Rollins College Rollins Scholarship Online Rollins Magazine Marketing and Communications Summer 2007 Rollins Alumni Record, Summer 2007 Rollins College Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarship.rollins.edu/magazine Part of the Higher Education Commons Recommended Citation Rollins College, "Rollins Alumni Record, Summer 2007" (2007). Rollins Magazine. Paper 26. http://scholarship.rollins.edu/magazine/26 This Magazine is brought to you for free and open access by the Marketing and Communications at Rollins Scholarship Online. It has been accepted for inclusion in Rollins Magazine by an authorized administrator of Rollins Scholarship Online. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 19501 6/26/07 9:46 AM Page A SUMMER 2007 THE ROLLINS COLLEGE Colloquy ROLLINS convenes Thought leaders to discuss the future of liberal eDucation 19501 6/26/07 9:46 AM Page B 19501 6/29/07 6:47 AM Page 1 TRUSTEES OF ROLLINS COLLEGE Allan E. Keen ’70 ’71MBA, Chairman of the Board F. Duane Ackerman ’64 ’70MBA ’00H, Vice Chaiman of the Board Theodore B. (Ted) Alfond ’68 Francis H. (Frank) Barker ’52 ’06H OLLINSALUMNI RECORD William H. Bieberbach ’70 ’71MBA Jacqueline L. Bradley R SUMMER 2007 William K. Caler, Jr. ’67 Glenn C. Cook Meg Gilbert Crofton ’75 Andrew J. Czekaj, Sr. Lewis M. Duncan, Ph.D. Jon W. Fuller, Ph.D. Ronald G. Gelbman ’69 ’70MBA Alan H. Ginsburg Rick Goings About The COVER Warren C. Hume ’39 ’70H The Hon. Toni Jennings Photos of Rollins Colloquy participants Thomas G. Kuntz ’78 (l-r) Francis Fukuyama, Maya Gerald F. Ladner ’81 Angelou ’85H, and Salman Rushdie David H. Lord ’69 ’71MBA Michael Maher ’63 by Judy Watson Tracy John C. (Jack) Myers III ’69 ’70MBA Michael G. Peterson ’74 Thomas J. Petters Charles E. Rice ’64MBA ’98H FEATURES Joanne Byrd Rogers ’50 ’05H Phillip G. St. Louis, M.D. Rooms With a View . 10 Sandra Hill Smith ’73 ’74MBA High-tech classrooms give Rollins students R. Michael Strickland ’72 ’73MBA ’04H windows on the world. Christabel Kelly Vartanian ’68 Harold A. Ward III ’86H By Ruth Jackson Winifred Martin Warden ’45 Victor A. Zollo, Jr. ’73 Thinking Out Loud . 16 The Rollins Colloquy brings together thought Honorary Trustees : leaders for a conversation on liberal education Barbara Lawrence Alfond ’68 in the 21st century. Betty Duda ’93H By Stephen M. Combs ’66 The Hon. W. D. (Bill) Frederick, Jr. ’99H Joseph S. Guernsey The Art of Teaching . 24 OFFICERS & ADMINISTRATION Page 20 Education is as integral as art to the Cornell OF ROLLINS COLLEGE Fine Arts Museum. Lewis M. Duncan, Ph.D., President By Robyn Allers Roger N. Casey, Ph.D. Vice President for Academic Affairs DEPARTMENTS George H. Herbst, Vice President for Business and Finance and Treasurer Campus News . 2 Greg W. Marshall, Ph.D.,Vice President for Then & Now . 6 Strategic Marketing Cynthia R. Wood, Vice President for Sports Scene . 7 Institutional Advancement Faculty Profile . 8 Richard F. Trismen ’57, Secretary Alumni of Note . 27 ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARD Connected for Life! . 30 OF DIRECTORS Barbara Doolittle Auger ’89, President Class News . 31 Kurt M. Wells ’95, Vice President Spotlight on Young Alumni . 39 Peter S. Bok ’92, Treasurer Elizabeth A. Ashwell ’99, Member at Large Regional Events . 42 Robert B. Ourisman ’78, Member at Large Page 8 David F. Berto ’56 Alumni Perspectives . 43 James E. Chanin ’87 Robiaun Rogers Charles ’94 Kristin Marcin Conlan ’89 EDITOR: Mary Wetzel Wismar-Davis ’76 ’80MBA CLASS NEWS EDITOR: Brendan J. Contant ’89 Laura J. Cole ’04 CONTRIBUTORS: Robyn Allers, Laura J. Cole ’04, Stephen M. Combs ’66, Stephanie Duesing, Nathaniel Eberle ’98 ’01MACCT, Anne Crichton Crews’75 Maureen Harmon, Jeni Flynn Hatter, Ruth Jackson, Elaine Worth Liles, Warren Miller ’90MBA, Daniel Pauling ’08, Kimberly Stowers De Gennaro ’98 Carolyn R. Planck, Vickie Pleus, Lorrie Kyle Ramey ’70, Zaida Rios, Russ J. Stacey ’05HH, Ann Marie Varga ’82, Nate Weyant Jose I. Fernandez, Jr. ’92 DESIGN: Design Studio Orlando, Inc. Asunta D’Urso Fleming ’81 Charles R. Gallagher III ’95 MISSION STATEMENT: The Rollins Alumni Record serves to maintain and enhance the relationship between Rollins College and its alumni and other Gregory M. Goldman’00 constituencies by building pride in the institution through effective communication of news of alumni and the College. It aims to keep readers of varying Cyrus W. Grandy ’69 ages and interests connected to current developments, programs, and achievements at Rollins, and to keep alumni connected to each other. The Tamara Watkins Green ’81 magazine is the College’s primary vehicle for communicating to alumni Rollins’ mission of commitment to educational excellence, educating Teresa Greenlees ’97 students for global citizenship and responsible leadership, innovation in pedagogy and student services, and maintaining the close community ties Edward F. 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Wilner ’82 POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Rollins College, 1000 Holt Avenue - 2747, Winter Park, FL 32789-4499. De Anne P. Wingate ’96 19501 6/26/07 9:46 AM Page 2 CAMPUS NEWS PROFS AND STUDENTS TO CHART NEW COURSE FACULTY feats CULTURAL EXCHANGES—At the invitation of Shanghai’s East China University of Science and Technology, Professor of Religion Yudit Greenberg traveled to China and Tibet to teach her course Love, Eros and Religion in a Cross- cultural Dialogue. While there, she also delivered a DUESING lecture at the Institute of Jewish Studies at Nanjing University. Her journey STEPHANIE included stops in Beijing, Lee Lines (l), Associate Professor of Environmental Studies and Diane and Michael Maher Associate Professor of Distinguished Teaching, and Barry Allen, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies Xian, and Lhasa, Tibet, where she met with anthro- pologist Leigh Miller and attended the opening of her BRAVE NEW WORLD Greenberg (r) with a Tibetan pilgrim art show, Inside Out, featur- ing local Tibetan artists. T HE WAY L EE L INES AND B ARRY A LLEN SEE IT, Jennifer J. Petters Associate Professor of International environmental studies is the ideal arena in which to experiment with Business Ilan Alon was invited by the Taipei Economic & a total-immersion interdisciplinary curriculum. Cultural Representative Office in the United States to join a This fall, they will have the opportunity to test that theory when delegation of visiting scholars to Taiwan in January 2007. He they become the entire faculty for 14 first-year students in an was also invited to be a non-resident visiting scholar this fall experimental, semester-long scholarly adventure that will encompass at Harvard University Kennedy School of Government’s economics, politics, geography, and ethics. In four courses—all with Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government - Asia Programs, where he will give presentations on China to Harvard Lines and Allen—students will look at the relationship between food fellows and students and coordinate additional cooperation and sustainability. between Harvard University and Rollins College. Alon’s case Each professor will teach two courses, and each will attend the “Master International Franchising in China: The Athlete’s Foot other’s classes as a student. It is the ultimate in interdisciplinary (A)(B)” has been selected to appear in the fourth edition of the education, where everyone will be engaged in the same pursuit textbook Entrepreneurship. throughout the entire semester. In planning sessions, Allen and Lines realized this educational P U B L I S H E D —Assistant Professor of Politics Erica structure was about as close to ideal as one could imagine—partially Bouris’s new book, Complex because of its lack of structure. “If we have no other commitments, and Political Victims, was released in they have no other commitments—we are free to create an optimum February. In it, Bouris reexamines learning experience outside the realm of traditional education,” Allen the role of the victim, reframing said. “The students will play a vital role in how the experience unfolds.” major events such as South Unfettered by conflicting class schedules, sometime around Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation mid-semester students and professors will pack up and head west for Commission, the Holocaust, and the war in Bosnia to take into two weeks to study both large-scale and organic agriculture in the account the “complex victim.” Pacific Northwest. Her work was exhibited last spring Lines has a Ph.D. in geography, Allen in economic history. From at the annual meeting of the these perspectives, the students will experience four courses—The International Studies Asso- Environmental Crisis in its Cultural Context, The Political Economy of ciation in Chicago. Food, Culture and Agriculture, and Landscapes of the American West— that meet Rollins’ general education requirements. WISH GRANTED—Assistant Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures Gabriel Barreneche was awarded the College’s The two environmental studies professors, who have a combined prestigious Hugh and Jeannette McKean Grant for 2007-2008.