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Kelsey McComas, a biology major from Ashland, Ky., has been active in community service since her high school days and con- tinued that dedication while at Transylvania. She volunteered at her community’s hospice, took a Transylvania service learning course in the Philippines, and helped raise funds for the Children’s Miracle Network. She left June 20 on a 10-week, 3,700-mile cross-country bicycle ride as part of the Bike and Build non-profit program that will take her to Vancouver, British Columbia, helping to build affordable housing for deserving citizens along the way.

Joseph Rey Au Matt Durr ’14 Transylvania’s campus was home to a pair of twins the past four years who share an uncommon devotion to one another.

Alyson (left in photo) and Caitlyn Vincent are from Winchester, Ky., and have been practically inseparable all through their school years, including their Transylvania time. Both majored in education, graduated with program and Latin honors, and will teach in Montgomery County, Ky., this fall, Alyson at Montgomery County Intermediate School (fifth grade) and Caitlyn at Mapleton Elementary School (first grade). Both are also national champion cloggers, as a team and as individuals.

Joseph (left in photo) and Stephen Porter are from Madis- Caleb Ritchie, a music technology graduate from Corinth, Ky., onville, Ky. They roomed together during their Transylvania is a musician keeping busy working on a variety of projects years, were members of the swimming and diving team, and post-Transylvania. He is releasing a CD of pop music, playing both graduated with a biology degree, earning program and with the band Fourscore, and teaching piano. He’s also working Latin honors. Their togetherness continues this fall as both will on writing a web video series called “Rube’s Cube,” which he’s be enrolled in the University of Louisville College of Medicine. doing audio and music composition for. TransylvaniaUNIVERSITY MAGAZINE SUMMER 2012

Features 16 GRADUATION DAY / Bachelor’s degrees are conferred on 241 members of the class of 2012 19 RETURN. REMEMBER. RENEW. / Alumni return to campus to revisit Transylvania experience during Alumni Weekend 2012 Around Campus 3 Transylvania adds international affairs major 4 Yale scholar delivers John Marshall Harlan lecture 5 Cowgill, Rosenthal, Young honored for service

Joseph Rey Au 6 Philosophy, politics, and economics is new major 8 Professors, staff member retire after long tenures Pioneers and Wildcats will play 12 LoMonaco heads up student life administration changes once again in Rupp Arena For the second year in a row, Transylvania’s men’s basketball team will Sports take on the University of Kentucky 13 Men’s golf finishes as NCAA national runner-up Wildcats in an exhibition game at Rupp 14 Transylvania wins HCAC Commissioner’s Cup Arena. The game will take place Monday, November 5, with tip-off tentatively set for 7 p.m. The two teams played for the Alumni News and Notes first time in 100 years last fall, and the UK victory left the series record 8-7 in favor of 22 Class Notes the Wildcats. The Pioneers used the 23 Marriages, Births excitement created by that contest as stimulus for a highly successful season 24 Distinguished Achievement Awards (see page 14) that included a 23-5 record, 25 Distinguished Service Awards a conference title, and an appearance in 29 Obituaries the NCAA Division III championship. Kentucky (38-2) went on to win its eighth NCAA Division I national championship. Photo: UK’s Marquis Teague and Transylvania’s Tate Cox in last year’s game.

Associate Vice President of Communications and Public Relations: Sarah A. Emmons Director of Publications: Martha S. Baker Publications Writer/Editor: William A. Bowden Editorial Assistant: Tyler Young Publications Designer: Barbara Grinnell On the cover: Graduating seniors Ruth Kloha and Joseph Transylvania is published three times a year. Volume Underwood capture the moment while 29, No. 3, SUMMER 2012. Produced by the Office of Isabel Barr anticipates the upcoming Publications, Transylvania University, Lexington, KY graduation ceremony for the 241 members 40508-1797. Send address changes and alumni news of the class of 2012. See article on page 16. to Alumni Office, Transylvania University, 300 North Broadway, Lexington, KY 40508-1797, fax to (859) Photo by Joseph Rey Au 233-8797, or email to [email protected]. Lexington named a ‘brain hub’ Applause There’s another reason for prospective Transylvania students to love Lexington. The city recently ranked No. 9 in the nation Education professor demic research she conduct- among metro areas with the highest percentage of Angela Hurley participated ed on the social organization workers with a bachelor’s degree or higher. The in and presented a paper at of fan culture. Learn more ranking was published in The Wall Street Jour- an Oxford Round Table on about the film at www.gen- Brain nal and comes from an analysis of census and Education and Religion: An eraladmissionthefilm.com. Labor Department data by Edward Glaeser, Interdisciplinary Perspective. • • • # Hub professor of economics at Harvard University. The event was held at Lin- 9 “The emergence of well-educated ‘brain Wall Sreet Journal coln College, Oxford Univer- Women’s studies profes- hubs’ over the past few decades has widened sity. The international round sor Simona Fojtová was 2012 their advantage over much of the rest of the table had participants from selected as a fellow at the country, leaving them better off through the reces- Australia, Finland, Japan, School of Criticism and The- sion and primed for future growth,” said the WSJ article. “A and the United States, with ory at Cornell University this select number of high-flying places are hoarding a growing share schools such as Stanford, summer. Through seminars, of the nation’s most valuable workers, best-paying jobs and Columbia, and The Citadel public lectures, and collo- attracting a lopsided share of new investment and young compa- sending representatives. Hur- quia, the school provides an nies.” ley’s paper was titled “View- opportunity to work with Brad Goan, vice president for enrollment and dean of admis- ing Schools as ‘Problem.’” preeminent figures in critical sions, pointed out that Transylvania’s location near downtown thought and to reassess the- • • • Lexington is important when prospective students are searching oretical approaches that for a college home. “The opportunities available for internships, In recognition of his pub- have emerged over the last part-time jobs, research projects, alumni connections, entertain- lished work, English pro- 50 years. Fojtová will partici- ment, and many other urban experiences provide a benefit that fessor Anthony Vital has pate in a six-week seminar few other small liberal arts colleges can match.” been invited to participate in titled Feminisms and Post- The brain hub listing is the latest of a number of top rankings an international multidiscipli- colonialities. for Lexington that include: nary colloquium on Global- • • • No. 1 best city for finding a job (Forbes Magazine, 2011) ization, Narrative and the No. 2 best city for education (Parenting, 2010) Environment at the Rachel Senior Ruth Kloha was No. 6 best city for college graduates (The Daily Beast, 2011) Carson Center in Munich, awarded a Fulbright grant No. 7 best metro city for quality of life (Business Facilities, 2010) Germany, October 11-14. for 2012-13, which includes Top 10 college towns (Relocate America, 2010) He will join 19 other scholars service as an English teach- No. 13 top hotspots for young, talented workers (NextCities, 2009) and writers from various ing assistant in Malaysia. She 100 best communities for young people (America’s Promise countries in exploring critical will also coordinate a com- issues in the representation munity engagement project. of long-term environmental Fulbright grants are highly problems in relation to a competitive, and recipients history of globalization and are chosen for their academ- colonialism. ic and leadership potential. • • • • • • Seniors Erica Clark and The Student Government Ben Costigan were among Association hosted stu- the 20 recipients nationwide dents from Transylvania, of Juan Manuel Sampere Centre College, Georgetown Scholarships for summer College, and Berea College study abroad from Sigma for the first annual Intercol- Delta Pi National Spanish legiate Student Research Honorary. Both will study Symposium March 31. The Spanish for four weeks at symposium included oral the Estudio Internacional and poster presentations on Sampere, Clark in Spain topics including Adderall use Joseph Rey Au and Costigan in Ecuador. among college students, res- Students attend Clinton Global Initiative University idential housing patterns in • • • Sophomore Annie Wright (left), junior Jennifer Lancaster, Louisville, and the symbol of and senior J. P. Peckinpaugh, were accepted to the Clinton Glob- Anthropology professor the horse in James Joyce’s al Initiative University March 31- April 1 in Washington, D.C. The Barbara LoMonaco is fea- Ulysses. CGI-U is a conference bringing together 1,000 students and leaders tured in the new documen- from around the world focusing on pressing global issues in educa- tary film General Admission: tion, environment and climate change, peace, human rights, Layin’ it On The Line for U2, poverty alleviation, and public health. where she discusses the aca-

2 TRANSYLVANIA a grant from the William R. Kenan Jr. Nordhaus encourages students to address InternationalCharitable Trust. affairs global warming with new strategies major is created Ted Nordhaus, cofounder and chairman climate change “lie in ruins,” pointing to Transylvania will adopt international of the Breakthrough Institute, gave the specific instances in recent years where affairs as an official major beginning in the spring Kenan Lecture titled “The Long Congress rejected climate legislation that, 2012-13 academic year. Death of Environmentalism” March 7 in even if passed, he believes would not have International affairs has been a minor for Haggin Auditorium. had the desired effect. He spoke to the several years, and students in the past have Nordhaus sprang onto the environmen- audience about a “post-environmental self-designed the major under the guidance talism scene in 2004 after publishing a movement” that learns from the mistakes of political science professor Jeff Freyman. report on the politics of global warming of previous environmentalists who either Political science professor Michael Cairo will with Breakthrough Institute were ineffective or short sight- be program director. cofounder Michael Schellen- “The solution to ed, giving 12 theses for the “Elements of what Dr. Freyman designed berger called “The Death of movement. Those included bet- as a self-designed major are part of what is Environmentalism: Global the ecological ter understanding of the evi- becoming the new major,” Cairo said. Warming in a Post-Environmen- dence of climate change, “It’s mainly using courses that are on the tal World.” The duo sought to crises wrought moving away from fear-based books—there’s really only the new senior find what U.S. environmental by modernity, publicity, and making clean capstone.” leaders had learned since James energy technologies cheaper. The major focuses on international eco- Hansen’s testimony on global technology, and “The rising economies of the nomics, history, and political science, with a warming to Congress in 1988. progress will be developing world will continue foreign language requirement beyond the “We came away from the to develop whether we want general education requirement. Core experience (writing the report) more modernity, them to or not,” he said. “The requirement includes courses such as Princi- deeply disappointed,” Nord- solution to the ecological crises ples of Microeconomics, International Trade haus said to the students, facul- technology, and wrought by modernity, technol- and Finance, International Politics, and ty, staff, and visitors in progress.” ogy, and progress will be more Western Civilization. attendance. “Not one of the modernity, technology, and There will also be several electives revolv- environmental leaders we inter- Ted Nordhaus progress. An ecological politics ing around three specific themes—develop- viewed articulated a compelling capable of addressing global mental issues, region, and political history. vision or strategy for dealing with the chal- warming will require us to reexamine virtu- Students can be guided toward electives lenge. ally every prominent strand of post-war that will support their desired career or We heard again and again the same old green ideology.” further study fields. riffs that environmental leaders had been Nordhaus and Shellenberger wrote the “There is a wide range of opportunities using since the 1980s when they talked book Break Through: Why We Can’t Leave for students in the program,” Cairo said. about global warming—it would be Saving the Planet to Environmentalists. The “Some students might be interested in resolved through the same kinds of policies book was called “prescient” by Time and working with a non-governmental organi- that were used to address the types of “the most important thing to happen to zation, others might be interested in gov- problems in the past like acid rain.” environmentalism since ‘Silent Spring’” ernmental work. We might have students The report went viral, and Nordhaus by Wired. Nordhaus has been profiled in interested in human rights or maybe even established himself as a widely recognized, The New York Times, Wired, The National business.” and controversial, expert on climate and Review, The New Republic, and on NPR. Elizabeth Hardt, a rising sophomore from energy policy. Since then he has worked In 2007, he and Shellenberger received the Louisville, plans to declare an international trying to affect climate and energy policy Green Book Award and Time’s 2008 affairs major. She was interested in the pro- and founded the Breakthrough Institute, “Heroes of the Environment” award. gram coming into Transylvania and had a political think tank in Oakland, Calif. The lecture was part of Transylvania’s planned to self-design the major. He said that efforts today to adjust Kenan Lecture Series, which is funded by “I think international affairs is really relevant right now—everything has become more globalized,” she said. “I’d love to Professors organize 1,000 Dolls have a job with something like the state art project for Lexington department or the United Nations that lets me travel and work in another country. I Through their Community Engagement think it will be a useful degree in the Through the Arts course, Transylvania art future.” professor Kurt Gohde and English professor Cairo described the program as “multi- Kremena Todorova organized 1,000 Dolls, disciplinary,” taking elements from several an art project that placed 1,111 dolls in areas to build a syllabus. downtown Lexington in April. Transylvania “There aren’t necessarily a lot of classes students and Lexington community groups that are team taught or have focus on made the dolls from socks, clay, clothespins, interdisciplinary actions except the senior and wood. The project culminated with a capstone,” he said. “You’re taking multiple viewing at the Kentucky Theater before plac- courses to try and create synthesis and ing the dolls around town for people to find. connections across these disciplines.” Kurt Gohde/Kremena Todorova Kurt Gohde/Kremena

SUMMER 2012 3 The painting was created by Robert Shearer portrait to be hung in Glenn Building Kuester, an award-winning artist who lives and paints in New Mexico. Kuester holds a A portrait of President Emeritus Charles degree from the Art Center College of L. Shearer will be hung in the lobby of the Design in Pasadena, Calif. The oil-on-canvas newly renovated Glenn Building. portrait, done in a realistic style, measures Board of Trustees Chairman William T. 30 by 40 inches. Young Jr. presented the painting on behalf “Robert did a very nice job of creating a of the university as a tribute to Shearer’s warm, not overly serious likeness,” Shearer 27-year tenure (1983-2010) as president, said. “I’m very honored and grateful for a period that saw significant increases in this portrait.” enrollment, endowment, scholarships, and Leslie Baldwin, wife of Transylvania busi- campus buildings. ness administration professor Bill Baldwin “Charles Shearer was in office longer and a sales associate for Kentucky with the than any other Transylvania president and international firm Portraits, Inc., facilitated guided the university to some of its great- the selection of Kuester from among the est achievements,” Young said. “It is with 175 portrait artists represented by the great affection and admiration that we organization. Transylvania art professor commemorate his service to Transylvania Nancy Wolsk was a consultant for the

Joseph Rey Au with this striking portrait.” project. Yale scholar presents Harlan lecture on ‘America’s Symbolic Constitution’

Americans are a distinct peo- minds of a wide swath of 1787 document that restricted ple with a national narrative the American people, the spread of slavery to the that shows an abiding concern thereby helping to bind us western states of that era. for equality, fairness, and inclu- together as a legal and Amar gave several examples sion. The U.S. Constitution political entity.” of texts that he said symbolized reflects those values and gives While the symbolic con- what Americans reject and them legal standing in a for- stitution texts are not on abhor, including the 1896 mal, written context. the same legal level as the Supreme Court decision in There is also a symbolic con- written Constitution, Amar Plessy v. Ferguson, which

stitution that Americans hold Joseph Rey Au said, they are extremely upheld the constitutionality of dear, drawn from texts that put Akhil Reed Amar important in our under- state laws requiring racial seg- forth concepts relating to the standing of the written regation in public facilities written Constitution and that Federalist Papers, The North- document. under the doctrine of “separate occupy a special place in consti- west Ordinance, The Gettys- “These works set forth back- but equal.” Associate Justice tutional discourse. burg Address, Brown v. Board ground principles that power- John Marshall Harlan, name- Those were the fundamental of Education, and the “I Have a fully inform American sake of the lecture series and themes explained by Akhil Reed Dream” speech by Martin Constitutional interpretation,” an 1853 graduate of Transylva- Amar in his presentation Luther King Jr. he said. “Wherever the written nia’s law department, is “America’s Symbolic Constitu- Amar said the texts share Constitution is fairly susceptible remembered as the lone dis- tion,” given April 26 in Carrick these common characteristics: to different interpretations, senter in this case. His ringing Theater as part of the John They all connect to the written interpreters hesitate to embrace dissent included the words, Marshall Harlan Lecture Series. Constitution and to each other, any reading that would violate “Our Constitution is color- Amar is Sterling Professor of they relate directly to either the clear letter and spirit of blind....In respect of civil rights, Law and Political Science at Thomas Jefferson or Abraham these other canonical texts.” all citizens are equal before the Yale University and one of this Lincoln, and both Democrats Amar gave some telling sta- law.” era’s most accomplished consti- and Republicans have influ- tistics about the frequency with Amar said that Harlan’s dis- tutional law scholars. enced which texts comprise the which several of the symbolic sent also included the state- “In a polyglot nation of symbolic constitution. In addi- constitution texts have been ment, “The judgment this day many faiths, ethnicities, and tion, he said references to God cited in Supreme Court cases, rendered will in time prove to ideologies, the Constitution or religion appear in five of the including more than 300 cases be as pernicious as the decision stands as uniquely unifying texts; only the U.S. Supreme for The Federalist Papers and made by this tribunal in the American symbol,” Amar said. Court case Brown v. Board of more than 125 for The North- Dred Scott case.” “But several other iconic texts Education is secular from start west Ordinance. “That was a remarkably epitomizing the American way to finish. He also gave examples of the canny and prescient predic- also help to bind Americans “The written Constitution interconnectedness of the texts, tion,” Amar said. “It’s like Babe together.” was ratified and amended by such as Lincoln’s Gettysburg Ruth’s called home run shot— Amar said there are six texts the American people,” Amar Address that refers back to the it’s stunning.” that comprise America’s sym- said. “Each element of our themes of higher law, freedom, View this lecture at bolic constitution: The Declara- symbolic constitution at some and nationhood explicated in www.youtube.com/transyl- tion of Independence, The point won the hearts and The Northwest Ordinance, a vaniauniv.

4 TRANSYLVANIA Cowgill, Rosenthal, and Young honored for service to Transylvania Three long-serving members William T. Young Scholarship member of the Executive Com- The Transylvania Medal of the Board of Trustees were and the JGK III Scholarship. mittee, the Long Range/Strate- Presented to non-alums for recognized by the presentation “Buddy is always available gic Planning Committee, and friendship and outstanding of major awards that salute on behalf of the college— Nominating and Governance service to Transylvania exceptional service to Transylva- indeed, his commitment is Committee. WILLIAM T. YOUNG JR. nia and its programs. The tireless,” said Williams. “Of His generous financial sup- ceremony took place during a particular note is his drive to port has touched Transylvania Bill Young’s service to the Board reception in May at the expand the campus. For many in many areas, beginning with Board of Trustees now extends home of President and Mrs. years, he has been a one-man his loyal support of the annual over 29 years, beginning with R. Owen Williams. acquisition machine for Transyl- fund. He led the way with a his election to the board in donation and fund-raising for 1983. He has served as Execu- the Rosenthal Residence Com- tive Committee chair, vice chair plex, named in his honor, and of the Finance Committee, and he chaired the Campaign for as a member of the Investment Transylvania. Besides being a Committee, Development major donor to the project, he Committee, and Nominating chaired the fund-raising effort and Governance Committee. and was a key figure in plan- He was elected chairman of ning for the Clive M. Beck Ath- the board in 2000 and is also a letic and Recreation Center. The member of the Bingham Board Brown Science Center laborato- of Trust.

Joseph Rey Au ry renovation project and the His generous financial sup- Charles L. Shearer Art Building President Williams presents Norwood Cowgill with the Irvin port of Transylvania begins with also bear his stamp of support. E. Lunger Award at a trustee reception in May. his loyal contributions to the He and his wife, Betty, put annual fund. He was a major forth the $1 million Inaugura- supporter of the Clive M. Beck Irvin E. Lunger Award vania. Simply put, we would tion Challenge in honor of Athletic and Recreation Center Named in honor of not be where we are today, Owen Williams’s presidency. and a lead donor to the new Transylvania’s twenty-first and have the opportunities “No board member has been location for the alumni and president, presented to that lie ahead, without Buddy more actively involved in the development office. He has NORWOOD COWGILL JR. ’65 Cowgill.” affairs of this college for a supported many other targeted Cowgill began his career in longer period of time, or been campaigns and scholarship Buddy Cowgill has been an real estate, then founded Stu- more generous to the college, funds, including the JGK III active and valuable member dio Plus Hotels. After that com- than Warren Rosenthal,” said Scholarship. of the Transylvania Board of pany merged with Extended Williams. “In fact, Warren has “In my two years as presi- Trustees since 1990. He cur- Stay America, he resigned to given so much in the way of dent of Transylvania, no one rently serves on the Executive launch Office Suites PLUS, a time, advice, support, and has offered me more careful Committee, the Committee on national chain of high-tech, attention to Transylvania that counsel or more consistently Trustees, and the Development temporary office centers that he truly is in a class of his wise advice than Bill Young Jr.,” Committee. His prior service has been very successful. He is own.” said Williams. “I am forever includes chairing both the Phys- currently chairman of the board Rosenthal retired from the amazed at the extent to which ical Plant Committee and the of that firm and continues to food service industry in 1989 Bill makes himself available on By-Laws Advisory Committee. be one of the largest apart- as chairman of Jerrico, Inc., a behalf of this college. When He has backed up his consid- ment owners and managers company he joined in 1948 one thinks of the many other erable donations of time and in Lexington. when its entire holdings con- organizations that would love expertise with substantial finan- sisted of two five-cent ham- to wrestle him away from us, cial support. From 1992-97 he burger stands called White Charles and Susan Shearer it is impossible not to reflect chaired the alumni phase of the Taverns and one eight-stool Award on how lucky we are that Bill $25 million Campaign for Tran- Jerry’s sandwich shop. Upon has chosen Transylvania as the sylvania, which exceeded its Named in honor of Transylva- his retirement, the organization object of his affections.” goal. He and his wife, Judith nia’s twenty-fourth president had more than 1,500 Long Young is chairman of W.T. King Cowgill ’64, provided a and his wife, presented to John Silver’s Seafood Shoppes Young, LLC, the parent compa- generous lead gift for construc- WARREN W. ROSENTHAL in 37 states and two foreign ny of W.T. Young Storage, a tion of the Cowgill Center for countries, plus over 60 Jerry’s commercial warehousing and Business, Economics, and Edu- Warren Rosenthal was elect- restaurants and the beginnings real estate development firm. cation. He was a major sup- ed to the Board of Trustees in of the now robust Fazoli’s Ital- He is a 1970 graduate of porter of the Clive M. Beck 1972 and is currently a mem- ian restaurant chain. Today, he Princeton University who went Athletic and Recreation Center ber of the Development Com- is the owner of Patchen Wilkes on to earn an MBA from the and has helped endow various mittee and the Committee on Farm, a thoroughbred horse University of Virginia. scholarships, including the Trustees. He has served as vice operation. chair of the board and as a

SUMMER 2012 5 Programs retained in Philosophy, politics, and economics is new division lineup new interdisciplinary major A reconfiguration of Transylvania’s A new interdisciplinary major in philoso- twine with each other,” she said. “My academic divisions has resulted in four phy, politics, and economics acknowledges mindset is very much non-profit philanthro- divisions instead of six, but five aca- the historical connections and overlapping py. You have the philosophy—‘Why do we demic programs in the two eliminated concepts seen in these areas of study while want to help people?’ The politics involve divisions have been retained. offering Transylvania students excellent how you go about it—what laws are in Accounting, business administration, preparation for careers in public life. place, how does government affect your and economics are now part of the Philosophy professor Peter Fosl, program goals? And then there are the economics Social Sciences Division. Education has director for the new major, pointed out the of how you help people monetarily.” been assigned to the Humanities Divi- commonalities inherent in the topics and Fosl has high hopes for the future of the sion, and exercise science is now part of cited his undergraduate semester study philosophy, politics, and economics major. Natural Sciences and Mathematics. The abroad experience at the London School of “It’s not very common among colleges fourth remaining division is Fine Arts, Economics and Political Science as invalu- and universities in the United States yet, so which now includes writing, rhetoric, able in exposing him to those shared issues. I believe this will give Transylvania an and communication. His bachelor’s degree includes a double advantage,” he said. “We already have a “We are streamlining the academic major in economics and philosophy. strong background in law, and this should administration of the college so that He made particular reference to Adam help us recruit young people interested in we reduce the number of committees Smith (1723–90), the Scottish social going on in law and public policy positions. faculty members have to serve on,” philosopher widely acknowledged as the I’m really hoping it will become a flagship said President R. Owen Williams. “This father of modern economics and capitalism program for the university.” will give them more time for teaching because of his book The Wealth of Nations and scholarship.” (1776). Interim vice president and dean of “There is a very natural, historical, cus- the college Kathleen Jagger said the tomary union of these topics,” Fosl said. NYU nutrition expert to new alignment better reflects Transylva- “For example, if you go back to people like nia’s liberal arts mission and also puts Adam Smith and ask, ‘Was he a philosopher give fall Kenan Lecture the university more in line with its peer or an economist or political theorist?’, the Marion Nestle, Paulette Goddard Profes- institutions. answer is ‘Yes.’ He thought of himself prin- sor of nutrition, food studies, and public “We examined other institutions and cipally as a philosopher of moral theory. His health and professor of sociology at New found in many cases we had more divi- work in economic and political theory was, York University, will deliver the fall Kenan sions than our peers,” she said. “This in his mind, a natural extension of that. It Lecture on Tuesday, October 23, at 7:30 suggested that there are more efficient was only in later years that we pulled those p.m. in Haggin Auditorium. ways to structure our academics. Our disciplines apart and came to think of them Nestle’s research focuses on how science four divisions align precisely with the as different from each other.” and society influence dietary advice and four different approaches to learning in The course of study in philosophy, poli- practice. More specifically, she studies food a liberal arts environment designated in tics, and economics will draw from existing and nutrition policy (domestic and interna- our general education curriculum. Thus, courses in those disciplines while adding at tional) with an emphasis on dietary guid- we expect all students will graduate least three new major-specific courses: an ance, social and environmental influences having taken at least one course in introductory course, a senior seminar, and on food choice, the politics of food safety, each division.” an advanced reading course. It will also and the effects of food industry marketing Accounting professor Judy Jones include a required internship that could be on children’s diets and health. looks forward to the advantages of fulfilled at such entities as law offices, gov- Nestle, who is also visiting professor of being in a larger division. ernment organizations, or non-government nutritional sciences at Cornell University, “Formerly, we were such a small policy institutes. was senior nutrition policy advisor in the division that it was a struggle to staff “We’re hoping this new major will attract Department of Health and Human Services all the faculty and ad hoc committees,” students interested in careers in public life,” from 1986-88 and managing editor of the she said. “Now that we are part of a Fosl said. The course application suggested 1988 Surgeon General’s Report on Nutri- larger division, the committee workload that outcomes might include advanced tion and Health. She is the author of the can be more evenly divided, which will graduate work and careers in law, social award-winning Food Politics: How the allow additional time for our scholarly work, and community organizing. Food Industry Influences Nutrition and activities.” Junior Bethany Davenport will become Health (Berkeley: University of California Jagger said the new alignment will one of the first students to complete the Press, 2002), which is also the title of her be carefully monitored during its first philosophy, politics, and economics major. Kenan Lecture. She earned a B.A. in bacteri- year. She plans to attend graduate school to ology, a Ph.D. in molecular biology, and a “Because this change has many study non-profit development and possibly master of public health in public health consequences for the college, we will have a career in higher education. She is nutrition, all from the University of Califor- take the coming year to implement any completing her course internship this sum- nia, Berkeley. necessary adjustments and evaluate the mer in the Transylvania alumni and devel- Transylvania’s Kenan Lecture series is impact of the change.” opment office. funded by a grant from the William R. “I feel the three topics really do inter- Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust.

6 TRANSYLVANIA Pollard steps down as vice president, dean of the college William F. Pollard stepped down as vice said. “My focus was always on helping to In conjunction with political science pro- president and dean of the college, effective develop good, coherent interdisciplinary fessor Jeff Freyman and associate vice pres- July 31, after an eight-year tenure that saw majors. The new philosophy, ident and associate dean of the significant changes in a number of areas, politics, and economics major is college Kathleen Jagger, Pollard including the curriculum, student advising, an excellent example of that.” developed the Transylvania outreach to peer institutions, and staffing. Ten new faculty positions Seminar, an annual summer Following a one-year sabbatical, he will were added during Pollard’s faculty seminar on liberal return to teaching as professor of English tenure, the full-time position of education that attracts invited on the Transylvania faculty. director of institutional research professors at national liberal “Bill has been an extraordinary contri- and assessment was created, arts colleges from around the butor since arriving at Transylvania,” said and a new associate vice presi- country. President R. Owen Williams. “While I will dent and associate dean of the “This seminar is a service to miss working with him as dean, I am college position was added. The “I am excited our colleagues at the other delighted that he will remain at the univer- latter position has had a posi- about returning national liberal arts colleges sity as a senior member of the faculty.” tive impact on student advising and is a way of promoting Pollard’s areas of scholarship are English, and retention. to the classroom Transylvania while being central medieval English literature, and medieval “Having an associate dean to the national conversation theology. He has written numerous papers, who has primary responsibility and look about liberal education,” essays, and reviews while giving presenta- for working with students at all forward to Pollard said. tions at conferences in the U.S. and Eng- levels of ability and success— Pollard’s colleagues on the land. He earned his bachelor’s degree from from those who are struggling becoming a Transylvania faculty have Centre College and his M.A., M.Div., and to those who are high-achiev- appreciated his service to the Ph.D. from Duke University. He did post- ing and need encouragement medievalist university. doctoral study at Keble College, University to apply for national scholar- again.” “Bill Pollard did a tremen- of Oxford. ships—has made an enormous dous amount as dean to “I enjoyed my tenure as dean of the difference to the college,” enhance the academic culture college, and I am proud of all that was Pollard said. at Transylvania,” said English William F. Pollard achieved working in concert with faculty Pollard worked in several professor Martha Billips. “He and staff,” Pollard said. “But I am excited areas to help make Transylvania worked tirelessly to increase about returning to the classroom and look better known among its peers. faculty lines in needed areas forward to becoming a medievalist again.” He was active in Transylvania’s involvement and thus enriched the curriculum and fields Curricular changes during Pollard’s with the Annapolis Group, served as presi- of study available to students.” tenure include the addition of Chinese dent of the Association of Chief Academic Political science professor Michael Cairo language, several minors including Latin Officers of the Southern States, was a voiced appreciation for Pollard’s leadership American and Caribbean studies, and eight member of the American Conference of style. new majors: art history; biochemistry; Academic Deans, and for 15 years was an “As dean, he led from the sidelines, educational studies; German studies; inter- evaluator for the Southern Association of letting others share the spotlight,” he said. national affairs; music technology; philoso- Colleges and Schools’ Commission on Col- “He is an exemplar of excellence and phy, politics, and economics; and writing, leges. He facilitated the university’s mem- raised the standards of all those around rhetoric, and communication. bership in the Council of Independent him by providing a model of high moral “One of the hallmarks of Transylvania is Colleges, an organization that recognized character.” a continued emphasis on intellectually his efforts with its 2010 Chief Academic exciting interdisciplinary programs,” Pollard Officer Award.

Jagger appointed interim vice president and dean of the college Associate Vice President and Associate “Kathleen is a proven teacher and time associate vice president and associate Dean of the College administrator, and I look for- dean of the college in 2011. Kathleen Jagger ward to working with her on Her major responsibilities have been in became interim vice a broader spectrum of mentoring, advising, retention, diversity, and president and dean of issues,” said President R. academic support services. She is vice chair the college on August Owen Williams. “I am deeply of the university’s Quality Enhancement Plan 1, replacing William F. grateful to her for agreeing Development Committee and serves on the Pollard, who stepped to serve in this important President’s Advisory Committee. down from his position capacity.” Jagger holds a B.A. from DePauw Uni- effective July 31. Jagger came to Transylva- versity, an M.P.H. from Harvard School of A national search for a permanent dean nia in 2002 as professor of biology. She Public Health, and a Ph.D. from the Univer- of the college will begin this fall, with the became associate dean of the college in a sity of Cincinnati College of Medicine. She position expected to be filled by the sum- half-time position in 2007 while continuing is a recipient of Transylvania’s Bingham mer of 2013. as a biology professor, then became full- Award for Excellence in Teaching.

SUMMER 2012 7 WELL DONE Professors, staff member retire after impressive tenures

seriously the notion that the faculty needed Retiring chemistry professor Alan Goren speaks to a crowd of faculty and staff to be mentors to the students and even to during his retirement luncheon in the the rest of the faculty.” William T. Young Campus Center gym. Goren, a Massachusetts native, enjoys being able to connect with people over a wide variety of topics, especially if they happen to share his love for the Boston Red Sox. Goren has always been an ath- lete, growing up playing baseball and developing that into a penchant for cricket while in England. He played on a village team with players from ages 16 to 60 and older. “It was like the softball leagues around Tyler Young Tyler here—everyone thinks they can still play Chemistry professor a polyester manufacturer in North Carolina. the game,” Goren said. “They play on Sun- While at Transylvania, he took great advan- days during the summer months with other retiring after 27 years tage of his sabbaticals, using them to study small villages. It’s a friendly game, and Chemistry professor Alan Goren is retir- at the University of Sussex in England, the there’s always a pint or two at the end.” ing after 27 years at Transylvania. Fall 2012 University of Washington in Seattle, and his Goren’s travels and ability to make will be his final term. most recent one at the University of Ken- friends wherever he ventured gave him an Goren arrived on campus in 1985 after tucky College of Pharmacy. appreciation for people of differing back- a tenure at New England College, where “One of the things I’m most thankful for grounds and worldviews—a true liberal arts after teaching at its main campus in is the three great sabbatical mindset. He noted his time in New Hampshire, he went to a campus in opportunities while I was “One of the things Seattle, where he noticed Arundel, England, to chair the engineering here,” Goren said. “I’m very there was an Asian American program. He met his wife in Arundel and appreciative of Transylvania I’m most thankful governor, two female sena- got the opportunity to become dean at supporting those. To be able for is the three great tors, and a Jewish mayor, the England campus, but decided instead to go off and be a student saying, “It’s how the world to return to the New Hampshire campus again—that’s just a treat. I sabbatical opportu- should be.” for a year, then found the position at got to go to meetings in “I’ve learned a lot,” he Transylvania. England and France, meet nities while I was said. “Meeting people “At New England I was just teaching people all over the world. here. To be able to around the world, you realize general education classes—we didn’t have Research is so stimulating that we’re all the same, and a major,” he said. “I was happy to come and challenging.” go off and be a you realize it sitting around here and teach chemistry majors.” A close second to his pas- having a beer or a coffee.” What he found in Lexington assured him sion for chemistry was his student again– Goren plans to go back to that this was the place he wanted to spend love for Transylvania stu- that’s just a treat.” Massachusetts to be near his the rest of his education career. dents. Mathematics professor daughter and grandsons. He “The people here were very nice, and David Shannon, who had an Alan Goren and his wife also kept her the students have been challenging,” he office next to Goren’s and home in England, and they’ll said. “They make you work. They can’t be became close friends with him, said his visit there often. He recently took his oldest bluffed, and I like that. The administration students felt comfortable sitting in Goren’s grandson to his first Red Sox game at Fen- has expectations of us, and the faculty office and talking about any number of way Park. have expectations with each other that we subjects. “It’s my grandsons that are so exciting— should be scholarly and involved in our “He enjoyed talking with students about the thought of meeting them after school fields.” their various interests, and that made him a and taking them to their sporting events,” That involvement has always defined very popular teacher,” Shannon said. “Stu- he said. “I have no regrets, but for me it’s Goren’s approach to chemistry. After earn- dents felt they could come talk to him not time to go. I’ve worked for good people, ing his Ph.D. in chemistry from the Univer- just about chemistry, but about their inter- and it will be hard to leave.” sity of Delaware, he worked in industry at ests outside of the classroom. He took very

8 TRANSYLVANIA tidings as bad.” Lexington home. According to executive English professor His work as registrar involved managing assistant to the president Deana Ison ’95, Tay Fizdale retires Transylvania’s curriculum records while who was a work-study student in the regis- helping students fulfill their degree require- trar’s office, he even named his chickens English professor Tay Fizdale retired in ments. He oversaw the transition into the after his student workers. One Halloween May after 33 years (1979-2012) of service computerization of the registrar’s office, saw Mills dressed up as a farmer while on the Transylvania faculty. and eventually into offering student forms Rawlings and administrative support special- Fizdale taught many Shakespeare cours- and registration online. He ist Ashley Coons ’09 dressed es, along with a variety of courses on sev- also had faculty status, teach- as chickens. enteenth- and eighteenth-century writers. “When I read the ing a psychology course dur- Ison spoke about Mills at He was known especially for his film cours- ing the summers and serving alumni publication, his retirement luncheon in es that emphasized the medium as a major on faculty committees like the May, giving an idea of what contemporary art form. He billed the week- somebody I knew as Committee on Admissions he meant to her over the ly film screenings he organized as the “Film and Academic Standards. years beyond his administra- Junkies.” not much more than “One of the great things tive position. Mills had rec- “Tay introduced the serious study of film about this position is you a child is doing ommended Ison for an at Transylvania,” said Vice President and have contact with everybody admissions counselor posi- Dean of the College William F. Pollard. “He things far beyond at the school—faculty, stu- tion, one that she didn’t was always very careful to make sure stu- dents, staff,” he said. “It’s even know had opened. dents understood that it was not simply what I did. It’s a sat- easy to get tied up in “His endorsement, and watching movies, but was a very rigorous drop/add periods and dead- isfying thing to the training that I received study of film as literature.” lines and lose sight of what working for him, set the Pollard also noted Fizdale’s devotion to …know you might we’re really here to do. But stage for everything I have students and his attention to detail in being in a classroom refreshes have had some achieved up to this point in preparing for his classes and analyzing stu- the notion of what’s really my professional life,” she dent evaluations. important, which is an under- input in moving said. “His influence has “Tay was one of the most appreciated graduate liberal arts educa- meant so much to me that and demanding professors we have had in somebody along.” tion. Transylvania is a to this day, I still cannot the classroom,” he said. “He cared very wonderful school, and we do Jim Mills bring myself to refer to him much about how students responded to well what we claim to do as anything other than Mr. his courses. He spent so much of his effort well.” Mills. His true legacy at Transylvania is not on very difficult, complex courses, and they Throughout his time at Transylvania, in the meticulous records that he kept on became complex because he took the Mills developed a keen sense of the history our students, or the number of diplomas feedback from students so seriously. of the college, not just in regard to classes he delivered at commencement. Rather, “Many students felt he was a mentor to and professors, but also the campus itself Jim Mills will forever be remembered for them, in a very honest way, talking with and events surrounding it. his commitment to students, which was them about what they might do with their “If you ever need a Transylvania trivia extraordinary.” English major and whether graduate school would make sense for them.” Fizdale holds a B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. Retiring registrar Jim Mills tells from the University of California–Los Ange- one of many humorous stories from his time at Transylvania les, where he studied under renowned during his retirement luncheon. early English literature scholar Earl Miner. Mills retires after 28-year tenure as registrar Registrar Jim Mills retired from Tran- sylvania June 29 after 28 years with the institution. Mills came to Transylvania in 1984 from

Western Kentucky University, where he was Young Tyler assistant registrar. He earned a master’s degree in clinical psychology from WKU, team, put him and B. J. (Gooch, Special Mills took a great interest in the students which he joked sometimes came in handy Collections librarian) together, and they’ll and remains in touch with several. with students who came to his office. win it,” said Michelle Rawlings, who was “I appreciate all the people I’ve come to “The part I liked most about this job promoted to registrar from associate regis- know here and have been amazed by the was working individually with students and trar. “I don’t know if my brain will ever talent that has gone through,” he said. working them through whatever problems hold as much knowledge about the cam- “When I read the alumni publication, they may have had—working as an advisor pus as his.” somebody I knew as not much more than and consoler sometimes,” he said. “But it’s He’s also known around Old Morrison a child is doing things far beyond what I surprising how little acrimony there is. for his quick wit and for his chickens, did. I’m just always amazed. It’s a satisfying There’s as much being a bearer of good which he raises for eggs at his downtown thing to see that happen and know you

SUMMER 2012 9 Three professors earn Bingham Awards for quality in the classroom Three Transylvania professors have beyond it. I believe that enabling students and promoted to associate professor. He earned Bingham Awards for Excellence to know each other is an essential part of joined the Transylvania faculty in 2006 in Teaching in recognition of their out- teaching them about what Nussbaum calls after teaching and earning a Ph.D. in standing work in the classroom. The award the ‘narrative imagination’—the ability to English/rhetoric and composition from includes annual salary supplements for five be intelligent, informed, and engaged read- Louisiana State University. years. A committee of outside educators ers of other people’s stories.” Education professor Tiffany Wheeler selects the award winners based on class- ’90 was tenured and promoted to associate room visits, essays from the candidates, Chemistry professor George Kaufman professor. Wheeler came to Transylvania in and student evaluations. joined the Transyl- 2002 and holds an Ed.D. in curriculum and vania faculty in instruction with a focus on literacy from Art history professor Wei Lin has 2007 after time the University of Kentucky. been at Transylva- as head teaching Art history professor Wei Lin was nia since 2006. She fellow in physical- tenured and promoted to associate profes- came to Lexington organic chemistry sor. She came to Transylvania from The from The Ohio at Harvard Universi- Ohio State University, where she taught State University, ty. He earned an and earned a Ph.D. in art history. where she taught M.A. and Ph.D. in Spanish professor Jeremy Paden was and earned a Ph.D. chemistry from tenured and promoted to associate profes- in art history. She Harvard and a B.A. sor. He joined the Transylvania faculty in also holds a bache- in classics, B.S. in chemical physics, and 2008 from Georgia State University and lor of arts in M.S. in chemistry from Brown University. holds a Ph.D. in Spanish from Emory archaeology from His research interests include electrets and University. Nanjing University and a master’s degree in electrostatic, magnetic, and biomolecular Biology professor Sarah Bray was archaeology from Beijing University. Her self-assembly. tenured and promoted to associate profes- research interests include typology and “I strive to foster intuition, confidence, sor. She was an assistant professor of biolo- periodization of the Tang Dynasty and the and skills in reasoning and problem solving, gy at Midland Lutheran College, now Buddhist caves at Qixia Mountain. and to instill passions for science and the Midland University, before coming to “When teaching the history of art, I see environment by expressing my own,” he Transylvania in 2007. She holds a Ph.D. myself as a guide leading students along a said. “From Foundations of the Liberal Arts in botany from the University of Florida. path of learning,” she said. “The core of (developing into first-year seminar) and my teaching philosophy is to convey my general chemistry to quantum chemistry, enthusiasm for the subject, to share my I take great strides to maintain students’ Billips accepts new knowledge and experience, and to encour- interest and enthusiasm—learning is excit- age students’ participation and involvement ing, and science is exciting—and to illus- associate dean position in what they are learning.” trate the relevance of chemistry to their English professor other courses of study, to current events Martha Billips ’78 English professor Kremena Todorova and scientific discoveries, and to their became associate came to Transylva- daily lives.” dean for first-year nia in 2005 from academic programs the University of and advising, effective Notre Dame, where Promotions August 1. She will she earned an M.A. English professor Martha Billips ’78 remain a tenured and Ph.D. in English was promoted to full professor. She began member of the facul- and completed a teaching at Transylvania in 1997 after earn- ty, teach at least one course per year, and teaching postdoc- ing a Ph.D. in English from the University of assume her rank as professor of English. toral fellowship. Kentucky. Billips taught in the Foundations of the She also holds a Spanish and French professor Martha Liberal Arts program for first-year students B.A. in English Ojeda was promoted to full professor. She from 1997-2012 and directed the program from Hope College. Her research interests joined the Transylvania faculty in 1997. She from 2001-12. She has also served as include twentieth-century American holds a Ph.D. in Spanish from the University humanities division chair. literature, comparative ethnic American of Kentucky. “This new role is an excellent fit for literature, and race studies. Women’s studies professor Simona Martha,” said President R. Owen Williams. “All of the pedagogical decisions I make Fojtová was tenured and promoted to “She has already contributed enormously are informed by my belief in the tremen- associate professor. She has been on the to the way we educate first-year students dous value of community-based, interdisci- Transylvania faculty full time since 2007 at Transylvania. Through her 15 years of plinary, and collaborative teaching and after spending time on campus as a visiting experience with our former FLA program, learning,” she said. “Therefore, one of my assistant professor. She holds a Ph.D. in she gained a keen understanding of the primary goals as a teacher is to facilitate American studies from the University of critical transition that first-year students learning experiences that highlight the New Mexico. make in adjusting to the rigors of college- importance of community—both the com- Writing, rhetoric, and communication level academics. That background will serve munity within the classroom and those professor Scott Whiddon was tenured her well as she guides our students through

10 TRANSYLVANIA their liberal arts experience at Transylvania.” Billips looks forward to the challenges of her Vetter steps down from dean’s office, new role and feels the timing is especially sig- begins new role as special assistant nificant. “With the advent of August term and the Mike Vetter Another office created during Vetter’s creation of our First-Year Seminar program, we stepped down as tenure is a full-time position for a coor- can provide our students with a distinctive, vice president for dinator of community service and civic challenging, and multi-disciplinary first-year student affairs engagement. curriculum,” she said. “This will prepare them and dean of stu- “This allowed us to increase our well for the rest of their educational experience dents on June 30 opportunities for students to reach out at Transylvania. I look forward to playing an after a 15-year to the surrounding community,” Vetter important role in this initiative.” tenure and said. “Working with Arlington Elemen- Billips came to Transylvania in 1997 after immediately tary School in an after-school daycare earning a B.A. in English from Transylvania and began a new program and with the Carnegie Center an M.A. and Ph.D., both in English, from the position as spe- for tutoring situations are great exam- University of Kentucky. cial assistant to the university. His new ples of these programs.” role will involve Vetter in development, Student retention received major alumni relations, admissions, and special emphasis during Vetter’s tenure. A Rawlings named registrar assignments from the president’s office. Retention Committee was created to Michelle Rawlings, who “Mike has provided great service to coordinate all aspects of enhancing the had served as associate the university as dean of students, and I university’s graduation rate and helping registrar at Transylvania, look forward to his contributions in this ensure that first-year students return for was promoted to registrar new role,” said President R. Owen their sophomore year. A closer relation- effective July 1, filling the Williams. “Mike seems to know everyone ship with the academic dean’s office and vacancy left after Jim in the Transylvania family, and his con- bringing counseling services on campus Mills’s retirement. nections will prove invaluable as he pur- were key developments in this area. Rawlings was registrar sues key fund-raising initiatives and new “Athletics is something I was especial- at Sullivan University in ideas toward involving alumni more in ly interested in,” Vetter said. “I wanted Lexington until February 2009, when she came the student recruitment process.” to help that department have a student- to Transylvania as associate registrar. She holds One of Vetter’s new roles will be athlete program that gave equal support a bachelor’s degree in business administration to serve as a major gifts officer in the regardless of the varsity sport you’re tak- from the University of Kentucky and a master’s development office, which is where he ing part in. The fact that we have won in business from Sullivan. is now located. An emphasis will be on the Commissioner’s Cup (for best overall She will be a familiar face to students return- fundraising for the new athletics fields achievement from women’s and men’s ing in the fall, as she’s worked closely with to be constructed on a 10-acre plot teams in the Heartland Collegiate Ath- hundreds of students for the past three years. along West Fourth Street recently pur- letic Conference) the past two years, I “Just about every student that comes in, I chased by the university, and for project- think, demonstrates our commitment know their face or their name,” she said. “I ed new residence and academic facilities to that ideal.” like knowing that the students know they can that are part of strategic planning now As he leaves the dean’s office, Vetter come in anytime. They’re not scared of this taking place. reflected on his goal in coming to Tran- office.” Vetter will also work with the alumni sylvania and the fulfillment he experi- Rawlings has her work cut out for her right office and admissions office to increase enced being in that role. off the bat, as the inaugural August term is participation by alumni in identifying and “My intent was to come back to a this year, Transylvania added two new majors, helping to recruit prospective students. small college after working at larger and both the registrar’s office and the dean of As he begins this new work for Tran- state and regional schools,” he said. the college’s office will have new heads. She sylvania, Vetter looks back on a number “I wanted to work more directly with said she welcomes the challenge. of changes in student life over the past students, faculty, and staff to help “There are so many changes going on that 15 years in which he played a key role. create a better learning environment. it’s going to completely consume me to figure One such area is the improved sup- That’s been the joy of this Transylvania out how to make things work with August port for ethnic minority students. A con- experience.” term and changes in curriculum, not to men- cern for these issues first brought about One of Vetter’s colleagues who appre- tion the changes in staff,” she said. “I love try- an office of multicultural affairs and now ciated the work he did is athletics direc- ing to make all the pieces fit. If there’s a has resulted in the university’s first office tor Jack Ebel ’77. problem with a student’s degree audit, I find it of campus diversity and inclusion. “Mike has been a great friend to to be a fun challenge to figure out how to “You must have these kinds of athletics,” he said. “One of his goals make it all fit together. It’s a puzzle.” programs in place in order to attract a when I started as athletics director was “Michelle will do great,” Mills said. “She’s diverse student body and make them to try to show that all the sports and all very good, especially with the new online regis- feel welcome and valued,” Vetter said. our student-athletes were important, tration. If it wasn’t for her, I don’t know how “My office played a role in informing regardless of the team they played on. we would have gotten by the last few years.” the entire campus community through Knowing that the dean’s office believes Rawlings said that the registrar’s office will cocurricular activities that stressed diver- in that value goes a long way toward be the same friendly, helpful place it’s been sity education. I’m very pleased with making it a reality. Mike did a great job for years. how all of that developed.” in that respect.”

SUMMER 2012 11 LoMonaco heads up student life administration changes outstanding students who He earned a B.A. in philoso- come to Transylvania and the phy from Transylvania, a master introduction of August term are of divinity degree from Vander- critically important, and Michael bilt University, and a Ph.D. in has the perfect background to religion from Syracuse Universi- lead in these areas.” ty. He is the co-founder of Covert earned a B.A. in psy- Young Adult Ecumenical Forum chology from Transylvania, a and was a worship leader at master of science in college stu- the Fayette County (Ky.) Deten- dent personnel administration tion Center the past year. from Indiana University, and a “I anticipate that a synergy Ph.D. in educational policy will develop between the Joseph Rey Au studies and evaluation from the experiential components of my Anthropology professor bring energy and dedication to University of Kentucky. Before teaching, student immersion Barbara LoMonaco became her new role.” coming to Transylvania in 1996, experiences, and regular meet- vice president for student LoMonaco said she has ideas he held student life positions at ings such as quiet reflections, affairs and dean of students for initiatives in several areas of Washington University in Saint lunch discussions, and service on July 1. She continues as a student life, including commu- Louis and Indiana University. projects,” Dickinson said. voting member of the faculty nity service, leadership training, “August term is a very inno- • • • and will teach one or two campus recreation, and social vative first-year experience for Robert Brown became asso- courses per year. and wellness programming. our students, and I’m looking ciate dean for In addition, Michael Covert “I want to continue to tie forward to working with faculty student affairs ’91, Robert Brown, and Wilson students to the community members, staff, and student on July 1. Dickinson ’02 were named to through service projects and to leaders to make it a success, He came to key positions in student life. create more sustained activities and to enhancing our overall Transylvania LoMonaco came to Transyl- so that we have semester-long university retention efforts,” in 2001 as vania in 1996 after earning her involvement,” she said. “I’d like Covert said. assistant B.A. in philosophy and M.A. to see service permeate all • • • director of residence life and and Ph.D. degrees, both in aspects of campus, and tie that T. Wilson Dickinson ’02 became director of residence cultural anthropology, from to leadership development. became asso- life in 2005. Southern Methodist University. “I think we are on the verge ciate dean for His new responsibilities During her tenure at Transylva- of wonderful changes at Tran- religious life include residence life, student nia, an anthropology major was sylvania over the next few years on July 7. He involvement and leadership, added to the curriculum. through our campus planning was a visiting judicial affairs, community serv- LoMonaco’s extensive faculty and other strategic planning professor of ice and civic engagement, and service record includes a num- initiatives. The timing for me to philosophy at the William T. Young Campus ber of positions directly related assume this new position could Transylvania the past academic Center. He will be involved in to student life, including her not be better in terms of think- year and is an ordained minister refining the university’s student membership on the Alcohol ing about new opportunities.” in the Christian Church (Disci- affairs policies, supporting gen- Task Force, Judicial Council • • • ples of Christ). eral student needs, and plan- (chair), Selection Committee for Michael Covert ’91 became “Transylvania is committed to ning for future construction. Student Orientation Leaders, associate vice enabling students to know and “This is a much deserved Transylvania Scholarship president for experience the history and progression in Bob’s Transylva- Committee (chair), Sexual retention and practices of various religious nia career,” said vice president Grievances Judicial Board, and associate traditions and to interact with for student affairs and dean of Delta Delta Delta First-Year dean of stu- people of other faiths and prac- students Barbara LoMonaco. Woman Award Selection dents on July tices,” said President R. Owen “He will now have the opportu- Committee. 1. His prior Williams. “This position provides nity to use the student life skills “I am delighted that Barbara Transylvania positions were another element in our attempt he has demonstrated over the has accepted this key position,” associate dean of students and to shape proactive leaders in past decade in a number of said President R. Owen director of retention programs, today’s diverse world.” new areas.” Williams. “She is a one-person assistant dean of students, and Dickinson will promote spiri- Brown earned a bachelor of nuclear power plant who will coordinator of student life and tual development, theological science degree in mathematics completely transform the face financial aid services. reflection, and social awareness from the University of Kentucky of student affairs on our cam- “Michael’s 16 years of expe- on campus. He will serve as and a master of science in pus. From her earliest days at rience in student life at Transyl- chaplain for the campus com- higher education and student Transylvania, Barbara has been vania will serve him well in his munity, advisor for student reli- affairs administration from Indi- heavily involved in student life. new position,” said vice presi- gious organizations, and liaison ana University. She has an excellent rapport dent for student affairs and between the university and the For additional student life with students as advisor and dean of students Barbara various religious bodies of cen- changes, go to www.transy.edu/ mentor, and I am sure she will LoMonaco. “Retention of the tral Kentucky. campus/staff.htm.

12 TRANSYLVANIA From left, Clay Hinton, Jantzen Latham, Hunter Frazier, head coach Brian Lane, Justin Tereshko, James Dawson, and assistant coach Matt Martin hold their NCAA trophies.

© 2012 Matt Marriott/NCAA Photos Men’s golf finishes as national runner-up in NCAA championship The men’s golf team capped off a with a four-round total of 279, seven under was a great confidence-builder heading brilliant season by finishing as national par, which earned him the medalist title. into next year.” runner-up in the NCAA Division III champi- Sophomore Jantzen Latham shot a 289, Tereshko again paced the Pioneers with a onship. Under head coach Brian Lane ’90, good for second in individual play. The vic- four-round total of 298, good for a tie for the Pioneers claimed four invitational tour- tory moved the Pioneers to No. 3 in the 17th place. He had started the tournament nament victories during the regular season, nation, the team’s highest-ever ranking. with an uncharacteristic 82, a round that then captured the Heartland Collegiate The NCAA championship was held in included an ace, then played par golf the Athletic Conference tournament crown to mid-May on the Mission Inn Resort’s El rest of the week. Sophomore Clay Hinton qualify for the NCAA event. Campeon Course in Howie-in-the-Hills, Fla., and Latham each had a 301, followed by During the fall schedule, the Pioneers just north of Orlando. The Pioneers were in junior Hunter Frazier at 303 and senior won invitational tournaments hosted by 18th place after round one, but rallied in James Dawson with a 304. Centre College and Manchester College. In the fourth and final round to make up nine Tereshko, who was Player of the Year in the spring, Transylvania won invitationals strokes on Methodist University and finish the HCAC, and Hinton were named to the hosted by the College of Mount St. Joseph in second by one shot, 1191 to 1192. Ping All-America third team by the Golf and Hanover College. Oglethorpe University won the title with a Coaches Association of America. Earlier, When the HCAC tournament rolled 1171 score. Tereshko, Hinton, Frazier, Latham, and jun- around, Transylvania had risen to a No. 4 “I was really proud of the way our play- ior Stephen Montgomery were selected for national ranking and was the favorite to ers battled back after our rough opening the All-Great Lakes Region team by the repeat as champion. The Pioneers led every round,” said Lane, voted Coach of the Year same organization. Frazier and Hinton were round and ran away with the trophy, finish- in the HCAC. “We buckled down and com- also on the All-HCAC team. ing 42 shots ahead of runner-up Mount St. peted in the last three rounds and played Joseph. Senior Justin Tereshko led the way the way we knew we were capable of. It Men’s basketball wins HCAC, plays in NCAA tournament An exciting early-season exhibition game good, and they understood how hard you Institute of Technology in the title game. against the University of Kentucky Wildcats have to play every night out.” After receiving an at-large bid to the NCAA in Rupp Arena set the stage for one of the Transylvania and UK, who were tied at Division III championship, the Pioneers host- all-time best seasons in men’s basketball seven wins each in a series that began in ed first-round games where they lost 84-74 history. At year’s end, Transylvania had won 1903, played for the first time in 100 years to Carroll University. the regular season Heartland Collegiate on November 2. Although the Pioneers held Junior forward Ethan Spurlin was named Athletic Conference title, participated in the early 11-4 and 19-17 leads, the Division I Player of the Year in the HCAC. He led NCAA Division III national championship, Wildcats prevailed 97-53 in the opening Transylvania in scoring with 16.8 points a and fashioned a 23-5 record that included a salvo of what became their eighth national game, rebounding with 6.4 boards a con- 16-2 mark in the HCAC. championship season. test, and shooting percentage at 55.4. The Head coach Brian Lane ’90, named The Pioneers then tied a school record for National Association of Basketball Coaches Coach of the Year in the HCAC, had high most consecutive wins at the start of a sea- named Spurlin a first-team All-Midwest Dis- praise for the determination his players son with 10 victories, including No. 10 trict player and a third-team All-American, showed from start to finish. The Pioneers’ against the University of La Verne in the and he was named to the D3Hoops.com poise was evidenced by their leading the D3hoops.com Classic in Las Vegas. Three All-Midwest Region first team. nation in fewest turnovers per game with a games later, they began an 11-0 run in Junior forward/guard Brandon Rash 10.1 average, and they climbed to a No. 14 HCAC play on their way to winning the joined Spurlin on the All-HCAC first team. national ranking at one point in the season. season title by four games over runner-up He averaged 15.9 points and 4 rebounds “I just really liked how confident this Hanover College. while shooting 54.3 percent from the field. team was throughout the season,” Lane Transylvania hosted the HCAC tourna- He was also named to the D3hoops.com said. “They took a very mature approach to ment and won its opening game over All-Midwest Region third team. not only the season as a whole, but to each Anderson University 71-59 before falling individual game. Their preparation was 76-73 in overtime against Rose-Hulman

SUMMER 2012 13 ment, the Pioneers took a narrow 5-4 home decision over the Col- Women’s basketball has lege of Mount St. Joseph to secure the No. 2 seed. winning season In the HCAC tourney, played at the West Indy Racquet Club in Indianapolis, Transylvania got past Franklin College in the semifi- Sporting a lineup dominated by first-year players, the women’s nals 5-3 before losing 5-2 to Earlham, the only school to defeat basketball team put together a winning season at 14-13 and fin- the Pioneers in regular season HCAC play. ished fourth in the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference regu- Junior Keith Henderson and senior Will Palmer were named to lar-season race with an 11-7 record. the All-HCAC first team. Henderson had a 9-3 singles record and a “Considering we had nine first-year players on the roster, includ- 10-3 doubles mark, while Palmer was 9-4 in singles play and 12-5 ing four who started, I thought we had a pretty successful year,” in doubles. said head coach Greg Todd. “It was a transition year, but we got valuable playing experience. We were an aggressive, physical group, and we rebounded well.” Softball finishes third in HCAC Transylvania won its first game in the inaugural Pat Deacon- The softball team finished third in regular-season Heartland Col- Hilliard Lyons Invitational at the Beck Center in mid-December with legiate Athletic Conference play but fell short in the league tourna- a 78-66 decision over St. Mary of the Woods College before falling ment, losing two games to finish the year with a 19-19-1 record to Kenyon College in its second game. Deacon was a coach, and 10-6 in the HCAC. administrator, and teacher at Transylvania for 29 years before retir- Under head coach Kim Tackett, the Pioneers were on the road ing in 1999. She was head coach of women’s basketball for 16 for the first 14 games of the season, playing in Memphis in the seasons, compiling a 175-146 record from 1971-87. Rhodes College Invitational, in Atlanta in the Emory University Invi- In early January, the team’s record was 4-8, but the Pioneers tational, and in Kissimmee, Fla., in the Rebel Spring Games. They pulled together for a 6-1 streak that helped secure fourth place in got off to a fast start in conference play with a 5-1 record in the the HCAC and a spot in the conference tournament. After defeat- early going. When tournament time rolled around, Transylvania ing Defiance College in the quarterfinals, Transylvania lost in the lost a close one 3-2 in the opener against Bluffton College, then semifinals to eventual tourney champion Franklin College. fell to Manchester College 7-0 to end the season. Transylvania’s exceptionally strong first-year class won several top Junior infielder Michelle Ladanyi was named to the All-HCAC honors in the HCAC. Guard Nicole Coffman was named Freshman second team after leading the Pioneers in hits (40) and runs batted Player of the Year and was one of three Pioneers selected for the in (34) while hitting .308. Senior catcher/outfielder Emily McCarty All-Freshman team. She led Transylvania in scoring with a 14.6 was an honorable mention pick. She led Transylvania in runs average and in free-throw accuracy at 81 percent, and was third scored with 35 and batted .319, second best to junior infielder leading rebounder with 4.1 per game. She was also named to the Megan Mitchell at .326. 12-person All-HCAC team. First-year player Elizabeth Young led the pitching corps with a Coffman was joined on the All-Freshman team by guard Jariana 10-6 record and 2.37 earned run average, followed by senior Kait- Gillespie and forward Alex McKenzie. Gillespie was Transylvania’s lyn Foree at 9-9. second leading scorer at 11.2 points per game, while McKenzie led the team in rebounding with 7.1 per contest and was third in scor- ing at 11 points per game. Baseball just misses HCAC tourney “For one team to have three of the five spots on the All-Fresh- Transylvania got within a single win of qualifying for the Heart- man team in a 10-team league is very rare,” Todd said. “It says a land Collegiate Athletic Conference baseball tournament before lot about the quality of this class.” losing to Manchester College 3-1 in the season finale. The Pioneers ended the year with a 21-19 record, including 14-11 in HCAC play. Men’s tennis takes second in HCAC Head Coach Chris Campbell ’00 guided Transylvania to a fourth place tie with Manchester in the HCAC regular season. The Spar- Transylvania put together a nearly perfect regular-season Heart- tans then claimed the fourth and final spot in the league tourna- land Collegiate Athletic Conference record in men’s tennis at 8-1 ment by having won two of three games against the Pioneers, before falling in the finals of the conference tournament to Earl- earning the tie-breaker. ham College. Under head coach Chuck Brown, the Pioneers were Transylvania compiled a 3-3 record in the Russ Matt Invitational, 11-6 overall. held over spring break in Lakeland, Fla. Conference play took up Transylvania clinched second place in the regular-season HCAC most of the remaining season, and the Pioneers put together a late title race with a 9-0 home court win over Bluffton College that five-game win streak to give themselves a shot at making the con- gave them a 7-1 record. In their final match before the tourna- ference tournament. See Baseball, page 15.

TU wins Commissioner’s Cup for second straight year Transylvania became the first school to captures the most all-sports points in both Technology (110.17). win the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Con- men’s and women’s athletics. Transylvania’s The women Pioneers won team champi- ference Commissioner’s Cup in successive women’s teams won 61.17 points while onships in tennis and volleyball, finished years when the Pioneers claimed the honor the men claimed 50.83 points for a com- second in golf, and were third in soccer. for the second straight time by coming out bined total of 112. That bested second- The men won titles in soccer, basketball, on top for the 2011-12 season. place Franklin College (111.50) and and golf and were second in tennis. The cup is won by the school that third-place Rose-Hulman Institute of

14 TRANSYLVANIA Baseball, continued improved their cumulative times by over 300 seconds. Five Pioneers were named to the All-HCAC first team. Senior Women’s tennis plays starting pitcher Taylor Bugh posted a 7-2 record to lead the team, and his 2.45 earned run average was lowest among the starters. in NCAA tournament Sophomore outfielder Zach Bynum was Transylvania’s top hitter The women’s tennis team fell to Ohio Northern University 5-1 with a .380 average and led in runs (37) and hits (57). Sophomore in a first-round NCAA Division III championship match, hosted by catcher Sam Liggett finished with a .298 batting average, three Emory University in Atlanta in mid-May. Under head coach Chuck home runs, and 25 runs batted in. Brown, the Pioneers had qualified for the event by winning the Senior outfielder Johnny Renz was the team’s second leading Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference tournament in the fall hitter with a .352 average, and his three triples were a team high. after finishing with a 12-4 season record. Senior first baseman Ken Riley batted .319 with a team-best four The Pioneers got their only point in the match off an 8-2 win by homers and 36 RBI. their No. 1 doubles team, seniors Kelsey Fulkerson and Stephanie Townsend. Track and field teams improve in HCAC meets The women’s track and field team made better showings com- pared with last year in both the indoor and outdoor Heartland Col- legiate Athletic Conference meets, while the men moved up in the outdoor meet. Both teams are led by head coach Heidi Pinkerton. The women took eighth place in the indoor meet, hosted by Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, one place better than in 2011. Senior Lucy Wright, who became the first Pioneer field ath- lete to be named Player of the Week in the HCAC, led the Pio- neers with a second in the shot put while senior Betsy Heines was fourth in the 5,000-meter run. Wright made the All-HCAC first team. Stacey Corry At the outdoor meet, the women moved up three places, from Senior athletic awards winners Justin Tereshko, Betsy 10th in 2011 to seventh. First-year runner Nicole Coffman took sec- Heines, and Kelsey Fulkerson ond in the 400-meter run, while Wright was fourth in the discus. The men equaled their ninth-place indoors finish from 2011 and Student-athletes receive honors moved up from 10th to eighth in the outdoor meet. Outdoors, the Golf All-American Justin Tereshko and Kelsey Fulker- 4 x 100 relay team (sophomore Browning Smith, senior Curtis son, a two-time Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference Puryear, first-year runner Ben Lyvers, and sophomore Mason women’s tennis Player of the Year, were named male and Williams) took fifth place, and senior Aaron Carrithers was sixth in female Pioneer Athletes of the Year during the annual the javelin. awards ceremony in May. Tereshko, a senior from Madison, Ind., was a first-team Swimming, diving teams win six meets All-American as a junior and third-team as a senior. He took medalist honors in the HCAC tournament his junior and sen- The women’s swimming and diving team captured four regular- ior years, earning him Player of the Year honors both times, season meets while the men’s team won twice. In the season-end- and was first-team All-HCAC as a sophomore. A winner of ing Bluegrass Mountain Conference Championships, the women seven tournaments in his career, he is the first Transylvania took eighth place while the men finished 12th. Both teams are led golfer to average under 72 strokes per round for an entire by head coach Kyle Dunaway. season. The team won the HCAC tournament and played in The women won home meets against Wilmington College of the NCAA Division III championship each of Tereshko’s four Ohio, Franklin College, Lindsey Wilson College, and Campbellsville seasons. University. On the men’s side, the Pioneers won home meets Fulkerson, a senior from Lexington and a Dean’s List stu- against Franklin and Lindsey Wilson. dent, was the 2008 HCAC Freshman of the Year, a four-time Held at the Mecklenburg County Aquatics Center in Charlotte, All-HCAC selection, and a two-time HCAC Most Valuable N.C., the Bluegrass Mountain meet included 360 student-athletes Player. She led the Pioneers to conference titles and into from both NCAA Division III and II schools. Top finishers for the NCAA championship play in the 2009 and 2011 seasons. women included junior Amanda Skinner with a sixth-place finish in She advanced to the round of 16 in singles at the Interna- the 200 breaststroke (2:25.47) and 10th-place performances by tional Tennis Association regional tournament in 2011, the sophomores Chelsea Diamond in the 200 backstroke (2:08.08) and best showing for a Transylvania women’s player in school Carly Hubbard in the 200 butterfly (2:13.79). For the men, Transyl- history. vania had two strong finishers in the 200 breaststroke—senior Betsy Heines, a senior from Shepherdsville, Ky., won the Yunan Yang in seventh place (2.10:94) and first-year swimmer E. J. George Stopp Award for the highest cumulative grade point Quijano in 16th place (2:14.59). average for a Transylvania student-athlete. A cross country Skinner was chosen for the All-BMC team for her efforts in the and track star, she holds five school records in track and 400 individual medley (4:33.29) and the 200 breaststroke. Yang field and has the second-best time in the 6K cross country was All-BMC for his performance in the 100 breaststroke (57.54). run. She was an All-HCAC performer in cross country. For the season, the teams established 13 school records and

SUMMER 2012 15 Graduation Day Photos by Joseph Rey Au and Helena Hau Bachelor’s degrees conferred on 241 members of the class of 2012 President R. Owen Williams con- Wisconsin-Milwaukee and is in the doc- ferred the bachelor of arts degree on toral program for creative writing at the 241 students in the class of 2012 during University of Kentucky. She has had an a commencement ceremony on the active career that includes writing, steps of Old Morrison May 26. teaching, performance art, and film- Bianca Spriggs ’03, a renowned Af- making. frilachian poet and multi-disciplinary Graduating senior Ashley Howe, a artist, gave a unique commencement German studies and history double address, presenting a poetry reading ac- major from Danville, Ky., gave the stu- companied by graduating senior Caleb dent address, titled “Gemütlichkeit.” It Ritchie on piano. She had asked seniors focused on finding comfort in discom- to submit thoughts about their careers fort and how her Transylvania experi- and how they grew as people during ence prepared her to tackle seemingly their Transylvania years, ideas that she insurmountable issues in the world out- used in her presentation. side the campus.

Spriggs talked to the students about “Gemütlichkeit is a (German) word measuring time not in minutes and best used when describing coziness—an hours, but rather in non-traditional ways environment or state of mind marked like how many fortune cookies you’ve by cheerfulness, calmness, and a sense cracked open, lines you’ve stood in, day- Clockwise, from bottom left, graduating of belonging or social acceptance,” senior Danny Woolums and his mother, dreams you’ve had, and perfect peanut Howe said. “What I have come to re- Maria Woolums (center), enjoy talking butter and jelly sandwiches you’ve cre- spect most about my class has been our with English professor Kremena Todorova ated. She ended by saying, “In this time, eagerness to prevade discomfort—to at the Friday evening parents reception in Haupt Plaza; graduating senior Betsey in this life, let us count on you, the most move away from gemütlichkeit—and Heines with her mother, Joy Heines; precious time capsule of them all.” this is a quality that makes us Transyl- graduating seniors, from left, Lindsay Spriggs, a history major and studio vania graduates unique.” Jagoe, Kelsey Fulkerson, and Katie art minor at Transylvania, earned a mas- Gruner; graduating senior Chris Beal is ter of arts in English composition/cre- See commencement videos at shown with his parents, Joe and Marie www.youtube.com/transylvaniauniv. Beal. ative writing at the University of

16 TRANSYLVANIA BEN COSTIGAN Fulbright grant to teach English Madrid, Spain VIKTORIA SAFARIAN Fulbright grant to teach English in South Korea, followed by Harvard Law School RACHEL WILLIAMS College of Veterinary Medicine Purdue University

ELI GLASS ELLEN GILBERT Trader with investment Master’s program in firm Edward Jones international development Saint Louis The New School, New York

The Places They’re Going Joseph Rey Au South Korea and Spain on Fulbright awards, The New School in New York City, Edward Jones financial company, and Purdue University veterinary school are among the interesting destinations for members of the class of 2012

ELLEN GILBERT, an anthropol- know what you’re supposed to do,” she position as a trader with the investment ogy major from Lawrenceburg, Ky., will said. “The programs there are very in- firm Edward Jones at the organization’s attend The New School in New York terdisciplinary, much like my Transylva- North American headquarters in Saint City this fall to pursue a master’s degree nia classes. There’s no way I could Louis. in international development. participate in that kind of setting if it The Metropolis, Ill., native said he Gilbert wasn’t certain of her major weren’t for my Transylvania experi- has always liked the world of invest- when she came to Transylvania, but she ences—the discussion format in class, ments, and an internship with Edward knew she was interested in humanitarian everything.” Jones after his junior year gave him a di- aid or social work on a global scale. A The chance to live and study in Man- rect path to his full-time job. course her first term with anthropology hattan was the final piece of the puzzle “I enjoy watching the market and professor Barbara LoMonaco brought for Gilbert. She pointed out the many reading the news of different events in everything into focus for her. internship and career opportunities the world to see how they affect the “I took Cultural Anthropology and there at organizations like the Women’s market,” Glass said. “Why the market is knew from the first lecture that it was Empowerment Branch of the United up one day and down the next has al- absolutely for me,” she said. “I’m really Nations, Amnesty International, and ways intrigued me.” obsessed with experiencing the world as C.A.R.E International. After his summer internship at Ed- much as possible. Learning about other “It’s almost as much about New York ward Jones, the firm, which has more cultures and how people think about the as it is the school I’m going to,” Gilbert than 11,000 offices in the United States world is very intriguing.” said. “I feel like you can find your niche and Canada serving nearly seven million Matching her interests with an ap- there. It’s a center for global, interna- customers, offered him the opportunity propriate graduate school occurred after tional people and all those ideas. I’ll be to interview immediately for a full-time a suggestion from then-vice president excited to be in the center of all that.” position after graduation. He received and dean of the college William F. Pol- • • • the good news that September that he lard that she look into The New School. ELI GLASS completed a double had been hired to begin the following “I went to their website and looked major in business administration (fi- summer. at some of the departments, and it was nance concentration) and economics “I was hired as part of the rotational like this destiny moment when you just and went directly from graduation to his development program,” Glass said. “We

SUMMER 2012 17 spend our first year rotating through the said. “It will be kind of like a family, a lot,” he said. “I came in without a firm, experiencing several different trad- which I feel was true during my time at whole lot of direction academically, and ing desks. For example, we may have an Transylvania. I think I’ll feel right at they helped me realize that it’s OK. order from a client to sell a municipal or home at Purdue.” Throughout my four years, I’ve thought corporate bond, and we’ll go out in the And the kicker? about doing a dozen different things market to find the best bid.” “My father went to Purdue for his from law school to a Ph.D. in econom- Glass attributes his good showing undergraduate and graduate work. He’s ics, and now to diplomacy. It’s opened during the internship in part to a Money so excited!” my mind that I can do any of these and Banking class he had as part of his • • • things.” economics major. BEN COSTIGAN, an economics • • • “That class talked a lot about the major and Spanish minor from Frank- VIKTORIA SAFARIAN, a philos- bond market, which really helped me to fort, Ky., will spend his next several ophy major from Lexington, has enrolled come in and be a little bit ahead of the months out of the country studying and in Harvard Law School but will first rest of the interns that summer,” he teaching to prepare himself for a career spend a year in South Korea teaching said. “They (Edward Jones) were im- in foreign relations. English to secondary students as part of pressed with what I already knew.” Costigan won a Juan Manuel Sam- a Fulbright award. She will be in South • • • pere Scholarship through Sigma Delta Korea from July 2012 to July 2013, and RACHEL WILLIAMS is a biology Pi, the national Spanish honorary, and she’ll start at Harvard in fall 2013. and French double major from New Al- took four weeks of intensive Spanish Safarian, who is native Armenian, bany, Ohio, who will attend the College courses in Cuenca, Ecuador, in July. hopes the fellowship will make her more of Veterinary Medicine at Purdue Uni- Costigan, who was vice president of marketable when she earns her law de- versity in the fall. Transylvania’s Sigma Delta Pi chapter, gree. Although she was “pretty sure” she was one of 20 recipients in the country “I knew I wanted to do some kind of wanted to go to veterinary school when and one of only two in Ecuador. He will fellowship, and the Fulbright is very well she arrived at Transylvania, she was still use that training to travel for nine known,” she said. “I want to learn to trying to decide between pursuing a months starting in the fall to Madrid, speak Korean, and I want to learn how Ph.D. and going into research or be- Spain, to teach high school English as to cook Korean food. I’ll also be travel- coming a practicing veterinarian. Two part of a Fulbright grant he was ing to Japan and China.” experiences over the same summer awarded. Part of the fellowship includes an in- helped her to decide. “I took a lot of economics classes the dependent project in conjunction with “I took part in the Summer Medical last two terms, so I haven’t had as much her time teaching. Safarian is working and Dental Education Program at Case Spanish practice as I’d like leading up to with Bryan Station High School in Lex- Western Reserve University, which is for the Fulbright,” he said. “So I’m hoping ington to develop collaborative art proj- rising college sophomores and juniors to to improve my Spanish-speaking abilities ects that students from Bryan Station help them with the MCAT (Medical and learn more about a specific culture. and from her school in South Korea can College Application Test), mock inter- I think in the future with this experience do at the same time. She’ll start an after- views, and personal statement writing,” in Spain, there’s a potential for me to school art program where students will she said. “And then that same summer work more directly with them in what- work from similar prompts as the ones I went home to New Albany and shad- ever career path I decide to take.” in Lexington. owed my vet, and I really liked it.” Part of the Fulbright includes creat- Safarian is interested in public inter- Williams was locked in on a biology ing an independent project to do while est law, particularly immigration and major from the beginning, but found a you’re teaching. Costigan plans to start refugee status. She has previously trav- second love in her French studies. an English resource library at his school. eled to India and the Philippines on re- “I met (French professor) Dr. (Si- He is working with the International search projects through Transylvania monetta) Cochis, and she was so excit- Book Project in Lexington to gather Kenan Grants and to Yale University’s ing and fun to be around,” she said. “I materials to send over with him to get summer bioethics internship. South had taken AP (Advanced Placement) the library underway. Korea will be another big step in fur- French in high school. I’ve been to “I’m going to try and get some in- thering her global experience to prepare France twice and would love to go back. teresting young adult fiction for the stu- her for that field. Purdue has three-week externships your dents to read,” he said. “When I was “I’ve worked really hard, and all of fourth year where you can go abroad, learning Spanish, it was always with out- those experiences have made me a better including to France. It would be great dated textbooks and boring recordings, candidate for the Fulbright and for Har- to see how my two fields of science and so I want to get some more interesting vard,” she said. “Transylvania professors language interact.” things for them to learn English with.” were really invested in me because I Purdue appears to be an ideal fit for Costigan’s goal is to work in diplo- showed interest from the very begin- Williams, both academically and for its macy and foreign relations, particularly ning, and I got these opportunities by overall living and learning environment. in development. He wants to use his having personal relationships with them. “At Purdue, I’ll be around the same economics degree not strictly for eco- And in the classroom, my communica- 84 people in my class for four years, and nomics, but in the political realm. tion skills, writing, and critical thinking I’ll get to know them really well,” she “Transylvania has opened my mind all improved.” ■

18 TRANSYLVANIA Return. Remember. Alumni return to campus to revisitRenew. Transylvania experience Transylvania welcomed more than the William T. Young Campus Center. 600 alumni to campus and Lexington She encouraged the alumni to hop into April 27-29 for Alumni Weekend. The the time machines in their minds and celebrations kicked off with the tradi- travel back to their college days. tional golf outing and culminated in the Dodd reflected on her first day on Robert Barr Society luncheon at the Transylvania’s campus in 1968. She home of President and Mrs. R. Owen talked about the experience of unload- Williams. ing her “technology,” consisting of a Top, pictured at the celebration luncheon are, from left, Cathy Nicholson Allan ’72, Pat Hocker The theme of the weekend was “Re- clock radio, hairdryer, and electric type- Riddle ’72, Anne Ford Snell ’72, Scottye Sanders turn. Remember. Renew.” Alumni took writer, which drew laughs from the au- Eakin ’71, Julie Dodd ’72, Linda Miller Hilgeford that theme to heart, reconnecting with dience. ’71, Nancy Finney ’73, Pat Barnes ’73, and Susan Redwine Riggs ’73. old friends and reminiscing about their She also described some pranks—a time at Transylvania. tried and true college tradition—that she Above, E’Corbin Crutcher ’47 checks in at the Julie Dodd ’72, journalism professor pulled with her friends. One such event reception desk with sophomore Esi Kalefe. at the University of Florida, addressed a involved climbing onto the roof of For- group of alumni, faculty, and staff at the rer Hall and throwing oranges at the alumni celebration luncheon Saturday in men’s basketball team, then dodging the Continued on page 20.

UniversityMorrison Medallion AlumniELIZABETH Awards ANN VOIGT ’44 is a charter2012 member of the James Morrison Society, which recognizes donors for making deferred gifts to the university. Presented to alumni She has been active and supportive in many areas of Transylvania life, includ- for outstanding service ing phonathons, reunion planning committees, as class agent, the annual to Transylvania and fund, scholarship funds, and renovation projects for the laboratories in its programs Brown Science Center and Haupt Plaza. She is a Silver Benefactor and a member of the President’s Circle giving club. She earned a bachelor’s degree in nursing from Vanderbilt University and enjoyed a long career as a nurse and later as a bookkeeper for Parrish Hill Farm in Midway, Ky., her home- town, where she now lives in retirement.

Outstanding MARY BRUNO ENGOLA ’02 was gift chair for her class’s 10th reunion Young Alumni Award and is a member of the Crimson Circle annual giving club. As a Transylvania student, she spent two summers interning on Capitol Hill, where she discov- Presented to an alumnus ered that a career involving political processes appealed to her. While working or alumna who graduated on a master’s in public policy at George Mason University, she accepted a no more than 18 years ago, position with Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation, where she is now with a strong record customer and industry relations manager. She is a co-founder of the Ball of volunteer service and Aerospace Young Professionals Association and deputy chair of the Coalition support of their alma mater for Space Exploration, a national collaboration of space industry businesses and advocacy groups.

SUMMER 2012 19 return tosses. ’98 president-elect. “Remembering those lapses of good On the scene at judgment helps me to be more under- ALUMNI WEEKEND standing when I work with college stu- dents in my job at the University of Florida,” she said. “When they tell me about an unwise stunt that they pulled that explains why they missed class or turned in a paper late, I’m a little bit more sympathetic.” A common theme among alumni at events like Alumni Weekend is how, when they look back on their Transylva- nia experience, they realize what a great opportunity they had attending a school that has such a culture of community and learning. Dodd expressed those same sentiments, recounting a six-week Above left, from left, Kate Shirley travel course to Europe and the effect of Akers ’07, Lauren Covert ’08, Kelly Herbolich ’07; above, Shawn the Vietnam War on college campuses Stallings ’92, Jeff Violette ’92, Chris around the country. She described a sit- Cook ’90; left, Darren Hobbs ’07, uation where University of Kentucky John David Christman ’08, Hamilton students held a protest rally on the steps Alverson ’08, Mason McCauley ’07, Michael Snedegar ’07, John of Mitchell Fine Arts Center and the Na- Pfingston ’07. tional Guard came to campus with rifles to shut it down. “Transylvania faculty embraced those learning opportunities for us in the class- room,” Dodd said. “I took classes in black literature and women’s literature, and what a great experience it was to study the whole process of human change. The readings, writings, and dis- cussions promoted critical thinking and a better awareness of the ongoing process of human existence.” Concluding her presentation, Dodd challenged her fellow alumni to reclaim the fearlessness and sense of discovery they cultivated while at Transylvania. “Remember those times when we may have had some doubts about our de- cisions—maybe even about ourselves—as we had so much that we were contend- ing with,” she said. “We were out of our comfort zone. We were having new ex- periences, learning new skills, and meet- ing new people, and we were learning a new life routine—including laundry. And look at how well it all turned out. “We return to campus to remember Clockwise, from lower left, Barby our experiences as students and to renew Stone Clark ’67, Julie Davis our special friendships. I encourage us to McDonald ’70; Eric Minns, Bob Stauffer ’62, Martha Stauffer, Laura renew that sense of adventure we had as Drake ’61; Christy Cowgill Harris ’93, students, willing to try new things and Susan Thompson Stallings ’92, being open to new experiences.” Jennie Scruggs Johnson ’92; Janie During the luncheon, the Alumni As- Judy, Melony Lane ’90, Betty Drymon Dickey ’43. sociation elected David Johnson ’92 president of the Alumni Executive Alumni Weekend photos by Joseph Board and Rachelle Williams Dodson Rey Au, Helena Hau, and Tracy Dunn ’90

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Joseph Rey Au From left, Elizabeth Boyd Fryar ’81, Emily Veeneman ’96, Orbrey Gritton ’89, Andrea Barton Lane ’90, Mark Turner ’77, Jay Ecleberry ’92,Pioneer U. S. Representative Ben Chandler (standing Hall in for his late grandfather,of AlbertFame B. “Happy” Chandler Albert B. “Happy” Chandler honor highlights Pioneer Hall of Fame ceremony A posthumous award to former Ken- Chandler Medical Center, he is now di- tennis team. She has been a tennis tucky governor and national baseball rector of pharmacy networks and pric- coach, teaching pro, and teacher in commissioner A. B. “Happy” Chan- ing, corporate pharmacy management, North Carolina and a teaching assistant dler ’21 was a highlight of the Pioneer for Humana in Louisville. in the Fayette County (Ky.) school sys- Hall of Fame dinner and induction cer- Elizabeth Boyd Fryar ’81 was a tem. emony held April 27 during Alumni member of the tennis team for four Mark W. Turner ’77 was on the Weekend 2012. The Hall of Fame rec- years, earning four varsity letters. She basketball team for two years, then ognizes former athletes, coaches, and was the team’s most valuable player in served as a student assistant coach on others who have made outstanding con- 1979 and 1981, and competed in the the team his last two years. He also tributions to Transylvania athletics. regional tournament in Williamsburg, played on the tennis team for three Chandler was captain of both the Va., in 1979. She was a member of the years. He was assistant women’s basket- baseball and football teams at Transylva- Women’s Athletic Association for four ball coach for four seasons before be- nia, leading the Pioneers with a .356 years. She is currently a physical thera- coming head coach in 1987. Upon his batting average and playing quarterback. pist at Baptist East Hospital in retirement after 18 years at the helm, he He also played basketball and was a Louisville. was the winningest coach in the pro- cheerleader. After earning a law degree Orbrey H. Gritton III ’89 was a gram’s history with a record of 312- at the University of Kentucky, he en- four-year letterman in basketball and 175. He took the team to its first NAIA tered politics and served as lieutenant holds the career record for best field national tournament appearance in governor and governor (twice) of Ken- goal percentage at 59.6 percent. Rank- 1997 and was the Heartland Collegiate tucky, state senator, and U.S. senator. ing 13th on the all-time scoring list with Athletic Conference Coach of the Year He was commissioner of Major League 1,573 points, he was an NAIA All- in 2003. He now coaches the women’s Baseball from 1945-51 and became fa- American in 1988-89 and was named golf team and was HCAC Coach of the mous for approving the signing of Jackie District 32 Player of the Year that sea- Year in 2008 when he led the Pioneers Robinson by the Brooklyn Dodgers in son. He was Pioneer Male Athlete of the into the NCAA Division III tournament 1946 as the first African-American to Year in 1989. He played professionally for the first time. He also directs the play in the National League, effectively briefly in Holland and in the NBA’s Transylvania All-Sports Camp in the integrating the big leagues. He was summer league with Sacramento. He is summer. elected to the Major League Baseball now marketing president at the Town & Emily T. Veeneman ’96 earned four Hall of Fame in 1982. He died in 1991. Country Bank and Trust Company in varsity letters in both field hockey and (U.S. Representative Ben Chandler (D- Lawrenceburg, Ky. softball, winning Most Valuable Player Ky.) accepted the honor on behalf of his Andrea Barton Lane ’90 earned honors for both teams, along with being grandfather.) four varsity letters and was a captain for a Kentucky Women’s Intercollegiate Jay C. Ecleberry ’92 was an NAIA two years on the tennis team, leading Conference Scholar All-American. In Swimming All-American, and 20 years the Pioneers into the NAIA national field hockey, she set single-game, single- after his graduation he still holds school tournament each of her four seasons. season, and career records for most records in the 200 freestyle and 400 free She led the team to an overall record of goals scored. She is now a physician with relay. Formerly director of sports medi- 93-25 during her career and played on Medichieve Associates, Endocrinology, cine at the University of Kentucky’s Transylvania’s highest ranked women’s in Louisville.

SUMMER 2012 21 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.

LaNell Wooldridge Barnes and James of safe boating courses, and working as web- Jennifer L. Price (center, ’62 M. Barnes ’64, Louisville, celebrated master at www.fortmyersboating.org. photo), Georgetown, Ky., their 50th wedding anniversary March 31. psychology department They have two children, Sean and Brian, Robert A. McCullough, Corbin, Ky., chair at Georgetown Col- four grandchildren, and one great- ’83 has been named publisher of the lege, has received the grandchild. LaNell and Jim are retired from Somerset Commonwealth-Journal. Curry Award for Faculty Jefferson County Public Schools. C. Leslie Johnson, Madison, Ala., Excellence from the col- lege. Michael R. Nichols, Versailles, Ky., ’84 published two science fiction books ’68 has been named Outstanding Advisor through Baen Books—Back to the Moon, Patricia Cheese Johnson, of the Year for 2011-12 by Alpha Lambda published in December, and Going ’99Woodstock, Delta Honor Society for First-Year Students. Interstellar, published in May. He’s also Ga., was named Lexmark Interna- The award is given annually to the most out- published three popular science books about tional’s Account Manager of the Year for standing chapter advisor in the nation. Mike space and space exploration—Living Off North America in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin advises the Omicron Delta Kappa chapter at the Land in Space, Solar Sails: A Novel Islands. Trish works in Lexmark’s Atlanta Transylvania, where he is visiting professor Approach to Interplanetary Travel, and Par- office. of psychology. adise Regained: The Regreening of Earth. Read more about Les and his books at P. Dewayne Lawson, Macon, Ga., is Susan Griffin Smith, Frankfort, Ky., www.lesjohnsonauthor.com. ’00 teaching social studies at Stratford ’71 has been awarded the Gene W. Chil- Academy in Macon, where he also serves as dress Leadership Award from the Kentucky Patrick L. Burba, Paducah, Ky., is a middle school technology coordinator and Society of Certified Public Managers for ’86 psychiatrist working for the Depart- an assistant soccer coach for the defending her contributions to public service. Susan ment of Veterans Affairs in Marion, Ill. He state champion Stratford Eagles. is a board trustee of the Kentucky has two wonderful daughters in high school. Bridget G. Trogden, Macon, Ga., was pro- Retirement Systems for more than 300,000 Mark A. Bond, Mount Washington, public employees statewide and has served moted to associate professor of chemistry ’89 Ky., is vice president of internal audit at Mercer University. She was also named as state president of the KSCPM and the at Citizens Union Bank. Network of Women in State Government. director of the First-Year Integrative Seminar Carol L. Devine, Versailles, Ky., has been Program at Mercer, working with faculty Michael E. Toncray, Frankfort, Ky., named pastor of Providence Christian across the university to design and implement ’73 is retired but still busy with coaching Church in Nicholasville, Ky. a new first-year general education curricu- high school and middle school soccer as lum. well as select and recreational soccer. He Daniel F. Swintosky, Louisville, has has also been talked into playing in the ’94 been named general manager for John M. Davidson, Denver, is United States Tennis Association senior cit- Amteck, an electrical contracting company, ’01 assistant director of development at izens league. and is responsible for planning and directing University of Colorado Foundation in operations in the Louisville and southern Denver. J. Anthony “Andy” Jackson, Keller, Indiana regions. ’79 Tex., is vice president/chief infor- Jessica McCarthy Lotz, O’Fallon, Ill., has mation officer for Allied Electronics, Inc., J. Erik Bell, Plantation, Fla., is risk been named vice president of the O’Fallon- in Fort Worth. Prior to joining Allied, he ’96 management counsel at The School Shiloh Chamber of Commerce. Jessica has held executive leadership positions at The District of Palm Beach County in Florida. been on the board of directors since 2007. Ohio State University, R.J. Reynolds Suburban Journals of Greater St. Louis Erin Weaver Geesaman Tobacco, Brown & Williamson Tobacco, , Cynthiana, selected her for “Generation Next: Young and Brown-Forman Corporation. ’97 Ky., is library director at Brown People Making a Difference,” a feature Mackie College. article highlighting young professionals and Sheila Gurr Jaynes, North Fort Myers, Fla., their contributions in the St. Louis Anne Jenkins Kruchten is enjoying life in Florida working as a lead , McMinnville, Ore., MetroEast. software engineer. In her free time, she vol- represented Transylvania in February at the unteers in various capacities with the Fort Willamette University presidential inaugu- Hannah F. Cook, Maricopa, Ariz., Myers Power Squadron, a unit of the United ration. ’02 taught history and English at a new online hybrid charter school in Maricopa States Power Squadrons, including being a Matthew J. Lee , Atlanta, has opened his own during the 2011-12 school year. qualified vessel examiner, helping the Coast law firm and will focus on bankruptcy, Guard in verifying that recreational vessels debtors’ and creditors’ rights, and David J. Verville, Lexington, has been pro- of all sizes have the required safety commercial litigation. moted to vice president, portfolio manager, equipment, serving as a certified instructor for American Founders Bank.

22 TRANSYLVANIA Jared C. McCubbin, Louisville, has Marcuse, Horkheimer, and Adorno,” which Stacie L. Walker ’97 and Christopher ’03 been named vice president, assistant was presented at the 2012 Kentucky Political Clough, a daughter, Irelane Josephine corporate counsel, at J.J.B. Hilliard, W.L. Science Association annual conference in Clough, April 8, 2012 Lyons, LLC, in Louisville. March. Grant is in the political science doctoral program at Emory University. Kirsten Winn Carr ’98 and Tom Carr, a son, Colleen M. Comer, Lexington, is Henry Samuel Carr, February 4, 2012 ’06 associate director of alumni affairs Jordan W. Michael, Versailles, Ky., is staff at Centre College. accountant for Radwan, Brown & Jack Tsai ’99 and Jen Tsai, a daughter, Juliet Company, P.S.C. in Lexington. May Tsai, April 4, 2012 Joshua T. Guerin (center, photo), Versailles, Ky., received the Uni- Kelly Hoskins Tyler ’99 and versity of Kentucky’s Jaret Tyler, a son, Dean Provost’s Award for Marriages Alexander Tyler, December Outstanding Teaching 14, 2011 James Egan Brumley ’94 in the teaching assistant and Amanda Oakley, January 21, 2012 Whitney Collins Fouts ’00 and James Fouts, category during the a son, Spencer Riley Fouts, April 4, 2011 Founders Day Ceremony in February. Catrice Lashea Bolton ’04 and Derrick Reese, March 31, 2012 Eric S. Guerrant ’00 and Farrah Pond Aaron T. Anderkin, Lexington, chair Guerrant ’00, a son, Andrew Stephen Guer- ’07 of the Kentucky Commission on Julie Ann Potter ’06 and Jonathan Byrne, rant, January 7, 2012 Community Volunteerism and Service, was April 21, 2012 the lunch keynote speaker at the 4th Annual Christy Cole Harpring ’01 and Brian P. Kentucky Collegiate Leadership Conference Harpring, a son, Jack Joseph Harpring, April held at Georgetown College in February. 16, 2012 Aaron is director of sales at Integrated Sign and Graphics Inc. Ashley Hunt Martin ’01 and Seth Martin, a son, Rex Stephen Martin, April 11, 2012 Ronald J. Brooks has moved to Dallas, where he is field application specialist at Alternative Shana Spitzer Page ’01 and Steven Page, a Biomedical Solutions. son, Leonard Alan Page, March 13, 2012

Jessica S. Biddle, Louisville, Emma Sowards Thacker ’03 and Nathan graduated from Northern Kentucky Thacker, a son, John Vinton Thacker, ’08 Stephen Noss Blankenship ’09 Dana University with master of business admin- and January 27, 2012 Marie Runyon ’09, March 24, 2012 (Photo: istration and juris doctorate degrees and has Ashley Bostic Adams ’04 and Kyle Adams, joined the Louisville accounting firm of Stephen’s sister, Kelsey Blankenship ’06, presiding) twins, Sebastian Parker Adams and Aubrey Louis T. Roth Certified Public Accountants. Elizabeth Adams, March 22, 2012 Mallory Jeanne Harlow ’09 Joshua Allen Allison P. Ray has moved to Garland, Tex., and Morris ’09, October 22, 2011 Rachel Meier Jones ’04 and and is minister to children, youth, and Keith Jones, a son, Caleb young adults at First Christian Church. Ralston Jones, October 3, Marshall A. Jolly, Avondale Estates, Births 2011 ’09 Ga., was ordained a transitional Emily Ann Prather-Rodgers deacon in the Episcopal Diocese of Vincent A. Mongiardo ’89 and Natasa Pajic ’04 and James Prather- Lexington January 22 and is preparing for Mongiardo ’96, a daughter, Lidia Sida Mon- Rodgers, a son, Isaac Shawn ordination to the priesthood this summer. giardo, April 2, 2012 Prather-Rodgers, December He and his wife, Shayanna Little Jolly ’09, 15, 2011 graduated from Emory University with Anna Staib Peterson ’91 and Patrick master of divinity degrees in May. Peterson adopted a son, Nathaniel Grant Patrick M. Marsh ’06 and Peterson, born January 20, 2012 Molly Eakins Marsh ’07, a Celia A. Finfrock, Murfreesboro, son, Caleb Michael Marsh, Katherine J. Griswold ’94 Theodore J. ’10 Tenn., graduated summa cum laude and February 21, 2012 from the Perkins School of Theology at Loeffelholz ’94, a daughter, Aurora Tomei Southern Methodist University with a Griswold Loeffelholz, March 2, 2010 Aaron T. Anderkin ’07 and Lauren Oberst master of church ministries (Christian edu- Anderkin ’07, a son, Avery Richard Cleveland S. “Landy” Townsend ’94 and cation) degree in May. She is director of Anderkin, February 17, 2012 Allison Sheckels Townsend ’96, a son, children’s ministries at Trinity United William Taylor Townsend, January 24, 2012 Ashley R. Koch ’07 and Doug Costa, a Methodist Church in Murfreesboro. daughter, Scarlett Rae Costa, January 27, Gwendolyn Green Carter ’96 and Mike Grant T. Buckles, Decatur, Ga., has 2012 Carter, a son, William Douglas Carter, been nominated for the 2011 David ’11 January 10, 2012 Denise Sachtler Luedeke ’09 Hughes Memorial Award for his paper titled and Justin Luedeke, a son, “The Impact of Scarcity and Historical Mate- Erin Weaver Geesaman ’97 and Travus Bradley David Luedeke, Jan- rialism on 20th Century European Thought: Geesaman, a daughter, Bristol Lynn uary 20, 2012 Sartre, Foucault, Baudrillard, Zizek, Geesaman, April 5, 2012

SUMMER 2012 23 Distinguished Achievement Awards Distinguished Achievement Awards were presented during Alumni Weekend 2012 to five alumni who have distinguished themselves as Transylvanians through their professional lives, standards of excellence, and community service.

WILLIAM O. COOPER ’87 is a professor SHIRLEY FREY MCCONAHAY ’62 is an of pediatrics and preventive medicine in internationally recognized artist whose the Vanderbilt University School of Medi- work has included masks, life-size fig- cine, where he is also director of the ures, and soft sculptures of animals, Master of Public Health Program and birds, trees, and flowers. She is the vice chair for faculty affairs. He earned founder and director of Art for Indige- both his M.D. and master of public nous Survival, where she teaches soft health from Vanderbilt, and completed sculpture to indigenous groups from an internship and residency at Cincinnati Canada to Costa Rica and throughout Children’s Hospital and a fellowship in the United States, including the Navajo, general pediatrics at Vanderbilt Chil- Algonquin, Cherokee, Arapaho, Occa- dren’s Hospital. Among his numerous awards are the Highly Effec- neechi, Lakota, Quileute, and Chippewa. Her work has been exhib- tive Teacher Award from the Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt ited at Yale University, Duke University, Radford University, George School of Medicine (2003), and the Vanderbilt Academy for Excel- Mason University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel lence in Teaching (2010). In 2009 he was the featured medical Hill, Wilmington, and Asheville. It has been pictured in Smithson- expert on an NPR Morning Edition segment focusing on antipsy- ian, Southern Living, and Fiber Art. With her late husband, John, chotic drug use in the treatment of children. she previously ran Data Associates, a jury selection firm.

JULIE E. DODD ’72 is a professor in the LEWIS J. WEINSTEIN ’62 served as a College of Journalism and Communica- judge on the New Jersey Superior Court tions at the University of Florida. She from 1993 until his retirement in 2001. earned a master’s degree in communica- He was previously in private practice tions and a doctorate in curriculum and while also a staff attorney for Irvington instruction from the University of Ken- General Hospital in Irvington, N.J. He tucky. Before moving to Florida, she was a member of the Township of Hard- taught high school English and journal- ing Zoning Board of Adjustment for 11 ism and advised student newspapers and years, including chair for four years, and yearbooks in Kentucky and Tennessee. the township’s Planning Board for seven She was also a health and fitness colum- years and chair for one. He earned his nist for The Oak Ridger, director of the Kentucky High School Press law degree from Rutgers School of Law. Association and the Kentucky High School Speech Association, and executive director of the Florida Scholastic Press Association. Among her many honors are the Columbia Scholastic Press Advis- ers Association’s James F. Paschal Award (1995), Teacher of the Year (1996) and Service Award in the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications, and the Journalism Education Association’s Carl Towley Award.

ALYCE STERLING EMERSON ’77 is on staff at the United Way of the Bluegrass in Lexington coordinating volunteers for Trailblazers, which places adults in aca- demic and youth development programs in Anderson, Clark, Scott, and Woodford counties in Kentucky. She spent 31 years teaching social studies at Tates Creek High School in Lexington before retiring in 2008. In 2003 she co-authored “The Individual and the Holocaust,” a multi- media resource for high school students in world civilization class- es. She earned a master’s degree from Eastern Kentucky University, a Rank I from Georgetown College, and a doctorate in educational leadership from the University of Kentucky.

24 TRANSYLVANIA Distinguished Service Awards Five alumni received Distinguished Service Awards during Alumni Weekend 2012 for their outstanding service to Transylvania.

MELONY J. LANE ’90 is a longtime PALMER GENE VANCE ’87 is a member member and former president of the and former president of the Bluegrass Louisville Alumni Chapter board of Alumni Chapter board of directors. A directors. She helped plan her 10th and former member of the Greek Alumni 15th class reunions, and chaired her Council, he served as reunion gift chair 20th reunion. After a three-year term on in 2002 and 2007. He has supported the Alumni Executive Board, she served the annual fund as a member of the as president-elect and president of the Crimson Circle giving club and has given board and chaired the AEB’s admissions to capital and endowment campaigns as committee. She has consistently support- well as the Paul Fuller Scholarship. For ed her alma mater through giving to the the past several years he has been endowment, the annual fund, the Ron Whitson Scholarship, and instrumental in securing Stoll Keenon Ogden’s sponsorship of the the Sherri Greer Tri-Delta Scholarship. She is a member of the annual Bluegrass Alumni Chapter Fourth of July picnic. He served Transylvania Women’s Club. as district governor and on the Grand Council for his fraternity, Delta Sigma Phi, while also assisting Transylvania’s Beta Mu chapter. WILLIAM H. MCDONALD ’67 is a He received the national Mr. Delta Sig Award in 2011. He has former member of the Alumni Executive served as Omicron Delta Kappa’s national counsel and was elected Board and served on committees for his president of the ODK Foundation in 2010. 2007 and 2012 class reunions. His band, The Cane Ridge Revival, has provided BILLY G. VAN PELT II ’87 has served on entertainment at several reunions and his last two reunion committees and has alumni functions. He has been a leader been class agent and a member and for- for Transy and TEAM (Totally Excited mer president of the Bluegrass Alumni About Ministry), a program that encour- Chapter. He is a former member of the aged high school students to enter the Alumni Executive Board. He has been a ministry. He served on Transylvania’s volunteer alumni phonathon caller for Church Relations Advisory Board from 2000-08. A member of Phi years, has participated in career network- Kappa Tau Fraternity, he has been a member and president of the ing events on campus, and has hosted board of governors of Transylvania’s Theta Chapter. alumni events in his home. A member of the James Morrison Society and the MARY LEE CHANCE SMITH ’92 is a President’s Circle giving club, he has been a loyal financial former president of the Student Alumni supporter while also helping identify community donors. Association and former Senior Challenge chair. She became class agent in 1992 and has served on every five-year reunion committee, including as gift chair in 2002 and reunion chair in 2007. She is a former member of the Alumni Executive Board and a member and offi- cer of the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Alumni Chapter’s board of directors. She assisted music professor Gary Anderson in coordinating a Transylvania Choir performance at her church. She is an active alumna in Chi Omega, serving as chapter visitor, chapter coordina- tor at the executive headquarters, State Day speaker, and Kentucky state recruitment chair, and is a member of the Greater Cincin- nati/Northern Kentucky Alumnae Association. Joseph Rey Au

Julie E. Dodd ’72 was the principal speaker at the celebration luncheon during Alumni Weekend 2012.

SUMMER 2012 25 Robert Barr Society Reunion Front row, from left: Guy Waldrop ’59, Josephine Stroker Elkins ’57, E’Corbin Crutcher ’47, Virginia Marsh Bell ’44, Wayne Bell ’40, Garey White ’48, Carol Ann Barnes White ’50, Randel Martin ’52, Ivar Aavatsmark ’57; back row: Ralph Wilson ’57, John Elkins ’57, Bill Endicott ’57, Mary Frances Thomas Endicott ’57, Clyde Arnold ’50, Mary Catherine Emmert Henry ’57, Howard Fawbush ’57, Martha Howard Fawbush ’57.

Class of 1962 – 50th Reunion/Newest Robert Barr Society Members Front row, from left: Shirley Frey McConahay, Sara Davis Hellard, Sandy Johnson Little, Bettie Lou Duff Evans, Laura Drake; second row: Bob Stauffer, Diane Birch Thomas, Judy Gaines Young, Mary Hopkins Reeves, Judy Thomas MacDuffee, Dot Couch Watson, John Compton; back row: John Williams, Julie Kaeser Everett, Connie Watson Caudill, Lew Weinstein, Randy Dyer, Reece Little. Alumni Weekend 2012

Class of 1967– 45th Reunion Front row, from left: Ann Hood Brooks, Ellie Harris Ward, Jan Allinder Anestis, Virginia Neuhoff, Bill Hiles, Brenda Bell, Bettye Stehle Burns, Sally Willett Adkin; second row: Kathy Morris Riester, Barby Stone Clark, Georgia Green Stamper, Barbie Bushnell Gay, Penney Sanders, Wanda Poynter Cole, Glenda Harney Cruise, Ann Kirkland Emery, Jerry Hester; third row: Ernie Stamper, Richard Buchbinder, Mac Harris, Dave Miller, Jim Wheeler, Bud Fairchild, Rich MacAlpine; back row: Larry Webster, Steve Hombach, Daniel Richardson, David McFadden, Bill McDonald.

26 TRANSYLVANIA Class of 1972 – 40th Reunion Front row, from left: Beth Noble Campbell, Ellen Imes Trachtenberg, Janet Willey McCauley, Julie Dodd, Sandy Steele Bowling, Pat Daugherty Drinkwater, Phyllis Brown Rogers, Becky Kennedy Burdick, Linda Stred Gagnon, Anne Ford Snell; second row: J. B. Embry, Sherrill Anderson Nance, Jim Gearhart, Leon Hirsh, Pat Hocker Riddle, Marilyn Price Smedley, Linda B’hymer Mauser, Cathy Nicholson Allan; back row: Debbie Bird Phelps, Chuck Knowles, Charlie Baird, Bob Coates, Bob Drinkwater, Jim Wilson.

Class of 1977 – 35th Reunion Front row, from left: Mary Teesdale Taylor, George VanMeter, Kay Highbaugh Brown, Mark Turner, Linda Wise McNay; back row: Rusty Rechenbach, Tarbell Patton, Richard Comley, Malinda Beal Wynn, Frazier Lebus, Scott Brown.

Class of 1982– 30th Reunion Front row, from left: Mandy Allen Dini, Judy Webb Lowry, Debbie Barbour Montgomery, Maureen Connolly Olson, Kim Scott, Gina Evola Perry, Lisa Brackett Montgomery, Lisse Willoughby Lawson; second row: Vince Dini, Susan Thompson Kearns, Sheri Blair Shelley, Lisa Humes Hebert, Mark David Goss, Steve Dobler, Jim Penney; back row: Jack Hillard, Peter Heywood, Scott Duncan, Kirk Tolle, Brent Logsdon, Tim Sullivan, Vince Barber.

SUMMER 2012 27 Class of 1987 – 25th Reunion Front row, from left: Yvonne Yancey Zavada, Karen Craig Ogle, Brandl Skirvin, Steve Amato, Jennifer Echsner, Leigh McMurry Carr, Lisa Behle Gaines, Jennifer Mackey Degler; second row: Gary Beiland, Mary Anne Hobbs McDaniel, Pam Hall Campbell, Kathy Jo Elkins, John Gaines, Lisa Morgan, Nancy Adams Clark, Gene Vance; back row: Vince Taormina, Steve Stoltz, Brad Thomason, Maury Sparrow, Billy Van Pelt, Todd Page, Laura Brinton, Sam Simpson.

Class of 1992 – 20th Reunion Front row, from left: Mary Lee Chance Smith, Nancy Simms Rose, Phoutie Niravong Bansal, Amy Williamson Wargelin, Laura Jo Simms Nopper, Jennifer Robinson Proud, Beth Parsley Bruner, Natalie Ensminger Wyatt, Cindy Cowgill Brumley, Susan Thompson Stallings, Amy Adams Schirmer, Sara Vance Oliver; second row: Kristina Moxley Lynch, Suzanne Miles, Jodi Hammond, Lucy Points, Mary Tom Tudor Hamrick, Haley Ammon Taylor, Lynn Whitson, Amy Underhill Lang, Graeme Lang, Jeff Truitt, Dave Johnson; back row: Joe Brumley, Jennie Scruggs Johnson, Jason Jones, Brent Donovan, Mac Thompson, Tony Hardin, Chip Currens, Dave Wise, Jeff Violette, Shawn Stallings, Chris Dillard. Alumni Weekend 2012

Class of 2002 – 10th Reunion Front row, from left: Tara Pennington Clark, Karen Bryden Joyce, Erin Monfort Hansen, Becky Sanders Wallace, Megan McHugh, Jessica Lowry McNamara, Elisha Reed Bowman, Billy Bradford; second row: Tammy Bentley Caudill, Leah Hatton Ahn, Mary Bruno Engola, Amanda Harris, Avery Edwards Garner, Josie Ghosal Long, Mary Daniel LaFave, Nathan Isaac; back row: Wilson Dickinson, Aaron Sutton, Melonie Proctor, Jennifer O’Connor, Lance Garner, Sally Francisco Billings, Katie Havelda Dent.

28 TRANSYLVANIA Class of 2007 – 5th Reunion Front row, from left: Alyssa Rice, Molly Eakins Marsh, Kate Shirley Akers, Brittany Osborne Wolfe; second row: Bradford Johnson, Michael Snedegar, Megan Coors, Alaina Stephens, Kelly Herbolich, Melissa Coombs, Haley Trogdlen McCauley; third row: Jack Branum, John Pfingston, Darren Hobbs, Lauren-Ashley Pope, Kim Clark, Lauren Oberst Anderkin, Meredith Feck, Liz Parker, Lilly Lang, Erik Weber, Jodi Garrison, Mason McCauley; fourth row: David Riley, Blake Howell, Ben Nichols, Amy McCleese Nichols, Meredith Plant, Aaron Anderkin; fifth row: Ben Eaton, Eric Weining, Joey Searle; back row: Elizabeth Poindexter, Caitlin McGuire, Angie Gabbard.

and Prince Georges County in Maryland and from Transylvania in 2002. in her free time was an avid bridge player. Transylvania Civil War links Thomas J. Liggett ’40, Claremont, Calif., explored in book by alumnus P. Byron Carlisle ’39, Owensboro, Ky., died died March 27, 2012. He was a Civil War political, military, and med- March 17, 2012. After Transylvania he religion/philosophy and history major, a ical leaders with ties to Transylvania fig- attended the College of the Bible and member of Koinai, and president of A.W. ure prominently in Civil War became a minister in the Christian Church Fortune. He earned a master of divinity from Lexington Kentucky: Blue- (Disciples of Christ). He pastored churches Lexington Theological Seminary and served grass Breeding Ground of in Pfafftown and Wilmington, N.C., as a reverend with the Christian Church Power, a book co-authored Mexico, Mo., and Owensboro. He also (Disciples of Christ) in Argentina from 1946- by Joshua H. Leet ’04, a served as vice president of Lakeland College 57 and Puerto Rico from 1957-67, where third-generation Transyl- and executive secretary of Church-related he was president of the Evangelical Seminary vanian, and his mother, Colleges of Nebraska. of Puerto Rico. In 1965 he was appointed Karen M. Leet. Latin America Executive of the United Robert M. Delcamp ’39, Cincinnati, husband Cassius Marcellus Clay, Christian Missionary Society and was its of Dorothy Hackworth Delcamp ’39, died Henry Clay, Jefferson president from 1968-1973. January 7, 2012. He was a chemistry and Davis, John Hunt Mor- mathematics major and a member of Kappa Jean Howard Pellegrin ’41, State College, gan, and Robert Peter Alpha fraternity, of which he was elected Pa., died December 14, 2011. She was a are all featured in the book, published president in 1938-39. He was a faculty history and French major and a member of by The History Press (Historypress.net) member at the University of Cincinnati for Women’s Independent Group, Koinai, the as part of a series honoring the Civil 43 years, serving as professor of chemical YWCA, and the International Relations War sesquicentennial. engineering and assistant, associate, and Club. She earned a bachelor of science acting dean of the college. At UC, he was degree in library science from the University honored with the Robert M. and Dorothy of North Carolina and a master of science H. Delcamp Polymer Laboratory in the UC in library science from the University of Obituaries Engineering Research Center and the Kentucky. She was a librarian and an active Robert M. Delcamp Scholarship. The Engi- volunteer, organizing mothers to staff a local Only alumni survivors are listed. neers and Scientists of Cincinnati presented school library; a member of the American Emily Gross Carpenter ’35, Lexington, died him with the Lifetime Achievement Award Association of University Women; and a January 26, 2012. She was a member of to the Engineering and Scientific Professions volunteer at Schlow Memorial Library at Alpha Delta Theta sorority. She was a teacher and the Distinguished Scientist Award. He State College. at Henry Clay High School in Lexington earned a Distinguished Achievement Award Abraham M. Nathan ’43, Spencer, Mass.,

SUMMER 2012 29 a member of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity. He served in the U.S. Army in the Korean War, Former trustee Lois Howard Gray dies then moved to Paducah, where he was a LOIS HOWARD GRAY ’40, a former member of the salesman with The Petter Supply Co. Transylvania Board of Trustees who was a strong supporter of the art program at her alma mater, died March 19, 2012. William T. Walton ’55, Flemingsburg, Ky., Gray was Miss Transylvania her senior year and was active father of William T. Walton II ’77, died in Stagecrafters. She majored in history and English, even February 1, 2012. He was a member of Pi though her first love was fine arts. When America entered Kappa Alpha fraternity and was sports editor World War II just a year-and-a-half after her graduation, she of the Crimson Rambler. He served in the supported her country by serving as a WAVES officer in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War and U.S. Navy. was stationed in Tokyo. After earning a J.D. After the war, she turned to her love of art, earning an from the University of Louisville, he M.A. in art education from Peabody College of Vanderbilt practiced law for over 50 years in Fleming University. She used her artistic abilities in creating her own interior design business, County, most recently as a member of Mac- and later headed the interior design group within the James N. Gray Construction Donald, Walton, Razor and Thompson, Company, co-founded in 1960 in Glasgow, Ky., by her and her husband. PPLC. When her husband died in 1972, Gray stepped in as chair of the family construc- C. Bruce Fitch ’62, Gainesville, Ga., died Feb- tion business and became one of the few women to excel in a male-dominated field. ruary 9, 2012. He was a foreign language Under her leadership, the company grew into one of the largest design/build firms in major and earned an M.A. and Ph.D. in the country. In 2002 the National Association of Women Business Owners named her medieval Spanish literature from the National Woman Business Owner of the Year, the highest honor that group bestows. University of Kentucky. He was also a The company was moved in 1992 from her hometown of Glasgow to Lexington, member of Transylvania theater and the where she lived at the time of her death. Crimson Rambler staff. He taught Spanish Her passion for art led her to create the Lois Howard Gray Art Endowment for and other foreign languages at Transylvania, Student Travel at Transylvania, which has funded art student travel to major exhibi- North Georgia College, the University of tions in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. She Georgia, Brenau College, and Brenau Acad- was an accomplished watercolor artist in her own right. emy, from which he retired in 2009. “The trips that are made possible by Lois’s generosity have a tremendous impact on our students,” said art professor Kurt Gohde. “It’s important for art majors to Cherry Watson Marshall ’67, Baltimore, died develop an understanding of how their work fits into the contemporary art world, January 13, 2012. She was a religion major and they see that when they visit galleries and museums in cities known to be capi- and member of the choir, Student Christian tals of artistic culture. The travel experience gives them a renewed energy for their Association, and the Association of Women own work.” Students. She went to Princeton Gray became a Transylvania trustee in 1990 and was a life member of the board Theological Seminary, majoring in New when she stepped down from active participation. She served on the Executive Com- Testament, then earned a doctor of ministry mittee, the Planning and Evaluation Committee, and as chair of the sub-committee degree from McCormick Theological on student recruitment, nurturing, and retention of the Long-Range Strategic Plan- College. She then became pastor of Hope ning Committee for its 1997 report. Transylvania awarded her the Morrison Medallion, Presbyterian Church, where she worked for the highest honor for an alum, in 1997 in recognition of her service to her alma mater. 38 years. Alumni survivors include her son Howard Gray ’71. Memorial contributions in Gray’s honor are suggested to the Transylvania Universi- John L. Oldham ’67, Lexington, father of ty Department of Art. Helen C. Oldham ’12, died April 24, 2012. He was a pre-law major and a member of Kappa Alpha fraternity. He was former died February 20, 2012. He was a music G. William Foster ’46, Middletown, Va., hus- owner of Oldham Lumber Co. in George- major and a member of the band, orchestra, band of Jean Fulton Foster ’47, died town, Ky., and worked at the UPS Store in and choir. He served in the U.S. Navy December 19, 2011. He was an English Nicholasville, Ky. during World War II in the Atlantic and major and a member of Kappa Alpha Fra- Pacific theaters, then settled in New York ternity. He earned a master of divinity from Michael R. Moore ’70, Bowling Green, Ky., and ran the United Cigar Store and worked Lexington Theological Seminary and was died January 7, 2012. He was a philosophy at Guardian Life Insurance Company. pastor of Bon Air Christian Church in Rich- major and a member of Phi Kappa Tau fra- mond, Va. He also served in the U.S. Army ternity. He was also president of Lampas Frances Jones Gaitskill ’44, Mount Sterling, during World War II in the European and a member of Student Government Ky., died March 16, 2012. She was a theater of operations. Organization, Phi Alpha Theta, baseball, member of Delta Delta Delta sorority. She and the Rambler. He earned a master of joined the Robert Barr Society in 1994. Florence Lorraine “Rene” King ’50, divinity from Lexington Theological Lexington, died January 20, 2012. She was Seminary and was a minister with the Joy Leathers Digby ’46, Odessa, Tex., wife a secretary and organist at Arlington Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and of Arthur Digby Jr. ’44, died January 21, Christian Church. a social worker. 2012. She was an elementary school teacher in Plainview, Tex., and Arlington, Tex., for J. Robert Jones ’51, Paducah, Ky., father of Bruce B. Coates ’75, Winchester, Ky., father 41 years and was named Teacher of the Year Stanley F. Jones ’80, died February 12, 2011. of B. Blanton Coates Jr. ’00 and Taylor C. three times. He was a business administration major and Coates ’03, and brother of Robert K. Coates

30 TRANSYLVANIA Harry Stephenson dies at 95, with 63-year Transylvania legacy HARRY STEPHENSON ’46, whose umpire, he was a pioneer in Kentucky in improving sports offici- relationship with Transylvania as stu- ating and organized some of the first clinics. He started the Blue- dent, coach, teacher, and administrator grass Umpiring Association and the Bluegrass Basketball totaled a remarkable 63 years, died May Association for referees. 15 in Lexington. He was 95. During his coaching years, Stephenson won several National “Harry was the original jack-of-all- Association of Intercollegiate Athletics coach-of-the-year awards trades when it came to his participation and was inducted into the Pioneer Hall of Fame in 1996. In 1993 in and contributions to Transylvania,” the university awarded Stephenson and his wife, the late Willie said Lee Rose ’58, former Transylvania Mae Montague Stephenson ’46, the Morrison Medallion, the head men’s basketball coach and athlet- highest honor given to an alum for service to their alma mater. ics director. “And yet he was much He retired from full-time faculty duty in 1983 and was awarded more than that to me. He was my advisor, coach, and mentor.” professor emeritus status. Stephenson enrolled as a first-year student at Transylvania in “Harry was my mentor in teaching and coaching, and in the fall of 1936. His association with the university was interrupt- becoming a fully dedicated member of the Transylvania commu- ed by military service during World War II, a year earning a mas- nity,” said Pat Deacon, former head women’s basketball and field ter’s degree after the war, and another year of high school hockey coach, physical education professor, and associate athlet- teaching. He joined Transylvania’s faculty and staff in 1948, and ics director. “Harry and his wife, Willie Mae, were the most when he retired in 2006 had achieved a 58-year employment ardent supporters of women’s athletics and the transitions tenure at his alma mater that became a 63-year legacy when his brought about by Title IX. Harry excelled as teacher, coach, student days were added on. administrator, and friend. He leaves a legacy that will be difficult “Harry Stephenson was the epitome of an educator,” said ath- for all of us to follow.” letics director Jack Ebel ’77. “Countless Transylvania students C. M. Newton, former Transylvania head men’s basketball and athletes developed lifelong relationships with Harry through coach, had played basketball under famed University of Kentucky his dedication to mentoring young people. Harry was an excep- coach Adolph Rupp and was pursuing a professional baseball tional friend to the university whose commitment began 76 years career when Stephenson offered him his first coaching job in ago when he came here as a student.” 1951. Stephenson’s Transylvania studies were sidelined by his service “I always say—and Harry was largely responsible for this—that as a crew chief and engineer on a C-47 troop carrier with the I got my degrees at UK and my education at Transylvania,” New- U.S. Army Air Corps from 1942-45. He had played professional ton said. “He loved Transylvania and devoted a lifetime to its stu- baseball with the St. Louis Cardinals organization during the dents. Harry and Willie Mae were great friends to me and my summers while a Transylvania student, and briefly tried to revive family. He will be greatly missed.” his career in 1945 before returning to the university to complete In a 1998 interview on the occasion of Stephenson’s 50th his B.A. degree in 1946. He then earned a master’s degree in anniversary as a Transylvania employee, then-head men’s basket- physical education from the University of Kentucky and taught ball coach Don Lane said, “Harry has always wanted to make from 1947-48 at Georgetown (Ky.) High School. Transylvania the best it could be, not just in athletics, but in every He joined the faculty and staff of Transylvania in the fall of respect.” 1948 as assistant professor of physical education and health and Rose put a final touch on Stephenson’s legacy when he said, as head men’s basketball and baseball coach. As the years went “Each year, Transylvania elects a Mr. Pioneer, but for my money, by, he also became athletics director and head men’s golf coach. Harry will always be Mr. Transylvania.” Besides being an accomplished basketball official and baseball

’72, died February 1, 2012. He majored in marketing specialist with IBM for 20 years. computer science and was a member of Phi Correction Kappa Tau fraternity, of which he was pledge Linda Harr Mefford ’79, Greenup, Ky., died In the spring Transylvania magazine, a master and treasurer. He was also Interfra- February 16, 2012. She was an elementary listing in the “Marriages” section should ternity Council president and president of education major and a member of the have read Susan Michelle Tyler ’92. Her Lampas. He was vice president of market Pioneer Christian Community and the psy- married name is Susan Tyler Witten. development at LexisNexis Risk Solutions chology honorary. She earned a master’s and was an insurance agent for 16 years. degree in education and worked as a teacher in Greenup County Schools. Cecil D. “Moe” Rawlings ’75, Lexington, ! Obituaries in Transylvania are based died March 26, 2012. He was a history and Donna L. Ratliff ’83, Pikeville, Ky., mother of Tiffany Blackburn Tackett ’09, died on information available in alumni office philosophy major and a member of Phi files and from newspaper obituaries. February 23, 2012. She was a homemaker Kappa Tau fraternity, of which he served as Please send information concerning pledge master. He was owner of Laser Tech- and a member of the Pike County Home- alumni deaths to the attention of Elaine nology. maker’s Association. Valentine in the Transylvania Alumni Office, 300 North Broadway, Lexington, Barbara Worthington Beard ’76, Lexington, Mary Sabad Keidel ’87, Lexington, died Jan- KY 40508-1797. Newspaper obituaries died March 31, 2012. She was a member uary 26, 2012. She was an accounting major with complete listings of survivors are preferred. of Chi Omega sorority. She worked as a and worked as an accountant.

SUMMER 2012 31 ALUMNI BULLETIN BOARD

Save the Date—Alumni Weekend 2013 Let’s go for five in a row

Mark your calendar and plan to join classmates and With the help of alumni, students, faculty, staff, par- Transylvania friends in Lexington April 26-28, 2013. ents, and friends, Transylvania is again the winner of the The following classes will celebrate special reunions: Association of Independent Kentucky Colleges and Uni- Robert Barr Society (class of 1943, 1948, 1953, 1958), versities (AIKCU) “Battle of the Bumpers.” Transylvania 1963, 1968, 1973, 1978, 1983, 1988, 1993, 1998, beat out the other 19 AIKCU members to put the most 2003, and 2008. If you are a member of one of these campus license plates on Kentucky highways and the classes, make sure the alumni office has your current most dollars in the school’s general scholarship fund. mailing and email addresses so you don’t miss out on Transylvania’s promotional efforts helped drive sales all the fun. If you’d like to help plan your class reunion, to 852 in 2011, an increase of 84 license plates over contact Natasa Pajic Mongiardo ’96, director of alumni 2010. Ten dollars from the sale of each plate is programs, at [email protected]. returned to the school’s general scholarship fund, translating into $8,520 for student scholarships at Transylvania. Overall, sales of Kentucky Independent Executive Board officers, members elected Higher Education plates raised more than $45,000 for student scholarships in 2011. The Alumni Association elected David Johnson ’92 The 2012 license plate competition began on (Lexington) as president and Rachelle Williams Dodson January 1. For more information, including contact ’98 (Lexington) as president-elect of the Alumni Execu- information for your county clerk, visit the Kentucky tive Board during Alumni Weekend. The following Transportation Cabinet Division of Motor Vehicle were elected to three-year board terms: William O. Licensing at mvl.ky.gov. Cooper ’87 (Nashville), Timothy R. Newton ’90 (Atlanta), Thomas R. Shevlin ’68 (Cincinnati), Carrie Reed Shufflebarger ’96 (Union, Ky.), Charles C. Simms ’90 (Bardstown, Ky.), James R. Stephens ’60 (Mount Sterling, Ky.), Jill A. Stratton ’91 (St. Louis), and Michelle Manning Whittington ’83 (Lexington).

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32 TRANSYLVANIA Nancy Lee Allf ’79

Like many of us, Nancy Lee Allf ’79 has heard the expression, “Give until it hurts.” She has a different take on that idea.

“I like to say, ‘Don’t give until it hurts—give until it feels good.’ And this gift to Transylvania feels good.”

Allf, along with her husband, David Thomas, has included Transylvania in her estate planning. They both believe in the power of higher edu- cation to provide the foundation for a successful life. Allf is district judge in the Eighth Judicial District Court, Las Vegas, and practiced law as a business litigator for 27 years.

“Transylvania has always meant so much to me because it was the start of my professional career,” Allf says. “I loved my days there. I believe in a liberal arts education, and Transylvania turns out beauti- fully educated students. If our es- tate planning helps someone else get the same chances I did from Transylvania, then my dream would be fulfilled.”

For more information on including Transylvania in your estate plans, contact Diana Brown Kinslow ’95, director of planned giving, at (800) 487-2679, (859) 233-8801, or [email protected]. Addi- tional articles about planned giving are available at transy.giftlegacy.com. Non-Profit Org. U.S. Postage PAID Lexington, KY Permit No. 122 300 NORTH BROADWAY LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY 40508-1797

April showers bring May powders

Transylvania students throw colored powder and perfume in the air during a Holi Festival celebration May 16. Holi is a Hindu spring festival that aims to downplay the strictness of social norms such as gender or caste, celebrates the beginning of spring, commemorates good harvests, and illustrates events in Hindu mythology. Inset: Junior Anna Tussey is doused in powder during the Holi celebration. Photos by Matt Durr ’14