CONTENTS RHODES The Magazine of Rhodes College (ISSN #1075-3036) is published four times a year in winter, spring, summer and fall by Spring 2001 • Volume 8 • Number 2 Rhodes College, 2000 North Parkway, Memphis, TN 38112-1690. It is published as a service to all alumni, students, parents, faculty, staff and friends of the college. Spring 2001—Volume 8, Number 2. Campus News Periodical postage paid at Memphis, News of Rhodes events, 2 Tennessee, and additional mailing offices. EDITOR faculty, students and friends Martha Hunter Shepard '66

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On the Cover: Employer Cast of The Soul of a People. Photo by Justin Fox Burks Title Rhodes Trustees Committed To Making a Strong College Stronger

Oy President Witham E. Troutt

any this year two national liberal Trustees and key administrators • Recruiting, Retaining and arts colleges—Rhodes and explored together four areas crucial to Supporting the Best Students Pomona—came together to dis- our advancing Rhodes' standing among • Reviewing the Essence of Trustee cuss the essentials of a liberal education liberal arts colleges. Presentations and Leadership at a National Liberal at its very best. It was a new kind of discussion focused on: Arts College board retreat for Rhodes trustees, a rare • Understanding the Essence of a Each session was provocative and opportunity to engage in dialogue with Liberal Arts Educational Program informative on its own; however, when officials of another outstanding liberal • Recruiting, Retaining and trustee participants were asked to give arts college, arguably one of the top five Supporting the Best Faculty their own suggestions for retreat follow- in the country. After sharing up, four themes emerged information freely through- that crossed all sessions to out the retreat, one Rhodes permeate the entire retreat trustee summarized the expe- experience. rience for us all: "In two days at Pomona, I learned a great I. The Clarification of deal about Rhodes." Institutional Mission The success of the and Distinctiveness Rhodes-Pomona collabora- "Our mission must be clear, tion was due in major part to concise and easily understood the leadership and enthusias- by our various constituencies." tic participation of our The clarification of insti- California colleagues. We tutional mission and distinc- were led in deliberations by a tiveness was a constantly star-studded faculty: Pomona recurring theme during the president Peter Stanley; sessions. While Rhodes and Pomona president emeritus, Pomona have a lot in com- former Rhodes president and mon with regard to mission, alumnus David Alexander; all Pomona session leaders Pomona board chair Stewart were strikingly clear and Smith; former board chair consistent in their sense of Robert Tranquada; and an their institution's identity. outstanding group of Their comments on the lib- Pomona faculty and adminis- eral arts educational pro- trators, all of whom gave up gram, recruiting and most of a beautiful weekend retaining faculty and stu- to share their expertise and dents, even the essence of experience with us. trusteeship were punctuated

*Observations made by Rhodes Trustees after the retreat seem to reflect a general consensus of all participants.

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by references to Pomona's to achieve institutional mission. The impressive ambitions proved to be an aspect of these references was anthem not only for not their frequency, however, Pomona's presenters but but their consistency. also for Rhodes' board Whether the comments came members. It is clear that from the president, a board endowment is the key to an member, a faculty member or institution's ability to live a staff member, the "story" out its ambitions. was the same. Put more simply, endow- ment provides the fuel we II: The Place of the run on to hire the best fac- Faculty at the Heart ulty, recruit the best students, of the College meet their financial need, "The cost of not offering increase diversity in all ways, tenure when we recruit is provide needed facilities and greater than the cost of correct- maintain those we have to be ing a mistake later." the best we can be. The high bar that the Perhaps one trustee said Pomona board sets for acade- it best, "...everything else is mic excellence was captured possible only if we have in these words: We want fac- resources to fund our ulty who are intellectual agenda." equals of their counterparts at Harvard, but who want to Conclusion: We're on teach undergraduates. All Our Way policies and practices relative "The contrasts ran from to faculty are committed to dramatic to sublime, yet the that aim. Smith Tower, Pomona effort to compare made me In addition to wanting to realize how special Rhodes is." reconsider tenure as a power- We left California with a ful tool for recruiting and keen appreciation for the retaining Rhodes faculty, event in recent years has included all clarity Pomona has about its trustees have suKested other incentives as tenure-track faculty, administrative mission, priorities, academic goals, for well: financial support for faculty devel- directors and spouses to come together the commitment shared by trustees, fac- opment, expansion of faculty-student for a weekend to talk about the com- ulty and students to work together research opportunities and mortgage sub- mon interests of the institution. In toward a common aim. sidy benefits for faculty that could David Alexander's assessment it "has We also came away proud of enhance the Rhodes neighborhood and had a very significant effect through the Rhodes' own academic strengths, our facilitate faculty and student interaction. history of the college." honor code, our value-based heritage, While most all Rhodes trustees agree our college community's sense of service III. The Value of Trustee-Faculty that the Pomona retreat format has and our beautiful campus. Interaction tremendous appeal, they also encourage Above all, we came away with a reas- "I believe that significant common building closer relationships on campus surance that our initiatives for advanc- understanding will occur if faculty and in more immediate ways, bringing stu- ing Rhodes and working together in trustees interact more.' dents as well as faculty together with common purpose can ensure that We first learned of Pomona's regular trustees to develop a dialogue. together we will build the even stronger plan of faculty-trustee retreats from the college we envision. college's president emeritus David W: The Importance of Endowment Alexander. Initiated by a former board "If we want to go first class, we have to *Observations made by Rhodes chair in 1951, Pomona's 13th retreat in find more assets.' Trustees after the retreat seem to reflect a the series was held in March 2000. The The importance of the endowment general consensus of all participants.

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Troutt Elected Secretary of ACE Board

Rhodes President William E. Troutt cation programs. Its membership postsecondary education, promote was recently elected secretary of the 37- includes about 1,600 accredited, equity, ensure quality education on the member board of directors of the Ameri- degree-granting institutions from all nation's campuses and train new gener- can Council on Education (ACE) at the sectors of higher education and nearly ations of higher education leaders. organization's 83rd Annual Meeting in 200 national and regional higher educa- The board of directors is the govern- Washington, DC. tion associations and organizations. ing body of ACE, responsible for over- ACE is a comprehensive association ACE works to coordinate the inter- seeing the organization's management of the nation's colleges and universities ests of all sectors of higher education and setting its general policy directions. dedicated to analysis of higher educa- into a single voice on issues of national ACE represents higher education before tion issues and advocacy on behalf of policy. It operates a number of pro- Congress, federal agencies, the Supreme quality higher education and adult edu- grams designed to increase access to Court and the federal courts.

Robert Llewellyn Named Dean of the College obert R. Llewellyn, Rhodes self-study processes for accreditation philosophy professor who and chaired the philosophy depart- R served as interim dean of ment. A faculty-elected representative academic affairs during the current to the Board of Trustees, he received academic year, has been named the Diehl Society Award for Faculty dean of the college. Rhodes Presi- Service in 1993 in recognition of his dent William E. Troutt announced contributions to the college. the selection of Llewellyn in March. Llewellyn served for 14 years as Llewellyn's appointment came associate dean of the college under after a two-year national search by a several different administrations. committee selected from Rhodes During that time, he received the faculty, staff and students. Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award "So often in the search process, our (1980) and the Administrator of the standard for excellence was Bob Year Award (1984). Llewellyn," said Troutt. "The extent of The new dean of the college Robert Llewellyn the respect and admiration of our stu- holds M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in dents, staff and faculty members for philosophy from Vanderbilt Univer- faculty governance," said Troutt. "He Dean Llewellyn's character and abilities sity, where he was awarded a also has earned the deep respect of led some to refer to candidates on the Woodrow Wilson National Fellow- the administrative cabinet for his lead- `Llewellyn Scale' of excellence. Rarely ship and Woodrow Wilson National ership skills as a strong advocate for does an individual inspire such a high Dissertation Fellowship. He received the faculty and the academic program. level of confidence and acceptance." a B.S. degree cum laude in mathe- He has proved himself to be an able Llewellyn, who has taught at matics from Davidson College. and articulate spokesperson for Rhodes since 1969, has served on During this academic year Rhodes to external constituencies. I several major committees, held lead- Llewellyn "has proved himself to be a have worked closely with him this ership roles in the college's Southern collaborative leader of the faculty who year and he has earned my full confi- Association of Colleges and Schools' has worked diligently to strengthen dence and trust."

RHODES SPRING 2001 3 College Loses Three Longtime Trustees

Three longtime Rhodes trustees died daughter, Gayden "Sissy" Rasberry Browning-Ferris Industries Inc. (BFI). this winter: William C. "Razz" Rasberry Jones '59, a son, William C. Rasberry He founded Patterson Waste Control in '30 of Shreveport, LA, Dec. 7, 2000; Jr., six grandchildren and four great- 1954, which later expanded in the Harry J. Phillips Sr. of Memphis, Jan. grandchildren. Southeast and Puerto Rico. His com- 12, 2001; and Lorna Anderson Reimers Lorna Reimers, 87, was a longtime pany merged with BFI in 1970. Phillips of Jackson, MS, Jan. 13, 2001. Jackson civic leader. A graduate of was named CEO of BFI in 1977, and William Rasberry, who was 94, was Northwestern University, she and the chairman in 1980. elected to board in 1966 and named a late Warren Denkmann Reimers of Appointed a Rhodes trustee in 1983, Phillips was an alumnus of the University of Mississippi. He also served on the boards of banks and industries as well as civic and reli- gious organizations. Members of the Benefactors' Circle, which includes the names of people who have made historic gifts to the college, Phillips and his wife, Louise "Weetie" Bondurant Phillips, William Rasberry Harry Phillips Lorna Reimers were among the initial donors to the building life trustee in 1978. After college, he con- Hammond, LA, were married in 1937 of the $22.5 million Bryan Campus tinued his studies at the YMCA Graduate and moved to Jackson. Life Center. School at Vanderbilt University/Peabody There, she was active in First Pres- He was a member of St. John's College in Nashville. Afterward, he byterian Church and a life member of Episcopal Church. In addition to his returned to Rhodes where he worked as the Family Services Organization, wife, he leaves four sons and 10 physical education director and a coach. Mississippi Art Association and grandchildren. 714 With numerous business interests, Mississippi Historical Society. She he dealt largely in timberland and served on the boards of numerous civic investments. He was a civic leader in and cultural organizations, and volun- Shreveport and for six years, a mem- teered her time for countless others. Mock Trial ber of the board Of the Chamber of In addition to her volunteer work, Commerce of the U.S. He received she had an avid interest in such groups Takes #2 Spot the Community Service Award from as the Santa Fe Opera Association, New the United Fund and Brotherhood York Metropolitan Opera, Habitat for The Rhodes mock trial team Citation from the National Confer- Humanity, Greater Jackson Foundation missed this year's national champi- ence of Christian and Jews. and Eudora Welty Foundation. onship by two points. Rhodes A member of First Presbyterian She leaves two daughters, two sons, defeated the University of Dayton, Church of Shreveport for more than eight grandchildren, including Lorna Lyell Notre Dame, split with Macalester 69 years, he was listed in several Who's Chain '87 and Louise Lyell Lampton '88, College and defeated Yale Univer- Who publications, including Who's and four great-grandchildren. sity in round four. Who in the World. The widower of Harry Phillips, 70, was the retired Helen Robinson Rasberry, he leaves a chairman and CEO of Houston-based

4 SPRING 2001 RHODES By Dannielle West Photography by Justin Fox Burks

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Creativity and understanding are means of personal and cultural growth, he says.

"We can ali4iys celebrate newknowledge. As we com- mit to our station in life, we should each strive to open the eyes and minds of those around us. We should always be able to contribute to creativity in any way. It is our duty to celebrate our differences." FMS

Dannielle West is a senior journalism student at the

University of Memphis.

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By Jill Herbers '82 H W Photography by Tony Cenicola

"Abraham Lincoln knew who he was. And what is it? What is it that makes him so special? He's endlessly fascinating, because you feel the real human being, the real person there, Shaun Townley '99 (left) and Shelley Hoffmann '96 and you can get close to him in a way that you can't with outside Bloomberg studios on Park Avenue somebody like George Washington. He became for me less like a god, less like the man up on the Lincoln Memorial, and more like a man.

RHODES SPRING 2001 II nights apart, for example, are not un- usual, and that in an alphabetical list of his sounds like a guests who have appeared on the show, quote that might Gloria Steinem comes right before come from a lec- Martha Stewart, Henry Kissinger right T ture at Rhodes, after Kermit the Frog. So it should or at least deals with the kind of sub- come as no surprise that in a place that ject matter and ideas that many peo- embodies the liberal arts ideal of being ple haven't thought of since college. curious about everything, of using both But the words come from a television significant focus and flexibility of set, of all places. They come from the mind, two members of the small full- one can feel the intensity of Charlie Rose show, where filmmaker time staff are graduates of Rhodes. television—its drive, its clicking effi- David Grubin is discussing his docu- Shelley Hoffmann '96, a producer, and ciency and the force of star power. mentary on the Lincolns. Shaun Townley '99, production coor- Yesterday, Richard Gere was going And it is talk that is not at all un- dinator, are in the middle of this daily out the doors of the studio. Today, usual here. For one hour, five nights a endeavor of energy and expansiveness. writer Anna Quindlen comes in, together with her teenage daughter whom she's picked up from school. "That's Gordon Parks. He's an in- credible, incredible photographer," she tells her, pointing to the monitor in the green room that shows Rose's ongoing interview with Parks. Rose asks him if there's anything he wishes he'd done that he didn't do and Parks replies that there is nothing, he just wishes he'd done it better. "That's a great answer!" says Quindlen. The conversation ends and Quindlen immediately takes Parks' place at the round oak table to be in- terviewed about her new book, where she embarrasses her daughter with a flattering story about her. Actor Laura Linney, looking every bit the star she is rising to be, and some of the rest of the cast and the di- Shaun Townley '99 rector from the movie You Can Count on Me are beginning to gather for their week on PBS, the show shines a light t is 5:30 p.m. on a group interview. There is a swirl of ac- on figures and issues in politics, the December evening tivity as the Quindlen segment ends arts, business, literature, technology, and taping for the and the group in the green room entertainment, sports, science and show is underway. changes from one set of publicists to whatever else is going on in the world As soon as one enters the glamorous another. A couple of them tear up as a that seems interesting. Park Avenue offices that Bloomberg long, poignant clip from the movie is The show's stunning diversity News provides for the show, which shown. The small room is so crowded means that in-depth conversations with are decorated with television screens, that an intern resourcefully runs under heavyweight fighter George Foreman sleek, colorful fish tanks and 15th- a table that dominates the room to get and the mayor of Jerusalem a few floor views of midtown Manhattan, from one side to the other quickly.

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"They know they work for some- thing special," says Rose. "That's im- portant, I think, because it enhances their self-esteem about work." And in- volvement runs all through the team. "Every night, every single person on this staff has an integral role in putting an idea out to the audience. according to Vega, there is a unique Every person can go home at night lack of a real hierarchy. saying, 'Wow, I actually helped make "Whatever's going on, everybody that happen."' says Vega. knows," she says. "Charlie wants to In a recent interview with Jack hear what the staff thinks, and they Welch, the chairman and CEO of don't have to like everything that's go- General Electric, Rose said, "That's ing on with the show." the definition of smart—find the Additionally, everyone is entitled smartest people you can find and put to pitch story ideas. Hoffmann and them to work." It looks like Rose got New Yorker, Forbes, Metropolis and pub- Townley, for instance, are not of what he wanted. lications for American Express Publish- Rose's generation, but "part of the ing. Her syndicated column appears benefit of having younger people here in more than 200 newspapers is to keep his mind open to a different Jill Herbers, a New York author, throughout the country. She is also a perspective," says Vega. writes about music, architecture and the songwriter and is currently segueing What seems to tie it all together is arts. She has published four books, the into music full-time, producing CD a tremendous pride in and loyalty to latest of which is TILE, and has written compilations and composing film and the show. for numerous magazines, including The television scores.

16 SPRING 2001 RHODES Illustration by Brad McMillan '68. Faculty images by Kevin Barre.

Jennifer Brady The Charles R. Glover Professor of English Studies In her essay "Los Angeles Notebook," Joan Didion writes: "Los Angeles weather is the weather of catastrophe, of apocalypse, and just as the reliable long and bitter win- ters of New England determine the way life is lived there, Rhodes faculty so the violence and the unpredictability of the Santa Ana recommend the best in affect the entire quality of life in Los Angeles, accentuate its impermanence, its unreliability. The wind shows us how close to the edge we are." ummer I thought I might recommend several novels, modern and s contemporary, that capture the extremes of climate and geog- raphy as they constrain the protagonists' lives, beginning with a New England novel, Affliction, by Russell Banks. Banks' 1989 novel, set in a stark mill town in New Hampshire, Reading seems on one level a deliberate homage to Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome. Winter is the dominant season in Affliction: "What is normal is snow from early November well into May; normal is week after week of low zinc-gray skies; is ice that cracks and booms as, doser every night to the bottom of the lake, a new layer of water cools, contracts and freezes beneath the layer of old ice above it." Banks is of course also

RHODES SPRING 200I 17 describing the psychological state of trich's muff." Mailer's apoca- his protagonist, Wade Whitehouse, lyptic vision in this California who implodes in violence. novel, its depiction of lives Winter also dominates an lived on the edge brings us to astonishing novella by William Gass, Joan Didion's fiction and The Pedersen Kid, included in his nonfiction about the Ameri- collection of short fiction, In the can West: Slouching Towards Heart of the Heart of the Country. Bethlehem, The White The Pedersen Kid works in much the Album, Run River, Play It as same way as Henry James' The Turn It Lays. of the Screw, with Gass layering his None of these is exactly tale "with a frost of epistemological beach-reading. I sunburn, so doubt:" has his adolescent I don't do much beach-read- protagonist Jorge murdered his fami- ing, but the detective novels ly or is the "visitation of evil" the of Randy Wayne White set work of a stranger who arrives in the in the Florida Gulf Coast are farming community during a good cottage fare. Midwestern blizzard? One or two other recommendations: I was riveted by Norman Mailer's 1955 Eric Gottlieb novel The Deer Park, set in Desert Assistant Professor of Mathematics called Long-Term Capital D'Or, a resort frequented by and Computer Science Management. The fund collapsed in Hollywood exiles during the McCarthy The Mother of Us All: A History of the wake of a Russian default but was era. Desert D'Dor is "a place where no Queen Nanny by Karla Gottlieb. My bailed out by Wall Street investment trees bear leaves. The palms and the sister's first book traces the history houses under the leadership of the Fed- yuccas lifted a foliage of tufts and fans and mythology of Queen Nanny, eral Reserve. and fronds and shoots, but never leader of the Jamaican Windward Ma- Longitude by Dava Sobel. The de- leaves, and on some of the roads where roons during the first half of the 18th termination of longitude while at sea tall palms lined the way, their dead century. Queen Nanny led a small set- without modern timekeeping instru- fronds hung from the trunk like an os- tlement of escaped slaves in their ments is a difficult problem, one that struggle against the well- defied solution for centuries with cata- equipped soldiers of the strophic consequences. A king's British Empire, acting on her ransom was eventually offered for a people's behalf as both gen- practical solution. Galileo proposed a eral and obeah woman. The method using the eclipses of Jupiter's provisions of a treaty moons as a celestial timepiece, but his between the Windward Ma- method was discarded as impractica- roons and the British contin- ble. John Harrison, an uneducated ue to be reflected in mechanical genius, eventually Jamaican society. constructed a series of incredibly accu- When Genius Failed by rate and resilient clocks in pursuit of Roger Lowenstein. John the fortune. Meriwether is a famously The Constitution of the United reclusive Wall Street trader States: An Introduction by Floyd G. who succeeded by surround- Cullop. During and after the electoral ing himself with brilliant turbulence of last November and quantitative thinkers. He and December, I found myself consulting his "quants," who included this guide to the Constitution with reg- two future Nobel Prize win- ularity. It provides a terse explanation ners, founded a hedge fund of the document and its intentions.

18 SPRING 2001 RHODES A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar. The Bhagavad Gita translated by Gao Xingjian was born in Jiangxi John Nash was a brash and brilliant Eknath Easwaran. This translation Province, China in 1940. He went to young mathematician when he was and explanation of the Hindu classic Europe in a self-imposed exile in brought down by schizophrenia. His spoke to me authentically. I found 1987. He is a novelist, playwright and debilitating illness spontaneously remit- Easwaran's substantial introduction to literary critic. His novel that won the ted after 30 years, and he was be of interest in its own right. Nobel Prize is called "Lingshan," in subsequently awarded the Nobel Prize The Seven Storey Mountain: An Chinese, which means "Soul in economics for the work in his 27- Autobiography of Faith by Thomas Mountain." page dissertation. When asked how he Merton. Merton describes the path It is a novel about a pilgrimage to a could possibly have believed that aliens that led him to take vows as a sacred mountain in Southwest China. were sending messages to him through Trappist monk at the Abbey of Far from a religious pilgrimage, it is a The New York Times, Nash responded Gethsemani in Kentucky. spiritual search for a paradise of the that the thought came to him from the Tao Te Ching and The same place as his mathematical ideas, Gospel According to Jesus by so he accepted it. He credits his hobby Stephen Mitchell. In college, of computer programming with his re- I read a translation of the mission, saying that it forced his think- Tao and thought it was the ing to remain grounded in reality. most boring and opaque doc- The 85 Ways To Tie a Tie by ument I had ever Thomas Fink and Yong Mao. Two encountered (with the possi- physicists tell all about ties and how to ble exception of The Ambas- knot them. The book includes a histo- sadors by Henry James). ry of ties, a mathematical analysis of Mitchell's version, however, the number of tie knots smaller than a is pure poetry. His Gospel is a specified size, an illustrated compendi- selective and human look at um of instructions for tying those Jesus and what made him knots, lots of photos of famous men who he was. (and one woman) in ties, a photo of one of Memphis' favorite sons without Ming Dong Gu a tie, a very old-school Van Heusen ad- Assistant Professor of vertisement and more. Foreign Languages Tough Guys er Dangerous Dames As someone who teaches edited by Robert E. Weinberg, Stefan Chinese language and litera- Dziemianowicz and Martin H. ture, I'd like to recommend Greenberg. The short hard-boiled de- two fascinating novels by two soul, a Utopia where the protagonists tective stories in this compilation ex- "Chinese" authors whose fictional hope to be free from the strife of this emplify an American genre. I enjoy works are available in English: The mundane world. The central action of reading the stories in bed after a Other Shore by Gao Xingjian and the story line is based on the author's long, tiring day. They would make Waiting by Ha Jin. wanderings in the remote mountain great beach reading. In the same Strictly speaking, the two authors regions of the southern and vein, I recommend are no longer Chinese writers though southwestern China, where age-old any books they were born, grew up and started mysticism still exists, Robin Hood- from Sue their writing careers in China. Gao style stories are passed from mouth to Grafton's Xingjian still writes in Chinese, but Ha mouth and sages of Daoist wisdom alphabet Jin now almost exclusively writes in are encountered now and then. series. English. Both have won international Despite the ardent and obstinate recognition: Gao Xiangjian won the search, the soul mountain is nowhere 2000 Nobel Prize for Literature, and to be found. It is perhaps for this rea- Ha Jin's Waiting won the American son that the novel was translated into Book Award for Fiction in 1999. English as The Other Shore.

RHODES SPRING 2001 19 Ha Jin's Waiting is a novel written In the hospital where he works, he PEN/Hemingway Award, and Under in English. Born in Liaoning, China meets a nurse and falls in love with the Red Flag, winner of the Flannery in 1956, Ha Jin, whose real name is her. Then, every summer for 17 years, O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. Jin Xuefei, came to the U.S. to study he makes a long journey back to his American literature in 1985. As he did home village to ask his wife for a not start to write stories in English divorce, and every summer she agrees Daniel G. Arce until a decade ago, it is a remarkable until she backs out before the judge at The Robert D. McCallum feat that his first novel won the the last minute. Distinguished Professor of National Book Award for fiction. While still married, even though Economics and Business Waiting is a compassionate tale of the doctor has not slept in the same Breakout: The Chosin Reservoir love and longing. It tells of a doctor in bed with his wife since conceiving Campaign, Korea 1950 by Martin the Chinese army who submits to his their child, he is forbidden from even Russ. This is an eye-opening testimo- parents' will and marries a woman he holding the nurse's hand, not to men- ny of the U.S. Armed Forces' "attack never loves from the very beginning. tion consummating their relationship. to the rear" at the Chosin River Reser- As the Chinese law allows di- voir during the Korean conflict. An vorce without consent on amazing account of heroism that I condition that couples are will never forget. separated for 18 years, the Moral Calculations: Game Theory, doctor and nurse keep wait- Logic and Human Frailty by Lazio ing expectantly for the arrival Mero. Game Theory is a method for of the 18th year. Into this looking at the implications of strategic deceptively straightforward interaction that has become part of story, Ha Jin weaves subtle, virtually every economist's tool kit. It complex themes and wry hu- is also applied in fields as diverse as mor, and allows the reader to law, biology, sociology and interna- have a profound glimpse into tional relations. This is a witty narra- the inner lives of the doctor, tive on everyday life that will improve the nurse and his wife in your strategy quotient in no time. their separate and connected Share it with your spouse at the risk existence. of losing your advantage to think a There are also two short step ahead! story collections by Ha Jin: Mindfulness in Plain English by Ocean of Words: Army Venerable Henepola Gunaratana. If Stories, which won the you have ever wondered about how to

20 SPRING 2001 RHODES take advantage of the benefits of med- natural resource, water. itation, this nondenominational book Annals of the Former is the best place to start. World by John McPhee. A The Debt to Pleasure: A Novel by collection, in one volume, of John Lanchester. If you are an epicure, all of my favorite books by then you will love the recipes in this McPhee, plus a new one book, which are organized by the sea- titled Crossing the Craton. sons of the year. The book itself is Whether you travel to the something more sinister, with a mur- Appalachians, the Basin and der mystery weaving through gourmet Range, California, Wyoming recipes that leaves you wondering what or the plain old Midwest it was all about at the end. (my home turf), this Guide to the Perfect Latin Ameri- collection will provide a de- can Idiot (translated by Michaela lightful depth of understand- Ames) by Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza, ing of the physical world that Carlos Alberto Montaner and Alvaro you have set out to see. Vargas Llosa. Want to know about Endurance: Shackleton's the economic transformation in Latin Incredible Voyage by Alfred America during the 1990s? This bit- Lansing. A gripping, true-life ingly funny satirical exposé of populist adventure in Antarctica that socialism in Latin America was a best- emphasizes the resiliency of human Luther Ivory seller in the region several years ago. A life. A good read to put the concerns Assistant Professor of Religious Studies little too exuberant on the benefits of of one's own life in perspective. Salvation and All About Love, two markets, but given the economic cata- Composing a Lift, by Mary books by one of the most provocative strophes caused, in large part by ill-ad- Catherine Bateson. Her message that writers on the scene today—bell vised socialist policies from 1950-90, life is an improvisational form of art hooks, an African-American woman the authors' enthusiasm for the needs to be read again and again, and scholar who has written widely change is understood. I read chapters then passed on to friends. on issues of relevance to the human from the original version with Rhodes community through the window of students who are interested in particularity of black existence, and business Spanish. more pointedly, black woman's expe- rience. Hooks is also a committed Buddhist and weaves these spiritual Carol Ekstrom principles through the whole of her Instructor of Geology corpus. She is adept at providing a Noah's Flood: The New platform for these two under-heard Scientific Discoveries about voices in the public square. the Event That Changed The Book of Ruth by Jane History by William Ryan Hamilton, a racy and explosive novel and Walter Pitman. A fasci- set in the context of a small southern nating hypothesis gleaned town that addresses the human condi- from the ocean drilling pro- tion of struggle to overcome ject. The geologist-authors alienation and personal nihilism and piece together a catastrophic experience mercy and self-forgiveness. event in the Black Sea area The text speaks to the need both to as the glaciers start to melt. give and receive authentic love and Pillar of Sand Can the compassion at the very deepest spiri- Irrigation Miracle Last?by tual-existential levels. Sandra Postel. A new and Games People Play. This is a clas- critical perspective on our sic text by Eric Berne, M.D., the

RHODES SPRING 2001 21 originator of transactional analysis times, the most apt one for tapping fascinating look into the rise and (TA). Berne attempts to describe the into the essence of Kingian legacy. development of the black church as a correlation between human behavior Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, social and political as well as moral- and levels of emotional development. the quintessential humanist novel of spiritual force in America. This text Of particular note is the way he de- all times. This book should be elevat- represents a badly-needed, in my view, scribes the lethal linkage between ed to the category of "must" reading corrective to the marginal status that emotional deprivation and self- and be required of all humans on the the black religious experience has been destructive patterns of behavior planet to have digested it by age 14. customarily assigned. aimed at achieving healthy levels of Then, every human should re-read it The Ice Opinion by Ice T, one of intimacy. The text is highly at least annually—it is that powerful. the original "gangstas" of the rap mu- suggestive and usable as a heuristic It is the story of a black man's search sic and hip hop culture world. It is tool for discourse about personal and for identity and dignity as he swims in not for the relational health and wholeness on a American cultural waters. squeamish. variety of levels. I recommend it not Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee Ice T as a psychologist but as a religious by Dee Brown. Written in 1970, it is explores a scholar who finds it illuminative, de- a gripping, fully documented account host of spite its limitations, for assessing per- of the destruction of Native sonal and relational health. American or American Indian com- Reaching Beyond Race by Paul munities during the second half of Sniderman and Edward Carmines. the 19th century. While there are This is an accessible, highly readable many such accounts in book for all Americans who are this rising interested in dealing with a subject area of that is largely avoided as a topic of scholarly honest conversation. The authors interest, I aim at revealing how white like to read Americans feel about race. The book and re-read also deals with the politics of race Brown for a and takes a look at public policies general ren- aimed at remedying racial discrimi- dering of nation. A highly provocative chapter on affirmative action is alone worth the price of the book. I May Not Get There with You, the most recent text on the meaning and relevance of Martin Luther King Jr. by Michael Eric Dyson. this powerful narrative of oppression, topics that are fundamental to the Dyson primarily functions as a struggle and hope. It serves as a bap- world of hip hop. All people over cultural critic in this book and uses tismal immersion of sorts into a too- the age of 30 should consider it a King as a lens through which to ob- often-ignored reality. "must read." It behooves us all, I serve, and hence analyze, American Mighty Like a River by Andrew think, at least to examine the culture. Of particular note is the way Billingsley, the first comprehensive contours of this cultural phenome- in which Dyson works to make a treatment of how the tradition of non through the voice of one of its compelling case that the metaphor of black religious thought has shaped own prophets. M

" commemoration" may be, for our American society. It provides a

22 SPRING 2001 Most everybody has a talent or a knack for doing something out of the SIDELINE ordinary that other people admire. Watching them or listening to them makes one think, "Wow, wish I could do that." SPECIALTIES We scouted around campus to find students who spend their precious lit- tle spare time following unusual pur- suits and discovered some, well, quite uncommon sideline specialties. Meet By Virginia McAfee Davis the balloon lady, the preacher, the Photography by Justin Fox Burks piper, the roper and the comedians.

The Balloon Lady s a first-year student at Rhodes, Jennifer Morris answered an A intriguing ad on a whim. "Balloonabilities seeking balloonologist. No experience necessary," it read. Morris was the first person in Memphis to respond to the ad and took the job once she established that she didn't have to dress like a clown or "blow up balloons manually with my own lungs." Now the junior English literature major from Lake Charles, LA, is an ac- complished balloon artist who can cre- ate about 40 different figures, including mermaids, ballerinas and butterflies— all designed to delight patrons of Memphis—area dining establishments. Started by a California college stu- dent, Balloonabilities has branches in several states with majority ownership based in Memphis, where it contracts its balloonologists to more than a dozen restaurants. "The concept is that you give people in the restaurant entertainment in between the time they order and their food arrives," Morris says. "I walk Jennifer Morris '02 around the restaurant going from table to table. There's a lot of personal inter- action—that's my favorite part of the job. You get to meet a lot of interesting people and have some good conversa- tions. Work is so much fun."

RHODES SPRING 2001 23 Morris had to train for a long time has played Highland bagpipes since he practice chanter and start to play that to gain the speed necessary to cover all started taking lessons at age 15. He on the full instrument, all the while the tables and people in a restaurant. In had already been playing guitar for keeping it sounding evenly toned, not addition, she had to learn proper air three years. like a goose, which tends to happen if pump technique and master flicking "Bagpipes are all one volume— you let go." and twisting balloons to produce- not something that tends to get The time did come for Johnson to voila!—a poodle or a motorcycle. louder and softer. When people hear start playing in public. Before coming "The motorcycle was difficult in the bagpipes, they tend to think it's to Rhodes, he played Celtic music with the beginning, but with practice, it a performance. It's kind of hard to a traditional Irish group at a college bar got easier," Morris says. have a private practice time with in Tuscaloosa. Attending a bagpipe The skill comes in knowing just how such a loud instrument, because camp for three summers also enabled much air to inject into the long, thin when you're playing it, it's loud and Johnson to polish his skills. He has balloons. "The number of pumps it people think it's something that played at parties, meetings of Celtic so- takes to fill the balloon varies with the needs an audience." cieties and a wedding, but he has yet to design, because the amount of space you So when Johnson wants to play Amazing Grace at a funeral. need to leave at the end varies with the practice, he pulls out his shuttle pipes, amount of twisting you have to do. a quieter, more compact version of That's the trick." the Highland pipes. The reaction Morris receives "With a quiet instrument you can depends on the setting of the go to a private area and play and not restaurant. She says Joe's Crab Shack is everybody's going to hear you. A lot one of the best places to work because of times practice doesn't sound so the people who go there anticipate a great," he says. little noise and fun instead of a quiet, Johnson started learning piping private dining experience. because of his family's heritage: "Depending on where you are, They come from the Scottish there are definitely some people who Johnston clan. It took about a year aren't as happy to see you as others," working on a practice chanter to she says. "Or if you're having an off learn the fundamentals and develop night and you start popping balloons lung capacity to play the Highland consistently, you may get some dirty pipes properly. looks. You just kind of laugh it off "You've got to be very ready to do and move on. It's all part of the job. it, because they're pricey and take a Plus, I have long nails so I pop a lot lot of physical energy to support," of balloons. But not as many as I Johnson says. used to." The main challenges of playing Highland pipes are learning to control breathing and how to squeeze the bag The Piper just enough with the elbow, he says. Chris Johnson '03 he sight and sounds of a bag- "The important thing is to keep the piper piping is an irresistible whole pitch of the instrument Tattraction for many people, constant, because if you blow too hard, Of late, Johnson has branched into even when the piper doesn't mean to it's going to sharpen everything, all the playing other instruments. He's now draw an audience. Drawing a crowd notes. If you blow it too soft, the learning the uilleann pipes, a bellows- during practice means practice time whole thing will deflate. You just want blown Irish variety. They have more is limited. to keep it steady. Basically, it's just be- range and versatility than Highland "Most types of bagpipes are pretty ing able to find that balance and play it pipes, Johnson says. loud, consistently loud," says Chris naturally," Johnson says. "I like to get as good as I can on a Johnson, a sophomore philosophy "When it comes time, you incorpo- single instrument, but there are so many major from Tuscaloosa, AL. Johnson rate what you learned on the little out there that are interesting to me that

24 SPRING 2001 RHODES it's kind of hard to focus on one. I tend 1, verse 2 in the Bible. He talked about to want to pick up every one and give it the importance of reading the Bible chance, to see if it's for me." consistently and how to be happy and prosper by following the Bible's word. "That was the longest sermon I've The Preacher ever preached in my life," McGhee sophomore biochemistry ma- says. "I got up there and talked for jor, Jonathan McGhee has about 40 minutes that night. I can't Aknown since childhood that believe I had that much to talk about." he wanted to be a doctor, but when After it was over, McGhee felt total the "inkling of the calling to preach" relief, finally, that he had accepted his came at the age of 14, he wasn't so calling. Now, as a student at Rhodes, sure about that. he has the occasional opportunity to It happened during a Sunday preach when he visits home. He keeps school class at First Baptist Church prepared by leading weekly Bible Highland Park in Little Rock, AR. study for the Rhodes gospel choir. His "The lesson was on praying to God main message is to persevere in life. about what he wanted us to do with "I try to encourage listeners to perse- our lives and trying to fulfill his will vere and not give up in their Christian so we would live up to our full poten- walk. Tribulations and difficult times tial," McGhee says. "I would think, may come along, but the important `Maybe God wants me to be a preach- thing is to press on," he says. er, but I don't want to do that.' For a Jonathan McGhee '03 long time I was afraid to pray, because I was afraid to know." The Roper As time passed, McGhee did con- CC T he steer is coming out of ing fast, scarcely taking a breath as he tinue to pray, but doubts kept coming. the chute. He weighs be- explains the sport that has consumed He told himself he was too young. He tween 500 and 800 him and his younger brother since they was afraid that no one would want to pounds. Then we're out of the boxes. were youngsters. marry a preacher. He doubted that he I'm heading the steer; the heeler is on "It is the most passionate, most would be able to be a doctor if he was the right side. He's making sure the wonderful thing in my life," he says. a preacher. But eventually came accep- steer is staying straight. We're Brown, a junior political tance of the call to both vocations. working as a team from the time we science/pre-law major from "As I grew older, I knew God leave the box. Memphis, and his brother, York, would take care of me," McGhee says. "I rope the steer around the horns, completing his freshman year at Ole "If it's meant for me, then he'll bless I pull my slack straight back, I dally. Miss, have been roping steers as a me with it. So I decided to just go on My horse is going to check a little bit team for more than 10 years. Their and follow it." and turn off to the right. That steer is love for the sport has taken them to At age 18, McGhee preached his going out and very gently his head is competitions in almost every state. first sermon at the church he had at- going to turn, his rear is going to The Gills grew up playing polo tended all his life. It so happened swing around and that will give my and "riding English." When Brown that his father, a deacon, also brother a shot to rope his back two was 10, they decided they wanted to preached his first sermon that legs. He'll rope the back two legs, pull be cowboys. It took a lot of talking, night—one after the other, with the the slack, dally and stop. I'm but they persuaded their parents, son going first. McGhee had expect- watching, I stop and we're facing each Raymond and Betha Hubbard Gill ed his father to go first. other. Time stops. So it's a lot to do '71, that they really wanted to do this. "The jitterbugs came up extra large in a very short amount of time." The boys spent that summer at a that time," McGhee says. "I had planned It is a lot to do in 3.7 seconds. camp on the Quarter Circle V Bar, a to relax while my dad was preaching." Brown Gill is describing the action 40,000-acre cattle ranch in Arizona, McGhee's sermon came from Psalm in professional team roping. He's talk- where they started learning the basics

RHODES SPRING 2001 25 of roping. During the following "But you might not win another The Comedians school year, they absorbed all that a $10,000 for six months. There are a ight around the time mid- veteran roper in Memphis could teach lot of costs and variables associated terms loom, Rhodes students them. The brothers returned to with roping. That's what makes it ex- get a dose of stress-reliever in Arizona for three summers to work for tremely hard to do. It's like golf, in the form of Contents Under Pressure, the ranch, but stayed less time each that everything can change so quickly. the college's unofficial improvisational year as they spent more time traveling "Some days you get the feeling out comedy troupe. to roping events. During the school there that nothing is working. That's Formed three years ago by Brian year, they hit the road every weekend. the time you've got to really step it Harris '00, CUP always draws packed The Gills started selling the polo up—cowboy up, we call it." houses, usually in McCoy Theatre af- ponies and buying team-roping horses. The Gill brothers dreamed of mak- ter a play performance. Their presen- Eventually Brown and York built their ing professional careers at team roping. tations are a mixture of unrehearsed own arena near Germantown, TN. They invested most of their winnings sketches and games, many of which And they avidly studied the sport. back into their passion. For Brown, the are designed to involve the audience. "You watch every little detail," time came in high school to make a "The audience is the bread and but- ter of the show," says John Ramsey, a junior economics and urban studies major from Houston and a founding member of the troupe. Ramsey often acts as the straight man emcee, taking suggestions of topics from the audience to incorporate into the act. "We've been lucky enough to pull in audiences who really want to be there and participate," says Bob Arnold, a junior English major from El Dorado, AR. "They're very lively and energetic, which feeds us." Other troupe "-Illlik' members are

Brown Gill '02. below, and above, in the arena with brother York

Brown says. "We'd study videos and difficult choice we'd video ourselves. We would really about his future. try to break every motion down. It He decided that became a science to us." he would not make One of seven events in the world his living from roping on the of rodeo, team roping is a popular professional circuit. sport and profession in its own right. "I needed something to back me The United States Team Roping up in case I got injured," he says. "As Championship association has 94,000 I get older, I'm starting to balance my members, with 37,000 of them active- studying and my roping. I just had ly participating in USTRC events, ac- to decide where my priorities cording to the association's Web site. are—not which one is more im- "You can go to a roping and win portant, so much as where my $10,000 in one day," Brown says. priorities are."

26 SPRING 2001 RHODES Kalman Bencsath, a senior from A favorite with audiences is the them has to pick up a card and read Mobile, AL, majoring in philosophy Party Quirks game: One person act- what's on it as if it were the next and biochemistry; Kyle Hatley, a ing as host of a party leaves the thing he was going to say, and then sophomore theater major from room. The audience then tosses out justify having said that. Quick imagi- Memphis; Brent Morgan, a junior suggestions for quirks that the party nations come into play here. psychology major from Kansas City, guests have to act out. When the The dynamics of the group's MO; Matt Reed, a junior theater host returns, the party guests start onstage antics reflect the fact that each major from Huntsville, AL; and arriving, along with their quirks, and CUP member has a different kind of John Whitfield, a junior biology the host has to guess what the quirks talent at humor, Morgan says. major from Murfreesboro, TN. are. Quirks have included a guest "We do have a lot of subtle differ- The group gets its ideas for games with his eyes on his hands, a guest ences in our styles and that helps. You and skits from Web sites, watching who reads warning labels and a guest don't have the same kind of humor improv groups on TV and just making who's afraid of the floor. With all going on for every game; when you things up. They hatch most of their this quirkiness going on at the same have different actors come up for each best sketches just before the show be- time, the host is sometimes hard put game, there are going to be different gins, so the actual content of the to guess accurately, and the audience kinds of interaction." scenes is made up on the spot, Arnold loves the wackiness of it. For now, Contents Under Pressure says. They never know if something In Paper Chase, another favorite, performs twice a semester on campus. will be funny or if it will bomb. the audience writes phrases or Any chance they will take the show to "It's a good thing we attend a lib- thoughts on notecards. Ramsey other Memphis venues? Not much. eral arts college, because our spreads all the cards on the stage, and "We don't have ambitions to education really takes hold during the then two actors start acting a scene. become famous," Whitfield says. shows," quips Bencsath. When Ramsey rings a bell, one of "We're just doing it for fun." X%

Contents Under Pressure, left to right: Monica Lewis '01, manager, Kyle Hatley '04 (above), Matt Reed '02, John Whitfield '02, Bob Arnold '02 (below), John Ramsey '02, Kalman Bencsath '01, Brent Morgan '02

RHODES SPRING 2001 27 ATHLETICS By BM SnRRFT T

Women Cagers Net Winning Record

Before Hannah Miller was off and ment playing soccer. A leg brace your hardest-working players. running to second-team all-Southern helped her put one foot in front of "Kerry improved her all-around Collegiate Athletic Conference honors another. She was able to play in the game. She was a lot more aggressive. this season, she had to beat the chal- season's final five games. Hannah is a fighter. She wants to do lenge of walking with crutches. Bouncing back, Miller was named her best at whatever she does. I did- The step-by-step process began in honorable mention all-SCAC her n't get a chance to see what Hannah December 1999 when she broke her sophomore season and the most valu- could do before she got hurt. I'm ankle, arm and right wrist in an auto- able player on Rhodes' team. She fin- amazed at what she does. She faced another hurdle in the road = and jumped over it." = Part of Miller's rehabilia- i tion was mental. She had to cope with the anxiety of wondering if she would lose her shot along with her agility. She also worried how the 20 pounds she gained would affect her speed. "Once basketball hit, I didn't have time to think about being hurt. It was so intense," said Miller, who lost the weight and kept her quickness. Chase said that the Lynx' success resulted from "weapons inside and out- side. Defense was one of the tops in the conference. We believed that we were Kerry Wingo '02 Hannah Miller '01 good. We knew we could beat teams." mobile accident that totaled her car. ished sixth in rebounding that year in One of Miller's goals was to defeat Returning to Rhodes for a holiday the SCAC with a 7.6 average. teams Rhodes had never beaten. The basketball practice from her Decatur, This year, Miller, a senior post Lynx beat Hendrix, which finished GA, home, Miller lost control of her player/forward, and Kerry Wingo, a with a 13-5 league record, and car on U.S. 78 near Anniston, AL. junior power forward who also played DePauw for the first time. She hit a guardrail before smash- post, sparked the Lynx to their first Wingo's versatility was a strength ing into a bridge. Teammate Rose- winning record in six years. Rhodes said Miller. "Put her outside, she can mary Boner of Stone Mountain, GA, finished 17-8, the most wins since the shoot. She moves really well in the post. was riding with her. Miller had 1991-92 team went 17-9. She can dribble with the big dogs." surgery on her crushed foot the next Miller's 12.6 point average was 12th Wingo, who began playing bas- day in Atlanta. in the SCAC. Wingo, the team cap- ketball at age 6, played guard at Ves- For the next three months Miller tain, averaged 12 points, 14th in the tavia Hills. "I didn't like basketball walked with crutches, missing the rest SCAC. Rhodes' 12-6 conference record when I was little. The more I grew, of the 1999-2000 season. was two games behind tri-champions the more I stuck with it," she said. It wasn't the first time she had to Centre, DePauw and Sewanee. Wingo is 6-0. maneuver with crutches. The summer "They set the foundation for suc- Wingo was moved to her inside before her freshman year at Rhodes, . cess," said Rhodes coach Sara Chase. position this season after previous she tore the left anterior cruciate liga- "It helps when your best players are stints at guard. "I saw a huge differ-

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ence from the beginning of the year. She was always contributing. She we had a good team. We had never She was smarter about predicting peo- pushed everyone to work hard." been able to prove it until this year." ple's moves," said Miller. "She It paid off. stepped up into a leadership position. Said Miller, "We've always felt that Henry Stays in Shape as a Two-Team Scholar Athlete

There were no chads, court chal- of the college's few dual athletes. lenges or recounts when William ai He was a starter on the football Henry was voted captain of Rhodes' team for four years, playing corner- track and field team this year. back and strong safety. He was named Henry was the first unanimous to the second team all-SCAC this past captain selection in coach Robert season. He was also a SCAC player of Shankman's 11 years at Rhodes. "I've the week. had people get 27 out of 30 votes but "Everybody on the football team he got 30 out of 30," Shankman said. thinks I'm crazy," said Henry. "It's very "Over his four years, William has tough. You have no free time. Every- been truly outstanding in every body values rest time. After the last regard, on and off the track." game in November, I have two weeks This season, Henry is counting on off then I'm at track practice." winning an event that has eluded him In football, Henry is used to for three years. Although the senior "going hard for four seconds then get- from Murfreesboro, TN, has been a ting a 10-second break. You have to three-time all-Southern Collegiate be in a different kind of shape for Athletic Conference sprinter and track. I wonder if I would be any bet- Rhodes' top sprinter, he has yet to ter at one sport if I didn't train year- win the conference 100 meter dash. round." Mike Clary, Rhodes athletic direc- He maintains a separate focus for tor and assistant track coach, said, each sport. "From December through "William has the opportunity to be the end of May, I'm thinking track. the top sprinter in the SCAC. That William Henry '01 The end of May through November, distinction comes with being the 100 I'm thinking football." meter champion." onds in the 200 meters his junior year. Rhodes football coach Joe White Henry's attention to details could Two years ago, he was among said that Henry's competitive nature propel him to place in the 100 meter Rhodes runners who competed against and work ethic allow him to succeed dash and the other events he runs— 20 NCAA Division I schools at the in both. "William is one of those kids the 200 meter dash and the 4x100 University of Alabama. The Lynx, the who does everything right. He has and 4x400 meter relays. only Division III school at the meet, high expectations of himself and raises "I try to work hard at all the little ran against such teams as Tennessee, the bar for everybody around him." things. I don't think I'm faster than a LSU and Alabama. Before Todd Mooney, an assistant lot of guys I beat. In a race it's not all "Every time the sprinters ran, we track coach who is also Henry's posi- about who's fastest. In the 100 meter, would check the results to see if we tion coach in football, provides him a you can only hold your top speed for had beaten the girls from the other practice plan, "He's already at it so long. You have to get good at com- schools," said Henry. "Their top girls before you get it out of your mouth. ing out of the blocks explosively and are very fast. If you go down the line, "He has a great understanding of you have to learn to maintain top there are guys you can compete with what it takes to be successful in both speed once you get there," he said. on a daily basis." sports. He works harder than anybody Henry's best collegiate times are Athletics at Rhodes has been on a I've seen. He knows what he has to do 10.93 seconds in the 100 meters, set daily basis for Henry, a business major to get better times in track. He is his sophomore year, and 22.51 sec- who will graudate in May. He's one going to drive himself," said Mooney.

RHODES SPRING 2001 29 Shankman said that playing both team would be very different without We haven't won the conference since sports keeps Henry from losing his his leadership. He's not afraid to get I've been here," he said. physical edge. in someone's face and constructively Since Henry has been at Rhodes, Said Clary, "There are a lot of peo- say, 'You need to work on this.' With- Shankman has been careful not to ple around who could do two sports out that, I don't know how the team take him for granted. but who don't have the character of would be able to function." "He's never been injured. He's William. They don't have the com- Henry's goal is for the men's team never missed a practice. He requires mitment and discipline to dedicate to win the SCAC championship and so little from the coaching staff. I'll be themselves to two sports." for the 4x100 meter relay team to go lucky to find another William Henry Jenny Argo, a sprinter on Rhodes' to nationals. in the next 25 years." women's team, said that Henry is "I like team victories. Winning the "always there for people. He's the least 100 meter dash would be nice. I'm self-centered person I know. This not going to give it away if I get it. Power Named Player of the Year

Senior basketball forward Neal 21.1 points per game. He also led the in rebounding (628 rebounds), ninth Power has been named Southern league in scoring as a junior with an in all-time scoring average (16.8 Collegiate Athletic Conference Player 18.4-point average. points per game), sixth in field goal of the Year for the 2000-01 season. Power is the first Rhodes player to percentage (58.2) and second in field Power, who was one of 10 finalists win conference Player of the Year goals made (610). for Josten's NCAA Division III since Mike Gonda '94 in 1991-92. Power tied a school record for National Player of the Year, led the Ten league coaches selected Power, points in a single game. He scored 43 SCAC in scoring with an average of despite the Lynx having experienced points against Millsaps on Feb. 18 in their first losing record in his last home game. Mike O'Keefe '81 23 years. scored 43 points, ironically against 1 Rhodes finished 11-14, Millsaps, in 1979. 7-11 in the league (sixth). Power (6-3, 225) was often triple- "In years past, coaches teamed. picked players from teams "He's one of the hardest-working that won the league," said young men I've coached in my 25 Dwayne Hanberry, assis- years at Rhodes," said Hilgeman, who tant SCAC commissioner. was also impressed by Power's ability "That Neal was selected to finish a play as well as his strength was a bigger compliment. around the basket. The league respected him Despite the losing record, Hilge- for what he did for the man said it was a positive season, league for four years." "from the standpoint that six seniors Power finished as the will graduate in May with a degree," second leading scorer in he said. SCAC history with 1,647 Power, from Mayfield, KY, could points. He trailed the receive other awards this spring. He University of the South's was nominated an All-American by Ryan Harrigan by 27 the National Association of Basketball points. Harrigan played Coaches and the NCAA. from 1994-98. First-year student Austin Lutz, Named first-team all- whom Hilgeman called an "excellent SCAC for three years, defensive player" and who started the Power finished first in the last 17 games, was named to the league in all-time free SCAC all-freshman team. 7clk Neal Power '01 throws made (421), third

30 SPRING 2001 RHODES ALUMNI NEWS Nominations Due for Faculty Portrait Series In the spring of 1986, Rhodes displayed on the walls of West Hall the Alumni Web site alumni were invited to nominate the and Neely Hall in the refectory where (www.alumni.rhodes.edu ), or prepare professor who most influenced his or they remind us of our college's tradi- a statement that includes the follow- her life to be the subject of a portrait tion of "truth, loyalty and service" as ing information: name of the to inaugurate the college's embodied by these great teachers. nominee; your name, class year, Distinguished Faculty Portrait Series. Alumni are invited to submit nom- address and daytime phone number; The faculty member selected was W. inations for faculty members whom and a brief statement about the facul- Raymond Cooper, longtime professor they believe should be honored in this ty member that would be helpful in of history. portrait series. The portrait of the the college's consideration of your Since Dr. Cooper's portrait was 2001 honoree will be unveiled during nomination. Please fax your written unveiled Oct. 25, 1986, portraits of opening ceremonies of Homecoming nomination to the Alumni Office at 14 additional faculty have been added weekend Oct. 26-28. 901-843-3474 or send it to: Rhodes to this series upon nomination from If you wish to nominate a faculty College Alumni Office, 2000 North their former students. All portraits are member for this honor, please access Parkway, Memphis, TN 38112.

Sail Away to Costa Rica The Natural Treasures of Costa Rica and the Darien Jungle, plus the Panama Canal Dec. 9-17, 2001 aboard the 138-passenger Yorktown Clipper We're setting sail again! This time America and the Caribbean. (motorized dugout canoes) takes us to we'll explore Costa Rica and Panama, Throughout our nine-day the village of the Choco Indians, then transit the Panama Canal for a adventure, we'll view landscapes of whose lifestyle remains largely firsthand experience of the workings rushing waterfalls and sleepy lagoons, unaffected by modern times. of this manmade phenomenon—the unspoiled beaches and tropical rain In San Jose, ride an aerial tram six locks will lift our ship 85 feet at forests, where a virtual kaleidoscope of into the canopy of the rain forest, the Continental Divide and then put plants, birds and wildlife may be where you will enjoy an up-close view us back down to sea level. found. Costa Rica is a naturalist's par- of this unique ecosystem. Frank Mora, associate professor and adise that has remained largely For more information on this won- chair of international studies at Rhodes, immune to commercial development derful opportunity for Rhodes alumni, will join us on board to discuss the and is home to more than 12,000 family and friends, contact the Rhodes 235 species of mam- Alumni Office at 800-264-5969 (843- strategic, economic and political species of plants, importance of Central America and the mals, 845 species of birds and 360 3845 from Memphis) or write to us Panama Canal. Prof. Mora is an expert species of amphibians. at: Alumni Office, Rhodes College, on Latin American politics and society In the Darien Jungle, an excursion 2000 N. Parkway, Memphis, TN and has published several studies on up the Sambu River in "cayucos" 38112. Latin American political economy, civ- il-military relations and foreign policy. Mora, who joined the Rhodes faculty in 1994, helped establish the Latin Ameri- Send us your news can Studies Program. He has received several awards, grants and fellowships, Help us keep your record current. including the J.S. Seidman Research Please send news of yourself and your e-mail address to your class reporter or: Fellowship (1996-2001) and a Fulbright scholarship (1988) for study Alumni Office, Rhodes College, 2000 N. Parkway, Memphis, TN 38112 at the Central American Institute for Phone: (901) 843-3845 Fax: (901) 843-3474 or: International Affairs in Costa Rica. He [email protected] or: also serves as a consultant to the U.S. www.alumni.rhodes.edu/updateinfo.html government on issues related to U.S. se- curity and defense interests in Central

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By Jordan Badgett '03 State Health Department consultant for the last eight years and serves on Rhodes International the Shore Memorial Hospital board of Alumni Association trustees. She is a daylily hybridizer 47 President with her own business, Doris Simpson Nancy Alexander Wilds, Aiken, Liz Smith Parkhurst '80 Daylilies. SC, is a professional artist with two Little Rock, AR M.A. degrees and one PhD. She has three grown children, all happily mar- ried. One is a sculptor, one an 41 60TH REUNION environmental planner and the third, 34 HOMECOMING: OCT. 26-28, 2001 a computer buff. Retired music professor Louis REPORTER: ANN BELL "Nick" Nicholas of Nashville 1763 EASTMORELAND AVE. celebrated his 90th birthday Oct. 2, MEMPHIS, TN 38104 2000. A month later he visited HOME: 901-274-5617 48 campus where he enjoyed lunch with OFFICE: 901-448-5798 REPORTER: MARTHA former dean of the college Jameson The 60th reunion of the class of CARROLL MCGUIRE Jones '36, Rhodes director of publica- 1941 will be Oct. 27, 2001. We want 4395 CHICKASAW RD. tions Sally Jones Heinz '81, music to see you! Special events on that day MEMPHIS, TN 38117 professor Patricia Gray '69 and history include the Homecoming Academic Peggy Baker Cannada plans to professor Jim Lanier. He also saw Festival in the morning and our main move to Jackson, MS, from Edwards, President and Mrs. Troutt on his visit. event, the Picnic in the Rollow MS. Her husband Ray died in 2000. Avenue of Oaks at noon. Tickets for Jack and Carolyn Cunningham the picnic are $10 per person. Contact Ivy celebrated their 50th wedding an- Baxter or Ruth Pouncey (901-755- niversary Dec. 27, 2000. They have 37 5582), Pat Davis (901-452-5998) or five children, three of whom graduat- REPORTER: GWEN ROBINSONAWSUMB Ann Bell to make your reservations. ed from Rhodes: John Jr. '80, Alex 4736 ALL SPICE DR. We hope to include news from '83 and Hunter '88. Their daughters, MEMPHIS, TN 38117 more of you in the summer issue. Mimi and Dale, graduated from 901-682-1478 Please call Ann Bell with your news. Sewanee. [email protected] Freeman and Nelda McClamrock Retired Memphis psychiatrist Jim Marr have three children, all of whom Wallace has donated his psychiatry li- graduated from Rhodes: Virginia brary to the John D. Williams Library 42 Marr Yeatman '81, Andy Marr '82 at the University of Mississippi. REPORTER: JET HOLLENBERG BIRGE and John Marr '86. 295 W. CENTRAL PARK ST., APT. 2 Martha Carroll McGuire and MEMPHIS, TN 38111 Denby Brandon '50 worked together 901-458-7606 at the Central-Tech High School Mil- 38 Martha Small Deason, a retired lennium Reunion. More than 700 REPORTER: MCKAY BosWELL teacher, is active in the Salem, IL, graduates attended the two-day cele- 4649 CHICKASAW RD. Presbyterian Church. She likes to bration. MEMPHIS, TN 38117 travel, play duplicate bridge and 901-683-8315 enjoys her five grandchildren. 49 Jack and Peggy Marshall 40 46 55TH REUNION Crutcher of Ripley, TN, report that Priscilla Shumaker Heard men- HOMECOMING: OCT. 26-28, 2001 "all four of our daughters and their tors at local schools in the Belton, TX, Florence Horton Leffler had the families now live in West Tennessee. area and also has worked with meals lead in the Theatre Memphis produc- Wonderful to be near them and our on wheels for the last 10 years. A pi- tion of The Exact Center of the seven grandchildren." ano teacher, she serves as church Universe earlier this year. Horace Pierotti of Memphis last organist and elder in the Presbyterian Jim Wade of Atlanta recently summer retired as judge of General Church. wrote a short book, Reflections, a Sessions Court after serving for 25 Thomas and Doris Cullings Memoir. years. Simpson '41 reside in Baltimore, MD. He is a physician at Johns Hop- kins University working in tropical medicine. He has been a Virginia

32 SPRING 2001 RHODES in Cropseyville, NY. Christy and Frances Nix Since retiring, Bill Brazelton of Morgan live in Corinth, MS. Christy 50 Fort Smith, AR, enjoys hunting and has retired from the Presbyterian min- REPORTERS: ANN DEWAR BLECKEN outdoor activities. istry and has been serving as interim 355 CARAWAY CV. Toby Bunn is an attorney in pastor at LaGrange, TN. Frances MEMPHIS, TN 38117 Columbia, MO. works with hospital social services. 901-683-4737. Buddy and Gale Reynolds Clark Jim and Pat Tomlinson Nix live JIM WILLIAMSON are enjoying retirement in La Quinta, in Oilville, VA. Jim retired as CFO at 733 UNIVERSITY ST. CA, and their Idaho vacation home. the University of Tennessee College of MEMPHIS, TN 38107 Allene Ogden Collins is a retired Dentistry. 901-276-3989 English and mathematics teacher in Mike Quinn is assistant dean at the Jim Caldwell met his wife Linda Memphis, New Orleans and University of Texas, College of Com- at the cantaloupe counter of a grocery Valparaiso, FL, where she now lives. merce, in Austin. store. They married in 1996. He trav- Herb Eber is president of Psycho- Donald and Margaret Wiesman els to China, Japan, Austria, Russia logical Resources in Atlanta. have enjoyed a trip to Antarctica. and retired in June 1997 from Trinity Jack Funkhouser has retired as a They plan to come to the reunion University in San Antonio after more music professor at the University of from their home in North Palm than five years as director of planned Northern Florida in Jacksonville. Beach, FL. giving. Bill Giddens has retired from Jack Wilber, a practicing attorney Painting in watercolor and working practicing medicine in Shreveport, in Jacksonville, FL, plans to attend the toward a bachelor's degree in fine arts LA. October reunion. from the Memphis College of Art is Alice Hall lives in Milton, FL, af- keeping Millen Daniell busy these ter teaching for 30 years in Memphis days. He and his wife Lutie are City Schools. getting a kick out of their two-year- Ann O'Neill Kennedy has retired 54 old grandson Hank Comer. from grant management at the Mary Beth Davidson of Martin, Mobile attorney Robert Edington University of North Carolina, Chapel TN, says "I have been retired for six says his most rewarding experience Hill. years and love it!" Director of publica- since college was public service as Al- The women of Second Presbyter- tions at the University of Tennessee, abama state legislator and senator dur- ian Church in Memphis named Martin for 23 years, she has two ing the Civil Rights era of 1962-74. Helen Quindley McClure to receive sisters in Memphis: Martha Ellen Travels to Korea kept Jim and The Outstanding Christian Service Davidson Maxwell '51 and Jerry Berta Radford Laney from attend- Award. Thomas '61. ing the recent class reunion. Jim was Woody and Mary Ann Morriss of U.S. ambassador to Korea. They have Staunton, VA, plan to attend the Oc- also been involved with CARE and tober 2001 reunion. A retired Presby- UNICEF and the Carlos Museum at terian minister, he frequently serves 55 Emory University, where Jim was interim pastorates. In 1999 Memphis psychiatrist Bill president for 16 years. Cecil Oliver has moved to Diamond Head, Bay St. Louis, MS. Librarian Smith Dies Charles and Carol Heyer Smith '51 live in New Orleans. Charles has Noreen Smith of Granby, OH, circulation librari- retired from practicing psychiatry. an at Rhodes from 1957-77, died Jan. 22, 2001, in Golden, CO. She was 88. The widow of late Rhodes biology professor Arlo I. Smith, she held degrees in botany and library science. 50TH REUNION An active hiker and "birder," she participated in the HOMECOMING: OCT. 26-28, 2001 U.S. Game and Fish Commission's spring bird census REPORTER: FRANCES CROUCH PERKINS for many years. She was also active in the Sierra Club PO Box 66 and Audubon Society and was a past president of the SENATOBIA, MS 38668 662-562-6441 Tennessee and Memphis Ornithological societies. Gus and Norma Maddox Bell of She leaves two daughters, Lynn Smith '67 of Nashville are enjoying their hobby, Sewickley, PA, Pam Smith Cornet '69 of Golden, ballroom dancing. Gus is a clinical Noreen Smith CO, a son, Gerald P. Smith '63 of Memphis, and psychologist. five grandchildren. Bill Boyce, a retired professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, lives

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Mental Retardation Authority of Harris County TX. She assesses chil- Shipp Named School Group Head dren six months to six years who have Jane Cook Shipp '62, head of Renbrook recently been removed from home School in West Hartford, CT, has been elected due to physical abuse and/or neglect. Seattle poet Harvey Goldner has president of the Elementary School Heads Asso- published New Millennium Business, a ciation, a national organization for independent 36-page chapbook of his poems with schools that specialize in the first years of edu- several illustrations. cation. Renbrook is a coeducational day school Tony Jobe practices aviation and for children three years old through ninth grade. maritime law in Madisonville, LA, Cook, who also holds a M.A. in English from and is raising two sons. Brown University, serves on the boards of sever- Lib Shippen of Osceola, AR, was al other educational institutions. recently elected Mississippi County clerk. She was formerly deputy county clerk. Teri Tidwell Hornberger's son Wesley Sewell was the visual effects Jane Cook Ship '62 editor of the Oscar-winning movie Gladiator which won five Academy Awards, including the visual effects Godsey became a member of the category. He was also the associate ed- American College of Forensic Exam- itor for the film HannibaL iners and a diplomate of the American 61 40TH REUNION Board of Forensic Medicine. HOMECOMING: OCT. 26-28, 2001 66 35TH REUNION HOMECOMING: OCT. 26-28, 2001 56 45TH REUNION Kathy French Campbell teaches HOMECOMING: OCT. 26-28, 2001 62 photography at Appalachian State Charles and Martha Cooch University, Boone, NC. Hogrefe live in Hattiesburg, MS. Ginny Smith Nearn's flower gar- Charles retired from the University of den was one of four featured in the 60 Southern Mississippi last year. Martha March 2001 issue of Memphis maga- REPORTER: KIM BAXTER HENLEY teaches English at Presbyterian Christ- zine. A picture of one of her garden 427 COLONIAL RD. ian High School. sculptures, a cherub, graces the cover. MEMPHIS, TN 38117 Robert and Linda Boyd Pineo 901-761-1443 '68 retired from their business, Des [email protected] Moines Business Forms, last fall. Susanne Files Flowers has been 64 named to a three-year term as trustee Dossett Foster, president of the of Brook Hill United Methodist Raleigh-Bartlett (Tennessee) Civitan Church in Frederick, MD. Club, received an award from the 67 Virginia Roberson Mitchell is Gavel Club naming him the civic/ser- Lynn Smith is studying for her president of McDowell Technical vice club president of the year. master's degree in professional and Community College in Marion, NC. Jo Matthews Harrison of technical writing at Carnegie Mellon She is a member of the Rotary Club Raymond, MS, has retired from University in Pittsburgh. in Marion and has enjoyed traveling teaching biology at Hinds Communi- Carole Gibbs Whitehead, retired the world over the past few years. Her ty College after 29 years. Memphis City Schools Spanish first grandchild was born last spring. teacher, works as a translator for an in- Lynda Lipscomb Patton and ternational airline catering company Lewis Pope Wexler were married Jan. and plans to resume teaching Spanish 6, 2001. They live in Johnson City, 65 to Memphis Police Department TN. REPORTER: TERI TIDWELL HORNBERGER officers. 157 RAINBOW DR., PMB 5726 LIVINGSTON, TX 77399 [email protected] Terri Skinner Chadwick is a now a psychologist at the Mental Health

34 SPRING 2001 RHODES named vice chair-elect of the board of has been honored in the ninth edition the American Association of of Best Lawyers in America under the Museums. She will take office at the publication's Labor and Employment 68 association's annual meeting in May, section. She is a partner in Lewis REPORTER: JANE BISHOP BRYSON held in St. Louis. She works as assis- Fisher Henderson & Claxton. 3366 HIGHLAND PARK PL. tant director of operations at the Utah Bill and Beverly Cole Hooker MEMPHIS, TN 38111 Museum of Natural History in Salt live in Cordova, TN. She is a [email protected] Lake City. guidance counselor at Colonial Mid- Lee Giles is now the David Reese John Richardson has published dle School in Memphis. Professor of Information Sciences and his first detective novel, SnakEyes, on Fifteen-year FedEx veteran Tom Technology, professor of computer mightybooks.com . Morgan has joined the company's science and associate director of Tom Teasley has been named the Leadership Institute as managing di- research of the e-Business Center at new director of the MidPeninsula rector/preceptor. Penn State University. Pathways Hospice Foundation in Knoxville, TN, attorney Harry Og- Faithful reunion attendees Steve Menlo Park, CA. The foundation is den recently represented Rhodes at Cole and his wife Beverly have retired the funding arm of the MidPeninsula inauguration ceremonies at Carson from teaching and built a house in Continuous Care organizations, which Newman College, Jefferson City, TN. Peachtree City, GA. They will cruise serve patients in hospice, home care John Rone, director of special the Baltic in July. and continuous care in the Bay Area. programs at Rhodes, had a featured Steve Caldwell, associate dean of Tom was formerly with Project role in the recent production of Amy's students at Vanderbilt University, re- Inform, a national HIV/AIDS View at Circuit Playhouse. ports that he also works with Rhodes treatment information and advocacy alums F. Clark Williams '73, Tom organization. Thomas '70 and Gay House Welch John Walters and My-Linh Thi '70. Ta were married in April. 74 Ron and Betty Atkinson Gibson Carolyn Bigelow is an associate became grandparents in December, professor of medicine, Department of compliments of Betty's daughter Hematology, at the University of Kathryn. Younger daughter Annie is 71 30TH REUNION Mississippi Medical Center. Carolyn due to add to the family in May. Hav- HOMECOMING: Ocr. 26-28, 2001 and husband John Zehr have three ing retired from Kellogg, Ron is now REPORTER: BETHA HUBBARD GILL children. a senior analyst at FedEx and the or- 1365 YORKSHIRE DR. Larry Rice has been certified by ganizer of the Memphis 5K Race for MEMPHIS, TN 38119 the Tennessee Board of Specialization Grace. 901-685-6712 and the National Board of Trial Ad- Jim Mitchell, superintendent of [email protected] vocacy in the area of family law trial Shelby County (Tennessee) Schools, Jim Dick is the news director for advocacy. He is one of two attorneys was recently featured in an advertising WMTV-TV in Madison, WI. in the state of Tennessee to receive campaign promoting literacy. Memphis attorney Donna Fisher this distinction. Recently your reporter was with husband Lee in the postoperative area at St. Francis Hospital in Memphis when I heard a familiar voice. It was Spygame on the Net Dr. Rich Ennis, giving jovial reassur- Gayle Bartos-Pool '71 is the author ance to his patient who was about to of a spy novel published on the Inter- undergo knee surgery. Rich looked as net at http://www.spygame.org/. A fic- happy and confident as he did when tion based on fact, she says in her he was about to bound onto the Lynx basketball court—a few years ago. biography that the facts "are from books, magazines and newspaper arti- IYGA) cles" along with her father's BY experiences as a U.S. Air Force officer .B.P0" and hers as a private investigator. 69 tIE ODD man Doug Goodman of Sudbury, MA, "Some of the events really DIGUN' lip BONES has written a book, Optics Demonstra- happened to my family," she says. ♦ I t.1 1 I tI tions with the Overhead Projector, pub- "Sometimes you can't tell where truth lished by the Optical Society of ends and fiction begins." America. He is a physicist with Polaroid Corp. Claudia Oakes was recently

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John Shanley recently opened ed Solutions, a new business she Skibo Medical and Chiropractic Cen- began to give people the opportunity ter in Fayetteville, NC. It is one of to resolve conflicts as an alternative to seven independent nurse practitioner 79 litigation. She and her husband David offices in the state. Jonathan Kaplan is with have built a house in Mexico and en- Kieswetter Wise Attorneys in joy traveling. Recently, they spent a Memphis. month in Baja, several weeks in Kim Oliver and Mike Porter mar- Mexico and are planning a trip to 75 ried Sept. 9, 2000. They live in Guatemala. Merry Noel Miller has been Atlanta, where she works as an office Bad Spencer of Menlo Park, CA, appointed interim chair of the depart- manager for Roundarch. works for County of San Mateo's Of- ment of psychiatry and behavior Margaret Read is now the associ- fice of Emergency Services. sciences at East Tennessee State Uni- ate director of cellular and modular versity's James H. Quillen College of biology for Millennium Pharmaceuti- Medicine. A board-certified adolescent cals. She lives in Somerville, MA. and adult psychiatrist, she has been a 81 20TH REUNION faculty member since 1995 specializ- HOMECOMING: OCT. 26-28, 2001 ing in the treatment of eating Beth Patton Allen lives in Greer, disorders and issues related to SC, where her husband Kyle is pastor women's mental health. Glyn and Anne Johnsen Bailey, of First Presbyterian Church. Jeff Olson works as director of Bronxville, NY, own Cruise Artists In- Steve Crabtree is the minister of regulatory planning and strategy for ternational, an entertainment agency First Church of Christ Congregational Verizon in Dallas. for cruise lines. in New Britain, CT. He and his wife Laurie Barlett is an attorney with Anne Marie Meyerhoffer are the par- Camelot Technologies Group in ents of a daughter, Sarah Anne Smyrna, GA. She currently volunteers Crabtree, born Sept. 18, 2000. 76 25TH REUNION as a refugee resettlement coordinator Rebecca Lewis D'Anna is the HOMECOMING: Ocr. 26-28, 2001 at Dunwoody Baptist Church and is a owner of Milling Around Interior REPORTER: VICKERS DEMETRIO JOHNSON member of the Nashville Songwriters Fabrics in Shreveport,LA. Her 7117 WESTFORD DRIVE Association and the Georgia Music business celebrated its 15th KNOXVILLE, TN 37919 Industry Association. Also, she is in anniversary in February. 865-691-6944 the U.S. Army Reserve (JAG Corps), Linda Smith lwanski recently ac- Jack Oliver has begun his 20th is a member of the Tennessee Bar and cepted a new position as director of year at GE Lighting in Cleveland. He was admitted to practice by the business development with Claim Ser- is now one of the company's global Supreme Court in 1992. vices Resource Group in Dallas. managers of e-commerce. He contin- Kats Smith Barry is a photojour- Bob Strong is the funeral director ues to compete in tennis with his wife nalist and food photographer in for Oakley's Funeral Service in Marilyn and their son and daughter. Nashville. She and her husband Mark Roanoke, VA. Jane Wallace Pearson is presi- and son Joseph recently moved back dent of the 2000-2001 auxiliary board to Nashville after living in Grand and a member of the executive com- Rapids, MI, for almost five years. mittee of the board of trustees of Rye During the 1980s and 1990s she Country Day School in New York. worked as a photojournalist for The 82 Robin Rice of Brentwood, TN, Tennessean and USA Today, though Cecil Godman recently joined does full-time ophthalmology on a she currently has the "perfect mom-at- Highland Capital Management as a charity basis. home" job—a three-year contract senior vice president of research. Rosie Rosell has been promoted with United Features Syndicate in Highland Capitol is the investment to associate professor with tenure at New York to supply weekly food pho- advisory division of First Tennessee the University of St. Thomas in to art for 54 subscribers. Corp., Memphis. Houston. Liz McGeachy is publications Laurie Hurt has been granted manager for the Letcher County Ac- tenure at Indiana University of Penn- tion Team in Norris, TN. In her sylvania, where she teaches French spare time she performs traditional and prepares future kindergarten 78 Appalachian and other folk music through 12th grade French teachers. Virginia Penick Parra is a senior with her husband, Tim. They have Rob Threlkeld is an owner/part- research associate of the National three recordings. ner of ORION Realty Advisors in Health Policy Forum at George Wash- Ellen Geiger Ryan is a conserva- Memphis, specializing in commercial ington University, Washington, DC. tion educator for the city of Flagstaff; real estate advisory services. AZ. She is also a mediator for Mediat-

36 SPRING 2001 RHODES Kendrick firm, where she practices la- Jude Children's Research Hospital for bor and employment law. She also the last 15 years. They have two 83 teaches employment law at the daughters. Cindy Brown Bair is a free - lance Stetson College of Law as adjunct Richard Samuels is a private writer in Apex, NC, whose credits in- professor. practice radiologist in Pensacola, FL. clude National Public Radio Sherard Edington currently He and his wife D'Arsey enjoy sailing commentaries, magazine articles and writes a column for Presbyterian Voice, together. the lyrics to Lambuth University's a publication of the Synod of Living new alma mater. She is director of Waters, Presbyterian Church (USA). sales and marketing for Scriptorium He is designated pastor of the Old Publishing, a technical writing firm. Hickory (Tennessee) Presbyterian 87 In addition, she is a senior Mary Kay Church. REPORTER: BRIAN MOTT consultant and plays keyboards and Jim Golden is a scientist in 1210 W 11TH AVE. sings in her church's praise band with biotechnology for Pioneer Hi-Bred/ COVINGTON, LA 70433 her husband Kent. DuPont in Urbandale, IA. He is a co- 504-809-7426 Thomas and Toni Sabella founder of a biotechnology company, BRIAN [email protected] Barnes announce the birth of their Gliex Diagnostics and Therapeutics, Members of the class of 1987 sure son, Thomas Anthony Barnes, Jan. 3, focused on the genetics of brain seem busy lately with their future 2001. tumors. prospective students for Rhodes Col- Beth Mack, owner of RadioActive Katy Batey Johnston has her lege. Here's the lowdown on new ar- Advertising, was featured in the Mem- own recruiting business, Katherine rivals: phis Business Journal last year. Johnston & Associates, in Nashville. Emily Baillio and Tim Murray In addition, she and her company have a new baby, Olivia Lea Murray, members conduct career counseling born Jan. 15, 2000. (Emily was, and through the YWCA for welfare moth- always will be, in the class of 1987; ers and women just released from she was mistakenly put in the class of Moyers Elected prison. '97 in a previous issue.) They live in Law Director Stan and Stacy Norton announce Homewood, AL. the birth of their son, William Jim and Jean Ann Conley Beck- Mike Moyers '83 is the new law di- Jackson Norton, July 17, 2000 in ley of Lafayette, CO, announce the rector for Knox County, TN. He was Memphis. They live in Cordova. birth of their daughter, Anna Noelle elected last summer with 73% of the Beckley, Dec. 19, 2000. Other vote. The law director handles all civil children are Mary Sullivan and Chris. legal matters for the county. Harold and Jennifer Dufour have a Moyers holds his J.D. degree from 86 15TH REUNION baby girl, Mallorie Quinn Dufour, the University of Tennessee College of HOMECOMING: Ocr. 26-28, 2001 born July 11, 2000. (I saw them not Law. He and his wife Stephanie have Michelle Henkel has been named too long ago, and they've already two children, Drew, 11, and Sarah, 5. a partner in the law firm of Alston & taught little Mallorie to respond Bird, Atlanta. She focuses her practice favorably to "Who Let The Dawgs on federal income taxation. Out?") They live in Hickory, NC. Stasia McGehee now works as a Alan and Carrie Harris of Hous- tech writer for Pulse Entertainment in ton report the arrival of their son, San Francisco, documenting 3D ani- Case Freeman Harris, April 4, 2000. 84 mation software. She lives in San Jose. Brian Hayhurst joins the Carlyle REPORTER: TRACY VEZINA PATTERSON Christie Bates McKaskle and Group, a global private equity firm in 2680 MCVAY RD. her husband Mike are folk/Americana Washington, DC, as principal. From MEMPHIS, TN 38119 singers who perform in the Memphis 1996-2000 he was a vice president at 901-624-6681 area. They have also been featured on Carlyle Venture Partners where he led [email protected] WKNO-FM Memphis' Friday Live several investments in the firm's U.S. Lunch. venture capital fund. Laurie Laughlin Neale, Regina Murphy is an adjunct em- Memphis, recently became a part-time ployee of Emporia State University, 85 attorney with Shelby County Juvenile teaching two basic music courses and Nashville psychiatrist Beth Baxter Court. She specializes in cases that six voice students. In addition, she is won the 2000 Exemplary Psychiatrist deal with children in foster care. She the director of the newly formed ESU Award from the National Alliance for previously worked for six years as a Academy of Music, where she teaches the Mentally Ill. prosecutor for the district attorney four voice students as well as classes in Mary Li Behun Creasy of Tampa general's office. Her husband, Geoff, theory and history. is a partner in the Shumaker, Loop & has been a research scientist at St. Meg Beeson Wallace and her

RHODES SPRING 2001 37 CLASS NOTES husband Jim report the safe and hap- Jennifer Thomas-Starck, who lives John Loukidelis have a daughter, py arrival of son John Kamer Wallace there now with her husband Vincent Miriam Ruth Loukidelis, born May (aka Jack) last May. The Wallaces live and two-year-old daughter Abigail. 27, 2000. in Ann Arbor, MI, where Meg works Nancye and her husband Jonathan Jim and Mary Jo Willard as an engineer for Toyota. Walker live in Old Town Alexandria, Schmalz announce the birth of their On the marriage front, Mary VA. daughter, Claire Genevieve Schmalz, Munn wed Joshua Laronge Nov. 11, Davis Schedler recently received Jan. 12, 2000. 2000 in Hobe Sound, FL. They reside a promotion to assistant professor of Cynthia Strong Thompson and in Marlborough, MA. chemistry, with tenure, at her husband Wayne moved to the Members of the class of '87 keep Birmingham Southern College. We're Shreveport/Bossier City (LA) area last achieving all sorts of great things. a little late in reporting David's 1998 year and have gone into partnership Here's a sampling of some marriage to his wife Amanda. with another couple "getting into the accomplishments: Elizabeth Gibson Clogston is .com mania." The business is a Edie Vincent Swihart has been keeping busy working at International productivity management tool for plenty busy, between the arrival of her Paper, as well as serving as the hospitals using the Internet to manage third child—Laura Rose, born April merchant chairman for the Junior the accounts. 24, 2000—and the recent publication League of Little Rock's Holiday Mar- of her third novel, titled Never Preach ket for 2001, a project that raises Past Noon, in October 2000. Edie more than $200,000 for the Junior writes under the nom de plume Edie League's causes. 89 Claire. In her "spare time" she works Becky Huhta Duke works as a se- Jim and Kelley Sanders Cannon as a senior life-science writer/editor nior counsel for Holland and Knight are parents of another son, Augustus for Fisher Scientific in Pittsburgh. in Washington, DC. Stanford "Ford" Cannon, born Sept. Jane Amend Klefas reports that There was a mini-reunion of sorts 12, 2000. Ford has a two-year-old she's learning to handle the 60+ inch- recently when Alice McCarthy Finn, brother, Isaac. es of snowfall in her new home in Mimi Swords Fondren, Julie Rold Caren Creason and Jeff Dillard Jamestown NY, where she works as a and Lee Nimocks converged on the '90 married May 28, 2000 and had a forecast analyst for Bush Industries. River City to revisit old haunts and seven-week honeymoon in South Marianne Blackwell is in the generally terrorize the good people of Africa. She is a CPA with The thick of things in Nashville, where Memphis. Marston Group in Memphis. she's been promoted to director of Folks, keep up he great work out Kara Babin Gee is doing corpo- medical center recruitment at there. Feel free to drop me a line any- rate interior architecture at Interior Vanderbilt University Medical Center. time you have a news item you want Designer Services in Nashville. She is She says they will be doubling the size our classmates to know about. active in ReDiscover East!, a commu- of the Children's Hospital, so please nity effort to revitalize East Nashville send qualified RN applicants her way. after the 1998 tornado. Mark Wells is now his own boss. Ivy Lee has changed jobs: she is He and two friends have started their now an associate medical information own general practice law firm in Eric and Lisa Aft have a new baby, scientist at Genentech Inc. in South Atlanta. The firm, Aragon, Wells and Claire Aft, born Sept. 7, 2000. San Francisco. Aragon, is devoted to claimants' work, David Carter and Marti Moore Brad Olson recently moved from family law, estate planning and crimi- '91 live in Greenwood, MS, where Los Angeles to Phoenix, where he is nal defense. David is director of the Joint Institute director of merchandising for Leslie's Margaret Wood Atwood has for Effective Teaching Practices at Swimming Pool Supplies. turned her love of photography into Mississippi Valley State University Jon and Laura Perry have a son, quite a career. In addition to her job and Delta State University. Marti is Tanner Houston, born Jan. 30, 2000. as a media resources specialist at the an assistant professor of education at Anthony Pietrangelo has merged Medical University of South Carolina Mississippi Valley State University. his law firm, Pietrangelo Cook, with in Charleston, she plies her Their son Benjamin is a Waring Cox Memphis. photographic wares at her husband kindergartner. Russell Porter has returned to Eric's business, Atwood Framing Inc. Tom and Valerie Gray Jordan the U.S. Agency for International De- She also tells of a recent photo-safari are the parents of a son, Thomas velopment (USAID), this time in the that she and Eric took to Rome, "Joey" Joseph Jordan V, born Jan. 3, Office of Transition Initiatives. He is Naples, Spoleto and Pompeii. 2001. the team leader for Latin Amercia, de- Nancye DiPaolo is "back in the Scott Kirkpatrick is now signing and implementing foreign as- pretty world of designers," working working as operations director at sistance programs in Colombia and for Bloomingdale's and vacationing as XMC Inc. in Memphis. He previously Peru. much as possible, including a recent worked for Xerox. Kim Ross graduated last spring trip to London where she stayed with Sarah Wayland and her husband from the University of Maryland

38 SPRING 2001 RHODES School of Public Affairs with a master of public policy degree with a special- McMurray Steps In ty in environmental policy. When the Young Black Achievers Charlotte McCrary Stacy has opened her own law practice, Hood program in Winston-Salem, NC, found & Stacy, in Fayetteville, AR. itself without a coordinator last fall, Charlotte and her husband Burton are three women stepped in to help. One parents of a son, Burton E. "Trey" was Sharonda McMurray '92 and her Stacy III, born May 11, 2000. co-workers, all brand marketing profes- Scott and Susan Sorocak Swing sionals at R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. announce the birth of their son, "Stepping in" included setting up Joseph Cromwell Swing, Aug. 25, the program for the year, organizing 2000. seminars, trips, workshops, special Cary Tynes Wahlheim was activities, business visits and speak- recently named a partner in the law firm Burr & Forman in Birmingham. ers for the 250 teenagers who are participating in the program this Bryan and Karin Fielder Weaver have two children: Kathryn Nicole year. The Winston Lake YMCA Weaver, born in December 1999 and Sharonda McMurray '92, Shelley Malloy sponsors the program. Alexander Vann Weaver, born in May and Veronica Walton The Black Achievers Program, de- 2000. She has been promoted to exec- veloped in 1971 by the Harlem utive director of the Bright Horizons Branch YMCA in New York, provides Foundation for Children in Nashville. a forum that gives youth and adults an opportunity to work together to explore and evaluate career opportunities, discuss social issues with adults other than their par- ents and attend workshops on such topics as financial and time management and SAT preparedness. 90 "I really believe in these kids," says McMurray. "I know that others believed in Maria Carl is currently director of 16 Air Force Public Affairs based at me when I was their age, and I think that support means so much as a teenager Aviano Air Base, Italy, which governs growing up." the media activities for U.S. warfight- ing wings in the Mediterranean. Casey Compton is a financial consultant for Salomon Smith Barney Martha Stracener married John St. John's School in Houston. Kathy in Lakeland, FL. Murray Rugemer July 29, 2000 in is the varsity girls' volleyball coach, as- Kevin and Sherrill Cameron Juneau, AK. sistant varsity and middle school girls' Garland live in Richmond, TX, with track coach, and is in her second sea- their two children. Kevin was recently son as assistant varsity girls' soccer promoted to managing director of En- coach. The girls' track team won the ron Broadband Ventures, the venture 91 10TH REUNION SPC Championship last May for the capital arm of Enron Broadband Ser- HOMECOMING: Ocr. 26-28, 2001 second time in four years. vices. Sherrill enjoys playing tennis Robin Baldwin has joined the Kristal Marlow Gibson, special and volunteering at their church and Crisp Law Firm in Little Rock. She assistant U.S. attorney for the North- the children's school. handles medical malpractice cases. ern District of Iowa, specializes in Blaik Mathews has been promot- Jennifer Bishop married Scott criminally prosecuting methampheta- ed to director of research and develop- Cahall in July 2000. mine manufacturing and distributing ment at Harte-Hanks Rick and Marjorie Thigpen cases. Communications in Orlando, FL. Carter have a daughter, Clare Inez Kate Goodrich is assistant profes- Stephen Montgomery practices Carter, born Oct. 11, 1999. sor of medicine at George forensic psychiatry south of Seattle. Andrew Chaney and his wife Washington University. She also sings Lori Olcott married Army 1st Lt. Christine recently moved to Hilton with the Choral Arts Society in William David Mitchell Sept. 9, 2000 Head Island, SC, where Andrew Washington, DC. in Memphis. They currently reside in serves as associate pastor of Providence Betsy Greiner was married Aug. Seoul, Korea. Presbyterian Church. 12, 2000 to Thomas Edward Kirby. Chris and Robin Sanders are Kathy Coe received her master's She received her master's degree in ed- the parents of a daughter, Isabel degree in education (sports adminis- ucation from Christian Brothers Uni- Maeve Sanders, born July 15, 2000 tration) from the University of versity and is now a teacher and coach in New Orleans. Chris is an emer- Houston last spring. She is in her fifth for Memphis City Schools. gency room physician. year of teaching physical education at Jim Griffiths and Jennifer Lynn

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Risher married Feb. 3, 2001 at First Sedgwick CMS. Sept. 2, 2000. Howard works for Baptist Church in Brandon, MS. Chris Zbinden is an international Kiesewetter Wise attorneys in Mem- They live in Atlanta, where Jim is human resources specialist for Rolls- phis. CEO of Message Link Inc. Royce North America in Reston, VA. Ashley Brian Coffield is a consul- Dan Harper and his family recent- He is working on his master's degree tant for Partnership for Prevention in ly moved to Lima, Peru, where he is in human resources. Washington, DC. professor of English at Colegio Trener Doug Zimmerman is a priest at Brad Dickerson completed his de Monterrico. Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in M.B.A. from the University of Alaba- JoAnn Lynen is currently enrolled Clearwater, FL. ma at Birmingham this spring. He in the M.B.A. program at Goizueta currently works for Mercedes-Benz Business School at Emory University. U.S. International as a supplier devel- Jamie and Pressley Harris opment leader. Peters announce the birth of their 92 Kelly Hartis is vice president, cor- daughter, Julia Gray Peters, June 16, REPORTER: LANE SOUTHERN porate affairs for Bank of America in 2000. 943 RIVER BREEZE DR Charlotte, NC. Steve Spinks is CFO of the MEMPHIS, TN 38103 Mike Low and Vikki Holland Spinx Company in Greenville, SC. 901-578-9318 have a new baby, Connor Perry Low, He holds a M.B.A. from Duke LSOUTHERN(WYATTFIRM.COM born Dec. 8, 2000. University. [email protected] Brad and Paige Williams Jenk- Gary and Leslie Levine Frank Cater works as a CPA for ins '93 welcomed their son, Garrett Starzmann announce the birth of Claude Estes & Co. in Birmingham. Alan Jenkins, Sept. 16, 2000. Brad is their son, Alexander William His sister, Caroline Cater '95 lives in a family medicine and part-time emer- Starzmann, Sept. 27, 2000. She is an New York and has reported another gency physician in North Little Rock, actuary at William M. Mercer Inc. in sighting of his classmate, the "elusive AR. Paige recently "retired" from Atlanta, where she has been employed and talented" actor Seth Herzog. Arthur Andersen. for 10 years. Howard Cleveland and Cindy Mike McQuillen married Heidi Liz Wade of Collierville, TN, Pennington, former director of Weigel on April 26, 1997. They have works as OLAP project manager for student activities at Rhodes, married one son, Paul Gerard McQuillen, born Sept. 15, 1999. Mike is current- ly chief resident of orthopedic surgery A Woman of the New Century at Campbell Clinic in Memphis. Also a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy, he will Amber Khan '93, director of serve as an orthopedic surgeon for communications for the Interfaith Naval Hospital Yokosuka in Japan for Alliance in Washington, DC, was two years, beginning in August. featured in Newsweek magazine's Mark and Heather Dorris Miller "Women of the 21st Century" is- '93 have a son, Harrison Robert, born sue, Jan. 8, 2001. The magazine Dec. 31, 1999. singled out Khan and 14 others Jennifer Hamlett Moore has from across the country "as the been asked to develop and supervise a new day treatment program for dually kind of women who will shape diagnosed adolescents, (developmen- America's new century." tally disabled and mentally ill). She According to its mission state- moved to Broomfield, CO, last year. ment, the non-profit, faith-based Cassandra Morgan married Dar- Interfaith Alliance "promotes the rick Hawkins April 8, 2000. She positive and healing role of received her M.D. degree from Amber Khan '93 religion in public life through en- University of Tennessee College of couraging civic participation, facil- Medicine last December and currently itating community activism and challenging religious political extremism." works as a clinical researcher at St. Termed "an activist in her own right" by Newsweek, Kahn was one of the origi- Jude Children's Research Hospital in nal members of Rhodes' Interfaith Circle, a group that shares religious Memphis. She will begin her family medicine residency in July. perspectives, and with classmate Lina Parikh, founded the college's International Matt and Ashley Mickle Preston Food Festival. are the proud parents of twin daughters, Khan and her husband Vivek Chopra live in Maryland with their one-year-old Sarah and Emily, born Aug. 21, 2000. son Noah. They have moved to Washington, DC, where Matt has been assigned to Presi- dent Bush's security detail.

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Tracey Rancifer and Frank Henderson were married Dec. 30, 2000. And the Emmy Goes to... Chris and Jennifer Jenkins Szedlak have a daughter, Carly Andy Likes '94, the 6 p.m. news pro- Catherine, born Sep. 21, 2000. ducer for KSDK-TV in St. Louis, received Jennifer is a research analyst for an Emmy Award for Best Live Event Tele- Hewlett-Packard Company in Corval- vision Special from the St. Louis-Mid- lis, OR. America Chapter of the National Academy Robert Wright lives in Buenos of Television Arts and Sciences. Likes Aires, where he is a tour guide for and his director won for their work on Rick Steve's Europe Through the the St. Louis Rams World Championship Back Door. He received his master of arts degree in international studies Parade coverage. The station carried the from the University of Washington parade live for more than three hours, last year. using more than a dozen cameras, according to Likes. It was the first award for Likes, who has been a television producer for six 93 years. He previously was with stations in Doug Bacon is vice president of Memphis, Chattanooga and Nashville be- small business/area councils for the fore moving to St. Louis in 1999. Charlotte, NC, Chamber of Commerce. Andy Likes '94 Ashley Baker married John Richard Washmon Feb. 24, 2001 in South Padre Island, TX. tive assistant at the Texas Department Advocate General in Washington, Doug Brumley and Miriam Anne of Human Services, Austin. DC. Thayer were married, Oct. 7, 2000. Ken and Marcy Milman announce Jenny Sapp Scheidt has Doug is listings editor for City Press the birth of their daughter, Mira completed her degree at University of Publishing in Nashville. Simone Milman, Nov. 22, 2000. Ken Texas, San Antonio and is working as Leo and Jennifer Tacker is finishing his final semester in the a full-time English instructor at Palo Dillman have a daughter, Elizabeth M.B.A. program at the University of Alto Community College. Grace, born Aug. 28, 2000. Jennifer is Texas at Austin. He has accepted a Mindy Simon and Chris Schwab a recruiter for A Technological position as product manager with married Oct. 7, 2000 in Walland, Advantage Inc. in Louisville, KY. FedEx.com marketing and will return TN. Chris and Amanda Ellison to Memphis in June. Tanja Thompson is with Buchanan '95 are the proud parents Michael and Dionne Low-Nolan Kieswetter Wise attorneys in of Darby Elizabeth Buchanan, born announce the birth of their baby, Memphis. Jan. 5, 2000. Connor Low-Nolan, July 19, 2000. David and Brooke Treadwell Andy and Irmtraud Cowell are Ellen Osoinach is currently in her Ward '93 are the proud parents of a the parents of a son, Samuel Ernest second year of law school at daughter, Molly Louise Ward, born Logan Cowell, born Jan. 22, 2001. Northwestern School of Law in Port- Sept. 21, 2000. Brooke enjoys being Melissa De Cellos is an land, OR. She and Sally Sparks at home with Molly and experiencing education analyst in the national secu- exchanged marriage vows the challenges that motherhood rity division for SAIC in Arlington, June 24, 2000 at The Old Church in brings. In their spare time, David VA. Portland. plays soccer while Brooke plays tennis. Melissa Ford is a senior training Scott Ostrow has been named an They also have two basset hounds, coordinator at Medtronic Sofamor associate at the Memphis law firm of Zoey and Charlie. Danek in Memphis. Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs. Allison Wemmers and Glen Silva Gitsas and Nicholas Jeremy Ramey is a manager of Pellettieri were married May 6, 2000. Pourliakas married in Greece on July project sales for Cap Gemini Ernest & 1998. They welcomed a daughter Jan- Young in Chicago. He is also a uary 11, 2000. conductor for Light Opera Works and Drew Henry received his seminary music director for New Tuners. degree in Buenos Aires in December Art and Tammy Record recently 2000. He plans to return to the U.S. welcomed a son, Leland James this spring. Record. Art is an action officer with Thais Davenport Kilday is execu- the U.S. Navy, Office of the Judge

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South Alabama (USA) and taught English for three years at UMS- Sing It! Wright Preparatory School. Scott holds a doctorate in structural and cel- Jennifer Jenkins '95 and lular biology from USA, where he is Susan Ashe '97 were featured currently a first-year medical student. with the performance artists Sean McCrary recently joined Vi- of the club L.A. Beige in the sion Reinsurance Intermediaries Inc., fall 2000 issue of V magazine. a newly formed reinsurance broker Beige is like a modern-day headquartered in Dallas. He is a vice Warhol Factory, says Jenkins. president of new business production. "We all support each oth- Jamie McDaniel is has taken a er and encourage each other position as regional marketing coor- to push the limits of art, dinator at INVESCO in Atlanta. Lisa Mitchell has moved to Tulsa, finding new ways to intrigue OK, and is starting her own business Jen & Suzy—Jennifer Jenkins '95 and Susan Ashe '97 and entertain." as an independent management con- She got to be friends with sultant, focusing on such areas as lead- several of the Beige group ership training, team intervention and through her former job with Courtney Love and her circle of friends. management coaching. "Susan and I both enjoy performing, but neither of us takes it too seriously— Christina Ross is with the Mem- we don't actively pursue acting or singing," says Jenkins. "But we started phis architectural firm of Looney performing with my friends at Beige and it surprisingly caught on. Jen & Suzy is Ricks Kiss. She holds a master's really a comedy/singing act.We sing pop songs from the '80s and '90s over degree in architecture from the heavy "club" music (drum and bass, electronica). And we mix in a few "yo University of Miami. mama" jokes and dance routines, and wear lots of makeup, shiny outfits and BIG Alicia Swanson works on the col- hair! We started getting paid, and have been asked to perform Vegas, where legiate mobilization team for the International Mission Board in Rich- Beige is opening a new branch." mond, VA. She previously served as a missionary in Quito, Ecuador. George Talbot is a reporter for Services in Danvers, MA. She and the Mobile Register. husband Bruce Crawford, who is a Wendy Foster Talbot is director 94 physicist at Massachusetts General of marketing at Jefferson Regional REPORTER: JUDY BROWN Hospital, live in Salem. Medical Center in Pine Bluff, AR. 703-456-2888 Scott and Lane Franklin are par- Jason Vest is a graduate student [email protected] ents of a daughter, Ellie St. Clair instructor in English composition at Kelly Petro Bridgeforth works in Franklin, born April 4, 2000. Washington University in St. Louis. the commercial litigation department Juli Milnor Gable is director of He received his M.A. degree in Eng- of the Butler, Snow, O'Mara, Stevens development at United Cerebral Palsy lish last year, and is working toward & Cannada law firm in Memphis. She of Westchester in Rye Brook, NY. his Ph.D. passed the Mississippi and Tennessee Aaron and Felicia Irby- Jenny Johns Wilkes is and will bar exams last year. She holds her J.D. Townsend of Memphis have two always be a member of the class of degree from the University of sons—Aaron and Avron. 1994. She was listed in the class of Mississippi Law School. Andrew Jeter and Karen 1990 in a previous issue of the maga- Denise Ceule has joined the Williams were married Jan. 6, 2000. zine. Nashville office of Baker, Donelson, Champ and Elizabeth Lawson Elizabeth Young is with Urban Bearman & Caldwell as an associate. Lyons '93 announce the birth of their Media. She lives in Alpharetta, GA. She concentrates her practice in the son, Champ Lyons IV, Sept. 25, Rob '95 and Carla Wilson areas of corporate, securities, mergers 2000. Champ III is now with the Fer- Walker announce the birth of their and acquisitions and e*Business. She guson, Frost & Dodson law firm in daughter, Madison Cooper Walker, received her J.D. degree magna cum Birmingham. May 5, 2000 in St. Louis. laude last year from the University of Jeni Marley and Scott Nancy Cotham has been working Memphis where she served as editor- Hollensworth '94 of Mobile were as the educational program coordina- in-chief of the University of Memphis married April 3, 1999. Jeni works as a tor at the Japanese Consulate in New Law Review. technical writer for Prism Systems York for the past year. As part of her Dorian Jones Crawford works as Inc. She earned a master's degree in job she oversees the Japan Exchange a therapist at Health & Educational' education from the University of and Teaching (JET) Program for the

42 SPRING 2001 RHODES consulate's jurisdiction. She received ly. Despite the fact that she despised weren't busy enough, she was also the her master's degree in international every math class she ever took, Sarah coordinator for the annual Therapeu- educational development from loves her new job. tic Youth Arts Exhibition, which Columbia University last year. Prior Elisabeth Estes works as a senior incorporates children's artwork from a to graduate school, she taught under communications manager for EzGov dozen therapeutic agencies in the St. the JET program in Japan for two Inc. in Atlanta. Louis metro area. years. Jay Ezelle is an attorney with Beth Rather lives in the Starnes & Atchison in Birmingham. Washington, DC, area where she Brian Faughnan, Memphis, is an works as the campaign manager for attorney with Armstrong Allen and an 5TH REUNION the Light the Night Walk, a national adjunct professor at the University of HOMECOMING: OCT. 26-28, 2001 fund-raising walk for the DC chapter Memphis Law School. Joy Al-Jazrawi is now an of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Soci- Thomas Gieselmann is a general attorney with the Harry Gee & Asso- ety. This summer Beth will run with partner with BV Capital in San Fran- ciates law firm in Houston, where she the society's team training program in cisco. practices immigration law. the Anchorage Marathon in Alaska. Wesley Hall works as a content Brandi Barnes and Zack Kellis strategist for Macromedia Inc. in San married Dec. 30, 2000 in Cartersville, Francisco. GA. She is a second-year law student Bryan Holzwanger is with Peter at the University of Georgia. 95 A. Mayer Advertising in New Orleans. Kemp Conrad, Memphis, works REPORTER: SARAH SEARS EGELI He is responsible for managing the as director of strategic alliances at 703-971-9417 Louisiana Office of Tourism's interna- Accuship.com and is working toward [email protected] tional marketing communications his M.B.A. part-time at Vanderbilt The California sun seems to agree program. University's Owen School of with Amy Asbury, who was recently Judd Peak has joined the Management. promoted to departmental coordina- Nashville law firm of Ogletree, Amy Dollarhide published an arti- tor for ICM's book department. ICM Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, cle in HEC Forum, the journal of the represents bestselling and award-win- where he practices labor and employ- Healthcare Ethics Committee Forum, ning authors and journalists for film ment law. titled, "The Triple-Play: Compliance, and television. Julie Wilkins Price recently Ethics, and Service (A Winning Com- Last year was a busy one for Tara joined Roper Starch Worldwide, an bination for a Successful Culture of Evans Beck. She completed her international marketing research firm, Care)." Amy is director of corporate M.S. degree in biomolecular as a research director in the Nashville compliance at Shore Health System, chemistry at the University of banking research group. Easton, MD. Wisconsin-Madison last spring, and Stiles and Ashley Hamilton Doug Duncan is a vice president on Oct. 18, she and her husband Joe Rougeou get a big round of applause at First Tennessee Securities Corp. in welcomed Caleb Alexander "Alex" for helping out with the class of '95 Memphis. Beck to the world. Tara is currently five-year reunion (Five?! Didn't we Derek Eaton has been accepted to working on a higher education just graduate?!) at Homecoming 2000. a four-year residency program in oral capstone teaching certificate and Ashley is currently a senior web and maxillofacial surgery at the Med- teaching part-time at the Madison specialist in sales and marketing at ical College of Wisconsin. Area Technical College and at Kaplan FedEx, and Stiles was promoted to David Eubanks is pursuing his for an MCAT course. It doesn't look vice president in charge of Western Ph.D. at the University of Maryland's like she is slowing down in 2001! Tennessee for Insurors Bank of Department of English, where he is Greg Davis is a project manager Tennessee. also a teaching assistant. He holds a for SAIC in New Orleans. Christopher and Erica Emig master's degree in English from Mary- Sarah Sears Egeli and her hus- White announce the birth of their land. band Hakan have moved from son, Jackson Avery White, Jan. 26, Ryan and Nikki Holzhauer Birmingham to Washington, DC, 2001 in Minneapolis. Feeney live in Rochester, NY, where where Sarah now works as assistant to Natasha Westrich Wood contin- Ryan is a civil litigator with the the senior director of the new ues to put smiles on the faces of sick Holtzberg law firm, and Nikki is com- TeacherLine program at PBS. children in St. Louis as an art pleting the first year of her internal TeacherLine received a five-year grant therapist. Her work was presented to medicine/pediatrics residency at the from the U.S. Department of Educa- pediatric oncology patients at the Na- University of Rochester. tion to develop an online teacher re- tional Art Therapy Conference last fall Allison Fones works in special source with the purpose of educating and featured at the Cancer and Art events and development at Le teachers on how to teach math and Therapy exhibit at Barnes-Jewish Bonheur Children's Medical Center technology in the classroom effective- Hospital in St. Louis. As if she in Memphis.

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Anna Hurayt and Matthew Hul- Jennifer Lee of Annandale, VA, She also coaches the boys' and girls' lum married Aug. 26, 2000 in works as an intelligence officer for the soccer teams. Atlanta. She holds a J.D. degree from U.S. government. Dan Millner and Angie Golden Georgia State University College of Jason McFarland is editor and married Nov. 11, 2000. They live in Law and was admitted to the Georgia graphic designer of This Week, a pub- Dallas. bar last year. lication of Park Cities Presbyterian Joe Montminy works as a prose- Amber Isom is an associate attor- Church, Dallas. cuting attorney in the Dade County ney with Kiesewetter Wise et al in Hallie McNeill teaches seventh District Attorney's Office in Miami. Memphis. She holds a J.D. degree grade honors social studies at White John Rodriguez is an attorney from the University of Iowa. Station Middle School in Memphis. with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in Washington, DC. Abbie Cohan Sanders of Carter Gets Role of a Lifetime Durham, NC, has completed her J.D. degree and plans to pursue a master's Cy Carter '98 has landed what degree in taxation this year. many actors would consider the Christy Skelton has been part of a lifetime. For Carter, it's promoted to associate librarian with just the next step in his promising the Memphis/Shelby County Public career. Library and Information Center. The film, Anatomy of A Hate Erick and Sarah Wolford Stavely Crime, produced by MN, tells the have a daughter, Amber Lin Stavely, story of Matthew Shepard, a gay, born May 13, 2000. HIV-positive college student senselessly beaten to death in Wyoming. The narrator, in the tra- 97 dition of films like Sunset Boule- Julie Bhattacharya serves as the vard and more recently, American judicial law clerk to the Hon. William Beauty, is the victim himself, ana- C. Koch Jr. on the Tennessee Court lyzing his own death. Cy Carter is of Appeals in Nashville. Matthew Shepard. Sarah Curtis of Chicago won the It's an auspicious debut for Carter, who attended Rhodes on a theater scholar- Rolling Stone Annual College Journal- ship, though he majored in international studies. His scholarship didn't require him ism Contest in the Essay and to continue acting, "but I felt an obligation in my heart, probably because that's Criticism Division for an essay she wrote while a journalism graduate stu- what I loved," he says. dent at Boston University, titled MN produced the film to kick off a yearlong campaign, "Fight for Your Rights: "Daddy's Little Girls." The award is Take a Stand Against Discrimination." It will air throughout 2001. The broadcast for $2,500 and her name and award premiere in January was followed by a commercial-free half day, during which time appeared on page 71 of the magazine's MTV scrolled the names of hate crime victims. Coincidentally, victims' names were March 15, 2001 issue. compiled for the network by another Rhodes alumnus, Mark Perriello '99 of The Jennifer Davis sang in John Human Rights Campaign in Washington, DC. Rutter's Requiem at Carnegie Hall last Before it even aired, stories and full-color photos of Carter were splashed year. Under the direction of Lee across the pages of national magazines like Out, and Rolling Stone claimed, "At Kjelson, choirs from various states worst, Anatomy is a laudable and balanced account of an unthinkable act. At best, made up the 250-voice choir. Jennifer it may in fact help shed enough light to create some of that much-needed connec- also sings with the Civic Chorale of Greater Miami. tive tissue." Kemp Conrad is director of strate- Though the film was designed to be an after school special for viewers 15 to 25 gic alliances at Accuship in Memphis. years old, it has found a much broader audience. Lately, Carter has been Currently enrolled in Vanderbilt Uni- recognized on the street. Compliments have come from an urban youth at the versity's Owen School of YMCA where he works out, a young mother who crossed paths with him in a popu- Management, he serves on the board lar hiking area, and an old gay man in a neighborhood park, who wanted to give of directors of Phoenix Club and him a hug. But Carter is most proud of the praise his role received from his grand- Hope House. father, who told him, "You've changed an 80-year-old man's prejudices." Jimmie Glorioso is a technical re- —Catherine Cuellar '96 cruiter for KingSearch Solutions in Dal- las. He and his wife Mandi have twins who will be two years old in June.

44 SPRING 2001 RHODES SC. Maria was recently promoted to Nichole Williams Walker is a project lead, enterprise learning man- RN at Methodist Hospital North in Sanderson Taking agement systems at Buckman Labora- Memphis. It to Broadway tories International in Memphis. John Weeden, who recently Rob Marus has won a full scholar- returned from art history post-gradu- Brad Sanderson '99 has opened ship to pursue a master of arts in reli- ate studies in London, curated an ex- The Stage on Broadway, a live coun- gious studies at Central Baptist hibition of new British and Italian try and western/bluegrass music club Theological Seminary in Kansas City, video art titled and then there was bad in the heart of downtown Nashville. KS. He began classes in January, yet weather... (originally curated by LWF Sanderson, who had been designing remains employed full-time as director projects) at David Lusk Gallery in Web pages for the past few years, of Mainstream Missouri Baptists in Memphis. says he "got tired of looking at the Jefferson City, MO. Emily Karen Wiggins and Robert computer screen" and decided to take Elizabeth McFadden and Kevin Little married March 3, 2001. She is an assistant attorney general in the a risk and open a club. Shea Medlin married Jan. 20, 2001 in Memphis. Elizabeth is a financial Missouri attorney general's office in He plans to have live music daily planner with First Tennessee Bank, Jefferson City. "from 11 a.m., when we open, till 3 and Kevin is a lending officer with a.m. when we close." Bank of America. Brendan and Margaret Ann Tay- lor Minihan '98 live in New Orleans 98 Ben Gohman has resigned his where Brendan teaches and coaches at REPORTER: AMANDA TAMBURRINO commission as a U.S. Army officer Metairie Park Country Day School 1430 CARR AVE. and taken a position as a business and Margaret is a software MEMPHIS, TN 38104 consultant for Arthur Andersen in programmer for Orthodontics Centers 901-526-4616 Atlanta. of America. Brendan placed fourth in ATAMBURR@MIDSOUTH . RR. COM Marshall Henry is with National the Mardi Gras Marathon this year Taylor Armstrong, Washington, Commerce Bancorp in Durham, NC. with a time of 2:37:21. DC, works as an analyst for General Barbara Bear Kennedy recently Danielle Montana works as a Electric Global Exchange Systems. began a new job at Big Brothers Big products consultant for INVESCO in Phil Bittel is an associate relation- Sisters in Memphis. She matches Atlanta. ship manager at Wells Fargo Bank in community volunteer mentors with Chris Palazzolo is pursuing a Atlanta. children of single-parent households. Ph.D. at Emory University, where he Heather Caldwell and Jeb Mathew Kraus and Laura Waters is co-teaching an introductory Stricklin married May 27, 2000. She married Aug. 1, 1998. Both will comparative politics course. He stud- is a first lieutenant in the U.S. Air receive M.D. degrees from the ied statistics at the University of Essex Force. They live at Robins Air Force University of Tennessee, Memphis in last summer, and presented a paper at Base in Georgia. June. the beginning of the semester at the Laurene Cranford will receive a Julia Lang is a graduate research 2000 APSA meeting in Washington, master's degree in speech-language assistant at Georgia Tech Research In- DC. pathology from the University of stitute in Atlanta. She also attends the Kara Benton Plenge and John Memphis in August. Sam Nunn School of International Smart married Jan. 6, 2001 in Leslie Curry works in fundraising Affairs and will receive her master's Shepherdsville, KY. The couple lives for the National Federation of degree in December. in Memphis, where Kara teaches ele- Independent Business in Washington, Michael Long was recently chosen mentary school. DC. to perform as Moses in Brown Joy Richmond is a vice president Karl Dzelzkalns lives in University's production of Old Testa- at First Tennessee Housing Corp. in Pennington, NJ, where he works as a ment Follies. He chose the part Memphis. project manager for Innovative Soft- because of his "interest in biblical his- Ellen Shuler is pursuing her mas- ware AG of Frankfurt, Germany. tory and old men." Michael is a grad- ter's degree in library and information Lara Harkins and Jacob Pickerel uate student at Brown. sciences at the University of South married Nov. 18, 2000. She works as Christopher Marlowe is working Carolina. When she finishes, she plans a consultant for Accenture in Atlanta. at Miami/Dade state attorney's office to work with alternative funding pro- Laura Goza Kutcher now works while in his second year of law school grams for libraries. as staffing supervisor/recruiter at Kelly at the University of Miami. Ben Strauser works in human re- Services Inc. in Jackson, MS. Former- Tony Martin is a principal of The sources at the University of Texas in ly, she worked as director of theater Martin Group in Savannah, GA. Austin. He holds a master's degree in and as an English teacher at St. Maria Massie and Carr Hagan educational psychology from Texas Andrews Episcopal School in Jackson. married Nov. 18, 2000 in Charleston, Tech. Sally Landham, an associate port-

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CLASS NOTES folio manager at TD Capital Manage- will travel to Florence, Italy, to attend sources for Intel in Portland, OR. ment in Memphis, will receive a culinary school for a year. Jim Flowers works for the foreign M.B.A. degree from University of Trieu Pham works for Chingari service of the U.S. State Department Memphis this summer. Inc. in Palo Alto, CA. He lives in in Washington, D.C. He is training Amanda Pecko is a first-year Sunnyvale. for a position in Riyadh, Saudi M.B.A. student at the Kelley School John Quigley and Kimberly Arabia. of Business at Indiana University. Yatteau married Feb. 3, 2001. He is a Richard Lum is assistant to Gene Kristen Richards is a Naval avia- software engineer with ProTech Sys- Sperling at the Brookings Institution tor stationed at NAS Jacksonville in tems Group, and she is finishing her in Washington, DC. Previously, he Florida. She resides in Orange Park. last year of medical school in served as special assistant to the Stephanie Shackelford recently Memphis. In June, they will move ei- national economic adviser at the moved to Washington, DC, to begin ther to Philadelphia or Syracuse, NY, White House and chief speechwriter a two-year master's degree program at where she will begin a three-year pedi- to the director of the U.S. Office of George Washington University's atrics residency. Personnel Management. Graduate School of Political Manage- Albert Tat works as a systems ana- Trent Lutz is a legislative services ment. She works full-time as assistant lyst for Kingston Technology Co. in assistant for the Oregon School Board to the chief of staff/assistant scheduler Fountain Valley, CA. Association in Salem, OR. for U.S. Senator Bill Frist of Pete Marudas is an account exec- Tennessee. utive for SBC in Atlanta. Sunni Thompson works as com- Morgan McMillan works as a staff munity publications coordinator for 00 assistant for Rep. Wes Watkins (R- the Dallas Morning News. REPORTER: RICHARD Lum OI() in Washington, DC. P.O. Box 21560 Wes Meador is a media coordina- WASHINGTON, DC 20009 tor at Archer/Malmo advertising in RICHARD_ [email protected] Memphis. He recently assistant direct- 99 PHONE: 202-251-5503. ed the play Amy's View at Circuit Brandon Barr is in the Ph.D. pro- FAX: 520-395-7251 Playhouse with Cookie Ewing, gram in English literature at the Uni- Teal Baker is executive assistant Rhodes assistant professor of theater. versity of Rochester. for the Motion Picture Association of Frank Brown '04 co-starred in the Kate Bishop has received a two- America's state legislative affairs production. year fellowship as a post-graduate ad- department in Washington, DC. Will Murchison has moved to ministrative fellow at Johns Hopkins Jon Breth is a financial analyst Washington, DC, where he works in Health System, where she will work with Consulting Services Group in the office of Texas Congressman Pete directly under the chief operating offi- Memphis. Sessions. cer of Johns Hopkins Hospital. She is Tyler Buckner has been admitted Abby Nipper lives in London, currently finishing her M.B.A. and to the University of North Carolina where she works as a clerk for master's degree in health administra- Medical School, where he will begin Blandfords Law Group. tion at the University of Alabama at classes in August. He currently works Joshua Solomon is a financial Birmingham and working as a as a research assistant at Duke consultant for Merrill Lynch in marketing analyst at Baptist Health University. Atlanta. System Inc. Edy Burns is a human resources Courtney Umberger currently Jack Coleman teaches seventh assistant at Earthlink Inc. in Atlanta. works for Harvard economics professor grade math in Tampa, FL. Kevin Carlucci plans to study and Brookings Institution senior fellow Tillman Finley is pursuing a law Spanish at a school in Antigua, Michael Kremer. She is his staff assistant degree and a master of public policy Guatemala from June through Octo- in the economic studies department at degree at Duke University. ber, and will move to Austin, TX, in Brookings and has a short-term Adele Hines, an assistant accoun- late fall. appointment with him at the World tant for KPMG in Memphis, will Brice Dodson and Christina Bank. Also, she does work for Jack graduate from Rhodes with a master's Scaharer married Dec. 30, 2000. Triplett, a visiting fellow in the econom- degree in accountancy this year. He works in Army military intelli- ic studies department at Brookings. Monty Montgomery recently co- gence in San Antonio, TX. Val Witte is a quality assurance starred in the play Amy's View at Cir- Witney Elliott has moved to specialist in the electronic publishing cuit Playhouse. He works as an Brighton, MA where she works as a department at Mosby Inc. in St. account manager for Archer/Malmo sales assistant for Forrester Research. Louis. advertising in Memphis. Christine Fall works as a public Bush Wrighton is a customer support Jane Nigra, a sales assistant for policy assistant at Volunteers of Amer- consultant at Aspect Communications Salomon Smith Barney in Atlanta, ica in Alexandria, VA. in Nashville. looks forward to this fall, when she Brynn Fisher works in human re-

46 SPRING 2001 RHODES N MEMORIAM

'22 Mabel Meacham of leaves a brother. Guild and Grandview Garden Club. Hermitage, TN, Dec. 3, 1997. She '35 Rodney Baine of Athens, GA, She was a past member of the was a retired dean of women at Austin June 25, 2000. Retired Franklin Pro- Women's Exchange of Memphis, the Peay State University. fessor of English at the University of Altar Guild of the Church of Holy '30 R. McGhee Moore of Georgia, he leaves five children. Communion and St. John's Episcopal Memphis, Aug. 24, 2000. A retired '40 Robert Ackerman of Church. The widow of William cottonseed products broker, he was a Memphis, Jan. 14, 2001. A physician, McNeill Ayres, she leaves two sons, member of Second Presbyterian he leaves his wife, Mary Reviere two brothers and five grandchildren. Church, Memphis Board of Trade and Ackerman, a daughter, three sons, '50 Oneida Pruett() Carpenter of Kiwanis Club. A World War II veter- three stepdaughters, a stepson and Blowing Rock, NC, Dec. 4, 2000. The an, he was the widower of Margaret T. eight grandchildren. wife of Thomas G. Carpenter, retired Moore. '40 O.H. "Buddy" Miller Jr. of president of Memphis State University '31 Ruth Niven Oliver of Memphis, Feb. 28, 2001. Retired (now University of Memphis), she was Huntington Beach, CA, Nov. 22, chairman of the board of Choctaw involved in several civic and 1999. She leaves two daughters and a Inc., he leaves his wife, Margaret B. professional organizations in Memphis son. Miller, six daughters, 13 grandchildren and Florida. She founded a public '34 Dorothy Jane Kerr Emerson and a sister, Ann Clark Miller Quinlen broadcasting television station in Pen- of Memphis, Feb. 1, 2001. She was a '38. sacola and in 1965 was one of three member of Mullins United Methodist '43 Louise Howry McRae of women station managers in the U.S. Church, the Daughters of the Ameri- Memphis, Dec. 15, 2000. The first fe- She taught in schools in Memphis and can Revolution, Terrace Garden Club male member of the Memphis and Gainesville, FL, and at Palm Beach Ju- and the Story-Tellers of Memphis. She Shelby County Planning Commision, nior College. She leaves her husband, a was past president of the Officers she was also a community volunteer daughter, a son, her mother, a sister, a Wives Club of Ludswizburg, Germany board member of the Episcopal brother and six grandchildren. and Fort Sheridan, IL, and the Univer- Church Women for the Diocese of '52 William R. Pridgen of sity of Memphis Wives Club. The Tennessee. She leaves her husband of Memphis, Jan. 28, 2001. A surgeon, widow of Col. Maxwell Emerson, she 58 years, Senior U.S. District Judge he was a member of Lindenwood leaves a daughter, a stepson, six grand- Robert M. McRae, a daughter, three Christian Church and active in the children and 11 great-grandchildren. sons and four grandchildren. Memphis Surgical Society, Memphis '34 Paul Herbert Pierce Jr. of '43 Eugene A. Vaccaro of and Shelby County Medical Society, Dallas and Bayse, VA, Jan. 17, 2001. Memphis, Jan. 21, 2001. A retired American Medical Association, the He worked for the Small Business Ad- ophthalmologist and surgeon, he Mid-South and University Medical ministration for 20 years before retir- helped found Baptist Memorial Hospi- Journal Club and the William Scott ing in 1972 as procurement director. A tal's department of ophthalmology as Society of Vanderbilt University. He member of Mount Vernon Place Unit- well as Methodist Hospital's contact leaves his wife, Jane Pridgen; two ed Methodist Church in Washington, lens department. He was also an asso- daughters, Sherrill Oellerich and DC, he also served in the U.S. Navy in ciate professor in the ophthalmology Allison Varner '86; a son, William the South Pacific during World War II department at Univeristy of Tennessee, "Skipper" Pridgen '82; a sister, Ann and in Washington during the Korean Memphis. A member of St. Louis Pridgen Bailey '47; a brother, Steven War. He leaves his wife, Phyllis Pou Catholic Church, he leaves his wife of Pridgen '46; and seven grandchildren. Pierce, two daughters, a son, two 54 years, Mary T. Vaccaro, and a '61 W. Calvin Hurst of San Pedro, stepchildren, 11 grandchildren and a daughter. CA, 1987. He leaves his wife, Wanda great-grandson. '47 Norma Estes Young of Hurst. '34 Charlese Pepper St. John of Sapulpa, OK, Dec. 17, 2000. She had '64 George S. Edwards of Austin, TX, Feb. 10, 2000. An active been the organist and pianist at First Memphis, Jan. 15, 2000. A Vietnam participant in Bible study groups and Baptist Church in Sapulpa for more War Marine veteran, he leaves a broth- lay witness missions, she was the wid- than 20 years. She held a master's de- er, Benjamin Edwards Jr. of Big Pine ow of George W. Tharp and Robert gree in music from the University of Key, FL. T. St. John. She leaves three daughters, Michigan and played for many civic '66 P. Ray Baker of Germantown, a son, a stepson, seven grandchildren, clubs. She leaves her husband, David TN, April 1997. He leaves his wife, five great-grandchildren and a brother, Young, a son, a granddaughter and a Liz Baker, and four children. John R. Pepper II '37. sister, Madelyn Estes Earles '46. '70 Emily Scarbrough Crandall '35 Peggy "Birdie" Ellis Aste of '50 Mildred Wilkerson Ayres of of Palm City, FL, Nov. 6, 2000. An Memphis, Feb. 13, 2001. A retired Memphis, Dec. 28, 2000. A member attorney for Guardian Life Insurance employee of National Bank of of St. Mary's Episcopal School Alumni Co., she leaves her husband, Bill Commerce, she was the widow of Board, she was also involved in many Crandall, two stepdaughters, a stepson, Frank J. Aste. A member of other community activities including her father and a brother. Lindenwood Christian Church, she St. John's Episcopal Pennepacker

RHODES SPRING 2001 47 Adding to Rhodes' Anniversary Walk Becomes an Annual Tradition

lumni, students, par- ents and friends are A invited to "cement" their places in the life of Rhodes by purchasing their own engraved stones in the Anniversary Walk. Dedicated at Homecoming '98 as part of our Sesquicentennial cele- bration, the Anniversary Walk will now be extended each year to include personalized stones of additional members of the Rhodes family. Stones are the same grey count includes spaces, peri- Cost: $300 each. granite as used extensively ods etc.) Cost: $150 each. Stones purchased by July on campus and are available Larger stones measure 1 of this year will be added to in two sizes: 8" x 8" x 2" and may be per- Rhodes Anniversary Walk Smaller stones measure sonalized with five lines of over the summer months. 4" x 8" x 2" and may be per- copy, each line up to 16 To reserve your place, sonalized with two lines of characters maximum. (As clip the order form below copy, each line up to 16 char- noted, character count and mail today. acters maximum. (Character includes spaces, periods etc.) r Yes, I would like to be included in (For additional stones, please copy this form Rhodes' Anniversary Walk! or send on a separate sheet of paper.) Please reserve one 4" x 8" x 2" 150th Payment Information Anniversary stone for me at $150 each. Inscribe as follows: Your name (remember to include punctuation and Your address spaces in your character count): 0000 ❑❑❑❑❑❑❑❑❑❑❑ Your daytime telephone #( ) 00000D11000000DD0 ❑ Check enclosed for $ Please reserve one 8" x 8" x 2" 150th (payable to "Rhodes Anniversary Walk") Anniversary stone for me at $300 each. ❑ ❑ ❑ Inscribe as follows: Visa MasterCard American Express (remember to include punctuation and Acct. No. spaces in your character count): 000000E00==D= Exp. Date D0D000DDDEIDDEEDD Signature D0=0000=0=000 Mail with payment to: Anniversary Walk, 00001111110000000000 Rhodes College, 2000 N. Parkway, Memphis, DEIDD00D00000001110 TN 38112 L

48 SPRING 2001 RHODES ilearni,nekowt-ofkiAtweltatlkocle4ktubeena qoatfothuicaLonfornAlcareeranclbasi,nest. 16

—E. Denby Brandon '50

For years, Denby Brandon, his wife, the former Helen Deupree '51 and their children have worked together in two family-run, Memphis- based businesses, Brandon Investments Inc. and Brandon Financial Planning Inc.

Denby and Helen met at Southwestern and were married in 1953 by religion professor Dr. Laurence E Kinney, for whom the Rhodes service program is named.

Though Denby did graduate work at Yale and Duke, when it was time to do something special for one of his alma maters, he and Helen chose Rhodes.

To celebrate their 50th class reunions, they established the Helen and Denby Brandon Scholarship Fund with an outright gift, which they're paying over five years. By the end of 2001, their contribution will total 60% of the fund's endowment. The rest will be deferred in the form of a life insurance policy. "Rhodes teaches students how to think, and learning Denby and Helen Deupree Brandon at a college how to think well has been a good foundation for my Dance 1951. Helen was President of AOPi sorority. career and business," says Denby. "As a financial planner I help others make gifts all the time, and I develop strategies that help people give more effectively. With Rhodes' fine planned giving department to make it even easier, it's a joy for Helen and me to be part of the college's future."

From wills to annuities and trusts, there are many planned giving techniques that will allow you to make a difference at Rhodes while meeting your other financial goals.

FOR MORE INFORMATION on ways to find the wealth in giving and the joy of supporting Rhodes, please contact Roberta Bartow Matthews, J.D., Director of Planned Giving, Rhodes College, 2000 North Parkway, Memphis, TN 38112 Phone: (901) 843-3919, 1-800-264-5969. Fax: (901) 843-3093. E-mail: [email protected] HODES 2000 North Park Memphis, Tennesse

From the Annual Student Exhibition held this spring in Clough-Hanson Gallery. Detail from The Pursuit of Happiness by Elizabeth Tyson '02. The concept was: "Every day record the time you rise and the time you go to sleep. Make: 100 circles." Photo by Kevin Barre