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Rhodes
(ISSN #1075-3036) is
published four times a year in winter, spring,
summer and fall by Rhodes College,
2000 N. Parkway, Memphis, TN 38112-1690.
It is published as a service to all alumni,
students, parents, faculty, staff and friends of
the college. Spring 1995—Volume 2, Number
2. Second class postage paid at Memphis,
Tennessee and additional mailing offices.
EXECUTIVE EDITOR: Helen Watkins Norman
EDITOR: Martha Hunter Shepard '66
ART DIRECTOR: Trey Clark '89
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It's an academic rite of spring when classes move outdoors. Here,
Professor Mehran Kamrava conducts a class in international studies.
-Photo by Trey Clark
r
e editorial staff of Rhodes welcomes comments from readers,
and when it comes to responding to controversial issues, those
readers don't disappoint.
Response to two articles in the winter issue included letters and
verbal comments of both praise and criticism of "Going Against
the Green," the story outlining Profs. Ben Bolch and Harold Lyons'
dispute with environmentalists' claims of doom, and a report of Dr.
Arthur Kellermann's '76 research on gun control in "Protection or
Peril?"
Even The Sou'wester, the student newspaper, got into the act with
a good-humored parody of the last issue's magazine cover featuring
Profs. Bolch and Lyons.
Indeed, the environment and gun control are topics of major
interest. They elicit strong responses from people on all sides of the
debate, and in the Rhodes tradition, they should.
That's what a Rhodes liberal arts education is all about. It creates
an environment where students are taught to examine every side of an
issue, to argue it and wrestle with it before forming an opinion.
For alumni, that learning doesn't stop in Fisher Garden on
commencement day. Thanks to Rhodes, we learn to form opinions,
to change our minds, to grow. And with grace, like the students of
The Sou'wester staff, we retain our good humor throughout.
—Martha Hunter Shepard '66, Editor
LoDtents
FEATURES
Athletics At Rhodes
Making the Match
The
scoreboard
isn't the
only proof that
Rhodes' athletic
program is a winner.
How do colleges
recruit and
choose the
students they
admit? How do students
pick the right college?
Here's a guide to the
college mating game,
Rhodes-style.
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Turk's Art:
Made To Border
Sleuths Follow Math's Path
The game's afoot in
associate professor
of mathematics
Terri Lindquester's
"Science of Secret Writing"
class.
14
Gregor Turk '82 finds
artistic inspiration along
the 49th Parallel.
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DEPARTMENTS
2 CAMPUS NEWS
30 SUMMER READING
News of Rhodes events, faculty, students and friends
Profs. Michael Leslie, Darlene Loprete, Frank Mora and
Valarie Ziegler give their top picks of books that both
educate and delight.
A-1 ALUMNI NEWS
Features, Class Notes, For the Record
27 IN PRINT
New books by faculty and alumni.
28 CAMPUS VOICES
32 ATHLETICS
33 CALENDAR
Rhodes President James Daughdrill defends liberal arts
colleges' faculties; Republican strategist William Kristol
analyzes "The '96 Elections and Beyond;" anthropologist
Helen Fisher discusses evolving human relationships.
COVER—Lynx right fielder Patrick Ricks '96 (bottom left) , punter Jason Turns '97 and runner Charlotte Turnipseed '97
normally don't wear uniforms to class, but they do combine scholarship and athleticism. (See story on page 6.) —Photo by Trey Clark
Rhodes magazine is printed with soya ink on recyclable paper.
CampwiNews
College Breaks Ground For Campus Life Center
A
the physical plant
modem and muchand the person
needed Campus
overseeing the
Life Center (CLC) is
building project.
finally making the
This hit-theleap from dream to
ground-running
reality, catapulted by
construction
several major gifts this
schedule means
spring.
that Mallory and
Trustee Winton
Hyde GymnasiBlount and his wife
ums will be ready
Carolyn added
for use next fall
$500,000 to the $2
and winter, many
million they've
months ahead of
already contributed to
Portrait of Catherine Wilkerson
schedule. The
the CLC, Rhodes'
Bryan for whom Bryan Hall, the
future home for athlet- Campus Life Center's activities football, soccer
and basketball
ics, recreation, fitness building, will be named.
teams are expected to be in
and other extracurricular activities.
Mallory/Hyde in time for fall practice
Jim Barton and his wife Carol, parents
and competition. Mallory/Hydes' new
of Coleman Barton '92, recently conracquetball courts, weight room and
tributed $100,000.
women's locker room should be ready
Thanks to these new gifts, chalfor student use by early next January.
lenge commitments from the Kresge
Officials predict an August 1996
and Briggs Foundations, and many
completion for Bryan Hall—
other prior gifts and pledges, Rhodes
which will house the indoor track,
has forged ahead with the most ambistudent commons area, ballroom, and
tious building project in its history.
a large multi-use area for recreation
The CLC is expected to cost $19.5
and large events—and for the athletmillion to construct and furnish and
ics building: quarters for the coaches'
$2 million to endow.
In February renovation work began offices, training room and weight and
on Mallory and Hyde Gymnasiums.
And on April 20, during the spring
meeting of Rhodes' board of trustees,
bodes' Career Services is creating a
Rhodes was scheduled to break ground
network of parent volunteers to
on the two new buildings in the CLC:
Bryan Hall, the activities building, and help students in career decision-making and that all-important job search.
the as-yet-unnamed athletics building.
"Parents can provide invaluable
Construction of the CLC was originally projected to take 22 months. "By assistance to students by sharing information about their career fields and
condensing the construction schedule
encouraging their organizations to
and running the renovation and the
become involved in hiring Rhodes
new construction simultaneously,
graduates," according to Patrick
however, we hope to reduce the conDonahue, assistant director of
struction period by as much as six
Career
Services.
months," said Brian Foshee, director of
exercise space.
All spring sports—baseball, golf,
track and tennis continued to practice and compete this semester as
usual, said Athletic Director Mike
Clary. But the athletes showered and
dressed for competition in their residence halls. "We still played intramural basketball and softball," said
Clary. "Students put up with the
sound of walls being torn down underneath the gym and tractors moving
dirt adjacent to the baseball field, but
intramurals went on," Clary said
Because of the construction, temporary trailers have emerged on the
north side of campus, providing a base
of operations for the coming months
for Rhodes' athletic staff and for Allen
and O'Hara, the general contractor for
the CLC. The Mallory/Hyde Gymnasiums and Alburty swimming pool are
closed this spring and summer.
"We knew it was going to be an
inconvenience this spring for our students, faculty and staff," athletic director Clary acknowledged. But the
benefits of moving into completely
renovated athletic facilities early far
exceed the inconvenience, he
believes.
Parent Network Aids Job Search
R
Rhodes
If you're a parent, please study the
reader services card enclosed in your
copy of this issue of Rhodes Listed on
it are ways you can provide volunteer
assistance to Rhodes students.
Please check the activities in which
you are most interested and mail the
card today to: Patrick Donahue,
Assistant Director, Career Services,
Rhodes College, 2000 North Parkway,
Memphis, Tennessee 38112-1690.
Telephone: (901) 726-3800.
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Campus Dews
Five To Receive Honorary Doctorates At Commencement
O
singer Kallen Esperian and
civic leader and Rhodes trustee S.
Herbert Rhea, both Memphians, are
among the five individuals who will
receive honorary degrees from Rhodes
during commencement ceremonies
May 13. The other three whom
Rhodes will salute are Pulitzer Prizewinning newspaper editor Paul
Greenberg, Colorado physicist John;
Firor and Spencer McCallie III, longtime headmaster and teacher at The
McCallie School (Chattanooga).
Kallen Esperian, who will
receive an honorary doctor of music
degree, won the Luciano Pavarotti
International Voice Competition a
decade ago and has since performed
around the globe. She opened the
Paris opera season at the Bastille last
September, sang at La Scala in Milan
with tenor Jose Carreras, and will
make her Covent Garden debut in
London in July. She will also make
her debut at the Arena di Verona in
Italy, singing the role of Micaela in a
production by Italian director Franco
Zeffirelli.
Herbert Rhea, doctor of humanities, is a longtime Rhodes supporter
and member of the board of trustees.
President of Rhea Financial Corp. and
a graduate of the University of Tennessee, he became a licensed certified
public accountant in 1950. Since then
he has been a managing partner of the
Rhea and Ivy CPA firm and founder
and president of SSM Corp. He. is a
past president of the Tennessee Society of CPAs. The recipient of Rhodes'
Distinguished Service Medal in 1980
for outstanding service to the college,
he serves on the boards of several
companies and is chairman of Memphis' Dixon Gallery and Gardens. He
is a board member of the Thomas W.
pera
Rhodes
Briggs Foundation, which
provided construction of
the student center in the
mid-1960s, renovation of
the facility in the 1980s
and recently, a major
challenge gift for the
construction of the
Campus Life Center.
Rhea also provided the
Linda Williams Rhea
Scholarship in honor of
his wife. The Rhea
Lounge in Briggs Student
Center is named in the
couple's honor.
Dr. John Firor,
doctor of science, is the
director of the advanced
study program at the
National Center for
Atmospheric Research
(NCAR) in Boulder,
Colo. Under his direction Professor Emeritus of Physics Jack
Taylor '44, Professor Bob MacQueen
'60 and Associate Professor of Physics
Jack Streete '60 have worked and
studied at NCAR and its High Altitude Observatory through the years.
His book The Changing Atmosphere:
A Global Challenge (Yale University
Press, 1990) has been published in five
languages.
Paul Greenberg, doctor of letters, is editorial page editor of the
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and a syndicated columnist. He won a Pulitzer
Prize for editorial writing in 1969
while at the Pine Bluff (Ark.) Commercial newspaper. He interrupted his
more than 30-year career at the Commercial with a stint at the Chicago
Daily News in the mid-1960s. He
joined the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
in 1992. He is the author of two
books, Resonant Lives (Ethics and
Public Policy Center, Washington,
D.C., 1991) and Entirely Personal
(University Press of Mississippi, 1992).
Spencer McCallie, doctor of
humane letters, is one of a select few
to be a third-generation headmaster of
a U.S. private secondary school. After
graduate work at Harvard, where he
earned his master of education degree,
and four years as a navy officer, he
returned to McCallie in 1963 as an
English instructor. He later served as
chairman of the English department,
director of admissions and associate
headmaster before assuming his
current post. He is a past president of
both the Mid-South and Southern
Associations of Independent Schools
and currently serves on the boards
of several professional and civic
organizations.
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Campus New
Schifidler's List Author Speaks At Rhodes
As part of a year-long focus on the
Australia at the time his grandparents emigrated from Ireland, is due
rescue and altruism,
out this spring.
Rhodes brought to campus this spring
Keneally first
Thomas Keneally,
heard the story of
author of the awardOskar Schindler's
winning book
"list" in 1980 from
Schindler's List.
a Los Angeles
Keneally, an Ausshopkeeper who
tralian citizen curwas a Schindler
rently teaching in the
survivor. That
graduate writing promeeting set in
gram at the University
motion the chain
of California at Irvine,
of events that led
spoke to a large audito Keneally's book
ence from campus and
and Steven Spielthe Memphis commuberg's film of the
nity.
Thomas Keneally
same name.
Keneally's visit to
The character of Oskar Schindler,
Rhodes concluded the 1994-95
a German industrialist and Nazi who
Schindler Symposium, a campus-wide
saved more than 1,200 Jews during the
study of the Holocaust and rescue
Holocaust by sheltering them in his
behavior. The symposium began in
August when entering students were
assigned to read Schindler's List.
Associate professor of religious
nhodes will host the 26th annual
studies Stephen Haynes, a Holocaust
Hmeeting of Solar Physics Division
researcher, has headed up the
of the American Astronomical Sociprogram.
In addition to Keneally's visit, the
ety June 5-9. Approximately 200 participants from around the U.S. are
Rhodes Schindler Symposium has
expected to attend.
included a private showing of the
Various Rhodes physics faculty and
movie Schindler's List, for Rhodes
students—made possible by the Malco staff will be organizing the program
and the conference itself: professors
Quartet and the Lightman family of
John Schmelz, Robert MacQueen '60,
Memphis—and public lectures by
Schindler survivor Rena Ferber Finder Jack Streete '60 and Gerrit Verschuur
and staff member Eva Owens.
and Pearl Oliner, an expert on altruThe scientific program will include
ism and "rescue behavior,"-.__,.. nearly 200 oral presentations concernCharacterized as belonging to the
new breed of "international" writers
ing the latest research being conwho address the complex cultural
ducted at major solar observatories
and political climate of today's world, including those in space, such as the
Japanese/American satellite Yohkoh.
Keneally has written more than 25
The meeting will also feature sevnovels. His most recent books are
eral key addresses by leading members
Jacko and Memoirs of a Republic.
of the solar physics community in
His latest book, Rivertown, set in
nHolocaust,
armaments factory, attracted Keneally
precisely because Schindler contradicted traditional views of the onedimensional altruistic personality.
Schindler was a charmer, a black marketeer, a bon vivant and a womanizer
who made millions from his activities
on the Polish black market and
through his dealings with the German
army. Yet, he spent millions bribing
Reich officials to keep the Jews under
his care safe from the Nazis' extermination camps.
Schindler's List, which was released
in Australia under the title Schindler's
Ark, was awarded the Booker Prize for
Fiction—Britain's most prestigious
book prize—in 1982 and the Los
Angeles Times Prize for Fiction in
1983. The film, for which Keneally
wrote an early screenplay, received
numerous Oscars.
Rhodes Hosts Solar Physics Meeting
Rhodes
honor of the extraordinary contributions of one of their most prominent
theoreticians, Prof. Eugene Parker
from the University of Chicago.
Four daily "Parker lectures" are
planned. They include Prof. Parker
himself on "Solar Variability," Dr.
Tom Holzer from the High Altitude
Observatory in Boulder, Colo., on
"The Solar Wind," Prof. Bob Rosner
from the University of Chicago on
"Structuring in the Solar Corona" and
Prof. Nigel Weiss from the University
of Cambridge on "Sunspots."
The scientific contributions at the
meeting will be divided into several
categories including helioseismology,
dynamo theory, photosphere, chromosphere, corona, flares, higher
energy solar physics, solar wind, coronal heating and magnetic fields.
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Cpus News
Nominations Sought For 10th Portrait In Faculty Series
Mine years ago Rhodes alumni were
ni invited to nominate a favorite
professor to be the subject of a portrait. The faculty member selected
that year was W. Raymond Cooper,
longtime professor of history, whose
portrait inaugurated the college's Distinguished Faculty Portrait Series.
Since then, portraits of eight additional faculty, all nominated by their
former students, have been added to
the series. The portraits are displayed
in the refectory's West Hall.
Detailed brochures about the series
are being mailed to alumni this
month. In the brochure is a nomination form for the next subject in the
portrait series. Alumni are asked to
submit nominations for a pot tiait to
be unveiled at Homecoming '95.
The brochure also notes that
photographic reproductions of all the
paintings in the series, similar to the
ones shown here, are now available to
all alumni. Each quality reproduction
measures 11 x 14 inches and may be
purchased at $50 each, which includes
postage and handling.
Alumni have already honored the
following professors included in the
Distinguished Faculty Portrait Series:
Raymond Cooper, Marion MacQueen,
David Amacker, John Quincy Wolf,
Jack Farris, Fred Neal, John Henry
Davis, Charles I. Diehl and Dan Ross.
Others included in the college's permanent collection are Charles
Townsend, Margaret Townse.ra
Theodore Johnson, James Roper,
Granville Davis and Ralph Hon.
All faculty portraits are painted by
Memphis artist Tom Donahue who over
the years has painted numerous business
and civic leaders, judges, corporate
officers and other dignitaries. He has
received commissions from universities,
Rhodes
churches,
government
agencies and from
St. Jude Children's Research
Hospital of Memphis for a painting
of its founder, the
late Danny
Thomas.
Donahue is a
1966 graduate of
Christian Broth- Prof. David Amacker
Prof. Jack Farris
ers High School
where he received the Freedoms Founof Art. In 1994 he was named to the
Council of Leading American Portrait
dation Award for an editorial cartoon.
He attended the University of Memphis Painters by the Portrait Institute.
and has taught at the Memphis College
Photos by Trey Clark
Singers Plan '95, '90 Spring Tours
T
he Rhodes Singers will tour the
Deep South in May, including a
performance in the prestigious Warfield
Concert Series in Helena, Ark., where
top American and European artists
perform throughout the year.
The Singers' program, titled
"Music of the American Folk,"
includes both sacred and secular
music. Their schedule is as follows:
May 14 11 a.m., First Presbyterian
Church, Greenwood, Miss.; 8 p.m.,
Warfield Concert Series, Lily Peter
Auditorium at Phillips County
Community College, Helena, Ark.
May 15 7:30 p.m., First Presbyterian Church, Greenville, Miss.
May 16-7:30 p.m., Madison United
Methodist Church, Madison, Miss.
May 17=7:30 p.m., First Presbyterian Church, Natchez, Miss.
May 18-7:30 p.m., First United
Methodist Church, Baton Rouge, La.
May 21 8:30 and 11 a.m., Spring
Hill Presbyterian Church, Mobile,
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-
Ala.; 7:30 p.m., Trinity Presbyterian
Church, Fairhope, Ala.
May 22-7:30 p.m., First Presbyterian Church, Florence, Ala.
During the trip, many Singers will
be looking ahead to their May 13-26,
1996 concert tour of Central Europe.
Next year's tour, in which Singers
alumni and members of the Rhodes
Chorale are cordially invited to participate, will take the group to Prague,
Salzburg, Vienna and Budapest.
Singers alumni and Rhodes Chorale
members who wish to go are urged to
make their travel plans now, says conductor Tony Lee Garner.
The trip, which will cost approximately $2,000 per person, includes airfare, lodging, one meal per day and
ground transportation on the continent. For more information, Singers
alumni and Rhodes Chorale members
should contact Tony Lee Gamer,
Rhodes College, 2000 N. Parkway,
Memphis, TN 38112, 901 726-3775.
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Athletics At Rhodes
A Class Act
By Helen Watkins Norman
With Reporting by Bill Sorrell
Photography by Trey Clark
(Clockwise from top left) Laura
Lavender '98 puts her best foot
forward. De Andre Devon "Dee Dee"
Brown '97 carries the baton for
Rhodes. Though they don't normally
wear uniforms to class, Patrick
Ricks '96, Jason Turns '97 and
Charlotte Turnipseed '97 do live
with the daily demands of balancing
academics and athletics. Joe
Huffine '95 attempts to block a
kick by Carnegie-Mellon. (Top right,
this page) A symbol of conference
supremacy is a 300-pound railroad
bell awarded each year to the
college with the best overall sports
record. Rhodes' own bell is rung
when the Lynx score a touchdown.
ap-tops are more visible
than high tops as the
wide-bodied bus carrying
Rhodes' basketball teams
edges slowly onto
University Street and away from
campus. Today is Thursday.
1 he day's classes are over.
But the study hour has just begun
as Rhodes' men's and women's
basketball teams head out for
another weekend of competition.
"As soon as the bus rolls out
of the parking lot, out come the
lap-top computers and the books,"
says men's head basketball coach
Herb Hilgeman, a veteran of 19
years of basketball road trips
for Rhodes.
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ilgeman and women's
basketball coach Sarah
Hatgas and their respective teams spend countless hours on the road, traveling
together on a chartered bus through
Arkansas, Kentucky, Missouri,
Georgia, Mississippi and Tennessee.
In one basketball season they cover
roughly 5,000 miles.
The schedule intrudes as little as
possible on students' academic lives.
Men and women both play away
games on Friday nights. Saturdays the
teams travel to the next competition
site. And on Sunday afternoons both
teams compete again. After bolting
down dinner at Wendy's, they return
to the bus for a four- to eight-hour
drive back to campus Sunday night.
Once a year—when the Lynx play
distant Trinity University in San
Antonio, Texas—they travel like
their amply-funded counterparts in
Division 1—by air. Last year as the
Lynx teams sat in San Antonio's airport awaiting their return flight home,
Coach Hilgeman was reminded of the
chasm that separates the big-budget
sports programs of Division 1 and
Division 3, the league for colleges like
H
Rhodes which don't award athletic
scholarships.
His players were sprawled around
the room, their eyes fixed on chemistry and economics notes or weighty
anthologies of English literature.
Looking on, from seats nearby, were
members of a well-known Division 1
team, Hilgeman recalls.
One of the other team's players
turned to Mike Gonda '94, a Rhodes
forward and the college's No. 3 alltime leading scorer. "I can't believe
you are all studying," the Division 1
player remarked. "We haven't been to
class in three weeks."
ports powerhouses like football's University of Nebraska
and basketball's University of
Kentucky may dominate
America's TV screens and sports
headlines, to the point they seem representative of collegiate sports. But
actually, there are more athletic programs like Rhodes' than there are
sports giants like Nebraska and
Kentucky. Competing in NCAA
Division 3 are 355 colleges or universities; Division 1 has 302. There are
355 schools in Division 2, the niche
for colleges that give athletic scholar-
S
Team captain Jason Watkins '95 comes out swinging.
Rhodes
ships but have more scaled-back
sports budgets.
The NCAA established Divisions
1, 2 and 3 in 1973. The goal was for
teams with similar resources and mission to play one another and be subject to the same division-specific rules.
Up until then, teams were divided
into only two categories: university
and college.
Within Division 3 Rhodes competes in the Southern Collegiate
Athletic Conference (SCAC), which
it helped found in 1962 and which
includes University of the South,
Centre College, Trinity University
(Tex.), Hendrix and Milisaps Colleges,
and Oglethorpe and Southwestern
Universities. All have an approach to
athletics similar to Rhodes.
"The biggest difference is in the
philosophy of Division 3," says athletic director and head football coach
Mike Clary '76. At Rhodes, and other
Division 3 schools, the emphasis is on
the athlete, not the fan, explains
Clary, a former Lynx football player
himself and winner of the National
Football Foundation's "scholar athlete" designation when he was a
senior.
"The bottom line is not putting as
many people in the stands as possible," says Clary. (Teams competing in
football in Division 1 must have an
average 17,000 fans at home games.)
"The bottom line for Rhodes is: what
are we doing to give these student
athletes the best opportunity to participate?"
The athletic experience should be
high-quality, challenging and fun, on
the one hand, Clary explains. "But
the amount of time athletes spend on
their respective sports should in no
way prohibit them from being as good
in the classroom as they would be if
they were not playing."
For Scott Brown '96, vice president
of the Student Assembly and a forward on Rhodes' basketball team,
excelling in the classroom comes as
naturally as success on the court. A
6-foot-5 math major who turned
down Harvard to attend Rhodes,
Brown led the conference in rebounding this year. With that performance
and a 3.8 grade point average, it's no
surprise he was recently named to the
GTE Academic All American list.
As a member of Division 3 Rhodes
awards scholarships based on brains,
not brawn, and need, rather than
speed. That explains why there are
currently eight athletes at Rhodes,
including basketball's Brown, who
were valedictorians or salutatorians of
their respective high schools; why
there are 30 Lynx athletes who scored
at least 30 on the ACT exam or 1300
on the SAT and why 53 of Rhodes'
athletes entered the college with an
average GPA of 3.75.
Two-thirds of Rhodes' athletes—
the same proportion as the student
body at large—received aid based on
academic merit or need, defraying the
$15,200 annual tuition at Rhodes.
"The challenge is not so much
recruiting the top-level athletes who
are also outstanding students," says
Clary. "It's working through the
process of dealing with affordability.
It's a very time-consuming,
Rhodes
One of the
biggest
hurdles
facing
Rhodes' athletes is time
to "do it all."
Shown here,
Kristin
Oswalt '96, a
member of
last year's
track team.
painstaking process."
In fact, the entire recruiting
process demands that Rhodes coaches
put hobbies and other interests on
hold during winter and spring.
Whereas Division 1 sports must conclude recruiting efforts by Feb. 1,
Division 3 recruiting can and does
continue until mid-May. "I don't
think our recruiting is harder than
Division 1," says Clary. "But I do
think we spend more time at it."
Nearly every weekend fall through
spring-9 to 5 Saturdays and all
morning Sundays—coaches are on
campus, escorting visiting athletes
around and explaining to them and
their parents what Rhodes athletics is
all about. The exception is Nov. 15
through Dec. 15 when Rhodes'
coaches collectively visit about 400
high schools outside Memphis.
Come January and February the
real endurance test begins. In addition
to prospects' visits, coaches spend four
nights a week at Rhodes calling
potential students, encouraging athletes' applications, answering their
questions and generally letting them
know of Rhodes' interest in them.
With a lean coaching staff, recruiting is bound to be a long and intense
process. "You're always recruiting,"
says Sarah Hatgas, coach of women's
basketball and men's and women's
tennis. She recruits from every state
in the South.
Still, the athletic staff tend to
emphasize the positive.
"One thing about Rhodes, it sells
itself as far as academics," says men's
basketball coach Hilgeman. The
approach with players and parents is:
"look not only at what Rhodes can do
for you now, but what it can do for
you after you graduate."
"Future employers are not worried
about your batting average. They
want to know what courses you studied and what your GPA was," says
baseball coach Jim Elgin '86. "I know
this sounds funny coming from a
coach, but academics are number one.
Athletics are, obviously in my heart, a
close second."
cademics do come first in
a Division 3 program like
Rhodes. But that doesn't
mean the 280 Rhodes
students who compete in varsity
sports are any less committed to winning.
"It's often said that our athletes
play for the fun of it," says AD and
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the fall with a 15-5-1 record. The
football coach Clary. "That's true. But
two-year record for women's soccer
we've found out that it's a lot more
is 36-2-1.
fun to win than to lose. At any level
■ The men's cross country team has
individuals equate fun with success.
won five straight conference chamVery seldom do you hear people saypionships and two consecutive
ing they're having fun when they're
men's track titles.
losing."
"Don't think it's going to be a cake ■ In the four years they've competed
walk because it's Division 3," track
in earnest, the women's track and
team member Robert Record admoncross-country teams have improved
markedly, each capturing second
ishes. "It doesn't matter whom you
place in conference competition.
beat," he claims. The satisfaction is
Defeat, while infrequent, has
still a big by-product.
"We want our athletes to celebrate nonetheless occurred in Rhodes'
sports program. After a nine-year
victory and we want them to feel the
winning streak and a cumulative
agony of defeat," says Clary. "If it
doesn't feel good to win or doesn't
record of 58-18-4, the Lynx football
team has just concluded two losing
hurt to lose then you truly lose an
seasons.
edge with your opponents."
"There are cycles of winning and
In the last five years, Rhode athlosing," admits Clary who has
letes have had plenty to "feel good"
coached football at Rhodes for 15
about.
■ Rhodes has won two
SCAC all-sports titles
(1991-92 and 1992-93)
and two runner-up titles
in 1990.91 and 1993-94.
■ Football coach Clary
ranks 25th in number of
wins among active
Division 3 coaches. His
1988 NCAA playoff
team went 8-1.
■ The men's basketball
team, under Coach
Hilgeman, finished 19-6
in 1993-94 and was
ranked fourth nationally.
■ Nao Kinoshita, a senior
from Tokyo, Japan, is the
South's No. 1, Division 3
women's tennis player,
and she's ranked 8th
nationally. She's one of
15 ranked tennis players
Hatgas has coached in
her 19 years at Rhodes.
■ Men's and women's soccer were both nationally
ranked this year, for the
first time ever. The men
received their first
Steve Smith '95 scores one for the Lynx.
NCAA tourney bid in
Rhodes
years. "Fortunately Rhodes' philosophy allows that cycle to transpire.
There's an opportunity to rebuild,
turn things back around.
"If you were to lose two years in a
big sports school," says Clary, "you'd
be fired."
t's not just how a college wins or
loses that separates Division 1
and 3. It's how they play the
"game" of varsity sports.
For Division 1, the game rules
include paid tutors and personal trainers for athletes. At Rhodes, athletes
"are the tutors," laughs track team
member Billie Ann Snodgrass. And
athletic talent brings no special privileges when it comes to reduced academic loads or less rigorous courses.
As for "personal trainers," they're
as rare at Rhodes as mandatory study
halls. Were a misguided athlete to
request such a perk, he or she would
likely receive directions to Coach
Sarah Hatgas' group tae kwon do
class. (Not only do Rhodes' athletic
staff coach two sports, they also teach
a PE class or two per year.)
"You can't distinguish athletes
from other students," says Dr. Valarie
Ziegler, associate professor of religious
studies and a former Division 3 athlete herself. She played basketball and
ran track and cross country at conference rival, Centre College.
Rhodes Spanish professor of 31
years, Donald Tucker, agrees. At
Rhodes athletes are "not a breed
apart," he says.
Division 1 athletes tend to live in
"jock" dorms, feast from gourmet
training tables or lobster-steak menus
on the road and manage overnight
stays at plush hotels. While on the
road, Rhodes athletes dine on
Wendy's and McDonald's and stay in
Holiday Inns (if they're lucky). On
campus they eat standard cafeteria
fare.
"We're lucky to make it to the
cafeteria before it closes," says
Robert Record, a business major
from Louisiana. In Division 1, they
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Things have
been looking
up for
women's
basketball
which
recently
scored its
200th win
under the
direction of
19-year
Rhodes
Coach Sarah
Hatgas.
eat lobster. "We have popcorn
shrimp," he jokes.
Associate professor of religious
studies Stephen Haynes ran track and
cross country at Vanderbilt. While
earning his master's degree at Florida
State University, he held the job of
overseeing study hall for athletes.
"Special arrangements were made for
many athletes; they were not prepared
to do college work.
"Everything that is expected of any
Rhodes student is expected of a Rhodes
student athlete," says Haynes, who
coached women's track and field at
Rice University before deciding on a
career as a professor. "I don't feel exceptions are made for athletics (at
Rhodes); no special rules apply for athletes. Coaches have never suggested to
cut a break or expect less of an athlete."
"We have the right kind of college
athletics program. It's the kind of program every college and university
should emulate," says Prof. Tucker,
who formerly taught at a Division 1
school. "I appreciate our program
because I can see what's wrong with
expensive athletic programs at other
institutions."
Rhodes
r many of Rhodes' students
the challenge isn't simply a
matter of balancing academics
and athletics. It's juggling the
demands of other extracurricular
activities as well.
"Our athletes are very diverse, talented young men and women. They
love to socialize; they love to participate in extracurricular activities; they
wish to be committed (to various
campus initiatives)," says Clary. The
phrase "spreading yourself to thin" is a
common lament on campus.
Rhodes athletes populate fraternities and sororities. They help out at
the YMCA and at the soup kitchen
that Rhodes students operate. They
are members of every organization
that exists at Rhodes.
"At the Division 3 level you can
have it all but there are times you're
going to have to forego a social event
so you can study," says track and cross
country ,coach Robert Shankman '80,
who gave up a promising career as a
banker to coach at his alma mater. "If
students make the decision to participate in athletics, they're not going to
have time for everything 100 percent.
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They have to prioritize."
Senior Welch Suggs might be an
exception to that rule. To most
observers, it seems Suggs has done it
all and done it all well.
Suggs was one of six from around
the nation to receive Rhodes' top
merit-based scholarship out of 700
nominated that year. He's a threetime all-conference in cross country,
four-time all-conference in track and
the conference defending champion
in the 5,000 meters. He's also captain
of the track and cross-country teams,
and a member of Mortar Board,
Omicron Delta Kappa leadership fraternity and Leadership Rhodes.
At Rhodes you can pursue a number of different opportunities as well
as sports..."if you're willing to work,"
says Suggs. A philosophy major who
was recruited by Ivy League schools as
well as big-sports schools like Wake
Forest, Suggs thinks Rhodes was the
right choice. "If I'd gone to a place
like Wake Forest I would never have
had the chance to work for the student newspaper, much less be the editor of two student newspapers."
Nor would he have had the time
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to participate in Kappa Sigma fraternity, edit the chapter's magazine,
serve as publications commissioner at
Rhodes and work two full days a week
as writer/intern at the Memphis
Business Journal, a weekly business
newspaper in the city.
Suggs, who was recently accepted
to the University of Missouri's graduate journalism program, traveled
recently to a Division 1 track meet to
observe those runners in action. What
he saw, he says, was athletes doing the
same thing he does. "There was a
quantitative difference—they were
running faster. But there was no qualitative difference. It's the same sport.
We're all striving for the same sorts of
goals."
Jason Turns is another "involved"
student athlete. An all-conference
baseball player and second team allconference in football, he came to
Rhodes because of the emphasis on
academics but also because he "didn't
want to give up one sport for
another." In addition to stellar performances on the gridiron (he set a
school record for punts and total
yardage) and the baseball diamond,
where he led the conference in hitting last spring, the history major from
Madison, Tenn., manages to volunteer six hours a week in the recreation
ministry of a Memphis Baptist church.
How can these athletes keep so
many balls in the air simultaneously?
Women's basketball player Amy
Alderson—a singer, pianist and contender in this summer's Miss
Tennessee pageant—has a simple
answer: "I don't sleep this semester."
ports have been a part of the
Rhodes experience since the
1880s when the college
fielded its first athreiicteam—a ragtag group of baseball players—in a schedule that consisted of
matches against non-collegiate town
teams. In September 1888 football
appeared on campus: "At first in the
hands of only a few boys but before
(that first) afternoon was over about
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25 enthusiastic fellows were pursuing
the ball and good health," noted a
newspaper in Clarksville, Tenn.
where the college was then located.
Back in the 1920s and '30s, in fact,
Rhodes played some of the country's
mightiest teams on the gridiron. That
was back when legendary football
coach Jimmy Haygood led the
Lynxcats to a 20-20 tie against Ole
Miss and Rhodes' most famous quarterback Harold "Chicken" High
scored the college's one and only
For one thing, the number and
diversity of varsity sports has
expanded. Typical of the outcropping
of new sports at Rhodes was soccer,
which began in the fall of 1969. Scott
Howard '73 and F. Clark Williams
'73, freshmen then, announced in the
student newspaper their plans to form
a school soccer team. About five players showed up for the first practice,
held at Evergreen Presbyterian
Church because Rhodes' football field
was off limits to them.
Like other
Rhodes
athletes,
Don Keeney
'95 uses his
head to
outmaneuver
the
competition,
on the field
and in the
classroom.
touchdown that year against the powerful Crimson Tide of Alabama.
Even then, however, athletics
came second to academics. Dr.
Charles E. Diehl, the president who
brought the college to Memphis,
would have it no other way. He was
determined that the college wouldn't
overemphasize athletics at the
expense of scholarship. Athletic competition was important in the overall
scheme of college life. But not as
important as performance in the classroom, he underscored.
Times have changed markedly
since those early days of Rhodes sports.
Locating teams to play was almost
as tough as finding players. "I remember some high school teams and a trip
we made to the University of
Mississippi in our own cars. We lost 32," notes Scott Howard.
Rhodes now has a men's soccer
teams of 24; and a women's, of 19.
While the soccer program expanded
steadily for two decades, it has
enjoyed a major growth streak since
the arrival four years back of Rhodes'
first full-time soccer coach: Andy
Marcinko. In addition to their regular
fall schedules, Marcinko has organized
summer competition abroad for both
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the men's and women's teams. He led
the men to Fastern Europe in summer
1993 and the women to Finland in
summer 1994.
Soccer is just one sport that has
surged ahead with the growing
involvement of women. In the last 20
years, the number of women playing
varsity sports has more than doubled.
In addition to soccer, there are now
women's teams in cross country, track,
volleyball and—as of this year—golf.
Another palpable difference in
Rhodes' athletic program over the
years is the facilities. Mallory and
Hyde Gymnasiums, which weren't
even a dream in the 1920s and '30s,
are now aging landmarks, in need of
major renovation. That upgrade will
occur this spring and summer in conjunction with the construction of a
new Campus Life Center, which will
be the hub of fitness, sports and
extracurricular life.
Though the facility's scope extends
well beyond varsity sports, Rhodes'
coaches believe it will, nonetheless,
have a dramatic positive effect on the
recruiting of athletes. It will also provide a home for sports of equal caliber
to the facilities that support the academic program.
espite the changes that the
decades have brought, Dr.
Diehl's philosophy about
the role of athletics has
remained constant through the presidencies of Peyton Nalle Rhodes,
David Alexander, Bill Bowden and
James H. Daughdrill Jr.
So have the reasons for participating in a sports program like Rhodes'.
It's not for the glory of 15,000
screaming fans nor for the pleasant
perks that come with being a sports
star. And it's most definitely not for
the pay.
"I do it," says Rhodes track champ
Welch Suggs, "because I love it."
Given the true and long-term purpose of a college education, that may
be the best reason of all. R
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Rhodes
Lynx of Distinction
A tiger may be larger, a lion more
majestic. But the Lynx, Rhodes'
beloved mascot of 72 years, has something neither of her feline sisters
can claim: distinction. Rhodes is
the nation's only four-year undergraduate college to adopt the lynx
as its mascot.
Research indicates that the decision to
"go lynx" was Dr. Charles E. Diehl's.
Some sources say Diehl chose the animal for
its uniqueness, small size and scrappy nature, a fitting representation of
Rhodes' athletic teams.
When the question of "why a lynx?" was put to him, however, Diehl
allegedly responded that "a lynx is more pleasant than a skunk."
There was a short period in Rhodes' sports history when the mascot
was more than an inanimate emblem.
In the late 1960s, Rhodes received a live lynx. The animal was one of
four cubs an administrator, Jim Chambers, discovered in a tree while on
a hunting trip in New Mexico. He raised the cub for a year at home
before giving her to the college in hopes of boosting spirit at home
games.
A name-the-cat contest among students produced Molly Bloom, an
appellation favored by English majors and fans of James Joyce. For a year
or two Miss Bloom peered from her cage at Rhodes' home games. She
was eventually sold to the state's Game and Fish Commission.
Rhodes isn't the only one in the Southern Collegiate Athletic
Conference with an out-of-the-ordinary mascot. Here's how some other
teams in the SCAC got their names
Oglethorpe University's "Stormy Petrels" are so-named
because a small sea bird—the stormy Petrel—signalled land for
General James Oglethorpe, leading him to the shores of Georgia.
Centre College, a Presbyterian College like Rhodes, once had
the nickname the "Praying Colonels" because of the football team's
habit of praying before games. Perhaps their prayers were answered: in
the 1930s the name was shortened to the Colonels.
Milisaps College gets its "Majors" nickname from Confederate
Army Major Reuben Webster Milisaps, who founded the college
in 1890.
University of the South, with its Princeton-like architecture,
also adopted that institution's mascot, the tiger.
Trinity University also has a tiger by the tail. Its cat, however, is
named for the Detroit Tigers of the American League which previously held spring training camp nearby.
Hendrix's "Warriors" came via suggestions from students, faculty
and alumni in the 1930s.
Southwestern University's student body chose the "Pirates"
as a mascot in the early 1900s despite the school's noncoastal locale.
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Sleuths
Follow
Math's Path
By Susan McLain Sullivan
ear and disinterest in mathematics disappeared this
spring for students enrolled in a course titled:
"WKH VFLHQFH RI VHFUHW ZULWLQJ."
Deciphered, that's "The Science of Secret Writing."
In her Math 105 course by that name, Associate
Professor of Mathematics Terri Lindquester takes primarily
non-science majors through the rich and varied world of
cryptography—the art and science of designing formulas to
disguise messages.
The focus of her course is cipher systems not codes,
two often-confused means of secret communication. A
code involves a (usually large) code book containing
groups of letters or numbers that are substituted for words,
phrases, or even whole sentences in the original message.
To decode the message one needs a copy of the code book.
With ciphers, on the other hand, the basic unit is an
alphabetic letter, or possibly pairs of letters. Also there is a
mathematical rule or algorithm which assigns a cipher
character for each letter in the original message. With
ciphers, the receiver can recover the secret contents of the
message by applying this mathematical rule in reverse.
The receiver needs to know the secret key for that
particular cipher. This could be a keyword, a key number,
or a setting on a machine which controls the system's
variable elements.
Rhodes
Lindquester begins with elementary Greek and Roman
cipher systems—like the Caesar cipher in the course title
above. In this Caesar cipher, so named because Julius
Caesar used it to encode messages sent to other officials,
every letter is moved forward three places in the alphabet
(T-H-E becomes W-K-H, for example), allowing for quick
transcription. In the second part of her course, she investigates the modem-day cryptographic algorithms used in
high-tech computer applications.
Students also learn that centuries-old mathematical
equations have become extremely valuable when they
serve as the foundation of modern computer encryption,
such as public-key systems used everyday with PIN
(Personal Identification Number) security numbers for
electronic funds transfers and for electronic mail security.
"I wanted to design a course that would make students
say, Wow! That sounds really interesting!"' said
Lindquester, who received her Ph.D. in mathematics from
Emory University in 1988 after earning her undergraduate
degree there with highest honors in 1983.
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mathematicians. That is, I want
them to learn to use their deductive
reasoning abilities and problem-solving skills to break and construct
ciphers. I think that it's exciting for
them when they realize that they are
following some of the same mental
paths of reasoning followed by the
cryptanalysts of ancient Greece and
the code breakers of World War II.
We try to have fun with it."
he course, which
Lindquester designed
specifically for non-science
majors, requires students to
apply mathematical principles to
understand a cipher's structure and
't
how "safe" it is.
Somewhat surreptitiously,
Lindquester educates students in theoretical mathematics (such as number
theory) using the thematic setting of
cryptography.
"It amounts to trying to teach
mathematics with a flair," she said,
adding that she thinks the approach is
working. "I have had students who
claim that they have never felt very
comfortable with their mathematical
skills, yet are confronting these cipher
systems as if they never had a problem! Somehow doing mathematics
and applying it in an intriguing, yet
rather unconventional setting has
provided a measure of confidence for
some skeptical students."
Maybe it is because her lectures
often touch on areas of familiarity.
She lectures about how world history
has been influenced by cryptography
and what a vital role it has played in
certain periods of history, particularly
in the first and second World Wars,
and even what letters of the alphabet
pop up most frequently in English
communication.
One of the first ciphers she has her
class "break" is a relatively simple substitution cipher found in the famous
"little black book" of Freemason
Robert B. Folger, written in 1827, and
translated more than 100 years later.
It contains details of secret European
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Masonic rituals.
The class also reads Edgar Allan
Poe's suspenseful story of "The Gold
Bug," which reveals the whereabouts
of a buried treasure through a mysterious monoalphabetic substitution
cipher.
Proceeding on to the cryptanalysis
of keyword ciphers and affine ciphers
(ciphers constructed with linear equations), students sharpen their skills in
pure logical thinking.
Several classes later, students study
more complex ciphers and systems
using elementary probability theory,
properties of matrices, and modular
arithmetic—a method used to scramble numbers. They also use elementary number theory to study more
advanced cryptographic security
ciphers in use today. Lindquester also
includes a discussion of the ethical
issues involved with the ClipperCapstone system, a new encryption
scheme proposed by the White House
in 1993 which could allow the FBI to
monitor certain computer and telephone communications.
"With the increased use of electronic data processing in society, the
need for electronic security has never
been so great," Lindquester said.
ryptography can protect
information transmitted
through vast communication networks.
"Computer encryption protects
passwords when you transfer money
through an automatic teller machine.
Also phone communications via
satellites are protected this way,"
Lindquester said. "As the Internet
(computer network) expands its horizons, society will depend on appropriate levels of cryptographic security
to enable us to use this vital new
form of electronic communication.
Encryption protects private information such as credit ratings and medical histories now stored in computer
data banks."
Lindquester also covers schemes
that assign identification numbers,
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such as bar codes (used in ZIP codes
and other machine readable codes),
driver's license numbers, and identification numbers for airline tickets.
These are known as error-correcting
codes.
"These mathematical constructs
are used daily in our modern culture
to transform information in such a
way that transmission errors can be
detected and possibly corrected,"
Lindquester said.
With a mathematician's gift for
precision Lindquester demonstrates
logical applications of mathematics in
step-by-step detail throughout the
course, frequently writing out on the
board not just mathematical formulas
but essential portions of her lecture
for students.
ecently Lindquester
invited a colleague and
professional cryptanalyst,
r. Peter Hilton, to lecture
to the class. Hilton was a member of
the secret British team of mathematicians who helped break the German
Enigma Code.
A witty mathematician and
scholar who had studied German as a
youth, Hilton talked passionately
about the intellectual intrigue of
ciphers and the immense challenge
the complex ciphers of the Germans
posed to him and his colleagues. He
talked about the outstanding work of
Dr. Alan Turing, the famous British
mathematician who played a major
role in the invention of the computer,
and who led the code-breaking and
cryptanalysis team throughout World
War II, helping to reveal Hitler's
troop communications to Allied
forces.
In one way his lecture differed dramatically from Lindquester's detailed
deciphering sessions in class. Because
of bureaucratic security concerns of
various governments, Hilton said he
had to make one request of the audience that day—there could be
absolutely no note taking. R
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Rhodes
Wanted: Rhodes
Memorabilia
Call it Montgomery Masonic
College, Stewart College,
Southwestern Presbyterian University
or Southwestern At Memphis—a
Rhodes by any other name would
smell as sweet. And come 1998 the
college now called Rhodes, founded
in 1848 in Clarksville, Tenn., will
celebrate its 150th anniversary.
The occasion calls for a year-long
observance in 1998, including a commemorative book on the history of
the college to be written by longtime
friend of Rhodes, Bennett Wood.
The book is the third of Rhodes'
never-ending story. History professor
W. Raymond Cooper wrote the first,
marking the college's centennial in
1948. Later, English professor James
Roper took up the standard,
chronicling the college's history from
1948-75. Wood's book will cover the
150-year spectrum and include as
many photographs as possible.
That's where alumni help is needed. Rhodes' archives and the committee which is planning the 150th
anniversary celebration are looking
for memorabilia, including
photographs and publications from
the college's earliest times to the present. These items will be considered
for the anniversary book or anniversary exhibits on display in 1998.
The wish list includes: student
handbooks from 1941-1947, 1962,
1971 and 1972; yearbooks from 19011905, 1907 and 1910-1923; football
programs prior to 1955 and programs
Rhodes Alumni
•
from 1962, 1963,
drill unveiled a
portrait of Brown
1974, 1977,
1978, 1979,
at the Board of
1982 and
Trustees' winter
1983-1986; any
meeting.
photographs,
A longtime
especially from
trustee, Brown
was first elected
Clarksville, from
the 1920s and
to the board in
1967. He served
'30s in Memphis,
as well as frateras chair of the
nity and sorority
Finance Commitcomposites; protee from 1978-81,
grams from plays Palmer Brown by his portrait
as treasurer of the
photo by Trey CIO* college and as
and commencechair of the Audit Committee from
ments prior to 1935; posters from
1983-85. He currently serves as Life
campus events prior to 1980; and
Trustee and member of the Board
scrapbooks of campus organizations.
Direction and Leadership Committee
All donated items will have a perand on the Campaign Executive
manent home in the Goodbar
Committee for the 150th Anniversary
Morgan Archives located in Burrow
Campaign for Rhodes.
Library, assures Rhodes archivist ElizHe was the founding president of
abeth Gates Kesler, who oversees a
growing collection of college memora- the Charles E. Diehl Society, which
bilia. Still, there are gaps that need to began in 1973 with eight members. It
has grown today to 100 members who
be filled, and any items of your era
give between $5,000 and $25,000
would be welcome additions.
For further information, or to send
annually to the college.
your donation of memorabilia, please
Also active in numerous church
and civic organizations, Brown is
contact: Helen Norman or Loyd
noted for his commitment to the
Templeton, Co-Chairs, 150th
Anniversary Committee, Rhodes Col- National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
lege, 2000 N. Parkway, Memphis, TN A member of its national board of
directors since 1951, he is past presi38112-1690, 901 726-3875.
dent and chairman of the national
society and single-handedly managed
and coordinated local Memphis activities for many years. In 1986 he
received the Multiple Sclerosis SociHailing Memphis businessman
ety's prestigious Hope Award for outstanding philanthropic and
Palmer Brown '30 as one who "has
community service.
made a major difference in the life of
this college," President James DaughHe is owner of L.P. Brown Enter-
Portrait
Honors Brown
A-1
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prises, president emeritus of L.P.
Brown Co. Inc., director of the Wade
Fund Inc. and president of the L.P.
Brown Foundation.
Honors Come
In Twos
There is a distinguished Rhodes
presence at Virginia Wesleyan
College. Anderson On '52 and Bill
Jones '66 are professors there, and
they recently received simultaneous
honors.
On was appointed to the Lambuth
M. Clarke Chair in English, an
endowed chair named in honor of the
college's president who retired last
year. At the same time, Jones, who
teaches political science, received the
Thomas Nelson Gray Award for distinguished teaching.
The Art Of Living
Artist Pinke Mueller Wilson '66
was recently featured in The Commercial Appeal in an article written by
Mary George Beggs '55. Home for
Wilson is Hickory Valley, Tenn.—
some 50 miles from Memphis—where
she lives with husband Carlos who
owns Tencom Systems, a communications company, and their daughter
Annie. It's also headquarters and
showplace for Wilson's art which
touches every aspect of her life.
An art major at Rhodes and ever
since, Wilson has put her paintbrush
to practically every available surface
including her beflowered vintage Jeep
truck that sports painted-on iron gates
on its doors. "If it doesn't get away
from me, I paint it," she was quoted as
saying.
Most of her painting and decorating she does for pleasure, but she has
sold some of her work, such as the
small plywood tables she paints in the
form of flowers and fruits.
Rhodes Alumni
"I was probably the poor woman's
Martha Stewart before she had to go
into business," said Wilson.
Marlow Works
At Immigration
Review Office
opportunities. During her travels she
visited Brady and Betty Wray Anderson, both '68, in Tanzania, where
Brady is U.S. ambassador. Ellen's son
Henry and the Andersons' daughter
Heath are first-year Rhodes students.
Barnett Named
Pavarotti
Semifinalist
Kristal Marlow '91 is with the U.S.
Justice Department's Executive Office
for Immigration Review in Arlington,
Soprano Desiree Earl Barnett '88,
Va., where she works for the counsel
an
artist-in-residence
at the Portland
for the chief administrative hearing
Opera, was selected a semifinalist
officer.
in the Luciano Pavarotti internaAccording
tional solo competition in the
to Marlow, her
winter.
office handles
For the audition she chose
cases involving
what is normally considered a difemployer sancficult aria from Don Pasquale. This
tions and "the
spring, Barnett is rejoining
law that makes
husband Bob Barnett '88 in New
it illegal to
York to audition for professional
hire illegal
jobs. Bob is a graduate student at
immigrants,"
Kristal Marlow
photo by Liss Gray Columbia University.
she says. Provisions in the 1994 crime bill fund her
job along with several other positions.
In October she'll join the civil
For Mary Helen Russell Butler '92,
division in the office of immigration
youth education coordinator at the
litigation where her clients will
include the Immigration and Natural- Memphis Botanic Garden, being
"green" comes naturally.
ization Service, state department,
In charge of the garden's youth
Executive Office for Immigration
education
classes and environmental
Review and the president.
summer camps, Butler fulfills a variety
Marlow graduated with honors
of requests, from conducting
from the University of Syracuse last
educational birthday parties for sixMay with a law degree and a master's
in political science. She took the New year-olds to insect or tree study for
older elementary school students.
York bar exam, passing with high
She was a philosophy major at
marks and earning a certificate in
Rhodes and a dedicated member of
international law.
Campus Green who also worked parttime for the Shelby County Environmental Improvement Commission.
One semester, she worked for a WashEllen Moorhead Fennell '72, a
grant writer for Winrock International ington, D.C., research group on the
cost of litigation on the North HollyInstitute near Little Rock, last fall
wood dump in Memphis, scheduled to
toured several African countries
be cleaned up through the federal
researching agricultural education
Easy Being Green
Into Africa
A-2
Alumni
Superfund program.
Now, she enjoys working with
children. Her co-workers call her the
"Pied Piper." Says Butler, "I try to
make it seem like whatever we're
doing is a discovery for all of us."
Correction
Russell Perry,
president of the Class of
'33 was mistakenly listed
as president of the Class
of '34 in the winter issue
of Rhodes.
The wrong photo of
Dr. Will Coleman '75,
an assistant professor at
Columbia Theological
Seminary in Decatur,
Ga., was published in the winter issue
of Rhodes. Pictured here is the real
Will Coleman.
Lee Boyd '89 is scheduled to
receive his M.B.A. from the University of Michigan, not the University of
Memphis, in April 1995.
Jerome Franklin '89 is a senior
financial analyst with the medical
products group of Hewlett Packard.
He lives in the Boston area.
Rhodes regrets these errors.
event were Lois and Carl Fisher '65,
Laura Keever '89 and Debby and
John Wallace '75.
VERO BEACH—Mary and John
Wellford, parents of Angie '98, invited alumni, parents and friends,
including the college counselor from
St. Edwards School, to
their home for an
evening of Rhodes fellowship and good food.
Guests met director of
major gifts Wendy Tallent Rotter '87.
SAN
FRANCISCO—Bay
Area alumni and their
families gathered in
Berkeley to learn the
latest news from the
Rhodes campus. Cynthia Gladney
Steele '70 coordinated the afternoon
event. Other alumni hosting the
event were Chris Amy '69, Sidonie
Sansom Bosin '82, Kara Hooper '90,
Suzanne Lea '84 and Charie Bowman
Reid '65.
Alumni Gatherings
MEMPHIS—Eloise and Sam
Mays '39 (left) and Bill '51 and
Helen Quindley McClure '51 hosted a theatre party at McCoy for
the classes of 1930-60. Mildred
and John Whitsitt '43, not
pictured, were also hosts.
Photo by Marti Becker
CHARLOTTE—Laura Keever '89
(left), David '82 and Christe Ray
Eades '82 and Rhodes trustee
John Wallace '75 served a chili
supper. Not pictured are hosts
Debby Wallace and Lois and Carl
Photo by Sally Jones
Fisher '65.
Club News
MEMPHIS—Area alumni from
the classes of 1930-60 recently attended a lively production of the musical
Chicago at McCoy Theatre.
Classmates visited and enjoyed
delicious desserts at a reception
following the performance. Hosting
the event were Eloise and Sam Mays
'39, Mildred and John Whitsitt '43
and Bill '51 and Helen Quindley
McClure '51.
CHARLOTTE —David '82 and
Christe Ray Eades '82 entertained
area alumni at their home in
February. Guests battled the winter
chill with spicy chili. Also hosting the
Rhodes Alumni
A-3
Class Notes
By Sarah Beth Larson '97
and Ginger Crouch '97
Caldwell, was inducted into the
Memphis Society of Entrepreneurs
in February.
LEROY MONTGOMERY,
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BAXTER POUNCEY,
PRESIDENT.
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1996
Mary Moore Smith of San
Diego, grandmother of three, says,
"At 85 I am rolling along. I still drive
my sporty 1973 RX-2 Mazda and have
a new driver's license for four more
years."
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PRESIDENT.
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1996
of
Hazlehurst, Miss., celebrated the 50th
anniversary of his ordination in the
winter.
The Rev. Jac Ruffin
CHARLES REED, PRESIDENT.
PAUL TUDOR JONES,
32
PRESIDENT.
NEXT REUNION: FALL
1997
Frances Durham Etter,
co-owner of Coleman-Etter, Fontaine
Realtors in Memphis, was inducted
into the Memphis Society of Entrepreneurs in February.
RUSSELL PERRY, PRESIDENT.
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1998
Marjorie Raymond Coleman, Memphis resident and
co-owner of Coleman-Etter, Fontaine
Realtors, was inducted into the
Memphis Society of Entrepreneurs in
February.
Carroll Johnson of Winona,
Miss., says, "I am 84 years old and just
enjoying life traveling around here in
these wonderful United States."
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NEXT REUNION: FALL
Robert Udelsohn
1997
of
Memphis joined the
Memphis law firm of Glankler Brown
as a partner in the winter.
DON GORDON, PRESIDENT.
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1999
recently
represented Rhodes in inauguration ceremonies at Columbia University Teachers College.
Jim Mitchener
48
MCGUIRE, PRESIDENT.
1998
is serving as
an interim minister at Sunrise Presbyterian Church on Sullivan's Island,
S.C. He and wife Lenoir welcomed
two grandchildren into their family
last year.
Leslie Tucker
HARTS THOMAS, PRESIDENT.
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NEXT REUNION: FALL
1999
Memphis attorney Charles
Crump was awarded an honorary doctor of civil laws degree during
the opening convocation of Saint Augustine's College in Raleigh, N.C.
Aubrey Smith, a retired faculty
member at the University of Georgia,
is internationally recognized as a pioneer in producing educational films.
MCKAY BOSWELLt
38
PRESIDENT.
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1998
of Memphis, charter member of the Memphis
City Council and founder and senior
partner of Tennessee's largest law firm,
Baker, Donelson, Bearman
Lewis Donelson
Rhodes Alumni
BILL COLEY, PAUL CURRIE,
SO
CO-PRESIDENTS.
NEXT REUNION: OCT.
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NEXT REUNION: FALL
1998
The Rev. Bill Allen
recently represented Rhodes at
inauguration ceremonies at Elmhurst
College.
John McConnico of Merry
Point, Va., was a member of a crew of
seven who sailed a small sailboat 1,800
miles south of New Zealand to the
Auckland and Campbell Islands. The
subantarctic islands, unoccupied by
people, "are the breeding ground for
sooty albatross, crested penguins, hooker seals and elephant seals," he says.
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To TAYLOR THRELKELD,
PRESIDENT.
NEXT REUNION: FALL 1999
Peggy Fitch
Witherspoon of Richmond, Va.,
grandmother of five, is serving in her
fifth year as session clerk of Ginter
Park Presbyterian Church.
REG GERMANY, PRESIDENT.
MARTHA CARROLL
NEXT REUNION: FALL
CHARLES SULLIVAN,
PRESIDENT.
13-
14, 1995
Richard Dixon, professor emeritus of
history at the University of Arkansas
at Little Rock, recently spoke on "Forgiveness as Taught by Christ" to members of the St. Veronica's Guild of
Trinity Episcopal Cathedral. It was his
sixth successive talk to the group.
Dr. Stratton Hill, head of the
pain and symptom management
section at Houston's M.D. Anderson
Cancer Center, was a member of the
organizing committee and a speaker at
an international hospice/palliative
care convention in the Philippines in
the winter.
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NEXT REUNION: OCT.
14,
13-
1995
Reg Germany, president
and CEO of the Citizens Bank of Collierville, Tenn., has been named to
the board of regents of the Mid-South
School of Banking.
Rachel Gobbel Norment of
Hampden-Sydney, Va., is 1994-95
vice president of the Virginia Watercolor Society and is hard at work planning for the 16th Annual Jurored
Exhibition in June.
The Rev. Bill and Bettie Worthington Shenk '54 have moved
from Collierville to Kingston, Tenn.
TIM TURNER, PRESIDENT.
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NEXT REUNION: FALL
1996
recently
represented Rhodes in inauguration ceremonies at St. Andrews
Presbyterian College.
Dr. Carl Walters
JIM AND MARGARET FAGAN
57
EIKNER, CO-PRESIDENTS.
NEXT REUNION: FALL
1997
Jerry Wittmann Weise,
A-4
Class Notes
grandmother of four, continues to
teach high school math in Mt.
Pleasant, S.C.
BETTY CHALMERS PEYTON,
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PRESIDENT.
NEXT REUNION: FALL
1998
Nancy Connell
Crenshaw and her husband Lou, a
family physician, have lived in Humboldt, Tenn., for 30 years. They have
three sons, a daughter-in-law and a
granddaughter.
Graham Hicks of La Grande,
Ore., owns and operates Custom
Video Productions, a firm that makes
documentary videos for local, regional,
state and national businesses.
The Rev. Paul Pritchartt
recently represented Rhodes in
inauguration ceremonies at Converse
College.
CAROL ANN GREAVES
59
ROCKETT, MIKE LUPFER,
CO-PRESIDENTS.
NEXT REUNION: FALL
1999
recently represented
Rhodes at inauguration ceremonies at
the University of Osteopathic Medicine in Des Moines, Iowa.
Jane Barker Konitz of
Wappingers Falls, N.Y., was recently
named editor of the New York Synod
News which is published five times
yearly by the Regional Synod of New
York, Reformed Church in America.
Richard Park of Signal Mountain, Tenn., vice president of the financial resources division of
Provident Life, recently retired after
37 years of service.
Walker Weliford was elected
1994-95 president of the Memphis
chapter of the American Society of
Chartered Life Underwriters and
Chartered Financial Planners.
Dr. John Gay
KIM BAXTER HENLEY,
60
PRESIDENT.
NEXT REUNION: OCT.
13-
14, 1995
works as a
state preschool teacher for San Diego
City Schools at Wegeforth Children's
Nancy Koehn Bond
Rhodes Alumni
Center.
Lou ELLYN HINDMAN
is in Atlanta, where
he has taken a year's leave of absence
from 30 years in the parish ministry
to accept a grant to work in the area
of the church and fine arts. His
daughter works with women with
AIDS and their children in San Francisco, and his son is in prep school.
Dr. Bob Mansfield is a professor
of New Testament at Oral Roberts
Graduate School of Theology and second associate pastor of Christ United
Methodist Church, Tulsa, Okla.
Jim Curtis
LYDE ELLA CONNER LANCE,
63
13-
NEXT REUNION: OCT.
14, 1995
Memphian Lonnie Evans was
recently named AutoZone Inc.'s executive vice president of store development and customer satisfaction.
John Flippin recently represented
Rhodes at inauguration ceremonies at
Randolph-Macon.
Joyce Moore of Lubbock, Texas,
performed in "Steel Magnolias." The
play was a fund-raiser for the student
scholarship fund at Lubbock-Cooper
High School where she teaches.
PRESIDENT.
NEXT REUNION: FALL
1998
Eleanor Powers
Bowman of Huntsville, Ala., a bio-
diversity information management
consultant for Intergraph
Corporation, attended the inauguration of Costa Rica's President Jose
Maria Figueres, as well as his inaugural environmental conference as a part
of a project with Costa Rica's Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad. Her
son Nelson is in college, and son
Shaw is in high school.
Washington, D.C., author Jim
Conaway was a featured speaker at
the University of Memphis' River
City Writers Series in the winter.
Bill Holmes, director of the city
museum of Colorado Springs, has
been elected chairman of the
Colorado Endowment for the
Humanities.
LINDA JACKSON TAYLOR,
64
65
GRIFFIN, PRESIDENT.
PRESIDENT.
NEXT REUNION: FALL
1999
of Reston,
Va., retired last fall as director of
technology research at the
National Archives. He currently
has a part-time faculty position
in the graduate program at American
University teaching information
systems.
Ken Dill, mayor of West Point,
Miss., was elected treasurer of the
North Mississsippi Industrial Development Association.
Bill Holmes
SAAMY ANN PRIMM
66
MARSHALL, PRESIDENT.
NEXT REUNION: FALL
1996
Kathy French Campbell
teaches photography in the art department of the State University of New
York at Buffalo.
JIM WHITTINGTON,
67
PRESIDENT.
NEXT REUNION: FALL
1997
is an architect
in Houston. He received his master's
in architecture from the University of
Houston in 1992.
Stewart Lawler is a graduate
student in American Studies at the
University of Kansas.
John and Gail Martin McKinnon '66, who married in 1992, live in
Little Rock. He is a field services specialist with the Arkansas Department
of Education. She teaches advanced
placement English at Hall High
School and composition at the
University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
She was appointed assistant chief
reader for the National College Board
SAT and as table leader for the reading of the new Analytical Writing Assessment of the Graduate
Management Admission Test.
Jim Hayes
JANE BISHOP BRYSON,
68
PRESIDENT.
NEXT REUNION: FALL
1998
Mary Ellen Bryan Elston
and her husband Robert have moved
A-5
Class Notes
onto a sailboat in Florida and will be
cruising Florida and the Carribbean
for the next couple of years.
Carol Sue Cato Keathley, an
investment broker at Memphis-based
Morgan-Keegan, was recently named
branch manager of the firm's Jackson,
Tenn., office. She was also named a
member of the firm's 1994 President's
Club on the basis of exceptional business performance.
Dana Adams Powell of Houston is in graduate school at the
University of St. Thomas, and is
teaching special education classes at
Stehlik Intermediate School.
Dr. Elaine Rhodes serves as pastor of Elk Hills Presbyterian Church in
Charleston, W.Va.
Sloan Young, executive director
of Northeast Mental Health Center in
Memphis, was elected president of the
Tennessee Association of Mental
Health Organizations.
TRISH COOPER HAYLEY,
SUSAN GLADDEN STITT,
CO-PRESIDENTS.
NEXT REUNION: FALL 1999
George Elder, headmaster at
69
Lausanne Collegiate School in Memphis, completed his doctorate in education at the University of Memphis
in '93 and is the current president of
the Memphis Association of Independent Schools.
Bill Frazier, an attorney in Big
Timber, Mont., was recently named by
the governor as the chairman of the
Montana Arts Council.
Dr. William Stepp is a pediatrician at The Jackson Clinic, Jackson,
Tenn. He and his wife Martha have
two children.
Susan Gladden Stitt completed
her M.A. in counseling from the University of Memphis.
Rum ANN SADLER HANEY,
PRESIDENT.
NEXT REUNION: OCT. 1314, 1995
Gary Clark and his wife, Carole, of
70
Buffalo, N.Y., are currently publishing
a quarterly newsletter, Preparing ChilRhodes Alumni
dren for the Future. They have
completed a new book, Children:
Points for Parents and Teachers.
Dr. Martha "Pedie" Pedersen
of Bay Saint Louis, Miss., associate
professor of human anatomy and physiology at Delgado Community College
in New Orleans, recently published a
computerized student "self-test" bank
with Harper Collins and a human
anatomy and physiology outline with
McGraw Hill.
ALICE COCKROFT OATES,
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NANCY LENOX, COPRESIDENTS.
NExT REUNION: FALL 1996
of Hermitage, Tenn., has been traveling the
continent doing photography work for
national clients.
Daisy Craddock and her
husband Biff Elrod of New York City
had a showing of their paintings and
drawings called Separate Visions at the
University of Miami in the winter.
Dr. Ry Tipton recently represented Rhodes at inauguration ceremonies
at Coastal Carolina University.
The Rev. David Anderson
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BE I I e DALE GARNER,
ANN GOTSCHALL SHARP,
CO-PRESIDENTS.
NEXT REUNION: FALL 1997
of
Arlington, Va. has taken a new job as
issues specialist at the American Association for Retired People.
Carl Dury recently moved back to
Franklin, Term. He is general manager
of Technology Specialists Inc., a firm
assisting colleges and universities
around the country with management
of their information technology
resources.
Scott and Stacy Harman Harrison '75 reside with their family in
their newly-renovated home in
Decatur, Ga. He is a self-employed
licensed architect, doing commercial
and residential work. She is a supervisor of patient coordinators in the special procedures department at Emory
Hospital. Also a student at Emory,
she serves on the board of the Atlanta
Betty Blade Antrican
Cooperative Preschool.
Dr. Garry and Wynellen Weir
Huff '71 live with their four children
in Germantown, Term.
Allen Jones of Memphis was
named president of Delta Life and Annuity Co.
Rob Jungklas was among the
performers at the 12th Hackenberger
Christmas Special to benefit the
Memphis/Mid-South Chapter of the
Muscular Dystrophy Association.
Susan Schwab Keslensky and
her husband Jerry recently moved to
the Atlanta area and are happy to be
in the South again.
Gwen Martin Thurmond is administrative director of Woodridge
Hospital, a psychiatric facility in Clayton, Ga. SEE MARRIAGES
David Wallace lives in
Anniston, Ala. His biographical critical entry on Lia Matera was recently
published in Great Women Mystery
Writers from Greenwood Press.
IAN MANNING APLIN,
73
PRESIDENT.
NExT REUNION: FALL 1998
Mac McWhirter, comptroller at Rhodes, was recently named
treasurer of the Vollintine-Evergreen
Community Association's new
community development corporation.
Frances Taylor works as senior
editor in group communications for
Smith & Nephew North America at
its Memphis headquarters.
LARRY ANDERSON,
74
PRESIDENT.
NEXT REUNION: FALL 1999
The Rev. Frank Broyles
of Faith Presbyterian Church in
Huntsville, Ala., was named executive
minister of the Huntsville Association
for Pastoral Care.
Dr. Tom Cornell recently represented Rhodes at inauguration
ceremonies at the University of
Rochester.
Ed and Kathryn Jorgensen
Davis '73 live in Johnson City,
Term., where he is doing his residency in pediatrics and she teaches first
A-6
Class Notes
grade. He received an M.D. degree at
East Tennessee State University and
she has her master's degree in education.
Bob Reynolds of Long Beach,
Calif., is senior information technologies analyst for Southern California
Edison and its Lotus Notes/Workgroup
Computing "guru."
Larry Rice, a partner in the law
firm of Rice, Rice, Smith, Bursi,
Veazey & Amundsen in Memphis,
was recently admitted to the international Who's Who of Professionals.
Joel Vaughn and Lynn Myrick
'75 live with their two children
outside Nashville, Tenn. He is a medical editor at Vanderbilt University
Medical Center and she is a professor
of English at Cumberland University.
CATHERINE DAILEY BERGER,
PRESIDENT.
NEXT REUNION: OCT. 1314, 1995
Vincent Astor performed the role of
75
Mary Sunshine in the recent McCoy
Theatre Production of "Chicago" at
Rhodes.
Peg Falls Corbitt of Conway,
Ark., teaches philosophy at Hendrix
College. Husband Doug teaches in the
Medical Humanities Program at the
Arkansas Medical School and at the
University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
SEE BIRTHS
Emmy Jenson is currently the
production manager for Brad Adams
Walker Architecture in Denver.
Jeff and Marian McCain Olson
'76 live with their three children in
St. Louis, where he works in regulatory management at Southwestern Bell
Telephone Co., and she is on extended leave from her job as a computer
consultant. SEE BIRTHS
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VICKERS DEMETRIO JOHNSON,
PRESIDENT.
NEXT REUNION: FALL 1996
In addition to his "day job"
as treasurer of Union Electric, Jerre
Birdsong of Webster Groves, Mo., is
active in low-income housing and
neighborhood services, serves on sevRhodes Alumni
eral non-profit investment committees
and boards and participates in the
Leadership St. Louis program.
Herb Gunn of Detroit is the editor for The Record, a monthly newspaper for the Episcopal Dioceses of
Michigan and Eastern Michigan. He is
also on the National Board of Episcopal Communicators.
Developer Stephen Harris of
Nash, Texas, has purchased and is renovating the old Sears building in
Texarkana.
Cameron Bryant Icard
represented Rhodes at inauguration
ceremonies at the University of South
Florida.
In November 1993 Ellen Tyler
Rochelle and her husband Red of
Houston traveled to Russia to adopt a
two-year old girl, Anya Sophia
Rochelle.
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TOELLYN FORRESTER
SULLIVAN, PRESIDENT.
NEXT REUNION: FALL 1997
Cathy Coates of Miami
works as the regional manager for
South Am, a distribution company exporting Nicole Miller fashions and accessories. "The line is totally
undeveloped outside of the U.S., so I
have my work cut out for me," she
says.
Steve Collins lives in Eureka,
Mo., where he is managing director of
a consulting firm specializing in buyout and relocation of survivors of the
'93 Midwest floods.
Sam Godfrey is living on a farm
outside of Huntland, Tenn., with his
family. He recently retired from the
practice of law after 11 years and is
now a first-year M.Div. student at the
School of Theology at the University
of the South.
Fairley McDonald is an attorney
with the Montgomery, Ala., firm of
Copeland, Franco, Screws & Gill. He
and wife Pat have two daughters.
Diane Causemaker McKinna
serves as community resources manager at the Volunteer Center of
Memphis and as a member of the
MIFA (Metropolitan Inter-Faith As-
sociation) Share Steering Committee.
Jill Fuzy Siegel and her husband
Randy have recently completed an intensive renovation of their 65-year-old
home in Atlanta. The couple joined
Diane Dismukes Shelby '78 and
her husband on a barge trip through
southwestern France.
The Rev. Ken White of Reston,
Va., is an intern in the Institute of
Pastoral Psychotherapy of the Pastoral
Counseling and Consultation Centers
of Greater Washington where he will
study for three years.
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CHARLES RICHARDSON,
PRESIDENT.
NEXT REUNION: FALL 1998
Michele Jabour Farr
lives in Cornwall-On-Hudson, N.Y.
with her husband John, a professor at
West Point, and their two sons.
Dr. Bess Stanton passed her
boards in '94 in child and adolescent
psychiatry and adult psychiatry and
now has a private practice in Durham,
N.C.
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LAWRENCE HIGGINBOTHAM,
PRESIDENT.
NEXT REUNION: FALL 1999
Composer Hayes Biggs of
New York and his wife, soprano Christine Schadeberg, recently presented a
concert of Russian music at Rhodes.
Li Li Chung of Singapore is
currently employed by Compaq
Computers.
Jane Stewart Hagstrom lives
in Iowa City, Iowa, with her two children and was installed as associate pastor at Gloria Dei Lutheran Church
last fall.
Sue Olsen of Washington, D.C.,
has a new job as director of Woodlawn
Plantation, a National Trust for Historic Preservation property that was
the home of George Washington's
granddaughter.
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Dana Nelson Chamberlain lives in Eagle, Idaho,
(near Boise) with her husband Alex, a
A-7
Class Notes
hospital chaplain, and their three children. She studies American sign language and ballet and is active with her
church.
Cary Hawkins Doran lives with
her family in Atlanta, where she
works as executive assistant to the vice
president of Systematics Healthcare
Services Inc. She's working on a children's book and rug-hooking in her
spare time. Husband Gerald is chef at
Pano and Paul's restaurant in
Buckhead. SEE BIRTHS
Lee House received his M.S. degree in electrical engineering from
Duke University.
Michael McCadden of Bridgeport, Conn., has a new job as director
of global advertising and public
relations for Calvin Klein Cosmetics
in New York.
Greg Rogers and his wife Kristi
of Asheville, N.C., spent three
months in central Africa working at a
rural hospital and then traveling
through five countries in East Africa.
Beth Trotti Schneir of
Gaithersburg, Md., is a computer specialist at the National Institutes of
Health. SEE MARRIAGES
01
STACY ABERNETHY,
Tenn., where he is the manager of
planning and analysis for Fleetguard
Corp. He and wife Regina have two
children.
Paul Snetman is chief financial
officer of STMS, a systems
integrations firm in Sterling, Va. SEE
MARRIAGES
Hank Standard is a psychologist
with Counseling Associates of the
Shoals in Florence, Ala.
02
BETSY RAMIER VACHERON,
PRESIDENT.
NEXT REUNION: FALL 1997
Eleanor Evins is working
on her master's in English at the State
University of Southern Connecticut.
She also works part-time with learning
disabled students at the university.
Julia Reilly Fields works in the
tax area of the CPA firm of Petty &
Landis in Chattanooga.
Kim Gibbons has been a medical
social worker at Baptist Hospital in
Nashville for close to seven years. In
the past few years she has traveled
around the world and is planning a
trip to Spain this year.
Anita Prim is working on her
master's degree in counseling at
Auburn University.
KATHLEEN WILLS
CHANDLER, CO-PRESIDENTS.
NEXT REUNION: FALL 1996
works part-time
as director of Christian education at
Westminster Presbyterian Church,
Waynesboro, Va. SEE BIRTHS
Drs. Brant and Wendy Zilch
Dyer '82 live near Sacramento,
Calif., where she has an internal medicine practice and he, a pediatrics practice in Cameron Park. SEE BIRTHS
Greta Fowinkle has completed
her master's in nursing administration
at Vanderbilt University.
Jennifer Jenson, a real estate
lawyer in Memphis, was recently
named to the board of the VollintineEvergreen Community Association's
new community development corporation.
Rob Montgomery has moved
from Bethlehem, Pa., to Nashville,
Beth Patton Allen
Rhodes Alumni
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LESLIE DRAKE SCHUTT,
PRESIDENT.
NEXT REUNION: FALL 1998
Barry Johnson is an attorney with the firm of Barrett & Burke
in Dallas. SEE BIRTHS
Lisa Krupicka was recently made
a partner in the Memphis law firm of
Burch Porter & Johnson.
Judy Booth Reinhardt is the
director of Kids Peace Time, a nonprofit company in St. Paul, Minn.
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AMY DOVILLE,
TRACY VEZINA PATTERSON,
CO-PRESIDENTS.
NEXT REUNION: FALL 1999
of Pompano Beach,
Fla., is vice president of marketing
for IVAX generic pharmaceutical
company.
Paul Decker lives in Anchorage,
Chris Boswell
where he works with ARCO Alaska.
He and wife Phyllis Ploudre have two
children.
Ed and Lynn Myrick Dudley
'82 live in Buford, Ga., where she
does computer training and he is head
coach of the Buford High football
team, with a two-year record of 19-5.
Jack and Jennifer Curie Fain
'85 have recently moved from
Nashville to Germantown, Tenn. He
is a sales manager for Panalpina and
she is the owner of Grayline Tours.
They have two children.
John Hamilton is working on his
M.P.A. at Georgia State University.
Dr. Alvin Moore received his
Ph.D. in analytical chemistry from the
University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill and is now a post-doctoral
analytical chemist with Oak Ridge
National Laboratories.
John Shanley has left Federal
Express and is now operations supervisor for Rodeway Logistics, a subsidiary
of Rodeway Express in Memphis. In
the fall he plans to begin work on his
master's in nursing. His wife Elaine is a
computer systems analyst with VVP
(Binswanger Glass). SEE
MARRIAGES
Richard Spore was recently
made a partner in the Memphis law
firm of Burch Porter & Johnson. Last
year his book The Partnering Paradigm
was published by Guild Bindery Press.
85
MICHELE LYNN AND BOB
LAWHON, CO-PRESIDENTS.
NEXT REUNION: OCT. 1314, 1995
is a business analyst in the process management
department of First American National Bank in Nashville, where she is a
vice president.
Brad Ellis is stationed in South
Korea with the U.S. Army.
Dr. Jef Foropoulos has completed his residency in orthopedics at
Campbell Clinic in Memphis. He is
now in private practice in Corinth,
Miss., where he lives with his wife
Terri and their two children.
Ann Webb Betty
Allison McCarthy Gauthier
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Class Notes
works in commercial banking at Fleet
Bank in Westerly, R.I.
Dr. Ann Holmes is on the faculty
at Baylor College of Medicine in the
physical medicine and rehabilitation
department.
Adele Little-Caemmerer lives
in Seattle, Wash., and works as the
education director for an Episcopal
church.
Dr. Susan Eades Mackey is an
obstetrician/gynecologist with Kaiser
Permanente in the San Francisco Bay
area.
Neal McAtee of Memphis was
recently named first vice president of
the Memphis-based Morgan Keegan
investment firm.
Rob and Dawn Bass
Popovitch '86 live in Dallas where
he is general counsel for the Heritage
Organization Inc., a consulting firm
specializing in wealth preservation and
business succession planning. Dawn
teaches elementary school at North
Dallas Day School.
Angelyn Sherrod received her
M.S. degree from the University of
Memphis last spring.
Virgil Starks has been named assistant dean at University College of
the University of Akron. The department deals with international
programs, minority student retention
and new student orientation.
86
AMY DONAHO HOWELL,
PRESIDENT.
NEXT REUNION: FALL 1996
Nassi Agouridis lives in
Mandeville, La., and works as district
sales manager for the Upjohn Company.
Dr. Ray Barfield is working on
his pediatrics residency at Emory University.
Amy Crutchfield Burke
received her M.A. from the University
of Memphis last spring.
Margaret Chisholm received
her M.B.A. from the University of
Memphis last spring.
Dr. Christa Crisler began a
private medical practice in Memphis
last July, specializing in obstetrics and
Rhodes Alumni
gynecology.
was named administrator of Methodist North Hospital in
Memphis last spring. SEE BIRTHS
Joel Giddens received his J.D.
from the University of Memphis last
spring.
Donald "Skip" Gronauer is the
finance and administration manager
with Crump Insurance Services of
Memphis Inc.
A.J. and Holly Hubbard Heine
'87 have moved to Baton Rouge, La.,
where he is an employee benefits consultant with Byerly and Co. and she is
a "full-time mom."
Michelle Henkel is an attorney
with the Alston & Bird law firm in
Atlanta.
Dr. John Koh is the 1994-95 Byron Smith Fellow in Opthalmic Plastic
and Reconstructive Surgery at the
New York Ear and Eye Infirmary.
Dr. Jerry Lovelace was recently
named an assistant professor of chemistry at Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi.
Brad Moody is a recruiter/counselor for the families division of Youth
Villages of Memphis. He received his
master's in advertising from the University of Alabama last May.
Mike Palazzolo joined Memphis'
United American Bank as vice president and account executive in its executive banking group.
Mose Payne lives in
Chattanooga, Tenn., where he works
as a claims support assistant in the
data collection department of Blue
Cross/Blue Shield.
Kim Weeks Smith was named
chief financial officer of Sandler Systems, franchisor of sales training
systems. She lives in Timonium, Md.
Tim Deaton
87
ALICE MCCARTHY FINN,
DAVID LUSK,
CO-PRESIDENTS.
NEXT REUNION: FALL 1997
Mary Margaret Kendall Bailey
passed the Alabama bar exam and
practices with the firm of Baxley Dillard Dauphin & McKnight. She and
her husband John live in Birmingham.
Dr. Frank and Tena Bizzell
Bailey '88 have moved to Murfrees-
boro, Tenn., where he is an assistant
professor at Middle Tennessee State
University. He received his Ph.D.
from Clemson University in environmental toxicology last fall.
Rob Baker, former AmSouth
Bank executive, has been appointed
senior vice president of Whitney National Bank in Mobile. A recent recipient of his M.B.A. from Tulane, he
was one of three new executives to be
featured in an article in the Mobile
Press Register during the winter.
Meg Beeson is in the graduate
program in mechanical engineering at
Georgia Tech studying composite materials. Recently she won a graduate
research fellowship from the National
Science Foundation.
Amy Alexander Floyd and her
husband Tim have started Floyd Environmental Inc., an environmental
consulting business in Birmingham,
Ala. They have two sons.
Charlotte Cooper Gaskins of
Charlotte, N.C., graduated from the
University of North Carolina School
of Law.
Memphis attorney Jason Hood
was recently named an associate with
the Glankler Brown law firm.
Timothy and Christie Hoffman
Ruppel live in Slidell, La. He works
at the Stennis Space Center's Naval
Reasearch Laboratory. SEE BIRTHS
David Schedler has accepted a
faculty position at Birmingham-Southern College. He earned his Ph.D. in
chemistry from the University of Alabama and was with Cornell University as a postdoctoral associate for two
years.
Robert Staley of Memphis was
recently named first vice president of
the Memphis-based Morgan Keegan
investment firm.
Dr. Melanie Swift is in her last
year of residency in internal medicine
at Brown University. SEE BIRTHS
Al and Kassie Sprague Taylor
'90 live in Camden, Tenn., where he
is administor/CEO for Valley Regional
Hospital and she teaches pre-school.
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Class Notes
Mark Thomas is a realtor associate with Gill Properties of Memphis.
Karen Cagle York is a corporate
trainer with First Tennessee Bank in
Memphis, conducting management
skills and leadership training for bank
managers and supervisors.
88
SUZANNE CARPENTER,
PRESIDENT.
NEXT REUNION: FALL 1998
Chris Allen teaches at Silpakom University in Thailand.
Florence Perry Berti teaches a
preschool class and French to elementary students in Nashville.
Mary Buchignani appeared as
Mary/Nurse Halsey in Theatre Memphis' Little Theatre production of
Robert Anderson's I Never Sang for
My Father last spring.
Janet Cruse Denkler is taking
classes at the University of Memphis
in preparation for enrollment in a
master's program in physical therapy
next year. SEE MARRIAGES
Dr. Andrew Fong completed his
Ph.D. in analytical chemistry from Indiana University last fall.
Dr. Ricci Hellman, assistant director of counseling services at
Rhodes, received her Ed.D. in
counseling, emotional psychology and
research from the University of Memphis last spring.
Charles and Michelle Wilkins
Johnson graduated from Emory Law
School and are practicing attorneys in
Macon, Ga. He is with the firm of
Harris & James.
Gordon and Lynn Martin Kenney '89 live in Memphis, where she
works part-time as area manager for
Sales Dynamics, a specialty leasing
company. She is also the Rhodes
Kappa Delta chapter adviser and
coordinator of the MIFA-SHARE
program at First Congregational
Church. Gordon is earning his Ph.D.
in counseling psychology and is an
intern in the Student Development
Center at the University of Memphis.
Meg McCully is the manager of
the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship
Program at the University of
Rhodes Alumni
Maryland's College of Journalism,
where she administers year-long
study/professional development
programs for foreign journalists.
Dr. Christian Mannsfeld works
as an orthopedic research fellow at
Massachusetts General Hospital
through Harvard University. He did
his general surgery internship at Carraway Methodist Medical Center in
Birmingham, Ala.
Alan Ostner works in the Fayetteville City Planning Office. He
earned his degree in land architecture
from the University of Arkansas last
spring.
Elizabeth Rubin received her
master of science degree from the University of Memphis last spring.
89
BOB COLEMAN,
EILEEN RUFFIN WOOD,
CO-PRESIDENTS.
NExr REUNION: FALL 1999
earned her M.F.A.
from the University of Memphis last
spring.
John Cook has joined the Houston office of the international law firm
of Fulbright & Jaworski as an associate
in bankruptcy and creditors' rights. He
earned his J.D. from Vanderbilt University, and passed the Texas bar exam
in 1994.
Lucy Cooper is the finance director for Congressman Jim Chapman in
the 1st Congressional District of
Texas.
Anne Junkin Cox is now an assistant professor of electrical engineering at Florida International
University. She received her Ph.D. in
physics from the University of
Virginia.
Tony Detter was named store director for Toys "R" Us, and has been
transferred to Johnson City, Tenn.,
from Knoxville
Matt Ketcham is an attorney in
Fort Smith, Ark., a law professor at
Westark College in the paralegal/legal
assistant program and a municipal
judge in Waldron, Ark. SEE
MARRIAGES
The Rev. Jim Rizer is the assoKaren Bedsole
ciate pastor of Westminster Presbyterian Church in Waterloo, Iowa.
Rich Rocco received his M.B.A.
degree from the University of
Memphis last spring.
Marc Rose, a management consultant for Ernst & Young in Atlanta,
also serves on the board of directors
for the Georgia Special Olympics,
March of Dimes and the Atlanta
Opera. This spring he is on special assignment in Costa Rica.
John Sherrod owns Masterpiece
Designs, a small T-shirt business in
Memphis, and is a greenhouse manager as well. He is planning a trip to
Honduras this fall.
Chad Schultz is the director of
marketing and promotion for Insight
Management of Scottsdale, Ariz., an
entertainment marketing company.
Molly Soper works for a men's
homeless mission in Washington,
D.C., as the director of development.
Mark West is an attorney specializing in Japan-related corporate
matters with the New York firm of
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison. His article "The Pricing of Shareholder Derivative Actions in Japan
and the United States" appeared in
the summer 1994 issue of the
Northwestern University Law Review.
SEE BIRTHS
Barry Wolverton is doing
research for the Time/Life book series
"Lost Civilizations" and writing
Looney Tunes Comic Books for D.C.
Comics.
90
IOHANNA VANDEGRIFT
LEHFELDT, PRESIDENT.
NEXT REUNION: OCT. 1314, 1995
received the
Memphis Junior League's Provisional
of the Year Award last spring for her
work on fundraising committees with
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, The
Children's Museum and the Memphis
Zoo.
Graham Butler received his master's in theological studies from Duke
University last spring.
Margaret Cain is in her last year
Gay Daughdrill Boyd
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Class Notes
of photography school at the Portfolio
Center in Atlanta.
Capt. Maria Carl (U.S.A.F.)
earned her master's in public administration from the University of
Oklahoma last fall, and is now a community relations officer for HQ,
AETC in San Antonio, Texas.
Anita Horn Carpenter was
named executive director of the Family Crisis Shelter of Montgomery
County Inc., in Indiana. SEE BIRTHS
Kevin and Cynthia Doolittle
Clingan '91 live in Albuquerque,
N.M., where he works as a service representative for Provident Life and Accident Insurance Co., and she is a food
service sales representative for Rio
Grande Marketing.
Stephen and Amy Baldwin
Crockett '89 have moved to
Midtown Memphis, where he works
for LDDS-Metromedia, and she is doing a clinical psychology internship at
the V.A. hospital.
Tom and Kristen Hubbard
Vieh Cunningham '88 live in
Memphis. Tom, who earned his M.D.
from the University of Tennessee last
May, is doing his residency at
Methodist Hospital. Kristen holds her
master's degree from the University of
Memphis.
Ann Griffith is a researcher for
the Memphis Business Journal.
Ashley Gulden is studying at the
Louisiana State University School of
Law.
Alice Hendricks works for CocaCola Bottling Co. Consolidated in
Charlotte, N.C. while earning her
M.A. in teaching from Queens
College.
Emily Hiden works as a sales
manager for Sherwin-Williams, and
lives in Lantana, Fla.
John and Dr. Pam McQuillen
Hill live in Louisville, Ky., where he
has been transferred with Ernst &
Young. She received her M.D. from
the University of Tennessee, Memphis
last year, and is now a physician/intern
in obstetrics and gynecology at the
University of Louisville Hospital.
Laura Holcomb is working on
Rhodes Alumni
her Ph.D. in clinical psychology at the
University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
She did a research project on death
and dying at the University of Memphis which was published in the journal Death Studies.
Perry and Cheryl Anderson
LeBlanc live in Roswell, Ga., and
work in Atlanta, where she is the
manager at Laura Ashley and he is in
investment services at CS First
Boston.
Trish Puryear Moalla teaches at
the University of Memphis where her
husband Samir is a student. In
addition, she works as a freelance
translator for legal, technical, medical
and general documents. SEE
MARRIAGES
Kari Nelson is a credit analyst for
Associates Commercial Corp. in
Chicago.
Deanna Owen has moved to
Cordova, Tenn., and will receive her
Ph.D. from Auburn in August.
Marvin Spears of Knoxville,
Tenn., has been named medical
service representative with Pfizer Pharmaceuticals.
Debbie Taquechel lives in San
Francisco where she works for
CenraLink, an executive
education/management company that
produces conferences related to managed behavioral health care.
Claire Dalrymple Watkins of
Atlanta works in sales and marketing
for the outsourcing company Tascor.
SEE MARRIAGES
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MARJORIE THIGPEN,
PRESIDENT.
NEXT REUNION: FALL 1996
Attorney Monica Allie is
an associate with the law firm of
Stophel & Stophel in Chattanooga.
She graduated with honors from the
University of Tennessee School of
Law last spring and was elected to
membership in the Order of the Coif
honor society.
Sherri Amman is earning her
L.L.M. degree at Georgetown University, concentrating in constitutional
law and civil rights.
Andrew Chaney received his
master's of science degree from the
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
last spring and is now pursuing his
Ph.D. in theology and philosophy.
Attorney Heather Fitzgerald
Corken has joined the Houston office
of Fulbright & Jaworski, specializing in
energy and environmental matters.
She received her J.D. from Vanderbilt
last spring.
Jennifer Dunn is doing graduate
work at the University of Kentucky's
Patterson School of Diplomacy and
International Commerce. She formerly worked at Ernst & Young in Washington, D.C., in international finance
and investment consulting services.
The firm was involved in privatization
in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
Jan Duprey of Ashford, Conn.,
teaches in the adolescent school unit
at Natchaug Hospital and is working
toward his teaching certification. He
spent two years in Japan teaching
English.
Chris Gaskill is working on his
master's in speech pathology at the
University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
He completed his M.M. in choral conducting at Emory.
Lee Holcomb works as an artist
and at the American Artisan in
Nashville.
Teresa lsobe is a social worker
at Northside Hospital in Atlanta.
Heather Lindsey is in the master's program for occupational therapy
at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Carolyn Nicole Turner Miller
lives in Portland, Ore., where she is a
law librarian for Stolel Rives and her
husband Dan is an exercise physiologist for Oregon Health Sciences University. SEE MARRIAGES
Darby Moore and her husband
Mike Doyle work for the U.S. Forest
Service in the Mt. Baker-Snoqualonie
National Forest in Washington. SEE
MARRIAGES
Angie Nissing is in the graduate
program in linguistics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She formerA-11
Class Notes
ly was a staff assistant at the International Monetary Fund.
Kim Groat Olsen and her
husband Kaj are graduate students in
chemistry at Indiana University,
where she is the Eli Lilly Fellow of analytical chemistry. SEE MARRIGAES
Walt Powell is a financial consultant with Smith Barney/RobinsonHumphrey in Memphis. SEE BIRTHS
Ray Rando began Tulane's
professional M.B.A. program last fall
and will continue to work for BioClin
while pursuing his degree.
Kelly Horst Whitlatch is a tax
consultant with Deloitte & Touch
Louisville, Ky. SEE BIRTHS
Doug Zimmerman attends Virginia Theological Seminary
(Episcopal) in Alexandria, Va.
92
ANNIE B. WILLIAMS,
PRESIDENT.
NEXT REUNION: FALL 1997
Shane Beeson is living
and acting in Dallas, where he had a
leading role in Theatre 3's production
of Spring Awakening last summer.
Laura Cabanillas lives in Minneapolis where she works for Cargill
Inc. as a logistics specialist for
commodities rail contracts into Mexico. She has plans to begin the M.B.A.
program at the Carlson School of
Mangement at the University of Minnesota.
Howard Cleveland is in his
third year of law school at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where he
is the senator for the Student Bar Association, the executive editor for the
Tennessee Law Review, and a member
of the Moot Court Board.
Sam Flemming of Birmingham
recently returned from a two-year stay
in Japan where he taught English. He
has plans to begin graduate school, but
in the meantime he is teaching at
Mountain Brook High School, speaking to junior high students about his
experience, and teaching English as a
second language.
Barbara Hall works at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta,
studying virulence factors of the
Rhodes Alumni
causative agent of leprosy as a project
for her Ph.D. in microbiology at
Emory University.
Sarah Hughes is an assistant director of admissions at Salem Academy in Winston-Salem, N.C.
Mike and Cassy Kasun Lewis
'93 live in Iowa City where he is
working on his Ph.D. in American
Studies from the University of Iowa
and she works in a group home for
Systems Unlimited, providing residential care for persons with disabilities.
SEE MARRIAGES
Mark and Heather Dorris
Miller '93 are both in school at the
University of Tennessee, Memphis,
Mark in dental school and Heather, in
her second year of physical therapy
school. SEE MARRIAGES
Julia Trabue Owen operates
Bainbridge's Festive Foods, a gourmet
foods company in Tunica, Miss.
Recently relocated from Nashville,
Bainbridge sells to distributors,
groceries, gourmet food stores and individuals around the country, in addition to providing private labeling for
the Cracker Barrel restaurant chain.
Sonny Schow is a second-year
law student at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and lives in
Maryville, Tenn. Last summer he was
admitted to the Tennessee Law
Review and was awarded the
Knoxville Bar Auxillary Scholarship.
SEE MARRIAGES
Brad Todd worked in the successful campaign of East Tennessee Congressman Van Hilleary last fall, and
has accompanied Hilleary to
Washington to do press work for him.
Annie B. Williams recently represented Rhodes at inauguration ceremonies at Barnard College.
1st Lt. Zach Woodworth of
Pensacola, Fla., is a pilot with the U.S.
Marines.
93
LYNN CRABB, PRESIDENT.
NEXT REUNION: FALL 1998
is working
on her degree in sociology at
the University of New Hampshire.
Andy Cowell is working on his
Anne Borden
master's in computer science at the
University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
He formerly was with Auto Zone
headquarters in Memphis.
Katherine Goodloe is earning
her master of education in human development counseling at the Peabody
College of Vanderbilt University.
Dionne Low is in her second year
of podiatry school at Barry University
in Miami. SEE MARRIAGES
Richard Miller is working on his
Ph.D. in microbiology at Emory University under a National Institutes of
Health training grant. His project involves studying an enzyme that is important in psychological disorders.
Stephanie Monte is in the master's program in Slavic languages and
literature at New York University. She
works for Arnold & Truitt
Management Consultants.
Lindsey Mitcham Sloan of Little Rock is a law student at the
University of Arkansas School of Law
and works as a law clerk for the firm of
Friday Eldredge & Clark. Last year she
was the chapter clerk for the international law fraternity Phi Alpha Delta.
SEE MARRIAGES
94
NANCY TURNER, PRESIDENT.
NEXT REUNION: FALL 1999
is working on her master's in history
at the University of Chicago.
Tim Hamilton is working on his
Ph.D. in physics at the University of
Pittsburgh.
Gretchen King is the progarm
specialist for the Memphis division of
The National Conference, a non-profit human realtions organization that
works with organizations such as local
women's groups, the Jewish Community Center and area high schools.
Alison McVoy is working on her
master of humanities degree at Florida
State University, where she also works
for the Office of Research, Contracts
and Grants.
Frances Patrick is studying in
Germany on a Fulbright Grant. She
plans to apply for several internships
as well as a full-time job in Germany.
Gayla Bassham
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Marriages
'34 Jerdone
Kimbrough Davis to
Tom Holloway '33, Dec.
30, 1994.
Matt Ketcham,
Nov. 26,
1994.
'89 Patti McFadden
to Steve Morris, August
1992.
'90 Laura Brown to
Allen Mc Han '91, July
Turner to Daniel J. Miller,
Aug. 6, 1994, Jackson Hole,
Dec. 17, 1994, Atlanta.
Wyo.
Barlow, Dec. 10, 1994, Mobile, Ala.
'91 Darby Moore to
Michael Doyle Jr., May 14,
1994, Crestwood, Ky.
'92 Alice Pond to Joel
'92 Sarah Elmore to
O.E. "Sonny" Schow IV,
'91 Kim Groat to Kaj
Olsen, March 19, 1994,
Oct. 22, 1994.
'93 Lauren Alexander to
'90 Claire Dalrymple
to Robert Watkins Ill,
Memphis.
Russel Wiener 11, Sept.
Dr. Steve Thurmond, May
Dec. 17, 1994, Atlanta.
14, 1994.
to
Samir Moalla, Oct. 9, 1993,
to Clark Monroe, Dec. 17,
1994, Jackson, Miss.
'93 Heather Dorris to
Mark Miller '92, Dec. 17,
'91 Joyce Yeager to
Jason Parrish, April 10,
1994.
'45 Nancy Smith
Gallagher to Tanner
Davis '43, Jan. 6, 1994.
'72 Gwen Martin to
'80 Linda Green Driver to Bruce Ray, Feb. 11,
1995, Des Arc, Ark.
'80 Elizabeth Trotti
to Jason Mark Schneir, July
16, 1994.
'81 Sarah Windes to
J.D. Stahl, Nov. 19, 1994,
Blacksburg, Va.
'81 Veronica Woo to
Paul Snetman, Feb. 13,
1994.
'82 Songai Hong to
Paul Melton, April 24,
1993, Memphis.
'84 Catherine
Hayden to John M. Sum-
mers, Aug. 27, 1994,
Nashville.
'84 Elaine Young to
John Shanley Jr., October 1994, Memphis.
'85 Stacy Soefker to
Robert Norton, Dec. 3,
1994, Memphis.
'87 Tracey Meyer to
Joseph Chesser, Aug.
20, 1994, Memphis.
'88 Amanda Bond to
Randy M. Judd, Nov. 19,
1994, Savannah, Ga.
'88 Janet Cruse to
Craig R. Denkler, May 6,
1994.
'88 Tracey Turnbow to
Dan Lane, June 19, 1993.
'89 Robin Bearden to
Daniel Gibson, June 19,
1993, Cairo, Ga.
'89 Katherine Cowan to Shawn Sentilles, J uly
9, 1994, Memphis.
31, 1993.
'90 Trish Puryear
Belgium.
'90 Elizabeth Van
Cleave to Wilford O'Neal
Hilt, March 1994.
'90 Michelle Whittles to
Bradford Shelton, June
17, 1994, Naperville, Ill.
'91 Carolyn Nicole
'91 Misty Wakeland
1993, Memphis.
'92 Stephanie Christoff
to Christopher Moore,
Jan. 7, 1995, Memphis.
'92 Elizabeth
Hickman to Loyd
"Temp" Sullivan '91,
17, 1994, Batavia, Ill.
'93 Cassandra
Kasun to Michael
Lewis '92, June 30, 1994,
Cincinnati, Ohio.
'93 Dionne Low to
Sean Brown, November
1994.
'93 Lindsey Mitcham
It's Your College.
Pass It On.
"During my four years at Rhodes I
never realized how well I was being
prepared for the world beyond," says
Melissa Barth Ivy '83 of Memphis.
"For me, Rhodes was an investment
that has enriched and shaped all facets
of my life.
"As an alumna, I've remained very
much a part of Rhodes. This year my
focus is to help the campaign for 50%
Melissa Barth Ivy '83
alumni participation succeed.
"As a phonathon volunteer, I've heard all the reasons for not giving to
Rhodes. The one I hear most is that Rhodes has plenty of money and
doesn't need small gifts. The truth of the matter is that even a gift of $5 is
significant.
"It's your participation in the Annual Fund that keeps the ideals and
traditions of Rhodes growing. We have all benefited from the legacy, passed
on by those who went before us.
"Now it's our turn to pass it on. "
RHODES 50% ALUMNI PARTICIPATION CAMPAIGN
2000 North Parkway, Memphis, Tennessee 38112-1690
Telephone: Katherine McCaa '93, (800) 265-LYNX, (901) 726-3850
'89 Julie Llewellyn to
Rhodes Alumni
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to Graham Sloan, Aug. 6,
1994.
Births
'72 John and Olivia
Barton Ferriter, twin
sons, Matthew Piers and
William Barton, Sept. 9,
1993.
'73 Wing and Pamela
Chin, a daughter, Amanda
Dukes, May 24, 1994.
'73 Larry and Beverly
Turner Krannich, a
daughter, Rachel, June 25,
1994.
'75 Doug and Peg
Falls-Corbitt, a daughter,
Jean Grier, March 31, 1994.
'75 Jeff and Marian
McCain Olson '76, a son,
Allen Carter, April 25,
1994
'77 Johnson and
Katherine Bullard Melhorn, a son, Henry
Margrave, Nov. 16, 1994.
'78 John and Leslie
Jett Sweeney, a son,
Patrick Lawrence, July 29,
1994.
'78 Perrin and Donna
Todd, a son, Torey
Morgan, Feb. 3, 1995.
'80 Tom and Lana
Chu, a daughter, Rachel
Claire, Oct. 17, 1994.
'80 Gerald and Cary
Hawkins Doran, a son,
Benjamin Patrick, May 4,
1994.
'81 Kyle and Beth Patton Allen, a son, Mark
Patton, Nov. 20, 1994.
'81 Brant and Wendy
Zilch Dyer '82, a daughter, Maris Emily, Oct. 18,
1994.
'82 Kurt Brandt and
Dawn Huff, a son, Paul
Richard, Sept. 5, 1994.
'82 Kyle and Courney
Wright Jenks, a
daughter, Gayle Satterfield,
Rhodes Alumni
Dec. 17, 1994.
'82 John and Laura
Hollandsworth
Jernigan '84, a son, Jef-
ferey Amis, Dec. 7, 1994.
'82 Ronnie and Julia
Love McAfee, a son,
Mordecai Luke, Nov. 11,
1994.
'83 Mike and Beth
Spencer Heflin, a daughter, Elizabeth Christine,
Dec. 8, 1994.
'83 Barry and Susanna
Johnson, a daughter, Allie
Grace, Oct. 25, 1994.
'83 Todd and Adrienne
Sharp, a son, Aaron
Thomas, Nov. 1, 1994.
'84 Jonathan and
Abigail Edgeworth
Coggins, a son, Aidan
Patrick, Sept. 14, 1994.
'84 Richard and Tammy Leggett, a daughter,
Lydia Sheppard, Jan. 25,
1995.
'85 Charles and Elizabeth Gibson Clogston
'87, a daughter, Jean Caro-
line, Oct. 19, 1994.
'85 Hugh and Lori Dalton, a son, Logan
Campbell, June 26, 1993.
'85 Art and Susan
McLean Haws, a son,
Claud Arthur Jr., Nov. 21,
1994.
'85 Frank and Susan
Bahner Lancaster, a
son, Michael Tabb, Nov.
29, 1994.
'86 Tim and Harriet
Deaton, a son, Pearse,
Oct. 12, 1993.
'86 Mark and Darby
Elsberry Westfall, a son,
Dylan, Jan. 19, 1994.
'87 John and Carol
Pierce Olson, a son, John
Pierce, Nov. 16, 1994.
'87 Tim and Christie
Hoffman Ruppel, a son,
Nathaniel Timothy, March
14, 1994.
Melton and McDonald
Allen, Dec. 14, 1994.
'87 John Stafford and
Melanie Swift, a son,
Noah Berkley Stafford,
Sept. 28, 1993.
'87 Mark and Edie
Vincent Swihart, a
daughter, Grace Emelyn,
June 10, 1994.
'87 Bickley and
tor of public schools, a Paul
Harris fellow and Rotary
president. He leaves his wife
of almost 70 years, Sara
McReynolds Culberson '23;
a daughter, Helen Johnson;
a son, James M. Culberson
Jr.; his sister, Ruth Robertson; nine grandchildren;
and seven great-grandchildren. Another son was the
late J. Thomas Culberson
'50.
Jennifer Sandridge
Whitener, a daughter,
'24 Agnes Smith
Herren of Xenia, Ohio,
Mary Virginia, June 1,
1994.
'88 Peter and Mary
April 3, 1994. A homemaker and member of First
Christian Church, Kenton,
Ohio, and the Daughters of
the American Revolution,
she was also a former member of the Fortnightly and
Music Clubs of Kenton,
Ohio. She was the widow of
Philip Herren.
'29 Oscar Hurt Jr. of
Memphis, Feb. 8, 1995. A
longtime insurance agent
with Principal Financial
Group, he worked for State
Mutual Life Assurance
Company for more than 30
years. He was also a
lifetime member of the Million Dollar Round Table
and Ambassador with State
Mutual. The husband of
Virginia Hogg Hurt '28, he
also leaves two daughters,
Dale Britton and the Rev.
Donna Scott; his son,
Robert; eight grandchildren;
and three great-grandchildren.
'87 Todd and Melanie
Speed, twin boys, John
Ann Fesmire Emanuel
'86, a daughter, Mary Julia,
Sept. 21, 1994.
'88 Lee and Jenni
James Selby, a daughter,
Mikhaila Elizabeth, Dec.
22, 1994.
'89 Mark and Mieko
West, a daughter, Eila
Kayako, Nov. 22, 1994.
'90 Rodney and Anita
Horn Carpenter, a
daughter, Alexandra Grace,
May 8, 1994.
'90 Bill and Linda
Holshouser Parks, a
daughter, Carolyn Frances,
Nov. 29, 1994.
'91 Walt and Jennifer
Powell, a son, Austin
Howard, July 14, 1994.
'91 Mike and Kelly
Horst Whitlatch, a son,
Brandon Tyler, Sept. 15,
1993.
Obituaries
'23 Charles Barrett
of Clarksville, Tenn., Jan. 6,
1993.
'23 James M.
Culberson Sr. of
Asheboro, N.C., Aug. 27,
1994. An avid hunter and
fisherman, he was formerly
a coach and athletic direc-
'30 Arthur J.
Gemignani of Memphis,
Jan. 6, 1995. Still a practicing attorney at 87, he was a
member emeritus of the
Memphis and Shelby County, Tennessee and American
Bar Associations, as well as
a special judge of the
Probate Court. He formerly
played with two MemphisA-14
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area orchestras, the Frank
Zito Melody Radio and
Malcolm Burks Orchestras.
Playing music helped pay
his way to Memphis State
law school, where he was
class president. The widower
of Elizabeth Killian
Gemignani, he leaves his
brother; Thomas A.
Gemignani; a daughter, Andrea Nicholson; and a
grandson, Brett.
'30 William Cecil
Moore of Teaneck, N.J.,
Jan. 14, 1995.
'31 Emma Turpin of
Memphis, Feb. 28, 1993. A
former employee of the
Southern College of
Optometry, she earned a
second bachelor's degree
from Drexel Institute.
'33 Dr. Robert
Alexander Orr of
Mayfield, Ky., Sept. 4,
1994. A life fellow of the
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists,
he was an executive officer
of the Hot Springs, Ark.,
Army/Navy General Hospital, commander of the 78th
Field Hospital, and
commander of the 28th
General Hospital. Upon his
retirement from the Army,
he practiced at the FullerGilliam and Community
hospitals in Mayfield and
the Mayfield-Graves County Health Department. He
was a member and elder of
the First Presbyterian
Church in Mayfield, and
served on the board of the
Four Rivers District Boy
Scouts. The husband of
Ann Elle On, he leaves his
son, the Rev. Robert On Jr.
'64, and two grandchildren,
Elizabeth Wade '91 and
Rob On III.
34 Margaret Ruffin
Hyde of Memphis, Feb. 1,
Rhodes Alumni
1995. Former president of
the J.R. Hyde Foundation
and former director of Malone & Hyde Inc., she was a
life trustee of Rhodes and
key member of various committees of the board. She
was a member of the
Rhodes Benefactors' Circle
and a fellow of the Charles
E. Diehl Society. She and
members of her family gave
the Ruth Sherman Hyde
Memorial Gymnasium and
the J.R. Hyde Scholarships
to the college. Last year, the
north dining hall of Catherine Burrow Refectory was
named in her honor. In
1980 she was awarded
Rhodes' Distinguished Service Medal, and in 1989 she
received an honorary doctorate of humanities from
the college. Dedicated to
education, health and community services, she served
as vice president of the
Crippled Children's Hospital Foundation and on the
board of its Vitreo Retinal
Research Foundation, as
well as a trustee of St.
Mary's Episcopal School,
which dedicated its Activity
Center to her. She was instrumental in the founding
of the Rehabilitation Engineering Center at the University of Tennessee,
Memphis and was chair of
its advisory board. She also
was very active with the
Rhodes chapter of Chi
Omega Sorority and helped
establish the national Chi
Omega Foundation, from
which she received the
President's Award in 1984
and its Distinguished
Service Award in 1990. She
was active in the National
Society of Colonial Dames,
the Thomas W. Briggs
Foundation and the
Methodist Hospital School
of Nursing. A member of
Madison Heights United
Methodist Church, She
leaves two nieces, Jeanne
Scott Varnell '58 and Susan
Hyde Calhoun '62; and a
nephew, J.R. "Pitt" Hyde
III.
'34 Kathryn Harris
Read of Memphis, Sept. 9,
1994. The owner of Elmer
Harris Realtors, she was a
retired member and officer
of the Memphis Area Association of Realtors. She was
a member of Second Presbyterian Church and leader
for Community Bible Study.
She leaves a daughter,
Charlotte Hogan; a son,
Traverse Read; three grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; and four
stepgreat-grandchildren.
'35 Charles L. Max-
of Webster Groves, Mo.,
Jan. 27, 1995. A retired accountant, he loved
traveling the country and
visited every state and
county in the U.S. The husband of Evelyn Maxey '35,
he leaves two daughters,
Jane "Randy" Maxey Brown
'67 and Susan Maxey; and a
son, Les.
ey
'36 James R.
Lawrence of Carthage,
Mo., Nov. 16, 1994. A U.S.
Coast Guard veteran, he
was also the retired
president of the Steadly Co.
in Carthage. The husband
of Marguerite Lawrence, he
leaves two sons, Jim Jr., and
Loren; a daughter, Melanie
McNulty; and five
grandchildren.
'37 Dr. James Merrin
of Golden, Co., Dec.
25, 1994. A retired professor of English literature, he
taught at several schools including the University of
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Memphis, Colorado School
of Mines and Metropolitan
State College in Denver.
He received both his M.A.
and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. The
husband of Hope Merrin,
he leaves two sons, Joel and
Stephen Merrin; his sister,
Ethel Moss; and five grandchildren.
'37 Beverly Moore
Pearson of Marion, N.C.,
April 14, 1994. The wife of
Grady Pearson, she leaves
her daughter, Jan Boyd.
'38 Wells Awsumb of
Memphis, Feb. 3, 1995. Retired architect with
Awsumb and Associates
Architects, he designed
many public and private
buildings around Memphis,
including Rhodes' Clough
Hall, Theatre Memphis,
First Church of Christ Scientist, Lindenwood Christian Church, Idlewild
Presbyterian Church's
youth building and homes
in the River Oaks area in
his 35-year career. A World
War II veteran, he served in
the Navy in Africa after
earning his architectural degree from the University of
Illinois in 1940. He was
president of the Memphis
chapter of the American Institute of Architects in
1963, and chair of the C.M.
Gooch Foundation Board,
as well as a member of the
Kiwanis Club. The husband
of Gwen Robinson
Awsumb '37, he leaves a
daughter, Cathy Awsumb
'69; two sons, George Awsumb '61 and Carl
Awsumb; a sister, Georgianna Awsumb Ensminger '39;
a brother, Richard; and five
grandchildren.
'39 Helen Young
Gibson of Tuscaloosa,
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Ala., Jan. 1, 1995. Formerly
a Memphis resident, she
was a member of Idlewild
Presbyterian Church and of
Le Bonheur Club. The widow of David Gibson Jr., '37
she leaves her daughter,
Rebecca LaMoreaux; her
son, David Gibson III; a sister, Mary Elizabeth Cannon
'47; a brother, Dr. Thomas
Young; and three
grandchildren.
'39 Marjorie DeVall
Lapsley of Coral Gables,
Ha., Nov. 19, 1994. A
retired teacher, she formerly
lived and worked in Pine
Bluff, Ark., and Lubbock
Texas, but moved in 1959
to Coral Gables. The widow
of William Lapsley Sr. '37,
she leaves two sons, Robert
and William Lapsley Jr.; a
sister, Reama DeVall; and
three grandchildren.
'40 Dr. John P. Con-
of Germantown,
Tenn., Dec. 25, 1994. A
cardiologist on the staffs of
Methodist, St. Francis and
Baptist Memorial Hospitals
of Memphis, he was the recipient of one of three humanitarian Methodist
Foundation Living Awards
last year. A past chair of
Methodist Hospital's
department of medicine, he
was a fellow in the American College of Cardiology.
In addition, he was a member of Memphis and Shelby
County Medical Society,
Memphis Cardiovascuar Society, American Society of
Internal Medicine, American Society of Echocardiography, American Heart
Association and American
Thoracic Society. The widower of Eileen Conway, he
leaves his son, Lars Thomas
Conway, and four
grandchildren.
way
Rhodes Alumni
'40 Dr. John McCall
of Memphis and Blowing Rock, N.C., Jan. 26,
1995. General surgeon at
Baptist Memorial Hospital
of Memphis for 40 years,
he retired in 1984. He was
co-founder and first president of the Baptist
Medical-Dental Fellowship
and a member of the
American College of
Surgery, American Medical
Association, Southeastern
Surgical Society and the
Memphis and Shelby
County Medical Society.
In 1969 he was named to
Who's Who in the South,
and in 1972 to Personality
of the South. He and his
siblings donated the
McCall home and acreage
in Memphis to the Baptist
Brotherhood Commission,
founded by his father Judge
John W. McCall, as a
training center for
missions. The husband of
Jane Pryor McCall, he
leaves his daughter, Carol
M. Richardson; two sons,
Dr. John W. McCall III
and Dr. David McCall; two
sisters, Katrina M. Flowers
'37 and Lizette M. Bethea;
two brothers, Duke McCall
and Dr. Charles McCall;
and ten grandchildren.
'43 D.A. Canale of
Memphis, Jan. 25, 1995.
Head of D.A. Canale &
Associates realty and
development, he customdeveloped residential areas
of Memphis. He was a
champion show dog breeder
specializing in bassett
hounds, for some years
owning some of the country's top show dogs. He was
president of the Memphis
chapter of the American
Kennel Club and on the
board of the National BasJr.
set Hound Club of America. He was a member of the
Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. The husband of Alice Parker
Canale, he leaves four
daughters, Alexis West, Arnette Tenent, Janis Hasen
and Alice Webb; a son, Dominic Canale; a sister Mary
Tagg; and 12 grandchildren.
'49 Jim Kyle Hudson
of Memphis, July 18,
1994. An employee of Fruehauf Trailer Co. for almost
35 years, he was the branch
manager of its Memphis
and Little Rock sales
division. A member of
Woodland Presbyterian
Church, he was church athletic director and coach of
the baseball and basketball
teams. The husband of Vinton Cole Hudson '49, he
leaves three daughters, Ivy
Prall, Mary Hudson, and
Katrina Almond; a son, Jim
Kyle Hudson III; and five
grandchildren.
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'50 Bedford F. Dunavant Ill of Union City,
Tenn., Jan 31, 1995. A
salesman for Herman Jenkins Motor Co., he was a
communicant at St. James
Episcopal Church and a lay
leader/delegate to the
Diocesan Convention. He
was an Army veteran, a
member of the Al Chymia
and the Goodwill Shrine
Temples, a 32nd degree
Mason and a former member of the Union City Rotary Club. The husband of
Mary Dunavant, he leaves
three daughters, Lynn
Dunavant '76, Maria Baddour and Ellen Provence;
three sons, Bedford F.
Dunavant IV, Hank Riley
and Ralph Riley; and five
grandchildren.
'51 Paul Dillman of
Joshua, Texas, April 24,
1994.
'54 Ben Joe
"Bennie" Lamberth
of
Jonesboro, Ark., Dec. 17,
1994. A landowner,
businessman and civic
leader, he owned Clean
Services of Arkansas, an industrial cleaning facility. He
was on the executive committees of the Textile
Rental Association of
America and Southwest
Linen Supply Association,
as well as on the board of
directors of both the First
Bank of Arkansas and the
St. Bernard's Regional Medical Center Foundation. He
was past president of the
Greater Jonesboro Chamber
of Commerce, Jonesboro
Family YMCA, and former
board member of the local
United Way. The husband
of Phyllis Lamberth, he
leaves his son, Chris Lamberth; a daughter, Tracey
Johnson; two stepsons,
Mike and Tim Langford; his
father and stepmother, B.Q.
and Gladys Lamberth; a
brother, David Lamberth;
and six grandchildren.
'67 Allan Peterson
of Memphis, Feb. 9,
1995. Sales manager for
Fleet Safety Equipment, he
was a member of the Memphis Air National Guard
and past president of the
Booster Club of Memphis
University School. The
husband of Beverly Yancey
Peterson, he also leaves two
children, Lindsey and Scott
Peterson; his parents, Allan
Sr. and Ilma Peterson; and
his sister, Susie Fulmer.
'81 The Alumni Office
was recently notified of the
death of Joseph D. Jolly
Ill of Birmingham, Ala.,
last year.
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Making The Match
How do 2.5 million college-bound high school seniors
in America find the college that's right?
How do 3,000 colleges find the students who are right?
With hard work, patience and the help of today's college admissions office.
By Helen Watkins Norman
Photographs by Trey Clark
who Olympian Dave Wottle,
who now heads admissions at
Rhodes, is a master at goalsetting.
When he found himself dead last in
the beginning of the 800-meter race at
the Munich Olympics in 1972, Wottle
set a goal of simply catching up with
the pack. He didn't want to embarrass
his friends and family back home.
Within seconds, however, the
gawky runner with the golf cap had
accomplished that goal and set
Rhodes
another. "When I passed the first
Kenyan (one of the front-runners), I
quickly reassessed my goals and
decided to go for a silver medal," says
Wottle. And when he edged ahead of
the No. 2 runner, another Kenyan, his
goal shifted upward again. He went for
the gold.
Wottle, who along with his
Munich roommate Frank Shorter
remains the last U.S. runner to win a
gold medal in an Olympic distance
race, no longer measures his accom-
plishments in meters and minutes.
Instead, his goal—and that of the
admissions division at Rhodes—is to
recruit and select those students who
will flourish at Rhodes and contribute
best to its educational mission.
The admission process is long and
involved. For Wottle and the six
Rhodes admissions counselors who
crisscross the nation and globe,
meeting students and parents, it's an
ongoing 12-month-a-year effort. They
travel to 31 states and 15 other
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countries. They visit 340 high schools
and attend 45 college fairs. They send
out 300,000 pieces of mail each year,
telephone and interview hundreds,
hold 7 major on-campus programs
annually, and ultimately read several
thousand applications. All this to get
400 of the best and brightest to enroll
at Rhodes.
For the college-bound student, the
process can be equally arduous, not to
mention confusing, frustrating and
overwhelming. With roughly 1,400
accredited four-year colleges and
universities in the U.S. (3,000 if you
add all the junior colleges), it's tough
to know where to start the college
search process, much less where it
should end.
The key, says Wottle, dean of
admissions and financial aid, is
planning. It's crucial in enhancing the
likelihood of admission to Rhodes or
another college of choice. It's also
critical in decision-making—in determining which college best fits a student's abilities, personality and
interests.
his issue of Rhodes magazine
takes an inside look at the
mating game known as college
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admissions. Part 1 is Choosing
the Class: An Interview with
Dave Wottle, Rhodes' Dean of
Admission and Financial Aid, on the
selection process. Part 2 is a
Countdown for College-Bound
Students (and their parents):
a time-line of what should happen—
and when—in the journey toward
enrollment.
Choosing the Class:
An Interview with Admissions
Dean Dave Wottle
What are the most important factors
determining a student's acceptance to Rhodes?
All selective colleges consider
what I call the 5 "P's"—Program,
Performance, Potential, Personality
and Participation. While different
colleges place different weights on
these factors, the most important for
Rhodes are Program and
Performance—both of which focus on
the high school record. By Program,
we mean the courses students take,
how much they challenge themselves,
whether, for instance, they have
taken a good number of the advanced
placement and honors courses that
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Bangladesh (2); Brazil (1); Bulgaria (1); China (1); Colombia (1);
Dominican Republic (1); France (1); Germany (2); India (2);
Jamaica (1); Japan (6); Mexico (2); Pakistan (2); Peru (1); Russia (2);
Spain (1); Sri Lanka (1)
Rhodes
the school offers. Performance, of
course, is based on the student's high
school grades and class rank. 57% of
this fall's freshman class had a G.P.A.
of 3.5-4.0 and more than half ranked
in the top tenth of their graduating
class.
The next "P" is Potential.
Demonstrating this is students' standardized test scores—the SAT and
ACT. The middle 50% of the students we accept tend to fall into the
1100-1280 range for the SAT and 2530 for ACT.
Personality is the fourth "P".
Here's where the campus visit and
interview come in as well as recommendations from counselors and
teachers and the essay on the application. We're not only looking for students who will do well at Rhodes, but
those who will be happy here.
Participation is the fifth "P." It
represents students' extracurricular
activities.
What's the one thing parents can do to make the
college search process easier for their son or
daughter?
At the very beginning parents
need to sit down with their son or
daughter and talk about both of their
expectations, but specifically the
teenager's. Would the student be happier at a large or a small school?
Would a rural setting be preferable
over a large city or vice versa? Does
the student desire an academically
challenging, highly competitive college experience? Or is he or she looking for something more laid-back? Is
there a particular major of interest or
certain extracurricular activities a student seeks in a college? Is the student
looking for specific characteristics in
the student body: geographic or racial
diversity, for instance?
Answering these questions narrows
down the college search to a more
manageable size. It keeps you from
heading out in too many directions.
And once you've set some parameters,
you can turn to high school guidance
counselors for suggestions. There are
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also computer programs that can help
you in selecting colleges once you've
answered these kinds of questions.
Examples are College Board's ExPan
computer program or information on
the computer network Internet available through Peterson's Guide.
Does the quality or content of a students essay
really matter?
playing the piano for eight years or
heading up some big service project
over a several year period—that's
more impressive than someone's simply being a member of 5 clubs. We
want to see commitment. Why?
Because that student is going to be
more likely to participate in and contribute to a similar activity at Rhodes.
Dressed down for work, admissions counselors gather around Dean
Wottle (seated) as they review applicants' files.
The essay is carefully read and
graded by the admissions staff. A wellcrafted, creative essay can have a favorable impact, especially in borderline
cases. It can also reveal aspects of a student's personality that convince us he
or she would be an asset at Rhodes.
Is it better for a student 1). to take easy
courses (or attend a less demanding school)
and pull off all "A's"? or 2). to take tough
courses (or attend a more academically
demanding high school) and only make "B's"?
The standard response to this question from selective colleges is that we
want both—students taking the tough
courses and earning "A's". But, if we
have a choice, we prefer students who
challenged themselves with AP and
honors courses and earned "BV"rather
than the one who sailed through easy
course-work with all "A's".
How much weight do you put
on extracurricular activities?
Colleges tend to look at the depth
of a student's involvement more than
the number of activities. A person's
Rhodes
How does a college know which high schools
are the more demanding?
We look at a number of factors.
The percent of students at a given
school who score 3 or higher on the
Advanced Placement Exams. If we
see 90% of a school's students scoring
3 or higher on AP exams, that reflects
well on their preparation and also
gives us an indication of how well
challenged the student was in the
classroom. We also look at the percentage of students who go on to
four-year colleges. Schools with high
proportions of students going on to
college typically offer a more rigorous
academic program.
How does Rhodes decide
how many students to accept?
First we arrive at a goal for the
entering class: the target for next fall
is 400 first-year students. We determine the goal by considering the
number of seniors who will be graduating; the number we predict will
return for their sophomore, junior and
senior years; and the number of students whom we can properly serve in
our residence halls and classrooms and
the desired overall size of the college.
Once we've set our goal, we look
at what it will take to reach that goal:
How many students will we need to
accept to yield the class we're seeking.
I've heard the competition is intense for Rhodes'
top merit-based scholarships. What's the chance
of a student receiving one of the two Bellingrath
or two Hyde scholarships at Rhodes?
Out of 698 nominations, only four
students will receive a Bellingrath or
Hyde Scholarship this year. Because of
the prestige and dollars attached to
these (more than $87,000 over four
years), hundreds of very capable students vie for these each year. Out of
this year's 698, 127 had a 32 or higher
on the AC1, and 145 had a 1350 or
higher on the SAT. Among the contenders this year, 149 were No. 1 or 2
in their class; 73 were president of
their class or student government; and
90 were National Merit Semi-Finalists.
In addition to Bellingrath and Hyde,
Rhodes awards more than 100 other
merit-based scholarships each year.
Is there any benefit in being a legacy?
Each year a number of children of
alumni apply to Rhodes. There are currently 75 children of alumni enrolled. If
a student clearly does not have the academic background or potential to succeed at Rhodes, the alumni connection
will not render him or her admissible.
However, if a student is borderline, it
can definitely help. The alumni connection indicates a history of commitment to Rhodes.
We tend to look at the class as a
whole as well as at each student individually. In addition to individual
academic and extracurricular achievement, we seek those who will contribute to the broad mix on
campus—students from far-flung
states or other countries or those from
a range of cultural and racial backgrounds. Such characteristics can
serve as tie-breakers between similarly
qualified students.
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Does gender make a difference?
We don't give preferential treatment to women or men. In recent
years, however, we have had more
women apply than men. The increasing proportion of women in today's
colleges is a national trend. Fifty-five
percent of the college-going students
in the U.S. in 1994 were women. Our
numbers reflect that as well: in fall
1994, 56 percent of our students were
female.
What is the biggest challenge
facing college admissions today?
There are many challenges facing
admissions today. But undoubtedly
the most critical is to enroll an adequate number of well-qualified students while remaining within the
college's financial aid budget. With
cutbacks in federal and state funding,
colleges are having to assume more
and more of the financial aid burden.
A Countdown for College-Bound
Students (and Their Parents)
7th and 8th Grade
Course selection becomes important as early as 7th and 8th grade.
Since a student isn't normally going
to be thinking about college at age 12,
guidance should come from parents
and counselors, says Admissions Dean
Dave Wottle. They should encourage
students who are academically capable to begin taking college preparatory
courses early. That way they'll be
ready for Advanced Placement and
honors-level courses once in high
school.
Liberal arts colleges of Rhodes' caliber typically require four years of
English, three to four years of math,
three to four years of science and at
least two years of the same foreign
language and two years of social studies. What's more, students should
challenge themselves by taking plenty
of the Advanced Placement or honors
level courses the high school offers.
This is especially true for those competing for academic scholarships.
Rhodes
Fall, Sophomore Year or
Fall, Junior Year
With the taking of the PSAT or
PACT exam (precursors of the SAT
and the ACT), the college search
process begins in earnest. "In years
past we never had students take the
PSAT or PACT in their sophomore
year. Many are doing so now, however," says Wottle.
Students may check a box on the
testing form to indicate they'd like to
receive information from colleges and
universities. The testing services then
sell those names and addresses to colleges and universities. Rhodes buys
lists of students who score 105 or
above on the PSAT and 24 or above
on the PACT—roughly,
the top 20% of the testtakers.
earned on different test dates.
Spring is a good time to attend college fairs, held by local high schools and
school systems. Colleges send counselors or alumni to represent the institution and answer prospective students'
questions. Rhodes has 120 alumni who
help with these local programs.
Stoner before Senior Year
Instead of soaking up sun at the
nearest beach, many prospective students head for the highways and the
nearest halls of ivy. Summer may be
convenient for travel. But those looking for campuses abuzz with students
and activity should look again after
August. Life is uncharacteristically
tranquil on campuses in the summer.
Spring, Junior Year
Tis the season for postal
popularity. After taking the
PSAT or PACT and scoring well on it, a student
who has agreed to receive
mailings from colleges and
universities will begin getting mail from hundreds of
College guides are a popular resource for
institutions around the
prospective students. The U.S. News guide
ranked Rhodes among America's top 40
country. Rhodes sends pernational liberal arts colleges.
sonalized letters to about
68,000 high-scoring students in various
September 1, Senior Year
sections of the country, particularly in
For the Rhodes admissions office
the South. These letters encourage stuthis is the halfway point for inquiries.
By Sept. 1 half of the seniors who will
dents to find out more about Rhodes
request
information about admission
and provide a reply card to speed the
the next fall have already contacted
process. Through this mailing and
Rhodes. The other half will contact
other sources, Rhodes receives
the college after Sept. 1.
inquiries from about 29,500 students a
year for a given entering class.
Fall, Senior Year
Autumn is most popular for camProspective students must take
pus visits. Whereas an interview on
either the Scholastic Assessment Test
(SAT) or the American College Test
campus no longer counts for much at
(ACT) to be considered by Rhodes. If many large institutions, Rhodes still
a student takes the SAT or ACT
encourages the practice. For academimore than once, Rhodes will consider
cally borderline students and those
the highest score in its evaluation.
who wish to compete for merit-based
With respect to the SAT, that means
scholarships, an interview is a positive
indicator of a student's interest in
Rhodes will consider a student's highRhodes. In addition to several mornest verbal score and his or her highest
ing-long open houses hosted by
math score, even if those scores were
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Rhodes each fall, students may visit
individually. Visits may include a tour
of the campus, an interview with an
admissions officer, sitting in on a class
or two, spending the night in a residence hall and informal discussions
with faculty or coaches.
November, Senior Year
The deadline for applying for early
decision is Nov. 15; the college's
financial aid form for early decision
must be sent to Rhodes by Dec. 1.
Those who apply early decision will
receive admission notification before
Christmas.
December, Senior Year
Final deadline for taking the SAT
or ACT.
Mary 15, Seiler Year
Each year Rhodes awards $1.4 million in merit-based scholarships to
entering students. The most prestigious are the two Bellingrath and two
Hyde Scholarships, earmarked for
freshmen and equal to the cost of full
tuition, room, board and fees for four
years. Students considered for one of
these four scholarships must be nominated by a teacher or counselor, an
alumnus(a) or friend of Rhodes or a
Presbyterian minister. Nominees must
send their application and supporting
documents by Jan. 15.
FebliiirY 1, Seder Year
Calling all procrastinators. For
those who work best under pressure,
this is the last day for submitting an
application on time. Applications
must be postmarked by Feb. 1.
Early February, Senior Year
Several hundred high school
seniors visit the campus for the annual
Admissions Symposium, a two-day,
one-night program that answers everything one needs to know about Rhodes
and the admissions program. There's
even a separate program for parents
which includes a question-and-answer
session with the dean of admissions
and the director of financial aid.
Early February, Senior Year
Rhodes selects 24 finalists (out of
nearly 700 nominees) for its four
Rhodes
Bellingrath and Hyde Scholarships.
AMY 15-March 1, Smiler Year
Each of the 2,400 or so applications Rhodes receives is evaluated,
read and ranked by two admissions
counselors. Many are discussed at
length by the entire admissions committee. Collectively Rhodes' staff
spend at least 40 minutes reviewing
each application.
notifying students who are on the
wait list of their admission. Waitlist
students are those whose academic
records are strong enough that they
meet Rhodes' admission standards,
but for whom there is not enough
space initially.
High school seniors nationwide
apply to 4 to 5 different institutions
on average. For that reason, it's some-
Signalling a #1, admissions counselors Kris Hurst '88 and Terry
Johns '92 give a positive rating in discussion of an applicant.
thing of a guessing game to predict
March 1
Students seeking need-based finan- how many of the students Rhodes
accepts will eventually enroll. As
cial aid should file the Free
accepted students accept or decline
Application for Federal Student Aid
Rhodes' offer of admission, openings
(FAFSA) and submit to Rhodes the
arise, and as they do, Rhodes moves
college's own Application for Needdown its wait list, calling students to
Based Assistance.
offer admission.
Late March, Senior Year
Say "so-long" to nail-biting and
May 1, Senior Year
The tables have turned. Now that
mailbox monitoring. Rhodes notifies
Rhodes has made its choice, it's now
by letter all students who applied by
the students' turn to choose. Today,
the Feb. 1 deadline, telling them of
commonly known as the "Candidate's
their acceptance and of any meritbased scholarships they'll receive. The Reply Date," is the deadline for
notification of need-based aid goes out accepted students to commit to
a week later. Rhodes or another college of
choice...or to decline the offer of
Year
Late Apri,
admission.
For accepted students and parents
who want "one last look" before makMay 2, Senior Year
ing the big college decision, Rhodes Years of hard work and months of
offers College Preview, a morning-long research pay off. Four hundred of the
glimpse at campus and extracurricular nation's brightest students link their
lives with Rhodes. The countdown to
life at Rhodes.
college decision making may be over.
Late April, Senior Year
But the fun is just beginning.
If space permits, Rhodes begins
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By A.M.B. Lapham
mping 90 miles through
the swampy muck of the
Minnesota-Manitoba
border didn't dissuade him.
Nor did an 1,800-mile bicycle ride.
All for the sake of art.
"If," says Gregor Turk '82,
"if I'd had some logistical support"—
and his voice trails off like the wind
whispering through prairie grass.
But persistence marks the man
who planned this journey through
two worlds: one imaginary—
a straight line dividing the United
States and Canada; one real
a landscape of trees, swamps,
clearings, rocks and rivers, and a
20-foot-wide swath linking more
than 1,000 monuments built
to give the border touchpoints.
ra
Made To Border
The freestanding . tiooseville evokes a
60-mile section of the 49th Parallel
along which items were collected
and have become part of the art.
"This is a repository—travel by smell,"
Turk says of the work.
T
Kootenai, like others in this series,
takes its name from a significant pla
along a section of the 49th parallel.,
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urk's goal was to investigate and find artistic inspiration
along the 49th Parallel, which forms 1,270 miles of the
U.S.-Canadian border.
"As an artist," he says, "you have to get your dander up. You
have to have something to kind of intrigue you."
For Turk, maps are it.
"Maps, in a way, are very unnatural. They are a process," Turk
says from Hudson River Farms, his family's operation in Homer,
Ga., where his labor pays for his keep and his art studio is on the
premises.
"A lot of people look at a map as a fact. I've been kind of
exploring what maps are."
From his explorations spring about 300 works of art, his
attempt "to remap the 49th Parallel with my biases."
"That's one thing about this project: There's no one way to
represent it, so I've used different media: sculpture, drawings,
paintings, music, writings. I think together they have greater
impact."
Turk's two- and three-dimensional expressions are slated for
concurrent spring exhibitions in Atlanta at Nexus Center for
Contemporary Art (May 19-June 24) and The McIntosh
Gallery (May 5-June 30). Among works to be shown are
photographs into which a computer has fused a map. This
process, and some works in his series of sculptural trapezoids,
were done during Turk's 1992 and 1993 residencies at Banff
Center for the Arts in Alberta, Canada.
The Georgia Council for the Arts awarded Turk a grant for
the exhibition component of his project.
With Georgia Public Television's in-kind contribution of up
to $30,000, Turk is finishing a 30-minute documentary video he
made of his trip, The 49th Parallel: Barrier as Corridor. For the
video, Turk collaborated with Canadian composer Dave Wall
who composed the ethereal oboe-violin-piano-and-percussion
musical score. Jeff Mosier, an Atlanta musician, wrote the
video's "travel on" banjo and guitar sounds. But money is always
a problem: "Right now," says Turk, "I'm trying to scrape together
$10,000 from corporate sponsors."
Plans are underway for Gerogia Public TV to broadcast the
documentary on May 24 at 7:30 p.m. Also the documentary will
be broadcast on regional U.S. and Canadian public broadcasting
affiliates along the border. Additional exhibitions and screenings
are scheduled in Montana, Washington and British Columbia.
Certainly, Turk is no stranger to accomplishments. After
graduating from Rhodes in 1982, he served in the Peace Corps
1983-1985 in Liberia, Africa, and returned to earn his master of
fine art from Boston University in 1989.
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Turk, 34, planned to spend 18 months—and ended
up spending three years—probing the dual functions
and meaning of the 49th Parallel. Even as a child, he
says, he was interested in maps. While in graduate
school at Boston University, he went to the map room
at Harvard University: "I'd been thinking about what
borders looked like; thinking about maps and how they
correspond with the landscape."
For example, sometimes a river defines a boundary,
and the map shows the river. Sometimes a map shows a
solid line to indicate an existing road that, in the real
world of dirt and asphalt, hasn't been built. The gap
between map and fact can expand to a chasm.
The incongruity intrigues Turk. When he tried to
look at the map of a sizable section of the U.S.-Canada
border, he found a straight line cutting through all types
of terrain—from swamps to sheer rock face—and he
found it took 57 maps to illustrate that imaginary line.
He found his 49th Parallel Project.
"This project is focusing on a specific record of the
world and looking at the relationship between man and
the world. The map is the bridge. The map is the bridge
between the individual or culture and the way we see
things and the landscape.
"In this instance, the map dominates the landscape.
People have changed the landscape to fit the map,
which seems really absurd."
He saw the range of changes: swaths of land mowed
low to illustrate the border; denoted clearings that were,
in fact, choked with saplings; terrain too harsh to cross
in a straight line. Yet there the 49th Parallel is on the
map, misrepresenting reality.
ecause he could only cross the border at certain
locations, Turk spent much of his trek on one
side or the other of the 49th Parallel. He
covered 1,800 miles by bicycle and 250 on foot. Three
friends joined him for sections of the trip. College buddy
Erroll Eckford '81 was with him along the
Montana/British Columbia border.
Turk videotaped the terrain and interviewed people
along the way, finding folks generous, helpful, insightful.
He was invited to ride in two airplanes and one hot-air
balloon, and to hear border residents talk of how the
49th Parallel—which dates back to the Treaty of
Utrecht in 1713 and is maintained by the International
Boundary Commission—has infringed on their lives.
Rhodes
Columbia River is a piece made from wood
wrapped with hand-tinted maps. The two colors are derived from each nation's currencies.
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(Top) Counting to 100:
Midway(40), pastel on paper.
This piece, drawn directly on
maps, leaves a section of the
49th parallel visible. (At right)
The artist pauses along the
innesota/Manitoba border.
"The issues are relevant today," says Turk.
"Aesthetically, to me, the border is beautiful and
ridiculous."
To Clyde Moore, U.S. deputy commissioner of the
International Boundary Commission, the border must
be properly located, clearly marked and in good
repair. "And that, we feel, makes for an effective
boundary."
To Sharon Weidenhamer, the border regulations
mean her house is in one country and her dock in
the other. Her neighbor's vegetable garden is in both
countries.
To Rose Boltz and her husband, the border means
their 20 acres on the American side of the 49th
Parallel are accessible only through a road in Canada.
To Jeannette Armstrong, Okanogan Indian
Educational Resources administrator, the boundary is
"culturally abhorrent."
"Psychologically, you hate it," Armstrong says,
"because you have a white person standing there at
the border, in your own territory, telling you that
you're an alien, that you can't cross beyond this point
or go back and forth." Neither government
negotiated with Native Americans concerning the
line dividing this homeland. Says Armstrong, "They
just imposed the boundaries."
Turk sees the 49th Parallel as an abstraction
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becoming obsolete due to economic and cultural
trends toward a global economy. Yet the border
persists, dividing, as he writes, "pasture from field,
street from road and woodland from wilderness.
Perhaps it serves well as an overlooked earthwork in
the ranks of the Nazca lines of Peru or the Great
Wall of China....Yet, there remains some apparent
necessity for demarcating the border, from a purely
logistical and bureaucratic perspective."
is journey through land and mind has
1
taken Turk into dualities in his own
nature, as well: hope and anxiety, rational
thought and passion. The trip was frustrating in spots,
he says, because those "little blue lines on the map"
held mysteries that looked easy to solve but were
impossible.
"You didn't know what reality held."
Reality now holds that the 49th Parallel Project is
winner of the 1995 Regional Designation Awards in
the Arts given by the Atlanta Committee for the
Olympic Games Cultural Olympiad. The
nonmonetary award honors innovation in artistic and
cultural programs throughout the South.
And now that the 49th Parallel Project is drawing
to a close, what will Turk tackle next?
Work on the 59th Parallel, he says and chuckles.
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In Print
The Westminster Guide To The Books Of The Bible
using current biblical scholarship,
The Westminster Guide offers a
highly readable book-by-book
account of what the Bible means
and how it came to be. Included are
histories of each period, comparative
accounts and texts and one-page
outlines of each book.
The product of a lifetime of study
by pastor, professor and writer
Ramsay, the guide provides a solid
and reliable introduction to each
book of the Bible.
By William M. Ramsay '44. 564 pp.
Louisville: Westminster/John Knox
Press. $29.95.
This is a book for everybodylaypeople, graduate and
undergraduate students, church
school teachers and ministers.
Bill Ramsay, professor emeritus
of religion and philosophy at
Bethel College where he currently
serves as adjunct professor, has
written a comprehensive
introduction to all the books of
the Bible, including the
Apocrypha. It combines a revision
of his 1981 book The Layman's
Guide to the New Testament (John
Knox Press).
Ecumenical in approach and
The Unbeliever
By Lisa Lewis, Assistant Professor of
English/Writer in Residence.
59 pages. Madison: University of
Wisconsin Press. $17.95 cloth,
The History Of Israel's Traditions:
The Heritage Of Martin Noth
Edited by Steven L. McKenzie,
Associate Professor of Religious
Studies, and M. Patrick Graham. 326
pp. Sheffield, England: Sheffield
Academic Press Ltd. $50.
Two years ago 13 international
I biblical scholars attended a
Society of Biblical Literature
symposium in Washington, D.C.,
where they presented papers on
German Old Testament scholar
Martin Noth (1902-68).
The symposium, which
McKenzie and Graham organized,
marked the 50th anniversary of the
publication of Noth's 1943 book,
Studies in the History of Tradition,
a seminal work of criticism
dealing with the books of
Deuteronomy and Chronicles
not as single entities, but as a
"complex" that encompasses
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several Old Testament books.
The symposium papers, including
Prof. McKenzie's, comprise The
History of Israel's Traditions. The
book, intended for graduate-level
study, is part of the publisher's
Journal for the Study of the Old
Testament Supplement Series.
The editors characterize Noth
as "clearly one of the giants in the
history of scholarship on the
Hebrew Bible/Old Testament."
"Noth was more historian than
theologian," writes Timo Veijola of
the University of Helsinki in his
entry. "His scholarly work was
guided by the ultimate purpose of
discovering the specific character of
Israel's history in the world of the
ancient Near East, making use of
literary, archaeological, geographical
and topographical sources."
$10.95 paper.
Winner of the Brittingham
Prize in Poetry, Lisa Lewis'
first collection of poems meditates
on people in trouble searching
for a way out, people whose
faith has been tested and found
wanting.
The vision of The Unbeliever is
dark, funny yet hopeful as it follows
the characters through connections
set at odds by difference and
circumstance.
One of the poems, Bridget, has
been selected to appear in Best
American Poetry 1995, due out in
September.
Lewis, who came to Rhodes from
the College of Wooster, holds her
Ph.D. from the University of
Houston and M.F.A. from the
University of Iowa's Writers'
Workshop. Her award-winning
poetry has been published in
numerous reviews and journals.
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Campus Voices
Daughdrill Responds To BO Minutes Broadcast
get mad when the media fan public
fears by pointing out woes, implying
that all of higher education is to
blame.
Maybe you expect a president
of a small liberal arts college to be
frustrated. Though it may sound
self-serving, I think the American
people deserve to know the truth
and don't deserve to be misled by
broad-brush accusations.
Our students are taught in
small classes by senior professors,
never by TAs. Our students and
faculty know each other and care
James H.
about each other in ways that
Daughdrill
change lives for the better. When I
photo by
Trey Clark
talk to alumni, I hear stories of
gratitude not only for help in the
world of ideas, but for friendship and
March 17, 1995
influence and caring.
Teachers in colleges like Rhodes
Dear Ms. Stahl:
work hard. Their contacts with stuI watched with real interest your
60 Minutes piece on higher education. dents are not limited to the classroom. They are not prima donnas
You exposed the over-emphasis on
who put their names in college
research and the neglect in rewarding
catalogues but teach no courses. They
teaching when it comes to salary,
are mentors and advisors as well as
tenure and promotion decisions in
research universities. You demonstrat- teachers. They are active in academic
governance, participate in faculty
ed the grave problems of using TAs
committees, and care about the
[teaching assistants] who are often
college as a whole.
poorly prepared and who are poor
Our students are engaged in a curcommunicators. You made the point
that parents pay high tuition so senior riculum designed to help them lead
lives of genuineness and excellence.
faculty can stay away from their stuLiberal learning teaches them to
dents to do research.
think, to understand subtle differences
You mentioned small liberal arts
and nuances, to think critically and
colleges only once, to the effect that
independently, to form sound
we do a better job of teaching underjudgments. They learn to be lifetime
graduates than do the large universilearners and teachers themselves,
ties. But your comment was almost a
whatever their occupation. In our
throw-away line.
community of scholars, students parAs president of a national liberal
ticipate with faculty in research and
arts college, I am frustrated by the
their professors are role models who
lack of public understanding of the
variety we have in higher education. I take teaching seriously and who serve
President James H. Daughdrill sent the
following letter to the television program
60 Minutes' Lesley Stahl in response to
a recent broadcast segment on higher
education.
Rhodes
the college and the community.
Our faculty are not pampered,
rich, or removed from students. Our
students are not coddled. The average
student who attends a small liberal
arts college has more financial need
than those who attend state
universities.
But the American public thinks
that professors don't teach, that students watch TV monitors, and that
the whole process is grossly overpriced. Why can't the media tell the
difference between those who are
guilty and those who provide real educational value, who reward fine teaching, and who care for their students?
Why must 60 Minutes be guilty of not
communicating the difference?
Would you be willing to visit
Rhodes to judge for yourself whether I
exaggerate or whether colleges like
Rhodes are part of the solution and
not the problem? I would like for you
to talk with our students, our faculty,
our staff, our alumni, our trustees. I
think you could develop an interesting 60 Minutes segment with the
angle "Success Is Often Overlooked."
I am enclosing a list of 50 colleges
similar to Rhodes, and I am sure that
all of them would be willing to cooperate in your making an independent
evaluation and report on what we are
doing.
I have long been one of your admirers. You spoke at our annual meeting
when I was chair of the Association of
American Colleges. I think you understand the frustration we feel because of
misinformed public opinion. We would
welcome your help and assure you of
our cooperation.
Sincerely,
James H. Daughdrill Jr.
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Camp Voices
GOP Strategist Kristol Analyzes Republican Future
Top Republican Party
strategist William Kristol
recently spoke in Rhodes'
M.L. Seidman Town Hall
Lecture Series. The following excerpts are from his
talk, "The '96 Elections and
Beyond."
The
T
he '94 election was a
ideological choice
of liberalism vs. conservatism. It was ideological
in its rhetoric but also in
its voting patterns:
throughout the '80s, 35%40% of the American people were
self-described conservatives.
In 1994, 80% were self-described
conservatives.
What would it take for voters in
late '96 to say,
"we're glad we
elected a
Republican
congress in
November '941"
A budget that
slowed the
growth of the
federal government and got
rid of a bunch
of unnecessary
programs.
The real
question is whether the political support is there to move ahead on this
agenda. We'll learn a lot more about
that in '95 and '96.
Typically, these realignments hap-
pen in a couple of waves. In '95 the
Republican congress will move on a
bold but incremental agenda—cut
the capital gains tax, increase tax
credit for children. If that happens,
they will then move on to a bolder
agenda of tax reform in '96 and '97,
looking at scrapping the current
income tax system, moving to a flat
tax or a national retail sales tax.
So often in politics you work and
do your best for whatever you believe
in, and you get rare moments where
all kinds of changes do become possible, when the future is up for grabs
and old patterns are broken. It's an
exciting moment that the citizens of
a self-governing country should welcome. It reminds us we are really in
control of our own future.
PM Lecturer Speaks On Evolving Human Relationships
Anthropologist Helen Fisher,
research associate at Rutgers
University, author of the best-selling
book Anatomy of Love: The Natural
History of Monogamy and Divorce
and host of the TBS television series
The Anatomy of Love, recently spoke
at Rhodes under the auspices of the college's Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar
program. The following are excerpts
from her talk.
or millions of years on the grasslands of Africa females commuted
to work for food gathering just as
males went off to hunt. They left
their children in day care. They came
back with 60%-80% of the evening
meal. The double income family was
always the rule. For millions of years
women were just as powerful as men.
If I had to sum up our Western
concepts of what a woman is and
where inequality came from, it's the
F
Rhodes
plow. Beginning with settling down
on a farm, women lost their ancient
role as gatherers. Men's roles in production became much more important. Men had to plow and protect
the land. Women's primary role
became that of mother.
Today we're shedding our agricultural tradition and moving forward
toward the kinds of patterns of
male-female relationships we've had
for millions of years: working women
commuting to work, double income
families—the way our ancestors did.
The home is not the center of
production. We hunt and gather in
the grocery store. There are trial
marriages—living together. We're
having fewer children like our
ancestors did, who produced only
two who lived to adulthood.
Woman's sexuality is reemerging in
this century. The double standard
for adultery is disappearing. We're
discovering that there's life after
menopause. Stereotypes are breaking
down. We are working toward
equality between the sexes.
I don't think we've ever had traditional family values. The chance
of remaining with your first husband
was no different in 1900 than in
1990. Then, your spouse was more
likely to have died or deserted you
than divorce you. The duration of
marriage is longer today than then.
There was as much cocaine and
alcohol abuse then as today.
We're seeing interesting new
family forms. Besides traditional
marriage, there's near-peer marriage
where both partners work. In a peer
marriage each partner is on the go.
I think we'll see much more peer
marriage in America in the future.
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r 1,Qc1 II •
Looking For Something Good To Read This Summer?
Four Rhodes faculty suggest books
to educate and delight:
Michael Leslie
Professor of English
Dean, British Studies At Oxford
In the days before my wife and I
had children, the rear seatbelts in our
car were always used to ensure the
safety of the traveling library: the 3050 books necessary to keep us happy
on vacation. On one occasion we
were nearly denied reentry to Britain
on grounds of insanity by an immigration officer who peered into the back
and saw, neatly lined up and sitting
demurely, Tom Jones, Ulysses,
Huckleberry Finn and, of course,
Michael Leslie.
Summer days are for delight in
sheer quality of writing. So top of my
list is Muriel Spark's A Far Cry
from Kensington—a haunting
novel, written with a crystalline brevity that only the Divine Spark can
achieve.
More real haunting comes in The
Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
(alias Myles na Gopoleen, and much,
much more). He was a friend of James
Joyce, whom he genially parodies in
At Swim Two Birds; but this is his
masterpiece, I think—a weird story of
murder and strange relationships with
bicycles. It is one of the funniest novels I know, as well as being a chilling
account of hell.
Detective stories do well in airport
lounges. For lovely frivolity in cultured settings, try novels by lain Pears:
The Titian Committee, The
or The Raphael
Affair—all art-historical whodunnits,
well written nonsense. For a more
intense read, I always keep a Maigret
Bernini Bust,
Rhodes
story to hand—Georges Simenon's
dark, pessimistic explorations of the
human soul in moments of crisis. A
brilliantly written one is Maigret at
the Gai-Moulin.
Finally, poetry: Seamus Heaney is
probably the best poet living in the
British Isles (occasionally) at the
moment; and I suspect will be recognized as a voice that will last through
the ages. A good introduction is his
Selected Poems, 1966-1987.
And a poet who is still living in all
but the most trivial sense: Virgil's
astonishing Eclogues, in the excellent translation by Guy Lee, which
delight and stimulate perpetually.
Darlene Loprete
Assistant Professor
Chemistry
Those who know me would not
characterize me as an avid book reader. I prefer reading health letters,
Scientific American articles and the
sports page. The books I do read tend
to be nonfiction or fiction that conceivably could be reality. Here goes.
Coma, Robin Cook. I loved this
book because I could envision a scenario like this occurring. It is about a
group of people who decide that the
best way to make lots of money is to
sell human organs and devise an ingenious way to obtain healthy organs
from healthy people. Read it—it will
scare you.
The Hot Zone, Richard Preston.
Another thriller, except this is a true
story! What can be worse than HIV?
Ebola virus. The reality of a killer
virus on the loose is frightening.
AIDS—The Biological Basis,
Edward Alcamo. If you want to learn
more about AIDS, this book is pretty
comprehensive. It covers the epidemiology, the immune system, the clinical manifestations of the disease and a
description of how drugs like AZT,
ddl and ddC function.
Frank Mora
Assistant Professor
International Studies
The Last Years of the
Gaddis Smith.
The dominant theme of the author, a
Yale history professor, is how the zealous determination to prevent communist penetration of the Americas, in
the name of the Monroe Doctrine, led
to repeated U.S. interventions in the
internal affairs of hemispheric states,
the support of repressive governments
and ultimately, the discrediting of the
doctrine.
Monroe Doctrine,
Hitler and Stalin: Parallel
Alan Bullock. This dual biography by the distinguished Oxford
scholar is an extremely wellresearched and detailed study of the
similarities in personality and leadership of the two most tyrannical dictators this century has known. Bullock
explores the nature and scope of their
power. Those interested in political
psychology and history will find the
book fascinating.
Lives,
Dean Rusk and the Making
Douglas
Brinkley. This collection of essays by
senior scholars on American foreign
policy is quite timely in light of the
recent death of Dean Rusk, one of the
intellectual and practical founders of
U.S. Cold War policy.
of U.S. Foreign Policy,
Utopia Unarmed: The Latin
American Left after the Cold
Jorge Castaneda. This Mexican
essayist and political commentator
War,
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Summer Reading
Lynda Barry.
This book, along with the rest of the
Maybonne and Marlys chronicles
(including It's So Magic, The Fun
House and Down Our Street) are
among the most hilarious yet
poignant books I've ever read. Lynda
Barry is a comic genius, and she has
captured the pains and joys of growing up in America to perfection.
Young Men and Fire, Norman
Maclean. Maclean turns the tragedy
of the deaths of Montana smokejumpers into a story with the suspense
of a mystery and the philosophical
reflections of a sermon. He almost
died hiking in Mann Gulch, trying to
discern exactly what happened there
in 1944. I almost died there on a hot
August day in 1994, trying to follow
his trail. If you read this book, you'll
hike into Mann Gulch, too. Hope
you have better luck getting out than
I did.
My Perfect Life,
Profs.
Darlene
Loprete,
Michael
Leslie
(standing)
and Frank
Mora
photo by
Trey Clark
examines the history and failures of
the Latin American Left. The book
also outlines the dramatic changes
that are taking place today in Latin
America that are likely to produce a
moderate, mature and truly imaginative relationship with the United
States.
Franco: A Biography, Paul
Preston. This masterful work unravels
decades of official misinformation by
following General Francisco Franco,
dictator of Spain from 1936-75, "step
by step and day to day."
The Black Man's Burden:
Africa and the Curse of the
This
well-known historian of Africa asserts
that colonialism and economic neocolonialism combined with the Cold
War struggle—where Africa became
the battlefield—retarded and pervertNation-State, Basil Davidson.
Rhodes
ed the region's self-development. Nor
does Davidson excuse the self-serving
dictatorships that spread across the
region during much of the Cold War.
The Successor, Roderic Ai
Camp. A political thriller published a
year before the assassination of
Mexican presidential candidate Luis
Donaldo Colosio in which the protagonist, an academician, uncovers the
intrigue and conspiracies involved in
selecting a presidential successor.
Valerie H. Ziegler
Associate Professor
Religious Studies
I will dispense with the usual accolades to holy writ and the bard of
Avon. These are books I've read for
fun in the last year or so that I'm still
thinking about.
Possessing the Secret of
Alice Walker. Every person in
the world should read this book. If
you do, you will meet the realities and
agonies of sexism face to face.
Maus I and Maus II, Art
Spiegelman. Like Lynda Barry,
Spiegelman achieves incredible
insight and empathy through the
medium of comics. No one has ever
written more grippingly about the
Holocaust.
Joy,
The Case of the Not So Nice
-
-
Mabel Maney. I love satire,
and no one has ever done it better
than Maney. If you grew up reading
about Sue Barton (student nurse),
Nancy Drew (girl detective), Donna
Parker (newspaper editor of
Summerfield High) or the Hardy Boys
(boy detectives), you haven't lived till
you've followed the adventures of
Cherry Aimless and Nancy Clue.
Nurse,
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Men, Women Cagers Rank High In Conference Play
Albert Johnson (above)
was named to first team
All-SCAC.
Coach Sarah Hatgas
achieved her
200th career win
in February.
photos by Trey Clark
The men's basketball team,
predicted to finish sixth in
pre-season voting by the
coaches, surprised the entire
league by winning 18 games
and finishing in a three-way
tie for second in the
Southern Collegiate Athletic
Conference at 9-5.
The team was ranked as high
as third in the South region
and 23rd nationally, barely
missing qualifying for the
NCAA tournament.
Junior point guard Albert
Johnson of Memphis was
named first team All-SCAC.
Johnson led the
Lynx in scoring
(19.2 points per
game) and finished the season
first in assists in
the SCAC (5.0
per game), second
in steals (2.6 per
game) and third
in field goal percentage (.537).
Overall, Johnson
has scored 970
points in three seasons with the Lynx.
Junior forward Scott Brown of
Birmingham was named second team
All-SCAC after having a strong year
inside. Brown was the third leading
scorer for Rhodes (12.4 points per
game) and led the entire conference
in rebounding (8.4 per game). He was
also named a GTE Academic AllAmerican.
Though the women finished fifth
in the SCAC, they had one of their
better seasons in recent years, finishing with a 15-9 overall mark.
Memphis senior Michelle Stuart had
another fine season from the threepoint arc, hitting 37 percent of her
three-point field goal attempts, the
second best in the conference.
Senior guard Emily Edson of Fort
Smith, Ark., led the league in steals
and was secod in assists. Junior
forward Erin Pias, Lake Charles, La.,
led the team in scoring (10.5 points
per game). Stuart, Edson and Pias
each received All-SCAC honorable
mention.
Coach Sarah Hatgas recorded her
200th career win at Rhodes in midFebruary with a 69-60 win at
Oglethorpe.
Women's Golf Team Makes Debut
r
e Lady Lynx are on the links for
the first time ever this spring, and
head women's golf coach Matt Dean
is excited about the team's chances.
"We've been working since
October and we're hoping it will pay
dividends in April," he says.
Senior Shelby Hester of Cordova,
Tenn., has emerged as the team's top
performer in practice. "Shelby has a
nice swing and possesses great knowledge of the game. I expect her to be
Rhodes
in contention for all-conference honors this spring," says Dean.
Senior Molly Pascal of
Pocahontas, Iowa, and juniors Carrie
Templeton of Sherman, Texas, and
Jennifer Prigg, Fairfield Glade, Tenn.,
also shoWed promise in early spring
workouts.
The Southern Collegiate Athletic
Conference championships are April
23-25 in Conway, Ark., and Dean
likes his team's chances.
"If we can stay away from penalty
strokes I think we'll be fine," he says.
"However, I believe that Trinity and
Southwestern in Texas will be tough
first-year opponents just because of
geographics."
The Lynx, who opened the season
against Millsaps in late March, were
scheduled to play two matches against
Hendrix and one against Sewanee
before the SCAC championships in
late April.
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Calendar
ART
THEATRE
APR 28 Opening
reception for Rhodes
Student Art Show;
Clough-Hanson Gallery,
5-7 p.m. FREE
APR 20.22, 27-30
McCoy Theatre Ninth
Annual Benefit
Performance, The Music of
Rodgers and Hart; directed
by Bennett Wood, musical
direction by Tony Lee
Gamer; 2 p.m. matinee
April 30, all other
performances at 8 p.m.
Tickets: $15 each. For
ticket information contact
the McCoy Theatre Box
Office, 901 726-3839.
MAY 1-13 Student Art
Show; Clough-Hanson
Gallery, weekdays
9 a.m.-5 p.m. FREE
M
Air
COMMENCEMENT
APR 26 Flute recital by
Susan Milan, Distinguished
Teacher and Professor at
London's Royal College of
Music; Hardie Auditorium,
8 p.m. FREE
Baccalaureate
Service; Mississippi
Boulevard Christian
Church, 70 N. Bellevue
Blvd., 3:30 p.m.
MAY 12
APR 27 Flute master class
with Susan Milan; Hardie
Auditorium, 10 a.m. FREE
Concert by the
Silk Stockings, Rhodes'
women's student
barbershop ensemble,
Hardie Auditorium, 8 p.m.
FREE
APR 27
APR 29-30 Recital by
students of the Rhodes
Music Academy; Hardie
Auditorium, 11 a.m. April
29 and 1 p.m. Apri130;
FREE
MAY 12 Rhodes College
Singers Annual Spring
Concert; Evergreen
Presbyterian Church, 613
University St., 8 p.m. FREE
MAY 21 Concert by the
Rhodes Music Academy
Suzuki Strings; Shirley M.
Payne Recital Hall, Hassell
Hall, 2 p.m. FREE
JUN 3 Recital by students
of the Rhodes Music
Academy; Shirley M. Payne
Recital Hall, Hassell Hall, 3
p.m. FREE
JUN 11.16 Rhodes Flute
Institute for advanced high
school students and
professional musicians led
by Katherine Chastain of
the Oberlin Conservatory;
for information, contact the
Rhodes Department of
Music, 901 726-3775.
JUN 19-24 Rhodes Music
Academy Chamber Music
Camp; for information,
contact the Department of
Music, 901 726-3775.
MAY 13 Commencement;
Hubert F. Fisher Memorial
Garden; 10 a.m. Rain
location: Mississippi
Boulevard Christian
Church, 70 N. Bellevue
Blvd.
Rhodes College
2000 North Parkway
Memphis, Tennessee 38112-1690
Spring blossoms accent the central quad.