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New Frontiers Alumni at the forefront of cancer research

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Jada Wiggleton-Little ’17 WHEN THE DEAR WORLD 2016 College Tour came to Davidson, Jada Wiggleton-Little knew exactly what she wanted to communicate through her portrait: “I chose to see life differently, to actively seek the good in each day. I chose to appreciate every blessing, big or small. Given the option, I chose to be happy.” Anyone who’s encountered Wiggleton-Little on campus will attest to the authenticity of her statement. A philosophy major and medical humanities minor, she aspires to become a pediatric palliative care nurse practitioner. As president of the Black Student Coalition, a Strategies for Success mentor, vice-president of the Pre-Nursing Society, member of Upsilon Mu chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., and co-poetry editor of the Hobart Park Journal, she’s chosen to leave an indelible mark on Davidson. The Union Board brought Dear World to campus this spring for a portrait and story sharing session. Photographer Robert Fogarty started the project in 2009, asking residents of New Orleans to write a “love note to their City.” More portraits are available at #DearDavidson and #DearWorld.

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Reseachers make promising advances in cancer treatment.

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COURTESY OF DEAR WORLD

Alumni at the heart of a changing Davidson downtown.

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“Most of the world’s problems are chronic, not acute.” Ian Bremmer (@ianbremmer) Author and founder of Eurasia Group March 23

“We are seeing a dramatic shift in the composition of work . . . We are moving away from manufacturing type industries toward service industries,

the breakdown of the body as we toward occupations in which

get older may not be as centrally important as it was historically.”

“Apartheid was legal.

The Holocaust was legal. Slavery was legal. Colonialism was legal. Legality is a matter of power,

James Poterba MIT Mitsui Professor of Economics March 17

“Algorithms and analytics will

not justice.”

José Antonio Vargas (@joseiswriting) Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and activist April 20

‘personalize’

our world, we’re told. The problem, of course, is that the algorithms and the analytics also

everything sound the same.” On the Cover/Feature Art After her father died from cancer, Angela Canada Hopkins decided the best way to overcome her new “enemy” was to embrace it through art. She writes, “Creating the work has deepened my understanding of the disease and changed my outlook.” Featured on the front cover and back cover, respectively, are images of Cell No. 4 & Cell No. 15 (apoptosis), both originally acrylic on canvas. Canada Hopkins is based in Loveland, Colo. angelacanadahopkins.com

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Audrey Watters (@audreywatters) Writer and “ed-tech’s Cassandra” March 18

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William R. Giduz ’74 Bridget Lavender ’18 Morgan Orangi ’13 Christina Ritchie Rogers ’03 Susan Shackelford Danielle Strickland John Syme ’85 DESIGN

Winnie E.H. Newton PHOTOGRAPHY

William R. Giduz ’74 SPORTS

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Asking the Right Questions At Davidson,

we strive to create a campus culture where all students, faculty and staff, regardless of their gender, racial, socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds and religious beliefs, feel welcome and supported. How do we do this in a place born in a time vastly different from our own? By asking foundational questions—questions that inspire people to think in new ways and that challenge outdated assumptions about who Davidson is for and how we can best serve them. Foundational questions emerge with increasing clarity as our college grows more diverse. At its founding and for many years, Davidson primarily served white protestant male students from the southeast. Over the past several decades, we have become a truly heterogeneous community, one that seeks out talented people from different faiths, nations, backgrounds, races, worldviews and genders. This diversity enables the college to see and address barriers to inclusivity that can remain invisible to those unaffected by them. Often, the person or group who is marginalized is the first to recognize these barriers. It’s one thing to enroll a diverse student body and another thing to dismantle obstacles that can make their experience of Davidson less than that of their male, white counterparts. Although we have much still to learn and do, Davidson has worked hard to clear away these obstacles. Examples range from offering women’s sports to providing food on campus during breaks to ensuring that financial aid packages include the opportunity to study abroad. As we dismantle obstacles to inclusion we strengthen our commitment to educational excellence. The

questions we ask are shaped by our experiences. A more diverse population will ask a broader set of questions. Although sometimes dissonant, many voices asking multiple questions leads not only to better classroom discussion and more nuanced research and learning, but also to an enhanced, richer curriculum. Africana Studies and Gender Studies were born in part out of efforts to understand human stories that could not be discovered, let alone told, through existing disciplines and analytical frameworks. At a time when Americans increasingly self-segregate, choosing to live, worship, study and socialize with like-minded folk who look alike, Davidson students live and work for four years among people from diverse backgrounds whose experiences, perspectives and deepest convictions differ. This heterogeneity improves learning and prepares graduates for a rapidly changing, interconnected world; and our community will of course benefit when all students, faculty and staff feel valued and included. We create a more inclusive campus environment when we approach one another in the spirit of open-minded inquiry, willing to listen and to learn. This is some of the most rewarding work we do, and the work is never done.

Carol E. Quillen President

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Goes Without Saying

“SPRING HAS RETURNED. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.” —Rainer Maria Rilke

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Waterworld SARAH MCDONALD ’17 escapes a man-made weather event at Spring Frolics, the annual bonanza held in the center of Patterson Court. The Union Board plans the wildly popular themed weekend of fun—a Davidson tradition for more than 50 years.

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Whose Story Is It?

Clybourne Park grapples with issues of identity, community.

S POLITICIANS SEEK to define and appeal to different communities this election season, making generalizations, statements and assumptions about diverse groups of people, the Theatre Department’s timely production of Clybourne Park brought to the campus stage many of the ideological conflicts we see playing out on the national one. While the play’s themes are not party-political, they do grapple with issues of group identity, racism and prejudice, belonging and exclusion, and how exactly we define community. “Theatre has a responsibility to ask the tough questions,” Director and Professor of Theatre Ann Marie Costa says.

Fracturing Facades

The veneer of political correctness often stif les meaningful, open discussion about sensitive topics, Costa says, and it is in this space—between what people say and what they think—that theatre plays a critical role. “As professors at Davidson, one of our key roles is to teach students how to think critically about a topic with supporting data, research and then draw a conclusion,” Costa says. “By directing this play, I am asking at Davidson how do we do that honestly and openly when examining the tensions between the majority and the marginalized in America?” For the April production, Costa sought a piece that would challenge people—or more accurately, one that would ask people to challenge themselves to examine their own biases, assumptions and worldviews. And in Clybourne Park, she found just that. The show is a Pulitzer Prize-winning drama that debuted in 2010 as a sort of spinoff to the lauded 1959 Broadway play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry. In it, playwright Bruce Norris imagines events that might have preceded and followed those in Hansberry’s play, telling the story of a Chicago neighborhood over the span of 50 years. The play is set in one home, inhabited in Act 1 by a middle-class white family in the late 1950s. The husband and wife aim to sell their house, and when a black family (the Youngers, from A Raisin in the Sun) shows interest in buying, neighbors and community members try to convince the white couple—in disgraceful ways— not to sell to them, worried about what it would mean for the neighborhood. In Act 2, the same actors appear playing different characters, and 50 years have passed. Clybourne Park is now a black neighborhood undergoing gentrification, DAVIDSONJOURNAL.DAVIDSON.EDU

By Christina Ritchie Rogers and a white couple is looking to buy and renovate the house. The premise alone is not what makes the play timely, as these topics—gentrification, racism, fear of those who are different—are not new. Rather, it is the way in which the characters are written and the nature of the dialogue, as well as the assertion of how far we haven’t come, that sparked meaningful discussion and drew mixed reactions from campus audiences.

Tough Questions

The cast and crew of Clybourne Park found themselves asking whether a white playwright can accurately write black characters. Fans of Norris’ work have called it “damningly insightful,” “a powerful work” with “memorable characters.” Reviewers have praised his wit and perception/portrayal of races and classes and the tensions that exist among them. In fact, in addition to its Pulitzer, the play also won a Tony award for best play and the Oliver Prize for best new play. But such praise is confusing to Kanise Thompson ’17, a theatre major who served as dramaturg and stage manager for the production. In fact, the more she researched the history and studied the play, she more she grew to dislike it. “A lot of things that happened in the show would not have happened in real life,” says Thompson, who is black. She rejects the idea that the play was in some way groundbreaking in 2010 when it debuted, as, she says, “racial tension was not a new concept then.” “The story told is not a complete one”—far from it, she avers—and she believes it is in large part because the playwright was unable to fully understand the story he was attempting to tell.

Telling the Right Story

“There’s a huge issue with a white man writing black characters,” Thompson says. She considers Clybourne Park in stark contrast to A Raisin in the Sun, the latter having been written by a black woman and duly hailed as one of the first realistic theatre portrayals of an African-American family. Costa agrees that Norris’ characters are written more as racial tropes than as three-dimensional beings, and the dialogue is stark, blunt and often bigoted. But, she sees value in that as a device for building awareness and sparking social change. “It’s tapping into biases and prejudices that still exist in many communities,” Costa says. “Through the lens of a white male, it asks, ‘how far have we come?’ and the answer isn’t a positive one. There is real value in engaging a com-

munity in dialogue about just what it means to be a part of a community.” By watching Norris’ characters interact and listening to their dialogue, audience members may be forced to admit things about their own worldviews that may make them uncomfortable.

Telling the Story Right

“The characters say exactly what they feel and think,” Costa says, and much of the dialogue is “cringe-worthy,” as Thompson puts it. Still, she was drawn to the role of dramaturg because “it gave me some measure of control over how the actors approached playing the characters,” she says. “I was able to talk with them about the history and trends that lead up to modern day; to make the actors aware of the significance of what happens in the play,” Thompson says. “There’s so much history that’s touched on in the play, but you don’t get the whole background.” Thompson did extensive research on 1950s Chicago, exploring such diverse topics as race relations, real estate/blockbusting trends, the ways in which people with disabilities were treated (there is a hearing impaired character in the play), and society’s treatment of “others.” “I’m so glad Ann Marie gave me the chance to work with the actors in this way and share with them this information,” Thompson says, “so I could ensure the characters were played as respectfully as possible.” “I hope we don’t get to a place where artists can’t write characters or tell stories of their choosing,” Costa says, “as long as they feel the responsibility to do it right.” The collaboration between Costa as director and Thompson as dramaturg resulted in thoughtful, informed acting and staging decisions and a performance both are proud of. “I think it was a great production,” Thompson says, and was pleased to see the ways in which aspects of the play she initially found problematic sparked productive conversation on campus. She and Costa both hope that the Theatre Department continues to seek out productions that foster difficult conversation, and ideally, incite activism and social change. It was theatre’s unique power to tackle tough questions, tell tough stories and cause social movement that drew Thompson to theatre as a major, and why she plans to pursue it as a career. “You can do so much with theatre—you can entertain people, you can make them happy, you can tap into places they don’t go often, and you can tell people’s stories in the ways they were meant to be told,” she says. “I guess the better question is, what can’t you do with theatre?” SPRING 2016

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McNair Evans ’01 Photography At right: A 17 year-old man travels through Texas on Sunset Limited with his father. He claims to be facing felony charges for the possession of Mescaline, not unlike the character of his William S. Burroughs novel. 2012 THE ARISTOCRAT, the California Zephyr, the Empire Builder… They were once our great-grandfathers’ vision of progress. From their inception and race across the North American continent, these trains shaped our nation’s identity. While the U.S. freight industry operates more than 139,679 miles of track, Amtrak is a skeleton of the passenger service that once connected the county. The train can be a beautiful way to travel but, for the most part, longdistance trains are used by people trying to get their lives together, find work, or reunite with people they love and hope will love them back. This project explores that search for something just out of reach and a bit intangible. It is about the desire for change and the possibility of hope fulfilled. Sitting in those 40-year-old cars that need repair and remodeling, I wonder why the United States is willing to fall behind the rest of the world in a realm of transportation so important to our growing urban populations. At a time when such travel may soon be only a memory, I photograph to preserve these routes, passengers and their search. As I travel by 15-day rail passes, the train interior provides a consistent stage for uncovering passengers’ true journeys. They write the reason for their travel, where they are coming from, and where they hope to go. With an Amish family traveling to Tijuana for medical treatment, a teenage son hoping to reunite with his father, and a veteran transporting marijuana to the oil fields of North Dakota, stories are about connection, a desire for something to happen, or a situation to rectify. Collectively, they sketch our nation’s identity. In Search of Great Men combines original photography with these first-person, passenger-written accounts to explore contemporary America through our passenger rail system and those currently traveling by train. —McNair Evans Photo Credit: © McNair Evans and courtesy Sasha Wolf Gallery from the series In Search of Great Men that is currently on view at San Francisco City Hall through Nov. 18.

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Uncompromising Enterprise From finance to fine art: Deepak Talwar ’89 finds his passion representing modern and contemporary Indian artists and bringing the joy of art to others.

By Morgan Orangi

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early stages of development, there is so much you can do in India, and it is so impactful.” As one of few galleries, Talwar and his artists are able to shape the cultural landscape in India where, because of a lack of museums, Talwar says it is the job of galleries to educate people about art. “There is desire for people to learn, and the resources to spend on art, so it is just a matter of showing them why art is important,” he says.

artist Nasreen Mohamedi changed Deepak Talwar’s (’89) trajectory. Mohamedi’s minimalist creations, their fine lines forming grids and geometric shapes that create tension and depth on paper, led Talwar, a young banker at the time, to consider a new path. “I’m standing there looking at these drawings, just a few lines on a piece of paper, and I get goosebumps. It was like magic,” he recalls. “I couldn’t explain to myself why I was experiencing this.” Talwar encountered Mohamedi’s drawings more than two decades ago. Today, he creates that magic for others as the founder of art galleries in New York and New Delhi.

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Without overthinking the move, Talwar transitioned to the New York art world as gallerist in 1996 following five years in the banking industry. “My interest in art kept increasing as I was becoming disenchanted with banking and the corporate culture,” he says. “I knew that if I stayed in banking, it would be harder to leave because the opportunity cost would become greater for switching to something about which I was passionate, but knew little.” Over a period of a few days he made the decision, not knowing where he would be six months later, but certain that he loved art and wanted to be closer to it. Prior to his epiphany, Talwar’s interests and professional aspirations heavily focused on the hard sciences and economics. He came to Davidson from Delhi and expected to major in physics, but an economics 101 course taught by Professor Emeritus Charlie Ratliff convinced him otherwise. “I thought, ‘This is it,’” he says. “It made sense, it was directly applicable and it just synched with me.” Talwar then earned a master’s degree in international economics and finance, wanting more than anything else to be a banker. The byproduct of his chosen vocation: His career took him to New York City, not only a financial capital but also art capital of the world, where he came to see the arts in a new light. “I loved that art was an uncompromising enterprise,” he explains. “It’s a pursuit solely based on belief and vision, rather than a path mapped out by others. I wanted to feel that full experience in my work.”

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Talwar noted a dearth of galleries showing modern and contemporary Indian artists outside of India and realized he had found his niche. On his next trip to India, he began cultivating friendships and professional relationships within the art community; he has never looked back. His process for representing new artists typically starts with the artwork itself. “There is no formula to it [identifying artwork],” he says. “I’m constantly looking at art, and if it hooks me, then I do my research to see if there is enough substance that attracts me to the artist before meeting with them.” Once Talwar meets the artist, his focus shifts from what they’ve done to what they will do. “It’s a journey you’re taking together. It’s about how well you get along and how much you believe in their work,” he says. Although Talwar primarily represents artists from the Indian subcontinent and its diaspora, he intentionally doesn’t show their art as Indian. “You’re quarantining the art if you put that label on it,” he explains. “You’re affected by everything that happens in the world, not just what’s immediately around you. I’m an Indian at heart, I’m an American as well, and a New Yorker as well. I don’t have to choose one.” He opened his second gallery in New Delhi in 2007 to give the artists’ work a proper showing in India. “Bringing them to India provides them with duality,” he says. “Because the art scene is in the

Talwar also represents artists who have intersected with India. In March, he collaborated with the college to bring an exhibition featuring two of his artists to Davidson’s Van Every Gallery. The artists, Allan deSouza and Alia Syed, are both of Indian descent but were raised and have lived outside of the country. “I like that these artists are responding to changes in cultural history and migration, but they are also poetic, there is humor as well,” Talwar explains. “They are exploring changes in society today with a visual experience that is also beautiful.” The exhibition brought Talwar back to Davidson’s campus—the first place he visited in America as a young man. “I couldn’t have been in a more different environment, and it was a hard first couple of months, but as time passed I was able to become more open,” he recalls. “As time goes on, you realize how special the school is and what it did for you in laying a foundation of value and character. You can’t see it or isolate it, but you know that without it, things would be very different.” Building on that foundation has brought Talwar full circle in more ways than one. For the past 15 years he has represented the estate of Nasreen Mohamedi, his original source of inspiration. The deceased artist’s drawings comprise one of two inaugural exhibitions at the MET Breuer, an offshoot of the Metropolitan Museum of Art devoted to modern and contemporary works. Talwar explained that although Mohamedi is considered a modern artist, some of her works are more contemporary than what’s being done today. “The history of modernism has been written, but this artist puts a dent in that perspective because she shows that there were other artists with a unique language,” he says. “To see other people experience that is great, because there is so much around us that we miss.”

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Inside a Rainbow

CASSIDY SCHULTZ ’17

THE AIR WITHIN the rainbow of glass set high above the city of Aarhus, Denmark, seemed saturated with brilliant colors. I felt like a child, wanting to run from one section of the tunnel to another, absorbed in the shifting light and otherworldliness of it all. Olafur Eliasson’s “Your Rainbow Panorama,” an architectural element atop the ARoS Art Museum, was simply fascinating. I went to Denmark in the fall of 2015 in pursuit of architecture; what I found was artistry. —Cassidy S chultz ’17, S tudio A rt M ajor

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Game Changers

Life of Learning New and senior faculty flourish with support from Davidson family. By Danielle Strickland

Finding Home

UNIOR AND SENIOR faculty members from the Africana Studies department gather weekly at a local coffee shop in the interest of friendship, growth and scholarship. They sit around a table together, and they write. For Joseph “Piko” Ewoodzie—the newest member of the group—it’s a small thing with huge impact. Ewoodzie, who is wrapping up his first year teaching courses in qualitative methods, sociological theory, culture, race and urban sociology, values relationships in all aspects of his career; and getting to know his students is priority one. He spends his office hours in one-to-one conversations with students, learning more about their uncertainties, their convictions and their families. “The more I know about them, the more examples I can find to connect their lives to what I’m teaching,” he says. “It’s an important step in moving from summarizing something you read to being able to analyze, create arguments and find connections. If I know my students, I can guide them through that process in a more meaningful way.” Ewoodzie was awarded the Malcolm O. Partin Endowed Professorship, which will allow him to continue and expand upon his research over the summer. The work will build upon his dissertation, titled “Getting Something to Eat in Jackson,” a study of everyday eating practices among socioeconomically diverse African Americans living in Jackson, Miss. “Broadly speaking, this award means I get to dream bigger about my project,” he says. “I get to ask ‘What can I do?’. It’s rare, and a real privilege, to hold an endowed position at this stage in my career.” The professorship was established by a gift from Will Mathis ’88 and honors the late Malcolm O. Partin, who was a beloved history professor at Davidson for many years. It recognizes pre-tenured faculty members who demonstrate a love of classroom teaching, lectures meant to both educate and enthrall, and commitment to instill a lifelong devotion to learning. Ewoodzie, who relocated to the United States from Ghana with his family at age 13, is committed to teaching at Davidson and looking to call North Carolina home after having moved around often. “During my two-year residency at Kenyon College following my Ph.D. program at the University of Wisconsin, I rediscovered that I loved teaching,” he says. “I’m excited by teaching, and I get smarter by teaching, because I can’t skip anything. I have to read to understand.” Ewoodzie is inspired by the caliber of students at Davidson, and he’s already witnessing growth in repeat students. “The students here are intelligent, and they want to be challenged,” he says. “Seven students in my classes this semester chose to take me again after being in a class last semester. That’s the greatest compliment, and it makes me want to be even better.”

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Creating Community

HEN JANE MANGAN arrived at Davidson from Harvard in 2004 as an assistant professor in the history department, she was the first, and is still the only, full-time Latin American historian on the faculty. Twelve years in, she has led change for the college and in the lives of her many students. Among her contributions: the development of the Davidson in Peru program as well as the Latin American Studies Department. Throughout the next academic year, as the latest recipient of the college’s Boswell Family Faculty Fellowship, Mangan will spend time continuing her research in Peru and possibly in Spain—a rare opportunity, as college policy supports just a half-year salary for sabbaticals. The award was established in 2005 by Tom and Cheryl Boswell, parents of three sons who graduated from Davidson. Mangan’s research will build upon her most recent book, published just last year: Transatlantic Obligations: Creating the Bonds of Family in ConquestEra Peru and Spain. Primarily a social historian, Mangan’s research centers on colonial Peru, and she is interested in culture and power within families. She will create a database from her research in four Andean cities to aid the study of indigenous family networks in those cities. She plans to use digital tools, particularly mapping and network analysis, to present her findings. “The concepts of culture and power are applicable today and in any field,” Mangan says. “I pull headlines from current newspapers, and we spin backwards to find connections in Latin American history. There’s quite a range of areas we can study, so it never gets boring.” Creating community over a semester is a chief goal for Mangan, and she embraces the many different interests her students bring to the classroom. Mangan, who says her classes cover “from 1492 to NAFTA,” teaches upper-level courses on colonialism, gender, immigration, U.S.-Latino history and revolution, in addition to survey courses on colonial and modern Latin American history. “Davidson students are bright, and they do the reading I assign,” she says. “I couldn’t create the necessary environment if the classes were larger, or if the students weren’t committed to the curriculum. They are enthusiastic about the coursework, and that allows me to engage with old material in new ways. Their differing perspectives are necessary as we explore history. I love to ask questions and watch them reach new levels of thinking.” When Mangan decided to come to Davidson, she was most excited about the opportunity to balance teaching and research; in 12 years on campus, she hasn’t been disappointed. One unique experience has been a course team-taught with Professor Magdalena Maiz-Pena in the Hispanic Studies Department. Taught in Spanish, the course is about Latin American cities, from both cultural and historical perspectives. “Co-teaching has changed my pedagogy more than any other experience I’ve had in my career,” says Mangan. “I had no idea sharing a teaching space would teach me so much. It’s a laboratory for learning how to teach, and it’s wonderful of Davidson to allow this kind of collaboration and growth.”

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JORDAN BARHAM ’16, of the Davidson men’s basketball team, was one of eight contestants in the 2016 State Farm College Slam Dunk Championship, which took place in Houston, Texas. Barham was invited to take part after being recognized as among the nation’s finest slam-dunk performers.

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(l-r) Xzavier Killings ’16 and Alec Rotunda ’16

Good Sports Fellows to use athletics as springboard to study cultural practices around the world.

ZAVIER KILLINGS ’16 and Alec Rotunda ’16 were selected as winners of the prestigious Thomas J. Watson Fellowship. This year, 152 finalists were chosen from 40 partner institutions for the national competition, and 40 fellows were named. This 48th class of Watson Fellows comes from 21 states and eight countries and will travel to 67 countries to explore a wide range of topics.

Education, Inspiration

Xzavier Killings ’16 doesn’t settle for anything less than his best effort, and his contributions to the Davidson community reflect that intention. The biology major, track and field captain and 2015 homecoming king from Roebuck, S.C., recently broke the school record in the long jump—just one of the many ways he will leave a legacy on campus. Though Killings’ track and field schedule did not permit him to study abroad during the academic year, he gained international experience through a Dean Rusk travel grant, which allowed him to travel to Germany to shadow doctors in a hospital and volunteer at a local preschool. “That opportunity to go abroad broadened my horizons and left me wanting to go back to Germany and travel more,” said Killings, a German minor, Bonner Scholar and recipient of DAVIDSONJOURNAL.DAVIDSON.EDU

the Allen V. Beck Jr. Scholarship and the Bethea Scholarship. At the hospital where Killings volunteered, one unique program left a lasting impression: a parkour program to combat diabetes. “It was so innovative,” explained Killings, referring to the urban sport of running and jumping over obstacles to promote well-being. “It made me realize we need more programs like that, turning something challenging into something inspiring.” Killings was awarded a Watson Fellowship to work on a project inspired by his time in Germany. Titled “Ultimate Healing: Empowering Patients Through Service, Education and Athletics,” the fellowship will allow him to spend a year traveling to Jamaica, Zambia, India and Belize examining different approaches to healing, as well as how communities are empowering patients to sustain their healthcare outside of hospital walls. With his long-term goal of becoming a medical practitioner, Killings hopes to learn what makes these international health programs successful so he can bring those ideas back to the United States.

Sport and Change

Alec Rotunda ’16, of Greensboro, N.C., successfully juggled the demands of a philosophy major, Division I athletics and campus leadership.

The men’s soccer team stand out and Honor Council chair proved himself to be a leader among his teammates. Even when sidelined with a potential career-ending injury, Rotunda supported his teammates by assisting with practices and games. He returned to the field this year as the team’s leading scorer. Additionally, he spent a summer interning with Street Soccer USA, a non-profit organization founded by Lawrence Cann ’ 00 that uses sport as a means of sparking social change and empowering those who are disadvantaged. Rotunda’s love of soccer and belief in the ways in which sport can cultivate personal characteristics led him to apply for a Watson Fellowship with a project titled, “Uncovering the World’s Game: A Study of Personal Growth and Character Development in International Youth Soccer.” Rotunda hopes to learn from his Watson year about different perspectives on and benefits of soccer in society, with the goal of becoming a more conscious global citizen. Rotunda will work with teams and grassroots organizations in Germany, India, Ghana and South Africa to explore how soccer inspires and prepares youths for life. Rotunda is a recipient of the Susan and Peter Andrews Men’s Soccer Scholarship, the Charlie Slagle Soccer Scholarship and the Britt Armfield Preyer Scholarship.

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FTER STELLAR 2015-16 swimming and diving campaigns, Katy Williams ’17 and Luke Burton ’16 will take their preparation beyond the collegiate stage and focus on the 2016 Olympic Trials, set for June 26 – July 3 in Omaha, Neb. Williams, an Apex, N.C., native qualified in the 100 and 200 breaststroke events at the 2015 N.C. Long Course Championship this past summer. She first touched the wall at the 2:34.23 mark in the 200 breaststroke, before finishing with a time of 1:11.09 in the 100 breaststroke. The Davidson women recorded their best performance at the Atlantic 10 Championship, placing third. Williams took home gold medals in the 100 and 200 breaststroke events, with NCAA B standard times, and set four school records. Burton punched his ticket to the trials in the 50 freestyle at the Summer CA-NV Sectional Championship this past summer. The Kennesaw, Ga., native clocked a 23:27 to earn his first-ever trip to the trials. In his final Atlantic 10 Championship, Burton finished in the top 10 in every individual performance, including a second-place finish in the 50 freestyle. Burton also helped three relay teams to top-five finishes. The 2016 Summer Olympics will take place Aug. 2-21 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. DAVIDSONJOURNAL.DAVIDSON.EDU

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LL-CONFERENCE goalkeeper Matt Pacifici ’15 signs with the

Columbus Crew SC. Former Davidson standout Matt Pacifici is set to begin his Major League Soccer (MLS) career with the Columbus Crew SC. Pacifici, who participated in the duration of preseason training camp, held Real Salt Lake scoreless over 28 minutes on Feb. 24 during the Desert Diamond Cup in Tucson, Ariz. In addition, the Charlotte native had a clean sheet over 45 minutes in a Feb. 27 exhibition win over the Colorado Rapids. “To land on a team that is poised for another deep playoff run is very rare for a young player, so I couldn’t be happier to call Columbus home,” Pacifici said. “Being able to play with big name players like Kei Kamara and Federico Higuian has been unbelievable, and it’s amazing how being in this environment can elevate your level of play in just a few weeks.” Pacifici played 70 games over his college career with Davidson, including 11 clean sheets. During his junior season in 2014, he notched a careerand school-best 0.65 goals-against average with seven shutouts en route to being named Second Team All-Conference. In addition, he led the Wildcats to wins over Duke and eventual NCAA Champion Virginia. A two-year captain, he earned Davidson’s Charlie Slagle Coach’s Award in 2015 as well as Atlantic 10 All-Academic and Senior CLASS Award First Team honors. “I am thrilled to be another Davidson athlete in the pros and beyond thankful for what Davidson has allowed me to do. The coaching staff has been a tremendous help in my development as both a player and a person,” Pacifici noted. “My teammates have driven me to become the best player possible every day and I’m extremely grateful for that.” Pacifici finished his course work in December in economics and Hispanic studies. He is the third Wildcat to play in the MLS, along with Rob Ukrop ’93 (New England Revolution) and Alex Caskey ’11 (Seattle Sounders and DC United). “The Crew is a great organization and I believe we share a lot in terms of culture,” said Davidson men’s soccer head coach Matt Spear. “Matt has arrived, and now he’s determined to make the most it.” DAVIDSONJOURNAL.DAVIDSON.EDU

Front Office Alumna named to top NFL post.

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cally see herself as a trailblazer or game changer; she gives the credit to those who came before her. After nine years in the NFL, Davidson was named director of football administration for the New York Jets. In this role, she manages the team’s salary cap, negotiates player contracts and oversees compliance with the Collective Bargaining Agreement and league personnel rules. With this 2015 appointment, Davidson became one of the highest-ranking women to work in an NFL front office. “This work allows me to marry the areas I’ve always been drawn toward—math, critical thinking, law and football,” she said. “It’s pretty amazing to see our work on display 16 weeks a year. And it’s a measuring stick to see what we need to do better in the future.” In addition to the education she received as an economics major at Davidson, followed by her law school experience at Cornell, Jackie points to the Honor Code as a key aspect of her education that has stayed with her through the years. “When I tell people about the Honor Code, they look at me in disbelief,” she said. “I prac-

ticed integrity on a daily basis during college, and because that is a part of who I am, I try to continue and practice it every day.” A believer in the liberal arts, Davidson thinks people who criticize a college’s lack of a business school are being short sighted. “I think schools today tend to specialize too much,” she said. “A liberal arts education produces a well-rounded individual. I wasn’t prepared for one job, but I was taught how to think, process and react—skills that are more helpful during career path changes. Many of the things I learned during economics classes can be applied to work that has very little to do with economics.” Davidson was especially inf luenced by two professors—Latin professor Jeanne Neumann and the late Kelly Chaston from the economics department, who was also Davidson’s adviser. The faculty, students and staff created a community that Davidson said mirrors the environment she finds herself in today. “I’ve tried to take the community from college and extend that to my work,” she said. “On a campus and on a football team, everyone has different roles and responsibilities. We’re all pulling in the same direction, and it doesn’t matter who holds which title; we’re all a part of something bigger.” SPRING 2016

Up In What do we know about the health effects of vaping? By Bridget Lavender ’18

More than nine million adults in the United States use e-cigarettes regularly, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A few years ago, Professor of Biology Karen Bernd found herself on the leading edge of a trend when a student decided to explore what remains, to this day, somewhat uncharted research territory. In this Q&A: what consumers should know, and what researchers have yet to find out about vaping. What is vaping, and how is it done? Vaping is the act of using an electronic nicotine delivery system, or e-cigarette. The liquid that becomes vapor is glycerol-based, and sometimes flavorings are added. The liquid can come with or without nicotine. The liquid is vaporized as it is pulled through the coil system in the e-cigarette, and the vaporous particles, flavoring and, possibly, nicotine are delivered into the individual. If nicotine is present, it creates a physiological response; but users also react to the flavors, which range from tobacco flavor, which is made without tobacco, to Piña Colada to triple chocolate. Within the United States, it’s a growing social activity among youths. Public health professionals are interested in whether vaping can be used for smoking cessation, and are

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concerned about it as an entry system; they want to know whether people are likely to transition from using ‘mods,’ or e-cigarettes, to tobacco cigarettes. Vaping is perceived by most to be healthier than smoking cigarettes because you are not burning tobacco, and it’s the tobacco combustion products that contain the 3,000-plus carcinogenic components. If you can get rid of the nasty part of burning tobacco and retain the nicotine, well that would seem to be a safer alternative. The average person who has started to vape is probably not thinking about all of these things. Research has shown that middle- and high-schoolers are among the fastest growing populations of new users. While I believe in the youth of our country, I don’t think they are consciously saying, “I want to reduce my exposure to combustion products of tobacco.” DAVIDSONJOURNAL.DAVIDSON.EDU

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Why is this trend a concern for you and your lab? My lab is focused on the effect of environmental pollutants on lung cells, and I’m very interested in working with students on projects that they are invested in, and that fit within the context in which they live. College students vape. A few years ago, Kaki Bennett ’15 was new to the lab and wanted to study tobacco cigarettes. I pointed out to her that tobacco has been well studied, and we know it is harmful. E-cigarettes were brand new in the United States at the time, so we both started reading about them. At about the same time, the first vape shop opened up in the area. We predicted the trend, and she became really interested in it. My current students, Rosie Major ’18 and Davied Sanchez ’17, are looking at different flavorings and whether the presence of the flavoring causes a different effect on the health of the lung cells. The e-cigarette technology has been around since 2000, but it’s only really become popular in the past five years in the United States. There aren’t any FDA regulations focused on what you can put in an e-liquid. The guidelines the e-liquid manufacturers follow ensure that all of the chemicals they are using are safe to eat, which is wonderful. But you do not ingest these liquids—you breathe them, and the particles go into your lungs. The effect they have on the lining of your lungs might be different than the effect they would have on your esophagus, stomach and intestinal tract were you to eat them. Something that is harmless in one condition might be an irritant under different conditions.

What do we currently know about how vaping affects lung cells? It’s a new field, and it’s wide open. We don’t have a definitive answer, we have bits and pieces. And by “we,” I mean the whole field, not just my lab; my lab has bits of the bits and pieces. As Kaki explained in her thesis defense, if you put something that is healthy on one end of a scale and something that kills you on the other end, smoking cigarettes is one extreme, and vaping is closer to the middle. But if you’re breathing in particles, it’s going to have an effect on lung cells. Would the lung cells prefer that you not breathe in particles? Probably. So I don’t think you could consider vaping a health tonic by any stretch of the imagination; but if the choice is vaping vs. smoking, vaping would seem to be a safer alternative. Maybe not safe, but safer.

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The brain doesn’t fully develop until around age 24; is there analogous development with the lungs? That’s a good question. My impression would be that vaping at a very early age, early on in development, would probably be more detrimental. The whole concept of second-hand vapor is a completely different field. What I’m talking about is when you are actually drawing on the e-cig yourself. Would the lung damage from vaping have more of an effect in a young adult than it would on an older adult? That would depend on the person and what else they have been exposed to. Older adults have been exposed to more things that can damage their cells, so if they add in something that has a detrimental or irritant effect, it could be the straw that breaks the camel’s back. In younger adults, it may be the thing that starts the damage. Now which one of those is worse? Starting the damage, or escalating it? I don’t know. What we really need to find out first is whether it causes damage.

What is the current state of the research in your lab? Maggie Furlong ’16, who worked with me last semester, was looking at the flavor-free, glycerinbased substances. Rosie is looking at cinnamon-flavored liquids, and Davied is looking at French vanilla. These flavorings were chosen because they are quite popular. Additionally, cinnamaldehyde is the chemical constituent that makes cinnamon flavor, and it’s known to be reactive and able to cause damage, so we are researching whether the amounts you are exposed to when you vape cause damage to cells. There has been some research to indicate that chemicals in the vanilla flavoring can cause irritation or damage to some cell types, but they haven’t been tested on these lung cells. To get accurate results, we hook up an e-cigarette to a vaping machine, and the cells “vape.” It’s not an actual lung, but the machine draws in the vapor and the cells are exposed in much the same way the cells would be exposed in the lung.

Have there been definite findings? Everything we are doing is building a picture, and so if you think of the picture as a mosaic, we are still looking at it way up close, and we are placing the little tiles. We are not at the stage yet where we can back up and see the tiles starting to form a picture.

Are the students you work with as excited about this work as you are? Yeah, I think they are, but they may be excited for different reasons. Part of what gets me excited about this is working with them and watching them develop different skills in the lab. I will say that out of the research I have done throughout my career, this is an area of research that holds the attention of people in the general public—when I talk about it, they are interested and ask questions, rather than rolling their eyes and changing the topic. I understand that. Talking about protein translocation in algae doesn’t get the same sort of public response.

Do you have plans to explore new areas of inquiry? I have lots of plans. The e-cigarette/vapor work will continue this summer and into the fall. I will be expanding collaboration with Professor Cindy Hauser in the chemistry department. She looks at the particular components of hookah smoke, or water pipe smoke, and I will be adding in a different type of smoke or vapor into the types of exposures we are examining. Our combined analysis will allow us to identify components of the actual water pipe itself and its composition, how they effect the composition of the smoke and how those smokes affect lung cells.

How might scientific findings influence policy? The water pipe based project is a collaboration that Dr. Hauser and I have talked about before, and the timing of it has to do with the fact that we just answered an application call from the National Institutes of Health and the FDA looking for information about the effects of hookah smoke. So it is something that we’ve had on the backburner but fortuitously this call for proposals came at the same time, so we have a grant application pending. We don’t know if we will receive government funding, but based on the fact that there was this call for proposals, I can say definitively that yes, the government and governmental agencies are looking for scientific research into the toxicology and chemistry of these different types of smoking and vaping so as to inform policy.

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The political becomes personal

By Lisa Patterson

for one student, and a medical clinic for Syrian civilians is born.

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Syrian civilians live in constant fear, as a brutal civil war rages around them. Too much has been lost to five years of missiles, barrel bombs and heavy artillery. The healthcare system, the one institution that should be exempt from attack, has become a

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political pawn. The result—in just five years, Syrian life expectancy has dropped by two decades.

ohammed Willis ’18 wasn’t thinking about the Syrian healthcare system last summer when he met his father, an internally displaced Syrian refugee, for the first time. Until then, Willis, who was born and raised in the United States, had spoken to his father monthly on the phone. When he found out his father had remarried and had five children, Willis began sending money to help pay for his half-sister’s education. An economics major with an aptitude for languages (Willis

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will study Russian in Georgia this summer and previously studied Arabic in Jordan on a U.S. State Department critical language scholarship), his curiosity about his Syrian family grew, until he finally arranged to meet them. Midway through the visit, Willis learned that his uncle’s leg had been torn off by shrapnel during a bombing in Aleppo, the site of intense attacks. His cousin, home from medical school, was able to save her father’s life—he was among the few lucky ones. SPRING 2016

EFORE THE WAR, Syria’s healthcare system was comparable to that of Turkey and China. Western, non-communicable diseases, such as diabetes, comprised the country’s disease burden, and average life expectancy was 76—the same as in the United States. International law dictates that areas containing hospitals are designated safe zones and “should not be the object of military operations,” but the Assad regime, its allies and the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) have systematically targeted hospitals and physicians, using access to healthcare as a weapon. About 95 percent of Aleppo’s doctors have either fled or been killed, according to a 2015 report by the NGO Physicians for Human Rights. The group estimates that less than half of Syria’s public hospitals are fully functioning, and the majority of hospitals have been destroyed in the areas of the country not controlled by government forces. “ISIS killed everyone at a hospital run by Doctors Without Borders, and the Syrian government and their Russian allies bomb hospitals,” Willis says. “Whenever the Red Cross, Red Crescent or United Nations donate medicine without physically taking it to the place they’re donating it to, the government will take it and give it to the army.”

After months of preparation, the clinic launched in April. Willis’ cousin secured the site for the clinic and bought the actual physical equipment, like drills and scalpels, from a doctor who was fleeing for Turkey. DSMO funds were used to buy medicine and other supplies for the people of Aleppo. A generator was high on the clinic’s list of priority equipment. “Electricity was not great in Syria before the war—you typically had it only a couple of hours a day,” Willis says. “When doctors don’t have electricity, they operate using the lights from their cell phones.” Willis notes that anesthesia is a luxury, both rare and expensive. “Pretty much no one has it in Syria at this point,” he says. A 2014 report by the NGO Save the Children chronicles accounts of patients opting to be knocked out with metal bars before surgery. Now that the clinic is functional, DSMO has turned its attention to fundraising for the Syrian-American Medical Society, an organization that supports doctors inside Syria. Additionally, some of the funds will be used by DSMO member Adam Morin ’18 to help refugees at the Zaatari camp in Jordan. Morin will travel there this summer through a Dean Rusk grant. Willis created a video that details the trials of civilians in Syria; it was shown on campus as part of the fundraising effort for Zaatari refu-

“My little half-brother doesn’t really have a future,” Willis says. “My siblings don’t have any concept of going to college, getting a good job, as something to look forward to in life.” When Willis found out his cousin had decided to stay in the country and take care of civilians affected by the Syrian civil war, he conceived of a plan to open a clinic in Aleppo where she and others could practice under sanitary, functional conditions. Willis found support for his plan at Davidson, where he created Davidson Syrian Medical Outreach (DSMO). He enlisted the help of friends, including Harrison Wagener ’18 and Marisa Wilson ’18, who brought essential skills to the new organization. The students say the organization tapped into frustration with a brand of activism that more often leads to navel gazing than to tangible results. “I learned it is a lot easier for me to sit back and talk about situations like what’s happening in Syria,” Wagener says. “It is easy to analyze, but what people in these situation really need is active help. Doing something that actively helps people, although more difficult, is more worthwhile.” “Getting involved with Davidson Syrian Medical Outreach gave me an opportunity to effect real change,” Wilson says. More than 40 students attended the group’s first meeting, and a majority of them remained involved as the group raised funds for the clinic through outreach and a CrowdRise website. 26

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gees. At once personal, compelling and matter-of-fact in its presentation, the piece provides a vehicle for the stories of individuals who have been written off as casualties to just another war in the Middle East. The video opens with a little boy riding the kind of toddler carousel that you might find in an American mall. He is Willis’ two-yearold half-brother. Willis, as narrator, talks of family ties, the rationale that can lead to entrenchment and violence when those ties become the walls behind which people hide in fear of the other. “My little half-brother doesn’t really have a future,” Willis says. “My siblings don’t have any concept of going to college, getting a good job, as something to look forward to in life.” Willis and the students who’ve been touched by his family’s story and the plight of Syrian civilians like them understand the depth of the problems Syrians face and the limits of their own ability to help. They say no self-congratulations are in order. More than anything, they hope to put a face on collective tragedy, and in doing so, inspire action. “I would urge people to look past statistics and see the real people behind those numbers,” Marisa Wilson says. “I hope that people will not just talk about the issues, but act, and act in a way that will best assist the people who are directly affected.” DAVIDSONJOURNAL.DAVIDSON.EDU

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(l-r) Harrison Wagener ’18, Mohammed Willis ’18 and Marisa Wilson ’18

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new frontiers by Susan Shackelford

More than 1.6 million Americans will be diagnosed with a type of cancer this year, but technological advances have opened up never-before-dreamed-of possibilities for cancer diagnoses and treatment. These advances drive the research of two Davidson alumni, whose work with The Cancer Genome Atlas and T-cell immunotherapy has made headlines and, more importantly, moved their respective fields forward in the fight against these devastating diseases.

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Renier Brentjens ’89

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avid “Neil” Hayes and Renier Brentjens overlapped two years at Davidson in the late 1980s but unfortunately didn’t know each other. Today they are oncologists at top cancer research centers pursuing cures on the latest frontiers of medicine. Hayes ’91 is a leader at UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center in Chapel Hill, where he and others are mapping the genome of cancers, spurring development of drugs targeted to strains of the disease. The work is part of The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), an international consortium managed by the National Cancer Institute and National Human Genome Research Institute. Hayes calls TCGA “as big a deal as the development of the X-ray and microscope—an entirely new way of looking at tumors.” At Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, Brentjens ’89 specializes in harnessing the immune system to defeat cancer. His therapy, now in phase two clinical trials, takes a patient’s own T cells and alters them to fight leukemia and lymphoma, an approach that has received attention from The New York Times, ABC World News and other national media. In 2013, Science magazine called the work its “Breakthrough of the Year.” Of nearly 100 patients treated so far using the T-cell therapy, more than 80 percent have gone into remission, and about half of those have stayed in remission, Brentjens says. “There are colleagues of mine who have devoted their entire lives to this work and not been as fortunate as I have,” he says. “Taking something you created in the lab on the bench top and testing this in poor prognosis patients—and it took a while—and seeing there are people still alive because you did what you did—I would be lying if I didn’t say it was a great feeling.”

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the United States for the first time when he was six years old after his dad received a fellowship at the medical school of the State University of New York (SUNY) in Buffalo. His father eventually obtained tenure, and the family moved permanently to the United States when Brentjens was 10. “If you ask where most of my identity is from, it’s Buffalo—I’m a big Bills and Sabres fan,” he says. With his father, mother and other family members being doctors, Brentjens “remembers from an early age that I never wanted to do anything but medicine.” Admissions staff at SUNY Buffalo mentioned Davidson in the same breath as Amherst and Williams as good liberal arts schools to prepare for medical school. “I loved North Carolina from camping there as a kid (at Cape Hatteras),” Brentjens says, “and it was an outstanding school and the tuition was more reasonable than the others.” Also, his sister, Joanneke ’88, was already a student at Davidson, and his brother, Mathijs ’90, later attended Davidson. Joanneke became a lawyer, and Mathijs, a dermatologist. Renier took pre-med courses but majored in history. “I knew the rest of my life I would be doing science,” he says. One of the inaugural Kendrick K. Kelley history scholars, he says the field of study helps him relate to his patients. “When you’re taking care of a patient, you invade their space. Knowing something about the world, culture and people goes a long way to easing this awkward situation and helps build more comfortable relationship,” he says. “I’m not being cynical about this. I enjoy my patients, and in the business I am in, we have long-standing relationships.” Lab work at Davidson under neuroscience professor Julio Ramirez helped show Brentjens that medicine was a good fit. “I was working with mice and rats as one of his

students when he was just starting out,” Brentjens recalls. “I really enjoyed my time with him; it was my first real taste of science.” In recent years, Brentjens was thrilled when Ramirez remembered him. “That’s Davidson—you’re able to email your old professor to say thank you, and he says, ‘Of course, I remember you.’ Something like that is really special. I would be delighted if one of my kids chooses to go to Davidson.” He and his wife, Tricia Brentjens, an anesthesiologist at Columbia University, have three boys, 17, 15 and 12. After graduating cum laude from Davidson, Brentjens spent seven years at SUNY Buffalo earning his medical degree and a doctorate in microbiology. He was focusing on infectious diseases when he attended a national meeting at which a key speaker talked about the budding field of gene therapy. “As he spoke of the future and the potential— that we may use it to treat cancer—I latched onto that,” Brentjens recalls of the early ’90s conference. “The science of gene therapy motivated me.” Following a two-year residency in internal medicine at Yale-New Haven Hospital, he started a fellowship in medical oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in 1998 and became an attending physician there in 2002. Today he runs a lab of 20 that carries his name. He also directs the Cellular Therapeutic Center, made up of 15 physicians who run cell therapy trials with nursing staff, research assistants, secretaries and attending physicians. Brentjens chose to focus on acute and chronic leukemia for two reasons. “You never have to deal with surgeons, or if you do, you are telling them what to do,” he says. “And as a group, these are fascinating diseases. Acute leukemia patients are probably the sickest patients who can come back from the dead, so to speak. It’s SPRING 2016

dramatic and intense. Those who deal with cancers that metastasize are focused on keeping patients alive for as long as possible, but with leukemia, the intent is to cure the disease.” It was his iteration of a T-cell therapy in Dr. Michel Sadelain’s lab that eventually was translated into several clinical trials, treating acute leukemia and lymphoma patients. The approach takes some of a patient’s T cells, a type of white blood cell that fights infections, and re-engineers them genetically to recognize a protein on cancer cells and destroy them. A big breakthrough for Brentjens and his colleagues came in 2013. The day The New York Times recounted the success of the first five patients treated with the T-cell immunotherapy, he wanted to buy two copies of the newspaper at the train station, but a vendor would only sell him one. Thumbing through the sections, he didn’t see anything, but a text from his wife pointed him to the front page above the fold. The visibility was the hammer on the nail of the work. “It took on a life of its own,” he says. Apart from more than 400 emails he received that day, and TV coverage that prompted his mother’s comment of “I wish you didn’t have that goatee,” the attention was pivotal. “That turned the corner of convincing the rest of my scientific colleagues that this was for real,” Brentjens says. It also resulted in the formation of Seattle-based Juno Therapeutics, which is funding phase two of trials to fine-tune the therapy and help it toward FDA approval, trials which cost “10s of millions of dollars,” Brentjens says. Juno is focusing where Brentjens and his colleagues have had the most success, with B cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Clinical trials have been expanded to lung, breast, ovarian and mesothelioma cancers, but much remains to be tested and learned. “We have proof of principle,” Brentjens says. “What we don’t know is whether this immune-based therapy will work in solid tumors, and some of our patients do relapse. With respect to this technology, we are at the very early stages of development, we have a Model A Ford, but we need a Ferrari.”

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At age five, Neil Hayes moved from his native Atlanta to Winston-Salem, North Carolina. In high school, he looked into attending Davidson because it wasn’t far from home. “It was close to dumb luck,” he says, noting the profound effect the college had on him. “I learned more than anything a tremendous work ethic, doing a good job learning something,” says the chemistry major. “I struggled at first; I didn’t know how to study.” The turning point came in a chemistry class taught by John Burnett early in Hayes’ sophomore year. “I learned to think quantitatively. It’s one thing to speak in anecdotes, but what are the numbers? Just make the left side (of the equation) equal the right side. It helps you see priorities. Things became easy after that.”

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Also, during his junior year, he overcame challenges in French through hard work and a studyabroad program in Brittany, France—and his career path emerged. “I realized I had a people side and a science side, so I thought, ‘OK, I’ll do medicine,’” he recalls. After finishing medical school at UNC in 1996, Hayes earned a master’s in public health at Harvard in epidemiology. During his three-year residency at Boston University School of Medicine, he began to focus on cancer. “I realized the genomics revolution was happening,” he says, noting that advances with computers, lasers and other devices were boosting the field. “I was in the right place at the right time,” he says. “The technology came long, and I had the skills.” He spent four additional years in Boston, earning a master’s in clinical care research and serving as a clinical fellow in hematology and oncology at Tufts. He then worked as a post-doctoral fellow at DanaFarber Cancer Institute. Afterward, he headed back South to become an assistant professor at the UNC School of Medicine in 2004. He liked UNC’s cancer research resources and thought he’d gain opportunities much sooner than at highly competitive Dana-Farber. “I would still be an instructor there,” he says. He also liked that his wife, Liza Makowski Hayes, a nutritional biochemist, was able to get a job in UNC’s school of public health. Today Hayes is an associate professor in the medical school and has steadily taken on high-profile responsibilities with UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. He is director of clinical bioinformatics and co-leader of the overall clinical research program, Lineberger’s work with The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) and its own UNCseq program. He is one of the founders of GeneCentric, a Durham, North Carolina-based firm that offers diagnostic products and seeks to develop drugs based on the cancer genome work. TCGA, funded by the National Institutes of Health and others, began in the mid-2000s. When Hayes and another Lineberger doctor successfully landed a TCGA grant, it was a coup. “It was a stretch for us; we weren’t a genomic center and didn’t have a history,” Hayes says. “We had to rally the resources.” Lineberger’s role in TCGA has been to sequence RNA data for nearly 11,000 patients with more than 30 cancer types, and to analyze the overall cancer genome data being generated and studied by researchers around the globe. RNA is the portion of the genetic code that carries instructions from DNA for making proteins. The sequencing part of TCGA wraps up this summer, Hayes says, but heavy analysis of the work will continue for years. The essence of TCGA is to provide an instruction, or parts, manual on cancers, Hayes says. Rather than researchers simply comparing the appearance of cancer and normal cells under a microscope, they are drilling down to what tells the cells how to behave, how fast they will grow and, in the case of cancer cells, whether they will respond to a particular

drug—all of which is determined by the cell’s DNA, which forms the genome. “It’s a different way of thinking about cancer and treating it,” Hayes says. The ultimate goal is to develop drugs that target cancer mutations found in DNA and to cure patients. While that is a ways off because drug development takes years, TCGA is already changing how some cancers (especially brain) are being diagnosed, Hayes says, and the work has been cited more than 10,000 times in papers over the last five years. As a specialist in cancers of the lung and of the head and neck, he has written papers based on TCGA results about squamous cell versions of these diseases, specifically how they share the NFE2L2 gene and can be treated with potential drugs. “I’m aware of several pharmaceutical development efforts that are already organized around this,” he says. TCGA work at Lineberger also has identified a link between some head and neck cancers and the human papillomavirus, the most common sexually transmitted virus in the United States and often linked to cervical cancer. The work was featured on the cover of the January 2015 issue of the journal nature. As an outgrowth of TCGA, Lineberger began its own sequencing project entitled UNCseq. While TCGA uses tumor samples a decade or more old, UNCseq focuses on tumors of current patients who have advanced cancers and are not responding to usual treatments. Working in a 10-person lab that bears Hayes’ name, researchers carefully prepare tumor and normal tissues samples using ultrasound and sequencing equipment that costs millions of dollars. The sequencing machines—now in their sixth generation since 2007, Hayes says—send the samples’ genome data to desktop computers for study. Hayes and his fellow researchers pore over the information in colorful linear graphs on their computer screens. The data and their observations then go to the Molecular Pathology Tumor Board at Lineberger, who studies them and makes treatment recommendations. But the board’s job is not easy. The datasets are big and complex, and the board typically makes recommendations in only about half of the 20 cases it examines each week. A partnership announced in 2015 with IBM is expected to accelerate the process dramatically for Lineberger and 14 other participating cancer centers. The vision is for IBM’s Watson supercomputer to crunch voluminous datasets in minutes—not weeks—providing more, faster and greater detailed treatment recommendations, pulling not just from genome data but from databases on drugs, clinical trials, medical literature and other resources. “The interpretation of data is nontrivial,” Hayes says. “It’s beyond what humans can deal with, and certainly beyond people who haven’t had the training we have. I live and breathe this genetic stuff. If we’re going to transfer this into the community, and not just to the community oncologist, we’ve either got to train people like me all over the world or find another way to disseminate this information. Watson, and things like Watson, are probably a way to go.” DAVIDSONJOURNAL.DAVIDSON.EDU

Cancer is a collection of diseases—100 or more, and growing. To wipe out these diseases, the treatments of the future—targeting the disease type and not the category—will have to be personalized to an extent not yet possible. That’s going to require far more research, and to Hayes’ point, more people trained to interpret and disseminate the data. Malcolm Campbell, professor of biology and director of the James G. Martin Genomics Program at Davidson, says the time is now for anyone studying medicine to delve into the field of genomics. “It’s coming fast—the role of genomic medicine in health care is at the tip of the iceberg,” he says. “Undergraduates, especially if they are pre-med, should be taking genomics.” Both Hayes and Brentjens are excited about President Barack Obama’s $1 billion National Cancer Moonshot initiative to cure cancer but have yet to see details or funding. “There’s been a lot of rhetoric, but it’s still extremely difficulty to operate and run a lab— the competitiveness is as hard as it’s ever been,” Brentjens says. “I write and review a lot of grants, and you’re more likely not to get funding than to get it. If society wants the scientific establishment to come up with cures, it has to do more than throw around rhetoric, it has to throw money at it.”

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Way Forward

Neil Hayes ’91

Hayes calls TCGA “as big a deal as the development of the X-ray and microscope—an

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Down on Alumni provide personal touches to a changing town By John Syme

There was a time when a quaint college town was just a thing.

Now it’s a destination.

ount burgeoning downtown Davidson “in,” with its something-old-and-something-new feeling, its glass storefronts dotted with posters for public performances and lectures, its weekend farmers market where students, townies and people from all over the region mingle over fresh produce, coffee, confections, cooking demonstrations and live entertainment. When Davidson College opened its doors in March 1837, entrepreneurs with Main St. aspirations had to lease land for their businesses from the college. Not so anymore. Today the Davidson College Store on Main Street sits next to recent arrival Kindred restaurant. Down the block past The Soda Shop, Main Street Books has had some work done under new ownership, right next door to Summit Coffeehouse, riding its funky wave. There’s the Whistling Swan, where Nancy Waldron has sold early American home décor for 25 years, and the Pickled Peach, one of the first of a crop of new restaurants to hit town several years ago. There’s a Pilates studio, Ben & Jerry’s, Raeford’s Barber Shop, Millstone Bake House and Provisions, and the Upper Crust restaurant. DAVIDSONJOURNAL.DAVIDSON.EDU

Farther south, Wooden Stone Gallery provides an end point for Davidson proper, in an arts district that boasts home décor, digital marketing, tutoring, yoga and violin businesses, as well as Davidson Brewing Co., Fuel Pizza, Campania, Restaurant X, Carrburrito’s and Whit’s Frozen Custard. Take a downtown moment to sit on the Robert Whitton memorial bench in front of Summit, and you’ll witness Davidson’s rich pageant of old and new parade past the fork in the road. Granite markers in the brick sidewalk note the early-20th-century merchants and tradespeople who built and occupied buildings that now house professional offices, boutiques and eateries. Across the street in a display window of CVS—a downtown upstart itself back at the turn of the 21st century—two posters sum up the ethos: “Our Team” and “Our Town.” For all the change that alumni will notice when they come home to alma mater in 2016, Davidson is indeed still a college town. In these pages, we highlight some of the alumni who themselves call Main Street home.

(l-r) Lilly Wilson ’13, Andrew Kelleher ’14, Alex Taylor ’13, Brian Helfrich ’07, Tim Helfrich ’00

Summit Coffeehouse

Summit on Main has long been a home away from dorm for Davidson students. Now that Summit Outpost, also affectionately known as Nummit, is in its third successful year as a going concern on campus, the synergy is complete: house-made treats from the full Outpost kitchen complement the philanthropically entrepreneurial vision of the Helfrich brothers, Tim ’00 and Brian ’07: live music inside and out, road races for charity, a new bean roastery, even a “buy a bud a brew” board beside the microbrew cooler. Summit is an extended family of friends and alumni where everybody knows your name. Connections of blood, marriage, education and employment reach across generations for a whole greater than the sum of its parts. SPRING 2016

Katy and Joe Kindred

Main Street Books Adah Walker Fitzgerald ’01 and her mom jumped at the chance to purchase Main Street Books in 2015, to carry on the independent, iconoclastic and community-minded spirit of longtime owners Barbara Freund and Betty Reinke. Fitzgerald hired as assistant manager her classmate Catherine Hamilton-Genson ’01, who helps the shop live up to its poetic credo: “Main Street Books is the finest independent book store around…. Main Street Books brings the best literary adventures to town. We welcome readers of all kinds to stop in for a quiet browse, a thoughtful book recommendation, and a friendly chat.” Yes, that can still happen in 2016. The alumnae booksellers’ young families (Davidson Fire Chief Reuben “Bo” Fitzgerald ’99 is just down the hill) and student workers keep the spirit of the place lively in a town with more book clubs per capita than anywhere, ever.

Kindred “Joe and Katy [Kindred], with a deep-rooted passion for restauranteuring (and big-city-studded resumes), come back to his hometown to raise kids, sink savings into the community and offer respectful yet irresistibly tweaked Southernesque fare,” Charlotte Observer restaurant critic Helen Schwab wrote in December. Bon Appétit magazine named Kindred a “Hot 10 Best New Restaurants 2015,” and Chef Joe was a Southeast 2016 James Beard Award Best Chef semifinalist. Chef Joe didn’t attend Davidson proper, but he is an alumnus of Davidson basketball camp. That and a shrimp roll recipe rates a mention!

Growing Concern

(l-r) Catherine Hamilton-Genson ’01 and Adah Walker Fitzgerald ’01

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Some alumni businesses are less visible but no less essential to a lively downtown. John Cock ’89 is a vice president and Heather Maloney Seagle ’03 is a planner with Alta Planning + Design, in the 1999 Keener Building, site of the old Mecklenburg Gazette offices. John Rood Cunningham III ’79, grandson of the midcentury Davidson College president, practices law in the small brick building across Chairman Blake Lane from CVS. Nearly a century ago, the building was the medical office of the college physician, and later a student apartment for a returning G.I. after World War II. Dave Stewart ’94, principal of The Stewart Group investment real estate, poured blood, sweat and tears into the deal that resulted in Stowe’s Corner. It’s the prominent “Flatiron” style building at the fork in the road where Stowe’s Exxon full-service station sat for years. The ground floor holds the restaurant named Flatiron Kitchen and Taphouse, a point of pride for Stewart, who has been joined in his business by Mike Orlando ’01. Across Main Street, the J.J. Wade Agency of Jay Wade ’79 has grown from a two-person insurance

outfit in the early 1990s to a 25-employee concern with an office in Wrightsville Beach. He takes the long view of the growth he’s seen, acknowledging the loss of some of what was, but still looking ahead more than back. “Davidson is a vibrant college town, a destination that’s lit up with night life,” he said. “Are you going to grow or are you going to be stagnant? Today we have a movie theatre, drugstore, restaurants, groceries…. Growth is inevitable, you’ve just got to manage it. The town now has a median age of 35.7. According to the Town of Davidson website, “We are facing an explosion of growth in young families and families with school-aged children, retirees, and people of all ages. As we always have, we are still working to find ways to maintain the small-town character and values that make Davidson unique.” “Davidson’s not as it used to be,” Wade agrees, noting, “It’s still a great place to live.” DAVIDSONJOURNAL.DAVIDSON.EDU

Shrimp Roll

Courtesy of Kindred restaurant

½ lb. shrimp 1 c. Duke’s mayo 2 lemons 1 tsp. tarragon 1 t. parsley 1 T. salt 1 T. pepper ¼ c. butter 4 split-top buns 1. Liberally season the shrimp with salt and pepper. Grill them until they are cooked all the way through. 2. Mix together the mayo, lemon juice; lemon zest, sugar, tarragon, parsley, 1 pinch salt, and 1 pinch pepper. 3. Chill the shrimp in the cooler until it is cold all the way through. 4. Chop the shrimp into bite sized pieces. Then mix with the shrimp sauce. 5. Butter the buns on both sides and toast over medium heat in a non-stick sauté pan until golden brown. 6. Fill the shrimp into the buns and enjoy!

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Contents

Alumni Notes

67 Faculty

66 College Bookshelf 69 In Memoriam 73 AfterWord S TAY I N T O U C H ! To submit a class note, update your contact information, or register for Alenda Links, go to www. davidson.edu/alumni or email alumniclassnotes@davidson.edu.

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Valor Under Fire

NOW SERVING HIS fourth deployment, U.S. Air Force pilot Maj. Jeremiah Parvin ’01 has logged more than 280 combat hours. During a 2008 mission in Afghanistan, Parvin and his wingman, Capt. Aaron Cavasos, rescued a Marine Special Operations Team that was under assault. Parvin diverted enemy fire toward himself, giving the Marines, some of whom had been injured, the time they needed to find safety. In 2015, Parvin was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross with Valor for heroism in combat. “Every time I fly an aircraft, I serve someone else,” Parvin said. “There is no greater honor than knowing the person you are supporting remains safe and is able to go home to whoever they have to go back to.” To learn more about Parvin and other Davidson Game Changers, go to www.davidson.edu/gamechangers.

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REUNION June 3–5, 2016 www.davidson.edu/alumni 2016 BOARD OF TRUSTEES ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS Gregory F. Murphy ’85 President Ken Krieg ’83 President-Elect Minnie Iwamoto ’91 Past President Olivia Ware ’78 Vice President Noni Niels Nielsen ’97 Vice President Tiara Able Henderson ’97 Immediate Vice President Jarred Cochran ’03 Immediate Vice President Meredith Boone Tutterow ’93 Vice President-Elect W. DeVane Tidwell ’94 Vice President-Elect

John W. Chidsey III ’83 Chair Robert J. Abernethy Thompson S. Baker II ’81 David Barnard Brett M. Berry ’89 Richard N. Boyce ’77 F. Cooper Brantley ’70 Lowell L. Bryan ’68 Robert B. Cordle ’63 Kenneth S. Crews ’70 E. Rhyne Davis ’86 Laurie L. Dunn ’77 Virginia Taylor Evans ’80 Jay Everette Mark W. Filipski Lewis F. Galloway ’73

Liz Boehmler ’98 Past Vice President

Beverly Hance

Marya Howell ’91 Secretary

Earl J. Hesterberg ’75

J. Chrisman Hawk III ’67 Adrian Darnell Johnson ’00 Ken Krieg ’83

DECADE REPRESENTATIVES

John C. Laughlin ’85 Gary S. Long ’73

1950s Thomas Warlick ’56 1960s Bill Mills ’64 John Craig ’66 1970s Susan Baynard Clayton ’78 Mary Gilliam Dresser ’78 1980s Lisa Hasty ’81 Anne Blue Wills ’88 Faculty Representative Melissa Dilettuso Stewart ’89 1990s No representative

Mary Tabb Mack ’84 Prem Manjooran ’92 Alison Hall Mauzé ’84 Andrew J. McElwee, Jr. ’77 Shannon Walters McFayden ’82 Robert J. Miller ’84 Gregory F. Murphy ’85 Marian McGowan Nisbet Thomas W. Okel ’84 Sara Tatum Pottenger ’79 Carol Everhart Quillen Eleanor Knobloch Ratchford ’84 William P. Reed, Jr. ’76 Ernest W. Reigel ’80 Virginia McGee Richards ’85

2000s Elizabeth Smith Brigham ’04 Frankie Jones ’05 Amoura Carter ’07 2010s Clint Smith ’10 Allison Drutchas ’11 Quentin Graham ’11 Zi Yang ’16 Senior Class President

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Susan Casper Shaffner ’80 Mitzi Short ’83 E. Follin Smith ’81 Benjamin R. Wall II ’98 Carole M. Weinstein Joel Williamson ’67 Bill Winkenwerder, Jr. ’76

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FROM ALUMNI RELATIONS Our sincere condolences are extended to family and friends of William Moseley Archer Jr. ’36 who passed away Feb. 27.

FROM ALUMNI RELATIONS Jack Behrman wrote to us, “Nothing active going on; have moved into assisted living quarters in Carol Woods Retirement Community and on March 5 celebrated my 94th birthday, reading and resting and enjoying being great-great grandparents.” John McCrea also sent us an update: “I am living at Westminster Winter Park, a Presbyterian retirement home near Orlando, Fla. I have had a longtime hobby of genealogy and family history. On my 90th birthday, I took my family with me for my fifth visit to Scotland, and showed them their ancestors’ homes, and places of work and worship. I occupied the pulpit in the church where my great-grandfather was baptized exactly two hundred years before. And I continue to work with persons of my spelling around the world.”

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THE WAR YEARS AS TOLD BY: George Gunn, Class Secretary In Memoriam carries the notice of the death in January of Joe Stukes ’47. Joe and I have been, now in our 90th year, the youngest of the War Years alumni, both during those years and ever since. Together, we championed the Annual Fund and Fund for Davidson for these classes for close to 20 years. A year after his graduation, Joe returned to Davidson to assist John Payne in the Alumni Office. One of Joe’s responsibilities was the early development of the Living Endowment, an effort to stimulate alumni giving. In that year $32,000 in gifts were received. Joe lived to see alumni annual giving grow to over $10 million annually, a living endowment indeed! At our War Years Reunion in 2012, Joe did one of his classic stand-up monologues taking on the persona of General Douglas MacArthur. Joe was a long time member and chair of the history faculty at Francis Marion University in Florence, S.C. Joe taught history on his feet both in the classroom and on the historic sites of America and Western Europe. Scores of the men and women who have made history came alive as he gave first-person accounts of their journeys or enlightened commentary on their contributions to Western civilization. It was my pleasure to be in the audience to hear Robert E. Lee, Francis Marion (the “Swamp Fox”) and Pee Wee Reece recalling the Brooklyn Dodgers of 1947, the year that Jackie Robinson entered the major leagues. Others who joined in the procession across the stage of history included Moses, Napoleon, Winston Churchill and FDR. Hundreds of students were in the groups that traveled to Europe each summer with Joe and Courtney. In more recent years, my wife, Sally, and I were among the retirees who joined them to follow the footsteps of Martin Luther in Switzerland and Germany. For over 20 years, the whole community of Florence enjoyed Joe’s presentations in a history series held in the Florence County Library prior to his retirement in 2014. The room in which this event was held has been

named the Stukes Meeting Room in Joe’s honor. The longest serving class secretary for the Class of 1947 was Ed Sutton whose contributions graced these pages from the early War Years to his retirement after his memorable and hilarious after-dinner ramblings at our 50th Reunion in 1997. Ed’s son, Ed Sutton ’77, has kindly shared with us a letter that his dad wrote to his family in July of 1945, shortly before the end of World War II. Enjoy! Dear Folks, Well this weekend was one I’ll always remember. Who do you think I spent the past 48 hours with? You’d never guess so I’ll let you in on it. I was with Jack Benny, Ingrid Bergman, Martha Tilton, and Larry Adler (harmonious player). They were here for a show and they stayed at the Colonel’s house. It was really fine and I now have a new faith in democracy. The show gave the following instructions on arriving—(1) We eat our meals with the Enlisted men. (2) We don’t want any officer’s clubs or parties. (3) Officers will sit in the rear at all performances. Ingrid and Martha spent more time talking to us than they did with any of the officers and they really gave General Harris and Co. the bird which I enjoyed more than anything I ever witnessed in all my life. They saw right through all this army routine and didn’t mind letting them know about it. When Gen. Harris tried to pull a fast one and fix a big dinner for them with all the staff officers present (after they had given him specific instructions not to do so) they refused to eat with him and we took their plates to their rooms and they sat there with us and told us what a bunch of old wind bags they thought they were. Ingrid Bergman is the most natural thing you’ve ever seen in your life. You’d think she was your next door neighbor the way she talks to you. She uses no make-up at all and has a perfectly natural complexion. She came down the first night and pressed her shirt in the kitchen and we really had fun talking to her. That night she sang for us at the house (She can’t carry a very good tune and her timing is terrible and Benny who was always making us die laughing accompanied her on his violin.) I enjoyed being able to see them but what I really got a bang out of was the way they treated the general staff and talked with us. I thought old man Harris was absolutely going to blow his top a couple of times but there was absolutely nothing he could do but scowl at us. It was great and I’ll never forget it. The colonel is the best man I’ve worked for yet. He’s understanding, considerate and a real man. By the way, he was the only one of the lot that the stars like and that’s good too because he is a swell guy. Jack Benny said that mess kit of chow he got down in one of the companies looked like an aerial photo of Berlin after 15 air raids and what he really liked was when they put the gravy on his ice cream. He said he always ate it that way. He said he played poker with Fred Allen one night and Allen was so tight that when he pulled out a five dollar bill, both of Lincoln’s eyes were blood shot. I never laughed so much in all my life. Guess that’s all for now. Pretty busy these days, have to do some driving too and better ho the sack for now. Love you lots and miss you more and more and more. See ya laterEddie P.S. This letter is not for publication. I don’t want to get court-martialed.

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theUnion: Alumni Contact: George Gunn, 200 Tabernacle Rd., Apt. J222, Black Mountain, NC 28711; 828-6695646; greatgunns50@gmail.com FROM ALUMNI RELATIONS We extend our sincere condolences to the family and friends of the following War Years alumni: Henry Royster ’44 (March 1), Robert Bradford Jr. ’44 (Jan. 15), Robert Abernathy ’45 (Jan. 29), Rosser Clark Jr. ’47 (Jan. 2).

AS TOLD BY: Fritz Vinson, Class Secretary Last issue I reminisced about the years right after World War II when we were in college. This time I reached out to 20 of our classmates whose email addresses were available, and I received responses from six. There is still life among us! Rees Jenkins reports he and his “saintly mate,” Betty, are at Columbia Presbyterian Community in S.C., a little lamer than he used to be but taking the “Great Courses,” still learning. Frank Larew has been retired since 1982 but served eight years as a volunteer for Wycliffe Bible Translators in Waxhaw and has lived since 2004 at the Brookridge Baptist Retirement Community in Winston-Salem. Bob Welsh is writing right-wing political poems and poems based on Bible stories and characters. Bob sent me one of his political poems but, flaming liberal that I am, I did not include it in this report. John Sherrill, “still alive and kicking” at 87, enjoying four children, eight grandchildren and five great grandchildren. John lost his wife of 57 years 10 years ago and remarried six years ago. Bob Gourley, at 91, still sings in the church choir, teaches Sunday school, plays an instrument in the community band, plays duplicate bridge once a week, regularly plays golf and mows his own lawn. Wow! Haven’t heard from Bob Rapp lately. Wonder if he’s still racing Ferraris? Finally, Bill Vinson, who loves Davidson College more than anyone I know, reports he has not been in good health lately, is at home now and is on hospice. I spoke with Bill earlier today and found him in good spirits. He reminded me that when we first knew each other I was in 102 Watts and he was in 112 Watts. What a memory! [Editor’s Note: William D. “Bill” Vinson passed away at his home in Davidson on April 7, at the age of 90.] We extend our condolences to Bill Lawson whose wife, Betsy, died Feb. 5. Please, if you have done anything recently that you wouldn’t be embarrassed to have reported in the Davidson Journal, drop me a note or send me an email. Your classmates are eager to hear from or about you! Contact: Fritz Vinson, 1026 Doral Dr., Pawley’s Island, SC 29585; 843-235-2611; fritzvinson@ live.com

Contact: William T. Iverson, PO Box 7171, Colonia, NJ 07067; 732877-9373; wtiverson@gmail.com

FROM ALUMNI RELATIONS We extend to the family and friends of William Moore Boyce Jr. and John Edwin “Didi” Wayland Jr. our sincere condolences. They passed away Feb. 24 and March 5, respectively.

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AS TOLD BY: Jake Wade and Bo Roddey, Class Secretaries As a matter of interest, our Class of 1950 matriculated in the fall of 1946 with some 370 members enrolled at the end of hostilities of World War II. Our class as of this date consists of 230 members; or to put it another way, some 140 members have since died. It is interesting to note that our class occupies a unique position in the history of our school in that it covered a four-year period of peace from the fall of 1946, our entry date, to the spring of 1950, the date of our graduation, which is also the date of the commencement of the Korean War; or to put it another way, we attended Davidson for a period of four years of peace between two world military conflicts. However, during this four-year period, many members either had served in the military during World War II and returned to graduate, or served in the military upon their graduation at the commencement of the Korean War, either through the draft or through the school’s ROTC program. Among the members of our class who entered the military at some point prior to enrolling at Davidson, or who served upon their graduation, was the late L. Linton Deck Jr., who died July 3, 2015. He was one of the original roommates of William R. Richardson Jr., who was an original member of our class and a graduate of West Point who subsequently retired as a highly decorated four-star general in the U.S. Army. Another member of our class was the late Benjamin Hamilton, who died Aug. 19, 2015, from a cancer-related condition. Ben received his Army commission through Davidson’s ROTC program and was a distinguished retired Army career officer and a classmate of Jake’s, both at The Darlington School in Rome, Ga., and Davidson. Among other members of our class who served with the military prior to Davidson were the late Pat Clark, who distinguished himself as a member of the military in the Normandy invasion, and the late Doug Rice and Hal Mayes, both members of the U.S. Air Force who were shot down, captured by the Germans and held as prisoners of war; they later became athletic team members at Davidson. We owe a debt to these classmates, and all others, who have served in defense of our nation. In closing, we (Bo and Jake) wish to express our personal appreciation to the families of our friends from the Class of 1951. The late John Crosland Jr. ’51 (aka “Red Man”), who died Aug. 2, 2015, was an outstanding civic leader in his community. The late W. Ray Cunningham ’51, who likewise was a classmate of Jake’s at both Darlington and Davidson, and a classmate of Bo’s at Davidson, would light up a room upon his entry and was an outstanding civic leader throughout his life. Ray died Oct. 27, 2015. We shall miss these good men, and we extend to their families our best wishes for their great and productive lives. Let us hear from each of you, and/or about each of you. Contact: Jake Wade, 2917 Hanson Dr., Charlotte, NC 28207; 704-334-8164; jake@ southcharlottelawfirm.com Bo Roddey, 2124 Sherwood Ave., Charlotte, NC 28207-2120; 704-372-0917; ofroddey@carolina. rr.com

FROM ALUMNI RELATIONS Our sincere condolences are extended to the family and friends of Bryan Storey, Bill Carter and Frederick Preyer, who passed away Dec. 3, 2015, Jan. 31, 2016, and March 10, 2016, respectively.

AS TOLD BY: John D. Hobart, Class Secretary Bill Klein and Dot have the rare distinction of having moved twice in one year. Last year they tried a retirement community, having put their house in Roanoke, Va., up for sale. But the move didn’t fit. So they simply moved back home. All’s well that ends well! He and Dot have two sons. Bill is pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Lexington, Va., and David is dean of Hampden-Sidney College in Virginia. Bill keeps in touch with Tommy Haller and sees Lewis Nelson ’53 now and then. Speaking of Tommy, he called to report he’s moving along and doing fine. For years, he has been making the annual fall pilgrimage to Pipestem Resort in West Virginia with a group of Davidson graduate Presbyterian ministers. Says he goes along “to pray for them.” In February, Warren Herron wrote, “After graduating in 1951 I struggled for three years at Duke to get two math degrees. Then the U.S. Navy tried with limited success to make me a weather forecaster and sent me to London, where I did my two years of Cold War duty. In 1958, I joined Lockheed-George (now Lockheed-Martin) in Marietta, Ga., and began work as a mathematical analyst, putting engineering problems in proper form for solution by computers. I left the technical work after a few years and went into management of computing, communications and related functions, holding several middle management positions. After retiring from Lockheed in 1989, I continued living in Marietta and stayed busy with church work, holding some minor public offices (hospital authority, board of elections, board of tax assessors, city ethics committee), and with my wife of 61 years enjoying our four children, 10 grandchildren, and four great grandchildren. During all the time in Marietta I regularly played tennis and golf, but now at age 85, it’s tennis only.” Talked with Gene Geer in Charleston, S.C. His daughter and son–in-law run a bed and breakfast inn on East Battery Street, where Gene has lived for many years. We talked Korean War times and recalled old friends, including Dutch Hengeveld. Prior to retirement, Tom Lowman served as minister and supply pastor of Presbyterian churches in the Richmond, Va., area. He has also served as a teacher. He and Jean have been married 61 years. They have lived in Chester, Va., since 1963, where they now enjoy apartment living in a senior independent living village. Tom and Jean have three children who live in the area, plus five grandchildren and two great grands. Woody McKay lives in Hoschton, Ga. His rare sense of humor continues intact, even though he reports his legs are weaker now and that he walks with a cane. At age 16, Woody suffered from polio, but over the years it hasn’t diminished his great spirit. He is retired from the Presbyterian ministry, having served in the Presbytery of Greater Atlanta. He and Linda, his second wife, together are parents of nine children, 17 grandchildren, one great grand, and two more on the way. Woody keeps in touch with Bill Dubose ’50, who lives in Davidson. Our sincere condolences are extended to the SPRING 2016

Alumni Community at community.davidson.edu REGISTER NOW families and friends of D. Patrick McGeachy III, who died Dec. 13, 2015; Paul B. Guthery Jr., who died Dec. 29, 2015; Herbert D. Middleton III, who died Jan. 17, 2016; and Betty S. Geer, wife of A. Eugene Geer Jr., who died Dec. 21, 2014. That’s it! All the news fit to print, and then some. Contact: John D. Hobart, 1009 Chestnut Dr., Smithfield, NC 27577-1009; 919-934-7016; fhobart@nc.rr.com

FROM ALUMNI RELATIONS Joseph Norris Neel III passed away March 15. We extend our sincere condolences to his family and friends. Contact: Bill Lee, 3986 Meandering Ln., Tallahassee, Fla., 32308-5953; 850-402-1112; wmflee@comcast.net

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FROM ALUMNI RELATIONS Charles Murray writes, “In December my wife, Mary Ann, and I celebrated our 60th wedding anniversary in a cabin at the Red River Gorge. In January, we also visited the Cumberland Falls State Park where I exercised my hobby of photography. Mary Ann home schooled our granddaughter, Cara Beth, so that she set records on the GED tests and thus graduated from High School at 16 years. We live happily on a quiet block in Lexington, Ky., a few houses from our daughter and granddaughter.” Irving Alan Sparks shared, “In 1999 my wife Helen and I attempted our first retirements; she as an instructional designer at Science Applications International Corp and I as professor and chair of religious studies at San Diego State University. We both flunked retirement, continuing on these paths for another five years. In 2004, I began a six-year stint as visiting professor of theology and religious studies at the University of San Diego. Since 2010, we are both actively retired; Helen engaged as a docent at the San Diego Museum of Art and Soroptomist International’s enterprises, and I shuffle along as a volunteer worker at St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral here in San Diego. Our three daughters—Lydia, Leslie and Robin—are constructively engaged as a bookstore manager, an elementary school teacher and a classics professor. Our family includes two sons-inlaw and three grandchildren.” Our sincere condolences are extended to the family and friends of Dan McIntyre, who passed away peacefully Jan. 14 after a brief illness.

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his life to Christian ministries. Tim Ervin Cooper Jr. died March 11. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army, serving as a battalion and brigade surgeon at Fort Hood, Texas. They will be greatly missed by family and friends. Please see the In Memoriam section for more details. Full obituaries are available on the college website at blogs.davidson.edu/memoriam. Contact: Chick McClure, 1548 Laureldale Dr., Raleigh, NC 27609-3571; 919-790-1633; mcclure213@nc.rr.com

AS TOLD BY: Hobby Cobb, Class Secretary Sad to report the death of our friend and classmate, Jon Regen, who we lost on Jan. 24, 2016, as the result of a fall in his neighborhood, while doing one of his favorite things, walking the family dog, Rascal. Jon’s smile, laugh, sense of humor and love of books will be missed by his many friends, both in Davidson and beyond. He was very fond of all things Davidson, especially men’s and women’s basketball, baseball, women’s volleyball, and the auditing of courses at the college. For sure, he will be missed. With every passing day, we get closer to our 60th Class Reunion, which is scheduled for June 3-5, 2016. For our 55th reunion in 2011 we had somewhere between 35 and 40 classmates attend. Surely, we will beat that number in June. Mark it on your calendar and put a post-it note on the ’fridge. You probably have noticed that there is a lag-time between when these notes are written and when they appear in print for your reading. I think maybe this problem is being addressed, so meanwhile just live with that issue. Those of us who spent a career in the printing business understand the problems of getting copy produced by a deadline date, and then living with the lead-time required by the printer. We can put people on the moon and do many things almost instantly on social media, but it is difficult to report “happenings” closer to the time they actually happened. Enough on that! Just know that a lot of smart people are working on making things better. John Vernon and wife, Edith, will celebrate their 59th wedding anniversary on March 17. They are currently enjoying life in the Summit Retirement home in Lynchburg, Va. John and Edith have 13 grandchildren, one of which is in the Class of 2019 at Davidson. How great is that! We spoke recently to Bayles Mack, who has had an interesting life since Davidson and still lives in Fort Mill, S.C. Bayles has four times been elected to the position of Highway Commissioner of South Carolina. These four terms of four years each actually span a 32year period—you have to sit out every four years for a total of four years and then run for that office and be re-elected by the people again. Quite an honor to be elected four times by the people. Bayles attended law school at Washington & Lee, and when you drive on I-77 between Charlotte and Columbia, you will note that segment of I-77 is named Bayles Mack Highway. As reported earlier, John Child is still missing! Come on in, John, it is not too late. We also have spoken with Ray Harding, Curtiss Cates, Perrin Anderson, Tom Owen and Phil Koonce in recent days. They are all well. Also, we had a great visit with Dick Adams and his wife Lynne. They are still splitting their time between Wilmington and New Hampshire. The end. Contact: Hobby Cobb, P.O. Box 2166, Davidson,

NC 28036-2166; 704-894-0104; janecobb@ bellsouth.net FROM ALUMNI RELATIONS We extend our sincere condolences to the family and friends of Harry Brownlee. Harry passed away March 14.

AS TOLD BY: Bill Morrow, Class Secretary Reece Middleton emails that he has finally retired as executive director of the Louisiana Association of Compulsive Gambling, where he developed programs to help those with gambling addiction. During Reece’s career, the association provided a 24-hour Problem Gamblers Helpline for several states, which received over one million calls since 2000. Reece says wife Marshall is also retired, and while she loves retirement, he is “working hard to deal with irrelevance.” Occasional speaking engagements help to ease the pain. The “Geriatric Wildcats,” directed by Pete Ashcraft, got together for the Davidson v. St. Joseph’s basketball game with dinner and social to follow. Nancy and Dick Belton, Rachel and Jim Gaither, Sandra and Bill Gramley, Emily and Henry Massey, Linda and Pete Reavis, and Sylvia Ashcraft were joined by Don Comer, Bill Morrow, Betty and Perrin Anderson, Jane and Hobby Cobb ’56, Marilyn and Phil Koonce ’56, and Barbara and Dave Fagg ’58. Special guest was Dr. Sam Maloney ’48, still with that BOOMING VOICE that arrived with him in the fall of 1954. Dr. Maloney, now 92, updated the group on changes at Davidson over the years— mostly for the better, he seems to think—and also on the college’s challenges for the future. ’Twas a most inspiring talk, much appreciated by all. Bill Gramley passed around an amusing written description of his participation at age 66 in a triathlon. Although he closed with the note to his wife “Don’t let me do that again!,” we all know from his records in the Senior Games since then that he didn’t take his own advice. Contact: Bill Morrow, P.O. Box 1692, Mooresville, NC 28115; 704-664-2308; morrowcb@gmail. com FROM ALUMNI RELATIONS Our sincere condolences are extended to the family and friends of John Henley Flintom, who passed away Feb. 1.

AS TOLD BY: J. Hayden Hollingsworth, Class Secretary Maurice Ritchie joyfully reports that he has reached a major life goal: the 50th anniversary of his marriage to Dotty. They celebrated the occasion with family and friends at The Kings Daughters Inn in Durham. He says he has plans for the next year toward a new goal but doesn’t reveal what it is. Congratulations in any case! Jerry Norvell, Gilmore Lake, Goose Vaughan ’57 and their wives spent an evening in February at Davidson watching the Wildcats play and decamping at The Davidson Inn. Ralph Bright and his wife have moved to Scotia Village Retirement home, adjacent to St. Andrews University in Laurinburg. Willie Thompson has just completed his fifth book since “retirement.” Unlike his previous works on the Civil War, this concerns a murder at HampdenDAVIDSONJOURNAL.DAVIDSON.EDU

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rise, so were the photocopier, credit card and color TV; Jonas Salk discovered the polio vaccine, and Watson and Crick discovered DNA; Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay scaled Mt. Everest, Stalin died, school desegregation became law, the Cold War heated up, the New York Yankees made it to the World Series (six times), and John Hobart ’51 became a class secretary (before such a thing officially existed). And he’s never really stopped. “Being a Presbyterian, although I’m an Episcopalian now, I think it was predestined,” Hobart says. His demeanor is humble and relaxed, emblematic of the mid-20th-century “Davidson gentleman who needs no introduction.” Hobart’s Davidson pedigree runs deep. Hobart Park on campus is named for his father, Frank Donald Hobart, superintendent of grounds, 1925–61. Hobart grew up on Woodland Street just off Concord Road. He went to high school with Nancy Overcash, who would become Nancy Blackwell and go on to work in alumni relations from 1952 to 2006, known fondly to generations of class secretaries as a cheerful, stern and loving taskmaster. “I have the greatest admiration for Nancy Blackwell,” Hobart declares unequivocally. But in the summer of 1950, the alumni office consisted only of John Payne and his secretary Katherine Halyburton. As a student worker, Hobart typed up notes from newspaper clippings, and other less official sources, for publication in the rudimentary alumni communications of the day. “We didn’t have class notes, as such,” he says. DAVIDSONJOURNAL.DAVIDSON.EDU

In time, he found that the people-based, organizational work of gathering and compiling notes was a fitting complement to the skillsets of his career calling. A business administration major at Davidson, Hobart earned a degree in industrial psychology from N.C. State, worked for a time in industry, and then began his career in the “industrial education centers” that would later form North Carolina’s community college system. He retired in 1990 as a student affairs administrator at Johnston Community College in Smithfield. Through it all, he kept calling classmates. Snail mail? Ineffective. Social media? Puh! Hobart counts the telephone as the most effective communications technology for the work of a class secretary. “As long as you’ve got a telephone number on a classmate, you can ask him what’s going on, what’s he been doing, career, family, travels.... It’s a chance to ask them about their life, what they’ve done, where they’ve been, and what’s happened along the way!” he says. Hobart is diplomatic in describing the editing component of his work: “Sometimes I get a real comprehensive biographical background, and it gives me a chance to sort of condense that and hit the highlights of what they’ve been doing since graduation.” And he offers a bit of insight, even advice, on the creative process. “I try to leave out negative stuff and not dwell on things that don’t seem particularly complimentary. Try to just stick to the facts, and then throw in a little touch of humor here and there,” he says. “Sometimes a reflection about the past seems to be pertinent, but not a whole lot of that. Goodness alive, if you’ve been out of school as long as the class of ’51, there’s a lot of water under the bridge!”

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REUNION June 3–5, 2016 www.davidson.edu/alumni Sydney in 1857 revolving around the alleged compromise of a girl’s virtue. Intriguing! He failed to give the title, but I suspect Amazon can supply it. John Adkins continues his amazingly energetic work in The Gideons International (37 years), Kairos Prison Ministry International (15 years), the Praise Band and Chancel Choir (51 years) at his church, the Beaumont Interfaith Choral Society, (eight years) volunteering at the Lutcher Theater for the Performing Arts, and at the Shangri La Botanical Gardens and Nature Center. He will spend his 19th summer in Estes National Park hiking with his family. “Looks like a great year,” says he. I am sad to report the death of George Hemingway Jan. 7 in Wilmington. He will be greatly missed by the community he served as a physician, and by his family. He was my seatmate for four years of chapel services. On a point of personal privilege, my daughter, Merris Hollingsworth (Class of 1983), died Dec. 17, 2015, in Newark, Del., after a long career at the University of Delaware Counseling Center, where she was named National Training Director of the Year by the American Psychological Association. Contact: Hayden Hollingsworth, 6107 Sulgrave Rd., Roanoke, VA 24018; 540-725-1340; jhayden2003@cox.net FROM ALUMNI RELATIONS We extend our sincere condolences to the family and friends of Richard Makepeace Sr. (Feb. 16) and Charles Feezor Jr. (March 16).

AS TOLD BY: Charlie Massey, Class Secretary During our 60th Reunion, Smith Murphey visited his Bible professor, Dr. Sam Maloney ’48. In 2015, Dr. Maloney reciprocated by visiting Smith in Sumner, Miss. Smith took Dr. Maloney on a driving tour of Sumner and the surrounding countryside. In the afternoon they attended a Sumner former mayors meeting where “Shouting Sam” saw another of his former students, Frank Mitchner ’55. That night the three of them enjoyed a fine meal at Smith’s house. Charles “Woody” Woods is staying busy. This last fall he went trout fishing in the Madison River in Montana. He says, “life is good in Vermont. I am on the board of directors of the local nonprofit medical clinic. I just returned from a 10-day theatre trip to London. That was quite nice. Not only are the plays and music excellent, but the food is superb.” Hope you will visit Davidson soon, Woody. Jon McRae, or “OJ” as some of us remember him, is still hard at work. He is a consultant with Collegiate Counsel, Inc. If you know of someone whom you think would be a good president for a college or a prep school, get in touch with Jon at jon@collegiatecounsel.com. Paul Frierson and his wife Maureen celebrated their 49th anniversary in February this year. Congratulations and best wishes to both of you! Bob Groome recently had a fall and fractured his shoulder. Bob, take care of yourself and get ready for golf in the spring. Ben Harris reported on classmate Angus McBryde’s sports success since moving to Montgomery, Ala., in 2015: “In spite of little time for training, Angus McBryde has opened the 2016 running season winning the gold medal in the University of South Alabama 5K and followed by picking up the silver medal in the

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challenging Joe Cain Classic 5K, the premier running event during Mobile’s Mardi Gras season. I finished 2nd in the USA race but had a faltering 4th place finish in the Cain Classic. Angus credits his early season success to running strategy provided by his coach, Julian Pleasants ’60.” Congratulations to both of our classmates...and to “Coach Pleasants” who is now a resident of the Pines at Davidson. Henry Brown put together a “mini reunion” of nearby classmates for the Davidson v. St. Joseph’s basketball game on Feb. 20, followed by a get together at Patty and Richie King’s home. Classmates Henry Brown, Jerry Clark, Tommy Douglas, Pat Henderson, John Kimbril, Richie King, John Kuykendall, Charlie Massey and George Ramsey, along with spouses, enjoyed a very exciting and successful ball game (Davidson 99-St. Joe 93). It is always great to spend time with our ’59 classmates. Hope more of you will join us for next year’s mini reunion. “We ain’t getting no younger!” Contact Henry Brown if you are interested: hbrown308@nc.rr.com. Keep the news coming my way and stay healthy. Contact: Charlie D. Massey, 400 Avinger Ln., Apt. 443, Davidson, NC 28036-6704; 704-8961443; CDM5050@aol.com

AS TOLD BY: Gordon Spaugh, Class Secretary Charles Glass Smith wrote that the “Bear” still lumbers along, substantially slowed down by too active a life in his youth and reinforced with too many bad habits developed over many years of good living (never touched tobacco). Given everything considered, life is pretty good at age 78. After 15 years of official retirement, he occasionally still earns a few bucks by doing expert analysis of securities and investment cases for several law firms. Davidson was a wonderful opportunity and experience, especially now working to raise money with The Fund for Davidson. The Class of 1960 has been a stellar performer in doing our part for our alma mater. Thanks to everyone who has given, and especially to Jim Hamilton for lending a hand in this year’s fund drive. Davidson relationships are critical and have proven to be extremely beneficial. Every now and then he said he consults with our dear friend and classmate Dave “Mule Train” McCullough on old-age male “plumbing issues.” The last time Charlie asked for his sage medical advice, he reminded him that he still charges for service, and Charlie now owes two handpersonalized car washes and a dozen doughnuts. Think he will ever collect? Charlie challenged each of us to once again help Davidson continue to grow and prosper by giving to The Fund for Davidson. Speaking of Jim Hamilton, I enjoyed chatting with him at our reunion about some of his most interesting legal cases since he worked for Senator Sam Ervin as a lawyer during the Senate Watergate hearings. Here are some of the cases he mentioned: Jim declined the request of Independent Counsel Ken Starr for notes from his consultation with Deputy White House Counsel (and Davidson graduate) Vince Foster just a few days prior to his suicide. Starr obtained a subpoena, but Jim still declined to release his notes. The case went all the way to the Supreme Court, where Jim argued successfully that the attorney-client privilege survives the death of the client. After members of the George W. Bush administration leaked information about Valerie Plame’s undercover CIA work to syndicated columnist Bob Novak, Jim represented Novak in the ensuing

investigation. He represented Arizona Senator Dennis DeConcini in the Keating Five case in the early 90s. Jim conducted the vice president candidate vetting process for presidential candidates Gore, Kerry and Obama. He now spends much time serving on the Board of the USO, which he says is a wonderful organization doing much to help our troops, wounded warriors and military families. PD Miller wrote about Charlie Henderson, a member of our class until he transferred to U.Va. after our sophomore year. He graduated from U.Va. Medical School and recently received their Outstanding Medical Alumnus Award. Congratulations to Charlie, and thanks to PD for sharing the good news. We extend condolences on behalf of the class to the family of Albert Stuart Nickles Jr., who died Jan. 26 in Cheraw, S.C. He was pastor of First Presbyterian Church, Cheraw, from 1970 – 2003. The obituary is available at: blogs.davidson.edu/memoriam Contact: Gordon Spaugh, 365 Roslyn Rd., Winston-Salem, NC 27104; 336-722-9130; gspaugh@juno.com

AS TOLD BY: Marshall LaFar, Class Secretary As you know, Henry Pharr died Jan. 7, 2015. Before he died, he and his wife Carol, along with Jurgen Buchenau, chair of the history department at UNC Charlotte, formed The Pharr-Buchenau Grant for Graduate Student Professional Development in the Department of History. And it is still growing. To date, they have raised over $43,000 to help graduate students fulfill their research obligations. The legacy of Henry N. Pharr II lives on. Wayfaring Strangers: The Musical Voyage from Scotland and Ulster to Appalachia is now in its third printing as the fastest selling book in the history of the UNC Press. You remember that this book is by our own Doug Orr and Fiona Ritchie. The Western North Carolina Historical Association has announced this book as the selection of the 60th winner of the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award. Bill Gayle is understandably an especially proud grandfather. His granddaughter, Ashley Sweet, has been accepted at the Naval Academy. She has been the soccer goalie for the Hidden Valley Titans, Roanoke, Va., for the last four years, and is girls state team goalie. She hopes to play for the Naval Academy. Adelaide and Ned Davis have been inducted into the Queens University of Charlotte Athletics Hall of Fame. They received The Billy O. Wireman Award, which honors those “who have been relentless in their support of and contribution to Queens athletics.” Congratulations to Ned and Adelaide! John Ricks toured Israel in March 2015. His guide was Jewish, and he learned a great deal about Jewish history and architecture. To get a Christian perspective, he toured Israel with two Methodist ministers in February. One of the highlights of his trip was participating in a communion service at the Garden Tomb. Bev and Henry Chase have moved into Galloway Ridge, a continuing care retirement community very near Chapel Hill. “There is more to do here than you can imagine!” On March 29 when Davidson played UNC in baseball, Henry threw the first pitch. I suspect that Henry secretly practiced to insure his pitch was not a “bouncer!” Their granddaughter Sabol, who is graduating from Sewanee in May, has DAVIDSONJOURNAL.DAVIDSON.EDU

theUnion: Alumni been selected for membership in Phi Beta Kappa. What? Another proud grandparent? On Christmas morning last, Grant Grantham ’84 presented a real Davidson wildcat beautifully mounted by a taxidermist to another Davidson Wildcat…his father, Gaines Grantham. It now sits on the mantelpiece in the Grantham den. Tom Parker writes, “Jeanne and I travelled to Cuba with the group InsightCuba in January. It was fascinating. The visit was highly structured, so there were many good opportunities to interact with Cubans from different walks of life as we visited Havana, Cienfuegos and Trinidad. We paid for a ride in a beautiful 1950s auto. At the end of the ride, the owner invited me to sit behind the wheel—Jeanne took a picture—but he did not offer to let me drive. I see Don Randolph several times a year. He had a major stroke years ago and now lives in the Falls Creek Living Center in Marietta, S.C. His mind is clear, his sense of humor is intact and he would love to have more visitors.” Jack Womeldorf reports that he has recently learned that he needs the mitral valve of his heart either replaced or repaired. So due to the long recovery from open-heart surgery, Jack will miss our 55th reunion, which he and Ann were looking forward to. They still hope to make it to a family wedding in Paris in midJuly. Ervin Duggan and Julia have retired to The Pines at Davidson, where they enjoy seeing many Davidson alumni and former faculty. Ervin sends this strong reminder: “Mark your calendar NOW for our 55th class reunion, June 3-5!” John Strating sent this message, along with three pictures: “Last month (January 2016), Kristian Juel, Han Mensink and I spent a week skiing in Adelboden, Switzerland, where I have a holiday home. We enjoyed this tremendously and we talked a lot about our year at Davidson and how this affected our lives. We agreed that this was one of the best things that happened to us.” Larry “Butch” Rogers has written his third book. It is entitled, M. Gazi Yasargil; Father of Modern Neurosurgery. Butch wants us to know that the book is just as much an adventure story as a medical story. Butch studied under Yasargil in Zurich. To give proper recognition to this book, please see yasargil-bio.com. The Kappa Sigma Class of 1961 had a get-together on the weekend of Oct. 10, 2015, at Davidson. We were honored to have lunch at the President’s house. She and her husband greeted us. The 10 members in attendance (in alphabetical order) were: Harold Bynum, Jerry Cole, Bill Crouch (all the way from Colorado), Ned Davis, Mac Henderson, Ed Kizer, Marshall LaFar, Ted Quantz, Verner Stanley and Jack Taylor. Do not be confused...this list was not taken from the Post Office wall. Contact: W. Marshall LaFar, 2562 Pinewood Rd., Gastonia, NC 28054; 704-861-8585 (w); fax, 704-865-3415; mlafar@yahoo.com

AS TOLD BY: John Goodman, Class Secretary John Chiles emailed last fall that he and Judy are looking to divest from their vineyards in Washington and invest a bit more in southern California. Then in January John wrote from Palm Springs, where he and Judy were “stretched out…for a while escaping the dark and the damp of the otherwise glorious Northwest.” They had enjoyed a recent evening with DAVIDSONJOURNAL.DAVIDSON.EDU

Sherry and Herk Sims during the time the Simses also sojourned there, followed up by a couple days of hiking, golfing and dining with Margo and Nic Cooper, who had stopped by on their trip from Bristol, UK, to Australia. John concluded, “Judy and I are looking forward to the 55th.” Yes, as John Chiles helpfully reminds us, our next major anniversary reunion will take place a little over a year from when these class notes appear in the Davidson Journal. I’ve learned from Alumni Relations that June 9-11, 2017, will be the dates. Let’s mark our calendars now, to enjoy reuniting again. Bob Waugh is fully retired from Duke where he had served as associate professor of medicine. Bob has worked part-time at the Durham Veterans Administration Hospital since 2009, work he continues. VO Roberson’s son, Forrest, will graduate from Davidson this spring, take a year off to do missionary work, and then apply to UNC medical school. Congratulations to Graham Allison and the Belfer Center, which he serves as director. Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs has been ranked the best university-affiliated research center in the world for 2015—for the third consecutive year and the fourth time in five years. The Center’s news release of the honor says, “The ranking appears in the latest edition of the Global Go to Think Tank Index, produced each year by James McGann, director of the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program at the University of Pennsylvania’s Lauder Institute.” Graham adds, “While we are justly proud of our research, our most important product is people.” Our sympathies are extended to the family of Sam Jackson, who passed away Nov. 15, 2015, and to Nat Watson at the Dec. 22, 2015, death of his sister, Genie Watson Cooke. Our sympathies also go out to Genie’s husband, our schoolmate Ham Cooke ’63. Both children of Genie and Ham also are Davidson graduates, Thurston Cooke ’91 and Katherine Cooke Kerr ’93. If you’ve not yet registered on the free online community for alumni and friends, consider registering—giving access to contact information for classmates and other Davidsonians. You can register at community.davidson.edu. Contact: John Goodman, 108 N. Robeson St., Elizabethtown, NC 28337; 910-862-3730; davidson1962@gmail.com; presbypicker2@ gmail.com; davidson62.wordpress.com

AS TOLD BY: Jim Hendrix, Class Secretary Guy Byrd writes that after retiring from 33 years in commercial banking he is staying active as major gifts officer for the Roanoke, Va., non-profit Child Health Investment Partnership. His wife, Maryblair, is keeping up with him thanks to two successful knee replacements, both performed by Davidson alumnus Dr. John Mann ’83. I had a brief visit with Charlie Safley in Memphis, Tenn., in December 2015. He continues to practice dermatology on a part-time basis, and hunting ducks as close to full-time as he can. Jamie Long emailed with news that he and his partner of the past 18 years, Bob Conrow, were married in Miami on Dec. 29, 2015. Jamie tells me that he and Bob divide their time between Miami and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, with occasional side trips, mostly to Cuba. Jamie, we are counting on you keeping us up to date on developments in Cuba, now

that the great rapprochement has taken place. Sadly, this update brings news of the passing of a classmate, and the siblings and spouse of others of our group. We extend condolences to the family of Carl Hunt, who passed away in Asheboro on Jan. 6. Carl served in the Army for over 20 years as a helicopter pilot, paratrooper and artillery forward observer. He had three tours in Vietnam and was widely decorated, included a Silver Star and Purple Heart. After retirement from the Army, he served as executive director of the Kernersville and Asheboro Chamber of Commerce. We also extend condolences to James Gibbs on the death of his brother Samuel Gibbs II ’66, Jan. 31 in Winston-Salem, and to Ham Cooke and family, on the loss of Ham’s wife, Genie Watson Cooke, in Jacksonville, Fla., Dec. 22, 2015. Genie and Ham celebrated their 51st wedding anniversary Aug. 8, 2015. Both of their children, Thurston Cooke, ’91, and Katherine Cooke Kerr, ’93, are Davidson graduates, as is Genie’s brother, Nat Watson ’62. Finally, I received news just as I was submitting this update that Fred Cherry had died. Most of you will recognize Fred’s name as the cellmate of Porter Halyburton during the years of their incarceration in North Vietnam. Fred and Porter credit each other for the support and friendship that helped them to survive that ordeal. We join in extending our sympathies to Fred’s family, as well as to Porter and Marty on the loss of a cherished friend. Contact: Jim Hendrix, P.O. Box 2094, Cashiers, N.C. 28717-2094; 404-313-2084; jamesphendrix@gmail.com

AS TOLD BY: Carlton Cole, Class SecretaryNo good news this issue. I was sorry to hear that Wayne Smithers died Oct. 10, 2015, in Houston, Texas. After Davidson, Wayne received his MBA from Wharton, served in the Army, and enjoyed a career with multi-national oil conglomerates, living in New York, London, and eventually Houston. To quote from his obituary in the Houston Chronicle, “He left much behind. And what he left will linger. A life well lived that is an example to everyone. A family, multigenerational, and modern, and layered, that loves, thrives, and extends even to this day. Wisdom and kindness that we each must remember and keep alive, as reminders of him and to ourselves. And of course, the love of a good dance.” Please let me know what has been going on in your lives and please consider registering on the online community on the Davidson website at, community. davidson.edu, a place where you can search for friends and leave news of your own. Contact: Carlton Cole, 1009 Hardee Rd., Coral Gables, FL 33146-3329; fax, 305-667-9757; 305667-7710 (b); carlton842@aol.com

AS TOLD BY: John Curry, Class Secretary Congratulations to Dave Dalrymple, recent recipient of the National Leadership Award given by the American Board for Accreditation in psychoanalysis for his “vision, dedication and organizational leadership.” Between 1992 and 2004, he served as vice chair, chair and executive director of the National Association for Advancement of Psychoanalysis. On last Valentine’s Day weekend, Grace and I SPRING 2016

Alumni Community at community.davidson.edu REGISTER NOW had an enjoyable visit with Jim Beasley and his wife Jeannie who were in Asheville looking for a high altitude retreat from the summer heat in Palm Beach. I warned them there was a winter blast forecast for the time of their visit and it showed up, but they endured the wind and cold in good spirits. Speaking of summer in the mountains, Bob White has purchased a condo in Swannanoa which, for those of you not familiar with western North Carolina geography, is just east of Asheville. Bob is one of those fortunate Presbyterians whose family possessed a summer “cabin” in Montreat near Swannanoa; so, like many in previous generations he and his wife will be able to flee the heat of the South Carolina low country. Life is “sweet” for Jim Bradley on the banks of Lake Wateree northwest of Camden, S.C. He and wife Nancy enjoy being able to visit and be visited by the children of their two lawyer sons, Ward ’90 and Jason ’90, who reside and work in Columbia, S.C. Jim says one of his young grandsons is teaching him how to fish. The retired professor of economics at the University of South Carolina and former bank examiner is keeping his toe in the financial world by serving on the board of the South Carolina Methodist Credit Union. “Continuous excitement” is the perfect description for Lewis Norman and Jane as they thrive in Charlotte “just down the street” from their two grandchildren. The upcoming marriage of son Lewis and an active social agenda occasioned by a cadre of Davidson connections means they have little time for relaxation. I thought I was calling his home number, but I reached Harold Kernodle between patients at his clinic in Graham. Yes, he is still practicing orthopedic surgery and I could hear in his voice the kind of enthusiasm for his work that will probably insure retirement is a ways off. He reports he has been utilizing robotic equipment for the past three years, which may also contribute to his youthful attitude. Some may remember Harold is an avid sailor having learned the basics at an early age at one of the sailing camps near Morehead City. He has an Atlantic crossing and navigation in the south Pacific in his log, but reports the last few years have included more modest voyages in the Caribbean or off the North Carolina coast. Contact: John S. Curry, Box 2091, Asheville, NC 28802; 828-215-4512; john@johncurryattorney. com FROM ALUMNI RELATIONS William Lyman Joyner III passed away March 14. Our sincere condolences are extended to his family and friends.

FROM ALUMNI RELATIONS We hope you are planning to join us on campus for your 50th Reunion June 3-5! Your reunion committee has been hard at work planning a great weekend. The committee is chaired by Pack Hindsley (planning chair) and Dan Boone (gift chair) and includes Roy Allison, Jim Barnes, Bob Bryan, Wayne Cherry, Jim Curl, Joe Davis, Walt Drake, Palmer Freeman, John Hartness, John Hindsley, Conrad Martin, David Powell, Richard Short, Bill Staples, Jim Terry, Bill Walton and Grey Winefield. Our sincere condolences are extended to the family and friends of Samuel Gibbs II, who passed away Feb. 1.

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AS TOLD BY: Bryant Hinnant, Class Secretary Thomas C. Brown Jr., so identified due to his august legal stature, has opined that he believes he is no longer practicing law, having retired from the McGuire Woods firm in December 2015, one month shy of 45 years. He thinks he will go back to what he did before he became a lawyer, to which an unkind wit retorted with a somewhat sordid joke, best enjoyed if you contact me offline. He also commented on the recent blizzard in Washington, D.C., acknowledging that the combination of retirement and enforced cohabitation was testing the togetherness factor in his marriage. He must be bored; he’s talking about taking up golf. I received some of the usual roguish gossip from Louis Lesesne, none printable, extremely amusing (got your interest yet?), but he also said he’d been retired for a year and had not missed law practice at all. Seems to be a common theme; with any luck, I’ll be able to say the same in a few months. Kemmer Anderson sent me a lovely Christmas poem, one of two he wrote about Nazareth. He and Martha visited Palestine and Israel last October; otherwise, he reports he spends his time in worship and writing. My lovely, if restless daughter, having brought home a dog but no boyfriend following graduation, immediately took off last June for Europe with only a 47-pound backpack for company. We met her in Ireland for three weeks to relieve her of cold weather clothing. Three months in, she flew to Phnom Penh to work in an orphanage; she returned in time for the obligatory Christmas presents. Then in January she left for Australia (with backpack plus suitcases), where she intends to spend a year working and looking for a boyfriend (only a little joking). My son is attending College of Charleston. We still have the dog. So much for empty nesting. Time to renovate. Sadly, I have two deaths of classmates to report. Charlie A. Edwards died Sept. 10, 2015. Also, Daniel Johnston McAulay died Jan. 13. Additional information is in the In Memoriam section of the Davidson website. Please join me in extending condolences to their families. Finally, please join me in sending condolences to Louis Lesesne, whose mother, Ellen Lesesne, died Feb. 18 at age 97. Contact: Bryant Hinnant, 8 Bittersweet Trail, Rowayton, CT 06853; 203-299-3231 (b); 203855-9871 (h); 203-912-4861 (c); fax, 203-2991355; bhinnant@att.net

AS TOLD BY: Bruce Weihe, Class Secretary Chip Vogan continues to entertain with his group, Dreamtreeo, in the Norfolk, Va., area. Dreamtreeo did a benefit concert for the Food Bank of Southeast Virginia in December, and as Chip put it, they “packed the place” and raised a bunch of money for the Food Bank. Singing is a Vogan family tradition—Chip’s son, William, recently joined the troupe. Returning to the Charlotte area is John Giles, who, I am sure, will be getting involved with the Davidson alumni activities back home. Actually, at this moment, the Giles family is half moved—John’s wife Judy, working at South Park with the Cameron M. Harris Company, has relocated, while John will be heading to Charlotte in a few months. For years, I have been begging Tom Earnhardt, our

erstwhile student body president, to give me some details about his television career that I had heard a lot about, most recently from David King. David informed me that Tom had “just finished a superb one-hour documentary commemorating the 100th anniversary of North Carolina’s state parks system” that was released in January. The next day I received greetings from Tom with reference to the link carrying the documentary, and indeed, it really is superb. Tom finally gave me the fodder about his change in career 10 years ago from a law school professor to a movie producer, leading to a 75-episode natural/cultural history series, “Exploring North Carolina.” Ambitious “to become the Clint Eastwood of our class,” Tom promises to produce documentaries and movies for decades to come. Remember my recent ruling that the arrival of grandchildren would be limited to situations involving the birth to a Davidson son or daughter who happened to marry a Davidson spouse? Well, that was self-serving, since my daughter Brooke ’02 and her husband Dustin Edge ’00 are excited to announce the birth of August Calvin Edge on Jan. 13, in Louisville. Keep in touch and Happy Number 70 everyone! Contact: Bruce Weihe, 1100 SE 6th St., Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301; 954-607-6723 (w); bweihe@bawlawyer.com

AS TOLD BY: Tony Orsbon, Class Secretary The sun never sets on the British Empire or the Class of ’69.... Samuel Johnson sent greetings to us all, and reported that he is retiring from the law practice with no misgivings about a loss of purpose in his life. He celebrated his retirement by a month-long trip to Europe, Greece, France and Germany. Samuel and Tom have added to the world’s population of cats— not Wildcats, but your garden variety of cats, whatever that is. Phil Ray reports that he is now post-Siemens engaged in international dispute resolution. I shall forgo the tempting opportunity to point to the Ukraine, Syria, Iraq, the Koreas and other venues where Phil has been patently absent or powerless. I received a nice Christmas note from Lefty this year, recalling our halcyon days of winning, and wishing all of us a blessing. The lefthander is faring well in Virginia Beach, Va., and with Joyce and the growing lineage recalls his Wildcats days with fondness. Al Varner and Eileen are well in San Rafael, Calif., with Alexander planning a wedding with Rachel Palkovsky from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Al reports that he is working to perfect the art of retirement, practicing napping, lunch and fun. He catches games with Steph Curry ’10 as often as he can. I myself marvel that Steph can emulate my jump shot so well. From reunion, here are some highlights: Keaton Fonvielle is an emergency district court judge in Shelby. Apparently, they have a lot of emergency divorces in Cleveland County. Fred Lowrance is pastor, post-barrister, at Meadowlake Presbyterian in Huntersville. Sallie has had a courageous struggle with cancer, and so far is doing okay. It has been hard, and they appreciate your prayers. Fred likes to quote Yogi Berra from the pulpit, and offered that when you come to a fork in the road, take it. Mike Johnson is senior VP and general counsel at Santa Fe Tobacco in Winston-Salem. Mike is the DAVIDSONJOURNAL.DAVIDSON.EDU

theUnion: Alumni epitome of John Kenneth Galbraith’s observation on generous executive salaries; it is not really an award for achievement, but more of a warm personal gesture of a man to himself. John Williams is a lawyer in Nashville, Tennebilly. JP was always such a good man. Tallulah Bankhead might have been thinking of JP when she said, “he runs the gamut of virtues from A to B.” Tom O’Brien is professor of finance at UConn. OB is learned in finance and the affairs of life. He has uttered the wisdom that money doesn’t buy happiness. A man with 10 million is no happier than a man with 9.5 million. We sadly receive the word of the death of James Dixon Chandler in February in Williamsburg, Va. Dick was PBK at DC in mathematics, earning a master’s and Ph.D. later at U.Va. as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow. Dick taught for 30 years after the War that we all remember as “Nam.” May we all lift a glass to Dick, and fondly remember his family. As for me, I boast that I am the living, physical proof that light travels faster than sound. I may appear bright when you see my lips move, until you hear that what is said is something stupid. Contact: R. Anthony Orsbon, 2819 Rothwood Dr., Charlotte, NC 28211; 704-556-9600 (b); fax, 704-556-9601; torsbon@oandflaw.com

AS TOLD BY: Jim McAdams, Class Secretary Greetings, classmates. Not as much to report this time around because I’ve only heard from a few of you. In talking to some fellow 70ers at the reunion last June, it is quite apparent that we are all interested in what each of the other 70ers is doing with his life as we head inexorably towards our late 60’s and our 50th reunion in 2020. Post-reunion that sentiment seems to have faded somewhat and, so, here I sit at my computer with less material to write about than I’d prefer. I threatened once a few years to write a completely fictitious class notes. Hmmmm…it may be coming to that. Many thanks to Jamie May who forwarded to me a Happy New Year note along with a letter he’d received in December from Lauren and John Rowe. They report that 2015 was anything but ho-hum for the Rowe family. Son, Stuart, spent much of the year immersed in a study abroad experience in Madrid, Spain. John, Lauren and other son David visited him, and all grew to love many Spanish customs like dinner at 10 p.m. and fine red wine. Stuart is now in his senior year at Tulane and David, having passed his national certification boards as a paramedic, has relocated to Colorado. Raleigh Phillips and wife, Trish, took matters of the heart to a new level in 2015. First, Raleigh had open-heart surgery in November for an atrial valve replacement, during which the surgeon found lurking and removed a rather ominously large clot. Then, less than a month later, Trish had a quadruple bypass. Both have recovered quite well but, as the result of all that, they were unable to join the pre-Christmas annual “Big Chill” gathering at the North Carolina Outer Banks with Karl Bauknight, Jim Winship, Billy “Butch” Thompson, Tad Lowdermilk and yours truly, along with wives, children and significant others, not to mention several dogs. Tom Bersuder writes that he is prepping and girding up for two days of back surgery in late February, to be followed by three weeks of recovery and rehab. Hope is starting her 25th year as president of North Carolina DAVIDSONJOURNAL.DAVIDSON.EDU

Independent Colleges and Universities. Tom’s son, Jon, is a solutions architect at Red Hat in Raleigh. His other son, Edward is an associate at Simpson Thacher in NYC, and his bride, Gabby, is finishing her clerkship this summer and will join the firm of Patterson Belknap, also in NYC. Contact: Jim McAdams, 119 Kanasgowa Dr, Brevard, NC 28712; 828-8772728; jimmcadams3@yahoo.com; dcgreatclassof1970@gmail.com

AS TOLD BY: Nicholas G. Dumich & David E. Buck, Class Secretaries Sadly, we report the loss of classmate J. Timothy McCaulay, 66, of Fort Wayne, Ind., Feb. 5. He was currently an Allen County deputy prosecuting attorney for the 38th Judicial Circuit, attorney for the Fort Wayne Community Schools Board of Trustees, and attorney for the Fort Wayne Professional Fire Fighters Union. He was a partner with the law firm of Helmke, Beams, Boyer & Wagner from 1977 to 2003. After graduating from Davidson, he received his law degree from Indiana University School of Law, Bloomington, Class of 1975 (cum laude). Tim was a member of the Indiana Law Journal Board of Editors. Tim served on several boards and commissions including Fort Wayne Public Transportation Corporation, The American Cancer Society, Headwaters Park Commission, Big Brothers/Big Sisters, Fort Wayne Youtheatre, Southwood Park Community Association and Foster Park Little League. He was a member of Trinity English Lutheran Church, where he served two terms on the Church Council, was presently a member of the Trinity English Church Foundation Board, and was an usher for 38 years. William McKenzie adds this, “I continue triathlon competition, planning to compete in two ironman races in 2016 in addition to sprints. I could sure use some of Billy Pierce’s run speed.” Bill’s leadership book for students/young adults continues to gain traction. The book is under review at Arizona State University, Iowa Central Schools, Andre Agassi College Prep School in Las Vegas and McDonalds Corporation. Bill had the nice experience of delivering the keynote address at the 33rd Annual Ray Kroc Student Achievement Awards in April. “If anyone knows Oprah, I’m paying the asking.” He hopes to attend Oxford University’s program in High Performance Leadership in 2016 and looks forward to basketball season with Strand, Brice, Crouse, Ballenger and whoever else shows up at the Strand/Ballenger happy hours. Nice guys with great hospitality. We heard from Paul Sawyer, also. Having recently retired from his urologic practice in Tallahassee after 33 years, he’s taking only a three-month break! Then he plans to start at the VA on a half-time basis. Also, in his spare time Paul is working with wood, carving free form bowls, turning bowls and other objects as well. About his family: “My eldest child, Nikki ’03, is in Charlotte with an adopted two-year-old and a fellow Davidson grad, North Moore ’04, the son of John Moore, to help nurture and guide their child. My first son, Glenn, has a music production studio in Denver. If you know anyone who wants to record, he will be glad to talk to them. My second son, Peter ’09, a second Davidson grad is in his second year of medical school at the University of Miami after a fiveyear journalism career. The better part of the family,

my wife Jonette is busy trying to perfect oil painting skills to do portraits. We have been fortunate.” Congrats to Jack Ballenger and his wife Winn. They have a brand new granddaughter (Winfred Blake Whalen) via their youngest daughter, Currie ’05, and their oldest daughter, Ann ’02 gave birth to a new little boy in March 2016. Ken Totherow and wife Diane are also grandparents again. Their son, Chris, and his wife proudly announce the birth of little granddaughter Lane, born in August of 2015. Patrick Reed retired in the spring of 2015 from Northern Virginia Community College where he taught history and film for an amazing 43 years. Wow, time flies when you’re having fun. What did he do after that—went right back to work. He resumed teaching in the fall at Wake Tech Community College in Raleigh, where he and his wife, Pam, have two adorable grandchildren. Floyd Strand is often seen around Davidson during basketball season. He has a place on the lake as his Eastern home. Floyd had retired from his emergency room practice after 34 years, and he and his wife, Barbara, have moved to Alaska, but still spend time in Oregon and, as noted, North Carolina. After all the blood, broken bones, gunshots and general panic he has earned a well-deserved restful retirement. Classmates, on the near horizon looms our 45th Class Reunion, June 3-5, 2016. Most of us have been contacted by the Reunion Team (Jack Ballenger, James Brice, David Buck, Jim Crouse, Mort Chiles, Mike Coles, Herb Clegg, Morton Chiles, Nick Dumich, Paul Fisher, Edward Hay, Bill Pierce, William McKenzie, Paul Sawyer, Stuart Shelton, Floyd Strand, Ken Totherow, Hampton Whittington.) We’re going to have fun. We hope you’ve registered to be there. We look forward to seeing you all. Please drop us an email or call to let us know what you’ve been up to. Contact: Nicholas G. Dumich, ndumich@ bellsouth.net, 770-241-5550; or David E. Buck, david@saintalbansdavidson.org, 704-425-2133.

AS TOLD BY: Tom Holcomb, Class Secretary Tim Ebert is having a wonderful life fishing and continuing his work as a financial planner and adviser at Ebert Financial in Winston-Salem where he works with his son, Paul. His wife Meredith works close by in the office tutoring students. Tim’s fishing has taken him to streams and oceans on both coasts and created memories that he says you just cannot get in an office. His love of catching fish began when John Bryant ’70 taught him how to fish during his undergraduate years. Tim manages also to work in a couple of full court basketball sessions a week. He enjoyed the Hall of Fame induction of Dave Fagg ’58, along with Jim Ellison, John Ribet, Jim Case, Robert Elliott, Richard Neal and Greg Johnson. Ty Tippett has taken on a new position as vice president of the foundation and volunteer services at Dekalb Medical Center in Decatur, Ga. I saw Ty, a past president of the Men’s Chorus, at the performance of the Davidson Chorale in Atlanta. After almost 40 years, David Faison continues as a financial representative with Northwestern Mutual. David and Kim live in the Cobb County area of Atlanta with adult children in the three P’s according to David: Peru, the Perimeter area (Atlanta) and Portland. In addition to volunteering SPRING 2016

REUNION June 3–5, 2016 www.davidson.edu/alumni with the homeless and seniors each week, David has found a calling in counseling young men and teaching newly marrieds in a church environment. He is also intrigued by the life transition represented by retirement and wants to continue pursuing and discussing the subject. I had a fleeting communication with Jason “Tom” Thompson. From what I can tell, he has been on quite a journey since his undergraduate days. He received an M.A. in Latin American studies at the University of Texas, followed by a Ph.D. in economics. As a professor at Davidson from 1981 to 1984, he taught economics, but after realizing he enjoyed counseling his students better than teaching economic theory, he went back to get an M.A in psychology and began a practice in San Diego specializing in marriage and family therapy. He then became acquainted with Reiki, a system of human development and natural healing discovered in Japan by Mikao Usui in 1920. In addition to practicing Reiki, Jason is a consultant to businesses and non-profit organizations. He currently lives near Montevideo, Uruguay. Doug Morton is a retired pathologist in Macon, Ga., where he and Susan plan to remain for the time being, except for some time spent away this winter in Naples. Bill reports that he keeps in touch with his former roommate, Bernard Scoggins, who is in Albany, Ga. Bill Barnhill and his wife, Barbara, are now happily retired near Cincinnati, Ohio, and have enjoyed “cruising,” including a three-week cruise to New Zealand and Australia. Bill worked for 35 years in stadium, arena and convention center management. Interestingly, after a suggestion from Randy Parker about a first-of-its-kind program, Bill received an MBA from the Ohio University School of Sports Administration. His career included stints at Madison Square Garden, the Meadowlands, RFK Stadium and finally in Cincinnati at Riverfront Stadium and the Cincinnati Convention Center. In retirement, Bill has continued to consult on new stadium projects and has helped coordinate several concert tours, including Paul McCartney’s 2014 stadium tour. Bill was very sad to hear of the passing of Will Terry ’54, who along with Emil Parker were “two forever Davidson men” who had a lasting influence on his life. We extend our condolences to the families of Sammy Fisher and Chris Johansson who passed away Nov. 25, 2015, and Feb. 12. Their obituaries are available at blogs.davidson.edu/memoriam. Contact: Tom Holcomb, 4614 Meadow Valley Dr. NE, Atlanta, GA 30342-2515; 404-847-9325; tholcomb@mclain-merritt.com

AS TOLD BY: Rich Wilson, Class Secretary Bruce Batten writes that he has been living in Minneapolis for the past 20 years. He has two sons and a daughter; the oldest son graduated from Davidson in 2009. He says he’s enjoying his second academic career as director of the MBA program at Augsburg College. He was also a founder and chief scientific officer of Etta Healthcare, which was just recently acquired by OvaGene Oncology. David Nash reports that he and his wife, Dana, are still living in Fayetteville. David and Dana informed me that their daughter, Allie, married Jackson Autry June 27, 2015. Allie and Jackson now live in Cincinnati, Ohio. David reports that he still

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works in the Planning Department for the City of Fayetteville. Dana has retired after a long career with the Cumberland County Mental Health Center. Bruce Becker writes that major job stress plus Parkinson’s disease compelled his retirement on disability two years ago. However, he reports that Parkinson’s meds allow him to continue to live a nearly normal life. Since then he and Mary suffered the deaths of their mothers, sold their home in Bellingham, Wash., and migrated back to Philadelphia permanently to rejoin their sons, their daughters-inlaw and five grandkids. In 2015, 16 years since the publication of his last ballpark painting, his publisher, Bill Goff, Inc., asked him to resume painting. A new Dick Allen-Bob Gibson-Connie Mack Stadium piece will be published in July for the 2017 Hallowed Ground ballpark calendar. Contact: Richard V. Wilson, 1236 East Rookwood Dr., Cincinnati, OH 45208; 513-3211524; rwilson14@cinci.rr.com

AS TOLD BY: Patrick J. Curley, Class Secretary Congratulations to Richard Hendrix on the graduation last May of his son Richard Wayne Hendrix ’15. Edgar Weir sends greetings from Richardson, Texas. Our condolences to Steve Johnson on the death of his mother Zollie Johnson in December 2015. Bob Isner writes, “Phasing out of construction and development. Had completed a number of projects in the past with Nate Bowman. Will be transitioning into commercial real estate consulting. Three grown sons—Nathan, Jordan and John— no grandkids yet. Karen and I have spent most of our free time in the last 10 years following our youngest son, John, on the international tennis circuit. John is currently ranked #11 in the world and has been the top ranked U.S. player for the past five years.” Wini Curley and I attended the wedding reception for Nancy Ross Atkinson and Gus Neville Feb. 13 at the Chapel Hill Country Club following a small private ceremony. Nancy and Gus invited 200 of their friends and relatives for a great time and celebration. Contact: Bill Giduz, 704-609-1077; bigiduz@ davidson.edu. FROM ALUMNI RELATIONS We extend our deepest gratitude to Patrick Curley for his service as your class secretary for the past 23 years. Patrick has decided to pass the torch to another ’74 Wildcat. Bill Giduz has graciously accepted the role of class secretary. Thanks Bill!

AS TOLD BY: John L. Randolph Jr., Class Secretary I trust the New Year is off to a roaring start for each of you and that springtime has sprung in your varied parts of the world. I recently received impressive news about Robert Corlew. Bob, from Milton, Tenn., was elected to serve as first vice president of Lions Clubs International, the world’s largest service organization, at their 98th International Convention in Honolulu, Hawaii. Bob is newly retired after serving as chancellor (judge) for the State of Tennessee and a professor of law. In addition to his Lions activities, Bob has been active in the Boy Scouts of America, the Jaycees and

the American Red Cross. He has also served as a councilman in Milton and was a major in the U.S. Army Reserve. Bob and his wife, Dianne, have five children and four grandchildren. I picked up on a group text from Woody Van Meter, Dave Boggs and Spurgeon Clark, who apparently rendezvoused for some alleged work-related boondoggle on St. Simon’s Island, Ga. Upon hearing of the meet and viewing several photos of the beachcombers, others chimed in from parts unknown with their own quips and cranks: Gus Succop, Bob Lautensack, Mark Connors and Donnie Bain. Whether there were any wanton wiles, we probably will never know. (As an aside, I have been enjoying reading old Q&Cs in Davidson’s digital archives. The Class of ’65 recently published a 50th anniversary edition with some great “recollection” questionnaires, something we need to ponder as the clock ticks onward….) I am saddened to report the loss of several classmates and family members of classmates. Samuel Rankin Fisher ’72 died Nov. 25, 2015, in Durham. He is the brother of William Sloan Fisher III ’70 and Evans Watkins Fisher. I received notification of the death of Edward Norwood Robinson, father of James Robinson and Michael Robinson ’77, July 18, 2015. He is also the grandfather of Catherine Gray Robinson ’12. I also learned of the death of William Edward Petitt, favorite son of his hometown, Keyser, W.Va., Nov. 25, 2015, in Columbia, S.C. Ed is survived by his wife, Terri, and son, Dallas. Finally, George Weicker passed away on Sunday, Feb. 21, after a battle with cancer. He was surrounded by his wife, Lucy Bedinger Weicker ’81, other family and friends, and the family lab, Rookie. I will note that several of the Class were able to visit by phone with George last year during the Reunion. Please join me in extending our thoughts and prayers to these families. Contact: John Randolph, 5248 S. Atlanta Ave., Tulsa, OK 74105-6608; 918-520-0041; jrandolph@praywalker.com

AS TOLD BY: Michael S. Pappas, Class Secretary Straight from the good news department, John Stanfield, after dealing with some serious health issues in the last year-plus, plans to make it next month, June 3-5, to the Reunion. Big news based on what he’s been through. Unfortunately, he won’t be bringing his guitar along, as the years and some arthritis made him hang it up a while ago. He claims he would suffer from stage fright, but hey, John, we all can’t be that scary! John has been working respiratory at North Greenville Hospital in South Carolina for a while, and often gets patients from Jim Stephenson. He and Chris enjoy flying a small plane when they have rare time off together. Phil Barringer claims to still feel like he did 40 years ago, but knows he’s kidding himself. Good to know, Phil, that you are realistic about being a legend in your own mind. Phil has been a higher-up at Teco Energy in Tampa for over 30 years, and will be transitioning over the next few years as he passes the management torch. He looks forward to kicking back at the Reunion with Frank Hancock and will be doing his best to drag Richard Martorell with him. Fred Borch served 25 years as an Army lawyer before retiring as a colonel in 2005. For the last 10 years, he has been the regimental historian and archivist for

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AS TOLD BY: Sue McAvoy, Class Secretary First of all, mark your calendars for June 9-11, 2017, our 40th reunion (how can that be?!). Be sure to arrive on Thursday to maximize our weekend of fun! Several women in our class have been journeying recently. Many of us followed Carol Yeomans Horowitz (trail name Penguin!) on her “Where On the Trail is Carol?” Facebook page as she thru-hiked the Appalachian Trail last summer (see her essay at davidsonjournal.davidson. edu). Also last summer, Bonnie Caulkins Revelle spent a month in Zambia with Professor Verna Case and nine Davidson students. Bonnie helped precept the students at Mwandi Christian Hospital, plus taught rural-area midwives neonatal resuscitation. Bonnie commented that getting credentialed to practice in Zambia was almost as daunting as getting the supplies she needed shipped on time! Also last summer, Susan Cunningham Jonas and her daughter Mary Beth walked 130 miles of the Camino de Santiago de Compostela, starting in Leon and ending at the Santiago de Compostela cathedral, on the 800th anniversary of when St. Francis of Assisi made his pilgrimage. Ed “Basketball” Jones was named director of communications and public relations at Salem Academy and College in October 2015. He and Ann met and fell in love in Winston-Salem, so they’re delighted with their new environs.

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Paul Parker, Bill Tucker, George Yancey and I enjoyed an Atlanta rendezvous when George was in town for a conference. The guys regaled me with Davidson-era stories when we fully were living into our “invincible years.” Of particular note were the tales of their river rafting adventures (along with Rick Ehrhart, Tom “Kentuck” Hollo, and Ted Mumby), where the constant theme was unpreparedness (“Who needs a guide or ropes? We’re smart and strapping young men and can handle this undersized raft!”). From the highlight reel: Kentuck walked back on the railroad track in his underwear and life jacket after his clothes and courage had been stripped from him by the river, Rick’s girlfriend called the highway patrol when they were three hours late, and they finished one trip in the dark. The most engrossing story was of Bill’s near-death experience in a hydraulic…all his clothes were sucked off except his sneakers, and the teenage girl onlookers thought he was a hero for staying in the hydraulic to save the raft! The mountain man running the nearby country store took one look at our hero and exclaimed, “You’re the one who almost drowned, aren’t you?” George was not on the rafting trips, but he did eat six jalapeno peppers to impress Paul’s grandfather in Highlands. They also told of the toilet paper caper led by Rob Canning ’76, but didn’t think that the story was “flushed out” enough to include in this column. When not reminiscing about days gone by, Bill is a managing director at Bank of America Merrill Lynch (where he has worked for the past 35 years), Paul continues his work as a pediatric surgeon (and his avocation playing the banjo with the Druid Hills Billys) and George teaches industrial organizational psychology at Emporia State University in Emporia, Kan. Our Wild Women enjoyed our 11th annual gathering at Ocean Isle Beach last November. Three folks joined us for the first time: Lynn Crossley Davis, Denise Fanuiel Blackwell and Marian Perkins. Lynn is a social worker with Humana and moved to Wagram last June to care for her dad. Her husband Bill is a meteorologist and Air Force retiree, and they have three children. Lynn and Bill dream of traveling in Paris. Denise retired from the Army in November 2015, having served in Germany and at Fort Jackson as a platoon leader and medical administrative assistant to a division surgeon. She and Donald (married 31 years) live in northern Virginia and have two sons who are in the engineering field. Marian lives in her native Atlanta where she enjoys tai chi, calligraphy, crafting and singing praise music at her church. She is a self-described “go to” person and delights in having downsized from a nine-pound to five-pound purse. Mark your calendars for our next gathering, November 3-6! By the time you read this, we will have enjoyed Davidson Volunteer Week (alumni service program) in April. Service chairs include Nancy Postma Baxley (Houston), Carol Yeomans Horowitz (Charlotte), John “Tenafly” Swanson (Seattle), and me (Atlanta). Please join with me in extending sympathy to Ruth Williamson Simmons and Ken Chadwick, whose mother and brother passed away in January and February, respectively. So, that’s the news from far and wide. All the best to you…and I love you, brothers and sisters. Contact: Sue McAvoy, 436 Leonardo Ave., N.E.,

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AS TOLD BY: Nancy Long Metzler and David Schmidt, Class Secretaries Greetings to all in the Davidson class of ’78! Thanks to those of you who sent updates our way. Paul Schleifer did something crazy this December—had bilateral total knee replacement. He’s been looking forward to spring; he plans to resume his work as an assistant volunteer coach for the men’s soccer team at Southern Wesleyan University (winner of the 2015 National Christian College Athletic Association [NCCAA] national championship), where he teaches English. Another reason he and wife Lydia Folger Schleifer ’77 were looking forward to spring— two of their daughters will be bringing granddaughters into their lives, joining their grandson, who’s four. Here’s hoping that with those new titanium knees Paul will be able to kick a soccer ball and get down on the floor with the grandkids! Speaking of grandchildren, Bruce and Debbie Dillon Darden have a second granddaughter: Elizabeth Hatten Rowell was born Jan. 22 to their daughter, Susanne, and her husband, Frank Rowell. Elizabeth joins big sister, Livy (2). Only drawback is that they are in Birmingham, Ala.—a bit of a drive from CLT. Bruce and Debbie had a great time at the Super Bowl, even though the Panthers lost. And as the past president of the Cervical Spine Research Society, Bruce continues to travel far and wide to teach the next generation of spine surgeons. Most of the time, Debbie gets to tag along as his chaperone! Billy Hutchings has some exciting news about his daughter, Sasha: She’s an ensemble player and an understudy for one of the characters in the hit Broadway musical Hamilton. If you watched the Grammy Awards on Feb. 15, you saw her performing onstage. Next stop, the Tony Awards! Roy McCall writes that he’s just completed his sixth book, The Theology of Delight. It’s dedicated to Davidson professors Gill Holland and Charlie Lloyd who, in Roy’s words, “delighted students with their uncontrollable laughter.” Sounds like a must-read, especially for those of us who were English majors. Jim Entwistle is joining the ranks of the retired: After 35+ years in the Foreign Service, most recently as ambassador for the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Jim is looking forward to concentrating on books and baseball. In other international news, David Snyder was in Vietnam over Christmas break to teach students in Ho Chi Minh City and in Ha Noi. He teaches MBA students in a joint degree program between a Vietnamese university and a university in the U.K. If anyone ever decides to visit Vietnam, feel free to contact Dave for advice—he’s taught there 23 times since December of 2005. Graeme Thomson recently taught his first class (on international sales) as a guest adjunct professor at Holy Family College’s MBA program. He says it was a great experience, but somewhat nerve-wracking, perhaps because he knew his audience was paying for the privilege (word used loosely) of hearing him speak. Our condolences to Joe Craig, who shared some sad news—he lost his 24-year-old son, Andrew Coleman, in a car accident in Naples, Fla., on Dec. 2, 2015. He says that he and Kari have recovered from the shock and are doing pretty well, all things considered. They

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AS TOLD BY: Burkley Mann Allen, Class Secretary The Class of ’80 has lots of family news this quarter. Mary “Frizzle” Burton Willis reports that being a grandmother is more fun than anything! Her daughter lives close, so she gets lots of granddaughter time. She is looking forward to having said grandbaby in her classroom in two years; Montessori education seems to be “cool” now; the first time in her teaching career. Otherwise, life is the same: running slower, groaning when she stands up, enjoying life and remembering to be thankful. Amen, sister! Tim Stoll agrees with Frizzle about grandchildren. His second grandchild was born this past October to his oldest daughter, Katy. Tim has transitioned from a business coaching/consulting role to a job with one of his consulting clients now serving as general operations manager for Roco Rescue, Inc., which provides equipment, training, standby rescue and safety services across the USA and internationally. Peg continues to grow her photography business and enjoys being grandma. Their twins, Kristen and Stefanie, bought a house together this past November and are enjoying home ownership and all its challenges. They both work in Baton Rouge. Mike McGrady is back in Austria. He had a visit from Jim Haynes (now a lawyer in NYC) and his daughter, Insley ’10. Mike has taken a couple of trips to Oman working on Egyptian vultures. (I learned a lot about the importance of vultures in the Egyptian ecosystem sitting next to Mike at the Saturday night reunion dinner. Not the most appetizing dinner table conversation, but fascinating.) His eldest child is studying in Italy; the next eldest is studying in Asheville; and the other three are at home doing stuff to annoy their parents. His youngest just celebrated her seventh birthday. Anyone who makes it to Austria is invited to visit. Mike is pretty sure they are about the only McGradys there, so look them up. Roger Farabee has the happy news that he and his partner of 20 years, Craig Prothro, decided to finally make it legal and were married on Dec. 31, 2015. Roger has been working for Mohawk Industries, the world’s largest flooring manufacturer and distributor, for 21 years now, based in Dallas, Texas. Mike Busch had a great time spending time with Barb ’81 and Harry Griffith on their trip to Jackson Hole.

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AS TOLD BY: David Poe, Class Secretary I promised news of Aurie Hall, Mitch Shirley and John Davis. Aurie continues to surprise us with her beautiful acrylic flower renderings and colorful abstract images on Facebook. She has shown her work at The Writer’s Center in Bethesda, Md., and other venues. She has worked in D.C. for Open Society Institute. Open Society Foundations help countries transition from communism to tolerant democracies by shaping fair political, legal, economic and human rights policies. Activities encompass the United States and more than 60 countries in Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America. If you’re headed to the D.C. area via 29 North through Virginia, you can’t help but notice Mitch Shirley’s handiwork around Gainesville. His construction company made massive improvements to the “intersection” of US-29 and I-66. I’ve seen Shirley transport containers and a classy on-site office as I’ve driven by. John Davis, U.S. Attorney and Al Qaeda prosecutor, will present a “Back to School” class on Reunion Weekend 2016. We may hear about his work prosecuting the 9/11 terrorists, though David Huie and I wonder if he can reveal much about the investigations. I’m sure he’ll deftly surprise us. My first Watts hall mate and sophomore year roomie, Mark Hayes, was in Charlotte on a snow weekend; ironically, shopping for his “winter” home away from home in Lexington, Mass. He has stepped out on his own as strategic development and regulatory affairs consultant, HayesWays LLC, from senior VP, Synageva BioPharma Corp./Alexion Pharmaceuticals. Mark and his wife Robin will likely join us for the first time at our reunion. Looking forward to seeing you, buddy. Brad Kerr, another quintennial no show, is retiring from Royal Dutch Shell and moving back to Flower Mound, Texas. He and his wife, Sharon, of 32 years, look forward to catching up with extended family after a career abroad, from Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, to Abu Dhabi to Chengdu, China. Obviously, the handsome devil has not missed reunions because of any disfigurement. However, he will celebrate his brother’s 60th birthday on reunion weekend, so we’ll all be at least 60 before we see him again. Say it: “sixty.” Yikes! Mimi Fleming McCully, nurse practitioner, has joined a practice in Union, S.C. Bob ’80 has his high school 40th reunion in Alabama on our reunion weekend, so

we’ll likely miss her, but we hope not. Bob, we built it, so let her come if you can! Pat Pope messaged that he and his family are committed to a few more years in the Washington, D.C., area, then they plan to build on their property in Tyro just outside Lexington. He’ll be able to make more Davidson events then. We extend our condolences to Marie Ellis Murdaugh, whose father, Rutherford L. Ellis Jr., passed away Aug. 8, 2015, in Atlanta. Breaking news: According to the Salisbury Post, Janet Ward Black ’82 attended a birthday celebration for her mother, Fran Black Holland, and discovered she was also receiving the Order of the Long Leaf Pine, the state’s highest civilian honor. Her mother received the same honor in 2007. Janet is the principal owner of one of the largest woman-owned law firms in North Carolina, specializing in personal injury law. She served as the third woman president of the North Carolina Association of Trial Lawyers and the fourth woman president of the North Carolina Bar Association. While president of the Bar, she created 4 ALL, a program that offers free legal services to disadvantaged clients. She was Rowan and Cabarrus counties’ first female prosecutor. We all recall she was crowned Miss North Carolina in 1980 and received the grand talent award in the 1981 Miss America pageant. Even though she graduated in ’82, we claim her! Local author, Michael Eury features the two women in his latest book, “Legendary Locals of Cabarrus County.” Please give generously to alma mater as part of our Reunion Class gift. Reunion Weekend is June 3-5! Apologies to newsworthy Atmire Bailey and others. Catch you next time. Contact: David Poe, 10156 Forest Landing Dr.; Charlotte, NC 28213; 704-224-6146; dpoe6@ carolina.rr.com

AS TOLD BY: Ann Parker, Class Secretary I joined most of the Women of Park Place (Lee Ann Stackhouse Patterson, Dennard Lindsey Teague, Donna Iles Whittle, Barbara Kelly Griffeth, Julie Cheney McPherson, Lisa Harbottle Bates, Susan Roberts Leivy and Tandy Gilliland Taylor) for a wonderful reunion at Margaret Holt Dillon’s beach house at Sunset Beach in October…and then I get this update from Knox Douglass Barker! How amazing is that? Knox hosted a mini-reunion weekend of Davidson friends at Sunset Beach, at the end of October and sent these updates: Katie Tully Dickinson and her husband, Chip, live in Memphis, Tenn., where Katie is a community volunteer and Chip is the CEO of an agribusiness and telecommunications company. Their last child graduated from college this year and all three are thankfully busy in the working world. Katie’s mom passed away from cancer in September 2015. Lanier Brown May lives in Chapel Hill, where she and her husband, Jamie ’70, have both been die-hard Tar Heel fans, employees and ambassadors for the university for 15 years. Their home is often the site of many Carolina and Davidson events to include alumni, parents, old friends, current and former students. Jamie, now retired, has most recently committed all his energies to a battle against leukemia and recovery from a bone marrow transplant three years ago. They celebrated his 45th Davidson class DAVIDSONJOURNAL.DAVIDSON.EDU

theUnion: Alumni reunion this past summer. Lanier has worked for 15 years for the Office of University Advancement as a development officer for the Charlotte region and The Carolina Women’s Leadership Council. In recognition of Lanier’s contribution to the advancement efforts for UNC, she was recently surprised by the award of a scholarship named in her honor. Incoming freshmen recipients will be referred to as the “Laniers!” Sally Dodd Pellarin and husband, Danny, still live in Charlotte and just celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary. Sally has worked as an account manager with various advertising agencies throughout the last 25 years. Danny works in human resource management. Daughter Tyler is a junior at Elon University and son Wyatt is a freshman at UNCChapel Hill and loving it. Knox and husband, Dan, have called Greensboro home for the past 20+ years. Son Taylor and daughter Emilie are both UNC grads and both live and work in Colorado. Family get-togethers are often planned somewhere in the Mountain Standard Time zone! Mary Katharine is a senior at St. Mary’s School in Raleigh and, together with her parents, is surviving the ups and downs of deciding what her next year of school will look like. Both Dan and Knox enjoy the days when the house is full of their children, preferably at Sunset Beach! Connie Terry Buehler was also in attendance; you can read her update in the Winter 2016 online Journal. Patti Long Laden writes, “I am still in private OBGYN practice in the Houston suburbs and hope to continue for a number of years more. In fact, I may be moving my practice to a new hospital next year. I still deliver babies and still love taking care of patients. Our five kids are 28, 25, 19, 15 and 13 (no daughters-in-law or grandkids yet). My husband Gary has stuck it out with all of the above for almost 32 years. Life has been work and kids for us; pretty boring, but blessed to be healthy and happy.” Sally Sharp writes, “I suspect that my year has been like many classmates—the year of caring for my mother. She sustained a fall in June and broke her back. She had surgery and has been recuperating since. My brother and I have been flying back and forth between Chicago and Atlanta regularly since June. My dear mother decided she wanted to be closer to us so I am bringing her to Chicago. Will miss my regular trips south, but am thrilled to have my mom so close. Those who have been on this journey know how exhausting it can be!” Jeff Wright recently joined Bank of America to lead their Cyber Exercise Program. He will remain based in the Washington, D.C., area, but will now have a good excuse to visit the Queen City, and hopefully Davidson. Stephen Enniss was inducted into the Philosophical Society of Texas in February. Congratulations Stephen! Contact: Ann Parker, 3388 N. Glen Creek Dr., Tucson, AZ 85712; 520-321-4802; mparker8@ pima.edu

AS TOLD BY: Anne Hurt Krieg, Class Secretary I reached out to each of you for news about birthday celebrations during this milestone year and a few of you responded…. Scott Haight traveled out to Seattle in January to celebrate John McDowell’s 55th. They played

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tourist in Seattle and Vancouver, British Columbia, and reminisced about celebrating John’s 22nd at Giorgio’s…do you remember this pizza restaurant across the tracks? Lindsay Biddle shared that she celebrated in December with a cake at her church in Scotland. She followed up by getting her rail card, which enables her to save money while traveling throughout Scotland. She has started a doctor of ministry program through Wesley Seminary, taught at Cambridge University in England. One of her Cambridge hosts is a retired professor who used to organize the Davidson summer semesters in Cambridge for religion and history majors. Small world! Ken and I celebrated each of our birthdays in Steamboat Springs, Colo., by spending the day skiing and working up an appetite for a dinner at scenic locations overlooking Mt. Werner and the Yampa River. Cathi Dumas lives in Durham in a recently rehabbed bungalow close to downtown. She works as the director at Human Kindness Foundation. Most of their work is through the mail, but they teach monthly mindfulness classes at Central Prison in Raleigh. Cathi’s son, Eli, plays Ultimate Frisbee at Carleton College. If you haven’t experienced this sport, it is definitely worth checking out! Langdon Hartsock is in his 20th year at the Medical University of South Carolina’s Department of Orthopaedics, where he is a professor and the director of orthopaedic trauma. He has two sons at Clemson in the engineering school (great to be a Clemson student this year!). He has one son at home in high school and hopes to get him interested in Davidson. His wife, Charlotte, is coaching tennis at Porter Gaud and playing in local and regional tournaments. They have a new ‘baby,’ a great chocolate lab pup named Jackson. This January Buncie Hay Lanners was awarded the R.O. Arnold Award, Newton County, Georgia’s most prestigious honor recognizing leadership and service in the community. For the past 14 years, she has served as the executive director of the Arts Association in Newton County. At the awards ceremony, Buncie was praised for her collaborative leadership skills, for working with a variety of organizations to bring the arts to life in her community, and for her efforts to include all ages and ethnicities in the arts. Jim Crowe continues his immunology research on emerging infectious diseases, including Ebola, dengue, Zika viruses and others. He shares that it is a privilege to work toward cures for these diseases, after hearing the stories of the survivors. This past year Jim was inducted into the National Academy of Medicine. Election to the Academy is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine and recognizes individuals who have demonstrated outstanding professional achievement and commitment to service. Jim humbly credits a lot of smart and passionate people at Vanderbilt University Medical Center for making him look good. His wife, Lisa, is doing a lot of medical missions (Uganda, Ethiopia, Ecuador, Haiti), and building a second career in story groups. Their son, Stephen, is in campus ministry at Rice University and getting married this year, and their daughter is passionate about her job in migrant farm worker rights in North Carolina. Congratulations to John Homrighausen and Jean Covell on their marriage last October. They live in Winter Park, Fla., and Jean has a new job as mission

advancement officer in Florida for Thornwell Home for Children in Clinton, S.C. Jeff Jordan shared an update on his family. Hannah and Jeff’s son, Yates, moved from Haiti to Nairobi to take a job in refugee resettlement across East and West Africa. He works in various refugee camps six weeks at a time and then regroups in Nairobi, where their headquarters are located. Genevieve finished her civil engineering degree at U.Va. in May and is looking at options in the Peace Corps, as well as at domestic infrastructure opportunities. Helen is rocking the fifth grade, and Hannah continues to teach in Arlington County, working with the parents of ESL students. Jeff is 18 months into a new job as president and CEO of the Population Reference Bureau, a demographic think tank/policy/training institution working on domestic and international demographic issues. Last July, Jeff had surgery for cancer of the small intestine. He is currently undergoing chemotherapy and they have been blessed with amazing support from friends, family, colleagues and church. The side effects have been minimal, and they are counting the blessings in their lives. And, for those of us who may be experiencing a personal health crisis, we all extend our prayers for healing and wholeness to you and your loved ones. Contact: Anne Hurt Krieg, 7111 Xavier Ct., McLean, VA 22101-5077; 703-288-9613; ahkrieg@verizon.net

AS TOLD BY: Matt Merrell, Class Secretary As I write these notes, we’re in the middle of another exciting men’s basketball season at the college while the current Game Changers campaign plows forward with great success. News to share includes the following: Ben Williams remains in Charlotte, where he co-leads executive recruitment firm Spencer Stuart’s regional operations in North America and is also a member of the firm’s CEO, Board, Financial Services and Private Equity practices. After almost 15 years teaching biology and neuroscience at King College, in Bristol, Tenn., John Graham departed and took a position at Emory and Henry College in 2013. Emory & Henry is just a ways up the interstate in Virginia, so he and his family haven’t moved. The school started a new doctor of physical therapy program, which he helped create. His one and only, Elizabeth, spent her freshman year at Converse College, but has transferred to Radford University in Virginia. His wife, Alice, just finished her 27th year of elementary school teaching. Keith Martin weighed in with much news. His wife, Patti, and he celebrated their 27th wedding anniversary. They have three sons, Taylor (Davidson class of 2012), Clay, civil engineering major at UGA, and Alec, freshman at Georgia College. Taylor just graduated from Mercer Law School and will be practicing law in Macon, Ga., where the Martins reside. Keith has been practicing general surgery for the last 23 years in Macon. His hospital has a nationally accredited breast cancer program, and he is the medical director for that program. Cancer treatment has always been a focus of his practice. Patti is an avid golfer and takes great pleasure in beating Keith on a regular basis. They are fortunate to have their mothers (both widows) close by and enjoy living near their childhood homes. Keith reports that he

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AS TOLD BY: Tony Dick and Kathryn Clark Wells, Class Secretaries With this issue, Kelly Sundberg Seaman becomes class secretary emerita and hands the baton to Kathryn Clark Wells and me. “I’m signing off with gratitude for all the conversations this job has brought my way,” Kelly shares. “Memory (okay, my email archive) says Helen Mulhern Halasz and I took over the class notes from John Laughlin in December of 2008. Wow. I have no doubt that you all will be as generous sending your news to Tony and Kathryn as you were for us.” Beth Maczka is cancer free, having completed treatments, she shares, “after a very long year. But during that year, I kept working at my dream job at the YWCA of Asheville and enjoyed the love and support of many friends far and near, including visits from Davidson classmates, Ginna McGee, Kathy Gingrich Lubbers, Ruthie Farrior-Rydgren and Elizabeth Brooks Mailander….Thank you to all for the kind notes and words of support throughout my journey!” After 25 years, John Munson writes that he has sold his interest in Raleigh’s historic Rialto Theatre. “I’m really proud that I could contribute to the city’s cultural scene. My son, Booker, has entered kindergarten. I’ve been with my lovely lady Diana Pyle (Purdue grad) for going on 15 years. My interests these days are movies (of course), history, baseball and enjoying Raleigh’s wonderful culinary scene.” Since 2006, Bob Letton has served as a pediatric surgeon at OU Medical Center in Oklahoma City, Okla. He was recently elected president of the Pediatric Trauma Society, a global organization of medical professionals dedicated to reducing the incidence and burden of pediatric injury. Accidental and non-accidental injury, he writes, is “the silent, number one killer of children. Numbers two through 10 added together do not equal number one.” Bob and Kathy (Transylvania Univ. ’85) have been married 28 years this July; daughter Ashton, age 24, is an art major at OU and son Lewis, 22, is a criminal justice major at UCO.

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Janet Stovall Harrell attended the BSC/DBAN weekend January 2016 in Davidson. There she “had the great pleasure to take a class taught by Africana Studies Chair, Dr. Tracey Hucks, in which we deconstructed Dr. Seuss’ The Sneetches, discussing its hidden messages about diversity and inclusion.” Janet is initiating a yearly event to help build an emergency fund for students of color at Davidson, which will take place at her house and coincide with Black History Month. Linda Cassens LaForest updates that she graduated vet school in 2004, “which seemed to make sense given my BS in political science and the MS in economics. After working in various vet clinics for 11 years, I finally started my own clinic last spring in Morgan County, Tenn. I love owning my own business! My daughter, Marian, graduated from UT last spring with a double major in biochemistry/English AND is employed! My son Warren is a sophomore at UT studying economics. Three lab mixes, two cats, and a musician-husband round out the rest of my life.” John Marks contributes that he and family are “deep now into our first decade in western Massachusetts and loving it more than ever.” Debra, long working fulltime as an editor, is going back to writing, both fiction and non-fiction; their son Joe is a high school junior and is beginning to consider colleges, now including Davidson. Meanwhile, John is “currently about to launch the pilot for a new monthly documentary series on Showtime, collaboration with Rolling Stone magazine, which wants to take its brand into premium cable. It’s exciting and daunting, but the timing seems right. Meanwhile, my History Channel special on the search for the Roanoke Colony did well enough to warrant a sequel, so that is in the works as well.” Mike Tantillo and Nancy Rosselot share from Weston, Mass., that Nancy continues involvement in pediatric care in the third world. She participates in projects and now serves on the board of Timmy Global Health. Timmy’s mission includes longitudinal primary care in underserved areas. Any interested primary care doctors are encouraged to contact Nancy. They have a son at Brown and a high school daughter now actively considering colleges. At press time, Mike was looking forward to a fourday southern road trip, which will include stops at Davidson, five other colleges and two NBA games! From Quincy, Mass., Chien Wen Yu writes that he is an assistant professor of management and marketing and coordinator of Asian Studies at Bridgewater State University. Research interests include international marketing and management, global entrepreneurship, transportation and logistics, and Marco Polo. He will soon be publishing a book, The Legends and Contributions of Marco Polo. Congratulations to David Turner, who has been named to oversee defensive tackles and serve as defensive run-game coordinator for Texas A&M. David has been coaching college football since graduation, including 16 seasons as a defensive line coach in the Southeastern Conference, most recently at Mississippi State. In February, Paige & Harding Erwin, of Dallas, Texas, joined by daughter Savannah ’14, attended graduation ceremonies at Middlebury College for younger daughter, Emma, including the famous “ski down” by the new grads in their caps & gowns. Accolades to Marty Foil, who has been named a “Game Changer.” As such, Marty joins distinguished Davidsonians including Lanny Smith. “Work at

Hinds’ Feet Farm continues to prosper,” he writes, “our first residence is full and we are in the process of opening a second group home, Hart Cottage.” Sydney, oldest daughter of Marty and Lisa Burger Foil ’86, is a junior/biology major at Davidson. Anna, their youngest, is a junior at Charlotte’s Performance Learning Center. Meanwhile Lanny Smith has moved from New York to Boston, where he serves as global community health advisor at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School, and sees patients as a primary care physician. The medical advocacy group he co-founded, Doctors for Global Health is celebrating its twentieth anniversary. On its website is an article he posted for the occasion, “Veinte Anyos No Es Nada/Twenty Years is not Nothing.” “Hear the voices of persons in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Uganda, Mexico and many other places—including within the USA,” he writes. “It is a global community of healing, born in El Salvador with inspiration from many at Davidson.” Class Secretary Kathryn Clark Wells and husband Andrew ’84 live in Flat Rock. “Our twin daughters graduated from Davidson in 2014 and our son graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill in May 2016. For the past 22 years, I have used my law degree ,creatively coaching mock trial in the high school, serving on several non-profit boards, and volunteering in various other capacities. As an avid seamstress, I have fashioned costumes, flags, and marching band props for the schools, and numerous banners and liturgical vestments for churches. My newest adventure is serving as ‘intern’ in the costume department of the Flat Rock Playhouse, the State Theatre of North Carolina.” Contact: Tony Dick, 214 Altondale Ave., Charlotte, NC 28207; 704-904-5833; tbonecats@gmail.com Kathryn Clark Wells, 507 Claremont Dr., Flat Rock, NC 28731; 828-243-2895; wellsworks@ bellsouth.net

FROM ALUMNI RELATIONS We hope you will join us on campus for your 30th Reunion June 3-5, 2016. Your Reunion committee is working hard to plan a great weekend: Nadine Bennett, Monicah McGee Branch, Brooks Englehardt, Lisa Burger Foil, Roger Gore, Binney Janetta, Jamie Kiser, Jim LaBrec, Anne Lambert, Dana Lemon, Tripp Martin, JP McBryde, Leslie McIver, Robert McLean, Shelley Boulware Schrum, Pat Sellers, Sally Gray Smith, Susan Taylor Woollen, Hayes Woollen, Louis Zbinden and Jean Shephard Zoutewelle; Pat Millen, planning chair (pat. millen@gmail.com) and Rhyne (DavisR@sndcoffee. com) and Lisa Eldridge Davis (davis.lisae@gmail.com), gift chairs. Mary Beth Harding Hernandez has decided to step down as class secretary. Mary Beth, we thank you for 16 years of service to your class and to the college! If you are interested in this volunteer position, please contact the Office of Alumni Relations at alumniclassnotes@davidson.edu or 704-894-2559.

AS TOLD BY: Nelle McCorkle Bordeaux, Class Secretary Our summer theme is ranching, in honor of two new residents of the state of Texas! Kathleen Caldwell just moved to Houston, Texas, after marrying DAVIDSONJOURNAL.DAVIDSON.EDU

theUnion: Alumni Cliff Hughes on Oct. 17, 2015. Kathleen describes the groom as “the love of my life. “ She has lived in Asheville for the past 20 years. Also needing a large cowboy hat is a new resident of Dallas, Texas, Kevin Horan, who has just moved to a new town and a new house. He took a new job in June as a senior vice president at Seabury Human Capital, part of Seabury, the leading aviation and transportation related consulting group. Kevin also serves as the chair of the board of a nonprofit, Educate!, that works with government to offer new curriculum to educate students. Already Educate! has had great success in Uganda, and Kevin is guiding its expansion into Kenya and Rwanda. We applaud his humanitarian service. If you are yearning for boots and a cowboy hat, please don’t STEER away from sending news to your class secretary. Contact: Nelle McCorkle Bordeaux, 333 East 44th St., Savannah, GA 31405; 912-234-9245 (h); 912-232-4999 (f); tbordeaux@prodigy.net

AS TOLD BY: Linda Tatsapaugh and Brooks Wilkerson Moore, Class Secretaries Greetings, classmates! The call went out and you have come through again with much news. This is my last report as your co-secretary, and I thank you for keeping me well-supplied with material for my ongoing Davidson “papers.” Not much sitting still in this class. Jim Earle is doing his duty supporting Wildcat basketball with classmates Rich Busby, John Redding and Darryl Bego. He reports: “Rich has taken, on occasion, to wearing to Davidson games a bona fide, made in Edinburgh, red and black formal kilt, although after the team suffered two losses with the kilt, he has thankfully suppressed those particular fashion tendencies.” Jim’s son Graem graduated from Kenyon College and is doing volunteer work, including for Darryl’s organization, Youth Development Initiatives. Jim’s daughter, Ansley (17), is thinking hard about applying to Davidson. And, his 15-year old son, Josh, will soon be driving. His wife, Kris, in addition to practicing as a nurse anesthetist, operates a web-based educational company that she created, Anesthesia Tech Pearls. Seth Gartner checked in with this update: “I have been working in emergency medicine here in the Charlotte area. My wife and I are blessed with three great children active in their schools and sports. Time passes quickly, and a reality check came when looking for colleges for my oldest daughter. After an overnight prospective visit, Davidson became her first choice for college. She applied early decision and was accepted to the class of 2020. I think it will be fun 32 years later to sit under the trees, this time as a parent, and wonder where she will make her mark in the world. But let’s not rush things too fast.” Chris Hughes, professor of physics at James Madison University, recently received an Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) and Dominion Resources. The OFA program, open to nominees from all public and private Virginia institutions of higher education, selected faculty members for their excellence in teaching, research, knowledge integration and public service. Congratulations to Chris, and thank you Tom and Patti Lucas Moore for alerting us to this honor! Checking in from Texas via Salt Lake City is DAVIDSONJOURNAL.DAVIDSON.EDU

Elizabeth Dick. “I just came back from a weekend in a lodge in a small town in Utah’s beautiful snow-capped mountains with Missy White and 25 of her closest friends. What a celebration of her 50 years! Her light, intelligence, and compassion have only increased. A great and sumptuous time was had by all!” We appreciate hearing from Alison Rose Smith ’87, with news from her husband, our classmate, Elliott Smith. Alison writes, “Elliott lost his mother, Jane Mathis Smith, on June 7, 2014. We are doing fine here in Upstate New York, having one of the mildest winters ever. No complaints from this California girl!” We send our condolences to Bob Boyd, whose father, William Arnold “Bill” Boyd, passed away in December. And, I am saddened to inform you of the death of our classmate John Phillips, who passed away Feb. 4, 2016. John was an attorney in Birmingham, Ala., who spent much of his year as a civil servant, and is survived by four children. Contact: Lisa Cosgrove Cutting, 608-233-5718; llcutting@charter.net Patti Stowe Moore, 828-310-0505; pal.moore76@gmail.com FROM ALUMNI RELATIONS Chris Hughes, professor of physics at James Madison University, was among 13 university faculty members receiving the State Council of Higher Education in Virginia “Outstanding Faculty Award.” In relaying the news to his former Davidson major advisor, Professor Wolfgang Christian, Hughes wrote, “I really just wanted to let you know because it really is an unbroken line from the time I spent at Davidson under your guidance during the summers of 1986 and 1987 to now. I still tell my students about my experience in the research lab and how that was when I knew what I needed to do with my career. My passion for undergrad research started then and continues to this day. Likewise, my model for what a great professor should be was formed by you all, the other physics faculty, and all the other folks I knew there such as Drs. King and Klein in math, Drs. Bryan, Nutt, and Schuh in chemistry, Drs. Lester, Partin, and Barnes in history, Drs. Martin, Hess, and Lindsey in econ, and Dr. Nelson in English (though he made my life a living hell for one semester freshman year), and all the others I met there.” Linda Tatsapaugh and Brooks Wilkerson Moore, after eight and four years, respectively, have decided to hand over the reins of the class secretary role to Lisa Cosgrove Cutting and Patti Stowe Moore. Linda and Brooks, we thank you for you dedicated service to the Class of 1988 and the college!

AS TOLD BY: Harry Broome, Class Secretary Susan Grant Traxler writes that the big news in her life is that she and her husband, Malcolm “Mac” Traxler Jr., M.D. finally followed their dream of opening a medical practice together. He’s an internal medicine physician and she is a pediatrician. Together they are called Traxler Primary Care, LLC in Suwanee, Ga. They can see all ages, so Davidson folks in the area, drop in to see them! Elizabeth Whitaker also writes about news from her medical practice in Atlanta. She is a facial plastic surgeon and started her own practice last year, the Atlanta Face and Body Center, which has been quite the adventure.

Hugh Lee, after 19 years of teaching at the University of Alabama School of Law, moved to Greenville, where he was appointed as an associate professor of bioethics and interdisciplinary studies. His wife, Chelley (Alexander ’90), was named chair of the Family Medicine department at East Carolina’s Brody School of Medicine. “We moved in late 2014/early 2015 and have enjoyed getting to know a new place.” Their daughter, Ashley, will graduate from Davidson in 2017. Hugh attended the Davidson-UNC basketball game with Matt Polly in Chapel Hill, where Matt has a traditional Chinese medicine practice. They would love to hear from other Davidson grads living in the area. David Ray had the unexpected pleasure of a series of mini-reunions in recent months with freshman hall mates. He met with Patrick Long for a quick lunch in Hendersonville while Patrick was back from Paris visiting family for the holidays. Then, in January, he ran into Jeff Muir in the Charlotte airport. In March, David took a new job as director of lands for the Colorado Chapter of The Nature Conservancy. “I’ll be working in Boulder and expect to live in Longmont once my wife Christine and 13-year old daughter Esther join me this summer. I’ll be missing North Carolina (and the East) and the great people here, but am looking forward to finding some Colorado Wildcats!” Evan Hunter is an ex-ultimate Frisbee player. He and his son EJ completed an outdoor classroom for his elementary school that fulfilled his Eagle Scout project and was a small pro bono commercial project for Evan’s design/build company. “It was a seven week build (over the holidays,) a true labor of love, a project that satisfied my soul, and a space that will inspire generations of students. I ask my classmates, how are you giving back, using your talents for the greater good? Pay it forward.” The photo of the project is awesome and available upon request. Phillip Griffeth writes that after 22 years in private law practice and working as a prosecutor, the last half of which was in his own solo practice, he’s had a change of career direction. “I literally rolled my desk & books across Prince Avenue in August to take a position as associate director and staff attorney for the Institute of Continuing Legal Education in Georgia, a nonprofit educational consortium created in 1965 by the State Bar of Georgia and five Georgia-based law schools and housed in the historic Lumpkin House, part of the University of Georgia (home of the first chief justice of the Georgia Supreme Court).” Their former executive director, Larry Jones ’68, is also a Davidson graduate, as is the wife of our director of programs. Phil handles about a third of our 200+ CLE programs and therefore has the opportunity to see lots of great lawyers! Recent sightings include Marion Handley Martin, Patrick Lail ’88 and Lisa Branch ’90, judge on the court of appeals, etc. “I’ve enjoyed dinners out with Evan Hunter and Bruce Sarkisian while in Atlanta. I even got to see Reese Boyd at the local Chick-Fil-A!” He and his wife, Suzanne, have a seventh grader, fourth grader and first grader who keep them on their toes and running between band practice, music lessons, swimming, scouts, soccer and the like. Tyler Jo Smith has had a busy and exciting year with a research trip to Australia and a family vacation in India. This May she will be a visiting professor at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris. Still teaching at U.Va., she is hard at work on a book concerned with the relationship between art and religion in ancient Greece. Her son, Nicholas, has a Wildcat of a babysitter: first year grad student in SPRING 2016

Alumni Community at community.davidson.edu REGISTER NOW history, Ali Cobb ’15! One of the funniest men on earth, Mac Hardcastle, writes the following, “I’m working for a small private equity firm, Loudoun Equity, that buys small, unglamorous businesses (think industrialmanufacturing type) and we have a few target acquisitions in central North Carolina. If you live in the area, you should expect me to show up on your front porch demanding booze. (You should probably expect that, wherever you live.) Also, I have a book coming out late this summer (non-fiction, depending on who you ask), The Entrepreneur’s Handbook. I am still seeking interviews from academics as well as real-life businesses people. I’d love to include some Davidson people so please reach out to me if you are willing to help with a short phone interview. The poor quality of the above sentences should be no indication of the poor quality of writing in the book. That is to say, they are equally poor, but in completely different ways.” No editing from me. Contact Harry Broome, 4738 N. 32nd Place, Phoenix, AZ 85018, 602-840-9015; azbroome@ cox.net.

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AS TOLD BY: Cecily Craighill & Bob Hornsby, Class Secretaries Have you signed up yet for our 25th reunion June 3-5? We are counting on seeing you there! Scott Spies was at Davidson for a surprise winter reunion for voice instructor Henny Driehuys. “It was an honor to bless the single-most influential teacher that I had at Davidson, even though I ended up in the medical field. Type ‘More Than Medicine - Dr. Scott Spies’ into YouTube for a Novant Health bio explaining how I’ve used art, music, and motorcycles for the past 18 years at Matthews Children’s Clinic as a ‘singing pediatrician.’” Jacqueline Bussie just completed a lifelong dream in the form of a theological memoir, the first in a twobook contract. Outlaw Christian: Finding Authentic Faith by Breaking the Rules will be released on April 19 and is available on Amazon. Molly Graver trekked from New Mexico for a Montreat weekend with Tommy Marshall, Ellen Ott Marshall, Minne Iwamoto and Bob Hornsby. The group, minus Meg Hoyle (beset by biblical floods in South Carolina), made a pilgrimage to David and Dot Kaylor in Black Mountain, where they told clever Liberation Theology jokes and received ballpoint pens made by Dr. Kaylor from old Chambers beams. Bob also caught up with Concord, Mass., attorney Dudley Goar, who was enthusiastic about a scheduled Boston event for Jay Chaudhuri’s North Carolina Senate campaign. Cecily Craighill saw Dudley there, thanks to a recent relocation; she joined Buckingham Browne & Nichols School, a pre K-12 day school in Cambridge, Mass., as its alumni director on Jan. 19. Jay turned out ’91-ers in Atlanta too, including the Marshalls, Martha Iwamoto, Joe Binns and Thurston Cooke. We extend our condolences to Thurston on the death of his mother, Genie Watson Cooke, in December. Our “Lost Sheep” campaign has produced new

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news from old friends. Christy Cook Singleton writes, “I have never had anything in the Journal so this could be lengthy…I run an international non-profit, Mercy Multiplied, and live in Nashville with my husband, Steve, who works in a private equity fund with my brother, Joe Cook ’93. We have three kids, Elizabeth (17), Rachel (16) and Steven (12), and hope Elizabeth applies early decision to Davidson. I hope to make it to the reunion.” Also in Nashville is Curt Perkins who, after many years in the music business, is working in web development and graphic design and is married to Willow Fort, an attorney for the U.S. Department of Labor. Marlo Cobb Saucedo is celebrating 17 years of marriage and watching her boys, nine and 12, grow up too fast. Her studio in Houston’s Washington Avenue Arts District opens this spring. “Houston is a great city to be an artist. Buyers like local, the art community is supportive, and there’s a place for every method and varied body of work.” Bethany Deptuch Ward tells us that she solved postMBA neck and shoulder pain with Rolfing Structural Integration. “Within a couple of months I quit what I was doing and went to train as a practitioner.” Bethany and her husband live in Durham, see clients in private practice, and teach at the Rolf Institute of Structural Integration in Boulder, Colo. They also write and speak about bodywork and teach workshops internationally. Bill Smith and wife, Emmie ’90, with their family of five runners, ran in Birmingham’s Mercedes Marathon Relay Event in February and finished fourth out of 120 teams in the Mixed Open Division. “It was our first time to have all five of us running in the event. Anchored by kids Will, Edie and Sarah we covered the 26.2 miles in 3:20.18 and then celebrated with coffee, hot chocolate and doughnuts!” Lisa Gerrard Rochford tells us, “I’m chagrined that I’m a ‘lost sheep.’ I’d rather think of my lack of writing in as due to some admirable sense of humility, but it was pretty much just being lazy…I’m amazed when I read things that people are doing! I can’t wait to connect at the reunion. Dave Rochford ’89 and I plan on being there. Just as our two sons were entering middle and high school, we added a third—Alden Isaac, born in 2014. We live in Staunton, Va. Dave is a district superintendent for the Methodist church, and I am a clinical psychologist. I also retained my affinity for newspaper writing, my vocation before psychology, and write a column for the local newspaper on area authors.” Contact: Cecily G. Craighill, 267-231-3987; cecilycraighill@gmail.com Robert P. Hornsby, 215-829-1142; bobhornsby@ alumni.davidson.edu

AS TOLD BY: Monica Lide Swofford, Class Secretary Greetings from San Antonio! Let’s keep those updates coming.... Anjali Sharma is in Lusaka, Zambia working on improving the quality of and access to anti-retroviral therapy to manage HIV. Lee Bushkell writes: After 11 years at the PGA TOUR, I left to join a new agency, The Brandr Group. The agency is less than a year old and has a strong Davidson foundation—the founding partner attended Davidson, as did both of our investors. Our current clients are the NFL Players Association, where we have exclusive group licensing rights

for NFL players’ college careers (think Peyton Manning at the University of Tennessee vs. Denver/ Indianapolis) and the Port Authority of New York/ New Jersey. We are also working on projects for Coke Zero, NASCAR and a couple of other brands. We have offices in New York City, Atlanta and Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. On the personal side, all is well. My wife and I will be celebrating 17 years of marriage in August, and our daughters are 11 and 8. Life is good. Finally, The Richmond Kickers’ Rob Ukrop has been announced as one of the 2016 inductees into the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame. Rob is a former player for the club and now its president. At the end of his 12-year career for the Kickers, Rob held the team records for appearances (231), goals (70), assists (30) and points (170). His jersey was retired by Davidson in 2004, and the Kickers’ training complex, opened in 2009, was named Ukrop Park in his honor. Since his retirement, Rob has played a key role in establishing the Kickers Academy in 2008, which has since produced players who have completed for the Kickers in the USL. Congratulations, Rob! Contact: Monica Lide Swofford, 2675 Artillery Post Rd.,Ft. Sam Houston, TX 78234; 703-2801899; mmswof@earthlink.net

AS TOLD BY: Nethea Rhinehardt, Class Secretary I am pained to report the passing of Sarah Sadowski on Jan. 21, 2016. Sarah’s two-year cancer journey was a triumph of love and gratitude. Sarah chronicled her experience on Facebook and always exhorted us to embrace life to the fullest. In a taped presentation from October 2015, Sarah shared, “It’s getting up everyday and making the most of the life that you have today. It’s about your willingness to say, ‘life is good.’ I might have cancer…I might not be here as long as I want to be. But life is still good, and it is still worth being in the game.” Sarah was heavily involved in her community through charitable activities and her work as an educator and faculty advisor to disadvantaged students. She asked that we continue her legacy by volunteering, helping a neighbor, or giving time anywhere needed in your own community. Please remember her daughters, Evangeline and Verena Welch, her life partner, Tim Gannon, and the Sadowski, Gannon and Welch families in your thoughts and prayers. We also offer our sympathies to Katherine Cooke Kerr on the loss of her mother, Genie Watson Cooke, on Dec. 22, 2015. Please extend your condolences to Katherine’s father, Ham Cooke ’63, her uncle, Nat Watson ’62, and brother, Thurston Cooke ’91, and sister-in-law, Carla Naegle Cooke ’92, and the entire Watson and Cooke families. I am always heartened to hear about impromptu Davidson mini-reunions. Wilson Hardcastle and Meredith Boone Tutterow had fun on the town in San Francisco, Calif. Meredith writes, “Wilson Hardcastle is a tour guide extraordinaire. I now have a minor in Castro history and geography. So amazing to catch up and get a little Davidson fix 3,000 miles away from Patterson Court.” Bobby Bowers and his wife, Sandy, caught up with Caroline Prioleau in San Francisco, Calif., while in town for Super Bowl 50. They also spent time with everyone’s favorite San Franciscan—Wilson Hardcastle! Wilson, you are the man to see on the DAVIDSONJOURNAL.DAVIDSON.EDU

theUnion: Alumni West Coast! Bonita Paysour Zumbach reconnected with Aida Bekele ’94, who journeyed from her home in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia for a conference in San Diego, Calif. Bonita also writes that she, Ann Todd, Meredith Boone Tutterow and Mary Elizabeth Coley are planning their spring getaway. So stay tuned for the upcoming adventure! Jennifer Brown Muldoon had a lovely visit with Jennifer McDonald Jonas and her family at their home in Telluride, Colo. Jennifer Brown Muldoon, her husband, Kevin, and their children, Grace (3) and Jonathan (2), have relocated to Spokane, Wash., from the Washington, D.C., area. Jennifer writes that while they miss friends and family back East, they have settled in well out West and hope to stay put for the foreseeable future. Here on the East Coast, I am fortunate to live around the corner from Rima Chakrabarti Roy ’94 and delight in spending time with her family in New York City. Jeff Terrell has been on the move lately. Last summer he took his wife, Debbie, and daughters Ashley (14) and Olivia (11) on a five-week sabbatical road trip across the U.S. Late last year, Jeff moved on from his job at eBay to become the head of GoPro’s support community in San Mateo, Calif. Fortunately, the new role is just up the road from his old one, so he and his family remain in the Bay Area. Amy Hoffheimer Carroll and Tom Price have qualified for the 2017 Boston Marathon. As a non-runner, I marvel at their commitment and stamina. I’m just going to cheer them on from the sidelines. I recently taped my seventh episode this season of The Dr. Oz Show. I’ve had big fun playing “every woman” in the health segments. So look for me in upcoming episodes as well as re-runs. Believe me, I could get used to being on camera! Thank you to everyone that contributed news. Please keep your stories coming my way. Contact: Nethea Rhinehardt, 244 E. 71st St. #2C, New York, NY 10021; Nethea@gmail.com

AS TOLD BY: Lisa J. Sitek, Class Secretary Thank you for your notes in November and December. If you have not read them yet, please check out the Davidson Journal online. The winter notes were not published in hardcopy. Our class filled over a page with our news! We extend our condolences to John Harper and his family on the loss of his mother, Eleanor Warren Harper, Oct. 10, 2015. Congratulations to Gary and Angela Capillary Martin on the birth of their daughter, Ainsley Haven Martin, on Jan. 20, 2016. Sharon and Francis Mitchell welcomed their daughter, Fiona, in August 2015. She joins older siblings Graeme (7) and Emily (4). They live in south Charlotte and the whole family enjoys following the Wildcats. Contact: Lisa J. Sitek, 21 Birch Ct., Burlington, VT 05408; 802-658-8480; ljsitek@yahoo.com

AS TOLD BY: Yvette Pita Frampton, Class Secretary Leigh Rawdon, co-founder and CEO of the clothing company Tea Collection, is doing some amazing philanthropic work, touching the DAVIDSONJOURNAL.DAVIDSON.EDU

lives of many people internationally. Citizens FC (Citizens Football Club) is a partnership between Tea Collection and One World Play Project. Together, they connect children all over the world through their shared love of soccer by providing donated jerseys and durable soccer balls. Leigh writes to us, “While it has been 25 years since I played on a soccer team myself, I spend a lot of Saturdays cheering on my sons from the sidelines. So, when I learned about how many organizations use soccer as a way to reach and serve kids-in-need around the world, I felt compelled to help. They need jerseys and my company makes clothes. I committed to make jerseys and give them away to kids around the world, illustrating that kids who speak different languages and come from many backgrounds can all find common ground. I would love help from my fellow Davidsonians. Learn more at CitizensFC.com.” I recommend checking out the website. There are some very moving stories of people who have benefitted from Citizens FC, as well as more of Leigh’s personal accounts of her experiences. Molly and Chad Huggins are living in Savannah, Ga., with their two boys, where Chad is a cardiologist and Molly practices law. Molly’s law firm, Huggins and Zuiker, LLP, is a “boutique life sciences law firm” that serves the clinical research and life sciences industry. According to her profile on their website, “in her early years as a lawyer, Molly worked exclusively in health care law, and quickly focused on developing a clinical research and life sciences practice. Clinical research law is a unique blend of regulatory, operational, and ethical issues, and she was drawn to the complexity of these issues.” Here’s a first for our class notes—I received an entry from a spouse. Shelly Baker Bratton’s husband, James, passed along a note he says she wrote: “I love my awesome husband, no matter how cranky he is after yet another of my two-week business trips to Africa or Central America (which I so rarely acknowledge the psycho-emotional drain thereof).” Shelly works in CDC’s Center for Global Health and leads CDC’s National Public Health Institute Program (NPHI), which helps countries establish CDC-like institutions. She (actually) wrote, “We’re helping Colombia’s NPHI better understand how Zika is affecting their population.” Shelly and James live in Atlanta with their two children, Merritt and Mimi. Finally, sincere condolences go out to Amanda Grant Edwards. Her mother, Nancy Gardner Grant, passed away in September 2015. She was the wife of R. Peery Grant ’61 and mother of Amanda and Susan Grant Traxler ’89. Contact: Yvette Pita Frampton, 280 Elm St., Denver, CO 80220-5739; 303-333-3479; yvettepita@mac.com

Contact: Nicole Howard Lock, 1525 Grayson Hwy., Apt. 1301, Grayson, GA 30017; 678-615-2878; nicole.lock@yahoo.com Jeff Kent, 10812 W. 28th Pl., Lakewood, CO 802157115; 303-875-4388; jeffdkent@gmail.com

FROM ALUMNI RELATIONS We hope to see you back on campus for your 20th Reunion June 3-5, 2016. Kaitlin Backfield, Christa Abbott Davis, Gray Dyer, Jill Dyer, Chris Harrison, Zeke Hendrix, Chris Knox, Rick Onkey, Steven Shames, Lexy Devane Tomaino and Peter Varney, with co-chairs J.D. Dupuy and Mary Laura

Moretz Philpott, are working to plan a great weekend for you!

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AS TOLD BY: Dorothy Peterson Vollmer, Class Secretary Lots of new babies in 2015 and new life as 2016 kicked off. We have a strong coalition of geriatric parents; we can band together, attend Davidson parent events, and proudly accept the questioning stares of others asking, “Grandparents?” With that, let’s announce some babies, as well as some great life updates! Melissa Richter Bartolini and her husband welcomed their third child, a boy. Francisco Claudio Bartolini (nickname Paxti) was born on Dec. 29, 2015. He joins big brothers Santiago (4) and Iñaki (2). Melissa says, “I have a feeling that life with the three “Bartolini Brothers” is going to be quite a ride! We are still happily planted in Miami enjoying the sun, the ocean, and being close to my family in Naples.” Caroline McGaughy Alexander writes, “My husband, Steven, and I are still living the dream in Austin, Texas. We have two sons, Reed (7) and Brandon (5). I am still working at TIP Strategies, a small consultancy that specializes in workforce and economic development strategic planning. We work on projects across the country. On a recent work trip to Charlotte, I was fortunate enough to be able to talk my colleague into making the trek up to Davidson to have lunch at the Soda Shop. I could not believe my eyes! So much growth both on and off campus. The short visit made me remember and appreciate all of the amazing things about our Davidson experience. And best of all, the whole family is now outfitted in new Davidson gear!” Congratulations to Colin Kelly! He shared an exciting update: “I am pleased to announce that I have been selected to participate in the Rutberg Summit in London this coming April. This is a very select workshop of CEOs, lawyers and leading experts assembled to discuss global trends and issues facing mobile telecommunications companies. Kelly Bolterstein Kelly is going to join me and build a few partnerships with local U.K. pre-schools in her continuing role as head of preschool for Mount Vernon Presbyterian School in Atlanta.” Jeremy Tarr has some news: “Last summer I left a law and policy job at an environmental think tank at Duke University to develop and implement air regulations at the U.S. EPA. My new position at EPA headquarters focuses on the Clean Power Plan, which controls greenhouse gas emissions from the power sector. I still live in Durham with my wife, Julia, and three young children.” Britton Taylor rang in the new year in an exciting and life-changing fashion. On Jan. 1, he and wife Alison welcomed baby Benjamin into the world. Benjamin joins Finley (11) and Zach (9) and everyone is happy and healthy. Britton is also really, really tired. SPRING 2016

REUNION June 3–5, 2016 www.davidson.edu/alumni Amanda Vemuri and her husband, Umesh, have a big cross-country move coming up following a promotion for Umesh at Google. The family will be heading from Virginia to Mountain View, Calif., once the kids are out of school this spring. Good luck and happy adventures! A note from Asher Wood: “My wife Missy and our three kids are still based in Nashville. In recent travels, I’ve been able to spend time with Scott Burkhardt, Dom Talvacchio and Wilson Walker. Scott has a little salt in his beard, but other than that, none of us have changed a bit since the late 90s.” Lindsay Gibson Stidham sent this note: “My family (two sons, Quinn and Camp, and hubby, Reese) and I are still in Charleston, S.C. I am selling a blood test for heart disease, and as a 40th birthday present to myself, I am pursuing a 200-hour yoga teacher certification. The training has been life changing. I hope to start teaching some classes on the side this summer, and maybe one day teaching yoga can be the full time gig. Forty has been liberating and pretty bad ass so far.” Katherine Palmer Frost shared this update with us, “It’s great to be back in North Carolina. My husband and I re-located to the Queen City with our three daughters (youngest Zeta Rosalie was born in Minnesota in February 2013) and are happy to be near Davidson and lots of fellow alumni. My former roomie, Caroline Kelly, is just up the road in Huntersville, where she keeps busy as associate professor of history at American Public University. I also recently caught up with Jennifer Miller, who is celebrating her tenure and promotion to associate professor of history at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Contact: Dorothy Peterson Vollmer, 490 Marietta St. NW Ste. 301, Atlanta, GA 30313; 323-350-4714; dorothy.p.vollmer@gmail.com

AS TOLD BY: Hunter McEaddy Dawson, Class Secretary Greetings class of 1999! I hope that 2016 finds you happy and well. Please continue to send me your news and updates. I have just a few things to report this time around, so on to the news: Lisa Armstrong Cino and her husband, Pete, welcomed their son, Jonathan Philip Cino, on Feb. 9. Jonathan arrived during a snowstorm, but thankfully, not during the blizzard! Lisa and Pete’s older children are thrilled to have a new baby brother. On Oct. 24, 2015, Coleman Brooks and Courtney Titus were married at the Dawtaw Island Club in St. Helena Island, S.C. Courtney and Coleman are living in Washington, D.C., where he is the alumni manager for the Wounded Warrior Project. In October, Whitney Kreb married Cooper Brantley Jr. (UGA ’98). She writes, “Cooper and I were set up by his sister, Elizabeth Brantley Bostian ’01, so you could definitely say it was a Davidson connection. We had a small family wedding in Nantucket last October, and followed it up with a reception in Greensboro where we now live. We were so lucky to have so many Davidson friends make the trip to help us celebrate; Graham Powell ’97, Chris Gordon ’87, Hugh McDaniel ’96, Graham Williams, Elizabeth Brantley Bostian ’01, Merritt Abney, Ryan Moore, Alan Hyder, Lexi Beermann, Caro Thomas Williams, Eugenia Leath Burtschy, Tantivy Gubelmann and the groom’s father, F. Cooper Brantley ’70. Also, Whitney’s original painting

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entitled, ‘Charleston Perspective’ was chosen to be the 2016 Charleston Wine + Food official commemorative poster. The poster shows an aerial view of Charleston and many of the city’s special landmarks. Check the poster out on the Charleston Wine + Food website. Congratulations all around, Whitney! If you are in need of something new to read, two of our classmates have recently been published. In December, Braddock Avenue Books released Rachel May’s debut novel, The Benedictines, to rave reviews. Rachel is also the author of Quilting with a Modern Slant: People, Patterns, and Techniques Inspiring the Modern Quilt Community and The Experiments (a legend in pictures & words). Yu-Jay Harris, along with Dave Verhaagen, recently wrote a book entitled Liberia’s Son, A True Story of Hope, Courage and Resilience. The book details the story of Yu-Jay and his family’s trials during civil war in West Africa; the family’s escape from near-death experiences and their subsequent journey to safety. The ebook can be found on Amazon or a limited print edition can be found at HeroHousePublishing.com. Rhodeside & Harwell, an award-winning landscape architecture and planning practice headquartered in Washington, D.C., recently promoted Meredith Judy to principal of the firm. Meredith has been with Rhodeside & Harwell since 2010. She received her master’s degree in city planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology after graduating from Davidson with a degree in environmental analysis. Contact: Hunter McEaddy Dawson, 10 Council St., Charleston, SC 29401; ehmmce@aol.com

AS TOLD BY: Mary Perrin Stark and Brendan Willmann, Class Secretaries Thanks to Bill Stoops, Griffin Rankin Lamb, Chase Bringardner and Lindsay Meyers for all of their work organizing last summer’s reunion. It was particularly well attended and everyone enjoyed getting back together. The men’s cross country team was well-represented at the reunion, likely in large part thanks to a cake race Saturday morning. Though all the guys downplayed its significance, 1996 champion William Isenhour was seen nursing a Gatorade at the Friday night gathering before disappearing about 8:15 p.m. to ensure a good night’s sleep. 2014 Davidson Hall of Fame inductee Brent Ferrell was noncommittal, even when I last saw him casually sipping a beer and hanging out at Summit Coffee five hours later. Some of us missed the early start time to the race, but I understand that Brent went home with the cake of his choosing while Willie settled for a chocolate cupcake. Other groups and teams were also well-represented, but we were often reminded that the entire women’s soccer team was in attendance. Trouble. I enjoyed visiting Suzi Bozzone in picturesque Sonoma, Calif., in May. Suzi was unable to make it to reunion because of the arrival of #3, Milo Zachary Dawnay on Aug. 8, 2015. Milo joins older brother Gabriel (5) and sister Madeleine (2) “in the ever growing happy chaos of the Dawnay clan.” Suzi is a family practice physician who still enjoys singing, swimming and watching husband George create artistic masterpieces. Gabriel may follow in his dad’s footsteps. After coloring a picture, he held up the finished piece, tilted his head and said, “Yep, I think

I’m going to sell this one.” Sam Lentz married the former Sabrina Jones (App State ’00) on March 29, 2014, in Raleigh. Coleman Brooks (’99), Foster Haselden, Josh Jones and Jon Palma served as groomsmen. Just over a year later, on May 27, 2015, they welcomed their first son Samuel Smith Lentz III. Rachel Horak and husband Tim Petrie welcomed their first child on Oct. 13, 2015. She writes that “Audrey Ann Petrie is adorable and so much fun everyday! I cannot wait to introduce her to Davidson College.” I enjoyed catching up with Walter Stokes in Austin, Texas, late last summer. He is still with Amplifier/ Despair/Glennz while his wife, Morgan, is the middle school chaplain at St. Stephen’s Episcopal School. Their older daughter, Felicity, is in 10th grade, and younger daughter Nautica is in 5th grade. Just last week Walter emailed, “We are also expecting a daughter to be born on May 23, so we are busy preparing around the house for this new arrival as this will be our first go-round with a baby. But I think it’s sort of like taking Greek first and then Latin at Davidson. I failed a lot of Greek tests but did relatively better with Latin. Relatively.” Will Ragland is staying busy in Pelzer, S.C., building a new theater program at Palmetto High School, running his community theater, Mill Town Players, and serving as a newly elected member of Pelzer Town Council. If you’re ever in the Upstate South Carolina area, Will invites all alums to visit Pelzer and check out a show. Contact: Mary Perrin Stark, 601 Greenway St., Davidson, NC 28036; maryperrin@gmail.com Brendan Willmann, 7967 Jolain Dr., Cincinnati, OH 45242; 513-549-2736 (w); brwillmann@ yahoo.com

AS TOLD BY: Elizabeth Brantley Bostian, Class Secretary Mark your calendars for our 15th Reunion June 3-5,

2016! Mark Rachal and Laura Ward Rachal report that they still reside in Tampa with their daughters Nora (age 4) and Ella (age 2) and will welcome their third (and final) daughter in March. Mark works as a conservation biologist and is sanctuary manager for Audubon Florida, and Laura serves as a circuit court judge in Tampa. Laura was elected in August 2014 and is the youngest sitting judge in the county; she currently handles child abuse and neglect cases. Keith Chapman writes, in July 2013, his wife, Radiance (Brown ’05) welcomed the birth of their son, Abraxas Coburn “Coby” Chapman, and this past October, they expanded the franchise with their daughter, Calla Kincaid Chapman. Keith reports that Coby was surprised his little sister wasn’t the basketball he expected, but after a period of initial disappointment, he’s been a wonderful big brother to a smiling and happy little girl. Ida Wainschel and her husband, Andres, welcomed their second girl, Elaina Rose Cools to the world in August of 2015. She writes that they are head over heels in love with her, and big sister Madeleine (3) loves her most of the time. They are still adjusting to being a family of four and with what little remains of a social life. They are very much looking forward to the reunion and babysitters! We extend our deepest sympathy to Taylor Linehan, whose father, Dan Linehan, passed away March 3.

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AS TOLD BY: Stephen Aldrich, Class Secretary Congratulations to Brooke Weihe Edge and her husband, Dustin Edge ’00, on three huge life updates. Brooke finished her Ph.D. in media studies from the University of Colorado in May 2015. The Edge family then moved from Boulder, Colo., to Louisville, Ky., where they quickly settled in just in time to welcome their son, August Calvin Edge, who was born in January. That’s a pretty awesome eight months. Speaking of Ph.D.s, Hilary Dack completed her Ph.D. in education at the University of Virginia in May and recently joined the education faculty in the middle grades program at UNC Charlotte. Hilary is doing research in K-12 curriculum and instruction, as well as teaching undergraduates who are aspiring middle school teachers. Welcome back to Charlotte, Hilary! Andy Wright and Jacki Deason were married June 7, 2014, in Durham, in the company of family and friends, including a large Davidson contingent. The wedding party included best man Richard Wright ’00 and groomsmen Doug Elkins, Nick Grainger, James Jenkins, Will Jordan, Trey Rayburn, Will Smoak, Trevor Stanley and Graham Watson ’03. Andy and Jacki are happily settling into married life in Charlotte, where Andy is a vice president with Wells Fargo Securities. Lauren Becton married Mike Carnette in 2013 and the couple welcomed their first child, Leah Catherine Carnette (Leah Cate), in February 2015. They reside in N.Y. where Lauren is finishing her fellowship in pediatric nephrology. The family is returning to Charleston this summer where Lauren will be on the faculty at the children’s hospital and Mike will continue his work for Boeing. Trevor Stanley was promoted to partner at BakerHostetler. Trevor works in the Washington, D.C., office with a focus on campaign finance. Cody Ruxton Oliver and her husband, Eugene Oliver, welcomed twins on June 19, 2015! When Cody isn’t busy watching after her daughter, Grayson Lane, and her son, Ruxton Clark, she is working at America’s Promise Alliance in Washington, D.C. Cody and her family reside in Alexandria, Va. Kerrin McKillop Heil provided another great update: “John Henry ‘Jack’ Heil joined our family on Sept. 10, 2015. It has been a crazy 3 1/2 months, but having survived the holidays with three little ones, I am finally taking a minute to do some things I’ve been meaning to do for a while. Maggie and Claire are thrilled to have a little brother, and Baba (my dad), Uncle Matt and Uncle Brendan are excited to indoctrinate Jack into the family ‘business.’ He received all sorts of Davidson and Warriors gear for Christmas and has already committed to join the class of 2033 (or 2034—we’ll have to see how he’s growing).” Our condolences to JT Tolentino and his family on the death of his father, Leandro “Lee” Tolentino, on Sept. 25, 2015. Mr. Tolentino was a former employee of Davidson College. He served 20 years in the U.S. Navy, was honorably discharged as master chief petty officer in 1980, and remained an avid supporter of veteran affairs. JT recently moved to Long Island, N.Y., and is now on the faculty at Stony Brook Children’s Hospital after working as an assistant DAVIDSONJOURNAL.DAVIDSON.EDU

professor of medicine and pediatrics at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and Medical Center. On a personal note, I am now the vice president of finance for Carlisle Fluid Technologies, a new division of Carlisle Companies Inc., and we are in the process of relocating the division’s headquarters to Scottsdale, Ariz. I will head to Arizona on our new adventure with Maria Tardugno Aldrich ’03, Caroline (4) and Patrick (1) this summer. This move will also mark the end to Maria’s incredibly successful tenure in various fundraising roles for Davidson College, a place we love and to which we have spent a good portion of the past 14 years trying to give back and stay connected. Building on this update, I believe my move away from Davidson is a good transition point for our class secretary role. It is not lost on me how fortunate I’ve been to stay connected to so many classmates and to be able to report your amazing news. Unfortunately, my new role, our move and our young children have me in a position where I am not confident I can uphold my end of the bargain. As such, this is my last class notes submission and, starting in the fall, Kerrin McKillop Heil will be our new class secretary. Thank you for this opportunity and for providing me with so many great updates to share. I look forward to seeing you June 9-11, 2017, at our 15th reunion. Contact: Kerrin McKillop Heil, 704-213-1544; kerrin.heil@gmail.com

AS TOLD BY: Shaw Hipsher, Class Secretary Nancy Carter Mussetter reached out from her hometown of Ashland, Ky., where she is a board certified pediatric dentist working in a private practice. Nancy graduated from University of Louisville School of Dentistry in 2009 and completed her residency in pediatric dentistry in 2011. She writes that while pediatric dentistry is a far cry from her Davidson days of economics and East Asian studies, it is definitely the perfect fit for a career. Her husband, Evan (University of Louisville M.D., 2010) is an emergency medicine physician. They have two children, Gunther (5) and June (2), and recently celebrated their 10 year wedding anniversary. No fear of their little ones becoming Kentucky Wildcats fans though, as there are no royal blue paw prints in their household—only the proper red and black! Bess Dawson and Marco Antonio Contreras (Universidad de Talca, Chile) were married on Jan. 8 in Charleston, S.C. There were plenty of Davidson alums there to celebrate. Will Dawson ’99 and Hunter McEaddy Dawson ’99 were both in the wedding party, and Kate Fiedler Boswell officiated the ceremony. Bess’ dad, Toby Dawson ’72, and Mike Cole ’71 represented the old school Davidson grads, while Jennifer DiCosmo, Leize Gaillard, Andrea Lytle Peet and Elizabeth Spitz were all in attendance from the class of 2003. The couple lives in Lexington, Ky., where they are both assistant professors at the University of Kentucky (Bess in German studies and Marco in forestry). Rebecca Nunan writes that she and her husband Victor (a Clemson alum) were thrilled to welcome their daughter Maeve Bowen Trac on July 15, 2015, in Austin, Texas, where they have lived since moving there from Germany in 2008. Big brother Finn thankfully loves on her as much as his parents. The native Austinite that he is at the ripe age of four, Finn already has strong opinions about the best place for

breakfast tacos (Taco Deli in case you find yourself in the neighborhood). Leize Gaillard is a realtor with William Means Real Estate in Charleston, South Carolina, and she was recently honored as a 2015 Realtor of Distinction, placing her among the top 10 percent of Charlestonarea realtors who apply for the award. Leize was married to Ben Buckley-Green of Nantucket, Mass., on Nov. 21, 2015, in Charleston. In attendance were Blakely Blackford ’02, Lalla Renwick Marques, Diego Marques, Sally Stackhouse Williams, Jennifer Kawwass Thompson, Betsy Thompson Oliver, Erinn O’Laughlin Cooke, Brian Cooke ’01 and Cashion Drolet ’01. Kaitlyn Martin Jain moved to Maryland, living just outside D.C. My husband, AJ Jain, and I welcomed Lucas Brokstad Jain in May. His sisters Brooklyn (4) and Elacia (3) were thrilled to meet him. The Jains were previously in Connecticut where Kaitlyn worked for Aetna, the company she still works for remotely. Prior to that Kaitlyn got her MBA from NYU Stern. A fun coincidence, Kaitlyn’s pregnancy with Lucas overlapped with pregnancies of three of her Davidson roommates. We hope to see these four babies in the Wildcat class of (gulp) 2037. Griffin Myers checked in from Chicago where, before completing his residency in trauma/emergency medicine at Harvard, he started a business with two friends called Oak Street Health, which creates a pathway to primary care for low-income older adults that didn’t previously exist. They now have 15 clinics in Chicago and Indianapolis that serve around 11,000 patients and employ about 600 employees, including 50 physicians, one of whom is Tamar Odle ’08. Prior to his residency and the launch of Oak Street Health, Griffin graduated from The University of Chicago’s medical and business schools. When not busy with work, Griffin enjoys spending time with his wife, Diana Myers, a University of Chicago graduate. Patrick Baetjer writes from Rome, Italy, where he and his family are nearly a year into a three-year tour with the State Department. Before becoming a foreign service officer, Patrick met his wife Jessica (William and Mary ’04) in 2006 in graduate school at Texas A&M. Their son Jackson, whose Italian is coming along nicely, will be three in June. Ian Willoughby and Casey Sams welcomed Lucy Wren Willoughby into the world this past October. They are all loving life in Chapel Hill. Casey is working as a pediatric radiologist, and Ian is working as a pharmacy manger. After Andrea Lytle Peet was diagnosed with ALS, she challenged her friends to take on a race that represented a challenge to them as a way to raise money for research. Team Drea raised over $80,000 in 2015. The current team is 85 strong with races ranging from first-ever 5Ks to Ironman triathlons. Many Wildcats have rallied to the cause: Dave Peet ’05, Elizabeth Spitz, Cathy Williford Sechrist, Shaw Hipsher, Lauran Halpin, Allison Matlack, Eric & Rebekah Rush McKay, Jody Hearn Escaravage ’02, Katie Brooks Elliott, Kindiya Geghman, Beth Gardner Helfrich, Ashley Griffith Kollme ’05, Emily Upchurch Yadav ’05, Ann Roper Bowen ’05, Jamie Felton ’05, Jeff Kuykendall ’05 & Jane Kilkenny ’05, Allison Whiteman Taylor ’06, and Meredith Judy ’00. An anticipated move to Raleigh will put the Peets closer to family and to some of their favorite races and places. Contact: Shaw Hipsher, P.O. Box 6018, Morgantown, W.Va., 26506; 704-502-8788; shawhipsher@gmail.com SPRING 2016

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AS TOLD BY: Mary Carpenter Costello, Class Secretary Lindy Baldwin Fulford and her husband (Scott Fulford, Stanford ’02) welcomed their son, Hunter Mark Fulford, Dec. 3, 2015. He is growing like a weed. Fortunately Matt Legato made sure he has a Davidson hat to keep him warm this winter. We also love dressing our babies in tiny Davidson gear! Lucy Long Doswell and her husband James also grew their family with a son, Harris Brewster Doswell, last year. Big sister Betts loves having a little brother. The Doswell family is still in New York, where Lucy has been working in interior design for the past few years. Many belated congratulations go to Lucy for launching her own company, Lucy Doswell Interiors, in November 2014. Breaking the trend of baby boys, Welles Campbell Beary and her husband, Webster, added a baby girl to their family when daughter Stella Hollingsworth “Hollings” Welles Beary was born Aug. 17, 2015. Emily Mendenhall and her husband, Adam, welcomed a second daughter to their family when Zoe Ann Mendenhall Koon was born Feb. 2. Her big sister Fiona is thrilled, and Emily is so happy to be a family of four. John Marshall also added a girl to the world when he and his wife, Jennifer, expanded their family with a second child in November, a little girl named Sarah. Together with big brother John (2), the Marshall family is still in New Orleans, where John works as a business data consultant. He wrote, “As many of us are learning, once you get to two kids, there pretty much isn’t anything else going on, so I don’t have much more to report. I am pleased, however, that John has learned to recognize the Wildcat logo and say, “Go Cats!” Teach ’em early, right, John? Jan Scott Swetenburg Farmer and Luke Farmer will balance the population, though, as they welcomed Daniel Bowie “Bo” and Sarah Scott “Sally Scott” July 24, two days after big brother Luke turned two. They are loving their wild and crazy life and are so thankful for their growing family. Alison Holby Poole reports that daughter Hannah Frances Poole was born Aug. 24, 2015. Alison and her husband, Jonathan, are loving her and (after seven wonderful years of living in the D.C. area and teaching at Episcopal High School) will be moving to Chattanooga this summer to raise Hannah closer to both of their families. Kristin Gyllenborg Hurt also wrote in with updates of babies and moves. Marshall Sutherland Hurt was born May 20, 2015, while Kristin and Matt were stationed in Charlottesville, Va. Two months later, their new family of five moved to Seoul, Korea, with the Army. They hope to make the most of their two years there. Merrill Urbanski Moore and her family moved to Richmond, Va., in October. For the foreseeable future, Merrill will keep busy staying at home with the kids. Rachel Patton McCord and Louis Becker also moved their family this fall, as both Rachel and Louis have new jobs at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Rachel started in January as an assistant professor in biochemistry, cell and molecular biology, and Louis is a librarian in the main UT library. Though they miss Massachusetts, their 2-year-old son Paul is enjoying being close to grandparents and aunts and uncles. Rachel and Louis would love to reconnect with any Knoxville-area Davidson alums. Erin Berry and David Spalinski married in May 2015.

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Erin wrote, “Erin Raffety did a beautiful job officiating our ceremony and although Beth and Vic Lindsay couldn’t be there in person, they were there via Skype and in spirit, even getting up at 1 a.m. local time in Abu Dhabi to see it.” That’s dedication to classmates! Congratulations, Erin Berry Spalinski. Marie Jagusztyn Reny was fortunate enough to have a Davidson reunion of her own this past winter, when Michelle Hulme-Lippert, Jodi McQuillen Roque, Maelle Fonteneau-Harris and Jackie Protos all came down to visit her in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., for their annual girls trip. New memories were made while they spent the weekend reflecting on our Davidson favorites. Ashley Cain sent in an update for her and Craig Harris. Ashley wrote, “We had a busy 2015. We are still living in Tampa, Fla. Craig became a partner at his firm this past year and shortly after, our daughter, Evelyn Rose Harris, was born on Jan. 12, 2015. Ashley graduated from her fellowship in maternal fetal medicine and accepted a position at the University of South Florida as an assistant professor. We are enjoying being new parents and look forward to moving into a new home later this month.” Lots of exciting happenings in Tampa. In more job news, Matt Whited was recently awarded two grants (including one from the NSF-CAREER program) totaling $470,000 to support his inorganic chemistry research with undergraduate students at Carleton College. He was also named to the “New Talent: Americas” panel for Dalton Transactions, an inorganic chemistry journal. Congratulations, Matt, and best of luck on the road towards tenure! Contact: Mary Carpenter Costello, 1072 Bennett Way, San Jose, CA 95125; 615-483-6468; mary.f.costello@gmail.com

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AS TOLD BY: Steven Gentile and Molly McGowan McNulty, Class Secretaries My favorite co-class secretary, Molly McGowan McNulty, happily reports that she and Chris McNulty (Sewanee-The University of the South, ’04) wed Dec. 5, 2015, in her hometown of Little Rock, Ark. Molly was elated to be surrounded by so many Davidson friends as she tied the knot, including members of her wedding party: Kendall Hoak Williams, Mallory MacDonald Molenkamp, Merin Frank Guthrie, Gwendolyn Heasley Carter ’05 and Katharine Hubbard Atkins ’05. She was also thrilled that numerous Davidson friends travelled near and far to help celebrate: Robby Hoak ’08, Greg Molenkamp ’04, Will Guthrie ’04, Andrew Atkins, Melissa Bandy and Calvin Schildknecht ’07, Chris Burks ’07, Meredith and Will Chapman (both ’05), Jessi ’05 and Tim Frend ’02, Meredith and John Heimburger (’05 and ’04, respectively), Kristen Higbee Hughes ’05, and Greer Gardner Williams ’05. They were also honored to have Stephen Engstrom ’71 and David Powell ’66 there and representing alma mater, and Ellen Gray Hoak (future Davidson Class of 2037) in attendance as

well. Molly and Chris are both lawyers in Little Rock and are enjoying married life, with the caveat that Davidson remains superior to Sewanee. Congratulations to Katie Cox who married Ariel Reynolds (Southwestern University ’05) Oct. 24, 2015, in Cedar Grove. Classmates present at the ceremony included Jesse Sharp-Williams James, Lucy Marcil, Krista Heiner, Will Stoudemire, Susan Bean, Morgan Gregson and Laura Boston. Ariel and Katie now live in Durham, where Katie works as an occupational therapist and Ariel as a social worker. Lauren Hungarland married Michael Fielder (Clemson University ’99) at Piedmont Park in Atlanta, Ga. Many Davidsonians attended, with Jennifer Soldano Purcell, Cady Blackey Brown, Ashley Burgin, Regina Hubard Sheridan, Kiften Stephens Carroll and Lindsey Powel Rozek making up the wedding party. Lauren and Michael now live close to Atlanta in Brookhaven, Ga. Lauren is a management consultant in the PricewaterhouseCoopers Public Sector practice, and she claims to be slowly converting Michael from orange and purple to red and black. (Note to Michael: “Tigers” are wild cats, so saying you’re a “Wildcat fan” is more inclusive. Be more inclusive). On May 16, 2015, Adam Blumer married Mary Crouse Blumer (graduate of Middle Tennessee State University), a medical student he met as a resident in oral and maxillofacial surgery at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, Tenn. Adam jokes that those in attendance pretty much rounded out the 2nd Richardson/PiKA gang: Rob Tyner, Robbie Mauney, Perry and Leslie Attkisson Lewis, Peter Carolla and Pieter Mul. In July, they moved to Greenville, S.C., where she started a residency in internal medicine. Adam bought out an oral surgery practice in Spartanburg, S.C. Finally, concluding an eventful 2015, they acquired Caymus the dog, whom they named after the wine (of the Caymus Vineyards in Napa Valley, Calif.). What a sophisticated pooch. Amee Patel married Omar Parbhoo Nov. 7, 2015, in Lafayette, La. The wedding was a mix of Indian, Arabic, Cajun, Hindu and Catholic traditions. The ceremony was well-attended by our classmates, including Cammy Crane, Georgie Ahrendt, Michelle Levin and Adam Martin. Amee recently left McKinsey & Company to work for Accion Venture Lab, an impact investment fund, where she leads their investments and portfolio in Africa. Omar works as an economist at the U.S. State Department. The two reside in Washington, D.C. Solvig and I had the pleasure to attend Walker Saik’s wedding in New Orleans, La., Oct. 31, 2015. The ceremony took place at the beautiful Academy of the Sacred Heart Chapel. The groomsmen included classmates Eric LaForest, Evan Downey and Jon Atkinson, with Gavin Taylor as the best man. The bride, Margaret Adler Saik, attended Louisiana State University as an undergraduate and Tulane University for her masters of business administration. The two were introduced by amateur matchmaker John Marshall ’04, a mutual friend. Walker was recently promoted to senior manager in assurance at Ernst and Young, and Margaret works in the internal audit department at Entergy. Graham and Lauren Conn Hunter welcomed Olivia Caroline Hunter into the world Oct. 2, 2015. Lauren says there are a lot of ’06 babies in Nashville (the McConvilles, the Honeycutts, and the Pittenger Gentiles (!)), that she can’t wait to have some

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theUnion: Alumni Nashville Wildcat poolside playdates (as it’s too early to take the babies to the city’s famed honkytonks). She and Graham also can’t wait to introduce Olivia to classmates during the 10-year reunion in June. Bryan Bunn practices family and sports medicine in Edenton. He and his wife, Kate, married in October 2014 and, on Dec. 22, 2015, gave birth to Eli, “and he’s pretty awesome!” exclaims Bryan. Caroline Crawford Schandel and her husband, Mark, are also new parents. Eloise Haven Schandel was born Oct. 17, 2015. Caroline and family are moving to Orlando, Fla., where Mark will open the Florida market for Carvana, a company that allows you to purchase a used car online or from a vending machine. You read that right. Conor Mooney and his wife, Sarah Kay ’09, welcomed baby boy Jack Kieran Nov. 19, 2015. The new family just bought their first home in Charlotte, where Conor works in youth and children’s ministry and Sara Kay as a middle school teacher. On Super Bowl Sunday (Feb. 7, 2016) Melissa Bandy and Calvin Schildknecht ’07 hit a homerun with little David Everett, making their first, Jamie, an awesome big sister. Finally, David and Sheena Bossie Ashley ’05 are pleased to announce their addition to the Davidson Class of 2038. Evan Micah, with the fluffy red hair of his mother and the budding drumming skills of his father, was born Sept. 25, 2015. Sheena directs a program at Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte that helps unemployed individuals re-enter the workforce. David is an assistant vice president at Wells Fargo, where, Sheena writes, he “protects baby giraffes from vicious crocodile attacks—or, at least, I think that is what data integrity consultants do.” Charles Timberlake “Charlie” Dillon was born to Tim and Betsey Haywood Dillon) July 31, 2015. He is, of course, already a Wildcats fan and has already attended his first Davidson basketball game. Tim and Betsey have adjusted to parenthood and are getting used to taking Charlie everywhere possible in the stroller (including wine bars and breweries). Congratulations to all on their new family additions. If you have any notes to share, please don’t hesitate to email Molly or me. We can’t wait to see you at the 10-year reunion, June 3-5! Contact: Molly McGowan, 10 Leslie Circle, Little Rock, AR 72205; 501-350-4925; momcgowan@ gmail.com Steven Gentile, 2000 24th Ave. S., Nashville, TN 37212; 828-226-2384 (c); stevenpgentile@gmail. com

AS TOLD BY: Jaimie Matthews Francis and Carson Sanders, Class Secretaries Congrats to several classmates who got married: Amy Trainor Ashby married John Ashby Sept. 26, 2015, in Blowing Rock. In attendance were matron of honor Kathy Brown Shelton, and bridesmaids Larissa Hohe ’08 and Allie Coker-Schwimmer ’10, as well as Anders Olson and Manny Coker-Schwimmer ’09. Amy graduated from Queens University of Charlotte in January 2016 with her MFA in creative writing and lives in Charlotte with her husband and 8-year-old stepson, Chase, where she is a freelance editor and copywriter. Felicitaciones a mi amiga Irma Navarro…ella siempre tenía paciencia con mi español horrible.

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Irma dice: “Last June, I married the love of my life, Jason Michael Brown (UGA ’06), in New Orleans. After the ceremony, we second-lined down Canal Street to the reception venue. Rachel Veto Chabot and Marcia Oviedo ’08 were bridesmaids and Ashley Raba O’Donnell, Mbye Njie ’04 and Winston Kohler ’05 were ushers. When the wedding band played Sweet Caroline, Hilary Leister Ritter ’06, Christina Moore, Cara Christian, Christina Dunn, Julia Leventhal ’09 and Justin Hua ’11 also rushed to the dance floor. I love working as a college counselor at The Lovett School and am looking forward to this summer, when Jason will complete his gastroenterology fellowship and join the faculty at Emory University School of Medicine and I will complete my M.A. in Spanish from Georgia State University. I also started my own English-Spanish translation business; my first clients were Chalin’ Aswell ’06 and Mbye Njie ’04 (who recently launched the LegalEQ App).” Last but certainly not least on the marriage circuit, Sara Madison Davenport married Zack Moscow (University of Pennsylvania, ’08) Oct. 17, 2015. Sara Madison graduates from her OB-GYN residency at University of Cincinnati in June and is looking forward to her first Air Force assignment, which will start sometime in July with a location TBD…many things to celebrate SMD! Congrats to Brett Dioguardi and wife Lauren who welcomed their first child Sept. 24, 2015. Brett says: “We named him Duke, but don’t worry, he is not growing up a Duke fan. Things are well for us out in Denver, Colo., where I am part of the two person sustainability team at Chipotle Mexican Grill, and we just enjoyed a great Broncos Super Bowl season (sorry to all the Panthers fans...)!” Another cute baby to add to the mix is a duo-2007 baby: Elizabeth Berndt Henschen reports: “Bruce and I had a baby boy, Theodore “Teddy” Lawrence Henschen, on Jan. 10. He is wonderful! He just started smiling yesterday! Besides baby news, we’re still loving Chicago. Bruce is finishing up his chief resident year at Northwestern and will stay on at NU practicing primary care. I’m completing my pediatric residency and will be a pediatric chief resident next year.” Congrats Henschen family. Katherine Cox Ansley reports that she and husband Taylor Ansley moved to Winston-Salem in 2014 with their now 2.5-year-old son Asher for Katherine’s oncology fellowship. The couple enjoys being close to Davidson again and taking Asher to basketball games with Patricia Massey Hoke and John Hoke. After living in Davidson off and on since 1992, Sam Spencer bought a house in Charlotte in July of 2015. Sam says, “Since moving, I started a successful political consulting business with clients ranging from city council to congress. In recent months, I became co-chair of North Carolina’s Delegate Selection Committee for the Democratic National Committee, and was appointed to Charlotte-Mecklenburg’s Planning Commission. Out of everything in Davidson I could choose, I miss Summit Coffee the most.” I’m sure Brian Helfrich appreciates that, Sam! He and Tyler Massey Helfrich ’08 welcomed son Silas into the world in August 2015. He joined older sister Bay, and the four continue to live in Davidson. Brian helps to run Summit Coffee’s new roasting business and on-campus cafe, in addition to the Main Street store. Brian hosted Chris Bryan and Lewis Beard this fall for a visit, and runs into alumni all the time when they

pass through town. Contact him when you’re in town to meet up for some coffee! Contact: Carson Sanders, 150 Bee Street, Unit 305, Charleston, SC 29401, carson.sanders@ gmail.com Jaimie Matthews Francis, 1317 Rhode Island Ave. NW, Apt. 302, Washington, DC 200053729; jaimie.k.matthews@gmail.com

AS TOLD BY: Rebecca Speiser Skipper, Class Secretary Happy spring, Class of 2008! Our classmates continue to share exciting updates about their professional and personal lives. Nora Goldeberger Hawks writes, “I’ve been living in Denver for a little over five years, and I just celebrated my five year anniversary with Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, where I’m working as a program manager in our professional training department, training our non-licensed health center staff. I’ve had a big year this year—I got married on Sept. 19, 2015, to my Colorado-native husband, AJ Hawks, and we bought a house in Denver this December. We had some good Davidson representation at the wedding in beautiful Boulder: Elizabeth Rugala, Susan Rockwell, & Sarah Morse (2nd Belk for life!), David McClay and Julie Grubbs (my Androgyny crew and senior year roomies. We missed Steven Douglass!), Lee Barrow ‘07, Betsy Brewer Barrow ‘07, & Alex Libson ‘07 (my Davidson in Denver buds), Lee Mimms ’09 and Anna Marie Smith ’09 (my eternal little sisters)—and had just the best day ever!” Charley Grant wrapped up his first year as a columnist for the “Heard on the Street” page at The Wall Street Journal, where he covers healthcare and industrial stocks. You can find him on the back page of the paper’s Money & Investing section. Anders Gustafson recently opened a new Express Oil Change and Tire Engineers location in Suffolk, Va., after working as Express Oil Change’s director of analytics for six years. Future Wildcats also continue to join the ranks. Audrey Cundari Mills and JD Mills ’09 welcomed their first child, Autumn Catherine Mills, Sept. 17, 2015. James Boswell and his wife, Sarah Gay, are thrilled to introduce their son, James Field Boswell. Field was born Jan. 27, 2016. Congratulations to each of you! Please keep the news coming—I look forward to hearing from all of you! Contact: Rebecca Speiser Skipper, 55 W 26th St., Apt 14E, New York, NY 10010-1010; (c) 704-5268994; rebecca.a.skipper@gmail.com

AS TOLD BY: Anna Marie Smith, Class Secretary 2015 was a big year for ’09ers! Miguel Rodriguez married Victoria So last year in Portland, and were joined by Andrew Carlson and Scott Frantz ’10 in the wedding party. Chip McArthur, Will Deloache, Kate Denning Deloache ’08, Bobby Mohr, Caitlin McCarville ’10 were also in attendance. The Davidson crew more than held their own on the dance floor. Caitlin Rawles married her husband, Andy, last September at Tuckahoe Plantation in Richmond, Va. Members of their bridal party included Davidsonians

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at Johns Hopkins, and Kendall Patterson will be graduating from Towson with a degree in clinical psychology this spring. Robert Lord Galloway is a candidate for a master’s in divinity at Princeton Theological Seminary. He is happy that his parents aptly named him for his future profession. This summer, he will be serving as the theological student advisory delegate at the PC USA’s General Assembly and working at University Presbyterian Church in Chapel Hill as their summer seminarian intern. Mario Silva is getting a master’s of music in composition at Illinois State University and hoping to continue on to a doctoral program. Erica Cribbs finished law school and started a job as a health care associate at Nixon Peabody LLP in Chicago this year. Colby Uptegraft will be finishing a two-year stent as a flight surgeon and the flight commander of the Base Operational Medicine Clinic at Keesler AFB, Miss., and moving to Washington, D.C., to start an active duty residency in general preventive medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. Danielle Wipperfurth, Davis Greene and Andrew Gorang are all at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management. Andrew will be interning in Silicon Valley this summer at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, a law firm that specializes in start-ups and venture capital. Molly Palilonis graduated from medical school at Wake Forest and started general surgery residency at Brown University/Rhode Island Hospital in Providence. We’ve had several exciting career updates from the past few months! Nicolas Cisneros is currently working for the United Nations Environment Programme for the Economics and Trade Branch. He recently married with Emily Deibert ’11 at DCPC, and she is currently attending medical school at Florida State University. Amelia Richmond moved back to Lake Tahoe, Calif., after a year by the beach in San Diego. Since moving back to the mountains, she launched a freelance PR business—she’s thrilled to finally have a flexible schedule and to be skiing the 24-plus feet of snow Tahoe has received this winter. Congrats to Chloe King, PR & social media manager at Bergdorf Goodman, for making Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list for marketing and advertising. Graham Chapman has been working for 919 Marketing since graduation and launched their brand new D.C.-based office in Arlington, Va. He was recognized as a certified franchise executive during the International Franchise Association Annual Convention last year. In February, Mark Danforth and his Austin-based technology company PenPal Schools joined the accelerator program Techstars. Mark serves as the company’s head of learning and student achievement and also spoke about innovative school libraries at SXSWedu. Madeline Parra works for a start-up called Twizoo, which is a restaurant recommendation app based on real suggestions from social media. Will Carter has been an assistant district attorney in Clayton County, Ga., for the past two years, but is transitioning to Savell & Williams, a civil defense firm. Over Thanksgiving, DJ Carella, Phil Newsom and Suzie Eckl visited Kyle Konrad in Bogota, where he has been working for the Foreign Service.

Our condolences go out to Artie and Kittery Neale Van Sciver, whose newborn son, Arthur Neale Van Sciver, passed away last December due to a neural tube defect. Thoughts and prayers are with them during this difficult time. Thanks to everyone who sent in updates and please keep them coming. Contact: Anna Marie Smith; 931-205-5535; ansmith09@gmail.com

AS TOLD BY: Claire Asbury Lennox and Haley Cook Sonneland, Class Secretaries Greetings Class X! We were excited to hear from some new faces this issue. Keep sending us your updates and we’ll keep writing! Like the good Davidson employee she is, we heard from Abby Jones that she moved back to Charlotte, transitioning from working regionally for the college in admissions and career development to a new role as the assistant dean of admission and financial aid and director of diversity initiatives. Not far down the road, Marianne Schild is now the chief philanthropy officer at YWCA of the Central Carolinas where she reports to fellow Wildcat Kirsten Sikkelee ’90, who serves as CEO. Tyler Lemons is a first lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps, stationed in Parris Island, S.C., and serving in the billet of defense counsel. At a recent Marine Corps defense counsel conference in San Diego, Tyler connected with Fred Borch ’76, who served for 25 years as an Army lawyer. Thanks for your service, Tyler and Fred—Davidson connections are everywhere! (See photo at davidsonjournal. davidson.edu). ’Cats continue to study and earn degrees from prestigious programs around the country. AJ Grant will graduate from Meharry Medical College in May, and from the tone of his email, we can say he is very excited! Sam Sheline is in the second year of a three-year MFA program in film and electronic media at American University in Washington, D.C. He is currently working on multiple environmental documentary projects, including a short film about amphibian extinctions in Panama, which premiered at D.C.’s Environmental Film Festival in March. We heard from Maureen Wright, who recently graduated from Yale with a dual master’s in public health and medical science and is currently practicing as a physician assistant in cardiovascular and transplant surgery at Mayo Clinic. Maureen also had a stateside reunion with her Davidson roommate Fabi Deaton, who lives in Spain. Another recent graduate is Ananta Bangdiwala, who received her masters in biostatistics from UNC Chapel Hill last spring. She now works as a research fellow with the Masonic Cancer Center at the University of Minnesota. Rachel Winston earned a master’s in information science at the University of Texas-Austin in 2015, where she was an American Library Association Spectrum Scholar and the recipient of the Harold T. Pinkett Award from the Society of American Archivists. She’s now the first-ever black diaspora archivist at the university. “Few positions exist nationwide to ensure that the narratives of black lives are preserved,” an article on Davidson’s website read. We’re glad Rachel is one of them, and hope she starts a trend! New lawyers abound in the Class of 2010. Joey Tabler DAVIDSONJOURNAL.DAVIDSON.EDU

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sent us the very important news that he “wishes to remain a mystery.” We are intrigued…. Finally, our Davidson family continues to grow— and daughters seem to be the order of the day! Congrats to Sarah Teo Ray and her husband Hunter, who welcomed their first child, Myla Hui En Ray, on Jan. 13. They will soon head back to Cambodia to continue working with Overland Missions, an interdenominational missions organization. Julian Walker wrote in to let us know that he and his wife, Bianca Guinn Walker ’08, have also welcomed their first child, Sanaa. Julian recently directed a music video for OSPO Black—comprised of Davidson alums Damion Samuels and Damian White, both ‘13—that was featured on VH1 Soul and MTV.com. He also wrote and directed a short film featured at EXPO Chicago in 2015. Not too shabby for a new dad! It also gives me (Claire) great joy to share that our class secretary Haley Cook Sonneland gave birth to Amelia “Milly” Kathryn Sonneland March 6 in Connecticut. Congratulations, Haley and Josh! The Davidson class of 2035 is in good hands with these kids in the mix. Contact: Claire Asbury Lennox, 3175 Sprucewood Dr., Decatur, GA 30033; 770-8260079; clasbury10@gmail.com Haley Cook Sonneland, 309 Fifth Avenue, Apt 18B, New York, NY 10016; 203-219-0031; hsonneland@gmail.com

AS TOLD BY: Khalil Jolibois and Savanna L. Shuntich, Class Secretaries Hey ya’ll! Welcome back to this edition of the notes for the Class of 2011. Our first update is from Amanda Preston, who loves her alma mater so much that she has chosen to remain at Davidson, where she works for the Music Department. However, she has, somewhat paradoxically chosen to start grad school at that UNC school nearby that is none too fond of us Davidsonians. We wish her the best, and advise her not to wear too much Davidson gear to class. A very hearty congratulations are in order to one of Khalil’s personal favorites, handsome Hugh Dowlen who has graduated from Wake Forest School of Medicine and got married last May to Elissa Jantzen Dowlen, a current Wake Forest medical student. Dr. Handsome is currently a first year internal medicine resident at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, and you humbler secretaries wish him the best. Now get ready for Brianna time. Brianna Deutch spent a whole year in Latin America, traveling, volunteering and taking Spanish classes (two months of them with fellow 11er Melissa Guzman), after which she returned to the United States and moved to the California Bay Area. She currently works as a domestic violence advocate, helping with restraining orders, police reports and custody. She tells us “Things are pretty good” and that she is “still settling into the way of life here,” which I can only assume is code for “getting used to spending a ridiculous amount of money on rent.” It’s rare that an update manages to make us feel jealous and morally inadequate at the same time, but this update certainly achieved that feat. Thank you for fighting the good fight Brianna, and I hope that todos te vaya bien en San Francisco. Brianna Butler Burton is also accomplishing great

things. She has started working on the next generation of Wildcats and gave birth last year to her son Coltrane, class of 2037. She moved to Brooklyn with her husband, Chris, and spends her time being a fantastic mom (our statement, not hers) and blogging about faith, motherhood and health-related topics. She co-hosts a radio show, “New Kinds of Tired,” for the Soundbooth Networks Radio Ministry. According to Brianna, her life is “great,” and she and Chris are “blessed.” Third Watts is well represented this edition: Anna (AH-nuh) Suhring graduated from U.Va. with a master’s in education, and moved to D.C. in the fall to start teaching second graders. Carrie Boyle is currently living in Pacifica, Calif., with Melissa Guzman (more on her later). Maddie Koch has accomplished Khalil’s life dream (and hers as well, probably), and joined the Foreign Service as a Foreign Service officer. Your secretaries remember Maddie’s diligence and excellence in the study of foreign languages and are very proud to have her representing our country overseas. Melissa Guzman wins this edition of “Coolest Update”: Last September, Melissa graduated from the International Space University (in Europe) and is now working for NASA. Melissa aimed for the stars and actually got there. Congrats Melissa! The secretaries would also like to offer their condolences to Grace Elizabeth Barkley and Boyce Whitesides for the losses of Alice Robioux Smith Barkley and William Moore Boyce Jr. ’49. Our hearts are with you in these trying times. That’s all for this edition, and we hope you enjoyed reading these as much as we enjoyed writing them. See you at our Reunion Weekend June 3-5, and don’t forget that we’re the best class of them all because “11” is two first places. Contact: Khalil Jolibois, 6321 SW 63rd Terr., Miami, FL 33143; 305-510-9603; Khaliljolibois@gmail.com Savanna L. Shuntich, 3614 Connecticut Ave. NW, Apt. 35, Washington, DC 20007; 904-8668087; savanna.shuntich@gmail.com

AS TOLD BY: Meg Jarrell, Class Secretary The class of 2012 has been busy since our last note segment! Ben Jackowitz has made his way all the way down south to Sao Paulo, Brazil, to continue work he began with Red Ventures in Charlotte. He will be there for 24 months, so there’s plenty of time to plan a visit. Jake Berman has also been traveling to exciting places like Sri Lanka, India, Singapore, Thailand and China through his work with an investment and consulting firm called Innoventure Partners in Dallas, Texas. Brendan Schamu accepted a job with ClaraLabs, a San Francisco computer software company. He is part of the human component that backs the artificial intelligence, “Clara,” who is essentially a robot for your email. Although he is still pretty new, but loving it so far, and he uses his free time to occasionally put his studio art degree to use by making art. In 2017, he hopes to return to the east coast and attend Savannah College of Art and Design. Madeleine Evans went to New York at the end of February to stage manage an Off Broadway transfer of her company’s production of Caps for Sale to the New Victory Theatre on 42nd Street. The production is a world premiere, based on the book by Esphyr Slobodkina, which recently concluded a tour across the country. SPRING 2016

Alumni Community at community.davidson.edu REGISTER NOW David Barton has returned to school and is finishing his first year of medical school at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine in Roanoke, Va. Lizzy Ramsey, on the other hand, graduated this May from the Wake Forest School of Medicine with a slew of Wildcat alums. Up next for her is a residency in family medicine. Matt Heavner and wife Ellie ’11 are headed to Philadelphia in July, where he will begin his residency in Urologic Surgery at UPenn while Ellie continues her career in school psychology. Lyndsey Haas followed up her graduation from Duke (JD and a master’s) with running her first Ironman race in June and passing the Colorado Bar Exam in July. Since then she has worked as a judicial law clerk for a federal trial court judge in Raleigh. Ellen Bunzy Fichtelman graduated in May with a JD as well from Stetson University, passed the N.C. Bar Exam in July and is now an associate attorney at the Jonas Law Firm, PLLC. Her husband and fellow Wildcat, Jim Fichtelman, is now working as an intermediate application analyst for Carolina Healthcare Systems in Charlotte and has also completed a master’s in healthcare administration from USF. Jenny Hall has also completed a master’s (education technology at Oxford) and now works in Washington, D.C., at the Department of Defense’s National Defense University. On Feb. 20, she married Stephen Mandula ’13. Fellow wildcats Camila Domonoske, Emily Matras, Leslie Adkins, Carter Devlin ’13, Brennan McCormick ’13, Cory Braunstein ’13 and Charles Sangree ’13 were all part of the wedding party. Many other Wildcats were also in attendance to sing along to the many rounds of “Wagon Wheel” that were played. As a correction, to the last edition of notes, Jenn Burns is continuing to impress us with her foodie expertise by finishing her master of food culture and communications and beginning an internship at Google, where she works with Bon Appetit’s food choice architecture team. Contact: Meg Jarrell, 850 North Randolph St., Apt 704, Arlington, VA 22203; 571-276-8555; margaretkjarrell@gmail.com

a season of outdoor education. He arrived just in time for the festivities of Chinese New Year. If that doesn’t make you hate your desk job, I’m not sure what will. Prior to abandoning America for another year, Josh met up with the band formerly known as Jameson 202 in Baltimore. Chester Lindley, Dan Van Note and Andrew Irvine joined Josh for the thrilling nightlife of Federal Hill and 2:30 a.m. crabby melts. Unlike our good friend Noah Woodward, Jameson 202’s three Uber rides that evening were uneventful (appeal litigation still pending in Woodward v. Uber). Besides creating and showing his own performance art pieces, Dan runs The Tig, a lifestyle magazine website started by Suits star Meghan Markle. While Andrew is obsessed with her, he is unwilling to quit his day job ensuring the DuPont-Dow merger goes smoothly. In between making his own pizzas, fishing and pretending he’s from Alabama, Chester works for Versar, an environmental consulting and construction project management firm. Many members of the class of 2014 are continuing their education unfazed by the cold sweats and terror screams from Davidson reviews. Jessie Barrick is pursuing a Ph.D. in physics at UNC Chapel Hill and is excited to share that she finally got her undergrad thesis work published in Physical Review A: “Vibrational photo detachment spectroscopy near the electron affinity of S2.” They are the first group (that they know of) to use evaporative cooling to redistribute the population of ions trapped in an ion well in different excited states. Caroline Vrana is pursuing her Ph.D. in epidemiology at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, S.C. Caroline is focusing on HIV/AIDS and hopes to one day work for the CDC. Savannah Huneycutt, Cameron Privott and Catherine Schricker are stomaching Carolina Blue in their pursuit of becoming dentists. Savannah and Catherine are in their second year, and Cameron is working his way through the tough first year. They are joined by fellow Davidson alumni Tripp Bartholomew ’13 and Katrina Ashlin ’15. Venmo our student classmates $5 for disease and or dental advice. Your favorite class secretary Cyrus Saffari has enjoyed his move to Washington, D.C., where he works for 2U. His New Year’s resolution was to travel more, and he has enjoyed visiting classmates near and far. So far, Cyrus has visited Scott Sellers and Chris Greening ’13 in San Francisco, and Sam Gray, Sarah Watson, Keith Durante, Colleen Maher and Ann Giornelli in New York. He is looking forward

to the self-titled alumni beach week in the Outer Banks with too many classmates to list. Similarly to Kanye West, Cyrus is close to $53 million in debt thanks to said New Year’s resolution. Just a little further north in New York City is Laura Arnold, who is currently working on ABC’s The Chew as the culinary production assistant. In her spare time, she continues food styling/assistant food styling and recipe testing for magazines and cookbooks. For fun, she is on the hunt for the best cheeseburger and chocolate chip cookie in NYC. She and Sara Nordstrand might be planning a guide to NYC eats a la Martha Stewart. Follow Laura on Instagram @ lauraarnoldcooks, lauraarnoldcooks.com. Ella Strauss is headed home to Philadelphia to start her new job at Campus Philly, a non-profit that aims to keep graduates from Philadelphia colleges in Philly. Ella will be working in arts and culture through the Philadelphia arts community. Anyone is welcome to visit for cheesesteaks or to catch some rays with Ella at her beach house on the Jersey Shore. While she will be dearly missed at Davidson, she will be in good company. Joe Morrison and Valerie Slade have lived in Philly since graduation. Joe is a product specialist for OpenTreeMap at Azavea, and Valerie is a web producer at Anthropology. While Noah Woodward is appealing the ruling against him in his battle against Uber, he is following his dream of being a professional baseball player in the meantime. He has relocated from Baltimore to Atlanta, where he is attempting to walk on to the Atlanta Braves. He is dedicated to getting the team water and towels to wipe their sweat, and even follows them on the road. When he has time, he also helps with stats (which is his actual job, congrats Noah!). Contact: Caitlin James, 134 Poindexter Dr., Charlotte, NC 28203; caitlinhjames@gmail.com Caroline Queen, 1320 N. Veitch St., #1616, Arlington, VA 22201;carolineelizaqueen@gmail. com Cyrus Saffari, 1377 K St SE Unit 2, Washington, D.C.20003; cbsaffari@gmail.com

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Davidson Volunteer Week 2016

26 alumni chapters worked on 42 projects, and 342 individuals participated.

FROM ALUMNI RELATIONS Newly-uncled Michael Meznar has returned to Davidson as the temporary fellow in the Office of Alumni Relations, working on Reunion Weekend. Currently, he’s the sole renter of a four-bedroom house mere minutes from campus, so visit any time! Min-Seung Kim, when he’s not clearing out all of the fudge in the display case at Kilwins, continues his esoteric and important work for the Better Business Bureau in Concord. Joey Allaire and his adorable black lab/pitbull puppy live in Whitsett (near Greensboro), where he works as a resident advisor for adults with disabilities at Peacehaven Community Farm. Contact: Anna Blair Bullock; 336-407-5434; annablairbullock@gmail.com Sam Riehl; 410-241-3937; sariehl923@gmail.com

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An Elephant Never Forgets LADIEEES AND GENTLEMEN, step right up... and ride the elephant on Chambers Lawn?! Wait, what? Why? How? Who? When? We got nothing, although speculation that legendary director of the college union C. Shaw Smith ’39 was behind this pachydermal visitation would not likely be ill-placed. If you know details, contact John Syme, senior writer, at 704-8942523 or josyme@davidson.edu. Meanwhile Woodruff Faulk ’68 noticed something “not right” about Woodrow Wilson’s 1873 pledge signature in last issue’s Family Album photo. To find out what, go to davidsonjournal.davidson.edu and search “What’s in a Name?”

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Perfect Harmony The Four Coursemen celebrate 25 years of music making.

VERY TIME THE Four Coursemen sing the National Anthem, the Wildcats win. At least, that’s what men’s basketball coach Bob McKillop had to say during a postgame interview Feb. 20, following the quartet’s 25th anniversary performance. The Coursemen have become a fixture at college and community functions, dabbling in opera as the bumbling police force in a college production of The Pirates of Penzance, sharing the stage with co-ed a cappella group Androgyny and adding to the cheer of Christmas in Davidson festivities, singing their way from Ron Raeford’s barbershop all the way up Main Street. They’ve performed at venues big and small, from Time Warner Cable and Belk arenas to farmers markets to retirement homes. Musical comedy brought the original Coursemen together in 1991, when professors Dave Grant, Dennis Appleyard, Homer Sutton and Robert Williams, all of whom were members of the Davidson College Presbyterian Church Chancel Choir, tried out for and were cast as the barbershop quartet in the Davidson Community Players production of The Music Man. When the production ended, the professors decided they enjoyed what they were doing too much to stop. “It’s such a ball, and we knew we were going to stay with it,” Grant says. “One of our numbers is Ain’t We Got Fun.” The membership of the quartet has changed over the years, with a total of eight professors filling the four voice parts. “This is a group effort. I ended up being the de facto manager because I was the first one to retire,” Grant laughs. The Coursemen are part of a long musical tradition, the roots of which extend to the mid-1800s and arguably, beyond. Immigrants brought with them hymns and folk songs performed in four parts, and black southern quartets brought street corner, or “curbstone,” harmony into the barbershops. An ecologist by training, Grant appreciates not only harmony but also dissonance. “Diversity is what makes the world go round as far as I’m concerned. Barbershop harmony is four voices all the time, every note, every chord—it’s not the easiest singing to learn, but I love it,” he says. “Dissonance is what makes vocal music interesting to me.” Listen to the Coursemen give an impromptu performance at Raeford’s Barbershop in downtown Davidson at davidsonjournal.davidson.edu.

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The Coursemen pictured are (back to front) John Kuykendall (president emeritus and Samuel E. & Mary W. Thatcher Professor Emeritus of Religion), Durwin Striplin (professor of chemistry), Dennis Appleyard (James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of International Studies and Economics), Homer Sutton (Professor of French), Edward Palmer (Wayne M. and Carolyn A. Watson Professor Emeritus of Psychology) and Dave Grant (professor emeritus of biology). Together, they represent more than 150 years of combined teaching experience. Not pictured: Robert Williams (Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty Emeritus, Vail Professor of History Emeritus) and John Swallow (former J. T. Kimbrough Professor of Mathematics).

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{ ALUMNI } At the Edge of Life and Treasure for Alzheimer’s by Richard Morgan ’50. (Richard Morgan, 2015). Perspective and advice drawing on the author’s 60 years as pastor, hospice chaplain, volunteer and friend to dying persons. Man of the Cloth: An American Dream by Jos. N. Neel III ’52 (Jos. N. Neel III, 2014). Memories, thoughts and opinions from a third-generation clothing businessman. From Versailles to Mers El-Kébir: The Promise of AngloFrench Naval Cooperation, 1919-40 by George E. Melton ’54 (Naval Institute Press, 2015). An account of naval relations leading up to the tragic surprise attack on French units by erstwhile British allies in July 1940.

From Evolution to Humanism in 19th and 20th Century America by W. Creighton Peden ’57 (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015). “For the past 50 years, I have devoted my efforts to those in American philosophy and theology who accepted Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution….” The Love That Will Not Let You Go by Douglas Heidt ’64 (Wipf & Stock, 2015). An “alternative to what passes for Christianity” that “describes how being Christian is not what you think, it’s what you do.” The Iliad of Homer, translated by Ralph Blakely ’67 (Forge Books, 2015). A new translation and labor of love of Blakely’s retirement years, with an introduction by Professor of Classics Keyne Cheshire.

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The Personalization of Knowledge and Knowledge-Making: Probes and Hunches Concerning the Teaching-Learning Process by John H. Jackson ’67. (John H. Jackson, 2014). Knowledge making by teachers and students, as seen through the life and experience of the author. Ebola: An Emerging Infectious Disease Case Study by George T. Ealy, M.D., Ph.D. ’71 and Carolyn A. Dehlinger (Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2016). A timely resource for academic discussions within microbiology, nursing, health science and public health programs. Unbroken Poem by David G. Russell ’72 (David G. Russell, 2015). A debut novel from the Atlanta trial lawyer drawn home to the South Carolina Lowcountry island where he grew up. Creating and Consuming the American South edited by Martyn Bone, Brian Ward and William A. Link ’76 (University Press of Florida, 2015). Thirteen essays exploring how an eclectic selection of narratives and images of the American South have been created and consumed. Burning Down the Fireproof Hotel: An Invitation to the Beautiful Life by Cary Campbell Umhau ’82 (SPACIOUS, 2014). A memoir of “escaping ‘the good life’ and finding my own life—one that’s bigger, scarier and more beautiful than anything I could have planned.”

The “Carlos and Carmen” series of children’s books: The One-Tire House, The Nighttime Noise, The Green Surprise and The Big Rain by Kirsten McDonald ’83 (Magic Wagon Books, 2016). Old Islam in Detroit: Rediscovering the Muslim American Past by Sally Howell ’85 (Oxford University Press, 2014). Named a Michigan Notable Book of 2015 by the Library of Michigan and awarded the 2015 Evelyn Shakir Award for non-fiction by the Arab American National Museum. The Only Sacrament Left to Us: The Threefold Word of God in the Theology and Ecclesiology of Karl Barth by Thomas Christian Currie ’97 (Princeton Theological Monograph Series, 2014). Whose Hoo? by Michael Gillespie ’00 (Funny Little Books, 2016). “It’s a children’s book—it’s not complicated. It uses as many puns as I could tastefully cram into it, and it is intentionally non-didactic.” Virtue and Irony in American Democracy: Revisiting Dewey and Niebuhr by Daniel A. Morris ’03 (Lexington Books, 2015). A reintroduction to “two towering figures of the Old Left. “[Davidson professors] Karl Plank, William K. Mahony and Timothy A. Beach-Verhey instilled in me a love of religious studies that has sustained this project.” DAVIDSONJOURNAL.DAVIDSON.EDU

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Assistant Professor Tyler Starr received a CharlotteMecklenburg Arts & Science Council Regional Artist Grant to assist with the acquisition of experimental studio equipment. In addition, his artist’s books exploring the Greensboro Massacre and the anti-dam movement in Japan have been entered into the collections of several notable institutions, including the Getty Research Institute Special Collections in Los Angeles, and the Rhode Island School of Design Fleet Library Artists’ Books Collection.

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Professor Malcolm Campbell produced a synthetic biology laboratory educational module named “pClone Red” that is being marketed by Carolina Biological. The module lets first year students conduct real research to understand gene regulation. This is Campbell’s third module to be commercialized and distributed nationally. Maddrey Professor Michael Dorcas was recently elected as a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London, the world’s oldest biological society. Members of his Herpetology Laboratory have published several papers recently in peer-reviewed journals, and several of them feature Davidson students as first authors. Max Kern ’14 published a paper examining the relationship between the size of female diamondback terrapins and their egg and clutch size in the Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. Whitner Chase ’15 and Ben Hardie ’15 published a paper in Herpetological Review describing a new way to identify individual spotted salamanders. Rebecca McKee ’14 published a paper in Aquatic Conservation demonstrating that by-catch reduction devices reduce entrapment of endangered diamondback terrapins in crab traps. Professor Mark Stanback presented a paper at the annual meeting of the American Ornithologists’ Union on “Patterns of Egg Production in Monteiro’s Hornbill.” Because hornbill females seal themselves into their nest cavity prior to laying eggs, they present an opportunity to discern the extent to which egg production is dependent on food brought to the female by her mate. Stanback found that females entering the nest with more energy reserves lay bigger clutches of larger eggs at shorter intervals and more quickly after entering the nest, while lower quality females do the opposite. This suggests that hornbills use both “capital” and “income” to produce their eggs, depending on their individual circumstances. Professor Dave Wessner has been a participant in “The Bridge,” a virtual residency program sponsored by the SciArt Center of New York which explores ways of bridging the artificial divide between the arts and the sciences. He and his residency partner have maintained a blog to discuss the issues, and have also co-curated a virtual exhibition that explores artistic interpretations of the gut microbiome—the millions of microbes living within us. Visit it at sciartcenter. org/gut-instinct.html

CHEMISTRY

Professors Felix Carroll and David Blauch presented a poster, titled “Teaching with a 3D Printer: New DAVIDSONJOURNAL.DAVIDSON.EDU

Hands-on Models for Active Learning in Organic and Physical Chemistry,” at the recent International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies. The 3D models designed and printed at Davidson and the student activities using them drew particular interest from Chinese, Japanese and French chemists. Associate Professor Nicole Snyder presented her research on the “Synthesis of Carbohydrate Porphyrin, Bacteriochlorin and Phthalocyanine Conjugates” at Heinrich-Heine-Universität in Düsseldorf, Germany. The presentation focused on work completed by several Davidson students— George Mukosera ’15, Morgan Burch ’17, Dennis Akrobetu ’17, Erin Xu ’17, Shamus Cooper ’16, Gabriel Cambronero ’15 and Shirley Ge ’17. Snyder was also recently elected to a three-year term as a councilor for the Council on Undergraduate Research. The organization supports and promotes undergraduate student-faculty collaborative research and scholarship.

CLASSICS

Assistant Professor Darian Totten presented a paper titled “Continuity and Change at the Roman Port Town of Salapia: The 2014 and 2015 Field Seasons of the Salapia Exploration Project” at the annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America. It reviewed the field research she is conducting with Italian colleagues on the Adriatic Coast of Italy.

ECONOMICS

Assistant Professor Caleb Stroup published an article titled “Does Anti-Bribery Enforcement Deter Foreign Investment” in the journal Applied Economics Letters. Stroup examines whether the Department of Justice’s enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act has caused lower foreign investment by U.S. firms. Stroup was also selected as Furman University’s 2015 Hollingsworth Visiting Scholar in recognition of his outstanding mentoring of undergraduate research projects.

EDUCATIONAL STUDIES

Associate Professor and Chair Hilton Kelly gave a keynote lecture titled “‘Dying with One’s Boots On’: Collective Memories of Black Education in the United States Before 1954” at the University of Texas-San Antonio. His talk was part of a series on “Black Education Yesterday and Today: Beyond February.” Additionally, Kelly has been elected vice president of the American Educational Studies Association. The role is a three-year commitment, including service as president-elect and as president for 2017-2018.

HISPANIC STUDIES

Associate Professor Samuel Sánchez y Sánchez coedited a collection of essays titled The Camino de Santiago in the 21st Century: Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Global Views. He contributed a chapter titled “Lost and Found: Materiality and Personal Transformation on the Camino de Santiago.” The volume examines contemporary representations of the Way of St. James (Camino de Santiago) through an interdisciplinary lens based on a variety of theoretical perspectives, genres and transnational perspectives.

HISTORY

Professor Robin Barnes has published Astrology and Reformation, a book exploring the relationship between the Renaissance art of the stars and the Lutheran evangelical movement of the 16th century. An early review calls this book “the first serious study to connect these two efforts to understand our place in the cosmos.” Some 20 years in the making, the work was aided by grants from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Philosophical Society. In the fall of 2015, Barnes served as an evaluator of fellowship applications for the ACLS, completing the second year of a three-year appointment in this capacity. Associate Professor Patricia Tilburg, chair of the Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, was elected to a three-year term as secretary of the Western Society for French History. She will also serve as webmaster for this international scholarly association, which promotes the study of Francophone history by bringing together specialists from a wide variety of interdisciplinary backgrounds. Tilburg recently received a summer stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities to work on her book project Diligent Muse: Gender, Taste, and the Parisian Workingwoman, 1880-1936.

MATHEMATICS & COMPUTER SCIENCE

While on sabbatical, Associate Professor Tim Chartier is working with two Charlotte-based companies. He serves as chief of research for the big data company Tresata, and is exploring applications of network analysis in sports. He is also working with National Amateur Sports to create a sports analytics program for secondary schools. Chartier also began freelance writing for The New York Times. Two pieces that appeared are “Playing Smart With Data: Using Sports Analytics to Teach Math,” and “Lesson Plan: Teaching ‘Star Wars.’” Visiting Assistant Professor Lauren Keough took student math majors Jiarui Chu ’17, Courtney Cochrane ’16 and Megan Feichtel ’16 to present their research projects at the Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics. Professor Richard Neidinger published an article titled “A Fair-Bold Gambling Function Is Simply Singular” as the lead article in American Mathematical Monthly. He explains that continuous increasing functions can have derivative zero (be flat) almost everywhere, as seen in the honors thesis of Daniel Bernstein ’13. Forming a new variation of such a strangely wiggling function, Neidinger characterizes exactly what happens at each point, unlike previous existence arguments. The function is defined as the probability of winning a gambling game as a function of initial stake.

MUSIC

Neil Lerner, E. Craig Wall Jr. Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Humanities and professor of music, is contributing co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Music and Disability Studies (2016). At nearly 1,000 pages and with 42 essays, it follows Lerner’s earlier work, Sounding Off: Theorizing Disability in Music (2006). Both books promote the idea of SPRING 2016

theUnion: Faculty disability in music as an aspect of culture, instead of a medical pathology to be pitied and cured. Topics in the new work range from medieval European composers to Stevie Wonder, Björk and the music used in Cirque du Soleil. Lerner cowrote the introductory chapter as well as an essay on ways the film score for the 1945 movie Pride of the Marines depicts a soldier who lost his sight in battle. The book also contains an essay by faculty colleague Professor of English Ann Fox on questions of disability representation in contemporary musicals.

PHYSICS

Associate Professor John Yukich was re-elected to a three-year term on the executive committee of the southeastern section of the American Physical Society (APS). He was also re-elected to a twoyear term on the board of the Charlotte Area Science Network. Yukich and student researcher Colin Tyznik ’16 presented a talk at an APS section meeting titled “Anomalous structure in photodetachment to excited states of the O atom.”

POLITICAL SCIENCE

Peter Ahrensdorf, James Sprunt Professor of Political Science and Humanities, won a National Endowment for the Humanities grant of $50,400 for his project, Homer and the History of Political Philosophy: Encounters with Plato, Machiavelli, Nietzsche, and the Bible, a book-length study of Homer and the history of political philosophy. Russell Crandall, associate professor of political science, published with student Wade Leach ’16 a review essay of the book The Power of the Past: History and Statecraft, titled “History and Policy: Please Think Responsibly.” The piece was published in Survival. Crandall also placed President Barack Obama’s historic three-day visit to Cuba within the context of the administration’s foreign policy strategy in a recent piece for Survival, titled “Mr. Obama Goes to Havana.” McArthur Assistant Professor Andrew O’Geen and co-author Christopher Parker published results of their research into the human dynamics behind U.S. Supreme Court decisions in the London School of Economics USCentre blog. O’Geen and his colleague examined about 29,000 choices by Supreme Court justices in 4,500 cases over 40 years to determine the conditions under which cooperation of Supreme Court judges is most likely. Brown Professor of Political Science and Assistant Dean for Educational Policy Shelley Rigger testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Asia Subcommittee on the future of relations between the United States and Taiwan. The panel followed the recent election in Taiwan in which the opposition party’s Tsai Ying-wen won the presidency.

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King Assistant Professor Jessica Good co-edited a special issue of the journal Social Psychology titled “Measure of a Man: Outcomes of Gender Stereotyping for Men and Masculinity.” Good and her co-editor authored the editorial for the issue.

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Good also presented related work titled, “Male Ally or Foe: Men’s Confrontation of Sexism as a Function of Masculine Role Beliefs” at the annual conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Her research examined men’s motivations for confronting sexism directed at women as a function of their perceived social costs and benefits, as well as beliefs about masculine honor. Along with departmental colleagues and co-principal investigators Kristi Multhaup, Greta Munger and Laura Sockol, Good received a grant from the American Psychological Association to fund an eight-week summer research program in psychology for students with little or no prior research experience. Professor Greta Munger has published a paper in the journal Visual Cognition about the ability to predict continued motion of a walking figure. When watching a simple motion, such as a dot moving left to right, viewers automatically continue the presented motion, thinking that the dot has gotten further to the right than it actually has on screen. Being able to predict future location is useful in intercepting an object in motion, or avoiding one. Previous work had demonstrated that awkward hand gestures, such as rolling knuckles down on a surface, led to little or no prediction from viewers. Graceful, smooth motion is easier to follow and predict. Inspired by a favorite Monty Python skit, Munger developed a cartoon with progressively sillier walks to see if the awkwardness effect observed for hand gestures can be generalized to the whole body. She determined that significantly more accurate prediction followed a standard walk, rather than a very silly one. Professor Mark Smith and Justin Strickland ’14 published an invited review in the journal Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior. The paper describes how models of social contact in animals can be useful in examining how the social environment influences human drug use. Watson Professor Scott Tonidandel has published an edited book titled Big Data at Work: The Data Science Revolution and Organizational Psychology.

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Associate Professor and Chair Gerardo Marti received the 2015 Distinguished Book Award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion for his co-authored work titled The Deconstructed Church: Understanding Emerging Christianity. He also published several peer reviewed articles, including an article in Sociology of Religion: A Quarterly Review titled “Religious Reflexivity: The Effect of Continual Novelty and Diversity on Individual Religiosity” that describes the modern religious experience.

For the Love of Language

By John Syme

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“quality of mercy” speech to Shylock, The Merchant of Venice. Actual scene: A DavidsonLearns classroom in Temple Kol Tikvah on South Street in Davidson. Though not officially affiliated with the college, DavidsonLearns teaching ranks are oft peopled by Davidson professors, as well as other top-notch instructors teaching a wide range of subjects to lifelong learners of all ages. Enter Professor of English Randy Ingram. For five winter Wednesday evenings, Ingram offered “Shakespeare Scene and Heard,” a selection of pivotal scenes read aloud in class as well as viewed in film clips of Olivier, Branagh and others. Students included an alumna and an alumnus, a professor emerita, a recent transplant from Brooklyn, a former Town of Davidson commissioner and a Davidson Learns board member, among others. Discussion was, in a word, lively. Only once did it descend—necessarily, in context, really—into a vituperative condemnation of the “most unkindest cut[s] of all,” 2016 presidential politics. Well, maybe ye had to be there. Anyway, Ingram deftly brought his pupils’ attention back round to the Bard. And dessert. Someone always brought dessert, a custom in happy complement with another popular hallmark of Davidson Learns: no tests! Sample topics prompted by discussion of Shylock, Henry, Caliban, Richard, Hamlet, Macbeth, et al included: the difference between an Honor Code and a culture of honor; “prostalgia,” a futureoriented concept of nostalgia invented some years back by one of Ingram’s own Davidson students; Falstaff’s iconoclasm as a “chaser” to hypocritically moralistic bombast; and, of course, “Willy” jokes. So: Q: Why should kids these days study Shakespeare? A: Because these days, everyone is a published writer on what a tangled World Wide Web we weave. “There’s before Shakespeare and there’s after Shakespeare,” said Ingram, “and anyone who loves language needs to return to it.” Applause.

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theUnion: In Memoriam William Moseley Archer Jr. ’36 Charlotte, N.C. Died Feb. 27, 2016. He is survived by his children, Mary Logan and William Archer III, 425 Hunter Ln., Charlotte, NC 28211; Thomas Archer; seven grandchildren, including William Archer Parsley II ’02; and four greatgrandchildren. James Herbert Gailey ’37 Hendersonville, N.C. Died Oct. 17, 2015. He is survived by Landen Gailey, 2301 Terrys Gap Rd., Hendersonville, NC 28792; Benny Elliot and Bryan Gailey. Don Davidson ’39 Charlotte, N.C. Died Oct. 18, 2015. He was preceded in death by his wife, Anne Stapleton Davidson. He is survived by three children: Sherry Anne Davidson, Sally Davidson Mathews, 310 E 75th St. Apt. 3F, New York, NY 10021-3314; and George D. Davidson III; four grandchildren; and two greatgrandsons. Gifts can be made to the Stapleton-Davidson Internship Program, Davidson College, PO Box 7177, Davidson, NC 28035. Thomas Wilson Mullen Jr. ’39 Waynesboro, Va. Died Oct. 8, 2015. He was preceded in death by his wife, Susan Britt Mullen and son, Henry Britt Mullen. He is survived by son, Thomas W. Mullen III, 692 Chadbourne Ave NW, Concord, NC 28027; and three grandchildren. Charles Lee Isley Jr. ’42 Boone, N.C. Died Sept. 11, 2015. He was preceded in death by his beloved wife, Lois Caldwell Isley, and daughter, Elizabeth Ann. He is survived by two daughters, Catherine Huzl, 4511 Old Course Dr., Charlotte, NC 28277; and Susan Lyons; three granddaughters; and seven greatgrandchildren. Robert Caldwell Bradford Jr. ’44 Virginia Beach, Va. Died Jan. 15, 2015. He was proceeded in death by daughter Celeste Johnson. He is survived by his wife, Constance, 412 Lynn Shores Dr., Virginia Beach, VA 23452; three children; Robert C Bradford III, Deborah Stanley and Frances Jimenez; five grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. Henry Page Royster ’44 Richmond, Va. Died March 1, 2016. He is survived by his wife, Kathleen Winston Ryland (Tina), 23 Givens Ct., Richmond, VA 23227; four children, Kathleen Royster Nelson, Page Royster Redpath ’74, Martha Royster Young ’76 and Henry Page Royster Jr. ’84; 10 grandchildren, including Katie Nelson Maddux ’98, Elizabeth Redpath ’04, Christopher Young ’09; and five great-grandchildren. Robert Shields Abernathy ’45 Durham, N.C. Died Jan. 29, 2016. He is survived by his wife, Rosalind DAVIDSONJOURNAL.DAVIDSON.EDU

Smith Abernathy, 2701 Pickett Rd., Apt 2044, Durham, NC 27705; and his five children and their spouses: Robert Shields Abernathy Jr., David Smith Abernathy, Susan Gower Abernathy, Thomas Glenn Abernathy and Douglas Leslie Abernathy; and nine grandchildren. William Hugh Grey ’45 Charlottesville, Va. Died Nov. 1, 2015. He is survived by his wife, Ann Garrity Grey, 1193 Partridge Ln., Charlottesville, VA 22901; his daughter, Elizabeth Ann “Beth” Grey and son, James Alexander Grey; two stepsons, Matthew David Kavanaugh and Robert Edward Kavanaugh; and two grandchildren. William Fredrick Sutton ’45 Macon, Ga. Died Sept. 15, 2015. He is survived by his wife, Virginia Collier Sutton, 2964 Castlewood Dr., Macon, GA 31204; children, Ginny Ball, Beth Sutton and Rick Sutton; four grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. James Milton Bisanar ’46 Easton, Md. Died Nov. 13, 2015. He is survived by his wife, Diane, 8597 Wheatlands Rd., Easton, MD 21601; two daughters, Karen Canter and Linda Gnade; four grandchildren, including Nolan Canter ’14; and one great-grandchild. Thomas Conner Jr. ’46 Atlanta, Ga. Died Oct. 11, 2015. He was preceded in death by his wife, Margaret Bowden Conner, and son, Owen Bowden Conner. He is survived by his son, Thomas Conner III. Daniel Malloy McEachin ’46 Florence, S.C. Died Oct. 28, 2015. He is survived by his wife, Elizabeth Elkins McEachin, 1007 Wentworth Ave., Florence, SC 29501; daughter, Margaret McEachin Gates, and son, Daniel Malloy McEachin Jr.; five grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. Rosser Lee Clark Jr. ’47 Princeton, N.J. Died Jan. 2, 2016. He is survived by his wife Mary Bess, 478 Winslow Dr., Mobile, AL 36608; his children, Margaret Tuttle, Sallye Zink and Rosser Lee Clark III; and two grandchildren.

Ned Purvis Everett ’48 Robersonville, N.C. Died Oct. 26, 2015. He is survived by nephew, William R. Everett Jr., and niece, Alyce Everett Green. William Moore Boyce Jr. ’49 Davidson, N.C. Died Feb. 24, 2016. He is survived by his wife, Ruth Sellers Boyce, 400 Avinger Ln., Apt. 241, Davidson, NC 28036; children David, Richard ’77 and Barbara Boyce Whitesides ’82; 11 grandchildren, including Sarah Gardner Boyce ’ 07, Boyce Whitesides ’11 and Tucker Whitesides ’13; four great-grandchildren; and brothers, James Gibson Boyce ’58 and Robert E. Boyce. Charles MacDonald “Don” Coffey III ’49 Davidson, N.C. Died Nov. 11, 2015. He was preceded in death by his wife, Ruth. He is survived by his children, Elizabeth Ann “Betsy” Coffey Massey, Stephen MacDonald Coffey ’78, 1481 Wyngate Dr., Deland, FL 32724, Charles Welton Coffey ’82, Carol Blanton Coffey-Howard; nine grandchildren, including Patricia Massey Hoke’ 07 and Sarah Elizabeth Coffey ’09; and one great-grandchild. George Lee Eldridge ’49 Louisville, Ky. Died Nov. 1, 2015. He was preceded in death by his wife, Shirley. He is survived by his children, Garry Eldridge and Tammy Cantrell, 5120 Arrowshire Dr., La Grange, KY 40031; one granddaughter; and one greatgranddaughter. William Drayton Goodrum ’49 New Orleans, La. Died Sept. 20, 2015. William is survived by his first cousins Barry Garrison, 5400 Richmond Rd., Mint Hill, NC 28227, and Jean Caldwell. Allison Pearsall Goodwin ’49 Charlottesville, Va. Died Feb. 17, 2016. He is survived by his loving wife of 53 years, June, 1130 Mill Park Dr., Ext, Charlottesville, VA 22901; his children, Charles Pearsall Goodwin and Rebecca Goodwin; two grandchildren; and three stepgrandchildren.

John Bunyan Exum Jr. ’47 Rocky Mount, N.C. Died Aug. 14, 2015. John is survived by his son, John B. Exum III, PO Box 380038, Jacksonville, FL 32205, three daughters, Elizabeth Whitley Exum, Caroline Stowe Exum, Margaret Exum Payne; and three grandchildren.

Edward Lewis Hopper ’49 Meridian, Miss. Died July 2, 2015. He was preceded in death by his daughter, Kathy Hopper Brunson. He is survived by his wife, Barbara Lincoln Hopper, PO Box 3459, Meridian, MS 39303; a son, John Clingman Hopper; stepchildren Link Hall, Steve Hall, Laurie Hall Badwey and John Halland; six grandchildren; and seven step-grandchildren.

David Garvin Blevins ’48 Spruce Pine, N.C. Died Oct. 19, 2015. He was preceded in death by his wife, Jackie English Blevins. He is survived by four sons; Dave Blevins Jr., 80 Hillcrest Cir., Spruce Pines, NC 28777; Steve Blevins, Sam Blevins and Dale Blevins; 11 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Hugh Munroe McArn Jr. ’49 Laurinburg, N.C. Died Aug. 4, 2015. He was preceded in death by his brother, Kenneth Hunter McArn ’49. He is survived by his wife, Susan Crump McArn, 921 Gilchrist St., Laurinburg, NC 28352; four children, Michael Rhodes McArn ’77, Jeffrey Hugh McArn ’79, Susan Hope McArn Weeks ’81, SPRING 2016

theUnion: In Memoriam and Ms. Margaret Hunter “Meg” McArn Clunan ’85; and six grandchildren. Paul Harold Starling ’49 Durham, N.C. Died Jan. 27, 2016. He was preceded in death by his first and second wives, Rita Cassidy Starling and Lillian Ellis Starling. He is survived by his four daughters, Paula Wyatt, 703 Brook Forest Dr., Belmont, NC 28012, Ellen Sedman, Joan Heatherly Hillsborough and Diane Luck; 10 grandchildren; and 17 great-grandchildren. John Edwin (Didi) Wayland Jr. ’49 Cornelius, N.C. Died March 2, 2016. He was preceded in death by his wife, Jane Puckett Wayland. He is survived by his children: John Edwin Wayland III, 7320 Greenwich West, Bloomfield Hills, MI 48301, Jane Lee Wayland Ayers, Timothy Mark Wayland; six grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. William B. “Bill” Carter ’50 Morganton, N.C. Died Jan. 31, 2016. He is survived by his wife, Elizabeth “Lib” Roper Carter, 103 Pearson Dr., Morganton, NC 28655; a daughter, Elizabeth Anne Carter McNeill; and three grandchildren. L. Linton Deck Jr. ’50 Asheville, N.C. Died July 3, 2015. He was preceded in death by his first wife, Frances Hampton Deck, and a grandson, Cary Kibby-Deck. He is survived by his wife, Patricia Horne Deck, 215 Aldersgate Cir., Asheville, NC 28803; two daughters, Dayna F. Deck and Laura L. Deck; son, H. Hampton Deck; stepson, Dustin Sumner; and seven grandchildren. Earl Thornwell Groves ’50 Gastonia, N.C. Died Oct. 31, 2015. He is preceded in death by his wife, Catherine Fish Groves. He is survived by two sons, Harmon C. Groves, 1515 Heatherloch Dr., Gastonia, NC 28054; and Randall C. Groves; one daughter, Mary M. Groves; and two grandsons. Benjamin Hamilton ’50 Hampton, Va. Died Aug. 19, 2015. He is survived by his wife, Elynor “Dibba” Butler Hamilton, 153 Wilderness Rd., Hampton, VA 23669; children, Benjamin M. Hamilton Jr., Laura R. Hamilton and Margaret Sue Brown; and four granddaughters. Paul Rogers Jenkins Jr. ’50 Oklahoma City, Okla. Died Aug. 12, 2015. He is survived by his wife, Janice, 7707 W. Britton Rd., Apt. 1602, Oklahoma City, OK 73132; two children, Cathy Reaves and John Jenkins; five grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.

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Bryan Moore Storey ’50 Rome, Ga. Died Dec. 3, 2015. He was preceded in death by his wife, Betsy Storey. John Crosland Jr. ’51 Charlotte, N.C. Died Aug. 2, 2015. He was preceded in death by his daughter, Mary “Molly” Parker Crosland. He is survived by his wife, Judy, 301 Colville Rd., Charlotte, NC 28207; son, John Crosland III; stepsons, William and Michael McClamroch; and five grandchildren. W. Ray Cunningham ’51 Charlotte, N.C. Died Oct. 27, 2015. He was preceded in death by his siblings, including Bill Cunningham ’57. He is survived by his wife, Jane Crook Cunningham, 5100 Sharon Rd., Apt 2705 S, Charlotte, NC 28210; daughters, Beth C. Wood and Susan C. Owen; and three grandchildren. Memorials may be made to Davidson College Development Office, PO Box 7174, Davidson, NC 28035, for the John Rood and Rubie Ray Cunningham Scholarship. Robert Curtis Gay ’51 New Hope, Penn. Died July 1, 2015. Bob is survived by his life partner, Myron Grant Campbell, 7012 Upper York Rd., New Hope, PA 18938. Paul Bennett Guthery Jr. ’51 Charlotte, N.C. Died Dec. 29, 2015. He is survived by his wife, Nancy Allen Guthery, 512 Ashworth Rd., Charlotte, NC 28211; son Paul B. Guthery III; daughter Mary Wallace; and two grandchildren. James Watt Jeffries ’51 Olathe, Kan. Died Sept. 11, 2015. He was preceded in death by his wife, Blake. He is survived by his son, James Watt Jeffries Jr. ’80; daughter, Ashley M. Jeffries, 1172 (5) Penrose St., Olathe, KS 66061; and five grandchildren. William Homer “Bill” Jordan ’51 Dunwoody, Ga. Died Oct. 7, 2015. He is survived by his wife, Gwen, 1243 Fairfield E., Dunwoody, GA 30338; children, Anne and Cindy; and five grandchildren. Daniel Patrick McGeachy III ’51 Nashville, Tenn. Died Dec. 13, 2015. He is survived by his three children, Dan McGeachy, Liz McGeachy, PO Box 867, Norris, TN 37828, and Martin McGeachy; four grandchildren, including Graham Neely Marema’ 17; and brother, Alexander McClure McGeachy ’55. Herbert Davis Middleton III ’51 Fort Mill, S.C. Died Jan. 17, 2016. He is survived by his wife, Shirley Dobbins Middleton, 2723 Huntingtowne Farms Ln., Charlotte, NC 28210; three children, Carol Middleton

Palmgren, Michael Davis Middleton and Lynn Middleton Cole; four grandchildren; and five step-grandchildren. W. Richard Perkins ’53 Atlanta, Ga. Died Sept. 17, 2015. He is survived by his wife of 62 years, Mary Ann Fuller Perkins, 4060 Glen Devon Dr., NW, Atlanta, GA 30327; three children, Ricanne Birchmore, Tuck Perkins and Scott Perkins; several grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. Mason Dillard Field Jr. ’54 Dothan, Ala. Died April 10, 2013. He is survived his wife, Judy West Field, 709 Mullins Dr., Dothan, AL 36301; and son, Benjamin Field. George Albert Grissom ’54 Gastonia, N.C. Died Aug. 19, 2015. He was preceded in death by his wife, Sylvia Howe Grissom. He is survived by his sons, Daniel Grissom, 2926 Dixon Howe Rd., Gastonia, NC 28056, and John Grissom; five grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. James McDaniel Johnson ’54 Dunn, N.C. Died Aug. 19, 2015. He is survived by his wife, Elizabeth “Betty” Morrison Johnson, 907 W. Pearsall St., Dunn, NC 28334; four children, Elizabeth Johnson Bondurant ’80, James Morrison Johnson, Laura Johnson Frey ’84 and Allen McDaniel Johnson ’87; and eight grandchildren, including Elizabeth Fortescue Bondurant ’13. Daniel McIntyre ’54 Denver, N.C. Died Jan. 14, 2016. He is survived by his wife, June Laughlin McIntyre, 2874 Morris Ln. Denver, NC 28037; children, Baker McIntyre and Vicki Mauney; and four grandchildren. William S. Michael ’54 Los Gatos, Calif. Died June 2, 2015. He is survived by his three daughters, Jennifer L. Michael, Kristen E. Michael and Shannon Michael Farrell. Howard Taft Wall Jr. ’55 Rockingham, N.C. Died Sept. 23, 2015. He is survived by his wife, Millie, 953 Thomas St Rockingham, NC 28379; daughters, Melody Forrester and Joanna Wall; three grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. Kenneth Boyce Wilson ’55 Winston-Salem, N.C. Died Jan. 13, 2016. He was preceded in death by his wife, Catherine Edgerton Wilson. He is survived by two daughters, Elizabeth McCamie Wilson and Catherine McLeod Frazier, and one son, Kenneth B. Wilson Jr., 4030 Winburn Ln.,Winston-Salem, NC 27106; eight grandchildren; and one great-granddaughter.

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theUnion: In Memoriam T. Nelson Grice Jr. ’56 Santa Fe, N.M. Died on July 12, 2015. He is survived by three sons, Carter Grice, Spencer Grice and Scott Grice, 2135 SE 59th Ave. Portland, OR 97215.

Alfred Shih-p’u Wang ’58 Missouri City, Texas Died Sept. 20, 2015. He is survived by his wife, Veronica, 6447 Ivy Falls Missouri City, TX 77459; daughters, Dorothy and Lisa; and one grandson.

Ralph Alexander Long ’56 State College, Penn. Died Aug. 14, 2015. He was preceded in death by his wife, Nancy Ross. He is survived by daughters, Nancy A. Long, 350 E. Beaver St., Bellefonte, PA 16823, and Lesley Ward; five grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

Hugh Brown Campbell Jr. ’59 Charlotte, N.C. Died Sept. 11, 2015. He is survived by his wife, Mary Irving Carlyle Campbell, 503 Woodbury Ln., Mount Airy, NC 27030; three sons, Hugh Campbell III ’89, Irving Carlyle Campbell and Thomas Lenoir Campbell; and six grandchildren.

Jon Watson Regen ’56 Davidson, N.C. Died Jan. 24, 2016. He is survived by his wife, Barbara, 400 Avinger Ln. Apt. 413 Davidson, NC 28036; children, Kelsey Regen ’86, William Regen ’89, Suzanne Grzeszczak ’90; and eight grandchildren. John Henley Flintom ’57 Aiken, S.C. Died Feb. 1, 2016. He is survived by his wife Gail, 183 Implement Rd., Aiken, SC 29803; two daughters, Sara Ellen Sweeney and Rachel Smethurst, one son, David Flintom, two stepdaughters, Jessica Yarnell and Beth Shaw; 13 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

Daniel Johnston McAulay ’67 Blythewood, S.C. Died Jan. 13, 2016. He is survived by his wife, Barbara Neal McAulay, 220 Craigwood Dr., Blythewood, SC 29016; and two daughters, Jeanne Hamilton and Emily Frances McAulay.

Kenneth Dale Owen Sr. ’59 Charlotte, N.C. Died Nov. 16, 2015. He is survived by his wife, Lura Carnes Owen, 3329 Luke Crossing Dr., Charlotte, NC 28226; son, K. Dale Owen Jr., daughter, Aven Williams; and five grandchildren.

Thomas Randall Bridges ’69 Woodstock, Ga. Died Nov. 28, 2015. He is survived by his wife, Sheila Bridges, 604 Abbey Dr., Woodstock, GA 30188, and his daughter, Bonnie Marie Bridges.

Albert Stuart Nickles Jr. ’60 Cheraw, S.C. Died Jan. 26, 2016. He is survived by Virginia “Ginny” F. Nickles, 304 State Rd., Cheraw, SC 29520; son, A. Stuart Nickles III, daughter, Virginia “Ginger” Sloop; and four grandchildren.

George Capers Hemingway Jr. ’58 Wilmington, N.C. Died Jan. 7, 2016. He is survived by his wife, Lynn Blalock Hemingway, 7709 Meadowlark Ln., Apt.1 Wilmington, NC 28411; three children, Susan Wood, George III, Alice Baker; and seven grandchildren.

Samuel Jackson ’62 Spring Hope, N.C. Died Nov. 15, 2015. He is survived by his two daughters, Leigh Anne Louviere, 36255 Bur Oaks Ave., Murrieta, CA 92562, and Samantha Smith; and five grandchildren.

Ernest Edward Mason Jr. ’58 Charlotte, N.C. Died Aug. 3, 2015. He is survived by his wife, Mary Lou Mason, 6027 Sharon Rd., Charlotte, NC 28210; daughter, Jane Williams Mason, son, Ernest Edward Mason III; four grandchildren; and a great-granddaughter. William Leonard Thomas ’58 Davisboro, Ga. Died Aug. 21, 2015. He was preceded in death by his wife, A. Meriwether Thomas, and son, William David Thomas. He is survived by his daughter, Margaret Sims, 346 Francis Bridge Rd., Davisboro, GA 31018; and two grandchildren. DAVIDSONJOURNAL.DAVIDSON.EDU

Samuel Gibbs II ’66 Winston-Salem, N.C. Died Jan. 31, 2016. He is survived by his wife Ellen, 2905 Bitting Rd., Winston-Salem, NC 27104; his daughters, Meg Cox and Trish Coyan; six grandchildren; and brother, James Gibbs ’63.

Robert Andrew “Andy” Gordon Jr. ’59 Hendersonville, N.C. Died Feb. 16, 2015. He is survived by his wife, Linda Gordon, 74 Deer Trail, Hendersonville, NC 28739; his sons, Robert, Gary and Steve Gordon; six grandchildren; and two great-grandsons.

Cecil Davis Dickson ’58 Shelby, N.C. Died Sept. 16, 2015. He is survived by two sons, David Scott Dickson and Patrick Ernest Dickson, PO Box 233, Shelby, NC 28151; and three brothers, including Brady Wilson Dickson Jr. ’67.

Richard Austin Makepeace Sr. ’58 Nassawadox, Va. Died Feb. 16, 2016. He was preceded in death by his eldest son, Richard Austin Makepeace Jr. He is survived by his three children, Charles Walton Makepeace, David Sherrill Makepeace and Helen Finley Pruitt; and 10 grandchildren.

Larry Albert Outlaw ’65 Raleigh, N.C. Died July 6, 2015. He is survived by his wife, Deborah Outlaw, 1200 Misty Morning Way Raleigh, NC 276037505; and her three children, Mike Southerland, MaryBeth Taylor and Elizabeth Webb.

Carl Vance Hunt Jr. ’63 Asheboro, N.C. Died Jan. 6, 2016. He is survived by his wife, Tressie McGuffin Hunt; children, Laura Ritter, Gayelyn Phillips, Andrew Hunt, Buddy Britt, Carla Dougherty and Lee Hunt; 16 grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. Frank Lyon Jr. ’63 Little Rock, Ark. Died Nov. 8, 2015. He is survived by his wife, Jane, 18800 Cantrell Rd., Little Rock, AR 72223; two daughters, Karen Bailey and Ashley Jackson; and four grandchildren. Wayne Smithers ’64 Houston, Texas Died Oct. 2015. He is survived by wife, Heida Thurlow, 1725 Eldridge Pkwy., Houston, TX 77077, and two children, Gregory Smithers and Lauren Smithers.

Scott B. Anthony ’69 Miami, Fla. Died Oct. 1, 2015. He is survived by his wife, Anne Anthony, 1611 Camelot Pl., Miami, OK 74354; daughter, Ann Robin Anthony; stepson, Steve Goodman; stepdaughter, Holly Jessup; and four grandchildren. James Dixon Chandler Jr. ’69 Williamsburg, Va. Died Feb. 7, 2016. He is survived by his wife Susan, 1329 Hillside Avenue Norfolk, VA 23503; and stepson Chris Kelly. Joseph Emerson Kilpatrick ’70 Mocksville, N.C. Died Aug. 10, 2015. He is survived by his wife, Penelope Clark Kilpatrick, 1010 Rollingwood Dr., NW, Wilson, NC 27896; daughters, Megan Kilpatrick Moen and Jennifer Jamieson; and three granddaughters. Allen Miles Lewis ’70 West Columbia, S.C. Died Dec. 2, 2015. He is survived by wife, Kay Fisher, 206 Emanuel Creek Dr., West Columbia, SC 29170. Thomas Hubert Stokes Jr. ’70 Quebec, Canada Died July, 7 2015. Thomas is survived by his aunt, Mildred Stokes. J. Timothy McCaulay ’71 Fort Wayne, Ind. Died Feb. 5, 2016. He is survived by his wife, Sharon, 4715 Hartman Rd., Fort Wayne, IN 46807; son, Phillip McCaulay; stepsons, Michael Milholland and Mark Milholland; and three grandchildren. SPRING 2016

theUnion: In Memoriam Samuel Rankin Fisher ’72 Durham, N.C. Died Nov. 25, 2015. He is survived by his mother, Marjorie Rankin Fisher; four children, Samuel Rankin Fisher Jr., Lee Reesman Fisher, Marjorie Randall Fisher and Robert Watson Fisher; one grandson; and two brothers, William Sloan Fisher III ’70 and Evans Watkins Fisher ’75, 904 14th Ave. NW, Hickory, NC 28601. Christopher Harrison Johansson ’72 Vale, N.C. Died Feb. 12, 2016. Chris is survived by his wife, Victoria Harrison Johansson, 3450 June Bug Rd., Vale, NC 28168; and by his mother, Patricia Adams Johansson. Walter Winton McAlhaney ’72 Anderson, S.C. Died Sept. 20, 2015. He is survived by wife, Kathleen S. McAlhaney, 302 Burning Tree Rd Anderson, SC 29621. Michael Stephen O’Malley ’72 Chapel Hill, N.C. Died June 24, 2015. He is survived by wife, Nadine Ishmael O’Malley, 105 Silers Fen Ct., Chapel Hill, NC 27517; and daughter Bailey Gatens.

William Edward Petitt ’75 Columbia, S.C. Died Nov. 25, 2015. He is survived by his wife, Terri Petitt, 114 Hidden Pastures Dr., Cramerton, NC 28032; and son Dallas. George Weicker III ’75 Arrington, Tenn. Died Feb. 21, 2016. He is survived by wife, Lucy Bedinger Weicker ’81, 2215 Osburn Rd Arrington, TN 37014; his mother, Evelyn Weicker; and his children, Woody Weicker and Libby Weicker. Memorials may be made to Davidson College Baseball. Michael Jerome Lord ’83 Tampa, Fla. Died Aug. 27, 2015. He is survived by wife, Jane, 17327 Ballmont Park Dr., Odessa, FL 33556; four children, Janelle Hampton, Michelle Schafer, Forrest Lord and Justin Lord; and his mother, Brenda Puddy Espenship. Merris Anthony Hollingsworth ’83 Wilmington, Del. Died Dec. 17, 2015. She is survived by her wife, Mary Post, 19 Three Rivers Dr., Newark, DE 19702; her

parents, Julianne Lunsford Hollingsworth and J. Hayden Hollingsworth ’58. John DeWitt Phillips ’88 Charlotte, N.C. Died Feb. 4, 2016. He is survived by his children, John DeWitt (Jack) Phillips Jr., Anna Adams Phillips, Katherine Elizabeth Phillips and David Luke Phillips. Sarah Sadowski ’93 Holden, Mass. Died Jan. 21, 2016. She is survived by her children, Evangeline and Verena Welch; her mother and stepfather, Cindy and John Spellane, 135 Meadowood Rd, Holden, MA 01520; her father and stepmother, Richard and Terry Sadowski; and Tim Gannon. Juliana Porter ’12 Charlottesville, Va. Died Oct. 4, 2015. She is survived by her parents, Kent and Ann Byrd Porter, 7700 N Shore Rd., Norfolk, VA 23505.

William D. “Bill” Vinson ’48

ILLIAM D. “BILL” Vinson ’48 passed away at his home on April 7, at the age of 90. He was born in Rochester, Minnesota, to Lenore Dunlap Vinson and Dr. Porter Paisley Vinson, the youngest of their three children. Raised in Richmond, Virginia, he attended Davidson College and proudly served his country during World War II. Upon returning from the war, he completed his degree at Davidson and then obtained a master’s degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It was during his time in Chapel Hill that he met his beloved wife of 63 years, Mary Godbee. They moved to Asheboro, North Carolina, where he began a 35-year career with General Electric Company; upon retiring from GE, he and Mary moved to Davidson. For decades, Bill was known on campus as the most stalwart of Wildcat fans, bouncing over brick sidewalks in a golf cart on his way to the next athletic contest, fundraising event or classroom presentation. He was a regular fan in the stands at field hockey and tennis matches, volleyball, men’s and women’s

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basketball games, football, and men’s and women’s soccer. In 2012, Bill was honored by the Southern Conference with its Distinguished Service Award for his abiding dedication to Davidson athletics. He also aspired each year that his Davidson class would reach 100 percent participation to the college’s annual fund; he had the bully pulpit as a longtime class secretary whose chatty submissions to the Davidson Journal are legendary. Bill’s love for both the college and the town ran deep, with family connections going back a century and a half. His great-grandfather, Pinkney Helper, built the Helper Hotel, now the Carolina Inn academic building. His grandfather chaired the college mathematics department in the 1890s, and his son, Bill Jr., lived in the ancestral family home on Main Street when his dad was renting it to the college for student housing in the 1970s. Bill and Mary renovated the home to its full Victorian splendor and returned to Davidson to live in it in 1987. The family requests, in lieu of flowers, considering a gift to Davidson College, Davidson College Presbyterian Church, Gilwood Presbyterian Church or a charitable organization of your choice. DAVIDSONJOURNAL.DAVIDSON.EDU

theUnion: AfterWord

Cancer Care at a Cost

By Alica Sparling, Assistant Professor of Economics

N THE PAST several decades, we have witnessed advances in cancer screening, treatment and prevention, resulting in lower cancer mortality overall and higher survival rates of cancer patients. But these advances come at a cost. Cancer care is known for expensive drugs and intensive technology use, factors that contribute to high health care spending in the United States. And large out-of-pocket expenditures for patients sometimes lead to debt and bankruptcies. According to a 2016 study published in Health Affairs, one third of cancer survivors accrued debt, with low income individuals more likely to be affected. The challenges for our society are to determine which new technologies and drugs are worth paying for, as well as how to provide equal access to these treatments.

Many institutional and market characteristics contribute to high cancer costs. Patent protection of new drugs and medical devices, while encouraging research and development, also limits competition and leads to high monopoly prices. Yet the law prohibits Medicare from price negotiations with pharmaceutical companies, and without bargaining on the buyerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s side, prices are higher. Moreover, Medicare reimbursement policies give financial incentive to physicians to prescribe more expensive drugs instead of generic drugs. Shifting cancer care from community to more concentrated hospital settings also drives up prices. A recent study published in the British Medical Journal shows yet another fascinating reason for high costs: Many drug manufacturers distribute one-size-fits-all vials that are too big for most treatments, so providers buy more than they need and throw away the leftover drug.

enough value to justify the higher cancer cost? According to a recent study published in Health Affairs, the United States indeed averted more cancer deaths than Europe between 1982 and 2010. Per quality adjusted life year (QALY) gained in the United States compared to Europe, however, the incremental cost to the United States was $402,000 for breast cancer, $110,000 for colorectal cancer, and an astonishing $1,979,000 for prostate cancer. A single, gold-standard threshold separating cost effective treatments from those that are not does not exist. However, these incremental costs per QALY gained are above the generous $100,000 threshold that is based on value of life estimations and favored by many United States economists. They are shockingly high compared to the much more restrictive ÂŁ20,000ÂŁ30,000 (about $28,600-$43,000) per QALY gained threshold range used by the government institution that informs coverage decisions in the UK. The media frequently issue alarming reports about drugs and medical technologies that cost a fortune, yet only marginally, if at all, increase survival rates. For example, a 2013 New York Times article describes how the colon cancer drug Avastin, which extends survival by approximately 42 days, costs $5,000 per month; and because it has to be taken for months to show benefit, its incremental cost per life year saved is about $300,000. This value is high above any cost effectiveness threshold, yet a new drug, Zaltrap, targeting the same population and with similar effectiveness, was introduced at an even higher price of $11,000 per month. In a different article on the market for anticancer drugs published in Journal of Economic Perspectives in 2015, the authors refer to the melanoma drug Yervoy, which was expected to prolong life by four months and was introduced at $120,000 for the course of therapy. Are these good uses of our resources?

Do the Benefits Justify the Cost?

Systematic Economic Evaluation

Contributors to High Costs

The United States spends more on cancer treatment overall than other countries. Are we getting DAVIDSONJOURNAL.DAVIDSON.EDU

One of the first things students learn in econ 101 class is that economics is a study of how we

allocate our scarce resources. Every time our society decides to spend money on one particular treatment, that money cannot be spent on another that may perhaps benefit more individuals. Cost effectiveness analysis is the method that evaluates incremental cost per QALY gained, or life year gained, in order to compare the treatment options. It is not a perfect method. Its quality and usefulness depend on the accuracy of costs and benefits included, use of proper statistical methods and application to relevant patient populations. Nevertheless, it is a tool that can assist decision makers to determine the best allocation of scarce resources, and to prevent wasteful spending. It has become an important component in coverage decisions in other developed countries. In the United States, however, federal law prohibits Medicare and other government programs from using cost effectiveness in decision making, leading to coverage of some very cost-ineffective treatments. Fortunately, frameworks for drug and medical technology evaluations that incorporate aspects of cost effectiveness analysis have been promoted in the United States. One example is the evidencebased drug pricing project and the DrugAbacus online tool for computing the value of cancer drugs, developed by a team at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. At Davidson, students in our health economics classes tackle questions of how access to cancer care, health outcomes and costs of treatments are related to provider characteristics and reimbursement incentives, as well as patient resources, such as income, assets and insurance, education, demographic characteristics and modifiable behavior, such as smoking. They are learning today what they will need tomorrow to make breakthroughs not only in cancer research, but also in design of a health care system that gives us the best value for our money, a system that can deliver and finance cutting edge cancer care and one day, hopefully, also cure cancer. SPRING 2016 73

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