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reetings from the Maryville
College campus!
Many FOCUS readers took with
them from their student days fond memories of the
College Woods. As I visit with alumni who haven't
been back to campus in some years, I often hear sto-
ries about May Day and Easter Sunrise Service in the
amphitheater, about Easter breakfasts at the presi-
dent's home in Morningside, and about visits in the
home of the Chaplain in the House-in-the-Woods. I
have to report that the amphitheater is no longer
used, that Morningside hasn't been the president's
home in 22 years, and that the House-in-the-Woods
is now a place for meetings of groups rather than the
Chaplain's home. But I hasten to assure alumni with
those fond memories that the College Woods remains
nonetheless a treasured place for current students,
faculty, and staff of Maryville College. It is a place
where we practice careful stewardship. The MC2000
Plan speaks to this matter. "The College Woods will
be preserved, and will provide educational and
appropriate recreational opportunities for the College
and community."
At another point the MC2000 Plan speaks more
generally: "Maryville College in the year 2000 will
be characterized by... deep commitment to responsi-
ble stewardship of all its resources." We take those
words seriously, and in this issue of FOCUS you will
get more of the details. You will read about environ-
mental ethics in the curriculum and about both stu-
dent and alumni involvement in environmental activ-
ities. You'll get an update on the College Woods as
well from a faculty member who cares for the Woods
as much as anyone I know.
We are also practicing good stewardship of the
financial resources of the College. In the MC2000
period we have continued to operate with balanced
budgets and have grown the endowment of the
College by more than 70percent. We have, to be
sure, been assisted substantially by the MC alumni
who have made gifts to the Annual Fund each year,
helping us to break records there. Special thanks to
the many FOCUS readers who helped us set a new
record of almost 46percent for alumni participation
in the past fiscal year! That level far exceeds the
rate reported by our peer college group.
Many records have been set during the MC2000
period and many goals achieved. One event that
alumni and friends will not forget was surely not an
MC2000 goal, the loss of Fayerweather Hall. We are
grateful to all those who have expressed their con-
cern, and offer assurance that even as we lament this
great loss, the Maryville College community is cop-
ing and moving with continued optimism toward the
new millennium.
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CONTENTS
What Is Your Environmental Ethic? Page 2
Enchanted Forest Page 5
Natural Choices Page 6
Protecting Our Water Page 8
Through The Eyes Of A MOOSE Page 10
MC2000: Campaign Update Page 1 1
Alumni Giving Page 14
Campus News Page 16
Alumni News Page 18
Class Notes Page 19
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Volume 100, Number 1
Summer 1999
] ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
EXECUTIVE BOARD
Tim Topham '80
Maryville, Tennessee
President
PRESIDENT
James Campbell '53
Gerald W. Gibson
Maryville, Tennessee
Vice President
EDITORIAL BOARD
Karen E. Beaty '94
Denise Smith Vogodo '74
Director of Alumni and
Maryville, Tennessee
Parent Relations
Recording Secretary
Mark E. Cate
Jan Rickards Dungan '65
Director of Development and
Louisville, Tennessee
Alumni Affairs
Past-President
Donna F. Davis '83
CLASS OF 2000
Vice President of Admissions
Martha Bess Ellis DeWitt '64
and Enrollment
Russell Gibson '82
David King '93
Lyn French
Roger Nooe '62
Director of Gift Planning
Judy Penry '73
Anna B. Graham
CLASS OF 2001
Director of Campaigns and
Jonathan Allison '90
Principal Giving
Robert Beam '58
Priscilla Book Campbell '79
FRONT COVER
DeAnn Hargis-Kaminski '88
PHOTOGRAPHY
Brenda Babb McCroskey '82
Elizabeth M. Moore '00
MOOSE participant
CLASS OF 2002
Marcia Williams Kling '56
David Russell '72
Joe Gilliland '55
Rebeccah Kinnamon Neff '62
William Lukens '91
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CONTENTS
What Is Your Environmental Ethic? Page 2
Enchanted Forest Page 5
Natural Choices Page 6
Protecting Our Water Page 8
Through The Eyes Of A MOOSE Page 10
MC2000: Campaign Update Page 11
Alumni Giving Page 14
Campus News Page 1 6
Alumni News Page 1 8
Class Notes Page 19
Volume 100, Number 1
Summer 1999
! ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
EXECUTIVE BOARD
Tim Topham '80
Maryville, Tennessee
President
PRESIDENT
James Campbell '53
Gerald W. Gibson
Maryville, Tennessee
Vice President
EDITORIAL BOARD
Karen E. Beaty '94
Denise Smith Vogodo '74
Director of Alumni and
Maryville, Tennessee
Parent Relations
Recording Secretary
Mark E. Cate
Jan Rickards Dungan '65
Director of Development and
Louisville, Tennessee
Alumni Affairs
Past-President
Donna F. Davis '83
CLASS OF 2000
Vice President of Admissions
Martha Bess Ellis DeWitt '64
and Enrollment
Russell Gibson '82
David King '93
Lyn French
Roeer Nooe '62
Director of Gift Planning
Judy Penry '73
Anna B. Graham
CLASS OF 2001
Director of Campaigns and
Jonathan Allison '90
Principal Giving
Robert Beam '58
Priscilla Book Campbell '79
FRONT COVER
DeAnn Hargis-Kaminski '88
PHOTOGRAPHY
Brenda Babb McCroskey '82
Elizabeth M. Moore '00
MOOSE participant
CLASS OF 2002
Marcia Williams Kling '56
David Russell '72
Joe Gilliland '55
Rebeccah Kinnamon Neff '62
William Lukens '91
FOCUS Summer 1999
At first, they read like fi-eshman ini-
tiation dares; rites of passage
that must be endured.
Students are given rubber gloves and
asked to go through peoples garbage.
In cold and wet weather, they tivmp
through the College Woods with
Biltmore sticks and clipboards.
They participate in a campus scav-
enger hunt in which the only things
they're asked to find are leaks.
They open the doors — and their
minds — to compost toilets.
In a way, it is freshman initiation.
It is a
rite of
pas-
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It's
Freshman Seminar 130: Perspectives
on the Environment. And it is required.
Origins and objectives
"In the process of planning the new curriculum, College
administrators and students realized that there wasn't a general
education course that forced students to think about the environ-
ment," said Dr. Peggy Cowan, coordinator of Maryville College's
General Education Curriculum. "And part of being a liberal arts
institution is educating people for participation in the larger
world."
Prior to the implementation of the new curriculum in 1996, stu-
dents could voluntarily enroll in Save the Earth, an interim course
taught by Adjunct Professor and MC alumnus David Powell '66.
First offered in the late 1980s, the course evolved from discus-
sions and field trips dealing with all environmental issues to
focused study of one element of the environment — water, air,
energy.
"Save the Earth was the precursor to our J-Term course on the
environment," Cowan explained. "Students [on the Curriculum
Task Force] said all students should have to take that course."
January courses (often called "J-Term courses"), offered during
the three weeks between fall and spring semester, take an experi-
ential approach to learning. Cowan said the hands-on nature of
the J-Term course is ideal for getting students out of the class-
room and into the environment to see what effects modern soci-
ety has on the planet.
"The overall idea of the Perspectives on the Environment
course is to make students aware of the conflicts between our
need to extract resources from the environment and the chal-
lenges — but the necessities — of conserving," she added. "It fits
in with our emphasis on cultivating values, making decisions
based on ethics, and educating students for living lives that make
a positive difference in the world."
Four sections are offered in Perspectives on the Environment:
Garbology (formerly called "Solid Waste"), Forestry, Water,
Energy. Each student chooses one topic. Four sections are
offered per topic; 12 to 15 students are in each class.
For the first week of J-Term, all freshmen learn about the nat-
ural history of the area — what East Tennessee looked like 200
years ago and how the Cherokee and the early European settlers
lived off the land. During the second week, students are
immersed in reading, data collection, and projects relevant to
their topic. A speaker is invited during the third week, and stu-
dents are asked to write essays describing their environmental
ethic.
"The pace is relentless," said Associate Professor of Biology
and Forestry Section Leader Paul Threadgill. "It's a lot of infor-
mation in a short amount of time.
"But education is like farming — you plant the seeds and don't
know when you'll reap the harvest. If we've made them think
about the environment differently, then the course has met its
objective."
It's a dirty job, but freshmen gotta do it
For two years, Assistant Professor of Mathematics and
Garbology Section Leader Jeff Bay has asked families in his
neighborhood to save their garbage bags for a week. With their
consent (and assurance that identities will be held in confidence),
he takes the bags to work where freshmen in his Garbology class
weigh them and sift through the waste to determine family size,
ages, and lifestyles.
The idea of looking through people's garbage came from a pro-
ject conducted at the University of Arizona several years ago.
While the objective of the UA study was to look at the effective-
ness of public information campaigns for nutrition. Bay indicated,
the basic principle remains: You can tell a lot about people by
what they throw away.
"We go through about a week's worth of garbage," Bay
explained. "Students spend about one to two hours going through
it. They have a worksheet of questions to answer.
"Students usually have fun figuring out habits, but it's usually
very clear which families are doing a good job at reducing waste
and which ones are not."
Bay said he tries to get students thinking about how they can
reduce their waste or incorporate the
three R's — reduce, reuse, and
recycle — into their daily lives.
Studying the garbage of others
is one way to open the eyes of
students, he said, but field
trips to the Knox County
Landfill and Blount County
Recycling Center help,
too.
"We want students
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to see that what they throw out goes somewhere, and there is an
effect to that," Bay said. "Many have never thought about how
much we throw away and how all of that goes into the landfill."
To sell or not to sell
In Paul Threadgill's J-Term class on Forestry, all of his students
are landowners. Role-play landowners.
"We wanted to engage them in a project that has some rooting
in reality," he explained. "Because most of the forests in
Tennessee are small parcels, owned by non-industrial, private
Eighty-two year-old Barry Commoner, American biologist, ecologist, educator, author and
former candidate for U.S. president, was a guest speaker at Maryville College Jan. 19-20.
Dr. Commoner was invited to speak to freshmen as a part of the J-Term course,
Perspectives on the Environment, but his campus-wide lecture was open to all students,
faculty and staff members and persons in the community. Attending a reception in his
honor in the Proffitt Dining Room were Associate Professor of Sociology Dr. Susan Ambler
(far right) and Dr. Marion T. Hall, Commoner's friend and Ambler's father (center).
owners, it's realistic to think that these students might come into
some land some day."
With that a possibility, section leaders decided students should
be given the tools to make good decisions about land use. In
regard to the J-Term class, students decide whether or not they
would sell the timber on a 25-acre parcel of land in the College
Woods.
Using Biltmore sticks, students walk through a few acres of
"their" land to measure board-feet of lumber the parcel contains.
Students research the market value of the lumber during that
month, and they also study the biological effects cutting the trees
would have on the area.
"There's not an outcome they're supposed to get," Threadgill
said, "but most decide not to cut because it wouldn't bring
enough money. I think many students go into the project thinking,
'Gosh, I could build a house with the money I earn from this
sale.' They're surprised at how little money that lumber would
actually bring — that the pay would be eaten up in cutting costs,
mill work and other expenses."
Living downstream
For English Professor and Water Section Leader David Powell
'66, water is a complex issue — for students of his J-Term class,
for citizens of the United States, for himself.
"The tough part is convincing people that there is a problem,"
Powell said. "As long as they turn on the tap and there's water,
they're slow to do something. The day they turn it on and it's not
there, then they're interested.
"At the moment, we have plenty of relatively unpolluted water
in East Tennessee," Powell continued. "That's certainly not true
for the rest of the country."
Students enrolled in the Water J-Term explore where their
water comes from, and they experience the process it goes
through — from water treatment to the faucet. Habits of water
use are studied on campus, then compared with state and national
statistics.
"There have been several projects," Powell explained. "One
group looked at the water use patterns in the dorms, and others
tried to find out who leaves the water running while brushing
their teeth and who takes longer showers. One group tried to
determine how many leaks there were on campus and the amount
of water lost in a day because of those leaks."
Field trips to a water treatment plant and sewage treatment
plant are also included in the J-Term experience. Discussions are
held about practical ways students can conserve water and keep
the water supply clean.
When students write their environmental ethic at the close of
the three-week study, Powell said he hopes they see a connection
between their actions and the state of the environment.
"Rarely do I get a student who treats this subject lightly," he
said. "Most admit that they had no idea what's involved — and
that they are responsible."
Conscious choices
"In short, we want students to think about energy in their
lives," said Assistant Professor of Political Science and Energy
Section Leader Mark O'Gorman. "We want students to think
about the conscious acts of turning out lights, driving around in
cars, heating and cooling their homes."
Students enrolled in the Energy J-Term class discuss energy
sources needed to live in a modern society and the environmental
consequences of those uses. The economic benefits to conserving
energy are studied as well as the benefits to the planet. O'Gorman
said.
During the second week of J-Term, students travel to
Washburn, TN, and the Narrow Ridge Center, an educational
land-trust where residents practice an ecological lifestyle. Solar
panels line the buildings at Narrow Ridge, and a small shed in the
yard conceals a compost toilet.
According to O'Gorman, buildings on the Narrow Ridge
Center are built "off the grid," meaning they have no electricity.
Natural sources of energy are captured and stored. But to stu-
dents' amazement, office workers at Narrow Ridge have comput-
ers, fax machines and copying machines.
"We have to choose when we're going to use them."
O'Gorman said students are told by the director of Narrow Ridge.
"For the rest of the time, they're turned off."
O'Gorman said he wants students to think through that process
of making daily incidental activities conscious choices.
"I know when students go up there [to Narrow Ridge], they're
skeptical. They think they're going to see a bunch of eco-
freaks," O'Gorman said. "But by the end of the day. you see a
shift occur in their thinking. The}' realize that these are just nor-
mal people who happen to have a different environmental philos-
ophy."
O'Gorman, who came to teach at Maryville College in 1997.
said he has been impressed with the objectives behind the
Perspectives on the Environment requirement.
"In a couple of years, we will have had 1 .000 students take this
course. That's 1.000 with an environmental ethic and conscious-
ness — 1,000 people realizing that every environmental act has a
result."
4 FOCUS Summer 1999
College Woods
provides unique
earning
opportunities
by Karen Beaty '94
Director of Alumni and Parent Relations
You won't find any high-powered microscopes back there.
Nor will you find rows of beakers or the periodic chart.
But just like any laboratory in Sutton Science Center, the
College Woods is a place where learning happens.
"The College Woods is a marvelous educational resource that
you can walk to and from in one lab period," said Maryville
College Associate Professor of Biology Paul Threadgill. "There,
our students can study a good diversity of habitats within a small
area that hasn't changed significantly in the last 50 years."
Approximately 115 acres make up the College Woods area,
located just southeast of campus. Scientifically, it is an upland
forest of mixed aged hardwood and pine. A flood plain runs along
the creek.
The area was purchased by the College in 1873, and since that
date, the space has been a source of countless memories for stu-
dents. Years ago, Easter Sunrise Services and May Day festivities
were held in the natural amphitheater of the College Woods, and
numerous chaperoned — and unchaperoned — dates were
planned under the canopy of tree branches.
For Maryville College faculty members, the College Woods
has long been a source of material. Today, students majoring in
Biology, Sociology, and Environmental Studies become very
familiar with the College Woods because of lectures and assign-
ments given there. And with the introduction of Orientation 110
and Freshman Seminar 130: Perspectives on the Environment
(see related article, pages 3-4) in 1997, all freshmen now learn
the vegetation, the topography, and the paths that make up the
Woods.
Science comes to life
Rattling off course numbers of classes that use the College
Woods, Threadgill described student assignments that ranged
from creating a herbarium to figuring board feet of lumber.
"In Biology 222: Ecology, one of the principals we like to
illustrate is micro-climates," Threadgill explained. "We give stu-
dents equipment to measure the air and soil temperatures, humid-
ity, wind speed, and incident radiation at different locations in the
Woods. What they find is a real difference between data collected
on the south and north slopes, in the fields and in the forest, and
under hardwoods and under pines.
"In Biology 405: Ecology of Populations and Communities,
one of our goals is to teach students how to physically describe a
plant community," he said. "We teach them the techniques to
determine the vertical structure of a forest and the diversity of
trees, shrubs, and herbs."
Biology 311: Natural History of the Southern Appalachians is
always taught in the spring because of the seasonal emergence of
wildflowers, other flora, and fauna.
According to the associate professor, at least one biology major
every two years incorporates the College Woods into his or her
Senior Thesis project.
"It's an outstanding outdoor classroom," Threadgill said.
A different kind of lab
While it might be easy for people to see the Woods as a science
laboratory, Mountain Challenge Director Bruce Guilliaume 76 has
suggested that the area is a "social science" lab, as well.
Mountain Challenge, a program operated out of Crawford
House, provides on- and off-campus constituents opportunities to
challenge bodies and minds in activities like hiking, biking,
climbing, rappelling, camping, and canoeing. In the College
Woods, Mountain Challenge operates a "low ropes" course.
According to Guilliaume, the course offers 15 to 20 "problem-
solving initiatives that demand collaboration and cooperation."
All freshmen participate in the low ropes course during
Orientation 110, and some classes use the College Woods to leam
map-and-compass techniques. Guilliaume's staff members also
use the Woods for outdoor recreation training and mock wilder-
ness rescue.
But considering that more than 3,500 people — students,
church groups, and corporate teams — go through the low ropes
course, the Woods are an important part of the Mountain
Challenge program.
"We would not be the kind of organization we are," Guilliaume
said, "without the College Woods."
FOCUS Summei 1999
by Karen Beaty '94
Director of Alumni and Parent Relations
Environmental Studies
growing in popularity
Almost 20 current Maryville College students are
working toward a major in Environmental
Studies. Formally begun about five years ago, the
major is growing in popularity, according to Assistant
Professor of Political Science Mark O'Gorman.
"Some students already have an interest in the environ-
ment when they come to Maryville," O'Gorman said,
"but in most cases, the Freshman Seminar course (see
story, pages 3-4) is the catalyst in their decision to
declare the Environmental Studies major."
O'Gorman coordinates the College's Environmental
Studies program. Course work involves both the social
and natural sciences, but students are encouraged to sup-
plement their studies with courses in the humanities and
fine arts.
"The fact that we call this major 'Environmental
Studies' gives you a sense of how broadly defined a pro-
gram of this study could be," O'Gorman explained. "The
broad objectives of the course are to educate students for
a greater sensitivity and understanding of the environ-
ment and nature and to teach them how to translate that
knowledge into practical activities, or praxis."
Environmental Studies 101 : Introduction to
Environmental Issues gives students a good foundation in
the language of the discipline, the major players, and the
different philosophies. The literary works of Emerson and
Thoreau are read and discussed, as well as the works of
Rachel Carson.
Upper-level courses explore issues such as population,
geography, natural history and environmental legislation.
Because of different perceptions in the working world
for what an Environmental Studies major might be pre-
pared, O'Gorman said he encourages his advisees to earn
a minor. One-third of his students minor in Business,
one-third minor in Sociology, and the remaining third
minor in Biology.
According to O'Gorman, Environmental Studies is one
of the fastest-growing majors in colleges and universities
across the nation. That has changed significantly in the
last 10 years.
"You can do just about anything with this major," the
professor said of the Environmental Studies major. "It
really depends on your interest."
Early ecology course
shaped alumnus' life
It was a proximity to campsites, lakes, and fresh air that
led Brute Smith '68 to enroll at Maryville College, but
when the Collingswood, NJ, native moved south in 1964.
it was to prepare for a life on the inside of a dentist's office -
not for a life in fields, forests, streams, and rivers.
"Going through high school, I was impressed with our
family dentist," Smith explained. "By the time I was a senior
in high school, dentistry was the direction I thought I would
take."
Smith declared a major, Biology, during his freshman year
at MC. During those first two years as an undergraduate, he
was confident in his career choice and enjoyed participating
in the College band
and pulling pranks
as a member of the
infamous "Porkies."
But during his
junior year, he was
faced with a life-
changing decision.
"I was doing fine,
academically," the
alumnus said, "but
during my junior
year I had to go to
Atlanta for a test
that would evaluate
my small motor
skills. The test was
carving a set of teeth out of soap.
"By the time I was finished, my teeth looked more like
Dracula's fangs. It was a disaster," Smith added. "At that
point, it was 'Now, what do I do?'"
Enter the late Dr. A. Randolph Shields '34. chair of the
Biology Department, and his ecology course of 1967.
"'Ecology' was a new word," Smith explained. "At that
point in time, no one was talking about pollution or protec-
tion of the environment. People were busy enjoying the envi-
ronment but not protecting it."
In 1967. Shields was not only teaching ecology before it
would creep onto the national landscape, he was exuding a
passion about its importance. Smith said.
"You could draw from that belief," he added.
Despite all of his experiences in the great outdoors. Smith
said he had never heard of "ecology" before meeting Shields
and attending Maryville College. But the student discovered
he had a talent studying the environment and decided to base
his Special Studies project on that - instead of dentistry.
After graduating. Smith served in the Army for two years.
In January 1971, he applied for work in the newly created
Environmental Protection Agency (see column, page 7). In
1974, he earned a master's degree in Environmental Science
from Rutgers University.
Randolph Shields '34
FOCUS Summer 1999
GUEST COLUMN
by Bruce P. Smith '68
EPA, Region 3 Energy Manager
If you were of college-student age or older in the late
1960s, you knew that America had a serious pollution
problem. Many rivers and streams were polluted and
closed to fishing and bathing. They often reeked of raw
sewage. You could see black smoke belching from industrial
smokestacks and feel the burning in your lungs and eyes.
There were large fish-kills and bird-kills.
Americans demanded a change, and they demonstrated their
desire for a clean environment with a huge national Earth Day
Rally in 1970. In that same year, President Richard Nixon cre-
ated the Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA).
I joined EPA, Region 3, located in
Philadelphia, PA, in 1972 and began working
on the Agency's top priority — water pollu-
tion. I learned about wastewater treatment sys-
tems and the types of pollutants in industrial
discharges.
My job involved issuing discharge permits
to companies that contained strict limitations
on pollutants. I brought enforcement actions
against those companies that violated the con-
ditions in their permits. By 1977, 85 percent of
the industrial pollution being discharged to the
nation's waterways had been eliminated, and
thanks to grants from EPA, sewage treatment
plants were much improved.
In the late 1970s, the Agency began to address
hazardous waste, another big pollution problem.
Decades before EPA came along, companies in the United
States had disposed of their toxic waste as cheaply as possible
— often in landfills, or buried in drums deep in the earth, or
just released from trucks along roadways. I was put in charge
of a group responsible for finding and disposing of these
"toxic time bombs" before they could seriously contaminate
the environment and jeopardize public health.
Many "midnight dumpers" were at large, hired by compa-
nies to dispose of their hazardous waste in secret. Eventually,
the EPA — with the help of Congress — established laws for
managing hazardous wastes from "cradle to grave" (i.e., ori-
gin to disposal). This stopped the midnight dumpers.
I changed jobs at EPA to lead a team responsible for enforc-
ing those new laws. In the following years, additional regula-
tions made it prohibitively expensive for companies to dispose
of hazardous wastes. Companies learned to recycle and reduce
the waste they produced.
I currently manage a group in EPA's air program that
addresses global warming and pollution caused by the com-
bustion of fossil fuels for energy. Generating electricity by
burning coal and oil at power plants produces more air pollu-
tion than any other industry in the U.S.
Energy is shamefully wasted in this country because it is
cheap. The typical coal-fired power plant is so inefficient that
1968 photo of Bruce Smith
it needs to produce 300 watts of electricity to light every 100-
watt light bulb. The technology exists to produce cars that get
over 100 miles to the gallon, but what do many Americans
want? They want sport utility vehicles, and these get around
13 miles to the gallon. (Interestingly enough, American com-
panies have made car engines a lot cleaner in the past 20
years, but people are driving a lot more, thereby offsetting
these gains.) Such waste creates unnecessary pollution, which
ultimately may affect your health.
People sometimes ask me what they can do to help the
environment. I tell them to first become
knowledgeable about environmental issues.
An excellent source is the Internet. All gov-
ernment agencies maintain websites to pro-
vide information to the public. (EPA's web-
site address is http://www.epa.gov.)
People should become aware of what envi-
ronmental problems may be impacting their
communities and should organize community
groups to deal with these problems. Ask
yourselves: Is your community located in an
ozone non- attainment area? Has the cancer
rate or number of asthma cases been increas-
ing in your neighborhood? Do sections of
your community have contaminated drinking
water? What industries near your community
release the most toxic pollutants? What haz-
ardous waste sites are close to your communi-
ty, and what is being done about them?
Community groups can rally around issues such as these
and influence federal and state agencies, elected officials, and
businesses to do something about them.
Public support for environmental initiatives is critical. EPA
has taken a number of actions that have directly impacted the
lives of American citizens, but some of these actions were not
always popular.
I have had a very satisfying career with EPA because I can
see the improvements to the environment that I helped bring
about. I can walk along the banks of rivers and see the waste
treatment plants that I required factories to construct. The
Potomac and Delaware rivers and the Chesapeake Bay are
much cleaner now and support a much greater abundance of
aquatic life than when I started with the Agency. There are
now buildings, golf courses and baseball fields atop of many
of the landfills and hazardous waste sites that I helped to clean
up. The air is cleaner, acid rain is decreasing, and companies
are recycling or minimizing their waste. However, there are
still many environmental challenges left to face including such
things as global warming, ozone, air toxics, and an increase in
asthma mortalities, to name just a few.
I continuously thank Maryville College for preparing me for
this career, and enabling me to make an important contribu-
tion to society.
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by Donna Franklin Davis '83
Vice President for Admissions and Enrollment
r'*
Ramger closes 40^year
career at Maryville
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Young Robert Ramger of Pinellas Park, FL, came to
Maryville College in 1952 to earn a degree and play
baseball. One warm spring day in 1956, he graduated
from Maryville College, returning to campus only three months
later as Instructor of Biology. His retirement this year marks the
close of over 40 years of service to Maryville.
Ramger recalled the 1962 release of Rachel Carson's book,
Silent Spring, as the awakening of environmental consciousness
in America. Carson's vivid description of widespread ecologi-
cal degradation placed environmental ethics on the national
agenda and led to the founding of the Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) in 1970 and the ban on DDT in 1972. Ramger
was attending graduate school at the University of Tennessee
during this time where he earned a Master of Science in
Robert Ramger '56
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Embryology and a Ph.D. in Limnology, the study of lakes.
When ALCOA needed to respond to EPA regulations requiring
it to monitor the quality of the plant's wastewater, an ALCOA
engineer called Ramger to see if he could provide the necessary
testing. This marked the beginning of Ramger 's work monitoring
coolant water from ALCOA's production facilities. Ramger
recruited MC students to assist with the testing which consisted of
growing ceriodaphnia (water fleas) and fat-head minnows in the
coolant water used in the production of aluminum. For seven
years, Ramger and his team of students provided testing services
for ALCOA. The project ended when new regulations from the
EPA required testing by certified labs.
Today, Ramger is involved with the Little River Watershed
Association (LRWA), a non-profit group of concerned citizens
who help to maintain a high quality of water in Little River and
its tributaries. Working with the Tennessee Valley Authority,
Ramger and his students test mountain streams using the Index
of Biological Integrity. To conduct the test, an electric current is
passed through the water, temporarily stunning the fish and ani-
mals in the stream. Volunteers scoop the fish out with nets, cata-
log the variety and sizes of specimens, and return them to the
stream. Ramger said that Little River, which provides the drink-
ing water for all of Blount County, is fairly clean "...with an
index of about 50 on a scale of 60." However, many tributaries
are polluted by livestock that wander into creeks to drink. To
clean up the tributaries, the LRWA is helping farmers to rebuild
the creek banks and to plant trees and shrubs to block the cattle's
access.
In addition to his work in water quality, Ramger is known by
many Maryville alumni for his three-week Human Sexuality
course. The course had its beginnings when Dean Frances Massey
called Ramger one day to ask him to hold an after-hours session
in the women's dorm on the topic of human reproduction. Later,
Ramger 's pastor at New Providence Presbyterian Church asked
him to attend a workshop on the "Christian Response to Human
Sexuality and Loving Relationships" to help teach parents how to
talk with their junior high students. The course that evolved was
a favorite of College students during the 25 years it was offered.
Ramger reflected, "I have grown so much as a parent and hus-
band while teaching this course, and feel that I've contributed to
students' lives in a very real way."
Another short course offering was Ramger 's trip to Cinnamon
Bay on St. John's Island in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Students who
sign up for the trip are required to prepare in advance a lecture on
a species found on the coral reef and take turns presenting the
information each evening. In May of this year, 26 people joined
Ramger for the trip. Ramger said, "Every time I go to the Virgin
Islands, I learn volumes of new information. I wonder
why I didn't learn these things 20 years ago!"
Ramger and his wife. Sue Kindred Ramger 70, are
eager to begin a new chapter in their lives.
"Looking back at my career, I am very fortunate
that I happened to be at the right place at the right
time," said Ramger. "Some of my colleagues have
asked me if I will continue to teach a course now
and then, but I think it is time to hand it off. I am
ready to try things I've never tried before."
GUEST COLUMN
by Amy Ralston Vagnier '86
Foothills Elementary School, fourth-grade teacher
Touching the Future
"School is not easy and it is not for the most part very
much fun, but then if you are very lucky, you may find a
teacher," wrote John Steinbeck in his essay "On
Teaching." I remember and honor my first real teacher,
Dr. Bob Ramger.
I felt weak in the knees when my MC advisor recom-
mended that I take biology. Fresh in my memory was a
high school dissecting class where my anxiety caused my
hands to shake terribly, launching a formaldehyde-
enriched starfish into my lap. The first day of class, I
slipped a novel in my backpack (with hopes of hiding
behind an opened textbook) and chose a back row seat in
the Sutton Science classroom.
Dr. Ramger entered the room and introduced himself,
providing personal and actually interesting information. I
was taken aback the next day when he used our names
during the discussion. I can still hear him say, "Now, the
great thing about this, Miss Ralston, is that the cells mul-
tiply and..." He spoke quickly, with animation, and
before I knew it the hour had passed, my notebook was
filled with diagrams, and I found myself perched on the
edge of the chair, becoming interested in science.
He opened the door to learning for me by conveying
his passion for biology. Through field trips to wade in the
muck looking for pond critters and invitations to his
home for study sessions, he opened his heart and life to
his students. Guiding and leading rather than lecturing, he
ignited a burning desire for learning. I grew to love sci-
ence and began to think about majoring in elementary
education.
Dr. Ramger is the reason I became a teacher. I waited a
long time before coming to know the true joy of learning,
and I wanted to pass this on to young
children. I will always be grateful
for my outstanding education
from Maryville College and the
preparation for teaching gained
from Dr. Ramger. He touched
many lives during his years
at Maryville and will touch
many more through my
teaching as I seek to follow
his example.
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Through the
by Karen Beaty '94
Director of Alumni and Parent Relations
MOOSE participants stopped in the Badlands of South Dakota before arriving at
Yellowstone for volunteer work.
Students gain perspectives in national parks
The name of the program is "MOOSE," but that's not what
the Maryville College students are hunting for when they
travel to national parks in the western United States.
Instead, they're looking for work, for lessons of history, for
their spiritual sides. And they're also looking for nature in its
purest form.
"This is primarily a service program, but it's such a multi-lay-
ered experience," said David Powell '66, English professor at
Maryville College and leader of the Maryville Outdoor Outreach
Service Experience (MOOSE). "It's wonderful."
Begun in the summer of 1998, MOOSE takes a small group of
MC students out west for a trip that lasts almost four weeks. The
destination is national parks such as Yellowstone and the Grand
Tetons, where students complete volunteer work such as building
and repairing trails, painting picnic tables, and building tent pads
and corrals.
Along the way, students see the Gateway Arch in St. Louis,
Mount Rushmore, the Badlands, Devil's Tower, and the Little Big
Horn Battlefield. They sleep in tents and cook their owns meals.
They personally pay for the expense of travel, food, and camping.
"Whoever took this trip could make it into whatever he or she
wanted to. We give students a taste of art, botany, and history,"
Powell explained, "but what happens is that we see so many new
things in the environment that students gain respect more on a
spiritual level."
According to Powell, MOOSE was conceived after Maryville
College English Instructor Linda Clark heard Tom Coates, a pro-
fessor at Gardner- Webb University, speak at a conference. Coates
was sharing with the group his 15-year practice of taking
Gardner- Webb undergraduates to the national parks for service
projects. After returning to campus, Clark told Jennifer Cummings
West '95, assistant director of Volunteer Services, about the trips.
West sought out a leader for the trip. Powell was the first to say
"yes."
On July 6, 1998, eight students from MC, three from Gardner-
Webb, and three adult leaders left Maryville in vans. Among the
backpacks of personal belongings, boxes of food, and camping
gear were books on the history and geography of the places they
would visit. Powell packed a group journal and asked students to
make regular entries during the drive.
Of the eight MC students on the 1998 trip, only one had been
beyond the Mississippi River.
"When you get west and you see this different landscape and
you labor to preserve it, there's a connection made that couldn't
be made anywhere else," the leader explained. "They gain a
respect for the environment and a recognition of the beauty. The
best way to understand that is to look through their journals."
Powell recounted one entry where a student had written of his
"emotion and desire" for preservation of the land. Another entry
confirmed that students were realizing preservation would have to
be led by people like themselves — if it were to happen at all.
"The underlying assumption" of the trip, according to Powell,
is that if students visit the national parks and make the parks
appealing for others to visit through their volunteer work, more
people will be inspired to protect the environment.
"I think it changes the way students see the Great Smoky
Mountains," he added.
MC programs presented
at national conference
A paper written on the Maryville College's MOOSE pro-
gram will be one of 32 presentations made at the "Greening
of the Campus III: Theory and Reality" at Ball State
University Sept. 30-Oct. 2, 1999. Maryville College English
Professor David Powell '66 and Tom Coates of Gardner- Webb
University will share with other educators and environmental-
ists the opportunities for service-learning in the national
parks.
Mark O'Gorman, Maryville College's Assistant Professor
of Political Science and Environmental Studies Coordinator,
will present a paper entitled "Educating the Campus
Community: The Freshman Course ' Perspectives on the
Environment' at Maryville College."
Approximately 300 people from 30 states and a few foreign
countries will attend the conference, which is organized as an
international exchange of ideas on environmental concerns.
Large universities such as Duke. Emory. Baylor and Brown
will also be represented during the paper presentations.
"The environment has taken its rightful place on the
Maryville College campus. We went from offering virtually
nothing 10 years ago to something we can be proud of." said
Powell. "And now we have so much confidence that we're
going to a national conference where we present — not just
one — but two papers.
"Maryville has come a long way."
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MC Receives
KRESGE CHALLENGE GRANT
for Student Center Project
as reported in the june 1999 maryville college special report, the
loss of Fayerweather Hall to fire has created a new urgency for the
remaining project of the MC2000 Campaign - the expansion
and renovation of Bartlett Hall as a new student center.
Thanks to the generosity of hundreds of Maryville College's
alumni and friends, the College has received $4.4 million in
gifts and pledges towards the $6.3 million needed to complete
the project. A remaining $1.9 million is required to reach our
goal; a $500,000 challenge grant from
The Kresge Foundation of Michigan will
help the College close the gap.
Grants from The Kresge Foundation
are made toward projects involving con-
struction or renovation of facilities and
the purchase of major capital equipment or real estate. Grant
recipients have raised initial funds towards their projects
before requesting Foundation assistance. Grants from the
Foundation are then made on a challenge basis, requiring the
raising of the remaining funds, thereby insuring completion
of the projects.
The $500,000 grant to help fund the expansion and renova
tion of Bartlett Hall as a student center will be awarded by
The Kresge Foundation in August of 2000, provided that the
College raises the remaining $ 1 ,400,000 needed to complete
the project, by July 1, 2000.
News of the Kresge Challenge comes at a pivotal time in
the MC2000 Campaign. With the loss of Fayerweather Hall,
the College's only student activity facility, completion of the
campaign to renovate and expand Bartlett Hall as a student
center is now especially important.
"MC must raise $1.4 million
by July 1 , 2000, to receive the
$500,000 challenge grant."
"Fundraising must be accelerated so that construction on
Bartlett can begin this summer, "said President Gerald W.
Gibson. "We believe that with the strong support of individu-
als and organizations, the Kresge Challenge and the overall
campaign goal can be met ahead of schedule.
"Our standing with this important foundation will be affect-
ed by our ability to successfully meet the
challenge," he added. "We are hopeful
that alumni, friends and organizations
will rise to the occasion in support of
Maryville College and the students it
serves."
Throughout the next year, all alumni and friends are
encouraged to support this important ini-
tiative, which will provide new
spaces for many of the
offices displaced by the
Fayerweather fire - as
well as a true "living
room" for the
College community.
.4 Million
leded to mee
challenge
For more informa-
tion on giving to this
project, contact Anna
B. Graham, Director of
the MC2000 Campaign,
at 423/981 -8202.
$4.4 Million
to date
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THE MC2000 CAMPAIGN
Volunteers Make
Regional Events a
Success
As the College "hits the road"
across the country in support of
the MC2000 Campaign, many
volunteers have come together to make
campaign events a success.
"Volunteers make the difference for
Maryville College," said MC2000
Campaign Director Anna B. Graham.
"We simply would be unable to spread
the word about all the good things hap-
pening here if it weren't for the help from
alumni, parents, and friends."
Names of campaign committee mem-
bers are printed on this page, along with
pictures taken at regional events in three
regions: Sevier County (TN), Atlanta,
and Washington, DC. Collectively,
almost 50 volunteers helped out with
these events.
"My thanks to all of those people who
helped us plan, encouraged others to
'save the date,' and came to the events
with much enthusiasm and optimism,"
Graham added. "My colleagues and I
agree that these were some of the best
events ever organized in the name of
Maryville College."
Like to help? Please call Graham at
423/981-8202.
MC2000 Campaign
Asheville
Norma Lou Loetz Robinson '53 Chair
Sally Broughton-Ives
Robert '58 and Sue Nelson Hassall '57
Mary Jo Pribble '52
Atlanta
Nancy Gamble Bromley '73, Chair
Hugh and Tedi Ballou
Linda Clopton '63
Jeffrey '70 and Carey Cox Coghill '72
Donald Ford '56
Sue Hardrath '73
Charles '56 and Jean Dildy McFarland '57
Michael Parks '72
Pat D'Alba Sabatelle '74
James '64 and Marianne Jefferson Skeen '66
East Tennesee
Cole Piper '68 and Tim Topham '80. Co-Chairs
Robert Beam '58
James C. Campbell '53
Priscilla Book Campbell '79
Jan Rickards Dungan '65
Greg Gheen '83
Mike and Judy McKenzie
Roger M. Nooe, Jr. '62
Thomas S. Scott, Jr.. '61
John C. Trotter '95
Peter Xiques '78
Raleigh/Triangle
Fred G. Morrison, Jr. '61 Chair
Frank H. Barr '42
John B. Emery, Jr. '59
Richard E. Jones '59
Charles '56 and Jean Dildy McFarland '57 (hatted with
Vice President and Dean of the College Dr. Nancy
Sederberg, right, at the June 1 0 event in Atlanta.
(L-R) Mike '82 and Brenda Babb McKroskey '82 and Julia Pancoast
Householder '48 were three volunteers who helped to make the
Maryville College event in Sevier County a reality.
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THE MC2000 CAMPAIGN
egional Committees
Lloyd S. Kramer '71
Rebeccah Kinnamon Neff '62
Richard E. Nystrom '53
Robert Ponton '76
Sevier County
Joseph Copeland, President Emeritus and Mike
'82 and Brenda Babb McCroskey '82, Co-Chairs
Don Bohanon
Bill and Carolyn Broady
Dale and JoAnn Can-
James '50 and Julia Pancoast Householder '48
Andy Hudson
Richard Isenberg '5 1
Johnny and Karen King '80
Scott and Debra McCarter
Ron and Jennifer Smith
John B. Waters
Lynn '62 and Penny Whaley Webb '64
Tri-Cities
Edgar '56 and Nancy Jones Shackelford '58,
Hosts
Washington, DC
Richard Leatherwood, Chair
Carol Corbett '51
JoeGilliland '55
David D. Harris '67
Lisa M. Harvey '88
Thomas L. Jones '52
Andrew W. Loven '57
Dennis '63 and Sara Mason Miller '66
Howard Newman '68
J. Knox Singleton '70
(L-R) Trenfa Swann, Roy Swann, Dr. Gerald Gibson, Jeanna Swann, and Dr. Joe Copeland were present at the
Music Road Hotel Convention Center in Pigeon Forge, where the College hosted a reception May 1 3. At the
reception, Gibson announced the creation of the Amos Arthur Swann Memorial Scholarships for Maryville
College students from Sevier County.
(Clockwise, from bottom left) Nan Elliott '83 and Gill Sallade '81, Peggy Caldwell Smith '45, Hugh and Tedi
Ballou, Jeff Hollar '87, Joe White 70, Eyobong Usanga 74 and Ann Kuykendall Gillespie '63 enjoyed lots of
food and lots of laughter at the Atlanta home of Nancy Gamble Bromley 73.
Campaign Director Anna B. Graham, left, shared stories with former
parents and long-time Maryville College friends Martin and Anita
Gerra at the June 1 S event in Washington, DC.
Dr. Sara Parker '66, husband Bill Strait, and Dr. Gerald Gibson discussed the College at a gathering at the
University Club in Washington, DC.
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13
ALUMNI GIVING
by Lyn French,
Director of Gift Planning
"We were among the few who didn't mind the food at the
College,'' said Lynn Ann Brown Best '36.
"The rules didn't bother us either," chimed in her sister, Mary
Gladys Brown Pieper '36. "They were pretty much the same as
those we lived by at home."
Optimistic sisters, Lynn Ann and Mary Gladys seem to see the
glass as three quarters full, especially regarding their alma mater.
Home for the Brown sisters was Kingsport, Tennessee, when,
on the combined advice of their Latin teacher and their uncle,
they made their way to Maryville College in 1932. (Mary Gladys
could have graduated from high school ahead of her sister but
took extra course work so they could go to college together.)
Their uncle, an administrator at the University of Pennsylvania,
expressed the opinion that people who "didn't have much experi-
ence with the world" needed the protection of a small college.
"He was quite wise because we would have been lost at the
University," Mary Gladys said.
They were not lost at Maryville College, and they found a
great deal on "the hill:" knowledge, friends, and life-long inter-
ests. Though both are now widowed, they also found husbands,
Ed Best '36 and Archie Pieper '36. They furthermore found a place
of their future employment. Lynn Ann became the Circulation
and Reference Librarian of MC, and Mary Gladys taught sociol-
ogy. Even now, in retirement, on every Tuesday from 2 to 4 p.m.,
they go to Thaw Hall where they incorporate new materials into
the College archives, according to a system formulated by Mary
Gladys and Chris Nugent, the College's current librarian.
Their interest in books was well established when they came
to Maryville and has been constant ever since.
"I don't really remember learning to read," Lynn Ann said.
They would sit beside their mother as she read aloud to them and
then soon they were just reading along with her. The family
would go to the library each Saturday and pick out several
books. Their mother, an educator and school principal, set few
boundaries for their reading, but when she discovered the True
Romance magazines that the sisters had been given, avidly read
and then hid, she threw them into a fire, becoming, Mary Gladys
said with a laugh, "a book burner."
An English major, Lynn Ann became involved in drama, glee
club and the choir. In the meanwhile, Mary Gladys, a political
science major, was involved in drama, debate, and sports.
"The joy of our varied interests," said Lynn Ann, "was that we
brought one another different groups of friends."
"Without cars," Mary Gladys added, "something was always
going on. We stayed busy making our own diversions."
Lynn Ann Brown Best '36
An activity they shared was
drama, then called "expression,"
led by Mrs. Nita Eckles West.
"Our mother was a real
stickler for correct and precise
expression," said Mary
Gladys. This skill, fostered at
home and honed at MC, is
evident today in the easy,
vivid expression of ideas in the
conversation of the sisters.
Both sisters did graduate
work. Mary Gladys earned a mas-
ter's degree from the University of
Tennessee. She had already
passed the Tennessee State Bar
exam when she went on to
receive an M.A. from the
Columbia University Library School. Lynn Ann took course
work at UT before being hired in the College's library. After
teaching sociology at Maryville College, Mary Gladys worked at
the New York Public Library.
Their late husbands, too, stayed involved
with the College. Archie Pieper, a polit-
ical science professor at Maryville,
was active on the Alumni Board,
and Ed Best served as secretary of
the Board of Directors for many
years.
The family involvement with
Maryville College now stretches
into a second and third genera-
tion. Lynn Ann's son, Edwin Best
Jr. '68 and daughter-in-law,
Caroline Munn Best '72 are Scots.
Their daughter, Sarah Best '99.
graduated this May, and a second
daughter Katherine is a junior.
"It all just seemed to flow," said
Lynn Ann.
Though both are still very
active, Lynn Ann and Mary
Gladys claim to have slowed
down. World travelers, they now confine themselves to shorter
trips. Mary Gladys used to work for hours in her yard. Now. she
says, she still works for hours in her yard, but gets less done.
They are both involved at New Providence Presbyterian Church,
book groups, an A.A.U.W. seminar on art and architecture, and a
historical district volunteer long-range planning committee. They
work out regularly at a fitness center.
Both are benefactors of the College, and. along with their late
husbands, always were. Now they are also both members of the
Society of 1819. Lynn Ann has made a provision in her will for
the College. Mary Gladys has established a charitable gift annu-
ity. It comes, they agree, out of a "sense of stewardship."
As members of the Society of 1819. their presence will contin-
ue to be felt throughout the Maryville College future.
Mary Gladys Brown Pieper '36
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ALUMNI GIVING
Alumni Set New Participation Record
It's official! Maryville College alum-
ni have again responded to the challenge
and set a new record for giving partici-
pation. Forty-six percent of MC's alum-
ni made a gift to the College during the
1998-1999 fiscal year that ended May
31. The new figure breaks the 43.9 per-
cent participation record set in 1997.
"I often brag to colleagues about the
loyalty and commitment of Maryville 's
alumni," President Gerald Gibson said.
"This new record further illustrates the
unique bond between our alumni and
the College."
The national average alumni giving
percentages are 21 percent for all col-
leges and universities and 32 percent for
private liberal arts colleges.
"We've worked hard to emphasize the
importance of participation," said Mark
Cate, Director of Development. "But we
still have a way to go to be in the elite
group of schools with giving percent-
ages consistently over 50 percent."
Alumni giving has risen dramatically
over the past 20 years. In 1979, 22.5
percent of the alumni made a gift com-
pared to 37.7 percent in 1989 and the 46
percent record this year.
"Today, more than ever, this statistic
is used by a number of organizations
when they consider funding the
College," Cate said. "And of course, it
is used by U.S. News & World Report
when ranking higher education institu-
tions."
Goal set for 2000
"One down and one to go!"
Those were the words of National
Alumni Association President Tim
Topham '80 when told of the new alumni
giving participation record set during
the 1998-1999 fiscal year.
"The Alumni Board was very opti-
mistic in setting a 50-percent goal by
the year 2000," said Topham. "Having
reached the 46 percent mark this year is
outstanding."
At its 1998 fall meeting, the National
50?
Alumni Board Executive Committee set
the year 2000 goal with hopes of reach-
ing 45 percent this year. By the end of
the College's fiscal year on May 31,
3,523 of Maryville 's 7,660 alumni of
^ . record had
*/{* made a gift.
breaking the
record of
43.9 percent
set in 1997.
"This is a tremendous show of sup-
port considering we finished last year at
just over 41 percent," Topham said.
"From what I understand, the student
phonathon callers deserve much of the
credit for the increase."
Under the leadership of Phonathon
Coordinator Chris Howard, the student
callers increased their number of
pledges by thirty percent. This year's
caller roster included: David Alexander
'00; Vicki Ayers '01; Patrick Baden '01;
Jessica Ballou '01; Kikki Benson '02; Tomasz
Czudowski '99; Erica Hayes '01; Tiffany
McElyea '02; Krista Smith '02; and Erin
Verhofstadt '02.
"We are proud of the students' efforts
and hope that more people will respond
when called next year," said Topham.
"As I've said before, every gift truly
makes a difference when you are talking
about participation percentages."
Winner named in reunion
giving race
It was another record year for the
Reunion Giving Program. Revived in
1997, the program challenges reunion
classes to make special gifts to the
Annual Fund.
At Homecoming, the classes with the
most dollars raised and highest participa-
tion rate are recognized for their efforts.
Then at the end of the fiscal year, the
winning classes are announced and rec-
ognized on permanent plaques in
Anderson Hall.
All totaled, this year's reunion classes
raised more than $95,000 for the Annual
Fund, surpassing last year's $65,000
mark. The Class of 1983 won the award
for the most dollars raised with $13,940
in gifts, while the Class of 1948 won the
participation award with 65 percent of
the class making a gift. Congratulations
to both classes and to Susan Van Aken '83
and Lib Crawford Roper '48 who chaired
their respective class programs!
Other reunion gift chairs included: Art
Bushing '43; Janet Wood '53; Sid Gilreath
'58; Dennis Miller '63; Cole Piper '68; Janet
Conway '73; Pete Xiques '78; DeAnn Hargis-
Kaminski '88; and David King '93.
Class of 1 999 breaks
records
At the conclusion of this year's Senior
Gift Campaign, the Class of 1999 had
pledged $5,985 with 57 percent of the
seniors participating — both new
records! The money raised was used to
build a new sidewalk (see photo) con-
necting Beeson Village with
Fayerweather Hall. Senior Gift commit-
tee members included: Ryan Stewart.
Chair; Joy Bailey; Sara Baker; Katie
Brehmer; Lolo Johnson: Heather McCloud:
Heather Menefee; Trey Murphy: Brian
O'Connor: Sherry Oden; Erin Palmer; Bobby
Parrillo: Adam Shepherd; Lucretia Sleeper:
and Jennifer Windrow.
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CAMPUS NEWS
Faculty promoted
Dr. Carl Gombert and Dr. Roger Miller
were awarded tenure by action of the
Board of Directors at the April meeting.
Gombert was promoted to Associate
Professor of Art, and Miller was promoted
to Associate Professor of Physics.
Ziegler returns to MC
Rick Ziegler 70 returned to MC this
summer as Vice President and Dean for
Enrollment. Ziegler replaces Donna Franklin
Davis '83 who resigned the position fol-
lowing nearly 20 years of service to the
College in order to pursue Ph.D. studies.
Ziegler comes to MC from his post as
Director of Admission at Susquehanna
University in Selinsgrove, PA.
"I am delighted to be coming back to
Maryville at such an exciting time," he
said.
Ziegler worked at MC from 1970 to
1979 in various positions including
Residence Director of Pearsons Hall,
Admissions Counselor, and Director of
Admissions.
Mountain Challenge wins
Quality Award
Mountain Challenge staff learned this
spring that its Corporate Development
Program earned recognition as a winner
of the Tennessee Quality Award. Awarded
by the Tennessee Department of
Economic Development, the competition
included evaluation of leadership, strate-
gic planning, customer and market focus,
information and analysis, human resource
focus, process management, and business
results.
Fire destroys
Fayerweather
A powerful bolt of lightning struck the
Fayerweather Hall on Sunday evening,
May 23, triggering a blaze that destroyed
the 101 -year old building.
Fayerweather was the College's student
center and home to the Education
Department, Treasurer's office, and
Communications office.
All MC students participate in this
award-winning program as part of the
Maryville Curriculum. For more informa-
tion, visit the Mountain Challenge website
at http://www.MtnChallenge.com.
College administrators are working
with the Knoxville architectural firm
McCarty Holsaple McCarty to rebuild the
historic structure with plans to begin con-
struction this fall.
Until the new student center at Bartlett
Hall is completed, the bookstore, post
office, and Student Development offices
will occupy temporary buildings located
adjacent to Cooper Athletic Center. The
Education Department and Treasurer's
office are in temporary space in Sutton
Science Center.
Do you have memories of
Fayerweather you would like to share
with other FOCUS readers? Send them
to: Alumni Office/Maiyville College/502
E. Lamar Alexander Pky.lMaryville, 77V
37804 or e-mail them to: heaty@maiyvil-
lecollege.edu.
College buys apartments
Maryville College recently purchased
Stanley Apartments located across the
street from the Court Street entrance to
the campus. Twenty-four MC students
will live in the 12 apartments which will
be renamed as the Court Street
Apartments. The new facility, considered
honors housing, is needed to accommo-
date growing enrollment at the College.
Residents are required to have high
grades and exemplary conduct records.
The Court Street Apartments bring the
total on-campus housing to 730 students.
College officials expect that all College
residence halls will be fully occupied for
Fall Term.
New faculty join MC
Three new faculty members have been
named. Jerilyn M. Swann has been
appointed as Assistant Professor of
Biology. Swann earned the B.S., M.S.,
and Ph.D. at University of Tennessee.
William Benjamin Cash will join the
Biology Department as Instructor. Cash
"earned the B.A. at Piedmont College, the
M.S. at Georgia Southern, and the Ph.D.
at University of Mississippi.
Michelle Wilkes-Carilli joins the busi-
ness faculty as Instructor of Business and
Organization Management. Wilkes-
Carilli earned the B.A. at East
Stroudsburg University and the M.S. and
Ph.D. at Southern Illinois at Carbondale.
College area code
changing
The College's telephone area code is
changing to "865" on Oct. 1, 1999. The
current area code (423) will still work
until the end of January, 2000.
Physical plant building
underway
The College's Physical Plant staff will
soon relocate to brand new facilities locat-
ed near Gamble Hall. The building will
provide workshops and office space
designed for maintenance, housekeeping,
grounds and security workers.
Bartlett Hall, home for the Physical
Plant employees since the early 1970s, is
undergoing renovations to serve as the
College's new student center.
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(0CUS Summer 1999
CAMPUS NEWS
Palmer Named Outstanding Senior
Finalists for the 1999 Outstanding Senior Award were (l-r) Sarah Knisley, Marl J.
Shields, and Rachel Roe.
'Trey" Murphy, Erin Palmer, Joel
E
rin Nicole Palmer '99, a political
science major from Winchester,
TN, was named Outstanding
Senior at the Maryville College
Academic Awards Banquet held in the
Margaret Ware Dining Room April 17.
She was one of five candidates nomi-
nated for the honor.
The Outstanding Senior Award was
established in 1974 by the Maryville
College Alumni Association. A com-
mittee of students, faculty and staff
selects the finalists from a list of
seniors who have at least a 3.0 G.P.A.
and who have demonstrated overall
academic achievement and participa-
tion in extracurricular activities.
Palmer participated in a wide range
of activities while at the College.
Active in student government, she
served as her sophomore, junior and
senior class secretary. She also served
on the Constitution, Residence, Budget,
Spirit and Traditions, and Food
Services committees of student govern-
ment. She was a senior leadership
scholarship recipient in 1998 and
served on the College's Judicial Board
and Disciplinary Review Board.
A four-year member of the Lady
Scots Soccer team, Palmer was a mem-
ber of the Student Athlete Advisory
Committee and on the MC Athletics
All-Academic Team for four years. She
was also a member of Fellowship of
Christian Athletes.
Palmer was a Maryville College
Dean's Scholar and a Bradford Scholar.
As a Bradford Scholar, she was a mem-
ber of the Literacy Corps and served as
an MC Families tutor and as a tutor at
the Blount County Children's Home.
She was a Spanish language practice
teacher and took part in a summer
study abroad in Mexico City at the
Universidad iberoamericana in 1998.
Palmer served as an MC Peer Mentor
and worked in the College's
Advancement Office as a student work-
er. She was a staff journalist for the
Highland Echo, Maryville College's
student newspaper, and served as the
Maryville College Model United
Nations Administrative Director in
1996-97.
The daughter of Lee and Gail Palmer
of Winchester, she is a graduate of
Franklin County High School. Palmer
graduated in May and will attend the
University of Tennessee School of Law
in the fall.
Other 1999 Outstanding Senior
Award candidates included Sarah Knisley
'99 and Marl (Trey) Murphy III '99 of
Knoxville. Rachel Roe '99 of Maryville,
and Joel Shields '99 of Troutville, VA.
(Shields is the grandson of the late Dr.
Randolph Shields '34. long-time chairman
of the Biology Department at Maryville
College.)
Three receive J.D. Davis
Award
(Our apologies: Due to the fire in
Fayei-weather Hall, we have no pic-
tures of this year's J.D. Davis Award
recipients.)
Lesley Roberson '99, Lee Simmons '99,
and Jennifer Windrow '99 were given the
J.D. Davis Award during the All-Sports
Banquet on campus April 26. Named
for alumnus and long-time football,
track and wrestling coach John A.
"J.D." Davis '30, the award recognizes
leadership, athletic ability, Christian
values and academic achievement.
Roberson, daughter of David and
Linda Roberson of Maryville, was a
four-year member of the Lady Scots
Basketball team. Team captain for three
years, she set a school record for steals
(236).
Roberson was voted by her team-
mates as the "Most Valuable Player"
during the 1998-99 season, nominated
to be a Kodak All-American, named
second from All-South, and named to
the third team of Division III On-Line
Team of the Year.
Simmons, son of Danny and Debbie
Simmons of Fruitland Park. FL, was a
four-year starter on the football team.
At center, he was elected captain and
"Most Valuable Offensive Player" by
his teammates in 1998.
Murfreesboro native Jennifer
Windrow was a four-year starter on the
Lady Scots Soccer Team. She finished
first in career goals (70), was named to
the All-South Team three times, voted
"Most Valuable Offensive Player" two
times, and, during her senior year, was
elected team captain.
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17
ALUMNI NEWS
Five inducted into
Wall of Fame
(Our apologies: Because of the fire
in Fayei-weather Hall, we have no pic-
tures of the 1998 Wall of Fame
inductees.)
Five alumni were inducted into the
Scots Club's Athletic Wall of Fame,
which recognizes outstanding individuals
who have contributed to College athlet-
ics. Inductions for the 1998 honorees
were held April 26, 1999, during the All-
Sports Banquet on campus.
Football star Sheridan "Dan" Greaser
'60, baseball, track and football legend
Joseph Houston '05, tennis stand-out W.
Lynn Howard '66, track record-breaker
Stuart Snedeker '36 and basketball and
softball All- American Sara Covington
Matthews '85 were recognized by
Athletic Director Randy Lambert '76.
Houston and Snedeker were inducted
posthumously, but members of their
respective families were in attendance at
the banquet. Matthews was unable to
attend.
If you would like to nominate an
alumnus or alumna for the Wall of Fame
honor, please call the Alumni Office at
(423)981-8197.
Soccer games scheduled
for Aug. 22
Maryville College Head Soccer Coach
Pepe Fernandez is organizing alumni
soccer games for Sunday, Aug. 22, 1999.
A women's game is scheduled for 1 p.m.
at the campus field; men will take the
field at 3 p.m.
Following the games, a barbecue din-
ner will be offered.
For more information or to register to
play, contact Fernandez at (423) 981-
8284.
VISA contributes $5K to
Association in 1998
The Maryville College Alumni
Association collected $5,686.91 from the
VISA Affinity Card program during the
1998 calendar year.
Quarterly earnings were: 1st quarter.
$1,161.38; 2nd quarter, $1,144.57; 3rd
quarter, $1,077.60; and 4th quarter,
$1,141.98.
First offered in 1988, the credit card
agreement between the College and First
Tennessee has meant
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thousands of dollars
for the Alumni Association. With the
income, the Association is able to pay
for student-alumni events, fund Student
Government projects and buy gifts for
incoming freshmen and graduating
seniors.
The 100 Days Celebration and Senior
Barbecue (both events that younger
alumni may remember attending) are tra-
ditionally funded from VISA card earn-
ings.
Every time cardholders use the
Maryville College VISA card to make a
purchase. First Tennessee makes a dona-
tion to the College. The bank pays .75
percent (three-fourths of 1 percent) of
the net sales amount generated by these
accounts each quarter.
During the spring of 1998, the
National Alumni Board set a goal of
adding 100 card members to the program
by the year 2000. In March of 1999,
active credit card users totaled 224.
"While we are pleased with the way
the VISA Affinity program is paying off
for the Association, we would love to see
more alumni, parents and friends of
Maryville College get involved," said
Alumni Association President Tim Topham
'80. "This is an easy way to help stu-
dents and the College because most peo-
ple are already accustomed to using a
credit card."
An added benefit, he said, is the pub-
licity the College gets when alumni liv-
ing in far-off cities and towns use their
credit cards, which carry the College
name, Anderson Tower logo, and found-
ing date.
"I know staff members from the
College carry these applications with
them when they're on the road, and the
Alumni Board has made these applica-
tions available at events like
Homecoming," Topham added. "I would
encourage any alum, parent, or friend of
Maryville College who cares about stu-
dent-alumni interaction to take an appli-
cation, fill it out, and send it in."
To have an application mailed to you,
please call the Alumni Office at (423)
981-8197.
Florida Reunion set for
Jan. 14-16
The Florida Reunion. Maryville
College's annual weekend retreat for
alumni, parents, and friends living in
Florida, has been scheduled for January
14-16, 2000, at the Life Enrichment
Center in Leesburg.
During the reunion held Jan. 15-17,
1999, the Florida Alumni Chapter elect-
ed the following officers: Joe Whitehead
'78 and son Jeremy, co-presidents: Danny
'80 and Nancy Freudenthal Morris '81. vice-
presidents; and Kim Dolce '79. secretary.
The chapter set a goal of getting 60
people to attend "Leesburg m."
Registration materials will be sent to
all Florida constituents later this year.
For more information, contact the
Alumni Office at (423) 981-8197.
Sisters Libby Lee Burke '65 and Rosemary
Lee Potter '60, last year's co-presidents of
the Florida Alumni Chapter, were among
those who attended the 1 999 Florida
Reunion in Leesburg. Dates for "Leesburg
III," the Florida Reunion in 2000, are Jan.
14-16.
FOCUS Summei 1999
CLASS NOTES
20s
David S. Marston '29 writes that broken
hips, arthritis, etc. keep him in a wheel-
chair, but he continues to work in his
home office with a computer and fax,
consulting on technical manuals and writ-
ing books.
30s
Louis B. Blair '32 writes that he is still
attempting to promote national health care
reform that provides universal coverage.
He and his wife, Ernestine Smith Blair
'34 live in Iowa City, IA.
Maria Wynn Claiborne '35 and her hus-
band celebrated their 60th wedding
anniversary on Dec. 18, 1998.
Ruth Perry Johnston '35 continues to live
in Hendersonville, NC. Her husband,
Elston E. Johnston, is deceased. She has
four children, 10 grandchildren, and one
great-grandchild.
Mary Gillingham Padgett '35 writes that
she now has five grandchildren and six
great-grandchildren. She lives in
Savannah, GA.
Mark L. Andrews '37 observed the 59th
anniversary of his ordination to the min-
istry on Apr. 16, 1999. He is still active
as Parish Associate in Lewinsville
Presbyterian Church in McLean, VA.
Minnie-Lou Chittick Lynch '38 will lead a
workshop, "Emerging Issues," at the 1999
conference of the Louisiana Library
Association. Emphasis will be on Internet
policies. She was also a program partici-
pant at the 1999 American Library
Association Conference: "Library
Trustees and Technology."
Donald E. Rugh '38 celebrated his 84th
birthday on Jan. 11, 1999, while attending
a mission committee meeting in Concord,
TN. He writes that, thanks to his present
wife, Doris, of India, he keeps up contacts
around the world.
Howard Sams '38 notified the College of
the death of his wife, Flora Louise Kelley
Sams on Apr. 12, 1998. They had been
married one month short of 56 years.
40s
E. B. Smith '40 and wife, Jean Smith '46
were recently house guests in Tokyo of
the German Ambassador to Japan. In
1964, the future ambassador was E. B.'s
student guide on a tour of Germany,
including East Berlin, which they entered
by subway to avoid the Berlin Wall.
Peg Coats Graham '41 notified the
College of the death of her husband
Robert E. Graham, on Nov. 16, 1998. He
was a retired Presbyterian minister.
Amy Palmer '42 recently toured in north-
western Mexico including the Copper
Canyon. She also enjoyed a vacation at
King Ranch in Texas with her grandson.
Octavia Blades Edwards '43 celebrated her
78th birthday by taking a cruise up the
Inland Passage of Alaska. She has com-
pleted 10 years as Enabler for 10 church-
es and ministers for Salem Presbyterian
Women. In November she plans to travel
to China and will travel on the Yangtze
River.
Marion Magill Foreman '43 is moving to
Racine, WI, where she is building a house
a mile from her daughter and son-in-law,
John 71 and Carol Foreman Randall 71.
Robert K. Lockwood '43 continues to live
in Farmington, MI, and still travels, gar-
dens, plays in three golf leagues, and is
"slowly mastering the computer." He has
three children and four grandchildren.
Joel Phillips '44 and Elizabeth Bryant
Phillips '42 live in Winter Park, FL, and
write that farming their orange groves
takes much time and cultivation. Their
son is also in the business and specializes
in growing Pomeloes, similar to grape-
fruit.
Robert F. Huber '45 has written a book
about the Mayflower Pilgrims, which has
been published by Picton Press. "Pilgrim
Footnotes* (With Humor)" is a collection
of more than 60 of his articles that have
appeared in various magazines. Bob is
editor of the Howland Quarterly and a
past Mayflower Society governor. Bob
and his wife, Carolyn Ulrica Huber '47
toured England, Scotland, and the
Netherlands in May, 1999. He was tour
director for 44 members of the Pilgrim
John Howland Society.
Margaret Cross Scruggs '46 has published
her step-by-step book "Fanciful Phonics,"
for beginning and remedial readers. Her
website is: www.triadnetwork.com/phon-
ics.
David John Seel '46 former director of
Presbyterian Medical Center, Chonju, S.
Korea, received an honorary doctorate
from Montreat College on May 15, 1999,
and the Outstanding Alumni Award from
Tulane Medical School on May 17, 1998.
He has recently had two books published,
"Suffer the Children" in 1998, and "For
Whom No Labor of Love is Ever Lost,"
the 100 year history of Jesus Hospital,
written for its Centennial Celebration on
Nov. 7, 1998.
Dr. Jeanne Keyes Youngson '46 was
recently the guest of honor at a Henry
Langlois Memorial Conference in Paris.
Langlois founded the Cinematheque
Francaise in 1936.
Catherine Stout Beals '47 lost her hus-
band, Dr. Joe Duncan Beals, Jr., on April
15, 1999. He suffered a heart attack and
died at their home in Knoxville. He was
a neurosurgeon and served as chairman of
the Baptist Health System Foundation
board. A memorial service was held at
Second Presbyterian Church in Knoxville.
Survivors also include his sons, Joe
Duncan Beals, III, and Brent Beals.
Phyllis Rainard Haxton '49 and her hus-
band have recently moved to
Harrisonburg, VA. They enjoy spending
vacation time doing volunteer work for
JAARS at Waxhaw and taking two to
three week church building trips in
Belgium, Mexico, Nicaragua, and
Estonia.
50s
Glen Knecht '50 is now serving as
Assistant Pastor at 4th Presbyterian
Church in Washington, DC. Betty Jean
Greenwald Knecht '51 is helping to care for
their handicapped daughter and her child.
William W. Nish '50 and Maggie Newland
Nish '50 write that their youngest daughter
traveled to China in May, 1 999, to adopt a
Chinese baby girl, the fifth grandchild for
the Nishes.
Lambert E. Stewart '50 is an elder in
Venice Presbyterian Church, Venice, FL.
Laurie Dale Kluth '51 was selected to
serve on the PCUSA team to observe the
national election of El Salvador on March
11, 1999.
Bob Larson '51 retired in 1992 and has
since served as interim pastor and/or pul-
pit supply minister in a number of
Knoxville Presbytery churches. He and
his wife, Mary Wills Larson '51 live in
Lenoir City, TN.
William W. Willingham '51 recently
received the J. C. Canipe Award for
Teacher of the Year at Fruitland Baptist
Bible Institute in Hendersonville, NC.
Betty Lou Cutler Boggs '56 and her hus-
band traveled in Greece and Turkey in
March, 1999, with a group from their
church. They plan a four-week tour of
England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland in
September.
Ethelyn Cathey Gardner Pankratz '56 is the
administrator of Providence Child Center
of the Sisters of Providence Health
System in Portland, OR. She has been in
the position for 10 years and plans to
retire in September, 1999.
Robert L. Patterson '56 has recently
retired from Armstrong Atlantic State
University in Savannah, GA, after 32
years of teaching.
Maryel Vogel Smith '56 retired in 1 996
and then did substitute teaching. She later
returned to regular elementary vocal
music teaching for three days a week.
FOCUS Summer 1999 19
CLASS NOTES
Her K-5 choir gave a mini-version of
"Carmen" with the Cleveland (OH) Opera
in February, 1999.
Raymond J. Van Stone '56 recently moved
to Morganwood, a retirement facility
sponsored by the Presbytery of
Philadelphia in Swarthrnore, PA.
Grace Benham Webb '56 writes that she
and her husband now have three children
with spouses and 1 1 grandchildren.
David Williams '56 and Jean Boyd Williams
'57 report the birth of a granddaughter,
Christina Nalle Quiner, on March 22,
1999.
Robert F. Baker '58 has retired to the
Golden Isles of Southeast Georgia.
60s
Ralph Ayers '60 and his wife, Kitty, have
recently opened the Coastal Academy of
Fine Aits and Crafts in Port Isabel, TX. It
features an art gallery, retail supply store,
plaster fun house, art and dance classes.
Their daughter, Vicki, is entering her
junior year at MC.
John's home, the original farm house, was
built around 1840 — "updated of course."
Donald C Jackman '62 recently stepped
down as Chair of the Department of
Chemistry & Physics at Pfeiffer
University. He is now enjoying teaching
and "doing chemistry."
Betty Sue Talbott Wengert '63 received
Honorary Life Membership in
Presbyterian Women PCUSA from
Orange Park Presbyterian Church
Women, Orange Park, FL, in 1997.
Barry Birch '64 is Food Safety Program
Manager for the New Mexico
Environment Department.
Patricia O'Neill 64 is Associate Professor
of Voice at Louisiana State University and
performs as a recitalist and in concert.
She was recently soprano soloist with the
Louisiana Philharmonic (New Orleans) in
Brahms "Requiem." She has offered
master classes at several universities in
the South and concerts of Irish folk songs,
folklore and history, accompanying her-
self on the Irish harp. She is currently
studying at the Alexander Foundation in
Three generations of the DeWeese family were present for a College outreach event in Tampa on Jan. 14. From left are
Emma Narthwood DeWeese '36, her son Dr. William DeWeese '64 and grandson Bradley DeWeese '97.
Carolyn Siera Coen '61 is moving to
Madison, WI, where she will be establish-
ing a consulting firm to do program eval-
uation, grant writing, research design and
analysis.
John A. Lock '61 and his wife have
moved to Albright Gardens in Beamsville,
Ontario, Canada, a retirement community
sponsored by The United Church. John is
a minister in The United Church. Built
on a former fruit farm, the community
consists of some 40 houses, an apartment
building, and a 200 bed nursing home.
Philadelphia to become a certified teacher
of the Alexander Technique.
David West '64 retired from Maryville
City School System in May, 1998. He
lives in Greenback, TN, where is now
enjoys farming, gardening, hunting, and
grandparenting his four grandchildren.
Jeanni Atkins '65 served on a Mississippi
Press Association committee to discuss
establishing a state Freedom of
Information Office. She has served on
the Mississippi Center for Freedom of
Information advisory committee and
wrote a proposal to establish the adminis-
trative office, clearing house, archives and
newsletter on the Ole Miss campus. The
press association has accepted the propos-
al and Dr. Atkins will be setting up the
office. She received her Ph. D. from the
University of Missouri School of
Journalism; her dissertation was "The
Genesis and Development of Open
Meetings Laws in the 50 States." She
worked with the University of Missouri
Freedom of Information Center for 12
years, prior to going to Ole Miss, where
she is an associate professor in the
Department of Journalism.
John Chaki '65 writes that, after 29 years
selling and managing for Betz
Laboratories, a corporate takeover has led
him to retire. He plans to spend time with
his horses on his farm in Buckingham,
PA.
Benny Monroe '65 was recently inducted
into the TSS AA Hall of Fame. He
coached football at Cleveland (TN) High
School and at McMinn County High
School, compiling a career record of 21 1-
53 and leading Cleveland to four state
championships.
W. Lynn Howard '66 represented
Maryville College as the official delegate
to the inauguration of Dr. John L. Carson
as president of Erskine College and
Erskine Theological Seminary on April
24, 1999.
Sara J. Parker '66 recently moved to
McLean, VA, and married a former high-
school sweetheart, William Saint. Her
younger daughter, Marion Scotchmer is a
student at the University of Virginia.
Older daughter, Kristin Scotchmen works
in Washington, DC. Sara's son. Jonathan
Scotchmer. died in 1995.
Donna Geply '67 is in her 15th year with
Center City Ministries in Bethlehem. PA.
The organization houses, counsels, and
offers homeless individuals "an atmos-
phere of Biblical hospitality."
Ellen Hamlett Ferry '67 is listed in the 6th
edition of "International Who's Who for
Business and Professional Women" in the
area of administration. She is administra-
tive assistant for Comdata Corporation in
Nashville, TN. Her first granddaughter
was bom on Aug. 21, 1998.
James M. Gifford '67 recently was pre-
sented with the Berea College Service
Award for his service to the Appalachian
region. Gifford is Executive Director of
the Jesse Stuart Foundation.
Linda Giesselmann Driver '69 is a technical
writer and editor for CDI Engineering
Group at Lockheed Martin Energy
Systems in Oak Ridge. Her son,
Christopher, is a senior and musician at
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FOCUS Summer 1999
CLASS NOTES
MTSU, staying to get a second major in
English.
70s
Ross Hamory 70 and Christine McCormack
Hamory '71 are living in Singapore, where
Ross is the director of the FAA's Asia
Pacific Region. Chris is a teacher at the
Singapore American School.
Jane Elmore Wilson 70 recently compet-
ed in several tournaments doing tai chi
chuan and Wah Lum Praying Mantis
Kung Fu. She was awarded trophies at
each tournament, including six first-place
trophies.
Eileen Myers Zimmerman '70 returned to
teaching in October, 1998. She now
teaches a multi-level class of grades 3-7
in a charter school. She received her
M.S. Ed. from the University of Dayton
in 1989.
Ana Tampanna '71 is working as a cor-
porate trainer, consultant, and inspira-
tional speaker. She lives with her hus-
band and two children in Winston-Salem,
where she is active in community service.
M. Shepard Spear '72 was named 1998
"Developer of the Year" by the North
East Builders Association. He serves as
president of the Massachusetts Builders
Land Trust and senior vice president of
the Home Builders Association of
Massachusetts. He is vice chairman of
the North Reading Community Planning
Commission and has open space reserva-
tion legislation pending before the
Massachusetts "Great and General
Court."
Doug Chase '73 has enrolled in a doctor-
al program at Princeton Theological
Seminary where he will begin work in
September, 1999.
Hardy DeYoung '73 was the winner of
the 1998 Presidential Award for
Excellence in Science Teaching on a sec-
ondary level for Tennessee. He is a biol-
ogy teacher at Alcoa High School.
Delores Bowen Ziegler '73 sang at
Westminster Presbyterian Church in
Snellville, GA, recently in memory of her
uncle, who died April 29, 1999, at the
age of 80. She also sang the role of
Romeo in Atlanta Opera's production of
"The Capulets and the Montagues" in
June.
Sean Sullivan '74 has been appointed
Director & Program Head, Tumor
Endothelium Program at Genemedicine
Inc. He received his M. S. and Ph.D.
degrees in biochemistry from the
University of Tennessee.
Kathy Royal Wassum '75 recently audi-
tioned for the Orlando (FL) Opera
Company and has been notified that she
has been selected to sing with the compa-
ny.
Virginia Millner Elkins '78 is now teaching
5th grade after 19 years of teaching
Special Education. She and her husband
have five children and are presently
awaiting their eighth grandchild. They
live in Venice, FL.
Carol Friend Rushforth 78 and her hus-
band, David, announce their adoption of
Emily Grace Yamei Rushforth, who was
born July 3, 1996. They spent two weeks
in China in November, 1997, to complete
the adoption process. The family lives in
Marietta, GA.
Mark Mortensen 79 formed Mortensen's
Property Services in Littleton, CO, in
with her nine cats and four dogs. She is a
group home manager and recreation ther-
apist for Adult Community Training in
Blount Co.
Jim Markle '81 has recently accepted the
position of Vice President of Network
Operations for Knology Holdings, Inc. in
West Point, GA.
Jo Ann Berretto Lemly '83 and her family
live in Halifax, NS, Canada, where her
husband is an exchange officer with the
Canadian Navy. She resigned her com-
mission in the US Navy a few years ago
and has been working as an emergency
room nurse since then.
Beth Sieber-Ford '83 has been appointed
as the Interim Director of the Webster
Avenue Family Resource Center of the
(L-R) Gwyneth Williams McKee '49, Rachel Bowman '02, Scott Poland 76, Bridget Bell '99, George Poland '61, Carol
Greenwood Poland '62 and James McKee '50 attended the 1 999 Scholarship Luncheon. Bowman was the recipient of
the John M. Poland Presidential Scholarship; Bell received the John M. Poland Scholarship.
April of 1998. The company's primary
focus is pruning trees and shrubs and hor-
ticultural consultation. He recently
demonstrated professional competency by
successfully completing the Certified
Arborist examination administered
through the International Society of
Arboriculture (ISA) and the local chapter
of the ISA.
80s
Elizabeth Barrie '81 received the M. S. in
Speech-Language Pathology in 1994,
from Nova Southeastern University. For
the past five years she has been working
at three schools in Miami, FL, as a
speech-language pathologist.
Birdie Hilt'81 is playing on a softball
team in Maryville with several MC gradu-
ates, remodeling her Victorian house
"from top to bottom" and keeping busy
Family Resource Centers of Rochester,
NY. She is also Director of the Miriam
Family Resource Center and the Agency's
Special Projects Coordinator.
Sharon Wood '83 was selected
College/University Athletic Trainer of the
Year for 1999 by the Tennessee Athletic
Trainers Society. She is Athletic Trainer
at Maryville College.
Susan Friedman-Berman '84 was recently
promoted to the position of Program
Coordinator with CATCH, a partial hospi-
talization program in Philadelphia. She
supervises 10 professional staff and has
about 60 patients each day at the program
for mentally ill older adults.
Susan Jennings Singer '86 writes that,
after 12 years of teaching kindergarten,
she is looking forward to putting theories
into practice as she stays home to raise
her daughter.
Alfred Chiverton '89 has completed his
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medical residency and is currently in pri-
vate practice in New Orleans, LA.
90s
Christen Anderson '91 recently took time
off from her job as chef at the Food
Business Restaurant in Atlanta to visit the
Galapagos Islands and Quito, Ecuador.
Banrin Che Daud '92 is working for the
government in Malaysia as a superinten-
dent of customs with Malaysian Royal
Customs and Excise. He is stationed at
the import and export section in the sea-
port of Penang.
Carrie Callaway Denkinger '92 has
received her Master of Social Work
degree and is now an Adult Clinician at
Region Ten Charlottesville (VA)
Community Service Board.
James E. Fitzpatrick '93 moved into an
apartment in Tipp City, OH, about 15
miles from his parents in 1998. He is a
network control coordinator for Emery
Worldwide and is able to travel a great
deal since he can jumpseat on any Emery
aircraft.
Jamie Kent Harrison '93 now works as an
internal auditor with Home Federal Bank
in Knoxville, TN. Sandra Brown Harrison
'94 works on staff with InterVarsity
Christian Fellowship at Maryville College
and part-time in MC's sign language
interpreting lab.
Carol Millsaps Luckey '93 has been named
executive director of Maryville- Alcoa
College-Community Orchestra.
Lynette King Webb '93 was named
Teacher of the Year at North Middle
School in Loudon County, TN, for the
1998-99 school year.
Jennifer McCafferty Grad '94 completed
her Ph. D. in Molecular & Cellular
Pharmacology at the University of Miami
School of Medicine in May, 1999.
Jeffrey D. Huffman '94 is working for
AEI Music Networks, the largest provider
of music for businesses in the world and
"much more specialized than Muzak."
The corporate headquarters are in Seattle.
Nancy Allen Lassiter '94 passed the
Certificate of Transliteration test, com-
pleting her Registry of Interpreters for the
Deaf, Inc. certification. She is returning
to a position as staff interpreter at the
University of Georgia after a one-year
stint working for the Department of
Mental Health in South Carolina.
Lori Schirmer '94 has been accepted to
the pharmacy doctoral program at the
University of Tennessee-Memphis and
will begin her work in the fall of 1999.
Lauri Ellis Coffey '95 is completing her
master's degree in Education at
University of Tennessee-Knoxville. She
coaches basketball at Maryville High
School.
Patrick M. Cummins '95 retired March,
1997, as Deputy Chief of the Knoxville
Fire Department. He is starting several
businesses that market products on the
internet.
Amy E. Lee '95 is a commissioned officer
in the U. S. Public Health Service/Indian
Health Service, serving as a physical ther-
apist at Tuba City (AZ) Indian Medical
Center.
Shedrick D. McCall, Jr. '95 is a juvenile
counselor with the Reception and
Diagnostic Center in Richmond, VA, and
an adjunct professor in Psychology at
John Tyler Community College. He is
also CEO and president of Unlimited
Potential Speaking Firm.
Erin Quigley '95 is now working at
Developmental Services Group in
Columbia, MD. She is a job
developer/job coach, assisting develop-
mentally disabled, deaf and hard-of-hear-
ing individuals to find jobs and train
them.
Sarah E. Smith '95 is a first-year resident
at Canlion Health Systems in Roanoke,
VA, in obstetrics and gynecology. She
graduated from UT-Memphis College of
Medicine on June 4, 1999.
Rachel Winter '95 is a candidate for ordi-
nation as Minister of Word and Sacrament
and has completed her second year of
seminary at Columbia Theological
Seminary in Decatur, GA.
Ben Bendever '96 received the MBA
from the University of Tennessee-
Knoxville in May, 1998. He accepted a
management position with Lucent
Technologies and is based out of
Greensboro, NC.
B. J. Ewing '96 recently became R.I.D.
Certified (C.T) Certificate of
Transliteration. She is Social Services
Coordinator with Interpreting Service for
the Deaf in Memphis.
Kristin Kant '96 is currently doing the
research for and the writing of a master's
thesis investigating the impact of tourism
on art production in an Appalachian
Tennessee town. She is a Cultural
Anthropology graduate student at Temple
University.
Patrick Murphy '96 recently received a
Master's degree in Spanish at the
University of Tennessee-Knoxville.
Megan Miller Strickler '96 and her hus-
band had a number of MC friends take
part in their wedding. Sara Goelz Carey '95
was Matron of Honor and Rissa Miller '99
was one of three bridesmaids. Kristi
Kennedy '93 was the Scripture Reader.
Also taking part were Charles Reneau '50
and his wife, Merle, who are special
friends of Megan's.
Jon Davis '97 entered the University of
Cincinnati's Ph. D. program in July where
he will pursue research in molecular and
cellular physiology.
Jennifer Stables Stewart '97 is now work-
ing at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville,
FL.
Jaclyn Lang McDaniels '98 and her hus-
band live in Murfreesboro, TN, where she
is a sign language interpreter at Oakland
High School. They expect their first child
in October, 1999.
Marriages
Ellen Hamlett Petrie '67 to William J.
Ferry, July 2, 1998.
Barbara J. Wagner '71 to Martin Skiles.
June 18, 1998.
Eric D. Booth '94 to Angi D. Giltnane,
May 22, 1999.
Gina Victoria Davis '94 to Drew Edward
Berman, March 27, 1999.
Many MC alumni were present (or the wedding of Patrick
Murphy '96 and Grace King '97 in LaFayette, GA.
Ben Bendever '96 to Deborah Beard. Oct.
24, 1998.
Megan Ashley Miller '96 to Geoffrey
Mark Strickler. May 29. 1999.
Patrick Murphy '96 to Grace King '97 Aug.
1, 1998.
Kevin Turner '96 to Julie Coltrin. April
25, 1999.
Jennifer Stables '97 to Brooks Stewart.
March 6, 1999.
Keli Jean Stewart '97 to Kevin Dayne
Meadows, March 13. 1999.
Jessica Shea Garrett '98 to Christopher D.
Thomas '98. March 27, 1999.
Births
Paul Heinze '82 and Dorothy Carson Heinze
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'84, a son, Jan. 9, 1998.
Jo Ann Berretto Lemly '83 and her hus-
band, David, a daughter, Marina
Christine, Aug. 8, 1998.
Kevin Crothers '85 and his wife, Patti, a
daughter, Lindsay Eryn, May 13, 1999.
Joanie Williams Marshall '85 and her hus-
band, Steven, a son, Riley David, Dec.
13, 1998, their second child.
Susan Jennings Singer '86 and her hus-
band, Mitch, a daughter, Madeline Nancy,
March 25, 1999, their first child.
Jon Allison '90 and his wife, Kim, a
daughter, Katherine Lee, May 8, 1999,
their second child.
K. C. Cross '90 and Melissa Combest Cross
'91, a daughter, Karlee Stricklin, Feb. 11,
1999, their fourth child.
Rae Ann Hickman McCurry '90 and her
husband, David, a daughter, Judith Ann,
Feb. 14, 1999, their second child.
Kathleen North Powers '91 and her hus-
band, Raymond, a son, Joseph Curtis, Jan.
9, 1999.
Stottie Cline '92 and his wife, Alicia, a
son, Easton Scott, Sept. 25, 1998, their
second child.
Jennifer Stanley Holley '92 and her hus-
band, Del, a daughter, Leah Elizabeth,
May 3, 1999.
Ted Belflower '93 and his wife, Lori, a
daughter, Hope Elizabeth, Feb. 1, 1999.
Shedrick D. McCall, Jr. '95 and his wife,
Nancy, a son, Shedrick D. McCall, JU,
Dec. 3, 1998.
Richard Wayne Norman, Jr. '95 and Claire
Thomason Norman '96 a son, William
Hunter, March 16, 1999.
In Memorium
Denna Reaves Dame '26 on May 13,
1999, inGaffney, SC. She had taught
and lived in Dawson Springs, KY, for
many years prior to moving to Gaffney to
live with her daughter. Survivors include
a sister, Gladys Reaves Sullivan '36.
George Sewell Shanks '27 on March 22,
1999, in Clarkston, MI. He had retired
from the Pontiac Motor Division in 1971
after completing 43 years of service.
Survivors include a son, four grandchil-
dren and several great-grandchildren.
John Trevithitk Wriggins '28 on Dec. 17,
1998, in Middletown, OH. He had been
ordained a Presbyterian minister in 1931,
and served churches in New York,
Pennsylvania and Ohio. Survivors
include a daughter, Dr. Aimee Wriggins
Richmond '44.
Edith Burns Little '30 on May 5, 1999, in
Maryville. She was active in New
Providence Presbyterian Church, D. A.
R., Blount Historic Trust, East Tennessee
Historical Society and a number of other
civic and community organizations.
Survivors include brothers, Herbert V.
Burns '34 and John T. Burns '33, and sister,
Inez Burns '29.
Vera Boyd Stupak '30 on March 26,
1999, in Bar Harbor, ME. She had
taught school in Cleveland, OH, for
many years. Survivors include her hus-
band, Andrew; son, Donald Stupak '62;
daughter-in-law, Beverly Ball Stupak '63;
two grandsons and one great-grandson.
Laura Jean Workizer Bailey '32 on March
14, 1999, in St. Petersburg, FL. She had
taught in the Pinellas County School
System. Survivors include a daughter
and two sons and their families.
Carrie Lou Tweed Clopton '34 on March
30, 1999, in Birmingham, AL. Survivors
include her husband, J. Malvern Clopton
'34; and two daughters, Linda Clopton '63
and Larry Ann Bridgeman.
Margaret Kelbaugh Ferguson '35 on Aug.
14, 1998. Survivors include her husband
Blundon G. Ferguson '32 of Marietta, GA.
Virginia Doran Pennington '36 on March
6, 1999, in Blanco, TX. She was a
retired teacher and had been a champion
of education for women, for capable stu-
dents from the lower middle class and
for migrant children in South Texas.
Survivors include a daughter and two
sons.
Elizabeth Kent Tomlinson '36 in Kennett
Square, PA, following a lengthy illness.
Survivors include a son and daughter,
and sister, Louise Kent Alexander '39.
Turley Farrar '37, in August, 1996, in
Pelzer, SC. He had formerly lived in
Memphis, where he was retired general
surgeon and former chief of staff at
Baptist Memorial Hospital. Survivors
include his wife, three daughters and a
son, and their families.
Sara Fay Kittrell Schwam '39, on March
31, 1999, in Maryville. She was the
widow of the late J. Howard Schwam,
who taught at Maryville College. She
was a retired teacher, a member of
Maryville First United Methodist Church
and active in many community organiza-
tions. Survivors include an aunt, a num-
ber of cousins, and several nieces.
Edward 0. Baker, Sr. '40 on Sept. 1,
1998, in Schenectady, NY, after a brief
illness. He had been a senior project
engineer with General Electric Co. prior
to his retirement. Survivors include his
wife, Irma Souder Baker '39, two daugh-
ters and a son, and their families.
Suzanne Fickes Egelston '40, on Jan. 24,
1999, in Sedona, AZ. She and her late
husband had moved to Sedona in 1975.
They were members of the Church of the
Red Rocks and were avid hikers. They
were involved with the Westerners and
Keep Sedona Beautiful. Survivors
include a daughter, Linda Stock.
James H. (Joe) Etheredge '40, on Sept.
20, 1998. Survivors include his wife,
Elizabeth Gaultney Etheredge '41, of Fort
Walton Beach, FL.
Helen Trotter Miller '42, on April 13,
1999, in Athens, TN. She was a retired
teacher. Survivors include a daughter,
Nancy Miller.
Sara Jones Winkler '42 on Apr. 10,
1999. She lived in Louisville, KY.
Survivors include her daughter, Janice
Winkler '69.
Jane McFarland Holland '44 on Jan. 31,
1999, following 39 days in the hospital.
She had had infection following heart
valve replacement surgery and then suf-
fered strokes. Survivors include her hus-
band, Clarence Holland, of Miami, FL.
Jean Ellis McCulley '45 on Nov. 23,
1998, in Maryville. She had suffered
from MS for over 30 years. Survivors
include two sons, four grandchildren,
and sister Edwinna Ellis Coffey '43.
Polly Lickteig Rawson '47 on Feb. 14,
1 999. She was an active member of
First Presbyterian Church of Monroe,
LA. Survivors include her husband,
Paul Rawson, four children and three
grandchildren.
Evelyn Marshall Bunch Tergerson '47 on
Nov. 20, 1998, in Clifton, TX, following
a heart attack. Survivors include a
daughter, Kay Sawyer.
Margaret Zoe Sayre Webster '49 on Feb.
10, 1999, in Caldwell, ID. She was mar-
ried to the Rev. William H. Webster, and
together they had served churches in
Missouri, Kansas, Wyoming and Idaho.
Survivors include two sons. (Husband
William died June, 1999.)
Glenn Davis Smith '50, on Aug. 10,
1998. He had been an engineer for the
U. S. Federal Government. Survivors
include his wife, Muriel Headrick Smith
'50, of La Plata, MD; two daughters, and
two sons.
Mary Biggs Hicks '62, on April 8, 1999,
in Stone Mountain, GA. Survivors
include her brother, Morgan Biggs '56 of
Knoxville.
Maureen Cary Antman '71 , on May 29,
1999. She was former advertising man-
ager at Georgia Theatre Company and
member of Rock Spring Presbyterian
Church. Survivors include her husband,
Bruce H. Antman, of Atlanta, and a son.
Paul Anagnostis '85 on April 8, 1999.
He was an attorney in Miami, FL. and
died following a bone marrow transplant
and lengthy illness.
Charles Logsdon '92 on Feb. 23, 1999, in
Knoxville. He had worked at BTR
Sealing Systems North America.
Survivors include his wife, two sons,
two daughters, and their families.
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LETTER FROM THE ALUMNI PRESIDENT
Tim Tophom '80, Alumni Association President
As I write this, summer has come to
Maryville College. Campers and conference
participants have temporarily moved into
the residence halls, and an interesting mix of young
and old stand in serving lines in the Margaret Ware
Dining Room. A few
buildings on campus
are receiving some
attention from mainte-
nance crews while
community residents
walk, jog, or push baby
strollers past trucks,
heaps of gravel, and
cranes.
These are the
sights I've come to
expect as I drive
through the campus
during the summer.
Although end-
of-year doesn't come to
the minds of many peo-
ple in June, it does for
the folks who work at
Maryville College.
With the dawn of June
1, 1999, the College
closed its books on fiscal year 1998-1999. In one
specific way, it was a very good year.
As you've probably already read in this issue of
FOCUS, the alumni participation rate broke a
record, and the Alumni Association's goal of having
45 percent of alumni making gifts to the College
was surpassed.
Today, I'm happy to write that 46 percent of my
fellow alumni answered our call to make a differ-
ence. If you participated, I thank you. With these
figures in, National Alumni Board members and I
are confident that a 50-percent alumni participation
rate is well within sight for the year 2000.
That's next year, but fiscally speaking, we're
already there.
Five years ago, the year 2000 seemed, to me, more
like 25 years away. With all the advertisements
using the word "millennium" and all the Y2K talk, I
now realize that it's just months away - five months
away by the time this issue of FOCUS is in your
hands.
Amazing, huh?
About as amazing as the College's preparation
for a freshman class — the Class of 2003 ! — this
September that will number more than 300 new stu-
dents.
... perhaps as amazing as erecting three new
buildings while renovating another.
... Or maybe as amazing as raising nearly $14
million of the $16 million needed to, as Maryville
College President Gerald Gibson says, "take the
College confidently into the future" and complete
the MC2000 Capital Campaign.
This is where the College stands today. And
whether you're an alum of Maryville. your child is
an alum, or you simply love the mission of this
180-year-old institution, we hope you're excited
about where this College is and where it's going.
On the inside back cover of this issue, you can
read information about the upcoming Homecoming
and Reunion Weekend. You can read that the theme
for this year's celebration is "Crossroads." And
from reading that page, you can also get an idea of
why it's called "Crossroads." I've already alluded to
some examples of how Maryville College is at a
point in its history where it's never been before, but
let me tell you who - and what - may be seen at
these "crossroads:"
* 1 ,000 students enrolled at Maryville College;
* a quality liberal-arts education that is recognized
regionally;
* a dedicated alumni body and alumni participation
percentage that distinguishes Maryville College
from institutions of similar size and purpose:
* campus facilities that remember and respect the
past but operate with the future in mind: and
* leaders and concerned constituents who realize
the seriousness of the crossroads and approach
dilemmas with much hope, faith, and enthusiasm.
I hope you will put the Homecoming dates on
your calendar and plan to visit the campus. I hope
you will continue to be interested in what's happen-
ing at the College and that you will continue to sup-
port it.
Every May, we can anticipate the end of the fis-
cal year. However, we can never know, for sure,
when we'll next be standing at a crossroad.
Sincerely,
Tim Topham '80
Alumni Association President
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meet. b. A place where different cultures meet. c. A crucial point.
HOMECOMING: OCTOBER 22-24
Like the rest of the world, Maryville College is
preparing to enter the 21st century and a new millen
nium. 1999 is a crucial period in the College's history
as evidenced by traveling the campus "crossroads."
Historic Fayerweather is gone. A new building will
soon be erected in its place. Historic
Bartlett Hall waits to become home "'
for student life. Residence halls and
classrooms overflow with students.
It's a time for big decisions; it's a
time of great possibility. And there's
never been a better time to come
home.
Mark your calendars for Homecoming and Reunion
Weekend, October 22-24, and make plans to be in
Maryville, Tennessee.
At these old crossroads, you'll see the walls of new
buildings rising up into the blue October sky. You'll
marvel at an old building looking new again. You'll
notice more Maryville College stu-
— i dents than ever before crisscrossing
' the campus sidewalks. You'll hear
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L, J^ J^ v_jj^ beloved professors and memorable
— , ,. , , — staff members recounting "the old
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days."
You'll be very proud to be an alum, a parent or a
friend of Maryville College.
COLLEGE
Alumni Citation, Young Alumni award winners announced
Joseph Dawson '69
Henry Van Hassel '54
Boydson Baird '41
Kandis Schram '85
Four Maryville College alumni will be honored with awards during the annual
Alumni Association Meeting and Banquet, scheduled for Oct. 23 in the Margaret
Ware Dining Room. Joseph M. Dawson '69, Henry J. Van Hassel '54, and Boydson
H. Baird '41 will be given the distinguished Alumni Citation. Kandis M. Schram '85
will become the first recipient of the Kin Takahashi Award for Young Alumni.
Since 1961, the College has awarded citations to special alumni whose contribu-
tions to professional, business, civic, or religious institutions have significantly bene-
fited society and thereby brought honor to their alma mater, or who have rendered
unusual service in any capacity on behalf of the College. No other alumni recogni-
tion by the College is more prestigious than the Alumni Citation.
The Kin Takahashi Award for Young Alumni of Maryville College was approved
by the National Alumni Board in 1998. Named for an 1895 alumnus, the award is
reserved for "any alumnus/alumna who has, within 1 5 years of his/her gradua-
tion of Maryville College, lived a life characteristic of College legend Kin Takahashi,
who, in his 36 years of living, worked tirelessly for the betterment of his alma
mater, his church, and his society."
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