growth will happen in a con- storefront at 132 West Third Street across from Hall Field. The move was necessitated by a trolled fashion that preserves the inti- planned move of the admissions office from its third floor Old Morrison site into the for- macy and sense of belonging that are so mer bookstore space in Glenn. The new admissions location will be much more visible for important to Transylvania,” he said. visiting prospective students and their families and will better support the Strategic Enroll- “The intimacy of the Transylvania expe- ment Plan that is already bringing record numbers of applications for the class of 2016.

SPRING 2012 15 Mission Statement Transylvania University affirms sustainability as a core value and integrates it into the intellectual and social life of students, faculty, and staff by encouraging study, discussion, and participation in sustainable practices on campus and in the community. Helena Hau Sustainable Transylvania Pioneers from all over campus work together to revolutionize sustainability at Transylvania BY TYLER YOUNG

The second in a series of articles highlighting each of Transylvania’s primary values—diversity, sustainability, globalization, technology, and community involvement

Sustainability is one of Transylvania’s five primary values, The key idea of that definition is that environmental, social, but ask 10 random people walking down the street in your and economic systems are three distinct pillars that influence town what sustainability means, and you’re likely to get 10 the world around us. A sustainable community takes respon- different answers, including “I have no idea.” Some people sibility for those pillars and does everything it can to ensure may define sustainability as energy efficiency, but it’s more that future generations of all species—not just humans—have than that. Some may say it involves saving money by reducing the same resources we do today. the use of resources, but it’s more than that. Some may say For Transylvania, that means a new, thoughtful approach sustainability is “going green,” but it’s more than that, too. to how to manage the campus, from reducing waste and car- Transylvania defines sustainability as the capacity of society bon emissions to promoting health and social justice. As such, to meet its needs without degrading the interrelated environ- it can’t be simply flipped on like a light switch, but rather it is mental, social, and economic systems on which future gener- a journey, a process of changing the campus culture so that ations of all species will rely. decisions are made with future generations in mind.

16 TRANSYLVANIA Council develops master plan for sustainability One of the most important decisions for Sustainability, the master plan that Transylvania made regarding sustainabil- launched in September 2011 and directs ity was hiring Angela Dossett in January all sustainability efforts at Transylvania. 2010 as sustainability coordinator. The “The plan was created with as much position was funded through a grant campus input as we could possibly so- from the Jessie Ball duPont Fund. She licit,” Dossett said. “We gathered those hit the ground running, examining every ideas, and we distilled them, thinking, facet of Transylvania for areas of im- ‘what are the themes here, what is im- provement while simultaneously educat- portant to us, and what are we working ing members of the community. toward?’” In September 2010, President R. Each of the eight visions is broken

Owen Williams approved the creation down into three levels—the overall vi- Young Tyler of the President’s Council on Sustain- sion, three to five strategies that will get Sustainability Coordinator Angela Dossett, ability. The group, made up of students, Transylvania to that vision, and action right, leads a discussion on the rain gardens on South Limestone in downtown Lexington faculty, and staff from different areas of plans, which are practical ways to ac- during a faculty workshop titled Sustainability campus, began developing a master plan complish the strategies and work toward Across the Curriculum. for sustainability. the vision. Including measurable prac- The council gathered ideas and opin- tices in the plan itself ensures work is Dossett said. “The strategies will be re- ions through campus surveys, work- being done to accomplish all these goals. viewed frequently—probably a full re- shops, retreats, and first-year student ori- Each vision has a work group dedi- view every three to five years. And the entation—more than 500 people cated to coming up with action items action plans make sure this isn’t some- contributed their thoughts to the plan. and delegating those responsibilities to thing that just sits on the shelf and looks The mountain of input was discussed, the appropriate avenues. At the end of pretty, but it’s what holds us account- revised, and eventually pared down to each year, the action plans are revisited able. It shows what we are doing, when big-idea visions in eight categories—cur- and rewritten based on what has been we are doing it, and who’s responsible riculum, culture, buildings, land, food, accomplished that year and what new for getting it done.” dining waste, administration, and com- opportunities will arise in the next year. munity engagement. Those visions be- “Some of the visions are very bold, To read the sustainability framework, visit came the backbone of the Framework and they’re going to take us awhile,” www.transy.edu/sustainability/framework.pdf.

Building projects, education result in reduced energy consumption In the 2010-11 fiscal year, Transyl- project, but each ECM was placed into these sustainability efforts, we’ve been vania spent $997 per student on energy the master capital project list, meaning teaching our workers what to look for, purchases. That number will almost cer- each year they will be considered when and they’re very good at it. Every time tainly be lower by the end of the 2011- budgeting permits. you turn around, there’s something new 12 fiscal year, in large part due to major During the 2011-12 academic year, happening.” improvements being made to campus Transylvania completed approximately The same mindset will go into future buildings. $475,000 worth of the projects that buildings, as well, which is particularly “I hope we have a significant would result in immediate savings, in- important during this time of projected change,” Angela Dossett, sustainability cluding installing low-flow showerheads campus expansion. Vice President for coordinator, said. in all showers, replacing the boiler in Finance Marc Mathews said that new Many of the projects came about Poole Residence Hall, replacing the buildings will be built to LEED (Lead- from an energy audit by Pepco Energy heating and air conditioning system in ership in Energy and Environmental De- Services. The company combed through the William T. Young Campus Center, sign) Silver Certification Standards. the campus, taking note of upgrades the and doing 50 percent of the recom- “We followed this standard with university could make to improve its en- mended lighting replacements, which Thomson Hall, and going forward we’re ergy efficiency and, in turn, save money included both energy-efficient bulbs and going to build to that silver standard,” on energy costs. The result was a thor- some light fixture replacements. The au- Mathews said. “We’re also going to have ough report detailing 40 energy conser- dit also recommended almost 100 build- them ENERGY STAR certified like vation measures (ECMs), what each ing envelope suggestions, such as caulk- Thomson.” would cost to implement, and the re- ing windows and adding insulation. In Thomson Hall was built in 2008 as sulting estimated yearly savings. all, the estimated annual savings of the the first residence hall in Kentucky to The total estimated cost of the 40 projects is $73,000. earn the U.S. Environmental Protection ECMs was $2.8 million, with an annual “We’ve been very busy,” said Nor- Agency’s ENERGY STAR certification savings of $200,000. Transylvania de- man Mudd, operations manager of the for energy efficiency and environmental cided not to do everything as a single physical plant. “As we’ve gotten into protection. While in 2008 Thomson was

SPRING 2012 17 the exception, it now be- said. “That was a great comes the example of example of the three pil- how future building at lars of sustainability—en- Transylvania will look. vironmental, economic, Mathews also said it’s and social—in action. possible that new build- Since it was a new idea, ings will be designed with it was a hard push to shut geo-thermal heating sys- down as much as possi- tems like Thomson Hall ble. There were some uses. The initial cost is concerns, but I think it high, but there is virtually went really well.” no maintenance, and the Mudd, who serves on annual cost to heat the the sustainability council, buildings is extremely said he’s seeing marked low. The air-to-air rotary wheel heat exchanger used in several buildings on improvement in the campus captures energy that would typically be wasted by the building’s In November, Presi- exhaust air system and transfers that energy to the incoming outside air mindset at Transylvania. dent R. Owen Williams during the heating and cooling seasons. The outside air stream is also “We’ve seen a shift in announced that the entire filtered, allowing for a cleaner indoor environment. the university’s outlook campus would shut down on sustainability and its for two-and-a-half weeks over winter gas and 20.5 percent less electricity in commitment to sustainability,” Mudd break as both a reward to faculty and December, saving the college approxi- said. “From an energy management staff and a way to save money and reduce mately $44,000. standpoint, people are really starting to energy consumption. “It was great on a social level with get on board, which is great. We knew As a result of the shutdown, com- people taking a break and relaxing, but that it was going to be a challenge— pared with the average of 2008–10, it was also about saving money and re- change can come with a little pain and Transylvania used 57 percent less natural ducing our carbon footprint,” Dossett suffering—but it’s improving tenfold.”

Students are integral to sustainability’s success Students may play the most impor- a lot of sustainability programs and im- tise based on who we are and what we tant role in promoting sustainability on provements off the ground. do in this system.” Transylvania’s campus. As the largest “Transylvania has a lot going on all Student involvement manifests in sev- represented group on the President’s the time, and I rely on students to figure eral ways—the sustainability council, stu- Council for Sustainability and the most out how we get other students engaged dent sustainability organizations, work- prominent voices of the university, stu- and what they care about and what they study in the sustainability office, and dents have led initiatives that have gotten want to see happen,” Angela Dossett, awareness and volunteering. Students sustainability coordinator, said. “When learn about sustainability issues from the we’re in (the sustainability council) set- moment they step on campus—most re- Senior Danny Woolums dresses as an energy vampire to show junior Chauncey Morton, ting, there’s not a tier of faculty, staff, cently in first-year student orientation center, and senior Tiffany Buchanan the kinds and students—we are colleagues and and now in the new three-week August of electronic devices that suck energy even peers, and we all have a different exper- term. They get involved in their first when not in use. years at Transylvania, and that translates into more students that come up with big ideas and implement them. Students are coordinating the second annual Anti-Apathy Film Series, which shows and discusses films tackling envi- ronmental, economic, and social issues. Initiatives like candlelight dinners in For- rer Dining Hall, where students eat by candlelight and are treated to acoustic music, and the new water bottle filling station in the William T. Young Campus Center, which allows people to fill up reusable bottles instead of buying plastic water bottles, were conceived by stu- dents. “I’ve been involved with a bottle-less initiative to get rid of water bottles on

Tyler Young Tyler campus,” senior philosophy major

18 TRANSYLVANIA Danny Woolums, who serves on the sus- tainability council, said. “I was talking with (Director of Student Activities and Campus Center) Diane Fout about al- ternatives to water bottles, and one was a water filling station you could attach to a water fountain. She ordered it as part of her building budget for a test run, and it’s been very well received. The goal is to have at least one in every building on campus.” Woolums is also involved with Recy- cleMania, a program that audits campus waste and teaches the community about what can be recycled. He also installed a butterfly garden at the corner of Broadway and Fourth Street that trans- formed the area from a concrete slab into a garden that has been used as part of Transylvania’s pre-orientation service projects. Senior political science major and en- like Larry Gibson from the Keepers of Transylvania students attend I Love Mountains Day in Frankfort, Ky., to speak out against vironmental studies minor Austyn the Mountains Foundation and musician mountaintop removal. Pictured clockwise from Gaffney was always interested in social Ben Sollee. We held a panel and showed far left, senior Molly Crain, sophomore Victoria justice. When she got to Transylvania, films, and eventually a couple of the or- Sullivan, senior Kayla Kidwell-Snider, senior JP she learned how social is- ganizers and I got to talk Peckinpaugh, first-year student Elizabeth Hardt, senior Austyn Gaffney, sophomore Krisandra sues are interrelated with to the Transylvania Thomas, first-year student Courtney Marshall, environmental issues, and I hope to see Board of Trustees about and junior Annie Wright. she became involved with sustainability in the what our environmental TERRA, the student envi- group had been doing.” ronmental awareness or- curriculum and in Gaffney also serves stronger, and student action will moti- ganization. She went with on the sustainability vate changes in university curriculum TERRA to a national orientation pushing council, and she studied and decisions made in the administra- Power Shift conference, abroad in Thailand in a tion,” she said. “I hope to see sustain- which focused on climate students to make a development and global- ability in the curriculum and in orienta- issues, and used that expe- difference on the ization program, where tion pushing students to make a rience to help organize a she studied environmen- difference on the campus, kind of an Power Shift conference for campus, kind of an talism and human rights. anti-apathy movement.” the Appalachian region. She said she can see stu- “I think students are driving this,” “One of the coolest anti-apathy movement. dent initiative spreading Vice President for Information Technol- things we did was a month- sustainability around ogy Jason Whitaker ’97 said. “ I felt like —Austyn Gaffney long series of events called campus, and that it will students kicked off some of the initial Appalachian Awareness take the students to sustainability efforts three or four years Month,” she said. “We talked about is- make a difference. ago. It was really driven by students sues of mountaintop removal and coal “I think in five years environmental questioning, ‘Why are we doing X—why mining, and we brought in great people groups on campus will be much can’t we do Y?’”

Local food, waste reduction are priorities for Transylvania dining Depending on how conscious you with the beginning of the year no-waste and it introduced the relationship be- are, food can be a major obstacle to op- picnic featuring local meat, fruits, and tween the three pillars of sustainability. erating sustainably. Fortunately, Transyl- vegetables. All food scraps were com- Local food supports the local economy, vania and its dining service, Sodexo, are posted by Seedleaf, an organization that ridding waste affects the environment, working hard to improve all facets of provides local food distribution and and using compost for community gar- sustainable dining, from seemingly in- composting, and there were no dispos- dens helps provide healthy food to those significant changes to large-scale shifts able plates, glasses, or utensils. who need it. Seedleaf, which has been in operation. The picnic was an opportunity for in- working with Sodexo since October, is The 2011-12 school year, in particu- coming students to see Transylvania’s a valuable partner with Transylvania in lar, has seen several big changes, starting commitment to sustainability firsthand, those efforts.

SPRING 2012 19 “Seedleaf does community gardens the hours of breakfast, lunch, and din- of using plastic bottles. Those little de- to address food justice issues, making ner. cisions add up to significant improve- sure that fresh, healthy vegetables and A campaign last academic year intro- ments when stretched over a whole year. food are available to low-income, low- duced the idea of tray-less dining. Stu- “We’re trying to promote little things economic areas in downtown Lexing- dents were not using trays in the dining that aren’t drastic, but make an impact ton,” Angela Dossett, hall on Tray-less Tues- without disturbing people,” Langlitz sustainability coordina- days, saving water from said. “We’re really putting our heads to- tor, said. “They have washing trays and reduc- gether to look at how we do things in several community gar- ing waste from diners the dining hall.” dens, and we are going Joseph Rey Au overfilling the large trays Sodexo is trying to incorporate as to let them use some of and not finishing their much local food as possible into its of- the vacant lots we’re not food. After a successful ferings. Its primary food vendor is Sysco, doing anything with on first term, Tray-less Tues- but it also buys produce and ingredients campus. Seedleaf gets a days expanded to Tray- from Lexington-based companies Papa- great place to grow veg- less Tuesdays and Thurs- nia’s and Creation Gardens. Much of etables in an area it days, and this year the the flour, cheese, grits, fruits and veg- wants to serve, and we dining hall eliminated etables, and more come from local get a good service learn- In general, you’re talking trays altogether, moving sources. ing opportunity for our them to where they can “We must have bought a thousand students.” about better food, be used in special circum- pounds of local apples and pears from Sustainability efforts stances but out of the typ- farms,” Langlitz said. “When it’s avail- are active throughout healthier food. You’re ical dining area. able, our produce companies automati- the school year, as well, promoting local farmers “We wanted to en- cally send local produce, so if we ask for and some are learning courage people to eat just cabbage and it’s available, they will send experiences. In 2010 and the local economy. what’s on their plates, so us local cabbage.” continuous dining was we decided to not use the Sodexo also partners with Marksbury introduced in Forrer You’re teaching students trays anymore,” Amanda Farms in Lancaster, Ky., to buy some lo- Dining Hall, which was what a carrot should Langlitz, Sodexo general cal meat. a service to students that manager, said. “So it’s “The first time we got local chicken, meant there would al- taste like… made a big impact for the we got some pushback because it didn’t ways be a food option long term. We’ve seen a taste the same,” Langlitz said. “So we’re available from 7:30 a.m. —Amanda Langlitz reduction in waste, and trying to use it as an education piece, to 7:30 p.m. Although we use less water.” slowly saying that this is going to taste it was a great benefit, continuous dining The dining hall has also eliminated different and why it does. meant the equipment in Forrer ran non- disposable cups, coffee cups, utensils, “In general, you’re talking about bet- stop for 12 hours a day, using great and cups for ketchup and mustard. It ter food, healthier food. You’re promot- amounts of energy and water to keep offers reusable mugs for coffee at ing local farmers and the local economy. food hot or cold, wash dishes, keep lights Jazzman’s that cost only 50 cents to fill You’re teaching students what a carrot on, etc. It was decided to not continue up, and it occasionally offers temporary should taste like versus the already peeled that service, rather relying on the other discounts on coffee for any type of nubs in a plastic bag. I know there’s a food options on campus—Jazzman’s, reusable mug. Transylvania installed a good percentage of people here that the Rafskeller, and the 1780 Café—to water filtration system in the dining hall want to see things move in that direc- provide options throughout the day. in December and purchased large con- tion.” Now the equipment is shut off outside tainers to hold the filtered water instead

Transylvania uses technology to slash paper and energy consumption As the world becomes more techno- been a paperless initiative—taking big stalled a print control feature in com- logically advanced and institutions work steps in reducing paper use in order to puter labs and gave students quotas on hard to stay on top of it, it becomes in- eventually become a campus that does how much paper they could use over a creasingly important to step up not only not rely on paper in its day-to-day oper- term. in terms of what they offer, but also in ation. For any organization, particularly “As we talked to students, what we how to use equipment responsibly and— an educational one, that is a significant learned is when they were looking for as in Transylvania’s case—sustainably. goal and one that requires everyone and an article for a paper and found it, they The good news is technology, while every office to look at how it uses re- would print it,” Vice President for In- sometimes tricky to navigate from an sources. formation Technology Jason Whitaker energy standpoint, is an invaluable tool One of the biggest steps taken has ’97 said. “Then they found a better one, for Transylvania’s sustainability efforts. also been one of the simplest. The de- and they’d print it. Then they’d find the A major push over the last year has partment of information technology in- one they’re actually going to use, and

20 TRANSYLVANIA Sharing resources for energy savings

One of the more innovative changes Transylvania has made is installing thin client devices in six of the computer labs. Instead of a lab with 25 complete computers, the lab has 25 small, quiet devices that connect to a server elsewhere for computing power on “virtual desktops.” The result is a huge energy savings—the units use less power, and it takes much less energy to air condition a room when you remove 25 desktop computers producing heat at the same time. Plus it frees up workspace on the desks, and when software updates need to be made, IT can do the update once to the server instead of doing an installation on every com-

puter. Young Tyler Virtualization has also allowed IT to get rid of some of the Six computer labs on Transylvania’s campus use thin client machines in its server room. A cluster of four servers can now devices instead of desktop computers in order to save energy handle network storage, e-mail, the Moodle course management costs. system, print control, and more as opposed to five years ago when a stand-alone server was needed for each. Urban County Government, and Louisville Metro Government. “Virtualization software gets us the most bang for our buck Whitaker and the IT department showed off its systems and helped from our hardware by sharing these resources,” Jason Whitaker the institutions figure out ways they could incorporate some of the ’97, vice president for information technology, said. “We’ve got ideas into their operations. less hardware, we’re using less power, and it’s easier for us to “Dell said we’re kind of leading the pack in virtualization and manage from a personnel standpoint.” virtual desktops,” Whitaker said. “What was nice about the work- As a testament to the work going on at Transylvania, Dell, which shop is that it showed that we’re all willing to share. We feel like sells a lot of computer equipment to the school including the we’re getting involved in the community, not just locally but with servers and thin clients, invited some of its other clients in the state our peer schools. At the end of the day, we’re all in the same busi- to a workshop in January that it asked Transylvania to host. Visitors ness, and we’re all trying to do the best we can with the resources included representatives from other universities, Lexington-Fayette we have.”

they print it, and the other charge to heart and made ing Columns, its daily newsletter, online two go by the wayside.” huge strides. The account- exclusively for several years. Over the last The result was a print ing office has gone almost year, 12 digital signage monitors have release system where after Joseph Rey Au completely paperless, scan- been installed around campus that dis- a user pushes “print” on a ning bills and storing them play not only Columns, but digital fliers page, that page goes into on network storage, and it that students and organizations can sub- a queue. When the user is has moved to paperless mit through e-mail. The result is much ready to go, he or she logs billing and payment. De- fewer paper fliers scattered around on into the queue and verifies pending on their functions, walls and on the ground. Between the the printing. So if the user some offices have more signs, computers, and the Columns mo- realizes that he or she work to do. bile phone app that launched in Decem- doesn’t need the page after The spirit of the “Paperless is a journey,” ber 2010, the campus community is all, it doesn’t print. Whitaker said. “There are rarely more than a few steps away from “We see 3,500-4,000 initiative is, always going to be some being able to get information about all pages a month expire in people who want to receive the events happening at Transylvania. that queue,” Whitaker said. let’s look at what a piece of paper for a bill or “We’ve gotten a lot of positive com- “That has made a huge dif- a thank-you note. But the ments, particularly on the digital signs,” ference in terms of wasted we’re doing, and let’s spirit of the initiative is, let’s Whitaker said. “All kinds of groups are paper and toner right out find a better way look at what we’re doing, submitting to them. I was in Jazzman’s of the gate. That alone is a and let’s find a better way one morning and a student came in to big savings.” to do it…And we’re to do it. It’s all about forc- hang fliers. She left before I could say The lab printers also ing us to examine what we something, but I sent an e-mail to the have duplexers installed to seeing it happen. do and whittling it down. address on the flier and said, ‘Do you allow for two-sided print- And we’re seeing it hap- know you can put this on the digital —Jason Whitaker ing, and that option is the pen.” sign?’ She said she hadn’t thought of default on all lab comput- Announcements for spe- that, and an hour later, there it was. A ers. Faculty and staff have received in- cial events and programs on campus can lot of students are really tuned into sus- structions and tips on how to reduce pa- now be made and displayed completely tainability.” ■ per use, and some offices have taken that digitally. Transylvania has been publish-

SPRING 2012 21 Paul Riismandel

Taking Her Turn

Angela Ray ’86 garners national In 2005 she published her book, The Ray to apply for a National Endowment writing awards and teaching Lyceum and Public Culture in the Nine- for the Humanities undergraduate sum- teenth-Century United States (East Lans- mer fellowship, which she won. She honors as communication ing: Michigan State University Press). spent the summer after her junior year studies professor at Her editor’s training, combined with at Harvard University in the English Northwestern University her research and writing work ethic, program, where her confidence received paid off with five national book awards, a boost as she studied with students BY WILLIAM A. BOWDEN including recognition in rhetoric and drawn from around the country. communication from the National “I found I was very well prepared to Communication Association, the Rhet- do the work everyone else was doing,” oric Society of America, and the Ameri- she said. “In fact, I was a little ahead of can Forensic Association. the game compared with some of my After spending nine years as a univer- All of this isn’t exactly what Ray had peers. My Harvard professor was im- sity press editor, helping make over 100 in mind when she arrived at Transylvania pressed with my Transylvania education academic books better by polishing the from Grayson County, Ky., in the fall of and encouraged me to apply for a Ful- grammar and clarity of other writers, 1982. In fact, she had planned since bright award.” Angela Ray ’86 decided it was high time childhood to attend medical school and Ray had also taken quite a few drama to move around to the author’s side of become a physician. But after volunteer classes at Transylvania, including a May the table. work in a Lexington hospital during the term course co-taught by drama profes- “I went back to school for my doc- summer after her first year at Transylva- sor Ann Kilkelly and art professor Jack torate because I had been helping other nia gave her qualms about becoming a Girard that included art museums and people make their books better, and I doctor, she reconsidered her goals. theater performances in Washington, got a handle on what a good book As it turned out, Ray completed a D.C., and New York City. When she would be like,” she said. “I wanted to chemistry major, which was her pre-med won the Fulbright, she chose to pursue do the research and writing myself.” path, in spite of having changing career a master’s degree in drama and theater That was the motive that prompted thoughts. But it was her English major studies at the University of London. Ray to begin a Ph.D. in speech-commu- that became the academic focus and led “There were people in my Fulbright nication at the University of Minnesota to her present position. program from all over the world,” Ray in 1996, a degree she completed in “The faculty in the Transylvania Eng- recalled. “It was a very dynamic envi- 2001. It also led eventually to her cur- lish department were very encouraging ronment. I saw 63 plays in nine rent position as associate professor of of me and my interests,” Ray said. “I months.” communication studies and Charles began to see possibilities for types of When she returned to the United Deering McCormick Professor of work that transcended anything I had States in 1987, she had two degrees in Teaching Excellence at Northwestern known about before.” three different fields, plus a degree of University. English professor Tay Fizdale urged uncertainty as to her career. She decided

22 TRANSYLVANIA to follow her boyfriend at the time (now celebrities. One example of that phenomenon her husband, Harold Gulley) to the “While traveling in the West, she was a lecture titled “Whited Sepulchers” University of Georgia, where he had an once rode a mule up Pike’s Peak,” Ray that Dickinson gave about polygamy in assistant professorship in geography. She said. “The mule was later exhibited as Salt Lake City that included her take on began her editing career there, working ‘The Mule that Carried Anna Dickinson how that concept may exist elsewhere, one year for the UGA Press before get- up Pike’s Peak.’ It was news across the but not be defined as such. ting married and moving to Oshkosh, country when the mule died. I see pre- “She claimed that polygamy was a Wisc. Eight years of freelance editing cursors of the kind of celebrity we’re fa- symptom of a larger problem of women’s followed, conducted in those pre-Inter- miliar with today back in the lyceum subordination common throughout the net days by mail and telephone with six period.” world,” Ray said. “Her words were, ‘In different university presses. Another very popular and formidable Salt Lake City, they call it religion; in At this point Ray decided to return lecturer was Frederick Douglass, the for- New York, Boston or Philadelphia, they to school and pursue her Ph.D. in an mer slave who became an abolitionist call it “a young man sowing his wild area that would prove to be the basis for leader known for his dazzling oratory. oats,”…the underlying theory…in regard her current teaching and writing career. In spite of the imposing visage captured to the proper place and subordination of “I edited two books in the field of in photographs of Douglass, Ray women, whereon this whole system of rhetorical studies within six months, and pointed to a lesser-appreciated fact of his polygamy is reared, is precisely the same that was my introduction to rhetoric as rhetorical style—his humor. in Salt Lake that it is in London, Paris, a discipline,” she said. “My drama “Frederick Douglass was actually New York, Boston or Philadelphia.’ courses had given me an appreciation for very funny,” she said. “He could imitate “Dickinson would mention the place the performative dimension of human a white racist preacher as part of his lec- where she was speaking in the last experience, and I had always enjoyed ture. In this way, he would poke fun at phrase,” Ray said, “which would irritate textural analysis. It looked like the field racism, inviting the audience to poke the journalists (reporting on the of rhetoric was involved with both of fun with him. He had jokes where, if speech), who were quite comfortable those.” you laughed, you were aligning yourself with attacks on the Mormons but riled As a freshly minted Ph.D., Ray more with him and his position.” at the moral condemnation of their own taught first at the University of Mem- Ray said the lyceum lectures were cities.” phis from 2001-03, then joined the historically non-partisan, but that Ray is at work on another book that Northwestern faculty. will focus on popular education in the Her work at Northwestern focuses early nineteenth century, especially de- on rhetorical criticism and history, with bating clubs where ordinary people special interests including popular lec- studied and learned together. turing in the nineteenth-century United “My Harvard Her teaching continues to be very States and women’s rhetoric. Her book fulfilling. about the institution of the lyceum fo- professor was “I enjoy introducing students to cuses on the development of networks ideas and texts that are new to them, for popular lecturing from 1826 up until impressed with my seeing them engage with the text, and about 1880, especially in the 1850s-70s then become interested in it them- era. Transylvania selves,” she said. “They become more A lyceum can be either an auditorium thoughtful than they might have been, where lectures take place or an organi- education and so I feel I’m making a contribution.” zation devoted to the propagation of encouraged me Looking back on her career decisions popular lecturing. Ray’s work stresses thus far, and especially her current the latter, with a further focus on the to apply for a teaching position, Ray believes Transyl- overall culture in which public lectures vania provided her with an excellent took place as well as the kinds of audi- Fulbright award.” foundation. ences to whom the speeches were di- “A good undergraduate education rected. prepares you to be adaptable, because “A celebrity culture arose around you don’t know what life will bring,” she certain public speakers who would travel said. “At the ceremony for a teaching around the country and give lectures in changed over time. award I received in 2010, I was asked to town after town, oftentimes in very “There was a sense that the lyceum talk about influences. I mentioned small communities,” Ray said. “A suc- should be a place set apart from parti- courses I had with (mathematics profes- cessful lyceum lecturer in the 1870s sanship and politics,” she said. “There sor) David Shannon. He presented chal- could be earning $20,000 a year at a was a lot of controversy over whether lenges, and expected us to rise to them. time when the President of the United someone should speak on a hot-button I try to model that kind of behavior in States was making $25,000.” issue of the day. The closer you get to my own students. Anna Dickinson, a women’s rights the Civil War, however, that idea dissi- “I’m grateful for the kind of educa- activist and an eloquent and persua- pates, and controversy becomes some- tion I had at Transylvania that pushed sive public speaker, was one of those thing that draws people in.” me to think more deeply and broadly

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Rose Hart Dale, Livingston, Tenn., Robert R. Keller, Elkton, Md., Fran F. Taylor, Lexington, was rec- ’35 celebrated her 101st birthday ’68 retired in October from Computer ’75 ognized in November by the Asso- October 22. She’s still healthy, goes to Sciences Corporation after 38 years as ciation of Fundraising Professionals at its church, and enjoys reading, cooking, and project and operations manager. Bob and annual National Philanthropy Day luncheon watching television, especially University of his wife, Sylvia Richards Keller, have been as an Outstanding Community Honoree Tennessee athletics, game shows, and the married 44 years and enjoy being near their for her volunteer work with the Child Devel- news. daughter and husband and three young opment Centers of the Bluegrass. (See story grandchildren, who keep them very busy. on page 6.) Carolyn Chenoweth “Chizel” Work- ’50 man, Reisterstown, Md., retired after Gilbert P. Williams, Perry, Fla., retired from 43 years as a clinical social worker in mental the banking industry in December and will health services to older adults. continue his preaching ministry.

Kenneth G. Dean and Nellie Robin- Elizabeth S. Feamster, Lawrenceburg, ’51 son Dean, Seminole, Fla., celebrated ’80 Ky., an attorney at Fowler Measle & their 61st wedding anniversary in Septem- Bell in Lexington, has been ber. appointed to the Kentucky Board of Bar Examiners and Vesta Knighton Porter, Macon, Ga., lost her will serve a three-year term. husband, Rev. Robert Lee Porter, in June The board administers the after a long illness. He was a retired Christian bar process through which Church (Disciples of Christ) minister. Carol Carter Morgan ’68, Mt. Pleasant, those seeking to become Grace Spradling Mitchell is happily S.C., and her husband, Mike Morgan admitted show their eligibility. ’55 spending her retirement years in ’68, visited with Carol’s Chi Omega Nancy Holt Weber, Bluffton, S.C., was Charlotte, N.C. She still roots for University sorority sisters in Charleston, S.C. named vice president for enrollment man- of Kentucky basketball, even when they play Also pictured are, back row, from left, agement and marketing at Technical College the University of North Carolina. Jane Wiesel DeMartini ’67, Anne of the Lowcountry. She has worked at TCL Dickey Haynes ’69, and Dale Ann H. Thomas Money, Alpharetta, Ga., has as vice president for continuing education Fielman Cole ’69. The sorority sisters and institutional advancement for 10 years. written a detective novel titled One Shot of have been writing a round robin letter Murder, which is available through Friesen- since 1970. Celia Culver Rutt, Santa Fe, N.M., Press.com. The book tells the story of a ’81 was elected to the Board of Trustees detective investigating the murder of a of the Nature Conservancy in New Mexico, young golf pro. Johanne Codell Daigh, Cumming, a branch of the international conservation Mary O’Dell, Louisville, published a ’69 Ga., retired after 25 years as an ele- organization that works to protect ’57 novel titled Banger’s People, about a mentary school teacher and enjoys traveling ecologically important land and water. She woman and her dog trying to figure out with her husband’s business and visiting volunteers as a Junior Achievement teacher who mugged their neighbor. The book is family and friends. in the Santa Fe Public Schools. available for purchase at Amazon.com. William A. Bryce, Mount Juliet, Gwen P. Sloas, Arcanum, Ohio, represented C. Bruce Fitch, Gainesville, Ga., ’73 Tenn., retired from client services at Transylvania in October at the Earlham Col- ’62 represented Transylvania in October The Rawlings Group, a healthcare recovery lege presidential inauguration. at the Piedmont College presidential inau- service in Louisville, and moved to Mount Scott D. Duncan, Louisville, earned guration. Juliet. ’82 a master’s degree in healthcare Dorothy Couch Watson, Tullahoma, Tenn., Robert L. Churchey, Mesa, Ariz., administration from the Gillings School of has been named Citizen of the Year by The ’74 retired in October as detective with Global Public Health at the University of Tullahoma News for her extensive volunteer the City of Phoenix. He began his career as North Carolina–Chapel Hill and was elected work in healthcare and literacy programs. a police officer in 1975 in Oak Ridge, Tenn., to the Theta Chapter of Delta Omega, an and has spent the last 22 years with the honorary society for public health. In July, Richard J. McCabe, Lynnfield, Phoenix Police Department. He and his he was promoted to associate professor of ’64 Mass., represented Transylvania in wife, Phyllis Scalf ’73, are looking forward pediatrics, division of neonatal perinatal September at the Merrimack College pres- to devoting more of their time to medicine, at the University of Louisville idential inauguration. professional dog handling and instructing School of Medicine. and to their granddaughters.

24 TRANSYLVANIA Candace Livingstone ’06 makes a long journey to honor her family If you happen to run into Candace tions about their journey and their purpose, Maeser Livingstone ’06 anytime soon, be many of which ended with a goodbye and sure to say hi, because she might not stick a donation. When they stopped in local around long. restaurants with over 50 pounds of gear, After graduating from Transylvania with owners would ask about the trip and often a drama degree and minors in studio art give them discounts or even free meals. and Spanish, she and her boyfriend, Adrian A woman in eastern Scotland met them Livingstone, went to Ecuador for a year to walking and invited them to stay at her volunteer at a school on a rose plantation house that night. One night turned into in the Andes Mountains. Then they moved three, as her husband would pick them up to Adrian’s native England, where Candace at the end of the day, bring them back for earned an M.A. in art and design history at a meal and a bed, drop them back where Kingston University in London. In 2008, they left off, and do the same thing the Candace and Adrian were married, and in next day. 2009, they set off for northeastern China “One of the most amazing things about to teach English and visited North Korea, the walk was how generous and nice peo- Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and ple were to us,” Candace said. “At one Malaysia before heading back to England in local pub, we walked in with our gear and December 2010. the bartender started to make fun of us, They decided to spend 2011 traveling— asking if we were moving and had our which is remarkable enough given their whole house on our backs. But when we previous three years—but they did it in a told him what we were doing, he way few would have expected. announced it to the whole pub and took Because Candace had spent much of her up a collection, and we left with over $50 time in London in class and studying, Adri- Candace Livingstone ’06 and her in donations.” an wanted her to get to see more of his husband, Adrian, stand at the end of On September 30, 14 weeks after leav- country. He researched trails and found a their walk in John o’ Groats, Scotland. ing Land’s End, Adrian and Candace Below, the Livingstones pose along the way for them to walk all the way across Pennine Way in Derbyshire, England. walked into John o’ Groats. They had Great Britain, from the southwestern-most raised almost $2,500 and had learned point of Land’s End in England to the most Maeser ’78, who is a breast cancer survivor. more about themselves and each other northern point of John o’ Groats in Scot- They set up a donation account, updated than they could have dreamed. land—a 1,160-mile trip on foot. their friends and family on what they were “It sounds so cliché, but I learned that as “To be honest, at first I thought it was a doing on their Facebook pages, and set out long as you set your mind to it, you can do crazy idea,” Candace said. “But after I of Land’s End June 25. anything,” Candace said. “We did very lit- researched it more, I found that many peo- “We averaged about 15 miles a day, and tle training before we started, but we never ple had completed the walk before and we usually took off one day a week,” Can- gave up, and we always believed that we raised money for charity. I lost two of my dace said. “We carried all of our supplies would do it. There were times when it was grandparents to cancer at the end of 2010 with us—I usually had about 25 pounds on tough to keep going, but we refused to and couldn’t come home to pay my my back, and my husband had 30 give up, and now I know that if I can walk respects. I wanted to do something to pounds.” 1,160 miles, there’s not much I can’t han- honor them.” They walked town to town, camping in a dle.” She chose to raise money for the Associ- tent for most of the trip, until nasty north- Candace and Adrian continue to take ation for International Cancer Research ern British weather forced them to stay in donations to the AICR. To donate and read through the walk in honor of her grandpar- bed and breakfasts. They encountered sev- more about their trip, go to www.justgiv- ents and her mother, Elizabeth Underwood eral day walkers and struck up conversa- ing.com/Adrian-and-Candace.

“There were times when it was tough to keep going, but we refused to give up, and now I know that if I can walk 1,160 miles, there’s not much I can’t handle.”

SPRING 2012 25 Jim Chambliss ’86 EXPLORING THE NEUROGENESIS OF CREATIVITY

Jim Chambliss ’86 was standing in a parking lot in Eagle symptoms,” Chambliss said. County, Colo., in 1998 when he was blindsided by a sport utility His research has involved the vehicle. He wasn’t knocked down or unconscious, but that seem- study of works by more than 100 ingly minor accident set his life on an entirely different course from artists with epilepsy, trying to dis- the practice of law he was then pursuing. cover if they experience intrinsic Today, Chambliss is a permanent resident of another country— perceptions of the illusions or hallu- Australia—and is succeeding in a radically different career as a cinations brought about by the par- researcher, speaker, and Ph.D. candidate in creative arts and medi- tial seizure, and if they incorporate Jim Chambliss cine at the University of Melbourne. Specifically, his scholarship those into their artwork. He looked explores the influence of epilepsy on the work of visual artists. It at art from three contests, and overall has reviewed more than was stimulated by his personal experiences with epilepsy and his 8,000 artworks by people with epilepsy. own art following the accident. “It seems from the research that epilepsy, which is most often The story of his journey from attorney to artist and cutting-edge perceived as disabling, can, in some circumstances, be enabling for scholar in the esoteric realm of the neurogenesis of creative the enhancement of creative potential,” Chambliss said. “Epilepsy expression is captivating in its own right, and an excellent example is not the only cause of someone’s creativity; it is just one of the of the value of a liberal arts degree from Transylvania. factors, yet it can be a very significant one.” “When I had to move laterally in my career, having a Transylva- Chambliss’s work has caught the attention of the academic nia education was good for me because I had such a broad back- world. Among his recent speaking engagements was a presenta- ground of knowledge to draw from,” Chambliss said. tion at the 2011 International Epilepsy Congress, held in Rome in Chambliss needed every bit of his higher education background, August. He spoke in conjunction with Steven Schachter, a neurolo- as well as a determined attitude, to negotiate the twists and turns gist at the Harvard University Medical School. of his life following the accident. “The Rome conference was phenomenal,” he said. “I shared Before 1998, Chambliss had followed a fairly typical path for a the stage with one of the top neurologists in the world. Steven Transylvania pre-law student graduating with a political science has been involved with my research project since 2005. I was so major and a history minor. He earned his juris doctor from the honored to be invited not just for a poster presentation or a ques- University of Denver College of Law in 1989, then practiced in the tion-and-answer, but to give one of the sessions.” public and private sectors for the next decade. At the time of his Chambliss has curated art shows, including one in Melbourne accident, he was in private practice in Eagle County. for 56 artists with epilepsy that he calls the largest of its kind ever Doctors originally diagnosed the cerebral portion of Chambliss’s held. This is one of the ways he feels his work is having a positive injuries as a minor concussion, but impact on these artists. following a series of unusual occur- “There was an excitement level rences—false sensations of smells, among these artists that was amaz- going blank during a conversation, ing,” he said. “For them to be able a sudden jerk of the hand—he took to share their experiences with fam- a bad fall as the result of an epilep- ily and friends was great. Along tic seizure that caused further brain with exposure on my website, the damage, then wrecked his car after show generated interest in their art blacking out. It has taken him years for sales. That helps them to believe to recover from the cognitive in themselves.” injuries. After completing his Ph.D., Along the way, he left law, took Chambliss hopes to continue to a master’s in visual arts from the build upon his research. University of Louisville, and in 2006 “I would like to have a combina- accepted a generous fellowship to tion of teaching associated with art, pursue a Ph.D. at Melbourne. He to work in research with various chose that university because of its mental and neurological conditions willingness to be flexible in the cre- and how they affect creativity, and ation of his doctoral subject, which to be associated with art collec- involves the study of how epileptic tions. I would like to show the pub- activity in the brain can actually lic the work of artists who are in enhance, or even spark, creativity in some way marginalized, but whose visual art, including his own. work exhibits insights into the “My research is focused on the human condition.” novelty of perception that comes Chambliss lives in Melbourne from epileptic discharges during a with his wife, Nicola, son, Zac, 3, complex partial seizure, where only Blindsided is a self-portrait ceramic artwork by Jim and daughter, Chloe Anna, 1. Chambliss ’86 that relates to his life-changing injury in a portion of the brain is impacted 1998 as the result of being blindsided by a sport utility —WILLIAM A. BOWDEN and you may not even see physical vehicle.

26 TRANSYLVANIA Mindy Gute Barfield, Lexington, a Ana C. Reyes, Washington, D.C., a ’85 partner in Dinsmore & Shohl’s Lex- ’96 partner with the law firm of Williams Baughman replaces Cowgill as CEO ington office, received special recognition & Connolly, was named one of the Top 40 from the Fayette County Bar Association Minority Attorneys Under 40 in the United James C. Baughman Jr. ’85 was for her work as co-founder of the Fayette States by the National Law Journal for her appointed CEO of Office County Domestic Violence Advocacy national influence in her practice area and Suites PLUS in Lexington. Project and for her efforts to make equal beyond during the past five years. (See story He replaces Norwood access to justice a reality for those in need. on page 28.) “Buddy” Cowgill Jr. ’65, Transylvania trustee Elizabeth A. Case lives in Lexington Jennifer Griswold Withrow, Lexington, was who founded the com- ’89 with her children, Calista, 7, promoted to program administrator for the pany in 1979. Cowgill Anthony, 5, and twins Thomas Holden and Family Violence Prevention branch of the will remain as chairman Tavish Aaron Case, 1. Anthony was born Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family of the board. In October on March 3, 2007, and his adoption was Services. She and her husband, Chris, cel- Office Suites PLUS was finalized on June 12, 2007, the third ebrated their 15th wedding anniversary in named to the 2011 Inc. James birthday of his sister Calista. December. 5000 list of fastest- Baughman Jr. growing private compa- Neil W. Lerner, Davidson, N.C., represented Charles E. “Chip” McElearney lives nies in America. Transylvania in October at the Davidson in Seattle with his wife, Sandra, and ’97 According to United College presidential inauguration. their children, Jack and Claudia. Chip is Kingdom-based Instant halfway through school at Seattle University Offices, Ltd., it is the H. Steven Banfield, Seattle, has School of Law. ’90 joined Korrio as chief product officer ninth largest service of its executive team of technology, sports, Jeremy W. Lankster, Lexington, is office provider in the and business leaders. He will oversee the ’99 director of internal audit/compliance world, and it is the consumer experience with Korrio’s Playflow at Madison Bank in Richmond, Ky. highest-rated company sports automation platform. in its industry, according M. Kevin Staton, Lexington, was to the 2011 Inc. listings. Dawn J. Wilson, Louisville, took the bronze named vice president of finance at Buddy ’00 Cowgill medal in the North American Cup’s Blackhawk Mining, LLC. women’s saber fencing competition in the Jennifer L. Osborne, Louisville, is an Veteran (40 and over) division. She also met Laura S. Crittenden, Lex- assistant professor in the Department with Jefferson County Public Schools as ’01 ington, joined the of Periodontics, Endodontics, and Dental education chair of the Louisville Metro Lexington law firm of Stites Hygiene at the University of Louisville. She Human Relations Commission. & Harbison as an associate teaches multiple classes in community/ of the business litigation Sean P. Carey, Westborough, Mass., public health dentistry, special needs service group. ’92 represented Transylvania in Sep- patients, and research methods/statistics tember at the Becker College presidential and serves as a clinical instructor for the Melissa D. Carter, Atlanta, accepted inauguration. dental hygiene program. ’05 a research scientist position with Bat- telle Memorial Institute working as an ana- Brent A. Donovan, Berkeley Heights, N.J., Tamara Bentley Caudill, Winchester, lytical chemist at the Centers for Disease was named president of the Kentuckians of Ky., is executive director of the State ’02 Control and Prevention in Atlanta. New York. Showcase Event at the Kentucky World Lan- guage Association. She oversees the event, Logan Piers Harrison Forsyth, Michelle D. Cook-Becker, Hender- which hosts as many as 1,000 middle and Olathe, Kan., is an admissions coor- sonville, Tenn., is a physician’s ’06 ’94 high school students from Kentucky. dinator for MidAmerica Nazarene Univer- assistant in cardiac-thoracic surgery at St. sity. Thomas Hospital in Nashville. Robert M. Croft, Shelbyville, Ky., joined the Lexington law firm of Dinsmore & Shohl Hayley Castle Trimble, Knoxville, graduated Emily M. Satterwhite, Blacksburg, Va., as an associate in the products liability and from the University of Louisville School assistant professor of Appalachian studies tort practice groups. of Medicine in May 2011 and is an obstet- at Virginia Tech University, wrote a book rics/gynecology resident at the University titled Dear Appalachia about the negative LaMarco A. Cable has relocated to Alex- of Tennessee. stereotypes of Appalachia perpetuated by andria, Va., and is regional manager for the movies, television shows, and the news Mid-Atlantic/Central Southern region of Haley M. Riney moved back to media. It’s available through University Bread for the World, a collective Christian ’07 Owensboro, Ky., after earning a Press of Kentucky. voice urging our nation’s decision makers doctorate of physical therapy from the Uni- to end hunger at home and abroad. More versity of Kentucky. She works in a small, Nathan S. Floyd, Johnson City, information can be found at www.bread.org. hospital-based outpatient clinic in a rural Tenn., represented Transylvania in ’95 community just south of Owensboro in October at the Milligan College presidential Janie M. Castle, Grundy, Va., joined Ohio County. inauguration. ’04 the staff of the Appalachian School of Law in Grundy as director of career Donald R. “D. R.” Rose, Lexington, was pro- services and alumni relations. moted to captain in the United States Army after completing a tour of duty in

SPRING 2012 27 Ana Reyes ’96 WASHINGTON ATTORNEY HONORED FOR WORK WITH REFUGEES

When Ana Reyes ’96 The ruling was made to let finished law school at Harvard the women stay in the U.S., University, her mother told her and precedent was set for she’d be disappointed if she future cases like these. didn’t use her education to “Today’s ruling is a tremen- help others. dous victory for women who Luckily for Reyes—not to seek our nation’s protection mention the numerous people to escape the brutal practice she has, indeed, helped of female genital mutilation through pro bono work at and the other forms of gender Williams and Connolly, her law persecution that are associated firm in Washington, D.C.— with it,” she said at the time disappointing her mother is of the decision. not a concern. In fact, Reyes’s Reyes was elected to a efforts to help others, specifi- William and Connolly partner- cally people seeking asylum ship in 2009, and she serves in the United States, have gar- on the firm’s pro bono com- nered approval well beyond mittee. She began working the family circle. with asylum seekers early in Most recently, the Uruguay her career. native was named to the “My first asylum client was Minority 40 under 40 list by a very shy, reserved woman,” the National Law Journal not only for building a successful she said. “I met with her countless times over a one-year international litigation practice, but also for her tireless work period to prepare her for the hearing. During all that time, helping asylum seekers. Prior to that, her work received I never saw her smile or laugh. At the hearing, when the recognition for distinction from the Washington Lawyers’ translator told her that the judge had granted her and the Committee for Civil Rights (2004 and 2008) and the Center family asylum, she turned to me and gave me a full-on smile for Gender and Refugee Studies (2009). And she was fea- and a big hug. That was the most rewarding moment of my tured in the Legal Times special section “Champions, Vision- career to date. Whenever I feel stressed or out of sorts pro- aries and Pioneers” for her pro bono efforts and advocacy fessionally, I think about that moment, and it always makes for asylum applicants. me feel better.” In 2008 a case came up involving three women from In recognizing Reyes in the Minority 40 under 40 list, the Guinea who were seeking to remain in the United States National Law Journal cited her success as lead negotiator in after having been subjected to female genital mutilation in a dispute between her native Republic of Uruguay and its their home country. The law says in order to gain asylum, Central Bank and three international banks. She told the the person must show that he or she has been persecuted magazine it was “particularly meaningful” to travel back or will be persecuted, and to deny it, the government must to Uruguay to represent the government in reaching a show that there has been a change in circumstances that settlement. would prevent future persecution. The case against the As with her commitment to helping others, Reyes’s com- women stated that having already been subjected to female mitment to Transylvania, where she was a political science genital mutilation, the women could not undergo it again. major, remains strong as well. During spring break 2011, Reyes and her firm were approached by the Center for Reyes met with a group of Transylvania students who were Gender and Refugee Studies to argue against that notion, in Washington, D.C., doing volunteer service projects as part so they spent almost 500 hours drafting a brief. Reyes of Alternative Spring Break—a project that began when she argued the case before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the was at Transylvania and a sign, she says, that the university’s Second Circuit, which included the Hon. Sonia Sotomayor, commitment to community service continues. who now sits on the U.S. Supreme Court. “I cannot say enough about Transylvania,” she said. “Our argument to the court was that it doesn’t make any “I think the level of interaction at a school like Transylvania, sense that the act of persecution itself is a changed circum- with the quality of professors and the small class size—you stance,” Reyes said. “It doesn’t make any legal sense, and it can’t match it anywhere.” doesn’t make any logical sense. Female genital mutilation is Political science professors Don Dugi and Jeff Freyman, in just one example of overall persecution against women, and particular, “had an exceptional ability to challenge me as an depending on the type of FGM they had, it could happen individual. They kept raising the bar on me.” again. So we argued it and were very successful.” —TERRI McLEAN and TYLER YOUNG

28 TRANSYLVANIA Afghanistan as a platoon leader with the Holly Suzanne Hobbs ’03 Lucy M. Points ’92 and Mick Jefferies, a 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment. He is cur- and Tim Fisher, October daughter, Elizabeth Lee Points Jefferies, rently stationed in Vilseck, Germany. 8, 2011 September 17, 2011

Sarah Billiter Cameron, Lexington, Preston R. Gibson ‘93 and Susan Gibson, a ’08 joined the Lexington law firm of daughter, Maya Harlow Gibson, September Jackson Kelly as an attorney in the Kenneth Alvan Blair ’04 and Holly Adams, 7, 2011 commercial litigation practice group. October 29, 2011 Michelle D. Cook-Becker ’94 and John Allison P. Ray, Garland, Tex., received her Crystal Nicole Mount ’04 and Brian Andrew Becker, a daughter, Katherine Eden Becker, master of divinity degree in May from Brite Newton, November 5, 2011 April 4, 2011 Divinity School. She serves as children, Kathryn Zoe Gash ’06 and Joe Wood, Kate N. Barlow-Fiero ’95 and Melissa R. Bar- youth, and young adult minister at First October 16, 2011 Christian Church of Garland. low-Fiero ’98, a daughter, Patton Neely Bar- Dana Elise Hines ’06 and Brent Williams low-Fiero, November 8, 2011 Micah A. Smith, Rockport, Tex., graduated Farrell ’06, August 12, 2010 from Vanderbilt University’s nurse prac- Susan Moore Monohan ’96 and Gregory P. titioner program and is a nurse practitioner Jessica Marie Grice ’06 and Michael LoPresti, Monohan ’96, a daughter, Sylvia Anne in a pediatric doctor’s office in Corpus June 25, 2011 Monohan, August 10, 2011 Christi, Tex. Jennifer Nicole Webb ’06 and Nicholas Eng- Tonya Breeding Short ’96 and David Short, Molly R. Burchett, Lexington, has land, October 14, 2011 a daughter, Reagan Noelle Breeding Short, ’09 been named national director of November 23, 2011 market development at Medcare Health in Andrew Hunter Dieruf ’07 and Kristen Eliz- abeth Busseni, June 18, 2011 Charles E. “Chip” McElearney ’97 Lexington. and Sandra Love McElearney, a Clay K. Fedde, Ashland, Ky., is loan/mortgage Andrea Christin Fitzpatrick ’07 and Evan daughter, Claudia Elizabeth originator at Inez Deposit Bank in Inez, Ky. Thomas Ray, July 3, 2010 McElearney, December 14, 2011 Daniel R. Evans, Frankfort, Ky., received his Christopher Edward Geiger ’08 and Haley M.S. in computer science in April from the Ann Flair ’09, August 27, 2011 Brian L. Naylor ’97 and Kimberly Branham University of Louisville Speed School and Naylor ’98 adopted a son on August 1, 2011, Emily Kathleen Wilcox ’09 and Chris Tabb, Andrew Stephen ChaoWei Naylor, born joined Coca-Cola Enterprises in Louisville December 9, 2011 as a programmer analyst. He was promoted July 3, 2009, in Henan, China to senior analyst in January and loves every Christopher A. Carter ’98 and minute of it. Lauren Carter, a daughter, Simon A. Brazinski is pursuing a one- Paisley Elaine Carter, December ’10 year master’s degree in finance at 24, 2011 Vanderbilt University and will graduate in Angela Beth Moore ’98 and May. He hopes to return to Lexington and Michael Schnuerle, a son, Clin- work in corporate finance. ton Andrew Schnuerle, Sep- Robin E. Williams-Neal, Louisville, tember 25, 2011 ’11 enrolled in the graduate diploma Leigh Ann Blackburn Napier ’98 and Michael program in theology and religion at the Napier, a daughter, Kenley Jane Napier, University of Durham in England. The pro- September 16, 2011 gram will enable her to take Hebrew and Francesca Danielle Pribble ’08 (second from left) and Justin Kingery were Greek as well as other preliminary courses married August 3, 2011. Also pictured Allison Baker Shealy ’98 and Kenny Shealy, required for the master’s program for which at the event are Sarah Billiter a son, Cooper Evans Shealy, September 7, she plans to apply. Cameron ’08, Kathryn VanSlyke ’08, 2011 and Meg Phillips ’08. W. Scott McConnell ’99 and Alexandra Silver McConnell ’00, a son, William Preston Marriages McConnell, October 9, 2011

Susan Michelle Taylor ’92 and Dwight Catherine Curtis Mayer ’00 and Adam A. Witten, December 3, 2011 Births Mayer ’00, a son, Daniel Curtis Mayer, December 19, 2011 Seema Navnit Doshi ’94 and Patrick F. Daniel Mongiardo ’82 and Allison P. Mon- Kerrigan Jr., November 19, 2011 giardo, a son, Cannon Patrick Mongiardo, Lydia Wilson Kohler ’01 and Dale Kohler ’03, September 28, 2011 a son, Miles Nelson Kohler, November 29, Allison Lynne Rumble ’95 and Tom Wilker, 2011 November 19, 2011 Elizabeth A. Case ’89, twin sons, Thomas Holden Case and Tavish Aaron Case, Avery Edwards Garner ’02 and R. Lance Catherine Bryan Redford ’96 and Steve November 15, 2010 Garner ’02, a daughter, Morgan Elizabeth Kessler, November 5, 2011 Garner, October 30, 2011

SPRING 2012 29 ALUMNI BULLETIN BOARD

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The alumni office continues to promote trips to Your alumni benefits now include a special discount- interested alumni and friends. For a trip brochure or ed rate on auto insurance and home insurance from more information on trips mentioned below, contact Liberty Mutual. We are proud to provide our alumni Natasa Mongiardo ’96, director of alumni programs, or with a great benefit from a Fortune 100 company that Tracy Dunn ’90, assistant director of alumni programs, protects millions of people across America. Find out in the alumni office at (800) 487-2679, or visit our more at http://www.libertymutual.com/transylvania. website www.alumni.transy.edu. In Kentucky, contact Kent Lewis at (859) 223-1313 Rome and the Amalfi Coast—November 1-10, 2012 ext. 53304 or at [email protected]. Else- Ten days, 13 meals (eight where, call (800) 524-9400. Reference client #118832. breakfasts, one lunch, and Discounts and savings are available where state laws four dinners). Highlights and regulations allow, and may vary by state. To the include whisper headsets, extent permitted by law, applicants are individually Rome, regional wines with underwritten; not all applicants may qualify. dinner, Ravello, Villa Rufolo, Vietri-sul-Mare, Sorrento, Amalfi Coast, Paestum, Transylvania Golf Classic set for May 31 Pompeii, wine tasting, Naples, and Archeological Museum. Per-person cost based on double occupancy Join Transylvania’s athletics department and the is $3,099 (if booked by April 25, 2012, with a deposit development office for the 2012 Transylvania Golf of $250 per person) and includes meals mentioned Classic, a four-player scramble set for Thursday, May above, round-trip air from Lexington, air taxes and 31, at the University Club of Kentucky Big Blue course. fees, and hotel transfers. Registration and lunch will be at 11 a.m., followed by Alpine Christmas—November 30-December 7, 2012 a noon shotgun start. Sponsorship opportunities are Eight days, 10 meals (six available. breakfasts, four dinners). For more information on the tournament or spon- Highlights include Innsbruck, sorships, contact Jack Ebel ’77, director of athletics, at Golden Roof, Munich, Ober- (859) 233-8548, [email protected], or Kirk Purdom, ammergau, Salzburg, and vice president for advancement, at (859) 233-8551, Christmas markets. Per-person [email protected]. cost based on double occu- pancy is $2,749 (if booked by June 25, 2012, with a deposit of $250 per person) and Ways to stay connected includes meals mentioned above, round-trip air from There are lots of ways to keep up with your alma Lexington, air taxes and fees, and hotel transfers. mater and fellow alumni: Save the date for these two Oceania Cruises in the works for 2013: Tahitian Jewels, www.alumni.transy.edu — alumni online community January 26-February 7, and Mayan where you may register for alumni events and browse Mystique, February 24-March 6. the alumni directory for the latest news on classmates. www.facebook.com/TransylvaniaUniversityAlum- ni — the quickest way to get alumni news and infor- mation on events. linkd.in/TUAlumni — If you’re interested in profes- sional networking, join the Transylvania University Alumni group on LinkedIn.

To contact the Alumni Office at 415 North Broadway: Natasa Pajic Mongiardo ’96, director of alumni programs, [email protected] Tracy Stephens Dunn ’90, assistant director of alumni programs, [email protected] Elaine Valentine, administrative assistant, [email protected] Phone: (800) 487-2679 or (859) 233-8275 / Fax: (859) 281-3548 Mail: 300 North Broadway, Lexington, KY 40508 / E-mail: [email protected] / Web: www.transy.edu

30 TRANSYLVANIA Karen Bryden Joyce ’02 and David geology major and a member of Delta Sigma Lee Joyce, a son, Nathan Reed Obituaries Phi fraternity. He taught in the Boyle Joyce, July 4, 2011 County, Ky., school system for 30 years and Only alumni survivors are listed. earned the Kentucky State Teacher Award Bimal V. Patel ’02 and Nirvana Patel, a Elizabeth Ann Elam Moody ‘43 in 1966. daughter, Neela Bimal Patel, April 30, 2011 , West Palm Beach, Fla., died November 28, 2011. She John W. Tyler ’51, Seattle, died June 18, Mary Beth Dennis Carson ’03 and Brian Car- was a religion and economics major and a 2011. He was a religion major and a son, a son, Kittrick Alan Carson, September member of Women’s Independent Group, member of the choir, and he earned a 25, 2011 a capella choir, Stagecrafters, the Women’s bachelor of divinity from Lexington The- Athletics Association, and the Y.W.C.A. She ological Seminary. After service as chaplain Colmon V. Elridge ’03 and Victoria H. went on to Yale Divinity School to study Elridge, a son, Carter Vian Robert Elridge, in the U.S. Army, he worked as a customer social ethics. She established Palm Beach services manager. May 5, 2011 County’s first crisis line for battered spouses Brandy Baldwin Jones ’03 and Nicholas A. in 1976 and started two domestic violence Beverly Nixon Concannon ‘52, Washington, Jones, a daughter, Hannah Catherine Jones, shelters. She was a counselor to victims of D.C., died November 9, 2011. She was an October 10, 2011 domestic abuse and worked for the Palm English major and an elementary school Beach County Victims Services Division. teacher in Kentucky, Ohio, and Michigan. Phillip P. Thurman ’05 and Allison Higgins Thurman ’06, a daughter, Mollie Grace Margie Howe Haux ‘49, Annapolis, Md., Glenn E. Clark ‘53, Bossier City, La., died Thurman, September 20, 2011 wife of Robert E. Haux ‘51, died December October 1, 2011. He was an officer in the 1, 2011. She was a music and physical edu- U.S. Air Force for 27 years. He earned Elizabeth Buford Graff ’07 and Michael cation major and a member of Phi Mu several honors and medals, including the Graff, a son, Christopher Michael Graff, sorority. She was a former director of St. American Theater Ribbon, American September 30, 2011 Anne’s School in Annapolis and taught Defense Service Medal, and the Asiatic music in Ohio, Kentucky, and Maryland. Pacific Theater Ribbon. After his service he Joseph R. Sutton ’07 and Anna She also trained and showed Boykin spaniels owned and operated a clock shop in Bossier Staggs Sutton ’08, a son, and enjoyed sailing, traveling, and cruising. City. Anderson Thomas Sutton, September 19, 2011 Elizabeth Jenkins Blair ‘50, Villa Park, Ill., Lewis H. George ‘55, Zephyrhills, Fla., died May 13, 2011. She was a medical tran- husband of Martha Heard George ‘57, died Shara Raymer Mays ’08 and Scott A. Mays scriptionist at Loyola University. September 17, 2011. He was a member of ’09, a son, Cruz Jameson Mays, August 19, Delta Sigma Phi fraternity, theater 2011 John F. Kirby ‘50, Danville, Ky., died October productions, Student Christian Association, 26, 2011. He was a mathematics and

Former trustee Harold L. “Bud” Holmes dies HAROLD L. “BUD” HOLMES ’55, Transylvania, was a founding member of the Alumni Executive a life member of the Transylvania Board and a former vice president of the alumni association. Board of Trustees, died He gave regularly to the annual fund and supported other September 28, 2011. causes such as scholarships and building projects. Holmes became a trustee in 1972 He was remembered by his peers as one who went quietly and was a life member of the board and steadily about the business of promoting Transylvania’s when he stepped down from active best interests. participation during a reorganiza- “Bud was a very consistent supporter of Transylvania, tion in 2011 that created a smaller giving generously of his time, resources, and spirit to his group of active members and a alma mater,” said William T. Young Jr., chairman of the complementary Board of Regents. He served as a member of Board of Trustees. the Committee on Real Estate and Construction. Transylvania President Emeritus Charles L. Shearer remem- Transylvania honored Holmes and his wife, Joyce Swango bers Holmes as a very supportive member of the board. Holmes ’55, with the Morrison Medallion during Alumni “It was always a pleasure to work with Bud because of his Weekend 1991. (Joyce Holmes passed away in 2003.) This genuine interest in Transylvania, his positive attitude, and his highest honor for alumni recognizes outstanding service to willingness to help with any project or initiative,” Shearer said. Transylvania and its programs. They were the second alumni “I valued his insight and appreciated his near perfect atten- couple to receive the award, following 1959 graduates Guy dance at board meetings over nearly four decades. He was a and Nell Robinson Waldrop in 1990. true friend to Transylvania.” The Holmeses lived in Cincinnati and often hosted alumni Alumni survivors include sisters Sue Holmes Jones ’58 and and admissions receptions in their area. They were active in JoAnn Holmes Jordan ’58, and son Stephen S. Holmes ’79. recruiting both new students and donors for the university. Memorials may be directed to the Joyce Swango Holmes Bud Holmes, former president of OK Trucking Company of Endowed Scholarship Fund at Transylvania. For information, Cincinnati and active in Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity while at contact the alumni and development office at (800) 487-2679.

SPRING 2012 31 Clinton V. Vaught ‘70, Clarksville, Ind., died October 18, 2011. He was a theater arts Dorothy J. Smith ’42 dies and speech major, performed in Transylvania DOROTHY J. SMITH ’42, who created a legacy of theater productions, and was a member of music for Transylvania when she endowed a concert Pi Kappa Alpha and the Rafinesque Society. series and a scholarship for music students, died He was a theater and speech teacher at November 11, 2011. DuPont Manual High School in Louisville Smith came to Transylvania from Hutchinson, Kan., for over 30 years and was coordinator of in 1939 to study music and English, her two majors. the Youth Performing Arts School. He per- She earned a master’s degree in education from the formed and directed plays in theaters around University of Kentucky and taught in the Fayette County public schools for 25 the country and directed historical perform- years and at the Lexington School for four years. She was a former violist with the ances at the Kentucky State Fair. He Lexington Philharmonic Orchestra, a published composer and poet, and profession- appeared in some films, including Assisted al singer in a variety of venues. Living, which won awards at various film It was her love of music that drove Smith to create the Dorothy J. and Fred K. festivals. Smith Concert Series at Transylvania and the Sharon Sue Smith Memorial Scholar- Mark H. Donaldson ‘71, Lexington, died ship. The concert series includes the name of her late husband, a 1940 Transylva- September 30, 2011. He was a social studies nia graduate. Her estate will provide $1 million to endow the concert series and major and member of Delta Sigma Phi fra- $200,000 to endow the scholarship, which will be awarded to first-year students, ternity. He was a manager at SuperAmerica with preference given to those with a music major or minor. Corporation. “Dorothy was a wonderful Transylvanian who left us a great gift of music in the concert series and a lasting legacy for her daughter in the scholarship program,” Timothy J. Walsh ‘72, West Haven, Conn., said music professor Gary Anderson. “By funding the concert series for five years died November 6, 2011. He was an English before it was endowed, she was able to enjoy the brilliant artists that her generosity major and wrote for the Rambler. He has brought to our campus thus far in the series. She had the gift of music in her worked in landscape architecture, journalism, own life and was thrilled to be able to offer that gift to future generations of Tran- and social services for various businesses and sylvanians.” organizations. The concert series began in 2007 with a performance by the Grammy Award- Joy Sausman Beaudry ‘76, Gaithersburg, winning Kronos Quartet. Other performers have included world acclaimed male Md., sister of J. Michael Sausman ‘71, died chorus Chanticleer, Grammy-nominated Cuban band Tiempo Libre, female a cap- July 26, 2011. She was an English major, pella group Anonymous 4, and Canadian Brass. member of Chi Omega sorority, and circu- Smith was always grateful for the financial assistance she received as a student lation manager for the Rambler. She was that made it possible for her to attend Transylvania. In a 2007 interview, she owner and president of Personnel Placement reflected on what the university had meant to her and on the opportunity to give Service, Inc. something back: “Transylvania changed the direction of my life and brought me to where I am Richard Francis McAuliffe ‘90, Elberta, Ala., today. I am so very grateful for that. These two programs are my reward for Tran- died December 8, 2011. He was a member sylvania’s generosity toward me, a generosity that will echo in every concert and of Phi Kappa Tau fraternity. He was CEO every student who benefits from the scholarship.” of the South Baldwin Regional Medical Center and a member of the Governor’s Coastal Recovery Commission of Alabama. and the Pre-ministerial Group. He went on Manuel R. Tamayo ‘60, Glen Carbon, Ill., to Lexington Theological Seminary, then died August 27, 2011. He was a psychology ! Obituaries in Transylvania are based served as a pastor for almost 60 years. He and religion major and a member of the on information available in alumni office earned a doctorate of ministry from Transylvania Choir. He went on to become files and from newspaper obituaries. Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. a minister with the Christian Church Please send information concerning (Disciples of Christ) and served in the U.S. alumni deaths to the attention of Elaine Wilda Vaught McKenzie ‘58, Lexington, wife Valentine in the Transylvania Alumni Air Force. He earned a master’s degree from Office, 300 North Broadway, Lexington, of Howard F. McKenzie ‘57, died December Christian Theological Seminary. 18, 2011. She was a teacher in Fayette KY 40508-1797. Newspaper obituaries with complete listings of survivors are County, Ky., schools for over 30 years and Richard W. Mitchell ‘68, Los Angeles, died preferred. was a tutor for the CATS program at the October 2, 2011. He was a film historian, University of Kentucky. She was named “A editor, and sound editor in Los Angeles, Teacher Who Made A Difference” by the working on several films including Star Trek: Corrections UK Department of Education. The Motion Picture, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, Traffic, and Lethal In the fall Transylvania magazine: Jo Anne Hale Moger ‘58, Tullahoma, Tenn., Weapon 4. His credits include assistant A front cover headline should have died December 28, 2011. She was a math editor, show editor, and foley editor. He shown Esi Kalefe’s class year as ’14. and commerce major and a member of Chi also wrote articles on film for various pub- An article on page 8 on asset-build- Omega sorority. She was also a member of lications such as the Los Angeles Times, Cine- ing should have spelled the grant choir and the Women’s Athletic Association. fantastique magazine, and American source as the Jessie Ball duPont Fund. She spent her life as a homemaker. Cinematographer. Transylvania regrets the errors.

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