SPRING | SUMMER 2019 Volume 5, Issue No. 1

Volume 5, Issue No. 1

4 The Face of Writing

8 Finding Their Muse

12 Moving the Field Forward

2 | From the President 23 | Alumni Notes 16 | In Photographs 28 | Alumni Awards 20 | Campus 30 | Alumni Weekend

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Production Manager Find more resources online at: Julie Martinez transy.edu FROM THE PRESIDENT ON WRITING

Like most substantive human activities, our thoughts. Knowing grammar helps and deadlines close in, our thoughts and writing can be a metaphor for how we live. the writing process, but by itself knowing perceptions become restrictive. The only If we take writing seriously, we learn as grammar doesn’t lead to good writing, just creativity we seem to be able to muster is much about ourselves as we do about that as knowing the rules of a sport does not in in multiple forms of procrastination. To which we write. Writing gives voice to the itself make one a good athlete. overcome the restrictiveness that often murmurings of inchoate experience, and Practice and repetition help. Many accompanies stress, we can trust in the in developing a voice, we learn more about writers lament their early work. Over richness of the world. There is always a who we are and want to be. We deepen our time, as one’s experience becomes richer new story, a different angle, a revealing awareness of self. and thoughts become more complex, the metaphor to anchor an idea waiting to Like education, writing orients us toward persistent writer becomes more adept be noticed if we trust in our experience the future, even if we are writing about with language. The ability to express and in our ability to see it. William James’ the past. To set out on a writing project complexity with clarity increases. Nuance account of attention is helpful here: is to make a promise to oneself to bring settles into sentences and paragraphs, “Attention … is the taking by the mind, something into being that does not exist. layering meaning into words. James in clear and vivid form, of one out of what As we work toward keeping that promise, Baldwin ties together the importance of seem several simultaneously possible we increase our freedom by staking our experience with the agency of shaping objects or trains of thought. … It implies claim on the future. it with language when he observes, “It is withdrawal from some things in order to In “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism,” experience which shapes a language; and it deal effectively with others.” Soshana Zuboff presents an exquisite is language which controls an experience.” James is reminding us that we decide analysis of ways in which our ability Like grammar, experience is essential to what we pay attention to. And what we pay to stake a claim on the future is being a maturing writer, but by itself does not attention to not only influences how and undermined by the pervasive operations guarantee the proficiency we seek. what we write, it determines how we live. of big technology. In contrast, she sees the Imitation helps. In grammar school and Again, James: “Our lives are what we agree act of writing as an example of how we can my early years of high school, I traveled to attend to.” Through writing, which is a preserve our freedom by giving voice to our around New York City to watch the best process of upholding promises to which experience. She writes, “I made a promise high school basketball players in the area. we commit, we increase our claim on the to complete this work. … It represents my When I got home that evening or the next future tense. We expand our freedom. commitment to construct a future that day, I would try to imitate something they This is what liberal education does. It is cannot come into being should I abandon did, and I would repeat it until it could be well known that one of the most notable my promise. … I am an inchworm moving done with some fluency. Reading other qualities of Transylvania graduates is with determination and purpose across the writers is similar. In paying attention to their proficiency for writing. By extension, distance between now and later. … I can the way they develop a story, a character, Transylvania exemplifies the very best of promise to create a future, and I can keep an argument, or focusing on the style and liberal education by guiding the attention my promise. This act of will is my claim on efficiency of word use, we can identify and of students to the richness of the world the future tense.” adopt patterns of writing that help us say and encouraging them to stake their claim This act of will is an act of human what we want to say. But, like knowing on the future tense. It is no surprise that freedom. As Toni Morrison points out, grammar, imitation is an aid to finding so many Transylvania graduates assert “Word-work is sublime … because it is one’s voice. It is not the goal. their freedom by being attentive to the generative; it makes meaning that secures Good coaching helps. Constructive well-being of others and to improving our difference, our human difference — critiques of one’s writing from careful their communities. They understand that the way in which we are like no other life.” readers is invaluable. A good writing coach their lives are “equivalent to what they Word-work — writing — is an exercise in points out pitfalls to avoid and tips to attend to,” and their attention is devoted human freedom that enables us to stake a employ. While the words, sentences and to what is most important and, ultimately, claim on the future by giving distinctive ideas we generate can be hard to let go, the most rewarding. meaning to our lives. sooner we shun attachments of the ego, the There are technical elements to writing quicker we can advance. that help. Grammar is a powerful set of For some of us, the blank page is our organizational tools that direct the way biggest challenge. As hints of an idea slide we structure our sentences and hence around elusively beneath consciousness

2 THIRD & BROADWAY Carey stepping down as president, John Williams ’74 to serve as interim Transylvania’s 26th president, Seamus Carey, has announced he is stepping down to assume the presidency at Iona College in New Rochelle, New York. “Serving this community as your president has been both an honor and a privilege. I am grateful for all of the support I received and for all of the friendships we developed,” Carey said. “The past five years have presented many challenges — some that we overcame and others that remain works in progress.” Dr. John Norton Williams Jr., a 1974 graduate of Transylvania and member of the university’s Board of Trustees since 2007, will serve as interim president beginning Aug. 15, 2019. “Transylvania is a vibrant academic community with outstanding students, faculty and staff,” said Williams. “It is an honor for me to serve the university as interim president and share its great tradition of liberal arts education with future generations, just as it has done so well for almost 240 years.” During an academic career that spans three decades, Williams has held provost and dean positions at Indiana University, the University of North Carolina and the University of Louisville. He holds a Doctor of Dental Medicine and a Master of Business Administration from Louisville, as well as a Bachelor of Arts in biology from Transylvania. He is nationally and internationally known for his work in accreditation, academic program development and assessment.

the magazine of TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY 3 BY TYLER YOUNG TRANSY’S WRITING CENTER IS PUSHING CREATIVITY TO THE NEXT LEVEL

“It was at this point our parents what we did that day, we’ve assignment, on supporting a thesis, on been telling stories, organizing our breaking rules and not being afraid to let that the transition thoughts in a way that communicates your personality shine in your piece. what it is we want to say. “This space is sort of a cross between a was first made to We’ve always been writers. It’s building recording studio and a personal trainer,” our toolkit — the research, the knowledge he says. the conception of literature, the tricks and turns of Wait — hear him out. In addition to his phrases — that gives us the confidence teaching, Whiddon has been a working that rhetoric was a to call ourselves that. Writing is a skill musician since he was 16 years old. teachable skill, that that we all have, but it’s a skill that can be “In a recording studio, you have to developed with intentional training and actively listen, collaborate, figure out it could … be passed learning from others. the end product and allow yourself the That’s what Aristotle was referring to benefit of surprise. You have to have a from one skilled when he called rhetoric — his word for really good sense of genre and know the communication — a teachable skill that shape of things. performer on to adds tangible value to our lives. And “But you go to a personal trainer with perhaps that’s what alumni mean when a specific set of goals in mind, and you go others, who might they say, over and over, that they learned regularly and keep building on that bar thereby achieve to write at Transylvania. set, and through that process you end up “That’s one of the foundations to a with an exceptional product.” successes in their traditional liberal arts education,” says That strategy has grown the Writing Scott Whiddon, professor of writing, Center into the force that it is today — practical life that rhetoric, and communication. “It’s the 20 staffers, fully trained, working with DNA of what we do.” students from all years, all majors and all would otherwise Whiddon talks about writing like skill levels. a parent talks about their children. Potential staffers are recommended have eluded them.” It involves discipline and love and to Whiddon, who puts them through a — Aristotle, The Art of Rhetoric frustration and breakthrough and semester-long training practicum where fear, but it’s always evolving — and they learn to be effective teachers and ost of us can remember never boring. collaborators. From reading scholarly learning grammar — parsing He’s the director of Transylvania’s research on good writing center M sentences and practicing Writing Center, a campus hub of practice, to shadowing current staffers, subject-verb agreements. creativity and mentorship located in the to role-playing scenarios, the students Many of us remember spelling tests library’s Academic Center for Excellence. soak up the Writing Center’s values of and saying aloud with our schoolmates, His team of staffers spend time every collaboration, creativity and community. “‘i’ before ‘e’ except after ‘c … .’” week — approximately 800 hours a year Once they become full staffers, they But do you remember learning to — working with their fellow students, in get requests submitted by students write? Do you remember who taught you one-on-one and group sessions helping looking for writing assistance — they call to take those jumbled ideas in your head them build their own toolkits. They them “patrons” — and meet one on one to and transfer them to paper in a pathway also hold workshops in classes around help with anything from brainstorming of paragraphs and pages? It seems most of campus, helping faculty carry out their to citing sources to clarity to length. They us probably don’t. own writing assignments. often find that what the patrons are really Could it be because we’ve always It’s not about fixing papers or seeking is confidence in their work. known how? From the moment we began correcting typos. It’s about intentional “One of the most common questions making up stories as toddlers, or telling conversation on the goals of an patrons have is ‘Does it make sense?’”

the magazine of TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY 5 the magazine of TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY 5 Chetali Jhamnani, left, working with a student in the Writing Center. “It’s not about rules, it’s not about forms. It’s about learning to think like a writer — you have to experience it." — Martha Gehringer, professor emeritus, writing, rhetoric, and communication says junior staffer Isaac Settle. “Nine been honored with the 2018 Martinson Humanities so that they could have more times out of 10, it does — that’s not Award by the Small Liberal Arts College space for more staffers and patrons. the issue. What they usually want is Writing Program Administrators, as well Students started coming in, not just for affirmation.” as three Christine Cozzens Research and help on their academic assignments, but The staffers consistently talk about Initiative Awards from the Southeastern on their personal essays and poems. One the importance of making the patron Writing Center Association. student asked Gehringer for help on how feel comfortable in the sessions, that it’s Transy’s Writing Center was the to get a poem published. the best way to bring out confident and brainchild of WRC professor Martha “I said, ‘You don’t have to know how creative writing. It’s hard when students Gehringer, who, in the late 1980s, to publish it — go write it on my door,’” are working on so many papers, trying observed a need for students to get extra Gehringer says. “So she wrote her poem to perfectly fulfill the assignment’s help with their writing. Nationwide, on my door and signed it and dated it. I requirements, to coax them into there was a movement to instill the said, ‘It’s published.’ Next thing I knew, truthfully expressing themselves, but that value of writing into all programs and people were flocking to write poems emphasis is one of the things that makes across all curricula, and at the same on my door.” Transy’s Writing Center so unique. time pedagogical research was placing Gehringer’s door filled up with poems. “I always start by welcoming them a greater emphasis on collaborative Shy students would write on the edges to the Writing Center, by introducing learning and writing, showing that or even on the inside so you couldn’t myself,” says senior staffer Chetali students learn particularly well and get read them when it was closed. During a Jhamnani. “It’s really important to get a quality attention from each other. time when writing was really beginning rapport with students, especially if you Gehringer was able to get a work-study to flourish at Transy, the door stood haven’t worked with them before. A lot student — Lisa Jones ’89, who sat outside as a symbol of its great potential, of of people are scared to talk about their her office in a partition — and the two playfulness and permanence and power writing, and you have to help them get of them worked with students on their that remain deeply instilled in the culture comfortable.” writing. They were the first Writing of writing that exists here today. Senior staffer Jewell Boyd echoes the Center. Listening to Gehringer talk about “That’s what I inherited from Martha importance of being at ease in writing. “If her vision from 30 years ago, the value Gehringer, and the seed of what we do they’re not comfortable, they’re either not system is strikingly familiar to how the here,” Whiddon says. willing to make changes in their writing, Writing Center functions today. The door sits in the Writing Center or they’ll just take every single thing you “It’s not about rules, it’s not about as a reminder. say and do it immediately,” she says. “And forms. It’s about learning to think like a Very often you’ll hear a Transy student that’s not what we’re looking for. We’re writer — you have to experience it,” she say that they write a lot. Depending on looking for collaborative effort.” says. “It’s a way that you don’t necessarily the student’s state of mind, that statement This method and its success has learn from teachers. You learn from could be exciting or exhausting, freeing earned the Writing Center national watching others.” or terrifying. But it’s universally true — recognition. In addition to being asked As the Writing Center grew, Transy students write. They may study to present at various conferences around Gehringer’s office was moved to the English, business, anthropology, German, the country, Transy’s Writing Center has basement of what was then Haupt philosophy, physics, but they will write.

6 THIRD & BROADWAY It can be daunting when you don’t continue studying in the sciences. And in their own academics. He gets emails know what to expect. Transy has set up she’s a writer. and cards from them, marveling at how courses for first-year students — First- Settle is a double major in history and they’ve become professors, surgeons, Year Seminar and First-Year Research political science who is preparing to go to lawyers, parents. He sees how being a part Seminar — that help give them an idea of law school. And he’s a writer. of the writing culture at Transylvania has the kind of writing that will be expected Boyd is a WRC major whose dream instilled in them warmth and curiosity of them as students here. Most students is to work in publishing. Of course she’s and active listening. He and some of taking those courses will end up in the a writer. the current staffers recently unveiled a Writing Center at some point or another Look at the Writing Center’s new research project where they will be — staffers often say that those are their appointment log in any given semester, surveying Writing Center alumni and favorite patrons to work with — and that and you’ll find every major represented. getting a sense of how working in the relationship is a great way to set the tone There may be no better testament to the Writing Center influenced their lives. for the university’s culture of writing. way writing has become intertwined “I have the best colleagues “I consider myself someone who throughout disciplines. imaginable — they just happen to be loved writing before coming to college,” “Writing is embedded at Transy,” Settle undergraduates,” he says. “The maturity Jhamnani says. “I don’t think I was says. “You’re going to get better, even if they have — they’re the face of writing at as confident coming in, though. But you don’t really care to get better. That’s this college.” I’ve definitely gotten better at it. FYS a beneficial tool that Transy has. Think “The students who are staffers can and FYRS prepare you to be a college about all the applications and resumes get into any school in the world because academic writer. And I’ve taken a lot of you’ll be doing. Think about writing they can write,” Gehringer adds. “They writing classes and the Writing Center emails — do you know how many emails I can take any question and see how to get practicum, and all of that combined has get that don’t make any sense? it to the page in ways that you couldn’t really helped me develop as a writer.” “The writing I do now, I assume, will teach them in the classroom. They’re An international student who grew be different from the writing I do in patient. They’ll give you time. They’re up in Liberia, Jhamnani is a biology graduate school. But I’ve been exposed to learning by teaching.” major who was just accepted into a lot of different types of writing. After Those values aren’t much different graduate school for medical sciences at working in the Writing Center, I wouldn’t from what makes any liberally educated the . She plans be as scared to tackle a paper in another student successful. Look at the quality of to go to medical school or possibly to discipline. It’s professional development writing at a liberal arts institution, and for my own writing.” you’ll probably have a pretty good idea of the quality of the education. The two Scott Whiddon pictured with Seeing his staffers Martha Gehringer's door. excel in their lives always inform each other. At Transy, the and careers is just results speak for themselves. as rewarding to Whiddon as seeing Writing Center patrons blossom

“I have the best colleagues imaginable — they just happen to be undergraduates. The maturity they have — they’re the face of writing at this college.” — Scott Whiddon, professor of writing, rhetoric, and communication

the magazine of TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY 7 Published alumni find inspiration in liberal arts background BY JOHN FRIEDLEIN illy Reed’s path seemed clear right Reed’s life and career. “I’ll always camps. “On a personal level, I suppose, out of high school. The future Hall remember him saying: ‘Billy, winning is I simply hoped to provide one of my of Fame sports writer already was not important unless it’s done the right greatest literary heroines with a life that Bcovering games for two daily newspapers, way.’ That is a mantra that I’ve used in my she was cheated of,” Gillham says. “But and he had a scholarship in writing over and over again. He helped me in a larger sense, I wanted to underscore hand to the University of Kentucky. set my standards for journalism.” what Annelies Marie Frank and her work Reed instead chose Transylvania Reed recognizes the late coach in his have come to represent to me and to University, which didn’t even offer a book “Last of a BReed,” a celebration millions of others: hope.” journalism class at the time. The reason of the golden era of sports journalism Writing about Anne Frank was a was pretty trivial: It would have been a published this past November. He hopes calling for Gillham, who believes “a liberal hassle for him to drive across town from the readers will take away “the importance education is vital to anyone who dreams work to UK, not to mention find a place of people along the way who will give of pursuing a writer’s life. It opens your to park. But the impact of his broad- you a hand up when you need it, who creative process to worlds of thought and based Transy education was anything will mentor you and believe in you if experience that expand your heart and but trivial. you’re willing to work hard and have a soul. A writer can find subject matter to Being so busy, Reed wasn’t exactly a good attitude. We all need those kinds of exploit in any of those worlds — not just great student. But the breadth of what people. I found a lot of them at Transy.” history, literature and the social sciences, he learned helped him become a great but math and the natural sciences as well.” writer. “I did learn a little bit about a lot of things,” says the 1966 graduate. That’s the result of Transylvania being steeped in the liberal arts tradition, which forces students out of well-worn ruts, helping them make unexpected connections between far-flung subjects. It also develops the whole person through a range of enriching activities — from mentorships to cultivation of self- expression and discovery. Another alum, New York Times “I became a big believer in the liberal bestselling author David Gillham ’79, Professor of English Maurice arts,” Reed says. In fact, one of this found inspiration at Transy in political Manning, who was a finalist for the 2011 courtside scribe’s favorite classes at science and history professors such as Pulitzer Prize in poetry, incorporates Transy was Philosophy, Religion and Life. Don Dugi and Joe Binford. “They not this interdisciplinary approach into his “If you read good sports writers, they only permitted me to blend my creative teaching. Recently, themes as diverse will have various allusions — literary work with history, but they encouraged as popular culture, psychology, history, allusions, historical allusions,” he says. me to do so, and in the process deepened creativity and poetic technique came up “It’s because they’ve had that kind of an my understanding of my writing and the in a single class period, because they were education too. You can pull something world’s historical and political pageants,” in the range of thought and inquiry in his out that you’ve learned and apply it to a he says. “I have been writing fiction that students’ poems, he says. “This is what I current situation.” blends history and politics ever since.” always find exciting about a liberal arts He also found a mentor in coaching Published in January, his novel education. We attempt to write a poem, legend C.M. Newton, who imparted “Annelies” tells a fictional story of Anne and upon reflection and analysis, we find lessons that reverberated throughout Frank, had she survived the concentration the poem is connected to the world we

“[A] liberal education is vital to anyone who dreams of pursuing a writer’s life. It opens your creative process to worlds of thought and experience that expand your heart and soul.” — David Gillham ’79

the magazine of TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY 9 live in and the vast array of intellectual see the book as a better way to understand disciplines that capture human curiosity. I and grow, and through that growing like to think that the liberal arts approach and self-awareness begin to engage inspires curiosity and gives our students with their fellow citizens, their fellow the hands-on skills and the outlook family members, their fellow community necessary to follow that spark and see members about politics again — not where it goes.” just with people who agree with them,” Holland says. “We really think that the ability to talk politics with one another is Two other Transy alumnae, Beth essential to the health of our democracy, Silvers and Sarah Stewart Holland, also so we really hope this opens the door to help readers discover their better selves. people who have sort of cut politics and The 2003 graduates — who hail from political conversations out of their lives.” different sides of the political spectrum — recently published a book titled “I Think You’re Wrong (But I’m Listening): A Guide to Grace-Filled Political Conversations.” The book is based on Colene Elridge ’05, author of “Monday their Pantsuit Politics , which Morning Pep Talks: Inspiration to Make encourage civil, nuanced conservations Your Week Thrive,” also finds inspiration — as opposed to shouting and insults. in diverse, real-life experiences — thanks They’ve recently made multiple in part to her anthropology major, which appearances on MSNBC’s Morning Joe forced her to look at things in a new and were featured on Bloomberg Radio way. “I find inspiration from everything, and in The Atlantic magazine. Not demonizing others, seeing them as because I was taught how to observe the Their liberal arts background helps complex human beings, is also a goal of world,” she says. them foster dialogue that is enriched by Alice Connor ’99. Elridge is a coach and motivational many viewpoints. “We really try to look at Her upcoming book, “How to Human: speaker who sends inspirational emails to each issue holistically and from a variety An Incomplete Manual for Living in a subscribers every Monday morning. These of perspectives,” Silvers says. “That to me Messed-Up World,” arose from her work messages are included in her book, which was the essence of what my education as a campus minister at the University of came out this past October. at Transy was about.” Transylvania Cincinnati. She hopes readers will take “I’m always taking notes about things taught her to “approach everything from away “a sense of the complexity of human that have happened during the week an interdisciplinary perspective and experience and a willingness to engage — random things I see,” Elridge says. understand that everything builds on difficult questions for themselves more.” “Sometimes it’s a song lyric or a verse that itself and that you can’t really understand To do so requires opening your I’ve read somewhere. I can be at a coffee sciences without the arts and vice versa. mind. “We get stuck in boxes a lot — shop and see something and think: Ooh I feel like that’s the foundation of what emotional, spiritual or vocational, or how can I apply that in a bigger way? Sarah and I do — this kind of blending of sometimes physical even — we don’t see Being able to look at the world through things.” what’s outside of them,” Connor says. this lens gives me an endless amount Additionally, Holland sees the liberal Not coincidentally, escaping mental of material to write the pep talks every arts values of engagement and openness as constraints is a main goal of the liberal week.” ways to incorporate politics into our lives. arts. “My experience at Transy opened up “We hope that people first and foremost the idea of possibilities for me.”

“We really try to look at each issue holistically and from a variety of perspectives. That to me was the essence of what my education at Transy was about.” — Beth Silvers ’03

10 THIRD & BROADWAY Despite her book being called a manual, I was taking, and how that related to an Poet Tiara Brown ’16 just completed an what it asks of us isn’t easy. “Much of the English literature course that I was taking. MFA at the University of Kentucky as a book is about vulnerability and a need to Those interconnected threads are a big Lyman T. Johnson Fellow. At Transy she not just be taken seriously ourselves as part of writing well, because if you don’t received both the Delcamp and the Judy valuable people, but to take other people have that nuance, your story is missing Gaines Young student writing awards seriously. something. Stories aren’t singular — they and gained the confidence she needed to “To do what I’m asking people to do don’t come out of nowhere, and there are pursue the “writing life.” Read more on requires a lot of engagement ourselves. multiple angles from which to view them.” the 1780 at blog.transy.edu. And that’s really hard and unpleasant. It’s also deeply delightful when you give yourself over to something like this. Martha Gehringer, professor emeritus You’re attempting to look at yourself more of writing, rhetoric and communication, clearly, and you’re attempting to look at facilitated this cross-fertilization of reply to “how can you become a writer?” your own patterns and the other people ideas across academic subjects in part after eve merriam around you and see them as complete and by helping develop a May term art and beautiful and beloved human beings.” writing course in Ireland. She also encourages all students — regardless of eye a blackberry on a shrub their area of concentration — to think of follow its contours themselves as writers. “You’re really denied something in with your finger life if you think you can only write in every juicy bulb response to an assignment,” Gehringer giving way says. “There’s just something to be had for the rest of your life from learning to know the role of writing — and not just to commit to memory work out feelings. It’s an art form, and it’s the way this glossy clot clings something that you should know that you to the stem (and how each thorny Cory Collins ’13 — a senior writer can do. You don’t have to be good at it — for Teaching Tolerance, an advocacy it’s just part of how you can be human. In stem curves from the branch organization started by the Southern my own life it’s been that way.” as if on display) Poverty Law Center — also draws on the how it bursts forth in April complexity of being human in his recently published piece, “The Book of Matthew.” Professor Richard Taylor, a former how it flowers in May The article and poem is about Matthew Kentucky poet laureate, says Transylvania Shepard, whose life was taken in an anti- graduates tend generally to write well come early June crush gay hate crime 20 years ago. academically. Additionally, the creative Over the years Shepard has become writing program flexes their imaginations one in your palm & a symbol. Collins, however wanted to in poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction. let its flesh stain you portray him not as that, but as a person. “Courses in these areas give students “I wanted people to realize he had faults, the chance to draw on the creative then watch as it is vanquished that his parents recognized he had very intelligence all of us possess but not human dreams and missteps. I also all of us exercise,” Taylor says. “These in the autumn air wanted to tie him into this larger narrative experiences are empowering. These of people who came before and after him. students leave with a sense that creativity & in winter when there is no leaf left His story was not the first and not the is not just the stuff of anthologies or last instance of horrific violence or hate bookshelves, but with the confidence that crimes, and I wanted people to reflect on ‘this is something I can do.’ It’s no surprise create one what we could learn from his story and to me that, in fact, they find their creative how we should be responding when and if imagination and publish.” this happens again.” At Transy, Collins learned that in writing there are always interdisciplinary connections to be drawn. “I could take a class like Sports in Latin America and see how that related to an anthropology class

the magazine of TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY 11 Science Writing BY ROBIN HICKS ark Sirianno ’19 remembers his professor of biology and interim associate of writing, she explains, “is really the eureka moment. Alone in the lab dean for academic affairs. “It’s exciting to springboard to asking: What is the next M one evening, a few years into his be learning something that no one else problem that I need to address in my work with Associate Professor of Biology knows,” but, as she reminds her students work?” Paul Duffin, he opened the incubator and at Transy, “you haven’t really participated Kelly Lennington Ronald ’09, who found that the Neisseria sicca bacteria, in science until you have others read it, researches animal behavior, can’t imagine which scientists heretofore had deemed think about it and respond to it.” science without writing. immutable, had, in fact, transformed. They But first you have to write it. And “Writing is integral to science,” she had, Sirianno explains, “taken up DNA through the process of writing, a deeper says. “We give presentations and have from their environment and incorporated comprehension develops. conversations, but it’s really those peer- it into their genome.” Articulating the work is so much reviewed publications put out for the In a world in which Neisseria more than merely detailing what’s been research community that move the field gonorrhoeae is becoming resistant to done. “[Writing] helps us understand forward. So I don’t see science and writing antibiotics, portending catastrophic our science and think about what we’re as being separate; it’s the same thing. epidemics, any new light on Neisseria doing,” says Bray. “We’ve gathered data, That’s how you do science.” bacteria could be helpful — particularly, we’ve looked at it, we’ve visualized it, but as Sirianno notes, when 75% of the human that process of verbalizing it in a way for population carries non-pathogenic another individual to understand often “I don’t see science and Neisseria in their nasopharynx (the cavity leads to greater depth of thinking about writing as being separate; behind the nose). what your results mean.” “Every time you take antibiotics,” For Sirianno, the writing process it’s the same thing. That’s Sirianno explains, “it makes those reveals whether he’s done a good job in Neisseria (in the nasopharynx) antibiotic his research. “Writing makes you organize how you do science.” resistant. If they can exchange DNA with the ideas and the process,” says Sirianno, — Kelly L. Ronald ’09, assistant professor the pathogenic version, it’s no wonder who won second place in the microbiology of biology, Hope College gonorrhoeae is becoming resistant so undergraduate poster competition at the quickly and so efficiently.” Kentucky Academy of Sciences meeting Sirianno is helping to prove that in the fall of his junior year. “It definitely A William T. Young Scholar, Ronald Duffin’s thesis is correct, that this shows you new things.” is one of several Transy grads to win a nonpathogenic strain is subject to “inter- Bray describes the linear structure National Science Foundation Graduate species genetic transfer.” of the end product of science writing: Research Fellowship, which is, Bray says, Yet who would know about the the universal format of an introduction “incredibly competitive” and very much discovery or the broader implications if followed by a methods section, then based on the written proposal. She sees the researchers failed to write up their results and, finally, a discussion section. these fellowships and postdoc grants as work clearly and concisely, and, ultimately, Bray notes, however, that she has illustrations of the quality of the writing craft an abstract compelling enough to be improved as a writer in the sciences of Transy’s science grads. accepted for presentation at a conference “by understanding that we often write Ronald, who also won the prestigious among peers? in a very nonlinear way,” assessing the Walter Clyde Allee Award for best student “The process of science isn’t done until methods, for example, before composing paper (an early career award from the you’ve communicated it,” says Sarah Bray, the introduction. And that final piece Animal Behavior Society), points to the skills she developed in a “writing- intensive environment,” at Transy, “both in the classroom, and as a Writing Center tutor.” All of that writing became a “natural extension” for her writing in demanding graduate programs. The ability to write strategically, persuasively and concisely, drawing on

Left: Mark Sirianno ’19, William T. Young Scholar Right: Kelly L. Ronald ’09, assistant professor of biology at Hope College

the magazine of TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY 13 perception of beauty in plumage or song a highly educated, interdisciplinary when picking a mate. Her research shows audience that included scientists, that “not all animals agree about what philosophers and lawyers. beautiful is. The way they see and hear Being steeped in two different changes their interpretation of what is disciplines made it possible for him to do attractive. In that sense, it allows for the research and understand the data that animals to vary in their preferences.” summer, he recalls, but also to present She acknowledges how Transy has the results in a final form that was written been the model for her being able to span with his diverse audience in mind. fields and labs in her work, to ask the big “How you interpret and write about questions and not be intimidated. your findings changes what people will Bray points out how Transy’s liberal glean from them,” he notes. “I think it’s arts education gives students “unique very important to be able to take that hard tools for understanding how people data and write about it in an eloquent, [and, in Ronald’s case, animals] look educational way, where you don’t lose any at the world differently and how they of the information and you don’t put in might interpret information.” The anything that’s not necessary. And that’s Sarah Bray, professor of biology and interim associate dean for academic affairs interdisciplinary approach trains students not something that’s easy to do. It takes a to communicate not just with academic lot of practice,” he adds. peers, but with policy makers and the As he prepares to enter medical school general public, and to translate their work at the University of Kentucky, Sirianno specifics relevant to the application rather into more “digestible” content for , plans to continue his research and than on personal generalities, she says, podcasts and social media. acknowledges how important writing will helped her secure the NSF funding. And For the past two years, students in be in every facet of his future work, from having the grant gave her the time and Bray’s upper-level classes have been lab work to ethics boards. “Medicine has opportunity to devote all of her focus to creating podcasts and blogs. Students given me a route to practice everything the broad, interdisciplinary questions she look first at the peer-reviewed literature I’ve learned here at Transy and put it first began to tackle at Transy as a double and write an annotated bibliography, all together — from the philosophy, the major in psychology and biology. then “translate” this very dense scientific research, the biology, to health care as “I study animal behavior,” explains information into the format of a well,” he says. “Writing has profoundly Ronald, who earned a Ph.D. from Purdue, for the casual listener. affected the way in which I think about a postdoc at Indiana University and, “The fact that students write across just about everything.” most recently, a tenure-track position in the curriculum here — they know these biology at Hope College, “so it really is the different modalities of communication,” combination of both understanding the Bray remarks. “Writing has profoundly evolution of animals and why, historically, Bray believes that essential questions they make the decisions they do.” in biology encompass ethics, politics and affected the way in which Ronald is interested in why animals sociology. The answers require thoughtful, make their decisions and how they educated exposition, not a series of facts I think about just about interpret the information around them. and numbers. everything.” — Mark Sirianno ’19 In evolutionary terms, choosing a mate “Because big societal issues often is one of the most important decisions involve these different disciplines,” she made, she notes, “because that is the says, “one of the big things about learning decision that produces offspring, and to write and being a good writer is this In July, Ronald begins her work as that is what evolution works on.” Her ability to integrate ideas.” It makes a assistant professor at Hope College. She work, particularly with birds and mice, person a better communicator and, will have a research team of students that investigates the larger questions of ultimately, “an active participant in will meet weekly to read scientific articles evolution but also drills down to the conversations about the issues that we and discuss project ideas. The goal, as at individual level, asking: “How does this face.” Transy, will be to present and publish the one particular animal sense its world and Sirianno, a philosophy and biology results. “Writing will definitely be a part make a decision?” double major, tested these principles at of anyone who joins my lab,” she says. In doing so, her research is Yale University’s Summer Institute in “We will be writing all the time.” contradicting the long-held idea, for Bioethics, where he found his Transy example, that all birds share the same training had prepared him to write for

14 THIRD & BROADWAY Right brain, left brain, one brain: Tech entrepreneur Mike Finley ’90 trained them all at Transy

What do you do when you’ve just sold a At Transy, whether it was by being on global tech business? the debate team, or in Pi Kappa Alpha, You embark on your next startup, yes, or David Choate’s math class, he notes, but if you’re tech innovator Mike Finley ’90, “they all had this aspect of fluidity to you also take time to write about how you them that required communication and got there. After 10 years of developing the responsiveness. I wasn’t allowed to hide technology and building a company, Finley and turn my assignments in online; I had wanted to capture all of the knowledge he’d to be there and look and see and interact,” gained and to share it with others. he explains. “The book was capturing a He says he was motivated, in part, by the lot of what that was all about. And what kinds of frustrating conflicts satirized in I think is that missing skill for some the cartoon series, “Dilbert.” Finley, who is technical people to move into leadership.” a member of Transy’s Board of Trustees, Ultimately, writing is how the creator had witnessed how the conflicts between communicates and markets an innovation. engineers and management, and the “If you’re selling something that imbalance of skills and training, often kept someone already makes, but you have people and companies from succeeding. He a cheaper or faster one, then you don’t wanted to see more tech people taking those have to explain very much. And you’re leadership roles, as he had. never going to get a big premium for your So, he wrote an article, “Build a Winning product,” he says. Technical Team: How to Prepare and “When you are doing something new, Promote Left Brain Techies for Right Brain something that you can’t compare to the Leadership Roles,” and published a book one that someone else already did, you with Honza Fedák titled “You.next(): Move have to explain what it is you’re doing, why Your Software Development Career to the it’s new, why it’s useful, why everyone is Leadership Track.” going to have it and how it’s worth tackling As someone who had developed both the change.” Finley describes it as “the sides of his brain at Transylvania, Finley qualitative side of business modeling,” entered the workforce able to innovate, do the rhetorical side of spreadsheets, charts the science and build the technology. He and graphs that establishes the intention could easily shift to marketing, account behind the new business idea. management and executive leadership. He “That’s been something I’ve applied knew how to communicate as well as to many times in many of the things I’ve create. He could socialize. He contrasts done,” Finley reflects, “in volunteer work, the outcomes of his liberal arts education in professional work, in new product with the more limited scope of so many launches, in chasing investors and in engineering programs. different levels of financial audits. “Engineering schools take bright kids and “The ability to write and explain put them in a corner and tell them to get concisely,” says Finley “continues to come really smart and solve problems quickly,” up in all of those scenarios.” Finley explains. “Well, how do you take that person and ask them to be sociable and to Read more about Mike Finley’s journey build a team and recruit? It’s really hard for on the 1780 blog at blog.transy.edu. those people who have been crammed with all of that knowledge and none of the life skills to build an organization or a team.”

the magazine of TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY 15 Commencement CLASS OF 2019

16 THIRD & BROADWAY the magazine of TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY 17 18 THIRD & BROADWAY Transylvania graduates 229 Pioneers Professor Paul Jones retires in Class of 2019 after 33 academic years

The 229 students in the Class of 2019 celebrated a milestone in their college careers with the commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 25, in front of historic Old Morrison. Humanitarian Deogratias “Deo” Niyizonkiza, founder and CEO of Village Health Works in Burundi, delivered the commencement address, capping off an academic year focused on the theme of civility. “I am so proud to be taking part in the graduation ceremonies at Transylvania University,” he said, “where students are taught to become citizens who are not just out to make a living, but who are living to make a difference through great ideas and actions that speak to all humanity.” The student speaker, neuroscience major Presli Neal, is a first-generation college student from Lexington. She plans to attend physician assistant school and hopes to work in pedi- atrics or emergency medicine. At Transy, Neal was a member of the Student Government Association, Pre-Health Club, Pre-Physician Assistant Club and STEM Empowerment Club, and she served as membership director of her sorority, Phi Mu. Remarking on their “wildly unique path,” Neal reminded her class that “Transylvania, in true liberal arts fashion, has Professor of Religion Paul Jones leaves a lasting impact on provided us a set of skills to question the world around us, to Transylvania after retiring in May. think deeply about who we are and how we can impact others.” Members of the school community lined a hallway in the But it’s the unique bond between people, she noted, that Carpenter Academic Center to wish him well after his last class makes Transy, with its high academic standards, such a special and celebrate his 33 academic years at the university. institution. “A university is a university, but it is the people that “I do not know a Transylvania without Paul Jones, and I attend that make it a home.” suspect that’s true for many,” said Carole Barnsley, associate professor of religion. “He will be missed, but he leaves behind Class of 2019 highlights a legacy of an excellent work ethic, a loyalty to the Transy Students in this year’s graduating class have distinguished community and a well-established religion program that I am themselves academically, with numerous accolades. honored to get to continue.” • Thirty-eight percent of the 229 graduating seniors are Jones will be remembered for building the religion program receiving Latin honors for a cumulative GPA of at least 3.5, into two tracks: Western and Non-Western. “Few schools our and 47% are receiving program honors. size do that,” he said. • Forty-seven percent of this year’s graduates studied abroad He also helped secure and implement a grant from the Lilly while at Transylvania — either for a full term, a summer Endowment, which brought in world-renowned scholars, social or during the four-week May term. activists and educators focusing on the exploration of vocation. • Students will pursue advanced degrees at institutions “This is at the heart and soul of the mission of Transylvania such University College London and various medical and — to help our students not only cultivate the self, but also to law schools. Other opportunities awaiting them after discern their life’s purpose and path.” graduation include the Peace Corps, Fifth Third Bank’s Additionally, his May term trips abroad have impacted Operations Leadership Program and various other jobs — students’ lives. “I find travel trips to be the ideal classroom,” he from staff accountant to Walt Disney World cast member. said. “They are a full-immersion experience.” • Senior achievements include the IU Lilly Family School of Jones’ last May term excursion included visits to Israel, Egypt Philanthropy Fellowship, a Lexington Rotary Club Ollie and Jordan. He’d never been on a trip to three countries with and Dick Hurst Award, a Cralle Foundation/Joan Cralle students before. “It was designed to be my swan song,” he said. Day Fellowship from the University of Kentucky and a What does he plan to do after Transy? “Breathing, living, Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship, sponsored reading, writing, traveling, enjoying, enriching, loving.” by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.

the magazine of TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY 19 Senior receives IU Lilly Family School of Transylvania dedicates Ronald and Frances Holley campus Philanthropy Fellowship Players Lounge NEWS To stay informed about the latest Transylvania news, visit our 1780 blog at Transylvania dedicated the Ronald and blog.transy.edu. Senior Aaron Martin received the Frances Holley Players Lounge in April. Indiana University Lilly Family School Named in honor of Pioneer Hall of Fame of Philanthropy Fellowship to pursue her athlete Sherry Holley’s parents, the new, master’s degree in philanthropic studies. state-of-the-art locker room is a space where The fellowship will cover 95% of her tuition, the team can not only get ready for games, and she will receive a $12,000 graduate but can also relax afterward. assistantship. Sherry Holley ’88 was a three-sport athlete “I’m motivated to work in philanthropy at Transy in field hockey, basketball and because I always want my work to be about softball. She was the 1988 Pioneer Athlete more than just me,” Martin said. “My of the Year and currently serves on the education at Transy has helped me recognize university’s Board of Trustees. different issues and concerns — from our local community to the greater global Morlan Gallery spotlights student artworks in May community.” Students kick off summer with Alternative Break

The artistic talents of Transylvania University students were featured in May at the annual Juried Student Art Exhibition. The Morlan Gallery exhibition included more While some students started their summer than 100 pieces — from paintings to fiber to break soaking up rays on the beach, others digital media. partnered with the Lexington community Art faculty and the gallery director on projects such as gardening and exploring awarded prizes for creative, exceptional work local neighborhoods. in “best of” categories. Transylvania’s Alternative Break program from May 27-31 focused on themes of Off-Broadway comes to Transylvania in acclaimed food justice, immigration and community play about graduate, gay-rights pioneer development in partnership with local Transylvania in May hosted an off- nonprofits including FoodChain, Seedleaf Broadway production highlighting and the North Limestone Community the accomplishments of John E. Fryer, Development Corporation. a 1957 graduate who helped remove “We wanted to give students a holistic homosexuality from the Diagnostic and experience of the city they live in,” said Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Tevin Monroe, Transy’s AmeriCorps VISTA “217 Boxes of Dr. Henry Anonymous” community engagement support specialist. came to Lexington and the Transy campus through contributions by alumni, JustFundKY, Rainmaker Hospitality,

20 THIRD & BROADWAY former Lexington Mayor Jim Gray, former Open to American undergraduate Campus Center project underway LexArts President and CEO Jim Clark, the and graduate students in all fields, the University of Kentucky Office of LGBTQ* Critical Language Scholarship supports Resources and other individuals and a broader government initiative to organizations who support equality and increase the number of Americans who civil rights for LGBTQ people. are highly proficient in foreign languages Donations benefited the university’s John identified as critical to national security Fryer Fund for Diversity and Inclusion. and economic success. Salman Rushdie explores free speech, civility in Transylvania receives NCAA DIII Diversity 2019 Kenan Lecture Spotlight Initiative award The university’s Campus Center project Transylvania received an NCAA got underway this past school year after Division III Diversity Spotlight Initiative the demolition of Forrer Hall. The $30 award in March for connecting more than million project includes new construction 150 current female student-athletes with and renovations to the existing William female coaches, staff and faculty who are T. Young Campus Center. The facility will former collegiate student-athletes. re-vision the core of campus life with state- Held on National Girls and Women in of-the-art spaces for student organizations, Sports Day, the event gave participants a fitness, student services, dining and chance to share stories and insights about outreach to the community. Acclaimed author Sir Salman Rushdie how past experiences as collegiate athletes It is expected to open by fall of 2020. presented the 2019 Kenan Lecture on helped shape them in their future careers, Until then, Transylvania has made March 27 in front of a sold-out crowd in personal lives and as leaders. accommodations to ease the transition, Transylvania’s Haggin Auditorium. including the expansion of the Rafskeller Reflecting on this year’s campus Silas House wins Transylvania’s Judy Gaines into the main dining hall. theme of “On Civility,” Rushdie stressed Young Book Award the importance of sharing ideas, fighting for free speech, arguing respectfully and standing up to hatred as the world navigates a particularly uncivil time in its history. The event was part of the university’s New Frontiers series. Sophomore wins U.S. Department of State’s Critical Language Scholarship Renowned Kentucky author Silas House received Transylvania’s 2019 Judy Gaines Young Book Award for his novel, “Southernmost.” The annual award recognizes outstanding recent works by writers in the Appalachian region. House gave a public reading from “Southernmost” on March 19 during an awards ceremony in Carrick Theater. Eastern Kentucky native Hayle Hall ’21 In addition to House’s recognition, received the U.S. Department of State’s the university each year presents a Judy prestigious Critical Language Scholarship Gaines Young Student Writing Award. in March. She will study in China for 10 The 2019 winner is senior Rebecca weeks in an intensive language and cultural Blankenship, a writer of weird fiction immersion program with all expenses paid and documentary films including “The Get the latest Transy news by the U.S. government. The program is Moral Center: Chapter Two of the Poor administered by American Councils for People’s Campaign.” and updates at blog.transy.edu. International Education.

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22 THIRD & BROADWAY 1950s Peggy Gordon Miller ’59, Volga, 1980s South Dakota, is serving a second year Tim W. Collins ’81, Asheville, North for Bourbon County High School and as President of Distinguished Alumni at Carolina, became director of human has been the school’s athletic director alumni Indiana University. resources at Kanuga Conference the past two years. Center in November. Guy Waldrop ’59, Lexington, John Scott Blair ’94, Hazard, was Transylvania’s honoree at Kyle Brown Rahn ’81, Las Vegas, Kentucky, was elected common- the Association of Fundraising was appointed as president and CEO wealth’s attorney for the 33rd Judicial NOTES Professionals National Philanthropy of United Way of Southern Nevada in Circuit in Perry County. Day Luncheon in November for his February. She will provide strategic Emily Phillips Gaunce ’94, Submit your alumni news lifelong service, leadership and leadership to an organization that Carlisle, Kentucky, was elected as unites workplace campaigns, nonprofit by email to [email protected] philanthropy. coroner for Nicholas County and organizations, volunteers and donors. began serving in January. She and or mail to 1960s her husband are owners of Mathers- Alumni Office Susan Ware ’84, Lexington, became Billy Reed ’66, Louisville, released a senior director of donor engagement Gaunce Funeral Home in Carlisle and Transylvania University new book titled “Last of a BReed: A in the alumni and development office Drake-Whaley-McCarty Funeral Home 300 North Broadway Legendary Kentucky Writer’s Journey at Transylvania. in Cynthiana, Kentucky. Lexington, KY 40508 Through Six Decades of Sports and John-Mark Hack ’88, Versailles, Brian Johnson ’94, Lexington, Journalism” in November. See p. 9. Kentucky, is the vice president of was recognized as a 2019 Kentucky Super Lawyer. Charles Moore ’69, Waverly, business development for Bristol Kentucky, was recognized as a Top 50 Group, which is working on the Jennifer Moore ’95, Louisville, has 2019 Kentucky Super Lawyer. Lexington Marriott and formed a new law firm, Moore Law the Residence Inn at City Center in Group. She recently won a lawsuit 1970s downtown Lexington. against the makers of RoundUp. James Gearhart ’72, Paducah, Dustin Meek ’88, Louisville, was Shane Rau ’95, Williamsburg, Kentucky, was elected vice president recognized as a Top 25 2019 Women Virginia, is a psychiatrist at Regroup of the Paducah-McCracken County Kentucky Super Lawyer. Therapy Inc. He sees patients by NAACP. He is also a steering videoconference, which allows people Cliff Westfall ’88, Highland Park, New committee member with Kentuckians faster access to trained clinicians. He Jersey, released an album titled “Baby for the Commonwealth. James is provides diagnostic evaluations for an You Win” in July. He is a country singer currently in his second year as board access clinic in North Carolina. chair at First Christian Church in and songwriter based out of New York. T. Clay Stinnett ’95, Louisville, Paducah. 1990s became chief financial officer of Stock Eileen O’Brien ’77, Lexington, was Laura Harrison Klumb ’90, Lexington, Yards Bancorp and Stock Yards Bank & recognized as a Top 25 2019 Women became vice president of philanthropy Trust Company in May. Kentucky Super Lawyer. for Bluegrass Care Navigators in Brie Linkenhoker ’96, Woodside, Martha Billips ’78, Lexington, is December. In her role at the nonprofit California, was quoted in a Stanford Professor of English at Transylvania organization, she supports the staff Magazine article, “Nine Tips for and recently published an article, who provide compassionate care to Smarter Decision-Making,” in January. seriously ill patients and their families “Edith Wharton as Regionalist: A New Carrie Reed Shufflebarger ’96, around Kentucky. Context for Reading Summer,” which Union, Kentucky, was recognized as a appears in the fall 2018 volume of The D. Andrew Steen ’92, Louisville, 2019 Ohio Super Lawyer. Edith Wharton Review. became the business development Kevin Brown ’97, Lexington, became Carroll Kelly Morrison ’78, consultant at BehaVR LLC in Jefferson County Public Schools' chief Bridgeport, West Virginia, was November. counsel in November. honored at the Notre Dame and Saint Paul Bird ’93, Henderson, Kentucky, Jarett Gregory '97, Lakeland, Florida, Mary’s Irish Legends Gala in April. She is a fellow with the Henderson after becoming a partner at Watson was chosen based on her contribution Leadership Initiative. He has been Clinic and being included in the Top to Notre Dame High School, where she chairman of the YMCA board, chairman Doctors of 2018, has been selected to served as principal for 20 years. of the Habitat board and vice chair become the lead physician at Watson David Gillham ’79, Amherst, on the board of the Henderson Water Clinic’s new urgent care location. Massachusetts, published a novel, Utility. He also joined the Kyndle Economic Development Council. Mandy McMillian ’97, New Braunfels, “Annelies,” in January with Viking. Texas, starred in “9 to 5, The Musical” See p. 9. Amy Collignon Gunn ’93, St. Louis, in February at the Circle Arts Theatre was inducted into the American William McCann ’79, Winchester, in New Braunfels. She played the Kentucky, has written two plays. College of Trial Lawyers, which is the character portrayed by Jane Fonda in “Boats Against the Current” premiered leading trial lawyers’ organization in the film. the U.S. and Canada. in Somerset, Kentucky, at Flashback Mary Ann Miranda ’97, Lexington, Theatre in February, and “There is No Wendy Rankin Mahanna ’93, Paris, opened her own firm, Law Office of Wrigley Field” was performed in Berea, Kentucky, entered the 10th Region Mary Ann Miranda LLC, in January. Kentucky, in March. His play “Southern Girls’ Basketball Hall of Fame in The firm provides services for large Gothic” was read at the Clark County February. She just finished her 11th and small businesses, individuals and Public Library in March. season as assistant basketball coach other attorneys.

the magazine of TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY 23 The Bofill Sisters Lead As two little girls growing up in a small town, the Bofill sisters learned to ask what they could do for others. The daughters of Ambidextrous Lives immigrants, they dreamed of participating beyond the borders of their hometown. And they chose Transy as the place to build their futures. The sisters lead multilingual, ambidextrous lives in medicine and diplomacy. Lora Bofill ’94 is a doctor and she plays one on TV. A physician and an actor, she sometimes fuses the two worlds — using the science of medicine and the story-telling of acting — to promote good health to communities. Mariju Bofill ’99, an attorney, is a foreign service officer whose recent posting put her aboard a military hospital ship, the USNS Comfort, as an embedded foreign policy advisor for the U.S. Southern Command. She has received the State Department’s award for Equal Employment Opportunity and the American Foreign Service Association’s Constructive Dissent Award. She recently returned to Transy’s campus to talk with students and faculty, and to receive a Distinguished Achievement Award.

Read more on the 1780 blog at blog.transy.edu.

Ann McRae Stephenson ’97, Marni Rock Gibson ’00, Versailles, attorney at LG&E and KU Energy Bianca Lynne Spriggs ’03, Athens, Lexington, became assistant Kentucky, is security divisions director LLC, where she focuses primarily on Ohio, had a poem, "To the woman director of regional advancement for the Department of Financial state regulatory matters. I saw today who wept in her car,” and foundation engagement in the Institutions. She oversees supervision nominated for the 2018 Pushcart Prize. Jamie Rock ’02, Columbia, alumni and development office at of securities firms and professionals Tennessee, became district manager Crystal Mount Newton ’04, Transylvania. operating in Kentucky. at Woda Cooper Companies Inc. in Lexington, won Best Marketing Award Amit Patel ’99, Lexington, was named Melinda Timberlake Sunderland ’00, November. He is responsible for a at the Honeywell/Resideo fall 2018 one of the 10 Best Plastic Surgeons for Louisville, is the managing director of portfolio of Low Income Housing convention. She attended with her exceptional and outstanding patient Morgan Pottinger McGarvey and the Tax Credit, Project Based Section 8 Bates Security team. In May, she service in 2018 by the American first woman to serve in that role since and Rural Development properties represented the Lexington Rotary Club Institute of Plastic Surgeons. He is an the law firm was founded in 1974. in middle Tennessee and western in the Dancing with the Lexington Stars assistant professor of surgery — facial Kentucky. to raise funds for Surgery on Sundays, Erin Smallwood Wathen ’00, plastic & reconstructive surgery at a local nonprofit. Louisville, became the new Amy Wickliffe ’02, Lexington, University of Kentucky HealthCare. associate director for marketing received an Excellence in Advocacy Kelsey Brown O’Mara ’04, Louisville, Award from the Professional Women Shannon Florea ’99, Lexington, and communications at Week of became a physician’s assistant at in Advocacy Conference in October. placed third in the Ironman triathlon Compassion in January. Commonwealth Pain and Spine in She was recognized as a result of in Mar Del Plata, Argentina. Her plans September. Louisville, was for 2019 are to race in Puerto Rico, Erica Fike West ’00, successfully passing Marsy's Law promoted to emerging domains Matthew Roth ’04, Lexington, Switzerland, France and possibly through the Kentucky General Assembly. became a financial advisor with New Zealand. She is a physician, competency leader at Humana in January. WesBanco in January. He has started board certified in internal medicine, Scott Wolford ’02, Austin, Texas, their new securities program for the rheumatology and addiction medicine Jamie Ketron ’01, Bluff City, published a book, “The Politics of the Lexington market. at a private practice in Lexington. Tennessee, is vice president of First World War: A Course in Game operations at Mitch Cox Companies. Theory and International Security,” Joe Berry ’05, Owensboro, through Cambridge University Press in Kentucky, became the first director 2000s Catherine Benson ’02, Angola, Lance Bell ’00, Nashville, Tennessee, February. of commercial real estate for The Indiana, became dean of Trine joined BRG Capital Advisors in January Malcolm Bryant Corporation in April. University’s Ketner School of Business Keith Cecil ’03, Bargersville, Indiana, as a managing director and will lead its He leads the company’s commercial in June. opened his State Farm office in investment banking efforts in health Greenwood, Indiana, in January. office efforts, concentrating on care services. Robert Croft ’02, Louisville, became customer relations, acquisitions and the senior counsel for Humana in Sarah Stewart Holland ’03, Paducah, commercial expansion. B. Blanton Coates Jr. ’00, Winchester, Kentucky, and November. Beth Thurman Silvers Kentucky, was named director of ’03, Union, Kentucky, released their Colene Elridge ’05, Georgetown, business development at Dean Builds, Sara Veeneman Judd ’02, co-authored book, “I Think You’re Kentucky, released her book, a Lexington-based industrial and Louisville, was honored as a fellow Wrong (But I’m Listening): A Guide to “Monday Morning Pep Talks: commercial construction company, of the Louisville Bar Foundation Grace-Filled Political Conversations,” Inspiration to Make Your Week in February. in March. She is currently a senior in February. See p. 10. THRIVE,” in October. See p. 10.

24 THIRD & BROADWAY Clint Jones ’05, Stevens Point, Amanda Gabrielle Miller ’07, Kelly Lennington Ronald ’09, Lauren Hatchett ’12, Seattle, Wisconsin, released his first book in Florence, Kentucky, became a behav- Bloomington, Indiana, will join the completed a Master of Education in the J. Baird Callicott Environmental ioral health specialist at Northkey biology faculty of Hope College in fall education policy at the University of Humanity Series, titled “Ecological Community Care in November. 2019. She received her Ph.D. in animal Washington and began as a council Reflections on Post-Capitalist Society.” behavior at Purdue University and is Meredith A. Plant ’07, Lexington, analyst at the university in October. currently a postdoctoral researcher at Kyle Melloan ’05, Lexington, became became an account executive in sales Indiana University. See p. 13. Kayla Weber Nord ’12, Lexington, assistant U.S. attorney for the Eastern for Tops in Lex in November. has started her own art studio at District of Kentucky in November. Holly Gilbert Stowell ’09, Fort Tony Smith ’07, Tucker, Georgia, had Springhouse Gardens and sells Washington, Maryland, became the Kayla Hanser Steltenkamp ’05, his work, “Long-term Outcomes of art online at kaylaweberart.com. senior editor/writer for the Institute of Independence, Kentucky, is a Tetralogy of Fallot: A Study from the Anthropologie has started selling Transportation Engineers in November. visiting assistant professor of Pediatric Cardiac Care Consortium,” a line of decorative globes that she education at Georgetown College. published in JAMA Cardiology Journal Felicia Feldkamp Woods ’09, designed, and she debuted a new She holds a master’s degree in in January. Louisville, completed her certification collection of work at the LexArts special education from Georgetown and training in December to become Gallery Hop in November. Sarah Billiter Cameron ’08, Fort and a Ph.D. in special education a Stroller Strides instructor with Thomas, Kentucky, was recognized from Bellarmine University. Fit4Mom. Quanta Taylor ’12, Bexley, Ohio, as a 2019 Ohio Rising Star for her received an award from the Alpha Mayme Boehmann Clayton ’06, practices in law. 2010s Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. as the Lexington, joined Bluegrass newest member of the organization Integrated Communications as Emily Grise ’08, St. Louis, graduated Rachel Bramblet ’10, Rochester, that had made significant impacts a web developer in January. from The Improv Shop training center Minnesota, accepted a gynecologic and is often found on stage creating oncology fellowship at the Mayo Clinic. and contributions to its mission. Adam English ’06, Lawrenceville, long-form improvised theater for St. Quanta is assistant director of Jacob Brumfield ’10, New York, Georgia, became vice president and Louis audiences. student involvement at The Ohio joined Accenture Consulting in general manager for the Gwinnett State University. Stripers, the Atlanta Braves Triple-A Zach Horn ’08, Frankfort, Kentucky, Manhattan to help pioneer its affiliate. became a member in the law office of thought leadership on the workforce Justin Tereshko ’12, Lexington, Kirkland, Cain & Horn PLLC in March, of the future, beginning at the world’s was chosen as a Transylvania Patrick Lewis ’06, Lexington, became where he practices in the areas of largest telecom companies. representative for the HCAC’s All- assistant editor of publications at civil litigation, business law, banking, Decade Team. Thomas E. Hatton ’10, Lexington, the Kentucky Historical Society. He creditors’ rights and bankruptcy. has also released a book titled “For became a family resource coor- Elizabeth Davis ’13, Louisville, Slavery and Union” with the University John Kromer ’08, Tempe, Arizona, dinator at Lexington Habitat for earned an M.A. in English literature Press of Kentucky. became the STEM division head in Humanity in October. and an M.A.Ed. in secondary English the Arizona State University Library in Tyler Murphy ’10, Lexington, was education. She is a 9th and 10th grade Collin Smith ’06, Norton, September. Massachusetts, manages an IT team at elected to the Fayette County school English teacher at Walden High School. Sensata Technologies. Corey Maggard ’08, Auburn, board in November. Anna Followell Finley ’13, Okinawa, Alabama, received the Jan Strickland Harrisburg, Justin Blackburn ’11, Lexington, Japan, is a postpartum nurse at the Kathryn Shirley Akers ’07, Assistant Coach of the Year Award in Pennsylvania, became assistant became a cyber security analyst in Naval Hospital in Okinawa. December for his work as associate vice chancellor for educational and November at Crowe LLP, a public head coach for men’s golf at Auburn Amanda Skinner ’13, Boston, became business intelligence at Pennsylvania’s accounting, consulting and technology University. an Artful Adventures Museum educator firm with offices across the globe. State System of Higher Education in at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston January. Anne-Tyler Morgan ’08, Lexington, Matt Elmore ’11, Little Rock, Arkansas, in January. returned to private practice law as Allison Blackburn ’07, Cincinnati, became executive director for a member of McBrayer Law Firm in Lyman Stone ’13, Tuen Muen, became a staff psychologist at Alzheimer’s Arkansas in April. November. Hong Kong, was featured in two Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and Greg Finch ’11, Savannah, Georgia, Bloomberg publications. The first is a a member of Leading Individuals Elizabeth Meredith Rhea ’08, Seattle, joined Bouhan Falligant as an Forward Together. She works became a research assistant professor feature about his work in population associate attorney. His practice areas projections in Puerto Rico, and the to improve school bus riding at the University of Washington in include health care, transportation and second quotes his work on the effects experiences for children with 2017. She investigates the molecular professional litigation matters. developmental disabilities. mechanisms of the aging brain, of retirement due to increasing costs of including Alzheimer's disease. Shannon Rollins ’11, Antwerp, housing, child care and education, as Kimberly Clark Day ’07, Richmond, Belgium, became marketing manager well as the decline in fertility rates. Kentucky, earned her board Brittany MacGregor Roethemeier for Umamido, a local Belgian ramen Daniel Barber ’14, Washington, D.C., certification in pediatrics from the ’08, Lexington, is executive director chain, in March. She also submitted American Occupational Therapy at Fayette Alliance, a Lexington- her doctoral thesis for examination earned a Master of Public Health in Association. She practices OT in an Fayette County land use advocacy at the University of Edinburgh 2016 from the University of Kentucky outpatient clinic in Lexington. nonprofit organization. College of Art, and she had a chapter and now works for the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services as a Mary Goldie ’07, New Orleans, Patrick Smith ’08, Lexington, had his included in “Global Frankenstein” by became volunteer coordinator at artwork featured in the “Pangaea” Palgrave McMillan. member of the legislative team, editing the New Orleans Museum of Art in and writing bills in collaboration with exhibition at City Gallery in the Paul T. Finley ’12, Okinawa, Japan, January. members of Congress. Lexington Downtown Arts Center. is a captain serving in the United Dillon Lawson ’07, Jupiter, Florida, Scott Mays ’09, Lexington, became States Marine Corps as an aircraft Ryan James ’14, Louisville, joined became the New York Yankees’ hitting market director of decision support at commander of the MV-22 Tiltrotor in Standard Sales Company LP as a sales coordinator in October. CHI Saint Joseph Health in February. VMM-265. representative in August.

the magazine of TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY 25 Kerri Kolarik ’14, San Diego, became Water Survey in March 2018. He is Katelyn Marie McMahan ’18 and THE a neighborhood partnerships manager also a candidate for dual masters James Carson Baughman III ’16, SAVE DATE at Feeding San Diego in January. of public affairs and environmental Oct. 27, 2018 science at Indiana University. Allie Merritt ’14, Lexington, earned a Master of Public Health from the Mollie LaFavers ’17, Louisville, University of Kentucky and started became the communications JULY 22, 2019 working at the Kentucky Cabinet coordinator at Volunteers of America for Health and Family Services in Mid-States. She is responsible for June 2018. She is an epidemiologist social media management and Transylvania Luncheon at focused on statewide outcomes in internal communications. DOC General Assembly heart disease and stroke prevention Bethany Herron ’18, Lexington, and care. became a special education teacher at Iowa Event Center, Des Moines Kyle Smith ’14, Orlando, Florida, is the Mary Todd Elementary in February. first Transylvania men’s soccer player Ben Wagner ’18, Racine, Wisconsin, SEPTEMBER 21, 2019 to reach Major League Soccer, signing is the technical theater director at The with Orlando City SC. He debuted in Prairie School. In this role, he oversees March. all of the theater workshop courses in Alumni Board and Young Sara Williamson ’14, University City, Prairie's performing arts curriculum. Missouri, became a social worker, Alumni Council meetings MSSW, at the International Institute of MARRIAGES St. Louis in November. Erin Lane Frey ’02 and Declan Foy, Nov. 9, 2018 SEPTEMBER 26, 2019 Daniel Lyvers ’15, Fort Collins, Colorado, graduated from Vanderbilt Elizabeth Lynn Meitzler ’03 and Divinity School with a Master of Daniel Guevara Hernandez, April 21, Fall Reunion of the Divinity and was awarded the Disciples 2018 Divinity House Scholar Award. He Kelsey Brown ’04 and Dorin O’Mara, Robert Barr Society was ordained in the Christian Church Sept. 2, 2017 (Disciples of Christ) in May and is now associate pastor at Heart of the Amanda Marie Arnett ’06 and Jody OCTOBER 27, 2019 Rockies Christian Church. Harris, Oct. 19, 2018 Chloe Bingham ’16, Paris, France, Megan Cleveland ’09 and J.D. Fall Festival earned a master’s degree from the Schwetschenau, May 12, 2018 School of International Relations and Jenna Brooke Crain ’09 and Dustin Diplomacy at the American Graduate Faust ’09, Nov. 17, 2018 NOVEMBER 1, 2019 School in June 2018. She is now interning and assisting in a series of Leila Dawn McGuire ’09 and Lance Alumni Authors Evening presentations at the U.S. Embassy. Mutter, Nov. 17, 2018 Cameron Kelley ’16, Cleveland, Allison Burger ’10 and Chris Reynolds, APRIL 24-26, 2020 became Cincinnati regional manager Oct. 13, 2018 at ScribeAmerica in July. The company Katie Martin ’11 and Aaron Wainscott provides a medical scribing service, ’11, Sept. 29, 2018 Alumni Weekend and he manages all accounts and contracts within his region. Chelsea Blaire Sharpe ’11 and Evan Woolums, Nov. 9, 2018 Courtney Smith ’16, Lexington, became director of global and Emmalyne D. Wyatt ’14 and Stephen intercultural engagement in the V. Willoughby ’15, Nov. 10, 2018 Center for Academic and Professional Kelsey DeBord ’15 and C. Gray Enrichment at Transylvania. Gideon ’12, April 7, 2018 Jordin Fender ’17, Lexington, Leah Elizabeth Grace ’15 and Ryan was chosen as a Transylvania Bennett, Nov. 3, 2018 representative for the HCAC’s All- Decade Team. Emily A. Salemi ’15 and Nicholas Pierson, Aug. 3, 2018 Katie Hamlin ’17, Lexington, became an administrative assistant in the Nicole Lynn Tomaszewski ’15 and Center for Academic and Professional Jonna Elizabeth Wilson ’16, June 17, Enrichment at Transylvania in 2018 December. Alex Miller ’17 and Cayden Hacker, Elias Hanna ’17, Bloomington, July 21, 2018 Indiana, became the program Raquel Loftus ’18 and Mason Angel, assistant at Indiana Geological and Sept. 29, 2018

26 THIRD & BROADWAY John Harold Hopkins ’56, Mansfield, Temple Dickinson ’78, Glasgow, Ohio, died Jan. 7, 2018. Survived by Kentucky, died Jan. 29, 2019. Survived IN MEMORIAM daughter Christine Hopkins Bass ’73. by brother Lewis Dickinson ’67. Rose Hart Dale ’35, Livingston, Martha Heard George ’57, Pamela Riker ’79, Williamsport, Tennessee, died Oct. 23, 2018. Zephyrhills, Florida, died Sept. 4, 2018. Pennsylvania, died Sept. 7, 2015. Orpha Romohr Baxter ’40, Charlotte, Nancy Jane McNaron ’57, Columbia, Joseph Ulanday ’82, Lexington, died North Carolina, died Jan. 22, 2019. Tennessee, died Aug. 25, 2017. Dec. 4, 2018. Mary Margaret Aldridge Meyer ’41, Nancy Kelly Thomas ’60, Naples, Sam Scott ’84, Hattiesburg, Fort Thomas, Kentucky, died Dec. 9, Florida, died Nov. 4, 2018. Mississippi, died April 18, 2016. 2018. Survived by husband Dexter Meyer Jr. ’41 and son Dexter Meyer Thomas Kelly ’61, Lexington, died Amy Olmstead Kolasa ’89, Burgin, III ’69. March 20, 2019. Survived by wife Kentucky, died Jan. 11, 2019. Survived Eleanor Fox Kelly ’59 and daughter by husband James Kolasa ’86. Muriel Roth Collier ’42, Erlanger, Dee Kelly Lawless ’84. Kentucky, died Jan. 7, 2019. Katherine Day Carter ’90, Lexington, Rose Marie Moloney Lucas ’61, died Dec. 21, 2018. Survived by father Francis Dow Kindred ’42, Lexington, Lexington, died March 28, 2019. Nolan Carter ’60 and sister Kelly died Dec. 26, 2018. Survived by children Jack Lucas Jr. Carter ’86. ’83, Elizabeth Lucas ’86 and Michael Norma Mae Mastin Adair ’43, Paris, Brian Maguire ’91, Louisville, died Lucas ’90. Kentucky, died Dec. 13, 2018. Dec. 28, 2018. Michael Hoffman ’65,West Newton, Aubrey Edwards ’43, Louisville, died Jacques Brousseau ’93, Richmond, Massachusetts, died Dec. 6, 2018. Feb. 1, 2019. Survived by children Virginia, died March 21, 2019. Aubrey Edwards III ’68 and Alice Laura Moody Pettus ’66, Lake Wales, Survived by siblings Louis Brousseau Edwards ’76. Florida, died Dec. 11, 2018. ’90, Mignon Brousseau ’95 and Dominique Brousseau ’01. Martha Thompson Frazier ’46, Leanne Chrisman Robinson ’66, Cynthiana, Kentucky, died Jan. 19, Gloucester, Massachusetts, died Laura McFarling Beaty ’94, Leander, 2019. Nov. 21, 2018. Texas, died Jan. 24, 2019. Jean Fulton Foster ’47, Middletown, Donna Hickman ’67, Payson, Arizona, Andrew Bramblett ’09, Wilmore, Virginia, died Jan. 9, 2015. died March 19, 2019. Kentucky, died Dec. 11, 2018. Survived by wife Shawna Corman ’10. Shirley Stevens Greenburg ’49, Sandra Cole Monhollen ’69, Harrodsburg, Kentucky, died April 6, Greeley, Colorado, died March 13, 2019. 2019. Survived by husband Steven Eddy Whitaker ’49, Louisville, died Monhollen ’69. Oct. 4, 2018. Kurt Lance Krafft ’70, Nashville, Genrose Swango Turner ’50, Tennessee, died Oct. 8, 2017. Survived Maysville, Kentucky, died Nov. 27, by daughter Margaret Krafft ’14. 2015. John Montgomery ’70, Shelbyville, Dorothy Ann Kline Walters ’50, Kentucky, died April 5, 2019. Glidden, Iowa, died Feb. 22, 2019. Charles DiMaggio ’72, Chicago, died John L. Bray ’52, Lawrenceburg, March 19, 2019. Kentucky, died Dec. 20, 2018. Survived Susan Snyder Hartley ’72, Louisville, by children Helen Bray Cox ’74 and died Oct. 21, 2018. Susan Bray Hyatt ’79. Marsha Hart Jones ’71, Maysville, Henry Dennis ’53, Ocala, Florida, died Kentucky, died Feb. 11, 2019. March 24, 2019. Survived by wife June Ashley Dennis ’52. William Michael Terry ’71, Nicholasville, Kentucky, died Richard Rawe ’53, Huntington Beach, Dec. 22, 2018. California, died May 3, 2018. Anne Ford Snell ’72, Lexington, died Max Martin Smith ’53, Lexington, Nov. 12, 2018. Survived by husband died Oct. 28, 2018. John Snell ’70. Richard Drane ’54, Auburn, Maine, Michael Demarco ’73, Lexington, died Nov. 5, 2016. died March 28, 2019. John Roger Simmons ’54, Santa Ramona Steinhoff Warner ’73, Rosa, California, died Dec. 9, 2018. Florence, Kentucky, died Nov. 8, 2018. Gloria Wiggins Whitson ’54, Parrish, Evelyn L. Smith ’75, Danville, Florida, died Oct. 30, 2018. Kentucky, died March 4, 2019. Juliet Kalb Cate ’55, St. Petersburg, Dolores Brown Harper ’76, Lexington, Florida, died Oct. 10, 2016. Survived by died March 3, 2019. son Andrew Cate ’89.

the magazine of TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY 27 William B. Bramblet ’73 alumni Judith Richmond Bramblet ’75 Gregory M. Turcotte ’09 AWARDS 2019 Morrison Medallion Outstanding Young Alumni Award We are proud to recognize these alumni and friends for their exemplary service to Transylvania and their communities and for distinguishing themselves in their respective professions. The awards were presented at the Alumni Celebration Convocation on Saturday, April 27, in Carrick Theater, Mitchell Fine Arts Center. Bill and Judy Bramblet have over 40 Greg Turcotte was part of the inaugural years of faithful service to Transylvania. group of alumni who served on the They have issued multiple annual fund Transylvania University Young Alumni challenges to alumni through the years, Council. He served two consecutive are supporters of the Pioneer Club, made three-year terms, including as president gifts to building projects, are on the in 2016-17. He was the young alumni Campaign Steering Committee and have liaison for the Alumni Plaza brick project endowed a student scholarship through completed in 2015, and since 2014 has their estate. Bill is a member of the Board served as a member of the Pioneer Club of Regents, and Judy is a member of the Advisory Council. Transylvania Women’s Club.

Mariju L. Bofill ’99 Kathleen Bruce Hill Florence ’59 Mark C. Green ’79 Distinguished Achievement Award Distinguished Achievement Award Distinguished Achievement Award

Mariju Bofill has built a prolific 18- Kathleen Bruce Hill Florence is a former In 2015, after a career spanning year career in the U.S. Department of teacher, a co-owner of Vintage Store, education, pharmaceutical sales and State. She is senior coordinator for a freelance and a published business development, Mark Green interagency affairs in the J7/9 Exercises poet and novelist. She helped establish became owner and managing director and Coalition Affairs Directorate at U.S. a branch of a community college in of Strategic Pathways LLC, a sales Southern Command, where she works on Cynthiana, Kentucky, where she served enablement company. He had previously government response to national security as campus director for 27 years. She is been executive director for career priorities in Central America, South currently a Donovan Scholar at Maysville development and training at Johnson & America and the Caribbean. Community College. Johnson and a senior sales director at EMC Dell Technologies.

28 THIRD & BROADWAY Thomas C. Polk ’69 Paul G. Preston ’79 Richard L. Hempel ’84 Distinguished Achievement Award Distinguished Achievement Award Distinguished Service Award

Thomas Polk founded the Furniture Bank Paul Preston is a physician safety Richard Hempel has served on the of Atlanta, an organization that provides educator and surgical quality leader Transylvania Alumni Board, Board of household furnishings to clients including for the Permanente Medical Group in Visitors and Board of Regents formerly homeless people, veterans and San Francisco. He has done extensive (as chair in 2015-17). An active survivors of domestic violence. He then research in reliable design of smoking supporter of athletics, he contributed founded the Furniture Bank Association cessation, preoperative workflows, to the construction of the Beck Center of America to help start and unite other anemia and acute stroke workflows. and Fourth Street Athletic Complex. furniture banks. There are now 125 Paul has conducted numerous operating in the U.S. and Canada. medical mission trips, most recently to Guatemala in March.

K. Beth Johnson ’94 W. Scott McConnell ’99 Brian C. Wood ’94 Distinguished Service Award Distinguished Service Award Distinguished Service Award

Beth Johnson served on her class Scott McConnell has served on the Brian C. Wood is a member of the reunion committees, the Transylvania Transylvania Alumni Board (as president Board of Trustees, served on the Beck Alumni Board, the Women’s Impact in 2017-18), in the 100 Doors to Success Center Alumni Committee and chaired Council and in the 100 Doors to program and on his class reunion his class 10th reunion. He has provided Success program. She has been committees. He was instrumental in financial support for the Annual Fund and a faithful contributor to the Alumni starting the Alumni Welcome Tent at new numerous capital projects. He has chaired Legacy Scholarship and established student move-in day, which has become the Buildings and Grounds Committee of the Evelyn F. Johnson Scholarship. an exciting tradition. the Board of Trustees since 2016.

the magazine of TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY 29 Pioneers from around the country returned to campus April 26-28 for the alumni “It's Your Year” Alumni Weekend. Between dinner socials, convocation, the President’s Reception and the Barr Society induction ceremony, there WEEKEND was plenty to celebrate at one of Transy’s most cherished annual events. 2019

CLASS OF 1969

Class of 1969 – 50th Reunion Front Row (Left to Right): Jo Ellen Hayden, Sandy Shearer, Sandra Naylor Franz, Dale Ann Fielman Cole, Harvey Ross, William Morris, Patty Breeze, Carolyn Hensley Reynolds, Jane Fields Alexander, Gayle Purple Hutcherson, Cindy Campbell Nairn, Lynn Swetnam Boone, Yvonne Fisher Todd, Sue Williams Pahl. Second Row (L to R): Bill Duty, Ann Dickey Haynes, Alice Shephard Wells, Johanne Codell Daigh, Penny Fife Campbell, Sherry Monthie Ederheimer, Marnie Pearce Downs, Judy Ford, Martha Robertson Francis, Marsha Bell Uselton, Ginny Thomas Eckert, Mary Lowe Bradley, Susie Smith Eichlen (in front of Mary Bradley), Dexter Meyer, Rick Arenstein, Bob Baker, Warren Austin, Van Pedigo, David Weinberg. Third Row (L to R): David Shivell, Patricia Bigham Journeay, Joan Anderson Young, Mary Nell Faulkner Bowling, Cathy Cramer Tittmann, Dyanne Flynt McLaughlin, Tom Harlan, David Hilgeford, Dick Cole, Rob Myers, Doug Hutcherson, Susan Swindler Lyle, Rankin Carter, Ken Kuehne, Steve Underwood, Larkin Chenault, Don Todd, Tom Polk. Fourth Row (L to R): Lou Dzialo, Debbie Daugherty Piel, Tommy Bass, Reid Baumgartner, Skip Redmond, Jennifer Moore Brock, John Mack, Steve Monhollen, Ann Stafford Dahl, Tom Fuller, Catesby Woodford, Chris Snyder. Back Row (L to R): Richard Skaggs, Bob Atkinson, Don Browne, Whit Criswell, Jim Hurley.

BARR SOCIETY Robert Barr Society Front Row: Mary Elizabeth Wylie Snellgrove ’64 Second Row (Left to Right): John Williams ’62, Mary Frances Arthur Queen ’64, Bill Watson ’64, John Tackett ’59, Anne Prather Cammack ’59, Pryntha Alexander Hardenbergh ’59, Virgina Marsh Bell ’44, Patsy Alexander Nielsen ’61, Kay Taylor Gevedon ’64, Betsy Parry-Davenport ’64. Back Row (L to R): Gayle Ropke Greer ’58, Kay Anne Frazier Wilborn ’66, Jim Boswell ’64, Charlie Taylor ’65, Marianne Carter Humphries ’64, Carol Carter Morgan ’68, Michael Morgan ’68.

Class of 1974– 45th Reunion Front Row (Left to Right): Garnett Adams Davis, Sheila Green Smith, Kathie Hultman Liebert, Carol Codell, Barbara Beckwith Candella, Donna Callison. Second Row (L to R): Dan Von Koschembahr, Pete Herrick, Lucy Sims Williams, Jannie Hargett Nallinger, Cathy Hancock Comley, Jeff Menkes, Ernie Arnold. Back Row (L to R): Bill Davis, Gregory Bass, Jane McGee Smith, CLASS OF 1974 John Williams, Janet McGregor, Ann Brown Hannon, Tom Grumbles.

30 THIRD & BROADWAY Class of 1979 – 40th Reunion Front Row (Left to Right): Sheila Jaynes, Nancy Allf, Genie Webb Vaugh, Denny Gash, Jack Resinger. Second Row(L to R): Ann Conway Blevins, Debbie Compton Balles, Dana Lawson Rice, Susan Clay Grigsby, Deanna Binion Tatterson, Kathy Payne Walters. Third Row (L to R): Melonie Graves, Becky Heffner Burchett, Terry Gevedon, Marc LaMond, Janna Dunavent Fitzwater, Martha Arnold Schoonmaker, Joy Arnold, Andy Graves, Leslie Linder Hammons. Back Row (L to R): Blake Burchett, Mark Green, CLASS OF 1979 Bill Bullock, Paul Preston, Lisbon Davis Hardy, Ann Cunningham Grandin, Rick Arnold.

Class of 1984 – 35th Reunion Front Row (Left to Right): Cindy Miller Hague, Elizabeth Greenup Faulkner, Susan Ware, Liz Phearson Fulkerson, Dana Lally Haugli. Back Row (L to R): Bill Landers, Cathy Creech, Laura Von Greunigen Patterson, Paula Gill, David Lafferty, Tommy Simpson.

Class of 1989– 30th Reunion Front Row (Left to Right): Sallye Holcomb Staley, Carol Devine, Kim North Mercker, Jenny Hall Medley, Stephanie Dixon Sutphin. Second Row (L to R): Roy Roberson, Jay CLASS OF 1984 McCoy, Chip Chapman, Vince Mongiardo, Byron Perkins. Back Row (L to R): Paul Guillerman, James Nuckolls, Chris Rose, Mark Tussey.

Class of 1994 – 25th Reunion Front Row (Left to Right): Kim Smith Mott, Misha Warren Bell, Mary Little Buzard, Shikha Seksaria Sundaram, Melissa Taylor Pascua, Jeannie Harrod Hixson, Beth Young Cole. Second Row (L to R): Michelle Cook-Becker, Beth Johnson, Stephen Burchett, Shannan Stamper, Leigh Ann Jordan Davis, Jennifer Hoppman Acklen, Amy Bentley Johnson, Melissa Stump Meier, Michelle Kosovac Clements. Third Row (L to R): Rob Cartwright, CLASS OF 1989 Dale Amburgey, Allen Eskridge, Andrew Childress, Jon Anderson, Charlie Kamuf, Beth Wright Oldendick. Back Row (L to R): Eric Withrow, Brian Johnson.

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the magazine of TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY 31 Class of 1999 – 20th Reunion Front Row (Left to Right): Mariju Bofill, Shannon Florea, Jack Tsai, Tresine Tatum Logsdon, Amy Lewis Bates. Second Row (L to R): Raine Engle Minichan, Andrea Hill Whitenack, Jason Varney, Christy Brown, Georgeann Stamper Brown, Amit Patel, Amanda Mackey Hettinger, Sarah Puckett Cavanah, Nancy Riley, Kelly Hoskins Tyler. Back Row (L to R): Ashley Sanders, Robin Powell Maples, Jan Vaughn Horn, Ann-Phillips Mayfield, Vicky Johnson Gaver, Scott McConnell, Drew Beattie, Duncan Cavanah. CLASS OF 1999 Class of 2004 – 15th Reunion Left to Right: Matthew Roth, Rebecca Garman, Katie Griffin Jenner, Stephen Johnson, Erin Willhoite Johnson, Kerri Buchanan Montgomery, Rebecca Klausing Frazer.

Class of 2009 – 10th Reunion Front Row (Left to Right): Ben Mullen, Anthony Zanni, Katie Davis Crowe, Logan Lloyd, Ethan Knox. Second Row (L to R): Neal Turpin, Kelly Ficker, Chelsea Broering Rohrer, Kelly Spratte-Lennington Ronald, Ashley Willoughby Coons, Brittny Congleton, Chrissie Sutherland Adams, Amanda Meneghetti Turcotte, Lee Nutini. Back row (L to R): Kyle Spring, Erin Mead Spring, Ali Downard Koga, CLASS OF 2004 Sarah Wilson Spinks, Laura Broughton, Farah Delshad, Lisle Adams, Greg Turcotte, Lino Nakwa.

Class of 2014 – 5th Reunion Front Row (Left to Right): Allie Merritt, Emily Novak, Ashley Keating, Brittany Horsley, Ilana Kline, Rachel Norris, Kayarash Karimian. Back Row (L to R): Evan Sizemore, Raisa Tikhtman, Daniel Barber, Liz Barczak, Kim Guy, Carly Wynn, Kim Shain.

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