Hendrix Magazine - 2014 Fall by Hendrix College

The Hendrix College Magazine Fall 2014 Volume 27, Number 1 Chief Communications Officer Frank Cox ’76 cox@hendrix.edu Editor Helen Plotkin plotkin@hendrix.edu Managing Editor Rob O’Connor ’95 Art Director Joshua Daugherty Designers Joshua Daugherty Ephraim McNair Staff Photographers Joshua Daugherty Collin Buchanan Staff Writer Collin Buchanan Alumnotes Editor Ruthie Daniel ’16 Hendrix Magazine is published by Hendrix College, 1600 Washington Ave., Conway, Arkansas 72032-3080. This magazine is published for Hendrix College alumni, parents of students and friends. Permission is granted to reprint material from this magazine provided credit is given and a copy of the reprinted material is sent to the Editor. Postmaster, please send form 3579 to Office of Marketing Communications, Hendrix College, 1600 Washington Ave., Conway, AR 72032-3080 (501) 505-2932 Fax (501) 450-4553 Alumnotes submission deadlines: Spring Issue: Feb. 10 Fall Issue: Sept. 1

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Rob Nichols ’91 loved school so much he thought he wanted to be a physics professor. But after a fellowship to graduate school, his path turned toward computer programming. He co-founded Mainstream Technologies and later went out on his own as Nichols Software, consulting for a variety of clients from airlines and casinos to data marketers and online retailers. While he still doesn’t miss school, he does miss the cafeteria. Story page 24. Photo by Sara Blancett

Head of the Class

Psychologist Dr. Terri Bonebright to lead faculty as new Hendrix Provost

Tsunami

President Tsutsui wastes no time getting to know the Hendrix community

Code Breaker

Physics grad Rob Nichols ’91 connects creativity with computer programming

Utility Player

Alumnus Jason Hansen ’97 oversees city’s Internet service as Conway Corp. CTO

Wireless Wonder Woman

Kristi Crum ’99 leads wireless industry as regional president for Verizon

Robo Prof

Physics professor Dr. Ann Wright brings robots to life for Hendrix students

Game Boy

Accountant Adam Hogg ’08 uses crowd-funded campaign to launch board game success

38 Alumni Voices 44 Alumnotes 17 At Home at Hendrix 03 Campus News 16 Editor’s Message 14 Faculty News

15 Hendrix Through Time 48 In Memoriam 02 Inside Perspective 46 Marriages 46 New Children 12 Odyssey Spotlights

Blog Better

English major Kim Herrington ’10 sees storytelling as secret to business success

On a Roll

Generous alumni and friends help make progress possible at Hendrix

inside perspective

Timothy Lepczyk Tim Lepczyk is the Director of Faculty Instructional Technology. He previously developed and co-led the digital repository and digital curation efforts at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo. He is an alumnus of Hope College and completed a master’s degree in English from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a master’s degree in information sciences from the University of Tennessee.

A: One big change is communication. In our teleconference rooms, it’s possible to bring authors or scholars from anywhere in the world into the classroom and have them interact with students. In my own class last year, I had five different scholars speak about their research and answer questions from my students about digital humanities. Another example is teachers doing flipped learning. Basically, the professor creates a video lecture, which the students watch outside of class, and then during class the students and professors have a discussion at a higher level. The same technology can be used if a professor is away at a conference or there’s a snow day. When thinking about technology on campus, it’s important that the pedagogy drives the use. For some courses, it does not make sense. Where technology can be used more broadly though is in making course materials available online and having access to high-quality library databases. Q: How have Hendrix faculty members experimented with classroom technology in interesting ways? A: One course that’s been really been innovative has been the Theatre Arts course, Voice for Theatre. The course is actually taught by a professor at Rollins College through teleconference. It’s focused on the phonetic alphabet and involves a lot of movement. The course has been taught twice and it allows our students to gain highly specialized training in an area that may be tough to fill locally. Another recent example of technology use involves our 3D printer. This semester, Dr. Rick Murray’s students printed objects that allowed them to fasten their iPhones to the tops of their microscopes. If they see something interesting in the slide, they can connect their phone and take a picture. We weren’t sure how the 3D printer would be used. But once professors and students learn about it, they use it in creative ways we didn’t foresee. Q: Can you describe Technologies of Text, the course you taught last spring, and share some interesting student projects and how the experience helped you see issues in technology and teaching from a faculty member’s perspective? A: Its focus was two-fold. First, the course took the approach that books are just one form of communication technology. We read The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood by James Gleick. The other goal of the course was to introduce students to digital humanities and learn about

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Q: How has technology changed how faculty members teach and how students learn?

Tim Lepczyk, Director of Faculty Instructional Technology, came to Hendrix in 2012 as Fellow in Digital Humanities and Pedagogy, a twoyear academic appointment underwritten by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. different forms of humanities scholarship that use technology. Some of the major assignments were transcribing and encoding Whitman manuscript pages and then delivering them online. We then used a digital exhibit software called Omeka to create an exhibit called “The Graveyard of Obsolete Technology.” Students had to research, describe, and photograph a piece of obsolete technology and it sort of became a scavenger hunt. Finally, the other big project students worked on was creating network graphs from the novel Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore (which complemented the course well). Students defined their own relationships between characters, and then mapped out the relationships. The technology allowed the data to be sorted and displayed visually online. Students loved this assignment, and it was great to see the different ways they approached the text. Teaching helped me do my job much better in terms of working with faculty. I have a better appreciation of how much preparation is involved in creating a course, how limited time is, and the need for the course to go smoothly. When I work with faculty, I take the approach of how can I save them time or reduce the presence of technology. Faculty members need to teach and technology just needs to work. Working with Bobby Engeler-Young ’93 and the Media Center, our goal is really to unobtrusively support faculty.

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Campus News Aren’t We There Yet? Hendrix College was named the country’s #1 “Up and Coming” liberal arts college by U.S. News and World Report this year. The college has appeared on this list for seven consecutive years. Hendrix is also listed #8 among an elite group of liberal arts colleges that demonstrate “A Strong Commitment to Teaching” and is the only top 100 private national liberal arts college in Arkansas, according to the 2015 U.S. News Best Colleges rankings.

Hendrix welcomed 338 new students from 25 states and five international countries to campus as the Class of 2018 moved into their residence halls to begin the 2014-2015 academic year. Top home states represented in the Class of 2018 are Arkansas, Texas, Missouri, California, Louisiana, Tennessee, Colorado and Oklahoma. Ten international students enrolled from China, Czech Republic, Netherlands, Rwanda, and Singapore. Fifty-eight enrolling new students have legacy ties to Hendrix (e.g. parents, siblings, grandparents, aunts and uncles). Gender representation of first-year students is 56 percent female and 44 percent male. Among the top academic interests of the new students are biology, economics and business, English, kinesiology, pre-engineering, pre-medicine and psychology. The average high school grade point average for the entering first-year students is 3.90 and the average high school rank is 19.17 percent. Forty-one Arkansas Governor’s Distinguished Scholarship recipients enrolled this fall. New students also received 337 Odyssey awards and 110 extracurricular scholarships for art, music, theatre and dance, and leadership, as well as two Miller Center Service Scholarships and 10 United Methodist Youth Fellowship Scholarships.

The Write Stuff Emily Hill ’16, a psychology major and English minor, won the Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum’s first short fiction contest this spring for her story “A Fossilized Union.” The contest, open to undergraduate students at public and private institutions in Arkansas, drew 44 entries from 11 institutions across the state. Author Naomi Wood was the contest judge and called Hill’s story “an exceptionally inventive short story that both magnifies the significance of our own histories and shrinks these stories in the grander narratives of the cosmos, geology and time.”

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New Kids on the Block

BCMB Good

Technology Services staff helped new The Hendrix Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (BCMB) students set up their club received an Undergraduate Affiliate Network (UAN) devices for Internet Public Outreach Committee (POC) outreach grant from access and more on the American Society for Biochemistry and Molec- Move-In Day 2014. ular Biology (ASBMB). BCMB club members, led by Dakota Pouncey ’15, Martha Kellems ’15, and John Pennington ’16, wrote the outreach grant application this spring and proposed a partnership with Wonderview High School in Hattieville, 30 miles northwest of Conway, to help students improve their test scores in basic science courses by hosting tutoring sessions. The Hendrix BCMB program was accredited this spring from the ASBMB for a full seven-year term.

Start Me Up Rachel Zweig ’15 is part of BioBotic Solutions, a successful business plan competition team that developed a plan to commercialize a container and robot that automate tissue handling, one of the few pathology lab areas not already automated. The team had a remarkable year that included: second place at Nebraska Global Venture Competition; second place at the DWR Arkansas Governor’s Cup and the innovation and elevator pitch awards; first place at the TCU Values and Ventures competition, the

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best undergraduate competition in the country; second place at the DWR Tristate competition in Las Vegas, Nev.; and winner at the G60 Competition in Bentonville, Ark. Overall, the team won over $70,000 in cash and more than $25,000 of in-kind support.

Sara Hales ’14 was selected for a 2014-2015 Fulbright U.S. Student Award to Italy. Following an orientation in Rome, Hales, a Conway native who graduated with a degree in classics, will teach at two secondary schools — Istituto Tecnico Commerciale “Paolo Savi” and Liceo Ginnasio “M. Buratti” in the city of Viterbo, in the Lazio Region. “Since the summer of 2011, when I participated in the Hendrix-in-Florence program and spent a month absorbing the language and culture of that historic city, I have been anxious to get back to Italy,” Hales said. “As a classicist, all of Italy is fascinating to me, but having an assignment so close to Rome is a dream. I am thrilled that I will get to see, in person, the places and monuments that I learned about in my classics courses at Hendrix. The teaching experience that I will gain over the next year will benefit me when I return to the States, since I hope to become a professor and will be teaching undergrad courses while I pursue my Ph.D.”

Trustee Trio The Hendrix College Board of Trustees recently welcomed three new members: Joe Goyne ’69, Carolyn Miller ’74 and Dr. Paula Norwood ’68. Goyne is the president and CEO of Pegasus Bank in Dallas, Texas. A native of Monroe, La., he has studied at Southern Methodist University and the London School of Economics and has served on the boards of the Dallas March of Dimes and Metro YMCA. Following Hendrix, Miller received a master’s degree in elementary education from Stephen F. Austin State University and a master of science degree in gerontology from the University of North Texas. A member of First United Methodist Church of Dallas, Miller has volunteered with Crossroads Community Services and served on the boards of The Senior Source and SMU-in-Taos. She is a member of the George W. Bush Institute Women’s Initiative Advisory Council and she and her husband David were

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Ciao, Fulbright

recipients of The Spirit of Generations Award given by The Senior Source of Dallas. Dr. Norwood is retired from Johnson & Johnson Co. She received her master’s degree from University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and doctorate from Virginia Polytechnic University. She is a former fellow for the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturing Association Statistics Group, American Statistical Association and Arkansas Academy of Computing and co-chair of New Jersey Curriculum Standards Committee for Mathematics.

Swing Out Saranya Prathibha ’14 received the Ohio State University College of Medicine’s Sarah Elizabeth Lockwood Mohl Memorial Scholarship. The scholarship is awarded to a new medical school student who demonstrates great promise as a future physician and who exemplifies leadership through achievements in academics and athletics. Prathibha, a pre-med major and tennis player, was a three-time ITA Scholar Athlete, an All-Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Honorable Mention and a SCAC Character and Community Student-Athlete of the Week.

New Trustees include Carolyn Miller ’74 (left) and Dr. Paula Norwood ’68. Along with Joe Goyne ’69 (not pictured) they will attend their first board meeting in October.

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Sara Hales ’14 is off to Italy after receiving a Fulbright U.S. Student Award. Hales, a classics major, will teach at two secondary schools in the Lazio region.

Collin Radack ’14 recently wrapped up his first professional season with the State College Spikes, a Class A short season affiliate of the St. Louis Cardinals. An economics and business major, Radack hit .287 with 39 hits, 11 runs, seven doubles, a triple, two home runs and 23 RBI in 39 contests for the New York-Penn League Champions. Radack was the 615th overall pick, the highest pick in Hendrix history, in the 2014 Major League Baseball First-Year Draft. He became the Warriors’ first baseball All-American this season as he was selected to the ABCA Rawlings Second Team and the D3Baseball.com Third Team.

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So Long, Seniors! Hendrix said goodbye to 311 members of the Class of 2014 at the College’s 130th Commencement this spring at the Wellness and Athletic Center. Hendrix Board of Trustees member Madison Murphy ’80, chair of Murphy USA, was awarded a Doctor of Humane Letters degree. Murphy served as chairman of the Board of Trustees from 2001 to 2011 and on numerous civic, arts and business boards in Arkansas and in his hometown of El Dorado, Ark.

Grants to Go

Good Fellows Travis Finch ’14 and Sreesh Reddy ’14 were selected for the inaugural class of 11 Arkansas Fellows. The Arkansas Fellowship matches graduating Arkansas college seniors with Arkansas host companies to develop the next generation of entrepreneurs and business leaders by keeping the state’s best talent at home. Finch, who graduated in May with his master’s degree in accounting, will work with the Circumference Group and Reddy, who received his bachelor’s degree in biochemistry and molecular biology, will intern with Little Rock-based Perks.

Research Shows Allen Smith ’15 received a research grant from the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) and Undergraduate Affiliate Network (UAN). Smith, a biochemistry molecular biology major, will use the $1,000 grant to carry out his project titled “Conditional Lineage Tracing of Neurogenin1-Expressing Progenitor Cells in the Mouse Dorsal Root Ganglion” in Hendrix biology professor Dr. Rick Murray’s lab this summer. Smith is also invited to present his research project at either the 2015 ASBMB annual meeting or at a regional ASBMB UAN meeting in the coming year.

Just for Kicks Jeff Trimble is the new head women’s soccer coach, taking over for Jim Evans who is now at the helm of the Hendrix men’s soccer team. Trimble comes to Hendrix after 16 years as the head coach of NCAA Division II Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas, where he was a three-time Lone Star Conference Coach of the Year and was the 2010 NSCAA South Central Region Coach of the Year. At MSU, Trimble coached six All-Americans, 36 All-Region selections and 84 All-Conference picks and guided the Mustangs to the NCAA Division II Tournament three times from 2010-13. Trimble compiled a 194-101-28 record with MSU, winning four conference titles and finishing in the top four every season. In 1993, he earned his bachelor’s degree from Grace College in Winona Lake, Ind., where he

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The Committee on Engaged Learning (CEL) awarded more than $120,000 in Odyssey grants to 39 projects proposed by Hendrix faculty and students in the April 2014 cycle. The grand total for funding since the Odyssey Program’s inception in 2005 is $2.75 million.

was a three-time All-District and All-Conference and twotime NAIA All-American Honorable Mention goalkeeper and helped the Lancers to three straight conference titles and a national tournament appearance.

Four for the medal

Madison Murphy ’80 received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree at the 130th commencement.

Odyssey Medals will be presented to four alumni during the Founders’ Day Convocation on Oct. 23. The medalists will also be honored during a reception that evening at the Clinton Library in Little Rock. The Odyssey Medal is awarded by the Hendrix College Board of Trustees to alumni whose personal and professional achievements exemplify the values of engaged liberal arts and sciences education. The honorees include: • Brad Ford ’89, a prominent interior designer based in New York City, who will be recognized for Artistic Creativity; • Amanda Moore McBride ’93, director of the Richard A. Gephardt Institute for Public Service at Washington University in St. Louis, who will be recognized for Service to the World; • Elsie McKee ’73, professor of church history at Princeton Theological Seminary and an expert in the history and theology of the Reformation, who will be recognized for Research; and • F.G. “Buddy” Villines ’69, county judge in Pulaski County, Ark., who has used his position as head of county government to promote economic growth, education and the environment, and is being recognized for Professional and Leadership Development. Nominations for the 2015 Odyssey Medals are due Dec. 31, 2014 and may be emailed to president@hendrix.edu. For more information and a nomination form, visit www.hendrix.edu/odysseymedal.

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with five, men’s golf with four, men’s swimming and diving with three and women’s golf with two.

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Warriors Return

Hendrix Dining Services received four 2014 Loyal E. Horton Awards from the National Association of College and University Food Services.

Winning Dining Hendrix College Dining Services received four Loyal E. Horton awards in the 2014 National Association of College and University Food Services (NACUFS) competition: Residential Dining Special Event (Gold), Retail Sales Single Concept (Gold), Residential Dining Concepts (Silver), and Catering Online Menu (Bronze). “The Hendrix Dining Services staff is so valued by our community,” said Dean of Students Jim Wiltgen. “While they provide outstanding food, it is the customer service, and love for our students, that truly sets them apart. They make everyone who walks in through their doors feel like royalty. Students develop such a strong relationship with our dining staff that they often invite dining staff to their performances and sporting events. Even more amazing, the staff takes the time to attend many of those events in support of our students.”

Feeling Fiske Hendrix is once again among the top 300 colleges and universities in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain selected for the 2015 edition of the Fiske Guide to Colleges compiled by former New York Times education editor Edward B. Fiske. The guide examines a broad range of subjects, including student body, academics, social life, financial aid, campus setting, housing, food and extracurricular activities.

A-Team Hendrix placed 107 student-athletes on the spring 2014 Southern Athletic Association Academic Honor Roll. All nine members of the men’s tennis team were honored. Baseball had the most with 16, followed by women’s tennis with 12, softball with 10, women’s basketball and men’s tennis with nine each, men’s lacrosse and women’s swimming and diving with eight, men’s and women’s track and field and men’s basketball with seven, women’s lacrosse

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Kevin Gregory ’13 is the new assistant men’s and women’s soccer coach. A four-year starter at midfielder and defender for Hendrix, Gregory was selected as an All-Southern Athletic Association Honorable Mention and earned an SAA Defensive Player of the Week award. He was a member of the 2012 Warrior team that broke the school win record and served as team captain as a senior. He completed his degree in history with a minor in education and is pursuing a master’s degree in secondary education at Texas State University in San Marcos. Jennifer Koller ’14 joined the Warrior field hockey and women’s lacrosse coaching staff as an assistant coach for the 2014-15 school year. Koller graduated from Hendrix this spring with a psychology degree. A four-year letter winner as a defender in field hockey, she was named to the All-Southern Athletic Association First Team, Longstreth/NFHCA All-Great Lakes Region Second Team, SAA All-Tournament Team, SAA All-Sportsmanship Team and NFHCA DIII National Academic Squad. Koller was also an All-Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Honorable Mention as a sophomore and an SCAC Defensive Player of the Week in 2011. As team captain, Koller earned the Hendrix Bob Courtway Leadership Award, set the school record, led the SAA and ranked fourth in the NCAA with 18 defensive saves. She also competed in the hammer throw, javelin and shot put for the Warrior track and field team.

Policy Police The Hendrix student chapter of Roosevelt Institute Campus Network, a national student-run think tank affiliated with the Roosevelt Institute, was nominated for best chapter of the year. Chapter member Jill Nguyen ’15, an international relations major, was chosen as a Summer Academy Fellow in Washington, D.C., and was named to the group’s leadership team as external engagement coordinator for the southern region. She presented her policy proposal this summer at the D.C. Policy Expo. Chirag Lala ’17, the Hendrix chapter’s policy coordinator, was published in the national 10 Ideas journal, and Meredith Morrison ’15 was nominated to serve on the student board of advisors.

Eco Echo Hendrix ranked highest in the Natural State for ecofriendliness in a recent College Prowler survey. The College Prowler survey ranked higher education institutions throughout the country based on factors such as “LEEDcertified facilities and sustainability initiatives … as well as striving for a more eco-friendly future.” The highest scoring institution in each state was then ranked on a 1 to 10 scale against others to show the most eco-friendly colleges and institutions across the United States. Hendrix received a 9.06 rating.

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Nine Hendrix students traveled to Kosovo this summer on a mission trip sponsored by the Hendrix Miller Center for Vocation, Ethics and Calling: Reed Brewer ’15, Sarah Eddington ’16, Hanna French ’15, Rachel Head ’14, Andrew LeMay ’15, Youmna Moufarrej ’14, Sarah Partee ’17, Isabelle Staines ’16 and Neelam Vyas ’14. Through a partnership with International Orthodox Christian Charities, students spent 10 days in Kosovo working to construct a youth recreation center with local Kosovar villagers and helping with infrastructure projects like drainage canals and freshwater wells. They volunteered at Majka Devet Jugovica, a soup kitchen and the vineyards at Visoki Decani Monastery. Students also had the opportunity to visit ancient Serbian monasteries dating back to the 14th century.

Roll Warriors

Dynamic Duo Elizabeth Krug ’14 became a five-time All-American this summer as she finished third in the heptathlon with a school record 5,074 points at the NCAA Division III Outdoor Track & Field Championships. Krug is the third four-time All-American in the heptathlon. She was the national champion last year, placed sixth as a sophomore and seventh as a freshman. She was also an All-American in the pentathlon at the 2012 NCAA Indoor Championships. Victoria Amadi ’17 followed Krug with a fourth place finish in the triple jump at the NCAA Division III Outdoor Championships, her second All-American award of the year, after placing sixth in the Indoor National Championships this spring. Amadi broke her own school record on her first jump of the day. She ended the competition with another record and was the highest-placing freshman of the 22-woman field.

Nine Hendrix students traveled to Kosovo for a 10-day mission trip sponsored by the Hendrix Miller Center for Vocation, Ethics and Calling.

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The Hendrix football team opened their 2014 season with a 42-28 victory over Wesminster College. Quarterback Seth Peters ’17 was named the Southern Athletic Association Football Offensive Player of the Week. He led the Warriors to an SAA record 618 yards of total offense and went 25-of-28 passing for 323 yards and two touchdowns and produced 85 yards and two scores on the ground. Peters completed 19 consecutive passes, two off the NCAA Division III record of 21. He completed 89.3 percent of his passes, which led the nation, and had a

passing efficiency of 202.6. Corner back Matt Ramirez ’17 was named to the D3Football.com Team of the Week as he led the Warriors with 15 tackles and an eight-yard interception. Ramirez picked off a pass at the goal line, setting up a 10-play, 95-yard drive for Hendrix. In the first night game in the history of Young-Wise Memorial Stadium, Hendrix made four interceptions, including a 26-yard touchdown return by safety Caleb Shannon ’17, for a 24-14 come-from-behind win over Bacone College.

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A Mission Accomplished

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A Tour of Tours Eight Hendrix students completed four weeks of intensive French language and culture study this summer through the Hendrix-in-Tours program: Violet Coker ’15, Dulcie Hanham-Gross ’16, Alex Harb ’16, Wesleigh Harrison ’17, Savannah Herrera ’17, Sophie Lidji ’17, Gretchen McCarthy ’16 and MacKenzie Theall ’16. The students were accompanied by Hendrix French professor Dr. Cathy Jellenik. Students earned two credits at Tours Langues, which specializes in intense language study, with 20 hours each week of class time, as well as a minimum of 10 hours a week of engaged learning outside of the classroom. The group took two “ateliers culinaires” (cooking classes), a tour of the city of Tours, visited le Mont Saint Michel in Normandy, St. Malo in Brittany, spent a weekend in Paris, where they visited the Conciergerie and La Sainte Chapelle, and visited several châteaux (Villandry, Chenonceau), as well as a 4th century wine cave. Each visit was accompanied by reading assignments, and students were required to write presentations and dialogues related to the sites or to famous people associated with the location.

Startup Success David Allan ’14 and his Kick It Little Rock team won the latest Startup Weekend Little Rock, a grassroots event for aspiring entrepreneurs. Kick It Little Rock is an event list app that enables users to share events with members of their contact lists and the community at large. Allan was part of the Simple Service team that won the inaugural Startup Weekend Little Rock last year. Allan grew Simple Service into the Acorn Hours startup, which will compete in the fourth installment of the ARK Challenge accelerator in Little Rock.

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Big Splash Eight Hendrix students spent their summer in the Hendrix-in-Tours program, a four-week intensive French language and culture study program.

Off to the Presses A research article by Mitch Goist ’13 and Hendrix international relations and politics professor Dr. Kiril Kolev was accepted for publication in the Midsouth Political Science Review. Goist is pursuing his doctorate in political science at Pennsylvania State University. The article titled “Empowering the Marginalized Voter: Clientelism in Heterogeneous Electorates” analyzes the tradeoff between programmatic politics and clientelism in 85 countries that have competitive elections. The article, partially funded by research and conference travel funds that Kolev received through Hendrix, “illustrates that when politicians rely on clientelism and promise tangible material benefits instead of policies when running for office, minority citizens in ethno-religiously diverse countries are more likely to vote and stay engaged in the political process,” Kolev said. “This challenges widely accepted notions that clientelism is always less desirable than programmatism in the electoral process.”

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This fall, Marty Wahle was named the new head coach of the Hendrix men’s and women’s swimming and diving program. Wahle leads the Warriors after spending two seasons as the head coach at Ripon College in Ripon, Wis. Under his guidance, the Red Hawks broke 17 school records, while both programs had their highest finishes at the Midwest Conference meet since 2006. Before Ripon, Wahle served as an assistant swim coach at Misericordia University in Dallas, Pa., where he was also the men’s team recruiter. In his two years at Misericordia, Wahle saw his team’s swimmers break 32 school and four conference records. Wahle graduated cum laude from Minnesota State University at Mankato with a bachelor’s degree in elementary education. A 16-time NCAA Division-II All-American on the swim team, he participated in the 2008 Olympic Trials in the 200-meter backstroke. He served as team captain and Student-Athlete Advisory Committee representative and was a three-time Academic All-American. Wahle went on to receive his master’s degree in education from Misericordia in 2012.

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Advance Man The Hendrix College Board of Trustees has named W. Ellis Arnold III ’79 to the position of Senior Executive Vice President, Dean of Advancement and General Counsel. Arnold served as Acting President of the College from February 2013 until June 2014. Prior to that, Arnold had served since 2008 as Executive Vice President, Dean of Advancement and as the College’s General Counsel. “Ellis Arnold has provided rock-solid leadership as Acting President during the past year as the College searched for its 11th president,” said David Knight ’71,

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Eighty-eight Hendrix students got a hands-on look at the workplace this summer through internships in the local community, across the state and around the world from China to Ireland. Some students worked alongside Hendrix alumni, according to Director of Career Counseling and Internships Leigh Lassister-Counts ’01. For example, Sarah Varnau ’16 spent her summer as an intern at Dallas Heritage Village, a nationally accredited history museum depicting life in Dallas from 1840-1910. Varnau, a history major, helped prepare for the museum’s 50th anniversary in 2016 and worked alongside Elizabeth Qualia ’11 and Melissa Prycer ’01, who has worked at Dallas Heritage Village since 2004 and was named president and executive director this spring. Jessa Thurman ’16 interned at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., with Dr. Mike Gates ’92, a U.S.D.A. hymenopterist who studies wasps. Her faculty internship sponsor is biology professor Dr. Maureen McClung ’01. “I really know now that I want to pursue entomology because even though I’m working 40 hours a week on a microscope, I still love these wasps,” Thurman said. “In fact, I’m even more passionate about them now.”

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chair of the Board of Trustees. “Not only did he perform superbly in this role, he did it while he continued to maintain oversight of our Advancement division and serve as Hendrix’s General Counsel. Our board of trustees, faculty and staff are profoundly grateful to Ellis for taking on these additional responsibilities and dispensing the duties required in each of these roles. Our Board of Trustees unanimously voted to recognize his contributions by naming him Senior Executive Vice President.”

Sarah Varnau ’16, center, of Plano, Texas, spent her summer as an intern at Dallas Heritage Village, working alongside Elizabeth Qualia ’11 and Melissa Prycer ’01.

Field Day Hendrix women’s lacrosse team will add five players to their 2014-15 roster: Shelby Hill, a midfielder from Austin, Texas; Reilly Frazier, a defender from Austin, Texas; Jannice Bonilla, a goalie from Havelock, N.C.; Bridget Umble, an attacker from Lancaster, Pa.; and Kaitlyn Smith, a defender from Austin, Texas.

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Former men’s basketball player Janson Hightower ’10 is the head men’s basketball coach at Southwestern University. Hightower joined the Southwestern staff in August of 2012 as the assistant men’s basketball coach and assistant golf coach. A Hendrix standout and team captain his senior season, Hightower led the team in assists in three of his four seasons and is currently fifth among alltime assists leaders in program history. Hightower also led the Warriors in steals his senior year and was a member of the teams that advanced to the SCAC Tournament semifinals in 2008 and 2009. Hightower was also selected as the Carl Babcock Award Winner, awarded to one Hendrix male athlete for character and leadership in athletics.

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W. Ellis Arnold III ’79 has been named Senior Executive Vice President, Dean of Advancement and General Counsel by the Hendrix Board of Trustees

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Net Positive The Hendrix volleyball team played a perfect Hendrix College Invitational tournament, sweeping Williams Baptist College and Philander Smith College. Ella Concavage-Nassar ’15 crossed a career milestone on the afternoon, earning her 1,000th career dig in the win against Williams Baptist. She led the team with 16 digs in the match against Williams and 13 digs against Philander Smith. Lauren Petrisin ’18 and Felicia Beeman ’16 were named the Southern Athletic Association Volleyball Offensive and Defensive Players of the Week, respectively, for their performance at the tournament.

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Artist Dan Rizzie ’73, left, donated his painting “Trieschmann Revisited” to the Hendrix College Permanent Collection in memory of Hendrix art professor Don H. Marr and his wife Camilla Raymond Marr at a special ceremony with Holly Marr ’86, art professor Matthew Lopas and Allison Marr ’84.

Prior to Southwestern, Hightower was a graduate assistant and operations director for the men’s basketball program at the University of Central Arkansas, where he graduated with a master’s degree in business administration. Hightower has been a head coach for the Georgetown Fury Select Club Basketball Program for two summers, coaching 20 junior varsity and varsity level players to numerous tournament championships statewide.

adding Art Celebrated artist and Distinguished Alumnus Dan Rizzie ’73 donated one of his paintings to the Hendrix Permanent Art Collection in memory of art professor Don H. Marr and his wife Camilla Raymond Marr. Professor Marr, who died in the spring of 2013, joined the Hendrix faculty in 1959. As well as lecturing on art history, Marr taught free-hand drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture and calligraphy to generations of students. Rizzie also donated a limited edition of 25 prints of the painting to the Marr family to present to donors of $500 or more to the Don and Camilla Marr Endowed Art Scholarship that was established in 2013. Income from the endowment will provide aid to junior and senior art students at the College. You can enjoy the original the next time you are on the Hendrix campus. Look up and to your left as you enter the lobby in Bailey Library to view “Trieschmann Revisited.” For information about the Marr Endowed Art Scholarship, contact Ann Turney ’75 at turney@hendrix.edu or call the Office of Advancement at (501) 450-1221.

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Hendrix Magazine placed second in the National Federation of Press Women’s annual communications contest. The magazine advanced to the national competition after receiving a first-place award in Arkansas Press Women’s annual contest. The national winners were announced during NFPW’s annual conference meeting in Greenville, S.C., in early September. Hendrix Magazine is produced twice annually by the Office of Marketing Communications, led by Frank Cox ’76. The magazine team includes Helen S. Plotkin, editor; Rob O’Connor ’95, managing editor; Josh Daugherty, art director and designer; and Ruthie Daniel ’16, editor of the alumni news section known as Alumnotes. The judges reviewed the Fall 2013 edition of Hendrix Magazine, which focused on the growth of athletics at Hendrix and the return of football after a 53-year hiatus. It also included the 2012-2013 Donor Honor Roll, designed by Ephraim McNair; photos by Michael Tarne ’14; and stories contributed by a number of Hendrix faculty, staff and alumni, including: Dr. Kristi McKim, film studies; Dr. Dorian Stuber, English; Dr. John Krebs, music; Dr. Rod Miller, art history; Alyssa Curry ’15; Neelam Vyas ’14; Beau Wilcox ’99; Reed Brewer ’15; Julie Janos ’94; and Melissa Jenkins, director of the Hendrix Annual Fund.

Eternal Flame In 1964, under the direction of Robert M. McGill, the Hendrix College Choir began presenting a Service of Lessons and Carols modeled after the one offered annually at King’s College in Cambridge, England. As the 50th anniversary performance of Candlelight Carol in Greene Chapel approaches, several former choir members are working to establish a scholarship in memory of McGill, who died in 1979. You can learn more about plans for the scholarship by searching on Facebook for “Robert M. McGill Endowed Scholarship” or by contacting one of the following alumni: • Scott Lewis ’77, slewis2900@gmail.com • Jess Anthony ’74, jessadma@gmail.com • Linda Ferstal ’69, ljferstl@comcast.net • John Bangert ’70, john.bangert@att.net.

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Hooked on Music

New choral conductor builds career on lifelong passion

CLASS TIME After college, Morgan taught general elementary music in public schools in Madison and Chicago for three years before beginning his graduate work at Temple University. “Professionally it opened my mind more and really helped me mature,” he said. After Temple, Morgan moved back to Chicago to be closer to his (now) wife, Julia, whose background is in nonprofit theatre marketing, and to work with the Chicago Children’s Choir. After two years in Chicago, he enrolled in the choral conducting program at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, which admits

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one doctoral student per year. He chose the program for its small size, emphasis on engagement and creativity, and excellent teaching opportunities. “I knew teaching college was really my goal, and I needed to complete my doctoral work,” he said.

LIBERAL ARTS LINK His advisor Professor Kathy Romey, the university’s director of choral activities, was the first mentor to suggest that a liberal arts college like Hendrix might be the best match for Morgan. “She knew that creativity, interdisciplinary learning and teaching – all things you see at a school like Hendrix – were very important to me,” he said. “But to be honest, I was a bit surprised. All of my schooling had been in big universities. I’ve always been a big school guy. I could understand her, but, at the same time, it was very surprising.” For his doctoral research, Morgan completed a case study on his final doctoral conducting recital, which examined interdisciplinary arts collaboration and audience engagement. “Sometimes audiences perceive the arts as elitist or out of touch,” he explained. “Our job is to be creative in ways we share the arts with our audience.” With colleagues in art and theatre, Morgan designed a hybrid performance of choral music, devised theatre, and multimedia components. At the beginning of the recital, audience members wrote memories of loved ones from their past, which were collected and projected as a slideshow during the final piece. “It was very stimulating,” he said. “That sort of project is possible at schools like Hendrix where collaboration is really encouraged and central to the mission of the school.”

50 YEARS OF CANDLELIGHT Morgan begins his tenure at Hendrix during a very auspicious year – the 50th anniversary of the Hendrix College Choir’s storied Candlelight Carol Services. This year’s services will be Thursday, Dec. 4 through Sunday, Dec. 7 on campus. There will also be special tour performances on Thursday, Dec. 18 at Central United Methodist Church in Fayetteville and on Friday, Dec. 19 at St. James United Methodist Church in Little Rock.

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Since the age of four when he sang “Away in a Manger” at a Christmas Eve church service, Andrew Morgan’s life has revolved around music. Encouraged by his mother and father, a high school band director, Morgan took piano lessons and, at age 8, he joined the Madison Boychoir. “After that, I never looked back. It was always music,” said Morgan, a Wisconsin native and Green Bay Packers fan. “Choir as a community really unites students, and I’ve always been honored to be part of that as a singer and a choral conductor.” Morgan is the new Hendrix College choral conductor, replacing Dr. Nancy Fleming, who retired in the spring. “In high school I knew I wanted to be a choral conductor,” said Morgan, who earned his bachelor’s degree in music education from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2003. In addition to the university’s diverse musical traditions and unique musical opportunities, he enjoyed a breadth of academic courses, from the physics of acoustics and light to Portuguese language. One of his favorite non-choir classes was Plants and Man, a botany class that examined the evolutionary history of human and plant systems. “That class really threw me for a loop in the best way possible,” he said. His broad education enabled him to better find the connections between music and other disciplines. “At that time, I realized I was very interested in music history and the music of the Renaissance and Baroque era, which still inspires me greatly today,” said Morgan, whose interests were nurtured by his voice teacher, Paul Rowe.

“I feel very fortunate to have inherited such a wonderful program,” he said. “I want to honor and continue that.” For the 50th anniversary services, Morgan anticipates integrating past and present by involving alumni in the service’s lesson readings. In the future, Morgan would like to commission new choral pieces and perhaps inaugurate an annual composition competition. “I think we can take a tradition that is storied with meaning and value to students and alumni, and honor its heritage while looking toward the future,” he said. “I’m really passionate about keeping classical music alive by performing works by living composers. Students benefit from doing new music. It’s a hugely important experience for students to work on new music that could become part of the standard choral repertoire one day.” Morgan would also like for the Hendrix Choir to be involved with other choral ensembles off campus through performance, collaborations and outreach projects. He also sees an opportunity for a second non-audition choral group on campus one day. “I also want alumni to say hello on campus and at events,” he said, adding that he is looking forward to many new experiences with Hendrix students, who are talented, inquisitive, and highly engaged in their education. Morgan and his wife, Julia, live in Conway with their two sons Henry, 2, and Oliver, who was born three months ago.

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odyssey spotlights

Lila Coco ’15, an international relations major from Houston, Texas

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Lila Coco wanted to know how military mental health policy affects service members’ mental health. She researched the cultural, individual, administrative and historical perspectives of the Israeli Defense Forces’ mental health policy and found its policies effectively reduced suicide rates.

Hendrix soccer player Patrick Niyongabo knows sports can build trust, friendship and hope for people in hard times. Through Odyssey, he shared his experience with children from low-income families in Brazil as a sports program volunteer for International Volunteer HQ. Photo by Sara Blancett

Patrick Niyongabo ’17, a computer science major from Rwanda

Laura Gressler ’15, a biochemistry/molecular biology major from Dallas, Texas

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Laura Gressler volunteered at Mpilo Hospital in Zimbabwe. Working with a German oncologist, she got an upclose look at how medicine differs in other countries. After she graduates from medical school, Laura would like to work with Doctors without Borders.

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Sophie Katz ’17 from Tulsa, Okla.

Ian Shrum ’16 from Conway, Ark.

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Ian Shrum created a new algorithm for analyzing geophysical data from ring lasers to identify and separate signals of interest from unwanted noise that can obscure them. His research will enhance seismic wave analysis from earthquakes and infrasound from hurricanes, tornadoes and volcanoes.

As managing editor, Grace Oxley helped to make The Profile an awardwinning publication. She studied abroad through the Hendrix-in-London program and was one of a dozen Hendrix students to attend the National Society for Photographic Education Conference in Baltimore, Md. Photo by Sara Blancett

Grace Oxley ’15, an art and English double major from Bryant, Ark.

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odyssey spotlights

This summer, Sophie Katz worked with the Caherconnell Archaeological Field School in Ireland at a dig site dating back to the seventh century. Archaeology and anthropology converged as she went on archaeological digs and recorded her experience in a journal.

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Faculty News Eric Binnie, professor emeritus of theatre arts, received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to attend a Summer Institute on “Representations of the ‘Other’: Jews in Medieval England,” at the University of Oxford, in July and August 2014. Andrea Duina, associate professor of biology, was co-author of “Budding Yeast for Budding Geneticists: A Primer on the Saccharomyces cerevisaiae Model System,” published in the journal Genetics. Gabe Ferrer, associate professor of computer science, presented “Creating Visual Reactive Robot Behaviors Using Growing Neural Gas,” at the 25th Modern Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science Conference, at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Wash. Toni Jaudon, assistant professor of English, wrote “The Compiler’s Art: Hannah Adams, The Dictionary of All Religions, and the Religious World,” published in American Literary History’s spring 2014 edition. Kiril Kolev, assistant professor of politics and international relations, and Kim Maslin, professor of politics, presented “The Role of Judicial Independence in Women’s Political and Economic Empowerment,” at the Southwestern Social Science Association in San Antonio, Texas. Chris Marvin, assistant professor of chemistry, received a $18,688 grant from the Arkansas IDeA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) for his research project titled “Synthesis of the VMAT2 Inhibitor Tetrabenazine,” which focuses on drug treatment for Huntington’s Disease. Three Hendrix students — Nicholle Cromwell ’15, Emily Jones ’16, and Abe Vierthaler ’16 — worked with Dr. Marvin on this project over the summer. Jay McDaniel, Willis T. Holmes Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies, received the John Cobb Common Good Award, presented at the eighth annual conference on Ecological Civilization, in Claremont, Calif., in April. Maxine Payne, professor of art and a photographic installation artist, was honored by the Arkansas Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts at a

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In addition to their work in the classroom, Hendrix faculty members engage in research and professional activities that expand their expertise and enrich their teaching. Here is a small sample of the professional activities of Hendrix faculty.

reception in Conway. Payne discussed her book, Making Pictures: Three for a Dime, and her current project of making 10-cent pictures in her homemade photo-trailer. Lyle Rupert ’82, professor of economics and business, received the Conway Community Service Award from the Arkansas State Senate for his leadership of Arkansas Governor’s School. For eight years, Rupert has served as director of the annual residential summer enrichment program for gifted and talented students held on the Hendrix campus. David Sutherland ’81, associate provost and professor of mathematics, received Pi Mu Epsilon’s C. C. MacDuffee Distinguished Service Award. The award has been given only 16 times since 1965. Sutherland was inducted into the Arkansas Beta Chapter of Pi Mu Epsilon as a Hendrix student in 1979. In 2014, he finished his

BOOK NOTES Dr. Ian King has published two novels, The Last Eucharist and Leaves in the Wind: A Novel of the Dirty Wars, since his retirement as a distinguished professor of politics and international relations in 2011, after 26 years at Hendrix. His debut novel emerged from a creative writing class exercise and grew to become a philosophical statement about the human condition. Both books are available at Amazon.com. Hendrix biology professor Dr. Matthew Moran recently published Guide to the Trails of Petit Jean State Park, the first comprehensive educational guidebook for the park’s hiking trail system. The 62-page book is available in print at www.moranbooks.com and in Kindle format through Amazon.com. It will also be available at the Petit Jean Mountain State Park visitor center. The book includes 40 color photos, plus maps by former Hendrix students Abby DeLoach ’13 and Emily Deitchler ’13, who made the maps as a project for anthropology professor Dr. Bret Hill’s G.I.S. class. Sophie Knorek ’15 assisted with art work and Moran’s former student Charlie Crossman ’00 printed the book at his downtown Conway printing business.

term as Past President of PME after 15 years of service on the PME Council. Mark Sutherland, Judy and Randy Wilbourn Odyssey Professor of Biology, received the Exemplary Teacher Award from the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry of the United Methodist Church. He was among 77 professors at United Methodist-related institutions honored for the quality of their teaching. Ann Willyard, Nancy and Craig Wood Odyssey Assistant Professor of Biology, received a $30,000 Challenge Cost Share grant from the National Forest Genetics Laboratory (USDA Forest Service) to support her and a Hendrix undergraduate research student in their study of the Washoe pine.

FACULTY PROMOTED, AWARDED TENURE Twelve Hendrix faculty members were promoted and seven were awarded tenure during the May meeting of the Board of Trustees. Faculty members approved for tenure and promotion to associate professor include: • Melissa Gill (Art) • Courtney Hatch ’00 (Chemistry) • Brett Hill (Anthropology) • Tyrone Jaeger (English-Creative Writing) • Megan Leonard ’02 (Economics) • Aleksandra Pfau (History) • Robert Williamson (Religious Studies) Faculty members approved for promotion to full professor include: • Matthew Lopas (Art) • Maxine Payne (Art) • Jennifer Peszka (Psychology) • Rebecca Resinski (Classics) In addition, Britt Murphy, associate librarian, was approved for promotion to full librarian.

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Register of Historic Places. Reynolds occupied the home until he retired in 1945. It was renamed Ellis Hall in 1989 in honor of Dr. Matt Locke Ellis, who served as Hendrix president from 1945 to 1958. Today Ellis Hall houses the offices of Admission and Financial Aid and is where prospective students and their families are introduced to the Hendrix campus.

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hendrix through time

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Then

Ellis Hall has seen 100 years of Hendrix history flow through its hallways since President John Hugh Reynolds and his family moved in during the summer of 1914. One of Reynoldsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; conditions for accepting the Hendrix presidency in 1913 was the construction of a presidentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s home worth at least $8,000. Alumni and others contributed to the project and the final cost, including furniture, was $16,517.85. Designed by noted Arkansas architect Charles L. Thompson, the building is listed on the National

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A Message from the Editor A lot has changed since Hendrix was founded in 1876, when the printing press was the most significant technological revolution to impact higher education. The devices have changed and become ubiquitous, but some things remain the same. Technology influences the lives of our students long after they graduate … and our graduates leave Hendrix prepared to influence technology. This issue of Hendrix Magazine features alumni whose lives are closely connected to technology. From Kristi Crum ’99, a biology major who became President of Verizon’s South Central Region, to physics major Rob Nichols ’91, an independent computer programming consultant, these graduates launched successful technology careers after their liberal arts education at Hendrix. Not that we’re surprised by our graduates’ successes, but in a media climate that tends to be critical of the value of liberal arts education, it’s great to be reminded that a Hendrix education prepares students for an ever-changing economy better than anything else. If you don’t believe us, take it from tech company CEOs like the late Steve Jobs, MediaAlpha CEO Steve Yi and Ditto CEO David Rose, who sing the praises of the liberal arts and the value it brings to their companies. It makes sense. A third of all Fortune 500 CEOs have liberal arts degrees. Technology alone is not enough, Jobs said. “It’s technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields the results that make our hearts sing.” Hendrix Magazine is also proud to introduce alumni readers to two new faces on campus — Dr. Andrew Morgan, the new director of the

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Hendrix College Choir, and our new Provost, Dr. Terri Bonebright. Thanks to the 953 alumni who responded to this summer’s readership survey. Speaking of technology, we learned that more people are willing to read the magazine on a mobile device today than they were in 2012, when we last surveyed alumni. The percentage who would read it on a smartphone increased from 20 percent to 25 percent and the percentage who would read it on a tablet climbed from 21 percent to 29 percent. Although significantly more people are willing to read the magazine online, the percentage reporting that they actually do read it online increased by less than 0.5 percent. We also learned that we need to do a better job of promoting the online version of Hendrix Magazine. The percentage of people who reported that they didn’t know an online version existed increased from 20 percent in 2012 to 33 percent now. You can find recent issues online in flipbook style at www.hendrix.edu/hendrixmagazine. We appreciate you sharing your thoughts — and more than 175 story ideas and suggestions — with us. Your responses will help us plan future issues and guide us as we work to improve Hendrix Magazine. And, just in case you are wondering, the most popular feature of the magazine is still Alumnotes. In fact the top four remain unchanged from our 2012 survey: 1. Alumnotes, 2. In Memoriam, 3. Alumni Voices, and 4. Hendrix through Time. We hope you enjoy these features and find new favorites in this issue. The Hendrix Magazine team

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at home at hendrix:

Jay Burling ’03 Jay Burling ’03 has been a Hendrix staff member three times as long as he was a student. As Director of Web Applications, Burling has built a career making the Hendrix website work and work well. A Little Rock native, Burling attended Parkview Arts Magnet High School. He spent half of his senior year in his family’s native Hawaii, where his family had moved. Like many Arkansas students, his first experience on the Hendrix campus was as a student at Arkansas Governor’s School. “That was pretty much enough. I wanted to go here,” says Burling, who was a National Merit Semi-Finalist. “I effectively got to go to an out-of-state school in the state I grew up. It was far away from home but not really.” At Hendrix, Burling lived in Martin Hall and later in College-owned apartments off campus. He was involved in theatre and hosted a radio show, playing punk, metal and industrial music. As a peer leader in 2001 before cell phones were ubiquitous among students, he shared the news of 9/11 to incoming freshmen on their trip to Lake Fort Smith State Park. A biology major, Burling considered pre-med and pre-vet major tracks but quickly decided not to do that. “Learning a tremendous amount of material as quickly as possible was really what biology symbolized to me,” says Burling. “I took a lot of ecology, which was really awesome,” he says, adding that Dr. Matt Moran’s field ecology course was “just a fantastic class.” Comparative vertebrate anatomy with Dr. Jenn Dearolf was his “hardest class.” He gradually transitioned from the lab to the web. As a student, he helped put The Profile on the Internet and started working on the new student orientation program’s first website. That led to websites for Student Activities and Student Affairs and, finally, the whole College. “There was no plan,” he says. “It just evolved.” When he graduated, he was hired as the College’s first web coordinator. In the beginning, the web was “total wildness” with “no consistency,” he says. Burling’s main task

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Highlighting Alumni Faculty and Staff

was to bring cohesion and maintainability to the site. “Before I was hired, students did it and then they aged out,” he says. “So some sites were maintained and some were not.” In 2005, the College moved to Ektron’s Content Management System (CMS) platform. Before that, Hendrix used a custom CMS designed by Burling and three computer science students. “It was pretty awesome as a student project, but we needed a professional CMS for the greater good,” he says. Like the Internet, his role has changed dramatically. Burling now balances site maintenance with new software development, reporting and database activity. One of the biggest changes has been the rise of mobile computing. Most web users are under age 20 and view the site on a smart phone instead of a desktop computer, he says. “That made us re-evaluate how we do things and how the website works,” says Burling, who redesigned the Hendrix website in 2011 to be responsive to smart phones and tablets, a project that earned Hendrix the “Website of the Year” Award from Ektron. Burling and his team are anxious to get started on another web redesign. In addition to the rise of mobile computing, Burling said the next wave of web changes will have to anticipate growing concerns of transparency and privacy. “It’s a constant dilemma. We want to be open and sensitive to privacy,” he says. “At the same time, the more information we have, the more we can help.” “We try to meet students’ needs and their perceived needs and make decisions based on if it’s better for everyone,” he says. “At the end of the day, we want to improve our students’ experience with technology and to try to make it better for current and future students.”

Left: Burling celebrates “a Tuesday probably,” with classmates at a Martin Hall corridor party. Middle: Burling fights crime with his trusty sidekick and four-yearold son Kai.

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The Roadie to Higher Ed What do Hendrix faculty and Frank Zappa have in common? Dr. Terri Bonebright. After a national search, Dr. Bonebright was selected in May by a faculty committee and President Bill Tsutsui to be Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs, Provost of the College and Professor of Psychology. Bonebright, who began her tenure at Hendrix in July, succeeds Dr. Robert L. Entzminger, who retired this year after 12 years as the College’s chief academic officer. Her path to Provost was “very circuitous,” admits the Lincoln, Neb., native. After high school, she managed a mail sorting firm and worked as a clerk for the Burlington Northern Railroad. A self-professed foodie, she worked at a local food co-op and owned and operated a vegetarian restaurant near the campus of University of Nebraska at Lincoln, her eventual undergraduate and graduate alma mater. In the early 1980s, she found a job, through a friend, driving semi-trucks of equipment for rock bands, including the Allman Brothers, Elvis Costello, Frank Zappa and Heart. She remembers the first U.S. tour for Australian group Little River Band (whose Top 40 hits include “Cool Change,” “Lady,” and “Lonesome Loser”) as “like a big vacation for

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them” and the most fun for her. “For three years, I travelled to all of these places in the continental United States and Canada that I would have never been to otherwise,” she says. “It was a real education … a very, very interesting education.” At age 26, she returned to Lincoln and enrolled part-time in school. “I had decided I would just take a couple of college courses,” says Bonebright, who signed up for beginning German and psychology without necessarily thinking of getting a degree. Then the German department offered her a $500 scholarship on the condition that she enroll full-time, an incentive that made all the difference. “I may not have completed my degree otherwise, and it has led me to recognize how seemingly little things can make a big difference for a student,” she says. As an undergraduate, Bonebright spent a year in Germany, and when she returned, she

taught German at the university and at a local community college. “Getting a chance to teach completely changed my world view and what I wanted to do,” she says. In addition to German, she fell in love with psychology. “The ability to investigate, ask questions and experiment … that captured my imagination,” says Bonebright, who double-majored in German and psychology, eventually choosing the latter discipline for her graduate work. “I loved the logic and methodology of psychology. I’m a research design freak, and I love digging through data to get answers.” In 1995, Bonebright joined the faculty at DePauw University in Greencastle, Ind., as a psychology professor and finished her doctorate during her first year there. The move from a large university to a smaller school was deliberate, she says. “I wanted to be at an institution whose primary mission and focus was teaching,” says Bonebright. It was her first encounter with mostly traditional college-age students whose paths to higher education were decidedly more linear than her own. “That was a shift for me,” she says. “I really had to embrace the 18-year-old student and appreciate the importance and the beauty of helping to mentor and guide young adults.” She also embraced the role of undergraduate student research and working with

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Former truck driver is in liberal arts for the long haul

colleagues across campus from other disciplines. She co-taught an interdisciplinary course on the science of design that explored human factors research and how objects affect humans. She also collaborated with a computer science colleague to research how technology affects learning and how teaching methods affect women and minority recruitment in computer science. “Combining research and teaching can be really powerful, but it’s not easy for every faculty member to do,” says Bonebright, whose teaching and research love is human sound perception. “Working with students on research projects provides them a window into the discipline and allows them to apply the theory and skills they are learning in the classroom to a topic in which they had intrinsic interest. It is incredibly rewarding to watch them develop into real researchers during this process.” At DePauw, Bonebright was recruited to be the faculty development coordinator, an associate dean-type position responsible for new faculty orientation and development, faculty grants, etc. “I would have never thought to apply for it myself,” she says. “It was nothing I was ever looking for because I just loved teaching and research.” She was then asked to be department chair, a position she held for five years. “I saw it as a service to the institution and to the department,” says Bonebright, who was ultimately recruited to be dean of faculty. Though her evolution as an administrator wasn’t self-initiated, it suited her nonetheless. “I’m organized and open. I want colleagues to be informed, and I want to get their input,” she says. “And I’m a bit of a workaholic, which works well for these kinds of jobs.” The biggest change from faculty member to administrator was a shift in perspective. “That’s really valuable for faculty to have — being forced to see things outside our own little box,” she says.

A reluctant administrator, Bonebright was likewise initially uninterested in leaving an institution she loved. When she was contacted by a search consultant, she didn’t even want to open the materials on Hendrix. Eventually the idea turned to excitement. “I knew it was a really interesting opportunity at a great liberal arts school with a really good reputation and very good academic programs,” she says. “I knew that the students, faculty and staff really have a strong community, which is really good.” Bonebright, an avid gardener, beekeeper and “real outdoors person,” is also excited about living in Arkansas. “I think it’s great. The people are really nice … and there are mountains, unlike in Indiana and Nebraska,” she says. “It’s a really exciting new adventure for me.” Though she looks forward to the longer growing season that the move from zone 5 to 7 offers, Bonebright is most excited about advancing the residential liberal arts culture she loves. “Living in a community with mentors, role models and peers, being challenged and supported with people who help guide you through it … nowhere else offers that to students,” she says. “The real issue is, ‘How do we talk about who we are and how do we tell people how the institution is unique,’” she says. “My goal is to do what I can to help Hendrix honor its tradition and mission and to assist the institution in moving forward in a way to position it well for the future.” “I want to get to know the faculty as soon as I can. Trust and integrity has to be earned, and I need to listen and learn what people are saying and thinking,” she says. “I’m very conscious of the influence this position can have, and I will treat that with the appropriate seriousness it deserves. It’s both humbling and exciting to begin my tenure as Provost.” By Rob O’Connor ’95, Managing Editor

Academic Deans/Provosts of Hendrix College Charles Jerome Greene

1912-1928 Professor of English, Religion, French B.D., Vanderbilt University

M. Francis Christie ’44

1965-1976 Professor of Religion, Philosophy Ph.D., Vanderbilt University

Thomas S. Staples

John R. Merrill

William C. Buthman

John Churchill

1928-1949 Professor of History Ph.D., Columbia University

1949-1965 Professor of History Ph.D., Columbia University

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1976-1983 Professor of Physics Ph.D., Cornell University

Robert L. Entzminger

2002-2014 Professor of English Ph.D., Rice University

Terri L. Bonebright 2014Professor of Psychology Ph.D., University of Nebraska–Lincoln

1984-2001 Professor of Philosophy Ph.D., Yale University

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Beautiful minds in a beautiful place. A natural fit.

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Meeting Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe during the Conway Open House

4 Welcoming alumni and friends to Crystal Bridges reception

Learning about the importance of small details from carpenter Bruce DeLeuil

Recycling with the Green Team

#Tsutselfie with Orientation leaders

Shadowing post office manager Zena Davis to learn how the mail moves

Welcoming a new student on Move-In Day

Greeting parents after the New Student Convocation

You can find more photos from Bill’s adventures on page 42.

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Bill’s Blitz Tsutsui sets fast pace as he gets to know Hendrix

Since his appointment as the 11th President of Hendrix College, Bill Tsutsui has made it his mission to get to know the people and pastimes that make Hendrix special. He began his first “official” week on the job by shadowing Hendrix staff members to learn how their roles contribute to life on campus. He capped off the week with an Open House for the Conway community, as well as Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe, who was on campus to kick off Arkansas Governor’s School. This summer, President Tsutsui launched County-to-County: Bill’s Arkansas Tour with stops at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, as well as United Methodist Church fellowship halls in Fort Smith, Hot Springs, Russellville and Pine Bluff. His goal for the tour is to meet Hendrix alumni, parents and friends in all 75 Arkansas counties, as well as to sample local barbecue, a passion the Texas native brought with him to Arkansas. Since the tour was announced, the president’s office has received dozens of recommendations for where to find the state’s best barbecue — and a few out-of-state touts as well. The College is planning more tour stops and other opportunities for Bill to meet Hendrix people every month. At that pace, the Arkansas Tour should be complete by the time

the fall 2020 semester begins! Back on campus, President Tsutsui started a weekly series of small group lunches with Hendrix faculty members to learn more about their experience, teaching and research interests, and ideas for moving Hendrix forward. President Tsutsui and his wife, English professor Marjorie Swann, celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary on Move-In Day in August. Along with the new Provost Terri Bonebright (The Roadie to Higher Ed, page 18), they donned green jumpsuits and joined student Green Team members to recycle cardboard and other materials as they helped new students move into residence halls. Several students took the opportunity to get a “selfie” with their new leader. President Tsutsui and Dr. Swann also accompanied a group of new students and peer orientation leaders on a hiking expedition to Petit Jean State Park. President Tsutsui, whose pedometer averages about 12,000 steps a day, can often be seen on campus, walking from one event to another or just walking his dog, Kiba, a Shiba Inu who likes to sit in the front window of the President’s home across from campus. In September, President Tsutsui got some firsthand experience with a Hendrix tradition.

SAVE THE DATE: APRIL 17-20, 2015 Presidential Inauguration and Alumni Weekend 2015 William M. Tsutsui will be inaugurated as the 11th president of Hendrix at 2 p.m. on Saturday, April 18. The event is scheduled on the lawn outside Ellis Hall and will be part of Alumni Weekend 2015. A reception is planned in the Pecan Court immediately after the inauguration ceremony. Alumni Weekend will begin with the Half-Century Luncheon on Friday, as the College welcomes the Class of 1965 into the Half-Century Club. Alumni are also invited to an inaugural panel discussion about the liberal arts on Friday afternoon. The Alumni Board of Governors will present its Distinguished Alumnus or Alumna, Humanitarian, Young Alumni, and James E. Major

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At a Sunday lunch in the cafeteria, he got his first disco tray. The following day, he learned that Hendrix was voted the country’s #1 “Up and Coming” Liberal Arts College by U.S. News and World Report and ranked #8 in the nation for best undergraduate teaching. A week later, he had dinner on campus with Arkansas’ United Methodist Bishop Gary Mueller and a group of students and heard the bishop preach at the weekly chapel service in Greene Chapel. He also dropped in on the students calling alumni during the fall phonathon. He thanked the students for their work and wound up picking up the phone to thank a few alumni for their gifts. President Tsutsui is also thinking about the future and how best to position the College in the changing landscape of American higher education. He has commissioned a brand study to help the College fine-tune its marketing message, and he has launched a strategic planning process that will guide the College over the next five years. Learn more about these new initiatives and the president’s tour schedule at www.hendrix.edu/president, where you will also find a link to his blog, Bill’s Hendrix Odyssey, and the latest of his video messages to the community.

Service awards during a brunch on Saturday morning. Inaugural plans for Saturday morning include a worship service led by Arkansas’ United Methodist Bishop Gary E. Mueller and an address by Dr. John Churchill, former Dean of the College at Hendrix and currently the head of Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honor society. The Alumni Memorial Service on Sunday morning followed by lunch in the cafeteria, and the Warrior Booster Club Golf Tournament on Monday round out Alumni Weekend activities. As plans for the weekend are completed, more detailed information will be posted at www.hendrix.edu/inauguration and www.hendrix.edu/alumniweekend. Invitations will be mailed in early 2015. All alumni, parents, and friends of Hendrix are invited to be part of this milestone event in the life of the College.

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Code Talker

Ask entrepreneur Rob Nichols ’91 why he went to Hendrix and the answer isn’t so clear. “It wasn’t a plan,” he says. “A lot of it had to do with Arkansas Governor’s School. I was like, ‘What is this? Oh yes, this is what I’ve been looking for’ … And there was no application fee and no essay.” But ask him what he remembers the most about Hendrix, and his answer is clearer. It was the cafeteria. “I think my most recurring memory of Hendrix is the cafeteria. A dozen of us ate most of our meals together. It was a running discussion of everything. Stupid stuff. Interesting stuff. It was a conversation that started in 1987 and abruptly, and unfortunately, ended in 1991,” he says. “To me, when people talk about their Hendrix experience, that was it. If I could have one thing back, it would be dinner with that group of people and picking up that bizarre conversation.” Between meals, Nichols majored in physics, an interest he came by naturally. “Physics was the subject that most closely approximated my childhood,” says Nichols, whose father was a 33-year IBM veteran. “There were a lot of computers around when I was a kid. Half of our conversations were about how does that work, what’s inside of that, why does it do that?” After Hendrix, Nichols got a fellowship to Louisiana State University, where he planned to get a Ph.D. and become a professor. “I earned a master’s degree and said, ‘Yeah, that’s good enough,’” says Nichols. “Mostly going to grad school was about not stopping school because I loved school.” “I thought, ‘I really enjoyed physics and math classes. One way I can continue in this awesomeness is to be the guy at the front of the [class] room,’” he says. “But it was time to do something. There had been so much school.” After earning his master’s degree, Nichols returned to Little Rock to work as a contract programmer before joining Dillard’s, where he worked on programs for the retailer’s

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distribution center. After two years in the corporate world, he became a partner at Mainstream Technologies. Two years later, he went out on his own as Nichols Software. That was almost 20 years ago. “That was always the plan since graduate school … Doing my own thing, not being a code monkey,” says Nichols. A freelance contractor and consultant, Nichols is “distributed,” meaning he works from home or coffee shops, usually Boulevard Bread Co. He lives in Little Rock with Ann Spatz Nichols ’91, and their son Stephen. The Nichols are active Alumni Board of Governors members, routinely helping out at yearly events on campus such as Alumni Weekend, Family Weekend and Move-In Day. His solo work has included helping develop a query tool for Acxiom Corp., rewriting the backend code for a major airline’s frequent flyer system and supporting clients from casinos to large retailers. New business comes mostly from word-of-mouth referrals from clients who know he’s good at finding solutions when things are messed up or stalled, he says. “At first, I thought I could get jobs at places because I was a really good programmer, and I thought that was sufficient,” he says. “But over time, being a good programmer was necessary but not sufficient.” “I’m a communicator,” he says. “My primary job is to talk at meetings, on calls and in emails … and listening to people.” Communication, not computer skills, is the key, he says. “It’s the difference between knowing a little French and being fluent,” says Nichols. “What is really valuable is having fluency with business leaders, with developers and with users,

and being able to communicate and establish credibility.” Liberal arts colleges are a great place to learn that fluency, Nichols believes. “What is liberal arts education, an education that focuses on language skills? No. I don’t think that’s what that means,” he says. “It’s an education that touches on five or six timeless studies. Hendrix does a good job at that.” Math and science can sometimes be presented as “just rigor,” but Nichols thinks the arts and the sciences need equal weight. “We tend to expect that a liberal arts graduate can appreciate Beethoven’s 9th Symphony or Monet’s Water Lilies, but it’s okay if they can’t appreciate Cantor’s thoughts on infinite sets. Why not? Aesthetics and beauty come from the same place. They’re just a different manifestation of the same thing,” he says. “The beauty and creative aspects in math and science shouldn’t be hidden or kept a secret.” “Teaching math and science as art is something that you do not see happening at big state schools. That’s something Hendrix can do,” he says. “Really creative, really bright kids can see the beauty, the aesthetic of it and be just captivated by it.” “An oil painter knows how to mix paint, but the painting created is the art,” he says. “Computer programs are made out of the same stuff as poetry. There are constraints for the essence of creation just like painting and writing. Really good people in the sciences are extraordinarily creative and very curious.” “I would suggest to any 18-year-old interested in computers or to anyone who has an interest in technology to get a foundation and an appreciation for the arts. Learn the fundamentals, learn the math, take a programming course,” he says. “Pay attention in business classes and psychology classes and learn how to talk to people. That’s where the painting comes from … Learning to program in Java is like learning to mix paint.” By Rob O’Connor ’95, Managing Editor

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Communication skills drive entrepreneur’s success

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Technology Titan

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Conway Corp. CTO launches career in Internet’s infancy

When Jason Hansen ’97 graduated from Hendrix, Conway Corporation had recently completed wiring Hendrix residence hall rooms for Internet access and had stepped into being an Internet Service Provider (ISP) during the Internet’s infancy. Hansen, however, was inspired by influential teachers who helped him overcome epilepsy and ADHD and planned a career in teaching, not technology. But two years later, he joined Conway Corporation, where he would become the company’s first chief technology officer. Born in Chicago, Ill., Hansen grew up playing competitive soccer. When he was 14, his family moved to Mountain Home, Ark., where he kicked for the football team and helped develop the high school’s first soccer team, which began his senior year. When it came time to go to college, Hendrix had the two things Hansen wanted. “I wanted to play competitive soccer in a tight-knit small school atmosphere with an emphasis on education,” he says. A physical education major, Hansen wanted to be a teacher. “I come from a family of teachers, and I had some very inspirational teachers who helped me with my epilepsy,” he says. “I thought it would be something I could relate to and add value to.” After seeing the late Robin Williams’ movie Patch Adams, Hansen started to question if he was pursuing what he was most passionate about. “When I stepped back and thought about

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what drove me and what I’d like to do, it was technology and computers,” says Hansen, who quickly taught himself how to build his first computer. While coaching youth soccer, Hansen had met fellow Hendrix graduate Bill Bethea ’75, assistant to the Conway Corp. CEO, who told Hansen that Conway Corporation was hiring support staff for its growing Internet business and technicians in the field. After he was hired, Hansen spent his first New Year’s Eve at work playing board games with the Internet team and waiting for Y2K to happen. Not much happened, he remembers. As Hansen became more familiar with the Internet systems and its networking, he was promoted to Wide Area Network (WAN) administrator. Since Hansen’s start at Conway Corporation, it has continued to expand services. It was the third service provider in the United States and fifth in North America to launch cable broadband Internet service. In 2008, Conway Corporation launched phone service. Hansen’s Hardin Hall roommate Chris Odom ’96, who joined the company in 2002, led this launch and is now the manager of Voice Services. In 2011, Hansen became the company’s first chief technology officer. He has been named to the Multichannel News “40 under 40” list of executives in pay television, programming, technology and related fields and received Cablefax magazine’s 2014 Top Ops Award for Independent Technology Executive of the Year.

He now oversees everything from information systems and broadband Internet service for almost 17,000 subscribers to telephone services and mobile app development. “How we do business is somewhat unique. We handle water, wastewater, and electricity … but also telecommunications,” he said. “But whether it’s the utilities or telecommunications, they all have technology involved.” Hansen says he was fortunate to join the company when he did. “I was exposed early on, during the real infancy of the Internet, to how a cable Internet provider operates,” he says. Some of the more significant milestones Hansen has seen include moving the company’s Internet hardware from Acxiom Corp. to maintaining everything in house. Conway Corp. is now putting the finishing touches on a new data center. When the Apple iPhone was first released, a team member asked if he could leverage the new technology for an idea he had. He was persistent, Hansen says, and came back with a prototype of a mobile app for field technicians to troubleshoot problems. “I’m a problem solver and I prefer a collaborative environment,” Hansen says of the experience. “I’m blessed to have a team of people that are phenomenal at what they do. So nobody’s idea is off the table.” The iPhone app was a catalyst for the company’s “mobile-first mentality” and has Continued on page 37

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On Top of the Cloud Biology major brings liberal arts background to wireless industry

She never thought she’d have the opportunity to come back to Arkansas and work at the top of the wireless technology industry. But last fall, the Little Rock native left the West Coast and returned to her home state to lead Verizon as President of the company’s South Central Region. “Coming home to the place I began my career is surreal,” said Crum, who was offered the job on a Thursday and was on a plane by Sunday. “I never thought I’d be back, but this is home. This place is special to me.” Then again, she never planned to be in the wireless industry in the first place. A biology major, Crum originally planned to follow in the footsteps of her physician father, a goal that led her first to Hendrix. “I wanted a school that was going to help me get into medical school,” she said. “I liked the fact that Hendrix was small enough to offer you the opportunity to develop a mentoring relationship with your professors, instead of being just one of 300 to 400 students in a classroom. I don’t know that you get that experience at larger universities.” “I still view that unique atmosphere as an asset,” she said. “Hendrix really opened my mind to different ways of thinking. The analytical and logical thinking I learned there helps me today when I look at numbers and contemplate strategy. I can lay out the facts, make my case and feel confident in my decision. I have a big advantage over people who didn’t learn that.” During college, Crum worked 12-hour shifts on the weekends at Baptist Hospital’s telemetry lab. But by her junior year, she knew she wasn’t bound for medical school. “I loved biology, but I didn’t have the passion that you needed to make it a career,” she said. Following a brief stint in a genetics research lab after graduation, she joined Alltel Corp.’s operations team in 2001.

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“I always loved technology. I was the child who always wanted to take the VCR apart,” she said. “After two weeks at Alltel, I thought, ‘This is so interesting to me.’” At that time, the wireless industry consisted of multiple companies competing against each other until mergers and acquisitions left Alltel and its three-lettered competitor. At Alltel, Crum quickly moved from Analyst 1 to Analyst 2 and from supervisor to manager. She was open to any advancement opportunity in the company except product development but, after Verizon acquired Alltel in 2009, Crum become director of product development and moved to the company’s headquarters in New Jersey. “Personally and professionally, it was the best possible move,” said Crum, who worked on multiple patents for the company’s cloud network system, device recycling program and Family Base product, which gives parents more power to control when and how much their family makes calls and uses data on their devices. “I loved it. I got to work on some incredible projects with some of the smartest people in the industry.” One of the most exciting projects she was involved in was the development of the company’s 4G LTE network, which was launched nationally in 2010. “That changed the landscape of technology; what we can do and how we connect,” she said. After three years in New Jersey, Crum relocated to the West Coast, where she

was responsible for 85 retail stores and 1,500 employees. “That was by far the most exciting job I’d ever had,” said Crum, who was initially reluctant to move into retail. “If you consider the fact that your average person owns one to one-and-a-half devices, you realize the opportunities to introduce people to smartphones, tablets, smart accessories and so many more high-tech products are endless! There is so much room for growth, and we have built the network that is ready for that.” In January, she was offered the opportunity to come back to Arkansas and lead Verizon’s South Central Region, which includes Arkansas, Oklahoma, West Tennessee and North Mississippi. Although it was another layer of responsibility, this was the challenge for which Crum had been waiting. First on her agenda was to lay out her team’s plan and vision. “First, we have to change our customers’ and our communities’ thoughts about what Verizon offers. We’re not a phone company. We’re a technology company,” she said. “We have to show them how we can make their lives easier and their businesses better. There are so many things we can do with one device, and that’s exciting.” In addition to serving a broad base of consumer technology needs, Verizon is focused on business, education, sustainability and health care, Crum said. “We’re building the network to revolutionize those industries,” she said, adding that the company is in the process of launching its XLTE network that will double the bandwidth of its 4G LTE network. Increasing this capacity will better enable the next wave of technology, from wireless soil monitoring systems, to fleet tracking and live video surveillance, to the capabilities of wearable “smart” devices. “It’s a new revolution, and we’re leading the way!” By Rob O’Connor ’95, Managing Editor

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Take it from Kristi Beatty Crum ’99 — Never say never.

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Getting Physical

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From rockets to robots, physics professor engages students

Physics professor Dr. Ann Wright didn’t know she wanted to go into physics until she took quantum mechanics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). It was her favorite class. She was initially interested in engineering or architecture. “But in college, it was the physics classes that excited me,” said Wright, who grew up in Sandwich, Mass., on Cape Cod. As an undergraduate, she received a stipend to conduct experimental nuclear physics research. The experience inspired her to go to graduate school. After completing MIT in 1991, she enrolled at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, N.Y. At RPI, she considered focusing on physics education, but she returned to experimental nuclear and particle physics. “What really excited me was building the detectors to measure different physical properties of particles … things that you can’t see,” said Wright, who designed, built, and installed particle detectors at Brookhaven National Laboratory and Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility as a graduate student. Wright met her husband Andrew while studying at MIT. After MIT, they both pursued doctorates at RPI. He accepted a position on the applied science faculty teaching mechanical engineering at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR) and is now in the Department of Systems Engineering. At the same time, she was awarded a post-doctoral fellowship and supervised the university’s

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hybrid rocket facility, where she met Hendrix chemistry professor Dr. Warfield Teague and physics professor Dr. Bob Dunn, who were conducting research during the summer with Hendrix students. “That was my first Hendrix experience,” said Wright, who left her post-doc early to join the Hendrix faculty in 1998. It was the only place she applied. Initial funding for her position was underwritten by a grant from Research Corporation to the physics and chemistry programs at Hendrix. Coming from MIT and RPI, Hendrix and the liberal arts were a new experience for Wright. “It was completely foreign to me … with science majors taking literature and philosophy courses,” she said. “But I’ve grown to see a lot of value in that and definitely see my place in it.” Her first general physics course had 40 students, a large class for Hendrix but a big change from the 750 students in her first physics class at MIT. “The students here are getting an excellent education because the teachers are focused on teaching as their first priority,” she said. “It boils down to access, small classes with access to equipment bigger schools would have but reserve for graduate students.” “When I was at MIT, there was only one physics lab course required for majors, which was a function of 1,000 freshmen in each class. That’s changed somewhat, but students at Hendrix go through a full year of lab in general physics, another modern physics lab

and another electronics lab,” she said. “That’s a lot more hands-on lab learning.” Among several successful recent Hendrix physics graduates who benefited from allaccess lab learning and research are Erik Urban ’13 and Hannah McWilliams ’13. Urban, who is pursuing a Ph.D. in physics at the University of California at Berkeley, received a prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship. McWilliams is currently enrolled in a graduate aerospace engineering program at the University of Texas at Austin. The physics program is also retooling its general physics course in a studio or workshop physics format, Wright said. Her department colleague Dr. Damon Spayde received an Odyssey Professorship to implement the new approach. The new model will remove the “lab versus lecture” separation from the general physics curriculum and “take what we’re doing well, make it better and distinguish us even more,” she said. Wright teaches general physics, quantum physics, classical mechanics, and vibrations and waves. She has also taught astronomy, easily her most popular course and one of the college’s most oversubscribed courses with 100 students vying for 20 spots in each of the two sections offered each year. The course attracts a wide range of students. On the first day, she conducts a clicker poll Continue reading on page 37

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Game On Ask Adam Hogg ’08 what he does for a living and he’ll tell you that he’s an accountant. “I like numbers,” he admits unassumingly. And while it’s true that his days are mostly spent analyzing statistics and evaluating spreadsheets at DataPath, Inc., what he doesn’t always immediately mention are the multitude of other hats he wears when he’s not in the office — musician, magician, stand-up comedian and, now, game designer. People-Person!, a strategy card game playfully based on the personality traits of 74 colorful, fictional characters (and a few real people), is his latest and most ambitious creative endeavor yet. Hogg spent nearly two and a half years creating and testing the game’s complex structure before finally sending it off to be manufactured. “The algorithm had to work, the math had to all fit,” he explains. But it wasn’t just the math that interested Hogg, who earned a master’s in accounting at Hendrix. “The joy was in the cards,” he says. Each of the game’s 194 playing cards features work by artists that he commissioned specifically for the project. Players utilize the combined point values of these illustrated “friend” and “family” attribute cards to react to event cards that are drawn at every new turn. “The event cards represent the good, bad and sometimes ugly things that can and probably will happen to you in your

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lifetime,” he jokes. Production of the vibrant, intricately designed game set was funded mostly through a campaign that Hogg created on the popular crowdfunding website Indiegogo, which allows supporters to financially back projects in exchange for exclusive perks. Indiegogo and other crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter, GoFundMe! and Rockethub have experienced a massive spike in popularity in recent years. The campaign eventually raised 115 percent of its goal by its closing date in March. One look at the perks list on his Indiegogo page makes it clear that Hogg knows the importance of making waves in a pool that is becoming more crowded every day. For backers in higher giving tiers, he even promised to come to their houses and personally show them how to play the game. Hogg honed his skills as a businessman at Hendrix. Through the Odyssey Program, he researched music marketing and got the opportunity to record, manufacture and sell an album he wrote with his band. “I wanted to start a record label. I would

have hypothetical spreadsheets for a five-year span,” he laughs, poking fun at himself. Hogg’s research experience at Hendrix would greatly influence the creation and financing of People-Person! “I had always wanted to do this,” he says. “I approached this game like I approached the music.” Music is still a major part of Hogg’s life. He’s the front man and pianist for the Little Rockbased pop/rock four-piece Collin vs. Adam, whose sophomore album Bloodsucker was released in late summer. His love of writing piano music can also be traced back to his days at Hendrix. “The piano rooms (in Trieschmann Fine Arts Center) were my favorite,” he says. When he’s not playing shows with the band, he dabbles in close-up magic and can be seen hosting a weekly stand-up comedy show, irreverently-titled “Hogging the Mic,” at The Joint in North Little Rock. These days, Hogg spends much of his free time fulfilling orders of People-Person! and seeking out new distribution venues for the game. He is himself a people-person, amiably saying hello to people as he sits in a booth at Pizza D’Action in Little Rock handing out copies of the game. His advice for those seeking to find their own success in crowdfunding? “You’ve got to do as much groundwork as you can without the money in order to convince them to give you the money,” he says. “It’s all about follow-through. People that go to Hendrix know that.” Story by Collin Buchanan, Staff Writer

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Alumnus finds winning formula with crowd-funded campaign

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Alumna’s online marketing business begins with blog Kim Herrington ’10 was originally aiming for the Olympics and a college archery scholarship. But after a collarbone injury and some competitive financial assistance from Hendrix, she set her sights on another target. “I ended up at Hendrix because the scholarship was so good,” admits Herrington, a Bridgewater, Mass., native who began as a chemical physics major but became an English and French major. Rather than go to graduate school, Herrington followed the example of her father, a computer programmer and consultant who weathered the dot-com crash and opened his own store that specializes in the family’s hobby — archery. Equally entrepreneurial, Herrington started Bear & Beagle Creative in Conway to teach online marketing and search engine optimization (SEO) skills to bloggers and small business owners as well as to provide traditional online marketing services for businesses. “Without training, many entrepreneurs aren’t seeing the results they want,” she says. “I work with them in one-on-one workshops that go from the very idea behind their website all the way down to crafting the perfect blog post titles and social media messages.” Herrington also develops self-directed educational materials, including webinars, eBooks and courses. “My goal is to bring great marketing ideas to as many people as possible,” she says. “Self-directed courses give customers a direction and some guidance in creating an online marketing plan to help them achieve the results they want with minimal investment.” Her interest in marketing was originally inspired by a high school English teacher, who used advertisements to teach writing. “He taught us the foundations of arguments, going back to Plato, and synthesized it together with what we were exposed to as teenagers on a daily basis,” she says. “I really fell in love with advertising and marketing at

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that point. It’s an art form in itself.” “Crafting a convincing advertisement that gets results is a really difficult task,” she says. “In today’s world where you have less than a second to capture attention, being very adept at writing, understanding how people think and knowing their motivations is key.” After she graduated from Hendrix, she moved to Fayetteville with her boyfriend Joseph Charlson ’10, who was in law school. She worked for the City of Fayetteville’s Parking Department, which had just implemented a paid parking system. To keep writing and being creative, Herrington started a lifestyle blog called “The Made Thing.” “Without The Made Thing, I wouldn’t be where I am now. Without being a blogger first and a marketer second, I wouldn’t think the way I do about online marketing,” she says. “If I had approached this industry first as a professional instead of as a hobbyist, I think I wouldn’t be taking a unique approach to the industry but just doing the same thing everyone else is.” While working for the city, she was asked to work as a part-time blogger for a Northwest Arkansas technology company. “My job was to write content for businesses and obtain inbound links for their clients’ websites,” she says. “To a large part, it was pretending to be business owners and executives online to build their reputations. It’s something I’m good at, but I knew it didn’t fit every business that wants and needs to be online.” That online marketing experience became the foundation for her current business. Hendrix helped too, she says. “One of the things you do the most at Hendrix is read academic papers of all different kinds. In marketing, there’s a mixture of science, psychology, and math all tied up with emotion,” she says. “After analyzing so many different types of academic disciplines at Hendrix and learning to be flexible, I apply these skills every day in

reading studies. It might be about the latest mathematical studies about SEO developments, how to craft better email titles or even about what colors work best on different platforms in an academic study from MIT.” “Dr. Chuck Chappell ’64 was my favorite English professor while I was at Hendrix. His personal stories that he shared made it so interesting,” she says. “I realized, when I took one of his classes, this was the secret to his success. Humans are drawn to stories. Dr. Chappell played a huge role in my decisions to pursue using stories professionally in online marketing.” Like technology, the online marketing business is constantly changing. “Online search engines are becoming more human and more individualized,” she says. “Think of it this way: Google wants to be your best friend who knows the answer to what you want before you know you want it, like when you ask your friend who has great taste in clothing where you should look for new shoes. She knows already you hate heels and won’t recommend a shop that only sells expensive stilettos. Instead, she’ll send you to the shop where you’re more likely to find flats in your style and price range.” “By knowing all that info about you before you ask, your friend gives you a better recommendation,” she says. “It also means you’ll come back to her in the future with other questions. That’s Google’s goal.” “I have to constantly keep one thing in mind: people first, business second,” says Herrington, who is now based in Conway, along with Charlson, an attorney. “Online success is determined by one thing: relationships. Numbers matter, but not as much as who those numbers represent and what they mean to your business. My job is to build relationships for the long term by using short-term techniques. Without relationships, businesses can’t weather the unpredictable changes that technology brings.” By Rob O’Connor ’95, Managing Editor

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Located at the present site of the Conway Corporation’s office building, this plant contained Conway’s first steam generator. Professor George Hutchison Burr (far right), vice president of the Conway Electric and Manufacturing Company (which was incorporated in July 1895), designed and operated the electric plant and distribution system. When the plant first went into operation, electricity was only supplied between sundown and midnight.

Hendrix College and Conway Corporation For more than 100 years, Hendrix College and Conway Corporation have brought power to the City of Conway. In 1895, the Conway Electric & Manufacturing Company was issued a franchise by the Conway City Council to construct a light plant and provide electricity to the community. The plant consisted of a steam engine with a wood-fired boiler located on the site of the current Conway Corporation headquarters. The plant was designed and operated by Professor George Hutchinson Burr, who was head of the science department at Hendrix College until his death of tuberculosis in 1915. In 1898, Burr and fellow Hendrix faculty member George C. Millar installed the town’s first successful electric telephone exchange. Burr later served as engineer of the

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city’s sewer system. In early 1929, the Methodist Church was considering relocating Hendrix College. Faced with the prospect of losing Hendrix, Conway leaders developed a plan to raise money through the sale of bonds backed by the earnings of the municipal electric system. When proposing the plan, local businessman and Conway Chamber of Commerce President Jo Frauenthal told the city council, “A town that gets destroyed by natural disaster can rebuild and create a better place, but Conway’s life blood is its colleges and to lose a college would be to lose Conway itself.” The plan worked; the city kept the College and Conway Corporation was chartered with the purpose “to promote and to aide educational institutions located in Conway.”

The creation and support of Conway Corporation was integral to the decision of Hendrix College to remain in Conway. It also helped Hendrix to qualify for a challenge grant from the General Education Board of New York (later known as the Rockefeller Foundation). The grant supported the construction of a new science building and a new women’s residence hall, two progressive initiatives for Arkansas and for Hendrix. In 2010, the Conway Corporation Board of Directors approved a gift to Hendrix, completing a challenge grant from the Kresge Foundation to support the new Student Life and Technology Center, the largest and final capital project in the $100 million Hendrix Campaign.

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“Technology Titan” Continued from page 27 enabled the company to offer better support for field technicians and provide information to customers more conveniently. Hansen regularly attends the national Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nev., to get an early glimpse of new technology that consumers will want. “Technology is so rapidly changing, it’s tough to determine what the next big thing is,” he says. “The cable industry is in a serious state of flux driven by over-the-top Internet content, which has created opportunities for more consumer choice and increased viewing flexibility,” he says. “This industry shift of how content is consumed has forced advertisers and programmers to find new ways to engage their customers. They have also had to generate new revenue streams and shore up existing ones. Many cable operators have witnessed this shift firsthand through increased programming costs, a decline in cable subscriptions, but a rise

“Getting Physical” Continued from page 31 to find out what class year the students are. It’s usually divided evenly between freshmen and seniors. She asks them how comfortable they are with science. Their options range from “scared” to “serious” to somewhere in between. Again, the results are pretty evenly distributed. “To teach a science course to that audience and make it interesting and accessible is the best challenge,” she said. “And you wouldn’t get that at another school.” This fall, Wright is teaching a course with philosophy professor Dr. Fred Ablondi on Galileo for The Engaged Citizen (TEC) program, which includes interdisciplinary team-taught courses for all first-year students. She takes students into the lab to work with lenses and mirrors and study motion and pendulums. When she first arrived at Hendrix, Wright continued researching hybrid rockets at UALR with funding from NASA. Her focus was on rocket sensors that measure physical properties such as pressure and thrust oscillations. After NASA budget cuts, she transitioned from rockets to robotics. For five years, she and her husband, along with some Hendrix students, were volunteer advisors for FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), an international program that teaches high school

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in Internet subscriptions. This can be challenging from a rate perspective and a pricing model for independent cable operators like Conway Corporation.” “The Internet of things” is the next shakeup for the tech world, with wearable devices and automated home and lifestyle services. Nationwide, consumers are beginning to see the automation and management of city street lights and residential electric meters. These types of advancements will enable providers like Conway Corporation to manage utility loads and make analytical decisions better. While the benefits are great, they do not come without cost, privacy and security challenges. “Because technology is such a commodity and is ever-changing, new products and services almost immediately become obsolete once they are released,” he says. “Enterprises also face challenges from employees who want the same ease of access to datasharing through sites such as Dropbox and Google Drive that they have at home, but on their corporate computers. Finding the right balance between being user-friendly and security-conscious requires a delicate balance.”

“Ultimately, the Internet has matured a great deal in my 15 years at Conway Corporation, but with every new advancement, I’m reminded that it is still far from tamed and can be very much like the wild, wild, West,” Hansen says. And it takes more than a background in technology to stay ahead of technology. “Understanding technology is a bonus, but I also manage people and manage relationships,” he says. “You have to embrace that and surround yourself with smart people.” “Hendrix helped me learn how to prepare, how to budget my time, how to plan and study, how to get all perspectives and points of view and how to weed it out and make good decisions,” he adds. “Finding a job you love the most is the key, though. I enjoy getting up every day to come to work, and I love what I do.” Hansen and his wife, Caroline Martaus Hansen ’00, an art major at Hendrix, live in Conway with their three children, Lena, Franklin, and Sylvia.

students to design and build robots and to compete with robots. “That kind of started my interest in robotics, and I wanted to do robotics research with students,” she says. For robotics research, they used VEX teaching robot kits with parts and controllers, and her students built a CASSY platform for programming robots. With two lab robots, affectionately named Doc and Grumpy, they set up a playing field in the lab. The robots are programmed for several behaviors such as patrolling an area, obstacle avoidance, intruder detection and pursuit. The students gain experience in programming, design and fabrication. Along with computer science professor Dr. Gabe Ferrer, Wright helped develop the college’s robotics course, a popular natural science course where non-majors learn basic C or Java computer programming, design and build Lego robots and have robot competitions. Wright was also active in the development of Your Hendrix Odyssey: Engaging in Active Learning, the College’s nationally recognized engaged learning program. From 2003 to 2005, she was a member of the Odyssey Task Force, a faculty committee that developed the program’s six project categories and requirements. She has been chair of the college’s Committee on Engaged Learning twice. “Odyssey is a big part of the research that

we do,” she said. The program provides funding for students to conduct research with faculty during the summer or intern at corporations using physics in industry. Odyssey also supports students attending and presenting their research at professional conferences and meetings. Anna Pittman ’15 has presented robotics research at the 2014 American Physics Society meeting, and Claude Shyaka ’16, a Rwandan Presidential Scholar, shared his summer robotics research results with state legislators at the Posters at the Capitol event in Little Rock. With Odyssey support, 15 Hendrix students in the past two years have attended the national Women in Physics conference, a program Wright is particularly passionate about. “When I was an undergraduate, only 10 percent of physics students were women. Until recently, there were not a lot of female faculty mentors,” she said. “It was difficult feeling like you were a member of that population when you didn’t look like everybody else.” In graduate school she saw the positive power of female peers and mentoring. “I decided at that moment I would be a mentor,” she said. “Any time I have a chance to give extra support to female students, I go out of my way.”

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alumni voices: Paul Smith ’89

Finding the courage to pursue your dream

“Son, when I was 5 or 6 years old I knew exactly what I wanted to do when I grew up. I wanted to be a singer — yeah a singer — like Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, or Tony Bennett. My mother always had the radio on listening to all the popular music of the day, and I listened. And I just knew that’s what I wanted to do. By the time I started 1st grade I knew all the popular songs — words and music by heart. About the 2nd or 3rd week of school the teacher asked if anyone in the class had some talent like dancing or singing or doing magic tricks — things like that. Well, I put up my hand and said I could sing popular songs. So she asked if I would sing one for the class. Despite the fact that I’d never sung in front of anyone except my mother, I said yes. I picked my favorite song, and I did it. I sang the whole song — all the right words and melody. I still remember the song. It was “I Don’t Want To Set The World on Fire” by the Ink Spots. When I was done, the teacher and students applauded. And that’s when I was certain, that’s what I was destined to do with my life. Well, that turned out to not only be the first time, but also the last time I ever sang in front of an audience. Life got in the way.

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But it really remained my dream for the rest of my life. I just never had the courage to pursue it. One day, son, you’ll wake up and be 80 years old like me, and it will be too late.” And as if that story by itself wasn’t enough to motivate me, my father closed the letter with three sentences that literally took my breath away, and changed my life. He said, “I’d love to see you pursue your dream. But that doesn’t mean in your lifetime, son — that means in mine. Love, Dad” Those words hit me like an unexpected kick in the head. Everything stopped, except for my heart, which was now beating out of my chest, and loud enough to hear. I read his words again. (‘Did he say what I think he just said?’). Yes, he did. My father had laid down the gauntlet in front of me, and challenged me to pick it up. Not sometime in the future, many years down the road. But right now. It was like that scene in the movie Rocky II, where Adrian tells Rocky to “Win!” The theme music starts with a loud orchestra hit. And Rocky starts the most inspirational workout in cinematic history. Except in my scene, I’m Rocky, and this isn’t a movie. It’s real life. More importantly, my dream was no longer just my dream. It was now my father’s dream, too. He will never achieve his dream of being a singer. But through me, if I have the courage to go through with it, he can enjoy the closure he never had with his own dream. I can think of no more inspiring and worthy challenge. And I find it poetically ironic that the man who in 1967 gave me life, would 46 years later give me the courage to truly live it. I hope you get something out of my father’s letter, too. Many of us harbor a secret dream we’re too afraid to pursue. And as long as we are the only one we’re disappointing I supposed that might be OK. But we all probably have someone in our lives we care about that also wants to see us pursue our dreams. That might be a parent, a sibling, spouse, friend, coworker, or child.

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I recently found myself struggling with the toughest career decision of my life. I was trying to choose between two very different options. One was to stay in my current job, which provided lots of reliable income and benefits as well as long-term financial security. But it wasn’t work I was unusually excited about doing. The other option I was truly passionate about, and through it I could make a tangible impact on people’s lives. But it provided no long-term financial security, and no steady paycheck. I figure you’re never too old to benefit from someone older and wiser. So I wrote my 80-year-old father (Robert Smith ’57) a letter and asked him what I should do. But instead of just giving me advice, he shared a story about himself as a young boy that I’d never heard before. His letter said,

Whoever that is for you, if you won’t pursue your dream for your own sake, do it for them. You’ll make two people happy in the process. Oh, by the way, the week after reading those words from my father, I walked into my boss’ office and resigned from my 20-year career to pursue my dream. Thanks, Dad. Paul Smith is a former director and 20-year veteran of the Procter & Gamble Company, and author of the best-selling book Lead with a Story: A Guide to Crafting Business Narratives that Captivate, Convince, and Inspire. He’s now pursuing his dream as a full-time writer and keynote speaker. His next book, Parenting with a Story: Real-life lessons in character for parents and children to share, is due out in November and includes 101 inspiring and insightful stories like this one. Paul majored in economics at Hendrix and earned an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He lives with his wife and two sons in the Cincinnati suburb of Mason, Ohio, and can be found at www.leadwithastory.com.

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The upper two floors of the new Market Square South building in The Village at Hendrix house approximately 50 upperclassman students in eight double and 38 single rooms. The building, which opened this fall, was designed to encourage livinglearning communities, with student rooms surrounding a common space to bring the community together. This year, students have created four themed interest communities: Artistic Creativity, Global Awareness, Sustainability and Social Justice. Students in each community participate in monthly dinners with speakers related to their community theme and work together to develop other projects and a fall field trip. Interested students completed an application in the spring and were selected for the program. The program is designed for sophomores, although juniors and seniors are also able to apply.

the village at hendrix

Community Builders

Holy Chow!

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The Village at Hendrix continues to grow with new residential home owners and new businesses, including a new 30,000-sq.-ft. mixed-use building called Market Square South, which includes a new Conway office of Delta Trust & Bank; Conway Management, Inc. hotel group; and Purple Cow, a popular ’50s style diner with locations in Little Rock and Hot Springs, Ark., and Dallas, Plano, and Fairview, Texas. Purple Cow was created in 1989 by Continental Cuisine founders Paul Bash and Hendrix alumnus Ed Moore ’54. The new building’s ownership is shared. An investor group, which includes the ground floor tenants, owns the ground floor. Hendrix owns the upper two floors, which include apartments for Hendrix students. Along with Purple Cow, The Village also includes the first Arkansas franchise of How Do You Roll?, a fastcasual, customizable sushi restaurant founded in Austin, Texas. How Do You Roll? is located next to Village Books.

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Tech LEEDer Photo by Joshua Daugherty

The Student Life and Technology Center (SLTC) is the “living room” of campus, where Hendrix students, faculty and staff gather to share ideas, develop leadership skills and foster friendships. State-of-the-art technology is distributed throughout the building, including the Oathout Technology Center, to encourage collaborative learning. The first LEED Gold-certified building on a college campus in Arkansas, the SLTC represents Hendrix’s commitment to sustainability. In addition to the Dining Hall and The Burrow, the SLTC is the home of the Odyssey Program, Chaplain’s Office, Miller Center, Student Affairs and student organizations.

Reconnect with friends,

hear Hendrix updates

and have fun! Since President Tsutsui arrived June 1, he has met more than 700 alumni and friends at events around the State of Arkansas. We hope you’ve had an opportunity to share some barbecue, hear about Godzilla, or just chat with Bill. If he hasn’t come to your county yet, hang on! He plans to sample barbecue in every one of the 75 counties in the state and out-of-state, too! Here are just some of the people who have had a chance to meet Bill already.

See more photos from these and other Hendrix-sponsored events on Flickr at www.flickr.com/hendrixcollege. A3

Photos by Sara Blancett, Collin Buchanan, Frank Cox ’76, Wesley Hitt and Stephen Ironside

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A10

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Crystal Bridges Event June 19, 2014, Bentonville, Ark. A1 Marjorie Swann, President Bill Tsutsui, Mahlon Maris ’63 and Kay Rausch Maris ’64 A2 Ellen Turner ’72 and Tom McClure A3 Barbara Horton, Jim Sawyer, Laura Sawyer, Caroline Kelley ’14, Kaitlin McGrail ’13, Strick Edwards ’12 and Logan Rice ’13 A4 Bob Shaw ’62 and Diane DeWese Shaw ’63

A5 Rev. David Fleming ’84, Ellis Arnold ’79, Katie O’Connell Kelley ’84 and Glenn Kelley ’84 A6 Clyde Hayre, Joey Williams ’04 and Alice Green Hayre ’76 A7 Michael McMurray ’16, Ginny McMurray, Kathleen McMurray, Michael Mattox ’76 and Judy Garrison Mattox A8 President Bill Tsutsui, Randy Goodrum ’69 and Gail Wise Goodrum ’69 A9 Hannah Beene-Lowder ’79, Larry Wright ’71 and Michelle Wright A10 Marjorie Swann, President Bill Tsutsui, Ann Henry, Catherine Henry and Morriss Henry ’53

A11 Keith Berner ’02 and Cara Couch ’03

County to County: Bill’s Arkansas Tour, Fort Smith June 26, 2014, Fort Smith, Ark. B1 Drew Linder ’83 and President Bill Tsutsui B2 Gwendolyn Brewer Lovelace ’81, Ariel Lovelace and President Bill Tsutsui B3 President Tsutsui speaks to the crowd

County to County: Bill’s Arkansas Tour, Hot Springs D1

July 31, 2014, Hot Springs, Ark. C1 President Bill Tsutsui, Ernest Nipper ’56 and Rosemary Nipper C2 Amy Thomason ’73, President Bill Tsutsui, Marjorie Swann and Carol St. John Young ’74 C3 Anthony Taylor, Robert Taylor ’16, Michelle Strause ’83 and Joe Woodward ’13

County to County: Bill’s Arkansas Tour, Russellville Aug. 14, 2014, Russellville, Ark.

D1 President Bill Tsutsui and Natalie Canerday ’84 D2 President Bill Tsutsui, Angel Black and Ellie Black ’18 D3 President Bill Tsutsui and Joe Linam ’55

County to County: Bill’s Arkansas Tour, Pine Bluff Sept. 9, 2014, Pine Bluff, Ark. E1 Tony Hilliard ’78, President Bill Tsutsui and Ellis Arnold ’79 E2 Mac Bellingrath ’74 and Fred Arnold ’54

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E3 Jane Townsend, Jim Townsend, Rev. Pam Estes and Ann Ryburn

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connecting with classmates 1960

Jerry Robbins received the Outstanding Alumni Award in Education from the University of Arkansas College of Education and Health Professions.

1966

Anne Keightley Moskow of St. Paul, Minn., presented a juried paper titled “Sara Paretsky’s V.I., Gabriella, Lotty: Narrating the Holocaust” at the Queens of Crimes Conference at the University of London. She has been appointed chair of the Education and Skill Development Institute for Somali Family Services. Warren Pearce retired after 20 years in the Air Force satellite community and 22 years as a contractor supporting the Air Force satellite community.

1968

Johnny Carter retired from Highland School District after 46 years of teaching English and serving as an administrator. Richard Meek retired from the Memphis Zoo and Aquarium where he served as Curator of Education and, for the last 25 years, zoo keeper specializing in exotic hoofstock, especially his beloved giraffe.

1971

Storytelling Network and president of Arkansas’s Diamond State Chorus. He is the part-time pastor of Amboy United Methodist Church in North Little Rock.

1972

Dr. Blake Robertson has been selected as president of Northwest Technical Institute in Springdale, Ark.

1974

John Weir opened a Benjamin F. Edwards & Co. office in Harrison, Ark., the first in Arkansas. Judy Gregson Schwab is the associate vice chancellor for administration at the University of Arkansas. She and her husband, Dr. Bill Schwab, were awarded the 2013 Arts Advocate Award.

1976

Mark Denman was reelected mayor of Nassau Bay, Texas, in May 2014 for a second two-year term. Larry Morse, CEO of Johnson Regional Medical Center in Clarksville, served a two-year term as chairman of the Arkansas Hospital Association Board.

1978

Linda Pine retired from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in May 2014 as an assistant professor and university archivist.

Roger Armstrong has been elected the corporate secretary of the National

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1979

Nancy Shilling completed her first year at Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University. She anticipates graduating in May 2015 with a master of theological studies degree.

1981

David Guthrie swam the men’s 100-meter breaststroke for Rice Aquatics at the Arena Grand Prix in Mesa, Ariz., in 1:07:24, knocking 10 seconds off of his 50-54 Masters World record. Chris Palmer has been appointed by Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe as Circuit Judge in the Third Division of the 6th Judicial District.

1982

Dr. Michael Crowder leads the University of Washington Health System’s Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine. Gayle Roller Hall retired from Hartford Schools, where she worked as the Gifted and Talented coordinator and teacher for more than 30 years. Jennifer Horne’s collection of short stories in the voices of Arkansas girls and women, Tell the World You’re a Wildflower, was published by the University of Alabama Press in fall 2014. Doug Hopper will bicycle 4,200 miles across the United States, from the Atlantic to

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the Pacific oceans, to raise funds for the Oregon Health & Science University Parkinson Center in Portland.

at GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals in Research Triangle Park, N.C.

1984

Dr. Audrey Kane completed her Ph.D. in May 2013 and joined the Department of Occupational Therapy faculty at Duquesne University in August 2014.

Dr. Joe Simpson retired from the practice of anesthesia at the University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville. He began a one-year fellowship with Hospice and Palliative Care at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

1985

Stephen Bell was named president and CEO of the Arkadelphia Regional Economic Development Alliance and Area Chamber of Commerce.

Stacey Fulbright Pectol of Little Rock, Ark., was appointed by the Arkansas Supreme Court as Clerk of Courts.

1989

Karen Kennedy Seifert is the new president of the Arcadia Valley Chamber of Commerce in Missouri.

Sheri Bylander is editing the second season of Alpha House produced by Amazon Studios. She was also an editor on Gracepoint, a special event series for Fox.

Jason V. Terk, M.D., was recognized by Fort Worth Business Press as a 2014 Healthcare Hero and a 2014 Top Doc by Fort Worth Texas Magazine. He is president of the Texas Pediatric Society.

1986

1990

Tad Bohannon was named Chief Legal Counsel of Central Arkansas Water in Little Rock, Ark. He was formerly a partner at Wright, Lindsey & Jennings LLP.

1987

Dr. Don Hertzog co-chaired the 2014 National Medicinal Chemistry Symposium of the American Chemical Society. He is the Site Head for the Molecular Discovery Research Department of Medical Chemistry

Scott Caldwell has joined Catapult Marketing as senior vice president, shopper marketing in Bentonville, Ark. Joanna Crump earned a master of library and information studies degree from the University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa in December 2013. John Glassford is President and CEO of HMO Partners, Health Advantage. He oversees sales and marketing, medical management,

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defense of two Secret Service Agents in Wood v. Moss.

Tim Zimmerman was recently promoted to the rank of colonel and serves as the Deputy G-1/Adjutant General for the U.S. Army Materiel Command at Redstone Arsenal in Alabama.

Dr. Dan Clanton was awarded tenure and promoted to Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Doane College in Crete, Neb. He was also elected by his colleagues as the Chair of the Division of Fine Arts and Humanities.

1991

Barry Blake was appointed as a senior managing director at Guggenheim Securities, the investment banking and capital markets division of Guggenheim Partners, in June 2014. Tim McDaniel has joined Benchmark Human Services in Marietta, Ga., as a certified peer specialist in the Mobile Mental Health Crisis Team.

1992

Kelly Aaron is a registered nurse at FirstLight Home Care, a non-medical care service for seniors, post-surgical patients, and postpartum moms. Dr. Renee Holmes Cole is the co-editor for two books: Mom the Chemistry Professor and Tools of Chemistry Education Research. John Krueger, M.D., earned a master of public health (MPH) degree from the Harvard School of Public Health in May 2014. He is associate chief of staff of primary care at the Veterans Health System of the Ozarks and an IHI Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in Cambridge, Mass.

1993

Marcia Beauchamp is the program director for The Pachamama Alliance in San Francisco, Calif. Jeremy Scott Brumbelow, a Senior Trial Attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., received the U.S. Secret Service Director’s Recognition Award in August 2014 for his successful

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Dr. Amy Young Evrard recently published a book, The Moroccan Women’s Rights Movement.

1994

Jamie Darling refurbished a 1975-model, 28-foot-long trailer into a retail fashion truck called The Delta Darling that travels throughout the Arkansas Delta.

1995

Meredith Fisherman entered her first photography contest and placed in two categories in the City of Richardson Photography contest, placing third in the Architecture/ Black & White category and first in the Children/Color category for a photo of her youngest daughter. Dr. Walt Gall was appointed to the advisory board of Tumbleweed Holdings Inc. in June 2014.

1996

Brad Crain was named president of the Arvest Bank in Springfield, Mo., in June 2014.

1997

Angela Wilder Kyzer’s first journal article as first author, “Environmental risk factors and custody status in children of substance abusers,” was published in Children and Youth Services Review.

1998

Dr. Whitney Bauman, assistant professor of religious studies and Honor College Fellow at Florida International University,

wrote and published Religion and Ecology: Developing a Planetary Ethic. Jamey Campbell is the Director of Development for the Volunteer State Community College Foundation in Gallatin, Tenn. Dr. Lindsey Claire Smith was named incoming editor of American Indian Quarterly, published by the University of Nebraska Press.

2000

Fred Baker was named to the Board of Directors for the Colleges that Change Lives non-profit. His two-year term began in September 2014. Jennifer Carman, president of J. Carman Inc., was recently featured on PreservationNation Blog for renovating her personal home and historic buildings in Little Rock. Lia Tepker is the senior executive budget and policy analyst for the education cabinet at the Oklahoma Office of Management and Enterprise Services.

2001

Jonah McDonald published a new book, Hiking Atlanta’s Hidden Forests: Intown and Out, by Milestone Press of North Carolina. Melissa Prycer, longtime Director of Education at Dallas Heritage Village, has been named President and Executive Director.

2002

Davis Clement earned his M.Ed. in education policy, planning, and leadership from the College of William & Mary, where he is researching alternative methods of educating at-risk urban students and pursuing a Ph.D. Sarita Riley Sanford earned a master’s degree in public history from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and a

master’s in speech language pathology from the University of Central Arkansas. She works as a Speech Language Pathologist with Ascent Children’s Health Services in North Little Rock, Ark. See Marriages.

2003

at Northwest Arkansas Community College.

2006

Daniel R. Feild graduated from the University of Arkansas Law School with a J.D. He was elected by his class to be the student speaker.

Jessica Duke Alexander, Ph.D., began a tenure-track position in the psychology department at Centenary College in fall 2014.

Lauren French opened the Pie Hole Food truck in Little Rock and surrounding areas.

Michael Chappell, M.D., has joined Arkansas Ophthalmology Associates in Little Rock and has completed specialty training in reconstructive and cosmetic oculofacial plastic surgery.

Scott Large, Ph.D., accepted a position as a professional officer at the International Council for the Exploration of the Seas (ICES) in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Jessica Gallagher will teach at the Georgetown Law Street Law Clinic during a twoyear teaching fellowship at Georgetown University Law.

Mindy Eggert Loveless finished her residency at the University of Washington in June 2014. Loveless started a one-year sports medicine fellowship at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago and Northwestern Hospital in July 2014.

2004

Laura Sessoms Grimes is the merchandiser for Arkansasbased content and commerce website Bourbon & Boots. Dr. Erin Alexander Large joined the obstetrics and gynecology practice, Central Clinic for Women in Little Rock in August 2013. Dr. Valencia Moses received her Ph.D. in Curriculum Teaching and Educational Policy from Michigan State University. Darcy Baskin Pumphrey won the 2014 Lucille Westbrook Award for best article manuscript on an aspect of local Arkansas history. Her article, “Too Little, Too Late: Why Little Rock’s Freeway Resistance Movement Failed to Stop the Construction of Interstate 630,” will be published in the Arkansas Historical Quarterly. Jera Houghtaling Stiles is an attorney specialist with the Arkansas Department of Human Services and teaches as an adjunct professor

2007

Rebecca Revoal earned a master’s degree in Organizational Leadership at Colorado State University in February 2014. See New Children.

2008

Dr. Jennifer Tate Becker received her Ph.D. in English literature from Washington University in St. Louis in August 2014. She has accepted a faculty position at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Va. Samuel Kauffman was appointed to the Commission on Diversity of the Arkansas Bar Association by 20142015 President Brian H. Ratliff ’85. Ash McLain received a master’s degree in Adult and Higher Education

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with an emphasis in Student Affairs from the University of Oklahoma in May 2011. She is Apartment Community Director of Mayo, Lorton and Brown Villages at the University of Tulsa. Susan Meyer created a greeting card company called The Bard’s Cards that pairs animal illustrations with Shakespeare quotes. Dr. Elizabeth Hood Stout was the first to earn a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from the University of Central Arkansas and is a psychologist at the University of Arkansas.

2009

Dr. Erica Siebrasse completed a Ph.D. in molecular microbiology at Washington University in St. Louis and is now the Science Policy Fellow at the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASMB). Chelsea Cupp Sullivan is a first author on a paper that recently appeared in Molecular Biology of the Cell (MBoC). The paper is titled “The adaptor protein GULP promotes Jedi-1–mediated phagocytosis through a clathrin-dependent mechanism.”

2010

Jake Eddington has been promoted to the Institutional Finance division at the Department of Higher Education in Little Rock. Allen Groue received a David E. Boren Fellowship from the National Security Education Program and will spend a year studying Bahasa Indonesia at Gadjah Madah University in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, while writing his master’s thesis. Groue also graduated with an international master of business administration degree from the University of Denver in June 2014. David Hagan was awarded the 2013 William Cunningham Award by

the American Institute of Chemical Engineers for winning the 2013 Student National Design Competition. He is studying for a Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Lucas Harder is the Model Policy Service Assistant Director with the Arkansas School Boards Association in Little Rock. Janson Hightower was named the Head Men’s Basketball Coach at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. Meghan Joiner Wright attends the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Bowen School of Law where she is the research editor for the Law Review and a clerk at the Arkansas Attorney General’s Office.

2011

Kyle Bradbury joined the Child and Family Research Partnership research center at the University of Texas at Austin. The team will evaluate the implementation of a large home-visiting program in Texas. Hailey Hundley competed at the National Healthcare Case competition.

2012

Ian Evans signed with Swedish football (soccer) club Friska Viljor F.C. in Division III Norrland (league). He will defer admission to the American University School of International Service for the International Development Program in Washington, D.C., until January 2015 to finish the season with Friska Viljor. Chris Goodman was named Assistant Men’s Basketball Coach at the University of the Ozarks.

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Beth Pond taught in South Africa for nine months as a part of a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship Grant. She recently published Podium Finish, a novel about the Olympics. Jennifer Smith Tierney accepted a job as a member of the social

work team at Arkansas Children’s Hospital.

2013

Elana Harrison accepted a position as a research associate at the Environmental Law Institute in Washington, D.C.

Kelley Lane accepted a job as the Creative Director at Arkansas Life Magazine.

2014

Collin Radack was drafted in Major League Baseball’s twentieth round by the St. Louis Cardinals.

Marriages

Tammy Tucker ’85 to Liz Larson ’86, June 7, 2014.

Kelley Melhorn ’07 to John Sims, Dec. 28, 2013.

Chris Carroll ’70 to G. Frank Herring, Aug. 23, 2014.

Kara Worley ’98 to Michael Jones, March 1, 2014.

Meghan Joiner ’10 to Jonathon Wright, June 28, 2014.

Sharon Hunter ’74 to Tommy Braswell.

Beth Wiedower ’99 to Adam Jackson, April 26, 2014.

Ray Coursey ’82 to Noggy David Jaen, Dec. 14, 2013.

Sarita Riley ’02 to Zachariah Sanford, Jan. 4, 2014.

Stacey McCord ’84 to Susan Gunnels ’84, June 20, 2014.

Jennifer Cabrera ’06 to Kitoh Grey, May 25, 2014.

David Scurlock ’85 to Eric Estrada, May 20, 2014.

Scott Large ’06 to Lauren Horrigan, Nov. 11, 2013.

New Children

to Chris Canavan ’99 and Lisa.

Alyssa Elle, second daughter, third child, to Christine Johnson Blumer ’92 and Russell, Jan. 14, 2014. Mia Katherine, second daughter, third child, to Doug McKeller ’93 and Kimberly McKinley McKeller ’95, Feb. 11, 2014. Eden Elizabeth, first daughter, second child, to Kaycee Deen Hopper ’97 and Joel, Feb. 25, 2014. Arthur Edward Bruce, second child, first son, to Angel Johnson Belsey ’98 and Giles, March 26, 2014. Conlan Bruce and Rhys Andrew, twin boys, third and fourth children,

Emma Madeline Laurine, first child, first daughter, and Elliot Wayne Joseph, second child, first son, to Jeremy Estell ’00 and Severine ConttrantEstell ’01, July 25, 2011 and Aug. 6, 2014. Eleanor Rose, first daughter, second child, to Courtney Mashburn Hatch ’00 and Michael, May 11, 2014.

Kara Stewart ’10 to John Meredith ’11, Aug. 9, 2014. Ezra Neal ’12 to Jessica Fowler, June 7, 2014. Anne Carrillo Dallmeyer ’13 to Tyler Keever ’13, April 19, 2013.

Julian Bryant, first son, first child, to Laura Sessoms Grimes ’04 and Ben, July 18, 2013. Daniel Martin, first son, second child, to Timothy Hiller ’04 and Elizabeth, Oct. 8, 2013. Elizabeth O’Neal, first daughter, first child, to Laura Gardner Turner ’04 and Lance, Jun. 24, 2014.

Veronica Zoe, first daughter, first child, to Robert Wolfe ’00 and Jessica Scott, Feb. 22, 2014.

Eloise Ruth, first daughter, first child, to Walker Dyer ’05 and Cassie Jackson Dyer ’06, Jan. 3, 2014.

Edward Karisch, second son, second child, to David Scott Cunnigham ’01 and Elizabeth Quinn, Aug. 6, 2014.

Henry Joseph, first son, first child, to Tom Faitak ’05 and Bonnie Steinruck Faitak ’05, March 26, 2014.

Alice Elizabeth, first daughter, second child, to Sarah Razer Carnahan ’03 and Daniel, May 6, 2014.

Claire Elizabeth, second daughter, second child, to Carol Nixon Ricketts ’05 and Brandon, June 9, 2014.

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alumnotes Lauren Daly ’11 to Joshua Daugherty, June 14, 2014. Hendrix alumni and staff pictured from left to right: Dominique Kelleybrew ’11, Zach Green ’08, Jim Wiltgen, Holly Nelson, Michael Smith ’03, Alice Holifield Smith ’04, Sarah Tamo Sobik ’10, Joshua Daugherty, Lauren Daly Daugherty ’11, Ben Hau, Tonya Hale, Richard Counts ’01, Leigh Lassiter-Counts ’01, Jay Burling ’03, Frank Cox ’76, Helen Plotkin, Bobby Engeler-Young ’93 and Sarah Engeler-Young ’91. Patterson Rae, first daughter, first child, to Emily Wells Hester ’06 and Raydodd Hester ’06, March 18, 2014. Ellie Sloane, first daughter, first child, to Allison Walker Ruff ’06 and Adam, Aug. 6, 2013. Samuel Edward, first son, first child, to Katie Kleitsch Thompson ’06 and Kent Thompson ’07, July 5, 2013. Ellington Jane, first daughter, first child, to Rebecca Revoal ’07 and Jason Green, Feb. 28, 2014.

Avery Roller ’12 to Adam Legg ’12, June 21, 2014. Pictured from left to right: Torey Hayward ’12, Jacob Halpern Weitzman ’12, Sara Slimp ’12, Adam Legg ’12, Avery Roller Legg ’12, Hannah Hudspeth ’12, Collin Sitler ’12 and Rachel Robbins Sitler ’12.

Kalen gives a thumbs up to new sister Eleanor Rose, first daughter, to Courtney Mashburn Hatch ’00 and Michael, May 11, 2014.

Madilene Rachelle, first daughter, first child, to Olivia Wallace Meadows ’10 and Brandon, Jan. 1, 2014. Sparrow Jane, first daughter, first child, to Kaitlin Worley Strain ’11 and Alan, July 16, 2014. Olivia Elizabeth, first daughter, first child, to Paul Taucher ’13 and Tiffany, Feb. 24, 2014.

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Former Galloway girls Lauren Long Lajzer ’04, Darby Grace Barenek ’05 and Sarah Blount Long ’04 pose with their daughters. Haley Christina, first daughter, second child, to Lauren Long Lajzer ’04 and J.B. Lajzer ’06, March 9, 2014. Lucinda Ellen, first daughter, first child, to Darby Grace Beranek ’05 and Peter, Feb. 12, 2014. Elizabeth Louise, first daughter, second child, to Sarah Blount Long ’04 and Justin Long ’04, Jan. 9, 2014.

Zachary Jordan, first son of Amanda Baugh ’04, Oct. 31, 2013.

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alumnotes

In Memoriam Meg Mullins-Hilliker ’34 Byron McKinney ’39 Alleen Ott Long ’40 Mary Frances Parnell Perry ’40 Jane Berry Temple ’40 Louise Lindahl Christian ’42 Beverly Jeanne Hutchinson Edmonds ’42 Charles Addison Hesterley ’43 Aileen Partee Silliman ’43 Edward Howell Cherry ’44 Jack Patton Mabray ’44 Bill Pratt ’44 Billie Thacker Cooper ’46 Charles Maitland Boyd ’47 John Phillip Bumpers ’47, Faculty/Staff Ruby Galloway Farish ’47 Billy Edmond Lazenby ’47 Rebecca Jean Dorsey Vette ’47 Winston Faulkner ’48 Mary Virginia Robins Ferguson ’48

James Linton Mullens Jr. ’48 A. Charles Cross ’49 Marvin Galvin ’49 Alfred Gardner Garrett ’49 George Dana Millar Jr. ’49 Frances Conner Miller ’49 Howard B. Warren ’49 Dennis M. Blackman ’50 Billy Howard Cox ’50 Martha Stuck Nelsen ’50 Kenneth Whitten Parker ’50 Gerald Kemp Fincher ’51 Bobbie Jo McCain Baker ’52 Juanita Lane Bilinsky ’52 Byron H. Glass ’52 Jack W. Good ’52 L.W. “Bill” Clark III ’53 Norman Eugene Smith ’53 Sue Huffaker Doss ’54 Margaret Berry Hutton ’55 Dorothy Sandage Sturdy ’56 Mansel Hilliard Baker Jr. ’57

LaVaughan Johnston Freund ’57 Marjorie Ann Short Shaver ’57 William Edgar Harris ’58 James Henry Davis ’59 Royce Lynn McSpadden ’59 Georganne Lyford Ricks ’59 Gary Wayne Williamson ’59 John Lawrence Culver ’60 William H. Fox Jr. ’60 Robert Arthur Terry ’60 Kenneth Ray Furrh ’62 William Clary Lunsford ’62 Mary Claude Hefley Kingery ’63 Linda Gardenhire Steel Mager ’63 Betty Jean Anderson Miller ’63 Virginia Ruth Cornelius Wagner ’63 Jerry Lynn Kemp ’64 Clifford C. Councille Jr. ’65 Becky Harris ’65 Richard M. Shewmaker Jr. ’65 Samuel Isaac Bratton Jr. ’67 John Logan Burrow ’68

Bonnie Brown Ricks ’68 James A. Waldron ’68 Albert Louis Warneke ’69 Pam Griffin Warren ’69 Martha Anne Vaughan ’70 Susan Roll Daniel ’72 James Robert Burnett ’75 Michael Glenn Gately ’79 Jeffery L. Kessinger ’82 Lisa Marie Zipfel ’84 Jim L. Smith Jr. ’86 Michael Edward Harrell ’89 Pamela Diane Barnes ’04 Faculty & Staff Joshua Ashley-Pauley Carole Herrick Jack Taylor McDuff Helen Mae Perry

Carole Herrick

June 16, 1949 – Aug. 7, 2014 The Hendrix community was saddened by the loss of longtime music professor, administrator and friend Dr. Carole Herrick, who passed away this summer. Herrick joined the Hendrix faculty in 1980. She directed the Hendrix Wind Ensemble for 22 years (from 1980 to 2002), and taught trumpet and horn, music education, conducting, Western Intellectual Traditions and the Alexander Technique. During her Hendrix tenure, she served as humanities area chair, music department chair, and interim dean of students. An active chamber and orchestral musician, she performed as principal trumpet for the Conway Symphony Orchestra. Herrick graduated magna cum laude from the University of Texas at Austin, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in music in 1971 and a master’s degree in music in 1972. She completed her doctorate from the University of North Texas in 1981. In 2002, Herrick was named Associate

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Provost for Advising and Retention, where she was actively involved with most students’ lives on the campus, enhancing student satisfaction and success. “Carole was a great friend and colleague for many years. I met her in 1980 when I was a student on a search committee for a new wind ensemble director, and we were friends from that time forward,” said Dr. David Sutherland ’81, Associate Provost and mathematics professor. “She played trumpet in my wedding, and we spent more than a decade as administrators in Academic Affairs.” “Carole was a kind and compassionate leader who led by creating ripples rather than waves. Carole was a team-player who was driven by the desire for everyone to do his or her best and never driven by making herself look good,” Sutherland said. “Finally, Carole was one of the bravest people I have known. Living for years and years with cancer without ever using it as an excuse was a model of a good life that I hope I would be able to follow.”

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Robert Meriwether ’49, Professor of Political Science, Education and History, and Dean of Students (1959-1993) In 1980, Professor Meriwether hinted that, in Arkansas’ history, we’d never really know how many brothers-in-law were “accidentally kilt” by their kin who were holding their shotgun and stepping over a fence at the same time. If you cherish your memories of Hendrix, you can provide the same kind of memories for generations to come. A designated or planned gift provides life-changing experiences for students and it creates a legacy that will endure. Although the names and faces change over time, the memories remain. Share the gift of Hendrix memories. Support the Altus Bell Society.

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