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John Moore ’41 on decades of neuroscience and a life well lived.

4 The Well 40 The Union 68 Faculty Notes 70 In Memoriam 72 AfterWord

introducing:

Adam Hunter ’15

fearlessness is one of the qualities Adam Hunter ’15 has consciously

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cultivated during his time at Davidson. Hunter, who is a member of the men’s swimming and diving team, spent two months last summer in Zambia with eight other Davidson pre-medical students at the Mwandi Mission Hospital, where he worked on a research project focused on non-adherence to antiretroviral therapy in HIV/AIDS patients. On his first full day in Zambia, Hunter completed the second bungee jump of his life—this one at Victoria Falls over the Zambezi River. The largest waterfall in the world provides the backdrop for the nearly 400-foot free-fall above rocks and rapids. In a blog entry, Hunter writes, “There was no time for second thoughts as one man strapped the bungee cord to my ankles and another man filmed my responses to several questions (embarrassing example: ‘So Adam… where’s Eve?’) as well as my ‘last words’ before the plunge.” A recipient of a Vann Fellowship, Hunter spent the summer of 2014 studying biomedical ethics at the Mayo Clinic.

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1964 Got Cake? Year Davidson’s first study abroad program established.

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Extra Mile Additional study abroad options in 54 countries.

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John Syme ’85 Contributing Writers

Robert Abare ’13 Christina Ritchie Rogers ’03 William R. Giduz ’74 Jim Morrill Danielle Strickland Design

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William R. Giduz ’74

Marjane Satrapi Graphic novelist, illustrator, film director and children’s book

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author Marjane Satrapi earned world-wide critical acclaim for her graphic novels Persepolis and Persepolis 2, which chronicle life before, during and after the 1979 Iranian revolution. The novels were inspired by her experiences as a child and adolescent in Iran, Austria and France. Satrapi became the first woman to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature when Persepolis was adapted into film. “You cannot answer stupidity with stupidity; you cannot answer violence with violence,” Satrapi said in a Movieweb interview. Reynolds Lecture, free public event, Oct. 16, Duke Family Performance Hall

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A Great Opportunity Davidson’s move

to the Atlantic 10 (A-10) Athletic Conference comes with great excitement, and also new pressures. Some of you have questions: In what sports will we most excel? How will our teams stack up? Is the travel manageable? What about more scholarships? Underlying all of these questions is one crucial word: opportunity. We must capitalize on the rare opportunity that this move holds out to us. And we must do it now. Like Davidson, the 13 other conference schools share a commitment to academic excellence. Each enrolls and graduates exceptional Division I scholar-athletes. The A-10 is recognized for its graduation success rate—in 2012 an incredible 90 percent of student-athletes graduated. Davidson welcomes the opportunity to compete alongside some of the most driven studentathletes in the country. The footprint of the A-10, which spans from Philadelphia to Richmond and New York City to St. Louis, offers Davidson even greater access to intellectually curious prospective students who are committed to developing their talents for lives of leadership and service. We want to continue to en-

roll and graduate students who will thrive at Davidson. And our move to the A-10 offers us a distinctive opportunity to broaden our reach and increase our visibility along the East Coast. New markets provide Davidson with opportunities to create new strategic partnerships—with funders whose aspirations align with ours (for example, with respect to equal educational opportunity or to the value of the liberal arts) and innovative employers who will hire our exceptional students. What’s more, these new markets are home to many alumni who have and will continue to enthusiastically mentor and empower our graduates to exert disproportionate impact for good in the world. Please join me and our campus community in celebrating this remarkable opportunity. This is a great time for Davidson. Our athletic teams, from men’s basketball to women’s lacrosse, from men’s swimming to women’s tennis, are ready, and with your support we have the greatest confidence they will succeed. I look forward to seeing you at one of our games, either home or away, this season. Don’t forget to don your Red and Black— and Go ’Cats!

A-10 Member Institutions University of Dayton Duquesne University Fordham University Davidson College George Mason University The George Washington University La Salle University

University of Massachusetts University of Rhode Island University of Richmond St. Bonaventure University Saint Joseph’s University Saint Louis University Virginia Commonwealth University Summer 2014

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There may really be nothing new under the sun in this world—but there’s plenty that’s re-new coming out of the earth at The Farm at Davidson College. Davidson bought the 109-acre McIntosh Farm contiguous to campus on Grey Road in 2008, and soon planted the seeds there for farming as a standalone business unit of the college. College students eat differently today than even a few short years ago. In 2005, Vail Commons underwent a $2 million renovation and hired a professional executive chef. That commitment resonated with a growing awareness across the nation and across campus of the benefits of good food and good nutrition. Now, The Farm is an important and growing piece in the big picture of supplying fresh, healthy food to Vail Commons, Davis Café and Much Ado Catering. It’s also an instructive lab and classroom for many and varied academic pursuits. In 1838, the Trustees of the college opined: “The efforts of all enlightened men should be combined to improve the moral condition of society by rendering manual labor more reputable and inviting. This is not to be done solely by pronouncing eulogies, but, as time and circumstances will permit, by holding the spade, the axe, the plow, and the plane.” Read on for a closer look at how that sentiment is playing out down on The Farm at Davidson College in 2014. —John Syme

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The Farm at Davidson College

It is easy to imagine the 1838 Trustees giving an approving nod to Farm Manager Theresa Allen, pictured on the previous page. With decades of successful farming and small-business experience, she also worked as lead horticulturalist at Spelman College in Atlanta.

Sustainability at Davidson includes economic sustainability. As a supplier, The Farm must meet the same price points as all other suppliers, thus without adding any cost to student food bills. Any eventual Farm profit would be used to purchase other local farms’ products for college consumption.

The Duke Endowment has been instrumental in bringing The Farm to fruition, supporting the college’s initial business plan with funding for capital start up costs the first two years. A primary goal is to make The Farm a working model for other colleges and universities.

Vail Commons used 266 pounds of pesto from all sources last year. The Farm was able to provide enough basil for Commons’ pesto needs until mid-November. If it takes two-and-a-half pounds of fresh basil to make three pounds of pesto for the walk-in freezer, how much basil will The Farm produce this year to meet its goal of supplying Commons for the whole year?

Many alumni remember longtime college mechanic Ruben McIntosh, who retired in 2007. To honor his farming family, a McIntosh apple tree holds pride of place in a small orchard that also contains Gala and Pink Lady apple and Keffer and Seckle pear trees—so far.

The Farm grows naturally—no synthetic fertilizers or pesticides. All seeds are certified organic, non-GMO, and/or open-pollinated heirloom varieties of lettuce, spinach, greens, tomatoes, cucumbers, beans, squash, melons, strawberries, beets, carrots, blueberries, herbs and even cut flowers for catering.

The Farm’s 109 acres contains the 1.5 acres currently under cultivation, another acre moving into cultivation in the next year—and room to grow!

The Farm provides a living laboratory and classroom for academic pursuits in and across disciplines. Students and professors in environmental science, biology, mathematics and other majors have studied, and in some cases published, on topics including vermi-culture composting, comparative pest control, pig cadaver degradation (for forensic entomology, and not on the cultivated acreage!), beekeeping, invertebrate diversity, hydroponics and agriculture-related infographics.

The Farm has a 16 x 42-foot propagation greenhouse, and a 30 x 96-foot “high tunnel” that allows year-round growth.

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The Farm provided work for five work-study students last year— Amanda Dukes ’17, Ethan Whitener ’16, Genevieve Rowe ’17, Caitlin Reilly ’17 and Troy Sanders ’17. Three of them have summer farm internships in Ireland, Georgia and New Jersey. This summer, Brad Goldsmith ’15 is working full-time on a student-initiated Stone Fund grant through the Center for Civic Engagement. Tucker Bates ’15 is surveilling the bees this summer, and volunteers in the fields when his genetics research schedule permits.

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Community Standards

ter, and really during their first weeks, at college. So we incorporated an orientation session called “Community of Respect,” which includes information about sexual misconduct.

Q: Why do colleges have processes for dealing with criminal behavior apart from the criminal justice system? KB: The short answer is that colleges

An open dialogue about Davidson’s sexual misconduct policy With Sarah Phillips and Dean Kathy Bray

n the afternoon of May 8, the Davidson community came together for a Safe Walk March to show support for victims of sexual violence. The march coincided with renewed concerns over the prevalence of sexual assault on college campuses highlighted by the release of findings by the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault. Davidson will convene its own task force in the fall to review the college’s sexual misconduct policy and processes. We sat down with Kathy Bray ’85, associate dean of students, and Sarah Phillips ’01, vice president and general counsel, to talk about policy, prevention and community norms.

Q: How does the college define “sexual misconduct”? SP: Davidson’s definition of “sexual

misconduct” includes any non-consensual conduct of a sexual nature, sexually exploitative behavior and sexual harassment. The definition covers a broad range of behavior, from unwelcome verbal conduct that denigrates an individual because of that individual’s gender to non-consen-

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sual sexual conduct that would rise to the level of criminal sexual assault. In the wake of the Campus SaVE Act, which requires us to have policies addressing stalking and relationship abuse and violence, our definition of sexual misconduct now includes those pieces as well. A complaint about stalking could have nothing to do with any sort of sexual encounter between students, but the processes we’re expected to follow in the instance that a report is filed have a lot of similarities, and so we address them under a single policy.

Q: What is your role? How do you interact with students in relation to sexual misconduct cases? KB : In my official capacity as Title IX Coordinator, I oversee the college’s compliance with federal mandates concerning how the college responds to reports of sexual misconduct on campus. Oftentimes students will report sexual misconduct either directly to me or Georgia Ringle, our health educator. I have an oversight role, but I’m also a point of contact for students who’ve experienced sexual misconduct. They may and can also report an incident of sexual misconduct to any member of the

Davidson faculty or staff. As the Title IX Coordinator, those reports come to me, which is important because the college watches for patterns of behavior on campus that need to be addressed. When I hear about a report, either directly from a student or from a member of the community, I help to ensure that the student is made aware of what his or her options and resources are, both on campus and off campus, and I help the student understand the various kinds of support the college offers.

Q: What are some examples of patterns of behavior you look out for? KB: An example would be if I received

multiple reports that sexual misconduct of some kind was occurring on a particular part of campus, or involved a particular group of students, or if there was a point in the semester or the year when reports increased. Then we as a community would want to respond to that by implementing changes to practices, or new educational programs or training to address whatever the reports describe. Here’s an example of a change in practice that dates back a few years. Research suggests that first year college students are most vulnerable during their first semesdavidsonjournal.davidson.edu

and universities that receive federal funding are required to have a process in place. In my personal opinion, it would be an abdication of the college’s responsibilities not to provide a process and procedure for students who have experienced something as difficult as sexual misconduct. For lots of different reasons a person may decide not to take criminal action and yet still want to take some kind of action. When a student comes forward with a report, I inform them that they can pursue criminal action if they want to. If that’s a path they choose, we stand ready to support them in that decision. Campus police can help them understand what that process might look like and what would be required of them. There have been times in the past when I have connected a student with a member of the district attorney’s office for an informal conversation so that the student could get more information about what that process entails. SP: If a student chooses the criminal process, we nevertheless have an obligation under the law to have a process available to them on campus and to hold an investigation pursuant to Title IX. I think our moral obligation is illustrated by the fact that the college had a policy in place long before the federal government began mandating that colleges have these policies. At Davidson, having a disciplinary process for sexual misconduct that is separate from other disciplinary processes predates the government mandates. KB : Davidson as a community is predicated on mutual trust and mutual respect, and Davidson students have an ethical tradition of abiding by high moral standards. So it becomes all the more important that the community

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have established standards of behavior and processes for dealing with violations of those standards.

Q: What are the differences among the Clery Act, Campus SaVE Act and Title IX? SP: Title IX, the Clery Act, and the

Campus SaVE Act are federal laws that address how the college handles [or responds to] reports of sexual misconduct. Title IX prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in education programs or activities, including sexual harassment and acts of sexual violence. Under Title IX, colleges and universities have an obligation to respond promptly and effectively to reports of sexual violence against students and to take action to eliminate a hostile environment created by student-on-student sexual harassment. The Clery Act requires colleges and universities to disclose information about reported crime on and around their campuses, including reports of sexual assault. The Campus SaVE Act is an amendment to the Clery Act and requires schools to develop education, primary prevention and awareness programs to promote the awareness of sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence and stalking.

Q: How was Davidson’s policy created, and how often is it reviewed and revised? KB: The policy was first drafted in 1991.

There was a significant revision seven years ago, followed by two additional significant revisions in the last three years. We will again review the policy and procedures this summer, and then the Sexual Misconduct Task Force will conduct another review in the fall. In each of the reviews we studied our policy in the context of federal mandates, general best practices, feedback we received from students who had been through the process, and feedback from faculty and staff who had served in some capacity in the process. One of the significant changes we made was to provide information to the sexual misconduct board in cases where multiple reports had been filed implicating the accused student. That was an important change in light of the recidivist nature of sexual misconduct. Another

change was that either student involved in a hearing can elect not to have peers on the sexual misconduct board. We learned that having to share the particulars of their experience with their peers sometimes was a perceived barrier to students’ submitting a formal complaint to the board. Now, either student can elect to change the composition of the board so it doesn’t include students—Title IX mandates that both parties must be given the same rights. SP: When we made significant revisions to our policy in 2012, Kathy met with groups all across campus to talk about the process and policy, everything from how to report to what the standard of evidence was going to be. She then held open meetings with students, faculty and staff. That process helped educate the campus about the policy. We value every piece of feedback, every suggestion we get. KB: Once changes to the policy are recommended, it is voted on by the student conduct council twice. After they approve it, it goes to the college president for approval. I have a lot of faith in our policy and procedures. But if there is one student who feels that it didn’t serve him or her well, that is reason enough to review it. SP: In addition to sharing information about the policy at orientation, every time we make a revision the policy goes out to the whole student body in an email, with the major changes highlighted.

Q: How does Davidson educate students about sexual misconduct? KB: With regard to our incoming stu-

dents, each of the 500 new members of our community brings with them a lens that is unique to their background and experiences. Many of the students that come to Davidson come with the assumption that they can trust their peers because of our culture of living with honor and integrity and respecting the dignity of others. I would say their trust is not misplaced—the vast majority of students at Davidson are worthy of that trust. Our responsibility as a community is to educate all members of the community about the realities of situations they could potentially encounter in college, which is one of the reasons we Summer 2014

theWell have an education session at orientation that addresses some of these issues. That session occurs on the first day of the first night they will be without their parents at Davidson College, so our challenge is to educate them out of the gate without scaring them. We follow up that educational piece with additional programming that goes on during Davidson 101 throughout the fall semester, and through hall programming. Our students have a heightened sense of right and wrong. They have very strong moral compasses. To me, that means that at Davidson we have a great opportunity to prevent sexual misconduct. One of the things I’m excited about is the intervention training we’re beginning in the fall— it’s a comprehensive, research-based program developed at the University of New Hampshire that will equip students to intervene in an effective and safe way when they see a potentially threatening situation unfolding. It will also serve to affirm that their instincts are correct.

Q: Please outline the distinctions among the Honor Code, Code of Responsibility and Sexual Misconduct Policy. SP: There are three different processes

for handling violations of each of these policies. Honor Code cases go to the Honor Council, Code of Responsibility cases go to the Judicial Board, and sexual misconduct cases are heard by the Sexual Misconduct Board. So there are different processes, but the same sanctions are available to these three bodies. For instance, indefinite suspension has been a punishment for violations of each of these policies. The sexual misconduct policy deviates from the other policies in that you don’t have to have unanimous consent by everyone hearing the case to impose the sanction of suspension. It just has to be a majority. There are presumed sanctions for Honor Code violations of cheating. We don’t have a presumed sanction for a particular sexual misconduct finding. That’s something the Task Force will revisit in the fall. KB : In all cases it’s critical that the sanction fairly fit the violation, as seen in total context.

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we have Title IX obligations above and beyond what happens in the disciplinary process, and we’ve built those into our policy. When a student reports being a survivor of sexual assault, that student can request, in consultation with Kathy and with her guidance, a number of nondisciplinary measures we can put into place. Examples are no contact orders, class reassignments, medical services, counseling resources and, if warranted, academic adjustments to the student’s course load. All of that can happen even if a student doesn’t want to pursue the disciplinary process, or even after the disciplinary process has happened. There’s a whole other level of support available.

Q: Please explain the standard of proof used in sexual misconduct cases. SP: The standard of proof for sexual misconduct cases is by preponderance of the evidence—that was one of the substantial changes to come out of the federal guidance under Title IX known as the Dear Colleague Letter of 2011. Prior, the college’s standard of proof had been clear and convincing evidence, which is still the standard of proof for cases heard under the Honor Code and Code of Responsibility. By contrast, the criminal justice system requires proof beyond a reasonable doubt.

Q: If a person is found to have violated the sexual misconduct policy, why can suspension be imposed only under certain conditions. SP: Each of our disciplinary policies

has a heightened standard that must be considered in a decision to definitely or indefinitely suspend a student. I think a heightened standard is appropriate given that we don’t have the sanction of expulsion here—suspension is our harshest punishment. To suspend a student, the student’s continued membership in the college must either be judged to be fundamentally at variance with either the integrity of its educational mission, pose a specific threat to the student’s own emotional health, or pose a specific threat to the minimal internal order of the com-

Davidson biology students, including Emma Johnson ’17, relocated a population of local pond turtles to an aquatic “hotel” of sorts while their natural homes underwent extensive renovations.

munity. Those standards are the same as the Honor Code, and were carried over, unchanged, to the Sexual Misconduct Policy. There are three different factors, and you only have to find one of them. Two of the factors are broad enough that if the board felt that, seen in total context, the violation was severe enough, or there’s a continued threat to other students on campus, they would have enough to find for a suspension. That said, the suspension standard will be one of the things the Task Force looks at.

Q : What are some common misconceptions about sexual misconduct? KB: This is not a misconception, but it’s

something I’d like students to know. So much of the data indicates that these are repeat offenders. And I think it’s important for them to have that information so that they feel empowered to act on their instincts. I tell students that there’s a reason they get a bad vibe around a particular person. As young people are figuring out the landscape in which they live, they need to trust their instincts, and intervene on others’ behalf when they sense that something is not right.

Q: As someone close to these issues, what would you tell other parents? KB: I don’t know that this is advice just

for parents, but the other piece of data that comes out of the research is that many perpetrators will use alcohol as a weapon, meaning they will target students who are incapacitated by alcohol and therefore extremely vulnerable— the perpetrator may even supply it with the intention of rendering a person incapacitated. I want to be careful here because the discussion shouldn’t focus on what students need to do to keep safe at college—it needs to be about what we all need to do to stop sexual misconduct. It needs to focus on the perpetrators and intervention strategies and community norms and our response to reports of sexual misconduct.

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Research in Brief

By Robert Abare his summer, nearly 100 stu-

dents remained o n D av i d s o n’s campus for summer research projects, either of their own design or a faculty member’s. The projects are ambitious and transdisciplinary, ranging from the study of mass extinction to the effects of e-cigarette vapor. Most student-led projects are supported through the Davidson Research Initiative (DRI), created in 2007 with the aim of expanding research opportunities and fostering student/faculty collaborations. DRI projects are denoted with an asterisk.

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Just Blowing Vapor*

You’ve probably started spotting them in restaurants or on park benches—people sucking on metallic tubes that glow blue or red before they exhale a jet of vanishing mist. They’re called “vapers,” i.e. people who use electronic “e-cigarettes,” because they are inhaling watery, nicotine-infused vapor instead of smoke. It’s for this reason that many e-cigarette companies claim their products provide a healthier alternative to conventional cigarettes, though researchers are far from supporting that conclusion. Kaki Bennett ’15, under the guidance of Associate Professor of Biology Karen Bernd, may soon shed some muchneeded light on this issue. Bennett has begun exposing rat lung cells to e-cigarette vapor and observing how the cells react to the substance. She places the cells in small exposure chambers, which are attached to e-cigarettes, and then fills the chambers with measureable quantities of vapor. Although e-cigarettes come in an array of flavors, Bennet is testing only classic tobacco and menthol varieties. Preliminary findings show that the lung cells do suffer some damage from the e-cigarette vapor, but it remains to be seen whether the effects are less severe than those caused by cigarette smoke. Bennett and Bernd hope to provide a valuable base line for future studies, as more scientists begin to investigate the health implications of the rapidly growing e-cigarette industry.

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Typically, conservation biologists aim to prevent extinction, but Assistant Professor of Biology and Environmental Studies Kevin Smith and his student researchers Thomas Pederson ’15 and John Overall ’15 are actively attempting to cause it. But by causing extinction, they also may discover the secret to preventing it. The problem of diminishing biodiversity grows more pressing as species die at a faster rate than any other time in recorded history. To speed things up a bit (and then, hopefully, slow them down) Smith’s team has set up outdoor ponds, ranging from three to 10 feet in diameter, which serve as giant petri dishes in which to cause and observe the process of extinction. The ponds also provide a way to examine extinction repeatedly, something unattainable in nature. “When studying natural cases of extinction, scientists struggle to pin down a definitive cause,” Smith explained. “Once a species dies, it’s gone for good.” To cause extinction in his ponds, Smith has introduced invasive species, droughts and chemical contaminants. These stimuli, in turn, can cause extinctions and affect the variety of species living in the ponds, which include zooplankton, insects, snails, amphibians and fish. So, what makes a species more susceptible to extinction? Smith said simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time is part of the answer, but that some species do worse than bad luck alone would predict. Smith and his students will continue to hunt for answers, but in the meantime we can all help minimize species’ bad luck by ensuring they remain prolific and never dwindle to small populations and locations. davidsonjournal.davidson.edu

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Memory Joggers *

Think. What’s the first thing you remember? Is it eating cookies at your grandmother’s house? Scribbling on coloring books in preschool art class? These seemingly insignificant recollections of your single-digit years may, in fact, shed light on the important cognitive functions of your brain. This summer, Kathryn Kemp ’15 and Professor of Psychology Kristi Multhaup are conducting a human study in order to understand the correlation between autobiographical memory and other examples of the brain’s cognitive functions, like attention and language. Through surveys conducted online and perhaps including members of the Davidson community, Kemp and Multhaup will attempt to address the questions raised by this complicated topic. For instance, why can some individuals remember events as early as age three, while others can’t recall anything before they were eight? Science is a series of questions, Multhaup points out. “Every time we learn something, we raise more questions than what we have answered,” she said. davidsonjournal.davidson.edu

Imagine defying the laws of gravity and soaring through the sky like a bird. Easy, right? Now imagine committing a violent crime, like murder, and being completely okay with it. To most, that’s almost impossible. Philosophers refer to the difficulty individuals face when thinking up hypothetical situations as “imaginative resistance.” But why do morally complicated situations create far more imaginative resistance than amoral ones? This summer, Jeong-Hwan Bae ’16, with the help of Associate Professor of Philosophy Meghan Griffith, will attempt to answer that question by drawing on the philosophy of René Descartes. This proves a difficult task, partly because Descartes does not consider the imagining of morally problematic situations in his writings. Descartes’ oft-quoted proposition, “I think, therefore I am,” succinctly contends that pure thoughts are the essence of existence. Forcing yourself to imagine an unlikely moral situation, therefore, removes you—or your essence— from the equation. Bae intends to argue, on the other hand, that greater imaginative resistance in moral cases occurs due to increased personal involvement in the act of imagining. In other words, picturing yourself as a soaring bird doesn’t require you to make a personal judgment; imagining committing carefree murder, however, turns a hypothetical question into a deeprooted quandary.

X-rays Mark the Spot*

In 1997, state archaeologists and historians shocked the nation when they announced the discovery of an early 18th-century shipwreck, identified as the remains of the Queen Anne’s Revenge, the flagship of the infamous English pirate known as Blackbeard. Thousands of artifacts have since been recovered from the ship’s resting place at Beaufort Inlet and are currently being treated at the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources’ QAR Conservation Laboratory. The objects include coins, firearms and metal tools, though most are thickly encrusted with more than 300-years-worth of sandy muck, thus making it difficult to examine them with the naked eye. QAR researchers are now hoping that Ryan Kozlowski ’16 and Professor of Physics Dan Boye can unravel the mysteries of these valuable items by using their Digitome® non-destructive x-ray imaging system. As opposed to traditional x-ray systems, which create single, two-dimensional images, the Digitome® system relies on recording several different perspectives of a single object. The system’s software can quickly assemble the different views such that any mathematically defined contour of the object can be viewed. The Digitome® software is also lean enough to be used on a portable laptop, while the mounting fixture and image plate Kozlowski uses to produce x-ray images are easily removable for transport to remote locations, like the QAR Conservation Lab. Kozlowski’s project may soon allow archaeologists to peer through centuries of oceanic detritus to learn more about the cargo once carried by Blackbeard, while also building an unlikely bridge between disciplines. Summer 2014

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Julia Watkins

The Western Kingdom

During my junior year, I spent a semester abroad in Morocco studying Arabic, multiculturalism and human rights. Though the country is small, it is home to diverse landscapes and peoples. Around the village of Ouarzazate, where I captured this photo, many are of Berber origins and now profit from the allure of the Sahara Desert. As a visitor, I felt lost in the expanse of desert sands, but our guides navigated the dunes with the familiarity of generations. They maintained an encouraging sense of humor as many in our group experienced their first camel rides. The ride was bumpy, but the sunset that met us at the end was one I will never forget. —Julia Watkins ’14

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Time to Celebrate

Davidson to kick off comprehensive campaign

By Danielle Strickland

Notes from a Davidson classroom

By John Syme

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Monday morning in June is a small ark of research students funded by The Duke Endowment, two each from the endowment’s four beneficiary schools. There is a familiar Davidson face; beside her, a student in a Johnson C. Smith t-shirt. Furman Paladins offer pointers on their university’s library loan system. A Duke psychology student’s quotable coffee mug says, “Talk nerdy to me.” Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology Lauren Stutts shepherds discussion. Students report in pairs about peerreviewed research relating to psychological resilience among college students—the focus of a $3 million research grant of The Duke Endowment. (See June 16 news story on www.davidson.edu.) Today, the research publication titles and the survey categories cited offer provocative topics: Socialization of parental attitudes and beliefs in the student. Goals of a college education as seen by the student. Goals of

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the student as seen by the parent. Effects of parental bonding and discipline, education and protection. Behavioral control versus psychological control. And, wait for it…. helicopter parenting. Just what is contextually appropriate parenting for college students? What is contextually appropriate parenting for a particular college student? Stutts takes a spot survey: “How often were you in touch with your parents your first year at college?” Answers range widely. Discussion ensues. “I wish we had high school data.” “In some cases, helicopter parenting might be better than no parenting.” “Lack of autonomy can lead to a ‘maladaptive outcome’….” At the end of the hour, a look ahead to surveys that will go out to families of the incoming Class of 2018—first-hand data that these eight students will help cull from and apply to their own collegial cohorts, and beyond. But first, a time-honored stress buster: birthday cake. Meredith Nakano, Davidson 2015, is turning 21 this sunny June day. “Happy birthday to you….”

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For over a century and a half, Davidson students have ogled the crystal chandelier hanging from the ceiling of Philanthropic Hall, watching it play dazzling host to gatherings for debate, literary or academic honor societies. The glass fixture greedily draws eyes from all other ornamental features in the hall, and for good reason: It’s the twin sister of the chandelier under which Napoleon III was married to Eugénie de Montigi in 1853. Crafted in France, the Philanthropic chandelier was exhibited in London’s Crystal Palace before being sent to New York, where, according to college records, it was purchased on behalf of Davidson by a Mr. H. P. Helper.

Elm or Oak?

Mirroring the historic debate halls of Phi and Eu on Davidson’s Old Quad are the two elongated, brick cottages, Elm Row and Oak Row. Built in 1836 as dormitories for 16 students each, the two identical Rows perhaps provided the first test of memory on campus as students struggled to distinguish one building from the other. Even the buildings’ titles, derived from trees of similar size and name, encourage misidentification. Perhaps one student finally had enough of the confusion and painted the letters ELM ROW into one of the bricks of the appropriate building. The marking isn’t exactly easy to spot. It has faded into near obscurity over the years, however, and has since been forgotten by most students. On your next walk through campus, see if you can spot the ghostly letters, that is, once you determine which building is which.

Illuminated, Reunited

Vellum leaves from a liturgical book of the Western Christian Church are some of the most beautiful artifacts preserved in the E.H. Little Library’s Smith Rare Book Room. These pages, hand illuminated by Spanish monks in the 16th century, retain their vibrant detail and color. Recently, the Smith Rare Book Room allowed the pages to be scanned to a digital archive in an attempt to create a complete copy of the original book, though the book’s many physical pieces remain scattered in archives and libraries across the world.

Fossil Watch

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he weekend of Nov.1415 will be an exciting one for Davidson College, as alumni, parents, faculty, staff and friends of the college gather to celebrate the public launch of the institution’s next comprehensive fund -raising campaign. Throughout the twoday event, attendees will further familiarize themselves with the vision for Davidson’s future and learn more about what it will take to achieve the college’s highest aspirations. “Already, the Davidson family has shown extraordinary support for this comprehensive effort,” said Davidson College President Carol Quillen. “From scholarship support and investment in capital projects to programming support and gifts for the arts and athletics, our alumni, parents and friends demonstrate every day their passion for Davidson and their commitment to the next chapter in its history. I feel privileged to lead the institution during such an exciting time.” The public launch of the campaign will highlight one focus area of the three-part plan to realize the college’s vision. Throughout the course of this effort, Davidson leaders also will be working with alumni, parents and friends to evaluate the college’s operational strategies. This work will involve taking a close look at opportunities to provide students with a more exceptional education and to evaluate the current budget process and business model. The third component is the building of collaborative relationships, both within higher education and across industries. The results of these partnerships will bring new ideas, energy and resources to Davidson and will provide unique opportunities for students to exert disproportionate impact for good in the world. Co-chairs for the campaign were announced recently: John McCartney ’74 of Chicago and Alison Mauzé ’84 of Mill Valley, Calif. McCartney and Mauzé will provide leadership throughout the effort in concert with the entire volunteer campaign committee. The complete leadership team will be announced soon. Please plan to join us on Nov. 14-15. Look for additional information on the Davidson website.

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Trivia question: What prehistoric relics on Davidson’s campus are constantly trampled by strolling professors and busy students heading to class? Answer: The intricate fossils that decorate the floor of the Katherine and Tom Belk Visual Arts Center. The creamy gray Bavarian limestone that lines the interior of the VAC is riddled with million-year-old fossils of prehistoric organisms, which create beautiful spirals and lacy patterns visible throughout the building. Graham Gund, the VAC’s architect, loves the stone so much that he employs it in every building he designs. Art Department lore also asserts that the VAC’s limestone originates from the same quarry that yielded stones used by the college’s lithograph shop. —Robert A bare sumer 2014 17 ’13

He lies there, on a metal bench, feet bare, the nail holes boring

Another Homeless Jesus Waits

into the very marrow

of our souls. This is not the

nglish P rofessor Emeritus and poet Tony

angry prophet who threw the

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money changers from the icy temple. Oh no, this is Jesus, after what we did to him. – Anthony Abbott

Professor Emeritus

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Abbott introduced me to the world of poetry and art during my freshman year at Davidson, in 1967. His poem, the first few phrases of which I’ve copied here, accompanies the bronze sculpture “Jesus the Homeless,” by artist Timothy P. Schmaltz, which was installed in February on our church campus as a permanent and provocative reminder of the plight of society’s marginalized. Not everyone liked our art. The life-sized sculpture looks quite real upon first glimpse, especially in the dark. Apart from a descriptive plaque on a nearby brick post, the only way one might determine the identity of the hooded homeless man is by seeing the nail holes through his feet. Soon after we installed it, more than one passerby called the local police. One davidsonjournal.davidson.edu

By Rev. David E. Buck ’71 Rector, St. Alban’s Episcopal Church

person feared for the community. One person wished to bring the guy some soup. Both its location at the entrance to this new affluent neighborhood in Davidson and the controversial depiction of Jesus as a hooded, homeless man on a park bench provoked pushback from some neighbors. Local NBC affiliate WCNC in Charlotte dramatized the controversy in a news story. Then “Homeless Jesus” went viral, including coverage from National Public Radio and the Huffington Post! Martin McCoy ’81, a member of this parish, donated the sculpture in memory of Kate McIntyre, also a member of St. Alban’s, and the Davidson town public art director before her untimely death from lung cancer a few years ago. Our church’s commitment to both spirituality in the arts and to social justice initiatives made Martin’s offer of this sculpture a “no-brainer” for us. It’s my hope that the sculpture will con-

tribute to this community a heightened awareness, starting with me and this parish, of the plight of the marginalized. I hope we will learn better to express our faith commitment through creative and proactive engagement with the problem of homelessness. I wish fellow alumnus Martin McCoy all the best as he explores with artist Schmalz the possibility of placing copies of Homeless Jesus globally. Amid the f lurry of reactions to the sculpture were emails of support from all over the world. Strangely enough, support for the sculpture seems to transcend the polarization between conservative and liberal streams of faith, at least the emails I have received. Not only that, more than one self-labeled “atheist” has written to us, in effect saying, “I don’t believe any of your religious stuff, of course. Yet for once you folks got something right.” Not sure why that pleases me so much. Summer 2014

Outside of the Lines

Born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica, Stewy Robertson ’15 grew up

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tracing and selling Dragon Ball Z drawings, and didn’t receive formal art training until he attended The Lawrenceville School in New Jersey. The studio art major decided to attend Davidson sight unseen and has never looked back. Robertson returned to Prague this summer for an internship after falling in love with the city and its architecture while studying abroad there last fall. On campus, he was commissioned to paint a street art-inspired mural in the Black Student Coalition house that represents the merger of multiple races. Robertson’s style has evolved from Dali-esque drawings to provocative canvases inspired by the scale and speed of street art. He explained, “I’ve always been interested in mixing visual elements, but they never actually have meaning until I’m finished.”

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Seasoned Pro

Forrest Brandt ’14 saved his best for last, leading Davidson baseball to a stunning second-place finish in the Southern Conference, and a programbest 29 wins. He capped his four-year career with a spectacular senior season, earning SoCon Co-Player of the Year honors from the league’s coaches and consensus first-team All-SoCon recognition after batting a careerhigh .364 with 12 home runs and 51 RBIs. Brandt also was elected to the 2014 American Baseball Coaches Association/Rawlings All-Atlantic Region first team, becoming the first Wildcat to do so since 1998. —Mark Brumbaugh

Caroline Price

Top of Their Games By Gavin McFarlin and Mark Brumbaugh big change in David-

son’s coaching ranks took place this past spring, as women’s tennis Head Coach Caroline Price and men’s cross country and track and field Head Coach Gary Andrew announced their retirements. Price and Andrew were the longest tenured active coaches at Davidson.

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Price began her exemplary tenure at Davidson in 1983. Over the past 32 years, her career has been filled with numerous highlights. She guided the Wildcats to the NCAA Division III National Championship match twice, and brought home the 1984 national championship— the only national championship title ever earned by a Davidson athletic team. The following year, Price guided the ’Cats back to the championship match on their way to a school-record 21 wins. “Davidson is a special and unique place— the place and history, and most notably the people,” said Price. “It was a privilege to spend my coaching career here, a place where I believe the philosophy of intercollegiate athletics is kept in proper perspective. You

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get a great education, while doing things you love. When I arrived on campus decades ago, I sensed bright futures, and now as I leave, I continue to see bright futures. Davidson is special, and I want to again thank the school and athletic administration for the opportunity to coach the Wildcats.” Among active Davidson coaches, Price has one of the highest overall winning percentages (.584) of any women’s team. A three-time SoCon Coach of the Year (’94, ’96, ’02), Price concludes her storied coaching career with 422 wins, fourth-most alltime in Davidson athletic history behind hall of fame men’s tennis coach Jeff Frank (541), men’s basketball coach Bob McKillop (472) and baseball coach Dick Cooke (465).

Gary Andrew, Track and Field

Andrew turned in nearly 29 years of dedicated service to the track program. When Andrew arrived at Davidson in 1986, he was the lone coach on staff for the men’s and women’s cross country and track and field teams, and he guided both the men’s and women’s teams through 1992. Andrew went on to earn three conference Coach of the Year awards. Andrew’s cross country teams placed in the top five at the SoCon Championships in

each of the last five years, including programbest runner-up finishes in 2009 and 2011. In track and field, 41 of the 62 indoor and outdoor records kept at Davidson were set during Andrew’s tenure, including 17 since 2012, and a total of 19 individual SoCon Champions were crowned. The Wildcats had not seen the podium as a team at the outdoor SoCon Championships, or even cracked the top five since 1972, until Andrew guided the ’Cats to back-to-back third-place finishes in 2006 and 2007. The ’Cats saw a similar renaissance indoors, cracking the top five in 2006 for the first time since a fourth-place finish in 1971, and finishing a program-best third in 2007. Runners also qualified strictly on time for the outdoor NCAA Regionals in each of the past two seasons—a program first. “I will leave with many happy memories, but what I cherish the most is the friendships I have made with the Davidson student-athletes, staff and faculty,” said Andrew. “The athletes I have coached over the years are part of my extended family and they mean a great deal to me.” Andrew plans on traveling and learning the guitar in his newly found free time, but will continue to live in Davidson and cheer on the Wildcats. Summer 2014

Did you know?

Plants communicate about predators through scent. By Christina Ritchie Rogers ’03

t’s not every day that you’re asked to “smell this” while on your way to study in the library, but last fall Professor of English Zoran Kuzmanovich approached multiple students and faculty members with just that request. It was research, people. He was developing a new course, “Fragrance and Fascination,” which saw its inaugural

semester this spring. He arranged on a library table a collection of different fragrances, asked passers by to identify them, and used that exercise as a starting point for a larger

conversation about olfaction—What did they know about fragrance? What did they want to know? He was building his class from the bottom up. “I needed to hear what people did not know in order to teach what they needed to know,” he said. The exercise yielded a long list of questions, some technical, some philosophical, spanning the multiple facets of olfaction. For example: Why do I love some fragrances and hate others? How many different smells can a human nose distinguish? Does aromatherapy work? How does a person lose his sense of smell? Can odors manipulate human behavior? Can fragrances really bring back memories? The list of questions—more than four dozen in all—served as a foundation for the class struc-

Perhaps the least understood of our five senses plays a prominent role in how we relate to the world and those around us.

ture, which incorporated more than a dozen faculty lecturers and guest speakers from different disciplines and areas of expertise, including biology, environmental studies, literary theory, economics, classics, art, history and chemistry, among others. Kuzmanovich’s library “case study” showed on a small scale what researchers deal with on a large scale: when it comes to olfaction, there are some answers, but many more questions.

Did you know?

The scent of violet temporarily renders useless your sense of smell, and the scent of strong coffee seems to re-set it.

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Ambergris, a very expensive and highly soughtafter ingredient in fine perfumes, is derived from sperm whale excrement.

receive scent information and translate it for the brain

In Southern Africa, witches were identified by their scent.

is the part of the brain that dictates emotional and

Reaction

scents evoke strong emotional responses or trigger

“Some scientists believe our emotions affect the electro-

vivid memories, this proximity of the olfactory neurons

chemical events in our brains through smells and the asso-

and the amygdala may have something to do with it.

ciations we form with them,” Kuzmanovich explained.

Unsolved Mystery

“We can get conditioned in favor of or against a smell.”

Olfaction

“I really like approaching things from many different angles, looking at how things intersect across disciplines,”

motivational responses, as well as the way we store memories. If you’ve ever wondered why certain

“I was surprised to realize how little we actually know

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to process are located close to the amygdala, which

she said. “It’s more like the real world.”

Aroma Therapy Kuzmanovich saw first-hand the power of fragrance as he cared for his dying mother two years ago.

Rachel Hertz, a psychologist, cognitive neuroscientist

“How do you communicate with someone who

about our sense of smell,” said Joey Howard ’17, a stu-

So how do we smell those scents?

and leading expert on the psychological science of smell,

is dying without letting their impending death affect

dent in the fragrance class. “We know a lot about our

Scent molecules, called odorants, are small, volatile

was one of the guest speakers for the class. She argued

every aspect of communication?” he said. “You find

sight and hearing, but that’s just not the case with smell.”

molecules—that is, they exist as gasses at room tem-

in her February lecture that while our preference/dislike

things you can do together. You pay attention to small

Basic anecdotal experience suggests our sense

perature and repel water. Each odorant has a unique

for different tastes is inherent and has evolutionary reasons

things that interst both of you.”

of smell is more than just a biological function, and

shape, molecular makeup, behavior and even vibra-

(for example, “sweet” signals carbohydrates, whereas

And in his mother’s case, Kuzmanovich turned to fra-

research shows the same—in fact, the way we smell

tion frequency. In short, when we inhale, the odorants

“bitter” signals poison and rot), our responses to different

grance. Both avid gardeners with a greenhouse full of

and our response to different scents is the result of an

travel up our nasal passages and are grabbed by cilia

odors are not hardwired. Instead, they are the result of

exotic, fragrant plant species, they developed a ritual he

intersection of biology, chemistry, psychology, history

(hair-like nerve appendages) located on olfactory neu-

associative learning, she said.

calls olfactory autobiography, in which smelling a partic-

and cultural experience, which makes comprehensive

rons. These neurons are located in mucousy patches

The challenge in studying olfaction lies not so much in

ular flower led to sharing of memories triggered by that

study of the process challenging.

at the top of our nasal passages, and when they

deciphering neural function as the brain interprets smells

flower. The practice also sparked curiosity about the way

interact with different odorants they initiate different

but in separating the psychology from the chemistry, the

certain memories became triggered by particular flowers.

cellular chain reactions, sending specific messages

cultural influence from the personal preference, the innate

“I would bring in different flowers, she would identify

to the brain based on the unique types of odorants

from the induced, cognitive from intuitive, and so on. Or

them, and we would discuss and organize the memories

For starters, let’s talk brain real estate.

they encounter. The brain de-codes these messages

rather, it lies in examining the intersection of them all.

she had developed around the scents of those flowers,” he

Generally speaking, brain “neighbors” relate to

to make sense of the scents.

But there are some things we do know.

Location, Location, Location

each other, a concept that makes architectural sense:

While scientists can outline the physical journey of the

In designing a brain, parts located close to each

molecules and their neural translation into information,

other can communicate most efficiently, with less

research suggests that what your brain does with that

gray matter to get through.

information and your personal response to that scent is

In the case of olfaction, the neural receptors that

That is precisely what students and faculty members

said. “Was that before or after we immigrated to the U.S.?

attempted to do during the “Fragrance and Fascination”

Was that when we were in France?” Together, they devel-

class and what researchers continue to do today.

oped a sort of subjective calendar of events long forgotten. Though his mother had lost much physical ability, includ-

Multifaceted Subject “There were so many ‘a-ha’ moments because each

previous experience with and/or exposure to that scent.

class had a unique point of view and subject matter,” Annie Sadler ’17 said. She and her classmates learned

Did you know?

If you change a single cell in a simple organism to alter how it processes odors, its behavior changes significantly.

was rather remarkable, as research shows we lose as much as 80 percent of our olfactory ability as we age. Kuzmanovich’s experience with his mother ignited

about representations of odor in ancient texts, studied

new curiosity, prompting him to delve further into

myths and cultural beliefs surrounding scent, looked at

the study of fragrance and olfaction, and ultimately

the economic impact of the fragrance industry world-

to develop his “Fragrance and Fascination” class,

wide, and even made their own fragrances. The diver-

which is dedicated to his mother.

sity in the curriculum and unique approach to research

“It truly was a labor of love,” he said.

drew Sadler to the class.

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determined by numerous other factors, including your

ing sight, she had not lost her sense of smell, a fact that

Initiative to bridge the digital divide changes lives,

Welcome, Wide World

one family at a time.

ynthia Villareal has never met Franny Millen. But Franny has helped change her life. Villareal, a Dollar Store clerk in Cornelius, has five kids in three different schools. When she wanted to talk to their teachers, she would drive to the schools and wait patiently for an appointment. If her kids didn’t finish their work at school, sometimes it just didn’t get done. And when she wanted to look for a better job for herself, she scoured newspaper want-ads. Last April, Villareal and her family were the beneficiaries of a program inspired by a 7th-grader and developed with strong Davidson College ties. They received laptop computers and home broadband through E2D—Eliminate the Digital Divide—a program started by Franny’s father Pat Millen ’86, a sports marketing consultant and Davidson graduate. Its goal is to put computers and Internet access in the hands and homes of students who lack them. Now Villareal emails her kids’ teachers. She checks job postings online. And she watches her children finish their schoolwork at home. “Whatever needs to be done they do on the computer,” she says.

By Jim Morrill

Connecting to Opportunity

It was in late 2012 that Franny Millen realized that most of her homework assignments at Davidson Elementary required a computer. “I know everybody doesn’t have a computer,” she told her father. “What can we do about it?” Starting with money from lemonade stands, E2D bought laptops for 54 students at Franny’s school. Now, with the help of corporate partners, it’s given hundreds to needy students across north Mecklenburg County, capturing the attention of educators not only in Mecklenburg but across the state. “This is a perfect way they can step up and help support our students,” says Tracy Weeks, chief academic and digital learning officer at the N.C. Department of Public Instruction. As Villareal’s situation illustrates, the program has gone beyond its original vision of helping students. Instead it’s helping entire families. Parents who never sent an email, searched on Google or surfed the Web are learning to go online. “The program, which began as a way for all students to thrive, has become an exploration of the way connectivity can serve an entire family,” says Davidson College President Carol Quillen. “It’s no longer about just giving kids computers. It’s about opening up new opportunities for families that could be transformational.”

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Villareal and her family were among millions of Americans who found themselves on the wrong side of the digital divide. With digital phones, smart TVs and free Wi-Fi in the corner Starbucks, Americans are more wired than ever. But the divide stubbornly persists for many. And in an increasingly digital world, where even routine tasks have migrated online, the gap is widening. In testimony last fall to the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet, Aaron Smith, senior researcher with the Pew Research Center’s Internet Project, pointed out that 30 percent of Americans lack broadband at home. Half of those don’t use the Internet at all. The other half does but has no home broadband. That group shares some characteristics. They tend to be under 45, low-income, less well-educated and generally non-white. Asked why they didn’t have Internet service at home, 42 percent cited cost. Lee Rainie, director of Pew’s Internet and American Life Project,

“They now feel they’re equal to their peers,” Rosenbach says. Scott Smith has seen what technology can do. He’s the chief technology officer at the Mooresville Graded School District, just north of Davidson. His district has been a pioneer in digital learning. It was in 2007 that the district launched its digital conversion project under Dr. Mark Edwards, since recognized as a state and national Superintendent of the Year. Every student in fourth through 12th grade gets a laptop for the school year. Since the program started, the district has become one of the North Carolina’s highest ranked, with rising academic performance and falling drop-out rates. “It completely levels the playing field and gives every child the same opportunity,” Smith says. We’re preparing kids for the future, not our past. We have a moral imperative to reach every child every day, and this is a way to bring that to life.”

“This community has the ability to solve the digital divide without a dime of taxpayer money, I don’t care if you’re talking to a Democrat or a tea party person, everybody sees the value of helping people. To help pull another family out of poverty or give them a better chance, that’s not a hard sell.” says while the digital divide may have narrowed, its effects have not. “There are some obvious deficits in your life if you don’t have a connection,” he says. “It’s harder to navigate life. It’s harder to connect to friends, government or high quality health information. If (students) start behind the starting line, it’s going to take them a long time to catch up.”

Leveling the Playing Field

E2D identifies what Pat Millen calls its “client partners” from the rolls of students who qualify for free or reduced lunch, a proxy measure of poverty. Recipients, the majority of whom are African American or Hispanic, get a laptop and a year of Internet access for $10 a month. Since the program’s lemonade stand launch, Lowes has agreed to provide 500 refurbished laptops a year and local cable provider MI-Connection has pledged discount broadband access. In her first year as principal of Hough High in Cornelius, Laura Rosenbach ’99 identified 75 Hough families who qualified for the program. “To be honest 75 families was kind of surprising,” says Rosenbach. “You just kind of assume everybody’s got everything. But there are a lot of families at our school that are struggling to make ends meet.” It didn’t take her long to see a difference. The number of finished assignments shot up. So did the self-confidence of the students who got new computers.

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a rising Davidson sophomore from Atlanta. “It’s providing a bridge that connects people to this new realm of communication technology that socio-economic and other factors have kept them from accessing. I’m opening doors. It’s fun to see them being introduced to the Internet. It brings joy to a lot of people.” Franny Millen, who just graduated from eighth grade, is proud of what she’s helped accomplish. “Sometimes it’s overwhelming to think about how many people we have been able to help so far,” she says. “I hope it encourages other people to do something good for their communities.” It’s not just people on the receiving end for whom the program has opened doors. “To me it’s an example of why entrepreneurship and higher education go together,” says Quillen. “You have to be open to the possibilities you don’t see…. “The ultimate goal of E2D should be that we don’t need E2D anymore.”

No one can deny the need in North Carolina or in CharlotteMecklenburg. In 2011-2012, 56 percent of North Carolina public school students qualified for free or reduced lunch, according to the Annie E. Casey Foundation. In CMS, the number is over 50 percent. That’s why programs such as E2D are so welcome. “When the community comes together and says ‘We want our children to have access to digital tools,’ that’s very powerful,” says Valerie Truesdale, chief learning services officer at CMS. With lemonade sales and private contributions, E2D has raised more than $75,000. “This community has the ability to solve the digital divide without a dime of taxpayer money,” says Pat Millen. “I don’t care if you’re talking to a Democrat or a tea party person, everybody sees the value of helping people. To help pull another family out of poverty or give them a better chance, that’s not a hard sell.”

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Boundless curiosity and an abiding love for teaching and learning define lives well lived and a capstone achievement — Neurons in Action.

Soon after John Wilson Moore ’41 arrived on the Davidson campus from Winston-Salem, his freshman class gathered for orientation in Love Auditorium.

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The pair’s collaboration, begun in the 1970s, has had far-reaching consequences. One of the first was Jonathan Stuart-Moore, born in 1983. He and Ann Stuart both would come to figure prominently in Moore’s ongoing career capstone achievement, Neurons in Action. Neurons in Action is a computer-based teaching tool that allows students to learn how neuronal impulses are generated and how they travel. It is today a gold standard for neuroscience instruction around the world—a world that Moore first stepped into as a young academic at a time the world could scarcely imagine such a thing.

Mid-Century Scientific Heyday

Military service in World War II after graduation was not an option for John Moore due to a club foot. He signed on instead for graduate work in physics. On the morning of Dec. 8, 1941, Moore arrived to find his physics lab at the University of Virginia surrounded by barbed wire and armed guards. The nation was at war. From that day until Summer 2014

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There the Dean of Students, Mark Sentelle, a Biblical scholar, greeted them with these words: “I am your dean. The dean has two tasks. The first is to help students out when they are in trouble. The second task is like unto the first: to help students out when they are in trouble.” It is a lesson Moore has lived. His career-long love for students and teachers in all their guises, coupled with his own inexhaustible scientific curiosity, has led him through an extraordinary academic life’s journey of his own, right down the middle of the American Century—and at a quickening pace into the 21st. It is a life he recently summed up eloquently in a chapter of The History of Neuroscience in Autobiography (2011, Oxford University Press). During a June visit at his Chapel Hill home, Moore, a Duke professor emeritus of neurobiology, was quick to credit the lively readability of his chapter in the Oxford tome to the strong scientific and editorial eye of his wife and professional colleague, Ann Stuart, a UNC Chapel Hill professor emerita of cell biology and physiology.

war’s end, his assigned projects ranged from developing an automated direction system for shipboard anti-aircraft guns, using a new technology called “radar” (RAdio Detection And Ranging) to the research and development of an ultra-centrifuge, a project that was ultimately passed over in favor of a diffusion method as a basis for separating uranium isotopes as part of the Manhattan Project. After the war came a seminal year for Moore at RCA Laboratories, under the tutelage of legendary master engineer and inventor Art Vance. Among Vance’s many emerging claims to American postwar research and development, he was an expert in analog computers. He essentially invented negative feedback and the operational amplifier system that would permit precise mathematical operations by machine, as well as the voltage regulation systems peculiar to a new device known as an electron microscope. “Vance helped me rearrange my mindset so that I would think in terms of currents, which then allowed me to understand how op-amps could be used in biophysics and was crucial to my future work,” Moore writes in his autobiography chapter. Subsequent chapter sub-headings telescope his story succinctly across the decades from “The Momentous Encounter with Kacy Cole” to “My First Computer.” One chapter sub-head stands out as a harbinger of Neurons in Action: “1968-1975: Modeling Action Potential Propagation.” In the parlance of electrophysiology—the term “neuroscience” had not yet been coined—“action potential” is a nerve signal measured in millivolts. To model the propagation of a nerve impulse required solving a set of complex equations of many variables, which could only be done by a computer. “In the 1970s, some very, very good students wanted to work with me because I had a computer!” Moore recalls.

Neurons in Action

Moore and Stuart began dating in the 70s, at first at the Marine Biological Lab in Woods Hole, Massachussets, then with semester sabbaticals up and down the Eastern seaboard, and summer sailing at Woods Hole drawing them even closer. Moore had bought a residential lot in 1955 at the scientific enclave for $800, and summers at the cottage he built there remain a seasonal highlight. The couple’s home in Chapel Hill, complete with great blue heron across a placid lake and detachable floating picnic dock with tiny motor, is filled with memorabilia of their careers and life together. Visitors, accompanied by Taffy the well-behaved shelter dog, get a gracious tour of a central hallway bedecked with framed pictures and clippings of every sort and vintage. Entire walls of the home are devoted to the media at the moments of two scientific and musical lifetimes, from vinyl albums and cassettes to videotapes, CDs and DVDs. Computers perch in many a corner, framed here by a glittering collection of Waterford in a windowsill or there by a grand piano and Stuart’s cello, trumpet, even a set of musical glasses on which she and son Jonathan have performed at Duke Chapel. Here and there are tubs of individually-wrapped butter mints, because Ann loves them and so John refuses that their home should be without them. Moore and Stuart pull round their living room sofas, and sync one of the computers to the big screen for a layman’s demo of Neurons in Action 2. Moore got the idea for a simulation-based teaching tool long before any such instruments were available. The Internet was still relatively new. In 1993, Mike Hines, developer of the NEURON simulator, introduced Moore to a new phenomenon, an Internet “browser” known as MOSAIC. Moore immediately had the then-novel idea of linking text with actual laboratory simulations.

Several years later Stuart joined the effort, as did their teenage computer-savvy son. In 2000, Sinauer and Associates published Neurons in Action. In 2003, Stuart met with Davidson’s R. Stuart Dickson Professor of Psychology Julio Ramirez to get pointers on how to write a National Science Foundation grant. Their efforts paid off with a grant for Version 2, published in 2007. Version 2.03 includes 28 tutorials, including modules on ion channel kinetics, toxins and membrane excitability. Fully adjustable variables open the way for today’s students to explore any thought that crosses their own neurons. “When Ann Stuart and John Moore introduced Neurons in Action, there was little in the field of neuroscience education that came anywhere close to the excellence of that software education package,” says Ramirez. “Version 2.0+ continues to be an extraordinary educational tool that introduces students to the fundamentals of neurophysiology on an intuitive platform, and deeply engages them in scientific inquiry in a simulation environment. I was honored to have had an opportunity to chat with Ann and John (both giants in neuroscience research) when they were contemplating its newest iteration with version 2.” Moore reflects on his long and happy path, from simply noticing as a Davidson undergraduate that his math and physics professors seemed to be enjoying themselves, to bringing that same spirited sense of fun and free inquiry full circle to today’s students. “I can tell more about what a student knows by his or her questions than by the answers to questions I ask,” Moore says. “I tell them, ‘Ask “what if” questions based on your understanding, and then run the simulation to see if you are correct.’ That is how Neurons in Action leads to the ‘Aha!’ moment.” Aha!

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Gustavo Orozco-Lince ’14, provides a nuanced view of the Andean nation, as well as an appreciation for the complexities of international diplomacy. Daniel Merrill ’14 is among the students looking out at the mountains beyond Cali. “It’s never really as far away as you think,” Merrill says of the guerrilla fighting. Currently a medical student, Merrill was the only biology major on the 2014

of herbicides to eradicate the hearty coca crops or planting alternative crops to replace the destroyed coca—have their own environmental side effects. “In an attempt to promote alternatives to the relatively lucrative coca plantings, they are bringing in invasive plants that jeopardize the health of some of the local plant species, some of which may have never been catalogued and may have medicinal value,” he says, adding that there are concerns about the long-term health effects of the herbicides. The controversial, U.S.-backed program to eliminate the indigenous plant whose leaves are used in the manufacture of cocaine is part of a multi-pronged strategy to combat Colombian drug cartels and insurgent groups. And by most accounts, the strategy is working.

Believe in Colombia

Laura Chuckray ’14 and Pablo Zevallos ’16 were among the students asked to consider whether Colombia is a “post-conflict” society.

staff ride. Merrill brought a different perspective from his peers, who were mostly political science majors. Colombia boasts the greatest biodiversity in the world, with its rich ecosystems and varied climate zones. Merrill explains that the country’s biodiversity is threatened primarily by the coca cultivation and cocaine production that cause toxic cocktails of chemicals to leach into the soil and rivers. Making matters worse, the efforts to combat drug production—spraying

Colombia has come a long way in just a decade. Kidnappings have dropped by 95 percent to about 200 per year. Murders are down by half, tracking at a rate last seen in 1984, Crandall says. The country boasts a solid economy with sustainable growth rates. Along with 60 percent of the world’s emeralds and the enchanting magical realism of author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Colombia exports coffee, petroleum, bananas, sugar, digital services and counterinsurgency expertise. In the 1980s, at the height of drug kingpin Pablo Escobar’s reign of terror, his hometown Medellin was among the most violent cities in the world. It now boasts a thriving fashion industry, clean, efficient public transportation and a library that allows patrons to check out books without providing identification, on their honor. Despite 50 years of armed conflict, Colombians are among the most happy people in the world; in fact, twice as happy as the global average according to a WIN/Gallup International Association poll. The country ranked first out of 54

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amilies gather in a local park punctuated by a clear, freshwater stream, in the heart of Cali, Colombia’s third largest city. A few miles away, mountains form the city’s natural border. A group of students are enjoying the atmosphere with Professor of Political Science Russell Crandall. Crandall points out that the armed guerrilla groups they’ve been hearing about—the Marxist FARC and ELN, and Bacrims, bands of former paramilitary fighters—inhabit those very mountains. The juxtaposition of the idyllic scene and potential violence is striking, and illustrative of the many contradictions within this country of more than 47 million people. Each year, Crandall invites Davidson students to witness and explore firsthand those contradictions, as well as the economic and social development that has taken place in Latin America’s oldest democracy, through the “Colombia Staff Ride,” a trip during which students meet with high level government officials, former guerrillas, leaders of NGOs, journalists and others working to transform Colombia. The Colombia t rips orig inated out of Crandall’s “Insurgencies and C o u nt e r i n s u r g e n c i e s ” s e m i n a r. Crandall, who previously served as Principal Director for the Western Hemisphere at the U.S. Department of Defense and as President Barack Obama’s national security aide for the Andes, has parlayed his connections into a unique educational opportunity. “I’ve been able to rely upon colleagues and friends from government and academia that help us to pursue this academic visit, and give us remarkable access,” Crandall says. The experience, made possible in large part because of the support of Colombian nationals and Davidson College alumni Eduardo Estrada ’03 and

nations in the “Global Barometer of Hope and Happiness” category. It’s not surprising then that Colombia produced Pedro Medina, the very embodiment of hope. The Davidson contingent spent time with Medina, founder of the NGO Yo Creo en Colombia (I Believe in Colombia), at La Minga, Medina’s eco-friendly retreat located outside of Bogota. Medina, whose education includes bachelors and masters degrees from the University of Virginia and a degree in hamburgerology from McDonald’s Hamburger University, set out to “change the mind of a nation” in 1999. At the time, Medina was a professor of business strategy and entrepreneurial development and general manager of all of the McDonald’s restaurants in Colombia. When he asked his students how many of them planned to remain in Colombia, the majority countered with a question—‘why should we stay?’ Unable to provide a compelling answer, Medina left the class determined to create an initiative that would inspire pride in Colombia among its people and enhance the country’s image worldwide. Yo Creo en Colombia has met with enthusiasm and success. Speaking engagements take Medina and his staff to every corner of the country, and he has trained upward of nearly 2,000 volunteers to inspire Colombians to know, build and believe in Colombia, and to take advantage of the country’s potential and resources. What began as a grassroots initiative has gone global—change agents from all over Latin America contact Medina to help them seed their own Yo Creo initiatives. Medina’s few detractors accuse him of utopian delusions, but the social entrepreneur says he merely seeks to present a balanced picture of Colombia that counters the deluge of negative images presented by Hollywood and traditional media outlets. “I don’t deny Colombia’s reality or its past,” Medina says, “but I do want to highlight the positive side and empower people to be part of the change.”

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“…I do want to highlight the positive side and empower people to be part of the change.” On a previous staff ride, the Davidson group met with Vivan Christman, founder of UnBosque, a logging company that hires IDPs. Christman notes that his business model’s success rests in the philosophy that “reconciliation requires a focus on the future—not on the past.” Some aspects of that philosophy in practice are a hard sell to citizens who’ve lived in the shadow of violence for a half-century. One such practice is the government program to reintegrate former guerrilla fighters into society—an important component of any post-conflict peacebuilding program. The students spent time with a former paramilitary fighter who had completed the reintegration process. “She talked about some of what she

endured while she was a paramilitary and about how hard it was for her post-reintegration,” Merrill says. “Once people found out her background, parents would not let their children play with hers, people would stay away from her house—she even had to move a couple of times.” The meeting underscored that, while there is a strong desire for peace—94 percent of the population disapproves of Colombia’s largest guerrilla group, the FARC (Fuerzas Revolucionarias de Colombia)—the healing process will extend far beyond the resolution of conflict. “There is the desire to be a post-conflict society,” Merrill says. “But, because Colombia’s unique in that they’re not conducting the peace talks under a cease fire, there is still conflict.”

Perception & Reality

The question of whether Colombia is a post-conflict society remains debatable; as does the role perception might play in moving Colombia to a new reality. “What surprised me were the disparities in what we heard from different corners of society,” says Pablo Zevallos ’16. Those corners included a representative from the U.S. Embassy, a five-star general in command of Colombia’s First Army, a constitutional lawyer, the Mayor of Cali and the country’s Vice Deputy for Foreign Affairs and Urban Security Minister, among others. Zevallos, a New Yorker with a keen interest in urban issues, notes that the “view from 5,000 feet” tended to be rosier than the view presented by those “on the ground.” Still, Zevallos recognizes parallels between how both his hometown and Cali, under the leadership of Harvard-trained epidemiologist Mayor Rodrigo Guerrero Velasco, successfully employed the broken windows theory to decrease crime rates—a coup for a city once besieged by a notorious drug cartel. Each gain in security, social capital and economic growth justifies hope, a Colombian characteristic that is central in the uphill battle being waged by individuals in every corner of Colombian society. Perhaps as important as the gains touted by government agencies and communicated through statistics is public acknowledgment and celebration of the gains themselves. “Colombia is in conflict, yes, but at the same time moving forward with post-conflict ideas, programs and peace negotiations,” Merrill says. “They have their eyes on the future and a better tomorrow.”

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It is within this context of significant social and political change that Davidson students were asked to consider a fundamental question: Is Colombia a post-conflict society? In a post-conflict society, where war has ended but real peace remains elusive, sustainable systems and institutions are essential. Without them, a country or

region might remain in a tense situation for years or decades under the threat of violent relapse. Among the things a post-conflict country must do: disarm combatants, repatriate refugees, encourage economic development and bridge social divisions. Cambodia, Germany, South Africa, Rwanda…these nations were once, or are currently, considered post-conflict. Upon return to campus, the students presented a public lecture and discussion about Colombia’s present status. The students agreed that, without question, things are looking better in Colombia. The Victims and Land Restitution Law is in place, and the government has vowed to restore millions of acres of land to Colombians driven from their homes by violence: no small task given that in excess of four million internally displaced persons (IDPs) inhabit Colombia—more than any other nation.

Pedro Medina, founder of Yo Creo en Colombia

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Alumni Notes

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66 College Bookshelf 70 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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who opt to simplify their lives by inhabiting smaller spaces. Tiny houses are typically no more than 400 square feet in size and come in a variety of shapes. The tiny life gained traction in the wake of the financial and housing crisis; now tiny housers tout the appeal of their diminutive domiciles at conferences all over the country, including in Charlotte, where the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first Tiny House Conference sold out in April. More on page 61.

theUnion: Alumni 2014 Board of Trustees ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS Minnie Iwamoto ’91 President Lisa Howe Combs ’90 President-Elect Alvin Atkinson ’81 Immediate Past President Jarred Cochran ’03 Vice President Tiara Able Henderson ’97 Vice President Marya Howell ’91 Secretary

DECADE REPRESENTATIVES Terms ending in 2014 Susan Cunningham Jonas ’77

John W. Chidsey III ’83 Chair Robert J. Abernethy Thompson S. Baker II ’81 Brett M. Berry ’89 Richard N. Boyce ’77 Kristin Hills Bradberry ’85 F. Cooper Brantley ’70 Ann Hayes Browning ’79 Lowell L. Bryan ’68 Lisa Howe Combs ’90 Robert B. Cordle ’63 Kenneth S. Crews ’70 E. Rhyne Davis ’86 Laurie L. Dunn ’77 Virginia Taylor Evans ’80 Mark W. Filipski

Lee Ann Stackhouse Patterson ’82

Lewis F. Galloway ’73

Julia Boyd Mitchener ’91

Earl J. Hesterberg ’75

Yvette Pita Frampton ’95 Nicole Watson ’95 Charlie Shaw ’01 Antonio Rodriguez ’14 Senior Class President

J. Chrisman Hawk III ’67 Edward P. Imbrogno ’81 Minnie Iwamoto ’91 Adrian Darnell Johnson ’00 Anne Hurt Krieg ’83 John C. Laughlin ’85

Terms ending in 2015 Bill Mills ’64 Susan Baynard Clayton ’78 Lisa Hasty ’81 Scott Tonidandel ’96 Faculty Representative Frankie Jones ’05 Bryant Barr ’10 Liz Boehmler ’98 Mike Torres ’01

Gary S. Long ’73 Mary Tabb Mack ’84 Elizabeth Brooks Mailander ’85 Prem Manjooran ’92 Alison Hall Mauzé ’84 Mackey J. McDonald ’68 Andrew J. McElwee, Jr. ’77 Shannon Walters McFayden ’82 Robert J. Miller ’84

Terms ending in 2016 E. Thomas Miller ’56 Thomas Warlick ’56 John Craig ’66 Mary Gilliam Dresser ’78 Amoura Carter ’07 Elizabeth Smith Brigham ’04

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 Susan Casper Shaffner ’80 Mitzi Short ’83 E. Follin Smith ’81 R. David Sprinkle ’66 Samuel V. Tallman, Jr. ’69 Carole M. Weinstein Benjamin F. Williams, Jr. ’84

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From Alumni Relations: Our sincere condolences are extended to the family and friends of Richard Swaringen ’32, of Wilmington, who passed away Jan. 31. We extend our sincere condolences to the family and friends of W. Blair Gwyn ’33, who passed away March 25 in North Wilkesboro. At 102 years old, Blair was the second oldest Davidson alumnus at the time of his passing. He was vice-president of his senior class, member of the varsity track team and member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity. He was on Davidson’s Board of Trustees and the board’s Executive Committee from 1971 to 1981 and served as class chair for numerous fundraising campaigns at the college.

AS TOLD BY: Don Davidson, Class Secretary Currently there are eight of us living in addition to your Secretary: Bill Boyd, Murfreesboro, Tenn, (whose phone failed to answer for over a week). John Mawhinney, Houston, Texas, almost our baby, continues to be active and, with Lucy, plans to drive back to their retreat in Montreat, N.C. Remember that their wedding was near our famous 50th reunion. And despite being troubled with Parkinson’s, that smart Lucy continues to have them celebrating the anniversary with a present every month. Tom Mullen, Waynesboro, Va., whose mind is clear, finds living in a retirement home satisfactory. He’s aided by assisted living helpers, has privacy, but is no longer able to drive and misses his ability to visit children, but he’s thankful for their visits to him. Bill Rainey, Knoxville, Tenn., may be our baby. He’s glad that the retirement home, into which he moved when Mary Swan died, overlooks his former longtime home. With many friends and some family nearby, life is good for Bill. It’s also good for Stitt Robinson, Lawrence, Kan., whose wife, Connie, is an active partner-both are still able to drive and Stitt is loaded with energy. Since retirement as a professor of history at the University of Kansas, Stitt has published 11 books and over a half-dozen scholarly articles. Their son and only grandchild live in Seattle, where the son continues to work full time for FEMA, despite an injury (in the line of duty) that confines him to a wheelchair. Perry Sloan, Durham, is still alert, cheerful and interested in all that surrounds him, despite being virtually blind. He continues living in his comfortable home and has excellent care. He’d love a visit if any Davidsonians are nearby. Johnny Tice, Duneden, Fla., is happy living with his beloved daughter, Pam, who still remembers attending some of our reunions. Son and namesake plan a trip to Washington, D.C., to take Johnny to see the WWII Memorial. Despite Alzheimer’s, Johnny seems happy, and usually rides the bus that takes him to “play day.” Johnny Wilson, Black Mountain, N.C., is our oldest, and fully expects to make it to 100. His wife, Nancy, is as feisty as ever and they are a joy to visit with, on the phone and even better in person. Two of their six children live close by and all are active

in helping someone in need every day. And since the Class of ’38 has no secretary, we are permitted to tell you a bit about Dick Vowles ’38, son of our beloved professor of German, Dr. Guy Vowles. Dick grew up among us and earned his doctorate in English at Yale. Following which he taught at several distinguished universities, was a Fulbright fellow in Copenhagen, a Strindberg fellow in Stockholm and a Norwegian government fellow in 1978. He and Ellen had two children who survive him. Ellen died in 2006 and Dick died Dec. 19, 2013. As a recognized authority on Scandinavian literature, he introduced a number of their authors to American readers and will be sorely missed by a host of family and admirers. Contact: G. Donnell Davidson, 5100 Sharon Rd., Cottage 132, Charlotte, NC 28210; gdonanne@carolina.rr.com

AS TOLD BY: Jack Ferguson, Class Secretary The 1940 classmates have special memories of their years together at Davidson. Many remember those special years only to find ourselves in declining health. We pray and ask God’s healing hands and blessings on all. Contact: Jack Ferguson, 9743 Malvern Hill Ln., Richmond, VA 23231; 804-795-2520; jmsrvrlmbr@aol.com

AS TOLD BY: Jim Mooney, Class Secretary George Harrison McDonald writes “Interesting and a bit sad that there were/are only seven ’41ers listed as email participants. Hopefully there are others, many others, who are not online. I am living in the Atlanta suburbs, at Presbyterian Village ... several other alums living here, most having graduated in the 50s. Really did enjoy smoozing with Casey Jones for several years, as his wife is a resident here also. Sadly, Casey passed away a few years back. In recent years, I have attended an Elder Hostel program about every other month, but now-a-days seems to be about every six months. Next one will be at Montreat, N.C. I was an airplane driver in the USAF for 20 years, after which I worked as purchasing manager for a company that builds large industrial steam plants ... engineers from Ga Tech and Clemson. Three grand-kids out of Penn State and one from Appalachian State, now at LSU...that’s where the action is. Enjoying reasonably good health, considering the mileage, and always glad to have the Davidson Alumni news, in hopes of seeing items from fellow classmates. Alenda Lux !” Contact: Jim Mooney, 10631 Vinedale St., Unit A3, Sun Valley, CA 91352; 818-252-5941; jimooney@att.net From Alumni Relations: Our sincere condolences are extended to the family and friends of William Eagan who passed away Nov. 26, 2012, and James Ewart who passed away in November 2013. We also extend our condolences to the family and friends of Stuart Gibbs and Joseph Wilson, who passed away Jan. 14 and Feb. 27, respectively.

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NO CLASS SECRETARY If you are interested in this volunteer position, please contact the Office of Alumni Relations at alumniclassnotes@davidson.edu or 704-894-2559. From Alumni Relations: S. Mitchell Mack writes, “There is very little going on for me in this part of my life. I just turned 93 years old, and I discovered some time ago that aging is not for sissies, and I really wonder how these senior years got named the ‘golden years.’ I have enjoyed Davidson basketball and Coach McKillop since he has been aboard, though this year has been a bit of a letdown. My life has been active but recently my volunteering has diminished in the community. Both of my shoulders are gone and it is difficult to exercise. I still support Davidson as it was good for me.” T. Haughton Pardee is living at his home in Matthews with assistance. He fondly remembers his days at Davidson and his classmates and is always interested in updates. Our sincere condolences are extended to the family and friends of George Brown who passed away Jan. 21.

Contact: Jack Behrman, 750 Weaver Dairy Rd., Apt. 223, Chapel Hill, NC 27514-1467; 919-9183602; swingsync@gmail.com

From Alumni Relations: Clarence McArthur passed away Jan. 14. Our sincere condolences are extended to his family and friends.

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Contact: H. Newton Spencer, 250 Golf View Rd., Ardmore, PA 19003; 610-356-3700 (b); 610-649-5628 (h); hnspencermd@comcast.net From Alumni Relations: Our sincere condolences are extended to the family and friends of Lee Potter ’45, of Durham, who passed away Jan. 17, and Horace Pearsall ’44, of Wilmington, who passed away April 16.

AS TOLD BY: George Gunn, Class Secretary In April more than a few of our generation gathered on the campus to celebrate the Centennial of the first issue of The Davidsonian. I was able to share the memory of how I joined the editorial staff as a freshman. The old lady was once a girl! Gunning Around by George A rising freshman at Davidson, I got off the Greyhound bus in front of “Doc” White’s Drug Store on Main Street. It was a bus I had boarded early that September morning in my hometown, Bluefield, West Virginia. Main Street bordered the Davidson College campus and, as U.S. Highway 21, carried virtually all of the North Carolina Piedmont’s north-south traffic in 1943. Freshmen were in the majority in that fall of 1943. The ranks of the upper classmen had been significantly reduced by the draft and by hurried davidsonjournal.davidson.edu

enlistments to avoid being drafted into the infantry. Just three months earlier the graduating seniors, including R.O.T.C. cadets, newly commissioned infantry officers, shed their caps and gowns beneath the campus flag pole, and ceremoniously marched away in their khaki uniforms. Within the next 12 months I would be clipping the daily papers, as my campus job in the Alumni Office, and posting names and pictures of members of the Class of 1943 on a Chambers hallway bulletin board, early casualties on the fronts of both European and Pacific theatres of war. This sudden exodus put the leadership of every campus organization, every team sport, and every publication up for grabs. For my freshman English class that fall I wrote a piece descriptive of a winter hike I had made, under a clear blue sky and through a deep snowfall, a trek to the top of East River Mountain. My mentor, Professor “Jap” Cumming, read it aloud to the class and added, “Now, gentlemen, that’s what I call good creative writing!” Shortly thereafter, I found The Davidsonian office, a dusty space in Elm Row. To a sophomore, Jim Love, had fallen the task of keeping The Davidsonian published and “standing for the best things in every line.” I was soon writing and doing my best to help the cause. I proposed to the editor my writing a weekly column. I chose as my byline, “GUNNING AROUND by George,” primarily to put my name on it. I also suggested as the spelling: “G” as in Jerusalem, “U” as in Europe, and “N” as in Pneumonia, plus double “NN” as in double pneumonia! Looking through past issues of the weekly publication, I found 1941 and 1942 issues and the writing of another would-be journalist, a fellow student named William Styron. His stuff was good and worthy, I believed, of encore publication. I submitted it with full credit being given to Bill Styron. I realized I was in good company! I aspired to write as well. When I inquired of his tenure at Davidson, I was told that “Stinky” Styron had transferred from Davidson to Duke. Years later, when I read Sophie’s Choice, I identified one character in that 1970s novel as the author himself, Sophie’s friend and soul-mate, “Stingo.” Contact: George Gunn, 200 Tabernacle Rd. Apt. J222, Black Mountain, NC 28711; 828669-5646 ; greatgunns50@gmail.com

AS TOLD BY: Fritz Vinson and Bill Vinson, Class Secretaries Several weeks ago I sent letters to 10 of our classmates, selected at random, soliciting a few notes about what they are up to these days. Bob Gourley quickly responded with the following note: “In good weather I play golf an average of four times a week. I play an instrument in the Community Band, and though I have retired as choir director, I still sing in the church choir. I know it sounds like bragging but I am grateful the Lord has blessed me with these abilities. It gives me the privilege of joining my wife and family in wonderful ocean cruises and visiting historical places. Finally, I get to hug children, grandchildren and great grandchildren.”

A few days later, Bill Chance responded with, “I hadn’t planned to answer your letter but I kept yours on the desk just as a reminder and it kept picking on me, so here is the result. I don’t even remember the years that I attended Davidson but it’s one of the best things I’ve done. My health is good considering my age and I enjoy every day. My wife died two years ago so I’m living alone.” Bob and Bill are both World War II veterans and presumably older than my 87 years. I know there are more of you out there still enjoying life and remembering that attending Davidson is among the best things we’ve done. Please drop me a note for the Journal’s next issue. Contact: Fritz Vinson, 1026 Doral Dr., Pawley’s Island, SC 29585; 843-235-2611; fritzvinson@live.com Bill Vinson, P.O. Box 610, Davidson, NC 28036-0610; 704-892-8123; wdv1tennis@ bellsouth.net From Alumni Relations: Our sincere condolences are extended to the family and friends of James Pittman Jr. and James Price Jr., who passed away Jan.12 and March 23, respectively.

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

From Alumni Relations: We extend our sincere condolences to the family and friends of the following members of the Class of 1949 who passed away: Andrew Kirkpatrick Jr., of Wilmington, Del., Jan. 18; Horace “Jerry” Reid Jr., of Elizabeth City, Feb. 24; Cyril “Doc” Rush Sr., of Timmonsville, S.C., April 4.

AS TOLD BY: Jake Wade and Bo Roddy, Class Secretaries The Reverend Reid Montgomery and wife Martha live at The Pines in Davidson. On Reid’s recent 85th birthday, he “officially retired” from the Presbyterian ministry after 60 years in the pulpit. He last preached at Calvary Presbyterian Church in Davidson, which was formerly the Unity Chapel Church. Although Reid attended Davidson for three years, his degree is actually from Elon, where he spent his senior year so that he could commute from his home in Reidsville. Kudos for Reid (and Martha) for their many years in service to their church and to their community. Harry Shaw is retired and still lives in Fayetteville. Harry is a six-year veteran of the U.S. Navy and speaks proudly of his six-year-older brother Bill, who is also a graduate of Davidson. Bill was an outstanding football player at Davidson who volunteered for the Army after his graduation, which was after Pearl Harbor. Bill lost his life in World War II as an infantry soldier while serving in France after combat duty at Normandy and the Battle of the Bulge. He is buried in a military cemetery in France, which Harry has visited on several occasions. Their father is also a graduate of Davidson. All of us salute this outstanding family for their service and loyalty to our school and to our nation. Summer 2014

theUnion: Alumni Spoke with Charlton Torrence, our classmate at Davidson, who is also my (Jake) classmate at Darlington School, Rome, Ga. He is retired and lives at Covenant Village at his home in Gastonia. Charlton has three children and sadly, lost his wife some years ago. He was an outstanding athlete who played football and baseball at Darlington and was an outstanding pitcher at Davidson. Charlton’s sister, Jean, still lives in the Torrence historic homeplace on Franklin Ave. in Gastonia. Heard from Fred Schmaemmle, who lives on Lake Lanier, some 45 miles north of Atlanta, in Dawsonville, Ga., and as Fred describes it, the home of “NASCAR, Bill Elliott, moonshiner cars, and moonshiners.” Fred is retired from the real estate development business and lives with his wife of some 55 years. Bo and I recall great memories of Fred, who roomed across the hall in Watts dormitory from Whit, Bo and me our freshman year, with Linton Deck and our four-star general, William R. Richardson. John Tolbert still lives in Hickory and writes that he plays golf with the esteemed former editor of our annual, Bob Bumbarger. He continues to ski at Sugar Mountain where he is a member of the Ski Patrol. He says that Hamp Shuford recently joined New Horizons band in Hickory, in which John plays the trombone and Hamp plays the French horn. He describes the band as “serious fun” and while not “good,” its motto is “your best is good enough.” We sadly report the death of Myrtle Wall Stone, March 10. She is the wife of Richard B. “Dick” Stone of King, N.C., to whom she was married some 66 years. Per Hamp Shuford: “Stay well, do good work and keep in touch.” 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: Dick Morgan received the 2013 Legacy Award from the Presbyterian Older Adult Ministries Network. It was said of Dick during the presentation, “This individual is all about helping us find God in the middle of all our life experiences through the good times and the challenging ones, particularly as we age.” Congratulations to Dick.

AS TOLD BY: John D. Hobart, Class Secretary Well, here it is: “All the news that’s fit to print, and then some.” Bill Cassels became a greatgrandfather in March, but we think he’s too young for that sort of thing. Nevertheless, he gets the Abou Ben Adhem award (may his tribe increase). His great granddaughter is named for Bill’s wife, Charlotte. In addition to their son and daughter, they also have four grands. Although he is retired from Southeastern Freight Lines in Columbia, S.C., and his son now runs the company, Bill is doing well and goes to the office daily. He reported recently seeing fellow Columbia native John Coble back in town and having a good visit with him. John is retired from his radiology practice in San

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Francisco, where he has a condo on Nob Hill. He enjoys life there as well as in Paris, where he also maintains an apartment. Bill and Marianne Mebane, along with their dog, have moved from their Victorian home in Wyndmoor, Pa., to Foulkeways, a comprehensive Quaker-based retirement community on a 100acre campus in Gwynedd, Pa. Bill is active in his new community, plays golf and still skis some. He and Marianne have a son, two daughters and seven grandchildren scattered from east to west. In his conversation with your scribe, Bill related an amazing story of someone recently finding his father’s gold Sigma Pi Sigma honorary physics fraternity key in the dirt on a farm in Pennsylvania. How it got there is a mystery. Interestingly Bill’s father, William N. Mebane Jr., ’23, who taught math at Davidson during our time and for many years, was a founding member of the national Sigma Pi Sigma honorary fraternity at Davidson College. His gold key was returned to Davidson. Ray Cunningham and his nephew John Cunningham III hosted a family reunion in Davidson in January with 30 of their clan in attendance. His nephew lives and practices law in Davidson. Ray and his brother, Bill, who went to Davidson but graduated from Michigan State, were the oldest in attendance. Ray keeps in touch with other Davidson guys in the Charlotte area, including McNeil Upchurch ’49, Bo Roddey ’50 and Bill White ’52. Edgar and Ann Tufts moved last year in Winchester, Va., to a new retirement community sponsored by the Lutheran Church. He reported in January that they were all hunkered down enjoying the northern Virginia winter “as much as possible” and pretty well integrated into the life of their new facility. He and Ann have four children and 12 grandchildren, all doing well. Two families live in Winchester, one in Pittsburgh, and one in Banner Elk, N.C. Charles Norwood reports that his golf game was interrupted last fall by a case of the shingles that left him weak, but with plans to get back on it in warmer weather. He says he has curtailed a lot of his civic stuff, but is still on the board of trustees of South Piedmont Community College and Hospice of Union County. And for 60 years he’s been making a joyful noise in the choir at First Presbyterian Church in Monroe. We extend our sincere sympathy to the family of Robert Russell Jinright, who passed from among us March 25, in Thomasville, Ga. Contact: John D. Hobart, 1009 Chestnut Dr., Smithfield, NC 27577-1009; 919-934-7016; fhobart@nc.rr.com

AS TOLD BY: Jack Stevenson, Class Secretary David Crosland called me back because I really couldn’t read much of the handwritten note that this esteemed medical professional (retired) had earlier sent me. We had a great conversation. Some of our conversation went something like this: At UNC medical school one day he had seen this gorgeous young lady sitting in the med school cafeteria and talking with the student body president. When he finally got to talk with her, he learned her name was Anne, (she and David have been married many, many years). “Anne had a boyfriend she had dated through

high school and they were still an item. When this man found out she had another guy taking her out, he wasn’t too concerned--until he found out that I was a Davidson man. He knew then and commented then that his relationship was in really big trouble.” Dave and I talked about the implications of this––he said that he’s never met a Davidson graduate who had achieved anything less than “doing well” with his life. He shares what I imagine all of us feel strongly––that we are so fortunate to have been graduates of Davidson College. He said that he honestly felt at times that Davidson was academically more challenging than medical school! He mentioned that his last year at Davidson he and three other guys rented an apartment over in what was then called Victory Village. They were Ham Wade, Dewey Keesler and Bill White. His freshman year his roommates were Al Fitzgerald and Tom and Dick Stockton. One of my thoughts is that he was very fortunate to have roomed with those guys while he was at Davidson. Bill Lee writes that he has a granddaughter who will graduate with a degree in chemical engineering and plans to then go for a doctorate. He has a grandson who will graduate as a National Merit Finalist from high school. He and Dottie take at least one major trip every year. This year they will visit Glacier National Park, followed by a cruise on the Snake/Columbia River. He is also joining the Westminster Oaks Residents Council and serves there on the Health Care Advisory Committee. He is president of The Forum that brings speakers “from the more liberal perspective” each month. He still preaches about twice a month at Westminster Oaks or at nearby churches. He helps teach a Sunday school class at a church, and he goes to the gym five days a week (I assume he works out there--he never was just an observer of physical activity). Most of us remember that he was on the track team. I may be correct in saying that he ran the mile and other distance races. Bill reads a lot and says he has begun to write more in recent months. Bob Inman says that he and Hope had spent three years on “homecations.” They enjoyed last year a cruise on the American Queen going up the Mississippi River from St. Louis to St. Paul. In October 2013 with another couple from their church, they took a 10-day tour of the English lake country. For their 30th anniversary, they spent a couple of days at the Grand Hotel at Point Clear, Ala. Bob says he has always maintained that “if it is there, she wants to go there.” He has had a problem with tachycardia and periodically has had to visit the hospital emergency room. However, he says that as he approaches the mid-eighties, he’s just happy to be around! We will surely miss Norman Graham Smith, who died Dec. 30, 2013. He was quite involved as an elder with the Hawfields Presbyterian Church, and was a Rotarian, and on the board of the local Presbyterian Home, and of the Presbyterian Child Care and Development Center. He is survived by three daughters, Alice Ray, Reth Dunkley and Penny Smith, and by his son, Tripp. Bill Neal wrote that for years he has overlooked (ignored?) my occasional pleas for you guys to write to me some information about yourselves. I expect his conscience got up with him because davidsonjournal.davidson.edu

he gave me a lot of lines. He and Mary Sue were married two weeks after graduation, and this year they’re celebrating 62 years. They spent two years in the U.S. Navy when he was the supply officer of the USS Powder (DD839). They then went to UNC Chapel Hill, where he earned his M.B.A. They have been in Richmond ever since. He has worked for two banks doing commercial lending, the bank that evolved into what is now Suntrust and for what is now Wells Fargo. They had two sons, Bucky ’77 and Jamie, who unfortunately died from car accident injuries in 1976. They now have four grandchildren and one great grandson. Bill has been an Elder on Sessions of two Presbyterian churches, and has been moderator of Hanover Presbytery, and a commissioner to a Presbyterian General Assembly. He says that in retirement he plays a little golf and is active in Kiwanis. He and Mary Sue visit family in Winston-Salem, and now and then run into Peck Spach or Ted Bowen ’51. Robert Johnson came to Davidson about the time we did. Since he is now 98, I believe that means that he was more than a few years older than most of us when we got there! Over the years of his life he met a wonderful young lady named Patricia while visiting family in Ocean Grove, N.J. They met at church, and they have celebrated 62 years of marriage recently. Together they had two daughters and one son. These children have presented them with seven grandsons and six granddaughters. Among this generation, there are 14 great-grandchildren. Robert said too many of them live too far away to get to visit as often as he would like. He says he is in good health, takes very few medications, and is ready anytime to get his promotion to God’s great kingdom which we call Heaven. Contact: Jack Stevenson, 216 McGregor Ln., Easley, SC 29642; 864-442-9070; jps28@ bellsouth.net

AS TOLD BY: Joel Goudy, Class Secretary For those of us fortunate enough to make it to our class reunion in 2013, it was a great weekend. Our class had 35 signed up and 33 made it. The dining room was full of gray hair and smiles. Larry Dagenhart, Jack Ruth and A.C. Gregg did a wonderful job organizing and running the show. After dinner, Larry asked if anyone would like to share memories, please take the microphone and do so. I wish that I had thought to bring a recorder to catch some of the “Davidson Sins” that came out of the closet. The campus has changed with new buildings and a beautiful new sports complex. The student volunteers were great and very informative. We old timers can remember having to wear our freshman beanies and tip them to faculty members. I did not notice any caps. We can remember having to speak to everyone we met on campus. (So I did at the reunion and got some strange looks from some of the students.) It is always sad to report the loss of friends. We have lost five since the reunion. Dr. Howard Proctor, George King Jr, Arnold Whisnant, Jesse Caldwell Fisher and Angus Andrews have left us for a better place. “We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.” Author unknown. davidsonjournal.davidson.edu

Contact: Joel Goudy, 142 Cameron Rd., Lexington, NC 27295; 336-764-3206; jgoudy70291@aol.com

AS TOLD BY: Mike York, Class Secretary The 60th Reunion is now history. The ghosts of Dean Bailey, Cop Linker and “Slick John,” our president, were among us. Classmate reflections were rampant, validating the enduring bond with Davidson College. A lot of talk time hovered around “making adjustments.” Numerous personal witness statements were offered during calls, often by a fraternity brother. Some examples: Jeannette Barker revealed that she and Ben are back in Chapel Hill, at Carolina Meadows, which is also the address for Jane and Moody Smith. Beverly and Jack Efird, longtime Floridians, have moved to a care facility near Dallas, Texas. Bill Shipley makes daily visits to Peggy in nurse care. Two of our baseballers, Bill Glidewell, banker, who helped with calls from Winterville, and Johnnie Gray, in textiles with Millican in Gaffney, S.C., have remained in their homes. Countless other stories will be shared through the Journal notes. In the midst of change, summarized well by President Quillen at the Reunion, we are comforted that some things remain about the same. For example, Chambers, the place for most of our classes continues to be the primary academic building on campus. You recall, of course, that in 1856, Maxwell Chambers made Davidson the wealthiest college south of Princeton. Another bit of history involves Norm Johnson and Alden Williams. Their fathers’ commemorative photos of the 1914-15 staff are being archived in celebration of the 100th anniversary of The Davidsonian. Numerous class scribes (viz., 1951) are bragging that their class is the greatest. Let us draw our swords, and call their hand. Our achievement and service record bodes well for the debate. The classmates express sympathy to the families of Wyatt H. “Nabbie” Armfield, who died Feb. 12, while with his son and family in Michigan. Similar condolence is voiced for Boyd Massagee Jr, attorney, who died March 13, in Hendersonville. Contact: Mike York, 2488 Dellwood Dr. NW, Atlanta, GA 30305; 404-355-1856; cmikeyork@outlook.com

AS TOLD BY: Chick McClure, Class Secretary Floyd Feeney is still teaching law at the University of California, Davis. His oldest daughter practices law in England and his youngest daughter teaches school in California. He has five grandchildren. Much of his work now involves criminal justice scholars in other countries, such as Germany, Turkey and China. He makes those of us who retired 16 years ago look not too sharp. Classmates, please send me information for the Journal. Contact: Chick McClure, 1548 Laureldale Dr., Raleigh, NC 27609-3571; 919-790-1633; mcclure2788@bellsouth.net From Alumni Relations: Our sincere condolences are extended to the

family and friends of Cortez Cooper, who passed away Oct. 25, 2011. We also extend sincere condolences to family and friends of David Freeman, who passed away Jan. 14, and Dolphus Allen, who passed away March 4.

AS TOLD BY: Hobby Cobb and E. Tom Miller, Class Secretaries These notes are being written on March 13 for the Davidson Journal which will be out in print sometime around August of 2014, so if you already know most of this, just know that we try to provide interesting information in a timely fashion. You all know by now that the Davidson basketball team had another fine year. A loss in the semi-finals of the Southern Conference Tournament ended their goal of another trip to the NCAA March Madness, but did qualify them for play in the NIT a.k.a. National Invitational Tournament. Classmate Tom Miller, who co-writes these notes for each issue, went through heart surgery March 6 and all went well. Doctors and family were pleased with how well he handled the procedure. We will keep you all apprised of his progress going forward. Needless to say, Tom and Yvonne, thoughts and prayers are sent your way. We heard from James Andy Turner the amazing news that he climbed Mount Kilimanjaro on his 78th birthday. You all know of course that Kilimanjaro is in Africa, but you may not know that at the summit it reaches 19,380 feet. He reports that the climb is a perfect cure for “old age crisis.” Way to go! Not only is the Class of 1956 the only class at Davidson to have two Rhodes Scholars, but may be the only class to have a member scale Kilimanjaro. This last part may be challenged. Jon Regen and Bill Rawson, with wives Barbara and Joanne respectively, are living in The Pines at Davidson retirement community and loving life. There is so much to do there it will most likely add years to their lives. The only activity they do not have there is shuffleboard, but that may be next. We hope so--it would be fun to go over and cheer them on. Word is just now reaching us regarding the death of classmate Robert Whitcomb Sumner Mack, who passed away Dec. 11, 2013. Bob was living in Hilo, Hawaii, although he is formerly from Rochester, N.Y. After Davidson, he studied pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania and earned further degrees from Johns Hopkins in maternal and child health. He had a very distinguished career supported by a marvelous family. A suggestion to all of you members of the Class of 1956--come back and visit Davidson any time you get a chance. If you have not been here for a while you will be amazed at all the activities going on. It is worth a trip! Be sure to bring with you all that is going on in your life so we can fill these pages with information that will be interesting to your classmates. Contact: Hobby Cobb, P.O. Box 2166, Davidson, NC 28036-2166; 704-894-0104; janecobb@bellsouth.net E. Thomas Miller, 414 Lorimer Rd., Davidson, NC 28036-0290; 704-997-5263; etmiller72@ att.net Summer 2014

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AS TOLD BY: Bill Morrow, Class Secretary Congratulations to Don McRee upon his inauguration into the Davidson College Athletic Hall of Fame Jan. 31. Don was recognized for his outstanding performance in football (1000+ yards rushing in his varsity career--back when a varsity career covered only three seasons) and baseball (two triples in a game--still a school record!). Plus, as we all know, just a great all ’round good guy. Several ’57 classmates were at Davidson for the presentation. Well done, Don. The “Geriatric Wildcats,” brain child of Pete Ashcraft, met Feb. 1 for lunch and a DC basketball game. Showing up were Dick Belton, Henry Massey, Charlie Fonville, Jim Gaither, Ken Conger, Don Comer, Pete Reavis, Bill Morrow, Don McRee and several others whose names may, unfortunately, have been overlooked. They were joined by Martha Mallory, wife of the late Roswell Mallory, and her children. Sandy Stubbs reports that he’s enjoying life in Yorktown, Va., following his retirement from a 37-year career with NASA. Sandy helped develop the space program’s early recovery systems and procedures (remember the splashdowns?), and later worked on the development of landing systems and components for the space shuttle. He skis regularly in West Virginia and recently took a trip to Disney World with two of his grandchildren. Sandy was in Davidson in January to attend Don McRee’s installation into the DC Athletic Hall of Fame. You think you’re busy? Well, Dave Hood, aka “Stix,” stays busy hunting and fishing around the Darlington area, does the usual amount of yard work, etc., and keeps tabs on four children and 11 grandchildren. His progeny is scattered from South Carolina to Maryland to North Carolina to the West coast. This follows retirement from a career as marketing VP in the wood products industry. Our sympathies go to the family of John Garden, who died Dec. 24, 2013. John practiced ophthalmology in Lexington, Ky., and taught at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine until shortly before his death. Condolences also to the family of Mack Calcote, who died March 1. Mack practiced surgery in the Bristol, Tenn., area prior to retirement. He had moved to Indian Land, S.C. shortly before his death. Detailed obituaries for deceased classmates can be found at the Davidson College website under the heading “In Memoriam.” Send me your news, call me, or use email. I’m waiting to hear from you, and if it’s not too risque, I’ll pass it on…. Contact: Bill Morrow, P.O. Box 1692, Mooresville, NC 28115; 704-664-2308; morrowcb@gmail.com

AS TOLD BY: J. Hayden Hollingsworth, Class Secretary Giles Floyd sends a first contribution. A practicing orthopedic surgeon in the San Francisco area he retired to an office practice in 1998 after three-vessel bypass surgery, but that hasn’t slowed him. He still does consultation work in Calif. as well as Boston. He travels extensively, raises

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roses, while taking in the many cultural advantages of the Bay area. Willie Thompson and Sally are looking for a retirement home in the Durham, N.C., area. They met Fred Wilkenloh and his wife, who live there, and escorted them on the tour. Fred transferred to study engineering. Grier Davis and Diane took members of their family skiing in Vale, Colo. Great fun, but time for a knee replacement, Grier observed. Ned Hedgpeth, although having to face health challenges, continues to enjoy golfing and spending summers in the mountains. No responsibilities and unstructured time; it doesn’t get any better than this, Ned reports. David Wood and Margie had dinner with Bill and Marianne Hopper in Waynesboro, Ga., where they both grew up. They also travelled to Brunswick, Ga., and saw Tom Dennard and his wife, Marie. On the final leg of their trip, they met with Charles McGowan and his wife, who has 19 grandchildren! A possible Davidson record, although Curt Patterson and Elaine are not far behind expecting their 17th. A prolific pair of preachers, one would say. Don Carmichael reports a ferocious winter in Maine. He continues to play the bass in lowlife music dives (his words). He said immodestly (again his words) that he has considerable talent in woodworking. His shop had not been cleaned in 14 years and he turned up many treasures he hadn’t seen in years when he got around to it. Finally, Johanna and I met with Gil Grossman and Jane, along with Lee Hand and Debbie for a weekend in Greensboro. Shortly thereafter Lee underwent three-vessel bypass surgery and at last report was convalescing well. Gerald Wilson, Duke’s Senior Associate Dean of Trinity College has recently been awarded Duke’s highest and most distinguished honor—the University Medal. In bestowing the honor on Gerald, Duke’s President Brodhead remarked, “With what a colleague describes as a brilliant mind, a huge heart, and a warm soul, Gerald has touched many students’ lives as a pre-law advisor, teacher, preacher and friend.” Manfred Johnston III died April 29 in Gastonia. With sadness we send our condolences to his wife, Geraldine, and his extended family. Contact: Hayden Hollingsworth, 6107 Sulgrave Rd., Roanoke, VA 24018; 540-7251340; jhayden2003@cox.net

AS TOLD BY: Charles D. Massey, Class Secretary On Jan. 18, Hut Wester’s wife Gennie passed away after a long illness. I know you will join me in expressing our sincere condolences to Hut. Our classmate Tommy “T-Bone” Morrison, 76, a lifelong resident of Hartsville, S.C., passed away peacefully Jan. 28. He loved to shag and was an avid sportsman who enjoyed sailing, fishing and hunting with his friends, children and grandchildren. Our heartfelt sympathy goes out to his wife, Gay, their four children and grandchildren. Henry Brown commented: “So sorry to read about T-Bone’s death. As a next-door-neighbor Phi

Delta at DC, I remember T-Bone’s bright smile, cheery greeting and jaunty gait. Always loved that out on the ROTC drill field!! Not surprised to learn that he was yet another Rotary club president. Just an all-around neat guy. He’ll be missed. My condolences to Gay and the family.” Eddie Booth had this to say: “I remember Tommy as a person you could always count on and his personality always brought warmth to those around him. I admired Tommy and pray that his family will be lifted to know the positive influence he was to those of us who knew him as a classmate.” I sadly report that Charles “Chuck” Hollister died in Nevada July 18, 2013. Classmate Allen Hall Jr. passed away Oct. 30, 2013 at his home in Dalton, Ga., after a long illness. Our condolences go out to his wife, Caroline, and their daughter, Lauren. FeIix Yarbro kept up with Allen through the years and had this to say: “He and I had several wonderful conversations. He and Caroline had a wonderful marriage and were devoted to each other is such special ways. He lived in Dalton, Ga., for years where he was a sales rep for a carpet company. He had a long bout with cancer, but he never lost his sense of humor and his keen wit. We were high school classmates in a small school where everyone knew everyone else. He was a great part of the cutup crowd, never seeing a dull moment.” Walter O’Briant said, “News of the passing of our classmates is always sobering, but satisfying also to see what productive lives they had. Whether Davidson College gets credit for that is open, I suppose, to debate, but—to me—DC made possible a life I doubt I should ever have approached otherwise.” Taylor Hill sent this email: “After Davidson, I married Betty Boston of Charlotte and attended Columbia Bible College for a year and a half in their graduate school of missions. I graduated from Columbia Theological Seminary and received my D-Min. from Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. I have served the Presbyterian Church (USA) all my adult life and am now retired and living in Bradenton, Fla.” Taylor hopes you will arrange a visit soon to Davidson. A note from Tom Jefferson: “I am glad not to have been on the list of our classmates who have passed away. My good fortune extends in many directions better than I deserve. Anne and I continue our lives much the same--I am still enjoying working as a residential real estate agent, although my company closed over five years ago. We don’t get enough chance to visit our three married kids and eight grandkids who all live north of Richmond even up to Boston. Thanks for keeping us mindful of Davidson!” Stay well and keep the news coming my way. Contact: Charles D. Massey, 400 Avinger Ln., Apt. 443, Davidson, NC 28036-6704; 704896-1443; CDM5050@aol.com

AS TOLD BY: Gordon Spaugh, Class Secretary Dr. J. W. David Atchison retired from Radiology Consultants, West Monroe, La., at the end of 2013 after 42 years in the practice of diagnostic radiology. He will be moving to The Pines at davidsonjournal.davidson.edu

Davidson in late 2014 to be near son Phillip ’93, his wife Leslie Kraemer ’93, and grandson Henry, who live in Charlotte. Ted Henry is fighting Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis, a respiratory illness which he contracted even though he did not smoke. He said no medicine has helped. The only solution is a lung transplant. However, considering his age and a blockage in an artery feeding his heart, a Duke medical team recommended against attempting a transplant. So far other ways to improve his breathing have not developed. He experiences shortness of breath during telephone conversations, but said he would appreciate prayers and notes of encouragement mailed to 327 Church Street, Selma, AL 36701 or emailed to thenry@henrybrick.com. Dr. Charles Henderson III spent two years with the class of ’60 before finishing college and medical school at U.Va. He practiced radiology in Harrisonburg, Va., for 30 years and retired in 2001. Charlie and his wife, Mary enjoy good health except knee problems have forced Charlie to give up his 37 year routine of running 4-5 miles four times a week. Their sons Chuck and Jim also graduated from U.Va. Chuck earned a master’s degree in California and now works there for Western Digital. Jim earned a degree in architecture from U.Va and works in Harrisonburg, specializing in designing schools. Chuck and his wife Trish have two daughters. Jim and his wife Amy have two sons. Contact: Gordon Spaugh, 365 Roslyn Rd., Winston-Salem, NC 27104; 336-722-9130; gspaugh@juno.com From Alumni Relations: We extend our sincere condolences to the family and friends of A. Alex Porter who passed away April 18.

AS TOLD BY: W. Marshall LaFar, Class Secretary Our sympathies go to the family of Sam Riley III. Sam died in Blacksburg, Va., March 19. Two days later, Sam Wiley Jr., of Durham, also died, and we send our condolences respectfully to his family. After nearly 14 years in Palm Beach, Fla., Ervin and Julia Duggan are retiring and moving to The Pines at Davidson. But first they will spend the summer at their place on Lake Blue Ridge in North Georgia. Joe Markee writes: “For more than 30 years my wife Linda and I have been involved in medical missions in northern rural Haiti. It has been an amazing experience. We serve one of the poorest areas in Haiti that has no electricity, potable water, and is plagued with severe malnutrition and in some cases starvation. We formed the Haiti Foundation of Hope, www.haitifoundationofhope. org, to address these issues nine years ago. We now have a permanent medical clinic, staffed by Haitian personnel, which has been supported by the Haitian Ministry of Health. We have a primary and secondary school system with approximately 1,000 students, a women’s trade school, a micro-finance program and a community health center, which directly addresses the health issues of pregnant davidsonjournal.davidson.edu

women and children, including the recent outbreak of cholera. We also support post graduate medical training for Haitian professionals in northern rural Haiti. We send four medical teams annually, with lots of retired folks who do amazing things there (both medical and non-medical). Oh yes, for 30 years, we have brought back the same number of team members that we sent out--all alive.” Jim Richardson writes, “My quarter-century date of April 13 arrived with a surprise party of friends and neighbors who gathered at my son’s Black Mountain Ale House in downtown Black Mountain. And a good time was had by all. Later that night, my wife Sally awakened me to a noise out on our deck where I discovered a huge black bear standing up on his hind legs getting a snack from our bird feeder. Our dog Betsy ran him off, but I secretly believe that he was there to celebrate my quarter century.” Contact: W. Marshall LaFar, 2562 Pinewood Rd., Gastonia, NC 28054; 704-861-8585 (w); fax, 704-865-3415; mlafar@yahoo.com From Alumni Relations: We extend our sincere condolences to the families and friends of John Timothy “Tim” McCorkle and Stephen Wood, who passed away Feb. 11 and Feb. 28, respectively.

AS TOLD BY: John Goodman, Class Secretary Last winter Lynwood Mallard was named one of Charlotte’s top 25 lawyers by Super Lawyers, a national organization that recognizes outstanding lawyers who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. Last July, VO Roberson did a medical mission trip to Peru on the Amazon. In November VO, his sister and son, Forrest, a Davidson pre-med student, backpacked, kayaked and fished in New Zealand. In February a newcomer to his medical practice enabled VO to cut his work schedule to two mornings a week. Dan McRight began dealing with Parkinson’s in 2005 while living in Nashville, and joined a support group called “Movers and Shakers.” Rather than tremors, he experiences slowness of movement and stiffness. Dan has retired for the third time as a clinical pastoral education supervisor, and he and wife Rebecca Fewell have moved to Pensacola, which they thoroughly enjoy. Robert Henry Moore has worked with the Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE) project since 1966, and is a founding member of the DARE board of visitors. Harvard University Press published Volume 1 of DARE in 1985, and the sixth and final volume in early 2013. Harvard Press released a digital edition last December with plans for updates in future years. In January, through the Class of ’62 email network, Robert invited classmates to submit “regionalisms” which they knew, and he was most pleased to receive more than 10 responses almost immediately. After fly fishing in Virginia, Tennessee and Georgia, Buck Walters returned home to Texas in time to escort Margaret to Charleston, S.C., for their 50th anniversary March 28. They

honeymooned there in 1964. Earlier this year Stu Lillard and Lew Parker had successful entries for Photo of the Day on WDAV’s website under Community Events, Stu for Feb. 8 and 24, and March 15, Lew for Feb. 16 and 26, and March 17. We mourn the Jan. 8 death of Ben Shappley, of Greenville, after a lengthy illness. We extend sympathy to his widow, Joan, and their family. Louis Burton, Jackie and Dick Hills, Pat and Jim Jamison, and Don Saunders were among those attending the service. We also mourn the Feb. 21 death of John Parks III, of Gastonia, after a long illness, and extend condolences to his widow, Hope, and their family. Durant Vick, Lynwood Mallard, Ed Grimsley, and Kitty and Bob Hord were among those attending the service. John Chiles reported in March that his new knee was working great, and he looked forward to swapping out the other knee April 1. In 2013 the University of Washington named John professor emeritus in psychiatry and behavioral science. Bill Workman emailed in February that he had just spent a week in Lubeck, Germany, helping son Gatey and family move to a lovely house where they no longer have 42 stairs before reaching the first floor of their two-story apartment. Life is much easier with two-year-old twins and a dog. The traditional Florida winter get-together of several ATO classmates and spouses took place on Amelia Island the third week of March, with Cindy and Louis Burton, Jackie and Dick Hills, Barb and Joe Jackson, Pat and Jim Jamison, Don Saunders, and Ann and Russell Showalter participating. While I receive most class notes material by email, for those not online I also would love receiving your input by telephone or stamped mail; see my contact info at the end of this column. 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: James Hendrix, Class Secretary Come on, classmates, give me some news! I have not had any updates in the last couple of months so I picked up that Alexander Graham Bell device and called a few of you. Joe Martin is still working every day, albeit parttime, in Durham and enjoys time with his 14-yearold dog, and many friends. He is due for a knee replacement sometime within the next few months and anticipates greater mobility after that surgery is completed. J.D. Simpson is also still going to the office every day, although he confessed to being in a duck blind 50 of the 60 days the season was open! Ed Crutchfield reports that, after battling some tough health issues, he is doing well, catching a lot of fish, and enjoying retirement in Florida. Our class vagabond, Porter Halyburton, continues to tour the globe. The last I heard from Porter, and wife Marty, they were in Cuba. I am confident that we all agree that no one deserves such freedom of movement as much as Porter and Marty. Your class secretary enjoyed his 11th trip to New Summer 2014

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For more information, visit www.davidson.edu/planned-giving Zealand in February. I was blessed with superb weather and trout fished 27 consecutive days. On the sad side of life we extend condolences to the family and friends of Michie Slaughter, who passed away March 7 in Overland Park, Kan. After a long career in human resources at Marion Laboratories, Kansas City, he and an associate founded the Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Studies in 1989. He served as CEO of the center until his retirement. A more complete summary of Michie’s wonderful life is available on the college’s In Memoriam. Contact: Jim Hendrix, P.O. Box 2094, Cashiers, NC 28717-2094; 404-313-2084; jamesphendrix@gmail.com

AS TOLD BY: Carlton Cole, Class Secretary I hope we will have seen one another at the 50th Class Reunion before this issue comes out. Just after the deadline for the last issue, I heard from Frank Baumgardner, who regretted that he would have to miss the reunion because of the distance involved. After retiring 10 years ago from a teaching career, Frank has pursued a lifelong dream of doing historical research and publishing books about northern California’s past, especially its American Period, which included the Mexican War, annexation and the gold rush. His first two books on the subject were Killing for Land in Early California: Indian Blood at Round Valley and Yanks in the Redwoods: Carving out a Life in

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Northern California. The third, on which he was working when he wrote, is about the exploration and settlement of the San Francisco Bay Area. I also heard from Jack (John) Hall, who also has retired, in his case from a position as librarian for 36 years at the University of Houston Libraries. He says he’s retired, but also that he’s still doing the same work as before, except on a part-time basis, meaning that he is no longer obligated to attend meetings or work on committees. Sounds perfect. And, finally, I heard from Chip Derrick, whom I had not heard from for a long time. Chip had an adventure this time last year, when he sailed with friends in their 40-foot sailboat from Cabo San Lucas, Mexico (at the tip of Baja California), to Papeete, Tahiti. Although there were more than 400 boats leaving from the west coast of North and South America during that same period, for more than five weeks Chip and his friends saw not a single plane and only one supertanker and a few fishing boats. Who said it was a small planet? As with Frank and Jack, Chip has also retired, in his case for the sixth time. He makes retirement sound almost like fun, with annual trips to Mexico and the family cabin in Highlands, and other trips to Hawaii (for their 40th anniversary), Scotland, Prague, the Netherlands, and Florida, and with plans to float the Colorado before heading to Davidson for the reunion. Please let me know what has been going on in your lives and please consider registering at Alenda Links on the Davidson website at www.davidson.

edu/alendalinks, 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; 305-667-7710 (b); carlton842@aol.com

AS TOLD BY: John S. Curry, Class Secretary Upon finishing Duke Law School and a stint in the Army, Jim Kelly began practicing with Petree and Stockton, a 14-member firm in WinstonSalem. More than 40 years later, he is Of Counsel at the same firm, though its name is now Kilpatrick Townsend, with 17 offices and over 400 attorneys scattered throughout the world. His practice, which has been focused in the area of complex business litigation, has given him the opportunity to appear in many courts in jurisdictions up to and including the U.S. Supreme Court. He has received a number of awards and professional recognition, including membership in “Best Lawyers in America in Business Litigation.” With the flexibility of semi-retirement, he and his wife, Louise, an exceptional tour organizer, are able to enjoy international travel with friends. How many of us have a building named after us? When you visit the University of Alaska Fairbanks either on the web or in person, you will have no difficulty figuring out the high esteem in which Paul Reichardt is held by the institution to which he devoted his career. The very impressive Reichardt Building houses the offices, labs and classrooms of the Natural and Biological Sciences Department. Paul began his teaching career at UAF in 1972 as a professor of chemistry, in 1990 began serving in various administrative capacities, including faculty provost, and in 2007 was granted the title of Professor of Chemistry and Provost Emeritus. He and his wife Terry continue to take advantage of all the outdoors activities Alaska offers as well as devoting volunteer time to their church and local nonprofits. Following the loss of his wife Kathy to a serious illness in 2011, Bill Hinton decided to extend his career at Grove City College north of Pittsburgh. Post Davidson and the Army, he spent over 20 years in the private sector, which made him a perfect fit for teaching various courses on management and leadership skills in the Department of Business Administration at the college. Bill has three children and six grandchildren, whom he visits regularly. Ever heard of a “self-sustaining hobby?” Alan Torrence uses his scroll saw to cut out Christmas ornaments and other handicraft items, some of which he sells to generate enough income to pay for materials. Then he gives the remainder to friends. He has been retired from the Clemson Department of Agricultural Chemistry for 12 years. Contact: John S. Curry, Box 2091, Asheville, NC 28802; 828-215-4512; john@ johncurryattorney.com

AS TOLD BY: James Terry, Class Secretary Tom Ogburn, after 26 years at R J Reynolds Tobacco and almost 10 years teaching at Wake Forest, turned to his longtime passion of sculpting. davidsonjournal.davidson.edu

Those who attended the event he and his wife hosted at their home on Lake Norman during a Reunion weekend at Davidson saw a lot of his work. On April 1, a bronze statue was unveiled near the entrance to BB&T Baseball Park in downtown Winston-Salem. You can see his work at tomogburncreations.com. John Craig, who currently serves as Executive VP and COO of The Commonwealth Fund in New York City, has announced he will retire at the end of 2014. This foundation, founded 96 years ago, works to enhance “the common good.” Following graduation from Davidson and Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, and a tour of duty in Vietnam, he began his finance career by working with the planning and finance ministries of several Asian and African countries. His work with foundations began when he directed the Health Policy Research Group at Georgetown University, followed by the John A. Hartford Foundation, which focused on a health care financing reform program. John is also the chair of New York City’s Nonprofit Coordinating Committee and serves on the boards of the International Women’s Health Coalition, as well as the TIFF Educational Foundation, and most recently has joined the Davidson College Alumni Board. Woody Cleveland is in the news in South Carolina as Callison Tighe has announced its merger with Sherwood M. Cleveland, PC, to form a new practice group in banking and commercial finance that will focus on conventional banking financing, SBA and USDA government-guaranteed lending, as well as complex financing for commercial lenders and real estate developers. After Davidson, Woody graduated from the University of South Carolina School of Law and has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America since 1993. He co-authored the S.C. Corporate Practice Manual published by the S.C. Bar. During his time as general counsel to the Business Development Corporation of S.C., he closed more than 1,000 SBA and SBA-related loans worth $550 million statewide, and those loans are estimated to have created 8,600 jobs throughout the state. Sadly we note the passing of Arnie Snider, who died in early January in New York City from cancer. Arnie had a successful Wall Street career as a pharmaceutical analyst with Kidder Peabody, where he served as general partner until his retirement. He and his wife founded a center for lupus research in honor of her mother. He had served as vice chairman of the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation and was a director of N30 Pharmaceuticals, focusing on the treatment of cystic fibrosis and other cardiopulmonary diseases. Arnie had also been quite active giving back to Davidson under the leadership of three presidents as chairman of the Board of Trustees’ investment committee. He also created the Snider Scholars Program at Davidson. Contact: James J. Terry, 1103 Hardage Cir., Colleyville, TX 76034-6055; 817-421-8685; Jim.Terry@scouting.org

AS TOLD BY: Bryant Hinnant, Class Secretary Paul Curlee’s death created more inquiries than anything I’ve written in the 20 or so years I’ve

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been writing this column. He seems to have touched a lot of people while at Davidson. I also regret to announce that Richard Graham passed away June 27, 2013. After Davidson, he graduated from U.Va. and at the time of his death he was living in the Washington, D.C., suburb of Chevy Chase, Md. Tom Brown, who spent time with Rich at U.Va., brought this to my attention. Frank Goldsmith reports he is very much alive, and this past fall completed a walk along the Camino de Santiago in Spain—alone—in about six weeks, some 900 kilometers, and then went another 90 kilometers to Finisterre (End of the Earth, it’s called). It’s what some of you did after college, I expect, but Frank is 68, God bless him. (To enjoy the same views, watch “The Way” with Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez, or ask Frank for the Flickr link to the pictures. A glass of sherry or a Rioja, and olé!) Besides the pleasure of meeting people along the way, enjoying the Spanish food, vistas and country, he lost 18 pounds. I would have thought more but I recall he was always skinny at DC. Professionally, he still practices law but has transitioned from litigation to mediation. He was recently named “2014 Asheville Mediation Lawyer of the Year” by Best Lawyers in America. He and Dee have eight grandchildren. By the time this comes out, Carol and I will be alone in what will likely and suddenly seem a very big house. Two in college, how did you guys manage? Contact: Bryant Hinnant, 8 Bittersweet Trail, Norwalk, 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 By the time these Notes are published, we will know if Ireland has survived the June golf adventure led by Allen Rogers and Billy Taylor, along with three Wildcats from the Class of ’69 (Doug Crisp, Ernie Doe and Mike O’Neill) and one (J.C. Faulkner) from ’83. I am confident that Allen can shoot within 10 strokes of his age, so long as he manages to escape the pubs before his tee times. Clemson University is the beneficiary of the John C. and Suzanne Morse Endowed Chair in Arthropod Biodiversity. John currently serves as professor emeritus in the Department of Entomology at Clemson, and is renowned internationally for his entomological achievements. John has pursued his career at Clemson, together with related affiliations with several universities in the United States and China, studying, writing and contributing to a significant number of published works. Objectives of thechair are to extend current research capabilities for discovery of biodiversity in South Carolina, permit improved management of the state’s natural resources to enhance ancillary economic opportunities, and provide a research program to focus on mapping arthropod species diversity in the southeast, understanding how biodiversity may affect the everyday lives of South Carolina citizens. We need to learn from John if this all started with E-Square. No other news to report for the Class of ’68,

other than to advise of the leadership shown by Tom Caldwell, George Shaw, Cecil Clifton, Mike Coltrane, Julian Prosser, Tom Earnhardt, David King, Bo Perry, Chip Vogan and Ann Clark ’80, among others, Bruce Weihe (added by Alumni Relations), in developing a survey (in collaboration with the college Center for Civic Engagement and the Office of Alumni Relations) that will be instrumental in challenging all Davidson alumni to become more engaged with civic and community issues and goals. Contact: Bruce Weihe, 1100 SE 6th St., Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301; 954-607-6723 (w); bweihe@bawlawyer.com

AS TOLD BY: R. Anthony Orsbon, Class Secretary The sun never sets on the British Empire or the Class of ’69.... Feeling forsaken, desolate, forlorn and uncherished here in the cloister of a class secretary, wishing for just a word for your humble scribe from some living being, I, nevertheless will report on the vast abyss of silence from my mates. Bobby Vagt, who left the world of Tabasco sans “kick,” has taken the position of Board Chairman at Rice Energy, with good intentions of finding lots of gas. Bobby has an affinity with gas, harking back to his days at Wildcat School and throughout his following years, or so say his many colleagues. The innuendo in the preceding will be left to the reader. Faithful Al Varner, lovely Eileen, and handsome Alexander ’08, have written their welcome Christmas missive to let us know that Alexander is now an investment manager in San Fran, and is resolute to run foolhardy distances of 31 miles. In fact Al and Eileen will miss our 45th to attend Alexander’s ultramarathon. I remember the last time I ran 31 miles...it was between 1994 and 1999. And I still hurt. Al retired from his adventure with gas, i.e. gastroenterology, see above for cross reference, in July 2013. Accepting retirement quite well, Al and Eileen are revisiting old haunts, seeing long-neglected family, and even being invited into their homes, albeit with some misgivings about the RV parked in the front yard. I pledge to nag each of you at Reunion to garner some tidbit of scandal that I will then forward to Edward Snowden for publication. 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 Ken Cool recently retired as founding president of Emeriti, a national non-profit consortium for higher education faculty retiree health benefits. He and Linda, chair of the anthropology department at Union College in New York, plan to divide their time between the Hudson Valley and St. Louis mixed in with as much travel abroad as possible. Dan Herd has stepped aside from the daily management of The Live Oak Group, the company he founded over 30 years ago, but writes that he enjoys seeing the next generation bring their talents Summer 2014

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AS TOLD BY: Nicholas G. Dumich and David E. Buck, Class Secretaries Jeff Ritchie was in Davidson recently for his father-inlaw’s funeral, former Davidson resident John Wilson Knox, who died when Jeff was on a mission trip to India. The Outreach Foundation, the mission Jeff has

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served since 1998, has sent him to the four corners of the world. Most recently his travels have taken him to South Sudan and Ghana in addition to India. Jeff gives much credit for his cross-cultural passion to the Junior Year Abroad he experienced in Marburg, Germany: “I am glad that Davidson has multiplied these life-transforming opportunities over the years. It has been inspiring to read in the Davidson Journal the impact of Davidson students in various parts of the world and the impact of the world on them.” Charles “Drew” Ansley, aged 64, died Wednesday, Jan. 15 at Memorial Mission Hospital after a long illness. Drew was an alumnus of Tallulah Falls School and Davidson College. A former vice president of marketing for Beacon Manufacturing, a real estate broker, and independent businessman, Drew was proudest of his work as a foster parent for many years. He was a charitable, joyful man with great compassion and dedication to his Christian faith. Paul Fisher, Lyman Parrigin and Mark Deininger ’73 have started a company to produce a new energy device: a new kind of fuel cell that produces electricity from various fuel-gases (including hydrogen) at lower operating temperatures than ever thought possible. Mark is the CEO and founder of the company, FCET, Inc., or Fuel Cell Enabling Technology, located in Alpharetta, Ga. The USPTO granted a U.S. Patent for earlier work on fuel cells to FCET in January; more than 15 additional patents are expected to follow from provisional patents already applied for by FCET. The company has a collaborative research agreement with Rice University in Houston, Texas, and is working there with R&D Magazine’s “2013 Scientist-of-the-Year,” Dr. James Tour, who is the director of the Smalley Institute for Nanotechnology at Rice. Ran Coble, executive director of the N.C. Center for Public Policy Research, is announcing today that he will retire in September after 33 years of service. “The Center will celebrate its 37th anniversary Sept. 10, and that seems like a good time to welcome a new director,” Coble said. “I am proud of being a steward of the Center’s bedrock values as an independent, nonpartisan source of reliable research and recommendations on important policy issues facing our state.” Coble is a native of Graham and grew up on an Alamance County farm. His father was county agricultural extension agent, and his mother was an English teacher and principal. He was educated at Davidson College, Duke University and UNC-Chapel Hill. And in the realm of shameless self-promotion, one of your class secretaries, David E. Buck, notes that media coverage of the sculpture “Homeless Jesus,” donated to the church he serves in Davidson (St. Alban’s Episcopal), has gone viral: read about it on the Huffington Post or NPR websites, or see the essay in this Journal on pg. 23. 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, 704425-2133.

AS TOLD BY: Tom Holcomb, Class Secretary I got the sad news from Jeff Lynn, that his college roommate, Rick Fugate, died unexpectedly July 10, 2013, in Washington, D.C. Rick received a law degree from the University of Virginia where he was on the Law Review, and practiced for several years in Los Angeles. Many of us have pleasant and warm memories of Rick’s wit, intelligence, card games and the Motown music coming from his Mustang. I can also recall stepping on something in Rick’s room and finding it to be a graded paper with an “A” grade on the front and several notations from the professor such as “good insight” and “very well done.” The obituary I read noted that Rick was a devoted member of the Church of the Savior in Washington, D.C. and “deeply involved in its ministry at Potter’s House, a bookstore, art gallery, and café providing a space for community members to connect in the diverse Adams-Morgan neighborhood.” Jeff is the CEO of Dunham’s Sport stores and he splits his time in two-week segments between Michigan and Florida. Jeff and Kathy have a daughter who works in New York City, and a son at the London School of Economics. Jeff likes to read history books written in the same time period as the events they describe, especially around the Civil War period. Many of you are aware that Sumner Bell is a practicing gastroenterologist in Virginia Beach and the secretary-treasurer of the American Gastroenterology Association. What you might not know is that Sumner’s expertise extends to both ends of the alimentary canal. Sumner was recently interviewed by the Wall Street Journal in an article, dated January 14, on the effects of chewing gum. Mike Johnson and his wife, Hannah, live in Alpharetta, Ga. Mike is the vice president and chief of staff for the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools that accredits colleges and universities in the southeast. Previously he was a professor at Spring Hill College in Mobile, Ala. Mike has two sons and two grandchildren. Julian Quattlebaum was with us for almost two years. He then took a year off and finished his undergraduate education at Georgia Southern near his home in the Statesboro, Ga., area before heading to Harvard Law School. He spent about nine years in Denver with a large firm, and then as in-house counsel for a company there. Julian’s interests and business connections took him to the southern California area where he did legal work connected with wireless communications. He then took a six-year sabbatical from law practice to help raise his then-four-year-old son. A few years later he went back to work with four other lawyers, the Channel Law Group, that specializes in the telecommunications field, and other business related work, and is located in Long Beach, Calif. Julian’s wife, Kanittha, is Thai, and he has learned to read and write the language. When the government is stable, he recommends Thailand as a tourist destination because of the variety of culture, landscape and friendly people. Julian also enjoys the eclectic entertainments available in Los Angeles, including women’s roller derby events and chess boxing. davidsonjournal.davidson.edu

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AS TOLD BY: Richard V. Wilson, Class Secretary In March, Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear appointed Dick Downey as Circuit Judge in Bowling Green, Ky., to fill out the unexpired term of the late Margaret Huddleston. Dick says he will not seek election to the office when the term expires, but he’ll probably do such a good job that folks will try to persuade him to do so. He remains married to Cindy since 1986 and is “still proud to claim Mac Donaldson as my brother-in-law.” Michael Ernst is helping develop wind farms in the ocean, including projects off Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Delaware and Virginia Beach. He spoke on offshore wind at the EnergyOcean 2014 conference in Atlantic City, New Jersey, on June 4. “Straight” Ernst says he enjoys regular reunions with “Andeye” Davis, “Baubay” Lewis, “T” Campen, Robert Banta, Hamp Whittington ’71, “Biff Mulligan,” Kenny Boggs and more recently Vic Fleming, Scotty Shipp and Dog! Rob Krebs is leading a group of eight traveling to Normandy, France, for the 70th anniversary of D-Day. We will spend five days cycling along the Normandy coast visiting the sites to include the U.S. cemetery at Colleville and Point du Hoc, the cliff that the Rangers scaled on D-Day. Rob also reports another grandchild is on the way from his second daughter, Stephanie, along with her husband, Tony. Mike Kelly writes: “Wife, Margo (Notre Dame, ’76), and I are ‘living the dream’ in Jacksonville, Fla., literally nine houses down Ortega Forest Drive from classmate Scott Sheftall and his lovely wife Regina, also a few blocks from the ancestral home of classmate Charley Williams. We have three grown (more or less) kids—Lee (Virginia, ’09), Michael (Furman, ’12—I can’t believe it, either!) and Gail (Notre Dame, ’16)—and thus are enjoying the ‘empty nesting’ phenomenon, even as we try to figure out what this idea of ‘retirement’ is all about. Have thoroughly enjoyed keeping up with many Davidson classmates through an email network fueled primarily by the likes of Steve Suflas (Philly sports/college basketball), Robert Banta (JYA hijinks), Rollie Sumwalt (Davidson basketball), Bill Bracken (dirty jokes, together with the occasional lofty, aspirational story), and others.” On Sunday, Feb. 23, the New York Times crossword was titled “Reel Life Anniversary” by “a namesake of 119-Across.” The clue for 119-Across: “Director of the eight starred films in this puzzle, who was born on 2/23/1889.” Among the films in the puzzle were The Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind, both of which were nominated for Best Picture in 1939. The puzzle’s 125-year-old honoree with the same name as the 62-year-old crossword author: Victor Fleming. This was Vic’s 39th Times crossword puzzle (7th appearing in the Sunday edition) in nine years. Vic continues to live in Little Rock, Ark., and is in his 18th year as district judge and 12th as part-time professor of law and literature at the Bowen School of Law. In what he davidsonjournal.davidson.edu

calls an “admission” about this puzzle, Vic included SOLIPSIST (“Self-absorbed sort”) in the fill! Contact: Richard V. Wilson, 1236 East Rookwood Dr., Cincinnati, OH 45208; 513321-1524; rwilson14@cinci.rr.com

AS TOLD BY: Patrick J. Curley, Class Secretary David Reid is now retired after 30 years with the MITRE Corp. Andrew Strawcutter writing from the woods and hills of upper Westchester … “I would like to share the news that on Dec. 10, 2013, I was married to my best friend, Philip, my partner and companion for the past 15 years. The ceremony felt charmed, presided over by my good friend and minister, Rachel, and took place in our little white church on the village green as fresh snow was falling. We said our vows in the presence of a few close neighbors, who also participated in the service. There was selected organ music by John and beautiful flowers—lots of purple and white—by Mary Lou. New in its way, this event required a prior action by the N.Y. State legislature and a recent decision by the U.S. Supreme Court. So now I am legally married. It’s nice to be married.” Bo Phillips and Bill Higgins are still fighting annuity class actions and playing golf together. It is fun to have a Davidson classmate just down the hall at Reed Smith San Francisco. Bo’s son Rob just finished his latest short film (Valiant) and hopes for favorable reception at the festivals. Daughter Anna is in the physics doctoral program at Tufts and married to a fellow physics genius. Wife Susan rides horses and volunteers at the Lindsay Wildlife Museum in Walnut Creek, Calif. Family weekends are spent in Napa golfing or competitive wine tasting. After almost 30 years in a large cardiology practice in Orlando, Fla., many with interventional procedures in the cardiac cath lab, (leading to a subsequent cervical spinal fusion surgery), Whit Whitworth is enjoying working half-time. Wife Beth and Whit travel and split time between homes in Florida and Jackson, Wy. Son Hilton is in the oil business in Wyoming, son Morgan graduated from Brown and Duke Law and clerks for a federal judge, daughter Hilary graduated from U.Va. and is in Emory Med School. Lanny Vincent published a book in 2011 (Prisoners of Hope: How Engineers and others Get Lift for Innovating, Westbow Press), still provides consulting services for innovating systems, and volunteers at the First Presbyterian Church of “Bezerkeley,” Calif. John McCartney, Ross Manire, Frank McShane and Tom Kent joined Lanny for the U.S. Open in San Francisco several years ago to celebrate their collective 60th birthdays, and are planning another rendezvous next year at the U.S. Open in Oregon. John Simms checked in from Greensboro, while Frank Erwin follows everything Davidson from Emerald Isle. Ted Ellett and wife Lee still live in Alexandria, Va. Ted is administrator of the Aviation Group at Hogan Lovells in D.C. Two grandkids courtesy of daughter Pender Koontz and husband Mark, son Taz works in Richmond, Va., and daughter

Dabney is engaged. Ted often sees Pete West ’76 at aviation-related events in the D.C. area. Our condolences to Tony Oakley on the death of his father Luther Berle Oakley on March 25. Contact: Patrick J. Curley, 25 Tanyard Ct., Chapel Hill, NC 27517; 919-932-3512; fax, 919-932-3518; patrick@treatuwell.com

AS TOLD BY: John Randolph, Class Secretary I trust the season finds all of you doing well. To the news: Robert Long, a.k.a. our very own “b(oblong),” is ambling toward the end of a career teaching creative writing and serving in humanities/arts research development at the University of Oregon. His recently penned books of poems include “The Kilim Dreaming and Walking Wounded.” George Kutcher reports that he has been class co-chair, along with Tom Ioanes, since about 2009. He warns that those who commit early to the Fund for Davidson can avoid persistent harassment from him. He has been living in Charlotte since 1992 with Janet, his bride of 38 years. George attended the Southern Conference Tournament in Asheville and saw Dave Gleim among the Wildcat faithful who made the trip. Bill McKinnon has been with the U. S. Attorney’s Office in Atlanta for 29 years, prosecuting mostly white collar cases, with the occasional interstate murder for hire and public corruption cases thrown in. Bill often sees Bruce Maloy on the other side of the courtroom and says Bruce is a highly regarded and successful criminal defense lawyer in Atlanta. Bill has been together with Sue McAvoy ’77 for 14 years. They get back to campus regularly for alumni and athletic events. Bill’s daughter, Camerin, lives in Charlotte with her husband Sean. She is a professional dancer and co-artistic director of Taproot, a collaborative dance and theater company. His son Corbin lives part time with Bill and is passionate about the bagpipe. Kudos to Corbin— I’ve tried it and simply can’t make it sing! Mike Mahla checked in from his post as associate dean for graduate medical education at the University of Florida College of Medicine. He is in charge of 70 residency and fellowship training programs involving more than 800 physicians training in many different specialties. He was honored last year by the Society for Neuroscience in Anesthesia and Critical Care as their educator of the year. Beyond that, Mike still works in the operating room three days a week providing anesthesia care for neurosurgical patients. He is still involved in musical and church activities in Gainesville, Fla. Filmmaker John Lemmon is located in Charlotte. His biggest news is the birth of a new granddaughter. His company has been doing character animation for decades. These days he also helps young people experience the fast-paced world of stop-motion animation. His hardware is called ReadyANIMATOR, which libraries and schools use to make it easy for students to create their own handmade animation with the iPad serving as the camera. Fun tech for the masses! Gray Lindsey’s big news is that he has retired after a 30-year tour of duty at Coca-Cola. Gray Summer 2014

theUnion: Alumni writes that he actually enjoyed his finance career at Coke, including a six-year stint in Europe in the 1990s. He celebrated retirement with a family trip to New Zealand last July. Gray is still doing some independent consulting in his “retirement,” but is shooting for a little more personal balance, including more time on the tennis courts. Ross McCloy claims to be having fun with six grandkids all under age three and has no retirement plans as of yet. For those who care to remember, Roy the Wonderdog, the somewhat less than majestic mascot to all Gozinyas, passed peacefully in 1981. He left no known survivors. 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 Eppa Rixey and family are doing well. Daughter Carol ’04 has two children and lives in Michigan. Daughter Sarah just got married this summer. Son Eppa V (affectionately called Quint) must be doing spectacularly if a step up is leaving Bain Consulting for a position as head of strategic planning for Lagunitas Brewing in Petaluma, Calif., keeping the beer flowing. Eppa and Buffie live in boring Cincinnati. Pope Moseley is chair of the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. He’s also held a professorship in the Translational Disease Systems Biology Group at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research at the University of Copenhagen. And, by the way, enjoying two great cities separated by a lot of airplane butt time. Prayers for Banks Peacock and wife Deborah as he has gone from full-time to part-time at Wayne Community College to be with her through cancer treatment. So far, things look good. True to Banks’ pithy way of looking at the world, he describes the difference in pay rates as 3/5 of his time going to completing forms and 2/5 for actual teaching (his fractions). John Mitchell is a busy guy. A new job in banking, his and wife Dale’s 13th and 14th grandchildren this summer and the last of their seven (count ’em) children’s weddings recently (all in nine years!). John’s heart is full and his wallet is empty, and that’s OK. Don Meng invites all to his retirement place near Oriental on the North Carolina coast. Daughter Mandi is head of PR and marketing for a Brazilian company in New York City, and son Matt, now married, is in medical school. Don asks the question of the “Year of turning 60,” how is it that our kids grow up and we don’t change at all? Speaking of turning 60, Stephen Muse celebrated by being ordained a deacon in the Orthodox Church, where he has worked as director of the Counselor Training Program and Clinical Services for Clergy at the Pastoral Institute in Columbus, Ga., for many years. He has recently published a book, When Hearts Become Flame, in both English and Greek. Short takes: Dave Gordon is at the University of Virginia. Jamie Koloditch, who hasn’t cashed a

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paycheck in the United States in a long time, is counselor for commercial affairs/senior commercial officer in the U.S. Embassy in Buenos Aires. Rusty Lindsey has added a granddaughter to go with his grandson, and reports that Larry Hardaway is doing well after kidney transplant surgery a few years ago. Our sympathies to Bob Sanders, who lost his mother in the last year. Jay Powell vows to keep his string of conference basketball tournaments alive as we head into the A-10. Brad Swalwell became a grandfather in March. Peter Clark had weighed in last year that he had retired after a good career. Truth was, he wasn’t well, and sadly, Peter died in January. fourth Sentelle roommate Tom Oliver remembers him as the hardest working, most focused individual he’d ever seen, and a great guy. He will be missed. From the Dumbest division of the Largest and Dumbest: As you may recall, yours truly, out posted in St. Louis, finally got to see the ’Cats play close to here, playing Missouri in the NIT last March. So excited as I was that I parked the car and ran in, an hour before game time. About 45 minutes later, I got a text from my wife that the Columbia, Missouri police had called the house to say that my car was locked with the lights on and the engine running. Sometimes I think I exist for the entertainment value of my sons. Hey, it’s only gas—some from my car, the rest from me. Speaking of Davidson sports, now that we’re in the Atlantic 10 I look to coordinate mass quantities of faithful when coming to town to play St. Louis University. If you’re ever planning to do so, let me know. I know a few of the spots! Contact: Michael S. Pappas, St. Louis, MO; 314-973-7799 (c); mspappas@charter.net

AS TOLD BY: Sue McAvoy, Class Secretary Our class gathered in Asheville one final time at the Southern Conference basketball tournament. Here’s the wrap up report from Bob “Butch” Beard: “Although a disappointing finish for both the men and women, we had a lot of quality time together with Carol Connor Willingham and Sue McAvoy and their significant others, as well as Cam McNeely and significant beers. My one failure was not setting up a chug-a-lug contest for every time Coach McKillop said arena.” Other classmates in attendance were Paul and Pat MacLeod Andrews, David and Claire Montgomery ’78 Bailey, Susan Reid Beard, Wayne Cross, Frank Hamilton, Gary Overstreet, Jean Parks, Johnathan Rhyne and Mark Wilfley. It was great to hear from Karl Schlotterbeck. Karl and Sue live in Holliston, Mass., and he is in his 12th year as an R.N. in the ICU of Milford Regional Medical Center. Karl traveled to Scotland in May with his 84-year-old mother, sister and brother, and loves living on a lake with both daughters within an hour of home (one in Providence, R.I., and the other in Boston). Mark Rittmanic shared news of his June 2013 wedding: “I married the former Diane Nale; she is a gourmet cook and Booth graduate (University of Chicago) who works at Gallagher Insurance, handling SOX compliance and the financial goings-on of their international subsidiaries. With

her fantastic cooking I may have to work on not gaining a few pounds! Fortunately, we both love to exercise. And most important, my daughters (Maya is a 2014 Smith College graduate, and Meg is a rising 9th grader) just love Diane!” Ruth Williamson Simmons lives on Froggy Bottom Farm in east Tennessee and works as an occupational therapist with severely autistic children. She and Morgan, an environmental writer for the Knoxville News Sentinel, have four children (a N.Y. artist, environmental engineering graduate student, recording arts student, and pre-vet rising sophomore at the University of Tennessee). Ruth currently is contending with the miniature donkey that her children gave her for Mother’s Day…the donkey enjoys flipping her dwarf pygmy goats. So Ruth is working hard to keep the peace. Join Ed “Basketball” Jones in celebrating his son Patrick’s admission into the M.F.A. program at American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. Alumni of the program include Denzel Washington, Annette Bening, Danny Glover, and Marsha Mason, among others. Way to go, Patrick! Ed’s older son, Christopher, continues to work on Capitol Hill by day, serving as legislative assistant to Congressman Rick Crawford of Arkansas, while going to law school at American University by night. Ed is now the director of marketing and communications at Averett University in Danville, Va. (wife Ann’s hometown; Ann and Ed were married in Danville 34 years ago), where he enjoys working closely with the university’s first-ever female president...sound familiar? Rob Schwacke reported in: “Well, I’m still in prison—working—for over 30 years now. Thirty years was the mandatory life sentence before parole when I started as a school psychologist in November 1983 (at the “High Rise,” Western Youth Institution, in Morganton, N.C.; transferred to Foothills Correctional Institution in 2007), but I’m not considering applying for parole (retirement) any time soon. I’ve found working in the prison system interesting and challenging and at times astounding and downright dumbfounding. On top of all that, I don’t ever have to be recertified in oleoresin capsicum spray again. On the personal side, my wife Jill and I celebrated our 35th anniversary last October. Chemotherapy limited us to one child, who is all grown now with two children of his own. We live on our retreat on Burkemont Mountain with one dog, five cats (all rescues), and a flock of wild turkeys whom the dog absolutely refuses to chase. For fun I do rockwork landscaping and just finished a patio and pond complete with cascades and waterfall. I can’t get away from the rockpile thing but have noticed an inverse relationship between the size of rock and my age. I continue to enjoy good health and believe I still have my mind. Well, I think I do.” Classwomen, be sure to join us for our annual Ocean Isle Beach weekend Oct. 30-Nov. 2. If you have yet to join us, this is a perfect year to come as we will celebrate the 10th year of our very special gatherings. We share a sacred communion, so please join us! Please join me in extending sympathy to John “Bright Eyes” McArthur whose father, Clarence davidsonjournal.davidson.edu

Alexander McArthur Jr. ’43, passed away in January. 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., Atlanta, GA 30307; 404-373-1272; smcavoy@law.emory.edu

AS TOLD BY: Berta Summerell Hamilton, Class Secretary Greetings from sunny Wilmington, N.C.! I hope this edition of the Journal, and these class notes, finds each of you doing well. Thank you once again for cheerfully sending news to me! George Flowers wrote a quick note to say that he and his wife, Jean, celebrated the birth of their first grandchild, Virginia Elaine Flowers, born March 22, 2013, to Robert ’10 and Kathryn Whatley Flowers. All are living in Columbus, Ga. Bruce and Debbie Dillon Darden welcomed a granddaughter to the family in December 2013. Her name is Haviland Jane Rowell, and she is being called “Livy.” Also in December, Bruce was named president of the Cervical Spine Research Society, an international organization. In April they traveled to Vietnam for a meeting of the society. Brian Cooper reports that he had a bad hip replaced in December 2013, after some serious consultations with fellow classmates who happen to be doctors, during our 35th reunion in June 2013. He got back to tennis quickly and has been able to play soccer again, too. “I’d love to express my appreciation for the support and counsel of my classmates!” Kris Childress and his wife, Lynette, who live in Singapore, took a side trip this past winter to Canada to “crunch around in the deep snow and cobbled streets of Quebec City’s Old quarter (the only walled city in North America north of Mexico). As we were waiting for our Charlotte flight, none other than Jim Murphy stepped off the plane—much to our surprise and delight. We had a chance to chat with my old freshman hallmate (Richardson 3).” It was great to hear from Jayne Reich. She and her 10-year-old daughter, Dalia, live in London, where Jayne works in oral histories, and continues her own art and design work. Bill Vinson retired in March after 36 years with Wrangler. “I spent the day at the hangar working on the airplane I am building. Tomorrow we leave for a week in Charleston and Orlando with a day at the Sun ‘n Fun Fly-In in Lakeland, Fla. Life is good.” Jonathan MacLean reports that he and Cathy are doing great. “We live in Duluth, Ga. Cathy’s still teaching middle school Spanish. Our four kids are on their own, saving money and happy. My cancer (multiple myeloma) is in remission following an autologous stem cell transplant a year ago. It’s crazy. I really shouldn’t be here. I’ve lived through two kidney transplants and a stem cell transplant—seems like more than my share, but I wouldn’t change a thing. God must have some plan for me; just wish I knew what it was. I’d love to hear from Charlie Patterson, Jim Wall, Stan Hales and know that “Dr. Phil” and Erin Oblinger, Chuck Still and Powell Slaughter are well. Hey to Bill Sigmund and family.”

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Billy Hutchings and his wife are enjoying the opening of “Rocky the Musical,” the new and third major musical their daughter, Sasha, has appeared in during the last two years. “The ending of this production is like none you have ever seen. She is part of the ensemble cast and was named one of the 10 hottest new chorale performers by the weekly New York Broadway Magazine for 2014. Go Sasha!” Please join me in offering condolences to Roger Brown on the death of his father, Roger Henry Brown Sr., age 92, of Gainesville, Ga. He passed away Tuesday, Jan. 14, at his residence. Sadly, I must report the death of our classmate, Jerry Suttles. Jerry died March 22 in Newton, N.C. You can find his obituary at on the college’s In Memoriam blog. Contact: Berta Summerell Hamilton, 1738 Fairway Dr., Wilmington, NC 28403; 910-2511383; bertahamilton2@aol.com; Davidson78. blogspot.com

AS TOLD BY: Kim Rieck Fisher, Class Secretary I don’t have a lot of news to report this time, but perhaps no news is good news? Harrison Marshall received the prestigious McKnight Renaissance Lawyer Award at the NCBA annual meeting in Wilmington, N.C. Congrats, Harrison! We always knew you were a true Renaissance man. Harrison is a partner with McGuire Woods in Charlotte. Psych Snippets, the Davidson Psychology Department’s e-newsletter, reports that Suzie Baker is president-elect for Division 2 (Teaching of Psychology). Go Suzie! On a sad note, Irv Wilson’s uncle Joseph Wilson, ’41, passed away in February. Quite a few members of the Wilson family have gone to Davidson apparently. We send our condolences to Irv. My husband and I just returned from a 10-day trip to London and Edinburgh, Scotland. If you’re on Facebook, I’m sure you’re already aware of that since I post so many photos. What a beautiful country Scotland is! And London was great, although very $$. Sorry so short and sweet, but that’s all, folks! Contact: Kim Rieck Fisher, 34 Hazel Dr., Pittsburgh, PA 15228; 412-913-5276 (c); 412-561-7400, ext. 267 (w); kfisher@ howardhanna.com

AS TOLD BY: Burkley Mann Allen and Marshall A. Waddell, Class Secretaries Tanda Witherspoon Bianca reports that she and husband Denny have run the Port Royal Racquet Club on Hilton Head Island for better than two decades. She has been shuttling between coasts, since daughter Tara’s enrollment at the Arts Institute of California, Los Angeles. They would love to hear from Davidson friends. We regret to learn at such a late date that Cortez and Lulu Cooper lost his father, the Reverend Cortez A. Cooper, Jr. ’55, in October 2011, and we wish them comfort. Susan Wilson Mucci also is in our thoughts on the death of her uncle Joseph F. Wilson ’41, this past February. Thoughts also go out to Denver Cornet. He

shares that his mother has suffered a stroke and requires attentive care. Sarah Parham recently drew media attention for her role in promoting wellness as director of Connections Clubhouse, a Catawba Valley, Behavioral Healthcare program, which provides crucial resources for employment, community and health care for mentally ill residents. Its activities have included a popular pottery program that has been parlayed over the past decade into an annual December pottery and chili fundraiser. Developing networking relationships among employers in the area has also been integral to her work on behalf of the residents. Great to hear from George Brown on news that his son Quin has been accepted into the upcoming freshman class at Davidson. Congratulations to Tom and Laura Spangler on the February wedding of son Michael ’10, a Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary student, to Melissa Meijaard of Ontario, Canada. They mention too that son Luke, an upcoming VCU med student, and daughter-in-law Molly at Union Seminary, are in Richmond, Va., worshipping at Alex and Ginger Evans’ church. Their youngest son Mark is at UNCW and daughter Elizabeth is 9th grade. Tom is in his 24th year as an orthopedic surgeon with Winston Bone and Joint. Laura is in her 17th year as pastor of Lloyd Presbyterian Church in Winston-Salem. Bob McCully reconnected this past fall with Paul Suich and Sylvia Woodall at the Davidson Male Chorus reunion. Bob took the opportunity to give Davidson’s library archives both his great-grandfather’s Davidson diploma from 1873 and a speech on fortitude the latter gave to the Eumenean Society. Bob pastors at First Presbyterian Church, Dallas, N.C., and is a counselor and supervisor at the Charlotte Rescue Mission; he was recently certified as a Clinical Supervisor (CCS) with the North Carolina Substance Abuse Professional Practice Board. Greg Hammons recently joined the Personal Economics Group in Dallas. He also is in his third year on the Dallas Safari Club board of directors. He and wife Cara enjoyed a fine footballer reunion last July with the Sheridans, Crosbys, Stokes and Overtons in Flathead Lake, Mont. Mary “Frizzle” Burton Willis runs a Montessori preschool and recently completed her master’s in education. Congratulations! No way on earth to dismiss her concern to learn that a parent of one of her students is a Davidson ’07 graduate. We share Ted Jones’ enthusiasm on the Seattle Seahawks’ 2013 Superbowl win, apparently from the easy view of his office window. He also had the pleasure of visits from Burkley Mann Allen and Scott Goodwin this past fall in the space of just a couple of weeks. Ted also notes his pleasure over the past 17 years to serve as a docent for the Seattle Zoo. Looking forward to updates on news of Timothy Harden’s career transition from attorney to work with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, as well as a mission trip with family members to Haiti. Contact: Burkley Mann Allen, 3521 Byron Ave., Nashville, TN 37205; 615-383-6604; burkley.allen@gmail.com Summer 2014

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AS TOLD BY: Elizabeth Medlin Hale and Lisa Hasty, Class Secretaries Thanks to some serious stalking, on Facebook and locally, we have some updates! We are still trying to make the “Davidson Class of 1981 Facebook Page” function as a networking tool, and if anyone could help with this it would be much appreciated. In the meantime keep “liking” us. The “administrators” at least can reach out. After 24 years, Jim “Jamie” King and wife Laura are moving from Atlanta to Chicago. Their youngest is finishing high school, and they have built a “nest” high in a skyscraper in downtown Chicago. They also hope to find property around Wrightsville Beach. Jim will look for work in his field of technology sales and/ or telecommunications consulting; Laura is with HCSC. They have four children. Virginia, after Furman and a culinary degree, is a sous chef. Laurie graduated from Vassar and Dartmouth and is working as an engineer in Tyson’s Corner. Liz is majoring in chemical engineering at Tulane, and James is on the waitlist at Davidson, where he would make quite an addition to the swim team with his four school swim records. The entire family has caught the triathlon bug, typically competing in four sprint races per year. Last year, Jim, Laura, James, and Laurie competed in the National Olympic Championship in Milwaukee. “It was a challenge but also a total blast.” Doug Shanks reports that they also have their eyes on living on the southeast coast, having just bought a house at Pawley’s Island. Empty nesters, their youngest child is a senior at Duke. They travel a lot, with a trip to Nepal coming up. Doug wrote to us in March and it was “sugaring” time in Vermont; he extends an invitation to anyone up that way in March who wants to “come by the Shanks’ sugar shack and collect and boil sap and make sweet sugar together.” Speaking of snowy undertakings, Jonathan Keith’s son was a finalist in the Carhartt Cold Crew Contest, which involves plowing, shoveling, and salting for very, very long shifts in zero degree weather. How did it turn out? Jim Tholen was in the press for his work as CFO for Broadsoft, a Maryland-based software firm working in the telecommunications area that has 500 employees in 21 countries. After getting an M.B.A. from Yale, Jim started in the technology investment area at Morgan Stanley but moved to working with entrepreneurs and start-ups. He has been with Broadsoft for five years, and his accomplishments include taking the company public. Carolyn Barnett Brady reports that she had a most memorable experience participating in a Distinguished Visitor Embarq hosted by the U.S. Navy. They were housed at the Norfolk Naval Base overnight, then departed by plane and landed on an aircraft carrier located off the coast of Jacksonville, Fla., with an arrested landing. The group got a complete tour of the carrier with presentations by

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those in charge of different areas. They witnessed a simulated war drill and nighttime takeoffs and landings. Dinner with the commanding officer ended an amazing day. Clay and Pam Macaulay are well in Weems, Va., near the Chesapeake Bay. Clay is beginning his eighth year as pastor for Campbell Memorial Presbyterian Church. Last summer they had a wonderful four-month sabbatical to Ireland and Scotland. Clay loves serving as a small village pastor. Gray Bullard wrote about a visit back to the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. Classmates celebrated the retirement of Dr. Jim Bryan ’53. Dr. Bryan was the prime physician in the Hospice movement in North Carolina, a cherished UNC medical teacher to two generations of doctors, a beloved personal physician to countless patients, and recipient of Davidson College’s Distinguished Alumni Award in 1993. Dr. Bryan’s son, Jamie Bryan ’79, also attended Davidson. Keep in touch. Write us! Contact: Elizabeth Medlin Hale, 303 Peachtree Battle Ave., Atlanta, GA 30305-4030; 404-3500847; elizabethhale@comcast.net; Lisa Hasty, 5960 Winterthur Dr., Atlanta, GA 30328-4622; 678-571-0881; lisa.hasty@ acrm.com

AS TOLD BY: Ann Parker, Class Secretary At the end of my last notes, I reported that Van Beck has been searching for his lost boat, so I am happy to share this report from Dr. Peter Krentz in Davidson: “As Van’s Beck’s future neighbor I can report that not only has Van found his boat, he has been spending so much time on it that although he closed on his new home some months ago, he has yet to move in.” Surely by now he has! Joni Seehorn Trobich wrote, “Bob is still doing serious felony and capital defense legal work here in Charlotte and the surrounding area. I am now a part time legal assistant, and love working with Bob. It is nice to believe in what you do, and I enjoy it. It is hard for Bob to fire me though, because if he does, he might not get dinner!” Joni and Bob have three children: daughter Catherine Alexandra is working in the arts in the D.C. area; daughter Carson is interviewing for jobs in non-profit international development; and son Michael is a junior in high school but considering Davidson. Joni and Bob have turned their home into a ranch and invite any classmates in the Cotswold area to stop by anytime. Elizabeth Finnerty was recently recognized as one of the 13 Atlanta female leaders to be honored at the 2014 Womenetics’ POW! Awards luncheon in April. The POW! Awards honor women who demonstrate business leadership, community impact and commitment to the advancement of other female leaders. Elizabeth is the president and CEO of Skyland Trail, a nationally recognized organization that provides treatment for individuals recovering from major depression, bipolar illness, schizophrenia and other mental illnesses. According to Womenetics, “Elizabeth exemplifies a truly purposeful woman who has used her position to advance substantive change in business and society.”

Richard Strader writes, “Just a quick note from Atlanta that my final chance, out of three, to get a young Strader from my side of the family (versus brother Gregg Strader ’80 or sister Pam ’85) to go to Davidson met with success as Olivia Strader will be in the Class of 2018, whew! My sister Pam’s son, Brian Wood, will be joining his first cousin Olivia in the Class of ’18. My dad, Dr. Hunter Strader ’54, is one proud Wildcat grandfather!” Olivia is sure to meet other children of 1982 alumni next year at Davidson — maybe even Michael Trobich! Bryan Collins reports that he is the proud grandfather of two grandchildren, Maggie Mae Akins born in December and Logan Wade Sichak born in February. Sam Outten recently joined Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP in their Greenville, S.C. office. Sam has been practicing business, professional liability, and product liability litigation for nearly 30 years, and has tried more than 70 cases to a jury verdict. Sam is ranked in Chambers USA; is consistently named in South Carolina Super Lawyers, including the Top 25 Super Lawyers list; and is listed in The Best Lawyers in America in the areas of Commercial Litigation, Legal Malpractice Law (Defendants), and Product Liability Litigation (Defendants). Carie Nunn Irving shared this: “I ran the annual Turkey Trot 5K presented by the brothers of Sigma Phi Epsilon in Davidson this past November. My son Fred Irving ’14 also ran. He is a member of SigEp and a senior at Davidson. I tried to catch John Wrenn ’81 in mile three but he was just too fast. John’s son, Patrick Wrenn ’14 is also a Davidson senior and in SigEp.” It is with great sadness that I share the passing of Sharon Lee Bridwell, who passed away at Creekside Hospice in Las Vegas, Nev. on January 2, 2014 following a long battle with a terminal illness. After graduating from Davidson with a BA in psychology, Sharon held marketing positions with several North Carolina companies including Wrangler Jeans (VF Corporation), Multi-Ad Services and Vanguard Cellular Systems before relocating to Basel, Switzerland. While in Switzerland Sharon was retained as a consulting manager by Novartis to launch a global image development plan. Sharon and her husband Gene Leed returned to the United States in 1999, ending up in Las Vegas. Sharon is survived by her husband Gene. Our thoughts go out to her family. 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 Cynthia Briscoe Brown was elected to the Atlanta Board of Education, beating three candidates in the November general election and the incumbent in a runoff. She’s dedicated to working with colleagues to give every child in Atlanta the world-class education they deserve. Jim Brown practices commercial real estate law and leads the Stephen Ministry at First Presbyterian Church. Their son Palmer is working on his Eagle Scout and is a senior at North Atlanta High School where he plays in the jazz davidsonjournal.davidson.edu

band. Caroline is a member of Davidson’s class of 2014. Tim ’82 and Nancy Cloyed Lorenzen hosted a Tampa alumni reception for President Quillen including classmates John and Carolyn Scott Cain, Connie Kyle Viator and Bob Barnes. Bob is eight years into his solo law practice focusing on commercial real estate. His wife, Leland, is the director of Christian education for their church and practices family law. Their oldest son, Walker, is a sophomore at the University of Florida. Fletcher is a high school senior hoping to play football in college next year. Baldwin (11) splits his time between soccer, baseball, and swimming. Bob reports that he traded his coaching whistle for a camera and has quite a passion for photography. He caught up with John Higinbothom during a recent business trip in Tampa. Connie lives in Cincinnati and happened to be in Tampa for the reception. She’s reestablishing her career in retail cosmetics executive management and currently works for a new ULTA Beauty store. Her oldest son, Spencer, received his master’s degree in vocal performance/opera at the University of Cincinnati. Connor returned from Afghanistan in August 2013 and has one more year of service at Fort Bliss. Ben and Beth Toler Oldham live in Statesboro, Ga. Two of their three children are out of college. Ben cares for his patients in this new world of medical care. He’s a deacon at their church and recently served as chief of staff at their hospital. His hobbies include golfing and working in the yard. Beth coordinates a community Bible study and serves as a court appointed special advocate for children at risk. Ron Tunkel is in his 18th year as an ATF criminal profiler assigned to the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit at Quantico. He’s had a thrilling career and is considering retirement, although he still loves serving our nation at this point in history. He co-authored a chapter entitled, “The Assessment of Anonymous Threatening Communications,” in the recently published, International Handbook of Threat Assessment, (Oxford Press, 2013). Elizabeth Williams is taking a break after 10 years of teaching medical school students at Virginia Commonwealth University. William is currently in ninth grade. Elizabeth volunteers at church and school. This spring she hopes to see McNair Helms Bishop, Janie Larus-McShane and Elizabeth McMillan Hagood at their high school reunion. How many high schools have four graduates in Davidson’s class of 1983? Congratulations to Shawn Stafford on having his name added to his law firm: Neel, Robinson & Stafford, LLC. His wife, Hildreth, retired from television production and fills her time shuttling Sarah Grace (14) to lacrosse and Olivia (12) to yoga. Shawn is the proud owner of a new knee that allows him to enjoy hunting, fishing, and golf whenever possible. Andy Zoutewelle keeps busy with his land surveying business in Charlotte and occasional golf rounds with classmates Chris Culp, Danny Sappenfield, and Russ Williams. Andy’s daughter Austen is a junior at Sewanee; Shep is a rising davidsonjournal.davidson.edu

senior at Myers Park High School and JP is a rising junior at Providence High School. Chris Culp is a Partner with Milazzo, Gamble, Laws Webb Law Group in Charlotte. He specializes in commercial litigation and bankruptcy. John and Rebecca Billingsley ’95 Marshall are in their second year in Alpharetta, GA where John serves as the headmaster at Mount Pisgah Christian School. Rebecca and John are blessed by an active home life with Luke (9), Kate (7), Will (5), and Matthew (1). John shares that the Sochi games reminded him of the men’s gold medal win in ice hockey over the Soviets in 1980. He was throwing batting practice with Phil Gordon, John Porter ’81, and John Haskell ’81 when the roar went up across campus. Do you remember this Olympic moment? Contact: Anne Hurt Krieg, 7111 Xavier Ct., McLean, VA 22101-5077; 703-288-9613; ahkrieg@verizon.net

AS TOLD BY: Matthew Merrell, Class Secretary By the time this gets into print, we will have had our 30th reunion. Hard to believe we’ve been out that long. I hope we had a great turnout of classmates and that those who came back enjoyed reconnecting with each other. Peter Jannetta has joined the ranks of parenthood. His son Joseph (Peter Joseph II) was born on March 5. Pete resides in Pittsburgh. Jay Norman is the president and founder of BlueLine Conservation, specializing in Virginia land preservation tax credits, and he’s the president

of Norman Realty. Jay initiated the expansion of Norman Realty services, adding leasing and investment sales to Norman Realty’s longrespected commercial real estate capabilities. A Norman Realty broker since 1989 and president since 2001, Jay founded BlueLine Conservation in 2005. Jay has served on the board of Fauquier Bankshares, Inc., currently serves on the board of Utron Inc., and is the immediate past chairman of the board of trustees of the George Mason University Foundation. Jay and his wife, Elizabeth, have two children and reside in Warrenton, Va. near his hometown of Haymarket. Could Susan Kann Radulovacki be leaving her home in Atlanta for Washington, D.C.? Susan’s husband, Branko, is running for the U.S. Senate in Georgia and faces a primary in late May. Susan is the author of “Pregnant with Hope: Good News for Infertile Couples” published in 2009. Amy Ashworth is an attorney with Hunton & Williams in her hometown of Richmond, Va. where her practice focuses on commercial contracting, licensing and general corporate matters. She is a past board member with the Orchard House, a school for middle-school girls in Richmond. Since the start of the 1998-99 seasons, The William Smith College squash and tennis teams have been led by head coach Chip Fishback. The Heron squash team has grown from a first year varsity program into a top-20 power, while the Heron tennis team has achieved 17 consecutive winning seasons. He has a career record of 125-120 on the squash courts and a 168-83 mark on the tennis courts for William Smith. The William Smith tennis program has also flourished under his guidance. Last season,

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AS TOLD BY: Kelly Sundberg Seaman, Class Secretary Fire up whatever you use for a calendar and save this date: June 4-7, 2015—because that’s the weekend Davidson invites us all back to mark 30 years since we graduated. Janet Stovall Harrell is chairing the reunion. “Lorelei Keif asked if the summer date means we’re staying in the dorms. Not.” Janet says “Folks can expect to get a call for help soon.” If you have ideas or interest, email them to davidsoncollege85@gmail.com. “I seem to be on campus a lot lately,” Janet writes; “April to sit on a faculty panel focused on building an inclusive pedagogy; February to help induct the new members of DBAN in our first truly formal induction ceremony; last October, for Homecoming, when I got a chance to spend some time catching up with classmate Atondra Williams Ellis, who also was there. One of her former students—who she encouraged to apply—is there and came to hang out with us for a while.” Janet has been busy, a speech she wrote won first place in its category in the annual Cicero Awards. Presented by Vital Speeches of the Day, the Cicero Speechwriting Awards recognize the work that makes the speeches that help leaders lead—in every sector of business, politics and society. Congratulations! Craig Detweiler won the Spirit of Windrider award from Windrider Forum at the Sundance Film Festival, on its 10th anniversary. His latest book, iGods, was published last year. “I’ve been on a pop cultural streak,” Craig writes, “commenting on ABC’s show Resurrection on Good Morning America and Nightline, and about the film Noah on PBS. I’m slated to teach Pepperdine students at our London campus this summer so I hope to see Rod Molinare and maybe some of the Rusk scholars who studied at Davidson.” John Marks, Craig reports, is co-executive producer of the History Channel’s new show on H2, The Bible Rules. “Of course, John has figured out ways to make it dark and spooky....” John? Lauren Hightower Hagan called this one first, on our class Facebook page: “Is that our very own Keith Revell on American Experience’s story about Penn Station? Very impressive, very interesting!”“Yes, that was me,” says Keith. “My fifteen minutes of fame passed in about thirty

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seconds.” Keith teaches public administration at Florida International University in Miami, where he’s been since 1996. Katherine Gratto Revell works as a fundraiser for Miami City Ballet and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. “We have an 11 year old son, Eric, who has autism.” Kathy writes, “I am grateful to have celebrated my five-year ‘no-cancer-versary’ in January. Like many people who go through this experience, it has made me appreciate life even more and strive to live every day to its fullest. I feel fine and am doing well.” Their son, she says, “has made tremendous progress over the years, despite the challenge of autism. Eric is in a mainstream class, with an aide to help him. He plays on a soccer team for children with autism and is in a therapy program that uses dance to teach social skills, speech, and occupational therapy. Our autism service dog has really helped to increase his empathy for his peers and to give him self-confidence and unconditional love whenever he needs it.” Ann Hunter McLean founded Hunter Country Day School in Richmond in 2010; the school, which follows a classical Christian curriculum, is in its second year of having students. Ravi Jain ’97 is also part of this educational movement, Ann adds, and she has two Davidson grads on her faculty, Kimberley Nance Zandler ’95 and Tamara Broughton ’97. “Daughter Margaret Ann got married in August. Olivia is a first year at UVa., Ellie is a sophomore at Trinity Episcopal School, and Mary Blair is in 6th grade at HCDS.” Warren Gould, director of Upper School at Trinity School of Durham & Chapel Hill writes, “I’m headed to Oxford and Cambridge this summer for a two-week C.S. Lewis Summer Institute. It will give me a ton of great ideas for a fall semester English class that I’ll be offering to my school’s seniors.” Plus: another visitor for Rod. Speaking of Rod, informal polling after our 25th reunion ranked him the farthest traveler, and word has it that he might be back this time too. Can you top that? Are you farther flung, or could you (and who else?) put together some sort of epic route that would wind your way back to campus by next June? Consider that a challenge from your class secretary. Kelly Sundberg Seaman, 25 Rip Rd., Hanover, NH 03755; 603-643-5026; kelly.sundberg. seaman@gmail.com

AS TOLD BY: Mary Beth Harding Hernandez, Class Secretary Happy 50th birthday, class of ’86ers! From the updates I’ve received, it sounds like a lot of us are having a good time celebrating this milestone. First, congratulations to Holly Thomas, who published a book in October, and Laura McGee, who was promoted to full professor at Western Kentucky University. Trish Lennon Nicolas became a partner at TechCXO, where she is the CMO in the marketing practice. She and Peggy Eisenhauer celebrated Dana Lemon’s 50th at a special birthday lunch. Trish also celebrated her parents’ 50th wedding anniversary this year. Her dad Fred Lennon graduated from Davidson in 1965. Mary Edwards lives in Seattle and married her

partner of 19 years on February 8, after same-sex marriage became legal in Washington State. She writes: “I survived two brain tumors in my forties, had to leave my work in education because of disabilities, and now I’m in a master of social work program at the University of Washington. I love it. I blog about life after tumors at www.cantduckit. blogspot.com.” I read Mary’s inspiring blog regularly and urge you to check it out. Rand Hartsell writes that he went to the SoCon basketball tournament in Asheville and hung out with his former roommate Frank Hague, former fellow runner Bob Tate ’84 and Bob’s wife Laura Williams ’85. Rand also visited with Craig Hall, David Sink and David’s wife Beth ’87. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I’m pretty sure that Sharon Maguire Merrifield is the first our classmates to have a child graduate from Davidson. Her daughter Rebecca graduates in May. Jamie Kiser’s wife Elizabeth wrote that she and Jamie, Rhyne and Lisa Eldridge Davis, Hayes and Susan Taylor Woollen, Robert and Sinclair McLean and Blair ’87 and Shelley Schrum celebrated the big 5-0 together in St. Lucia. Also for Jamie’s 50th birthday, Elizabeth dedicated a bench for him on the north side of Chambers as a way to honor all the friends he made at Davidson. It’s not as exciting as a trip to the Caribbean, but I’m celebrating 50 by returning to school part-time to earn a master’s in International Conflict Management and Resolution. In May I’ll join Kaudie McLean, Trish Lennon Nicolas, Linda Walker Hardy, Jeanne Anne Chapman, Meredith Mugler Bowman and Christi Baggett Stanforth for a “fabulous 50” celebration at Polly Fishback Kimmel’s home in Cornelius. Reuniting with old, dear friends always reminds me of a passage in Michael Cunningham’s novel The Hours: “Maybe there is nothing, ever, that can equal the recollection of having been young together.” Please join me in extending our deepest sympathy to John Hamilton, whose wife Mary Chapman Hamilton ’87 died on February 10, 2014 after a courageous battle with breast cancer. Contact: Mary Beth Harding Hernandez, 2107 Thoroughbred Ln., Hillsborough, NC 27278; 919-643-1861; marybeth_hernandez@ yahoo.com

AS TOLD BY: Nelle McCorkle Bordeaux, Class Secretary Our summer theme is the beach, in honor of Richard Pollard, who is working on his Master Scuba Dive certificate. He practices medicine in Charlotte, as does his wife, Helene Keyzer ’86. They have two daughters, Beatrice Keyzer-Pollard (16) and Felicity Keyzer-Pollard (11). Richard is chief of neuroanesthesia and chief of trauma anesthesia at Carolinas Medical Center. He is an adjunct professor in the department of anesthesiology at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill School of Medicine and was voted a top doctor in Charlotte for the past two years. After completing his Master Scuba Dive certificate, Richard says his second project will be travel, as he hopes to see as many countries as he can. Right now he has seen 38 and has 161 to go. Also at the beach is Lisa Ceely-Derathe, who davidsonjournal.davidson.edu

moved to Tampa, Fla. in 2008 after having lived in France since her graduation from Davidson. Lisa and her husband, Philippe Derathe, a colonel in the French army who retired in 2011, have three children, Charlotte (25), who works in Boston; Benjamin, a senior at the Naval Academy training to become a Navy pilot (22); and Thomas, a junior math major at Florida State University (20). Philippe now works for a Tampa company. Lisa is lead teacher at Robinson High School and also is the boys’ and girls’ golf coach and boys’ tennis coach. She is pursuing another master’s degree, this time in educational leadership. Catching waves of fans is Dan Murrey, who is among the fans of his musical wife, Katie Oates ’86. Dan reported that Katie’s singing voice and her guitar playing, which she began four years ago, have led to her making a compact disc and her performances in Charlotte, where they live. They have a son, Sam, a high school senior, and a daughter, Lucy, a ninth-grader. Dan is chief executive officer of OrthoCarolina, having returned there after he took a leave of absence to run the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte. She sells seashells doesn’t describe Sonia Chambers, who is selling baking items in a food business she provides to a locally sourced food store in Huntington, W.V. Sonia and her husband have two daughters in high school. She serves on the board of the West Virginia Health Care Authority and coaches the high school swim team and volunteers at the food store where her small baking and food business items are sold. Last summer she saw Pauline Boyce, Patty Burns, Elizabeth Hall Sparks, Caroline Vinson Dennis, Beth Sink, and Eunice Hiott, who all refer to themselves as the Simpletons—but we know better. Earning not sand dollars but real dollars in his masonry business is Tony Griffin, who has the firm of Griffin Masonry in Charlotte. Tony and his wife, Julie, celebrated their 25th anniversary on New Year’s Eve. They have four children, Emily, a junior at Davidson who just became president of Rusk as a Spanish major with last semester in Buenos Aires; Abbey, a freshman at Davidson who just joined Warner Hall; Ike, a ninth-grader at Charlotte Latin (16); and Moses, a third-grader at Charlotte Latin (9). The two boys have both gone on overnight visits to Davidson to see their older sisters and are Wildcats at heart. Tony wrote, “Moses said the girls ‘just took me around and showed me off to their friends.’ Oh, to be nine again.” Whether your life is full of whitecaps or smooth sailing, whether the tide has gone in or out for you, send news to your classmates. With your Davidson friends, you always make waves. Write your class secretary down in the low country on the Atlantic Ocean, Working in more chambers than a chambered nautilus shell is Debby Giles, who just moved to Gainesville, Fla., to do her work as a behavioral specialist. Debby’s new job is at the Agency for Persons with Disabilities. She reports that she loves her job and the people she serves. Ellen (“Jyoti,” her Nepalese nickname) Harding is on completely different beaches, having moved to Thailand eight years ago with her family after 12 years of work in Nepal. She is glad her elder davidsonjournal.davidson.edu

son has applied to Davidson—from a chambered nautilus to Chambers Building. Contact: Nelle McCorkle Bordeaux, 333 East 44th St., Savannah, GA 31405; 912-234-9245 (h); 912-232-4999 (f); tbordeaux@prodigy.net From Alumni Relations: Our sincere condolences are extended to the family and friends of Mary Chapman Hamilton who passed away on February 10, 2014. We extend congratulations to Jane Campbell and Heather McKee, who were married on December 5, 2013 in Hawaii.

AS TOLD BY: Brooks Wilkerson Moore and Linda Tatsapaugh, Class Secretaries Greetings, Wildcats! I have recently heard from Bob Sherrill, who has been in touch with Davidson friends during the NCAA tournament and recently got together with Matt Newsom, Mike Daly, Andy Clarke, Steve Ott, Rob Vest ’90, Frank Holt ’90 and Cal Sharp ’90. They visited the Breeze Inn (formerly known as the Korner Pub) and got a picture with our friend Alice who is still working there. Bob reports that he, Newsom, Daly, and Vest all live in Charlotte and see each relatively frequently. Steve Ott lives in Chicago, and Andy Clarke is in Memphis. Bob is the partner/owner of an executive search firm Sockwell Partners and has two teen daughters, one of whom is at Hamilton College. On a much sadder note, we offer condolences to the family of our classmate Kevin Osborne Barnard of Roanoke, who passed away Wednesday, March 26 after battling cancer. He was a lawyer with Frith Anderson and Peake in Roanoke, a loving husband to Doly, and a devoted father to Cole and Spencer. Contact: Linda Tatsapaugh, 48 Beech Glen Rd., Black Mountain, NC 28711; 828-7792635 (c); ltatsapaugh@gmail.com Brooks Wilkerson Moore, 3713 Richmond St., Jacksonville, FL 32205-9425; 904-382-8981 (c); brookswilkersonmoore@yahoo.com

AS TOLD BY: Harry Broome, Class Secretary Kathryn E. Barnett remains a partner at one of the country’s largest law firms representing plaintiffs only located in Nashville, Tenn. Areas of practice include consumer protection, personal injury and torts, and defective products. She is a graduate of Vanderbilt University School of Law. Norma Rodriguez Prosser’s daughter, Elizabeth, received her first college acceptance letters in March. “I am thrilled that the first letter came from Davidson. I was shocked to find out that over 5550 students applied to Davidson to fill just 500 spaces. Tough odds for the non-legacy students out there. She’s very interested in something with an international component.” Her first decision is whether she will attend Davidson, Duke, Chapel Hill, or Georgetown (Walsh School of Foreign Service). Norma, herself, just graduated from nursing school and is now a registered nurse. She plans to continue her own nursing education and tutors high school science and math, and SAT

prep. In spite of her busy education and career, she still reports that the bulk of her mental energy and time is spent with her family. Tyler Jo Smith is now an associate professor of classical art and archaeology at U.Va. and the director of the Interdisciplinary Archaeology Program. “I spent last summer on the Semester at Sea teaching two classes while touring the Mediterranean with my husband and son. It was quite the adventure! Morocco and Malta were particular highlights for us.” In 2015 she is planning separate trips to India and Australia and would love Davidson alumni contacts in either place. Brett Morris writes from Virginia Beach where he resides with his wife Jean and two daughters (Emma, 14 and Ava, 10). “Both girls enjoy playing guitar and we spend a lot of time on the water either surfing or out in the boat… a 17 Boston Whaler that I had as a kid. Restoring old boats is a hobby.” Brett runs a company called ESI which provides IT solutions and is owned by Xerox. His business is mostly involved in building out data centers and doing software migrations. Greta Ratliff joined Hear in Kentucky Hearing Centers as a hearing instrument specialist in 1995 and has since taken on many diverse roles including patient care, staff training and operations management. She has also served on the Kentucky Licensing Board for Specialists in Hearing Instruments. Thava Mahadevan, an international exchange program graduate, received a MS at UNC in 1992. Thava is at the UNC Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health and is the director of operations and director of The Farm at Penny Lane, a developing recovery and rehab program in Chatham County. Thava has recently been in the news for receiving an Indy Award and was interviewed on NPR for his work at Center and the Penny Lane program. He mentions Davidson in the NPR interview and the link is included here: http://www.med.unc.edu/psych/cecmh/news/ center-in-the-news/penny-lane-farm-providestherapy-for-individuals-with-mental-illness-anddevelopmental-disabilities. Condolences go to Beth Drummond Davis, who lives in Gibson Island, Maryland, on the loss of her mother, Sarah Easley Drummond, in Februrary. There was also sad news in learning of the passing of Jesse Caldwell Fisher, Jr. ’53 in February, the father of John Fisher. Finally, heartfelt thoughts and prayers go to Elizabeth Franklin Keeler in Great Falls, Virginia who lost her father, Kenneth R. Franklin, in March. Contact: Harry Broome, 4738 N. 32nd Pl., Phoenix, AZ 85018; 602-840-9015; azbroome@cox.net

AS TOLD BY: Matt Terrell, Class Secretary The updates are slim, but there have been some great moves for some of our classmates! In February, Betsy Kennedy Hammond was named head of Wells Fargo’s Nashville-based retirement benefits consulting division. Betsy has enjoyed a long career with Wells Fargo and its Summer 2014

theUnion: Alumni previous iterations. Congratulations, Betsy! Also making a career move is Brigitte Roufail Peck. Early in 2014, Brigitte returned to Capstone Advancement Partners — an organization she helped found. Brigitte will look to continue Capstone’s tradition of helping nonprofit organizations meet their fundraising needs by providing flexible, sustainable fundraising strategies. Stan Humphries was featured recently in a profile featured in the College’s news discussing his impressive work at Zillow. Stan is responsible for the “Zestimate” feature that Zillow uses to estimate market value on every home in the U.S. Cool work, Stan! John Hutton checked in with an update on his interesting line of work. “I am a pediatrician and clinical research fellow at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital (my focus is early literacy and child development),” writes John. In 2011, John launched a publishing imprint out of his independent children’s bookstore, blue manatee press. “A big part of our mission — ‘a press with a purpose’ — is to develop/publish children’s books with healthpromoting themes. One series, Baby Unplugged, now has nine titles, has won awards and positive reviews, and is focused on screen time reduction and promotion of healthy alternatives such as reading and active play. A newer title, Sleep Baby Safe and Snug, was created in collaboration with Charlie’s Kids Foundation, a non-profit SIDS advocacy group, with all proceeds benefiting their organization. This book has been a huge hit, and in the past six months we/CKF have distributed almost 200 copies, most at-cost or free. Most recently, the state of Tennessee will be giving a copy to every baby born in the state next year.” John says interest is coming in from 20 other states as well. Nice work, John! Let us know what’s going on in your world! Contact: Matt Terrell, 613 Rye Ridge Rd., Cary, NC 27519; 919-475-3271 (c); 919-8436412 (w); mterrell@unc.edu

AS TOLD BY: Cecily Craighill and Bob Hornsby, Class Secretaries We’re a class full of global citizens, receiving reports from all over! Rhett Baldwin says, “We’re back in Charleston, S.C., where I’ve rejoined Trane after spending a year in Costa Rica, an experience our family will never forget. The environment stretched our kids’ comfort zones a good bit… witnessing their resilience and character development was the highlight. Stephen Bell and Phillip Motley brought their families down for visits.” Arindam Bhattacharjee loves living in London with his wife and two kids (9 & 7). He’s a partner at Genesis Investment Management LLP, an emerging markets dedicated investment management firm, and stays in touch with Amitabh Sonthalia, Trevor Knox, and Amanda Bastian, who works at Barnard in development and lives in New York with husband Tim Mulé and son Jonah (9); he wants to attend Davidson or Columbia. From Yokohama, Japan, Marshall Adams writes, “I work in PR at Waseda University in

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Tokyo … good thing I learned ‘sesquicentennial’ at Davidson, because Waseda’s is coming up. Marshall keeps up with Sean Murphy, who runs an art gallery/wine bar in Telluride, Colo., Tina McKenzie, who married Rod Lynch last September and lives in Southern Pines, and Lindsey Forsythe, who has moved to St. Petersburg, Fla. Mika Nabeshima was promoted, handling casualty claims for a branch office “Tyler did July Experience last summer; Leo got into his first choice high school here in Japan, so he’ll start at in April. Professor Wruck showed us slides from Germany when we visited last spring, when we also saw Dr. Ortmayer and Dr. Maiz-Pena.” Rob Lim, Chief of Metabolic and Advanced Laparoscopic Surgery at Tripler Army Medical Center, invites us all to Hawaii! “We’ve got 4 kids but are willing to play host to anyone who wants to visit Oahu.” Fernando Leyva claims to be first in line. Brian Jennings moved to San Francisco 15 years ago with wife Joanne, an executive news producer for public TV station KQED. “We love northern California—great weather, amazing beaches and mountains, fantastic food and wine.... I lead the Global Expansion program for the Online Store at Apple, an intersection of technology and liberal arts — I got a good dose of each while at Davidson! Two boys (10 & 7) keep us on our toes. Davidson is not well known here, but Stephen Curry helps with the basketball fans.” Margaret Knight Fields and Helen Hull visited Parie Hines in Seattle, where she lives with husband Agen Schmitz and son Sofian (7). Parie focuses on green design and efficient remodels with her firm LD Arch Design. Margaret lives in Carrboro and moves conservation forward on behalf of the Nature Conservancy’s Durham office. Helen was also with Minne Iwamoto, Martha Iwamoto, Margaret Morgan, Catharina Chang Earnest, Lucy Siler, Karen Mosher Wilkinson, and Susan Majors Flynn (plus assorted spouses and children) to welcome the new year in Montreat. Winn Maddrey hosted TEDxCharlotte in February and went to Whistler, Canada in March for TEDActive. “We are relishing the last year of two in one school; middle school is next for our oldest,” he reports. Two years ago Asheboro-based Walker McCrary founded McCrary International, a trading company that provides import/export logistics and global supply chain strategies and consulting. Irene Tsang Chao, a pediatrician and partner at Triangle Pediatric Center in Cary, tells us, “I was diagnosed with breast cancer in January, had surgery in February, and went back to work in March. I don’t need chemo; I am so thankful to have escaped that…. Grateful, but somewhat shocked still.” Anissa Patton writes, “My ex and I, after 17 years of marriage, finalized our divorce in 2012 but remain cordial. Both children are in college, majoring in engineering. I’m a senior attorney with the Fulton County Office of the Child Attorney, a certified Child Welfare Law Specialist, have served as an adjunct professor at Herzing University in Atlanta, instruct CLEs, and lecture. I participate in mock trials and offer presentations to teach children and parents about the judicial system

through Team Justice for Kids, and when able, volunteer as a Teen Court judge.” James Mason visited with with Joe Binns and Tommy Marshall in March while in Atlanta for the SEC men’s basketball finals. Larry Dagenhart assisted Ben Allison ’11 in editing his new book, Reaching the Rim: How British Basketball Players Can Get College Scholarships in the U.S. Ingrid Love Harding ran 13 miles in February to celebrate daughter Sarah’s 13th birthday and raise awareness for Rett Syndrome. This may seem like lots of news, but over two thirds of our class has not appeared in the Journal in a long time. Keep those updates coming! Contact: Cecily G. Craighill, 907 Ladson Ct., Decatur, GA 30033; 267-231-3987; cecilycraighill@gmail.com Robert P. Hornsby, Philadelphia, PA 191471234; 215-829-1142; bobhornsby@alumni. davidson.edu

AS TOLD BY: Monica Lide Swofford, Class Secretary I hope this update finds all of our class doing well. Thanks to everyone who sent in an update. We are a busy class. Michael Cathey writes: “My family, Kate and Dashiell, are doing well. Dash just turned five and is enjoying his final months in India. In August we’ll finish our three year tour here and head back to Washington D.C. for about eight months while I have Portuguese language training. In May 2015, we’ll take off for Recife, Brazil where I will be the Consular Section Chief for a tour of three years. If anyone happens to be in Brazil, stop on by and we’ll leave a light on for you! Last fall, we hosted the Davidson in India program with Dr. Menkhaus and 17 amazing students. We gave them a tour of the consulate and had Q/A sessions with the consul general and other sections in the consulate. At the end of their semester, Kate and I had them all over to the house for south Indian food and assorted beverages. I was blown away with the types of questions they asked and how poised they all were. They were also very hungry. It was hard to remember that we too had once been so young. On a side note, in 2010 I began an unofficial Davidson Alumni group in the Foreign Service (name is, you guessed it, The DiploCats). Turns out we have 23 alumni serving as Foreign Service officers from State, AID, and the Commercial Service. One of them happens to be our Ambassador to Nigeria right now (Class of ’78)!” Chris Henderson with White and Allen PA in Kinston, recently was certified by the North Carolina State Bar Board of Legal Specialization as a specialist in estate planning and probate. He was awarded the Certified Pension Consultant credential through the American Society of Pension Professionals and Actuaries in November 2008. Congratulations! Chris Strausz-Clark writes: “My first novel, The Dream Merchants—Volume One, is live on Amazon.com! I am publishing it in two volumes, the first of which is now available. The book has received positive initial reviews. My early readers davidsonjournal.davidson.edu

have called my dystopian, science fiction book where people are traded like stock ‘gripping, alarming and compelling’ (wow! And I did not actually have to tell them to say that). Indie authors like me rely heavily on reviews to gain visibility on Amazon.com, so please take the time to leave a rating after you read the book.” Congratulations, Chris! John Burns shares that he is the Democratic nominee for Wake County Commissioner— District 7 in November 2014. He is running to fill one of four seats up for election in 2014. It is a countywide race with over 600,000 registered voters. You can see more about the campaign on his website www.BurnsforWake.org. Finally, we express our sympathy to Marc Castellani, whose mother, Betty Castellani, died on January 26. Contact: Monica Lide Swofford, 2343 Infantry Post Road, Fort Sam Houston, TX 78234; 703280-1899; mmswof@earthlink.net From Alumni Relations: Michael Pearce writes, “We are doing great! Though it is much harder than I expected on the front end ... My wife Brinkley and I welcomed Maxwell Wray Pearce on Feb.17. Of course, as a late bloomer in most things, I waited to procreate until most of your kids were applying for college!” Congratulations, Michael.

AS TOLD BY: Nethea Rhinehardt, Class Secretary I am deeply saddened to report the passing of Christian Hoveland on January 20, 2014. We all adored Chris and will miss him terribly. Our Class of 1993 Facebook tribute to Chris is a powerful testament to his legacy and the interconnectedness that we feel with each other. Please remember the Hoveland family in your thoughts and prayers. Clifton Castelloe is excited to announce the publication of his first children’s book to Amazon. He and his wife, Michelle, have four daughters who provided the inspiration for “Are You a Frog?” which appeals to children ages 3 to 6. Clifton writes from his home in Charlotte that more books and accompanying music are on the way. He has already produced three albums of children’s music with The Plaza Family Band and also performs popular music in his acoustic guitar duo, Melonbelly. Clifton offers heartfelt thanks to his English professors at Davidson and to Christian Hoveland (who helped him learn to play the guitar) for demonstrating the value and importance of the creative process. Congratulations to Jennifer Brown Muldoon and her husband, Kevin, on the birth of their son, Jonathan Reilly, on December 21, 2013. He joins big sister, Grace, who celebrated her first birthday in November 2013. Amanda Reichard and her husband, Jim Redmon, have relocated their family to Madbury, N.H. from Lawrence, Kan. Amanda was recruited to the University of New Hampshire as a research assistant professor in disability and health studies. Their three children are enjoying their new schools, friends, and pursuits. Amanda herself has taken advantage of the New England winter by ice davidsonjournal.davidson.edu

skating and learning to ski. Brad Griffin is an associate professor of theater, teaching 51 sophomores in Pepperdine University’s Florence, Italy Program. While Brad works with the college students, his wife, Linn Allison Griffin ’95, homeschools their two children. The family has summited Mt. Etna, spent the night in a 12th-century castle in Gargonza, Italy, and have watched olive oil being pressed from olives that were picked that very day. Chris Greiling Seay recently returned from a camping trip without electricity and running water—with a group of fifth grade boys. She has been a den leader to her son’s Cub Scout group for the past two years, heading up camping trips, hikes, and other outdoor activities. Chris admits that becoming an outdoorsman was way outside of her comfort zone. But she says she has learned more from the boys than they ever could from her. Chris also became a Brownie leader after her daughter asked for the same time commitment given to her brother. In addition, Chris teaches religious education to first graders at her church. Chris and her husband, Nathan ’94, have three children and live in Oak Ridge, Tenn. Leslie Goff McDow and her husband, Will, hosted the second annual Florence Forth Road Race in Durham, on March 1, 2014. The race supports The Autoimmune Encephalitis Alliance, the nonprofit organization they launched in memory of their daughter, Florence. More than 1,000 runners, including classmates May Martin Bryan, Kim Luss Bowman, Mary Katherine Gregory Robinson, and Sarah Gayle Price participated to raise over $40,000. The funds are used to increase awareness, educate doctors and improve clinical care so that no one faces this illness alone. Meredith Boone Tutterow, Mary Elizabeth Coley, Bonita Paysour and Ann Todd recently spent a long weekend together in Austin, Texas. The foursome traveled far and wide for a reunion/bachelorette/ birthday gathering celebrating friendship and Bonita’s upcoming nuptials. What happens in Texas stays in Texas! We love hearing the stories of your lives. Please don’t hesitate to stay in touch with your Davidson family. Contact: Nethea Rhinehardt, 3231-C Post Woods Dr., Atlanta, GA 30339; 404-353-1600; Nethea@gmail.com

AS TOLD BY: Lisa J. SitekShaver, Class Secretary Will and Rebekah Fanning Canu live in Boone with their children, Owen (8) and Sophia (5). Will is an associate professor in the psychology department at Appalachian State, where he teaches mostly in his area of clinical psychology and conducts research on ADHD. He has also launched a campus initiative called College STAR that focuses on providing better support for college students with learning differences. Rebekah works as an early intervention specialist with children ages 0-3 who have a variety of developmental delays. They love living in the mountains and welcome visitors. It’s likely Kevin Garbee was in your living room on Super Bowl Sunday when he starred

in the now famous Audi commercial featuring “Doberhuahuas.” Congratulations on your success Kevin. In case you missed it, you can find the commercial on YouTube. Thank you to John Harper and Andrea Boshamer Powell for letting me know about the commercial. Dr. Paul Brannan, a board certified ophthalmologist, is an oculo-facial plastic surgeon with Dermatology and Oculoplastic Consultants in Sarasota, Fla. He specializes in “eye plastic surgery (blepharoplasty), reconstructive surgery, skin cancer excision & Mohs reconstruction and non-surgical cosmetic treatments” according to their website. In February he held a lecture on blepharoplasty at the Institute for Advanced Medicine in Sarasota. Richard P. Wharton and Tracey Chistenson plan to marry in Two Rivers, Wis. They will have a reception in Dallas, where they live, in September. We look forward to hearing about the wedding. Congratulations, Richard and Tracey! Libby Davis Manning is the associate pastor at Christ the Savior Lutheran Church in Fishers, Ind. and the associate director of the Wabash Pastoral Leadership Program at Wabash College. Wabash College received a $500,000 grant from the Lilly Endowment, Inc. to help build the leadership skills of pastors new to their careers. Through the Pastoral Leadership Program, Libby will be one of the leaders of this effort on a national level by holding annual gatherings for groups from many states to come together, share ideas, and develop pastoral leadership programs. Kristin Atkins has been in Baltimore practicing maternal fetal medicine since 2008 at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Since May 2013, she has also been the medical director of labor and delivery. Congratulations to Amy Howard, on the publication of her book, More Than Shelter: Activism and Community in San Francisco Public Housing. Amy is executive director of the Bonner Center for Civic Engagement and associated faculty in American studies at the University of Richmond. By the time you read this we will have had our 20th reunion. I hope that I saw lots of you! If you sent me a note in early 2014 and have not seen it in the Journal, please send me a reminder. My son, who is fine now, was hospitalized with H1N1 and that, plus a myriad of other illnesses, has prevented me from being as focused as usual. If you haven’t seen your name here in a while or ever, please send me a note. Contact: Lisa J. Sitek-Shaver, 21 Birch Ct., Burlington, VT 05408; 802-658-8480; ljsitek@yahoo.com

AS TOLD BY: Yvette Pita Frampton, Class Secretary Congratulations to Jennifer Rawlings Clark and her husband, Charley, on the birth of their twin girls, Caroline Elizabeth and Julia Anne. She writes, “We are very happy and very busy!” Congratulations also to Hollis Amley, who recently accepted the appointment as head of upper school at St. John’s School in Houston, Texas. Prior to this position, Hollis has taught at both the Browning School in New York City and Summer 2014

theUnion: Alumni at St. David’s School in Raleigh, where she was chair of the history department and assistant headmaster of academics and student life. She holds a master’s in history from North Carolina State and a master’s in education from Columbia University. Angie Williams Howell recently volunteered on her second “Legacy Retreat” with Inheritance of Hope, a non-profit founded by Kristen Grady Milligan following her diagnosis with a rare terminal liver cancer at the age of 30. Some of you may remember that Angie and Kristen were both on the same freshman hall at Davidson, 4th Rich. Kristen and her husband started Inheritance of Hope to provide opportunities for families to learn about shaping their legacy and offers tools to help each member of the family successfully navigate a difficult period in their lives. Sadly, Kristen lost her courageous battle with cancer in 2012. Her passion lives on through IOH. Angie says that both of her volunteer experiences with IOH have been lifechanging. Rachel Braden Evans is keeping busy homeschooling her kids, Shelby and Nora Kate, cooking meals with the “Freezanistas,” a group she started in 2011, and painting from her home in Kimberly, Ala., just north of Birmingham. Although she has been seriously pursuing her art for only about a year, she recently won an art contest from The Duplex Art Studio in Warrior, where she is showing her work. Finally, I am sad to report the death of Christian “Chris” Ole Hoveland ’93, brother of John Hoveland, on January 21. Contact:Yvette Pita Frampton, 280 Elm Street, Denver, Colo. 80220; 303-333-3479; yvettepita@mac.com

AS TOLD BY: T. Gray Dyer Meg Wolff and Matt New welcomed Samuel Ellis New on August 21, 2013. On November 16, 2013, Adam and Megan Knapp welcomed Nicholas William Knapp. Liz Lockett Byrne moved from Washington D.C. to Chicago, and is now the chief business development officer at Quarles & Brady LLP. Mary Stephens is now a project director at WETA, the public broadcasting station in Washington D.C. and Jennifer Neill recently took a new job as vice president with Kurt Salmon Capital Advisors. Jack Livings’ first book, The Dog will be published in August. Mary Laura Mortez Philpott reminds us that the 40th birthdays have started. “That’s kind of like the wedding circuit, but with less church,” she observed. In April she headed to Charleston, S.C. to celebrate Sara Lang Marcino’s big day, along with Grace Hill Smith, Alyson Browett, Caroline Ritchie Carrison, Ann Dunaway Teh, and Jenny Rose Schaeffer. Contact: Nicole Howard Lock, 1525 Grayson Hwy., Apt. 1301, Grayson, GA 30017; 678-6152878; nicole.lock@yahoo.com

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AS TOLD BY: Charlotte Seigler and Jamison White, Class Secretaries Sallie Permar, M.D., Ph.D was recently selected by the White House as one of 102 recipients of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers. Awardees are selected for their pursuit of innovative research at the frontiers of science and technology. Sallie is currently an associate professor of pediatrics in the Division of Infectious Diseases and an assistant professor in immunology and molecular genetics and microbiology at Duke University Medical Center. Morgan Todd Ledford and her husband, Jason Ledford, welcomed their second child, Astrid Elliot Ledford, on December 22, 2013. She writes that their excitement over the birth of their daughter was shared by Astrid’s 2-year-old brother, Leif, who is thrilled to have a little sister. Adriana Arcia writes that she is completing her second year of a post-doctoral research fellowship at Columbia University School of Nursing and will start a tenure-track appointment as an assistant professor of nursing in August. On a personal note, I (Jamie) was recently named as a partner at Silverman Thompson Slutkin & White in Baltimore, where I continue to focus my legal practice on catastrophic injury and medical malpractice litigation. My wife, Kami, and son, Ashton (7), and I live just north of Baltimore in Fallston, Md. Please take a moment to drop either me or Charlotte a quick email and let us know a brief update on where you are and what you are doing. Contact: Charlotte Seigler, 3302 Brown St., NW, Washington, DC 20010; 202-812-5985 (c); cseigler@stratacomm.net Jamison White, 19 Fallston View Ct., Fallston, MD 21047; 443-956-1376; jwhite@ mdattorney.com

AS TOLD BY: Dorothy Peterson, Class Secretary Greetings, Class of 1998! Mary Margaret Cochrane Porter has graciously passed the baton to me to serve as class secretary and I am very excited to reconnect over the coming years. I hope you all heard from me, either on email or Facebook, requesting notes and if you did not, please let me know the best way to reach you for future notes. Many classmates have been up to great things and have joyous news to share. Shreve Ariail and his wife, Carrington, welcomed daughter Anna Lourdes Ariail in January. Lourdes (pronounced lour-dace, with emphasis on the first syllable). She is named after her great-grandmother, Maria Lourdes Cienfuegos Alvarez. Mom, daughter, and dad are living in Brooklyn, N.Y. Melissa Richter Bartolini writes, “We are excited to announce the birth of our second son, Ignacio Garretta Bartolini, born December 20, 2013. Big brother Santiago turns two on April 9. We are still thoroughly enjoying the Florida life and welcome any Davidson friends who want to come visit

Miami and her beaches! John Hawk was promoted to partner at Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, LLP in January. Hawk focuses his practice on consumer finance and lender liability. Hawk frequently appears in court on behalf of lenders. He practices in Womble Carlyle’s Charleston office. A wonderful interview with Sabine Heller appeared in the New York Times recently. Hallie Pitkin Lawrence let me know that she took a new job in sales with CleanPlanet Chemical, a solvent recycling company. Jamie Kleinman writes, “What great timing! Just today I signed my offer letter to be an assistant professor in residence at the University of Connecticut Avery Point campus. It is a fulltime teaching and advising position. I completed my Ph.D. from UConn in 2007 and have been here since that time working as an adjunct and a research associate. I am so excited to have a full-time position. The Avery Point campus is unique in that many of the students are first-generation college students and returning veterans as there are both a Navy and Coast Guard base nearby. I signed my letter today, on my 14th wedding anniversary to Mike Lee. We started dating March of our freshman year and have been together 19 years. We still live on a small farm in Canterbury, Conn. with our three kids (10, 7, and 4). Mike still works for the Proof Group, LLC engineering custom data management solutions for private schools and nonprofit organizations. Life is still good and busy and full. Congratulations to Dr. Derrick Miller on his tenure and promotion to associate professor at UNCW! Mark Overbay and his company, Big Spoon Roasters (which makes nut butters) was recognized in the March 2014 issue of Southwest Airlines Spirit Magazine! The theme of the issue is “The New American Dream.” “Incredibly honored that Big Spoon Roasters is a featured food business, recognized for the creative work we’re doing with an all-American pantry staple,” Mark writes. Christopher Stec currently works as the chief operating officer of the ACA, a national non-profit organization dealing with paddlesports. He lives in Fredericksburg, Va. with his wife and two children. His son (7) is in his second year of basketball practice and his favorite team is ... Davidson! Britton Taylor writes, “I got married to Alison Strom in February of 2013. My kids (Zach and Finley) served as best man and best lady. Several Davidson alums were nice enough to make the trip to Portland for the festivities, including Dan Guill, Kevin and Michelle Bougdanous Gaunt and Andy Boswell.” Amy Biber Usry writes, “Rob and I welcomed twins Luke and Sally on December 16, 2013. Big sister Addie (6) and big brother Jack (5) are a great help. Life as a family of six is busy but lots of fun.” Emily Mueller Wendell and her husband, Alvah, welcomed their second daughter, Bay Elizabeth, in August. “Big sister Lilia adores her live dolly. My stepson Cameron is a sophomore in high school and the middle school chess team he ‘coaches’ recently won the state championship. After a yearlong leave of absence from my job davidsonjournal.davidson.edu

teaching fourth grade, I am starting to think about returning to the work force in the fall. I’ve enjoyed my time as a stay at home mom.” Emily and her family live in Deer Isle, Maine. Hadley White recently moved to Colorado to work at the Aspen Institute in the seminars department. She’s enjoying living in the Rockies, especially in ski season! Erika Rissing Wilsen and her husband Craig moved to sunny San Diego last year with their three children. Their youngest, David, was born last year. Asher Wood writes, “My wife Missy and I are living in Nashville, Tenn., with three kids now: Gaia (6), Presley (4) and Marlon (7 months). I’ve been working with HealthTrust developing MedSurg and service spend visibility and solutions for a couple hundred hospitals. I still paint regularly and had an art show in Nashville on April 25.” Contact: Dorothy King Peterson, 3080 Dale Dr. NE. Atlanta, GA 30305; 323-350-4714; dorothypeterson19@gmail.com

AS TOLD BY: Hunter McEaddy Dawson, Class Secretary Greetings Class of 1999! I hope that you are all doing well and having a wonderful summer. Please continue to send me your news and update. I know you are all out there doing wonderful, amazing things and your classmates would love to know all about it. Cameron Martin Farr recently emailed, writing, “My husband, Allen, and I proudly announce the birth of our son, William Coleman Farr on March 13, 2013. We recently moved to Fort Mill, S.C. and are thrilled to be closer to Davidson! We enjoyed seeing Ralph and Yvette Petrila Morehead and their children last November when they were visiting Davidson for Family Weekend.” Congratulations to Larry and Eugenia Leath Burtschy on the birth of their son, Laurence Robert Burtschy II on November 27, 2013. Laurence joins big sisters Rose and Eugenia. Andy Roark filled me in on his latest news and it sounds like he is keeping quite busy. “It has been an exciting year so far for me and my family. We are building a house that is nearing completion, I am practicing in a great veterinary clinic in Greenville, S.C., and I am lecturing on effective communication internationally. I recently found out that I was voted the Practice Management Speaker of the Year at one of the largest veterinary conferences in the world, and that I will be receiving the University of Florida’s College of Veterinary Medicine Outstanding Young Alumni Award this spring. Both of these awards came as complete surprises.” Congratulations, Andy, on your well-deserved accolades! Congratulations to Rachel May who recently published her book, Quilting with a Modern Slant. The book features profiles of more than 75 quilters as well as the history of quilting and an exploration of the community today. The book has already gone into a second printing. It was reviewed in the LA Times and the Chicago Tribune, among others, and was even featured on the Martha Stewart living website. Jack Morse is a statistics professor at the davidsonjournal.davidson.edu

The Golden Plunger, awarded to Crawford by his EMBA classmates at UNC Chapel Hill

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tiny houses are as varied as their reasons for doing so—the most often cited are environmental concerns, financial concerns and the desire for more time and freedom. Drew Crawford’s interest in the “sharing economy,” or a socio-economic system built around the sharing of human and physical assets, prompted him to explore the tiny house life. Crawford’s tiny house sits in a yard next to the brick ranch-style home he rents out in Davidson. Perched on a wheeled platform, the house can be easily moved to a different location. Crawford, a 2001 Davidson graduate who majored in political science and chemistry, estimates he has about 500 hours of sweat equity left to invest in the construction of his new home. Each design decision is nothing less than intentional, and each decision presents a tradeoff—for instance, Crawford sacrificed storage space to build instead a set of stairs for use by his dog, Max. Likewise, Crawford must choose carefully each item he brings into the house. The items, and canine, pictured here made the cut.

Drew Crawford’s faithful companion, Max

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AS TOLD BY: Mary Perrin Anderson Stark and Brendan Willman, Class Secretaries MidJanuary brought four newborns to classmates in four consecutive days. Kailee Brooke O’Brien (Shawn and Leila Wormuth O’Brien) was born on the 18th, Hudson Frederick Mills (Roger ’99 and Erin Woodall Mills) on the 19th, Curtis Arturo Soltys (Lorena and Adam Soltys) on the 20th and Bexley Elizabeth Kosmalski (Lauren and Landry Kosmalski) was born on the 21st. Spots for the class of 2036 are filling up fast. Congratulations to Benin Ford, who was recently nominated and chosen to receive one of only 25 awards from the Joan Mitchell Foundation’s Painters and Sculptors Grant Program. Our apologies for the belated mentioning of the birth of Eric ’98 and Julie Chevalier Sapp’s son Beckett Owen Sapp on November 12, 2012. They all enjoyed visits from Nicole Kanaar Morales and godmother Melanie Majure. Declan Nicholas Vanica was born May 17, 2013 to Nicole and Andy Vanica, who have recently settled in Goldon, Colo. John Austin Medendorp was born May 21, 2013. In his first season as a Davidson baseketball fan John made the trip from Greensboro to attend 11 games. That’ll be a tough act to follow given the pending move to the A-10, but parents Becca and Mark Medendorp (9 and 20 games attended, respectively) plan to continue watching the ’Cats as they can. Mary Perrin Anderson Stark and husband Scott welcomed their third and final addition on March 7 in Charlotte. Everett Millard Hubbard Stark joins big brother Anderson and big sister Betsy. 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 Lee Ann Petty deserves a big shout out for being awarded the Regions Bank “Better Life Award” in Birmingham, Ala. Lee Ann, a paralegal team lead at the bank, was nominated for and received this award for her outstanding dedication, job performance, and exemplary involvement and commitment to the community. She was cited as serving as a prime example of the bank’s values — putting people first, doing what is right, focusing on the customer, reaching higher, and enjoying life. As part of the award, Regions put together a video about Lee Ann’s life, and she made several great plugs for Davidson and its preparation for all that she has accomplished today. Thanks for making the college look good, Lee Ann, and congratulations on such an honor!

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Jonny Adler and his brother, Benjy (Middlebury ’03) were highlighted in a recent article published by Business People-Vermont for their success in the food industry. Jonny and Benjy first got into the business by opening a crepe cart in Burlington, Vt. in 2003. In 2007, they opened their first restaurant, The Skinny Pancake (Burlington). Since then, they have opened The Chubby Muffin (Burlington), another Skinny Pancake (Montpelier, Vt.), a catering business called Have Your Cake and three restaurants at the Burlington International Airport. According to the article, their sales have increased 750% since they first opened the crepe cart, and their revenues have doubled most years since they got into the industry. The brothers attribute their success to their complementary skills with Jonny as the pragmatist and Benjy as the visionary. Congratulations on your well-earned success! Chris and Laura Lothman Lambert are thrilled to announce the birth of Katherine Grace Lambert, born on December 18, 2013. Little Gracie and her parents love living in Alexandria, Va. and try to see other future Davidsonians in the area as much as possible. Charles Andrew DeLucia was born on February 3 to Craig and Jessica Blackburn DeLucia. Congratulations to Craig, Jessica, and big brother Daniel! Kate and Brian Bartholomay received the best Valentine’s Day gift of all, the arrival of their daughter, Ellen Elizabeth Bartholomay, on February 14. Joe and Emily Carmody Kahn welcomed their daughter, Madelyn Hall Kahn, into the world on March 4. Joe and Emily are loving life as new parents in Durham and were excited to introduce Madelyn to some of her Davidson friends at the wedding of Eleanor Cross in Asheville on April 26. I married Sam Bostian (Appalachian State University, ’04) at the Homestead Resort in Hot Springs, Va. on February 1. We were surrounded by our dearest friends and family, including several Davidson friends who were kind enough to join us for the festivities. We extend our heartfelt condolences to Amanda Britt, whose mother, Cynthia Melton Britt, passed away on March 12, 2014. Contact: Elizabeth Brantley, 300 Elmwood Dr., Greensboro, NC 27408; elizabeth. brantley@gmail.com

AS TOLD BY: Stephen Aldrich, Class Secretary Congratulations to Jack Purcell on his promotion to partner of Ridgemont Equity Partners, a Charlotte-based private equity firm. Jack earned his M.B.A. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania while working at Ridgemont Equity Partners. Jack resides in Charlotte with his wife, Neely, and daughter, Thompson. Penn Graves Lunger had a little boy, Graves Lunger, on December 12, 2013. Graves joins big brother Phillip. Congratulations, Penn! Reginald McKoy was named director of constituent services for Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe. Reginald recently served as the

appointment coordinator for Governor McAuliffe’s transition team. Reginald also holds a law degree from Widener University School of Law. Mike Anderson recently took his law practice from Hunton & Williams LLP in Charlotte to Main Street in Davidson. His new firm, Copeland Richards & Anderson, is located above Flatiron on South Main Street. Welcome back, Mike! JD Willson and Mike Dorcas collaborated on an article published in McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science & Technology 2014 on the “Effects of Invasive Burmese pythons in Everglades National Park.” Contact: Stephen Aldrich, 17327 Grand Central Way, Cornelius, NC 28031; 704-6080971; stephen.p.aldrich@gmail.com

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AS TOLD BY: Mary Carpenter Costello, Class Secretary Hello, Class of 2004 members! We loved seeing those of you who could attend our 10-year reunion in June, and those of you who couldn’t make it were missed and remembered! Most of our news this time around seems to center around new babies, so it seems that the Class of 2035 will have lots of Class of 2004 legacies in it! To start, Grace Pate Pouch and William Pouch are pleased to announce the birth of their son, William “Henry” Pouch IV, who arrived September 18, 2013. Henry is a laid-back and happy little guy whose favorite thing these days is watching his big sister dance around the living room. Grace, William, and Charlotte are so thankful for this gift from God! McKensy Gruelle Phillips and her husband Jeremy welcomed their second child, Kennedy Elise, to their family on January 26, and Anna Mallet Stewart, Greg ’05, and big sister Caroline’s family grew by one when their second daughter, Margaret Rose, was born on February 2. Caroline loves being a big sister! Jon Kropski and his wife Julie (Vanderbilt ’04) have been most excited by the arrival of their son Matthew Jackson Kropski on November 16, 2013. Jon wrote, “The little man is enjoying some basketball with dad and is clearly a Wildcat at heart, much to his mom’s chagrin. I’ll be entering my fifth and final year of pulmonary/critical care fellowship here at Vanderbilt and plan to head into an academic pulmonary/critical care position.” Megan Kota Morris and her husband Wade brought Anne “Annie” Kota Morris into the world on October 28, 2013. Annie is having a lot of fun with big sister Jane. Megan also wrote, “And in more random news, we ran into Bernard van der Lande and his adorable family (wife Emily and son Bernard) in front of our house the other week — they just moved two blocks away from us. Jane and little Bernard are already having lots of fun together at the playground.” For the last baby news for now, Niki Leffingwell davidsonjournal.davidson.edu

and her husband welcomed Harper Lucille Anderson into their lives on August 9, 2013. They live in Fort Collins, Colo., where Niki works as a nurse for the maternal services program/nurse family partnership, and her husband, Briggs Anderson, runs a distribution facility for Cargill. Alison Holby Poole was married to Jonathan Poole on November 23, 2013 in Sunset Key, Fla. Alison Heck, David Dupee, Maggie McDougall Iverson, and Janie Gonzalez Koike ’05 all served as a part of the wedding party. Jonathan and Alison have moved onto campus at Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Va., where Alison has been working as an English teacher for almost five years now. Amanda Young Anderson and Yeatts Anderson ’06 recently made a big move to San Francisco. “Please come visit all of us in the Bay Area soon!” Kelsey Holmberg and Jason Adams, both of Bend, Ore., were married August 10, 2013 at Anchor Heart Ranch in Bend. Kelsey and Jason have since settled in Bend. Tim Robertson and his wife, April, welcomed new baby Daniel McLean “Mac” Robertson to their family on September 19, 2013. Contact: Mary Carpenter Costello, 1072 Bennett Way, San Jose, CA 95125; 615-4836468; mary.f.costello@gmail.com

AS TOLD BY: Justin Hartanov, Class Secretary Congratulations to Gwen Heasley Carter on the release of her third novel, Don’t Call me Baby, on April 22, 2014. As a fun side note, Gwen’s editor at Harper Collins is Davidson grad Sarah Dotts Barley ’07. Emily Upchurch Yadav and her husband welcomed a son, Asher Rampal Yadav, on February 18. The newly expanded family is living in Charlotte, where Emily is working on full time staff at Teach for America. In more baby news, Keeley Roles Morrell and her husband welcomed her daughter, Emery Lynn, on March 12. Lastly, my wife Creighton and I welcomed our daughter, Aniston Lake Hartanov, on December 30, 2013. Aniston was born 28 minutes before my birthday and it was a memorable New Years’ Eve in the hospital in downtown Chicago! Contact: Justin R. Hartanov, 550 W. Fulton, Unit 301, Chicago, IL 60661; 312-237-0072; juhartanov@gmail.com

AS TOLD BY: Molly McGowan and Steven Gentile, Class Secretaries I recently recorded a video for admitted students for the Davidson College Class of 2018. That’s right—you read that correctly: 2018. Hard to believe that the entering freshman class is a whopping 12 years younger than we are! It only seems like yesterday that Spring Frolics and Davidson Baseball were well underway, as were our fabulous times on campus, perched outside Chambers discussing philosophy or the next court party. The video allowed me to reflect on what I thought was my most valuable experience at Davidson. In my mind, it was too difficult—almost overwhelming in fact— davidsonjournal.davidson.edu

to narrow that down to just one specific thing ... it was lots of things, lots of moments, lots of memories. I finally realized what made Davidson so incredibly special was its people. And why, eight years after leaving campus, I am still so inspired by each of you—my classmates and my friends. While at Davidson, I thought you all were pretty stellar—engaging, smart, funny, creative, and kind. Post-graduation, you have continued to impress me by all that you do. Here are a few of the latest updates from our laudable class: Lisa Collett Farnsworth and her husband Andrew welcomed their daughter Lorelei into the world on February 4. Lisa and Andrew are loving the new adventure of parenthood. Andrew continues his work as an analyst for the Inspector General in the Atlanta office. Lisa plans to take time off from teaching to be a stay-at-home mom. Lorelei is in the 93rd percentile for height, so her training to be a Wildcat basketball player will begin just as soon as she starts walking! Another future Davidson athlete (a goalie and a swimmer) came into the world on March 5. Proud parents Melissa Bandy and Calvin Schildknecht ’07 celebrated the birth of their daughter Jamie Bandy Schildknecht in Little Rock, Ark. John Fry reports that he has completed his master of fine arts and has been accepted into the English doctorate program at the University of Texas at Austin and is moving there to start classes this fall. He also has several poems that will be published in the Colorado Review, West Branch, and The Laurel Review. John says part of his inspiration for going back to school came from his Davidson experience—specifically, his English professors, Cynthia Lewis and Gail Gibson. “I want to teach and, corny as it sounds, carry that torch like Cynthia Lewis & Gail Gibson. I dream of doing it at a school like Davidson—not a research university. So, back to school I go.... As time goes on, I more and more realize how deeply they’ve shaped me, how much all of those teachers have impacted my life.” Thanks John. Couldn’t have said it better myself! Congratulations, and I look forward to hearing of your becoming a tenured Davidson professor one day in the not so distant future. Mallory MacDonald Molenkamp shares the exciting news that she is returning to BPCM after a year and a half at KCD. She has been named the vice president of PR at BPCM. That’s a lot of acronyms for those of us not in the know in the fashion world, but simply put—it’s a very big deal! BCPM is a global agency with offices in New York, Los Angeles and London. They specialize in brand building and communications. Mallory will be in their New York office, and is thrilled to be back. Congratulations, Madame VP! Jackie Ryan has exciting news to share. She graduated in 2012 from medical school after receiving an M.D. and a master’s of public health with a focus on health care policy and a year fellowship in mental health funded by the National Institute of Mental Health. She originally matched in Albany, NY for ob/gyn residency but quickly realized that she would rather pursue a career in

women’s mental health. She left Albany and was hired to do a research project at the University of Kentucky with the RICH heart team through the College of Nursing. Jackie is doing community service research about how to care for those who take care of their loved ones with dementia using iPad technology. While living in Kentucky, she has become a Kentucky Colonel, lobbied for health care reform and smoke-free rights, and written a picture book for Patrick and Clare Dalton Dover’s baby. Jackie also reports that she laughs often with classmate Michelle Foxy Levin over the phone. In mid-March, Jackie found out that she matched at Duke University for psychaitry residency. Jackie reports that she will be moving to Durham soon and would gladly welcome Davidson visitors. Congratulations, Dr. Ryan! Kenny Grant is continuing his passion and talent for shooting hoops, and is currently a professional basketball player for the French team LNB’s Sluc Nancy Basketball. Kenny is also an ambassador/ shirt designer for Nordic Shirts. Looking good, Kenny! Audubon Magazine recently profiled Emmanuel Jose and his latest project, “Clipped Wings,” a complete set of uniquely designed playing cards featuring birds. Emmanuel made his first card deck (“Curator”) in 2011 and still draws and cuts everything by hand at his place in New York. The article is a great feature about Emmanuel (and includes a Davison reference!). Incredible work, Emmanuel! Again, thank you all for sharing your updates. They have been, and continue to be, amazing. Please keep them coming. After all, it’s people like you—most especially the Class of 2006 in my mind—who make Davidson what it is. Steven and I look forward to hearing what is next. Contact: Molly McGowan, 3603 Kavanaugh Blvd., Apt. C-11, Little Rock, AR 72205; 501350-4925; momcgowan@gmail.com Steven Gentile, 2000 24th Ave. S., Nashville, TN 37212; 828-226-2384 (c); stevenpgentile@ gmail.com

AS TOLD BY: Carson Sanders and Jaimie Matthews, Class Secretaries Hope this edition of the notes finds you all healthy and well. It’s another pretty sparse set of notes this time, as neither Jaimie nor I have heard much from you this go-round. Please, please let us know if there are important things, or even unimportant things, happening in your life. Irma Navarro checks in, writing: “After completing a graduate certificate in translating and translation studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte last summer, I accepted a position at The Lovett School in Atlanta. The six years I spent in admissions at Davidson College and Emory University and the two years working with July Experience have helped me transition into my role as associate director of college counseling. I will begin work on my master of arts in Spanish at Georgia State University this fall. Atlanta feels very much like home because Mbye Njie ’04, Winston Kohler ’05 and I host family Summer 2014

theUnion: Alumni dinners at least twice a month. I also visit often with one of my Apartment B roommates, Rachel Veto Chabot, who teaches French at Stratford Academy in Macon and often performs in musicals with her husband Jeff at Theater Macon.“ “I was reading in the Davidson Journal, and I decided it was time for me to provide an update,” adds the former Gillian Siple. “This past year I added a new last name — Davidson. What are the odds I would find a husband with a name to match Davidson College? Sam and I had a beautiful ceremony in a park in Berkeley, Calif. Laura Beach officiated our interfaith — Jewish, Buddhist, and Christian ceremony. Mejin Leechor ’08 played violin, Laura Pepper, Jared McKiernan attended, and Erin McCoy flew in all the way from Swaziland to attend. Life is good here is sunny California, and I am happily enjoying my new last name, Gillian Siple Davidson.” Former man-about-campus, Wilson McCrory, married his long-time love, Lauren Cimino McCrory, in Tampa, Fla. in March. The wedding was a full-on weekend bash culminating with a beautiful wedding at Lauren’s home church and a dance-party reception. Groomsmen included Davidson graduates Mac Skelton, Keith Farrow, Blake Poole ’08, and Carson Sanders. Also attending were Emily Kota, Garrett and Megan Jenkins ’06, and James Boswell ’08. Wilson and Lauren now make their permanent home in the Dilworth area of Charlotte as Wilson continues his work with McKinsey and Company. Again, please send either Jaimie or me your updates. We would love to fill the notes section each time. And I know it is the first section you turn to each time your Davidson Journal arrives in the mail…. Contact: Carson Sanders, PO Box 13122, Charleston, SC 29422; carson.sanders@ gmail.com Jaimie Matthews, 1317 Rhode Island Ave. NW, Apt. 302, Washington, DC 20005-3729; jaimie.k.matthews@gmail.com

AS TOLD BY: Robby Hoak and Anna Hamilton, Class Secretaries Drew Gilbert and Alicyn Isaac-Lowry were recently married in Sea Island on April 12 and the wedding was filled with fellow Davidson classmates and attendees! Aaron West currently resides in Bethesda, Md. where he recently took a position as director of Social Media at the nonprofit Koa Sports. Aaron continues to stay involved in soccer through freelance writing for content websites such as Soccer Without Limits (swol.co) and coaching on the side. Juggle Club standout Will Blue will graduate from Columbia Business School in May. Alice Frimpong Ankamah and her husband, Godwin Ankamah welcomed their first son Samuel Ankamah on November 20, 2013, and are doing well in Silver Spring, Md. Kerby Teller ’09 and Jennifer Vogel were recently engaged on April 14. Kerby has been living in Washington D.C. since graduation and currently works with commercial real estate and investment group JLL. Keep up the good work and don’t forget to send us your updates.

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AS TOLD BY: Chieko T. Phillips and Cary V. Wright, Class Secretaries It was great to celebrate with so many of you at our recent fifth-year reunion. We look forward to keeping our class connected through your updates until the next time we gather as a class at Davidson! Contact: Chieko T. Phillips, 1220 Boren Ave., Apt. A1, Seattle, WA 98101; 770-316-6140; chieko.phillips@gmail.com Cary V. Wright, 6382 Shady Brook Ln., Apt. 1230, Dallas, TX 75206; 806-206-4443; cawright09@gmail.com From Alumni Relations: David Fowler and Mary Ross Bryant Fowler welcomed a baby girl, Abigail Ross Fowler into the world on March 12. They will call her Abby.

AS TOLD BY: Claire Asbury and Haley Cook Sonneland, Class Secretaries Greetings, Class of X! This time next year we’ll be celebrating our five-year reunion ... can you believe it? In the meantime, keep sending us your updates so we can keep everyone in the loop on the latest and greatest from our class. A few Wildcats have shifted into new jobs lately — Alysen Wallace is now the assistant director and counselor for the Office of Disability Services at UNC Charlotte, and Val Lee joined DC-based startup Fractograf to help build a new social network. Mordecai Scott wrote in to update us that he’s now an associate at commercial real estate brokerage firm Studley, and Brandon Wright will be starting a federal clerkship in Washington, D.C. shortly. In case you’ve missed his talks and poetry all across the interwebs, Clint Smith was featured in a TEDx talk in Manhattan this winter and will be heading to Harvard University to get a Ph.D. in education. Rieti Gengo is also on track for a Ph.D. — he’ll be pursuing a dual Ph.D. in anthropology and peace studies at Notre Dame. Kelsey Chisholm recently graduated from Duke with a master’s degree in medical physics and is currently living in Charlotte, doing a clinical residency with Landauer Medical Physics. Classmates gathered to toast the marriage celebration of Petri and Julie Palm Lindberg in October 2013 in Sarasota, Fla. Wildcats participating in the ceremony included Liam Bracken, Cassie Dormond, Abby Jones, Heather Smith, and Marja Kunz. Congratulations go out to Jo Glisson and Katie Taubenheim as well! Jo married Rob Rusch ’08 in Atlanta this past December, and Katie married Mark Brincken in February at their home in Rainier, Ore. And last but not least, congratulations to Marley Stone on her wedding to Tim Bourke in Islamorada, Fla. where Brenna Kelly served as one of Marley’s bridesmaids. BJ Youngerman has been a busy guy—moving to Chicago in December 2013 to start a new

marketing job with United Airlines and also helping fellow Class of Xer Michael Raymond start a new job at Capital One in Richmond, Va. And Ben Bashinski wrote in from Honduras, where he is stationed as first lieutenant at Soto Cano Air Force Base to work with the Honduran military for medical missions and to brush up on his Spanish. He is accepting all visitors! Many Wildcat doctors matched with residency programs this spring. We heard from a few, including Mike Soike who matched into radiation oncology at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center; Jon Kass who matched into radiation in Pittsburgh; and Walter Kucera who will be starting a general surgery residency at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. in July. Our classmates also seem to have a running bug! Jamie Knowles decided that having a fulltime job and running a startup on the side weren’t enough, so ran the NYC half marathon with Mary Eannarino this winter. And Emily Rahill and Jen Crawford were among the thousands of faces who toughed it out from 26.2 miles during the ING Marathon in NYC this past winter. Michael Spangler writes, “My new wife Melissa (née Meijaard) and I are grateful to God to announce our marriage on February 8, in Lewiston, N.Y. Fellow Wildcat Matthew Capone ’11 was a groomsman. Melissa and I now live in Taylors, S.C., where I am studying for the pastoral ministry at Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary.” Well that’s it for this round, Wildcats! We look forward to hearing what amazing things you all are up to next. Contact: Claire Asbury, 3001 Westfield Rd., Charlotte, NC 28209; 770-826-0079; clasbury10@gmail.com Haley Cook Sonneland, 45 Wall St., Apt. 807, New York, NY 10005; 203-219-0031; hsonneland@gmail.com

AS TOLD BY: Rebekah Ayscue and Margie Gudaitis Congrats to Danielle Ruggieri, Sam Payne, JP Craven ’10 and Pete Kidwell ’12 for completing the Boston Marathon #bostonstrong. And a great Davidson cheering section—Molly Duncan, Veronica Thomas, Casie Genetti, Tessa Campbell, Colin McWilliams, and Will General #minireunion In other athletic news, Josh Zipin was recently featured in a Nike ad - #risingstar. Shout out to Marybeth Campeau, Jessica Malordy, and Zoe Balaconis for receiving the first Davidson Venture Fund award #$25Kinthebank—and to Cathryn Westra and Sarah Connette who are writing for the Mag. Check out misadventuresmag.com and follow @MisadventuresMg. Love is in the air, so congratulations Alana Linn and Elliot Van Ness ’09, Virginia Boone and Jason Shank (in Paris), Tennant Brastow and Candi Marshburn, Sara Bates and Galen King ’10, and Ross Lackey and Tiffany O’Hara Estep ’13 on their engagements. #blingonbling ’Cats are abroad and doing awesome things. Maria Corriher just returned from Ukraine after spending two years there with the Peace Corp—stay tuned davidsonjournal.davidson.edu

for her next adventure. #offtonewmexico Michael Foglia is teaching English in Guadalajara, Spain, and Lucy Flournoy is in Dortmund, Germany teaching dance and working for ViNSiNN. #Europeanlife Samantha Galainena and Alana Ford are in London, England, and Alex Ripley is in Shenzhen, China. #catsacrossthecontinents Lauren Childs and Robert Mayo are travel in Italy before Lauren heads off to PA school. #buonviaggio And some Wildcats can’t get enough school: Daniel Legrand is off to UC Berkley for ethnomusicology. #goldenstatebound Lejla Agic is headed to business school after three years with Deloitte and Sara Levintow is headed to UNC Public Health. #backtoschool Matt Loftus & IS Dunklin are headed Darden School of Business at U.Va. #wildcatstakecharlottesville Justin Hua is saying his goodbyes to Davidson after three years in the Admission Office. He starts his masters in higher education administration at the Peabody College at Vanderbilt. #literallychoolforlife Amanda McQuade just finished her first year at Emory Law, and Jared Smith wrapped up his first year at UNC School of Law. #1down2togo Margot Zipperstein finished her first year at UC Berkeley School of Public Health. #1down1togo Betsy Lyles graduated from Columbia Theological Seminary. #presbyforlife Caitlin Piper and Brandon Sykes graduated from law school UVa. and UGA, respectively. #wildcatcourtroom Check out Boyce Whitesides and Allison Drutchas in Davidson’s 30 in 30. #youngalumsinaction Mark your calendars for Homecoming Weekend, September 20, 2014. #takeexit30 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; 904866-8087; savanna.shuntich@gmail.com

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From Alumni Relations: Congratulations to Elaina Reinsvold who got engaged in April to Ted Geer! Congratulations are also in order for Morgan Bell and Harvey Kee ’11 who got engaged at Walt Disney World in April. Morgan is attending The Ohio State University for her graduate degree in student affairs. Also back to school are Ana Rodriguez who is attending Bastyr University in Seattle this semester to obtain her medical degree in naturopathic medicine and Malcolm MosesHampton who’s attending Wake Forest University School of Medicine. Ethan Clark graduated from the CharlotteMecklenburg Police Academy and is now working as a CMPD police officer. Congratulations, Ethan.

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All Hail Charles Wright ’57 was named United States Poet Laureate by The Library of Congress. A retired University of Virginia professor, Wright is the author of more than two dozen collections of verse. As a Davidson student Wright was a history major and won the college’s Vereen Bell Prize for writing. Davidson awarded Wright an honorary doctor of letters degree in 1997, the year before he won the Pulitzer Prize. George House ’69, partner with Brooks, Pierce, McLendon, Humphrey & Leonard, LLP, was recognized in the 2014 edition of Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business in the area of environmental law. Margaret Noel, M.D. ’79, editor of The Memory Care Plays, has received a bronze medal for best anthology at the 2014 Independent Publisher Book Awards, from among more than 5,500 entries from authors and publishers in all 50 U.S. states, nine Canadian provinces and 32 countries overseas. Noel is the founder of MemoryCare, a non-profit in Asheville, N.C., that has provided integrated services for persons with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, and their caregivers, since 2000. Kearns Davis ’91, partner with Brooks, Pierce, McLendon, Humphrey & Leonard, LLP, was recently appointed to the North Carolina Equal Access to Justice Commission, established in 2005 by the North Carolina Supreme Court. Davis leads Brooks Pierce’s practice in white-collar criminal defense, felony trials and appeals, grand jury proceedings, and government investigations. He was among the attorneys recognized in the 2014 edition of Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business. Davis is a former assistant U.S. attorney and a former law clerk for Judge Sam J. Ervin III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Marie Louise Ryan ’98 has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study and research in Nepal for the academic year 2014–15. She is pursuing double master’s degrees at Iowa State University in sustainable agriculture and community planning. Richmond Blake ’09 has received the Human Rights and Democracy Achievement Award of the U.S. Department of State. While serving at the U.S. Embassy in La Paz, Blake overcame Bolivian government hostility and intimidation tactics to advance key U.S. human rights priorities. He spearheaded a 21-episode radio soap opera to raise awareness about human trafficking, and through a series of creative low-cost initiatives he modeled how embassies can promote the rights of members of marginalized populations.

AS TOLD BY: Billy Hackenson and Mel Mendez, Class Secretaries Happy summer Class of 2013! We trust that, as we pass the one-year mark since graduation, you are doing well and settling into a routine that unfortunately no longer allows for Outpost visits or the much-needed afternoon nap. We’re so glad to hear all the great work you’ve been up to, but please keep those updates coming our way! Brody Medford has recently joined part-time with a company called 60-day MBA (co-founded by Ryan Ferrier ’03). Their goal is to get entrepreneurs off the ground and start their businesses. If you’re curious to learn more, feel free to email one of us and we’ll be sure to get you in touch with Brody. In the world of Davidson Impact Fellows (DIF), Carell Brown has been finding a lot of personal and professional joy from her position with Communities In Schools where she is in charge of a Park Road book tree for her students. Each year this small, locally run, bookstore in Charlotte puts up a tree the day after Thanksgiving for their patrons to sponsor students; this year more than 350 students were sponsored. Just a short drive away from Charlotte, Kenneth Westberry is also a member of DIF and works for The Georgia Justice Project out of Atlanta. He

considers himself the “front door man,” and is in charge of handling all initial calls and inquires for assistance. In his position he has to effectively inform callers on expungement options and current statures that affect such options. Leah Baldasare, Kaitlin Roberts, and Taylor Riley, on the other hand, escaped the work place for a week when they visited Andrea Pauw in Merida, Mexico. Also, in the area was Paul Spellings who traveled with Whitley Raney to explore the archeological and natural wonders of the Yucatan Peninsula. Up in New York, Alex Hauer writes that he, Eliza Dewey and Matilda Solinger are living together in the East Village part of Manhattan. All three of them appear to be enjoying their time in the city and are “exploring the wonders of life, love, and work.” It used to be a party of four in the apartment, but Caroline Gordon just moved from New York to Boston, where she works at a Boston children’s hospital. Be well, 2013. Enjoy the rest of the summer and keep in touch! Contact: Billy Hackenson, 92 West Paces Ferry Rd., Apt. 7023, Atlanta, GA 30305; whackenson@gmail.com Mel Mendez, Mérida, Yucatán; +52 (999) 3610315; melmendez91@gmail.com Summer 2014

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Assistant Professor Tyler Starr was selected as one of 30 Artists in Residence this summer at the Omi International Arts Center in Ghent, New York. This is a fully funded four-week opportunity to create new artwork while hosting studio visits from New York area art critics and curators. Starr has recently exhibited his artist’s books at Printed Matter in New York City and at 23 Sandy Gallery in Portland. His work also was included in the 2014 North Carolina Artists Exhibition at the Center for Performing Arts in Raleigh.

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{ alumni } Bad Friday: April 7, 1865, the Day the Yankees Came to Prince Edward Court House and Hampden-Sydney, Virginia and First in War: The Hampden-Sydney Boys by William E. Thompson ’58 (2014, Zebrabooks Publications). A look at local Civil War history by the onetime pastor of the College Presbyterian Church at Hampden-Sydney. From Hamburg to America: A Biography by George Little ’64 (2014, Morris Publishing). The life story of Herbert Seeland, a native of Hamburg,

Germany, who survived World War II in the German navy, became a mason and helped rebuild his city, and later moved to the United States for a new life with a German-American wife. The Good Fight that Didn’t End: Henry P. Goddard’s Accounts of Civil War and Peace, edited by Calvin Goddard Zon ’66 (2008, University of South Carolina). A look into the Union ranks and national postwar tensions by a soldier and journalist of the times, edited by his great-grandson, also an historian and journalist. With uncirculated

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anecdotes about Abraham Lincoln and Goddard’s friend Mark Twain. Calming Your Angry Mind: How Mindfulness and Compassion CanFree You From Anger and Bring Peace to Your Life by Jeffrey Brantley, M.D. ’71 (2014, New Harbinger Publications). A three-pronged approach to dealing with anger: present-moment awareness, compassionate attention and understanding impermanence. iGods: How Technology Shapes Our Spiritual and Social Lives by Craig Detweiler ’85 (2013, Brazos Press). An

investigation of the major symbols of our distracted age in the service of understanding the technologies and cultural phenomena that drive us. { Faculty} Math Bytes: Google Bombs, ChocolateCovered Pi, and Other Cool Bits in Computing by Associate Professor of Mathematics Tim Chartier (2014, Princeton University Press). “Each topic in this refreshingly inviting book illustrates a famous mathematical algorithm or result… presented in an accessible and engaging way, enabling beginners

and advanced readers alike to learn and explore at their own pace.” America’s Dirty Wars: Irregular Warfare from 1776 to the War on Terror by Associate Professor of Political Science Russell Crandall (2014, Cambridge University Press).

“Successfully fighting dirty wars often entails striking a critical balance between military victory and politics…. Crandall argues that we would be better served by considering how we can do so as cleanly and effectively as possible.”

Add Yourself to the Shelf! To submit your book for this column, as well as to E.H. Little Library’s Davidsoniana Room, please send a signed copy to: Davidson Journal Box 7171, Davidson College Davidson, NC 28035-7171

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Associate Professor Karen Bernd and Madeleine Chalfant ’11 published a paper in PLoS One based on Chalfant’s senior honors thesis on lung cell recovery from ozone damage. In addition, Bernd’s student researchers Daniel Merrill ’14 and Kaki Bennett ’15 made presentations at the Association of Southeastern Biologists meeting. Merrill’s study sampled microbes over a one-year period and found no significant difference in the populations present in Davidson classrooms and gyms, even though three different types of cleaning products and cleaning regimens were used. Bennett presented a poster about the Bernd laboratory’s development of an exposure apparatus and testing protocols to examine the effects of inhaled e-cigarette vapor on lung cells grown in culture. Professor Malcolm Campbell published a paper in Life Sciences Education about his synthetic biology teaching module, which he uses in introductory biology classes. Campbell also traveled to Washington, D.C., to lobby Congress for more consistent funding of science, and he reviewed the Molecular Cell Biology Division of the National Science Foundation as part of a Committee of Visitors panel. Professor Karen Hales, along with student researchers Eric Sawyer ’14, Bethany Wagner ’14, Devon Harris ’15 and lab technician Lindsay Regruto, gave presentations at the annual Drosophila Research Conference. Their work focuses on characterizing genes that control the shaping of mitochondria (cellular harnessers of energy) in developing cells. Hales also gave an invited talk at a workshop on “Drosophila Male Fertility as a Cell Biological Model.”

Chemistry

Morton Professor Felix Carroll and Professor David Blauch are using a 3D printer to develop a new model for teaching chemistry. Unlike molecular models that depict just the structure of a compound,

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the new models provide students with a tangible representation of potential energy as a function of molecular geometry. The first models, which were designed to teach important principles of organic chemistry, were presented at a recent American Chemical Society meeting and published in the Journal of Chemical Education. Carroll and Blauch are now developing models for teaching other fields of chemistry. Assistant Professor Nicole Snyder has collaborated with students on three recent projects. She and Edward Palumbo ’15 were selected to present their research on “Novel Trehalose-based Oligosaccharide Conjugates for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Mycobacterium tuberculosis” to select members of Congress as part of the Council on Undergraduate Research’s “Posters on the Hill” event. She and six students—Lizzy Anderson ’14, Matthew Brady ’15, Sarah Kim ’15, Eric Medici ’15, George Mukosera ’15 and Karl Wold ’15—presented research results at the American Chemical Society national meeting. Brady and Wold received special recognition from the Division of Chemical Education for their oral presentations. Finally, Snyder coauthored a book chapter titled “Technology Enabled Synthesis of Carbohydrates: Solid Phase Oligosaccharide Synthesis” with George Mukosera ’15, Elise Held ’14 and a colleague from the Max Planck Institute. The chapter was published in the series Comprehensive Organic Synthesis, and covers the history and development of modern solid phase oligosaccharide synthesis.

Classics

Associate Professor Keyne Cheshire was named Outstanding State Vice President by the Classical Association of the Middle West and South (CAMWS). At the organization’s annual meeting, Cheshire presided at a session on the poet Apollonius of Rhodes, and delivered a paper entitled “Between Arcadia and Crete: Callisto in Callimachus’ Hymn to Zeus.” Cheshire proposed that a riddling allusion to the mythological figure Callisto initiates a series of heavenly ascents in the hymn that unifies the poem’s Arcadian and Cretan narratives, and culminates climactically with Zeus’s own accession to the sky as his domain.

Communication Studies

Professor Kathie Turner’s essay on “The Glory of Rhetorical Analysis: Communication as a Process of Social Influence” appeared in the edited volume Purpose, Practice, and Pedagogy in Rhetorical Criticism. In addition, she has become a coauthor of Public Speaking: Finding Your Voice for its 10th

edition. Davidson uses the text in its class on “Principles of Oral Communication.”

Economics

Johnston Professor Clark Ross chaired and organized a College Board-sponsored colloquium on the future of AP Economics and the introductory economics course. This meeting attracted college faculty from more than 60 institutions. His colleague, Professor Fred Smith, represented Davidson College. Ross also published an essay in Inside Higher Education arguing for reform and change in the teaching of introductory economics at the college or university level. He also chaired an Educational Testing Service faculty committee that recently rewrote the Major Field Test in Economics. That test is taken by thousands of graduating college economics majors, including those at Davidson. Finally, Ross continues to chair the AP Macroeconomics Test Development Committee.

English

Armfield Professor Brenda Flanagan recently offered creative writing workshops to 10 writers from mainly Eastern European countries at Anglo-American University in Prague, Czech Republic. While in Prague, Flanagan also presented her work on the late Czech surrealist artist Eva Svankmajerova to a group of surrealists. Professor Ann Fox presented a paper as a panelist considering “The Disciplinary Edge of History: Disabling Gender through Embodied Evidence” at the Berkshire Conference on the History of Women. The panel focused on the importance of cultural artifacts and material objects to writing disability history. Fox’s talk was entitled “Artifacts and Intersections of Identity: Representations of HIV/AIDS,” and featured objects from the International AIDS Conference and on-campus HIV/AIDS advocates. Thompson Professor Annie Merrill Ingram spent several weeks in China at the invitation of the Institute for the Postmodern Development of China. This organization promotes new models of development by integrating classical Chinese philosophy with constructive forms of Western thought. Ingram and several other faculty members from U.S. liberal arts colleges visited large and small cities and universities and rural villages in several provinces. At each site, her delegation met with Chinese colleagues to discuss issues such as community organization, organic agriculture, environmental and economic sustainability, and cross-cultural humanistic approaches to ecological civilization. Ingram also presented

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theUnion: Faculty papers at two conferences in China. One paper on “Community-based Learning: Examples and Best Practices” showcased work that she and other Davidson faculty are doing, and another on “Ecofeminism, the New Materialism, and Mind-Body Unity” is based on her recent research in interdisciplinary environmental humanities.

Ethics

Vann Center Director David Perry, professor and chair of applied ethics, presented a talk on “Ethics and Warfare: Bridging Military and Civilian Perspectives” and fielded questions from staff and interns at Human Rights Watch in New York.

theUnion: Faculty Wertheimer’s paper explores an earlier era, when domestic abuse was rife in Guatemala, but almost always occurred beyond the state’s gaze. Only occasionally did domestic abuse cases receive official attention, generally in the form of low-profile “assault and battery” cases. Wertheimer argues that these cases did little to challenge patriarchal domestic arrangements. They often were initiated by male relatives on behalf of abused women, and often involved incidents that occurred in public, not in domestic spaces.

Mathematics

Wall Professor of Humanities and German Studies chair Burkhard Henke hosted an educational and recreational cruise for alumni on the canals of the Netherlands and Belgium. He also facilitated an invited workshop on language teaching in Madrid and visited Athens to develop a lecture on Greek drama for Humanities 150.

Associate Professor Tim Chartier published the book, Math Bytes through Princeton University Press. Full of puzzles, brainteasers, colorful photographs, illustrations and diagrams, the book provides a light-hearted, hands-on approach to learning how mathematics and computing relate to the world around us and help us better understand it. Chartier and his spouse Tanya also taught apprenticeship program workshops at the World Science Festival on “bracketology” and on sports analytics.

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Associate Professor Thomas Pegelow Kaplan’s most recent publication, titled “Rethinking Nazi Violence Against Jews: Linguistic Injuries, Physical Brutalities, and Dictatorship Building,” appeared in the Tel Aviv Yearbook for German History. Pegelow Kaplan also continued his work with the N.C. Council on the Holocaust, presenting at the council’s teacher workshop in Charlotte in March. Furthermore, he headed a group of Davidson College and UNC Charlotte faculty members in organizing the seventh Southeast German Studies Consortium Workshops, which centered on topics of war, language and borders, and featured speaker Professor Omer Bartov, one of the world’s leading genocide scholars. He also worked with several Davidson students who discussed their papers at the conference. Moreover, Pegelow Kaplan helped organize this year’s Yom HaShoah commemoration and readings of thousands of names of Jews murdered by the Germans. In addition, he brought Eva Kor to campus for a talk about her experiences as one of the few survivors of J. Mengele’s medical experiments on young Jewish and Roma twins at Auschwitz. At the annual meeting of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies, Professor John Wertheimer presented a paper titled “Before Femicide: Domestic Violence and the Law in Mid-Twentieth-Century Guatemala.” In recent years, Guatemala has adopted several measures to combat violence against women, and domestic abuse prosecutions have skyrocketed. But

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Brown Professor Wolfgang Christian, Professor Mario Belloni, and four Davidson physics majors attended the North Carolina section of the National American Association of Physics Teachers meeting. Christian served as meeting president. Belloni presented a paper, “Writing Electronic Books with Interactive Curricular Material,” with Christian and visiting professor Kristen Thompson. Jackson Spell ’15 presented “A Low Cost Approach to Experimental Laser Construction,” Sam Castle’15 presented “A Parallel Computational Model of 2-Body Planetary Orbits,” Steve Keller ’14 presented “Using the Spectral Method to Relate Quantum Half Wells,” Aidan Rogowski ’15 presented “Easy Java Simulations and Arduino Robotics,” and Jacob Simmonds ’15 presented “Single Photon Interference as an Undergraduate Pedagogical Resource.” Professor Belloni and a colleague from Pennsylvania State University recently published the paper “The Infinite Well and Dirac Delta Function Potentials as Pedagogical, Mathematical and Physical Models in Quantum Mechanics” in the invitation-only, peer-reviewed journal, Physics Reports. Their 98-page review and research paper gave a detailed overview of the theoretical underpinning of two of the most used model systems in quantum mechanics. The paper also highlighted work completed with Davidson physics majors Laura Gilbert Remus ’06, Kelsey Chisholm ’10, Seyi Ayorinde ’10 and Leah Ruckle ’12.

Political Science

Associate Professor Russell Crandall and Barry McCaffrey, President Clinton’s Drug Czar, gave a panel talk at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) about the war on drugs. Crandall also published an article titled “Democracy and the Mexican Cartels” in the journal Survival: Global Politics & Strategy, and he spoke at the Shanghai, China, Academy for Social Science about China-U.S.-Latin America relations. A transcript of the panel talk is available on the CFR website. Assistant Professor Graham Bullock presented new research on public opinion about climate change policies at the Policy Studies Organization’s Dupont Summit in Washington, the political science department’s Behavior and Institutions seminar series at Duke University, and at the Midwest Political Science Association’s annual meeting. The work introduces the concept of “responsive accommodation,” and presents experimental evidence on the extent to which different audiences support carbon tax proposals that use this political communication strategy. Bullock reports that the approach can both increase support among a policy’s natural opponents, and depress enthusiasm among a policy’s original supporters. Bullock also gave invited presentations describing his research on the organizational credibility and legitimacy of environmental certifications and sustainability ratings at the ISEAL Alliance’s Global Sustainability Standards conference in London and the Nicholas School of the Environment’s spring seminar series at Duke University. He also presented research on the assumptions and values that are embedded in product eco-labels at the annual conference of the Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences at Pace University.

Harm in a Talmudic Narrative” in the CCAR Journal: The Reform Jewish Quarterly. The article considers a well-known rabbinic episode in the context of current debates over originalism in American constitutional law. In addition, Plank has published poems in the Beloit Poetry Journal and in New Madrid: Journal of Contemporary Literature. One of these poems, “Gravity,” was featured on the site Poetry Daily.

Sociology

Associate Professor and Department Chair Gerardo Marti and his co-author Gladys Ganiel have published The Deconstructed Church: Understanding Emerging Christianity through Oxford University Press. Their trans-national study uses interviews and observations in the United States, the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland to describe the Emerging Church Movement. This creative, entrepreneurial movement seeks social legitimacy and spiritual vitality by actively disassociating from its roots in conservative, evangelical Christianity and “deconstructing” contemporary expressions of Christianity.

Russian Studies

Associate Professor and department chair Amanda Ewington has published the book

Russian Women Poets of the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries: A Bilingual Edition as part of the Other Voice in Early Modern Europe series with the University of Toronto’s Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies. Ewington’s previous scholarship similarly focused on the rapid development of modern Russian literature in the second half of the 18th century, but this new publication challenges readers to reimagine that early literary canon by considering a broad range of pioneering women poets who remain largely unknown, even in their homeland. This bilingual collection includes fully annotated texts in original and in translation, with critical introductions for each of the 17 poets. Ewington also gave a talk at the Pines retirement community in connection with the Sochi Olympics titled “Russia & the West: Before & After the Cold War.” Led by Associate Professor and Chair of Russian Studies Amanda Ewington, a group of nine professors from a broad range of departments has developed a new project called “Studio R.” With Russia as their “laboratory,” the professors plan to create new curricular and extracurricular initiatives based around the theme of revolution for the 2017-2018 academic

year, coinciding with the 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. The group recently spent two weeks in Moscow and St. Petersburg under the auspices of a New Innovation Grant from the president’s office. They visited historical sites and museums, met with professionals in their fields and experienced Russian culture. While there, they began a blog about their travels that will continue to serve as a discussion platform for all faculty interested in Studio R. Those faculty members involved in the initiative are Alison Bory (dance), Suzanne Churchill (English), Irina Erman (Russian studies), Sharon Green (theatre), Thomas Pegelow Kaplan (history), Kristi Multhaup (psychology), Shelley Rigger (political science), Shaw Smith (art), and Mark Sutch (theatre).

Congratulations, Professor! The Board of Trustees approved promotion to associate professor for the following faculty members: Jeffrey Myers, Chemistry Matt Samson, Anthropology Mark Sutch, Theatre

Psychology

Professor Mark Smith, postdoctoral fellow Ryan Lacy and Justin Strickland ’14 recently published a paper in Drug and Alcohol Dependence. The paper describes the role of social learning phenomena, such as modeling and imitation, in the initiation of cocaine use. Watson Associate Professor Scott Tonidandel recently published an article in the Journal of Business and Psychology that describes his free, comprehensive, web-based, and userfriendly resource for relative importance analysis. It can be found at http:// relativeimportance.davidson.edu

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Professor of Biology Malcolm Campbell published a paper in Life Sciences Education about his synthetic biology teaching module. davidsonjournal.davidson.edu

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theUnion: In Memoriam Richard Eugene Swaringen ’32 Wilmington, N.C. Died Jan. 31, 2014. He was preceded in death by his wife Edith Grove Scott Swaringen. He is survived by daughters, Linda Swaringen Proseus, 905 Lakeside Dr., NW, Wilson, NC, 27896, and Janet Swaringen Montgomery; three grandchildren and one great-grandson.

William Blair Gwyn ’33 North Wilkesboro, N.C. Died March 25, 2014. He is survived by his wife Florence Guigou Gwyn, P.O. Box 1004, North Wilkesboro, NC, 28659; and two daughters, Carolyn Gwyn Bell and Roz “Petesy” Gwyn Schmidt; two sons, Bill Gwyn and Mike Gwyn; six grandchildren, including Karl Thomas Schmidt ’08, and two great-grandchildren.

William Russell Eagan ’41 Spartanburg, S.C. Died Nov. 26, 2012. He was preceded by his wife Margaret Helmus Eagan; a son, William Eagan Jr.; and two daughters, Florence “Fae” Eagan and Margaret “Peggy” Kaiser. He is survived by a son, Andrew Eagan, 3209 S. Lake Dr., Apt. 411, Saint Francis, WI, 53235; eight grandchildren; six greatgrandchildren; and three step great-grandchildren.

Thompson Brown Jr. ’67, Bruce Perrin Brown ’79, Charlotte Brown and William Barron Brown; 16 grandchildren, including Elizabeth Ann Brown ’92 and Graham Bullock, assistant professor of political science and environmental studies; and three great-grandchildren.

Clarence Alexander McArthur Jr. ’43 Columbus, N.C. Died Jan. 14, 2014. He is survived by four children: Clarence Alexander McArthur III, John Rankin McArthur ’77, 205 Chalon Dr., Cary, NC 27511, James Gayle McArthur and Leigh Pope McArthur; and seven grandchildren.

Horace Hall Pearsall Jr. ’44 Wilmington, N.C. Died April 16, 2014. He is survived by his wife of 68 years, Elizabeth Applewhite Pearsall, 1310 Grackle Ct., Wilmington, NC 28403; two sons, William Battle Pearsall ’71and Horace Hall Pearsall III; two daughters, Melva Pearsall Calder and Alice Pearsall Pleasants; two grandchildren; and one great-grandson.

Lee Harris Potter ’45 Durham, N.C.

theUnion: theUnion: In Memoriam Faculty children, Erwin Barron ’75, Anna Barron Billingsley and Cynthia Barron ’81; Keller’s four children, Lewis Bumgardner, George Bumgardner Margaret Anne Bumgardner DuBose ’80 and Charles Bumgardner; and nine grandchildren.

Andrew Booth Kirkpatrick Jr. ’49 Wilmington, Del. Died Jan. 18, 2014. He is survived by his devoted wife of 60 years, Frances C. Kirkpatrick, 4031 Kennett Pike, Apt. 56, Wilmington, DE 19807; and three children, Christine Kirkpatrick, Melissa Richmond and Charles Kirkpatrick, and two grandchildren.

Horace “Jerry” Gates Reid Jr. ’49 Elizabeth City, N.C. Died Feb. 24, 2014. He was preceded in death by two children, Douglas Gates Reid and an infant son. He is survived his wife, Etheleen Belch Reid, 121 Dances Bay Trail, Elizabeth City, NC 27909; daughters, Jerri Anne Cooper and Virginia Kaye Poole; son, David Reid; and six grandchildren.

Cyril Berwyn “Doc” Rush Sr. ’49 Timmonsville, S.C.

Died Nov. 2013. He is survived by his wife, Frohmut Ewart, 69 Cragmont Ct., Walnut Creek, CA 94598.

Died Jan. 17, 2014. He is survived by his wife, Edith Turpin Potter, 2600 Croasdaile Farm Pkwy., C-101 Heritage Hall, Durham, NC 27705; four daughters, Page Potter, Edith Potter Keene, Lee Potter Rogers and Jane Potter Quigley; and six grandchildren.

Died April 4, 2014. He was preceded in death by his first wife, Lucie Solomons Rush. He is survived by his wife, Julia Gordon Rush, 815 Timmons Rd., Timmonsville, SC 29161; four children, Cyrus Rush Jr., Paul Rush, Betsy Hidlay and Bunny Critcher; one step-daughter, Christa Worrell; 13 grandchildren, one step-grandson; and six great-grandchildren.

Stuart Wynn Gibbs ’41 Sanford, N.C.

George Richard Patrick ’48 Knoxville, Tenn.

Robert Russell Jinright ’51 Thomasville, Ga.

Died Jan. 14, 2014. He was preceded in death by his wife of 63 years Sara Bowen Gibbs; and siblings, Margaret Gibbs Lob and Charles Mitchell Gibbs Jr. ’48. He is survived by his children, Ann Blatzer, Gail Parker, Sara “Penny” Shields, and Wynn Gibbs Jr., 5 East Hillcrest Dr., Greenville, S.C., 29609; 11 grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.

Died April 30, 2014. No additional information was available at the time of this printing.

Died March 25, 2014. He is survived by his wife, Jeane “Betty” McBride Jinright, 513 Wildwood Ln., Thomasville, GA 31792; his children, Barbara, Robert Russell Jinright Jr. and Leiann Orr; 12 grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.

James Ardric Ewart ’41 Walnut Creek, Calif.

Joseph Franklin Wilson ’41 Tucson, Ariz. Died Feb. 27, 2014. He was preceded in death by his first wife, Martha. He is survived by his wife Carol, 1961 S. Diamond D Dr., Tucson, AZ 85713; his children: Joe Wilson, Stuart Beard, Riley Wilson and Fran Wilson; step-son Jeff Peterson; five grandchildren and one step grandson.

George Thompson Brown ’42 Stone Mountain, Ga. Died Jan. 21, 2014. He was preceded in death by his brother, Frank A. Brown Jr. ’37. He is survived by his wife of 70 years, Mardia Hopper Brown, 600 Springhouse Cir., Apt. 209, Stone Mountain, GA 30087; five children: Mary Brown Bullock, George

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James Allen Pittman Jr. ’48 Birmingham, Miss. Died Jan. 12, 2014. He was preceded in death by his wife of 55 years, Dr. Constance Ming-Chung Shen Pittman. He is survived by his two sons, James Clinton Pittman ’87, P.O. Box 2109, Davidson, NC 28036, and John Merrill Pittman; and two grandsons.

James S. Price Jr. ’48 Charlotte, N.C. Died March 23, 2014. He is survived by his wife of 61 years, Joyce Miller Price, 3933 Silverbell Dr., Charlotte, NC 28211; daughters, Janice Blom and Deborah Allen; six grandsons; and five great-grandchildren.

William Brown Barron ’49 Columbia, S.C. Died April 25, 2014. He was preceded in death by his first wife, Ann Carothers Barron. He is survived by his wife of 30 years, Keller Bumgardner Barron, 3215 Sunbury Ln., Columbia, SC, 29205; his three

Samuel Calvin Cumming Jr. ’52 Fresno, Calif. Died April 23, 2014. Sam is survived by his wife, Ruth, 705 E. Robinwood Ln., Fresno, CA 93710; children, David and Diane; and three grandchildren.

Angus Graham Andrews ’53 DeFuniak Springs, Fla. Died April 15, 2014. He was preceded in death by his brothers, Edward Leo Andrews Jr. and Douglas MacKinnon Andrews ’56, and his great-granddaughter, Lydia Rose Shehee. He is survived by his wife, Deborah Andrews, P.O. Box 112, DeFuniak Springs, FL 32435; his children, Angela Shehee, Angus G. “Gus” Andrews Jr., Becky Andrews Garea, Ralph Spires Andrews; and 13 grandchildren.

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Jesse Caldwell Fisher Jr. ’53 Whiteville, N.C.

Rufus Manfred Johnston III ’58 Gastonia, N.C.

John Will Parks III ’62 Gastonia, N.C.

Died Feb. 9, 2014. He is survived by his wife of 60 years, Gaye Sanders Fisher 600 S Madison St., Whiteville, NC 28472; two sons, Jesse Powell Fisher and John Spurgeon Fisher ’89, and three grandchildren.

Died April 29, 2014. He is survived by his beloved wife Geraldine Johnston, 1351 Robinwood Rd., Apt. B316; two children, Mike Johnston and Susan Elkins; six grandchildren; and one greatgranddaugther.

Died Feb. 21, 2014. He is survived by his wife of 47 years, Hope Poag Parks, 2890 S. Robinwood Rd., Gastonia, NC 28054, son Dr. John W. Parks IV; daughter Gamble Parks Douville; and two grandsons.

W.A. “Nabby” Armfield Jr. ’54 Petosky, Mich. Died Feb. 12, 2014. He was preceded in death by his brothers Edward Millis Armfield ’60 and Robert Follin Armfield ’57. He is survived by his son Arthur, 4465 Sunnyridge Rd., Alanson, MI 49706; two grandchildren; and one great-grandson.

Boyd B. Massagee Jr. ’54 Hendersonville, N.C Died March 13, 2014. He is survived by son, Boyd “Buddy” B. Massagee III; daughters, Mary Louise Massagee and Charlotte Anne Massagee; five grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.

Dolphus Jerome Allen Jr. ’55 Black Mountain, N.C. Died March 4, 2014. He is survived by his children, John Allen, 721 Governor Morrison St., Apt. 672, Charlotte, NC 28211, Todd Allen and Susan Donnelly; nine grandchildren; and one great-granddaughter.

David Ralph Freeman ’55 Oxford, Miss. Died Jan. 14, 2014. He is survived by his wife of 55 years, Mary Bevan Freeman, 600 Sage Cove, Oxford, MS 38655; son, James D. Freeman; two grandchildren; a brother, Robert Orr Freeman ’47, and a sister, Edith Freeman Patton.

Cortez Alonzo Cooper ’55 Lynchburg, Va. Died Oct. 25, 2011. He is survived by wife, Patricia Sartelle Cooper, 201 Harrison St., Lynchburg, VA 24504; four children, Patty Cummings, Cortez Cooper III ’80, Peter Cooper and Preston Cooper; 12 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

Robert Whitcomb Sumner-Mack ’56 Hilo, Hawaii Died Dec. 11, 2013. He is survived by wife of 30 years Nan McCowan Sumner-Mack, 1600 Waianuenue Ave., Hilo, HI 96720; daughters, Laura Mack and Danielle Mack Francis, and stepson Drew Vaughan Sumner.

Claude McGhee “Mack” Calcote ’57 Bristol, Tenn. Died March 1, 2014. He is survived by his loving wife of 46 years, Vivian Smith Calcote, 27013 Sanderling Ct., Fort Mill, SC 29707; two daughters, Caroline Calcote and Janet Campbell; four grandchildren; and a brother, Allen Linward Calcote ’55. davidsonjournal.davidson.edu davidsonjournal.davidson.edu

Atha Thomas “Tommy” Jamison Morrison ’59 Hartsville, S.C.

Michie P. Slaughter ’63 Overland Park, Kan.

Died Jan. 28, 2014. He is survived by his wife of 49 years, Gay Taylor Morrison, 1438 Scott Pond Rd., Hartsville, SC 29550; four children, Margaret Mertens, Thomas A. Morrison, Reeves Coward and William W. Morrison; and four grandchildren.

Died March 7, 2014. He was preceded in death by his first wife, Vicki Slaughter. He is survived by his wife, Rebecca MacKinnon, 11308 W. 160th St., Olathe, KS 66062; his daughters, Michelle Slaughter, Holly Slaughter Newton, Christy Slaughter Hazelwood; his stepchildren, Ryan MacKinnon and Katie MacKinnon; and three grandchildren.

Alex Porter ’60 Davidson, N.C.

Charles Drew Ansley ’71 Black Mountain, N.C.

Died April 18, 2014. He is survived by his sister Sarah Porter Boehmler, 610 Jetton St. Ste. 120109, Davidson, NC 28036; and three nieces, Elizabeth Boehmler ’98, Jean Boehmler Reynolds ’98 and Alexis Porter Boehmler ’02.

Died Jan. 15, 2014. He is survived by his mother, Ruth Drew Ansley, 33 W. Cotton Ave., Black Mountain, NC 28711.

John Timothy “Tim” McCorkle ’61 Emerald Isle, N.C.

July 10, 2013. He is survived by his siblings, William L. Fugate, Barbara B. Fugate and Elizabeth F. Fugate, and his stepsister, Lynn Holbein.

Died Feb. 11, 2014. He is survived by his wife of 18 years, Mary Ethel, 509 Harbor Dr., W. Emerald Isle, NC 28594; two sons, William “Bill” McCorkle and Richard “Rick” McCorkle; two daughters, Elizabeth “Beth” McCorkle and Martha “Marty” Wessel; and five grandchildren.

Sam Gayle Riley III ’61 Blacksburg, Va. Died March 19, 2014. He is survived by his wife, Rebecca Riley, 1309 Hillcrest Dr., Blacksburg, VA 24060; son Daniel Riley; daughter Heather Ducote; two stepdaughters, Jennifer Rhue and Cindy Nance; four grandchildren; and two step-granddaughters.

John Isaac Rucker Jr. ’61 The Villages, Fla. Died Sept. 4, 2007. He is survived by his wife Kathryn. 5346 Garnetfield Ln., Katy, TX 77494.

Samuel Shannon Wiley Jr. ’61 Durham, N.C. Died March 21, 2014. He is survived by cousins, Rosalie Laughlin, Sherburne Laughlin ’83, 5719 Newington Rd., Bethesda, MD, 20816, John Chappell Laughlin ’85 and William Laughlin.

Stephen James Wood ’61 London, England Died Feb. 28, 2014. No additional information was available at the time of this printing.

Richard C. Fugate ’72 Washington, D.C.

Jerry Lee Suttles ’78 Mt. Holly, N.C. Died March 22, 2014. He is survived by his wife of 35 years, Glenda Suttles, 1504 N. Main St., Mt. Holly, NC 28120; sons, Cory Jay Suttles and Colton Lee Suttles; and one grandson.

Mary Chapman Hamilton ’87 Carmel, Ind. Died Feb. 10, 2014. She was preceded in death by her mother, Dorothy Wilson Chapman. She is survived by her husband, John William Hamilton ’86, 3778 Carwinion Way, Carmel, IN 46032; her daughter, Katherine Moir Hamilton, her son, John (Jack) W. Hamilton Jr., and her father, Dr. Rees Cecil Chapman.

Kevin Osborne Barnard ’88 Roanoke, Va. Died March 26, 2014. He is survived by his wife, Doly, 5822 Cavalier Dr., Roanoke, VA 24018, and sons Cole and Spencer.

Christian “Chris” Ole Hoveland ’93 Brooklyn, N.Y. Died Jan. 21, 2014. He is survived by his wife, Shubha Hoveland, 212 8th Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11215; sons James and Charles; his parents, James and Lis Hoveland; and his brother, Jonathan Hoveland ’95.

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Long before the current weekend “mud run” rage, before the questionable trend of barroom mud wrestling was even a thing, there have been college kids with garden hoses. How many of these early mud warriors can you name? Contact John Syme ’85, josyme@davidson.edu with your answers.

The Good Fight

America’s War on Poverty 50 years later—are we winning?

By Fred Smith, Professor of Economics his summer marks the 100th anniversary of

the start of World War I. While the anniversary of the Great War has, deservedly, received a lot of media coverage, another anniversary of interest to economists has garnered much less attention. January 2014 marked the 50th anniversary of Lyndon Johnson’s declaration of the “war” on poverty. After 50 years of fighting poverty we have more than enough evidence to evaluate how we’ve done. The official poverty rate in the United States has remained between 10 and 15 percent since the late 1960s. The percentage of children living in households that are below the poverty line has remained between 15 and 25 percent, and the child poverty rate has consistently exceeded the overall poverty rate. We have had one unqualified success. The United States has experienced a dramatic reduction in poverty among seniors. More than 25 percent of all seniors lived in poverty in 1967, but that figure has fallen to around 10 percent. In the decades since Johnson’s declaration, economists have constructed alternatives to the official measures of poverty. These measures take into account things like the EITC (Earned Income Tax Credit) payments and “in kind transfers”—such as food stamps and spending on Medicaid or Medicare—that the official poverty measures ignore. But, regardless of the poverty measure we look at, we get largely the same result: Roughly 15 percent of the population lives in poverty. What do these figures mean? For me, they mean we’ve lost the war on poverty. One out of every five children in the United States lives in poverty. (For a family of four the poverty line is currently $23,850.). Thankfully, the percentage of children living in poor households has fallen since the 1980s. But, when you combine the lack of progress we’ve made in reducing the overall poverty rate with the statistics on child poverty, it is clear we’ve not done enough. It scares me that we’ve lost the war on poverty, but what scares me even more is that things may get worse before they get bet-

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ter. The rate of institutional and technological change in the 19th and early 20th centuries was truly profound, but the rate of technological change we are experiencing in the early 21st century is almost impossible to comprehend. Think about the cell phone you carried in your pocket 10 years ago. Compare it to the smart phone you carry with you today. Your smart phone has more computing power—by leaps and bounds—than the desktop computer you might have had at your workstation in the 1990s. Increasingly, individuals who don’t acquire the education and skills to use or create advanced technology are going to be left with very few career choices. Many of the remaining jobs will be in service industries—waiting tables or working in shops—and most of these jobs will experience relatively small productivity gains. Economists will tell you this is of great concern because productivity gains drive increases in pay. Professions that experience small productivity gains will see much smaller wage increases than industries where workers become substantially more productive. This may lead to widening income inequality and the expansion of the segment of the population working jobs that leave them living near (or below) the poverty line. Perhaps t he best way to understand this is by thinking about your smartphone. The person who sold you the smartphone at the cellphone store? His productivity won’t change very much in the next 10 years. Now think about the woman who wrote the code for your phone’s operating system. Any bets on what she might be creating (and earning) in 10 years? I know that all of this sounds dire, but I think there’s an important, positive takeaway point. We can do better. Davidson, and schools like Davidson, can take the lead in finding a way to win the “new” war we must wage on poverty. Davidson must continue to help students acquire the skills they need to be successful in the 21st century workplace, but, more importantly, it must also remind them how desperately the world needs them to lead lives of leadership and service. davidsonjournal.davidson.edu

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