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Rhodes Students Write the Book ore2000 CONTENTS RHODES (ISSN #1075-3036) is published four times a year The Magazine of Rhodes College in winter, spring, summer and fall by Rhodes College, 2000 North Parkway, Memphis, TN Summer 2000 • Volume 7 • Number 3 38112-1690. It is published as a service to all alumni, students, parents, faculty, staff and friends of the college. Summer 2000—Volume 7, Number 3. Periodical postage paid at Memphis, Tennessee, and additional mailing offices. Campus News Epn News of Rhodes events, faculty, students and friends 2 Martha Hunter Shepard '66 AM DIRECTOR Kevin Barre GRwim A Voter's Guide to the 2000 Elections Larry Ahokas 7 All M\I 11/11()II Two faculty assess the November odds Sally Jones '81

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Pop Smart CONTRIBUTORS 11 Bob Arnold '02, Jordan Badgett '03, Students write the book Bill Baldwin '03, Robert Blade '66, Brian Albert Broom, Justin Fox Burks, Trey Clark '89, Melody Barnett Deusner '99, Elizabeth Keith '01, Danialle K. Leach, Faithful Friends Michael Nelson, Jay Mason '92, Juvenile justice initiatives that work 16 Billy Watkins POSTMASTER: Send address changes to: Doctor Editor RHODES, 2000 North Parkway, 21 Memphis, TN 38112-1690. Healing and printing with a passion QASS NOTES: Please send all Class Notes including marriages, births and obituaries to: Alumni Office, Rhodes College, 2000 N. Parkway, Memphis, TN 38112- In Print 1690. Phone: (901) 843-3845 Fax: (901) 843- New books by faculty and alumni 24 3474. E-mail: Lisa Meeder Turnbull, director of alumni: meedererhodes.edu LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Please address postal correspondence to: Martha Athletics H. Shepard, Editor, Rhodes Magazine, Rhodes 25 College, 2000 N. Parkway, Memphis, TN 38112- 1690. Alumni News E-mail: [email protected] 28 Phone: (901)843-3544 Fax: (901)843-3553. Features, Class Notes, For the Record RHODES ADMISSIONS OFFICE: 1(800)844-5969 CHANGE OF ADDRESS: Please mail the completed form below and label from this issue of RHODES to: Alumni Office, Rhodes College, 2000 North Parkway, Memphis, TN 38112-1690.

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RHODES is printed with soya ink on recyclable paper. Title CAMPUS NEWS Commencement 2000

Distinguished Service Medal The Distinguished Service Medal is rnoosopny proleSSUr d1111 semui given to a person who exemplifies able faculty member Larry Lacy '59 and selfless service to the college. This carries the college's new mace year's recipient was Memphis civic (see back cover), accompanied by associate professor of music leader Nancy Fulmer '51, secretary of and faculty marshal Diane the Rhodes Board of Trustees, past McCullough Clark '62. chair of the President's Council and member of the Margaret Hyde Council and Presidential Search Committee.

Jill Peterfeso, an English major with a minor in religious studies, received the Phi Beta Kappa Award, the college's highest academic honor. It is awarded to the graduating senior who exemplifies the highest qualities of scholarship, achievement, creativity and commitment to the liberal arts and sciences. "You have left a record of excellence in many places, whether The Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award is ates Jennifer Stefan and Trent Pingenot literary analysis, or creative writing, or bestowed annually to two graduating and chemistry professor David Jeter were religious studies, or study of the the- seniors and a non-student who have given this year's recipients. ater," read her citation. selflessly to others and the college. Gradu-

2 SUMMER 2000 RHODES Five Receive Honorary Degrees at Commencement

The college bestowed five honorary executive officer at Netscape University of California and director of the doctorates at Rhodes' 151st Communications Corp. In 1999, National Science Foundation, a position commencement in mid-May. America Online Inc. acquired Netscape to which he was appointed by former The honorands were James L. for $10.2 billion. President George Bush. He has also served Barksdale, financial investment Today, Barksdale is launching the as chairman and president of the American executive, doctor of humanities; Dr. next phase of his career as managing Walter E. Massey, president of partner at The Morehouse College, doctor of science; Barksdale Group, Frank M. Mitchener Jr., outgoing a full service chairman of the Rhodes board of investment trustees, doctor of humanities; and Dr advisory firm. He Arthur W. Nienhuis, director of St. Jude will offer his Children's Research Hospital, doctor of managing science. The college awarded an expertise and honorary doctor of humanities degree financial backing posthumously to another member of the to build a new Rhodes board of trustees, James A. generation of Thomas III. A 1962 Rhodes graduate, Internet Thomas died last summer. companies. Joining the board in 1986, Jim He has also Thomas set the standard as a leadership begun a career as a volunteer and donor. He served as philanthropist as president of the Alumni Association, he seeks to Honorands. lett to right. with President Troutt (center): Frank Mitchener. Jim Barksdale. Walter Massey and Arthur Nienhuis national chair of the Annual Fund, improve education Diehl Society president and member of and housing in his the executive committee of the 150th native Mississippi. Association for the Advancement of Campaign for Rhodes. In 1996, he and his wife Sally donated Science and vice president of the American His beneficence extended to such $5.4 million to their alma mater, the Physical Society. college needs such as scholarships and University of Mississippi, to establish Frank Mitchener's service to capital projects, and in 1989 he the McDonnell-Barksdale Honors Rhodes knows no boundaries. He established the Thomas Book Fund to College. And this spring, the couple joined the board of trustees in 1976 assist new faculty in building a library announced a $100 million donation to and has offered tireless and devoted collection. He is listed in the the university to establish an institute to service to the college ever since. Benefactors Circle with those who have fight illiteracy. Under his leadership as Development made $1 million gifts to the college and A 1958 graduate of Morehouse Council chair from 1976-81, the in the Walter D. Bellingrath Society College in Atlanta, Dr. Walter E. college raised $15.5 million out of a with those who have made $1 million Massey in 1995 was named the ninth $20 million goal. At that time, it was in deferred gifts. president of that institution, the the largest campaign in Rhodes' Jim Barksdale has spent his working nation's only historically black, all male, history. Twenty years later, his career managing technology oriented four-year liberal arts college. leadership on the board was central to companies. As executive vice president With a degree in physics and concluding a successful $120 million and chief operating officer at Federal mathematics from Morehouse, Massey campaign boasting as its centerpiece Express, Barksdale established a quality received his master's degree and the Bryan Campus Life Center. He program that won FedEx the coveted doctorate in physics in 1966 from has served as chairman of the board of Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Washington University. His research trustees, Annual Fund national chair, Award. As president of McCaw Cellular involved the study of quantum liquids Diehl Society president and has led Communications, he established a and solids and his written work many college search committees. national network worth $11.5 billion addressed math and science education. Mitchener graduated from the when acquired by AT&T Wireless He has served as provost and senior McCallie School in Chattanooga and Services. He was president and chief vice president of academic affairs of the received a B.S. degree from Davidson

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College in 1955. In addition to serving treatment of catastrophic diseases in appointments at Boston's Massachusetts Rhodes, he has managed a successful children. Arthur W. Nienhuis has been General Hospital and Harvard Medical career as president and owner of St. Jude's director since 1993. School and was chief of the Clinical Mitchener Farms Inc./Hoparka Overseeing the hospital's entire scope Hematology Branch at the National Plantation. He served as past president, of clinical and basic research endeavors, Heart, Lung and Blood Institute at the chair and adviser to the board of the Nienhuis also supervises his own National Institutes of Health. National Cotton Council and is a experimental hematology program, In 1998, President Bill Clinton former member of the secretary of conducting research on hemoglobin appointed Dr. Nienhuis to the National agriculture's Advisory Committees on synthesis and potential gene therapies Cancer Advisory Board. Also that year, Cotton and Cotton Research. for disorders related to blood cells. he was named the recipient of the 1998 Located in Memphis, St. Jude Dr. Nienhuis graduated from the Stratton Medal, one of the highest Children's Research Hospital is known University of California at Los Angeles honors awarded by the American throughout the world as one of the and the UCLA School of Medicine. Society of Hematology. premier centers for research and Prior to coming to St. Jude, he held

College To Construct, Renovate Residence Halls

The college has launched a $15.5 mil- 10 will have two double bedrooms. Financing for the entire project is lion project to meet the housing A complete renovation of Stewart from the proceeds of a $15.5 million demands of Rhodes' growing student Hall on University Street, which will bond issue. Architects are Hanbury, body. The project includes construction accommodate 110 sophomores, Evans, Newill, Vlattas and Co. of of a new student residential community, includes gutting the interior, com- Norfolk, VA, one of the nation's lead- the renovation of Stewart Hall and the pletely rebuilding the floor down to its ing firms in renovation and construc- addition of a "conservatory room" for joists, adding new insulation and tion at colleges and universities known study and social activities facing the soundproofing between walls and for their historic architecture. Before Voorhies-Townsend-Trezevant quad- installing new double-insulated win- developing its recommendations, the rangle. While the three projects have dows and wall and ceiling surfaces. firm met with students, faculty and different starting dates, all are scheduled There will also be new electrical and staff for several months to examine to be completed by fall 2001. plumbing systems, carpeting, kitchen residence life, campus culture and stu- The new residential complex, and social rooms, exterior paint and dents' living preferences. dubbed "East Village" by virtue of its landscaping. Work is expected to get "Rhodes students appreciate having location on the parking lot east of underway next May. the best we can provide in regard to Trezevant Hall, will house 200 juniors The 1,000-square-foot Voorhies- comfortable living and learning envi- and seniors in apartment-style living Townsend-Trezevant conservatory will ronments," said Melody Richey, dean areas. Each of the apartments will contain a small kitchen. I arge windows of student affairs. "Students need such include a full kitchen, living space, bed- will look out onto the quad, which will an environment during these signifi- rooms and a bath. Forty apartments have new landscaping. Construction will cant four years of exploring, learning will contain four single bedrooms and begin in the coming academic year. and being part of a community." "Expanding and remodeling our residence facilities are part of the college's master plan and will enhance our students' academic and residential experience," said Allen Boone 71, dean of administrative services. Rhodes' legacy of focusing on the importance of the campus environment began with Dr. Charles Diehl, the president who moved the college to Mem- phis in 1925. Among Diehl's residential goals was "development not only of the intellectual, but also the moral, social East Village and aesthetic nature" of students.

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Brian Shaffer, Susan Kus Win Top Faculty Honors An English scholar and an anthropologist two books and is co-editing a third. the southeast African coast, for more are the 2000 recipients of Rhodes' high- He is a member of the editorial than 20 years. In particular, Kus works est faculty honors, presented during the board of Conradiana: A Journal of Joseph with ritual specialists who orient houses annual Awards Convocation this spring. Conrad Studies and served on the execu- and tombs within the changing flow of Associate professor of English Brian tive council of the Joseph Conrad Soci- space and time. W. Shaffer received the Clarence Day ety of America from 1993-98. He also is She regularly spends summers in the Award for Outstanding „ a board member for field in Madagascar, and jointly does Teaching, which includes f, Arachne, an interdisci- much of her work with her husband, Vic- a $7,500 honorarium. plinary journal of lan- tor Raharijaona, also an anthropologist Susan M. Kus, associate i guage and literature and archaeologist. The couple recently professor of anthropol- published in Canada. published an article, "House to Palace, ogy, received the Clarence A Phi Beta Kappa Village to State: Scaling up Architecture Day Dean's Award for scholar, Shaffer holds and Ideology," in the journal American Outstanding Research a Ph.D. in English Anthropologist. Kus, who has published and/or Creativity, which from the University extensively in other professional journals, carries a $4,000 prize. of Iowa and a bache- has been invited to be on the editorial Both awards, first given lor's degree from staff of a new one, Social Archaeology. in 1981, were established Washington Univer- A past recipient to two Fulbright by Memphis businessman sity. The National research grants (1994 and 1996) for Clarence Day and are pro- Endowment for the study in Africa, she has presented her vided by the Day Founda- Humanities research at meetings across America and tion. awarded him fellow- in Europe, including Wales, Sweden Shaffer has taught at Rhodes since ships for work at the University of Cali- and Germany. 1990. He was the college's 1995 recip- fornia, Berkeley (1993), Cornell Kus holds a Ph.D. and master's and ient of the Day Award for Outstand- University (1990) and the University of bachelor's degrees in anthropology from ing Research and/or Creativity. North Carolina (1989-90). the University of Michigan. She also Shaffer, whose specialties are 20th- Kus specializes in ethnography, the studied at Auditrice Libre, Institut century British literature and the mod- study and systematic recording of National des Langues et Civilisation ern novel, is a published authority on human cultures. Her research has Orientales, and at Eleve Libre, Ecole des authors Joseph Conrad, James Joyce focused on the pre-history and culture Hautes-Etudes en Sciences Sociales, and Kazuo Ishiguro. He is the author of of Madagascar, an island republic off both in Paris. Three Retiring Faculty Share Memories of Rhodes Three Rhodes faculty bid farewell to the have all new windowsills college this spring. Professor of music put in the house, because I Southwestern stu- Charles L. Mosby '51, associate profes- was tearing up all the win- dents took their sor of English Sandra McEntire and dowsills pretending that I music classes. Mosby chair and associate professor of econom- was playing the piano," started Southwest- ics Charles C. Orvis look forward to Mosby says. ern's music depart- their future plans while reflecting upon Mosby may be one of ment in 1963, when their careers at Rhodes. the few people who has he was invited to join been at Rhodes under all the college's faculty. Charles Mosby its presidents since the He has been depart- There was no doubt from the time college moved to Mem- ment chairman "quite Charles Mosby was a tyke in the small phis. Charles E. Diehl often," he says. town of Coahoma, MS, that his life was president when "I've had one job in and livelihood would revolve around Mosby was a student at then-South- my life and this is it," he says. "What the piano. western at Memphis. I've enjoyed most about being at "My mother told my father that if he He started teaching part-time in Rhodes is being where I wanted to be, didn't buy a piano, she was going to 1956 at Memphis College of Music, doing what I wanted to do and being

RHODES SUMMER 2000 5 CAMPUS NEWS left alone enough to do it. I've been "Another class that was thrilling to rank of colonel. very fortunate." teach was medieval visionary literature. Orvis came to Rhodes in 1973 Many fine piano students remain The students kept sur- while still working on bright memories for Mosby. They have passing their own expec- o his Ph.D. in economics gone to the finest graduate schools, and tations; they challenged from the University of some are teaching at colleges and uni- each other. That was a Minnesota. He joined versities, he says. wonderful experience as the faculty shortly One gratifying moment for Mosby a teacher to have stu- before the establishment came recently when one of his former dents be so hungry and of a business major at students, Quinn Peeper, now an ortho- learn, not just from me, the college and stayed pedic surgeon in New Orleans, called to but from one another. for his entire teaching say he was going to make his Carnegie To my mind, that is career. Hall debut this spring. the best kind of teach- "I feel blessed in many Mosby, who lives near campus, plans ing environment." ways. I was ready to take to stay put during his sabbatical next The other high another position when year and beyond. He and his wife Rose points at Rhodes for McEntire this opportunity came have three children and six grandchil- have been the English department, which along," Orvis says. "Being involved dren who live in the Memphis area. she describes as "marvelously collegial," with this caliber of students has kept "Our whole worlds are here," he and the larger Rhodes community. me here. I'll miss the interaction with says. "We wouldn't trade our worlds McEntire and her husband Jeffrey them at all levels." for anything." Corthell will move to the Knoxville, TN, Orvis' memories of his years at the area this summer. She says they will college include enjoying the challenges Sandra McEntire plant their roots there and decide what his students have posed for him over Education was always a priority in options and interests they will pursue. the years and feeling Sandra McEntire's family. Her father "We hope to have rewarded watching his taught business administration and her something to offer students grow. mother worked in a university setting, the community where "You have to keep up so it was a natural thing for McEntire we are," she says. "I with what's going on in to choose teaching as her life's work. might be retiring the world to keep up McEntire was born in Camp from Rhodes, but not with them. That makes Lejeune, NC, and grew up in Massa- from life." it fun," he says. "You chusetts and western New York. After give them responsibili- earning her BA. from Trinity College, Chuck Orvis ties, and they react to she taught junior high and high school Chuck Orvis' path that by stepping up, students for 11 years and picked up an to a teaching career speaking out and matur- M.A. in English from the University of started with an appli- ing. It makes you feel Maryland during that time. Her fascina- ance firm in his home good to see that fruition tion with things medieval led to a sec- state of Vermont. After of efforts, that matura- ond master's and a Ph.D. in medieval leaving high school, Orvis worked for tion on their part." studies from Cornell University. the firm for eight years before moving Orvis will be on sabbatical this fall, McEntire came to Rhodes in 1988 to California. A job interview there con- because his duties as chair of the eco- after teaching a year at Haverford Col- vinced him that a college education was nomics and business administration lege as a sabbatical replacement. Among paramount. department caused him to postpone a the things she's enjoyed the most about "They wanted someone with a col- sabbatical last year. Orvis has served teaching at Rhodes has been the oppor- lege degree," Orvis says. "There was a three times as the department chair. tunity to develop courses in her field. message there." Orvis and his wife, Jane Darr, who "Without a doubt, some of the most Orvis went on to earn his B.A. at recently retired as manager of the exciting classes I've taught have been the California State University at North- Rhodes bookstore, won't be idle during classes I've taught here at Rhodes," she ridge. He had enlisted in the National their retirement. They plan to visit a says. "I love to teach Chaucer. To get Guard in 1954, earned a commission new grandson in Oregon, make excur- students who are perhaps initially fright- in 1959 and was involved as a troop sions to Alaska, England and South ened by Middle English and medieval commander during the 1965 Watts America, and build a house on the literature interested and engaged is so riots in Los Angeles. He retired from White River in Cotter, AR, where Orvis rewarding. the Army Reserve in 1991 with the plans to do a lot of fly fishing. 74

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ome elections stand out in history because they great bursts of new public policies, such as the one in 1932 that brought Franklin D. Roosevelt and a strongly Democratic Congress into office. Some stand out Sbecause they help to create a new majority party, as William McKinley's victory in 1896 did for the Republicans. Other elections stand out simply because they took place at all. Even in the midst of the Civil War, the United States conducted free and fair elections in 1864. Most surveys are showing that few Americans think the elections that will take place this November are important or even interesting. They regard George W. Bush and Al Gore as being more alike than different: both candidates are Ivy League sons of career politicians and tend toward the political center.

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Some political scientists expect voter turnout to be lower than it was in 1996, when it almost fell below 50 percent. In the absence of war, recession or other national crises, these scholars predict that this year voters will be more apathetic than usual. The truth is that the elections of 2000 may turn out to be the most important to take place in many years. One reason has to do with the very absence of a national crisis. In elections such as this one, the country is freed from the need to "put out the latest fire." Candidates have the opportunity to address important long-term issues that touch the everyday lives of citizens. For example, Bush and Gore have been able to focus on the future of Social Security and education. Future is an important word in the context of this election. In most elections—all but seven of the 25 that took place in the 20th

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century—an incumbent president ran for reelec- An even more important aspect of the 2000 election. Such elections invariably become referenda tions is that, for one of the very few times in histo- on the past four years. Elections like this year's ry, control of all three branches of the federal that pit one non-incumbent against another tend government is at stake. to be less about what has happened in the past than what will happen in the future.

8 SUMMER 2000 RHODES deficit in the Senate, they were surprised all three times (1980, 1986 and 1994) when partisan control of the Senate changed hands in the last 20 years. The results of the congressional elections not only are important in their own right, they also will affect the way the new president governs. The policies enacted if Bush serves with a Republican congress will probably be more conservative than if Congress is controlled by the Democrats. By the same token, the policies enacted if Gore serves with a Democratic congress will probably be more liberal than if Congress remains in the hands of the Republicans. Bush will be strongly inclined to sign conservative bills that Gore would veto, whereas Gore will

The Presidency. One bit of conventional wisdom that we expect to be borne out in the 2000 presidential election is that it will be close. Close elections occur less frequently than one might expect. During the 20th century, only five elections for president were narrowly decided: 1916, 1948, 1960, 1968 and 1976.

Congress. Every seat in the House of Rep- resentatives and 33 of the 100 Senate seats are up for grabs this November. The House is more closely di- vided between Democrats and Republicans than at likely sign liberal bills that Bush would veto. Given any time in nearly half a century: a swing of only six the number of hot-button ideological issues that seats from Republican to Democrat will return con- the new president and Congress will deal with in trol of the House to the Democratic party. Although the next four years, such as gun control, abortion most political analysts say they will be surprised if and educational vouchers, the relationship between the Democrats are able to make up their five-seat these two branches will be especially important.

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Rhodes political science professor Michael Nelson (left) and assistant professor of political science Jay Mason '92. They will teach the course, "A Voter's Guide to the 2000 Elections" at Rhodes' Meeman Center this tall.

were not enough, other important components of the American political system will also be strongly The Courts. More than in most elections, affected by the outcome of this year's election. The the direction of the Supreme Court and other feder- United States has never had more than two endur- al courts will be charted in 2000. The Constitution ing political parties with an ability to draw substan- specifies that all federal judges must be nominated tial numbers of votes. In November the Reform by the president and confirmed by the Senate. Party, which won millions of votes in 1992 and Because no vacancies on the Supreme Court have 1996, will be on the ballot for the third consecutive occurred since 1994, and because by the end of the presidential election. With a strong performance in new president's term four justices will be in their 2000, its existence will be assured for the foreseeable 70s or 80s, most court-watchers expect that the next future. The Green Party also is bidding for a lasting president will nominate several new justices. The place in the party system. outcome of the presidential and Senate elections At the state level, few governors are up for elec- will determine what kind of justices these will be. tion this year. In an effort to partially detach state As things stand now, the Supreme Court is close- politics from national politics, most states prefer to ly balanced among liberal, conservative and moder- choose their chief executives at midterm. But the re- ate justices. Many of the Court's recent cases have sults of the November state legislative elections will been decided by votes of 5-4 or 6-3. Add even a shape the redrawing of boundaries for U.S. House couple more conservative justices, as Bush and a Re- and state legislative districts that must take place as publican Senate probably would, or a couple more a result of the 2000 census. Expect both major par- liberal justices (the likely inclination of Gore and a ties to pour campaign contributions and other polit- Democratic Senate), and the Court's ideological ical resources into what otherwise would be composition could be fixed for many years to come. elections of mostly local interest. The new president and Senate will also appoint Clearly the elections of 2000 are as unpredictable many lower court judges. Typically, nearly 200 cir- as they are important. One of the few things we can cuit and district court judgeships must be filled every be sure about is that Bill Clinton will no longer be four years. Because, as former cabinet member in the White House. At age 54, he will become the Joseph Califano observes, "More and more, domestic youngest former president since Theodore policy issues like tobacco, patients' rights, genetics Roosevelt. We leave you with a question about the and guns are ending up in federal court; all appoint- next four years for which anyone's guess is as good ments to the federal judiciary—not just Supreme as ours: What will Clinton, whose entire adult life Court appointments—are of policy significance." has been spent in the public sector, do with all that As if control of the entire federal government free time and boundless energy? PA

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or an undergraduate art student, it's a résumé dream: having your original research pub- F lished in a book. But when you're facing the big names—artists such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Tom Wesselmann, Allen Jones and Mel Ramos—and the mountain of material cover- ing a topic as frequently discussed and examined as Pop Art, the idea of contributing a piece of original material to the established volumes of art historical scholarship can seem daunting, if not impossible. But last semester, Rhodes Professor of Art History David McCarthy took on the enormous challenge of helping 13 art students—from sophomores to seniors, from majors to non-majors—ac- complish exactly that. Their efforts were part of a course with the unassuming title of "Art 365: • By Melody Barnett Deusner '99 Topics in Art History: Pop Art." Both the subject matter and structure of the course were particularly unique. Each semester, the art department, like many others at Rhodes, offers topics classes that focus on a particular area of scholarship within a professor's own special area of study. Pop Art, a modern art movement famous for its affinity with commercial advertising, mass production and "low" art forms such as comic books and billboard sign paintings, was a natural choice for McCarthy. During his recent yearlong sabbatical, McCarthy researched and published a book for Cambridge University Press and the Tate Gallery, Movements in Modern Art: Pop Art. As he considered his return to the classroom, he looked for a way to connect his students with his scholarship. "Pop was a topic that was very much on my mind," McCarthy said. "I was immersed in the literature. I liked the idea of closing the gap between my research and my teaching." He chose to bring his research and teaching together by exposing his students to the challenges of researching and writing for publication through the completion of an actual exhibition catalog. Building directly on his own research, McCarthy was able to guide his students through a thorough look at the history of Pop Art and Pop Art scholarship, as well as more recent critical arguments as to the movement's place in art history. "Pop is being reconsidered by so many scholars right now," he said. "It's a great moment to par- Allan D'Arcangelo ticipate in that." Landscape ///from the portfolio 11 Pop Artists. vol. III Choosing the topic for the course was only the 1965 Silkscreen in four colors. 137200 beginning; McCarthy wanted it to encompass Memphis Brooks Museum 01 Art something more than the usual lectures and writ- Joint purchase of the Memphis Park Commission and Brooks Fine Arts Foundation 65 117 ing assignments. Together he and Rhodes Clough-Hanson Gallery Director Marina Pacini

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discussed various methods of incorporating student research setting," Troutt writes in his introduction to the catalog. into a gallery exhibition. They wanted to give students the "One of the opportunities we are pleased to be able to pro- opportunity to pursue original research on works of art and vide our students is the possibility of working with profes- the chance to share that research with other art scholars. sional organizations throughout the community." "We had been looking for ways to tie the gallery into the McCarthy, Pacini and Feldman felt this partnership educational mission of the department," Pacini said. Seeking would benefit everyone involved. a comprehensive set of Pop Art works for a Clough-Hanson "We have this really nice opportunity to have access to exhibition, she and McCarthy approached Kaywin good museums," McCarthy said. "This project allowed stu- Feldman, director of the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. dents to work with art in a museum collection." Their discussions laid the foundation for a collaboration be- Since such extensive planning was necessary in estab- tween the department, the gallery and the state's oldest and lishing the framework for the course, McCarthy demand- largest fine arts institution. ed a great deal of commitment from the students enrolled. The Brooks Museum has thousands of works on paper in The syllabus outlined a series of challenges that would its permanent collection, among them a portfolio titled 11 Pop make even the most capable senior art history major Artists commissioned by squirm. In addition to tobacco conglomerate the catalog essay, re- Philip Morris in 1965. quirements included The diverse prints in attendance at 14 this portfolio feature three-hour class ses- major artists of the Pop sions, rigorous critical Art movement and rep- readings, independent resent the various ways and group research they chose to imitate, projects, oral presen- critique, utilize and ex- tations, group cri- ploit the bright, slick tiques and written appearance of mass cul- chronologies. ture. McCarthy and The 13 students Pacini selected prints who accepted these from this portfolio to challenges were reserve as the primary quired to follow much visual material for stu- the same route dents in the Pop Art McCarthy followed in course, as the subject of his research for his Pop their original research Art book, beginning and as the content of with a comprehensive an exhibition opening • Roy Lichtenstein study of the movement Moonsca pe from the portfolio 11 Pop Artists, vol. I in the Clough-Hanson 1965 and gradually adding Gallery on Oct. 4: Ten Silkscreen on Rodin plastic. 137200 Memphis Brooks Museum of Art their own original Joint purchase of the M emphis Park Commission and Brooks Fine Arts Foundation 65.107 Pop Artists on Paper. (g Estate of Roy Lichtenstein scholarship to it. They Feldman enthusias- began their individual tically agreed to support the project by lending the prints to the research projects as they would for any art history class: by Clough-Hanson Gallery and assisting in editing the catalog. reading critical essays, exhibition reviews and interviews. But "I was really excited about working closely with Rhodes and because the Pop Art movement thrived in the late 1950s and getting students involved," Feldman said. "I knew we would early 1960s, many students had the unique opportunity to come away from the project with scholarship about our works." conduct original interviews with living artists themselves, to She was also pleased to have the prints on view to the public. ask them about the specific prints from the portfolio. "We have more than 4,000 works on paper and we could For example, Scott Hopkins ('00) interviewed British never display all of them. It will be good to share some of Pop artist Peter Phillips regarding the artist's Custom Print them with a new audience." series. Rhodes President William Troutt viewed the course, cat- "I've done interviews before," Hopkins said, "but this alog and exhibition as not only bringing artwork from the was the first time I've ever been able to talk to an artist di- museum onto the campus, but also extending Rhodes' reach rectly about his sources. I had a great conversation with him. beyond its gates. It's been so long since he did those pieces, and it was inter- "Students come to Rhodes College because it offers the esting to get his perspective on what he was doing back then. experience of a liberal arts education in a vital, metropolitan He was very receptive."

12 SUMMER 2000 RHODES This personal contact with the artist taught Hopkins about more than just the Custom Print pieces. Through personal interviews, he said, "you get a sense that these artists are just people. We have a tendency to put artists on a plateau above the rest of us—but they're just regular people." Hopkins was not the only student to contribute an original interview to the catalog. Jena Balton ('02) interviewed Mel Ramos, a controversial Pop artist known for his pin-up- style images of women; Nick Shiraef ('01) discussed two prints, Cut out Nude and Nude, with Pop artist Tom Wesselmann. Meredith Cain ('02) met with British artist Allen Jones during a spring break trip to London, where she asked him specific questions about Janet Is Wearing, one of three Jones prints featured in the exhibition. "Jones had told me he wouldn't have a whole lot to say about that particular piece," Cain said, "but he ended up talking to me for about an hour and a half." She also had the opportunity to see Jones' apartment/studio firsthand. "He had a couple of pieces in his studio that I was already familiar with. He was restoring them. It was a really interesting experience to see how his work had evolved, to see where he lived and where he worked." McCarthy saw these oral histories as fundamentally important to the class project. • Jim Dine Throat from the portfolio 11 Pop Artists. vol. II 1965 Silkscreen. 137 200 Memphis Brooks Museum al Art Joint purchase of the Memphis Park Commission and Brooks Fine Ads Foundation 65.94

"One of the things I liked most about the class was that students took advantage of talking to living artists," McCarthy said. Through their interviews and original research, "these students have produced work that is going to go into the art historical canon. How many undergraduates have the opportunity to do that?" While their peers typed frantically on 15- and 20-page research papers in other classes and departments, these Pop Art students focused on four tightly written pages. In order to work within the space limitations of the exhibition catalog, they had to condense their extensive research and interviews into a concise, 1,000-word essay, written in a manner that could be understood by a somewhat general audience— not just by the professor teaching the course. "Writing for publication is not the same as writing a term paper," McCarthy said. "The opportunity to publish is such a wonderful one that I wanted the students to concentrate all their energy on the essay." Though short in length, this project involved a long process of writing and rewriting, which many students • Allen Jones found to be the greatest challenge of all their assignments. Miss America from the portfolio 11 Pop Artists. vol. "I just really hadn't had any other experience where there 1965 Lithograph. 137 200 were such strict deadlines, so many drafts and so many ex- Memphis Brooks Museum of Art Joint purchase of the Memphis Park Commission and Brooks Fine Arts Foundation 65 115 pectations for each step of the writing process," Cain said.

RHODES SUMMER 2000 13 McCarthy said that the critiques enabled students to become not only better writers, but better editors as well: "They became more attentive to the arguments and the evidence." Attentive communication between class members was crucial during the writing, editing and rewriting stages of the essays. Not all students had the sole responsibility of cover- ing one artist's prints. Cain and two other students, Max Groth '01 and Dawnanna Davis '01, covered separate prints by Jones. They planned their essays together to prevent an overlap of critical or biographical information; consequent- ly, they were able to share research in a way that was mutu- ally beneficial. Groth, for instance, cited Cain's interview in his essay about Jones' print Pour les Levres, signaling that her original interview had already entered the canon of Pop Art scholarship. Although the course ended in May, many of the students continued to revise their essays well into the summer, preparing for the catalog's "final print" in September. Clearly, there was more at stake in Art 365 than just a midterm or a final. "It's not just about the grade," Clarke said. "At this point, the learning process is so in-depth, the grade is dis- placed. This goes beyond the bounds of a normal class."

• Peter Phillips Custom Print 1 from the portfolio 11 Pop Artists, vol. I 1965 Silkscreen on alutoil 137 200 Memphis Brooks Museum of Art Joint purchase of the Memphis Park Commission and Brooks Fine Arts Foundation 65.110

"I think it is probably easier to write a 25-page research paper than a four-page catalog entry," said Allana Clarke ('02). "I feel that all through high school and even in some classes at Rhodes, you're working toward a page limit, and that makes for a writing style that has a lot of fluff in it. It's really weird to turn around from that and work toward a 1,000-word limit. It's about writing in a different way." "It has changed my outlook on writing," Hopkins added. The essays in the finished catalog reflect at least six separate rounds of editing. McCarthy used class critiques to foster group discussions of the essays as they developed. "I became a facilitator," he said, encouraging class members to work together, share research results and assist each other in sharpening the essays. This was a new experience for some of the students. "David really pushed us to collaborate as a class," Clarke said. "I was resistant to it at first. It was not something that I opened up to right away." Cain said that "the big difference between this course and others was the input I was receiving from my classmates. I had to stand up and read my work, and I wanted feedback from everybody in the class." She added that the group cri- • Allen Jones tiquing sessions, while different from previous class experi- Janet Is Wearing. from the portfolio 11 Pop Artists, vol. III 1965 ences, were beneficial. "I think the course really helped me Lithograph 137 200 Memphis Brooks Museum of Art to break out of my shell." Joint purchase of the Memphis Park Commission and Brooks Fine Arts Foundation 65 123

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The students' efforts will reach far beyond the bounds of sional scholars and curators do," McCarthy said. "I'm con- the class when the Ten Pop Artists on Paper exhibition opens sidering this a pilot project with the hope of doing it again." in October. The free catalog will be available at the exhibi- The students' responses to the course were overwhelm- tion and will be distributed to artists, artists' estates, libraries ingly positive. and other institutions. A copy will be placed on file at the li- "My wish is that every class at Rhodes would be like brary of the National Museum of American Art at the Pop," Clarke said, "that this will become a model for all Smithsonian Institution, and the Brooks Museum will add classes." these students' work to the scholarship surrounding its per- Cain, who added an art history major to her English lit- manent collection. erature major at the end of the semester, cited the course's Original research from the class will appear not only in impact on her education: "I felt like I had really evolved by the catalog, but also on the walls of the exhibition. Pacini the end of the class. I knew how to read and how to research, will post artist quotes and timelines submitted by the stu- and I didn't have that security at the beginning of the class. dents to increase the educational impact of the show. In an I would say that it's the best class that I've had so far at effort to "do something different with this exhibition," Rhodes. Pacini plans to include a reading area in the gallery that will "I was constantly amazed at how meaningful the work I feature copies of numerous Pop Art resources. These signif- was doing seemed to be. I gained a lot of respect for the way icant texts will provide additional context for the students' art courses can help my learning in general, because I do be- research and the prints within the history of the movement lieve that it has helped me to grow in all of my studies. as a whole. The educational program surrounding the exhi- "I feel that without this experience, my Rhodes education bition will also include an Andy Warhol lecture by Boston could not be complete." M University Professor Caroline Jones. Given the success of the Ten Pop Artists on Paper project, Melody Barnett Deusner is assistant curator of education at Pacini and McCarthy will continue to pursue opportunities Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. for integrating student coursework and gallery exhibitions. "This class gave students the chance to see what profes-

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im Bullock's alarm goes off at Getting involved again of his congregation when he saw Jason 4:30 every morning. He gets up Six years ago, there was a child alone on the sidewalk. He pulled over. quietly, pulls on some clothes, named Jason whose father was a mem- They talked. Bullock invited Jason to and heads outside for an hour- ber of Bullock's church. Jason had been lunch—and not just hamburgers. long walk at more than a leisure- with his mother in New York, but They went to a regular sit-down lyj pace. He does this as much for his moved to Ocala to live with his father restaurant, and Bullock watched as mind as for his body. As he walks, he and start the 11th grade. He was a tall, Jason ate...and ate and ate. thinks through the day ahead, ponders thin kid with short hair and glasses. Jason said that everything was all problems, works on his sermons, Father and son could not get right, that he needed no help. prays. He calls it his inward time. along. The father was not used to be- "Where can I drop you?" Bullock Bullock, who graduated from ing a parent; the son acted out. They said when lunch was over. Rhodes in 1964, is pastor of Fort went to Bullock for counseling but "Anywhere," Jason said. "I can King Presbyterian Church in the Cen- very little changed. walk anywhere in Ocala." tral Florida city of Ocala, population 200,000. Palm trees and pines, strip malls and stand-alone franchises line the streets. Locals compete with tourists for parking spots. Fort King Presbyterian Church is on NE 36th Avenue, across the street from a golf course. Near a church driveway is a sign that says, "Fort King Fami- ly Resource Center" and "Church Without Walls." These two programs have dominated Bullock's work for the past five years: One helps families cope; the other centers on children in trouble. The way the programs evolved, the way he and his

wife, Ervin Haas Bullock, Family Portrait: Dwayne Baum, Jim Bullock. Darrell Baum. Robert Bullock. Ervin Haas Bullock, Jesse Bullock became involved in them was, either by accident or by grace, nothing short of astonishing. The father set down an ultimatum. As they left, Bullock gave him a card Three threads—the Bullock family, "This is your curfew and your last with his home phone number on it. the church and the city—meshed at chance, he told Jason. Break this and "Call me if you need a place to just the right time. you're out." stay," he said. Bullock likes the image. One night Jason did not return. That night at 6, Bullock's phone "You keep focused," he says. "You No one saw him for the next seven rang. Jason said, "Can I take you up make sure you have a purpose. It's a days. On the eighth day, Bullock was on that?" call, and the call changes." going to the hospital to visit a member Jason stayed for the next eight

16 SUMMER 2000 RHODES months, and the Bullocks grew to like when the police and rescue squad en- preparation, the church started a cen- this awkward adolescent. They set up tered the Bullock home, they saw ter for abused and neglected babies rules—a curfew, doing his share in Ervin Bullock sitting on the still- which became known as the Fort keeping the house struggling child. King Family Resource Center. Its gov- clean, keep his own "Can we erning board was principally made up room clean—which help?" one officer of single mothers and once-single Jason followed. asked with more mothers; it worked through a small, "He melted into than a degree of paid staff and a cadre of volunteers. our family," Bullock suspicion in his Almost from the first day, the reali- says. voice. ties of drug and alcohol abuse and do- For the first After Ervin mestic violence became apparent: A time, Jason started explained, the of- four-year-old child named Kyle was talking about what ficer understood brought to the center by his he was going to do completely. grandmother. Kyle's mother had died after he finished The Bullocks of a cocaine overdose the year before high school. He had did not give up: and his father was in prison for never talked about they kept the possessing cocaine. Kyle's grandmoth- the future before. child for nearly er was diagnosed with cancer, and The next summer, nine months un- while she was undergoing chemother- Jason went back to Teacher Mary Davis of the Fort King til his mother apy, the center volunteers took turns Family Resource Center with students in New York and the 3-4-year-old class asked for him caring for Kyle overnight. finished high school back again. Bullock says, "Meeting children there. He joined the Bullock met like Kyle showed our people what Army, discovered he had an affinity for with her. He admired her courage, happens in broken homes. The languages, and was trained in Korean. he told her, but do not be afraid to domestic problems are unbelievable. He is now a sergeant and works in na- admit defeat. You don't realize the extent until you tional security. She, too, eventually gave up. get involved. But when you do, you're Bullock smiles at the thought. But then teenage twins arrived at overwhelmed. The established system "This was somebody who could have the Bullock home, two sets of them, is overloaded. You begin to recognize been trashed, out in the streets," he who became permanent members of that it almost takes a Robin Hood to says. "Today, Jason still sends Ervin a the family. rescue a child." Mother's Day card." Early intervention is a key to rescu- Bullock and his wife Ervin were en- Looking Outward ing people. Money problems are often ergized. The third and last of their The Rev. James W. Bullock Jr. a sign of troubled families. People who own children was finishing high school served churches in Kentucky, Alabama come to food pantries or who are des- and getting ready to leave home; they and Arkansas before moving to Flori- perate for help with their utility bills had the room for more children. Jason da in 1989 to become pastor of Fort are also people whose families may be had given them confidence. King Presbyterian. The church and encountering many other crises: mon- They enrolled in a foster care class the pastor were a good match: the ey and job problems can force and were certified by the state as foster church had a tradition of mission in frequent moves and hint at addictions parents. the community; Bullock was always or abuse. The scars left on the children But the next child did not work looking for new ways to serve. in these families are long-lasting. out as well. He was 13 and disturbed: "I wanted to be at a church The solution is clear. "Give these He had violent episodes where he involved in a vital mission that had families some help; attack the problem would curse and spit. Physical not been done," he says. early, before it becomes such a mon- restraint was the only remedy. Jim or A Fort King long-range planning ster," Bullock says. Ervin had to hold him firmly, some- committee studied this idea of mission Just as the center was getting start- times as long as an hour, until finally and concluded that the most abused ed, something else happened. the episode ebbed. He would cry, people in modern society in general, A nursing and psychiatry professor then grow quiet, and finally sleep. and in Ocala in particular, are babies. at the University of Florida, Dr. Faye Ervin Bullock was alone with the And the key to controlling that prob- Gary, and an accountant, Virginia child during one episode: the child, lem is to learn how to identify and Carney, asked Bullock if he wanted to out of control, raced through the help at-risk families before their prob- take a drive with them. neighborhood, cursing and spitting. lems become overwhelming. Sure, Bullock said. An alarmed neighbor called 911. And In 1995, after several years of Gary is an Ocala native and a lay

RHODES SUMMER 2000 17 leader of the Mt. Zion AME Church rate of 1,008 per 100,000 was almost all the children came to Sunday there; Carney is a member of Fort King. twice the national rate of 507 and 20 school," Bullock says. "You discovered But their journey was no priestly trek. percent high than the Florida rate. that here are folks in a crisis; they They drove Bullock downtown to Gary and Carney's vision to com- were looking for help." a building in back of the county jail, a bat these numbers was down-to-earth. Faye Gary discovered the name not place called the Marion County They wanted to organize church vol- long afterward. "I was just driving Regional Juvenile Detention Center. unteers who would go to the juvenile home one day, and it just came to Children and adolescents, for reasons center and hold a Sunday school. me," she says. "This was a church ranging from serious crimes to family Bullock said he was up for that. without walls." problems, are kept there while they "We started with four churches," Church Without Walls grew rapid- wait to see a judge. It was built to Faye Gary remembers. "Our driving ly. From the initial core, it has come house 47 youths. In 1995, on any giv- idea was that we must be an inter- to include more than 35 en night, 80 children or more might racial, inter-ethnic, inter-religious congregations—Protestant, Catholic, have been found Jewish—that sleeping there- reflect what on the floors Bullock calls and in the the "faith offices. The av- community." erage stay is still More than two weeks. 100 volunteers Faye Gary take an active and Virginia role. Carney wanted They have to do all signed a something. covenant that "The they are partic- children there ipating not to are primarily proselytize for from lower their denomi- socio-economic nations but to groups," Gary help at-risk says. "There are CHURCH WITHOUT WALL children. Cer- rural kids, street- tainly faith is a wise kids, kids strong part of who are victims what they do, all mixed togeth- Jim Bullock but unless a er. There is lots child asks for of down time, just waiting, when any- group. So we had the rural Ramah a particular brand of religion, doctri- thing can happen. This system set up Baptist, the evangelical Ocala Word nal specifics stay out of sight. to save children becomes, in a way, a of Faith, my own Mount Zion It is a tough job recruiting new predator of children." African Methodist Episcopal, and volunteers and keeping everyone mov- Gary and Carney made an impres- Fort King Presbyterian." ing in the same direction. Gary is not sion on Bullock. They had an organizational meet- hesitant about naming names. "They were concerned about youths ing at the Cracker Barrel restaurant on "Jim Bullock is the glue that has at risk," Bullock says. "They talked to 1-75 in Ocala. They contacted the de- kept us all together," she says. me about a vision they had of getting tention center administrators, Over the past five years, Church the faith community involved in help- explained what they were doing and Without Walls has grown, but so has ing adolescents in trouble." got permission. the juvenile justice system. New build- The problem was vivid: Ocala's On a Sunday morning in 1995, a ings have been added to handle the Marion County had an infant mortal- group drove to the detention center to children flowing through, doubling its ity rate of 13.1 percent per 1,000 live teach Sunday school, a little anxious, capacity, and Church Without Walls births—twice the state rate. The area not knowing what to expect. The volunteers visit them all. also ranked higher than the state aver- youth could choose to go to Sunday In addition to Sunday school, Fri- age in teen deaths and teen births. school or the recreation room. day night programs focus on what the The area's juvenile violent crime arrest "What happened was that nearly organizers call "life skills"—things like

18 SUMMER 2000 RHODES how to manage conflict, how to make care of their own. So they build up on. It is an image Ervin Bullock is do- good decisions in stressful situations, their youth groups and ignore the ing her best to dispel. how to understand yourself and your larger world. It's a kind of denial "When we take kids in, we want it values. Monday night programs that's killing us. But the point is to to be permanent," she says. "We don't emphasize reading and other academic see all children as God's children." like seeing them move around. Our areas. There is a 12-step program for The toughest part in all of this is sense is, if you can put them back those with addictions to alcohol or not dealing with unpredictable adoles- with the parents, fine. But if you drugs. An arts and crafts night covers cents or recruiting new volunteers, don't want them, we want them." everything from baking bread to though those problems are real The decision to become intimately building and entering a float in the enough. The toughest part is dealing involved with at-risk children was a annual Ocala Christmas parade. with the state and local bureaucracies. natural one, Ervin says. The group came to realize the im- These agencies—children and family She and Jim met at Rhodes in the portance of follow-up contact for services groups, the school systems, early 1960s; she was in the class of these at-risk children and established a the juvenile justice system—are com- '66, but when he graduated in 1964, mentoring program where an adult peting with each other for money and joined the Peace Corps and was makes a long-term commitment to responsibility. assigned to Peru, she transferred to a being a faithful friend to a youth com- "Our helping agencies for youth college in Glasgow, Scotland. She fin- ing out of detention. are not talking to each other as much ished her degree at Virginia Currently 40 youths are being as they should," Bullock says. Commonwealth University, and they mentored. "Once you've entered the "They're overworked, but it's also a married after he had returned and was life a child, you don't want to back territorial thing." in seminary. Early in their marriage, out," Bullock says. Even so, Church Without Walls they had foster children, but as their It is important to remember, he says, has grown and has gained a national own children were born, they put that these are adolescents who have had reputation. Civic and religious leaders their time and attention on them. hard lives. They are far from the Boy from other communities regularly call Today, Christopher, 29, is a lawyer Scout or Girl Scout stereotypes. Bullock for information and visit who has completed seminary and The ages range from very young Ocala to see it at work. serves a church in Mississippi; up to 17. They are there for a variety The program, too, was incorporat- Elizabeth, 26, is working on a master's of reasons: for mainstream offenses ed by the Florida Department of Juve- in literature at the University of such as stealing cars, mugging people, nile Justice into its Faith Community Chicago; and John, 24, is serving in breaking into someone's home; for Network as one of a number of faith- the Marines. pranks that get out of control, such as based paths to help at-risk children. Four years ago they took in a set of starting a fire on someone's porch; for This notion of churches leaving their young adolescent twins, Darrell and family problems such as children who buildings and going out into commu- Dwayne, who were in the sixth and cannot be controlled by their parents. nities in faith-oriented volunteer seventh grades. Some of the youths have committed efforts is a growing nationwide trend. The twins had come from a family no crime but have been removed Gary sees the growth as a natural filled with problems, and quickly from their homes because of their thing based on her Ocala experiences. found a place in the Bullocks' home parents' behavior. "Ocala is a closed society, a and hearts. The Bullocks became the Guards stay in the rooms when the separated and segregated society," she boys' legal guardians; the volunteers are there. says. "If it did not have so many barri- commitment was firm. Inside the juvenile system and out- ers, it would be a utopia. That is Still, the presence of these two side, Church Without Walls began to where we work, to remove the barri- boys awakened the Bullocks to a harsh make a name for itself. Local newspa- ers. The children are the issue. We new world. per and television stations did stories, seek help from the faith community. "Suddenly, our eyes were opened featuring Bullock as a primary We only ask, How can you serve and to kids in our own neighborhood who spokesman. His emphasis in these in- when are you available? We all feel were in serious trouble," Jim Bullock terviews was always the same: A crisis that we are doing a good thing." says. There were runaways and disci- involving the treatment of children is pline problems; there were children upon us; look beyond your own walls who abused alcohol (one boy drank and be of service. A second family vodka at the school bus stop at seven It has not been easy. In many people's minds, foster in the morning) and who abused "Many churches are denying that parents are more like hotel keepers drugs, especially marijuana. there's a real crisis," Bullock says. than anything else: a stream of "Our kids talked about other kids "The tendency of churches is to take children arrive, stay awhile, and move going to detention the way when I

RHODES SUMMER 2000 19 was a kid we talked about going to It has not been a smooth sailing, She works from her home for the Boy Scouts," Bullock says. pie-in-the-sky experience for either set Presbyterian Church's peace-making As the Bullocks' reputation grew, of boys, Bullock says. There were spe- program which addresses larger social workers called them almost cial classes and in-school detentions, human rights issues. weekly about taking tem- and lots of They both are passionate about the porary care of a child. meetings with way society treats children, especially The shelter was filled; the teachers. children in trouble, the at-risk children. foster care system was Now, the "Something has gone terribly packed. "Can you help?" older boys, Dar- wrong," Bullock says. "Go see your they would ask. rell and local detention center. Visit a "Ervin and I started talk- Dwayne, will juvenile court. Look at children ing about how many we graduate from being brought in shackles. Society could take," Bullock says. high school condemns these people to everlasting Two years ago, another next year and hopelessness. And that attitude is not call came: The social work- very Christian. er had 11-year-old twins, "I want people to un- both boys, who needed a derstand how much we place. They did not want to need new ideas. We be separated. Could the can't just continue with Bullocks help? Jim and Ervin Haas Bullock survival of the fittest. We "You're not supposed to during college days. have a responsibility be- do this," Bullock says with yond our own children." a smile, "but we asked if we could are working Yet the current political take them out to eat first. Sort of see part-time as bus attitude is to get tough how they fit with us." boys in one of with juveniles who commit The caseworker reluctantly agreed. Ocala's fancier crimes. Juvenile facilities in They went to a restaurant and ate restaurants. the Ocala area, following and talked. The boys had had a They call the the national trend, have rough life: abuse, abduction, Bullocks Jim doubled in size in recent alcciholism, violence; there had been and Ervin. years. seven different placements since they The younger boys, Robert and "But get people to come to their were two years old. Jesse, at 14, are settling down. They senses, get out of the stupid polemics Their names were Robert and are in mostly main-stream classes; of either coddling juveniles or sending Jesse, and something seemed to click their grades are going up. They call them to jail forever, and you can among the four of them that day in the Bullocks Mom and Dad. make a difference in their lives," Bul- the restaurant. In the middle of the lock says. meal, they looked at the Bullocks and The work is complicated, enervat- they said, in their own ways, will you A drive to the beach ing, and unending—except on be our mom and dad? Jim Bullock has a sign on the back Fridays. That is when Jim and Ervin Jim Bullock is a self-possessed man, of his office door. He can see it only Bullock get in their car and drive 60 but this time tears dribbled down his when he is in the office and the door is miles east on State Road 40 to cheeks; he looked at Ervin whose eyes closed. It is from the first miracle of Ormond Beach, just north of were teary too. "Yes," they said. the loaves, Mark 6:37: "And Jesus said, Daytona Beach. Friday is the The two sets of twins—Dwayne `You give them something to eat.'" Bullocks' day off, and they routinely and Darrell, Robert and Jesse—seemed The words spur the activism that spend it together. They walk in the to mesh well. One day, though, the has guided his ministry for the past sand, admire the ocean, eat at a nice Bullocks came home to find a tension 30 years. seafood place. in the air: Had there been a fight "Faith leads you to social respon- The day gives them a change, a among the boys? Was there trouble of sibility," he says. "Faith is a journey. respite, and they return to their some kind? But none of that: Darrell There are always new turns and new home renewed. M had called Robert "brother," and twists that you must be open to." Robert had started to cry. Bullock is 57 now and calls himself Robert Blade '66 teaches journalism Last year, they formally adopted a "neatnik." The desk in his office is and English at Florida Community Robert and Jesse, and the boys took clear and precisely organized. Ervin College in Jacksonville. He is a firmer their new last names: Bullock. Bullock, 55, has a more casual style. writer for the Florida Times Union.

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Jackson, MS, Clarion-Ledger. Reprint- "This was before (Foote) had son and New Orleans], he became ed by permission. become really famous," says Lampton, editor and co-owner of the weekly 34. "He had always struggled to pay Magnolia Gazette. his bills. He knew I had a few doctors He's mixed pens and needles ever hen he was eight in my family. So he told me, 'Hang since, and the unique career combi- years old, Luke out your shingle first, then worry nation seems to be working. Circula- Lampton would print about writing.'" tion of the paper has increased from a family newspaper It was the perfect prescription. 200 to more than 1,000 since he withW a No. 2 pencil, then sell the only Lampton, a 1984 graduate of took over. "And if people see my ve- copy to his mother for 25 cents. Jackson Academy, went on to earn hicle parked outside the newspaper He wanted to be a journalist when his degree at the University of Mis- office at night, they don't hesitate he grew up. And at Rhodes College in sissippi Medical Center (UMC) in stopping and asking me to look at Memphis, he made the mistake of Jackson in 1993. And in 1997, one their rash," he says. sharing that dream with his history year after joining a family care clinic In Lampton's eyes, literature and

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stethoscopes always had a lot write Lampton letters about in common. how his life after retirement "A lot of my passions intel- was going. "Really, they were lectually were historic and lit- more like short stories," erary, which would've seemed Lampton says. "They were to point me away from medi- great. So I called him and cine," he says. "But my dad asked if I could publish was a professor at UMC, and he them. And then I asked him always had a great passion for to please keep the letters poetry and history. And a lot coming." of other physicians I knew had Slowly, the newspaper de- those interests as well. veloped a curious mixture of "What I came to see is that hard local news, down-home a huge component of being a stories and essays that could physician involves things that only be classified as literary. are non-mathematical and non- "Nobody else could get scientific. The listening, the pa- away with putting stuff like tient empathy, all have a lot of that in a small-town literary components to them. newspaper," Wood says. "Honestly, I hated med- "But everybody likes Luke ical school when we were so much. He's always gonna doing stuff like have the usual weekly biochemistry. But when it stuff—'we went to the Bap- came time for taking tist church last Sunday and patients' histories, listening ate so-and-so's casserole.' to patients, getting to know But he insists on having the them...that's when I got ex- other stuff in there." cited. It's the same now. I When Luke Lampton isn't treating patients in Magnolia. he's Says Lampton: "I want busy producing the weekly Magnolia Gazette feel like I've learned so good county coverage," which much from being around offers information on humanity's ills." everything from phone just become parents for the first time. etiquette to why patients have to sit And Luke's dad Bob was trying to re- for so long in the waiting room. 'Ibugh time to start cover from a heart attack. A typical issue might include: "It wasn't the best of times to be • A column titled "Ask Dr. Knows," he first life Lampton saved in starting a newspaper," Lampton says. which offers information on every- Magnolia might have been He would practice medicine in the thing from phone etiquette to why T that of the Gazette's, which day, write news stories at night. Slow- patients have to sit for so long in was owned at the time by Louisiana ly, reader interest grew. He started get- the waiting room. State Newspapers. ting letters to the editor, and if one • News from that week's board of al- "There was nothing in it," he says. was particularly well written he would dermen's meeting, plus coverage of "Heck, I didn't even subscribe to it. phone the author and ask if he or she other city and county events. But I approached them about buying was interested in becoming a • A column titled "Hook, Line and it, told them that it probably wasn't contributing writer. Sinker" by local resident W.N. going to survive unless changes were Soon, he had more writers than he Ferguson, who goes fishing every made. And they knew it." could accommodate each week. week and writes about it. A deal was struck almost immedi- "I didn't really tell them what to • Pike County's marriages and ately. Lampton bought it with the write," he says. "I would let them divorces. help of his brother Mark, an attorney. write about whatever interested them. • A food column by Anne Stallworth Suddenly, he had a newspaper with And I'd let them write as much as McKeown, of the Everyday no staff and few subscribers, and he they wanted." Gourmet in Jackson. had little time away from his medical And they all wrote for free. • In-depth obituaries. practice to write enough stories to fill One of Lampton's first hires was • Local news bits from the surround- the 12 to 16 pages each week. Plus, he R.C. (Doc) Wood '48, a former Eng- ing communities of Silver Creek, and his wife Louise (Lyell '88) had lish professor at Rhodes who used to Fernwood, Chatawa, Line Creek

22 SUMMER 2000 RHODES and Terry's Creek. Example from beautifully," Lampton says. "We week at his medical practice, which he Patsy Benefield's Line Creek News always let our writers pick their own shares with his brother Brett. He says column recently: "Little Miss Clara title, and Patrick wanted to be known his role as one of three local Simpson celebrated her second as 'favorite correspondent.' So that's physicians in town has to take prece- birthday last Saturday. She was what he was known as, Favorite Cor- dence over his role as editor. sporting some of her birthday gifts respondent." Coyne died last August, "If somebody has a heart attack at church on Sunday. She is a cute and Lampton devoted much of that on a Tuesday night when we're sup- little girl that is always happy." week's paper to his memory. posed to be putting the finishing • A column by Guy Geller, who was touches on Thursday's paper, then born in Hungary and survived the the stuff at the paper just has to ravages of World War II. Gaining, losing patients wait," Lampton says. "If the paper • Wood's essays, sonnets, poems and comes out late, I think people under- short stories that occupy nearly the ampton says his biggest stand. It has to be that way." entire back page. break was finding Kim Har- He says he's lost some patients to But there are no hard rules on L ris Guillory, a former other doctors over some things he's what has to be where in the paper. In photographer at the Hattiesburg written. "But I've also gained patients the March 29 issue, there is a huge American who had grown up in the by some of the things I've written, so four-column picture on the front page Magnolia area and shares Lampton's it works both ways," he says. of Mark Twain, standing in a white vision of what a weekly newspaper His close friends worry that Lamp- suit and smoking a cigar. The caption could—and should—mean to a ton is stretching himself too thin. reads in part: "We run him here on small town. He hired her last year as "I've noticed he's gained weight the front page for no particular managing editor. lately, and I know it's because he works reason, except we love the photograph "We both knew what happened so hard he never has time to get out and thought you would, too. Remem- when the Summit paper closed during and do much of anything else," Wood ber, this is the Magnolia Gazette. Ex- the 1980s," Lampton says. "In so says. "He's really under the gun." Louise Lampton, whom Luke met while in kindergarten at St. Andrew's in Jackson, says he "never has a break." And being a CPA, she also looks at the newspaper's bottom line with doubting eyes. "So far, there's way too much red," she says with a small chuckle. Luke Lampton admits the paper isn't exactly raking in the money— yet. "It takes time for advertisers and the business community to sort of catch up to the growth of a paper," he says. "But I think we're close, I really do." But Wood, who has known him for nearly two decades, says bottom line fig- ures aren't what Lampton is all about. "Luke is driven by ambitions, but not by ambitions for status or noto- Dr. Luke Lampton of Magnolia says Tuesday nights are spent with Magnolia Gazelle managing riety," Wood says. "His ambitions editor Kim Harris putting out his newspaper are within. Editing that newspaper is one of them. He wants to pect the unexpected." many ways, the heart and soul of the connect, and going to a small town One of Lampton's favorite town was taken away, and we didn't like Magnolia, he has connected correspondents was Patrick Coyne, a want that to happen in Magnolia. with the people. former New York City cab driver who "Kim's very passionate about this, "Luke is working out of Magnolia, moved to Magnolia to be near his sis- and I don't think we could get the pa- but he's working toward much wider ter as he battled terminal cancer. per out every week if it wasn't for her." horizons than most any of us ever "He was a lovely man who wrote Lampton spends about 60 hours a think about." M

RHODES SUMMER 2000 23 INTRINT There Are No Poetry to My Ear teacher and allows students to pursue the subject matter on their own, at Letters Like Yours An Interactive Guide to the their own speed. Art and Craft of Poetry The Correspondence of King David Isabelle de Charriere and Constant d'Hermenches By Jocelyn Agnew Camp '61 and A Biography Howard Nimchinsky, professors emeriti Translated by Janet Whatley, Uni- of English, Kingsborough Community By Steven L. McKenzie, Rhodes versity of Vermont Professor of French, College of the City University of New Associate Professor of Religious Studies. and Malcolm Whatley '56, University York. McGraw-Hill Companies. 232 pp. New York: Oxford University of Vermont Physicist. 549 pp. Lincoln: An interactive CD-ROM for Press. $25. University of Nebraska Press. $29.95. beginners and advanced students, Poetry to My Ear (designed for Win- dows 95, 98, NT) covers rhyme, rhythm, poetic line and conventional forms. Each topic is defined and illus- trated with detailed examples drawn from some 100 poems ranging from early English ballads to contemporary English and American works, most of which are read aloud by the authors themselves or distinguished actors. The CD is intended to be "non- threatening" and fun. For instance, students can write their own poems,

'SABI I II DI ( LIARRIP.R1 rhyme schemes and words, even record /.;"11: Arc No I ellirs like,Your , poems and play them back. Print/save (,,,„,,,,,p,,viem,of wk.+ {1,1 functions enable one to preserve and sod Cintoont dilenornthrt etd wiOurn .ntroclumln and ow. print one's own creations. Velhathe end 7,1oknIm Whmk, • The biblical King The daughter of a Dutch noble fam- David—was he indeed the ily, Isabelle de Charriere (1740-1805) humble shepherd who was a novelist who wrote of provincial became king of Israel? domestic life. At the age of 20 she began Was he a real person, and a clandestine correspondence with with if so, what kind of person a middle-aged Swiss colonel stationed in was he? Holland. David-Louis, Baron de Con- Through a close and stant d'Hermenches, was a friend of critical reading of biblical Voltaire, an accomplished musician, texts, ancient history and amateur writer and ladies' man. recent archeological discov- Their correspondence was one of eries, Steven McKenzie the finest in a great age of letter writ- concludes that David was a ing. It lasted 15 years, and nearly all real person, but not the of it is extant. rustic we perceive. He The two rarely saw each other, yet came from a wealthy, shared a great friendship. They wrote upper-class background, on a wide range of subjects: her opin- The Poetry Studio contains a became a devious politician, ruthless ions of English high society, the new rhyming dictionary, from conven- war chief, usurper, adulterer and mur- smallpox inoculation, visits by royalty. tional fixed forms to free verse. An derer—a Middle Eastern despot. It includes firsthand accounts of the Anthology includes poems from the David's story, writes McKenzie, French conquest of Corsica and CD in their entirety. "reads like a modern soap opera, with Voltaire's social activism. Poetry to My Ear fills two needs, plenty of sex, violence and struggles say the authors: it frees the classroom for power." ?A

24 SUMMER 2000 By Bill Sorrell ArrHLEmcis

Women Golfers Rank High in NCAA Tournament

Emily Burch has a ritual that cleanses her mind and the Two of the Lynx top golfers, Jon Berth, a senior who tool of her trade. placed second, and Charlie Quinn, a junior, were named If Burch birdies or pars a hole and her Titleist Tour to the all-tournament team. Prestige golf ball is dirty, she won't wash it. If she fires a At the SCAC tournament in Memphis, Rhodes finished bogey or higher, she washes off the golf ball immediately. seventh (663), 43 strokes off winner Oglethrope. "I think it's the ball's fault. It's a fresh start," she said. TENNIS Burch, the Southern Collegiate Conference Golfer of The women's tennis team also participated in the NCAA the Year, played with many dirty golf balls this spring. She tournament. With a 7-2 victory over Meredith (NC) College helped pace the Lady Lynx golf team to the SCAC title and in the first round of the South Central Regional tournament a third-place finish in the NCAA Division 3 national cham- in Lexington, VA, the Lady Lynx got their first team win in pionship. NCAA competition. Sarah Hatgas, Rhodes tennis coach, said What's more, women's golf coach Gordon Ellingsworth it was the third time in the history of the program that her was named SCAC Coach of the Year. team had qualified for the NCAA tournament. It was Rhodes' first NCAA tournament appearance in The women's top three players, Jamie Graham, 'Casey women's golf. Rhodes athletic director Mike Clary '77 Sweeney and Kathryn Baker, ranked one, two and three called it the best showing by a Rhodes team in the NCAA respectively, played Washington and Lee's top three play- tournament in any sport in modern history. ers to three sets each before the Lady Lynx lost 9-0 in the Burch, Whitney Bryant, Lauren Kwedar, Agnes second round of the NCAA South Regional. Washington Surowka and Kathryn Stone gave Rhodes a total score of and Lee finished third in the national tournament. 1356, 71 strokes off national champion Methodist College Five of the top six players on the men's tennis team of Fayetteville, NC. were freshmen. "I was surprised at how many young guys At the oldest collegiate golf tournament in the nation, came in and played well. We were shaky but we grew in the 53rd annual Tennessee Intercollegiate Conference tour- confidence," said Andy Campbell, who was No. 1 singles. nament in Cookeville, Rhodes finished first. Golf coach Said Hatgas, in her ninth season as men's coach, "It was Scott Srnka '87 said that Rhodes was the only Division 3 the hardest-working team I've ever had here. They had team in the tournament. great camaraderie and were very coachable."

Long jumper Jason Palma '03 at the spring conference meet

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TRACK Lynx baseball team that finished 9-20. Trey Hansen was Perhaps the embodiment of the Rhodes spirit unfolded the winning pitcher in the Lynx 10-5 victory over South- in men's track. Matt Wilkinson, a senior, who last year western in Georgetown, TX, in March. "It hadn't been won the SCAC title with a record-setting javelin throw done in a long time," said Rhodes outfielder Frank Hardie (196 feet) and was an All-American with a seventh-place of the Lynx victory. Rhodes' last victory over Southwestern finish at the NCAA national meet, coached one of his was in 1992, according to coach Bo Reynolds. teammates to the conference title this year. The Lynx will try to replace all-conference outfielder Kadir Ipek's throw of 192-7 was tops at the SCAC meet. Pat Finley, who graduated this spring. Reynolds said that Wilkinson threw 184-5 1/2 for third place. the Detroit Tigers had expressed interest in Finley. "Matt worked with Kadir to bring him up to his level," SOFTBALL said Rhodes distance runner Emily Clark. "Matt is what For the first time ever, the Rhodes softball team Division 3 athletics is all about." defeated Trinity. It was Trinity's only SCAC Western Divi- Lady Lynx winners were Jessie Hunt, who won the javelin sion loss in the regular season. The Lady Tigers went on to throw, 100-meter hurdles and triple jump. Lydia Gibson also defeat DePauw for the SCAC title. put in a strong performance, winning the 5000 meter run. "That was the biggest thrill," said Rhodes pitcher Amy "We didn't have the manpower to win conference," said Whitten of Rhodes' 8-5 win over Trinity in April. "They Wilkinson of Rhodes' third-place SCAC finish. William are the big cheese." Henry, a sprinter, said, "We expected better from our- Rhodes also defeated DePauw en route to a 14-18 selves." Both the men's and women's teams were plagued by record. The Lady Lynx were third in the conference with a injuries this season, said track coach Robert Shankman '80. 5-5 record. Overall, Rhodes lost five games by one run. BASEBALL "I scheduled a lot harder games to make us better in the Beating Southwestern, the SCAC champion that long run," said softball coach Tonya Shropshire, who advanced to the NCAA tournament, was a highlight of the started the program in 1997. Famed Rockne Name Joins Lynx Roster Battling for the starting quarterback position this fall pionship win over Henderson County his senior year, call- will be Gary Rockne, great-grandson of legendary Notre ing the game his biggest sports thrill. Dame football coach Knute Rockne. Rhodes football coach He earned academic all-state honors (3.56 grade point Joe White said that average), was honorable mention all-state, team captain he learned of Gary and MVP, all-Western Kentucky and played in Kentucky's through dean of East-West All-Star game his senior year. He led Worcester admissions Dave to a 7-1 record. Wottle. Gary, who Rockne said that he has learned more about his famous graduated from great-grandfather through PBS documentaries. Knute Marshall County Rockne died in 1931. High School in Ben- Gary's father, John Rockne of Clearwater, FL, a former ton, KY, in 1999, football coach at Murray State University, said his son attended Worcester doesn't think much about his famous name. "He sloughs it Academy, a prep off. He is pumped about going to Rhodes." school in Worcester, White calls it a "non-factor" about a player named MA, during the Rockne playing for him. 1999-2000 school "It makes him a Notre Dame fan. It makes me a Notre year. Rockne's visit Dame fan," said White, who named his oldest son Joseph to Rhodes last Ara for former Notre Dame coach Ara Parseghian. Rockne Christmas impressed caught White's eye because of his quick release passing the him. Gary Rockne football. "He has good arm strength," said White, who "I really liked the must find a replacement for quarterback Pat Williams, who campus. I enjoyed talking with Coach White," said directed the Lynx to a 6-3 record in 1999. Rockne, adding that he wanted to be closer to home. Rockne said that his collegiate goals were to "get a At Marshall County, Rockne (6-3, 205) led his team to degree, try to be the best person I can be on and off the an 11-2 record his senior year and into the Class 4-A field and have a good time when I'm in college." regional finals. He passed for two touchdowns and ran for four touchdowns in a 42-41 triple overtime district cham-

26 SUMMER 2000 RHODES Clary Named Athletic Director of the Year

Athletic said that the honor "was not the result of anything this director Mike year." Clary, a 1977 graduate of Rhodes who was head Clary has football coach from 1984-96, said, "This award is a direct received a high reflection of the quality of Rhodes, the athletic staff and honor with a student athletes." name as long as During Clary's 10-year tenure as athletic director, the the best passer's number of intercollegiate sports has risen to 21 (10 men throwing arm: sports, 11 for women). 1999-2000 "The biggest improvement and advancement of the ath- Division 3 letic program in my 21 years at Rhodes has been the Bryan Southeast Campus Life Center. The opportunities available to the Region Rhodes community as a result of our ($20 million) facility National have been immense." Association of Rhodes basketball coach Herb Hilgeman, who has Collegiate worked with Clary for 21 years, said the award is well- Directors of deserved. "He'll do everything from putting up a tent to Athletics/Con- administrating the whole department. He is very profes- tinental Airlines sional. He's a quality person. I feel fortunate to call him Athletic Direc- my good friend." tor of the Year. Clary, who was a marshal at the United States Open at Nominated Pebble Beach, CA, was unable to attend the NACDA for the award by Rhodes President William Troutt, Clary awards ceremony in Orlando in June. Athletes Make All-SCAC

Several students were named to the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference All-Conference. They are: Women's golf: Emily Burch, Whitney Bryant and Agnes Surowka. Softball: Emily Cassidy, Becky Harper, Sarah Cobb, Jennifer Neil, Amy Whitten. Honorable mention: Andi Lynch and Jane Wells. Baseball: Pat Finley. Honorable Mention: Clint Randolph. Track and Field: Kosta Dalageorgas, Jeremy Palma, Kadir Ipek, Matt Wilkinson, John Knight, William Henry, Lydia Gibson, Jessie Hunt, Amy Paine. M

Bill Sorrell is a freelance writer and pastor in Memphis who often covers Lynx athletics.

Rhodes Pitcher Signed by Padres Lynx pitcher Will Askew (right), a junior international studies major from Memphis, has signed a free-agent contract to play for the San Diego Padres. A lefthander who posted a 4-2 record for Rhodes last season. Askew impressed Padre scouts at a tryout camp in Jackson. MS. The native Memphian has joined the Padres' Class A affiliate in Peoria. AZ, for the summer. He plans to return to Rhodes for the fall 2000 and 2001 semesters to complete his degree.

RHODES SUMMER 2000 27 ALUMNI NEWS Lisa Meeder Turnbull Named Alumni Director Lisa Meeder Turn- ty. She earned a tions, and the other in Tennessee Sen. bull, former director of B.A. summa cum Bill Frist's Memphis office. graduate and external laude in foreign The new team's immediate plans relations at Yale language and for the alumni program at Rhodes University Divinity international focus on young alumni and enhancing School, has been studies at use of the Web. named director of Gannon Univer- "It is significant that 25% of alumni at Rhodes. She sity in Erie, PA. Rhodes alumni are from the classes replaces Brian Mott Her husband of the '90s," says Meeder Turnbull. '87, who recently Robert is a prod- "Mandy and I will be working resigned. Succeeding uct manager for closely with the Alumni Council to Ty Hallmark '99 as polymers at create programming that responds assistant director is Buckman Labo- to the needs and interests of multi- Amanda Corkern '00 of ratories in ple generations who share a Germantown, TN. onmeirTurnbu common love for Meeder Turnbull was Rhodes. I am particularly responsible for alumni relations, print Memphis. excited about how the and electronic publications and media Amanda Web can be used to relations at YDS, which has an Corkern, an strengthen the alumni approximate enrollment of 300 English major community." students. Prior to serving in that posi- from German- "While there are two tion, she was assistant director of town, TN, new faces in Alumni development in the Yale Institute for served as presi- Lodge, Marti Becker will Biospheric Studies and was a found- dent of Kappa remain a familiar face to ing staff member of the Center for Delta and vol- graduates returning to Chemical Education at Miami unteered with campus," Meeder Turnbull University, Ohio. inner-city says, referring to the office's A native Pennsylvanian, Meeder children longtime administrative Turnbull holds a master of technical through the assistant. "Marti's history and scientific communication from Final Net with the program will be Miami University and a graduate-level organization while a student at Rhodes. invaluable as we move forward." certificate in nonprofit management In addition, she served two internships, from Case Western Reserve Universi- one at FDX Corporation in public rela- Make Your Plans for Homecoming, October 20-21 Plan now to attend Homecoming as opportunities for alumni and their prepare to cheer on the Lynx as they 2000, Oct. 20 and 21, to carry on high school-aged children to meet face the Colorado College Tigers. The cherished traditions and help establish with an admissions representative to Class of '95 will continue another new ones! learn about the admissions process, the reunion tradition by sponsoring a Friday's schedule offers such back- latest on financial aid and scholarships "victory party" during the game. to-campus favorites as the Athletic Hall and Rhodes' admission requirements. Individual reunion parties for classes of Fame Luncheon, the Academic Fes- Saturday begins bright and early with years ending in '5 and '0 will take tival with current and retired faculty with the Homerunning 5K race. Class place Saturday evening at various loca- members and chamber music in the and alumni awards will be presented tions, while young alumni ('96-'00) Cloister. Friday evening will feature a at the annual Alumni Convocation will gather at a downtown hot spot. reception and dance in the Bryan later in the morning, along with the While on campus, also be sure to Campus Life Center, with musical unveiling of this year's Faculty visit the Clough-Hanson Gallery, entertainment by The Bouffants. Portrait. The convocation will be fol- shop in the college bookstore and Plans for Friday also include a Cre- lowed by a picnic on the lawn in the browse Burrow Library's ever-chang- ative Estate Planning Seminar, as well Rollow Avenue of Oaks, where we'll ing exhibits.

28 SUMMER 2000 RHODES Watch for your Homecoming 2000 busy one, so make travel plans early. Lisa Meeder Turnbull brochure to arrive in late August or If you have further questions as Director of Alumni visit the Rhodes Alumni Web site at Homecoming weekend approaches, Rhodes College www.alumni.rhodes.edu . Remember please call the Alumni Office at 1-800- (901) 843-3847 that Homecoming weekend is always a 264-LYNX or 843-3845. [email protected] Family Portrait 2000

Alumni and their graduating seniors gathered for a family portrait after baccalaureate. They are:

1. Jenny McDougal '00 14. Jimmy Walker '69 2. Nancy Eaton Ross '72 15. Bruce Lindsey '70 3. Harry Ogden '71 16. Sarah Lindsey '00 4. Emily Ogden '00 17. Leah Lloyd '00 5. Lindsey Patrick '00 18. Larry Lloyd '74 6. Jennifer Stroud '99 19. Mike Hettinger '68 7. Allen Boone '71 20. Chris Hettinger '00 8. Brian Boone '00 21. John Pera '49 9. Becky Pixler Boone '73 22. Erin Conley '00 10. Sonny Golden '72 23. John Haney '69 11. Nancy Jaco Golden '71 24. Ruth Ann Sadler Haney '70 12. Sarah Golden '00 25. Lou Haney '00 13. Jenny Kjerfve '00

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By Elizabeth Keith '01 Jordan Badgett '03 LES THOMPSON, Bob Arnold '02 PRESIDENT NEXT REUNION: Bill Baldwin '03 49 NEXT REUNION: 53 FALL 2003 FALL 2004 Rhodes International BOB AND ANNE RILEY Alumni Association JANE MCATEE BOURNE, MARILYN President PATTERSON, JIM 54 MITCHELL WRAY Liz Smith Parkhurst '80 50 WILLIAMSON, CO-PRESIDENTS Little Rock CO-PRESIDENTS NEXT REUNION: FALL 2004 NEXT REUNION: Tom Cunningham retired July 1 TOOF BROWN, OCT. 20-21, 2000 from his position as president and PRESIDENT Paul Molded, president of EQUIX chief executive officer of Westminster- 47 NEXT REUNION: Biomechanics Corp. in Lexington, Canterbury Richmond retirement OCT. 25-26, 2002 KY, has received a National Science community. B.J. Jones, a retired geologist for Foundation SBIR Phase I Grant for Peggy Fitch Witherspoon Chevron Oil, lives in Encinitas, CA, development of a video tracking pro- recently received the Union Theologi- but spends much of his time traveling gram that will automatically track spe- cal Seminary and Presbyterian School with his wife Laverne: "35 countries cific points on moving animals, of Christian Education Distinguished and counting," he writes. "We like to specifically racehorses and humans. Alumni/ae Award for her outstanding be aware of what is going on outside service to the Presbyterian Church. the U.S.A." FRANCES CROUCH She currently serves as a part-time as- PERKINS, PRESIDENT sistant to the Union-PSCE president. FREEMAN MARR, 51 NEXT REUNION: She is also an elder and clerk of PRESIDENT OCT. 27-28, 2001 session at Ginter Park Presbyterian 48 NEXT REUNION: Church in Richmond, VA, as well as FALL 2003 the first woman trustee at the church. 52 NEXT REUNION: OCT. 25-26, 2002 REG GERMANY, PRESIDENT 55 NEXT REUNION: OCT. 20-21, 2000 Bye Named FSU Research VP Clyde Carlisle, coach for the New Boston, TX, Blue Tigers Basketball Ray Bye '66 has been named vice team, earned his 1,000th career win president for research at Florida State last winter. His wins include two University in Tallahassee. Bye, who has Class 3A State Championships for served as interim vice president in that Clarksville, AR. "I'm proud of the position since 1998, was selected from a record," he told the Texarkana, AR, field of four finalists in a national search. Gazette, "and I'm proud my players." He will work to increase money coming into the university for research activ- JIM TURNER, ities and find ways the institution can PRESIDENT 56 NEXT REUNION: profit from research. OCT. 27-28, 2001 Before Bye joined FSU as an associ-

ate vice president of research in 1994, Ray Bye JIM AND MARGARET he was with the National Science Foun- ANN FAGAN EIKNER, dation in Washington, DC, for 23 years, 57 CO-PRESIDENTS serving mainly as director of the Office NEXT REUNION: of Legislative and Public Affairs. During his tenure the NSF's budget more OCT. 25-26, 2002 than tripled to $3.5 billion annually. Bye received the NSF Distinguished Service Award and the President's Meritorious Executive Award. MEG CALDWELL BUFORD, He serves on the boards of several civic organizations, is a member of 58 PRESIDENT the Oak Ridge Associated Universities Council and is the FSU representative NEXT REUNION: FALL 2003 to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory management board.

30 SUMMER 2000 RHODES Hughes Medical Institute, University Happy Birthday, Harry! of Texas Southwest Medical Center, Dallas. Wingo and his wife, Reba K. It's not every day a federal government office and a major university Wright '63, celebrated their 14th jointly hold a conference to honor one's birthday. That's exactly what hap- wedding anniversary in March. pened in June when the Office of Naval Research and University of Texas, Austin teamed up with a raft of international speakers to celebrate Harry 6 JANE BISHOP BRYSON, Swinney's 60th birthday. RON GIBSON, BOB Swinney '61, professor of physics and director of the Center for Nonlin- MORRIS, ear Dynamics at the University of Texas, was the center of a three-day Lin- CO-PRESIDENTS ear Dynamics and Patterns Conference that ended with a swimming party NEXT REUNION: FALL 2003 Retired mathematics teacher Steve and barbecue in Austin's Zilker Park. Coordinators and speakers came from Cole is the lead singer and pianist for all over the U.S., U.K., France and Israel. an Atlanta jazz group called Voice of the Southland Band. He and his wife Beverly have been married 31 years. WALKER AND DIANE MARGARET ROWE Bill Hulett's daughter, Sara, grad- MCMILLAN WELLFORD, 64 FANCHER, ANN uated from nursing school in 1999. 59 CO-PRESIDENTS CLARK QUINLEN HARRIS, His son, Hollis, is a presidential schol- NEXT REUNION: CO-PRESIDENTS ar majoring in accounting at FALL 2004 NEXT REUNION: FALL 2004 Mississippi State University. N.J. Weathersby has been named KIM BAXTER HENLEY, Lou ELLYN HINDMAN chief financial officer of Dunavant En- 6o PRESIDENT 65 GRIFFIN, PRESIDENT terprises in Memphis. NEXT REUNION: NEXT REUNION: Harmon Wray was recently OCT. 20-21, 2000 OCT. 20-21, 2000 appointed executive director of Corrine Rido1phi Adams was com- Restorative Justice Ministries for the missioned a lay pastor this spring at GINNY TAYLOR DRASH, United Methodist Church in Nashville. Idlewild Presbyterian Church in 66 PRESIDENT Memphis. NEXT REUNION: Virginia Roberson Mitchell was OCT. 27-28, 2001 NEXT REUNION: appointed president of McDowell 69 FALL 2004 Technical Community College in KRIS PRUITT, Lynda Alexander is the new direc- Nebo, NC, earlier this year. 67 PRESIDENT tor of music at the First Presbyterian NEXT REUNION: Church of Palo Alto, CA. She is also SALLY CROSS OCT. 25-26, 2002 the CEO of the Alexander School of COLEMAN, Bill Wingo has accepted a position in Music, which features Kindermusik, SAM DRASH, specialty peptide synthesis at Howard Musikgarten, and other classes for CO-PRESIDENTS NEXT REUNION: OCT. 27-28, 2001 Prof. John Hemphill Dies Dottie McCaleb Hutchinson, who retired from teaching in May 1999, John M. Hempill II, formerly of the Colonial received the Educator of the Year Williamsburg Foundation and professor of Award for Hardin County, TN, this history at Rhodes from 1958-67, died April 3, January. 2000 at his home in Richmond. He was 75. A historian of Colonial Virginia, he FRANK JACKSON, published Virginia and the English Commercial 62 PRESIDENT System in 1985 and Bookbinding in Colonial NEXT REUNION: Virginia with C. Clement Samford in 1966. He OCT. 25-26, 2002 also taught at New York University from 1968- Dick Diamond has been named an 70 and was a visiting professor at the College investment broker for FNB Brokerage of William and Mary in 1978-79. Services in Port St. Lucie, FL. He leaves his wife, Gail S. Terry, a

LYDE ELLA CONNER daughter, a son, two grandchildren and three sisters. 63 LANCE, PRESIDENT NEXT REUNION: FALL 2003

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Kennedy Retires BETHA HUBBARD GILL, LAURIANN Lt. Gen. Claudia Kennedy '69, 71 LINES HEISLER, the highest ranking woman in the CO-PRESIDENTS Army, officially retired Aug. 1. Her NEXT REUNION: OCT. 27-28, retirement plans were in place be- 2001 fore her accusation of sexual ha- Visual artist Jim Cogswell, who rassment by a fellow officer was teaches art at the University of Michi- gan, recently participated in "Border made public earlier this year. Crossings: Extravagant Theatre of the A philosophy major at Arts," a multimedia event featuring Rhodes, the three-star general art, music, film, dance and poetry. joined the Women's Army Air Fred O'Bryant has a new position Corps after graduation. When as coordinator for digital projects and the organization was abolished services at the University of Virginia's in 1978, Kennedy found herself Science and Engineering Library. in the regular Army. Melanie Smith Taylor, former Progressively promoted, she Olympic equestrian champion, has been served as an officer in inducted into the Show Jumping Hall command, intelligence, of Fame. The Germantown, TN, native Claudia Kennedy is the youngest equestrian ever chosen. operations, training and recruiting positions. BETTE DALE GARNER, In a June ceremony at the Pentagon, where she received the Distin- 72 ANN GOTSCHALL guished Service Medal, Kennedy said: SHARP, "These days the sound you hear overhead in the Army and at the Pen- CO-PRESIDENTS tagon isn't an airplane breaking the sound barrier. It's the sound of a NEXT REUNION: glass ceiling being shattered, and the Army and the Pentagon are better OCT. 25-26, 2002 because of it." Olivia Barton Ferriter of Alexandria, VA, was recently named to the board of trustees of the

young children. Her solo organ piece, "Pavane for a Child with Ole, Juanita! God," was recently published by Warner Brothers Music. Juanita Shettlesworth '62, assistant B ill and Kathy Daniel Ellis '71 professor of Spanish at Tennessee moved to Portland, OR, last year, Technological University in Cookeville, where Bill took a position with Intel recently received the university's 2000 Corp. He is a quality assurance Outstanding Professional Service manager with the corporation's ser- Award for her efforts in translating for vices division. the local non-English speaking Bill Hulett is an an Hispanic community. anesthesiologist in Jackson, MS. His A long-time volunteer as a transla- daughter Sara received her B.S.N. in tor in the community, she also aids 1999, and son Hollis is a presidential scholar at Mississippi State University, the city police, sheriff's office and where he is majoring in accounting. hospital as well as the university. Jim Vardaman is now a professor She is known for her support of in the department of literature at the state's secondary school teachers, Waseda University in Tokyo, where having devoted many years to the he teaches American literature, culture Tennessee Foreign Language Teach- Juanita Shettlesworth and music of the South. ing Association. She directs the state's American Association of Rum ANN SADIE Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese's National Spanish Examination and 70 HANEY, PRESIDENT serves as secretary-treasurer of the AATSP. NAT REUNION: Ocr. 20-21, 2000

32 SUMMER 2000 RHODES National Outdoor Leadership School. at Glencliff High School in Nashville computational technology to help the Bill Jones is the chair and organiz- for 10 years. He has led his team to pharmaceutical industry recover drugs er of "RLS 2000: Robert Louis Steven- two Academy State Championships from "failed" clinical trials. son in Literature and Popular Culture," on the U. S. Constitution and to the a four-day conference sponsored by the State SA Football Championships. He VICKERS DEMETRIO Central Arkansas Library System to be is also "happily into my second year of JOHNSON, PRESIDENT held at Little Rock's main library Nov. marriage to Carol Pylant." 76 NEXT REUNION: 9-12. He is reporter of decisions for the Vicki Gilmore Palmer, senior OCT. 27-28, 2001 Arkansas Supreme Court. vice president, treasurer and special as- Jim Mitchell has been appointed director sistant to the CEO of Coca-Cola En- of development for the University of BECKY PIXLER BOONE, terprises Inc., was featured in the April Arkansas' J. William Fulbright College of PRESIDENT 2000 issue of Ebony. Arts and Sciences. He was previously exec- 73 NEXT REUNION: Denise Perino, after 10 years of utive director of the Arkansas Arts Council. FALL 2003 working with State Farm Insurance, Janet Smyrl Peterson of Colum- Larry Brown was recently named has become an agency field consultant. bia, SC, is a graduate of Leadership vice president and chief information She lives in Germantown, TN. South Carolina, class of 2000. She is officer of Electronic Clearing House Blair Shamel has been named with Century 21 Bob Capes Reality. Inc. in Agoura Hills, CA. He is also president and CEO of CyMetRx, a Robin Rice "sold out his an assisting priest at St. Patrick's start-up company in Del Mar, CA, opthamology practice in Clarksville, Episcopal Church in Thousand Oaks which develops advanced TN" and is now providing eye care to and The Church of the Epiphany in Westlake Village. Jane Home, managing director of the The Alexander Group, recently participated in the University of Former Dean Dies Houston's Living Archives Interviews. She gave a speech at the Menil Gallery Eleanor Bosworth Shannon, regarding women entrepreneurs and assistant professor of history at Rhodes how they have shaped women's lives from 1949-55, acting dean of women in Houston. from 1952-55 and trustee from 1980- Jan Manning Sample is the 84, died March 3, 2000 in Charlottes- director of the Exchange Club Child ville, VA. She was 74. Abuse Prevention Center in Oxford, The widow of Edgar MS. One son, Greg, is a junior at Shannon Jr., president of the Universi- Brown University and the other son, ty of Virginia from 1959-74, Eleanor Knighton, farms in Shreveport, LA. Shannon established the Eleanor and Millard Bosworth Scholarship at LARRY ANDERSON, PRESIDENT Rhodes in memory of her parents. A native Memphian, she graduated 74 NEXT REUNION: Eleanor Bosworth Shannon FALL 2004 magna cum laude in international rela- The work of Memphis artist Valerie tions from Sweet Briar College and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She Berlin Edwards was recently studied briefly at Balliol College, Oxford, and went on to earn a master's featured in The Commercial Appeal degree in history from Cornell University. She has been an art teacher at Oak Shannon served on the executive board of Sweet Briar's alumnae as- Elementary and Ellendale Elementary sociation and was a member of the college's board of trustees. She was schools in the Memphis area, and in a founding board member of The Learning Center for students with spe- 1990 was commissioned to paint the cial needs in Charlottesville, and established the Edgar and Eleanor Memphis in May poster honoring New Zealand. Her recent work Shannon Foundation for Excellence in Public Education to reward innov- includes portraits of animals. ative area teachers. In 1972 the university awarded her the Algernon Jeff Moore is project manager at Sydney Sullivan Award in recognition of excellence of character and ser- Genuine Parts Company in Atlanta. vice to humanity. An elder at Westminster Presbyterian Church and affiliated with Church CATHERINE DAILEY of Our Saviour Episcopal, she leaves five daughters and seven BERGER, PRESIDENT grandchildren. 75 NEXT REUNION: OCT. 20-21, 2000 Jeff Hudgins has taught and coached

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Powell Nominates Navarra for Shining Star Award sessions. The club and our youth group meet once a month for various types of activities. The two leadership teams realize the importance of learning together, having fun together and serving those less fortunate together. So, our activities, planned by the youth, range anywhere from participating in the ropes/challenge course at the Madeira School for girls in McLean, to bowling, serving at soup kitchens, fasting for an entire 30 hours while building awareness and raising money for those less fortunate in Third World countries. "We have also implemented a summer tutoring program. On Saturdays, we bring the children from MacFar- land to St. John's. Driving out of the District and seeing a completely different world has been an eye opener for our friends at MacFarland, and we believe that it is one of the most important things that we do. Realizing that there is life outside of their neighborhood with potential for all kinds of wonderful opportunities is quite important. We meet from 8:30 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. and have a great time together. Our tutors, St. John's teens and past Leadership Club graduates, St. John's parents Lisa Navarra and other parishioners plan a fun-filled day: math...reading...geography...great food...fun games! All the while, Gen. Colin Powell has nominated Lisa Navarra '92, as- building on our friendships. sociate for youth and children's ministries at St. John's "It has become very rewarding to watch this dual Episcopal Church in McLean, VA, for Woman's Day mag- ministry come together, and it really is a dual ministry. azine's Shining Star award. While most appreciative of We learn from one another. Our worlds have been the honor, she would rather talk about the partnership broadened, bridges have been built and compassion Powell has created between her church and MacFarland Middle High School in northwest Washington, DC. 1 While Powell is chairman of the children's initiative, Amer- ica's Promise—the Alliance for Youth, he also works on a local and personal level. St. John's Church has become involved with The Col- in L. Powell Leadership Club on a regular basis. The club meets weekly and is led by retired Col. Larry Wilk- erson, a speechwriter for Powell. Senior high youth from St. John's travel to MacFarland on a weekly basis to participate with the club and stay for tutoring sessions afterward. "We tutor the children in math and reading, but what has been incredibly amazing to me is to watch Gen. Colin Powell the interaction between the children," says Navarra. "They have created true and genuine friendships. They for different environments is being established on a enjoy learning together—everything from a discussion daily basis. on the meaning of the mathematical term "pi" to "I am extremely grateful to Rhodes College. My speaking in a British accent as we read The Lion, the world was broadened because of many of my Witch, and the Wardrobe. experiences at the school. I learned so much and only "The friendships between the two very different, yet hope and pray that I may pass on that knowledge to the very similar groups go far beyond the weekly tutoring children. They certainly have a way of teaching me."

34 SUMMER 2000 R 1 -101 )ES indigent patients in Central America live in Memphis, where Brian is a flight and Middle Tennessee. He says he is GLORIA WHITE, attendant for US Airways and Ruth is a also "working on his 24-year marriage 80 PRESIDENT sixth grade teacher at Immaculate Con- and teenage children." NEXT REUNION: ception Elementary School. She is re- OCT. 20-21, 2000 turning to graduate school full-time at MIKE CLARY, Robin Burks lives in Pasadena, CA, the University of Memphis to complete PRESIDENT where he is a certified hand therapist. her master of arts in teaching. 77 NEXT REUNION: He is currently exploring a new inter- Mary Masters Caywood has been Orr. 25-26, 2002 est in stereo (3D) photography. named president of Archer/Malmo Paul Ainger of Stockton, CA, is a se- Carol Stephens was featured in Direct in Memphis. nior project manager with Communi- the March 2000 issue of Lift magazine Dorothy Sanders Wells, a senior ty Housing Opportunities Corp. for her hospital ministry. She is the attorney in the Tax and Employee Ben- Bill Nolan is the planned giving chaplain at Lutheran General Hospital efits Law Group at FedEx Corp., wrote director of the Episcopal Church in Park Ridge, IL. an article, "ERISA, 25 Years Later: The Foundation for the Southestern area Evolution of America's Employee Bene- in Birmingham. He was formerly with STACY ABERNETHY, fits Policy," for the January 2000 issue Birmingham-Southern College. 81 KATHLEEN WILLS of the Tennessee Bar Journal An adjunct Scott Prostennan moved from CHANDLER, faculty member at the University of Pittsburgh to Napa, CA. He plans to CO-PRESIDENTS Memphis law school, she is also a direc- pursue his career as a jazz and blues DJ. NEXT REUNION: OCT. 27-28, tor of Memphis Area Legal Services. Randy Rhea was featured in a 2001 Paul Williford, former Rhodes Roanoke, VA, magazine as being cho- Charles Gurney has been assigned to librarian, has taken a new job as sen Roanoke's favorite family doctor. the U. S. Embassy in London as a po- electronic resources librarian at the Uni- Nell Sistnink Schwartz is a clini- litical reporting officer. versity of West Florida in Pensacola. cal psychologist in Sugar Land, TX. Bruce LeForce is a neurologist in Oak Ridge, TN. PERRY DEMENT, BRUCE GUYTON, Russ Sisson represented Union 83 PRESIDENT 78 PRESIDENT College in the Rhodes College NEXT REUNION: NEXT REUNION: Consultation on the Future of the FALL 2003 FALL 2003 Church-Related College. He is depart- Beth Davey Britt, Spokane, WA, has Carol Fuqua Koenig owns Aladdin ment chair of religion and philosophy been named president/chief executive Synergetics, a travel agency and mar- at Union College, Corbin, KY. officer of Aurora Consulting Group keting consulting firm in Brentwood, John Trussel is an assistant pro- Inc. Beth, who was formerly president TN. She recently served as president fessor at Penn State University. He and CEO of Aurora Development of the Direct Marketing Association and his wife DeAnna live in Maryland Group, also teaches computer technolo- of Tennessee. with their son Benjamin. gies at Eastern Washington University. Margaret Pinholster owns a pre- Ted deVillafranca, director of col- employment screening firm, Orion JIM TAYLOR, lege counseling and choral conductor at Research Services, in Atlanta. SEE 82 PRESIDENT the Peddle School in Hightstown, NJ, MARRIAGES NEXT REUNION plans to receive his graduate degree Bill Wright is an anesthesiologist OCT. 25-26, 2002 from Columbia University next year. in Searcy, AR, "living on the banks of Brian and Ruth McAfee Casein '79 Dave Howe is the managing director the Little Red River, fly fishing 60 days a year throughout Arkansas, Wyoming and Montana." Cook Helps Prisoners, Victims JOE EVANGELISTI Chaplain Bruce Cook '68 has retired from the federal Bureau of Prisons GWEN JONES PARRISH, after 24 years, seven months and 15 days. Attorney General Janet Reno 79 CO-PRESIDENTS "apparently saw some redeeming features in him," honoring Cook and 10 NEXT REUNION: others with the 2000 Crime Victim Service Award for their voluntary work FALL 2004 Sarah Anderson recently had an arti- to help victims of crime. cle on linguistics and poetry accepted Cook has volunteered to help crime victims on his own time since 1977, for publication in Language and Style: the year his stepbrother was murdered. He reports that he "never forgot An International Journal the lessons learned in the Kinney Program and just kept the same attitude of volunteerism." He is now a chaplain with the Crime Victims Advocacy Council in Atlanta.

RHODES SUMMER 2000 35 Alex Alexander currently owns and manages a Japanese marketing agency in Tokyo and an international Wisdom Award to Beardall export/distribution management prac- Bill Beardall '75 of tice in San Francisco. He has worked Austin, TX, longtime in financial systems consulting in New employment law advocate York, large account sales for NYNEX and as managing director for SEIWA for migrant workers, is one systems in the U.S. He maintains resi- of four attorneys dences in Memphis, San Francisco nationwide who received and Tokyo. this year's American Bar Ellen Hopkins Flottman is begin- Association's John Minor ning her 12th year as an attorney with Wisdom Award for Public the Central Appellate Division of the Service. Missouri State Public Defender The award, presented System. SEE BIRTHS. annually by the ABA's Liti- Laura Mount Grimes has taken a gation Section, was creat- new position as a pediatric psycholo- ed in 1990 and is named gist at the Birmingham Child Guidance Center. for the late Judge John Mi- Doug Trapp is a full-time actor nor Wisdom of the U.S. and advertising freelancer in Fifth Circuit Court of Minneapolis. Appeals whose decisions Becky Windham and her jazz quar- established the right to tet performed at the Jazz-in-the-Park vote, implemented equal festival on St. Simons Island in July. educational opportunities and Bill Beardall strengthened the right to effective 86 AMY DONAHO HOWELL, counsel. PRESIDENT For the last 16 years Beardall has served as migrant litigation director NEXT REUNION: for Texas Rural Legal Aid, building its migrant worker division into one of OCT. 27-28, 2001 Scott Thomas is senior vice the largest and most successful programs for migrant employment rights president for Vining-Sparks in Mem- in the U.S. Now a special counsel to the organization, earlier this year he phis. SEE MARRIAGES. took the post of legal director for Texas Appleseed, a new non-profit public

interest law center that works with migrants and other disenfranchised SAM BRIDEN DUKE, communities. 87 BRIAN MOTT, Beardall represents migrant workers in cases arising from their employ- CO-PRESIDENTS ment in Texas and most agricultural states in the U.S. He is currently NEXT REUNION: focusing on access to justice for migrant workers adapted to an OCT. 25-26, 2002 increasingly transnational low-wage labor force. Greg Carey, an assistant professor of New Testament studies at Lancaster Theological Seminary in Lancaster, PA., was a Lenten speaker at Grand- of corporate structured finance at First ing manager at TheSquare.com , a net- view United Methodist Church. Tennessee Securities Corporation in working site for students and alumni Ledbetter Lusk Gallery in Memphis. of 22 colleges and universities. He Memphis is now David Lusk Gallery. Dixon Presswood Schultz is lives in Brooklyn. David Lusk recently became sole now director of credit and strategic fi- Karen Thompson Munroe is vice owner of the gallery which he formed nance for Coral Energy, an affiliate of president and marketing consultant with Baylor Ledbetter Stovall in 1995. Shell Oil Co., in Houston. for The Dallas Marketing Group. SEE Mimi Swords Fondren recently BIRTHS. received her master of science in social MEL PAYNE, JENNIFER work from the University of 84 FROST RAMOS, KAREN LARSON Tennessee, Knoxville. She lives in CO-PRESIDENTS 85 YOUNG, BEV Nashville, TN. NEXT REUNION: THOMAS WILLIAMS, Nathan Tipton completed the year FALL 2004 CO-PRESIDENTS in the English/Textual Studies doctoral Aldervan Daly has left the New York NEXT REUNION: OCT. 20-21, program at the University of Memphis City Partnership and is now market- 2000 by winning the English Department

36 SUMMER 2000 RHODES literature Award for the second consec- Robbie Allen is a postdoctoral fellow utive year. He also was inducted into Phi MICHAEL JAMES, at Washington University in St. Louis. Kappa Phi honor society and co-chaired 90 PRESIDENT Keith Arnold is director of music a panel at the University of Louisville's NEXT REUNION: ministry for Jefferson Unitarian 20th-Century Literature Conference. OCT. 20-21, 2000 Church in Golden, CO. Drew and Amy Bower Burchena I JoAnn Lynen will begin the KATE ZEITLER VERGOS, '91 recently moved to Brooklyn M.B.A. program at Goizueta Business 88 PRESIDENT Heights. Drew is a creative director at School at Emory University this fall. NEXT REUNION: Fuel North America advertising, and Angie Kissing is an English as a FALL 2003 Amy is the business manager at Pitch second language instructor with Leo Beale has joined the law firm of Productions. Kaplan. She lives with her husband, Kizer & Black in Maryville, TN. Erin Cook is office manager at L Nikolai Utochkin, in Silver Spring, Shawn Carder has a new position Lavine Sales in Atlanta. MD. as CFO of Investments Scorecard Inc. Elizabeth Phipps Deering and Ray Rando is a sales executive in Franklin, TN. her husband David now live in St. Pe- with Domain Pharma in San Diego. Tom Horton is vice president/cre- tersburg, FL, where she works as a Ben Rencher is porfolio manager ative director of Business Nashville staff assistant at Equifax. with Heller Financial and lives in Falls Magazine. Janie Hataway works as an Church, VA. SEE MARRIAGES. Thomas Locke is a financial ana- insurance/post conviction capital case Chris Schroeder is an actuarial lyst at Paragon Rehabilitation Inc. in investigator in Memphis. manager with JCPenny Direct Nashville. Kevin Marks is an attorney with Marketing Services Inc. in Plano, TX. David Porter recently purchased the law firm of Galloway, Johnson in Pieter van der Gaag has been a pizza delivery chain in Salt Lake New Orleans. appointed executive director of City and has entered into a joint ven- Blaik Mathews has been ANPED in Amsterdam, where he has ture, General Store, to start a new promoted to manager of market ad- worked for the past three years. Internet company offering grocery vantage at Harte-Hanks Communi- home delivery. cation in Orlando, FL. SCOTT PEATROSS, Chris Ray recently left his position Anne Payne, who received her PRESIDENT at Archer/Malmo to re-join the M.B.A. from Georgia State Universi- 92 NEXT REUNION: Ramey Agency as CEO. ty, was promoted to national accounts OCT. 25-26, 2002 Robert Wallace is an employee and marketing manager for the indus- Belinda Woodiel Boyd is marketing benefits consultant with Bencom in trial plaster group of Georgia-Pacific. manager at Knoxville Area Transit. Memphis. She also heads international business Patrick Bell has been selected to Bo Young, Tampa, FL, is director development for the company and participate in the Japan English Teach- of marketing at eAngler.com , an on- was recently nominated for member- ing (JET) Program. He will teach for line fishing website. He was formerly ship into Beta Gamma Sigma, the na- one year as an assistant language vice president of marketing for tional scholastic honorary society for teacher in Hyogo Prefecture. Patrick, Havatampa Inc. business students. one of some 2,600 finalists from the Robin Brewer Remington is the U.S., recently completed service in the FLOY WIGAL COLE, new—and first—proposal writer at 89 PRESIDENT the University of Arkansas, NEXT REUNION: Fayetteville's development office Pounders Named FALL 2004 Martha Stracener Rugemer of Jamie Augustine is now a managing Juneau, AK, is the director of Juneau to Harvard director at Morgan Keegan in Mem- Works, a community vocational reha- Council phis. SEE BIRTHS bilitation program for people with dis- Jerome Franklin is a vice abilities. SEE MARRIAGES Louis Pounders '68 of the president of Univest Financial Aimee Goffinet Svenneby is an Memphis firm of Williamson Services. He lives with his wife D'An- account executive with ColoradoBiz Pounders Architects, has been drea in Memphis. SEE BIRTHS magazine in Englewood. elected as a new regional David Greeson is a dermatologist Robin Sharp is marketing director representative of the Harvard in Athens, GA. SEE MARRIAGES at PowerLogix in Austin, TX. Graduate School of Design Alum- Russell Porter is an accountant Joe Tamborello is an attorney with ni/ae Council. He will begin serv- supervisor for Shandwick Public Fisher, Rushmer et al in Orlando, FL ing a two-year term in October. Affairs in Washington, DC. The council consists of four of- Joy Banks Robinson has moved to MARJORIE THIGPEN ficers, 28 directors and 32 region- "sunny and HOT Las Vegas," where she CARTER, PRESIDENT 91 al chairpersons from 12 countries. is director of marketing development for NEXT REUNION: the Venetian Resort Hotel Casino. OCT. 27-28, 2001

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Peace Corps as an urban youth devel- in Memphis. She received her M.A. Coco Reinhardt is a program co- opment volunteer in Costa Rica. in history from the University of ordinator with the Princeton- Mike Couden is a radiology resident Michigan in 1999. Blairstown Center in Blairstown, NJ. at Medical University of South Caroli- David Hill recently graduated She holds her master's degree in soci- na in Charleston. He will begin an in- from Mercer University School of ology emphasizing race, class, gender ternational fellowship in July 2001. Medicine and will begin a five-year and environmental studies from the Anne Finney recently finished her residency in orthopedic surgery at University of Memphis' Center for residency and has begun an OB/GYN Atlanta Medical Center. Research on Women. private practice in Nashville. Caroline Knight is a portfolio an- Teri Sullivan has been named Carl Fisher received his M.D. alyst at First Union National Bank in promotions manager at WKNO, From Wake Forest University Charlotte, NC. Memphis' PBS affiliate. SEE School of Medicine in May. He will Scott Milman has been promoted to MARRIAGES take a residency in internal medicine director of UNCG FirstCard at the Uni- Debbie Sirratt recently joined the in Charlotte. versity of North Carolina at Greensboro. Air Force as a captain. She has com- Catherine Cooper Loveman is He says "the UNCG FirstCard utili7Ps pleted her dissertation and will be a vice president of private banking at `smart card' technology to handle multi- resident in counseling/psychology at AmSouth Bank in Birmingham. SEE ple applications on the campus." Lackland Air Force Base. She expects MARRIAGES Lisa Moore, a Ph.D. candidate at to complete her degree in 2001. Tracy Boney Nipp lives in Char- the University of Missouri, received a Tammi Titsworth, Long Beach, lotte, NC, where she is assistant gen- Fulbright scholarship to Belgium CA, is an editor for IEEE Computer eral counsel and director of business where she will research medieval art Society, editing electrical engineering affairs for NASCAR. history in 2000-01. She also was the academic journals. She has been Attorney Rusty Rutledge is now recipient of a Samuel H. Kress Travel accepted to an improv group that associated with the firm of Stewart, Award to research illuminated manu- plays in Los Angeles. Wilkinson & Wilson in Memphis. scripts in Paris, London and Oxford. Jeff White is a legislative correspon- Kristi Bolton Snyder is director dent for Tennessee Sen. Bill Frist. of operations at ExecuGroup Inc. in JUDY BROWN, Grenada, MS. PRESIDENT CLYDE HENDERSON, Annie B. Williams is an attorney 94 NEXT REUNION: PRESIDENT at Williams and Associates in FALL 2004 95 NEXT REUNION: Nashville, where she practices personal Doug and Elise Ruddick Cornille OCT. 20-21, 2000 injury, professional negligence and '96 live in Atlanta. Doug is enrolled Jaci Adams teaches first grade at Fair- products liability litigation. in the Duke University M.B.A. ley Elementary School in Memphis. Stacy Holston Zeller lives with program and Elise is a marketing spe- Scotland Allen recently left the her husband in Alexandria, LA, where cialist with Andersen Consulting. U.S. Army after four years of service she has finished her residency at the Carol Culpepper is marketing direc- at Fort Stewart, GA, and Kuwait. He L.S.U. Family Practice Residency Pro- tor for Towery Publishing in Memphis. currently works as an analyst for Perot gram. She recently completed a term Megan Dykstra is a nurse consul- Systems in Dallas. as the resident representative to the tant for Health Care Financing Rachel Wortham Altman is en- Louisiana Academy of Family Physi- Administration in Chicago. rolled in acting, voice and dance cians' ad hoc committee on standards Eddie Jordon is a test validation lessons in New York City, where she for electronic medical records. Also, manager with BellSouth in Atlanta. recently auditioned for the she served a year as chief resident for Justin Klestinski is a regional di- Broadway production of Riverdance. her residency program and has joined rector at First Union Bank in Chicago. SEE MARRIAGES the program as faculty. Martin LeRoy completed his Tim Ballard is with J.C. Bradford M.B.A. degree at the University of in Nashville. LYNN CRABS, Texas, Austin this spring. He plans to Bryan Coker, director of student PRESIDENT work for Intel in Austin as a financial judicial affairs at the University of 93 NEXT REUNION: analyst for the company's wireless Tennessee, Knoxville, will begin work FAI.I. 2003 hand-held products group. on his Ph.D. this fall. He holds a mas- Chris and Amanda Ellison Owls Linder, who received his ter's degree in college and university Buchanan '95 live in Charlotte, NC, M.B.A. from Babson College this spring, administration from the University of where Chris is with the Associate Fi- is working at Fleet Bank in Boston. South Carolina. nancial Service Group at Moore & Nell Paxton lives in Nutley, NJ, Mason Denton, a graduate Van Allen, and Amanda works at the and works for Kessler Institute for Re- student at the Johns Hopkins School Discovery Place: A Science and Tech- habilitation. She graduated from of Advanced International Studies, is nology Museum. Shenandoah University in December spending the summer working at a Doris Dixon is a program assistant 1999 with a master of science in occu- venture capital firm in Beijing. at the National Civil Rights Museum pational therapy.

38 SUMMER 2000 RHODES Mary Margaret Hines Doyle Laura Lyons Orthoefer is a certi- Beth Lacaeyse is a recruiting as- works with the Walker County fied financial planner at Asset sociate with Diamond Technology Schools in Chattanooga. She teaches Planning Corp. in Knoxville. Partners Inc. in Chicago. history and is head varsity soccer Kati Randolph, Cordova, TN, is Jennifer Larson has a fellowship coach. Her husband, Clement, is a an athletic trainer at Baptist Rehabilita- at the University of Maryland, where lawyer with Miller and Martin Law tion. She also coaches and serves as an she is working toward a master's Office. SEE MARRIAGES. athletic trainer at Hutchinson School. degree in journalism. Jennifer Eason works as a family Lisa Reese is a registered nurse in Rebecca Luter was ordained as a intervention caseworker at the Arapa- the intensive care unit at Presbyterian Presbyterian minister in June at Ger- hoe Department of Human Services Hospital of Dallas. She received her mantown (TN) Presbyterian Church. in Littleton, CO. She lives in Denver. B.S. degree in nursing last year. Ann McCranie is a staff writer for Jason Farrar graduated from the Shelby Scott, Galveston, TX, has The Daily Courier newspaper in Forest University of Arkansas for Medical recently taken a position as an City, NC. Sciences this spring and has begun assistant district attorney in the misde- Ginny Neal practices corporate residency training in pediatrics at the meanor section of the Galveston and securities law at the Greenberg Children's Hospital of Milwaukee. County district attorney's office. Travrig firm in West Palm Beach, FL. SEE MARRIAGES Katie Terrell has been promoted She received her law degree last year Kristen Fronts works on the to production manager at Southern from Florida Law School. rehab/post-cardiac unit at Children's Living magazine in Birmingham. Christopher Parkerson passed Hospital in New Orleans. This spring, Allison Wannamaker is a deten- the Alabama Bar Examination this she received her B.S. degree in nursing tion attorney with the Catholic Legal spring, and is now an associate with from the University of Louisiana at Immigration Network in Los Angeles. David Cromwell Johnson and Associ- Lafayette. Brian Wirth is a law student at ates in Birmingham. Rachel Nelson Gilreath is an ac- Catholic University in Washington, DC. John Rose attends dental school count manager with Strategic Direct at the University of Alabama at Birm- Marketing Inc. of Nashville. SCOTT BROWN, ingham. He received a master's degree Chris Godwin is president of GEI PRESIDENT in public health from UAB last year. Enterprises, a small carpet cleaning 96 NEXT REUNION: Brandon Rutledge works for the business in Atlanta. OCT. 27-28, 2001 Joseph W. Jones Ecological Research Elise Harbin recently received her Natalie Bailey, a graduate student at Center for wildlife ecology in master's degree in teaching English as the University of Maryland, last fall Newton, GA. a second language from Pennsylvania served as volunteer coordinator for the Shay Sabom received his M.D. State University. Roots & Shoots National College from Emory Medical School in May Camille Harris was named an as- Summit, the Jane Goodall Institute's and is doing his residency in family sistant vice president, corporate loans environmental and humanitarian pro- medicine in Charleston, SC. department, at SunTrust Bank in gram for young people. Carey Skinner is now a book ana- Chattanooga, TN. Brooke Burris works as a physical lyst on the trading floor at Southern Don Keeney attends the Owen therapist in Tahoe City, CA. She re- Company Energy Marketing in Graduate School of Management ceived her M.S. degree in physical Atlanta. She is responsible for the at Vanderbilt. therapy from the University of Alaba- books for electricity trades made from Nina Kokotas is a web editor for ma at Birmingham last year. the West and for the company's Cali- Underwriters Laboratories in North- Melissa Denley is an eighth grade fornia assets. brook, IL. language arts teacher at Paul G. Cay- Felix Vazquez-Chong is a biology Bobby Light is an associate attor- wood School in Lexington, TN. and physics instructor at Memphis ney with the law firm of Lawson and Brian and Lane Gotten Faugh- Catholic High School. Silek in Front Royal, VA. nan '95 live in Memphis, where Bri- Brian Wamhoff received his M.D. Sarah McVoy has finished graduate an is an attorney with Armstrong from the University of Missouri-Co- school and now works for CNN in Atlanta. Allen and Lane is a registered nurse at lumbia Medical School in May. Emelie Sims Mies is an instruc- St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. tor at the University of Illinois. She Shea Flinn is running for state CATHERINE CARTER lives in Champaign. representative in the 96th PERRY, ALISON Allison Nowlin, a former Peace congressional district of Tennessee. 97 SANTILLO WOODROW, Corps volunteer in Nicaragua, will re- Amy Hall recently published her CO-PRESIDENTS ceive two master's degrees—in public second book, Getting Your Groove NEXT REUNION: FALL 2002 health and social work—this fall. She is Back: the Sassy Woman's Guide to Melissa Anderson is an assistant to a currently in Peru as a UNICEF intern. Recharging Your Lift. Her third book, writer/producer at Sony Studios in Amy Oberhelman works as a The Joys of Being a Woman: 500 Culver City, CA. scheduler for Sen. Richard Lugar in Things to Be Grate* For, should hit Victoria Atkinson recently Washington, DC. the bookstores this fall. received a master of divinity degree

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CLASS NOTES from Baptist Theological Seminary at Bank's three-year loan officer program. in the U.S. Navy at Naval Air Richmond. Ellen Shuler is a sales technical as- Station Corpus Christi. She is Erik Berry is graduate student in sistant with Staubli Corporation. She taking naval flight training for props computer science at Washington Uni- lives in Greenville, SC. and awaiting advanced training in versity in St. Louis. VT-31. She will fly the P-3 Orion, a Nell Bonen, who has worked with DAMON NORCROSS, multi-engine submarine tracker. Her the New Orleans Area Habitat for MICHAEL FABER, next station will be in Jacksonville, Humanity for the past two years, will 98 CO-PRESIDENTS FL, for P-3 fleet replacement begin a master of theological studies NEXT REUNION: squadron training. degree at Emory University this fall. FALL 2003 Bridgette Scott works at the J. She will spend seven weeks this sum- Andrea Anthony is a medical student D. Williams Library at the University mer traveling throughout Europe and at the University of Kansas School of of Mississippi. She received a master's Northern Africa. Medicine in Kansas City. degree in library science from Indiana Meredith Boyd works as manager David Carr is a marketing coor- University last year. of public relations at the Vimarc dinator at Fox Sports Net. He Judith Smelser is working as a Group in Louisville. finished his graduate program in radio news editor for Feature Story Rebecca Crawford recently sport management at the University News in Washington, DC. moved to Nashville, where she works of Georgia last year and formerly Ceatriss Smith is a biology in the office of Mayor Bill Purcell. worked as a contractor with Coca- teacher at Richard Milburn Academy Laurea Olusman is a relationship Cola USA for its 2000 Super Bowl in Corpus Christi, TX. manager at First Tennessee Bank in initiatives. Pete Snow completed his second Memphis. Caroline Hall is with Aspect year of law school at Indiana University Stephen Griffith received his J.D. Communications in Nashville. and is a summer associate with Ice from Loyola University in May. He is Peter LaMotte, Irvine, CA, has Miller Donadio & Ryan in Indianapolis. a judicial law clerk for the chief justice been promoted to an area account ex- Dave Speas works as an assistant of the Louisiana Supreme Court Pas- ecutive for IBM's Internet and at Arthur Andersen in Nashville. cal F. Calogero Jr.. NetGen industry. He is responsible Tom and Carrie Lehman Such- John Humphrey is a sales for Los Angeles, Ventura and Santa man live in Memphis, where Tom representative for Optical Elements Barbara Counties. teaches senior English at Houston Corp. in Durham, NC. Amy Lawrence is an associate High School, and Carrie will attend Meg McCroskey is a graduate stu- copywriter and proofreader at the Southern College of Optometry dent and teaching assistant at the Uni- Thompson & Company advertising this fall. SEE MARRIAGES versity of Colorado. She is currently in Memphis. Amanda Grebe Tamburrino has working on her master's thesis explor- Clayton Littlejohn is enrolled in been named director of public ing community-based affordable hous- the Ph.D. program in philosophy and relations for the Memphis Botanic ing projects in Boulder. is a graduate teaching assistant at the Gardens. Michelle Russell McDonald lives University of Nebraska, Lincoln. He Katie Thompson is an account in Havelock, NC, with her husband recently presented a paper on moral manager for International Paper in Jeremy and their two-year-old daugh- epistemology at the Mid-South Memphis. ter Mallory. \ Philosophy Conference. David and Elizabeth Grey Wells Tilghman McFadden was recently Amy Anthony McQueen was re- '97 live in Amherst, MA, where named a financial planning coordina- cently promoted to account coordina- David is with International Paper and tor at First Tennessee Bank-German- tor at Sossaman & Associates Elizabeth attends the University of town/Collierville. She is studying Advertising in Memphis. SEE Massachusetts. SEE MARRIAGES toward her certified financial planner MARRIAGES Ashley West now works as a me- designation. Kristin Rauschkolb lives in dia coordinator for Donna Karan In- Brendan Minihan teaches English Hannover, Germany, where she ternational in New York City. and coaches track at Metairie Park works for COIN Corporate Interac- Sidney Wood Clapp is a loan offi- Country Day School in Metairie, LA. tive AG, a software developer that cer at SouthTrust Bank in SEE MARRIAGES helps its clients integrate business Birmingham. SEE MARRIAGES Jessica Speer Neal graduated processes on the Internet. She is the Scott Wottle is an indirect cum laude from the University of marketing and events coordinator account representative at Telecorp Houston Law Center this spring and is and also works in the area of PCS. He lives in Germantown, TN. now an associate attorney at Matthews international business development, & Branscomb in Corpus Christi. including assisting with the compa- Joy Richmond was featured in ny's upcoming expansion into The Commercial Appeal for her Silicon Valley. involvement with First Tennessee Kristen Richards is an ensign

40 SUMMER 2000 RHODES tire is a tank top and shorts! Right pany created to provide specialty-spe- KATE BISHOP, NEETA now I am playing vice principal of cific Web sites for doctors. VENEPALLI, CO-PRESIDENTS sorts for the Hipp's summer youth Abigail West is an editor/project 99 NEXT REUNION: theater camp." director for Towery Publishing in FALL 2004 Adele Hines is enrolled in the Memphis. Alison Barnwell is a construction master of accountancy program at assistant at Trammell Crow Co. in Rhodes. She will sit for the CPA 00 RICHARD LUM, Memphis. exam in November and finish PRESIDENT Matt Beck has been promoted to coursework in December. In January NEXT REUNION: legislative associate at Kessler and As- 2001, she will be an assistant FALL 2005 sociates Inc., a lobbying firm in accountant at KPMG. Kristen Bradbum works as a nation- Washington, D.C. Kelly Gill Laudon works as a vic- al consultant at Chi Omega Executive Matt Breaux is a portfolio manag- tim assistance coordinator at the Headquarters in Atlanta. er at Hibernia National Bank in New Saline County prosecutor's office in Jay Eckles is an information Orleans. Benton, AR. SEE MARRIAGES systems engineer with The Nancy Brown has been promot- Kenneth and Betsy Miller Vanguard Group in Charlotte, NC. ed to recruiter for BPA Systems in McLean live in Senatobia, MS. Betsy SEE MARRIAGES Austin, TX. She is responsible for is with Morgan Keegan in Memphis, Fiona McCaul is a marketing both technical and non-technical and Kenneth attends law school at communications coordinator at Inter- hiring for offices in Austin and the University of Mississippi. SEE national Paper in Memphis. Tempe, AZ. MARRIAGES. Emily Ogden is a legislative Paul and Florence Stumb Butts Zack Moore has joined A.G. research analyst at the Office of live in Nashville. He will begin the Edwards in Memphis as a financial Research and Education Accountabili- master in architecture program at the consultant. ty in Nashville. University of Tennessee, Knoxville Sarah Morgan has been accepted Jennifer Stevland works as an next year. SEE MARRIAGES. to the Medical College of Ohio. This animal care technician at the Oregon Holly Frederick has returned to summer she is working in the billing Humane Society in Estacada. Memphis, where she works as a department of Rainbow Pediatrics in financial analyst for AutoZone. She Dublin, OH, until beginning classes was formerly a commercial real in the fall. estate analyst at Bank of America in Jane Nigra, a sales assistant at Sa- Correction Little Rock. lomon Smith Barney in Atlanta, says Andrew Michta, chair of Rhodes' Allison Gilbert is a house man- she is training for her third marathon International Studies Department, is a ager and a member of the box office in Tampa with hopes of qualifying for visiting scholar, not a fellow, of the staff for the Arkansas Repertory The- the 2001 Boston Marathon. Hoover Institution. atre in Little Rock. This fall, she will Leigh Powell is a senior commu- Minor Robertson Broadus '45 re- attend graduate school at Louisiana nications specialist at AutoZone in mains of the female gender—definite- Tech University, where she will pur- Memphis. ly not the other one—as reported in sue a master's degree in theater. Allison Rantisi is an the spring issue of RHODES. Ty Hallmark, former Rhodes advertising/management consultant RHODES regrets these errors. assistant director of alumni, is work- with Hunter Gray Associates Inc. in ing as an Americorps VISTA volunteer Little Rock. at the Hippodrome State Theatre in Melissa Stampley is an associate Gainesville, FL. "Life is good here," editor at eTour.com in Atlanta. she says. "It's hard not to like living in Rob Thompson is director of a state where the mandatory work at- marketing at HealthyMe.md, a com-

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'73 Harriet McLean Bowe to Michele Hewitt, Feb. 12, 2000, Marriages Sam Blackwell, Feb. 26, 2000, Australia '66 Susan Canada Herring to Memphis. '86 Charlotte Sargent to Wayne Richard Kile, July 3, 1999. '78 Margaret Pinhoister to Wright, March 1 (11)(1, Memphis. '67 Rolle Casbum Gregg to Ralph Anderson, Oct: 23, 1999. '86 Scott Thomas to Alison Joseph Percer, Feb. 12, 2000. '82 Hunter Shannonhouse to Farese, Dec. 4, 1999.

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'87 Gene Adams to Katherine '97 Elizabeth Grey to David Manroe, a daughter, Frances Allen, June 17, 2000. Wells '98, Jan. 15, 2000 Margaret, Jan. 29, 2000. '89 Julia Giddens to Brent '97 Hallie Lanier to Reginald Rex '85 Jordan and Shari Morrow Wynn, May 6, 2000, Shreveport, LA. White III, June 3, 2000, New Cooper, a son, Justin Evan, Dec. 17, '89 David Greeson to Beth Orleans. 1999. Moore, Sept. 18, 1999. '97 Laura McCray to Brian '85 David and Ellen Hopkins '90 Paula Claverie to Donnie O'Neill, June 3, 2000. Flottman, a daughter, Paige Sappington, Feb. 5, 2000, New '97 Isabel Melo to Robert Elizabeth, April 23, 2000. Orleans. Ragland '94, May 20, 2000, '87 Tom and Lorna Lyell Chain, '90 Martha Stracener to John Memphis. a son, John Lyell, March 16, 2000. Rugemer, July 29, 2000, Juneau, AK. '98 Amy Anthony to William '87 Bob and Laurie Fromberg '90 Daphne Wiggins to Boyd McQueen, May 6, 2000. Norris, a son, Austin Fielding, Feb. 3, Martin, April 1, 2000. '98 Carrie Lehman to Tom 2000. '91 Margaret Beck to Michael Suchman, June 17, 2000. '87 Scott and Kristina Case Dempsey, May 1, 1999, Florence, AL. '98 Talky Lanza to Peter Burke McGibbony, a daughter, Madeline '91 Chris Casey to Beverly Ann Murphy, April 29, 2000, Claire, May 23, 2000. Venable, July 1, 2000. Chattanooga, TN. '88 Stephen and Kathryn Bright '91 Ben Rancher to Thais Laura- '98 Margaret Ann Taylor to Amato, a daughter, Shelby, Dec. 6, lynn Richardson, Dec. 4, 1999. Brendan Minihan '97, July 1, 2000, 1999. '92 Catherine Cooper to Andrew Chattanooga, TN. '88 Leo and Susan Beale, a son, Wade Loveman, April 8, 2000. '98 Sidney Wood to Martin Brian Howard Leo III, April 16, 2000. '93 James Scherer to Buffy Clapp, March 18, 2000. '88 Joe and Brooke Glover Sherree Drinkwitz, Sept. 25, 1999, '99 Adrienne Ballow to David Emery, a daughter, Sarah Elizabeth, Alma, AR. Elder, July 24, 1999. Sept. 22, 1999. '94 Samantha Burkett to Charles '99 Morgan Bomar to Jay '88 Steve and Elizabeth Wigand Jr., Jan. 15, 2000, Lake Eckles '00, June 3, 2000. Johnson, a son, Ethan Webb, March Tahoe, NV. '99 Kelly Gill to Anthony 16, 2000. '94 Anna Johnson to F. Murphy Laudon, June 12, 1999. '89 Jamie and Susan Walker Averitt, III, Dec. 18, 1999. '99 Libby McConnac to Kyle Augustine, a son, James Neal III, '94 Andrea Jones to Andy Hol- Ryan, May 20, 2000, St. Louis. Nov. 11, 1999. ley, July 1, 2000. '99 Betsy Miller to Kenneth '89 Edward and Gretchen '94 Gretchen King to Geoffrey McLean, June 26, 1999, Monroe, LA. Helmke Ellis '88, a daughter, Emma Hall, Oct. 17, 1999. '99 Neely Sharp to Steven Calhoun, May 1, 2000. '94 Ted Sullivan to Robert Duke, Griffith '97, May 20, 2000, '89 Jerome and D'Andrea Oct. 10, 1999. Bartlett, TN. Franklin, a son, William Theodore, '95 Jason Farrar to Julie Ann '99 Florence Stumb to Paul Nov. 13, 1999. McVey, Nov. 13, 1999. Butts, June 24, 2000, Nashville. '90 Rodney and Anita Horn '95 Mary Margaret Hines to '00 Tarah Penny to Tyler Buck- Carpenter, a son, Johnathan, Dec. Clement Doyle, May 13, 2000. ner, June 24, 2000, Conway, AR. 17, 1999. '95 Erik Moratzka to Kristin '00 Laura Easley to John '90 Chris and Daphne Turner McCleskey, May 20, 2000, Bryan, DC Houseal '99, May 27, 2000, Forrest Glaser, a son, Brandon Christopher, '95 Melissa Scandlyn to Alan City, AR. July 28, 1999. Gregory Smith, Oct. 16, 1999, Harri- '90 Reid and Tammy Harbin, a man, TN. Births daughter, Ashton Blair, Sept. 2, 1999. '95 Rachel Wortham to Matthew '80 Mark and Beverly Riley, a '90 Kelly and Dana Harmon Altman, Sept. 5, 1999, New York daughter, Quinn Elise, April 26, Hunter, a son, Lewis David, Oct. 15, City. 2000. 1999. '96 Whitney King to William '83 Mark and Anne Clarendon '90 John and Sara Hawks Fogerty, Aug. 14, 1999. O'Loughlin, a daughter, Megan Marecki '92, a son, Andrew John, '96 Virginia Maxwell to Jason Bralaw, Jan. 5, 2000. April 9, 2000. Rauls '95, March 11, 2000. '84 Jonathan and Abigail '90 Gavin and Beth Batson '96 Melanie Smith to Damon Coggin*, a son, Brendan Patrick, Murray, a daughter, Anna Elizabeth, Norcross '98, June 17, 2000, Salem, Sept. 1, 1999. Nov. 27, 1999. NH. '84 Ed and Lynn Myrick Dudley '90 David and Suzanne Gomm '97 Tara Atwood to Eugene '82, twin son and daughter, Samuel Perlis, a son, Robert Wicker, March Hunter Neubert, July 2, 1999. Myrick and Mary Lamar, Feb. 14, 21, 2000. '97 Kimberly Burke to Santiago 2000. '90 Bill and Noel Alwood Andres Vera, March 18, 2000. '84 Matt and Karen Thompson Shamleffer, a daughter, Olivia

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Rozelle, Oct. 17, 1999. '94 Travis and Alison McVoy Colt, AR, April 25, 1999. He was a '90 Rob and Stephanie Swords, a Paul, a daughter, Carolyn Reed, retired employee and manager for daughter, Megana Grace, June 19, March 25, 2000. Firestone Tire and Rubber 2000. '97 David and Christina St. Clair Company, where he worked for 43 '90 Tom and Cathy Eschmeyer Lynch, a son, Tyler David, Jan. 13, years. A member of Wynne Baptist Wade, a daughter, Katherine 2000. Church and the Toast Master Club, Elizabeth, Aug. 9, 1999. he leaves his wife, Paula Fisher Nick- '90 Mitchell and Jill Parker Obituaries ells, two daughters, a son, six grand- Wells, a son, Remy Alexander, April '31 Mary Stewart Glass of children and one great-grandchild. 6, 2000. Dayton, TN, April 4, 2000. A '40 William E. Davidson Jr. of '91 Pat and Paige Williford Car- retired office manager of the Dayton Memphis, April 27, 2000. A retired ruth, a son, Joseph Davis, Sept. 30, Herald newspaper and widow of director of publications for the 1998. Franklin E. Glass '31, she leaves a University of Memphis and a World '91 Patrick and Maureen daughter, Winifred Glass Rogers '52, War II Army veteran, he was a mem- McCabe Farr, a daughter, Mary two sons, 10 grandchildren and nine ber of Christ United Methodist Grace, March 13, 2000. great-grandchildren. She was a mem- Church. He leaves his wife, Margaret '91 Jim and Stephanie Cook ber of St. Matthews Episcopal Shearer Davidson, two daughters and Meibaum, a daughter, Abigail Cecil- church in Dayton. four grandchildren. ia, March 10, 2000. '32 Rachel M. Baker of '41 Claude W. Brown of Colum- '91 Billy and Stacey Starr Pace Memphis, March 2, 2000. A retired bia, SC, formerly of Memphis, Feb. '92, a son, Henry Rogers, June 13, medical records technician for the 14, 2000. A former member of White 1999. Veterans Administration, she was an Station Church of Christ in '92 William and Erica Blank elder at Lindenwood Christian Memphis, he was the widower of Sue Bronson, a daughter, Georgia Lillian, Church and a board member of Lelia Brown. He leaves a daughter, two Feb. 9, 2000. Heuer Circle of King's Daughters sons and five grandchildren. '92 Jonathan and Shannon and Sons. '45 Thomas T. Tidwell of Fowler, a son, Malachi Melchiel '33 Herman H. Lerner of Knoxville, TN, April 14, 2000. He McGlohon, Jan. 30, 2000. Germantown, TN, May 3, 2000. A served as a Navy lieutenant in the '92 Jay and Disa Mason, a retired employee of Farber Brothers, Pacific during World War II and daughter, Sarah Boyd, March 28, he was the widower of Alma Lerner. worked for Procter and Gamble in 2000. He leaves two sons and two Memphis for 15 years before moving '92 Philip and Ashley Simmons grandchildren. to Atlanta. There, he founded the McCarthy, a daughter, Caroline '34 Jennie Cohn Samelson Triple T Co., a candy and gum man- Frances, Dec. 13, 1999. Magdovitz of Memphis, June 3, ufacturer and invented the popular '92 Scott and Katherine 2000. A retired real estate broker for Blow Pop. In 1971, he purchased Goodloe Peatross '93, a son, Samelson & Co., she was a charter City Lumber Co., an architectural Carter Goodell, March 10, 2000. member of the Million Dollar Club millwork firm in Knoxville. An avid '93 Donald and Holly Hall Price and Memphis Symphony Leagaue and Rotarian and civic leader, he served as '94, a son, Donald Nathan, May 5, was a board member of the Memphis president of the Southeastern Chapter 2000. Orchestral Society. The widow of of the Architectural Network Institute '92 Richie and Wendy Lawing Lester Samelson and wife of Joe Mag- and was a member of the national Trenthem '93, a son, James Griffith, dovitz, she also leaves a son and two board of directors of the AW1 in April 22, 2000. grandchildren. Washington, DC. The widower of '93 Gerald and Katherine '34 Harts R. Thomas Sr. of Valerie Tidwell, he leaves two daugh- Kennedy Flouhouse, a son, Harry Memphis, May 6, 2000. A retired life ters, three sons, 13 grandchildren and Gerald III, Dec. 8, 1999. insurance agent for Mutual Life Insur- four great-grandchildren. '93 Rick and Andrea Rose ance Company of New York, he was '47 Edward R. Dewey of Picerno '95, a daughter, Rebekah an active church and civic leader. He Memphis, April 23, 2000. A retired Rose, Jan. 9, 2000. served in the Navy during World deputy clerk of the U.S. Bankruptcy '94 Stephen and Shannon Carter War II and was awarded a Purple Court, he was a former president of the Divine, a daughter, Hannah Kate, Heart. He leaves his wife, Dorothy Memphis Auto Dealers Association May 16, 2000. Elizabeth Baskin Thomas '39, a son, and past director of the Tennessee '94 Scott and Frances Patrick a daughter, Bette Carol Thomas Scott Dealers Association. He was a veteran Lancaster, a daughter, Amelia '63, five grandchildren including Lyn- of the American Field Service for the Katherine, April 20, 2000. ley Scott Churchwell '90 and Valerie British 8th Army. A member of '94 Patrick and Rachael Scott Sowden '92, and two great- Idlewild Presbyterian Church, he leaves Wooldridge McCone, a daughter, grandchildren. his wife, Ann Tucker Dewey, a daugh- Caroline Elizabeth, May 4, 2000. '38 Henry Clay Nickells of ter, three sons and two grandchildren.

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'47 Ann Watkins Boatner phis and Shelby County Hospital Au- ued to serve as a retired judge on Groves of Memphis, March 31, thority and Port Commission. He was active status during the 1990s. A 2000. Reference librarian at Rhodes' the first attorney for the Memphis and professor of business law at the Burrow Library from 1948-76, she Shelby County Airport Authority. He University of Alabama Center in was a board member of the West also served as a lieutenant in the Navy Montgomery and Auburn Universi- Tennessee chapter of the American and was a member of Independent ty in Montgomery, he was also ad- Civil Liberties Union and supported Presbyterian Church. He leaves his junct professor of law at Jones various artistic organizations as well as wife, Caroline Martin Bartusch, three School of Law at Faulkner Universi- the food pantry at St. John's United sons and a brother. ty. He was a visiting professor of Methodist Church. After teaching '54 Charles R. Brady of law at the University of Alabama school at Messick Elementary and Memphis, Feb. 12, 2000. A retired School of Law in 1991. He leaves working as a librarian at Kennedy minister for the Memphis Conference his wife, Jacqueline Ferguson Veterans Hospital, she became a of United Methodist Churches, he at- Holmes '60, two daughters, his librarian at Rhodes and friend to a tended St. Luke's United Methodist mother and a brother. generation of students. A Church. He served as a courier for the '59 Elbert F. Simpson of Los An- communicant of St. John's Episcopal State Department during World War geles, March 10, 2000. He was a Church, she leaves two sons, two II and later became an employee of retired cardiologist for Hollywood grandchildren and a brother. Southern Railway. After retiring, he Presbyterian Hospital. A member of '47 Robert Mann of Memphis, worked for 10 years at Cokesbury Idlewild Presbyterian Church in April 18, 2000. A retired real estate Book Store. He leaves his wife, Evelyn Memphis, he leaves his wife, Nancy appraiser for Shelby County, he Ballard Brady, a daughter, a son and Nelson Simpson, and a sister. served on the board of trustees of four grandchildren. '65 James H. Justice Jr. of Opera Memphis, was a member of '56 Jo Layne Thorwarth Bullard Virginia Beach, VA, June 1, 2000. He Opera Guild, Memphis Symphony of Hot Springs, AR, Jan. 18, 2000. was the organist for Eastern Shore Orchestra Guild, Memphis Botanic She was a member of St. Luke's Epis- Chapel Episcopal Church and was Garden, Memphis Brooks Museum of copal Church, past president of Dura- choirmaster for the church since Art and Dixon Gallery and Gardens. tion Club, the founder of Martha's 1967. He leaves two sisters, four He was a communicant at Grace-St. Manor Daily Activities for Retarded nieces and a nephew. Luke's Episcopal Church and a World Adults at the Memphis YWCA and '69 A. Stephen Hanes III of War II Navy veteran. helped establish the Free Diagnostic Mobile, AL, June 2, 2000. He served '50 George N. Huntsworth of Clinic for the Rich or Poor. She leaves in the U.S. Marine Corps for four Greenfield, IN, Feb. 21, 2000. A high her husband, Eugene Bullard III, a years and was co-founder of Helix school music teacher and band direc- daughter and a brother. Properties Commercial Real Estate tor, he served as vice president and '57 Carrie Edwards Morrow of Co. and a certified commercial president of the Indiana State Music Germantown TN, March 10, 2000. investment member. He was also co- Association from 1967-68. He was pi- She was a retired producer/director at founder of the Commercial Property anist at First Baptist Church for 38 Germantown Community Theatre Directory of the State of Alabama. years. A World War II Army veteran and a Germantown Chamber of He belonged to the Mobile and a pianist for the 2nd Army Band, Commerce Ambassador. She was also Commercial and Investment Real he leaves his wife, Georgia Kirkpatrick a member of the Mystery and Estate Exchange Club and the Huntsworth, two daughters and four Romance Writers Association. The Rotary Club of Mobile. He leaves grandchildren. wife of James T. Morrow for 42 years, his wife, Reda Adcock Hanes, a son, '52 John Robert Starr of Little she also leaves a daughter and a son. a daughter, his mother, two sisters Rock, April 1, 2000. Columnist and '57 Lorelei Warner Webb of and two brothers. former managing editor of the Deming, WA, March 30, 2000. A '70 Marc Alain Dickey of Long- Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, he was a member of Everson Immanuel mont, CO, Feb. 23, 2000. A profes- sports writer for Memphis' Commer- Lutheran Church, she leaves a sional photographer, he leaves his cial Appeal and was with the Associat- husband, Albert Webb, three sons, wife, Gay Harrell Dickey. ed Press in Little Rock before joining four grandchildren, her mother and '78 Robert A. Nicholson of Tul- the old Arkansas Democrat. He leaves a sister. sa, OK, June 1, 2000. A psychology his wife, Norma Starr, a daughter, and '59 Richard L. Holmes of professor at the University of Tulsa, two sons. Montgomery, AL, May 2, 2000. A he leaves two daughters, two sons, his '53 Erwin Brady Bartusch of former three-term state appeals mother, a sister and a brother. Memphis, April 6, 2000. A reitred at- court judge, he was selected as '79 Patricia J. McMullen of Mem- torney with the law firm of Montgomery's Man of the Year in phis, May 29, 2000. A medical technol- Humphreys Dunlap Wellford Acuff 1984 and served on the University ogist, she was a member of Eudora & Stanton, he had served as city of Alabama's board of trustees from Baptist Church. She leaves her parents, attorney, general counsel for Memphis 1997 until his death. He retired a brother and her grandmother. Light, Gas & Water Division, Mem- from the court in 1989, but contin-

44 SUMMER 2000 RHODES tt y mother sacrificed a great deal to help me attend m Rhodes at a time when her own financial resources were fairly limited. Thanks to her and financial aid from the college, I began a journey of learning at Rhodes that changed my life in a profound way," says Gray Stevens '82, an investment banker at Merrill Lynch in Chicago.

"Because Rhodes was so important to me, the college has Allison and Gray Stevens '82 always meant a lot to my mom. When we heard about the dollar for dollar scholarship match, Allison and I immediately felt that establishing the Alice Stevens Christenson Scholarship would be a perfect way to honor her through a gift that would impact others for years to come. It is a privilege for us to participate in something so meaningful."

hen I learned of the matching grant, I jumped at the W chance of establishing a scholarship," says Randy Rhea '77, a family medicine physician in Roanoke, VA.

"I had been looking for a very special way to honor my parents, and establishing the Percy M. & Ramona R. Rhea Scholarship seemed so right.

"Every step of the way in my career I have felt the presence of my parents, who never failed to offer their love and support. Graduation night June 1977 with Goodbar Morgan '31, Randy Rhea '77 and his parents, They always encouraged me academically, and this scholarship Ramona R. Rhea and Percy Rhea will enable them to encourage others in perpetuity."

You, too, can honor someone who made a difference in your life and help students experience a life- changing education at Rhodes. Thanks to a matching fund of $4 million, you can establish an endowed scholarship for only $25,000 rather than the usual minimum requirement of $50,000. Gifts are payable over a five-year period. Gifts of $10,000 or more to an existing fund will also be matched dollar for dollar.

Call Charlotte Patton Parks, Associate Dean of Development, at (901) 843.3850 or 1-800.264-5969, or email [email protected] to find out how you can make a difference in the lives of Rhodes students. RHODES RHODES 2000 North Parkway Memphis, Tennessee 38112-1690

The Mace of Rhodes College Commissioned by the college this year and crafted by Memphis artist Brian Russell '83, the mace is now carried by th*nior faculty member in formal aca ' ocessions. d ip The shaft of walnut, bronze and glass contains f ymbols from the college seal. The open Bible atop the blue glass orb is taken from the very center of the seal. The other symbols are placed around the orb: the owl, the Greek symbol of wisdom; the raised right arm representing the Masonic origin of the college in 1848; the burning bush, or the presence of God; and the lotus flower, the Egyptian symbol of immortality. The bronze leaves surrounding the orb represent the oak and laurel on the college seal, emblematic of strength and victory.