TTransylvaniaransylvaniaUNIVERSITY MAGAZINE Summer 2010 Change at the Top R. Owen Williams becomes president of Transylvania Alumni Weekend 2010

Clockwise, from top, Stephanie Miller Broering ’90, left, Kevin Sutphin, Sallye Holcomb Staley ’89, and Stephanie Dixon Sutphin ’89 share a table at the TGIF party; from left, George Lewis, Ruth Marling Lewis ’50, Clyde Arnold ’50, Bill Bronson ’50, and Barbara Burch Merrell ’50 enjoy the celebration luncheon; head men’s basketball coach Brian Lane ’90 exhorts his classmates to support the annual fund during their class picture session; Andre Flynn ’85 is shown with fiancée Lucia Sloan (holding Flynn’s granddaughter, Aniya) and his mother, Paula Smith, at his induction into the Pioneer Hall of Fame; Ann Horton Burns ’42, left, and Mary Margaret Aldridge Meyer ’41 greet one another at the celebration luncheon. Photos by Joseph Rey Au TransylvaniaUNIVERSITY MAGAZINE SUMMER/2010

Features 14 CHANGE AT THE TOP / R. Owen Williams brings expertise and enthusiasm to his role as president of Transylvania 16 A HISTORIC COMMENCEMENT / On the eve of his retirement, President Charles L. Shearer confers degrees on the 240 members of the class of 2010 and gives the commencement address 19 ALUMNI WEEKEND 2010 / Honoring Shearers was a big part of Alumni Weekend 2010 22 LIFE IN DEATH VALLEY / Sarah Craighead ’78 works to preserve and protect the nation’s largest national park Around Campus 3 Art professor Dan Selter retires after 35 years 4 Faculty receive awards, promotions, tenure 6 Community art program brings people together 7 The Rambler improves stature in student journalism

Graduate Samantha Moore, a sociology major from Cadiz, Ky., leaves the stage with her Sports diploma as the class of 2010 takes part in 9 Softball wins HCAC, plays in NCAA commencement on May 29. Retiring president 11 Men’s tennis wins eighth straight HCAC title Charles L. Shearer and Lexington physician Andrew M. Moore II ’71 received honorary degrees at the ceremony. See story on page 16. Alumni News and Notes Photo by Joseph Rey Au 24 Class Notes 26 Marriages, births, obituaries 27 Izzy Holden ’02 travels around the world 28 Distinguished Achievement Awards 29 Distinguished Service Awards

Director of Public Relations: Sarah A. Emmons On the cover Director of Publications: Martha S. Baker Incoming President R. Owen Williams is Publications Writer/Editor: William A. Bowden pictured in Haupt Plaza during a campus Editorial Assistant: Tyler Young visit in April with, from left, junior Holly Publications Designer: Barbara Grinnell Milburn, sophomore Lee Richardson, and ______senior Whitney Mitchell. Transylvania is published three times a year. Volume 27, No. 3, Summer 2010. Produced by the Office of Photo by Joseph Rey Au Publications, Transylvania University, Lexington, KY 40508-1797. Send address changes and alumni news Follow Transylvania at twitter.com/transy, to Alumni Office, Transylvania University, 300 North browse our photos at www.flickr.com/photos/transy, Broadway, Lexington, KY 40508-1797, fax to (859) and become our fan on Facebook at 233-8797, or e-mail to [email protected]. www.facebook.com/transylvaniauniversity. AROUND CAMPUS Longtime professor extolls Shearer’s presidential qualities at retirement lunch

endowment of more than $100 million. dency than at any time in the long history “Charles came to this college during one of Transylvania,” he said. “The faculty is of its economic depressions,” Dugi said. better for the things he has done, perhaps “While that experience may not have been particularly the Bingham Program for Excel- as dramatic as living through the Great lence in Teaching and the various programs Depression, I am sure that it shaped his for faculty enhancement. There is no doubt approach to fiscal management. Clearly, that we are all better off for Charles Shearer President Shearer has been a very careful having been at Transylvania.” steward of the college during his tenure.” During the luncheon it was announced Shearer’s active involvement in the that 88 staff members had made a gift of university’s affairs could pay dividends in $3,951 toward the Charles L. and Susan P. many areas, as Dugi pointed out in a story Shearer Scholarship, a prestigious program involving a needy, and worthy, student. named after the Shearers to honor their Political science professor Don Dugi, “Many years ago, one of our students remarkable legacy at Transylvania. (above, right) who has witnessed the entire was in danger of leaving 27-year tenure of retiring President Charles the college because of L. Shearer, paid tribute to his colleague and financial hardship, and friend at a May 27 retirement luncheon by additional financial assis- referring to Transylvania’s longest-serving tance was not being president as “a man of complete integrity” worked out,” Dugi with an extraordinary commitment to the recalled. “I went to university. Charles and told him that “You never have any doubts about this student is someone Charles acting in good faith,” said Dugi, we want to keep, that he who joined the Transylvania faculty in 1975. would not only be a credit “He has always done his best for Transylva- during his time at the col- nia—and he has done so out of commit- lege but would be a great ment to the college rather than for personal representative of the col- lege as an alumnus. accolades or self-aggrandizement.” President Shearer and his wife, Susan, are After having served Transylvania as vice Charles took care of it.” joined by their three sons and families at president for finance beginning in 1979, In an overall sense, Dugi said that Shear- a retirement luncheon in Shearer’s honor. Shearer became president in 1983 and will er’s untiring dedication for 31 years in the To Susan’s immediate left are Todd, his retire from the presidency on July 31. university’s administration has advanced the wife, Chelsey, and their children, Anne and Will. Scott is in the middle, back. Throughout his tenure, he was known for college in every area. Mark is with his wife, Kristi, and their paying strict attention to detail and for shep- “For both faculty and students, life at this children, Taylor and Mason. (Not pictured: herding the university’s resources into today’s college is incredibly better after his presi- Scott’s wife, Sarah)

Court in 1952. were paying customers, but Bruce Scholarship honors late physician Greg Bruce some were not, based on Greg’s The late William Gregory his alma mater by establishing earned his humanitarian outlook. Bruce ’60 credited Transylvania the William Gregory Bruce, medical “Greg felt that regardless of with preparing him for medical M.D., Endowed Scholarship degree from whether you were the wealthi- school and giving him the oppor- Fund. The scholarships will be the University est person in the world or the Crimson tunity to achieve his life’s ambi- awarded to Transylvania stu- of Maryland poorest, if you’re sick, you’re tion of becoming a physician. dents with financial need who 1960 and was a sick,” Ann said. “He wanted “Greg said over the years are preparing for a career in flight surgeon in the U.S. Navy everyone to have access to that if he had not attended medicine or dentistry. from 1967-70. He was a profes- what would make them feel Transylvania, he doubted he Preference will be given to sor of cancer surgery at UM and better physically, and if he would have been able to get students from Kentucky, which attending surgical oncologist at could offer that as a surgeon, into medical school,” said his honors the legacy of Greg the Baltimore Cancer Research he always tried to.” widow, Ann Bruce. “He particu- Bruce’s father, John Gregory Center before establishing a For information on how to larly credited (former chemistry Bruce ’21. Raised in Straight private practice in Panama City, support the William Gregory professor) Monroe Moosnick Creek, Bell County, Ky., the Fla., where he lived most of his Bruce, M.D., Scholarship, with taking him under his wing elder Bruce had a distinguished life. Ann, a registered nurse, contact the development and motivating him to do well.” career in law, culminating in supported the practice as office office at (800) 487-2679 or Ann decided to memorialize his appointment by President manager. (859) 281-3692. her late husband’s feelings for Harry S. Truman to the U.S. Tax Most of the Bruces’ patients

2 TRANSYLVANIA Art professor retires to focus on his own art

Dan Selter entertained the audience at his used it to teach those kids.” retirement luncheon with a rendition of He also created figurines depicting a few “Hail, Transylvania!” on the ukulele and reflections on his years teaching. faculty members when they retired. It started with former dean Jack Bryden. Selter created a Jack-in-the-box using Bryden’s likeness. was really a fortuitous situation.” Most recently he did one for former history He fulfilled his goal of dabbling in other professor Joe Binford, who was an avid run- disciplines while he was at Transy, teaching ner and taught Latin American history. He courses jointly with other professors. Two crafted Binford as a Vishnu wearing a track that stuck out were a class on the art and suit, holding in his many arms a sombrero culture of Southeast Asia and a class on and an academic hat, sitting on top of Old Native American Indian art, both with then- Morrison. One he did for Dave Haller, a for- anthropology and sociology professor Cara mer drama professor, ended up housing Richards. Down the road he was able to take Haller’s ashes after he died. a trip to China with art history profes- Joseph Rey Au sor Wei Lin, and his Native American Dan Selter retired in May after 35 research involved taking road trips to years at Transylvania as an art professor. the southwestern United States and Selter, a master ceramist, is known as an Alaska to visit reservations. amicable professor who expected a lot out “It’s certainly expanded my world,” of his students but didn’t have to run a he said. “I ended up teaching courses in tight ship to get it. things I never dreamed I’d be involved “The phrase that comes up a lot is ‘laid in. A life in academia is a life of contin- back,’” Selter, who won a Bingham Award uous learning, and Transylvania has for Excellence in Teaching in 1997, said, afforded those opportunities. At a larg- laughing. “I, frankly, relied a lot on the idea er institution, I think it would have been that at the college level, and in teaching art, harder to do those things. Here it’s it is better to try and find something that encouraged, and that’s been very will motivate the students from within, exciting.” rather than some sort of drillmaster He has also had a chance to do a lot approach that causes them to follow the of ceramics work on the side while steps. I think it’s more successful that they teaching. He gained a reputation as a get turned on to something and get kind of humorist with his art, which involved and get excited by it.” was often lighthearted and fun. He was Holli Schulz, a senior from New Salisbury, featured in several regional exhibits, and Ind., was excited enough that she went he cracked the national scene in 2000 from thinking about getting a minor in art when he was in a traveling exhibit to majoring in it after taking Selter’s class sponsored by the Everson Museum in for the first time. Syracuse, N.Y. “He persuaded me to (major in art) more “I’m very proud of that one,” he than anything,” she said. “I loved his class- said. “That show toured very selec- es, and I liked talking to him. He’s going to tively with a jury of ceramic all-stars.” be missed.” He received local publicity for an Selter, who is originally from Louisville, installment he created in 1992 at the enrolled at the University of Louisville for his Lexington Family Care Center, a home undergraduate degree but was drafted and for underprivileged, pre-school-age Dan Selter, 13 Bad Luck Gnomes, 2007 spent three years in the U.S. Army before children and their mothers. He got a grant ceramic and mixed media installation he could take his first class. He finally grad- from the city and from the Lexington Arts uated and went on to Syracuse University, and Cultural Council to construct a 20-by- where he earned his M.F.A. in ceramics. 12-ft. mural of giant children’s books carved From there he began looking for a teaching out of Styrofoam. The staff at the care cen- Part of the reason Selter decided to retire position to support his art. ter chose around 15 books they use with at 63 is that he wants to be able to contin- “When I graduated, I had had my fill of art the children, and he designed the mural to ue focusing on his art while his body allows schools—everything was all about art for the incorporate those titles. him to. entire time I was in school,” he said. “So I was “I’m very proud of those, largely because “I want to be able to engage in art-mak- looking for a smaller school, and I wanted to I found in that situation a kind of art that ing while I still have energy and health,” he be part of a community of people with a vari- was very purposeful,” he said. “It wasn’t said. “I got into art and ended up teaching ety of interests. I didn’t know anything about something that was for a gallery, it wasn’t because I wanted to make a living. I ended Transylvania at the time. It certainly ended up something to decorate, it wasn’t for sale—it up loving teaching, but it was a decision. So filling the bill in terms of being a place where enhanced the environment for these kids at I’d like to become involved in that a little my colleagues were in several other fields. It the center, and it was a learning tool. They more full time.”

SUMMER 2010 3 Faculty receive awards, promotions, tenure Three Transylvania professors al arts education by practically Mark Jackson was granted were recognized with Bingham applying what the students are tenure and promoted to assis- Awards for Excellence in Teach- learning. tant professor of psychology. He ing, and more were given pro- “I like to create a relaxed has been at Transy since 2003 motions and tenure. environment that hopefully and received a Ph.D. in experi- Exercise science professor makes students feel comfort- mental social psychology from Kirk Abraham, biology profes- able to speak up, but also keeps the University of Kentucky. sor Belinda Sly, and writing, them engaged,” she said. Eva Csuhai was promoted to rhetoric, and communication “Some level of applying con- full professor of chemistry. She professor Scott Whiddon cepts to current events is really began teaching at Transy in received the awards, which important and helps them learn 1998 and earned a Ph.D. in come with annual salary supple- the material better. They’re not organic chemistry from Texas ments for five years. A commit- surprised at all if I say, ‘Let’s talk A&M University. tee of outside educators selects about bioethics for a bit.’ They Kurt Gohde was promoted Bingham Award winners based know that’s something that we to full professor of art. He came

on classroom visits, essays sub- do here.” to Transylvania in 1998 and Joseph Rey Au mitted by candidates, and stu- Abraham, received his M.F.A. in sculpture Alltech Lecture dent evaluations. who was from Syracuse University. Whiddon also granted Barbara LoMonaco was Kyle Newman, director of came to Tran- tenure and promoted to full professor of Venture Laboratories, speaks on “Feeding the sylvania in promoted to anthropology. She began teach- Equine Athlete for 2006 after assistant pro- ing at Transy in 1996 and holds Success” on March 24 in earning his fessor, joined a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology the Alltech Lecture Series Ph.D. from the Transylvania faculty in 2004 from Southern Methodist at Transylvania University. Louisiana and holds a Ph.D. in physiology University. State University. He said his goal from the University of Missouri. in teaching students to write is He employs a hands-on method to emphasize the process of of teaching that is designed to Senior class raises $22,000 for writing instead of the final keep the students involved. He result. said he’s learned today’s stu- incoming student’s scholarship “Writing is a way not only to dents expect more interaction The class of 2010 raised over $22,000 in gifts help see the product of your with their professors to stay and pledges for the Senior Challenge Scholarship thinking, but it’s also a process engaged. fund, a new program record, with 66 percent of of your thinking; it’s a way of “I try to put myself back in the class participating. Ross Hall sorting out problems and chal- the students’ shoes, which is The Senior Challenge Committee chose Ross Hall lenges and structures and figur- getting harder to do all the time of Nelson County High School in Bardstown, Ky., as ing out how to respond to as I’m getting older, and help the 2010 recipient of the Senior Challenge Scholarship. Hall was a them,” Whiddon said. “If you them walk through the stages four-year academic team member at NCHS and was the social can get students to stop think- of learning the material,” he studies champion at the Governor’s Cup his junior year. He was ing about the end product and said. “They tend to expect a lot also secretary of the Technology Student Association and involved start to think about the stages of feedback, and that’s some- in the technology leadership program. He was a member of Young along the way, then they begin thing I’ve learned to give more Leaders and volunteered in a math tutoring program called Lunch to see themselves as writers.” of as the years go by.” Crunch. Sly, who Hall plans to study history at Transy, and he invoked two of his was also Promotions favorite historical figures when thanking the senior class during the granted Gregg Bocketti was granted senior banquet May 25. tenure and tenure and promoted to assis- “It fascinates me to think of Alexander the Great or Napoleon promoted to tant professor of history. He and how they affected the planet. They were single individuals assistant pro- came to Transy in 2004 and with strong wills, changing the course of human history,” he said. fessor, has received his Ph.D. in history “These men were great, but they didn’t start out great. Both been at Transy since 2004. She from Tulane University. found somewhere where they could get a start. Alexander’s great- came to Lexington after getting Melissa Fortner ’96 was ness began with his teacher and mentor, Aristotle. I’m no Alexan- her Ph.D. in molecular, cellular, granted tenure and promoted der the Great, but I believe that my education here at Transy will and developmental biology from to assistant professor of psy- allow me to become great, even if I’m not some conquering Indiana University. She described chology. She joined the faculty hero.” her teaching style as more in 2004 and holds a Ph.D. in The Senior Challenge was established by the class of 1990 as an relaxed with an emphasis on human development and family expression of gratitude for their Transylvania education and an student involvement in lectures. studies from Pennsylvania State alternative to traditional class gifts. The scholarship is awarded to She strives to promote the liber- University. an incoming student with financial need and high potential, and it is renewable for four years.

4 TRANSYLVANIA Smith Concert Series to feature Transy puts its energy into conservation harmonious sounds of Anonymous 4 Transylvania has hired Angela Dossett to coordinate Transylvania’s Haggin sustainability efforts that will, in Auditorium will welcome the long run, save the university Anonymous 4 onto its stage millions of dollars in energy Friday, October 8, as the latest costs while reducing its carbon attraction in the Dorothy J. footprint. and Fred K. Smith Concert The sustainability coordinator Series. position was created in January The women’s group, through a grant from the Jessie featuring Ruth Cunningham, Ball duPont Fund. When Dossett Marsha Genensky, Susan Angela Dossett subsequently arrived on campus, Hellauer, and Jacqueline she was impressed with the Transy has hired a company Horner-Kwiatek, uses its vocal work that was already being to evaluate all of the buildings styling along with poetry and done at Transy to promote and give an estimate that would narrative to design its shows. conservation. tell what energy conservation The group draws on a “There were faculty who measures could be put in place, medieval influence but were really involved, students how much it would cost, how branches into contemporary and staff who were engaged,” much the school would save, styles in their music. she said. “The community gar- and how long it would take to The women joined together den, the rain garden, the Thom- pay off the improvements. in 1986 after Rose attended son Energy Star residence But many of the savings can a medieval workshop at a hall—these are things that had come from the campus commu- monastery. She decided to try already started to work their nity itself. the style with a group of all- way into campus culture. The “Residence halls have lots of female voices, and the group biggest need was organization things that are plugged in that she put together sounded so and planning.” go all the time,” Dossett said. wonderful that they put Dossett is developing a sus- “TVs, computers, radios, gam- together a program for the tainability master plan for the ing systems, all of those things public. They continued to campus that will combine sever- use a lot of energy, and most of draw upon music from the al of the efforts already taking them suck energy even when Middle Ages but eventually place and add new ones that they’re not in use. Those are began to explore Renaissance, will take the push in a focused easy and painless things that we contemporary, folk, and direction. can do to save some money.” gospel “We’re reworking a sustain- Dossett debuted a Transy ability committee to lead the Unplugged week in April that effort; it’s going to be 15-20 encouraged students to take core people with some subcom- measures toward conserving mittees to advise,” she said. energy, and that program will “We’re also going to have a be revived in the fall with new series of campus-wide forums features, including each of the that will be open to students, residence halls receiving energy faculty, and staff, so as we report cards. develop this plan, we’re getting “Any time you ask for behav- feedback.” ior change, it’s difficult,” she Transylvania conducted an said. “And any time you devel- energy benchmark study that op a big plan that is going to evaluated energy usage and effi- affect operations of an institu- ciency in seven of the buildings tion, that’s going to be difficult. on campus. The report found But there’s a lot of momentum that by improving just those in the direction of going green buildings to perform in the 50th that precedes me, and it makes percentile of the Energy Star it easier for me to jump on that level, the college could save as momentum and go with it and much as $642,000 per year on direct it in a more focused way.” energy bills. An improvement to To contact Dossett, call (859) the Energy Star level on the 233-8278, or e-mail her at entire campus could save up to [email protected]. $1.2 million annually. music. SUMMER 2010 5 Transylvania will become tobacco- free August 1 President Charles L. Shearer has announced that beginning August 1, Transylvania will be a tobacco-free campus. The new policy will prohibit the use of all types of tobacco, Todorova Kurt Gohde/Kremena both smoking and smokeless, in The Community Engagements all buildings, parking lots, and Community engagements course Through the Arts class meets campus-owned grounds, with to work on quilts that were works to stitch together used for AmeriCorps’ Build-A- the one exception being a des- Bed project. ignated smoking area in the Transylvania and its neighbors southeast corner of the residen- In each of its three years, Transylvania, and Kids Café. The engagement program three tial side of campus next to Clay the Community Engagement idea was to use the quilts as slip years ago as a way to use art Hall and the International Through the Arts program, covers for items at a local sec- to connect Transylvania with House. Tobacco use is also pro- taught by art professor Kurt ondhand furniture store and the surrounding community. hibited in personal vehicles Gohde and English professor hold an exhibition, but plans Each year, more and more parked on campus. Kremena Todorova, has grown. changed. community members have The idea was first proposed in After this year’s class, it is even Angela Baldridge ’04, director attended the classes, which 2009, and the university put closer to the goal of bringing of AmeriCorps of Kentucky, had Gohde encourages. together the Tobacco-Free the Transylvania community and just finished a Build-A-Bed proj- “The class is based on the Workplace Advisory Committee, the North Limestone community ect that made beds for 500 Ken- idea that art can be used to cre- which was a panel consisting of together. tucky kids who don’t have beds. ate a dialogue about things that five staff members, two faculty This year’s community The class donated the 50 quilts need to be discussed but maybe members, and two students. engagement course used quilt- from the exhibition and the are uncomfortable to discuss in Two of the eight members were ing as a means to get students quilting bees to that program. other ways,” Gohde said. “The smokers. The committee did a involved in the neighborhood, “We realized we could have idea is to go into the communi- campus-wide survey, set up a which borders campus. Students more use for the quilts after we ty, go to neighborhood associa- Facebook discussion page, held from Transy and the University took them out of the store,” tion meetings, talk to people, two forums asking the commu- of Kentucky worked on the Todorova said. “It worked out and figure out how they define nity for its input, and drafted quilts, and the Quilt Guild of great, not just for the neighbor- their primary concerns. We col- some options for what action to Kentucky put the finishing hood, which was the purpose laborate with as many groups take. Those proposals went to touches on them. The class held for the class, but for the Build- and individuals as we can in the Shearer and the Board of quilting bees in a North Lime- A-Bed project.” community to address those Trustees, and they adopted the stone home, Third Street Stuff, Gohde started the community concerns.” plan of going tobacco free and offering a smoking area. “This has been something that the wellness committee has Princeton professor to present fall Kenan lecture wanted to see for a while,” Princeton University philosophy professor earned B.A. and Ph.D. degrees Ashley Hinton-Moncer, director Kwame Anthony Appiah will deliver the fall in philosophy from Clare Col- of fitness and wellness and Kenan lecture on October 20 at 7:30 p.m. in lege, Cambridge University, chair of the Tobacco-Free Work- Haggin Auditorium. and has taught at Yale Univer- place Advisory Committee, said. Appiah’s presentation is titled “Cosmopoli- sity, Cornell University, Duke “We work with our students tanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers.” His book University, and Harvard University. and employees to help them by the same title won the 2007 Arthur Ross Appiah joined the Princeton faculty in 2002, stop smoking, but it’s hard to Award from the Council on Foreign Relations. where he has appointments as Laurence S. Rocke- stop when they can smoke all Cosmopolitanism is the name given to Appiah’s feller University Professor of Philosophy and in the day long. Even if they don’t new system of ethics, which examines competing University Center for Human Values. He is also stop smoking, less cigarette philosophical claims of various civilizations on the associated with the Center for African American smoke can have a lot of signifi- one hand, and groundless moral relativism on the Studies, programs in African studies and transla- cant health gains.” other. He then arrives at an ethics that celebrates tion studies, and the departments of comparative Transylvania’s current tobacco our common humanity while offering practical literature and politics. policy bans smoking in all build- ways of managing our differences. Funded by a grant from the William R. Kenan ings and within 20 feet from Appiah was born in London but was raised in Jr. Charitable Trust, the lecture is free and open to entrances and walkways. Ghana by his African father and English mother. He the public.

6 TRANSYLVANIA The Rambler improves stature in student journalism There’s a new look to Transylvania’s stu- Terri McLean, who has more than 20 matically, and that we’re bringing not only dent newspaper these days, thanks to the years of journalism experience at daily and what the students want to read, but what addition of a dedicated part-time adviser, weekly newspapers, joined the Transy staff they need to know as well,” she said. new and larger quarters for the Student in 2008 as student media adviser. Her work A sampling of important stories the Publications Office, significantly more stu- has had a marked effect on the proficiency Rambler has covered over the past two years dent participation, and an emphasis on high and enthusiasm of the Rambler staff, stimu- includes articles on the impact of the econo- standards of journalism. lating them to work hard at mastering the my on Transy’s financial situation, selection The Rambler has established itself as a concepts of good journalism and putting of a new university president, and the effect credible and consistent source of news and out a newspaper the campus community on Transy students of a new state law pro- opinion by following a regular publication can be proud of. hibiting texting while driving. Editorials were schedule—most Thursdays during written on Student Government the academic year—and offering its Association proposals on student readers well-written articles on the curfews, diversity on campus, and important campus events and library security. Lighter topics fea- issues, along with engaging feature tured twins at Transy, a photo mon- stories, entertaining columns, and tage of spring break scenes, and the expanded photo coverage. arrival of intercollegiate Quidditch Senior editor-in-chief Grace (from the Harry Potter novels) on Chambers said the staff has the campus. focused on improving virtually every “I think our school newspaper aspect of the Rambler, including its has gotten much better over the standing on campus. past couple of years,” said senior “My goal was to instill a sense of Liz Todd. “The Rambler does a professionalism across the board, in great job of highlighting the content, layout and design, pho- talents of Transylvania students, tography, and in the way we inter- including artists, athletes, and act with news sources,” she said. world travelers.” “We have a presence on campus Sophomore Justin Penticuff is a now, where we were nearly invisi- regular reader of the Rambler and ble before. People expect that we likes the diversity of opinions it should, and will be, there to cover offers. important events.” “It provides a student voice on Judges at the 2010 annual con- campus,” he said. “That’s one thing ference of the Kentucky Intercolle- that drives me to read it, to see giate Press Association (KIPA) how my opinion matches up with recognized the paper’s improve- something in the Rambler. One of ment as they handed out 12 first- the features I look forward to most place awards to Rambler staffers in is Kris Olson’s column (a witty, all areas of newspaper produc- humorous look at varied subjects).” tion—writing, photography, design, Now that the journalism bar has Tyler Young Tyler and copy editing. been raised, Mundell looks forward KIPA members chose Transy to Terri McLean, left, student media adviser, helped senior to the opportunities she will have Grace Chambers, editor-in-chief, and her staff improve the next year as editor-in-chief to make co-host this year’s conference with Rambler during the 2009-10 academic year. the University of Kentucky, another the Rambler even better. indication of the Rambler’s “The production process we have increased stature in scholastic journalism. “What I feel best about is the heightened now works really well, but I think we can The conference was held on Transy’s cam- perception of the Rambler now,” McLean improve our communication between writ- pus in February and attended by approxi- said. “Each term we gain more respect, ers and editors, and between editors and mately 130 students and advisers from 13 more credibility, more professionalism. As a the senior staff,” she said. “Even though I Kentucky colleges and universities. result, the interest from students in wanting know I’ll have some big shoes to fill, I’m “Transylvania can be very proud of the to be on the staff has grown. We had about really looking forward to the challenges.” way the conference was organized and 35 students on staff this year, and I expect run,” said Bob Adams, director of student to have that many this coming year.” publications at Western Kentucky University Campus life editor Erica Mundell, a junior, Correction and a veteran of many KIPA meetings. was named editor-in-chief for 2010-11. She An article on page 3 of the spring issue of Tran- “Everything went smoothly. The friendliness feels the Rambler has done a much better sylvania magazine about a new book co-edited and helpfulness of the hosts always helps to job of covering a diversity of topics in recent by philosophy professor Peter Fosl stated the set the tone for a good conference, and issues. book’s title as Philosophy: The Classical Readings. Transy excelled at that.” “I think the content has improved dra- The correct title is Philosophy: The Classic Read-

SUMMER 2010 7 Board of Trustees members elected Two new members were attorney for the Western elected to the Transylvania District of Kentucky. He earned Board of Trustees at the May his juris doctor degree from board meeting. the University of Kentucky. Erwin Roberts ’94 is an Christopher H. Young is attorney with Frost Brown Todd general manager at Overbrook LLC in Louisville and a captain Farm, a thoroughbred horse in the U.S. Army Judge Advo- farm in Lexington. He was pre- cate General’s Corps. He was viously with Sawyer Media Sys- previously in state government tems. He earned a bachelor’s as secretary of the Personnel degree in electrical and biomed- Cabinet, deputy secretary of ical engineering from Duke Uni- the Environmental and Public versity. He serves on the boards Protection Cabinet, and execu- of the Markey Cancer Center tive director of the Kentucky Foundation and the Gluck Office of Homeland Security. Equine Research Foundation. He was also assistant U.S. TBA’s debut CD features variety of musical styles Musical styles ranging from director for TBA this past year A World Lost chosen for doo-wop to spiritual are found and played a leading role in the among the seven songs that logistics of the EP. First Engagements make up the debut recording by “I felt like a mother, seeing Wendell Berry’s novel A World Lost has been chosen for TBA (Transylvania Boys A Cappel- something go completely this year’s First Engagements: A Community Book Project at la), the popular male singing through production, doing all Transylvania. group that expanded its perform- the paperwork, listening to the First Engagements is a program ance schedule and repertoire sample discs with everyone,” for first-year students to get an during the 2009-10 school year. Keys said. “We’re all proud introduction to the high standards All of the music is American, and extraordinarily pleased of a liberal education at Transylva- with the exception of “The Lion with the EP.” nia through small-group discus- Sleeps Tonight,” composed in Founded in 2006, TBA has sion and analysis of a text. Many 1939 by a South African song- gone from performing as a side- upper-class students, faculty, writer. “Amazing Grace” and light to being featured entertain- and staff read the books as “I’ll Fly Away” are the spirituals, ers, culminating in a May term well and join the discussions “Wade in the Water” is a tradi- show this year in the campus that take place during the tional African-American song center gymnasium that drew a first week of classes. with spiritual overtones, “Loves full house. The group is sched- A World Lost takes place Me Like a Rock” is a folk/rock uled to perform this fall at the in the fictional town of Port number, “Who Put the Bomp?” Alltech FEI World Equestrian William, Ky., and tells the is a doo-wop selection, and “It’s Games, to be held at the Ken- story of Andrew Catlett, a So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yes- tucky Horse Park in Lexington well-known womanizer terday” is a modern rhythm and from September 25-October 10. who was murdered over blues composition. Keys, who will take over as an argument. His nephew, The arrangements are by sen- business director next year, Andy, tells the story as he tries to under- ior Kris Olson, who sings bass believes the group can continue stand the full truth about his uncle’s murder. Along the and is the group’s music director, to improve and expand its way he learns about grief, love, and family as he goes except for “Amazing Grace,” appeal. through life in the backwoods of Kentucky. arranged by senior second tenor “It was very exhilarating for us Berry is a T.S. Eliot Award-win- Josh Motley and Dayton Harris to put on our May term show,” ning writer, and his novel ’09, a former TBA member. he said. “We were overwhelmed received positive reviews from The EP (Extended Play) was by the crowd. We’re becoming publications including Publishers recorded in March in Transy’s Fine more recognized every year. I Weekly and Library Journal. Arts Technology Lab, with music want to make the right connec- Alumni, parents, and friends professor Tim Polashek serving tions for TBA at Transy and in are also encouraged to read the as chief recording engineer, and Lexington so the organization will book and watch Transy’s Face- senior Daniel Porter and juniors continue to grow and find new book page for discussion. Amanda Foley and Kasey Price as opportunities.” assistant engineers. For information on ordering Junior Alex Keys, who sings the EP, contact Keys at Wendell Berry baritone, was assistant business [email protected].

8 TRANSYLVANIA SPORTS Student-athletes Henderlight became the first defense from his goalkeeper’s Earlham joins HCAC female non-scholarship player position, helping the Pioneers Earlham College will join the receive honors to score more than 1,000 points qualify for NCAA Division III Heartland Collegiate Athletic Basketball star Brittany Hen- (1,075) for her Transy career. Championship play during three Conference beginning with the derlight and soccer standout She helped the Pioneers to a of his four seasons, including an 2010-11 academic year. Located Trey Kramer, both products of pair of NCAA Division III Cham- Elite Eight appearance in the in Richmond, Ind., the college Woodford County High School pionship appearances and was a 2009 season. As a senior, he was a member of the North in Versailles, Ky., were named first-team All-Heartland Colle- was an All-HCAC first-team Coast Athletic Conference for female and male Pioneer Ath- giate Athletic Conference selec- pick and a National Soccer the past 20 years. letes of the Year during the tion for three straight years Coaches Association All-Region Founded in 1847, Earlham is annual awards ceremony in after winning Freshman of the third-team selection. an independent, coeducational, May. Academic and leadership Year honors. Liz Todd, a four-year member residential liberal arts college awards were also presented. Kramer keyed the Transy of the field hockey team, with an enrollment of approxi- received the George H. Stopp mately 1,200. The Quakers Award for the Transylvania stu- compete in 16 varsity sports for dent-athlete with the highest men and women. grade point average. A Dean’s The addition of Earlham List student, she graduated brings HCAC membership to summa cum laude. 10 colleges and universities, Matthew Martin, a four-year with six located in Indiana, three member of the men’s golf team, in Ohio, and Transylvania in won the Senior Leadership Kentucky. Award, presented by the Stu- dent Athlete Advisory Commit- tee. He was an All-HCAC golfer Trey Kramer and Brittany who competed in the NCAA Henderlight were named male Division III Championship each and female Pioneer Athletes of of his four seasons. the Year.

First-year infielder Megan Mitchell was Freshman and Player of the Year in the HCAC. No. 17 Washington University in St. Louis Softball wins HCAC, plays 4-2 in the opener, then lost to host No. 13 in NCAA tourney DePauw University 8-6 in eight innings and 4-0 to Trine University to end the season. Regular season and tournament champi- First-year infielder Megan Mitchell swept onships in the Heartland Collegiate Athletic the top individual player honors in the Conference and a trip to the NCAA Division HCAC when she was named Player and III national tournament were the trophies of Freshman of the Year. She led Transy in six an outstanding season by the softball team, offensive categories, including batting aver- which ended the year with a 35-11 overall age (.492), runs scored (49), home runs record and a sparkling 14-2 mark in the (17), runs-batted-in (60), total bases (129), HCAC. and slugging percentage (.977). She was After getting off to a slow start with a named to the Louisville Slugger-National 3-4 early record, Transy caught fire with an Fastpitch Coaches Association All-America eight-game winning streak, including a 5-0 third team. mark in the Spring Rebel Games in Kissim- Mitchell was joined on the All-HCAC first mee, Fla., over spring break. The Pioneers team by junior pitcher Kendra DeArk, junior were 4-2 in the National Fastpitch Coaches second baseman Alicia Winans, and sopho- Association Lead-off Classic in Panama City more outfielder Emily McCarty. DeArk won Beach, Fla., where they won the bronze a school-record 21 games with an earned bracket with a 13-5 win over Lynchburg run average of 1.53. Winans batted .343 College in the finals. and drove in 19 runs, while McCarty had In conference play, the Pioneers ran their 24 RBI and was second on the team in runs record to 6-0 before their first loss, then scored with 48. won eight league games in a row. As regu- Head coach Michelle Manning was lar season champs, Transy hosted the HCAC named HCAC Coach of the Year for the tournament, where they were 3-0, including second straight year. She has a Transy career a 6-2 win over Manchester College in the record of 103-54 after four seasons, includ- title game. ing a 61-21 mark over the past two years. In NCAA tourney play, Transy defeated

SUMMER 2010 9 Men’s golf wins HCAC, with a 6-over-par total of 293 Transy is led by head coach for four rounds, good for 10th Baseball finishes 24-16 Chris Campbell ’00, who has finishes 19th in NCAA place in individual competition. The baseball team had a suc- guided the Pioneers to 20-win The men’s golf team won the Transy’s team score was 1224, cessful season as the Pioneers seasons in all four of his years Heartland Collegiate Athletic which put them in 19th place, finished with a 24-16 overall at the helm. Conference tournament and 47 shots back of first-place record and a 12-10 mark in the competed in the NCAA Division Methodist University. The tour- Heartland Collegiate Athletic Underhill is new field III Championship, each for the nament was played on the Her- Conference that left them one fourth straight year, and fin- shey Links in Hershey, Pa. place shy of qualifying for the hockey coach ished the season ranked No. 19 Highlights of fall and spring conference tournament. Tiffany Underhill, previously in the Golf World/Nike Division regular season play included a The Pioneers traveled to Win- assistant coach at Washington III coaches poll. first-place finish at the Centre ter Haven, Fla., over spring and Lee University, has been The Pioneers swept the top College Invitational and second- break for the RussMatt Central named head field hockey coach. four spots in medalist play in place finishes in invitationals at Florida Invitational and crafted a She replaces Susannah Kil- the HCAC tournament, played Ohio Wesleyan College, Franklin 5-1 record, including a final bourne, who resigned after at the Kettering Golf Club in College, Centre, Wittenberg game 5-0 win over 20th-ranked three seasons. Defiance, Ohio. Transy cruised College, and Defiance College. SUNY Cortland. Underhill was selected follow- to the title with a 38-stroke Frazier was named 2010 Play- In HCAC play, Transy entered ing a nationwide search, accord- margin over runner-up Franklin er and Freshman of the Year in the final week with a shot at ing to athletics director Jack College. the HCAC. He was joined on the fourth and last spot in the Ebel ’77. First-year player Hunter Fra- the All-HCAC first team by conference tournament but A 2006 graduate of Keene zier led the way for Transy with teammates Martin, Mont- dropped a doubleheader on the State College, Underhill played all a 9-over-par total of 295 for gomery, and Tereskho. road to Manchester College to four years and was a first-team the four rounds. That was five The Golf Coaches Association fall just short. all-conference performer. Two shots ahead of two teammates, of America named Frazier to the Junior outfielder Thomas Tol- of her teams qualified for NCAA senior Matthew Martin and NCAA Division III Ping All-Amer- liver and senior pitcher Korey Division III tournament play. sophomore Justin Tereshko. ica second team, Martin and Colyer were named to the All- She was an assistant coach They were followed by first-year Tereskho to the All-Great Lakes HCAC first team. Tolliver led the and physical education teacher player Stephen Montgomery at Region team, and head coach team in runs scored with 38 at Washington and Lee Universi- 304 and sophomore Deuce Brian Lane ’90 as regional and ended his career as Transy’s ty for three years, and she has Wall at 327. Coach of the Year. Lane was all-time batting average leader extensive experience working In the NCAA tournament, also honored as HCAC Coach of at .424. Colyer set a Transy regional field hockey camps in Frazier again paced the Pioneers the Year. career record with 22 wins (6-4 the Northeast and Virginia. this season).

Women’s basketball are co-champs in HCAC The women’s basketball team head coach Greg Todd, who and the 13th all-time leading won 11 of its final 12 Heartland also pointed to a key injury near scorer with 1,075 career points. Collegiate Athletic Conference the end that helped account for She was one of three Pioneers games to claim a share of the Transy’s early exit in the HCAC named to the All-HCAC first regular-season conference title tournament. team, her third straight year to with Franklin College before Senior guard Brittany win that honor. losing to Hanover College in Henderlight broke a finger on Also making the All-HCAC the HCAC tournament to end her shooting hand in practice a first team were junior guard an outstanding season. day after the Pioneers’ 106-71 Olivia Akridge and junior for- The Pioneers wound up with win over the College of Mount ward Holly Milburn. Akridge a 13-3 league record and 19-7 St. Joseph. was the team’s second leading overall mark. After beginning “After that game, we were scorer at 14.1 points a game HCAC play with a 2-2 record, really on a high, and then we and the leader in assists with Transy caught fire, losing only lost our most valuable player,” 95. Milburn led the team in to Franklin on the road in the Todd said. “As a senior and a scoring with a 15.1 average rest of conference play. The Pio- great leader, she was the heart and rebounding with 6.4 a neers lost 87-64 in the confer- and soul of our team this year.” contest. ence semifinals to Hanover, a In spite of missing the last Todd, completing his fourth team they had defeated twice three games of the season, year at the Transy helm, was in the regular season. Henderlight wound up as Tran- named by his peers in the “We felt good that we were sy’s third leading scorer with a HCAC as conference Coach of playing our best basketball at 12.7 average, leading 3-point the Year for the second season the end of the season,” said shooter with 34 made goals, in a row. Junior guard Olivia Akridge was an All-HCAC selection. Joseph Rey Au

10 TRANSYLVANIA Men’s basketball defeats reigning NCAA Division III champions A win over the nation’s top- the Ravens were ranked No. 13. starter, he completed his career point baskets in 12 attempts ranked team was a highlight for “The toughest games on our with 1,083 points, good for against the College of Mount the men’s basketball team, schedule were the games where 35th on the school’s all-time list. St. Joseph in a 92-63 Pioneer which tied for fourth place in we played the best,” said head The other top player was win. His 33 points against the the Heartland Collegiate Athlet- coach Brian Lane ’90. “But first-year guard Barrett Meyer, Lions was a single-game high ic Conference while fashioning because of the overall difficulty the second leading scorer with for a Transy player last year. a 14-12 overall record. of our non-conference schedule, an 11.5 average. He set school Meyer’s overall play earned him Transylvania took on No. 1 we never really understood how and HCAC single-game records the HCAC’s Freshman of the and two-time defending NCAA good we could be. Six of those when he poured in 11 three- Year award. Division III national champion teams wound up in the NCAA Washington University in St. tournament, and Wooster and Senior guard Tim Tierney Louis in the first round of the Carthage University made the was an All-HCAC player College of Wooster Invitational Sweet 16.” in late December. Paced by the Transy finished with a 10-6 game-high 25 points of senior record in the HCAC, good for a guard Tim Tierney, the Pioneers tie for fourth place. In the first led by as many as 17 in the sec- round of the conference tourna- ond half before settling for a ment, the Pioneers lost to Man- 73-69 win. chester College 64-57 to end Other notable victories the season. included a 75-69 overtime road Tierney was named to the All- win over traditional power HCAC first team for the second Maryville College and a 76-72 straight year after leading Transy win over HCAC rival Anderson in scoring with a 13.2 average

University at Anderson when and assists with 85. A four-year Joseph Rey Au

Carrithers gets Transy’s Waiting for the Pioneers at ty. The women’s regular season the finals, where the Pioneers the host Emory University courts record was 5-5, while the men dispatched Rose-Hulman Insti- 1st track and field title was Vassar College, ranked No. were 4-7. tute of Technology 5-2. That Sophomore javelin thrower 22 in the country. Transy wasn’t In the four-day BMCC, held marked the 64th straight HCAC Aaron Carrithers captured Transyl- able to win a singles or doubles at the Mecklenburg County win for Transy in a streak that vania’s first individual title in track match, losing 5-0 to the Brew- Aquatics Center in Charlotte, dates back to the 2002 season. and field since the university ers and ending their combined N.C., first-year swimmer Aman- The Pioneers headed for host added the sport to its varsity line- fall/spring seasons with a 14-7 da Skinner led the women’s Washington and Lee University up prior to the 2009 season. overall record. team with an 11th-place finish to take on Wilkes University, Carrithers’ throw of 54.61 The Pioneers are led by head in the 200-meter breaststroke. champions of the Freedom Con- meters took first place in the coach Chuck Brown. The men were paced by first- ference, in NCAA Division III Heartland Collegiate Athletic year swimmer Michael Kendall action. Transy won two of three Conference championship. For Swimming, diving with a 15th-place showing in doubles matches to open play, the women, a fourth-place the 200-meter backstroke. then lost four singles matches in showing in the 400 meters by dominate in four meets a 5-2 loss that ended the season. first-year runner Ria Keegan The men’s and women’s Men’s tennis wins 8th Sophomore Will Palmer won (1-minute, 2.92 seconds) was a swimming and diving teams his second straight HCAC Player highlight. Both the men’s and each won four meets against straight HCAC title of the Year award as he compiled women’s teams placed ninth in the same four schools during Transylvania won its eighth a 17-7 record playing at No. 1 in the HCAC team competition. the regular season, then turned consecutive Heartland Collegiate singles and doubles. His HCAC The Pioneers are led by head in 13th- and 8th-place finishes, Athletic Conference men’s tennis mark was 13-1, including 5-0 in coach Jason Moncer. respectively, in the year-ending tournament championship and the conference tourney. Bluegrass Mountain Conference made its fourth straight appear- Pioneers who joined Palmer Women’s tennis plays Championships. ance in the NCAA Division III on the All-HCAC first team The Pioneers, led by head Championships while compiling were seniors Kyle Clayton, Lee in first NCAA tourney coach George Villarreal, defeat- a 12-6 overall record, including Gammon, and Dalton Main, and sophomore Joseph Glass. After winning the Heartland ed Union College, Franklin a 7-0 regular season mark in the Head coach Chuck Brown Collegiate Athletic Conference College, Lindsey Wilson College, HCAC. was honored by his peers with tournament title last fall, the and Salem University. The In the HCAC tournament, his eighth straight HCAC Coach women’s tennis team headed women also finished first in the played at the West Indy Racquet of the Year award. His all-time to Atlanta in May for their first Rose-Hulman Institute of Tech- Club in Indianapolis, Transy Transy record is 116-32, includ- appearance in the NCAA nology Invitational, topping the defeated Manchester College ing a 58-4 conference mark. Division III Championship. host school and Butler Universi- and Franklin College to make

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CHANGE at the TOP R. Owen Williams hen he set out 10 years ago to A world traveler Wreshape his career from that of a Williams arrived at the decision to brings expertise and successful Wall Street investment banker change his career focus after a 24-year to the role of a college professor or admin- sojourn in the business world with four enthusiasm to his istrator, R. Owen Williams was searching companies that took him to assignments role as president for something that would allow him to from New York City to Tokyo. He arrives make full use of his life experiences. in Lexington and at Transylvania of Transylvania After leaving the financial world in following a 10-year period of academic 1999 and spending the next decade preparation, along with some soul- engaged in scholarly work at several pres- BY WILLIAM A. BOWDEN searching, that confirmed an interest in tigious institutions, during which time he scholarship and higher education that he Photos by Joseph Rey Au completed his Ph.D. in history at Yale identified as early as his undergraduate University, Williams, 58, found what he days in the 1970s. was looking for in the presidency of Tran- After taking an A.B. degree in sylvania University. philosophy from Dartmouth College in As he takes over the top administrative 1974, Williams studied at Cambridge Uni- position on August 1 from Charles L. versity in England, earning an M.A. in Shearer, who is retiring July 31 after a intellectual history in 1976 and setting historic 27-year tenure in office, Williams his sights initially on an academic career. can hardly restrain his enthusiasm about “When I left Cambridge, I promised the chance to shape the next chapter in myself I would go back to school someday the story of Kentucky’s oldest college as and do a Ph.D.,” he said. “I wasn’t sure Transylvania’s 25th president. I was prepared at that point in my life to “What was driving me in my transition take on a career in academic pursuits. I from the world of business to academics had friends from college who said, ‘Come were two life goals, which were to do a on down to Wall Street and check it out.’ Ph.D. and get involved in college admin- So I went, very much on a lark. I never istration,” Williams said. “When expected that for myself at all.” Transylvania came along, I realized it was Even without a business or economics a fabulous opportunity. I’ve thought so degree, or apprenticeships or internships much about all the aspirations I have for at investment banks that most Wall Street the university. It’s exciting in the extreme.” beginners have on their résumés, Williams William T. Young Jr., chairman of the soon found himself hired by Salomon Board of Trustees, directed the national Brothers and enrolled in the investment search that brings Williams to Transylvania. firm’s first training class for new employ- He feels the university is getting someone ees. who is an excellent fit. “I was in a group of 30 people, and I “With his successful career on Wall was the only one without a business or Street and his decision to change direction law degree,” Williams recalled. “They all and enter the academic world, Owen had the typical background for a career in Williams has unique strengths to lead business—I didn’t.” Transylvania to the next level,” Young After completing his training, he was said. “His educational background, his assigned to an office in Los Angeles, managerial experience, and his ability to followed by San Francisco and Tokyo. It relate to people of different backgrounds was the beginning of more than two will serve Transylvania well. I am especially decades in the high-powered world of encouraged by his excitement and enthu- investment banking that eventually took siasm.”

SUMMER 2010 13 him to Goldman Sachs, Bear Stearns, and alumnus of Transy and completed his finally First Union Capital Markets in degree at Yale. Charlotte, N.C., where in 1999 he left the “Samuel Miller is one of the most business world behind. important jurists in 19th-century American Williams had done well in his financial history, and John Marshall Harlan is my career. During his 13 years with Salomon hero and the central figure in my disser- Brothers, he became director and global tation,” Williams said. “So I felt as if there product manager for the firm’s were a spiritual connection between me government bond department, and was and Transylvania even before coming vice president, Salomon Brothers Asia. He here.” co-managed the world’s largest primary During the application process for the government bond dealership. Transy position, Williams studied the He was an executive director at history of the university and has become Goldman Sachs, developing the company’s very impressed with the role the school real estate business in non-Japan Asia, and has played in the history of higher a senior managing director at Bear Stearns. education in America. He read At his last stop, First Union, he was Transylvania: Tutor to the West by history managing director and head of fixed professor emeritus John D. Wright Jr., the income, increasing revenues in that definitive story of the university. segment by 10-fold to over $100 million. “I love history, and this is an institution steeped in history,” he said. “I think a big Heading back to campus part of what makes Transylvania special is As the new century began, Williams that it’s an American institution going plunged back into the academic world by back to the very beginning of our coun- pursuing a Ph.D. in American history at try.” Yale and winning a series of fellowships along the way at Yale Law School, Harvard The Transy spirit University Law School, and New York As he arrives at Transylvania, Williams University School of Law. He was awarded plans to focus initially on admissions and the Ph.D. in 2009, and took an M.S.L. in fund-raising while spending time listening law from Yale in 2007 when he felt he and learning about the university before needed more background in legal matters deciding on other initiatives. to support his historical research. He “I think it’s going to take three-to-six taught a number of history courses at Yale months just listening to people who know while working on his doctorate. Transylvania well and can help me There are intriguing coincidences understand the spirit of this place,” he between Williams’ scholarly interests and said. “I need to come to a firm the history of Transylvania. His understanding of what Transylvania has dissertation, “Unequal Justice Under Law: to offer students and what sets this The Supreme Court and the First Civil institution apart from all others. That’s Rights Movement, 1857-1883,” has as its my first order of business. Then it will be two primary protagonists U.S. Supreme my job to turn around and play back to B. J. Gooch, Transylvania Special Court Justices Samuel Miller and John the Transylvania community what I think Collections librarian, shows Owen Williams one of the rare books in the Marshall Harlan, both alumni of they’ve told me, and hopefully set a new university’s holdings. Transylvania. Miller studied medicine at vision for the institution. Transy, while Harlan graduated from the “People have asked me, ‘What do you

“I had a board member tell me that the defining element of the Transy experience is the sense of belonging, and I think that sense of belonging is an outgrowth, in many respects, of the closeness of the community.”

law school. want to change about Transylvania?’ I don’t Also, Williams held the Cassius want to change anything about the Marcellus Clay Postdoctoral Fellowship university. I think Transylvania’s great. at Yale just prior to accepting the What I want to do is ameliorate what is Transylvania presidency. Clay, the famed already here, enhance it, augment it, build emancipationist and minister to Russia in it.” President Lincoln’s administration, is an In admissions, Williams would like to 14 TRANSYLVANIA increase the number of out-of-state students. plans to build on is its essential character as He would also like to build the applicant a small, compact campus in the midst of a pool, thereby driving down the number of city of 270,000 with all its urban advan- acceptances as a percentage of the pool and tages. enhancing the quality of the student body. “The size of Transylvania’s campus is Williams’ financial acumen will serve confined by the fact that it’s in the middle Transylvania well when it comes to of a city, yet the campus is very green and identifying new sources of funds for the beautiful,” Williams said. “It isn’t like scholarships and many other academic ini- Hunter College in the vastness of New York tiatives, student life programs, and capital City on the one hand, or projects that the university continues to small colleges in very rural develop. locations on the other hand. In fact, in addition to his primary business This is a very special location. career, Williams comes to Transylvania with There aren’t many colleges an impressive résumé of volunteer work for that have the best of both non-profit organizations that has included worlds.” extensive fund-raising as well as the creation Williams also sees Transyl- of strategic plans to alter and improve those vania’s relatively small campus organizations’ focus. and enrollment as advantages For example, as president of the Wilton in creating a sense of com- (Conn.) Historical Society, he wrote an munity and closeness among extensive long-range strategic plan that over- students, faculty, and staff. hauled the entire structure and purpose of “I had a board member the organization. The plan shifted the focus tell me that the defining ele- from managing 22 historic buildings to an ment of the Transy experience expanded historical educational agenda is the sense of belonging,” he aimed at everyone from school children to said. “And I think that sense of belonging A reception was held at Graham seniors. is an outgrowth, in many respects, of the Cottage to welcome Owen Williams to Transylvania. Above, Williams In financial campaigns for Dartmouth, closeness of the community. Transy is a small talks with William T. Young Jr., left, St. John’s College at Cambridge, the school, but I think that’s very much in chairman of the Board of Trustees, Multiple Sclerosis Society, and the Wilton keeping with the essence of a liberal arts and vice-chairman James G. Kenan Historical Society, Williams has been respon- education.” III. Below, Williams shakes hands with first-year student Andrew Goff. sible for raising millions of dollars to support On a personal level, Williams, who was their programs. born in Baltimore and lived “I have always derived great fulfillment in Texas, New Mexico, and from the time I have devoted to fund-raising California growing up, is for non-profit groups,” he said. “I like fund- already feeling a sense of raising, and not everybody does. In this day belonging to the Transylvania and age, if you actually enjoy it, I think you community and looks have a certain responsibility to do it.” forward to becoming a citizen Williams will bring to his new position of Kentucky. He and his wife, many contacts within the financial world Jennifer, have a son, Tucker, from his time spent on Wall Street, and he 19, and a daughter, Penelope, looks forward to taking the Transylvania 15. message to new destinations. “Everyone has been so “I have the enviable opportunity of friendly and warm toward becoming a champion for Transylvania, us,” he said. “People have being able to travel around the region and been very welcoming in a way the country, making it more clear to new that was a big part of our deci- audiences just how wonderful this university sion to come to Transy. I is,” he said. hope we’ll be accepted as Kentuckians in reasonably short order.” Transylvania’s strengths Williams believes Transylvania’s potential As he becomes more and more to grow and improve over the coming years comfortable in the president’s role, Williams is great. hopes to use all the skills he has acquired “Of the institutions that are this size, I thus far in the areas of financial management, think Transylvania could be one of the best marketing, fund-raising, academics, com- in the country,” he said. “Why not? There’s munication, and teaching to move not much in our way. For the past several Transylvania forward. decades, Transylvania has been flying high. One of the strengths of the university he If anything, I hope it can expand its wings even farther.” ■ SUMMER 2010 15 A historic commencement

On the eve of his retirement, President Charles L. Shearer confers degrees on the 240 members of the class of 2010, gives commencement address

ransylvania awarded bachelor of arts degrees to 240 seniors on May 29 in T Andrew M. Moore II ’71, left, and President Charles L. Shearer the final commencement ceremony for President Charles L. Shearer, who will retire from the presidency at the end of TWO RECEIVE HONORARY DEGREES July after a 27-year tenure in the office. A crowd of friends and family, faculty Andrew M. Moore II ’71 received Charles L. Shearer received an hon- and trustees looked on from Old Morrison an honorary doctor of humane letters orary doctor of humane letters degree lawn as Shearer conferred the diplomas. degree in recognition of his in recognition of the extraordinary con- In delivering the commencement address, distinguished career as a physician spe- tributions he made to Transylvania he related his feelings at leaving office with cializing in plastic and reconstructive during his 27-year presidential tenure. his devotion to Transy students surgery, and for being a founding Shearer took office in 1983, when throughout his tenure. member and president of Surgery on Transylvania had an enrollment of 650, “What has given me the greatest joy Sunday, an acclaimed program offering a minimal endowment, and an aging over the years has simply been knowing free medical services to the working physical plant. During his tenure, the students,” Shearer said. “Because I am poor. He is associated with Plastic Sur- university enjoyed record enrollments, departing from the presidency, I feel as geons of Lexington, chief of staff at the reaching an all-time high of 1,156 in though I am part of the class of 2010 and Lexington Health South Surgery 2008. The endowment now stands at that we are graduating together.” Center, and affiliated with Saint Joseph well over $100 million, and the campus Shearer came to Transylvania in 1979 Hospital, Saint Joseph East Hospital, has been transformed by major capital as vice president for finance and was and Central Baptist Hospital. projects totaling more than $50 million. appointed president in 1983. His 27 years Moore organized the volunteer serv- The expansion and rebuilding of the of service is the longest tenure of any ices of more than 300 medical profes- campus has been unprecedented. New president in the history of Kentucky’s sionals and support personnel to construction has included a classroom oldest college, founded in 1780. provide free outpatient services ranging building, a library, a theater, three res- “Reflecting on the last 27 years as pres- from general operations to idence halls, a student center, a book- ident, I can look back with the knowledge reconstructive surgeries and dental store/café, an athletics center, two that I have given it my all,” Shearer said. work. The income-eligible patients are athletics fields, and a practice field. Ren- “I will always cherish the relationships I without health insurance and unable ovation projects have created a library have had with my colleagues on the faculty to qualify for federal or state assistance. and an art building, are modernizing and staff, and I love this institution.” The Bluegrass Area Chapter of the the science laboratories, and brought Graduating senior and student speaker American Red Cross named Moore its air conditioning to three older residence Tyler Murphy, a political science major 2009 Fayette County Hero of the Year halls. from Flatwoods, Ky., urged his classmates for his work with Surgery on Sunday. Faculty and student academic quality to strive to solve the world’s problems. The national news organization CNN were enhanced during Shearer’s tenure “The education we have acquired over selected him as a 2010 CNN Hero and through the Bingham Program for these past four years has empowered us to a nominee for the 2010 CNN Hero of Excellence in Teaching and an make a difference in this world,” Murphy the Year. expansion of the number of students said. “We do not fully understand the Moore earned his medical degree receiving the prestigious William T. world’s problems, but that doesn’t mean from the University of Kentucky and Young Scholarship from 10 to 25. we shouldn’t seek to solve them. That is completed his internship and residency A native of Louisville, Shearer earned our mission. This is our moment.” in general surgery at Charlotte a B.S. in accounting and an M.A. in diplo- Also during the ceremony, retiring Memorial Hospital in North Carolina. macy and international commerce from art professor Dan S. Selter was awarded He was a resident in plastic surgery at the University of Kentucky. He earned faculty emeritus status, and Shearer was Vanderbilt University. an M.A. and Ph.D., both in economics, awarded president emeritus status. ■ from Michigan State University.

16 TRANSYLVANIA Graduate Elijah Truman, a history major from Lexington, is joined by family and friends, from left, his mother, Cheryl Truman ’79; Delcie Truman, his grandmother; Conley Wilkerson ’51; and Nash Cox.

Where will they go from here? Princeton University, Johns Hopkins University, Wake Forest University, and the JANELLE JOHNSON completed a self-designed international affairs major and was accepted to the University of Chicago University of Chicago are among the pres- Harris School of Public Policy Studies. The Louisville native will enter the master’s degree program with a focus on international tigious schools associated with the graduate policy. Her Transy experience was highlighted by a semester studying abroad in Amman, Jordan. There she attended classes in subjects plans of members of the class of 2010. ranging from Jordanian economics to foreign policy to social welfare policy. She was able to travel and see the Great Pyramids, visit the Arab League, and go to Luxor, Egypt, to see the Valley of the Kings. She even learned how to make papyrus paper. Her goal is to work in foreign relations, such as for the United States Department of State, and she found she has a keen interest specifically in the Middle East. “I had a host family for about five days when we stayed in the northern part of the country, which is more rural and pretty poor compared to the middle class family I was staying with in the city,” she said. “Just talking to my host mom about the everyday life there and her hopes and aspirations for herself and her children, it’s one of those moments that make you appreciate being human.”

CANDACE JOHNSON, a business administration major (marketing emphasis) and English minor from Symsonia, Ky., was accepted to the Wake Forest University School of Law. She chose the school over offers from the University of Georgia, University of North Carolina, University of Kentucky, Emory University, and Vanderbilt University. Johnson is planning to use a law degree to pursue in-house business law. “Eventually I would like to work as an in-house lawyer with a corporation—combine my business experience with a law degree,” she said. “I think if I’m an in-house lawyer with my company that I’m representing, my work will be a lot more enjoyable and meaningful than if I had some random client come in and pay me.” She said working in marketing while at Transy heightened CHRIS MONSANTO, a computer science major (minors in her appreciation for business. She did an internship at Smith mathematics and music) from Frankfort, Ky., will begin the Management Group, where she helped the consulting firm Ph.D. program in computer science at Princeton University this redesign its marketing materials, website, and cut sheets. fall. He chose Princeton over other acceptances at Yale University “All of the things that I wanted to do—interact with people and Brown University. and be creative and do it in a way that is analytical—I’ve gotten At the suggestion of one of his Transylvania professors, he to do all of that through marketing,” she said. completed two summers of undergraduate research, both times

SUMMER 2010 17 with funding from the National Science Foundation. He first and the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning, but her went to Auburn University to investigate power consumption favorite learning experience was an internship with the Kentucky issues, then went to DePauw University to work on functional Department of Public Advocacy. language programs. “I really enjoyed my time there,” she said. “I interned there “I used my work at DePauw as the basis for a paper I presented in my first year and learned about the determinants of criminal at the International Symposium on Implementation and behavior and social behavior in general.” Application of Functional Languages, held in New Jersey, where This summer Ramchandani is working for the Freedom School I was the only undergraduate in attendance,” Monsanto said. in Louisville teaching literacy to inner-city youth. One of his goals is to develop programming languages that will close what he sees as a “disconnect” between the way people think and how a computer thinks. “I think everyone should have the ability to program a computer to customize what they’re working with, to make sure they’re as productive as they can be,” he said. “I want to make it fundamentally easier to program computers. I’m very excited about the research I’ll be getting into at Princeton.”

JOSH SCHWARTZ, who completed a double major in biology and chemistry and a minor in philosophy, will begin the Ph.D. program in biological chemistry and molecular biology at Johns Hopkins University this fall. The native of Florence, Ky., is primarily interested in neuroscience and hopes someday to be a professor at a research university. He found that coming to Transy gave him the advantages ASHLEY RAMCHANDANI will be attending the University of a small liberal arts college and the chance to do research at of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy Studies, where she large universities over the summers. He was at the University of will study public policy. Cincinnati, Brown University, and Stanford University during The self-designed criminal behavior major from Louisville his Transy summers. hopes to one day work for a non-profit or a government “Another great advantage I gained from going to Transy organization in victims’ advocacy or other social issues. instead of a larger school was the faculty interaction,” he said. “Ideally I would like to work for an institution doing research “Having faculty know you and spend time with you has been and advocacy work for people who are wrongfully convicted or great. They wrote recommendation letters for me that were very families that find themselves continually involved with the system,” personable.” she said. “I think a lot of my interest comes from believing in At Johns Hopkins, Schwartz is looking forward to learning justice being served and individuals getting proper opportunities more about the brain and mental processes at the biochemistry to be everything they want to be, free from social problems such level. as lack of education, health care, that sort of thing.” “I want to understand synaptic plasticity,” he said. “Our brain Ramchandani did internships with the Kentucky chapter of is plastic and able to change in response to environmental stimuli. the American Civil Liberties Union and volunteered at the Lex- I want to study learning and memory on the molecular level. ington-Fayette Urban County Government Health Department That’s just fascinating to me.” ■ Photos by Joseph Rey Au

18 TRANSYLVANIA Alumni Weekend 2010 Honoring Shearers was a big part of Alumni Weekend 2010 More than 650 alumni and visitors attended events at the said. “The amazing suc- 2010 Alumni Weekend April 9-11. In addition to the fun and cess of the Shearer era memories, they were able to honor President Charles L. Shearer came as a result of all of for his 27 years of service to Transylvania, and his wife, Susan, those qualities, but also for her role as first lady and ambassador for the university. of his heart and his The weekend kicked off with the annual gathering at character. An Keeneland Race Course on Friday and culminated with a chapel institution reflects the service Sunday morning in Old Morrison Chapel. Many of the character of its leader. alumni socialized with current and former faculty and staff Transy has experienced members during an alumni celebration luncheon Saturday in success in large part the William T. Young Campus Center. because people are Michael Nichols ’68, who is currently teaching at Transylvania drawn to Dr. Shearer’s as a visiting professor of psychology, gave the keynote address heart and character.” Psychology professor Michael Nichols ’68 and used the opportunity to talk about his time at the university, After graduating addresses the alumni celebration luncheon. what it was like to return after 40 years, and about the legacy from Transy in 1968, that the Shearers will leave with the institution. Nichols completed his master’s degree and Ph.D. from the “In 2008 a dream came true for me—I was asked to teach at University of Kentucky, where he worked as director of the Transylvania as a visiting professor,” Nichols said. “I moved into counseling and testing center and as associate professor of Hazelrigg Hall in 1964; it was a boys’ dorm then. In 2008 I behavioral medicine at the College of Medicine. He also has moved back into Hazelrigg Hall, which had been converted into served as staff psychologist at Eastern State Hospital and at the faculty offices. It was remarkably the same 44 years later. It was Eastern Kentucky University counseling center. A recipient of like coming home.” a Distinguished Service Award from Transy in 1992, he has won Nichols shared memories about some of his favorite professors numerous honors and awards for excellence in teaching and from his time as a student, which made for some funny stories. other professional endeavors. “I remember being the anesthesiologist for a pancreatectomy At the end of the luncheon, the Alumni Association elected on a rat in our wonderful Dr. (Lila) Boyarsky’s biology class,” Melony J. Lane ’90 president of the Alumni Executive Board he recalled. “I realized that anesthesiology was not a natural and Candice Caine Zaluski ’71 president-elect. ■ talent for me because in the middle of surgery, the rat woke up, Photos by Joseph Rey Au looked around, evaluated the situation, chose not to participate, and ran out the front door of the Carnegie Science Building A time to reflect with Dr. Boyarsky and five students in hot pursuit.” It was Sunday morning of Alumni Weekend 2010, and He also reflected on what those professors taught him and Charlie Taylor ’65 was in a reflective mood after attending his classmates, as well as things he had to learn on his own. many of the weekend’s events and catching up with classmates “We worked hard, and we learned about service and leadership and professors. Sitting alone in Haupt Plaza, Taylor, a and empathy for others,” he said. “We made a lot of mistakes, Vanderbilt University senior development officer and accom- we fell in love, got our hearts broken, and we learned. We learned plished singer-songwriter, penned these words. how to think and write and read and see things more clearly and listen more intensely. We left Transy with a very different vision of the world and ourselves. We were given a vision of an education This Place Beyond the Woods that was a lifelong journey, not a destination.” We clung to you those fast four years, until you bid us fly... Nichols said that much of the credit for Transy maintaining And now it seems like yesterday, when we all said goodbye. those ideals goes to President Shearer, who helped bring the We promised that we’d stay in touch, but soon life intervened... school out from hard times and mold it into the university it is I lost some steps along the way, I’m grey and not as fleet. today. He got emotional as he began to talk about his friend. “Thirty years ago, Transy was in a pretty shaky state. Many But we’ve returned to say hello, to gather once again... of us who lived around here were worried. Enrollment, finances, To laugh once more at yesterday, and revel in old friends. and morale were at a low,” he said. “President Shearer brought We married, and the children came, the climb, careers and more... the campus stability and hope. Its standing as an institution of And we looked up to find one day, the years had fairly flown. higher learning has grown, and Transy is considered one of the We’ll not debate who lost or gained, fame fades away like the smoke... top liberal arts programs anywhere.” ’Tis all about the days we shared, so many years ago. Among Shearer’s traits, Nichols named hard work, So lift a glass to we who are, and those who have gone on... commitment to students, extraordinary financial and And our first meeting ’neath these trees, upon this hallowed lawn. administrative expertise, and love for vision and learning. But success involves more than just those leadership abilities, he said. We love you Transylvania, you’re all that’s true and good... “All of those qualities are necessary, but not sufficient, to do One day soon my ghost will walk, this place beyond the woods. all of the amazing accomplishments over the last 30 years,” he

SUMMER 2010 19 Enjoying the reception at the Marriott Griffin Gate are (left) Kathryn Mitchell Hite ’85, left, and Teresa Warren Walker ’85; (above) Charlie Taylor ’65, left, Martha-Frances Herrin Burak ’65, and Gary Burak.

2010 University Awards MORRISON MEDALLION TRANSYLVANIA MEDAL Presented to alumni for outstanding service to Transylvania Presented to non-alumni who, through friendship and and its programs outstanding service, have promoted Transylvania Dorothy Steinbeck Smith ’42 Richard J. Corman, a member of the created a perpetual gift of music to her Transylvania Board of Trustees, serves on alma mater in 2007 when she created the Executive Committee of the board the Dorothy J. and Fred K. Smith and has provided invaluable input to Endowed Concert Series, which includes Transylvania since joining the board in the name of her late husband, a 1940 2007. His daughter Shawna Ashlee Transylvania graduate. The series brings graduated from Transylvania in May, and world-class performers to campus for his daughter April Leigh is a sophomore free concerts. She also created the at Transy. He is founder and owner of endowed Sharon Sue Smith Memorial R. J. Corman Railroad Group, headquar- Scholarship, named for the Smiths’ late tered in Nicholasville, Ky., and one of the daughter, which awards scholarships to first-year students, with nation’s leading railroad service providers with divisions in 20 preference given to music majors or minors. She is a retired states and Canada. music teacher and professional singer, a former violinist with the Lexington Philharmonic Orchestra, and a published composer OUTSTANDING YOUNG ALUMNI and poet. AWARD Presented to an alumnus or alumna who graduated no more IRVIN E. LUNGER AWARD than 18 years ago, with a strong record of volunteer service and Presented for unique and exceptional service to Transylvania support of their alma mater Karen K. Caldwell ’77, a member of Jennifer A. Moore ’95, a partner in the Transylvania Board of Trustees, is a Grossman & Moore, PLLC, in Louisville, former member of the Alumni Executive was the Kentucky Bar Association’s Out- Board and past president of the Bluegrass standing Young Lawyer in 2005. After Area Alumni Club. A loyal donor, she has organizing the College Democrats and helped secure support for choir perform- serving as president during her Transy ance tours of Europe. She volunteers to years, she became the nation’s youngest write letters to prospective students and state party chair when she served the speak at the admissions office’s Scholar- Kentucky Democratic Party in that role ship Day, she delivered the commence- from 2007-09. She earned her juris ment address in 2005, and she served on doctor from the University of Kentucky the recent presidential search committee. A graduate of the Uni- College of Law, which selected her for its first Young Professional versity of Kentucky College of Law, she is a former United States Alumni Award in 2008. Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky and is currently U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Kentucky, a lifetime appointment.

20 TRANSYLVANIA Alumni Weekend 2010

Three players, team inducted into Pioneer Hall of Fame

Three basketball players from markedly different eras and the Maria Paglialungo ’71 played bas- entire 1999 women’s soccer team, including their coaches, were ketball for four years and field hockey for inducted into the Pioneer Hall of Fame during Alumni Weekend two years. A prolific scorer in basketball, 2010. she tossed in 48 points against Midway The Hall of Fame recognizes former athletes, coaches, and College, 30 against the University of others who have made outstanding contributions to Transylvania Louisville, and 36 points in each of three athletics. games during her senior year when the Andre K. Flynn ’85 was a four-year Pioneers were 9-1. As a semi-pro softball letter winner on the men’s basketball team. player, she played in nine national tour- He was the Pioneers’ outstanding naments. She lives in Lexington and is freshman, a team captain and most the owner of Energy Medicine, a holistic valuable player for two years, Male Athlete health and fitness company. of the Year his junior season, and an NAIA The 1999 women’s soccer team became the first team to District 32 All-American his senior year. be inducted into the Pioneer Hall of Fame. The team fashioned He left Transy as the men’s No. 4 all-time one of the greatest seasons in Transy’s 130-year sports history scorer with 1,670 points and still ranks by winning 23 straight games and advancing to the NAIA national No. 8. He is head basketball coach at championship game in Miami before losing 3-0 to Westmont Fayette County High School in College. The team’s 23-1 record included 16 shutouts and an Fayetteville, Ga. aggregate score of 73-11 against all opponents. The Pioneers Stanley Hadley Jr. ’53 was a four-year were led by head coach Parviz Zartoshty ’85, now director of letter winner on the men’s basketball team soccer, and former assistant coach Scott Scanlon. and a member of head coach C. M. Newton’s first two Transy teams. In his Below, front row, from left: Rhea Andrews Hatfield ’02, Meghan senior year he was named Mr. Pioneer and Kane Trimble ’01, Lyndi Campbell Lowman ’02, Jacqueline E. Glass ’01, Danielle Englekamp Halfhill ’03; second row, Janice L. Hall was president of the student council. He ’02, co-captain Sarah Focke Collins ’00, Kim Lowman Sutton ’01, is a former member and president of the Tracy Kammerer Wishon ’01, Kristen L. Byrd ’02, Jean-Anne Alumni Executive Board and the recipient Jensen ’02, Michelle Topmiller Waymeyer ’02, Leslie N. Moyers of the Morrison Medallion in 2000. He ’00; back row, assistant coach Scott Scanlon, head coach Parviz Zartoshty ’85, Shelby Lynn Marshall ’02, Leslie Ghibaudy Stone is a retired family physician who lives in ’01, co-captain Shannon Bacher Crump ’00, Sarah Kelley Hilvers Lexington. ’00, Amanda Pemberton Christensen ’01.

SUMMER 2010 21 LIFE part of the park,” she said. “You can stand Sarah Craighead ’78, superintendent of in Death Valley and look around and see Death Valley National Park, explains some only the park; you can’t see outside the of the park’s unique natural features to a in visitor. boundary.” It is also the hottest and lowest place Death in the western hemisphere with elevations The lower elevations of the park are ranging from Badwater Basin at 282 feet home to wildlife like road runners, ground below sea level to the Panamint Mountains squirrels, and coyotes, while big horn sheep at 11,000 feet above. and lizards can be seen in the higher ele- Valley A world of contrasts and extremes, vations. Sarah Craighead ’78 Death Valley may sound like a lifeless land- “Early spring temperatures here are per- works to preserve and scape, but it is populated by numerous fect,” Craighead said. “The park is a lively protect the nation’s largest species of reptiles, birds, and mammals all place then, with temperatures in the mid- national park living in a dramatic landscape of sand 70s and birds migrating through. We have BY LORI-LYN HURLEY ’92 dunes, snow-capped mountains, and multi- hummingbirds that time of year.” The name Death Valley sounds forbid- colored rock layers. Death Valley is usually considered a ding, but not to Sarah Craighead ’78, Death Valley got its name during the winter destination, but Craighead said the superintendent of Death Valley National height of the California gold rush when a park has a surprising number of visitors in Park. To her, the natural, cultural, and group of pioneers became lost while trying the middle of the summer, when recreational aspects of the park present an to take a shortcut across the valley. Only temperatures soar to 125 degrees. “People exciting opportunity. one in the group died, but they all assumed want to experience how hot it can really The territory under Craighead’s the valley would become their grave. be,” she said. watchful eye is vast. Death Valley, which Indeed, for five months of the year, The hottest temperature ever recorded lies in the middle of the Mojave Desert, unmerciful heat dominates Death Valley, at Death Valley was a searing 134 degrees is the largest park in the lower 48 states and rain rarely gets past the mountains. in July 1913 at what is now Furnace Creek with 3.3 million acres. Located primarily The little rain that does fall, however, gives Ranch. in southern California, with a small portion life to the wildflowers. Despite the extending into Nevada, the valley itself is harshness of the environment, Death Valley A passion for parks 130 miles long and between six and 13 is home to more than 1,000 species of Craighead is passionate about the miles wide. plants; more than 50 of these are endemics, nation’s park system, which protects not “It can take me all day to get to another found nowhere else in the world. only wildlife, but also historical and cultural

22 TRANSYLVANIA sites. “It’s nice we can live together for medical uses for humans. We have plants “Our public lands are important once,” Craighead said. “We haven’t for that only live in Death Valley, and we have because they’re areas where natural most of our marriage. Like many couples threatened and endangered wildlife. The processes have an opportunity to continue in the park service, we’ve always had to devil’s hole pupfish only lives in Death unimpeded by humans.” Craighead said. travel back and forth—park staffs are small, Valley, and there are less than 100 of them. “In our parks, wildlife has the opportunity and it’s hard to find two jobs at the right These plants and animals are important to thrive. Our mission in the National Park level at the same place.” because they are indicators of our planet. Service is to preserve and protect places Like two-thirds of Death Valley’s staff, We need to watch them to make sure that like Death Valley and to provide Craighead and her husband live in park the planet is sustainable for humans to opportunities for the public to learn and housing, within the boundaries of the come. What goes on here helps us better enjoy so that the parks will be here for gen- park. “It’s very remote. We can’t just run understand what climate change is doing erations to come.” out to the mall or go to the movies,” she to our larger natural world.” Craighead’s passion is one she first dis- said, “but we have an active social life. Because of its desert location, the park covered while a student at Transylvania. We’re always thinking up things to do.” also seeks to use as much solar energy as Unsure of her post-graduation plans, she possible. began her studies as a computer science Day to day in Death Valley “We’re putting in a number of photo- major. When she started working for the In her role at Death Valley, Craighead voltaic panels on park structures and trying National Park Service as a summer worker spends much of her day with administrative to create as much electricity as we can,” at Mammoth Cave, she found her future duties, but because she’s responsible for she said. “We have to air-condition all of career. the entire park, she gets out of the office the park buildings, and one of the goals “I just fell in love with the job, the to visit the backcountry, as well. our director has set is for parks to have people, the place,” she said, “so I changed “I get to do a little bit of everything,” zero carbon emissions by 2016. That’s my major to biology because I knew that she said. “My job is to ensure that park going to be tough for us, but we’re was more in line with the jobs I would be programs are running smoothly, that we’re working toward it.” looking for after graduation.” doing things efficiently, and that the public National parks have benefited from the Her first full-time job after Transy, how- understands what we’re doing.” American Recovery and Reinvestment Act ever, did not call for her training in biology. A big park in an isolated area, Death stimulus funds, and Death Valley is under- Instead of a natural setting, it took her to Valley has programs that cover everything taking a number of projects that will benefit a large metropolitan area. For a year, she from law enforcement to fire fighting to the public, the park staff, and the park was a park ranger at Independence plant and animal research. itself. One example is its ongoing program National Historic Site in Philadelphia, “Parks are places where people can relax to deal with abandoned mines, mining home of Independence Hall and the and become aware of the natural world having been the primary activity in the Liberty Bell. There she interpreted around them,” she said. “They can feel area before the land was protected. American history, sometimes in costume. renewed, but they can also see what our “Death Valley has the most open mines “It was totally outside my comfort planet looked like before people had an of any place in the park system,” Craighead area,” she said, “but that’s the beauty of effect.” said. “A lot of gold, silver, and borax mining a liberal arts education. I had a little bit of went on here in the past, and we have in everything in my background, and I knew the neighborhood of 6 -10,000 mine open- how to research and read.” ings in the park. We’re doing closures in During her 30-year career with the park “We still have native plants the areas that pose the most risk to visitors, service, Craighead has been a park ranger that have never been looked at while being careful not to disturb the bats at places like the Grand Canyon in Arizona that sometimes make their homes in the and Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico, and for medical uses for humans. abandoned mines.” has held management positions at Mesa We have plants that only live in Funds are also being used to build addi- Verde National Park in Colorado, the Death Valley…” tional park houses and add to the curatorial National Capital Regional Office in Wash- facility, and a strategic plan is being ington, D.C., and Manassas National Bat- developed to determine what would best tlefield Park in Virginia. benefit park staff. She served as superintendent of Saguaro About 95 percent of Death Valley is “Staff members do a great job,” she National Park in Arizona, Washita designated wilderness area, and those areas said, “but there are a lot of challenges here Battlefield National Historical Site, and are protected to an even higher standard. between the heat and the isolation, and we Chickasaw National Recreation Area in Many don’t even have roads, so visitors want to make sure we’re providing them Oklahoma prior to accepting the position can truly see what the place was like before with good developmental opportunities.” of Death Valley superintendent in January human intervention. The casual visitor isn’t going to see these 2009. In this way, our national parks hold changes, however, and that’s by design. Craighead’s husband, John F. answers about environmental concerns “It’s our goal to preserve the area,” Shireman, also works for the National Park and climate change. “We’re the hottest Craighead said. “We do our job so that our Service, by telecommuting work to the place on the continent. If it gets hotter, grandchildren and their children can visit Intermountain Regional Office in Wash- we’ll start to lose species,” Craighead said. the park and see it just as it looks today.” ■ ington, D.C. He also goes to the nation’s “We still have native plants that, in some capital one week out of the month. cases, have never been looked at for

SUMMER 2010 23 Transylvania would like to publish your photos of alumni events and personal milestones. For consideration, please send photos to Transylvania Magazine, NEWS & NOTES Transylvania University, 300 North Alumni Broadway, Lexington, KY 40508-1797. Edwin C. Linberg, La Verne, Calif., Tennessee Education Association for Julian E. Tackett, Lexington, has been ’57 represented Transylvania in March excellence in education reporting. ’82 named commissioner of the Kentucky at the Scripps College presidential inaugu- High School Athletic Association. ration. Terri Carson Park, Lexington, man- ’79 aging director of investments at Wells Stephanie Miller Broering, Fort Robert A. Riester, Indianapolis, Fargo Advisors, was ranked among Barron’s ’90 Mitchell, Ky., and Elizabeth Wilkinson ’68retired magazine’s annual Top 1,000 Financial Marlette ’93, Walton, Ky., are co-chairs of in June after 39 years of ministry in Advisors in the February issue. the 74th annual Junior Board Charity Ball congregations of the Christian Church (Dis- for the Children’s Home of Northern ciples of Christ). He has served congregations Karla Justice Corbin, Pikeville, Ky., Kentucky, which will be held in November. in Iowa and Tennessee, and the last 24 years represented Transylvania in February at the CHNK is a long-term treatment facility for were served at Allisonville Christian Church Pikeville College presidential inauguration. boys with emotional, behavioral, and social in Indianapolis. Also in June, he and his wife, issues. Classmates can contact Stephanie at Kathy Morris Riester ’67, celebrated 43 years of marriage.

Peter H. McDevitt, Lake ’69Placid, Fla., has been reap- pointed to a fourth consecutive four-year term to the Sebring Air- port Authority in Sebring, Fla.

Andrew M. Moore II, Lexington, was ’71 named a CNN Hero for his work with the Surgery on Sunday program in Lexington. Moore, a plastic surgeon in Lex- ington, was visited in February by CNN to learn more about the SOS program and his efforts to serve the underserved. He’s also a nominee for the 2010 CNN Hero of the Year. From left, Jill Brooks-Pellerin ’75, Georgia Green Stamper ’67, and Susan Griffin Smith, Frankfort, Ky., has been Leigh Ann Blackburn Napier ’98 elected to the Kentucky Retirement Systems Board of Trustees. KRS manages a $17 Alumnae books show great variety billion operation for more than 300,000 participants in state and local governments. The life-long adventures of a sea turtle, advice for women on how to She and her husband, Tony, both returned achieve a happy marriage, and essays that draw upon the unique culture to work full-time after getting bored in and heritage of Kentucky are the subjects of three books by Transylvania retirement. alumnae authors. Brighter Horizon: A Sea Turtle’s Journey, written by Jill Brooks-Pellerin Jeffrey R. Menkes married Elizabeth ’75 and illustrated by her daughter, Lindsay, is based on a true story that Trueson and continues to live in ’74 begins with a turtle hatching in Florida. Born with a deformed flipper, the Newport Beach, Calif. Jeff is vice president turtle struggles to survive; its experiences are shown in parallel to those of a and co-owner of Mer-Mar, Inc., an small child with a handicap to overcome. Purchase the book at Amazon.com electronics contract manufacturer that or directly by e-mailing [email protected]. primarily assembles printed circuit boards Happy Marriage: A Christian Gal’s Guide to a Happy, Life-Long Marriage, for original equipment manufacturers. by Leigh Ann Blackburn Napier ’98, offers women tips in seven areas, Andrew J. Oppel, Alamada, Calif., completed based on scriptural references, to help them solve problems and create ful- his sixth book, titled Data Modeling: A filling marriages. It’s available at leighannnapier.com or by contacting Napier Beginner’s Guide, which was published by at (877) 212-8628 (ext. 707) or [email protected]. McGraw-Hill in January. You Can Go Anywhere: From the Crossroads of the World, by Georgia Green Stamper ’67, is a collection of essays and columns that bring out Melissa Penry Williams, Leitchfield, the humor, meaning, and poignancy of Kentucky’s people and places, from ’78 Ky., has retired after 25 years at colonial times to the present. The author uses social commentary, nostalgia, WKRN-TV, Nashville. Before her retirement, and satire to tell her stories. Purchase the book from Amazon.com or by she won another regional Emmy from the contacting Stamper at [email protected].

24 TRANSYLVANIA [email protected] and Elizabeth town, Ky., with her husband and two at [email protected]. For more children. She recently received tenure at information, their website is www.chnk.org. Georgetown College and was promoted to associate professor of psychology. She also Christopher W. Arnett, Louisville, has serves as department chair. ’91 been promoted to senior director of franchise management at Choice Hotels Heather R. Godsey, Knoxville, International. He and his partner, Josh Graf, ’99 completed her fourth year as associate will be relocating to the Washington, D.C., director/campus minister at the Wesley area, and he is excited about becoming active Foundation at the University of Tennessee in the D.C. alumni chapter. Chris can be in Knoxville. She often speaks at church gath- reached at erings about young adult/college ministry [email protected]. and collegiate sexual ethics and has published her second book, Oh God, Oh God, Oh God!: Lisa A. Casebier, Lexington, earned her MSN Young Adults Speak Out About Sexuality and Reed’s book from the University of Kentucky in 2008 Christian Spirituality, available through celebrates Freedom Hall and is director of the neonatal intensive care Chalice Press. unit at Frankfort Regional Medical Center. As a veteran journalist, Billy Reed ’66 Mary Ellen Meurer Ford lives in has spent countless hours in Louisville’s Free- Todd A. Moulder, Corpus Christi, Tex., an Louisville with her husband, Kevin, dom Hall for nearly five decades, covering English teacher at Baker Middle School, has ’00 and 3-year-old daughter, Sydney Ellen. In major sports contests and other events been selected as 2010 Secondary Teacher of January 2009, while working for the while also attending as a spectator. the Year by the Corpus Christi Independent University of Kentucky’s Cancer Registry as “Freedom Hall has been virtually a second School District. senior regional coordinator, she passed her home to me since 1962, when I covered my Michelle Gaines Bennett, Lexington, Registered Health Information first boys’ state high school basketball tour- ’95 is a pediatrician with Pediatric & Ado- Administrator exam. In June 2009, she nament for the old Lexington Leader while lescent Associates. became director of health information man- in my first year at Transylvania,” Reed said. agement for all Norton Healthcare facilities So it was only natural that when the Uni- Joel P. Richardson, Louisville, is a sales in Louisville. versity of Louisville men’s basketball team executive with Tafel Motors Mercedes-Benz was playing its final season in the arena Farrah Pond Guerrant, Danville, Ky., has been in Louisville. before moving to a new downtown facility selected as program manager of the state’s for the 2010-11 season, Reed would author Natasa Pajic, Lexington, was elected first Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner program a book of pictures and text that pays hom- the CASE-KY (Council for Advance- at Ephraim McDowell Regional Medical ’96 age to the building’s nationally prominent ment and Support of Education-Kentucky) Center. history. chair for the 2010 conference, which will Celebrating 54 Years at Freedom Hall is a take place in Louisville December 9-10. Jenna Shaffer Watts, Whitesburg, Ky., has been named an assistant 200-page book that traces the history of the Carrie Reed Shufflebarger, Union, Ky., has commonwealth’s attorney arena from its 1956 opening to this year’s been named partner at the law firm for the 47th district of Ken- final hurrah for the U of L Cardinals. Thompson Hine in Cincinnati. tucky in Letcher County. Though the book is heavy on basketball, it includes many other subjects, from Cassius Rebecca Bianchi Gulock lives in Capt. Sean C. McNi- Clay’s (later Muhammad Ali) first profession- ’97 Somerset, Ky., with her husband and ’01chol, U. S. Army, al boxing match to the World’s Champi- two children, ages 4 and 6. She loves working Bellingham, Mass., has been onship Horse Show, the National Tractor part-time from home as a service coordinator recognized by Delta Mu Delta for Pull, concerts, family entertainment, and lots for First Steps, Kentucky’s early intervention outstanding academic achievement while more. program. pursuing a master of information technology It was in basketball that Freedom Hall management from Webster University. Jennifer L. Price continues to live in George- forged a national reputation as it hosted six NCAA Final Four tournaments from 1958- 69. Besides U of L, the University of Ken- tucky Wildcats have played often in Five Transylvanians named to Leadership Kentucky 2010 Freedom Hall, including the recent series Five of the 59 people selected for Leadership Kentucky 2010 are Transylvania graduates. with the Cardinals and a storied rivalry with The non-profit educational organization prepares participants to take active roles in the crit- the University of Notre Dame in earlier ical issues facing the commonwealth. decades. The Transylvanians are: “Every Kentuckian has a Freedom Hall • John-Mark Hack ’88, director of governmental affairs for Kentucky-American Water story, because virtually every Kentuckian has Company, Lexington been there at least once,” Reed said. • Suzanne Miles ’92, field representative for U.S. Representative Brett Guthrie, Published by Butler Books, the book Owensboro, Ky. retails for $29.95 and is available on-line at • Erwin Roberts ’94, counsel at Frost Brown Todd, LLC, Louisville www.butlerbooks.com and www.barne- • Carrie Reed Shufflebarger ’96, law partner, Thompson Hine, LLP, Union, Ky. sandnoble.com, and at selected bookstores • Carla Roberts Whaley ’83, key accounts director for Humana Inc.-Kentucky market, (contact Carol Butler at [email protected] Louisville for stores).

SUMMER 2010 25 Sara Morton Spencer, Madisonville, her first collection of poems titled Kaffir Allison C. Downard, Athens, Ohio, is ’03 Ky., marketing communications Lily through Wind Publications. It is available ’09 an admissions counselor at Marietta director at Trover Health System in Madis- at www.amazon.com. Bianca, an Affrilachian College in Marietta, Ohio. onville, has been appointed by Hopkins poet, is a freelance instructor of composition, County Judge-Executive Donald Carroll to literature, and creative writing; a Kentucky Marriages serve on the Hopkins County Tourism Com- Humanities Council lecturer; and the creator mission Board of Directors for a three-year and programmer of the Gypsy Poetry Slam Melissa Ann Penry ’78 and David Williams, term. featured annually at the Kentucky Women April 10, 2010 Writers Conference. Bianca Spriggs-Floyd, Lexington, has released Joel Patrick Richardson ’95 and Sherry O. Northington, November 28, 2009

Rachelle Cathleen Williams ’98 and Jason Alumna goes to great lengths to find her purpose Dodson, May 29, 2010

Anne Arnold-Ratcliff ’03 felt unsettled “It was amazing,” she said of her New Richard Sandusky Foley ’00 and Gwendolyn about what she was doing with her life. Orleans visit. “Just the subtle hope that sur- Dawn Osborne, December 31, 2009 She has a husband she loves and a great faces in every single conversation you have family, but for some reason she couldn’t is amazing, even when it’s five years later Catherine Barrington Ford ’04 and Thomas shake a feeling that she could be doing and not much work has been done. It’s Peyton Claycomb ’05, October 10, 2009 more. When she was younger, she wanted incredibly hopeful and sad and breathtaking Katherine Vincent Wood ’04 and William to be an actress, and even today she likes all at one time.” Allen Foster, October 24, 2009 to surf the Internet for videos of Oscar and Through the journey, Arnold-Ratcliff is Tony acceptance speeches. spending a lot of time learning about help- Nathaniel Edward Valentine ’05 and Carrie Last July she watched Tom Hanks’ speech ing people and about herself and what she Jane Ormsby ‘05, August 8, 2009 after winning the Oscar for Forrest Gump, wants to do with her own life. which prompted her to watch the movie. In “I’m learning a little bit more about me it, the lead character runs across America, every single day and the people I’m around Births and that idea inspired Arnold-Ratcliff to and the way that you act and the kindness embark on a journey of her own, but with that you should show and the generosity R. Keith Frank ’90 and Dana a twist. She would serve at a charitable that you should share with other people,” Frank, a son, Richard Mac- organization in each of the 48 continental she said. “When you are sitting next to a Carthy Frank, January 13, states. child who is 6 years old, and he is going 2010 “It was literally like an epiphany,” she through dialysis and creating masterful said. “My grandmother always used to say, works of sand art, you can’t help but put Jennifer Scruggs Johnson ’92 and Andy John- ‘The minute you start feeling sorry for your- your worries and concerns aside and realize son, a son, William Kilpatrick “Will” Johnson, self, it’s your responsibility to help someone that the position you are in is so much bet- February 15, 2010 else.’ I said, ‘This is what I’m going to do.’” ter than so many people in this world that So Arnold-Ratcliff began plans for the are really, really good people.” Lory Wilson Faulconer ’94 and Keith trip, which she is calling 48 States of Arnold-Ratcliff will be completing her 48 Faulconer, a daughter, Lilliana Elayne Purpose. She set up a website, States of Purpose through the rest of 2010. Faulconer, 19 months, adopted from Russia www.48sop.com, and began blogging To read about her travels, visit her website. in December 2009. about her adventure. As of the end of June, Mary Little Buzard ’94 and Chris Buzard, a she had been to 40 states, working at a daughter, Elizabeth Nancy Buzard, February feral cat rescue, a blood donation center, 20, 2010 an organization that makes ribbons for Anne Arnold-Ratcliff worked in the ninth families of homicide victims, and several ward in New Orleans helping rebuild Angela J. Vann ’94 and Chris Madjor, a son, homes destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. others. She even volunteered in the ninth Luka Alejandro Vann Madjor, January 14, She is doing service work in all 48 ward of New Orleans building houses for contiguous states as a part of her 48 2010 victims of Hurricane Katrina. States of Purpose journey. Christopher L. Midkiff ’95 and Amy Boyles Midkiff ’96, a son, Jackson Lane Midkiff, February 9, 2010

Duby Nagda Sharma ’95 and Sumeet Sharma, a daughter, Sapna Rani Sharma, February 4, 2010

Chrissy Boblitt Evans ’97 and Brian Evans, a daughter, Claire Elyse Evans, December 7, 2009

Jennifer Weller McAllister ’97 and Ryan Steven McAllister, a son, Logan Steven McAl- lister, April 19, 2007, and a daughter, Audrey Joyce McAllister, March 24, 2010

26 TRANSYLVANIA Alumnus’s around-the-world journey filled with surprises

A funny thing happened to Israel “Izzy” Holden ’02 during South Pacific, the Far East, the Middle East, and Europe. Along his recent year-long, around-the-world journey of exploration and the way, he counted on the hospitality of local people and the personal discovery. He found that his initial apprehensions about hostels for his accommodations. “I slept on people’s floors and traveling the globe as an American were misplaced. On the con- couches, and spent a lot of time in hostels. In some cases, friends trary, he says, everywhere he went people were welcoming and from Los Angeles had put me in touch with their friends and very interested in his American ways. family in certain destinations.” “Friends asked me, ‘Aren’t you scared to go travel as an Amer- For sheer scenic beauty, Holden gave top marks to the Patago- ican? Nobody likes us right now,’” Holden said. “I never felt nia Mountains in the southern tip of Chile, where he hiked The scared. The fear that some Americans may have about traveling W, a famous trail in Torres del Paine National Park, and New abroad never came into my mind.” Zealand with its “mountains like Colorado and beaches like If there were one place in the world where, because of the Hawaii, all in one very small, easy-going country.” conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, anti-American sentiment might In Cambodia, he was invited to join a family reunion of those be expected to confront Holden in an immediate way, it would who escaped the murderous Khmer Rouge in the 1970s and be the Middle East, but that’s precisely where he experienced those who stayed behind but survived. Another highlight was some of the most welcoming feelings. Romania, where he visited Transylvania University in Brasov and “The friendliest people I met along the way were the people of talked with a graduate who was surprised to learn of Holden’s Jordan,” Holden said. “I stayed at a hostel, and a woman there alma mater of the same name. took me in as the son she never had. Besides being reassured about atti- She cooked for me, and she brought in tudes toward Americans, Holden said friends who would play music, and we he came away from his journey with a would talk. Everywhere you went in the new sense of optimism about the world streets, people wanted to know where overall. you were from, and they loved Ameri- “I feel like we’re not as bad off as cans. In a way, I felt like I was a diplo- some people think,” he said. “The mat for the U.S. ” world is still a good place, filled with Holden’s world odyssey began when beautiful people and beautiful things he resigned from his job with the Los that need to be explored and touched. Angeles Parks and Recreation Depart- It feels really good to be able to tell ment and drove cross-country to New people about my positive experiences in York City, his departure point. In Octo- the Middle East. The trip helped give ber 2008, he boarded his first flight and me the mindset and confidence to not headed for South America with “a be afraid to try new things.” backpack and a couple of dollars,” and Back in Los Angeles, Holden is explor- a traveling companion who stayed with ing work with several non-profits, includ- him the first five months of the journey. ing an orphanage in Mexico where he He had purchased an around-the-world worked for three months after his world ticket from an airline alliance that gives travels. “I want to work directly with, or you 16 flights of your choosing over a have a direct effect on, children, and year’s time, leaving and arriving back at possibly involve my family and friends in the same city and never backtracking. a new organization. That’s my goal down Over the next year, Holden would Izzy Holden ’02 does his best imitation of a the road, and, hopefully, that road’s not visit 23 countries in South America, the giant Buddha he came across in Hong Kong. as long as it looks right now.”

Stacie L. Walker ’97 and Natalie Hurt Corrigan ’00 and Jason McClellan ’01, twins, William Christopher Clough, a Corrigan, a daughter, Alyssa Karen Corrigan, and Gillian McClellan, April daughter, Meryn Florence April 7, 2010 20, 2009 Clough, April 2, 2010 Claudia Lee French ’00 and Warren French, Victoria Voss Schopfer ’98 and Sean Schopfer, a daughter, Leia Evelyn French, April 27, a son, Ethan Patrick Schopfer, November 5, 2010 2009 James L. Halfhill Jr. ’00 and Danielle P. Mitchell Crump ’99 and Shannon Bacher Engelkamp Halfhill ’03, a son, James Lindsey Crump ’00, a daughter, Kendall Lee Crump, “Tre” Halfhill III, November 30, 2009 August 3, 2009

Tosha Huffman Yunker ’99 and Jacob J. Adrienne Lima Yunker ’99, a daughter, Ellen “Ella” Grace McClellan ’01 and Yunker, February 11, 2010 Christopher E.

SUMMER 2010 27 Collier T. Mills ’01 and Katherine Thomas Mills ’04, University a son, Collier Thomas Mills, January 22, 2010 DISTINGUISHED ACHIEVEMENT

Andrea Crawford Spry ’01 Distinguished Achievement Awards were presented during Alumni Weekend 2010 and Kris Spry, a son, Nathan to six alumni who have distinguished themselves as Transylvanians through their pro- Howard Spry, March 26, fessional lives, standards of excellence, and community service. 2010 H. Steven Banfield ’90 was honored for his 20-year career as a Kim Lowman Sutton ’01 and Aaron M. Sutton recognized leader in the technology industry. Through executive ’02, a son, Joshua Clay Sutton, January 7, positions at Microsoft, RealNetworks, and Sony, he has been 2010 responsible for the creation and marketing of consumer lifestyle products and services used by millions around the world. Among Sally Francisco Billings ’02 and Nathan his achievements, he led the RealPlayer business at RealNetworks Billings, a son, John Maxwell Billings, and was responsible for multimedia features in Windows 95 and December 18, 2009 Windows NT. R. Lance Garner ’02 and Avery Edwards Garner ’02, a son, Nathan Elijah Garner, Catherine Creech ’84 was honored for her achievements in law November 22, 2009 in the public and private sectors. Currently a partner in the account- ing firm Ernst & Young LLP’s national tax department in Washing- Lyndi Campbell Lowman ’02 ton, D.C., she was formerly an adviser in the Office of Tax Policy at and E. B. Lowman ’02, a the U.S. Department of the Treasury. She is a trustee of the South- daughter, Caroline DeCarlo ern Federal Tax Institute and a frequent speaker on tax and employ- Lowman, September 13, ee benefits to client groups and professional organizations. 2009 William B. Drake Jr. ’78 was recognized for his accomplish- Kara Guiliani Cecil ’03 and Keith D. Cecil ’03, ments in higher education and the ministry. During his eight-year a daughter, Kiersten Jane Cecil, April 9, 2010 tenure as president of Midway College, enrollment has increased Stephen E. Kreyenbuhl ’03 and Sidney Allen by 70 percent, the main campus has grown from 100 to 200 Kreyenbuhl ’04, a daughter, Louisa Marie acres, Midway College Online was launched, and eight bachelor of Kreyenbuhl, March 12, 2010 arts programs were created. He led fund-raising efforts that totaled more than $20 million. An ordained minister with the Danielle Walls Sullivan ’03 and Rush Sullivan, Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), he has ministered at church- a son, William Rushing Sullivan, March 31, es in Kentucky and Alabama. 2010 Franklin McGuire ’45 was honored for his distinguished career Joshua S. Wiglesworth ’03 and Lesley in the ministry and in the preservation of church history. An Wellington Wiglesworth ’04, a daughter, ordained Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) minister, he served Anna Cate Wiglesworth, April 18, 2010 churches for 39 years, in Kentucky at West Liberty, Hazard, Georgetown, Jeffersontown, South Elkhorn, and Lexington (Cen- tral Christian); in Carthage, Ill.; and in Fort Wayne, Ind. He was Obituaries curator of Cane Ridge Preservation Project in Bourbon County, Ky., for 14 years. The project preserves the 1791 log church that was Only alumni survivors are listed the site of the 1801 Cane Ridge revival. Donald D. Braden ’30, Denver, brother of Dale B. Reading ’40, died May 27, 2008. Charles P. Taylor Jr. ’65 was recognized for his accomplishments in development work and music. He is director of Vanderbilt Univer- Anne Clay Hinkle Baldwin ’36, Paris, Ky., sity’s Regional Development Program and formerly held fund-raising mother of Anne Clay Thomas Baldwin ’68, management positions with the American Cancer Society, the died March 13, 2010. At Transylvania, she American Heart Association, and the Arthritis Foundation in Ten- was a member of Chi Omega sorority and nessee. A talented singer/songwriter, he released his first CD in vice president of her junior and senior classes. 2003, Once Upon a Time, which was included in that year’s Gram- She was also a member of Stagecrafters and my Awards Guide. His second CD, For All I Am, came out in 2008. the YWCA. She was a founding partner of Hinkle Contracting Company and taught Nancy Holt Weber ’80 was honored for her achievements in Sunday school, played piano, and was higher education. She is vice president for continuing education and president of the women’s group at St. Peter’s institutional advancement at the Technical College of the Lowcoun- Episcopal Church. try in Beaufort, S.C. A marketing and branding plan she implement- ed has contributed to a 64 percent increase in enrollment, while Logan Gragg Jr. ’37, Lexington, brother of continuing education division enrollment has jumped by 182 per- Dee Gragg Gudgell ’41 and father of Wyatt cent. She formerly worked in student life at Eastern Kentucky Uni- L. Gragg ’70, died February 9, 2010. At Tran- versity, Transylvania, and the Savannah College of Art and Design. sylvania, he was a member of Kappa Alpha

28 TRANSYLVANIA fraternity, Stagecrafters, and the YMCA. He Awards 2010 earned his medical degree from the University of Louisville and served as a DISTINGUISHED SERVICE physician in the U.S. Army during World War II from 1941-45. He became clinical Five alumni received Distinguished Service Awards during Alumni Weekend 2010 director and then superintendent of Eastern for their outstanding service to Transylvania. State Hospital, where he was recognized in the Sue Almon Bryan ’60 has completed two four-year terms on Congressional Record for establishing com- the Board of Visitors. She helped organize the 50th reunion of her prehensive mental health care in the class and hosted a hospitality suite to kick off this year’s alumni Appalachian region. festivities for her classmates. She served as class gift chair and reunion committee chair for her class’s 40th and 45th reunions. Evelyn Pfanstiel Riley ’40, Lexington, died- She hosted a successful regional alumni gathering several years February 12, 2010. At Transylvania, she was ago in Winter Park, Fla. a member of Pi Kappa Delta sorority and served as president her senior year. She was Wandaleen Poynter Cole ’67 served on the Alumni Executive an honors student and a member of the Board’s career development committee and chaired the nomina- debate team. She received a master’s degree tions and awards committee before being elected president of the from Pennsylvania State University and board in 2008. She served as gift chair for her class’s 40th reunion. returned to Lexington in 1968 to teach at She and her husband, Em, hosted Transylvania receptions in their Julia R. Ewan Elementary School. She co- Louisville home in the 1970s and recently in Baltimore. In 1982 she founded the Pfanstiel Riley Scholarship represented the university at a college presidential inauguration. Endowment, which gives $1,000 to a junior student at Transy. Don Nicholson ’60 and Sue McCullagh Nicholson ’60 were members of the planning committee for their William W. Bryden ’43, Canton, Mich., died class’s 50th reunion. They are remembered by many alum- March 15, 2010. At Transylvania, he was a ni for donating a Christmas cruise worth thousands of dol- charter member of the Beta Mu Chapter of lars in order to encourage classmates to make Delta Sigma Phi fraternity. Throughout his contributions to Transylvania. life he was a professional musician, teacher, principal, and special education instructor.

Nancy Hinkle Holland ’43, Lexington, died March 7, 2010. After attending Transylvania, she got her nursing degree from Johns Hopkins University and served as a first lieutenant in James Stephens ’60 was co-chair of his class’s 50th reunion. He the U.S. Army Nurse Corps at Walter Reed served as class gift chair in 2005 and reunion committee chair in Hospital in Washington, D.C. She earned her 2000. At the conclusion of Alumni Weekend 2010, he assisted M.D. from the University of Louisville School with the alumni service in Old Morrison Chapel. of Medicine in 1954. She was a faculty member at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, where she was a professor and director of pediatric nephrology.

New playground dedicated to daughter’s memory Chad Routt ’00, a claims representative for State Farm Insur- ed to collect water and turn to mud in the rain. ance, and Mary Katherine Fields Routt ’01, a reading interven- The school had been gathering donations for a new playground for tion teacher for Fayette County Public Schools in Lexington, years but had only raised $11,000, about $24,000 short of what was welcomed their second child, Sophie Caroline Routt, in July 2008. needed to complete the project. Stockton and the Routts launched a At birth, Sophie suffered a severe brain injury. After spending a fund-raising effort that included cross-country phone calls and e- month in the neonatal intensive care unit at the University of Ken- mails, raffle tickets, yard sales, a golf scramble, and other events. The tucky, she was able to come home briefly but died on October 6, city government and a local accounting firm also pitched in, and by 2008. the summer of 2009, an additional $35,000 had been collected. “She fought really hard and inspired all of us,” said Mary Katherine. Mary Katherine called the project “a perfect distraction” for her Out of the tragedy, something remarkable was born. grieving family. “Sophie changed everything for us,” she said. “In It began when a family friend, Krista Smith Stockton ’01, decided two months, she made a huge impression on so many people.” to help the Routts find a way to honor Sophie’s memory. Together, The Sophie Routt Memorial Playground was dedicated in August they rallied the community to raise money needed to build a new 2009 with big sister Ella Routt, 4, cutting the ribbon. Now genera- playground at Breckinridge Elementary School, where Mary Katherine tions of children will enjoy swings, slides, and a jungle gym as was a teacher. Sophie’s impact lives on. Breckinridge had been in need of a new playground for some Though Mary Katherine now teaches at Squires Elementary, she time. The old playground was so outdated that some of the equip- remains connected to Breckinridge. “My heart will always be here,” ment had been condemned and was to be torn down. It also tend- she said at the dedication.

SUMMER 2010 29 Class reunions 2010

Robert Barr Society Reunion Front row, from left: Virginia Marsh Bell ’44, Wayne Bell ’40, Ruth Marling Lewis ’50, Bill Bronson ’50; second row: Jo Garver Wilkerson ’54, Mary Margaret Aldridge Meyer ’41, Dexter Meyer ’41; third row: Clyde McKee ’59, Carol Ann Barnes White ’50, Gary White ’48; back row: Bill Cuzner ’55, Owen Hungerford ’51, Clyde Arnold ’50, Bill Walton ’55.

Class of 1960 – 50th Reunion/Newest Robert Barr Society Members Front row, from left: Jean Stauffer Prehn, Bette Tichenor Blue, Peggy Starkey Cain, Barbara Williams Caswell, Janet McGinnis Richardson, Marie Myers Lancaster, Laura Skillman Mason, Marilyn Carr Felkner; second row: Charles Mathis, Nick Carter, Judy Hardesty Hardin, Sue Spradling Osborne, Hilda Hulett McKee, Betty Kidwell Lyons, Eleanor Webb McCallum, Sue Almon Bryan, Beverly Jouett Longo, Alpha Jo Scott Luallen, William Stroker; third row: Bill Martin, Sue McCullagh Nicholson, Don Nicholson, Jim Stephens, Charles Costabell, Carolyn Linberg Parsons, Dick Longo, Gunther Prehn, Tom Ripy.

30 TRANSYLVANIA Class of 1965 – 45th Reunion Front row, from left: Bob Rosenthal, Tommy Johnson, Ann Orme Windley, Martha-Frances Herrin Burak, Sherry Ekin Clem, Bob Mulroy, Ken Voorhis; second row: Dave Windley, Irv Pope, Rodger Hammons, Lanny Judd, John Doshna; back row: Dan Riley, Doug Logan, Bob Ecroyd, Bob Taylor, Charlie Taylor, Clyde Simmons.

Class of 1970 – 40th Reunion Front row, from left: Jana Meece Coode, Julie Davis McDonald, Mildred Finch, Pennie Franklin Redmond, Sue Duvall Sutherland; second row: Rick Jones, Dan Sutherland, Barry Bronson, Chris Dally, Ken Blum; back row: Anthony Rossano, Chip Wigginton, Josh Santana, Barry Dicken.

Class of 1975 – 35th Reunion Front row, from left: Evie Smith, Ruth Sigler-Fons, Laura Sutton Candris, Ann Rosenstein Giles, Jill Brooks-Pellerin, Julie Oldfield Dicken, Judy Richmond Bramblet, Debbie Pollard Catron; second row: Diane Farmer Binzel, Anne Willmott Baldwin, Elizabeth Alverson Barr, Louise Farmer Uota, Marf Shopmyer, Alex Krislov, Gerry Meece Musterman, Carolyn Jones McKeehan, Jennifer Lail; third row: Bruce Coates, Greg Hardy, Charlie Newquist, Noah Powers, Charlie Wilson, Cary Barr, Tom Burchett, Rick Catron; back row: Moe Rawlings, Bob Stiskin, Bill Butz, Dave Marthey. SUMMER 2010 31 Class of 1980 – 30th Reunion Front row, from left: Hope Shaw Brovont, Bonny Hogancamp Huskey, Lib Wilson, Susan Schoff Altman, Libbi Justice Taylor, Leslie Jo Ratliff Ladau; second row: Beth Feamster, Jill McQuate Crouch, Susan Wesley Schafer, Lynn Oliver Frye, Nancy Holt Weber; back row: Eugene Johnson, Ron Taylor, Bob Rouse, Bob Truitt, Mike Delaney, Marc Mathews.

Class of 1985 – 25th Reunion Front row, from left: Tracy Blackburn Clinkinbeard, Marlene Gartner, Jay Baughman, Debby Thomas Grimm, Pam Dingus Howarah; back row: Lowell Clark, Teresa Warren Walker, Sarah Allen McMurtry, Jayne Pitts-Hibberd, Kathryn Mitchell Hite, Rob Dennison.

Class of 1990 – 20th Reunion Front row, from left: Stephanie Miller Broering, Edye Bryant, Stephanie Wilson Bishop, Joanne Sansone Coleman, Melisa Thomas Morris, Laura Harrison Klumb, Stephanie Brown Newton, Christina Scott; second row: Maire Cashman Patino, Angie Moore Smith, Jeff Hoehler, Robin Bowen, Cynthia Ganote, Rena Hallam, Elisa Pape Millett, Allison Melton, Dawn Smith Kelsey, Jane Brooks; third row: Kelly Yount, Phil Anderson, Chris Cook, Sharon Ruble Prevette, Tiffany Wheeler, Becky Ploetner Zaino, Melony Lane, Dawn Wilson, Kara Little Covert, Heather Liggett Jones, John O’Hara; back row: Brian Lane, Andrea Barton Lane, Tracy Stephens Dunn, Miranda Anderson Flanery, Russ Coy, Matt Hall, Steve Cuzner, Tim Newton, Steve Banfield, Dave Hoffman, Adrian Oliver.

32 TRANSYLVANIA Class reunions 2010 Class of 2000 – 10th Reunion Front row, from left: Ashleigh Walling, Anna Hope Curwood, Kristie Bulleit Niemeier, Nanci House, Alexandra Silver McConnell, Christie Herring Shrader; back row: Courtney Smith, Mindy Block Dicken, Evan Dicken, Chad Ahn, Ben Proctor, Casey Mudd.

Class of 2005 – 5th Reunion Front row, from left: Paige Harrison, Megan Watts Vanoli, Alicia Still, Joe Berry, Erin Jones, Adam Hutchinson, Katie Allan, Rachel Green Brown; second row: Amber Young Bathon, Emily Porter Phillips, John Bryden, Tommy Haggin, Meghan Kennedy Melloan, Tonya Jernigan; third row: Frank Phillips, Rebecca Moran, Brandon Johnson, Blake Wright, Jonathan Clark, Frank Lucio, Tom Claycomb, Kyle Melloan, Jen Wagenmaker, Mary Jo Kilzer Weaver; fourth row: Lauren Meade, Ashley Duncan, Karen Watkins; fifth row: Erin Wilson, Julena Troxler, Ryan Taylor, Elizabeth Wells, Keila Rickus, Julie Verax, Colene Elridge; back row: Jamie Wilhite, Melissa Carter, Alexis Yocum McDaniel, Amisha Patel, Jamie Hafer, Clint Morris, Clint Jones, Katie Nord, Darren Carrico, Austin McCubbin, Chris Cansler.

SUMMER 2010 33 Clockwise, from left, seniors Mr. Pioneer Thomas Baker and Miss Transylvania Anne Wilson are joined by President Charles L. Shearer and his wife, Susan, who were crowned honorary Mr. Pioneer and Mrs. Transylvania in recognition of Shearer’s retirement from the presidency; the Cane Ridge Revival Band (alumni members Bill McDonald ’67, far left; Ann Dickey Haynes ’69, keyboard; Julie Davis McDonald ’70, far right) entertains Saturday night during dessert and dancing at the Marriott Griffin Gate; Thomas Baker leads dancing at the Crimson Affair; physical education professor and retired men’s Alumni Weekend 2010 head basketball coach Don Lane uses an old team halftime talk to motivate his Senior Sendoff audience. Photos by Joseph Rey Au

Coleman J. Moffett ’44, Lexington, died February president of the student body and the student February 26, 2010. At Transylvania, he was a 13, 2010. At Transylvania, he was a member of council and was a member of Lampas, the swim member of Phi Kappa Tau fraternity, serving as the football and basketball freshman teams. He team, a cappella choir, Phi Kappa Tau fraternity, president in 1948-49. He lettered in basketball attended the Temple University School of and A.W. Fortune Circle. He was also a and baseball and was a member of Men’s Dentistry and served in the U.S. Army for more photographer for the yearbook. He served in the Lampas. He was voted Most Athletic by his than 20 years, when he retired with the rank of U.S. Navy in World War II. He was a homebuilder classmates his senior year. He served in World lieutenant colonel. and served as president of the Lexington Home- War II in European combat and received a builders Association in 1961. Purple Heart. He retired from A.O. Smith Cor- Donald E. Ries ’46, Louisville, died June 11, 2009. poration in Tipp City, Ohio, where he served He was a retired purchasing agent and outside Ruth Cloyd McKee ’47, Huntsville, Tex., sister on the city council, planning board, and the sales representative for Fontain Truck of Ann Cloyd Warner ’47 and Lois Cloyd Blinka volunteer fire department. Equipment. He served in the U.S. Army during ’47, died November 19, 2009. At Transylvania, World War II and was a member of St. Andrew she was a member of Lambda Delta sorority, Ira J. Perry ’51, Midlothian, Va., died January 2, United Church of Christ. where she served as secretary her junior year. 2010. He retired from Phoenix Mutual Life. She was a charter member of the Huntsville Martha Kalb Roush ’46, New Richmond, Ohio, Memorial Hospital Auxiliary and served as a Doris Loyd Ledendecker ’52, Glasgow, Ky., died mother of Janet Roush Gemma ’71 and grand- hospital volunteer for many years. She was an March 17, 2010. At Transylvania, she was a mother of Stella Gemma Loveland ’02, died active member of Wesley Memorial United member of Chi Omega sorority, a cappella choir, March 15, 2010. At Transylvania, she was a Methodist Church. and the YWCA. She received her master’s degree member of Lambda Omega sorority and the from the University of Louisville and was an ele- YWCA. She earned her master’s degree in Earl A. Roberts ’48, Versailles, Ky., husband of mentary school teacher for 26 years. She wrote religious education from Lexington Theological Bonnie Lee Roberts ’50, died February 18, 2010. class letters for the class of ’52 and received Tran- Seminary and taught elementary school for 25 At Transylvania, he was a member of Pi Kappa sylvania’s Certificate of Appreciation Award in years. Alpha fraternity and lettered in basketball and 2002. baseball. He served in the U.S. Navy during Ralph L. Versaw ’46, Lexington, husband of Mary World War II. He retired from State Farm Insur- James T. Renfro ’52, Lexington, died December Harned Versaw ’48 and father of Janice Versaw ance. 18, 2009. At Transylvania, he was a member of Kummer ’76 and Barbara Versaw Smith ’71, died Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity, where he served as January 21, 2010. At Transylvania, he served as Maxwell R. James ’50, Charlotte, N.C., died treasurer in 1950, and the Geological Society. 34 TRANSYLVANIA ALUMNI BULLETIN BOARD

2011 alumni trips planned Keep ‘Bumpers’ title with strong finish

Reflections of Italy 10-day tour departs March 14, Transylvania supporters living in Kentucky are gearing 2011, and includes 14 meals (eight breakfasts, one up for a third consecutive victory in the Association of lunch, five dinners). Highlights are: Rome • Colosseum • Independent Kentucky Colleges and Universities’ Battle Assisi • Perugia • Siena • Florence • Chianti Winery • of the Bumpers. Venice • Murano Island • Lugano • Switzerland • Como. The Battle of the Bumpers is an annual competition Per person cost based on double occupancy of $2,959 among the state’s 20 independent colleges and universi- includes roundtrip airfare from Lexington, Cincinnati, or ties to put the most campus license plates on Kentucky Louisville. Deposit of $250 due at time of reservation but highways, and in turn raise the most money for student before September 15, 2010. scholarships—each Transy license plate generates $10 for Historic Reflections 11-day luxury cruise aboard the general scholarship fund. The Crimson faithful came Oceania Cruises’ Marina departs May 15, 2011, and through big in 2009, buying or renewing 735 license includes all meals, entertainment, and use of facilities plates and widening Transy’s lead over second-place Cen- aboard the ship. Ports of call: Athens (Greece) • Ephesus tre College and third-place Georgetown College. (Turkey) • Santorini and Zakynthos (Greece) • Sicily’s The 2010 contest began January 1 and ends December Taormina, Amalfi/Positano, Rome, Florence, Pisa (Italy) • 31. For more information and for contact information for Monte Carlo (Monaco) • Provence (France) • Barcelona your county clerk, visit the Kentucky Motor Vehicle Licens- (Spain). Special discounted price includes airfare from ing System website at http://mvl.ky.gov/MVLWeb/. Cincinnati and several major U.S. cities and starts at $3,699 per person if booked by August 19, 2010. Deposit of $850 due at time of reservation. Save the date—Alumni Weekend 2011 Canadian Rockies and Glacier National Park eight- Sweet Home Transylvania day tour departs September 10, 2011, and includes nine meals (six breakfasts, three dinners). Highlights are: Mark your calendar and join classmates and Transy Waterton Lakes National Park • Glacier National Park • friends in Lexington April 29-May 1 for Alumni Weekend “Going to the Sun Road” • Banff • Columbia Icefields • 2011. The following classes will celebrate special Athabasca Falls • Jasper • Calgary. Per person cost based reunions: Robert Barr Society (classes of 1941, 1946, on double occupancy of $2,499 includes roundtrip airfare 1951, 1956), 1961, 1966, 1971, 1976, 1981, 1986, from Lexington, Cincinnati, or Louisville. Deposit of $250 1991, 1996, 2001, and 2006. If you are a member of due at time of reservation but before April 10, 2011. one of those classes, please make sure the alumni office Other trips in the works for 2011: Trains of the Col- has your current mailing and e-mail addresses. To help orado Rockies (late July/early August), and Beijing City plan your class reunion, contact Natasa Pajic ’96, director Stay (mid/late October). Chemistry professor Jerry See- of alumni programs, at [email protected]. bach’s California Wine Country trip has been post- poned until June 2011. Check www.transy.edu/alumni for updates. For a trip brochure, contact Natasa Pajic ’96 Ways to stay connected or Tracy Dunn ’90 in the alumni office at (800) 487-2679. There are many ways to stay connected to your alma mater. First, inform the alumni office when you change your e-mail or street address and your phone number. Executive Board officers, members elected Contact Elaine Valentine at [email protected] with On April 10 during the 2010 Alumni Celebration changes or to verify information. Join the alumni on-line Luncheon, the Alumni Association elected Melony J. Lane community at www.alumni.transy.edu to register for ’90 as president and Candice Caine Zaluski ’71 as presi- alumni events and browse the alumni directory for the dent-elect of the Alumni Executive Board. The following latest news on classmates. Find us on Facebook at were elected to three-year board terms: Clarissa Short www.facebook.com/TransylvaniaUniversityAlumni. Beiting ’93, Robert Croft ’02, Kay Taylor Gevedon ’64, For professional networking, join the Transylvania Univer- Mark D. Goss ’82, James M. Groves ’56, Mamata Maj- sity Alumni group on LinkedIn. To conveniently donate to mundar ’95, Betsy J. Newman ’06, Charles E. Newquist your alma mater, visit www.transy.edu/giving to par- ’75, and Christopher H. Reitz ’03. ticipate in Giving Electronically Monthly (GEM).

To contact the Alumni Office: Natasa Pajic ’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

SUMMER 2010 35 He lettered in basketball. He served in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War, after which he became a credit manager for J. Hill Hamon, former biology professor, dies Genesco. Former Transylvania biology professor J. Hill Hamon died May 8, 2010. He was John Mitchell Bailey III ’54, Shelbyville, Ky., 78 years old. died February 21, 2010. At Transylvania, he Hamon, who retired in 1996 after 28 was a member of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity years at Transy, was known as a passion- and played baseball. He received his master’s ate and witty lecturer who instilled an degree from the University of Kentucky. He excitement for the sciences that affected was a retired teacher and coach at Shelby biology and non-biology majors alike. County High School. “His lectures were very informative,” J. Theophilus M. Carroll ’54, Waukegan, Ill., B. Embry ’72, a Lexington dentist, said. father of Theophilus D. Carrol ’77 and brother “He went into the subject matter quite of E. Tipton Carroll Jr. ’58, died February 1, deeply. In his own way he could keep 2010. At Transylvania, he was a member of your attention up and active. He had a the Kappa Alpha fraternity. He served as a very nice way of delivering information chaplain in the U.S. Army during World War with a good bit of humor involved.” II and received the Legion of Merit. He went When Hamon came to Transylvania, he on to pastor for more than 55 years at several embraced the idea of lifelong learning churches around the country. and became a model of expanding inter- est and knowledge. He audited approximately 50 courses while he was a faculty Dolly Hays Todd ’59, Winder, Ga., died March member and was able to discuss and debate thoroughly a wide variety of topics 30, 2010. She was a member of the Georgia ranging from literature to philosophy to history. He was an accomplished classical Bar Association and practiced law in pianist and even taught a photography course. Columbus, Ga., for more than 15 years. “If he lived to be 200 years old, he would not be finished learning,” psycholo- gy professor Mike Nichols ’68 said. “He was truly a Renaissance man, and he Anna Ruth Clark ’61, Lexington, died January stayed active and creative in retirement. He was a pilot, biologist, professor, 12, 2010. author, concert pianist, photographer, paper maker, printer, miniature book arti- Darrell D. Wheeler ’62, West Liberty, Ky., san, and so much more. But his greatest talent was making, keeping, and sup- died January 21, 2010. At Transylvania, he porting friends. I’ll miss him a lot.” was a member of Delta Sigma Phi fraternity Hamon was known throughout the area not only for his teaching, but for his and played intramural sports. He was a Tran- typesetting and letterpress printing, a nearly extinct craft that he kept as a hobby sylvania Merit Scholar and earned a Ph.D. for years before his passing. He was profiled in the Lexington Herald-Leader in from the University of Kentucky, after which 1984 for his hand-printed miniature books that could fit in the palm of a person’s he became a professor emeritus at the Medical hand, and he hand-made a book chronicling the history of Pleasant Grove Chris- University of South Carolina. tian Church in 1994 on his press, which was built in 1889. Even typesetting, though, was not immune to Hamon’s humor. Evelyn “Zane” Riddle Doshna ’67, Oakland, “He gave a piano recital here at Transy, and he printed the program,” Nichols Fla., wife of John Doshna Jr. ’65, died said. “He printed a card that was inserted that said, ‘The Yamaha Piano Company February 7, 2010. At Transylvania, she was is pleased to announce that Dr. Hamon will be playing a Steinway.’” a member of Pi Kappa Delta sorority and “He’s going to be missed by a lot of people,” Embry said. “He’s an irreplace- played on the soccer team. able individual; no one will ever come around like him.” Judith Meier Murphey ’67, Macon, Ga., wife Hamon, who lived in Frankfort, Ky., received his bachelor’s degree from Eastern of Lee B. Murphey ’67, died February 24, Kentucky University, a master’s degree from the University of Kentucky, and a 2010. At Transylvania, she was a member of Ph.D. from the University of Florida. His first faculty position was at Indiana State Chi Omega sorority and worked in several University before he came to Transylvania in 1968. offices on campus. She retired in 2008 after more than 30 years as an interior designer. was a member of Kappa Alpha Order Patrick S. Lord ’01, San Francisco, died March fraternity, where he served as vice president. 26, 2010. He was a visual merchandising David S. Hartman ’69, Ringwood, N.J., He was athletic trainer for the men’s manager for the West Elm Company in Cal- husband of Karen Trueblood Hartman ’69, basketball team under head coach Lee Rose ifornia. died June 30, 2009. He was an officer in the and a member of the golf team, lettering in U.S. Army before a lifetime career in human 1970-71, coached by Roland Wierwille. The resources. Pioneer Hall of Fame honored him in 2009, ! Obituaries in Transylvania are based on creating the Michael D. McCaslin Award for information available in alumni office files Ralph M. Wenzel Jr. ’69, League City, Tex., those who make extraordinary contributions and from newspaper obituaries. Please died December 25, 2009. Information in to Transy and the athletics program. send information concerning alumni the obituary for Ralph M. Wenzel ’69 in the deaths to the attention of Elaine spring issue of Transylvania magazine was William Heyburn III ’74, Louisville, died Valentine in the Transylvania Alumni mistakenly about his father, also named Ralph December 6, 2009. Office, 300 North Broadway, Lexington, Wenzel. KY 40508-1797. Newspaper obituaries Steven A Buren ’86, Louisville, died March with complete listings of survivors are Michael D. McCaslin ’72, Pendleton, Ind., 25, 2010. He was a landscape designer and preferred. died February 18, 2010. At Transylvania, he avid traveler. 36 TRANSYLVANIA Right, top to bottom: President Charles L. Shearer presents graduating senior Brandi Giles from Louisville with her diploma; German and French professor Rick Weber, left, and religion professor Paul Jones share a light moment; Marian Baker, coordinator of foreign student services, and graduating senior Hesham Shehata from Egypt collaborate on sending a cell phone photo to his family. Below: President Shearer is shown with William T. Young Jr., chairman of the Board of Trustees.

President Shearer and his wife, Susan, greet physical education professor emeritus Pat Deacon, center, and Patricia Hocker Riddle ’72, a member of the Board of Trustees, at a Haupt Plaza reception during commencement week honoring Shearer’s retirement. Photos by Joseph Rey Au Commencement 2010 300 NORTH BROADWAY LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY 40508-1797

Apart from the herd

Junior Patrick Davis plays the role of Berenger in the Transylvania University Theater production of Eugene Ionesco’s Rhinoceros, which played in the Lucille C. Little Theater in February. Guest director Sully White directed the absurdist comedy, which portrays Ionesco’s fear of the spread of totalitarianism based on his personal experiences with fascism during World War II. Davis’s character becomes the last person in the drama to retain his human individualism in the face of the descent into brute force and violence by the other characters, symbolized by their transformation into rhinoceroses. Photo by Joseph Rey Au