sewanee news, 1993
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PublishedforAlumni andFriends ofthe University ofthe South Winter 1993
LightFall: Paintings and Poetry by Edward Carlos
Illuminating the 'Dark Ages'
SEWANEEJOURNAL
SEWANEEWinter 1993
Stephen Becker, Director of Public Relations
Robert Bradford. Editor
Joe Romano, Staff Writer
Mary E. Henry. C'93, Class Notes Editor
Robert Ingram, C'93. Intern
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N. Pendleton Rogers, C'72, President
John W. Tonissen Jr., C'70, Vice President
for Planned Giving
Jack Blackwell, C'44, National Chairman
for the Annual Fund
Elizabeth McDonough Howick, C'81,
Vice President for Admission
The Rev. Henry N. Parsley Jr., C'7(),
Vice President for Church Relations
The Rev. Dr. James K. Yeary. C'64, T'69,
D.Min. '89, Vice Presidentfar the
School of Theology
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Career Sen/ices
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Executive Director
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As I drove through the
bayou country of South
Louisiana to interview
Paul Mcllhenny, C'67, I remem-
bered stories from my childhood
about the pepper sauce that
Paul's family has produced for
the last 125 years.
My father used to talk about a
man from the small town where
he grew up in Texas. During the
Depression, this man would offer
to drink an entire bottle of
Tabasco sauce, teaspoon by tea-
spoon, for $5. He would occa-
sionally get a taker, my father
said, and slowly and methodically
he would drink the bottle. To-
ward the end, tears would run
out of his eyes. But it was the De-
pression, and $5 was a lot of
money then.
As I grew up in Southern Cali-
fornia, we had some neighbors
from Louisiana. The matriarch
of the family had a strange way of
disciplining her children when
they talked back to her. She
would have them open their
mouths, and then she would
pour a drop of Tabasco sauce on
their tongues. It never really
cured her problems, but it got
her children's attention.
Tabasco sauce has created a
kind of folklore in America and
abroad. Its influence has been
subtle but pervasive. It's been
mentioned in cartoon strips
ranging from Blondie to the Wiz-
ard of Id. Tiny bottles are stan-
dard issue in the meals of every
American soldier. In the late
19th century. Lord Kitchener
brought it with him on his relief
expedition to the Sudan. In the
late 20th century, when astro-
nauts aboard the Skylab space
station complained that their
food was too bland, NASA sent
up Tabasco sauce.
For Paul Mcllhenny, being a
part of a company whose prod-
uct is known throughout the
world is immensely satisfying.
"It's fun to know that when you
have a party in New York, Peter
Jennings and Bryant Gumbel are
coming by to see you because
they're devout Tabasco sauce
fans," he says. "And our sales base
continues to expand. We just got
our second order from Russia.
We're going into Belarussia,
Georgia, and the Ukraine.
Through our agent in Hong
Kong, we're into China. Howthese people can afford Tabasco
sauce at $2 or $3 a bottle, I don't
know."
Mcllhenny says he had no
idea that he would be helping to
lead an international company
when he was studying political
science at Sewanee 25 years ago.
But he says the lessons that he
learned on the Mountain have
been invaluable in his role as vice
president for the company that
produces the world's most fa-
mous pepper sauce.
"We're a relatively small com-
pany so we often have to cross
disciplinary lines of traditional
business management. I get in-
volved in varying degrees in mar-
keting, production, trademark-
ing, and sales," he says. "My
strong liberal arts education has
allowed me to communicate
well, to cross those traditional
business lines with ease."
—RB
CONTENTS
Illuminating the 'Dark Ages'
The Sezvanee Mediaeval Colloquium sheds light on a largely
misunderstood historical period
LiglitFall
Fine arts professorEdward, Carlos translates a
mystijyi?ig experience into artm*
In the Land ofTabasco Sauce
Paul McRJienny, C'67, helps lead afamily-owned company which
has produced an American iconfor more than a century
Departments
I Vice-Chancellor's Corner
On the Mountain
Alumni Affairs
Developments
Sports
| Theology
On the cover: The worfd 's mostfamous pepper sauce.
Illustration courtesy ofMdlhenny Company
VICE-CHANCELLOR'S CORNER
A DAY IN THE LIFE
OF THE 'MAYOR
OF SEWANEE'
Since the University s
inception, the vice-
chancellor has had a
special role in the
enhancement and
quality of life on the
Domain.
Fear when a siren wails,
complaints about gar-
bage pickup, a cable sys-
tem that goes blank at the most
inopportune time, the provision
of emergency services for resi-
dents, a community recycling
program, whether there can be
more restaurant opportunities:
these are not the normal con-
cerns of most college or univer-
sity presidents. But at Sewanee
they form a part of the vice-
chancellor's agenda, a function
of the University's status as owner
of nearly 10,000 acres. Since the
University's inception, these du-
ties have given the vice-
chancellor's job a special role in
the enhancement and quality of
life on the Domain.
In earlier days, the University
attempted to provide everything:
water, police, fire protection, and
we even operated a farm. Over
the decades some of these re-
sponsibilities have been priv-
atized, put under other supervi-
sion, or discontinued. Elk River
supplies the natural gas, Duck
River Electric the lights. South
Central Bell the phone system,
and the Sewanee Utility District
the water and sewer service. Still.
the University remains respon-
sible for fire and police protec-
tion, and continues to negotiate
contracts for garbage removal.
The cost of these services is
shared between the University
(83 percent) and the local lease-
holders (17 percent). In addi-
tion, the leaseholders who own
homes pay a property tax to
Franklin County for the assessed
value of their homes; the land,
which is leased, is considered in
this assessment.
Since the 1960s, a Commu-
nity Council has advised the vice-
chancellor on community mat-
ters. Meeting monthly, this group
of 12 elected members, two stu-
dent members, and four mem-
bers appointed by the University
discusses issues of local concern.
These meetings provide a
chance to review the community
services budget (most of which
goes for fire and police protec-
tion), and to approve contracts
for garbage service. Other
agenda items in recent years
have included the quality of
cable television service, the estab-
lishment of a recycling program,
location of a county landfill, traf-
fic regulations, leasehold rules,
and the land use study: Domain
2020.
In its work, the council has
been assisted by the vice presi-
dent for business and commu-
nity relations, a new position cre-
ated in 1988. Dr. Tom Kepple,
who holds this position, func-
tions as a town manager. He
deals with day-to-day operational
issues that affect community life.
Some of the recent issues have
been beautification of the busi-
ness district, new signs for streets,
the location ofnew lots for home
construction, traffic patterns,
and the operation of emergency
services. Emergency services are
given special attention by Profes-
sor of Religion Gerald Smith,
and these services rank—thanks
to the professional staff and the
devoted time of students, staff,
faculty, and community mem-
bers—among the best in the
state. Helping Kepple in his work
has been a trustee Committee on
Community Relations, chaired
by John Caldwell, which meets
twice a year to discuss issues and
provide a forum for views. The
work of this committee has been
of great value to all of us.
Sewanee remains a place
where crime is infrequent, where
children can cycle to the public
school, where cars routinely re-
main unlocked, and where
people wave to one another. This
small town atmosphere provides
the University with an asset
nearly unmatched by any other
collegiate institution. We are
committed to ensuring that this
atmosphere remains as undis-
turbed as possible.
Yet, we also know some
change must come. We need a
new elementary school building,
some of the housing for our
older residents needs improve-
ment, summer recreational pro-
grams for young people require
expansion (the sport and fitness
center will help with this), day-
care needs will require more sus-
tenance, and the welfare of our
senior citizens deserves more
emphasis. In all of this we seek to
enhance the quality of life for
those who work and teach at the
University, or who have done so
in the past. In this way we assure
the continuing dedication of a
highly trained staff and welcome
others who move to Sewanee.
Some features of our commu-
nity life deserve special mention.
The Fourth of July celebration
will stir the soul and heart of any-
one who comes to see America's
birthday celebrated; the commu-
nity clean-up days with towns-
people and students working to
improve the appearance of the
Domain will buttress your faith in
idealism and commitment. The
presence of excellent medical fa-
cilities and highly trained doc-
tors provides reassurance to all
those who live within the gates.
This facet of the vice-chancellor's
responsibilities, while perhaps
hidden from many of you, re-
mains one of the most important
and most satisfying; the people
who live here are, just as the
place itself, special.
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ON THE MOUNTAIN
Jason Forrester is the 17th Sewanee student to receive an NCAAPostgraduate Scholarship.
JASON FORRESTER
RECEIVES TWO MAJORAWARDS
Jason Forrester of Columbia,
Ala., a senior in the College of
Arts and Sciences , has received a
prestigious $5,000 postgraduate
scholarship from the National
Collegiate Athletic Association
(NCAA) . The NCAA awarded 29
such scholarships to collegiate
football players across the na-
tion.
NCAA postgraduate award
winners must, earn at least a 3.0
grade point average and perform
with distinction in the varsity-
level sport for which they were
nominated. The student also
must intend to continue aca-
demic work, on a full-time basis,
beyond the bachelor's degree.
This is the second major
award for Forrester in recent
months. In December 1992, he
was named a National Scholar-
Athlete by the National Football
Foundation and College Hall of
Fame. The award qualified him
for a postgraduate fellowship.
The National Football Founda-
tion and College Hall of Fame is
a national organization with
more than 80 chapters and 8,000
members throughout the United
States.
A four-year letterman at of-
fensive tackle for the Tigers,
Forrester started every game
since joining the team. He was
voted team captain in 1992 and
was a first-team all-conference se-
lection in both 1990 and 1991.
He appeared in the SportingNews
pre-season All-America team in
1902.
Forrester is studying political
science at the University. A mem-ber of the Order of Gownsmen,
he received the Robert "Red"
Lancaster Award, given to the
top junior political science stu-
dent. He intends to pursue his
interest in political science in
graduate school, concentrating
on international affairs. In 1991,
he got a taste of working for the
United States Foreign Service
when he interned in the Aneri-
can Embassy in Georgetown,
Guyana.
A member of the Red Ribbon
Society and the Baptist Student
Union, Forrester was chosen to
represent the University at the
23rd annual Student Sympo-
sium, and went to Oxford, En-
gland, last summer in conjunc-
tion with the British Studies Pro-
gram.
Forrester credits Sewanee
with giving him the opportuni-
ties to pursue a wide range of in-
terests. "I've been able to explore
many different avenues at the
University," he says. "My experi-
ences at Sewanee will prove in-
valuable when I enter graduate
school."
FOURTH SEWANEE
WRITERS' CONFERENCE
SET FOR JULY, AUGUST
Dcick Walcott, the 1992 Nobel
Prize winner for literature, will
he among the distinguished fac-
ulty to participate in the fourth
Sewanee Writers' Conference.
Nobel Ian rente Derek Walcott
Held from mid July until early
August, the conference, sup-
ported by the Walter E. Dakin
Memorial Fund established
through the estate of the late
Tennessee Williams, has grown
tremendously—both in terms of
stature and the numbers of par-
ticipants—since it first began in
1090. Last year, more than 1,200
inquiries were received com-
pared with just over 500 for the
conference's first year, according
to Cheri Peters, conference ad-
ministrator. The 90 spots avail-
able are filled through a com-
petitive admission process. To-
day, the Sewanee Writers' Con-
ference is regarded among the
year's strongest gathering of writ-
ers anywhere.
From its inception the confer-
ence, under the direction of
Wyatt Prunty, C'69, Carlton pro-
fessor of English, has intended to
gather a distinguished faculty
who provide instruction and
criticism through workshops and
craft lectures in fiction, poetry,
and playwriting.
This year's regular faculty will
also include novelists John Casey,
Ellen Douglas, Stanley Elkin,
Amy Hempel, Susan Minot, Tim
O'Brien, Joe Ashby Porter, and
Mark Richard, and poets Emily
Grosholz, Mark Jarman, and
Maxine Kumin. Horton Foote
and Wendy Hammond will work
with participants interested in
playwriting. In addition, a group
of eminent writers, critics,
agents, and editors will visit the
conference. Among others,
Georges and Anne Borchai dt, C.
Michael Curtis, Peter Davison,
Robert Giroux, David Godine,
Dave Smith, J. D. McClatchy, and
Henry Hart will discuss writing
from the point of view of editing
and publishing. Monroe Spears,
Peter Taylor, and Richard Wilbur
will be in residence in Sewanee
during all or part of the confer-
ence. All will give readings or lec-
Playwright Morton Foote
tures and will be frequent visitors
to the proceedings.
An added prospect lor this
year's playwriting students is the
Sewanee theatre department's
plan to produce a participant's
script. Conference and College
faculty will consult to choose a
script from the 1993 and 1094
summer workshops which will be
produced during the 1994-95
academic year.
For more information about
the conference, contact Cheri
Peters at (615) 598-1141.
ALUMNI AFFAIRS
POET LAUREATE AMONGHONORARY DEGREE
RECIPIENTS
Businessman and publisher Earl
Gilbert Graves of New York City,
Oglethorpe University honorary
chancellor Manning Mason
Pattillo Jr., C'41, of Atlanta, Poet
Laureate Mona Van Duvn of St.
Louis, and the Rev. Lavan
Baltzell Davis, C'49, T'52, of
Pensacola, Fla., received honor-
ary degrees during Easter convo-
i ation.
Earl Gilbert Graves is a na-
tionally recog-
nized author-
ity on black
business de-
velopmentand a past re-
cipient of the
NationalAward of Excellence in recogni-
tion of achievement in minority
business enterprise. Named in
1974 by Time magazine as one of
the country's 200 future leaders,
today he is president and chief
executive officer of Earl G.
Graves, Ltd., the parent company
for several businesses and the
publisher of Black Enterprise
magazine. Graves is also the
chairman and chief executive of-
ficer for Pepsi-Cola of Washing-
ton, D.C., L.P., the largest minor-
ity-controlled Pepsi-Cola fran-
chise in the country.
Graves' career began as ad-
ministrative assistant to the late
Sen. Robert F. Kennedy before
he formed his own management
consulting firm. An ROTCgraduate who completed his U.S.
Army career with the rank of cap-
tain, Graves received a bachelor's
degree in economics from Mor-
gan State University in Balti-
more, Md. He has lectured at
Yale University as a Poynter Fel-
low.
Manning Mason Pattillo Jr.
c urrentlyserves as hon-
orary chan-
cellor of Og-
lethorpe Uni-
versity in At-
lanta after 13
years as that
institution's president, a position
from which he retired in 1988.
During his tenure, Oglethorpe
became one of the three most
selective institutions in Georgia.
Before his installation as
Oglethorpe's 12th president,
Pattillo was associate director of
the Lilly Endowment, vice presi-
dent for the Danforth Founda-
tion, and president ofNew York's
Foundation Center, respectively.
He also served on the faculty of
the University of Chicago. The
author of two books and numer-
ous articles in professional jour-
nals, Pattillo has served as a direc-
tor or trustee of many institu-
tions and organizations. Pres-
ently, he is chairman of the
board for the Atlanta College of
Art as well as the DeKalb Cham-
ber of Commerce and the
DeKalb Council on Aging. He is
vice chairman for the Woodruff
Arts Center.
Pattillo is a Phi Beta Kappa
graduate of Sewanee who went
on to earn both a master's and a
doctorate from the University of
Chicago.
Mona Van Duyn is the
nation's Poet
ryjgr,£p| Laureate and
""* ' h! a consultant
to the Library
of Congress
in Washing-
ton, D.C. Dur-
ing the course
of her career, Van Duyn has re-
ceived numerous awards, includ-
ing the National Book Award,
the Bollingen Prize, and the
Pulitzer Prize. Her work has been
recognized by the Ruth Lilly-Po-
etry Magazine Award and a grant
from the National Endowmentfor the Arts, among others.
Van Duyn earned a master's
degree from the Lhiiversity of
Iowa before becoming an in-
structor at that institution. She
has also taught at the University
of Louisville, the Salzburg Semi-
nar in Austria and was a visiting
Hurst professor at Washington
University. She has taught for
several summer writing pro-
grams across the country, includ-
ing the Sewanee Writers' Confer-
ence and conferences in
Breadloaf, Vt., New York, Minne-
sota, and Texas.
Lavan Baltzell Davis retired
™ from his post
as rector of St.
Christopher's
Church in
Pensacola,
Fla., in 1991,
a church that
he helped es-
tablish and then served for 34
years. Davis' first assignment in
the ministry was as assistant rec-
tor of Christ Church in
Pensacola. While there, he also
helped to found and organize
two other churches in the
Pensacola area: St. Monica's and
St. Francis of Assisi. He con-
ducted the first services at each.
Adept at combining the
church and secular worlds, Davis
has long been active in commu-
nity activities. For nearly a de-
cade and a half, Davis was on the
board of the J. Hugh and Earl W.
Fellows Memorial Foundation,
which is dedicated to improving
the quality of health care in
northwest Florida.
A former regent and trustee
of Sewanee, Davis has been a del-
egate to seven general conven-
tions and he has chaired or
served on numerous diocesan
committees.
ALUMNI OFFICERS HOLDJANUARY MEETING
A resolution supporting the
University's upcoming capital
campaign was approved, and
plans for next year's celebration
of the 25th anniversary of
women at Sewanee were initiated
by officers of the Associated
Alumni during their winter
meeting held in Nashville.
The campaign resolution,
which will be presented to mem-bers of the Alumni Council for
their approval, states that the
body "enthusiastically endorses
the objectives of the campaign
[which is to begin later this year]
and encourages all alumni to
contribute to its successful and
early completion."
Founders' Day 1994 is the
planned celebration date of 25
years of women at Sewanee. Asteering committee is being orga-
nized, and suggestions for the
celebration are being actively so-
licited.
"This was a very successful
meeting," according to Yogi
Anderson, executive director of
the Associated Alumni. "With the
help of alumni volunteers, we
have been able to run a program
that is the envy of much larger
schools."
Associated Alumni members
also learned of plans to imple-
ment the Career Services Net-
work, designed to complement
the University's Office of Career
Services. Jan Kibler, C'80, vice
president for career services, says
that the network will help secure
job interviews for Sewanee
alumni and students.
"The Associated Alumni con-
tinue to make important contri-
butions to the University," says
Penn Rogers, C'72, president of
the association. "We look for-
ward to continuing efforts to in-
volve alums more actively in Uni-
versity programs and activities."
DEVELOPMENTS
EDWARD TOGGLE
APPOINTED DIRECTOR OF
DEVELOPMENT
A gift from the estate ofKatherine Nesbit ofMemphis will support the School of Theology.
MEMPHIS WOMAN LEAVES
$900,000 ESTATE
TO SEWANEE
The University has received * gift
of more than $900,000 from the
estate of Katherine Nesbit of
Memphis. The gift will be used
in support of the School of The-
ology.
Nesbit had previously estab-
lished the Robert H. Nesbit Me-
morial Scholarship Fund, in
honor of her late husband,
which gives preference to stu-
dents from the Diocese of West
Tennessee.
Mrs. Nesbit was a well-known
philanthropist in the Memphis
area, contributing a large tract of
land for a city park. She was also
an avid skeet shooter and very ac-
tive in working with the various
dioceses in the state, especially
that of West Tennessee. Though
not a graduate of Sewanee,
Nesbit had a long history of sup-
porting the University that dates
to the 1960s.
UNIVERSITY RECEIVES
LAND FROM THE REV.
EDWARD HARRISON, C35
The Rev. Edward Harrison, C'35,
of Pensacola, Fla., has donated to
the University a parcel of land in
Crystal River, Fla., that has been
valued at $144,000. Harrison is a
third-generation trustee of the
University whose son, the Rev.
Edward H. Harrison Jr., ofJack-
sonville Beach, recently com-
pleted his own term as a member
of that board.
Harrison's gift was made in
memory of both his father, the
Rev. George H. Harrison, also a
Sewanee graduate, and his
grandfather. Proceeds from the
sale of the land are to be used for
a scholarship fund, the scope of
which is yet to be determined.
"We are delighted to accept
this valuable and meaningful gift
on behalf of the institution," ac-
cording to Tom Watson, vice
president for university relations.
"Gifts-in-kind, such as this
land, often enable people to
make much larger gifts than they
might otherwise have thought
possible. In fact, some of the
largest gifts ever made to institu-
tions such as Sewanee, have been
gilts ( >1 land. In this case, we have
received a very welcome and gen-
erous gift from an alumnus and
former trustee whose family has
long ties to the University," says
Watson.
Following a nationwide search,
Edward A. (Ned) Tnggle has
been appointed as Sewanee's di-
rector of development. Tuggle,
who has held various positions in
the development offices of Co-
lumbia Lhiiversity is expected to
be at his newjob by early March.
Tuggle's most recent position
at Columbia was director of in-
formation services. Prior to that,
he was a development officer for
major gifts at the institution and
also served as director of devel-
opment—in charge of individual
giving—for the Columbia Uni-
versity Graduate School of Busi-
ness. His previous experience
includes extensive fund-raising
work in the non-profit sector.
"Ned Tuggle brings a wealth
of experience to his duties at
Sewanee," says Tom Watson, vice
president for university relations.
"We are fortunate to have found
someone who has the breadth
and depth of experience that he
does as we anticipate embarking
on a significant campaign. Hewill play a critical role in that ef-
fort."
Tuggle earned a bachelor's
degree from the University of
Virginia and an MBA at the Co-
lumbia University Graduate
School of Business.
SCHOLARSHIP
PHOTOGRAPHER OWENBUTLER A BROWNFOUNDATION FELLOW
Joking that he cannot go any-
where in the world—even
Sewanee—without running into
a former student, Owen Butler
has taken up residence at the
University as a Brown Founda-
tion Fellow for the Easter semes-
ter. The acclaimed photogra-
pher, who has been a member of
the faculty of the School of Pho-
tographic Arts and Sciences at
Rochester Institute of Technol-
ogy, will teach two courses to
Sewanee fine arts students, offer-
ing them the benefit of his nearly
four decades of experience.
This is Butler's second trip to
Sewanee. Last year, the Univer-
sity Gallery hosted an exhibition
of photographs by him and Eliza-
beth Motlow, one of Butler's
former students. That exhibit, ac-
cording to Pradip Malde, chair-
man and assistant professor of
fine arts at Sewanee, was intrigu-
ing because it allowed the explo-
ration of the relationship be-
tween the "teacher/fellow artist
and the student/fellow artist."
"I feel extremely privileged to
have gotten to know Owen. His
History professor Charles Perry tracks
llw growth of Victorian bureaucracy
through tin' post office.
reputation as a teacher extends
across the Atlantic into Europe
and his talents as a photographer
are considerable," says Malde.
Butler says his aim while visit-
ing Sewanee will be to help stu-
dents understand the long-term
discipline required of an artist. "I
am concerned that they clearly
decipher the aspects of commit-
ment," he says.
Having had his work exhib-
ited everywhere from the Mod-
ern Museum of Art in New York
to II Studio Internacional De
Tecnologias De Imagem in Sao
Paulo, Brazil, Butler says that
Sewanee has been a perfect cam-
pus for teaching because of stu-
dents' strong background in the
liberal arts. "That's the wonder-
ful thing about Sewanee. There
is a philosophy and a permission
to overlap the disciplines and the
passion." Butler points to a stu-
dent-poet in one of his classes
who approaches photography
through poetry.
"He has already infected our
department with his vitality," said
Malde soon after Butler's arrival.
"He is going to expose our stu-
dents to his depth and breadth of
experience, his commitment to
the medium and to teaching."
BUREAUCRACY AND THE
POST OFFICE
In his newly published book, The
Victorian Post Office: The Growth of
a Bureaucracy, history professor
Charles Perry explores the
growth of the institution that be-
came England's largest business
by the end of the 19th century.
Perry, who is also associate
dean of the College of Arts and
Sciences, says the idea for the
book was born out of a desire to
study the expansion ofVictorian
government. The post office, be-
cause of its size, became an ideal
marker, or case study, to assess
bureaucratic growth during the
Broivn Foundation Fellow Owen Butler'
urnsfrom New York City to Sao Paulo, 1
period. At one point, it em-
ployed nearly a quarter million
people—a staff that accounted
for one third of the entire civil
service—and was the govern-
ment arm that nationalized the
telegraph and telephone systems
in Great Britain. It also sold life
insurance and became the
nation's largest saving's bank at
one point in its history.
According to the London
Times, Perry's book provides a
detailed accounting of the first
two cases of nationalization in
Britain that is "of considerable
interest to anyone seeking to un-
derstand the nature of the state"
during the late Victorian and
photography has appeared in muse-
Brazil.
Edwardian period. Perry also of-
fers an understanding of the rise
of public ownership in Britain,
m cording lo the rimes.
Perry says the book required
several trips to London where he
spent time in the national ar-
chives poring over thousands of
documents.
The book was the 64th to be
published by England's Royal
Historical Society.
8
Illuminating the 'Dark Ages'The Sewanee Mediaeval Colloquium sheds light on a largely misunderstood historicalperiod
% /% / hile the rest of
^/ m/America settles in to
w watch a rerun of
Cheers, a group of 70 scholars
from throughout the world gath-
ers in Rebel's Rest on a warm
spring night. In the living room, a
historian from Oxford, an En-
glish professor from Yale, and a
philosopher from the University
of Munich carry on a spirited
discussion about Saint Augustine.
A few feet away, an archaeologist,
an art historian, and a women's
studies professor talk about the role that minorities
played in the life and thought of the thirteenth century.
For the last 20 years, an eclectic group of specialists on
the Middle Ages has gathered at the University to partici-
pate in the Sewanee Mediaeval Colloquium. Founded in
1974 by former Sewanee history professor Edward B. King
to create a forum for medievalists of all disciplines work-
ing in the southeastern United States, the conference
rapidly rose to a position of national and
international importance.
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Since 1990 the colloquium has been directed by Susan J.
Ridyard, an assistant professor of history at Sewanee. For
Ridyard and her colleagues, the Middle Ages represent a dy-
namic time in world history, and the impact of the period on
20th century political, religious, and social thought must not
be underestimated.
"I see this period not as a period of collapse, not as a period
of retrogression, but rather as a period of cultural fusion. It's a
period where you certainly have the old classical order over-
turned, but at the same time elements of the classical order
survived, mostly through the church. When the church began
the process of converting the barbarian kingdoms, you have
this great fusion ofbarbarian Germanic culture with Christian
culture and, through the church, certain elements of classical
culture. And that creates something which is distinctive and
new," she says.
"It's that fusion which lays the foundations for the kind of
culture that we have now. Most people would concede that it
might be helpful to know something about the earlier twenti-
eth century or even the nineteenth but might have difficulty
in seeing the connection between the Middle Ages and our
own time. But the connections are in fact strong and influen-
tial: How are we to grasp the full significance of the American
constitution without some familiarity with the medieval tradi-
tion of monarchy to which it and all other constitutional ex-
periments of the eighteenth century were in some degree a re-
sponse? What are we to make of the concept of separation of
church and state ifwe have no idea that there was a time when
kings freely controlled ecclesiastical appointments and when
it seemed to everybody that this was a perfectly normal thing
to do?"
Ridyard was born in England and educated at Cambridge.
She was a Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, from
1982-89, gaining considerable teaching and administrative ex-
perience. In 1988, she published her first book, The Royal
Saints of Anglo-Saxon England: A Study of West Saxon and East
Anglian Cults, in the series Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life
and Thought. Working with Ridyard to organize the
colloquium is a committee of Sewanee faculty members from
several departments: Professor of English Robert Benson, As-
sistant Professor of Fine Arts Gregory Clark, Associate Profes-
sor of English Pamela Macfie, and Professor of Spanish Eric
Naylor. For this year's conference, which will be held April 2-
3, the committee has established the theme, "Saints and Their
Cults in the Middle Ages."
As she sits in her Walsh-Ellett office, Ridyard recounts a
story that illustrates popular misconceptions about the Middle
Ages, a period which is considered arcane by many, even by
some of her peers in academia.
'When I was at Cambridge, there was one occasion when I
gave a presentation about my research on saints. I spent a
whole hour explaining what I had found out about these
Anglo-Saxon royal saints and how interesting their lives were.
At the end of it I heard one of the elderly Fellows in the col-
lege explaining to one of the undergraduates who had come
in late. 'That was all about the Dark Ages,' the Fellow said. 'We
call it that because we don't know a single thing about it.'"
While Ridyard maintains that a study of the Middle Ages is
indeed relevant to our time, she says the conference's focus
extends beyond what has become trendy or fashionable in in-
tellectual circles. Over the past few years, the colloquium has
addressed a wide range of topics: "Saint Augustine and his In-
fluence in the Middle Ages," "Monks, Nuns and Friars in Me-
diaeval Society," "Law in Mediaeval Life and Thought," "Man
and Nature in the Middle Ages," "Minorities in Mediaeval Life
and Thought," and "Barbarian Europe and Its Legacy."
"Our main priority in choosing themes and papers for the
Mediaeval Colloquium is to find fields where important—in
the sense of significantly enriching our understanding of the
past—scholarly work is being done by individuals of talent and
to make those fields the focus of our meetings," says Ridyard.
"If the integrity of scholarship is to be preserved, 'relevance'
to specific and immediate political and social issues cannot be
the only, or even the primary, criterion by which a body of
work isjudged. Perhaps it is the duty of the academy to main-
tain the broader view that all things are relevant which enable
us better to understand the complex cultural heritage with
which we have to work."
This philosophy makes the colloquium attractive to some of
the world's most prominent medievalists. John V. Fleming,
C'58, a Rhodes Scholar who is Fairchild Professor of English
at Princeton University, praises the colloquium for its intellec-
tual balance. "During the past two decades the Sewanee Me-
diaeval Colloquium has undoubtedly earned its reputation
among professional medievalists in this country and in Europe
as one of the most congenial and productive academic confer-
ences of the year.
"It enjoys many advantages: a comparatively small size, a
clarity of intellectual focus, a manageable program offering
tempting variety without cloying surfeit, and a civil and hospi-
table arena in which young scholars may share a podium with
their graying teachers. Nor does it hurt, naturally, that this in-
tellectual feast takes place in one of the world's most beautiful
spots at dogwood time."
Prominent scholars like Fleming often meet with Sewanee
students and professors, either informally outside of class or
during classroom lectures. "This is a first-rate opportunity for
students to see new faces, hear new ideas, and gain added in-
sights into the way professional scholars work," says Ridyard.
"The students usually warm to the visitors and greatly appreci-
ate working with them; the visitors in turn enjoy the students
and begin to feel a sense of connection with the University, so
that it becomes something more to them than simply 'some-
where I once went for a conference.'"
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LIGHT FALL
Fine arts professorEdward Carlos translates a mystifying experience into art
Twenty-two years ago, fine arts professor Edward Carlos went to Iona, part of the Scottish Inner Hebrides Islands,
on sabbatical. Intrigued by the Celtic myths and legends that were so much a part of Iona's history, he returned
two years ago to paint and photograph the island's beautiful landscapes.
On that trip, he took a hike on Easter Sunday. What started as a leisurely walk turned into a strange odyssey for
Carlos. Six hours into the hike, as he stood on Iona's rugged coastline, he lost consciousness. He awoke to a haunt-
ingly beautiful image—a beam of light reaching down from the skies into the ocean—and photographed it (on
facing page) . "It was probably the most beautiful natural event I ever witnessed," Carlos recalls.
That event mystified him, and compelled him to return to Iona to continue to paint. What has developed
from Carlos' experiences is "Light Fall," an exhibit of around 150 paintings and photographs, many ofwhich are
accompanied by poems that Carlos wrote for the show. The exhibit was shown in the University Gallery during the
fall semester and is scheduled to be shown in Mississippi and Florida this year.
"Light is the subject of all of this," says Carlos, who has taught at the University for 23 years. "What I have
learned from my experiences is the universe is a living consciousness."
In the following pages are selected paintings and poetry from "Light Fall."
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an abstract verb this ineffable mist, this. . .
a flagrant wash-away wave
a clond darkening when the earth knows
twilight, such a thought
a process in repetition, a process
ascending, although. . .
the lasting sun is buried in the
night, agitating
sinking into the frequency of bliss
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embryonic
alternating expansions
within surges of boiling consciousness
a white walrus surfaces from the sea
music rises from the mist vibrating
then as sound ringing
with words hidden in that song
not so inviolable, the soul is
this sacred corruption, the subversion of space
first as an idea, broken, then as seduction
time is rhythm broken, fallen
found between pieces, porcelain
found on the earth
phosphorous sea crystals steal the light
and spread the theft
blossoming forth from the great void
of darkness, the instancy of illumination
in the space of the mind, the mind's
own heart
heart's spirit, in our dreams we carry it
home
pain and all
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In the Land ofTabasco SaucePaulMcRhenny, C'67, helps to lead afamily-owned company which has
produced an American iconfor more than a century
by Robert Bradford
Inthe desert of Saudi Arabia, an American sol-
dier sits down to eat lunch. Tired, homesick, and
hungry, he opens his MRE (meal ready to eat)
and shakes his head as he stares down at the day's
special, turkey chow mein. Then he breaks out a tiny
bottle of standard-issue Tabasco
sauce and pours a good shot on his
chow mein and thinks about barbe-
cued ribs and red beans and a cold
beer and knows that he will get
home again.
^
In Tokyo, a group ofbusinessmen
gathers for dinner, passing a botde of
Tabasco sauce among them which
they dash on their pizza.
In the Himalayas, a Sherpa guide
consumes an entire bottle of
Tabasco sauce with his evening meal,
amazing the group of British climb-
ers who can tolerate only a few drops
on their freeze-dried food.
In a raucous bar in Calgary,
Alberta, a woman orders a Bloody
Caesar. The bartender concocts a
mixture of tomato juice, clam juice,
vodka, and a healthy shake of
Tabasco sauce.
In a chic Paris restaurant on the Left
Bank, where patrons begrudgingly accept
things American, Tabasco sauce is served
with steak tartare.
In an oyster shack in South Louisiana,
Cajuns end the day with
a ritual that has been go-
ing on there for more
than a century—they eat
jambalaya and gumbo and
crawfish etoufe, all infused with
healthy doses of the pepper sauce
that has made that part of the coun-
try known throughout the world.
Tabasco sauce has become a cul-
tural icon, as distinctly American as
jazz and cowboys, as hot dogs and
baseballAFor Paul Mcllhenny, C'67, vice
president and secretary of
Mcllhenny Company, which has
produced Tabasco sauce for 125
years, it is far more than an Ameri-1 can symbol. It has been a way of life
Mcllhenny, above right, trailed the recipe..
for his family through four genera-
tions.
"Mcllhenny Company was
The process of making Tabasco sauce has
Pickers still harvest the peppers by hand.
Photo courtesy ofMcllhenny Company
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founded in 1868 by my great-grandfather,
Edmund Mcllhenny. He was a successful
banker in New Orleans before the Civil War,"
Mcllhenny says from company headquarters in
Avery Island, La., located 130 miles southwest
ofNew Orleans in the heart ofAcadiana. "The
banking industry in New Orleans, which before
the war had been very progressive, was defunct
after the Civil War. So he moved back to Avery
Island, which was his wife's family's place, and
lived here. He loved to garden. He had a fine
vegetable garden and grew all of the vegetables for
the plantation home. He had some items like arti-
chokes, which were then exotic. And he also had a
special variety of red pepper, which had survived the
devastation of the war."<V
That pepper, Capsicumsfrutescens, had been given
to Mcllhenny by a friend returning from Mexico. Abon vivantwho enjoyed the superb cuisine ofNew Or-
leans before the war, Mcllhenny became bored with
the bland food of the Reconstruction South. So he
began experimenting with the peppers that he grew
on Avery Island and eventually hit upon a formula
which involved crushing the ripest, reddest peppers,
mixing a half coffee cup ofAvery Island salt (the salt
mine on the island is the oldest in the country) , and
aging the concoction in crockeryjars for 30 days.
Paul Mcllhenny, right, often goes to the fields dur-
ingharvest time In overseee the weigh-in ofpeppers.
Photo courtesy a/ Mcllhenny Company.
He then added
French wine vinegar
and aged the mixture
for another 30 days,
hand stirring it at
regular intervals to
blend the flavors. Af-
ter straining, the
sauce was transferred
to small cologne-type
bottles with narrow
necks, which were then corked and dipped in green
sealing wax. A sprinkler fimient was attached to the
neck of the bottle. ^
"That Famous Sauce Mr. Mcllhenny Makes" was
so popular with family and friends that he was en-
couraged to market it commercially He selected the
Uademark Tabasco, a word of Central American In-
dian origin, which means "land where soil is humid."
In 1868, Mcllhenny sent 350 bottles of Tabasco
sauce to wholesale grocers throughout the country.
The primary markets were the seaboard cities ofNewYork, Boston, San Francisco, and New Orleans, cities
where people consumed oysters, clams, and shrimp
with pepper vinegar. Almost immediately, however,
the market expanded overseas as orders poured in
for thousands of bottles at a wholesale price of one
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Peppers are processed immediately afterpicking. Likefine wine, they are aged in while oak barrels for three years. Photo courtesy ofMcIlhenny Company.
18
dollar each. By 1872, Mcllhenny had established a
sales office in London and wa:
to several foreign countries.^
sales office in London and was distributing his sance
Today, Mcllhenny Company distributes Tabasco
sauce to more than 100 foreign countries and prints
its labels in 15 different languages. In marked con-
U ast to the 350 bottles that Edmund Mcllhenny pro-
duced in 1868, die company produces 300,000 of the
two-ounce Tabasco sauce bottles a day.
Paul Mcllhenny has worked for the company for
die last 25 years, a period during which its scope and
activities have expanded dramatically.
Mcllhenny grew up in New Orleans where his fa-
ther had a marine insurance brokerage business. His
family made frequent weekend trips to the idyllic
Avery Island, where Paul began learning the history
and traditions of Tabasco sauce and the island.
He left Louisiana to attend a private high school in
Virginia and then returned for a year to go to Tulane
University. "I had a fun and frivolous year at Tulane,
but didn't win many quality points," he recalls and
laughs. "I then went in the Marine Corps on a six-
year, six-month reserve program before returning to
school. My oldest and best friend, David Milling
[C'66] from New Orleans, was at Sewanee. I went up
to visit him and fell in love with the school. I'm not
sure if it was because of party weekend or because it
was such a beautiful setting in the woods. The repu-
tation of the LTniversity as a top-drawer undergradu-
ate school was atUactive."
Pauljoined Mcllhenny Company immediately af-
ter graduating from Sewanee. "I was married my last
two years at Sewanee. My cousin, Walter Mcllhenny,
who was then president of the company, during mysenior year at Sewanee asked me to come to work for
the company. It was then a very small but a very well-
known company. We didn't have a great many family
members involved in the company—just two in the
day-to-day operations: Walter and my cousin, Edward
Ned Mcllhenny Simmons, who is president today,"
he says. <\
"When I first came to work for Mcllhenny Com-
pany in the summer of 1967, Walter put me in kha-
product was made from the ground tip, so to speak,"
Mcllhenny says.
The method by which the peppers are harvested
and Tabasco sauce is made has changed little in the
company's 125 years. Workers hand pick peppers
using a petit baton rouge, a small red stick which indi-
cates the proper color of a ripe pepper. The fresh
peppers are ground with Avery Island salt—about 8
percent salt—and the mash is aged in 50-gallon white
oak barrels for three years. The aged mash is trans-
ferred to huge vats where natural vinegar is added,
and the sauce is mixed and aged for another 30 days
before it is strained and then bottled. \
Until the 1960s, when demand forced the com-
pany to expand its farming operations, all peppers
were grown on Avery Island. "Now we use Avery Is-
land as a seed crop," Mcllhenny explains. 'We have a
farm here, but most of our farming is done in Hon-
duras, Colombia, Venezuela, and the Dominican
Republic. All of the seeds for our pepper plants come
from Avery Island. Our plant is susceptible to several
diseases so we spread out our farms to get it away
from diseases, as well as hurricanes and revolutions."
While the operations have expanded and diversi-
fied, family members still carry on some of the
company's age-old traditions. Inspecting the aged
peppers in oak barrels, the pungent smell burning
his sinuses and his throat, Paul Mcllhenny approves
the mash—the essence ofTabasco sauce—before it's
made into sauce. Company president Ned Simmons
goes into the pepper fields on Avery Island every
summer to select the seed crops, laying a piece of
twine across each chosen bush. Those seeds are then
stored in a bank vault in nearby New Iberia, La., to
ensure the perpetuity of the plant. \
Yet Paul's duties with the company involve far
more than inspecting the mash. On a given day, he
may be helping to close a deal for an order in one of
the new Russian republics, approving a trademark
issue with an attorney in New York City, or talking
with long-time friend, food writer, and restaurant
critic Craig Claiborne about a new Tabasco sauce
recipe.
"We have had visitors to the island for a long time
kis, and I went out in the fields during the harvest of who are leaders in the food-writing world—-James
the peppers. While I didn't actually harvest the pep- Beard, Jacques Pepin, orJeff Smith, the Frugal Gour-
pers, I picked up the boxes and learned how the met. We religiously court and have an ongoing dia-
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logue with food writers and the leading chefs in the
country," Mcllhenny says. In recognition of the 125th
year celebration of the company, Mcllhenny himself
has written the first hardbound Tabasco sauce cook-
book, drawing recipes from local Avery Island cooks,
family favorites, and prominent chefs.
Many of those chefs swear by Tabasco sauce. Paul
Prudhomme, Louisiana's best-known chef who al-
most single-handedly introduced Cajun cooking to
Americans in die 1980s, says ofMcllhenny's product:
"I may use 10 drops ofTabasco sauce, but I can trust
that 10 drops. It pushes the natural flavor of the food.
There's an afterglow in your mouth."
Clearly, Mcllhenny is pleased with the name recog-
nition and prominence of Tabasco sauce, but he re-
alizes that there are a lot ofTabasco satice wanna-bes
in the market, and competition is fierce. Although
Tabasco sauce commands the biggest market share
among hot sauces—more than one third of it—Paul
Mcllhenny says the company is not content to rest on
its laurels. Sixteen years ago, the company created a
Tabasco sauce Bloody Mary mix which has been suc-
cessful; recently it introduced a new brand line of
condiments, Mcllhenny Farms, which are being mar-
keted for gourmet sections of grocery stores. "We're
looking at new products, at new acquisitions. Wewant to continue the tradition that has made Tabasco
sauce such a winner. I don't know ifwe'll ever have a
winner to the degree that the pepper sauce has been,
but we're sure trying," he says.
While issues relating to new product development
and marketing are of paramount concern to
Mcllhenny, there is far more to life thanjust business
on Avery Island.
Mcllhenny and his wife, Judy, live in a renovated
schoolhouse that used to be used for workers' chil-
dren. He still enjoys many of the things he enjoyed
on the island as a child: bass fishing on ponds that are
occasionally disrupted by the splashing ofnutria and
alligators, bird watching, and admiring the 300-year-
old live oaks on Avery Island, which is not actually an
island but a 2,300 acre patch of high land, sur-
rounded by marshes and swamps and bayous, that
rises above the flat country of South Louisiana.
The Mcllhenny family has long worked to pre-
serve Avery Island's pristine beauty. That tradition
goes back to the 1890s, when E.A. Mcllhenny, son of
company founder Edmund Mcllhenny, established a
bird rookery on the island to protect egrets, which
were on the verge of extinction as commercial hunt-
ers killed them for their plumage, then the rage for
women's hats. The bird rookery now hosts more than
100,000 egrets a year, and the island is considered a
wildlife sanctuary.
He also created a 200-acre garden, now known as
the Jungle Gardens, where native azaleas and huge
live oaks thrive among imported Chinese and Japa-
nese wisteria and bamboo. Thousands of visitors
come to the island each year to learn about Tabasco
sauce and make their way through the Jungle Gar-
dens.
"E.A. Mcllhenny probably was the greatest center
of focus for conservation and preservation of the
environment," Paul says. "But all of us are imbued
with a spirit of responsibility that we can'tjust tamper
with the surface and the minerals underneath it with-
out being mindful of preserving as best we can the
natural beauty of the island."
"We are all loath to cut a live oak tree unless it's
absolutely necessary. In the fields you'll occasionally
see live oaks growing among the peppers."
The peppers, the island, and the company are all
inextricably intertwined for Mcllhenny and his fam-
ily. He still marvels at the international scope of a
company that started almost fortuitously. As he sits in
his Avery Island office, he recounts a story that cap-
tures maybe better than any other the subtle influ-
ence that Tabasco sauce has had on the world.
"My great-grandmother, Mary Eliza Avery
Mcllhenny, was the grande dame of the family. Dur-
ing the turn of the century, three of her sons were in
different parts of the world. My grandfather, Paul,
was in Pretoria, South Africa. His older brother,
Rufus, was in Petrograd, Russia. Their older brother,
John, was in Peking, China. Legend has it that grande
mere got three letters from each of those sons on the
same day and that each letter began: 'Dear Mother,
you will be pleased to know that this morning I was
served a bottle of Tabasco sauce with my breakfast
egg-'"
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Junior Chris Millen.
MEN'S BASKETBALL
The Sewanee men's basketball
team has exceeded most
everyone's pre-season projec-
tions. The team has already more
than doubled last year's four
wins. Senior captain John
Richards has provided invaluable
leadership and inspiration to the
young squad—there are seven
freshmen and four sophomores
on the team—while contributing
a team-leading 13 points per
game. The team was bolstered by
the return of junior Chris Millen
at the semester break, but the de-
termining factor in this team's
success has been an aggressive,
active style of play. Head coach
Joe Thoni often uses as many as
ten players in a game. Atten-
dance has climbed considerably
since the beginning of the season
and with some hard work, the
Tigers hope to finish the 1992-93
season with a winning record.
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
Coach Gabby Lisella's young
squad is steadily improving, al-
though the Tigers were dealt a
devastating blow inJanuary when
senior captain Lynda Motes was
sidelined for the season after sur-
gery. Coupled with some person-
nel losses to study abroad, the
team consistently fields only nine
players. Coach Lisella is optimis-
tic about the prospects for the
remainder of this season and
next, however. "With four fresh-
men and a sophomore and sev-
eral proven players returning
next season, we will be in a muchbetter position with regard to
depth. I believe we are on the
verge of turning the corner.
These are a great bunch of hard-
working kids, and they are learn-
ing with each game," she says.
The Tigers have been ranked as
high as fifth nationally in defense
in Division III and have led the
SCAC in forcing turnovers.
MEN'S AND WOMEN'S
SWIMMINGCoach Mary Kay Samko's Tigers
are enjoying successful seasons to
date. The men's and women's
squads have compiled 3-2 and 1-
3 records respectively. Samko has
been especiallv pleased with the
performances of senior captain
Hayes McDonald in the sprints
and butterfly, senior captain
Libba Manning in the distance
freestyle and breaststroke, sopho-
more Serena Vann in sprint
freestyle, and freshman Jason
Vinton in a number of events.
The women's team has bettered
last year's times in nearly all
events. The Tigers were looking
forward to the Liberal Arts Swim-
ming and Diving (LASDI) con-
ference meet. Samko believes
that both squads should have
strong performances and is opti-
mistic that a majority of the swim-
mers will post personal bests.
Samko added that, "We are really
looking forward to our new pool
in the fall."
Freshman Myranda Davis.
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SPORTS
Junior MacJefferson.
Ju n ior Libba Ma n n ing
FALL SPORTS
AWARDS
Sewanee athletes received nu-
merous accolades during the fall.
Perhaps the most notable, was
seniorJason Forrester's selection
as the University's 17th NCAAPostgraduate Scholar, which is
highlighted in this issue of
Sewanee.
Athletes and coaches receiv-
ing awards in field hockey in-
clude senior Katie Teague, first
team regional All-American and
K.I.T. (Kentucky-Indiana-Tennes-
see) All-Conference as well as
conference MVP; junior Buffy
Gilman, second-team regional
All-American and KI.T. All-Con-
ference; junior Anne Farmer,
second team regional All-Ameri-
can; and Jane Chapman Kern,
1992 Great Lakes Region coach
of the year.
In football, several players
were honored as first-team All-
SCAC (Southern Collegiate Ath-
letic Conference) selections: se-
niors Jason Forrester, Mike
Johnson, Sean Bebbington, and
Mike Mondelli; juniors Adrian
Fryer, Carl Cravens, and Eddie
Maze; and sophomore Dan'l
Moulton. Second-team picks in-
NCAA PLACES SEWANEE
ON PROBATION
The National Collegiate Ath-
letic Association (NCAA)
Committee on Infractions has
placed the University of the
South on probation for a pe-
riod of two years, citing viola-
tions in the men's basketball
program. The probation car-
ries no sanctions. The ruling
does not prevent the
University's student-athletes
or athletic teams from partici-
pating in NCAA post-season
competition nor does it affect
lifi student recruiting.elude senior Frank Greer; inn- ™ XT^. . • • •
I he NCAA action was miti-iors Russ Young, Sean Holland,
, », r , , ated in February 1992 after anand Marc Flmore; sophomore
Brad Mall; and freshman James unauthorized tuition pay-
Spriggs. Seniors Alan Bible, ment was made to the parents
Ladson Hart, David Merrell,
Tony Neill, and Roman Farrar
received honorable mentions.
Coach Bill Samko was the SCACcoach of the year and thejosten's
Division III coach of the year.
of a student-athlete on the
men's basketball team. The
payment was immediately re-
turned to the University by
the parents after it was discov-
In men's cross country, junior ered. On March 5, 1992, the
Matt Kenney was the SCAC con- head coach of the men's bas-
ference champion. ketball team was dismissed.In women's volleyball, fresh- r^, , .,
The investigation by theman Melissa Riley received first-
c „. „ . , . University and the NCAA alsoteam SCAC honors, and junior
Missy Trushel and sophomore found a number of minor vio-
Elizabeth Foss were named to the lations by the men's basketball
second-team All SCAC. coach involving the inappro-
Selections for men's soccer in- priate provision Qf benefitseluded: sophomore Chris Cairns, , , ,- ,r such as merchandise andsecond-team All-South and first-
.„„„.„ , . transportation to student-ath-team All-SCAC; named to the K
second-team All-SCAC were se-letes
-and technical violations
nior Stephen Gidiere, sopho- in the administration of finan-
more Burnsjones, and freshmen cial aid. The University initi-
Will Vaughan and Page Kalish. ated proCedures to correctIn women's soccer, senior . . , ,
this problem prior to receiv-Carla Finch and junior Jeri Lee
j c ** Ancr*r mS the NCAA report. Thewere named tirst-team All-SCAC ° r
selections, and senior Judy Bans University will also establish a
and junior Susie Weston were program to ensure compli-
named to the second-team All-
SCAC.
23
ance with and understanding
of NCAA rules and regula-
tions and file an annual re-
port with the NCAA for the
two-year period regarding the
progress of this program.
The NCAA considered the
case unique and imposed less
than the full set of minimum
penalties. The report states
that the University promptly
detected the violations, con-
ducted a thorough investiga-
tion and forwarded a thor-
ough report to the NCAA,
and initiated strong disciplin-
ary and corrective actions to
ensure that the institution will
comply with the principles of
institutional control and rules
compliance.
Vice-Chancellor Samuel
Williamson informed the
Sewanee community immedi-
ately after learning of die deci-
sion. "We acknowledge the
findings of the NCAA report
and have taken steps to en-
sure the future integrity of our
athletics program," said Will-
iamson.
"We have benefited from
this process of inquiry, and we
recognize the NCAA could
have imposed more signifi-
cant penalties. We are con-
vinced the men's basketball
program is back on track and
confident that all areas of the
NCAA report are being ad-
dressed by the University. Wemust now place the process of
inquiry behind us and move
forward in full compliance
with NCAA rules and regula-
tions."
—by Stephen Becker
THEOLOGY
HONORING FAITHFULNESS
At the seminary, we are
trying to construct
spiritualfoundations
deep enough tn istain a
lifetime j ministry in a
world that neither
understands it nor
values it very much
anymore.
For more than a century,
Sewanee graduates have served
their church and their society
with distinction. Both the Col-
lege and the School of Theology
have produced a considerable
number of bishops, deans, and
canons; scholars and preachers;
rectors and lay leaders of all sorts.
Most of these graduates, both
men and women, have been ac-
knowledged by their dioceses,
their communities, and on occa-
sion by honorary degrees from
their alma mater. All of them are
deserving of such recognition,
and I hope that Sewanee will
continue to produce important
leaders for God's work in both
the current and future genera-
tions.
But the Christian understand-
ing of vocation requires a
broader and more profound
definition of achievement than
that often promoted by the secu-
lar world. We are not, as Chris-
tians, called to be a "success." Weare called instead always to be
faithful, faithful to God with all
our hearts, and minds, and bod-
ies, and souls; and faithful in our
love and service to our neigh-
bors. Viewed in one way, faithful-
ness is by definition its own re-
ward. But I believe that it is terri-
bly important to hold up out-
standing models of faithfulness,
especially in this age that seems
to respect no one and debunks
all values and ideals. Accordingly,
I have proposed to the vice-chan-
cellor and the regents, and they
have strongly endorsed, the idea
that the School of Theology be-
gin at next fall's DuBose/St.
Luke's Convocation to recognize
long years of faithful service by
our alumni/ae.
Faithfulness is a combination
of being and doing. Our being is
shaped by and reflected in the
vows that we have taken: our bap-
tismal vows, our confirmation
vows, and, for some of us, our
wedding vows and our ordina-
tion vows. These vows set a stan-
dard of expectation for us and
mold the inner character that we
each hope to develop.
Faithfulness is also about do-
ing. I have always loved St. Paul's
wonderful images of ministry:
"Always be steady, endure suffer-
ing, do the work of an evangelist,
fulfill your ministry. As for me, I
am already being poured out as a
libation and the time of my de-
parture has come. I have fought
the good fight, I have finished
the race, I have kept the faith. "(2
Tim. 4:6) Or, Christ's admoni-
tion to us, "He who would find
his life will lose it and he who
would lose his life for my sake will
find it."(Matt. 10:39) Being faith-
ful is responding to the needs of
others, being a pastor, being a
teacher, even at times being an
administrator for the work that
Christ has given us to do in this
world. The world's reward for
faithfulness in such doing may
often simply be a feeling of tired-
ness at the end of the day. I want
to honor and sanctify that tired-
ness as a mark of faithfulness to
God's call and our response.
The principle purpose of a
seminary and its formation pro-
cess is to develop those qualities
of personal character and being,
of commitment, and of knowl-
edge and skill that are necessary
for doing the work that God has
called us to do. At the seminary,
we are trying to construct spiri-
tual foundations deep enough to
sustain a lifetime of ministry in a
world that neither understands it
nor values it very much anymore.
Several years ago, AlanJones and
I suggested the image of the soar-
ing cathedral spire as one picture
of the spiritual life. The spire can
reach as high into the sky as we
wish, as long as the foundation
built beneath it is deep enough
to secure it. A spire with a shallow
foundation will topple and fall,
to the destruction of the Church
and those around it. Digging a
foundation is not glamorous and
exciting work, but digging a
foundation is essential to the life
of inspiration and faithfulness
that all hope will follow.
Let me ask, through this col-
umn, that you take a look around
at your former classmates and
other School of Theology gradu-
ates whom you know in the
Church. Identify and nominate
to us those alumni/ae in whomyou see great qualities of faithful-
ness. In turn, we want to recog-
nize them publicly as models for
all of us as we seek to carry out
our vocations in the Church.
The Alumni/ae Council and I
have established a committee to
receive these nominations, dis-
cuss them, and to make recom-
mendations. I hope that you will
plan now to be with us in the fall
to hear the inspiring lectures of
Walter Bruggemann as our 1993
DuBose lecturer, to participate in
the practical workshops sur-
rounding those lectures, and to
join with us in a banquet of rec-
ognition for all Sewanee gradu-
ates as they serve the Church, but
especially for several among us
whom we want to honor as out-
standingly faithful servants. I wel-
come your thoughts and nomi-
nations. God bless.
—The Very Rev. Dr. Guy Fitch
Lytklll
24
CLASS NOTES
'20
James Deupree, of Memphis,
Term., is 97 years old and has been
married to his wife, Elizabeth, for
73 years.
'31
of Tullahoma, Tenn., becamegreat-grandparents in December1990.' Arthur Ben Chitty of
Sewanee, has been busy co-
authoring the book 99 Iron andwriting the introduction to the
book The Mountain Goat. He also
does prospect research for the Pre-
siding Bishop's Fund.
'54
W. Gilbert Dent III
205 Sherwood Drive
Laurens, SC 29360
Leonard Wood of Nashville, Tenn.,
married Clara Creighton Rather
on February 29, 1992.
'58
Henry SlierrodJr.
1 730 Ingleside Avenue
Florence]AL 35630
Albert Jones of Signal Mountain,
Tenn., is working with Merrill
Lynch in Chattanooga, Tenn.
C.R. Kellerman, of South
Pittsburg, Tenn., says that the good
news is "he's still alive."
'49
'32Robert B. Sears
2818 Avenel Ave.
Roanoke, VA 24015
William P. Richardson Jr. of NewOrleans celebrated 57 years in the
priesthood in December 1992. For
23 of those years, he was rector of
St. George's Episcopal Church in
New Orleans. Since retiring from
full-time ministry in 1976, Bill has
spent a summer in London, where
he was priest-in-charge at St.
John's, Hyde Park Crescent. Heserved five months in a similar post
at Christ Church, Kona Coast, Ha-
'33
Edwin I. Hatch Sr.
3425 Wood Valley Road, N.W.
Atlanta, GA 30327
Edwin Hatch of Atlanta, Ga., re-
ports that at 79 years old he's still
"going strong."
'34
/. Fain Cravens
30 Ridgeland
Tuscaloosa, AL 35406
Dudley Fort of Nashville, Tenn.,
made a trip to New England in
October with his brother, Rufus E.
Fort Jr.
'35
Edward Harrison
360 West Brainerd Street
Pensacola, FL 32501
John Brandon and his wife, Jane,
John R Guerry
1000 West Brow Road
Lookout Mountain, TN 37350
Crit Currie runs Crit Currie & Co.
real estate in Memphis, Tenn.
Howard M. Smith III and his wife,
Nita, have sold their family homeand bought eight acres of land and
a log home in Dade County, Ga.
'56
John Pennington Bowers
Route 3, Box 374
RocheUe, VA 22738
John David Lindholm of Atlanta,
Ga., graduated with a law degree
from Georgia State University in
August 1992.
"fi«
'50Richard B. Doss
5555 Del Monte, #1007
Houston, TX 77056
Edward Brooks reports that he's
retired and trying to stay healthy in
Gainesville, Ga.
7Oliver Wlieelerfervis
1013 Catalpa Lane
Naperville, IE 60540
In July 1992, Oscar Fowler was ap-
pointed head of the Department
of Management in the College of
Business at the University of Ten-
nessee at Knoxville.
F. Newton. Howden, C'40, Looks at Afterlife
The Rev. F. Newton Howden, C'40, is the author of a new book,
Life Here and Hereafter, a study and discussion of life after death.
Now retired and living in England, Father Howden re-
searched this book over 40 years of parish ministry, when he
served Episcopal churches in New York, Vermont, and Con-
necticut.
Though the book is anchored securely in Christian theol-
ogy, Howden reaches into other religions and ancient cultures
to give us a better understanding of the origins of human
thought about life beyond death. He draws upon the cases of
people who have undergone mystical and near-death experi-
ences to help shed light on Christian concepts of eternal life.
In his introduction, the Rt. Rev. John M. Allin, C'43, de-
scribes Life Here and Hereafter as "thought provoking and pleas-
ant reading."
Life Here and Hereaftermay be ordered direcdy from the pub-
lisher, Proctor's Hall Press. Copies are available in hardcover
($22.50) and paperback ($15.75). For mail order, please in-
clude $2.50 for postage and handling—checks payable to
Proctor's Hall Press. Send to Proctor's Hall Press, P.O. Box 856,
Sewanee, TN 37375.
Howard W. Harrison fr.
435 Spring Mill Road
Villa nova, PA 19085
Gerard Moser of Geneva, Switzer-
land, is in his 17th year as rector of
Emmanuel Church, oftentimes re-
ferred to as the American Church.
He married Carole Hambletonfrom Philadelphia on July 10,
1992.
mGerald H. Summers
199 S. Crest Road
Chattanooga, TN 37404
A British educational television
network has made a film about the
art of Joseph Winkelman of Ox-
ford. Winkelman, who specializes
in original printmaking, has had
prints exhibited in galleries
throughout England and America.
'65Douglas
J.Milne
3547 Richmond Street
Jacksonville, FL 32205-9421
Charles E. Goodman Jr. of Milton,
Tenn., has a dermatology practice
in Murfi eesboro where his remod-
eled office, a two-story home, was
on the fall tour of houses spon-
sored by the Association for the
Preservation ofTennessee Antiqui-
ties. His Hollow Farm was namedcommercial producer of the year
for 1992.
'66
John Day Peakefr.
P.O. Drawer 2527
Mobile, AL 36622
Donald Shannonhouse lives in
25
CLASS NOTES
Sewanee where he is "indulging in
photography, writing, communityservice, and EFM." Ralph Walke
and his wife, Kari, of Dublin, Ga.,
have a son, Campbell Wallace
Walke, born July 28, 1992. Joe
Webb of Atlanta, Ga., retired from
business and is developing a family
enterprise on their 160 acres in the
North Georgia mountains.
'71 '73
'67
Albert Sidney Polk III
2101 Harbor Drive
Annapolis, Ml) 21401
J.E. Sturdivant Jr. of Memphis,
Term., is a flight crew member of
Federal Express, "working mostly
nights to make sure that your pack-
age absolutely, positively gets deliv-
ered on time." Dan T. Work Jr. ot
Germantown, Tenn., is a newlywed
working with a CPA firm specializ-
ing in services to automobile
dealerships.
Herndon Inge III
4059 Stein Street
Mobile, AL 36608
Kenneth Ezell and his wife, Carol,
of Nashville, Tenn., had their third
child, Katherine Armstrong, on
September 15, 1992. Bill McCordof Brentwood, Tenn., is a staff anes-
thesiologist for the faculty of the
School of Medicine at Vanderbilt
University. Erie Newton of Ken-
nesaw, Ga., opened Buffalo's Cafe
in Rome, Ga., on November 3,
1992. Gary Wright of Dunwoody,
Ga., was recently made vice presi-
dent of investments with DeanWitter, where he has been em-
ployed for 14 years.
'72
'68
Thomas S. Rue
P.O. Box 1988
Mobile, AL 36633
Tracy Lightcap of Atlanta, Ga., is
an assistant professor of political
science at LaGrange College in
LaGrange, Ga.
TV. Pendleton Rogers
115 North 1st St., #117
Richmond, VA 23219
Bill McElveen of Columbia, S.C., is
the president of Radio South Caro-
lina, Inc. He married Katie
McCaslin of Washington, D.C.. on
August 22, 1992. Kyle Rote Jr. of
Memphis, Tenn., is the president
of Athletic Resource Managementand manages some 30 NBA and
NFL players.
When you read about great composers, you'll find
Sewanee in the middle of them!
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Instrumental Training • Focus on Orchestra and Chamber Music •
WoddrCIassFaculty and QuestArtists
Write: Sewanee Summer Music Center, Sewanee TN 37375
Call: (615) 598-1225 or 598-5881
JosiahM. Daniel HI
Winstead, McGwire, Sechrest& Minick
5400 Renaissance Tower
1201 Elm Street
Dallas, TX 75270
Melissa Rogers Young of Athens,
Ga., teaches all levels of Spanish at
Augusta College and is in charge
of coordinating the foreign lan-
guage education program there.
74Martin R. Tilson Jr.
508 Broadland Road
Atlanta, GA 30342
Richard Dunavant and his wife,
Jaretha, are living in Pulaski,
Tenn., taking care of two old
houses, two farms, and 14 horses.
He is an assistant district attorney
for the state of Tennessee. Charles
B. Morton Jr. of Nashville, Tenn.,
received his MBA in Decemberfrom Belmont University's Gradu-
ate School of Business.
'75
Robert T. Coleman 111
The Liberty Corporation
P.O. Box 789
Greenville, SC 29602
John Hoover ol Memphis, Tenn.,
owner ofJohn Hoover Flowers, has
signed a contract to do all of the
flowers for the new movie The Firm.
Hank Rast and his wife, Rebecca
demons Rast (C'78), have three
children and live in Riverdale, Ga.,
where he serves as the chairman
of the English department at
Sandy Creek High School.
Rebecca serves on the board of di-
rectors of Crossroads Christian
School and works with a crisis
pregnancy center.
'76
Jaynes H. Grier
1520 Barberry Lane
Spartanburg,'SC 29302
Carol Elliott of Nashville, Tenn.,
received an award from the Na-
tional Cowboy Hall of Fame for
Western Song of 1991. The song is
entitled "Corn, Water 8c Wood"
and was recorded by Michael Mar-
tin Murphey. Carol released her
fourth independent cassette of
original songs last August. Kevin
Harper and his wife, Denise, of
Alpharetta, Ga., have a second
child. Chase Murphy, born No-
vember 25, 1992. GrahamNicholson and his wife, Gay, of
Rex, Ga., have a new son who was
born on August 18, 1992. Melody
Bock Womble married Gary
Womble on February 8, 1992. They
live in Louisville, Tenn., where
Melody is an attorney.
'77
Nora Frances McRae1515 North State Street
Jackson, MS 39202
Richard Courtney of Nashville,
Tenn., is a real estate broker with
Fridrich and Clark. He recently re-
leased his second book, Buyers Are
Liars and Sellns Are, Too. Joe
DeLozier III and his wife, Jan, of
Nashville, Tenn., have a daughter,
Sarah, born August 14, 1992.
Walter Smith of Tuscaloosa, Ala., is
a doctoral student in mass commu-nication at the University of Ala-
bama. He also teaches political sci-
ence part-time at the University of
Alabama, Birmingham. Rebecca
Williams Wood of Athens, Ga., is a
designer for R. Wood Studio,
which designs hats and tableware
that are sold worldwide.
'78
R. Philip Carpenter
1465 Northlake Drive
Jackson, MS 39211-2138
Martin Bailey graduated from the
University of Tennessee College of
Law in May 1992 and now works as
an attorney for Hunton and Will-
iams in Knoxville, Tenn. Blair
Dickerson of Cairo, Ga., is a ninth
grade social studies teacher.
Burney Durham of Gallatin, Tenn.,
was recently appointed chief clerk
of the House of Representatives
for the Tennessee General Assem-
bly.
26
CLASS NOTES
79Roberta Bartusch Goertz
36 South Hillside Place
Eidgewood, NJ 07450
George Clarke is vice president of
Galbreath Insurance Agency in
Memphis, Term. He also teaches a
continuing education course at
Memphis State University on the
history of the Civil War.
'80
Suzanne L. DeWalt
1066 Old Gate Road
Pittsburg, PA 15235
Peggy Barr and Chris Stuart live in
Dryden, N.Y, where Peggy is a vet-
erinary virologist and Chris has a
band called Cornerstone whose
song, "Maggie's Daughter," was
#29 on the National Bluegrass Sur-
vey in November. Mary Beth Berry
and her husband, Dale, have a son,
James Allen, born September 8,
1992. Rob Campbell of Atlanta,
Ga., is the owner of RJ's UptownKitchen & Wine Bar. He was se-
lected for the Board of Directors of
Atlanta Wine Guild. Jim Clausen
and his wife, Lisa, have a new son,
James Garrett, born July 1, 1992.
Bette Brown Cleland of Jackson-
ville, Fla., works part-time as a
medical/surgical nurse. Katy
Hamilton Cook and her husband,
Reuben, ofTuscaloosa, Ala., have a
son, Hamilton Wright, born Au-
gust 17, 1992. A. Brian Craven of
Eustis, Fla., has been promoted to
advertising and corporate ID man-ager for United Telephone of
Florida. Pat Dilworth will finish his
urology residency at the MayoClinic in 1994. Rose Mary Drake
of Goodlettsville, Term., opened a
bed and breakfast at a family farm
near Nashville in August. Laurie
Fowler of Athens, Ga., is an attor-
ney and professor at the University
of Georgia Law School and Mercer
University. She recently published
two handbooks, A Georgia Guide to
Envirotimental Protection at the Gov-
ernment Level, Vols. I and II. AngusW. Graham III and his wife,
Caroline Clark Graham, of
Gainesville, Fla., have a son, Will-
iam Percy, born October 31, 1992.
Carolyn Kinman Lankford and her
husband, Frank (C'71), of Bir-
mingham, Ala., have a second son,
Fred, born June 29, 1992. Beth
Taylor Lemm and her husband,
John, of Cordova, Tenn., adopted
a son, Braxton, in February 1992.
Paige Wood Marlow ot Houston,
Texas, is in Conoco's in-house
management training program for
environmental affairs. JohnNicholson of Newark, Del., is an
assistant professor of classics at the
L'niversity of Delaware. Susan
Ramsay Pryor of Atlanta, Ga., is
the catering coordinator for a law
firm. She runs a catering kitchen
and 25-room conference facility
for the firm. Jeanne HeuermanSauder and her husband, Larry,
were married on April 25, 1992.
They live in Charlotte, N.C., where
she works for the public school sys-
tem in a new magnet school. Brian
Simpson and his wife, Diane, have
a second child, Devin, born June18, 1992. Elizabeth Brailsford
Stein of Lookout Mountain, Ga., is
an artist exhibiting in galleries in
Nashville and Chattanooga. Billy
Ray Smith and his wife, Valerie, of
Tinker AFB, Okla., have a son,
Timothy Jeremiah, born July 5,
1992. Hugh Stephenson and his
wife, Amy Rhodes (C'84), of At-
lanta, Ga., have a second child,
Jack L. Stephenson II, born Febru-
ary 5, 1992. Hugh is working in the
portfolio management programwith Oppenheimer and Company.
Allison Sundberg Lane lives in Del
Mar, Calif. Emily Fuhrer Swan of
Brunswick, Maine, is the co-chair-
person for the local Amnesty Inter-
national group. John Tucker of
Alexander City, Ala., is an anes-
thesiologist and was the 1992 presi-
dent of the medical staff of Russell
Hospital. Bill Wilson married
Cathy Elender on May 9, 1992.
They live in Houston, Texas, where
Bill practices law.
'81
Brent T. Minor
400 Commonwealth Avenue, #204
Alexandria, VA 22301
Cindy Albrecht Durham of
Gallatin, Tenn., is the director of
Sumner County Court-Appointed
Special Advocate program. Susan
Folwell Massa and her husband,
Jim, of Afpharetta, Ga., have a
third son, Oliver Hopkins, born
November 3, 1992. Gary Rowcliffe
married Sandra Shurden on Octo-
ber 3, 1992. They live in Knoxville,
Tenn., where Gary is a sales repre-
sentative for Northwestern Mutual.
Wade Turner is living in Macon,
Ga., where he is vice president of
commercial real estate lending for
First Liberty Bank.
Stewart A. W. Low215 Homer Avenue
Voorhees, NJ 08043
Victor Johnson clerks for the Ala-
bama State Supreme Court. Susan
Nunley Marttala of McMinnville,
Tenn., and her husband, David
Marttala, have a daughter, Shelby
Lane, born on December 12, 1992.
Stuart Murray of Savannah, Ga.,
practices anesthesia at St. Joseph's
Hospital. Paul Pearigen and his
wife, Kim Kerr, of San Diego, Ca-
lif., have a daughter, Jessica Marie,
born August' 19, 1992. Brad
Trammell married Kate
McClintock of Tunica, Miss., on
April If, 1992. They live in Mem-phis, Tenn., where Brad is an attor-
ney. Davis Turner of Nashville,
Tenn., is corporate counsel in the
legal department of the Hospital
Corporation of America.
'84
Stewart Thomas
5530 Montrose
Dal/as, TX 75209
Tricia Bowers of Atlanta, Ga., is
working with inner-city youth
through an organization called
Moving in the Spirit. Dorothy
Defore Buck of Monteagle, Tenn.,
teaches English at East Middle
School and is going to law school.
Christopher Campbell and his
wife, Kendle, of Atlanta, Ga., have
a son, Ian Douglas, born August 1,
1992. Jan M. Rodgers Dale and
her husband. Bob, had a daughter,
Stuart Gough, on August 31, 1992.
Jan is vice president of Third Na-
tional Bank in Nashville, Tenn.
Paul Flusche of Falls Church, Va.,
was a speech writer for Interior
Secretary Manuel Lujan. Leslie
Cunningham Forrester and her
husband, Michael, of Kingsport,
Tenn., have a second daughter,
Anna Carleton, born January 24,
1992. Chip Headrick is president
ofKing of Kleen, Inc., a full-service
conveyor operated car wash in
Chattanooga, Tenn.Jimbo King of
Chattanooga, Tenn., is the director
of boarding school admissions for
Baylor School. The Rev. Daniel P.
Matthews Jr. is (he assistant rector
at St. Mark's Episcopal Church in
Jacksonville, Fla. Rosemary Gra-
ham Mora of Gainesville, Ga., is an
environmental scientist at KBNEngineering. Kathryn Newman at-
tends the University of Tennessee
at Knoxville where she is working
on a master's degree in elementary
education. Teresa Owen of Dallas,
Texas, married Andrew Schaeck-
enback of Los Angeles on Novem-ber 21, 1992. Jim Rox graduated
from Vanderbilt Divinity School
and is entering the Ph.D. program
in religion and literature at the
University of Chicago. He and his
wife, Ann, had a daughter, Julia,
born last March. Richard Roland
Spore III and his wife, Trish, of
Memphis, Tenn., have a daughter,
Caroline Dare, bornJune 27, 1992.
Stephen and Beth Templeton have
a third daughter, Julia Catherine,
born October 1, 1992. Stephen is
completing a fellowship in
dermopathology at Emory Univer-
sity. Amie Tuten Whittemore and
her husband, Robert Lewis, were
married on December 5, 1992.
They are living in Canaan, Conn.
"35
Laurie C.Jarrett Rogers
115 North 1st St., #117
Richmond, VA 23219
Mark Balte and his wife, Cindy, of
Decatur, Ga., have a daughter,
Elizabeth Grace, born October 8,
1992. Barry Brent Bean married
Vicki Davis on December 23, 1992.
They live in Memphis. Christopher
Behnke married Erin Fitzpatrick
on October 24, 1992. He is run-
ning a family business in Decatur,
111. Arthur Brantley of Japan is
working as a representative for the
state of Montana. Gibbons Burke
of Chicago, 111., started working in
March for Futures magazine, a
monthly publication serving the fi-
nancial futures, options, and de-
rivatives markets. Phil Campbell
lives in Memphis, Tenn., and re-
cently left a career in television
news to attend law school at Mem-phis State University. Ann
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CLASS NOTES
Chapleau Edmonds <>1 Memphis,
Term., is a learning specialist in the
Educational Support Program at
Memphis State University. Myles
and Rachel Davis Elledge are living
in Kensington, Md., after return-
ing from a 15-month tour of duty
with aJapanese consulting associa-
tion in Tokyo. Jay Faires of Los An-
geles, Calif., recently completed a
world-wide joint venture agree-
ment with Time-Warner subsid-
iary, Atlantic Records. Griffith Gar-
ner and his wife, Sarah, have a
daughter, Jessica Anne, born June
20, 1992. Martha Hodgkins Green
of Alexandria, Va., is working as a
writer/editor with the Nature Con-
servancy. Jill Gajda Hart and her
husband, Bill, of Charlotte, N.C.,
have a third child, Cooper, born
last year. Hank Hopping < >l Chatta-
nooga, Tenn., is the head baseball
coach .u the McCallic School.
Becca Stevens Hummon of Nash-
ville, Tenn., is an Episcopal priest
organizing a jail visitation pro-
gram. Freeman Jelks married
Heather O'Neill in Atlanta on Sep-
tember 26, 1992. Kate Engleby
Kelderman and her husband,
Theo, of Charlottesville, Va., have
a son, Harry Keene, born Novem-ber 23, 1992. Andy Kohler oi
Caldwell, N.J., recently joined In-
formation Resources, Inc.
Cornelia Barrett LaRussa and her
husband, Joe, of Birmingham,
Ala., have a daughter, Cornelia
Barrett, born July 5, 1992. Eliza-
beth Fuller Oliver is living in Ann
Todd Williams, C90, Studyi?igin China
Arbor, Mich., where she has a newpb m geriatric rehabilitation as a
physical therapist of an extended
care family. Laurie Jarrett Rogers is
director of development for the
Valentine Museum, an urban his-
tory museum in Richmond, Va.
Tina Rose of Tullahoma, Tenn.,
owns T Michelle, a fine apparel
and ladies specialty shop, and is
the general manager ofTullahoma
Machinery and Tool Corporation.
John Shaw and his wife, Lynne, of
Sacramento, Calif., have a son,
James William, born November 20,
1992. William Tonks of Athens,
Ga., was married last May. His
country band. Redneck Greece
De-Lux, released a 12-song music
compact disc called Good Eatin '.
John Winstead was recently mar-
ried and lives in Memphis, Tenn.
Who would have picked a 6-
foot-3 political science major
out of the commencement
crowd in May 1990 and
guessed he would spend the
next three years halfway
around the world in China?
Probably not even the gradu-
ate himself, Todd Williams, of
Jacksonville, Fla. Two-and-a-
5JP 8b
Todd Williams works with a student.
half years later, Williams has been in Asia studying Chinese at
two different universities. He was given this opportunity
through a Southern Baptists' aid organization entitled Coop- gan Keegan and Company, Inc
Robert H. Johnson Jr. lives in At
lanta, Ga., and works as a manage
Read Carson Van cle Water
2214 38th Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20007
Louise Gibbs Basarrate of Atlanta,
Ga., is the development director of
Jerusalem House, a non-profit per-
manent housing program for
people with HIV/AIDS who would
otherwise be homeless. JohnWesley Clayton, of Huntsville, Ala.,
was named vice president at Mor-
erative Service International(CSI). Having experienced a lib-
eral arts education at a small school in America, he was ready
for a change of scenery and culture. At Fudan University,
where he first studied, he lived in a compound with other for-
eign students of the university and was not able to immerse
himself in the Chinese culture and way of life that he wanted
to experience; so, he took the initiative to change that.
Williams looked into being reassigned to a setting that of-
fered an atmosphere in which he could use the language he
was studying in conversations with Chinese students and
friends. Fortunately for the Sewanee alumnus, a retired Chi-
nese English teacher, C.K. Zhang, was looking at the same time
for foreign Christian students for his school in Wuhu. Before
long Williams was enrolled at the Teachers University in Wuhu.
Williams was the only foreign student at die teachers' uni-
versity last year. He finished his two-year journeyman assign-
ment and worked this past summer with CSFs summer teach-
ing program. So sure is he of his place in Wuhu that Williams
decided to spend anothei yeai there instead ol coming back
to the states and thinking about business or law school.
menl associate in corporate fi-
nance for Citibank. Darby Ray is
finishing her Ph.D. in theology at
Vanderbilt and is planning to
teach philosophy and religion at a
liberal arts college. JoAnne White
Ray of Cordova, Tenn., is working
on her Ph.D. in psychology and
counseling adolescents at Lakeside
Hospital.
'87
Robert Morales
2588 Winslow Drive, N.E.
Atlanta, GA 30305-3743
Howie Acuff of Malibu, Calif., is
studying law at Pepperdine Univer-
sity. Henry D.W. Burt II of Rich-
mond, Va., is working for the Epis-
copal Diocese of Virginia in de-
ployment for the Rev. Canon EClayton Matthews. Jessica Elliott
Boyd married Edward Wallis
Carter D7, (C'88), at All Saints'
Chape] in Sewanee on June 13,
1992. Rose Bedford Hafley has
had much success selling her stud-
ies of drawings from the Renais-
sance Masters at the Swan CoachHouse Gallery in Atlanta. FoxHelmsJohnston Jr. marriedJarmin
Lee Steffner at St. Paul's Episcopal
Church in Chattanooga, Tenn., on
November 21, 1992. Michael
McSurdy of Nashville, Tenn., is the
regional director for the Youth Vil-
lages Families program. Ashley
Jackson Spencer and her husband,
Peter, of Alexandria, Va., have a
second child, Jackson Davies, born
June 25, 1992. Ashley works part-
time in a Washington, D.C. law
firm, splitting her time between
day care and freelance artwork.
'88
Kyle Elisabeth Dice
1217 Lyncrest
Jackson, MS 39202
Elizabeth Brown of Brentwood,
Tenn., is the director of human re-
sources for a home health care
age nc v. Allen Buck of Monteagle,
Tenn., is a systems programmer for
OAO Corporation in Tullahoma,
Tenn. Russ Furman is a student at
the Fuqua School of Business at
Duke University. Savas Kyriakidis
married Carrie Phelps on Decem-
ber 31 , 1992. Shae Espy Minnick of
Soddy-Daisy, Tenn., teaches kin-
dergarten through eighth grade
Spanish at The Senter School.
Robert Bryan Murphy married
Julie Michele King (C'89). at All
Saints' Chapel in Sewanee on De-
cember 12, 1992. Roger Taylor
married Natalie Watts on October
24, 1992. The Taylors live in At-
lanta where Roger is a loan officer
for Mt. Vernon Federal Savings
Bank. Lee-Ford Tritt was in a
scene on the ABC-TV soap opera.
All My Children, in October. Now he
is reading for other soap opera
parts.
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CLASS NOTES
'89
John Patten Guerryjr.
1619 T Bridge Mill Drive
Marietta, GA 30061
Laura Jane Atchison attends the
University of Georgia in Athens
where she is pursuing her master's
degree in English education. Ivan
Boatner graduated from Tulane
Law School in May 1992, married
Elizabeth Johnson on August 8,
and passed the Bar exam in Octo-
ber. He is now an attorney in OakRidge. Tenn. Shawn Graham mar-
ried Anna Beasnett (C90), on Oc-
tober 24, 1992, in Gulfport, Miss.
The Grahams live in Sewanee,
Tenn. He works as an assistant pub-
lic defender for Coffee County.
Anna works as the assistant area
campaign director for the Univer-
sity of the South. Kim Hatfield is
living in Sewanee and working in
the development office as associate
director of annual giving. RebekahMcClatchey lives in Atlanta, Ga.,
where she serves as the director of
the After-School Enrichment Pro-
gram at Pace Academy. Laura K.
Millard of Nashville, Tenn., is the
publications coordinator with the
Tennessee Health Care Associa-
tion. Patricia Pyle of Nashville,
Tenn., is pursuing her Ph.D. andteaching French at Vanderbilt Uni-
versity. Michael Reeves of Chapel
Hill, N.C., is the director ol the
Young Alumni Program at DukeUniversity. Last summer, he re-
ceived one of five national awards
given for excellence in fund rais-
ing management by the Council
for the Advancement and Support
of Education (CASE). Nancy
Reiser is the associate University
organist and choirmaster at
Sewanee for the Easter semester.
'90
C. Katy Morrissey
3103 Wheat Street
Columbia, SC 29205
Becky Budd of Lawrenceville, N.J.,
has her master's degree in voice
from Westminster Choir College
and now works both as a memberof the voice faculty at Westminster
and in the Dean of Students' Of-
fice at Princeton University. Kathy
Gotko Bruce of Athens, Ga., is a
Sewanee Summer School1993
June 6 throughJuly 18
This year's summer session will offer more than 25 courses
in subjects ranging from anthropology to theatre.
For more information on summer school, please unite to:
ProfessorJohn V. Reishman
Director of the Summer School
University of the South
735 University Avenue
Sewanee, TN 37375-1000
Or call the summer school office at (615) 598-1248.
student all. in s ad\ ism al the I mversity of Georgia. Brandon Dixon
of Maryville, Tenn.. is a first-year
student at the Lhiiversity of Ten-
nessee Veterinary School in Knox-
ville. Andrew Jones of Nashville,
Tenn., has been named assistant
manager of the new downtownbranch of the Nashville Bank of
Commerce. Missy Meredith ol
Cordova, Tenn., is teaching 11th
grade American literature andSpanish I at Bolton High School.
Adrienne Paul ( if Maryville, Tenn.,
is in her third year of living in
Rwanda, this year teaching English
after two years of Peace Corps work
there. Tracey Ellis Spang of At-
lanta, Ga., is teaching second
grade at Midway Elementary
School. Neill Touchstone of At-
lanta, Ga., is leasing office space
for Piedmont Center Associates.
David Wright of Crestwood, N.Y, is
in his second year of studies for an
M.Div. at St. Vladimir's Orthodox
Seminary.
'91
Marsey L. Waller
3741 Gunston Road
Alexandria, VA 22302
Julie McClure of Knoxville, Tenn.,
has begun graduate school at the
University of Tennessee in library
and information science. Lauren
McDonald of Fayetteville, Ga., is
teaching drama at Fayette County
High School. Jim Wells of Colum-
bia, S.C., is working on his master's
degree in English at the University
of South Carolina. Jenny Wilson of
Atlanta is the assistant to the direc-
tor of discipleship at North Avenue
Presbyterian Church, working with
Young Life, and ministering to the
homeless and drug users.
'92
LeeD. Cogburn
710 Hinman Ave. #3B
Evanston, IL 60202
Kristi Lee is living in Nashville,
Tenn., where she is an alumni and
development staff assistant at
Vanderbilt University. Wil Mills is a
researcher in Sewanee 's Office of
University Relations. Jessie Murray
is taking pre-veterinary courses at
the University of Georgia. Patrice
Schermerhorn ol Chattanooga,
Tenn.. is a special agent forensic
s( ientist lor the Tennessee Bureau
of Investigation.
SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY
'55
Joseph L. Peacock is retired and
livins in Decatur, Ga.
'60
H. Don Harrison of Stockbridge.
Ga., is an adjunct professor in hu-
man resources at Mercer Univer-
sity and a consultant in govern-
mental administration.
'63
The Rev. John D. Bolton of
Roswell, Ga., is a part-time assistant
at the Church of Our Savior in At-
lanta and a part-time chaplain at
West Paces Medical Centre in At-
lanta.
'69
The Rev. Hendree Harrison of
Roswell, Ga., was elected to
Sewanee's Board of Trustees from
the Diocese of Atlanta for a three-
year term.
'84
J. Alfred Thigpen is now a music
critic and features writer with the
Grand Rapids, Michigan press.
'87
The Rev. Carter N. Paden III of
Norris, Tenn., is the rector of St.
Francis' Episcopal church. He was
awarded a fellowship at the Col-
lege of Preachers in Washington,
D.C. in May 1992.
'92
Dr. Paul B. Isom is the pastor at
Central Christian in Murfreesboro,
Tenn.
IN MEMORIAMAlfred T. Airth, C29, of Live Oak,
Fla., died January 2, 1993. He was
a retired attorney and active mem-ber in the Episcopal Diocese of
Florida. A member of Phi GammaDelta, he received his law degree
from the University of Florida at
Gainesville. He served in the U.S.
Navy from 1942-45, and served
both as a trustee of the University
of the South and as a member of
the Florida legislature. He is sur-
vived by his wife, Elizabeth.
Gov. Ellis Gibbs Arnall, C'28,
H'47, of Atlanta, Ga., died Decem-ber 12, 1992. A member of the
Kappa Alpha fraternity at
Sewanee, he went on to earn his
law degree from the University of
Georgia in 1931. At the age of 25,
the future governor was elected
speaker pro tempore of the Geor-
gia House of Representatives, at 31
he was Georgia's attorney general,
and by age 35 he was governor of
Georgia. The "boy wonder" was
known for his reforms of the 1940s
including his paving the way for
school integration in the state,
abolition of the poll tax, and the
lowering of the voting age to 18.
He was instrumental in the repeal
of "preferential rail rates," a post
Givil War practice by which rail-
roads discriminated against south-
ern farms and manufacturers. Hewas a University trustee from 1948-
51. He is survived by his secondwife, Ruby; a son. Alvan S. Arnall,
C'60; a step-daughter; a brother,
Frank M. Arnall II, C'37, three
grandchildren and two step-grand-
children, including James Ham-ilton Campbell, C'94.
Herman E. Baggenstoss, C'33, of
Tracy City, Tenn., died December13, 1992. He was the owner andpublisher of the Grundy County Her-
ald and a prominent environmen-
talist in Tennessee. He served in
many environmental posts, includ-
ing with South Cumberland Recre-
ation Area Commission andGrundy County Conservation
I'n mi (I. I [c was .i hlc l< mg membeiof Christ Church Episcopal in
Tracy City. He is survived by his
wife, Mary, and three brothers.
Carl Webster Bear Jr., C'67, of
Mathews, Ala., died in early No-vember 1992. He was president of
Bear, Inc., a river barging com-pany. He is survived by his father, a
sister, and a daughter.
Richard W. Courts of Atlanta, Ga.,
died December 31, 1992. He was a
director and retired chairman of
the board of Atlantic Realty Com-pany which he founded in 1952
and was a trustee of Courts Foun-
dation which gives grants primarily
in Georgia. He was a good friend
of Sewanee, having been one of
the donors for Courts dormitory,
in memory of his brother, Malon,
in 1964. He is survived by his wife,
Virginia.
James Havis Dawson Jr., C32, of
Daphne, Ala., died May 3, 1992.
He was a retired school teacher,
administrator, and sports coach.
He was an outstanding athlete
while at Sewanee, playing and ex-
celling in many sports, and a mem-ber of Sigma Nu fraternity. He is
survived by his wife, Estelle.
Joe W. Earnest, C'28, of Colorado
City, Texas, diedJune 24, 1992. Hewas a member of Delta Tau Delta
fraternity while at Sewanee. Heearned his master's degree in En-
glish from Columbia University
and his law degree from the Uni-
versity of Texas. He was a lawyer
and long-time trustee of the Uni-
versity.
Benjamin C. Eastwood, C'29, of
New Orleans, La., died December5, 1992. He attended Tulane andWashington and Lee universities
after Sewanee and became man-ager of the New Orleans Choral
Svmphony.
We have learned of the recent
death of Robert F. Evans, C'26, of
Nashville, Tenn. He was a retired
president of Southeastern Capital
Corporation. He is survived by two
daughters.
The Rev. Arthur C. Freeman, T'46,
<>l Fremont, < lalii., rc< entlv died.
He was a retired Episcopal priest,
having served in both Mississippi
and California. He is survived by
his wife, Eugenia.
James A. Hamilton Jr., C36, of
Nashville, Tenn., died November4, 1992. He was a registered land
surveyor, civil engineer, and land-
scape architect and headed his
own firm of consulting engineers.
After graduating from Sewanee,
he received degrees from the
Cumberland University School of
Law, Samford University, andVanderbilt University School of
Engineering. He was a member of
the Royal College of Organists anda Knight of the Royal Order of
Scotland. He is survived by his
wife, Lela.
We have learned of the death of
James H. Henson, C'66, of
Skiatook, Okla., on May 23, 1992.
Quintardjoyner, C20, of Sewanee,
Tenn., died November 11,1992.
After serving in the U.S. Army in
World War I, he attended the Uni-
versity of Nebraska law school andpracticed law in Omaha, Neb. Helater moved to New York City
where he worked in the legal de-
partment of the American Sugar
Refining Company. He retired in
1962, and his family moved to
Camden, S.C. He and his wife
moved to Sewanee in 1971 andhave lived near Proctor's Hall ever
since. He was a member of the Phi
Delta Theta fraternity while at
Sewanee. He was also a devoted
Episcopal churchman and had a
special love for All Saints' Chapel,
having given the money for one of
the small memorial windows in
memory of his father, and a marble
statue of the Virgin Mary in the
reredos in the high altar in
memory of his mother. He is sur-
vived by his wife, Georgia
McCague Joyner, of Sewanee, a
daughter, a son, and two grand-
children.
Dr. Oliver Charles Leonard Sr.,
C49, of Pensacola, Fla., died De-
cember 24, 1992. While at
Sewanee he was a member of the
Sigma Nu fraternity. He graduated
from the Loyola University Dental
School in New Orleans and prac-
ticed dentistry in Pensacola for 35
years. He is survived by his wife,
Alice, two sons, a daughter, two
brothers, and eight grandchildren.
F. Ross C. Marbury, C'63, of San
Francisco, Calif., died December30, 1992. He was a teacher of En-
glish to foreign students in Califor-
nia and director of Berlitz English
USA. He held degrees from Johns
Hopkins University and the Uni-
versity of Minnesota, from which
he received the Ph.D. in 1971.
The Rev. Jonathan Nesbitt
Mitchell, C'38, T'46, of Conway,
N.H., died November 29, 1992. Hewas a member of Phi Beta Kappaand Phi Delta Theta at Sewanee.
Before attending seminary in
1943, he received an MBA fromHarvard Business School and
taught economics at M.I.T. andCornell universities. After semi-
nary, as an Episcopal priest, he
served in Arkansas, Tennessee,
New Hampshire, and Ohio before
retiring in 1978 and moving to
Conway, N.H. He is survived by his
wife, Barbara, a brother, a son, a
daughter, and six grandchildren.
James W. Moody Jr., C'42, of
Pensacola, Fla., died October 7,
1992. He was a lieutenant in the
U.S. Navy during World War II anddid graduate work in English at
Vanderbilt University. He was ex-
ecutive secretary of the Tennessee
Historical Commission, director of
the Virginia Historic LandmarksCommission, and was director of
Historic Pensacola Preservation
Board until he retired in 1986. Heis survived by his wife, Elizabeth.
Robert Porter Moore Jr., A'55,
C'59, of Boston, Mass., died De-
cember 31, 1992. He was a profes-
sor of art at the Massachusetts Col-
lege of Ait and an internationally
recognized artist. He was also the
co-founder and art director ofTheGraphic Workshop. He is survived
by his mother, Katryne Moore, of
Sewanee, two brothers, and three
nephews.
The Rev. Paddy Joseph Poux,
T'76, of North Miami, Fla., died
October 15, 1991. He served as an
Episcopal priest in Ohio, Louisi-
ana, and Florida, he is survived by
his wife, Marie.
We have learned of the death of
Brian Wesley Ross, C'90, on De-
cember 1, 1992. He is survived by
his mother, Nancy J. Ross of
Johnston, S.C.
Hugh Todd Shelton Jr., C 37, of
Columbia, Tenn., died December24, 1992. While at Sewanee, he was
a member of the Sigma Alpha Ep-
silon fraternity. He served as a lieu-
tenant colonel in the U.S. Air
Force in World War II. He received
his law degree from George Wash-
ington University. He was a retired
Columbia attorney and retired
chairman of the board of directors
at First Federal Saving and Loan,
of which he was a founder. He is
survived by his wife, Ann, three
daughters, one son, H. ToddShelton III, C'70, of Knoxville,
four grandchildren, and two great-
grandchildren.
Marvin K. Travis, C'35, of
Decherd, Tenn., died November18, 1992. He was a retired restau-
rant owner and operator. He is sur-
vived by his wife, Mary Steed, two
daughters, a sister, five grandchil-
dren, and three great-grandchil-
dren.
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AFTERWORD
THE LIFE OF A
UNIVERSITY CHAPLAIN
by the Reu Samuel L Lloyd
I never expected to find myself
back on a college campus. Even
though my life has continually
vacillated between the academy
and the church, I have been
clear from the days when I was
finishing a Ph.D. in English that
priesthood was calling and that
the local parish was my home.
Eve never seriously doubted
that decision, but I have been
surprised at how often my road
has bent back to a university set-
ting. And in the process I have
discovered that the setting for
ministry matters little: the deeper
challenges of being the church
in our time, especially as we live
through all the turbulence of the
end of the 20th century, are fun-
damentally the same.
I think at some level all of us
in ministry today are living
through a time of transition
—
what some are calling "the end of
Christendom." Most of us were
nurtured in a fairly homoge-
neous, relatively harmonious
church, esteemed and at ease in
a broadly Christian culture. Noweverything seems up for grabs.
The mainline churches are
shrinking. Our culture is careen-
ing on a binge of consumerism
and self-indulgent individualism,
and ordinary Americans seem to
be finding themselves more root-
less, afraid, and self-absorbed
than ever.
What is the church's task in
such confusing times? I have
spent a lot of time in my ministry,
both in the parish and on the
campus, trying to get as clear
about that as I can, because in
times of disorientation and con-
fusion, I think we have to be as
sharply focused as possible about
our mission and task.
Fortunately, the campus has
been a good place to think about
that. Even living and working as I
do in the setting of an Episcopal
university, I find myself daily fac-
ing the same powers I struggled
with in the parish—a deep hun-
ger for meaning and for an expe-
rience of God coupled with
doubt about the possibility of
finding either; immersion of all
of us in a culture of Social Dar-
winism in which worth is often
measured solely in personal
achievement and financial well-
being and the chief substitutes
for the loss of a common culture
are found in sports events, TV,
and movies that celebrate vio-
lence and sex; fear of giving one-
self to a Lord who might ask
something of us; ignorance of
the Bible and Christian teaching
and of what an intelligent and
honest encounter between Chris-
tianity and contemporary culture
might reveal.
Sewanee must be one of the
few universities left in America,
and the only Episcopal one,
where the church is central to its
life. I had been leery of returning
to campus ministry because of
my love of parish life, my convic-
tion of the importance of Chris-
tian community in the work of
evangelism and my awareness of
how difficult it is to form such
communities on campus. But I
found in Sewanee something I
didn't know existed—a small, in-
timate academic community in
which the church plays a central
role.
My task as LIniversity chaplain
is to hold before the University
its Christian vocation—to bring
together the liberal arts and sci-
ences and the truth of the Gospel
in the context of life in a commu-
nity that is different, that seeks to
embody the Christian faith in its
life inside and outside the class-
room.
I meet with faculties of both
the College and the School of
Theology and on occasion teach
in both schools. Along with the
vice-chancellor, I am one of the
two pan-university officials re-
sponsible for the life of the entire
University. That means that a
great deal of my work is institu-
tional as I take part in administra-
tive and strategic planning com-
mittees and participate in Uni-
versity debates over everything
from curriculum reform to the
timing of fraternity rush to the
design of a new seminary chapel.
The most significant event of
the week, though, is the Univer-
sity service on Sunday morning
when the community gathers for
Holy Eucharist. Many University
administrators and faculty join
students, community members,
and visitors for a service in the
cathedral tradition—an 85-voice
student choir carrying on a
splendid musical tradition, in a
magnificent building, with a
deep commitment to preaching
and to powerful liturgy. Every-
thing we do the rest of the week
flows out of that time of self-offer-
ing, confession, nurture, and
praise. It is our most important
and radical act as we week-by-
week place all that we are living
and struggling with into the
hands of the One who made us,
redeemed us, and lives among
us.
I share this and the rest of the
Sewanee ministry with four col-
leagues, as well as an organist-
choir-master and a secretarial
staff. The work here is vast, and
lacking the steady nurture of be-
ing part of a parish community,
we depend greatly on our own
mutual encouragement and sup-
port.
Leading a contemplative
prayer group, teaching classes,
preparing people for baptism
and confirmation, organizing fel-
lowship and Bible study groups,
bringing in speakers on current
issues in the life of the church
and society, conducting preach-
ing missions, carrying on per-
sonal and crisis counseling, guid-
ing people in spiritual direc-
tion—those are some of the
many facets of our steady minis-
try of pastoral nurture, both in
the college and the seminary.
In addition to all this, we have
made outreach service a major
dimension of our work. We em-
phasize it for two reasons: To
communicate the conviction that
a life can't be truly or Christianly
lived apart from a commitment
to service; and to offer an avenue
for students who are determined
to avoid church at all costs to
meet Christ unexpectedly in a
child they are tutoring or in the
owner of a home they are repair-
ing.
Evangelism is the essence of
our work. As another college
chaplain recently put it, our task
is to nurture the seed-corn for
the next generation of the
church. That takes offering as
broad and diverse a range ofways
of exploring the mystery of Godas we can, always with our Sunday
worship as the radiant center.
And then it takes just being
there, being available for the
chance conversations over lunch
in the dining hall, along the side-
lines at a football game, at inter-
mission at a concert.
We're in the seed-sowing busi-
ness, and as even our Lord
found, you have very little con-
trol of the results. "Teach us to
care and not to care"—T.S.
Eliot's words are a constant inter-
nal refrain for me. In them I hear
the gospel passion to bring and
to be good news to our fellow
castaways, and I hear too the
peace that knows this is God's
work, not ours, and that finally all
is grace.
Samuel Lloyd has served as
University Chaplainforfiveyears.
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SEWANEESpring 1993
Stephen Becker, Director ofPublic Relations
Robert Bradford, Editor
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Man- E. Henry, C'93, (V«ss Afofcs Editor
Robert Ingram, C93, Intern
Associated Alumni Officers
N. Pendleton Rogers, C'72, President
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Vice Presidentfor Admission
The Rev. Henry N. Parsley Jr., C'70,
Vice President for Church Relations
The Rev. Dr. James K. Yeary. C'64, T'69,
D.Min. '89. Vice Presidentfor the
School of Theology
Janet A. Kibler, C'80, Vice Presidentfm
Career Semites
H.W. "Yogi" Anderson III, C'72,
Executive Director
Photography: Stephen Alvarez, C'87, Lyn
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T'9<)
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As Miles Watkins, C'67,
sat in the Sewanee
Union Theatre at one
in the morning watching bad
movies with his rowdy friends, he
had no idea that he wanted to be
a director. He was more inter-
ested in shouting lines back to
the host of "C" movie actors who
paraded across the screen while
his friends threw popcorn at
those actors and each other. Afew years later Watkins was in Los
Angeles, where he knew no one,
studying directing at the USC
Film School.
The other people featured in
this magazine who have made it
in the fiercely competitive
entertainment industry did
much the same thing as Watkins.
After graduation, Radney Foster,
C'81, took the acoustic guitar
that he played at dormitories and
occasional frat jaarties with him
to Nashville. He sang his songs
for a succession of music industry
types who responded with indif-
ference or the perfunctory,
"Sounds promising, we'll keep
you in mind," until he got his first
break a few years later.
Actor Gil Johnson, C'83,
threw his belongings in a pickup
truck and headed to LA. Fellow
actor and Alabamian Mary-Beth
Smith, C'84, went to San
Francisco to study her art.
Neither had ever seen the Pacific
Ocean. Screenwriter Chris
Sturgeon, C'86, and Universal
Studios publicist Tom Lakeman,
C'86, went to Hollywood, a place
where connections are every-
thing, to tell their stories. They
had no connections. Record
company president Jay Faires,
C'85, forsook the music industry
centers of Los Angeles, Nashville,
and New York to establish an al-
ternative music label in Chapel
Hill, N.C. He hadn't even signed
his first group.
Through the years, they have
all heard similar advice from
friends and critics. "Don't do it,
you'll never make it." "You're
crazy." "When are you coming
home and getting a real job?"
But they had the good sense not
to listen. They have persisted in
an industry that eats up people
every day.
And each of them will tell you
that Sewanee has had an
important role in why they have
endured while others have not.
"At Sewanee," Watkins says,
"you studied intensely, and then
you socialized intensely. I have
always enjoyed that total immer-
sion in one thing or another. Di-
recting is like that. When you
work, you work 80 hours a week
and forget about sleep. When
you're off, you totally relax."
Smith adds: "The older I get
and the more I get into the
business, I realize that because of
my liberal arts background I have
a leg up on a lot of people who
go into acting. Acting requires
that you know a lot about the
world and a lot about art and
history and literature. Many
peojole without a liberal arts
background have a harder time
when it comes to researching
roles. I felt it was important to get
a real education before I went
into training."
—RB
CONTENTS
RodneyMj^*l^\ With a number-one country hit and a burgeoning
career, Rodney Foster, C81, isn't lonesome anymore
A Tale ofTwo Actors
Mary-Beth Smith, C'84, and Gil
Johnson, C'83, have come a long xoay
from their nativeAlabama to the bright
lights ofCalifornia
Departments
Vice-Chcmcellor 's Corner
|
On the Mountain
Alumni Affairs
^Developments
Scholarship
Sports
| Theology
Chi the cover: Rodney Foster, C81.
Photograph courtesy ofArista Records
VICE-CHANCELLOR'S CORNER
A NEW CALLING
FOR THE LLOYDS
A splendid preacher, an
able counselor; a superb
teacher, and a tireless
participant in all
campus activities, Sam,
Lloyd has set a high
standardfor those
whofollow.
InNovember 1987 the Board
of Trustees elected the Rev.
Samuel T. Lloyd as chaplain
of the University for a four-year
term; he was elected to a second
four-year term in May 1991. He
has now accepted the call to he-
come rector of Trinity Church in
Boston, one ol tin- threat pulpits
and parishes in the Anglican
communion. He and his family
will leave Sewanee over the sum-
mer to good wishes of the entire
Sewanee community, yet with
great regret at their departure.
The chaplain, along with the
chancellor and vice-chancellor,
represents one of the three of-
fices elected by the Board of
Trustees. Serving as chaplain lot
the entire University, the Rev. Dr.
Samuel T Lloyd has done an ad-
mirable job in his five years at
Sewanee. His recent Sewanee ar-
ticle reflected his philosophy, his
theology, and his approaches. A
splendid preacher, an able coun-
selor, a superb teacher, and a tire-
less participant in all campus ac-
tivities, Sam has set a high stan-
dard for those who follow. Com-
ing to Sewanee after a successful
rectorship, his academic hack-
ground enabled him to leach in
both the College and the School
of Theology. A consummate stu-
dent of contemporary theology,
Sam has the rare ability to blend
literature and spiritual experi-
ence into coherent expositions
that touch ,i listener's spiritual
needs. Students have responded
to Sam's sermons, to his confir-
mation classes, and to his obvious
commitment to his faith.
The search for the- chaplain's
position is now underway. Dean
Robert Keele will chair this ef-
fort, which will be in full swing by
mid-summer. We would like to
have a new chaplain for the Uni-
versity by late spring.
Few positions are less con-
spicuous, yet so essential to the
operation of the late twentieth
century university as that of legal
counsel. Marguerite Lloyd, who
became associate counsel in 1988
and succeeded Edward Watson
in 1990 as legal counsel, has oc-
cupied a special place in my ad-
ministration. Valuable, confi-
dent, reach to challenge and to
dissuade when necessary, Mar-
guerite helped to draft new per-
sonnel policies and to expedite
contract arrangements. Ever the
first line of defense for all extra-
mural legal problems, she has as-
sisted faculty and staff with visa
hassles, helped with the opera-
til >n ol the Honor Code, and for-
mulated the University's success-
ful negotiations with the NCAA.
Tactful, thoughtful, and occa-
sionally steely tough, she has ex-
panded the duties of her office
and made them an essential part
of our operational patterns.
This position, which must
work so closely with the vice-
c banc ellor and the Board of Re-
gents, will always be defined by
the personalities holding it. For
the last five years Marguerite
Lloyd has enabled the vice-chan-
cellor to work more effectively
and efficiently. For that, and for
all ol those whom she has
helped, I say thank you.
While we regret the loss ofthe
Llovcls, we are grateful that the
chaplaincy will be in the capable
hands of a friend as we search for
a new chaplain. Chancellor
Duncan M. Cray Jr., who had al-
ready decided to retire as bishop
ol Mississippi, has agreed to as-
sume duties as interim chaplain
in early October. The presence
of Bishop and Mrs. Duncan Gray
at Sewanee will sustain the efforts
of All Saints' Chapel while pro-
viding the entire community
with two people whose long asso-
ciation with the University make
them welcome friends.
0^jJ)\rVa
ON THE MOUNTAIN
The Rt. Rev. Girault /ones has served the University in a variety of roles—( hancellor, interim dean of the School of Theology, ami adviser mat friend to
faculty, students, and lined residents.
SEWANEE BIDS FAREWELL
TO A 'SAINTLY1 MAN
\i< th; 500 members of the
bachelor of divinity degree from
the School of Theology. Even at
the beginning of his career in the
ministry, Jones was deeply in-
University community gathered volved with the Sewanee commit
in All Saints' Chapel on February nity. While attending the semi
21 to honor the achievements of
the Rt. Rev. Girault M. Jones,
C'28, H'49, and his wife,
Kathleen. After living on the
Mountain for the past 24 years,
the Jones moved to a retirement
community in Nashville.
During his years on the
Mountain, Bishop Jones served
the University in a variety of
roles—chancellor, interim dean
ol the School of Theology, and
adviser and friend to faculty, stu-
dents, and local residents.
Born in Centreville, Miss.,
Jones graduated from the
Staunton Military Academy be-
fore attending the University of
Mississippi. In 1928, he earned a
More than 300 undergraduates anil
nary, lie tended to a mission
church in the valley—sometimes
traveling there on horseback
—
which he had helped to build
with his own hands.
After graduating from
Sewanee,Jones served first as rec-
loi ol Trinity Church in Pass
Christian, Miss., before becom-
ing ictloi ol St. Andrew's
Church in New Orleans. During
his early years as a rector, he mar-
ried the former Kathleen Piatt, in
July 1935, in Jacksonville, Fla. In
19 1!», little more than two de-
cades after his graduation from
Sewanee, the University awarded
him an honoi ary doctorate ol di-
vinity. It was the same year that
he became seventh bishop ol
Louisiana and served in thai role
for 20 years.
As bishop, Jones personally
consecrated 89 men into the
ministry, founded the diocesan
newspaper, Churchwork, and es-
tablished the Diocesan Loan
Fund to assist the conversions of
numerous missions into parish
churches. He served as a deputy
to the General Convention of the
Episcopal Church four times.
He retired as bishop in 1969,
and he and Kathleen moved to
llieii home, Meanwhile, at
Sewanee. Jones became the first
University chancelloi since
Bishop Frank Gailor, who lived at
Sewanee during the early part ol
the century, to reside on the
Mountain. At Sewanee, Jones be-
came even m< >i e deeply involved
in the life ol the University. In
1981 and 1982, he served as the
interim dean of the School ol
Theology and participated in
numerous other University activi-
ties. He also wrote several books
during his years at Sewanee in-
cluding Menihei in Particular and
his memoirs, titled That Reminds
Me.
"Girault is the saindiest man I
know," says long-time friend and
Sewanee Professor of Religion
Gerald Smith. "I don't know ol
any clergyman who is of wiser or
sweeter disposition than Girault
Jones. He has been the incarna-
tion of the love of Christ on this
Mountain.
"He is the most outstanding
Sewanee man I have met. And,
there have been so many line
and good people. But he is the
giant in a field ofgiants. We need
to rejoice in the gift that he has
triven this University."
seminarians received degrees during commencement ceremonies on May 16.
ALUMNI AFFAIRS
REGENTS' CHAIRMAN
DUPREE INDUCTED INTO
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
Thomas Parmelee Dupree Sr.,
outgoing chairman of the Board
ot Regents, was elected to honor-
ary membership in the Associ-
ated Alumni of the University of
the South in recognition oi his
contributions to the institution
over the years. The honor was
presented to Dupree while he
was at Sewanee for a regents
meeting in May.
Dupree has served the Uni-
versity as a founding member of
the Parents' Council, as a regent,
and as chairman of the Board of
Regents. Four of his children
have attended Sewanee—Tho-
mas P. Dupree Jr., C'78, David
Galtnev, C'81, Harriet Dupree
Bradley, C'83, and Lamar
Dupree Grimes, C'87.
"Through his energetic and
enthusiastic efforts, Tom Dupree
has strengthened the ties oi the
University with its alumni and in
so doing has brought good will t( >
Sewanee," says Yogi Anderson,
executive director of the Associ-
ated Alumni.
Dupree says he has "im-
mensely enjoyed his association
with the University" while joking
that "Sewanee treats chairmen
with far more honor than they
deserve." He adds that he has
enjoyed working with his fellow
board members, calling them
the "most interesting and ster-
ling kind of people. That associa-
tion has been enormously lultill-
ing," he says.
A resident of Lexington, Ky.,
Dupree is president of Dupree
and Company, Inc., an invest-
ment banking firm. He also
serves on the board of directors
and executive committee of Ap-
palachian Computer Services,
Inc. He is the founder and presi-
dent of the Kentucky Tax-Free
Income Fund, as well as a found-
ing member and former chair-
man of the Kentucky Governor's
Commission to the Division of
Securities.
Dupree attended the Colum-
bia Military Academy before
earning a bachelor's degree in
economics from Yale University
in 1952. He has been active in
outreach ministry in the area of
health care in Appalachia and
has been a longtime member of
the Appalachia Regional Hospi-
tal Corporation. In addition, he
has served as senior warden of
Christ Church in Lexington and
has worked on various commit-
tees for the diocese.
Homecoming 1993 willfeaturefootball against rival Washington is? Lee.
PLAN NOW FOR
HOMECOMING 1993
Homecoming 1993 is set for Oc-
tober 22-24. Following is a tenta-
tive schedule for Homecoming
events. The Office ofAlumni Re-
lations will send a complete
schedule to alumni this summer.
If you have any questions about
Homecoming, feel free to call
the alumni office at (800) 367-
1179. We hope to see von this
fall.
Friday, October 22, 1993
5 a. in. to 6 p.m.
Registration/ticket sales
3 p.m. la 5 /i.m.
Alumni Seminars
6 ji. in.
Social Hour, Lower Cravens
/p.m.
Alumni Dinner, Upper Cravens
Hall; Presentation of the
Distinguished Alumnus/a
Awards
9 p. in. to Midnight
Alumni Dance, Cravens Hall
alumnus Tom DuPree has four children who have attended
ice.
Saturday, October 23, 1993
8 a.m. to Noon
Registration
10 a.m.
Associated Alumni Meeting,
Convocation Hall
Noon
Lunch under the Alumni Tent
12:50 p.m.
Alumni Parade
1:30 p.m.
Football Game—Sewanee vs.
W & 1.
After the game reunion parties
(years, times, & places to be
announced)
6 p.m.
Alumni Dinner BBQ& Blue-
grass under the Alumni Tent
Sunday, October 24, 1993
8 a. m.
Holy Eucharist. All Saints'
Chapel
9:30 a.m.
Associated Alumni Memorial
Service, St. Augustine's Stone
10:30 a.m.
University Service, All Saints'
Chapel
ALUMNI AFFAIRS
UNIVERSITY AWARDS
HONORARY DEGREES
AT COMMENCEMENT
The University awarded six hon-
orary degrees during com-
mencement ceremonies mark-
ing the end of the academic year
on May 16. Following are profiles
of each of the recipients.
Dr. Yerger Hunt Clifton ( D< >c-
tor of Letters) has been dean oi
the British Studies at Oxford pro-
gram since the program began at
Rhodes College in 1967. A
graduate of the Sewanee Military
Academy, Clifton attended Duke
University, where he received a
bachelor's degree in English.
Clifton earned a master's de-
gree at the University ofVirginia
before teaching at the College of
William and Mary. After two
years, he enrolled at Trinity Col-
lege in Dublin, Ireland, to pur-
sue a doctorate. At Rhodes, he is
professor of English literature
and dean of British and Euro-
pean Studies. In 1988, he devised
and directed a semester abroad
program, Rhodes in Europe,
which was offered in Oxford and
on the European continent that
year. Now called European Stud-
ies, it is jointly sponsored by
Rhodes and Sewanee.
The Rev. E. Dudley Colhoun
Jr., C'50, (Doctor of Divinity) is
the retired rector of St. Paul's
Episcopal Church in Winston-Sa-
lem, N.C. After his graduation
from Virginia Theological Semi-
nary, Colhoun served three
churches in Virginia and St.
Anne's in Atlanta before going to
St. Paul's in Winston-Salem
where he remained for 31 years.
Throughout his career,
Colhoun has been involved with
numerous diocesan, civic, and
other community activities.
Among many other accomplish-
ments, Colhoun has helped to
establish the Street People's Shel-
ter, assisted in the development
of a city hospice program, and
expanded the weekly publication
ParishLIFE.
Admiral Frank B. Kelso II,
C'55, (Doctor of Civil Law) in
1990 was named the U.S. Navy's
24th Chief of Naval Operations.
He attended Sewanee for two
years before entering the U.S.
Naval Academy in 1952. In 1980,
after serving in a number of posi-
tions, he was selected for promo-
tion lo the rank oi rear admiral.
At the same time, he was named
director of the Strategic Subma-
rine Division in the Office of the
Chitl of Naval Operations. Six
years later, Kelso was promoted
to admiral and assumed duties as
commander in chief of the U.S.
Atlantic Fleet. He became the Su-
preme Allied ( lommander Atlan-
tic and Commander in Chief,
U.S. Atlantic Command, in 1988.
Kelso has been awarded the
Defense Distinguished Service
Medal, the Navy Distinguished
Service Medal, the Legion oi
Merit, Navy Commendation, and
Naw Achievement Medals.
Frank Hawkins Kenan (Doc-
tor ol Civil Law) is chief execu-
tive officer of Kenan Transport
Company of Chapel Hill, N.C.
Kenan attended the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill
when- he received a bachelor's
degree in commerce in 1935. In
the year following graduation,
Kenan founded the Kenan Oil
Company, of which he is chair-
man of the board. Kenan Trans-
port Company was founded in
1942. Through the William R.
Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust, and
by his own personal commit-
ment, Kenan has made a signifi-
cant impact on higher education
throughout the United States.
Since its creation in 1966, the
trust has focused on education.
More than 90 chairs and en-
dowed professorships have been
established at more than 50 col-
leges and universities. Kenan's
The Rt. Rev. Pete) Lee, who received an honorary
degree during commencement, was the baccalaure-
1980 gift to Sewanee endowed with U.S. institutions and groups
the William R. Kenan Jr. Profes- that do not necessarily have a re-
sorship. He and the trust have ligious focus.
also been instru-
mental in providing
long-term institu-
tional support to
historically bl.u k
colleges and univer-
sities in the South,
as well as to the
Southern Regional
Education Board.
Among the hon-
ors bestowed on
Kenan during the
course of his career
is an honorary doc-
torate of law from
the University of
North Carolina, that
institution's Univer-
sity Award, and the
Distinguished Citi-
zenship Award from ate spec
the North Carolina
Citizens for Business and Indus- The Rt. Rev. Peter James Lee
try. (Doctor of Divinity) is the bishop
The Most Rev. Manasses of the Diocese ofVirginia, one of
Kuria (Doctor ol Divinity) has the oldest and largest dioceses in
been Archbishop of Kenya and the Episcopal Church. Lee be-
Bishop of Nairobi within the came the 12th Bishop of Virginia
Church of the Province of Kenya in 19S5.
since 1980. He was educated at Lee graduated magna cum
Fort Hare University of South Af- laude from Washington and Lee
rica, St. Paul's United Theologi- University in I960, where he was
cal College, and Moore College elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He
in Sydney, Australia. Since at- received his M.Div. cum laude
tending seminary, Kuria has from Virginia Theological Semi-
served as priest, archdeacon, nary. Lee served as a deacon at
area bishop, and bishop ol St. John's Cathedral in Jackson-
Nakuru. ville, Fla., before becoming assis-
As Kenya's foremost religious tant minister at St. John's Church
leader, Kuria is a proponent oi in Washington, D.C. In 1971, he
multi-party democracy, human became rector of the Chapel of
rights, and numerous social wel- the Cross, Chapel Hill, N.C.. the
fare issues. One of his most re- parish that serves both the corn-
cent projects is to create a center munity and the University of
for Nairobi's homeless where he North Carolina, and continued
plans to offer temporary and per- as rector there until he was con-
manent housing, a soup kitchen, secrated bishop. Lee is a member
and vocational training. During of the board of directors of the
this visit to the U.S., Kuria is par- Presiding Bishop's Fund for
ticularly interested in discussing World Relief and is chairman of
human rights and social issues its grants committee.
II sssENTS
A portion oj the $3. 1 million gift from
tlir third floor o] Woods Laboratories
departments.
SEWANEE RECEIVES $3.1
MILLION FROM ESTATE
OF LULU OWEN, H'86
The University has received a be-
quest of 150,000 shares ofAmeri-
can Express common stock, val-
ued .ii approximately $3.1 mil-
lion, from the estate oi Lulu
Hampton Owen, H'86.
Sewanee Provost Fred Croom
said that a portion of the gift will
be used to renovate the third
floor of Woods Laboratories.
"This generous gift will allow the
psychology and anthropology
departments to move to the third
floor of Woods, where they will
have significantly increased oper-
ating space. It will in turn free up
room for oui other science de-
partments, allowing the Univer-
sity ultimately to have adequate
science facilities to accommo
Lulu (horn will be used to renovate
for the anthropology and psychology
date our long-term goal ofan un-
dergraduate student body of
1,300."
"Mrs. Owen was a long-time
friend of Sewanee. This gift is an
eloquent testimony to her strong
belief about the role of the Epis-
copal Church in higher educa-
tion," said Tom Watson, vice
president for unversity relations.
A resident of Nashville, Mrs.
Owen previously endowed the
Ralph Owen Distinguished Pro-
fessor of Economics Chair at
Sewanee in memory of her hus-
band, who was the chairman of
the board of the Owen Graduate
School of Management at
Vanderbilt.
Mrs. Owen was a member of
Vanderbilt's board of trustees
and was a member of St.
George's Episcopal Church in
Nashville. Throughout her life,
she was active in a host of volun-
teer and service organizations
throughout middle Tennessee.
She was the recipient of numer-
ous awards and tributes for her
many charitable contributions
that benefited her church and
community. In 1986, she was
awarded an honorary degree
from Sewanee.
SEWANEE FRIEND
BEQUEATHES $1.6 MILLION
TO UNIVERSITY
Sewanee has been given a
$350,000 bequest from the estate
of Barlow Henderson. The Uni-
versity will also be the beneficiary
oi a (rust from Henderson that
will contribute toward a total gift
of more than $1.6 million to the
University.
Henderson was an Aiken,
S.C., native who graduated from
Princeton University before serv-
ing in the U.S. Navy during
World War II. He then entered
the field of investment banking,
working for Harris, Forbes and
Co., in New York City, before
joining Equitable Securities in
Nashville, the city where he lived
until his death.
Through his efforts. Equi-
table Securities became nation-
ally known in the corporate and
municipal finance field. Ulti-
mately, the company was ac-
quired by American Expresss.
In Nashville, Henderson was a
member of Christ Episcopal
Church and helped establish St.
George's Episcopal Church in
1952.
Henderson also served on the
advisory board of the Salvation
Army, the Belle Meade Country
Club, and the Cumberland Club.
WHITEHEAD FOUNDATION
PROVIDES $45,000
FOR SCHOLARSHIPS
The University has been awarded
a $45,000 grant from the Letlie
Pate Whitehead Foundation that
will be used for scholarships dur-
ing academic year 1993-94.
The Atlanta-based Whitehead
Foundation is a charitable pri-
vate organization dedicated to
the support of needy women in
nine southeastern states. The
foundation provides scholarship
grants to schools and colleges as
well as operating grants to a small
number of institutions serving
the needs of elderly women.
The I.elite Pole Whitehead Foundation grant will support undergraduate
women at Sewanee.
SCHOLARSHIP
FonwerSewanee Review editorMonroe Spears analyzes writers rangingfrom
Montaigne to Faulkner in his new hook.
MONROE SPEARS
REFLECTS ONCOUNTRIES OF THE MIND
Over the past three decades,
Monroe Spears, who edited the
humanities, and interchanges
between America and France.
His topics range from Montaigne
and Tocqncvillc to cosmology
and the historical novel.
Beginning with T.S. Eliot and
Sewanee Review from 1952-61 , has continuing with W.H. Auden, the
established himself as one of other great transplant who put
America's finest critics. In Coun- down new roots in his adopted
tries of the Mind: Literary ExpUxra- country, the second section deals
tions, a series of literary explora- with literary relations between
dons of British. French, and Britain and the United States
American writers, he investigates and between poetry and criti-
not other geographical conn- cism. Spears considers other
tries, but countries of the mind - modern poets and critics, includ-
the different cultural worlds that ing Richard Wilbur, Howard
have shaped these writers and Nemerov, Robert Graves,
from which their art sprang. The Stephen Spender, and Frank
book has been published by the Kermode, as well as other ques-
University of Missouri Press. tions of literary criticism and his-
In the first section of this col- tory.
lection of new and recent essays, The third section focuses on
Spears examines relations be- the American South, real and fic-
tween the worlds of past and tional. Caroline Cordon, Allen
present, communications be- Tate, Andrew Lytle, Thomas
tween the worlds of science and Wolfe, William Faulkner, Mary
Fee Settle, and Katherine Anne
Portei are among the writers dis-
cussed.
Whether taking new looks at
such major figures as Montaigne,
Eliot, Auden, and Wilbur or mak-
ing a case lor the little-read mas-
ter David [ones, Spears writes
with intensity, wit, and wisdom.
I lis own occasional reminis-
cences of meeting a number of
his subjects during his years as
editor of the Sewanee Review add
to this collection.
As he reflects on his long
friendship with Robert Penn
Warren, Spears writes: "He was
lor me always part of those rare
occasions, over some 30 years,
when iIk- literary life seemed to
me i<> be most wh.it it ought to
be, or what I alwavs hoped it
would be. Not a guardian angel
but a genius presiding over mo-
ments of secular grace, when 1
felt that I was participating in a
higher kind ol life that was freely
given, not earned."
Spears, who has returned to
Sewanee where he lives with his
wife, Betty, is the author of many
books, including The Poetry ol
11.7/. Auden: The Disenchanted Is-
land and Dionysus and the City:
Modernism in Twentieth-Century
Poetry His own poetry has ap-
peared in a number of periodi-
cals and in a collection entitled
The Levitator. Spears was Moody
Professor of English at Rice Uni-
versity until his retirement in
1986. He recently was inducted
to the South Carolina Academy
ofAuthors and to the Fellowship
of Southern Writers.
ON THE BEGINNINGS OF
THE BOMB AND U.S.
NUCLEAR STRATEGY
Drawing extensively on previ-
ously classified material, Vice-
Chancellor Samuel Williamson
and Steven L. Rearden, have
written The Origins of U.S. Nik tear
Strategy: 1945-1953. a definitive
history ol the early part <>l the
nuclear era.
Williamson and Rearden
show how American policy-
makers, including President
Truman, never expected nuclear
weapons to play such a major
strategic role. And yet, in re-
sponding to the Soviet Union,
Truman found himselfUltimately
with no other choice.
The authors not only docu-
ment and analyze the origins and
early evolution of U.S. nuclear
strategy, they also clearly demon-
strate the close relationship be-
tween decisions affecting such
diverse matters as foreign policy,
new technologies, vand the bud-
getary process. The result is a
fresh analysis containing many
new insights and timely remind-
ers of the myriad complications
created by reliance on nuclear
weapons.
Ernest R. May, Charles War-
ren Professor of History at
Harvard University, observes:
"This book is written with marvel-
ous conciseness and clarity, and it
is informed by deep knowledge
of sources only recently released
to public view."
Williamson's previous books
include Austria-Hungary and the
Origins of the First World War and
The Politics oj Croud Strategy: Brit-
ain and Frame Prepare for War,
1904-1914.
ARTHUR KNOLL BECOMES
FIRST UNDERDOWNPROFESSOR
Professor ofHistoryArthur Knoll
has been named the University's
first David Underdown Professor
for European History. The en-
dowed chair was established (<>
honor David E. Underdown, who
taught as a member ofSewanee's
history department from 1953-
62. Underdown is now a profes-
sor of history at Yale Lhiiversity.
Knoll joined the Sewanee fac-
ulty in 1970 after teaching at
Southern Connecticut State Col-
lege and Middleburv College in
Vermont, lie was educated at
Bates College, New York Univer-
sity, and the University of Heidel-
berg in Germany before earning
a doctorate in African and Euro- Music professors Steven Shrader (top) and Kristin Lindley have been selected
Dean historv from Yale University to participate in the prestigious Aston Magna Academy at Rutgers University
. , „„ , this summer.in 1964.
The author of numerous
books, articles, and op-ed com-
mentaries, Knoll has received
many awards during his career.
and he received a Sewanee
Mellon Fellowship in L990 to re-
search war and society.
Since arriving at Sewanee,
TWO SEWANEE STUDENTS
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While in graduate school, lie was Knoll has been instrumental in Tammy Haston, C'93, andJason
named a Fulbright Research Fel- developing several new courses,
low at Heidelberg. He also has including those concerning
participated in a number of semi- Middle East history, African art
nars conducted by the National and culture, imperialism, and
Endowment for the Humanities, warfare.
lown Professor. \ rthur Knoll Ims taught at Sewanee sint
w history courses on the Middle East and Africa.
Forrester, C'93, are among 65
undergraduates from through-
out the country to receive presti-
gious Watson Fellowships for
1993-94.
The Thomas [. Watson Foun-
dation is a charitable trust estab-
lished by Mrs. Thomas Watson to
honor her husband, the founder
of IBM. Each year awards are
given to senior college students
for the year following gradua-
tion. The grant is to be used for
independent study outside the
United States.
Haston, a psychology major
from Shelbvville, Tenn., will
travel to Australia to study access
and equality in the Australian
educational system. Forrester, a
political science major from Co-
lumbia, Ala., will study political
participation of East Indians
while visiting England, Guyana,
and Trinidad and Tobago.
WILLIS EXPLORES POST-
CIYIL WAR DELTA
WITH NEH GRANT
John Willis, assistant professor of
history, has received a National
Endowment for the Humanities
Summer Stipend to pursue his
research on a book about the
Mississippi Delta after the Civil
War.
Focusing on the Yazoo-Missis-
sippi Delta between 1865 and
1920, the book explores the fron-
tier stage of what is now the
South's leading plantation area.
Although the Delta is currently
home to some of the nation's
largest cotton plantations, as late
as 1900 two-thirds of the region's
farm owners were black fieed-
mcii. Willis has concluded re-
search on the economic and so-
cial aspects of small farmer and
planter life in the postbellum
era; this last stage of research is
devoted to showing the connec-
tions between economic and so-
cial conditions and the area's po-
litical experience.
"This research focuses on
prominent politicians and key
partisans as part of a larger stud)'
dedicated to explaining why tens
of thousands of African-Ameri-
cans migrated to the Yazoo-Mis-
sissippi Delta in the 1870s and
1880s, and win the region be-
came the springboard for the
Great Migration north during
World War I," says Willis. "This is
the final research component for
a book integrating politics into a
social and economic study of the
legion." Willis will spend a total
of two months in Memphis,
Tenn., Oxford and Jackson,
Miss., completing the project.
The NEH awarded 210 such
grants to professors in the
United States this year; the
awards are specifically intended
to support promising research
projects.
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With a number-one country
hit and a burgeoning
career, Radney Foster, C'81,
isn i lonesome anymore
byJoe Romano
Got a fever that they call rodeo
Just enough winnin s to make the
next .show
Sometimes you make eight,
sometimes you hit dirt
Go on pin another numbei to the hock
of my shirt
, 1 nd, 1'II ride' that pony fast
Like a cowboyfrom the past
Be young and wild and free
Like Texas in 1880
pest like Texas in 1880
(from the song Texas in 1880by Radney
Foster)
Itackstage at the Grand Ole Opry
on a Saturday night in Nashville
is best described as organized
confusion. Dozens and dozens of
people—country music stars, record in-
dustry types, their families and friends
—
crowd the wings to the stage of the
world's most famous and longest-run-
ning radio show. Performers who have
been out on the road swap stories with
old friends, while musicians—carrying
their guitars, fiddles and banjos—tune
their instruments and prepare for the
evening's show.
Then, as the big, red velvet curtains
rise, and the Opry square dancers open
the program's first segment, as they do
each week, a certain order rises from the
chaos. With one eye on the clock, singers
and musicians will end conversations in
mid-sentence to take their turn on the
spot where Hank Williams, George
Jones, Loretta Lynn, and so many other
country idols have stood. At each perfor-
mance of the Opry, the lineup will boast
many familiar names. And on a particu-
lar evening in late January of this year
veteran performers like Little Jimmy
Dickens and Hank Snow as well as mem-
bers of the "young country" set like Rickv
Skaggs and Patty Loveless were in the
star-packed cast. But on this night there
was a new name among the Opry regu-
lars: that of Radney Foster.
In the moments before he was to ap-
pear, Foster was interviewed for a pro-
gram broadcast on The Nashville Net-
work (TNN). Then, with a sizable entou-
rage of friends and family in tow, he
walked to the stage where, like the song
he wrote about the rodeo, he would have
to ride the pony fast.
/ can hear the wind whisper my name
retting me it's time to head out again
My horses are traikred and the lights are
shut down
And I'm long overdue for headin ' out oj
town
(Texas in 1880)
As a boy in the South Texas border
town of Del Rio, Radney Foster listened
to his father and friends playing guitar
on Saturday nights, but he never be-
lieved singing and songwriting would
become something he would do for a liv-
ing. His father, and a number of other
family members, had chosen the law as a
profession. He expected to follow in
their footsteps.
"I always thought music was just going
to be a hobby. I assumed that I would go
to Sewanee, then go to law school and go
home. Music was supposed to be an avo-
cation, not a vocation," Foster recalled
during a recent tour stop in Dallas. Bui,
when he got his first guitar—a $20 instru-
ment that came from across the Mexican
border, and learned the first simple
songs his father taught him—he was
hooked. By the time he was 14, listening
to all different kinds of music and play-
ing in garage bands, Foster began to
write his own songs. He says he would
read the liner notes from his favorite
record albums and realize "those guys
wrote the songs, they didn't go out and
record somebody else's all the time. I just
decided that I would write them, too."
As a Sewanee student, he was intro-
duced to Nashville producer Brown Ban-
nister—through fellow Sewanee student
Dale Berry, C'80— who heard some of
his songs and offered Foster encourage-
ment. So, the next year, instead of regis-
tering for his final year at the University,
Foster was on his way to Nashville.
Foster spent the whole year waiting
tables and knocking on doors at
Nashville's Music Row, mostly without
success. Blown Bannister continued to
offer encouragement and moral sup-
port, but wasn't able to propel Foster's
career forward.
"I could pitch songs to Brown for art-
ists he was recording, but I had a lot of
country songs and he was mostly a gospel
producer. He'd say, 'I know this guy, call
him.' I would, but he wouldn't return mycalls. But, because I kept trying, his secre-
tary would put me in touch with some
other guy in the office. That guy would
listen to my songs, then tell me they were
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lousy and that I was out of luck. It was a
series of doing those things for a year."
The next fall, Foster returned to
Sewanee, fulfilling a promise to his par-
ents that he would finish his degree. But
music never strayed from his focus and
he intended to return to Nashville once
he graduated. He signed up for an inde-
pendent study with English professor
Doug Paschall, C'66, that forced him to
write one poem every week. He says he
wrote "some real lousy poetry," but
through the experience he learned to
work with words, which helped sharpen
his ability to write song lyrics.
Finished with his schooling, Foster
headed back to Nashville. It would be
another five years of knocking on doors,
singing in small clubs, and waiting tables
before anything happened. He made
some good friends during that time,
though. Randy Goodrum, who has writ-
ten some of the biggest pop songs of the
past decade, (Bluer Than Blue, You Needed
Me) offered guidance and help, fre-
quently putting Foster in touch with dif-
ferent people in the industry. "My wife,
Mary Springs, and I would baby-sit for
Randy's kids and he would make demotapes for me in return. I Ie was really kind
to me."
When the big break finally came,
things moved very fast. It was 1986 when
another songwriter introduced him to
Meredith Stewart ofMTM Publishing. "I
played her four or five songs, just sitting
in her office with my guitar. She told meto come back the next week. I did, and
played her four or five more." By the
time he had played her some 15 songs
over several weeks, Stewart offered Foster
a job as a staff writer. "The first money I
made was $200 a week writing songs for
MTM. Most postmen make more than
that."
That was the beginning of a big year
for Foster. On the country charts, a song
he co-wrote with singer IIollv Dunn
{Love Someone Like Me) reached number
one, his first. And, at MTM, Foster met
fellow staff writer Bill Lloyd, beginning a
five-year partnership. The pair was
signed by RCA Records and scored a
number of top ten hits along the way.
We told some tales, he told 'em best
Real life can always use a good stretch
But that don 't change the things zee did
'Cause the truest thing was the life that
we lived
(from Went ForA Ride on Del Rio, Texas,
1959)
3 oday, Foster is riding the wave of
a burgeoning solo career. TheI first single from his debut solo
album, Del Rio, 'Texas, 1959, reached the
country music chart's top ten. In early
April, the second single release, Nobody
Wins, made it all the way to number one,
a first for Foster as a solo artist. His album
sales are approaching gold record status
(500,000 units), and that would be an-
other first for him.
"The great thing about being a solo
artist is that you get to make all the deci-
sions, the lousy part is that yoti get to
make all the decisions," says Foster. "It's
kind of a double-edged sword. I really
enjoy it from a performance standpoint,
but it's so different from Foster and
Lloyd. From a writing standpoint, it's
more personal because I've been doing
most of the writing on my own."
Foster found out that learning to be a
songwriter is a slow process, requiring
lots of perseverance. The biggest part of
it, he says, is listening to other songs and
learning what makes a great one. "Some
ofthe greatest songwriters were guys who
broke all the rules, from Roger Miller to
Bob Dylan to Roy Orbison. All three of
them wrote great songs, but they broke
rules left and right."
When it comes to writing his own
songs, Foster says there is no single
method that works every time. Ideas, he
says, come "every which-a-way. Some-
times you'll get a lyric idea when you're
driving along in your car, so you pull over
and write it down. Other times, I set aside
time, sequester myselfand spend the day
trying to write a song. It might be produc-
tive but it might not be. Or you could
make an appointment to write with
someone else. Sometimes you waste a
morning, other times you end up with
something really wonderful."
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Much of the writing he does has a very
personal side to it. Foster says the next
single to be released from his album is
the most confessional song he has ever
written. Easier Said Than Done is about a
man who has an affair. "I've not had one,
but it is about my realization that some-
times you do things, to hurt your spouse,
that take more than saying, 'honey I love
you,' to make it better. You have to re-
build that trust by actions."
He remembers another personal ex-
perience as the inspiration for a song
that was eventually released as a single
from Foster and Lloyd's first album. The
song was Texas in 1880. Inspiration came
on the day he was packing to leave for
Nashville the first time. "You know you
got to watch out about this music stuff,
it's like the rodeo, it'll get in your blood
and you can't get it out," warned one of
Foster's family friends. He remembered
that conversation for years until one day
when, driving along, "bang, the whole
first verse hit me and I wrote that down.
Two clays later I worked out the whole
song. I think you have to go through that
kind of process to get to where the muse
will come sit on your shoulder and whis-
per to you."
No matter how the writing process
occurs, if it is successful and a song starts
climbing the charts, Foster says the re-
ward is like nothing he has ever experi-
enced. When Nobody Wins peaked at
number one, Foster called it amazing.
"It's funny, once the record is released it
kind of has a life of its own and it's noth-
ing you can control or do anything
about. It's really exciting at the same
time. You've already done your work, but
it comes to fruition much later. You're
kind of removed, you get this feeling like
that's not me, that's somebody else."
If country music continues to grow
and prosper as it has the past several
years, Foster can expect to experience
more highs as his records hit the charts.
He will be on the road until the middle
of November this year playing his music
for audiences all over the country Plans
call for him to appeal' with Vince Gill,
Dwight Yoakam, Brooks & Dunn, and
Mary Chapin Carpenter as he works his
way from coast to coast and into Canada.
Comfortable in small theaters and clubs
that seat from 1,000 to 5,000, Foster now
plays some very large arenas. In April, lie
performed at Texas Stadium in Dallas be-
fore an audience nearing 40,000.
In spite of the huge crowd in Texas
that night, it's unlikely he was as nervous
as he was the night of his Grand Ole
Opry debut. "It wasn't the audience or
because it was television—I've been on
television many times—but it was just re-
alizing who has been there before you."
The Opry had long held a special place
for Foster. As a Sewanee student, he and
a group of friends would fill a car and
head to Nashville to see the Opry live at
the beginning of each spring semester.
And, though he couldn't tune in the
Opry signal in Del Rio, Foster knew of it
and thought of that famous show as
"Mecca."
When the moment for his Opry per-
formance arrived, Foster was ready. Heheld onto the pony and rode the full
eight. A packed house cheered his ener-
getic offerings. Backstage again, Foster
was crowded by family members and well
wishers. He had lived his dream. "It was
kind of magical and it's hard to describe.
You think about all the history that's
been there before you, from Hank Will-
iams to Bob Wills to Marty Robbins
—
hundreds of people who've made the
music that you love great." ^
Providing 'Clear Alternatives' to the Mainstream
Combining his love i < » i music and busi-
ness, Jay Faires, C'85, lias created a suc-
cessful record company despite the warnings
( >l advisors who said he was crazy to try. Faires
founded Mammoth Records in 1988 in
Chapel Hill, N.C., far from the major music
centers ol Nashville, New York, and Los An-
geles, in older to develop a business that was
free from the hype and influence of the in-
dustry in those cities.
"There is a real follow-the-herd mentality
in the music business and that's not what
we're about. II we had started this business in
New York, there may have been a tendency
for our executives to follow (he executives
down the street instead ofgoing after a band
that they really fall in love with," says Faires.
The Chapel Hill area has also gained a repu-
tation as a breeding ground for alternative
acts, he adds.
A former Sewanee Purple record reviewer
and WUTS disc jockey who used to book
bands for college parties, Faires says lie in-
tends for the acts that he signs to provide
clear alternatives—the >ugh they may have var-
ied influences—to the mainstream. Develop-
ing a particular label "sound," lie says, isn't as
important as Inning an intrinsic quality that
music fans will associate with Mammoth.
The company's first signing was a band
from Tucson, Ariz., known as the Sidewind-
ers. Shortly alter that acquisition, Faires'
company worked out a deal for the band with
RCA Records. Since then, Faires has contin-
ued to refine his philosophy. His goal is to
lincl new artists and then devote the time nec-
essary to reach long-term goals and move
them beyond the "alternative" label.
To do that, Faires says his company lakes
an extremely active role in artist develop-
ment by helping them select the right stu-
dios, producers, arrangements, and art work.
In return, the aitists have to provide "the
right songs and the right record."
In the five years since Mammoth's found-
ing, the company has grown by leaps and
bounds. In August 1992, Mammoth signed a
deal with industry giant Atlantic Records.
The agreement will give selected Mammothartists access to Atlantic's massive distribution
network. Faires says Atlantic is "the best in
the business" once a record has sold the first
50,000 to 100,000 units.
He is now busy working out distribution
deals for Mammoth with other companies
around the world. He already has agree-
ments with companies in Europe and Austra-
lia, and he hopes to complete a deal in Japan
during fune of this year.
With 10 artists already in Mammoth's
stable, Faires says 1993 will be the company's
most active year with the probable signing of
five new acts. He also expects that Juliana
Hatfield, whose first solo album on Mam-
moth is selling well, should cross over into
the Top 40 radio charts.
"I really enjoy the challenge of dealing
with artists, finance, and legal people all in
the same day," says Faires of his job. "I get to
wear a lot ofhats and there's a new challenge
every day."
"There is a realfollow-the-herd mentality in the music busini
record produce) fay Faires, C'85.
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•
SHCWThe life ofdirector Miles Watkins, C'67, as told infive
episodes.
by Robert Bradford
It's 9 a.m. and Miles Watkins has already been shooting
for two hours. He has 12 more hours to shoot before the
day ends and it's not going well. He has a guest star on
Northern Exposurewho's blowing a scene. Watkins knows
it. The executive producers know it. The other actors
know it. Andjust to make things a little more interesting,
it's Watkins' first time directing Northern Exposure, and
this is his first test. The regulars and the producers want
to see how he handles it. If he handles it right, he's a
hero. If he can't get it right, there are a couple of sce-
narios. He doesn't get invited back to do another show
or he gets fired on the spot. So here's the $1.5 million
question: How do you get the actor to get it right with-
out ruining his confidence? You have to lie. So Watkins
I . Hn m,
Watkins on the set with a
"That's great," he says. "I think you got that momentjust
right. But we didn't get it on camera. We ran over the
grip's foot and there was a hump in the camera. Let's do
it again. This time when we do it, let's see ifwe can get a
little more emotion. And let's try walking to the door a
little more slowly."
They shoot again. They get it right. Now the crew has
to drive an hour and half from the soundstage outside of
Seattle to the Washington mountains where the fictional
town of Cicely, Alaska, has been created for millions of
television viewers. And there are still 1 1 pages of script to
shoot. Hundreds of decisions to make. Dozens of make
or break scenes. A handful of tense discussions with ac-
tors, the director of photography, the costume people,
the soundman, and the producer. And Miles Watkins
couldn't be happier.
.Back in Hollywood, Watkins meets with the executive
producers of Beverly Hills 90210 about directing the im-
tress and model Kim Alexis.
mensely popular television show. Watkins already has di-
rected some of the major hour-long episodic television
shows
—
L.A. Law, The Commish, Life Goes On. And he's
done some shows that haven't survived the ruthless tele-
vision ratings game
—
Jack's Place and Likely Suspects.
It's nice to have some big shows under your belt, but
Watkins knows that thejob is won or lost in the meeting.
Each episode of a major television show like Beverly Hills
90210 can cost between $1 million and $1.5 million to
produce. The right director can keep the momentum of
the show going and maybe even add something to it. The
wrong director can ruin a show. So the producers want to
know something about the man or woman in whose
hands they're going to put that money. The decision in
this town is always made in a face-to-face meeting.
The meeting is casual and relaxed, but the producers
ask Watkins some very pointed questions.
"What do you like about the show?" a producer asks in
between sips of coffee and small talk about new restau-
rants and traffic and drive-by shootings. "What are its
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weak points?" "What do you think about the cast?"
Watkins, who knew little about the show before the
meeting, has done his homework. He is well prepared,
but casual about his answers and assessment of the show.
The meeting is never as intense as a show.
A week later, the producer calls up Watkins at his home
office in Santa Monica.
"Hey Miles, how would you like to do an episode of
Beverly Hills 902JO next month?"
THE ROAD
Watkins sits in his house in L.A. in the 1970s and waits for
a studio executive to contact him about a feature film.
These are the dark years. They should he calling me, he
thinks. I have more talent than a lot of the hacks oat there who
are directing. And he has the credentials to prove it.
There's the MFA from the University of Southern Cali-
fornia film school, where he received awards and his the-
sis film was named best picture and he was named best di-
rector. There's the two-year directing fellowship at the
American Film Institute's Center for Advanced Film
Studies. There are the years of studying acting
so he can understand how actors think, how
they talk—so he can be a better director. There
are even roles in local plays and a few feature
films
—
The Day of the Locust, Dark Star and the
blockbuster Great Texas Dynamite Chase. And
there are the educational films and industrial
films that he directed, many of them award win-
ners.
But he's still sitting in his house and he hasn't
gotten the call. And every now and then he's ask-
ing himself why he ever strayed from his initial plan—to
be an investment banker in Birmingham like his father.
He had started on that road, graduating from Sewanee
and then spending a year as aJoseph P. Wharton Fellow
at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Fi-
nance. He could be driving aJaguar now, living in a nice
home in Mountainbrook, playing golf every weekend.
Maybe it was the Felini film, 8 1/2, that he and his
friends watched in the Sewanee Union Theatre that got
him off track. They stayed up through a good part of the
night talking about it, realizing that film could be Art. Or
perhaps it was thejob reviewing films for the Penn news-
paper while he was at Wharton that compelled him to
leave the comfort of business school and head to USC
and Hollywood, where he knew no one, to try to make it
as a director.
Still he's been out of film school for five years and he's
been working hard and he has no feature film to show for
it. He's doing the educational films, reading scripts at $25
a pop lor the studios, and selling pencils and office sup-
plies lor a telemarketing firm. In 1979 his father gets can-
cer, and he goes back to Birmingham to be with him for
his last six months. It hurts him that his father, who never
quite understood why he had forsaken finance for films,
never saw him make it.
He comes back to Hollywood and wanders. He focuses
on screenplays, writing alone in his house And then his
wife tells him she's pregnant, and he realizes that he
needs some steady work. He gets a job as manager of the
Beverly Hills Playhouse and starts to re-focus his life. He
sells a screenplay to a studio. He goes back to studying
acting and directing. And he understands that the studios
will never call him. He is going to have to sell himself, to
put himself out there in front of the executives and show
them what he has.
Gonnegtions, Meyer Wolfsheim toldJay Gatsby, you got to
have gonnegtions to make it.
It's a sunny day in California in 1989, and Miles Watkins
and his wife are at a dinner party with three other
couples. There's a guy named Rick Wallace who was in an
acting class with Watkins several years back. Now Wallace
is co-executive producer of L.A. Lena which is consistently
winning Emmys for the best drama on television. Watkins
and Wallace are reminiscing about acting school and
Wallace is telling entertaining anecdotes about L.A. Law
and everyone is getting along well. Watkins talks to
Wallace about an educational film that he's working on
19
and the producer seems interested. The evening ends
uneventfully and everyone agrees that they should do this
again.
A few days later Wallace calls Watkins and says he wants
to meet with him. It's a friendly meeting, and at the end
of the meeting Wallace asks him if he wants to direct an
episode of L.A. Lata
After struggling to get a major directing job for more
than a decade, Miles Watkins stands on the set of L.A.
Law for his first day of shooting. Around him are the
stars: Harry Hamlin, once hailed as the sexiest man in the
world by People magazine; Susan Dey, who has come a
long way since her days on the Partridge Family, Michael
Tucker, one of the firm's partners and a mainstay of the
show. The list goes on.
Watkins should be scared and nervous, but he's not.
He's comfortable. He handles the actors with a calm that
they don't expect from a first-time television director. But
Watkins has been working toward this day for years. He's
ready.
At the end of the first day of shooting, Watkins goes
home. He is exhausted and his feet and legs are killing
him—he realizes that's he's been standing on the con-
crete studio floor for 14 hours. He remembers a line
from director Elia Kazan: With a director, it's the legs that go
first.
He shoots for eight days, getting more and more com-
fortable each day. He spends several days editing after the
shoot, and the job is done. Wallace takes a look at the fi-
nal product and is very pleased, telling Watkins it's one of
the best episodes that's been produced. Watkins will be
"invited back" to do another show.
i ,
THE FUTURE
"I had this prejudice against television," Watkins says
from his 1930s home in Santa Monica, a few blocks from
the Pacific Ocean. "When I started meeting some people
in television, I realized that I wasn't necessarily brighter
or wittier or more sophisticated at all than, for instance,
David Kelley, who is the head writer for L.A. Latt/and now
does Picket Fences. I think he is an artist and brilliant.
"I'm thrilled making a comfortable living doing some-
thing that I love to do, that I would secretly pay to do. But
at the same time I'm getting restless now."
The next step, the reason he came to Los Angeles al-
most 20 years ago, is to make feature films. The attacks on
the industry from critics, academics, and industry insid-
ers have not dissuaded Watkins from his goal.
"I have a lot of complaints about television and movies.
But there are so
many people who
have a lot of com-
plaints. I'm not too
interested in just
joining the band-
wagon. I don't have
anything new to say
that 10,000 people
haven't said before.
I'm hopeful that
cable and the pro-
liferation of
choices will make it
easier for quality
programs to sur-
vive.
"I don't have any
big quarrel with fea-
ture films. It's easy
to criticize them, to
say they're car-
toons, or they're
about the big ma-
cho guy or there's
too much sex and
violence. Frankly, I
like sex and vio-
lence. When I'm in
the mood for it, I
like Terminator 2.
"As long as it's possible for smaller films to make it, then
I don't have any quarrel with feature films. I understand
that most people would rather see Toted Recall than Barton
Fink, but I think it is very important that movies like
Barton Fink are made."
So Watkins will go to more meetings, bouncing film
ideas off studio executives. He will see friends and occa-
sionally the powers that be in the obligatory parties, and
maybe there he will find someone like Rick Wallace who
will offer him a film. "I'm just on the brink of getting to
do films," says Watkins. "In the meantime I'm enjoying
myself. It's better than selling pencils.
"As long as it's possible
for smallerfilms to
make it, then I don 't
have any quarrel with
featurefilms. I
understand that most
people would rather see
Total Recall than
Barton Fink, but I
think it is very
important that movies
like Barton Fink
are made."
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The Screenwriters' life in LaLa Land
Tom Lakeman (left) and ('.litis Sturgeon ofte
Tiey came to Los Angeles with nothing but a vision. They
had no jobs and few connections—their common convic-
tion to break into the movie business as screenwriters drew
them to California.
Now, just a few years after they arrived in LaLa Land,
Chris Sturgeon, C'86, and Tom Lakeman, C'86, sound like in-
dnstry pros.
Sturgeon sits in Hugo's, a Hollywood breakfast and
lunch hangout that occassionally draws stars, and talks about
writing screenplays.
"Writers are at the bottom of the totem pole in I lollv-
wood," he says. "They get very little respect; they have very little
input. If von write a screenplay, chances are that Company Abuys it and develops it. In that development process, they may
put three or four writers on it. By the time it gets to the screen,
I may get a story credit but the screenplay credit goes to some-
body else."
He pauses for a second and looks up from his bacon
and eggs. "See that guy behind you. He's a soap opera star. I
don't know his name. Look up there near the cash register.
Isn't that the actress who was Hot Lips in the movie M*A*S*H?
What's her name? Sally Kellerman. No, I guess not."
Sturgeon has had some success as a screenwriter. He-
got an agent after graduating from the MFA program in
screenwriting from the University ofSouthern California. And
he's sold a screenplay to a small production company. "It's a
modern-day adaptation of Huck Finn called Hut I; and the King
ofHearts," he says. Production started on the project in May,
and the cast includes Oscar-winner Graham Greene as well as
Dee Wallace andJoe Piscopo.
He hopes this project will be a major break for him,
giving him more credibility as he pitches stories to the studios.
At this point in his career, he can't make it on his writing alone.
n get together to talk about their screenplays.
He reads scripts on the side for a Japanese production com-
pany and does computer graphics for a huge advertising firm.
"It's junk mail. Tree killers," he says and shrugs. "I've been out
here four years. I work hard. I never, ever lose sight of the vi-
sion. It's a struggle lor me to write more than an hour and a
half or two hours a day. But I know I have the talent and the
stories to make it. I can make a career out of this, no problem."
Sturgeon's friend Tom Lakeman came to Los Ange-
les partly at Chris's urging. A Watson Fellow who studied
playwriting in England after graduating from Sewanee,
Lakeman earned an MFA in playwriting from Carnegie
Mellon University and then joined Sturgeon in Los Angeles.
"I had none of the things you're supposed to have in
L.A. I didn't even have a car," Lakeman recalls. He signed up
with a temporary agency which assigned him to Universal Stu-
dios. He has worked his way into a position as a lull-time pub-
licity writer for the studios, handling media for Universale fea-
ture films.
"In the movie business, our audience is shrinking. It
used to be that the studios had lots and lots ofmoney that they
could throw away like Monopoly money," Lakeman explains.
"While the overall population has grown, the movie-going au-
dience has not grown. The movie business is not recession
proof. There is going to be a higher reliance on marketing and
market research."
While he works at Universal during the day, Lakeman
struggles during his time off the job to pursue writing screen-
plays. "I consider myself an aspiring writer. But working in the
movie business, I understand very well what I'm up against. In
this industry, if you use the word art, you have to use it with a
small 'a.' You have to be very realistic about the chances a
screenplay is going to reach the screen in the form you as the
writer intended it to be."
21
A Tale ofMary-Beth Smith, C'84, and GilJohnson, C'83, have come a long wayfrom their
native Alabama to tlie bright lights ofCalifornia
D uring a San Francisco
Shakespeare Festival, Mary-
Beth Smith, C'84, plays the
role of Titania in A Midsummer Night's
Dream. It's the fourth time she's per-
formed in the play, and she has become
a fairly regular actor in Bay Area
Shakespeare productions.
Four-hundred miles south of San
Francisco at the Colony Theater in Los
Angeles, Gil [ohnson, C'83, plays a 25-
year-old William Shakespeare in Oxford's
Will, a new play that addresses the much
discussed question of who really did
write the Bard's plays.
While Smith and [ohnson have never
met, their lives have converged in curi-
ous ways. Both from Alabama, they
made their way to California to study act-
ing and have since endured to make it as
actors.
For Smith, the actor's life has been a
lifelong goal. "I guess I wanted to be an
actress from the time I was a little thing.
But when I entered Sewanee, I planned
to do what my parents wanted me to do,
which was to be a doctor, and I schemed
how I could act on the side."
-Smith plays Katherine in Love's Labour's Lost during a Shakespeare Simla Cruz production.
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Two Actors
Giljohnson plays a 25-year-old William Shakespeare in Oxford's Will.
Robber Bridegroom. The choreographer
for that play hired her to do Carouselfor
a dinner theater production in Indiana
during the summer between her sopho-
more and junior years. "I was amazed
that 1 could get paid for acting. That did
it. I came back to school and switched
my major to theatre and English."
Acting in several more student pro-
ductions and directing one play at
Sewanee, Smith graduated from the
University and returned to her native
Huntsville, Ala., for a year to decide how
she wanted to pursue her acting career.
She started at Sewanee as a biology She returned to the Mountain and
major, but during her sophomore year, talked with her mentor and theatre pro-
she got a role in a student production of fessor Peter Smith. "He tossed me a cata-
log from the American Conservatory
Theatre in San Francisco and told me
that I should either go there for some
training or go to New York."
At the American Conservatory The-
atre, Smith found the ideal blend of
training and opportunities for perfor-
mance. She can move easily from
Chekov to Shakespeare, from Lanford
Wilson to Clifford Odett.
"When I start on a role, I answer every
question you possibly can about the
character. I find out exactly who this per-
son is. Then I have to find out where I
and the character meet and diverge,"
she says.
"I do everything I can to make sure
2:;
that I have a net around me on every
side to help me remain in the world of
the phi}'. II I do that work thoroughly
enough, I don't have to work much on
stage. Those kind of safety nets keep me
from being nervous. 1 am no longer
Mary Beth Smith, the actress exposed on
stage. I am the character."
Although Gil Johnson uses a
similar method to immerse
-himself in a role, he says
that he always has anxiety on opening
night. "People ask me why I want to be
an actor. I don't have a good answer. It's
a terrifying thing—it's like jumping off
Foster Falls."
With little more than a desire to see
new places, Johnson came to Los Ange-
les seven years ago. He got an apartment
and was looking for work when he came
across an advertisement in a local paper
lor auditions with the American Acad-
emy of Dramatic Arts in Pasadena. "I
never acted a day in my life, but I had
always been interested in plays and
playwriting. In the back of my mind I
had thought about coming to LA. to
write. The academy accepted me, and I
ended up studying acting there for two
years and then was with their acting com-
pany for a year.
"
Since graduating from the acting pro-
gram, Johnson has had a gamut of
roles—he's had bit parts in a couple of
bad horror movies and had a small role,
which ended up on the cutting room
floor, in Oliver Stone's The Doors. He
reads occasionally for other television
and film roles, hoping to get the one
break that will put him on the map. "Pro-
ducers and directors are scared to take a
risk on somebody new, so you get a lot of
rejections. It's a tough road, and il
breaks your heart, but in this business
you learn to live with it."
i(
We were all told when we went
to school that the best thing you
can doforyourself is make your
own opportunities, " says Smith.
uMy goal is tofound a theatre
where I can perform, where I can
do the things I want to do."
Johnson's acting mainstay has been
on the stage, where he has been able to
stretch out as an actor and has met with
some critical success. The LA Weekly
called his performance in Lanford
Wilson's Fifth ofJuly "beautifully under-
stated." He received accolades from lo-
cal media lor his role as a young
Shakespeare in Oxford's Will. On the
stage, Johnson says he Finds an imme-
diacy and a power to "touch people's
lives" that it is not possible in film work.
"I did this play called Could I Have
ThisDance? which is about Huntington's
Disease. It won the American Theatre
Critics prize for best new play produced
outside of New York. Huntington's Dis-
ease is a degenerative, genetic disease. If
your parents have it, there's a 50-50
chance that you'll get it. There were
people that came to see the play who
were at risk for the disease. The play
changed their lives."
Those are the moments that Johnson
and Smith live for as actors. But those
moments are, they admit, few and far
between. Neither can survive on acting
alone. Smith manages the ticket office of
the American Conservatory Theater.
When he's not acting, Johnson works
part-time at a restaurant to make ends
meet.
Both plan to leave California
this summer to hone their
acting skills. Johnson has
been accepted to attend a series of
master's classes at Oxford University,
where he will learn Shakespeare from
the likes of Kenneth Branagh and Jer-
emy Irons. Smith will reprise a role in a
stage adaptation of Franz Kafka's Meta-
nioiphosis; she will then produce that play
at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, an off-
shoot of the prestigious Edinburgh Fes-
tival in Scotland.
Despite the struggles, Johnson and
Smith have not lost their determination
to act for a living. "I console myself with
the fact that this business has a huge at-
trition rate. Every year you stay in the
business, the better your chances get,"
says Smith. "We were all told when we
went to school that the best thing you
can do for yourself is make your own
opportunities. My goal is to found a the-
atre where I can perform, where I can
do the things I want to do."
"I had never intended on doing this,"
fohnson says. "There seems to be a cer-
tain amount of destiny to it. Things are
falling in place. I'm in this for the long
haul."
—Robert Bradford
24
THEOLOGY
LIBRARIAN ED CAMP
RETIRES AFTER 35 YEARS
OF SERVICE TO SEMINARY
When onefinds one's
true calling in life, it is
an example ofgreat
serenity ofspirit to be
willing to stay in that
calling. In Sewanee, Ed
Campfound both
vocation and
friendships.
[n the last issue I wrote about our ties so valued by St. Benedict,
plans to begin recognizing faith- stabilitas. When one finds one's
lul service by our alumni/ae in Hue calling in life, it is an ex-
the callings for which they were ample of great serenity of spirit
trained at the School of Theol- I() be willing to stay in that call-
ogy. One of the purposes of these in g, carrying out its obligations,
honors each year at the St. Luke's experiencing its joys and disap-
Convocation/DnBose Lectures pointments, avoiding the restless-
will be to raise up role models for
those who are coming after-
wards. I appreciate your favor-
able and often moving letters in
response. Here I would like to say
a few words about one of those
very special role models.
This past month, T. Edward
ness of soul that is so common in
almost all of us in our modern
society. In Sewanee, Ed found
both vocation and friendships.
And so among us he stayed.
In addition to his work as a li-
brarian and teacher at the
School of Theology, Ed, along
with his wile, 1 1/ has long been iCamp retired as the head librai
ian of the School ofTheology Li- very active and committed mem-
brary. Ed had served faithfully in ber of the community and espe-
that position for some 35 years.
In recognition of thai service,
some of his colleagues tried in a
resolution to define Ed's contri-
butions to the University.
They spoke of Ed's service to
the faculties of the School of
Theology and the College ofAits
and Sciences and his "outstand-
ing professional skill and unself-
ish dedication." The resolution
emphasized that Ed had built the
theological collection into one of
the finest among denomina-
tional seminaries and that Ed "is
worth 50 electronic catalogs and
a hundred databases."
It has been both my pleasure
and very much to my benefit to
cially in groups devoted to ad-
vancing causes of peace and jus-
tice. He has been an integral part
of the Cumberland Center for
Justice and Peace, and he contin-
ues this work into retirement.
I have only recently learned
of Ed's considerable talents as a
musician, and I want to add his
many years as Otey parish's or-
ganist to those things for which
we recognize him now.
Most of all, I admire Ed's per-
sonal qualities. Twice since I be-
came dean, Ed heard rumors or
perceived a situation that
troubled him. On both occa-
sions, Ed came to me immedi-
ately. He did not avoid me, sulk
highest possible way. Our church
is plagued with the inability to
communicate directly with one
another. This is the source ol so
much of our frustration, anger,
and misunderstanding. By his
mature, Christian behavior, Ed
showed all of us how we should
relate to one another.
Ed Camp is not a graduate of
the School ofTheology, and he is
therefore not eligible to be rec-
ognized as a "faithful alumnus"
at next fall's gathering. So I want
to call attention, in this way, to
the outstanding service that Ed
has given to this seminary, to the
University, to the church, and to
our society. It is just such people
whom we hope to honor from
among our own alumni/ae. I amsure all of you join me in wishing
Ed health, happiness, and show-
ers of God's blessings in his re-
tirement.
—The Very Rev 'd Dr. Guy
Filch Lytk III
know and work with Ed Camp, and speculate about what I might
We only met one another two have said or done, or try to imag-
years ago. But even in that short ine what I might think about
period of time, I have come to some issue. He did not project
understand the profound truth his anxieties onto students or col-
of this resolution. As a theologi- leagues. Rather, he came to me
cal librarian, Ed is outstanding, directly and calmly, and asked
the equal of any throughout the nie specifically what the truth
country. Sewanee has been fortu- was. In both cases, we were alie-
nate to be able to keep his loyalty almost immediately to resolve
and his service for all these many the issue, to clear up the confu-
years. His willingness to remain sion, and to proceed in agree-
at Sewanee when he could have
gone to other, perhaps more
overtly prestigious positions in
the academic world demon-
strates one of those great quali-
ment and harmony and friend-
ship to complete the tasks that we
each were called to do. I believe
that this models Christian behav-
ior and colleagueship in the
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SPORT
~~
SeniorDoug Mimay.
BASEBALL
Under coach Robert Black, the
Tigers again were plagued by
lack of playing time, with 20
games rained out during the sea-
son. The team finished a mis-
leading 1-15. Even with an 0-5
slate in SCAC competition, Black
indicated the team was in every
game. The Tigers were led by se-
nior pitcher Doug Murray, who
did a great job pitching lor lour
years. Junior first-baseman Greg
Greene led the team in hitting at
.389 with an outstanding .(ill
slugging percentage, and junior
shortstop Tony Richards hii a
solid .2 (.)<S and was especially
good in the field. With only one
senior graduating, the future is
Mill ahead of the voting Tigers.
SOFTBALL
In their second intercolle-
giate season, the Softball
squad showed consider-
able improvement. The
B team finished 3-6, with
one weekend set ol
games lost to a snow-
storm in Kentucky. The
last weekend in Sew-
anee. the Tigers went 3-
4^ 1, with two wins over
' Agnes Scott College
and a doubleheader split
with Berea College. In the
Berea series, the voting
squad lost the first game 1 5-0,
and then came bat k to win I 1-10
in extra innings.
MEN'S TENNIS
The men's tennis team, coached
by John Shackelford, started
strong and held their intensity
through the SCAC- champion-
ships, where they avenged last
year's defeat at the hands ofTrin-
ity and again captured the SCAC
crown. The Tigers competed in
the Division III championships at
Kalamazoo (Mich.) College after
graduation, the team's third trip
to the national finals. The SCACtriumph was an especially sweet
win, a 5-4 nail-biter, which was
lied 3-3 following the singles
matches. All three doubles
matches went to three sets, with
the Tigers winning the decisive
m. itch 6-4. The squad finished
1 7-5 ( in the season with a #8 rank-
ing headed into the final polls.
Besides the team finals, fresh-
man K..C. Home (ranked #22)
and sophomore Brian Morrow
(ranked #49) will compete in
singles competition; Home and
sophomore Stephen Jackson will
compete in doubles.
WOMEN'S TENNIS
Ihe women's tennis team went
to the Division III national finals
for the fourth time in five years.
Following a 16-5 season, (he
squad ended the season ranked
#5 in Division III. The only set-
back in a great year was a close 5-
4 loss to Trinity (also going to the
Division III finals ranked #3) in
the SCAC finals. Coach Conchie
Shackelford's team upset Emory
(then ranked #7) twice during
the season to help secure a tour-
nament berth. In addition to the
team competition, sophomore
Linnie Wheeless and freshman
Ki isten Ialacci, competed in the
individual doubles at Carleton
(Minn.) College. Senioi
Cameron Tyer finished the sea-
son ranked #4 in the nationals in
singles and teamed with junior
Becky Jo Doncaster to end the
year ranked #5 in doubles, but
the duo has decided to forego
individual competition, allowing
Tyer to participate in commence-
ment in Sewanee.
MEN'S TRACK
The men's track team finished a
strong second to Rhodes College
in their bid for a third-straight
SCAC title. The team lost by five
points after a heartbreaking
missed hand-oil in the 4\1 00m
relay. Coach Al Logan was proud
of his team, which set four new
Sewanee records in the confer-
ence meet. Although slowed by a
late-season injury, sophomore
Brad Mall led the Tigers, placing
in four events. Records were set
byjuniorJamey Goss in both the
200 and 400m dashes; freshman
Shann Williams in the discus;
and junior Brad McLane in the
1500m run. Sophomore Scott
Branting won both the 110m
high hurdles and the 400m inter-
mediate hurdles. Coach Logan
was especially pleased with the
team's captain and lone senior,
Alan Bible, who provided great
leadership and improved person-
ally throughout the season.
Freshman K.C. Home, ranked number 22 in Division III, competed in the
national singles competition.
26
SPORTS
WOMEN'S TRACK
The women's track team com in- \tied their winning ways with their Eg
second consecntive SCAC title in
the season-ending meet in San
Antonio. Under the guidance of
coach Cliff Afton, the Tigers
added three conference records
at the meet, bringing Sewanee's
total to eight. The new records
were by freshman Michelle Parks
in the 400m inn; sophomore
Tricia Woods, junior Kiisha
Walker, Parks, and sophomore
Qnisha White, in the 4\1 00m re-
lay; and Parks, Walker, White,
and junior Daphne Skipper in
the 4x400m relay. White, Woods,
and Parks all hail from Central
High School in Memphis. Addi-
tional SCAC winners were White
in the 100m and 200m dashes;
Skipper in the 800m, 1,500m,
and 3,000m runs; senior captain
StacyJnckette in the 5,000m run;
and freshman Jolene Tucker in
the high jump. For the meet.
White was the high point scorer
and Skipper was second. Senior Margaret Knight.
EQUESTRIAN TEAM
The equestrian team, led by
coach Amy Beth Skelton and as-
sisted by Kim George, finished
15th in (he intercollegiate na-
tional championships at Lake
Erie College in Cleveland, Ohio,
on May 1-2. For the second time
in three years, the squad won the
Region VI title. Besides the team
competition, freshman K.K.
Christie finished fifth in the
Cacchione Cup in the open divi-
sion; senior Margaret Kni«>ht
competed in the open fences di-
vision; and sophomore Sally
McClatchey competed in the in-
termediate fences division. The
'IIIhighlight of the regular season
was the win over Midway (Ky.)
College that came down to the
lasi class. Christie won the open
flat class to secure the champion-
ship; she had needed to place
second in the class for the team
to go to the nationals. Christie
also finished the season as the
high point rider for Region VI.
—by Stephen Becker
Junior Kiisha Walker hands off to Quisha Wliite in the 4 X 400 relay. Walker and White helped lew.
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' n 's track team to their second SCAC title.
CLASS NOTES
'33Edwin I. Hatch Si:
3425 Wood Valley Road, N.W.
Atlanta, GA 30327
Robert Fort is living in
Beachwood, Ohio, where he has
been retired as CEO of Medusa
Corporation for the past 15 years.
Texarkana and has served as a sup-
ply priest in the two nearby towns
ofAtlanta and New Boston.
'62 '70
'43W. Sperry Lee
4323 Forest Park Road
Jacksonville, FL 32210
The Rev. Domenic Cianella, T'45,
retired as rector of Holy Trinity
Episcopal Church in Hicksville,
N.Y., on January 6, 1993. He and
his wife now live in Huntington,
N.Y., where he is serving as interim
pastor at St. John's Episcopal.
'48George G. Clarke
1893 Harbert Avenue
Memphis, TN 38104_ .i
The Rt. Rev. Judson Child Jr. of
Atlanta was selected by the
Sewanee Club ofAtlanta as the Dis-
tinguished Alumnus.
'49John P. Guerry
1000 West Brow Road
Lookout Mountain, TN 37350
Harry Hall of Knoxville, Tenn., is
active in the outreach programs in
the diocese of East Tennessee and
the Church of Ascension in Knox-
ville.
'50Richard B. Doss
5555 Del Monte, #1007
Houston, TX 77056
The Rev. Edward Rutland of
Texarkana, Texas, is enjoying his
retirement. He is a pastoral assis-
tant at St. James Church in
'57Oliver WheelerJervis
1013 Catalpa Lane
Naperville, IL 60540
Thomas Darnall of St. Louis, Mo.,
is the executive vice president and
chief investment officer for
Boatmen's Trust Company. He has
been with this organization since
1973.
'59CarlN. Whatley
9006 Langdon
Houston, TX 77036
Norman E. McSwain Jr., professor
of surgery at Tulane University
School of Medicine, has published
his 13th textbook, Retroperitoneal
Trauma. He is currently associate
professor of surgery at the Univer-
sity of Tennessee School of Medi-
cine in Memphis.
'60Howard W. Harrison Jr.
435 Spring Mill Road
Villauova, PA 19085
Robert Gaines of Darien, Conn.,
vice president of food marketing
for the Newspaper Association of
America, is the corporate director
of marketing for Ottaway Newspa-
pers, Inc.
'61Robert N. Rust 111
4461 Kohler Drive
Allenlown, PA 18103
Thomas S. Tisdale Jr. of Charles-
ton, S.C., has been included in the
latest edition of The Best Lawyers in
America.
W. Landis Turner
556 Park Avenue, North
Hohcnwald, TN 38462
Edward "Sparky" Edgin, an En-
glish professor and the depart-
ment chair at David Lipscomb Uni-
versity in Nashville, Tenn., received
the David Laine Faculty Travel
Fund award on March 3, 1993. It is
given to encourage faculty travel
and research.
'65Douglas J Milne
354 7 Richmond Street
Jacksonville, FL 32205-9421
James Baird of Malvern, Pa., is the
administrative director of the Pros-
thetics and Orthodontics Depart-
ment at MossRehab Hospital in
Philadelphia. Price Stone, Orrin
Harrison, (C'71), and Bruce
Mulkey, (C'66), all lawyers in Dal-
las, Texas, recently worked with
Habitat for Humanity on a project
sponsored by the Dallas Bar Asso-
ciation. They pose the question,
"Want to buy a house built by law-
yers?"
'66John Day PeakeJr.
P.O. Drawer 2527
Mobile, AL 36622
Robert H. "Bobby" Hood ol
Charleston, S.C., has been in-
cluded in the latest edition of The
Best Lawyers in America.
'67Albert Sidmy Polk 111
2101 Harbor Drive
Annapolis, Ml) 2141)1
Bill Bassett of Gallatin, Tenn., is a
representative for the Tennessee
Democratic Party.
John W. TonissenJr.
P.O. Box 36218
Charlotte, NC 28236
Donald EUis of Atlanta is a partner
with Ellis, Funk, Goldberg,
Labovitz & Campbell, PC. Most of
his time is devoted to litigation
matters. David Hillier is living in
Asheville, N.C., where he practices
law, emphasizing bankruptcy law.
'73Josiah M. Daniel HI
Winstead, McGwire, Sechrest &Minick
5400 Renaissance Tower
1201 Elm Street
Dal/as, TX 75270
Susan Rogers is vice president and
tax counsel at R. Duffy Wall & Asso-
ciates, Inc., in Washington, D.C.
Nancy Cave Scoville of Nashville,
Tenn., teaches French at the
Ensworth School. She recently
spent four weeks in Besancon,
France, at a program for French
teachers from around the world.
'74Martin R. Tilson Jr.
508 Broadland Road
Atlanta, GA 30342
Jim Palmer ofBirmingham, Ala., is
chairman of the English depart-
ment at the Altamont School.
'76James H. Grier
1520 Barberry Lane
Spartanburg, SC 29302
Allen Reddick married Henriette
Herwig, a German professor at
Berne University, last July. He is
leaving Harvard University inJune
to assume the position of professor
of English literature at the Univer-
sity of Zurich, Switzerland.
28
Nominations are being sought for the 1993 Distinguished
Alumnus/a Award and the 1993 Distinguished Young Alumnus/a
Award (the Distinguished Young Alumnus/a Award honors an
individual who has graduated within the last 15 years). Once a
year at Homecoming, the Associated Alumni honors two of its
members with the presentation of these special awards. If you
know of someone you think should be recognized, please fill out
and return this form.
The purpose of these awards is to recognize individuals who
have distinguished themselves in their vocation and who have
shown loyalty to and support of the University.
The recipient must be a living alumnus or alumna of the
University of the South (College of Arts and Sciences or School of
Theology). The recipient may not be an active member of the
Associated Alumni Board, the Board of Trustees, or the Board of
Regents. The recipient may not be a current employee of the
University. Please submit your nomination by August 1, 1993.
1993 Distinguished Alumnus/a Award
I present the name of
Class of
Reason for submitting the nomination
Submitted by_
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CLASS NOTES
'80 '85Suzanne L. DeWalt
1066 Old Gate Road
Pittsburgh, PA 1523>
Onic McKenzie and her husband,
Ray Brastow, have a new daughter,
McKenzie Elizabeth. Onie works at
Longwood College.
'82DanielJohnson
P.O. Box 3759
Memphis, TN38104
John Price is the president and
CEO of Spiffy's Shoes, Inc., in At-
lanta, Ga.
'83Stewart A. W. Low
215 Homer Avenue
Yoorhees. NJ 08043
Daphne Davis and her husband,
Garland Head (C'85), live in Texas.
She is still at Southwestern Medical
Center in Dallas and helped au-
thor two articles published in the
Journal of Clinical Investigation and
the NewEnglandJournal ofMedicine.
Lisa Stiles married Mark Joseph
Licata on January 2, 1993. They
live in Richmond, Va., where she is
an attorney. Keith Taylor and his
wife, Alisa, of Nashville, Tenn.,
have a second son, Kyle Alexander,
born August 10, 1992.
'84A n n e FreeIs Bley not
2415 Dettwood Drive
Greensboro, NC 27408
John Evans of Atlanta, Ga., has
been awarded the Chartered Life
Underwriter professional designa-
tion. He is also the new president
of the Sewanee Club of Atlanta.
I jiii ne (',. /arret! Rogers
2012 Park Ave. Apt. 2
Richmond, VA 23220
Shap Boyd and Beth Garcia Boyd
have a new daughter, Elizabeth,
born April 15, 1993.
'86Read Carson Van de Walei
2214 38th Street. NWWashington. DC 20007
Gretchen Rehberg, an assistant
professor of chemistry at Bucknell
University, is working on develop-
ing new synthetic methodologies
toward the synthesis of pharmaco-
logically interesting compounds.
Frederick Rudolph of Marietta,
Ga., is a human factors engineer-
ing scientist lor Lockheed Aero-
nautical Systems Company. He
completed his master of science
degree in engineering psychology
last June.
'87Robert Morales
2588 Winslow Drive. NEAtlanta. GA 30305-3743
Bill Monroe and his wife, Sharlene,
of Silver Spring, Md., have a
daughter, facqeline, born Decem-
ber 1 7, 1992. Paul Todd Nicks mar-
ried Julie Ann Alsip at All Saints'
Chapel on February 13, 1993.
They now live in Jackson, Tenn.
Brian Perrone of San Francisco,
Calif, is an analyst with VISA Inter-
national. He holds an MBA from
Belmont University and a master
of international management de-
gree from the American Graduate
School of International Manage-
ment.
'88Kyle Elisabeth Dice
1217Lyncrest
Jackson, MS 39202
and Koont/ in Chattanooga,
Tenn., as an associate. Elizabeth
Klots married Michael John
Skrynecki on November 21, 1992.
They live in Atlanta, Ga.
'89fohn Patten Guerryjr.
1619 T Bridge Mill Drive
Marietta, GA 10067
Kristen Dietrich F.rdman works for
Coca Cola in Gaithersburg, Md.
Pat Guerry of Atlanta, Ga., is the
new vice president of the Sewanee
Club of Atlanta.
'90C. Katy Morrissey
3103 Wheal Sheet
Columbia. SC 29205
Lisa Humberd Rung is enrolled in
the MBA program at the University
of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
Marsey L. Waller
3741 Gunstem Road
Alexandria. VA 22302
Tom Broughton of San Antonio,
Texas, is a stockbroker with the
firm ol Ihe Principal/Eppler,
Guerin & Turner. Coast Guard En-
sign Kathryn Dunbar of Columbia,
S.C., was recently commissioned in
her present rank upon graduation
from Officer Candidate School.
Paul Streckmann is living in At-
lanta where he works in the audit
division of NationsBank.
'92LeeD. Cogburn
710 Hi n ma u Ave. #38
Evanston, IL 60202
Shari Garber oi Knoxville, Tenn.,
is working as a graduate associate
and attending graduate school in
Randall Scott Hammer has joined political science at the University
the law firm of Kennedv, Fulton of Tennessee. Baron Jordan of Co-
lumbia. S.( '... works as an environ-
mental scientist with Tank and En-
vironmental Testing, Inc. Christina
Reid teaches English in San Jose,
Costa Rica.
SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY
'60The Rev. H. Don Harrison serves
as rector of St. Joseph's Episcopal
Church in McDonaugh, Ga.
'63Last September, the Rev. Gedge
Gayle of Metairie, La., served as
acting vicar of St. John the Evange-
list Church, Cambridge, as part of
a parish exchange with the Rev.
Canon Brian N.Jones. In October,
he was a scholar-in-residence at
Coates Hall, the theological col-
lege of the Scottish Episcopal
Church in Edinburgh.
'70Jim Bingham has left the active
ministry of the Episcopal Church
and is the vice president for devel-
opment and community relations
of Naples Health Care, Inc., in
Naples, Fla.
'84The Rev. Stephen J. Eichler is the
rector of St. Mary Magdalene Epis-
copal Church, Coral Springs, Fla.
He had been rector of St. Albans
in Chattanooga, Tenn., since 1986.
'90The Rev. Lada E. Hardwick is the
vicar at St. John's Episcopal
Church in Marlinton, Va.
29
IN MEMORIAMThe Rev. E. Lloyd Ballinger, T41,
of Poughkeepsie. N.Y., died on
fanuary 3, 1993. An Episcopal
priest, he served parishes all over
the state of New York. In 1960 he
moved to Poughkeepsie where
he taught French, Latin, and En-
glish at Franklin D. Roosevelt
High School in Hyde Park and
served as a supply priest at several
churches in the area. Survivors
include his wife, Charlotte, three
sons, a daughter, and a brother.
The Rev. Robert O. Clement,
T'51, of Pordand, Maine, died on
February 21, 1993. He was a re-
tired priest of the Episcopal
Church. After graduating from
the University ofNew Hampshire
and before attending seminary at
Sewanee, he served in the L^.S.
Army during World War II. Upon
ordination to the priesthood, he
served at churches in New Hamp-
shire, Connecticut, and Maine.
After retiring from active ministry
in 1978, he was honorary canon
at the Cathedral Church of St.
Luke in Portland. He is survived
b\ a brother.
The Rev. Robert M. Cook, T'45,
of Hudson, N.Y, died in August,
1992. He retired from active Epis-
copal ministry in 1978.He is sur-
vived by his wife and lour daugh-
ters.
We have learned of the death of
Olive Saloma Dameron, C'78, of
Charleston, S.C., on May 5,
1992.She was a retired computer
consultant.
The Rev. W. Russell Daniel, T'44,
of ( lookeville, Tenn., died April (>,
1993. He was an Episcopal priest.
He is survived by his wife, Alles,
and two sons, including W.
Russell Daniel Jr, C67.
He was an Episcopal priest and
longtime rector of the combined
churches of St. James, James Is-
land and St. John's, John's Is-
land, S.C. After attending
Sewanee, he graduated from the
University of Pennsylvania
School of Law and started a ca-
reer in law. He later graduated
from Virginia Theological Semi-
nary. He was an Army chaplain in
World War II. As a clergyman, he
served churches in Virginia,
North Carolina, and South Caro-
lina. A long-time trustee of
Sewanee, he also served as a
trustee of Porter Military Acad-
emy in Charleston, chairman of
the board of directors of what is
now the Bishop Gadsden Episco-
pal Community, and on many
various committees in the Dio-
cese of South Carolina. After he
left active ministry, he was ap-
pointed as honorary canon of
the ( lathedral in the diocese of
South Carolina. He is survived by
his wife, Ella Hoffman Guerry.
The Rev. James A. B. Haggart,
C'30, ol Healdsburg, Calif., died
July 22, 1992. Fie was a retired
Methodist minister. He was pre-
ceded in death by his wife, Marie,
and is survived by a daughter.
Lewis J. Holloway Jr., C49, ol
Louisville, Ky., died on Novem-
ber 2, 1992. He was a retired tex-
tile salesman for Bibb Manufac-
turing Co. in New York City, a
former sales promotion manager
for Glenmore Distilleries, and an
Army veteran of World War II.
He was a member of Sigma Al-
pha Epsilon fraternity. After be-
ing a German prisoner of war for
fifteen months he wrote a book
aboul his experiences entitled
Medium Dark. He is survived by
two sisters.
and music director of two cho-
ruses, the Fiesta Chorus of
Pensacola and the Emerald
Coast Chorus of Fort Walton
Beach. He was a member of
Sigma Nu fraternity. He is sur-
vived by his wife, Alice, a daugh-
ter, two sons, and two brothers.
The Rev. Fred L. Meyer, T'62, of
Eatonton, Ga., died December 6,
1992. He was an Episcopal clergy-
man. He is survived by his wife.
Hazel.
Hilliard E. Miller Jr., C'42, of
Colorado Springs, Colo., died
February 26, 1993. He was a
cattle rancher and operated
ranches in Mississippi, Montana,
and Colorado. He bred regis-
tered and commercial Hereford
Cattle and registered quarter
horses. He was one ol the first
cattle breeders in the nation to
do performance testing for the
selection ol improved genetic
traits of cattle. He served as a cap-
tain in the U.S. Marine Corps in
World War II. He was a member
ol Phi Delta Theta fraternity. Heis survived by his wife, Zoya, his
mother, a sister, and two sons, Jef-
frey Arnot Miller, and Hilliard E.
Miller III, C74, and three grand-
daughters.
Lancelot Cabell Minor, A'21,
C'25, ol Birmingham, Mich.,
died January 6, 1993. He was a
retired manager and vice presi-
denl of the Michigan office of
the American Surety Company
of New York. While at Sewanee
he was a member of the Delta
Tan Delta fraternity and a star of
the track team. He served eight
years on the Birmingham Cilv
Commission and was mayor pro-
tem from 1953-54. He is survived
by his wife, Dorothy.
The Rev. Canon Edward B. Dr. Oliver C. Leonard Sr., C'49, Francis Joseph Pelzer III, C'62.
Guerry, C23, T'52, of Charles- of Pensacola, Fla., died Decern- ol Charleston, S.C, died Marchton, S.C, died October 18, 1992. |>cr 24, 1992. He was a dentist 27. 1993. He was a self-employed
certified public accountant. He is
survived by his mother, a daugh-
ter, a son, two brothers, and a sis-
ter.
C. Paul Phelps Jr., C54, ofBaton
Rouge, La., died March 10. 1993.
He was a retired secretary ol the
Louisiana Department of Cor-
rections and Public Safety and a
U.S. Air Force veteran with the
rank of Captain. He is survived by
his wile, Betty, his mother, two
daughters, and a brother.
Thomas R. Waring Jr., C'27,
H6L ol Charleston, S.C, died
March 8, 1993. He was the re-
tired editor of The News and Cou-
rier of Charleston and a member
of The Evening Post Publishing
Company board. After graduat-
ing as Sewanee's valedictorian in
1927, hi- went on to start working
al his uncle's newspaper. The
News (iiul Courier. He left to work
at the New York Herald TribunehwX
returned in 1942 to Charleston.
In 1951 he became editor of The
News 0)1(1 Courier. In 1974 he be-
came editor of The Evening Post
and retired in 1977. He was a re-
cipient of honorary degrees from
both Sewanee and The Citadel.
He is survived by his wife,
Hermine, a daughter, and a son.
William E. Walker Jr., friend and
great supporter of the University,
died February 24, 199.3. In the
past decade, Mr. Walker and the
W. E. Walker Foundation have
given Sewanee money to endow
the Bishop Allin scholarship
fund at the School of Theology',
to enhance All Saints' outreach
chaplaincy program, and to sup-
port St. Mary's Conference and
Retreat Center. The foundation
yvas established in 1972 and gives
mostly to independent schools,
youth agencies, and human ser-
vice agencies.
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AFTERWORD
THE RHYTHMOF THE MOUNTAIN
byJohn W. Boult, C'55
It was one of those country roads
in North Alabama, one of those
meandering ribbons of asphalt
intruding, uninvited it seemed,
upon the stillness of those hid-
den mountain coves in the re-
gion where Appalachia grudg-
ingly gives way to Dixieland. The
mountains, on the horizon in all
directions, are truncated and
subdued, rising only a thousand
feet or so above the valley door.
These are the unlikely moun-
tains ol North Alabama which
tell us that Tennessee cannot be
far away.
Alter crossing the Tennessee
line and after passing through
the town of Sherwood, the road
began a more ambitious climb.
As I started the ascent, in a rush
of memory and expectation, I
said aloud to myself and to tin-
trees and smaller flora crowding
the roadside, "This mountain be-
longs to me." I know the trees
were surprised to hear that be-
cause I had not even visited the
place more than a half do/en
limes in the past 33 years.
Nonetheless, the possessive
impulses grew as I reached the
top of the mountain. Then, as I
reached Sewanee, I was stunned
as never before by its awesome
beauty, its symmetry, its unyield-
ing rectitude.
I stopped at the bookstore to
buy T-shirts for my son and
daughter who know far too little
about this wondrous place.
There were people there who I
didn't know, and I reminded my-
self that I would spend an after-
noon on this mountaintop and I
would not recognize a soul, nor
would anyone recognize me. For
this reason, I suppose, I went in
search of some tangible proof of
my connection with the place. I
knew I would find nothing like
that at (lie ATO House because it
had been gutted by hie since my
time there. So I went to the en-
trance hall ofjuhan Gymnasium
when- the sports mementos aie
displayed. Examining the indi-
vidual photos ol the "All Ameri-
cans" I noted that Bobby Parkes,
probably the finest pure athlete
in Sewanee's history, is not
then-—a glaring omission. Fi-
nally I went to the giant spindle
containing the group photos ol
football teams from years gone
by. I found myself
in the 1951 pic-
ture and for some
reason I found it
necessaryto touch
my name in die
lisi below. The
connection was
real but somehow
tenuous.
From there I
drove out to
Green's View
—
that stately head-
land which lor
centuries has
stood watch over
the misty valley below. This is a
place where old man angst sel-
dom goes and never tarries. Suf-
fused with the quiet serenity ol
the place, I thought ol the man
for whom it was named. I sup-
pose I did so, again in search of a
connection. I remembered that
my great grandfather had been
baptized by Bishop William Mer-
cer Green almost a century be-
fore I was born. The thought oc-
curred to me then that maybe
Seyvanee got an early start in put-
ting its claim on me.
My solitary wanderings took
me next to Abbo's Alley, that pre-
ternatural ravine King at the
heart of this lovely campus.
There, too, old mister angst is sin-
gularly unwelcome. On this day
of late summer, oblivious to a
misting rain, I came upon a foot-
bridge I did not remember—one
of those sandstone bridges arch-
ing over the watery sinew ol
Abbo's botanical garden. The
plaque embedded in the sand-
stone told me the bridge was
dedicated to the memory of
Theodore Dubose Bratton. An-
other connection? When inv
mother was 16 in 1922 her pat-
ents put her on the train in her
sin. ill home town in North Missis-
sippi bound loi college al a small
girl's school in Vicksburg. Her
travel arrangements called for
her to change
trains at Jack-
son, but she
missedher con-
nection there
and found her-
self stranded.
It must have
been a I light-
ening experi-
ence lor a
voting girl away
from home for
the first time
alone. When I
asked her what
she did, she-
said, "Why, Honey, I just called
Bishop Bratton and he came and
got me." I guess there can be no
doubt, Sewanee anticipated my
arrival on this planet.
As I walked on along the
banks of Abbo's mountain
stream, I sensed the ancient
rhythms Abbo understood so
well ,\)\(\ tried, with regrettably
little success, to tell us about
—
the greening, the browning, and
the inexorable splendor of re-
birth; ever changing, ever staying
the same.
Here on this mountain the
rhythms of human history are
honored as well. Sewanee has
made its peace with the passage
of time, with the relentless cur-
rents ofchange. There is a linger-
ing sense of continuity here, and
awareness of the steadv flow of
the generations, .in awareness ol
the consequence of each in ils
passing. Mv mind called die roll
of the names ol those men I hold
responsible lor this place: Ed
McCrady, James Otey, Abbott
Cotten Martin, William Mercer
Green, John Webb, Leonidas
Polk, Robert Lancaster, Stephen
Elliott. How could I merge the
n.uncs ol men who lived a cen-
tury apart? What had they
wrought here; what had they sus-
tained here on this mountain
bastion? I do not pretend to
know the answer But as a child of
this place, I have to hazard a
guess. Maybe it has something to
do with the knowledge that, un-
less one is callous beyond re-
demption, he cannot take his
seat, even hall asleep, in dial
chapel named lor all the saints,
and hear tor a thousand limes
the old words, "the lord be with
v< >u" and not be persuaded—per-
suaded down deep in the bone
marrow where thought becomes
conviction—that He surely must
be. Aid maybe it has something
to do with isolation, with the
homage paid here to individual
privacy. Perhaps Sewanee's some-
what presumptuous adaptation
of the Oxford model is deeper
and more lasting than the cos-
metic things—soaring towers,
the parapets, the arches.
As I left the mountain that
day, I thought again about my
connection with the place. The
best I could do was to wonder
what misfortune might have be-
fallen me in this life if, in my
youth, before I was seized by this
somewhat sinful world, my life
had not been touched by this
wonderful place.
John Boult is an attorney in
Tampa, Fla.
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SEWANEESeptember 1993
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foi Planned Giving
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Americans have not al-
ways cherished their
forests. My distant an-
cestor, the pilgrim William
Bradford, viewed the forests and
wilderness of Massachusetts with
fear and disdain. He called the
land of New England "hideous
and desolate." He and his follow-
ers embarked upon an "errand
into the wilderness." Their mis-
sion was to tame the wilderness,
to fight it. to destroy it.
A writer who captured the
fears of New Englanders as well
as anyone before or after him,
Nathaniel Hawthorne crafted a
storv about the Pilgrim's uneasi-
ness with the wilderness. In
"Young Goodman Brown"
Hawthorne brings his protago-
nist into the forest (surely it was
old growth) to battle his demons;
Goodman Brown, overwhelmed
by his experiences in the forest, is
forever changed.
In Virginia, closer to the Do-
main, the early settlers viewed
the forests with similar trepida-
tion. The old-growth forest of the
17th century was an obstacle to
agriculture, specifically the grow-
ing of tobacco. Historian Tho-
mas R. Cox concludes that "the
attitude was widespread among
settlers in Virginia that 'the exter-
mination of the forest' was a nec-
essary and vital preliminary to
economic progress."
The 100-acre patch of old
growth in Dick Cove may very
well have fallen prey to this de-
sire lor economic gain were it
not lor the University and the
work of a few dedicated people.
In the 1960s, a timber company
took initial steps to log Dick
Cove. Biology professor George
Ramseur and others argued that
the University must preserve the
precious remnant of eastern old
growth; University officials heed-
ed their call.
Today, Sewanee students and
professors make use of the living
laboratory in Dick Cove; it is an
asset that few universities in the
country can claim. Sewanee for-
estry professor Sarah Warren ex-
plains the importance of the 100
acres of undisturbed forest on
the Domain. "Old growth in the
Southeast is extremely critical
because there is remarkably little
of it," she says. "As a teacher, I
want my students to work in old-
growth areas so they can have a
benchmark, so they can say that
they have seen old growth and
they can compare it with cut for-
ests or other old-growth forests."
—RB
CONTENTS
On the Outside LookingIn
"I'm not a politician. I don 't need tfiejob, "declares businessman
Winton Blount III, C'66, as lie runsforgovernor ofAlabama
Sewanee's Old-Growth Forest
A walk through one oft/ie East'sfew remainingpatches
ofundisturbedforest that's a mere 10-minute drive
from tJie center ofcampus
Up in Smoke?Yale medical schoolprofessor Linda
Mayes, C'73, argues that "crack babies"
must not be written offas America 's next
lost generation
Departments
Vice-Chancellor's Corner
On the Mountain
Alumni Affairs
Developments
Scholarship
Theology
On the cover: An old shagbark hickory in Dick Cove
Photograph by Stephen Alvarez
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GIFTS OF SELF
V;
Whether helping with
the admission process,
alumni events, orfund-
raising endeavors,
volunteers provide the
energy and assistance to
improve the effectiveness
of University staffand
faculty.
OLUNTEERS HELPSewanee achieve its
educational mission.
Whether helping with
the admission process, alumni
events, or fund-raising endeav-
ors, volunteers provide the en-
ergy and assistance to improve
the effectiveness of University
staff and faculty. In addition, they
often provide talents and skills
that add value to their support
for the institution.
Alumni activities, work on the
Parents' Council, and participa-
tion on the governing boards are
specific examples ofvolunteer as-
sistance. Successive generations
of devoted, determined alumni
leaders have ensured that gradu-
ates feel a part of the ongoing life
of the current University. In the
decade of the 1980s the Associ-
ated Alumni received still further
encouragement to expand its
range of involvement. Not only
have the officers and members
encouraged Sewanee Clubs and
Sewanee events, they have be-
come an integral part of our ad-
mission network. Their help
means college fairs are covered,
applicants are identified, and ad-
mitted students are urged to be-
come a part of the Sewanee fam-
ily. More recently, the officers
have decided to help recent
graduates with a job network,
seeking to facilitate the transi-
tions from Sewanee into the
competitive job market. Atlanta
and Washington will be the first
two cities, but more are expected
to follow. Officers such as Penn
Rogers, C'72, Lisa Howick, C'81,
and Jan Kibler, C'80, along with
Executive Director Yogi Ander-
son, C'72, provide some of the
leadership. Others are welcomed
to join these devoted volunteers.
Seminary alumni have also
begun to play an increasingly im-
portant role. Meeting annually at
the time of the DuBose lectures,
School of Theology graduates
provide valuable insight into the
success of their own educational
experience at Sewanee. More-
over, their presence in the par-
ishes often assists in new student
recruitment and future job
placement for current theolo-
gians. These activities, now facili-
tated by the Rev. Robert
Creamer, T'71, as director of
church relations, have prompted
more sustained volunteer partici-
pation for which we are grateful.
Less visible but increasingly
an integral part ofour network of
assistance, the Sewanee Parents'
Council emerged during the
1980s. Organized by the indefati-
gable Richard Chapman, the
council has attracted loyal and
committed parents. Meeting
three times a year, council mem-
bers have students in theirjunior
or senior year at Sewanee. The
parents provide a continuous ba-
rometer of students—our cus-
tomers—and their attitudes to-
ward their Sewanee experiences.
If Gailor food has often attracted
attention, so have sensitive issues
like fraternity rush, alcohol poli-
cies, and co-ed residence halls.
Moreover, communications, ca-
reer services, and a phonothon
to parents have seen spirited con-
tributions from council mem-
bers. As one of the set of "ex-
perts" on the current Sewanee
scene, parents have been a vital
addition to our volunteer ranks.
Membership on the govern-
ing boards, whether the Board of
Trustees or the Board of Regents,
represents still another stage of
volunteer assistance. Regents
and trustees provide the Univer-
sity with invaluable insight on is-
sues ranging from strategic plan-
ning to business management.
Without their vigorous input, the
church's support and involve-
ment in its only University would
be far less effective. Their volun-
teer commitment helps to shape
the complex institution known as
the University of the South.
On June 13, 1993, Robert D.
Fowler, C'52, who served as a re-
gent, died from complications
following heart surgery in April.
Sewanee alumni love the Do-
main, but Bob loved and cared
for it with a special passion.
Whether supporting his beloved
KA order or making a campus
appearance or providing support
for major new University facili-
ties, Bob gave of his time, his en-
ergy, and his talents. Committed
to fiscal prudence and to the
forthcoming capital campaign.
Bob Fowler served on the Board
of Regents throughout my Vice-
Chancellorship. Just as Judy and
her family have lost, so has the
University. And I have lost a col-
league and a friend.
0^jJ)\^u
ON THE MOUNTAIN
SIX NEW MEMBERS
ELECTED TO BOARD
OF REGENTS
Six new members have been
elected to the University's Board
of Regents. They are: David K.
Beecken, C'68, of Hinsdale, 111.;
Dr. Ann Dobie of Lafayette, La.;
Thomas M. Goodrum, C'60, of
Winston-Salem, N.C.; the Rt. Rev.
Robert H. Johnson, H'90, of
Black Mountain, N.C.; Edgar L.
Powell, C'50, of Fort Sumner,
New Mexico; and the Very Rev.
Hill C. Riddle ofNew Orleans. At
the same time, Robert Dale
Grimes, C'75, of Nashville was
elected chairman of the Board of
Regents.
David K. Beecken, senior
managing director at The Chi-
cago Dearborn Company,
earned graduate degrees from
the University of Chicago and
the London School of Econom-
ics. Active in community affairs,
Beecken is a director of the Rob-
ert Crown Center for Health
Education. He is a member of
Grace Episcopal Church in
Hinsdale, 111.
Dr. Ann Dobie is professor of
English at the University of
Southwestern Louisiana in
Lafayette. She holds degrees
from the University ofOklahoma
and the University of Southwest-
ern Louisiana and received a
doctorate from Columbia Uni-
versity. Dobie also is a member of
the University's Board of Trust-
ees. She is the editor of the an-
thology, Something in Common:
Contemporary Louisiana Stories.
Thomas M. Goodrum is first
vice president for investments at
Dean Witter Reynolds, Inc. After
graduating from Sewanee, he at-
tended the University of Florida,
and the Wharton and Harvard
business schools. Goodrum is a
member of St. Paul's Episcopal
Church in Winston-Salem, and
he also serves on the University 's
Board of Trustees.
The Rt. Rev. Robert H.
Johnson is bishop of the Diocese
of Western North Carolina.
Johnson was ordained to the
priesthood in 1964 after attend-
ing the Virginia Theological
Seminary. He served a number of
parishes in Florida and Georgia
before being consecrated bishop
in 1989. He is a member of
Sewanee's Board of Trustees.
Edgar L. Powell owns Edgar
L. Powell Enterprises in Fort
Sumner, N.M., and co-founded
Innovation Industries, Inc., of
Russellville, Ark. Powell attended
the University of the South be-
fore completing his bachelor's
degree from the University of
New Mexico. He is a member of
the Episcopal Church of St.
John.
The Very Rev. Hill C. Riddle
is rector of Trinity Episcopal
Church in New Orleans. Edu-
cated at the University of Virginia
and the Virginia Theological
Seminary, Riddle was ordained
into the priesthood in 1965. He
served several parishes in Vir-
ginia and Louisiana before com-
ing to Trinity Church. Riddle is a
past member of the University's
Board of Trustees.
Robert Dale Grimes is an at-
torney and partner in the Nash-
ville law firm of Bass, Berry and
Sims and a junior warden of
Christ Episcopal Church. He
earned a law degree from the
University of Tennessee in 1978.
Grimes has been a member of
the University's Board of Regents
since 1989 and is a former mem-
ber of the Board of Trustees.
"I am very pleased with the
election of the six new regents,"
says Sewanee's Vice-Chancellor
Samuel Williamson. "I look
foward to the contributions that
they will make and to the leader-
ship of Dale Grimes as chair-
man."
Self Portrait with Grandchildren in the Funhouse, 1955 will be one of
80 photographsfeatured in The Breath of All Things
(© 1970. 1993, The Imogen Cunningham Trust, all rights reserved).
SEWANEE HOSTS IMOGEN
CUNNINGHAM EXHIBIT
The University is hosting a major
exhibition of photographs by
American artist Imogen Cunn-
ingham that will run through Oc-
tober 24.
The selection is representa-
tive of Cunningham's 70 years of
photographic activity. Working
from 1906-76, this extraordinary
photographer witnessed the dra-
matic cultural developments of
this century with a sensitive eye.
This is the first touring exhibi-
tion of Cunningham's work de-
signed specifically for the small-
to medium-sized college gallery.
Organized by Pradip Malde,
chairman of Sewanee's Depart-
ment of Fine Arts, in collabora-
tion with the Imogen
Cunningham Trust, the exhibi-
tion "Imogen Cunningham: The
Breath ofall Things" features over
80 prints. Many of these were
printed by Cunningham, and
several have never been shown
publicly.
"In going through her work, I
was constantly being surprised by
sudden changes of direction,
new areas of investigation," says
Malde. "Even at the age of 90,
she was photographing with the
youthfulness and vivacity nor-
mally possessed by those just re-
cently introduced to the me-
dium. Maintained throughout
her long career, this approach
marks her as one of the most
eclectic photographers of this
century."
An Oscar-nominated film
Portrait of Imogen, produced by
Cunningham's daughter, MegPartridge, accompanies the
exhibition.
ALUMNI AFFAIRS
JUDSON CHILD NAMED
ATLANTA CLUB'S
DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS
The Rt. Rev. Judson Child, C'44,
T*48, H78, of Atlanta, Ga., re-
cently received the Distinguished
Alumnus Award from the
Sewanee Club of Atlanta.
After his ordination, Child
served for 16 years as rector of St.
Bartholomew's Church in
Hohokus, N.J., until he was
called to be the canon pastor at
the Cathedral of St. Philip in At-
lanta, Ga., in 1967. Ten years
later, he was elected suffragan
bishop of the Diocese of Atlanta
and was consecrated in 1978. In
November 1983, he was installed
as the bishop of the Diocese of
Atlanta. He remained in that po-
sition until 1988 when he retired
as bishop and went on to serve as
interim rector of St. Paul's
Church in Augusta, Ga., for two
years.
During his years in the minis-
try, Child played an active role in
both local and national work
with the Episcopal Church. In
1965, he spent four weeks in the
Missionary District of Liberia
training and developing leader-
ship in the church. As a bishop,
he chaired the House of Bishops'
Music Committee at the 1982
General Convention and was in-
strumental in presenting the pro-
posed hymnal to the convention.
Child has actively worked on
behalf of the University of the
South. A former trustee, regent,
and officer of the Associated
Alumni, he served as chancellor
of the University from 1985-91.
Homecoming 1 993 will be here soon. Mark your calendarsfor October 22-24.
ALUMNI COUNCIL HOLDS
SUMMER MEETING
A record number of volunteers
who revitalized their energy and
enthusiasm for Sewanee during a
weekend on the Mountain at-
tended August's annual meeting
of the Alumni Council.
Yogi Anderson, executive di-
rector of the Associated Alumni,
says the annual get-together pro-
vided an opportunity for club
presidents, class representatives,
planned giving agents, admission
network and career services vol-
unteers to meet with each other
and compare notes on their ef-
forts from the past 12 months.
"The contributions from
these people are the keystone of
the Associated Alumni's effec-
tiveness and invaluable to the
University," said Anderson.
Plans for the 25 Years of
Women at Sewanee Celebration
took firm shape over the week-
end. Chaired by Libby Baird
Thoni, C'82, the committee
shaping this event held a "lively
brainstorming session," accord-
ing to Anderson. The quarter-
century milestone will be marked
by a gala, fun-filled celebration
on October 8, 9, and 10, 1994.
Volunteers also had the
chance to meet with members of
the University's Operations Com-
mittee. Vice-Chancellor Samuel
Williamson, Laurence Alvarez,
associate provost; Mary Sue
Cushman, dean of students; the
Very Rev'd Guy Fitch Lytle III,
dean of the School of Theology;
Robert Keele, dean of the Col-
lege; Thomas Kepple, vice presi-
dent for business and commu-
nity relations; and Tom G.
Watson, vice president for univer-
sity relations, offered a look at
the workings of the University
during a questions and answer
session in Convocation Hall
Members of the Associated
Alumni's Trustee Committee,
chaired by Ned Boehm, C'69,
unanimously approved a resolu-
tion that will ask University trust-
ees to increase the number of
Associated Alumni-elected mem-
bers serving on that board. The
proposal will be made to trustees
at their spring meeting. Ander-
son said the resolution was
passed in an effort to bring Asso-
ciated Alumni representation on
the Board ofTrustees closer to its
historical level of 12 percent of
the board total. The addition
would also provide for greater
geographical diversity of trustees,
as all but two of the board's 125
members are from the Univ-
ersity's owning dioceses.
Volunteers wrapped up the
weekend with a dinner and en-
tertainment by a bluegrass band
at Clement Chen Hall, hosted by
Vice-Chancellor and Mrs.
Samuel Williamson.
SEWANEE CLUB OF
ATLANTA RAISES FUNDS
FOR REICH SCHOLARSHIP
The Sewanee Club of Atlanta
raised $1,500 at its 1993 Blue-
grass and Barbecue Skeet Shoot
benefiting the Dale Reich Schol-
arship. The funds will be do-
nated to the endowed Dale
Reich Scholarship for worthy stu-
dents from Atlanta who attend
Sewanee.
The scholarship was created
in 1968 in memory of First Lt.
Merrill Dale Reich Jr., C'66.
Reich was an outstanding leader
and a member of the Order of
Gownsmen. He joined the mili-
tary upon graduation and be-
came a Green Beret. He was
killed in combat action two
weeks after arriving in Vietnam.
The Sewanee Club of Atlanta
has 1,400 members and is com-
posed of alumni, current stu-
dents and their parents, Episco-
pal clergy, and friends of the Uni-
versity.
The Rt. Rev. Judson Child
DEVELOPMENTS
SEWANEE DONORS SET
NEW GIVING RECORD
Unwilling to let last year's giving
record stand, Sewanee's support-
ers put fiscal 1993 into the books
as a new all-time high for the
University. During the past year,
members of the Sewanee family
donated a total of $12.2 million,
topping last year's total by some
$300,000.
"This is a very special time in
the history of this institution,"
said Samuel Williamson, vice-
chancellor. "This very strong sup-
port provides an opportunity for
us to sustain and expand upon
the vision of Sewanee's founders.
They would be very proud, in-
deed."
The record gifts will aid the
endowment, annual fund, and
campus construction projects
and included a substantial num-
ber of bequests. More than 7,600
donors contributed during the
record-setting year. Even more
significant is the contrast to fiscal
year 1991, which closed at $4.6
million.
"We are clearly gathering mo-
mentum as we prepare for the
upcoming capital campaign. I
am encouraged and gratified by
the support for this institution,
and I believe we are off to a good
start for next year," said Tom GWatson, vice president for univer-
sity relations.
Total Giving14
12
10
8
If"
vj 6
The new endowed Fori and Nelms scholarships will help Sewanee undei
graduates.
'93 '92 '91 '90 '89
Sources: Total Giving Annual Fund I
DUDLEY FORT, C'34,
CREATES SCHOLARSHIP
FUND
Long-time Sewanee supporter
and club president, Dudley Fort,
C'34, of Nashville, has estab-
lished the Dudley and Pearl Fort
Endowed Scholarship Fund.
Affectionately known as
"Uncle Dudley" by members of
the Sewanee family, Fort spent
nearly three decades working in
the Atlanta office of the National
Life and Accident Insurance Co.
Active in University events, Fort
served as Sewanee Club presi-
dent while in Atlanta. When he
returned to Nashville in the mid-
1960s, Fort and his late wife,
Pearl, regularly hosted Sewanee
Club events in his role there as
president. He also received the
Dobbins Trophy, in recognition
of the best Sewanee Club in the
country. A second-generation
Sewanee graduate, whose two
sons, Dudley Fort Jr., C'58, and
Arthur G. Fort, C'62, both at-
tended the University, Fort con-
tinues to reside in Nashville.
Fort has stipulated that
Davidson County students, along
with those from Robertson
County, where his father was
born, are to be given first consid-
eration for the scholarship. If no
students apply from these coun-
ties, then it will be awarded to a
Tennessee resident. He hopes
that each class will eventually
have a Fort Scholar from one of
these areas.
"Sewanee is indeed fortunate
to have benefactors with the re-
sources and commitment of
Dudley Fort," said Tom G.
Watson, vice president for Uni-
versity Relations. "In order for
the University to continue at-
tracting the most gifted students,
the endowment for financial aid
and scholarships must increase.
Dudley Fort's gift is another step
in that direction."
NELMS SCHOLARSHIP TOBENEFIT TEXAS STUDENTS
The William A. and Madeline
Welder Smith Foundation of
Houston, Texas, has established
the Frank Chadwick Nelms En-
dowed Scholarship Fund at the
University with an initial gift of
$50,000. The new fund will be
used to provide scholarships for
the benefit of students from
Houston, and if that is not pos-
sible, any student from Texas.
The fund has been named for
the son of Frank Constant
Nelms, C'52, of Houston, who
was instrumental in securing the
gift for the University.
"I am particularly delighted to
announce this scholarship," says
Tom G. Watson, vice president
for university relations. "En-
dowed scholarships help the Uni-
versity attract superior students."
DEVELOPMENTS
1993 TAX LEGISLATION
OFFERS SIGNIFICANT
OPPORTUNITIES FOR
CHARITABLE GIVING
The recently passed tax legisla-
tion provides several significant
incentives for individuals to con-
sider making charitable gifts be-
fore December 30. By proper
and careful planning over the
next few months individuals can
take advantage of the new oppor-
tunities in the law to minimize
any adverse impact of the retro-
active tax increase.
By proper and careful
planning over the next
feiu months
individuals can take
advantage oftlie new
opportunities in tlie law
to minimize any adverse
impact ofthe retroactive
tax increase.
The key provisions of the tax
legislation are as follows:
• Gifts of non-cash property
can be especially attractive be-
cause Congress has restored full
deductibility for gifts of appreci-
ated securities and other quali-
fied property. Such gifts will no
longer be considered "prefer-
ence" items for purposes of alter-
native minimum tax (AMT), so
those who may have foregone
such gills in recent years can
again enjoy the benefits ofgiving
appreciated property and de-
ducting the full fair-market value.
-,,, ., .. ...';.;' 90.100 90.150 ••.••.«>?.
5SopS§1*n« 23.400 21.062 90,150 90,200j
23.6C9 20.705
,.--. ?:.::- ;<so.2oe 90.250 : .. .-. .;:;
'• v,
23,446 21,109 90,300 90350 23.665 20752
23.462 21,124 90,350 90/400 ; 23.671 20.767
23 477 21.140 90,400 90.450 .23.666 20,783
23,493 21 ,1» 90,450 90300 23702 20,^8
23 508 21171 90300 90,550= 23.71? M.81*- !9oSo 90,600; 23 733 20
—"'
90,800 90,850 i 23,7*8 20,841
906S0 90,700 n "
90,700 90.750 ::V?:"5X,.3F<
l«0,7S0 90,800 j23,795 20.89
90.800 90350 j 23,810 20,90-
• A primary feature of the leg-
islation is a new tax rate structure
that will affect taxpayers differ-
ently depending on their income
levels, the amount of their de-
ductions, and other factors.
Some taxpayers will find that the
taxes paid on a portion of their
income will rise by as much as
28% when new brackets and sur-
charges are taken into account.
This will result in some dollars
being taxed at rates approaching
40%.
• The increase in tax rates is
retroactive to the beginning <>/ this
year, even though withholding or
estimated tax payments will have
been based on rates in effect be-
fore the passage of the new law.
Because of the retroactive nature
of the rate increases, main
people will thus owe additional
taxes for 1993, even though they
were not anticipated or planned
lor at the beginning of the year.
Now is the time to act to re-
duce or eliminate additional
taxes that might be incurred due
to this tax legislation, while meet-
ing other important personal
planning goals as well. All tax de-
ductions will be worth more to
you ifyou are affected by the new
higher tax rates. For that reason,
one way to help minimize new
taxes will be to accelerate deduc-
tions into 1993 which might oth-
erwise have been taken next year.
Examples of deductions that
you may be able to accelerate in-
clude payment of state and local
taxes, home mortgage interest,
and other expenses, to the ex-
tent allowed by law. There are
limits to the flexibility afforded
by most deductions. However,
charitable gifts create deductions that
are more easily timed and controlled
by the donor. Considering the re-
peal of the AMT for charitable
gifts and the record highs set on
the stock exchange, now may be
the perfect time to consider a gift
c >fappreciated stock or similar in-
vestment.
If you would like more infor-
mation on how a charitable gift
made prior to December 30 can
help with your tax planning
please call the Office of Planned
Giving at (800) 367-1179 for a
copy of our booklet, "Charitable
Giving and the 1993 Tax Act."
8
SCHOLARSHIP
Scott Bali
FOUR LONG-TIME SEWANEE
PROFESSORS RETIRE
A. Scott Bates, Charles W. Fore-
man, Stephen E. Puckette, and
George S. Ramseur, four long-
time professors at Sewanee, re-
tired at the end of the 1992-93
academic year.
Scott Bates, professor of
French and theatre and speech,
was a member of the Sewanee
faculty for over 30 years. After re-
ceiving his BA. from Carleton
College, he went on to earn an
MA. and Ph.D. from the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin at Madison.
While at Sewanee, he taught a
wide range of courses from
French literature classes to
classes on the history of women
in film. Among his books are
GuillaumeApolUnaire, Poems oj War
Resistance from 2500 B. C. to the
Present, Petit glossairedes motes litres
d'Apollinaire, Lupo's Fables, and
The ABC of Radical Ecology. In ad-
dition, Bates' poems have ap-
peared in The New Yorker, The Par-
tisan Review, the New Republic, and
the Sewanee Reviexv. Bates was ac-
tive in campus and local affairs.
An officer in the local chapter of
the NAACP since 1958, he has
been a member of the High-
lander Board of Directors, an ad-
visor to the Black Student Union,
and a member of numerous fac-
ulty committees at Sewanee.
Charles Foreman taught biol-
ogy at Sewanee for 30 years. Anative of Georgia, he served in
the U.S. Army during World War
II. He entered the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill in
1940, received his B.A. in 1949,
and went straight to Duke Uni-
versity for graduate studies. Fol-
lowing completion of his Ph.D.
in 1954, Foreman taught at
Wofford College, the University
of Maryland, and Pfeiffer College
before coming to Sewanee in
1963 as an associate professor of
biology. It took only three years
for him to be named a full pro-
fessor. During his career, Fore-
man published a number of
scholarly articles, many of them
dealing with the genetics of he-
moglobin structure and func-
tion. He also received four Na-
tional Science Foundation re-
search grants and has been a
member of the board of trustees
lor the Highlands Biological
Foundation since 1961.
Stephen Puckette, C'49, pro-
fessor of mathematics, was a
member of the Sewanee faculty
for 37 years. A native of
Ridgewood, N.J., he came to
Sewanee as a Ruge Scholar and
graduated with a B.S. in math-
ematics as the valedictorian of
the Class of '49 and a member of
Phi Beta Kappa. From Sewanee,
he headed to Yale University
where, inspired by experiences
in the forests of Idaho, Ontario,
Stephen Puckette
and Oregon, he worked toward
his M.S. in forestry which he
completed in one year. He did
not pursue a career in forestry
but instead entered the graduate
mathematics program at Yale
where he received his M.A. in
1951 and his Ph.D. in 1957. For
one year after completing his
M.A., he was a Fulbright Scholar
in France. His teaching career
began and ended at Sewanee.
From 1956-66 he taught at
Sewanee. He then left the Uni-
versity for three years to serve as
the associate chairman and the
director of the undergraduate
program in mathematics at the
University of Kentucky. When he
returned to his alma mater in
1969, it was to a different set of
duties. Not only was he teaching
in the mathematics department,
but he was also elected to be the
dean of the College during the
years in which Sewanee first be-
came a co-educational institu-
tion. In 1979, he resigned his
post as dean but continued to
teach until the end of the Easter
Semester 1993. He is the author
of two books, Trees of the Seiuanee
Area and Modern Coordinate Geom-
etry as well as many scholarly ar-
ticles which have appeared in
such magazines as American Scien-
tist and Mathematical Reviews.
Puckette is also an avid
outdoorsman who has led many
Sewanee students on canoeing
George Ramseui
trips throughout the Southeast.
George Ramseur taught at
Sewanee for 35 years. Born near
Morgantown, N.C., he graduated
with an A.B. in physics and math-
ematics from Elon College in
1948. Beginning in 1949, he
taught science courses at
Reynolds High School in Win-
ston-Salem, N.G While teaching
high school, however, he worked
toward his M.Ed, in secondary
education at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill
and was awarded that degree in
1953. In 1954, he left his teach-
ing job at Reynolds High School
and entered the graduate pro-
gram in botany at the LIniversity
of North Carolina. Ramseur
came to Sewanee to teach in
1958 and received his Ph.D. in
1959. In addition to serving as
the chairman of the biology de-
partment from 1984-89, he was
also a consultant for USAID/
NSF Summer Science Institutes
at Punjab and Banaras Hindu
Universities in India in the late-
1960s and a member of the scien-
tific advisory committee for the
Tennessee Department of Con-
servation since 1980. His schol-
arly publications have appeared
in such periodicals as the Journal
of the Tennessee Academy of Science,
Castanea, and the Journal of the
F.lisha Mitchell Scientific Society.
9
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At a call-in radio show on a smallAM station in Ath-
ens, Ala., Winton Blount III, C'66, waits to field his
first call. He's a little nervous; he's never done this
before. The show's host, a conservative partisan
named Brent Woodall who takes occasional shots at
The Democrats and The Liberals, briefs Blount.
'Just speak with a lot of emotion," Woodall says.
He starts the show by asking Blount why he's run-
ning for governor ofAlabama.
"We're sick and tired of what's been going on in
this state. We're mad as hell, and that's why I'm inter-
LOOKINGested in taking this plunge. We can run things differ-
ently in this state. I don't like what I see in Montgom-
ery, and that's why I want to offer some different
ideas," Blount says. There's the emotion.
For the next two hours, Blount answers a variety of
calls. He gets more and more comfortable, standing
and moving around the small studio. The callers
dwell on two themes: education and the economy.
This heartens Blount, who has picked these themes
as the focus of his campaign. There are the crackpot
calls that Blount seems to enjoy. A caller namedSahid, a regular anarchist on the show, is on the line.
"You say you are for free enterprise and yet you are
against the legalization of drugs. There's an inconsis-
tency there," Sahid says.
"I don't understand the logic of what you're talk-
ing about. That's the craziest thing I've ever heard
—
the legalization of drugs. That's outrageous," Blount
roars. He likes to say that things are outrageous.
As the show winds down, Blount hammers homethe ideas that he hopes will get him into the
governor's office. "I guarantee that I'll be the only
candidate that's running next year who understands
the free enterprise system. You can't run government
By Robert Bradford
Photography by Chip Cooper
like a business, but
you can sure bring business principles to govern-
ment. We have to make our government more user
friendly, more customer friendly. And the customer
is the taxpayer," he says.
"Vote for me next year because I'm not a politician.
I don't need the job. Vote for me because I'm quali-
fied and I want to help the people of Alabama to a
better economic future."
If Blount sounds at times like Ross Perot, there's a
clear connection. Blount, a wealthy businessman whohas never before run for political office, is riding the
wave of national dissatisfaction with traditional solu-
tions to political problems. Like Perot, he says that if
he's elected, he'll give his government salary back to
the people. Like Perot and Richard Riordan, a
wealthy real-estate wizard who was recently elected
mayor of Los Angeles, Blount believes that solutions
to political problems must be attacked by a political
outsider. And like Perot and Riordan, he believes that
a successful businessman, someone who has proved
that he understands the market economy, can create
jobs and solve the seemingly intractable problems of
gridlock and pork-barrel spending and government
inefficiency.
Charles Brockett, a Sewanee political science pro-
fessor, says Blount is part of a continuum of "outsid-
ers" who have run for political office. 'There's been a
long-standing tradition in American politics that the
problems with politics are our politicians. And the
solution lies in getting rid of politicians and putting
in average citizens, either like JimmyStewart in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, or
military leaders, or businessmen, whoproclaim that they have the knowledge
and experience to set things right," says
Brockett.
"The appeal is a traditional one. I
think what's different is that the oppor-
tunities are greater now. It used to be
that the selection ofour candidates was
tightly controlled by the party appara-
tus. That's loosened up considerably in
recent decades. There's greater oppor-
tunity for the person outside the politi-
cal structures to become a major can-
didate.
"There are certain periods whenwe feel more kindly disposed to our leaders than at
other times. Clearly we're in a time now when there's
a great deal of distrust of politicians. So there is more
opportunity now."
Brockett believes, however, that should Blount be
successful in his run for office, he will face some sig-
nificant problems.
"The fact is that government is not a business,"
Brockett says. "You have a fragmentation ofpower in
government that you don't have in a corporation. In
a corporation you have a clear line of control, a clear
line of authority. Our political system intentionally
fragments power. A president or a governor can't dic-
tate that the house will pass his legislation. The essen-
tial problem is that the political system was created to
make it difficult to get anything done."
Blount remains undaunted by the inherent
problems of governing. While he has never
been a candidate, he has been active in politics
since his days at Sewanee. "My first political experi-
ence was at Sewanee in 1964, working for Barry
Goldwater's campaign. I'll never forget walking door
to door asking people to support Barry Goldwater,"
Blount recalls. "I remember going to a man's house
and giving my spiel for Barry Goldwater. This womancame around the corner and said if he thought he
was going to vote for a Republican, she'd shoot him
and me, too. I didn't realize it was dangerous in that
FDR territory to be a Republican."
After graduating from Sewanee and then earning
12
an MBA from die Wharton Graduate School at the
University of Pennsylvania, he returned to Alabama
to work for his family's construction business, one of
the largest in die South. In 1983, he was named chair-
man and chief executive officer of Blount Interna-
tional, Ltd. He was responsible for what was at the
time the largest fixed-price construction project in
history—the $2 billion King Saud University project
in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Over the next several years,
he served as senior vice president and later vice chair-
man of Blount, Inc., a $1.2 billion per year construc-
tion and manufacturing firm. In 1989, he left the
family construction business to establish WintonBlount III & Associates, a diversified investment firm
that includes automobile dealerships and a plastics
company.
Throughout his career, he has remained active in
politics. As a registered lobbyist, he has supported
causes linked with business and the Republican
Party, immersing himself in batdes over tax reform,
tort reform, and educa-
tion.
Late last year, Blount
made the decision to
move from the outside of
the political system to the
inside. "All my life Fve en-
couraged good people to
run, raising money for
them, working on strategy,
working on background,
putting out yard signs. It
came my time and myturn, and people were en-
couraging me," he says.
'The big decision is cross-
ing the barrier of giving
up my personal privacy. It's notjust an issue for me,
but for my wife and our children. They are the ones
who may suffer the most. I'll be in the arena, but they
have their own private lives. I worry about them."
He and his family will be working hard through
the Republican primary on June 7. For Blount, that
means politicking five to six days a week. He hopes
there will be several candidates in the Republican pri-
mary to spark interest in the party. Republicans have
not been a force in Alabama gubernatorial politics
during this century. Guy Hunt, the first Republican
governor elected in Alabama since Reconstruction,
was unceremoniously thrown out ofoffice earlier this
year on ethics charges.
But some analysts consider Blount a front runner
in the Republican primary and give him a good
chance of winning the elecdon in November 1994.
"Blount is doing everything at the moment that I
think he needs to do to win," says Tom Lindley, capi-
tol bureau chief and columnist for the Birmingham
News, the state's largest paper. 'There's a lot ofanger
about politics in Alabama. Blount is doing the right
thing to present himself as an outsider."
Lindley anticipates a bitter Democratic primary
race between current GovernorJim Folsom Jr. and
challenger Paul Hubbard. "If there is a blood bath in
the Democratic primary, Blount's chances improve,"
he says.
Blount is not concerned about the Democrats
right now. He is focused on the Republican primary,
traveling throughout the state to increase his visibil-
"We have
to make our
government
more userfriendly,
more customer
friendly.
And the customer
is the taxpayer."
ity and spread his message ofeconomic development
and education reform.
Before he spoke to an assembly of the Rotary Club
and the Kiwanis Club in Decatur, a newspaper pho-
tographer and a member of the local Rotary Club
milled about the conference room. "Why do you
only show up to take pictures of politicians?" the
Rotarian asked. "They are the lowest creatures on
earth."
While Blount was not around to hear that com-
ment, he might agree with it.
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Dick Cove quietly. At the trailhead, we see nothing spec-
tacular—-just the typical young hardwoods that one
would encounter almost anywhere on the Cumberland
Plateau. Soon, however, we begin to see the big trees. A
yellow poplar shoots up 60 feet into the sky, straight as an
arrow. Two huge white oaks grow within a few feet ofeach
other, intersecting at 30 feet above the ground and then
continuing for another 50 feet. They seem to be dancing,
like rattlesnakes before they mate.
My guide on this hike through a forest that has re-
mained virtually undisturbed by humans since recorded
history, Sewanee forestry professor Sarah Warren, does
not concern herself only with the large, dramatic trees.
She points to some maple saplings, about 10 centimeters
in diameter. "They may hang out at this size for a long
time until they get the opportunity to grow. And then
they take off," she says. She identifies other inhabitants of
this 100-acre patch of old-growth forest, located on the
University's Domain, that is a mere 10-minute drive from
the center of campus. There are hickories and sugar
maples, red oaks and ash. Spice bush, red bud, grape
vines, maple-leaf viburnum, May apple, trout lily, violets,
crane's bill geranium, wild ginger, and the ubiquitous
poison ivy dominate the understory.
Occasionally, though, Warren cannot contain her ex-
citement about the big trees. She sees a white oak, almost
80 centimeters in diameter. "Look at that monster." A
shagbark hickoryjuts up on our right. "That's a beauty,"
she says.
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understory to grow. Dick Cove is
home to a wide array of wild/low-
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large fallen tree. It has been visited by pileated woodpeck-
ers and other inhabitants of the forest. "Everybody and
his brother have gotten in to get the bugs," Warren says.
Another few hundred feet and we begin to see new
species. Buckeyes and basswoodsjoin the oaks and hicko-
ries and poplars. A huge basswood, with its heart-shaped
leaves, is surrounded by smaller basswoods which spring
from its stumps. 'This tree might have started as another
tree's stump sprouts 200 years ago," Warren observes.
This forest has all of the elements of classic old growth.
There is a wide range of large, mature trees and smaller
ones, creating a multi-layered canopy; sunlight comes in
through openings in the canopy, giving smaller trees the
opportunity to grow. Snags and down trees are scattered
throughout the forest floor and in a stream that runs
down the cove, providing the essential nutrients to sus-
tain the old growth.
While down trees are fundamental to the old-growth
ecosystem, the number of large dead trees in this forest
at times rivals the living ones. This concerns Warren and
others who have studied this rare patch of eastern old-
growth forest. In the early 1 980s, Charles E. McGee, then The strmm that rum through Dkk Cove provides essentiai nutrients
the principal silviculturist at the Sewanee Silviculture to the lush understory.
Laboratory, did a comprehensive analysis of the mortal-
ity in the Dick Cove old growth. He identified more than
600 down trees, most of which had died within three
years of his study. The oldest tree, a dead hickory, was
growing in Dick Cove around the time the first settlers
landed in Jamestown.
McGee hypothesized that the sudden mortality rate in
Dick Cove could be attributed to a variety of factors: a
drought in the summer of 1978, record-breaking heat,
and an increase in the number ofinsects that feed on the
trees. While McGee's conclusions are plausible, no one is
certain why so many trees died in Dick Cove. The phe-
nomenon in this area raises some larger questions about
human intervention in old-growth forests.
David Loftis, C'70, U.S. Forest Service Project Leader
for Ecology and Management of Southern Appalachian
Hardwoods, says scientists, the Forest Service, and envi-
ronmentalists are struggling with how to define old
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question: Why do we want old growth? Is it to have some
conditions where we maintain biological diversity or is it
to maintain an untouched wilderness?"
Elliot A. Norse, a senior ecologist for the Wilderness
Society, has addressed this issue as it pertains to western
old-growth forests. "Biological diversity is the key to
sustainability. Whatever goals we have, the first and fore-
most among them must be preventing the loss of genes,
species, and ecosystems."
But there is a quandary. If scientists or foresters "man-
age" the old growth to protect the diverse flora and fauna
in the forest, does it cease to be classified as old growth
because humans have intervened?
"We haven't had the knowledge and the data that we
need to address comprehensively the complex social,
political, economic, biological, and ecological issues re-
lated to old-growth forest," says Loftis.
Scientists from throughout the region have been
drawn to Dick Cove to look at the mortality rate in the
forest and to ponder the larger questions about old
growth. The forest is a living laboratory for these scientists
as well as for Sewanee students whom Warren regularly
brings to study it.
They come to Dick Cove for a simple reason: old
growth in the East is so very rare. Far less than one per-
cent of the deciduous forest in the East can be classified
as old growth. In contrast to the West, where there are
dramatic but threatened ancient forests that range for
hundreds of thousands of acres, the few large eastern
tracts of old growth, like the area in North Carolina's
Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest, span only a few thousand
acres. The 100-acre patch of forest in Dick Cove contin-
ues to attract people from throughout the region who
want to see some old growth, any old growth.
The old growth in Dick Cove endures as an island in
the sea of second- or third-growth eastern forest because
the University took measures to preserve the fragile eco-
system.
Forests throughout the University's 10,000-acre Do-
main have been logged since the 19th century. The steep
coves were the last to be logged largely because of their
A fern, above, on the Dick Coveforestfloor. On the opposite page, a
viewfrom the canopy.
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inaccessibility. In the late 1960s, however, a timber com-
pany took steps to cut in Dick Cove, building a road into
the area. Biology professor George Ramseur, who under-
stood the tremendous importance of the old-growth eco-
system in Dick Cove, told University officials it would be a
grave mistake to log in this area. The University took his
advice.
In the early 1970s, when the National Park Service pro-
posed placing Dick Cove in the Registered Natural Land-
mark Program, the University expressed concerns about
the impact national publicity would have on the area.
Responding to the Park Service proposal, Vice-Chancel-
lorJ. Jefferson Bennett stated the University's policy con-
cerning Dick Cove, which endures to this day: "The Uni-
versity has every intention of maintaining this unique
area in its present natural condition. We have no inten-
tion whatsoever ofcommercial use of the timber thereon.
The University is convinced that it is fortunate enough to
hold this area as a sort of public trust.
"
George Ramseur continues to take treks in the un-
touched forest, observing the magnificent trees and the
wildflowers. I ask him why it's so important to preserve
areas like Dick Cove. He responds quickly. "Worldwide,
old growth is a disappearing phenomenon, so it's great to
have this asset. We need to save everything that's here,
simply because it's here."
The forest as seen from above.
Hardwoods can stay "pruned"
by a kick of light and waterfor
50 to 100 years, waitingfor a
space in the canopy to open. At
left, a small buckeye in the tinder-
story awaits its opportunity.
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Yale medical school professorLinda Mayes, C'73, argues that "crack babies"'' must not be written off
as America s next lost generation
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7^ SEEMED LIKE AVERYSIMPLE QUESTION to started, however, with a look at possible effects ofcocaine
Linda Mayes, C'73: Does exposure to cocaine in the on a newborn's physiological development,
womb affect an infant's development? But when she In a preliminary study, published in the journal, Pedi-
began her research, Mayes learned quickly that the an- adies, Mayes and her colleagues found that cocaine-ex-
swer to her question was not to be neat or clean. Far from posed babies were fairly normal with the exception of
it, in fact. What Mayes had hoped would be a tidy little re- their ability to notice novel stimuli in familiar surround-
search problem has forced her to look outside of the sci- ings. This ability, known as habituation, is the reason a
entific arena into a wide range of political and social is- person will sense—perhaps not being able to point it out
sues to explore a question which she says will probably immediately—that something is different in a room
never be answered fully.
What she has learned is that
valid concern over cocaine use
by pregnant women has led to
not necessarily valid conclusions
about developmental problems
their offspring may experience.
These views, says Mayes, who
teaches at the Yale Child Study
Center, a department in the Yale
University School of Medicine,
have been propagated by the lay
media despite a lack of hard evi-
dence to support them. In an
article she co-authored for the
Journal of the American Medical
Association (JAMA), Mayes says
infants exposed to cocaine in
the womb are "often repre-
"To label them as cocaine kids
puts them in a class oftheir
own, in which tliey don V
belong, " says Mayes. "We know
how to intervene: tliey may need
smaller classes, tliey may need
more skilled teacliers, bat tliey
don 't need a class with a sign
over it saying 'cocaine
exposure."
where, say, the color of the
drapery has been changed.
With the cocaine-exposed ba-
bies Mayes has studied, the re-
sponse is there, but it's much
more impaired, much more
fragile. Habituation, says
Mayes, is often a very strong
indicator of the likelihood for
future learning capacities. She
adds that the small number of
children she has studied to
date makes it difficult to draw
any broad conclusions about
them. But whatever the find-
ing, Mayes says the real con-
cern is that "premature con-
clusions about the severity and
universality of cocaine effects
sented as severely or even irrevocably brain damaged
—
are in themselves potentially harmful to children."
to the point that they may never function normally in That is why Mayes insists that it does no good to stig-
society. On this account, a very large group of children is matize such children as underachievers. 'To label them
in danger ofbeing written off." Indeed, the May 25, 1990, as cocaine kids puts them in a class of their own, in which
issue of the New York Timesspeaks of children whose "neu- they don't belong," says Mayes. "Suppose these children
rological, emotional, and learning problems will severely do have developmental problems, difficulty focusing
test teachers and schools..." their attention; we have known how to intervene on these
A soft-spoken native of Winchester, Tenn., Mayes be- for a number ofyears."Just because those problems were
gan the work with so-called "cocaine babies" as a natural potentially caused by cocaine exposure, she adds, doesn't
extension of her study of normal infant development, make them more difficult to treat. "We know how to in-
The longer she explores the issue, the more she realizes tervene: they may need smaller classes, they may need
that cocaine mayjust be another symptom, and not a root more skilled teachers, but they don't need a class with a
cause of problems for children who live in a world sign over it saying 'cocaine exposure."'
fraught with violence and uncertainty. Her investigation Beyond the simple treatment of the physical manifes-
to
tationsof cocaine exposure, Mayes urges examination of "The attribution of irremediable damage makes it
the environment that leads people to drug use. The na- more difficult to find services for these children, and
ture of addiction, she reminds us, is that humans don't such services may be geared to caretake rather than to
use drugs in a vacuum. Cocaine, like every drug abused challenge children's capacities or to remediate effec-
since the time of the Romans, she says, carries with it an tively," Mayes wrote in theJAMA commentary. What she
entire social context. Prenatal exposure to the drug com- and her colleagues suggest is a "one-stop shopping" ap-
bines with the postnatal social context to create partial- proach to care for expecting and new mothers,
lar vulnerabilities within a child. A cocaine-exposed child "When I started this work, I never thought I would be
who has difficulty focusing attention as things around talking about any of this. Designing services and pro-
him get more exciting will do
fine in a very structured, well-
modulated environment. "Put
the same child in a home where
care is inconsistent or unpre-
dictable," Mayes explains, "and
he will have more problems."
While cocaine may have created
a certain vulnerability, the envi-
ronment is often what brings
that condition to the fore.
"There's no such thing as a
functioning crack [cocaine]
family," according to an Octo-
ber 1990 article in Rolling Stone
magazine. "Boarder babies are
what you end up with when a
man, a woman, and crack get to-
gether. As for the children who
aren't abandoned, child-abuse
rates have more than tripled in
some urban areas since crack
came to town."
When a parent spends most
Photograph by Stephen Alvarez
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Wlien I started this work, I never
thought I would be talking about any of
this. Designing services andprograms is
not my major interest, " says Mayes.
grams is not my major interest,
but if a mother has a problem
getting to the different agen-
cies she needs—because
they're at four or five different
places around the city—it's
quite possible that she'll say, 'I
don't need to do all this,' and
she won't go," says Mayes. On
the other hand, a one-stop ap-
proach would put needed ser-
vices like Women, Infants, and
Children (WIC) , Headstart,
prenatal and postnatal medical
care, and drug treatment pro-
grams in a single location that
mothers would be more likely
to use because of the conve-
nience. The result would be
improved health and well-be-
ing of both mothers and chil-
dren as well as a reduction of
duplicated services, Mayes be-
lieves.
of each day trying to find enough cocaine for a half- A member of the first class to graduate women who at-
dozen highs, Mayes says, a child is bound to suffer. "What tended Sewanee for four years—she would have gone to
is it that makes people who live in poverty and chaos turn Vanderbilt if Sewanee hadn't changed its policy—Mayes
to cocaine as the answer to their problems?" she asks. hasn't always spent her days pondering political and so-
In an era of intolerance, blanket condemnation of "co- cial implications of cocaine use in the inner city. There
caine babies" won't make the problem go away, Mayes was a time when her intended career path seemed a bit
says. She also argues that labels have a way of becoming more straightforward. As a graduate of the Vanderbilt
self-fulfilling and that, at best, expectations for these chil- University School of Medicine, she completed a resi-
dren will be lowered. dency in pediatrics and a fellowship in neonatology in
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Nashville before moving on to Yale University. Mayes offsteam when we ramble through our thoughts—but it
thought she would eventually settle in to a career as an in- is especially crucial for children. You have to be able to
tensive care neonatologist until she became captivated by suspend a great deal ofworry in order to sit on your front
questions of child development. porch and daydream," Mayes explains. "That freedom
"I was interested in the outcome of premature infants, may not be so available to children growing up in the
I wanted to find out what happens to them 20 years later, midst of daily violence and turmoil—it means they can-
That took me to Yale to do a fellowship in general clini- not find safe haven even in their thoughts."
cal research to work on those messy questions oflongitu- Today, a principal investigator funded by the National
dinal studies. I had every intention of going back to Institute on Drug Abuse, a division of the National Insti-
Vanderbilt, but when I discov-
ered the Child Study Center I
stayed at Yale." The center has a
long tradition of supporting fac-
ulty members who have training
in more than one discipline in-
cluding pediatrics, psychology,
psychiatry, social work, law, and
history. It emphasizes multi-
disciplinary collaborative re-
search programs addressing
questions ranging from molecu-
lar genetics to psychoanalysis
and has been committed to in-
depth clinical services for chil-
dren and their families. The fac-
ulty there is bound together by
its dedication to the under-
standing of the mental life of
children from these multiple
biological and humanistic per-
spectives. These qualities have
WJien a parent spends most ofeach
day trying tofind enaugh cocaine
for a half-dozen highs, Mayes says,
a child is bound to suffer. "What is
it that makes people who live in
poverty and chaos turn to cocaine
as the answer to theirproblems?"
sJie asks. In an era ofintolerance,
blanket condemnation of "cocaine
babies " won 't make theproblem go
away, Mayes says.
tutes of Health, Mayes says she
still enjoys the research, al-
though she does a fair amount
of clinical work. Though ad-
ministrative duties associated
with the research can be a
"hassle," Mayes especially en-
joys the part of her work when
someone poses a question and
she has the chance to design a
project that might provide an-
swers. "I love it when the data
start to come in, to see what
shape they take. There may be
surprises that you never pre-
dicted. And, I love to write
about the research."
Mayes' love of writing
and learning, for pleasure's
sake, was nurtured during her
days on the Mountain and
steeped in the southern liter-
made it an ideal place for Mayes to carry otit her work. ary tradition. "Sewanee was a very important place to me,
Of late, Mayes has become keenly interested in the de- there's no question about that. What I carried from the
velopment of the mind and is completing her training as University is that there's an enormous pleasure injust ex-
a psychoanalyst with adults and children. What is it, she ploring what one can explore, be it medieval poetry or
asks, that gives one child such pleasure to explore a pile quantum physics. It's not in the facts. The facts are there
of rocks in the yard, while another will have no curiosity and they're useful to have and they will certainly give you
about the world around him. She suspects that, much a Uade, but it's in the pleasure of learning it. To me, at
like her work with cocaine, a child's environs will have a Sewanee there is a great respect for the individual. That
great deal of influence on his or her curiosity and imagi- is the gift of the place. That's what I kept. That and the
nation. "Daydreaming is vital to our everyday lives—we sense that no question has one answer."
solve problems, think of new ideas, ease our tensions, let
25
THEOLOGY
REFLECTIONS ON TWOANGLICAN CONFERENCES
The August and September cal-
endar marks two important gath-
erings of Episcopalians (and a
few interested others). One has
just concluded in St. Louis,
where more than 1 ,200 people
came together to listen to a num-
ber of presentations; worship,
talk, and have fellowship to-
gether; and make plans for
"Shaping Our Future" as a
church. The other conference
will gather on the beautiful
grounds of Mount St. Alban and
the National Cathedral on Sep-
tember 24-26 to remember,
honor, and study the defining
Anglican theologian, Richard
Hooker, and to celebrate the
completion of the great 20th
century edition of all of his writ-
ings.
The Episcopal Church
needed a major occasion to look
at important issues, make bold
new suggestions for further de-
bate, hear calls for personal and
collective spiritual revival, and
transcend the negative and de-
structive grumblings of much
current discontent into a new
hymn of commitment, fresh vi-
sion, and joyful confidence in
our mission as people of God. I
think that, for the most part, that
is just what happened in St.
Louis.
If some of the original impe-
tus for people's interest in the tion, and the exercise of faithful
conference sprang from dissatis- reason. In our current situation,
faction with some aspects of the one of the most relevant voices of
national church, the final highly our tradition is Richard Hooker,
diverse roster of speakers—some A deep, complex, sometimes
of the "right," some of the "left," slightly opaque thinker and
and a whole bunch of us claim- writer (not unlike Sewanee'sown
ing the "vital center"—presented saint—DuBose) , Hooker tried to
a series of powerful theological, establish and articulate a broad
ecclesiological, and practical per- catholic and reformed center
spectives that will certainly echo way for a church divided and un-
throughout the church during der fierce challenge by its more
this year before another General extreme members. Hooker
Convention. Not every group was
heard, although there were two
open forum sessions where they
could have been. In many ways it
was good to have a conference
largely of loyal "centrists," a
group that has not always been
adequately heard in the councils
and debates of the contemporary
church.
Sewanee was well-repre-
sented. Bob Creamer organized
a wonderful Sewanee reception,
and it was a great pleasure to see
so many alums (seminary and
college), regents, trustees,
former bishops-in-residence, and
other friends. At that gathering showed m^ tQ be reasonableand throughout the weekend, and toIerant and reSpectful of
the inherited Christian tradition
Hie Episcopal Church
needed a major occasion
to transcend the
destructivegrumblings
ofcurrent discontent
into a netv hymn of
commitment
unlike the feeling at some other
meetings in recent years, it
seemed to be a good and positive
thing to be an Episcopalian.
Everything was not perfect.
Some did grumble that more
mud was not thrown at the pre-
siding bishop and others with
whom they disagree; some com-
plained of too much glitz and a
whiff of hubris here. Still, on bal-
ance, I think this revived the old
tradition of church congresses
into a potentially prophetic real-
ity for our time: the people of
God gathered to focus attention
on the work of Cod in and for
the world.
In its own way, the Hooker
Conference is also very signifi-
cant. When in need of new inspi-
ration and guidance, Anglicans
have turned to Scriptures, tradi-
was compatible with strength,
with willingness to criticize con-
temporary abuses that deserved
criticism, and with the desire to
evangelize and build a church
relevant to the needs of his con-
temporary society.
Several hundred people will
come together with leading Re-
naissance and Reformation
scholars from this country, En-
gland, and Europe to studv
Hooker both in his own context
and for his possible guidance for
us today. Again, Sewanee will be
well represented. We are co-
sponsors of the event and offer it
as one of our Continuing Educa-
tion experiments this year. I have
been one of the three co-plan-
ners of the conference and will
contribute to the program and
the subsequent book. John
Booty, one of Hooker's modern
editors, will speak and preach.
And many Sewanee alums will be
in attendance.
Taken together, these two
gatherings seem emblematic of
Anglicanism going about its busi-
ness: studying and building
firmly, but not uncritically, on the
past; and debating and planning
loyally, but not uncritically, the
best ways to proclaim the Gospel,
to revive our spiritual life, to ad-
vance the causes of justice and
peace, and to structure the
church in a more responsive way.
The answers to profound
questions are, as Jesus taught us,
both amazingly simple and
deeply complex. I think both of
these conferences help us see im-
portant truths more clearly. I
hope that our wills will follow our
vision.
With hope to see many ofyou
at the DuBose lectures in Octo-
ber, I am
Yours faithfully
in Christ Jesus,
The Very Rn< 'd
Dr. Guy Fitch Lytk III
Dean
Copies of Dean Ly lie's talk in St.
Louis, "Leadership and Followership:
Reflections on a General Crisis and
theEpiscopacy, "can be requested pom
the Reii'd Robert Creamer, director of
church relations, The School ofTheol-
ogy, The University of the South, 335
Tennessee Avenue, Sewanee, TN37383-1000. Details ofDean Lytle's
writings on Richard Hooker and
other English Reformation topics will
be listed, along with the publications
of other School of Theology faculty
members, in future issues o/Sewanee
and //^Sewanee Theological Re-
view. The Easter 1 993 issue of the
STR was devoted to Richard Hooked-
copies are still availablefor $6. 00.
26
THEOLOGY
NEW PRIESTS FOR A
NEW CHURCH
In the late 1980s,Jim Cook,T'93,
led the ideal life of a young ur-
ban professional. He was work-
ing in Minneapolis for a major
national accounting firm, han-
dling marketing and media rela-
tions. He had a wife and two chil-
dren. But something was wrong.
"Despite my success, I had a
lot of dissatisfaction with what I
was doing. I knew that I was not
doing everything with the gifts
that God has given me," Cook
says.
In 1990, he left the account-
ing firm to enter the M.Div. pro-
gram at the School of Theology.
It was a hard decision, but one he
would not regret. He and the 26
other graduates of the class of
1993 who were called to Sewanee
have very different stories, but
they share a common bond to
ministry and a belief in the im-
portance of their experiences on
the Mountain.
"Although we feel this call to
ministry, we're all incredibly dif-
ferent," says Cook. "In the small
community at Sewanee, you're
able to see and appreciate the
differences in people's ideas
about theology and ministry.
You're able to become part of
people's lives fully. And that is at
once very enlightening and very
difficult."
The transition to seminary
was relatively easy for Cook.
"Once you make the decision,"
he says, "it is very liberating." Heand his wife, Karen, had dis-
cussed the possibility of seminary
even before they were married.
"We came here as a family, and
we left as a family," says Cook.
"We are ready to become part of
a new community." Cook nowserves as associate rector of As-
cension Church in Frankfort, Ky.
Susan Gaumer also had
strong family connections when
she came to the School of Theol-
ogy. Her daughter, Catherine,
was a Sewanee undergraduate
when her mother began the
M.Div. program. "There was an
initial moment of horror,"
Gaumer recalls and laughs. "But
then she realized that I wasn't
coming to keep an eye on her."
Gaumer had known she
wanted to attend an Episcopal
seminary while she was an under-
graduate at Mount Holyoke Col-
lege. But that was before the
church allowed women to enter
the priesthood. For 12 years be-
fore she entered the School of
Theology, she served as chaplain
of St. Martin's Episcopal School
in Metairie, La., leading daily
worship, teaching religion
classes, and doing pastoral work.
"I had a good background be-
fore I came to Sewanee. But the
School of Theology has allowed
me to focus my vocation, to take
what I think is really needed in
the church out there. It's been
like walking through a rich and
wonderful garden. And I've
loved the opportunity of taking
three years out of my life to be-
come a student," Gaumer says.
Gaumer has returned to NewOrleans as curate of St.
Augustine's Parish, and she is
also associate for pastoral care at
Children's Hospital. "I would like
to be rector of a parish some
day," she says. "But more often in
my life and in my vocation things
have not turned out like I felt
they were going to, but it has
been fine and has felt like God's
plan all along."
Like Cook and Gaumer, Ed
Lovelady spent years contemplat-
ing seminary before coming to
Sewanee. After serving 22 years
in the Air Force, Lovelady made
his way to the Mountain. "I had
been working toward this since
1976," he says.
Seminary was challenging for
Lovelady, who had not been a
Jim Cook: "Despite my success, I had a lot ofdissatisfaction with what I wasdoing. I knew that I was not doing everything with the gifts that God has
Susan Gaumer: "Sewanee has allowed
full-time student since high
school. But he says that the
School of Theology faculty
helped him to make the transi-
tion more smooth. "I think
Sewanee offers the best overall
education in the Episcopal
Church." He now serves as curate
me tofocus my vocation."
of St. Luke's Episcopal Church in
Jamestown, N.Y
"I come out of seminary,"
Lovelady says, "with a well-devel-
oped theology. But it is not so
narrowly defined that it limits myability to serve people."
27
CLASS NOTES
'35Edward Harrison
360 West Brainerd Street
Pensacola, FL 32501
Ralph H. Ruch <>l Louisville, Ky., is
a field underwriter for Mutual Life
Insurance Company of New York.
'37Augustus T. Graydon
P.O. Box 6135
Columbia, SC 28260-6135
Ted Heyward of Charlotte, N.C.,
the founder and first president of
the Metrolina Food Bank, was
named 1993 recipient of the
McMahon Appreciation Award.
The McMahon Award is given by
the Foundation of the Carolinas in
recognition of "special service to
the community."
'50
Richard B. Doss
5555 Del Monte, #1007
Houston, TX 77056
John Marchand of Henderson, Ky.,
recently retired from the practice
of diagnostic roentgenology. TheRev. Edward C. Rutland is retired
and recently gave the School of
Theology a part of his library which
contains a unique collection of
Episcopal Church histories and bi-
ographies. He and his wife, Laura,
live in Texarkana, Texas.
'51
Angus W Graham jr.
8012 1st Avenue, West
Bradenton, FL 34209
Md., and plans to retire next year.
Dick Leche of Woodbridge, Va.,
works for Delta Air Lines. David
McQuiddy runs McQuiddy Print-
ing Company in Nashville, Tenn.
Loren Mead continues to serve as
president ofAlban Institute, a con-
gregational development organi-
zation in Washington, D.C. Merrill
Miller is rector of St. Philip's Epis-
copal Church in Brevard, N.C. Bill
Stough has retired as senior execu-
tive for mission planning of the
Episcopal Church in New York.
Sandy West is retired but volun-
teers his time as business manager
of the Syracuse Symphony Orches-
tra. The symphony collapsed fi-
nancially in midseason last year,
and he is part of the effort trying to
get the organization back on its
feet again.
'60 '70
'52R. AndrewDuncan315 Hyde Park Avenue
Tampa, FL 33606
Mercer L. Goodson and his wife,
Barbara, of Austin, Texas, cel-
ebrated their 39th wedding anni-
versary in June. George M.Thurmond of Del Rio, Texas, is a
districtjudge for the State of Texas.
'54W. Gilbert Dent III
205 Sherwood Drive
Laurens, SC 29360
Gilbert Marchand of Houston,
Texas, has started an investment,
financial, and organizational plan-
ning and counseling firm with
branches in Denver, Colo., and
Houston.
Edward Ball remains active selling ' Kftresidential real estate in Charles- »-'*-'
ton, S.C. Jim Bell is the rector of John Pennington Bowers
historic Christ Episcopal Church in Route 3, Box 374
Jefferson, Texas. Mellick Belshaw Rorhelle, VA 22738
of Princeton, N.J., is chairman of
the board of General Theological Carol Prim Wood Jr., of Boca
Seminary. John Bratton of Sewanee Raton, Fla., is the owner and vice
works in local industry and health president of manufacturing for
and human services in the area of Lowenstein Furniture Group,
alcohol and drug recovery amongadolescents and adults. Tom En-
gram serves as rector of St. John's
Episcopal Church in Mt. Ranier,
Howard W. Harrison Jr.
435 Spring Mill Road
Villanova,PA 19085
William H. Barnwell is the associ-
ate rector of Trinity Episcopal
Church in New Orleans, La.
'63Gerald H. Summm199 S. Crest Road
Chattanooga, TN 37404
Howard K. Edwards of Orlando,
Fla., serves as the director of
emerging technologies for Cincin-
nati Bell Information Systems in
Maitland, Fla. Robert Freyer of
Orlando, Fla., is an attorney with
the firm of Shutt & Bowen in Win-
ter Park, Fla. Tom Gaskin of Bir-
mingham, Ala., is the president-
elect of the Alabama division of the
American Cancer Society. He is
president of the Surgeon's Groupin Birmingham.
'67Albert Sidney Polk III
2101 Harbor Drive
Annapolis, MD 21401
Edward A. Francisco of Dallas,
Texas, is a principal with Towers
Perris, a management consulting
firm, and is currently the western
region sales management practice
leader for that company.
'68Thomas S. Rue
P.O. Box 1988
Mobile, AL 36633
Edwin Lee Conner, of Frankfort,
Ky., was recently awarded tenure at
Kentucky State University.
'69Dennis M Hall
2919 Momington DriveNWAtlanta, GA 30327
Don McCammon, a licensed men-
tal health counselor, owns and op-
erates the Adolescent Counseling
Center in Winter Park, Fla.
John W. Tonissenjr.
P.O. Box 36218
Charlotte, NC 28236
Art BaUard is president of Art's
Work, an ornamental metal andsecurity business. He lives with his
wife, Kathleen, and their three
children in Goulds, Fla.
'71
Herndon Inge 111
4059 Stein Street
Mobile, AL 36608
Owen F. McAden of Coral Gables,
Fla., has left the Miami Herald
where he served in senior manage-
ment. He has accepted a senior
editorial position with The State in
Columbia, S.C.J. Clark Plexico of
Hendersonville, N.C., was re-
elected to the North Carolina Sen-
ate.
'72N. Pendleton Rogers
115 North 1st St., #117
Richmond, VA 2321
9
Robert J. Moore received his
D.Min. from the School of Theol-
ogy at Sewanee in May. He serves
as vicar of the Church of the Resur-
rection in Houston, Texas.
74Martin R. Tilson Jr.
508 Broadland Road
Atlanta, GA 30342
William Ray Folger is a veterinar-
ian with the Memorial Cat Hospi-
tal in Houston, Texas. Virginia E.
Graybiel of Pensacola, Fla., is a re-
porter for the Pensacola News Jour-
nal.
'75Robert '/.' Coleman III
The Liberty Corporation
P.O. Box 789
Greenville, SC 29602
Edward H. Harrison Jr., and his
wife, Teresa (C'77), and their two
children have moved to Pensacola,
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CLASS NOTES
Fla., where he serves as rector of St.
Christopher's Episcopal Church.
76James H. Grier
120 Barberry Lane
Spartanburg, SC 29302
David F. Etzold is a broker consult-
ant for Best Real Estate, Inc., in El
Paso, Texas. He was awarded the
Lone Star Trophy by the Texas As-
sociation of Realtors in July 1992
for making the top commercial
real estate transaction in the state
of Texas. David Jefferson of Bir-
mingham, Ala., married Virginia
Lynn Sims on November 21, 1992.
He recently began a newjob as di-
rector of non-automotive advertis-
ing for Strong Automotive Mer-
chandising in Birmingham.
'77
Nora Frances McRae
1515 North State Street
Jackson, MS 39202
Logan Browning serves as the asso-
ciate editor of Studies in English Lit-
erature and as a lecturer in the hu-
manities at Rice University. He and
his wife, Julie, live in Houston,
Texas. Caroline Liljenwall Crider
of San Antonio, Texas, has a newjob as associate director of devel-
opment for The Nature Conser-
vancy of Texas. Kathryn Bernal
Henslee of Tuscaloosa, Ala.,has
been the coordinator of commu-nity support for the public radio
station WUAL at the University of
Alabama since November 1992.
'78
R. Philip Caipentei'
1 465 Northlake Drive
Jackson, MS 39211-2138
Millie Finch of Birmingham, Ala.,
received her MBA from SamfordUniversity in May. John HenryHardin Looney lives in
Lincolnshire, England, with his
wife, Hilary, and his two children,
Catriona and Elliot. He works for
an American company, Engineer-
ing-Science, helping it become es-
tablished in the United Kingdom,and has reverted to the original
spelling of his surname, which is
Lonie. Cameron J. Welton of
Cermantown, Term., was recently
named administrator ofMethodist
Hospital Cermantown which is
owned by Methodist Hospitals of
Memphis (MHM).
'79
Roberta Bartusch Goertz
36 South Hillside Place
Ridgewood, NJ 07450
Walter D. Givhan and Frances
Beeland Givhan have a new son,
Walter Bratton, born May 31.
Addison Hosea serves as research
coordinator at Kentucky Sport
Medicine, a sports injury surgery
and rehabilitation clinic. He and
his wife, Kim, live in Lexington, Ky.
On May 15, Alexandra Smith mar-
ried James B. Gunderson in NewJersey. The Gundersons live in
Naples, Fla. Gail Montague Trigg is
vice president of Montague & As-
sociates, Inc. She lives with her hus-
band, Stephen, and their two chil-
dren in Jacksonville, Fla.
'80
Suzanne L. DeWalt
1066 Old Gate Road
Pittsburgh, PA 15235
Wayne Davis serves as the head
football coach at UMS-Wright
School in Mobile, Ala. Paige WoodMarlow and her husband, O.L., of
Houston, Texas, have a new son,
O.L. Marlow III, bornJune 12. AnnBenners Travis and her husband,
Ed, of Austin, Texas, have a newdaughter, Kate Jordan, born June22.
mBrent T. Minor
400 Commonwealth Avenue, #204
Alexandria, VA 22301
PamelaJordan Anderson is a legis-
lative analyst and an attorney with
the Florida State Senate. She and
her husband, Paul, live with their
two children, Jordan and Eliza-
beth, in Tallahassee, Fla. Martin
Pyle serves as the minister of
preaching at the Mandarin
Church of Christ in Jacksonville,
Fla. Ruth Cardinal Seawell and her
husband, Robert, have a new son,
Robert Hails, born April 12. Karen
Starnes Wilkinson and her hus-
band, Ronald, of Orlando, Fla.,
have a new daughter, Christinia
Lillie, born April 26.
'84
'82
Daniel S. Johnson
IS34 Cowden
Memphis, TN 38104
John H. Barrett recently finished
his first year teaching English at
The Episcopal School of Dallas af-
ter attending graduate school at
Fordham University in New York
City. Amelia Campbell Bishop has
been appointed chairperson of the
Probate and Trust Law Committee
of the American Bar Association
Young Lawyers Division for 1993-
94. William K. Bruce Jr., and his
wife, Clare, have a new daughter,
Mary Clare, born August 19, 1992.
G. Allen Meighen Jr. is a trust of-
ficer with AmSouth Bank in Bir-
mingham, Ala. He continues to
serve in the U.S. Marine Reserves
as a judge advocate. Mona Saliba
Parker and her husband, F.B., of
Scottsboro, Ala., have a new son,
George Bowers, born June 26.
Dawn S. Taylor of Birmingham,
Ala., is the director of marketing
witli Vazda Studios.
'83
Stewart A.W. Low215 Homer Avenue
Voorhees, NJ 08043
Douglas B. Freels is in orthopedic
surgery residency at Tampa Gen-
eral Hospital. He and his wife,
Vicki, and their son live in Tampa,
Fla. Carla M. Nimocks and her
husband, Mallory, of Forrest City,
Ark., have a new daughter,
Caroline, born January 11. JayPoss of Baton Rouge, La., serves as
a probation and parole officer for
the Louisiana Department of Cor-
rections. Timothy T. Tenhet mar-
ried Meri Wilkinson Schmitz on
June 26 in Seaside, Fla.
Anne Freels Bley not
2415 Dellwood Drive
Greensboro, NC 27408
William A. Eaves Jr., was recently
named pastor of Silverlake United
Methodist Church in Woodburry,
Minn. John Evans of Atlanta, Ga.,
has been awarded the Chartered
Financial Consultant professional
designation. Laura ChathamMrachek and her husband, Bruce,
of San Antonio, Texas, have a newchild, Alexis Fontaine, born July 6.
'85
Laurie C.Jarrett Rogers
2012 Park Ave. Apt 2
Richmond, VA 23220
Barbara Francis Arrants works as a
trial attorney for the Davidson
County Metropolitan Public
Defender's Office in Nashville,
Tenn. Jack Barden and Kat Green
Barden of Middlesboro, Ky., have a
new son,John Sawyer, born Febru-
ary 5. Jack also has a newjob as pas-
tor of the First Presbyterian
Church in Middlesboro. David
Binger and Lynetta Cox Binger
both work for Hanover College in
Hanover, Ind. He is an assisant pro-
fessor and director of academic
computing while she is an assistant
professor of biology. Laurie Keyser
Brunner and her husband, Russ,
live in Potomac, Md. She is the
staff manager for the vice presi-
dent of South region sales at
AT&T. Laurence Butcher is taking
a break from surgery residency to
do preventive medicine residency
atJohns Hopkins Hospital. He and
his wife, Catherine (C'87), live in
Baltimore, Md. Phil Campbell of
Memphis, Tenn., had the highest
grade in the first-year class in torts
at Memphis State University LawSchool. Doug Cadett recently com-
pleted his MBA at the University of
Tennessee at Knoxville. Paty Daves
married Dede Chunn on January
30. Angela Parrott Deatsch of Si-
erra Madre, Calif., has finished her
second year at the Southwestern
University Law School. She was re-
cently chosen to that school's law
review. Myles Elledge and Rachael
Davis Elledge of Kensington, Md.,
have a new son, Collin Fletcher,
born March 15. Elizabeth Fuller-
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CLASS NOTES
Oliver and her husband Will, of
Ann Arbor, Mich., have a new son,
Simon Fuller, bornJanuary 29. Wil-
liam A. Gage, married Waverly
White in Houston in August 1992.
Tracie Gill of Elkins, Ark., contin-
ues to work on her M.Ed, at the
University of Arkansas. She has
been involved in a design and de-
velopment program in the educa-
tion department at the Walton Art
Center for over a year. JohnGuglielmi and his wife, Carrie
Beth, have a new daughter, Jodi
Murray, born on April 1 1. Garland
Head works as a lending manager
with IBM Credit Union and in his
spare time volunteers for the Con-
federate Air Force, a group that
maintains World War II airplanes
in dying condition. He and his
wife, Daphne Davis Head (C'83),
live in Dallas, Texas, and cel-
ebrated their first wedding anni-
versary on November 15, 1992.
Ann Jessup of Birmingham, Ala.,
works for the trust department at
AmSouth Bank. She tutors in an
adult literacy program in her spare
time. Todd Lemons of Aptos, Ca-
lif., is a partner at Western Interna-
tional, a company which is in-
volved in international trading of
lumber and agricultural products
with Chile, and spends four to six
months each year in Santiago,
Chile. Roma Lenehan of Madison,
Wis., is nearing completion of her
Ph.D. in genetics at the University
of Wisconsin. Scott Miller and his
wife, Robin, of Tampa, Fla., have a
new son, William [ames, born Feb-
ruary 6. Jon M. Moreland III is the
manager for Shilson & Associates
in Houston, Texas. Rebecca
Nelson of Gross Pointe, Mich.,
continues to work with new publi-
cation developmenl at Gale Re-
search, Inc., in Detroit, Mich. She
planned to attend the Publishing
Institute at the University of Den-
vei this summer. DeborahOverdorff ( ontinues to teach bio-
logical anthropology at Duke Uni-
versity and plans to spend the next
two summers in Madagascar to
continue her research on lemurs.
She and her husband, Michael
Winslett (C'86), live in Chapel 1 [ill,
N.C. Serena Satcher is in her sec-
ond year of residency in physical
medicine and rehabilitation at the
Loyola Medical Center iti Chicago,
III. Beth Godwin Sawyer and her
husband. Bob, of Houston, Texas,
have <i new child, Lindsey Myers,
born April 30. Frank Shoemakerand his wife. Randy (C'86), have a
new son, Thomas Francis
McDowell, born March 24. Jenni-
fer Nettles Sluis of Auburn Hills,
Mich., married Ted Sluis on March
20. Lawrence Wall has just finished
his first year as the assistant head-
master at St. Timothv's-Hale
School in Raleigh, N.C. Mark N.
Waller recently graduated from
the University ol Arkansas LawSchool and is preparing to take the
Arkansas bar exam. Karen Dynkiuk
Walker and her husband, John,
have just arrived in the United
States back from Italy and En-
gland. They live in an historic
home built in the 1830s in down-
town Charleston, S.C. Richard W.
Westlingand his wife, Bronwyn (C87), have a new daughter, MorganElizabeth, born March 9. Jay C.
Zeleskey <>l Dallas, Texas, works as
an attorney with the law firm of
McCauley, Macdonald, Love &Devin.
'86
Read Carson Van de Water
2214 3Hlh SImi, NWWashington, DC 20007
Kimra Anderson recently moved to
Boston, Mass., where she works for
Cambridge Energy Research Asso-
ciates as commercial manager for
Asia. Laura Andress Beaver, and
hei husband, Scott, ol Rocky
Mount, N.C, have a new son,
Fleming Russell, born fanuary 5.
Beth Girardeau Beltron is a senior
planner for Tri-County CommuterRail. She and her husband, Chris-
topher, live in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.
Maia Boswell continues to work on
her Ph.D. in English at the Univer-
sity of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill. Adrienne Briggs, ol Birming-
ham, Ala., finished her residency
in internal medicine in (tine and
began a fellowship in hematology-
oncology in July at the University
ol Alabama at Birmingham.
Nancy Brim ol Doraville, Ga.,
spent the summer in California
working on her master's degree in
secondary science education al
San Jose State University. She re-
turned to Georgia to teach in Au-
gust. Sarah W. Brown of Boulder.
Colo., continues to work as an en-
vironmental scientist for Jacobs
Engineering in Denver, Colo. Lynn
Randolph Buckner, of Birming-
ham, Ala., is a fourth-year resident
in general surgery at the University
of Alabama at Birmingham Hospi-
tal. Hildreth Budd of Atlanta, Ga.,
is a producer for the nationally-
televised show Backyard America.
Cornelia Todd Harrison Byrd, of
Gary, N.C., started a new job in
December as a plaintiff medical
malpractice litigation paralegal
with the firm of Beskind, Rudolf,
and Maher in Chapel Hill, N.C.
Alison Riopel Cayton practices real
estate law with the firm of Man-ning, Fulton, and Skinner in Ra-
leigh, N.C, where she and her hus-
band, Ellis, live. Liza Martin
Chapman works at the U.S. Em-bassy in Bonn, Germany. Margaret
Hill Cohn and her husband, Elie,
of Los Angeles, Calif., had their
first son, Jonah, in August 1992.
Sandra Gregg Connolly and her
husband, Bryan, live in Fairfield ,
Conn. She runs the office for the
Vineyard Christian Fellowship.
Wendy Lu Keith Cook and her hus-
band, Christopher (C'84), have a
new daughter, Audrey Claire, born
February 1, Dennie Crabtree con-
tinues as a resident in surgery at
Ei finger Medical Center in Chat-
tanooga, Tenn. Laura BowenCrumbaugh and her husband,
Robert, of Birmingham, Ala., have
a new daughter, Morgan Prescott,
bom in November 1992. She
teaches AP government and eco-
nomics at Berry High School in
Birmingham. Carleton Cunn-
ingham, of Charlottesville, Va., has
completed the course work at the
L'niversity of Virginia for a Ph.D. in
European History and is currently
doing research for his dissertation
which concerns English relations
with the German imperial court in
the late-Elizabethan and early-
Stuart era. Jeff deGraan lives in
Elma, Wash., and works for the
Washington Department of Natu-
ral Resources. Evelyne WynneDeLong and her husband, Billy,
recently celebrated their fifth wed-
ding anniversary. They live in
Manvel, Texas, with their son,
Lamar. Susan Harrison Edmondsand her husband, Stewart, of Bir-
mingham, Ala., have a new son,
William Harrison, born in May1992. Brenda E. Ellis of Chatta-
nooga, Tenn., works at the Chatta-
nooga-Hamilton County Public Li-
brary. Robbie Fisher of Key West,
Fla., practices law in the Florida
Keys. Hollis Fitch and AnneMengedoht Fitch of Tarpley, Texas,
have a new daughter, Elsa Stoeling,
born April 23. After recently earn-
ing a bachelor's degree in marine
engineering from Texas A&M Uni-
versity at Galveston, he now sails as
a third engineer forARCO Marine
out of Long Beach, Calif., while
she is busy rearing their newdaughter. Marichal Gentry attends
graduate school in social work at
the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill. Rudolph Gilchrist of
Antioch, Tenn., teaches Spanish at
Antioch High School. Virginia
Hipp received a master's degree in
international business studies in
May 1992 from the University of
South Carolina, ranked the num-ber one international business pro-
gram in the United States by USNnas & World Report since 1990.
Her focus in the program was Ara-
bic culture, and her three years of
study included intensive summerlanguage school, one year of busi-
ness studies at the University of
Ninety-Nine Ironby Wendell Givens with ArthurBen & Elizabeth N. Chilly
Ninely-Nine Iron, which
chronicles the famous 1899
Sewanee football team, is avail-
able to alumni and friends of
the University at a special price
of $16.50, which includes post-
age and handling. Orders maybe sent to:
Wendell Givens
107 Von Dale Drive
Birmingham, AL 35215
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CLASS NOTES
South Carolina, one year of
Middle Eastern studies at the
American University in Cairo, six
months working as an intern with
an international corporation, and
a final semester of study back at the
University of South Carolina.
Caroline Morton Huffman of Ra-
leigh, N.C, works as a clinical trials
coordinator at Duke University
Medical Center. She and her hus-
band, Dane, spent their first wed-
ding anniversary m July in Italy
Ruth Sanchez Imizcoz teaches
Spanish at Mars Hill College in
North Carolina. Anne Laigle Jack-
son teaches pre-kindergai ten
classes at the Kincaid School in
Houston, Texas, where she and
her husband, John, live. Randolph
Scott Jackson Jr., and his wife,
Elizabeth, of Lookout Mountain,
Tenn., had their first child,
Randolph Scott Jackson III, in De-
cember 1992. Amy Jenkins works
for South Carolina National Bank
in Charleston, S.C Lynn Kaiser of
Hillsborough, N.C, works in the
PM Gross Chemical Labs at DukeUniversity. Charles D. LaFond of
Richmond, Va., serves as vice-presi-
dent of the YMCA of Greater Rich-
mond. Mary Lane Lennon and her
husband, Thomas (C84), of Knox-
ville, Tenn., have a new daughter,
Mary Elizabeth, born in February
Melanie Krosnes Lewis and her
husband, Richard, of
Bloomington, Ind., had their first
child, Claire, in January. Joe Liles
of Lakewood, Co., works for
Merrill Lynch. John J. Lipsey lives
in Alexandria, Va., and amongother projects, serves as a consult-
ant to his parents' business, British
Isles Originals, an English cottage
shop specializing in crafts, col-
lectibles, and artwork. Brian
Mainwaring lives in Eagan, Minn.,
where he works for the Depart-
ment of Defense. Louise
Richardson Manzella has recently
moved to St. Louis. Brian Masters
and his wife, Elizabeth Klopstock
Masters (C'87), live in Sewanee on15 bluff acres with a pond. Heteaches science and coaches foot-
ball and wrestling at GrundyCounty High School. Susan
Fleming McAllister of Eugene,
Ore., spent two years teaching En-
glish in China, where she met andmarried her husband, Edwin. Nowboth are working toward doctorate
degrees in English at the Univer-
sity of Oregon. Mark Emory
McClendon of Charlottesville, Va.,
has finished his coursework at the
University ofVirginia for a Ph.D. in
English literature and is currently
working on his dissertation. RobMcintosh lives in Dallas, Texas,
where he works for Airborne Ex-
press. Tom Milton and Stuart
White Milton live in Charlotte,
N.C, with their two children,
Maggie and Frazer. Tom serves as
vice president of sales for Ameri-
can IMC. Brian Mullaney earned
his M.D. and Ph.D. in pharmacol-
ogy from Vanderbilt University in
May. He will begin his residency
work at the University of California
at San Francisco in the fall. Jeff
Murray of Arlington, Va., works as
the manager for state, local, andpolitical affairs for the American
Gas Association and runs that
organization s political action
committee. Lisa Kincaid Odomand her husband, Frank, of Ox-
ford, Miss., have a new son, Frank
King Odom III, born April 20. She
plans to begin pharmacy school at
the University of Mississippi in the
fall. J. Perry Patton ol
Lawrenceville, Ga., works for the
consulting engineering firm
EBASCO Services, Inc., in
Norcross, Ga. Don Pearson and his
wile, Katie Curran Pearson (C89),
have recently moved from
Stockholm, Sweden, to Atlanta,
Ga. where he works for McKinsey
& Co., Inc. Karyn Pennington
Reina and her husband, Domenick
(C82), live in Tampa, Fla., where
she substitute teaches and is active
with the local YMCA. Ray Powell of
Athens, Ga., finished his master's
degree in English from the Univer-
sity of Georgia in May and is teach-
ing a group of at-risk teenagers
from Madison, Ga., this summer in
a program sponsored by the Pri-
vate Industry Council. Kathryn
McCrosen Ryan, works at All
Saints' Episcopal Church in Aus-
tin, Texas. After serving five years
in the United States Navy, Walter
Sechriest is now a naval reservist
training out of the National Secu-
rity Agency and is working on a
master's degree in national secu-
rity studies at Georgetown Univer-
sity. Mike Salisbury of Chatta-
nooga, Tenn., works for
NationsBank. Robert Sharp and
Lisa Reynolds Sharp live in Rogers,
Ark. He has just started a design
and construction company called
Town Creek Builders. Randy
Poitevent Shoemaker and her hus-
band, Frank (C85), of Jackson-
ville, Fla., have a new son, ThomasFrancis McDowell Shoemaker Jr.,
born March 24. They both practice
law in Jacksonville. Margaret Sage
Smith ol Washington, D.C., at-
tends Georgetown University LawCenter at night. Sam Smith and
Jeanette Sommers Smith live in
Richmond, Va. She recently re-
ceived her M.Ed, from Virginia
Commonwealth University and is
now looking for a counseling posi-
tion in a high school. Meanwhile,
he has started his own general con-
tracting company, Stonewall Con-
struction Company. Gene Snead
lives in Sewanee and works as a
production supervisor at CKR, a
company which makes automotive
weatherstripping for Nissan,
Honda, Ford, and General Motors.
Phillip Stafford, of Seattle, Wash.,
is a graduate student at the Univer-
sity of Washington. Melissa
Buckley Stump has spent the last
two years flying helicopters in the
Arctic and Antarctic. She married
Greg Stump on February 1.S.Jane
Scarborough Vallejo and her hus-
band, Vicente, recently movedfrom Dallas, Texas, to Quito, Ecua-
dor. Read Carson Van de Water
works as the director of govern-
ment and legislative affairs for
Northwest Airlines and is headed
into her last year of law school at
Georgetown University. She and
her husband, Mark, live in Wash-
ington, D.C Laura Dusek Wolfe
works as a mortgage banker in Chi-
cago, III. Sarah Preston Woodsworks as the manager of corporate
communications at First Pacific
Company Limited in Hong Kong.
She also serves as the secretary of
the Hong Kong Association of
Business and Professional Womenand as the program chairman for
the International Association of
Business Communicators.
Robert Mora If
s
2588 Winslow Drive, NEAtlanta, GA 30305-3374
Shannon Dudley is finishing her
pediatric residency at the Univer-
sity of North Carolina Hospital in
Chapel Hill, N.C, and spent five
weeks this summer on a fellowship
working with Indian health in
Alaska. Grant King of Decatur, Ga.,
graduated magna cum laude from
the College of Law at Georgia State-
University in June. He now works
as an attorney with a law firm in the
Atlanta area. Polly Phillips Link
and her husband, Randy, of Stuart,
Fla., have a new daughter, AnneStuart, born March IS. Steven L.
Sullins married Jacquelyn Corley
Myers in Huntsville, Ala., on
March 20.
'88
Kyle Elisabeth Dice
1217 Lyncrest
Jackson, MS 39202
Laurie E. Andrus of Houston,
Texas, is an accountant of Transco
Energy. Chris Bratcher is working
on his doctorate at the University
of Texas at Austin. He and his wife,
Adelaide Davenport Bratcher
C91, live in Austin. Peggy
Hodgkins of Houston, Texas,
works as a geologist for AmocoProduction Company. Joan M.Keeton married Michael C. Hurst
on May 22 at St. Martin of Tours
Church in Louisville, Ky.
'89
John Patten Guerryjr.
1619 T Bridge Mill Drive
Marietta, GA 30067
Kimberly Brown Abel and her hus-
band, Ashley, have a son, Ash
Newman, born November 17,
1992. Laura Jane Atchison of Ath-
ens, Ga., recently completed her
master's degree in English educa-
tion from the University of Geor-
gia. Cathy Carlisi married Joe
Paprocki in Rome, Italy, on May 5.
Kevin Crosslin graduated in June
from Wayne State Medical School
in Detroit, Mich. He and his wife,
Carol Snead Crosslin, are moving
to Lexington, Ky., where he will
begin his residency in obstetrics
and gynecology at the University of
Kentucky. Lisa D'Ambrosia gradu-
ated magna cum laude from the
University of Mississippi LawSchool. She will attend New York
University in the fall to pursue an
L.L.M. in tax law. Elizabeth
Henson Dukes recently married
William Weston Jones Dukes(C'87) in Mobile, Ala. They live in
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CLASS NOTES
Charleston, S.C Gwen Colwell
Jonas and her husband, Kenneth,
recently graduated from the Uni-
versity of Alabama at Birmingham
Medical School and began their
residencies in Arizona in June.
Steve Kenney is working on a mas-
ters degree in kinesiology at the
University of Texas while still
coaching at Southwestern Univer-
sity in Georgetown, Texas. David
King plans to attend Syracuse Uni-
versity in the fall to study journal-
ism. Jeff King and Lauren Laviano
King live in Scottsdale, Ariz. Hewas recently promoted to the posi-
tion of airline support manager for
the Pacific region at B.F. Goodrich
Aerospace Company while she is a
group manager for Micro AgeComputer Centers. Eric Love, in
correspondence school at the Uni-
versity of Texas at Austin, works for
Measurement, Inc. In his free
time, he volunteers at Can Sur-
mount where he counsels other
cancer victims and survivors. Eliza-
beth Schooler Mastrion recently
married and moved to Dallas,
Texas. Elizabeth McKay of Cleve-
land Heights, Ohio, sells plastic for
B. F. Goodrich in the wire andcable market on a North American
account basis. William Meadows
Jr., of Greenville, N.C., graduated
from the University of South Ala-
bama College of Medicine on June
(i. He will begin his general surgery
residency at East Carolina Univer-
sity in the fall. John Norman and
Aimee Akers Norman live in Okla-
homa City, Ok. He recently gradu-
ated from the Oklahoma City LawSchool and is currently working on
an international extradition trea-
tise for an attorney while she works
as a paralegal. J.J. Paul recently
married Tom Langston (C'86) and
they now live in Augusta, Ga.
Michael Reeves will attend DukeUniversity's Fuqua School ol Busi-
ness in the fall. He was also re-
cently elected the new president of
the Sewanee Club of the Triangle.
Betsy Bernal Reineke is working
on a M.Ed, in human development
at the Peabody School at
Vanderbilt University. Emily
Robinson graduated from the Uni-
versity of Texas at Houston Medi-
cal School in June and will soon
begin her residency in general sur-
gery at the University of Alabama
at Birmingham. Kevin B. Seaver
lives in Tokyo, Japan, where he
serves as editor of ICS Magazine.
MaryJo Livengood Shankle works
for the National Trust for Historic
Preservation at Drayton Hall Plan-
tation in Charleston, S.C. RegStambaugh and Wende Hall
Stambaugh live in West Palm
Beach, Fla. He recently passed the
Florida bar and is vice-president
and general counsel for Down-
town Group, Inc., a research-based
real estate company. She works for
NationsBank where she is an of-
ficer in consumer banking. Keith
Stein has been accepted into the
veterinary school at Auburn Uni-
versity for the fall. Colleen Peek
Sullivan and her husband, Tom,have moved back to their home-town of Albany, Ga. Scott Yeager is
a corporal in the U.S. Marine
Corps and now serves at the
Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in
Cuba. He will be serving for one
year with the U.S. Marine GroundDefense Forces stationed there.
'90
C. Katy Morrisey
3103 Wheat Street
Columbia, SC 29205
Caroline Merrill attends the Culi-
nary Institute of America in HydePark, N.V. Kristine Strieker contin-
ues to work on her master's degree
in elementary education at the
University of Arkansas at Little
Rock.
'91
Marsey L. Waller
3741 Gunston Road
Alexandria, VA 22302
Gary Gibson of Dallas, Texas,
plans to enter the University of
Texas at Dallas to work on an MBA.William G. Kohn works as a parale-
gal in Birmingham, Ala. JohnPieper of San Antonio, Texas, is a
logistics manager with Tubacero
International Corporation. Char-
lotte Thomas married R. Clement
Riddle in fune at Trinity Episcopal
Cathedral in Charleston, S.C. She
is a medical student at the Medical
University of South Carolina in
Charleston while he is employed
by Law Companies Environmental
Inc. in Charleston.
MARY ADELIA MCLEOD,
T'80, ELECTED FIRST
DIOCESAN WOMANBISHOP
The Rev. Mary Adelia McLeod,
who earned a licentiate in theol-
ogy from the University's School
of Theology in 1980, has been
elected as the ninth Episcopal
Bishop ofVermont. Once conse-
crated on November 1 , pending
consents from a majority of standing committees and bishops,
she will be the first woman to lead a diocese of the Episcopal
Church.
McLeod will begin her work in Vermont after serving as co-
rector, with her husband, the Rev. Henry McLeod III, at St.
John's Church in Charleston, W.V A native of Alabama,
McLeod was archdeacon for the western region of West Vir-
ginia. She was the first Alabama woman to become an Episco-
pal priest in 1980, just four years after the American church
began ordaining women. She also has worked as a member of
the diocesan council and was a deputy to the General Conven-
tion in 1988 and 1991.
"I accept with all my heart," McLeod told the diocese. "I amready to live my life among you. I have fallen in love with you
and Vermont and I am ready to join with you in doing our
Lord's work."
'92Lee I). Cogburn Walsh
710 Hin man Ave. #3B
Evanston, IL 60202
Michael Andreu plans to attend
Duke University in the fall to work
on his master's degree in forestry.
Elizabeth Crane married William
Benjamin Swent on July 24 at St.
Michael's Episcopal Church in Or-
lando, Fla. Mark Henry is an envi-
ronmental geologist with OgdenEnvironmental and Energy Ser-
vices Company in Huntsville, Ala.
He is temporarily assigned to work
in Hawaii for the company.
Katherine Reynolds married Will
Anderson in All Saints' Chapel on
July 24. They will reside in Nash-
ville, Tenn. Fairlie Scott married
Mark Herron on July 3 in Mont-
gomery, Ala.
Austin in All Saints' Chapel on July
1 1 . Mary E. Henry married
Jonathan A. Webster in All Saints'
Chapel on June 26.
SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY
'62
Joseph Drawdy of Brandon, Fla.,
works as a psychotherapist with
Personal Growth Consultants in
Plant City, Fla.
'80
Wayne P. Wright of New Orleans,
La., and the rector of Grace Epis-
copal Church yvas recently elected
president of the National Network
of Episcopal Clergy Associations.
'93
Miriam A. Street
SI 4 W. Addison #202
Chicago, IL 60613
Tammy M. Haston married J.C.
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IN MEMORIAM
Felix H. Tucker, C29, of
Nacogdoches, Texas, died January
12, 1993. A member of Phi GammaDelta fraternity, he was the retired
treasurer and comptroller of South-
western Steel & Container. He is sur-
vived by his wife, Ruth, and a son
and daughter.
John D. Simpson Sr., C36, of At-
lanta, Ga., diedJuly 11, 1993. Before
entering Sewanee, he attended
Emory University for one year. Dur-
ing World War II, he served in the
First Division of the U.S. Marine
Corps in the Pacific. He had a long
and varied career in the insurance
business, specializing in cotton in-
surance and ocean marine under-
writing and production. He is sur-
vived by a son and two daughters.
We have learned of the death of
Alan C. Hinshelwood, C41, of Ft.
Walton Beach, Fla., on February 9,
1992. He is survived by his wife,
Frances, and his son, Ian Bruce
Hinshelwood, C'69.
Harold Lewis Belew, C'45, < >f Milan,
Tenn., died March 21, 1993. Heserved as a sergeant in the U.S. ArmyAir Force during World War II. Hereceived his B.S. degree from Bethel
College in 1949. He worked as a pro-
duction supervisor for U.S. RubberCompany in Milan and was a retired
specification specialist for Alsto
Packaging Company at the time of
his death. He is survived by his wife,
Bobbie, and two children.
Blackburn Hughes Jr., C48, of
Charleston, S.C., died April 20,
1993. During World War II, he
served as a first lieutenant. He re-
ceived his M.Ed, from Harvard Uni-
versity in 1955 and taught English
and coached tennis at St. Andrew's
School in Middletown, Del., for 19
years before joining the faculty at
Porter-Gaud School in Charleston in
1967. He is survived by a brother.
John B. Shober Jr., C'50, of Mobile,
Ala., died in April 1993. He served in
the U.S. Navy during World War II.
An economics major at Sewanee, hewas a member of Phi Delta Theta
fraternity, a proctor, and a memberof the track team. For a number of
years, he worked in Baton Rougeand New Orleans, La., as a sales en-
gineer for Metal Goods Corpora-
tion. At the time of his death, he was
an administrative assistant with the
City of Mobile. He is survived by his
wife, Patsy, and his son, John B.
Shober III, C'76, and a sister.
Floyd W. Leonard, C'51, of Los
Gatos, Calif., died April 27, 1993. He
majored in French and was a mem-Ixi of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity,
the Order of Gownsmen, and Phi
Beta Kappa. He was also a proctor
and the chairman of the Discipline
Committee.
Kirkman Finlayjr., C'58, of Colum-bia, S.C., diedJune 27, 1993. An En-
glish major, he was a member of Al-
pha Tan Omega fraternity, the Or-
der of Gownsmen, the Wellingtons,
and the Debate Council. After
graduating from Sewanee, he en-
tered Harvard University School of
Law from which he received his law
degree in 1961 . His first job was with
Boyd, Bruton, Knowlton &Tate,oneof the largest law firms in Columbia.
By 1967, he had made partner. Dur-
ing the 1970s, he became active in
Columbia politics, first being
elected to the City Council and then
serving as mayor of Columbia from1978-86 during which time he mas-
terminded the construction of manynew buildings to help rejuvenate the
city's economy, pushed the city to
change the method of electing its
council, opening the way to black
members, and encouraged the ex-
penditure of public funds for cul-
tural programs. After leaving public
office, he worked for the ColumbiaDevelopment Corporation. He is
survived by his wife Mary Fleming
and a son and daughter.
J. Proctor Hill Jr., C'60, of El
Dorado, Ark., died May 27, 1993. Ahistory major at Sewanee, he was a
member of the Order of Gowns-
men, the German Club, the English-
Speaking Union, the University
Choir, and the Sewanee Purple. After
graduating from Sewanee, he served
in the U.S. Air Force from 1963-69,
He joined Whitney National Bank in
New Orleans, La., in 1964 and re-
tired as an assistant vice-president in
December 1987 before moving back
to his hometown of El Dorado.
Robert P. Davis, C'64, of Winnetka,
111., died July 7, 1993. A biology ma-
jor, he was a proctor, president of
Beta Theta Pi fraternity, a memberof the Order of Gownsmen, Blue
Key, Red Ribbon Society, and Los
Peones. He was captain of the unde-
feated football team of 1963. Anend, he earned All-CAC honors and
was an honorable mention selection
to the Little All-America football
team. After graduating from
Sewanee, he went on to earn his
medical degree from Northwestern
University Medical School in 1969
and performed his surgical resi-
dency at Northwestern from 1969 to
1975. In 1989, he also received an
M.M. degree from Northwestern
Kellogg Business School, lie was
chairman of the department ol sur-
gery at Columbus-Cuneo-Cabrini
Medical Center in Chicago, 111.,
former chairman of ColumbusCabrini Medical Foundation, and a
physician at that hospital for nearly
20 years. He is survived by his wife,
Leigh, a daughter, a son, his lather
and mother, his brother. Bill, C68,and two other brothers.
K. Logan Jackson, C7I, ol
Gaithersburg, Md., died [une 9,
1993. An English major who gradu-
ated cum laudefrom Sewanee, he was
a member ol Alpha Tan Omega fra-
ternity, the Order ofGownsmen, the
Discipline Committee, and the RedRibbon Society. He also served as a
proctor and as chairman of the
Honor Council. He received the
Award for Excellence in English Lit-
erature and the Sewanee Rei'ieiti Prize
for Critical Writing. Alter graduat-
ing from Sewanee, he attended Ox-
ford University in England for a year
and received an M.Div. from Vir-
ginia Theological Seminary. After
ordination, he served in various
posts in Tennessee and Kentucky. In
1985, however, he left a pastorate at
a flourishing parish in Pewee Valley,
Ky., after he felt called by God to de-
vote his life to serving needy chil-
dren. He sold all his belongings and
moved with his wife and three chil-
dren to Washington, D.G, where the
family soon began a street ministry,
called Exodus Youth Services, Inc.,
for runaways and homeless, refugee,
and latchkey children. He is sur-
vived by his wife, Mary Lyman, two
sons and a daughter, his parents,
and one brother.
Steven C. Lembesis, C78, < >f Wash-
ington, D.C., died June 7, 1993. Anhonors political science graduate
from Sewanee, he served as presi-
dent of the College Democrats and
as commander of Sigma Nu frater-
nity and was a member of the Order
of Gownsmen. He worked as a vol-
unteer tutor at the Sewanee Public
School and wrote for the Saoanee
Purple. After graduating from
Sewanee, he went on to Florida State
University where he was a research
fellow from 1982-84 and where he
received a master's degree in urban
and regional planning in 1984. Hewas the director of development in
Washington, D.C., of the Panos Insti-
tute, a nonprofit policy institute. His
work included the securing of fund-
ing for small AIDS service groups
throughout the Americas. He is sur-
vived by his mother, Celia Jebeles
Lembesis, and a sister.
Todd A. Cheek, C90, ol Atlanta,
Ga., died in (une 1993. A magna nun
laude graduate of Sewanee, he was a
sales associate with Property Systems
Real Estate in Atlanta. He is survived
by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William
G. Cheek.
ROBERT FOWLER, RETIRED
PUBLISHER AND REGENT
Robert D. Fowler, C'52, of
Alpharetta, Ga., died June 13, 1993.
An economics major, he served as
president of Kappa Alpha Orderand as editor of the Sewanee Purple.
He was also a member of the Order
of Gownsmen, Omicron Delta
Kappa, the Green Ribbon Society,
the Highlanders, the English-Speak-
ing Union, the Cap & Gown stall and
the Mountain Goat staff.
After graduating from Sewanee,
he served in the U.S. Air Force as a
navigator from 1952-56. After finish-
ing his service in the military, he
took on the job of editor of the
weekly Cobb County Times from 1956
-58 and of the Marietta Daily Journal
from 1958-64.
In 1965, Fowler bought the
Lawreneeville News-Herald, a weekly
newspaper without a press, renamedit the Gwinnett Daily News and con-
verted it into a six-day daily. He built
the paper up to the point that, in
1987, he and his partners drew na-
tional attention when they sold the
News Company, including the
Gwinnett Daily News, Widner News,
and Forsyth County News to the NewYork Times Company for a reported
$88.2 million. This sale triggered a
five-year newspaper "war" between
the Times Company and Atlanta-
based Cox Enterprises, which ownsthe Allan laJournal-Constitution.
Fowler was also active in the com-munity serving as a board memberof the Atlanta Crime Commission,
the Georgia Family and Children
Services, the Georgia Press Educa-
tional Foundation, the Gwinnett
Foundation, the Gwinnett YMCAand the Gwinnett County ChamberofCommerce. He also served on the
Board of Regents for Sewanee from
1988 until his death.
He is survived by his wife, Judith;
two daughters, Nancy F. Bivins,
C'80, and Louise Chernecky; a step-
mother; two brothers, Ralph W.Fowler Jr., C'47, andJohn W. Fowler,
C'56; a sister; four grandchildren; a
nephew, Charles M. Fowler, C'80; a
niece, Laura Ann Fowler, C'80; and
a cousin, Otis A. Brumby Jr., C'62.
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AFTERWORD
FROM THE FOREST
TO THE CITY
by the
Rt. Rev. PeterJames Lee, HV3
Forty years ago I set foot on this
mountain for the first time and I
have been enchanted with
Sewanee ever since. I was a high
school student attending a con-
ference nearby at Monteagle. I
had heard of Sewanee for years
from my childhood rector and
many Sewanee graduates. Their
affection for this place, their sto-
ries about this place, told me that
I was not the only one en-
chanted. But when the time
came for me to attend college, I
had moved away from that
chinch involvement that was ac-
cess to Sewanee for me. I was still
enchanted. I was accepted by two
colleges, one of them the Univer-
sity of the South, but I declined
admission here because I was
afraid that if I came to this moun-
tain of enchantment I would end
up in the ordained ministry of
the Episcopal Church.
For me to be here today is a
sign of God's sense of humor, of
the mirth that G.K. Chesterton
once wrote was too great for
Jesus to display on earth except
in parables. Forty years late I'm
back on this mountain to stand
among you and the Class of 1993
as you leave this enchanted forest
for the adventure of uncertainty
and risk that characterizes lives of
fulfillment and purpose.
For me, the enchantment of
Sewanee had something to do
with making decisions about
what might happen next in my
life.
I suggest to you that the
uniqueness ofSewanee as a place
of enchantment echoes one of
the oldest spiritual journeys of
humankind—which is going into
the forest to learn how to live in
the city.
Sewanee, if it has done its means to learn to live in the city
work with you, has introduced as well-prepared citizens, a voca-
you to the great classical tradi- tion especially appropriate to
tions, and it is distinguished in people nourished by the Chris-
the most rigorous contemporary dan tradition where Athens and
intellectual disciplines. It is also a Jerusalem meet,
place where men and women to- Cities, by definition, bring to-
gether begin to understand what gether different groups and dif-
they want to be. ferent interests. Cities are the
Of all the characteristics that places of specialization in the
are unique to Sewanee, none is professions, like medicine and
more significant than its identity law, of creativity and achieve-
as a liberating center of educa- merit in the arts and commerce,
tion in the context of faith. And The mix of a city is that it encour-
it is that faith identity of Sewanee ages rather than eliminates
that gives the
experience of
enchantment in
the forest pur-
pose and mean-
ing as it pre-
pares people to|
live in the city.
The purpose
of the University
of the South is
to educate
healthy differ-
g] ences. It is no
accident that a
faith that cel-
ebrates the di-
versity of hu-
man gifts be-
gan in a city
and flourished
in cities.
What a
transgression it
young men and women in the is against that Gospel to make
broadest and deepest intellectual cultural conformity a prerequi-
and cultural traditions, while site to faith. It is a battle we fight
they are nourished in a commu- today, beginning in our own
nity of faith, a faith whose forma- hearts. Many city dwellers act too
tive story begins in a garden, in a often as if the city's diversity were
lush green forest in the Book of a threat and not a gift.
Genesis and ends in the Revela- The Gospel of Jesus Christ
tion of St. John the Divine with a unites people, not by erasing
radiant vision of the city of God their differences but by erasing
descending as a gift to the hu- the barriers among them so the
man race. differences can be shared. Cities
You may love the forest of en- that are robust and strong in-
chantment here but if you re- elude that healthy balance of
main here, you will be fixed in il- honoring the diversity of their
lusion and betray your experi- people and making the diversity
ence here. You are called to leave accessible to one another,
the forest for the city. Healthy cities are places where
That city may be Atlanta or individuals can excel, whatever
Atmore, it could be Huntsville or the circumstances of their family
Houston, London or Loudoun or of their birth.
County, for the city is not neces- So the city as a model for hu-
sarily a massive concentration of man community means the hon-
population, but rather a vision of oring of two important truths,
the human community. The edu- Who we are as individuals, the
cation you have received here in distinctive gifts of each of us, are
the context of faith includes the to be honored because they are
vocation to civilize, and that the gifts of God. I hope you
learned that here. And that hon-
oring occurs most fully in a city
—
where differences can be seen as
gifts that enhance the whole
body in a community of mutual
honor. I hope you invest your
learning in urbane service to the
communities where you live.
This weekend you leave the
enchantment of the forest for
the excitement of the city.
Cities are trend-setters. They
are places for experiments, for
change, for new beginnings that
spread from cities to the world
beyond. Today you are called to
leave this mountain on a civiliz-
ing adventure. You are called to
leave the forest and enter the cit-
ies. What a necessary vocation
that is! For it is the absence of ci-
vility, in the deepest sense of that
word, that is at the root of vio-
lence in the Balkans, at the root
cause of the instability of the re-
publics of the former Soviet
Union; it is the absence of civility,
of the capacity of human beings
to live together with dynamic dif-
ferences, that paralyzes our cities
with fear and suspicion. You are
to fulfill Isaiah's promise to re-
pair the ruined cities.
The 21st Century will need
people who have come away, into
the forest, into the wilderness, as
Jesus often left his ministry for
time away at prayer, so that when
you enter the dynamism and di-
versity of cities you are richly pre-
pared with minds alive in a
search for truth, hearts open for
compassion, souls aflame for
God's reign ofjustice, and ready
to live as citizens in a commonlife.
You leave the forest of en-
chantment on a civilizing mis-
sion. The God who is making all
things new invites you to help
shape that Holy city that is God's
gift to us all.
Bishop of'Virginia PeterJames Lee
preached this sermon during the
1 993 baccalaureate service.
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