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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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Maryville  College  FOCUS  magazine  2000  (issn  309) 

Published  three  times  a  year 

Maryville  College 

502  E.  Lamar  Alexander  Parkway 

Maryville,  TN  37804-5907 

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PRESIDENT: 

Dr.  Gerald  W.  Gibson 


MARYVILLE 

COLLEGE 


Established  1819 


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 

DESIGN  AND  LAYOUT: 

Alan  W.  Reynolds,  Publications  Manager 


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Whenever  I  meet  an  alumnus  from  New 
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 
is  that  J.D.  Davis,  though  a  legend  at  Maryville  Randy 

College,  wasn't  even  a  wresder  himself  He  was  student-athl 
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them  long  after  graduation.  outstanding 

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College  anymore,  but  we  do  continue  a  tradition  overall  athlei 
of  athletics  as  a  part  of  education.  We  talk  College  histi 
about  "student-athletes,"  linking  intellectual  legend  in  tht 
development  with  the  lessons  to  be  learned  on       and  Boydso 


A    Publicotion    for    Alumni    ond    Friends    of    Moryville    College 


Maryville  College  FOCUS  magazine  2000  (issn  309) 

Published  three  times  a  year 

Maryville  College 

502  E.  Lamar  Alexander  Parkway 

Maryville,  TN  37804-5907 

(865)981-8100 

wfwfv^.maryvillecollege.edu 

subscription  price  -  none 


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. 


- 

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. 


2  FOCUS  Spring 


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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3 


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. 


4  FOCUS  Spring  2000 


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."  ■ 


FOCUS  Spring  2000 


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 


6  FOCUS  Spring 


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." 


FOCUS  Spring 


7 


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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." 


8  FOCUS  Spring 


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."  ■ 


FOCUS  Spring  2000 


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. 


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"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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FOCUS  Spring 


"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.  ■ 


FOCUS  Spring 


11 


MEE 


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. 


FOCUS  Spring  2000 


13 


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 


14 


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. 


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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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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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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. 


24 


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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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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WHAT'S  GOING  On  In  Your  Life? 


A  new  job,  a  new  home,  a  wedding  or  birth  of  a  child?  Please  take  a  few  minutes  to  let  us  know  about  the  latest  developments  in  your  life  by  filling 
out  this  card  for  the  Class  Notes  section  of  FOCUS. 

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Address 


Home  Phone  (  ) Office  Phone  . 

Job  Title  Company 


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Class  Notes  News 


Do  You  Know  a  Prospective  Maryville  Student? 

Alumni  and  friends  play  an  imponant  role  in  our  recruiting  effons  by  giving  us  the  name  of  prospective  students.  Our  success  in  recruiting  record 
freshmen  classes  is  due  in  part  to  your  help.  Please  take  the  time  to  complete  this  card  and  drop  it  in  the  mail.  We  look  forward  to  another  successful 
recruiting  year,  thanks  to  your  input. 

Student  Information 

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Student's  Address 


Student's  High  School Student's  Date  of  Graduation  . 

Your  Name  


Your  Address 


Do  You  Know  Someone  Who  Should  Be  On  The  Wall  Of  Fame? 

The  purpose  of  the  Wall  of  Fame  is  to  recognize  outstanding  individuals  who  have  contributed  to  Maryville  College  athletics.  Recognition  is  in  two  categories;  "Regular 
membership"  is  reserved  for  those  student-athletes  who  competed  for  Maryville  College,  displaying  excellence  in  athletic  competition.  Nominees  for  regular  membership 
must  be  graduates  of  the  College.  "Special  membership "  is  granted  to  those  people  who  have  been  of  outstanding  value  to  the  Maryville  College  Athletic  Program. 

I  present ,  Class  of  19 (if  applicable),  to  be  considered  for  the  Maryville  College  Athletic  Wall  of  Fame. 

I  am  nominating  this  person  for membership. 

Address  of  the  nominee  is .^ . 

Information  (newspaper  clippings,  vitae,  letters  of  recommendations)  supporting  my  nomination  will  be  forthcoming. 


My  name  is . 


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