VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY ¥ SUMMER 2002 BACK Disabilities Research Center increase our contribution to the important Charles Kinzer, feed discussion of how special education is han- associate professor of Established at Peabody dled in this country.” education, serves as PEABODY PRIDE high places.” As a director in the ently, Eastern Kentucky University. I have DAVID CRENSHAW A national center devoted to learning dis- The most common method for determining co-principal investi- I just received the Win- professional issues department at been fortunate to have had excellent men- abilities research is being established at Peabody whether a student has a learning disability gator of the grant ter 2001 issue of THE the American Association of Col- tors—beginning at Peabody—and then excel- College, thanks to a five-year, $3.5 million is the discovery of significant discrepancies titled “Best Practices, PEABODY REFLECTOR. leges for Teacher Education, I have lent team members at each of the grant from the U.S. Department of Educa- between the student’s measured intelligence, Teacher Preparation, I am so grateful to the privilege of working with them. institutions I served. tion’s Office of Special Education Programs. or IQ, and his or her learning achievement. and Technology: Con- have received it be- And besides that connection, I, —EUGENE M. HUGHES, PHD’68 The center, a joint project with the Uni- Federal special education guidelines are based nections That Enhance cause I feel there are many things I am thank- too, have Peabody College in common. Richmond, Ky. versity of Kansas, will explore alternative on this model of identification. Children’s Literacy ful for, including the many advantages given —JOYCE HUTH MUNRO, PHD’85 AND BABY MAKES THREE methods for identifying students with learn- A portion of the center’s research will Acquisition and Read- me when I studied at Peabody for my B.A. Washington, D.C Charles Kinzer ing disabilities. The U.S. Department of Edu- include study of the variations in state poli- ing Achievement.” and M.A. Happy, excited, and elated—that’s how I felt cation estimates that 2.9 million students in cies and practices for identifying and assess- Working with investigators at the univer- I am particularly interested to learn Thank you for the Winter 2001 issue of the when the latest PEABODY REFLECTOR arrived. America are identified as having some sort ing students with learning disabilities that sities of Georgia, Connecticut, and Illinois that Peabody has risen to the top five [among REFLECTOR, including the story on college I am so pleased that you felt the Wolfe-John- son story [“A Debt of Gratitude,” Winter of learning disability. may be related to differing incidence levels at Chicago, the project known as CTELL colleges of education] in the nation. I have presidents with Peabody degrees. Julia Hel- 2001, p. 54] was worthy of being printed. Peabody’s Department of Special Edu- and outcomes. (Case Technologies to Enhance Literacy always treasured Peabody’s education pro- gason really did a fine job of pulling together a cross-section of former students to profile. The article is well written, and you did a cation will lead the project, conduct research, “There has been a lot of discussion about Learning) uses knowledge about best prac- gram, which helped to make me what I am Of equal interest to me is the present good job picking out the main facts. The and provide technical assistance to states the high numbers of students being deemed tices in early literacy education to target now. That is why I will always maintain con- tact with Peabody. development in the higher education pro- only thing I would change is the fact that and local school districts. The University of as having special education needs,” says improvements in teacher education and What an issue! There are so many excel- gram under the leadership of [Department now we have three grandchildren—but that’s Kansas will offer professional development Reschly. “Our concern is less about the num- young children’s literacy achievement. lent features for me to read. May I take this of Leadership and Organizations Chair] Jim my fault; I didn’t mention it in our last for general and special educators coordi- bers, but about the appropriateness of stu- “We want to improve reading achieve- opportunity to congratulate you and your Guthrie. He came from a campus that has correspondence. nated with the center’s research. The grant dent classification.” ment nationally through improving teach- staff for the excellent work in producing this one of the better programs in higher edu- Thank you so much for the story and the was made to Vanderbilt, which has a sub- In addition to trying to develop more ing education nationally,” says Kinzer. To issue of the REFLECTOR. cation and understands the differences in time spent putting it all together! contract with the University of Kansas. accurate means of classification, center do that, the grant is developing a case-based —SIEW TUNG WONG, BA’70, MA’71 the administration of public schools and —VIRGINIA PERRY JOHNSON, BS’49 Dan Reschly, professor and chair of researchers will explore the impact of sys- form of anchored instruction that embod- Sibu, Sarawak, Malaysia colleges and universities. San Jose, Calif. Peabody’s Department of Special Education, tematic educational instruction, such as early ies these “best practices.” During the time I was there, every per- and Doug Fuchs, professor of special edu- intervention reading programs, on the inci- Case studies, delivered through the Inter- PRESIDENTIAL SWEETS son who headed the educational leadership A MATTER OF RECORD cation, are co-directors of the new center. dences of student classification. “Our goal net with CD backup, allow pre-service teach- My wife, Marjorie Gay Tuck, MA’57, and area had been a school superintendent with The article about the history of the REFLEC- “We have a top-ranked special educa- is to provide research that will help shape ers to call up clips of K–3 classroom interactions I enjoy THE PEABODY REFLECTOR. We are no concept of what we were trying to do. In TOR [“Cover to Cover: 110 Years of THE tion department that is recognized for its more valid and useful federal guidelines for for extended study. Cases contain videos of proud of our institution and try to keep up fact, when I finished my [doctoral] degree PEABODY REFLECTOR,” Winter 2001, p. 34] research and advocacy for people with dis- the states and local districts to implement,” classroom lessons and related materials that with life on the campus. We especially enjoyed at the University of Michigan, the depart- was very interesting. One small correction: abilities,” says Peabody Dean Camilla Ben- says Fuchs. form the basis of anchored instruction and the article on alumni who are or were col- ment head told me there was no place for [Original REFLECTOR publisher] Jacques Back bow. “I am extremely excited that we can serve as springboards for discussion. lege and university presidents [“Movers, me at Peabody, and the sooner I left the bet- was founder and first publisher of the Observer, which is a publication of the Nashville Jew- $5.5 Million Effort Seeks As a result, students analyze the anchor Shakers, & Policymakers,” Winter 2001, p. ter. He himself left within a couple of years, videos and related case materials; review 22]. I served as president of California Bap- and somehow I think there was, indeed, a ish community. It is not a statewide publi- Improved Reading Education cation. Founded in 1935, the Observer now interviews with teachers, principals, parents, tist College from 1984 to 1994 and am now place for me and for a program in higher president, emeritus. education. I am delighted to see the program is published bimonthly by the Jewish Fed- DAVID CRENSHAW You are a new teacher assigned to a second- students, and experts around the country; eration of Nashville. grade classroom. Throughout your under- and connect their analysis of classroom issues —RUSSELL R. TUCK, MA’57, PHD’71 in good hands. I receive Vanderbilt Magazine regularly graduate years, you’ve labored through to their own practicum experiences and to Gainesville, Va. Many thanks for an excellent issue. —IDA LONG ROGERS, MA’51 and enjoy reading it. But, although I received lesson plans, observed in practica, and stu- class readings in ways that provide an in- Thank you for your recent feature article Professor of higher education my M.L.S. from Peabody, this was the first dent-taught in two different classrooms. depth exploration of teacher decision-mak- on Peabody alumni serving in the role of administration, emerita time I’d seen the REFLECTOR, which is Now you’re planning your first unit in read- ing and classroom interventions. chief executive officer of colleges and uni- Peabody College, Nashville the same high quality as the Vanderbilt ing, but do you really know what to expect? Years one and two of the grant have versities. Julia Helgason assembled the sto- alumni publication. How can a new teacher best teach reading been devoted to gathering data for the mul- ries of an impressive group of education Thank you for sending copies of the latest —ANNETTE RATKIN, MLS’75 in classrooms characterized by diversity in timedia cases and to pilot studies at the four leaders from around the nation. The num- PEABODY REFLECTOR. I also appreciate your Archivist, Jewish Federation of Nashville student background, learning ability, and universities. In addition to the classroom ber of alumni serving in leadership positions congratulations on my accomplishments as and Middle Tennessee, Nashville social interaction? segments and interviews, assessments of is a clear indication of Peabody’s president of Northern Arizona Uni- THE TRIBUTES CONTINUE At Peabody a five-year, $5.55 million grant, the elementary students’ reading abilities, enduring dedication to excel- versity, Wichita State funded by the National Science Foundation examples of their written work, and demo- lence in both private and pub- University and, Your article on favorite Peabody profes- through the Interagency Education Research graphic information on each classroom lic education. most rec- sors [Spring 2001] moved me immensely. Initiative, leads an effort to train pre-service have been compiled. Although I am not a president, William Griffin, under whose direction I teachers to make classroom decisions rooted New technologies based on advancements chancellor, or provost, I count some earned honors in English, remained a men- in teaching practices proven effective in rais- in Internet capabilities are constantly tested of those cited in the article as “friends in tor and help to me throughout my Dan Reschly and Doug Fuchs ing levels of reading achievement. Continued on page 4

2 PEABODY REFLECTOR 3 Peabody Hosts Global Conference on Learning Technologies DEPARTMENT NOTES

ducation leaders DAVID CRENSHAW Human and Organizational BACK continued Development feed Eand practitioners Joseph J. Cunningham, department chair and asso- undergraduate major in English, gradu- Peabody, who gave me what I needed to career for 42 years. from around the world gathered at ciate professor of special education, has been ate school at Georgetown University, and teach and learn throughout life. I have retired now and look back on awarded a $996,770 research grant by the U.S. my career, until his death. —MIRIAM WATKINS MEYERS, BA’62 the inspiration and the “fire that was lit Peabody on March Department of Education for “GEAR UP Nashville.” Edwin Anderson’s course “The Bible Professor, emerita, literature and language under me” by Dr. Gore. I have taught high 25 and 26 to hear the Marcy Singer Gabella is co-principal investigator. results of a unique as Literature” was foundational to a life- Metropolitan State University, school, was a high-school principal and Craig Anne Heflinger, associate professor of human long pursuit. The grounding Susan Riley Minneapolis a university professor because of the car- study on the global and organizational development, has been awarded gave me in literature—and the wisdom she ing concern Dr. Gore exhibited as a teacher impact of informa- a $227,125 research grant by the Public Health offered me, a student struggling to survive I came out of college with a bachelor’s and friend who saw in me talents worth tion technology on Service for “Co-Occurring Drug and Mental Dis- on limited means—provided another under- degree and no real plans to be a teacher. developing. learning. Nearly 100 orders in Youth.” pinning. John Brewton’s gentle introduc- I thought I would just go into the work- I would like to thank his daughters individuals from 13 William L. Partridge, professor of human and tion to children’s literature provided force. I applied to several schools and was [Elaine Gore Amis, BA’52, and Barbara countries met on cam- organizational development and acting associate background I needed as a teacher and turned down, so I went to Peabody and Gore Bomar Kortrey, BA’55], who wrote pus for the first North dean for research, published a paper, “The Pop- ulation Displaced by Armed Conflict in Colom- missed as a child. talked with Dr. [L. Lawton] Gore. He sug- in the REFLECTOR about their father [in American conference bia,” in the fall 2001 issue of the journal Social But there were other faculty—those not gested I might want to study toward teach- the feature “Your Favorite Professors,” of the Organisation of Economic Coop- Wong, students in industrialized countries Justice. The paper was drawn by Partridge’s two mentioned in your article: Warren Titus, ing credentials—“as a backup”—and advised Spring 2001, p. 21]. They reminded me eration and Development (OECD). A 30- in North America, Europe, and Asia account years of work as senior adviser for the United Sam Wiggins, Lalla Walker, Jewell Phelps, me to sign up for practice teaching. I enjoyed of how much I owe Dr. Gore for the ful- member international consortium based for only 15 percent of the world’s student Nations High Commissioner on Refugees, Bogota, Susan Gray, Milton Shane, Clifton Hall— the classes and the relaxed atmosphere, filling career I have enjoyed as a teacher. in Paris, the OECD comprises industri- population. “This means that 85 percent Colombia. He recently edited the book Reasen- tamiento en Colombia, published jointly by the all different, all excellent. There’s no ques- and it was inspiring to be taught by some- It is regrettable that I probably did not alized countries in North America, Europe, of students in the world are waiting to see tion but that Bill Griffin influenced and one who truly enjoyed teaching. tell him what an inspiration he was to me. World Bank, the U.N. High Commissioner on and Asia and develops policy in various what we do next. Countries in Latin Amer- Refugees, Office of the President of Colombia, gave me the most, but the ideals, learning, On the first day of my practice teach- —JOHN T. D URICHEK, MA’59 fields related to economic development. ica and Africa, for example, are trying to and the Corporacion Antioquia Presente, the lat- example, and support from the Peabody ing in an inner-city high school, I was Collegedale, Tenn. Conference chair Ken Wong, Peabody learn from OECD countries so they can ter a non-governmental organization serving the faculty shaped my professional and per- introduced to the class and the teacher needs of displaced people. professor of public policy and education get a jump start on bringing learning tech- sonal life profoundly. put me in charge. I immediately felt at and a member of the OECD task force nologies into their classrooms.” Sharon L. Shields, professor of the practice of I recently spoke at my university’s annual home and knew teaching was the place Your letters are welcome and may be sub- that directed the three-year study, says that In this photo, Colette Chabbott of the health promotions and education, was honored teaching conference on what I’ve learned for me. The Industrial Education Depart- mitted to THE PEABODY REFLECTOR, Edi- at Vanderbilt’s fall Faculty Assembly for 25 years in my years as a teacher (I took early retire- ment was being phased out there at tor, VU Station B 357703, 2301 Vanderbilt 23 countries, including the United States, National Academy of Sciences asks a of service to the University. She began her career ment in December); I began by saying that Peabody, and Dr. Gore gave me many Place, Nashville, TN 37235. Letters may Canada, France, Belgium, and Japan, question of Dorit Tubin of Tel Aviv Uni- at Peabody as an assistant professor of health and I wanted first to honor my teachers at teaching aids that I used in my teaching be edited for length. looked at how information technology is versity in Israel. Next to her is Profes- physical education, later becoming associate pro- being used in their classrooms and evalu- sor Alain Breuleux of McGill University fessor and then professor of the practice of health ated its impact on learning. “This study in Montreal. This particular session, promotion and education. She also was educa- tion and research director of the Health Promo- is providing a good baseline for us in under- called “Information and Communica- tion Center at Vanderbilt Medical Center from to make these materials available to a wide ers,” says Kinzer. “What this grant does is Vanderbilt Mentoring Program, directed by standing the overall conditions surrounding tion Technology and School Reform: An 1982 to 1989. She has won numerous national audience. Currently, these new technologies both test and build on research that has Margaret Smithey, senior lecturer in educa- information and communication tech- International View,” also involved Ken awards, the Vanderbilt Affirmative Action and allow Peabody students to cut and paste been done nationally in the last five years tion, and Carolyn Evertson, professor of nologies in our schools,” Wong says. Wong, Richard Venezky of the Univer- Human Rights Award, and is noted for her ser- vice-learning courses. video clips for classroom presentations and concerning effective teaching practices for education, trains established Nashville teach- Findings are sure to impact future edu- sity of Delaware, Darrell Fraser-Glen of even e-mail customized video segments to pre-service teachers. Through CTELL we ers to be mentors and then partners them cation practices, both in industrialized and Waverly College in Australia, and Jeanne Paul Speer, associate professor of human and students at other universities to broaden their will test the effects of these practices in with two new teachers. less developed countries. According to Marie Ho of Singapore. organizational development, has been awarded a $27,816 research grant by the Raskob Foun- discussions on effective reading practices. schools to see if multimedia case-based, Graciela Escobedo, assistant superinten- dation for Catholic Activities for “Raskob Skip- This summer the CTELL project is train- anchored instruction in teacher training dent of human resources for the Nashville per Initiative Evaluation Project.” ing 20 professors of reading education from results in better readers.” school system, hopes the mentoring program different universities in the anchored-instruc- will enable the system to retain many of its country for several years and has shown pos- having an impact in Nashville; as of late fall, Leadership and Organizations tion, case-based approach. In year three, Mentoring Program Trains new teachers by helping them bridge the con- itive results, says Smithey. none of the mentored teachers had left the John M. Braxton, professor of education, has been elected to serve as president of the Associ- data will be collected at these 20 universi- First-Time Teachers fusion and get a jump start on the job. An independent study of the program system. “They are so excited, so hyped. ties on those using the system and compared “We know what the research shows,” among new Midwest teachers showed that It’s wonderful.” ation for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE). During his three-year term, he first will serve as to a corresponding set of control classrooms. A mentoring program initiated by Peabody says Escobedo. “Teachers whose feet are those with trained mentors “more effectively vice president, then as president, and then as By year four, the first set of teachers trained last summer is helping first-time Metro solidly planted on the ground, who know managed their classroom and had more on- Susan Gray School immediate past president. using the CTELL approach will be teaching Nashville schoolteachers overcome the hur- the ins and outs of the system, and who task behavior.” Gets State’s Top Rating Braxton also has been invited to serve on the Peer reading in their own classrooms. The grant dles of being a new classroom teacher or know the curriculum feel a lot better and “A large majority of the mentor teachers Review Panel for the Office of Research Integrity will follow these teachers in their first and learning a new school system. more valued.” have reported they are very positive about The Susan Gray School for Children at of the National Institutes of Health. second years of teaching and compare the Each year about 9 percent of new teach- Last summer nearly 90 Nashville teach- their opportunities to mentor new teachers,” Peabody College has received a three-star R. Wilburn Clouse, associate professor of edu- outcomes of their classes with those taught ers in Nashville quit because they become ers were trained by the Peabody program to says Smithey, “and they believe they have rating under Tennessee’s new Star Qual- cation, has been awarded a $50,000 research by reading teachers not influenced by CTELL. overwhelmed by the paperwork, bewildered be mentors to 162 new or beginning teach- contributed significantly to the new teach- ity system for evaluating child-care centers grant by the Coleman Foundation for “Entre- “Our argument is that we need to do a by having a class of their own all day, and ers during the 2001–2002 school year. The ers’ successes.” for their performance beyond the state’s preneurs in Action.” more effective job teaching our future teach- confounded by intricacies of the system. The program actually has been used around the Escobedo says the program seems to be minimum licensing requirements. Three

4 PEABODY REFLECTOR 5 DEPARTMENT NOTES stars is the highest rating for this system. Crossing at the Edgehill intersection makes Peabody Loses Alumnus in Sept. 11 Attacks Clouse was recently appointed to the Coleman Centers receive one, two, or three stars sense from an engineering standpoint, he says, A Tribute to Mark Hindy (BS’95) Senior Entrepreneurship Scholars Consortium, based on many criteria, including staff train- as the points of entry at either end of the bridge 1973–2001 which helps design strategies and develop policy ing and parental involvement. One goal of are on the same elevation. The ongoing con-

to move the field of entrepreneurship forward. COURTESY OF ELLEN DANIELS the system is to provide par- struction of Vanderbilt’s Bio- Mark David Hindy, 28, a graduate of vation of the religious faith to which he was Janet Eyler, professor of the practice of educa- ents with an excellent and Psychology research at Vander- sciences/Medical Research Peabody’s human and organizational devel- dearly devoted. While many of us loaded my tion, was honored at Vanderbilt’s fall Faculty easily understood guide to bilt, including that of Peabody Col- Building III through which opment program and a former Commodores mother’s giant grill with steaks and ham- Assembly for 25 years of service to the Univer- baseball pitcher, was among the victims of burgers Friday nights after practice, he insisted sity. She joined the Peabody faculty in 1976 and selecting high-quality care. lege and the the new pedestrian way will the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Cen- upon purchasing for himself and sharing a has served in numerous administrative capacities, Tennessee is in its first College of Arts run, adjacent to Godchaux, Did you ter in New York. An equity trader at Can- filet of mahimahi or salmon. Having promised including special assistant to the dean, assistant year of using this system to and Science, also makes practical the pro- know tor Fitzgerald, the financial securities firm his mother that he would not allow a busy director of the VIPPS Center for Education and evaluate the estimated 4,000 ranks ninth in fund- ject, which has been discussed Human Development Policy, assistant dean, asso- devastated by the attacks, Hindy worked on schedule of books and baseball to interfere child-care centers across the ? ing from the National for years. ciate dean, and director of Human Resource Devel- the 104th floor of the WTC’s North Tower. with attending mass, Mark would sometimes opment and Organizational Leadership graduate state. To date, 230 child- Institutes of Health among psy- The bridge will be 400 A memorial celebration of his life took place creep in a few minutes late for a Sunday SEC programs. A co-author of two books and author care agencies have chosen chology departments nationwide. feet in length, rising 17 feet Sept. 24 in Brooklyn, drawing more than game since traffic was bad from the cathe- of nine book chapters, she received the National to take part in Star Quality. above 21st Avenue. Current 1,200 family members, friends, and for- dral on West End. My friend never took him- Society for Experiential Education’s Outstanding Of those, 95 have received three stars, 108 plans call for brick columns at both ends, mer teammates. Among those former team- self or his faith too seriously: I asked him Research Award in 1998. mates was David W. Daniels, BA’95, who our sophomore year what he was giving up have two stars, and 27 have one star. as well as the words “Vanderbilt Univer- has written this tribute to his friend. for Lent, and with a laugh he answered, “It Ellen B. Goldring, professor of educational lead- The Susan Gray School, named for one sity” across the bridge’s span. Boston-based Mark Hindy, left, and David Daniels dur- ership, was invited to give the annual Distinguished looks like homeruns!” of Peabody’s most revered early researchers William Wilson Associated Architects, which ing their Commodore Baseball days Faculty Lecture during last October’s meeting of bout 30 of us made our way down to But, most important, Mark loved his fam- the Peabody Alumni Association Board of Direc- in special education, is an early childhood designed the biosciences building and the AMcGugin Field the fall of my fresh- ily. He is the immediate reflection of two of tors. Alumni, faculty, and students attended the education program for young children with Stevenson chemistry building, is designing man year, each carrying hope that a solid per- earlier, many of us received an informative the most special people I have ever met. George lecture, titled “Going to School Closer to Home: and without disabilities. It serves about 150 the bridge, which is scheduled for comple- formance would catch the eye of a coach and round of spirited phone calls that Knicker- and Ginny Hindy have a special gift of smoth- Desegregation and the End of Court-Ordered Bus- children on site and, for children with dis- tion late this fall. earn us a spot on the varsity roster as a walk- bocker John Starks had just dunked over ering compassion upon everyone who accepts ing.” Goldring’s research focuses on the organi- on. By the end of the week, five of us were Michael Jordan during the NBA playoffs. He the open invitation into their beautiful home. abilities, in homes and community settings. zation and control of schools. She studies educational allowed to join the team on a conditional carried such a pride in the game we were so Answering a phone call from either one of reform, principal leadership and parental involve- The School, which is operated jointly by AIDS Activist Honored basis—promised nothing but expected to give fortunate to share. them, I was honored to reply to their inquiries ment, with particular emphasis on schools of Peabody College and the John F. Kennedy at King Commemoration everything at all times. During our collegiate career, the pitching on the status of my classes, my arm, and the choice. She is co-author of two books, Principals Center for Research on Human Develop- My first impression of the fellow walk- staff doubled as groundskeepers, preparing health of my parents. of Dynamic Schools (2000) and School Choice ment, also serves as a site for training, research, The Rev. Edwin C. Sanders II, founder of on who lived four doors down from my the diamond for a game and maintaining Mark had no better role model than in Urban America: Magnet Schools and the Pur- Branscomb dorm room was of a hulking, it after a contest. While Coach Mewbourne the man he admired most, his older brother, suit of Equity (1999). and demonstration. Nashville’s Metropolitan Interdenomina- “Peabody College is proud of the Susan tional Church and a man committed to edu- crew-cut-trimmed giant from Brooklyn who trusted me with the tremendous responsi- Greg. Like his father, Greg prefers an aggres- kept to himself. Finally introducing ourselves bility of raking the batter’s box, Mark was sive hug versus a handshake and possesses Goldring has been awarded a $132,848 research Gray School’s three-star distinction,” says cating the African American community grant by the W.T. Grant Foundation for “Reclaim- to each other, Mark and I began to enjoy assigned the task of driving the John Deere the beautiful habit of bringing out the best ing Communities: Diversity, Equity, and Access Peabody Dean Camilla Benbow. “The rat- about HIV and AIDS, is the 2002 recipient shagging fly balls in the outfield, running tractor in graceful figure-eights around the in everyone he meets. Mark was the best in the Post-Busing Era.” Claire Smrekar and Robert ing is consistent with the School’s tradition of the “Changing Lives” Award given jointly partnered wind sprints, dining together in infield to smooth its dirt surface. Compared man at Greg and Lorraine’s wedding, over- L. Crowson are co-principal investigators. of exemplary service and leadership in the by Peabody’s Department of Psychology the cafeteria, and walking back to our dorm to our SEC opponents’ cathedral stadi- whelming family and friends with an unfor- James W. Guthrie, department chair and pro- education of young children.” and Human Development and Department room at the end of a long day. ums, our field resembled a scene from Val- gettable toast to their new life together. Their fessor of public policy and education, has been of Special Education. What drew me immediately to this gen- ley Forge, but Mark took great pride in first child, Olivia, became the apple of her elected to the board of directors of the American The award is presented each January dur- tle giant was an infectious laugh and a deter- manicuring its infield. In fact, when vandals uncle’s loving eye. In the truest sense, they Pedestrian Bridge to Connect mination to make it on his own. He took a turned on the sprinklers the night before we were the best of friends. Education Finance Association. ing Vanderbilt’s Martin Luther King Jr. Com- Vandy, Peabody Campuses great chance coming so far from the security began our series with Tennessee, his first view She will never forget her “Uncle Markie” Stephen P. Heyneman, professor of international NEIL BRAKE of his family and friends 1,100 miles away, of the flooded field forced a couple of tears. who, as she raises a finger toward the sky, education policy, has been awarded a $299,652 Nashville’s Metro Planning Commission has while I simply stayed in my own backyard Make no mistake—he was a big guy, and “is with the angels.” research grant by the U.S. Department of State approved plans for a $1.9 million elevated of Nashville. The best decision I ever made he loved food. But it really wasn’t the food —David W. Daniels, BA’95 for “Institutional Partnerships in Educational Pol- bridge spanning 21st Avenue to benefit pedes- in college was to take him up on his offer that made him happy; it was the fact that icy, Higher Education Management, and Educa- a meal was the best time for all of us to tional Leadership: A Program of Cooperation.” trians traveling between the Vanderbilt and to live together at the end of our freshman In April the Vanderbilt Athletic Department Peabody campuses. year. During our three years as roommates spend time together. Proud of the Bay Ridge unveiled a plaque honoring Mark Hindy that Mark W. Lipsey, research professor of public pol- and bullpen mates, I learned that this was a delis that had successfully sustained him for graces the entrance to the University’s new The bridge will cross the heavily congested icy, has been awarded a $248,990 research grant special man blessed with an enduring charm, 18 years, he introduced us to the finest baseball stadium, and the department is estab- by the National Institute of Justice for “Meta- street just south of the Edgehill Avenue inter- a humble nature, and many loves. breads, meats, and cheeses any of us had lishing a memorial fund in Hindy’s name. Analytic Database on Effectiveness of Delinquency section, with endpoints near Magnolia Cir- Of course, he loved sports. He revered ever tasted. Mark would either box these The University also has renamed its annual Programs: Update, Analysis, and Dissemination.” cle on the Peabody side and the School of baseball, but he would strive daily to update goods in dry ice before boarding a plane for athlete-alumni golf tournament “The Mark Michael K. McLendon, assistant professor of Nursing’s Godchaux Hall on the other. Stu- us on the status of his beloved Giants and Nashville, or he would simply call his mother, Hindy Memorial Tournament.” Because of Knicks. With a chuckle and a precision doc- Ginny, and ask for help in feeding his five Hindy’s protective love of children, his fam- public policy and education, has had his dis- dents and staff who cross the street daily will Kathleen Hoover-Dempsey, right, associate sertation selected as National Dissertation of be provided a safer, faster commute. umented by the USA Today he had studied other suitemates. He was a great cook whose ily has established the Mark Hindy Charita- professor of psychology and chair of Peabody’s that morning in the Sarratt Student Center, Sunday tradition of homemade spaghetti ble Foundation Inc., which will assist various the Year by the Association for the Study of “The Edgehill Avenue intersection is the Higher Education. Department of Psychology and Human Devel- he would inform us during batting practice delighted not only his roommates but also children’s charities. For information on how hypotenuse to the route through the Med- opment, introduces “Changing Lives” Award- of the outstanding personal performances at the group of girls next door (whose furni- you may help to support either memorial Kenneth K. Wong, professor of public policy and ical Center that most people tend to take winner Rev. Edwin Sanders, center, to Rich Madison Square Garden the previous evening. ture we enjoyed hiding during their Mon- fund, please contact the Vanderbilt Athletic education, has been awarded a $280,043 research between the two campuses,” says Judson Although the spring semester of our sopho- day-night sorority meetings). Department by calling 615/343-3109. grant by the U.S. Department of Education for Milner, new research assistant professor of “Supplemental Analyses of the Longitudinal Eval- Newbern, associate vice chancellor teaching and learning. Sanders was honored more year had already concluded a few weeks Mark’s diet was also an important obser- for campus planning and construction. for his life of service to others.

6 PEABODY REFLECTOR 7 DEPARTMENT NOTES A Continuum of Care: fessor and chair of the Department of Spe- policies had direct consequences on schools, Peabody Mother/Daughter Duo Takes On Visual Disabilities cial Education. teachers, and students. For example, some uation of School Change and Performance in Title Preceding the presentation were remarks of the lower performing schools were placed I Schools.” by Ralph M. Thompson, on probation by the Wong had a lead article, “Rethinking the Fiscal s mothers and daughters go, Ann East- cation at Cheatham Middle School in “I see this as something I can do after assistant superintendent 97 percent of first-year school board and required Role of the States in Public Education,” published erling and Virginia Chapman are com- Cheatham County, Tenn., has been edu- I retire from full-time teaching in four or A of middle schools for undergraduate students to develop school- in the October 2001 issue of Government Finance plete opposites physically. Easterling, the cating students for 22 years. Though she five years,” says Easterling. “I could see Did you Review. The journal is the membership magazine Metro Nashville Public returned to Peabody last improvement plans. In mother, is blonde and tan. Chapman, myself working with geriatric patients on know of the 15,000-member Government Finance Offi- DAVID CRENSHAW her daughter, is fair with dark hair. “Mom orientation and mobility, especially since Schools. Thompson is a fall for their second year. the seven schools placed cers Association of the United States and Canada. ? Wong also was invited by the Wisconsin Depart- is relaxed, and I’m high-strung,” says Chap- I teach physical education.” Easterling cites longtime educator who on probation, five prin- ment of Public Instruction to give the keynote man, and Easterling agrees, laughing. her former mother-in-law as someone who has distinguished himself as an adminis- cipals were fired and 30 percent of teachers trator at the elementary, middle, and high were replaced. address at its annual statewide conference on But that may be where the significant may have unwittingly fostered her inter- school improvement in February. differences end. Both mother and daugh- est in this area of visual disabilities. school levels. He has received “Teacher of Chicago further improved its system by ter are teachers, and both agree concern- “She had arterial sclerosis, and in 1984 the Year” and “Principal of the Year” hon- following the lead of its sister city. Wong Psychology and Human ing their next career move: They are the she went totally blind,” Easterling explains. ors, and the Phi Delta Kappa organization found that the Birmingham system recruits Development first mother/daughter duo to enroll in the “One day she could see fine, and then sud- for professional educators has named him experienced administrators and teachers to Camilla P. Benbow, Peabody dean and professor visual disabilities program at Peabody. denly it was all gone. As far as her mobil- “Educator of the Year.” Recently, he was serve on an advisory board that helps poorly of psychology, has been elected to the executive Chapman, who teaches fifth grade at ity was concerned, she was pretty much inducted into the Tennessee State University performing schools identify and address committee of the Association of Colleges and Schools of Education in State Universities, Land Burt Elementary School in Clarksville, self-taught, but I don’t think I could have College of Education Wall of Fame. problems. The Birmingham advisory board Grant Colleges, and Affiliated Private Universi- Tenn., applied first to the program. “I had done as well. After I got into this program, has proven so successful that upon reading ties. The organization is the national association a little girl in my class last year who had I thought this probably should be the way Mayor-Led School Boards the report, the Chicago school system imple- for deans of colleges of education. Benbow also ocular albinism”—an inherited condition I should go, to help older people, to let has been asked to serve on the Organization of Stop Finger-Pointing mented similar system-wide support. in which the inside of the eye lacks pig- them know they can still function.” Other policymakers also have taken Institutional Affiliates Executive Committee for the American Educational Research Association. mentation, causing failure of the retina to While she feels she may work with those The work of a Peabody professor is help- notice: Wong’s report was used as a blue- develop fully—“and I worked with her on the older end of the age scale, the oppo- ing cities across the country redesign the gov- print by the Ohio governor and legislative Benbow has served on a National Research Coun- vision teacher who was a graduate of the site is true for her daughter, who enjoys erning structures of their school systems in leaders when they drafted legislation allow- cil panel on Advanced Study of Mathematics and Peabody program,” she says. “This year working with young children. Chapman’s Science in American High Schools. In March the an effort to become more effective at teach- ing the mayor of Cleveland to take over I have a boy in my class who has secondary practicum allows her to work with children panel released its report, titled “Learning and ing and more accountable to the public. Cleveland’s schools. Understanding: Improving Advanced Study of juvenile glaucoma.” through Tennessee Infant-Parent Services. About five years ago Kenneth Wong, pro- A decline in public confidence is behind Mathematics and Science in U.S. High Schools.” Chapman’s undergraduate degree is in “I’m working with a 21-month-old child fessor of public policy and education and the movement, explains Wong. “Nation- animal science, and her teaching special- Ann Easterling, left, and her daughter, Vir- right now who is one of only six children Benbow traveled to Washington, D.C., in March ization is in life sciences, so her interest in ginia Chapman, are the first mother/daugh- in the state to have a rare condition called associate director of the Peabody Center for wide, confidence in public schools has declined to attend the White House Conference on Prepar- ing Tomorrow’s Teachers. The conference and the anatomical aspects of the eye has been ter duo to enroll in Peabody’s visual familial exuditive retinopathy,” says Chap- Education Policy, did a comparative study DAVID CRENSHAW of how schools in Chicago and Birming- luncheon with First Lady Laura Bush were held piqued by these situations. The course- disabilities program. man. “We work on his fine motor skills, at the White House as part of her “Ready to Read, work she currently takes in the program gross motor skills, and language develop- ham, England, are governed. Chicago and Ready to Learn” initiative. The conference brought prepares her for a new career, possibly as only started the program this spring, she ment. He’s really just starting to come Birmingham are sister cities and similar in together university and business leaders, teacher- an itinerant vision teacher, but also allows already has found orientation and mobil- out of his shell with me. I just heard him size, ethnic makeup, and challenges facing education advocates, teachers’ unions, public pol- her new insight in her current job. ity to be an area in which she takes par- say his first word a couple of weeks ago.” their schools. icy organizations, and foundations that share an “At that time,” Wong explains, “Chicago interest in enhancing teacher quality. In addition Easterling, who teaches physical edu- ticular interest. —Bonnie Arant Ertelt to presentations by representatives of these groups, was the first major urban school system in the conference included remarks by Laura Bush, the country under mayoral governance. President George W. Bush, and Secretary of Edu- memoration to recognize individuals whose Ministry in Nashville and dean of the chapel Committee on HIV and STD Prevention by Members of the school board are appointed cation Rod Paige. lives of service embody the values put forth at Fisk University. then-Secretary of Health and Human Ser- by the mayor and accountable to the mayor.” Leonard Bickman, professor of psychology and by King. Sanders earned his bachelor’s degree in vices Donna Shalala. The same year, he was This structure is in contrast to the more tra- professor of psychiatry, has been awarded two Attracting a broad cross-section of peo- anthropology from Wesleyan University a participant in the “Healthy 2000” Progress ditional formation in which voters elect recent grants by the Public Health Service: $432,748 ple, the Metropolitan Interdenominational (Connecticut), where he has served as a Review conducted by U.S. Surgeon General school board members. for “Improving Pediatricians’ Use of AD/HD Guidelines” and $408,681 for “Enhancing ADHD Church has outreach ministries in the areas member of the board of trust and as co- David Satcher. He has been a presenter at “We have about 15,000 school boards Rx Effectiveness by Pediatrics and Schools.” of substance abuse, sexual violence, harm director of the African American Institute, the last two World AIDS Conferences—in across the country,” Wong says. “Ninety reduction, and children’s advocacy, in addi- and he has done graduate work at Yale and Geneva, Switzerland, and Durban, South percent of these are elected, and nearly all Bickman presented “Improving Client Outcomes Through Therapeutic Alliance” for Grand Rounds tion to providing services to persons infected Vanderbilt divinity schools. He holds mem- Africa—and speaks regularly in other forums of these govern smaller school systems. Of in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia Uni- with, and affected by, HIV and AIDS through bership in the Nashville Branch of the NAACP, throughout the United States regarding the approximately 30 largest systems, most versity in New York last September, and he also the church’s First Response Center, for which the Alcohol and Drug Council of Middle HIV/AIDS and substance-abuse issues. are moving toward mayoral-appointed or organized a two-day conference on mental health reform at the University of Tromso in Norway Sanders serves as executive director. Tennessee, and the Tennessee Human Rights Recently, he was invited to serve on the Pres- joint-appointed school boards in which the Kenneth Wong Until recently, Sanders served as pas- Commission, and is president of the Inter- idential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS. mayor and governor share power.” last October. The conference could lead to major changes in child and adolescent mental-health toral counselor for Meharry Medical Col- denominational Ministers’ Fellowship. He The “Changing Lives” Award was pre- Wong’s report was the first in the United from 58 percent in 1973 to 36 percent today. services in Norway. lege’s alcohol and drug abuse program, is past chairperson of the Ryan White Com- sented to Sanders by Kathleen Hoover- States to capture how changes in governance The public has deep and widespread con- Bickman and David Lubinski, professor of psy- where he was responsible for the spiritual munity AIDS Partnership. Dempsey, associate professor and chair of create a different set of conditions that affect cerns, and when they express these concerns, chology, rank in the top 5 percent in productiv- component of the program. He also for- In April 1998 Sanders was appointed the Department of Psychology and Human teaching and learning in the classroom. As those in charge begin to point fingers—the ity (for weighted publications) among developmental merly was director of the Southern Prison to the Centers for Disease Control Advisory Development, and Daniel J. Reschly, pro- a result of mayoral control in Chicago, new mayor blames the school board who blames

8 PEABODY REFLECTOR 9 DEPARTMENT NOTES DEPARTMENT NOTES The Challenges of Quality Teaching Project 30 Alliance on campus is an added benefit because it science scholars, according to a Developmental becomes a mechanism for us to improve our tive Research on the Perceptual Aspects of Loco-

DAVID CRENSHAW Relocates to Peabody Review article that evaluated doctoral programs rginia Richardson, a leading national own ways of addressing the same goals as motion Interfaces.” in developmental sciences. They were among a group of 40 individuals who had published an Vresearcher on practical ways to The Project 30 Alliance, a unique teacher- the national group.” Jules Seeman, professor of psychology, emeri- average of 33.67 articles, 2.3 books, and 8.98 enhance teacher education, shares her education reform initiative involving 29 col- The Project 30 Alliance was begun in tus, and lecturer of human development coun- chapters over a seven-year period. insights on constructivist pedagogy as leges and universities nationwide, has moved 1988 through financial support from the seling, is associate editor of a newly published volume of Humanistic Psychotherapies: Hand- David A. Cole, professor of psychology, has the 17th annual Maycie K. Southall Lec- its headquarters from the University of Day- Carnegie Corp. and organizational support book of Research and Practice. The handbook been awarded a $1.7 million research grant turer on Feb. 7. The constructivist ped- ton to the Peabody College campus. from the American Association of Colleges was published by the American Psychological ($331,957 per year for five years) by the Pub- agogy approach focuses on teachers’ As part of the move, the name of the orga- for Teacher Education (AACTE) and the Association. lic Health Service for “Development Origins of knowledge and how they are able to con- nization has been changed to the Arts and Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences Depressive Cognitions.” Tedra Ann Walden, professor of psychology, has vey that knowledge to accommodate for Sciences/Teacher Edu- (CCAS) deans. For more information, visit been awarded a $999,949 research grant by the Judy Garber, professor of psychology and pro- differences in individual children’s under- cation Collaborative: the Project 30 Alliance’s Web site at Public Health Service for “Collaborative Program fessor of psychiatry, has been awarded a $94,724 standings. “Ultimately, educational Project 30 Alliance. www.ASTECProject30.org, or e-mail your on Homeless Families.” Leonard Bickman is co- research grant by the Public Health Service for principal investigator. research informs practice—policy, school DAVID CRENSHAW In addition, Charles comments to [email protected]. “Sequential Treatment Alternatives to Relieve Depression (STAR*D) Child Study.” administration, teaching, instruction, B. Myers, Peabody Lynn S. Walker, associate professor of psychol- and parenting,” says Richardson, a devoted professor of social Neuroscientist Named ogy and professor of pediatrics, has been named Garber and Bahr Weiss, associate professor of educator and researcher since 1961. studies education director of Vanderbilt’s Division of Adolescent psychology, are principal investigators for a three- Director of Kennedy Center Medicine and Behavioral Science. year grant from the Fogarty International Center “Above all, educational research speaks and assistant to the of the National Institutes of Health to develop to student learning and student devel- dean for teacher edu- Pat R. Levitt, formerly a professor and chair Niels G. Waller, professor of psychology, pre- sented “The Path Analysis Controversy: A New a training program for Vietnamese investigators opment in the important aspects of human cation, has been of neurobiology at the University of Pitts- Statistical Approach to Strong Appraisal of to conduct intervention research in childhood life, including the cognitive, moral, phys- past president of the American Educa- named national exec- burgh, has been named director of the John mental disorders. The grant is one of 14 that will Verisimilitude” at the meeting of the American fund research and training projects focused on ical, emotional, artistic, and social.” tional Research Association (AERA), Charles B. Myers utive director. F. Kennedy Center for Research on Human Psychological Association last August. He dis- international non-communicable disease condi- Richardson is professor and chair of edu- which represents more than 23,000 edu- Project 30 is the Development. Stephen M. Camarata, asso- cussed various theories of causality and focused

tions through the Fogarty Center’s new Interna- cational studies at the University of Michi- cators who conduct research and eval- only national organization that brings together ciate professor of VU NEWS SERVICE on recent attempts to test causal conjectures with path analysis. tional Clinical, Operational, and Health Services gan’s School of Education, and she is a uation in education. faculty in colleges of arts and sciences and hearing and speech Research and Training Award (ICOHRTA). Gar- faculty in colleges of education for the sole sciences and asso- Kenneth A. Wallston, professor of psychology, ber, Weiss, and other Vanderbilt faculty will purpose of improving teacher education. ciate professor of received the Career Service Award in Health Psy- collaborate with Dr. Hoang Cam Tu at the National chology from Division 38 of the American Psy- Institute of Pediatrics in Vietnam. the superintendent who blames the teach- cation Act (IDEA) of 1997 provided new The initiative provides a constructive intel- special education, chological Association during its annual convention ers’ union. opportunities for students with disabili- lectual agenda that encourages a penetrat- has served as interim Susan Hespos, assistant professor of psychology, in San Francisco last August. He has served as presented her research on the development of lan- “This movement asks, ‘Why not stop ties, including greater access ing analysis of the function of the education director for nearly treasurer, historian, and president of Division guage and spatial knowledge at a conference, the buck at the mayor’s office and hold the to general-education class- of prospective teachers at the college level. two years. 38 and is editor of its newsletter, The Health Psychologist. “Categorization of Spatial Entities in Language mayor accountable?’ It’s a radical change rooms. Explains Smith, This agenda focuses on five major themes: Levitt’s recent and Cognition,” in Toulouse, France, in January. for school systems.” “We’re including more spe- subject matter understanding; general and research has focused This invitational conference was sponsored by Special Education the French Ministry and is part of an interdisci- cial-education students in liberal education; pedagogical content knowl- on the interplay of Pat R. Levitt Stephen M. Camarata, associate professor of plinary initiative put forth by the French gov- New IRIS Center Supports general-education pro- edge; international, cultural, and other human genetics and envi- special education and associate professor of ernment to promote new research collaborations. grams, but the individu- perspectives; and recruitment of underrep- ronment, including the gestational and early hearing and speech sciences, has been awarded Special-Needs Education a $1.2 million research grant by the Public Health Hespos has been awarded a $129,833 research als who work with them resented groups into teaching. nurturing environment, in the development A new Peabody initiative hopes to improve don’t really know very much The issues and problems embedded within of the mammalian brain. At Pittsburgh he Service for “John F. Kennedy Center for Men- grant by the McDonnell Foundation for “Opti- tal Retardation.” cal Imaging in Human Infants.” the education of children with disabilities about their educational needs these themes often are beyond the expertise was co-director of the university’s Center Camarata was honored last October as Profes- Ellen E. Pinderhughes, research assistant pro- in general education classrooms. because they haven’t been trained of either an arts and sciences faculty or an for Neuroscience. The IRIS (IDEA and Research for Inclu- to work with kids with disabili- education faculty to solve alone. But, accord- “Vanderbilt is very fortunate to have sional of the Year by the Nashville Mayor’s Advi- fessor of psychology, has been awarded a $1.15 sory Committee for People with Disabilities. million research grant by the Public Health Ser- sive Settings) Center for Faculty Enhance- ties and their families.” ing to Project 30 goals, through joint con- recruited a national leader in the field of He was recognized for his work on treatment and vice for “Multi-Site Prevention of Adolescent ment was created last year through a $4.25 Smith and her colleagues are working sideration of these themes, faculties can work brain development,” says Dr. Harry R. Jacob- advocacy for children with language delays or Problem Behavior.” million, five-year grant from the U.S. Depart- with a team of the nation’s leading special- productively toward effective and durable son, vice chancellor for health affairs. “Under other developmental disabilities. Georgine M. Pion, research associate professor ment of Education’s Office of Special Edu- education experts to create course-enhance- curriculum redesign. Pat Levitt’s direction, the Kennedy Center’s Donald L. Compton, assistant professor of spe- of psychology and human development, has been cation Programs. The Center supports ment materials, including interactive teaching “The most important goal of the orga- already stellar contributions to the study of cial education, has been awarded a $180,000 awarded a $25,893 research grant by the Public college and university faculty who prepare modules and source materials for gen- nization, from my perspective, is better coop- behavioral and developmental disabilities research grant by the U.S. Department of Edu- Health Service for “IPA-Survey Development, K–12 general-education teachers, princi- eral-education faculty. The teaching mod- eration between arts and sciences and teacher will be further enhanced by a more com- cation for “Linking Decoding Instruction, Decod- Oversight, and Analysis.” able Text, and Metacognitive Instruction to Effect pals, school counselors, and school nurses, ules are Web-accessible learning units about educators,” says Myers. “It’s a combination prehensive biomedical approach.” Pion has been designated a National Associ- Strong Reading Comprehension Outcomes for and is the nation’s only faculty enhance- kids with disabilities, and faculty can use of enhancing the role of arts and sciences Levitt joins the Kennedy Center at a cru- ate of the National Academy of Sciences. The Children with Disabilities.” ment center established for this purpose. them for class discussion and problem-solv- faculty, and enhancing the place of content cial time, as it transitions from an adminis- honor, which is a lifetime appointment, recog- Anne L. Corn, professor of special education and nizes exceptional contributions to the National “IRIS is a wonderful opportunity to ing activities or assign them as homework. in a teacher preparation program. Then when trative unit of Peabody College to a professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences, Academies through pro bono service. make a difference for students with dis- One of the IRIS Center’s first products you get into things like diversity and the university-wide research center involving has been awarded a $273,161 research grant John J. Rieser, professor of psychology, has been abilities in schools,” says Center Director is a Web resource directory, a searchable importance of a broad liberal-arts educa- Peabody, the School of Medicine, and the by the State of Tennessee for “Providing Access awarded a $422,951 research grant by the Deborah D. Smith, research professor of database that provides faculty with descrip- tion, those values are naturally imbedded College of Arts and Science. This expansion to the Visual Environment (PAVE).” National Science Foundation for “Collabora- special education. tions of and links to Web sites with infor- into the whole thing. enables the Center’s initiatives to include The Individuals with Disabilities Edu- mation about special education. “Having the organization housed here genetic, pharmacological, and neurological

10 PEABODY REFLECTOR 11 DEPARTMENT NOTES DEPARTMENT NOTES facets of developmental disabilities research, Mason University (Virginia) and theologi- (Left to right) Corn has been appointed to the Tennessee Inter- and creates opportunities for increased inter- cal study at Vanderbilt Divinity School. Karen Cunning- Dale Farran, professor of education and profes- agency Professional Educators’ Consortium, a disciplinary research collaboration. “Peabody is a very complex place,” says ham, Helen sor of psychology, has received a grant to fund

committee charged with reviewing and making DAVID CRENSHAW her Transatlantic Consortium on Early Child- recommendations on the recruitment, personnel “The leadership of Van- Brobeck. “One of the Gleason, hood Intervention. The lead institution is the Uni- preparation, and retention of special educators derbilt has decided that the Among Vanderbilt University’s 10 things I hope to convey is William Par- versity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with in Tennessee. Kennedy Center can act as colleges and schools, a sense that all these strands tridge, and leadership provided by alumnus Rune Simeons- a ‘seed’ for stimulating an Peabody College is cohere in a way that Cathy Hill son, MA’67, EdS’68, PhD’71, who received Corn also was recipient of a 2001 Vanderbilt Did you Peabody’s 2001 Distinguished Alumnus Award. interdisciplinary environ- the only one offer- empowers people and ben- Affirmative Action and Diversity Initiative Award, know Peabody is one of three U.S. partners, and there presented last October. The award specifically ment for investigators to ing programs that efits their communities. are five European partners. The project proposes recognizes her work with Project PAVE, which come together,” says Levitt. ? lead to undergraduate, Peabody has never had a to (1) expand and strengthen the policy, practice, offers services to people with visual impairments “It’s one of the first uni- professional, and graduate degrees. person dedicated to its and research base of human services for young ages 3 to 21. versities to make such an communications functions, children with disabilities and their families; (2) Douglas Fuchs, professor of special education, contribute to the preparation of practitioners for effort, bringing together insights from basic so it’s very much a work in progress and a leadership roles through cross-cultural training; has been awarded a $700,000 research grant by biology to psychology to physiology that real creative opportunity.” the U.S. Department of Education for “Center (3) establish a mechanism for ongoing transat- for Research on Learning Disabilities.” Daniel can be translated into new initiatives for peo- Karen Cunningham, who has worked at lantic exchange of information and promotion Reschly, Lynn S. Fuchs, and Donald Compton ple with developmental disabilities. I’m very Peabody College since 1978, previously of collaborative research; and (4) establish a base are co-principal investigators. excited about this opportunity.” was administrative officer for Peabody’s Learn- for the development of further long-range col- laboration. The grant provides opportunities and Ann P. Kaiser, professor of special education and ing Technology Center, which she served funding for graduate students. professor of psychology, has been awarded two College Names New for 12 years. As senior financial analyst, she ters of the College. She continues to serve as students and increasing our admissions, recent research grants by the U.S. Department of is working to help develop the College’s oper- an adjunct piano instructor at Belmont Uni- Peabody is positively impacted in many John K. Folger, professor of education, emeri- Administrative Staff tus, has been elected vice president of the board Health and Human Services: $199,997 for “Early ational budget and contribute to financial versity (Nashville). ways,” she says. “This strengthens our com- Identification and Prevention of Conduct Disor- of the Nashville-area Habitat for Humanity chap- der in Head Start Children” and $75,000 for The Peabody College administration has planning for the future. “So far, no two days “As a Peabody graduate and long-time mitment to the campus community, our cur- ter. Habitat for Humanity is a nonprofit organi- “Building Social Communication Skills During been bolstered by the appointments of five have been the same,” she says. Nashvillian, I admire and respect the Peabody rent student body, and our alumni.” zation that builds affordable housing. Peer Interaction.” individuals in key roles: Kurt Brobeck, direc- A native of Old Hickory, Tenn., just out- of the past, and like everyone else, I am William Partridge joined the Peabody fac- Charles K. Kinzer, associate professor of educa- Craig H. Kennedy, associate professor of special tor of communications for the College; Karen side Nashville, Cunningham earned a B.S. excited about today’s Vanderbilt and oppor- ulty in 2001 as professor of human and orga- tion, has been awarded a $381,780 research grant education, has been awarded a $46,573 research Cunningham, senior financial analyst; Helen degree in business education from Trevecca tunities for the University’s future,” says nizational development and is now also by the National Science Foundation for “Best grant by the Tennessee Department of Educa- Gleason, assistant in the dean’s office; Cathy Nazarene University (Nashville). Gleason. “I see our work in the Dean’s serving as acting associate dean for research. Practices—Teacher Preparation—Technology: tion for “Evaluation of Inclusive Large Scale Connections That Enhance Children’s Literacy Hill, recruitment manager; and William Par- “I was here one year before Peabody’s Office as integral to communications within He came to Peabody from the World Bank Acquisition and Reading Achievement.” Standards and Assessment (ILSSA) Group Eval- tridge, acting associate dean for research. merger with Vanderbilt and have seen a lot the Peabody and University communities; in Washington, D.C., where he was lead uation Project.” Having spent 15 years in various com- of changes in the last 24 years,” says Cun- good communications are key to our growth anthropologist for the Latin American and Margaret W. Smithey, senior lecturer in educa- Daniel Reschly, department chair, professor of tion, presented two papers at the American Asso- munications posi- DAVID CRENSHAW ningham. “I would like to think what I do and will impact our future. I’m enjoying Caribbean Region, working in Mexico, ciation of Colleges for Teacher Education conference education, and professor of psychology, is senior tions for Vanderbilt’s makes a contribution both to the mission the quick pace and this extraordinary oppor- Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, editor of a report, “Disability Determination for in New York in February. Smithey, Professor of Mental Retardation,” released in January by the Alumni and Devel- of Peabody and to the lives of the individu- tunity to be associated with talented, moti- Paraguay, Guatemala, and Costa Rica. In Education Carolyn Evertson, and Peabody Dean National Academy of Sciences Panel. He also opment Division als that we touch. We should not be going vated individuals.” addition to facilitating and fostering grad- Camilla Benbow were co-authors of the paper chaired the panel. Reschly was asked to testify (now Institutional through life as a place holder, but rather as Cathy Hill came to Peabody from Mid- uate-student and faculty research at Peabody, “Providing System-Wide Mentoring for New Teachers: A School District and University Part- to the full President’s Commission on Excellence Planning and Ad- an active participant.” dle Tennessee State University (MTSU) where he is charged with helping to launch the Col- in Special Education in February in Houston. nership”; Smithey and Evertson co-authored the Invited to testify to the Commission in March vancement), Kurt Originally from Washington, D.C., Helen she continues to teach as an adjunct instruc- lege’s new Learning Sciences Institute. second paper, “How Mentors Help New Teach- were Peabody faculty members Douglas Fuchs, Brobeck is well Gleason is a Peabody alumna, having earned tor in business training and development. A Miami native, Partridge earned his B.A. ers Improve Student Learning: Examples from Lynn Fuchs, and Mark Wolery. suited for the newly the master of music degree in 1967. Her As Peabody’s recruitment manager, she is in anthropology, M.A. in cultural anthro- New Teachers’ Classroom-Based Inquiry.” created position of bachelor’s degree in music was earned from responsible for graduate and professional pology, and Ph.D. in social anthropology Deborah D. Smith, research professor of spe- Learning Technology Center cial education and director of the Alliance Pro- Peabody College East Carolina University. She served as a enrollment management, and for coordi- from the University of Florida in Gainesville. John D. Bransford, Center co-director, profes- ject, has been awarded a $188,969 research grant director of commu- Kurt Brobeck piano instructor for Northern Virginia nating and managing endeavors to recruit “At Peabody I’m working with talented sor of education, and Centennial Professor of by the U.S. Department of Education for “Research nications. In this role, Community College and Columbia (Tenn.) top-notch students to the College. and creative students and faculty on prob- Psychology, has been named as one of five new Team on the Supply and Demand of Special Edu- the Washington, D.C.-area native is work- State Community College, as well as an Another native of Old Hickory, Tenn., lems that matter to our nation and the world,” members of the Carnegie Foundation for the cators and Related Service Providers.” ing to strengthen both the external and inter- administrator for the Tennessee Perform- Hill earned her B.A. in communications from says Partridge. “This work impacts the Col- Advancement of Teaching’s board of trustees. Mark Wolery, professor of special education, nal communications of the College through ing Arts Center and Nashville Symphony Belmont University (Nashville), her master’s lege by broadening and diversifying the schol- Bransford has been working in educational psy- chology since 1970. He is co-author of several has been awarded a $175,191 research grant by its Web sites, informational brochures and Association before joining the Vanderbilt in business education from MTSU, and arly conversation about the significance of the Public Health Service for “Accessing the books, including How People Learn: Brain, Childcare Curriculum: Effective Instruction for newsletters, materials for graduate and pro- staff in 1995. her education specialist degree from MTSU. community and cultural organizations in the Mind, Experience, and School; The Ideal Prob- Children with Autism.” Ann N. Garfinkle is co- fessional student recruitment, and in acting She was administrative assistant for the She formerly worked 15 years in sales, mar- processes of learning.” lem Solver: A Guide for Improving Thinking, principal investigator. as liaison with Vanderbilt’s Public Affairs Center for Clinical and Research Ethics at keting, and customer service for the airline “Each of these individuals is making a Learning, and Creativity; and Human Cogni- tion. His work in cognition and technology won Office, promoting Peabody’s interdiscipli- Vanderbilt Medical Center prior to her industry and as a consultant in market research, critical difference in how the administration Teaching and Learning him the 2001 E.L. Thorndike Award for edu- nary centers, and working with development appointment last summer as assistant in the training, and evaluation. of Peabody College functions and is perceived cational psychology. Philip S. Crooke III, professor of education and staff to secure additional financial resources dean’s office. In that role, she provides admin- Hill says she enjoys interacting with across campus and throughout the extended professor of mathematics, presented an invited Bransford has been designated a National Asso- talk titled “Mathematical Modeling of Patient- for the College. istrative and business staff support while prospective students and Peabody faculty Vanderbilt community,” says Peabody Dean ciate of the National Research Council in honor Ventilator Interactions” at the 31st Critical Care Brobeck holds a B.A. from Centre Col- serving as a representative of the dean regard- and staff, and knowing the positive influ- Camilla Benbow. “We are extremely fortu- of his exemplary service to the National Acad- Congress session, held in San Diego in January. lege (Kentucky) and has done graduate work ing daily operations and special projects ence the Peabody experience will have on nate to have their many talents working emies. He also has been designated a National in nonfiction writing and editing at George related to academic and professional mat- the future of its students. “By recruiting top together to further Peabody’s goals.”

12 PEABODY REFLECTOR 13 DEPARTMENT NOTES Secretaries of Education Visit Peabody Associate of the National Academy of Sciences, PEYTON HOGE a lifetime appointment. he 2001–2002 school Susan Gray School for Children Tyear opened Aug. 29 with a campus visit by Carol Howard, Susan Gray School teacher, was U.S. Secretary of Educa- presented the Outstanding Service Award fol- COMMON tion Rod Paige, who COMMON lowing last October’s annual State of the Kennedy COMP IS TRAINING TEACHERS Center Address, given by then-acting director talked with Peabody stu- Stephen Camarata. dents to hear their first- Ruth Ashworth Wolery, School director and hand impressions of the assistant professor of the practice of special College’s renowned education, has been awarded a $431,912 research teacher-education pro- grant by the Tennessee Department of Health grams. Paige touted Pres- and Mental Retardation for “Susan Gray School ident Bush’s education Early Intervention Program.” She also has been initiative, declaring that awarded a $98,000 grant by the Tennessee Department of Education for “Early Childhood its “no child left behind” Education Program.” goal is tough and aggres- sive. Achieving that goal, he said, depends Paige’s visit to Vanderbilt was part SENSESENSE Staff on education-research support and mak- of his 10-city “Back to School, Moving NATIONWIDE TO TAKE CONTROLinto Betty Lee, Peabody College registrar, was hon- ing sure the research reaches the class- Forward” tour to outline details of Pres- ored last October with a 2001 Commodore Award, room. “We will rely on good, crisp thinking ident Bush’s education agenda. In the which recognizes and rewards significant staff … the informed thought that goes on above photo, he joins in a panel dis- achievements in Vanderbilt’s pursuit of excellence at places like Peabody,” said Paige. cussion involving several members of in education, health care, research, and commu- nity service. Peabody’s registrar for 26 years, Lee the Peabody community, including 2000 recently helped the College in redesigning its alumna Rasheedat Fetuga, a fourth- administrative staff structure in order to meet the grade teacher with Metro Nashville needs of students and faculty more efficiently. Public Schools. Described by co-workers as the person “who DAVID CRENSHAW The Bush Administration has taken holds it all together,” she works magic on weep- quite an interest in Peabody during the ing students, demanding parents, and irate fac- past year. In February, Assistant U.S. ulty. In 1991 she won an Affirmative Action Award COMMONCOMMON for her efforts assisting students with disabilities Secretary of Education Bob Pasternack OF THEIR CLASSROOMS on the Peabody campus. was on campus to participate in a con- ference sponsored by the Alliance Pro- Elliott C. Mitchell, director of educational media services, was elected last October as chair of ject, a national initiative headquartered Nashville’s Public, Educational, and Govern- at Peabody that addresses the increas- mental Access Oversight Committee, which has ing demand for and the declining sup- been working to establish stakeholder control ply of personnel from historically over the city’s educational access TV channels. underrepresented ethnic groups in spe- He also has been invited to join the Education cial education. In the photo at left, Paster- Council at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, and he has been appointed co-chair of the “Cre- nack addresses the conference crowd. ating Critical Viewers” education project for the by Shelton Clark Nashville/Midsouth Chapter of the National PRACTICEPRACTICEne of Peabody’s far-reaching success stories began as a Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. small research project for Professor of Education Carolyn Jan Rosemergy, director of communications and O community relations for Vanderbilt’s John F. Correction Evertson. “I figured I’d have a year’s worth of work to do, and Kennedy Center and an editorial adviser for THE PEABODY REFLECTOR, has been appointed to the then nobody would be interested,” she says of the Classroom newly created State Developmental Disabilities The last issue of THE PEABODY REFLECTOR featured Peabody College alumni who Planning and Policy Council by Elisabeth Rukeyser, are serving, or have served, as college and university presidents (“Movers, Organization and Management Program (COMP) that she Carolyn Evertson, commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Shakers, and Policymakers,” pages 22–29). Despite our best research efforts to Peabody professor of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities. provide a complete and accurate list of current alumni in these positions, we inad- began to formulate when she was at the University of Texas a education, formulated The council will advise the department on a vertently omitted three: David “Nick” Dunagan, EdD’90, chancellor of the Uni- the Classroom Organi- three-year plan, policy, budget requests, and versity of Tennessee at Martin; David C. Joyce, EdD’95, president of Union College decade and a half ago. “Instead, we have just grown and grown developing and evaluating service systems for zation and Management people with mental retardation and develop- in Barbourville, Ky.; and John E. Neal, EdD’90, president of Ottawa University and grown.” Program (COMP), mental disabilities. in Ottawa, Kan. The REFLECTOR apologizes for the error and is proud to which has trained include these three gentlemen among its distinguished alumni. Have they ever. COMP has been validated by the U.S. 60,000 educators Department of Education as “a program that works” and has nationwide to meet the challenge of managing now trained 60,000 educators across the country over the their classrooms. past 12 years. COMP, in fact, was the outgrowth of classroom 14 PEABODY PEYTON HOGE research Evertson was working on at Texas. “It became says. “So even though they’re ready to tackle their content “One of the major things that makes COMP so effec- sip of water out of a fire hydrant. You can study and very apparent to us that the habits teachers developed in areas, I think it scares them to death to think about kids tive and applicable is the fact that it’s based on informa- study, but until those young people walk in the door, the beginning of their careers mattered in terms of how in the classroom and how they’re going to deal with con- tion and research from teachers—so master teachers are sometimes you don’t understand what it all means. smoothly their classrooms worked and how well their frontations while also preventing them. COMP is all sharing their ideas with other master teachers. When COMP sets everybody up to be successful. It gives us a kids achieved,” she says. about being proactive rather than reactive in the educa- teachers look at all the modules of COMP, they basically common language as a faculty and as principals who are “Because we were regularly in classrooms in October, tional process.” Cox also is the Safe Schools coordinator have a format to plan ahead. It gives them a plan of trying to coach people to be more and more successful. we were really seeing the results of things teachers did or and works with staff development within his district. action before they head into the school year.” “The other thing I appreciate so much is that, in every didn’t do when they began the school year. What I decid- The sharing of information helps not only the work- workshop I have ever attended involving anyone who’s ed to do was observe in classrooms on the first day of shop participants, but the workshop leaders as well, says school to see how teachers orchestrated them from the SHARING WHAT WORKS Felisa VanLiew, vice principal of Martin Luther King Jr. beginning and how that played out across the year. This is Educational Complex in Paterson, N.J. “When workshop how COMP began. AND WHAT DOESN’T participants fill out their evaluation forms, they say they DAVID CRENSHAW “When I went around the country giving talks about “In COMP work- like the idea that they were able to share with other peo- this work”—she emphasizes “work” as though it were not shops, teachers get ple who had like concerns. That’s what makes my job as obvious enough to her audience—“I would frequently get a chance to prob- facilitator so easy. the comment, ‘Well, isn’t this common sense?’ My response lem-solve, to talk “In the workshop, when someone asks a question, I’ll was, ‘Yes, indeed—but it’s not common practice.’” about their own say, ‘Well, let’s see what everyone else has to offer you,’ In a typical workshop, teachers focus on developing a issues, and to know and I just step back. All I’m doing is facilitating. It’s inter- system in their classrooms that supports learning, such as that somebody else esting all the things I have learned just by listening to the organizing the physical space, planning and teaching pro- has the same participants share. I love it. And that’s exactly what these cedures, making expectations visible, monitoring students’ issues,” says Felisa teachers say they love: the sharing. They get a chance to academic work, and improving students’ personal and VanLiew, a certified problem-solve, to talk about their own issues, and to academic accountability, as well as managing student COMP workshop know that somebody else has the same issues and can behavior. leader and the vice offer them help.” principal of Martin Sharon Anthony is executive principal of Antioch High School, Luther King Jr. one of Nashville’s largest, and is a leading advocate for COMP. OUTREACH TO THE Educational Com- GOOD, SOLID RESEARCH “COMP sets everybody up to be successful,” she says. “It gives plex in Paterson, VanLiew, New Jersey’s only certified COMP workshop EDUCATION COMMUNITY us a common language as a faculty and as principals who are N.J. leader, has sold the idea of COMP to three different staff trying to coach people to be more successful.” Once teachers have completed a workshop, they have the development supervisors over the past decade. “I think opportunity to become workshop leaders who then may more people in New Jersey need to be exposed to COMP. take the program’s instruction to their entire school dis- Mine is an urban district, and my teachers say in their ever been influenced by the program, the workshops tricts. In this way, COMP’s research-based principles evaluations, ‘I didn’t have this in college,’ or ‘Why didn’t I themselves are models of how teaching should be, or how influence schools nationwide. CRAIG PHILLIPS have this in the summer so I could have started it fresh in one’s classroom should be: a variety of activities, clear Peabody Dean Camilla Benbow sings Evertson’s and Not surprisingly, the workshops are equally rewarding for September?’ directions, materials that are distributed effectively. The COMP’s praises. “The program is the brainchild of Carolyn veteran teachers, who are not as resistant to change as “Our state colleges are missing out on information presentations are models of effective teaching. They really Evertson. She got the grants originally, and then she hired one may believe. “Once the teachers in the audience that needs to be put in their hands. I have not had a walk their talk, and they know what they’re talking Dr. Alene Harris and the staff who worked with her. They understand that this is about revisiting the things they do chance to get to some of my colleagues on the college about. It’s not philosophical. It’s real.” have all contributed and helped define what it is today.” in their own classrooms and sharing with others, we’ve level. I need to sell them, to say we need to look at these “What we are really about is creating conditions for As such, the program helps further Peabody’s contribu- got ’em. We’ve got ’em.” issues differently, because I’ve got teachers that lack the learning, helping teachers find ways to develop positive tion to the nation’s education community. “Peabody’s mis- For those teachers, validation is a major benefit of information shared in COMP.” learning environments in their classrooms,” affirms sion has always been to be engaged in the community, to COMP. Don Washburn, director of the Pilasco-Ross Sharon Anthony is executive principal of Antioch High Carolyn Evertson. “With the advent of computers in the help better education as it is situated in society,” contin- Special Education Resource Center in Ohio, speaks of School, one of Nashville’s largest high schools and one classroom, we also are incorporating management of tech- ues Benbow. “Therefore, it’s part of the outreach mission “the reaffirmation that some of the things we’ve been that serves a multitude of immigrant populations. She was nology.” Peabody has had for a long time. Our commitment is to doing were right all along. one of COMP’s first participants, and is one of Nashville’s Evertson, who plans to oversee the training of another bring knowledge to the people.” “Teachers indicate in COMP evaluations that they feel leading advocates for the program. 10,000 teachers this year, still benefits from the program “But it’s not a cookie-cutter program,” warns Julie more capable of meeting challenges in the classroom than “COMP is based on outstanding research to begin she helped craft for others. “I learn something about my Greenberg, COMP’s program coordinator. “It’s very flexi- they did before,” he adds. “In the past, there was a feeling with,” she says. “It helps us, as it would help any teacher own college teaching every time I go through a work- ble. I was a classroom teacher for many years, and I that every classroom is its own kingdom. I think this is or group of teachers, to address the needs of students in shop,” she says. “It’s only taken me 18 years.” would like to have had something like this.” certainly changing with the national standards and reau- the most efficient and effective manner. When you have “As new teachers come into the profession, or as teach- thorization of the Elementary-Secondary Education Act. more diverse needs, you need more skills. But these are To learn more about COMP and how it may benefit your ers switch the kinds of classrooms they are teaching, all of All of a sudden, research is recognizing the importance of skills that would be effective no matter where you are own classroom or school district, contact Julie Greenberg, these management issues suddenly surface,” says Evertson. schoolwide discipline plans and their impact. Hopefully, because it’s based on good, solid research and effective program coordinator, by calling 615/322-8050 or e-mailing “New teachers who have very little classroom experience we’re moving away from isolationism.” teaching practices. It doesn’t matter whether you’re an [email protected]. Or visit the COMP Web are like sponges. They soak up what they find in the work- “A lot of times in education,” adds Beech Grove’s advanced-placement teacher or whether you are teaching site at www.comp.org or at http://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/ shops. They may have had a classroom management Cox, “educators don’t have the time during the day to sit students who are struggling. It’s just good, solid profes- depts/tandl/exreview/research/Comp/. course in college, but they often don’t remember well what down and talk to one another about what they’re doing sionalism. was taught. Now they have a real need to know.” and what works for them. In the workshop setting, those “Those of us who took the workshops after we had Steve Cox, dean of students at Beech Grove, Ind., High teachers are allowed to do just that, and they share ideas been teaching awhile reacted with, Why didn’t somebody Shelton Clark is a Nashville freelance writer. School, concurs. “Teachers coming out of college often and go back and put them in their classroom management tell me this when I first started teaching? And for those don’t have much training in classroom management,” he plan. who are new to the profession, it’s just like trying to get a

16 PEABODY REFLECTOR 17 FORWARDFORW by Claire E. Smrekar and Debra E. Owens

MARCHAmerica’s schools can take a lesson from the U.S. Defense Department

merican military bases are, in many ways, self-con- family environments (such as family income, level and quality A tained cities. They have their own housing communi- of parental education, occupational status, family size and ties, their own grocery stores, their own hospitals—and their structure, parents’ perceived self-efficacy, and parenting style) own schools. On bases all around the world, children of differentially impact student achievement. We agree that this American service men and women—from the lowest-level issue is complex, controversial, and unresolved. enlisted to the top officers—are being educated by a school This research study was conducted by researchers at the system that is producing impressive results. Peabody Center for Education Policy, led by James Guthrie, The average academic achievement of all students and, professor of public policy and education, and was designed to even more significant, of African American and Hispanic stu- provide a descriptive analysis of one school system—the dents, enrolled in Department of Defense (DoD) schools is Department of Defense schools—that has demonstrated high among the highest in the nation on the National Assessment minority student achievement and high achievement overall, as of Educational Progress. The performance of minority stu- measured by the 1998 National Assessment of Educational dents in DoD schools in eighth-grade reading and writing in Progress (NAEP). 1998 ranked at the top, either first or second in the nation, as This is not a comprehensive study, nor do we make any compared to the results of their counterparts in state systems. claims of causality about the effects of school environment (See Table 1.) and family characteristics on student achievement. The study This outstanding result caught the attention of national focuses upon a set of system-wide governance structures, media, including the Wall Street Journal, and the National Education Goals Panel. The Goals Panel therefore commis- T A B L E 1 sioned the first external research study to explore the excep- Ranking of DoD Minority Students on the tionally high achievement of minority students in DoD National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), schools. This article shares the results of that study. as Compared to All U.S. States A C o m p l i c a t e d E q u a t i o n Reading 1998 Writing 1998 The debate among scholars continues regarding the degree to NAEP Rank NAEP Rank which an array of economic, social, cultural, psychological, and institutional factors influences student achievement. Most DoDDS1 African American 1st 2nd agree that differences in students’ performance on standard- DoDDS Hispanic 2nd 1st ized tests are related to a set of school conditions and family DDESS2 African American 2nd 1st characteristics. DDESS Hispanic 1st 1st These issues and concerns create a complicated achieve- ment equation. Many critical questions persist regarding how 1 Department of Defense Dependents Schools (DoDDS) are located overseas. and why school environments (such as academic rigor, aca- 2 Department of Defense Domestic Dependents Elementary and Secondary Schools (DDESS) are located in the U.S. demic grouping, teacher quality, and teacher expectations) and

REFLECTOR 19 COLLAGE ILLUSTRATION BY BILLY RENKL school conditions, instructional policies, teacher characteris- and district documents, including curriculum guides and Cody Whited, left, Marquan Price, tics, and administrative practices that are related to a school’s benchmark standards, staff development plans, accountability and Melissa Hancock learn to read capacity to produce student learning. We also explore school reports, student/family demographic data, school handbooks, thermometers at Stowers Elementary climate to examine whether or not DoD schools reflect the and parent newsletters. At each military installation, we col- School at Fort Benning, Ga. Stowers properties of “communally organized” schools that recent lected information on housing, health services, recreation serv- is one of 227 K–12 schools operated research suggests produce higher achievement. ices, and social services on the base. An extensive school and by the U.S. Department of Defense base tour, and multiple classroom observations (e.g., language on military bases around the world. G a t h e r i n g t h e D a t a arts classes, computer classes, and industrial drawing) were an The U.S. military established elementary, middle, and high essential part of each full-day site visit. schools for the children of service men and women overseas Our report describes the education programs and policies and in the U.S. shortly after World War II. The schools were in Department of Defense schools that may help account for membership and motivation to organized into two distinct but similar systems: the high minority achievement, including: “move up in the ranks” develop a Department of Defense Schools (DoDDS) overseas, and the • The organizational and governmental structures that sense of shared responsibility for Department of Defense Domestic Dependent Elementary and link the day-to-day operations of DoD schools and children’s safety and well being. Secondary Schools (DDESS) in the U.S. (Nearly all the DDESS school districts to policy-setting authorities; “This is like ‘Leave It to Beaver’ schools are located in the Southeast.) • The nature and quality of instructional practices in land,” one Marine commander The school systems united under the umbrella Department DoD domestic and overseas schools; and noted. “It’s cloistered and it’s pro- of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) in 1994. (For the pur- • The social and economic conditions associated with tected, but it is a shared responsibil- poses of this article, however, we will refer simply to the students and their families in DoD domestic and ity.” A culture of support in military DoD.) Military personnel must live on base in order to enroll overseas schools. neighborhoods permeates school their dependents in the DDESS system. life. Positive outcomes for students Today the DoD enrolls approximately 112,000 students in W h a t A c c o u n t s f o r T h i s H i g h A c h i e v e m e n t ? stem from a clear sense of shared schools worldwide, or about the same number of students in “Your study is looking at why minority students do better,” values among families and teachers. the Charlotte-Mecklenburg, N.C., school district, or in the said a DoD teacher. “I think the answer to that question is Small Schools. A larger propor- MICHAEL SCHWARZ state of North Dakota. (See Table 2.) The percentage of that all our students do better. There are no ‘minority’ stu- tion of middle schools and high schools in the DoD system policy structure that links instructional goals with accountabil- minority students enrolled in DoD schools compares with the dents here.” have small enrollments compared to most other state systems. ity systems supported by professional training and develop- state of New York, which averages 40 percent. Some observers contend that the high achievement in DoD This fact stands in stark contrast to many urban school dis- ment programs. In DoD schools, student outcomes are specifi- Another approximately 600,000 school-age children of schools, particularly among minority students, is a function of tricts in the U.S.—the environments in which most minority cally tied to downstream performance goals. Staff training and active U.S. military personnel attend school in one of the more the middle-class family and community characteristics of such students attend school. In the DoD system, small school size curricular intervention are coordinated with a school’s individ- than 600 civilian public school districts located near military students. We believe such a view is overly simplified. contributes to greater familiarity and personal knowledge of ual improvement plan. installations in the continental U.S. Approximately 80 percent of all DoD students have a DoD students, their instructional needs and strengths, and their Sufficient Financial Resources. DoD provides a high level of We visited a total of 15 middle schools located in ten dif- parent/military sponsor who is enlisted (non-officer). Most unique family situations. support in terms of district and school staffing, instructional ferent school districts across the United States, Germany, and enlisted personnel have only a high school diploma and income Military Commitment to Education and Accountability. materials, facilities, and technology. The level of support for Japan (five domestic districts and five overseas districts). The levels at or near the poverty line. Many enlisted personnel and One of the most significant factors leading to the educational teachers is generous and well recognized throughout the system. schools in our study reflect the average minority student their families do not live in comfortable housing. We argue that success of DoD students is the value placed upon education These resources enhance local capacity and strengthen the enrollment for the DoDDS and DDESS systems, although DoD schools simultaneously “do the right things” and “do and training that permeates the military community, providing local districts’ and individual schools’ ability to implement some schools in the study reflect a higher-than-average minori- things right.” This statement applies both to what happens in the foundation for parental support and reinforcement in ways school improvement goals. Sufficient resources enable districts ty enrollment. schools and in the DoD out-of-school environment that rein- that benefit children and promote student achievement. The to offer competitive salaries that attract and retain high-quali- We deliberately selected schools that vary somewhat in forces, rather than dilutes, academic learning. culture of order, discipline, education, and training in the mili- ty teachers. size, mobility rates, installation deployment and training pat- tary community creates ideal conditions for schools focused Staff Development. DoD professional development is terns, pay and rank composition of parents, and in the per- T A B L E 2 upon these principles and expectations. linked to an individual school’s pattern of student perform- centage of students who are eligible for free and reduced Centralized Direction-Setting Balanced with Local Decision ance. It is tailored teacher by teacher, carefully structured to Number of Districts, Schools, Teachers, and Students lunches. This selection decision produced a group of schools Making. DoD’s management strategy merges effective leader- enhance a teacher’s identified deficiencies, and is sustained in the DoDEA* System (2000–2001) that reflects the depth, range, and diversity of DoDDS and ship at topmost levels (e.g., establishing system-wide curricu- over time. DDESS schools. DoDDS DDESS Total lum standards) with school- and district-level discretion in Academic Focus and High Expectations for All. DoD Approximately 130 interviews were conducted during the determining day-to-day operations such as instructional prac- schools emphasize individual student achievement. High four-month data-collection period. We conducted in-depth Districts 12 12 24 tices and personnel decisions. expectations are the norm in DoD schools. These high expec- interviews with the principal and language arts teachers at Schools 157 70 227 DoD centrally establishes clear directions, goals, and tar- tations are manifested in the use of elevated standards, teach- each school. At each district, military commanders and Teachers 5,747 3,675 9,422 gets without dictating methods for achieving results. This mix ers’ sense of personal accountability, and a proactive approach liaisons, curriculum specialists, assistant superintendents, and Students 77,912 34,294 112,206 of top-down and bottom-up decision making creates local to educating a highly transient student population. the superintendent were interviewed. capacity and professional confidence. It also serves as a basis DoD schools do not generally group students by academic Our interest focused upon issues of financial supports, *The Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) is the umbrella for clear accountability. Principals and teachers know what ability (i.e., tracking). Educational programs are provided that resource allocation, personnel recruitment and selection, department that includes both the DoDDS and DDESS school systems. they are expected to accomplish and are held responsible for target lower-achieving students for in-school tutoring and teacher quality, accountability, leadership styles, program achieving those goals. homework assistance after school. diversity, and academic policy priorities. Military officials These are the characteristics of DoD schools we have iden- Policy Coherence, Structural Alignment, and Efficient Flow Continuity of Care for Children. DoD schools are linked to were asked specifically about housing patterns, health-care tified as contributing to its students’ high achievement: of Data. DoD schools reflect a strong and consistent align- an array of nationally recognized preschool programs and facilities, educational backgrounds of military sponsors A Strong Sense of Community. A strong sense of school ment of curricular goals, instructional strategies, teacher sup- after-school youth service centers. This “continuity of care” (school parents), safety concerns, social services, and military community is forged in the base neighborhoods that join mili- ports, and performance assessment results. This is particularly commitment is evidenced by the high level of investment in operation demands (deployment and training). Parent leaders, tary families in a cohesive network of discipline, routine, evident in the area of writing, a subject identified by DoD as a these top-ranked programs in terms of staffing, educational assistant principals, school counselors, and teacher union rep- accountability, and commitment. Military and school staff curricular priority and educational concern more than 20 programming, and facilities. Consequently, the DoD programs resentatives were interviewed at several of the schools. referred often to the “village” culture of support associated years ago. are widely recognized as a national model among child-care In addition to interviews, we collected an array of school with military-base life, in which families closely linked by DoD assessment systems are embedded within a coherent providers in the United States. They meet all standards estab-

20 PEABODY REFLECTOR 21 lished by the National Association for the Education of Young when financial support is linked to specific, coordinated, and A PARENT’S PRIMER: Children (NAEYC), the National Association of Family Child instructionally relevant strategic goals. State and local public Care (NAFCC), and the National School-Age Care education officials must acknowledge the crucial importance Association (NSACA). of sufficient resources. “Corporate” Commitment to Public Education. DoD Staff Development. Professional development activities schools reflect an elevated “corporate” commitment from the should be job-embedded, consistent with an individual U.S. military that is both material and symbolic. This commit- school’s improvement goals, based upon student needs and ment includes an expectation of parent involvement in school- teacher interests, and modeled, repeated, and practiced over a and home-based activities. For example, soldiers are instructed long period of time. Professional training should include regu- that their “place of duty” is at their child’s school on parent- lar monitoring by peers or supervisors, sustained support, and THE HOD teacher conference day, and they are relieved of work respon- regular feedback. sibilities to volunteer at school each month. Continuity of Care for Children. State and local policy- This commitment to promoting a parental role in educa- makers should utilize the DoD preschool and after-school pro- tion far surpasses the level of investment or involvement grams (e.g., youth service centers) as models that reflect the embraced by mentoring or tutoring models found in most highest-quality standards in the world. Many of these early business-education partnerships. and “out-of-school” educational activities contribute to enhanced student learning, self-esteem, and achievement. PHENOMENON T h e N e x t S t e p s f o r A m e r i c a ’ s S c h o o l s “Corporate” Commitment to Public Education. Looking to Based on the findings of our research on DoD schools, we the DoD model, states and communities can gain similar levels have presented to the National Education Goals Panel several of corporate commitment for public-school students by mak- significant national policy recommendations we believe would ing more visible those facets of the workplace that limit an influence student achievement, particularly among minority employee’s ability to participate in school-based activities (par- students, in civilian public-school settings nationwide. ticularly the ability of hourly workers). Small Schools. Research evidence and successful practice Schools tend to structure school-based activities for tradi- continually reinforce the utility of small schools, particularly in tional, stay-at-home mothers. At the same time, a large num- constructing effective education for low-income, minority stu- ber of households include parents who are employed in full- dents. A “small school” is defined as an elementary school time occupations that provide little flexibility and opportunity with fewer than 350 students, a middle school with fewer than for parents to leave work during school hours. 600, and a high school with an enrollment of 900 or fewer. As schools begin to rethink the purpose and organization Creating smaller “learning communities” or schools-with- of their parent involvement activities, employers should re- in-schools may very well facilitate the organizational and evaluate workplace policies that hinder the kind of parental social conditions evidenced in DoD schools, and could lead to commitment to educational excellence that organized business enduring educational benefits for minority students in civilian groups are demanding in the current debate on the quality of schools. our nation’s schools. Centralized Direction-Setting Balanced with Local Decision Making. Our findings suggest that state and local For more information about this research study, visit the policymakers should use a management structure that func- Peabody Center for Education Policy’s Web site at tions as a “headquarters” for creating a blueprint for expected http://dlo.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/PCEP/. student learning and academic performance. As already observed, the DoD management strategy merges effective leadership at topmost levels with school- and district- Claire E. Smrekar, left, is associate professor of educational level discretion in determining day-to-day operations. Clear leadership and policy at Peabody College of Vanderbilt directions, goals, and targets are established without dictating University. Her research focuses upon the social context of methods for achieving results. A similar state-level priority-set- education and public policy. Debra E. Owens is a former ting strategy can serve as a springboard to propel higher aca- assistant superintendent of schools with more than 20 years of demic achievement. experience in public education and administration. She cur- Policy Coherence, Structural Alignment, and Efficient Flow rently is a Ph.D. candidate in education policy at Peabody and of Data. DoD assessment systems are embedded within a a research assistant at the Peabody coherent policy structure that links instructional goals with Center for Education Policy. Also accountability systems supported by professional training and contributing to this report were development programs. State and local policymakers can James W. Guthrie, professor of From education to big business, graduates begin by adopting a performance-oriented information public policy and education, chair exchange that is systematic, clear, and comprehensive. of Peabody’s Department of of the 20-year-old human and organizational States should provide every school and each district with Leadership and Organizations, detailed student performance assessment results. Using DoD as and director of the Peabody development program are finding success in careers a model, each school should engage in a school improvement Center for Education Policy, and process to analyze student improvement needs and select stu- Pearl Sims, director of Peabody’s where they’re making a difference dent improvement goals. The ability and disposition to notice Center for Leadership Initiatives and act on instructional problems, and to deploy resources to and an Ed.D. candidate in school solve problems, are critical elements of school improvement. administration. by Julia Helgason

Sufficient Financial Resources. Money matters, particularly DAVID CRENSHAW

22 PEABODY graduates must be enrolled at Peabody to ensure its ment in 1999, headed by longtime Peabody adminis- HOD is a survival. Peabody Dean Bill Hawley asked Innes to trator Joe Cunningham, and eventually spawned reak out the party hats, and bring on the chair a committee to develop a program in human master’s and doctoral programs. bubbly. Peabody’s human and organi- complex development (the program’s original name), and he HOD’s community service component is not HODetails zational development (HOD) program turns 20 this took action. optional. Each underclassman must invest a semes- year, and there’s plenty to celebrate. HOD, enrolling Innes recognized that if Peabody went down, the ter working with a nonprofit agency. The experience B program that HOD is the largest under- more than 700 students, is hands-down the most undertow would likely take him, too. “I liked my illuminates such societal problems as poverty, men- graduate major at Vanderbilt, popular, most sought-after undergraduate major on defies short job,” he says. “I wanted to stay here.” Innes and his tal illness, and addiction. It starts students thinking with more than 700 students the Vanderbilt University campus. And here’s the committee began searching for a legitimate way to about daily crises faced daily by the poor, the home- enrolled; there are nearly 2,200 frosting on the birthday cake: At a time when the and simple lure high school seniors. As he juggled various alter- less, the disabled, and the chronically ill. As they alumni of the program bottom line is a top priority, HOD is also Peabody’s natives, he hit upon an idea for a cutting-edge aca- begin to understand, they begin to empathize. greatest income generator. demic major designed to be sufficiently flexible The father of HOD’s community-service aspect is explanation, 32 percent of all current But HOD is unique in the academic world and, enough to provide its graduates with the skills considered to be basketball-coaching legend Ed HOD students transferred into consequently, is one of the most misunderstood pro- employers want, while also allowing flexibility for Martin, who retired from the program in 2001 and but finding the program from other grams at Vanderbilt, particularly by parents who individual tailoring. died Feb. 25 of this year (see “Deaths” on page 44 Vanderbilt academic programs scratch their heads and say, “It sounds great, but solutions to The result was HOD. The program anticipated of this magazine). what do you do with it?” nine students the first year. Twenty enrolled. Primar- To raise awareness, “HOD puts many Vanderbilt Actually, what HOD alumni are doing with their common human ily through word-of-mouth advertising, that number underclassmen on city buses for the first time in degrees illustrates one of the greatest success stories has swelled to 700-plus. their lives,” says Sharon Shields, professor of the HOD’s stringent admissions in the history of Peabody College. Some HOD grad- So what, precisely, is HOD and how does it con- practice of health promotions and education, who problems is requirements make it one of uates are educators, and some are corporate execu- tinue to draw students like a magnet draws pins? joined the Peabody faculty in 1976 and is herself the University’s most competi- tives. Some work in the arts, and some have pursued HOD is a complex program that defies short and deeply passionate about community outreach. While tive undergraduate programs medicine and the sciences. Some are in high-tech at the heart simple explanation, but finding solutions to com- bus rides are not high-tech, the department’s Web firms while others serve nonprofit community- mon human problems is at the heart of it. Though site is (http://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/depts/hod/), of it. HOD graduates report some service agencies. psychology plays a big role, HOD paints with a and it displays a list of some 35 pre-screened com- of the highest starting salaries HOD gradu- much broader brush than a standard undergraduate munity service agencies students may serve. Students among all Vanderbilt under- ates find them- psychology major. HOD’s organizational develop- peruse the site to select the service work they find graduate alumni selves in a dizzying ment component resembles an undergraduate busi- appealing while Shields combs the city for suitable variety of careers, DAVID CRENSHAW ness major with a twist: a purposeful focus on social organizations to add to the list. although a com- responsibility and community service, long a hall- HOD students sometimes accomplish amazing mon thread of mark of the Peabody tradition. feats, says Shields. This year four students drew on The program’s unique com- training in organi- Whatever HOD is, “It is not a cocoon,” says material from various HOD courses to design a plan munity service component is zational develop- department chair Joe Cunningham. While most of affordable housing and childcare in Nashville’s not optional; all students do ment and man- majors keep freshmen and sophomores cooped up in Woodbine neighborhood. The group has taken its field work as volunteers for agement unites classrooms, HOD gets them up, out, and doing— proposal to the Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy numerous local social-service them—which is providing real-world applications for concepts Studies and the Nashville Mayor’s Office of Neigh- agencies precisely one of learned in class. “There’s nothing like it anywhere borhoods. the program’s that I know of,” says Innes. “There may be pro- “These students have exemplified one of the Nearly 60 percent of HOD greatest strengths. grams with similar features, but none that starts defining outcomes of the HOD program,” declares graduates are offered perma- HOD was the students in the freshman year.” Shields. “They clearly demonstrate that they are and nent jobs as a result of their brainchild of Asso- The curriculum covers basic science and liberal will be making a difference in society.” internships ciate Professor of arts with a heavy emphasis on communication skills, The program’s graduates emerge as versatile, Psychology (and both written and oral. Within the discipline, three flexible, and equipped to assume leadership HOD’s full-time, semester- hero-in-residence) areas of concentration provide focus for the junior positions wherever they light. HOD chooses only long internship requirement— Robert B. Innes, and senior years: Community Development and the best applicants for admission. In fact, HOD’s the capstone of the program— who is director of Social Policy, Health and Human Services, and entrance requirements are among the most competi- places students in a wide range HOD’s undergrad- Leadership and Organizational Effectiveness. The tive at Vanderbilt. “It’s true, we take the cream off of for-profit and nonprofit uate program. He capstone is a semester-long senior internship. the top,” department chair Joe Cunningham organizations in six cities: joined Peabody’s HOD is structured to appeal to students. They observes, “but we like to think we’re responsible for Nashville; Atlanta; Washington, faculty in 1971 like the idea of jumping into the thick of things early significant value added.” D.C.; New York; San Francisco; with a doctorate in on. They like the hands-on, off-campus experiences. HOD’s best advertisement, however, is its roster or Cambridge, England education and psy- They appreciate the broad scope of electives that of graduates. Like Bob Innes, they are multifaceted, chology from the allow dabbling in various academic areas long multitalented, and success driven. Innes is more than Undergraduate HOD University of enough to learn their own interests, likes, and dis- a splendid administrator, a brilliant idea man, and students may complete a Michigan, and he weathered Peabody’s merger with Professor Robert likes. They use the self-knowledge gained to rein- an effective educator. He is a jazz buff, a competitive master’s degree in human, Vanderbilt in 1979. Within months of the merger, Innes, founder and force preconceived ambitions or to change runner, and a published songwriter. He is also a man organizational, and community there were rumblings of shortfalls and deficits and a director of Peabody’s directions. And they eagerly anticipate the senior who won’t get caught sitting on his laurels. The development within one year financially unhealthy proportion of graduate stu- undergraduate internship that supplies fodder for résumés before wheels of his mind spin and whirl, weaving ways to of completing their bachelor’s dents to undergrads. program in human graduation. evolve HOD, to refine it and redefine it, and to degree Before long, Peabody was flailing in a sea of red and organizational Never static, HOD evolves to meet changing make it better. HOD graduates share many of those ink, and the accountants decreed that more under- development times and challenges. It became a separate depart- traits.

24 PEABODY REFLECTOR 25 PEYTON HOGE

PEYTON HOGE had already chosen Vanderbilt and had heard so Big Business many good things about HOD, so I enrolled.” It ■ Jeffrey Owen, BS’92, MBA’99 turned out to be all she had hoped for. The more Vienneau learned, the more certain she Fortuitous! That’s the magic word for Jeff became that her niche was in social services. “I Owen’s HOD internship with Nashville- wanted to work with people, to help them improve based Dollar General Corp., a major retail their lives,” she says. Through HOD she served the corporation with 5,500 stores nationwide United Way and YWCA of Nashville and Middle and annual sales of $4.5 billion. Top man- Tennessee. From 1992 to 1999 she worked for the agement quickly spotted Owen’s potential, YWCA, first as director of after-school programs. taught him the basics, and whisked him From there she was named area director for the Y’s off to Vanderbilt’s Owen Graduate School domestic violence program and shelter, and then she “I wanted of Management to earn his MBA. served as vice president of the Y’s violence interven- Though Owen has no systems experi- tion programs. to work with ence and knows little about technology, he Vienneau joined the Frist Center last year from is director of store systems technology for St. Luke’s Community House, a child-care center people, to Dollar General. No problem. and emergency social services agency, where she was “Being a manager is about leadership— associate executive director overseeing internal help them the kind of leadership taught in the HOD operations. As community relations director for the program. And it’s not about technology,” Jeffrey Owen’s HOD degree led him to the Dollar Frist Center, she is helping to ensure that the center’s says Owen. “Management skills transfer across General Corp., where he is director of store systems exhibitions and programs are accessible, affordable, improve their departments, and the technology we’re concerned for the company’s 5,500 retail stores. educational, and fun for people of all ages. with is a computer system to make store managers’ Today the Vienneaus have been married 12 years lives.” jobs easier.” and have an 8-year-old son, Preston. Jim Vienneau Owen knows about store managers’ jobs. He her head, and yes—in her muscles. owns his own graphic arts business. “My husband is Dr. Clifford Retief, a South African who came to happened along as Dollar General was designing a Vienneau danced with the Nashville Ballet as my best friend and my soul mate,” she says, “and Vanderbilt to play tennis, parlayed his HOD experi- new management-training program. They used him Adelaide Mallette during her high school years. my son is the joy of my life. I’ve never been ence into a medical career. Today he is a Nashville- as a guinea pig, he says, putting him through his After graduation, she received an offer that would happier.” area podiatrist. paces at all levels in all departments. “I’ve done fulfill any dancer’s fondest fantasies: an opportunity everything from managing stores to sweeping to study under celebrated dancer/choreographer floors,” he says, “and I can tell you from experience George Balanchine. Accordingly, her higher-educa- A former professional dancer, Adelaide that nobody can understand a store manager’s job tion ambitions were placed on indefinite hold. Vienneau now serves Nashville’s new Frist Center for Medicine until he’s done it.” Mallette was able only to meet Balan- the Visual Arts as community relations director. ■ Dr. I. Clifford Retief, BS’87 HOD sharpened Owen’s people and leadership chine and dance for him just before his skills. Football taught him teamwork. One-on-one ill-timed death. So she settled for three Clifford Retief didn’t choose HOD, but he chose to exchanges with faculty helped him focus. And Dol- years with New York’s School of Ameri- keep it. The rangy teen tennis star from Johannes- lar General just keeps moving him up. can Ballet before accepting a bid to join burg, South Africa, was casting about for a univer- Owen is close to another HOD graduate who Dance Theatre of Harlem. Then came sity scholarship in 1984 when Vanderbilt came acknowledges a slight twinge of envy. That would be the phone call: “Apply for a passport, through for him. But it was too late for him to his spouse, Tulsa native Meghan Montgomery and do it now. You’re going on tour.” choose a major, and faculty advisers placed Retief in Owen, BS’92, who graduated with a double major From 1983 to 1988, Mallette HOD. in HOD and French. The couple now has three chil- performed in major cities throughout “They told me I could change majors second dren, ages 5, 3, and 1. “I always thought I’d have a Europe, the U.S., and South America, semester,” he says. But HOD’s concerned, commit- high-powered career,” says Meghan a bit wistfully, often in coveted lead roles. She was fea- ted faculty had him hooked. He played tennis for “but for now I’d rather be at home.” tured with the Dance Theatre on CBS’s Vanderbilt for four years, and out-of-town games “60 Minutes” and at the 1984 closing and long practice hours preempted many required ceremonies of the Olympic Games in Los off-campus activities. “The faculty never held it Angeles. against me that I was a jock,” he says. The Arts But the physical demands of profes- After graduation, Retief hit the professional ten- ■ sional ballet are hard on the human body, nis circuit. “Win or lose, I had to give it a shot. I had Adelaide Mallette Vienneau, BS’90 and she’d already undergone back sur- a great time, but I didn’t make a lot of money. My gery. At 26 she weighed the advantages of tennis game was good enough to make a living, but Put Tchaikovsky’s “Allegro Brilliante” on the stereo, retiring from the stage. “I could have little more.” He returned to Tennessee to take up and Adelaide Vienneau is on her toes, literally. These danced for another five or 10 years,” she where he’d left off with a certain Vandy Arts and remembered strains often “muscle my memory,” she says. But then there was Jim Vienneau Science major named Carla Rumley. But by that says—a souvenir from her first career. back home in Nashville. “While I was time, Rumley was in medical school in Memphis. At 40, Vienneau manages community relations away, we logged so many frequent flyer Retief had always planned to follow his physi- for Nashville’s Frist Center for the Visual Arts, a hours that I could fly free to Hawaii on cian dad into medical school. By meticulous selec- major arts center that opened in 2001 in the former our honeymoon.” tion of HOD electives, he had already met pre-med home of the city’s art-deco main post office on Her dancing career behind her, Vien- requirements. He courted and married Rumley, and

Broadway. But ballet remains hidden in her heart, neau craved a university education. “I PEYTON HOGE went off to Chicago to enroll in the Scholl College of

26 PEABODY REFLECTOR 27 PEYTON HOGE

Podiatric Medicine. Though their paths often interpreting for Spanish-speaking patients in a Provi- crossed, the Retiefs’ happily-ever-after days would Technology dence emergency department. have to wait for completion of medical school, Jonathan DiOrio, BS’99 “In the sixth grade my mother insisted I study internships, residencies, and fellowships that played Spanish,” he says. “I didn’t want to, but now I’m havoc with married life. Jonathan DiOrio has grabbed hold of a rising fluent. Mom had the foresight to recognize that a All that behind them, the Retiefs returned to “Listen up. meteor and won’t let go. After two years and a string significant Hispanic population was on the way. I Nashville last year to put down roots. Dr. Carla of promotions with Tellme Networks, the 25-year- didn’t have a clue. Retief practices dermatology in the Green Hills area, There will old HOD graduate was recently named the “So listen up,” he warns. “There will be times and Dr. Cliff Retief is on the staff of Summit Med- company’s business development manager. Tellme is when your mother knows better than you. So deal ical Center in Hermitage treating diabetic foot dis- be times a mushrooming technology company in the heart of with it.” ease. Silicon Valley. Its business is making telephoning At 40, his confidence, charisma, and charm shine when your faster, cheaper, and easier to use by “replacing net- through. In addition to professional success, Retief work prompters with a unified Internet-powered has qualified for a commercial pilot’s license and mother knows solution.” sometimes flies charter planes. He has kept up his DiOrio says that means getting connected to your Education Leigh Zimmerman Gilchrist, tennis game, ranking 12th in the country in the 35 to better than party without detouring through mazes and menus. 40 age bracket. He hopes to top that this year in the Tellme technology can save large corporations mil- BS’92, MS’00 40 to 45 competitions. you. So deal lions of dollars a year, he says. For the first time ever, the Retiefs have bought a DiOrio was among the first employees hired back Sprawled in the sunshine on Alumni Lawn during home, a charming two-story south of Nashville. with it.” when Tellme founders were running the business out Vanderbilt’s Rites of Spring in 1988, high school They moved in March and are considering options of somebody’s garage. He worked 60 or 70 hours a senior Leigh Zimmerman of Richmond, Va., shuf- for decorating the nursery they hope to fill. Mean- week then—just as he does now. As Tellme grows, fled through papers looking for her notice of accept- time, they’re puppy shopping. DiOrio moves up. No computer whiz, DiOrio zips ance to Peabody College. Her mind was made up. along with no trouble. “I wing it,” he says. “If I get “Once I saw the Vanderbilt campus, I knew I be- a tough question when I’m closing a deal, help is as longed,” she says. “I signed the papers and picked close as my laptop.” out my dorm room that very day.”

ROD SEARCEY DiOrio is the eldest of three brothers born and When Gilchrist says she belongs, it’s no empty Leigh Gilchrist is an HOD alumna who is back at reared in Providence, R.I. Middle brother Christo- observation. Most days find her on the ground floor Peabody working toward a doctorate in higher pher completed requirements for his HOD diploma of the Mayborn Building where she serves as gradu- education. Her heart is dedicated to community in December 2001. Jonathan has already started the ate assistant to Sharon Shields while she completes service, and HOD helped her explore the ways in hard sell on third brother Michael, who is still in her studies and dissertation in Peabody’s higher edu- which she could serve. high school. cation doctoral program. “I’ve been lucky that The DiOrios are a traditional, close-knit family. way,” she says. She was also graduate assistant to Ed Their father is an obstetrician/gynecologist; their Martin during her master’s program in counseling. mother was a nurse who helped her husband Gilchrist said she chose HOD because it fit her Like a typical HOD alumna, Leigh Gilchrist con- through medical school. The DiOrios believe that aspirations for a career in community service. She tinues to broaden her horizons. She is particularly education and hard work separate the winners from comes from a family determined to make a differ- interested in research on how mental and emotional the mediocre. They set high standards. ence. Her brother is an Episcopal minister; her sister illnesses affect college retention, and she is exploring Jonathan DiOrio graduated from Phillips Acad- conducts a prison ministry. Even before enrolling in such areas as anxiety, depression, and eating disor- emy in Andover, Md., in 1996 and could have had HOD, Gilchrist served as a volunteer in facilities for ders. his pick among Ivy League universities. “But all I assisted living and elder care. One of her favorite projects has been teaching wanted then was to get out of New England,” he Her HOD internship was a change of pace. In the survival skills to welfare mothers for Women in says. “I wanted to experience another part of the summer of 1988, she became a management trainee Community Service, at which she moved from pro- country, get a feel for a different kind of American with the Park Regency Hotel in Washington, D.C. It gram coordinator to agency director in four years. culture. I came to Tennessee and fell in love with was her first experience with a for-profit business. “I The program included 10 weeks of lessons in parent- Vanderbilt and the South.” thought I should at least check out the other side,” ing, job searching and interviewing, hygiene, anger DiOrio proved his love by treating himself to she says, “and I actually enjoyed the summer.” But management, drug and alcohol awareness, and simi- cowboy boots and a Stetson. Initially, he was an the internship confirmed what she already knew: lar survival topics. Upon completion, participants Arts and Science major. “But I kept hearing all these Her heart was in community service. were awarded diplomas. great things about HOD, and I went to talk to Bob “That’s the great thing about HOD,” she Members of one of Gilchrist’s graduating classes Innes,” he says. “Wow! What a super-neat guy! We explains. “You get to explore. It’s brilliant how it’s had their diplomas reduced, laminated, and framed. hit it off, he signed the papers, and I was in.” set up in that way.” They presented the finished product to Gilchrist Late to the program, DiOrio missed out on some Returning to Nashville, Gilchrist worked for the with a note: “We couldn’t have done it without of the required service work. He compensated by Salvation Army and then served four years with you.” Tears glisten in Gilchrist’s eyes as she tells the Women in Community Service, a national welfare- story. “You know,” she says, “that’s the sort of thing reform organization that no longer operates in that makes it all worthwhile.” Jonathan DiOrio was reared in New England, educated Nashville. The agency’s focus was teaching life skills in the South, and now works in the high-tech heart of to mothers on welfare. In the meantime, she married Silicon Valley, where he is business development man- musician/songwriter John Gilchrist, who is among Julia Helgason, formerly a staff writer for the ager for Tellme Networks, a burgeoning telecommuni- the many in Music City working as a waiter and Dayton Daily News, is now a Nashville freelance cations firm. bartender until he gets that big break. writer and frequent contributor to the REFLECTOR.

28 PEABODY REFLECTOR 29 ILLUSTRATION BY DREW WHITE but surely, discipline and stability are returning. route, most take advantage of an internship program that Katy Greenslade, BS’01, encountered a very different man- lasts an entire year, teaching solo in a mentor teacher’s class- agement issue in her first year at Nashville’s Berry Elementary room and lead teaching 70 percent of the time. School, where she teaches a special preschool class for chil- To ensure the quality of the mentors in student-teaching and dren with autism. For her, gaining student control was not the internship placements, and to augment their ability to commu- problem. It was working collaboratively with other adults in nicate effectively what Peabody students need to learn, Peabody the room. has trained 79 experienced teachers as part of a cooperative “By far, my biggest challenge this year has been working mentoring effort with Metro Nashville Public Schools. As a with assistants,” says Greenslade. “Having two additional provision of this unique program, two new teachers are adults in the classroom who I have to trust and to whom I assigned to each mentor teacher. Mentors are given release time have to relinquish control is very difficult for me. I always by Metro Schools to visit the new teachers’ classrooms, or for want to be in control since I’m the one who is held account- the new teachers to spend time in the mentors’ classrooms, to able for my students’ progress, but at the same time I must observe and collaborate. acknowledge how much my assistants can promote that Peabody’s teacher preparation appears to be paying off. For progress as well.” the past several years, an astounding 90 percent of Peabody’s Margaret Smithey, senior lecturer in Peabody’s Department licensed graduates have landed in teaching jobs or graduate of Teaching and Learning, tries to instill in her students the school by the time of their graduation. For last year’s graduat- understanding that basic classroom management is the make-or- ing class, the percentage was even higher, with 95 percent break component in nearly every aspect of the educational expe- employed or continuing their studies. Although 50 percent of rience. Classroom management involves establishment and recent graduates have begun their teaching careers in Middle regulation of rules and procedures, classroom arrangement, Tennessee or the Atlanta area, Peabody alumni have surfaced in management of instruction and student behavior, and organiza- schools across the United States and in 19 foreign countries. tion of student work—all the particulars that enhance the learn- Chris LaFevor, who keeps track of graduating students as ing environment and support opportunities for the student. Vanderbilt’s director of teacher licensure, has a file full of com- “We go into great detail,” explains Smithey. “Where do ments from alumni who credit their Peabody education with you want the students to put their finished papers in order to properly preparing them, and who acknowledge Peabody’s rep- cut down on confusion? If a student has a question, is he sup- utation for opening doors that otherwise may have remained posed to go to the teacher during seat work or raise his hand closed to them. and signal so the teacher can come to him? All those little intricacies of classroom management contribute to a smoothly running class and can greatly impact on-task and off-task Creators of Change behavior.” Smithey is the first to admit that Peabody’s successes begin with Although first-year teachers have heard all this in their the recruitment process. She believes Peabody accepts into the Peabody classrooms, effectively implementing these basic program, and gives back to the educational community, the tenets of sound teaching while balancing all the other aspects cream of the crop. of being in a new position is tricky, and frequently forgotten. “We get such good students—students who are committed “The bottom line for us in terms of how well prepared stu- to teaching,” says Smithey. “They are obviously not in it for the dents feel,” says Smithey, “is whether or not they are able to money. They are doing it because they have a heart and a mind make these connections when hearing it at the University, as for service and education, have been very successful in their Survival in the Trenches they must when they are actually in the classroom, on their high school or college experiences, and are usually very intelli- own, making all the decisions. It becomes real then, and since gent and have had lots of meaningful educational advantages the job is overwhelming, it can be difficult to process it all.” such as traveling and studying abroad. We capitalize on those Peabody grads grapple with Classroom Management 101 Still, Smithey believes Peabody can give its future teachers attributes because we encourage them to be effective decision- Though countless factors impact a student’s achievements or only the foundation. The most crucial classroom-management makers. Many of our graduates become creators of change, and their first year of teaching lack of progress, the bulk of student success rests squarely on decisions must be based on a particular teacher’s personality, bring innovation into their schools.” by Ned Andrew Solomon the teacher’s shoulders. So does the responsibility of keeping his or her philosophy of education, the group of children According to Smithey, Peabody is also exceptionally strong order and controlling student behavior in the classroom. For being taught, and the kind of climate he or she wants or needs in fostering the collaboration that takes place between the stu- Evans, management issues, even with 6- and 7-year-olds, have to create in the classroom. dents and the University during their transition times of student ndy Evans, BS’01, was an excellent student in a difficult been his toughest task. teaching or interning. Collaborators, who might be faculty A and demanding program at Peabody College, double “In my classroom management course in Peabody, I was members, adjunct faculty members, or doctoral students who majoring in elementary education and language and literacy taught to be consistent with discipline or I would suffer from Teacher Training at Peabody have taught in a particular content area are in the classroom studies. But since graduating last May, he has faced a much the consequences,” he says. “I was taught to adopt a disci- All Peabody students begin their teacher training with foun- once a week observing the student teachers or interns, confer- more daunting challenge: convincing a class full of first graders pline plan, firmly establish it early in the year with the stu- dational courses in the various theories and philosophies of encing with them afterwards, and frequently addressing issues at Nashville’s Charlotte Park Elementary that he’s the boss. dents, make sure they understand it, and stick with it. But I education and developmental psychology. Then, depending on of concern during phone conversations between scheduled vis- For many first-year teachers, transitioning from sitting in a have been inconsistent, and have suffered for it. When you’re an elementary or secondary track, students take literacy its. Few other teacher-training institutions provide that inten- lecture hall to standing at the head of the class is a rude awak- inconsistent, it sends mixed messages to children. Students courses and methods in social studies, science, and math, or sive level of guidance and leadership. ening. Despite four years of intensive study of educational the- don’t know when they will be corrected, so they just do what- they concentrate in a particular content area. Although Peabody does not offer graduates ongoing support ory and philosophies, and a mentored term in the role of ever they want and risk their chances of getting in trouble.” Near the end of their Peabody education, undergraduates in any formalized fashion, some new teachers, like Jana Hosen- student teacher, nothing quite prepares one for coordinating the Fortunately, Evans has been able to take a deep breath and get 15 weeks of experience as a student teacher, with approxi- feld, MEd’01, actively seek it, and gratefully find it. Hosenfeld, entire classroom experience and the inherent knowledge that dig down into the resources gathered while at Peabody to mately six or seven weeks per placement. Although Peabody an alumna of the graduate program in secondary education, the book stops here. develop a plan for getting his classroom back on track. Slowly graduate students may choose the traditional student-teaching acknowledges that the ongoing support she has received was

30 PEABODY REFLECTOR 31 instrumental in getting her through her first year in the trenches. When the Light Goes On “My professors are in contact with me,” says Hosenfeld, Typical obstacles and hectic schedules aside, each of these four “just to check out how well it’s going and how they might Jana Hosenfeld says contact with her Peabody professors first-year teachers experienced powerful moments of clarity adjust their own curriculum in light of how we, as former stu- have helped her get through her first year as a middle-school Andy Evans says classroom management and and accomplishment that contributed to their sense of dents and current teachers, have or have not felt prepared. I teacher. “They have left the door open and are consistency of discipline have been the greatest obstacles purpose, and helped them remember why they originally had also feel that I can call on any of my teachers for advice or sug- so receptive to my needs and questions,” she says. in his first year as an elementary-school teacher. chosen this profession. For Greenslade, it was the successful gestions. They have left the door open and are so receptive to transitioning of one of her students into a typical classroom my needs and questions.” with appropriate Hosenfeld also praises the training offered by Peabody’s sup- Classroom Organization and Management Program (COMP), ports. developed by Professor Carolyn Evertson, for helping her main- “After months of working to include tain classroom control. (For more information about COMP, one of my students in a typical pre-kindergarten class,” see the feature article “Common Sense into Common Practice” she says, “I was able to convince others of the need to move on pages 15–17 of this magazine.) him to a less restrictive environment. He is now in a blended class where he gets the support of a special education teacher with two assistants, as well as constant interaction with typical The Real World peers. He has made gains we never could have predicted.” A strong educational foundation, a great reputation, and fac- For John Hertel, it was turning one of his toughest student ulty and mentor support can only help so much. At the end of adversaries into an ally. “I had one particular student who was the day, the teacher is alone with the demands of student work giving me a heck of a time throughout the first quarter of the and the weight of just plain getting by. Hours of planning and school year,” he relates. “He was a constant disruption. I was piles of paperwork alone can be overwhelming, especially continually sending him out of the classroom, and a few times when added to the stress and strain of basic survival. he became verbally confrontational. Eventually, I realized I “For the most part, after completing my Peabody training, needed to take a different approach to the situation.” I felt that I was prepared to teach,” says Andy Evans. “How- Hertel began to follow his school’s discipline guidelines and ever, I think the shock wasn’t necessarily that I was a class- eventually, the student was suspended. Following conferences room teacher, but the fact that I was on my own, in the real with the school’s responsibility teacher, he returned. “When the world, with bills and managing an apartment. Meanwhile, I second quarter began, I had this student for two class periods,” was supposed to teach first graders five days a week for nine continues Hertel. “I thought it was going to be the end of me! PEYTON HOGE months. After work, I eat and sleep!” PEYTON HOGE However, because of the actions I had taken the first quarter Katy Greenslade, who studied secondary education and and the conferencing the student had received from our excel- special education, with concentrations in early childhood and lent responsibility room teacher, he became a different student. comprehensive special education, echoes Evans’s emotions, Now, most days he greets me in the hall with a pleasant ‘Hello, with a nostalgic look toward a less pressured time. Mr. Hertel.’” “Being a real classroom teacher carries considerably more Jana Hosenfeld saw the light go on in the face of one stu- responsibility than being a college student, even a student dent, a child who disliked reading but found herself engrossed teacher,” she says. “It is still strange to look back at college in a book Hosenfeld had recommended. Currently teaching at and think of how much free time I had. Simply working in a John Trotwood Moore Middle School in Nashville, she gauges classroom for seven and a half hours or more was a big her success as an educator in simple terms. “Smiles, students adjustment. I must repeatedly remind myself that this is only repeating phrases that are difficult for high school students to my first year, and that I should not expect everything to be comprehend—these things show that I’m being effective,” she exactly as I want.” says. “Most of all, it is the relaxed but challenged looks on their Ironically, John Hertel, MEd’01, another first-year teacher, faces when they enter my room.” attributes the extras he puts into his schedule as the secret to And in the midst of Andy Evans’s elementary school trials his success. Besides teaching 10th- and 11th-grade English at and tribulations, he has concluded that he is right where he is Algonac, Mich., Community High School, Hertel is defensive supposed to be. “I think the most rewarding experience I have coordinator for the varsity football team, the freshman bas- had with my students came when they started reading,” he says. ketball coach, and a co-sponsor for the National Honor Soci- “I know that I was taught effectively at Peabody about reading ety. His extracurricular activities began even before his tenure education and how to teach it, but I was still unsure how well I as a teacher did. would do. “I worked with students throughout the summer as a foot- “When my students began reading, independently, I knew AMY E. POWERS

ball coach,” says Hertel, “and by the time the school year PEYTON HOGE that I had really made a difference. I actually had taught the began, I was already very familiar with the community and John Hertel is a first-year high-school teacher in Michigan. Elementary-school teacher Katy Greenslade says her first students, and they learned. I was a teacher.” the attitudes of the students and educators in the community. He says becoming familiar with his school’s community and classroom victory came when she worked to move a student I would recommend that all aspiring teachers work in schools working with students in a variety of after-school activities with learning disabilities into a typical pre-kindergarten as much as possible prior to their first year of teaching. I can’t have helped him weather first-year storms. class. “He is now in a blended class and has made gains we Ned Andrew Solomon is a freelance writer and a former emphasize enough the importance of being involved with never could have predicted,” she says. researcher at Vanderbilt’s John F. Kennedy Center for Research school activities after regular school hours are over. As a on Human Development. He is now director of Partners in Pol- result, the students see your interest in them and begin to icymaking, a program of the Tennessee Council on Develop- respond to you in a more positive way.” mental Disabilities.

32 PEABODY REFLECTOR 33 Peabody Awards Inaugural Frist Scholarship Zeppos Named Parent Pow-Wow Peabody College University Provost

PEYTON HOGE Alumni Association he generosity of the Frist family has place for me.” ames Hogge, right, Tbecome legendary in Nashville, with the Minihan says In a further effort to more closely align the Jassociate dean for Peabody welcomes the following family name associated with a host of local she’s learned University’s academic and development faculty and programs new members to its 31-member many important functions, Nick Zeppos, who last year was cultural, medical, and educational enterprises, and professor of psy- Alumni Association Board of things at Peabody, named vice chancellor for institutional plan- including several at Vanderbilt. chology, visits with Directors. A complete listing of including the fact ning and advancement, has been appointed The Frists have an especially close con- Peabody senior Court- Alumni Board members appears on nection to Peabody College through Dorothy COURTESY OF THE MINIHAN FAMILY that she can’t to the newly created position of provost ney Dashe, second from page 52 of this magazine. Cate Frist, who earned her bachelor of sci- learn everything. and vice chancellor for academic affairs. left, and her parents, ence degree from Peabody in 1932. Mrs. “There is no way The change was effective March 15. Grace Veronica Ambrose, EdD’97 Murray and Robin Frist was one of 14 children, all of whom a teacher can In addition to his role as chief academic Wappingers Falls, N.Y. Dashe of Oakland, were college graduates, and three genera- know every an- officer, Zeppos continues to lead the Uni- Ann Scott Carell, BS’57 Calif., during Peabody’s tions of her family have been associated with swer to every versity’s 200-member alumni and devel- Nashville Parents Leadership Peabody. As wife of Dr. Thomas Frist Sr., Catherine Minihan question, and stu- opment staff, which is currently preparing the founder of Hospital Corporation of Amer- dents are always for a $1.25 billion-plus comprehensive fund- Luncheon in March. Kimberly Dayani, BS’93, MEd’00 ica (now known as HCA—The Healthcare going to ask questions the teacher did not raising campaign. Mission Woods, Kan. Company), she instilled in their children her anticipate. A teacher needs to be as prepared “We must have a process and structure Bonnie Leadbetter, BS’92, MEd’94 lifelong commitment to education. as possible, and if questions come up that to ensure a straight line from our academic Atlanta A few years ago the Frist family established you don’t know the answer to, you make goals, as developed by the faculty and deans, the Dorothy Cate Frist Honor Scholarship at it a learning experience in the classroom. to the allocation and growth of our Sign Up for Vanderbilt’s Free E-Newsletter! J. Hunter McCarty, BS’68, MA’71 Peabody to honor Mrs. Frist, who died in Jan- “I’ve also learned the importance of get- resources—in short, a seamless integration Franklin, Tenn. he latest news from Vanderbilt is just a click away when you sign up for our uary 1998. Today she is remembered through ting to know students personally. By doing of mission and resources,” said Chancel- free monthly e-mail newsletter for alumni, .commodore e-news. Read Donna B. McNamara, PhD’77 the first recipient of the Frist Honor Schol- so, a teacher is able to relate to her students’ lor Gordon Gee in a statement to the Uni- T what others are saying about Vanderbilt in the mass media. Keep up with class- Morristown, N.J. arship, Catherine Mary Minihan. lives, tailor lessons to differing student abil- versity community. “This requires a new mate accomplishments and favorite professors. Learn about new programs and Minihan is a senior at Peabody, major- ities, and create a more cohesive classroom.” structure with a new vision.” Julie Brown Williams, MA’74, the latest research advances on campus. Check out what’s going on in Com- ing in elementary education and sociology. One of the most thrilling opportunities Zeppos, who also is a professor of law, EdD’86 modore athletics. She came to Vanderbilt from Rochester, N.H., Minihan has had at Vanderbilt came last will now be responsible for conceiving, Whites Creek, Tenn. TO SUBSCRIBE, send an e-mail message to [email protected]. Please because she desired to experience a differ- semester when she studied at the University implementing, funding, and assessing the include your name, degree, class year, and e-mail address, and ask to be added to Lauren Wilson Young, BS’97, ent part of the country and a different cul- of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, University’s academic and research mission, the mailing list for .commodore e-news. We’ll take it from there. MEd’99 said Gee. “And under this integrated ture. What she discovered was a love for with three other Vanderbilt students as part Memphis, Tenn. teaching and working with children. She has of the University’s Junior-Year Abroad pro- approach, he will ensure that our develop- WE LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING FROM YOU! completed practica in both second-grade and gram. In Sydney she completed her final lab ment and alumni efforts are inextricably fourth-grade classrooms, appreciating the science course and three courses in sociol- linked to that mission.” differences between the two age groups. ogy while soaking in the Aussie culture. Gee also announced the appointment “I was a little worried that I wouldn’t like “There were so many things to experience of David Williams, general counsel and sec- the fourth-grade level because I was sure I in Sydney, and it was great to study sociol- retary for the University, to the newly cre- In Lieu of Flowers … only wanted to work with younger children, ogy in a different country because it’s a dis- ated position of vice chancellor for student hen a loved one passes away, one of the decisions you may face is how best to create a but I wound up having a fabulous time with cipline in which you can clearly see the different life and university affairs. He praised both fitting memorial—a tribute that heralds the difference this special person made in the that age group,” says Minihan. “I adored perspectives people have,” says Minihan. men for their “great intelligence and cre- both practicum experiences. They gave me Back in the U.S., Minihan will be work- ativity, boundless energy and enthusiasm, lives of those around him or her. You may be content to ask that contributions in lieu of a chance to be in a classroom and teach before ing to wrap up her Peabody education with and a zealous commitment to excellence.” flowers be made to the charity of one’s choice. Or you may wish to link those gifts to doing my student teaching, which was a key the help of the Dorothy Cate Frist Honor Before his appointment last year as vice something more personal. benefit. The excitement of the students when Scholarship, a half-tuition award. Through chancellor, Zeppos VU NEWS SERVICE OneW important way in which you, family members, and friends may honor the memory of your loved one is they are enjoying school and learning is con- the scholarship, she has had the opportunity had served as asso- through gifts to Peabody College. tagious.” to meet members of the Frist family, includ- ciate provost and Perhaps your loved one was an alumnus whose memories of the Peabody years always brought a smile. Minihan says graduate school will be in ing alumna Mary Frist Barfield, BS’68, daugh- as associate dean of Or perhaps a Peabody education made possible some wonderful career opportunities. Or maybe he or she her future, possibly to earn master’s degrees ter of Thomas and Dorothy Frist, and her Vanderbilt Law simply cared about the exciting discoveries being made each day at one of the nation’s top colleges for in both education and social work, in addi- husband, H. Lee Barfield II. School. The Mil- research in education and human development. waukee native has tion to teaching. Peabody, she says, has pre- “This scholarship lies very close to their Whatever the reason, a memorial gift to Peabody College, in any amount, helps to foster the causes pared her for all these endeavors. hearts, and I am so grateful for having been been at Vanderbilt and ideals your loved one held dear. These gifts are fully tax-deductible and, if one wishes, may be restrict- “Peabody is a great place because it’s small selected to receive it,” says Minihan. “I have 14 years. ed for a specific purpose. A real difference can be made at Peabody if the following is included in your enough to allow you to know many of the a very strong commitment to education, and Former provost people who share your major, which gives the Frist family has a strong commitment Thomas Burish, loved one’s obituary notices: “In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorial gifts be sent to Peabody you a wide circle of peers to consult about to Peabody. who served in that College, Vanderbilt University, Office of Gift Records, VU Station B 357727, Nashville, TN 37235-7727.” role for 10 years, elementary education,” says Minihan. “The scholarship is allowing me to take Nick Zeppos If you would like more TRES MULLIS, director of alumni and development, PHONE: has left Vanderbilt “I’ve also had the chance to get to know out far less in school loans, which will be information about opportunities Peabody College of Vanderbilt University 615/322-8500 my professors on a personal level. They are greatly helpful as I make plans for graduate to become the next president of Washing- to honor a loved one through a gift Peabody Box 161, 230 Appleton Place E-MAIL: always available to meet with me and offer school. I’m quite honored to be associated ton and Lee University in Lexington, Va. guidance. Peabody has been a wonderful with them.” to Peabody College, please contact: Nashville, TN 37203-5701 [email protected]

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PEABODY PROFILE

Alumni news may be submitted to Mildred B. Vance, MA, was named has served in leadership roles, includ- COURTESY OF MEL CHIN THE PEABODY REFLECTOR, Class one of three 2001 Distinguished ing president of ASU’s Faculty Asso- ’56 Melvin Chin (BA’75) Notes editor, VU Station B 357703, Alumni/ae of Arkansas State Univer- ciation. Before joining the ASU Betty J. Parker, MA, and Franklin 2301 Vanderbilt Place, Nashville, sity in September. A resident of Sedg- faculty, Vance was a public school Parker, EdD, have written a chapter Artist Without Boundaries TN 37235-7703. You also may wick, Ark., Vance has made a lifetime teacher in Arkansas and Michigan, titled “George Peabody, Founder of submit your news by e-mail to career at ASU, from which she and also worked for the FBI in Wash- Modern Philanthropy” for the book [email protected]. received her bachelor’s degree in ington, D.C., and the American Red Notable American Philanthropists, to be hen artist Mel Chin creates, his National Merit Scholarship. Nashville’s 1946. She first was appointed super- Cross in Illinois. published by Greenwood Press in 2002 Wwork is rarely confined to canvas, hills seemed preferable to his flat Hous- visor of the kindergarten at the uni- for the Indiana University Center on Phil- clay, or stone. Instead, Chin’s composi- ton homeland—inspiration for the tra- versity’s demonstration school in anthropy. The Parkers, who have writ- ’42 REUNION OCT. 25–26, 2002 tions are conceptual first, created in a ditional landscapes and sculptures Chin Joe T. Brandon, BS, writes that he has 1948, and today she is a professor of ’52 ten extensively about the life of George enjoyed contacting old friends from education. A member of numerous Peabody, live in the Uplands Retirement mind accustomed to thinking both inside assumed his career would take. But he Peabody through Vanderbilt’s alumni professional organizations, she also Community in Pleasant Hill, Tenn. and outside Pandora’s box. Then his truly quickly used the college’s challenging cli- directory (most recently published in original and unique vision is laid lovingly mate to expand into a whole different 2001), to many of whom he had not on landscapes as varied as video games direction. Even a mandatory class in spoken in more than half a century. He and toxic landfills. ceramics exploded into topics as diverse also has reunited Peabody alumni with the College’s Alumni Office, LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION! Case in point, consider Chin’s totally as prehistoric Japanese pottery, Chinese which he says gives him “a feeling of Homecoming novel concepts for rebuilding the area philosophy, French symbolism, and the satisfaction somewhat like that expe- and Reunion where the World Trade Center stood. women’s movement—“all in a city where rienced by the midwife at the birth of Selected to participate in an exhibit of I could, at the same time, question the a prince.” When he travels to This year Vanderbilt have been combined into new design proposals for the Center, Chin politics of someone like Merle Haggard,” Nashville from his home in El “goes HOLLYWOOD” for the one event for all alumni and Segundo, Calif., he enjoys visiting the friends—we’ve called it envisioned a whole new infrastructure— recalls Chin. Artist Mel Chin at work on one of his site of the former Peabody campus biggest alumni weekend ever—and a floating roadway, 72 feet above the With Chin’s creativity loosed as a con- socially relevant pieces just south of the downtown area, “extraVUganza”—and your favorite existing streets and buildings. The diverse temporary artist, there’s been no con- where the “old stone castle” (main Peabody alumni have a front-row movies will be backdrops for the modular designs “link and lock” and uti- taining what has emerged from the box Just as Chin’s vision for a new New administration building) still stands. (See the inside front cover of this mag- seat for all the fun! celebration. Peabody’s pre-merger lize all new sources of ecological power ever since. Awards and grants are numer- York extends beyond “monolithic sky- azine for more about this building.) reunion classes are included in the and water treatment that “plug and play” ous and include those from the National scrapers and memorials,” his interest in fun, too, as we offer you a very into an integrated system for recreation Endowment for the Arts and the Rock- art, in its largest sense, extends beyond special invitation. These are just some of and work. The World Trade Center exhibit efeller Foundation; academic appoint- schools and museums to other venues ’49 opened at the Max Protech Gallery in ments include consulting professor at such as popular culture. “I’m especially Mack L. Graves, BA, MA’50, and his the things planned: wife, Mildred, celebrated their 50th New York and is now in Washington, Stanford University and advisory board concerned with the generational trans- wedding anniversary last August in D.C., soon to be headed to Rotterdam, member at Carnegie Mellon University; fer of ideas and information,” he says. St. Petersburg, Fla., where they own •Reunion parties for Vanderbilt’s undergraduate classes of Berlin, and possibly Venice. and his work is housed in public col- So when the Museum of Contempo- Graves and Graves, a commercial 1952, 1957, 1962, 1967, 1972, 1977, 1982, 1987, 1992, Perhaps Chin’s penchant for thinking lections from the Federal Reserve in Wash- rary Art asked Chin to conceive of a pub- real-estate development and leasing in a whole new paradigm began at ington, D.C., to the Museum of Modern licly interactive art project in Los Angeles, enterprise. A former Brooksville, and 1997 Fla., high-school principal, Graves Peabody. He entered in the ’70s on a Art in New York. Chin set up the Gala Committee. Using retired from the St. Petersburg Junior •An all-alumni Homecoming tailgate COURTESY OF MEL CHIN students and teachers and working with College English department in 1976 writers and producers of TV’s hit show after 18 years. He is an active Kiwan- VANDERBILT UNI “Melrose Place,” over a two-year period ian and World War II veteran who •A Commodore football game against the University the committee designed and inserted secret was presented the Purple Heart, the VERSITY of Connecticut Bronze Star, and the Combat Infantry props into the set. From a quilt pattern Badge. “Dr. Susan Riley was my OCTOBER 25 •A spirited Homecoming parade with the chemical structure of the abor- major professor at Peabody and by tion pill RU486 to a container of Chi- far my favorite teacher,” writes –26, 2002 nese food with slogans from the Tiananmen Graves. “She was a ‘gem of purest ray •Educational events featuring professors from all Vanderbilt Square protest, the program had both serene.’ I love Peabody!” schools and colleges Registration a private and a primetime life. forms for extraVUganza The museum exhibited hundreds of ’51 •Cocktails and dinner Saturday night for all Peabody pre- the objects, which were later sold at are scheduled to be mailed in August, Bernie W. Simpkins, BS, has made a merger classes, with historic college and class-specific Sotheby’s. And through syndication large gift to Brevard Community Col- and online registration will also be memorabilia on display lege in Florida, which created in his and reruns, “Melrose Place” is destined honor the B.W. Simpkins Business available. If you have questions about to continue for the next 20 years, caus- Seminar for Entrepreneurial Develop- extraVUganza, e-mail the Reunion •An “extraVUganza” celebration with dancing and more for ing an ongoing conversation about an ment. The seminar series features all Peabody and Vanderbilt graduates! art concept never conceived before. entrepreneurs who speak about their Office at [email protected] Chin’s concept for a rebuilt World Trade Center is in a traveling exhibit that opened That’s just the way he wants it. Another successes and the innovative ideas bilt.edu, call us at 615/322-6034, or that helped them build their busi- in New York and Washington, D.C., and is headed for Europe. Mel Chin original. nesses. The first of these seminars was check out the Web site at www.vander- —Carol Wissmann in 2001. bilt.edu/alumni/reunion. WE’LL SEE YOU IN OCTOBER!

36 PEABODY REFLECTOR 37 licensed professional counselor, American dream. An associate pro- REUNION OCT. 25–26, 2002 ’57 ’69 national certified counselor, and sub- fessor of education at the University PEABODY PROFILE Jimmie Robinson Felder, MLS, of stance abuse counselor, she retired of Cincinnati, Henderson was THE CAMERA’S EYE/NASHVILLE Montgomery, Ala., is the recipient of last year from a 25-year career as a selected for the jury because of his Bobby Jones (EDD’80) ’58 numerous community awards and professor in the psychology and expertise in multicultural literature D.C. Pratt, MA, of Riverdale, Ga., honors, many of them as a result of her couseling department at Alabama for children and young adults. He is Great Gospel retired in 1992 after 40 years as a persistence in establishing a library for A&M University. active in several national literacy and teacher and school administrator. He her native Lowndes County, Ala. The child advocacy organizations. is author of 15 books involving former librarian of Montgomery’s obby Jones’s voice comes over the ing piano, soloists, and quartets into poetry, local history, short stories, Carver High School was so distressed ’74 Roberta Ann Pointer Smith, PhD, of Btelephone like gospel gold. Rich, res- today’s choirs, ensembles, and full-scale and mountain speech. In September by the low standardized test scores in John W. Long, PhD, EdD’95, is an Indianapolis is both a licensed clinical onant, and just raspy enough to remind productions, Bobby Jones’s career in gospel 2001, the board of commissioners of Lowndes County, which had no pub- assistant professor in the policy studies psychologist and psychiatric nurse Fayette County, Ga., and the mayor lic library, that she began a crusade in department in the College of Educa- who has served as a clinician in com- you he’s still firmly grounded in this likewise blossomed. of Fayetteville issued official procla- the mid-’80s to create one. She tion at the University of Illinois at munity mental health and private world—but half in heaven, half here. The Peabody played a part in his success. mations honoring Pratt for his ser- worked five years to secure funding, Chicago. Last summer he was awarded practice, as an academician, and as a mix is evident in his conversation. While he chose Peabody from which to vice to the community as an books, and the support of state and a Fulbright grant to teach African published health-care researcher and “We ran it with very little money. It earn his doctorate “because of its reputa- educator, through his church work, local officials, and in May 1990 the American studies at the Institute for reviewer for research publications. and through his involvement with Hayneville Public Library opened English and American studies at Hum- She has been an associate professor was divine guidance,” says Jones, refer- tion as an outstanding school for teach- the local Optimist Club. In March inside a former doctor’s office. As of boldt University in Berlin, Germany, and interim dean for Vanderbilt’s ring to “Bobby Jones Gospel,” cable tele- ers,” Jones praises the College for giving 1998 the Georgia House of Repre- August 2001, more than 19,000 during the 2001–2002 academic year. School of Nursing, an associate pro- vision’s longest-running entertainment him so much more. “It opened my mind sentatives commended him for his books had been catalogued, and a Long’s research areas include educa- fessor at the University of Illinois, and program. Airing since 1980, the program to be creative, understanding, and flexi- distinction as a poet. new, larger library building may be on tional policies affecting the African the Mary Margaret Walter Professor remained number one in popularity on ble—a wonderful experience.” the horizon. Felder has been honored Diaspora in the United States and Ger- of Nursing at Indiana University in as Citizen of the Year by the Mont- many and policies affecting African Indianapolis. She continues to work BET (Black Entertainment Television) for After teaching at the elementary-school try” with a House joint resolution by REUNION OCT. 25–26, 2002 ’62 gomery Alumnae Chapter of Delta Americans in higher education. at Indiana as an adjunct professor and more than 20 years. When Viacom recently and university levels, and as a consultant state Rep. Henri Brooks (D–Memphis). Miriam W. Meyers, BA, recently took Sigma Theta Sorority (1991), Woman has embarked on a new endeavor as purchased BET, Jones, now 63, relin- for McGraw-Hill Publishers, Jones turned The resolution was presented in the state early retirement from Metropolitan of the Year by the Mu Chapter of Iota John M. McLaughlin, BA, has been research consultant and editor at quished duties as producer but remains his attention to gospel music. Half a life- House of Representatives with Jones State University in Minneapolis, Phi Lambda Sorority (1999), and Vol- named executive vice president for www.research-help.com. “I studied as host. “I’m not going to be doing this time later, he has received a Grammy present. which she has served for 30 years, first unteer of the Year by the Junior education leadership and strategic with many illustrious Peabody faculty as the president’s executive assistant League of Montgomery (2000). planning for Nashville-based The who continued as colleagues when I forever.” He pauses. “But maybe I will.” Award for “I’m So Glad I’m Standing Here “And this Thursday night, I’ll be at and then as a faculty member teach- Brown Schools, the nation’s largest joined the Vanderbilt faculty,” writes “Bobby Jones Gospel” is followed by Today,” performed with Barbara Man- the White House as a special guest for ing linguistics, writing, and educa- provider of education, therapeutic, Smith. “I will always be grateful to “Video Gospel,” hosted by Marcus Wil- drell and the New Life Singers; Dove and their tribute to gospel music,” smiles tional planning. She also was a ’70 and family support services for chil- Peabody’s psychology program at son, a 1992 Peabody alumnus and for- Gabriel awards; and an International Film Jones. It’s his third invitation. university publications editor. Meyers Brenda Blalock Kirkham, MLS, has dren with extraordinary needs. that time, as it helped me launch a suc- mer Vanderbilt quarterback. The two Festival Award for writing and perform- “I don’t believe all this would have is author of A Bite Off Mama’s Plate: retired after 31 years as the librar- McLaughlin began his education cessful and multi-faceted career.” Mothers’ and Daughters’ Connec- ian/media specialist for Brookhaven career as a teacher at Westminster often travel internationally with Jones’s ing “Make a Joyful Noise,” a black gospel happened had I not used the organi- tions Through Food, published Middle School, which is part of the School in Nashville and later founded Nashville Super Choir. opera that aired on PBS. zational skills I gained at Peabody,” REUNION OCT. 25–26, 2002 recently by Bergin & Garvey Trade Decatur (Ala.) City Schools. Her hus- and directed the city’s Benton Hall ’77 Jones’s interest in gospel dates back And if you think Jones has already reflects Jones. “I developed a whole (Westport, Conn.) Beginning with a band, Bill, also is a retired teacher. School, serving students with learning half a century. Graduating from high hit all the high notes, it’s not so. He just belief system and skills transferable look at food’s place in the greater fam- disabilities. He served as associate school at age 15, he needed funds to attend began TV’s “Let’s Talk Church”; contin- to any aspect of life. It was a holistic ily, the book explores the connections Janice Brady Zimmerman, BS, professor of educational administra- ’79 mothers and daughters enjoy in the MA’71, EdS’72, an active Nashville tion and leadership at St. Cloud Uni- James B. Hawkins, MS, has accepted college. Answering an ad for a Sunday ues to broadcast his weekly radio show, approach.” The White House honor, kitchen and beyond. community volunteer, has been versity before founding the Education a position in his hometown of Gal- school piano player, he transitioned from “Bobby Jones Gospel Countdown,” from adds Jones, is one more “confirmation named to the Baptist Comprehensive Industry Group and the John latin, Tenn., as attorney for the Legal what he calls his rural Tennessee hymn- his Nashville home; and his autobiog- from God that I’m on the right track Breast Care Center Advisory Board. McLaughlin Co. The Brown Schools, Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and REUNION OCT. 25–26, 2002 singing Methodist childhood to urban raphy, Make a Joyful Noise: My 25 Years doing things to help mankind.” ’67 a privately held company, serves the Cumberlands, young people at 33 locations in 10 providing free civil Baptist gospel. in Gospel Music, was recently published Sing that song, Bobby. REUNION OCT. 25–26, 2002 ’72 states and Puerto Rico. legal assistance for He graduated from Tennessee State by St. Martin’s Press. —Carol Wissmann ’68 John V. Richardson Jr., MLS, is a pro- the poor, the University at 19 with a bachelor’s degree The State of Tennessee officially rec- Florine Watson Harper, BS, MA’70, a fessor of information studies in the Alvin T. Simpson, BA, is a noted elderly, and vic- in education and taught while going ognized Jones on April 3 “for his laud- Editor’s Note: More about Bobby Jones can be retired teacher, reports that her hus- Graduate School of Education and church musician, ordained minister, tims of domestic for his master’s. And as gospel music able service to Tennessee and his many found on the Web at www.bobbyjonesgospel.com. band, Buford, passed away in June Information Studies at the University and a professor of music at Alcorn violence. He for- 2001 after nearly 60 years of mar- of California–Los Angeles. Currently State University. He leads church merly worked with evolved from its simple beginnings involv- achievements in the gospel music indus- riage. She has moved from her home on sabbatical leave until September music workshops and has served as BellSouth’s legal in Thomaston, Ga., and is now living 2002, Richardson is serving as a Pres- arranger and accompanist for numer- dep-artment in Birmingham, Ala., as in Pelham, Ala., and spending time idential Scholar of Virtual Reference ous gospel-music recordings. headquarters general attorney, sub- with her two children. Services at Library Systems & Ser- sidiary general counsel, and sub- Birthing from Within: An Extra- primarily as a medical event. The with a corresponding Bible verse for Collins has created acting classes vices L.L.C. in Germantown, Md. He sidiary president. An Eagle Scout, he Ordinary Guide to Childbirth Prepa- book is now in its fourth printing. each week, encouraging children to offered by the SHAC. A New York Sandra Etheridge Silverstein, BS, of is studying virtual question answer- ’76 has been active in church and com- ration, has been named to Lamaze learn the verses and then apply them native and former professional Brownsville, Tenn., is in her sixth year ing, notably the measurement and Darwin L. Henderson, EdS, has been munity activities, including Habitat International’s all-time top-10 list of to their lives. dancer, Collins landed in Spring Hill REUNION OCT. 25–26, 2002 as director of the Haywood County evaluation of virtual question named to the seven-member national for Humanity and the United Way. books recommended to parents and ’82 four years ago when she married a Chamber of Commerce. During her answering, benchmark data, and sta- jury that selects outstanding African Hawkins is a former member of families. He co-authored Birthing local resident. “We’re drawing all tenure, tourism has flourished and tistical profiles. Richardson is editor American authors and illustrators for Peabody College’s Alumni Associa- from Within with midwife and child- ’84 these people who wanted a taste of many new industries have come to the of Library Quarterly. the American Library Association’s tion Board of Directors. birth-education innovator Pam Eng- ’83 Deanne M. Collins, MEd, EdD’91, theater,” says Collins. “It’s still not community, thanks in part to a special Coretta Scott King Award. The land. Birthing from Within, which Judy Harrison, BS, of Atlanta is lives in Spring Hill, Tenn., where she enough opportunity for all those who incentive package she helped develop award, a tradition since 1972, honors Horowitz calls “an unusual mélange author of Getting Together with founded the Spring Hill Arts Center in want to perform. There are so many to recruit retail businesses and boost ’73 authors and illustrators whose works ’81 of psychology, midwifery, art, hypno- God: Weekly Bible Verses for Your 1998. Actors with the SHAC rou- talented artists here. Moving to the economy. Silverstein says the Gail S. Gibson, EdS, PhD’74, is a promote an understanding and appre- Rob Horowitz, MA, PhD, an Albu- sis, and Zen,” helps couples prepare Family to Learn and Apply, pub- tinely play to packed houses at the Spring Hill was a real spark for me.” chamber will now take aim at the local counselor with Trinity Counseling ciation of the African American cul- querque psychologist and author, for childbirth as an emotional and lished by Looking Glass Books. The organization’s makeshift theater school system. Center Inc. in Huntsville, Ala. A ture and its contributions to the recently learned that his book, spiritual rite of passage rather than book is divided into monthly themes behind the old local high school, and Deborah Faulkner, EdD, is deputy

38 PEABODY REFLECTOR 39 chief of the Metropolitan Nashville from the Tau Lambda Chi chapter of course in diversity, as well as certifi- ings editor for Allure magazine, and PEABODY PROFILE Police Department. In March she the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity for her cate programs in diversity and in Ted is an associate for a New York in- received the 2002 Nashville ATHENA contributions and achievements in human resources management. She is vestment bank. Award, presented annually by 30 the community. a student adviser and career coun- Robin-Lynn Clemmons (BS’84) Nashville women’s organizations to selor, works with disabled students in Anthony L. Grande, MEd, has been recognize a business woman who has Scott D. Miller, EdS, president of Wes- her classes, and teaches online classes appointed by Tennessee Gov. Don Lina Bowyer Ellis (BA’87, MED’90) attained and personifies the highest ley College in Dover, Del., has been part time for the University of Mary- Sundquist as commissioner of the level of excellence in her profession. awarded the Presidential Medal of land. Higgins has been inducted into state Department Charlotte Fausett McGreaham (BA’70) She was honored last summer as a role Honor by Universidad Interameri- the Human Rights Hall of Fame in of Economic and model for young women by the cana in San Jose, Costa Rica. He was Montgomery County and was Community Devel- The Westminster Three YWCA’s Academy for Women of presented the medal at the university’s selected by her college’s president to opment (ECD). He Achievement. Faulkner developed the commencement ceremony in March be the county’s representative for Jan- formerly served as harlotte McGreaham was chair of HULAN WEBB Law Enforcement Accreditation Coali- by Luis Alberto Monge Alvarez, for- uary’s national Martin Luther King Jr. ECD deputy com- tion of Tennessee, an organization that mer president of Costa Rica, and commemoration events in Washing- missioner, as well Cthe mathematics department at assists law-enforcement agencies with William Salom, president of Universi- ton, D.C. as assistant com- The Westminster Schools in Atlanta the national accreditation process. dad Interamericana. Miller and Ros- missioner of Ten- alie Mirenda, president of Neumann nessee Business Services and director when Lina Bowyer Ellis and Robin- REUNION OCT. 25–26, 2002 Lynn Clemmons, a former math student College in Pennsylvania, were hon- ’92 of Manufacturing Services. During of McGreaham’s, applied for positions ’85 ored for their leadership in developing Joanne H. Evans, EdD, received the his service with the department, the Ivan J. Reich, BA, JD’88 (Law), is a an international educational consor- 2001 Excellence in Professional Nurs- State of Tennessee achieved its three there. “I was very impressed with their shareholder in the Fort Lauderdale, tium benefiting students from Costa ing Leadership Award from the Eta best years in private capital invest- educational backgrounds and their Fla., law office of Becker & Poliakoff Rica and Panama. Tau Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau ment and job creation, attracting $5 strong commitment to teaching,” says and has been elected secretary of the International, the nursing honor soci- billion in 1998, $6 billion in 1999, McGreaham, “and recommended that Young Members Section of the Com- Anita Perry, MS, lives in Nashville ety. Evans is chairperson of the School and $7 billion in 2000. In 1999 Ten- mercial Law League of America. where she is director of development of Nursing at Salem State College in nessee was chosen, for the first time, Westminster hire them.” It turned out Reich focuses on bankruptcy, land- for a nonprofit organization, SAM- Salem, Mass. as State of the Year for its tremendous the three educators had more in com- lord-tenant disputes, securities liti- Ministries. economic accomplishments. mon than a love for math: All had gation, debtor-creditor relations, received their teaching training from collections and foreclosures, and ’94 John C. Thorsen, MEd, married Peabody College. appellate law as part of his firm’s com- ’89 Candace Dawn Fruin, BS, MSN’95 Laura Morsman on July 14, 2001, in mercial litigation group. Elizabeth Boucher Law, BS, received (Nursing), and James D. Stefansic, Deerfield, Mass. Both work at the Having majored in mathematics at her doctorate in educational leader- MS’96, PhD’00, were married June 23, Mercersburg Academy in Pennsylva- Vanderbilt from 1966 to 1970, ship from the University of Georgia in 2001, in Nashville, where they reside. nia, where he is director of the alumni McGreaham decided to pursue a teach- ’86 May 2001. Candace is assistant nurse manager of and development office and she is ing certificate. She took several educa- Aimée Favrot Bell, BS, lives in the neonatal intensive-care unit at Van- associate director of admissions. tion courses and completed her practice Metairie, La., and reports that she is derbilt Medical Center, and James is a happily married with three children, ’90 neuro-imaging engineer at Vanderbilt teaching at Peabody. “We were encour- and “had a kick” at her 15-year Van- Nick Dunagan, EdD, was named Research Center. ’96 aged not to simply depend on the text- derbilt Reunion. She also says she chancellor of the University of Ten- Daniel S. Ryan, MEd, has been named Peabody alumnae Lina Bowyer Ellis, Charlotte McGreaham, and Robin-Lynn Clem- book, but to look for other sources to loved attending Professor John Mur- nessee’s Martin campus last fall. He Leigh Windsor Taylor, BS, and Brian director of human resources for Smith mons are all mathematics instructors at The Westminster Schools in Atlanta. enliven our classrooms and provide rell’s retirement reception at Peabody began his work at UT–Martin in 1973 Koch were married July 21, 2001, in Seckman Reid, a Nashville-based depth to the students’ understanding,” calculus exams for the entire country. technology to enhance student under- in October 2000. as director of development and went Chapel Hill, N.C. She is a teacher engineering firm. He also serves as on to serve as vice chancellor for with the Onslow County Public chair of the Nashville Chamber of she explains. “We were told that as She has earned two teaching awards standing of difficult math concepts. development and administration, vice Schools, and he serves in the U.S. Commerce Employers Council. REUNION OCT. 25–26, 2002 teachers, we had to be lifelong learners. while at Westminster: the Alumni Fel- They also encourage each other to fur- ’87 chancellor for student affairs, and Marine Corps. I continue to learn from my colleagues low Award for Distinguished Teaching ther their careers by pursuing profes- Gail S. Ward, BA, MEd’90, reports executive vice chancellor. He has Michelle Walker Ungurait, MEd, is and my students.” for 1992–93, and the Goizueta Faculty sional goals. that after a year in Oxford, England, served as interim chancellor three Ann Greenwood Watson, BS, social studies supervisor for the Ten- of Distinction Award for 2001–02. Clemmons believes a strong connec- as curator of C.S. Lewis’s former times. A UT-Martin alumnus and Mis- MSN’96 (Nursing), and her husband, nessee Department of Education’s Clemmons chose Vanderbilt specifi- home, she is now living in the souri native, Dunagan also currently Drew, announce the birth of their Division of Curriculum and Instruc- cally for the education program at Clemmons received the 2001 VV tion exists between Westminster and Nashville area and working as a pri- serves as executive director of West- daughter, Ann Lawton Watson, on tion for grades K–12. In this role she Peabody. “I knew I wanted to teach in Lavroff Calculus Award from Georgia Vanderbilt, as many Westminster par- vate tutor for five high-school stu- Star, the university’s regional leader- July 10, 2001. coordinates the writing and imple- the Southeast and that I wanted a school State University. She has been a speaker ents and alumni are Vanderbilt grads. dents who perform in a singing and ship program for West Tennessee. He mentation of Tennessee’s social stud- with a superior reputation,” she says. at numerous local and national mathe- All three teachers are doing their part to dancing group. also holds a law degree from the Uni- ies standards and benchmarks, serves versity of Missouri. Dunagan’s daugh- ’95 as board member for a number of Ten- “My strengths as a teacher, in my early matics conferences and was nominated keep the tradition alive by taking every ter, Tracy Vander Meeden, works for Stephen J. Bistritz, EdD, has been nessee educational agencies, and acts years, can be credited solely to Peabody.” for the 2002 RadioShack National opportunity to recommend Vanderbilt ’88 Vanderbilt as an activities coordinator named to the board of advisors for the as a member of the board of examin- Bowyer Ellis majored in mathematics Teacher Awards. Bowyer Ellis has to their students—perhaps planting the David Dyson, EdD, is president of for the Division of Institutional Plan- Center for Professional Selling at Ken- ers for NCATE. She also represents and economics at Vanderbilt and, after a served as an AP statistics exam reader seed for future Westminster, Peabody- Dyson Leadership Institute and the ning and Advancement. nesaw State University’s Michael J. Tennessee as the National Council of three-year term at a consulting firm, for the past five years. In 1997 she was trained professors. Plan for Life Alliance Network. He Coles College of Business. He joins State Social Studies Supervisors mem- has been appointed to serve on the Lina Bowyer Ellis, MEd, BA’87 (Arts several corporate partners through- ber of the National Council for the returned to Peabody for her M.Ed. awarded the Tandy Technology “I tell them Vanderbilt is a great Norton Advisory Board for manage- & Science), and Joe Ellis, BA’87 (Arts out Georgia who serve on this board. Social Studies. Ungurait recently trav- Thanks in part to the accomplish- Scholar Award for Mathematics and school with an excellent reputation,” ment and professional education at & Science), announce the birth of Bistritz is a managing partner with eled to Korea for three weeks on a ments of these three Peabody alumnae, Science Teachers. says McGreaham, “and that the contacts Birmingham-Southern College. their son, Matthew Joseph, July 4, Siebel MultiChannel Services, an Korea Society fellowship, and she is Westminster can boast a very impressive The three often collaborate on creat- and friendships they will make there are 2001, in Atlanta. Lina is a teacher for Atlanta-based international sales now pursuing her doctorate at Ten- math faculty. McGreaham is a table ing hands-on activities, games, and invaluable.” These three colleagues Brenda J. Gilmore, MEd, is director The Westminster Schools, and Joe training and consulting firm. He pre- nessee State University. of mail services for Vanderbilt Uni- works for Acordia Southeast. viously worked 28 years with IBM. leader for the Advanced Placement cal- other techniques to motivate their stu- and companions are living proof. versity and a Metropolitan Nashville- Margaret D. Warner, BS, and Jacob culus exam reading, grading all the AP dents, and they share a desire for using —Ned Andrew Solomon Davidson County councilwoman for Nancy B. Higgins, EdD, is a professor Lauren Ford Geddes, BS, married Ted S.S. Gearhart, BA’95, were married District 1. In January she received the at Montgomery College in Rockville, Duff on June 23, 2001, in Locust Val- Dec. 1, 2001, in Atlanta. They live in Outstanding Public Services Award Md., where she has developed a ley, N.Y. Lauren is formerly the book- New York City where Margaret is

40 PEABODY REFLECTOR 41 marketing director for Worth maga- Brett Lawton, BA’96. Emily E. Kiang, BS, lives in Dickson, Onie Lee Gibson, MA’40, of Besse- John Herrin Teague, MA’52, of zine and Jacob is vice president of debt Tenn., where she has just completed mer, Ala., Aug. 28, 2001. Falkville, Ala., May 16, 2000. PEABODY BENEFACTOR REMEMBERED capital markets for Deutsche Bank. Marianne C. Macomber, BS, and her first year of teaching in the multi- Brownie Lea Spain, BS’40, of Her- Robert Lee Batson Jr., MA’53, Hunter M. Rice, BS’97, were married handicap class at Dickson County mitage, Tenn., 2001. MEd’55, of Lake Worth, Fla., 2001. Oct. 6, 2001, in LaGrange, Ga. They Senior High School. She writes that REUNION OCT. 25–26, 2002 Ruth Hines Temple, MA’40, of Bowl- Sidelle B. Ellis, BLS’53, of Saluda, S.C., Leota M. Dunn, 1917-2001 ’97 live in Nashville where Marianne she chose Dickson because her student ing Green, Ky., January 2002. Nov. 22, 1999. Becky A. Boltz, MEd, BS’95 (Arts & works for the Nashville Scene news- teaching was at the nearby elementary Science), is a Peace Corps volunteer in paper and Hunter works for the Ten- school and that she is “adjusting to Mary Bible Williamson, MA’41, of Martha Elizabeth Hurst Rowland, eota Dunn has been a significant contribu- out the world. Leota China. She finishes her service this nessee Titans Radio Network. rural life slowly but surely.” Knoxville, Tenn., 2001. MA’53, of Roswell, Ga., July 21, 2001. Ltor to the life and times of Peabody College Dunn was co-author summer and plans to return to the Mildred R. Lawrence, BA’43, MA’49, Nine Mae Treadaway Smith, MLS’53, for more than 50 years. She was never a faculty of all of them. of Nashville, Jan. 26, 2000. of Quitman, Ga., June 30, 2001. States to resume life as a teacher. Scott G. McEwen, MEd, has joined John C. Pitt, BS, of Wilmington, N.C., or staff member or Peabody alumna. Neverthe- Nearly every spe- Birmingham-Southern College in won the 87th Carolinas Amateur Frances Margaret Stewart, BA’43, Grace Long Barden, BS’54, of Colum- less, she participated in building the name and ech and language ther- D. Brent Borders, BS, is a graduate stu- Alabama as assistant director for championship match last July at the MA’49, of Birmingham, Ala., Jan. 6, bia, S.C., March 13, 1999. international renown of the College through apist and school dent at Cornell University where he is alumni affairs, in which he is respon- Dunes Golf and Beach Club in Myrtle 2002. Grady Lee Beaty, MA’54, of Toccoa, studying human resource management. sible for the college’s annual alumni Beach, S.C. Though he reached the Carl F. Brown Sr., PhD’46, of Lexing- Ga., Feb. 1, 2000. her work as co-author of Peabody educational psychologist has used giving program. He previously finals of the 1999 North-South Ama- ton, S.C., Feb. 3, 2002. tests and materials and as a faculty wife. She was the PPVT. Virtually Ryan J. Keiser, BS, and Jennifer worked as a financial adviser with teur, the Carolinas Amateur is his Bryan McChord Williams, MAL’54, of John Gerald Parchment, MA’47, a member of the Lloyd and Leota Dunn team— every Head Start and McKay were married May 27, 2001, Prudential Securities in Birmingham. biggest victory. Pitt’s father, Bill, cad- Rolla, Mo., Sept. 9, 2001. PhD’61, of Murfreesboro, Tenn., in Santa Fe, N.M. They live in Dallas died for him. Fred W. Withrow, MA’54, of Sikeston, their family motto, “Press on fearlessly.” preschool program Aug. 2, 2001. where Ryan works for Trammell Mo., Aug. 30, 1999. The Dunns first came from Canada to the U.S. has used the PLDK. Numerous research stud- Crow Co. ’99 Deaths Allen Early Stanley, BA’47, MA’53, of Dorothy Dean Cox, MA’55, of Salem, to study for Lloyd’s Ph.D. in special education ies, master’s theses, and doctoral dissertations Ashley E. Rogers, BS, worked one Clintwood, Va., Aug. 12, 2001. Mo., Dec. 14, 2000. using these materials have contributed to the Sarah Alice Woodward, BS’21, of at the University of Illinois. They then moved to Mindy Peirce, BS, and Chad Pierotti, year after graduation tutoring sev- Robert W. Hall, MA’48, of Staunton, Geraldine Mae Miner, MA’55, of Yazoo City, Miss., Feb. 12, 2000. Washington where Lloyd did national studies of body of knowledge for the education and treat- BA, were married June 16, 2001, in enth-grade students before taking a Ill., Jan. 17, 2001. Odessa, Fla., May 17, 2000. New London, N.H. They live in teaching position with Denver Public Arline Bellamy, BS’22, of Scotts Val- the competencies needed by teachers for the ment of children with disabilities. Royalties Charles Everette Holt, BA’48, MA’49, James Frederick Ruggles, MA’55, of Atlanta where Mindy is employed by Schools. She also coaches soccer. “I ley, Calif., Nov. 29, 2000. of Roseland, Fla., Aug. 10, 2001. rapidly growing field of special education. Peabody earned from these materials have been shared Morgan Stanley and Chad is am currently teaching in one of Col- Marietta, Ga., May 2, 2000. Georgia Plaine Evans, BS’27, of Her- Harry Harrison Kroll Jr., BS’48, President Henry Hill found Lloyd and brought with the College since their earliest publication. employed by Frito-Lay. orado’s poorest communities and lov- George Leong, MA’56, of Hoboken, mitage, Tenn., 2001. MA’49, of Knoxville, Tenn., Oct. 31, the Dunns to Peabody. It turned out to be a coup The Dunns recently funded scholarships at Fisk ing it!” writes Rogers. “I am learning N.J., 2001. Maebelle G. Harris, BS’27, of Atlanta, 2001. in terms of the oft-cited two-for-one benefit of University and have given more than $1 million and have been given so much by a Ralph Tharman Maxwell, MA’56, of Oct. 18, 1999. community that many perceive as Walter Keith Roberts, MA’48, of Pitts- Roopville, Ga., April 2001. employing a faculty member and getting a hus- to fund the Dunn Family Chair in Psychoedu- ’98 Pat H. Norwood, MA’28, of San Mar- boro, N.C., July 17, 2001. Michelle Bargeron, BS, was married having nothing to give.” In June 2000 Joseph Morris Chilton Jr., BS’57, of band and wife team. cational Assessment, a research professorship cos, Texas, Feb. 1, 1999. July 28, 2001, to Scott R. Taylor. she was in the wedding of Suzanne Susan Almon Burzlaff, BA’49, of Nashville, May 30, 1999. Lloyd became the first director of Peabody’s at Peabody. They currently live and work in Goldstein, BS’99, and Rob Moore, Armenia Louise (“Minnie Lou”) Muscatine, Iowa, 2001. J. Martin Crosby, BA’57, of Jefferson, Department of Special Education starting in Leota Dunn, most recently of Las Vegas, died Kiev, Ukraine. BA’97. Other alumni in attendance Shane Bailey, BS’29, of Franklin, Virginia J. Hamilton, BLS’49, of Sul- La., March 21, 2000. 1954. This program became and continues today at home Oct. 1, 2001, at age 83. She was born were John Ingram, BE’94; Bryan Tenn., Nov. 17, 2001. livan, Ind., Feb. 28, 1999. Brooke Alexandra Brown, BS, and Milo, BA’98; Carrie Stewart, BS’99; Margaret Wixson Smith, MA’57, of as one of the top five in the nation. Leota Dunn in 1917 in Canada where she grew up, was edu- Elinor Josephine Ralston Binns, Marjory E. Lewis, BS’49, of Prescott, William J. Helmstetter III, BS’97, were Jaime Hackeman, BS’99; and Eliza- Fitzgerald, Ga., Feb. 12, 1999. cated, and taught school for many years. She BS’30, of Nashville, Nov. 16, 2001. Ariz., Dec. 9, 2001. was well known for her support and partici- married June 23, 2001, in Bluffton, beth Gwinn, BS’00. Eleanor Ann Clay, BS’58, of Cullman, Martha Geistman Campbell, BS’30, pation in the life of the College and the special met Lloyd as a fellow college student and became S.C. Brooke is an elementary school Vincent L. (“Bill”) DeShazo, MA’50, Ala., Feb. 3, 2001. MA’35, of Abington, Mass., 2001. of Fort Myers, Fla., Sept. 28, 2001. education program, especially by the depart- his wife of more than 60 years. The Dunns’ one teacher in Alexandria, Va., and Amy E. Herr, MEd, is vice president George Adam Lochner, MA’58, of Bessie Sherrod Dunton, BS’30, of ment’s students and faculty. Above all, she lent son, Douglas M. Dunn, a dean at Carnegie-Mel- William is a law student at George of Career Resources/Drake Bearn Eva Jane Park, MA’50, MEd’54, of Elizabethtown, Ky., Oct, 15, 2000. Mason University. Morin in Nashville, providing out- Poplar Branch, N.C., Dec. 15, 1999. Jesup, Ga., May 3, 1999. strength to the high aspirations of her husband, lon University, and his wife, Karen, provided Hilda Estela Martin, BS’59, of Lima, placement services and private career Rev. Edward T. Small, BS’30, of Bur- Arthur Harold Thornberry, BA’50, of Peru, Feb. 10, 2001. Lloyd, and their son, Douglas. Leota and Lloyd with four grandchildren. Jeremy Chaussee, BS, reports that he consulting to individuals in career gaw, N.C., Oct. 1, 1999. Nashville, Nov. 9, 2001. As a team, Lloyd and Leota Dunn produced Leota Dunn is best remembered for her warm got married on June 26, 2001, and transition. She previously was associ- Charles William Hall, MA’59, of Rebecca Martin Steed, MA’30, of Louise Davis Abell, BA’51, of an extraordinary array of educational tests and friendship, generosity, joy in worldwide travel, has taken his wife’s last name, Poehn- ate director of the Career Manage- Stone Mountain, Ga., July 14, 2001. Alexandria, La., March 18, 2001. Brunswick, Ga., Aug. 2, 2001. ert. He lives in Boston, where he ment Center at Vanderbilt’s Owen Anita J. Mauldin, MA’59, of Wood- instructional materials. They developed the her excellence at bridge, and her love of read- James E. Gibbs Jr., BS’34, MA’39, works in the Simmons College Service Graduate School of Management. Margaret E. Biery, BS’51, of Glendale, land, Calif., March 2001. Peabody Picture Vocabulary Tests (PPVT), ing. She was a generous benefactor and friend EdD’53, of Nashville, Nov. 16, 2001. Ariz., Sept. 13, 2001. Learning Office. William B. Crowley, EdD’60, of West Peabody Individual Achievement Tests (PIAT), of Peabody College and Vanderbilt University. Harriett Sherrill Tant, BS’34, MA’57, Debra Renee Johnson, BS, and Julian L. Bruce Robinson, MA’51, of Topeka, Columbia, S.C., January 2002. Peabody Language Development Kits (PLDK), —Samuel C. Ashcroft Emily C. Culver, BS, and Robert C. Lee Bibb IV were married June 16, EdS’59, of Hermitage, Tenn., Jan. 5, Kan., Sept. 22, 2001. Lois Harrington Montgomery, BS’60, Bigelow, BS’99 (Arts & Science), 2001, in Franklin, Tenn. 2002. and other materials known and used through- Professor of special education, emeritus Hubert Fay Smith, MA’51, of Chat- MA’64, of Austin, Texas, Aug. 13, were married July 21, 2001, in Grace Lee Martin Padgett, BS’35, of tanooga, Tenn., July 19, 2001. 2001. Ridgewood, N.J. Emily is a kinder- Thomasville, N.C., July 1, 2001. Keith Marshall Smith, MAL’51, of Theresa Bervoets Sutherland, BS’60, garten teacher at Hunter’s Bend Ele- Mary Frances Bradley, BS’36, MA’37, Louisville, Ky., Oct. 29, 2001. Georgine S. Pindar, PhD’68, of Sarah Antionette McDonald Smith, ’01 Richmond, Va., June 7, 1999. of Memphis, Tenn., Jan. 18, 2002. mentary School in Franklin, Tenn., Alissa S. Irion, BS, of Santa Paula, of Pleasant View, Tenn., Nov. 5, 2001. Marvin J. Gold, PhD’63, of Mobile, Atlanta, Aug. 7, 2001. MA’74, EdS’77, of Nashville, Sept. Leo Adron Beasley, MA’52, of Dorothy Land, BS’61, of Lawrence- and Robert is a third-year Vanderbilt Calif., is completing one year in Japan Louise Woodruff Dean, BA’37, of Ala., June 12, 2001. Dorothy Remington Pollard Lage- 24, 2001. law student. as a selected participant in the Japan Roswell, N.M., Aug. 1, 2001. ville, Ill., Nov. 3, 2000. Potomac, Md., May 27, 2001. Henry H. Lin, MAL’63, of Santa Bar- mann, MLS’69, BA’66 (Vanderbilt), Horace Herbert Bradley, MLS’75, of English Teaching (JET) Program. As Norman H. Cooke, MA’52, of Ash- Frances Morgan McCall, BS’61, of Ellen Snell Coleman, BS’38, BLS’44, bara, Calif., Nov. 4, 2000. of Alexandria, Va., June 29, 2001. Bath, N.Y., Jan. 22, 2000. Amy Erbesfield, BS, was married one of approximately 2,500 program burn, Va., July 31, 2000. Fairhope, Ala., and Gulf Breeze, Fla., MA’59, of Nashville, Oct. 23, 2001. Walter T. Locke, EdS’70, of West Thomas Marshall Kinder, EdD’75, of Aug. 4, 2001, to Kenneth M. (Trey) finalists from the United States, Irion Florrie Beth Jackson, MAL’52, of La Nov. 11, 2001. Marie S. Marcus, EdD’64, of Arabi, Clayton III, BS’97, in Atlanta. Other is working as an assistant language Clyde Everett Reedy, MA’39, of La., March 23, 2001. Palm Beach, Fla., Sept. 30, 2000. Bridgewater, Va., Oct. 22, 2001. Fayette, Ga., Dec. 14, 2001. Lee E. Williams Sr., EdS’61, of Vanderbilt alumni in the wedding teacher in Hasami Town, Nagasaki. Madisonville, Tenn., Oct. 5, 2001. Samuel Richard (“Dick”) Heflin Jr., George Cliff Gillespie, PhD’76, of Curtis Hudson Johnson, MA’52, of Huntsville, Ala., July 2001. Frederick James Butler, BA’65, of party were Sloane Wyatt Alford, The JET Program invites young col- Bowen Cox, MA’40, of Amarillo, Hoover, Ala., Jan. 9, 2002. BS’72, of Franklin, Tenn., Feb. 10, Murfreesboro, Tenn., July 26, 2001. Jacksonville, Ala., April 11, 2001. Robert Lee Pafford, BS’62, of Rock- BS’98; Laura Nuechterlein Weenig, lege graduates to Japan to teach Eng- Texas, May 12, 2000. 2002. Linda Poplin Roberts, MA’76, of Robert Steinen, EdD’52, of Daytona Edwina “Punch” Case Davis, BS’66, BS’98; Amanda Hicks, BS’98; Char- lish in schools or to engage in wood, Tenn., Sept. 27, 2001. Allan Clarence Peterson, EdS’73, Hendersonville, Tenn., Dec. 29, 2001. Dr. Sidney Clarence Garrison Jr., Beach, Fla., June 9, 2001. of Glasgow, Ky., Nov. 2, 2001. lie Cox, BE’98; Jim Echols, BA’98; international exchange activities at Clara Partin Sitz, BS’62, of Nashville, PhD’74, of Sun Lakes, Ariz., Sept. BS’40, MD’43 (Medicine), of Mur- James C. Norwood Jr., MA’66, of Fred E. Ford, PhD’77, of Pulaski, Jeff Leonard, BE’97; Ben Ellis, local government offices. Nancy Agnes Stoker, MA’52, of 2001. 15, 2001. freesboro, Tenn., Nov. 9, 2001. Nashville, Dec. 25, 2001. Tenn., Jan. 13, 2002. BE’97; Tom Mueller, BA’97; and Winona, Miss., Nov. 16, 1999. 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Elizabeth Lindsey Stevens, MLS’79, of San Francisco, April 22, 2001. ATTRACTIONS Susan Lynn Ray, BME’80, of Glen- dale Heights, Ill., Dec. 31, 2000. BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE PEABODY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Geoffrey Brackett Richards, EdD’82, 2002–2003 of Horridgewock, Maine, Aug. 19, JULY 2002 NOVEMBER 2001. FRANK A. BONSAL III, President, Ruxton, Maryland, [email protected] Michael Merle Fehl, EdD’85, of 8-Aug. 2 Module 2 for Peabody 4 Spring semester registration Montpelier, Va., Nov. 15, 2001. professional students ANN CARELL, BS’57 MARIAN HAYNESWORTH MAIER, BS’98 MARGARET DILL SMITH, PHD’81 23-Dec. 1 Thanksgiving holidays William Maiben Beard, BS’94, of Nashville, Tennessee Roanoke, Texas Bainbridge, Georgia 9-Aug. 9 Second-Half Summer Session for Daphne, Ala., Dec. 20, 2001. 615/665-8857 [email protected] msmith@catfish.bbc.peachnet.edu Peabody undergraduates Barry D. Gumb, MEd’94, of LINDA BLAIR CLINE, MA’72 FRANCES FOLK MARCUM, BS’67 KATY KEEBLE SUDLOW, BS’98 DECEMBER Charleston, S.C., 2001. Glencoe, Illinois Tullahoma, Tennessee Atlanta, Georgia Mark Hindy, BS’95, of New York City, [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] AUGUST 5 Annual “Hanging of the Green” Sept. 11, 2001. (See story on page 7.) KIMBERLY DAYANI, BS’93, MED’00 JOHN B. MAZYCK, BS’95 JULIE JOHNS TAYLOR, BS’95, MED’96 ceremony, Wyatt Center Lobby, 4 P.M.; Mission Woods, Kansas Montgomery, Alabama New York, New York 21-24 Squirrel Camp Orientation for sponsored by the Peabody Student Faculty [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] registered freshmen Association; contact Jennifer Pitts, JONATHAN N. DYKE, BS’93 J. HUNTER MCCARTY, BS’68, MA’71 KAREN DANIELS TREADWELL, BS’89 24 Orientation begins for new 615/343-6947 Charles B. Hunt Jr., BS’38, MA’38, Washington, D.C. Franklin, Tennessee Dadeville, Alabama former chairman of Peabody College’s [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] undergraduate students 10 Last day of fall classes music department and longtime prin- 28 Fall 2002 classes begin 11-19 Final examinations and reading day JULIUS ANDREW EVANS, BS’01 DONNA B. MCNAMARA, PHD’77 CAROL ROGERS WESTLAKE, BS’79, MED’84 cipal clarinetist for the Nashville Sym- Nashville, Tennessee Morristown, New Jersey Nashville, Tennessee phony Orchestra, died Jan. 25, 2002, 615/353-9618 973/285-0744 [email protected] in Paducah, Ky., at the age of 85. A OCTOBER JANUARY 2003 TRICIA L. EVEREST, BA’93 CHARLES Z. MOORE, BS’59, MA’60 JULIE BROWN WILLIAMS, MA’74, EDD’86 respected musician and leader, his Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Brentwood, Tennessee Whites Creek, Tennessee open and informal demeanor made [email protected] [email protected] 615/865-5959 12Ð13 Freshman Parents’ Weekend; 5 Orientation begins for new him a mentor to many in Nashville’s contact the Parents and Family freshmen and transfer students RUTH BISHOP HAGERTY, MA’61, EDD’84 CATHERINE A. MOUNTCASTLE, BS’79 LAUREN WILSON YOUNG, BS’97, MED’99 music community. Hunt joined the Gallatin, Tennessee Nashville, Tennessee Memphis, Tennessee Office, 615/322-3963; 8 Spring 2003 classes begin Peabody faculty in 1937, and a decade [email protected] [email protected] 901/685-3685 www.vanderbilt.edu/families later he completed his doctoral stud- 20 Martin Luther King Jr. Commemora- MARY CAIN HELFRICH, BS’90, MED’92 AT TANSELL ATTEN ANICE RADY IMMERMAN 24 Peabody Alumni Association Board ies at the University of California–Los P S P , BS’70 J B Z , BS’70, MA’71 tion Lecture and presentation of the Nashville, Tennessee Nashville, Tennessee Nashville, Tennessee of Directors dinner, Braeburn (the Angeles, receiving the first doctoral [email protected] 615/383-2090 [email protected] “Changing Lives” Award, Wyatt degree ever awarded by UCLA. He Chancellor’s Residence), 6:30 P.M.; Center Rotunda, 4 P.M. with reception returned to Peabody and directed the BONNIE LEADBETTER, BS’92, MED’94 JOEL SUTTON PIZZUTI, BS’94 contact Tres Mullis, Peabody Alumni following; contact Helen Gleason, Atlanta, Georgia Columbus, Ohio and Development, 615/322-8500; music program from 1955 until 1965, [email protected] [email protected] If you have questions or suggestions Peabody Dean’s Office, 615/322- [email protected] and then served as dean of the gradu- about the Alumni Association and its 8407; [email protected] ate college for several years. In the JOHN W. M ADDEN II, BS’88 PATRICIA OWEN POWERS, BS’84 Dallas, Texas Nashville, Tennessee activities, please contact the Board 25Ð26 Vanderbilt “extraVUganza” Weekend 23 Annual Maycie K. Southall Lecture, 1960s he was president of the [email protected] [email protected] member in your area. (a combining of Homecoming and Wyatt Center Rotunda, 4 P.M. with National Association of Schools of Undergraduate Reunion activities); Music, and he also served as president reception following; contact Helen contact the Office of Alumni Gleason, Peabody Dean’s Office, of the Nashville Symphony Associa- Relations, 615/322-2929; tion. Hunt’s idea for Peabody College 615/322-8407; olina State University, and in 1968 he A. Jr. and Arnetta. The Ed Martin assistant reference librarian at the [email protected]; to establish a pre-collegiate music pro- became head basketball coach for Foundation for At-Risk Youth has Women’s College of the University of [email protected] www.vanderbilt.edu/alumni/reunion gram for talented youngsters fostered Tennessee State University, serving in been established by Martin’s family to North Carolina from 1943 to 1946, the creation of what is today the Blair that role until 1985. At both universi- continue his charitable work on before serving as librarian of Hender- 25 Fall meeting of the Peabody Alumni School of Music at Vanderbilt. Hunt ties he has been honored as winningest behalf of young people. Those wish- son State Teachers College in 1947. Association Board of Directors, 223 is survived by his wife, Margaret; his coach, with more than 500 career vic- ing to support the foundation may She returned to Peabody College in Wyatt Center, begins at 8 A.M.; con- daughter, Carol McElwain; two tories to his credit. He produced 12 send contributions to P.O. Box 50427, 1947, serving as reference librarian tact Tres Mullis, Peabody Alumni and grandsons; and three great-grandchil- All-American players and 16 NBA Nashville, TN 37205-0427. for 26 years, until her retirement in Development, 615/322-8500; dren. He was preceded in death by his players, has been inducted into four Anna Loe Russell, BLS’38, MA’42, 1973. At Peabody she also compiled [email protected] son, Charles B. Hunt III. sports halls of fame, and was named and edited the annual bibliography of former reference librarian for the 26 Homecoming football game against National Coach of the Year in 1972. faculty publications, and she com- Edward A. Martin, basketball coach- Peabody College Library, died at her the University of Connecticut, Dudley ing legend and emeritus Peabody asso- In 1989, after serving as an assistant piled the index for THE PEABODY home in Hermitage, Tenn., Feb. 5, Field, 1 P.M. (time subject to change); ciate professor of the practice of to Vanderbilt basketball coach C.M. REFLECTOR. Russell was active in sev- 2002. Russell grew up in Conway, contact the Office of Alumni Rela- human and organizational develop- Newton for four seasons, he joined Ark., and earned a bachelor’s degree eral professional library associations, tions, 615/322-2929; ment, died Feb. 25, 2002, from com- Peabody College’s faculty as an asso- in foreign languages from Arkansas including the Tennessee Library [email protected]; plications following back surgery. He ciate professor in the undergraduate State Teachers College (now the Uni- Association and 60 years with the www.vanderbilt.edu/alumni/ was 75. Born in Allentown, Pa., Mar- human and organizational develop- versity of Central Arkansas) before American Library Association. She tin earned his bachelor’s degree from ment (HOD) program. At Peabody, attending Northwestern University also held membership at Nashville’s homecoming North Carolina A&T University and Martin was the father of the HOD and Peabody College, where she Cheekwood Fine Arts Center and the a master’s degree from Temple Uni- program’s community-service com- earned degrees in library science. She Cheekwood Embroidery Guild, and versity. An exceptional athlete in col- ponent. He directed and coordinated taught high-school English and she volunteered for WPLN radio’s Peabody Dean Camilla Benbow, center, lege, he joined the Philadelphia Stars, this effort and taught the pivotal French in Arkansas for several years Talking Library, reading the daily visits with Suzan McIntire, staff assistant a team in the Negro American Base- course in service learning, drawing and was assistant librarian for the Lit- newspaper for the visually impaired. in the Dean’s Office, and McIntire’s from his own dedication to serving Russell is survived by several nieces ball League, in 1951 and later played tle Rock Public Library from 1938 to grandson, Kas, during last fall’s Peabody basketball with the Harlem Globe- others. He retired from Vanderbilt in 1941. She was assistant librarian at and nephews. trotters. In 1955 he was appointed 2001. Martin is survived by his wife, Greensboro College in North Car- Faculty-Staff Kickoff Picnic. head basketball coach for South Car- Ruth, and their two children, Edward olina, and assistant cataloguer and

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he classic beauty of circulation and reference TPeabody’s Library desk with contrasting has been recaptured with light birch and cherry a long-overdue facelift stains provides a more last summer. From inviting atmosphere. attractive, new stained- Current periodicals have wood-and-glass entrance been moved to the main doors to refinished Palla- floor, along with 12 dium windows that run computers for student the full width of the use. The former periodi- main floor, the 230,000- cals room on the first volume facility has rede- floor has been converted fined library use with to a study area with round study tables, large study carrels and couches, and lounge tables. The renovation is chairs enabling students something of a preview to work in groups. The of great things to come, main floor features fresh as the library is Pea- coats of sage green paint body’s top facilities pri- and contrasting white ority in Vanderbilt’s cornices and columns, upcoming capital cam- along with a pale blue paign. Future expansion ceiling and white cross- and renovation plans for beams. The entry turn- Peabody’s library will be stile has been removed, announced soon. and a new combined

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