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In the Heart of Iraqby Lee Freeland Hancock, C'81

Editor's note: In December, journalist Lee Freeland

Hancock spent two weeks in Iraq, covering the Per-

sian Gulf crisis for the Dallas Morning News.

It is often chance encounters that reveal the

heart of this authoritarian country:

When American hostages at the MeliaMonsour Hotel were told that all Westerners

were being released, they were joined in a spon-taneous celebration by some of the same Iraqi

who had held them prisoner for months. Thenext day, the same guards threatened andscuffled with a New Mexico man who tried to

test his freedom by leaving the downtownBaghdad hotel with his wife.

Taxi drivers openly hounded foreigners to

trade dollars for Iraqi dinars at 15 times the offi-

cial rate, even though the practice is

officially punishable by death. Thesame drivers meekly reported daily,

to security men who circled hotel

parking lots demanding informa-

tion on the movements of

foreigners.

A guide, one of the official cen-

sors assigned to foreign media, of-

fered a taste of the dark humor often

aimed at too curious reporters. Askedthe effect of United Nations sanctions <

local factories, he smirked, "So you're <

those reporters who wants to visit our facto-

ries?" It was a thinly veiled reference to the

British reporter hanged as a spy last Marchafter trying to investigate the cause of a mysteri-

ous explosion at an Iraqi military plant. But the

guide later bridled when asked if he were a

member of Iraq's ruling Arab Baath Socialist

Party. "Not everyone in Iraq supports all the

party line," he said, staring hard to press his

point, before grinning and abruptly changingthe subject.

Such are the contradictions of Iraq.

I was sent to Baghdad in early December to

cover efforts by relatives of 17 American hos-

tages to win the release of their loved ones. Myeditors at the Dallas Morning News asked me to

go because I had covered U.S. hostage families

since Iraq invaded Kuwait in early August. I

approached the assignment like any difficult

story, drawing on the curiosity and researchskills I began learning as a student at Sewanee.

And preparing for the trip did:

fortable memories from my days as a history

major. After applying for an Iraqi journalist's

visa, I had less than three weeks to absorb asmuch as possible on a country many Americanshave trouble distinguishing from Iran.

I frantically read all I could on Iraq, a countryalternately modernized and terrorized by morethan two decades of Baath party rule. After the

Baathists, including Saddam Hussein, took con-trol in 1968, Iraq's third world tribal society wa*dragged headlong into the 20th

Baathists had

been respon-

introducing

modem medical

and improving the

marginal existence that hadbeen the lot of most Iraqis for

Saddam Hussein and his cronies also had intro-

duced an Orwellian regime where neighborwatched neighbor, children were encouraged to

spy on parents, and the dreaded Mukhbarat, orsecret police, constantly monitored even thehighest government officials.

When I finally landed in Baghdad on Decem-ber 5, that research paid off. Two days after wearrived, Saddam Hussein freed all Western hos-tages. Within a week, my focus shifted to gaug-ing the mood of common Iraqis as they faced thegrowing prospect of war. Getting even a sem-blance of candor from Baghdad residents re-

quired some appreciation of the extent of gov-ernment control over all aspects of Iraqi society.

Understanding the peculiar courtesies dictated

by that control was also crucial to my ownsafety. Other Western reporters covering post-

invasion Iraq had been threatened, dragged to

police stations, and interrogated for hours for

acts as innocuous as openly taking notes on a

street comer or asking the price of groceries in aBaghdad store.

Early on, I got a demonstration of the

pervasiveness of fear in a country whereimages of the maximum leader stare from

ijor building and street corner. My>nd day in Baghdad, I pointed toward

Iraq's hulking tomb of the unknownsoldier from a car window. That gesture

:nt my native driver into panic. Hefrantically grabbed my hand, slapped

it to the car seat, and careened wildly

though traffic as he hissed a warning."Never point, madam. You must never

point. They might see," he said, nodding wild-

eyed at the heavily armed Republican guardsringing the grounds of the massive, stainless-

steel monument. "If they see, we are stopped.

And then, big trouble for you and me. You mustnever point. Some things in Iraq you do not

want to learn." But he and other Iraqis weresurprisingly willing to express frustration at

being dragged toward another military con-

flict after eight years of brutal fighting withIran. "All other countries are good. OnlyIraq is crazy," said the man, whose oldest

son faces imminent conscription. "Why all

his war, war, war? It is wrong. For Iraqi

people, our hearts are broken from all of

the fighting. Only Iraqi president, Iraqi

government want war."

For many Iraqis, however, worries of warare mixed with anger at the outside world.

An elderly retired banker was the most elo-

quent of those who were anxious to offer anArab history lesson to explain their views of

the Persian Gulf crisis.

In a clipped, vaguely British accent, the ele-

gantly dressed old man approached me to ventanger over events that took place almost a

see Iraq, page 11

The Vice-Chancellor's Corner

E SEWANEE NEWS

Sewanee volunteer firemen and

EMTs: Some like it hot.

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SEWANEE«Stephen E. Becker, Director oj Public

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Associated Alumni Officers

Robert N. Rust III, C61, President

N. Pendleton Rogers, C72, Vice Pre

John W. Tonissen Jr., C70, National

Elizabeth McDonough Howick, C81, Vice President

for Admissions

The Rev. Dwighl Ogier |r., CM, Vice President for Regxms

The Rev. Henry N. Parsley Jr., C70, Vice President

The Rev. Charles D. Cooper, T81, Vice President

for ike School of Theology

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Recently all alumni received a letter asking

for help in identifying high school stu-

dents who might be interested in apply-

ing to Sewanee. With this column 1 want

"

firm again the importance of that sol

the current year and for the future. C

sib'es sustain themselves over time with excel-

lent faculty, excellent facilities, and excellent

students. For many generations, Sewanee has

been blessed with an adequate supply of each;

together, these factors have created a unique and

important institution of American higher

education.

But the early 1990s will see a decline in the

overall pool of students completing high school.

This decline, already evident last year in the

numbers of students who applied to college, will

continue for at least five years. The practical

effects can be quickly stated: all colleges, public

and private, will be recruiting intensely; there

will be bidding for good students in the way

that has been customary for good athletes; there

1

will be exaggerated claims for what this or that

- college can do for its students; and there will be

some colleges that will have a difficult time fi-

nancially as well. Not surprisingly, there will be

, some inflated figures submitted by colleges

1 about their applicants so they can enhance their

i position in the plethora of publications which

; rank colleges. U.S. News and World Report, one ot

the most prominent of these publications, places

,a heavy emphasis on the number of applications

i received and those subsequently rejected.

I Sewanee occupies a strong position. We have

had a significant growth in numbers of applica-

tions over the last decade. We have a strong

scholarship program for merit awards in the

Wilkins Scholars Program, and we will be insti-

tuting some alumni scholarships in areas like

Charlotte and Nashville. We have no intention

of lowering our standards for admissions; weexcellent place because w<

intend to recruit the same excellent students as

in the past.

But now we do need more assistance. Our

admissions staff works hard to visit many

schools, our alumni officers are devoting count-

less hours to the admissions effort, and many of

our faculty members help as well. In addition,

we will be making more use of our athletic

coaches, who recruit talented and qualified ath-

letes, to help in this process. Nevertheless, your

assistance is imperative. You can spot potential

students, you can suggest that they visit the

campus, you can forward their names to us, and

you can talk credibly with their parents about

the quality of the Sewanee education and the

special character of this University. You can as-

sure them of the excellent liberal arts curricu-

lum, of the distinguished list of Rhodes Scholars

and others who have been successful here, and

of the University's intention to preserve and

enhance the traditional values of civility, of car-

ing for others, and of service.

In the spring, when we have made our admis-

sions decisions, we will ask many of you to help

contact students in your area who have been

admitted. We will need your help, especially if

these students have not visited Sewanee, in sug-

gesting that they come and see the Domain for

themselves. You are our best public relations

officers, and we will need your help as we move

to convince students that Sewanee has much to

offer them as they consider their future under-

graduate education.

Finally, we will be moving to strengthen our

already strong program of financial assistance,

assistance based on merit and on need, assis-

tance that has grown considerably over the last

five years. We believe that this program will

continue to make Sewanee possible for many

students who might not consider us; we believe

jthis program gives Sewanee a major advantage

|over many of our peer institutions. As we move

]

to expand the effectiveness of our public rela-

[tions efforts, this program will be receiving more

]

attention and more publicity, including the dis-

tribution of brochures to local parishes and local

I Sewanee clubs.

Over the last two years I have visited many

|

secondary schools to meet with counselors, give

|speeches, and talk with students. The task has

i always been easy. Sewanee is valued as a superb

|college, as a special place, as an advocate of the

! liberal arts education, and as an educational

,leader in the South and across the nation. With

I

an excellent curriculum, superb faculty, and

I glorious heritage, the task of convincing others

jabout Sewanee's importance is easy. But there is

!only one of me; 1 need—Sewanee needs—your

, help with admissions and thus with its future. In

I advance, 1 extend my thanks to each of you for

helping and sustaining us.

/4yw(? WJX"..

On the Mountain

Mrs. Iune Chen help:

ClementChen Hall Officially DedicatedOn November 17, more than 200 Universityofficials, friends, and alumni formally dedicatedSewanee's newest building, Clement Chen Hall.

Clement Chen Hall will serve the Universityand the full range of Sewanee constituents. Thestructure will serve as the official residence ofthe vice-chancellor and president and will beused to host distinguished visitors to Sewanee.

The building was funded with an initial

$500,000 gift in the spring of 1988 by the late

Clement Chen, C'53, who came to Sewanee fromwar-torn Shanghai, China, in the late 1940s andwho went on to become an immensely success-ful international architect and businessman andprivate matching donations by members of theUniversity's Board of Regents. It will be usecffora variety of University functions, includingreceptions, dinners, meetings, lectures, and

The 8,500-squa re-foot structure, built withTennessee stone, has four rooms downstairs, six

rooms upstairs, and two fireplaces. The first-

floor area can accommodate up to 300 people forUniversity functions. The second floor will beused primarily as the living area for the vice-chancellor and his family; two rooms in thesecond floor have been designated for the use ofspecial guests of the University. Randy Marks,C'69, of Historic Architectural Resource Plan-ning in Birmingham, Ala., served as the architecton the building.

At the dedication, Vice-Chancel lor William-son expressed the University's gratitude to theChen family for making the building a reality.

Mrs. June Chen and her children, Clement ChenIII and Barbara, were present for the ceremony.

"Sewanee meant a lot to my father, and it hasmeant a lot to all of us," said Clement Chen III at

the ceremony. 'This occasion is an opportunityfor all of us to reflect upon how good luck anddivine help change all of our lives."

Vice-Chancellor Williamson said ClementChen Hall will endure for generations ofSewanee graduates.

"With the completion of this residence, a newera in the life of the Sewanee family begins," hesaid. "It is our fondest wish that in decadesahead individuals will talk about the times andparties spent in this place, of fond memories, oflectures, recitals, dinners, receptions, and merri-ment. We hope these activities will be as rivetedin future memories as those who have knownFulford Hall in decades past," said Williamson.

"Clement Chen Hall belongs to the Universityand to the broader Sewanee family, to those onthe Mountain and those away. May it always be- place of joy, warmth, and hospitality."

Festival of Lessonsand Carols DrawsRecord Attendance

More than 4,000

people attended the

31st annual Festival

of Lessons and Car-

ols in Sewanee onDecember 1-2.

A seasonal high-

light throughoutthe Southeast, the

Festival of Lessons|

and Carols explo

Christian themes of God's Advent and Incarna-tion in Jesus Christ through music and readings.The service was developed from ancient formsof worship and adapted from a service sungannually since 1918 and broadcast throughoutthe world from King's College Chapel, in Cam-bridge, England.

Sewanee's University Choir, which sings inAll Saints' Chapel throughout the year, providedmusic for the three services. Led by Dr. RobertG. Delcamp, university organist and choirmasterand associate professor of music, the UniversityChoir has 88 undergraduate members.

"Some 250 to 300 individuals from the stu-dent body, staff, and community contribute timeand talents to this festival," said Delcamp. "It is

truly an expression of our common lives to-gether on the Mountain."

The festival is gaining increasing regionalattention. The December 1990 issue of SouthernAccents magazine features an article about thefestival written by Samuel F. Pickering Jr., C'63.

Sewanee Inn to TakeonNew Role

The University of the South will withdraw theSewanee Inn from the commercial motel busi-ness effective July 31, 1991, according to ThomasKepple, vice president for business and commu- :

nity relations.

In making the announcement, Kepple said,"After a lengthy evaluation, we concluded the j

estimated cost of repairingand refurbishing the I

inn precluded the university from maintaining acompetitive commerical establishment. Conse- '

quently, an agreement has been reached withSuzann and John Stamps, the current operatorsof the inn, to discontinue commercial operation:

Kepple expressed the University's gratitudeto the Stamps for their operation of the inn andindicated that all commitments through nextsummer would be honored.

"The Sewanee Inn is a landmark which hasserved the University community for almost 40years. We will be exploring ways to ensure theinn is maintained in some form to serve thecommunity as a guest house, meeting place, orin some other capacity," Kepple added.

Alumni Affairs THE SEWAN EE NEWS

Homecoming 1990;

This year an

estimated 2,500

people returned to campus

for Sewanee's Homecoming

celebration on October 5, 6, and 7. The

three-day funfest was dedicated to football,

camaraderie, receptions, reunions, and nonstop

catching up.

On Friday, October 5, at 3 p.m., 1 25 alumni

returned to the classroom with gTeat expecta-

tions for the first alumni seminars. Alumni

attended one of four courses: "Reflections on

Southern History," taught by Dr. Joseph Cush-

man "Hawaiian Spider Genealogy Via DNAFingerprinting," taught by Dr. Henrietta Croom;

"Poetry: The Muse as Laughter," taught by Dr.

Wyatt Prunty; and "Crisis in the Gulf," taught

by Dr. Arthur Knoll. The seminars provided an

opportunity for faculty to assist alumni in

exploring subjects of current and continu-

ing interest.

Friday evening's cocktail reception

and dinner dance brought together an

exceptional crowd. This year's

Distin-

guished

AlumnusAwardwas pre-

sented to

Burrell O.

McGee,

C56.Thefirst award

for faculty

achievement

was given to

Dean Robert

"Red" Lancaster.

Saturday's

activibes began

with an Administrators' Forum

featuring Vice-Chancellor

Williamson, Vice President for

University Relations TomWatson, Vice president for Busi-

ness and Community Relations

Tom Kepple, Provost Frederick

Croom, Dean W. Brown Patterson,

and Director of Public Relations

Stephen Becker. Each administrator

shared with the audience his goals for

the University and answered questions

from alumni regarding future plans at

Sewanee.

Following the forum, alumni gathered

for this year's annual meeting. Exomati

pins were presented to members of the

Class of 1940 who were celebrating their

50th reunion. Class members present were:

Shubael T. Beasley, Wendell V. Brown, Willi

C. Duckworth Jr., William M. Edwards, Hay-

wood C. Emerson, Philip Evans, F. Newton

Howden, Richard Kirchhoffer, L. Valentine Lee

Jr., Robert G. Snowden, Arthur D. Whittington,

Breckinridge W. Wing, Richard H. Workman,

and Gilbert G.Wright 111.

The 1990 Golden Rim Award went to U.S.

Ambassador to Kenya Smith Hempstone, C50.

Other long distance travelers were the Reverend

F. Newton Howden, C'40, who came from En-

gland, and Elizabeth Wheatley, C90, who came

from Hawaii.

Ensor Dunsford, a former student who left

the University in 1945, was recognized for re-

turning this year to receive his degree, and

resolutions honoring the memory of graduates

William Porter "Pete" Ware, C'26, and

Alexander Guerry Jr., C39, were adopted. The

1990 Dobbins Trophy was awarded

to the

Charlotte Club.

Associated Alumni

officers Robert N. Rust III, C'61,

president, Elizabeth Howick, C'81,

vice president for admissions, N. Pendleton

Rogers, C72, vice president for planned giving,

the Rev. Dwight E. Ogier, C64, vice president

for regions, John W. Tonissen Jr., C'70, chairman

of the Sewanee Annual Fund, the Rev. Henry N.

Parsley Jr., C'70, vice president for church rela-

tions, and the Rev. Robert S. Creamer,T71, vice

president for the School of Theology, gave indi-

vidual reports regarding advances made in 1990.

Following the meeting, alumni enjoyed box

lunches under the shade of a tent in the Quad.

Dean Lancaster was on hand to sign

copies of his new book. The Better

Parts of a Life.

On the field, Sewanee beat

Rhodes 7-6 in one of the

most exciting games.

The Homecoming victory wa<

celebrated with a rollicking

round of reunion parties

and receptions.

Homecoming is not

only a time for festivity,

but also a time for

remembering. In

memory of alumni who died in

1990, the final day of Homecoming

began with a memorial

9 a.m. During the 10:30 a.m.

chapel service, the late Bayly

Turlington was remembered

with the dedication of a tablet

honoring his life.

The 1990 Homecoming weekend ended

with plans already in progress for next year'

celebration, which will take pi;

and 26, 1991.

l October 25

—Cheryl Peters

Alumni Affairs

ALUMN T. ajEEIjD JL

by Robert Rust, C'61President, Associated Alumni

To remember there

must be something lo

remember. That some-thing is brought into

the present of our

thereby has presence,

a presence that is as

real and meaningful

as our very existence.

That rememberedsomething privately speaks to us more surely,

more clearly than any other person or event in

j time when many don't cYet,v

to listen, if they know how to do so. This i:

largely a sui generis age; one that says "if it

didn't happen today, man, it just isn't worthconsidering!" Irony of ironies, we are so infatu-

ated with ourselves that we can't and won't

recognize that such an outlook is nothing new.To the contrary, history is replete with similar

examples. Worse yet, we can or will not leam of

the tragic consequences of the self-worship of

past times.

Further yet from our ken or desire is the abil-

ity to distinguish between the remembrance that

comes from history and that which comes fromtradition. History speaks to the "what" of man-kind's existence, while tradition speaks to the

"ought." Auschwitz is part of our collective

history, but it is not at the core of our collective

tradition. Taking out our personal frustrations

on those we love is part of our personal history,

but it is not at the core of our personal tradition.

Sewanee, though not without blemish in this

regard, has been a bulwark against the sui

generis syndrome. It has been a sanctuary of

memory, if you will. It looks to the great think-

ers, the great works, that have survived the test

of time to distinguish between the "what" andthe "ought." A Sewanee graduate knows there is

good literature and there is bad literature, goodand terrible art and poetry, a right and wrongway to conduct scientific research, a correct andincorrect use of the higher reasoning skills—that

the tradition of his or her past must first be un-

derstood before a venture can be made into the

tradition of another, and that he or she has to

deal squarely with the question of whether there

is a living God.If our contemporary thinkers are right,

American society, reaching to the hedonistic

orgy of the last several decades, is entering into

a time of search and rediscovery of things spiri-

tual. If this is so, we shall be very much in quest

of the "ought." And Sewanee is probably goingto enjoy a renaissance in prestige and reputation,

viewed as a keeper of the keys, rather than a

relic of the past.

A great and wonderful witness to the tenacity

of the Sewanee spirit of remembrance occurredearlier in October this year. On the Friday

evening of Homecoming we honored two menof Sewanee; Burrell O. McGee, as our Distin-

guished Alumnus, and Robert S. Lancaster, asthe first recipient of the Distinguished Faculty

Award. These two men were and are remem-bered, and have presence, as examples of the

"ought." Both of them would disclaim such a

description. Both Burrell and Dean Lancaster

would be the first to tell you the difference be-

tween their personal history and their personaltradition. Yet, therein lies one of the very reasonsfor honoring and remembering them.

Another man was present and very much apart of this celebration. Though relatively newto Sewanee, he, in my opinion, is destined to

become one of Sewanee's great vice-chancellors.

Dr. Samuel R. Williamson Jr. brings to us anamazing blend of the leadership traits of the

great VCs of Sewanee's past. He is very much in

the McCrady tradition of academic excellence

and integrity, yet he will also test the upper lim-

its of the Guerry tradition of sound and prudentstewardship. And he is profoundly thankful for

what Bob Ayres accomplished, against seem-ingly insurmountable odds, and is committed to

building upon the foundation of the Ayres era.

Sam Williamson knows what Red Lancaster

means when Red says in his recent memoirs,"Memory civilizes us . . . because attachment to

place and people develops a moral sense ... afeeling of obligation for the past and a responsi-

bility for the future." He understands what is

going to be required to give vitality and mean-ing to the Red Dean's axiom, "Knowledge of the

true and the good passes from generation to

generation by an education that preserves the

sound traditions and worthy beliefs in the cul-

ture of a people." By word and example, Dr.

Williamson will call upon student and professor

alike to seek that which is good and true, be it

found in the training of future pathologists in

the biology lab, the seeking of the core of

Christ's teaching (tradition) by a theological

student in Hamilton Hall or in the discovery bya future businessman of the difference betweenChaucer's "what" and his "ought" in an English

class. More than this, he'll seek to provideSewanee generated opportunities for the alumnito continue their pursuit of the good and true,

the "ought."

Yet, while what transpired on that Friday

evening in early October was a great celebration

of the lives and contributions of two wonderfulmen of Sewanee and the presence of a newleader of great promise in our midst, it was morethan this. It was a remembering of, a bringing

into living presence, the core of the Sewaneetradition. At that core is a seeking of the wisdomof our past in order to apply it to conditions of

living now and in the future. Further, it is

grounded in a true humility, one that comesfrom knowing our indebtedness to those whohave gone before us, to one another, and, aboveall, to our Creator.

Our celebration was a vital and real presence

of "Ecce Quam Bonum." May Sewanee continue

to be blessed with such good and pleasant gath-

erings together and remembrances of our con-

tinuing succession of benefactors.

In Search of Quality

Students

by Lisa Howick, C'81

As an Associated Alumni officer who serves asvice president for admissions, I am committed to

helping the University recruit quality students.

The recruitment process is not easy—our nationis facing a 10 percent decrease in the number of

18-year-olds, and, with that, a decrease in appli-

cations to colleges. In addition, federal aid to

middle-income families is decreasing.

How can we, as those who know the Univer-sity best, help recruit top students to Sewanee?First we should look around us and considerhow well Sewanee is known within our commu-nities. Is it publicized within our schools, amongfriends, through church connections, and in

community activities? What can you do to

spread the word about Sewanee?I have compiled a list of actions that you can

take to make a difference in the recruiting pro-

• Send the Office of Admissions the names of

qualified prospective high school students.

Alumni search cards were mailed to you in

November. The University will send a letter to

those students mentioning your name as a

reference.

• Check with your local school counselor to

determine how much he or she knows aboutSewanee. Ask this person to let you know if heor she encounters students who might benefit

from information about the University.

• Check within your parish or with local

clergy. Arrange a showing of the Sewanee video

to your church's EYC or youth group. Clergy

have also been sent search cards and haveproved to be an excellent source.

• Find out what your local Sewanee Club is

doing and volunteer to help. Offer to host a

function in your home or to arrange a trip for

prospective students to visit Sewanee. Someclubs do personal letter writing to prospective

and accepted students, while others have orga-

nized a phone committee.

• Some Sewanee Clubs are funding a local

club scholarship. In Charlotte, Louisville, and

see Quality Students, page 6

Quality Students-continued from page 5

Nashville, the clubs have provided a $1,000

stipend to a student chosen by that club from

within the city that has been accepted by the

University. These are merit-based scholarships,

with no regard for financial need. Such stipends

bring increased local publicity to Sewanee. Your

club president should check with Yogi Ander-

son, Associated AJumni executive director, for

more information.

The Alumni City Representatives Program,

started two years ago, is successfully operating

in 12 cities. Trained by the Office of Admissions,

alumni have provided personal outreach in

these cities by staffing college fairs, organizing

receptions for prospective and admitted stu-

dents, giving the Sewanee book award to top

high school juniors, bringing students to

Sewanee for a visit, and organizing phone and

letter-writing committees.

Following is a list of the representatives in

cities participating in the program:

Atlanta: Person to be selected

Birmingham: Don Pippen, C'76

Charlotte: Josephine Hicks, C'83

Columbia, SO Anne Garrison, C'78

Dallas: Kim Swisher Kerr, C'82

Houston: Peter Squire, C76Jacksonville: Elizabeth Renfroe, C'82

Memphis: Daniel Johnson, C'82

Mobile: Bill Inge, C'81

Nashville: Fred McLaughlin, C80New Orleans: Betsy Gayle, C'86

Washington: Kimra Anderson, C'86

For more information about the program,

contact W. Marichal Gentry, C'86, assistant

director of admissions, at (615) 598-1238.

Alumni play a crucial role in the recruiting

process. Your efforts will help the University

become more competitive as it strives to attract

the region's best students in the 1990s.

Alumni AffairsFour Receive Honorary Degrees

at Founders' Day Convocation

THE SEWANEE NEWS

Associated AlumniHonor Lon Varnell

Lon Vamell, Tennessee entrepreneur, humanitar-

ian, entertainment promoter, and University of

the South basketball coach from 1948 to 1970,

was recently honored by Sewanee's Associated

Alumni at his Nashville home.

Yogi Anderson, executive director of Associ-

ated Alumni, with former players Robert N.

Rust, president of the Associated Alumni, Allen-

town, Penn., and Bob-Swisher, Dallas, Texas,

presented to Vamell a resolution honoring his

legendary coaching career and his selfless ser-

vice to humanity.

"Coach Vamells influence is legendary at

Sewanee, and he has had an impact on the

University that is as unique as it is cherished,"

said Anderson. "The Associated Alumni mem-bership felt privileged to have an opportunity to

honor Coach Vamell's place in the history of

Sewanee."

University Chancellor the Rt. Rev. Charles Jud-

son Child Jr. conferred honorary degrees on

former U.S. Senator Howard H. Baker Jr., Talbot

D'Alemberte, the Rt. Rev. Robert Hodges John-

son, and the Venerable Reuben Archer Torrey III

during Founders' Day ceremonies on Oct. 8.

Howard H. Baker Jr. served in the U.S. Senate

from 1967 to 1985, including two terms as the

senate majority leader, and as the President's

chief of staff from 1987 to 1988. He is currently

practicing law with the firm of Baker, Worthing-

ton, Crossley, Stansberry & Woolf in Knoxville,

Baker attended the University of the South

and Tulane University and received his law

degree from the University of Tennessee. He

served for three years in the U.S. Navy during

World War II. In 1973, Senator Baker first won

national recognition as vice chairman of the

Senate Watergate Committee. He was the key-

note speaker at the Republican National Con-

vention in 1976 and a candidate for the

Republican presidential nomination in 1980.

Talbot "Sand/' D'Alemberte is president-

elect of the American Bar Association (ABA) and

will become president of the ABA in August

1991. He is currently a partner in the law firm of

Steel, Hector & Davis, based in Miami, Ha.

D'Alemberte, a 1955 graduate of the Univer-

sity of the South with a B.A. degree in political

science, received his law degree from the Uni-

versity of Florida in 1961. He also studied at the

London School of Economics and Political Sci-

ence. He served on active duty with the U.S.

Navy and is a member of the U.S. Naval Re-

D'Alemberte rejoined his law firm in 1989

after serving five years as professor and dean at

Florida State University School of Law in Talla-

hassee. Previously, he had practiced with Steel,

Hector & Davis while serving as a lecturer and

adjunct professor at the University of Miami

School of Law. He is a past president of the

American Judicature Society and a member of

the American College of Trial Lawyers.

The Rt Rev. Robert Hodges Johnson was

elected bishop coadjutor of the Episcopal Dio-

cese of Western North Carolina in November

1988 and was consecrated on March 11, 1989. He

succeeded as Bishop of the Diocese on January 1,

1990.

Prior to his election as bishop, Johnson was

rector of Holy Innocents' Church and chairman

of the board of Holy Innocents' Episcopal School

in Atlanta, Ga., for 17 years. Before going to

Atlanta, Bishop Johnson was senior canon,

canon pastor, and canon precentor of St. John's

Cathedral in Jacksonville, Fla.

Bishop Johnson is a 1 956 graduate of the

University of Florida, with both B.A. and B.S.

degrees. He received both his Master of Divinity

degree in 1963 and his Doctor of Divinity degree

in 1990 from the Virginia Theological Seminary

(VTS) in Alexandria, Va. He has been a member

of the Board of Trustees of VTS since 1981

.

The Venerable Reuben Archer Torrey III is

on leave of absence as director of Jesus Abbey in

the Diocese of Taejon, Kangwondo, Korea,

where he has served since 1965. He is honorary

archdeacon of Kangwondo, after serving in that

capacity officially from 1971-89.

Rev. Torrey received his Master of Theology

degree concurrently from the University of the

South and Princeton University in 1945. Hegraduated with honors from Davidson College

in 1939 with an A.B. degree. He has also studied

at Yenching University in Peking, China; Prince-

ton Theological Seminary; Harvard; Yonsei

University, Seoul, Korea; and St. Augustine's

College, Canterbury, England.

He went to Korea in 1 957 and served as rector of

St. Michael's Theological College, Anglican Church in

Seoul. He was a dencal delegate to the Anglican

Congress in Toronto, Ontario, in 1963. In 1965 he

founded Jesus Abbey in the Great White Mountains,

where he continues to live with his wife. Jesus Abbey

is an international community made up of families

and single people, founded by Father Torrey as a

layman training center and laboratory of Christian

From left to right: Vice-Chancellor Williamson, Talbot D'Alemberte, the Rt. Rev. Robert Hodges Johnson, for

Senator Howard H. Baker jr., the Venerable Reuben Archer Torrey III, and University Chancellor the Rt. Rev. Charles

judscn Child jr. at Founders' Day. ^^

WIIVTER 1991 DevelopmentsUniversity IntroducesTwoNew Levels

of Leadership Giving Societies

Sewanee counts among its indispensable friends

a select number of people who come forward

and provide vital leadership in the annual pro-

gram of financial support. These people are

dedicated alumni, parents, and other friends of

Sewanee whose exemplary level of giving re-

flects a strong belief in the University and its

tradition of educational excellence.

To acknowledge the need for additional funds

and to recognize these generous supporters, two

new levels of the Vice-Chancellor's and Trust-

ees' Society are being introduced during the

1990-91 fiscal year. Those who donate $2,500 or

more will be recognized as Patrons and those

who support at a level of $5,000 will receive the

distinction of being Fellows.

"For many years the University has offered

recognition to the loyal supporters in the Cen-

tury Club ($100 or more], the Quintard Society

[$500 or more), the Vice-Chancellor's and Trust-

ees'Society [$1,000 or more], and the Chan-

cellor's Society [$10,000 or more)," explains

Director of Annual Giving Jane Eaves, C'80.

"However, there was no special way of recogniz-

ing those donors who made significant annual

contributions between the $1,000 and $10,000

level. By offering two new levels within the

Vice-Chancellor's and Trustees' Society, we can

recognize those who have been giving

above the minimum amount. Al:

those who have been giving at the

level of that society will be encour*

crease their support."

The 1990-91 Annual Fund Coal

lion. Tuition, room, and board fees

? hope that

i$2.1mil-

ronly

two-thirds of what it costs the University I

educate a student for one year. The remainder

comes from endowment income, auxiliary ser-

vices, and donations to the Annual Fund.

The Annual Fund began as the Million Dollar

Program in the early 1970s and evolved into the

Alumni Fund later in the decade; it became a

part of the Century 11 Campaign in the 1980s.

Gifts to the Annual Fund from college and

seminary alumni, parents of current students,

parents of alumni, and friends support day-to-

day operations. They ensure that the finest

faculty, curriculum, classrooms, and surround-

ings are maintained.

Your early contribution to the 1990-91 Annual

Fund is important because it is applied to this

fiscal year's expenses. Although the fiscal year

ends June 30, 1991 (and gifts are accepted up to

that time), a gift now helps the University makepurchases, improvements, and repairs as needed

without waiting until June.

The theme for this year's Annual Fund is

"Put Your Money Where Your Heart Is." As welook back across the years, it is apparent that

Sewanee itself is a gift, made by one generation

to another.

As Dr. Robert "Red" Lancaster has said,

"Sewanee represents a covenant, made between

the living and the dead and the yet unborn." At

the heart of that covenant is a promise that each

generation will pass on to the next the best that

it has learned about the human condition andthe resources to perpetuate the teaching and the

learning of those ideas. The leadership giving

societies make it possible for us to recognize

those who accept the invitation and challenge to

such teaching at Sewanee.

Carter Martin St., right, and his son, Douglas, were present (or the dedication of a plaque commemorating the life of the

late Carter Martin ]r„ C '80. Carter Martin Jr. was a prominent member of the canoe team during his years at Sewanee,

gaining national recognition. Carter Martin Sr. has created an endowment fund in memory of his son to support the needs

of the canoe team.

Ogden Carlton

Matches MellonFoundation Grant

Ogden D. Carlton II, C '32, has matched a

$200,000 Presidential Discretionary Grant

awarded to the University of the South by the

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Conditions set forth by the Mellon Founda-

tion, which awards Presidential Discretionary

Grants for use by new presidents of private

liberal arts colleges during the first three years

of their presidencies, require that awards be

matched dollar for dollar by recipient

institutions.

"I am pleased that Mr. Carlton has committed

to match the entire $200,000 Mellon Foundation

grant award. He has made a very generous

commitment, and $100,000 of the matching

amount has already been received. The remain-

ing $100,000 will be forthcoming in January

1991," said Sewanee's Vice-Chancellor

Williamson.

"The Mellon/Carlton fund will allow for

enhancement in some extremely important areas

including minority recruitment, curriculum

reform and development, and quality of student

life," Williamson added.

Carlton, chief executive officer of Carlton Co.

in Albany, Ga., is a member of the Board of

Trustees.

Phonathons Net$90,485 in Pledges

;More than 2,500 alumni were contacted this fall

i

by phonathon volunteers who called on behalf

: of the 1990-91 Sewanee Annual Fund.

From the phonathon room in Fulford Hall, 80

student volunteers called on 20 different nights

from October through December. In September

and October, 90 alumni from the class of 1929 to

I the class of 1990 gathered in Houston, Dallas,

IChattanooga, Columbia, S.C, Charlotte, N.C.,

j

and Washington, DC, to participate in the

j

phonathon.i The alumni response to the volunteers' work

Iwas impressive—more than 1,400 alumni

i pledged $90,485 to the University during the

phonathons.

Humanities

Reinhard Zachau, an associate professor in the

Department of German, published his newbook, Hans Faltada als politischer Schriftstelter

(Hans Fallada as Political Writer), last spring.

Fallada, unlike exile emigres Thomas Mann and

Bertolt Brecht, wrote his novels from within

Nazi Germany. Focusing on Fallada's perception

of political events during the 1930s and '40s,

Zachau examines this period in German history

from an inside perspective that until now has

been largely ignored in literary criticism. Thanks

to a University faculty development grant,

James Davidheiser, assistant professor of Ger-

man, spent three weeks in East and West Ger-

many last summer. He participated in a seminar

on the German Democratic Republic.

In the Department of French, Associate Professor

George Foe has completed a review for the

Revue Marwaux. He spent part of July at the

University's affiliate institute in Hyeres, France,

making preparations for Sewanee's second

"Summer in France" program, scheduled for

summer 1991. While in France, he continued his

research on the baron Vivant Denon at Paris's

Bibliotheque Nationale.

Charles Brockett, professor of political science,

pursued research on U.S. policy toward Central

America, 1954-1976, in the National Archives for

two months last summer. His work was funded

by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Professor Barclay Ward has been on sabbatical

leave to serve as a foreign affairs specialist in the

U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency in

Washington, D.C. He also attended the organiza-

tional meeting of the Limited Test Ban Treaty

Amendment Conference at the United Nations

in late May as a member of the U.S. delegation

and traveled in August to Geneva as part of the

U.S. delegation to the fourth Review Conference

of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

Associate Professor

Robin Gottfried,

Department of Eco-

nomics, made, twopresentations at the

spring meeting of the

Eastern Economic

Association in Cincin-

nati. He also chaired a

m session and presented

two papers at the

Mk \ International Society

for Ecological Economics held last May at the

World Bank in Washington, D.C. Gottfried's

particular area of interest is the ecological eco-

nomics of developing c

"Coleridge and the Logos: The Trinitarian Unityof Consciousness and Culture" by Professor of

Religion James Clayton appeared in the April

issue of The Journal of Religion (University of

Chicago Press).

ScholarshipjProfessor of History

Joseph Cushman, C'49,

has published two

| book reviews this year,

Iv>oin the Sewanee

^ .B Review and the other in

jthe Florida Historical

^^* Quarterly. His essay

I ^ "Avery Odelle Craven,

I Revisionist" will ap-

\*SSf -j

pear early next year in

V Jig ( I Historians of the Ameri-

can South (Greenwood Press). Last October, Dr.

Cushman served as moderator for a panel at the

Southern Humanities Conference in Nashville.

Entitled "Southern Honor and Dishonor: The

South and the Civil War," the panel was spon-

sored by the Tennessee Humanities Council.

W. Brown Patterson, C'52, professor of history,

spent three weeks last summer in the Bodleian

Library at Oxford working on a manuscript for a

book on King James VI and I. He attended the

annual meeting of the Ecclesiastical History

Society at Chichester. His contribution to This

Sacred History, a festschrift for Professor John

Booty, was published in late spring (Cowley

Publications). James Hart, assistant professor of

history, attended the annual meeting of the

American Association for the Advancement of

Slavic Studies in October; he chaired a panel

entitled "Russia and the Greek East: Contacts

and Connections." He has also been workingwith the Tennessee Humanities Council in con-

nection with the Wonders International Cultural

Series in Memphis.

Don Keck DuPree, C73, instructor in the De-

partment of English, spent last summer at the

University of Wales, College of Cardiff, where heis a Ph.D. candidate exploring the topic "Intro-

spective Pastoralism: Non-Miltonic Roots of the

Restoration and Eighteenth Century." Duringthe recent academic year, he completed editorial

and production supervision for the University's

edition of Seen and Unseen: A Biologist Views the

Universe, a philosophy of science written by the

late Vice-Chancellor Edward McCrady. In spring

1990 DuPree published "Andrew Lytle as

Reader: An Appreciation" in Horns of Plenty:

Malcolm Cowley and His Generation.

Richard O'Connor,

thropology, spent June at

Cornell University as a

guest of the Southeast

Asia program. In addition

to doing his own research,

he spoke to an Asian

studies seminar and a

group of Fulbright schol-

ars bound for Thailand.

Dr. O'Connor continues

to write a cultural history

of the Thai peoples, a

project funded by the

National Endowment for

the Humanities.

THE SEWANEE NEWS

After attending a six-week National Endowmentfor the Humanities summer seminar on ethics

and value theory at Trinity University in San

Antonio, Assistant Professor of Philosophy Paul

Eddy Wilson participated in the eighth Interna-

tional Workshop Conference on Teaching Phi-

losophy at Indiana University.

Marion Hatchett, T'51, professor of liturgies at

the School of Theology, has published A Guide to

the Practice of Church Music, a completely revised

version of his 1980 Manual for Clergy and Church

Musicians. This edition includes an expandedand updated bibliography of music and liturgi-

cal publications.

Martha McCrory, director of the Sewanee Sum-mer Music Center, has just returned from audi-

tion tours of Australia, New Zealand, Germany,and Austria. She promises a 1991 summer con-

cert season of international scope and caliber.

Professors Eric Naylor, C '58, Department of

Spanish, and Robert Benson, Department of

English, announce the publication this winter of

Essays in Honor of Edward B. King, a compilation

of selected essays by medieval scholars on topics

relevant to the history, literature, and culture of

that period. King, a 1946 Sewanee graduate whoholds a bachelor's degree in divinity from

Seabury-We5tem Theological Seminary, retired

from the Department of History in 1989 after 21

years of teaching. This publication honors espe-

cially King's successful establishment of the

annual Medieval Colloquium, an event whichsince its founding in 1974 has drawn to Sewaneehundreds of scholars and historians from the

United States, Great Britain, and Canada.

Essays in Honor of Edward B. King,

edited by Eric Naylor and Robert

Benson, is available to Sewanee

alumni and friends at the special price

of $22.50, postage paid. Orders maybe sent to Robert G. Benson, The

University of the South, Sewanee,

Tennessee 37375. Please make checks

payable to The University of the South

.

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1

Sciences

ifr-1

Professor of Physics

Frank Hart reports

progress in two areas

of his research. The

first project, funded by

the Electric PowerResearch Institute,

enabled him to hire

three Sewanee students

thirr this

rer-earch. He is working: jA *B ''. or, the calculation of

electric fields and current produced inside

people and animals exposed to low-frequency

electromagnetic fields. Hart and his students

attended the June meeting of the Bioelectro-

ma,gnetics Society in San Antonio, where he and

college senior Kenny Wood each presented

papers. Hart presented the results of his work in

a second research area, the feasibility of measur-

ing changes in the internal physical characteris-

tics of biological materials by correlating such

changes with the variations in their electrical

properties, at the January 1990 meeting of the

American Physical Society. In August, he pre-

sented an invited paper on this research at the

25th annual meeting of the International Micro-

wave Products Institute in Denver.

Professor of Biology Henrietta Croom and co-

investigator Rosie Gillespie, a research associate

at the University of Hawaii, have received a

grant of $9,500 from the Hawaiian Natural Area

Reserves System to continue their study of

speciation in the Hawaiian spider genus

Tetragnatha. In addition to funding, this particu-

lar grant also provides access to remote natural

areas for collection of spider specimens.

During the s

1990, Steven Shaver,

an assistant professor

in the Department of

Forestry and Geology,

examined geological

sites in England, Scot-

land, and Wales in

preparation for the

field portion of a newcourse on the forestry

and geology of Britain.

During October and November, Professor of

Mathematics Sherwood Ebey led a series of

three workshops for mathematics teachers in the

Chattanooga City Schools. The sessions focused

on using transformations in teaching geometry

and algebra. He was invited to conduct the

workshops by Barbara Thomas, the mathematics

supervisor for the Chattanooga Gty Schools.

Thomas graduated from Sewanee in the early

1970s with an M.A.T degree.

ScholarshipSewanee Grads Thrive in Medical School

The demands of the Sewanee curriculum have

paid off for students who want to go to medical

school—over the last decade, 91 percent of

Sewanee undergraduates who have applied to

medical school have been accepted.

Henrietta Croom, a professor of biology whochairs the Premedical Advisory Committee, says

Sewanee's high rate of medical school acceptan-

ces is tied to a variety of factors. The Sewaneephilosophy of educating the whole person is

particularly attractive to medical schools, she

believes.

"Medical schools want students with broad

backgrounds. They look for students who are

not solely science oriented. The Sewanee cur-

riculum is so structured and broad that it is

impossible for a student to graduate without

considerable experience in the humanities and

the social sciences," she says. "At Sewanee,

students can't major in premed. They must

major in a traditional academic discipline.

"What we like to do is cultivate fearless stu-

dents," she continues, "which means students

who like to take a challenging course in Greek or

the hardest Shakespeare course on campus and

still manage to finish premed and serve as an

Emergency Medical Technician."

Recent studies by medical schools have vali-

dated the University's emphasis on a liberal

education for students who want to becomedoctors. Medical schools discovered that stu-

dents who had successfully completed science

courses during their first two years did not have

adequate verbal skills. They began having

trouble with vital aspects of their duties,

including writing case histories and talking with

patients.

"Studies concluded that medical students

should take a broad range of courses in the

humanities. Sewanee has always emphasized

that; our type of curriculum has suddenly be-

come very fashionable," says Croom.

While she points to the importance of the

Sewanee curriculum, she also emphasizes that

the University creates an atmosphere that nur-

tures students who want to pursue medical

school. Undergraduates are encouraged to get

involved in extracurricular activities and to

pursue summer internships. The University's

Premedical Advisory Committee, composed of

faculty members from the sciences and the

humanities and a dean, has helped premedstudents gain a variety of experiences, from

observing open heart surgery to working with

health professionals on an Indian reservation.

During their senior year, premed students are

evaluated by the Premedical Advisory Commit-tee. Each senior has a one-hour interview with

each member of the committee. When the stu-

dent has finished the interview process, the

committee has a meeting to discuss the student.

This process has a two-fold purpose: it en-

courages students to evaluate their motivations

for going to medical school and it gives them a

sense of the questions they will encounter dur-

ing actual medical school interviews.

"Our goal is not to make students look better

when they decide to apply to medical school,"

says Croom. "Our goal is to make them decide

that they want to work with people."

THE SEWANE£ NEWS

LANCASTER

by Priscilla Carter Fort

For Emeritus Professor Robert S. Lancaster,

the "better parts of a life" just keep getting

belter. In one of the finest efforts at subter-

fuge ever attempted on the Mountain, this de-

voted friend and long-time teacher was honoredat October's annual alumni dinner as the first

recipient of Sewanee's Distinguished FacultyAward. "The Red Dean" never knew that he wassharing the dais with 1990 Distinguished

mental

"The pi;

kept

there v

ining for this award was the best-

t town," said Yogi Anderson,

of the Associated Alumni. "Buti question that Dean Lancaster

would be the obvious choice as first recipient of

this honor. He epitomizes the best that Sewaneecan be, and the alumni are proud to honor himfor his enduring and positive presence in our

Lancaster, known in later years of

:

the University as "the Red Dean," was presented

with an engraved sterling silver tray by Vice-

Chancellor Samuel Williamson and Robert Rust,

C'61, president of the Associated Alumni.Those who were present at the dinner will

remember that Rust referred to this "man of

Sewanee" many times in a description of

Sewanee as a "sanctuary of memory." He high-

lighted "remembrance" as one of DeanLancaster's favorite themes and used the

honoree's own words to define the venerable

of a Sewanee education: "Knowledge of

the true and the good passes from generation to

generation by an education that preserves the

sound traditions and worthy beliefs in the cul-

ture of a people." According to Lancaster,

memory is what civilizes us and makes us re-

sponsible to those who have gone before us andthose yet unborn. In his teaching, Lancaster gavereal meaning to this sentiment.

By his own admission, Lancaster has led acharmed life. Lady Fortune brought him to the

Mountain more than once during his early

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career, and the third time he had the good sense

to stay.

"I have had no designs on life, no master plan

for success," he says. "But I've always knownmy particular human weaknesses, and knew it

would be for my own good to get myself rooted

on this mountain, in this citadel of good man-ners and Southern gentility."

A native of Virginia, Lancaster graduated

magna cum laude in 1929 from Hampden-SydncyCollege. In 1931, while teaching at Gulf Coast

Military Academy, he met his bride-to-be,

Ernestine Desporte of Biloxi, Miss., the womanwith whom he would share all parts of his life

for the next 47 years.

Red's lifelong affair with Sewanee began

about the same time he married Tine. It was a

chance meeting over a borrowed newspaper in

the lobby of the Monteleone Hotel in New Or-

leans that started it all. This encounter with Col.

DuVal Cravens, superintendent of Sewanee

Military Academy, yielded a job offer to estab-

lish and run a junior division at the military

school. Red and Tine accepted the challenge.

During the years of teaching from 1931 to

1938, he also found time to work on a master's

degree in English at the College of Arts and

Sciences. And still not satisfied with what wason his plate, he drove three nights a week to

Nashville to study law at Andrew Jackson Uni-

versity. When he passed the Virginia bar exam in

1938, Red and Tine headed for the Blue Ridge

hills of home and set up a small private practice.

Three years later, just when his fledgling prac-

tice was beginning to turn a profit, he made that

second fateful trip to Sewanee. He served as

commandant of cadets until World War II lured

him into the U.S. Navy as an air combat intelli-

gence officer.

After the war, Red might have stayed where

he was stationed in Honda and gone into the

frozen seafood business, but, on a hunch that his

prospective business partners were less than

honorable, he again returned to the Mountain.

"Three's the charm," because this third trip to

Sewanee was the last one Red Lancaster would

make before settling here permanently. He again

took on the duties of instructor at the academy,

but already had set his sights on teaching at the

university level. A Ph.D. in political science from

the University of Michigan in 1952 gave him the

credentials to do it.

Teaching was the focal point of his life. By his

stirring manner he so touched some students

that they in rum took to the academic life.

Sewanee graduate Robert Keele, C'56, now a

professor of political science, much to his ownsurprise came back to teach at the University

only five years after graduating.

"I was abroad on a Rotary fellowship when I

got the call from Dean Lancaster," recalls Keele.

"Remembering how I was shaped by personal

relationships at Sewanee, how teachers like Red

Lancaster had nourished and cultivated relation-

ships that lived beyond the classroom, I madethe choice to return. Now, like my mentor, I, too,

have come to value these associations with

students more than anything else in my profes-

sional life."

Good teachers have a knack for holding the

attention of their students. Former student Lee

Glenn, C'57, credits Lancaster with being "a

thespian at heart." With every tool of rhetoric at

hand, he captivated and inspired his students

and made Tuesday noon chapel as much a les-

son in oratory as an exercise in homiletics. Dou-glas Paschall, C'66, recalls in his introduction to

The Better Parts of a Life the innate care and preci-

sion with which Dean Lancaster would articu-

late his thoughts, likening him to "a classical

orator—not merely a man who speaks unusually

well, but an unusually good man, speaking."

It's no secret that Lancaster has that rare

ability to speak with any person on any subject.

In academic garb lecturing on constitutional lawat one hour, he easily could be seen in the next

hour sitting on an upturned crate at the village

filling station, swapping whoppers with station

owner and fishing companion Cotton Terrill.

The great teacher is always ready to learn in turn

from his fellow man.

Lancaster also learned much from the womenin his life. He acknowledges that his two daugh-ters, Rachel and Ulysse, have given him count-

less lessons in patience and good humor. In the

year following Tine's death, he married Eliza-

beth Craig, a close friend of his late wife and a

woman "of beauty and wit" whom Red credits

with bringing a certain serenity into his life. Andalthough initially opposed to the admission of

women to the college in the early 70s, Lancaster

quickly learned that the female presence on this

campus brought to Sewanee "a new beauty,'*

quieting the hectic party-weekend pace andraising academic achievement "to a new

The Distinguished Faculty Award is not the

first tribute to Lancaster by Sewanee alumni. In

1984, a group of graduates honored his life's

work by establishing the Robert S. Lancaster

Scholarship Fund. One organizer was Nashville

attorney Clark Spoden, C'77, who recalls howDean Lancaster stopped him one day during his

freshman year and brightly announced, "I think

you are doing very well indeed. You are going to

be one of our best political science majors!"

Little did the dean know how close Spoden hadcome that very day to giving up political science

altogether. "Like the warmth of a fire on a

winter's day, his words lifted my spirits and

A surprised recipient. Dr. Lancaster accepts the

Distinguished Faculty Award from Vice-Chancellor

Williamson and Associated Alumni President Robert Rust.

carried me through honors, comps, and later

through law review," Spoden recalls. He has

often wondered if he would have made it with-

out this teacher's special encouragement. For

one more Sewanee undergraduate, Lancaster

had kindled the spark and ignited the spirit.

Times at Sewanee have changed. Those per-

sonal touches like Sunday suppers with profes-

sors and their families have given way to the

more efficient, less humanizing routines of late

twentieth-century life. While Lancaster laments

the changes, he maintains that positive attitude

for which he has become famous. "Who am I to

say that the new ways won't be better for this

generation?" he muses. But that devilish glint in

his eye gives it away. He wants (o sing the

praises of gentility and civility once again, to

remind us that "the purpose of an education is

to produce just men and women. Just persons

create a just society. Justice is the highest virtue;

it produces civility, without which men cannot

live happily and productively."

As students, faculty colleagues, and commu-nity friends honor him at this juncture in his life

as the first recipient of the Distinguished Faculty

Award, let it not be forgotten that Robert S.

Lancaster has distinguished himself far beyond

the limits of the classroom. Always the gentle-

man, always the epitome of civility, he continues

to be a role model of distinction to all he has

touched on the Mountain.

In the Heart of Iraq^^^—^^^—

century ago. He said the problem in the Gulf

was not an invention of Iraq or America. It hadall begun with Britain, which had robbed Arabs

of a promised chance at self-determination after

World War 1.

"You Americans do not understand us or our

history," he said. "We will never accept the for-

eigners' troops on our soil. That is why I, an old

man, will volunteer to fight, if it comes to that

... 1 am ready to die."

And those who oppose their government's

rush toward conflict will not risk more than

occasional complaints to trusted friends. "People

are worried," said one non-Western diplomat in

Baghdad. "And they are very tired. You find

POWs coming home from Iran, ques for bread,

most of the men gone to the front, a collapsed

economic situation. People are red up, but this is

Iraq—they cannot say they disagree with

continued from page I

Saddam. They cannot even dream of it."

Still, the frustration is rising—visible even to

foreigners on the streets of Baghdad. An old

man in a dirty gray robe approached me as I was

walking with an Iraqi companion on a deserted

side street in the Mansour district, a fashionable

Baghdad neighborhood. Rising from a dirt side-

walk, the old man muttered: "Madam, you

America, yes? America good. I love Bush. Bush

very good. You tell him. Tell Bush to come."

My Iraqi companion began nervously moving

away, beckoning me to keep walking, but the

old man had my attention. He bowed and

pulled a green and white kaffieyh from his bald

head and pointed at a deep, angry scar indented

in the crown of his skull. "This is Iraq," he said,

rising up to smile faintly. "I love Bush. You tell

Such are the contradictions of Iraq.

THE SEWANEE NEWS

by Robert Bradford

Gerald Smith is lecturing about religion in

the South when he hears his beeper. He

dashes out of class and runs down Ellett

Cloister, dropping his tattered gown along the

way.

David Green leaves his job at the University

Press and walks upstairs to the Emergency

Services Building, where he meets Smith. Aminute has elapsed since they were summoned

by a police dispatcher.

A group of 30 students, faculty members, and

staff members joins Smith and Green. Their

adrenalin is pumping as they put on their gear

and head toward a house fire in the county; they

are on the scene in less than three minutes.

The firefighters don't look like volunteers as

they battle the blaze—their movements are

calculated; their strategy is well orchestrated. Asquad of four student Emergency Medical Tech-

nicians (EMTs) stands by, waiting to treat any-

one who is injured.

For the Sewanee volunteer firefighters and

EMTs, it's a fairly typical call. In the course of a

year, they will respond to more than 100 inci-

dents, facing situations ranging from major

accidents on the interstate highway to mountain

Smith, a professor of religion who has been a

volunteer firefighter for 15 years, says Sewanee

has a long tradition of people coming together

respond

TRTArBY

Fire Chief David Green and Commander Gerald Smith.

"Because of its isolation at the beginning of

this century, Sewanee simply had to rely on its

own resources in emergencies. And those re-

sources were human resources—faculty, stu-

dents and people in the village," he explains.

"What makes Sewanee unique is that the

need for that kind of cooperation and the struc-

tures for doing it have survived on a volunteer

basis here much longer than they've survived at

other places."

As the head commander of emergency ser-

vices at the University, Smith coordinates the

efforts of the firefighters and EMTs. He is im-

mensely proud of the volunteers, comparing

them with professional departments in the state.

Green, who has been a volunteer firefighter

since 1971 and fire chief since 1982, echoes

Smith's sentiments.

"We're one of the best volunteer fire depart-

ments in the state," he says. "All of the energy of

the students and the experience of the guys from

the shop—plumbers, electricians, and carpen-

ters—comes together in the department."

Sewanee also has one of the most progressive

departments in Tennessee—it was the first de-

partment in the state to admit women and

African Americans.

Emergency services volunteers respond to

incidents in an area covering about 20 percent of

Franklin County, including the Domain. They

also assist firefighters on major calls in

Monteagle, Cowan, and Winchester.

When firefighters and EMTs are not respond-

ing to incidents, they spend a significant amounl

of time preparing for calls. They each drill from

one and a half to three hours a week, and they

must maintain four fire

trucks and an ambulance.

"Over the last 15 years,"

says Smith, "we have gone

from a simple firefighting

department to what I would

call a complex incident de-

partment. We help to coordi-

nate several agencies.

"Our response time is very

fast. We can a dispatch a crew

of firemen, fully equipped in

safety gear, in two to three

minutes from receiving a call.

We have gone from simply

fighting fires to becoming

damage control specialists."sewanee voiumeer pi

Smith regularly sees the impact of the fire

department and the EMS program on the com-

munity. He understands all too well that the

services the volunteers perform are not a

luxury—they are a necessity.

"If this didn't exist, we would have the level

of fire protection here that we have in other rural

areas in the county. What that means is that

when a serious fire starts in a house, in most

parts of the county, the structure would be lost.

The other thing that we would see is that people

would be dependent on ambulances from Win-

chester—that would add about 22 minutes to

response time. In the case of cardiac events,

thafs probably going to mean death. In the case

of massive trauma, that's probably going to

mean death.

"The absence of services provided by these

volunteers would make life in Sewanee, in cases

of emergency, risky in the extreme. And it would

make the quality of life intolerable."

While Smith stresses the benefits of the pro-

gram for the community, he also points out that

an at a training blaze in Selden Hall.

students gain invaluable experiences from their

service as firefighters and EMTs.

"These students invariably respond to serious

calls, calls that deal with life and death," he says,

"and they respond incredibly well under pres-

sure. What they learn endures far beyond their

years at Sewanee."

//w J I WAS A sophomore, we got a

1 on a 12-year-old boy who washit by a car," explains Diana Suter,

a senior biology major who is student director ofthe EMTs. "He was knocked unconscious, andhe was bleeding. We stabilized him and tookhim to the hospital. We called Life Force [a heli-

copter rescue team based in Chattanooga! whenwe were in the field. Life Force met us at Emer-ald-Hodgson Hospital and commended us onour stabilization. But the boy died two weekslater. That was a tough call.

"When I got home and was in bed, I could seethe little boy. I could see the wounds in his headand the laceration in his back. When I closed myeyes, I could hear the sirens and see the lights

flashing.

"I don't care what patient is being taken off. It

reminds me of the little boy."

Suter has treated many patients during herthree years as an EMT. As a freshman, she was

e of 18 students who tried out to become anEMT, and she was the only female to make the

four-student squad.

Every EMT must take a 120-hour courseadministered by a state certified instructor, passstate practical and written examinations, andpass a squad test to become certified in

Tennessee.

Suter helps to coordinate three student EMTsquads—each squad is on call 24-hours a day for

le week and then off for two weeks."When people sign up to become EMTs, we

tell them from the beginning that this is notsomething where you wear a beeper around to

Sewanee EMT Diana Suter: -When people sign up to become an EMT,

be cool. This is serious—you need to make a

commitment," she says.

"When we're on duty, we need to be withintwo minutes of the police station at all times.

When you go to a movie, you need to think,

'How am I going to get out of here?'"

This attention to detail has paid off: Sewaneevolunteer EMTs have the best response time in

tate from the time they receive a call to thetime they leave the station.

tell them from the beginning this is serious."

Kathryn Dunbak, a senior from Columbia,S.C, talks about the joys of volunteerfirefighting.

"My beeper goes off at four in the morning,and I'm gone putting out a fire at the PigglyWiggly for eight hours, " she says. "I'm with agroup of friends and we're working together to

do something good. Ifs just the best feeling after

you accomplish something like that."

Dunbar is one of two senior student officers

on the department. She has moved up throughthe ranks since joining the department as a

freshman.

While Dunbar cites community service as herprimary motivation for joining the department,she stresses that the experiences she has gainedhave been a vital part of her college career.

"Firefighters are a close-knit group. Whenwe're not on calls, we hang around. The guys in

McCrady, where most of the firefighters live, are

a lot of fun. I don't have any brothers, but now I

know what it's like to have brothers.

Tve also developed some good relationships

with a wide range of people who I probably wouldnot have met if I wasn't a firefighter. After drills onTuesday, all of the community firefighters and stu-

dents stay around. We tell stories, talk about calls, andraz each other. It's great."

That camraderie is why the firefighters work so

well together in emergencies, Dunbar believes.

She remembers a call on October 17, whenshe and a crew responded to a grease fire that

had broken out in the kitchen of Sewanee resi-

dent Simon Smith. When firefighters arrived onthe scene less than five minutes after receiving

the call, they found Smith sitting in his smoke-filled living room.

Two firefighters removed Smith from the

house, and an EMT squad transported him to

Emerald-Hodgson Hospital. Another crew wentto work on the fire. Students, carpenters, electri-

nd computer programmers workedtogether to quickly extinguish the blaze; fire and

" image to the house was minimal.

After the fire was under control, Dunbarlis. Chief Green looked at the tired but exult-

crew and smiled.

"This is what it's all about," he said.

THE SEWANEE NEWS

University Reaches Out to African-American StudentsThis summer, 35 African-American high school

students will participate in the Sewanee Sum-

mer Scholars Program, an innovative approach

to learning that will open educational horizons

for minorities.

Douglas Seiters, C6S, a Sewanee professor of

classical languages who directs the progTam,

says it will focus on recruiting students from

low-income families who have not thought

seriously about higher education.

"We want individuals who have potential,

but for a variety of reasons look like the/ re not

going to live up to their potential as high school

students and probably won't go to college with-

out some dramatic form of intervention," Seiters

"The students will move from an environ-

ment that may not encourage them to pursue a

college education to Sewanee, which is an en-

tirely different place with encouragement for

excellence in education at every rum.

"Here, they are going to develop relation-

ships with Sewanee students. They'll go to

classes where the teachers are free to teach in

innovative ways without the time and curricu-

lum restrictions that exist in traditional school

systems."

Over the next three years, more than 100

students from Chattanooga and Franklin

County will participate in the program, which is

being funded primarily by a $200,000 grant from

the Jesse Ball duPont Religious, Charitable, and

Educational Fund.

A projected 35 students—30 from Chatta-

nooga and five from Franklin County—whohave completed ninth grade will become the

first summer scholars in June 1991, spending a

month on the Mountain. Each successive year a

new class of 35 "rising sophomores" will join the

program. The students will come back to the

University before their junior and senior years to

continue the lessons they learned during their

first year as summer scholars.

"This is a three-year learning program. That's

an important difference between this programand a number of programs that work with stu-

dents for a shorter period of time," says Seiters.

The setting also makes the program unique.

Students will develop relationships not only

with teachers but also with the Mountain. On a

Doug Seiters, director of the Sewanee Summer Scholars Pro,

variety of reasons look like they're not going to live up to the

college without some dramatic form of intervention."

typical day, they may explore the natural history

of Sewanee or do research in duPont Library

next to a prominent professor.

"It will be a totally different atmosphere,"

says Seiters. "They'll have opportunities to

explore nature, to enjoy our environment, and to

take advantage of cultural opportunities. Weexpect that this will promote an intellectual

awakening in these students."

Teachers for the seminar will be recruited

from Franklin County and the Chattanooga City

School System; the faculty will focus on a cur-

riculum that stresses English, mathematics, andscience skills to prepare students for material

that they will cover during the regular school

year. Teachers will make a special effort to incor-

porate materials that reflect the African-Ameri-

can heritage into classes.

"In the course of a day, students will be given

some stiff homework assignments and lots of

reading. Expectations are going to be high," says

Seiters. "But this is not a graded system. It will

be designed to create a love of learning and to

give students greater confidence in themselves."

To help students make the transition to the

demands of a new environment and a challeng-

ing curriculum, minority students from the

University will serve as counsel-

ors and mentors for the summer

Eric Benjamin, director of

minority affairs at the University,

says the Sewanee student men-tors will motivate the high school

students to succeed. "Our stu-

dents will let the summer schol-

ars understand that they can

thrive in higher education," he

Benjamin, who has been work-

ing with university officials since

1987 to plan and secure funding

I for the program, believes that the

Eric Benjamin, director of minority affairs at Sewanee, and Sewanee junior seminar will have far-reaching

Chris Reel discuss the summer scholars program.

impact in predominantly African-American

communities.

"Participants will go back to their communi-

ties and to their high schools and talk about

their experiences. One of the objectives of the

program is to send academically oriented stu-

dents back to their communities to serve as role

models. We see their Sewanee experiences as

being an important contribution not only to their

lives but to the lives of their communities," he

says.

Sewanee SummerSeminar Set for '91

The Sewanee Summer Seminar, a program of

lectures and seminars designed for alumni of the

Academy, College, School of Theology, and for

friends of the University, will be conducted in

this

The first session will be held June 23 through

June 29. The second session will be held July 7

through July 13.

The emphasis is both on reacquainting par-

ticipants with traditional modes of academicstudy and on introducing them to recent, inno-

vative approaches. The formal portion of the

program occurs during the mornings, so that the

afternoons and evenings can be used to read andreflect or to enjoy the many recreational andcultural opportunities Sewanee offers during the

The staff is composed of full-time and visit-

ing faculty in such departments as history, reli-

gion, English, French, political science, fine arts,

theatre, physics, biology, chemistry, geology,

film, and music.

Those interested in further details should

write directly to Dr. Edwin Stirling, director of

the Sewanee Summer Seminar, The University of

the South, Sewanee, TN 37375.

Sewanee Summer SchoolThe Sewanee Summer School for 1991 will begin on June 9 and con-clude on July 20. A careful selection of key courses taught by regular

members of the Sewanee faculty will be available for students whochoose to take advantage of the pleasant temperatures and serene atmo-sphere which prevail on the Mountain in June and July.

The Sewanee Summer School offers an opportunity for previouslyenrolled students to gain additional credits toward completion of their

degrees, for incoming freshman to acclimate themselves to Sewanee andto achieve a head start in collegiate life in a less intense environmentthan they will encounter on the Mountain in the autumn term, and for

students who are enrolled in other institutions to sample of Sewanee'sunique academic atmosphere. Classes are generally very small and the

itmosphere is academically challenging, though personal and conge-al.

If you would like to inquire further into the Sewanee Summer School1991 program

1991 session, please wri

the Summer School, Sev

School at (615) 598-1187

Following is a list of i

a catalogue and application form for the

): Professor John V. Reishman, Director of

ee, TN 37375 or call the office of the Summer

ses for the Sewanee Summer School:

•Anthropology 201 (Tutorial) Global Problems. Anthropology andContemporary Issues. Instructor: Patricia Gibson•Biology 100. Biology and Human Affairs. Instructor: Larry Jones.

•Biology 105. Biology and People. Instructor: Larry Jones.

•Classical Studies 101. Classical Mythology. Instructor: William Bonds.• Economics 101. Introduction to Economics. Instructor: Jerry Ingles.

•Economics 305. Microeconomic Theory. (Tutorial) Instructor: Jerry

Ingles.

•English 101. Literature and Composition. Instructor: Robert Benson.•English 305. Victorian Prose and Poetry. Instructor: John Reishman.

•English 317. Modem American Fiction. Instructor: Henry Arnold.•English 319. Modem British Fiction. (Tutorial) Instructor: HenryArnold.

•Fine Arts 104. Survey of Western Arts II. Instructor: Gregory Clark.

•Fine Arts 161. Beginning Photography. Instructor: Pradip Malde.•Fine Arts 261. Intermediate Photography. Instructor: Pradip Malde.Fine Arts.281. Intermediate Sculpture. (Tutorial) Instructor: PradipMalde.

•French 301. Introduction to French Literature. Instructor: WaringMcCrady.

•Geology 121. Physical Geology. Instructor: Donald B. Potter.

•History 102. Survey of Western Civilization II. Instructor: John Flynn.•History 206. History of England. Instructor: Charles R. Perry.

•Mathematics 101. Calculus I. (Tutorial) Instructor: Frederick H. Croom.•Mathematics 104. Finite Mathematics. Staff.

•Philosophy 201. Logic. Instructor: William Garland.•Philosophy 222. Contemporary Moral Issues. Instructor: James Peters.

•Political Science 101. American Government and Politics. Instructor:

Robert Keele.

Political Science 102. Foreign Governments. Instructor: CharlesBrockett.

•Psychology 106. Introduction to Psychology II. Instructor: NicoleBarenbaum.

•Religion 111. Introduction to Religion. Instructor: James W. Clayton.Religion 261. Introduction to Comparative Religion. Instructor: Gerald

•Religion 391. Southern Religion. (Tutorial) Instructor: Gerald Smith.Spanish 300. Introduction to Hispanic Literature. Instructor: MargaretHart.

•Theatre 101. Introduction to Theatre. Instructor: Peter Smith.

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Fellowships and Scholarships available.

DISCOVER THE JOY OF MAKING MUSIC

June 22 -July 28, 1991

Crosscountry

Sports THE SEWANEE r>

Thercountry teams each finished a

rebuilding year on a positive

note. The men's squad placed a

strong second at the CAC tour-

nament held in Sewanee on No-

vember 3. Leading the way were

freshmen Matt kcnneyanii Brad

McLane, who both finished in

U the top ten. At the regional meet

in Atlanta, the men placed tenth

out of 26 teams, with Kenney

again leading the Tigers. Coach

Bill Huyck termed the season a

success and looks forward to

1991. The women harriers also

ipectable at the regional meet, with

junior Merik Spiers finishing 25th overall and

just missing a regional title by 20 seconds.

Sophomore Stacy Juckett (most-improved run-

ner), freshmen Beth Haynie, Leslie Sisco, and

Nicole Blanton also ran an excellent race.

Field Hockey

After beginning the season with a run of six

consecutive intercollegiate wins, the field

hockey squad finished the season 8-4-1. In the

season finale, the IKT (Indiana, Kentucky, Ten-

nessee) tournament, the Tigers dropped a

tough 1-0 opening match against Bellarmine

College, a team they defeated in the regular

season. The squad bounced back to win its first

consolation match against Kalamazoo College

before bowing to Franklin College in the con-

solation finals. The Tigers finished fifth in the

tournament and fifth in their conference of 15

teams. Coach J.Chapman Davis was pleased

with the team's performance in its first inter-

sweeper and co-captain Colleen Fitzpatrick, an

All-Conference and All-Tournament selection,

senior goalie Alice Nazro, senior co-captain

and left back, Marshall McGehee, and fresh-

man center-half Elizabeth Gilman as the top

VoUeyball

The women's volleyball squad finished a

highly respectable 18-14 season by claiming

third place in the W1AC tournament at Centre

College. The Lady Tigers lost an initial five-set

match against Rhodes, but bounced back with

a four-game victory against Fisk and an upset

of Asbury College. Asbury had beaten the

team twice during the season. The next morn-

ing, Sewanee dropped a strenuous match to

Maryville, College, thus ending the tourna-

ment one position higher than their initial

fourth seed. Coach Nancy Ladd felt that the

young team, all 10 players return in 1991, de-

veloped a great deal during the course of the

season. Freshman Missy Trushel was selected

to the All-Conference and All-Tournament

teams.

Equestrian

The Equestrian Club began the 1990-91

season with a strong performance at the

Region VI Intercollegiate Horse Show at Hiwas-

see College in October. Despite difficulties

caused by the loss of equipment and training

facilities when the barn burned this past spring,

the team has rallied under the leadership of

captain and coach senior Amy-Beth Skelton.

Individual awards were won by sophomore

Anne Grimsley, high point rider, and senior

Stephanie Carr, reserve high point rider. The

club had an exceptionally strong outing in the

Murray State Horse Show in November, moving

the team into first place in its region. At Murray,

junior Laura Phillips was high point rider, and

Carr was reserve high point rider. The team

finished first in the third show of the year in

Midway, Ky. Grimsley again was high point

rider, with sophomore Beth Foti capturing re-

serve high point rider. Four Sewanee riders have

accumulated enough points to qualify for re-

gional competition in the spring, and Carr is the

overall high point rider in Sewanee's region.

Basketball

Both the men's and women's basketball teams

begin the 1990-91 season with a great deal of

optimism but a shortage of experience. The

men's squad is led by new coach Daniel Chu, a

Washington University undergraduate with a

master's degree in administration from the Un

versity of Miami (Ha.), where he was an assis-

tant coach before coming to Sewanee. The team

has displayed a great deal of intensity in its

opening contests. Paced by senior co-captains

Kit Walsh and Bert White, the team won its fir;

game 101-98 against Cumberland University n

overtime, while dropping four early games

against highly rated competition including

NCAA Division III fourth-ranked Otterbein

College. In the Otterbein game, the Tigers raced

back from a 55-10 half-time deficit to trim the

lead to 69-68 before being outpaced down the

stretch. Coach Chu's up-tempo style, coupled

with some developing talent, will make the

heart of the season in the CAC most competi-

tive. The women's five opened the vear 3-2, wil

wins over Toccoa Falls, 71-66, Stillman, 66^18

and Fisk University, 47-44. The Lady Tigers have

been paced by sophomore captain Lynda Motes

With eight freshmen who are making solid con-

tributions. Coach Cathy Mittelstadt feels that

before the season is over the women's squad

should compete quite well in the WIAC. The

Lady Tigers are pointing to the conference tour-

SwimmingCoaches Cliff Afton and Mary Kay Samko's

swimming teams began the season with a split

of matches against Union College and Camp-

bellsville College. The men lost to Union, 53-42,

and bested Campbellsville, 70-13, while the

women also lost to Union, 66-49, and topped

Campbellsville, 68-32. While only earning a

split, the coaches were pleased with the perfor-

mance of the teams, indicating the times wen?

the best so far this year. The teams then toured

Kentucky for a dual meet with Transylvania

University and the Centre Relay Invitational

with Centre College, Morehead State, Berea, and

Campbellsville. The men and women lost to

Transylvania, 123-76 and 112-70, respectively-

J

Soccer

Then s and \ occer teams both fin-

ished difficult seasons in November. The men'ssquad rebounded from six consecutive losses to

post wins over the University of Alabama in

Huntsville, 2-0, Oglethorpe, 3-2, and Rhodes,

3-0, in the opening round of the CAC tourna-

ment. These late season wins were offset bylosses to Greensboro College, 4-3, which finished

second in NCAA Division III last year, Guilford,

2-0, and Centre, 4-1, in the CAC final. Injuries

continued to plague the Tigers, with sophomoresweeper Mark Peters lost in the University of

Alabama match and junior goalkeeper Jeff Huntin the Rhodes win. Coach Matt Kern described

the 8-10-2 season as one in which the teamplayed a quality brand of soccer, but were unfor-

tunate with injuries and somewhat unlucky.

Overall, the season was a learning experience for

the team and its new coach. The women's teamfinished the season, 7-11, going 2-4 down the

home stretch. Victories came 5-1 over Ogle-thorpe and 1-0 against Rhodes College. Losses

were 4-0 to Maryville College (ranked 10th in

the South), 4-0 to Elon (ranked sixth nationally),

3-0 to St. Andrew's College, and 5-0 to Vander-bilt in the final match. Coach Cathy Mittelstadt

credited the toughest schedule in the team'shistory as the major factor in the team's record,

but felt that the level of play was also the best in

recent memory. The experience should providedividends in the seasons ahead. The coach indi-

cated co-MVPs, sophomore mid-fielder JudyBatts and sophomore goalkeeper Miriam Street,

along with rookie of the year, freshman mid-fielder Jeri Lee, played well. Sophomore stopperCarla Finch received the coach's award for com-mitment and dedication to the team.

SportsFencing ClubIn November, the Sewanee fencing

team competed in the CumberlandOpen at Vanderbilt and the Junior

Olympic Qualifiers at Baylor

School in Chattanooga. FreshmanMichael Girard went undefeated

to win first place in epee at Van-

derbilt and earned a "D" rating,

the first fencer in the more than

10-year history of fencing at

Sewanee to hold a rating. At Bay-lor, Girard again paced the fencers

with a tie for first in foil and a

second in epee to teammate soph-omore Hans Kunz. Team captain

senior Walter Tyree andsponsor Dr. Arthur Knoll

provide the leadership for

this growing sport, which

is seeking intercollegiate

Football

The 1990 season closed on a high note as theTigers defeated Trinity University 41-24 in SanAntonio to close a 6-3 slate with a big win and a

share of the CAC championship. The seasonfeatured a number of impressive statistics, in-

cluding the selection of senior defensive linemanRay McGowan as a Kodak Division III All-

America and CAC defensive player-of-the-year.

Sewanee also recorded eight selections on the

All-CAC first team. In addition to McGowan,the Tigers placed senior guard Jason Ehrlenspiel,

senior defensive back Bill Ward, junior line-

backer Bryan Petty, sophomore defensive backFrank Greer, sophomore wide receiver TonyNeill, freshman running back Carl Cravens, and

Canoe TeamThe Sewanee canoe team dominated the 19th

Southeastern Intercollegiate Canoe Champion-ships held in October on the Catawba River near

Morganton, N.C. Co-MVP's in the men's field,

senior captain Josh Gladden and sophomoreHayes McDonald, led the team to their 17th

triumph, easily outdistancing Western Carolina

and UNC-Chapel Hill. A total of eight colleges

and universities participated in the champion-ships. Individual Sewanee winners were Glad-den and McDonald in the men's slalom tandemclass, Gladden in the men's solo slalom class,

McDonald in the men's solo downriver class,

senior Peggy Will in the women's solo down-river class, and McDonald and sophomore Pat

Stacey in the men's downriver tandem class.

Team coaches Carrie Ashton and Steven Puck-ette got into the act with a first place finish in the

non-collegiate class.

freshman punter Masquad. Greer led the NCAA Divisic

ceptions with a new Sewanee singl<

record of 10. Following the tough 7-6 loss to

Centre, the Tigers also dropped a 7-6 decision to

Maryville and lost to Washington and Lee 17-0.

Sophomore Mark Peters kicked 34- and 35-yardfield goals in the Maryville contest, but was lost

for the season following a knee injury in soccer.

The squad showed a great deal of character in

rebounding to close out the season with a 20-9

victory over Tennessee Wesleyan and in the final

against Trinity. In the Tennessee Wesleyan con-

test, freshman quarterback David Thorntoncompleted 7-11 passes for 141 yards and a 21-

yard touchdown to sophomore wide receiver

David Merrell, while rushing for 30 yards andanother TD. Cravens added a 2-yard TD run.

Cravens gained 163 yards in the Trinity contest

to finish the season with 957 yards, almost be-

coming one of few NCAA freshmen to record a

1,000-yard season. In the Trinity win, Cravensran for two touchdowns, one for 69 yards. Neill-

caught a 61-yard TD bomb from Thornton, whoalso hit Merrell with a 7-yard scoring toss just

before halftime. Elmore, subbing for Peters,

kicked 21- and 35-yard field goals. Coach Bill

Samko cited the outstanding play of the defen-sive unit and senior leadership as the majorfactors in the successful season, singling outMcGowan and Ward, a four-time player of the

week, as the heart of a young but aggressive

defense. With outstanding performances andcontinued recruiting success, there will be a

great deal of excitement on campus next yearwhen Sewanee celebrates 100 years of Tiger

football. Stephen Becker

From the DeanThe Rev. Dr. Donald S. Armentrout

The School of Theology sponsors five major

lecture series. The DuBose lectures are usually

held in the fall at the time of the St. Luke's Con-

vocation and alumni homecoming. Endowed by

an initial gift from the Rev. Jack C. Graves and

substantially increased by a gift from Miss Mar-

garet (Peggy) A. Chisholm of Laurel, Miss., and

New York City, the lectures memorialize William

Porcher DuBose, second dean of the School of

Theology. As a rule, these lectures cover a topic

of wide appeal in the Church.

In the spring term, the Beattie and Arrington

lectures are given in alternate years and offer an

even more scholarly focus. The Samuel Marshall

Beattie lectures have been made possible by

Ruth McCee Beattie as a memorial to her hus-

band. The Arrington lectures have been funded

by Cornelia G. C. Arrington as "A Thank Offer-

ing for Four John White Arringtons." The last

Arrington lecture was delivered by the Rev. Dr.

Charles E. Curran.

The Bayard Hale Jones Memorial Lectureship

in Liturgies has recently been established by

t^

TheologyEmily S. Jones. Another new lectureship has

been endowed in honor of the Rev. Dr. Lee

Archer Belford, with the focus of topics to be

Christian-Jewish relations.

On October 17-18, 1990, the Rev. Dr. John

Booty, emeritus professor of

Anglican Studies at the School

of Theology, delivered three

DuBose lectures on the theme

"The Sixteenth Century Informs

the Decade of Evangelism."

Professor Booty addressed sev-

eral topics; all three lectures

stressed the contributions of the

sixteenth century to the work of

evangelism. Professor Booty's

lectures will be published in the

St. Luke's journal of Theology in

1991.

In October 1991, Dr. Letty

M. Russell, professor of theol- Dot

ogy at the Yale Divinity School,

will deliver the DuBose Lectures. She will dis

cuss ecclesiology. In October 1992, Dr. Dougla

John Hall, professor of Christian theology at

McGill University, Montreal, will deliver the

lectures. He is the author of God and HumanSuffering and Thinking the Faith.

r*

THE SEWANEE NEWS

On March 5, 1991, the Rev. Dr. Paul van Buren

will deliver the first Belford Lecture at the

School of Theology. Dr. Belford, who died June

12, 1988, had both his bachelor's and divinity

degrees from the University of the South, and

was a member of the Presiding

: Bishop's Committee on Chris-

tian-Jewish Relations. Dr. van

Buren will lecture on Christian-

Jewish Relations.

The Beattie Lecture will be

delivered on April 18, 1991, by

Dr. Marcus J. Borg, professor of

Religious Studies, Oregon State

University. Dr. Borg is a nation-

ally known New Testament

scholar and will lecture on "NewUnderstandings of Jesus andMotives for Contemporary

Evangelism." He has publisheditrout several books and has had ar-

ticles in The Christian Century,

Journal of Theological Studies, Theology Today, andNew Testament Studies.

These five lecture series enrich the intellectual

life of the School of Theology. Everybody is

invited to attend.

The University Mission: 'Head to Heart to Will'The University Mission, a se-

ries of focused addresses, in-

formal presentations, and dis-

cussions exploring the Chris-

tian faith, was held on Novem-ber 11, 12, and 13, 1990.

The first mission of its kind

at Sewanee in memory, the

three-day event offered the

university community an op-

portunity to hear the Gospel

presented in a concentrated

"When people are search-

ing for foundations on which

to base their lives, they often

need more information than is

offered in a typical worship

service situation. On Sundaymornings, the liturgy, rather

than the Gospel in an intormarional

precedence," said University Chaplain SamuelLloyd. "Through this mission, we wanted to

provide, through three days of continuing expla

nations, questions, and answers, a more intense

form of exposure to Christian teachings. Surely

there is no issue, no question more important

than deciding about the ultimate meaning andpurpose of our lives," Lloyd added.

The Rt. Rev. Michael Marshall, who was at

one time the youngest bishop in the Church of

England, was on campus to lead mission ser-

vices and discussions. Bishop Marshall, an inter

nationally known preacher, lecturer, and author,

is currently founding director of the Anglican

Institute in St. Louis, Mo. By encouraging audi-

ences to "follow him in the school of faith,"

Marshall provided insight into the basic

, takes

principles of Christianity. In

addition, he addressed such

crucial questions and problems

of faith as the possibility of

belief in a God of love in a

world of evil and suffering andthe relationship of Christian

faith to scientific knowledge

and to other world religions.

He proclaimed the longest

journey of faith to be from

"head to heart to will," andencouraged participants to

realize that "true life is only

lived when you are out of your

depth, possibly out of control,

and willing to take advantage

of all spiritual opportunities."

Marshall inspired mission

participants with his ownversion of "the good news," asking each person

to "hear the word of the Lord and base their

lives on it." In a series ot question and answersessions following formal services, he discussed

common fears, perceptions, misperceptions, andtheories of faith.

"I was truly pleased with the a-sponse this

mission received at Sewanee. Students here are

eager for information and very receptive to

explonng the Gospel," Marshall said.

"The University o( the South is quite unique,

and 1 have found it to be most enchanting. Myinteraction with students here has been unlike

that in many other settings. The same students

have been reluming to mission services day after

day, bringing with them friends, faculty members,and administrators. My time here has been ex-

tremely rewarding and well spent," he added.

All Saints' Chapel plans to sponsor a Univer-

sity Mission every other year, bringing a variety

of guest preachers and lecturers to campus. "Onthat timetable, in the course of their time in

Sewanee, college students and most seminarians

would have an opportunity to hear the Gospel

presented from two totally different perspec-

tives," said Chaplain Lloyd.

"Each presenter will have a different way of

unfolding the central convictions of the Chris-

tian faith. That way, students and communitymembers will be able to see and experience

some ot the wonderful diversity as well as the

unity in the Christian tradition," Lloyd added.

Sewanee's next University Mission is plannedfor the 1992-93 academic year.

The Rev Dr. Paul

van Huren will

deliver the first

Belford Lecture at

School of Theology

on March 5,199].

His lecture will fo>

on the theology of

Christian-Jewish

relatic t.The

lectureship is in

honor of Dr. Lee

Belford, C'35,T38,

who was a member of

the Presiding

Bishop's Committee

on Christian-Jewish

Relations.

'28

'29William C. Schooled

'30

ft Ukemonl Circle, Apt. #102Winl

'32Robert B. Sears

2818 Avenel Avenu,Roanoke, VA 24015

The Rev. James Bcckwilh retired in 1977after 27 years as rector of St. Michael's in

*?*"&' N£ He organized the congregation

enior vice president ot A r&Tk City Col. OrinMooi .._._.

e, Dorothy, are living in Carmel, Cal...Moore rebred from the Army in 1961, withtour of duty at the Army /Air Force Head-quarters at the Pentagon. Carlisle Page Jr.

Meals on Wheels program for 12 years TheRev. William "Bill" Richardson attendedthe 55th reunion of his 1935 class at GeneralIniH.l.yiol Vnunarv in New York CityEdward Wilson lives in retirement"

"'

wife in Ocean Springs, Miss. He w

recently published by Proctor's Hall Press inSewance. The work is a collection of anec-dotes, lessons, and reflections drawn frommore than 50 years of ordained ministry. Theforeword is by Edmond Browning, C '52,

T 'Si, presiding bishop of the Episcopal

Wat Columbia, SC 29169

Dr. William Crook's ninth book, The Ye,!""..(..'... has sold more than 900,000copies. It has also been translated intoNorwegian, lie is president of Profess,,,,

Books, Inc. in Jackson, Tenn.

'38Norwood C. Harrison

533 Twin Drive

Spartanburg, SC 29302

'49

John A. Bragg recently retired as headmas-ter and was made headmaster emeritus olBattle Ground Academy lie and his wife-Jane, live in Franklin, Tenn. Dr. EdwardMcCrady Peebles retired July 1 from TulanUniversity after 37 years in the School ofMedidne.

'51

'50d B. Doss

bring Drive, Suite 1090Houston, TX 77057

State of Florida Board of Rege;

taffofl

'39The Rev. Robert W. Tume4465 Kempson Lane

Port Charlotte, FL 33981

'40Dr. Shubael T. Beaslev

Dr. Shubael Beasley has announced IL: -'L

of a granddaughter, Lauren Tere

>, George. of university

presses of Honda. The Rev. Elmer Boykinrecently retired after 37 years in the ministryI le and h,s wife, Anne, are living inSewanee. The Rev lnh n rOx/oi_._

poetry.J«

have graduated from the University. He andhis wife, Darden, adopted an infant gjrl fromHonduras in 1988. The Rev. John Dennyand his wife, |ane, are now living inHackensack, N.J. The Rev. Charles Dobbinsis rector of Good Shepherd Church inCorpus Christi, Texas; he has served in thatrole for more than 20 years. Bill Duff is

ired in Oak Brook, 111., and is working onook of an historical nature Parker

Enwnght has a part-time practice in alcohol-

-ie Special Printing Innovationward lor its uitrvi]. the l^H'nntmR

ding a 1 teaches

:lasses m specialized cooking. The RevWendell Hainlin will soon retire after 37

. -in Episcopal clergyman. He and hisWife, Betty, plan to live in Black MountainN.C. Pete Hannah has retired after 40 years

'52

'53

Bertram Wyatt-'« year at the National Hum'a «= >-,,.,,

Research Triangle Park writing a book onthe Percy family of Mississippi, which has".enerarions of Sewanee connections. He also/rote the introduction to a reprint of Ely. An\utobiographv. Ely Creen's account ofgrowing up black in Sewanee, published byihe University oK.eor^ia Press. Theafterword is by Arthur Ben Chitty (C'35) irthe fourth appearance of Creen's manu-script. Charles Howell received a Friend ir

Deed award from the Tennessee Environ-

spenta produ

'54The Rev. W. Cilbe.

205 Sherwood Driverns, SC 29360

Manktn was recently s

of the United States Court oAppeals, after retiring as vice president andgeneral counsel of The Columbia GasSystem. Jack Shockley's company, ShockleyMarket Research, is almost 20 years old and

William Smith is an executiveresident of 1FH Capital Management

J. Fain Cravens

P.O. Box 1280Tuscaloosa, AL 35403

Robert Gamble is the presi_Board Golf Products Co. Inc. Heinvented a new USCA-approvedindestructible golf tee.

The Rev. Edwa360 West Brain

Pensacola, FL 32501

and foreign language at Motlow CommunityCollege in Tullahoma, Tenn. He lives in thehouse formerly owned by his parents on theSherwood Road. Dr. J. Robert Wright hascompiled and edited Prayer Book Spriluality,

E SEWANEE NEWS

General Theological Seminary in New York

'59

'60Howard W. Hamstm /r

435 Spring M ill Road

customers. Frank von Richlerof Boston,

Ma-s . reo-TiK e-nt>h-hed FvR Associate

private consulting ft

'dwide markets

nationally in the sport of croquet. Heranked 18th in the USCA and recentl)

the men's senior division of the South

Regional Championships.

'61

Frank Kinnctt recently became president,

CEO, and a member of the board of direetoi

of Harris it Harris Insurance Company in

. Harry Mullik

to Mons, Belgium He is chaplain for the

headquarters of the Allied Forces of Europe.

also worked at zoos in numerous bti

and his wife, Debbie, who illustrated

book, live in Brooklyn, N.Y.; this is ll

'64The Rev. Dwighl t". Ogier ]r.

4401 Memorial Drive

Raleigh, NC 27612

William Kirby-Smilh, assc

the Duke Univer-ity Mannbeen heading estuarine stu<

'65

Richard H, Powell is a college counselor at

Christchurch School where he also teaches

US. history and U.S. government.

Christchurch School is a college preparatory

boarding school for boys located on

Virginia's Chesapeake Bay.

'66lohn Day Peak* fr.

159 Roberts Street

Mobile, AL 36604

irm. David Brooks Jr. accepted a positioi

ssodate professor of counseling and hun

ie\ elopmeM sen-ices at Kent State Unive

litigation in the firm of Small, Craig tt

Werkenlhin. Philip Wilheit is a trustee of

Allentown, PA 18103 Brenau College in Gainesville. Ga.

Dr. James Lazell jr. of Jamestown, R.I., led '67an expedition from May through August of

12 scientists to the islands of the South China Albert Sidney Polk 111

Sea. He has also written a book, WMift of the 2101 Harbor Drive

Florida Keys, which was published by Island

Press in Washington, D.CEd Bosworth is now an associate professor

'62 of computer science at Athens State College

in Athens, Ala. He and his wife, Martha, live

W. Landis Turner in Huntsville, Ala. Joseph Kicklighter

received Auburn University's 1990

P.O. Box 789 Burlington-Northem Award for Teaching

HohenwaldJN 38462 Excellence and the Lambda Chi Alpha

National Fraternity 1990 Order of Mer

'68

Mobile. AL 36633

'63Ceroid H Summers

500 Lindsey Street

Chattanooga, TN 17402

mpany, The Ray Bell Con;

For the past two years Rusty Adcock has

ridden across the U.S. on motorcycle with

Vietnam veterans to keep the MIA-POWissue alive. John W. Colby Jr. is chairman of

the h.story department and administrative

assistant to the headmaster at Christchurch

track. Christchurch School is a college

preparatory boarding school lor boys located

on Virginia's Chesapeake Bay Bill Tunnell

was recently honored with the designation

'69

Atlanta, CA 30327

Airlift Wing in Nashville. He is also

tion for the second year. Dr. William I

Taylor, associate director of developmi

Rice University, was appointed vice presi-

dent for development at the University of

r Force Associa-

igh

• II- y.n--- III I llllJsltHI.

70P.O. Box 36218

Otarh !,NCZ

Tom Daniel is teaching history at a high

school in Los Angeles, Call/. Doracy Smith

is a school principal working for the Depar

ment of Defense Dependents Schools in

Sagamihara, Japan.

'71

n Harmon is in charge of dei

tional account programs for

nditioningand refrigeration

'72

Panama City, Fla Dr. L Barry Coss re-

joined the Science Application Internal

Corporation as vice president of the Er

helping to raise funds for the CommunityKitchen of Chattanooga. Jeff Slet

recently elected to an eight-year I

Hunt Becomes Chief EconomistDt. Lacy H. Hunt, C '64, has been named Chief Economist USA for the

HongkongBank group, one of the 30 largest banking organizations in the world.

In this capacity he will direct economic research for the affiliated companies of

the HongkongBank group, including Marine Midland Bank, the group's primary

commercial banking arm in the U.S.; HongkongBank, with offices in several

cities across the country; and Carroll McEntree & McCinley Inc. (CM&M), one of

the largest primary dealers in U.S. securities.

Hunt was previously Managing Director ofCM&M and will continue to serve

as President of CM&M Asset Management Company, Inc., a money management

firm that specializes in fixed income securities, which he founded.

Hunt lives with his wife in Basking Ridge, N.J.

'73Josiah M. Daniel III

5400 Renaissance Tower

1201 Elm Street

Dallas, TX 75270

74Director.OADI

1075 South 13th Strut

Birmingham, AL 35205

R. Brooks Davis is a partner in Myrick &Davis, PA, in Gulf Breeze, Ha. Ginny EnnGraybiel is a newspaper reporter for the

Pensacala Neun-}oumal in Pcnsacola, Fla. DJohn Price is the chief of anesthesia at St.

Thomas Hospital in Nashville. Polk VanZandt, a Mississippi Delta cotton produce

was featured in the July issue of Cotton

Farming Magazine.

75

illy re-elected to a four-

cipal judge in Monticelli" >g as a respira-

tory therapist; he recently purchased

-shop. Jerry and Cindy C'"'

~

76

specializing in negobat

nChm e Pacific Rim. Dr.

English at Harvard University, has pub-

lished his first book, TV Making of Johnson's

Dictionary: 1746-1773. C. Craig Sargeant

married Lisa Rosa last summer. He is

teaching German and French at Tennessee

State University and Fisk University. Dr.

Rick Timms has a surgery practice in

Savannah, Ga., and is also involved in

automotive and racing safety working as a

physician on the CART/Indy Car Series.

77

Trimble and his wife. Jar

Houston. This past year they had their

second child, Madison Lynn, and Dale v.

Honca Is working out of herfree-lance writing and word pro

Marc, arc living in J.i\

ohnson is still pr

nanagement con:

livii,i;m Union Gty, Ca., with hlannon. Robert Li Its is in his second v

Texas College of Law. DavidMatthews and his wife, Tina, are living in

Beaufort, S.C. The have a new daughter,Caroline. Allen Morrill is director of thelibrary at the Kansas City Art Institute in

Kansas City, Mo. He and his wife, Susan,have a son, Thomas Stuart,

May 10, 1989. Dr. Gene Niin a surgical pathology fellowship at

Vanderbilt University. Brad Palmer is

practicing law with the firm of Davis t* Neel>mmy Peebles is practicing law

Brian Reinhardt is pursuing a Ph.D. ii

counseling psychology at Texas A&MUniversity. Tim Russell and his wife,

are living in Newark, Del., where he li

salesman for Westvaeo. Catherine Sullivsmarried Erol K. Oztekin on September 15 in

Birmingham. Jacob Walker HI has beenpartner in his firm in Opelilca, Ala.

lew baby. Stephi

and Beth Freeman Templelon of Avondali

Estates, Ca., announced the birth of their

second daughter, Rachel, who was born on

July 27. Stephen is in residency

logv at Emory University.

'85Laurie C. }arrell

3332 Laurel Court

Foils Church, VA 22042

David Anderson is an attom

and Thompson in Atlanta, h

Margaret, live in Decatur, Ca

Mo/Jo\ Finbyson & Loggin

Gildard in BoLvar, Tenn. on

Cornelia Barrett LaRussa fin

and his wife,

the law firm o

to Richard S.

jeptember 2.

shed her

master's in public and pnva

works as a marketing coordi.

e managementege.Shenow

lator for Rust

Nashville Todd Rutz was recently ap-

pointed athletic director at Bishop Moore

High School in Orlando, Fla. Catherine

Steele is a physicist with Arvin Calspan

Corp. in Estill Springs, Tenn Martha Jane

Hodgkins and Carter Braxton were marri" Fia.Theyliv<

'"

'86

Nancy Brim is a ninth grade physical sci

teacher in Doraville, Ca She is also cons

ing for an outpatient surgery center. Sus

Estepiv alcgalisMslant ;or the firm of

Cashin & Morton in Woodstock, Ca Rol

School in Boston. Mass Beth Girardeau

planner at the Brevard County Transit

Division in Rockledge. Fla. She received

MBA from the Florida Institute of Techn

ogy in August. Ben H. Harm ill is em-

ployed in the Office of General Counsel ii

87Ashley M. Storey

1014 Spruce Street

Philadelphia, PA 19107

Robert Black Jr. is in his final year at the

Cumberland School of Law in Montgomery,

Ala. Mack Brothers is in a master's program

in management at the Georgia Institute of

Technology. Brooks Con

"

::

- U'A exam and now works lor KPMC '

I'eat Marwick in Nashville. T.J. Jones is i

medical student at the University of Ala-

bama in Birmingham. Lee Kinnamon

lonroe is pursuing his M.D. degree at

Vanderbilt University Medical School. Anneand Julian Price were married on

Sept. 22; they are living in Atlanta. Kim

Chris Tidwell is a full-time professor of

English at Edison Community College in

Fort Myers, Ha. Paul Todd Nicks of [ackson,

Tenn.. graduated from Memphis State

University School of Law. He is an attorney

with the firm of Hill, Borcn, Drew and

United States. Robyn Forshaw is

I the French Consulate in Atlanta,

ytng her master's degree from

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Pirnda Meronmanagement at the Unive

IN^-Jd.i t Us Vegas. Gibson Tho-

t year of law school at

,:tU\: I'n 'LTMty. Ljst summer she

oltice in Los Angeles. Darj in hi- List year of busi

school at Emory University. Tyler

Stal ings grad ated from the Atlanta

'88

'irgbtia Theological Seminary

-larles Schwab & Co- J. Boyd Douglas

irks for CPSI In Mobile, Ala., and is in

;e of electronic billing for 63 hospitals

Republic of Taiwan. Gary Zcll n

'89

Aith the Envoy Corporatioi

_. Thomas "Ted" Denard I

the Peace Corps in Highgate, J

.. .,..,.. . . j Georgia lm_...

Technology football games. He also said

is trying to open a restaurant that caters

exclusively to Sewanee grads. Kendall J

,.

, s. Kendall is enrolled in a

's program focusing on elementary

July to Todd B. Neil. Benita and Michael

Mulh were married May 26, 1990. They live

n Chapel Hill, N.C; Mike has a fellowship

it Duke University. Becker Morrison is

vorking for the Internal Revenue Service

ind living in Nashville with Ian Cabell and

'90

Julie Burton is a secretary for the Yarmc

Croup in Decatur, Ca. Nancy duBois is

working toward a Ph.D. in philosophy a

Em.'iv University. P'

y Glover __ _

re in Atlanta Kathy

,otko is at Western Michigan University

urolled in a master's program in counsels

ducahonand psvcholupy ^he has J gradu

_ie assLstanfc-hip in the Residence Hall Ufe

Office Rick Gustafson is in law school at

DePaul University in Chicago Andy Jones

amed Kay Snead on August 17. Andy is

c . Kathy Roberts is an English tc

Baylor School in Chattanooga. Kathy

Rogers is a consumer associate at First

Union National Bank of Georgia in Savan-

Thc Rev. Edward Meeks Tope" Gregory

was recently named chaplain emeritus at

Christchurch School, where he has served as

theology dept. chairman and chaplain for ten

years. A college-preparatory boarding school

for boys, Christchurch School is located on

Virginia's Chesapeake Bay.

'60

'77

'81Villiam Metuyk is serving a:

Contact Lite-Une ai

the formation advisor, Center for Spiritual

Growth, Diocese of Tennessee.

'85

'86The Rev. Cordon Temple was recently

made the executive pastor of the Church of

the Ascension, Knoxville, Tenn. He recently

returned from a pastoral exchange as vicar

of St. Luke's Church, Torquay in Devon,

England.

'87The Rev. Dale A. Warner is now vicar of

Trinity Episcopal Church in Melrose, Fla. He

'89The Rev. Vickie Lynn Houk accepted a

position as assistant rector at Grace Episco-

pal Church in Sandusky, Ohio. Bart Loftin

teaching sophomore and junior English at

Saint Andrew's School in Boca Raton, Fla.

The Rev. Kenneth M. Roach became recto;

of St Paul's Church in Ouincy, Fla., on

August 1.

'90

Ierry, A'15, C'19, retired petro-

Lt. Col- Berry s.

Infantry during World War I and in WorldWar II helped Ihe war department staff in

the European theater plan the invasion of

North Africa From 1924 until his retirement,

he worked as a district landman for Ihe

Sinclair Prairie Oil Company in Wilchila

Falls, Texas. He was the founding president

of the Tulsa (Okla.) Junior Chamber of

Commerce and a member of the EpiscopaJ

Church. Preceded in death by his wife, MaryClark Berry, he is survived by his daughter,

Margaret Berry Leisenring of Houston, two

old W. Braly, C'20, former insuran

niner; on October 12, 1990. A nativ

isburg, Tenn., he played football a

Banking and New York University, Mr.

Nauts pined the Brooklyn Trust Co. in 1925.

During the Depression, he began a career

r, William B.Nautit Latin and Creek at Sewanee fi

ft fifty years before his death in

Mai

.1 hv hi-.

mghtei

., Helen Coley IS

andfivigreat-grandchildren.

Richard Look Nauts, A'22. C26, Houston

August 22, 1990. One of two sons of SewancProfessor of Latin and Creek William B.

Nauts, Richard Nauts served with the U.S.

Army Air Forces as a warrant officer during

World War II Hengeneral insurance a

golfer he qualified several tj

a titled

"Monkey Trial" of July 1925 in Daytor

Tenn. By a stroke of luck, he found himself

to H.L. Mencken, "in the midst of the single

>t publicized news story until Lindberg

William a Nauts Jrv C

e Federal Reserve Bar

n J. Cochrane Jr., C3hero; on October

Cochrane servi'i-l in VV.iHd V

Cochrane »

troops. He also se

in the late 1950s r

Liaison CommittcCommission. He i

Silver Star, the Bronze Star, and the Purple

rented the Military

n the Atomic Energy

October 18, 1990. Dr. Atkinson was a gradi

ale of the University of Tennessee College i

Dentistry at Memphis. He served in the

ii-inlv nl tin -tjl._-j._-ntj] .i

Survivors include his v.

Atkinson of Belvidere, Tenn., two soi

daughter, and seven grandchildren.

September 27, 1990 A lifelong resident of

War II and a graduate of the University of

served on the boards of the Georgia I listori-

cal Society and the Augusta-RichmondCounty Museum A member of the Sons of

n Revolution as part of Ihe biccnten-

St. Luke's Anglican Chui

brother, Dr.J.Righton Robert:

Dr. James Cain Vardell Jr., C'43, noted

South Carolina physician; on July 22, 1990." hisM.D. degree

Ki. ...... id \.._r.i.njl I l.ispital and I'rov

I I.>-l>i...] jnd jss-.ni.ir attending phys..I SC Kiptisi ll.ispit.il lie w... ruvi

veteran of World War II and the Kuro.

tontlict A prufk-ssui i >t diriK'j] nu.\ii.-|i

the University of South Carolina Scho.

Medidne. he was also an active memb

Edward W. Carpenter, C'44, automobile

salesman; on October 21, 1990. A resident of

Delray Beach, Fla., since 1937, Mr. Carpenter

was a life member of the Antique Auiomo-

industrial claims for i

firm of Sharp, Rizk, Hart ai

active member of the Jacksonville Sew

University's Century II effort. His father, R.

IMorey Hart, C'34, was a past president of

.ugust 10, 1990. A graduate of AuburnUniversity, Canon Smith earned a master's

degree in speech from the University of

Divinity degree from the School of Theology.

He then taught in Arkansas and Missouri,

and in 1962 assumed the chaplaincy at the

Meredith, ihe first black student to enter the

university. He became Episcopal chaplain at

the University of Maryland 'in 1965 and was

Canon Smith chaired the Maryland advisory

committee to the U.S. Civil Rights Commis-sion, 1965-1 973, and served as president of

the Episcopal Societv for Mimstrv in HigherEducation, 1979-1982. He is survived by his

wife, the Rev Elizabeth A Platz of College

Park, Md„ and three childi

Hugcr, C'72, on June 26, 1990. r-

native of Asheville, N.C.,

parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wil

CBS/FOX VIDEO in Ne^had previously served as a senior

« analyst with Macmillan Publishing

iny's International Division. Survivors

Include his mother, I

r, and one brother

ed the life and work of the late Bayly Turling

he Unwerstty of Ihe South from 1 950-1977. A tablet placed on the

It of All Samts' Chapel was dedicated to Dr. Turlington during the service by Chaplain

Samuel Lloyd. Present for the dedication, from left, were his daughter. Anne Bowman Butt, A75, fit

widow, Ann Appcrson Turlington Twutman, his son, Bayly f ielding Turlington, A'72,C76, and

Fielding's xoife, Becky.

THE NEWS

Volunteer firefighter Kathryn Dunbar combines her studies m religion

with saving lives. For a detailed account of the vital ivork of Sewanee

firefighters and Emergency Medical Technicians, see pages 12-13.

Winter 1991

5/Special Collect!

THESEWANEENEWSPublished for the Alumni and Friends of The University of the South

After serving as dean of

the College of Arts andSciences during a de-

cade which witnessed important

changes for Sewanee, W. BrownPatterson has decided to return

to his full-time faculty position

in the Department of History.

Patterson, who will become afull-time faculty member in the

fall of 1991, cites his desire to

focus on teaching and scholar-

ship as the fundamental factor

in his decision. "I have a senseof accomplishment and feel that

the state of the university is ex-

cellent," he says. "1 am de-lighted with Sewanee's leader-

ship and believe my ten years as

dean have been an appropriate

length of time."

Patterson came to the Univer-sity as dean in 1980, havingbeen a history professor at

Davidson College for 17 years.

To the University he broughtimpressive academic creden-tials- A 1952 Sewanee graduate,he was a Rhodes Scholar at Ox-ford in 1953-55 and 1962-63. Hereceived B.A. and M.A. degreesin English from Oxford Univer- ,_

sity and an M.A. in English and a Ph.D. degrin history and religion from Harvard University.He also holds a master of divinity degree in the-ology and church history from the EpiscopalDivinity School.

While Patterson maintained close ties to theUniversity after graduating, he had not consid-ered returning to Sewanee until University offi-

cials in 1979 approached him with the prospectof becoming dean.

"I had come to the Medieval Colloquium ev-ery spring, and 1 had many friends here. I wasperfectly happy with that relationship,"

Patterson recalls as he sits in his Walsh-Ellettoffice. "So it was something totally new andunexpected when {then Vice-Chancellor andPresident] Bob Ayres talked to me about the pos-sibility of my coming here as dean. Once hebroached that idea, I began to think: All of theseyears I've spent in higher education might bevaluable at Sewanee. I came to feel that I had avocation for it."

When he arrived as dean, Patterson wantedto ensure that Sewanee would be prepared to

face the academic challenges and changes of anew era in higher education.

"My general goal has been to sustain the aca-

Spring 1991

After a Decade as Dean, Pattersonto Return to Full-Time Teaching

demic quality of the University and the Collegein particular in the way I had known it as a stu-dent and in the way I had seen it as an alum

"1 have worked to move that reputation, thatstandard of quality, into the future."

During his tenure as dean, he has helped theCollege forge ahead in several crucial areas. Hehas worked to increase faculty salaries to makeSewanee more competitive with comparableinstitutions, and he has encouraged faculty membersin their teaching and scholarly activities.

Since 1982, he has taken on the ambitious laskof revising the curriculum. The curriculum revi-sions, which have been discussed extensivelyand approved by faculty members and adminis-trators, will strengthen the undergraduate expe-rience for Sewanee students, Patterson believes.

"We've kept our emphasis on English, on for-

eign language, and on mathematics, and we'vedeveloped new courses in some areas, such ashistory, philosophy, and religion," he says.

"We've also strengthened the science require-ment. We felt that our students needed to knowmore about science—partly because of the soci-ety that they're going out to and partly becauseof the inherent value of the

anybody's education.

"Compared to any liberal arts

college I know, this [new core cur-

riculum] is an extensive and rigor-

ous set of requirements." The newcurriculum will take effect for

freshmen who enter the Univer-sity in the fall of 1991.

Patterson has also worked to

improve the quality of studentswho come to the University andtheir experiences when they arrive

on campus. "There has been majorprogress in admissions, with boththe number of applicants and the

quality of incoming students," hesays. "I strongly believe that the

faculty and the administration areworking together to address is-

sues which improve the quality of

the undergraduate experience.

"Among the positive changesin student life are a variety of newcourses and academic programs,more diversity on campus, and animproved social and cultural cli-

mate. Fraternities and sororities

are also looking at their responsi-

bilities more seriously."

Wee-Chancellorand President

Samuel R. Williamson says Patterson

.has had a rrujorirnpact on the Col-

lege, praising his leadershipand direction.

"Brown Patterson's tenure as dean has beentruly outstanding," says Williamson. "Under hisleadership the excellent academic tradition ofSewanee has been not only maintained but also

enhanced. The quality of our faculty and therigor of our instructional curriculum have neverbeen better.

"Improvements in faculty compensation, anemphasis on teaching, and a faculty engaged in

professional activities—field trips, symposia,research, publication, presentation of papers

—

have characterized Dean Patterson's term."

Williamson acknowledged Patterson's instru-mental role in the formation of the AssociatedColleges of the South, a consortium of nine lib-

eral arts colleges dedicated to excellence in un-dergraduate education. "Dean Patterson hasbeen a major force in higher education in ourregion and an outstanding representative of theUniversity. We are delighted he will remain anactive and essential member of the Sewanee

Indeed, Patterson stresses that he is not retir-

ing, but rather returning "to do (he things whichI've done for most ofmy career—teaching andscholarship."

Vice-Chancellor's Corner

THE SEWANEE NEWS

SEWANEE™Stephen E. Becker, Director of Public Relations

Robert Bradford, Editor

H.W. "Yogi" Anderson III, C72, Alumni Editor

Mary E. Henry, C'93, Class Notes Editor

Associated Alumni Officers

Robert N. Rust III, C61, President

N. Pendleton Rogers, C72, Via President for Planned Gim

John W. Tonisscn, Jr., C70, National Chairman (or Annual

Bizabeth McDonough Howick, C81, Vice President for

Admissions

The Rev. Dwight Ogier, Jr., C64, Vkt President for Regioi

The Rev. Henry N. Parsley, Jr., C70, Vice President

for Church Relations

The Rev. Robert S. Creamer, T71, Vice President for the

School of Theology

H.W. "Yogi" Anderson III, C72, Executive Director

The Sewanee News (ISSN 0037-3044) is published quarterly

by the University of the South, including the College of Arts

and Sciences and the School of Theology, and is distributed

without charge to alumni, parents, faculty, and friends of the

University. Third class postage is paid at Sewanee, Tennes-

see, and additional mailing offices. Copyright ©1991 The

Sewanee News. All rights reserved. Postmaster. Send address

changes to Research and Records, Office of University

Relations, University of the South, Sewanee, TN 37375-4004.

We are anxious to keep tuition

increases as low as possible;

the endowment income is

increasing, but not at a rate fast

enough to match the amounts

needed for financial aid

Since theik kjunuahun in the Middle

colleges and universities have supported

promising student:

seeking to attend. From the start this has also

been true of the

ty of the

South. Many of the

earliest gifts to

Sewanee

financial aid to

needy and merito-

students. The

through this cen-

tury, and the recent

Century II Cam-paign has added

substantially to the

funds available for

scholarships and

financial aid. There are now 150 named scholar-

ship funds for the College and 111 for the School

of Theology. As a university, we can be proud of

this record.

During the decade of the 1980s, as federal

financial aid has levelled off, the University has

devoted an increasing portion of its general

endowment and tuition income to scholarships.

The amount now reaches $4,825,000 for the 1990-

91 budget year and represents 16 percent of the

budget; this compares with $1,440,000 in 1981-82

and 9 percent of the budget in that year. Our

ability to increase the funding of financial aid

directly from the success of the Century II

Campaign.

All of this is placing a severe strain on the

University's finances. We are anxious to keep

as possible; the endow-

ment income is increasing, but not at a rate fast

enough to match the amounts needed for finan-

cial aid; the federal government remains unre-

sponsive to the need for increases in support for

students at the collegiate level; and the next

capital campaign is months away. More disturb-

ing is the fact that many friends of Sewanee feel

beginning to be less attractive to appli-

cants who come from middle income families.

While we are seeking to provide these students

with more direct grants next year, as opposed to

loans, we probably will not have enough funds

to do as much as we would like.

Throughout this year the faculty, administra-

tion, and the Board of Regents have wrestled

with these issues. We will continue to do so. As

always, our goal is to attract good students to

Sewanee from our traditional constituencies, as

well as newer ones, and to assure them a quality

education. Our goal for the seminary is to do the

same and to that end many parishes and dio-

ceses have been increasingly supportive through

their 1 percent funds for theological education.

We will consider a series of options for possible

changes at a later date, including the use of more

grant awards to middle income families, more

local work-study awards, an insistent set of

appeals to foundations, and direct efforts with

the Congress and the government to give more

support for student financial aid.

The good news this year is that our freshman

applications are up slightly at a time when manycolleges are seeing theirs decline. Our ap-

Iplications for

the Wilkins

awards with

their half-

tuition grants

percent. And,

venture,

Sewaneeclubs in three

cities are

awarding

alumni schol-

arships of

,000 to students to attend the University. All of

this should help maintain our overall student

enrollment and relieve some of the annual

pressures on the budget.

The longer-term solution to the pressure of

keeping college costs down will involve effi-

ciency and productivity by the University, an

aggressive search for more endowment funds,

and what we hope will be a change in attitudes

toward higher education at the federal level. In

the meantime, please know how much we ap-

preciate your support of the University through

a host of activities, including the Annual Fund

and generous gifts to the endowment. We want

to be able to continue to facilitate students com-

ing to Sewanee; your help now and in the future

will help assure that.

On the Mountain

John Frederick Nim

Nims ReceivesAiken-Taylor AwardProfessor John Frederick

Nims, a distinguished

man of letters, wasawarded the 1991

Aiken-Taylor prize for

modem American po-

etry by The Sewanee

Review.

Nims, a midwest-erner educated at the

University of Notre

Dame and the Univer-

sity of Chicago, received

the $10,000 prize from Vice-Chancellor

Williamson during the Easter Convocation

ceremony.

Nims' many publications include collections

of poetry, translations of classic writers ancient

and modem, anthologies and textbooks. He has

been associated with the city of Chicago for

most of his mature life, and his teaching posts

have included lengthy stays at the University of

Notre Dame, the University of Illinois, and the

University of Illinois at Chicago Circle. He has

put in shorter stints at Harvard University, the

Bread Loaf School of English, and Williams

College. In addition Nims was twice a Fulbright

lecturer, each time in Italy; and he was visiting

professor of American Studies at the University

of Madrid.

Long affiliated with Poetry Magazine, Nimsis its editor from 1978-84. Included among

Nims' many honors are the Harriet MonroeMemorial Prize and the Levinson Prize, grants

from the National Endowment for the Arts and

the American Academy, and the Brandeis Uni-

versity Creative Arts Award.

He has been a contributor to The Sewanee

Review for 35 years, and his poetry has regularly

appeared in the magazine during that time.

Portions of his latest work, a selection of son-

nets, will be published in the spring issue.

Professor Nims' most recent books are The

Six-Cornered Snowflake and Other Poems (NewDirections, 1990), and Zany in Denim (just re-

leased by the University of Arkansas Press). The

University of Arkansas Press has also reissued a

revised edition of his durable anthology Poems

in Translation: Sappho to Valery.

The Aiken-Taylor Award for modern Ameri-

can poetry, awarded for the work of a substan-

tial and distinguished career, was established

through a bequest made to The Sewanee Review

and the University by Dr. K.P.A. Taylor. Dr.

Taylor, a physician who was the younger brother

of Conrad Aiken, was a respected amateur poet.

Taylor's poetry appeared in The Sewanee Review

and many other leading quarterlies.

The recipient is selected each year by a panel

of distinguished critics and poets. Previous ^winners are Howard Nemerov, Richard Wilbur,..,

Anthony Hecht,and W.S. Merwin.

Books at the Touchof a Button

With the

catalog automa-

tion system.

Packard computer and

the Virginia Tech Library System (VTLS), library

patrons are able to utilize more efficient search-

ing features in addition to locating books by

computer. The online catalog also enables users

who know only a few words in a book title to

call up a list of all titles containing those words.

Six public access terminals are located in front

of the reference desk on the library's main floor,

with two on the third floor in the library of the

School of Theology. On the main floor, one workstation accommodates handicapped patrons.

The project's automated circulation compo-

nent, which allows for computerized check-out

and record keeping, is now in operation, with

the acquisitions automation phase and the

serials phase set to begin on July 1, 1991, and

January 1, 1992, respectively.

Summer Science Center Begins this YearStudents and teachers from both Franklin and

Grundy county school systems will have an

opportunity to put the fun back into science

education by participating in Sewanee's Sum-

mer Science Center on July 22 - August 2. Forty

rising seventh grade students and 10 math and

science teachers of grades 5 through 8 will be

selected to participate in this year's pilot

program.

The hands-on woikshop, designed to encour-

age intellectually stimulating and enjoyable

science activities, will begin with a week of

planning and preparation for teachers. The

second week will bring together students and

teachers for exploration of the learning process

and methods of instruction. Each class in the

workshop will be taught by a team of two or

three teachers and a University science profes-

"We hope to help teachers find new ways in

which to improve science instruction in their

classrooms. Students at the summer science

center will have the opportunity to learn in an

innovative and informative way," said Dr.

Sherwood Ebey, director of the Sewanee Sum-

mer Science Center.

The program, which is supported by the

University of the South, Franklin and Grundy

county school systems, Title II funding through

the Tennessee Department of Education, and

Franklin and Grundy county business owners

and citizens, will provide a $500 stipend to

teachers selected to participate.

"We expect teachers to return to their class-

rooms with a renewed sense of excitement and a

variety of new ways to introduce science to their

students. We expect students to return to those

classrooms with a new interest in their science

classes," Ebey said.

The pilot program, which includes explora-

tion of and exposure to innovation in science

education, has been designed to continue for

three to four years, with statewide participation

increasing each summer.

In conjunction with the Sewanee SummerScience Center, the University is sponsoring

several workshops, lectures and education-

related events this spring.

"At Sewanee, we feel this area of concentra-

tion is extremely important to today's teachers

and students. Our 'Focus on Science Education'

presentations will bring to campus those profes-

sionals who are on the cutting edge of develop-

ments and innovation in science education,"

Sewanee Summer SeminarOffers Intriguing ProgramsThe 1991 Sewanee Summer Seminar will allow

alumni and friends to participate in a wide

range of programs—from analyzing the Bill of

the Rights to discussing the moral worth of

endangered species.

The first session of the summer seminar will

run from June 23-29; the second session will run

from July 7-13.

The program includes five segments. Dr.

Robert Keele, professor of political science, will

teach 'The Bill of Rights at 200 Years." Dr. James

Peters, assistant professor of philosophy, will

lecture "On the Moral Worth of Endangered

Species." Dr. Brandreth Potter, associate profes-

sor of geology, will discuss "The quake that

never happened and the quake that will: The Big

One—when?" Dr. Ansel Sharp, professor of

economics, will analyze "Federal Budget Defi-

cits: 'A Crisis or a Misunderstanding?" And Dr.

Edwin Stirling, professor of English, will teach

"Traditional Sanctity and Loveliness': W.B.

Yeats and the Irish Ascendency."

The seminar, now in its sixteenth year, en-

courages participants to rediscover the excite-

ment of ideas, presented and exchanged in an

informal setting, according to Stirling, director

of the seminar.

The cost is $325 per adult participant and

$210 per dependent. For information and reser-

vations about the seminar, write: Dr. Edwin

Stirling, Department of English, University of

the South, Sewanee, TN 37375; or call (615) 598-

1483.

Alumni Affairs THE SEWANEENEWS

Sewanee Clubs Reach Across the Country

From Anchorage to New York City, Sewanee Clubs give alum

chance to share their common experiences. "Sewanee Clubs a

an excellent network for alumni," says Yogi Anderson

director of the Associated Alumni. "They provide Sewanee

graduates with a wide range of opportunities—from relaxing

receptions to engaging forums." If you'd like to learn about the

activities of your Sewanee Club, contact your club president.

Sewanee Club PresidentsDelta

AlaskaTom Tierney

2435 Chilligan Drive

Anchorage, AK 99517Greater Louisville

Arkansas James F Wilson

Claibourne W. Patty, Jr.33°° G™u^ [*™

-,, ,,,:, iniiLouisville, IO 4U.H

Baton RougeRobert Holloway5700 Sandalwood Drive

Baton Rouge, Louisiana 7

Gene T. Price

19 Honeysuckle LaneBirmingham, AL 35213

BostonValerie Tarver

79 Oak Street #108Ashland, MA 01721

Central Florida

David T. Parker

120 East Marks Street #200

Orlando, FL 32803

Central KentuckyLisa Underwood31 •} Hxhd.iv RoadLexington, KY 40502

Central MississippiDavid M.Walters1632 Lockwood AvenueJackson. MS 39211

Central South Carolina

Clif Kitchens

1704 Phelps Street

Columbia, SC 29205

Charlotte

Henry M. Gass III

2427 Mechlenburg AvenueCharlotte, NC 28205

ChattanoogaJames A. King III

117 Highland AvenueLookout Mountain, TN 37350

ChicagoWaring Webb1210 Gilbert AvenueDowners Grove, IL 60515

Coastal Carolina

W. Clark Hanger#4 Montagu Street

Charleston, SC 29401

Texas Gulf Coast (Housti

Charles Miller

2701 Revere Street, S193

Houston, TX 77098

Jacksonville

Thomas S. Edwards, Jr.

1436 Avondale AvenueJacksonville, FL 32205

KnoxvilleWilliam A. Simms7608 Sabre Drive

Knoxville, TN 37919

Tabitha Katherine Franc

6965 Bain Tree CoveMemphis, TN 38119

Middle GeorgiaBen T.Willis, Jr.

2814 Vineville AvenueMacon, GA 31204

Nashville

John Morrissey

3100 Dudley AvenueNashville, TN 37212

New OrleansMichael C. McLain8228 Sycamore Place

New Orleans, LA 70118

Greater New YorkDebora Allen Guthrie

929 Park Avenue, No 1

New York, NY 10019

PensacolaKeith L. Bell

1717 North 11th AvenuePensacola, FL 32503

Piedmont Area (N.C.)

Dan Ahlport108 Hawkins DriveGreensboro, NC 27410

James H.Booker, Jr.

511 East 9th Street

Rome, GA 30161

San AntonioSam Bold rick

427 Evans Avenue

San Francisco

Ronald B. Caballero

892 Lombard Street

San Francisco, CA 94133

Seattle

James L. Varnell

18150 Marine View Drive, SWSeattle, WA 98166

SewaneeSteven Blount

5340 Georgia Crossing RoadCowan, TN 37318

Spartanburg

Jay Wakefield915 Brentwood Drive

Spartanburg, SC 29302

Tampa Bay AreaLinda MacDonatd Scarritt

2113 Hills AvenueTampa, FL 33606

Tennessee Valley

J. Wesley Clayton

3 Cruise Alley

Huntsville, AL 35801

Triangle Area (NC)Brian W. Dowling1649 Sutton Drive

Raleigh, NC 27605

West Palm BeachHerbert C. Gibson6309 Washington RoadWest Palm Beach, FL 33405

ALUMN T03M»1by Robert Rust, C'61

President, Associated Alumni

Since the last publica-

tion of the Sewanee

News, one of the most

remarkable wars in

recorded history has

occurred. While I

confess to an awe(mixed with somepride) of the manner

in which our armed*

i forces and the coali-

tion forces conducted the campaign, these feel-

ings are intensely mitigated by one single fact:

the loss of William T. "Tom" Costen, C'85. I did

not know Tom, yet I feel a strong bond with him.

It is a bond that is tied to his, yours and mySewanee experience. Hence, on behalf of the

men and women who have partaken of the same

experience, I express a deep sorrow for his death

to Tom's mom, dad, family, and those of you

who knew him as your friend. I also offer our

common gratitude for his witness to all of us; a

life cut short, but exemplary of the "ought" (to

be) for those of us with a life left to live.

Lesser, but important sacrifices have been

made by many other Sewanee people in the

Desert Shield/Storm operation, including stu-

dents, staff and Sewanee residents. While I'm

not suggesting that these sacrifices are to be held

in any higher esteem than those of countless

other Americans, I am saying that they deserve

the recognition and thanks of the entire Sewanee

Within this context, 1 find it hard to turn to

more mundane alumni matters. Therefore, I'll be

brief. There is one message I want to deliver,

which is that each of us needs to be instrumental

in having at least three qualified people apply

for admission to Sewanee every year that re-

mains in the decade of the 1990s. Lobby your

bishop, your rector, your parish, your school

district superintendent, your high school coun-

selor, and every good private and public organi-

zation in your community to promote what

Sewanee has to offer.

Ranked as a national liberal arts institution,

Sewanee is facing a major challenge in compet-

ing for students out of a shrinking pool of quali-

fied candidates. The one element common to the

institutions with which we compete for students

is that their alumni body is actively involved in

identifying and recruiting applicants. We, the

alumni of Sewanee need match, and indeed,

surpass the efforts of alumni at comparable

universities in the recruiting process. I ask you

to join me in personally making this a high

priority and committing the time and energy to

getting at least three qualified young people to

apply to Sewanee for the 1992-93 6chool year

and every year hereafter of the decade.

Alumni Affairs

Attorney, teacher, and two bishops receive honorary degrees

A prominent Memphis attorney, a nationally

recognized African-American educator, and tw

Episcopal bishops received honorary degrees

during Easter convocation.

Charles Metcalf Crump, a senior partner in

the firm of Apperson, Crump, Duzane & Max-

well, has been a

practicing

attorney in

Memphis since

1937.

He earned

his B.A. in 1934

from Rhodes

College andreceived his law

degree from the

University of

Virginia in 1937.

He was a

member of the

Tennessee

House of Repre-

sentatives from 1939-43 and secretary to the

Shelby County Democratic Executive Commit-

tee from 1938-1950. He is director emeritus and

secretary of Sovran Bank in Memphis and direc-

tor and assistant secretary of Ripley Industries,

Inc.

Crump, a member of the Episcopal Church, is

chancellor of the Diocese of West Tennessee. Hewas vice-chancellor of the Diocese of Tennessee

from 1977-82 and has attended the church's

General Convention since 1958.

He is included in Who's Who of the South

and Southwest and has an extensive community

service history, serving as a member of the

Memphis Volunteers for Youth Counseling,

Memphis Chamber of Commerce, and the Mem-phis chapter of the U.S. China Peoples Friend-

ship Association.

Crump married Diana Temple Wallace in

1940. They have three sons, Charles Metcalf

Crump Jr., Philip Hugh Wallace Crump, and

Stephen Beard Crump, and two grandsons.

Ruby Middleton Forsythe has dedicated her

life to the chil-

dren of Holy

Cross-Faith

Memorial

Episcopal

School, in

Pawleys Island,

S.C., since

arriving there

as a teacher in

1938. Today, she

continues to

teach, in addi-

tion to serving

as the school's

principal, a

position she has

held since 1974.

Forsythe began as a student at Charleston's

Avery Institution in 1919 and graduated in 1923.

She earned her B.S. in Elementary Education by

(tending summer school sessions at South

Carolina State College from 1932-56, and com-

pleted graduate courses there in the summers of

1963 and 1964.

Her accomplishments in the field of educa-

n have been featured on Sixty Minnies and in

Newsweek magazine.

In 1988 she received honorary degrees from

Withrop College in Rock Hill, S.C., and South

Carolina State College in Orangeburg.

The RL Reverend Robert Jefferson

Hargrove,

bishop of the

Diocese of

Western Louisi-

crated at St.

Marks' Episco-

pal Church,

Shreveport. La.,

by the MostRev. Edmond L.

Browning,

presiding

bishop of the

Episcopal

Church, on July

8, 1989. He wasinstalled as the second bishop of the Diocese of

Western Louisiana at St. Mark's on July 7, 1990.

When elected bishop coadjutor on March 13,

1989, Hargrove was rector of the Church of the

Ascension, Lafayette, La. Prior to his term at the

Church of the Ascension, Bishop Hargrove was

rector of Monroe's Grace Church in the Diocese

of Western Louisiana.

He received a bachelor's degree from

Georgetown College of Kentucky in 1959, and a

bachelor of divinity and master of divinity

degrees from Central Baptist Theological Semi-

nary of Kansas City, Kan., in 1965 and 1972.

In 1966 he was confirmed in the Episcopal

Church and entered Seabury Western Theologi-

cal Seminary.

An ordained deacon and priest in the Episco-

pal Church since 1967, Bishop Hargrove has

served as assistant to the dean and as priest-in-

chargeof Trinity Cathedral, Davenport, Iowa; as

associate rector and youth minister of Holy

Trinity Church, West Palm Beach, Fla.; as rector

of St. Andrew's Parish, Grand Prairie, Texas, and

as rector of Grace Church, Madison, Wis. Healso served as canon to the ordinary in the Dio-

cese of Dallas, Texas.

Bishop Hargrove has served as a deputy to

three General Conventions and has served in

various diocesan positions and on numerous

diocesan committees with a continuing commit-

ment to evangelism, stewardship, Cursillo, and

other renewal movements.

He has been married to Linda Sprankle

Hargrove for 31 years. They have three sons,

Robert III, Timothy and Jonathan.

The Rt Reverend Edward L. Salmon Jr. was

elected bishop of South Carolina on September

9, 1989. He was ordained deacon in June of 1960

of the Board

and priest in

March of 1961

in the Diocese

of Arkansas.

Bishop

Salmon is presi-

dent of the

Episcopal-

Presbyterian

Foundation, the

Board of Trust-

ees of the Angli-

can Institute,

and the Thomp-

educarional

ministry of the

;se of Missouri, and Chai

of SPEAK, The Anglican Digest.

He earned a B.A. from the University of the

South in 1956 and a B.D. from Virginia Theologi-

cal Seminary in 1960.

Bishop Salmon has served a number of con-

gregations in Arkansas, including, St. Andrew's,

Rogers, St. James, Eureka Springs; St. Thomas,

Springdale; and Grace, Siloam Springs, as vicar.~

"/as rector of St. Paul's Fayetteville, Ark.,

before being called to the Church of St. Michael

nd St. George in Clayton, Mo.

He has been a trustee of the University of the

South since 1973 and has served on the Board of

Family and Children's Services of St. Louis;

Board of Episcopal Children's Home; Board of

Educational Center in St. Louis and President of

Boyland of Arkansas,

He married Louise F. Hack in 1972. They have

two children, Catherine and Edward L., III.

NewAlumni Directory

to be Printed in 1992

The Office of Alumni Relations has contracted

with Bernard C. Harris Publishing Company of

White Plains, N.Y,, to produce a new alumni

directory in the spring of 1992.

As part of the process of compiling informa-

tion for the directory, Harris will send question-

naires to Sewanee alumni in the fall of 1991.

Harris produces more than 2,500 alumni directo-

"The Sewanee directory will provide alumni

with up-to-date information about all known

graduates," says Yogi Anderson, executive

director of the Associated Alumni. "It will be an

important resource for the Sewanee family."

Developments THE SEWANEE I*

Charitable Gifts That Pay You Backby Marguerite T. SmithThe following is reprinted from MONEY Magazine by

spedal permission; ©1990, The Time Inc. Magazine

When it comes to helping others, Americans are

undeniably generous. Last year, according lo the

Independent Sector, a non-profit group that

studies trends in philanthropy, the average

household gave $734 to charity, up an inflation-

adjusted 20 percent over 1987. Many benevolent

spirits give much more, such as Kenneth

Schwartz, 64, a builder in Hollywood, Fla., and

his wife Maxine, 52, who give away about

$25,000 a year, or 10 percent of their gross in-

come. Explains Kenneth Schwartz: "By our

actions, we hope to teach our children to accept

their share of responsibility in the community."

Like the Schwartzes, most donors expect to

receive only the satisfaction that comes from

doing good—plus a tax write-off if they itemize

deductions. But increasing numbers of Ameri-

cans are discovering that with a little bit more

effort, they can make their gifts through chari-

table trusts and other relatively simple strategies

and get a much bigger tax payoff—and in some

cases collect income from the property they give

away. Says Philadelphia attorney Frederick J.

Gerhart: "People are starting to realize that they

can make a significant gift to charity without

lowering their standard of living." The trend is

evident coast to coast. At Pomona College in

Claremont, Calif., for example, donations to the

50-year-old- planned-giving program totaled $5.2

million last year, up 179 percent from 1985. Andat Boston University, more people have asked

about making gifts of real estate this year than in

the past 60 years. -

You don't have to be a Rockefeller or a Ford

to take advantage of these tactics either. For

instance, Indianapolis physician Dale Benson

and his wife Barbara, both 49, established a

charitable remainder unitrust in 1988 to benefit

Greenville College, which is their alma mater, as

well as the Community Health Network andMethodist Hospital. The Bensons contribute

$4,000 to the trust each year, giving them an

annual deduction of about $750, which will rise

as they grow older. Beginning in 1997, whenthree of their four children will have graduated

from college, the couple plan to boost their

contribution to $10,000 for each of nine years.

When they reach 65, they will begin drawingabout $14,400 from the trust annually, anamount based on their life expectancies. After

both die, the three charities will split whaf s

left— an expected $416,000. 'This arrangement

meets my needs exactly," says Dr. Benson. "I can

contribute an affordable amount each year, take

a tax deduction, collect income after I retire andget the satisfaction of helping three charitable

organizations that have had a strong positive

impact on my life."

Alas, unlike writing a check to your favorite

charity, setting up a trust isn't a do-it-yourself

project. You need an accountant, lawyer or

financial planner to advise you on the tax impli-

cations of charitable giving, and their fees can

1 planned gift from Charlotte Manigault led to the

range up to $1,500. If you decide to create a

trust, you will have to hire a lawyer to draw up

the trust agreement. Typical cost: $1,000 or more,

depending on the size of your gift and complex-

ity of the trust. To find qualified advisers, you

might ask a reputable charity for names.

When you meet with a tax adviser, first dis-

cuss how much you can afford to give to charity,

because you can't take back your gifts. The

techniques that we outline require as little as

$1,000, though you could give much more. Tax

law usually permits charitable deductions of as

much as 50 percent of your adjusted gross in-

come in any one year. You can, however, carry

forward amounts that exceed the limit anddeduct them on your tax returns over the next

five years.

You and your adviser should also discuss

what you might give. Often ifs best to donate

appreciated property such as stocks or real

estate. That way, because the recipient is tax-

exempt, no capital-gains tax is due when the

property is sold, and you get to take an incometax deduction for the full value of your cbntribu-

Make sure your tax adviser also looks into

whether your gift would force you to pay the

alternative minimum tax (AMT)—a flat 21 per-

cent in 1990, 24 percent thereafter—which is

intended to make sure that people with big

write-offs still pay their fair share of tax. Because

unrealized capital gains on gifts are counted in

computing the AMT, a sizeable donation—say,

one that resulted in a gain of $40,000 or morefrom someone with an AGI of $100,000—couldtrigger the tax. But the new tax law gives art

collectors a break. In 1991 only, donors who give

art or collectibles to museums may take anincome tax deduction equal to the object's fair

market value without incurring anAMT liabil-

ity.

Finally, your tax adviser can help you com-pensate your children or other heirs for the

portion of your legacy that you give to charity.

One option is life insurance for the amount that

you give away. Your heirs should take out the

policy on your life, but you could give themmoney to pay the premiums. Alternatively, if

you're uninsurable or the premium is too costly,

you can buy life insurance on one of your chil-

dren for the benefit of your grandchildren.

Once you've attended to those important

details, you're ready to select a strategy and

assume the role of Lord or Lady Bountiful. Thefollowing options are listed with those that

require the lowest minimum donations andstart-up fees.

Gift annuities. Donors with at least $1,000 to

give who want to collect income from their gift

should consider commission-free annuities

offered by many charitable organizations, in-

cluding the American Cancer Society, the Wil-

derness Society, and Catholic Relief Services.

Like annuities sold by insurance companies, gift

annuities pay you a fixed amount each year for

life. You may arrange for payments to start

immediately or at some time in the future, such

as after you retire. The longer you wait to col-

lect, the bigger your tax deduction will be. For

example, a 40-year-old who buys a gift annuity

that will start paying him income at age 65 can

write off 90 percent of the value of his gift. But a

65-year-old who buys an immediate annuity can

deduct only 45 percent of his donation. Typi-

cally, half of the income you receive is consid-

ered a return of principal and therefore isn't

taxable.

Don't bother shopping for the highest payout

because most charities use rates suggested bythe Committee on Gift Annuities, which repre-

sents more than 1,100 tax-exempt organizations.

One caveat: if your aim is to receive the highest

possible income, buy an annuity from an insur-

ance company and remember your favorite

charity in your will. A 60-year-old could collect

7 percent for life from a charity but 85 percent

or 9 percent from an insurance company, evenafter paying commissions.

Pooled-income funds. If you want to give at

least $5,000 and collect income from your gift,

consider making a contribution to one of these

funds, which are administered by colleges,

medical research centers, religious groups, andother tax-exempt organizations. Most charities

that offer these funds don't charge a fee whenyou make your initial contribution and permit

you to make additional gifts at any time.

You and any other beneficiaries you name,such as your spouse or a child, receive a propor-

tionate share of the fund's earnings for life; the

principal ultimately goes to the charity. Well-

naged pooled-income funds deliver returns

nparable to those of mutual funds with simi-

lar investment goals.

In addition, with a pooled-income fund you

et a tax deduction of 25 percent to 50 percent of

your donation, depending on your life expect-

ancy and the fund's recent earnings history—

a

higher return gives you a smaller write-off.

Older donors get larger write-offs than younger

ones because they can expect to collect income

for fewer years.

Before you contribute to a pooled-income

fund, ask the fund for its annual report, which

should include its investment results. "Somecharities produce abysmal returns of just 3

percent a year," warns Jim Corlett, a financial

planner for IDS Financial Services in Winston-

Salem, N.C. As a result, it's a good idea to com-

parison shop.

Charitable remainder trusts. These trusts

offer you an income tax deduction and lifetime

payouts but are suitable only for donations of

cash, securities of other property worth $50,000

or more. Start-up fees are also hefty: $1,000 to

$2,500 for an attorney to draw up a basic re-

mainder trust document. You can also expect to

ir annual appraisal, tax-retum preparation,

and possibly trustee fees of $500 to $700, which

the charity may pay.

There are two basic types of remainder trusts.

Annuity trusts pay you or someone you desig-

nate, such as your spouse or a child, a fixed

annual income for life or a specified period of up

to 20 years. After the recipient of the income

dies, the trust's assets go to the charity.

Unitrusts, on the other hand, shield the in-

come recipient from inflation. You can specify

that he or she collect a fixed percentage, usually

5 percent to 10 percent, of your trust's assets

annually. Or you can opt to have the trust pay

out the lesser of its annual income or a stated

percentage of its assets. After the income

recipient's death, the trust's principal goes to the

charity.

Because charities typically pay start-up and

administrative costs, most prefer unitrusts of

$100,000 or more. But it is possible to start one

with a much smaller initial donation and add to

it in subsequent years. Renaissance, a Carmel,

Ind. charitable-giving consulting firm, sets upand administers unitrusts as small as $2,000 for

an annual fee of $70 to $4,000, depending on the

size of the trust. In addition to your initial con-

tribution, you should intend to donate a total of

$50,000 or more over 20 years. For example,

Vivienne Gilbert, 46, a New York City tax attor-

ney, and her husband Charles, 53, a jewelry

designer, used Renaissance to set up a unitrust

last year that will eventually benefit New York

Law School, her alma mater. The Gilberts ini-

tially donated $2,000 and plan to kick in $250 a

month until they retire. Gilbert views her

unitrust as sort of a substitute IRA, since she

expects to take income from it after she retires.

Until then, she says, "I get to deduct a portion of

my gift (now 12.5 percent, but that will rise),

there's no annual limit on how much I can give,

and my trust's assets grow tax-free."

Charitable lead trusts. If your aim is to pre-

Developmentsserve $100,000 or more for your heirs and you

don't need income now, this trust may be right

for you. You place assets in the trust, and the

charity receives income from it until the trust

terminates at your death. At that time, the trust's

assets go to your heirs. You may get an income

tax deduction by setting up a charitable lead

trust, and you will be able to reduce, and maybeeven eliminate, gift or estate taxes on the prop-

erty that passes to your beneficiaries. Expect to

pay an attorney at least $2,500 to draw up the

trust document.

Life-Estate agreements. These arrangements

; the strategy of choice for homeowners whoive an immediate tax deduction and don't

need income. Here's how the agreement works:

You give your house to a charity with the under-

tanding that you will live there and pay prop-

erty taxes as well as maintenance and insurance

expenses until your death. You get a tax deduc-

tion based on the property's fair market value

and your life expectancy, which you can use to

offset up to 30 percent of your adjusted gross

income. If necessary, you can cany the deduc-

tion forward for five years. When the house is

sold after your death, the proceeds go to the

Sometimes you can even get more than a tax

break. Consider, for example, Florence Mauro,

86, a widow in Berrien Springs, Mich., whomanaged to tailor a life-estate agreement to meet

the needs of her extended family. Mauro gave

,

her five-bedroom home to nearby Andrews I

University in 1976 but retained the right to live

in it until she died. Thirteen years later, Mauro's

granddaughter Nancy Gerard's husband Greg

took a job at Andrews. The Gerards were having

difficulty finding an affordable place to live, so

Mauro asked the college to sell the house to the

couple. The Gerards paid $60,000 for it and nowlive there with Mauro and their two children,

Andrew, 4, and Allison, 2. Andrews used the

cash it received for the house to endow the

Charles and Florence Mauro Scholarship Fund.

Concludes Mauro: 'This has been an answer to

Bargain sales. You sell your property to a

college or other tax-exempt organization for less

than you could get on the open market and, as a

result, get an income tax deduction that offsets

your capital gain. You're most likely to interest a

charity in a bargain sale if your house can be

used for office space or you live in an area where

real estate prices have boomed. Conversely, you

can forget about this strategy if you own a

handyman's special in a depressed area. Even

charities occasionally tum down gifts.

For further information about any of the agreements

discussed in this article or about AMT and collectibles, please

contact the Office of Planned Giving at 1-800-379-1179, exl.

J.C Bradford& Co.

BrokerMakesInnovative Gift

A novel approach to generating a contribution

for a charitable cause has resulted in a major gift

to Sewanee.

James F. Gallivan, a partner with the Nash-

ville-based investment banking firm of J.C.

Bradford & Co., decided in December to contrib-

ute a day's worth of his brokerage commission

to a charitable cause that was named by one of

his clients.

"I invited my clients to send me their sugges-

tions on how the money should be spent," said

Gallivan. "From those suggestions I randomly

selected a client who is an alumna of the Univer-

sity of the South."

Tom Watson, vice president for university

relations at Sewanee, expressed his appreciation

for Gallivan's innovation and his contribution to

the University. "Mr. Gallivan's action sets an

excellent example for other businesses and

corporations to follow," Watson said. "We at

Sewanee are enormously pleased one of our

alumna named her alma mater as the recipient

of this generous gift."

J.C. Bradford & Co. has offices across the

Southeast and Ohio, employing more than 500

brokers serving more than 100,000 investors.

Jibby Tucker Retires

After 48 Years at Sewanee

Mary "Tibby"

Tucker, who served

as a receptionist in

the Office of Univer

sity Relations for 25

years and whoworked at Sewanee

for 48 years, retired

from the University

on February 28,

1991.

Tibby, as she is affectionately known by the

University community, worked in a wide range of

areas, from the supply store to the development

Tom Watson, vice president for university

relations, praised her commitment to the Univer-

sity. "Tibby is an institution at Sewanee," he said

Tax Provision Provides Break for Gifts of Art

During 1991, a revision of the tax code of 1986 permits this year only the donation of works of arts

and manuscripts to museums and libraries, including those housed and operated by colleges and

universities. This important temporary provision can benefit the University of the South through

contributions of manuscripts to the University Archives and Special Collections located in the Jessie

Ball duPont Library. Gifts of art work may also be made to the University Gallery for the perma-

nent collection. A fine arts building is included in Sewanee's plans for the immediate future, which

will provide for a substantial increase in gallery space. Essentially, this change will only affect gifts

made by taxpayers subject to the alternative minimum tax, which currently is pegged at 24 percent.

From July 16-28, some of the most

prominent writers in the country

will come to Sewanee to participate

as faculty members in the second

Sewanee Writers' Conference.

"I believe it is fair to say the

Sewanee Writers' Conference has

the most distinguished faculty of

any writers' conference in the

country," says Wyatt Prunty, a

Sewanee English professor whodirects the conference.

Twelve novelists, poets, and

playwrights will work with stu-

dents in this years' conference.

Ellen Douglas haspublished seven novels:

A Family's Affairs

(Houghton Mifflin,

1961—won the

Houghton Mifflin fel-

lowship), Black Cloud,

White Cloud (HoughtonMifflin, 1963), Where the

Dreams Cross

(Houghton Mifflin,

1968), Apostles of light

(Houghton Mifflin,

1973—a National BookAward finalist). The Rock Cried Out (HarcourtBrace Jovanovich, 1979), A Lifetime Burning(Houghton Mifflin, 1982), and Can't Quit YouBaby (Atheneum, 1988). She has contributed to

Harper's, Esquire, the New Yorker, and the NewRepublic, and a short story, "On the Lake," ap-peared in the O. Henrv collection of the best

stories for 1962. In 1989 she received the fiction

award for the body of her work from the Fellow-ship of Southern Writers.

Ernest Gaines is profes-

dence at the Universityof Southwestern Louisi-

ana. His publications

include Catherine Carmie(Atheneum, 1964), OfLove and Dust (The Dial

Press, 1967), Bloodline

(The Dial Press, 1968), ALong Day in November(The Dial Press, 1971),

The Autobiography ofMiss fane Pittman (TheDial Press, 1971 ), In My Father's House (Knopf,1978), and A Gathering of Old Men (Knopf, 1984).

Gaines's honors include grants from the Na-tional Endowment for the Arts and the

Guggenheim Foundation, and honorary degreesfrom Denison, Whittier, Bard, and Brown. TheAutobiography of Miss lane Pittman and A Gather-ing of Old Men were both made into films forCBS, and "The Sky is Gray" was included in theAmerican Short Story series done by PBS.

Marianne Gingher is

V j. the author of a novel,,. Bobby Rex's Greatest Hit

'£ (Atheneum, 1986), and

J- a collection of short

I stories, Teen Angel(Atheneum, 1988). Shehas published shortH fiction in many maga-

k

zines, including NorthAmerican Review, SouthCarolina Review, Carolina

Quarterly, Southern

Scholarship

W166rs'

mference

Review, Redbook, McCall's, and Seventeen. Herbook reviews frequently appear in the Washing-ton Post and the New York Times Book Review. Shehas been the recipient of two North CarolinaLiterary Fellowships, the Sir Walter RaleighAward for Fiction, and a PEN Syndicated Fiction

Award for a story that was recorded for NPR'sThe Sound of Writing. She has taught at the Uni-versity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill andcurrently teaches at Hollins College in Roanoke, Va.

Emily Grosholz is

associate professor of

philosophy at the Penn-sylvania State Univer-sity, University Park.

Advisory editor andfrequent contributor to

the Hudson Review, shehas also contributedpoetry and criticism to

NERIBLQ, Poetry, Yale

Rcvicu), the New York

Times Book Review, andvarious other journals.

Her first book of poems,The River Painter, was published in 1984 by the

University of Illinois Press, and Princeton Uni-versity Press published Shores and Headlands in

1988. The Johns Hopkins University Press will

bring out her next collection in 1992. She hasrecently received a grant from the IngramMerrill Foundation and a GuggenheimFellowship.

nWendy Hammond holdsan M.F.A. from NewYork University's Dra-matic Writing Program,where she studied withTina Howe. Her playsinclude The Ghostman, W §7 ^ *~\Family Life: 3 Brutal

Comedies, Jersey City, Like

Ashes, and Julie Johnson.

Her plays have beenproduced regionally at

the Long Wharf Theatre,Salt Lake Acting Com-pany, Charlotte Rep, Playworks, and theStonehill Theatre Project. In New York City shehas had productions at the Second Stage, theActors Studio, and Home For ContemporaryTheatre and Art. Currently, she is writing ascreenplay. Drowning Creek, for Artemis Films.She received a 1988 Drama League Award, a1989 McKnight Fellowship for Playwriting, anda 1989-90 grant from the National Endowmentfor the Arts. Hammond has taught writingcourses at several colleges and in the prisonward of Bellevue Hospital.

\

Tina Howe is the au-thor of The Nest, Birth

and After Birth, Museum,The Art of Dining, Paint-

ing Churches, Coastal

Disturbances, and Ap-proaching Zanzibar.

These works premieredat the ActlV Theatre in

Provincetown, the LosAngeles Actors Theater,

the New YorkShakespeare Festival,

the Kennedy Center, and the Second Stage. Theycontinue to be produced throughout the countryand abroad. Miss Howe has received an ObieAward for Distinguished Playwriting (1983), anOuter Critics Circle Award (1983), a Rockefellergrant (1984), an NEA Fellowship (1985), aGuggenheim Fellowship (1990), and a Tonynomination for Best Play (1986-87). Her publica-tions from the Theater Communications Groupinclude Coastal Disturbances, Four Plays by TinaHowe and Approaching Zanzibar. She teaches thegraduate playwriting seminar at HunterCollege in New York.

Mark Jarmanistheauthor of four books of

poetry: The Black Riviera

(Wesleyan, 1990), Farand Away (Camegie-Mellon, 1985), The RoteWalker (Carnegie-

Mellon, 1981), andNorth Sea (Cleveland,

1978). He was co-

founder and editor of

the Reaper, a periodical

Review, Poetry, and the New Yorker. He r

poetry frequently for the Hudson Review and theGettysburg Review. His awards and honors in-

clude a Joseph Henry Jackson Award, two fel-

lowships from the National Endowment for theArts, and a Robert Frost Fellowship from theBread Loaf Writers' Conference. He is an associ-

ate professor of English at Vanderbilt University.In 1992 Story Line Press will publish his book-length narrative poem. Iris.

Donald Justice, a nativeFloridian, taught for

many years at Iowa andSyracuse Universitybefore joining the writ-

ing program at the

University of Florida at

Gainesville. He haswritten The SummerAnniversaries (Wesleyan, I

I960), Night Light

(Wesleyan, 1967), Depar-tures (Atheneum, 1973),

Selected Poems (Ath-eneum, 1979), Platonic Scripts (University ofMichigan Press, 1984), and The Sunset Maker(Atheneum, 1987). His honors and awards in-

clude fellowships from the Rockefeller, Ford,and Guggenheim foundations, and grants fromthe National Endowment for the Arts. In 1980,his Selected Poems won the Pulitzer Prize. ADonald Justice Reader is planned for publication

Margot Livesey grewup in Scotland and nowdivides her time be-

tween America andLondon. She has taughtat a number of Ameri-can universities and is

currently a visiting

professor at WilliamsCollege. She is the

author of a novel, Home-work (Viking, 1990) anda collection of stories,

Learning by Heart (Pen-guin, 1986). Recent stories have appeared in

Descant, the Gamut, and the Kenyon Review.

"Obituary" appeared in the New Press Anthology

of Best Canadian Short Fiction. She has beenawarded fellowships by the MassachusettsArtists' Foundation, the Pennsylvania ArtsFoundation, and the National Endowment for

the Arts.

Kent Nelson has pub-lished two novels. Cold

Wind River (Dodd, Mead,1981) and All Around MePeaceful (Delacorte/

Delta, 1989). A collec-

tion of short stories waspublished in the Uni-versity of Illinois Series

(1978). A winner of the

Balch prize from the

Virginia Quarterly Re-

view, Nelson has pub-lished stories in that

and other magazines.

Howard Nemerov is

Edward Mallinckrodt

| Distinguished Univer--ity Professor of English

t Washington Univer-ityinSt. Louis. A list of

his published workswould include several

novels and volumes of

criticism and nearly a

dozen books of poetrypreceding the 1977

. - WJ«*^^^V' Collected Poems of

&> IHoward Nemerov

Scholarship(University of Chicago Press). Chicago has

Ciblished four subsequent volumes: By Atbowitz's Pool (1979), Sentences (1980), Inside the

Onion (1984), and War Stories (1987). The Univer-sity of Missouri Press is republishing his novels.Nemerov has won many notable literary

awards, including the Levinson Prize fromPoetry magazine, a fellowship of the Academy ofAmerican Poets in 1971, the 1978 National BookAward, and the 1978 Pulitzer Prize. In 1987Nemerov was the first recipient of The SewaneeReview's Aiken-Taylor Prize. From 1988-90 hewas the American poet laureate.

Tim O'Brien is the

author of Going After

Cacciato (DelacortePress, 1978), which wonthe 1979 National BookAward in fiction, andThe Things They Carried

(Houghton Mifflin,

1990), which won the

Chicago Tribune Heart-land Award in fiction

and made the New YorkTimes Book Review list of

10 best books for 1990.

His other books are If I Die in a Combat Zone(Delacorte Press, 1973), Northern Lights

(Delacorte Press, 1975), and The Nuclear Age(Knopf, 1985). His stories have appeared in

Esquire, Harper's, Atlantic, Playboy, Granta,Gentleman's Quarterly, Ploughshares, and in sev-

eral editions of The O. Henry Prize Stories, ThePushcart Prize, and Best American Short Stories. In

1987 he received the National Magazine Awardfor his story "The Things They Carried," whichwas also included in Best American Short Stories

of the 1980s. He has been awarded fellowships

by the Guggenheim Foundation and the Na-tional Endowment for the Arts.

For an application form or for additional infor-

mation about the conference, please write

Sewanee Writers' Conference, 310 Saint Luke's

Hall, Sewanee, TN 37375, or call (615) 598-1141.

Williamson WritesBook on World War I

Vice-Chancellor Samuel R. Williamson's latest

book, Austria-Hungary and the Origins of The First

World War, has been published by England's

MacMillian Press and is being distributed in the

U.S. by St. Martin's Press of New York City.

A major rc-examination of Habsburg deci-

sion-making from 1912 to July 1914, the study in

Williamson's book argues that Austria-Hungaryand not Germany made the crucial decisions for

war in the summer of 1914. Based on extensive

new archival research, the book traces the

gradual militarization of Austro-Hungarianforeign policy during the Balkan Wars.

The disasters of those wars and the death of

the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir-appar-

ent and a force for peace in the monarchy, con-

vinced the Habsburg elite that only a waragainst Serbia would end the South Slav threat

to the monarchy's existence. Williamson also

describes Russia's assertive foreign policy after

1912 and stresses the unique linkages of domes-tic and foreign policy in almost every issue faced

by Habsburg statesmen.

An earlier study by Williamson, The Politics of

Grand Strategy: Britain and France Prepare for War,

1904-1914, was published by the Harvard Uni-

versity Press in 1969 and in 1970 won the GeorgeLouis Beer Prize of the American Historical

Association for the best book on international

history.

He has been published widely on the origins

of World War I and has served as a consultant to

the office of the Secretary of Defense (1974-76)

on a history of the Soviet-American arms com-petition. He was the American editor from 1974-

88 for the War and Society newsletter and is a

member of the International Institute for Strate-

gic Studies.

Goodstein Receives Kenan ChairDr. Anita Goodstein has been named the Wil-

liam R. Kenan Jr. Professor of History at the

University of the South in recognition of her

significant achievements in teaching and schol-

arship.

Goodstein, who received her B.A. from

Mount Holyoke College and her Ph.D. fromCornell University, began teaching at Sewaneein 1963. She became a full professor in 1977 andserved as chair of the history department from1975-79. She served as faculty trustee from1975 -81.

In addition to articles and chapters in numer-ous collections of historical essays, she has

published two books: Biography of a Businessman:

Henry Williams Sage, 1814-1897 and Nashville,

1780-1860: From Frontier to City, for which she

was awarded the Tennessee History BookAward by the Tennessee Library Association.

She was also awarded the 1990 Tennessee His-

torical Commission for having written "the best

Tennessee history published during the previous

year."

"Professor Goodstein's has helped introduce

a variety of new approaches in history — social

history and women's history in particular. She

continues to provide students with challenging,

stimulating, and immensely informative class-

room experiences," said Dr. Brown Patterson,

dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.

The William R. Kenan Jr. Professorship wasendowed at Sewanee by The Kenan Charitable

Trust of New York City, N.Y., and Chapel Hill,

N.C., in 1980 to recognize an outstanding

teacher and scholar in any field of learning.

The two previous holders are Dr. Harry CYeatman, a widely known marine biologist, andDr. Robert W. Lundin, the author of several

books on personality and other areas of psychol-

ogy. Both are retired and continue to live in

Sewanee.

by Cheryl Peters

\/^~~y\ Radi* Malde will be the first one to

C*/f-*^ tell you that life is pretty much out

*S of control. Not his life specifically,

but life in general—yours and mine. "In

some ways life is like a random scattering

of papers, the cards just fall where they

will. 1 think it has to do with cause and

effect lo a large extent; one action deter-

mines 20 others," says Malde.

Malde, a member of Sewanee's art fac-

ulty who has earned international fame as a

photographer and sculptor, hasn't really

pursued success—the light perpetual just

seems to shine in his direction. While his

accomplishments conjure up visions of

profound prc-mcditation, it just isn't so.

"When it came lo choosing a college, I

just picked out six subjects with which 1 felt

comfortable—anthropology, photography,

social anthropology, typography and de-

sign, geography, and geology—and applied

to a different university in each subject.

There weren't any tantrums, or any wring-

ing of the hands, only waiting for the mail."

In his birthplace of Arusha in Tanzania,

Africa, Malde, whose grandparents were

natives of India, grew up in a household

teaming with creative activity. "My parents

are constantly bouncing around. They are

highly creative, crazy, dynamic people,"

Malde says. "When I was growing up, they

used to have the Indian classical music

equivalent of jam sessions in the living

room. I'd usually end up asleep on the

couch—just wanting to be part of it."

His parents left Africa in 1972 due to the

country's worsening political climate,

taking refuge with friends living in Spain.

Malde says his parents, who currently

reside in London, are excellent role modelsfor their three sons and credits them with muchof his creativity and happiness in life. Malde's

father is a photographer who was employed byAfrica's government and by U.S. film crews onlocation to produce such classics as "Bom Free,"

"Hatari," and "Elephant Walk." Malde's motherhas the distinction of being one of the world's

first open heart surgery patients.

While enrolled at an Episcopal boys boarding

school in Darjeeling, India, eight-year-old

Pradip began to explore his artistic talents, in

addition to learning a few lessons about the art

of teaching. It was at St. Paul's that Malde en-

countered "Bison," an art teacher who employedterroristic techniques in the classroom and wasnicknamed for his bison-like sounds of approval

or disapproval.

"One day shapes and colors just started com-ing into my mind, I had to put them on paper,

but was really scared of what 'Bison' would do.

He came by my desk and saw the painting,

which was an abstract. He made 'the sound' andcalled me to his desk—I was shaking because I

expected him to bash me on the head, but hedidn't. He handed me the art room keys andtold me I could set my own schedule. It was a

rare privilege and, from that moment on, he

ne as no one else had before."

Exploring the

Big PictureWith Pradip Malde

Cameras, artists, and creative expression were

common in Malde's childhood, but it was with

less than lofty, or even artistic, objectives, how-ever, that he first joined a camera club at the

Friends School, a coeducational Quaker high

school, south of Cambridge—which he selected

because it sounded "zany."

"Being a member of the advanced camera

club had lots of advantages. There were private

darkrooms, and if someone knocked on the dooryou could always say 'can't come in, I'm devel-

oping film.' Maybe I shouldn't admit that, but it

was lots of fun."

Malde, who earned a degree fromBournemouth College, south of England, says

he's never been very practical about career

goals. "At a very early age, however, I rememberwanting to be a teacher. I think I was attracted

by the theatrics, the idea of a captive audience."

At Bournemouth Malde developed a militant

attitude toward teaching. "1 had many less than

outstanding teachers there. I didn't want to

begin teaching straight out of college or to teach

something I didn't do all the time, which manyof them did. I only wanted to teach if I could doit extremely well."

Malde credits his former teachers, both goodand bad, with giving him a great deal of sensi-

tivity to his own students' feelings.

"I've always tried to establish a goodbalance between helping students

learn the fundamentals and allowing

them to express individuality. Toooften, teachers give students the feel-

ing that their work isn't good if it can't

be explained. That's not my philoso-

phy." ..

For a man unconcerned with con-

vention—he once worked as a relief

gardener at an alcoholic treatment

center to realize his dream of living in

Norway—Malde has achieved the type

of acclaim most artists spend lifetimes

pursuing. At 33, he has had more than

a dozen one-person showings, as manygroup showings, won two awardsfrom the Scottish Arts Council, andproduced photography programs for

the BBC. He has been a lecturer at

Napier Polytechnic in Edinburgh,

Scotland, and a visiting artist at

Scotland's Glasgow School of Art.

While living in Orkney, Scotland,

from 1981-84, Malde spent a great deal

of time doing his own work. "It is a

place that attracts many artists, and I

was able to get involved in manydifferent projects. "Orkney has the

oldest public library system in Scot-

land, with the oldest mobile library—

a

little Volkswagen bus—service in

Europe. They asked me to create anexhibition to celebrate their

tricentennial which was a very interest-

ing experience."

It was during his time in Orkneythat Malde, with University of

Manchester chemist Dr. Mike Ware,

revived the platinum printing process,

abandoned years ago due to difficulty

and high cost in favor of silver gelatin process-

ing. Many of Malde's most celebrated works,

including a collection titled Memory, Balance, and

Love, are printed with the process, which uses

uncoated paper to allow processing chemicals to

permeate the surface. The process gives a slight

shifting or blurred impression.

"With the help of a Scottish Arts Council

grant, I started working on the platinum process

in 1982. At that time I knew of only one other

person who was working with the technique in

Europe. Mike Ware and I started rehashing the

process and now more and more people are

doing it. We are proud to have revived the pro-

cess; ifs not that rare anymore."

By the end of 1984, Malde was teaching at

Scotland's Glasgow School of Art and had beenoffered a teaching position in Edinburgh

—

beginning in 1985. With the whimsical goal of

"blowing my savings before I started a new full-

time job," Malde made his first trip to the

United States. He visited Massachusetts, NewHampshire, California, Tennessee, Alabama, andLouisiana—just to mention six stops on Malde'smulti-state expedition.

Malde had grown up reading a Sears Roe-buck catalog and speaking English with a Texas

drawl—thanks to best friend Tom McMillian,

whose father was a Baptist missionary in Af-

rica—but even the most treasured of childhoodmemories hadn't prepared him for the experi-

ence of arriving in the United States.

"In a new environment, you don't take things

for granted the way you do when things are

familiar. I arrived in Boston and the moment I

set foot here, I felt completely at ease. I wantedto explore everything.

"I felt like I could open my spirit. It's different

in Europe; people are scared of being different.

Here you can say things like 'Wow, I feel so at

one with the world' without people looking at

you like you're crazy. From the time Americansare knee high, they are told 'you can be whatyou want to be.' You can be the president. I feel

very strongly that America is my home."Long-time friend Elizabeth Motlow, who lives

near Lynchburg, introduced Malde to Sewaneein 1987. While on an afternoon outing to cam-pus, Malde found his way to the art department,where he encountered Sewanee's then art de-partment chairman, Bill Wadley. The two kept in

touch, and after a return visit to Sewanee the

following year, Malde was offered a BrownFellowship at the University.

"Bill called me in Scotland and asked if I'd beinterested in teaching modem art and photogra-phy. It was the closest I've ever come to faint-

ing—Sewanee seemed so unreachable.

Suddenly, my dream of living in the UnitedStates was coming true."

Following his term as a Brown Fellow, Maldewas asked to remain for another semester as the

sabbatical leave replacement for Dr. EdwardCarlos, professor of fine arts. Upon Carlos'

return, Malde's status changed to that of a ten-

ure-track faculty member."From day one of arriving in Sewanee, I've

been happy, happy, happy. Students here don'tdress too creatively, but I love them. They are

encouraged to work closely with professors. I

love that contact; I think I've become addicted to

teaching. I'm just as addicted to teaching as I amto being an artist."

Malde seems to view most everything withan extremely clear, pure sense of purpose. Whenasked how he feels about his success, he re-

sponds quite differently than most who havereceived such significant professional attention.

"Success or failure in terms of one's life

should be measured by whether or not life hasbeen lived well. To live life happily and cre-

atively—now thafs success!

"I will feel successful when each of my stu-

dents feels that life is meaningful. I do every-

thing with that goal in mind—the rest is

secondary. I once heard that only 10 percent of

people are wide awake all the time, the other 90percent walk around asleep. I'd like to think I've

brought my students-into that 10 percentgroup."

Malde's students are mesmerized by his

presence; they gravitate to him. It is not unusualto hear a student decline spring break or a lei-

surely summer in favor of the opportunity to

collaborate on a project with Malde. It is obvi-ous, even to the most jaded of observers, that hegenuinely values each student as an individual.

"I think you can be an artist when you teach,

as well as when you are in the studio. The twoare so intertwined; I can't separate them withoutdiminishing myself as a human being. I hopethat I continue teaching for the rest of my life."

Most of us rarely take time to notice the

beauty around which Malde's world revolves,

so he does it for us. Images captured in his

photographs will mentally outlive even the

platinum paper on which they are printed. Thebeauty of his photography is not about tech-

nique, but about haunting reflections of life.

"Some of the most creative people in my life

have not been doers of great things. They havegrown fine plants in their back gardens or somesuch. Little things are the ones that matter.

That's what I'd like to help people realize."

—Cheryl Peters is assistant director ofpublic relations

Sewanee Roundtable THE SEWANEE NEWS

In the Aftermath of War:On March 12, Sewanee News Editor Robert

Bradford talked with four Sewanee professors

about the aftermath of the Persian Gulf War.

The professors—Susan Maneck, a historian whospecializes in the Middle East; Robin Gottfried,

an economist who focuses on environmental

and economic issues; Barclay Ward, a political

scientist whose area of expertise is arms control;

and Yasmeen Mohiuddin, an economist whoaddresses questions relating to international

economics and Third World countries—pro-

vided challenging and provocative analyses of

the conflict and what it will mean to the U.S. and

the world. Following is a transcript of that

discussion.

Sewanee News: Yesterday, as thousands of Ameri-

can troops came home, the turmoil in the Middle

East continued. Four Jewish women were

stabbed by a Palestinian attacker. Six Arabs were

killed in a gun battle with Israeli troops. SaddamHussein's army shelled rebel forces, killing

hundreds. These unsettling events highlight the ,

fact that the war is not over in the region. Whatpolitical, economic, and military issues must be

addressed if there is to be lasting peace and

stability in the Middle East?

Susan Maneck 1 would say first off the Palestin-

ian question has to be resolved. Secretary of

State Baker may be successful in mediating a

solution to that. But there's going to have to be a

national homeland for the Palestinian people. As

long as that issue is not resolved, the situation

will continue to be radicalized, and SaddamHusseins will continue to arise. We've got to

stop arming those countries. We've got to stop

supplying arms to all of those countries in the

Middle East and that includes Israel. Aside from

the oil-rich countries, most of those countries

can't afford those arms to begin with. Those

resources could be better put in other areas.

Now that's a very difficult and sticky issue

because aside from food, arms are the only

major export this country has anymore, and it

will hurt our economy very badly if we get out

of arming the Third World. . .

.

Finally, there has got to be

something done to resolve the

disparity between the have

and have not nations within

the Middle East. We have

small gulf states, like Kuwait,

oil rich, that were set up bythe western powers. . . .You've

got a situation where the bulk

of Arab peoples live in coun-

tries without that oil wealth

and a minority live in those

that have it. The Arab world

feels they're one peopli

have some difficulties <

these political division:

Yasmeen Mohiuddin: The point

about arms sales is very im-

portant because actually the

demand is much higher nowthan it was before. After the

technological superiority of

weapons has been estab-

lished, the demand from the

Arab countries and from other

Will V

think it has already been said

that there will not be an em-bargo. There will be selective

sales, which means except for

Iraq. I agree with Susan about

reducing the disparity amongrich and poor nations within

that area and also the dispar-

ity within these countries.

There are disparities within

Saudi Arabia, within Kuwait,

and 1 think one of the things

that's happened is that there is a demand for

more democratic processes. . . .there will also be

a demand for more equitable income distribu-

tion. Unfortunately, I see that security in the

region is a long way off.

Barclay Ward: I think the a

complex one, and it's certainly not an Americanproblem alone. It's related to the perceptions of

security or insecurity that countries have—in the

Middle East or anywhere else in the world. I see

the arms problem as a function of instability;

therefore, it certainly is important that we workon problems of regional instability at the sametime we work on arms control for the area. Youcan't really deal with arms control as an abstrac-

tion; it's not something that can be lifted out of a

political situation. As long as people perceive

themselves to be threatened or insecure, then

you're certainly going to have armaments. That

is really the principal cause for the demand. Andit really is a complex one. There are several

dimensions to this problem. One of them is

conventional arms'sales. But the other are the

weapons of mass destruction and the means to

deliver the weapons of mass destruction. This is

very, very hard to control because an embargofrom the United States would virtually do noth-

ing to control that—we are not even one of the

principal suppliers of these weapons in the

area You have to have a global regime for

the control of chemical weapons, which is ex-

tremely difficult to control. And a global regime,

which we already have, for nuclear weapons,

that works pretty well, but it doesn't workperfectly. And a global regime for ballistic mis-

siles. These all have to happen at the samethey time—they're all more or less dependent on the

h other. I do hope that if there's anything goodthat comes out of this experience if s a mobiliza-

tion of governmental will to be able to address

these questions and to put some kind of sub-

stance to at least the pronounced desire to con-

trol these weapons.

Sewanee News: This whole idea of a global re-

gime brings up President Bush's concept of a

new world order. He has talked about this newworld order, of countries coming together for a

common cause, for several months. Is there

indeed a new world order? How has this waraffected international relationships?

Robin Gottfried: It strikes me that people will

come together when they see a reason to do so.

It was very obvious in this case what the reason

was: they were very afraid of Middle East oil

being strangled by a person who they didn't

trust, and therefore affecting the rest of the

world. It's not clear necessarily that when youdon't have quite as dramatic an incident that

people will decide to come together to deal will

these issues. Political will, as we've seen in our

D all of those c nlhe

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Four Sewanee Perspectivescountry, is a function of the degree of crisis. The

question is whether that sense of crisis will hold

over in this latter period and we'll still have the

will to follow through.

Ward: I think it's a question of seeing whafsgoing to develop. There is something that's

different. Actually, we were talking about the

new world order in my international politics

seminar yesterday. It wasn't actually clear to us

whether there was a world order and the newwas the new part or whether there actually wassomething new. And I don't think we're going to

know for a long time. But if you look at this

particular crisis you can find some elements that

might, in fact, be new. And they have less to do

with substance than they have to do with the

method of proceeding. I think it's significant, as

Robin said, that countries recognized a commoninterest in this particular incident. And they

went through various motions in the United

Nations acting on that common interest. It wasreally at least partially an exercise in collective

security. And presumably the new world order

results from the diminishing of the Cold War,

which opens up possibilities of cooperation with

Eastern European countries that we have not

seen before. . . .My feeling is the jury will be out

on whether there is a new world order; we'll

have to see how we handle other issues. And if

we can go through the same motions of finding

common interests and collective interests and if

we act collectively, such as through the United

Nations, then that might be the new part.

Mohiuddin: The question also is: Which world? Is

it just the Western world? How do we incorpo-

rate the desire of the Third World? What is their

reaction? And, of course, what has happened is

the U.S. has emerged as victorious. And it is

held in awe. There is not necessarily a great

liking for the U.S. in the Third World. The per-

ceptions there might be different. Ultimately, the

new world order, even with the very dominant

role of the U.S., still depends on cooperation,

even by much less powerful countries.

Ward: I think v have to note also that even the

Western powers are acting

differently than they have

before. More and more the

European Community is act-

ing as a representative of the

Europeans Even the struc-

tures are changing, even

within the West. But certainly

they're changing between the

West and the East. The ques-

tion of the Third World is

another dimension to that.

Maneck: I would say that from

the viewpoint of the Third

World it looks very much like

the old world order. It seems

to me that what has changed is

the kind of bifurcation that

followed immediately after

World War II. But the bifurca-

tion itself has not changed.

Before the world was bifur-

cated between the capitalist

countries and the communistcountries, the Third World

actually had a certain advan-

tage in that it could play off

both sides against each, and

therefore get things that it

needed out of the Soviet bloc

or the U.S. bloc. It can't play

that game anymore, so nowit's at a disadvantage that it

wasn't at before. It seems to

me that the bifurcation nowdoes occur between what's

sometimes called developed

and undeveloped [coun-

Robin Gottfried: "The long-run solution

being the world's policeman, or at least

tries] Interestingly enough, what's coming to

represent the undeveloped world is Islam, andwhat I see is that Americans and the West are

having a perception of Islam that previously

they had of communism—a tendency to stereo-

"My feeling is the jury will

be out on whether there is

a new world order; we'll

have to see how we handle

other issues."

Barclay Ward

type, a tendency to block all of those people into

one monolithic group. One constantly hears this

through the media, and the media is constantly

promoting this. Thafs what I find is not very

new about this new world order at all.

Gottfried: Something else to take into account is

the movement into regional Lrading blocks. TheEC is now really propelling many areas into

integration. For instance, we're talking now not

only about a North American trading block,

which is a very real possibility with Mexico and

Canada already on line, but also expanding that

into the southern hemisphere. Other areas are

seriously looking at economic integration once

more—the whole drive that had stalled out is

now picking up again. And ifs self-defense

basically. There will be different sets of per-

ceived interests, and perhaps, after awhile, there

will be modalities for group action which wedidn't have before. Now that's further down the

road. But we could see the same sort of fledgling

enterprises as we see going on in the EC. . . -As

people start seeing their self interest being

linked up out of necessity with one another, that

has real potential. It may not be the new world

order that Bush envisioned at all; it could be

radically different, but nevertheless new.

Sewanee News: Lef s move from the new order to

the old order of things. Has this conflict solidi-

fied the United States' role as a world security

force, as a world policeman. What are the impli-

cations at home and abroad of the U.S. role as a

world policeman? Is this the role of this country

forever?

Maneck: I hope not. That is indeed one of the old

parts of it. We are continuing to see ourselves as

the policeman of the world. The pax Americana

part of this is not very new at all. And, in fact,

quite dangerous. The military actions which

were taken by the U.S. just prior to this latest

leans somehow getting ourselves out of

beingable to share that responsibility with others."

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action were in violation of many of the same

international laws which we were accusing

Saddam of having violated. And we can't con-

tinue to play the hypocrite if we are going to do

all of this kind of thing. If we're going to say wehave the right to move and act on behalf of the

United Nations, then there can't be anymore

Grenadas, there can't be anymore Panamas. Wecan't simply interfere in any country at the point

where the/re doing things that we don't like.

This particular action was unique in that it had

the approval of the U.N. Security Council and

that apparently the rest of the world was sup-

posed to pay the bulk of the bill. . . Jf we're truly

going to have a new world order, then it seems

to me we need to begin to put our energies

toward seeing to it that the United Nations itself

has a military large enough and strong enough

that ifs able to act on that behalf, which maymean a military larger than that of the VS.

Ward: A couple of points strike me that Susan

touched on. I think there is a need for people in

this country not to take as a lesson of the war in

the Persian Gulf that a military solution is a

fantastic way to resolve issues which might very

well be resolved in some other manner. . . .There

might be a popular feeling that military solu-

tions are quick if not spectacular, and thafs a

road which we ought to go down. I think that

it's worthwhile to be sensitive to the fact that

that may be the wrong lesson to be learned. The

other point is the fact that probably a military

role of some sort is unavoidable for the United

Slates- 1 may be a minority of one here. But it is

simply the case that in the Persian Gulf the

United States pressed itself into the region, but

there was some degree of encouragement from

the region to do that. It's not unlikely that this

will happen at some later point. And the ques-

tion, then, is in what manner would that take

place? Would it be bound by some form of

collective action?

Gottfried: There's a cost to this. If we're to play

the role of international policeman under what-

ever aegis that might be, then it presumes that

we have an economy that will support it. We're

at an incredible disadvantage and a growing

disadvantage internationally because we're not

putting money into education. We're having a

growing bifurcation in our own society which

could lead to more instability. And unless wereally take the bull by the horns and put technol-

ogy to use for things that we can sell other than

arms, we'll be at a competitive disadvantage. Weshould take that same technological drive and

put it toward products that people want and

learn how to market aggressively in other coun-

tries. Thafs necessary for us to support any sort

of military operation; otherwise, over time we'll

find ourselves very powerful militarily like the

Soviet Union but very weakeconomically. The long-run

solution means somehowgetting ourselves out of being

j*l the world's policeman, or at

least being abie to share that

responsibility with others.

Look at Germany and Japan

—

they have a wonderful advan-

tage, and who do they turn to

but us to do that sort of work?

But they don't have to foot the

bill in the ongoing sense of

maintaining a standing army,

which is very expensive.

Mohiuddirv Whenever I loo!: at

the declining U.S. competitive-

ness vis a vis Japan and also to

a certain extent Germany, I

have often asked myself: Wholost in the second World War?Did Japan really lose? Ourcompetitiveness is going

down. One of the structured

sion has been the war. We have

to give a greater emphasis onother problems.

And if we want to be particu-

lar on principles, then we also

"Y ~y have to see which regimes weare supporting. Is it democracy

we are supporting? Those

issues have to be clear. The

Kuwaiti regime and the Saudi

Arabian regimes arc neither

democratic nor popular in the

Muslim world.

Ward: I think it has to be acknowledged that in

any given moment when we're facing a situa-

tion, you sometimes don't have perfect choices,

that sometimes your choices are conditioned by

the situation you're actually looking at. There

always will have to be trade-offs taken into

account. Crises can't be deferred until we find

have regimes that we would prefer to de-

fend, that they have to be dealt with at that

particular time.

Sewanee News: However, President Bush has

always framed this as a question of attacking

naked aggression. There's naked aggression

across the globe. Do we start going to countries

where there is internal naked aggression and

serving as a security force there? Are we com-itted to taking the moral high ground in terms

security across the world?

Manech We've never done that. We've in fact

only intervened in those countries in which wehad a certain amount of self interest, and that

was certainly true in the latest conflict. We mayhave depicted it in sort of a Wilsonian way of

the fight between democracy and aggression.

Ward: We must make choices between the desire

to actually encourage the creation of a regime

which is more agreeable to us or whether weshould recognize the sovereignty of states.

Those are choices that are not always clear cut.

As a rule, most states are a little bit edgy about

getting involved in internal conflicts, if for no

other reason those are conflicts which are not

lly in your control. 1 certainly hope that there

disinclination to get involved in civil

conflicts within countries, not only on our part

but on everybody's part. But then one has to

ascertain what is an internal conflict and what is

an external conflict. We obviously saw the Ku-

wait issue as an international conflict, whereas

Iraq maintained that Kuwait was the 19th his-

toric province of Iraq and it was an internal

conflict.

Mohiuddin: 1 think it's okay if the U.S. goes to

defend its self interest. There's nothing wrongwith that. But we don't have to say ifs somehigh moral ground. That's the problem that I

have; if s okay to say that we're going to defend

oil

Sewanee News: Clearly, an interest in the Middle

East is oil. Since 1979, have we learned any

lessons from an absolute dependence on Middle

Eastern oil? What do we need to do in terms of

establishing a U.S. energy policy to decrease our

dependence on oil from the region? Would an

energy policy prevent us from ever having to

enter a conflict like this in the future?

Gottfried: If we've learned a lesson, it's that wehave to control militarily the Persian Gulf area

—

that's been our response, and thaf s evidently

what we've learned because that's how we're

behaving. I think you could be a little bit morereasonable about it and say that security is a far

broader concept, and I would feel far more

Yasmeen Mohiuddin: "! think that an energy policy would have

reduced our vulnerability."

SPRING 1991 Sewanee Roundtablesecure if we didn't have to protect ourselves

militarily in that area and rather could thumbour nose at any sort of action that could comeout of there. If s going to be difficult to totally

wean ourselves off of oil, and there are costs to

that. If that means we go to coal, there are tre-

mendous environmental problems that come out

of coal generation electricity. On the other hand,

half of our energy is used for automobiles, so wecould, if we started having high gas taxes for

instance, stimulate a great deal of technological

change, a great deal of adapting the presently

existing technologies which would make us far

more efficient in our use of energy. So we could

cut way back and be far more secure energeti-

cally than we are now. But I think the point is

that we haven't learned any lessons—the only

lesson we've learned is military control. And the

American public is simply not willing to un-

dergo a gas tax increase, so Congress has flitted

around the issue and President Bush has, too. I

don't think the American public has learned

anything.

Maneck I wonder if it would have changed

things if we had only been using our oil re-

sources. We could have been consuming our

own resources and our own oil entirely, and myeconomist colleagues can correct me if I'm

wrong, but the effect on the economy wouldhave perhaps been as dangerous because other

countries would have been equally dependent.And, of course, that was part of Bush's rationale

because Japan and West Germany and WesternEurope would have been threatened. If their

economies fall, our economy would fall with it.

Things are so intertwined. I'm all for a better

energy policy in our country, it's long in coming,but would it have made a difference in that

particular region? I'm not sure it would have.

Ward: I agree very much with Susan. We're all so

closely related to each other that a national

energy policy of one particular sort from onecountry isn't necessarily going to separate that

country from the economic well-being of other

countries. If you look at the Western participants

in the Persian Gulf, you have countries such as

France, which clearly has an energy policy, andis committed to nuclear power, and Great Brit-

ain, which is also committed to nuclear power.

And yet they were both participants in this

affair. Having an energy policy wouldn't neces-

sarily change our behavior; however, we need

an energy policy apart from that. This episode

has sensitized us to the importance of not just

our own economy but everybody's economy.

Mohiuddirv But I think that an energy policy

would have reduced our vulnerability definitely.

It may not have affected the final outcome, but it

would have reduced our vulnerability. That is

the lesson we should leam, but

we haven't. One of the long-

run benefits could be the estab-

lishment of an energy policy.

Gottfried: If you look at the

environmental consequences of

the greenhouse gases andozone gases, even if we did

conserve and go with the

standard energy policy that

we're talking about, it's still a

dead end for us. We really

have to put money into somesort of alternative energy

sources and find ways to

change styles of life so we can

actually do with far less en-

ergy. We may find the sort of

movement of self interest and

the need to work together on

the environmental front. In the

international ozone agree-

ments, the greenhouse agree-

ments, which we haven't been

willing to be a party to but

everybody else is, we're start-

ing to find that movement in

the commonality that we all

have to breathe. That may be

where the new world order

comes from. But wc can dothat in isolation; it requires an

international energy policy.

And if we don't do that now,

when the Third World devel-

ops they're going to do the

same thing we're doing, and

we're right back to ground

zero again. We have to take the leadership ir

finding ways to live a different way. And if v

do that, they'll emulate us.

"We really have to putmoney into some sort of

alternative energy sources

and find ways to changestyles of life so we cando with far less energy."

Robin Gottfried

Sewanee News: This latest conflict has been de-

fined as a new type of war. We saw on television

each night these neat, surgical strikes. Still, the

aftermath is not so neat. More than 80 Ameri-

cans and 100,000 Iraqis were killed, and the

devastation to the region was significant. Canwe ever have neat wars? Does this define a newtype of war? Has this victory been easy?

Gottfried: It won't be easy for long. As technol-

ogy spreads to potential adversaries, they'll be

able to do precisely the same thing back to us. Atthe moment, we have the technological edge,

but that won't last long. So then there will be no

easy war anymore.

Ward: There always is an equalization of tech-

nology. But I'm not sure this was a neat war—

I

don't think any war can be neat. They may be

neat for somebody, but not for everybody.

Whether this was the prototype for something,

I'm not really sure. I happen to be glad that our

casualties were not greater than they were, but I

believe that wars usually represent a kind of a

failure of somebody not being able to figure

another way out. It doesn't mean that there is no

place ever for war, but it always does represent

the inability of people to find a different way to

resolve that issue. Wars are tragic whether they

happen to be quick or long, whether the casual-

ties happen to be small or great.

Gottfried: To be perhaps cynical, to follow up on

the non-neatness of war, for us to be even able to

use the term a neat war when there are perhaps

100,000 casualties involved that don't happen to

be ours talks about a certain moral blindness in

this country. As long as we're not hurt, that's

okay. It doesn't make a difference what happens

to the other side. Whether they be combatants or

non-combatants, they're still people just like you

and me. If we're really going to be taking moral

high ground, we really can't speak in those

Maneck: I was really horrified to learn that wecould kill 100,000 people and only lose 80 of our

own. It's not that I wanted more Americans to

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Sewanee Roundtablecontinued from pa,

be dead, of course. To me, ifs a terrifying

thing. I'm not sure that anybody should be

able to wield that kind of power. Ifs

frightening. I would hope the American

people would see it as frightening rather

than as, "Gee, isn't this neat, let's try it

again." We're over the Vietnam syndrome.

Sewanee News: It's interesting that you

bring up the Vietnam analogy. After every

war, we ask what we've learned. Have we

learned anything from this war about

ourselves, about our place in the world?

Do we hold a different place in the world

Maneck: We've certainly learned howpowerful we are, but whether we're going

to benefit from that or not is a question

that still remains to be answered. Vietnam

taught us our limitations—this war has

taught us our capacity. I would hope that

we would not forget either one.

Ward: The aftermath of this war may be as

important as the war itself. And that's

what we're dealing with right now. We're

not really sure how far we're going to go

in resolving the issues or at least in miti-

gating some conflicts which are part of

these issues. The whole story has yet to

come out. This is just the first part of it.

There's a much longer story to be told. So I

think that if we draw some lessons from

this episode, we have to wait for the next

chapter. And we can't make our broad

decisions based on the first chapter.

Martech I wonder the degree to which the

administration was aware of the likeli-

hood that the replacement of Saddammight very well be a Shiite Islamic repub-

lic. That seems now to be the chief option.

Any observer should have been able to

foresee that. But I wonder did we realize

that? Did we think about that? There are

just all kinds of ramifications. We nowknow what our military can do, but wemay find out that there are only somethings a military can do.

Ward: The military activities are at best

instrumental only. They're not actually the

way something is resolved; it turns out

that nothing is resolved. Military action

has an inherent limitation in that it is, at

most, instrumental and leads you to a

point where perhaps you can resolve

something. That's the important chapter

that we're just starting.

Tom Costen, C'85, Will Not Be ForgottenWednesday, March 13, was a day for mourning

and memories when the Sewanee community

received confirmation that Navy pilot Lt. Wil-

liam T. "Tom" Costen, C'85, had been killed in

action in the Persian Gulf. Costen, who had been

listed missing since January 18, was the son of

Mrs. Barbara Wilkins and Dr. William S. Costen,

of St. Louis.

Funeral services were held on Saturday,

March 23 at Christ Church Cathedral in St.

Louis, with graveside services at the St. Louis

military cemetery.

Costen, who was attached to the VA-155

squadron off the USS Ranger, had been based at

Whidbey Island, Wash., before being sent to the

Persian Gulf in early January. According to

Navy reports, Costen failed to return from a

night mission over Kuwait or southern Iraq. The

squadron had been in the Gulf area only 10 days

prior to the disappearance of his A-6 attack

bomber.

Costen was a 1981 graduate of John

Burroughs High School in suburban St. Louis,

where he participated in football, soccer, and

track. At Sewanee, he was a member of the

Order of Gownsmen, Phi Gamma Delta, Univer-

sity Choir, and cross country and track teams.

After graduating from Sewanee with a degree

in physics, Costen did his Navy flight training at

Pensacola, Fla., and graduated at the top of his

class as its regimental commander.

Costen's commitment to his career was obvi-

ous when he wrote in recent newsletters to

fellow '85 graduates—"Still flying the A-6 and

loving it. I'll leave from Norfolk, Va. to the

Caribbean, then up to San Diego by October

10—rough duty, but someone has to do it. Going

on a WESTPAC cruise on board USS Ranger in

November. Hey, it's not just a job!"

Yogi Anderson, executive director of the

Associated Alumni, said Costen embodied the

best that Sewanee has to offer. "Tom Costen was

the type of person who put 100 percent into

whatever he did. He had strong ties to.the Uni-

versity and lots of friends on campus and in the

community. There is just an overwhelming sense

of sadness at losing such a dedicated alumnus

and a fine young man. His family has estab-

lished a Tom Costen Endowed Scholarship at

the University; I'm sure he would have been

happy about that," he added.

After Costen was reported missing, his pic-

ture was featured in a Life magazine article titled

"Forget Me Not." Sewanee will not forget TomCosten.

Four Current Sewanee Students Served During WarIn December, four Sewanee students had much

more to think about than finals. Richard "Dee"

Anderson, Michael Andreu, Shari Garber, and

Ramsey McGrory had each received a call from

the U.S. Armed Services—they were going to

serve the allied cause during the Persian Gulf

War.

Anderson, a junior psychology major from

Knoxville, Tenn., served in the U.S. Marine

Corps in the Persian Gulf. Andreu, a junior

natural resources and religion major, served in

the U.S. Army in Germany. Garber, a senior

political science and philosophy major from

Horence, Ala., and McGrory, a senior political

science and economics major from Bozeman,

Mont., both served in the same U.S. Army com-

bat medical support unit in Saudi Arabia.

At press time, Ramsey, Shari, and Dee were

still stationed in the Gulf, and Michael had

returned to the United States.

Ramsey, who wrote often to his friends at

Sewanee, captured the sentiments of all of the

currently enrolled students who served in the

"All that I see around me are other units and

sand Across the sky are lines of clouds-

exhaust trails of the sorties flying overhead. .

.

.How 1 long for the all-nighters where I'm

studying for a test."

Healing in Haiti

a.

Fup steep mountain

trails for two hours to

see Dr. David F. McNeeleyC'72, who is holding a medi-

cal clinic in Campan, a village of 25 people atop

Mt. Campan in Haiti's La Selle range.

A cheerful, broad-shouldered 24-year-old

ian in a blue shirt and white trousers, Francois

walks with the aid of a short crutch under his

i and a two-foot stick in his right hand.

His left leg, so badly twisted that the foot doesnot touch the ground, was crippled by child-

hood polio. The disease, conquered in the U.S.,

still disables Haitians.

McNeeley, who is also an Episcopal priest,

as come to Campan, at an elevation of morethan 4,600 feet, on horseback. No roads lead into

this part of the mountains, only narrow dirt

trails. No electric power, either—just a fewbattery-operated radios.

A 40-year-old man with a mustache andthinning auburn hair, McNeeley has worked in

Haiti for the past nine years as a medical direc-

tor of Holy Cross Hospital in Leogane. He is the

ntry's only doctor serving mountain people

by horseback, a travel throwback to 19th century

saddle-borne missionary medics.

"I've seen him before," he

says of Francois after examin-

ing his leg. "I'm going to

schedule him to see our

orthopedist (in Leogane] whowill prepare him to see a

visiting orthopedic surgeon

from the United States and try to straighten that

leg out."

Holy Cross Hospital's staff of 129 all are

Haitian except for the medical director andnursing supervisor Gloria Van Brocklin. But U.S.

doctors, singly and in teams, regularly visit the

81-bed facility.

During his five-hour Saturday clinic at

Campan, McNeeley saw, treated, and prescribed

for 51 patients. They gathered in St.

Bartholomew's Episcopal Mission and, one by

one or in family groups, came over to the nearby

home of Berre Isaac where the doctor had set upinterview space in one of the house's two rooms.

Some people came a long way to get to these

ad hoc examinations. McNeeley recalls a youngbrother and sister who arrived at one mountain

clinic at 8 a.m., having hiked trails since mid-

night.

The previous day at La Toumelle, 2,500 feet

lower on the trail, he had seen 73 patients with

only brief breaks and a lunch at 4 p.m. He has

examined asmany as 200 people in such

:

McNeeley, a native of Norris, Tenn., first

visited the mountains in 1983, the year after he

started work at the hospital. He was accompa-nying two nuns of the Episcopal Society of St.

Margaret on a pastoral visit

They spent the night at La Tournelle. During

their stay a young man died suddenly of un-

known causes. The village spent a sleepless

night of grief with drums and funeral dancing.

"I became convinced then," he says, "that I had

to bring medicine up here to these people."

Despite the work load, the doctor regards his

mountain trips almost as recreation. "Ifs very

tiring, and it can make you saddle sore. But it

gives me time to do real doctoring on my ownand to think as I ride along unless the trail is real

steep or it's raining."

His riding companion is Albertroi "Wawa"Dorceus, a 42-year-old well repairman whohandles the horses. A mule carrying two large

saddlebags of medicines is led up separately.

The way of horseback health care is not al-

ways smooth. On the trail approaching Campan,a steep slope of bam-red clay, the chest strap on

the saddle of McNeele/s Horse broke. The

saddle flipped under the horse, pitching the 5-

foot-7, 140-pound doctor to the ground. Hesurvived with nothing worse than a coating of

McNeeley, ordained in 1988, usually includes

celebration of Holy Communion on his moun-

tain trips. Thus, on Sunday in Campan he dons

eucharistic vestments for a two-hour service in

St. Bartholomew's, built of hand-hewn, white-

washed boards with a corrugated steel roof and

concrete floor. A congregation of 117, including

everyone in the hamlet, hears him preach in

Creole and read

language Book of When he arrived, he found 24Common Prayer.

The concludingtrained "granny midwives"

hymn, accompa- O J

SS working in villages along withhomemade bull

fiddle, has every- several hundred untrained ones.one clapping and

singing at top

thin the hospital's walleddirector's hous

compound.The hospital, owned by the Episcopal Diocese

of Haiti and operated under a partnership with

the Presbyterian Church, is related by some

knowledgeable sources as Haiti's best. In

McNeeley's tenure its capacity has been ex-

panded from 63

"1 have all the fun of holding Mass," he says

with a grin, "and none of the administrative

chores of a parish priest."

Residents of the poorest country in the West-

em Hemisphere, Haitians have an annual in-

come of less than $400 and an unemployment

rate of 50 percent. The country's 6.4 million

people are packed into an area the size of Mary-

land. Fewer than one in four can read, and

disease and malnutrition are common.

The Commune of Leogane, a 250-squa re-mile

area in which Holy Cross Hospital delivers

health services, has a population of about

100,000, of whom 6,000 live in the town of

Leogane, 20 kilometers west of Port-au-Prince.

The commune also happens to be the center of

the Episcopal Church's great strength in Haiti.

with some 35 churches and missions.

McNeeley's interest in Haiti was first stirred

at age 6 when he saw a film strip on the country

in the Sunday school of St. Francis Episcopal

Church in Norris. He began dropping nickels

into a mite box for missionary work there.

With the help of Sister Anne Mane, the St.

Margaret's nun in charge ot Holy Trinity School

in Port-au-Prince, he began a pen-pal relation-

ship with a Haitian boy his age. At 17, he helped

as a volunteer at Holy Trinity's summer camp.

McNeeley first thought of becoming a pnest

as a child. But as a student at Sewanee he felt the

tug of medicine. His father, Samuel Gene, is a

semi-retired family practitioner; his mother,

Madeline, is a retired nurse, and two brothers

are doctors.

After graduation he studied medicine at

Tulane University in New Orleans, taking a

master's degree in public health and tropical

medicine. His residency Vvas in pediatncs.a

logical choice for a doctor headed tor Haiti

where 40 percent ot the population is under age

15 and the infant mortality rate is 92 per 1,000

live births, nine times the U.S. rate.

After various personal and work-related (tips

to Haiti, McNeeley became Holy Cross

Hospital's medical director at age 31 in 1982

The day he arrived he met a smiling, dark-eved

24-year-old Haitian named Marisc Bayard.

Three years later they were married and now are

parents of two daughters. Manse, also an M.D..

heads the hospital's pathology department. The

family lives in the roomy, Spanish-style medical

addition is

scheduled to

open, boosting

capacity further

to 140 beds and

adding newlaboratory space.

The annual

budget of

$800,000 is supported by a grant from the Pres-

byterian Church and contributions from U.S.

Episcopal and Presbyterian churches. Out of it

comes McNeeley's $14,000 salary, hardly enough

for an orderly in an American hospital.

He is emphatic that Holy Cross will not rely

on foreign doctors, often a mainstay of mission-

ary hospitals, for day-in, day-out care. "I've

tried to build a presence of local doctors in each

department," he says. "It's also important to

have good, up-to-date equipment and labs, even

though most of it is second-hand, so that doctors

can. advance medically instead of doing Band-

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aid medicine."

Holy Cross's community medicine program,

reaching a far wider clientele in Leogane Com-mune than the hospital itself, has been vastly

expanded under McNeeley.

When he arrived, he found 24 trained

"granny midwives" working in villages along

with several hundred untrained ones. The latter,

he recalled, "would put cow dung on the um-

bilical cord, and cut the cord with a machete or

broken glass without washing their hands."

He lined up two hospital nurses to train the

midwives and to dispense soap and razor blades

for cord cutting. Now there are 192 trained

midwives in the villages, one quarter of them

men. They charge $3 to $5 per birth. Like

McNeeley, however, they are sometimes paid

with a chicken or a bag of oranges.

In 1982 the hospital had a network of eight

vaccination centers. With a local priest and an

Atlanta nursing group, the medical director set

about training village health workers. Today 130

of them administer first aid and dispense

chloroquine {malaria preventive), intestinal

worm purgatives, antacid, iron and vitamins for

pregnant women and treatment for scabies, a

parasitic skin ailment. They treat about 15,000

people a year. K.

A fact of medical careful Haiti, says

McNeeley, is that "living standards are so low

that people have poor. health," Four years ago,

aided by UNICEF consultants, he began setting

up village committees to

secure portable water and

improve sanitation. Now, with

more help from UNICEF, 200

wells are producing clear

water in the plain. In the

mountains many spnngs have

I been capped and lined with

•J^J*

H&1

MM* r

i

'

Signs of treatment by voo-

doo "doctors" or "traditional

healers" turn up on somehospital patients: a thread

pasted on the forehead of a

baby girl, oblong scars on the

upper breasts of an older

woman. Sometimes traditional

healers' herbs can help,

McNeeley says, but often such

practice just delays needed

health care.

Holy Cross has treated a

smattering of AIDS in-pa-

tients, more as out-patients,

and expects this case load to

grow in the future.

Busy as he is, McNeeley has

other administrative and

teaching duties in the Diocese

of Haiti. But the horseback

doctor-priest shows no sign of

laving down any of the bur-

den He seems, in fact, to be

doing just what he has wanted

to do most of his life.

—Harry Toland is a freelance

writer based in \Naliingjord, Pa.

TheologyFrom the DeanThe Rev. Donald S. Armentrout, Interim Dean

-rj. Educational institutions change as new faculty are hired, students

come and go, and the curriculum is revised. It might be helpful to

tell you a little about the basic work of the School of Theology.

The School of Theology is a theological seminary created andmaintained by the Episcopal Church. Its primary purpose is to

serve the Episcopal Church by providing quality theological educa-tion for both lay and ordained ministry.

The primary program for ordained ministry is the three-year

Master of Divinity degree program. This program has three primaryfoci—the chapel, the classroom, and the library.

The chapel is central in that the seminary community gathers

there five days a week to worship God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Monday through Friday, Morning Prayer is held at 8:10 a.m. Stu-

dents preside, read the lessons, and preach. Evening Prayer is held

at 5:10 p.m., and students preside and read the lessons. On everyWednesday during term the Holy Eucharist with sermon is cel-

ebrated. Members of the faculty usually preach at these services.

The liturgical life at the School of Theology is determined by the 1979 Book of Common Prayer. Stu-

dents participate in the planning of all these services.

The second focus of the M.Div. program is the classroom, where the tradition of the Church is

studied and criticized. The curriculum requires 91 hours for graduation. Of these hours 15 are re-

quired in Bible, nine in church history, 12 in theology, nine in ethics, eight in liturgies, nine in pasto-

ral theology, six in horniletics, three in Christian education, and three in the senior seminar. Twelvehours are required in practica—six in clinical pastoral education and six in field education. This

means that 85 of the 91-hours are in required courses. The final six hours are eleclives.

The curriculum at the School of Theology is traditional and conservative, with an emphasis on the

classical theological disciplines. At the same time, horniletics and liturgies are stressed because it is

in the Word and the sacraments that God does God's saving work. The biblical languages, Hebrewand Greek, are always offered.

Along with the chapel and the classroom, the library is the third focus of the M.Div. program. Thelibrary houses the books which contain much of the Christian tradition. Use of the theological li-

brary means the student is in dialogue with the tradition. Augustine is dead, but one can "talk with"Augustine by reading his works.

Chapel, classroom, library; these are the three foci of the Master of Divinity program at the School

of Theology. In a sense these are like scripture, reason, and tradition—always interrelated, alwaysinforming one another.

Don Armentrout

Hatchett, Armentrout

Awarded Academic Chairs

Professor Donald S. Armentrout has beenawarded Sewanee's Quintard Professorship in

Theology and Professor Marion J. Hatchett has

been awarded the University's Benedict Profes-

sorship of Theology.

Armentrout who is associate dean for aca-

demic affairs of the School of Theology and the

school's interim dean, joined the faculty in 1967.

He is a graduate of Roanoke College and the

Lutheran Theological Seminary and received his

Ph.D. in American church history fromVanderbilt University in 1970. Armentrout wasordained pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran

Church in 1972. The Quintard Chair of Theology,

the oldest endowed chair at the University, wasestablished in 1898 by students in the School of

Theology in memory of Charles Quintard,

bishop of Tennessee and Sewanee's first vice-

chancellor.

Dr. Hatchett is professor of liturgies andmusic at the School of Theology; he joined the

faculty in 1969. He is a graduate of Wofford

College and received master's degrees in divin-

ity from the School of Theology at the University

of the South in 1951 and in sacred theology from

the General Theological Seminary in 1967. Hereceived a doctor of theology degree from the

General Theological Seminary in 1972.

Hatchett was ordained as an Episcopal priest

in 1952 and served as rector of the Church of the

Incarnation, Gaffney, S.C. and St. Peter's

Church, Charleston, S.C. The C.K. Benedict

Chair of Theology was established in 1923 in

recognition of the service and generous gifts of

Dr. Cleveland Keith Benedict, dean of the School

of Theology, and his wife, Olivia Proctor Benedict.

King Oehmig Serves as the Preacher's FriendIn Sewaneeduring his

years of study

for the doctor

of ministry

degree at the

School of

Theology, the Rev. Dr. King Oehmig, V77, devel-

oped the concept of Synthesis— "The Preacher's

Friend." Sensing that the Sewanee theology

faculty was "greatly underused by the church at

large," Oehmig, a native of Lookout Mountain,

constructed his weekly resource for preaching

and worship in the Episcopal tradition.

Working with a core group of Sewanee regu-

lars, Don and Sue Armentrout and HowardRhys, and Susan McLeod of Cartersville, Ga., he

has seen the publication grow from its initial

paid mailing of 220 at Easter of 1988 to over

1,400 today. The success of Synthesis has also led

to the establishment of SynthesisCE, a lectionary

study guide in the Episcopal tradition.

Synthesis focuses on assisting the clergy with

the material necessary for developing the wor-

ship experience. The newsletter consists of five

sections dealing with scripture, tradition, reason

(cultural), experience and reflection (personal),

and hymnology.

Oehmig, a 1973 graduate of the University of

Virginia with a B.A. in religious studies, received

a calling while a student. He was greatly influ-

enced at St. Paul's Church in Charlottesville andbecame an active Episcopalian there, converting

from the Presbyterian faith.

After beginning a business career in Houstonwith Coca Cola, Oehmig decided to pursue his

calling by attending the School of Theology. Hecame to the Mountain in 1974, studying under

Terry Holmes.

His love for education and writing grew in

his early ministries at St. John's Church in Knox-

ville and St. Anne's Church in Millington. In

1980, he served in Jackson, Miss., at St.

Andrew's Cathedral, where he was the canon

for education on the cathedral staff and becameactive in teaching spirituality in the EFM and

DOCC programs, both now based at the School

of Theology.

In 1983, after serving as associate rector of St.

Andrew's, Oehmig returned to Sewanee for his

D.Min., working with Dr. Howard Rhys with an

emphasis in the church's ministry of healing. He

continued, however, to focus on writing andresearch.

After returning to Lookout Mountain,

Oehmig attended a desktop publishing <

in Atlanta and became "convinced Synthesis wasthe way to go." Part of his inspiration camefrom the Anglican preacher, George Whitfield,

who said, "No one was ever converted after 15

"the typical parish priest suffers from informa-

tion overload." A College of Preachers survey

in 1987 indicated that 75 percent of the clergy

loved preaching, but 77 percent felt they did not

have enough time to adequately prepare.

Oehmig serves as the editor and remains the

entrepreneurial spirit behind Synthesis and

SynthesisCE, but relies heavily on Sewanee

connections, including Bob Jones who currently

acts as his contact on the Mountain.

Oehmig continues to reside on Lookout

Mountain with his wife, Margy, and their two

sons, Henry and John. He is also the vicar of St.

Barnabas, a parish in Trion, Ga., near

Chattanooga.

Sports

BasketballBoth the men's and women's teams finished

their seasons on a positive note in spite of their

\-loss records. The men's squad won four of

its final seven games to finish 8-17, highlighted

by a pair of exciting last second wins against

Trinity University in Sewanee (both on three-

point shots by sophomore guard Andy Zureick)

and impressive wins home and away against

Fisk University- The most notable achievement

of the season was made by senior forward Kit

Walsh who became the all-time Sewanee men's

career scoring leader when he passed Blane

Brooks (1,125 points from 1980-83) in an outing

against Rhodes College in Sewanee. Walsh

ended the season with 1,773 points, averaging

25.9 points per game, also a new Tiger standard

(Bill Kosick averaged 21.8 points per game in

1972-73) and earned ALL-CAC and second team

ALL-SOUTH honors, junior forward David

Zagoria joined Walsh on the ALL-CAC unit.

Coach Daniel Chu summarized the season as,

"one in which a great deal of progress was

realized, but there is also still a long way to go."

He also praised the leadership of senior co-

captains Walsh and Bert White.

The women completed their regular season

with a bright spot, a 50-49 victory against

Millsaps in Sewanee. Freshman center AmyCovington's layup from a feed by freshman

guard Emily Nash scored at the final buzzer.

Although finishing the season at 5-17 after a

WIAC loss to Rhodes in the first round of the

conference tournament. Coach Cathy Mittelstadt

is encouraged by the team's prospects for next

season. All of the players are young and return-

ing, and several big inside players have ex-

pressed an interest in attending the University

next year. Look for a much-improved record in

1991-92.

SwimmingThe men's and women's swim teams continued

to improve throughout the season and were

delighted with their showings at the Liberal Arts

Swimming and Diving Invitational Conference

finals held at DePauw University. The expecta-

tions for the men's squad were met, with Coach

Cliff Afton indicating, "Many, many swimmers

had not only the best times of the season, but the

besi races of their lives." With their sights set on

third place (Wabash and DePauw have tradi-

tionally dominated this competition), the men's

team garnered the bronze medal for the first

time in eight years. Of note, seniors AdamAdams, Andy Clark, and Wade Walter and

junior David Wacaster finished with lifetime

bests and the 200-yard freestyle team and 200-

yard medley relay team both set new Sewanee

records.

The women's team, hampered by small num-

bers (several swimmers were taking semesters

abroad), still performed well. Sophomore Libba

Manning finished the meet with a team high of

55 points and posted lifetime bests in two

events. Seniors Ashley O'Neal, captain Mary

Reynolds, and Liz Temple also had personal-

best times in the meet. Coach May Kay Samko

and Coach Afton were pleased with the strong

finish and feel very positive about next

Equestrian TeamContinuing their early season success, the eques-

trian team led, by senior captain and coach AmyBeth Skeiton, qualified for the national collegiate

tournament by finishing first in its region during

the year. The team won the Hunt Seat Equitation

meet in March at Middle Tennessee State Uni-

versity in Murfreesboro. Sewanee was high

point team on both days of the event, winning

by more than 65 points. The team is thus assured

of at least a 1 2th place finish among all college

and universities nationwide. Certainly an im-

pressive record for a team without a bam! Ac-

cording to Skeiton, "By pulling together as a

team, we were able to overcome the adversity."

Fencing ClubFreshman Michael Girard and sopho

Kunz continued their fencing success with

impressive performances at the Junior Olympics

in Little Rock, Ark. Cirard competed in both

epee and foil and Kunz in epee.

Cirard unfortunately lost in the first round of

foil before preparing for the epee section the

following day. In the men's epee, Kunz went an

amazing four rounds (over seven hours of com-

petition) before finally suffering two defeats and

finishing 27th out of 108 fencers. Girard finished

an active weekend with a 63rd place finish —excellent considering he competed in both

events.

SportsTennis

i's team is off to a slow start at 6-9,

although, according to Coach John Shackleford,

"The team has come on strong in recent weekswith five wins in seven matches." One of the

losses was to Kalamazoo College, ranked secondnationally in Division III. Senior co-captains arr<"^Mathew Farley, playing at #1 seed, and Ramsay*---

Sims, playing at #2. The team is pointing towardthe CAC tournament April 27-28 at RhodesCollege which Sewanee has won the last three

years.

squad is 8-3 and currently

ranked 14th in Division III. According to CoachConchie Shackelford, "We have played better

than I expected for a young team— there are 4

freshmen competing." The women are lookingforward to the WIAC conference tournamentApril 27-28 at Centre College. Soph.

Cameron Tyer, an All-American last year, has led

the team with a 18-3 record and is currently

ranked sixth nationally. She and her doublespartner, freshman Becky Doncaster, are rankedninth nationally. Tyer won the 1990 Division III

Southern Rolex tournament in Atlanta and also

teamed with Doncaster for a first place finish in

doubles.

SoftballThe women's softball team is competing in its

first intercollegiate season under Coach NancyLadd. The team also got off to a slow start with a

doubleheader loss to LaGrange College of Geor-

gia. The season will pick up in April with the

advent of warmer and clearer weather.

TrackThe men's track team is off to an excellent start.

The squad has finished well in three meets at

Rhodes College, at the Sewanee Quad meethosted on the Mountain before spring break,

and the Vanderbilt Invitational the last weekendin March. At Vandy the Tigers tied or broke five

University records and junior Mark Henry wontwo events wilh new school records in the jav-

elin at 160 feet and the 110m high hurdles with a

time of 15.0 seconds. Sophomore Tony Neill andfreshman Mike Perotti also tied the record with

identical 11.2 second performances in the 100mdash. Two relay teams, the 4x100m and the

4x400m, ran record times, with the 4x100 time of

44.2 tying the Sewanee standard and the 4x400

time of 3:30.1 setting a new mark. Coach Al

Logan has been impressed with the both the

diversity of the young squad and the leadership

of team captain senior pole vaulter Emie Miller.

i's squad, according to Coach Cliff

Afton, is in a rebuilding season. "With only 7

performers, led by junior distance runner MerikSpiers, we will be hard-pressed to score well as a

team, although we have high expectations for

individual performances." Coach Afton indi-

cated that sophomore transfer Nancy Ward, a

hurdler, could come up with WIAC honors andtimes have improved for virtually every runner

through the Sewanee Quad meet.

BaseballThe Tigers opened their 1991

under Coach Bill Samkowith a pair of disappointing losses to

hodes in chilly Memphis. The 5-3 and 6-1

contests featured complete games by sophomoreJon L. Williams and junior Jay Woodall, a sign of

positive things to come. Errors were costly in

these early games and assistant coach RobertBlack noted, "The first-game jitters wereevident in the play of a few freshmen."

Sophomore outfielder Frank Greercollected 5 hits in the two games to

pace the hitting attack while junior

^ shortstop Nick Albanese and senior

second baseman John Shoop pro-

vided solid fielding up the

iddle. Albanese, however, waslost for the season with

a broken thumb suf-

fered in a subsequent2-1 loss to Centre.

Heading into April the

stands at 1 -11 . Samko feels that

progresses the Tigers will comecompetitive squad. "We have

talent than I've seen at Sewanee in awhile,

but it's been a difficult start with five freshmen

in the li

GolfThe golf squad has only just begun their season

due to the weather and scheduling. The team

competed in Eagles Persimmon Hill champion-

ships in Saludia, S.C., and the Tennessee

Intercollegiate Athletic Conference tournament

at Tennessee Tech University in Cookeville in

April. Coach Tim Trantham is in his first year.

—Stephen Becker

100 Yearsof Sewanee FootballOn September 13, there will be

a dinner honoring former

Sewanee football players. This

dinner will kick off a weekendcelebration of 100 years of

Sewanee football.

On September 14, Sewanee

will play Tennessee Wesleyan.

Mark your calendar today!

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mi, ME 04103

'29am C. Schoolfield

Roland Avenue, A\

Dallas,TX75219

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'32Robert B. Sean

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'35The Reu. Edtw

Sicily, Rome, and Atlanta. Hes.consultant lo the Episcopal Church's three

historically black colleges and has beeninvolved with Liberian Episcopalians fleeing

'36Robert A. Hallowau

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W«i Columbia, SC 29169

'38Norwood C. Harrison

533 Twin Dritx

Spartanburg, SC 29302

The Rev. James E. Savoy, of St. Francisvi

La., was honored on November 9, 1990, f

the 50th anniversary o( his ordination to

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4465 Kempson Lant

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Dolhan.AL 36301

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:kefeller Foundation, was given

il College it

'44Sifes Williams Jr.

1112 Lula Lake Road

Lookout Mbuntain.TN 37350

'45Dr. Ensor R. Dunsford

145 River Road

Orange Park, FL 32073

'47James C. Cafe /r.

2304 North Ocoee Street

Cleveland. TN 37311

Thomas P. Frith 111 and his wife, Lorena, o

Nashville, are the grandparents of their

fourth grandchild, James McCarry Frith Jr.

'48George C.Clarke

1893 Harbert AvenueMemphis. TN 38104

The Rev. Frank F_ MeKenzic has

rector of St. Paul's in Wilkcsboro,

'49John P. Guerry

1000 West Brow Road

Lookout Mountain, TN 37350

'50

I The Vanderbilt University School of Medi-

VVilUam S. Stoney Jr. Chair in Cardiac andThoracic Surgery will be the first endowedchair in that department. Dr. Stoney, who

'51

Dr. Angus W. Graham jr.

ion! broker in December. Charles E.

ay, a democrat from Winchester, Tenn.,

wing the state House of Representatives

a judge with the Ton ni»ov.' S'

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Tampa, FL 33606

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center of they'll Mi.'jimn..i

addictions.

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Carolina National Bank and has joined the

staff of Grace Church in Anderson, S.C., as

administrative secretary.

'56John Pennington Bowers

Route3,Box374Rochelle,VA22?38

The Honorable Kenneth B. Followill andhis wife, Ann Carol, of Columbus, Ga„ haveenjoyed visiting tl

'57Dr. Oliver Wheeler }er

1013 Catalpa Lane

NaptrvSle, 1LT6G540

Brown Named to Arkansas Supreme CourtRobert L. Brown C'63 has been

elected to the Arkansas Supreme

Court for a term of 8 years. In the

democratic primary on May 29,

1990, Brown won the nomination

by a margin of 1,200 votes out of

some 450,000 cast; he then ran

unopposed in the general election.

Brown served as the deputy pros-

ecuting attorney in Arkansas in

1971 and 1972 and then served as

legal aide for then Governor

Bumpers from 1972-74. He was a

legislative assistant to Senator Dale

Bumpers in 1975 and 1976 in Wash-ington, D.C., and then served as

administrative assistant to Congressman Jim Guy Tucker in 1977 and 1978,

also in Washington, D.C. He has been engaged in the general practice of

law in Little Rock, Ark., since 1978.

Brown is a graduate of St. Stephens Episcopal School in Austin, Texas.

He received his bachelor's degree in English literature, magna cum laude,

from Sewanee. He earned a master's degree in English and comparative

literature from Columbia University in 1965, with honors, and received his

law degree from the University of Virginia in 1968. He currently serves as

a member of the Board of Regents of Sewanee. His father. Bishop Robert R.

Brown, retired Episcopal bishop of Arkansas, also served as a member of

the Board of Regents.

Brown is married to the former Charlotte Banks of Fordyce, Ark., andthey have one son, Stuart, who is age 14. They live in Little Rock.

Houston, TX 77057

'58James M. Scott

P.O. Box 2069

Montgomery, AL 36197

'59Carl N. Whatley

9006 Langdon

Houston, TX 77036

programs in the Episcopal Diocese of Norli

Foundation Teaching Excellence and Leader

'60Howard W. Harrison jr.

435 Springs Mill RoadVHIanova, PA 19085

'61Robert N. Rust III

4461 Kohler Drive

Allentown, PA 18103

Burton D. Glover was elected judge in

Robertson County, Tennessee. He was" «ontSeptemberl.

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'63

CarlC Cundiif is US. ambassador to Niger

'64The Rev. Dwight E. Ogier ]r.

Prescott N. Dunbar, ofNew Orleans,

published his book. The New Orleans Museumof Art: The First Seventy-five

'

'65

James K. Kendig has joined th>

Waller, Lansden Dortch & Davi

v firm, Scott Hospitality

'66

John Anderton, of Franklin, Tenn.working in USAir's training deparan instructor and check captain onDouglas DC9 aircraft.

'67Albert Sidney Polk III

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i, Fla., has co-authored a book, Jung Goeso the Movies. He teaches courses in English,

ilm, and interdisciplinary studies. Col.

>f Maryville, Tenn.,

made the walk alone and it took hnine hours. David C. Norton has beenappointed U.S. Federal District Judge in

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Atlanta, CA 30327

n Sewanee. MarAugusta, Ga., was elected to the board of

directors of the Bank of Columbia County ii

'70John W. Tonissen }r.

~TL Box 36218

Charlotte, NC 28236

Joseph V. Barker is staying busy with his' v practice in South Pittsburg, Tenn., and

attsboro, Ala. He and his wife, Cathy,ve a baby girl, Caitlin, bom November 1 2,

39. William H. Beecken, of Jasper, Ga.,

s been promoted to assistant regional

inspector general with the Resolution TrustCorporation, investigating fraud, waste, andabuse associated with the savings and loan

'71John Trice Fasig

2928 Windmere Circle

NashvUle.TN 37214

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'73josiah M. Daniel III

LCDRCfor duty with CommPadfic Reel, CampSmit)

:nlly reported

n-Chief, U.S.

lawaii. Robert

H. Chapman III has been elected president

Is in Inman, S.CMike Maxon and his wife, Kimberly, of

Belvidere, Tenn., have a third daughter.

Rivers, who was bom May 11. Susan L.

Rogers recently joined the Washington office

of the international law firm of Baker &

McKenzie. Judith Morton Shclton, ofAvondale Estates, Ga., has been awardedtenure and was named assistant departmenthead of the catalog department at theGeorgia State University Library. Laurin M.

University's School of Medicine. Shedevelopmental pediatrician at Yale.

'74Mflrlin R. Tilson Jr.

Director, OADl1075 South 13th Street

Birmingham, AL 35205

William E. McLaurin is a first-year studentat Ihe Nashville School of Law. Barbara L.

Sanders married John Waide on March 16.

She has also opened a new private practice

as a psychotherapist in Nashville.

'75

Gerald N. Blaney Jr. has been re-elected to

second four- year term as solicilor for theStale Court in Gwinnett County, Ga. TheRev. Rodney M. Kochtitzky married JaneHardy on February 9. The couple lives' in

'76

Carol A. Elliott, a songwriter, exchangedhouses with a French family and lived the

month of August 1990 in their rustic, reno-vated French farmhouse. She says she had a

marvelous time street singing in Paris. JanWilliams Evridge of Knoxville celebrated

two tenth anniversaries in 199ft her tenth

wedding anniversary and her tenth year of

working at Home Federal Bank of Tennes-see. Kevin Harper and his wife, Denise, havea new daughter, {Catherine Parrish, who wasbom in November. The family lives in

Alpharetta, Ga. Mike Rast continues workon the Fulton County School Board while his

wife, Jeanne Dortch (C78), teaches special

'77William DuBose III

1527 ldalia Drive

Columbia, SC 29206

ingham, Ala., 1

il Managemeia Depar

if the Sewanee Cubof Birmingham. J. Stuart Collier Jr. reports

that his family's 85-year-old insurance

agency has merged with Craddock Insur-

ance, also of Memphis. The agency is nowcalled Collier-Craddock Insurance. RichardCourtney, of Nashville, has been awarded

i Dollar Sales Club designation bythe Board of Realtors. Hecommissioned to write the biography of Pete

Drake, producer of Waylon Jennings andRingo Starr. Eulalie Hazard Davis and her

husband, Johnny, have a third daughter,

Margaret Fairfax, bom in September. Thefamily lives in Columbus, Miss. JohnnyWilliams (C'71) is one of the godfathers.

'78R. Philip Carpenter

5810 OrchardmenJackson, MS 39211

Melissa Harrison and her husband, PeterLarson, are now living in Nashville withtheir son. Will. Robert S. Jones, of Smyrna,Tenn., is a sergeant for the Cobb CountyPolice; he's in charge of the Fatality AccidentInvestigation Unit, is a SWAT team leader,

and a K-9 supervisor. Sue Wiygul Martinand her husband, Jim, are now living in anold Victorian house on the Maine coast. Sueis working for the Maine Center for the Blindas a rehabilitation teacher. Tandy McKnightmarried Todung "Lee" Ringoringo ir

'79Roberta Bartusch Coertz

36. S. Hillside Place

Ridgewood, NJ 07450

Charles M. DeWitt, a church missionaryplanter, is living In Nashville again after 14years. In June he plans lo return lo MexicoCity. Dr. Paul Campbell Erwin has returnedto Tennessee after two years in Karachi,Pakistan, where he was a Fellow in Interna-

tional Health at the Aga Khan University

He will be working for the State HealthDepartment of Tennessee. The Rev. MichaelC. Kuhn and his wife, Maria Elliott, have adaughter, Hallie, bom in February 1990. In

September they moved from New York to

Boston, where Michael is now rector of

Franklin

still living on their fi

Beth Candler andMarchman are

Sharpsburg, Ga.

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have a fourth child, Samuel Edward. Thefamily lives in McDonough, Ga.; Paul is anattorney. Allen Corey and his wife, KathrynWilson CS2), have a daughter, KathrynQuinn, bom February 13. Mary MargaretHuffman married Peter Mcdain in October.

Catherine Keffer Tanner, a senior medicalstudent in Macon, Ga., is going to graduate

'81flrenl T. Minor400 Commonwealth Avenue, H204

Alexandria, VA 22301

Richard D. Cloud is deacon-in-charge at

Polk Memorial in Leesville, La. SusanFrancisco will be joining a multi-specialty

group In Jackson, Tenn., when she finishes

her Renal Fellowship at U.T. Memphis in

June. The Rev. Shannon SherwoodJohnston is rector of the Church of the

Advent tn Sumner, Miss. Helen Paul is

plant at McMurdow Base

district attorney in September. He andhis wife, Marian, have a new son, Ian Robert,

Christin Farrington

Sam Preston: Relating English

to the Real WorldWhen Sam W. Preston C'82 teaches an English class, he shows his stu-

dents that then? is a genuine purpose for everything they learn. This inher-

ent desire to relate English to the real world had led Preston, an English

teacher at East Coweta Middle School in Coweta County, Ca., to be named

one of five recipients of Georgia's "Thanks to Teachers Excellence Award"

and a finalist for Georgia Teacher of the Year in 1990.

Central to Preston's selection was his participation in an interdiscipli-

nary teaching unit on recycling and a classroom journalism contest. These

programs arc specifically designed to show his students how each aca-

demic area relates to the outside world.

In the journalism contest, each of Preston's students writes an article to

submit to the local newspaper, IheNewnan Times. The newspaper staff

selects the best two articles, one from a boy and a one from a girl and

publishes them with the student's photograph. Preston's students' articles

have also been published independently of the contest. "One of my stu-

dents even got a by-line," says Preston.

"When 1 teach a middle school child, I am as concerned with the devel-

opment of the child as an individual and the development of their attitude

toward learning as well as the content of the course.'' said Preston.

Preston first became interested in middle school education teaching

eighth grade English at Charlotte Latin School in Charlotte. N.C directly

after his graduation from Sewanee with a B.A in English While he wascertified to teach high school and didn't intend to teach eighth grade, he

became so interested in middle school classroom teaching methods that he

received a masters in middle school education from the University of

Georgia.

He chose to teach in Coweta County because thev were implementing a

middle school program after his first year in the county system "I wanted

to be part of that shift and help implement a middle school program." said

Preston.

Preston cites his liberal arts education and stimulating professors at

Sewanee as a continuing influence on his day-to-day teaching experience.

"Having gained a broad base of knowledge in my liberal arts education,

I can see the connections between disciplines. I feel very comfortable

teaching the relationships between the subjects, " said Preston.

Preston plans to stay in middle school education. "1 feel like 1 wouldlike to really influence the development of public education."

Thanks to Teachers, a nationwide grassroots program recognizing

individual teaching excellence, is sponsored in Georgia by Apple Com-puter, Inc., WSB-TV Channel 2, the Business Council of Georgia and the

National Alliance of Business. —Ashley Heyer, C'93

wife, Kather

Henderson, bor

October 10.~John E. Davidson and his w

Kann, had a new daughter, Hannah, in ea

1990. The family lives in Ithaca, N.Y. Karc

S. Dignacco, of Sharon, Conn., and her

husband. Michael, have a son, ThomasEdward, born July 21, 1990. Tom Elston

ui-Il'J E.i-

gon BaintreeCove

Memphis. Anne W. GaiTCtt and her

band. David, have a daughter, Margaret,

n May 9, 1990. The family lives in Lexing-

n Madden Jr. has been

THE SEWANEE NEWS

iirector ol the South Carolina

Pharmacy in Columbia, S.C

ff attorney tor the Senate Labor, Com-' Industry Committee in Columbia,

S.C Kevin S. Miller has graduated from

Ccorgia Stale University with a master's

degree in community counseling. He is in a

new position as behavior specialist at

Hillside Hospila! in Atlanta. Kathryn Harris

The family lives in Mill

Pollard Schaibly married her husband Bill

in June 1990 and is now the stepmother of

two. Juli E. Sehrimshcr married MikeTerrebonne on Sept. 15, 1990, in Huntsville,

Ala. Nancy Lewis Vcmon and her husband,

Walt, have moved to San Franasco. AnneFontaine Vouga-Downs and her husband,

Francois, have had their third child, Alexan-

dre Gerard, who was born on September 25.

The family lives in Germany Richard

Williams and his wife. Nancy Lea (C'84),

c had their second child, Marilyn lilair,

19. The family Uves in Nashville. DianneWitter, of Atlanta, is editor of Spinal Column,

Shepherd Spinal Center's quarterly

magazine.

Thomas M. Black jr. (C'86), and Ann Holland Flagler were married on September 8. The

ceremony was performed by the Rev. Battle Beasley, (T86), and was attended by manyother Sewanee alw

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rew Cecil "Chris" Moore HI on June 30. Other

.•edding. The couple lives in Chattanooga

John Dermic Crabtree HI, a fourth-year

Ruth Harvey has moved to the Republic of

Kiribati (formerly the Gilbert Islands), whichis a collection of 33 islands located 2,000

miles south of Hawaii. There, she is a

nutrition adviser to the government. SarahCoke King and her husband, Bob, had a

baby girl, Anne Tennison, on September 19.

(i thefv

boy, John IV, on December 6 Rachel Hoied Bobby Kirby on November 17 ii

ts' Chapel. Mary lane Lcnnon, her

working on her Ph.D. i

Vanderbilt University. JoAnnc White Ray,of Cordova, Tenn., married Glen Ray last

August. She and her husband are bothgetting their doctorates in psychology.

Serena Smith Verfurth got a master's

degree in industrial engineering from"leorgia Institute of Technology and is now'orking for Andersen Consulting in Atlanta

'84Stewart Thomas

5530 Montrose

Dallas, TX 75209

Catherine Currie married Thatcher Adams(C'87) in Paris, France, in November Thecouple is living in Cambridge, Mass.; both

k at Toth Design in Carlisle, Mass.

lifer Plant Johnston and her husband,Tom, had a baby girl, Elizabeth Claire, onSeptember 20. The family lives in Nashville.

Lipscomb, after three and a half years

distant district attorney in Nashville

ered private practice with Watkins,

McCugin, McNeilly, & Rowan, fames Z.

and his wife, Rebecca Brow n Smith,

son, James, on December 6 RussellCampbell Wood is a lifetime member of the

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' Walnut Street #307

iJoseph Harold Powell

banderson, who is 9 years old. Alan PrestonShuptrinc married Bonny Sue Burba nk onFebruary 9. The couple honeymooned in

Maui, Hawaii, and lives in Nashville. SusanE. Warner finished a joint degree program at

Vanderbilt University; she received master's

degrees in social work and divinity Mat-thew S. Wedding is completing the

Vanderbilt MBA program, while his wife

Rives Hudgins (C'86), is finishing her

master's at Peabody College of

Vanderbilt Universitv.

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Philadelphia, PA 19107

in the Middle East. He hopes to be bac

irt law school in the fall. Elizabeth A.Epps of Huntsville, Ala., has been tempo-rarily transferred to Sydney, Australia. Thei

;he is working to help eliminate waterpollution problems in Sidney. Lee AnnLambdin is living in Knoxvilie and working

William A. Block Jr is a third-vear medic

,student at East Tennessee Slate Univer^it.

1 Ashlee Dunn is curator ot education for t

Albany Museum ot Art in Albany, GaGregory Loren Hambleton of Miami, Ha

i the director ol admissions and is teaching

sixth grade at Th L Palmer School in Mi.iin

Peggy Hodgkins is working toward her

master «. in geology al UNC-Chapel Hill

master - degree in journalism at UNC-ChapclHill Mclanic Gearing Stable plai

to enter nursing school at NYU in July

Elisabeth B Woody is now living in Mem

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icd in Toronto, Canada, and I

villc. Cheryl Hawkins marrnnut <C90) on September 22 in Alabama,are now living in Dayton, Tenn |ai

lers, an assistant store manager at Turtle

Records and Video in Nashville, is applyingto graduate schools in order to continue his

studies in anthropology Chris Thomasmarned Pam Maddox last June 30. TomMotley IC'89) and Barry Tatum (C'88) were

Wcndc Hal! and Reg Stambaugh weremarried December 14, 1990, in Nashville,

They live in St. Petersburg, Ha., where Reg is

a law student at Stetson University andWende works for Sun Bank of Florida Julie

Wcstcrgaard returned from Paris to marryPhilippe Audibert; they live in Atlanta. Sims

The Rev. John M. Flynn, of Jacksonville,

Ha., retired in October 1989 from St. John'sCathedral in Jacksonville after serving there

for five years.

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The Rev. Jeffrey A. Batkin is r<

'77,. Staals, of San Diego,

degree a

CI.' velar,

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1234 Vftltowoak Drive

Columbia, SC 29223

swimming She has been to sue!

New Zealand and Australia. David W.Conkte, of Pensacola, Ha., has completedOfficer Candidate School in Newport, R.I.,

and has been commissioned to the rank of

'51The Rev. Charles 1. Penick retired as reel.

|

of Good Shepherd in Rocky Mount, N.C.

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mal Cathedral Foum

'89

'86

'53The Rev. James H.Douglas

both in Baton Rouge. La. re

ary 1 He had served both ci

1984

'55Th e Rev. Jeffrey A. Batkin is the new rector

ol Grace Episcopal Church in Anderson, S.C.

The Rev. Richard N. Walklcy is interim

rector of St. John's in Homestead, Ha.

'78The Rev. Robert Keirsey, of San Diego,Calif., has been a deputy sheriff with the SanDiego County Sheriff's Department for just

-stipendiary

eo/ its black soil.

irof Geth5cmanein

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Battle Alexander Jr., born January 8, 1990.

The Rev. William Michael King is rector oAll Saints' in Birmingham, Ala. The Rev.

Sherod Mallow is rector at St. Elizabeth's ii

Memphis, Jenn. The Rev. Max M. Reynolds

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,t Our Savi s Pass, Texas,

the Messiah in Pulaski, Tenn. The Ry McLuen was ordained to the prieFebruary 23, at St. Mark's Church ii

qouketa. Iowa, where he is the new

'89

Paul's in Meridian, Miss. Williai

Treadwell is curate at St. MichacAngels in Dallas, Texas.

'90tl is deacon-in-charge at All

>.iir,K I'k'jsanton. Texas

Andrew's, Canton, N.C Lee Roy Carl K icier

is the assistant at St. Matthew's, Honolulu,

Hawaii. John R. Prof fitt is deacon-in-charge

South and the University of Florida. Hed his newspaper career at the ape of

n working at the St. Petersburg Time:

during the summers. Mr. Brumby worked

i. Augusta King Brumby o

Mount Heasant, S.C., three sons, three

daughters, fifteen grandchildren, and Ihrc

great-grandchildren.

We have learned of the death of DavidHicks Rotroff, C29, retired district mana;for Branift Air Ways; January 11, 1991.

1991. A native of Columbia, S.C., Mr. Barron

graduated from the University of the South

is president of his class. He also received the

Porter Cup for the Champion All-around

e. He founded and worked at Barron's

Fishing and Hunting Center until he retired.

He was also the first full-time manager of

"QresfLake dub and worked there from1942-46. He was a life-long Episcopalian

-iember of the vestry at

Trinity Cathedral in Coin

iave learned of the death of Brax lor

Provine Jr., C33, a retired planter in Gnwood. Miss., on September 30, 1990. Sur

War II, the Korean Warr. After retiring from achv

erved with the National

1 . Graduating as valedictorian of hclass at Sewanee, he went on to HarvardLaw School, joined the Navy and served i

Europe in World War II, and returned to

v/zs director and corporate secre-

tary of American Investors Fund Group,Greenwich, Conn. Mr. Lee was a member of

Phi Beta Kappa and a member of the Episco-

Arlington. Va . a grandson; and four broth-

lacksonville, Fla.. D. Gilbert Lee, (C'48), of

Charlotte, N.C.; and Lewis S. Lee, (C'54), of

Jacksonville, Fla

We have learned of the death of Marion M.Kerr, C42, of Decatur, Ca., on December 15,

1990. He was the retired owner of Kerr

Studio Inc. Survivors include his wife,

Margaret B. Kerr, of Decatur.

The Rev. J. Stanley Creslcy, C'43, T53,retired Episcopal pnest, on December 4,

1990. Most recently of Jacksonville, Fla.. he

served thirty years of ministry before

retiring in lLi(M S-ml Mr C.reslov after a vi-

to the Mountain in 1987, "What docs heavf

look like? Sewanee in October!" Survivors

jde three daughters and a sort.

We]

1990. He was in the Navy V-12 Unit

Sewanee from 1943 to 1944 and serv

Navy through 1946. He was a 1948f

of Xavier University, and he spent hworking with Great Northern Railrc

which he retired in 1981 . He is survived byhis wife, Ann, two daughters, andgrandchildrer

The Rev. William McClelland Jr., T44,:ired Episcopal priest, on October 30,1990.

native of Philadelphia, Pa., he graduatedim St. John's College and the seminary at

1978. Survivors include his wife, Emily

Lloyd McClelland of Cainesville, Ca.. twa daughter, and a brother.

We have learned of the death of James R

have learned of the death of Thomas E.

ims, C'49, on October 13, 1990. Mr.ims, of Houston, Texas, was an adminis-

or for Equitable Life Assurance. He is

/ived by his wife, Bettye D. Adams, and

Lev. John L. Denny, C50, retired

Episcopal rector, on September 3, 1990. Hestudied at the University of the South, New

diocese of Newark He served as vicar at

Transfiguration in Towaco, N.J., and GoodShepherd in Ringwood, N.J. He was rector

Christ Church in Teaneck, N.J., from 1961 li

35 when he retired. Survivors include his

fe, Jane S. Denny, and two brothers.

ielor with Consumer Credit CounselingService at Metro Atlanta, Mr Rand was an

: member in the Episcopal church.

ave learned of the death of Hujil Jr., A'55, C'59, of Broken Arrc

Okla. Survivors include his wife, Su;

n Louisiana Univer

sity. Survivors include one son and three

daughters.

We have learned of the death of the Rt. Rev.

T.G.V. Inman on July 4, 1989. He received

lorary degree of Doctor of Divinity

ic University of the South in 1953 Heirn.er Epii-oip.il bishop of Natal,

:v. Thomas Stewart Matthews, T65,etired Episcopal rector, on February 15,

Graduating from high school in San

Seminary, and a" liversity of the South. Mattl

of St. Peter's Episcopal ii

conflict. Heas rectors of St. Paul's Church, Macon, Ca.,

and Grace Church in Charleston, S.C. In 1977

he became rector of Camp Allen, the Episco-

pal Conference and Camp Center for the

diocese of Texas, in Navasota. He workedthere until he retired in 1985. He was pre-

ceded in death by his first wife, Mary Anna

Coates Matthews of Navasota, two daugh-ters, two sons, and fifteen grandchildren.

B.A. in Spanish and Economics from

international economics at Southern Meth-odist University and got his Ph.D. and M.A.in Spanish from the University of Wisconsin.Dr. Seniff taught at Washington University

in St. Louis and was professor of Spanish at

Michigan State University. He served on the

editorial boards of many scholarly journals,

served as a member of several professional

societies, and wrote three books and over 20articles which are highly regarded in this

country and abroad as significant contribu-

tions to his field of studies. Dr. Seniff was a

member of the Episcopal Church. Survivors

include his mother, Mrs. Mary A. SHckney of

e brother, and o

James A. Davis Jr., C'77, lawyer, on January8, 1991 . Having grown up in Chattanooga,

Tenn., he came to Sewanee to study English

and was chief of the volunteer fire depart-

ment. He attended the University of Tennes-see Law School and began his career in

t Dearborn and Ewing. In 1988 heNashvi

The Rev. Robert Utlaul, T77, Episcopal

priest, on November 18, 1990. He earned £

B.A. from Central College at Fayette, ~'

Tennessee Wesleyan College from 1969 i

degree from the University of the South1977 and went on to serve at St. Steph.

Episcopal Church in Oak Ridge, Tenn.

5L Bede's Episcopal Church in Manchester,

Tenn. He was the assistant chaplain at

Sewanee from 1982-84 and since then wasof Trinity Episcopal in Wa tertown.

We have learried of the death of GretchTurner, C84, on October 10, 1990. TurnELa Grange, Ca., was a TV/radio reportei

Lon Varnell, Coach and EntrepreneurLon Vamell, Tennessee entrepreneur,

humanitarian, entertainment promoter,

and University of the South basketball

coach from 1948-70, on February 17 in

Nashville.

Varnell grew up in Adamsville,

Tenn., where he played basketball andother sports. He went to Freed-

Hardeman College in Henderson,Tenn., for two years, and then taught

and coached at high schools to earn

enough money to finish his education.

He received his bachelor's degree in

1947 from Bethel College in McKenzie,Tenn. He went on to earn his master's

degree from Southern Methodist Uni-

versity in Dallas, Texas.

He served as an assistant basketball

coach at the University of Kentuckyunder Adolph Rupp before coming to

Sewanee as head coach in 1948. Varnell

was the first American college coach to

take a basketball team to Europe,

leading the 1951 Tiger team as it trav-

eled to 41 cities in nine countries. Theteam played 57 games in 59 days andreturned to the U.S. with a 53-4 record.

During his years at Sewanee, Varnell

led the Tigers to a 265-187 record, whichincluded victories against much larger

schools.

While coaching at Sewanee, Varnell

began pursuing interests as a promoterand a businessman. In 1955, he broke

the southern color barrier for sports

audiences by bringing the HarlemGlobetrotters on a tour of Dixie; hebooked the Globetrotters to play in

front of the first integrated audience in

the South in Atlanta in 1955. At one

during his career at Sewanee, hewas simultaneously a coach, a success-

ful promoter, owner of various busi-

nesses, and a part-time Methodist

In 1970, Varnell retired fromSewanee to pursue his promotion andbusiness interests full-time. As presi-

dent of Varnell Enterprises, he gainednational attention promoting big nameentertainers such as Lawrence Welk,

Barbara Mandrell, the Statler Brothers,

Bill Cosby, the Rolling Stones, and Elvis

Presley. He had extensive businessinterests in lumber, coal, and automo-

He is survived by his wife, Kathryn;three sons. Dr. Larry Varnell (C'61); JimVarnell (C'65); and Gilbert Varnell; a

daughter, Linda C. Farrer, a sister, three

brothers, and 10 grandchildren.

Memorials should be made to the

Lon Varnell Scholarship Fund at the

ach day in his chemistry classes,

Ed Kirven teaches students

how to become good citizens.

"A lot of the people that we educate at

Sewanee are going to be leaders in their

communities," Kirven explains. "And

they're going to have to confront issues

we all are confronting—solid waste dis-

posal and landfills, for example.

"The leaders must have a great deal of

understanding of technology," he contin-

ues. "Ifpeople don't understand the basic

elements of technology and science, they

will be completely dependent on outside

experts or they will tend to ignore issues.

And that may lead to bad decisions."

For the last 15 years, Kirven, a 1968

Sewanee graduate, has emphasized the

importance of the sciences in a liberal arts

education. As the University prepares for

the challenges of a new century, Kirven

wants to ensure that' Sewanee students

and faculty members will have the

resources to stay in touch with the

rapid changes in science and tech-

nology

"We are increasingly going to need

money to acquire instrumentation.

Chemistry, and science in general,

have changed so much," he says. "As

the generation of instruments that

we have now wears out, the cost of

replacing those instruments will in-

crease as much as five-fold.

"And we must have those instruments ato be a chemistry program where stu- mdents experience what chemistry is today, anot what it was 30 years ago. They have Ito be exposed to what the current practice

*

is."

Gifts to the Sewanee Annual Fund

ensure that the University can provide the

resources to help students keep in touch

with the tremendous advances in the sci-Sewanee Annual Fund

ences, and indeed, all disciplines at University of the SouthSewanee. Sewanee, TN 37375-4004

SEWANEE

Comps-the annual rite ofpassage- have begun. And for some exultant seniors, they have ended.

THESEWANEENEWS

Spring 1991

THESEWANEEPublished for the Alumni and Friends of The U

Keele

NamedNew Deanof College

Dr. Robert Keele, profes-

sor of political science, hasbeen named dean of the University's College ofArts and Sciences. Keele will succeed Dr. W.Brown Patterson, who is reluming to the class-room this fall after 11 years as dean.

Keele, a 1956 graduate of Sewanee, joined theUniversity of the South faculty in 1961. He hasserved as Department of Political Science chair-man since 1982.

"Bob Keele has been an integral part ofSewanee's university community for three de-cades. He is a great inspiration in the classroomas well as an outstanding administrator," saidVice-Chancellor Samuel Williamson.

"I feel confident that he will continue thetradition of excellence set by Brown Patterson.As dean. Dr. Keele's long history of dedicationand commitment to the College of Arts and Sci-ences and the University will be invaluable "

Keele explained that heis honored by the supportof the vice-chancellor andthe faculty. "1 look for-

ward to assuming these

new responsibilities andto working on behalf of

the College and Univer-

sity."

Keele earned his

master's degree andPh.D. degree from EmoryUniversity in 1957 and1960, respectively. He wasa tutor for the

University's British Stud-ies at Oxford program in

1986, and tutor andcontinued on j>a^ 11

More than 200 Sewanee students participated in the

123rd commencement ceremony of the University r-May 10. From top to bottom, Graham Hill reflects

his graduation; graduates Allison Middleton, JohnTruslow, and Allan Jones shield themselves frommorning showers; and Charlotte Thomas andClement Riddle talk with friends. For mor<

commencement activities, seepages 10-13

NEWS

uThe Rev. Dr. Cuy Fitch Lytle III, a prominentchurch historian, teacher, and pnest, has beennamed as the 12th dean of the University'sSchool of Theology.

Lytle comes to Sewanee from the ChurchDivinity School of the Pacific (CDSP), where he

professor of church history and historicaldieology and doctoral professor of history at the

Graduate Theological

Union (GTU) in

Berkeley, Calif.

"Guy Lytle brings

^ spect among his peersin theological educationand tremendous energyto the position," said

Vice-Chancellor SamuelWilli. "Hhexperience in an inner

city parish will also

benefit our students at

the School of Theology.

Well known as a churchhistorian, Lytle will

bring additional pres-

tige to our program in Anglican studies."Lytle says he is "excited to be called to leader-

ship in a university ! have admired since mysouthern youth and especially since my years atOxford, where I had several good friends amongthe large Sewanee contingent.

"The Episcopal Church rightly expects muchof its colleges and seminaries, and Sewanee hasthe potential to meet those expectations, both asa mentor to current and future ordained and layleaders, and through its extension programs, asa teacher of the whole church. I believe thatSewanee can make a real difference to the reli-

gious life of the South and beyond during this

Decade of Evangelism."

Prior to assuming his positions at CDSP andGTU, Lytle taught history and religion at theCatholic University of America in Washington,D.C., and the University of Texas at Austin. Hehas also held visiting professorships and

gen

Vice-Chancellor's Corner

Sewanee's 123rd Commencement— pages 10-13

SEVVANEE™Stephen E. Becker, Director of Public Relations

Rober! Bradford, Editor

H.W "Yogi" Anderson III, C72, Alumni Editor

Mary E. Henry, C93, Ashley Heyer, C93, Class Notes Editors

Robert N. Rust III, C61, President

N Pendleton Rogers, C72, Vice President for Planned Giving

John W. Tonisscn, Jr., C70, Notional Chairman (or Annual

Elizabeth McDonough Howick, C81, Vice President for

The Rev. Dwight Ogicr, Jr., CM, Vice President far Regions

The Rev. Henry N Parsley, Jr., C7D, Vice President

for Church Relations

The Rev. Robert S. Creamer, T71, Vice President for the

School of Theology

H.W. "Yogj" Anderson ill, C72, Executive Director

The Sewanee News (I5SN 0037-3044) is published quarterly

by the University of the South, including the College of Arts

and Sciences and the School of Theology, and is distributed

without charge to alumni, parents, faculty, and friends of thi

University. Copyright ©1991 The Sewanee News All rights

the South, Office of Untvowty Relations, 735 University Ave

Sewanee TN3737S-1000.

A favorite PARLOR game— bashing lawyers,

clergy, doctors— has found

get: higher education. For nearly a de-

cade, books, articles, speeches, and public fig-

ures have assailed higher educabon. Nor have

members of the academy been sparing, as seen

by Allan Bloom's nostalgic lament in The Closing

of the American Mind. And the attacks, juxta-

posed with critiques of K-12 educational sys-

tems across the country, show few signs of abat-

ing. Ironically, the criticisms of higher education

focus on the one American institution with an

undisputed competitive advantage over the rest

of the world.

To be sure, there are failings and shortcom-

ings: the misuse of overhead funds on federal

grants, high loan default rates among students

at vocational-type institutions, unclear and in-

consistent admissions practices, athletic pro-

grams totally out of control, and undergraduate

general education programs which are un-

demanding and incoherent.

The situation, I am happy to report, is quite

different at Sewanee. Of course, no college is

perfect, not even the University of the South, nor

would I dare to make that claim. But we are

doing a number of things that appear to secure

our future and our claim of respect for quality,

tradition, and intellectual rigor. Let me give you

four examples.• Sewanee's general education curriculum,

which represents approximately one-third of all

courses taken, remains firmly committed to our

traditional conception of a western liberal arts

and sciences program. Required courses in

English, literature, history of western civiliza-

tion, foreign languages, mathematics and labora-

tory sciences, along with the social sciences and

religion and philosophy, are in place. In the fall

of 1992 a new four-course, team-taught sequence

in English, history, religion, philosophy, and the

arts will be in place for entering freshmen, a

sequence deliberately western in its orientation.

Yet at the same time, I am pleased to say that

more than 80 percent of all Sewanee students-

realizing that they will live and work and play

in an ever and increasingly interdependent

world—are now taking courses that deal with

THE SEWANEE NEWS

topics that are non-western. Further, we expect

some areas, such as Latin American courses, to

become more important as the United States

enters into new trade relations with our south-

cm neighbors.

• A special feature of the Sewanee education

is the nature of the freshman experience: enter-

ing students are taught by professors, including

our most senior members of the faculty, not

graduate students. These professors care about

their students, are concerned about their intel-

lectual and moral development, and seek to help

students begin to discover themselves and

their potential. This kind of attention requires an

excellent faculty, one that matches that of other

institutions in teach my; skills, academic ability,

and commitment to the purposes of the liberal

arts college. At Sewanee, this commitment is

further enhanced by the importance of the

Chapel and the School of Theology in helping to

set the tone and ambiance of the entire Domain.

• Values, the search for truth even if the truth

is uncomfortable, a respect for divergent opin-

ions, appreciation of the worth and importance

of the individual; each of these has traditionally

characterized Sewanee's approach to higher

education. Indeed, these characteristics flow

naturally from an Anglican approach to higher

education that sees, as Richard Hooker madeclear in the 16th century, all knowledge and all

searching for knowledge as a search for God. In

this connection we seek to develop critical

minds and informed perspectives, while es-

chewing any notion of political correctness,

whether of the left or the right. This commit-

ment to intellectual rigor and honesty, to a sense

of place and context, and to preparations for life

in a world of constant change remains the focal

point of our educational efforts.

• Finally, the Honor Code and its effective

operation continue to be a feature of our ap-

proach to maturity and challenge. Last fall we

added a special ceremony in All Saints' Chapel

in which all new students came forward to sign

the Honor Code. With this act they acknowl-

edged that they were entering into a corporate

and special status within a great University. In

this way we hope to move from the earliest mo-

ments of the freshman year to instill the sense of

uniqueness that is the hallmark of a Sewanee

education and the Sewanee community.

We will continue to work to do things better:

keep tuition costs under control, maintain diver-

sity in our student body, enrich our curriculum,

enhance the variety in our social life, improve

our physical facilities, and provide adequate

financial aid to needy students. But I can report

to you with confidence that the central task of

education at the University of the South — both

in the College and the School of Theology—remains firmly committed to its mission of

academic excellence, spiritual growth, and a

balanced approach to a changing world.

iWuuj.'c. 1A/JXl>——

—

SMA Graduates

Return to Sewanee

On April 26-28, more than 200 people gathered

at Sewanee to commemorate the Sewanee Mili-

tary Academy.

The academy, which existed from I868-W71

in what is now Quintard Hall, thrived as a pre-

paratory and military school. More «nan 70

graduates of the academy returned to Sewanee

to reflect on their experiences and o rememDcr

the academy, John Ashby Marshall and 76 other

cadets who lost their lives in war

Marshall, a 1938 graduate of SMA in manyways embodied the best that the academv i

offer. A fighter pilot during World War II

Marshall flew more than 100 missions beto

being shot down over Holland in 1945

On the Mountain

Sewanee students gathered at Manigault Park in April to model clothing from around the world as part of the

University s International Festival. Sponsored by the Organization for Cross-Cultural Understanding, the

festival also included panel discussions and a cricket match.

TeacherEducation Program Gets State Approval

At a ceremony on April 27, SMA graduates

and friends dedicated two plaques in front of

Quintard Hall, one commemorating the acad-

emy and one honoring the achievements of

Marshall.

During the ceremony, Digby Seymour, a doc-

tor from Knoxville, Tenn., and a 1940 SMAgraduate, reflected on the impact of the acad-

emy. "Many of us came here as children," he

said. "I was a mere 13 years old when I arrived.

Sewanee gave us the tools to become men. Someextraordinary individuals arrived here as men.

Sewanee gave them the skills and knowledge to

become leaders."

The University's Teacher Education Program has

been approved by the Tennessee State Depart-

ment of Education through 1993.

Designed to prepare Sewanee undergradu-

ates to become first-rate secondary school teach-

ers, the Teacher Education Program has been in

existence since 1976. Students who participate in

the program take traditional liberal arts courses

as well as education courses. When they com-

plete the program, they are certified to teach

high school and receive a bachelor's degree in a

traditional liberal arts discipline.

Dean of Women Mary Sue Cushman, whooversees the program, says Sewanee students

receive a broad and thorough understanding of

teaching. "In partnership with both the College

faculty and fine teachers in local schools, our

students have the constant support, careful criti-

cism, and inspiring models necessary to develop

their own teaching identities."

The State Department of Education will con-

duct site visits of Sewanee's programs during

the fall of 1993 to assess the University's pro-

grams in English, visual arts, French, German,

Spanish, Latin, mathematics, science, including

biology, chemistry, physics, earth science, and

social science, which includes economics, his-

tory, government and psychology. Cushmansays the site visit will take place because Tennes-

see is completely revising its methods of accred-

iting colleges and universities which prepare

students to become teachers.

The Sewanee Summer Music Center opened its 35th season on June 28. Featuring chamber music concerts,

orchestra programs, and mid-week recitals, it ran through }uly 28.

Sewanee StudentWinsPrestigiousNEH GrantRobert Ingram, a sophomore at the University, is

the first student in Sewanee's history to win a

Younger Scholars grant from the National En-

dowment for the Humanities (NEH). He will use

the $2,200 grant for a summer study project

titled "Frank Owsley and His Agrarian Literary

Friends."

Across the nation, 49 high school and 87 col-

lege students from 33 states and the District of

Columbia were selected as NEH Younger Schol-

ars from 823 eligible applications submitted.

At the conclusion of the study program, re-

cipients submit substantial research papers to

the endowment; a number of NEH Younger

Scholars have seen their final research papers

appear in scholarly publications. Ingram's advi-

sor is Professor of English Thomas Carlson.

A graduate of Cedar Creek High School in

Ruston, La., Ingram is majoring in English and

history and is a member of the Order of Gowns-

men and chairman of the University's Orienta-

tion Committee.

1991 Distinguished

Alumnus/a AwardNominations are being sought for the 1991 Dis-

tinguished Alumnus/a Award. Once a year at

Homecoming, the Associated Alumni honors

one of its members with the presentation of this

special award, first presented in 1982.

If you know of someone you think should be

recognized, please fill out and return the form

below.

The purpose of the Distinguished Alumnus/a

Award is to recognize individuals who have

distinguished themselves in their vocation-

business, professionally, or otherwise—and

demonstrated concern for and service to their

community. Furthermore, the Distinguished

Alumnus/a Award seeks to recognize individu-

als who have shown repeated loyalty to and

support of the University and whose positions

of stature and importance have brought favor-

able attention and recognition to the University

of the South.

The recipient must be a living alumnus or

alumna of the University of the South {Acad-

emy, College, or School of Theology).

The recipient may not be an active member of

the Associated Alumni Board, the Board of Trus-

tees, or the Board of Regents.

The recipient may not be a current employee

of the University.

Alumni Affairs

ALUMN T

By Robert Rust, C'61

President, Associated Alumni

In August the annual

meeting of the Coun-

cil of the Associated

Alumni will be held

on the Mountain. Its

membership is madeup of the alumni lead-

ers of both the College

and the School of

Theology: class repre-

sentatives, presidents

of Sewanee Clubs, the

I HE M : W \Nfc"i- MAYS

s*r.;

Please attach information giving your reasons for

making the nomination. (Your nomination cannot be

considered unless the proper information is enclosed.)

Submitted by .

Class of

Address

University of the South

iistincuishetj alumnu5/a awardOffice of Alumni Relations

735 University AveSewanee TN 37375-1000

Bob Rust A I II iTrusi

School of Theology s

Its purpost

the officers of the

d College Alumni Asso-

i to bring Sewanee's key

alumni leaders together once a year to deal wit

the business of the new fiscal year through a

scries of in-depth briefings from the Vice-Chan-

cellor and his staff and rigorous workshops and _plenary sessions with the staff of the University

Relations office. In addition, each council meet-

ing has a central theme, which is focused upon

by an invited speaker or speakers.

The central theme of this year's session will

be "The Campaign for Sewanee/' the all impor-

tant capital campaign which is tentatively slated

for its public launching in late 1992 or early

1993. This will be the subject of the keynote

speaker, Vice-Chancellor Samuel Williamson, at

the council's Friday night banquet in Convoca-

tion Hall. This theme will be an integral part of

the Saturday briefings, plenary sessions, and the

workshops.

In addition, the Disciples of Christ in Com-munity (DOCC) program will be highlighted

during the plenary session on Saturday. This is a

continuation of an initiative launched last sum-

mer to inform the alumni leadership of the sig-

nificant work of a number of Episcopal agencies

headquartered on the Mountain. The remarkable

achievements and growth of DOCC will be pre-

sented this year by its executive director, Karen

Keele.

This is particularly fitting as the two keynote

speakers of the Saturday session of the council

have or will have an important relationship to

Karen and her work. The first is her husband.

Dr. Robert Keele, our new dean of the College.

The second is her boss, the Rev. Dr. Guy Lytic,

the newly appointed dean of the School of The-

ology. It is also fitting that the spotlight be on

these two men, who are the academic standard

bearers for the College and the School of

Theology.

More fundamentally, it is fitting that these

two men arc central to a council session which

has as its main theme the upcoming capital cam-

paign. The respective work of these two menover the next decade will be perhaps the deter-

mining factor in Sewanee's quest to be ranked

among the top 2? liberal arts institutions in the

country and to be known as the dominant Epis-

copal institution of higher learning in the world.

By adding these two outstanding men to the

absolutely superlative leadership team he has

assembled, Sam Williamson has served notice

that the requisite leadership is in place to

achieve these lofty goals, and this leadership

fully merits the financial wherewithal with

which to work to accomplish the task, a financial

wherewithal that r

campaign.

I expect this third s

a threshold event in it

ment. Knowing the e>

vhoa

? from the capital

jsion of the council to be

evolution and develop-

mplary nature of the menir class representatives,

i trustees and officers ofclub presidents, alun

the School of Theology and Collegi

1 fully expect them to use this council session as

a foundation on which to build over the next

five years a University Alumni Association that

is three times stronger than it is now. Given the

accomplishments of the last four years, this is

quite a statement. However, if anything, I be-

lieve it is an understatement.

A Thank You to the Retiring Regents

During the upcoming council session a for-

mal thanks will be issued to those regents whorotated off of the board this year. I want to take

this opportunity on behalf of the alumni of the

College and the School of Theology to offer a

less formal, but more public thanks to Gerry

DeBlois, the Rev. William B. Trimble, Harold

Eustis, and the Rt .Rev. Fitzsimmons Allison for

their six years of service as regents. All of these

men served with distinction and deserve our

wholehearted thanks.

Personally, I'm particularly indebted to Gerry

DeBlois. We were contemporaries on the Moun-

tain, but really did not know each other well

during that time (the ATO vs PDT kind of thing.)

Yet he, along with a few other people, ranks as

one of the most powerful witnesses for Sewanee

for me. I'll be forever thankful for the crucial

role he played in helping to put Sewanee on a

solid financial footing. However, I rank his con-

and care for the very essence of the place,

the educational curriculum, right along side his

financial stewardship.

And I have deep personal feelings for the Rev.

William B. (Billy) Trimble. Much of this feeling is

tied up in our shared experiences as under-

graduates (don't worry Billy, I am not about to

elaborate.) However, the greater source of the

gratitude lies in Bill's renowned ability to listen,

to ask questions, to assemble diverse thoughts

into a cogent whole, and to offer a sense of posi-

tive and constructive direction. I'm sure the

regents profited mightily from Billy in this re-

gard over the last six years.

Sewanee is indeed blessed with a never-end-

ing succession of benefactors. May the worthy

example of Harold Eustis, Gerry DeBlois, Billy

Trimble and Fitz Allison enlighten and encour-

age the alumni leadership in its gathering on the

Mountain next month.

Alumni Affairs

Homecoming '91:

A Previewof EventsHere's the preliminary schedule for

Homecoming '91. For more informatior

on Homecoming, contact the Office of

Alumni Relations at (615) 598-1402.

Friday, October 25, 1991

8:00 a.m.-

6:00 p.m. Registration /ticket sales

3:00-

5:00 p.m. Alumni Seminars

6:00 p.m. Social Hour, Lower Cravens Hall

7:00 p.m. Alumni Dinner, Upper Cravens Hall

Presentation of the Distinguished

Alumnus/a Award

9:00 p.m. - Alumni Dance, Cravens Hall

Midnight

Saturday, October 26, 1991

8:00 a.m.-

Noon Registration

Noon Lunch under the Alumni Tent

12:50 p.m. Alumni Parade

1 :30 p.m. Football Game - Sewanee vs.W & L

After game, .

into evening Reunion Parties (years, times,

&

places to be announced) ''. •

9:00 p.m. Radney Foster, C'81, Concert,

Guerry Garth

Hornet oimn$ \'i;v> ^aduiilc^ troi

Class of "IS to the Class of '92 a

chance to reflect on the Sewanee

Sunday, October 27, 1991

8:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist, All Saints' Chapel

9:30 a.m. Memorial Service,

St. Augustine's Stone

10:30 a.m. Holy Eucharist, All Saints' Chapel

At the 10:30 a.m. service in All

Saints' Chapel on Sunday, October

27, a tablet will be dedicated in

memory of Charles T. Harrison,

Professor of English and Dean of

the College.

Rice Receives Atlanta

Club's Distinguished

Alumnus AwardLouis W. Rice Jr., C 50, has received the Distin-

guished Alumnus Award from the Sewanee

Club of Atlanta.

A native of Tullahoma, Rice is senior vice

president of personnel and labor relations of the

Georgia-based Genuine Parts Company. He has

been a leader in business and in the Atlanta

community, serving on boards ranging from the

National Institute for Automotive Excellence to

the Georgia Board of Technical and Adult

Education.

He has been equally devoted to the Univer-

sity, serving as president of the Sewanee Club of

Atlanta, national chairman of the Leadership

Gifts Committee of the Century 11 Fund, and

president of the Associated Alumni. A former

member of the University's Board of Trustees

and Board of Regents, he currently serves on the

executive committee for capital contributions to

Sewanee.

Sewanee to celebrate

100 Years of FootballSewanee will celebrate its first 100 years nf foot-

ball the weekend of September 13-14. Football

began at the University of the South with a con-

test between Sewanee and Vanderbilt on November

7, 1891, in Sewanee. The Tigers dropped that

first contest by a score of 22-0 and later another

to Vanderbilt 26-1 in Nashville. The first

Sewanee victory came at the expense of the Uni-

versity of Tennessee, no less, in Chattanooga on

November 21. The 26-0 rout marked Tennessee's

entry into the world of college football. The next

edition of the Sewanee News will provide histori-

cal coverage of the first 100 years of Sewanee

football.

Letters of invitation to the gala weekend arc

being extended to all former Tiger football team

members. Events will include a reception and

dinner Friday evening, with Tennessee coach

Johnny Majors as the guest speaker. The dinner

will honor all former Tiger football participants,

and Mrs. Elizabeth Majors, a resident of

Sewanee and the widow of coach Shirley Ma-

jors, and former coach Horace Moore. The recep-

tion and dinner will be held at Cravens Hall. OnSaturday, the Tigers take on Tennessee Wesleyan

in the season's second contest. Prior to the game,

there will be a nine-hole shotgun start tourna-

ment at the Sewanee golf course, and the Uni-

versity will host a picnic from which the former

Tigers will march to McGee Field. A reception

with players and coaches, hosted by Vice-Chan-

cellor and Mrs. Williamson at Clement Chen

Hall, will follow the game.

Coach Bill Samko's young team enters the

campaign as defending CAC co-champions after

fininshing the season with a 6-3 slate. The 1990

Tigers ended as the number-one ranked defense

in the CAC and were also ranked nationally in

several NCAA Division 111 categories. Gradu-

ated senior defensive lineman Ray McGowanand junior defensive back Frank Greer were

named All-Americas, with Greer tied for the

lead among all colleges and universities in all

NCAA divisions with a Sewanee-record 10 inter-

ceptions. The offense has promise as well, with

the return of All-CAC sophomore running back

Carl Cravens and All-CAC wide receiver junior

Tony Neill. Sophomore David Thornton, who

led the Tigers to the CAC title in the closing

games at quarterback as a freshman, also returns

to face a stiff challenge from senior co-captain

Scott Thompson, who led the Tigers to big wins

over Davidson and Rhodes.

Coach Samko also will field a talented group

of freshmen; he feels that it should be an exciting

Although we have worked hard to come up with as complete <

list offormer Sewanee football team members as possible, the

Executive Director of the Associated Alumni, Yogi Anderson

(who played under Coach Moore) advises.

"

besome we missed. Please let your former

the celebration and have Item give the atumni office a call at

(615) 598-1402 to reserve a spot for the festivities. Weanticipale

space may be limited, so we encourage you to return the postcard

included in the invitation as soon as possible.

Humanities

Theatre professor Scott Bates published nine

French poems in the winter issue of Debs. AJournal of World Literature. Peter Smith, a

professor of theatre, has been investigating the

architectural development of stage space in Lon-

don and Stratford-on-Avon this s

Charles Binniker, professor of classical lan-

guages, toured Roman ruins in Spain during the

early summer. Classical languages professor

William Bonds is writing an article on

"Aeneas's Survivor Guilt" and developing

teaching tools for classical languages on the

Macintosh computer. His computer program is

being tested this summer as part of the Cla

Institute.

Charles Brockett, associate professor of political

has published a paper, "The Structure of

Political Opportunities and Peasant Mobiliza-

tion in Central America," in the April i

Comparative

Politics. He also

presented a

paper, "Build-

ing a Shov

for Democracy

The U.S. in

Guatemala,

1954-1960," tc

the XVI Inter-

national Con-

gress of the

Latin American

Studies Asso-

Scholarshipfine arts, presented a paper at the University of

London Medieval Manuscript Seminary in early

June. He is pursuing research this summer in

Belgium, Austria, France, and Great Britain on

the Ghent Privileges Master under a grant from

the American Philosophical Society.

Robert Benson, professor of English, and Susan

Ridyard, assistant professor of history, are edit-

ing Man and Nature in the Middle Ages, papers

from the Medieval Colloquium, which will ap-

pear as Sewanec Medieval Studies 7. William

Cocke, professor of English, plans to attend

Tudor and Stuart period plays at Stratford-on-

Avon and in London this summer, and he's

teaching in

the British

Studies at

Oxford pro-

gram. DonKeck

Dupree,

ii ii -i\vA\; ;-[ v.-

also partici-

pated in the

U.S. State De-

partment-sponsored Conference on Liberia in

Washington, D.C., focusing on the politics of

post-civil war Liberia. Robert Pearigen, assis-

tant professor of political science, has completed

his doctoral dissertation and received his Ph.D.

from Duke University in May 1 991 . Barclay

Ward, associate professor of political science, is

completing an analytical review of the Fourth

Non-Proliferation Treaty Conference for the U.S.

Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and is

teaching in the International Studies in Londonprogram thi:

Edward Carlos, professor of fine arts, is spend-ing three weeks this summer in Scotland, photo-graphing, drawing, and painting mountainscenes. Gregory Clark, assistant professor of

instructor in English,

ing literary research this s

at the University of Wales,

Cardiff, with special emphasis

on the poetry of HenryVaughan. Kathryn Freeman,

assistant professor of English, is

spending part of the summerpursuing research on Coleridge's poetry at the

Princeton University Library. Pamela Macfie,

associate professor of English, read a paper,

"Illuminated Difference: Arachnean Re-presen-

tation in the Works of Boccaccio and Christine

de Pisan," at the Seventh Citadel Conference onLiterature in the Renaissance and Middle Agesin March. She's currently researching gender-

related issues in English Renaissance literature,

especially in Marlowe's and Chapman's Hero

and Leander. English professor Edwin Stirling

has completed a review of the two most recent

biographies of C.S. Lewis and is preparing for

sabbatical research on William Butler Yeats that

will take him to New York, North Carolina, andIreland.

Professor of History Joseph Cushman is con-

ducting research this summer on British immi-

gration to Florida in 1880-90 at the Public Record

Office, Kew Gardens, and he is teaching in the

British Studies at Oxford program. History pro-

fessor Harold Goldberg attended an interna-

tional faculty development seminar in Vietnam

in ]une; it was sponsored by the Council on In-

ternational Educational Exchange. Professor of

History Anita Goodstein is involved in a study

of southern feminists, researching the autobiog-

raphies and journals of southern women writing

between 1870 and the 1930s. She's also investi-

gating the thinking and work of the suffragist

generation in Tennessee. Arthur Knoll, profes-

sor of history, has been investigat-

ng German imperialism and over-

ration in libraries and ar-

chives in Germany in preparation

for editing a volume of documentson this subject. He will read a pa-

per on education in the German,African, and Pacific colonies at the

Pacific Coast Branch of the Ameri-

can Historical Association in Ha-

summer. Professor of His-

tory Brown Patterson published

"Is Moral Education Possible? AHistorical Perspective" in the

March issue of the St. Luke's journal

of Theology. He will be in Londondoing research for his book on King

fames VI and I for six weeks this

summer. Associate Professor of

History Charles Perry's book, The

Victorian Post Office: The Growth of a

Bureaucracy, is scheduled to be pub-

lished by the Royal Historical Soci-

ety in London this year.

Professor of German JamesDavidheiser has had four articles

published during the academic

year. He also led two workshops onthe European Community at the

Youngstown Conference on the Teaching of For-

eign Languages and at the Central States Confer-

the Teaching of Foreign Languages. Hedelivered the university lecture at Northern

Kentucky University and spoke to students at

Baylor School, Chattanooga Christian School,

Girls Preparatory School, and Hixson HighSchool on "Changes in Germany and Europe."

During July, Davidheiser will be in Austria for a

seminar on Gcrmanists on Austrian politics,

economy, literature and the arts. German profes-

sor Reinhold Zachau recently published anarticle on bilingual author Yvan Goll and is

working on a book on an article on Germanauthor Klaus Groth.

Pat Gibson, assistant professor of anthropology,

authored "Bavaria" in The Encyclopedia of World

Cultures, and she is working on "Reunification

or Renazification: Neofacism in Germany's Re-

publican Party" for a book on European politics.

"Place, Power, and Discourse in the Thai Imageof Bangkok," written by anthropology professor

Richard O'Connor, appeared in the journal of the

Siam Society.

SUMMER 1991 ____

Philosophy professor William J. Garland plans

to attend a conference on Process Philosophy of

Education and presented a paper on

Whiteheads's view of the rhythm of education in

July. James Peterman, associate professor of

philosophy, has begun researching a book on

post-Kantian philosophy. James Peters, associate

professor of philosophy, is working on a paper

on David Hume's philosophy of religion.

Robin Gottfried, associate professor of econom-

ics, has written two papers, "The Value of a Wa-

tershed as a Series of Linked Multiproduct As-

sets" and "On Gardening and Human Welfare,

or, the Role of Attitudes and Natural Capital in

Sustainable Welfare," which will be published

this year. He's working on creating computer

software to model a mangrove forest as a

multiproduct factory and plans to apply the

model in Ecuador. Economics professor

Yasmeen Mohiuddin was one of the major

speakers at the Society for International

Development's 20th World Conference in

Amsterdam in May 1991. This summer, she will

participate in a training workshop at Gramccn

Bank in Bangladesh and in the Working

Women's Forum in Madras, India. Economics

professor Ansel Sharp has been revising his

book, Economics of Social Issues, for a new edition

later this year.

Professor of French Waring McCrady is working

on an introductory book in French for students

who lack a background in grammar. He writes

regularly for the Franklin County Historical Re-

view. George Poe, associate professor of French

and delegate to the Modem Language Associa-

tion Assembly, represented the "Division on

Comparative Studies in Eighteenth-Century

Literature" at the MLA convention in Chicago in

Scholarshiplate December. In April, he read a paper at the

annual meeting of the American Society for

Eighteenth-Century Studies in Pittsburgh on the

thematics of space in Crcbillon fils and Vivant

Denon's fictional writings. Poc has recently been

selected a Camargo Foundation Research Fellow

for the spring of 1992, which will allow him to

work on a book in France on cightccnth-century

French literature. In June and July, he will be

directing his second "Scwanec in France" sum-

mer program abroad, after which he plans to

travel to Bristol, England, for the Eighth Interna-

tional Conference on the Enlightenment. Profes-

sor of French Jacqueline Schaefer read papers

in Paris at the International Congress on Mythcs

et Literature and in Nice at the International

Conference on Narrative in May and June. She's

researching the iconngraphical reception of the

myth of Tristan at a number of libraries and

archives in France this summer. Donald Rung,

instructor in French, plans to spend two weeks

in Paris, investigating links between French

emblems and Descartcs's images using rare

books at the Bibliotcque Nationale.

In |ime,, Maria Natal, assistant professor of

Spanish, was recognized as a distinguished

scholar by being invested in the Cofradia

Intcrnacionnl dc Invcsti^idorc? (International

Guild for Research Scholars) in the cathedral at

Toledo by the Cardinal Primate of Spain. Profes-

sor of Spanish Thomas Spaccarelli has two en-

tries on Spanish literature in the Cyclopedia of

Literary Characters, Vol 11. He will be serving as

director of the Vandcrbilt-in-Spain program in

1991-92, during which time he will study early

16th century editions of the Noble cuento del

esperador Carlos Maynes.

Leslie Richardson, instructor in Italian, has re-

ceived a grant sponsored by the American Asso-

ciation of Teachers of Italian and the Italian Min-

istry of Education to participate in a month-long

n Siena in July.

Steven Shrader, associate professor of music,

spent five weeks in the early summer studying

Italian at the Institute llaliano in Rome and visit-

ing sites of cultural interest in Italy.

Laurence Alvarez, C'59, professor of mathemat-

ics and computer science, is spending the sum-

mer at the University of Kentucky pursuing an

intensive study of the computer program

Mathematica. He is supported by a Pew Fellow-

ship from the Faculty Scholars Program there.

Professor of Mathematics Mac Priestley has

contributed an article to book celebrating the

75th birthday of mathematician Paul Hclmos.

He has also had an article, "Complex Sequences

Whose 'Moments' All Vanish," accepted for

publication in the Proceedings of the American

Mathematical Society. Math professor Steve

Puckette is working on fractals for a seminar

that he will lead for Scwanee math and physics

faculty, and math professor Clay Ross is devel-

oping a paper dealing with the computer pro-

gram Mathematica.

Sciences

Henrietta Croom, professor of biology, pre-

sented "DNA Sequences Reveal Three Major

Cladcs of Hawaiian Spiders in the GenusTetrgnatha" at the 15th meeting of the American

Arachnological Society at the University of Mis-

sissippi in June. She's spending the summercontinuing her research on the speciation of

endemic Hawaiian spiders at- the Pacific Bio-

medical Research Center of the University of

Hawaii-Manoa.

Psychology lecturer Richard Chapman spent

June investigating biochemical explanations for

abnormal behavior at the Emory University

School of Medicine.

Douglas Durig, assistant professor of chemistry

and physics, has had a paper on microwave,

infrared, and raman spectra accepted for publi-

cation in the Journal of Chemistry and Physics.

Frank Hart, professor of physics, is working

with three Sewanee undergraduates this sum-

mer, investigating the dielectric properties of

biological materials. Jack Lorenz. professor of

physics emeritus and director of the University

Observatory, presented a paper to the Tennessee

Academy of Science and has been elected his-

tory of science editor for the Journal of the Tennes-

see Academy of Science.

Sponsored by the Volunteers in Overseas Coop-

erative Assistance, forestry professor Blair Orr is

examining natural regeneration in the Niger

area of Africa this summer. Stephen Shaver,

assistant professor of forestry and geology, led a

group of students on a field trip to England,

Wales, and Scotland in May.

Ron Toll, associate professor of biology, recently

published an article a small species of octupus

from the tropical Western Atlantic Ocean.

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The Legend ofJoseph David Cushmaiv Jnby Harold Goldberg

Joseph Cushman. C49, professor of history at

the University, retired last semester after teach-

ing at Sewanee for 23 years. As a tribute, Pro-

fessor of History Harold Goldberg, addressed

the College facility to reflect on his colleague's

impact on Seiantcc faculty members ami stu-

dents The Scunncc A'ncs requested pcrmis

sion to reprint Goldberg's remarks.

I am not going to take a lot of time to tell

all of you what you already know about

Joe Cushman, who will be retiring at the

end of this semester after 23 years of ser-

vice to Sewanee. Everyone here knows that

he has devoted a large part of his heart andsoul to this institution, that his courses onsouthern history arc consistently amongthe most popular taught here, that he has

not only influenced but also deeply

touched the lives of countless Sewaneestudents, that he has written the definitive

history, in two volumes, of the Episcopal

Church in Florida, that he is an advocate of

high standards tor himself and his col-

leagues, that the most frequently used term

to describe him is integrity, that he has

little patience for what he calls sorry stu- 3

dents and sorry administrators, and that \

our hallways will sound empty without

the echo of his well-known and infectious

As I said, these facts are known to all of

you— 1 prefer to celebrate the legend of |oe

Cushman, and it is that legend, part fact,

part fiction, part myth, but all true, whichI

will talk about today.

Sometime in the nineteenth century,

Joe's gTandpappy left England and landedin Titusville, Fla. As far as I can tell from the

census records 1 have checked, Florida at that

time included only the Cushman clan, 17 million

alligators, and two retired people from some-place in the mid-west.

Joe grew up barefoot in a world of outhouses,

pellagra, and occasional trips to the tool shed, all

of which qualified him to teach Old South later

in life.

Joe's Anglophile parents were serious Episco-

palians, and they instilled various command-ments in him such as: thou shall not allow mod-em dancers or motorcycles in the chapel; this

dread of trendy religion has remained with Joeto this day.

In 1943 Joe volunteered for the army andserved in Europe. After the war he attendedSewanee at a time when, as Joe says, giants

stalked the earth. Amo'-g the giants who influ-

enced him the most were Stratton Buck, ArthurDugan, Tom Covan, and Eugene Kayden. Joe

History professor Joseph

majored in history, helped found the

Wellingtons, and participated in choir, the

Purple Masque, and the literary society

Sophcrim. He was also known to enjoy a goodtime, that is an occasional pitcher or three, withhis drinking buddies like Warren Belscr, ClayBailey, and of course the student they called

"Wild Thing," Bob Ayrcs.

Following graduation, Joe returned to

Florida, taught junior high school, and soonrealized that trying to maintain order in a roomfull of adolescents with raging hormonal imbalances was not his idea of a meaningful educa-tional experience.

Joe went on to obtain a Ph.D. and a teachingposition at FSU, and then in 1968 returned to

Sewanee. I recently asked several students to

describe a class with Dr. Cushman, and the re-

sponse was overwhelming. Dr. Cushmanemerges as an intrepid defender ot the dress

code, with comments to delinquent students

such as: "you are out of uniform," or, to a par-

ticularly flagrant offender, "you should bewhipped like a wicked stepchild." Dr.

Cushman's exams, affectionately knownas "trivial pursuit," achieve notoriety for

length as well as detail. As one student

told me, in a 50 minute class, you get a

test that is going to take at least seven

hours. As soon as you finish looking it

over and a cold sweat has broken out all

over your body. Dr. Cushman walks upto the board and says, "Now for the es-

says." I will not continue with the long

list of anecdotes 1 have collected fromstudents, but I will add one note—every

student who talked to me concludedwith a simple statement—their educa-tion, understanding of history, sense of

right and wrong—all arc forever grateful

for the impact of Dr. Cushman on them.

Let me conclude with a true story

which for me epitomizes the real Joe

Cushman. Picture it—Tennessee—1974—my first year and Charles Perry's first

year in Sewanee, and Joe drove the twoof us to a history conference in Nash-ville. On the way back we were cruising

along 1-24 when all of a sudden Joe

stopped in the middle of the interstate

and said "Oh gosh darn it," —(here 1 amparaphrasing)—"I need some gas," andhe proceeded to back up for about a mile

to the exit we had just passed. As eigh-

teen wheelers went whizzing past us. the

drivers beeping and yelling southern

epithets I had never heard before,

Charles and I were quickly scribbling

our last testaments on the back of

matchbook covers. Needless to say wemade it, and to tell you the truth, if 1 got

in the car with Joe today, and he droveall the way to Nashville in reverse, I

wouldn't even bat an eye.

Later that same year and many timessince, Charles and I and others here came to

know another side of Joe—leader of the faculty

on issues of morality, slayer of wayward admin-istrators, defender of young faculty membersagainst injustice. As a result, many of us learned

a lot about the true meaning of honesty andintegrity and, in the best sense, the application

of old values to the modern world.

While the legend continues, one fact re-

mains—from now on, when the list of Sewaneegiants is recited, the name of Joe Cushman will

always be there.

Respectfully submitted to the College Faculty,

Harold J. Goldberg

May 1,1991

SUMMER 1991 DevelopmentsUniversity Receives $500,000 Howard Hughes Grant

As part of the largest science education initiative

undertaken in the United States by a private

philanthropic organization, the Howard HughesMedical Institute (HHMI) has awarded a

$500,000 grant to the University of the South.

According to Vice-Chancellor Samuel

Williamson, the grant will be used for programs

which attract students to career;, in scientific

1 think students will realize

the benefits of this award

almost immediately; the

potential is just outstanding,"

said Vice-Chancellor

Williamson

research and teaching. Under HHMI guidelines,

the grant is intended for use over a five-year

"We could not have been more pleased uponreceiving notification of this extraordinary grant

award. The Howard Hughes Medical Institute

has given us the opportunity to enhance the

University's scientific areas of study in a variety

of ways that would have been impossible other-

wise," said Williamson.

"I think students will realize the benefits of

this award almost immediately; the potential is

just outstanding," he added.

faculty members.

Scwanee will use the grant for expansion of

curriculum, acquisition of new teaching equip-

ment, expansion of undergraduate summer re-

search opportunities, and continuation of sum-mer research experiences and workshops for

science teachers and students from high schools

in the Chattanooga area and rural Appaiachia.

Dr. Larry H. Jones, professor and chair of

Sewanee's Department of Biology, will serve as

program director.

Dr. Joseph G. Perpich, HHMI vice president

for grants and special programs, said national

studies continue to show a need to engage and

expand students' interest in the sciences, with

particular attention to women and

underrepresented minority students.

"The 44 colleges and universities receiving

awards have proposed impressive, imaginative

strategics to spark just this interest in the sci-

ences from the introductory to the upper-divi-

sion levels. A number of these programs will

also reach teachers and students at the pre-college

levels and at two-year colleges," I 'erpich said.

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute wasestablished in 1953 and employs scientists in the

fields of cell biology, genetics, immunology,

neuroscience, and structural biology. Since 1987,

HHMI has provided grants totalling $123 mil-

lion to 139 public and private colleges and uni-

versities for the purpose of strengthening under-

graduate science education. Grants totalling

$31.5 million were awarded by HHMI this year.

Nancarrow, Anderson Join Annual Giving Staff

Two new staff members have joined the Office of

Annual Giving at the University.

Heather

Nancarrow is the newdirector of

il giving. A 1983

nee graduate,

as previously

or of continuing

education at Alaska

Pacific University in

Anchorage, Alaska.

J a

or of develop-

ment for Vanderbilt University's Blair School of

Music. For the state of Tennessee, she worked as

an executive assistant in the Governor's Office,

an assistant director of communication for the

Department of Education, and as a special assis-

tant to the commissioner in the Department of

Personnel. In 1990 she was named a Paul Harris

Fellow by Rotary International.

Nancarrow is a candidate for a master of arts

degree in teaching from Alaska Pacific University.

Tippen Harvey

Anderson has been

director of annual

giving. A 1975 gradu-

ate of the Rhode Is-

land School of Design,

she was previously

the owner of Tippen

Harvey Anderson

Designs in Rome, Ga.

Anderson has also

worked with the High

Art Museum in Atlanta, where she organized a

public fund-raising campaign for the museum's

new building. She coordinated the museum's

two-year charter membership campaign to

double memberships before the opening of the

new High museum building. She also directed

the building's groundbreaking and opening

ceremonies and was chairman of the museum's

1,700-mcmber young professional volunteer

organization.

In 1980, she was selected one of Atlanta's ten

outstanding young people.

Whitehead FoundationProvides $45,000 Grantfor ScholarshipsThe Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation has

awarded a $45,000 grant to the University of the

South for the purpose of providing scholarship

fundsduring the 1991-92 academic year. The

foundation has provided Scwanee students with

close to $300,000 in financial aid since 1974.

Students eligible to receive the foundation

scholarships are Christian girls from low income

families in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisi-

ana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Caro-

lina, Tennessee, and Virginia.

The late Lettie Pate Whitehead Evans, born in

Bedford County, Va., contributed to numerous

charities during her lifetime. Her youngest son,

Conkey Pate Whitehead, provided in his will for

creation of the Lettie Pate Whitehead Founda-

tion to honor his mother's memory.

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Commencement Tui: -EU'\;\T:£ \EW-

The Rt. Rev. C. Judson Child Jr. installs Bishop Duncan Gray as chancellor during commencement

Bishop Duncan GrayInstalled as ChancellorThe Rt. Rev. Duncan M. Gray Jr., Episcopalbishop of Mississippi, was elected to a six-yearterm as chancellor of the University of the Southduring the annual meeting of the board of trust-

ees on May 2. Bishop Gray will replace the Rt.

Rev. Judson Child, former Episcopal bishop ofAtlanta, who was elected in 1985.

Gray will serve as chairman of the Univer-sity's board of trustees and as an ex officio mem-ber of the board of regents. His installation cer-emony was held during commencement.

"We could not be more delighted in welcomingBishop Gray as chancellor of the University. Hewill provide outstanding leadership as well asan intimate knowledge ofSewanee academicallyand a strong sense of ourrole within the Episco-pal Church," said Sewanec's Vice-ChancellorSamuel Williamson.

"His guidance and counsel will be extremelyvaluable as the University begins its approach to

the next century," he added.Gray has served on Sewanee's board of trust-

ees since 1974 and was a member of the Univer-sity 's Board of Regents from 1981-87.

"I am very honored to have been selected for

this position at such an exciting time in

Sewanee's history," said Gray.

"Under the leadership of Vice-Chancellor

Williamson, the addition of deans Guy Lytic andRobert Keele, and with the re-election of SamLloyd as the University 's chaplain, the next six

years look very promising. My roots here arc

very deep, and I look forward to serving the

University as chancellor," Gray added.He earned an decimal (.'Pioneering degree a!

Tulane University in 1948 and worked for twoyears for the Westinghousc Corporation beforeentering seminary at the University of the South.He earned his M.Div. degree from Sewanec in

1953 and was awarded an hoporary Doctor of

Divinity degree by the University in 1972.

He served as vicar of Calvary Church in

Cleveland and Grace Church in Roscdale.Miss.,from 1953-57. He was rector of St. Peter's Parishin Oxford from 1957-65 and served as chaplainto Episcopal students at the University of Mis-sissippi from 1957-61. At the time of his election

to the episcopate, Bishop Gray was rector of St.

Paul's Parish in Meridian, where he had servedsince 1965.

He has served as vice president of the Dioc-esan Executive Committee and chairman of the

Commission on Ministry. He has been a deputyto four General Conventions and several Synodsof Province IV of the Episcopal Church. He hasserved the Diocese as a member and presidentof the Standing Committee, dean of the Board of

Examining Chaplains, member and chairman ofthe departments of college work, Christian edu-cation, Christian social relations, and communi-cations, and as a staff member and camp direc-

tor for 20 years at Camp Bratton Green.He served as chairman from 1977-83 and as a

member until 1986, of the General Convention'sstanding Commission on Constitution and Can-ons. He is a member and past-chairman of the

board of trustees of All Saints' Episcopal Schoolin Vicksburg. He has served as president of ProvinceHZ, a member of the Council of Advice to thePresiding Bishop and as president of the Asso-ciation for Christian Training and Service. He is

a member and past chairman of the Mississippi

Religious Leadership Conference and is pres-

ently serving as chairman of the House of Bish-

ops' Committee on Rules and vice chairman of

the Board of Archives of the Episcopal Church.Gray has been active in many civic and com-

munity projects in Mississippi. He has served asa board member and chairman of the MeridianCounseling Foundation, as chairman of the Title

I Advisory Committee of the Meridian Public

Schools, as a board member and president of the

Mississippi Council on Human Relations and asa member of the Mississippi Advisory Commit-tee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Hewas a member of Action for Progress (HeadStart) from 1976-71.

He has had articles published in national andregional magazines, and in 1962 he was giventhe national Speaker-of-the-Year Award fromTau Kappa Alpha National Forensic Honor Society.

SUMMER 1991 Commencement

Julia Sibley Receives First ClarenceDayAwardDuring commencement, Julia Wyly Sibley of

Greenville, S.C, was named the first recipient of

the Clarence Day Award for Outstanding Com-munity Service.

The award was made possible by a generous

gift from honorary alumnus Clarence Day of

Memphis, Tenn., and is presented to a student

who has done outstanding service work at the

University and/or in the Sewanee community.

During her four years as a student, Sibley,

who graduated with a degree in religion and

philosophy, founded and participated in a vari-

ety of Sewanee service organizations.

She helped begin the Community Service

Council and served as chair of the organization

for over a year. She founded and led for over

two years the Community Building Community,

which works to improve housing for local resi-

dents in need. She also participated in the Big

Brother/Big Sister organization, Waste Not and

Headstart, and was involved with service to

local hospitals.

She served on the University's Land Use

Study Committee, Parents' Weekend Commit-

tee, and the Orientation Committee. As a mem-ber of the Vice-Chancellor's Task Force on Stu-

dent Life, she served on the Community Service

Sub-Committee.

Keele -

ifrom

Julia Sibley and ji

In coordination with the Student Conserva-

tion Organization, Sibley plans to spend the

summer maintaining trails in the national forests

of Colorado. She has applied for a three-year

assignment with the International Habitat for

Humanity.

r David Dault.

As the Clarence Day recipient, Sibley will

select one or more charities or community orga-

nizations which will receive monetary contribu-

tions in her name.

Lytle

president of the program in 1990. He served as a

lecturer for the Sewanee Summer Seminar in

1979, 1982, 1985, and 1988. He was a faculty

trustee on the University's Board of Trustees

from 1984-90.

Keele authored "Appellate Court Selection in

Tennessee: 1961-1981," which was published in

1985 in The Volunteer State: Readings in Tennessee

Politics. He served as a member of the Speakers

Bureau for the Bicentennial of the United States

Constitution, Tennessee Council on the Humani-

ties, for 1987-88 and sits on the board of direc-

tors for Peoples Bank and Trust Co. of Manches-

ter, Tenn., and the Duck River Electric Member-ship Cooperative. He also served on the St.

Andrew's-Sewanee School board of advisers

from 1983-86.

He is an Episcopalian and a member of

Sewanee's Otey Memorial Parish. Keele served

as a vestry member from 1974-77 and 1984-87.

He was senior warden from 1984-86 and served

as co-chair of the Centennial Committee for the

celebration of the laying of the cornerstone of

Otey Church in 1990-91.

He is married to Karen Schwantes Keele, di-

rector of the Disciples of Christ in Community(DOCC) program at the extension center of the

University's School of Theology.

fellowships at the Folger Shakespeare Library,

the Australian National University, the Episcopal

Theological Seminary of the Southwest and Oxford.

A 46-year-old native of Birmingham, Ala.,

Lytic graduated magna cum laude from Princeton

University in 1966, having been selected a Uni-

versity scholar and elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

After Princeton, he received a prestigious three-

year Marshall scholarship to study theology and

church history at the University of Oxford. Dur-

ing that time, in consultation with Bishop

Charles Carpenter of the Diocese of Alabama

and Bishop Henry Carpenter of Oxford, and

under the supervision of Sir Richard Southern,

he pursued advanced studies in theology and

church history and received some practical An-

glican experience in several Oxford churches.

Lytle then returned to Princeton to complete his

Ph.D. in English history.

Lytle is the author and editor of more than

two dozen books, articles, and pamphlets and

has lectured widely in this country and abroad.

His principal interests have been in the history

of universities and theological education, the

history of Anglicanism, the history of values, the

history and theology of Episcopacy, and the

theology and practice of evangelism and spiri-

tual formation.

First as a layman and then as an ordained

Episcopal priest, Lytle has been actively in-

volved with parish, university, and hospital-

ministries in Texas and California. He has also

been a frequent preacher, lecturer, and retreat

and workshop leader. For the past five years he

continued from page 1

has served as associate rector and then rector pro

tern of the Episcopal Church of St. John the

Evangelist in San Francisco's Mission District.

"My parish ministry, the regular contact with

the life of the church in the modem world and

the joys and sorrows of its people, has made mea much better seminary professor. The laity and

the clergy with whom 1 have ministered have

been, in many ways, my best teachers. As a

seminary dean, I will not forget that."

Lytle has held numerous official positions in

academic and church organizations. He is the

past president of the Conference of Anglican

Theologians and vice president of the Historical

Society of the Episcopal Church. He serves on

the board of directors of both Anglican & Episco-

pal History and the Anglican Theological Review.

Lytle was a designated historian at the 1988

decennial Lambeth Conference of all Anglican

bishops in Canterbury, and he produced the

book Lambeth Conference Past and Present (1989).

He is currently a member of the Commission on

Evangelism and Church Growth of the Diocese

of California.

Lytle is married to Maria Rasco Lytle, 39, a

native of Havana, Cuba, who grew up in Miami,

Fla. And Falls Church, Va. She was educated at

the Catholic University of America, Georgetown

University and the University of Texas at Austin.

She has been a teacher at every level from el-

ementary school to seminary and a church ad-

ministrator. She chaired the Commission on

Hispanic Ministries and served in the Depart-

ment of Missions in California for a number of years.

uat-

1 hope that all of you in this graduating

class—I hope that thousands and tens of

thousands of men and worn

ing classes throughout the world—will be in

volved in changing the world," the Rev. Dr.

Charles Phillip Price Jr. told the Sewanee con

munity during the 123rd commencement ser

Price, who gave the baccalaureate address,

was one of four people to receive honorary de-

grees during commencement.Vice-Chancellor

Samuel Williamson and the Rt. Rev. C. Judson

Child Jr. also conferred honorary degrees on the

Rev. Dr. Chester Bedell II, Will Campbell, and

Dr. Louis Decimus Rubin Jr.

The Rev. Dr. Chester Bedell II, C'50, has

| served as director

of University

Presses of Florida

(UPF), the schol-

arly publishing

i of Florida's

I State University

system, since

1987. He is author

and

I Faulkner: Modali-

ties of Existence

CO-author of

I Religion in

|America.

Prior to his

appointment as

director of UPF,

Bedell served 16 years on the staff of the Board

of Regents for the Florida State University sys-

tem. While on staff he served in a variety of

positions, including director of humanities andfine arts, vice chancellor for administration andinterim chancellor.

Bedel! is an ordained priest of the Episcopal

Church who received his master of divinity de-

gree from Virginia Theological Seminary in 1953.

He received a master of arts degree in English

from the University of North Carolina at Chapel

Hill in 1966. His doctorate in religion is from

Duke University

In 1985 he was appointed a trustee of the

Jessie Ball duPont Religious, Charitable & Edu-cational Fund of Jacksonville, on which he

served as chair from 1987-89. In 1990 he waselected to a four-year term to the Florida Su-

preme Court Judicial Nominating Commission.

CommencementWill Campbell

of Mt. Juliet,

Tenn., has written

relations and the

Christian church

in the South, most

recently in For tyAcres and a Coat,

his memoir about

the civil rights

movement.

Campbell's

Brother to a Drag-

o„/!y, written

about his

brother's chemical

dependency, won the 1977 Lillian Smith Prize

and the Christopher Award. It was also nomi-

nated for the National Book Award.

A prominent civil rights activist and prize-

winning author, Campbell received a bachelor's

degree from Wake Forest University and a bach-

elor of divinity degree from Yale University. Hewas a sergeant in the U.S. Army and served in

the Pacific Theatre during World War II.

Campbell is also author of The Glad River,

which won the 1982 Friends of American Writers

first place award for fiction. His other novels are

Cecelia's Sin and The Convention: A Parable.

As an ordained southern Baptist minister,

Campbell worked with Martin Luther King Jr.,

John Lewis, and Andrew Young lor reconcilia-

tion between races. He served as director of

religious life at the University of Mississippi and

was deeply involved in the events surrounding

the university's integration.

He has served as a consultant in race relations

for the National Council of Churches and wasco-founder of the Committee ot Southern

Churchmen. Since 1963 he has been a self-de-

scribed "prcacher-at-1

The Rev. Dr.

Charles Philip

Price of Alexan-

dria, Va., whoserved at Sewaneeas a visiting pro-

fessor of theology

for the spring 1991

semester, wasordained as a

priest and became

a deacon in the

Episcopal Churchin 1949. He has

served on the

Standing Liturgi-

cal Commission,

the Standing

Commission on Church Music, and the Angli-

can-Roman Catholic Commission. From 1979-85

TVESEW-WEE \E^-

he was chaplain to the House of Deputies of the

Episcopal Church.

In 1976 he authored the introduction to the

Book of Common Prayer. He has also written Prin-

ciples of Christ/Faith and Practice and A Matter of

Faith. He co-authored The Gifts of the Spirit andLiturgy for Living.

From 1963-72, Price was preacher to the uni-

versity and professor of moral theology at

Harvard University. From 1972-89, he served as

the Meade professor of systematic theology at

the Virginia Theological Seminary He is cur-

rently the Meade professor of systematic theol-

ogy emeritus.

He received his A.B degree from Harvard

University in 1941, his M.Div. degree from Vir-

ginia Theological Seminary in 1949 and his

Th.D. degree from Union Theological Seminary

in 1962.

Dr. Louis Decimus Rubin Jr., of Chapel Hill,

N.C, is a prominent educator and author whofounded the Soci-

ety for the Study

of Southern Lit-

currently serving

as chancellor of

the Fellowship of

Southern Writers.

During his

distinguished

service has in-

cluded positions

as instructor at

Johns Hopkins

University, editor

of the Hopkins

Review, chairman of the English Department at

Hollins College, editor of the Hollins Critic, pro-

fessor of English at the University of NorthCarolina, where he was named distinguished

professor in 1973, and visiting professor at

Harvard University.

He was a Guggenheim fellow and a Fulbright

lecturer at the University of Aix-Marseille. Hehas lectured at American studies seminars at

Kyoto (Japan) University and was a lecturer at

the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. He was a

fellow with the American Council of Learned

Societies, the Sewanee Review, and executive sec-

retary of the American Studies Association. Hehas authored eleven books, including Thomas

Wolfe: The Weather of His Youth, and served as

editor for a variety of publications. He has been

co-editor of the Southern Literary Journal since

1968.

He received a bachelor's degree from the

University of Richmond in 1946. His master's

and Ph.D. degrees were awarded by Johns

Hopkins University in 1949 and 1954, respectively.

Sewanee Celebrates 123rd Commencement

SUMMER 1991 Commencement

'Goodbye to this University of the South'by Nicholas N. Bennett

Valedictorian Nicholas Bennett presented the follow-

ing addre

Right Reverend Chancellor, most worthy vice-

chancellor, members of the Board of Trustees,

members of the University faculties, fellow

graduates in this class of 1991 . Ladies andgentlemen, it is indeed a great pleasure for me ti

address this 123rd commencement of the Uni-

versity of the South.

Let me express our thanks to the Chancellor

Judson Child and the Dean Brown Patterson: wi

are the last class to have received four years of their

valuable guidance. Thank you both.

So it appears, friends, that our time here is

skidding, sliding, and now gracefully pacing

towards a close. Soonenough, we shall parade

out of All Saints', andafter some last farewells,

pile into our cars stuffed

with dirty clothes, books,

and extra

and then, God

pared by novices like us who scramble about1

between Woods Lab and Walsh-Ellclt

So I think that as we leave the Mountain this

moming, we leave it with Ihe ability to sec

ideas, issues, and problems in varying dimen-

sions and using several different approaches.

This is no mean skill, ladies and gentlemen, andif you'll permit me the use of a five dollar wordmuch overspent these days, this skill passes

quietly with the label "vision."

So we ask more questions these days . . . but

while searching for a job these days—any job—and just trying to get started out there, I am sure

that we have all wondered just what we've stud-

ied here in Sewanee. We have not mastered a set

of mechanical skills or skills which boldly ap-

pear as "useful." We have learned to write;

—

very, very quickly on very, very short notice—to

speak clearly, and most importantly we have

Mou

)USI

iing,i

iin towards what

may feel a real

finality, of

that we have reached a real

endpoint here.

Our experiences here

in Sewanee— this mag-nificent Renaissance city

of sorts—with cloud-

capped towers, gorgeous palaces, and solemn

temples—shall rapidly become part of our past,

and the names Carnegie, Fulford, duPont, andElliott shall recede into the dreamier parts of our

memories. We shall forget many of the names of

our friends and acquaintances here, the plot of AMidSummer Night's Dream, though perhaps it

shall take weeks to forget all those breakfast

nights at Gailor.

However, I believe that our experiences andaccomplishments here arc indeed genuine andshall have a real bearing on the shape of our

future lives. These accomplishments have

rightly been the subject of many valedictions,

and recalling a few of these accomplishments is

the contribution 1 wish to make to this com-mencement this moming.

Well, to outsiders, our academic life here in

Sewanee will sound awfully peculiar—a tradi-

tional liberal arts education. But I would quickly

assert that what has been created here in Sewanee is

a climate of genuine inquiry, where religion andscience can be studied together, where the vari-

ous departments an? prepared and willing to

introduce the ideas and methods which moti-

vate their disciplines in terms which can be com-

May graduates Becca Crumrine, left, and Elizabeth Hu^.n^ tm furewell to Sewanee

developed a faculty called judgment.

That is, the ability to take a group of unfamil-

iar texts—piled together with notes, broken pen-

cils, and many deadlines somewhere deep inside

duPont—to struggle with all these details, and to

arrive—usually towards midnight or about hall

past—at some point or some position which

relates those texts to what we already knowSuch titanic struggles before the mighty and

unmerciful word processor arc the stuff, ladies

and gentlemen, of genuine political and moral

reasoning and arc to be valued very highly

Yet one can claim to have developed these

same powers of observation by studying the

intricacies and varying designs of drill presses.

However, what we have chosen to study here is

of great significance. We have studied the texts

and theorems whose importance to people whoread and think is unquestioned

We have studied music and learned to distin-

guish Mozart from Beethoven, Brahms from Bach.

What to my ordinary cars sounded downright

strange and simply uncomfortable turned out to

be something pleasant, something interesting,

which you and I shall perhaps carry with us.

We have studied the calculus and hopefully L

seen those giants called the fundamental theo-

How amidst the seemingly endlei

random pages of definitions and theorems to see

graceful movement, turning points, and crises.

So in writing and writing and writing-pounding six or seven times—about these ob-

|ccts—music, theorems, poems,. plays, what-

ever—wc have learned the difference betweenan heroic and earthshaking idea and a mediocrepassing thought, between what is significant

and what is merely peripheral. This ability to see

what is significant and beautiful in the gestures

and characters of others, in the texts we read,

indeed in the very land we walk upon, is a tre-

mendous and permanent gift which is to be

cherished and shared. ..and which material

wealth cannot purchase—a good thing, too,

since many of us are still looking for jobs.

Well, my home is in southeast Florida whereit's just too dam hot to wear tweed coats, oxford

* cloth shirts, or any-

thing woolen, so

coming to Sewanee

^§ to see these coats,

r these ties, these

was simply startling.

Yet I think that this

dress tradition, to-

wards which and

from which wegravitate during our

careers here, marksour life together. In

preparing for class

each morning or just

party—shaving,

cleaning off your

sneakers, tying that

blasted red tie, washing your socks—in doing all

of this, wc in some sense prepare to meet and

greet one another Wc attach some degree of

dignity to ourselves and to those we encounter

Sewanee is just this sort of place: we greet one

another in passing; we spend time with profes-

sors mulling over ideas, and in general, wc tend

to meet each other's ideas and gestures, 1 think,

with a degree of maturity which we shall per-

haps not find so often elsewhere. Yet, in the heat

of a great discussion or some other serious

event, wc shall see a dug—a big dawg—rolling

his eyes at us and yawning, making us laugh at

ourselves and giving us back our sense of humor.

Sewanee is a place where form matches func-

tion, where one learns to clothe ideas and feeling

with words and gestures. We shall find that such

skills in meeting and greeting one another, in

talking about ideas, and in finding better ones

shall serve us well as we move into new com-

munities, find our places, and decide what wcshall be all about.

Well, I'm finished. So let me just say goodbye.

Goodbye to my friends and fellow graduates,

goodbye to this faculty, and goodbye to this

University of the South.

Thank you all.

SportsEquestrianCapping their best season on record, the eques-

trian team, led by senior captain and coach AmyBeth Skelton, finished 4th at the collegiate na-

tional meet held at Hollins College in Roanoke,

Va., May 4-5. Team members were delighted

with their performance at the first national meet

in Sewanee's history. The exciting finisn was led

by sophomore Annie Rcincrt who won the open

flat class, freshman Charlotte Holdsworth whoplaced second in the walk-trot division, and

Sewanee finished fourth among the six teams

and counted in its wins an upset of Trinity Uni-

versity, last year's conference champions. TheTigers will definitely field a stronger squad next

year and should improve their record drama ti-

cally.

GolfCoach Tim Trantham's golf squad went through

a rebuilding season and finished last in theCACconference tournament at Rhodes. The

Senior captain Amy Beth Skelton led the equestrian team

sophomore Anne Grimsley, who was third in the

intermediate fences class. With all but senior

Stephanie Carr and a student transfer returning,

the team is looking forward to an exciting sea-

son next year with the goal of returning to thenational championships.

BaseballCoach Samko reports that the Tigers finished the1991 season with a deceptive record of 2-18.

Although the squad was not pleased with their

results, everyone felt the team made progress asthe campaign developed. Many of the gameswere close and there were several key injuries

coupled with the loss o' the team's leading hit-

ter, junior Dee Anderson to the armed forces inthe Middle East. Anderson was one of fourSewanee students called to service in OperationDesert Storm. On a high note, the excellent cropof freshmen were able to see a good deal of play-ing time and the future bodes well. In the final

College Athletic Conference (CAQ tournament.

to the national championships.

competed in several collegiate tournaments dur-ing season including Persimmon Hill, BerryCollege, Lee College, and the Tennessee Invita-

tional at Tennessee Tech in Cookeville. Thesquad also hosted the Spring Invitational on theSewanee course. Trantham said, "The weathermade it rough early in the season, with the3inches of snow on the first day of practice fore-

shadowing the campaign to come." The squaddid shoot its lowest competitive round (328) onthe last day of the CAC tournament, bettering

their combined score by over 20 strokes. Withthe majority of the team returning and no jun-iors, Sewanee's golf fortunes should improve forthe 1992 season.

TennisThe women finished the regular season by de-feating Alabama-Hun tsvi lie 7-1 and ShorterCollege 5-4. Their record was 16-6 with a thirdplace finish in the South regionals. The team,which placed in the ITCA top 20 all season long.

Senior Matthew Farley returns

was paced by sophomore Cameron Tyer whofinished at 26-4. Tyer was ranked first in the

southern region in singles and also doubles withpartner freshman Becky Doncaster. The squad

the WIAC conference tournament andplaced Tyer and Doncaster in the NCAA Divi-

n III championships. Tyer lost her initial

match in the singles competition, but won sev-

eral contests in the challenge rounds to finish in

the top eight and earn All-America honors. Tyernd Doncaster as a doubles team won their ini-

ial match before bowing out in the secondround. They also finished in the top eight andimed All-America status.

The men did not fare as well, finishing the

regular season at 12-11, although they won 11 of

their last 14 matches. According to CoachShackelford, the team "made considerable

progress since midway through the season."

Madison Michael paced the Tigers with a

16-6 log and freshmen Lanny Lewis and MattHarris matured along the way. The men's squad

n their conference tournament, the 4th

five and last CAC victory. The team is

looking forward to building on the momentumof their season's end and a more successful sea-

1992.

Tracks team captured the CAC title,

Sewanee's first and last (the CAC becomes the

Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference next

Sportsyear), at Rhodes April 26-27. Coach Logan was

elated with the win, which was "a long time

coming. This was an outstanding group of kids

with excellent training habits." Sewanee swept

the top three places in the discus and overall

won seven events to out distance Centre Col-

lege. Junior Mark Henry conlinued his winning

ways, with firsts in the 110m hurdles and the

400m intermediate hurdles. Henry also an-

chored the victorious 4x400m relay and finished

second in the javelin and fourth in the shot put.

Freshman Mark Elmore led a sweep of the

top three places in the discuss, with sophomores

Tommy Mason and Alan Bible second and third

respectively. Bible also added a second in the

shot put with a personal best. Senior Ernie

Miller won the pole vault and freshman Matt

Kcnncy captured the 3000m steeplechase. Coach

Logan was pleased with the effort of the long

distance runners as freshman Brad McLane also

garnered a third in the 1500m. The meet fca-

the performance oi hi> voune, team, which only

placed seven squad members in competition.

The best finishes were recorded by sophomore

Nancy Ward, who won the 400m intermediate

hurdles, narrowly missing the conference

record. Ward set a new Sewanee record in this

event, her first meet of the season, and broke it

almost every meet thereafter. Freshman Kiisha

Walker also had an outstanding meet, with high

finishes in the triple jump, long jump, and 100m

dash. Walker also set a school record in the triple

jump a week before the conference meet at the

Centre Invitational. Freshman Beth Haynie

placed well in the long jump and finished sec-

ond to Ward in only her second 400m intermedi-

ate hurdles race.

SoftballThe women's Softball squad ended their abbre-

viated season 0-6, with an amazing 10 gamesfalling to a combination of weather and schcdul-

tured one record -set ting performance, that of the

4x100m relay squad. They bettered their previ-

ous Sewanee standard with a winning time of

43.5 seconds. The Tigers also performed well in

the 100m, with three runners in the top six (the

first six runners score in each event). Sophomore

Tony Neill finished third and freshmen Mike

Perotti and Carl Cravens placed fourth and sixth

respectively. Coach Logan returns most of his

strong team next year and feels that the new

kids coming in will make Sewanee a factor in

the first SCAC meet in 1992.

The women's squad finished third in the

WIAC conference meet held April 27 on the

Sewanee track. Coach Afton was pleased with

ing problems. Coach Ladd had hoped for a

warm but clear spring, but rain was the order of

the day. In their first schedule of intercollegiate

competition, Ladd was not disappointed with

the team, "We maintained a positive outlook

and were pleased with Quintard Field. The tran-

sition from club to varsity takes a while." The

coach singled out freshman left-center Daphne

Skipper for her performance, with junior Holli

Oakley voted as the most improved player. The

squad also scletccted sophomore Lynda Motes

as next year's captain. Ladd was especially

pleased with the leadership from seniors

Stephanie Woodham and Laura Splichal. The

squad closed the season the way it began, drop-

ping a doubleheader to LaGrange College. The

team is looking forward to next year and some

additional games against other teams from

Georgia and Kentucky, the only nearby states to

field women's slow pitch squads.

- Stephen Becker

TheologyWorking Toward Peace and Renconciliation

in a Changing South Africa

AMID THE POUT1CAL TURMOIL IN South

Africa, two Sewanee graduates arc

working through the Episcopal Church

to foster peace in that bitterly divided country.

"The church is going to have an increasingly

important role in South Africa," explains the

Rev. Michael Owens, T'83. "And basically, it's

going to be a role of reconciliation—of bringing

a very diverse people together in the hope of

some kind of prosperity for all."

Owens and his wife, Anne ChenowethOwens, C81, returned to South Africa for a

second time in the winter of 1991 "to live and

leam and share with a people of God."

Michael is serving as 'he chaplain for Arch-

bishop Desmond Tutu, whom he and Annemet in 1987 when the archbishop was the com-

mencement speaker at Sewanee. The Owensfirst travelled to South Africa shortly after that

visit, serving for two years as missioncrs in the

Diocese of Kimberly and Kuruman.For Michael, a native of Birmingham, Ala.,

and Anne, a native of Lafayette, La., the coun-

try posed unique problems. "You don't realize

how first-world South Africa is," says Anne.

"We would constantly change gears, going

from a city to a township, from the first world

to the third world."

After their initial experiences in South Af-

rica, they felt a bond to the country and its

people, Michael explains. They had developed

many friendships, and their first child, }esse-

Katharinc Naledi, was conceived and bom in

South Africa. So when they were offered an

opportunity to serve Archbishop Tutu, thev

were eager to return. The'' - current mission in

the country will last about three years. After

serving as Archbishop Tutu's chaplain, Michael

will move to the Cathedral Church of St.

George the Martyr in Capetown.

"Personally," says Michael, "ArchbishopTutu is the epitome of a person of God. He andother leaders in the church are going to be at

THE SEWANEE NEWS

the forefront in seeing that the country prospers

peace rather than in continued conflict."

While the Owens have been elated to serve

Archbishop Tutu, they have also found their

work with the people of South Africa rewarding.

During their first mission and today, they have

built relationships with the people, teaching

them and learning from them.

re not going there to do for people, but

ith people, to help empower other

people. And then we will get out of the way,

which is a lesson the church took a long time to

im," says Michael.

He quickly points out that despite the movestoward a nonracial democracy which South Africa

itnessed over the last year, the country

ns bound by the legacy of apartheid,

s naive to say that the era of apartheid is

done," he says. "The townships are devastating.

Blacks have ended up in these townships near

tics only as a convenience to the whites."

Still, he believes there is hope, and that hope

tied, in part, to the church. 'The church in

Africa is extremely gifted; in its people it is re-

sourceful beyond words," he says. "South Afri-

peoplc of prayer and deep spirituality

and connectedness with their land and with

God."

Michael T'83, and Anne Chenoweth Owens, C81daughter, Jesse-Katharine Naledi, which means "little

si MM1-.K l'»"l TheologyQiristopher Bryan Named Editor of Sewanee Theological Review

Christopher Bryan, professor of New Testament

at the School of Theology, has been named edi-

tor of the Sewanee Theological Review, formerly

named the St. Luke's journal of Theology.

Bryan succeeds jack Gcssell, professor emeri-

tus in the School of Theology, who served as

editor of the St Luke's Journal from 1976-90. The

March 1991 issue of the journal was a festschrift

composed entirely of essays submitted in his

The festschrift contained essays contributed

by the Rt. Rev. C.F. Allison, Professor Donald S.

Armentrout, Dr. John E. Booty, Profes-

sor Bryan, Professor Rowan Greer, Pro-

fessor Patricia O'Connell Killcn, Jeffrey

S. Moore, Dr. W. Brown Patterson, the

Rev. Fleming Rutledge, and Professor

Timothy Sedgwick.

"Dr. Ccsscil's long career represents

a distinct contribution to Sewanee's

corporate life. His 29 years and vast

influence on campus will long be re-

membered,'' said Vicc-Chanccllor

Samuel Williamson.

Gessell, the journal's first faculty

editor, has served the School of Theol-

ogy as a professor of Christian educa-

tion, homilctics, and ethics. He was

director of the Craduate School of The-

ology and of the Sewanee Consultation

on Religion in Education. He also

served as administrative assistant to

Dean George Alexander and in 1967

organized the Sewanee Consultation on

the Curriculum lor Theological Education.

He received three degrees from Yale

University: a B.A. in 1942, a B.D. in

1949, and a Ph.D. in 1960 Gessell was ordained

as a priest in the Episcopal Church in 1951 and

has served parishes in Franklin, Va., and Salem,

Mass. He has served on the University's Board

of Trustees as a representative of the Diocese of

Tennessee and is listed in Who's Who in Religion

and Who's Who in the South and Southwest.

Bryan received a bachelor's degree in English,

a bachelor's degree in theology, and a master's

degree from Wadham College, Oxford. He was

awarded the Ph.D. by the University of Exeter.

He joined the School of Theology faculty in 1983

Scholarship Fund Created for Children

of Episcopal ClergyWho Attend Sewanee

The University has established the George Wil-

liam Hopper Scholarship Fund to provide schol-

arships for children of Episcopal clergy whoattend Sewanee as undergraduates.

The fund was created through a bequest from

the late George Hopper, C'51, of Golden, Colo-,

and gifts from the Hopper family It will provide

$1,000 scholarships to children of Episcopal

clergy during each of their four years in the Col-

lege of Arts and Sciences. The scholarships will

be available to students regardless of financial

need, and the first will be awarded during aca-

demic year 1991-92.

Born in Cleveland, Ohio, George Hopper was

the son of an Episcopal clergyman. After gradu-

ating from Sewanee, he earned a law degree

from the University of Wyoming. He went on to

become an extremely successful attorney in

Colorado. An active Episcopalian, he served as

vice president of the Colorado Episcopal

Churchman. Hopper's widow, Sally, who played

a crucial role in the creation of the Hopper fund,

is the daughter of an Episcopal bishop. She

currently serves in Colorado's state legislature.

"Through the establishment of the Hopper

fund, the University will be able to assist the

children of Episcopal clergy," said Tom Watson,

vice president for university relations. "The'

Hopper's generous gift will have an enduring

impact on students at Sewanee."

professor of New Testament and in

1986 was named professor of New Testament.

He became priest associate at All Saints' Chapel

He has published a multitude of theological

articles and has assisted with production of

"People Like Us," a series of talks on Biblical

tradition for Anglia Television in the United

Kingdom. His publications also include two

works of fiction, Night of the Wolf and Nightfall.

Holy Land AwardEstablished in

Memory of Griffin

The William A. Griffin Holy Land Award has

been established to allow a School of Theology

student to visit the Holy Land. The student will

be nominated by the Bible faculty and approved

by the School of Theology faculty.

The award was established in memory ol the

late William Augustin Griffin (1926-1988), whotaught Old Testament at the School of Theology

from 1959 until his untimely death. He madeseveral trips to the Near East to enhance his

study and teaching of Old Testament. "Extensive

travel in the Near East . . . has been a very im-

portant factor in the effectiveness of my teaching

ministry," he believed, "for I feel it gives a sense

of authenticity in Bibilical studies that is hard to

come by otherwise." The award is designed to

allow students to have similar experiences.

Contributions to support this award may be

made to the William A. Griffin Memorial Schol-

arship Fund and should be sent to the School of

Theology, University of the South, 735 Univer-

sity Ave, Sewanee TN 37375-1000.

'29William C. Sehoolfield

IWRolanJ Avenue. Apt. *3

Dallas. TX 75219

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'32Robert B. Sears

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Spartanburg SC 29302

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'40Dr. SJiuiwl 7". Beasley

IV, Sperry Lee

4323 Forest Park Road

Jacksonville. Fi 32210

.fOchelata, Ohio.

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'45Dr. Ensor R. Dunsford \r

145 River Road

Orange Perk, FL 32073

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2304 North Ocoee Sire

Cleveland, TN 37311

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'49: John P. C

1 000 We:

i, 34 of them:hurch he founded, St.

. The Rev. Edward C.Rutland,

Texas,rotiredonMay31.Hee Episcopal church in the dio-

s, Virginia, Kansas, and Dallas

a liturgical guide\ The Lining Chun

Louis, Mo., laler this

'50

Rob Chrichton married Pam Wilk on Febru-

ary 2. Jim Vaughan, a professor at the Uni-

versity of Indiana in Bloomington, retires

from leaching in July. William C. Webb, of

East Creenbush, N.Y., is retired after work-ing 36 years for Sterling Drug, Inc.

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along the 1 londuran-Nicaraguan border. II

volunteer health care ore.ani/alion heat

quartered in Minneapolis. Barrio Trebor-" "acConnell. of Honolulu, is a consultant f<

r.Mtmnal Kulitifl matter- for Hawaii'-

;partment ol Transportation He also is a

'53Holt Hogan

P.O. Box 656

Keysv,lle,VA23947

n Louisville, Ky„ with

icir three children. He is

manager of telecommunications for General

Company William Smith Wriglcy,

of Brairerd, Minn., was recently appointed

'5477k Rev. W. Gilbert Dent III

205 Sherwood Drive

s, SC 29360

>f Columbia, SC,

Supreme Coui

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if Springfield, Ohio, h3S

i, followed by

i years of parish ministry and 4

'57Dr. Oliver Wheel,

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Montgomery, AL 36197

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Houston. TX 77036

THESEWANEE\R\s

iiyi'M ,H lul.ine Universilv School ol

[edldne. On |une 7. he was awarded th

first National Pre- Hospital Trauma Life

" ipport Leadership Award by the Natic

sociation ot Enn'nynri Medical Tech

'60Howard W. Harrison Jr.

IV, Sfriix Mill Road

l-'.dim.t'j, PA 19085

The Rev. Paul D. Coddard, of Monona,

Wis, is an intern with the Marion Support

System, leading support groups and doing

individual counseling with people who have

'61Robert N. Rust III

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unwald.TN 38462

Calif., where Da\L. Schipper. of LPortland, Ore., to Pennsylvania to become

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l the year by Adweek magazine and his firm,

Bunlin Advertising, was ranked among the

, 15 hottest Southeastern agencies in AdweeHs.

: annual Regional Agency Report Card. TheRev. James M. Siglcr, of Duncan. Okla,

married Shelley Garvin of Moremo Valley,

Calif, on January!

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ick. .-t'.-h.ir

.viic Melinda Lucka,, h

;

William Holland, born February 17. 1991.

Sandy Estes C'67 is the doctor who deliv-

ered William; it was Sandy's 10.000th deliv

ery Thomas W. Floyd, of Chandler, Ariz.,

president of Capstone Financial Consultan

where he assists students in college /career

! search, S.A.T. preparation, and obtaining

,loans, scholarships, and grants.

'65Douglas I Milne

4595 Uxmgto elOO132210-2058

Jerry B. Adams, o! Brewster, NY, has been

re-elected to the Board of Trustees at

Sewance from the Diocese of Arkansas.' Michael Martin, of Lakeland, Fla„ and his

wife, Joy, a physician practicing internal

i medicine, had a baby girl, Katherine (Kate)

Cecelia, on March 26, 1991. Paul M. Neville,

ot Jackson, Miss , merged his practice inlo

nE.McSwainJr.,of>

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159 Roberts Street

Durham, N.C, Mark McMahon, c

phis, Tcnn., has been named associate dca

of academic affair- al Rhodes College Wille -'— a Moyerl

'67Albert Sidney Polk 11!

nt of CARE business Assistance

iclping small businesses in develop-

s. William E. Terry Jr., of

'72N. Pendleton Rogers

106 Market Street

Anmophs.MD 21401

molhy P. Callahan is comma

V for Northeast ATie Rev. Donaldassistant of Chris

of the Depar

i„n Calhoun m July 1990.

and CEO of NCNB of South Carolina. TheRev. Thomas Ward, of Nashville, Tenn., led

the Christianity and Literature conference,

"The Journey Ijilo Christ: Explorations with

Dante and T.5. Eliot" at Kanuga from June

30-JuJy 5, 1991. Lecturing with him were the

Samuel Lloyd, University chaplain,

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Mobile. AL 36633

g Vandcrbilt Bledsoe and Ruth

n were married March 2 in

laska, where they live. John

Episcop.il Church in Charlotte, N.C. Arc)

computing and electronic learn me,/ meJi

center al Western Slate College ol Color.!

in Gunnison, Colo Clin! Moore 111 is eming his senior year at Seabury-Western

Seminar v in the fall. This summer, he at-

'73josiab M. Daniel 111

Winstead. Sechrest,

5400 Renaissance!,

1201 Elm Street

Dallas, TX 15270

loll C. Miller ol Xenia. Ohio, and his

, Amy, had their third child, Adrian

t. They have also opened their second

ne-s. Everlastings a division ol Miller

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Atlanta, CA 30327

The Rev. David A. Cameron, of Rapid City,

S.D., is the president of the standing commit-

tee of the Episcopal Diocese of South Dakota

Robin Harding, of Madison, Miss., was

married on March 23. Gil Pettyjohn, of

Waldorf, Md., has begun working for United

Airlines as a flight engineer Ronald E.

Tomlin, of Jackson, Miss., has established

his own consulting business, Tomlin Associ-

ates, specializing in records and information

management, micrographics, archival man-agement, and records management

i Mar i, Ga.,

'70John W Tonissen Jr.

P.O-Box3621BCharlotte, NC 28236

Brian Dowling, of Raleigh, N.C, had his

article, "How to Profit on a Bad Check,"

published in April in three North Carolina

business publications Steve Snider has

accepted a call to the Church of the Holy

Apostles in Penn Wynne, Pa., a suburb of

Philadelphia. Bob Taylor, of Brookfield, 111.,

is a programmer/ analyst for Quill Corpora-

tion, a national office supply merchandiser.

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NashoiUe.TN 37214

Do Americans Believe

in Free Expression?

Wyatt, C'68, Asks

Robert Wyatt, C'68, a professor of

journalism and director of commu-research at Middle Tennes-

State University, conducted a

ide survey of public atti-

tudes toward free expression which

was the subject of a front page ar-

ticle in the April 13 issue of the

Chicago Tribune.

Wyatfs survey received addi-

tional coverage in other newspa-

pers across the nation. The study

was sponsored by the American

Society of Newspaper Editors and

summarized in a book, Free Expres-

sion and the American Public: A Sur-

vey Commemorating the 200th Anni-

versary of the First Amendment. "Al-

though Americans "believe that

they believe' in free expression,"

Wyatt concluded, "they do not sup-

port free speech or a free press

whenever they find a communica-

tion objectionable or offensive."

Wyatt also was chair of this

year's Pulitzer Prize jury that nomi-

nated Bert Holldobler and Edward

O. Wilson's The Ants for the general

nonfiction award.

'74Martin R.Tilson Jr.

Joel lllok.-lee and Ins wife. Kale, ol San I

Monica, Cahl . are pelting ready lo reloca

to Evergreen, Colo . where |oel plans to

esc medicine.in Chinj and he I. Philip

:on, Peter Philip, born Occeary Kennedy Hcndershot and her

a, Tom, are living in Madisonville,

es al a Japanese high school

twater, Tenn. She also re-

lies lo keep Japanese high

for weekends. Mcrediih

on I'K She writes that she

led in S

I, .11, 1 V

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Alexander Camenkerand his wik-. Susan

have a son, Nicholas, born February 6.

Steven Payne, of Jefferson City, Miss, has

received a master's decree in criminal jiisii'

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Sara Yarbrough Kurlansik and her hus-

band, Stuart, of Philadelphia, Pa., have a

daughter, Eleanor Rebecca, born March 21

Mandy Owen and her husband, MarkPellenn, of Royal Oaks, Md., had their first

child, John Paul Laurent, born in August

1990 Jeffrey Parr, of Lexington, Ky, has

Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons.

Leighton H. Smith II!, of Rancho

Cucamonga, Calif., is vice president ol Delta

Perspective, Inc. Margaret Tcague and her

husband, Wes, are living in Falls Church,

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pediatric facial deformities. Kimbcrly

Matthews, of Barrington, 111., married Den-

nis P. Dougherty last August ii

lor in the state of New Jersey in May.

Debbie Lopez, of Cambridge, Mass., hopes

to finish her dissertation this year at Harvard

University. F. Neal Pylant and his wife.

Norma, of Athens, Ca., have a second child,

Virginia Evelyn, born October 9, 1990. Sarah

P. Springer is enjoying her solo law practice

in Meridian, Miss. Susan Carroll Uithovcn

and her husband, Joe, of Brandon, Miss.,

have a daughter. Rivers Jeanne, bom last

August 21. David M. Walters and Addie

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r 1989. They have a son,

in December 1990. Steve

irry, have a son, Phillip,

born April II, 1990. They are enjoying

Hanover College, where Steve works, in

McComb Miss .was elected trustee (1991-

1994) from the Diocese of Mississippi. He is

currently serving as chief of surgery at S.W.

sissippj Regional Medical Cento

Wood , o( Jacksonville, Fla, is a research

offshore oil fields for si* years, he earned a

chemistry from Honda State Univer-

i \9»b and a Ph.D. in analytical chemis

injune199l

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Dr. Charlotte Boney, of Baltimore, Md., is

Carolina at Chapel Hill. Drew Broach and" s wife, Robin Peters (C'80), live in Re-

rvc, La, where Drew is River Parishes

ire.ni chief lor The Times-Picayune in Nev

..stAu,:.M27

I lulv I'^l'

i. Consi

will be political officer, U.S.

Nouakchott, Mauritania West

. Anderson Douglass, a clinical

st with the U.S. Air Force, writes

ivar is over. My wife ICapt. Paula

citinguthl has returned Irom h

" Cap! Waller Civhan, i

2 Base. Ha, served as the U

Division Daugct, which include

Foreign Legion, during Opcrati

Shield/Storm. As the first Ameisigned to French ground forces,

and fought v."

ominated for the U.S. Bronze Cross

e French Croix do Guerre. Nancy Hal

king on her Ph.D. in developmental

psycholopvat Yale University. Brad Joi

cs at the University <>l llli-

r husband, Jeff (C'76), hav-

illiam, 7, and Sophie, 4. Kii

mathematics at North Carolina State

liversity last August. She works at Murray

ite- University in Murrav, Ky., and is

uried lo William T. Hires. Gene Price and

i wife, Sally, of Birmingham, Ala., have a

daughter, Sarah Frances, born December 10,

;burg District. Army Corps ( Eru^inxTS

.ill itiond LiOorj;c Wa-hincion Uniier-

rilF^WANEE \EU-

ispects of U.S vimK by foreign officials and

oversee arrangements for all official enter-

amingby the secretary of state Martha Boal

Willis and her husband, William, have a

.in \n,lr>. » M.kK.iv Willis, horn f-obruary

la., where Geoffrey

;r (or Sirsi Corpora

company speciali/i

'83'85

h practice neonatology. Scott Tutly ai

wile. Amy, have a daughter, Kxandr.i, born September 4. It 1*

n December R 1990.

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250 Triumph Drm.N.V

(Bambi) Downs Friend, or Starkvillc

., writes that she is now "a stay at homescholar working in her licld of Christian

rucc Manuel, of Tacoma. Wash., is a

nanding officer at the Navy and MaiCorps Reserve Center Matthew H. Pins*

W.lliamNomsCa.eJr andhiswife

Suzanne Lowe (C84) had their -cc-nd

David Copcbnd. bom October 2i. 1990

Bcbo Cole, ol CharlotU .N C . and his w

(Catherine, have a daughter. MaryHenderson, born October 10. 1990 F.Jai

Coleman, of Rugby. Tenn . is editor and

piiMi-hei of the Ku.vfcy t-JW'. .in.) pre-i

of the Cumberland Satan Club Karen S

Dignacco and her husband. Michael, of

Sharon Conn, have their Mrs' son, Tomborn July 21, 1990 lame Dunn-Rank.n,

her husband, David, ot Atlanta, Ga., hav

their -econd daughter. Rachel Ann, borr

March lit. 1^1 Tun. Flston. ot Rochest.

Breedm Abbott and Morgan. Steve Johnson

and his wife, Shannon, of Atlanta, Ca , have

a son, Tommy, born January 18, 1991 Allen

Marine Infantry Company Commander in

Kuwait as part of Operation Desert 5torm.

Md.,1

lancy

William, ol Silver Spring

iter. Alison Paige, on lune

ing Ryman and5tu Ryman, of Newberg, Ore., were married

' lay 12, 1990. She is "enjoying |her]

;oming massage therapy practice" as

Stu. a hydrologist, works in environmental

for a small-scale organic farm, practicing

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Columbia Umver

staff a

Harw

group of KJeinwort Ber

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121 Upland Road

Decatur, CA 30030

Randy A

Medical Center He and his wife, Karen,have two children. Robert. 3, and Ameliamonths Tony Atwcll, ol Santa Fe, N.M.,

.\n,;elos Medical CVnl.-r

kaunful Maga-ir surgery

e University of California at Los

'84

t Josephine

•nw.xid.MLw.

University of Denver Margaret Bradley, of

Bloomington, lnd., received her MAT in

general science from University of Indiana in

tunc. She hopes to teach science at a private

e fait.

of Chevy Chase, Md , sidenl

27, 1990. Mark Robin

Two Alumni Serve in Florida LegislatureThe Florida House of Representatives boasts two members who once

called Scwance home—Representative joe Amall, C'69, a Republican from

Jacksonville Beach, and Representative Scott Clemons, C'82, a Democratfrom Panama City.

Voled by his colleagues as the "Most Effective First Term Republican,"

Amall was first elected in 1988 and is in his second term in the House. Heis minority whip and serves on several House committees including

Criminal Justice, in which he is the lead Republican. Since graduation,

Arnall has worked as a successful businessman with interests in financial

planning and mortgage lending. He currently is president of the Arnall

Croup, Inc., an insurance and financial planning firm.

"My days at Sewancc are dear to me, and I like to think that I learned

many valuable lessons beyond my academic studies that have assisted myprofessional career and personal life," Arnall says.

Representative Clemons is enjoying his first term in the Florida House.

As a freshman legislator, he has gained recognition for his ability to debateissues and represent his constituency. At Sewanee, he was president of the

student assembly. Upon graduation, he attended the Walter F. GeorgeSchool of Law, Mercer University. After receiving his law degree, he joined

the law firm of Bryant, Higby, and Williams of Panama City.

"The libera! arts education I received from Sewanee prepared me for the

multitude of issues which we face in the Florida legislature. My personal

experience there also gave me a sense of self worth which urged me to-

ward a career in public service," Clemons explains.

As a community activist, he served as president of the American CancerSociety's New Directions,

United Way board, chambers of c

and Homeless Coalition. HeEpiscopal Church.

Both Arnall and Clemons agreed that the Florida legislature could us-

more Sewanee alumni, but for now, Arnall said he is pleased to have a

second member of the "Sewanee Alumni Caucus" in the legislature.

member of the

and the Bay County Hunger'C member of the St. Thomas

ivill

..- school ,md a Faculty Awic Excellence upon graduation

(• lor the Lamer Corporation ti

of

i University law school.

wife, Hindv, have a baby girl named Shu,

Andrew Kohler, of Nutlcy, N.J., is a scnic

market analyst for Sea Land Service, Inc.

Randy Moffelt, ol MorgantOWbegin work this fall on a Ph.D.

'irginia Elizabeth Fuller Oliver, of Ann\rbor. Mich , finished her MS in physic,

therapy and is now working at Universit

Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor. Kimbe" -11 Valley, Calif., works fo

brokerage firm in Sausalito, Calif.

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h Brown, of Boulder. G >1' -

of Chicago's Graduate School of Business.

rtin Hale, of Lowell, Mass., is pursuingmaster's in education at the University ol

veil. Michael K. Hoffman, of OklahomaCity, is assistant director of admissions and a

history teacher at the Casady School. Larry

Kerr, of Sail Diego, Calif, is in his first year

Betsy Mallonce

Hunt:ay,ofV

for The Hon. Bill Brewster DonPearson and Katie Curran (C'89>, weremarried on June 22, 1991 in All Saints-

Chapel. They will reside in Stockholm,Sweden, where Don will work for McKinsey

: consulting firm. Chris

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Weston Adams, of Columbia, S.C, is cur-

rently in his last year of law school at the

University of South Carolina, where he ha;

served as the research editor of the LawReview Lisa Lloyd Alexander, and her

husband, Tom, had their first child, Hunlei

Thomas, born January 17. Clay Bailey wasmarried to Sally O'Neill on June 22 They

Bean has started an internship and residency

in anesthesia at Emotv University School or

Mediate in Atlanta. Robert C. Black Jr., of

Mnntcomorv, Ala,graduated from

Cumberland School of Law in May 1591 and

is working with 'he firm of Hill, Hill, Carter,

Franco, Cole and Black. Mac Brothers and

Robyn Forshaw of Atlanta, Ca., were mar-

ried on May 18, 1991

i, of A i,Ga.

e Children s Miracle

Network in January 1991. Douglas E.

Brown, of Washington, D.C., attends busi-

ness school in the evenings at the University

of Maryland. Catherine Hootcn Butcher, of

Jacksonville, Fla . and her husband,

Laurcrcc (C'85), have a daughter, Lauren

Elizabeth, born Mav 22, 1990. Jack Carsncr,

of San Angelo, Texas, graduated from UTMBMedical School on May 23, 1991 and will

spend his preliminary year of general sur-

gery in Houston. Vicki Cook, of Oxford,

Miss., received a master's degree in clinical

psychology from the University of Missis-

sippi last May and is working toward her

doctorate. Bunker DBcrger Davis (C'88),

. where Bunker i

sand his wife. Mi

Uni

been working a

J'

eUniphia. Pa.

c Emerson, of Atlanta, Ga.

is tho'director of development at the Cenle

for Puppetry Arts. Elizabeth Epps is work-

a data analyst for ADS Environr

iville, Tenn ,completed hi- ii'.uih

mester of business school and recently

cepted a consulting position with AmeGeneral in Nashville. Michael Harold, of

Metairie, La., finished law school in May1990 and is currently working for the

Blue, Williams, Buckley. Chct Hazan is a

senior auditor for Prudential-Bache Securi-

ties in Hoboken, N.J. Amy Louttit [ohnson

of Monticello, Fla., graduated from Florida

State University with a master's degi

December 1990 and has

i librarian at North Florida

ice February 1991. Grant

Decatur, Ca., married Nancy Olsen

n St Philip's Cathedral in Atlanta in July

9 have formed

k band, "Morgan's Steep " Doris

entz, of Ft. Washington, Md , and

band. Jay, had their first child, Julia

an May 22, 1991. She writes that, "I

ng defense

nity leave. Randall Minor, ol Nashville.

Tenn., graduated from Vanderbill Medical

School and is in the general surgery resi-

Rorida College of Ladmitted to the Georgia Bar in September

1990 and the Florida Bar in January 1991. She

is working for the Atlanta Legal Aid Society.

Phil Savage, of Berea, Ohio, v

Cleveland Browns. Natalie Si

phis, Tenn., is attending the

Humphreys School of Law.off'hiladel-

Jcfferson Medical

i June and will begin an internship

Catholic Hospital in Darby. Pa.

, Virginia Harvey Olley, C'82. married Charles Slillwell Craighill last August i,

iAtlanta.

s taking care of St. Francis Episcopal ii

well Kan . until Ihey fan call a lull Mm.sr. The Rev. Harold 0. Martin Jr., of

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Hartland, Mich Th«Morton and his wife

to Memphis. Tenn.

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of South Dakota. The Rev. Michael ClaySmith and his wife, Dr Margaret Smith, oi

Hattiesburg, N

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'86

'89

Villiam Ul, , ., nhum has been

on minister of the Diocese of

srth Carolina. He and his family

:o Asheville in July. His office will

and St. Peter's Paris!

the National Cathec

examiner for General Ordination for all

Episcopal theological seminaries. He had

firms, most recently, Draheim andPranschke. He is survived by his parents,

Mr. and Mrs. Rav burroughs, and a sisier

Susan C75.

LeRoy Collins, H'81, former governor of

Florida, on March 12, 1991. A 1931 gradual,

ot Cumberland University Law School, hepracticed law in Tallahassee and served in

elected chairman o

St. John's Church in Hollywood,Fla., from 1962-68. He served as a University

trustee and regent in the 1950s and '60s. Hewas a member of the National Board of the

Red Cross in the 1960s and a former national

>f Chi Psi. He is survived by

The Rev. Canon Woflord Krcth Smith,I T 58, the Episcopal chaplain emeritus of the! University of Maryland, on August, 10, 1990.

I Horn in Birmingham, Ala, he was ordained' an Episcopal priest in 1958. He was a teacher

I in Arkansas and Missouri before moving to

!the Washington, D.C, area in 1965 to be-

!

come Episcopal chaplain at the University of

|

Maryland; he continued in that post until"

Lyndon B, Johnson. In 1968, he won the

Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senatebut was defeated in the general election. Hethen became an attorney with the firm of

Ervin, Varn, Jacobs, Odom and Kitchen. In

1981, he was awarded a doctor of civil lawdegree from Sewanee. Ho is survived by his

wife, Mary Call and four children, including

U.S. Civi

Rights Commission, and he helped developpolicies for school desegregation and equal

lousing. From 1979-8

Creed Parish and All Souls' Episcopal

Church, both in Washington, D.C. He is

survived b\ Ins wife the Rev Fli/.ilvlh

IUMMER 1991 ^Richard Boiling, C'37, Leading Liberal Congressman for 34 Years

Richard

During the 34 years Richard W.

Boiling, C'37 (M.A. '39), served in

the U.S. House of Representatives,

he established a reputation for be-

ing a tough master of the legislative

process and an effective, respected

advocate of the domestic liberal

agenda when it was barely popular.

Boiling, who died on April 20,

1991, will be remembered as a

House member who pioneered sev-

eral trends in Congress which today

are seen as institutions. He also will

be remembered as a man who was

willing to teach and serve through-

out his lifetime.

First elected to Congress in 1948

as a Democrat from the 5th district

in Missouri on the coattails of

Truman and with the support of

various veterans groups. Boiling

began his career in the House by

opening a home constituent service

office in his district, the third such

office in the nation. This allowed

him to attend to the needs and eco-

nomic well being of his district at a

time when most in Congress saw

that as being an extremely minor

part of their job. Today, each of the

435 MC's have at least one home

office, and many have two or three;

constituent service is fundamental

to their job.

After securing flood control

projects for Kansas City following

the 1951 flood and promoting Kan-

sas City as a regional center for fed

W. Boiling

eral offices, which ultimately re-

sulted in the building of a huge

federal office building in down-

town Kansas City, Boiling turned to

promoting a difficult social agenda

at a rime when backroom politics

were crucial and southern Demo-

crats ruled both the committee

chairmanships and the backrooms.

Boiling, a favorite of House

Speaker Sam Raybum, in 1955

gained a seat on the Rules Commit-

tee. There, he led a two-year cam-

paign to bring the Civil Rights Act

of 1957 to the House floor amid

strict opposition from southern

Democrats and Republicans. He

considered the passage of this bill

as being one of his most fulfilling

achievements in 34 years in the

House. He used his position on the

Rules Committee to gain the pas-

sage of more civil and labor rights

legislation, including the Civil

Rights Act of 1964.

The 1964 congressional cam-

paign was a difficult one for

Boiling, but, ever a pioneer, he and

his wife, Jim, organized a campaign

which employed many now stan-

dard tactics. They held voter regis-

tration drives, scheduled personal

appearances, used telephone banks

and direct mail, and targeted spe-

cific areas for door-to-door calls.

This intense and serious campaign-

ing helped keep him in the House

I

for another 18 years.

While being an effective parli

mentarian and legislator. Boiling

never was elected to a leadership

position in the House. As an oppo-

nent of the seniority system, he

separated himself from backroom

politics. In 1974, while serving on a

panel appointed by then-speaker

Carl Albert, he proposed an un-

popular restructuring of committee

jurisdiction. He was defeated for

majority leader twice, once in 1962

and once in 1976, but ultimately, he

ittaincd a position much more

jutted to his character—chairman

of the Rules Committee. There, he

able to finish his tenure in Con-

gress as a premier spokesman for

his party, directing which bills

would appear on the House floor.

Boiling was not only an effective

public servant of his country in the

Congress, he was outstanding in

many other institutions. Bom in

1916 in New York City, he was

raised in Huntsville, Ala., and NewYork City. He graduated from

Ph" .ips Exeter Academy in Exeter,

f .H., and in 1933 entered Sewanee.

While at the University, Boiling

was president of the Order of

Gownsmen and a member of Phi

Delta Theta, the varsity football and

track teams, the Red Ribbon Society

and Blue Key. He received a B.A. in

French in 1937 and an M.A. in En-

glish in 1939, the last M.A. of this

sort granted at the University. After

serving as an instructor for the

Sewanee Military Academy from

1938-39, he entered Vanderbilt Uni-

versity for further studies; however,

in 1941, his studies were inter-

rupted by World War II.

During the war, Boiling served

as a lieutenant colonel from April

1941-46. He received the Legion of

Merit and the Bronze Star. In 1946,

he moved to Kansas City where he

worked as director of student ac-

tivities and veterans affairs at the

ity of Kansas City and

served as national vice-chairman of

the American Veterans Committee.

From there, he was elected to Con-

In 1961, he was named to the

Sports Illustrated 25th anniversary

All-American team, a team which

honors men who played their se-

nior year of collegiate football 25

years earlier and have since had

outstandingly successful lives. In

1962, he was named as an alumni

member of Phi Beta Kappa at

Sewanee. In 1963, he was awarded

an honorary doctor of civil law de-

gree from the U:

Boiling was the author of three

books: House Out of Order, Power in

the House, and America's Competitive

Edge. At the time of his death, he was

working on his fourth book, A Leg-

islative Primer for Presidents and Others.

He is survived by his wife, Nona,

his daughter, Andrea Boiling, and

his stepsons, |immy and John Akin.

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Howard Nemerov,

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the first

recipient of

the Sewanee

Aiken

Taylor Prize

for modemAmerican

poetry, died

at his house on July 5.

A graduate of Harvard Univer-

sity, he was the Edward

Mallinckrodt Distinguished Univer-

sity Professor of English at Wash-

ington University in St. Louis. He

had taught at Washington University

since 1969. His 26 published works

included several books of poetry,

five novels, and volumes of criticism.

He was bom in New York City

and after graduating from Harvard

in 1941, he served as a pilot with

the British and American forces. In

1978, he received the Pulitzer Prize

and the National Book Award for

Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov.

He won many other notable literary

awards, including the Levinson

Prize from Poetry magazine, the

Bollingcn Prize, and the Theodore

Roethke Memorial Prize. He was

also a Guggenheim fellow. As poet

laureate from 1988-90, Nemerov

wrote verses commemorating the

200th anniversary of Congress and

the launch of the space shuttle

Atlantis. In 1987, he was one of 10

Americans awarded the National

Medal of the Arts. In 1990, he par-

ticipated as a faculty member in the

first Sewanee Writers' Conference,

irvived by his wife, Peggy,

of St. Louis, and three sons.

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