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The Butler Does It It's no mystery that George Hearn '56 is knocking 'em dead on Broadway From 1 he Editor Dr. Charles E. Diehl had a vision of excellence for the college Rhodes (ISSN #1075.3036) is from the day he became president in 1917 until he retired in 1948. published four times a year in winter, spring, summer and fall by Rhodes College, "There was ever before us 2000 N. Parkway, Memphis, TN 38112-1690. the ideal of excellence," he said It is published as a service to all alumni, of the new college when it moved students, parents, faculty, staff and friends of to Memphis from Clarksville, the college. Fall 1995—Volume 2, Number 4. Second class postage paid at Memphis, Tenn., in 1925. And throughout Tennessee and additional mailing offices. his tenure he often affirmed that 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 Name the years. ■ Carrying their standard of excellence both in and outside the Street classroom are current faculty members like Steve Haynes, who is directing a study of church-affiliated colleges, Richard Batey in his City State Zip archaeological studies and Patricia Gray with her state-of-the-art music Home Phone Business Phone course. ■ Rhodes students excel even on summer vacation. Chemistry Employer major Rebecca Habeeb '96 received an National Science Foundation Title grant to study with top chemists at the University of California, Irvine CLASS NOTES: Please send all Class Notes last summer. news including marriages, births and obituaries ■ Alumni continue to garner their share of professional awards, to: Alumni Office, Rhodes College, 2000 write books that entertain and inform, and generally enjoy the rewards N. Parkway, Memphis, TN 38112-1690. Fax: (901)726-3474. of a Rhodes liberal arts education. Internet address to Sally Jones, director of ■ There are friends of the college like Corella Bonner of the alumni: [email protected] Bonner Foundation and trustee Kenneth Clark who, recognizing the LETTERS To THE EDITOR: Please address excellence of Rhodes, are generous and faithful supporters. postal correspondence to: Martha H. Shepard, Dr. Diehl's vision has sustained the college so that today, the Editor, Rhodes Magazine, Rhodes College, words "excellence" and "Rhodes" are synonymous. 2000 N. Parkway, Memphis, TN 38112-1690. Internet address: [email protected] Fax: (901)726-3553. —Martha Hunter Shepard, Editor Luatents FEATURES The Butler Does It The City on the Hill 10 17 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 COVER—George Hearn '56 plays butler Max von Mayerling Rhodes magazine is printed with soya ink in the Broadway hit Sunset Boulevard. Photo by Joan Marcus on recyclable paper. ecgrala,us Newa 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.

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