A Publication for Alumni and Friends of M o r y v i I I e College
MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT
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reetings from the Maryville
College Campus!
Whenever I meet an alumnus from New-
Jersey, I usually ask him it he was a wrestler.
More often than not the answer seems to be
yes. About a year ago Rachel and I had a nice
lunch in Lakeland, Fla., with Rev. Jim Marvin
'50 and his wife Shirley. Learning that Jim came
to Mar\'ville ftom New Jersey in the 1940s, I
asked him my question: "Did you wrestle?" In
the minutes that followed, Jim sang the praises
of J.D. Davis '30,
who coached the
wrestling team at
that time, and
shared what
wrestling had done
tor Jim's education.
Jim didn't
leave his New Jersey
high school as a
wrestler. He told
me how, after he
had arrived on
campus, J.D.
recruited him and
trained him. It was
clear that wrestling
wasn't just a sport
that Jim, under J.D.
Davis' tutelage,
learned to love.
Wrestling changed
his lite. The lessons
court and field.
Maryville is a member of NCAA Division
III, a non-scholarship college. We are convinced
that Division III athletics is exacdy right for
this college and its student-athletes. Division
III athletics doesn't lure marginal students to
campus with tinancial rewards, but instead
recruits qualified students who play their sport
as part ot their educational experience.
To be sure, Maryville student-athletes love
to play and they love to win. And they have
created records to be proud of in the decade
just past. Considering the 1990s, the overall
percentage of wins hovers around 70 percent
for all sports. Thirty-
two student-athletes
have been named
to All-South teams
in the last 10 years,
and five have gone
onto receive Ail-
American honors.
Our basketball and
soccer teams have
received invitations
to the NCAA
tournament for
Division III.
We think that's
pretty remarkable.
We're proud of their
accomplishments,
and we believe that
with Maryville's
current teacher-
coaches they are still
learning the kinds ot
from J.D. Davis had a lot more to do with invaluable lessons that Jim Marvin learned
character than with moves and holds. The fact with J.D. Davis.
is that J.D. Davis, though a legend at Maryville Randy Lambert '76 is a former MC
College, wasn't even a wresder himself He was student-athlete who can take much of the credit
a teacher.
And his wrestlers learned lessons that served
them long after graduation.
We don't compete in wrestling at Mar\'\'ille
College anymore, but we do continue a tradition
of athletics as a part of education. We talk
about "student-athletes," linking intellectual
development with the lessons to be learned on
tor the impressive record of the 1990s. As
athletic director, Randy has not only coached
outstanding men's basketball teams, but he
has also provided strong leadership tor the
overall athletic program here. In future Maryville
College histories he will be described as another
legend in the line of Lombe Honaker, J.D. Davis
and Boydson Baird '41.
Just before I moved to Maryville from the
college in Virginia where Lombe Honaker was
a member of the Hall of Fame, I received a
letter from John Thornton, a member of the
Mar)'\'ille College Board of Directors. He told
me about the American Rug Company, which
he headed at that rime, and about the dozen
Maryville College student-athletes he had hired
to serve as managers in his company. He
emphasized the value of the liberal arts education
they had received, along with the qualities
they developed as MC athletes - courage,
perseverance, leadership, teamwork, fair play,
commitment to being one's best. The
combination was and is exactly what John
Thornton believes forges outstanding business
people, and I would add outstanding citizens.
One of those young alumni athletes, Scott
Fletcher '89, now ser\'es on the MC Board
of Directors and is CEO ot Mohawk Rug &
Textiles.
At the present, more than one-fourth of
Maryville's students play varsity sports. But
many others are engaged in intramurals as
well. Intramurals provide a convenient avenue
tor those who are not members of varsity
rosters. Maryville's intercollegiate comperition in
1 999-2000 includes football, basketball, softball,
baseball, soccer, volleyball, and tennis. The
intramural program ofters flag football, 3-on-3
and 5-on-5 basketball, racquetball, softball and
soccer. "Whatever the sport or venue, we are
confident that Mar^'ville student-athletes are the
recipients of a whole-person education that will
serve them throughout life.
This issue of FOCUS has athlerics as
its theme for a good reason. We invite you
to read about the coaching legends. Wall of
Fame members, women's athletics at Mar\'\'ille,
current athletes, current coaches and SEC
Commissioner Roy Kramer '53. In these pages,
vou will find ample evidence of the value of
athletics as part of the educational program at
Mar)'ville College.
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PRESIDENT:
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EDITORIAL BOARD:
Karen E. Beaty '94, Direcfor of News and Sports Information
Mark E. Cate, Vice President for College Advancement
Laurie Grogan, Director of Public Relations
Anna B. Graham, CERE, Director of Campaigns and Development
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Jersey, I usually ask him if" he was a wrestler.
More often than not the answer seems to be
yes. About a year ago Rachel and I had a nice
lunch in Lakeland, Fla., with Rev. Jim Marvin
'50 and his wife Shirley. Learning that Jim came
to Maryville from New Jersey in the 1940s, I
asked him my question: "Did you wrestle?" In
the minutes that followed, Jim sang the praises
of J.D. Davis '30,
who coached the
wrestling team at
that time, and
shared what
wrestling had done
tor Jims education.
Jim didn't
leave his New Jersey
high school as a
wrestler. He told
me how, after he
had arrived on
campus, J.D.
recruited him and
trained him. It was
clear that wrestling
wasn't just a sport
that Jim, under J.D.
Davis' tutelage,
learned to love.
Wrestlino changed
his life. The lessons
from J.D. Davis had a lot more to do with invaluable
character than with moves and holds. The fact with J.D. D
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ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
EXECUTIVE BOARD
Tim Topham '80
Maryville, Tennessee
President
James Campbell '53
Maryville, Tennessee
Vice President
Denise Smith Vogodo '74
Maryville, Tennessee
Recording Secretary
Jan Rickards Dungan '65
Louisville, Tennessee
Past-President
CLASS OF 2000
Martha Bess Ellis DeWitt '64
Russell Gibson '82
David King '93
Roger Nooe '62
Judy Penry '73
CLASS OF 2001
Jonathon Allison '90
Robert Beam '58
Priscilla Book Campbell '79
DeAnn Hargis-Kaminski '8£
Brenda Babb McCroskey '82
CLASS OF 2002
Marcia Williams Kling '56
David Russell '72
Joe Gillilond '55
Rebeccah Kinnomon Neff '6!
William Lukens '91
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Legendary Coaches
Page 2
Read how Honaker, Davis, Baird and Lambert have made Maryville
College known among teams across the country and how they have molded
student-athletes into persons of integrity and character.
Wall of Fame Page 6
See who has been inducted and read about three alumni who embody the
talent, diversity and impressive accomplishments inherent in Wall of Fame
award recipients.
Of Siblings and Rivalries Page 8
Meet three pairs of siblings who say Maryville College's courts, fields and
classrooms ore the right places for them.
MARYVILLE COLLEGE
WALL OF FAME
The Lady Scots
Page 10
From hairbows fo headbands, they've come a long way. Learn how women's
athletics began at the College, and see how a proud tradition continues to
grow, win and keep Maryville on the map for serious competitors.
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Meet the Coaches
Page 12
Eight coaches are responsible for the 10 varsity sports offered at Maryville
College. Read about their experience, background and successes at the
helm of the Fighting Scots and Lady Scots.
Campus News Page 14
MC2000 Campaign Update Page 16
Quite a Story Page 17
Alumni News Page 18
Alumni Profile: Roy Kramer Page 1 9
Class Notes Page 20
Letter from the Alumni President Page 28
ABOUT THE COVER
Striving for on "official program" look and feel
of this issue of FOCUS, staff members in the
Public Relations Office selected an image from
on octuol 1947 football program. (See image
at left.) Publications Manager Alan Reynolds
digitally altered the image, turning the generic
redheaded fan into a pennant-waving Scot.
PRESIDENT:
Dr. Gerald W. Gibson
EDITORIAL BOARD:
Karen E. Beaty '94, Director of News and Sporfs Information
Mark E. Cafe, Vice President for College Advancement
Laurie Grogon, Director of Public Relations
Anna B. Graham, CFRE, Director of Campaigns and Development
DESIGN AND LAYOUT:
Alan W. Reynolds, Publications Manager
LEGENDARY
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COACHES
By Karen E. Beaty '94
Director of News and Sports Information
On the occasions of his 30th year at
Maryville College, his full retirement
in 1959 and his death in 1964, much
was written about Coach Lombe Honaker. From
the typewriters of sports columnists, former play-
ers, coaching colleagues and college presidents,
the descriptors for Coach Honaker were as vivid
as they were complimentary.
Robert M. Baldwin, a former Fighting Scot
and founder of Baldwin Associated Newspapers
wrote in his "One American's Opinion" column:
"Coach Honaker started out with the idea that his
job was to train boys to play football and to train
them for the later battle of lite. He moulded his
teams from the material at hand ... He sold the
faculty, students and alumni on the idea that foot-
ball is a game to be played as a game.
"I'd like to add my word of appreciation to
that of thousands of others who have benefited in
the game of life by training received from Lombe
Scott Honaker, Builder of Men."
Few, if any, alumni today who played foot-
ball, baseball or basketball for Honaker would
debate Baldwin's assertion that he was a "builder
of men." But what's less obvious at first glance is
that in building men, Honaker built athletics at
Maryville College.
He is the coach-patriarch, having instructed
student-athletes John Arthur "J.D." Davis '30
and Boydson Baird '41. As coaches themselves,
Davis and Baird went on to have their names writ-
ten in the record books of Maryville College ath-
letics and in the hearts of thousands of "Scotties."
In 1979, Honaker's coaching lineage contin-
ued when Baird handed over the reigns of bas-
ketball coach and athletic director to his protege.
Randy Lambert '76.
No physical resemblance is seen in the lin-
eage. Honaker, often described as "a doughty little
Scot," would be considered the physical antith-
esis of Lambert, who stands a lean 6'4". While
Honaker's basketball team racked up points in the
paint, Lambert's men have found success outside
the perimeter.
Simply put, the game - all games, really -
are different now.
But what isn't different about coaches at
Maryville College today is that they remain "build-
ers" - character-builders - of student-athletes. And
this is what will make them legendary tomorrow.
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BEATING THE ODDS
"Little grey-eyed man of destiny," a friend
wrote.
"Pint-sized ball of fire," a termer star player
said.
"Doughty little Scot," wrote an Associated
Press reporter.
"A wise counselor," the New York Times
wired to newspapers across the nation.
Stuart R. "Ross" Honaker '49 only knew
Coach Honaker as "Daddy" The younger ot
Scott and Helen Honaker's children, Ross once
knew the Maryville College campus almost as
well as he knew his own backyard.
"1 tagged along behind him," Ross said,
remembering afternoon practices with his father.
"I never missed a practice."
Likewise, Ross missed few of his father's
games. While a student at Maryville College,
Ross was a quarterback on his father's teams
and anchored the single-wing offense. After he
graduated, Ross watched from courtside, the
sidelines or stands.
A native of southwest Virginia and a
graduate of Roanoke College, Lombe Honaker
came to Maryville in 192L Hired to coach the
football team and assume the responsibilities
of athletic director, he would go on to head
the baseball and basketball
teams at the College before
retiring 38 years later.
Baseball, it was widely
known, was his first love.
When Coach Honaker
retired in 1959, his
won-loss-tie record in ail
sports was 924-604-31 -
remarkable considering
Maryville's competitors at
that time: the University
of Tennessee, East Tennessee
State, Vanderbilt, Middle
Tennessee State and Carson-
Newman.
In his first year at
Maryville, Honaker guided
the football team to a 7-1-1 record - its only
defeat in 1 92 1 coming from the Vols. Two years
latet the match-up ended in a tie, 14-14. In
1946, Honaker took the College's football team
to the Tangerine Bowl in Florida.
But winning seasons didn't come easy for
the Maryville teams. Not belonging to an athletic
conference for much of the 1940s and 1950s
forced the Maryville teams to compete against
larger schools with more talented teams. The
College lacked the ftinds to recruit on any kind
of wide and organized scale.
Ross said his father might have recruited two
or three players from Virginia while the Honakers
visited family during summer vacation. But most
players came to Mary\'ille College for one reason,
Ross explained: "to get an education."
"He had very few natural athletes," he
added, "but Daddy was patient most of the
time and was committed to anything he believed
in."
About his life's vocation, Coach Honaker
said this: "1 know of no profession where
you can do a greater good for boys and young
men as they develop into the rugged type of
manhood which every American loves. But you
must remember you will be competing all your
life. It is not a profession for a man who does
not love competition and hard work."
Along the way, Coach Honaker was
recognized by the Football Writers' Association of
America and the American Association of College
Baseball Coaches. For his longevity in coaching,
he was considered the dean of Southern football
coaches. Former
players presented him
with a new Buick in
1951; a year later, his
name went on the
campus gridiron.
Ross said he
doesn't know if his
father received offers
to go elsewhere and
coach.
"He was well
satisfied here. This is
what he wanted - in
a community, in a
College."
And in student-
athletes, too.
They might not have had the natural ability
or needed experience, but Honaker's players had
the heart to give it their all, the fighting spirit to
win and the character to see the game for what
it was.
Even with the many great people he
coached, Honaker had his favorites, Ross said.
"John Stone '28 was admired by Daddy He
was a great baseball player. . . Daddy and Clarence
Shepherd '55 would joke with each other a lot."
A COACH FOR LIFE
One ol Honaker's lavorite players had to have
been John Arthur "j.D." Davis.
Davis was a natural athlete, a disciplined and
dedicated worker and a person of integrity. And
Honaker enjoyed a good joke; Davis, with his
unpretentious, country philosophy and wit, could
be counted on for laughs.
The two were close. Ross Honaker remembers
Davis' Sunday visits at the Honaker home near
the College, where football was the primary topic
of conversation. Margaret Davis, j.D.'s widow,
remembers that her husband and Honaker were
together "all the time."
Bob Gilbert, an Associated Press writer and
long-time Blount County sports columnist likens
Honaker and Davis to Bear Bryant and Carnie
Laslie of Alabama, Robert Neyland and Hugh Faust
of Tennessee and Penn State's Joe Paterno and Jerry
Sandusky.
"Collectively their careers at MC spanned a
half-century from Lombe's arrival in 1921 to J.D.'s
retirement in 1971," Gilbert said. "During those
50 years, they endeared themselves to hundreds of
student-athletes, both in terms of their coaching
abilities and their personality-driven antics.
"Lombe and J.D. What a pair," the reporter
added.
Honaker asked his 12-tirae letterman to join
him and the faculty of Maryville College in 1940.
Davis, who had earned a master's degree from
Columbia Universit)' and had spent years teaching
and coaching in public high schools, didn't
hesitate.
Davis was an assistant coach to Honaker on
the football field. When hired in 1940, he agreed
to head the track and wresding squads. In 1941,
Davis coached the wrestling team to its first state
championship. The team competed successfully in
the southeastern division. When Honaker retired
from coaching football in 1957, Davis became the
head coach.
Responsibilities for coaching three sports and
teaching physical education classes kept Davis
at the College around the clock. Margaret even
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remembers helping her husband wash the football
team uniforms on Sundays.
"There was an old ringer washing machine
down in Bartlett [Hall] , and we would go over there,
wash the uniforms and hang them on those old
steam pipes to dry," she said. "After they dtied, the
uniforms went back in the lockers. It was a job.
"He wasn't happy working anywhere else except
the College," she added. "He liked the atmosphere.
He was an all-around athlete and loved it all."
First and foremost, she said, he loved his
players and wanted the best in life for them. Among
his closest ftiends and brmer players were Marvin
Mitchell '48, Dick Abbott '54 and Cotton Easter
'49.
"He didn't put up with any bolishness -
no drinking, no smoking," she said.
"He was a strict disciplinarian, and
sometimes the boys would get mad at him. But
they later realized, 1 think, that J.D.'s interest was
to prepare them tor lite."
In preparing student-athletes tor life, J.D.
taught them - among many lessons - to put forth
their best effort, to stick to their principles and to
pursue happiness before money.
Davis retired in 1971, and the College's
yearbook. The Chilhowean, was dedicated to him
that year. He continued to attend athletic events in
the area, and watched son J. Dillon Davis 79 enroll
at Mar)'\'ille College soon after his retirement.
Davis and Margaret traveled those years after
1971, and she said it was a rare trip that they didn't
bump into a former Marv-ville College student
athlete.
"J.D. was a happy person, and he was always
so happy to see ever)'one," she said. "We were
blessed in every way "
Davis suffered a heart attack in 1978 and died
at the age of 72. In 1979, the College established
the J.D. Davis Award to recognize the top athlete
in the senior class.
A TRUE GENTLEMAN
If former student-athletes use the term "a
real character" to describe Coach Davis, "true
gentleman" may be what they use to describe Coach
Boydson Baird.
"He's as good a
person as I've ever met.
Every bit of him is as
genuine and pure as it can
ever be," said Randy
Lambert, who played
guard for Baird from 1972
until 1976. "They don't
make 'em like Coach Baird
anymore."
Baird grew up in
Kilbourne, Ohio, and
followed brothers Weldon
and William to Maryville
College in 1937. At Brown
Township High School, all
Baird brothers ran track
and suited up for the
baseball and basketball
teams. Boydson continued
participation in those
sports at Mar)'\'ille but
added one more: football.
In all, "Baby Baird" earned
10 varsit}' letters as a
student-athlete under
Honaker, Davis and track
coach Bob Thrower.
It was during service in the U.S. Army during
World War II that Baird began thinking seriously
about coaching.
"In the service, I jumped right in to athletia -
participating and coaching," Baird said. "Squadrons
had basketball teams, and the squadron commander
wanted me to handle the exercise; latet, he wanted
me to coach. That started it."
Baird's time in the service ended in 1946,
and he enrolled at Ohio Wesleyan to take physical
education courses required for acceptance into
graduate school. In 1948, he earned a master's
degree in recreation and physical education from
Indiana Universit}' and married Nancy Hubbart, a
graduate of Ohio Wesleyan who became one of the
most loyal tans of the Fighting Scots.
Befote accepting the position of athletic
director, head football coach and professor at
Maryville College in 1959, Baird taught and
coached at Davidson College in North Carolina
and William and Man,' in Virginia.
Looking back on that first year as an employee
of his alma mater, Baird summed it up with one
long "whew." It was a lot of responsibility.
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Lambert agreed.
"A lot ot times, we'd go into a game without
a scouting report, and I always wondered why we
didn't have one," Lambert said. "I know now. Coach
Baird didn't have time to scout! The demands of
his job were ridiculous. There's no way I could have
kept up with that schedule."
In addition to time and energy, Baird gave
Maryville College some of its finest athletic
memories. In 1959, the MC football team upset
Carson-Newman 14-12. Former students from that
era remember the Anderson Hall tower bell ringing
into the night, proclaiming the victory Alumni
from that era probably remember the Rocket Bowl
victory in 1 960 and a third-place finish in the NCAA
Southern Regional Tournament for baseball.
Alumni who played for Baird have more
memories - theit coach as a father, friend, role
model, van driver.
Michael Barrows 71, who played forward
for Baird from 1967 until 1971 and has remained
his close friend, tells this story: "When I visited
Maryville as a high school senior. Coach Baird
showed me the architectural drawings for the new
physical education center. He told me it would be
ready by my sophomore year.
"Three years later, when I was a junior,
the new building was still not finished, and we
continued to play in the Alumni Gym. As we
walked across campus one day, I reminded Coach
Baird of what he told me," Barrows continued.
"Without breaking stride, he replied that everyone
had expected it would take me a lot longer to
become a sophomore."
Twenty-seven years later. Barrows would
organize a surprise birthday party for Coach Baird.
More than 100 friends, family and former players
celebrated Baird's 80* birthday in the gymnasium
named for the coach in 1991.
One of the presents was a Jiminy Cricket doll,
given to symbolize the roughest language that ever
rolled off the tongue of the gentleman coach.
The surprise party is never far from his mind,
and neither are the years he spent at the College.
Today he can be found in Cooper Athletic Center
once a week, delivering clippings to student-athletes
featured in the local newspapers.
"Nobody could have enjoyed life any more
than I have," Baird said. "I have a great family, and
I've worked with some fine young people."
LEGEND IN THE MAKING
At the very longest, it takes current Maryville
College athletes only one year to learn the names
of men who put the Fighting Scots on the map.
In the fall, they either watch football or play
on Honaker Field. And when the Scots are figured
underdogs against rivals like Emory & Henry or
Centre colleges, they hope for the ghost of Lombe
Honaker to see them to a victorious finish.
In the winter, they warm up inside Boydson
Baird Gymnasium.
In the spring, they applaud peers selected for
the ].D. Davis Award.
Understandably, young college athletes are
amazed to hear about the many years of service
behind every coach - 38 years for Honaker, 30 for
Davis and 17 for Baird. But legendary coaches
are not a thing of the past at Maryville College.
Instead, coaches like Randy Lambert are legends
in the making.
Senior basketball player Chris Housewright
knows he has played for a legend.
The 6'5" forward surpassed Lambert's own
career buckets (1,489 points) and took his place
as the fifth all-time leading scorer for the Fighting
Scots. In his final game against McMurry
University, Housewright finished his MC
basketball career with 1,498 points.
"He's the best coach I've ever played for,"
Housewright said of Lambert. "He's been really
important in my life."
For coaching his team to a sweet 16
appearance in the NCAA Division III Tournament
and finishing with an impressive 24-4 record,
Lambert was named the South Region's "Coach of
the Year" in March. It was Lambert's second such
award, which is given annually by the National
Association of Basketball Coaches.
At age 30, he was named "Coach of the
Year" by coaches of the Old Dominion Athletic
Conference (ODAC). A year later, he was named
athletic director of the College. At the age of 37,
he was inducted into the College's Wall of Fame.
Lambert has taken the Fighting Scots to the
NCAA tournament seven times. In 1992, the
team made an NCAA "elite eight" appearance.
But Lambert could earn 10 more "Coach of
the Year" recognitions, take his team to the Final
Four for Division III and compile a win-loss record
of 1,000-200 before retiring, and he would still
have trouble seeing himself as a legendary coach.
Lambert said he has difficulty accepting
the description partly because of his age (46),
pardy because he's nowhere near retiring, but
mostly because he's humbled by the contributions
Honaker, Davis and Baird made to Marwille
College and the athletic program.
"These coaches have passed down an
allegiance to the school and the need for small-
college athletics in society," he said. "I would like
to think that every person who has been a part of
this program has learned more than just basketball
- or football, or volleyball or whatever.
"I would like to think that we can teach a
young person to set goals and back their goals
up with a work ethic that will enable them to
succeed.
"I think we can - and do." ■
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MARYYILLE COLLI
Established in the mid 1970s, the Maryville
College Wall of Fame award recognizes outstanding
individuals who have contributed to Maryville Col-
lege athletics. James P. "Jim" Lester '51 conceived
the idea for the Wall of Fame, wrote the constitution
and served as chairman of the Wall of Fame Selection
Committee for the first five years the program.
As of May 1, 2000, 114 persons had been
inducted.
Recognition in the Wall of Fame is in two cat-
egories: regular and special
"Regular membership" is reserved for those stu-
dent athletes who competed for Maryville College, dis-
phtying excellence in athletic competition. Nominees
for regular membership must be graduates of Maryville
"Special membership" is granted to those people
who have been of outstanding value to the Maryville
College Athletic Program. Nominees for special mem-
bership do not necessarily have to have been a par-
ticipating athlete nor do they have to have been a
graduate of the (
Inductees to the Wall of Fame are recognized at
the Maryville College All-Sports Banquet, which is
held in the Spring. Individual plaques bearing their
names, years of varsity play and sports are displayed in
the hallways of Cooper Athletic Center.
If you would like to nominate someone for
the Maryville College Wall of Fame, please fill
out and return the reply card found in the back
of this FOCUS issue.
1975
Acton, Bumey '22
Honoker, Lombe Scott'
Shores, R.M. "Pot," '26
Thrower, R.C. "Bob" '25
1976
Berrong, J. Leon '50
Etheredge, J.H. "Joe" '40
Davis, John A. "J.D." '30
Kribbs, Ken D. '68*
McCall, J.E. "Shorty" '57
McMuftoy, J.G. '25
1977
Boring, D. R. "Bob" '50
Lea Calloway '32
Gamble, Joe C. '26
Stone, John T. '28
Tokahashi, Kin 1895
1978
Allen, Charles E. '52
Boird, Boydson H. '41
Ford, Hobort '55*
Hughes, J.D. '41
Merrimon, Hershell '51
Renfro, James Sr. '38
1979
Boird, Weldon A. '39
Calloway, HenryA. Jr. '50
Crawford, S. Earle '44
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DeLaney,W. Merle '31
Huffman, Charles H. '49*
Owenby, Billy M. '62
Ruble, W.A. '21*
s
\
1980
Boird, William E, '41
Biiggs, David H. '19
Hitch, James W. '33
Monroe, Benny '65
Stinnett, Kenneth C. '47*
1981
Boretsky, Steven T. '34
Byor, T. Madison '34
Cross, Frank Moore '42
Proffitt, David W. '16
Wilson, Ted B. '57
1982
Crawford, W.M. "Billy" '29
Heran, Jessie S.*
Mitchell, Marvin '48
Morris, Tom '60
Shepard, Clarence B. '55
Sneed, G.W. "Shorty" '56
1983
Campbell, James C. '53
Loessburg, Wilbur C. '36
Millsaps, Jesse L. "Buck" '36
Morrison, Ira "Doc" '30
Sexton, Lynn '56
1984
Berrong, E. King Jr. '51
Brahoms, Raymond, Jr. "E
Homil, Hugh F. '52
Hannah, Lee '37
Lester, James P. "Jim" '51
McKinstry, Don H. "Don" '
rick" '49
72
1985
Dolton, Michael '66
Gamble, Moses H., Jr. '36
Garner, Robert H. "Pie" Jr. '48
Ramger, Robert C. '56
on, Samuel Tyndole 1878
' Name: Johnny Stone
Education: Maryville College, 1928
-'■-,. *^ Career path since Maryville: Drafted by New
r ' Yark Giants (football) and Detroit Tigers. He spent
two years in the minor leagues before suiting
* up for the Tigers and later, with the Washington
^ Senators. Stone died in 1 955 at the age of 50.
Notable athletic achievements: lnl932,Stone
batted .297, hit 17 home runs and drove in 108
^ i runs with the Tigers. In 1937, he was nomed to
baseball "Who's Who." Before tuberculosis forced
him to retire in 1938, Stone had a .313 10-year butting average. "Johnny Stone Day"
was held at Griffith Stadium on Sept. 1 7, 1 939, to benefit the MC olumnus.
Friend of Lou Gehrig: Following Gehrig's retirement in 1 939, Stone wrote boseboH's
Iron Horse. A return letter - signed "Cordially yours, Lou" - included these sentiments:
"Although you did not say in your letter what strides you were making against your
illness, I hope this finds you greatly improved. You and I know that the boll gome is
never over until the last man is out, and Lord help them if they put one down the
middle. My best to you always."
Suzanne Stone Davis-Cunningham 70 on the influence Lombe Honoker hod on
her father: "I was quite young when Dad died; however, my mother talked about his
career and how he got started. My dad spoke about Coach Honoker with such love and
affection. Cooch was the guiding hand in the beginning of his career, and I know that
during his career, he often spoke with [Coach Honoker], asking for help in o particular
direction he was about to take. Mom often told me that Coach guided Dad when it come
to draft time ... I do not think that Ood ever regretted signing for boseboll and not
football."
X
GE WALL OF FAME
Name: Bobbie Jo Sallade Davis '
Education: Maryville College, 1983
Induction into the Wall of Fame: 1992. |
Bobbie Jo was the first female and first
hearing-impaired athlete to join the Wall
of Fame honorees.
Career path since Maryville: Has worked
for the hearing impaired at the Tennessee
School for the Deaf (TSD) in Knoxville and
in the Memphis City Schools; wife, mother
and homemaker in Mount Juliet, Tenn.
Notable athletic achievements: Named Athlete of the Year during
1979-80 season,- winner of the J.D. Davis Outstanding Athlete Award;
named to All-State Volleyball Team during sophomore, junior and senior
years; named to All-State Softball Team in senior yeor; invited to
participate in the Deaf Olympics in 1 980 as a member of the United States
Volleyball Team.
Favorite memory created while wearing an MC athletic uniform: "Being
the first-ever Maryville College Volleyball Team to earn a trip to the NCAA
Tournament (1980, Los Angeles), also, creating such close relationships
with all my teammates in all sports while a student-athlete at Maryville
College."
Nutter, Candace '83
Stafford, John L '63
Tfiomas, Charlie '64
1995
Baldwin, Benny '50
Emme, Wayne '80
Neff, Robert '50
Phelps, Don '65
Robun-Lind, Sandra '83
1996
Berry, Ken '65
Lawson, Earl '59
Lester, Jim Jr. '75
McCroskey, Brendo Babb '82
Shelton, Bob '55
1997
Abbott, Clint '66
Abbot, Richard Lewis '
Graham, Rachel Reese '83
O'Dell, John E., Jr. '38
1998
Greaser, Sheridan H. (Don) '60
Howard, W. Lynn '66
LJouston, Joseph '05
Matthews, Sara Covington '85
Snedeker, Stuart '36
1999
Berrong, G. Robert (Bob) '56
Baxter, Jim*
Davis, Dee Dee Chapman '82
Harris, Jimmy (Flash) '58
Ramsey, Wilbur '65
* Denotes "special membership."
** No alumni were inducted into t
of Feme in 1986.
]ick" '54
1987**
Talmage, Roy '38
Brown, Sharon G.*
Costner, Joe '73
1991
Hickman, G. Donald '70
Davis, Bobbie Jo Sallade '83
Honaker, Dr. L Scott, Jr. '41
Kelly, Tim '78
McDonald, Lowell '32
Miller, William "Booty" '56
1988
1992
Lillard,Ray'49
Dockery, Steve '68
McMohan, Eorl '75
Reber, Carol Neal '81
Padgett, Bill '69
Waters, Jerry '57
1993
Anderson, Chesley '51
1989
Findley, Donna Owens '82
Clinton, David '74
Palmer, Herbert '51
Morgan, Warren '71
Queener, Evelyn Norton '24*
Wiley, David '70
Wallace, Bill '58
1990
1994
Dunn, Wayne '80
Everett, Wood N. '41
Lambert, Rondy'76
Keny, Jock '55
Name: Benny Monroe
Education: Maryville College, 1965;
Tennessee Technological University, 1972.
Career path since Maryville: Assistant Coach,
Moryville City Schools; ffeod Coach, McMinn
County High School; Assistant Coach, Middle
Tennessee State University; Head Coach,
Cleveland High School (after 18 years at
Cleveland High School, Monroe retired from
teaching and coaching in 1996); consultant,
Bradley County Juvenile Court; representative.
Bell South.
Notable athletic achievements: Named MVI^ Little All-Americon Quarterback
(1964); signed with the Canadian Football League; inducted into the Blount
County Sports Hall of Fame, the McMinn County Sports Hall of Fame and the
Notional High School Coaches Sports Hall of Fame; awarded the Amateur Football
Award of the National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame; holds nation's
longest winning streak in football (54 wins from 1993 to 1996); coached teams to
numerous football and track state championships; Cleveland High School football
stadium named in his honor (1996).
Favorite memory created while wearing an MC athletic uniform: "As a Maryville
College athlete, I developed friendships with teammates who remain lifelong
friends."
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'f SIBLINGS
By Karen E. Beaty '94,
Director of News and
Sports Information
Ask the Housewrights, Wiecks and Thomases
. about rivalries, and they'll likely mention
Centre College, Emory & Henry, the University
of the South.
On the court or on the field, these Maryville
College student-athletes have battled it out
against some of the best players in Division III.
Chris and Chassidy
Housewright, Crissy and Paul
Wieck, Corrie and Lorrie
Thomas have probably
battled it out against each other, *•'
too. Brothers and sisters have
a tendency to do that - fight for
balls, kick to the death, look their
siblings in the eye and say, "1 dare
you ..."
Luckily for Maryville
College, the dares turned into words
of encouragement when two elder
siblings and one twin encouraged
their siblings to enroll at their school
of" choice.
Chris, who graduates this year
and leaves as the fifth-highest scorer
in Maryville College basketball history,
welcomed his sister Chassidy, now a sophomore
volleyball player, in 1998. Paul Wieck, the
1999-2000 leading scorer on the Fighting Scots
soccer team, joined sister Crissy at Maryville
College in 1998. Corrie Thomas said OK to
MC last year after sister Lorrie explored the
possibility of playing for Coach Dean Walsh and
the Lady Scots basketball team.
NO. 1 FANS
"I think it was the best decision they could
have made," said Leisa Housewright of her
children's decisions to attend Maryville College.
"We [she and husband Danny] wanted these
to be the best years of their lives; Chris has
been very successfiil, and Chassidy is well on her
way."
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The College has done its job "too well,"
according to Mrs. Housewright who says her
children haven't made it home to Coiryton,
Tenn., very often because they have been happy
on the campus.
Chris, a business/ organizational
management major, and Chassidy, a biology
major, said the College's size
has allowed them to stay
close. Some weeks, they
have seen
each other every day; sometimes, weeks
of studying and practice have kept them from
sharing lunch or dinner together in the
Margaret Ware Dining
Room.
Games are a
different story,
though. Chris is a
familiar face at his
sister's volleyball
matches. And next
to their parents,
Chassidy is Chris'
No. 1 fan.
"Ifl play bad, she
tells me," Chris said.
"Not to be
mean," Chassidy
assured. "It's just
brotherly and sisterly love."
Both graduates of Gibbs High School in
Knox County, Chris and Chassidy said they
were accustomed to a small-school environment.
Chris became familiar with the Boydson Baird
Gymnasium and Coach Randy Lambert through
the College's summer basketball camps. The
opportunity to continue his basketball career
and receive a great education attracted him to
Maryville.
Chris said he wanted the same for his little
sister, who knew a big school wasn't for her.
"I don't think she would have
explored this option at all if I hadn't
been here and if she hadn't been to
the [basketball] games," the brother
said. "But it was her decision. I wanted
her to go where she would be happy
and where she felt she could do her
best,
"[Maryville College] being such a
prestigious institution," he continued, "I
wanted this for her."
Chris said he doesn't have a problem
seeing his sister as her own person, able to
make her own decisions. But he does feel it is
his duty as a "good brother" to talk to her if
she's doing something she shouldn't.
Chassidy said she's used to that.
"He's protective, but not in an
overly protective way," she said.
A FAMILY'S FOOTSTEPS
Chassidy Housewright said she doesn't
think she is following in her brother's footsteps.
If she were, she added, they wouldn't be bad
footsteps to fall into.
If asked, Paul Wieck of Franklin, Tenn.
would probably say the same. His sister, Crissy,
has not only led on the soccer field but also
in the campus community. Passionate about
literacy, Crissy has coordinated the only student-
run literacy corps in the countr)'. She has been
a Peer Mentor for freshman and a member of
the college's chapter of Omicron Delta Kappa, a
national honors and leadership society.
Together, Paul and Crissy have been
Bradford Scholars, a group of Maryville College
students who tutor adults and at-risk children
in exchange for financial aid. As library student
assistants, they have worked on campus for extra
money. Crissy, a history and business major,
and Paul, a business/organizational management
major with Spanish minor, have at least passed
each other on the sidewalks to Anderson and
Thaw Halls a dozen times each semester.
Having Paul around, Crissy said, has "been
kind of nice."
"My best friend on campus transferred after
our sophomore year," Crissy said. "I was kind
of freaked out. Paul coming to the College that
summer helped."
"Close" is how the brother and sister
describe their relationship, but Crissy added
"fiery," because of their closeness and similar
drive to win. At times during the past two
seasons, their uncle and coach, Pepe Fernandez,
has found himself in a difficult position - having
to diplomatically and lovingly setding disputes
between a niece and nephew.
But there's no mistaking how he feels
about them being participants at Maryville
College community.
"I think the biggest mistake students
make when they go to college is that they sit
in their dorm rooms, waiting and thinking
that something good is going to happen to
them," Fernandez said. "Crissy and Paul have
both gotten involved. This has been a very
good place for them."
Maria Wieck, Fernandez's sister and the
mother of Crissy and Paul, agreed.
"Crissy and Paul have both matured and
become self-directed," Maria said. "Intellectually,
their academic experience has allowed them to
explore different ideas. They have both been
involved in Literacy Corps, which has given
them an opportunity to meet and help people
who have not had the same opportunities they
have.
"The soccer program has taught them
responsibility to the team, allowed them to
polish leadership skills and helped them learn
sell-discipline."
FRIENDS AND SISTERS"
Corrie and Lorrie Thomas know their
limitations.
They cannot be roommates - no way, no
how.
"We're best friends, but if we were
roommates, we'd fight a lot," said freshman
guard Corrie Thomas, of the relationship she
has with twin sister Lorrie.
Room sharing is just about the only
limitation these twins from Gainesville, Ga.,
seem to know. At guard and post player
respectively, Corrie and Lorrie - freshmen - have
already made a tremendous impact on the Lady
Scots basketball program.
"They're wonderful girls - a coach's dream,"
said Lady Scots Head Coach Dean Walsh.
"They're strong students and good athletes. They
have a great work ethic and a good attitude. Both
have added depth to the post and perimeter."
Walsh said he has never coached sisters
before. He has always had players who were like
sisters but never the real, flesh-and-blood kind.
"They're close," he said. "It's fun to
watch."
From the bench, each sister is supportive
of the other. Walsh said when he corrects
one sister, the other is right behind him with
encouragement - almost always voiced in the
collective: "We'll be alright." "We'll get it
done."
They finish in first and second place in
sprint drills due to their pushing each other in
practice and individual workouts. And Walsh said
he has been very impressed with their quickness
and improvements in shooting, defending and
rebounding. The twins saw a lot of playing time
this last season - a season in which the Lady
Scots posted a 20-6 record and received a bid to
the NCAA Division III tournament for women's
basketball.
Familiar with the area from frequent family
vacations in East Tennessee and the Smoky
Mountains, Corrie and Lorrie said they have
adjusted easily to the town of Maryville. The
adjustment to college and college-level
competition has been easier because they have
each other, the twins said, and because it's easy
to meet people in the close-knit community of
Maryville College.
"It's easy to make friends," Lorrie said, "and
it's small. You get to know your professors."
Hayne and Doris Thomas, parents of Corrie
and Lorrie, made it to almost all games last
season and said they have already noticed a
difference in their daughters.
"They've matured emotionally," Doris said.
"They've been very happy and well-adjusted. I'm
pleased with their enjoyment of school."
"And they've matured in basketball," Hayne
added. "They've really grown up in the last seven
and eight months. I've seen such a change in
the level of competition from high school. I'm
well pleased with their progress as
freshmen." ■
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THE LADY SCOTS
Women's teams play major role in College's athletic powerhouse
By Laurie Grogan, Director of Public Relations, Editor
With wide sailor collars and matching hair
bows, their uniforms look quaint by today's
standards. Their carefully upswept hair and graceful
posture make it hard to imagine them even getting
dirt}', much less getting "down and dirt)'" against
their opponents on the hard wood. One look in
their eyes, however, and the confidence in their
faces, and you know these women played to win,
and win they did.
From 1903 thtough 1912, the Mar)'ville
College women's basketball team suffered not a
single defeat, and did not record a losing season
until 1924, as noted in the Independent Study
project of Robin Rimmer Bright '81. The team
rebounded the following season, with its only losses
coming early to the University of Tennessee and
Carson Newman College, both of whom were
soundly defeated in later games that year. In the
two seasons that followed, Mar^Tille College again
dominated its rival colleges in the region, as the
players continued to expand their physical and
strategic skills. The potential of the burgeoning
program remains forever unseen, however, due
to the abrupt cessation of women's intercollegiate
athletics, not only at MaryTille College, but also at
its peer institutions throughout the country.
"It was a lack of funding, certainly, but I
suspect it also had a lot to do with the attitude
of society toward women in competition," said
Maryville College Volleyball Coach and
Assistant Athletic
Director Kandis Schram, '85 .
"With the phenomenal rise in ',
popularity in women's soccer
and basketball in recent years,
we understand that athletic
competition is as healthy for
women as it is for men. That
was definitely not the case in the
early part of the century. In fact, it
was quite the opposite. The traits
needed for successful competition
were not exactlv in keeping with
accepted feminine behavior of the
day."
As the first college in Tennessee to grant a
degree to a female, it is hard to imagine Marv'ville
College limiting its co-eds exclusively to classroom
pursuits. Although intercollegiate, varsity sports
for women were no longer offered by the College,
club competition was offered in a number of
sports. Early photos from the College show women
involved in basketball, tennis, volleyball and
fencing; swimming and track were also offered.
"The Women's M Club is a very important
part of the histor)' of women's athletics at Maryville
College," said Schram. "While there were no official
varsity sports for women for several decades, to
say there wasn't competition would be wrong. In
fact, you would be corrected very
quickly by some fine athletes who
earned letters and sweaters under
the club system."
As evidenced by the M
Club, and later the formation
of the Women's Athletic
Association, Schram noted
throughout the 45-year period
in which there was no
intercollegiate or varsity play
open to women there were
numerous administrators
and faculty members who
worked to providealternatives
for women interested in sports.
\)l\ ^enw^
teow
"There
were many dedicated
individuals associated with women's athletics over
the years, and it would be impossible to name
each of them. In my mind, no historv of the
development of women's sports would be complete
without mentioning Edith Largen, who was an
incredible instructor for so many years," Schram
said.
In 1972, the passage of Title IX of the
Education Amendments Act, which required
equitable opportunities for athletic participation,
changed women's athletics forever, not only at
Maryville College, but at colleges and universities
throughout the country. Within two years of Tide
IX's passage, the College was competing at the
intercollegiate level in basketball, with volleyball
soon to follow.
Ushering in the modern era was Sharon
Brown, who was head coach of women's basketball
team at the time varsif}' play was reinstated
during the 1974-1975 season. She was also
named volleyball coach in 1975, the first year
intercollegiate play was initiated in that sport, and
served as coach of the tennis club team for two
years.
"I was really very fortunate in that I was by
chance picked as the coach during that important
first year. I'm proud to be part of what has grown
into such a strong tradition," Brown said.
In the first few years of competition, Brown
said the expected challenges were there, along with
some great accomplishments.
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"Recruiting was not only a challenge for
Maryville College, but for colleges and universities
on all levels. Women's athletics weren't taken as
seriously as they are now, and there weren't as many
strong high school programs to draw from. But, we
did put together some strong teams, a good corps
of athletes, and I'm still very proud of that."
The foundations built during the early years of
the basketball provided a framework for excellence
that remains in place today Under the leadership
of Coach Dean Walsh '89, the Lady Scots posted
a 20-6 record and earned a spot in the NCAA
Division III Tournament during the 1999-2000
season.
During the 1990s, the Lady Scots had a
record of 1 80-58 and have appeared in the NCAA
tournament six times, with four Sweet Sixteen
appearances. Since the program was reinstated, the
Lady Scots have played in the NCAA tournament
eight times and have won 375 of their 635
games.
In addition to leading the basketball Lady
Scots, Brown is also understandably proud of
coaching those early women's volleyball teams to
four national championship games. Competing
at a national level against Division I and Division
II teams brought much deserved attention to
the Maryville College women's athletics program,
which in turn helped recruiting efforts, Brown
said.
Championship play comes natural to the
Lady Scots; the volleyball team has appeared in
a national title match six times in the program's
24-year history and has posted two conference
championships While the numbers are impressive,
the success of the program isn't limited to the court,
said Schram.
"1 think it's really important to acknowledge
the fulfilling lives our players go on to lead
after graduation. I can think
of some sterling
examples. We have pharmacists, ICU nurses,
government officials, teachers, just to name
a few. Our seniors this year are right on track
to be just as successful. I think competition
really helps with developing the problem-
solving skills that are crucial when these women
go on to graduate school or embark on their
careers."
The years immediately following the passage
of Title IX were marked by the formation of club
teams. A tennis team was formed in 1976, and
was followed by a Softball team in 1980. Both
sports were soon granted varsity status - tennis
in 1979 and Softball in 1982.
According to Rimmer, Carolyn Haynes was
the first coach to lead the women's varsity tennis
team with a training focus of "overall fitness." Her
philosophy was quickly proven - within a year of
its initial varsity season, the women's tennis team
competed in the state tournament, after winning
eight of its 14 matches. Within two years of its
varsirv' debut, the team won the state tournament
and placed regionally
In 1988 both the women's and men's tennis
varsity tennis programs were disbanded, primarily
due to lack of facilities, said current head coach
Christian Burns. In 1998 tennis was reinstated
after the construction of sbi new courts - "the best
thing that ever happened to us" - Burns said.
"We were losing so many potential students
who were interested in the College, but who
wanted to play tennis. Now we are attracting those
students and building a really strong program."
During the 1999-2000 season, the women
won the Stillman Invitational Tournament and
Lady Scot Wendy Wheeler was named tournament
MVP.
Like their tennis counterparts, the Lady
Scots Softball team began play on top
of their game. Alrhough officially
still a club team, the 1980 squad
excelled, with a record that year
of 13-7. The winning continued
into the tournament season,
with Maryville placing third
in the state competition and
earning a berth in the regional
tournament.
The first varsity Softball
squad took to the field
in 1982, coached by Pat
Ballard. The first win for the team,
which was now fially funded and supported by the
athletic department,
came in the Hiwassee Invitational
Tournament. Other highlights of the season
included first- and second-round wins in the state
tournament.
The Softball program has continued to thrive
over the past two decades and current coach Bill
Rude, who has been at the College since 1998, said
the outlook for the team is better than ever.
"The highlight of the season had to be the
numerous compliments we received from opposing
coaches and even officials. Both groups commented
on how pleased they are with the direction of the
program and the caliber of student-athletes we
had on the field, " Rude said.
Rude has reason to be proud of his Lady
Scots - their 22-8 season marked the College's
best record ever in Softball. According to Rude,
that winning total could have easily been higher.
Eight games were cancelled, all of which were
"winnable."
One of the most successful women's programs
was the last to be added at the varsity level. The
1 980s saw a surge in the popularity of soccer on the
national scene, and college campuses were a part of
it. In 1986, Maryville College added the game to
its women's line-up and the Lady Scots were soon
amazing opponents both on the field and in the
classroom.
During the 1 990s, the women's soccer team was
ranked among the Top 10 in the South nine out of
10 years. The team has also ranked among the top 20
academic teams nationally and has been recognized
by the National Soccer Coaches Association for
its outstanding performance. The Lady Scots have
produced several All-South players, and Julie Dingels
'93 was named as an All-American. ■
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Randy Lambert
Afhiefic Director & Head
Coach, men's basketball
After graduating from
MarYville College in 1976, Randy
Lambert came back to coach the
Fighting Scots in 1980. By 1985,
his Scots had a clinched the Old
Dominion Athletic Conference
championship. Winning records
continued in the 1980s and 1990s.
Since 1991, Lambert's teams
hove shattered school records, seen
notional ranking and received seven
invitations to the NCAA tournament
for Division III. In both 1992 and
2000, his teams mode it to the
"sweet 16."
Lambert's coreer record ot MC
is 344-178. fie has twice been
named the South Region's "Coach of
theYear"bythe Notional Association
of Basketball Coaches.
Lambert received o master's
degree from the University of
Tennessee in 1977.
fie and his wife Lonie have
three children and reside in
Moryville.
Kandis Schram
Associafe Athletic Director &
Head Coach, women's volleyball
In her 14* season at Moryville
College, Kandis Schram surpassed
her SOO* victory as heod coach of the
Lody Scots volleyball team. Schrom,
a 1 985 graduate, ployed for the Lady
Scots 1981-1984.
As 0 member of the volleyball
teams, she won a "most improved
award in 1983, the Coach's Award
and the J.D. Davis Athletic Award.
Four years after toking over the
program in 1985, Schram coached
the Lady Scots to the WIAC Conference
Championship. That year, she was
named Tochikara's South Region's
"Coach of the Year." fler 1 993 squad
made it to the NCAA tournament
play-offs.
For her contributions to the
College, church and community, the
Moryville College Alumni Association
named her the first recipient of the
"Kin Tokohashi Award for Young
Alumni" in 1999.
Eric Etchison
Head Coach, men's baseball
& Assistant Sports
Information Director
After playing for the Fighting
Scots and receiving two all-conference
selections and three MVP honors in
baseball, Eric Etchison returned to
MaryvilleCollegein 1990. In 1992,
he was named head baseball coach.
In the 1980s, the Scots won
only 36 percent of their contests;
in the last decade, the winning
percentage has climbed to 59
percent.
By 1997, the Scots' resurgence
in baseball was being noticed across
the state. In 1997, Etchison was
named "Coach of the Yeor" for
divisions II and III by the Tennessee
Baseball Coaches Association. He is
the third in all-time baseball coaching
victories at the College.
Etchison has a master's degree
in sport science from the United
States Sports Academy.
He, his wife Bonnie Bouch
Etchison '87 and daughter DeAnno
live in Maryville.
Pepe Fernandez
Head Coach, men's
and women's soccer
Franklin, Tenn., native Pepe
Fernandez assumed the head
cooching responsibilities for the
Maryville College men's and women's
soccer teams in 1989. He is a
graduate of Tennessee Wesleyon
College in Athens and began his
cooching career at the University of
Tennessee-Chattanooga.
Winning seasons and big wins
agoinst nationally ranked competitors
are 0 hallmark of the College's soccer
program. Twice, his Fighting Scots
men's team has mode it to the NCAA
Division III Toumoment.
Win-loss-tie records for
Fernandez ore 129-63-10 for the
Scots; 99-50-6 for the Lady Scots.
This MC coach has seen seven
of his former players enter the
professional soccer ronks.
Approximately 25 players have gone
on to semi-professional ploy.
He and his wife Fran live in
Maryville with their two boys. Marc
and Christopher,
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FOCUS Spring
Maryville College coaches build winning
traditions on experience and dedication
Phil Wilks
Head Coach, football
Mofshall University alumnus
Phil Wilks took over the footboll
program at Maryville College in
1 988. Finishing his 1 2* season with
the Scots in 1999, Wilks became
the football coach w/ith the second-
longest tenure at the College.
Prior to moving to Maryville,
Wilks coached at Marshall
University, Chesapeake High School,
Georgetown College, Newberry
College and Wofford College.
Onlytwo years after hisorrival
at MC, Wilks led the Scots to their
first non-losing season since 1 981 .
The following year, the squad was
ranked third in the South Region of
the NCAA Division III.
In 1999, the Fighting Scots
posted a 7-3 record, defeating
former rivals Emory & Henry,
Hampden-Sydney ond Bridgewoter.
Wilks holds bachelor's and
master's degrees from Marshall.
He is married to Lisa Voll.
They hove five children.
Dean Walsh
Head Coach,
women's basketball
Dean Walsh's coaching coreer
began immediately ofter he
gmduated from Maryville College in
1 988 and set men's basketball school
records for field goal percentage in a
season and career. Since 1988, he
has assisted the women's basketball
ond volleyball progmms, the men's
basketball program and the girls'
bosketboll program at Maryville High
School.
Prior to being named head
coach of the MC women's basketball
pragram, Walsh was head coach for
the Lady Tigers of Hiwassee College in
Madisonville,Tenn. After three years,
he hod compiled a win-loss record of
66-23. He was twice named regional
"Coach of the Year" and once named
conference "Coach of the Year."
The 1999-2000 Lady Scots
posted a 20-6 season and was invited
to the first raund of the NCAA
tournament for Division III.
Walsh and wife Betsy are
Maryville residents.
Christian Burns
Head Coach, men's
and women's tennis
When Maryville College
re-instituted men's and women's
tennis as intercollegiate varsity sports
in 1998, Maryville native Christian
Bums was hired to build the program.
Burns' experience as a private
instructor spans more than 10 yeors,
beginning with Mike DePalmer Sr.
and the University of Tennessee's big
Orange Tennis Camp.
A 1994 graduate of Carson-
Newmon College, Burns come to
the College fram the Nick Bollettieri
Sports Academy in Bradenton, Fla.
In Florida, he worked with some of
thetop junior players in the world.
In his second season at
Maryville, Burns has recruited top
players from Tennessee, Kentucky,
Alabama and Florida. The women's
team finished 8-9 this Spring; the
men ended with 0 5-11 record.
Burns, his wife Melissa and son
Colby reside in Maryville.
Bill Rude
Head Coach, softball &
Assistant Coach, volleyball
Bill Rude, a native of northern
New York, assumes his first head
coaching position at the collegiate
level at Maryville.
Prior to arriving on campus
in 1997, Rude was on assistant
coach ot State University New York-
Geneseo, St. Andrews Presbyterian
College (N.C.) and Lander University
(S.C). He holds a bachelor's degree
fram Ithaca College in New York.
A former assistant of the Lady
Scots volleyball team and Lady Scots
Softball team. Rude has helped guide
the women's programs to winning
seasons.
For the 1999-2000 season,
the Lady Scots softboll team posted
a 22-8 season, which is the best
record in o decade. Collectively, team
members were nationally ranked in
batting and scoring.
Rude, his wife Laura and dog
Lucy live in Knoxville.
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CAMPUS NEWS
FAYERWEATHER
GROUNDBREAKING
HELD JANUARY 11
Students, faculty, alumni and friends of the
college gathered on Januatv 1 1 to participate in
the groundbreaking for the new Fayerweather
Hall
The ceremony marked the beginning of
construction on the building, which will house
the college's Administration and Admissions
offices. Public Relations department, the
Registtar's office, Financial Aid, and the Business
Office. Also located in the new building will
be Health Sen'ices, classrooms, meeting rooms,
a board room, and the new Instructional
Technology department.
Following the ceremony, College officials
presented the architectural drawings and outlined
the futute plans tor the building. A reception
was also held in the Wilson Chapel complex to
mark the occasion.
The new Fayerweather Hall will replace
the original Fayerweather Science Hall, which
was built in 1898. The building was destroyed
by fire in May 1999 following a lightning
strike. Originally built as a science building,
Fayerweathet was home to the post office,
Isaac's snack bar, the campus bookstore, student
services, and the Education Division at the time
of the fire.
NEW MEMBERS ELECTED
TO MARYVILLE COLLEGE
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Dr. Burgein R "Gene" Overholt and the Rev.
Emily Andetson have been elected to serve on the
Marwille College Board of Directors.
Overholt is CEO
and Medical Director
for Gastrointestinal
Associates, PC of
Knoxville. He is a
graduate ot the
University ot Michigan
and the University ot
Tennessee Medical
School and is currently a board member of the
First Tennessee Bank of Knoxville.
Overholt was for many years a member of
the Knox-ville Cit)' School Board, for which he also
served as chairman. While a board member for
the Knoxville Chamber of Commerce, Overholt
served as vice-chairman for education. He is
co-founder ot Leadership Education. He is a
member ot Second Presbyterian Church in
Knox-ville. Overholt and his wife Lyn have two
children.
Senior Pastor of New Providence
Presbyterian Church since June 1999,
Anderson graduated ttom Vanderbilt
University in 1983 with a degree in English
and worked for three years at Endata, Inc., a
computer services company based in Nashville.
She entered Princeton Theological Seminary in
1986 and graduated in 1989.
Upon het graduation and ordination, she was
named Area Director for Young Life, a Christian
youth foundation, and
the Director of the
Princeton Institute of
Youth Ministry In 1992
she was installed as
.\ssociate Pastor at the
Palma Ceia Presbyterian
Church in Tampa
Florida, where she served
in all areas ot the church, including youth and
tamily ministry, missions and outreach, preaching,
worship and other pastoral care responsibilities.
She remained at Palma Ceia until she received the
call ftom New Providence.
In addition to her role on the Board of
Directors, Anderson also serves Maryville College
as a member of the Faith and Learning Committee.
Among its many tesponsibilities, that committee is
i
Roberts
"' s
charged with studying issues related to the religious
lite and development of the college community as
it relates to the Presbyterian heritage.
MARYVILLE COLLEGE
WELCOMES DIRECTOR OF
INSTRUCTIONAL
TECHNOLOGY
Mar)'\'ille College
has recently added a new
member to its ever-
growing family of
educators.
"Appropriate uses
of technology [will]
permeate everything
that goes on here, said
Gina Roberts, the College's new director of
instructional technology. "I'm excited about being
a part of that."
Roberts is sen'ing in this capacit)' as described
by the Tide III Instrucdonal Technolog)' Initiative
grant that the college received last summer. Much of
her expertise is in instt uctional technology, with her
most recent experience coming trom the University
of Tennessee-KnoxTille, where she was employed
as both a facult}' member and an advisor in her
capacity' as technology specialist.
Roberts holds degrees from East Tennessee
State Universit)' (B.S. Mass Communicadon) and
the University of Virginia (M.Ed. Instiuctional
Technology), and has continued her education to
the doctoral level. Roberts expects to finish an
Ed.D. in Educational Psychology: Collaborative
Learning from UTK next year. Though busy with
her education, she has also tound time to develop
a career. Her area of expertise spans the nation
from various companies like Teknowledge in Palo
Alto, Calif, and Tennessee Eastman Company in
Kingsport.
The Tide III grant provides for educational
equipment and seminars that focus on faculty
and students. Though one-on-one consulting
will be a major focus for Roberts, she will also
provide small group workshops to assimilate the
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FOCUS Spring
MARYVILLE COLLEGE
FACULTY SCHOLARSHIP 1999-2000
This edition of Laurels has only one feature
article highlighting the accomplishments of
an honored member of the Maryville College
faculty. Dr. Terry Simpson has been named
Maryville College's first Fulbright Scholar
while teaching at the College. The feature
article describes Dr. Simpson's background
and experiences, particularly noting his strong
teaching emphasis on multi-culturalism and
cultural understanding.
As an outstanding teacher and a member of
the Tennessee Department ot Education's
Board of Examiners, Dr. Simpson will
assist the administrators and faculty at the
Universit}' of Tartu to develop new standards
for teacher education in Estonia.
Laurels also continues to tell the story of other
Maryville College teacher scholars in the
Faculty Laurels section. Most noteworthy
this past academic year is publication of two
books by faculty: one by Dr. Chad Berry
and the other by Dr. Drew Crain.
The evidence provided in this edition of
Laurels demonstrates that teaching and
learning are truly integrated at Maryville
College.
Nancy C. Sederberg
Vice President and Dean of the College
Simpson Brings First Fulbright Award To Maryville College
The 1999-2000 academic year was
a year for firsts. Enrollment reached
1 ,000 students, a Maryville College
athlete was named Academic All
American, and Dr. Terry Simpson,
chairperson of the
division of education
at Maryville College,
was given the
prestigious Fulbright
Scholar award. He is
the first professor to
receive the Fulbright
while teaching at
Mar)'\'ille College.
Simpson, who
instructs teacher
education courses at
Mary\'ille College and
advises student-
teachers in the Colleges
education program,
will spend the 2000 fall
semester at the
University of Tartu, which is located
in the Eastern European countt)' of
Estonia.
"This program in Estonia is a good
match for me," Simpson said.
"[Administrators and faculty
members at the University of Tartu]
want to develop new standards in
teacher education. They're also
interested in the emphasis of the
sociology of education, which
matches what I teach here at
Maryville."
In Estonia, Simpson will visit local
schools and teach in the university's
teacher education program and
graduate courses for supervisors. A
member of the Tennessee
Department of Education's Board of
Examiners, Simpson said he believes
his work to raise the standards in
teacher education on the state level
will aid his colleagues in Estonia. "But
I'm also going to learn, " Simpson
said, adding that he looks forward
to seeing how teachers are educated
and prepared for classrooms in other
countries of the world.
"Selection for a Fulbright is a rare,
wonderful tribute for any teacher-
scholar. Dr. Simpson's selection
brings great honor to him, to our
education program, and to Mary\'ille
Collere," said Dr. Gerald W. Gibson.
"He will make a valuable
contribution to Estonia and return
here as an even more valuable
member of the MC faculty. "
Dr. Nancy Sederberg, vice president
and dean of Maryville College,
described Simpson as an "outstanding
teacher."
"Dr. Simpson is clearly
demonstrating that the best way to
learn something is to teach it, " she
said. "He will be able to share ideas
about our teacher preparation
process, about accreditation and
about outcomes. His experience as a
Fulbright Scholar will have a positive
impact on and broaden the horizons
of his students here at Maryville when
he returns in December."
Simpson, who holds degrees from
Free Will Baptist Bible College, the
University of Tennessee,
Southwestern Baptist Theological
Seminary and East Texas State
University, began teaching at
Maryville College in 1990. At the
College's Commencement exercises
in 1996, he was presented the
Outstanding Teacher Award.
The Fulbright Program, considered
the United States' flagship
international educational program,
is sponsored by the Bureau of
Educational and Cultural Affairs of
the United States Department of
State. The Program is designed to
increase mutual understanding
between the people of the United
States and the people of other
countries. Since its inception 50 years
ago, the Fulbright Program has
provided approximately 230,000
"Fulbrighters" the opportunity to
observe each others' political,
economic and cultural institutions,
exchange ideas and embark on joint
ventures of importance to the general
welfare of the world's inhabitants.
The primary source of fimding for
the Fulbright Program is an annual
appropriation by the United States
Congress. Foreign governments and
private organizations contribute
through cost-sharing and indirect
support, such as salary supplements,
tuition waivers and university
housing.
The competition for Fulbright
awards is extremely competitive.
Only 4,500 new grants are awarded
annually Simpson first applied for
a Fulbright Scholar award (an
opportunity in Kenya) in the late
1990s. He spent one year in the
planning and application process for
the recently awarded position in
Estonia.
Faculty Laurels
DR. CHAD BERRY, Assistant Professor
of History, along with DR. FRANK
VAN AALST, Adjunct Professor of
History, led i group ot students, alumni,
and friends of iVlar)Tille College on
a three-week study trip to China, the
theme ot which was "Experience China;
Mandarin, Commissar, Entrepreneur."
One of the highlights ot the trip was a
seminar organized by Dr. Bern,' exploring
Chinese and American perspectives on
"the modern" at China's renowned Nankai
Universit}' with history professors and
graduate students. Fifteen years from the
date of the first oral histon,- interview
with a migrant trom Tennessee who
had lived in Flint, Michigan, his book,
Southern Migrants, Northern Exiles, was
published by the Universin' of Illinois
Press in January The book examines the
great southern white out-migration to
the Midwest from 1910 to the present.
The book's cover was designed in a
special collaboration with DR. CARL
GOMBERT, Associate Professor of Art
History, and SARAH BEST '99. Dr.
Berry also presented "Upon What Will I
Hang My Hat in the Future? Appalachia
and Awaiting Post-Postmodernin,'" at a
panel titled, "Use with Caution! Histor}'
and Stewardship for the Millennium," at
the annual meeting of the Appalachian
Studies Association, which was held in
KnoxTille during March 2000. The
article was prompted by student reactions
to both postmodernism and recent
Appalachian studies scholarship in Berry's
recent History/English 349: Southern
Appalachian History and Literature. He
also attended the Annual Meeting of the
Organization of American Historians
in St. Louis. He has continued to
review grant proposals for the National
Endowment ot the Humanities and to
serve on the Editorial Board of De Sur a
Norte: Perspectivas Sudamericanos sobre
Estados Unidos, published in Buenos
Aires. He is also completing his term as
chair of the Folk Studies Review Panel
ofthe Tennessee Arts Commission. His
current research project is a collaborative
one with retired newspaper editor
Nancy B. Cain, exploring the Tellico
Dam controversy through oral histories
with people whose lives were torever
changed.
DR. ROBERT BONHAM, Professor of
Music, attended the annual conference
on Science and Consciousness in
Albuquerque, New Mexico, during
April, the Creative Problem Solving
Institute in Buffalo during June and
the annual BioAcoustics conference in
Athens, Ohio, during August. During
Julv he participated in the Taubman
Piano Institute held at Williams College,
Massachusetts. In October he made
a presentation to the Nashville Music
Teachers Association about the work
of Dorothy Taubman with particular
emphasis on meansof increasing keyboard
and avoiding injury
DR. SCOTT BRUNGER, Associate
Professor of Economics, attended the
a meeting of the Soutlieast Regional
Seminar on African Studies October
1 5- 1 6, 1 999 at Armstrong Atlantic State
University in Savannah, Georgia. He
also participated in the 2Sth Anniversar}'
of Bread tor the World in Washington,
D.C., June 19-22,
With Dr. Earl Smith, retired Professor of
Art Education from Troy State University,
he prepared an educational CD-ROM
"The African Connection: Art and Life
in West Africa" for publication. Along
with pictures of African masks, carvings,
cloth, and brass work, the CD-ROM
includes video clips on making African
masks, figurines and cloth with their use
in daily life and ceremonies.
DR. TERRY BUNDE, Professor of
Chemistry, attended the Southeastern
Regional Meeting of the American
Chemical Society^ Oct. 17-20, 1999,
where he judged undergraduate student
research talks and posters in the organic
and biochemistr)' sections and where he
presented a paper entitled, "Inexpensive
Instrument Interfacing Using a Serial
Digital Multimeter." Dr. Bunde also
published the first results from his
sabbatical leave post-doctoral research
with Dr. Tuan 'Vo-Dinh and Dr. Pierre
Viallet of Oak Ridge National Laboratory
in a paper in the Journal of Fluorescence
entided, "Fluorescent Molecular Reporter
for the 3-D Conformation of Protein
Subdomains: The Mag-Indo System."
Dr. Bunde artended the IT" International
Conference on College Teaching and
Learning in lacksonville, Florida in April
2000. Attendance at this conference is
supported in part by the Appalachian
College Association.
DR. MARGARET PARKS COWAN,
Assistant Professor of Religion and
Philosophy, Ralph W. Beeson Chair in
Religion, and Coordinator of General
Education, attended the annual meeting
of the Association of General and Liberal
Studies in Richmond, Virginia, October
28-30 1999 and the joint annual meeting
ofthe American Academy ot Religion and
Societv' of Biblical Literature in Boston,
November 20-23, 1999. She will serve as
one of two faculty' leaders for the Legacy
of Abraham study trip to Israel/Palestine,
May 22-JunelO, 2000. Sponsored by the
Association of Presbyterian Colleges and
Universities, Pilgrims of Ibillin (MarElias
College in Galillee), and Warren Wilson
College, the trip is open to students
at colleges and universities related to
the Presbnerian Church (USA) and
is designed to explore the Biblical
backgrounds of ludaism, Christianity
and Islam, the basic tenants of Judaism,
Christianity and Islam, and the
contemporary political and social realities
of modern day life in Isr.tel and
Palestine.
DR. DREWCRAIN, Assistant Professor
of Biology, has published 2 papers in the
last year documenting his research on
the ways environmental contaminants
alter the endocrine system of animals.
One paper, which was published in
the international journal Toxicology
and Industrial Health, is entitled "The
functional and structural observations
of the neonatal reproductive system of
alligators exposed in ovo to atrazine, 2,4-D,
or estradiol." Another publication that
appears in the textbook Environmental
Toxicology and Risk Assessment is entided
"Steroid hormones as biomarkers of
endocrine disruption in wildlife. Both ot
these publications were coauthored with
Dr. Grain's collaborators at the Universit}'
of Florida. Dr. Grain has also co-edited
a book entitled Endocrine Disrupting
Contaminants: An Evolutionarv'
Perspective which was published by
Taylor and Francis Publishers. During
the summer of 1999, Dr. Grain and
Maryville College senior Elizabedi Hewin
conducted research on contaminant-
induced thyroid abnormalities in alligators
of various Florida lakes. Currently
Hewitt and Grain are preparing to
publish the research findings. In an
effort to incorporate technology into the
Biology curriculum, Dr. Grain submitted
a proposal to the National Science
Foundation for agrant thatwould provide
computer-interfaced data acquisition in
Biology laboratories.
DR. JOHN GALUGHER, Assistant
Professor of Management, presented
the results of his dissertation research
to the Corporate Sponsors board of
the Center for Innovation Management
Studies (GIMS) at Lehigh University on
June 14, 1999. The dissertation, entitled
"The effects of adopting shareholder
value metric control and reward systems
on firm investment in research and
development," was successfully defended
on July 19, 1999, at the University of
Tennessee. An abstract of his work,
entitled "Shareholder value metrics can
boost R&D investment and, ultimately
share price," was published in the August
1999 edition of the CIMS newsletter.
On December 3, 1999, he and coauthors
Michael C. Ehrhardt and Philip Daves,
both with the University of Tennessee,
presented a paper entided "Organizational
architecture and corporate performance:
An empirical analysis," to the Finance
department at the University of
Tennessee.
Dr. Gallagher's research draws on an
extensive survey of Chief Financial
Officers and Research and Development
executives of Fortune 1000 companies,
and also extensively uses multi-year
data from the Standard and Poors
Compustat database. In January 2000,
he submitted a paper entitled " Adopting
compensation plans linked to shareholder
value: Effects on investment in research
anddevelopment"forpossiblepublication
in the Strategic Management Journal.
He also submitted a paper entitled
"Reconsidering agenq,' theory: Beyond
the separation of ownership from control"
to the Strategy and Business Policy
division of the Academy of Management,
for presentation at the annual meeting
in Toronto in August 2000.
DR. CARL GOMBERT, Associate
Professor of Art, traveled to Austria to
participate in a Salzburg Seminar entitled
"The Arts, Religion, and the Shaping
of Culture," thanks to a grant from the
Mellon Foundation. In April, he went
to the Huntington Museum of Art in
West Virginia to study with renowned
figurative arrist William Beckman as
part of the Walter Gropius Masters'
Workshops. Gombertexhibitedpaintings
in several national juried exhibitions:
"Works on Paper," at the Mar}'land
Federation of the Arts Gallery in
Annapolis; the "25th Annual Ptints,
Drawings, and Photogtaphs Exhibition, "
at the Arkansas Art Center in Litde Rock,
where his print "Collective Memory I"
won a Juror's Award; and the Akron
Society of Artists' Grand National
Exhibition, where his portrait of Roger
Myers ("Big Yellow Roger') was awarded
second prize. In July and August,
Gombert exhibited recent paintings and
prints at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian
Universalist Church Gallery in Knoxville.
He was also invited to create a piece for
the annual mask show at the Tomato
Head in Knoxville. Finally Gombert
was one of eight artists chosen for the
exhibit "East Tennessee Art Currents
11" that was on display through the
summer at the Knoxville Museum of Art.
befote ttavelling to the Carroll Reece Art
Museum at ETSU in Johnson Cm.
DR. SHERRY DAVIS KASPER
published "Teaching the Social Economics
Way ofThinkingin Money and Ban king,"
Teaching the Social Economics Way
of Thinking, Edward J. O'Boyle, ed.,
Edward Mellen Press, 1999.
MS. PEGGYLYNN KILGORE, Visiting
Instructor in English, attended the 6th
Annual Cowboy Poetry gathering in
Rawlins, Wyoming, in July 1999, and will
attend the 7th Annual Cowboy Poetr}'
gathering in July 2000. She also had
her theatrical acnng debut, in October
1999, when she performed in Maryville
College's production of "Talking With,"
written by Jane Mardn, a play consisting
oi eleven monologues. In November
1 999, Ms. Kilgore gave a public reading,
for "Impressions Literary Magazine," of
her creative work in poetry, short stories,
and letters.
DR. SHERI L. IVIATASCIK, Assistant
Professor of Music and Co-Chair,
Division of Fine Arts, attended two tai
chi workshops over the summer with
Master Yang Yang, one of the top Chen
stylists in the world. The first was a week-
long retreat in Blowing Rock, North
Carolina, and the second a weekend
workshop in Knoxville, Tennessee in
August. Dr. Matascik attended the
19th Annual International Conference
on Critical Thinking at Sonoma State
University, July 31 -August 4. She
patticipated in a Ftanklin Covey Seminar,
"What Matters Most" on August 1 8. In
November, Dr. Matascik attended the
National Association ot Schools of Music
meeting for music executives in Chicago,
where she also took part in a rwo-day
workshop on music and technology. Dr.
Matascik was featured in an article on
tai chi and health in the November 1 6th
issue ot the Maryville Daily Times. In
May 2000, Dr. Matascik will travel to
China with Dr. Frank VanAalst and a
group of alumni and friends of the
Collegeon the tour, "ModernizingChina:
From the Great Wall to the Great Dam
on the Yangtze River."
MS. DORI MAY, Instructor and
Acquisitions/Public Services
Librarian, along with Choi Park, Associate
Professor and Catalogue Librarian,
attended the Appalachian College
Association's 1999 Library Technical
Services Conference in Mars Hill, North
Carolina. Ms. May shared ideas and
led a discussion about "Acquisidons
on the Web," marking the changes
competition has brought to vendot,
publisher, independent bookseller, and
chain bookstore sites on the internet.
She also attended the 1999 TENN-
SFIARE Fall Conference in Murfreesboro,
Tennessee, where the locus was the
success ot establishing the Tennessee
Electronic Librar)' and advice on getting
it funded in years to come. She also
went to a TEL training session at The
L'nivetsity of Tennessee, KnoxTille, on
November 18.
DR. WILLIAM J. MEYER, Assistant
Professor of Religion and Philosophy,
authored the lead journal article in the
1999 Annual of the Societ)' of Christian
Ethics. The article was entitled "On
Keeping Theological Ethics Theological:
An Alternative to Hauerwas' Diagnosis
and Prescription." His book review of
works by Schubert Ogden and Edmund
Perry on the question ot truth and world
religions appeared in the April 1999 issue
of the international journal Religion.
He made two public presentations
on campus during 1999. Those
presentations included a Community
Forum presentation entided "Visions of
the Future: Order or Disorder?", which
examined four alternative views of the
post-cold war world. He also addressed
the Societ)' of 1819 with his lecture,
"What Does it Mean to be a Church-
Related College Today?" In January
2000 he attended the Annual Meeting
of the Society ot Christian Ethics in
Washington, D.C. He also attended an
invitational conference in Indianapolis
on February 20-21, 2000 on the role
of "Religion in Caring for the Seriously
111." The conference is sponsored by the
Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics
and American Institutions at Indiana
University, Bloomington.
DR. ROBERT NAYLOR,
Professor of Chemistry and Chair
of the Division of Natural Sciences,
attended the American Chemical Society
Southeast Regional Meeting hosted by the
East Tennessee Section of the American
Chemical Societ)'inKnox'ville,Tennessee.
In conjunction with that meedng, he
also attended the Meeting in Miniature,
"Chemistry for the New Millennium,"
designed specifically for undergraduate
chemistt}' students.
DR. JOHN NICHOLS, Professor of
Mathematics was named Chair of the
Division of Mathematics & Computer
Science in the fall of 1999. He replaces
Dr. Bill Dent who has served in this
capacity for several years. In addition,
he was one of seventy mathematicians
from across the country to complete
a two-summer tesearch institute on
the history of mathematics in July
of 1999. The National Science
Foundation sponsored the institute and
the Mathematics Association of America
coordinated it. Catholic University in
Washington DC was the host institution.
The goal of the institute was to train
facult}' to teach historj' of mathematics
courses at their home institution and to
collaborate with others in the field. As a
result of this study Dr. Nichols designed
and taught a new course in the history
of mathematics.
He also attended the joint meeting of
the American Mathematical Societ}' and
the Mathematics Association of America
in Washington D.C. in January 2000.
While there he attended numerous
lectures on a wide variety of topics. Dr.
Nichols was also a member of die task
force which wrote the $ 1 .7 million-U.S.
Department of Education grant which
the College received for technology.
MS. CHRIS NUGENT, Assistant
Professor, Director of Information
Resources & Services and College
Librarian, received a Mellon Grant
through the Appalachian College
Association to attend the Salzburg Seminar
ASC 24 on Information Technology and
the Future of Education in Salzburg,
Austria, September 25- October 2, 1999.
Together with Debbie Nichols, Mar)^'^^
College's Director of Information Systems
& Services, Ms. Nugent addressed
as panelist "The Libran' Director's
Emerging Role on Campus" at the
Appalachian College Association's 1 999
Library Administration Retreat at Ohio
Valley College, West Virginia.
DR. MARK J. O'GORMAN,
Assistant Professor of Political Science
and Coordinator, Environmental
Studies Program, authored a paper
published in the proceedings of the
Greening of the Campus III: Theory and
Realin' conference, which was held at
Ball State University in Mucnie, Indiana
September 30 -October 2, 1999. The
articled, entided "Eduaring the Campus
Community: The Freshman Course at
Mary\'ille College, Tennssee 'Perspectives
on the Environment'" was published in
the conference proceedings Curriculum
Development I section. Although Dr.
O'Gorman was unable to personally
attend, two students from the College,
Paul Sacksteder and Fori Winters,
attended the meeting and presented
the paper's contents to a very receptive
audience.
DR. BRIAN K. PENNINGTON,
Assistant Professor of Religion, spent
May 13-30, 1999, in Calcutta, where
he did archival research at the National
Librarv- of India and elsewhere on early
nineteenth-century interactions between
Christian missionaries and Hindus. His
trip was funded by the Russell D. Parker
Faculty Development Fund. In October
he accompanied students on a research
trip to a serpent-handling church in
Alabama, and he attended the Conference
on Religion in the American South
at Emory University in Adanta. On
November 19, hedeliveredapaper entided
"Renaissance ot Retrenchment: Hindu-
Christian Dialogue at a Crossroads" to
the annual meeting of the American
Academy ot Religion in Boston. The
paper detailed the historical roots of
current violence between Christians and
Hindus in India. He has also written
several book reviews for the Religious
Studies Review and the International
Journal ot Hindu Studies. In March,
he attended the annual meeting of the
Southeastern Region of the ^American
Academy ot Religion.
DR. DANNY PIERCE, Assistant
Professor of Physical Education,
Health and Outdoor Recreation,
received the Frank Lupton Service
Award for his work as chairman of the
standards committee, from the Wilderness
Education Association at their National
Conference Februan,- 20, 1 999 at Southern
Illinois University. Pierce completed
a Wilderness First Responder refresher
course and Anaphylaxis workshop hosted
by the Wilderness Medical Associates,
February 16-17, 1999, atTouchofNature
Environmental Center in Carbondale,
Illinois. His paperendtled"TheAttention
Styles of Intercollegiate Athletes based
on Sport and Gender" was presented by
Dr. Steven Edwards, Oklahoma State
University, at the National Conference of
the American College of Sports Medicine,
June 2, 1999 in Seattle, Washington.
Dr. Pierce was invited by the University of
Michigan's Department of Recreational
Sport Challenge Program to assist in
the facilitadon ot the DaimlerChryslar
Financial Expo'99. This program
tided, "Together in Making a World ot
Difference, The Global Challenge" was
conducted June 24-30, 1 999, at Oakland
University, Auburn Hills, Michigan.
Pierce and Dr. Paula Dohoney, Oklahoma
State University, presented "Introducing
Technology Application to Preservice
Physical Education Students during
Activity Course Requirements" at the
Technology in Physical Education and
Sport National Conference, July 31,
1999, at the University of Tennessee at
Chattanooga. Dr. Pierce and Ms. Jennifer
Pierce, Maryville College, presented,
Nomadics: A Morning Stretch tor the
Body and Mind, at the 27th Annual
A.s.sociation tor Experiential Education
International Conference: Harvest the
Seasons Of Learning, on October 30,
1999, in Rochester, New York.
DR. JERRY PIETENPOL,
Associate Professor of Computer
Science, attended the annual Fall
Conference of the Mid-Soudieast Chapter
of the Association for Computing
Machinery in Gadinburg, Tennessee,
on November 12, 1999. He was
accompanied by three students: Jeremy
Baucom, Ellen Canupp, and Kyle May
As part of the conference program, Ellen
Canupp presented a paper titled "Solving
ODEs [Ordinary Differential Equations]
Using C Programming."
DR. MARGIE RIBBLE, Assistant
Professor of Mathematics, received
the Doctorate in Education with a
concentration in mathematics education
from the Universiry of Tennessee,
Know'ille in December 1999. She
received an award tor Outstanding
Achievement in Mathematics Education
from the University ofTennessee College
of Education in the spring of 1999.
Her dissertation. Finding Fibonacci: An
Interdisciplinary Liberal Arts Course
BasedonMadiematical Patterns, included
the design and evaluation ot a course
which will be offered as a Senior Seminar
at Maryville in the spring of 2000. Dr.
Ribble received a Parker Fund grant tor
travel to Italy and Austria in June 1999 to
gather historical data for the course. She
presented a talk entitled "Connecting
Mathematics with Fibonacci Numbers" at
theMu.AlphaTheta National Convention
in Gadinburg, Tennessee, in August
1999. In May 2000, Dr. Ribble received
the Helen B. Watson Outstanding
Dissertation Award from the Universit)'
of Tennessee College ot Eduation.
DR. LORI SCHMIED, Associate
Professor of Psychology, continued her
research collaboration with colleagues
from the Psychology Department at
University College London and Middlesex
University in the United Kingdom. The
focus was the continuation ot work on
the history of psychopharmacologv'. A
manuscript is currendy being developed.
Along with Dr. Kathie Shiba and
colleagues from Emory & Henry and
Carson-Newman Colleges, Schmied
received a S2,000 planning grant from
the Appalachian College Association
to develop a Teaching & Technology
proposal. This proposal to
re-conceptualize Introductory Psychology
was subsequently funded for SI 20,000
and covers a two-year period. In January
2000, grant team members panicipated in
a customized workshop on instructional
technology, as well as a college-wide
workshop on 'Enhancing Teaching with
Technology,' co-sponsored by the Title
III project. In May, the grant team met
extensively to re-design the introductory
course, as well as undergo training in
the use of some ot the instrucnonal
technologies identified for the project.
Schmied also attended the annual
Southeastern Psychological Association
meeting in New Orleans, March 29 -
April 1.
DR. KATHIE SHIBA, Assistant
Professor of Psychology, received a
Russell D. Parker Faculty Development
Fund grant to participate in a Center
for Global Education seminar, Mexico:
Education for Social Jusnce, in
Cuernavaca, Mexico, July 10-17, 1999.
This experiential seminar included
not only lectures, but also visitation
of archaeological sites, educational
institutions, and local communities. In
addition. Dr. Shiba was a member of the
On-Site Evaluation Team (September
1999), which evaluated the elementary
course provided by Montessori Educators
International, Inc. This evaluation led
to the accreditation of their course by the
Montessori Accreditation Council for
Teacher Education Commission. Finally,
Dr. Shiba reviewed the textbook,. Of
Children, 9'^ Edition, in October 1999,
for Wadsworth Publishing Company.
Dr. Shiba also attended the Southeastern
Psychological ^Association conference in
New Odeans, Louisiana.
DR. TERRY L. SIMPSON, Associate
Professor of Secondary Education and
Chair of the Division of Education
attended the Kappa Delta Pi 42"''
Biennial Convocation in Baltimore,
Maryland, November 11-13, 1999, where
he presented a session entitled "The
Student Teaching Seminar: Integrating
Profasional, Historical, Philosophical,
Legal, and Political Issues."
He also attended the Tennessee Council
ot the Social Studies State Conference
at Montgomery Bell State park, March
24, 2000, where he presented a session
entitled "Don't Divorce Religion from the
Social Studies." He provided strategies
for secondary teachers to incorporate
the study about religion into their social
studies instruction. In addition, he is
a member of the Board of Directors
and newsletter editor for the Tennessee
Council of the Social Studies for the
1999-2000 academic year.
DR. JERILYN SWANN, Assistant
Professor of Biology, attended the
annual meeting ot the Association ot
Southeastern Biologists in Chattanooga
in April, where several of her senior
thesis students presented papers or posters
of their projects. Earlier this year she
reviewed a manuscript for the Bulletin
of Environmental Contamination and
Toxicology.
MR. JEFF TURNER defended his
dissertation, "Dirtied Faces: Crisis and
the Representation of Childhood and
Youth on the Broadway Stage during the
Great Depression," in January 2000 at
the University of Colorado at Boulder.
In February, he presented his paper,
"Watching Boys Bodies: Representing
Childhood in Sidney Kingsley's 'Dead
End"' at the Performativity/Body/
Performance: Theorizing and Acting die
Body conference, held at the University
of North Carolina at Asheville. He
also attended the Southeastern Theatre
Conference Convention 2000, where
he participated in a panel presentation,
"Teaching the Conflicts in Theatre
History: Elbridge Gerry and the Fight to
Save Children from a Life in the Theatte."
InApril, he presented "Thornton Wilder's
Our Town and the Politics of Whiteness"
at the Theatre Symposium of the
Southeastern Theatre Conference. In
August, he will attend the Associanon for
Theatre in Higher Education Conference
in Washington, D.C.
DR. JERRY WATERS, Professor of
Psychology, attended a conference in
Knox-\'ille, Tennessee on June 23, 1999,
entided "Beyond Prozac: Depression,
Stress, Diet, and Drugs." On July
9 and 10, 1999, he parncipated in
a Masters and Johnson Workshop on
Trauma, Dissocianon Disorders, and
Sexual Compulsivity in Asheville, North
Carolina. He participated in the annual
meetingofthe Southeastern Psychological
Association in New Orleans, March 30
-April 2, 2000.
DR. BARBARA WELLS, Assistant
Professor of Sociology, completed her
dissertation. Family Continuit}' and
Change in a Restructured Economy: A
Case Study from Rural Michigan, and
received the Ph.D. from Michigan State
University. Dr. Wells received a Mellon
Foundation Fellowship to participate
in a Salzburg Seminar, October 9-16,
1999, in which she was part of a group of
international scholars and activists from
39 countries exploring issues related to
the theme: "Race and Ethnicity: Social
Change through Public Awareness."
Dr. Wells wrote a chapter (co-author
Maxine Baca Zinn) tided "Diversity
within Latino Families: New Lessons for
Family Social Science," in the book. The
Handbook of Family Diversity, published
by Oxford University Press (1999). She
also received a Maryville College Service-
Learning Grant to integrate a service-
learning component into her Sociology
of Marriage and Family class. Dr. Wells
presented a paper tided: "Making ends
meet in the restructured economy: Social
class variation in household strategies " at
the "Work and Family: Expanding the
Horizons " conference in San Francisco
in March 2000. This conference
is co-sponsored by the Business and
Professional Women's Foundation and
the Center for Working Families at the
University of California, Berkeley
MS. MICHELLE WILKES-CARILLI,
Instructor of Business and
Organizational Management in the
Division of Social Sciences, completed
her doctoral dissertation on student
motivanonforherPh.D. inOrganizanon^il
Communication/Management from
Southern Illinois Universit}' at Carbondale.
She has presented two papers in Training
and Development Division at the National
Communication Associanon in Chicago
in November 1 999. The two presentations
were: "Orienting the Employee, Orienting
the Corporation: Trammg Issues in
New Employee Orientation Programs.
Developing Guiding Values" and "Are
My Values Their Values? Or Do Their
Values Have to Become My Values? The
Trainer's Role In Communicating Values
Within The Organization: Managing
Cultural Diversity." From the summer of
1999 through winter 1999, she published
three articles in the American Societ}' for
Training and Development Quarterly: "A
Team Development and Communication
Skills Simulation: Send and You Shall
Receive"; "What Is A Successful Training
Program?"; "Training Methods: Benefits
oi Training With Case Studies". In
November 1999, she presented the
new member orientation session for
the American Society for Training and
Development, Smoky Mountain Chapter.
She will be speaking to Maryville High
School graduating seniors regarding job
interviews, resume writing, college, and
life thereafter during the spring 2000
semester. She also be presented a two-
hour professional seminar to 100 women
regarding motivation for the University
of Tennessee's Women's Conference on
March 16, 2000.
JOINT PROJECTS:
DR. JOHN PERRY,AssociateProfessor
ofPhysical Education and DR. DANNY
PIERCE, Assistant Professor ofPhysical
Education, attended the Tennessee
Association for Health, Physical
Education, Recreation and Dance
Convention at Tennessee Technological
University in Cookeville, Tennessee
on November 12, 1999. Six physical
education majors traveled with them to
the convention.
DR. LORI SCHMIED, Associate
Professor of Psychology, and DR.
KATHIE SHIBA, Assistant Professor
of Psychology, received an Appalachian
College Association Technology and
Teaching Stage II Grant (Fall
1999-Summer 2001) for their project
Re-Conceptualizing Introductory
Psychology. This re-conceptualization
includes both the structural design of the
course and pedagogical techniques used
to deliver course content. This project
involves faculty training, inter-instimtional
collaboiadon on the re-designing of the
course and course materials (with Carson-
Newman College and Emory & Henry
College), culminating in pilot course
offerings with appropriate assessment.
DR. TERRY L. SIMPSON, Associate
Professor of Secondary Education and
Chair of the Division of Education, and
MS. JENNIFER BRASHEARS (MC
graduate) co-authored an article entided
"The Power of Human Touch" in the
New Teacher Advocate, Fall 1999.
DR. TERRY L. SIMPSON, DR.
PAUL THREADGILL, DR. TERRY
BUNDE, and MS. MARIA BEASLEY
(MC graduate) conducted a workshop
entitled "Doing science in the Middle
Grades: Equipping Middle School Science
Teachers with Strategies for Involving
Middle School Students in the Process
of Science" at Maryville College, June
14-18, 1999. A follow-up session was
held November 19, 1999 on Maryville
College campus. Middle school science
teachers from Blount, Knox, Monroe,
Sevier, and Union counties attended the
workshop.
LAURELS
MARYVILLE COLLEGE
CAMPUS NEWS
professors into a new mode ot thinking where
technological hardware and soitware become an
integral part of their daily curriculum.
WILLIAMS SELECTED AS
MC^S OUTSTANDING SENIOR
Maxim Allan "Max" Williams, a senior
psychology major from Port Chariotte, Fia., was
named the Outstanding Senior at Maryville College
during the Academic Awards Banquet April 1 5.
Established by the Maryville College Alumni
Association in 1974 and first presented in 1975, the
Outstanding Senior award recognizes those students
whose overall record of academic achievement and
participation in extracurricular activities stand out
as most exemplary.
Williams, the son of Maxim and Fay Wilhams of
Port Charlotte, enrolled at Mar)'ville College in 1996.
While a student, he has been a member of the Bonner
Scholars Program, which offers financial support to
students and ptovides them with an opportunin'
to engage in community service activities while in
college. Williams has also been involved in Habitat
for Humanity, the Erskine Tutoring Foundation, Psi
Chi Honors Society, Alpha Lambda Delta Freshman
Honor Society, Mar)'ville College Literacy Corps, MC
Families and the Presidential Budget and Advisory
Committee. He has been the president or coordinator
for the Colleges Habitat chapter, the Etskine tutors,
and Alpha Lambda Delta.
Finalists for the Outstanding Seniot award
included Sabrina Damrow, daughter of Bruce
and Donna Damrow of Louisville, Tenn.; Lisa
Higginbotham, daughter of Harold
Higginbotham ofTrussville, Ala.,
nd Phyllis Buckner of
Birmingham, Ala.; Brian
Gossett, son of Kim
and Cathy Gossett
ofEtowah,Tenn.;and
Adriel McCord,
son of Victor and
Barbara Morris of
LaGrange, Ga.
HARWELL PROFFITT, LONG-TIME FRIEND
OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE, DIES MARCH 24
Harwell Proffitt '40, former
student, benefactor and chairman
of the board of Maryville College,
passed away March 24. He was
82.
The son of two Maryville
College alumni, D.W. Proffitt'16,
founder of Profifitt's Department
Stores, and Lillian Gray Webb
Proffitt '16, he attended Mar}'ville
College for two years.
"Harwell loved this College,"
said Dr. Gerald Gibson. "His parents met here,
Harwell himself attended the College, and many
members of the Proffitt family attended Maryville,
so I think it added up to a deep sense of
connectedness that inspired and motivated him
to assure that the College not only survived, but
thrived."
Proffitt began in the family business after
graduating from the University of Tennessee in
1940. He managed Proffitt s stores in Athens,
Tenn., and Maryville, and helped open stotes in
Cleveland, Harriman and Morristown.
He was an active membet of the Proffitt's
Board of Directors throughout the years, even
following the business's sale to an investor group
in 1984. He retired from the Board in 1997.
Proffitt was a faithfiil member of New
Providence Presbyterian Church in Maryville,
where he was an elder, Session member and
Sunday School teacher. He was also a trustee of
the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Foundation.
His community involvement included
the Blount County Industrial Development
Board, the Knoxville Symphony Society, the East
Tennessee Foundation, First Federal Savings and
Loan Association, die Greater Knoxville Chamber
of Commerce, and the Kiwanis Club.
For his contributions to business, civic and
religious institutions, Proffitt was ptesented the
College's Alumni Citation. For his contributions
to the College, he was presented the first Maryville
College Medallion in 1990.
Proffitt's service to Maryville College began
in the 1970s. In 1978, he was elected to the
College's Board of Directors. Within a decade,
he was elected chairman of the Boatd.
"Harwell Proffitt served as a 'turnaround'
chair of the Board of Directors," Gibson said.
"He assumed his posidon at the
helm during a low point for the
College, and during his five-year
tenure saw enrollment increases,
endowment growth and the
beginning of the renewal of
campus facilities.
"It's no exaggetation to say
that he played a ctucial role in
making Maryville College what
it is today"
Cettainly Proffitt played
a majof role in making two Maryville College
facilities showpieces foi alumni and students.
Under his leadership, WillardHouseandCarnegie
Hall underwent major restoration. Harwell and
his second wife, Sissie, were major donors to the
Willard House project and chose much of the
decor and futnishings. In the early 1990s, he
served as chairman of the Committee to Restore
Carnegie Hall.
Proffitt rotated off the College Board in
1 992, when Richard Ragsdale became chairperson.
The following January, Proffitt was made an
emetitus membet of the Board of Directors and
ser\'ed in that capacity until his death. He was
also a member of the College's National Advisory
Council.
"With Harwell's death, this College - like
thesurroundingcommunity-haslostachampion
and a source of inspiration," Gibson said. "I
first met Harwell when I was interviewed by the
ptesidential search committee in December of
1 992. He struck me as being a very distinguished-
looking man with a genial nature. He clearly felt
good about Maryville College and believed in
its ftiture.
"I depended on Harwell's counsel,
parucularly in my early days at MC," the president
continued, "and I feel his loss personally"
Proffitt is survived by his wife, Sara Pope
Proffitt, a current member of the College's Board
of Directors; two children from his marriage to
Florence Ortman Proffitt: Fred Proffitt and Ruth
Marie Lightner; one son-in-law, Bobby Lightner;
grandchildren Christopher Borden and David
Lightner; one brother, John "Jack" Woodfin
Proffitt; one sister, Mary Lillian Proffitt Lyle; 13
stepchildten including spouses; six grandchildren
and one step great-granddaughter
FOCUS Spring
15
KRESGE CHALLENGE GRANT SECURED
March 3, 2000 was not an ordinary day in
the Presidents Office at Maryville College. As
Laura Case, Executive Assistant to the President,
sorted through the daily mail, she noticed an
envelope from the Kresge Foundation.
"I knew we had submitted the final report
and were expecting a check," Case said. "But
you just don't see S500,000 checks everyday!"
With that receipt of the Kresge Foundation's
challenge grant, the Bartlett Fiall Student Center
project fundraising was over the top.
When the Kresge Foundation issued the
challenge in July 1999, approximately $1.4
million had to be raised by August 2000 in order
to secure the grant. As the call went out to
alumni and friends of the College, the response
was overwhelming.
"Obviously we wanted to secure the
challenge grant as soon as possible," said
President Gerald Gibson. "But we had no idea
that the response would be so great and that we
would be able to meet Kresge's challenge with
four months to spare."
Although expediting the project due to the
Fayerweather fire required a $275,000 increase
in the fundraising goal, the roughly $6.6 million
project is within months of being completed.
At press time, more than $6.7 million in gifts
and pledges had been received.
"We used a very conservative budget
on this project from the outset," said Gibson.
"The fundraising excess is truly not excess.
It will allow us to include furnishings and
enhancements that were not part of the original
budget."
A recent mailing to alumni, parents and
friends highlighting the effiDrts of KinTakahashi
and requesting donors to be "brick builders"
by making gifts of at least $1,000 proved very
successful. More than 60 donors joined the
Bartlett tenovation and expansion effort by
participating in the brick campaign. Engraved
bricks bearing the names of donors or the
individuals the donors chose to honor will be on
display in the buildings lobby.
"We are very excited about the brick
display," said Gibson. "They will provide
appropriate recognition for our donors and a
fitting tribute to Kin Takahashi."
The official dedication ceremony for the
Battlett Flail Student Center will be held on
October 1 4 as part ot the College's Fiomecoming
celebration.
MC2000 CAMPAIGN PROGRESS"
The MC2000 Campaign came to an official
close on May 3 1 , but new giving records were set
even before that date. The adjusted Campaign
goal of $16.2 million was surpassed by more
than $1.1 million and all categories including
the Bartlett Hall project. Center for Campus
Ministry restoration and Endowment goal were
exceeded.
"We were careful not to declare victory too
soon," said President Gibson. "But I must admit
that we were just thrilled with the early results.
"A special thanks goes to MC2000
Campaign Steering Committee Chair Fred
Lawson. He really set the tone for this thing
from the beginning."
The Campaign Steering Committee also
includes Ellie Craven, Dan Greaser '60, Natalie
Haslam, Tennie Haworth, Dick Ragsdale, Dick
Ray '52, Dr Mary Kay Sullivan, Cole Piper
'68, and Lew Weems.
The next issue of FOCUS will include a
complete MC2000 Campaign wrap up report.
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FOCUS Spring 2000
MC2000 CAMPAIGN
Don Story '67 looks over Honoker Field in this
]9iJ Chilhowean photograph..
ALUMNUS DONATES $100,000 TO ATHLETICS
Randy Lambert '76 doesn't usually need
his eyeglasses to read a stock certificate.
He can easily make out two and three zeroes
written in succession.
But five zeroes in a row tend to run together
and overshadow a decimal point, jested the
45-year-old athletic director and head men's
basketball coach at Maryville College. So Lambert
put on his reading glasses - and maybe rubbed his
eyes a little bit - to make out the generous gift: by
alumnus and former football player Don Story
'67: a $100,000 stock certificate for Maryville
College athletics.
The presentation came as a pleasant surprise
for Lambert and Maryville College Head Football
Coach Phil "Wilks, who were presented the
certificate at a Maryville City School Board
Meeting April 13.
Story had stopped by Cooper Athletic
Center the weekof April 1 0, as he has traditionally
done in the past to make a year-end contribution
to the Scots Club, an organization of alumni,
parents and friends who support Maryville
College athletics. But instead of handing the
athletic director a check, Story asked to meet
with Lambert and the football coach.
"Don asked if we weren't doing anything
Thursday night, would we mind coming to a
school board meeting," Lambert said. "Phil and
I sort of looked at each other and said, 'No, we
wouldn't mind . . .' Then, Don asked us what kind
of needs we had [for the athletic program]."
Story, who has been employed by the
Maryville City School System for 32 years, was
present at the April 13 meeting for recognition by
the Board for a $100,000 gift to Maryville High
School athletics. (Completion on the Don Story
Athletic Center, which will include a weight
room and other training facilities, is expected
this fall.)
But the community hadn't seen the last of
Don Story's generosity.
After $20,000 stock certificate presentations
to each of the schools in the Maryville City
School System, Story presented the minister of
his church (Walland United Methodist) with
a certificate worth $100,000. Then, Maryville
College was recognized.
Story's gift has no restrictions, other than
it is to go toward improvements in the athletic
program.
A former Fighting Scot under Coach
Howard "Monk" Tomlinson and Lauren
Kardatzke and a former coach himself Story
said he believes sports teach great life lessons to
the young people who participate in them. He
remembers his first game on Honaker Field as
one of his best.
"I think athletics teach responsibility and
teamwork," Story said. "They are a great molder
of character."
Dr. Gerald W. Gibson, president of
Maryville College, said the alumnus is still a
valuable player on the Scots' team, even though
he graduated more than 30 years ago.
"Don has been a faithfijl and generous
supporter of the College and its athletic
programs, and for that, we are very appreciative,"
Gibson said. "But also, we are appreciative of
his example - what he represents - to those
whose lives he has touched. Don has taken
the lessons from Honaker Field and applied
them to his professional and personal life with
successful outcomes. This is our wish for all
student-athletes at Maryville College." ■
FOCUS Spring 2000
17
ALUMNI NEWS
ALUMNI INVITED HOME
TO MARYVILLE COLLEGE
OCTOBER 13-13
Homecoming is traditionally a time to
reflect on past accomplishments and there will
certainly be opportunity for such reminiscing
this October 13-15. However, as the "Building
Victories - Scots on a Roll" theme indicates,
there will also be plenty of attention paid to the
great strides being made on campus today.
In addition to the many athletic events in
which the Scots are sute to be victorious, the
highlight of the weekend will be the dedication
of the Bartlett Hall Student Center on Saturday,
October 14. Returning to the schedule of events
this year are the perennial favorites, including
campus tours, theService of Rembrance, parade,
and the Alumni Banquet.
On the athletic fields, the Lady Scots soccer
team will play LaGrange on Friday afternoon
and the volleyball squads will meet on Saturday
morning. Historic rival Centre College will
face the Fighting Scots on Saturday afternoon.
Alumni wishing to showcase their own athletic
ability are invited to play in the Scots Golf
Classic or the alumni baseball game on October
13, as well.
Detailed schedules will be mailed to all
alumni during the summer months, and more
information will be included in the upcoming
issue of FOCUS.
AKINS NAMED DIRECTOR
OF ALUMNI AND PARENT
RELATIONS
Debbie Mount Akins 73 was recently
named Director of Alumni and Parent Relations
at Maryville College. Akins joined the College's
Office of Advancement March 6.
Akins, a native of Schenectady, N.Y., is no
stranger to the East Tennessee community or
the school.
Since 1973,
much of her career
has been devoted
to the Blount/
Knox county
communities. Her
positions as a
reporter, founding
executive director of
Leadership Blount,
field directot for Congressman Jimmy Duncan
and others have enabled her to work closely
with community and civic leaders and
establish good relationships with the public.
As Director of Alumni and Parent
Relations, Akins will be responsible for
coordinating annual events such as
Homecoming, class reunions, alumni banquets
and the Golden Scots Academy She will work
with the Mar)'\'ille College Alumni Associations
executive board, the Blount Count)' Alumni
Association's executive board and the governing
council of the Mary\'ille College Parents
Association.
For Akins, this is just another challenge to
add to her career agenda.
"I have faced many challenges in each of
my jobs, and they are somewhat similar," she
said. "The most common challenge is asking
people to volunteer their time by participating
on boards, councils and event committees.
"Life is hectic these days for everyone,
and asking people to give their time to MC
will be an on-going challenge," explains Akins.
"But the College has long had among its ranks
alumni, parents and ftiends who are dedicated
to and extremely supportive of the good things
that happen on this campus. I look forward to
meeting these people and working with them.
Mark Gate, the College's Vice President
of College Advancement, seems excited to have
Akins aboard in Willard House, the campus
home of the Office of Adv.ancement.
"We are truly fortunate to have Debbie join
our Advancement stafif," Gate said. "She brings
a great deal of experience and professionalism
to this position and will surely enhance our
alumni and parent relations programs."
Akins said she believes the contacts she has
made within the community will not only help
her build on the recent progress of the Alumni
and Parent Relations Office, but also aid other
departments of the College.
"I have made many contacts, both
professional and personal," she said. "I feel
that I can bring those contacts and resources
to the campus that will not only benefit the
Advancement Office, but the Career Services
Office, as well."
KIN TAKAHASHI WEEK
SCHEDULED FOR JUNE 19-23
?, In the spirit of
college legend
Kin Takahashi,
each summer MC
sponsors a week
known as Kin
Takahashi Week.
During this time
alumni, parents and
friends from all over the country come back
to MC to volunteer their time and efforts on
campus improvement ptojects.
These projects may include planting
flowers, painting buildings, and trimming trees.
Of Kin Takahashi week volunteer Sylvia Fugate
Heard '61, said "It is about giving of one's
time and talents to preser\'e our rich heritage as
shown by Kin Takahashi."
The week allows for people to get involved
with MC while sharing in fellowship with
other people that have a common love for the
College.
This year Kin Takahashi week will occur
|une 1 9-23. For more information please contact
Kore Robinson, Executive Assistant for Business
Services at 865-981-8132
1 8 FOCUS Spring
ALUMNI PROFILES
Southeastern Conference Commissioner and
Maryville College alumnus Roy Kramer '53
has to smile when he thinks about how his role and
responsibilities in college athletics have changed.
Today, as one of the most powerful men
in college athletics, he secures bowl games for
conference teams and negotiates multimillion-dollar
contracts with television stations
that wish to broadcast SEC games.
Sixty years ago, his role was water
boy and his responsibilities included
quenching the thirst ot football
players on the practice and game
fields of Maryville College. H e
suspects his former coaches and
teachers at Maryville College would
smile, too, if they visited him today
in his office in Birmingham and saw
where his history and physical education majors
have taken him.
"I suspect everybody would be surprised,"
Kramer said in a telephone interview earlier this
year. "I doubt any ot them could imagine me grown
up."
But Kramer, 70, did grow up, taking the
instruction of Lombe Honaker, the discipline of
J.D. Davis and the grammar lessons of Miss Jessie
Heron to build an impressive career in college
athletics.
"I guess anything I took at Maryville prepared
me for this job," Kramer said, adding that he
"vividly remembers" Miss Jessie and classes with
Dr. Horace Orr '12, Dr. Arda Walker '40, Dr.
Verton Queener '24 and Dr. Fred Griffitts '25.
WEARING THE ORANGE
AND GARNET
As a high school student growing up on Cate
Street in Maryville, there was never a doubt that
Kramer would earn his bachelor's degree from the
little college across the street and that his football
jerseys would be orange and garnet.
His high school football coach Jim Renfro
'38 had played for Honaker, but more importantly,
so had his brothers Arnold, Jackson and Frank
Kramer. And the College's football field was familiar
territory to the youngest Kramer who went to
every game and attended every practice as a water
boy
"It was exciting," Kramer said of his earliest
responsibilities in college athletics. "I loved the
games and practice."
He enrolled at Maryville in 1946, on the heels
of a senior year at Maryville High School and a
fall season when his football team
had gone undefeated. The young
Kramer didn't see much playing
time during his college freshman
year but learned early on what
Honaker and Davis expected of
their players. Before graduating in
1953, he earned three letters.
As a tackle, Kramer's
instructions came mostly from
Davis, a line coach.
"He was kind of like an old Marine sergeant,"
Kramer said of Davis. "He was a tough individual
himself, and he wanted his players to be tough."
COACH KRAMER ~
Military service interrupted Kramer's time at
Maryville, but he graduated in 1953 and headed
to the University of Michigan, where he earned a
master's degree in education a year later. In 1954,
he was hired as an assistant coach on the junior
varsity football team of Battle Creek, Mich.
"I guess I decided I was going to coach after
high school," Kramer said. "I had two brothers
who were lawyers, and my father was a lawyer. I
decided to go in a different direction."
Rentro was a big influence, he said, as was
Davis and Honaker.
Kramer's first head coaching job came two
years later at Hudson High School in Hudson,
Mich., where his team posted a 9-0 record and
won a state championship. His move to the ranks
of college football "just sort of happened," he
explained.
"Some people called and asked if I would be
interested [in coaching college freshmen]," Kramer
said. "I hadn't been thinking about it."
Seeing it a wise career move, Kramer accepted
a position as the freshman coach at Central
Michigan University in 1965, understanding that
he would be in line for the head coaching position
in a short amount of time. That happened in
1967, when Central Michigan was still an NCAA
Division II competitot.
In 11 years, he compiled an impressive
83-32-2 record at the school. His team won a
national championship in 1974. For the second
time in his career, he earned "Coach of the Year"
recognition and was recognized by the Detroit
chapter of the National Football Foundation and
Hall of Fame.
But another call - "out of the blue" - came in
1978. Vanderbilt University officials wanted him
to consider an offer to become athletic director.
He and wife Sara Jo Emert Kramer '53 accepted
and moved to Nashville.
FROM WHISTLES TO TIES"
"The hardest part of that decision was
giving up coaching," Kramer said. "I thoroughly
enjoyed coaching - everything about it ... But
it was an exciting challenge. Vanderbilt is in a
tough conference [SEC] and has high academic
standards."
In three years at Vanderbilt, the Maryville
College alumnus raised the level of performance
for the athletic program and raised funds for
facility improvements and additions. He served
on and chaired several NCAA committees. His
philosophy of athletics in education, his work
ethic and his knowledge caught the eye of SEC
officials who asked him, in 1989, to become the
sixth commissioner of the SEC.
The rest, as they say, is histor)'. Or, historical.
Under Kramer's guidance, the SEC is doing better
competitively and financially than ever before.
Kramer sees at least two big football games
every week in the fall and two basketball games
every week in the winter. The Maryville College
alumnus sees thousands of Division I student-
athletes and a lot of college athletics every year.
"There are some who say that the
commercialism in Division I has changed sports,
and to a degree, that's true," Kramer said. "But
if you were close to it on the inside, I think
you would see that [athletics] carries the same
atmosphere and intensity, and they demand the
same hard work and discipline that they did 30
or 40 years ago." ■
FOCUS Spring 2000
19
CLASS NOTES
Louise Palmer Worobrow '29, is a retired teacher and
lives in Wellsburg, WV. She spent two years at MC and
two years at Wooster and writes that she loved her time
at Marpille.
Zelma Alexander McCann '31, is almost 95 years old
and lives in a home in the rural country of Virginia,
where she can watch cows and horses. She began life
on a farm and enjoys the country. She is a retired
school teacher. This information was sent to MC by her
daughter.
Patsy Hall Murray '31, now lives at Morningside
Assisted Living Center in Athens, TN. At age 91, she is
still taking part in church and community activities.
Evelyn Shelley Lamb '35, continues to live in Las
Ve^as, even though she is now alone. Her husband
died in November, 1998. She has three children, six
grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren. She keeps
busy making quilts for all of them.
Ernest Mathews '35, and Eula Sibcy Mathews '35,
celebrated their 6 1st wedding anniversary on May 20,
1999. They are officially retired, but continue to work
as missionaries of the Presbyterian Church in Mexico.
Arline Fuller '36, enjoyed a nine-day cruise of the
Dutch Waterways in May, 1999.
Leola Halsey Lightowler '36, became a great-
orandmothet of two babv girls, born in Mav and luly,
1999, and living in Walnut Creek, CA.
James G. Saint, Jr. '36, suffered a stroke in October,
1999, but is recovering slowly. He still lives in Lafayette,
IN.
Shirley Jackson Hurst '37, reports the birth of a great-
grandson, Beau Charles Ramey, Jr., in May, 1999.
Helen Ridenhour Goodman '38, has a great-great-
granddaughter, Rebecca Brooke Burgin, born Mar, 17,
1999, in Pawleys Island, SC.
James C. Renfro '38, and his wife, Evelyn Ferguson
Renfro '38, celebrated theit 60th wedding anniversary
on July 23, 1999, with a dinner at Regas in Knox-ville.
Both;
:ired from Marvville cit\' schools.
Aline Campbell Moss '41, is planning a trip to Malta in
March, 2000. She writes that the trip "will insure that I
have followed the footsteps of Paul every^vhere except in
Israel." She is hoping to schedule that trip for another time.
Eloise Zimmerman Rogers '41, welcomed her second
great-grandchild, Robert Dalton Rogers, on Nov. 29, 1 999.
She was recently awarded a plaque from the Alachua
County (FL) Retired Teachers Association for serving as
secretary for ten years under five different presidents of the
organization. She continues volunteer work in civic and
church organizations in Gainesville, FL.
Dudley S, Moore '42, learned to fly planes while in
college and got his license in 1940. He is still flying and
will have been for 60 years as of June 5, 2000.
Fred M. Snell '42, writes that his son, Alexander, started
K-1 in Eden Public School, Eden, NY, in the fall of 1999.
Helen Cameron Young '42, attended a Young family
reunion in Orlando, FL, during Thanksgiving week.
She spent a week at Christmas in Atlanta with her son,
grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She lives in
Hattiesburg, MS.
Jean Barnes Newcomer '43, is joint-author of a book,
"Speechless: Living with Spasmodic Dysphonia,"
published recently by the National Spasmodic Dysphonia
Association, Chicago. Newcomet notes that "this rare
speech (identified in the 1980s) made me fail Maryville's
required Systematic Discourse speech." She was director
of her town's public library for 38 years "with a strange
voice, but a constant friendly smile." The rare speech
disorder affects one in 5,000 people.
Robert Schwarzwalder '43, recently had a one-man
show at the Orange Park ( FL) Library. He also
conducted visual arts classes for an intergenerational arts
workshop offered by his retirement community to the
vouth of Clay County.
Wings James White '44, writes that she is still enjoying
life and traveled in the past year to China, Ireland,
England and Cilifornia. Some of her trips were in the
companv of Jean Boyd Dowling '44. Wings lives in
Wainscott, NY, where she does volunteer work and walks
on the beach a few yards from her house.
Dorothy Brown DiStefano '45, and her husband
enjoyed a trip to England during the summer of 1999.
Nanq^ Russell Lynn '45, recalls working in the College
dining hall to pay part of her board bill when she was a
student at MC. At die time diere were Air Force cadets
on ampus. One of the cadets diat Lynn waited on in the
dining room was Raoul Lynn, the man who has been her
husband for 54 years. They make their home in Monte
Sereno, CA.
Esther Cleaver Zuercher '45, and her husband have
been married for 48 years. They live in Wooster, OH,
and she writes that they "are well, able to walk, able to
hear with a hearing aid and have lost some weight."
Lucille Sitler Brock '46, spent four months in the
hospital during 1999, following surgery tor sb; heart
by-passes. She lives in Indianapolis.
Isabel Muir Chamblin '46, moved to a retirement
community in Albuquerque, NM, in Nov., 1999. In
July, she took a paddleboat cruise from St. Louis, MO,
to St. Paul, MN. She also traveled in SD, ND and WI
by auto.
Tom Henderson '46, and Dorothy Buchanan
Henderson '42, are now li\ing in Sunnyside Presbyterian
Retirement Communir,' in Harrisonburg, VA. Tom has
had health problems, was in the hospital twice in 1999,
and then in assisted living in a nursing home. He was
scheduled to have surgery in December, 1999.
Rosalind Garges Wadington '46, still plays violin
in the Bermuda Philharmonic Society Orchestra, the
Doylesfofd Sinfonia and the Gilbert & Sullivan Society
productions. In July and August of 1999, she attended
chamber music workshops at Lyndon State College and
Wellsley College.
Jackson M. Gilmore '47, is in the process of writing
his WWII biography, as a "premise that my destiny was
guided by the major decisions of the leaders of the free
world."
Nancy Metcalf Anderson '48, has notified the College
of the death of her husband, Jerry Anderson, in March,
1999.
Loretta Nunn CasUe '48, and her husband enjoyed a
trip into the American and Canadian Rockies during the
summer of 1999. In the tall they spent three weeks in
Italy Their home is in Albuquerque, NM.
Dorothy Lambert Herron '50, has been named to
the University of Tennessee Agricultural Development
Board. She was appointed to the diree-year position by
Dr. Jack Britt, UT vice president for agriculture. She
also serves on the Blount County Schools Foundation
Board, the Child & Family Service Board, Historic Sam
Houston Schoolhouse Board, die Republian Executive
Committee and the Farm Bureau Board of Directors.
She is retired from her position as materials supervisor
with the Blount Counts' Board of Education.
20 FOCUS Spnng
CLASS NOTES
Virginia Schwarz Mock '50, is president ot Learning Is
ForEver (LIFE) co-sponsored by Continuing Education
at Western Illinois University. It is a program to keep
older adults learning and growing. She also volunteers
in a first grade weekly and takes books to new mothers
at a hospital for Baby Talk.
Joyce Hampton Pullan '50, has notified the College of
the death ot her husband of fifty years, Jim, on July 29,
1999, after a brief illness.
Charles W. Roberts '50, and his wife, Mary Gene
Lawson Roberts '48, celebrated their 50th wedding
anniversary on Oct. 14, 1999, with a family weekend at
Meadow View Resort in Kingsport. tie is retired from
ALCOA; she retired from Blount Memorial Hospital and
as a private consultant dietitian for health are facilities.
Lambert E. Stewart '50, was ordained Deacon ofVenice
Presbyterian Church, Venice, PL, on Sept. 26, 1999.
Xen K. Motsinger '51, was a member of a team that
went to Montserrat for two weeks to assist in volcano
victims recovery.
Willard F. Rahn '51, is still working as Chaplain at
Homewood Retirement Center in Williamsport, MD.
He writes that, at the age of 73, he has no plans to quit
working.
^J7illiam C. Starr '51, and his wife now operate a small
B&B called Pulpit and Palette Bed & Breakfast. He
notes that his wife is an artist. His last clergy postion
was as pastor of International Protestant Congregation
of Kathmandu, Nepal.
Edna Floy Brown Vas '51, enjoyed a ten-day visit
to Southern Spain in May 1999, with Case- Western
University Alumni College. She and her husband plan
to attend the Passion Play in Oberammaugau, Germany
in May, 2000, and then visit her husband's family in
Hungary.
William W. WUlingham '51, began his 26th year
of teaching at Fruidand Baptist Bible Institute in
Hendersonville, NC, on Jan. 4, 2000.
J. T. Anderson '52, and his wife, Edith, celebrated
their SOth wedding anniversary on June 4, 1999, in
San Marino, CA. They were married in 1949 in
Stuttgart, Germany They spent July and August, 1999,
in Germany visiting Edith's relatives. They plan trips to
South America and Germany in 2000.
Susie Shew Martin '52, writes that her son, Tim, is currently
playing the lead role in "Les Miserables" on Broadway
Neale J. Pearson '52, studied Chile's private pension
system during August and September, 1 999, and observed
Stan Long '66 and wife Sally Long hosted 20 alumni and spouses at their home in Jaffrey,
N.H. on Aug. 14, 1999.
Argentine political practices from September to
November. He is Professor Emeritus of Political Science
at Texas Tech University.
W. Kennedy Upham '52, and Joy Hickman Upham
'52, travelled to New Zealand in Oct.-Nov,, 1999, with
an Elderhostel group of 27 and "had a marvelous time."
They lived with a New Zealand family for five days during
part of the trip. Ken and Joy recommend Elderhostel.
Peggy-Ann Kessler Duke '53, and her husband spent
Christmas '99, in the Amazon Rainforest of Peru, and
the New Year at Mochu Pichu. She has done the
illustrations for her husband's two latest books, "Herbs
of the Bible" and "Dr. Duke's Essential Herbs. "
Maree Richards Glanville '53, has, for the past year,
assisted the Office of the Public Defender of the 19th
Judicial Circuit in Ft. Pierce, FL, to develop two
programs, one focusing on alternative sentencing for
offenders with mental health and substance abuse issues
and a second program aimed at providing support by
volunteers to those sentenced to an alternative program.
This program also provides internship opportunities
for college students in paralegal and human services
programs and tor students enrolled in a high school
Community Service Program.
Grace Greenawalt Nieto '53, continues to do volunteer
work for the Friends of the local count)' library and at
Juniata College, where her husband continues to teach.
She does editing and proof reading of his works for
publication.
Eugenia Jackson Vogel '54, was honored upon
retirement in 1997, by Presbytery of Grand Canyon for
"outstanding service" in developing the Clergy Spouse
Ministry, which provides pastoral care for clergy spouses
and their families. In late 1998 and early 1999, she
spent a month in El Salvador with her son-in-law's
family, assisting in distributing mission funds to victims
of Hurricane Mitch. Gene has five children, nine
grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
John R Borter '56, retired on Nov 1 , 1 999, after serving
the Slippery Rock Presbyterian Church, EUwood City,
PA for 30 years. He has been elected Pastor Emeritus of
the church.
Robert DeLozier '56, recendy retired after 1 5 years as
principal of Alcoa Elementary School. An article about
his long and varied career in education appeared in the
Maryville "Daily Times."
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21
CLASS NOTES
Charles Dunn '56, and JoAnn Brooks Dunn '56,
enjoyed the International Leadership Convention in
Barcelona, Spain in July, 1999, a trip they earned troni
Shaklee Corporation.
Elizabedi Enloe Hutton '56, recently retired after 20
years as secretary at Rayne Memorial United Methodist
Church in New Orleans. Her husband, Jack Hutton, a
former choir director at MC, is not retiring, after serving
the same church for 35 years.
Jim Kennedy '56, writes that he loves living on the
water in the Florida Keys and invites MC friends to visit.
He is pastor of Presbyterian Kirk of the Keys.
Jim Laster '56, has written a setting of "0 Nata Lux"
for the Maryville College Choir, which was performed
by the Choir in December, 1999, Jim appeared as an
Extra in two films; "Contender" and an HBO special,
"Corner," He also played the part of the Resident in the
East Coast premier otTom Stoppard's play, "Indian Ink,"
at the Studio Theatre in Washington, DC, He has had
a Palm Sunda\' anthem, "The Roval Banners Foraard
Go," published by Concordia Publishing House.
Maryel Vogel Smith '56, is teaching vocal music in an
elementary school in Cleveland, OH, She continues as
an Elder in the Church of Covenant (Presbyterian),
David \X'ilHams '56, has been awarded the title of
Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan, He
and his wife, Jean Boyd Williams '57, greeted their first
grandchild in March, 1999. Later they celebrated two
weddings with their son, Alex and his bride Maricela,
first in Michigan and then in Mexico.
Robert W. Finertie '57, is now retired and lives wirh
his wite, Leslie, and their seven-year-old twins. Holly
and Heather, in the Bay Area of San Francisco. Bob
facilitates a small group and teaches Sunday school at
Walnut Creek Presbyterian Church.
Clara Joe Minarik Fisher '57, and her husband moved
from Athens, OH to ^Amherst, MA, in November, 1 999.
He retired in June, 1999, and was named Pastor Emeritus
of First Presbyterian Church in Athens. They initiated
their new home during Christmas with a visit from
children and grandchildren who live in Lexington, MA.
Ben Stabley '57, has retired after 42 years as an analytical
chemist. He and his wife, Hillis McKamey Stabley '59,
have opened a bed and breakfa.st. The Inn on Pumpkin
Lane, in Gilman, VT. They have three children and six
grandchildren.
Ted B. Wilson '57, has retired as Minister of Music at
Higher Ground Baptist Church in Kingsport, TN. His
eighth grandchild was born in June, 1999.
Louise Ogden Wyman '57, retired from teaching in
June, 1999. She now teaches piano and voice lessons
at home, playing bass viola in a chamber ensemble and
in the Oak Ridge Civic Orchestra and serving as choir
director/organist in the Holy Ghost Catholic Church in
Knoxville. She was in charge of the music and served as
the choir director for the ordination Mass of Monsignor
loseph Edward Kurtz, who was recently named bishop
of the Diocese o( KnoxTille.
Gretchen Hill Woodhull '58, tecently won an award
as Montana's "History Teacher ot the Year." She teaches
at the Hawthorne Elementary School in Bozeman, MT.
An article about Woodhull and her creative ways of
teaching appeared in the Bozeman "Daily Chronicle."
Dan Ellis '60, has been installed as the William R,
Orthwein Distinguished Professor ofLaw at Washington
University's School of Law, Ellis stepped down as dean
ot the law school in lune, 1998, and is now returning to
full-time teaching.
Fred Morrison '61, has received a Howard Miller Table
Clock in recognition of his 30 years of service to the
state of NC. He is Senior Administrative Law Judge of
the NC Office of Administrative Hearings.
Joel Giffin '62, was a recipient of the 1 999 Milken
Family Foundation National Educator Awards. He was
one of only 172 educators in the country to recive
the award, which carries an unrestricted cash award
of $25,000. Giffin is principal of Marwille Middle
School.
Dorothea Saint Hanton '63, and her husband have
moved to Kalamazoo, Ml, where they are officers
(ministers) m charge of The Salvation Army.
James C. Renfro, Jr. '63, recently retired as Director
of the Environmental Technology Development and
Commercialization Center of Sam Houston State
University in Texas City, TX. He had previously retired
from Dow Chemical Co. after 28 years.
Mary Gleason Boone '64, now has two grandchildren,
born in 1995 and 1999. She continues to make her
home in Louisville, KY.
Jerry Cooper '64, and his wife, Joyce, have been working
together in ministry and in crafts for many years. Retired
from the Presbyterian Church (USA), Jerry is involved
in liturgical arts, carving all the PC(USA) symbols for
items sold through the Presbnerian Publishing House
and Cokesbury. Recently both Jerry and Joyce have
been involved in crafts using a Celtic motif They live
in Berea, KY and are members of the Kentucky Guild,
An article about the Coopers and rheir work appeared in
January, 2000, in "Presbyterian Voice."
Janet Dearcopp '64, has relocated to Lady Lake, FL,
where she is living and teachinggolf at The Villages.
Martha Hall Quigley '64, was recently elected to the
Class of 2003 of the Session of the First Presbyterian
Church of Hazard, KY.
Allan Hoke '65, was recently honored by the East
Tennessee Vocal Association for 25 years of "Outstanding
Service." He was given Honorary Lifetime Membership,
the highest recognition given by the association.
Carolyn B. Huff '65, is Professor of History at Lenoir-
Rhvne College, where she has given 30 years of service.
Arlene Larsen Shafer '65, recently celebrated 25 years in
real estate. She is a broker/associate with Coldwell Banker
in Vista, CA, and is a President's Club Award winner. She
and George Shafer '64, were divorced in 1998,
Jack Spencer '65, has worked for the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention for 34 years. He is the deputy
director tor the Division of STO Prevention, He recently
received the William C. Watson Medal of Excellence,
CDC's highest award.
Mary Louise Fuller Trout '65, lives in Pisataway, NJ, and
recently enjoyed a visit from Ann Jordan '65. who lives in
California. Both Ann and Arlene Larsen Shafer '65, keep
in touch with Mar}' Louise via email and phone.
Hazel DeWeese Steel '66, writes that her son, Shawn, is a
first year law student at the University ot Mar}'land. Son,
Brian, is a freshman at Reinhardt College in Georgia.
Hazel and her husband, John, live in Tucker, GA.
Marilyn Caldwell Cotton '67, has been promoted
to the position of Assistant Vice President at Munich
American Reassurance Company.
Ingrid Hellmer Hemphill '67, is on the Board of
Directors of the Berks Arts Council, which promotes the
arts through a jazz festival and art galleries, and serves as
a re-granting organization for the state ot Penns\'lvania.
Carol Kaufmann Jenkins '67, is a teacher and pc
network administrator at Holy Name High School and
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CLASS NOTES
Delores Bowen Ziegler 73, left, enjoys a laugh with Dorothy Barber Bushing '42 during an
after-concert reception at Willord House. Ms. Ziegler performed a music department benefit
program in front of a full house in the Fine Arts Center's Music Auditorium April 2.
Sylvan Learning Center in West Reading, PA. She
has a granddaughter, born in February, 1999.
Beverly Minear Atkinson '68, is associate to the director
ot undergraduate studies in the Dept. of English at
the University of Minnesota. She is academic advisor
to English majors, administrator for scheduling and
staffing courses, supervisor for several employees and
also teaches. She also does volunteer work through her
PEO chapter and church.
Linda McNair Cohen '68, is co-author and editor of
the "Collection Management Policy" of the Birmingham
Public Library System. The policy was published by the
library in 1999.
Linda Giesseimann Driver '68, has moved to Alaska,
where she is Events Coordinator for the Valdez Chamber
of Commerce.
Cole Piper '68, and his wife, Sue, recently adopted
a son, three-year-old Austin Alexander Piper, from a
Russian orphanage. He joins a sister, Caroline (5) in the
Piper family home in west Knox County.
Sharon Pusey Bailey '69, was the recipient of the 1999
Tennessee fiospital Association's Nurse of Distinction
Award, which was presented at a ceremony in Nashville.
She is the Senior Director of Nursing at Blount Memorial
Hospital in Mar)'ville.
Brian H. Childs '69, is Director of Ethics and
Organizational Development at Shore Health System,
Easton, MD. He was also recently appointed as a
professor at Seton Hall Universiry-on-Line Graduate
School.
Alex Robins '69, has completed his 17th season as
quarterback coach at Middle Tennessee State University.
He coached at Mars Hill College, University of Richmond
and Brunswick High School (GA) before going to MTSU
in 198.1 He has been responsible for developing some
of the top quarterbacks in Blue Raider history. He and
his wife, Peggy, have two sons.
Tom Chase '70, is now a toxicology technologist with
Tennessee Toxicolog)', a division of Microbial Insights in
Rockford, TN. Michael Wimpee '9L also works there.
Chris Vansant Gritzmacher '70, is a counselor for
troubled young people. She also runs a Griet Center in
Con roe, TX.
Carol Fisher Mathieson '70, recast period dances as
songs and incidental music for Culver-Stockton College's
production of "Midsummer Night's Dream." Her opera
workshop went on the road and opened the renovated
opera house in Ainsworth, lA. Mathieson is Professor
of Music at Culver-Stockton.
Larry Bodine '71, is now teaching social studies at
Essex Campus Program, a school for at-risk students in
Orange, NJ. He also has his own financial planning
business.
JohnT. Campbell '71, received the 1999 "Distinguished
Alumnus Award" in the Field of Pastoral Ministry from
Pittsburgh Theological Seminar^'. He is pastor of Cross
Roads Presbyterian Church in Gibsonia, PA. He has
mamtained dedicated and active service to his church
and communirv' while batding multiple sclerosis, a
disease he has had since 1986.
Lynn Gillespie Chater '71, and her husband, Kerry,
co-wrote "You Go First, " sung by Jessica Andrews on
Country Radio. Their publishing company Chater
Songs, celebrated its first anniversary with a top 20 CD
and a top 10 video.
Bob Evaul '71, and his wife, Carol, have returned to
Bolivia, where they train missionaries. They are under
the auspices of South America Mission and have been
missionaries in Bolivia tor 17 years.
Jane Dodge Kidder '71, has received the Master's of
Education in Librar)' Media Services from James Madison
University. She is employed as a librarv'/media specialist
at Blue Ridge Middle School in Loudoun County, VA.
Satoru Jo '73, has been promoted to Senior Managing
Director, International Real Estate Services with
Cushman Realty Corporation in Los Angeles.
Christina Bergner Clayton '74, is still a music duo with
her husband. She is also involved in accessory design
with Partylite Gifi:s. She and her husband have three
children, ages 13, 12 & 3. They live in Golden, NY.
Pat D'Alba Sabatelle '74, and her husband, Michael,
have been restoring a historic home in Stone Mountain,
GA. In the summer of 1999, they traveled to Japan to
hike and visit friends.
Leland C. Blackwood, Jr. '76, was recendy honored
for completion of the third level in The University
of Tennessee's County Officials Certificate Training
Program. The third level is the final stage in the three-
level, 1 1 5-hour program intended to promote increased
efficiency of county government through professional
development.
FOCUS Spring
23
CLASS NOTES
Janet Roper Giiffln 76, is currently a third year law
student at the University of Montana School ol Law.
Rick Carl 77, has joined Baker, Donelson, Bearman
& Caldwell law practice in the Knoxviile office as an
associate. He concentrates his practice in bankruptcy
and creditor rights and commercial litigation.
Carolyn Phibbs Cox 77, is owner of The Dancer's
Shoppe, a retail store, which she opened in Knoxviile
in 1998. Her husband is working on his Ph. D. at
UT- Knoxviile. They have two children, Kevin (16) and
Julie (11).
Charles J. Craven 77, recently received the Master's in
Library Science degree trom the University ot Tennessee.
Marjorie Crye 78, teaches at Charles Hay Elementary
School in Littleton, CO, where she is helping the
Spanish-speaking children in kindergarten through 4th
grade learn English as a second language.
Deborah A. Kirk 78, is working on her Doctor
of Ministry degree at Union Theological Seminary
and Presbyterian School of Christian Education in
Richmond, VA. She is in her 5th year as Associate
Pastor atTuckahoe Presbyterian Church in Richmond.
Susan Wenkstem Gidley '80, and her family live in
Greenville, NC, where she continues her work as a
rehabilitation counselor. She has three children, Emma
(11), Gram (8), and Molly (6).
Steven Serotte '80, is head football coach at Louisville
Central High School in Louisville, KT. He has a master's
degree from Nova Universic)' and a Rank 1 in Learning
Behavior Disorders from the Univetsity of Louisville,
where he is now completing work for a principal's
certificate.
Steve Arnold '82, is a teacher, coach and athletic
director at Johnson County Middle School in TN.
He was elected gitls tennis coach of the year in the
conference for the second time. His team won both
the conference and district tide. He was the director
of "Free Throws lor Future, " a Christmas fund falser to
benefit underprivileged children.
Ruth Wilgus Gehring '82, is now a member of a
litufgical dance group. Her husband is pastor at King of
Glory Lutheran Church in Carmel, IN. They have two
children, William (8) and Allison (6).
Lee Lord '83, and his wife purchased a home in
Volcano, HI, in November, 1998, and live two miles
from the entrance to Volcano National Park. Lee is East
Hawaii Administrator for Child and Family Service and
represents 42 child-serving agencies to the Western States
Youth Service Network and the National Network for
Youth. He has become active in the domestic violence
field and is a commissioner on the Mayor's Family
Violence Advisory Commission. He and his wile have
two daughters.
Kathy Walker Miller '83, was named Regional
Underwriting Manager tor Norwest Mortgage in June,
1999.
Helen McNiell '84, left her job as art director with Time
Life, Inc. in the spring of 1998, and joined her hu,sband,
Antonio Alcala, in his graphic design studio, Studio A.
Studio A was recently recognized by Critique Magazine
as one of the Washington, D. C. area's top twelve design
firms. Helen lives in "Old Town" Alexandria, VA, with
her husband and two daughters.
Wilma Coleman Proffitt '84, recently joined the
practice of Maryville Anesthesiology. She is also now
on staff at Blount Memorial Hospital in Maryville, She
received her medical degree trom Quillen College ot
Medicine and was previously staft anesthesiologist with
Anesthesiologists Associated in Chattanooga.
Daniel Bouch '85, has been promoted to the position of
branch manager for the Cast Division at the Naval Surface
Warfare Center/Indian Head Division in Maryland.
Melissa A. Walker '85, has been elected executive secretary
of the Southern Association of Women Historians, an
international organization of scholars specializing in
Southern women's history.
Christopher Lilley '87, is a project architect with Gresham
Smith and Partners in Nashville. He enjoys camping,
hiking and doing home repairs in his spare time.
Steve Diggs '88, is Executive Director of the Emerald
Youth Foundation in KnoxTille. The foundation recently
acquired a 22,000 square foot facilty, donated and
renovated by St. Mary's Medical Centet and will be
trying to raise funds to fijtnish the building. Emerald
Youth Foundation is a ministry that targets urban
neighborhoods and serves hundreds of children. It is
funded solely by charitable contributions.
Jeannie L. Dickey '89, received her MSN from
UT-tvnox\'ille in 1992, and the MBA trom Lincoln
Memorial University in 1998. She is Nurse Manager ot
the Surgical Intensive Care Unit at Vanderbilt University
Medical Center.
On behalf of the Class of 2000 and the Senior Gift Committee, Class President Brian Gossett,
left, presented Dr. Gerald Gibson with an $8,470 check at the annuo! Senior Barbecue. The
money, pledged by 146 seniors and raised through the Senior Gift Campaign, will go toward
exhibits and displays in the Kin Takahashi Room in Bartlett Hall. The amount and participation
percentage were records for the Senior Gift Campaign.
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FOCUS Spring
CLASS NOTES
Donna Dixon '89, is one of fewer than 100 prospects
nationally to be invited to take the American College of
Sports Medicine program's "pilot" qualifying exam. She is
now an ACSM "registered clinical exercise physiologist."
Dixon is Medical Fitness Program Coordinator at Blount
Memoiial Hospital in Maryville.
Darrell Franklin '89, is in his first position as Senior
Pastor at the Ingalls Church of God in Ingalls, IN.
Denise Wilson Franklin '89, completed her Master's
in Public Administration at UT in 1992. She is now a
stay-at-home mom to two-year-old son, Jameson. The
family has purchased a new home in Ingalls.
Heidi Hoffecker '89, and her daughter, Rachel, were
the subjects of an article in the Oct. 21, 1999, issue of
the Chattanooga Times/Free Press. Rachel has Down
syndrome, and Fleidi is an active advocate for children
with disabilities. She is an attorney with the firm of
Robinson, Smith and Wells in Chattanooga.
Laura Brock Lynch '89, has recently purchased a new
home in Pinehurst, NC.
Sybil Porter Owens '89, is Human Resources Manager
forTacola, Inc. in Birmingham, AL.
Robyn Dean '90, has been appointed to the faculty of
the Univetsity of Rochester School of Medicine in the
department of psychiatry.
Will Lukens '91, is Vice President, E-Commerce
Relations with Omnicell Technologies in Palo Alto,
CA.
Myles L. Owens '91, is Documentation Manager for
Walker Interactive Systems, Inc. in Birmingham, AL.
Melissa Suder Arp '93, is now living in Butler, PA,
where her husband is an electrical engineer for Alleghany
Power. She is working part-time as an athletic trainer at
the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and is an
instructor for the Butler Co. Chapter of the American
Red Cross.
Cindy Huffstetler Jones '93, passed the CPA exam in
1999. She is a staff accountant with Pugh & Company
R C. in Knoxville.
Bill Knight '94, and Alyson Neville Knight '93, have
telocated to Maryville, where Bill is now financial analyst
with Ruby Tuesday Inc. He has completed his MBA
degree. Alyson is a freelance sign language interpreter in
the MaryviUe/Knoxville area.
Amy Elizabeth Lee '95, has been promoted to lieutenant
in the U. S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps.
She is stafif physical therapist at Tuba City (AZ) Indian
Medical Center.
Elizabeth Hucke Ralston '95, was recently promoted
to Product Analyst II with Yazaki North America, Inc.
in Canton, MI.
Waynette L. Matthews '96, is attending Trevecca
Nazarene Universit)' in Nashville, TN, working toward
a Masters of Science Medicine. She will become a
Physician Assistant in the class of 2001.
Christopher A. Noe '96, is a student at Southwestern
University School of Law in Los Angeles. He is enrolled
in a three-year course of study leading to the Juris Doctor
degree.
Kevin L. Turner '96 and his wife Julie C. Turner
graduated from ETSU James H. Quillen College of
Medicine on May 5, 2000. They have purchased a house
in Johnson City, and they each plan to begin residency
Doug Mathews '97, is an investment representative
with Edward Jones. He and his wife, Brandee, live in
Knoxville.
Angela J. Bowman '98, recently moved from Nashville
back to Knoxville, where she has accepted a position
as relationship services representative with NOVA
Informations Systems, Inc.
Nikolai Curtis '98, is a reptile specialist with Zoo Atlanta
and is working on his master's degree at Georgia Tech.
Jason K. Kallenberg '98, teaches at Sarah Moore
Green Magnet Technology Academy in Knoxville and is
assistant baseball coach at Powell High School.
Mariana T. Diss-Boero '99, is married to Olivier R
Diss. They expect their first child on March 27, 2000.
Heather Menefee '99, is now production manager of
The Write Stuff Advertising & Marketing, based in
Knoxville.
deaths
Rachel Minerva Edds '27, on Oct. 2, 1 999, at Colonial
Hills Nursing Center in Maryville. She was a retired
teacher. Survivors include a brother; several nieces and
nephews, and their families.
Fronie French Schweinler '29, on Dec. 27, 1999,
in Knox-ville. She had been a long-time resident of
Rockwood, TN. Survivors include a nephew and two
nieces.
Henry G. Welbon '29, on Dec. 11, 1999, in Tucson,
AZ. He was preceded in death by his wife, Dorothy,
who died Aug. 19, 1999. He was a retired missionary
and minister. Survivors include a daughter, Priscilla Ewy,
who notified the College of her father's death.
Gladys Graham Lord '30, on Nov 3, 1999, in Knoxville.
She was a retired teacher. Survivors include her son and
daughter-in-law and three grandchildren.
Esther Horton Nelson '31, on Dec. 17, 1999, in Black
Mountain, NC. She was a retired teacher and was
preceded in death by her husband, Ewell L. Nelson '33
in 1966. Survivors include three daughters, two sons
and their families. The College was notified of her death
by her daughter, Sue Nelson Hassall '58. Mrs. Nelson
was buried in Vidalia, GA.
Maurice Melvin Carper '32, on June 16, 1999, at Life
Care Center in Greeneville, TN. He was a retired school
teacher, having taught in the Radford and Salem, VA school
systems. Survivors include his wife; two daughters and
their tamilies; and three step-childten and their families.
,,,,,.,„„ , , , Georea Burk Herman 32, on Apr. 18, 1995, m
Joe Malheiro 98, was recently promoted to the position ,^ „ n n i i i r i • ^ i n i
' \^ ,ri Downers Grove, IL. She had taught school in Oak Park,
ot merchandise manager with JCPenney and transferred „ ■ , nnr c ■ ■ i j l u u j
^ / ' IL, retiring in 1976. Survivors include her husband,
to Atlanta. He and his wife live in Powder Springs, GA.
ng in IV/b. survivors
daughter and two grandsons.
Amethyst Schott '98, is working toward her Master's
in Education degree at Grand Valley State University in
Michigan.
Becca Devilbiss '99, is an apprentice interpreter at
Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, NY.
Virginia Crider King '32, on Jan. 1 3, 2000, at her home
in Maryville. She had taught home economics at MC in
the 1930s, and was active in community organizations
and at New Providence Presbyterian Church. Survivors
include two sons, a daughter, eight grandchildren and
eight great-grandchildren.
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25
CLASS NOTES
Fischbach - 'lifeblood' of MCs
Florida Reunions - passes away
George F. Fischbach '33 of Lake Wales,
Fla., passed away Jan. 29. He was 91.
George and wife Catheryn Smith Fis-
chbach '36 were founders and direaors of
rhe Circle F Dude Ranch Camp, a Christian
summer camp tor boys and girls located six
miles east of Lake Wales.
For almost 40 years, the camp was the
meering place for the annual Florida Reunion of
Maryville College alumni, parents and friends.
The Fischbachs also hosted numerous MC ath-
letic teams, choirs, admission representatives
and representatives at the camp.
George graduated with a degree in
German from Mar}Tille College in 1933. He
later earned a master's degree in health and
physical education from George Peabody Col-
lege in Nashville, Tenn. From 1934 until 1938,
he coached Maryville College's tennis and
swimming teams and was a faculty member in
the physical education department through the
early 1940s. He and Catheryn married in 1940
and opened Circle F in 1952.
George is survived by three sons and six
grandchildren, including Tara Fischbach Nardi
'92.
"George and Catheryn were the lifeblood
of all those reunions. They made everyone
feel welcome," said Bob Hassall '58, who
attended several Florida Reunions at the Circle
F Dude Ranch with his wife Sue Nelson Has-
sall '58 and their family. "Even today [at Flor-
ida Reunions held in Leesburg, Fla.], his name
is brought up with fondness. It is a name syn-
onymous with the Florida Reunion."
Eloise Garrett Perry '32, on Dec. 29, 1999. She was
preceded in death by her husband, William G. Perr)-.
They had lived in Hendersonville, NC.
Dorothy Weatherly Sharp '32, on Sept. 27, 1999, in
Lenoir City, TN. She had lived in Sevier County for
many years and was a retired teacher. Survivors include
her daughter and son, and several grandchildren.
Ruby Hitch Thrower Baker, '32, on Dec. 13, 1999, in
Dallas, TX. She was retired from ALCOA and a member
of New Providence Presbyterian Church in Maryville.
She was preceded in death by two husbands, Robert C.
Thrower, '25, and Samuel M. Baker. Sur\'ivors include a
daughter and 5vo step-daughters; seven grandchildren and
eight great-grandchildren. Memorials are being made to the
Ruby H. Thrower Baker Scholarship at Maryville College.
Naomi Woods Hina '34, on Jan. 22, 2000, in Maryville.
She was a retired Knox County educator and was active
in Graystone Presbyterian Church in KnoxTille where
she chaired the church's Centennial Celebration in 1990
and wrote its commemorative histor)' book. Sur\'ivors
include two daughters, one ol whom is Marian Hina
Stuart '57; a son and his family; nine grandchildren, one
of whom is Tim Stuart '80; se\en great-grandchildren;
and sisters, Edith Woods Smith '34; and Rudh Woods
Pearson '40.
Garry D. Ridder '35, on Apr. 28, 1999, m Grantsville,
MD. He was a chemist and mining engineer and retired
from the Pittston Corporation in Richmond, VA. He is
survived by several nieces and nephews and two special
friends, Daniel and Anna Yoder. Mrs. Yoder notified the
College of his death.
Ralph E. Ashby '37, on Nov. 5, 1998, at his home in
Downsville, LA. He played professional baseball and
served in the US Army after graduating from MC, and
later began a career in poultrj' and livestock farming in
Downsville. Survivors include his wile, Lucille Davis
Ashby, two daughters and a son and their families.
Martin Bry-Nildsen, Jr. '38, on Dec. 30, 1999, in
Washington, NJ. He was a graduate of Rutgers School
of Law and, in 1949, was admitted to the United States
Supreme Court. After retiring as Superior Court Judge
in 1980, he remained as counsel with Broscious, Glynn
& Fischer in Washington, NJ. Survivors include his
wife, three sons and a daughter, twelve grandchildren
and a great-grandchild.
Marian Thorson Kehrwald '38, in November, 1999.
She was a resident ot Highland Park, IL. Survivors
include two daughters and their lamilies, and sister, Lois
Thorson Gulp '42.
Bemice Smith Baldwin '41, on July 16, 1998, She
lived in Aberdeen, WA, and was a former teacher and
librarian. Survivors include two sons and their families,
and sister, Doris M, Smith '42, who notified the College
of her sister's death.
Robert Lynn Birchfiel '41, on Jan. 5, 2000, at Mar)'ville
Healthcare Center. He was a member of Broadway
United Methodist Church. Survivors include two sons
and a daughter and their families, and sister, Carleen
Birchfiel Howard '39, of Maryville.
Mildred Montgomery Eanes '42, on Dec. 12. 1999.
She and her husband, Cecil 0. Eanes '43, had celebrated
their 56th wedding anniversary with a trip through the
Panama Canal in Oct., 1999. She was a retired school
teacher. In addition to her husband, she is survived by
two sons, two daughters, nine grandchildren and four
great grandchildren.
Edith Monroe Landis '43, on Oct. 17, 1999, in
lvnox\ille. She was a member of Second Presbyterian
Church in Knoxville. Survivors include her husband
of 50 years, Charles V. Landis; three daughters and a
son, and their families; and sister, Geraldine Monroe
Hollick'34.
Ruth Kaye Andrews '47, on July 17, 1999. Survivors
include her husband, Forrest, of West Bethesda, MD;
three daughters and their families; and sisrer, Carolyn
Kaye '49, who notified the College of her sister's death.
Robert H. "Pie" Gamer '48, on Oct. 31, 1999, in
Sarasota, FL. He was a "Little All American " at MC
and played on the undefeated team of 1946 that played
in the first Tangerine Bowl Game. He was a teacher and
coach in TN, and later in FL, retiring in 1982. Survivors
include his wife of 51 years, Janet Rich Gamer '48; a
daughter and son, and four grandsons.
Howard D. Cameron '50, on Dec. 30, 1999, in a highway
accident near Live Oak, FL. He was pulling his car over to
the side of road because of heavy smoke from brush fires,
when it was struck from behind by a pickup truck. He was
killed instantly He and his wife had served as missionaries
to Congo, Rwanda and Kenya until 1 997. At die time of his
death he was serving as supply pastor at First Presbyterian
Church, Live Oak, FL. Sur\'ivors include his wife, Wilma
Davis Cameron '50, a son and mo daughters.
Dorothy Lemmon Kirkpatrick '50, on Oct. 3 1 , 1 999,
in High Point, NC. Her husband. Rev. Charles E.
Kirkpatrick '48, notified the College of her death.
Donald C. Stilwell '52, on July 8, 1999. He was a
retired Methodist minister. Survivors include his wife,
Helen Sims Stilwell '52. She has mo\ed to Brooklyn,
MS, to live with her daughrer.
Judy Johnson Durant '53, on Dec. 29, 1999, in
Raleigh, NC. Survivors include her husband. Jack D.
Durant '53, who notified the College of her deadi.
Patricia Lewis Kidder '53, on May 3, 1999, at
Westminster, MD. She was retired from Baltimore
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FOCUS Spnng 2000
CLASS NOTES
The Oct. 23 wedding of Stephanie Fugate '95
and Kirby league was well-attended by alumni of
the college. They lined up to congratulate the couple
at a reception held at Royal Oaks Country Club.
Count}' Public Schools. She was an elder at First United
Presbyterian Church in Westminster. Survivors include her
husband of 46 years, Paul S. Kidder '52; two daughters
and five grandchildren; her mother and two sisters.
Rhoda M. Null '60, on Feb. 5, 1999. She was a retired
educator. The College was notified of her death by
David H. Null of Perryopolis, PA.
Madeleine Wilson Sterner '63, on Jan. 27, 2000, at her
Loudon, TN home, of cancer. She had formerly lived in
Da\ton, OH. Survivors include her husband,
Dale Sterner '62; two sons, Daryl and Vaughn, and their
families; and her mother and rwo brothers of Dayton, OH.
WiUiam "BiUy" B. Thompson '63, on Jan. 29, 2000,
at his home in Stone Mountain, GA. He had worked for
ALCOA prior to retirement. Survivors include his wife,
Mayke Wij naldum Thompson, seven sons, a brother and
five sisters and their families, and nine grandchildren.
His good friend, Carl McDonald '63, took part in the
memorial service.
Sarah Doerschuk Holden '66, on May 29, 1999, in
California, of cancer. Survivors include two children,
two grandchildren, parents and brother, John Doerschuk.
The College was notified of her death by Susan Viney
Foreman '66.
Trenton, NJ, and was employed at FMC Specialty Products.
His death was reported by a College phonathon caller and
confirmed by a call from the College to personnel at FMC.
Clayton L. Ferguson, Jr. '98, on Nov. 7, 1999, in MaryviUe,
after a long battle with brain cancer. He was a Baptist
minister in Maryville Survivors include his wife, Kelly; young
daughter Amanda; parents, brother and two sisters and their
families.
marriages
Sue Trotter Linstead '59, to Wayne Richardson, Sept.
13, 1999.
Barbara L. Fritz '70, to Clayton K. Baker, Nov. 27,
1999.
Snell A. Mills, III '79, to Carrie Eby, May 22, 1999.
Melissa Walker '85, to Charles Reback, Dec. 18, 1999.
Lisa Harvey '88, to Will Burkett, Sept. 9, 1999.
James Michael Harrison '93, to Trenna Lois Patton,
Sept. 20, 1999.
Julie Michelle Walker '94, to Blaine Piper Danielson,
Jan. 8, 2000.
Stephanie Fugate '95, to Kirby Teague, Oct. 23, 1999.
Heather Nicole Griffis '95, to Lance Earl King, June 3.
1999.
Heather Michelle Everett '97, to Chad Lee Tipton,
Dec. 18, 1999.
Vanessa E. Gibbs '97, to Jonathan Grace, March 13,
1999.
Misty Summey '97, to Ronald Moore '97, July 18,
1998.
Jason Kristopher Kallenberg '98, to Kimberly Lorraine
Jennings, Aug. 21, 1999.
Devin James Koester '98, to Leslie Gwynne Bozeman,
July 17, 1999.
Joe Malheiro '98, to Melissa Ball, May 29, 1999.
Karen D. Strachan '98, to Harold J. Lynn '97, July 1 0,
1999.
births
Caryn Olsen Brown '79, and her husband, Gotten,
a dau!
child.'
a daughter, Robin Layne, Nov. 9, 1998, their second
Ellen Skipper Odom '79, and her husband, a son, John
Thomas Bartell, July 29, 1999.
Kathy Walker Miller '83, and her husband, Doug, a
son. Walker Douglas, March 8, 1999.
Mary Hughes Lee '84, and Jeff Lee '84, a son, Forrest
Jackson, July 16, 1999, their third child.
JiJie Humpert Batson '85, and her husband, Daniel, a
son, Elijah, January, 1999.
Dr. Morrissa Watson '85, a son, Matthew Joseph, Nov.
11,1999.
Brian Linkous '87, and Mary Coleman Linkous '89,
a dauj
child.
a daughter, Miranda Kate, Sept. 28, 1999, their third
Philip DerPilbosian '69, on Aug. 1 , 1 998. He lived in Sherrie Brents '99, to Joseph Dudley, July 1 7, 1 999.
Wendi Jo Medlin Uselton '89, and her husband, Jeff, a
daughter, Sandy, their third child.
Melissa Myers Bowers '90, and her husband. Brad, a
daughter, Emilee Grace, Jan. 22, 2000.
Myles L. Owens '91, and Sybil Porter Owens '89,
a daughter, Sarah Leath, Sept. 16, 1999, their second
child.
Vickie Wester Schultze '91, and her husband, Mike, a
son, William Stephen, Nov. 29, 1999.
Marcelete Lloyd Ailor '93, and her husband, Greg, a
son, Nolan Brian, June 7, 1999, their second child.
Cindy Huffstetler Jones '93, and her husband, Bryan,
a son, Devon Timothy, Oct. 4, 1999, their first child.
Ali E. Sohrabi '93, and his wife, Misty, a son, Aaron E.
Sohrabi, Oct. 13, 1999, their first child.
Mark T. Curtis '94, and his wife, Anice, a daughter,
Christa Nicole, Aug. 2, 1999.
Jason K. Reed '94, and his wife, Dawn, a son, Geoffrey
Kibler, Oct. 19, 1999, their first child.
FOCUS Spring
27
LETTER FROM THE ALUMNI PRESIDENT
As you can see from the articles in this issue of FOCUS,
. the attention surrounds the athletic efforts at
Maryville College. When I remember my fondest memories
of Maryville College, they include those surrounding my
personal experience with sports. Football played a large
role in my decision to attend Maryville College.
I had visited Mar\T,'ille to watch my sisterTerrieTopham
Reilly '76 play basketball at the College, and had watched
the Scots football team
play in Virginia (Emory
& Henry, Bridgewater,
etc.), my home state. My
sister had just graduated
when I enrolled, and her
involvement in athletics
additionally influenced
my decision.
As a freshman, 1
remember walking into
thegym to watch wrestling
matches with Maryville
men holding their own
I i4iif against schools like Notre
I ^ "i"-^ Dame, the Universirv' of
' ■ * Alabama and the
University of Tennessee.
It seemed to me that
the entire student body
attended even,' home
football and basketball
game. I remember home
basketball games and many
of the students sitting courtside in folding chairs, cheering
on the Scots and harassing the opposing team.
During my playing years, (1976-1979) the coaches
were Jim Jordan, Steve Fickert and Dan Zaneski. Under
their leadership, they taught us the importance of teamwork
as we compiled records of 28-7. Just as important are
the friendships that 1 cultivated during those years. They
continue today as my former teammates and our families
vacation together, e-mail each other and even attend surprise
birthday parties out-of-state. And many of my friends still
attend Homecoming celebrations, which allow us to re-visit
those memories year after year.
I've continued many other friendships through the
years involved in intramural basketball and Softball teams,
which bring back great memories, as well.
Some lessons gained from my involvement in sports at
the College include the importance of teamwork, dedication
and accomplishment. Participarion in a sports program offers
students the opportunity to learn about teamwork, which
carries over into a lifetime of experiences. The MarNwille
College Alumni Association (MCAA) is a good example of
a group requiring teamwork to achieve success. Not unlike
my experience with football, I realize the importance of
each member of our Association and how valuable each
persons contribution is to our success in victories of all
kinds here at Maryville College.
Last year, the MCAA's executive board and I set a
goal of having a 50-percent alumni participation rate in
fiscal year 1999-2000. Here at press time, only a few days
remain in the fiscal year. If you made a gift to the Annual
Fund, I thank you. If you were not able to be a part of
the 1999-2000 push for alumni participation, I encourage
you to join our team next year - regardless of whether you
learned teamwork on a football field or basketball court,
in a concert hall or classroom, in residence halls or student
organizations.
To borrow images from the sports world, here is the
alumni participation scouting report and how we stack
up:
• If their records are as good as in previous years,
Centre College and Emory & Henry continue to be
the schools to beat. For 1998-99, Centre had an
alumni giving percenage of 65.2 percent; 50 percent
of E&H grads made a gift to their alma mater.
• A victory over Carson-Newman is well within our
grasp: Last year, only 16 percent of the Eagles made
a gift to C-N.
• The University of the South (Sewanee) is gaining:
Last vear, the school celebrated 43 percent of
alumni making gifts to the university. (Sewanee's
43 percent participation figure came within three
percentage points of Maryville's 46.02-percent
showing.)
In June, we hope to ring the bell atop Anderson Hall
and sing on Victory Hill, celebrating a victory that may
prove more meaningful than any earned in the history of
Maryville College.
Stav tuned for the final score, and "Go Scots!" ■
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