THE MAGAZINE OF RHODES COLLEGE FALL 2004 Modes (ISSN #1075-3036) is published four times a year by Rhodes College, 2000 North Parkway, Memphis, TN 38112-1690. It is published as a service to all alumni, students, parents, faculty, staff and friends of the college. Fall 2004?Volume 11, Number 4. Periodical postage paid at Memphis, Tennessee. and additional mailing offices. EDITOR Martha Hunter Shepard '66 ART DIRECTOR Kevin Barre GRAPHIC DESIGNER Larry Ahokas RHODES ASSOCIATE Laura Blanton '05 CONTRIBUTORS Baxter Buck. Justin Fox Burks. Tony Cenicola, David Cooper'64. Elizabeth Saunders Cooper '64. Debra Ferguson, Jeffrey Jackson, Helen Watkins Norman LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Please address postal correspondence to: Martha H. Shepard, Editor, Rhodes Magazine, Rhodes College, 2000 N. Parkway, Memphis, TN 38112-1690. E-mail: magazine@rhodes.edu Phone: (901)843-3544 Fax: (901)843-3553. 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Name Street City State Zip Home Phone Business Phone E-mail Employer Title On the Cover Rhodes conductor Timothy Sharp, who led the Singers and MasterSingers Chorale in a triumphal concert at Carnegie Hall Photography by Nick Patterson President Troutt Rhodes students distinguish themselves in so many ways, and I believe they leave here not only wiser but with values that are stronger from being discussed, debated and defended. Autumn Reflections By President William E. Troutt Fall is my favorite season at Rhodes. It brings the excitement of new beginnings, the pleasure of greeting returning faculty members and welcoming new ones. It is always inspiring to hear how our students spent their summers. Three groups lived on campus this year?the Rhodes Service Scholars, the participants in the Rhodes St. Jude Summer Plus program and the Rhodes Institute for Regional Studies fellows. The St. Jude group had the opportunity to participate in groundbreaking research with world-renowned scientists. The Service Scholars' projects covered the gamut?from teaching English to Hispanic prison inmates and Sudanese immigrants to assisting with a day camp at the Stax Museum and working with seniors at the Hope and Healing Center. Institute fellows delved into everything from the role of the Memphis Sears building in the city's rise as a distribution hub to the relationship of soul music and civil rights. Others went farther afield, participating in academic and service endeavors all over the globe. Some did language immersion in Ecuador, Russia or Spain, others participated in British Studies at Oxford and some traveled south to work in the Honduras service learning program. I always look forward to getting acquainted with our first-year students, a process that will take a little longer this semester. The Class of 2008 is our largest ever, boosting the population of our student body to more than 1,600 for the first time in the history of this college. There was no sacrifice in quality for quantity. They bring most impressive academic and leadership credentials. Rhodes students distinguish themselves in so many ways, and I believe they leave here not only wiser but with values that are stronger from being discussed, debated and defended. This dialogue is one of the supreme values of a liberal arts education. Most of our students also take advantage of opportunities to broaden their perspectives by engaging in community service. They (and you) tell me consistently that the combination of brilliant classroom teaching and outside-the-gate experience results in a life-changing education. I believe that is true. Rhodes provides an educational experience like no other college or university I know of. Where is there a better college to develop both the head and the heart? This conviction steels my determination to ensure that every qualified student who wishes to attend this great college can do so. Reaching this goal is absolutely critical to our success in achieving the Rhodes Vision. If we only enroll those who can afford to attend, we cannot become the college we envision. If we become solely a college for the economically privileged, we can never claim success. As I told our new students and faculty at Opening Convocation, I am confident that they could not have chosen a better college nor a better time to join us. With superbly talented and dedicated faculty and students, we have begun an extraordinary year, the beginning of a great journey into learning and life. Ili www.rhodes.edu FALL 2004 RHODES 1 CAMPUS NEWS McCarthy Appointed Senior Smithsonian Fellow Associate art professor David McCarthy is currently in residence as a senior fellow at the Smithsonian American Art Museum through November 2004. He is the recipient of the Sara Roby Fellowship in Twentieth Century American Realism that supports independent research at the museum. The collection forms an important part of the museum's 20th-century holdings. McCarthy is drawing upon the extensive archival holdings of the museum as well as interviews, reviews and historical and theoretical writings to investigate American art depicting war?or considering its causes, justifications and consequences?in order to reflect upon the United States' experience as a world power in the last century. He plans to use his research for a new book titled Against Imperium: American Artists in an Age of Global Conflict. The book, he says, takes into consideration 65 years of comment and protest as artists confronted "the massive trauma of a world war, fear of nuclear annihilation, four decades of Cold War strife and the resurgence of United States interventionism in the years since the collapse of the Soviet Union." The book is in its formative stages, and to date no scholar has written a comprehensive history of antiwar art in the second half of the 20th century, according to McCarthy. The awards from the Smithsonian Institution are based on merit, and applicants are evaluated on the quality of a proposed research project and its suitability to the museum's collections, facilities and programs. Academic standing, scholarly qualifications and experience also are considered. The Smithsonian American Art Museum, located in Washington, DC, is home to the largest collection of American art spanning more than three centuries and including 19th-century landscape painting, American impressionism, 20th-century realism, New Deal works, photography and graphic, folk, Latino and African- American art. Fellows have access to a 100,000-volume David McCarthy library that specializes in American art, history and biography; the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery; research databases; and publications complementing the museum's exhibitions and educational programs. McCarthy, who holds his B.A. degree from Gettysburg College and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Delaware, is a widely-published art historian who, according to a colleague, has "an invaluable grasp of modern art and architecture in general and of 20th- century American art in particular." McCarthy received Rhodes' highest faculty honor, the 2004 Clarence Day Dean's Award for Outstanding Research and Creative Activity. McCarthy has published numerous essays and book reviews including an essay in Art Journal and a review in the Times Literary Supplement. He is author of The Nude in American Painting, 1950-1980 (1998) and Movements in Modern Art: Pop Art (2000). His latest book is H.C. Westermann at War: Art and Manhood in Cold War America to be released this year. Like Against Imperium: American Artists in an Age of Global Conflict, the book investigates American art in relation to armed conflict. College Rankings Again in the top tier of U.S. News & World Report's best U.S. liberal arts colleges, Rhodes this year tied for the spot with Gettysburg and Skidmore colleges. Princeton Review rated Rhodes No. 20 in its "Class Discussions Encouraged" list. Consumers Digest put Rhodes at 13 in its "Top 25 best Values for Private Colleges and Universities." 2 FALL 2004 RHODES rhodes.edu Programs Listed in CIC Exchange For people seeking ideas about service learning, community-based research and civic engagement, the Council of Independent Colleges' (CIC) Effective Practices Exchange offers descriptions of successful initiatives undertaken on 47 campuses, including Rhodes. The exchange is a Web-based collection developed as part of CIC's Engaging Communities and Campuses program. Three Rhodes programs?Service Scholars, St. Jude Summer Plus program and Institute for Regional Studies? are prominently listed in the exchange. The Rhodes Institute for Regional Studies brings together a select group of students and faculty for eight weeks of summer research on regional community topics. The four-year Rhodes Service Scholars program educates and empowers student leaders to develop and implement community- based programs that address specific community needs. Through a partnership with St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Rhodes provides students with expanded summer opportunities for community-based research. For more information on these programs, visit Academics, Service & Research at rhodes.edu Favazza Receives 17th Annual Diehl Award Joseph Favazza, associate professor of religious studies, is the 2004 recipient of the Charles E. Diehl Society Award for Outstanding Faculty Service given during Opening Convocation Aug. 25. The Diehl Award recognizes a person who has performed consistent, significant work that reflects an abiding commitment to the Rhodes ideal of service. Favazza , who holds a B.A. degree from Saint Meinrad College and J.B., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from The Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, joined Rhodes as an adjunct faculty member in January 1990 and was appointed as full-time assistant professor in the Department of Religious Studies in 1993. His areas of expertise/research include historical theology, Catholic studies, religion and ritual. Favazza writes for an international audience of students on the topic of reconciliation. Along with the college chaplain and professor emeritis Michael McLean, Favazza established a service-learning initiative within the college's academic program. Favazza also has taught in and served as director of the Search for Values in the Light of Western History and Religion program since 2000. Also at the Rhodes Opening Convocation, Dr. Richard J. Light, the Walter H. Gale Professor of Education of the Kennedy School of Government and Graduate School of Education at Harvard, spoke on "How Students Can Make the Most of College." The convocation marked the official opening of Rhodes' 156th academic year. French Honor Society Established There have been French clubs at Rhodes through the years: Sans Souci, Le Club Francais, Le Cercle Francais. Today it's called Le Club Cafe. There is also a French table in the refectory where students and faculty meet on Thursday evenings to dine and speak exclusively en francais. And last spring, the college established a chapter of the national French honor society, Pi Delta Phi. The Rhodes chapter, Nu Nu (mais oui) inducted 14 French majors and minors in April. The society honors its members for outstanding scholarship in the French language and literature. It also charges them to spread the word about the cultural contributions of the French-speaking world and encourage French cultural activities. Sarah Crisler, assistant professor of French, is the Pi Delta Phi faculty adviser. rhodes.edu FALL 2004 RHODES 3 CAMPUS NEWS Bond Leads New Rhodes Division Beverly Bond has been appointed vice president of the college's newly- formed Division of External Programs. In her role, Bond is responsible for designing and implementing strategies for engaging external constituents in furthering the Rhodes Vision. She will lead programs in admissions and financial aid, alumni, communications, community and government relations, development and the Meeman Center for Lifelong Learning. (Visit About Rhodes at rhodes. edu.) "Much progress has been achieved through the commitment of our faculty and staff," President William E. Troutt said in announcing the reorganization to the Rhodes campus community. "Now we must look externally in new ways. The Division of External Programs will promote participation on the part of our current and future constituencies including alumni, parents, friends, prospective and current students and corporate and community partners. Activities will be focused on attracting and retaining students and sustaining their lifelong involvement with Rhodes. Building new community partnerships and enhancing existing ones will also be a priority. Beverly Bond brings broad experience and an appreciation of our values, and I am pleased that she has joined us." Bond came to Rhodes from The George Washington University in Washington, DC, where she was vice president for advancement. Prior to that she had a 20-year career at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, ending as vice chancellor for alumni and development. She holds an M.B.A. from Vanderbilt University and a bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. "Rhodes is well- suited to provide the very finest educational experience any small, private liberal arts college can offer," she said. "The Rhodes Vision, particularly `translating academic study and personal concern into effective action' is already being manifest in many powerful ways. It's a privilege to participate in the important work of Rhodes College at this exciting time." Getty Grants Target Campus Preservation Rhodes has received a $150,000 grant from the Getty Grant Program to study the adaptive reuse of several campus buildings and expand its listings in the National Register of Historic Places. Thirteen campus buildings are currently listed on the National Register. Getty has also funded the Council of Independent Colleges' (CIC) Survey of Historic Architecture and Design. Rhodes is one of more than 360 campuses participating in the survey. In announcing the $150,000 grant to Rhodes, Deborah Marrow, director of The Getty Grant Program, said, "Since a large portion of this nation's distinguished architectural heritage is found on college and university campuses, it is extremely important to incorporate historic preservation into the campus master planning process. We are delighted by the results of this year's Campus Heritage initiative, and pleased that it includes the strong plan by Rhodes College to preserve its fine collegiate Gothic architecture." President Troutt explains that the architectural style and consistency are important for two reasons: as a symbol of educational values and as an inspiration to students. "Rhodes is a place where academic pursuit, integrity and service are symbiotic, and the beauty of the campus is integral to our students' undergraduate experience. We are very grateful to the Getty for recognizing the special nature of Rhodes and for providing resources to help us maintain it." Since 2002, the Getty Grant Program has awarded more than $7 million to more than 50 colleges and universities in a nationwide effort to preserve historic buildings, sites and landscapes. The Campus Heritage Initiative has enabled educational institutions in 24 states to research and develop conservation plans to protect their campuses. Recipients include such colleges and universities as the University of Chicago, Bryn Mawr, Barnard and Scripps colleges and Brown and Columbia universities. Rhodes is one of 25 institutions to receive the prestigious award this year. 4 FALL 2004 RHODES rhodes.edu The CIC Survey of Historic Architecture and Design will establish the first national architecture and landscape database of independent college campuses and will include 3,600 images of historical significance to the participating institutions. The database eventually will be turned into a Web-based image archive tool and gallery. The historic places Rhodes submitted to the survey include the Rollow Avenue of Oaks (1925), Berthold S. Kennedy Hall (1925), Palmer Hall (1925), Hugh M. Neely Hall (1927) and Burrow Library (1951) as well as the Diehl Master Plan (1923), the original master plan for the campus created by then-President Charles E. Diehl and architects Charles Klauder and Henry Hibbs. Founded in 1956, the Council of Independent Colleges is an association of 530 independent colleges and universities as well as higher education affiliates and organizations that work together to strengthen college and university leadership, sustain high-quality education and enhance private higher education's contributions to society. For further information, visit cic.edu . The J. Paul Getty Trust is an international cultural and philanthropic institution devoted to the visual arts that includes the J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty Research Institute, Getty Conservation Institute and the Getty Grant Program. The Getty Trust and programs are based at the Getty Center in Los Angeles. Additional information is available at getty. edu/grants. Remembering Professor Betty Ruffin Betty Ruffin, professor emerita of theatre and media arts, died June 8, 2004. A highly respected performer and director, Prof. Ruffin joined the faculty in 1970 and was chair of the Theatre and Media Arts Department for several years. She kept the theatrical fires alive during the "underground" years when the campus theatre (known as Theatre 6) was housed in the basement of Palmer Hall. She retired from Rhodes in 1989, having seen the Theatre Department move in 1982 into the newly-created McCoy Theatre. "I was privileged to study with Prof. Ruffin and adored her for her gentility and grace, her understanding and patience and her vast knowledge and experience, " said John Rone '71, director of event planning at Rhodes and an acclaimed actor and director in Memphis theatre. "She completely transformed the basement surroundings when she stood before her class," he said. "She had a regal bearing and beautiful diction, and one could learn simply from observing her. Her scholarship in the areas of stagecraft, theatre history and the elements of acting prepared students like me for an appreciation of the theatre, whether as spectators or participants. Her compassionate concern for the welfare of her students, both in class and out, put her in the company of those professors who make one's college years the experience of a lifetime." Prof. Ruffin often joined in the campus Renaissance Festivals in the 1970s and was frequently asked to reign over events in the costume of Queen Elizabeth I. It was perfect casting for a larger-than-life teacher and role model. "A Toast to Betty Ruffin," a tribute from alumni and friends, was held July 12 at McCoy Theatre. Rhodes to Adventure Among the Meeman Center for Lifelong Learning's 2005 offerings is a trip to the amber cities in central Europe scheduled June 9-23. The amber cities?Prague, Krakow, Warsaw, Vilnius, Riga and Tallinn?for centuries have been sources of prized Baltic amber, art and architecture. For information contact Linda Jackson Walter '64, 901-844-6105 or 800-278-8924. rhodes.edu FALL 2004 RHODES 5 CAMPUS NEWS Rhodes Welcomes Record Class "When Newsweek chose Rhodes as the college `Most Likely to Succeed' on its list of `The Hot Schools of 2004,' its words became prophetic for admissions," says Dave Wottle, dean of admissions and financial aid. This fall, the college geared up for a record 491 new (transfer, exchange and first- year) students. Out of this total, 474 first-year students make up the class of 2008. Members of the class, who come from as far as Germany and as close as midtown Memphis, have standout academic credentials and leadership experiences. More than 31,000 inquires were made, and 3,591 applications were received for the 2004-05 academic year. "We are excited and encouraged about the interest shown," says Wottle. "With a record number of students applying for admission and the largest class in Rhodes history enrolling this fall, there is obviously unprecedented interest in being a part of the Rhodes community:' Rhodes challenges its students to translate learning beyond the classroom into service and leadership, and members of the class of 2008 already have demonstrated these abilities, with 140 serving as president of at least one high school club or organization, 102 as captain of a varsity athletic team, 26 as a publication editor, 47 as a president or vice president of the student government or senior class, and 16 as president or vice president of the National Honor Society. The students accepted for the class of 2008 show impressive academic talent with a mean high school grade point average of 3.66 on a 4.0 scale; the middle 50% range of SAT-I scores of 1200-1340; and the middle 50% range of ACT scores of 25 to 30. Out of the 51 percent ranking in the top 10 percent of their high school class, 21 were valedictorians and 11, salutatorians. In addition, 20 were National Merit or National Achievement Finalists/ Semi-Finalists. As part of the Rhodes Vision, the college strives to attract and retain a talented, diverse student body, and members of the class of 2008 come from 36 states and three countries (Germany, Belgium and the United Kingdom). Minority students represent eight percent of the entering class. "As we have continued to reach out to other parts of the country to tell the story of Rhodes, students have responded," says Wottle. "There is so much good happening at the college that it makes our jobs of encouraging interest much easier." With the entering class, the total Rhodes enrollment is 1,633. Stackman Named Dean of Students Dr. William Stackman, former interim dean of students at Oberlin College, has been appointed dean of students at Rhodes. He has more than 20 years of experience in directing student activities, student and staff development, campus involvement and fiscal management. Stackman began his position in July. Dr. Bette Ackerman, who served as dean the last three years, has resumed her faculty position in the Department of Psychology. Stackman, who was at Oberlin from 1997-2004, also has served as associate dean of students and dean for the class of 2006 there, which involved counseling students on academic, career and personal matters, facilitating interaction between students and their professors, recommending student scholarships and awards and advising the 2006 Class Council. He also coordinated the establishment of Oberlin's Women's Resource Center and other initiatives at the college including a student leadership series, the annual student leadership program, a new student orientation program, a Dean on Call system and the Class Council. In addition, he coordinated various special events to enhance the spirit of community and taught a "Leadership: Theory and Practice" course in the sociology department. Prior to joining the Oberlin administration, Stackman was director of the Student Union and Student Activities at Tufts University. He held similar positions at the University of Illinois, Urbana (1989-93), Temple University (1988-89) and Glenville State College (1983-88). 6 FALL 2004 RHODES rhodes.edu Stackman has a doctorate of education degree in administration, training and policy studies from Boston University; M.A. degree in education administration from West Virginia University; M.S. degree in recreation administration from the University of Missouri-Columbia; and a B.A. degree in education from the University of Kentucky. Stackman and his wife Teri have two children, Laurel (8) and Reed (5). "Rhodes is an outstanding liberal arts college that provides its students amazing educational opportunities," said Stackman. "The students are dynamic, inspiring, caring, talented and fun. "It's very rewarding to be able to support students, see them change as a result of their experiences and be a part of their growth process. Helping to facilitate growth is very important to me, as is creating a sense of community on campus where all students feel welcome and where all of who they are is valued. I feel both honored and blessed to be a part of the Rhodes community." Barr Wins State Art Commission Honor The Tennessee Arts Commission has awarded creative writing professor Tina Barr a fiscal year 2005 Individual Artist Fellowship of $5,000. The fellowship is one of two awarded this year in the category of Literary Fellowships. Poetry Fellowships are given in alternate years. The grant requires an application that includes anonymously submitted poems and a project description. Rich Boyd, executive director of the commission, describes the award as "one of the highest honors that can come to a Tennessee Artist." There are no restrictions placed on the expenditure of the award, which is to help the artist "continue creating and enriching the lives of all Tennesseans through [his or her] art." Agilent Technologies Grants Microarray Kits Agilent Technologies Inc. has granted Rhodes microarray kits valued at $150,000 to be used by students in the study of human diseases. "Microarrays have become a cornerstone technology for the study of genetic information and are playing an important role in the advancement of biomedical research," said Prof. Gary Lindquester, chairman of the Rhodes Department of Biology. "When compared to large research universities, liberal arts colleges have relatively small laboratory and research budgets, but they graduate a disproportionately large number of the country's future biomedical researchers, health administrators and policy-makers. Gifts such as this provide our future research and health professionals with experiences that will inform and excite them about the latest tools in molecular research." The Agilent microarrays will be used in problem-based exercises for genetics and molecular biology classes at Rhodes. Commonly used in the research of cancer and other diseases, a microarray is based on a 1" x 3" glass slide printed with thousands of DNA probes, each of which corresponds to a unique gene. In any given type of cell, only 10 to 30 percent of genes are expressed, or active. Microarrays can be used to measure the activity of each expressed gene in a cell and compare the differences among diseased cells and their healthy counterparts. Agilent Technologies Inc. is a global technology leader in communications, electronics, life sciences and chemical analysis. For more information, visit agilent.com . rhodes.edu FALL 2004 RHODES 7 By Martha Hunter Shepard '66 411111", 8 FALL 2004 RHODES rhodes.edu When William Burnet Tuthill desi gned Carnegie Hall in the early 1890s, he fashioned a perfect place. There, on a sunny, cool Sunday --- afternoon, June 13, 2004, Rhodes music .11------ife: 04 professor Tim Sharp conducted the Singers, MasterSingers, members of eight other choirs from across the nation and ..,,,i the New England Symphonic Ensemble in a flawless performance of the celestial music of composer Morten Lauridsen. . It was the perfect concert in the perfect place. Carnegie Hall has held special meaning for Rhodes since 1935, the year music professor and composer Burnet C. Tuthill joined the faculty. He was the son of Carnegie Hall's architect and founder of the Southwestern (now Rhodes) Singers. "Papa Tut," as the students called him, was a clarinetist who also founded the group that was to become the Memphis Symphony Orchestra. The Tuthill Performance Hall in Hassell Hall bears his name. Tuthill's successor, Prof. Tony Lee Garner '65, created the MasterSingers Chorale in the early 1990s, bringing together alumni and community singers. Prof. Tim Sharp, conductor since 2000, upholds the unparalleled reputation of both groups with new distinction. Sharp first met composer Morten Lauridsen, whose music has become some of the most popular classical choral music of the last 20 years, when the composer visited Rhodes as the Springfield Music Lecturer in fall 2002. That's when the Rhodes choral groups first began working with his music. Lauridsen, a member of the faculty and former chair of the University of Southern California's Thornton School of Music, was composer-in-residence with the renowned Los Angeles Master Chorale from 1994-2001. A few months before Lauridsen came to Rhodes, MidAmerica Productions in New York invited Sharp to conduct at Carnegie Hall. He could choose his music, choirs and conductors. Sharp immediately settled on the music of Lauridsen and conductors whom he knew or with whom he had worked. The result: Lauridsen himself in residence in New York along with 59 Rhodes Singers, 60 MasterSingers, 184 members of choirs from Hawaii to West Virginia and the New England Symphonic Ensemble filling the stage of Carnegie Hall and afterward, receiving a standing ovation. The Concert The singers performed in the Isaac Stern Auditorium with its famous curvilinear, neo-classical design. The program, billed "The Choral Cycles of Morten Lauridsen," included five Mid- Winter Songs based on poems by Robert Graves, performed by the Rhodes Singers and accompanied by music Prof. David Ramsey '61; Madrigali: Six "Fire Songs" on Italian Renaissance Poems performed by the Rhodes MasterSingers Chorale; Les Chansons des Roses based on the poetry of Ranier Maria Rilke and performed by the Rhodes Singers with piano accompaniment by Lauridsen himself; and 0 Magnum Mysterium and Lux Aeterna performed by the 10 combined choirs accompanied by the New England Symphonic Ensemble. The audience was rapturous in its response. "People were moved by the music," said Marci Hendrix of Rhodes' Office of Information Services and a MasterSingers alto. "After the performance I heard words from the audience like `overwhelming,' stunning' and 'foretaste of heaven.'" For Rhodes graphic designer Larry Ahokas, a tenor with the MasterSingers, it was gratifying to "watch the people in the first few rows shaking their heads like, 'Wow!'" The music affected the singers as much as the audience. "I've sung 0 Magnum Mysterium forever now, but every time we hit the climax I cry. It's just such a beautiful piece," said alto Rhodes Singer Eden Badgett '07. "Anyone who hears that music loves it," said MasterSinger soprano Carole Choate Blankenship '85, who teaches voice at Rhodes. "It touches you like something you've heard before, something you can relate to in a romantic, classical way." MasterSinger bass David Cooper '64 summed up his appreciation: "The Lux Aeterna and Magnum Mysterium are spiritual pieces. Lauridsen was very careful to tell us why he wrote them and of his 10 FALL 2004 RHODES rhodes.edu own spiritual basis in composing them. I was impressed by that. I was moved, and I think we all were, that these were coming from his soul. It was his response to God living in him. You don't get that from everybody who writes music." "I was so proud of them," Sharp said, "and Morten was just beaming afterward. He had never heard a choir that size sing his music. He heard a texture there he'd never heard before." Lauridsen complimented Sharp and the choirs for their dynamics and phrase endings, which, he said, were as eloquent as those of any group who had performed his music. "Lauridsen trusted us because he knew us. He felt at home with us," said David Ramsey. "It means an awful lot to a conductor to have heard a group perform your music well before." It's true what they say about Carnegie Hall: With unparalleled acoustics and line of vision, there's not a bad seat in the house. You hear every voice, every word, every instrument separately, yet together. It's also true what they say about the Rhodes Singers, MasterSingers and Tim Sharp: Their commitment to excellence and nearly perfect interpretation of Lauridsen's hauntingly beautiful music led Carnegie Hall personnel to remark that Rhodes had set a new standard there. On the monetary side, the Rhodes contingent's reputation preceded it, bringing in more than 2,000 advance ticket sales, many from New Yorkers, for the 2,800-seat hall. Practice, Practice, Practice The old joke says that's how you get to Carnegie Hall. The thing is, it's no joke. The Singers and MasterSingers worked on Lauridesn's music for almost two years, performing some of it in the Memphis area, then all of it at the city's new acoustic-rich Cannon Center a month before going to New York. In the Big Apple, there were three intense half-days of rehearsal before the Sunday afternoon performance. The first rehearsal, held Friday before the Sunday afternoon performance, was at the Church of Our Savior, Park Avenue at 38th Street, a short walk from the Grand Hyatt where most of the singers stayed. The choirs rehearsed in groups. First up were the MasterSingers and their Madrigali, whose vibrant sounds could not be contained in the church's arched basement room deep beneath the streets of Manhattan. Hearing the music on the stairwell practically lifted you to the roof. Then came the full chorus; next, the Singers. Rehearsals continued at the hotel the next day. Sunday morning was the full-ensemble dress rehearsal at Carnegie Hall. Everyone was prepared, thanks to months-long rehearsals and Sharp's careful marking of the score, which all 10 choirs had followed to the letter. Yet it was Morten Lauridsen's presence in New York that inspired them to sing his works as never before. A gentle, totally engaged and engaging presence at rehearsals, Lauridsen, make no mistake, meant business. Sitting at first, then leaning on a column in the church hall, then standing in front of the assembly, he would critique, instruct, nod when pleased with a particular phrase. He would confer with accompanist David Ramsey. Both wore leis presented them by members of one of the choirs, the Hawaii Pacific University International Vocal Ensemble. Lauridsen was particularly involved with the Singers, whom he personally accompanied on the piano. He would sing along with them, offer a high sign or nod assent when pleased with a particular phrase. At the end he made their day when he said with a heartfelt smile, "Nicely done." The composer stayed at the singers' hotel, ate with them, gladly autographed everything they offered him, even went on their Sunday night dinner "cruise" around Manhattan. Dinner was served, countless toasts were made?all without leaving the dock. The boat had developed engine trouble, the only snag to the perfect week. rhodes.edu FALL 2004 RHODES 11 Outside the Hall On Saturday, the day before their performance at Carnegie Hall, Sharp and members of the Singers and MasterSingers ventured to the subway station at Ground Zero, the site of the Sept. 11, 2001, World Trade Center attacks. There, they sang "0 Nata Lux" (Born of Light) from Lauridsen's LuxAeterna (Eternal Light): O nata lux de lumine, Jesu redemptor saeculi, dignare clemens supplicum laudes preces que sumere. Qui came quondam dignatus es pro perditis. Nos membra confer effici, tui beati corporis. O born light of light, Jesus, redeemer of the world, mercifully deem worthy and accept the praises and prayers of your supplicants. Thou who once deigned to be clothed in flesh for the sake of the lost ones, grant us to be made members of your holy body. New Yorkers and tourists alike stopped to listen, many holding up their cell phones for friends and loved ones to hear and see. The group engaged in other extracurricular singing around New York. At a Sunday night get- together at one of Grand Central Terminal's balcony restaurants, members of the Singers and alumni MasterSingers burst forth with the Rhodes Alma Mater, again stopping traffic with the lush harmony that rolled across the marble hall. Backstage at Carnegie Hall on Sunday, they sang it again just before going on. Coming Home When Tim Sharp returned to Memphis he found this e-mail waiting for him: Dear Tim, My ears are still ringing with the sounds of your glorious performances at Carnegie Hall. This truly was a concert that will be remembered for a long, long time to come. Everyone who took part in the concert should feel a great deal of pride in performing these various pieces of mine so beautifully and with such understanding. The various conductors who prepared the choruses did an amazing job and I salute them for their dedication and musicality. And the people at MidAmerica were thoroughly professional; the organization throughout the stay in New York was fabulous. But it was your own consummate artistry that led to such a high level of music making, Tim. Your conducting of these very challenging works was simply brilliant?I could not have asked for more accurate, sensitive and gorgeously realized interpretations of my music. I thank you and all involved from the bottom of my heart. Please pass on my sentiments to the performers. I'm looking forward to seeing you all again in the future. With deep appreciation and esteem, Morten EDITOR'S NOTE: The Rhodes CD, Christmas at St. Mary's, features LuxAeterna by the MasterSingers Chorale and Les Chansons des Roses by the Rhodes Singers. It is available through the Rhodes Bookstore, 901-843-3535. 12 FALL 2004 RHODES rhodes.edu Eden Badgett, front row center, at rehearsal Carole Blankenship at rehearsal at Church of Our Saviour 0 Eden Badgett '07 With a bridge major in music and education, Eden Badgett is thinking of making a career of choral conducting at the high school or college level. "Mr. Lauridsen makes me want to go into choral music," said the sophomore from Knoxville, TN. "The first time I ever sang his 0 Magnum Mysterium I thought, 'This is it. This is what I want to do." Carole Choate Blankenship '85 Several Rhodes Singers take voice and have studied diction in the Romance languages. Carole Blankenship is one of the voice teachers who has worked with them. A Rhodes music major, Blankenship sings soprano with the MasterSingers. Andrew Colyer '90 Andrew Colyer, who practices chiropractic and alternative medicine in Red Hook, NY, north of Manhattan, majored in music and pre-med and was a Singer at Rhodes. A story about the Carnegie Hall concert in the summer 2003 Rhodes magazine piqued his interest, especially the part that invited alumni to sing. He e-mailed conductor Tim Sharp, introduced himself, and was in. Colyer, who sings bass, ordered the scores and CDs of the works and trained with a voice coach. "I wanted to be really prepared for that performance," he said. Andrew Colyer outside the Carnegie Hall stage door M. 83d0 0314119VZ113 rhodes.edu FALL 2004 RHODES 13 David '64 and Elizabeth Saunders Cooper '64 MasterSingers Elizabeth and David Cooper celebrated their 40th wedding anniversarythis year. After dress rehearsal at Carnegie Hall, Elizabeth asked Morten Lauridsen to sign an anniversary card for them, which he graciously did. Another bonus: Although David, bass, and Elizabeth, alto, both sing in the Memphis Symphony Chorus and their church choir and David lends his voice to the chorus of Opera Memphis, the luck of the Carnegie Hall staging allowed them to sing side by side for the first time. At Rhodes, David majored in biology, Elizabeth, in English. It must be love. David and Elizabeth Cooper at Carnegie Hall Morten Lauridsen Lauridsen explains his approach to his art: "My passion second to music is poetry. I read it constantly?every day. It is a fundamental part of my life. I have profound admiration for poets who seek deeper meanings and truths and are able to express themselves elegantly through the written word. Consequently, it has been a natural development for me as a composer to wed these two passions and to set texts to music." 14 FALL 2004 RHODES rhodes.edu David Ramsey '61 "There were certain spots in the Carnegie Hall concert in which I felttotally involved, that I was making a difference," said Distinguished Service Professor and accompanist David Ramsey. When the former Rhodes music major wasn't performing he was offstage taking in the rest of the program. "The Madrigali was a knockout execution. There were a lot of glorious moments that shone through. One was the beginning of 0 Magnum Mysterium?the choral music that blended like the ethereal quality of a cello, then a violin, just out of nowhere. Carnegie Hall tends to magnify the subtle moments as well as the bright, vivacious ones." Craig Cooper '05 "Carnegie Hall is beautiful. I think it's even more beautiful standing on the stage looking out. I really think it was designed with performers in mind," said Rhodes Singer and MasterSinger Craig Cooper, a political science major and religious studies minor. The tenor from Thayer, MO, says, "When we performed I felt it was the best we had done. Mr. Lauridsen was extremely pleased with our performance. That was a good feeling to know that in his eyes we had done his music justice." Tim Sharp O F Tim Sharp, right, with members of the Master Singers Chorale Conductor Tim Sharp, who holds the Elizabeth Gay Daughdrill Chair in the Fine Arts at Rhodes, said the concert held three attractions for him: 1. It was the first time he or the choirs had played Carnegie Hall. 2. The Tuthill connection was a full circle for Rhodes. 3. He had a unique program that he felt would interest New Yorkers and visitors alike. Sharp is on sabbatical this year as a visiting fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge University, where he is researching Moravian music. Tim Powell, a former student of Sharp who accompanied him and the singers to New York, is conducting at Rhodes this year as Sharp's sabbatical replacement. Sharp has already been invited back to Carnegie Hall. In January 2006 he will conduct an all-male choir for the Martin Luther King Day celebration. He's already in the process of contacting conductors and choirs from around the country. rhodes.edu FALL 2004 RHODES 15 Rhodes Welcomes 23 Faculty New faculty are, Row 1, left to right Stuart Allen, Rebecca Blume Rothman, Ron Gelleny. Rob Robinson, Elizabeth Webb. Winnie Chan, Susan Uselmann. Anna Dronzek. Regina Gee. Row 2: Maurido Caflero, John Chesley, Rosanna Cappallato, Tim Powell, Katherine Panagakos. Charles McKinney, Lisa Kadlec, Chris Seaton, Ellen Daugherty, Margaret Came, David Mason Stuart Allen, assistant professor of English, received his B.A. in English with honors from the University of Leeds, M.A. in 20th-century literature from the University of Sussex and Ph.D. in English from Wolfson College, Oxford. He served as lecturer to overseas students at Hertford College, Oxford. He also taught at Corpus Christi, University and Green colleges at Oxford. He has published numerous articles in his fields of interest including Wordsworth, aesthetics, Romanticism and Modernism. Mauricio Cafiero, assistant professor of chemistry. A native of Lima, Peru, Cafiero received his B.S. in chemistry from the University of North Florida and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in chemistry from the University of Arizona. Prior to joining the Rhodes faculty, he worked as a post-doctoral fellow in the computational chemistry group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. He has published several articles in his field of study and is currently preparing papers on non-Born- 16 FALL 2004 RHODES rhodes.edu Oppenheimer molecular structure, self-interaction corrected density functional theory, and the mechanism of oxidation of solid Cr203. Rosanna Cappellato, assistant professor of biology, received her B.S. from the University of Rome, doctorandus in biology from the University of Amsterdam and Ph.D. in biology from Emory University. She has taught courses in environmental sciences at Allegheny College, Alfred University and Emory University. She has conducted field research in the U.S. and across the world and has also worked as an associate expert in ecology for the United Nations. She has co-authored articles in Water, Air and Soil Pollution, Journal of Hydrology and Canadian Journal of Forest Research. Margaret Came, assistant professor of political science, holds her B.A. in politics (high honors) from Oberlin College and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to joining the Rhodes faculty, she served as an instructor at UC-Berkeley, teaching courses in politics, ethics and leadership. A member of Phi Beta Kappa, her teaching interests include American politics, campaigns and elections, political parties and interest groups, public opinion and quantitative methods. Winnie Chan, assistant professor of English, received her A.B. in English from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Ph.D. in English language and literature from the University of Virginia. She has served as an instructor at the University of Virginia, teaching courses in accelerated academic writing, studies in British literature and Shakespearian drama and advanced expository writing. Her teaching and research interests include Victorian literary and cultural studies, modernism, colonial and postcolonial studies, humanities computing, composition, textual studies and the history of the book and women's studies. John Chesley, instructor, Greek and Roman Studies, received his B.A. in classics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and M.A. from the University of Washington, Seattle. He has served as an instructor at the University of Washington, teaching courses in Greek and Latin, Homer and Greek and Roman mythology. He currently is taking part in the Tel-Dor Archaeological Project. His research interests include Latin and Greek historiography, Roman social history and topography of Greece and Rome. Ellen Daugherty, assistant professor of art, received her B.A. (highest distinction) in art history with a minor in architectural history from the University of Virginia and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in art history and American art from the University of Virginia. A recipient of the Luce/ACLS Fellowship in American Art, she has recently presented papers on "Refiguring African-American Public Memory: The Monuments of Lincoln Park, Washington, DC" and "The Booker T. Washington Monument at Tuskegee University and the Imagery of Racial Uplift." Anna Dronzek, assistant professor of history, holds her B.A. in history (cum laude with highest honors) from Williams College and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in medieval and early modern European history from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. She has served as assistant professor of history at the University of Minnesota-Morris, teaching courses in world history, medieval Europe and women in the Middle Ages. The recipient of numerous fellowships and grants, she has published articles on gender roles in the 15th century, and is currently at work on a book manuscript, To Win Worship: Middle Class Identity and Gender in Late Medieval England. Regina Gee, assistant professor of art, received B.A. and M.A. degrees from Vanderbilt University and her Ph.D. in Roman art and architecture from the University of Texas. She has served as visiting associate professor of art history at Millsaps College, teaching courses in Roman, Baroque, Minoan and Italian Renaissance art and architecture, realism and impressionism and modernism. A Fulbright Scholar, she is currently at work on a paper titled "Being Greek in Rome: The Tomb of Gaius Valerius Herma in the Vatican Necropolis." Ron Gelleny rejoins the Department of International Studies as assistant professor. A former visiting assistant professor at Rhodes, Gelleny received his B.A. in economics and B.A. and M.A. in political science from McMaster University. He has a Ph.D. from Binghamton University- SUNY. He has served as a visiting instructor at East Stroudsburg University and assistant professor at California State University. His research and teaching interests include international relations, globalization and policy making, international organizations, comparative politics, American foreign rhodes.edu FALL 2004 RHODES 17 policy and West European politics. The author of numerous scholarly papers, he is currently at work on a forthcoming article with Rhodes Profs. Karl Kaltenthaler and Steve Ceccoli titled "Explaining Public Support for Trade Globalization." Lisa Kadlec, assistant professor of biology, received her B.A. in biology (magna cum laude, with departmental high honors) from Haverford College and Ph.D. in the cell and molecular biology program at Duke University Medical Center. A member of Phi Beta Kappa and an American Cancer Society postdoctoral fellow, she most recently served as a visiting research fellow in the Department of Molecular Biology at Princeton University where she has been a lecturer and an instructor in the Summer Research Program. She is currently researching targets of the epidermal growth factor receptor in the Drosophila ovary. Steven Lloyd, instructor of psychology, holds his B.S. in psychology from the University of Georgia and M.S. in experimental psychology from The University of Memphis. His Ph.D. in anatomy and neurobiology is currently under review at the University of Tennessee, Memphis. He has served as a part-time instructor in Rhodes' Psychology Department, teaching courses in sensation and perception and physiological psychology. His most recent research involves examining the consequences of psychostimulant exposure on the developing and adult mouse brain with a special emphasis on neurodegenerative disorders. David Mason, assistant professor of theater, received his B.A. in comparative literature (cum laude) from Brigham Young University, M.A. in South Asian Studies and Ph.D. in theater research from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. The recipient of a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship for Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad, he has taught courses in theater at Georgia College & State University. The author of numerous articles and scholarly papers, he has directed several productions including original work. His current research interests include the nature of theatrical performance as a function of religious practice. Michelle Mattson, associate professor and chair, modern languages and literatures, received her B.A. in German and Latin (summa cum laude) from the University of Minnesota and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in German studies from Stanford University. She has taught courses at Princeton, Columbia and Iowa State universities, and most recently served as associate department chair of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Iowa State University. A member of Phi Beta Kappa and author of one book and numerous articles, she currently is working on a book-length project that examines, through post-war German literature, how people see their role in history and determine the spectrum of their personal responsibilities. Charles McKinney will join the Department of History as assistant professor in the spring semester. McKinney received his B.A. from Morehouse College and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in history from Duke University. A recipient of a Mellon Foundation Dissertation Seminar Grant and Samuel DuBois Cook Award, he served as research associate, director of undergraduate studies and program coordinator for the African and African-American Studies Program at Duke University. His teaching interests include 18th-, 19th- and 20th-century African-American history, the civil rights movement, American social and political history, black church studies, U.S. social movements, the 20th-century U.S. South, oral history, the history of black activism and African-American legal history. Katherine Panagakos, visiting assistant professor of Greek and Roman Studies, holds her B.S. in environmental policy, institutions and behaviors from Rutgers University, M.A. in classics from Tulane University and Ph.D. in Greek and Latin from The Ohio State University. Her areas of interest include Greco-Roman novels, late antiquity, Byzantium, Augustan poetry and material culture. Timothy Powell, assistant professor of music, received his B.M. (cum laude) and M.M. in church music from Belmont University and D.M.A. in conducting from the University of South Carolina. Prior to joining the Rhodes faculty, he served as director of the Honors College Choir at the University of South Carolina, and, more recently, received a Fulbright Award to Bulgaria to study the music of composer Dobri Hristov. Rob Robinson '97, assistant professor of political science, received his B.A. in political science 18 FALL 2004 RHODES rhodes.edu (summa cum laude with honors) from Rhodes and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Robinson's research interests include American political institutions, judicial politics, law and science, constitutional law, civil liberties, law and epistemology and law and political theory. Rebecca Blume Rothman, curator of visual resources and instructor of art, received her B.A. from the University of Colorado and M.F.A. in photographic studies from Arizona State University. Her research topics have included marketing and self-promotion in the arts, historic photographic processes in the digital age and studio techniques. She has taught courses in photography and photographic history at the Memphis College of Art, Maricopa County Community Colleges, Arizona State University and the New School for the Arts in Scottsdale, AZ. She also has experience in gallery management and has exhibited her work in galleries throughout the United States and abroad. Jon Russ, associate professor and chair, chemistry, holds his B.S. in chemistry from Corpus Christi State University and Ph.D. in chemistry from Texas A&M University. A former associate professor at Arkansas State University, he is the author of numerous scholarly articles. His research is focused primarily on chemical analyses of prehistoric rock paints, paleoclimate studies using biogeochemical rock coatings as climate proxies and method development for analyzing components in/from tobacco smoke. Chris Seaton, assistant professor of mathematics and computer science, received his B.A. in mathematics (cum laude with honors) from Kalamazoo College and a Ph.D. from the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he served as an instructor. His research interests include differential geometry and K-theory of orbifolds. Susan Uselmann, assistant professor of English, received her B.A. in English literature (with honors) from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She has served as a part-time assistant professor in the Rhodes English Department and specializes in teaching medieval literature, including Old and Middle English literature in relation to works from the continent, and women's literature. Her scholarly work includes a book in progress as well as forthcoming book reviews and an article on early scribal perceptions of women's literacy. Elizabeth Webb, assistant professor, religious studies, holds her B.A. in religious studies from William Jewell College, M.T.S. from Duke University Divinity School (summa cum laude) and Ph.D. in theological studies from Emory University. Prior to joining the Rhodes faculty, she served as an instructor of religion at Augustana College. Her teaching interests include systematic and constructive Christian theology, theological responses to evil and suffering, feminist, womanist and liberation theologies, theology and literary theory, Christian theological ethics and history of Christian thought. rhodes.edu FALL 2004 RHODES 19 rNl vn, By Jeffrey H. Jackso Assistant Professor of History 4 Django Reinhardt. center. with the Quintet de Hot Club ance. ca . 1934 OBettm ORBIS 2004 RHODES rhodes_adu Ns,. AMMO , .: 11 ) lifr \i/ In Paris this past summer; the sounds of jazz were everywhere. From caf?s, restaurants, record stores and radio stations to the several jazz festivals 11 ii taking place around the i city, I couldn't go far without hearing those familiar tunes. During the citywide music festival called La F?te de la Musique that turns all of Paris into one daylong series of concerts near the end of June each year, I was captivated rhodes.edu FA 004 RHODES Musicians at the Paris nightclub La Boull Blanche, ca. 1930 PHOTO BY SASHA/ GETTY IMAGES by a fabulous French jazzy rhythm-and-blues band playing on the Champs-Elysee. They had practiced the English words so well that they fooled me into thinking they were Americans until they started speaking to the audience in perfect French, and the crowd was generous with its applause. Parisians, it seems, just can't get enough of jazz. But nearly a century ago, the audiences in Paris weren't always so friendly. When African- American musicians first carried jazz across the Atlantic during World War I, they were often met with more confusion than wonder. Bandleader James Reese Europe, for example, was a fixture in New York and had helped popularize black music in the U.S. When he toured France during the war to help boost the morale of the troops, French listeners did not know what to make of him. At one event, his orchestra played La Marseillaise, but no one in the audience even recognized it as the national anthem. Some French musicians thought that Europe's band was using new or special instruments to make their crazy sound. The reaction to Europe's orchestra was not unique. After the war as jazz bands began to play in 22 FALL 2004 RHODES rhodes.edu greater numbers, Parisian audiences became even more critical and frightened. One critic called jazz "a collection of melodic dust, a puzzle of minute imitation...of deafening timbres and pinching tones." Another thought jazz was nothing but "blasts of sardonic whistling." Still another feared that jazz might make listeners go insane. These sounds so new to French ears were producing a kind of musical and aesthetic controversy in part because they symbolized something much deeper. To many, jazz was not only music. It was a herald of the modern era and life in the new century. In particular, many thought it was the sound of the machine age. One, for example, called it "the music of mass-produced men." Machines often meant not just technology, but also America. Jazz, some argued, was the musical outcome of industrial development in the U.S. The critic Georges Duhamel, who wrote a stinging critique of American life called America the Menace: Scenes from the Life of the Future (1931), compared the sound of jazz to the mechanical world from which it came. "The music suddenly burst forth from a corner," he wrote. "It was the falsest, the shrillest, the most explosive of jazz?that breathless uproar which for many years now has staggered to the same syncopation, that shrieks through its nose, weeps, grinds its teeth and caterwauls throughout the world." And now it was taking over France, something of great concern to Duhamel and many others like him. French audiences also took careful note of the fact that the people playing jazz were usually black, and the music would be associated with supposed racial characteristics for a long time to come. "Blackness" meant a variety of things to the French, but most often it evoked the jungles of Africa that France had been colonizing in the preceding decades. If the rise of jazz represented the ascent of black culture, many wondered, did that mean that those who listened to it might "go native" or become "uncivilized?" "If the yolie noire' [black craze] is not stopped soon," proclaimed one frightened critic, "in a few months, I won't see any whites!" Modern or primitive? American or African? Jazz was all of these things to French listeners depending on who gave their opinion. But whatever the answer, the end result was the same: Jazz was something foreign because it had not come from the French people themselves. And this produced the greatest conflict of all. In the years after World War I, France had to reconsider its place in the world as its role as a great power weakened. American influence was on the rise, something signaled by the growing number of American products on store shelves and U.S. motion pictures in the theaters. Uprisings in French colonies in the 1920s foretold of brutal wars that would bring an end to a worldwide network of economic and political influence. The thousands of immigrants who came to France just after World War I caused many to wonder if France would be washed away in a tide of foreigners who, they feared, subverted their culture and took their jobs. That was the very moment at which jazz arrived. French musicians were also concerned with the foreignness of jazz. But unlike those who made aesthetic or cultural arguments, their worries were more bread-and-butter. For working musicians, getting a job could be hard enough in good times. Even though the entertainment industry in Paris was healthy, high taxes just after World War I meant that many clubs were struggling to make ends meet. And club owners preferred American (usually black) musicians who could put people in the seats. The law required a certain percentage of musicians on stage to be French, but to get around the regulation, some clubs hired a French band to sit idly by while the Americans actually played. And American jazzmen often received significantly higher wages than their French counterparts did. One early jazzman supposedly received 10 times the salary of a member of the government's cabinet. By the 1930s with the onset of the Depression, French musicians again feared for their jobs. As the economy turned sour and American tourists went home, audiences dwindled. On more than one occasion, French performers protested inside and outside clubs where American jazz musicians were playing, and they pleaded with French listeners to boycott establishments that hired only Americans. Jazz posed a problem to people in France: Should it stay or should it go? Was jazz just a flight rhodes.edu FALL 2004 RHODES 23 of fancy?a fad with no real impact on the music scene?or had it changed French art and entertainment forever? Amidst the debate that erupted, an important group of musicians, critics and fans began to propose an answer: Jazz had not just come for a moment, but had come to Paris for good. And they worked diligently to make sure that those hopes would come true. In the mid-1920s, two college students formed a fan club called Jazz-Club Universitaire to promote the music they loved. Soon, they made friends with another young man named Hugues Panassie, already an important player on the Parisian jazz scene. Panassie was not a professional musician but a prolific critic who had already written thousands of words in favor of jazz and was on his way to writing thousands more. He became the president of the Jazz-Club Universitaire and changed the name to Le Hot Club de France in honor of his favorite kind of music, "hot jazz." In 1934, Panassie published his book Le Jazz hot, which outlined his aesthetic philosophy of the music. "The very form of jazz," Panassie proclaimed, "is entirely different" from everything that had come before. As a result, he took it upon himself to educate French listeners about 'hot music"?the New Orleans-style jazz played by black musicians like Louis Armstrong, Panassies personal hero. "Where there is no swing," Panassie argued, "there can be no authentic jazz." In creating a category of "authenticity," he tried to separate what he believed was "real" jazz (played by black musicians) from the commercially successful, watered-down music performed by large (usually white) dance bands. Panassie was a musical purist, and wanted his jazz as hot as the musicians could play it. Panassie was not alone. Although it was never enormous, the membership of Le Hot Club de France grew, thanks in part to the organization's magazine Jazz-Hot which published profiles of artists, record reviews, articles about jazz performances in the U.S. and Europe and advertisements by those in search of recordings that were hard to find in France. The members of the Hot Club gathered in homes throughout the country listening to records and sharing their appreciation for jazz. Critics and fans also encouraged French musicians to play more jazz, too. There had been French jazz bands since the music arrived, but they were often looked down upon by listeners who thought they were not as good as the Americans. One of the first successful French bands, Gregor et ses Gregorians, touted its all-French personnel. The music stands on their stage were painted blue, white and red to create the effect of a French flag. As Gregor said, "We have freed ourselves from our dependence on the Americans." Likewise, another very popular musician, Ray Ventura, promoted himself as a French jazz musician by performing old French folk songs in a jazz style? including Frere Jacques and many other tunes with which everyone in the audience was familiar. His reception was overwhelmingly positive. "Finally a French jazz band under a Frenchman's direction," gushed one critic. By the early 1930s, a generation of young French musicians began to make names for themselves: Stephan Mougin, Alix Combelle, Andre Ekyan and others. They had grown up listening to Americans play jazz, and now they asserted that they were good enough to play on their own?and to expect the admiration of French audiences. Most famous of all were Stephan Grappelli and Django Reinhardt, the cornerstones of the Quintet of the Hot Club of France, a group organized by Panassie and his fellow enthusiasts. They became the cutting edge of French jazz bands, both because of their international success in records, radio and personal appearances and because of what many thought was their "uniquely French" sound as an all-string band. Audiences conveniently overlooked the fact that among France's jazz pioneers, most were immigrants: Gregor was Armenian, Reinhardt was a gypsy born in Belgium and Grappelli was the son of an Italian. Although their roots in France may not have been deep, they were deep enough for audiences to accept the music they played as a statement about France's openness to musical innovation. To many listeners, they proved jazz may have been created elsewhere but that it could become French. And that openness may be the most important legacy that France's early jazz musicians left behind. When it emerged on the scene during World War I, jazz threatened many people's sense of themselves and their culture. It appeared to be a foreign music, both because it was African 24 FALL 2004 RHODES rhodes.edu French jazz critic Hugues Panassie and American jail great Fats Waller, 1938 IIME LIFE PICIURES/GETIY IMAGES and American and because it sounded so shockingly different from anything audiences had heard before. But as they listened, people began to think differently: Their ability to appreciate jazz taught them that part of being French meant finding and loving the good things that other cultures have to offer. Editor's note: Prof. Jackson, author of Making Jazz French: Music and Modern Life in Interwar Paris (2003), is a consultant for a documentary about the African-American community and jazz musicians in Montmartre in the 1920s and 1930s. The film, currently titled Harlem in Montmartre: A Paris Jazz Story, is being co-produced by PBS and French filmmakers. rhodes.edu FALL 2004 RHODES 25 IN PRINT Poetry The Gathering Eye By Tina Barr, Rhodes Associate Professor of English. Dorset, VT Tupelo Press; 72 pp. $14.95 Winner of the Tupelo Press Editor's Prize in Poetry In Search of Rachmaninoff By Valeria Z. Nollan, Rhodes Associate Professor of Russian. Amsterdam: Wouter de Voogd; 39 pp. $13.95. Available from the Rhodes bookstore, 901-843-3535 A poem concerned with the beauty of the composer's music and triumph of his life works of Wallace, a leader of modernism's third wave The Taney Court: Justices, Rulings and Legacy By Timothy S. Huebner, Rhodes Associate Professor of History. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO; 288 pp. $65 An exploration of the U.S. Supreme Court during an era of dramatic sectionalism, slavery and the Civil War Hitchcock and France The Forging of an Auteur By James M. Vest, Rhodes Professor ofFrench. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers; 256 pp. $69.95 Explores film director Alfred Hitchcock's encounters with prominent French film critics of the 1950s, which enhanced his reputation as a creative artist. PAELLA P110/4 YOUR ITGHIENT- PAELLA WITH TAPAS, CAZPACHOS, AND SANGRIAS FOR A FESTIVE SPANISH F1 AS MARIA SOLIS BALLINGER AND NATALIA SOLIS NALLINGER Fiction Meant To Be By Edie Claire (Edie Vincent Swihart '87). New York: Warner Books; 400 pp. $5.99 A new heroine, Meara O'Rourke, finds her birth parents and romance. The Edge of the Gulf By Hadley Hury '71. Scottsdale: Poisoned Pen Press; .324 pp. $24.95 Good and evil vie in a gripping first novel set on the Florida Gulf Coast. Raining Rum and Other Short Stories To Drink To By Bobbo fetmundsen '77. 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New York: McGraw-Hill; 300 pp. $24.95 The focus is on the people side of knowledge management and what it takes to get employees to contribute to a knowledge system. Bakhtin: Ethics and Mechanics By Valerie Z. Nollan, editor, Rhodes Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures. Evanston: Northwestern University Press; 128 pp. $79.95 Essays on Russian linguist and critic Mikhail Bakhtin Throwing off the Cloak of Privilege: White Southern Women Activists in the Civil Rights Era By Gail S. Murray, editor, Rhodes Associate Professor of History. Gainesville: University Press of Florida; 250 pp. $59.95 Essays on how Southern ladies became civil rights activists The Bonhoeffer Phenomenon By Stephen R. Haynes, Rhodes Associate Professor of Religious Studies. Minneapolis: Fortress Press; 280 pp. $22 An exploration of the ways Protestant theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer is remembered, celebrated and appropriated When Things Begin To Go Bad: Narrative Explorations of Difficult Issues Edited by George Howard and Edward A. Delgado-Romero '88. Lanham, MD: Hamilton Books; 141 pp. $25 Thirteen personal narratives by psychologists, counselors and therapists that focus on hope III THE BONHOEFFER HEN ENON Making Jazz French Music and Modern Life in Interwar Paris By Jeffrey H. Jackson, Rhodes Associate Professor of History. Durham: Duke University Press; 280 pp. $21.95 paper, $74.95 cloth The full story of how and why jazz was so popular, yet controversial, in the 1920s' and 1930s' Paris Paella Paella By Rhodes Spanish Instructor Maria Solis Ballinger and her daughter Natalia Solis Ballinger. New York: 6th Avenue rhodes.edu FALL 2004 RHODES 27 Learning and earning It's All in a Day's Work By Helen Watkins Norman Photography by Justin Fox Burks Caleb Burke '06 28 FALL 2004 RHODES rhodes.edu Rbodes junior Caleb Burke is a man of varied talents. A would-be playwright and sometime actor, Burke can juggle basketballs, ride a unicycle with ease and build a stegosaurus out of a dozen latex balloons. But when it comes to landing a post-college job in his field, the ambitious theatre major knows that talent alone will not suffice. Burke needs on-the-job experience. And he's getting it thanks to the Rhodes Student Associates Program (RSAP), an earn-as-you-learn student jobs initiative that raises the bar professionally and financially for on-campus employment. Burke is one of 19 Rhodes students selected this fall to participate in the three-year pilot program. He works in the theater department, assisting the technical director in planning and constructing sets and hanging lights for main stage shows. "I like my job because it's very much about problem- solving and it's a lot of responsibility," says Burke. According to its organizers, RSAP is unique among collegiate jobs programs in that it aims to provide intellectually challenging jobs that mesh with students' academic and career goals. Equally critical, it provides competitive wages starting at $10 an hour, helping make a Rhodes education affordable to more students. Grants from the Mellon Foundation and the Lumina Foundation are helping fund the program. Mellon gave $200,000, with $122,000 going to Rhodes and $78,000 going to Texas' Southwestern University which Rhodes selected as a partner for the pilot program. The Lumina Foundation gave an additional $155,625 to launch the jobs program. "The Lumina Foundation's interest in this study is to find out what Rhodes could do to create a reproducible program, something that could be done again elsewhere with results that would benefit higher education in general," says Bob Johnson, vice president for information services and a lead organizer of the RSAP initiative. With the help of the foundations and Rhodes' existing employment budget, the college created a program offering jobs that pay well but don't require students to spend extra time and money to get to and from the workplace. "We're lowering the cost of getting a job and at the same time making it more lucrative," says Johnson. "And we're trying to do it in such a way that the job supports their studies rather than competing with them." Senior Caroline Downing, 21, landed a Student Associate position assisting with the work of two professors in her major?economics and business administration. She is doing research with Prof. Teresa Beckham Gramm on the sub-prime mortgage market (for people with low incomes or blemished credit). She's also working with Prof. Dee Birnbaum on studies examining the role of nurses and how their tasks are perceived. "I can't imagine a better job. It's convenient. I don't have to battle with traffic or parking," Downing says. "The most interesting part is to work so closely with my professors." While most of this year's Rhodes Associates work in fields related to their majors or intended career paths, not all of them are working directly with professors. Many have administrative positions. Computer science major Bill Israel, 21, trains and oversees the student workers who keep the residential computer network humming. Senior Laura Blanton, 21, an aspiring journalist with a genetic predisposition to writing (her mother is a well-published mystery writer) is composing feature stories for Rhodes magazine. Meg Sizemore, 19, coordinates and promotes events for Career Services. She recently helped create the marketing plan for Grad School Awareness Week which included student mailbox stuffers of Ramen noodles and the note, "Let your first grad school meal be on us." No matter what their campus jobs, no matter what their intended career goals, participants agree that RSAP is filling a void on campus. With approximately 700 of Rhodes' 1600 students?nearly half the student body?working at the college in any given year, the issue of campus employment is front and center among students. It has been that way through the years, beginning in the 1930s soon after the college had moved to Memphis. During those grinding years of the Great Depression, now-Memphis attorney Lewis Donelson '38 and CLU Russell Perry '33 financed their education through a work-study arrangement. Donelson was a grader for Prof. Sam Monk, while Perry worked in college public rhodes.edu FALL 2004 RHODES 29 relations directly under President Charles E. Diehl. Not only did it gave them the educational experience of a lifetime, it shaped their future and lifelong relationship with the college. Their stories inspired President William Troutt to begin thinking about new approaches to student employment that would better benefit both the students and the college. Today at Rhodes some students work in internships; others, as part of the college's large work-study program, which provides campus jobs?many of them clerical positions. Work-study offers its workers hourly wages of $5.15 to $5.90. "Work-study is a perfect fit for some students, but not all. These (work-study positions) are legitimate jobs. Someone needs to file the folders and do the clerical work," says Dr. Jo Bennett, associate director of financial aid a coordinator of RSAP. "But sometimes (students) can't afford to work for $5.15 an hour. Sometimes a student wants more or different challenges from those offered by traditional work-study jobs." Before creating the program, Bennett explains, organizers "talked to a lot of students about their perceptions of work opportunities at Rhodes, what it would take to make a meaningful job and what kind of pay it would take to make them want to stay on campus and work here for us." The result is a program tailor-made for students like junior Laura Vargo, 23, an associate in the Counseling Center. She loves her job, surveying 65 college counseling centers across the country to compare the services they offer. "I am excited," she says, "that the work I am doing might eventually aid the entire student body with new or more efficient programs." Equally important, the job is keeping her at Rhodes. For financial reasons Vargo feared she would have to transfer to a less expensive state school to finish requirements for medical school. Thanks in large part to RSAP that won't happen. "I can stay at Rhodes for another year and receive a more substantial academic preparation for the MCAT and medical school," she maintains. "We know that if we can keep our students working on campus, it's going to enhance their college experience," says Bennett. "Students who work on campus as opposed to off campus make higher grades, they're more satisfied with the college experience and they're more connected to the institution." They almost have their own "support system" in the department where they work, she says, a significant benefit for those a long way from home. Students who work on campus are also more likely to stay at Rhodes. Bob Johnson believes the program will improve retention at the college and that will, in turn, save money for the institution. (It's cheaper to keep students than to recruit new ones.) Student Associates can potentially earn $4,000-$6,000 a year depending on how many hours a week they work. The maximum weekly load is 15 hours, but participants may work fewer. Many, however, do work a full load and still manage to cram in the multitude of social and volunteer activities that typify the Rhodes student. Sophomore Randi Johnson, a Student Associate in Rhodes' Student Leadership office, is helping develop and implement student leadership programs on campus. "I can still fit in all my previous activities," says Johnson, who is involved in Air Force ROTC, her sorority Alpha Omicron Pi, the Russian Club and Model UN. "I just find that I sleep a little bit less now." The push for a new and improved collegiate jobs program actually came from two corners of campus. One, of course, was third floor Halliburton Tower, the office of Rhodes President Troutt. After chairing the National Commission on the Cost of Higher Education, Troutt has figured prominently in U.S. public debate over the cost of higher education and the impact on student access to it. In recent years he has challenged campus leaders to find innovative ways to improve education while controlling costs. Increasingly, administrators have studied student employment as a potential tether to rising personnel costs. While the president and staff brainstormed about a campus jobs program, students were also thinking outside the work-study box. In January 2003 at a Dean's Council meeting of faculty, staff and students, J.R. Tarabocchia, a senior at the time, agreed to lead a Rhodes Student Government initiative to examine and improve the campus employment program. The idea "stemmed from my 30 FALL 2004 RHODES rhodes.edu own experiences" as a worker in the Rhodes Music Academy, notes Tarabocchia, who is currently a law student in New Hampshire. The student initiative had four goals, he explains: to "formalize and demystify the process of finding a job, to use students' work potential while developing their work experience," to help students earn enough to make up the gap between financial aid and rising tuition costs and finally, to create a centralized office for dealing with campus employment. The Rhodes Student Associates Program does all four. It also expands eligibility: Any student can apply for a RSAP position, no matter whether he or she has financial need. With its emphasis on career-track jobs in a broad range of fields, RSAP comes at a good time for liberal arts students faced with a tight job market, notes Career Services director Sandi George Tracy, who, along with financial aid's Jo Bennett, is coordinating the Student Associates Program. With the launch of the program, academic and administrative departments on campus submitted proposals for RSAP positions in their departments. They had to make a case that the job would enhance the career potential of the student and would benefit the college in a substantial way. Once the RSAP coordinating committee approved the positions, departments recruited and formally interviewed student applicants. "I've had some students say to me, 'wow, that was a tough interview'," says Bennett. "But the interview process is similar to the interview they're going to have for their first real job after graduation. That's a life skill that may not get taught in the classroom, but something they're going to need to know." During the year, students will also receive special training as well as a formal evaluation by their department mentor. They also will have the opportunity to hold on to their jobs for the full time they are enrolled at the college. As the program grows larger and becomes fully established, it will seek first-year students and sophomores who can remain in the Associate jobs for several years. "To make this program viable, it needs to be sustainable. We need to have students in their jobs long enough to learn to train other students to take their place and to manage students," explains Bob Johnson. "We could not afford to have staff who already had full-time job responsibilities to monitor all these new student workers." With the new jobs program, students will provide a valuable service to the college, completing work that in many cases would not otherwise get done. Still, the real benefit to Rhodes, says Bennett, is its elevation as a "model institution in the area of student employment and student development." "I can envision other institutions looking at Rhodes and what we've done," notes Bennett, "how we've taken a relatively small amount of money, developed this tremendous pool of talent and used it to benefit the college as well as the students." al rhodes.edu FALL 2004 RHODES 31 Ilk /0 0 0- 0 0 0 ' I i a olui .ii/.(,9( ' iiiiiii PI ;7 r t1 i, ...... . 1.1 II * 11 Al I (I II ti / * 6 1/ 11 ' 11 * * 11 * 11 kit By Laura K. Blanton '05 Photography by Justin Fox Burks Ward Archer '74 and Sid Selvidge '65 at Archer Records '32 FALL 7004 RHODES d- Every listeners on more than 300 public radio stations around world can transport themselves for one hour to a place v;Tigte,the barbecue is always hot and the music never dies. Beale Street Caravan, a noncommercial radio program, is the brainchild of two of Rhodes' own?Ward Archer '74 and Sid elvidge '65. bodesti FALL 2004 RHODES 33 Ward Archer '74 taping at Otherlands j ust east of the muddy Mississippi, Memphis' musically fertile atmosphere yields a matchless conglomeration of music?rap, r&b, folk, jazz, blues, country and rock. Locals can enjoy various types of live music with relative ease, stopping at a coffee shop or heading to Beale. But for those not fortunate enough to live in Memphis, the radio may be their only way to tap into such a constant flow of music. By combining their years of experience and passion for music, Selvidge and Archer have created an outlet for music lovers worldwide. From acoustics to anthropology to albums For Sid Selvidge, music has been a constant thread in his life, starting in his teenage years as a disc jockey in Greenville, MS. "My voice was mature at that point, so they trained me," Selvidge recalls. "I'd work every afternoon after school and a regular shift in the summertime. Then I was shipped off to military school, and that was the end of that for a while." The change of scenery did not stunt Selvidge's growth as a musician. Because he was not allowed to play his electric guitar in the dorms at school, he shifted gears to playing acoustic. "I worked up an act, came to Memphis with it in the 1960s and started playing at coffee houses," he said. "And I have been pretty much doing that ever since." Nurturing his love for radio while he was in bands, Selvidge worked with KWAM radio in Memphis during his time at Rhodes. He graduated in 1965, and went on to receive his master's degree in anthropology from Washington University. In 1969, he released his first album, Portrait, on the Stax- subsidiary label Enterprise. Then when he made his second album, The Cold of the Morning (1976), he found himself on another playing field. "I was making a record for a fellow who was starting a new label," Selvidge said. "The record got pressed and the guy said he didn't want to be in the record business anymore. He handed me a couple thousand albums and I was in the record business." And Peabody Records was born. He produced several records including Alex Chilton's Flies on Sherbert (1976). Meanwhile, he was a full-time assistant professor of anthropology at Rhodes from 1969-74. After working with Paul Craft and Cybill Shepherd, among many other musicians, Selvidge decided that six years in the independent record business was enough. In between live performances, Selvidge was a part of the band Mud Boy and the Neutrons in the '70s and '80s, along with Jim Dickinson, Jimmy Crosthwait and Lee Baker. He has also played several times with his son Steve, including an appearance at Carnegie Hall for a series called Family Tradition. Selvidge's sixth solo CD, A Little Bit of Rain, came out on Archer Records in 2003. In the past eight years, however, something else has been brewin. With the partnership of another Rhodes alum, Selvidge has boomeranged back to radio to share his love of Memphis music with the world. 34 FALL 2004 RHODES rhodes.edu Coming full circle As Selvidge was leaving Rhodes in 1974, Ward Archer was also on his way out. Graduating that year as an English major, Archer was in a band and had planned to go into the music business after graduation. "I started a small studio, and that was where I should've stopped," Archer joked. "But then I built Cotton Row Recording with another Rhodes alum, Nikos Lyras '78. After 10 years or so, we were doing a lot of for-hire recording and that was kind of like chopping rock." An avenue for his creativity opened up when his father, the late Ward Archer Sr. '39, who had started the ad agency now known as archer>malmo, wanted to leave the agency to start the Memphis Business Journal. Since Ward Jr. had worked at the agency as a copywriter, he didn't want to see the company disappear?so instead, he took it over. In two decades, archer>malmo became the largest ad agency in Tennessee and was recently named the second-best small company to work for in America by the Society of Human Resource Management. "I didn't even own a suit when I took it over," Archer said. "I didn't dream that it would be as successful as it is." After 25 years in the business, Archer decided once again to switch careers. "It's the kind of business where you have to have young energetic people who can go out and fight the battle," he said. "When the same accounts start coming for the third time, then it's just time to step aside." Without further ado, he stepped right back into the recording business. "I didn't really plan to start a record label," he confessed. "I just wanted to do something with music." He rented a 1,000-square-foot studio and opened it up to artists. He began recording classical guitarist Lily Afshar, and when releasing her CD Possession in 2002, decided to go ahead and establish the Archer Records label. "The hard part is trying to get exposure for artists," Archer said. "Even if you get your song played on the radio, getting it played enough times to make a difference is a real challenge." Which is where Archer's expertise in advertising comes in handy. His invaluable experience in both the music and business worlds combine to make him a virtual one-stop-shop for emerging artists. So far he has produced CDs for jazz singer Kelley Hurt, a classical guitarist, the modern R&B funk band The Gamble Brothers Band and folk-blues singer Sid Selvidge. "There are as many markets as there are genres of music, and you have to get to know what the media outlets are," Archer said. Now established as one of the five to 10 bona fide record labels in Memphis in releasing and marketing records, Archer Records looks to grow through cultivating the work of budding artists. Alumni unite Before Archer Records became a part of the Memphis music scene anA before Archer recorded Selvidge's album on the label, the men crossed tracks in 1995 in a business deal that would ignite the explosion of Beale Street Caravan. In 1995, Selvidge had been a performer on a NPR-syndicated radio program called Blues Stage. "That year, NPR made the decision not to distribute blues-related programs anymore," Selvidge noted. "I said, 'Well, let me see if I can get you some funding.'" David Less '74, head of the Blues Foundation at the time, directed Selvidge to Archer, saying that he was interested in radio programs. Archer began negotiations with the Memphis-based Hyde Family Foundations. Several months and $100,000 of seed money later, Beale Street Caravan emerged, based out of Memphis. In October 2001, Blues Stage and the Blues Foundation decided that the radio program would be better served as two separate organizations. "It was a friendly split," reassured Selvidge. "We're still quite close with the Blues Foundation, the W.C. Handy Awards and the International Blues Challenge." rhodes.edu FALL 2004 RHODES 35 With Archer as president and Selvidge as executive producer, the noncommercial Beale Street Caravan has become the most widely-distributed blues radio program in the world, engaging about 2.5 million listeners every week. Forty of the 52 programs every year are original. The organization plays reruns from July to September while members tour around the country recording new shows. They contract with various festivals to record artists who are performing. "Mostly it's blues artists, but since we split off from the Blues Foundation, we now broadcast Memphis music and its derivative forms, which is just about everything," Selvidge said. Branching out into other genres of music allows the program to avoid repeating the limited number of artists in the blues world. "We wound up chasing our tails a lot," remarked Selvidge. "This way, we have a little bit more latitude." Usually, members of the Beale Street Caravan staff spend several days at a time recording four or five acts at various festivals and venues around the country. By the end of the season, they return with an abundance of artists. A typical broadcast includes two programs within a single program, with commentary by a featured host between segments. "It's strictly live music with some intellectual candy in between," Selvidge explained. "Someone like the late Sam Phillips or Cybill Shepherd may do a 10-part series. It's usually a person who knows the subject very well." Pat Mitchell has assumed solo hosting duties for the program. The crystal ball says... As if starting three businesses and building up a fourth wasn't enough to satiate Archer's entrepreneurial thirst, he and Selvidge are now toying with the future of Beale Street Caravan. "Right now we're exploring a format for television?how to structure it, how to convert the radio program to TV and how to distribute it," Selvidge said. They intend the program to be modeled after Austin City Limits, a public television show that has presented intimate, live concerts with talented musicians from every genre for 30 years. "We have a demo that's seven or eight minutes," Archer said. "We wanted to see if we could film a radio show and that's essentially what we've done. It doesn't look like the Academy Awards or anything?it's just about the music." If BSC successfully moves to television, Archer and Selvidge aren't looking for a spot on the prime networks. "Staying there for any amount of time is next to impossible," Archer stated. Even the market for public television is tougher than that of radio. Aside from NPR, which plays mostly classical, and college stations, there are about 400 general public stations left in the U.S. BSC is already on 300 of them. "On the other hand, in the universe of public television stations, you're going to have about 100 possibilities," Selvidge said. As far as a location to film the artists, BSC may create its own venue to bring musicians to them. "Then we can have a controlled environment and we're not in anyone's way, so they can do their business and still be in front of a live audience," Selvidge pointed out. "I'm not saying we won't still do festivals, but it's a lot more intrusive to film there than it is to record audio there." Archer will be the spearhead in formatting and marketing BSC on television. "I would like to be able to get it to the market with enough programming to say that we're going to be here a while," said Archer. "I'd like to think we could make some significant progress of it within the coming year." Taking BSC to television doesn't mean the show's radio days are over. Rather, TV would provide another access point for its audience. "What we have works and it's real and it's authentic," said Archer. "It works on radio and I don't see why it wouldn't work on TV." As a city that attracts musicians like moths to a light, Memphis is perhaps the most appropriate place to broadcast a program like BSC. "Memphis music is very cohesive," Selvidge commented. "It's more cohesive than a music capital like Nashville or New York, which are industry towns used to grinding out songs on a formulaic basis." The power of a city Both men contend that it's the unique culture of Memphis that gives the music its flare, the same culture that changed them upon their enrollment at Rhodes. For Archer, a series of college lectures called "Dilemma" was most influential in 36 FALL 2004 RHODES rhodes.edu his understanding of politics and issues in Memphis. Nationally-recognized speakers were brought in for the multi-day event. Because it took place around the time of the Vietnam War, the series invited speakers like Daniel Ellsberg of Pentagon Papers fame and poet Allen Ginsberg. "In that day and age, bringing in Ellsberg would be like bringing in Michael Moore today," Archer said. "The freedom of expression and questioning the administration is not unlike it is today. That really had a profound effect on me." For Selvidge, Memphis' influence came through both his professors and the music. Emeritus professor of anthropology Dr. Jack Conrad mentored Selvidge and taught him about the trap of ethnocentrism, the belief in the superiority of one's own ethnic group. "He taught me about the integrity for Delta blues musician Furry Lewis. "I adored the guy," Selvidge confessed. "He taught me and a lot of other people that you could have a career in the music and record business without having to be a huge star." Fifty years ago when Elvis christened Memphians' ears with his rock 'n' roll song That's All Right, he became an unrealistic icon of what life in the music business was like. Selvidge reveals the duality of musicians today. Sure, there are a few get-rich-quick types who don't last in the business. Survival, however, warrants consistency and patience. "The other types are married, buy their own houses and show up for work on time," Selvidge said. "Especially in Memphis, there is a reputation that musicians are unreliable and lazy. It's quite the contrary." Sharing the goods "There is a Memphis sound and there remains a Memphis sound," said Selvidge. "I can listen to my son play with Luther Dickinson, Jim Dickinson's son, and I can hear in them Furry Lewis and all the people that I heard when I came to town." That sound is what Archer and Selvidge share with listeners every week and hope to impart to viewers as well. They help Memphis music reach radio waves worldwide. Welding their knowledge from the business, scholastic and music worlds, these men are doing their part to proliferate an appreciation of quality music?and Memphis, for that matter. 111 Learn more about Sid and Ward at bealestreetcaravan.com or archer-records.com . and uniqueness of cultures and how the individuals in cultures were created," Selvidge remembered. "He really gave me a different perspective on the Memphis culture." Selvidge's music has also been profoundly influenced by the Memphis sound. As a freshman, he sang Elizabethan folk songs and listened to records in the basement of Burrow Library. By his sophomore year, he was changed. "I was out into the city running into musicians like Jim Dickinson, Lee Baker and Jimmy Crosthwait," he said. Before he knew it, the folk music he performed in coffee shops morphed into a revival of the seminal Delta blues music. He began playing at the Bitter Lemon coffee house, opening Sid Selvidge '65 performing at Otherlands rhodes.edu FALL 2004 RHODES 37 Rhodes professor Russ Wigginton '88 (left) discusses the civil rights movement with Professor John Dittmer (right) while enjoying a trolley ride in Memphis. A program participant listens intently. gg T his generation sees the struggles of 40-50 years ago as being the resolution of those issues rather than merely bringing to the attention of the country all of the disparities that exist," he said. "They think we fixed it. I think we just began to define the problems. We're still in 'fixit' mode." Wigginton joined forces with Dr. Leslie McLemore, professor of political science at Jackson State University in Mississippi, to try to do some "fixing." McLemore is also director of the Fannie Lou Hamer Institute on Citizenship and Democracy, named for the famed civil rights activist and cofounder of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party of the 1960s. The two requested funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities to inspire elementary, middle, junior and high school teachers from around the country to teach the civil rights movement in compelling ways. They received the funding, and the program, titled "From Freedom Summer to the Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike," got under way in summer 2004. The program is the first collaboration between Rhodes and the Hamer Institute and a continuation of the growing partnership between the college and the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis. Focusing on the 1964 "Freedom Summer" voter registration drive in Mississippi and the 1968 sanitation workers' strike in Memphis that led to the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, it attracted teacherf from all over the country to study in Jackson and Memphis, tour landmark sites, meet veterans of the movement and hear their firsthand recollections. For example: Wazir Peacock, an organizer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), stood in front of the home of the late Medgar Evers and gave a moving account of the assassinated NAACP field secretary's courage and service to the movement. "There was absolutely nowhere, no matter what time of day or night, that he wouldn't go to offer encouragement and support," Peacock said. "I saw him stand in front of the Leflore County courthouse in Greenwood without moving for an entire day to give people the courage to walk past a big crowd of white people to get inside and register to vote." The Rev. Billy Kyles of Memphis recounted his memories of Dr. Martin Luther King's final hour of life. "We were three ministers shut up in a room together, talking about preacher things," he said. rhodes.edu FALL 2004 RHODES 39 "Martin was in a lighthearted mood. He and Andy Young actually had a pillow fight." Then, "There simply are no words to describe how I felt when he was killed." Rims Barber, a Presbyterian minister from Iowa who came to Mississippi for Freedom Summer and stayed, told a harrowing tale of lying on the floor with a terrified family while a cross burned in their yard. "I couldn't ask them to do anything I wouldn't do myself." Then he added, "We didn't know we were going to win. They had all the guns and all the laws." Woven through the stories of grief and hardship was a love of people and place remarkable to program participants from outside the South. For example, Dr. L.C. Dorsey, associate director of the Delta Research and Cultural Institute at Mississippi Valley State University, spoke fondly of her childhood even though she grew up in poverty. "There was a closeness in the community that I've never experienced since. There was no welfare or food stamps because food was shared. People planted and canned extra for the needy or those who just couldn't get it together. When someone lost their housing, they moved in with someone else. I never saw a homeless person until I got to Washington. We never knew how poor we were because we had gardens and there were always fish and rabbits to eat." Dr. Beverly Bond, director of African and African-American Studies and associate professor of history at the University of Memphis, grew up in a middle class family in Memphis. Although she spoke with passion about the humiliations of segregation, she added, "I don't remember my childhood with horror because I grew up in a very strong, rich community. That is Downtown Memphis 1968. Courtesy of The Commercial Appeal rhodes.edu FANNIE LOU HAMER OCTOBER 6, 1917 MARCH 14, 19 77 1 AM SICK AND TIRED OF BEING SICK AND TIRED" something I will always have." And among the sadness and regret, the faculty and speakers found much progress to celebrate: Dr. McLemore noted that Mississippi currently has more African-American elected officials than any other state. Dr. Vasco Smith, a Memphis activist, pointed out that the Memphis and Shelby County mayors and a significant portion of the members of the Memphis City School Board and City Council and the Shelby County Commission are African-American. During the first week of the program, the surviving members of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party delegation were honored guests of the Democratic National Convention in Boston. McLemore, who was vice chair of the original delegation, stayed in Jackson to co-lead the program. Professors Wigginton and Bond both cited the progress and accomplishments achieved by organizations such as the Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association which was founded in Memphis after the assassination of Dr. King. "I'm very proud of the growth and changes here," Bond said. The Rev. Kyles noted that the general manager of a company that once insisted on his arrest for sitting in front of a city bus is now the board chair of his church. "I grew up in Chicago and made a conscious decision to come back to the South," he said. "I wanted to be part of the movement because I knew that once we got the segregation thing settled, the South would be the garden spot of the nation. I feel blessed to still be around to see integration." Another highlight for the visiting historians was their growing understanding of the politics of the movement. They learned facts and figures about the various organizations involved and the strategies adopted by each. "They all had some common bonds, but very different methods," Wigginton noted. Prof. John Dittmer of DePauw University pointed out that SNCC chose to concentrate on voter registration rather than direct action such as sit-ins to integrate public facilities. "Many people thought it odd that the organization that became one of the most militant ones chose votes rather than hamburgers. They chose the strategic way." He added that the existence of the Council of Federated Organizations, an umbrella group that fostered communications among various factions of the movement in Mississippi, "minimized the competition that was so rampant in Alabama." Peacock and fellow SNCC organizer Hollis Watkins gave a peek behind the scenes as they discussed their initial opposition to Freedom Summer, noting that all the SNCC regional organizers were against it. "We had been working so hard to get people who were terrified to stand up to their oppressors and we were making good progress," Watkins said. "Our concern was that all that ground would be lost if a bunch of white people came in to take over the hard work. That happened in many cases, but a lot of good came out of it, too." The real-life stories were fascinating to the historians. Amy Kendall, who teaches in Seattle, was already preparing her lesson plan: "I think we'll start with the Harlem Renaissance, then look at the South to see why people were leaving. We'll spend some time on protest forms and I want to bring alive for them some of the unsung heroes, martyrs and champions. We'll discuss the meaning of freedom. When we get to the organizations of the movement and their leadership, I will ask the students to put themselves inside each group and figure out what their position would have been in addressing the different issues and challenges of the movement. They will like that." rhodes.edu FALL 2004 RHODES 41 Arai. At& NPR correspondent Debbie Elliott interviews Charles McLaughlin, who served as Fannie Lou Hamer's campaign manager when she ran for Congress. McLaughlin led the group to the site of Fannie Lou Hamer's grave in Ruleville, MS. Many visitors were astounded to learn that the South, where segregation was institutionalized, had no corner on discrimination. "In most areas of the North, blacks could vote but they had the same Jim Crow customs and limited job opportunities," Dittmer noted. "It was a national surprise when Watts erupted after King's assassination," referring to the area of Los Angeles that went up in flames. Naturally, there was a great deal of discussion about whether the struggle was worth the pain and whether the civil rights movement is over. The answer to the first question was an unequivocal "yes." "The things that happened that first summer made it all worthwhile," said activist Barber. "People changed their point of view from 'life is something that happens to you,' to 'my life is something I can create.'" The second question was harder. "Issues of injustice are much more subtle and complicated today," said Wigginton. "The movement shined a light on all kinds of injustice and served as a catalyst for movements by other groups? women, gays, Native Americans. In a sense you could say that the movement died a natural death, but in another sense you can say that it has expanded to so many more areas. I have always thought Martin Luther King was the backbone of the movement because he understood that the issue is so much bigger than race." Bigger than race and bigger than place, perhaps as large as the human struggle itself. The 100 teachers who visited Memphis and Mississippi last summer seemed to feel wiser for their experience and inspired to help their students grapple with questions of injustice and other issues that cause confusion and pain to seekers of all ages. Wigginton believes that the colossal effort that went into the program paid off royally. "We learned a lot that we can do better next year," he muses. "As Hollis Watkins said, 'The room for improvement is the biggest room of all.' But one thing I learned from him and the other brave people we were privileged to spend time with is this?standing up for what you believe in is worth paying a heavy price." ni 42 FALL 2004 RHODES rhodes.edu ATHLETICS McKinney's Work a 'Bonus' for Lynx Football By Bill Sorrell While working in the business and strategy support system of a Memphis bank, Joseph McKinney '05 learned how to crunch numbers. Tracking financial information and entering it into a sales system, McKinney helped calculate incentives that led to employee bonuses. McKinney, a senior business administration major with an international focus, worked as an intern at First Tennessee during the 2004 spring semester and as a full-time employee this past summer. He provided bank managers with "any and all necessary tools to perform at the highest level," he said. McKinney, an offensive guard on the Lynx football team, was not performing at the highest level when he was a freshman. Numbers were crunching him. While running the 300-yard shuttle run for the first time in pre- season camp, he couldn't finish. "I came into camp out of shape. To say the least, I was overweight. The shuttle run was terrible. Guys were laughing at me. Coach E (offensive line coach Gordon Ellingsworth) stopped timing me," said McKinney. "I've come a long way since then." McKinney is one of seven offensive starters returning from last year's 7-3 team, which finished third (4-2) in the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference. With three years' starting experience, McKinney has become a pillar of consistency and provided "a cornerstone of motivation for younger players," said Rhodes head football coach Joe White. "He can do the right thing in the heat of the battle," said White. "From the time of his arrival to now, Joe has made improvement in leaps and bounds. We're very proud of Joe McKinney." Rhodes quarterback Daniel Swanstrom '05, has also watched McKinney's metamorphosis. After watching McKinney fail the freshman conditioning test, Swanstrom thought, "This guy's not a hard worker." But he's turned into one. "He's done everything it takes," Swanstrom said. "His work ethic has improved every year, and it's been phenomenal this year." McKinney (6-2, 285) has learned to play a "less-than- . glorious" position, he said, because of his hard work and ability to push himself to the limits. He was an offensive tackle his first two seasons before being moved to guard his junior year. Inspired by the potential White and Ellingsworth have seen in him, McKinney said, "I haven't always seen what they have seen in me." McKinney is one of the team's strongest players, bench pressing 340 lbs. and squatting 510 lbs. He has focused on improving speed and quickness. An Academic All- SCAC, McKinney has been playing football for 10 years. He played at Memphis Central and won the National Football Foundation Hall of Fame scholar-athlete award his senior year. McKinney, who has worked for the AAA Memphis Redbirds baseball club for six years in children's entertainment and in security, looks to the football field for his just rewards. "I get a reward when I know I'm working hard and that encourages someone else to work hard," he said. "I didn't get a (bank) bonus. My reward for performance is winning." rhodes.edu FALL 2004 RHODES 43 By Bill Sorrell A friend of Stephanie Gong, with whom she played tennis in high school, made her laugh by telling her that she was "going, going, Gong." If Gong's senior year is as productive as her last one, she may be "going, going, Gong" to the NCAA Division III tennis tournament again. The No. 1 singles player on the Lynx women's tennis team, she advanced to the quarterfinals of the 2004 tournament hosted by Rhodes. "It was the best performance I've had in a national tournament. I'll never forget it," she said. Gong has been an individual qualifier in the national tournament since she was a first-year student. a Going, Going, Gong Following her junior season, Stephanie G she was ranked seventh in the nation by the International Tennis Association, a steady climb from 28th her first year and 12th, in her second. Gong was the 2004 Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Player of the Year, the Rhodes Student Athletic Advisory Committee Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year in 2004 and an All-American in 2003 and 2004. She is the only All-American on the Rhodes team. She's been All- SCAC three years. She quit swimming lessons at age 11 to focus on tennis, a sport she has been playing competitively since she was 14. "There's nothing better than the thrill of competition. I love it. You are never out of a match. It's completely ong '05 unlimited," she said. Gong's endurance and quickness have provided an edge that has worn down opponents. She plays a steady, solid baseline game with a feature on finesse more than power. "My serve is the weakest part of my game," she said. "I win matches by knowing I can stand out there longer." Hennessy Howell, a senior from Vicksburg, MS, who is co-captain along with Gong, said, "She can stay out there for days. She knows how to keep her stamina up." Howell, who attended Vicksburg High School, played against Gong before the two became teammates. Gong played at Jackson (Mississippi) Prep, which won the overall state championship her first year there. Howell has watched her own game improve by observing Gong's patience. Colleen Forsyth, a junior from Chattanooga and Gong's doubles partner, calls Gong "cool and collected. On the court, she's very athletic. She's inspiring." Gong collected her victories?she was 20-5 last season?as a "grinder," said Rhodes tennis coach Sarah Hatgas. "I've never had anybody with the footwork and anticipation of Stephanie. She is probably the consummate practice player. I've never had anybody practice and compete as hard as she does." Gong has not let success go to her head, said Howell. "She is one of the best players in Division III, but she doesn't carry the cockiness and big head like a lot of players do. She never tries to make anyone feel that she's better than they are." Hatgas has encouraged players to "throw egos out." She has instilled a team concept, reminding players that each position, whether No. 1 or 6, counts one point. Gong has a 3.66 grade point average in biology. She plays the piano, taught tennis at Jackson Country Club over the summer and volunteered at Blair Batson Children's Hospital of the University of Mississippi Medical Center. When Stephanie introduces herself, she says that her last name is like "The Gong Show." "It's a fun last name," she said. 111 44 FALL 2004 RHODES rhodes.edu ALUMNI NEWS From the Alumni Relations Office Dear Alumnus/a, In the 1986 - 87 academic year, I served as adviser of the Southeastern Interfraternity Conference. Five students along with four other Greek advisers formed the SEIFC board. Four of the five advisers used Macintosh computers. The fifth, Sparky Reardon from Ole Miss, was still using the long yellow legal pads and writing everything in longhand. In one of our planning sessions, Mel Hokanson, the young Greek dean from South Carolina, raised a fine question which was essentially, "Since most of us are Mac users, I wonder if we can go to Apple and see if they could do something to connect our computers so that we could share file information or exchange messages...." There was a period of silence as we thought about Mel's idea. The ice was finally broken when Sparky said, "Nah that'll never happen." With that, we dropped the idea and moved on to planning the leadership conference for the students. Think for a moment about the extent to which we now rely upon using e-mail and Internet sites both to send and receive information. In round numbers, Rhodes College has 13,000 living alumni. We have e-mail addresses for 6,000 alumni. Alumni who are registered for the online community number 2,700. We are moving more purposefully toward electronic communication as a primary means of maintaining contact with alumni of the college. The monthly electronic newsletter is an example of this and has grown from reaching 3,500 alumni in its first release in June 2003 to reaching 6,000 now. "Inside Rhodes," a useful tool in keeping you advised of developments at the college, also serves as a means for us to articulate ways in which we need your help. You may have noticed that the first three Homecoming promotional pieces this year did not include registration forms. Instead, they provided a Web site that could be reached for registering online with a phone number provided should a paper form be needed. We anticipate the day when invitations to events are extended electronically. In so doing we could save thousands of dollars each year on printing and postage, and those resources could be redirected to advance other objectives of the college. We have an electronic community, open only to Rhodes alumni, that has a powerful capability to serve as a means of maintaining contact and providing networking opportunities. One may use the electronic directory to find classmates or search for alumni by city, region or profession. Users may post positions or r?sum?s in the career services program. Alumni can post information and pictures about milestone events or simply extend greetings by using the class notes section. We need to utilize the potential available through the online community to build a stronger network of Rhodes alumni. Join the online community by going to the "Alumni, Families & Friends" tab located on the Rhodes home page, clicking on "Lasting Lynx" or directly accessing the Web site, www.rhodes.edu/lastinglynx, and following the registration instructions. Should you hit a snag at step No. 3, contact Tracy Corner in the Alumni Relations Office (800-264-LYNX or 901-843-3845) to proceed. By registering, we will automatically receive your current e-mail address and you will begin receiving the monthly electronic newsletter. We want to do a better job of both maintaining contact with our alumni and facilitating contact among those in our alumni ranks. Our ability to do this is dependent upon your response. Please act. Okay, let's go full circle before we close. Want to know what happened to Mel, the woman who had the bright idea of sending e-mail messages back in 1986? She serves today as executive assistant to President Troutt at Rhodes College. She continues to come up with good ideas. I don't know who invented the Internet. It may have been Al. It may have been Mel. It may have been the military. It may have been students working on a senior project at Cal Tech. What I do know is that it is here and with it comes great potential for us to maintain closer contact. All best wishes from your Alumni Relations Staff, Bud Richey, Director Stephanie Chockley '95, Assistant Director Tracy Corner, Administrative Assistant www.rhodes.edu FALL 2004 RHODES 45 ALUMNI NEWS Joe Neville Society Introduced On the evening of Sept. 14, 2004, a reception held at the Bryan Campus Life Center honored Mr. Joe Neville and launched a new giving society at Rhodes that bears his name. Students, alumni and staff of the college gathered for the special occasion. Mr. Neville, who was a member of the Rhodes staff for 44 years, was always regarded as a friend of the students, particularly minority students. The Joe Neville Society is a giving society with the purpose of supporting African-American students in meeting financial need. Further information about the Joe Neville Society is available through the Alumni Relations Office. Left, President Troutt welcomes the gathering. Right, Mr. Joe Neville. Jerome Franklin '89, Julian Bolton '71 and Russ Wigginton '88 at the Joe Neville reception 46 FALL 2004 RHODES www.rhodes.edu BY LAURA BLANTON '05 RHODES INTERNATIONAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT JEROME FRANKLIN '89 MEMPHIS 1933 J. Caroll Johnson, known as "The Bicycle Man" of Winona, MS, was featured in the July 5, 2004, Commercial Appeal. When his wife died 17 years ago, he began riding his bike daily, and now rides 10 miles a day. So far he has gone through four good bikes and is on his fifth. He celebrated his 94th birthday in June. 1939 Shep Tate serves as reunion chair for the class of 1939. Hank Bergfeld reports that he is "still with the living" and wishes the best for the 65th reunion. 1942 Jet Hollenberg Siege and David Noel Thompson married May 29, 2004, at the Church of the Holy Communion in Memphis. Jet traveled to New Orleans last spring to donate a World War II American flag to the National D-Day Museum. Originally, several German women presented the flag to Jet's husband, then Captain Arthur Birge, in appreciation for his actions as head of the military government of about 15 communities in the Ruhr/ Rine pocket. 1944 REPORTERS: DEMETRA PATTON QUINN 395 WILLIAMSBURG LANE MEMPHIS, TN 38117 901-682-2151 SAM STEPHENSON 3657 WAYNOKA AVE. MEMPHIS, TN 38111 901-458-7455 Molly Hawken Lockwood resides in Memphis and stays busy with church work, Le Bonheur Children's Medical Center, bridge and gardening. She has a one-year-old great-granddaughter and seven grandchildren In January, Bill Ramsay had his eighth book, Second Corinthians, published in Westminster/John Knox's Interpretation series. He writes frequently for The Present Word lessons and These Days devotionals for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). 1948 REPORTERS: MARTHA CARROLL MCGUIRE 901-683-6192 FREEMAN MARR 2860 BARTLETT RD. STE. 12 MEMPHIS, TN 38134 901-388-6682 David '49 and Barbara Burnett Mussett showed 70 watercolor paintings of their world travels in the gallery of the New Richardson, TX, Performing Arts Center. 1951 REPORTER: FRANCES CROUCH PERKINS PO Box 66 SENATOBIA, MS 38668 662-562-6441 Mary Catherine Lynn Hitchings was honored by St. Mary's Episcopal School as 2004 Outstanding Alumna. She "temporarily" took over the direction of St. Mary's Christmas Pageant from her mother, St. Mary principal Gilmore Lynn, in 1974, and has been "at it" ever since. Mary Catherine is a real estate broker with French & Co. and an active member of Independent Presbyterian Church. She and her husband Frank '52 have a son, a daughter and three grandchildren Mary Catherine and Martha Gulledge York spent a September week at Martha's home at Big Mountain, MT with other members of their sewing group. Barbara Bassett Atchley and 13 of her immediate family enjoyed a July cruise down the East Caribbean aboard the Princess Line. Mary Ann Lilly Steuterman of Lindenwold, NJ, has made two spring/summer trips to Los Angeles, where in June she welcomed her ninth grandchild. 1952 REPORTER: SARA JANE BRYANT GREENLEE 355 BLUFF RIDGE COVE CORDOVA, TN 37803 Ken and Mary Morris Berryhill '68 celebrated their anniversary with a cruise to Bermuda. Ken won the Republican primary in his district for Tennessee House of Representatives, "entering politics at 74." 1953 REPORTER: ALLEN COOKE 2124 CARPENTERS GRADE RD. MARYVILLE, TN 37803 Wayne Cliffe of Los Angeles had a travel-filled summer, first at Huesten Woods State Park in Ohio, where he participated in his brother and sister-in-law's weeklong 50th anniversary celebration. Later he stayed at his family's cottage on the banks of Lake Huron, Canada, where his grandfather settled in the 19th century. Wayne divides his time between homes in Los Angeles and San Clemente, CA. rhodes.edu FALL 2004 RHODES 47 CLASS NOTES, 1954 Paula Richardson Bernstein continues to write for community organizations and spends time traveling with her husband Allan. They have two grandsons in Maryland and two in Los Angeles. Ann Fee served on the Huntsville (AL) Board of Education for eight years and is now a retired elementary school teacher. Now, she spends time with her grandchildren and stays busy as a docent at the Huntsville Museum of Art. She is president of the board of Presbyterian Apartments and a volunteer reader for children in the school system. Pat Riegle Morehead is an elder at the Presbyterian Church in Malden, MO, is on the board of the local Youth Museum and serves on the Governor's Welfare Reform Committee and Arts Council. She is office manager for Morehead Clinic. Viola Deavours Powers, a retired paralegal, enjoys being bereavement minister in her Cincinnati parish. She and her husband James live close to their five children and 20 grandchildren. Frank and Laura Edington Wakefield recently moved to the Atlanta area to be closer to her middle son, his wife and their two sons. After living in Richmond, VA, for 18 years, Peg Witherspoon moved to a home in Hernando, MS, to be closer to her daughter Kay Witherspoon Eicksen '80 and son Dan Witherspoon '82. Kay lives in east Memphis and has three children and a granddaughter, while Dan, who lives outside of Hernando, has two sons. Marilyn Mitchell Wray, who has retired after 30 years as lower school director at Evangelical Christian School, was featured in The Commercial Appeal for her many contributions to the school. She and her husband Milton '51 celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary this year. 1956 Ann Barr Weems, writer, speaker, liturgist and workshop leader, was the keynote speaker in June for Pittsburgh Theological Seminary's 2004 Summer Leadership Conference. She was also the commencement speaker at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary in May. She is the author of Kneeling in Jerusalem, Searching for Shalom, Putting the Amazing Back in Grace, Reaching for Rainbows and other published works. 1958 REPORTER: LORRAINE RAYBURN ABERNATHY 30 WILLWAY AVE. RICHMOND, VA 23226 804-353-4202 LJABERNATHY@EROLS.COM Paul Thompson had a busy summer gardening, going to the theater, and in July being priest of St. Andrew's- by-the-Sea summer chapel in Hyannisport, MA. In September he and wife Bunny enjoy going to the New Hampshire Highland Games in Concord, where he has in the past carried in the McTavish/Thompson banner in the opening ceremonial parade of clans. They have gone for 10 years, particularly enjoying the Tartan Ball, sheep dog trials and athletic events. In October they returned to the island of St. Barth's in the French West Indies where Paul is priest in residence at St. Bartholomew's Anglican Church in Gustavia. John Bryan has spent most of the four years since retiring from Sara Lee Corp. working on Chicago's mammoth Millennium Park project, which opened this summer to fantastic reviews. Johnny said, "Let me invite everyone in the Rhodes College family to come to Chicago to see the Park!" Let's take him up on that. By the way, by "Googling" Millennium Park, Chicago, you can find sites with great pictures and descriptions of the park. Sally Stockley Johnson and husband Carlos took a Canadian trip from San Antonio. They visited Toronto, Ottawa, Quebec City and Montreal in early July. Sally, a Presbyterian minister, attended an old Presbyterian church in the heart of Montreal and met some young seminarians whose enthusiasm impressed her. Believe it or not, Jane Barr Stump Green went to a buffalo roundup at Custer State Park in South Dakota last year and plans to go to International Camel races in Virginia City, NV. She and husband David Green, a pastor, spent some time recently in Pennsylvania training for a creative arts ministry. They made their puppetry ministry debut appearing as: Paulie, the Presbyterian Pastor and Candi, the Christian Camel. Busy, busy folks. Mike Cody and family spent a week in Kiawah where they saw Mary Jane Smalley Roberts and husband Paul's new home. They spent three weeks in Aspen, "biking, hiking and generally trying to keep up with Mia, our active 11-year-old." Milton Knowlton and wife Mary Joy '61 have been mighty busy since January, when they visited friends on Useppa Island, near Captiva and Ft. Myers, FL, where they swam, played tennis and did some boating. In May they joined Asheville, NC, friends on a fantastic European trip. From Frankfurt, they went by train to Berlin and from there to Amsterdam, where they boarded a river cruise ship down the Rhine to Basel, Switzerland, where they stayed a week before flying home. Martha Sigler Guthrie taught intermediate watercolor at the New Orleans Academy of Fine Art this summer. She won the top award in 48 FALL 2004 RHODES rhodes.edu the Student Exhibition in May for three oil paintings. In September, she exhibited her watercolors in the Faculty Exhibition. After 25 years, she's moved her French Quarter studio to Metairie. Louis and Kip Shoaf Zbinden celebrated Louis' one-year retirement and their 45th wedding anniversary (early), with their children and their spouses at Cabo san Lucas, and then spent the rest of the summer at Port Aransas, where Louis worked on the two new classes he is teaching this fall at Austin Seminary. From January through mid-March 2005, they will be in Lusaka, Zambia, where Louis will teach at the seminary there. Kip still works with the Christian Dental Clinic in Austin. Sam Cole writes that he and wife of 37 years Merrill Ann had a fantastic trip to New Jersey and New York this summer. They went to the David Letterman Show, The Producers, museums and other fascinating spots, plus a family wedding in New Jersey. Sam had quadruple bypass surgery in 2001 but is doing quite well. He is even back to donating blood regularly. One son, David, spent the summer in Peru and Chile, while youngest son Trey is an English teacher in Hong Kong. Son Jonathan joined the family in New Jersey for a family wedding. Still a practicing attorney, Sam spends about 30 percent as much time working as he used to and enjoys working with the Stephen Ministry and singing in the Calvary Episcopal Church combined choir. As some of you did, I attended my 50th high school reunion this past summer. I thought those were for "old folks," but they made an exception in my case! Like our Rhodes 45th, it was terrific to renew old friendships, note that everybody had gained weight and lost hair, and feel that we were exactly where we belonged. (And, yes, Louis, just like you at 45th, when I stood up for something, two or three nuts called out, "Why don't you stand up, Lorraine!" Ah, maturity!) 1959 Pat Began is semi-retired as an English as a second language teacher in Memphis City Schools. She is a board member and volunteer coordinator for Playhouse on the Square and is the president of Theatreworks. Pat has four children and eight grandchildren. John Gay retired from his pediatric cardiology practice in 2001 and received the American Heart Association Lifetime Achievement Award for Iowa in 2002. He is currently active in his Rockport, TX, community where he tutors, is in a leadership class and acts in theater and church presentations. Larry Kennon is retired from mental health counseling and ministry in Covington, GA. He and his wife Day are enjoying their six grandchildren, including triplets born in November, 2003. Danny and Karen Boyce Logan '60 live on a cotton farm in Gillian, LA. They do lots of traveling and spend time with their seven grandchildren. Carol Barbour Sumrall works as a mental health therapist in Mobile, AL, three days a week and works with the Bay Area Grief Coalition. She loves to travel to places like Kenya, Egypt, South America, China, Australia and New Zealand. Julia Bates Peacock Toone is retired as education director of the Episcopal Diocese of Kentucky. She is trying to improve her painting skills, which seems to be working. She won a prize at the 2003 North Carolina Watercolor Society Show and recently held an art show at the Wilmington Gallery in North Carolina. She also recently completed a confirmation curriculum for the Episcopal Diocese of East Carolina that will soon be published. Bill and Nancy Wooddell Warlick are "duly" retired as Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) missionaries, having served 27 years in Africa. They continue to visit the continent several times a year to visit their four grandchildren and serve as consultants for the Outreach Foundation. This year they also served as mission volunteers in Zimbabwe. 1960 45th Reunion HOMECOMING: OCT. 7-8, 2005 REPORTER: KIM BAXTER HENLEY 427 COLONIAL RD. MEMPHIS, TN 38117 901-761-1443 KH61913@cs.com Rann Vaulx recently bought historic Yancey's Tavern in Blountville, TN, at auction for $47,000. The main part of the tavern, two log cabins joined together, is believed to have been built around 1740. Rann says he'd like for schoolchildren to see it. Also, it will be open to groups such as the Daughters of the American Revolution. 1961 REPORTER: SAM DRASH 4541 SOLOMON SEAL TR. CHATTANOOGA, TN 37415 423-875-3580 SLDRASH@COMCAST.NET Mary Mlle Baldwin is pleased to announce the birth of her ninth grandchild, Robert Richard Baldwin (April 22, 2004), named for his grandfather. He will be called Richard. The proud parents are Robert '93 and Katherine McCaa Baldwin '93. Mary Allie now has a total of six grandsons and three granddaughters. In addition to her son Robert, she also has twin daughters, Allie and Amy '89. In July, Mary Allie went on a great float rhodes.edu FALL 2004 RHODES 49 CLASS NOTES' trip on the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon with her brother Bill McColgan '64 and his wife Judy Crowe McColgan '64. They were on the water for 40 miles and camped out one night on the floor of the Grand Canyon. Sue Kirchen Betts, her husband Bob and the "best dog in the world" Piper, moved in August from suburban New Jersey to another suburb of Philadelphia near Chestnut Hill. They are now about four blocks from their daughter Lela, their son-in-law Rob and their new grandson Will Betts Cope. Will is their first grandchild. Sue completed master gardening training through the Rutgers University Cooperative Extension this spring and looks forward to gardening in Pennsylvania, if she has time when she is not playing with Will! Dixie Carter has had a fun time this summer and fall. She completed a run in Thoroughly Modern Millie on Broadway in August. She then performed at the Caf? Carlyle in the Carlyle Hotel in New York from Sept. 17 through Oct. 9. Anne P'Pool Crabb attended two sessions of the Montreat Conference on Worship and Music this summer. She also attended a fun family reunion in Charleston between the two sessions. Anne said the conferences at Montreat give a wonderful spiritual lift for the whole year. The worship services, which involve adults and children of all ages, are beautiful. There is normally a 400-voice choir, a 100-voice high school choir, 75 hand bells ringing together and nearly 1,000 people from all different denominations in the audience. I imagine getting back to playing the organ in her own church was a slight adjustment. In addition to her church activities, Anne has been writing a book in which she has transcribed real pioneer stories, actual letters and real interviews. We will keep our fingers crossed that she will be able to get it published. Sam and GInny Taylor Drash '66, are extremely grateful that their grandson Billy, born in September 2003, is in good health today. When he started having seizures shortly after he was born, he was put in the ICU at the hospital for three weeks. A brain scan indicated there was probably some brain damage because of a lack of oxygen at some time during the pregnancy. When a brain scan was done after six months, the test showed that everything was back to normal. Mike Drash '91 was named the chief winemaker for Luna Winery in Napa Valley within the past few months. He had worked at Far Niente Winery for five years before moving to Luna. Jerry Duncan is excited to announce that his 37-year-old daughter Ashley and her husband Mark are now the proud parents of a daughter, Sara Ash Mahaffey. Jerry has two grandsons in Cozumel and one granddaughter in California. Martha also has two grandsons and one granddaughter. Jerry and Martha had a wonderful time with Allen and Madly Hughes in July on a trip to Quebec City and the Charlevoix region of the St. Lawrence. Marily celebrated her mother Sue's 98th birthday in Jackson, MS, in August. Barbara Ensrud made a major presentation in July at the Faulkner Conference in Oxford, MS. The title of her presentation was "Mr. Faulkner's Taste for Wine." Barbara pointed out that many people think of Faulkner as an imbiber of bourbon, but in his later years he developed quite a connoisseur's palate for fine wine?and enjoyed some of the best in the world, from Burgundy to Bordeaux. As mentioned in an earlier school publication, Harvey Jenkins has been enjoying his retirement since March. However, he soon realized that working is not all bad. Therefore, in August, Harvey began serving as one of two part-time interim pastors at the Christ Community Church in Orlando. Harvey preaches two Sundays a month, leads programs two or three times a month, and is available on call for pastoral services two weeks a month. His colleague is Dr. Clyde Fant, a Southern Baptist minister who is an adjunct professor at Stetson University. Their joint ministry is certainly a unique and a real ecumenical experience. George McCormick is another excited grandparent. His fifth grandson, Colin Thomas McCormick, was born to Jennifer and George M. McCormick III in Houston July 19, 2004. George III (Trey) remains as a high official at Enron, charged with selling the assets of the failed company, including a recent sale of the pipeline for more than $2 billion. Colin joins big brother George M. McCormick IV (Mills), who is 19 months older, in their new house in Houston. Ben '91 and Christie McCormick have a son, Ian (7), and live in Shreveport, where Ben is an investment banker and Christie is a nurse who is training to be a forensic nurse. So far, George does not have any granddaughters. Buddy Nix learned shortly after retiring this spring that doing housework and constantly cutting the yard is not necessarily what you plan for retirement. Therefore, he decided to take a six-month hike up the Appalachian Trail. In March, he started his hike, leaving from the Amicalola Falls State Park in Georgia. Twenty-two days and 170 miles later, Buddy realized that maybe a six-month walk might be a little too long. Thus, his wife, Janet McKenzie Nix '60 was nice enough to drive up and get him. After gaining back some of his strength, Buddy decided to try it again. Thus, in June, he left from Cades Cove in the Smokies, walking 50 FALL 2004 RHODES rhodes.edu for another eight days and 100 miles. Buddy forgot it can get rather hot in June. Once again, his nice wife came and saved him. Buddy does not believe in giving up. Therefore, on Sept. 2, he began his third attempt, leaving from Hot Springs, NC. He planned to spend September and October on this venture. Margaret White Petrey is having a wonderful time on a trip to the Grand Cayman Islands as we read this right now. She is visiting some friends who have a nice home there. It must be tough, but someone has to do it! David Ramsey was the pianist for the Rhodes College Singers and MasterSingers Chorale as they performed with the Memphis Symphony Orchestra at the new Cannon Center for the Performing Arts. David was also the pianist with them in June at Carnegie Hall in New York. They were conducted by Tim Sharp and accompanied by the New England Symphonic Ensemble. David, composer Morten Lauridsen and the New England group were the only instrumentalists participating. Jerry Duncan said he heard them perform in Memphis in May and they were wonderful. Jerry Davidson Thomas and her son Wilson Viar III '82 have collaborated on several chapters for professional books on juvenile sexual aggression. Their first collaboration was in 2001 on "Familial Influences, Family Treatment" in Handbook for Sexual Abuser Assessment and Treatment, (Safer Society Press, Brandon, VT). This fall, chapters from two different books will be published. They are "Family Reunification in Sibling Incest", (Calder MC, editor, 2004, Dorset, England, Russell House Publishing) and "A Programme for Working with the Parents of Sexually Abusive Juveniles", (Gary O'Reilly, et al , Eds), Handbook of Clinical Intervention with Juvenile Abusers, (Wiley Publishing, London, England). Jerry feels very fortunate working with her son. She says that Wilson supplies the intellectual help in their work and she supplies the concrete operational part of the work. Wilson's dad is Wilson Viar Jr. '60. Gerry Knight White is pleased to announce that her son Thomas H. Patton III and Joy S. Dennis married June 11, 2004. They live in Fayetteville, NC, where Joy is in the Air Force and Tom is in the Army. Gerry is excited that her son found such a wonderful young lady to be his wife. Joy was deployed to the Middle East in October. She left for her second trip to the Middle East just a year after returning from her first one. We wish her good luck and safety. Stewart and Susie Bracewell Whittle are both retired and live in Ellicott City, Maryland. For 35 years Stewart was with the National Security Agency at Fort Meade,MD, with assignments in both Europe and Asia. After retiring from the agency, he created his own computer consulting business which he sold two years ago, and retired for the second time. Susie has a degree in paralegal studies and worked as the legal assistant for a local attorney, specializing in estate administration. Their daughter Allison '97, received her master of science degree from the University of Tennessee and is now the director of summer programs for the Webb School of Knoxville. As such, Allison heads Webb's summer camp program, Camp Webb. In the fall, she coaches the upper school girls' field hockey team, the only girls' field hockey team in Tennessee. In the spring, she coaches the middle school track team. Camp Webb has been featured on Fox News Family and in articles in the Knoxville News Sentinel, including a personal highlights article about Allison. 1962 REPORTER: BARBARA BELL LAWRENCE 3182 LYNCHBURG ST. MEMPHIS, TN 38134 BARBARA.LAWRENCE@STJUDE.ORG Jocelyn Dan Wurzburg was one of 18 women honored for their contributions to society by the April 4 Foundation April 3, 2004, at the Memphis Cook Convention Center. The foundation commemorates the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., April 4, 1968. This year's award theme was "Women: the Unsung Heroines." 1963 Mary Rinehart Cathcart, a Maine state senator, was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention. 1964 Lee Carroll is a professor of supervised ministry at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, GA. Nonie Gilimore Crosby is a retired high school teacher in Charleston, SC. She enjoys traveling with her husband Richard. So far they have made it to Australia, New Zealand, France, Germany, Czech Republic and Austria. Ann Clark Quinlen Harris is working on a new cookbook for The Women's Exchange of Memphis, where she volunteers as a cashier in The Tea Shop. Her son Clay attends Auburn and is the sports editor for the Auburn Plainsman. Pat Dickson Jones is a retired medical technologist. She and husband 011'65 recently bought a condominium in Clearwater, FL, and split their time between there and Waltham, MA. Challace and Mary Lou Quinn McMillin live in Harrisburg, VA, where Mary Lou works for rhodes.edu FALL 2004 RHODES 51 CLASS NOTES7_, Shenandoah Presbytery. After 30 years of service, she was awarded a three-month sabbatical. Tom Raines is the deputy director for the Charleston County Library in South Carolina. John and Anne Smith Sarber recently moved to Callawassie Island, SC, where they are retired and enjoy playing golf regularly. Nancy Wasell Work is a retired art historian and museum educator. She and husband Henry are active Episcopalians in Washington, DC, where Nancy continues to play the violin in orchestras and string quartets. She has also published books and articles on art history. 1965 40th Reunion HOMECOMING: OCT. 7-8, 2005 REPORTER: TERI TIDWELL HORNBERGER 1723 42ND AVE. SW WATERTOWN, SD 57201 JIMTERIHORN@A-OINTERNET.COM Bob Sessum had a fabulous six- month sabbatical from Jan. 1 to July 1, 2004. Bob, who has been rector of the Good Shepherd Episcopal Church in Lexington, KY, for the past 10 years, and his wife Donna spent time in Italy (Rome, Assisi, Venice, Florence and the Tuscany Valley). In February, he attended a meeting of the Anglican Consultative Council in Canterbury, of which he is a member. They spent the rest of February in London, where they saw several plays. During some of March and all of May, he was in Cuernavaca, Mexico, trying to learn some Spanish and spent May in Siesta Key, FL, trying to recover from studying Spanish. While in Florida he visited Tommy McKay. And finally, in June they were in Greece following the footsteps of St. Paul. The trip was one of "relaxation, refreshment and recreation"?something he wishes all of us could experience in our lifetime! Now back in Lexington, Bob continues to work on the Anglican Consultative Council as an officer of the Anglican Communion and president of the IV Province (Episcopal) on the division and turmoil in the Episcopal Church. He is also in his third term as president of the Downtown Lexington Corp. And he continues to be the rector of an exciting and growing congregation. 1966 Bob Frank has a new CD, Pledge of Allegiance, on Bowstring Records. The CD is a tapestry of tales and portraits of fellow Americans with social, political and spiritual threads running through it. In July, the Flintridge Foundation selected Randy Hayes as one of the 10 artists to receive the 2003-2004 Award for Visual Artists, which includes a $25,000 grant. He also showed his work at the G. Gibson Gallery in Seattle during June and July. By painting on photographs, Randy has been able to capture subcultures of people in the context of their environment and social milieu. Betty Sue Dean Weninger was chosen as a Texas delegate to the Democratic National Convention. Joyce Malone Wilding is a leadership and communication consultant and an executive coach and liaison to the Green Energy TVA Marketing Team, Southern Alliance Clean Energy and the Coalition of Environmentally Responsible Economics. After having a grant approved, she is now at The University of the South for three years co-chairing ENTREAT (Enter Now The Reflection, Education, Action Treatise). The ENTREAT programs will provide a method for examining the concerns, connections and conflicts of science and religion. 1967 REPORTER: JEANNE HOPE JACOBS BUCKNER 9903 WOODLAKE COVE AUSTIN, TX 78733 JHBUCKNER@AOL.COM Sam Highsmith, who lives in Little Rock, is checking back in with us after a 30-plus years absence. He writes that he gave up law in '79, sold the family business in '91 and got into development work (fund raising). He says it took him 21 years to find a job he loves. In April he started his new work as director of estate and asset services in the Planned Giving Business Unit of the American Cancer Society. He works with friends of the ACS who are interested in remembering the society in their estate planning. His territory covers the state of Arkansas, the northern third of Mississippi and those counties in Tennessee served by the Memphis and Jackson, TN, offices. Mucho travel! Sam has three kids: Cameron is a senior at Westminster College in Fulton, MO. Kathleen is a sophomore at Hendrix College in Conway, AR, and Sheena is a freshman at Arkansas Tech University in Russellville. Cameron is leaning toward law or teaching; Kathleen is still thinking of being an M.D., and Sheena has her mind currently set on pharmacy. Sam hopes that at least two of the three will be able to take care of him in his old age. His wife Beth is retired but very active in the church. For the past three years she has been serving as moderator for Presbyterian Women in the four-state Synod of the Sun of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). She also has been moderator of the long-range planning task force for the Presbytery of Arkansas and currently moderates the Presbytery building task force. Beth has three children and seven grandchildren to add to the pool. Their other "kids" are two standard French poodles, 52 FALL 2004 RHODES rhodes.edu Tasha and her son Murray. Jim Durham was recently promoted to the civilian Senior Executive Service (SES). That's the civilian equivalent of a general officer. He has received two significant awards from the Secretary of Defense (yes, he works in the Pentagon) for getting some advanced aircraft programs going?he is the "godfather" of the Joint Strike Fighter program and the Joint Unmanned Combat Aircraft program (J-UCAV). His daughter Lori, who graduated from George Washington with a master's degree in security policy, works in the Pentagon with her dad. In the midst of all this, Jim and wife Jane found time to take a fabulous cruise in the spring. Would you believe they have 11 grandchildren? Mildred Bates is chair of the Bachelor of Social Work Program at Rhode Island College. She was on sabbatical during the 2003-2004 academic year doing clinical social work at a Family Service agency and research on the Interferon treatment experience of people co-infected with HIV and Hepatitis C. Mildred and her partner Cathy Cranston have a daughter Misty Cranston-Bates, who attends Hofstra University in Hempstead, Long Island. Mildred writes: "She's made us proud?she was valedictorian of her class and received multiple honors including academic-leadership and academic- athletic scholarship awards from her high school. Wow." Mildred and Cathy, partners for 21 years, married May 24 in Massachusetts. All the planning was last minute. They made wedding plans on Saturday, shopped for rings on Sunday, picked up the license on Monday morning and were married the same day at 1 p.m. They had a beautiful outdoor ceremony with an American Baptist minister officiating. Their daughter Misty read a moving tribute she had written for them and there was not a dry eye in the park. Congratulations to Mildred, Cathy and Missy. Don Hollingsworth writes that he and spouse Leslie enjoyed a long vacation in the spring, including Easter on the Greek Island of Crete with three other Rhodes grads?Rick '73 and Susan Sims Smith '72 and Kathy Graves '73. He said the people were wonderful and the geography spectacular in Crete. Lynn Smith lives in Sewickley, PA, a small town about 15 miles north of Pittsburgh, where she raised two sons. Her older son, who graduated from law school magna cum laude, is now with a large Pittsburgh law firm. He married his college sweetheart in September 2003. Lynn started her own language arts and study skills tutoring business in summer 2003. This last winter she, somewhat inadvertently, added a half-time job as a reading specialist at an inner-city school in Pittsburgh. She says when it rains, it pours. She enjoys the challenges and rewards of teaching dyslexic, ADHD, Asperger's syndrome (high-functioning autism) and just plain unschooled students from kindergarten through eighth grades. At last, she's been able to use her master's degrees in child development and professional and technical writing, along with her doctorate in elementary education with a minor in reading research! Lynn has been in contact with Phyllis Tickle, who taught English at Rhodes and the Memphis Academy of Art during our freshman year. Phyllis is living on a farm outside of Millington, TN, with her husband, who is a retired physician. She runs all over the country as a religion books editor of Publishers Weekly and is a popular speaker and writer. Lynn got back in touch with her after seeing her on TV on C-span one time when she was unaccountably flicking channels. She's still going great guns and sounds as vivacious as ever. Her husband has started a custom wood shop where he makes special doors and trim for fancy houses. Both seem to love their "retirement." Lynn writes that her sister Pam Smith Comett '69 is married to a mountain- home building contractor and living in Granby, CO, just southwest of Rocky Mountain National Park. Pam works as a purchasing librarian for the county public library and is somewhat surprised to be following a career similar to her mother, who used to be circulation librarian at Burrow Library. She's the one who checked out all those "Man" reserve books to everyone. Hizoner Jody Walker, who is a circuit court judge living in Ripley, TN, is an avid fan of Japanese maples. He and his wife enjoy gardening with them. They share this passion with Cliff Clifton and his wife, who come to visit and consult on various types from time to time. Recently Mike Whittaker and wife Sharon along with Jimmy Russsell and wife Linda went to Ripley for a visit with the Walkers at the same time as Susanne and George Elder '69. Jody did his best to sell them on maple cultivation but he wasn't sure what impact he had. They enjoyed each other's company nonetheless. Jody writes that if any class members are interested in Japanese maples and are in the area, they should contact him for a visit. He has about 130 different cultivars, with 87 planted in the yard and about 50 in pots. His Excellency Jimmy Whittington is at it again. At 59, he is just now finding a hidden talent: acting. The churches in Selmer, TN, wanted to present an Easter pageant, which was a dramatization of Leonardo da Vinci's "The Last Supper." Jimmy was asked to play Peter, which required growing a full beard but having a bald head. Not much of a stretch for the good mayor. He had to do a 10- minute narration requiring a change of emotions 43 times while wielding a knife without cutting the other rhodes.edu FALL 2004 RHODES 53 CLASS NOTES characters around him. Somehow, he managed to pull it off perfectly for three performances. Not a line was missed, an emotion forgotten nor anyone around him damaged by his unwieldy knife. His public loved him. His phone did not stop ringing for days and the post office had to hire extra carriers for all the adoring fan mail. The first night's performance brought in an audience of 500; the next night there was a capacity crowd of 1,000. On the final night, they had to turn people away. There is now talk about taking it on the road next year, and Jimmy has had to hire an agent. He says the one lasting thing from all this fame is the beard. Everybody in the county told him not to cut it, so we might not recognize him today. Sure! 1968 REPORTERS: BOB MORRIS BMORRIS6@MIDSOUTH.RR.COM DRUE THOM WHITE DRUEBOO@AOL.COM 1365 YORKSHIRE DR. MEMPHIS, TN 38119 901-685-6712 Mackie Gober, a principal of SEACAP Financial Inc. in Memphis, was featured in the June 21, 2004, Commercial Appeal. John and Judith Adams Larson live in Natchez, MS, where John is a pastor of the First Presbyterian Church and Judith is a high school librarian. In June, David Lehmann and other classmates held a mini - reunion at Beverly and Steve Cole's house in Peachtree City, GA. Attending alumni included Paul and Katherine Spaht '65, Jim and Beth McKenzie Stewart '70 and Bill and Bea Hubbard. Memphis architect Louis Pounders is pleased to report that his Tunica RiverPark in Tunica County, MS, has been selected as one of 10 projects across the country to receive a 2004 IDEAS National Steel Design Award. The RiverPark, the only project from the South to be recognized, is the cover story of the July 2004 issue of Modern Steel Construction magazine. Louis was also featured in the May 28, 2004, Memphis Business Journal. 1969 Carol Gearhart Champion, a retired vice president and treasurer for Promus Hotel Corp., lives with husband Bob in Bartlett, TN. Lynda Gale Teague Deacon is a certified holistic therapist practitioner in Memphis. She is also completing certification to be a labyrinth facilitator. Ed and Beverly Bollheimer Dismuke live in Witchita, KS, where Ed is the dean of the Kansas University- Witchita branch of the KU medical school. Beverly is a former speech pathologist and is currently involved in volunteer work with the medical community. Patricia Gray has recently been promoted to instructional technology specialist for the Associated Colleges of the South. Among her projects are the ACS New Music Festival, now in its third year, the promotion of Luna Nova, the permanent ACS new music ensemble, and the creation of a series of online learning objects in the field of 20th century music. John and Tan Heslip Hills live in Huntingdon, PA, where John is vice president of advancement and marketing at Juniata College. Also involved with the community, he has served as president of Habitat for Humanity and of Big Brothers Big Sisters. Franziska Runt Kuntschner, a retired teacher, lives with her husband Karl in Austria. Walker McGinnis, a retired major in the U.S. Army Reserves, is currently a middle school principal in Huntsville, AL, where he lives with his wife Jeaneen. Claudia Oakes is CEO of the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Long Beach, NY. Majid and Margaret Boothe Paydar are currently finishing construction of a new building for their Oriental rug store in Memphis, Paydar Oriental Rug Gallery Inc. Their older daughter Nikoo recently returned from Hong Kong, where she was part of a group that produced a symposium on China. Their younger daughter Mehri just began a career as a professional ballerina with the Colorado Ballet. Bill Pendergrass and Mimi Atkinson '72 live in Memphis, where Bill founded Pendergrass Transport, a trucking business, in 1999. Susan Gladden Stitt now works as an administrator for Forsyth county (GA) schools. Vince Vawter has moved from Evansville, IN, to become the publisher of special projects at the Knoxville News Sentinel. He will be using his 25 years of newspaper experience to help the News Sentinel work on strategic initiatives. Mark Wertz and wife Nancy live in Plano, TX, where Mark works for Cisco-Eagle Inc. 1970 35th Reunion HOMECOMING: OCT. 7-8, 2005 Barry Ward recently completed the training to become a mediator pursuant to Tennessee Supreme Court Rule 31. Barry has been included in The Best Lawyers in America in the area of business litigation since 1999. 1971 REPORTER: BETHA HUBBARD GILL 1365 YORKSHIRE DR. MEMPHIS, TN 38119 901-685-6712 YORKFOREST@AOL.COM Fred O'Bryant has a new composition for the Municipal Band of Charlottesville, VA, called Song 54 FALL 2004 RHODES rhodes.edu for a Friend, which premiered at the band's spring concert May 4, 2004. Jim Cogswell has promoted to full professor at the University of Michigan School of Art and Design in Ann Arbor, where he teaches primarily painting and drawing. He and wife Sarah Stitt '72, general counsel for Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor, have two children. Their son David (14) is in high school and daughter Katherine (11) is in middle school. Harry Ogden has joined the Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz law firm as a shareholder in the firm's Knoxville office. Memphis attorney Beecher Smith recorded some of his poems and a short story at Sun Studio this spring. He won the bid for two hours of studio time at a silent auction held at Evergreen Day School, where his wife Wally teaches. The CD is titled Recovering my Sanity. 1973 REPORTER: MARGARET HEADRICK MHEADRICKPUTMEM.EDU Coble Caperton, of the Memphis law firm Rice, Amundsen & Caperton, has completed a 40-hour general civil rule 31 approved mediation training course for resolution resources consulting. In April, Herman Morris joined the Memphis-based law firm Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz. He is concentrating on corporate legal representation and public policy work in the firm's energy and utility division. 1974 Larry Lloyd has recently been chosen to be the new president of Crichton College, a Christian liberal arts college in Memphis. Larry was previously the president and founder of Hope Christian Community Foundation, which manages $25 million for 160 donors in Memphis with a goal of building philanthropy. He is also an ordained minister in the Evangelical Presbyterian Church. Bob Reynolds changed his name this year to Robert Joseph Riso, and his friends call him Joey. Attorney Thad '72 and Stephanie Rybum Rodda live in Memphis, where Stephanie teaches at Ridgeway High School. This year they celebrated 30 years of marriage, as well as their son Duke's graduation from Washington University. Their daughter Emily is a junior at Davidson. Ann Vickerstaff Snodgrass teaches accounting at Pellissippi State in Knoxville. She and her husband Charles have three children, Katherine, Beth and David, who are in high school and college. Lee Wilson has published third editions of two of her books, The Copyright Guide: a Friendly Guide to Protecting and Profiting from Copyrights and Making It in the Music Business: a Business and Legal Guide for Songwriters and Performers (Allworth Press). Lee lives north of Nashville. 1975 30th Reunion HOMECOMING: OCT. 7-8, 2005 Jackson, MS, attorney Jim Grenfell was recently elected president of the Powers-Lake Foundation, which provides funds to clothe children of low income families in the Jackson metropolitan area. Daughter Sarah is a senior at Ole Miss and daughter Catherine is a freshman. Jim and wife Lynn intend to travel more, now that they are empty-nesters. Neil Johnston is a natural resource and conservation attorney with the law firm Hand Arendall in Mobile, AL. He is also president of the Project CATE (Conservation Action Through Education) Foundation and received the 2003 National Wetlands Award for Education and Outreach from the Environmental Law Institute in Washington, DC. 1976 REPORTER: VICKERS DEMETRIO JOHNSON 7117 WESTFORD DR. KNOXVILLE, TN 37919 865-691-6944 Parkes Casselbury married Michael Underwood in 2003, and they currently live in Florida, where Parkes has a juvenile justice consulting business. 1977 Marynell Branch is in a rock and roll band called Capitol Offense, which performed in August at the base of the Brooklyn Bridge in New York for an outdoor party at the Republican National Convention 1978 In February 2002, Army Reserve physical therapist Capt. Conrad Hawkins participated in New Horizons, a humanitarian and civic action exercise that takes place once a year in various countries in Central and South America. While in El Salvador, a patient received a life-changing gift, for which Conrad received a meritorious service medal. In September 2004, Conrad, who is fluent in Arabic he learned at Rhodes, received orders to deploy in Operation Iraqi Freedom for 18 months. 1979 Mike Edwards was featured in the June 22, 2004, Commercial Appeal for his lifelong participation with Big Brother Big Sisters. He has maintained contact with his little brother through the program for 29 years. Mike is the president of First Tennessee Bank in Nashville. On Nov. 1, 2003, All Saints rhodes.edu FALL 2004 RHODES 55 CLASS NOTES Day, Joe Evangelist' had the honor of being invested as a knight in The Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem by William Cardinal Keeler. The order, which traces its origins to the first crusade, to this day remains loyal to the Pope and is under the protection of the Holy See. Janet Huddleston has been living in New Zealand for 16 years on a property near the sea. She sometimes works as a park ranger and spends the austral summers working in Antarctica. In the past few years she has traveled to the Cook Islands, Fiji, Vanuatu and Hawaii. William Jones is president and CEO of Jones Companies Ltd., a textile manufacturing company. He and wife Camille live in Humboldt, TN. They have two children in grade school and a daughter in graduate school. 1983 Perry Dement recently left his position at the Memphis Arts Council to return to the Memphis University School as director of advancement. 1984 REPORTER: TRACY VEZINA PATTERSON 2680 McVAY RD. MEMPHIS, TN 38119 901-624-6681 SPATTER2@MIDSOUTH.RR.COM Last spring, Montserrat Alsina showed her drawings, paintings and installations at a show titled The Mystery of Being a Woman at Colibri Studio and Gallery in Chicago. Karen Arkin lives with her husband Richard and two sons in Weston, FL, where she is a psychotherapist. Lura Bond lives in Memphis, where she is the director of finance at AutoZone. Chris Brumlow received an E.M.B.A. from the McColl School of Business at Queens, University of Charlotte, in December, 2003. He recently accepted a position at The Center for Creative Strategy & Innovation in Charlotte as president and managing partner. Scott and Linda Parrott Coleman live in Olive Branch, MS, where Linda helps Scott with his at-home office. He is an investment adviser with Wachovia Securities Financial Network. Scott and Jody Lewis Driver recently bought and renovated a new home in East Memphis. Jody is in her 14th year with Kraft Foods in marketing and advertising with a great part-time schedule that allows her to work around carpool and field trips for her son Gregory (10) and daughter Lindsey (12). Debbie Efird and Peter Cvietusa had a baby girl, Audrey Grace, Sept. 1, 2003. Price and Johanna Glenn Gillenwater and her family recently moved back to Little Rock after traveling around the country for 12 years with the Navy and then the airline industry. John Hamilton was ordained a deacon in the Episcopal Church in June and began work as the new curate for Grace Church in Newark, NJ. His priestly ordination should be this winter. John '82 and Laura Hollandsworth Jernigan live with their three boys in Decatur, GA. Laura is a Presbyterian minister, has led several retreats for various churches and directed two musicals this past spring. Janet Comperry McReynolds and Scott McReynolds, who married in 2003, now live in Krypton, KY. Janet was formely a grant writer for non-profit organizations but has taken time off to be a stay-at-home mom with her new daughter Mary Margaret, born in January 2004. Bill Reddoch lives with wife Julie and four-year old son William in Germantown, TN. He works for Rapsheets, a pre-employment screening company. Chris Riley works in Alabama for Schafer Corp. as a program manager for support to the Fire Control component of the National Missile Defense Program. He also serves as the information architect for the Fire Control component. Betsy Rakow Seglem works in administration and grant-writing for the Glacier Community Health Center in Cut Bank, MT. She and husband Dennis have two children, Sara and Kristopher. Matt Soper lives with wife Angela and their two daughters in Houston, where Matt is a senior minister at the West Houston Church of Christ. They are glad to be back in Texas after four years in the northeast and nine in California. Blair Summltt was appointed assistant professor of plastic surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, specializing in reconstructive, aesthetic, burn, maxillofacial and hand surgery. Bob and Leslie Price Sweeney live in Mobile, AL, where Leslie has been with FedEx for over 18 years now. Their daughters, Emily and Claire, are both on swim and dive teams. Monty Watts lives with wife Mary Ann and their three children in Fort Smith, AR, where Monty is an internal auditor. He is a cubmaster and does volunteer work at Immaculate Conception Church and school. 1985 20th Reunion HOMECOMING: OCT. 7-8, 2005 REPORTER: FRANK BAKER FRANKCBAKERJR@YAHOO.COM Hey, Classmates: Just sitting here at the computer in early August and set the AOL music to '80s Alternative to get myself into the mood to write about our most sui generis class. Wow! Lots of you 56 FALL 2004 RHODES rhodes.edu responded with some very interesting news. I know we're all happy to read about one another and are looking forward to our 20th class reunion in just a year or so. It was an unusually cool summer for Middle Tennessee. Hope each of you has had a pleasant summer . Richard Banks works for Southern Progress Corp., Custom Publishing Division. He, his wife and their 11-year-old son Aaron live in Homewood, AL. He says he can still outrun Joel Lyons, but may stop competitive running soon. Shannon Dortch and her husband Bruce Tracey live in Ithaca, NY. She does freelance writing for the Johnson School of Business at Cornell University. Bruce is on the faculty of the Hotel School at Cornell. They have two children: Peyton (6) and Adelaide (4). They are all active at St. John's Episcopal Church in Ithaca. Marion Herndon Fuqua and her husband David at this writing are about to move to Big Stone Gap, VA. She has been director of children's ministry in Sullivan, IN. She has a master of science degree in nursing from the Medical College of Virginia and they have two children: Josh (11) and Alli (9). Georgia Feiner has three children: Charlotte (13), Elliott (7) and Allison (4). She has been an attorney for 16 years. In December 2001, she took a position as assistant district attorney in Williamson County, TN, prosecuting DUI, vehicular homicide and all other cases involving impaired drivers. She is on the Williamson County Drug Court Board and proactive in addiction treatment. She also spends a great deal of time with her children. Brent Hedge, at the time of this writing is running unopposed for school board member in Camden, TN. Wonder who will win that one? His business, Pest Stop Inc., is in its 18th year. His wife, Jennifer, is an attorney with Ainley, Hoover and Clark in Paris, TN. They have two children: Allison (13) and Sam (9). Brent reports that he still keeps in contact with Bill Smart and Bill Owens. Nancy Luter lives in Mountain View, CA, close to San Francisco, where she does a great deal of volunteer work, especially with Child Advocates. Working through the court systems with one child at a time, she goes to court on a child's behalf, spends time with the child every week, and is with the child until he or she is no longer in the system. All the children are in dependency court, not delinquency court. "I had the first 11-year-old boy for nine months until he was reunited with his mother. I currently have a 12- year-old boy whom I've had for 2 1/2 years. It is hugely rewarding, can be very stressful at times, takes up a lot of time, but I would not choose to do anything else. I am still in touch with numerous Rhodes alumni." Margaret Bryan Hakimian and her family live in Brookline, MA. She says, "My kids, Christopher and Megan, are 6 and 3, respectively. Christopher began first grade this fall and is quiet an athlete. Megan has started a preschool, is full of energy and has her own opinions about everything! I have loved being able to take three years off to be a full-time mom. I am planning to get back to physical therapy on a part-time basis in the fall. We just took an awesome trip to the outer banks of North Carolina with my sister Mary '82, my brother Felix '88 and their families. I keep in close contact with Heather Cutting by phone?she has four-year- old triplets: Kathleen, Andrew and Neil. She is raising the kids on her own and is in Dallas. If you have any good babysitter contacts, I know that she would love to hear from you! I saw Barbie Anderson Dentinger in June on the way to North Carolina?she has four kids and still has her great sense of humor! Laurie Mount Grimes is a child psychologist in Louisville, KY, and she and her husband Steve have three children: Eric (7), Ellie (9) and Ben (11). They see Billy '87 and Cathy Phister King regularly. Bob Lawhon has breaking news from Suntrust Bank. Wow, Bob! Suntrust in Nashville is pleased to announce the promotion of Bob to senior vice president and Nashville region private banking line of business manager. Bob is responsible for all private banking activities in Nashville. He most recently served as vice president and relationship manager for the bank's government and institutional banking group. Bob is chairman of both the Young Leaders Council Board and the Bethany Christian Services Board. He also serves on The Nashville Group Board and the 20/20 Leadership Alliance Board. Way to go, Bob! Peter Baumgarten lives in Atlanta with his two dogs. His recycling business, CollectiveGood Mobile Phone Recycling, is still growing and takes a lot of his time. He reports that he stays active: He goes contra- dancing?for the uninitiated, it's a folk dance similar to square dancing, and he plays in an Ultimate Frisbee league. He reports that there wasn't much interest in Ultimate when he was at Rhodes and hopes it has since caught on. He also leads music in his church, which is entertaining but can make it tough to get out of town. Nevertheless, he heads up to Asheville, NC, when he can to visit family and friends and enjoy the cool mountains. He has visited Bryant and Claire de Saussure Haynes on their farm outside Chattanooga, strummed guitars, mowed their hayfield and eaten their farm-fresh eggs for breakfast. He reports that "it may not be Paris in the spring, but it suits me." rhodes.edu FALL 2004 RHODES 57 CLASS NOTES Sounds great, Peter. Virgil Starks is on the Rhodes Alumni Association Board. His position as associate athletic director and assistant to the provost at Auburn University keeps him involved with education and athletics. He and his wife Donna have three girls: Carolyn Mavis (10), Victoria Blair (9) and Anastasia Lea (6). Robin Miller reports that when not working as an extra for the movie Walk The Line (the Johnny Cash story shooting in Memphis at the time of this writing), she is doing the typical "mom" thing. She is on the executive board of Germantown Elementary PTA, administrative assistant for Emmanuel United Methodist kindergarten, Sunday school teacher, chauffeur to two active boys, Cal, a fifth-grader and talented artist, actor, budding drummer/rock star and third-place winner in the State of Tennessee for his fourth-grade Citizenship Essay, and Hank, a kindergartener, who is discovering his many talents and that she believes is John Belushi reincarnated. If that is not enough, she runs a business out of her home called "Sweet Celebrations" creating custom cakes, cookies and candies. She also reports that she helps her wonderful, self-employed general contractor husband Stephen keep his accounting straightened out, which can be challenging since he often hands her his labor costs for the week on a piece of 2x4. Once a month she has a "girls' night out" with "The Supper Club" which includes Amy Doville, Tracy Vezina Patterson, Cathy Cothan Harris, Jennifer Frost Rena and Cathy Reese, all from the class of '84. Montie Davis recently finished a project in Finland near the Arctic Circle where the sun never sets in the summertime. He reports that he didn't really sleep for a couple of months. He worked on automating a part of a steel mill there. He reports that it was a blast watching his robots dance their ballet! It seems that a couple of projects in China are in the pipeline. He also reports that he is a bit tired of traveling and misses his fianc?e so he may make a change soon. Tom Murphy and his wife Cindy live in Richmond, VA, with their children: Henry Hill IV (4), Meghan Rose (5) and Emily Quinn (8). He reports that he will probably be starting a fellowship in vascular and interventional radiology at UVA soon. All is well, he reports. Emily has started third grade, Meghan, kindergarten and Henry, pre- kindergarten. He included a beautiful photo of their children in soccer uniforms in his report to me. Bill Krieger is a pilot for Federal Express and is on the team to bring whatever new aircraft they purchase in the near future on the property. "Very cool honor," he reports. Sounds like it to me, too, Bill. Kathy, his wife, is a business systems analyst for Baptist Hospital. Will (12) has begun seventh grade ("God, I'm old" Bill says) and David (5) has started pre-kindergarten. They live in Collierville now and Bill still plays organ occasionally for the Memphis Redbirds games and "warbles" in the choir at Calvary Episcopal Church. Says he's "lovin' life." Bill signs his note with a cocktail glass. Remember the good old days, Bill. Way to go! Andy King and his wife Jennifer adopted Amelia Blair Yong Min King from Hunan Province, China, this summer. She is 16 months old and a true joy, Andy reports. The adoption process took more than a year, but the two-week trip to China was wonderful. The people were gracious and the sites were spectacular. Andy is the new director of counseling services at Southern Illinois University at Edwardville. While at Morgan-Keegan, Neal McAtee was recognized in the Wall Street Journal as the No. 1 stock picker among 40 oil service and pipeline analysts. He also was recognized by Forbes.com Top Equity Analysts 2004 for being second in stock- picking among energy equipment and services analysts. Paiden Stewart Hite is currently a stay-at-home mom. She and her husband Dan have two children: Virginia (11) and George (7). Virginia has a great love for horses and other animals; she already sees herself in vet school. Fortunately, she excels in academics, so maybe one day she will accomplish that goal. George is a sports fanatic: anything involving strategy and a ball is up his alley. So far it's soccer and basketball, but football seems to be on the horizon as he was recently named Player of the Day in Montgomery Bell Academy football in Nashville. Dan is in the insurance industry and recently sold his agency to First Tennessee Bank based in Memphis. Last year Paiden took on the challenging job of restoring their Cape Cod home to its original splendor, with a few adjustments to modern-day life. Her background in art came in handy when researching for historical accuracy and decoration. Although painting and photography were her interests in college, she has found her creative calling in sewing-items for the home and clothing. She has a following of friends for whom she sews and hopes one day as her children grow older to have a full- fledged business. For now school activities and other volunteer interests keep her busy. Ross Welsiger works as an advocate for the homeless in Washington, DC. He has spent the last four years immersed in homelessness as both client and provider at different times. He learned to survive on the streets and made many friends and family in the homeless community. Currently he provides home care for a friend's mother. His own mother passed away 58 FALL 2004 RHODES rhodes.edu in May. He feels blessed in life with family, friends on the streets, and, of course, with his partner, Luther Lacy. He is godparent to 30 Polyphemes moth caterpillars who are busy chomping on oak leaves. "I am now out of debt and my credit is good," he says. "I intend to be fierce about living within my means. I am signing a lease on a three-bedroom apartment to rent with Luther and two friends. Adventures in homefulness! Could it be a phase?" Wallace McMillan will help Jim Golden plan for our reunion next year?our 20th. He reports that it was a pretty small gathering for our 15th, so we should really work to get more folks to the next one! Following in the traditions of the "Old Man," Professor Emeritus Jack Taylor (physics), Wallace has been promoted to associate professor of physics, awarded tenure and is pursuing atmospheric infrared spectroscopy. After six years as assistant professor at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, he says, "I guess I'm no longer the new kid on the block." Teaching and research are both going very well, with his first graduate student having completed his dissertation this summer. His group continues to be involved with a range of NASA and NOAA research projects involving remote sensing measurements of atmospheric pollution from the ground, air and space. After fieldwork in the U.S. this summer, he was off to New Zealand for a meeting in September. He hopes to deploy instruments in West Africa for a NASA field experiment next September. He says he enjoys more than 90 percent of his position and feels quite blessed in life with a loving wife, Rae, and a cat, Kismet. Rae, an attorney, works in the Office of the Secretary for Maryland's Department of Transportation. In their "ample" spare time, they enjoy refinishing their home in Elkridge, MD. His signature page includes all this atmospheric "physics stuff" I certainly don't understand involving retrieval and analysis of atmospheric trace gases from remotely sensed infrared spectra from ground, sea, air and space. I was in high school in Tupelo with Wallace as well as at Rhodes. What a smart guy! Jim Golden is in charge of the 20th class reunion and reports that he is eager to get started on it. He and his wife Cathy live in Grafton, MA, a few miles west of Boston. Jim is vice president of Research for Life Science Insights, an analysis and consulting firm for pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, as well as venture capital and hedge funds. They have two daughters, Charlotte Amelia (2) and Jane Belinda (1). While they enjoy living in New England, Jim is quite homesick for Tennessee and religiously reads Southern Living magazine. John '84 and Jean Willard Asinger have been married for 13 years. She reports that they have two daughters: Emily (9) and Sarah (6). They love living in Charlotte, NC. John manages IBM's high and server sales teams for the Americas. Jean has her degree as a family nurse practitioner but is currently working as "mom." She reports that they visited the Grand Canyon, Zion and Bryce National Parks this summer. They are looking forward to John's 20th class reunion this fall. John Guthrie and his wife Donna are doing well and staying busy with their church, their jobs, going to Pickwick and enjoying their sailboat. They had the opportunity to go to Ho Chi Minh City (old Saigon), Vietnam last January with his parents to visit a furniture manufacturer he represents, and had the extra time built in to go to Cambodia to see the ruins of Angkor Wat. He reports that it's a trip that they would do again tomorrow. Michael Blair is now in Centennial, CO, just south of Denver, in the shadows of the Rocky Mountains. He has returned to consulting after a seven-year stint in civil service and is working for CWH Management Solutions. CWH is a small research oriented consulting firm, specializing in testing, performance appraisal and organizational analysis for fire, police and other public safety entities. His and Laura's girls are seven and 11 and growing up quickly. He invites everyone to give him a call the next time you're in Denver. Ken Cannon headed to New Zealand this summer for a two- week trip of adventure sports. He says, "The Kiwis call this 'adrenaline therapy.' I'm sure I'll need a vacation to get over the vacation." Beth Rickabaugh Setzer keeps busy with her own law office in Statesville, NC. "The largest part of my practice involves representing individuals who are disabled and having difficulty with Social Security claims or private insurance claims," she says. "I also represent injured workers and handle estate administration, family law and general civil matters. On the home front I have three children with husband Dennis. Daughter Sara Margaret is in the first grade. Twins Rachel Caroline and Andrew Davis turned three in August." Beth Baxter is beginning her fifth year as medical director for a clinic for persons with serious mental illness in the East Nashville area. "I have worked in public mental health throughout my training, and I would not feel right if I was not doing some community psychiatry work," she says. "The truth is that I love it, and I hope I always have at least one foot in it. About a year and a half ago, I began a private practice that has grown to the point where I can support my own office?I was renting space from other clinicians during the first year. I am really enjoying this, too. It rhodes.edu FALL 2004 RHODES 59 CLASS NOTES, offers a good balance to my public mental health work. I am very active in my church, serving as an elder, and working with a ministry for mentally ill persons which has just won a national award. Lana Burris is currently a psychologist and training director in the office of Psychological Counseling, Wellness and Testing at California State University, Chico. She reports that she received a FIDA scholarship to learn Spanish in Heredian, Costa Rica this summer. She has traveled to the Draker's Bay, Montezuma, Tamarindo and Tabacon Springs areas of Costa Rica. She was also able to see the Poas Volcano and the famed Arenal Volcano. She thinks of the country as "Hawaii and Tahiti without all the tourists. As they say in Costa Rica, 'pure vida!' which literally means 'pure life' and is used in a 'life is good' kind of way." Sounds very interesting and beautiful, Lana. I want to go now. Great news! Allison McCarthy Gauthier reports that all is well in Providence, RI. She has lived in Providence for six years, and before that, lived in a small beach community in Rhode Island. She is now working for Bank of America (due to the bank's purchase of Fleet Bank) and continues a specialized lending job in the Portfolio Finance Group within the Commercial Real Estate Banking Group. She works a flexible schedule which makes juggling everything a bit easier. Her boys Ryan (9) and Sidan (6) are active with friends, school and sports. They both enjoy swimming, baseball, hockey and basketball. She coaches Little League baseball and youth hockey and really enjoys it. She reports that they spend a lot of time camping in Vermont and have fallen so in love with the Green Mountain State that they recently purchased a log house there. Their house in Providence is a continual project that they feel will never be finished, but she thinks that's how all old houses are. She looks forward to seeing everyone at our class reunion. Kathleen Albritton Fittro is accepting a new teaching position at R. Dan Nolan Middle School in Bradenton, FL, teaching eighth- grade language arts and leading her eighth-grade team of teachers. The school will be the first of its kind in the county and one of the few middle schools in the state using laptops (every student will receive one) and wireless technology in the classroom. Textbooks will be accessed online along with the teacher lesson plans for the weeks. She says that "Florida is finally catching up with rest of the world!" Sounds to me that Florida is actually ahead of the rest of the world, Kathleen. I'm a teacher myself; way to go! Great news! Jamey Sutton Kaplan has been a prosecuting attorney for 15 years in Memphis. She currently works at Juvenile Court prosecuting minors who commit crimes. Jamey has been married to her husband Todd for 14 years. They met in law school and he has a civil practice. They have two children: Joshua (12) and daughter Radall (9). Good to hear from you Jamey. Hal Browder was an "extra" for the Johnny Cash film Walk the Line starring Joaquin Phoenix and Gennifer Goodwin (a native Memphian). He reports that he played an appliance deliveryman. He reports that it was an exciting experience since he got to wait in the shade. It was blistering Hades out there July 22. In real life, Hal is exclusively a bankruptcy attorney. Quite interesting, Hal! Thanks. Matt and Lynda HanlIngton Spinel? '86 have been married for 16 happy years. They have three children: Luke (12), Joanna (10) and Julia (8). Their summer vacation included a trip to the Grand Tetons in Wyoming (would love to go there Matt; the mountains are God's country to me). They also went to Glacier National Park in Montana. Thanks for the great news! Their favorite family things are watching the children play soccer. Luke and Julia are in the recreational league and Joanna is competitive. Matt is president and CEO of Primacy Relocation, (offices in the U.S., U.K., Switzerland and Germany). His interests include his work, family and his church. Jeff and Mary Lynn Tucker Davis '84 have been living in "Nashvegas", where they are very happy, for the past five years. They have two daughters: Elise Tucker (10) and Stephanie Cook (8). Ellie is named after Professor Emeritus Donald Tucker's (Spanish) family. Jeff reports that aside from keeping up with the girls, he loves going to Titans and periodic Vanderbilt football games. They are both active in First Presbyterian Church. He is a director of research for financial stocks for FTN Midwest Research, First Tennessee's institutional equity broker-dealer subsidiary. Mary Lynn has a full-time position with the girls and is also active in multiple local charities. Catherine Cheah lives in Malaysia (WOW)! She reports that she works as a production manager as well as office/administrative manager and that keeps her "on her toes." She's been at Asphalt Industries Sdn. Bhd. for the past 18 years. The company manufactures and sells asphalt emulsions and cutbacks for the road construction industry. She also reports that she didn't work in August; rather, she was with a group called Hash House Hurricanes Hulu Longat which organized its 11th Anniversary Celebration Run. HHH is an worldwide organization of local chapters whose members run in all different kinds of terrains?somewhat like cross-country running, but, Catherine reports, in Malaysia they mostly run around the oil palu estates, 60 FALL 2004 RHODES rhodes.edu rubber estates or through secondary forests. "The BIG achievement for us," she says, "was that even though my chapter has only 53 members, we managed to organize an event for 1,200 people from all over Malaysia. We had to chart a challenging enough trail to run, and at the same time take care of the beer, food and entertainment for the entire evening." A member of the organizing committee, Catherine reports that she's glad (and relieved) that it all went well and everyone had a great time. She doesn't know if there's a Hash chapter in Memphis, but knows definitely that there is one in Sacramento, CA. She was in Beijing, China, two years ago for the Hash organized by the Beijing Chapter. They had runs in various locations just outside of Beijing, like around the old Summer Palace and the Great Wall! Susan Eades Mackey is a OB/ GYN physician in Nashville and has been married to her husband Ed, an orthopedic surgeon, for 13 years. They have two wonderful children: Hannah (10) and Mac (8), and two dogs and a gecko. She reports that "life is good." Dana and I saw her in her office recently, and when she walked in, she was the same old Susan: started to talk like we'd just talked last week. So very friendly and kind. We're so proud of you, Susan. Way to go! Jimmy Kiser and his wife Alice live in Paducah, KY. He is a Tennessee CPA and was promoted to division president at U.S. Food Service there in Paducah in 2002. They have two sons: Eric (14) and Adam (10). He enjoys coaching baseball and basketball and is a Boy Scout leader. Meg Waters Lambert just celebrated her 19th anniversary with IBM Corp. She now manages IBM's Web software sales business for Northern California and the Pacific Northwest. She lives in Granite Bay, CA, with husband Bart and their two boys, ages 10 and 7. She reports that she got away in August for an annual reunion with six buddies from our class at Brigid Elster Galloway's cabin in Middle Tennessee. Attendees were Brigid, Blair Gateway Norman, Kathleen Albritton Fittro, Sevgl Curtis, Margaret Bryan French, Kelley Ashbey Paul and Meg. She reports that she will send a photo of their fine selves. In late May, Tammy Golden Schmidt '86 gave her husband John '86 a surprise 40th birthday party in Franklin, TN. They drove from their home in Indiana to what John thought was a business affair and had a grand old time. Several members of our class and surrounding classes were in attendance. Regretfully, Dana and I were unable to attend that particular weekend, but we heard great things about the reunion and birthday party. Wish we could have been there, John. Hope you received my card in the mail. Excel Aquatics, a USA Swimming Silver Club Member with training squads in Brentwood, Gallatin and LaVergne, TN, has appointed John Barnes as the site coordinator of its Gallatin training location. As site coordinator, John is responsible for leading the other Gallatin- based coaches in the design and implementation of the training regimen at all skill levels, as well as overseeing the day-to-day team swimming issues at the location. In addition, he will be in charge of the Gold and Extreme Training Squads in Gallatin. After three months travel to Thailand and the Caribbean to learn SCUBA and yoga, Josh Sandifer reports he has recently taken a new job with CIBA Vision, a Novartis Company, in Atlanta. He heads the new Organization and Leadership Development Group. The work takes him to Switzerland and Singapore frequently. Josh is also loving his role as uncle, spoiling his five nieces and one nephew (his namesake). I'm trying to write this column in accordance from the abundance of learning I received from Prof. Bernice Werner White who taught Nancy Luter and me English first term in our first year at Rhodes. I don't know what grade she would give me on this, but she's in my thoughts as I write. What a great teacher. Hope some of you remember her. That's it until the next issue, folks. Hope to hear from some more of you before then. Have a great autumn. Let's get "charged up" for our 20th reunion next year. I hope to see many of you there and I know we'll have a great time seeing each other again. Jim Golden is in charge as I mentioned before. Contact him or me and we'll get together and make plans for our best reunion yet. I wish each and every one of you peace and Godspeed in your lives until we see each other again. Send me an e-mail anytime; would love to hear from you for our class and for our beloved college. 1986 David Dietrich was recently granted tenure and promoted to the rank of associate professor in psychology at Lambuth University. He was honored as the Educator of the Year at Lambuth in recognition of his teaching and service to the school. His wife Cheryl also teaches at Lambuth and has previously won the same award. Their five-year-old son Jacob is excited about starting kindergarten and playing soccer and T-ball. Bill Lansden has moved back to Memphis to become the associate athletic director for development at University of Memphis. He formerly held that post at Middle Tennessee State University. Ulla Magee and her partner of seven years Ilisa Kessler are happy to rhodes.edu FALL 2004 RHODES 61 CLASS NOTES announce their marriage Feb. 15, 2004, in San Francisco. They currently reside in San Leandro, CA. Dear friend Catherine Winterburn was a witness. 1987 REPORTER: BRIAN MOTT 3727 FAXON MEMPHIS, TN 38122 901-458-1338 BRIANMOTT@AOL.COM OK, people. It's time for a little tough love out of me. What's this with you all changing e-mail address more often than I change my drawers? Every quarter, I send out an e-mail asking for news for the magazine, and every quarter I'm DELUGED by "MAILER-DAEMON: Undeliverable" messages. What's up? Are you all fugitives from the law? Probably not. But even if you are, send me a note from your new address so I can pester you four times a year for newsy tidbits. And there are many of you I've NEVER had an e-mail address for. Please take a second and drop me a line. I got a decent response to this last e- mail asking for news, but just to keep you on your toes, Lauren Wellford Deming writes in with this brilliant idea: Either you all write in with news, or we'll start Googling your names and see what we come up with. I've also considered just out-and-out fabricating news for some of you who have never written in. Don't think it can't happen. My news first: I am completely smoke free! Why I ever started is beyond me, and you're all free to ridicule me for being so stupid and trashy. But now I've got that monkey off my back, and I couldn't be happier. I got to visit with Knight Champion '86 when he was swinging through town recently, He looks fantastic and is enjoying life in DC. I also ran into the more-gorgeous-than-ever Kirsten VandeBerg '86 after she saw me in the recent production of Quills. And of course, I saw Laura Richens on a recent trip to my hometown of New Orleans. Her kids are happy and brilliant, and she sends greetings to all her friends out there. Now on to YOUR news, and babies always top the list! Tim Chu and his wife had their second child and first son June 5, 2004. His name is Chandler Scott Chu, and his sister Cameron (3) is a devoted caretaker, kisser, hugger and tickler. Harriet Smalley Monnig's husband wrote in with this good news: "Big news everyone! The Monnig twins arrived this morning, Tuesday, May 11, at 8:08 and 8:09. William Jennings was the first to arrive at 6 pounds 10 ounces and 19.75 inches long. Benjamin Marek was right behind him at 6 pounds 3 ounces and 20 inches long. Big brother Jack met his new baby brothers this afternoon and thought very highly of them. He is very anxious for Mommy and babies to return home. Mother and babies are doing extremely well. Your thoughts and prayers are most appreciated." And from Susan Adams Proebsting: "Todd and I are doing great. We have a new baby girl. Margaret Ann "Maggie" was born Jan. 9, 2004. Maggie is the sweetest baby ever! We are so blessed. Big sister Grace has been such a big help!" Susan also adds: "I recently saw David Peterson. Todd and I have been toying with remodeling our home, and David very kindly offered to come by and take a look. Todd and I knew nothing about how to find/select an architect, and David gave us lots of good info. Seeing him reminded me of how many really good, kind, cool people we went to school with." And Joe and Tracey Meyer Chesser had their first baby, a boy, Robert Owen Chesser. He was born Nov. 10, 2003. So I'm a little late in sending the good news and the big congratulations! And y'all have been a traveling bunch, too: John Bailey writes: "Just wanted to let you know about our second annual reunion in Pascagoula. Randy Roth, Robbie Baker, Joe Welborn, Scott Decker and John Bailey got together June 11-12. We played golf on Friday and then went to Petit Bois Island on Saturday to eat crayfish, drink beer and relive the good old days. We brought in our wives?Tracy Young Roth. Melissa Hayes Baker '84 and Mary Margaret Kendall Bailey?plus die kids for dinner on Saturday. Rusty Bourne joined in by phone from Las Vegas. And from Loma Lyell Chain: "This summer we took the family (Alison, 6 and John, 4) to Disney World and on our way caught up with Alison Abernathy in Jacksonville. She showed us the town, the beach, St. Augustine and all the great places to eat. Our little Aunt Bee was a great hostess and she spoiled the kids with gifts and rides in her Miata. Nancye DiPaolo may well win the "most interesting trip" award: "I took a wonderful two-week vacation in Eastern Europe and Russia. We hit the three Baltic countries (Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia), then took an overnight train to St. Petersburg. The Baltic people are truly embracing their freedom (it's barely been 10 years since Soviet occupation ended) and the artists are thriving. Medieval castles, fortresses and towns abound, left by crusaders and kings. St. Petersburg is beautiful, filled with amazing cathedrals and palaces, and of course, the Hermitage. White nights meant the sun barely set, so we stayed out for hours into the night." She also reports that she's spending all of August in Boston, opening a new office up here: "Taking advantage of this great city, I've got a loft on 62 FALL 2004 RHODES rhodes.edu Beacon Hill, and plans to get together with Jennifer Thomas-Starck and her family who are back home after living in London for a few years." And I likewise heard from Jennifer herself: "My family (Abigail, 6, Clementine, 3) has returned to the Boston area from our almost four-year stint in London, and I started a new job as director of international studies at Wellesley College in mid-August. I often see Karen Moser, who relocated from Boston to the DC area in September." And from Jennifer Sandridge Whitener: "We've gone from one extreme to the other, having moved from the northern Rockies in Montana to the desert southwest in Arizona! At least our kids are getting to see different parts of the country. We're still trying to adjust to the 115- degree temperatures, but 4 percent humidity is pretty easy to get used to?and there's always winter to look forward to. No shoveling the driveway here!" On the professional front, Nathan Tipton is at it again, as he always is: "I have been busy writing my dissertation. I am now officially ABD (which, contrary to what wags in academia say, does NOT mean "all but dead")! I am currently in the harried throes of much fevered writing, and not just my dissertation. I'm also presenting a paper at the MLA convention in Philadelphia right after Christmas and writing a short encyclopedia article for a professor friend of mine from Michigan. And Paul, bless his heart, has promised me that our long-overdue kitchen remodel will FINALLY be finished by December. Anyhoo, that's been my life this summer!" Jane Amend writes in: "After 21 years away, I moved back to my home state of New Jersey in January. I am working for Toys R Us as a forecasting manager. I am responsible for nationwide forecasting of all of the core toy business, including Barbie dolls. Toys R Us is located in northern New Jersey, a mere 30 minutes from New York City. Living in New Jersey is a blast and being so close to the city is great. I am also working with the New Jersey Junior Chamber of Commerce traveling throughout the state training young adults to be better leaders." And you can file these news items under the "domestic bliss" tab: Karen Cagle York, her husband Steve and daughter Rachel recently moved into their "new" 1922 house after two months of long, hard (and expensive!) renovation. Who needs a Stairmaster and a treadmill when you can just run up and down stairs carrying boxes for five days? Rachel is very excited about starting second grade at her new school. Attorney Carol Pierce Olson has been named a director of the Nashville office of Counsel on Call. The company serves clients across the country, providing law firms and corporate clients top-level talent on an as-needed basis. Mark Thomas was named the No. 1 company producer and overall top selling agent for Coleman Etter Fontaine Realtors in 2003. And there was a confluence of Kappa Deltas when Susan Hook Patterson. Julie Owens Leggett and Sarah Jones Wikle '88 got together with their kids at Sarah's house earlier this summer. Their kids range in age from 3 to 13 and had fun playing together in Sarah's pool. Not a bad roundup of news! And please, if I don't have your e-mail address, drop me a line. I promise that I don't inundate you with junk. Excelsior! Brian 1988 REPORTER: STEVE BECTON STEVE BECTON@FACING.ORG Edward and Gretchen Helmke Ellis are proud to announce the birth of Phoebe Ann Phinizy, Feb. 18, 2004. Phoebe joins her big brother Ned (6) and sister Emma (4). Bo Young recently formed a marketing and advertising consulting company based in Tampa, FL, called CMW Marketing. 1989 REPORTER: ROBIN MEREDITH KELLY 127 WHIPPOORWILL DR. OAK RIDGE, TN 37830 865-483-2019 KELLY8688@COMCAST.NET Jim and Anne Kaiser Apple '88 live in Memphis, where Jim works as an investment banker at Morgan-Keegan. They have 3 children: Abigail (2), James III (10) and Betsy (12). Alan '86 and Susan Shackelford Arnold currently live in Atlanta, where Susan is a web project manager with Macquarium Intelligent Communications. Brian and Heather Baiyeat moved this summer from Texas to Cincinnati, where Brian has joined the finance faculty at Xavier University. They have a two-vear-old daughter, Kaylin. Lucinda Lyon Buford, husband Barry and their seven-year-old twins live in Dallas, where Lucinda stays busy with their company, a custom homebuilding business, her children's school and church. Kevin and Le Anne Gaddis Burke and baby Jackson now live in Plattsmouth, NE. LeAnne says she's now a full time mom and loving it. An article about orchids by Ken Cameron, a curator at the New York Botanical Garden, was published in the June issue of Natural History magazine. Jeff and Amy Fay Chandler live with rhodes.edu FALL 2004 RHODES 63 CLASS NOTES their three sons in Knoxville, where Jeff is a physical therapist and the east Tennessee director for Tracy Caulkins Physiotherapy. He also coaches their sons' baseball and soccer teams. Ashley Jenkins Collins and her husband Chris live in Atlanta, where she owns a women's clothing retail business called Ensembles. Ashley and classmates enjoyed a mini- reunion last winter at Inez Yelser Nunnally's house in Sea Island . Chris and Anne Marie Basarrate Fitz and son Christopher live in Edgewood, KY, where Anne Marie is a pediatrician. Hunter and Kara Babin Gee live in Nashville, where Kara, an architect, designs corporate interiors for Interior Design Services Inc. Kara and Hunter struggle to balance time between caring for their two-year-old son Cooper, achieving excellence at work and helping to shape their community. Sara Hodges received her M.A. and her Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Virginia and is now an associate professor of psychology at the University of Oregon. William Holden and Meg Morrison married April 14, 2004, in Carmel, CA. The couple celebrated at Yosemite National Park. They currently reside in Cupertino, CA, and Wilmington, DE. They have a daughter, Grace Elizabeth (9). Gina Latendresse, husband Devin LaFaye and daughter Sabrina live in Nashville, where Gina is the president of American Pearl Co. Gina cofounded a nonprofit organization called Code Pink, a network for young women diagnosed with breast cancer, after her own diagnosis, chemotherapy and surgeries in 2002. Cris '91 and Valery Messer McMann live with their two children in Danville, KY. Valery and her father recently changed the name of their business to Messer McMann Investments and Cris was named Boyle County Elementary Teacher of the Year for 2003-2004. He will be up for the Kentucky Teacher of the Year award. Bowie and Inez Yelser Nunnally had daughter Jean Dennis on Sept. 11, 2003. They live in St. Simons Island, GA, where Inez owns her own women's apparel retail store called Limited Editions. Elizabeth Pickell is happily living in San Francisco with roommates and her dog, Kyra. Jenna Adams Piranl works as an administrative assistant at the Randolph School in Hunstville, AL, where she lives with husband Joey and daughters Catherine and Elizabeth. Russell Porter and his wife Beth live in Washington, DC, where he is a team leader for Latin America at the U.S. Agency for International Development. They have a two-year- old son, Jack. Lawrence and Michelle Toler Puzlo are proud to announce the birth of their son Michael, April 22, 2004. Michelle is grateful to have a pediatrician in the house. Chad Schultz is now the southwest regional manager for Sony Music in San Antonio, TX. He is also a board member of the nonprofit organization Planet Cancer. Paul and Anna-Catherine Wylie Super and son Robert live in Clyde, NC. Anna-Catherine worked for 12 years at various U.S. National Park sites, interpreting natural and cultural treasures and presenting park programs. Jennifer Moman Voss received her M.B.A. in 2001 from the University of Alabama and currently is vice president of customer accounting at Anderson News Co., a magazine and book wholesale company in Knoxville, TN. She and husband John have two children: Alexandra (8) and Zachary (4). William and Cary Tynes Wahlheim live in Birmingham. An attorney, Cary is taking a long sabbatical to stay home and care for her two daughters, Carolyn (5) and Virginia (3). 1990 15th Reunion HOMECOMING: OCT. 7-8, 2005 Amanda North Aghdami was recently promoted from group manager to director in U.S. Card Operations for Capital One Financial Corp. She now leads the operations team supporting the upmarket business and directs operational strategy. She is based in Richmond, VA. Daren and Jessica Lux Guillory announce the birth of their third child, Alena Marie, Feb. 29, 2004. Rob '89 and Kathryn King Lillard are proud to announce the birth of a baby girl, Sarah Elizabeth, Nov. 14, 2003. Mark (5) is a loving and protective big brother. Rob recently joined Green Hills Children's Clinic in Nashville as a general pediatrician. Marvin Spears has been promoted to director of regional training for the Mid-Atlantic region at Pfizer Pharmaceuticals. He still lives in Columbia, MD, but works out of the firm's Reston, VA, office. 1991 Chris and Beverly Casey are proud to announce the birth of their daughter Caroline Elizabeth, Apr. 24, 2004, in Jacksonville, FL. Chris has been admitted to the Florida Bar and joined the law firm of Hinshaw & Culbertson. After working nine years for the Ingram Group, Diana Sossaman Davis has taken on an executive service position with the state of Tennessee in the Divison of Mental Retardation Services. Greg and LaTascha Foster are proud to announce the birth of a baby boy, Cole Alexander. No joke, he was born April 1, 2004, in Montclair, NJ. His big sister Sydney Grace (2) has been on her best behavior since Cole's arrival. Ed and Heather Lindsey Hettinger 64 FALL 2004 RHODES rhodes.edu are proud to announce the birth of their second daughter, Lucy Thompson, Nov. 7, 2003. She was welcomed home by big sister Olivia (3). Mal Johnson and Bruce Rizzo are happy to announce their marriage March 4, 2004, in San Francisco. They currently reside in Berkeley. Kaj and Kim Groat Olsen announce the birth of their son Stefan Christian, Jan. 23, 2003. Kim is an associate professor of chemistry at Loyola College in Baltimore, MD. Robert and Christi Barr Schaeffer are proud to announce the birth of their daughter, Robin Leigh Schaeffer, Feb. 23, 2004. Clayton Spencer, an associate professor of chemistry at Illinois College and has been awarded a grant of almost $30,000 from the National Science Foundation's Research Site for Educators in Chemistry program. Ed and Judith Glass Sullivan co- lead a youth group at their church in Knoxville, TN. Judith was recently appointed chair of the English department at Central High School and is teaching seniors and advising the yearbook for the fourth year in a row. Rob Taylor is the new assistant principal at Houston High School, Germantown, TN. Ray and Tammy Turcotte are proud to announce the birth of a baby boy, Chase Joseph, Jan. 16, 2004, in Arlington, TX. Big sister Delaney is delighted to have a new hand to hold. Dan and Susan Geist Wittig's daughter, Lauren Bailey, was born Sept. 5, 2003 in Nashville. 1992 REPORTER: LANE SOUTHERN WHITEHEAD LANESOUTHERN@YAHOO.COM Eric and Alison Ruwet Clemons are proud to announce the birth of a baby girl, Tate Carolina, Jan. 9, 2004, in Ann Arbor, MI. Jim Day is currently assistant vice president in internal audit for Symbion Healthcare in Nashville. He recently received his black belt in Isshinryu karate ? after many black eyes and bloody noses! Kaleigh Donnelly and Rich Bullington '91 live in Memphis, where Kaleigh recently accepted a position at Bank of America as an administrative assistant in the homebuilder division. In her spare time, she is active in the Memphis Vocal Arts Ensemble, chairs the religious education committee at Neshoba Unitarian Universalist Church and raises her five- and seven- year-old children. Warren Fincher was recently appointed one of the new deputy editors of The Sociological Quarterly, the official journal of the Midwest Sociological Society. He has also received two research awards: one to study sales of herbal supplements in the U.S. and the other to study changes in how Americans perceive citizenship. Bill and Lacey Taylor Jordan recently returned to Atlanta after being in Washington, DC, for two years, where Bill served as a Bush administration political appointee in the Department of Justice. Lacey recently coauthored the exhibition catalog for a show earlier this year at the High Museum in Atlanta, and she stays busy raising their two children. Bill is now a partner at Alston & Bird. Stinson Liles is principal of Red Deluxe, a Memphis-based advertising and brand development firm. In May 2004, Stinson was asked to develop materials for the National Red Cross for a World War II Memorial Dedication in Washington, DC. He and wife Patty and their children, Ruby and Jasper, live in Memphis where Stinson is also on the executive board of Mpact Memphis and local founder of Create-A-Thon Memphis, a yearly advertising and design marathon. John '90 and Sara Hawks Marecki announce the birth of a baby boy, Jason Everett, March 27, 2004, in Denver. Four-year-old brother Andrew is a big help with the new baby. Stacey Starr Pace opened her own fee-for-service clinic in Fayetteville, TN, last January, and recently became the new medical director of the free primary care medical clinic, Partners for Healing, in Tullahoma, TN. The clinic provides for people living or working in Coffee County without health insurance coverage. John and Mary Virginia Slay Sweeney announce the birth of their daughter, Ella Virginia, April 16, 2003, in Birmingham. Ella loves her big brother James (4). 1993 REPORTERS: CHANDLEE BRYAN CHANDLEE@DARTMOUTH.EDU 613-643-5277 KELLY SLAGLE Jam Hill Ahrabl is having a great time raising toddler Henry in Lafayette, LA. Robert and Katherine McCaa Baldwin are proud to announce the birth of a baby boy, Robert Richard, April 22, 2004. He has a wonderful big brother, Henry. Richard was named after his dear grandfather, Dick Baldwin '58, who passed away Dec. 30, 2003. Darrell and Yves Rougelot Clark welcomed Elizabeth Adrienne Jan. 11, 2004, in Washington, DC. She joins big sister Julia (2). Jim and Sarah Houser Dickens welcomed their second daughter, Zoe Isabella, Jan. 12, 2004. Debbie Glenn has been promoted to a newly-created strategic marketing position at KFC. Her new title is "Beat Year Ago Marketing Manager." Rob and Julie Walker Grigsby are proud to announce the birth of their rhodes.edu FALL 2004 RHODES 65 CLASS NOTES son, Nov. 11, 2003. Tricia Adair Harp and her husband John proudly announce the birth of their first child, Annalise Adair, in July 2003. Tricia is executive director of sales for Noel-Levitz, a national higher education consulting firm. Since graduating from Rhodes, she earned her M.B.A. from the University of Iowa and completed the New York marathon. John Hill is in his fifth and last year of orthopedic surgery residency at Atlanta Medical Center. He will begin a shoulder and elbow fellowship in 2006 at the Insall Scott Kelly Orthopedic hospital of Beth Israel Hospital in New York. Rob and Melissa DeCelles Howley are proud to announce the birth of their daughter, Simone DeCelles, Jan. 8, 2004, in Falls Church, VA. Lisa Moore Hunt finished her doctorate in art history (with an emphasis in medieval manuscripts) at the University of Missouri-Columbia in May. She teaches medieval art history at the College of Wooster. Brad '92 and Paige Williams Jenkins welcome Ella Kathryn, born Nov. 20, 2003. She joins big brother Garrett (3). Amber Khan reported that she had a wonderful time in Greece visiting the seldom seen but frequently missed Silva Gitsas Pourliakas and her family. Gregg Moffitt recently completed his medical training at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. He is now in Knoxville, TN, working with the Endocrinology Consultants of East Tennessee and is in private practice. He and wife Jennifer celebrated the birth of their son, Wells Rayburn, March 19, 2004. Glen and Allison Wemmers Pellettleri welcome their first child, Chase Douglas, born Feb. 21, 2004. Allison recently received the Ben D. Caraway Distinguished Service Award from the Epilepsy Foundation of Georgia. Kristen Rothammer and Marc Molina married April 24, 2004, in Memphis. She works as a research specialist at St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital. Mandy Simon and husband Chris Schwab are proud to announce the birth of a son, Grayson Simon, May 8, 2004, in Atlanta. Taylor Tagg has published his first book, a motivational work entitled Enrich Your Sunrise: 40 Days to a More Fulfilling and Vibrant Life. Wendy Walters spent a month in Taiwan, where she served as her grandmother's licensed occupational therapist. She reports that it was quite an adventure, particularly as the healthcare system in Taiwan is very different from the American approach. Wendy lives in Baltimore. In 2000, James Westphal left a career in corporate recruiting to become a research chemist in a nuclear medicine lab. He enjoys life in Seattle and is now a Ph.D. student at the University of Washington, where he works with lasers to build microchips that operate with light rather than electricity. 1994 REPORTER: JUDY BROWN 703-683-2021 JUDY.BROWN@BORAX.COM Kevin and Becca Thom Berk currently live in San Francisco, where Becca owns a clothing design company, Beb Designs. In August 2003, a mini-reunion was held in Lebanon, TN, to honor the then-recent birth of Emily Kaitlyn Bost, daughter of Preston and Anne Gibson Bost. Other alumni present included: Don '93 and Holly Hall Price, Cayce '93 and Amy Powers Stapp, Rick '93 and Andrea Rose Picerno '95, Alicia Swanson, Dave and Julie Burford Mauser '95, Paul and Maria Cawood Wright '95, Amy Chifici '96, Christy McFarland '96. Jason McFarland '96 And Julie Nichols '96. Thomas and Angi Elsea Bourgeois are happy to announce their marriage on May 11, 2004, in Starkville, MS, where they currently reside. Angi recently completed her doctorate at Emory University, specializing in Italian Renaissance art history. Michael and Yvette Bowen announce the birth of a baby girl, Soleil Yvonne, March 18, 2004. She has red hair and green-brown eyes. Judy Brown recently moved from Washington, DC, to the Los Angeles area to work for U.S. Borax, a wholly owned subsidiary of Rio Tinto, the company she worked for in the District. Robert Browning lives with wife Natalie and their one-year-old son in Memphis, where Robert is a campus minister at the University of Memphis with the Reformed University Fellowship. Alan and Amanda Coe Burton live in Lawrenceville, GA. Alan works in network administration for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Their daughter Lily, born Jan. 12, 2004, joins big brother Alex (5). Stewart Crais is director of technology and media services for Lausanne Collegiate School in Memphis. He enjoys spending time with his wife Shelly and their children Richard (3) and Molly (1). Bruce and Dorian Jones Crawford live in Memphis, where Dorian is a stay-at-home mother to their two-year-old daughter Emma Violet. Emma, who is doing great now, was named a March of Dimes Ambassador due to her premature birth. Dorian recently started working at Tennessee Infant Parent Services doing early intervention with premature babies. Eric Flanders currently owns Fleet Feet Sports, a running specialty store in Memphis. Andrew Jeter is an accountant and 66 FALL 2004 RHODES rhodes.edu audit manager for the Memphis C.P.A. firm Thompson Dunavant. Scott and Frances Patrick Lancaster announce the birth of their son Jacob Patrick, Oct. 9, 2003. His big sister Amelia is now four and adores him. Frances is a systems analyst for Baptist Memorial Health Care in Memphis. Mark and Beth Boston Landers live in Eads, TN. Mark practices small animal medicine in Memphis and Beth is a third grade teacher in Germantown. Martin LeRoy and his wife Lauren are proud to announce the birth of their son Joshua David, May 29, 2004. Debbie Sirratt Lozinskl is a psychologist for the U.S. Air Force in Tucson, AZ, where she lives with her husband Jason. Horacio and Marlene Cardoze Mendoza announce the birth of a baby girl, Victoria Isabel, Sept. 10, 2003, in Panama City, Panama. Diego Alonso (3) is a bit jealous but loves his little sister very much. Marlene was recently appointed head of financial institutions at Citibank N.A. Panama branch. Travis and Alison McVoy Paul live in Marietta, GA, where Alison works as a graphic specialist for First United Methodist Church and volunteers for her own church. She loves spending time with her two children, Carolyn (4) and Emory (2). Nell Paxton received her M.S. in occupational therapy from Shenandoah University in 2000 and currently works at the Kessler Institute, a physical rehabilitation facility in Nutley, NJ. Christina Ross and David Hanson '95 married Oct. 4, 2003, in Savannah, TN. They currently live in Memphis. Haygood and Virginia Pearce Seawall live in Atlanta, where Virginia was the head of the fundraising and volunteer force at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta for 2003-2004. Michael David and Joyce Shin welcomed daughter Sophia Un-hae Shin David Jan. 6, 2003. Joyce was ordained to the ministry of word and sacrament in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and lives with her family in Chicago. Dean and Use Middleton Sackett live in Alexandria, VA, where she is a congressional aide to U.S. Rep. Rob Portman. Greg Stewart is an orthopedic surgeon in Johnson City, TN, where he lives with wife Amber and their two daughters. On Father's Day, Bernal Smith wrote an article for The Commercial Appeal on a father's challenges in today's society. He and his father were pictured. Ted Sullivan is a promotions manager for WKNO public TV station in Memphis. She is on the executive committee of the It's Time to Read Coalition and the Sierra Club. She is currently working with a group to create the Memphis Area Coalition for Animal Welfare. Alicia Swanson lived for two years in Quito, Ecuador, as a missionary. She now works in Hispanic ministry at Bellevue Baptist Church in Cordova, TN. Chris and Stefanie Yount Taylor live in Collierville, TN, where Stefanie has put being a business systems consultant on hold to take care of their new baby Logan, born Jan. 10, 2004. Robyn Thiemann is an attorney for the U.S. Department ofJustice in the Domestic Security section. She also serves as the department's point of contact for all firearms and explosives laws. Will and Julie Ferguson Trapp announce the birth of a baby boy, Reed Ferguson, Oct. 2, 2003. Julie is enjoying working one day a week as a nurse practitioner in Nashville and the rest of the time being at home with Reed. Tamekia Wakefield and Dallas Flies married Oct. 11, 2003, in Memphis at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. Alumni who attended include Kristen Lavender and Nicole Spencer. Tamekia is a staff otolaryngologist at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, MD, and Dallas is a Ph.D. candidate in the immunology department at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore. 1995 10th Reunion HOMECOMING: OCT. 7-8, 2005 REPORTER: SARAH SEARS-EGELI 703-971-9417 SARAHEGELI@HOTMAIL.COM I wish I could say "Welcome Back" from your summer vacation, but unless you went into academia, you worked all summer! Don't you miss those three month off? Ahhhh, the days. The Class of '95 stayed busy over the summer and here's what we have to show for it... Eddie Dieppa graduated from the Miami School of Law in May. He left PriceWaterhouseCoopers and with a friend started a company called Ikeda Motor Corp. The company sells scooters under the brand Ikeda Scooters. Erica Emig White and husband Christopher are proud to announce the birth of a baby boy, Campbell Edward. He was born April 16, 2004, in Minneapolis, and weighed 6 lbs., 6 oz. Three-year-old big brother Jackson Avery, along with Erica and Chris, spent lots of time together this summer while Chris waited to start a new position as a CPA in July. Elizabeth Knight and Scott Doolittle are happy to announce their marriage on July 31, 2004, in Big Sky, MT. They currently reside in Nashville, where Elizabeth is working as a family nurse practitioner. Attending the wedding were the "Moore Moore girls" including Laurin rhodes.edu FALL 2004 RHODES 67 CLASS NOTES Howell, who was the maid of honor, Elisabeth Estes, Julie Walker Grigsby, Libby Houk, Meg Rue Massie, Katie Terrell Morrow and Catherine Cozart Salcedo. Lynn Dunavant '76, whom many of those in our class remember from the student counseling office, was the reader. Melinda Pomeroy said "I do" to Daniel Black May 21, 2004, in a beach wedding at the Sanderling Inn in Duck, NC. After a trip to Barbados, they continue to reside in Christiansburg, VA, where Melinda is a doctoral candidate at Virginia Tech and Daniel works in Healthcare IT. Jennifer Eason Barnett was a bridesmaid at the wedding. She's now her own boss! Shelby Scott recently opened her own law practice in Houston. "In January 2004, I 'hung out a shingle' and opened my law practice serving the Houston/Galveston area. I am practicing criminal defense and LOVE my work!" Yours truly, Sarah Sears Egell, accepted a new position as assistant director of marketing with PBS TeacherLine. The TeacherLine program is funded by a Department of Education grant and provides online professional development for preK-12 teachers. Gretchen Wright LaSalle recently accepted a position as a family physician at Providence Medical Group in Aloha, OR. Gretchen recently was employed at Oregon Health and Science University as a family medicine resident and is looking forward to starting her practice. As if she didn't have enough going on, Gretchen and her husband Sean also welcomed a son, Jeremy Patrick, in February. Chris '93 and Amanda Ellison Buchanan had baby boy, Hayes Christopher, Jan. 5, 2004. He joins their daughter Darby who was born the same day in 2001. Chris serves as the chairperson of Charlotte's regional Sierra Club and as a member of the Charlotte Tree Advisory Commission. Tim and Emelie Sims Mies announce the birth of a baby boy, Nicholas Eastman, April 25, 2003, in Champaign, IL. Nicholas joins big sister Grace, who is two. Julie Wilkins Price is opening her own business called The Little Gym in Nashville. She's looking forward to leaving the corporate world to pursue a career where she can make a difference in the lives of children. Ben '94 and Riddell Walcott Scott announce the birth of their third child, Duncan Benjamin Ulysses, Jan. 5, 2004. He joins big sisters Maggie and Grace. Ben is the director of FedEx Solutions in Memphis and Riddell received her M.D. in dermatology in 2002. James and Carrie Shollmier West announce the birth of a daughter, Caroline Victoria, March 24, 2004. 1996 REPORTER: JENNIFER LARSON LARSONJ96@RHODES-ALUMNI.NET Robert and Jane Brigden Abney happily announce the birth of twin sons: Parry Winslow and Releford "Ford" South, Jan. 19, 2004, in Memphis. Kemp Conrad, who works for Trammell Crow in Memphis, was named the 2003 Commercial Newcomer of the Year, an award given to the highest-producing broker with no more than two years of experience. Katherine Conti moved to St. Louis with her two Siberian huskies, bought a great house and is working as an art consultant. Catherine Cuellar is a reporter for the NPR affiliate KERA in Dallas. Jennifer Shepard Kilpatrick has been promoted to partner from associate at Deutsch, Kerrigan & Stiles in New Orleans. She is still practicing toxic tort and environmental litigation and loving it. Daniel and Cheri Klinghard married June 12, 2004, in Charleston, SC. Jeremy Bailey was the best man, Richard Kamm and Joe Wantuck were ushers and John Langdon attended. The organist performed the Rhodes College alma mater at the start of the ceremony. The couple moved to Worcester, MA, where Daniel accepted a position at The College of the Holy Cross. Nolan and Jennifer Warren Rhem announce the birth of a daughter, Mary Nolan, March 8, 2004, in Memphis. Mary Nolan joins big brother Jackson. Dr. Van Savage gave a lecture at Rhodes last April titled "Resource Distribution Networks and Biochemical Reaction Kinetics: a unifying approach to cells, individuals and ecosystems." He is at the Bayer Center for Genomics Research, Harvard. Jennifer Larson Wyckoff is a reporter at The Desert Sun, the daily newspaper of Palm Springs, CA. She loves living with husband David near the snow-capped mountains and desert valley, and she is learning to play golf on the weekends. 1997 REPORTER: LESLIE BECK NORMAN 321 S. WATKINS MEMPHIS, TN 38104 901-276-7529 THENORMS@BELLSOUTH.NET Carrie Archie graduated from the University of Tennessee College of Law in 2000. She has spent the past eight years working as the Eighth Circuit Court judicial clerk in Nashville. This fall, she began her doctoral studies in political science at Vanderbilt University. Carrie has been granted a full four-year scholarship and teaching stipend. Michael and Amanda Garrigan Bielskis married Oct. 18, 2003, in 68 FALL 2004 RHODES rhodes.edu Fisher Garden. Rhodes attendees included Rebecca Crawford, Nancy Roth, Bryant Benson, Kara Plenge Smart, Lucy Mayne Gilbert, Stefanie Johnson '99, Casey Williams '99, Julie Decker Hendrick '99, Carol Culpepper Foote '94, Lelia Hood Savory '94, Lara Babaoglu '93 And Melissa Ford Daniel '93 . Alyssa Browning graduated from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis with an M.D. last May. She has begun a three- year internal medicine residency at Vanderbilt University Hospital. After training for four months with the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society's Team in Training and raising money for the charity, Jennifer Davis completed the 2004 Walt Disney half marathon. She also completed the 2004 Toyota Prius Miami Tropical Half Marathon. One day she hopes to finish a full marathon. Laurea Glusman moved to Chapel Hill, NC, in August 2003 where she began a dual M.S.W. and M.Div. program at the University of North Carolina and Duke Divinity School. Jessica McLaughlin Lierzer works as the event coordinator for Darphin, a French cosmetics company. She organizes the company's beauty and make-up event in Neiman Marcus and other independent stores all over the country. Christopher Marlowe is working in the Felony Domestic Crimes Unit of the state attorney's office in Miami- Dade Country, FL. Elizabeth Tilghman McFadden and Carter William Aldinger married Aug. 21, 2004, at Idlewild Presbyterian Church in Memphis. Carter and Tilghman share Tilghman's daughter, Addison McFadden Medlin, who is 15 months old. Tilghman continues her work as a financial planner at First Tennessee Bank while Carter works as an institutional NASDAQtrader at Morgan Keegan. Chris Nunn and wife Kim celebrated their son's first birthday in September. Brian '94 and Laura McRae O'Neill are proud to announce the birth of a daughter, Isabella McRae, Feb. 25, 2004, in Atlanta. Alizza Punzalan-Hall and fellow musician David Hall married Oct. 11, 2003, in St. Petersburg, FL, where they currently live. Rhodes alumni in the bridal party included Rossanna Punzalan-Winn '94 and Tammy Parks. Heather Coleman shared her vocal talent. Alizza is currently the director of community and media relations for Eckerd College. She also serves on the National Coordinating Board of the YMCA/USA, and the boards for the local YWCA of Tampa Bay and the Rotary Club of St. Petersburg. Joy Richmond graduated this year from Leadership Memphis. She was appointed as the 2004-2005 multicultural committee chair for the Junior League of Memphis and is currently pursuing graduate studies at Memphis Theological Seminary. Harrison Willis has associated with the Birmingham law firm of Toffel & Altmann in a general practice with an emphasis on consumer and corporate bankruptcy matters. 1998 REPORTER: AMANDA GREBE TAMBURRINO 1430 CARR AVE. MEMPHIS, TN 38104 901-526-4616 ATAMBURR@MIDSOUTH.RR.COM Amy Auwarter graduated from the University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine in May. She has accepted an internship at Southpaws Veterinary Referral Center in the Washington, DC, area. Casey and Michelle Jacques Brown are proud to announce the birth of a baby boy, Henry Hobbs Michael, April 10, 2004. Nate Gentry became a staff member for the Senate and Natural Resources Committee in May. Formerly a legislative aide handling water issues, he will continue the trend by handling water policy issues for the committee. Noel and Marissa Brewer Henley are proud to announce the birth of their son, Christopher Noel Jr., Feb. 18, 2004. Sam Jordan graduated this year from the University of Chicago with a law degree and a master's in public policy. He won the Joseph Henry Beale Prize for outstanding achievement in first year research and writing, taught an undergraduate course last spring on the First Amendment and graduated with high honors. He clerks for a federal judge in Chicago. Kate Maffei McGuinness is now a senior account executive for Bohan, an advertising company in Nashville. Brendan '97 and Margaret Ann Taylor Minihan welcomed son Aidan Taylor, July 12, 2004. Brendan is debating whether to start him on long slow distance or speedwork. Molly Molina recently graduated from The Creative Circus, an advertising portfolio school in Atlanta. She accepted a position as copywriter at West Wayne advertising in Tampa, FL. Nick and Libby Weaver SlevekIng married April 17, 2004, in Nashville, where they currently reside. Libby is a financial analyst for HCA and Nick is a plastic surgeon in private practice. Bridesmaids in the wedding included best friends Elizabeth Caton, Kelly Crane, Catherine Elcock and Elizabeth Epley. Other Rhodes friends who attended were Viraj Parikh, Brent Keller, Chris Steiner '99, Ashley Kahlstorf, Elizabeth Hays, Jenny Green, Melissa Stampley '99 and Allison Alderson '99. Jeb and Heather Caldwell Stricklin welcomed Elizabeth Ann into their family Sept. 2, 2003. rhodes.edu FALL 2004 RHODES 69 CLASS NOTES 1999 Rachel Allen, a marketing coordinator for TruGreen Companies, has joined the Volunteer Council at Hands on Memphis. Carolyn Barnwell was recently promoted to senior associate in the retail division at Trammell Crow Co. in Austin, TX. She was also named one of the top 10 retail brokers in Austin by the Austin Business Journal. Brandon Barr recently received his master's degree and is pursuing a career in advertising. He is a copywriter at partners + napier, an agency located in Rochester, NY. He works there with wife Trudy, who is an account executive. Matt Beck has moved to downtown Orlando, FL, where he continues to work for Utility Specialists Inc. He often hangs out with Jason Grundorf. Cy '98 and Genevieve White Carter married June 12, 2004. Genevieve is a project manager at a design firm in Los Angeles, and Cy, an actor, appeared in the movie Starship Troopers II. Kan Comkornruecha graduated from the University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy in 2003, where she received the Roche Pharmacy Communications Award. Kan finished a pharmacy practice residency in Memphis and moved to Huntsville, AL, to begin work as a clinical pharmacy specialist at Huntsville Hospital. Jay and Allison Alderson DeMarcus married May 15, 2004, in Nashville, TN. Allison's sister, Amy '97, was the maid of honor, and bridesmaids included Florence Stumb, Emily Dodson Jarrett, Melissa Stampley Gage .111(1Carol Curry Reach. Kelly Crane '98 was an honorary bridesmaid and Cadien Clark read Scripture. Other Rhodes alumni in attendance were Catherine Elcock '98, Elizabeth Caton '98, Libby Weaver Sieveking '98, Molly Wantuck Keathley, Kristen Boswell Amonette, Andy '98 and Mary Allison Cates, Elizabeth Ahern Chatham '00, Rob Jarrett '93 and Dudley Baker. Jay '00 and Morgan Bomar Eckles announce the birth of their first child, Edward Armstrong, July 5, 2004. Jay and Morgan also recently moved back to the Memphis area after three years in the Philadelphia suburbs. While in Pennsylvania, Morgan earned her master's in counseling and Jay earned his master's in information science. He is currently a programmer/analyst at AutoZone. David and Adrienne Ballew Elder live in Washington, DC, where Adrienne was recently selected as an Emerging Leader Program finalist for the Department of Health and Human Services, Center for Disease Control, Division of Adolescent and School Health. Michael and Margaret Yerger Elliott proudly announce the birth of their son, James Rucks, March 15, 2004. Diane Falres is living in a village in northern Sri Lanka teaching English to students age 18 and younger. During the last school holiday, she traveled to southern India. She will remain in Sri Lanka for two years. After receiving her master's degree in accounting from Rhodes in 2001, Nicole Gibson is now in law school at the University of Memphis. Anne Moncrief Henriques received her master's degree in library science in January, 2004. She is a library media specialist for a local elementary school in Meriden, CT. Adele Hines is a senior property accountant for Trammell Crow Co. in Memphis. Rob '93 and Emily Dodson Jarrett recently moved from Memphis to St. Louis where Rob has begun his residency in pathology at Washington University. Eric and Sally Mercer Johnson married Feb. 7, 2004, in Little Rock. Several Rhodes friends were present at what was a happy and beautiful event. Kate O'Leary Katariya has begun her residency in obstetrics and gynecology in San Antonio, TX. May was an exciting month for Kate, as she was promoted to captain in the U.S. Air Force and also got married to Nitin Katariya! Bridesmaids included Melanie Butler. Other members of the Rhodes family who attended were Neeta Venepalli, Kan Comkornruecha, Annie Shirley Davis and Drs. Alan and Carolyn Jaslow. Sarah Morgan is in her last year of medical school at the Medical College of Ohio. She plans to pursue a residency in obstetrics and gynecology. Dave '97 and Megan Emery Osier live in Nashville, where Megan is a graduate student in biomedical research at Vanderbilt University. Last year, she completed the Ironman Florida triathlon with a time of 10:58. For the 2003 year, she also received All-American status in her age group in the U.S.A. triathlon rankings. Emily Passlni is special assistant to the commissioner for policy, Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities in Nashville. Hunter Phillips works in student affairs at the University of Southern Mississippi. Leigh Powell lives in Americus, GA, where she is an editor for Habitat For Humanity International. Cliff Priddy was accepted to the University of Tennessee, Memphis doctorate of physical therapy program. He began the three-year program in September. John and Rachel Morris Rosson married March 20, 2004, and now live in Houston, where Rachel is a real estate agent. Kathryn Royster is working in a new position with the Nashville Public Library, providing computer 70 FALL 2004 RHODES rhodes.edu instruction and one-on-one tutoring to children. Greg Sims and Gina Rice married May 29, 2004, in Nashville at First Church of the Nazarene. The couple honeymooned in Bar Harbor, ME. Greg is a community outreach manager for Hands on Nashville, a local volunteer center. Matt and Elizabeth Sellari Steiner married after graduation. Elizabeth is studying counseling psychology at Indiana State University and Matt works at Eli Lilly in nearby Clinton, IN. Robert and Halle Mitchell Walker married July 31, 2004, in Batesville, MS. There were many Rhodes alumni who were in the wedding party and who attended as guests. Halle is an associate with the Mendelson Law Firm in Memphis. Robert attends Vanderbilt University's Owen Graduate School of Management where he is pursuing an M.B.A. degree in finance and accounting. Davienne Toth is working as a physician assistant for Kansas Orthopedic and Sports Medicine in Topeka, KS. Jill Waldrip is the executive director at Arkansas Operation Lifesaver, a nonprofit public education program regarding highway-rail grade safety. She and James Davis married in June. They live in Little Rock. Kevin Willoughby is now teaching fashion history and marketing at the Art Institute of Dallas. The adjunct position compliments his recent move to join Azimuth Artz Multimedia in Dallas as marketing coordinator and photographer. 2000 5th Reunion HOMECOMING: OCT. 7-8, 2005 REPORTER: RICHARD LUM RICHARD _ LUM@HOTMAIL.COM Jessica Anschutz began studying for her master of divinity degree at Yale this fall. Witney Elliott is a graduate student at the University of South Carolina, pursuing a master's degree in higher education and student affairs. Samantha Laffoon and Holden Rushing '97 married May 29, 2004, in Santa Fe, NM. Many Rhodes alumni attended. The couple lives in Houston. Gill and Emily Clark Munoz married Feb. 7, 2004, in Sanford, NC. They currently reside in Sanford and Washington, DC. Rhodes alumni who attended include Tyler and Tarah Penny Buckner, Anna Pinchak, Bryce Ashby, Emily Ferguson '99, Welch Suggs '95, Austin Jowers, Amy Paine '03 ,till Brian Gonzales '99. Kevin Olsen recently accepted the position of art director and director of internet services at American Clothing Express Inc. in Memphis. Melissa Statom Ragain has been selected a 2004 graduate Jefferson Fellowship recipient at the University of Virginia. The fellowships, begun in 2001, are an extension of the undergraduate Jefferson Scholars program. Melissa will study art history. Christian and Hallie Nolen Wold live in Rochester, MN, where Christian has begun a five-year residency program in otolaryngology at the Mayo Clinic. Ebony Woods passed the Missouri Bar exam in July 2003. She currently is in the first year of a two-year clerkship with a judge in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. Shadenn Zarur was recently accepted at the IESE Business School in Barcelona, where he will receive his master's degree in business in 2006. 2001 REPORTER: AMANDA FLAIM AMANDAFLAIM@YAHOO.COM Laura Bauer graduated summa cum laude from the University of Notre Dame Law School in May. She also received the Hoynes Award for graduating with the highest cumulative G.P.A. for the class. After taking the bar exam in July, Laura began clerking for a federal district court judge for the northern district of Alabama. She plans to join a labor and employment practice group in Birmingham. Patrick Betar received his J.D. from Syracuse University College of Law and his master's degree from the Maxwell School of Public Administration in May. He was selected class marshall and received the Dean's Award, given to the outstanding representative of the College of Law. Kosta Dalagerogas currently teaches Mexican history at North Park University, Chicago. He also works part-time at the Greek- American Rehabilitation and Nursing Centre, Wheeling, IL, and the Hellenic Museum and Cultural Center, Chicago. Rob and Lauren Davis Carlson married July 19, 2003, in Austin, TX. Members of the wedding party included: Megan Lawler, Tanya Gietz, Anna Teekell, Allison Dalton, Erika Emerick, Will Harris '00, Brad Hicks, James Jordan, James Lyles and Cletus Brown. Rob is an assistant manager with Enterprise Rent-A-Car, and Lauren attends Baylor Law School. Elizabeth Keith received a M.A. teaching in special education, learning disabilities from the College of Charleston in May. She received the Dr. Nathan E. Miles Graduate Assistantship and has begun working at Berkeley High School in Charleston. She also recently became a volunteer coach for figure skaters competing in the Special Olympics at the Carolina Ice Palace. Erin Massey received her J.D. degree from Southern Methodist University in May, and now attends Georgetown University where she is rhodes.edu FALL 2004 RHODES 71 CLASS NOTES pursuing a master of law in securities and financial regulation. Eric Sefton was the sound designer for the production of The Sound of Music, which played last spring at the DeSoto Family Theatre in Southaven, MS. Shelley Stenshol recently accepted the position of executive assistant to the director of community services at City of Calabasas in California. She is proud to be developing parks and recreation programs to improve the quality of life. Trey Thacher received his J.D. degree from Emory University School of Law in May, where he was the executive managing editor of the Emory Law Journal. This fall, he joined the firm of Burch, Porter & Johnson in Memphis. 2002 REPORTER: JOHN RAMSEY JTRAMSEY@MAILUTEXAS.EDU Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Jason Beasley graduated in March 2004 from the Nuclear Field "A" School at Naval Nuclear Power Training Command, Goose Creek, SC. He will continue at the school and learn more about engineering, construction, operation and maintenance of naval nuclear propulsion plants. Meghan Bromert received a Rotary Ambassadorial scholarship for 2003-04 and is pursuing her master's degree in international studies at the University of Chile's International Studies Institute in Santiago. Shannon Cian continues to work as a business development specialist at ASI Federal Credit Union. She is, however, anxiously awaiting a personal phone call from Mr. Donald Trump, after having submitted a video application (featuring a cameo appearance by '80s teen sensation Kirk Cameron) to the producers of The Apprentice 2. Any rumors of a restraining order by Kirk HottieMcGee Cameron are a lie. Kyle Hassell, who has been living and working in Germany for the last two years, has begun a management trainee program for Lufthansa German Airlines in Los Angeles and Germany. Nathan Mitchell was featured in The Commercial Appeal in April for camping overnight in 45-degree weather for a chance to audition for the NBC show The Apprentice 2. 2003 REPORTER: KIM KIRKPATRICK KIRKPATRICK K@YAHOO.COM Cyanne Demchak recently accepted a position as development assistant at the National Academy of Social Insurance in Washington, DC. She is enjoying the benefits of Dupont Circle during the work week and those of the 'burbs at the same time. Carrie Eaker is a first-year law student at University of Memphis. Grant and Michelle Eacret Garner are happy to announce their marriage, July 26, 2003 in Lewisville, TX. Bridesmaids included Whitney Bryant, Lauren Kwedar and Shannon Keeling '04. Michelle recently accepted a position at Commercial Metals Co. in Irving, TX. Andy English, along with two partners, owns IceRocket, which launched the Internet search engine IceRocket.com in April. The trio began working on selling real estate on the Internet and realized that their technology was worthy of creating a search engine. Andy is based in Dallas, and his partners are based in Scottsdale, AZ, and Las Vegas. Margaret Love began her graduate studies at the University of Chicago this fall. She was awarded one of the program's largest fellowships and will be pursuing a master's degree in English literature. Shawn McCarthy has been with the JET program in Japan since July 2003 and has signed on to stay a second year. Living in Japan has been challenging and has given him a base from which to travel around Asia. Richard '00 and Sarah Donley Pillsbury were married by former Rhodes professor of religious studies Dr. Darren Middleton June 5, 2004, in Orlando, FL. Bridesmaids included Margie Hall, Kim Kirkpatrick, Megan Pillsbury '06, Jenny Argo '01, Jessie Hunt '02, Kimberly Pillsbury '98 and Anne Kathryn Rice. Groomsmen lucicci Tyler Buckner '00, Jay Eckles '00, William Henry, Jr. '01, Zack Kinlaw '01, Les Goodall '00, Jeremy Karassik '00 and Kila Wilson '01. Professor of religious studies Dr. John Kaltner read at the wedding. Jill Reifsteck is the Rotary District 6490 Ambassadorial Scholar for the 2004-05 academic year. She attends graduate school for public policy and administration at the Center for Economic Research and Learning in Mexico City. Sarah Tipton is currently working for the Black Business Directory and PROUD magazine in Memphis. This fall she entered the Broadcast Meteorology Program at Mississippi State University for her master's of science degree. Josh '02 and Sarah May Wilmsmeyer married March 27, 2004, at Brentwood United Methodist Church in Brentwood, TN. They currently reside in St. Louis. Bridesmaids from Rhodes were Emily Ramsey and Josle Orlando '04. Groomsmen included Mason Wann '02, Brent Morgan '02 and Brian Waggenspack. Josh teaches eighth grade science, coaches JV baseball, and completed his M.A. degree in teaching in May. Sarah began the physician assistant program at St. Louis University in May. 72 FALL 2004 RHODES rhodes.edu 2004 REPORTER: C. KYLE Russ CKYLERUSS@YAHOO.COM 202.360.0953 Like many of you, I feel like I should be at Rhodes, getting ready for classes. Alas, graduation has finally started to set in....In the effort to keep in touch and report the events in your lives, we have the class reports which you will receive quarterly if so desired. Please remember to keep me and the Alumni Office at Rhodes informed of your whereabouts and goings-on. Remember to include your contact information (e-mail and land address) as well as your major(s). This is my first stab at being your class reporter, so here goes nothin'.... Many of you 2004 Rhodents heeded the graduation advice to fare forward and see the world. To some of us, this was a literal challenge. Where to begin? Michael Lamb was a Tennessee delegate to the Democratic National Convention in June. Jessie Flanders left the States in late August for a SCUBA diving tour of the planet. She began her six-month trip in Australia where she met up with Daniel Head, who is on his Watson Fellowship. Jessie then moves to Fiji where she is most excited about the SCUBA possibilities and will live in a thatched roof hut. In Asia, she plans to spend time in Malaysia and Thailand. Jessie will then visit the ancient ruins in Egypt before rendezvousing with Elaine Odle in Italy. Elaine is spending the year in Italy learning the language and cuisine under the direction of her beloved Marco. Jessie culminates her tour in February where her mother and father already eagerly await her arrival back in Ft. Smith, AR. Surprise, surprise, Emily Sotille is leaving the country again for another year. But before leaving, Emily helped a local midwife deliver her friend's baby. Mlle. Sotille has recently been accepted to the University of Edinburgh. While in Scotland, she will continue her art history studies. She also has plans to visit her townhouse roommate (T5 rocks!) Kathleen Caldwell who will also be in the United Kingdom. Kathleen is seeking her master's degree at the University in London. Across the Channel, Sarah Margaret Brldwell will be working for the French Embassy, teaching in Paris. Oddly enough, Sarah Margaret spent half her summer as a horse ranch hand in Witchita Falls, TX. She also worked as an intern at the College of Charleston where she helped launch the school's new Law College. Last on the international front, Kristy Kummerow leaves for Malawi with the Peace Corps. Always looking to serve, Kristy. Keep up the great work! There were quite a few of you who decided to remain back in Memphis. Logan Stevens and Dre de Araujo Jorge took positions at Morgan Keegan. Bocce Sweeney Metzger is happy to announce her marriage to David Metzger, her high school sweetheart. They married in Memphis at Temple Israel where several Rhodents were in attendance. Congratulations Becca. Matt Hoffberg is also in Memphis developing his acting career. On that thespian note, Anders Reynolds and Kyle Hatley performed in Shakespeare's R&J. The play, which ran at Circuit Playhouse, was a coming-of-age story similar to Dead Poet's Society. Dustin Diez decided to stay in Tennessee too. Dustin, who was the winner of the Louise and Ward Archer Sr. Award for Creativity, is pursuing a graduate degree in medical physics at Vanderbilt. Good luck! Our class also had a desire to teach. Robert Edgecomb, after visiting his girlfriend Sarah Tuttle '03 in the Philippines for a week, moved to Phoenix, where he teaches middle school social studies for Teach for America. TFA is also happy and lucky to have Mia Hood as a teacher in New Orleans. Elizabeth Townsend is also living in the Crescent City with Jeanie McEnery. Elizabeth is teaching at SSA in Mandeville and Joanie is working with a real estate firm with her brother Park '03. And then there was those of us who decided to move to the Capitol. Emily, Costarides, who got to DC early in June, was part of the prestigious Koch Fellowship program, where she interned during the day and attended lectures and symposia at nights. She recently got an apartment in Georgetown and plans to stay in the city for the next year. Jon David Willingham changed plans last minute and moved to the District where he will spend the year at Steptoe &Johnson as an executive assistant. Additionally, Mike Roach gained employment at CAP Analysis, an economics consulting firm that does market research and forecasting for the government. And last but certainly not least, yours truly, C. Kyle Russ spent the summer traveling along Croatia's Dalmatian coast (beautiful!) and along the U.S.'s eastern seaboard. Ckyle recently accepted a position at Qorvis, a public relations and communications consulting firm in the District of Columbia. Got left out of this article? Lemme know what you are up to! Please include your contact info (e-mail and land address). I hope to see many of you soon. Until then, be well, do good, and keep in touch! Fare forward, ckyle rhodes.edu FALL 2004 RHODES 73 IN MEMORIAM '29 Mary Elise Porter Pritchard of Memphis, April 7, 2004. President of the Le Bonheur Club when LeBonheur Children's Medical Center opened in 1952, she was a member of Idlewild Presbyterian Church. The widow of Howard W. Pritchard, she leaves a daughter, a son, four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. '36 Robert M. Metcalf Jr. of Memphis, March 29, 2004. A retired realtor and World War II veteran, he was an elder at Second Presbyterian Church and a former vice president of Memphis Rotary Club and Memphis Board of Realtors. He was a former member of the boards of the Memphis Metropolitan YMCA and YMCA Blue Ridge Assembly and was a member of the Coalition on Revival and First Foundations Inc., the Exchange Club and founder of the Christian Studies Center. The widower of Nancy R Metcalf, he leaves a daughter, two sons, including Robert M. Metcalf III '64, a stepdaughter and two grandchildren. '37 Gracia Elizabeth Allen of Memphis, April 11, 2004. A bookkeeper and employee of Calvary Episcopal Church and Mid-South Bible College, she leaves a niece. '39 Wilburt "Buddy" Chiapella of Memphis, July 18, 2004. An attorney for 65 years, he was a Navy lieutenant commander during World War II. He later served as president of the Tennessee State-Wide Pure Water Association. The widower of Virginia Mae Schlesinger Chiapella, he leaves two sons, three daughters, 14 grandchildren and six great- granchildren. '39 Jane Alvis Clarke of Memphis, Sept. 26, 2003. A member of Grace-St. Luke's Episcopal Church, she was a former president of the West Tennessee Diocese of Episcopal Church Women, president of the Kiwanis Club-Kirby Pines Chapter and a board member of the UT Faculty Women and Bridge Builders. The widow of Dr. Charles L. Clarke, she leaves two daughters, including Joan Clarke Harris '62, a son, seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. '41 Elise Smithwick Miles of Memphis, May 23, 2004. An Altar Guild member at Grace-St. Luke's Episcopal Church, she was also a member of Little Garden Club. She was the widow of George S. Miles. '43 Milton Mathewes Embry of Memphis, April 24, 2004. A former teacher and retired realtor, she was also the president of the Women of St. Mary's Episcopal Cathedral. She was a member of Chapter I of the PEO Sisterhood, Our Home and Garden Club, Memphis Book Club, the board of the Memphis Association of Retarded Citizens and the Million Dollar Club of the Memphis Area Association of Realtors. She leaves her husband, William P. Embry, four daughters, her sister, Harriette Mathewes Beeson '57, five grandchildren and four great- grandchildren. '44 Anne Hord Kenworthy of Memphis, Jan. 2, 2004. A retired executive secretary for Bank of America and the Memphis Association of Children and Adults with Learning Disabilities, she was also a charter member of Thalia Kings Daughters Circle. The widow of William P. Kenworthy, she leaves two daughters, two sons, her sister, Jeanette H. Allen '46, and five grandchildren. '45 Marianna Woodson Cobb of Arlington, VA, Jan. 15, 2004. A consulting telecommunications engineer with Moffet, Larson & Johnson in Falls Church, VA, she worked as a cartographer with the U.S. Geological Survey during World War II. She was a pioneer female broadcast engineer who later helped build, own and operate two radio stations. She leaves her husband, Richard Cobb, and four children. '45 Georgeanne Howard Sayle of Tunica, MS, July 6, 2004. A retired county administrative assistant, she was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and Tunica Presbyterian Church. The widow of Dr. Robert P. Sayle, she leaves three daughters, including Anne Sayle Anthony '73, and a son. '50 Joan Williams of Memphis, April 11, 2004. A successful fiction writer, she won the John P. Marquand First Novel Award and published five novels and one volume of stories. She leaves two sons and two grandchildren. '79 Paul Thomas Parrish of Memphis, April 21, 2004. A founding partner of the law firm Gerrish & McCreary, he later turned his interests toward Calvary Episcopal Church, where he served as board chairman of the Samaritan Counseling Center and was a founding board member of Calvary Place Daycare. He leaves his wife, Gwen Jones Parrish '79, a daughter, his parents, a sister and a brother. '83 Michael R. Hall of Atlanta, March 8, 2004. Director of the M.B.A. program at Clark Atlanta University, he worked in advertising and publications for BellSouth in Atlanta and was a product manager for Monsanto. He leaves his wife, Sabrina Hall, two sons, his parents, three sisters and a brother. '96 Jason T. Pettigrew of Denver, CO, July 25, 2004. An architect and avid mountain hiker, he had completed a four-year course in lay ministry at St. John's Cathedral. He leaves his parents and his sister. Correction Jeanne Carey Dowdle's '45 obituary in the spring 2004 issue of Rhodes omitted the name of her son, Bill Dowdle Jr. Rhodes regrets the error. 74 FALL 2004 RHODES rhodes.edu Honor Roll of Donors 2003-2004 Our students' passion for learning is matched by the passion for giving in our alumni, parents and friends. We express our deepest gratitude to all who sustain Rhodes College with their financial commitments. 2 The Benefactors' Circle The Benefactors' Circle in the Cloister of Palmer Hall includes the names of those who have made historic commitments to Rhodes. Connie and Dunbar Abston Emily P. and Emerson A. Alburty Lucille Hamer '48 and Robert W. Amis '48 Ann Pridgen '47 and Edgar H. Bailey Paul Barret, Jr. '46* Walter D. Bellingrath Carolyn and Winton Blount Corella Allen and Bertram F. Bonner L. Palmer Brown III '30* Neville Frierson Bryan '58 and John H. Bryan '58 Joyce A. Mollerup and Robert H. Buckman Stanley J. and Mertie W. Buckman Valerie S. and Glenn C. Burgess Catherine and A. K. Burrow Christine Barham Caruthers Rachel M. and S. DeWitt Clough Patricia H. and John H. Crabtree, Jr. '57 Brenda and Lester Crain '51 The Day Foundation William B. Dunavant, Jr. Sarah M. and Robert C. Flemister, Jr. '26* The Ford Foundation Allison and Thomas M. Garrott Alfred C. Glassell '11$ Boyce and Cecil M. Gooch The Hassell Family of Clifton, Tennessee Napoleon and Marie Cordes Hill Hazel M. and Ralph C. Hon The Hyde Family Foundations Margaret R. Hyde '34* Dorothy C. King The Kresge Foundation E. H. Little Suzanne and Neely Mallory, Jr. Edward C. Martin, Jr. '41* Virginia and Robert McCallum Harry B. McCoy, Jr. Judith Deavenport '56 and Frank M. Mitchener, Jr. Lillian and Morrie Moss Bruce K. and Harold F. Ohlendor '31 Catherine and Edmund Orgill Joseph and Irene Leatherman Orgill Weetie and Harry Phillips, Sr. Carol W. and James H. Prentiss Linda W. and S. Herbert Rhea Josie and Julian Robertson Martha R. and James D. Robinson Jac C. Ruffin '41* James F. Ruffin J. S. and Jan S. Seidman Leone W. and P. K. Seidman Cindy L. and John C. Sites '74 Jeannette Spann '30* James A. Thomas III '62* Terry E. Westbrook '66 Mary Wilson White' The Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation Dorothy* and Kemmons Wilson Marjorie '39 and Alvin Wunderlich, Jr. '39 In memoriam Honor Roll of Donors 2003-2004 Charles E. Diehl Society David R. McWilliams '78, President The Diehl Society is named for Charles E. Diehl, who served as college president from 1917-49. The Society recognizes individuals who have provided generous financial support for the operation of the College as well as leadership, loyalty and expertise throughout the year. Endowed Circle of the Charles E. Diehl Society To ensure Rhodes' continuing financial strength, unrestricted endowment gifts can be made to fund perpetual memberships in the Charles E. Diehl Society. These unrestricted gifts may be either current or deferred or some combination of the two. They are recognized with membership in the Endowed Circle. Endowed Guarantors Mr. and Mrs. James A. "Thomas, III '62 Members of the Charles E. Diehl Society Members of the Diehl Society provide annual unrestricted gifts. Membership levels in the Society are Philanthropists ($100,000 or more), Guarantors ($50,000 or more), Fellows ($25,000 or more), Benefactors ($15,000 or more), Sustainers ($10,000 or more), and Patrons ($5,000 or more). For those alumni who have not yet celebrated their tenth reunion, membership is offered for a gift of $2,500 or more. Gifts reflecting an increase to a higher level are marked with an asterisk. Guarantors Mr. Robert H. Buckman Ms. Joyce A. Mollerup Mr. and Mrs. James W. O'Brien Fellows Mr. and Mrs. Ronald K. Anderson* '71 (Carmen Cockrill Webb '71) Mr. and Mrs. J. Lester Crain, Jr. '51 Mr. and Mrs. John C. Hugon '77 Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Jerden* '59 Dr. and Mrs. Robert D. McCallum Mr. and Mrs. Phillip H. McNeill Mr. and Mrs. William J. Michaelcheck '69 Mr. and Mrs. Arthur W. Rollins '81 Mr. and Mrs. Spence L. Wilson Mr. and Mrs. Alvin W. Wunderlich, Jr. '39 (Marjorie Jennings '39) Benefactors Mr. and Mrs. Dunbar Abston, Jr. Mr. Bruce G. Allbright, III* '74 Dr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Hyde, III Mrs. Vicki G. Palmer* '75 Mr. John Palmer Dr. and Mrs. S. Herbert Rhea* Mrs. Neal F. Schilling Ms. Wayne Steele Sharp '75 Mr. Malcolm Sharp Dr. and Mrs. William E. Troutt Mr. and Mrs. John M. Wallace, III '75 Two Anonymous Donors Sustainers Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Amis '48 (Lucille W. Hamer '48) Mr. and Mrs. James H. Barton Mr. and Mrs. Jack A. Belz Ms. Mary Beth Blackwell-Chapman Mr. Christopher J. Chapman Mr. and Mrs. J. Bayard Boyle, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John H. Bryan '58 (Neville Frierson '58) Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Carter, Jr.* Ms. Tanya Coleman '89 Mr. and Mrs. Trow Gillespie (Elizabeth Holland Johnston '75) Dr. and Mrs. Ralph S. Hamilton (Barbara Howell '51) Dr. and Mrs. C. Stratton Hill, Jr. '50 Mr. and Mrs. W. Ralph Jones, III '79 Mr. Herbert Linville '50 Dr. and Mrs. Robert R. Llewellyn Mr. and Mrs. David R. McWilliams* '78 Mr. and Mrs. James A. O'Donnell '74 Mr. and Mrs. Michael G. O'Keefe '81 Mr. L. Allen Reynolds '60 Dr. Randall R. Rhea* '77 Mr. and Mrs. William B. Rudner Mr. and Mrs. John C. Sites '74 Mr. and Mrs. W. Hamilton Smythe, III* '52 Mr. and Mrs. James F. Springfield '51 Dr. Terry E. Westbrook* '66 Patrons Dr. and Mrs. J. David Alexander, Jr.* '53 (Catharine Ballard Coleman '56) Mr. and Mrs. Edgar H. Bailey (Ann Elizabeth Pridgen '47) Mrs. Jane J. Barton '57 Ms. Beverly K. Bond Mr. and Mrs. John H. Bryan, III '83 Mrs. Dorothy D. Bryce '47 Mr. and Mrs. C. Williams Butler, III '63 Mr. and Mrs. Bruce E. Campbell, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth F. Clark, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John H. Coats* '75 Ms. Maura Brady Costello '83 Ms. Deborah L. Craddock '80 Mr. Robert E. Craddock, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. James H. Daughdrill, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. W. Michael Doramus '72 Mr. and Mrs. John M. Duff, Jr.* Mr. and Mrs. Joe M. Duncan '63 (Janet Lee Seabrook '73) Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Edwards '79 Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe A. Feild, Jr. '52 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Flexner '76 Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Freeburg* '39 (Catherine LaValle Moore '40) Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Garrott, III Dr. John D. Gladney' '74 Mr. Roy L. Greenlee Mrs. Sara Jane Bryant Greenlee '52 Mr. and Mrs. Daniel B. Hatzenbuehler '71 (Robin Ritter '71) Dr. and Mrs. Billy M. Hightower '49 Ms. Nancy J. Huggins '74 Mr. and Mrs. Deke Iglehart (Jill E. Hortenstine '73) Mrs. Barbara Johnson Dr. Robert M. Johnson, Jr. Ms. Melissa A. Jones Lt Gen Claudia J Kennedy (USA, Ret) '69 Mr. Harold Hadley Mrs. Dorothy Orgill Kirsch Dr. and Mrs. Bruce R. LeForce '81 Mr. and Mrs. James R. Lientz, Jr. Ms. Kim Chickey MacQueen' '83 Mr. Andrew L. MacQueen' '87 Mr. and Mrs. George A. Makris, Jr. '78 Mr. and Mrs. W. Neely Mallory, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John B. Maxwell, Jr. '57 Mr. and Mrs. Claude M. McCord, Jr. (Mary Jack Rich '51) Mr. and Mrs. Michael McDonnell Mr. and Mrs. James E. McGehee, Jr. (Virginia Ballou '46) Mr. and Mrs. John T. McLoughlin (Harriette Cox Hollis '41) Dr. and Mrs. Frank M. Mitchener, Jr. (Judith Crosby Deavenport '56) Mr. and Mrs. Fred Montesi, III (Pamela Gaye Palmer '80) Mr. and Mrs. James P. Moon '67 Ms. Madison A. Moore* '99 Mr. Charles Maurice Agee, III* '99 Mr. and Mrs. J. Ralph Muller, Sr.* Mrs. Katherine Davis Murfree Mr. Matthias B. Murfree, III Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Norfleet Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Orgill, III Mr. G. David Overend '96 Mr. and Mrs. Clinton R. Pearson '39 Mr. and Mrs. James M. Pfohl Mrs. Harry J. Phillips, Sr. Dr. Deborah Nichol Pittman '71 Mr. Arnold H. Pittman '67 Mr. and Mrs. William H. Posey, III '80 Mrs. Laurie Enos Quattlebaum, Jr. '84 Mr. A. Marvin Quattlebaum, Jr. '86 Mrs. Andrea Redmond-Ferguson Mr. William J. Ferguson Mr. and Mrs. W. Reid Sanders Dr. Deborah Owen Schadt' Mr. Stephen C. Schadt' Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Sherman '35 (Rebecca Anne Laughlin '38) Mr. and Mrs. David L. Simpson, Ill '58 (Elizabeth LeMaster '58) Dr. and Mrs. S. Shepherd Tate '39 Mr. James B. Taylor, Jr. '82 Mr. and Mrs. J. Scott Thomas* '86 Mr. and Mrs. Frederick H. Thomas Dr. Edward 0. Uthman '74 Dr. Margaret Uthman Mr. and Mrs. Henry D. Varnell, Jr. (Jeanne Hyde Scott '58) Dr. Mary R. Wardrop '55 Dr. Robert F. Wardrop Mr. and Mrs. David D. Watts '63 Dr. and Mrs. Thomas J. White, Jr.* '39 (Sarah Aydelott Boothe '39) Mr. and Mrs. F. Mark Whittaker Dr. Joy Brown Wiener '52 Dr. Russel L. Wiener '42 Mr. and Mrs. Ernest B. Williams, III (Jane Forbes Wittichen '52) Mrs. Grace M. Williamson '57 Two Anonymous Donors Executive Committee David R. McWilliams '78, President Arthur W. Rollins '81 Bruce G. Allbright, III '74 Frank M. Mitchener, Jr. Wayne Steele Sharp '75 David D. Watts '63 Alvin W. Wunderlich, Jr. '39 Michael McDonnell Spence L. Wilson * Gifts reflecting an increase to a higher level Honor Roll of Donors 2003-2004 I alai...a.. 140 4 The Red & Black Society_ Susan Stribling McDermott '86, President Members of The Red & Black Society provide annual unrestricted gifts. Membership levels in the society, which takes its name from the college seal, are Partners ($3,500 or more), Senior Members ($2,500 or more), Associates ($1,500 or more) and Members ($1,000 or more). For those alumni who have not yet celebrated their 10th reunion, membership is offered for a gift of $500 or more. Gifts reflecting an increase to a higher level are marked with an asterisk. Partners Dr. Nancy D. Donachie Dr. Robert J. Donachie, Jr. Dr. Michelle Long Greene* '91 Dr. Jason T. Greene* '91 Mr. and Mrs. Wayne P. Hall Ms. Susan Stribling McDermott* '86 Mr. Edmund P. McDermott* Mr. and Mrs. Radford M. Yates* Senior Members Dr. Bette J. Ackerman* Dr. Henry A. Kurtz' Mr. and Mrs. W. David Bartholomew* '79 Mr. Frederick M. Blackmon, Jr.* '01 Mr. and Mrs. David D. Blalock, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. B. Snowden Boyle, Jr.* '46 Mr. and Mrs. Louis M. Brown Dr. and Mrs. Raymond E. Bye, Jr.* '66 Mr. J. Dabney Collier, III Mr. and Mrs. John S. Collier '46 (Louise Wilbourn '46) Mr. and Mrs. W. Lipscomb Davis, Jr. Ms. Wilda H. Dodson '74 Mr. William Hudgins Mr. David B. DuBard* '88 Ms. Deirdre Giblin' Dr. and Mrs. Jerald M. Duncan '61 Mr. John D. Durrett, Jr.* Mr. Steven M. Garrett '81 Dr. Sara Helen Goza '80 Mr. and Mrs. John W. Griggs '73 (Clare Chandlee Ralston '74) Dr. Margaret A. Halle Dr. and Mrs. Edward C. Hermann '42 Mr. and Mrs. J. Mark Hollingsworth '73 Mrs. J. Thayer Houts '40 Mr. and Mrs. Walter B. Howell '66 (Nancy Lowry Cox '67) Mr. Still Hunter, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Homer L. Isbell (Betty Jean Wilkinson '45) Mr. and Mrs. Barry D. Johnson '83 Mr. and Mrs. Jon R. King* Mr. Matthew D. Marcotte' '99 Lt. Gen and Mrs. Forrest McCartney (Ruth Edna Griffis '50) Dr. Katherine M. McElroy '77 Mr. James L. McElroy '69 Dr. and Mrs. T. Rothrock Miller '41 Mr. and Mrs. Lucian S. Minor Mrs. Jennifer W. Newman '73 Mr. James E. Newman Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Norris Mr. and Mrs. George D. Overend Ms. Elizabeth R. Pearce '91 Dr. and Mrs. Charles J. Ping* '51 (Bessie Claire Oates '53) Mr. and Mrs. Patrick 0. Proctor' '80 (Allyson Mann Hooper '87) Honor Roll of Donors Ms. Elizabeth Proctor Reichelt '92 Mr. Charles J. Reichelt, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. S. Gwin Robbins, Jr. '68 Mr. and Mrs. C. Winston Sheehan, Jr.* Miss Mary Shewmaker Mr. Rufus W. Shivers '43 Mr. and Mrs. C. Hamilton Sloan Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Storrs* (Betty Lou Wood '53) Dr. and Mrs. Brian F. Sudderth '77 (Reva Lynn Reecer '78) Ms. Joellyn Forrester Sullivan '77 Mr. Thomas D. Sullivan Mr. and Mrs. John R. Tilton '67 Dr. Elizabeth L. Todd '73 Mr. William H. Wilcox Mr. David B. Weatherman* '01 Mrs. Richadean G. Wilson '25 Mr. and Mrs. Steven E. Wynne Mr. Ted Wynne' '65 Associates Mr. and Mrs. Gene D. Adam? '87 Dr. and Mrs. John R. Adams, Jr. '81 (Stephanie Marie Bankston '82) Ms. Susan Shackelford Arnold '89 Mr. E. Alan Arnold '86 Mrs. Anna Kathryn Atkinson* '38 Mr. Bryan T. Bake? '01 Ms. Graziella Dionisio Barton* '87 Mr. Kenneth R. Barton* Ms. Rosemary Hall Batson Mrs. J. Bayard Boyle, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Timothy L. Brake Ms. Carole L. Branyan '67 Ms. Theresa Cloys Carl '75 Mr. Norman A. Carl Mr. Alper M. Cetingok' '97 Mr. and Mrs. R. Alan Chambers' Mr. Chirag Dinesh Chauhan' '98 Dr. and Mrs. Ernest C. Clifton, II '67 (Sandra Jean Cederberg '69) Mr. Hugh William Close Mr. and Mrs. William A. Coolidge, Jr.* Ms. Carla Jane Cox '73 Mrs. Mary Farnham Crawford '78 Mr. Calvin Mew Dr. Martha H. Crenshaw '74 Mr. Henry M. Lee, Jr. '75 Dr. Marcia B. Crosland' Dr. William A. Crosland* Ms. Katherine Buckman Davis* Dr. and Mrs. John W. Evans, Jr.' '71 (Margaret Anne Bailey '73) Mr. and Mrs. Jay M. Ezelle' '95 Mr. S. Stuart Fallen* '99 Dr. and Mrs. Pohoey Fan* Mr. and Mrs. Jere B. Fones '70 Mr. and Mrs. C. Bradford Foster, III '69 (Susan Hoefer '69) Mr. and Mrs. William F. Frazier, Sr. '32 Dr. Russell E. Galloway' '80 Dr. Sherry Galloway' Mr. and Mrs. G. Lee Garrett, Jr. Dr. Karen M. Gehrs' '83 Mr. Corliss D. Givens* '01 Mr. and Ms. William M. Gray' Dr. and Mrs. John R. Haney '69 (Ruth Ann Sadler '70) Mr. and Mrs. Michael C. Henkel '79 (Mary Frances Clevenger '79) Mr. and Mrs. Richard F. Humphreys' Ms. Kristin D. Hurst' '88 Dr. Vernon Hurst* Mr. Joseph Hyrka '79 Col. and Mrs. A. L Vernon Ingram, Sr.* '48 The Rev. Margaret Wood Jones Mr. Frank A. Jones Ms. Beverley T. Krannich' '73 Mr. Larry Krannich' Mr. and Mrs. James R. Lowe Mr. and Ms. John J. Lyons Dr. and Mrs. Cornelius J. Mance* Dr. and Mrs. Steve A. Martin '59 (Hervey B. Doughton '58) Mr. and Mrs. Patrick L. Matlock* '74 Dr. James T. McDonald, Jr.* '51 Mr. Brian S. McGeorge '95 Ms. Susan McGeorge Mr. and Mrs. Jerry McManus (Jane Falls Coburn '63) Mr. John H. McMinn, III '68 Mr. and Mrs. 0. Jon McRae, Jr* Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. McRae' '82 (Janet Leavell Fountain '81) Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. McSorley Mrs. Margaret Ruyl McTier '61 Dr. Vivian D. McWilliams '73 Mr. Joe McWilliams Mr. and Mrs. Philip E. Mischke' '79 (Lisa Carol Gilchrist '81) Mr. and Mrs. Philip P. Mulkey '77 Mr. Hylton S. Neill '39 Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. Noble, III* Mr. and Mrs. Harry P. Ogden '71 Mr. and Mrs. Clyde L. Patton, Jr.* Ms. Dorothy Johnson Pounders '68 Mr. Louis R. Pounders '68 Mr. and Mrs. James E. Ratcliff, Jr. '52 Dr. Morris T. Reagan' '60 Mrs. Melody Hokanson Richey' Mr. Warren A. Richey' Dr. Mary Jane Smalley Roberts '58 Dr. Paul 0. Roberts Ms. Carol G. Rockett '59 Dr. and Mrs. Sherif K. Sakla Ms. Margaret Bane Schatzman '79 Dr. Nathan K. Schatzman Mr. and Mrs. Howard M. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Kirby H. Smith' '81 Dr. William G. Snow' '70 Ms. Sara L. Stainback '98 Dr. Harry L. Swinney '61 Mrs. Beth Kelley Mr. and Mrs. George S. Tallichet Mr. and Mrs. Darrell G. Townsend* Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Trimble, V* '79 Ms. Judith D. Truitt* '88 Mr. J. Alan Truitt* '87 Dr. and Mrs. James E. Turner '56 Mrs. Jenna Goodloe Wade Mr. John P. Wade Dr. Jane Walters '56 Dr. and Mrs. Benjamin F. Ward, Jr. '65 Ms. Lisa Tomlinson Wardlaw' '95 Mr. Newton J. Wardlaw, IV* '94 Ms. Suzanne M. Warner '57 Mr. and Mrs. Andrew W. Watts '85 Mrs. Robert H. Weaver' (Eleanor Brown '53) Dr. and Mrs. Robert M. Wild, Jr. '66 Mr. and Ms. H. Wesley Williams, III '89 Two Anonymous Donors Members Dr. and Mrs. Ned B. Ackerman, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Johnston C. Adams, Jr. Ms. Ann A. Aldrich Mr. George J. Hechtman Mr. and Mrs. John T. Allison Ms. Melissa W. Anderson '97 Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Andrew '42 Mr. Justin L. Ankerman' '97 Mr. Ward Archer, Jr. '74 Mrs. Ann G. Ash Mr. and Mrs. John A. Austin, Jr. '52 (Susan Fulmer '55) Mr. and Mrs. George W. Awsumb '61 (Martha Elizabeth Breytspraak '63) Mrs. Lorraine Babcock' Ms. Olivia DeLoach Baker '67 Mr. R. Dudley Baker, Jr.* '99 Dr. Marie F. Baldree '85 Dr. G. Mitchell Baldree '83 Dr. P. Ross Bandy '72 Ms. Donna Casparian Ms. Carolyn Alison Barnwell* '99 Mr. and Mrs. William P. Battaglia Mr. and Mrs. James H. Beall Ms. Effie Vanzola Bean* '99 Mr. and Mrs. Leo M. Bearman, Jr. (Joy Phyllis Magdovitz '58) Ms. Mary George Beggs '55 Dr. and Mrs. Paul L. Bice Dr. and Ms. Robert R. Birdwell Mr. David W. Blankenship' Mrs. Doris Fenton Blew, Jr. '49 Dr. and Mrs. Joseph C. Boals, III '59 Mr. and Mrs. James D. Bonham '76 Mr. and Mrs. J. Allen Boone, Jr. '71 Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Booth, Jr. '58 Mr. and Mrs. Stephen G. Borleske (Barbara June Lesh '68) Mr. and Mrs. John M. Boswell, III '67 Mr. and Ms. Christian D. Boswell '84 2003-2004 5 ti Dr. and Mrs. Robert I. Bourne, Jr. '54 (Anne Elizabeth Riley '54) Mr. Anthony L. Brady, Jr. '80 Mr. and Mrs. William E. Brennan '50 (Marjorie Grace Leak '49) Dr. and Mrs. Rene E. Bressinck Mr. Chip Brian '94 Dr. and Mrs. Jerry D. Brindley, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. J. Richard Briscoe (Carole June Macklin '53) Mr. and Mrs. Donald M. Briskman Dr. and Mrs. A. Scott Brooks Mr. and Mrs. George S. Brooks, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Colin W. Brown Mrs. Paige L. Brown '77 Mr. Rickman P. Brown '77 Mr. and Mrs. S. Toof Brown, Jr. '47 Dr. Charles W. Burger Mr. Frank C. Byrd, III* '90 Mr. and Mrs. Duke E. Cain '73 (Susan Lyn Smith '72) Dr. and Mrs. Rocco A. Calandruccio Dr. R. Bradford Camp, Jr. '66 Dr. Mary Palmer Campbell '79 Dr. Bill M. Campbell Mr. and Mrs. G. Coble Caperton '73 Ms. Betty Goff Cartwright Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Castiglioni Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence H. Cater '56 (Venita Irene Saunders '56) Mr. William D. Challen Mr. J. Knight Champion, Ill '86 Mr. and Mrs. John S. Cherry, Jr. '63 Mr. and Ms. Jack A. Childers, Jr. '71 Dr. William M. Clark, Jr.* '81 Dr. Elizabeth Talley Clark* Ms. Susan M. Clark '74 Mr. Mark A. Jones Mr. and Mrs. Michael T. Clary '77 Dr. and Mrs. Charles W. Clogston '85 (Elizabeth Ann Gibson '87) Dr. Camille M. Colomb '84 Dr. and Mrs. Michael A. Connaughton Ms. Kerry A. Connors Mr. Stanley Broadway Dr. Lynn W. Conrad '65 The Rev. and Mrs. C. Allen Cooke '53 Mr. and Mrs. Tommy M. Cooley Mr. and Mrs. Michael P. Corey Ms. Elise Ruddick Cornille* '96 Mr. Douglas J. Cornille* '94 Dr. Mary Beth Overton Cotham '74 Mr. John T. Cotham, Jr. '74 Mr. and Mrs. William S. Craddock '40 The Rev. Senter C. Crook '65 Dr. Isaac Joseph McFadden Ms. Wynona G. Crosby '64 Dr. C. Richard Crosby '63 Ms. Diana W. Crump '41 Mr. Charles M. Crump '34 Ms. Catherine S. Cuellar '96 Mr. and Mrs. W. Thomas Cunningham, Jr.* '54 Mrs. Mary W. Dale Dr. and Mrs. Richard L. Daugherty Ms. Bonnie E. Davis* '66 The Hon. and Mrs. William H. Davis, Jr. '68 Mr. and Mrs. Michael R. Deaderick '64 (Blanche Cannon Buckingham '65) Mr. Perry D. Dement* '83 Dr. and Mrs. Dirk Dijkstal Ms. Amy Parratt Donald* '97 Mr. D. Seth Donald* '97 Mr. and Mrs. J. Robert Doody Mr. and Mrs. Devon E. Dooley (Alice Elaine Anthony '39) Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Dortch '58 Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Duckett Dr. and Mrs. Harold C. Dufour, Jr. '87 Ms. Samantha Briden Duke '87 Mr. William Britton Duke II Dr. Ben M. Dukes '58 Rev. Judith Simono Durff '66 Dr. Thomas H. Durff '65 Ms. Jeri J. Durrett Mr. and Mrs. David L. Eades '82 (Evelyn Christine Ray '82) Mr. and Mrs. Bryan M. Eagle '60 Mr. and Mrs. Erroll Eckford, III '81 (Elizabeth Louise Larson '82) Dr. and Mrs. Leroy E. Eckley, III Mr. and Mrs. William H. Edington '67 Dr. Christopher N. Emanuel '92 Dr. Robert England '79 Mrs. Priscilla Hinkle Ennis '68 Mr. Robert J. Ennis Mrs. J. Michael Epps '76 Dr. J. Michael Epps '74 Dr. and Mrs. S. Mitchell Epstein Dr. Jennifer L. Erkulwater '95 Mr. R. Trent Taylor '95 Mr. and Mrs. Joseph M. Evangelisti '79 Mr. Michael J. Faber* '98 Ms. Margaret Rowe Fancher '64 Mr. Douglas G. Fancher '64 Ms. Donna K. Fisher '71 Dr. Patricia M. Flynn '77 Dr. Jerry D. Heston '78 Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Fogelman Mr. and Mrs. Brian E. Foshee Mr. and Mrs. L. Dossett Foster* '64 Dr. Edgar W. Francisco, III '52 Mr. and Mrs. Samuel 0. Franklin Mr. and Ms. Michael R. Frick '80 Mr. and Mrs. Arthur F. Fulmer, Jr. (Nancy Lynne Hill '51) Mr. and Mrs. C. Kevin Garland* '90 (Sherrill E. Cameron '90) Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy C. Gaston Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Geiger* '64 (Eleanor Anne Lawrence '64) Mr. Logan H. Germann '93 Ms. Lela Sanford Whittle Dr. and Mrs. William R. Giddens '51 Dr. and Mrs. Emmel B. Golden, Jr. '72 (Nancy Virginia Jaco '71) Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Gooch, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John C. Gordon Miss Elizabeth T. Graves Mr. and Mrs. A. Ray Greer Mr. and Dr. Robert G. Gunn, III Mr. and Mrs. John H. Guthrie, Jr. '85 Mr. and Mrs. Michael G. Haggerty Mr. and Mrs. Scott S. Hallford '64 Dr. Billy A.F. Hammond Dr. Liliana G. Visscher Dr. Mark L. Hammond '79 Mr. and Mrs. Gerald M. Hampton '79 Mr. Andrew C. Hamric* '99 Mr. and Mrs. Mark D. Harper (Elizabeth Anne Parker '84) Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Harper Ms. Natalie L. Harris '03 Mr. and Ms. Jeffery L. Hart Ms. Kathy L. Hayek '81 Mr. and Mrs. Brian W. Hayhurst '87 Ms. Kathryn B. Hazelrig '03 Mr. and Mrs. S. Russell Headrick '73 (Margaret Monroe Lawson '73) Mrs. Raymond A. Heir '64 Mr. and Mrs. Cyril M. Hendricks '64 Dr. and Mrs. William G. Hendrickson '68 (Susan S. Dillard '69) Mr. and Mrs. Raymond F. Henley '60 (Virginia Kimbrough Baxter '60) Dr. and Mrs. Robert C. Hermann '73 Dr. and Mrs. Dennis A. Higdon (Joanna Coss '66) Dr. Pamela McQuillan Hill '90 Mr. John C. Hill '90 Mr. and Mrs. John S. Hille '69 (Mary Tansill Heslip '69) Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Hock, Jr. Mrs. Allyson J. Hodge '02 Mr. Clare C. Hodge, III '00 Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Hofto Dr. Victoria S. Holland '92 Mr. Michael Low Mr. and Mrs. C. Alton Hollingsworth, Jr. (Elizabeth Shaifer '55) Mr. E. Thompson Holloway, Jr.* Dr. Ann Holmes '85 Mr. William M. Holmes, Jr. '64 Mr. Daniel M. Hougland* '76 Mr. and Mrs. Scott P. Howard '73 Mr. and Mrs. R. Davis Howe, Jr. '83 (Amy Catherine Farley '83) Dr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Huff '57 (Anne Bean Hixon '57) Ms. Susan Logan Huffman '83 Mr. John R. Huffman Dr. and Mrs. Ronald D. Hughes Mr. Brian S. Hummer Mr. Still Hunter, III* '99 Mrs. Louise Wade Hunter* '54 Mr. David Hunter of Montlaw* '85 Mrs. Richard W. Hussey Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Hussey, Jr. (Eva Mae Duncan '59) Dr. Edmond C. Hutchinson '36 Mrs. Cameron Bryant Icard '76 Mr. Tom Icard Dr. and Mrs. Michael L. Isaacson '73 Dr. and Mrs. John Jacobus* '62 (Kathryn E. Smallwood '62) Mr. Robert A. Jetmundsen '77 Dr. Emily Mills Johnson '83 Dr. and Mrs. Warren T. Johnson, Jr. (Erin Stukey '73) Dr. and Ms. Archibald C. Johnston '67 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Jones '73 Ms. Vickie Hardy Jones '93 Mr. Stephen P. Jones Mr. Tsutomu Kawazoe '63 Mr. and Mrs. jack B. Kelly, Jr. '34 (Beverly Boothe '37) Ms. Robin Meredith Kelly '89 Dr. Keith E. Kelly '88 Mr. and Mrs. John L. Kennedy '69 (Eleanor Rosson '69) Ms. Daney D. Kepple Mrs. Cornelia H. Kimbrough '36 Dr. and Mrs. Lowrey P. King '77 Dr. and Mrs. Robert D. Kirkpatrick Ms. Lynn Stapleton Koch* '83 Ms. Ann-Tyler Chote Konradi* '94 Mr. Brian A. Konradi* '94 Mr. Gerald A. Koonce* '73 Ms. Myrna Thomas* Ms. Patricia A. Lane '72 Ms. Tracee Bennett Mr. and Mrs. William S. Lawrence (Patricia Lynn Weaver '50) Mr. and Mrs. R. Eason Leake Ms. Nancy H. Lenox '71 Dr. and Mrs. Robert H. Lewis, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. David E. Lindsey '63 (Jeanie Hay Heltzel '65) Ms. Judith W. Lineback* Dr. Donald J. Lineback* Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth M. Lloyd Dr. and Mrs. Peter C. Loux Dr. and Mrs. Don Lum Mr. Richard S. Lum '00 Mr. and Mrs. John W. Lundeen Mr. and Mrs. Walter E. Lydick, Jr. '68 Dr. and Mrs. Richard H. Lyerly Mr. Joel R. Lyons '85 Ms. Padma Ayyagari Lyons Mrs. Leonard F. Mahoney, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. H. Grady Marlow, Ill '72 Mr. Christopher L. Marlowe* Ms. Elizabeth Bruce Martin '80 Mr. Douglas F. Martin Ms. Claire Campbell Massey* '66 Ms. Margaret C. Massey '86 Mr. James W. Massey '83 Ms. Anne B. Mathes* '76 Mr. D. Blaik Mathews '90 Mr. and Mrs. Michael L. Matthews* '84 Ms. Roberta B. Matthews Mr. Paul A. Matthews Mr. and Mrs. W. Neal McAtee '85 (Amy Lynne Hazlewood '86) Dr. and Mrs. James G. McClure '46 Mr. and Mrs. Michael R. McConkey '79 Mr. and Mrs. Donnell J. McCormack, Jr. '74 Mr. Alexander J. McKelway '86 Mrs. Elise McDaniel McKnight '32 Dr. and Mrs. Frank S. McKnight '49 (Patricia Caldwell '49) Ms. Susan Neal McWhirter '75 Mr. N. P. McWhirter, III '73 Mr. and Mrs. Augustine Meaher, III Ms. Katherine Bullard Melhorn* '77 Dr. and Mrs. Stevens D. Melton '77 Mr. and Mrs. Douglas W. Menz '82 Mr. and Mrs. Erich W. Merrill (Irma Waddell '47) Dr. Andrew H. Miller '46 Mr. and Ms. William A. Miller Mr. and Mrs. Ken Miller, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Albert R. Miller Dr. and Mrs. Henry P. Mobley, Jr. '39 Mr. Matthew P. Monaco* '99 Ms. Carey Moore Mr. Richard C. Moore, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Charles V. Moore, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Moore Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Morehead '82 (Catherine Wilkerson Harrell '82) Dr. and Mrs. William E. Morehead (Patricia Ann Riegle '54) Mr. and Mrs. J. Thomas Morgan, III Mr. David M. Morris '54 Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Morris, II '68 Dr. Robert A. Murphy '79 Honor Roll of Donors 2003-2004 Terry E. Westbrook '66, President The Rhodes Heritage Society recognizes individuals who have ensured the future plans including will provisions, charitable gift annuities, charitable remainder tru The Rhodes Heritage Society strength of the college by making Rhodes sts, and life insurance policies. Mr. Craig W. Murray* Dr. Pamela D. Murray '83 Mr. and Mrs. G. Evans Myrick (Shirley Ann Melton '55) Dr. and Mrs. Julian C. Nall '43 Mr. Joseph J. Nash '81 Dr. and Mrs. John C. Neill Mr. and Mrs. David G. Newbern (Linda Adair Baird '82) Ms. Sarah Home Nolan '72 Ms. Laura McRae O'Neill '97 Mr. Brian P. O'Neill '94 Dr. and Mrs. Guy R. Orangio Mr. and Mrs. Scott M. Owen '82 (Deanne Louise Ellison '83) Ms. Jean Wall Owens Mr. Thomas E. Owens Dr. D. Davidson Oxley '87 Mr. and Mrs. James L. Pannell Ms. Charlotte Patton Parks '83 Mr. Paul N. Parks, Jr. '83 Mr. and Mrs. P. Thomas Parrish '79 (Gwen Jones '79) Dr. and Ms. Charles W. Parrott '83 Mrs. Joseph M. Patten, Jr. '39 Mr. and Mrs. Peter L. Paul, III Dr. Pedie Pedersen '70 Ms. Suzanne Gonce Perlis '90 Mr. David W. Perlis '90 Mr. Charles Perry '40 Mr. and Mrs. J. Russell Perry '33 (Evelyn Hester '36) Mr. Timothy B. Perry Mr. and Mrs. James D. Petersen '60 Dr. and Mrs. Joe B. Pevahouse '78 Rev. Jamie Bibee Pharr '75 Mr. Steve M. Pharr Dr. and Mrs. Fred H. Piper '80 (Jill Kendall Johnson '80) Mr. and Mrs. John Alden Pond, Sr. '40 (Nancy A. Wood '40) Ms. Rosemary W. Potter '70 Mr. R. Michael Potter Dr. and Mrs. David J. Power Mr. and Mrs. James E. Powers* (Viola Anne Deavours '54) Mrs. Herbert L. Prange '39 Mr. and Mrs. John M. Presley '82 Mr. James E. Prickett Mrs. Joanna Smith Priester '88 Dr. W. Bradford Priester '86 Mrs. Morton D. Prouty, Jr. Dr. K. C. Ptomey, Jr.* '64 The Rev. Carol Tate* Mrs. Mary L. Puckett '74 Mr. Richard M. Puckett Mr. and Mrs. Wayne W. Pyeatt Mr. and Mrs. John H. Quinn, Jr. '58 Mr. and Mrs. James G. Ramsey '76 Dr. and Mrs. John E. Rawson (Mary Asbury Crouch '60) Mr. and Mrs. James A. Ray (Charlotte Ann Lebo '67) Ms. Hallman Graves Ray '00 Mr. Michael R. Ray '97 Ms. Margaret A. Read* '79 Mr. and Mrs. Patrick A. Reardon Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Reed* (Mary Frances Forbes '54) Mr. Eugene C. Reynolds '43 Dr. and Mrs. Robert P. Richardson, Jr. '51 (Patricia Anne Cooper '51) Mr. and Mrs. James G. Riggan, Jr. '68 Dr. and Mrs. James T. Robertson '53 Mr. Brittain A. Rogers, IV* '99 Ms. Christine E. Rolon* '83 Mr. Terry R. Rolon* Ms. Debbi Fields Rose Mr. Michael D. Rose Ms. Carol Lee Royer '78 Mr. Joe Royer Mr. and Mrs. F. Michael Royer Dr. and Mrs. Robert M. Ruch Ms. Diane Rudner Mrs. Joane Brown Rushing* '54 Mr. and Mrs. George M. Russell '56 Dr. Helen Fletcher Sams Dr. Ferrol A. Sams, Jr. Mr. Tyler H. Sanders '03 Mr. Eric L. Santiago '03 Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sartwell, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Patrick E. Schaefer (Mary Lee Cannon '86) Ms. Judith J. Scherer Dr. Amy Schmidt Mr. and Mrs. Louis A. Schmitt, Jr.* Dr. Riddell Walcott Scott '95 Mr. H. Benjamin Scott, Jr. '94 Ms. Samantha J. Scott '03 Mr. and Mrs. Conrad L. Seabrook (L. Josephine Gilfillan '42) Mr. and Mrs. L. Blair Shame' '75 Mr. and Mrs. C. Edward Sharp, Jr. '72 (Ann Gotschall '72) Mrs. Laura S. Shields* Dr. Martha H. Silver '76 Dr. David G. Silver Mr. Timothy D. Davis '87 Ms. Lisa B. Singer Mr. J. Matthew Skvarla* '99 Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey A. Smith, Jr. '63 Mrs. and Mrs. James D. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Roger H. Smith Ms. Kathleen Fleece Smoke '91 Mr. Jonathan P. Smoke '91 Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Snowden (Florence Swepston '47) Mr. Stephen C. Spinks '91 Ms. Allison Paige Spinks Dr. and Mrs. John C. Stepan '63 Dr. and Mrs. Thomas N. Sterns Ms. Elizabeth K. Stinson '97 Dr. Edwin W. Stock, Jr.* Dr. Burton N. Stodghill '92 Mr. and Mrs. John W. Stokes, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Sidney J. Strickland, III* '68 (Carol Ann Colclough '68) Mr. and Ms. Casey M. Stuart Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Sullivan, III '53 Mr. and Mrs. Brian R. Sullivan Mrs. Elizabeth Collins Swaim '53 Mr. and Mrs. H. William Swanstrom Mr. and Mrs. John J. Sweeney, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. William F. Symes '45 (Gertrude Eugenia Dickson '45) Dr. Mary Rebecca Moore Tait '83 Mr. David L. Tait Dr. Malissa G. Talbert '83 Mr. Timothy M. Talbert Mr. and Mrs. Phillips R. Tarver* Mr. and Ms. David L. Taub (Pamela Leigh Bishop '92) Ms. Leslie Copeland Taylor* '76 Mr. and Mrs. L. Barry Teague Mr. Eric M. Teal '91 Ms. Amy Morris Teal Dr. Paige W. Tench '76 Dr. and Mrs. Paul B. Thames Mr. Frank B. Thacher, III '01 Dr. and Mrs. John H. Thomas, III Mr. John J. Thomason* '51 Dr. Sally P. Thomason* Ms. Charlotte E. Thompson '81 Mr. Martinus Albert Hup Mr. and Mrs. Dennis P. Tolivar, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. J.D. Trimble, Jr. '52 Mr. and Mrs. Claude B. Trusty '56 Mr. Norfleet R. Turner Mr. and Mrs. William C. Tyler, Sr. Mr. Sidney R. Vise* Mr. J. Malcolm Waddell Dr. Suzanne Bruce Mr. and Mrs. J. Robert Walker, III* (Emily How Holloway '64) Dr. and Mrs. Robert R. Waller Mr. and Mrs. C. Lamar Wallis (Mary Elizabeth Cooper '37) Dr. Patricia L. Walls Ms. Hallie McNeill Ward* Ms. Lynn Morrow Ward '66 Dr. Julia M. Watkins '83 Dr. W. Bryan Watkins Mr. and Mrs. Samuel E. Watson '49 (Mary Jane King '49) Mrs. P. McLauren Watson '38 Dr. and Mrs. Philip J. Weaver* Ms. Rebecca Wynn Weiler '69 Mr. Richard E. Weiler Dr. and Mrs. A. B. Weir, III '71 Mr. and Mrs. Walker L. Wellford, III '59 (Diane McMillan '59) Dr. W. Allen Wesche* '88 Ms. Tracy L. Wesche* Mr. Hunter 0. West '95 Mr. and Mrs. Howard C. Westmoreland (Erwin Ann Hansch '57) Mrs. Lynda Lipscomb Wexler '60 Mr. Lewis P. Wexler Ms. Caroline Adams Wildman* '98 Mr. Joseph Andrew Wildman* '97 Mr. and Mrs. Kevin H. Williams '89 Ms. Elizabeth C. Williams* '64 Ms. Grace G. Williams '03 Mr. and Mrs. John M. Williams Mrs. John M. Wilson '36 Mr. Zachary M. Wilson, III* '02 Mr. and Mrs. David J. Wottle Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Wright Dr. Linda K. Yates '69 Mr. and Mrs. Paul B. Young, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. David M. Ziebarth Two Anonymous Donors Executive Committee Susan Stribling McDermott '86, President Melissa Webb Anderson '97 Carolyn Crenshaw Carl '79 Ralph A. Carl '75 William E. Edington '67 Claiborne H. Ferguson '92 Barry D. Johnson '83 Brian P. O'Neill '94 Laura Bishop O'Neill '97 Claude B. Trusty '56 Hunter 0. West '95 * Gifts reflecting an increase to a higher level In Memoriam a direct beneficiary of a variety of estate Dr. and Mrs. Robert K. Armstrong '37 (Betty Ireys Hunt '38) Ms. Ruth Foster Arnold '77 Mrs. Anna Kathryn Atkinson '38 Mr. John T. Atkinson '70 Mr. John A. Austin, Jr. '52 Mr. and Mrs. Edgar H. Bailey (Ann Elizabeth Pridgen '47) Ms. Cynthia Brown Bair '83 Mr. Frank G. Barton, III '78 Mr. and Mrs. James H. Beall Ms. Martha J. Becker Prof. Ann Bell '41 Mr. Leo Berg '78 Mr. Charles P. Boone Mr. Robert L. Booth, Jr. '58 Mr. and Mrs. John McKay Boswell, Jr. '38 Mr. and Mrs. E. Denby Brandon, Jr. '50 (Helen Holt Deupree '51) Mrs. Mary Jane Howard Brandon '66 Mr. David E. Brock '80 Mrs. Joseph H. Brock Dr. L. Palmer Brown. '30 Mr. C. Williams Butler, III '63 Mr. and Mrs. Duke E. Cain '73 (Susan Lyn Smith '72) Honor Roll of Donors 2003-2004 Ms. Anne S. Caldwell '51 Mr. and Mrs. Bruce E. Campbell, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Ewing Caruthers, Jr. '39 (Mary Jane Ogden '48) Ms. Lorna Lyell Chain '87 Mr. William D. Challen Mr. Tom S. Charlton '78 Mr. and Mrs. Anthony J. Chivetta Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth E. Clark, Jr. Mrs. Lucy Connell Clarke '39 Mr. James N. Clay, III '51 Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Cobb, Jr. '44 Mr. Oliver P. Cobb, III '76 Mr. and Mrs. Stephen H. Cole '68 Mr. and Mrs. William 0. Coley, Jr. '50 Mr. and Mrs. John S. Collier '46 (Louise Wilbourn '46) Mr. and Mrs. Kevin E. Collins '81 (Joan Claire Markham '81) Mr. and Mrs. H. Brent Cooke, IV '83 Mr. Pete Cornish '62 Ms. Elisabeth Scott Crady '74 Mr. and Mrs. Henry R. Crais '58 Dr. Cecil G. Culverhouse '54 Dr. and Mrs. James H. Daughdrill, Jr. The Hon. and Mrs. William H. Davis, Jr. '68 Mr. Edward A. de Villafranca '83 Ms. Wilda Henderson Dodson '74 Dr. F. Elaine Donelson '59 Mr. and Mrs. Lewis R. Donelson '38 Mr. and Mrs. Edward G. Dudley, III '84 (Mary Lynn Myrick '82) Dr. William B. Dunavant, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Joe M. Duncan '63 (Janet Lee Seabrook '73) The Rev. Judith Simono Durff '66 Dr. Thomas H. Durff '65 Mr. Robert C. Eckert Mr. and Mrs. Erroll Eckford, III '81 (Elizabeth Louise Larson '82) Mr. Michael A. Edwards '79 Dr. Kurt Elias '40 Ms. Barbara Swaim Ensrud '61 Dr. and Mrs. James G. Finley '62 (Mary Lou Carwile '64) Dr. and Mrs. Robert M. Ford, Jr. '82 (Susan Demaris Bailey '84) Mr. L. Dossett Foster '64 Mr. W. Aaron Foster '67 Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Freeburg '39 (Catherine LaValle Moore '40) Mr. and Mrs. James L. Fri, Jr. Mr. Frank A. Frisch '77 Mrs. Jennie Puryear Gardner, Jr. '31 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Garrott, III Dr. Margaret J. Gatz '66 Mrs. Willis Gayle Mr. Henry Goodrich Capt. and Mrs. Charles A. Guthrie '42 (Justine Klyce '42) Dr. and Mrs. Ralph S. Hamilton (Barbara Howell '51) Dr. Robert M. Haugh '73 Dr. Martha Schulz Hendrick-Smith '69 Mr. Samuel C. Highsmith '67 Mr. Allen H. Hilzheim '43 Mr. Cyril E. Hollingsworth, Jr. '64 Mrs. Frances Arthur Holmes '31 Mr. William M. Holmes, Jr. '64 Mr. and Mrs. Jason P. Hood '87 Dr. Marcus C. Houston '70 Mrs. J. Thayer Houts '40 Ms. Amy Donaho Howell '86 Ms. Nancy J. Huggins '74 Dr. William B. Hulett '69 Mrs. Catherine Howe Hunt '81 Mr. and Mrs. Mark N. Hurley '82 (Elizabeth Arnold Sheppard '84) Mr. and Mrs. Craig A. Ingvalson '81 Mr. T. Francis Jackson, III '62 Ms. Paula S. Jacobson Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Jerden '59 Mr. Robert A. Jetmundsen '77 Mrs. Sarah Josephine Johnson Dr. Richard C. Kamm, Jr. '96 Dr. Thomas R. Kepple, Jr. Ms. Louise Lyell Lampton '88 Ms. Patricia A. Lane '72 Mr. and Mrs. William S. Lawrence (Patricia Lynn Weaver '50) Dr. Walter S. Lazenby, Jr. '51 Ms. Nancy H. Lenox '71 Dr. V. Markham Lester '73 Dr. Donald J. Lineback Mr. Herbert Linville '50 Mr. and Mrs. Shawn Livesay Dr. Jerry L. Lovelace, Jr. '86 Mrs. W. Paul Luttrell Mr. Andrew L. MacQueen '87 Ms. Kim Chickey MacQueen '83 Mr. W. Neely Mallory, Jr. Mrs. June Beasley Mann '51 Dr. H. Grady Marlow, III '72 Mr. Patrick L. Matlock '74 Mrs. Radcliff Maumenee '36 Mrs. Ethel Taylor Maxwell '36 Mrs. Betty Canon McArthur '49 Dr. and Mrs. Robert D. McCallum Ms. Carolyn Bruninga McGough '68 Rev. William H. McLean '57 Mr. and Mrs. John T. McLoughlin (Harriette Cox Hollis '41) Mrs. Margaret Ruyl McTier '61 Mr. N. P. McWhirrer, III '73 Ms. Susan Neal McWhirter '75 Mr. David R. McWilliams '78 Dr. Robert C. Meacham '42 Ms. Katharine Miller Meacham '43 Dr. Stevens D. Melton '77 Mr. and Mrs. Philip E. Mischke '79 (Lisa Carol Gilchrist '81) Dr. Virginia Roberson Mitchell '60 Dr. and Mrs. Frank M. Mitchener, Jr. (Judith Crosby Deavenport '56) Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Morehead '82 (Catherine Wilkerson Harrell '82) Miss Rosanna Morris '41 Dr. and Mrs. C. Eric Mount, Jr. '57 (Thelma Truly Brown '59) Mr. Philip P. Mulkey '77 Mr. and Mrs. ThomasF. Mullady '79 (Cynthia Edith Said '79) Ms. Patricia M. Neal '78 Mr. Rick W. Neal '87 Mr. Louis T. Nicholas '34 Mr. Frank M. Norfleet Dr. and Mrs. T. Russell Nunan Mrs. Alice Cockroft Oates '71 Mr. and Mrs. Harry P. Ogden '71 Mr. and Mrs. Michael G. O'Keefe '81 Mr. Joseph Orgill, Ill Dr. H. Kirkland Osoinach '55 Major John K. Osoinach '69 Ms. Susan Head Osoinach '67 Mr. and Mrs. George D. Overend Mr. G. David Overend '96 Mr. Richard A. Park '59 Mr. Michael D. Pearigen '77 Mrs. Clinton R. Pearson Mr. and Mrs. Russell F. Peete, Jr. '41 Mr. and Mrs. J. Russell Perry '33 (Evelyn Hester '36) Mr. Amel C. Peterson, Jr. '54 Dr. John R. Pharis '67 Ms. Pamela A. Portwood '78 Ms. Rosemary Wood Potter '70 Mr. Patrick 0. Proctor '80 Mr. and Mrs. Wayne W. Pyeatt Mr. Christopher C. Ray '88 Dr. and Mrs. Robert G. Reaves (Sally Ann McConnell '47) Mr. and Mrs. Donald J. Reber Mr. J. William Reddoch, III '84 Rev. Charie Bowman Reid '65 Mr. and Mrs. William W. Reid, Jr. Mr. David Reinmund '82 Mrs. Marie Eason Reveley-Harris Dr. and Mrs. S. Herbert Rhea Dr. Mary Jane Smalley Roberts Dr. Paul 0. Roberts Dr. and Mrs. James T. Robertson '53 Mrs. James D. Robinson Mr. and Mrs. Arthur W. Rollins '81 Mr. Peter A. Rooney '84 Ms. Wendy Tallent Rotter '87 Mr. William B. Rudner Mrs. Marjorie M. Russell and Mrs. Theo Matthews Hayden Mr. Michael H. Sadler '72 Mr. H. Stanford Sanders '63 Rev. C. V. Scarborough, Jr. '67 Mr. and Mrs. Peter Schutt, Jr. (Leslie Keen Drake '83) Mr. and Mrs. Conrad L. Seabrook (L. Josephine Gilfillan '42) Mr. John R. Shanley '84 Mr. and Mrs. C. Edward Sharp, Jr. '72 (Ann Gotschall '72) Mrs. Nelly Galloway Shearer '60 Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Sherman '35 (Rebecca Anne Laughlin '38) Mr. and Mrs. John E. Skvarla Mr. J. Aubrey Smith '34 Mr. and Mrs. W. Hamilton Smythe, III '52 (Katherine Powell Hinds '53) Mrs. Louise Southard Mr. James F. Springfield '51 Rev. Robert H. Stanbery '49 Mr. B. P. Stephens Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Stewart '53 Mr. and Mrs. Ray U. Tanner '54 (Margaret Kathryn Whitsitt '57) Dr. J. Charles Taylor '74 Mr. Mark W. Taylor '80 Mr. Thomas P. Teasley '69 Mr. Loyd C. Templeton, Jr. '56 Ms. Martha L. Thomas Mr. and Mrs. John J. Thomason '51 Dr. and Mrs. James H. Thompson '55 Mr. Robert T. Threlkeld '82 Mr. Richard A. Trippeer, Jr. Mr. Claude B. Trusty '56 Dr. Frank L. Turner, Jr. '50 Dr. Ralph V. Turner '57 Dr. Rann L. Vaulx '60 Dr. Benjamin F. Ward, Jr. '65 Dr. Mary Rodriguez Wardrop '55 Mr. David D. Watts '63 Mrs. G. Lee Weaver Mr. H. Reiter Webb, Jr. '52 Ms. Rebecca Wynn Weiler '69 Dr. Terry E. Westbrook '66 Mrs. Erwin Hansch Westmoreland '57 Mr. Lewis P. Wexler Mrs. Lynda Lipscomb Wexler '60 Dr. and Mrs. Thomas J. White, Jr. '39 (Sarah Aydelott Boothe '39) Dr. and Mrs. Robert M. Wild, Jr. '66 Dr. Sue Legge Wilkie Mr. and Mrs. James F. Williamson, Jr. '68 (Margaret Lee Early '68) Mr. and Mrs. Spence L. Wilson Ms. Eileen Ruffin Wood '89 Mr. and Mrs. H. Trent Wood '48 Dr. Franklin M. Wright Mr. and Mrs. Alvin W. Wunderlich, Jr. '39 (Marjorie Jennings '39) Ms. Jocelyn Dan Wurzburg '62 Mr. Ron A. Yarbrough In Memoriam Honor Roll of Donors 2003-2004 8 Walter D. Bellingrath Society The Walter D. Bellingrath Society was established to recognize donors whose concern for the future financial strength of Rhodes has led them to make historic deferred gifts to the college. Mr. Joseph W. Blount '79 Dr. C. Stratton Hill '50 Dr. Paul S. Mostert '50 Mr. Robert H. Buckman and Mrs. Dorothy Orgill Kirsch Mr. and Mrs. James A. Thomas, III '62 Ms. Joyce A. Mollerup Mr. John B. Maxwell, Jr. '57 In Memoriam Capital Gifts, Deferred Gifts and Gifts to the Endowment Rhodes gratefully acknowledge, ( he lollowing alumni and friend, who made capital gifts, deferred gifts or gifts to build Rhodes' permanent endowment this year. $50,000 and up Mrs. Elizabeth H. Amis '52 Mr. Marshall Amis Mr. and Mrs. Winton M. Blount Mr. Dan W. Davis Mrs. Lode Grant Ms. Martha Turley Jack Mr. Alan J. Lute '59 Dr. and Mrs. S. Herbert Rhea Mr. and Mrs. John C. Sites '74 Mrs. Frances T. Tigret Mrs. Aileen B. Wiggle One Anonymous Donor S 10,000 - 549,999 Dr. and Mrs. Robert I. Bourne, Jr. '54 (Anne Elizabeth Riley '54) Dr. J. Rodney Feild '56 Dr. Edgar W. Francisco, III '52 Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Henley Mr. and Mrs. William H. Jacoway '62 Mrs. Walk C. Jones, III '59 Mrs. Marie Storn Klinke '51 Ms. Elizabeth Lancaster '73 Mr. and Mrs. James A. O'Donnell '74 Mr. G. David Overend '96 and The Overend Foundation, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Clark W. Rabb Mrs. Cornelia Wolfe $1,000-$9,999 Dr. Louise Rutkowski Allen '77 Dr. Ray M. Allen, Jr. Ms. Donna Lorraine Barlett '80 Ms. Theresa Cloys Carl '75 Mr. Norman A. Carl Dr. Sallie B. Clark '76 Mr. Robert L. Puckett Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm Clarke, Jr. Ms. Mary Donaldson Mr. and Mrs. Mark C. Doramus '80 Dr. and Mrs. James G. Finley '62 (Mary Lou Carwile '64) Dr. John D. Gladney '74 Mr. and Mrs. Keith J. Henkel '83 (Linda Sue Somerville '83) Mr. and Mrs. Michael C. Henkel '79 (Mary Frances Clevenger '79) Honor Roll of Donors Ms. Michelle M. Henkel Dr. Timothy J. Henkel Mr. and Mrs. Cyril E. Hollingsworth, Jr. '64 Mrs. M. C. Holmes '31 Mr. and Mrs. Walter B. Howell '66 (Nancy Lowry Cox '67) Ms. Susan Logan Huffman '83 Mr. John R. Huffman Ms. Kristin D. Hurst '88 Dr. Vernon Hurst Mr. and Mrs. Barry D. Johnson '83 Mrs. Marshall P. Jones '59 Mrs. Elizabeth Fogg Lane Dr. Katherine M. McElroy '77 Mr. James L. McElroy '69 Mr. John H. McMinn, III '68 Mrs. Margaret Ruyl McTier '61 Mr. and Mrs. Jere B. Nash, Jr. '50 (Margaret Anna Boisen '50) Mrs. Fred W. Neal Dr. Deborah Nichol Pittman '71 Mr. Arnold H. Pittman '67 Mrs. Mary Louise Pritchard '51 Dr. and Mrs. S. Herbert Rhea Mr. and Mrs. Edwin D. Richmond, III Mr. Lynn C. Shields '73 Ms. Joellyn Forrester Sullivan '77 Mr. Thomas D. Sullivan Dr. Harry L. Swinney '61 Mrs. Beth Kelley Dr. and Mrs. William F. Symes '45 (Gertrude Eugenia Dickson '45) Mr. and Mrs. Loyd C. Templeton, Jr. '56 (Margaret B. Ross '56) Dr. and Mrs. Robert R. Waller Mr. and Mrs. James C. Williamson '50 (Jacqueline Newman '52) Mr. and Mrs. Spence L. Wilson Mr. William C. Wilson '61 Dr. Franklin M. Wright Up to $1,000 Mr. and Mrs. Dunbar Abston, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Dale C. Allen Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Bailey Ms. Wilma S. Beaty Peggy Blackmon Ms. Anne Braden Blasdel '99 Mr. W. Todd Blasdel '99 Mr. Bill Blaylock Ms. Dorothy C. Brownyard Mr. G.S. Clark Burrow '00 Ms. Rebecca Byrd C. Lee Cagle Dr. and Mrs. Edmund J. Campion Mr. Thomas H. Castelli '96 Prof. A. Victor Coonin Ms. Janice E. Cornaghie Mr. and Mrs. James G. Couch '65 (Linda Sue Davis '65) Dr. Cecil G. Culverhouse '54 Deborah E. Cutler Mr. Timothy D. Davis '87 Ms. Lisa B. Singer Mr. and Mrs. Thom E. Eckles Ms. Diane E. Faires '99 Ms. Anne Herbers Farris '78 Mr. Brodney Fitzgerald Mr. Baylor H. Fulton Mr. and Mrs. Ronald E. Gardner Ms. Elizabeth E. Gates Mrs. James F. George (Janet Patrice Peery '76) Ms. Laurea C. Glusman '97 Dr. and Mrs. Ronald H. Griffeth Mr. and Ms. Chris Hauer Ms. Cynthia J. Hawes '63 Dr. John H. Haynes, III Ms. Allison Lasiter Hester '98 Mr. and Mrs. Horace Hughes, Jr. Mrs. Catherine M. Iskander '83 Mr. T. Francis Jackson, III '62 Ms. Sue Anne Jenkerson '73 Mr. Robert A. Jetmundsen '77 Dr. W. Thomas Jolly '52 Mr. and Mrs. William Carrington Jones Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Keavy Mr. and Mrs. Jimmie B. Keel Mr. Jeremy Kelton Ms. Katherine Tart Kibler '98 Dr. W. Scott Kibler '98 Mr. and Mrs. William J. Landers Mrs. Ann W. Langston Prof. Michael J. LaRosa Ms. Nancy H. Lenox '71 Ms. Sonia R. Lewis Dr. Darlene M. Loprete Mr. John McCants, Jr. Mrs. Crawford McDonald (Frances Alford '45) Ms. Amy Anthony McQueen '98 Mr. Keith A. Miller Mrs. Jerry W. Miller Mr. Edward G. Moore Ms. Madison A. Moore '99 Mr. Charles Maurice Agee, Ill '99 Mr. and Mrs. S. Meade Moore, III Mr. and Mrs. Richard Moyers Dr. Gail S. Murray Dr. Joe M. Hawes Ms. Mary Mooney Myers '77 Mr. and Mrs. William T. Myers Mr. Joseph J. Nash '81 Ms. Helen W. Norman Mr. Fred S. Norman Dr. Brendan M. O'Sullivan Dr. and Mrs. Robert G. Patterson (Emma Jane McAfee '50) Ms. Katherine Goodloe Peatross '93 Mr. Scott B. Peatross '92 Mrs. Douglas Pillow Mr. Dwain C. Pruitt Judge Ann L. Pugh Mrs. Melody Hokanson Richey Mr. Warren A. Richey Mr. John Rimoldi Ms. Judith Rutschman Ms. Mary Jane Seymour Ms. S. Jeanette Sims '76 Mr. and Mrs. Philip S. Smith Dr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Strong '54 (Peggy Louise Crocker '55) Dr. and Mrs. Scott B. Sutherland '75 (Mary Ann Bradley '76) Mr. and Mrs. Charles N. Thomas Dr. and Mrs. William E. Troutt The Rev. Richard C. Tumilty Dr. and Mrs. James M. Vest Mr. Robert M.T. Walker '99 Dr. and Mrs. Christian J. Wold '00 Mr. Joseph Wollas Prof. Richard C. Wood '48 One Anonymous Donor In Memoriam 2003-2004 Parent Donors Rhodes appreciates the generosity of these parents and grandparents who made gifts to Rhodes during this year. Gifts are recognized in the Charles E. Diehl Society ($5,000 or more), The Red & Black Society ($1,000-$4,999), the Dean's Society ($750-$999), the Cloister Society ($5004749), the Tower Society ($250-$499), the Loyalty Club ($100-$249) and Donors (up to $100). Gifts reflecting an increase to a higher level are marked with an asterisk. Restricted gifts include capital gifts, gifts for specific programs and gifts to the endowment. Charles E. Diehl Society Sustainers Ms. Mary Beth Blackwell-Chapman Mr. Christopher J. Chapman Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Carter, Jr.* Charles E. Diehl Society Patrons Mr. and Mrs. John M. Duff, Jr.* Ms. Melissa A. Jones Mr. and Mrs. J. Ralph Muller, Sr.* Mr. and Mrs. James M. Pfohl Mrs. Andrea Redmond-Ferguson Mr. William J. Ferguson Mr. and Mrs. Frederick H. Thomas The Red & Black Society Partners Dr. Nancy D. Donachie Dr. Robert J. Donachie, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Wayne P. Hall Mr. and Mrs. Radford M. Yates* The Red & Black Society Senior Members Mr. and Mrs. David D. Blalock, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Louis M. Brown Mr. John D. Durrett, Jr.* Mr. Still Hunter, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Jon R. King' Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Norris Mr. and Mrs. George D. Overend Mr. and Mrs. C. Winston Sheehan, Jr.* Mr. and Mrs. C. Hamilton Sloan Mr. and Mrs. Steven E. Wynne The Red & Black Society Associates Mrs. J. Bayard Boyle, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Timothy L. Brake Mr. and Mrs. R. Alan Chambers' Mr. Hugh William Close Mr. and Mrs. William A. Coolidge, Jr.* Dr. Marcia B. Crosland' Dr. William A. Crosland' Dr. and Mrs. Pohoey Fan' Mr. and Mrs. G. Lee Garrett, Jr. Mr. and Ms. William M. Gray' Mr. and Mrs. Richard F. Humphreys' Mr. and Mrs. James R. Lowe Mr. and Ms. John J. Lyons Dr. and Mrs. Cornelius J. Mance' Mr. and Mrs. 0. Jon McRae, Jr* Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. McSorley Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. Noble, III* Mr. and Mrs. Clyde L. Patton, Jr.* Dr. and Mrs. Sherif K. Sakla Mr. and Mrs. Howard M. Smith Mr. and Mrs. George S. Tallichet Mr. and Mrs. Darrell G. Townsend' The Red & Black Society Members Dr. and Mrs. Neel B. Ackerman, Jr. Ms. Ann A. Aldrich Mr. George J. Hechtman Mr. and Mrs. John T. Allison Mrs. Ann G. Ash Mrs. Lorraine Babcock' Mr. and Mrs. William P. Battaglia Mr. and Mrs. James H. Beall Dr. and Mrs. Paul L. Bice Dr. and Ms. Robert R. Birdwell Dr. and Mrs. Rene E. Bressinck Dr. and Mrs. Jerry D. Brindley, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Donald M. Briskman Dr. and Mrs. A. Scott Brooks Mr. and Mrs. George S. Brooks, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Colin W. Brown Dr. Suzanne Bruce Mr. J. Malcolm Waddell Dr. Charles W. Burger Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Castiglioni Dr. and Mrs. Michael A. Connaughton Mr. and Mrs. Tommy M. Cooley Mr. and Mrs. Michael P. Corey Mrs. Mary W. Dale Dr. and Mrs. Richard L. Daugherty Dr. and Mrs. Dirk Dijkstal Mr. and Mrs. J. Robert Doody Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Duckett Ms. Jeri J. Durrett Dr. and Mrs. Leroy E. Eckley, III Dr. and Mrs. S. Mitchell Epstein Mr. and Mrs. Samuel 0. Franklin Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy C. Gaston Mr. and Mrs. John C. Gordon Mr. and Mrs. A. Ray Greer Mr. and Dr. Robert G. Gunn, III Mr. and Mrs. Michael G. Haggerty Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Harper Mr. and Ms. Jeffery L. Hart Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Hock, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Hofto Dr. and Mrs. Ronald D. Hughes Dr. and Mrs. Robert D. Kirkpatrick Mr. and Mrs. R. Eason Leake Dr. and Mrs. Robert H. Lewis, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth M. Lloyd Dr. and Mrs. Peter C. Loux Dr. and Mrs. Don Lum Mr. and Mrs. John W. Lundeen Dr. and Mrs. Richard H. Lyerly Mr. and Mrs. Augustine Meaher, III Mr. and Mrs. Albert R. Miller Mr. and Mrs. Ken Miller, Jr. Mr. and Ms. William A. Miller Mr. and Mrs. Charles V. Moore, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Moore' Dr. and Mrs. John C. Neill Dr. and Mrs. Guy R. Orangio Ms. Jean Wall Owens Mr. Thomas E. Owens Mr. and Mrs. James L. Pannell Mr. and Mrs. Peter L. Paul, III Dr. and Mrs. David J. Power Mr. James E. Prickett Mrs. Morton D. Prouty, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Patrick A. Reardon Mr. and Mrs. F. Michael Royer Ms. Diane Rudner Dr. Helen Fletcher Sams Dr. Ferrol A. Sams, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sartwell, Jr. Ms. Judith J. Scherer Dr. Amy Schmidt Mr. and Mrs. Louis A. Schmitt, Jr.* Mrs. Laura S. Shields* Mr. and Mrs. James D. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Roger H. Smith Mr. and Ms. Casey M. Stuart Mr. and Mrs. Brian R. Sullivan Mr. and Mrs. H. William Swanstrom Mr. and Mrs. John ]. Sweeney, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Phillips R. Tarver' Mr. and Mrs. L. Barry Teague Dr. and Mrs. Paul B. Thames Dr. and Mrs. John H. Thomas, III Mr. and Mrs. Dennis P. Tolivar, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. William C. Tyler, Sr. Dr. Liliana G. Visscher Dr. Billy A.F. Hammond Dr. Patricia L. Walls Dr. and Mrs. Philip J. Weaver' Mr. and Mrs. John M. Williams Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Wright Mr. and Mrs. Paul B. Young, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. David M. Ziebarth Dean's Society Mr. and Mrs. Donald G. Chastain' Mr. and Mrs. John D. Langston' Mr. Thomas V. McCarthy* Dr. and Mrs. Larry Scott Cloister Society Dr. and Mrs. Stevan Adler Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Bale Mrs. Nancy G. Bromley' Mr. and Mrs. Jerry L. Bullins Mr. Randy H. Castleberry' Mr. and Mrs. Madison F. Cole, Jr.* Mr. and Mrs. Eduardo E. Dieppa, Jr.* Mrs. Jacqueline A. Dolin Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Duvall, Ill Dr. and Mrs. David M. Eggers Mr. Bruce A. Gardner' Dr. and Mrs. Michael E. Graham' Ms. Joanne T. Hilliard' Mr. and Mrs. Bruce C. Hines Dr. Jeff N. Hoover Mrs. Therese Howell' Mr. and Mrs. Henry H. Hutchinson Mr. and Mrs. William A. Mathis' Mr. and Mrs. Clarence J. Nugent' Mr. Thomas E. Orton Mr. and Mrs. Danny K. Park Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Rainey Mr. and Mrs. S. Bradford Rives Mr. and Mrs. John J. Ross Dr. and Mrs. Eduardo L. Santiago Mr and Mrs Robert D. Schneider Mr. and Mrs. Mark F. Schroeder' Dr. Jane C. Share Mr. Roger B. Stix Mr. and Ms. Steven M. Stone Mr. and Ms. William A. Terry Mr. and Mrs. Mark G. Ulevich Dr. Susan M. Walsh' Mr. Anthony W. George' Mr. and Mrs. Joseph M. Walters, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Ronnie J. Wann Mr. and Mrs. William W. Waring, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Timothy F. Watson, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Donald B. Whitfield' Mr. Spencer B. Wiedeman Mr. and Mrs. John D. Wigodsky Mr. and Mrs. Daniel K. Yacoubian Tower Society Mr. and Ms. Leonard W. Bartholomew Mr. Steven L. Brown Mr. and Ms. Nathaniel M. Bulmash Mr. and Mrs. John M. Bunyan Mr. and Mrs. Forest M. Davis, Ill Mr. and Mrs. Ralph L. Duesing, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. R. N. Ferguson Mr. and Mrs. Max N. Ferrera Dr. and Mrs. Carl E. Flinn* Mr. and Mrs. Henry W. Flint Mr. and Mrs. Kyle H. Flynn Dr. and Mrs. John W. Foote Dr. and Mrs. Gregory S. Georgiade' Mr. and Mrs. Sean E. Glancy' Mr. and Mrs. Talmadge K. Goldsby Dr. and Mrs. Eugene C. Groeger Mr. and Ms. Robert L. Groezinger Dr. and Mrs. Aram S. Hanissian Mr. and Mrs. Louis A. Hartley Dr. and Mrs. Jerry R. Haskin Mr. and Mrs. E. LeRoy Hendricks, Jr. Mr. William R. Hilliard, Jr.* Mr. and Ms. Willis W. Hobson, V Mr. and Ms. Robert A. Jardine Mr. and Mrs. Samuel P. Jordan, Jr. Dr. Natalie F. Krynetskaia Dr. Evgueni Y. Krynetski Dr. and Mrs. Barry J. Leader Mr. and Mrs. Fred A. Malik, Jr. Mr. and Ms. Rick L. May Dr. and Mrs. Henry G. McQuirter Dr. and Mrs. Dan T. Meadows Dr. and Mrs. Allen H. Moffitt Ms. Michele Jo Morris Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Nemer' Mr. and Mrs. John A. Norfleet, Sr.* Mr. and Mrs. Michael K. Rethorn Mr. and Mrs. Alexander C. Scovil Mr. and Mrs. Paul J. Staab, Ill Mr. H. Adam Stevens* Ms. Dianne M. Stool' Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence B. Stumb, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Randolph P. Summ Mr. and Mrs. Edgar C. Summerford Mr. and Mrs. James R. Tuck Mr. and Mrs. Selwyn H. Turner, III Mr. and Mrs. James C. Wall' Honor Roll of Donors 2003-2004 _ Mr. and Mrs. John S. Waterfill Dr. and Mrs. Donald V. Weatherman Mr. and Mrs. Marshall J. Wellborn, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Williams Dr. and Mrs. Pat M. Woodward Mr. and Mrs. John V. Works Mr. and Mrs. Daniel E. Write' Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Yatsula Dr. and Mrs. Robert E. Zeigler* Loyalty Club Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Abbott Dr. and Mrs. Wayne W. Adams Mr. and Mrs. Tommy E. Allen Mr. and Mrs. Vincent J. Ambrosia Mr. and Ms. Dickran J. Arakelian Mr. and Mrs. William E. Arnold, III Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Arrington, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. William H. Avery Mr. and Mrs. Odon L. Bacque, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. William L. Bailey* Dr. and Mrs. Gordon E. Baird* Dr. and Mrs. Carlos E. Bamberger Mr. and Mrs. Kyle M. Bartels Mr. and Mrs. Theodore N. Barth, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Francis M. Bass, Jr. Ms. Natalie Walsh Bishop* Dr. and Mrs. Raymond H. Bittel The Rev. and Mrs. Frank I. Blankinship, III Mr. and Mrs. Frank C. Blanton Mr. and Mrs. William H. Bowker Mr. and Mrs. Michael P. Bowman Mr. and Mrs. J. Thomas Bragg, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Brandewiede Mr. and Mrs. James R. Breth Dr. and Mrs. Dennis W. Brewer Mrs. Susan Lowry Bridwell Dr. Robert Randall Bridwell Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Brooks, Ill Mr. and Mrs. Stuart C. Brown Mr. Fred D. Bryan Mr. and Mrs. John F. Bufe Mr. John T. Burgoyne Mr. and Mrs. Arthur L. Burns, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Michael B. Burris Mr. and Ms. Toby J. Cahill Mr. and Mrs. Philip P. Caldwell Mr. and Mrs. Douglas V. Call Mr. and Mrs. William Campbell Dr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Carlson Mr. Kendrick R. Carpenter Mr. and Mrs. George E. Case, III Dr. Jane Carville Chauvin* Mr. Elmore A. Chauvin* Mr. and Mrs. Thomas S. Cheek Drs. Leon and Manay Clark Mr. and Mrs. Reagan C. Clark Mr. and Mrs. John R. Clay* Mr. and Mrs. Bruce W. Clements Mr. and Mrs. Dudley W. Coates Mr. and Mrs. Prachak Comkornruecha Mr. and Mrs. Frank Conley Mr. and Mrs. Timothy L. Couch Dr. and Mrs. John P. Cowley Mrs. John D. Craft Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Crouch Honor Roll of Donors Mr. and Mrs. Allan R. Curtis Dr. and Mrs. Waller L. Dalton Dr. and Mrs. Michael D. deMahy Dr. and Mrs. Roger L. Deshaies Dr. and Mrs. Neal F. Devitt* Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Diaz Mr. and Mrs. Thomas S. Dill* Dr. and Mrs. William E. Dismukes Mr. and Mrs. David B. Donald Mr. and Mrs. Eugene G. Douglass, Jr.* Mr. and Mrs. Ryan P. DuMont Mr. and Mrs. Joe M. Dunn Mr. and Mrs. Floyd E. Dunnavant, III* Ms. Rosemary Earp* Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Erkel, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Fabacher Mr. and Mrs. Robert R. Fair Ms. Epsey C. Farrell Mr. and Mrs. John L. Finlayson Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Forbes Mr. and Mrs. Alan J. Forsyth Dr. and Mrs. Charles S. Foster, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Timothy M. Fults Dr. and Mrs. Terrance G. Furlow Mr. and Mrs. Z. Wayne Gatlin Mr. and Mrs. Carl J. Gehres Mr. and Mrs. Helmut Gieselmann The Hon. and Mrs. Burton D. Glover Mr. and Mrs. Jay T. Golden Mr. and Mrs. Harry T. Goldman, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph S. Grabias Dr. Kimberly S. Haga Mr. D. Bruce Haga Mr. and Mrs. Michael P. Haggerty Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Haley Ms. Carol Clare Hall Mr. and Mrs. Michael P. Hall Mr. and Mrs. Terry Dwain Harris Mrs. Karen L. Harrison Dr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Hathorn* Mr. and Mrs. Everett S. Havard Mr. and Mrs. Kevin J. Hendrickson Mrs. Judith W. Hettinger Dr. and Mrs. Robert S. Hill Mrs. Vinh F. Hiner Mr. and Mrs. John R. Hoblitzell Mr. and Mrs. John R. Hodges Mr. and Ms. Robert L. Hohos Mr. and Mrs. Gene Holcomb Dr. and Mrs. Douglas E. Holford Mr. and Mrs. Robert K. Hood Mr. and Mrs. Anthony M. Hughes Mr. and Mrs. Thomas T. Hutcheson Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan W. Igoe The Hon. Claudia R. Isom Mr. A. Woodson Isom, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. David P. Johnson* Mr. and Mrs. Glynn D. Singleton Mr. and Mrs. O.L. Johnson Mr. and Mrs. George L. Sledge Mr. and Mrs. William Ralph Jones, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Carl B. Smith Ms. Cathy Pilgreen Jones Mr. and Mrs. James M. Spitzer Ms. Cheryl T. Jones Mr. and Mrs. Raymond C. Steinert Ms. Debra B. Jordan Drs. Gary and Sharon Stewart Ms. Robin K. Kamphaus Mr. and Mrs. Stephen P. Stoner Mr. and Mrs. Panos J. Kanes Dr. Bettie W. Hardy Story Mr. and Mrs. Fred G. Karem* Mr. Mark T. Story Dr. and Mrs. Jerry P. Katz Mr. and Mrs. Jay J. Sulzmann* Mr. and Mrs. Garry G. Keckler Dr. and Mrs. J. Tyler Swindle Dr. and Mrs. Mellick T. Sykes, Sr. Dr. and Mrs. John C. Tayloe Dr. and Mrs. Charles W. Taylor Mr. and Mrs. James W. Taylor Mr. and Mrs. J. Gray Teekell Dr. and Mrs. Noel W. Thomas Mr. Charles S. Turci Mr. and Mrs. M. List Underwood, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Andrew A. Vance, Jr. Mr. Anthony F. Vazquez Ms. Joan C. Gottfried Dr. Carmela Tardo Veprek Ms. Cathie C. Walsh Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Walsh Mr. and Mrs. Loran C. Ward Mr. and Mrs. Harry G. Warfield Mr. John B. Waters Mr. Charles H. Watt, III Ms. Virginia M. Watt Mr. and Mrs. Walter E. Watts, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Weaver, Sr. Dr. and Mrs. Robert N. Weinberger Mr. and Mrs. Donald R. Wellford Mr. and Mrs. Donald H. Wells Mr. and Mrs. Scott S. Wendell, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph F. Williams Mr. and Mrs. William E. Windes Dr. and Mrs. Jim Winkates Mr. and Mrs. Larry C. Wiseman Prof. Mary Lou Witherspoon Mr. Jerry W. Witherspoon Ms. Clara C. Wood Mr. and Mrs. William E. Wright, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Wright* Mrs. and Mr. Joanne R. Yendle Donors Mr. and Dr. Gregory C. Alexander Mr. and Mrs. Stewart F. Alford, III Mr. and Mrs. Robert R. Anderson Mr. and Mrs. Terry C. Argo Mr. and Mrs. James H. Austin Dr. and Mrs. Alan G. Auwarter Mrs. Chin S. Aylward Mr. and Mrs. Donald E. Babcock Dr. and Mrs. Shriram Bagrodia Mr. and Mrs. George E. Baker Mr. and Mrs. John L. Barb Ms. Jocelyn S. Baumgarten Mr. Wilhelm A. Baumgarten Mr. and Mrs. Roger H. Beckham Mr. and Mrs. Jean I. Benjamin Dr. and Mrs. Patrick A. Bernardi Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Beswick Mr. and Mrs. Skip Bode Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth A. Bohnert Mr. and Mrs. Ronnie B. Bonner Mr. and Mrs. David A. Bordelon Mr. John R. Bowersox Ms. Dianne M. Boyce Mr. and Ms. William K. Boyer Mr. and Mrs. Steve A. Bratteli Mr. and Mrs. Kelvin L. Braxton Mr. Dennis F. Brennan Ms. Carol C. Brewer Mr. and Ms. Charles R. Brewer, II Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Bromert Mr. and Mrs. Ervin B. Bruninga Mr. and Mrs. Samuel D. Buhl Ms. Teresa D. Burch Mrs. Charles S. Burgess Mr. and Mrs. Theodore C. Cabali Mr. and Mrs. David B. Calvert Parent Donors continued from page 9 Mr. and Mrs. Urs H. Keller Mr. and Mrs. Charles T. Kingswell- Smith Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Kopald, Jr. Ms. Marja Kuchta Dr. and Mrs. Michael S. Lancaster Mr. and Mrs. Bazile R. Lanneau, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Billy D. Leach Dr. and Mrs. William H. Light Mr. and Mrs. George 0. London Ms. Rachel Witherspoon Low Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Lowry Dr. and Ms. Stephen P. Luby Mr. and Mrs. Andrew A. Markus Dr. and Mrs. David Marshall Mr. and Mrs. Randall Glenn Mast Mr. and Mrs. Gregory S. McKay Mrs. and Mr. Yolanda T. McLain Mr. and Mrs. Gregory McNally Dr. and Mrs. Alexander G. Medlicott Ms. Karen K. Meeks Dr. and Mrs. Richard C. Merriman Mr. and Mrs. John Montelepre, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John D. Morris Mr. and Mrs. Rob Mowrey Dr. and Mrs. Craig A. Mueller Dr. Kuruganti A. Murti Dr. Kuruganti G. Murti Mr. and Mrs. Edward M. Nabers Dr. and Mrs. William R. Neelly Mr. William N. Norton Mr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Osborne Mr. and Mrs. William S. Owens Mr. and Mrs. Ralph B. Patterson Dr. Hugh Wilson Patton Mr. and Mrs. Ronald G. Pearl Ms. Nancy Jo Penny Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Perrottet Mrs. Purnell H. Pettyjohn Mr. Thomas W. Pettyjohn, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Robert L. Phillips Dr. and Mrs. James A. Pitcock Mr. and Mrs Edwin K. Platt, Jr Mr. and Mrs. James Prayer, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Roger G. Punzalan Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Ratcliff, Sr.* Mr. and Mrs. William Ratliff Dr. and Mrs. Gregory Richardson* Dr. Robert S. Ridgely Dr. and Mrs. Timothy R. Roads Dr. and Mrs. David Robinson Mr. and Mrs. William T. Rogers Mr. and Mrs. Eladio J. M. Ruiz de Molina Mr. and Mrs. Eugene A. Sanders Dr. and Mrs. Kevin B. Schaberg Mr. and Mrs. Joseph V. Schifano Mr. and Mrs. Mark A. Schwartz Mrs. Scarlett S. Sears Dr. and Mrs. David B. Foutch Dr. and Mrs. John L. Sexton* Mr. and Mrs. William L. Sheftall 2003-2004 11 4 Mrs. John F. Canale, Jr. Dr. Alice C. Cads Dr. Stephen D. Carts Dr. and Mrs. Bruce R. Carr The Rev. and Mrs. David W. Carroll Mr. and Mrs. Howard W. Cater, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Rodney C. Chute Mr. and Mrs. Edwin F. Clark, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Steven R. Claypool Mr. and Mrs. Blythe B. Cragon Mr. and Mrs. Raney E. Crider The Rev. and Mrs. John F. Dallas Mr. H. Harold Davis Mr. and Mrs. Donald R. DeZutter Mr. and Mrs. James F. Dolson Ms. Lynne Kronberg Dorough Mr. Vasilios D. Douklias Mr. and Mrs. Steven G. Dowell Mr. and Mrs. Robert Downie Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Durand Dr. and Mrs. Daniel S. Eason Ms. Dawne D. Ehrler Mr. and Mrs. Thomas D. Elliott Mr. and Mrs. Rogers L. Emory Mr. and Mrs. Bruce A. Erskine Mr. and Mrs. Randall E. Evans Mr. and Mrs. Samuel N. Evins, IV Mr. and Mrs. Douglas A. Eza Ms. Nell S. Fagen Mr. and Mrs. Hamalton C. Fairchild Mrs. Alexander A. Fedinec Dr. and Mrs. Lewis J. Fowlkes Mr. and Mrs. Jeffry L. Gamble Ms. Deborah Phillips Gipson Mr. and Mrs. Jay K. Githens Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey C. Goldsmith Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon P. Goldstein Ms. Cynthia L. Graham Mr. and Mrs. James T. Grey The Rev. and Mrs. David M. Harr Mr. and Mrs. John H. Harrington, Jr. Mr. and Dr. Frederick E. Hartmann Ms. Devona M. Haygood Ms. Laura D. Head Mr. J. Thomas Helm, Ill Mr. and Mrs. Ross P. Henderson Dr. Katherine G. Hendrix Mr. Keith V. Hendrix Mr. and Mrs. William A. Heslip Dr. Margaret W. Hilliard Dr. Michael R. Hilliard Mr. and Mrs. T. Mark Hodges Mr. and Mrs. Arne J. Holm Mr. and Mrs. Larry D. Holmes Mr. and Mrs. Gary L. Howell Mr. and Mrs. Alan M. Huffenus Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Hulett, Sr. Mrs. Sherry P. Isaacman Mr. and Mrs. Raymond S. Jakubowicz Mr. and Mrs. John M. Jameson Mr. and Mrs. William M. Jeter Mrs. Julie H. Johnson Mr. and Mrs. James S. Jones, Jr. Ms. Gwendolyn Kaufman-Killebr Mr. and Mrs. Bruce R. Keim Ms. Sook K. Kim Mr. and Mrs. Peter A. Krause Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth R. Lamb Dr. and Mrs. Glenn R. Larson Dr. and Mrs. Raymond M. Lehnert Mr. and Mrs. Henry T. Likes Mr. and Mrs. Kim E. Lobdell Mr. and Mrs. Bennie W. Loper Mr. and Mrs. Randall A. Marks Mr. and Mrs. William Paul Massey Mr. and Mrs. John T. Mauzy, Sr. The Rev. and Mrs. M. Sidney McCollum Dr. and Mrs. C. Blake McDowell, III Ms. Doris B. McGhee Ms. Cynthia M. McGough Ms. Cathy McKenna Ms. Cynthia R. McLendon The Hon. and Mrs. Charles McPherson Mr. and Mrs. Willie W. Meador, Jr. Mr. John A. Meadows Mr. and Mrs. William A. Meyer Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Milam Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey L. Miller Mr. and Mrs. Larry T. Miller Mr. and Mrs. J. Michael Molpus Mrs. A. Maxine Montgomery Mr. William E. Montgomery Mr. and Mrs. William F. Montgomery Mr. and Mrs. Denman Moody The Rev. and Mrs. Michael D. Moreland Mr. and Mrs. Donald Morrison Mr. and Mrs. David S. Morse Ms. Marcia S. Muller Mr. Robert W. Crimi Mr. and Mrs. Eugene T. Murphy Ms. Marynell Murphy Dr. and Mrs. Thomas P. Nigra Ms. Cynthia R. North Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Odle Dr. Susan E. Opper Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Osier Ms. Leslie C. Oygar Mr. and Mrs. William J. Pedigo, Sr. Ms. Diana M. Perriello Mr. and Mrs. Stephen K. Plenge Ms. Ann M. Rabalais Mr. and Mrs. Gregory K. Randall Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence J. Rapski Mr. and Ms. George D. Rigazzi Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Robbins Mr. and Mrs. Rick E. Roberts Mr. and Mrs. Daniel S. Robertson Dr. and Mrs. William C. Robinson Mr. and Mrs. Stephen G. Romig Dr. and Mrs. J. Reece Roth Mrs. Anna M. Sadkin Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Sampson Dr. Andrea L. Sanders Mr. Tom Sanders Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Scandrett Mrs. Birgit E. Schael Dr. and Mrs. Steven Schenker Dr. and Mrs. John M. Schneider Mr. and Mrs. Paul Schrier Mr. and Mrs. Alan F. Sears Mr. and Mrs. Norman R. Sedlander Mr. and Mrs. Miles C. Seifert Mr. E. Victor Seixas Dr. Elizabeth Ann Semko Dr. Jane E. Shea Mr. and Mrs. Louis G. Sinclair Mr. and Mrs. Joel J. Sirmon Ms. Jennifer S. Smiley Dr. and Mrs. James 0. Speed Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Stevens Mr. and Mrs. Bryan C. Stewart Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Stewart, Jr. Ms. Holly A. Taylor Mr. Richard C. Lamb Mr. and Mrs. B. Don Taylor Mrs. Philip C. Tetlow Dr. and Mrs. William H. Tomlinson, Col, USA (Ret) Mr. and Mrs. William B. Tucker Mr. and Mrs. Francis G. Watkins, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Olin West, III Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Whetsell Mr. and Mrs. Neil L. Woodiel Dr. Joseph R. Woods Mr. and Mrs. Stuart M. Wyeth Dr. and Mrs. Daniel W. Yannitell Mr. and Mrs. William D. Yarborough Ms. Margie A. Youngblood Mr. Stanley B. Youngblood Mr. Dennis K. Zimmerman Parent Council Co-Chairs Mr. and Mrs. C. Winston Sheehan, Jr. Team Leaders Mr. and Mrs. Tom W. Arnold Dr. Elizabeth R. Gunn Mr. Robert G. Gunn, III Mr. and Mrs. Jon R. King Mr. and Ms. William A. Miller Mrs. Andrea V. Smith Mr. Larry V. Smith Mr. and Mrs. George S. Tallichet Council Mrs. Lorraine Babcock Dr. and Mrs. Paul L. Bice Dr. and Mrs. Rene E. Bressinck Dr. Suzanne Bruce Mr. J. Malcolm Waddell Dr. and Mrs. Dirk Dijkstal Dr. Nancy D. Donachie Dr. Robert J. Donachie, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Leroy E. Eckley, III Mr. and Mrs. G. Lee Garrett, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John C. Gordon Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Hart Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Hofto Mr. Still Hunter, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Don Lum Dr. and Mrs. Cornelius J. Mance Mr. and Mrs. 0. Jon McRae, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Augustine Meaher, III Mr. and Mrs. J. Ralph Muller, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Owens Mr. and Mrs. Peter L. Paul, III Mr. and Mrs. James M. Pfohl Mr. and Mrs. Patrick A. Rearson Mr. and Mrs. F. Michael Royer Ms. Diane Rudner Mr. and Mrs. Howard M. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Roger H. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Brian R. Sullivan Mr. and Mrs. H. William Swanstrom Mr. and Mrs. Phillips R. Tarver Dr. and Mrs. Paul B. Thames Mr. and Mrs. Frederick H. Thomas Dr. Liliana G. Visscher Dr. Billy A.F. Hammond Dr. Patricia L. Walls Mr. and Mrs. Rob Wright Mr. and Mrs. Radford M. Yates * Gifts reflecting an increase to a higher level Individual Donors Rhodes appreciates the generosity of these individuals other than alumni and parents who made gifts to the college during this year. Gifts are recognized in the Cloister Society ($500-$749), the Tower Society ($250-$499), the Loyalty Club ($100-$249) and Donors (up to $100). Gifts reflecting an increase to a higher level are marked with an asterisk. Restricted gifts include capital gifts, gifts for specific programs and gifts to the endowment. Cloister Society Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Tongour Tower Society Mr. and Mrs. Belin V. Bodie Dr. and Mrs. Dan A. Dunaway Mr. and Mrs. John T. Stout, Sr. Mr. Thomas H. Todd, Jr.* Mr. Scott Williams Loyalty Club Ms. Estelle Avner Mrs. J. Norton Dendy Mr. William H. Diehl* Ms. Molly S. Dorman Ms. Reba A. Forbess Mr. and Mrs. R. Marsh Gibson Ms. Dottie A. Haygood Ms. Jo Ann J. Hunter Mrs. Mona Rice Matthews Dr. Todd Proebsting Dr. F. Ray Riddle, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Peter W. Ronald Mr. and Mrs. Joseph S. Sims Dr. and Mrs. Owen B. Tabor Ms. Catherine Orgill West Mr. James H. Wetter Donors Mr. Edgar G. Barton Mrs. Nancy Bass Mr. Benjamin Boorman Mrs. Deborah Boorman Ms. Leigh Boswell Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Crump, III Mr. James D. Dobner Ms. Helen K. Negus Mrs. Sue J. Fann Dr. and Mrs. Edward S. Kaplan Mr. Noah Landreth Mr. and Mrs. Ron Minth Mr. Dennis R. O'Shea Ms. Jalonda Phillips Mrs. Rose Anthony Robertson Mr. and Mrs. Craig Roessler Mr. and Mrs. John R. Strother, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Hugh C. Tanner Lou R. Taylor Mr. Martin F. Thompson The Hon. Harry W. Wellford Mr. and Mrs. Garth C. Wills Ms. Emilee Wright * Gifts reflecting an increase to a higher level Honor Roll of Donors 2003-2004 l2 Campus Donors Rhodes appreciates the generosity of its faculty, staff, and retirees who made gifts to the college this year. Gifts are recognized in The Charles E. Diehl Society ($5,000 or more), The Red & Black Society ($1,000-$4,999), the Dean's Society ($750-$999), the Cloister Society ($500-$749), the Tower Society ($250-$499), the Loyalty Club ($100-$249) and Donors (up to $100). Gifts reflecting an increase to a higher level are marked with an asterisk. The Charles E. Diehl Society Benefactors Dr. and Mrs. William E. Troutt The Charles E. Diehl Society Sustainers Dr. and Mrs. Robert R. Llewellyn The Charles E. Diehl Society Patrons Ms. Beverly K. Bond Dr. and Mrs. James H. Daughdrill, Jr.- Mrs. Barbara Johnson Dr. Robert M. Johnson, Jr. Dr. Deborah Nichol Pittman '71 Mr. Arnold H. Pittman '67 Mr. and Mrs. F. Mark Whittaker The Red & Black Society Senior Members Dr. Bette J. Ackerman* Mr. David B. Weatherman* '01 The Red & Black Society Associate Members Mrs. Melody Hokanson Richey* Mr. Warren A. Richey* Mrs. Jenna Goodloe Wade Mr. John P. Wade The Red & Black Society Members Mr. and Mrs. J. Allen Boone, Jr. '71 Mr. and Mrs. Michael T. Clary '77 Ms. Kerry A. Connors Mr. Stanley Broadway Dr. Robert England '79 Mr. and Mrs. Brian E. Foshee Ms. Natalie L. Harris '03 Mr. Brian S. Hummer Ms. Daney D. Kepple Ms. Judith W. Lineback* Dr. Donald J. Lineback-* Ms. Roberta B. Matthews Mr. Paul A. Matthews Ms. Susan Neal McWhirter '75 Mr. N. P. McWhirter, III '73 Mr. John J. Thomason* '51 Dr. Sally P. Thomason-* Mr. and Mrs. David J. Wottle Dean's Society Mr. and Mrs. Charles Q. Hall* (Sandra Sue Dunn '69) Cloister Society Ms. Lucy Hill Black '67 Prof. David C. Ramsey '61 Dr. and Mrs. Mark V. Smith Dr. John L. Streete* '60 Dr. Gail C. Street? Dr. and Mrs. G. Kenneth Williams- Tower Society Ms. Mimi Atkinson '73 Mr. Bill Pendergrass '69 Honor Roll of Donors Ms. Stephanie Lee Chockley* '95 Mr. Chip Chockley* Dr. Anita A. Davis* '90 Prof. Russell T. Wigginton, Jr.* '88 Mr. and Mrs. Thom E. Eckles Mr. Justin R. Entzminger* Ms. Kathy M. Foreman Dr. Brent K. Hoffmeister Dr. Ann M. Viano Dr. and Mrs. David Y. Jeter Dr. John C. Kaltner* Dean Michael P. Leslie* Prof. Kenneth S. Morrell Mr. and Mrs. Glenn W. Munson Dr. and Mrs. Michael C. Nelson (Linda E. Nelson '02) Dr. William Newton Prof. Valerie Nollan Prof. Richard H. Nollan Dr. and Mrs. John S. Olsen Ms. Katherine Owen Richardson '83 Mr. and Mrs. Eli Savoie* Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence C. Sefton Mr. William M. Short '71 Ms. Teresa L. Varnon* Mr. J. Kyle Webb '91 Mr. Christopher S. Wood Loyalty Club Mrs. DeAnna S. Adams '01 (DeAnna Smith '01) Ms. Tracy L. Adkisson '95 Mr. Bradley N. Terhune '95 Mr. A. B. Bailey Prof. Maria S. Ballinger Mrs. Carolyn Batey Dr. Richard A. Batey Ms. Dorothy C. Brownyard Mr. and Mrs. Mark R. Coleman, Jr. '58 (Claire Ann Tansey '58) Dr. Daniel E. Cullen Mrs. Jacquelyn Ehrentraut Dion '02 Mr. Joby M. Dion '99 Mr. and Mrs. Roosevelt Evans, Sr. Mr. Caley A. Foreman Mr. and Mrs. Leonard W. Frey- Mr. Ming Dong Gu Mr. and Mrs. Daniel H. Handwerker Dr. Douglas W. Hatfield Dr. P. Eric Henager '89 Dr. and Mrs. Terry W. Hill Ms. Kristin Marie Lensch Prof. Timothy S. Huebner Dr. and Mrs. James W. lobes- Mr. Daniel D. Jacobs Mr. Xinxin Jiang Dr. and Mrs. James W. lobes- Mr. Angelo Curtis Johnson* Ms. Kathleen Laakso Dr. and Mrs. W. Larry Lacy* '59 Dr. Charles N. Landreth, Jr. '87 Ms. Andi E. Williams '88 Mrs. Barbara H. Maxey Dr. and Mrs. Marshall E. McMahon Mrs. Fontaine B. Moore, Jr. Prof. Mark W. Muesse Dr. Gail S. Murray Dr. Joe M. Hawes Ms. Helen W. Norman Mr. Fred S. Norman Mr. Stacy S. Pennington* '93 Mr. Herbert L. Rhodes* Ms. Claudia Rutkauskas* Mr. John Rutkauskas* Mr. Kevin J. Sackett Dr. Brian W. Shaffer Dr. and Mrs. Timothy W. Sharp Ms. Amy M. Smith Prof. Robert J. Strandburg Mr. Forrest M. Stuart Ms. Anna B. Teekell* '01 Mr. and Mrs. Loyd C. Templeton, Jr.- '56 (Margaret B. Ross '56) Ms. Violet Trosper* Dr. Richard D. Redfearn* Mr. Douglas Walker Ms. Brenda K. Webb-Lanier Dr. James C. Lanier Mrs. Elizabeth W. Whittaker Mr. John M. Whittaker, Jr. Prof. Lynn B. Zastoupil Donors Mr. Larry Ahokas Prof. and Mrs. Lawrence K. Anthony- (Anne Elizabeth Sayle '73) Dr. Ellen T. Armour Mr. Johnny R. Austin Ms. Larcenia Banks Mr. Kevin M. Barri Ms. Teresa Beckham Gramm Mr. Marshall K. Gramm Ms. Judith P. Haas Dr. Gordon Bigelow Ms. Lynne M. Blair Prof. Jay A. Blundon Ms. Melissa Butler Mrs. James P. Carney, Jr. Ms. Carol Casey Dr. Stephen J. Ceccoli Dr. Diane M. Clark '62 Ms. Barbara Cockrill Ms. Tracy T. Corner Prof. A. Victor Coonin Ms. Gayle A. Davis Mr. Matthew V. Dean Mr. Robert Dove Prof. Michael R. Drompp Mr. and Mrs. Gordon L. Ellingsworth Prof. Joseph A. Favazza Mr. and Ms. Mark Fennell Dr. Catherine P. Fenster Ms. Patricia Sue Fetters Dr. and Mrs. W. Thomas Fields Ms. Anna L. Fraser '03 Prof. Dee Garceau-Hagen Mr. Timothy S. Gibson Mr. Jeff R. Goode Dr. Eric I. Gottlieb Coach Sarah R. Hatgas Ms. Marci A. Hendrix '95 Mr. James David Hicks Coach Herbert A. Hilgeman Ms. Louvenia Hill Mr. Richard F. Huddleston '84 Ms. Sarah Lebovitz Mr. Vernon H. Humphries, Jr. Ms. Christina M. Huntington '96 Mr. H. Hadley Hury, Jr. '71 Ms. Marilyn Hury Ms. Carley Jackson Dr. Carolyn R. Jaslow Dr. Alan P. Jaslow Mr. David W. Jilg '79 Mrs. Wanda L. Jones '04 Mr. Craig Jordan Ms. Alexandera G. Kostina Ms. Samantha W. Lambert Mr. Robert L. Lessentine, Jr. '98 Mr. Billy W. Lewis Dr. Terri E. Lindquester Dr. Gary J. Lindquester Prof. Cynthia Marshall Mrs. Jerry W. Miller Ms. Julie K. Murphy Ms. Katherine Scott Muth '98 Ms. Eva L. Owens Ms. Marina Pacini Prof. David P. McCarthy Dr. and Mrs. Robert G. Patterson- (Emma Jane McAtee '50) Dr. Marcus D. Pohlmann Ms. Leigh A. Powell Ms. Amy June Radford Ms. Marguerite E. Raiford '64 Mr. Thomas E. Richardson, Jr. '82 Mr. John H. Rone '71 Ms. Sherry A. Sasson '05 Mr. Robert L. Shankman Ms. Claire R. Shapiro Mr. and Mrs. Randall B. Shepard, Jr. '64 (Martha Hunter '66) Mr. J. Scott Srnka '87 Ms. Patricia Sterba Mrs. Bama M. Strickland Mr. Robert M. Taylor Dr. Annette G. Teepe Mr. and Mrs. Loui M. Todd, III Ms. Sandra George Tracy Ms. Wendy Lawing Trenthem Mr. Richard T. Trenthem, Jr. Mr. Edward A. Trouy Dr. Bridgett Mary Truman Ms. Lori Von Bokel-Amin Dr. Marsha D. Walton Dr. Christopher G. Wetzel Mr. and Mrs. Earnest Williams Dr. and Mrs. Stephen H. Wirls Prof. Katheryn L. Wright * Gifts reflecting an increase to a higher level -Emeriti 2003-2004 Corporate, Foundation, and Church Gifts Included in this list are businesses, foundations and churches that contributed to Rhodes this year. Associates $20,000 and up Agilent Technologies Andrew W. Mellon Foundation ARAMARK Corporation Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Conwood Company, LP Corella and Bertram F. Bonner Foundation Ernst and Young LLP FedEx Corp Fidelity Investment Foundation Follett College Stores J.R. Hyde, Sr. Family Foundation Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation, Inc. Lumina Foundation for Education Merck Company Foundation Monterey Fund, Inc. Robert and Ruby Priddy Charitable Trust The Cindy and John Sites Charitable Foundation The Endover Foundation, Inc. The Knapp Foundation, Inc. Thomas J. Watson Foundation Thomas M. Garrott Charitable Foundation Thomas W. Briggs Foundation Wright-Bentley Foundation' Fellows $10,000- $ 19,999 Belz Foundation Everett L. Amis Foundation Fleshman-Pratt Foundation, Inc. Foundation for The Carolinas Hope Christian Community Foundation J.R. Hyde, III Family Foundation Nettie W. Schilling Trust P.K. Seidman Charitable Trust Presbyterian Church USA Foundation Procter and Gamble Fund" Rasberry Foundation Sara Lee Foundation" Second Presbyterian Church, Memphis TN The Day Foundation Patrons $2,500-$9,999 Ann C. and C. Hamilton Sloan Foundation Austin Trust Company Ayco Charitable Foundation Bank of America Foundation" BP Foundation, Inc.^ C. Louis Meyer Family Foundation Coca-Cola Company Matching Gifts Program^ Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, Inc. Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee ExxonMobil Foundation^ Gerber/Taylor Associates, Inc. Grinder Taber and Grinder, Inc. Hawthorne Charitable Foundation Herman Bensdorf II Trust IBM International Foundation" M K Distributors, Inc. Marion Cohen Memorial Foundation Mathis Pfohl Foundation Merrill Lynch and Co. Foundation, Inc." Moon Industrial Park, LLC National Collegiate Athletic Association Pittman and Associates, Inc. Presbyterian Church USA Schadt Foundation, Inc. Schwab Fund for Charitable Giving The Dallas Foundation Turner BioSystems, Inc. Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program Sponsors $1,000-$2,499 A. Arthur Halle Memorial Foundation AmSouth Bancorporation Foundation^ Bernice H. and Richard W. Hussey Foundation Black, McLaren, Jones and Ryland C M Gooch Foundation Community Foundation of Greater Greenville, Inc. Ernie Worley Landscaping Company First Tennessee National Corporation^ Founders Charitable Foundation Greater Memphis Arts Council Harte-Hanks Communications, Inc.^ Hohenberg Foundation International Paper Company Foundation^ James E. and Katharine B. Harwood Charitable Trust Jewish Foundation of Memphis' Joyce Lanier Milner Charitable Trust Mallory Group, Inc. MeadWestvaco Foundation^ Morgan Stanley Matching Gifts Program^ NCR Foundation^ Ozark Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Rice and Adams Rice, Amundsen, Caperton and Khumalo, LLPC Saint Louis Community Foundation Sam Watson Insurance Agancy Sammarco Electric Company, Inc. Scripps Howard Foundation'^ Second Presbyterian Church, Little Rock Terminix International Company, L.P. The BBC Foundation The Mallory Partners The Retina Center of Charleston, P.A. The Sakla Law Firm The Sims Foundation 3h?pq, TSC Foundation Tukman Capital Management, Inc. Tweedy, Browne Company LLC U.S. Charitable Gift Trust VanNess Feldman WD-40 Company Donors Up to $1,000 Abbott Laboratories Fund^ Accenture Foundation, Inc.^ Acushnet Company Advanced Health and Wellness Akers Law Firm, P.A. Alabama Association of Realtors, Inc. Alabama House of Representatives Republican Caucus Alabama Nursing Home Association Alabama Power Albemarle Corporation^ Alcoa Foundation^ Algernon Sydney Sullivan Foundation Ameren Corporation^ American Express Foundation^ Anesthesia Medical Group, P.C. Annie Tait Jenkins Trust AOL Time Warner Foundation^ Arkansas Community Foundation Aventis Pharmaceuticals^ Baldwin County, AL Association of Realtors, Inc. Baldwin County, AL Economic Development Alliance Baldwin County, AL Republican Party Executive Committee Baldwin County, AL United Baldwin County, AL Electric Membership Corporation Ball Corporation^ Balmoral Presbyterian Church BankOne Foundation^ BASF Corporation^ Baxter International Foundation^ BellSouth Corporation^ Bemis Company Foundation^ Billy Brown Sprinkler Systems Black and Decker Corporation^ Blue Valley Corporation Brayton Foundation Brown Jug Liquors Business Furniture Solutions Byrd and Associates, PLC Callie and John Rainey Foundation Central Alabama Community Foundation Chandler Demolition Company, Inc. Charles Schwab Corporation Foundation^ ChevronTexaco Matching Gift Program^ Children's Dental Health Center, LLC Ciba Specialty Chemicals^ CIGNA Corporation^ Civil Tek, Inc. Clark Malcolm Corporate and Design Communications CNA Foundation^ Coker Consulting, LLC Commercial Lighting Design Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga, Inc. Corning, Inc. Foundation^ Crowley Brothers, Inc. David J. Joseph Company^ Delta Air Lines Foundation^ Delta/United Specialties, Inc. Dermon-Warner Properties LLC Dick Chittam Realty Dow Chemical Company Foundation^ Eli Lilly and Company Foundation^ Emerson^ Entergy Corporation^ Equitable/AXA Foundation^ Evergreen Presbyterian Church Export Management Services, Inc. Farnsworth Photography Farrell-Calhoun Paint Inc. First Presbyterian Church, Greenfield TN First Presbyterian Church, Lake Charles LA First Presbyterian Church, Lewisburg TN Fleet Boston Financial Foundation^ Ford Motor Company Fund^ Fort Morgan Civic Association Friends of Ted Little Galway Yoga Studio Gannett Foundation, Inc.^ GE Foundation^ Genentech, Inc.^ General Motors Foundation^ Georgia-Pacific Corporation^ Gloria C. White and Associates Gordon's Auto Body Gowda Ear, Nose and Throat Clinic, PC Group Trek Travel, LLC Harris and Associates Harry H. Bryan Family Fund Hibernia Capital Corporation^ Home Depot Credit Services^ Idlewild Presbyterian Church Insulation and Refractories Services, Inc. James E. Winslow, Jr. Revocable Trust Jones Brothers Tree and Landscaping Company, Inc. JP Morgan and Company, Inc.^ Knight Ridder^ Knights of Columbus Silverton Council 5416 Laboratory Corporation of America^ Larkhill Farms Lichterman Loewenberg Foundation Little Lagoon Preservation Society Lovett School LTMG, Inc. Lynn Poage Contracting Maritz, Inc.^ Marshall County, AL Legislative Office Martin Marietta Materials, Inc. Matching Gifts^ Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance^ May Department Stores Company Foundation^ McKesson Foundation, Inc.^ MetLife Foundation^ Microsoft Corporation^ Honor Roll of Donors 2003-2004 14 Cororate, Foundation, and Church Gifts continuedfrom page 13 Mobile County, AL Legislative Delegation Motorola Foundation^ Munford Florist and Gifts National City Bank of Kentucky^ Nationwide Insurance Enterprise Foundation^ NCH Corporation New England Business Service, Inc.^ Nix Roofing Company, Inc. NORTEL Northern Telecom Inc^ 011ar Surveying Company Oracle Corporation^ PACCAR Foundation^ Pallas Realty Advisors, Inc. Patricia E. Westerman 1991 Revocable Trust U/A Pediatric Associates of Franklin Pfizer Foundation^ Press On Foundation Pro-Action RAINCO Ramsey Corporation Raytheon Company^ Revocable Moore Familty Trust, Jim L. and Nancy W. Moore Trst Reynolds Bone and Griesbeck Robertsdale High School Robinson Construction Company Rugeley Business Forms SAIC-Science Applications International^ Sam Saig and Sons, Inc. Sandra M. Kamrath and Company, Inc. SBC Foundation^ Sentry Insurance Foundation^ Shelby County, TN Baptist Woman's Missionary Union Shell Oil Company Foundation^ Smith and Cashion, PLC Southard Financial Southern Hills United Methodist Church Sprint Foundation^ St. Thomas Health Services State Farm Companies Foundation^ Summit Medical Center Sundown Reocrds and Entertainment SunTrust Bank^ Superior Shipping Inc. T. Frank Jackson PLLC Tarrant Enterprises, Inc. Tenet Healthcare Foundation^ Teri Tate Creative Expressions Texas Instruments Foundation^ The Claude Bennett Family Foundation, Inc. The Murrell Foundation The Scholarship Foundation^ Trinity Playgroup, Inc. University of South Alabama UnumProvident Corporation^ USG Foundation, Inc.^ Verizon Wireless^ W.W. Grainger, Inc.^ Wachovia Foundation^ Wells Fargo Bank^ Yum! Brands Foundation, Inc.^ Gifts reflecting an increase to a higher range. " Companies that matched gifts of their employees to Rhodes The Margaret Hyde Council The Margaret Hyde Council seeks to encourage women s philanthropy to ensure the strength of Rhodes. The council is committed to providing more opportunities to prepare women students for leadership in the workplace, their communities and their personal lives. Life Members (Endowment gifts of $100,000+) Mertie Willigar Buckman Dorothy Orgill Kirsch Mary Jack Rich McCord '51 Elizabeth LeMaster Simpson '58 Katherine Hinds Smythe '53 One Anonymous Donor Sustainers (Annual gifts of $5,000+) Donna Lorraine Barlett '80 Investors (Annual gifts of $2,500+) Betty Calandruccio Nancy Hill Fulmer '51 Linda Kay Yates '69 Mentors (Annual gifts of $1,000+) Michelle B. Babcock '98 Susan Smith Cain '72 Sallie Brooks Clark '76 Deborah Legg Craddock '80 Katherine Buckman Davis Katherine Maddox McElroy '77 Judith Deavenport Mitchener '56 Catherine Harrell Morehead '82 Ann Vines Roberts '60 Patrons (Annual gifts of $500+) Anne S. Caldwell '51 Theresa Cloys Carl '75 Donna Kay Fisher '71 Susan Hoefer Foster '69 Louise Bondurant Phillips Carol Lee Collins Royer '78 Sara Jeanette Sims '76 Carole Pearson Troutt Members (Annual gifts of $250+) Patricia Miller Anderson '78 Senter Crook '65 Catherine Moore Freeburg '40 Patrice Peery George '76 Margaret A. Halle Robin Ritter Hatzenbuehler '71 Bernice Hederman Hussey Katherine Harriett James '64 Doris Rasberry Jones '59 Dorothy Orgill Kirsch Mary Jack Rich McCord '51 Margaret B. McKee '54 Katherine Davis Murfree Julianne Johnson Paunescu '89 Leslie Drake Schutt '83 Elizabeth LeMaster Simpson '58 Sara Lynn Stainback '98 Gayle Scott Storey '70 Gail Corrington Streete Scott B. Sutherland '75 Diane McMillan Wellford '59 Joy Brown Wiener '52 Lillian S. Yates Friends (Annual gifts under $250) Betty Hunt Armstrong '38 Susan Fulmer Austin '55 Nancy R. Blalock Martha House Crenshaw '74 Anne Herbers Farris '78 Cynthia Hickman Feltus '76 Elizabeth T. Graves Margaret Jones Houts '40 Amy Farley Howe '83 Sue Anne Jenkerson '73 Nicole Rebecca Kelsay '99 Kathleen Laakso Mona Rice Matthews Rosamond Goldman Quay '75 Melody Hokanson Richey Claire Revels Shapiro Kathleene Ann Sims Linda Jackson Walter '64 Katheryn Lee Wright Board of Directors Susan Logan Huffman '83 Chair Joellyn Forrester Sullivan '77, Vice- Chair for Scholarships Theresa Cloys Carl '75, Immediate Past Chair Louise Rutkowski Allen '77 Michelle B. Babcock '98 Susan Smith Cain '72 Betty Calandruccio Deborah Legg Craddock '80 Donna Kay Fisher '71 Elizabeth Hubbard Gill '71 Sara Jean Jackson '59 Doris Rasberry Jones '59 Katherine M. McElroy '77 Catherine Harrell Morehead '82 Ann Vines Roberts '60 Elizabeth LeMaster Simpson '58 Gail C. Streete, Faculty Representative Dorothy Sanders Wells '82 Ex officio Nancy Hill Fulmer '51 Nancy J. Huggins '74 Claudia J. Kennedy '69 Harriette Hollis McLoughlin '41 Katherine Davis Murfree Vicki Gilmore Palmer '75 Nettie W. Schilling Wayne Steele Sharp '75 Carole Pearson Troutt In Memoriam 171/111JI I