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EXECUTIVE EDITOR: Helen Watkins Norman "the good is ever the enemy of EDITOR: Martha Hunter Shepard '66 the best." ART DIRECTOR: Trey Clark '89 With those values, he CONTRIBUTING EDITOR: Susan McLain Sullivan set the standard. DESIGN CONSULTANT: Eddie Tucker In this issue we celebrate POSTMASTER: Send address changes to: the excellence of the college—its Rhodes, 2000 North Parkway, Memphis, TN faculty, students, alumni and 38112-1690. friends. CHANGE OF ADDRESS: Please mail the completed ■ Five beloved faculty form below and label from this issue of Rhodes to: Alumni Office, Rhodes College, 2000 North members have retired—Lawrence Anthony, Milton Brown, Sue Legge, Parkway, Memphis, TN 38112-1690. Herb Smith and Kenneth Williams—outstanding professors who have given selflessly of their time and talent to countless students through

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21 25 Helping Others Help Others On Stage And In Cyberspace DEPARTMENTS 2 CAMPUS NEWS 29 PROFILE News of Rhodes events, faculty, students and friends NSF grant propels chemistry major Rebecca Habeeb '96 toward medical school A- 1 ALUMNI NEWS Features, Class Notes, For the Record 30 ATHLETICS 27 LAURELS 32 CAMPUS VOICES Longtime faculty members retire Rhodes trustee Kenneth Clark speaks of service 28 IN PRINT New books by faculty and alumni 33 CALENDAR

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Alumna Believes In Art For Rhodes' Sake ew York area alumni, parents and Miller of Mosko Miller Fine Arts and Craddock lived in Panama with N friends of Rhodes will see a approached her with the concept. her family during much of high unique art exhibit Friday evening, Miller, too, was enthusiastic—and school. She came back to Memphis Nov. 17 at Mosko Miller Fine Art, 59 the show was on. for her senior year, graduating from Grand St., in SoHo. Craddock, a Memphis native, and White Station High School. Then it The show will feature was on to Rhodes 10 lush landscape where she studied with paintings by New York her mentor Lawrence artist Daisy Craddock Anthony, professor of '71. The purpose— art emeritus. besides the fun of After graduating getting together—is to from Rhodes, Craddock raise money for Rhodes. pursued an M.F.A. at Craddock has pledged to the University of donate half of all sales of Georgia. Elrod and her paintings to Craddock were married establish a scholarship in Athens, Ga., the fund at Rhodes. The following year. The two other half, she says, will lived in Boston for a go to her daughter year before moving to Georgia's college fund. New York, where they Craddock got her have lived in the same inspiration for the show SoHo loft for 20 years. after attending a Rhodes "When we first campaign dinner Bill came to New York, Michaelcheck '69 minimalism, chaired last year. conceptualism and pop "College was already on art were in full swing. I my mind, she says. "My felt like I didn't fit in daughter Georgia is a anywhere," says junior in high school Craddock. "So I threw and beginning to look at out all my work and colleges. My own Daisy Craddock and oil on linen painting, "Spring Green" waded through various education at Rhodes Photo by Troy Clork ideas. It wasn't till after meant so much to me, and I wanted her artist husband Biff Elrod, a former my daughter Georgia was born that I to make a contribution. It seemed painting instructor at Rhodes by way began to do work that was more that the benefit would be a great way of Texas, maintain a studio in their personal. My education at Rhodes to combine my efforts." - SoHo loft and another one in luka, and my own past have provided a The artist first mentioned her Miss. Her Southern roots pervade the unique perspective which has held brainstorm to attorney Don Dillport imagery of many of her landscapes, me in good stead through shifts in '68, and her enthusiasism was which are done in oil on linen and the New York art world. My class will infectious. Dillport immediately oil pastel on paper. Her latest be holding its 25th reunion next fall. called Michaelcheck, then the paintings are of Horseshoe Lake in Looking back, I know that Rhodes Rhodes Development Office. East Arkansas. It thrills her when has given me a wonderful foundation Meanwhile, Craddock had recently people recognize an actual place she's in the arts." shown her paintings to Michele painted, she says.

Rhodes 2 Cam-P.4 "NIQu§'v Philip Bell Receives Honorary Doctor Of Music Degree hilip Belz, 91, patriarch of P Memphis-based Belz Enterprises, received an honorary degree from Rhodes at Founders' Convocation in September. It wasn't a degree in business—the field for which he is best known—but an honorary doctorate in music. It was music in which he made his name as a tenor, singing in concert at the city's famed Peabody Hotel long before he owned it. In accepting the award, Belz gave something special back to Rhodes. He sang two operatic arias which were followed by a standing ovation from the convocation audience. By age eight Belz was singing solos with the Baron Hirsch Congregation choir. He also studied the flute, becoming so proficient that by age 12 he joined the Philip Belz (center) with son Jack, a Rhodes trustee, and Tennessee Regimental Band as its daughter-in-law Marilyn Photo by Trey Clark youngest member. Philip and Sarah Belz Department By 1931 he was singing on his of Music. Booksigning own weekly show on WMC radio Belz was born Jan. 15, 1904, in and studying opera. He appeared in Galicia, a region in Central Europe Benefits English several concerts and in the opening that included portions of Poland production of the Beethoven Club's and Ukraine. In 1910, he came to Department 1932 opera season. Memphis with his parents where Dolly Cohen Cooper '38, widow of In 1932, Belz, who was by then they operated a small grocery store. PRhodes English professor Robert M. also a businessman and father, was Philip Belz ventured into the Cooper, will sign copies of his three- awarded a year's scholarship to real estate and construction fields, volume series of literary guides to study voice in New York. He building one of the first suburban England Nov. 2 at Burke's Book Store compressed 12 months' training shopping centers in the U.S. Today in Memphis. The proceeds will go to into two, and seriously considered a Belz Enterprises includes shopping the Rhodes English Department. career as a cantor or operatic tenor. malls and commercial developments The Literary Guide to Southern But he returned to Memphis, saying around the country. The Peabody England, the first in the trilogy, was to his wife Sarah, "We'll go back remains the company's "jewel in the published in 1986 after Robert home to the children and I'll make crown." Chez Philippe, the hotel's Cooper's final trip to England. After a nice living." award-winning restaurant, is the his death in 1991, Polly Cooper and Belz's love and support of music namesake of Philip Belz, and The Rhodes English instructor Charles extend to Yeshiva University and Peabody's lobby appropriately rings Wilkinson completed the research for its Philip and Sarah Belz School of with music. the final two volumes on Middle and Jewish Music and Yeshiva College's Northern England. Rhodes 3 Lagaw.Uqw1

Lilly Grant Looks At America's Church-Related Colleges What does it mean to be a "church- ject. Phase I kicked off this fall with a held at Rhodes in spring 1997. related" college now and in the series of campus discussions at Rhodes The scholars taking part in Phases I 21st century? Are America's 725 on the significance of its own church and II will be among the participants church-related colleges tangibly differ- affiliation. Haynes and co-investigator in the conference. ent from those with no such affilia- Ellen Armour, an assistant professor of Haynes' interest in colleges' church tion? Those questions are at the heart religious studies at Rhodes, have relationship grew out of an earlier of a major two-year study being selected and convened a group of fac- study he did on Holocaust education launched at Rhodes this fall. ulty members to discuss questions in American church-related colleges. With the support of a $120,000 related to Rhodes' church affiliation. During that study Haynes, who spe- grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. of In order to get a diversity of views cializes in Holocaust studies, discov- Indianapolis, ered that a number of Stephen Haynes, church-related colleges in the associate professor of U.S. required very few reli- religious studies at gion or Bible courses and Rhodes, is heading a among those that did, the national examina- average was just two three- tion of America's hour courses (out of the church-related col- approximate 32 to 36 courses leges, both Protes- it takes to graduate at most tant and Catholic. colleges). Rhodes has been Haynes notes that tension related to the Presk has always accompanied the terian Church since church's presence in higher 1855. education. In the minds of "This is an oppor- many, higher education is tunity to explore Prof. ynes in class Melee by Trey Clerk aligned with scientific inquiry what the church tradition has to do and people, the faculty selected to and objectivity while with us as colleges today," said take part in Phase I represent each of religion is aligned with subjective Haynes, who serves as director of "The the curricular divisions of the liberal belief and the preservation of tradition, Rhodes Consultation on the Future of arts and sciences. he explained. However, church-related the Church-Related College," as the In Phase 2, which begins in spring colleges were founded on the principle project is called. The study is part of 1996, the project branches out. that religion and intellectual inquiry the Endowment's initiative in religion Project leaders will select academics were compatible, he noted. The and higher education, which has from Catholic and Protestant colleges project will examine current thinking funded a variety of projects around the nationwide to participate. These about this assumption. country since 1990. faculty members will hold meetings on Higher education has also operated Haynes hopes the project will end their own campuses to discuss the on the assumption that objective, what he calls the "conspiracy of nature of their institution's church value-free knowledge is possible. That silence" about church relatedness that relationship. They will also convene at assumption is being challenged these pervades academic life at many of the Rhodes three times to discuss their days on a number of fronts. The pro- best institutions. "The only people findings and will contribute to a ject, Haynes said, will look for any now who are willing to tell you the volume of scholarly, reflective articles effects of this challenge on the place meaning of their college's church on the theme. of religion in and out of the classroom relationship are those at evangelical The third and final phase will at church-related colleges. colleges," said Haynes. be a major conference on the future of The grant from Lilly Endowment is There are three phases of the pro- the church-related college to be its first to Rhodes. Rhodes 4 ,ampus New

Prof. Sue Legge Receives Diehl Society Award rofessor Rebecca Sue Legge, the PErnst & Young Fellow in Business Administration at Rhodes, received the Charles E. Diehl Society Award for Faculty Service at Founder's Convocation this fall. The award, which carries a $3,000 honorarium, is endowed by an anonymous Rhodes trustee and recognizes exceptional service to th. college. Legge, who also received the $5,000 Day Award for Outstanding Teaching in 1987, is known for the number of her students she has placed in top accounting firms over the years. But she is best known for her service as a student adviser and for Prof. Sue Legge and Rhodes trustee James A. Thomas '62 n.e.. by Tr., com, initiating Rhodes' outstanding number of advisees," Rhodes trustee them inspire them to perform to the accounting program, including the Jim Thomas '62 said in announcing best of their ability." college's master's program in Legge's award. "She has given selflessly Legge helped organize a college accounting, now in its third year. of her time to each student. Her chapter of the Institute of "Prof. Legge has consistently had advisees always report that her interest Management Accountants, took more than three times the average in them and her high expectations of students to meetings and introduced them to potential employees. Most recently she was instrumental in persuading the "Big Six" and the regional accounting firms in Memphis to participate in a co-op program t,n- students working toward t heir master's in accounting. The co-op allows students to attend classes in the tall, work full-time for an accounting firm during the spring semester when firms are their busiest, and then return in I he fall to Rhodes to complete Lourse requirements for the master's. Day Of The Dolphin Legge, who has taught at Dolphins and Rhodes students study one another during field work for the Coral Rhodes since 1975, retired in Reef Ecology course, a joint offering by the biology and geology departments. spring, and is teaching on a After a semester of classroom work, the class, for two weeks in May, studied coral reef organisims and modern geological processes of carbonate sedimen- part-time basis this year. tation at the Institute of Marine Studies on Roatan Island, Honduras.

Rhodes 5 1995-96 Theatre Season Returns To The Classics RmcCoy Theatre has returned to the has fled her homeland with Illiclassics this year beginning with her Greek husband Jason. its Season 15 opener, Romeo and Juliet, Through her overpowering the Shakespearean tragedy written in love for Jason she has 1596. What's more, the McCoy murdered her own brother, Visiting Artists Program welcomed to helped obtain the magical campus the London-based Aquila Golden Fleece and Theatre Company, which staged committed other sins against Shakespeare's Macbeth and Homer's the gods. As the play begins, The Iliad and held workshops with Medea has been abandoned students. by her husband and is Aquila Theatre Company longing for revenge. Thomas specializes in presenting fresh and C. Jones will direct. innovative productions of classical The Pirates of Penzance by drama. Over the past five years, the Gilbert and Sullivan closes company has gained a reputation as the season with one of the United Kingdom's leading performances March 28-31 Members of the Aquila Theatre Company in transatlantic touring companies. The and April 11-14. This a scene from Macbeth Photo by Gary M. Perkins New Yorker magazine has hailed dashing comic operetta, which was the major general's daughter. Barry Aquila as "the classics made relevant first performed in 1879, tells the story Fuller will direct. with superlative acting and clever of a young man mistakenly For ticket information, call the staging." apprenticed to a band of pirates. His McCoy Theatre box office, 901 726- Other classics to be seen at McCoy sense of duty is challenged by his 3839. Theatre this year are: loyalty to the pirates and his love for She Stoops To Conquer, which opens Nov. 9 and runs Nov. 10-11 and Nov. 17-19. In this rollicking First-Year Students Excel comedy, written by Oliver Goldsmith hodes' first-year students this year • 132 served as president of a club or and first produced in 1773, a young Ilcome from 30 states and five organization. man mistakenly thinks he is at a countries outside the U.S.—France, • 32 were yearbook or newspaper public inn when he is really in the Germany, Japan, Nigeria and Spain. editors. home of his future father-in-law, They bring with them an impressive • 31 were either a student whom he has never met. Many list of credentials. government or class president. mixups later, the youth has fallen in • Of the 391 students of the Class of • 204 graduated from public schools; love with a "chambermaid," not '99, 55 percent ranked in the 90th- 187 from private schools. realizing she is his financee. The play 100th percentile in high school, and According to Dave Wottle, dean of returned a measure of fresh, earthy, 63% have grade point averages admissions and financial aid, a record almost Elizabethan humor to the between 3.5-4.0. 29,609 inquiries (3,507 more than last rather stuffy 18th-century stage. • The middle range of SAT scores year) were received from prospective Bennett Wood will direct. was 1130-1300; the middle range of students. More than 2,000 Medea by Euripides (written 431 ACT scores was 26-30. applications were submitted, and the B.C.), Feb. 8-10 and Feb. 16-18, is the • 172 were members of the National number of students who interviewed story of a woman's vengeance. Medea, Honor Society. for admission reached an all-time high who posesses the powers of a sorceress, • 46 were varsity team captains. of 1,197.

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Rhodes Named A "Best Buy" Moss Series In Top-Rated College Guides Presents Artist, it ides has been ranked as a "best States. Rhodes has, for many years, Art Historian RI by two national college guide been among the 300 colleges listed in publications. In the Fiske Guide to The Fiske Guide. TI,e Lillian and Morrie Moss Colleges 1996 Rhodes is one of only This year, however, the guide Endowment for the Visual Arts this 42 colleges and universities—out of added a new feature: the "best buys" year brings to campus painter Peter 2,000 four-year colleges in America— in higher education. The editors Saul and art historian Kathleen to make the "Best Buys of 1996" list. selected 42 colleges and universities- Brandt. Saul will give a public lecture The Sept. 25 edition of U.S. News & 20 public and 22 private—"where you Nov. 14 and Brandt will speak Feb. World Report examines the financing can get the best possible education at 27. They will also meet with students of a college education and says the most reasonable cost." and faculty during their visits. Both Rhodes is among the top 40 national U.S. News considered only the top lectures will be in Evergreen liberal arts colleges that offer the best 50 percent of national liberal arts col- Presbyterian Church's sanctuary, value for the money. leges for its rankings which were across from campus. The Fiske Guide, one of the most determined by dividing the total of Peter Saul, a professor of art at the popular and highly-rated of today's tuition, required fees and room and University of Texas, Austin, is a native college guides, includes lengthy write- board for the 1995-96 academic year. of San Francisco. He studied at Stanford ups on what it calls the country's 300 The higher the ratio of quality ( a col- and the California School of Fine Arts, "best and most interesting" colleges lege's overall score) to price, the bet- receiving his B.F.A. from Washington and universities, selected from the ter the value. University in St. Louis in 1956. 2,000 four-year colleges in the United Critic Joshua Kind has called Saul a "fierce and perverse moralist" whose works in the early '60s "moved to images of clear political dissent with Vietnam and Civil Rights themes dominating." Saul's paintings, which have a cartoon-like quality, later turned to virulent social satire. "My idea is to make my paintings interesting enough that all kinds of peo- ple can look at them without induce- ment from expert opinion," he says. Kathleen Brandt, a professor at New York University, is permanent consultant for Renaissance art to the Vatican Museums. She has been a member of the Vatican team for the cleaning, conservation and study of Michelangelo's frescoes in the Sistine Looking Back Chapel since the project began in 1981. Somewhere in time, history professor John Henry Davis painted this She studied at Vassar and on a portrait of Rhodes President Charles E. Diehl against the background of Fulbright at the University of Bonn Palmer Hall. Davis, who joined the faculty in 1926—one year after the and earned her M.A. at Radcliffe and college moved to Memphis from Clarksville, Tenn.—was one of the many Rhodes Scholars Dr. Diehl recruited to teach at the new college. Ph.D. at Harvard. Brandt lectures Dr. Diehl was president of the college from 1917-48. widely, particularly in Rome. Rhodes 7

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Rhodes Welcomes New Trustees hodes welcomed four new president of Parkview R members, two of whom are Management Company, a alumni, to the Board of Trustees this diversified real estate man- fall. They are: agement company. He is Memphian James H. Barton, presi- also vice chairman and dent and treasurer of the Barton director of Security Corp., Group Inc., the management com- a multi-bank holding pany for Barton Equipment Co., Gress company. A past president Equipment Co., Barton Truck Center of the Rhodes Interna- Inc., Crittenden Implement Co. and tional Alumni Associa- farming operations. An attorney, he is tion, he established the John C. Atlanta a former partner in the Memphis law Hugon Scholarship Fund at Rhodes in Chamber firm of Boone, WeIlford, Clark, 1994. of Com- Langschmidt & Pemberton. At J.L. Jerden '59, president of the risk merce and Rhodes, he has served on the Parent management and insurance firm of a past pres- Council and the Hyde-Bellingrath Pritchard & Jerden Inc. of Atlanta. ident of Selection Committee. His daughter He is chairman of the Independent the Society Coleman is a 1992 Rhodes graduate. Agents of Georgia's long range plan- of Char- John Hugon '77 of Duncan, Okla., ning committee, a past director of the tered Prop- mot erty and Casualty Sou'wester Offers Subscriptions Underwrit- Sou'wester, Rhodes' student published during second semester. ers. reekly newspaper, is offering a To receive the paper, complete James subscription service for parents, this form and mail it with a check R. Lientz alumni and friends of the college. for the proper amount made out to Jr. of Published on Wednesdays and Rhodes College and marked "for Atlanta, mailed first class throughout the Sou'wester subscription” to: The president of continental U.S., The Sou'wester Sou'wester, Box 3010, Rhodes Nations- will be delivered within 2-3 days of College, 2000 N. Parkway, Bank of publication. Cost is $25 for all 22 Memphis, TN 38112-1699. Georgia. issues published during the To speak to the business He cur academic year (including back manager, call (901) 726-3970. rently issues), or $15 for all 12 issues serves on the board J.L. Jordon Yes! Sign me up for The Sou'wester! of directors of NationsBank of Geor- gia, Atlanta Chamber of Commerce and on the executive committee of the Georgia Chamber of Commerce. Name He and his wife Peggy have headed up the Parent Campaign for the Annual

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British Economist Receives 1995 Seidman Award ritish economist Anthony Barnes introduced Atkinson and presented years. During the dinner at the BAtkinson, a leading authority on the award. Solow is Institute Professor Rhodes president's home, four former poverty, income distribution and of Economics at M.I.T. and a recipients of the Nobel Prize in welfare reform in Great Britain, consultant to the Seidman Award economics received citations and received the 1995 Frank E. Seidman Board of Trustees. medals of distinction from the college: Distinguished Award in Political The Cambridge-educated Anthony James Tobin, 1981 Nobel Economy this fall at a black-tie Barnes Atkinson is head of Nuffield Laureate in economics, chair of the banquet held at Rhodes. College at Oxford University in Seidman Award selection committee The and Yale University's banquet was Sterling Professor of co-hosted by Economics Emeritus the Seidman Lawrence R. Award Board Klein, 1980 Nobel of Trustees, Laureate, Benjamin Rhodes and Franklin Professor the Economic Emeritus at University Club of of Pennsylvania, and a Memphis. member of the This year— Seidman Award Board the 22nd for of Trustees the award— James marks the Buchanan, who presentation's the 1984 return to Seidman Award and Memphis after was a 1986 Nobel two years in Laureate in economics Washington, and is a current D.C. It was the Robert Solow (left), Anthony Atkinson and P.K. Seidman member of the first time in the Seidman Award's England. Described by economist Seidman Award selection committee. history that the banquet and James Tobin as "the leading public Buchanan is with the Center for presentation occurred at Rhodes, finance economist in the world," Study of Public Choice at George where the Seidman Award is based. Atkinson has written extensively Mason University in Virginia. The international award carries a about the unequal distribution of Robert Solow (whose $15,000 prize. It recognizes and wealth in Great Britain, examining credentials are noted above). encourages economists or other social poverty, the social security system, Because of conflicts, two others scientists who have advanced unemployment benefits, taxation and received the medal in absentia: economic thought as it applies to earnings mobility. He's currently Gary Becker, who received the public policy. It was established in working on the economics of the Seidman Award in 1985 and the 1974 by Memphian and Rhodes welfare state, analyzing the economic Nobel in 1992 and is currently trustee P.K. Seidman and his late wife and social implications of proposed professor of economics and sociology Leone in memory of his brother reforms. at University of Chicago. Frank, an economist and accountant In addition to the banquet, there Kenneth J. Arrow, who was who died in 1972. was a private dinner and awards awarded the Nobel in 1972. Arrow, Robert M. Solow, who accepted ceremony saluting Nobel Laureates in who sits on the 1995 Seidman Award the 1983 Seidman Award and the economics who have contributed to Selection Committee, is a professor of 1987 Nobel Laureate in economics, Seidman Award activities over the economics at Stanford University. Rhodes 9 he Butler Does It At 150 Plays—and Still Counting George Hearn Flexes His Musical Talents as Manservant Max in Broadway's Sunset Boulevard

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1:11,K1 c , pair of police barricades guards the stage door of the Minskoff Theater on Broadway and 45th. But crowd control is not a problem at 5:20 on a Friday night in September when actor. George Hearn '56 arrives for his nightly performance of Sunset Boulevard, Andrew Lloyd Webber's blockbuster musical. It's too early for fans has shared stage and to hover in the alley screen with acting greats waiting for a glimpse of Colleen Dewhurst, Liv Hearn or of Betty Ullman, Lauren Bacall, Buckley, the Eight Is Betty Davis and Charlton Enough TV star who Heston. recently succeeded This is the George Glenn Close as leading Hearn who played Henry lady Norma Desmond. Clay in the critically No autograph-seekers acclaimed PBS series The have yet to station Adams Chronicles, who themselves beside the appeared with Robert stage door. Redford in the film And if they did, Sneakers and who has the chances are they title role in a wouldn't recognize forthcoming made-for- Hearn. In tan pants, television ABC movie plaid, button-down- about Daddy Warhucks collar shirt, white socks, (of Annie fame). jacket and wire rims, Tonight, however, Hearn barely resembles two and a half hours the publicity poster on before the Sunset the adjacent wall. He Boulevard curtain rises on looks more like a geninl one of the most lavish professor than the sets ever created for secretive, stem-faced Broadway consumption, butler he portrays in Hearn, who turned 61 in Sunset Boulevard. June, plays no one but Beyond the stage himself. door, Hearn leads the way down a narrow hallway, In a corner dressing room dated by its chocolate shag rug exchanging greetings with a half-dozen other early arrivals and black vinyl couch, Hearn appears relaxed and backstage. "Are you the real George Hearn?" a passing cast unhurried. The theater is quiet, the chorus line of makeup member jokes, mimicking a solicitous fan. Hearn laughs brushes behind him, still. And except for the distant horn good-naturedly and ushers his guests—interviewer and of an impatient taxi driver, Heam's words are the only photographer--into the small dressing room. sounds that fill the room. He speaks softly—to preserve his Yes, this is the real George Hearn, the actor with the voice—and openly about life on the stage and his feelings booming baritone voice, whose 150 theatrical credits range toward the theater, the South and Rhodes. from razzle-dazzle musicals to serious Shakespearean drama. Hearn and his wife of ten years, Leslie, a former dancer, It's the George Hearn who has received two Tony Awards: were living in stylish Benedict Canyon in Beverly Hills one for his performance as Albin in the 1986 hit La Cage when auditions opened in 1993 for Sunset Boulevard. He Aux Folles and the other for his current role as silent-film had moved to Los Angeles at the urging of several star Norma Desmond's butler, Max von Mayerling. It's the friends—including Angela Lansbury with whom he had George Hearn who captured an Emmy for the lead toured nationally in Sweeney Todd —to try his hand at TV performance with Angela Lansbury in the cable television and film. production of Sweeney Todd and the George Hearn who "I got a little bored in Los Angeles waiting around to

Rhodes 11 A close shave gives Hearn the Yul Brynner look for his role as butler to silent film star Norma Desmond. In his dressing room, Hearn begins the nightly 20- minute ritual with his trusted electric razor. Photo by Trey Clark get picked for television and movies, old enough and bald enough to do the from herself and from the short so I started studying voice again. I part," jokes Hearn, who normally memory of her fans. wanted to learn to sing a little more sports a mop of red hair, a legacy of Based on Billy Wilder's 1950 subtly," Hearn says. Trained in the his Irish ancestry. movie, a film classic starring Gloria theater before microphones became "At 60 years old, to sing a role I standard equipment, he wanted to hadn't sung before—that was kind of learn to rein in that powerful voice. fun. And I wanted desperately to be One day in August 1993, Hearn out of Los Angeles," says Hearn, who got an unexpected call from director admits that the Hollywood television Trevor Nunn, asking him to audition and film scene held little allure for a for Sunset Boulevard, which was slated dyed-in-the-wool stage actor like to make its American debut later that himself. fall in Los Angeles. After an eight-month run on the Hearn had never done an Andrew West Coast, Sunset Boulevard made its Lloyd Webber musical. A few years Broadway premiere in New York on earlier he was considered for the title November 17, 1994, with Glenn role in Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Close, Alan Campbell and George Opera, but declined. "I didn't want to Hearn remaining in the roles they do that falsetto singing even if I created in Los Angeles. could," he reported at the time. Sunset Boulevard is the story of a "Andrew (Lloyd Webber) writes once-renowned silent film star who rather awkwardly for the voice has been passed over by the "talkies"- sometimes," Hearn explains. But with and abandoned by her fans. Exiled to the help of his recent voice training, her palatial and gilt-laden mansion on Hearn felt he could handle the role Sunset Boulevard, Norma Desmond and accepted the offer. plots her return to the silver screen. "They were having a hard time Hearn plays the loyal butler Max, the finding anyone able to sing who was bald Austrian who protects Norma

Rhodes Swanson, Sunset Boulevard is "a the serious preparations proceed. wonderful story," says Hearn. "But it The first task is to shave his head it's not acted as well as possible, it and face, a 20-minute job. Originally becomes melodrama." Rather than Hearn had debated the Yul Brynner "an indictment of Hollywood," Sunset look, but watching the 1950 movie Boulevard is "a rage against mortality," (in which a bald Erich von Stroheim says Hearn, quoting director Trevor plays the role of Max) changed his Nunn. mind. "I decided that lunar landscape Except for a month this summer of a head coming out of the dark when he was in London filming shadows was very powerful," he says. "Daddy Warhucks," as his recent Next he begins applying makeup made-for-TV movie is tentatively and starts warming up his voice. called, Hearn has been with Sunset Around 7:30 his dresser arrives to get Boulevard almost continuously since ii him into costume and rig up the opened in Las Angeles November Hearn as a student at Rhodes microphone that's tucked inside his 1993. voice," writing on his computer, and suit coat. In Sunset Boulevard Hearn "It's a very special kind of spending time with his wife Leslie and has only three costume changes, "a pressure," Hearn says of being in a two white Samoyeds Polo and Dansel piece of cake," he says compared to major Broadway show. "And you just (a nearly life-sized poster of the dogs the 13 switches he had for his starring have to give yourself over to it." hangs on his dressing room door). role in the musical La Cage Aux The schedule is relentless-8 By mid-afternoon, the pre-show Folles. By 7:45 he's ready to make his shows a week, six days a week—and ritual begins. He eats lunch by 3 or entrance. the holidays, few. "I get home by 3:30—his last meal until after the While Heam's pre-curtain ritual is midnight or 12:30 each night," says show—and drives to the station pretty standard each night, his Hearn, who lives in upstate New where he boards the train to appearance on stage changes, he says. York, an hour's ride from Manhattan. Manhattan. He usually gets to the "It's the same material but it's In bed by 1:30 a.m. and up by 9:30 theater at 6 p.m. and tries to relax different every night. I take a different a.m., he spends the daylight hours, before the show by reading, doing walk on stage each night. In a way, I studying music and "cranking up his crossword puzzles or writing. At 6:30 write my own play every night." Is it tough doing the same role, night after night, month after month? "You either can do it or you can't. I can," Hearn says. "It's not as boring as watching the O.J. Simpson trial all day, now is it?" Besides, Hearn says. "Acting is a pretty good living." And for him, the purest form of acting is the theater. "I much prefer the stage to film," says Hearn. "Every night there's a beginning, a middle and an end. We tell a story."

cam's story-telling days began in the 1950s. The St. Louis-born Hearn grew up in midtown Memphis and enrolled at Rhodes in 1952. "I didn't have any ambition then to go into the theater," says Heam. In fact, as a young man he considered almost every profession but

The opulent Sunset Boulevard set, designed by John Napier. Photo by Joan Marcus acting. At various points he wanted

Rhodes 13 Hearn in 1986 as the cross- dressing Albin in the musical comedy La Cage Aux Folios, a role that won him his first Tony Award. Photo by Martha Swope to be a forest ranger, a minister, a course I could take" says Hearn, a existentialism philosophy course." His poet, an opera singer, a writer and a philosophy major who managed favorite campus haunt was Burrow teacher. overloads each semester just so he Library, where he spent many an Throughout his childhood, could sample all the different things evening in the stacks. however, music was important. His that interested him. Although Heam was fairly well father, a hearing aid salesman, had a Hearn lived at home with his "plugged in" to campus life, he says he "nice tenor voice," Heam recalls. And family in a large brick two-story was alone a lot, too. "I was as social as his mother once auditioned for the overlooking Overton Park. "It was a I wanted to be in college—I didn't Muni Opera in St. Louis. She got the gorgeous home though we weren't feel left out. No group excluded me. I part, Hearn says, but her own mother wealthy," says Hearn, whose half-mile could pretty much be wherever on forbade her to take it on the grounds walk to campus daily carried him past campus I wanted," says the self- that the opera house was an the Memphis zoo. described introvert. unsuitable setting for a lady. His first year Hearn got involved "Being in the arts, being involved Heam's mother never lost her in a number of extracurricular in what little theater there was at affection for music. "My mom would activities. He was elected vice Rhodes then, broke across barriers, play the piano and my father would president of the freshman class and too." sing, 'When Irish Eyes Are Smiling'," joined ATO fraternity. But by his Prescient judges selected him for Heam recounts. The whole family— junior year he had dropped out of the the Mr. Talent award on campus his which consisted of Hearn, his parents, fraternity. Rhodes was too small then sophomore year. He sang the prologue two older sisters and a younger to split up in to 15 different groups, to "I Pagliacci." His junior year he brother—would gather around the he believed. starred in the Rhodes production of piano and sing twice a week. "It was "I loved the place," he says of the The Importance of Being Ernest fun." college, mentioning a special affection directed by George Touliatas and "I took voice by the time I was 12 for a handful of teachers: Vernon staged in Hardie Auditorium. His or 14, and I loved poetry. I'd Purdue Davis, A.P. Kelso and Jared senior year he served as baritone memorize poetry as a little kid." he Wenger, to name a few. He loved the soloist at several Memphis churches. says. "And I still love language." small classes: "I was the only one in It wasn't until several years after Once at Rhodes, academics got top my last year Italian class. There were college, though, that Heam's star billing in Heam's life. "1 just wanted two of us in a course on Jonathan began to rise. to learn a lot. I wanted to take every Swift and three in my German After graduating from Rhodes in

Rhodes 14 1956, Hearn studied voice and opera needle through which everyone tour, Hearn proved he was star at the Aspen (Colo.) Music School entered (the New York stage)." material. Six years later as the cross- and at Washington University. He For the next 14 years Hearn dressing transvestite Albin in La Cage married his college sweetheart Mary appeared in an assortment of shows Aux Folles, Hearn proved it again. Harrell '55 (they had a son David but from 1776 to Wonderful Town to An La Cage earned Hearn his first were later divorced). And he began Almost Perfect Person with Colleen Tony Award. Its successful run also appearing in productions in Memphis Dewhurst. His part in the revival of kept Hearn from attending with Front Street Theater, a Lillian Hellman's Watch on the Rhine commencement ceremonies at professional resident theater. Among earned him a Tony nomination in Rhodes in 1987 and accepting an those shows: Kiss Me Kate, Carousel, 1980. During this period he also honorary degree. The Caine Mutiny Court Martial, The married and divorced again. nlike Sunset Boulevard's Student Prince. He also did work with In March 1980, Heam's big stage Norma Desmond, George the Memphis Shakespeare Festival. break came. He was picked as Len Heam's star didn't blaze But Memphis wasn't the place to Cariou's replacement as Sweeney early then fade. Just the make a career out of acting. In the Todd in the remaining Broadway run opposite.U He paid his dues in regional summer of 1963, the year the Beatles of Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of theater and touring shows before hit- hit New York, Hearn, too, arrived in Fleet Street. It's what catapulted him ting the big-time at mid-career. Manhattan, never to return to the to the top stratum of Broadway Still, dues-paying doesn't South. theater. necessarily ensure success in the "I had a lover's quarrel with the "Sweeney is far and away the competitive ranks of theater. What South," Hearn says. Race relations in favorite thing I've done," says Hearn. was it about George Hearn that made the South back in the 1950s bothered It was also the most physically the difference? him a great deal, he says, crediting his demanding singing role he had ever "As Woody Allen says, 'You gotta "Irish egalitarianism."And while his tackled. For all but 12 minutes of show up a lot'," says Hearn. And family lived in the South, they showtime, he was on stage. After four that's precisely what he did. weren't "of the South," he maintains. months on Broadway with Sweeney "I'm of middling height and looks. The year he graduated from Rhodes, Todd and ten months on national I'm not handsome, but I'm not ugly. his family moved to Florida. His 92-year-old mother is still there. "I think I'm a yankee by nature. I feel most at home in New England," he says. "It could simply be that we all had a hard time growing up. No matter what part of the country we're from, we all have a quarrel with our hometown." "There was so much I did love about the South. But I went away. I closed that door and didn't open it again." earn joined Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival in 1963. "My first show was the Scottish play (Macbeth). I had to murder James Earl Jones every night," Hearn laughs. "It used to be that Joe Papp's theater was the In his dressing room backstage Hearn comments on the theater, the South and Rhodes. Photo by Trey Clark

Rhodes I'm not a tall man, not a short man, from the actor "an astonishing range wrote about the turn of the century not a fat man, not a thin man. Being of emotions, from blissful exaltation robber barons Cornelius Vanderbilt sort of average helped a lot in the to shell-shocked despair, delivered in and Jim Fisk and their fight for the years when I was doing a lot of an incredible variety of accents." Erie Railroad got as far as a stage Shakespeare and regional repertory Heam's sister Nancy (who preceded reading at the Long Wharf Theater in theater. I could go into a company him at Rhodes) told her brother this New Haven, Conn. and play lots of parts whereas reading represented his greatest earn has another side, too, someone who is quite distinctive accomplishment to date, the article one that hankers for soli- physically has a problem," Hearn went on to say. tude and simplicity. He has reasons. In marked contrast to Shaara's H given up drinking: too A good voice likewise played a historical novel, Hearn also lends his tough on the voice and one's health, supporting role in his he says. Instead, he gets success on the stage, he his highs from the great thinks. It certainly outdoors: gardening, helped when he made carpentry and trout- his New York City fishing in the Catskills Opera debut in Kismet are just a few of his pas- in 1985. But it may also sions. have hampered his way "Every now and in film. then I get enough "I had a film director money to buy a farm in say to me once, 'if you the country and then I didn't speak so well, leave New York," says you could have had a Hearn. In the early great career in film. But 1970s he dropped out your speech is too of the theater and obvious and your voice bought a 100-acre farm is too heavy and in Northern Maine. "I produced'. It's hard to rebuilt the house, grew find the right energy blueberries, raspberries, level when your voice blackberries and is heavy and used to apples." But the projecting like mine, experiment in rural and the camera is living was a financial suddenly right here," failure. Hearn gave up says Hearn gesturing on the farm after 18 about a foot from his months. face. Hearn still aspires to Still, Hearn has life in the country, managed to make his growing organically mark in media other "She was the greatest star of all," sings Max (George Hearn) to correct fruits and than the stage. While Joe (Alan Campbell) in a moving scene in Sunset Boulevard. veggies. For now, Photo by Craig Schwartz he was in Los Angeles though, hes content to appearing in Sunset Boulevard, Hearn voice to an upcoming sequel to go "the Max" in the hottest show on drove to a nearby sound studio several MGM's animated film, All Dogs Go to Broadway. He'll remain at least times a week for the audio taping of Heaven. He plays the Devil in the through November when his recently Michael Shaara's moving Gettysburg soon-to-be-released All Dogs Go to negotiated contract runs out. novel, The Killer Angels. Heam's Heaven II. After that, who knows? "I'm going reading of the book was a labor of Hearn, a cerebral fellow with little to stay," Hearn confides, "until love and talent. tolerance for mindless pursuits, has something more nifty comes along." R An article in The New Yorker additionally tried his luck at writing magazine reported that the nine- poetry, plays and a novel. Nothing's cassette, 13-hour reading called forth been published yet. But a play he

Rhodes 16 Walters is married to Dr. Carl Vanderbilt Honors Entrepreneurial Walters '56, a professor at St. Andrews Presbyterian College, Nicholas Spirit Laurinburg, N.C. The papers of Louis Nicholas '34, Liz Smith Parkhurst '80 and whom the Nashville Tennessean husband Ted, owners of August newspaper has called the "unofficial House Publishers Inc. in Little Rock, Excellence In dean of Nashville classical music," were featured in the cover story of the were on exhibit at Vanderbilt June issue of Entrepreneur magazine. Teaching University earlier this year. The article, "Entrepreneurs Across Sue Dean Langfitt '63, an Nicholas, who donated his America: 51 Million-Dollar Success instructor at Davidson County correspondence and a collection of Stories," includes a profile of August (North Carolina) Community historic concert programs to the House, which has grown from its College, was named one of the university archives, was head of the founding in 1979 with $15,000 in college's Excellence in Teaching Peabody College voice department for start-up costs into a multimedia Award winners for 1994-95. The 36 years and taught at Trevecca company with projected sales this award is sponsored by the National Nazarene College for 10 years. He has year of $2 million. Institute for Staff and Organizational also been music critic for The Development. Tennessean and music director for two Earlier in the year Langfitt's lesson churches and cantor at The Temple. Wafters' Film plan, "Parenting/Self-Esteem," was selected as an award winner in Excel's Leads Off Series 1994 Lesson Plan Awards Program. Simply The Best A short documentary film Langfitt teaches in the college's Kim Shaw produced by Ellen Harris human resources development Briscoe '81, Walters '82 during her first year program, assisting unemployed and an account in the M.F.A. program in film underemployed adults prepare for the supervisor at and video production at the labor market. Thompson & University of North Carolina- Co. Greensboro was selected to air Advertising on North Carolina Public Arcade Restaurant in Memphis, Television's new series North was among Carolina Visions. Changes Hands 10 area Featuring the independent Harry Zepatos '52, owner of the professionals work of 20 media artists from Arcade Restaurant on the corner of recently around the state, the series South Main and Calhoun in given the opened in September with downtown Memphis, recently sold Simply the Kim Shaw Briscoe Walters' film jessica. The film the historic family establishment to Best Award by Memphis' Black offers a glimpse into the life of a 10- another local restaurateur. Business Directory for her career and year-old growing up in the rural The Arcade, which has been civic accomplishments. landscape of Scotland County, N.C., featured in the films Mystery Train A 1995 graduate of Leadership and features the Delta blues music of and The Client, was founded in 1919 Memphis, Briscoe and her husband Memphis-based musician Sid Selvidge by Zepatos's father Speros, a Greek Kevin have three sons. '65. immigrant from the island of Rhodes Alumni A-1 Alumni

Cephalonia. Harry, who took over in three Yanks 1955, says he looks forward to Whigging Out on his retirement from the place that claims Paul Buchignani '89, who basketball to be the oldest restaurant in the city. made a name for himself in team—the He and his wife, the former Anna college as the drummer for such maximum Polydouris '51, plan to spend time bands as Neighborhood Texture number with their grandchildren. Jam, Snake Hips and The 5 allowed by The Arcade has been at the same That Killed Elvis, is now the international location across from Central Station drummer for the popular rock rules. The for 76 years. World War II brought band Afghan Whigs. league boasts boom times, with scores of servicemen The Rhodes history major 17 teams and women riding the trains. That's recently recorded an album with playing two when the Arcade stayed open 24 the band in Seattle. The group to four games hours a day, seven days a week. The appears in the film Beautiful a week in a development of South Main plus a Girls with Uma Thurman. season that lasts from September $17.8 million renovation of Central through May. Station in the near future could put "Basketball has been played in the restaurant back on that fast track Bunting Clerks For England for the last 20-30 years and again. has really started to grow in the last Justice O'Connor five or six years," said Gonda. The Julie Bunting '90 is clerking for recipient of an NCAA graduate Picture Perfect U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra scholarship, he may eventually get his In addition to Day O'Connor for the 1995- master's in athletic administration. photographing 96 session. She began her Mo, a biology major at Rhodes and her clients, duties in July after having a four-year all-conference soccer professional clerked for a federal judge in player, isn't the only American on her photographer Washington, D.C. team, either. One of her teammates is Donna A Rhodes English major, Cindy Harkes whose husband John, a Farnsworth Bunting graduated from member of the U.S. World Cup team, Crisp '83 of Vanderbilt law school in plays soccer for the Derby County Memphis has 1994 at the top in her class. men's club. garnered several She's the third Rhodes awards for her Supreme Court clerk in four work this year. years. In 1992-93 Matt Between A Rock In the spring Lembke '88 clerked for she captured six Justice Anthony Kennedy And A Hard Place awards—including first place for a and Rebecca Womeldorf '88, for Mary Ellen Hamel '95 currently wedding album and animal retired Justice Lewis Powell and works out of Rensselaer, Ind., for the photography—in the Tennessee Justice Kennedy. Professional Photographers Association's Annual Print Competition. The Heat's On Summer brought Crisp four Mike '94 and Melissa (Mo) Martin national merit awards in the Gonda '95 currently live in Derby, Professional Photographers of England, where he is in his second America Inc.'s Annual Print season playing pro basketball for the Competition. One of her entries, a Derby Heat and she is playing soccer wedding album, was selected for the for Derby County, a semi-professional organization's prestigious permanent women's team. loan collection on display at Walt Mike, a Hyde Scholar and SCAC Disney World's Epcot Center. player of the year at Rhodes, is one of

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Indiana Department of Transportation. The Rhodes Daugherty Attends psychology major and earth sciences minor tests quarry stones for potential Beijing Women's use in roads and bridges. "If a load of rock is bad, it will Conference lower the quality of a road, and cause Elizabeth Daugherty '83 of Atlanta it to crack sooner. That's the whole recently spent 11 days in Beijing purpose of us testing, so that won't attending the United Nations' Fourth happen," she said in a local newspaper World Women's Conference. She feature. went as a board member of the Hamel, a veteran of the biology Bancker-Williams Foundation which and geology departments' coral reef is concerned with the status of ecology course in the Bahamas, has women, children and the detected an ancient shellfish reef environment world-wide. under a dolomite lode in the area that One of 8,000 Americans who regularly yields fossils of shells and sea attended, Daugherty did a bit of life. She plans to attend graduate sightseeing and at one point enjoyed school in geology second semester. an exotic 20-course dinner. Parallel Project—an artist's journey "I didn't touch the snake," she said. along the border." "However, fried scorpion tastes just like DALLAS—Collette Wells Snow Posted To Lay's potato chips, and yes, I ate two." Franckhauser '87 helped organize the first Kudzu League Summer Bash in Barbados June. Attending the party at the Steve Snow '71 has been appoint- Bolton Elected Yegua Creek Brewing Co. were young ed counselor for political and Dallas alumni of colleges and economic affairs at the American Commission Chair universities throughout the Southeast. embassy in Bridgetown, Barbados. Shelby County Commissioner Charter member institutions of the The post has some 200 employees and Julian Bolton '71 was elected commis- Kudzu League include Rhodes, is responsible for seven Caribbean sion chairman by acclamation. Davidson, The University of the island-countries. Bolton, an attorney, teaches at South, Vanderbilt and Washington Snow most recently served in Memphis' LeMoyne-Owen College. and Lee. Wellington, New Zealand. His other MEMPHIS—Young alumni overseas posts as a foreign service offi- quenched their summer thirsts at the cer have included Egypt, Bangladesh, Club News second Annual Young Alumni Happy Turkey, Tunisia and Kuwait. LITTLE ROCK—Alumni and Hour at the High Point Pinch in July. their familes chatted with classmates Hosts included Lynn Crabb '93, and cheered on the home team at a Stephen '90 and Amy Baldwin Barksdale Holds Travelers baseball game. An impressive Crockett '89, Ted Davis '89, Jim and display of thunder and lightning Amy Donaho Howell '86, John and Asian Interim brought the game to an early close. Kay Susan Logan Huffman '83, Katina Batey Brown '80, Beth Sigler '91 and Luster '95 and Chris '88 and Carolyn Ministry Brian '77 and Lynn Reecer Sudderth Tatum Ray '90. The Rev. Virginia Gibbins Barks- '78 coordinated the event. BIRMINGHAM—Cathy and dale '46 and her husband John of ATLANTA—The Atlanta Tom Adams and Jeff Adams '98 Madison, Va., recently held an inter- Alumni Association invited area entertained new and current Rhodes im pastorate at Kowloon Union alumni to a reception and exhibition students and their parents along with Church in Hong Kong for 10 months. of the work of Gregor Turk '82 at the area alumni at a summer picnic The small congregation included McIntosh Gallery. Those in supper. Alumni enjoyed relating representatives of 18 nationalities and attendance met the artist and viewed stories of their student days to new several religious denominations. pieces in the exhibit titled "The 49th first-year students. Rhodes Alumni A-3 Alumni Alumni Gatherings

An evening at High Point Pinch brought out several alumni including (left to right): Jim and Amy Donaho Howell '86, Lori Guth McCaghren '88, Susan Logan Huffman '83 and Kate Zeitler Vergos '88.

Enjoying the Travelers game were (left to right) Bob Burnside '79, Courtney Hankins and Doug Menz '82.

Kudzu Leaguers included Sean McCrary '94, Allie Manzke '92, Elizabeth Abbot '95 and Sangeetha Chakinala '95 Rhodes Alumni Alumni

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By Ginger Crouch '97 CHRISTY MORGANt this year to chair the United States PRESIDENT. Commission on Child and Family Si NEXT REUNION: OCT. 25- Welfare, which focuses on issues of Rhodes International 26, 1996 custody and visitation and child well- Alumni Association After retiring as provost of University being. Former Senate majority leader Executive Officers 1995-96 of Missouri at Columbia, Ronald George Mitchell appointed her to the "Toby" Bunn earned a law degree commission, which has held hearings President from the university's law school and is around the country and expects to Tan Hc,111 , HiIle '69, Atlanta now a partner in the Columbia law present its recommendations in a

President - Elect firm of Shurtlett, Froeschner, Bunn report to President Clinton and Jim O'Donnell '74, Dallas and Aulgur. Congress this fall. SEE MARRIAGES Vice President Raney Ellis has been named Deborah Legg Sullivan '80, Memphis KIM BAXTER HENLEY, associate vice president for PRESIDENT. information systems at the University 60 NEXT REUNION: FALL 2000 of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Wash. CHARLES REED, PRESIDENT. Beverly Bowden Martha Everett Weatherford NEXT REUNION: Ocr. 17- Pickard of Macon, Ga., is assistant of Winston-Salem, N.C., has 42 18, 1997 professor of medical education at completed her 10th year working for Dr. James Cogswell is Mercer Medical School. She U.S. Air. She recently traveled to serving as senior missions scholar at "continues to paint, especially oil Switzerland to visit her daughter and the Overseas Ministries Study Center portraits," and enjoys spending time new grandchild, and is planning a trip in New Haven, Conn., and as a with her children and grandchildren. to Oklahoma City to visit her son research fellow at Yale University and who is a first lieutenant in the Air Divinity School during the fall 1995 Jerry Duncan, Marily Davis Force. semester. Hughes, Co-Presidents. 61 Next Reunion: Oct. 25-26, Lou ELLYN HINDMAN JOHN COLLIER, PRESIDENT. 1996 GRIFFIN, PRESIDENT. NExT REUNION: OCT. 25- Dr. Westley Busbee represented NEXT REUNION: FALL 2000 46 26, 1996 Rhodes at inauguration ceremonies at Camille Crenshaw was Betty Webb Utter Mississippi College, Clinton, Miss. awarded a bachelor of science in represented Rhodes at inauguration Dr. Jim Johnston of Marion, nursing degree from the University of ceremonies at Southwestern Baptist Ark., was featured in a Commercial Alabama at Birmingham in March, Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, Appeal article about the "Virtual i- and now practices nursing at St. Texas. A member of the music faculty glasses" for patients he recently added Vincent's Hospital in Birmingham. at the University of Texas at to his dentistry practice. The Her daughter Fran Groves Branch

Arlington, she was honored last year lightweight headset, which includes '86 and son - in- law Dr. David A. as the founder of the Youth headphones and two small screens for Branch '87 live in Cumberland, Orchestra Division of the American the eyes, can be connected to a VCR, Maine, with their one-year-old Symphony Orchestra League at its television, computer game or a daughter Madeline. national convention. Husband camera that shows what's going on "Apocalypse September 1994," a Bob '49 since his retirement inside one's own mouth. poem by Harvey Goldner of performs magic shows and has Seattle, was published in Exquisite added videography to his list of TOM WHITE, PRESIDENT. Corpse, a publication of the Illinois avocations. NEXT REUNION: OCT. 17- State University Unit for 62 18, 1997 Contemporary Literature. BILL COLEY, PAUL CURRIE S Genevieve Johnston CO-PRESIDENTS Clay represented Rhodes at SAMMY ANN PRIMM SO NEXT REUNION: FALL 2000 inauguration ceremonies at Berea MARSHALL, PRESIDENT. John Pyles of Desoto, College, Berea, Ky. 66 NEXT REUNION: OCT. 25- Texas, says he is retired and spends 26. 1996 his time "studying and writing and ISDE ELLA CONNER LANCES Tom and Cynthia Williams of trying to keep the dum ship afloat!" PRESIDENT. Rosie, Ark. have three daughters. Prof. Lloyd Smith represented 63 NEXT REUNION: FALL 1998 They raise cattle on their farm and Rhodes at inauguration ceremonies at Mary Rinehart Cathcart own a John Deere dealership in Lenoir-Rhyne College, Hickory, N.C. of Orono, Maine, was elected earlier Batesville, Ark. Rhodes Alumni A-6 Class Notes

IIM WHITTINGTONt in Greenville, S.C., where Beth works IAN MANNING APLIN, PRESIDENT. at Sound Choices. PRESIDENT. NEXT REUNION: OCT. 17- Steve Stem's books, Lazar NEXT REUNION: FALL 1998 67 73 18, 1997 Malkin Enters Heaven, Harry Kaplan's Anne Sayle Anthony, John Boswell and Henry Beard, Adventures Underground and A Plague formerly of Memphis but now living co-authors of a .'s Legal Pad, were of Dreamers, are being reprinted by in Key West, Ha., produced and the subjects of a full-page feature in Syracuse University Press. His story, starred in a one-woman show at the Aug. 7, 1995 issue of People The Tale of a Kite, was published in Memphis College of Art earlier this magazine. the premier issue of Double Take, year. She is currently at work on a Joyce Stoner Cook of Duke University's Center for new show. Memphis has three grandchildren, Documentary Studies magazine. He Mike and Debra Jackson ages 8, 5 and 2 living in Mississippi lives in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., and Walden '74 and their two daughters and Utah. teaches at Skidmore College. Leigh and Erin live in Jonesboro, Ark., where Mike is engaged in

LANE BISHOP BRYSONt ALICE COCKROFT OATES % private law practice in the firm PRESIDENT. NANCY LENOX, Henry, Walden and Halsey, and 68 NEXT REUNION: FALL 1998 71 CO-PRESIDENTS. serves as deputy prosecuting attorney Sandra Wade Churchill NEXT REUNION: OCT. 25- for Craighead County. Debra is an of Chapel Hill, N.C., completed her 26, 1996 assistant professor of nursing at Ph.D. in feminist philosophy with the Anne Wyly anion of Winston- Arkansas State University. Union Institute in October 1994. Salem, N.C., recently received her Alex and the Rev. Donna Ph.D. from Tulane in 18th and 19th LARRY ANDERSON: Gafford live in Columbus, Ga., century Spanish literature. She PRESIDENT. where he has been named director of teaches at Wake Forest University. 74 NEXT REUNION: FALL 1999 product engineering, CharBroil Judi Morrow Sanders and her Paula Block-Levor of Los Division at W.C. Bradley, and she is two children David and Katie live in Angeles has left her job as a senior assistant rector at Trinity Episcopal Boulder, Colo., where she works as an editor at Candle Corp. to be a free- Church. artist and a neighborhood planner for lance editor, indexer and technical Dr. Sid Strickland represented the city of Boulder. They enjoy skiing, writer. Rhodes at inauguration ceremonies at hiking and camping in the Rocky Clare Nichols Long represented the State University of New York at Mountains. Rhodes at inauguration ceremonies at Stonybrook. Ohio Wesleyan University in BETTE DALE GARNER, Columbus, Ohio. TRISH COOPER HAYLEY, ANN GOTSCHALL SHARP, Prudence Owens McGehee of SUSAN GLADDEN STM', 72 CO-PRESIDENTS. Meadville, Miss., presented a one- 69 CO-PRESIDENTS. NEXT REUNION: OCT. 17- person exhibition of painting earlier NEXT REUNION: FALL 1999 18, 1997 this year at Artworks Gallery in Peggy Fritsch Woolley is director Dr. Bill Jefferson completed his Laurel, Miss., and at Gulf South of admissions for the dePaul School pathology residency at the University Gallery in McComb, Miss. Her for dyslexic students in Louisville. She of Virginia Hospitals, Charlottesville, husband Hollis was recently elected also directed the school's 1994 in 1991, a fellowship in forensic 4th district chancery judge. summer program. pathology at the Medical College of

Virginia, Richmond, in 1992, and has CATHERINE DAILEY BERGER t Rum ANN SADLER HANEY, been practicing as a hospital-based PRESIDENT. PRESIDENT. pathologist in Roanoke. 75 NEXT REUNION: FALL 2000 70 NEXT REUNION: FALL 2000 Robin McCain works in medical Jan Moffatt Christoph Gary and Carole Clark marketing in San Jose, Calif. She took has resigned her faculty position in have moved to Tarpon Springs, Fla. a local performance group to the clinical social work after 10 years at Gary is working on a screenplay and Edinburgh Festival last summer. the Children's Medical Center at the novel, Children of the First Light. Tupelo, Miss., attorney Mike University of Virginia due to the birth Ronald Eades represented Sadler was recently appointed of a son. The family recently spent Rhodes at inauguration ceremonies municipal judge. He also serves on a two months in Saudi Arabia where at Spalding University in Louisville, panel as an arbitrator and mediator physician husband, Richard, Ky. for the U.S. Arbitration and participated in the Saudi/U.S. Charles and Beth Marr Lee live Mediation Service. Universities Project with the King Rhodes Alumni A-7 Class Notes

Faisal Hospital. SEE BIRTHS hosts exhibits, plays and poetry of clinical pathway and case Merry Noel Miller has recently readings. management development. joined the faculty of the Department J. Fairley McDonald Navy Lt. Cmdr. David Nelson of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences represented Rhodes at inauguration has reported for duty with Patrol at East Tennessee State University in ceremonies at Alabama State Squadron 11, Naval Air Station, Johnson City, Tenn. University in Montgomery, Ala. Brunswick Maine. Vicki Gilmore Roman Karen McGuire Ward of represented Rhodes at inauguration CHARLES RICHARDSON, Richardson, Texas, is the mother of ceremonies at Emory University in PRESIDENT. three young children and currently Atlanta, Ga. 78 NEXT REUNION: FALL 1998 serves as children's choir director at Mark and Holly St. Rita's Catholic Church in Dallas. VICKERS DEMETRIO Whiteman Mathisen of Little She is also pursuing a singing career. JOHNSON. PRESIDENT. Rock, Ark., arc busy raising their two 76 NEXT REUNION: Ocr. 25- sons, Hill and Clayton. Holly, who LESLIE DRAKE SCHUTT, 26, 1996 "retired" from banking several years PRESIDENT. Dr. Mike and Carolyn Jaco Epps ago, works part-time as an associate 83 NEXT REUNION: FALL 1998 and their two children, Benjamin and director of the United Methodist Brent and Lisa Cooke live Leslie Ann, live in Jackson, Tenn., Foundation of Arkansas and Mark is a in Germantown, Tenn. Brent, who where she has recently completed broker with Worthen Investments works as a senior cost accountant for three years as chairman of the board Inc. Kraft Food Ingredients, received his of trustees at the University School of Dr. Leslie Robinson is an M.B.A. from Christian Brothers Jackson, including a 10-month stint assistant professor in the psychology Iniversity this year. as acting headmaster. department at the University of George Frempong Lithonia, Sandra Waller Shelton is an Memphis. SEE BIRTHS Ga., is the owner of Trans African assistant professor of accounting at Carol Lee Collins Royer won Travel and Adventure. DePaul University. She received her the women's division of the 25-mile Marian Benjamin Harper now Ph.D. from the University of Outdoor Pyramid Criterium Bicycle lives in Neptune Beach, Fla., with her Wisconsin in Madison in December Race in Memphis on Memorial Day. husband and two teenage stepsons, 1994. Deborah Dudney Watts has and enjoys surfing, windsurfing and Allen Whitsitt has joined been named to the 1995-96 edition of homemaking. She recently won third Boatmen's Bank of Tennessee as Who's Who of American Women. place in her first surf contest. SEE senior vice president and division MARRIAGES manager of commercial lending. GLORIA WHITE, PRESIDENT NEXT REUNION: FALL 2000 AMY DOVILLE, TRACY IOELLYN FORRESTER 80 Mary Hill has served as a VEZINA PATTERSON, SULLIVAN. PRESIDENT. Christian educator at Old 84 CO-PRESIDENTS. 77 NEXT REUNION: OCT. 17- Presbyterian Meeting House in NEXT REUNION: FALL 1999 18, 1997 Alexandria, Va., for five years. Mike Matthews has joined Smith Shari Cruse Carter of Memphis Bamey/Robinson Humphrey in started a free-lance drafting and STACY ABERNETHY, Memphis as a financial consultant. design support service earlier this year. KATHLEEN WILLS Dr. Mei and Holli Hodnett She and her husband Richard, an 81 CHANDLER. CO-PRESIDENTS. Payne '88 live in Los Angeles. Mel attorney, stay busy trying to keep up NEXT REUNION: OCT. 25- finished his general surgery residency with their two daughters' school and 26. 1996 and worked as the ship's surgeon on athletic activities. Dr. Bill Clark and his wife Elizabeth the U.S.S. Kittyhawk, and is now Jim Graves received his Ph.D. celebrated their 10th anniversary in working as a staff surgeon at the in biology from the University of June. He is a clinical instructor in the Naval Hospital at Camp Pendleton in North Carolina, Chapel Hill, this department of psychiatry at Oceanside, Calif. Holli graduated spring, and is serving as a sabbatical Northwestern University Medical from UCLA School of Law in May replacement for one year at the School and has a private adult and sat for the California Bar in July. University of Wyoming in Laramie. psychiatry practice. She is a vascular She is now working at Gibson, Dunn, Memphis artist Pinkney Herbert surgeon at Columbus Hospital in and Crutcher in San Diego. is owner/operator of Marshall Arts Chicago. Chris Riley has bought a house Studio/Gallery. The space houses nine Greta Fowinkle works at in Vicksburg, Miss., ("it even has a artists' studios and a gallery, which Vanderbilt University as coordinator white picket fence") where he has

Rhodes Alumni A-8 Class Notes been promoted to senior member of began marketing nationwide. of arts in teaching degree at the the technical staff at Nichols Robert Watkin is teaching University of Memphis to teach Research. He presented a paper on English at the university in Aktav, secondary English and is currently use of smoke for camouflage at two Kazakhstan. He also does mission student teaching. She recently conferences in the fall of 1994. work, leading Bible studies and finished a one-year stint as the worship. manager of the English Learning MICHELLE LYNN, BOB Helen Reinecke Wilt recently Center. She also does volunteer work LAWHON, CO-PRESIDENTS. completed her master's degree in at WKNO-TV and FM. OS NEXT REUNION: FALL 2000 urban and environmental planning at Charlotte Cooper Gaskins has Dr. Livy Brien graduated the University of Virginia, and is now graduated from the University of from East Tennessee State the senior comprehensive planner for North Carolina, Chapel Hill Law University's James H. Quillen College the city of Falls Church, Va. School and is teaching business law at of Medicine in May. While there, he Central Piedmont Community served as a student representative to AMY DONAHO HOWELL,. College in Charlotte, N.C. the American Medical Association, a PRESIDENT. Mindy Gard Henson of New student delgate to the Tennessee 86 NEXT REUNION: OCT. 25- Vienna, Ohio, is a reference librarian Chapter of the American College of 26. 1996 at the Wilmington Public Library. Surgeons, and was a member of the Dr. Charles and Karen Moberly Loma Lyell has been appointed Medical Student Government Adkins live in Richmond where she to the board of trustees of St. Association and Phi Kappa Phi honor does geriatric social work. SEE Andrew's Episcopal School in society. He recently began his BIRTHS Jackson, Miss. residency in diagnostic radiology at Navy Lt. Paul Elch has reported Karen Moser is a market Baptist Memorial Hospital in for duty at Naval Air Station, research analyst with Aberdeen Memphis. Brunswick, Maine. Group Inc., a Boston-based market Adele Little Caemmerer Stephen Estock graduated with research and consulting firm represented Rhodes at inauguration a master's of divinity degree from specializing in computer consulting. ceremonies at Seattle Pacific Covenant Theological Seminary in Brian Mott has been promoted University, Seattle, Wash. May. He serves as assistant pastor at to volunteer specialist at Memphis Dane Ciolino of Metairie, La., Covenant Presbyterian Church in in May. He is responsible for has joined the faculty of Loyola Law Montgomery, Ala. managing 19 volunteer leaders School. After four years on the China desk who, in turn, are in charge of Dr. Charlie and Elizabeth at the Department of Commerce in 1,800 other volunteers. Gibson Clogston '87 have moved Washington, D.C., Laura McCall Dr. Doug Rockett is a podiatric to Little Rock, where Charlie has has moved to the department's Export physician in Knoxville, Tenn. joined a cardiology partnership. Assistance Center in Seattle, where Kevin and Mary Margaret Shari Morrow Cooper is a she works closely with U.S. exporters Hills Schulte '88 live in Atlanta, social worker in a new geriatric unit to promote trade with Asia. where he has been named financial at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in Stasis McGehee works as a 3-D manager at E. Sam Jones Distributors New York. SEE MARRIAGES artist/animator, specializing in human Inc., a distributor of lighting and Brian Maffitt of Flushing, N.Y., forms at Enter Television in Silicon maintenance supplies. is the owner of MAFF/X, a small Valley. She lives in the San Francisco Theresa Shaw received her computer graphics and video Bay area . master's degree from the University of production facility that supplies Katy Spurlock Schwarz Illinois in May 1994 and has since computer-generated art and received her M.S.S.W. from the been the lead teacher at Pinon animations for broadcast video, University of Tennessee at Memphis Hills/Riverside Academy, a industry and entertainment. in 1994, and works part time at psychiatric hospital in Velarde, N.M. Robin Newcomb Miller of Prudential Center for Health Care The Rev. Todd Speed Memphis has been promoted to Research. SEE BIRTHS represented Rhodes at inauguration branch manager of American and ceremonies at Furman University, International Travel Service Inc.'s ALICE MCCARTHY FINN,. Greenville, S.C. Nonconnah office. DAVID LUSK, Karen Summers is pursuing a Stephen and Blair Gatewood 87 CO-PRESIDENTS. degree in occupational therapy at Norman have moved to Boulder, NEXT REUNION: OCT. 17- Eastern Kentucky State University. Colo. Her husband's company, 18, 1997 Katherine Bres Ware works as Einstein Brothers Bagels, recently Michelle Dry is working on a master executive assistant to the general Rhodes Alumni A-9 Class Notes manager and program director at joined the Promus Companies Inc. in "Scaling of skeletal adaptation, radio station 96.3 KSCS in Arlington, Memphis as a market analyst. locomotor performance and muscular Texas. After a year of service with morphology in sciurids (Mammalia: AmeriCorps, Kurt Low is now Rodentia)" in June at Brown

SUZANNE CARPENTERt working on his master's degree in University. PRESIDENT. international affairs at Columbia Andy Colyer is a co-founder of NEXT REUNION: FALL 1998 University. Parkland Pain & Rehab, a multi- 88 Gregg Steve Beckham is a The Memphis home 01 disciplinary health care facility that financial analyst in marketing at and Elizabeth Hayes Smithers celebrated its grand opening this Primus Automotive Financial '93 was featured on the Annesdale summer in Farmington, Mo. The Services Inc. in Nashville. Snowden Historic District tour in clinic specializes in preventive and Memphian Michael Bruno May. rehabilitative health care as well as works as the special events manager acute and chronic pain. in the development office at TOHANNA VANDEGRIFT Casey Compton received his LeBonheur Children's Medical LEHFELDT, PRESIDENT. J.D. degree from the Cumberland Center. He was recently elected 90 NEXT REUNION: FALL 2000 School of Law, Samford University in president of the local Young Kearsten Angel received Birmingham and is pursuing a Democrats. her J.D. degree from the Cumberland graduate tax degree at the University Felix Bryan works at Interstate School of Law, Samford University in of Denver. Mechanical Contractors Inc. in Birmingham, where she received Lucy Johnston Daniel and her Knoxville as a project manager and numerous honors and awards in her husband Loyd live in Franklin, Tenn., CPM operator. He and his wife Tracy school's moot court appellate where Lucy works part time for the recently purchased a home in competion. She was tapped for YMCA. SEE BIRTHS Maryville, Tenn. SEE MARRIAGES membership in the Order of the Damn and Jessica Lux Sarah Wayland Loukidelis Barristers honorary legal society. Culnary live in Jackson, Miss., where received her Ph.D. in government Chris and Peggy Epes Baer Daren owns a cellular telephone and politics from the University of currently live in Boulder, Colo., but business. SEE BIRTHS Maryland in May. plan to move to California next year Marvin Spears has been Jennifer James Selby received where Peggy will start a Ph.D. promoted to professional healthcare her law degree from Mississippi program in biochemistry and representative at Pfizer College in May. molecular biology at the University of Pharmaceuticals in Atlanta. Bo Young received his M.B.A. California at Davis. Martha Stracener lives in from Vanderbilt earlier this year. He Steven and Adrienne Juneau, Alaska, where she works as a now lives in Winston-Salem, N.C., McMillan Burns '88 live in vocational counselor in psychiatric where he works in the marketing Washington, D.C. where Steven has rehabilitation for Juneau Alliance for department at Planters Lifesavers Co. received his J.D. from Georgetown the Mentally Ill. She says she enjoys and is practicing energy and mountain biking, hiking, kayaking BOB COLEMAN, EILEEN environmental law with Van Ness and snowboarding in her spare time. RUFFIN WOOD, CO- Feldman. Adrienne was recently Angela Zakrzewska is living in PRESIDENTS. promoted at Sonat's D.C. office. Poland where she is an accounts 89 NEXT REUNION: FALL Elizabeth Fraser Cabrera 1999 manager at Coca-Cola. John Canale of Memphis has received her Ph.D. in Phil Zeni of Little Rock passed the Tennessee bar exam. industrial/organizational psychology completed his first year of his Jerome Franklin was recently from Georgia Tech in the summer radiology residency in June 1995. promoted to senior financial analyst and moved to Madrid, Spain in with Hewlett Packard in Andover, September. MARJORIE THIGPEN, Mass. SEE MARRIAGES Margaret Chandler finished her PRESIDENT. Robin Bearden Gibson lives in M.F.A. in performing arts 91 NEXT REUNION: OCT. 25- Madison, Wis., where she works for management at Brooklyn College in 26, 1996 the Undergraduate Teaching May and is working as the Jenny Bishop graduated from Improvement council at the development associate for the St. the University of Cincinnati in June University of Wisconsin. She also Ann Center for Restoration and the with a master's degree in biology, leads a fourth grade Girl Scout troop. Arts in Brooklyn Heights. and is planning to pursue a Charles Harris received his Jennifer Gray Chickering doctoral degree in educational M.B.A. in finance in May and has successfully defended her thesis curriculum and instruction with Rhodes Alumni A-10 Class Notes

an emphsis in instructional in pediatrics at the Children's University and is now a physical technology. Hospital in Denver, Colo. therapist with the Shepard Spinal Chris Casey of Athens, Ga., has Clark Ogilvie works in Vice Clinic in Atlanta. joined the law firm of J. Hue Henry as President Al Gore's correspondence Stinson and Liz Schaeffer an associate. office in the Senate. Liles live in Memphis where he Deb Chan received her M.A. in Kim Pine received her law degree works as a public relations account East Asian studies from George from Mississippi College in May. executive at Thompson & Co. Washington University in January Amy Shaw of Parsippany, NJ., is advertising and public relations, and 1994. Since September 1994 she has a consultant with Deloitte & Touche. she is a special events coordinator for been working as a political analyst for Clayton Spencer is working on LeBonheur Children's Medical the embassy of Japan in Washington, his Ph.D. in theoretical physical Center's Development Divison. D.C. chemistry at Cornell. He says he Jay Mason is working toward his Kellye Crane has accepted a hopes to find a teaching position at a Ph.D in government at the position as account manager at four-year college when he finishes. University of Texas, Austin where he GCl/Atlanta, a public relations Steve Spiel's works for his is also a teaching assistant. agency where she will continue her family's gas/oil company which runs Stewart and Laura Benson work with technology industry several gas stations and operates an Perry '94 are spending the year in companies. oil/gas distribution company in the Malawi where Stewart is teaching Dr. Chris Holyfield Crater Greenville, S.C., area. and studying at Zomba Theological received her M.D. trom the Patrick Stuart recently joined College. As a senior at Princeton University of Tennessee, Memphis in the Department of Treasury as an Theological Seminary, Stewart June, where she is currently doing her international economist. received the Parish Pulpit Fellowship internship in internal medicine. She Memphian Alyce Waller works in to study abroad. plans to complete her residency in retail sales at Harold's clothing store in Cindy Sullivan received her internal medicine at the University of the Saddle Creek shopping area. master's in health administration and Florida in Gainesville. Carolyn Waskey works as a M.B.A. from the University of Derek and Jane Wallace consultant with Deloitte & Touche Alabama at Birmingham. She has Duncan '90 live in Boston, Mass., Management Consulting in Atlanta. moved to Knoxville, Tenn., where where Derek is working toward his she has accepted a job as the master of divinity degree at Harvard ANNIE B. WILLIAMS. administrative director of the and Jane is working toward her PRESIDENT. operating room at the University of master's in social work at Boston 92 NEXT REUNION: OCT. 17- Tennessee Medical Center. University. 18, 1997 JaDon Taylor is an assistant Jeff and Dawn Carothers Catherine Cooper is working at sales representative in Atlanta with Gibson received their M.D.s from AmSouth Bank in Birmingham and R&H Designs Inc., a California-based the University of Tennessee, has recently become a homeowner. women's clothing manufacturer. Memphis and are now doing their Vincent Gardner is in medical Richie and Wendy Lawing residencies. Jeff is a general surgery school at the University of South Trentham '93 have moved back to resident at Methodist Hospital and Alabama in Mobile. Memphis after receiving their Dawn is a pediatrics resident at Randal and Sage Lambert master's of library and information LeBonheur Children's Medical Graham '89 have moved to science degrees from the University Center. Washington, D.C., where Sage has of Texas, Austin. Richie is now Helen Glover is working on an begun a Ph.D. program in linguistics. consulting with the Rhodes M.S. in speech-language pathology at SEE MARRIAGES Computer center and Wendy is East Carolina University, and expects Ben Hillhouse works as a librarian at the Horn Lake to receive her degree in May 1996. project assistant at Chemonics (Mississippi) Public Library. Kate Goodrich is &Ai-1g her International in Washington, D.C. Bennie and Mary Watson live residency in internal medicine at He holds an M.A. in international in Birmingham, where he is a George Washington University in affairs from American University. surgeon's assistant and she teaches Washington, D.C. Kelly Leach has been named kindergarten. Jennifer Johnson graduated vice president of 20/20 Financial, a from the University of Tennessee, bank marketing research company LYNN CRABB. PRESIDENT. Memphis College of Dentistry headquarted in Nashville, Tenn. NEXT REUNION: FALL 1998 in June with her D.D.S., and is Kristen Lichtermann has 93 Doug Bacon lives in now working on her specialty degree completed her studies at Washington Memphis, where he works as

Rhodes Alumni A-11 Class Notes manager of marketing and Tech's medical school. Chip Campbell lives in development at the Blues Tim Olcott serves as assistant to Memphis and works as a runner for Foundation. the general manager and director of Baker, Donelson, Bearman and Kristyn White Bara was statistics for the Memphis Fire of the Caldwell. named manager of tourism and United States Basketball League. Shannon Carter is working in public relations at the Marietta, Ga., Laura Blake Petz is now behavior management at the Welcome Center and Visitors living in Golden, Colo., where she Wendell Foster Center in Bureau. She will be actively works in customer service for First Owensboro, Ky. involved in promoting Marietta Data Corp. SEE MARRIAGES Dana Chamblee attends law during the 1996 Olympics. Chris Pollens of Concord, school at the University of Missouri Bridget Bradley spent three N.C., is a staff writer for the Concord at Columbia where she made dean's months in Fiji, New Zealand and Tribune and editor of The Edge list and ranked in the top of her Australia as a volunteer on a work magazine, which is published by the class. trip and is now living in Chicago. paper. SEE MARRIAGES Nancy Cotham works as an au Chandlee Bryan is a Jenny Sapp is pursuing a pair in Rome, Italy. coordinator of membership master's degree in English at the Maggie Coulon is the assistant development at the American University of Texas at San Antonio, manager of the fine jewelry Institute of Aeronautics and and has received a teaching department at Lord and Taylor in Astronautics in Washington, D.C. assistantship. Atlanta, Ga. She also works part- Chris and Amanda Ellison Jeff Wilson teaches English in a time for Northside Realty. Buchanan '95 have moved to Japanese high school under the JET Lt. Scott Covode works in Winston-Salem, N.C., where Chris Program. In the evenings he works environmental management at is attending Wake Forest Law at Matsui Construction Inc. One of Robins Air Force Base in Warner School and Amanda is working. his projects has been assisting the Robins, Ga., where he oversees the Harper Cook was promoted to company in importing building identification, collection and first lieutenant in May and finished materials from Washington State disposal of more than 500 hazardous an 18-month tour as an army Rob Wolcott of Bethesda, Md., waste streams that create more than engineer platoon leader in South is in his third year of medical school 5,000 drums of hazardous waste per Korea. at the Uniformed Services year. Anne Douglas of Columbus, University of Health Sciences' F. Carol Culpepper works as a Ohio, is working for Ohio State Edward Hebert School of Medicine. marketing coordinator for Towery University as a clinical trials Publishing Inc. of Memphis. research assistant in oncology. NANCY TURNERt Wendy Foster is working on Katherine Goodloe received PRESIDENT. her M.B.A. at the University of her master's in counseling from 94 NEXT REUNION: FALL 1999 Arkansas. Vanderbilt University in May and is Ellen Baker is a clerk at Scott Franklin lives in working in New Orleans. The Chicago Corporation, a Cordova, Tenn., where he is a Cheri Grosvenor of Athens, brokerage firm. physical therapy technician at the Ga., has finished her second year of Britt Benston works for Campbell Clinic. SEE law school at the University of Archer/Malmo Advertising in MARRIAGES Georgia. This summer she clerked at Memphis as creative coordinator and Tanya Gant moved to Estes the Altanta law firms of Parker, assistant art director. Park, Colo., where she is working as Johnson, Cook and Dunlevie and at Liz Boucher is pursuing her the personal assistant to a nature Holland and Knight. She was master's degree in theological studies and wildlife filmmaker and is in selected as a member of the 1995-96 at Harvard Divinity School. management and programming with managing board for the Georgia Law Carter Bryars has moved to the local television station. Review. Birmingham where he is working for Regina Gibel is working in the Elizabeth Langston is a law Arthur Andersen. medical genetics lab at the student at the University of Edgard Cabanillas of University of Tennessee, Memphis Arkansas at Little Rock. Memphis has joined Tradigrain Inc. as a research Tara Odle has earned her as an international grain merchant cytogeneticist/cytotechnologist. emergency medical technology marketing grains, oilseeds and other Chris Gilreath, now living in certification and is now working commodities in cash and futures Homewood, Ala., has been re- toward her paramedic certification. markets from U.S. and foreign elected to the Cumberland School of She has begun her first year at Texas origins to worldwide destinations. Law Honor Court.

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Stacey Greenberg joined Sean McCrary is living in school at New York University. the Peace Corps in Cameroon Dallas and working as a reinsurer Ayesha Vawda is studying as a matemal/child health extension analyst for E.W. Blanch Co. economics at Columbia University worker in September 1994. Julie Meiman is teaching in New York. She lives alone in a mud house English in Japan. Julia Wanklyn is living and without electricity or running water Marie-Elise Middleton is working in England. in a small Muslim village of 4,000 living in Washington, D.C., where Karla Washburn is an people, and will stay there until she works for Ohio Congressman administrative assistant at the December 1996. John Kasich, the chairman of the Washington, D.C., law firm of Holly Hall teaches at House Budget Committee. Blumenfeld and Cohen. Evangelical Christian School in Lisa Mitchell is working on her Last season she worked for the Memphis. M.A. in industrial/organizational Aspen Skiing Company in Kristin Horton works as the psychology at the University of sales and reservations for the assistant branch manager at the Tulsa. Snowmass Ski School private Green Springs Branch of AmSouth Mary Elisabeth Neville lesson desk. Bank in Birmingham. She is also on teaches at Darlington School in Jennifer Wineland works as a the Junior Board of Family and Rome, Ga. lab technician in the virology Child Services, a United Way Adam Parr of Memphis is an department at St. Jude Children's agency. officer at National Bank of Research Hospital in Memphis. Kelly Howard is a convention Commerce. He works in the bank and meeting planner for AFLAC in card division and as a marketing CLYDE HENDERSONt Columbus, Ga. development analyst. PRESIDENT. Bina Hussain is teaching math Rossanna Punzalan is 95 NEXT REUNION: FALL 2000 to junior high classes at Sacred attending graduate school at Ohio Elizabeth Austell lives Heart Catholic School in Memphis. University in Athens, Ohio, in Memphis and works as a sales Jason Hutchison is in medical pursuing a master's in education in assistant in securities at First school at the University of college student personnel. She also American Bank. Tennessee at Memphis. serves as the chapter adviser for the Karin Lichtermann Conlee is Will Jackson works at Bankers Alpha Omicron Pi sorority chapter an assistant director of admissions at Trust on Wall Street. at O.U. Rhodes. She was formerly in Andrea Jones is working on Rob Ragland works as the marketing at Maybelline Inc. her master's of education in school international key accounts assistant Erica Emig is a student at the counseling at Middle Tennessee in the international trade Methodist Hospital School of State University in Murfreesboro, department of Wang's International Nursing in Memphis. Tenn. Inc. in Memphis. Amy Gibson was recently Brian and Ann Tyler Chote Brandy Rogers began graduate awarded a full scholarship to do Konradi are living in Moscow, studies for an M.A. in journalism at graduate study in English at Russia, where Ann Tyler is the University of Memphis and Washington University in St. Louis. assistant country manager at plans to graduate in December 1996. Welch Suggs is doing graduate Federal Express and Brian is Debra Rudder is working on study at the University of Missouri doing research at Moscow her Ph.D. in English literature at School of Journalism. He has a State Medical University. Washington University in St. Louis. graduate assistantship in the Andy Likes is a full-time Kyla Sawyer is attending university's sports information producer for ABC News. He lives in graduate school at Ohio University department, doing press information Chattanooga, Tenn. in Athens, Ohio, pursuing a master's and programs for track and cross Anne Locke has been named in education in college student country. executive assistant to Tennessee first personnel. Trent Taylor is attending lady Martha Sundquist, wife of Laura Beth Sheppard works Harvard Law School. Governor Don Sundquist. in Dallas at the Bureau of Labor Julie Wilkins was named as a Mark Loftis of Cordova, Tenn., Statistics as an economist on the research analyst at 20/20 Financial, is a financial representative for The Consumer Price Index. the bank marketing research New England insurance and Cliff Spencer is working as a company headquartered in investment. research assistant at Find/SVP in Nashville. John Mackall lives in Memphis New York City. and works at Coca-Cola. Robyn Thiemann is in law

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Willingham, July 8, 1995, Moffatt Christoph, a son, Robert Paul, July 9, 1995. Marriages Somerville, Tenn. John Morgan, Oct. 1, 1993. '83 Garland and Cheryl '91 Heather Dutton to '75 Ike and Martha Oswald Sullivan, a son, '63 Mary Rinehart Eric Rousseau, July 22, 1995. Crenshaw Lee '74, a Charles Dudley, May 16, Cathcart to James '92 Barbara Hall to daughter, Rachel Crenshaw, 1995 and Garland Williams Dearman, June 24, 1994, Richard Miller '93, July Dec. 7, 1994. III, Aug. 17, 1991. Orono, Maine. 29, 1995, Memphis. '78 Bill Fulliton and '84 Dick and Charlotte '70 Gay Henry to '92 Sara Hawks to Leslie Robinson, a Craig Undeman '88, a William Lyons, June 17, John Marecki '90, July daughter, Clara Lucille son, Charles Craig, June 13, 1995, Loudon, Tenn. 15, 1995, Denver, Cob. Fulliton, March 24, 1995. 1995. '72 Neva Williamson '92 Amanda Murray '78 George and Anne '85 Hugh and Lori to William Kauffman, Aug. to George Bradford Crosby Williams, a son, Dalton, a daughter, Allison 26, 1995, Memphis. Hofstetter, June 24, 1995, George L. III, April 21, Elizabeth, March 7, 1995. '73 Lilia Sevier to Franklin, Tenn. 1995. '85 David and Ellen William Carey Bruce, April '92 Ashley Simmons '79 Bill and Mary Hopkins Flottman, a son, 1, 1995. to Philip McCarthy Jr., July Palmer Campbell, a son, Mitchell David, March 25, '78 Sandra 25, 1995. Joseph Ward, Oct. 5, 1994. 1995. Thotington to Charles '93 Susan Crutcher to '80 Tim Marema and Liz '85 Steve and Laurie Knoll, July 8, 1995, Atlanta. Andrew Deneen, July 22, McGeachy, a daughter, Mount Grimes, a '81 Mary Kay Loss to 1995, Franklin, Tenn. Graham Neely McGeachy daughter, Ellis Truly, May Aubrey Alexander Carlson, '93 Shannon Lientz to Marema, May 31, 1995. 1995. July 14, 1995, Little Rock. Chris Kollme, May 6, '81 Jeff and Shawn '85 Scott and Tracy '82 Melanie Craft to 1995, Atlanta. Love Factor, a son, Vezina Patterson '84, a Joseph Hyrka '79, May '93 Brooke Treadwell Lawson, Aug. 16, 1994. son, Joshua Bouldin, June 6, 13, 1995. to David Ward, June 10, '81 Woody and 1995. '83 Marian Benjamin 1995, Memphis. Adrianne Alexander '86 Charles and Karen to Jim Harper, March 23, '93 Annah Walter to Hays, a son, Christopher Moberly Adkins, a son, Eli 1995, Banff, Alberta, Pat Cave, Oct. 15, 1994, Grady, April 23, 1995. Joseph, June 16, 1995. Canada. Hammond, La. '82 Mark and '86 Leslie and Misty '84 Elizabeth Lockerman '94 Lane Gifford to Rosemary Hall Batson, Raiford Estes '90, a son, to Peter Rooney, April Scott Franldin, Nov. 19, a son, Kyle Anderson, John Raiford, July 12, 1995. 22, 1995. 1994. March 4, 1995. '86 Kevin and Katy '85 Shari Morrow to '94 Suzy Cihat to '82 Kerby and Anne- Spurlock Schwarz, a son, Jordan (k)oper, April 8, Daniel Ivey, June 24, 1995. Clifton Dwyer Bowling, Bryan Stewart, July 22, 1994. 1995, Little Rock. '95 Robin Followell to twin sons, Graham Spencer '87 Bob and Laurie '87 Anna Peeples to Cod Winsett '96, June 17, and Hewitt Tucker, May 23, Fromberg Norris, a Mark ICazemba, June 24, 1995, Memphis. 1995. daughter, Abigail Nicole, 1995, Memphis. '95 Melissa Martin to '82 Ricky and Mary March 1, 1995. '87 Mimi Swords to Michael Gonda '94, Bryan Fortin, a daughter, '89 Robert and William M. Fondren III, August 5, 1995, Memphis. Elizabeth Frances, July 18, Deborah Blinn Coleman Sept. 2, 1995, Memphis. '95 Lisa Tomlinson to 1994. '90, a daughter, Caroline '88 Tracy Farmer to Jay Wardlaw '94, July 8, '82 Bill and Margaret Claire, June 28, 1995. Felix Bryan, Dec. 31. 1995, Cape Girardeau, Mo. Fain Liger, a daughter, '90 Loyd and Lucy 1994, Knoxville. '95 Robyn Williamson Annika Elizabeth, May 20, Johnston Daniel, a son, '88 Deirdre Giblin to to Chris Pollette '93, June 1995. Loyd Russell IV, Dec. 30, David DuBard, July 22, 24, 1995, Decatur, Ga. '83 William and 1994. 1995, Boston, Mass. Rebecca Vann Brooks, '90 Daren and Jessica '89 Sage Lambert to a son, Alexander Lile, June Lux Guillory, a son, Randal Graham '92, July 26, 1994. Wilson, December 1994. 29, 1995. '83 Arthur and '90 Michael and '89 D'Andrea Sylva to Michelle Vick Fulmer, a Shannon Roper Jerome Franklin, July 16, '66 Rick and Karen daughter, Phobe McMillan, Howard, a daughter, 1995, New Orleans. Thomas, a daughter, June 30, 1995. Walker Leigh, July 18, 1994. '89 Elizabeth Shelby, July 13, 1995. '83 Peter and Leslie '90 Stanley and Sara Havercamp to Donald '75 Richard and Jan Drake Schutt, a son, Wilson Watts, a son, Rhodes Alumni A-14 For 1 he Record

Zachary Wilson, Dec. 12, chapter chairman of the of the Office of Western president of the Baptist 1994. Red Cross, a Boy Scout field European Affairs and spent Brotherhood and a teacher '90 Mitchell and Jill executive and chief warden the last five years of his and director of the Sunday Parker Wells, a son, for the Civil Defense in career as a State school department. A Wesley Parker, Oct. 12, Albuquerque. A U.S. Army Department officer with the captain in the Army Air 1994. Medical Corps veteran, he Bicentennial Commission. Force during World War II, leaves his wife Genevieve He was a member of St. he served as a pilot in the Hines; a daughter, Peachie Paul's Episcopal Church, China-Burma-India Brown; a son, Morys DACOR (Diplomatic and Theatre. The husband of Obituaries "Peaches" Hines; three Consular Officers, Retired) Janie Maxwell Pople '42, he grandsons; a great- and the DACOR Bacon leaves a son, Randolph '28 John Clyde Blair granddaughter; and several House and was a past Maxwell Pople of Sr. of Montgomery, Ala., nieces and nephews. president of the American Tallahassee, Fla., and three May 18, 1995. He was '34 Josephine Farley Horse Protection grandchildren. retired director of the Wall of Memphis, May 17, Association. The widower '41 Elizabeth Ricker Division of Secondary 1995. A homemaker, she of Joan Ruine Blue, he Wallace Hughes of Education for the Alabama was a member of St. John's leaves a sister, Mary Memphis, June 9, 1995. A State Department of United Methodist church, Elizabeth Blue Dickson. member of Christ the Rock Education, and active in the LeBonheur Club and '38 Linda Terry Church, she was past co- AARP, Retired Teachers the John Nash chapter of Vaughan of Memphis, July chairman of the Shelby Association and the the Daughters of the 4, 1995. A life master in the County Republican Party Montgomery Kiwanis Club. American Revolution. She American Contract Bridge and a past member of Les He was a Sunday school was a former trustee of the League, she was the widow Passees. She was also a past teacher emeritus of Trinity Memphis Academy of Arts, of Ben A. Vaughan. She volunteer of Second Presbyterian Church. The a graduate of the University leaves a niece and nephew, Chance Prison Ministry husband of Martha W. of Memphis Law School Cathy Vest and Gamer Literacy Team and active in Blair, he also leaves one son, and was active in the Strickland. several prayer groups. The John C. Blair Jr.; a daughter, Memphis and Shelby '40 Nancy Caradine widow of E. "Bud" Hughes, Martha Blair Neville; four County Bar Association Patton of Memphis, June she leaves a daughter, Emily grandchildren; three great Auxiliary. The widow of 17, 1995. A member of Wallace Bell; a son, Walter grandchildren; and two Ramsay Wall, she leaves a Second Presbyterian R. Wallace, III; a brother, brothers and two sisters. son, Ramsay Wall Jr., and Church, she was also active John B. Ricker '38; three '29 Virginia Clifton three grandchildren. in Les Passees and Our grandchildren; and two Jayroe of Memphis, June '35 Mary Converse Home and Garden Club. great-grandchildren. 22, 1995. She was a member Stern of Chattanooga, The wife of John C. Patton, '42 Frances Akers of Christ United Methodist Aug. 6, 1994. A member of she also leaves three Greeson of Memphis, June Church and the Hatchie First Presbyterian Church in daughters, Nancy Patton 1, 1995. Former editor of the Chapter of Daughters of the Chattanooga, she was also Langdon, Ho Patton and life and leisure section at the American Revolution. The an active member of Senior Lynne Patton old Memphis Press-Scimitar, wife of Jack C. Jayroe, she Neighbors of Chattanooga Witherington; a brother, Dr. she served as a faculty advis- also leaves a son, Jack C. Inc. where she helped to Robert S. Caradine Jr.; and er to high school Jayroe, Jr.; a brother, James establish the Portable Meals three grandchildren. newspapers, edited the St. Clifton; five grandchildren Program. She leaves her '40 Arthur Raymond Jude Journal, and did publici- and four great- husband, William Allison Pople Jr. of Germantown, ty for the Wesleyan Hills grandchildren. Stem, a daughter, Allison Tenn., May 29, 1995. United Methodist Church, '32 Morys H. (Pee Stem Robinson and a son, Retired employee of of which she was a member Wee) Hines of William C. Stem. Choctaw Inc. and co- and past board member. She Albuquerque, N.M., May '36 William L. Blue of organizer and retired was also a member of the 17, 1995. Retired from the Washington, D.C., May 26, president of Franklin Melody Lane Garden Club U.S. Post Office, he was a 1995. A State Department Equipment Co., he was a and the Duration Club. The member of the First foreign service officer, he lifelong member of First widow of Gordon Greeson, Presbyterian Church where was stationed in Baptist Church. He had she leaves a daughter, Fran he served as deacon, elder, Washington and abroad for been chairman of the Greeson; a son, Gordon usher and worked as a youth 35 years before retiring in church's board of deacons Greeson Jr. '71; and three adviser. He was a Mason, 1976. He served as director and the property committee, grandchildren. Rhodes Alumni A-15 For I he Record

'43 Marion Janice '46 William K. West Army veteran serving as a fat substitutes, preservatives Williams Kennedy of of Memphis, July 2, 1995. staff sergeant in England, he and high-intensity McComb, Miss., May 14, The retired vice president was also a member and sweeteners. He was the 1995. She was a member of and Eastern regional neighborhood commissioner primary inventor of J.J. White Memorial manager of Dixico Inc., he of the Chickasaw Council. Alitame, a new high- Presbyterian Church and was also a communicant The husband of Alberta intensity sweetener, and is life member of the McComb and choir member of Holy Goodman Greenwood, he said to have contributed to Junior Auxiliary and the Communion Episcopal also leaves a daughter, almost every major McComb Garden Club. She Church. He was in the Marianne Greenwood discovery in new food was also a member of the Corps of Engineers during Davidson; a son, Kenneth E. ingredients at Pfizer during Mississippi Seniors Golf World War II, where he saw Greenwood Jr.; and two the last 15 years. The author Association and was a past European theatre combat. grandchildren. of numerous articles for president and charter The husband of Helen Earp '55 0. Stuart scientific journals, he was member of the Femwood West, he also leaves two McCown Ill of Memphis, awarded 10 patents during Ladies Golf Association. sons, William Knight West July 7, 1995. He was his career with Pfizer. He The wife of William Jr. and Michael Earp West; president of McCown & joined Pfizer in 1974 and in "Whip" McCue Kennedy, two brothers, Daniel E. Co., retired vice president of 1994 was nominated to the she also leaves four West '42 and Lucien B. First American National post of research adviser. He daughters, Jan Wardlaw, West; and two Bank and was recently also enjoyed birdwatching, Scottie Kennedy, Billie grandchildren. associated with Crisler gardening, music and Nance and Lorna McElroy; '50 Edwin Coulter Tipton Investments. He was gourmet cooking. The and five grandchildren. Ward of Natchez, Miss., a communicant at St. Louis husband of Dr. Martha '43 Mercer E. West Oct. 14, 1994. An attorney, Catholic Church. The Schulz Hendrick '69, he also Ill of Memphis, Aug. 26, he served as 1978 president husband of Agatha Dawson leaves his mother, Audrey 1995. A retired officer of of the Natchez Chamber of McCown, he also leaves a Ezell Hendrick, and a son, First Tennessee Bank, he Commerce. He was also a daughter, Cathy Herman; W. Lee Hendrick. was a member of St. Mary's past president of the two sons, Oswald Stuart '74 Donald "Don" Episcopal Cathedral for 52 Natchez Rotary Club, the McCown IV and Michael Bryan of Fort Worth, years and was a past Adams County Bar Dawson McCown; two Texas, Sept., 27, 1994. A superintendent of its Sunday Association and the Young sisters, Ruth Drewry and carrier for VIP distribution, school. He was a life board Lawyers Division of the Frances Whittinghill; three he was a resident of the Fort member of Youth Service in Mississippi State Bar. He brothers, Harwood Worth area for 30 years. Memphis, a board member was a former member of the McCown, Jimmy McCown The husband of Cynthia of the Sheltered House of Delegates of the and Richard McCown; and Bryan, he leaves a son, Occupational Shop, past American Bar Association, two grandchildren. Andrew Bryan, and his president of the Civitan a former member of its '59 Malcolm B. parents, William and Jeanne Club, former chairman of Council and former Jenkins of St. Paul, Minn., Bryan. the board of St. Mary's chairman of its General Dec. 5, 1994. A geneticist, '77 Jennifer Gilstrap Episcopal School, former Practice Section. The he worked for the State Walker of Memphis, June head of the Memphis husband of Margaret Ward, Department of Health. 11, 1994. The wife of Steve Planning Commission and a he also leaves four sons, '63 Phyllis White Walker, she also leaves United Way volunteer. A Edwin C. Ward III, John M. Henry of Redmond, Wash., three children, Stacey, retired captain in the Army Ward, George M. Ward, May 8, 1995. She leaves her Steve and George. Air Corps, he served in and Marion S. Ward; a husband, William Henry '83 Page Johnson World War II and Korea. daughter, Ann Paterson '65; a daughter, Jennifer; a Garrett of Louisville, Ky., The husband of Jane Evans Ward; a sister, Marion son, Christopher; her March 28, 1995. An actuary West '43, he also leaves two Stanton; and two parents, Mr. and Mrs. A.E. and consultant for the daughters, Marion West grandchildren. White; and two brothers. William M. Mercer Hammer and Bette West '51 Kenneth E. '67 Michael E. Company, she leaves her Bush; three sons, Mercer E. Greenwood of Cordova, Hendrick of Groton, husband, Steve Garrett '81; West IV, Axson E. West Tenn., July 1, 1995. He Conn., May 25, 1995. A two daughters, Lynn and and Roy C. West; two retired from his job as a research adviser for the Leigh; her mother, Ann brothers, Daniel E. West '42 purchasing agent for Sears, Pfizer Inc. Food Service Johnson; and her brother, and Lucien B. West; and 12 Roebuck and Co. after 29 Division, he was an David G. Johnson. grandchildren. years. A World War II authority on bulking agents,

Rhodes Alumni A-16 TI ir CITY ON THE Hnit,

Artist's conception of the acropolis at Sepphoris

BY MARTHA HUNTER SHEPARD

here's a city on a hill in Galilee that is currently one of the top archaeological sites in Israel. Called Zippori ("bird") in Hebrew, Sepphoris in Greek and Saffuriyye in Arabic, it dates, as a population center, possibly from 1200 B.C. Herod Antipas, son of Herod the Great, began building Sepphoris for his capital city around 3 B.C. Termed "the ornament of all Galilee" by the first-century historian Josephus, the city, built in the Greco-Roman style, became a center of high culture for Jews and gentiles alike. Ancient wars and earthquakes destroyed Antipas' city. There was an Arab settlement there until the 1948 Arab- Israeli war. Afterward, it was forgotten for almost 30 years. •■■ molimp

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nly an hour's walk dent, and professors from Rhodes, sy nagogues. Indeed, it was a great seat from Jesus' boyhood University of South Florida and for the study of the Torah, and it's home in the village of Wheaton and Colby Colleges. where the Mishnah, the first part of Nazareth, Sepphoris Three years ago Israel declared the the Talmud, was written around 200 possibly0 was a place Jesus visited and, area a national park, and currently A.D. with his father Joseph the carpenter, there are four archaeological teams at By 1984 two archaeological teams helped build. work uncovering the mysteries of the were working in Sepphoris. The fol- That's the hypothesis of Richard ancient past. As a result, Sepphoris is lowing summer the National A. Batey, W.J. Millard Professor of also a thriving tourist destination. Geographic Society lent Batey a valu- Religious Studies at Rhodes who first Quite a contrast to the silent, able subsurface radar along with top visited Sepphoris in 1979 and later abandoned site overgrown with this- photographers, who took more than helped initiate archaeological excava- tles and cacti that Batey and his wife 8,000 pictures. The ground-penetrat- tions at the site. Carolyn first scouted in the summer of ing radar provided Batey an exciting "It's necessary to understand as 1979. In fact, this last summer exca- find. Using the equipment one day, much as we can of the historical Jesus vators working in a Roman market he suspected there were underground in order to understand his mission," uncovered an internal room, reflect- chambers beneath his feet. After set- says Batey, noting that the Gospels ing pool, mosaic floors, a remnant of a ting up a•grid over the area, he and tell us very little about Jesus' child- fresco and ancient vaulted cisterns his colleagues began digging. Indeed hood and early adulthood. "Often we used through the late Arab period. there were underground chambers—a read the Gospels against a blank SOme artifacts they found revealed cluster of cavernous rooms that he screen. But archaeology can con- several occupations by early Roman, surmises were used for grain storage. tribute to a better sense of the geo- Byzantine and Arab occupants. The growing interest in Sepphoris graphical, political and social realities Sepphoris was an unusual city in has come about thanks in large part to of Jesus' day." many respects. Besides its renowned Batey's intellectual curiosity, drive Firm in that belief, by June 1983 beauty, several cultures, all loyal to and persistence. In the 1970s a Batey had assembled an archaeologi- Rome, lived there in apparent har- Rhodes student brought to his atten- cal team composed primarily of stu- mony. Scholars believe there were 18 tion a 1927 book Jesus, a New

Rhodes 18 Biography by Shirley Jackson Case of and what kind of teacher Jesus was." published in Biblical Archaeological the University of Chicago. Case's He enrolled in Vanderbilt Review (May/June 1992), has been hypothesis was that "whether or not University's divinity school for the selected to appear in Approaches to the [Jesus] actually labored there, his pres- next six years where he earned his Bible, Vol. 2, 1995. ence in the city on various occasions B.D. and Ph.D. Two years later, he "The first thing you have to under- can scarcely be doubted." was a Fulbright Scholar studying stand about archaeology is that you do As soon as 1931 a University of hermeneutics at Germany's famed an awful lot of hard work in the heat, Michigan excavation team led by University of Tubingen. Batey came dust and sun," Batey laughs. "It's not Leroy Waterman worked at the site to Rhodes in 1965 after a five-year all romance. It's nothing like Raiders for two months; then it was left idle teaching stint at Harding Graduate of the Lost Ark. The process, if it's until 1982 when Batey and James F. School of Religion in Memphis. done well, is rather slow. When you Strange of the University of South At Rhodes, Batey has taught do a stratigraphic excavation, for Florida, who was later to be director courses in Bible and the interdiscipli- instance, you scrape off an inch of dirt of the USF expedition, surveyed the nary course "The Search for Values in at a time and keep meticulous records. site. the Light of Western History and And different people have different

Prof. Richard Batey Photo by Trey Clark

Case's book and Waterman's Religion." He belongs to several inter- temperaments about that speed. archaeological work sparked Batey's national professional societies and is "That's the American method. On curiosity, but then, that's not hard to the author and editor of articles, the other hand, the Israelis take a dif- do. papers and books. His latest book is ferent view. They say, 'We have hun- "I had an evangelical upbringing," his 1991 work about Sepphoris, Jesus dreds of sites to be excavated,' so the says the New Testament scholar who and the Forgotten City (Baker Book tendency is to expose as many areas as grew up in Nashville. "I attended House), the result of several summers fast and as economically as possible Lipscomb High School and College, working at Sepphoris as administra- and to reconstruct the sites if possible. where I studied the Bible regularly. tive director of the University of Both methods are being used at But after college I wanted to know Florida expedition with archeologist Sepphoris today." how scholars study the New Jim Strange. "Sepphoris: An Urban While Batey served as administra- Testament, how Christianity started Portrait of Jesus," an article by Batey tive director of the expedition, his

Rhodes 19 wife Carolyn, whom he met in high school, worked with the other volun- teers at the dig every summer "getting as dirty as everybody," jokes Batey. Discoveries in the dust at Sepphoris stagger the imagination— the ruins of a 4,000-seat theatre, stone streets with collonaded sidewalks, exquisite mosaic floors, marble from all over the ancient world, syna- gogues, Jewish homes with ritual baths, elaborate Roman homes, Christian and Arab artifacts, sophisti- cated water and grain storage systems. This was obviously no wilderness outpost. "The popular picture of Jesus Crew, including Carolyn Batey in blue shirt, uncovering a mosaic as a rustic growing up in the relative Photo by Richard A. Batey isolation of a small village of 400 peo- capital city. For three decades after Anna before marrying Joseph and ple in the remote hills of Galilee must Jesus' birth it served as the capital of moving to Nazareth, said the Pilgrim. be integrated with the newly revealed Galilee and Perea, a large territory But Batey looks to the Gospels for setting of a burgeoning Greco-Roman east of the Jordan River. Sepphoris is inspiration, comparing the recorded metropolis boasting upwards of 30,000 visible from Nazareth and just an words of Jesus to their possible origins. inhabitants—Jews, Arabs, Greeks and hour's walk away. In the New Testament, for Romans," Batey says in Jesus and the Could Jesus and his father Joseph instance, Batey notes that Jesus used Forgotten City. have worked as carpenters in Herod the word "hypocrite," the Greek word Sepphoris, Batey says, was "being Antipas' new city? Could they at least for "actor," 17 times. Could he have built with a vengeance" during the have visited there? There are specula- gone to the theatre at Sepphoris? time of Christ. The city was sacked tion and tradition, such as the one Besides presenting plays, the theatre when Herod the Great died. In his recorded by the sixth-century A.D. was "one place where political protest will Herod divided his kingdom Pilgrim of Piacenze who claimed in could be made, and Jesus was cer- among his three sons. Herod Antipas his Travels that the home of Jesus' tainly a person who protested and was given Galilee, and in 3 B.C. he mother was in Sepphoris. There she criticized authorities in religion and began rehiiildinu: Sepphoris for his lived with her parents Joachim and politics," says Batey. Throughout the Gospels Jesus' teachings often have to do with kingship, from its luxu- rious trappings to mili- tary strategy to banking policies. Wouldn't Sepphoris, not Nazareth, be a likely source of such knowl- edge? "As more of Sepphoris is unearthed," says Batey, "the impor- tance of this capital city will continue to shed new light on the world of Galilee—a world sig- nificant to both Jews and Christians." III

20 tie cextee oj od ackr gome,, YeMpe sits avg, gome; 86. A ad geetpam es66661 tie &ma, Ychgre ,Dudes (../,mated,„eda. &kit off de gowd , Bogs y y r,,,,, ch.e # • akte // akiee gg /Vex Wedded Avox t started in the 1950s as a simple act of kindness: two middle-aged moms in Fort Lauderdale, Corella Bonner and the wife of the minister at the First Presbyterian IChurch, buying sacks of food and delivering them to needy families in town. Forty years later kindness is still students with significant financial through the Kinney Program, which key to the equation. But the scope need, according to Newton. Without matches students with volunteer jobs and numbers have changed dramati- the Bonner Scholarship, these stu- in 40 charitable agencies city-wide. cally. Today there are 1,500 students dents would have no time outside The strength of the Kinney Program, at 22 colleges teaching the illiterate to class for community service: they'd be founded at Rhodes in 1957, is what read, serving as tutors and role models holding down part-time jobs to make attracted the Bonner Program to for youngsters, feeding the hungry and ends meet. Rhodes in the first place, says improving their communities in a The existence of the Bonner Newton. host of ways, thanks to a couple Program at Rhodes is also the major There are other examples of named Bonner. reason the college was selected last Rhodes' outreach tradition, Newton The Bonner Scholars Program, fall as one of the initial participants in notes. Seeing a need, Rhodes students begun by Corella Bonner and her the government-sponsored established a soup kitchen at a nearby recently deceased husband Bertram, AmeriCorps program of community midtown church in 1988. Every provides scholarships to needy stu- service, according to college officials. Tuesday evening, 52 weeks a year, dents and they in turn do community Like Bonner, AmeriCorps provides Rhodes students plan, cook and serve service. It's a selective program: only service-based scholarships. (But a meal to the hungry and clean up those students who have a proven unlike Bonner AmeriCorps may have afterwards. They also find the funds to track record in community outreach a short life. In late September operate this outreach initiative year- and a willingness to continue serving Congress voted to eliminate its round. are chosen to become Bonner funding.) Rhodes' chapter of Habitat for Scholars. Humanity, begun in 1988, In 1992 Rhodes became was the nation's first to build one of the participating col- a Habitat home singlehand- leges, joining such institutions edly. Each year since 1989, as Davidson, Oberlin, College Rhodes has also offered of the Ozarks, DePauw, "alternative" spring breaks Earlham, University of for students who prefer Richmond and Spelman. Most wielding a hammer at a work of the colleges are located in site to the more hedonistic the southern Appalachian and rituals of beach trips and ski Piedmont areas, regions with vacations. high levels of poverty and What's more, the need. birthrate of new outreach There are 70 Bonner projects is on the rise. When Scholars at Rhodes this fall students come to them with Loretta, Za,,,6&? 96, hover Sekg, ..41,preamt Soca and a multitude of service pro- ideas for new program, %ai Owe" at Rides, agetuer lokoar at a kcal ove carte" jects in which they're Newton and Heather Lea (a involved. Some tutor and mentor The Bonner Program has addition- former student who now directs the children at neighboring Snowden ally helped the college identify early Bonner Program on campus) try to Elementary School. Others answer those students who have had experi- encourage the students to be commu- desperate calls on the hotline at a ence and leadership in community nity service "entrepreneurs." Says nearby crisis center. Another group service in high school, says Newton. Newton: "We challenge them to put assesses needs at local soup kitchens And like the Day Scholars Program, their ideas into action, to find the and food pantries for the Memphis another scholarship program at resources—financial and otherwise— Food Bank. The list goes on. Rhodes that encourages community to move ahead with their ideas." "The Bonner Program has helped service, Bonner ensures that young reach a new group of students. It's people with those skills and that com- given a new group of students a mitment get involved once they get chance at community service," to college. new level of interest in out- says Billy Newton, college chaplain Currently about three-fourths of reach since the Bonner Program and the director of community service the student body participate in com- arrived, says Newton. "The students on campus. Bonner Scholarships munity service at some point during who are heavily involved in the amount to $3,270 a year and go to their four years, many of them Bonner Scholars Program or in

Rhodes 22 AmeriCorps are able to put in the progress from the "feel-good" stage of tion, training and ongoing debriefing time of organizing and working with casual voluntarism to a more in-depth sessions. When students who are an agency to attract other students understanding and awareness of heavily involved in service experience who can only give two or three hours today's social problems. In some cases frustration, as most will, it helps to a week," he says. "There are more Bonner Scholars are helping agencies have a support group like that of the opportunities for those once-a-week conduct important research that may Bonner Scholars. volunteers." have longterm benefits. Best of all, the Bonner Program Bonner Scholars are required to "As students get more involved has been a shot in the arm for com- devote ten hours a week to commu- and realize that service doesn't always munity service, generating enthusiasm nity service during the school year feel good, they need each other's sup- campus-wide, Newton underscores. and 240 hours during the summer. port and encouragement," says "It's contributing overall toward Equally important, the Bonner Newton. The Bonner Program places building a culture of service—an ethic Program encourages students to a heavy emphasis on group orienta- of service—at Rhodes."

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orella Allen Bonner is no e. gootee,*.e cia,ex at /4# fe6mi 4ae4 a/4e "mailer exxia, stranger to poverty. It axi ode" tea:sea/ea 61 homeless Ifamies h ape cuotieif to tee:lodes. surrounded her as a young C girl growing up in the the silver-haired Mrs. Bonner slowly explained during her visit. mining regions of Tennessee, West circled the folding tables of diners, Money was scarce in her family, Virginia and Southeastern Kentucky. unselfconsciously speaking to each which consisted of a divorced mother, It followed the 14-year-old and her and every guest and shaking each a sister four years younger and a half- divorced, job-seeking mother to person's hand. brother 12 years her junior. By the Detroit in 1923. It confronted her as Still vigorous at 86, Mrs. Bonner time she was a teenager, Mrs. Bonner a middle-aged churchwoman, each has spent the last two years traveling was working as a cashier in a cafeteria time she stopped to deliver a sack of to all 22 of the colleges which host in Detroit by day, and taking high groceries to a hungry family in Fort the Bonner Scholars Program, accom- school courses at night. After high Lauderdale in the early 1950s. panied usually by her daughter Carol. school she enrolled in Wayne State That familiarity with need—her Rhodes was Mrs. Bonner's second to University. She took classes in the own as a youngster and that of others last stop, and she filled it meeting morning—her major was dietetics— after she was married—may explain with Bonner Scholars and touring and then walked ten blocks to her job Mrs. Bonner's gracious and natural some of the agencies and sites where in the restaurant at Detroit's ritzy way with those less fortunate. Bonner Scholars serve. Hotel Statler. Last spring during her maiden trip In contrast to the students who She worked her way up from to Rhodes, Mrs. Bonner paid a call hold Bonner Scholarships, Mrs. restaurant hostess to manager and was upon the soup kitchen run by Rhodes Bonner didn't have the opportunity eventually transferred to the Statler students. Like a politician let loose in to juggle community service and chain's New York hotel. This was the a room full of well-to-do supporters, college as a young woman, she luxurious Statler-Hilton, near

Rhodes 23 Pennsylvania Station, a hotel whose officials, is to phone number was as famous as its "help the persons name, thanks to the 1930s Glenn hurting" but also Miller hit song, Pennsylvania 6-5000. to encourage the In 1938 while living in New York congregations she met an ambitious real estate themselves to do developer named Bertram Bonner at a more. friend's dinner party. His office was a In the late block from the hotel where she 1980s the worked. Bonners began Several days after the party he looking for a way walked into the hotel and asked her to reach and help to a hockey game. She already had even more people plans, but suggested an alternate date, with the millions despite the fact that hockey wasn't they were ready to Av. gomep,eltro meets eade t6 e piked at ,fader her favorite sport (she's a baseball give. Their chil- ,.tit-rwc "dared (0 th ego) rg Wdee, fanatic). Four years later—on Sept. dren, Bert Jr., and 4;fa 18, 1942—they were married. Carol, were grown and educated by together the three of them came up The Bonners' involvement in this point. And they had set aside with the premise for the Bonner community service actually evolved enough to take care of themselves and Scholars Program—the idea of offer- through Mrs. Bonner and her initial other relatives. ing scholarships to needy college stu- efforts to provide food for destitute "We wanted to give back to the dents who would return the favor by families in Fort Lauderdale. When the Lord what the Lord had given us," doing community service. Stevenson, Bonners moved in 1956 to Princeton, said Mrs. Bonner. Mr. Bonner's real in fact, helped the Bonners select the N.J., to be closer to Mr. Bonner's real estate development business was very first 11 colleges for participation in estate development and construction successful and included projects in the program. business, they started a crisis ministry Roanoke, Richmond, Norfolk, Long The next year another 11 colleges, program in their Presbyterian church Island and New York City. The Plaza including Rhodes, were selected. there. Its goal was to offer food and 400 apartment building in New York The actual nuts-and-bolts of the clothing to those down on their luck, was one of his best known. Bonner program are left to foundation Mrs. Bonner said. A series of events and Mrs. officials Wayne Meisel and Robert For many years the Bonners have Bonner's own roots in Appalachia led Hackett, gurus of the collegiate com- given money directly to their church the couple to Kentucky's Berea munity service movement in this and others that have been involved in College, an institution known for its nation. Meisel, a longtime family the crisis ministry effort. This year the commitment to educating needy stu- friend of the Bonners, and Hackett Bonner Foundation will give half a dents from the Appalachian area. were the founders of Campus million dollars to support more than After an initial gift to that college, Outreach Opportunity League, a 100 churches and food banks. The the Bonners became close to Berea's national association involving 700 intention, according to foundation president John Stevenson. Working colleges and universities. Still, Mrs. Bonner is a a regular staffer at the Bonner Foundation in Princeton and at the office five days a week. "She's amazing. Our staff has a hard time keeping up with her," says fferazd Ilcucta-i Hackett. tkes coRou4 setvwe For Corella Bonner, the bottom at fseWai line of the Scholars program is the weere students and what they're able to wok tit., accomplish. Jar" dreth" "The only thanks I want," she likes fscAd 1/oure to tells the Bonner Scholars, "is for %wear avid you to graduate. Then you can go out Cid& '90. and help the world be a better place."

Rhodes 24 Patricia Gray and Michael Ching at the Orpheum, home of Opera Memphis Photo by Trey Clark STUDYING OPERA On Stage And In Cyberspace

By John H. Rone Rhodes Director of Special Projects ,king opera Ark. Hendrix assistant professor of opera," he says. "I am impressed with approachable and music John Krebs teaches a history of the computer literacy of Rhodes stu- Interesting to the opera course with a special emphasis dents and their professor, Dr. Gray."

current generation is the on creative writing. Both opera claims Thanks to Prof. Gray's efforts, M Opera Memphis will join the likes of goal of assistant professor of music will write papers and do research that Patricia Gray's "History of Opera" can be shared by way of their class the New York City Opera, Vienna class this fall. Her students are home pages. State Opera, Covent Garden, Chicago learning about the 400-year-old art In addition to chronicling the Lyric Opera, Atlanta Opera and form—and helping others do the "Making of Rigoletto," Rhodes students Pacific Opera Victoria, all of which same—by using state-of-the-art in Professor Gray's second semester have home pages with information computer technology. contemporary music class will work on about each company's history and its Michael Ching, the director of a project tracing the production of the past and future productions. Opera Memphis—one of the country's world premiere of Different Fields, a Among the vanguard of Rhodes oldest continuing opera companies—is new one-act opera by Mike Reid. professors who are incorporating com- allowing Prof. Gray's students at Reid, a former pro football player for puter technology into their classrooms, Rhodes to observe first-hand how an the Cincinnati Bengals in the 1970s, Gray is nevertheless a newcomer to an opera is created, produced, has written several country music hits the field. rehearsed and finally brought to life on recorded by name artists. Different "I certainly did not come from a stage. As Opera Memphis prepares to Fields, which is about a young football background of computer training," she open the curtain on Verdi's Rigoletto, star faced with corruption in profes- says. "I concentrated on music from the first opera of its 1995-96 season, sional sports, is sponsored in part by my B.A. here at Rhodes in '69 Rhodes students will be backstage the Metropolitan Opera Guild. It will through my Ph.D. at Washington documenting the birth process and be produced by Opera Memphis in University. Like so many people, I first sharing their findings with the world April 1996 and performed in became interested in the Internet through the global computer network Nashville in May. Rhodes students because of its e-mail capabilities. In known as the Internet. will create an Internet home page for the summer of '94 I attended an ED- The Rhodes students will create an Different Fields by May 1. MEDIA conference in Vancouver, Internet "home page" on "The e Rhodes/Opera Memphis B.C. At that time I saw demonstra- Making of Rigoletto." It will incorpo- project also calls for Prof. tions of college students in the U.S. rate interviews with performers and Gray to create and main- and Europe who routinely and easily Opera Memphis personnel and tain a computer home page put up their own work on the descriptions and informal pho- Ton the World Wide Web for Opera Internet. I thought I could do that." tographs of the process leading up to Memphis, launching that organization Since then, she has developed her Rigoletto's staging. into cyberspace for the first time and computer skills through classes at "It is exciting to watch the process of introducing it to a vast new audience Rhodes, seminars and hours of self- creating the home page. It makes opera of opera lovers. training and hard work. Prof. Gray much more vital and alive to the stu- "Within recent months many of encourages those with Internet dents and less of a museum piece," says the world's major opera companies connections to visit "The Making of Gray. "Some are even (figuratively) have created 'home pages' on the Rigoletto" home page which will be going to trade their computers for cos- World Wide Web" notes Gray. ready for viewing by Nov. 1. The tumes and be 'supers' (extras) in the "These allow literally millions of peo- address is: actual production of Rigoletto. For them, ple worldwide to have access to impor- http://gray.music.rhodes.edu/ reality really will be 'virtual'!" Rhodes tant information about these musichtmls/RigolettoProj.html students helping to lead the project are companies." The address of the Opera Memphis Tim Smith '96, general coordinator of Opera Memphis director Michael paw is: the opera home page, Laura McRae '97, Ching agrees. "Several people have http://gray.music.rhodes.edu/ photographer, and Jamie Edrington '97, already called me up to say how operahtmls/opera.html interview coordinator. impressed they are with the Opera The address of "The Making of In a related project, the 19 students Memphis home page. I am optimistic Different Fields" home page is: in Professor Gray's History of Opera that the 'newest' mode of communica- http://gray.music.rhodes.edu/ class are working in tandem via the tion—the Internet—will be a great musichtmls/Fields.html Internet with students in a similar way to disseminate information about For further information contact class at Hendrix College in Conway, one of the world's 'oldest' art forms— Prof. Gray at: [email protected] R

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Five Longtime Faculty Members Retire professors who taught at Rhodes life resides on the walk- FaI a total of 146 years retired at the way between Palmer and end of the 1994-95 academic year. Kennedy Hall. There is a They are: Milton Brown, religious similar sculpture at studies; Lawrence Anthony, art; Herb Vanderbilt, and his Smith, psychology; Ken Williams, giant-size "Dramatis mathematics; and Sue Legge, eco- Personae" command the nomics and business administration landscape outside (see story on page 3). Theatre Memphis. Although they have retired, Smith He received his B.A. and Legge will continue to teach part- from Washington and Milton Brown Lawrence Anthony time at Rhodes this year. Lee and M.F.A. from the Milton Brown, the Albert B. Curry University of Georgia. A Professor of Bible, joined the faculty mentor to countless stu- in 1960. A native of Birmingham, he dents, many of whom are earned degrees at Birmingham- successful artists today, Southern, Louisville Presbyterian Anthony will have a ret- Seminary and Duke. Before coming to rospective exhibit of his Rhodes he served as pastor of First work in fall 1996 at Presbyterian Church, Bardstown, Ky., Rhodes. and chaplain and associate professor Herb Smith came to of religion at Washington and Lee. Rhodes in 1965 from the Brown's teaching has reached University of Tennessee, other audiences outside the classroom. Memphis where he was an Herb Smith Ken Williams He is the author of three books: The instructor in the clinical psychology Mathematics from 1988-95, came to Authentic Writings of Ignatius (Duke division of the Department of Rhodes in 1968 from Notre Dame University Press, 1963), To Hear the Psychiatry. He kept his association where he was assistant professor of Word: Invitation to Serious Study of the with UT, and in 1976 became direc- mathematics. He previously had Bible (Mercer University Press 1988) tor of the UT, Memphis computer taught at Madison College and at and Biblical Prophets, Seers and the center. During that period he estab- Godwin Heights High School in New Apocalypticism: Rightly Explaining lished the Rhodes Computer Center, Grand Rapids, Mich. the Truth (The Edwin Mellen Press, selling the college its first machine The recipient of the 1992 Day 1995). and co-teaching the first Fortran Award for Outstanding Teaching, South Carolina native Lawrence course. Williams consistently has drawn Anthony served as artist-in-residence Born in Houston, Texas, Smith praise from students for imparting a at Rhodes in recent years, dividing earned his B.A. and M.A. at East genuine understanding of mathemat- the academic year between Memphis Texas State University and his Ph.D. ics. Some former students who were and his home in Key West,_Fla. at Florida State University. He "math phobic" at one time praise He came to Rhodes in 1961 after interned in clinical psychology at UT, Williams not only for curing them but working as a machine designer and Memphis. giving them the self-confidence to assistant director of the Florence Smith has studied at the C.G. Jung pursue their love of mathematics and (South Carolina) Museum. Institute in Zurich and has given lec- apply it to their work and daily lives. Anthony's sculpture can be seen in tures in analytic psychology in Williams holds B.A.E. and M.A. many private as well as public collec- Switzerland, Sweden and Italy. degrees from the University of tions, including the Rhodes campus Michigan native Ken Williams, Kentucky and Ph.D. from the where his swirling depiction of college who held the E.C. Ellett Chair of University of Virginia. Rhodes 27 Tn Print

Men & Ships Of The Civil War Illegal Motion By Scott Rye '83. 287 pp. Stamford: submarines, cruisers, steamers, sloops By Grif Stocldey '65. 301 pp. New Longmeadow Press. $17.95 and sidewheelers. York: Simon & Schuster, $21. cott Rye has written an Rye notes that advancements Gideon Page is at it again, S°authoritative book about the made in naval architecture and An this time defending an African- naval battles of the Civil War, warfare during the Civil War American football star at the events that have been less pointed to the future. As historian University of Arkansas accused of chronicled than the land battles of Bruce Catton has noted: "...By 1865 raping a white student. that era. naval warfare would resemble the As always, Page tackles the Naval battles weren't restricted to 20th century much more than it seemingly impassible cases. Driven by rivers—they were fought all along resembled anything Lord Nelson or a strong sense of justice, he does have the country's waterways in gunboats, John Paul Jones had known." a bit of an opportunistic streak, in this case allowing himself to dream of eventually negotiating the player's pro Great Destinations In The Smokies contract. In Stockley's last book, By Gavin and Mary Jane Coleman trails, waterfalls and rivers and how to Religious Conviction, the hero Gentry '61. 74 pp. Available at Burke's negotiate them; detailed tips on what envisioned himself becoming the Book Store in Memphis and other loca- to take—and expect—when hiking, greatest defense lawyer in the county. tions. $10. camping and tubing; the best times of But each book brings a new case This is a book written by and for peo- the year to see certain flowers; when for Gideon Page and exciting ple who truly love the Great Smoky the deer are most likely to be grazing; adventures for readers. Mountains National Park. The and how to avoid bears at all costs. Gentrys, lifelong visitors to the Great Destinations is a must for Smokies, have put their vast expertise first-time visitors to the Smokies and Words ALTO The into this slim, but helpful, volume. a wonderful armchair trip for readers Included are locations of the best who are between vacations. Taiwan Strait By John F. Copper, Stanley J. Buckman Distinguished Professor of The Weather That 101113 International Studies. 127 pp. By Patricia Spears Jones '73. 75 pp. New Museum of Contemporary Art, Lanham, Md.: University Press of Minneapolis: Coffee House Press. "has always written poetry." America. $10. $11.95. Also a journalist, editor and play- In August 1993, the Taiwan Affairs pitic Thulani Davis has said that wright, the Rhodes communication /Office and Information Office of New Yorker Patricia Spears Jones' arts major earned her M.F.A. in writ- the State Council of the People's poems "are like homecomings—in her ing at Vermont College in 1992. She Republic of China published a docu- pages the sights and smells, rhythms was a 1994 recipient of a National ment called "The Taiwan Question and caresses of many lives waft up Endowment for the Arts poetry fel- and the Reunification of China." from Memphis to Manhattan...The lowship. This 24-page pamphlet subsequently heart charts its path home by her map- - "There are two epigrams for The became known as Beijing's "White of weather that kills and springs that Weather That Kills—one from a Paper" on Taiwan. heal." Psalm, the other from a Robert Copper offers his analysis and cri- Indeed, this first book of poetry Johnson song," Jones says. "The Bible tique of Beijing's "White Paper." comes straight from the heart of the and the blues, the liturgical and the Included are the text of the original East Arkansas native who has called secular are extremely important to me white paper, Taiwan's response to New York home since the early '70s. and to my work. Each represents some the document and its guidelines for Jones, who is currently the director of part of the Southern roots that anchor national unification. planning and development for the my personality and my concerns..."

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NSF Grant Moves Habeeb Closer to Goals By Susan McLain Sullivan might bring for her. Initially, though, challenging courses and the n "awesome" stipend, free campus she was uncertain about a major and chemistry department is excellent A housing and weekend trips along just "happened into chemistry." She here," Habeeb said. the gorgeous coast of California were said she has always liked math and "The classes are small. The a few of the perks that came with science classes, even her high school professors are really intelligent, up on Rebecca Habeeb's summer job. chemistry classes. However, she said current research, and they cater to Habeeb '96 worked in a research she had her mind set on attending a their students," she said. "It is laboratory at the University of definitely an advantage California at Irvine (UCI) with having such a small the support of a National department. I don't Science Foundation grant. Her think other majors 10-week, $2,500 internship in have had that Dr. David VanVranken's opportunity." laboratory also will bring her In fact, Habeeb impressive future references and learned about the possibly some early fame as a research opportunity at co-author of a study published UCI from Chemistry in a research journal. Professor David Jeter, From the day she arrived at who did post-doctoral VanVranken's laboratory, work there before Habeeb, a chemistry major, said joining Rhodes' faculty she was treated as one of his almost 20 years ago. team of graduate students She said she was sure studying the fluorescent quality Jeter's letter of of a particular amino acid. recommendation VanVranken, a bio-organic which she mailed with professor, and his group of her application (and graduate student researchers are excellent grade record) studying the fluorescence of an helped her win a place amino acid called tryptophan among the 10 in order to develop a method undergraduates by which to observe protein Rebecca liabeeb Photo by Trey Cloak selected for the UCI's behavior. liberal arts college. "Research Experience for "Everybody in his group had a "My sister went to Millsaps and I Undergraduates" (REU) program. different project to work on but it all knew what a small private liberal arts Chemistry Professor Gil Gilow, ties into tryptophan," said Habeeb, a college was all about. But I wanted to Habeeb's adviser, said she gave an native of Vicksburg, Miss. "My job go farther away from home, and inspiring talk about her UCI was to build a sequence of peptides Rhodes seemed like the logical research at a chemistry department which had never been synthesized choice," Habeeb said. She hopes to student seminar in late September. before. enter medical school in the fall. In addition to the core chemistry "It gave me a look at what While at Rhodes, she has been courses, Habeeb has completed research chemistry is about in the involved in a wide variety of campus organic chemistry I and II, and real world," Habeeb said. programs, including Habitat for physical chemistry I and II. After Not that Habeeb hasn't had an Humanity, Campus Green, Pizza graduation, Habeeb, who is president inkling of what opportunities her Bible Study and her sorority. of Rhodes' student chapter of the increasing knowledge of chemistry "I've taken some really IN him Iii, pp $1 Rhodes 29 Athletics

Winning Is The Norm For Lynx Fall Sports Teams By Mark Bialek ranked team in the country. The the women finished sixth in a field of Rhodes Sports Information Director Lynx, 2-1 in conference play, are led 17 competing institutions, beating out re Lynx football team snapped a by senior Jamie Roeling from Zachary, Florida State. The Lynx women also i 10-game winless streak in its home La.; junior Sally Mercer, North Little finished second among the small col- debut with a 19-12 win over Austin Rock, Ark.; and sophomore Kate leges at the meet, with only Southern College, and the other fall sports Maffei, Nashville, Tenn. Indiana ahead of Rhodes. teams have been running at full speed CROSS COUNTRY—At the The men know what cross country as well. Vanderbilt meet in late September championships are all about, having SOCCER— won five straight SCAC titles. The Coach Andy Lynx men finished 12th out of 18 Marcinko has competitors at the Vanderbilt meet. put two power- Rhodes will host the Southeast house teams on Regional Division 3 Championships the field this in November. season. The women's team was off to a 7-1-1 start in late September, including a Juniors Vic Suane (left) victory over and Fred Wix celebrate a Division 1 19.12 home opener victory University of over Austin College. Memphis. Rhodes' only setback was a 1-0 loss to Trinity, the fifth-ranked team in the country. The men's soccer team was ranked sixth in the South region with a 5-1-1 record in late September. Lynx victo- ries have included wins over NAIA scholarshij, colleges including Lambuth and Columbi, (Mo.). The men are shooting for a key matchup later this sea- son against Wheaton College in a game that could decide the Lynx's tournament fate. VOLLEYBALL— By late September the volleyball team had won 11 of its first Senior Chris Theofiledes, 20 matches, including a victory over number 17, and junior Neil Brunetz, Number 3, go for the ball against Southwestern (Texas), the 13th- rival Christian Brothers. The Lynx shut out the Bucs 3-0.

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New Practice Fields Dedicated Two new practice fields north of I McCoy Theatre were dedicated this tall in memory of Craig Solomon '79, the starting Lynx quarterback from 1975-78. In 1977 when the team compiled a 9-1-1 record, he led the nation in pass- ing and was Rhodes' all-time leader in career passing and total offense. Friends of Solomon, led by classmate Joe Hyrka, started a memorial fund to pay for the fields which will be part of the new Campus Life Center complex. President James H. Daughdrill (right) joined Arthur and Ruth "The new practice fields give us one- Solomon in unveiling the Solomon Rebecca Habeeb third more space than before," said Field plague. Photo by Stephen Duesner 96 continued from page 29 Mike Clary '77, Rhodes athletic direc- American Chemical Society, hopes tor and head football coach. Additional Clary said that after football season, to attend medical school. Last funds raised by Solomon's friends have Solomon Field will be an integral part spring, she was selected by Associate made possible the purchase of new of the athletic program as the site for Biology Professor Gary Lindquester equipment for Fargason Field, such as track team throwing events and for a pre-med internship at the blocking pads and a rope maze. intramural sports. Veterans Adminstration and Baptist Memorial Hospitals in Memphis. Through that program, she "shadowed" doctors throughout their days, even being allowed to watch surgeries. "It was a great experience," she said, adding that it confirmed her interest in medical school. During her recent UCI internship, Habeeb worked closely with VanVranken and one particular graduate student, Shawn Stachel, on the amino acid synthesizing project. VanVranken recently informed Habeeb that a paper on their joint research is likely to be published this year in an important research journal. The 19th Hole "He trusted me to do a huge part Alumni came from all over to play in this summer's Rhodes Alumni Golf of his project and I was really Tournament. On the top two teams were (left to right): Mike Palazzolo flattered. I don't know if I had '86, Tim Phillips '83, Scott Srnka '87, Bill Lansden '86, Tim Deaton '86, reason to be flattered but he seemed Jim Batey '83, Jim Elgin '86 and Matt Marsden '86. First place went to

Palazzolo, Lansden, Deaton and Marsden. Photo by Trey Clark pleased with my work," Habeeb said. Rhodes 31 aritapgs Ve.giw§

Kenneth Clark Delivers Founders' Convocation Address The following remarks are excerpts college of the liberal arts. For you from Rhodes' Founders' Convocation see, in that quiet and transcendent address by trustee Kenneth F. Clark moment we shared on campus, she Jr. Clark is a senior partner in the had found a place to give, and I, to Memphis-based law firm of my profound wonder, had found a McDonnell Boyd. place to serve. In the summer of 1975, some few I share this story with you in part years before her death, Mrs. because it speaks to why Rhodes Boyce Gooch, a longtime has become my academic home benefactor of students at colleges away from home. In serving it, I and universities within this region, serve the mission of my alma called to ask me to stop by her mater, Dartmouth College, to foster home the following morning on and promote the liberal arts. my way downtown to work. I It may give you insight into what reported at perhaps 8 a.m., and lies in store for you as you invest in much to my surprise was asked to Rhodes these four formative and drive her from her home on East fun-filled years of your lives. Parkway to the campus—a place Through all the boisterous,

with which I had had only Phut° of Halhburion Tow., hy Trey Clark wonderful days of college life, you minimal contact through its will be shaping your very persons program of continuing education, "These hallowed grounds, through social, intellectual and and then primarily during evening this Gothic jewel, cultural engagement and exchange. sessions. Immerse yourselves fully in every Now I must tell you that Mrs. this college aspect of that life, but in those Gooch, though strong-willed, was a Rhodes" quiet, personal and sort of frail and elderly woman, generally daydreamy moments of tended by a gardener/chauffeur and more—no people, no movement, just reflection—stretched out on the grass, not prone to venturing forth on her the quiet of this campus on a summer propped up in a casement window— own. To be asked to transport her in morning. take time to listen, feel, observe and my humble Honda was something out Thus stilled, I had the sensation of absorb the beauty and goodness of of the ordinary. somehow standing outside myself, these surroundings. We parked somewhere close by looking down on the two of us—small Be receptive to the subtle mood where we meet today, walked very figures in the symmetry of this and tone of this place—its extra slowly past the library, between place—those memorable words from dimension, if you will. And before we Palmer and Clough, and out into the Richard II somehow familiar to the bid farewell to this the 20th and only central campus court—and stopped. scene: "This blessed plot, this earth, century we have known, perhaps even As I knew not the purpose of this this realm, this England." And as you receive your diploma, flip your unusual trip, I had filled our drive and indeed, I felt frozen for a moment in tassel and turn to the admiring gaze of labored walk with idle prattle, until time in Dr. Charles Diehl's "little bit parents and classmates, you too may she put her hand on my arm and said of England" which he sought to bring feel time stand still and realize in an something to the effect, "Be still, and to this campus. instant that you have found your self, in the beauty of this place you will After a time, and now silently, we your fit, your role to play in no small feel its goodness." returned to her home where Mrs. part because of these hallowed And in the stillness that followed, Gooch outlined for me her plan to grounds, this Gothic jewel, this happy we could hear only the tree frogs and leave her cherished home and gardens place, this college—Rhodes. birds, to my recollection nothing and the bulk of her estate to this

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Powell and John Ross, Williams, Kurt Weill and Environment and a Sustain- Shirley M. Payne Recital Frank Martin; conducted by able Future; Hardie Audito- Hall, Hassell Hall, 8 p.m. Tony Lee Gamer; St. rium, 8 p.m. FREE FREE Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, NOV 4-DEC 13 Young 4 p.m. Tickets: $10 general FEB 27 The Lillian and Memphis, group show of DEC 1 Wool Socks Con- admission, $6 students and Morrie Moss Endowment young artists; Opening, 5-7 cert by Rhodes' male double senior citizens for the Visual Arts presents p.m. Nov. 3; Clough-Han- barbershop quartet, Hardie art historian Kathleen son Gallery, Tuesday- Auditorium, 8 p.m. FREE FEB 22 Springfield Music Brandt, professor at New Saturday from 11 a.m.-5 Lecture featuring world- York University, permanent p.m. FREE DEC 3 Hodie by Ralph renowned pianist and consultant for Renaissance Vaughan Williams conduct- author Charles Rosen; art to the Vatican Museums JAN 20-FEB 16 Fred ed by Tony Lee Garner and Hardie Auditorium, 8 p.m. and a member of the Vati- Burton and Tom Lee Exhib- featuring members of the FREE can team for the preserva- it; Opening, 5-7 p.m. Jan. Rhodes Singers and other tion of Michelangelo's 19; Clough-Hanson Gallery, Memphis choirs and the FEB 26 Faculty Concert Sistine Chapel frescoes; Tuesday-Saturday from 11 Memphis Symphony; Ever- Series presents Sara and Evergreen Presbyterian a.m.-5 p.m. FREE green Presbyterian Church, John Chiego and Charlotte Church, 613 University St., 613 University St. 4 p.m. McLain; Shirley M. Payne 8 p.m. FREE FEB 24-MAR 29 Terri Tickets: $12 general admis- Recital Hall, Hassell Hall, 8 Jones and Betty Leigh sion, $8 students and senior p.m. FREE Hutcheson Exhibit; Open- citizens. For ticket informa- ing, 5-7 p.m. Feb. 23; tion, call the McCoy The- Clough-Hanson Gallery, atre Box Office 901 Tuesday-Saturday from 11 726-3839. LECTURES NOV 9-12; 17.19 Oliver a.m.-5 p.m. FREE Goldsmith's She Stoops To DEC 5 Rhodes Singers' NOV 14 The Lillian and Conquer; directed by Ben- Christmas Concert; St. Morrie Moss Endowment nett Wood; 2 p.m. matinee Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, for the Visual Arts presents Nov. 19, all other perfor- 692 Poplar Ave., 7:30 p.m. painter Peter Saul, professor mances at 8 p.m. Tickets: FREE of art at the University of $7.50 general admission, NOV 12 Memphis Sym- Texas, Austin; Evergreen $3.50 students. For ticket phony Chamber Orchestra DEC 6 Rhodes Singers' Presbyterian Church, 613 information, call the Concert, Hardie Auditori- Campus Christmas Concert, University St., 8 p.m. FREE McCoy Theatre Box Office um, 2:30 p.m. Tickets: $15 Hardie Auditorium, 6:30 901 726-3839 general admission, $10 p.m. FREE FEB 20 The Frank M. students and senior citizens Gilliland Symposium pre- FEB 8-10; 16-18 Euri- JAN 23 Faculty Concert sents John Cobb, visiting pedes' Medea; directed by NOV 17 Silk Stockings Series presents Diane Clark professor of religion at Thomas C. Jones; 2 p.m. Concert by Rhodes' female and David Ramsey; Shirley Claremont Graduate matinee Feb. 18, all other double barbershop quartet, M. Payne Recital Hall, School, and former World performances at 8 p.m. Hardie Auditorium, 8 p.m. Hassell Hall, 8 p.m. FREE Bank economist Herman Tickets: $7.50 general FREE Daly of the University of admission, $3.50 students. FEB 18 Rhodes Maryland's School of Public For ticket information, call NOV 20 Faculty Concert Mastersingers Chorale Affairs, co-authors of the the McCoy Theatre Box Series presents "Italian Concert, "Perspectives: book For the Common Good: Office 901 726-3839 Interlude" featuring Char- Europe between the Wars," Redirecting the Economy lotte McLain, Kathleen music by Ralph Vaughan Toward Community, the Rhodes College 2000 North Parkway Memphis, Tennessee 38112-1690

Poised to help first-year students move in to the residence halls—and their parents, to the right parking spot were (left to right) juniors Emily Wiggins and Lorin McGuire and sophomores Beth Guerra, Elisabeth Thomas and Scarlett Caldwell. Photo by Trey Clark