Hendrix Magazine - 2015 Spring

The Hendrix College Magazine Spring 2015 Volume 27, Number 2 Chief Communications Officer Frank Cox ’76 cox@hendrix.edu Editor Helen Plotkin plotkin@hendrix.edu Managing Editor Rob O’Connor ’95 Art Director/Designer Joshua Daugherty Staff Photographers Lexi Adams ’17 Collin Buchanan Joshua Daugherty Ephraim McNair Staff Writer Collin Buchanan Contributors Julie Janos ’94 Dominique Kelleybrew ’11 Mike Kemp Sarah Ligon ’03 Holli Nelson 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.

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on the cover Symbols of the President include the Chain of Office and the Mace. The chain is inscribed with the names and dates of service of every Hendrix College President and includes a medallion with the Seal of the College.

The mace, designed for the 10th Hendrix President’s inauguration in 2002, includes a flame carved from a cedar limb from one of the trees on campus when Hendrix moved to Conway in 1890.

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Naturally

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A Novel Idea

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Celebration

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Brew-ha-ha

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Suit Up

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Serving Students

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Centered Seniors

Biology professors use undergraduate research opportunity to explore ecological impact of the natural gas business in Arkansas

Following his retirement, political scientist Dr. Ian King finds fulfillment writing fiction and working on his MFA

Hendrix College community inaugurates new leader with inspirational ceremony and celebrates Hendrix heritage, history, and liberal arts legacy

Alumni see success brewing on the craft beer scene in Arkansas

Young entrepreneur David Allan ’14 finds future dressed for success as leader of Tagless Style

41 Alumni Voices

12 Hendrix Through Time

44 Alumnotes

48 In Memoriam

13 At Home at Hendrix

47 Marriages

03 Campus News

47 New Children

14 Faculty News

01 President’s Message

Jane Santa Cruz ’09 sees student support as the key to policy that promotes education reform

Armed with a liberal arts education, these Class of 2015 members are ready for the world

Photos by Sara Blancett Reeves

A Message from the President

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When students began arriving back on campus last fall, I declared myself Hendrix College’s oldest freshman. Like my fellow recruits, I was persuaded by the College’s promise and reputation, enchanted by the campus, and absolutely smitten by the Hendrix community. At 51, I was excited to be accepted to Hendrix and eager to see how the future would unfold.

On Move-In Day, Marjorie and I celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary, wearing polyester jumpsuits and recycling cardboard as honorary members of the student “Green Team.” After waving goodbye to parents, we hiked Petit Jean Mountain with a dozen freshmen during Orientation. I experienced Hendrix traditions like Shirttails and Campus Kitty for the first time, and I attended student art shows, music and theatre performances, and poetry readings. I saw each of our 21 intercollegiate sports teams in action. And yes, I proudly painted my face Hendrix orange for our volleyball team’s conference championshipwinning game on campus. Go Warriors!

Being at Hendrix, I felt compelled to go to class, where I saw firsthand why Hendrix was listed #8 for “Best Undergraduate Teaching” this fall by U.S. News & World Report. I could not be more humbled and more proud than to see Hendrix professors in action. They are devoted 100 percent to teaching and mentoring undergraduate students in and beyond the classroom.

Thank goodness, though, that I don’t have to take any examinations in French phonetics or computer programming languages!

The close connection that Hendrix students feel with their professors and the whole campus community has been reaffirmed time and again as I’ve met hundreds of Hendrix alumni and heard their stories of how the College changed their lives.

While it has been a blast to experience Hendrix through the eyes of someone who is new, it is equally exciting for me to consider what the future holds. To be entrusted with helping Hendrix chart its course toward new horizons is an incredible responsibility but also an

energizing opportunity.

If asked for the short answer on what lies ahead for Hendrix, I might simply reply, “More of the same, only better.” That might not sound like the kind of breathless hype and stratospheric ambition that comes out of the mouths of most college presidents. But when you consider what Hendrix is, how much the College has accomplished, and the recognition our community has earned, being Hendrix is something remarkable indeed.

Being Hendrix means not compromising the standards of excellence and those distinctive qualities of community and character that attract new students to Hendrix and keep our alumni connected 50 years after they graduate.

Being Hendrix means offering a broad and rigorous liberal arts and sciences education, engaged learning that links the classroom to the world beyond, and cultivating the mind, body, and spirit of students in an intimate, supportive community.

Being Hendrix means continuing to strengthen our commitment to accessibility, affordability, diversity, and inclusion, as well as affirming our Arkansas heritage and our historic relationship with the United Methodist Church.

Being an even better Hendrix will require the creative spirit and the eagerness to accept challenges that have defined our community since its very beginning.

I can’t wait to meet even more members of the Hendrix family in the weeks and months to come, to hear your memories of the College and your dreams for its future, and to share our vision for the next chapter in the history of this remarkable place.

Bill Tsutsui President

Get an idea of what Bill has been up to this year at www.hendrix.edu/president/firstyear

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Campus News Rank & File

Lab Rats Three Hendrix College science students presented research at the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) meeting in West Palm Beach, Florida: biochemistry and molecular biology major Kristen O’Connell ’15, biology major and chemistry minor Wes Mills ’15 and biology major and chemistry minor Kate Emery ’16.

The meeting had nearly 2,000 people in attendance, 611 posters, 767 talks and 12 symposia, which had close to 120 talks. The students have worked in the lab of Hendrix biology professor Dr. Jenn Dearolf (O’Connell since she was a freshman; Mills and Emery since summer 2014).

Fine Dining Hendrix College was named one of America’s top 25 schools for Best College Food by Cappex.com. Compiling the results of over 1.4 million student reviews on Cappex.com, the 2015 Cappies Award winners were determined across six categories. Hendrix placed 3rd in Best College Food.

Talkin’ TED TEDxHendrixCollege hosted its fifth annual independently organized TED-licensed conference on campus this spring.

This year’s theme was “Origins” and explored how stories of origins shape our lives, communities and collective history. The program featured nine speakers, including Hendrix College President Bill Tsutsui; Chirag Lala ’17, winner of the 2nd Annual Student Speaker Competition; Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Doug Blackmon ’86; musician Dana Falconberry ’02; and former Heifer International President and CEO and 2010 World Food Prize Laureate Jo Luck ’63.

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Hendrix College ranked #2 in a Money magazine list of 20 Best Private Colleges for Merit Aid. The magazine analyzed data on the percentage of students receiving merit aid (36 percent at Hendrix) and the average percentage of tuition each merit grant made up (63 percent at Hendrix) to find the 20 most generous colleges.

Hendrix was ranked 63rd on Kiplinger’s “Best Values in Colleges” list of private liberal arts colleges based on academic quality. Schools are then ranked based on cost and financial aid data. Hendrix also ranked 128th on the combined list of 300 best values, which Kiplinger’s compiled to show how the top liberal arts colleges, private universities and public colleges compare against each other.

TEDxHendrixCollege also hosted TEDrixWomen 2014 this fall. The event’s theme was “People, Places, and Identity” and featured live talks given by biology professor Dr. Maureen McClung ’01 and psychology professor Dr. Leslie Templeton ’91.

Mock Stars

Hendrix Mock Trial students competed successfully at this year’s Mid-Missouri Mock Trial Invitational Tournament in Columbia, Missouri.

Brittany Webb ’15 received Best Witness and a perfect score at the Mid-Missouri Mock Trial Invitational Tournament in Columbia, Missouri, while Nigel Halliday ’16 received the award for Best Attorney. Fifteen mock trial students also competed at the American Mock Trial Association Regional Tournament in Dallas, Texas, where Halliday won a Top Attorney award and Webb won a Top Witness award. Shawn Johnson ’98 of the Arkansas Attorney General’s Office was the team’s attorney coach.

Race is on Six Hendrix College students attended the national Facing Race 2014 conference in Dallas, Texas: Blair Causey ’16, Mustafa Filat ’17, Charley Ford ’15, Mitchel Griffin ’15, Remington Harris ’18 and Jill Nguyen ’15. The conference was presented by Race Forward: The Center for Racial Justice Innovation and is the largest multiracial, inter-generational gathering for organizers, educators, creatives and other leaders. In addition to highlighting a Southern perspective, the conference offered the local community unprecedented access to information and

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resources on racial equity. The students were accompanied by Assistant Dean of Students Kesha Bauoa, anthropology professor Dr. Anne Goldberg, education professor Dr. Dionne Jackson ’96 and Executive Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students Jim Wiltgen.

The group’s attendance was supported by the Embrey Family Foundation with the goal of supporting a campus dialogue on race.

Granted Hendrix College was awarded a five-year $500,000 grant from the Lilly Endowment Inc. to support a new Institute for Clergy and Civic Engagement (ICCE) at Hendrix.

The new program will develop leadership skills and ministry capacity for early career Hendrix alumni and Arkansas pastors to lead their churches and communities in addressing major issues within their communities and meet the needs of the mission field outside the walls of the church. Hendrix Chaplain Rev. J. Wayne Clark ’84 will serve as the project’s executive director.

Two cohorts of 10 clergy participants each will receive training and support during a two-year period. At the end of the program, participants will develop a ministry plan that focuses on one issue for the church and the community to address together. The program’s first clergy cohort will start in fall 2015.

Here Kitty Hendrix students raised $30,100 through Campus Kitty events this year and presented checks to 10 local nonprofits this spring.

Hendrix College students raised $30,100 through Campus Kitty events throughout the 2014–2015 school year. This spring, the 30-student Campus Kitty Committee presented checks to 10 local nonprofit community organizations: ArkanPaws, CARTI, Children’s Advocacy Alliance, Faulkner County Senior Citizens Program, GMeal, Lucie’s Place, Ozark Mission Project, Pediatrics Plus Community Connections, Single Parent Scholarship Fund, and Soul Food Café.

Only in Arkansas In fall 2014, Hendrix College introduced the Hendrix Arkansas Advantage to meet 100 percent of financial need for Arkansas high school seniors enrolling at Hendrix in the fall 2015 semester. The Hendrix Arkansas Advantage is for Arkansas high school seniors who have a 3.6 or higher GPA and who have a 27 ACT or above or 1200 SAT (Critical Reading + Math) or above. The program will meet students’ demonstrated financial need through all forms of financial assistance, including merit scholarships, need-based grants, federal and state grants, federal student loans and student employment.

“Hendrix has always been a place for Arkansas students to have a world-class liberal arts experience in their home state, and we always should be. We should never, ever, be out of reach for Arkansas students,” said Hendrix President Bill Tsutsui. “We know that cost is a critical issue for students choosing a college, and many students and families assume that a private college is prohibitively expensive. But when you consider the financial aid we offer and our four-year graduation rate, Hendrix is a very good investment for Arkansas students and families. And the Hendrix Arkansas Advantage is the best investment we can make in those students and in our state.”

Model Students Twenty-three Hendrix College students joined nearly 1,500 students from 92 colleges and universities at the American Model UN (AMUN) conference in Chicago. The Hendrix group represented the Russian Federation on 12 different simulations. Janie Sanford ’16 and Mitch Harle ’16 were recognized for “Exceptional Representation of the Russian Federation” on the Contemporary Security Council. Anne Boyer ’15 and Anna Nester ’16 were recognized for “Exceptional Representation of the Russian Federation” on the Executive Committee of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. Nigel Halliday ’15 and Ashley Semiche ’16 were recognized for “Exceptional Representation of the USSR” on the Historical Security Council for 1961. Politics professor Dr. Daniel J. Whelan is the faculty advisor and accompanied the group.

Herb-al Remedy

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The Hendrix College herbarium will be part of a statewide project to digitize Arkansas plants. The project, which has attracted National Science Foundation funding, will create digital images of every type of plant in Arkansas. The images, and maps showing where they have been collected, will be freely accessible to researchers. The NSF award was made as part of the National Resource for Digitization of Biological Collections through the Advancing Digitization of Biological Collections program. All data resulting from this award will be available through the national resource iDigBio.org.

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Hoop Dreams The men’s basketball team ended their season with the program’s first Southern Athletic Association Championship, and their first NCAA Tournament appearance in nearly 20 years. Luke Vance ’15 finished his career with his best-ever offensive output scoring a career mark 25 points. The forward finished eight points shy of 1,000 for his career, with 992 points, 616 total rebounds, and 53 career blocks. He was selected for the All-SAA Second Team, while Hank Aldous ’16 was named All-SAA Honorable Mention.

Smarts R Us Hendrix College ranked #84 in Business Insider’s “600 Smartest Colleges in America” list published this fall.

According to Business Insider, a Duke University Talent Identification Program researcher ranked America’s colleges and universities “purely on smarts, as reflected by the school’s average scores on standardized tests.”

Revisiting History Sixteen Hendrix College students visited 15 historic Civil Rights Movement sites during fall break. This is the fifth year for the three-day trip, funded by the Odyssey Program and sponsored by the Dean of Students. This year’s theme focused on youth’s impact on civil rights. This year, the group read the graphic novel March co-authored by civil rights legend Congressman John Lewis. Each student received an autographed copy of the book, and the book was used as a framework for group discussion.

This spring, the Dean returned to Alabama for a 50th anniversary march from Selma to Montgomery with eight students: Iman Belk ’17, Mashundra Covington ’17, Keianna Cunningham ’17, Daniel Curley ’18, Alundra Dickson ’17, Laruen McHenry ’17, Alexis Taylor ’17 and Jasmine Watkins ’18.

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Go Greene

Left: The Hendrix men’s basketball Greene Chapel was listed as one of 50 most amazing team won this year’s college chapels and churches by theologydegrees.com. Southern Athletic The list contains some of the most historically signifi- Association conference cant and esthetically pleasing houses of worship in the championship.

United States.

Right: Coach Thad

Power Trio Women’s basketball players Sara Dyslin ’18, Caitlin Kriesel-Bigler ’16 and Anna King ’17 each received AllSouthern Athletic Association recognition. Dyslin was named SAA Newcomer of the Year and All-SAA First Team.

Kriesel-Bigler was selected to the Second Team and King was an Honorable Mention.

McCracken holds the net following the team’s championship victory.

Rolling, Rolling, Rolling Ninety-eight Hendrix College student-athletes made the fall Southern Athletic Association Academic Honor Roll.

To qualify, a student-athlete must maintain a minimum grade-point average of 3.25 for the term and be a regular member of a varsity athletic team in a sport sponsored by the conference. The teams and number of honor roll athletes include: men’s cross country (four), women’s cross country (six), field hockey (nine), football (28), men’s soccer (21), women’s soccer (16) and volleyball (14).

Team Players Four Hendrix College student-athletes were named to 2015 Southern Athletic Association Winter Sports AllSportsmanship Teams: Troy Koser ’17 (men’s swimming), Sydney Haldeman ’15 (women’s swimming), Travis Garrett ’17 (men’s basketball) and Kati Broberg ’15 (women’s basketball).

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the Workman family stretching back to the earliest days of Methodism in America. The grant is made possible by a gift from Workman’s wife, Elizabeth T. Workman ’50 and her family.

Psych

Photo by Lexi Adams ’17

Ten Hendrix College psychology students recently shared their undergraduate research at the Southwestern Psychological Association annual conference in Wichita, Kansas: Jericka Battle ’16, Katey Gillispie ’15, Hannah Hill ’15, Jessica Himes ’15, Anna Joliff ’15, Andrew Jordan ’16, Cathryn McClellan ’15, Ellen Moncrief ’15, Serena Murphy ’15, and Chloe Showalter ’16. Blake Tierney ’14 also shared the results of his undergraduate research.

Murphy won the 2015 Psi Chi Southwestern Regional Research Award for her talk, “Examining Negativity Bias and Emotional State in Rhesus Macaques.”

On Guard Rev. J.J. Whitney ’96 and John S. Workman Summer Project Grant recipient Beth Ayers ’17 visit with Liz Workman ’50.

Legacy Continues

Net Positive The women’s volleyball team won the Southern Athletic Association Tournament at Grove Gymnasium this fall. The Warriors (30–5) claimed their first-ever title and finished the season with a 17–0 mark at home. The Hendrix College volleyball team’s magical run came to an end with a 3–2 loss to No. 7 Washington University in the NCAA Regional semifinal round. The Warriors set program records for

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International relations major and United Methodist Youth Fellowship (UMYF) Scholar Elizabeth Ayers ’17 is the inaugural recipient of the new John S. Workman Summer Project Grant. The grant was established this spring to support Hendrix College students pursuing careers in the United Methodist Church, social justice, the news media Hendrix volleyball or writing. With the grant, she will work with Open Table players Felicia of Nashville, a nonprofit United Methodist agency that Beeman ’16, left, “works to break the cycles of poverty and chronic homeand MC Rogers ’17 lessness through outreach and working with people on an present President Bill individual basis.”

Tsutsui with a coffee The grant honors the late John S. Workman ’50, who mug and a Southern died last year. Workman was the founder of Campus Kitty, Athletic Association the student philanthropic organization, and was student championship ring to body president. A United Methodist minister and jourthank him for his support. nalist, he was the fifth in a line of Methodist ministers in

Retired Hendrix College basketball coach and athletic director Cliff Garrison received the Guardians of the Game award in Education by the National Association of Basketball Coaches at an awards luncheon during the NCAA Final Four in Indianapolis, Indiana. The award is given annually to coaches at all levels of college basketball (NCAA Division I, II and III) for education, advocacy, leadership and service. Garrison was nominated by Hendrix men’s basketball coach Thad McCracken.

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single-season wins, finishing 31–6 overall, earned their first Southern Athletic Association crown, made their first NCAA Tournament appearance and grabbed the program’s first NCAA win. MC Rogers ’17 was named All-America Honorable Mention by the American Volleyball Coaches Association. She is the first player in program history to earn All-American recognition. Rogers was an AVCA AllSouth Region and All-SAA First Team selection as well.

The Hendrix College field hockey team was one of 123 teams in the nation to receive the Gladiator by SGI/NFHCA D III National Academic Team Award. Six players were selected to the DIII National Academic Squad: Morgan Fires ’15, Erika Jasso ’15, Lotte Kraaijenbrink ’15, Lauren Shklanko ’15, Debbie Crawford ’16 and Raychl Reger ’17. Jasso and Shklanko received the honor all four years of their careers.

Très Bien Four Hendrix College students were inducted into the Hendrix Chapter (Nu Xi) of Pi Delta Phi, the French National Honor Society: Kathleen Conley ’16, Leah Harkey ’15, Rebecca Regoli ’15, and Michelle Wiggins ’15.

Goldwaterfall Chemical physics major Jake Higgins ’16 was awarded a Goldwater Scholarship by The Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Program. He is the 30th Hendrix College student to receive the Goldwater Scholarship in 27 years of the scholarship competition.

Biology major Jessa Thurman ’16 and Grant Zurcher ’16, a biochemistry-molecular biology and classics double major, were recognized with honorable mentions. Hendrix physics professor Dr. Todd M. Tinsley ’98, a 1997 Goldwater Scholar, currently serves as the Hendrix faculty representative for the Goldwater Scholarship program.

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Gladiators

Medal for Four Four Hendrix College alumni were awarded Odyssey Medals at the 2014 Founders’ Day Convocation in the fall.

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.

Interior designer Brad Ford ’89, who received the Odyssey Medal for Artistic Creativity, said that Hendrix’s inclusivity and encouragement to have an open mind rekindled his childhood love of craft and set him on his path.

“One of my greatest rewards is to be able to make a living doing something that I’m passionate about,” said Ford, who has been featured as one of “10 New Designers to Watch” in both New York Spaces magazine and New York

The 2014 Hendrix Odyssey Medal winners F.G. “Buddy” Villines ’69, Dr. Elsie Anne McKee ’73, Dr. Amanda Moore McBride ’93, and Brad Ford ’89 were honored at the annual Founders Day convocation.

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Jake Higgins ’16, far right, was awarded a Goldwater Scholarship

by The Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Program.

Jessa Thurman ’16 and Grant Zurcher ’16 were recognized with honorable mentions.

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A faculty member at Washington University in St. Louis, her work includes building international and national service initiatives, applying youth service as a component of youth development, and understanding and communicating the service mission of the academy. She is director of the Richard A. Gephardt Institute for Public Service, associate dean at the Brown School, research director for the Center for Social Development and faculty fellow for WUSTL’s Institute for School Partnership. Her research involves the study of higher education’s role in international service efforts.

The 2015 awards will be presented in the fall and nominations are now open for the 2016 awards. For more information about submitting a nomination and to see a list of previous winners, visit www.hendrix.edu/odysseymedal.

Photos courtesy of Ruthie Daniel ’16

Big Easy Mission

Ten Hendrix students spent Spring Break 2015 on a mission trip in New Orleans, Louisiana, sponsored by the Miller Center for Vocation, Ethics, and Calling. The group worked with the Center for Social Justice and Ethical Renewal, the Freret Community Center, and Greenlight New Orleans.

magazine, and was also named one of America’s Top Young Designer’s by House Beautiful and Traditional Home.

Princeton Theological Seminary professor Dr. Elsie Anne McKee ’73 received the Odyssey Medal for Research. She said Hendrix was a “rich, stimulating intellectual adventure.”

McKee is an expert in the history and theology of the Reformation and has a strong interest in cross-cultural issues developed by her and her family’s experience in central Africa. She is the author of nine books, and her focus is Calvin’s church doctrine and the life and impact of 16th century reformer Katharina Schütz Zell.

Pulaski County Judge F.G. “Buddy” Villines ’69 received the Odyssey Medal for Professional and Leadership Development. Villines told the audience how he came from a family of United Methodist ministers but found his calling to public service at Hendrix. As the chief executive officer of county government, he has overseen the construction of nearly $150 million in projects including the Two Rivers Park Bridge; the Big Dam Bridge, the world’s longest pedestrian/bicycle bridge specifically designed for that purpose; and the Junction Bridge, a historic railroad bridge converted for pedestrian use.

Civic and community engagement professor and scholar Dr. Amanda Moore McBride ’93 received the Odyssey Medal for Service to the World. She said three Hendrix attributes have influenced her: people, perspective and pedagogy.

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Ten Hendrix College students spent Spring Break on a mission trip in New Orleans, Louisiana, sponsored by the Miller Center for Vocation, Ethics, and Calling: Shannon Abbott ’16, Faisal Alnahhas ’17, Grace Blackmon ’17, Ruthie Daniel ’16, Aisling Gibson ’18, Olivier Kwizera ’17, William O’Brochta ’16, N.K. O’Keke ’16, Jeffrey Scott ’17, and Jared Smith ’18. The group worked with the Center for Social Justice and Ethical Renewal, which partners with local agencies to provide avenues of understanding through service work and building relationships with members of the community. Students packaged meals with Food for Friends, which serves community members who are suffering from AIDS. They also worked with the Freret Community Center to hand out fliers about computer classes, pick-up trash in the neighborhood, weed a community garden, and clean graffiti from walls. They spent two days with Greenlight New Orleans, changing incandescent bulbs to CFL energy efficient light bulbs to help community members save energy and money.

All-American Idol Victoria Amadi ’17 won her third All-American honors by finishing sixth in the triple jump at the NCAA Division III National Indoor Championships this spring. Amadi broke her own school record and is the Warriors’ first two-time indoor All-American.

Math Counts Two teams of Hendrix College students participated in the International COMAP Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM) this spring. This year’s competitors included: Connor Bell ’16, Elizabeth Dye ’16, Travis Howk ’17, John McAvey ’16, Ryan Rose ’17, and Candyce Sarringar ’17. Bell, Dye, and McAvey were awarded a meritorious designation, placing them in the top 11 percent of teams worldwide.

Delta Force Ten Hendrix College students spent part of their Spring Break serving organizations in the Arkansas Delta and visiting the area’s cultural and historical sites: Bianca

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nationwide. With this partnership, Hendrix will recruit and enroll between four and six qualified KIPP alumni for the 2015–2016 school year and each year thereafter. Hendrix will address the full financial need of KIPP alumni at the school and develop a peer mentorship program to provide further peer support to KIPP students and other first-generation college students. Additionally, Hendrix will provide KIPP Delta high school juniors and seniors with college exposure opportunities to experience college through field trips to tour the campus and visit with professors.

“We are excited and honored to continue the culture of success that KIPP Delta has created for students in the Arkansas Delta,” said Hendrix President Bill Tsutsui.

“Not only does this new partnership continue our heritage of providing Arkansas students with an exceptional liberal arts education, it affirms our commitment to and the importance of a diverse campus community. This is an exciting opportunity for Hendrix and KIPP Delta students, and we are so grateful to the KIPP leaders for their confidence and trust in Hendrix.”

In 2014, KIPP Delta Collegiate High School was named the #2 high school in the state of Arkansas by U.S. News & World Report. Hendrix joins a growing list of KIPP college partners, including Brown University, Duke University, Georgetown University, the University of Pennsylvania and Spelman College.

Swingers Five Hendrix College baseball players were named to the All-Southern Athletic Association Teams: Graduate student Thomas Weber ’14 was named to the first team; Ryan Ritz ’15 and Daniel Imbro ’16 were selected to the second team; and Will Nichol ’16 and Harley Faye ’17 were honorable mentions. The Warriors broke the school record for ERA in a season for the third straight year, finishing with a 3.70 earned run average in 2015.

Phys Ed Two Hendrix College physics majors presented their research at the April 2015 meeting of the American Physical Society in Baltimore, Maryland. Karthik Garimella ’17 presented his research on “Electromagnetic Radiative Corrections for the Qweak Experiment” under the supervision of Hendrix physics professor Dr. Damon Spayde. Jackson Gakundi ’17 presented his work with Hendrix physics professor Dr. Robert Dunn on “Monitoring Rotational Components of Seismic Waves with a Ring Laser Interferometer.” The American Physical Society is the world’s largest organization of physicists, and its annual April meeting showcases more than 1,000 physics papers to more than 1,600 physicists in attendance.

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Craig ’15, Kameron Morton ’18, Jackie Nyamutumbu ’16, James Owen ’16, Emily Rankin ’17, Kristi Scott ’18, Trey Signorelli ’15, Minsahng Song ’16, Delaney Wells ’18, and Grant Zurcher ’17. The group worked with the McGehee-Desha Alumni Community Center and the Dumas Food Pantry and visited the Delta Cultural Center in Helena, the Desha County Museum in Dumas, the Jerome-Rohwer Interpretive Museum, and the Rohwer Relocation Center Site. The trip was sponsored by the Miller Center for Vocation, Ethics, and Calling and the Hendrix N-STEAD initiative.

This spring, President Bill Tsutsui signed agreements with the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), top, and the Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) to provide scholarships for Latino and Latina students and KIPP Delta students.

Justice League

Hip to KIPP KIPP (Knowledge Is Power Program) and Hendrix College will partner in an effort to increase college completion rates for underserved KIPP students in the Delta and

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Hendrix College and the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) joined together to establish three new scholarships for Latino and Latina students to attend Hendrix. Hendrix President Bill Tsutsui and Arkansas LULAC State Director Terry Trevino-Richard signed a Memorandum of Understanding at a special ceremony this spring in the Bertie Wilson Murphy Building on the Hendrix campus. “This scholarship is a meaningful opportunity for Latino and Latina students and a meaningful opportunity for the Hendrix community to demonstrate our commitment to diversity on our campus,” said President Tsutsui.

“We’re very grateful to LULAC for their partnership in this important program.” In addition to maintaining good academic standing at Hendrix, scholarship recipients will also complete 35 hours of service in the Latino community.

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to lead worship services and preach in more than 400 United Methodist Churches throughout Arkansas.

Associate Chaplain and Associate Director of the Miller Center for Vocation, Ethics and Calling Rev. J.J. Whitney ’96 will serve as interim Hendrix Chaplain. She joined the Hendrix staff in 2002 as program coordinator for the Hendrix-Lilly Vocations Initiative. In 2005, she was awarded The Francis Asbury Award for Fostering United Methodist Ministries in Higher Education from the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry of the United Methodist Church. Rev. Whitney and Rev. Clark have helped more than 45 Hendrix students attend seminary.

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Austrian Odyssey

Ples Spradley ’15, left, received the 2015 President’s Medal from Hendrix College President Bill Tsutsui at the 2015 Honors Day Convocation

Plesident’s Medal Ples Spradley ’15 received the 2015 President’s Medal at the 2015 Honors Day Convocation. The medal is presented each year to the student who best exemplifies the highest ideals of the College, including excellence in scholarship, outstanding citizenship, and service to the community.

Spradley graduates with distinction in biochemistry and molecular biology and Spanish.

Amen Hendrix College Chaplain Rev. J. Wayne Clark ’84 has been named Associate Vice President for Development and Dean of the Chapel. In his new role at Hendrix, Clark will be responsible for the Hendrix Annual Fund, planned giving, and major gifts, as well as provide leadership for Advancement Services.

At Hendrix, Clark successfully directed the planning grant that led to a $2 million dollar grant from The Lilly Foundation to develop programs to assist students in the “theological exploration of vocation.” During the fiveyear grant, he successfully helped secure an additional $1.5 million dollar grant to extend the original grant three years. Clark successfully worked to secure a $1 million dollar gift to continue the work and programming of the Lilly Foundation as the Miller Center for Vocation, Ethics and Calling. He was instrumental in writing and receiving a $500,000 five-year grant from The Lilly Foundation to establish a program for Clergy and Civic Engagement and in securing a $50,000 gift to endow the John and Marjem Gill Preaching Workshop.

Clark started and supervised a United Methodist Youth Fellowship (UMYF) Leadership Scholarship program.

More than 250 Hendrix students have participated in the program, which has motivated and mobilized students

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Kyle Wicks ’15 was awarded an English teaching assistantship from the Austrian-American Educational Commission (AAEC) and Austrian Federal Ministry of Education and Women’s Affairs (BMBF). Wicks will teach in the Austrian province of Oberösterreich (Upper Austria) for the 2015–16 academic year. “It is an honor to have been selected for the program, and I am extremely fortunate to have the opportunity to follow in the footsteps of several Hendrix graduates before me,” said Wicks, an international relations major. “This program will allow me to explore an increasing interest in teaching as well as continue to develop my German language skills while working as a teaching assistant in local secondary schools in the city of Wels.”

Across the Pond History major Emily Hardick ’17 will study the effects of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade on the city of Bristol, England, through the Fulbright Commission-University of Bristol Summer Institute for Young American Student Leaders, a four-week cultural and academic program for U.S. students held at the University of Bristol in the U.K. Hardick is the first Hendrix student to participate in a Fulbright Summer Institute, one of the most prestigious and selective summer scholarship programs operating worldwide.

PBK on Tap Twenty-seven Hendrix College students were elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Society’s Beta chapter at Hendrix.

Founded in 1776, Phi Beta Kappa is the nation’s oldest and largest academic honor society, with more than half a million members. It has chapters at more than 270 of the finest colleges and universities. The Society’s mission is to promote the liberal arts and sciences, to recognize academic excellence, and to foster freedom of thought and expression.

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religion, gender, and tax bracket, all children should have the chance for prosperity in their education, and a Watson year will allow me to be a student of the world and learn critical lessons from other countries’ successes and failures.”

Morrow is the 33rd Hendrix College student to receive a Watson Fellowship since the program began in 1968.

“The Watson Fellowship is like the Rhodes or Marshall in having an intensely competitive selection process, so this is a great honor for Audrey and a testament to the support our students receive from Hendrix faculty and staff,” said Hendrix President Bill Tsutsui.

“We are truly excited for Audrey and wish her the very best for her Watson year.”

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Audrey Morrow ’15, an anthropology major, was awarded a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship this spring. This year, 50 fellows were selected from nearly 700 candidates. This year’s recipients represent 19 states and eight countries and will traverse 78 countries.

In her Watson Fellowship project, titled “Coast-to-Coast in Search of Equity,” Morrow will visit Canada, Finland, New Zealand and Guatemala. “In an effort to improve the educational outcomes of students from marginalized populations, I would like to witness how other educational systems in the world handle equity,” she wrote. “Are they using programmatic or curricular solutions? Do they offer support for parents or focus on teacher training? How do other systems address diversity and poverty? Regardless of race, ethnicity,

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Elementary, Ms. Watson

Past Watson Fellowship Recipients 1985 George F. Sawaya, Studying Tropical Diseases (United Kingdom, Switzerland, France, West Africa) 1986 Amy E. Raymond, Prehistoric Gynocentric Religious Images (Greece, England, Turkey, Crete) 1987 Annette M. Stroud, Study of Islamic Culture (Turkey, Jordan, Egypt, Morocco, Sudan, Pakistan, Malaysia) 1988 Daniel Harton Spatz Jr., A Documentary Study of Cultural Change (Zaire, India) 1989 Jaleh Mansouri, Archaeological Excavations of Roman Ruins (England, West Germany, France, Italy) 1990 Anna Cheiron Barnes, Strategies for Women’s Development (Kenya, Liberia, Jamaica) 1990 Tim McKenna, Environmental Problems and Policies (New Zealand) 1991 Bruce W. Martin, Changes in the Society and Landscape of England from Thomas Hardy to the Twentieth Century (Great Britain) 1991 Julie Ann Nolte Owen, Religious Phenomena and Marian Pilgrimages (Yugoslavia, France, Ireland, Egypt) 1992 Dabney D. Hailey, Effects of Major Political Shifts on Public Art (Spain, Germany, Poland, Russia) 1992 John A. “Jay” Ball, Socialism with a Human Face: Political Cultures in Transition (Tanzania, Czechoslovakia) 1993 Wendy R. Anderson, Empowering the Female Voice (Palestine, Russia, China) 1994 Gustavo H. Zajac, The New Europe: Impact on Jewish Communities (Western Europe, Russia, Israel, Hungary) 1996 Misty Leigh Williams, Treating Cancer and Its Victims (Australia, Great Britain, Thailand, India) Note: awarded Watson but did not pursue it 1997 Sarah E. King, Quilting Around the World (France, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, United Kingdom) 1998 Karen Steelman, Conservation and Museum Display (Great Britain, Australia, Chile, Costa Rica) 2000 David Doyle, Dance as Therapy (United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, Japan) 2001 David Scott Cunningham, The Acadian Legacy: Exploring the

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State of Modern Descendents of the Acadians (Canada, France, St. Dominigue, Martinique, Falkland Islands) Katy Montgomery, Spirituality and Sustainability in Ecovillages Around the World (Australia, India, Italy, Scotland, Sweden, Denmark) Kendall Collier, The Unlikely Leader: Leadership Styles of Empowered Women (Argentina, South Africa, India, Nepal, Vanuatu) Elizabeth “Liza” Mueller, When Development Reaches the Beach: Sea Turtles and Ecotourism (Brazil, French Guiana, Galapagos Islands, Seychelles, Greece, Mexico) Sara Jacobson, Heritage Management and the Search for National and Ethnic Identity (England, Spain, Mexico, Peru, Ukraine) Tori Sutherland, A Study of Women’s Health Care in Four Developing Nations (El Salvador, India, Botswana, Senegal) Sabrinah “Ariane” Christie, Female Beauty and Body Alteration (Jamaica, China, England, Mexico) Benjamin Lownik, A Revolutionary Vehicle: How Bicycles Transform Lives Throughout the World (Belgium, Denmark, United Kingdom, France, Germany, South Africa, Ghana, Rwanda, China, Hungary) Trenton “T.C.” Elliott, Beliefs and Biomedicine: Investigating Culture and Health in the Tropics (Brazil, Vietnam, Tanzania) Nathan Thomas, Educational Prosperity: Cultural Education in Four Metropolitan Schools (India, South Africa, Australia, Finland) Laura Podd, Extraordinary Bodies: Perceptions of Disability in the Developing World (Romania, Thailand, El Salvador) Wyatt “Dillon” Blankenship, A Detour by Way of the Beehive: Traditional Apiculture in a Changing World (United Kingdom, Tanzania, Egypt, India, Russia) Maia Yang, Sharing in their Stories: Microfinance from the Female Perspective (Bangladesh, Vietnam, Rwanda, Peru) Alison Harrington, Partnering with Fungi to Improve the Human Landscape through Transformative Decomposition (Thailand, Cambodia, South Africa, Namibia, Ecuador, Costa Rica) McKenna Raney, Uncovering Emotional Connections in HumanEquine Partnerships (Argentina, France, Iceland, Ireland, South Africa, Kyrgyzstan, Australia)

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hendrix through time

Commencement has migrated across the Hendrix College campus from Tabor Hall in 1891 — the first graduation ceremony after the College moved from Altus to Conway — to the Wellness and Athletics Center east of Harkrider today.

For several years, including 1936 when the top photo was taken, commencement was on the lawn north of the Administration Building. The area was grassy and shaded, with folding chairs and wooden bleachers providing seating. The speaker in 1936 was Dr. Roger W. Babson, entrepreneur, business theorist, and founder of colleges — including Babson College, a private business school in Wellesley, Massachusetts. His topic was “Lessons I have Learned from Hard Knocks.”

Through the years, other locations for commencement have included Axley Gymnasium, Staples Auditorium, Grove Gymnasium, and — for about 30 years beginning in 1969 — the brick patio outside the entrance to the old underground version of Bailey Library.

As the 21st Century began, commencement was once again on the grass and under the trees near the new administration building, Fausett Hall, and the former President’s Home, now called Ellis Hall. In 2009, the ceremony moved to Grove Gymnasium in the Wellness and Athletics Center. There, family members fill the stands and others view the ceremony on large screens elsewhere in the WAC or in the Student Life and Technology Center. Those who can’t travel to Conway can watch live on the Internet.

No matter the location, the core elements of the Hendrix commencement experience remain consistent. The faculty march in their colorful robes, music plays, and speeches are given, diplomas presented, pictures taken, and, with lots of grins and a few tears, Hendrix students become Hendrix alumni as they have every spring for nearly 140 years.

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at home at hendrix:

Highlighting Alumni Faculty and Staff

Dr. Amanda Moore ’86

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the University of Central Arkansas for six years before becoming director of Olin C. Bailey Library in June 2001.

“It was exciting being back in the small liberal arts environment with its unique academic and interpersonal vitality,” she says Moore worked at Bailey until 2013, when she accepted her current position.

Libraries “changed tremendously” during that period and, with technology, what took hours and hours of phone calls and perusing collections can be accomplished now searching online databases and digital archives, she says.

“People still need assistance to find what they’re looking for, but so much is digital now that it’s less like a sleuth looking for a needle in a haystack, which I really loved,” she says. Library work is now very data-driven whereas her current role is much more people-oriented, she adds.

Alongside her library duties, Moore was also an active clergy member. And, she earned a doctorate in leadership and group dynamics at Drew University School of Theology in 2010.

Moore is now a commissioned chaplain for pastoral ministries in the Episcopal Church.

“I can’t imagine not having a foot in that world, listening to and being in relationships with people at a critical moment in their lives and helping people deal with important issues,” she says.

Her library experience and pastoral skills converged when she joined the student affairs staff in 2013.

“It’s a perfect marriage of my skills,” she says. “I spend a lot of time researching, so I definitely use my library background in that sense. And I spend a lot of time using my chaplaincy skills and helping people discern what they want to accomplish and what inspires them.”

“Working with students to fulfill their life’s purpose has a huge impact on their lives,” she says. “It is such a fun job.

I love this.”

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What do you get when you cross a librarian and chaplain?

Someone like Dr. Amanda Moore ’86, the Graduate School Programs Coordinator in the Office of Employment and Graduate School Connections.

“I help students and alumni figure out what they want to do, how graduate and professional school fits into that and helps them move into directions that excite them,” Moore says.

Moore grew up in Conway, where her family has lived since 1890. Her mother Martha Moore ’52 went to Hendrix College, as did her uncle Dr. Harry Meyer ’49, a former U.S. Assistant Surgeon General who developed the rubella vaccine.

Moore looked at Wellesley College, then skipped her senior year of high school and went to Hendrix, thinking she might transfer after a year.

“I just loved Hendrix so much that I stayed,” says Moore, who took an overload of classes every term so she could graduate from Hendrix in three years.

Moore changed majors several times before becoming a religion major.

“I loved the religion department,” says Moore, noting formative faculty members like Dr. Francis Christie ’44, Dr. Jon Farthing and Dr. Jay McDaniel. “Every class was spectacular and inspiring. Dr. McDaniel’s Images of Christ was eye opening and probably convinced me most to go on to graduate school.”

After graduation, Moore married Tommy Trussell ’85 and moved to upstate New York, where Trussell studied technical writing and communication at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Moore taught 4-year-olds on the Russell Sage College campus then studied world religions at Harvard Divinity School.

“I envisioned teaching but also flirted with the idea of going into the clergy,” says Moore. “But the plan was really to save the world.”

During graduate school at Harvard, Moore worked in the Harvard Business School Library and also completed a master’s degree in library and information science at Simmons College in Boston, Massachusetts. After their son Martin’s birth in 1994, Moore and Trussell moved back to Arkansas. Moore worked as a librarian at

Left: Moore, second from left, poses for the Troubadour photographer with other members of the Pre-Theology Club, including John Branch, Russ Parish, Marie Stroud, Bart Hernden, Jamie Alexander, Allan McClain, Rev. Jon Guthrie, Bert Palmer, Joel Cooper, Don McKinney, and Scott Schafer.

Middle: Tommy Trussell ’85 and Moore have made their home in Conway since 1994.

Story by Rob O’Connor ’95, Managing Editor

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Hope Coulter (creative writing) published a new book of poems titled The Wheel of Light.

The book is part of the New Poets Series imprint of BrickHouse Books. Coulter is the author of two novels, The Errand of the Eye and Dry Bones (August House, 1988 and 1990), and a children’s book, Uncle Chuck’s Truck (Bradbury Press, 1993). Her work has appeared in journals such as The Carolina Quarterly, North American Review, and Rattle.

She has taught creative writing at Hendrix College since 1993 and is the interim director of the Hendrix-Murphy Foundation Programs in Literature and Language.

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Dr. Debapriya Sarkar (English) was recently awarded the 2015 J. Leeds Barroll Dissertation Prize from the Shakespeare Association of America. The award recognizes doctoral work with a significant Shakespeare component. Sarkar was honored for “Possible Knowledge: Forms of Literary and Scientific Thought in Early Modern England,” her Ph.D. dissertation from Rutgers University.

Dr. Marjorie Swann (English) was recently named an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow at the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, a collections-based research and educational institution in San Marino, California. Swann recently edited the new Oxford University Press edition of Izaak Walton’s 17th-century fishing manual The Compleat Angler. Swann’s Huntington project will be “Environment, Society, and The Compleat Angler,” which is also the title of her book-in-progress about Walton’s Angler and its post-17thcentury afterlives.

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Dr. Kristi McKim (English and film studies) was honored this spring by the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry with the 2014–2015 Exemplary Teacher Award.

The award was established to express the church’s support of and appreciation for faculty who have demonstrated exemplary leadership, excellence in teaching, service to students and commitment to education.

Recipients receive an appreciation certificate and a cash award. McKim’s teaching and research explore the ways that cinema can enrich our perception by correlating our experience of time (through clocks, calendars, bodies, histories) with environmental changes (gravity, weather, seasons) and human emotion (such as nostalgia, desire, love, melancholia). Her books include Love in the Time of Cinema (2011) and Cinema as Weather: Stylistic Screens and Atmospheric Change (2013).

Dr. Daniel J. Whelan (politics and international relations) was invited to become a faculty affiliate of the Economic and Social Rights Group (ESRG) at the Human Rights Institute at the University of Connecticut in recognition of his scholarship achievements and interests in the field of economic and social rights. The Human Rights Institute publishes the Journal of Human Rights.

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Dr. Andrea Duina (biology) co-authored an article titled “Budding Yeast for Budding Geneticists: A Primer on the Saccharomyces cerevisiae Model System.” The article was published in the journal Genetics and featured in Genetics Spotlight: A Showcase of Research and Scholarship in Selected Articles from 2014.

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Dr. Karen Oxner (accounting) was the recipient of the Arkansas Society of CPAs (ASCPA) 2014 Distinguished Achievement in Accounting Education Award. The award recognizes full-time college accounting educators distinguished for excellence in teaching and for involvement in the accounting profession. Oxner has taught for 18 years at Hendrix College and has served as chair of the Department of Economics and Business since 2008. She is also director of the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies and coordinator for students who participate in the D.W. Reynolds Governor’s Cup Business Plan Competitions.

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Dr. Chris Camfield (mathematics) was awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant for his project, “Data-Driven Applications Inspiring Upper-Division Mathematics.” The award totals $75,972 for research to be done over a two-year period. The project is part of a collaborative initiative with colleagues at Washington State University, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, and Kenyon College. The total award for the two-year, four-college collaboration is $249,789. The project is funded through the NSF’s Improving Undergraduate STEM Education Program.

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Faculty News

This small sample of achievement and awards, publications, grants and professional activities illustrates some of the ways that Hendrix faculty members expand their expertise and enrich their teaching for the benefit of Hendrix students.

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The Price of Gas

Faculty and students explore ecological impact of shale gas Natural gas drilling has brought short-term economic gain for communities in the Fayetteville Shale, a roughly 10-county swath in central and eastern Arkansas. Just ask the Chambers of Commerce.

The gas industry added more than $115 million (including $70 million in wages and $25 million in royalties to mineral rights owners) to Faulkner County’s economy, keeping it out of the national recession.

But the long-term ecological impact is not so positive. Just ask biology professors Dr. Maureen R. McClung ’01 and Dr. Matthew D. Moran and their students Chloe C. Benichou ’14, Brandon Cox ’16 and Rachel L. Wells ’16.

The group examined how the oil and gas industry’s hydraulic fracturing process, called fracking, affects ecological habitats. Results from their collaborative research were published this year in Environmental Management in an article titled “Habitat Loss and Modification Due to Gas Development in the Fayetteville Shale.”

The Fayetteville Shale is one of the first developments in a habitat that includes temperate forests and “species of concern.”

The study found that natural gas development is fragmenting habitats.

As acreage is cleared, roads are built and wells are installed, creating edge habitats that attract predators, like raccoon. That’s bad news for species like the wood thrush and the cerulean warbler, which thrive in contiguous forest areas.

“Unless you live or work in an area where fracking is occurring, it’s difficult to understand just how severe the impact to the land can be,” McClung said. “Our study quantifies that impact.”

Better placement of gas wells would mitigate the ecological impact of fracking, Moran said.

“There may be some better choices on where to place wells that would limit the impact on habitats a lot. We’re trying to show, if done a little differently, you might be able to extract just as much gas and limit the damage,” he said. “For an industry that wants to grow, that’s in their best interest.”

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Using satellite imagery from Google Earth, student researchers collected area measurements of land use changes.

“Normally people think of ecologists conducting research out in nature,” said McClung. “With this study, we were able to utilize publicly available data and software to ask and answer an ecological question from computers on campus.”

“As an undergraduate researcher, I focused primarily on the empirical work. This meant lots of time spent using satellite software to map out the various land types we were assessing and, in turn, analyzing this data to quantify how the land uses were changing over time whether it be natural or due to human intervention,” said Cox. “Because the land use research covered in the article spanned one school year, I was able to play a relevant role in its progression from initial procedural decisions to presenting preliminary data and publishing the final paper.”

“Too often student researchers are solely used as a tool with the function of generating data as fast as possible, which doesn’t contribute to their ability to do research, to think scientifically,” he said. “Our team created a space for everyone’s ideas and the professors made sure to include the undergraduates in all levels of the research process — the respect they showed taught me more about how science is done pragmatically than any class I have taken.”

Because gas wells have been in place in the Fayetteville Shale since 2004, the study shows what the total impact on land use could be for a shale area nearing the end of development, McClung said.

“Other areas like Pennsylvania and Ohio still have years of exploration and production ahead of them, so our data could inform decision makers as to what the ultimate disturbance to the landscape could be,” she said. “We hope these numbers will add to the conversation between scientists, landowners, policy-makers, and industry officials to help make decisions on how fracking is regulated in the future.”

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Long Live a King Retired professor has yet to write his final chapter

“You look forward to it [retirement], but life still goes on,” he said.

“So what now?”

King retired as the Harold and Lucy Cabe Distinguished Professor of Politics and International Relations in June 2011 after leading a trip to Argentina and Chile. He traveled with anthropology professor Dr. Anne Goldberg and eight students to study human rights and social justice in Latin America. The trip was the capstone of his three-year appointment as one of the College’s inaugural Odyssey Professors.

In fall 2011, King signed up for a short story writing class. The experience, and his professor’s encouragement, led him to write two novels — The Last Eucharist: A True War Story and Leaves in the Wind: A Novel of the Dirty Wars.

“I had no idea I had any kind of proclivity for writing fiction,” he said. “It came as a total surprise.”

Growing up, King said he exhibited some artistic talent, drawing and painting.

“I thought about that as a career, but it just never happened,” he said.

King was born and raised in Lincolnshire, a rural and sparsely populated community in eastern England. Researching his roots on Ancestry.com, he confirmed that for the last three centuries his family members were almost entirely farm laborers and servants.

King served five years in the Royal Navy as a hydrographic surveyor. Though he saw no combat, he was aboard a warship in Icelandic fishing territory during the “Cod Wars” in the early 1970s.

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With his mother’s encouragement, King was the first in his family to attend a university. He earned a bachelor’s degree in politics from the University of Hull and his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. When he joined the Department of History and Political Science (now Politics and International Relations) at Hendrix College in 1985, King was the only full-time political scientist.

“When I started, the faculty had to be jacks of all trades and had to try and spread out,” says King, who taught American and comparative politics, research methods and international relations. “I wondered how the hell we did it all, but somehow we did.”

Despite a quarter century of campus expansion, increased enrollment, demographic shifts and faculty growth, Hendrix has stayed the same, more or less, he said.

“One way or another, it’s a pretty workintensive place,” said King.

The upshot of the intensity is the close relationships faculty members are able to have with students.

“We aren’t just an education machine turning out graduates,” he said. “With a significant number of students, there’s a real genuine bond that’s strong enough to outlast graduation. Many students were a big part of my life, and I was a part of theirs. Those relationships were real enough to give me a sense that what I was doing was worthwhile.”

When he returned to campus as a student,

King saw the other side of those close facultystudent relationships as faculty colleagues, creative writing professors Hope Coulter and Dr. Tyrone Jaeger, became his mentors and teachers.

With their encouragement, King “went home and plugged away,” developing a ritual of writing 1,000 words a day for three hours a day, four days a week.

By Christmas 2013, he had completed The Last Eucharist and he published the 228-page novel last May on Amazon’s CreateSpace.

According to Amazon, The Last Eucharist is “a story about the enigmatic nature of human existence — a philosophical statement about the human condition.”

King said he’s received enough feedback that has been “quite positive.” One online reviewer cited the “author’s brand of sarcasm … that will make you view the world in a way that is both funny and tragic.”

“It’s not total crap,” he says, modestly.

In September 2014, King released Leaves in the Wind. A work of historical fiction, his second novel is “totally different” from its predecessor.

“The Last Eucharist is not a total flight of imagination, but with historical fiction, I knew what I wanted to do, so it was a very different kind of process,” he said.

King will continue focusing on human rights themes in his fiction as a creative writing MFA student at Queens University in Charlotte, North Carolina. He expects to complete the program in January 2017. He’ll be 65.

“After that, who knows … All I can say is I enjoy doing it.”

Story by Rob O’Connor ’95, Managing Editor

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After teaching political science for 26 years, Dr. Ian King went back to school … as a student.

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A New Day Hendrix installs inspirational new leader with formal but fun ceremony

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Not many college leaders pick the day of their inauguration to run their first race.

But on the morning of his inauguration as the 11th President of Hendrix College, Bill Tsutsui, dressed in black and orange T-shirt, shorts, and running shoes, slogged through his first 5k alongside Hendrix alumni and students to raise money for Campus Kitty.

Not many colleges would honor the President of another institution with an on-campus ceremony the morning of a presidential inauguration.

But President Tsutsui, freshly showered following his 5k, presented University of Central Arkansas President Tom Courtway ’74 with the Distinguished Alumnus Award at the 2015 Alumni Association Awards.

Not many communities in the United States were courageous enough to bring attention to the experience of more than 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry relocated to internment centers during World War II. But Hendrix sponsored an on-campus exhibition of Japanese artist Henry Sugimoto’s work in 1943 and purchased Sugimoto’s painting “Arrival in Jerome” to display on campus. On the day before President Tsutsui’s inauguration, the College unveiled an interpretive plaque to tell the story of the artist and the internment experience.

Not many colleges proudly display a large inflatable likeness of Godzilla on campus for alumni and friends to take informal smartphone

photos (or #tsutselfie to be precise) with the President. Or serve a massive Godzilla-themed cake (made by a member of the on-campus dining services team) and cookies (made with a cookie cutter printed on the College’s 3-D printer) at the post-inauguration reception.

But Hendrix did.

On Saturday, April 18, 2015, Hendrix alumni, students, faculty, staff, and friends celebrated the inauguration of President William M. Tsutsui.

Like Tsutsui, the ceremony and events surrounding the inauguration were idiosyncratic and inspirational.

Following the procession of Hendrix faculty, delegates from institutions across the United States, and alumni representing Hendrix classes from as far back as 1937; following words of support from Bishop Gary E. Mueller, episcopal leader of the Arkansas Area of the United Methodist Church, Hendrix Provost Dr. Terri Bonebright, Board of Trustees Chair David Knight ’71, and Student Senate President Mimi Spjut ’16, and after thanking the community for its warm welcome to Hendrix, to Conway, and to Arkansas, President Tsutsui delivered his inaugural address, “Be Hendrix.”

Inauguration Address Excerpts

no coasting through for four years, no good enough will do. I have been consistently impressed by the high expectations that professors and coaches have for their students, that students have for their peers, and that the students have for themselves.”

Being Smart

Excerpts from “Be Hendrix,” the inaugural address of Dr. William M. Tsutsui, 11th Hendrix College President, April 18, 2015

“As I travel around the state and hear what people think about Hendrix, our graduates, and the kind of recruits we consistently attract, the word that gets mentioned most often is ‘smart.’ Ours is a community of bright, thoughtful, talented individuals, not conceited or obnoxious, but confident, creative, and eager for a challenge. As one faculty member (and alum) described the College to me, it is full of overachievers, people with curious, restless minds, people who feel compelled to do more, do better, and do right.”

Our Community “Our college long has, and happily continues to be, distinguished by a strong, cohesive, and supportive community. As soon as you set foot on this campus, the sense of that collectivity is ever about you.”

“Community is something authentic here at Hendrix: it is not an abstract notion or a convenient fiction or a marketing slogan. Community at Hendrix is a welcoming handshake, a shoulder to cry on, and an occasional kick in the backside; a call to action and a collective conscience; a guarantee of acceptance and understanding. Community at Hendrix is a generous, affirming embrace that lasts a lifetime, a bear-hug that never ends, with friends and classmates, faculty and staff, those who have gone before, and those who someday will follow.”

Being Hendrixy “And then there is that other quality that so strongly distinguishes our community, that elusive, indefinable, endearing part of our collective character that some call quirky but which I (and many others on campus) would rather refer to simply as being Hendrixy.”

“For me, at least, for something to be Hendrixy it must be creative and clever, perpendicular to convention, unexpected and a bit whimsical, thought-provoking to be sure, but never, ever mean-spirited.”

“The character of Hendrix, in other words, is something quite remarkable. This is a place where we welcome young people of talent and potential, independent spirits, free thinkers, and dreamers; where our community encourages, empowers, and challenges; where students build, from friends and fellowship, classwork and internships, study abroad and sportsmanship, the sure foundations for lives of personal fulfilment, professional accomplishment, engaged citizenship, and selfless service.”

Being Rigorous “But Hendrix College is also, as all of us here today know, very much about rigor, about high standards both academic and personal, about the challenge (that comes both from within and from without) to be the best that one can possibly be. This is a serious place, a place that values (and rewards) effort and achievement, and a place that encourages, even inspires, excellence and accomplishment, character and integrity.

“Hendrix is not for slouches; there is no hiding in the back row here,

On Swagger “One need only look at Hendrix — who we are and what we do — to blunt the barbs of media critics. Look at the academic profile of our recruits; look at our retention and graduation rates, the highest in this state; look at our record of admissions to top-tier professional schools and doctoral programs; look at the list of competitive fellowships and grants won by our students; look at the loan debt of our graduates, far lower than the national and even the Arkansas averages; look around you at the success of our alumni, who have excelled on Main Street as well as Wall Street, in clinics in the Delta as well as at the Cleveland Clinic, who have done well and done good with a Hendrix liberal arts education.

“We have nothing to apologize for and nothing we need to defend; what we have is a lot to be proud of and a great story to tell. Now is not the time to wring our hands and hang our heads. And it is not the time to be consumed by self-doubt. It is the time, though, to be a little less shy and a little less modest. It’s time to put on a little Hendrix swagger.

And as a Texan, with that Lone Star predisposition to swagger, I am happy to lead the way.”

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On Not Being Complacent Photo by Joshua Daugherty

Carl J. Strikwerda, Maia Yang ’13 and Rahfin Faruk listen to Alice Hines answer a question about the Value of a Liberal Arts Education during a panel discussion that kicked off Inauguration activities.

Peg Falls-Corbitt moderated the discussion. Watch the event at www.hendrix.edu/inauguration/panel/video.

“Happily, complacency is not a part of the Hendrix character. But embracing a challenge is, and we will need that passion to push ourselves to be the best that we can possibly be in the years ahead.

Community is also at the very core of who we are and we will need the collective investment of all those who care for Hendrix as we work to stay at the forefront of liberal arts colleges in a time of profound

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economic, political, and social change. And nothing may serve us better as we look forward to a future full of opportunities as well as pitfalls than that quality of being Hendrixy, that smart, ingenious, unpredictable, undeniable creativity that is so us.”

Looking Ahead

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“We need first to feed the core to ensure that we continue to be the best that we can be. This means intensive rather than extensive growth, deepening and strengthening our ability to do even better what we already do so well, not spreading ourselves thinner in a proliferation of new directions that dissipate our energies and distract our concentration from our fundamental mission and proven strengths.

This means focus rather than flash, small-ball rather than home-run swings, deep, meaningful growth rather than ever more and ever bigger.

“We need to bring the historic residence halls up President Tsutsui admires the Godzilla cake, which was a big hit at the reception to 21st-century standards; we need to build a new after his Inauguration. A few minutes later, Inauguration guests discovered that front door to campus, a welcome center that rolls out Godzilla is tasty chocolate on the inside. View photos from the reception at the red (or, better yet, the orange) carpet to recruits www.hendrix.edu/inauguration/reception/photos. and the larger community; we need to strengthen our web of support for students, from counseling services to career planning to programming in multicultural and gender affairs; we need to invest in cannot make real the American promise of a free and just society here in faculty development, in that essential work of teaching and learning, these 180 acres and in this accepting community, what hope does our and find ways to better support research initiatives that bring together vast, endlessly varied, and deeply fractured country have?” scholars and students; we need to elevate the Hendrix-Murphy Foun“We need to be more intentional and more ambitious in seeking diverdation and its programs in language and literature as a focal point of sity, broadly defined, on this campus. But we should remember that distinction for the College; we need to mobilize the campus to ensure being the kind of community we want to be is not just about numbers, that Hendrix remains a pacesetter in retention and graduation rates about headcounts and proportions; it is also very much about creating in Arkansas and the region; and we need to find the means to better a culture of inclusion, where everyone is valued, respected, heard, and reward those who dedicate their lives to serving the College, whether supported, where we live collectively the aspirations I know we all hold that be from the front of a classroom or the back of a lawnmower.” in our hearts.”

Being in Arkansas

“As we look ahead, we should not forget that, even as Hendrix is recognized as a national liberal arts college with reach and impact and ambitions that extend around the country and the world, our roots are here in Arkansas and our future is intertwined with that of our home state.

Hendrix has been shaped by (and has, in turn, shaped) the place, the people, and the culture of Arkansas. Nowhere are we better known and more respected than in this state; and nowhere else, I daresay, are we more misunderstood and mistrusted, resented and even reviled. It is incumbent upon us to reach out to Arkansas, to make our Bubble a little less impermeable, so that we might better serve our state and so that we (and particularly our students) might take full benefit of the opportunities available here.”

On Diversity “As we look ahead we must imagine a future where Hendrix is a model of diversity and inclusion, not just among liberal arts colleges, not just for Arkansas, but for our entire troubled and divided nation. For if we

Going Forward “As we look ahead today, we can take great pride in all that Hendrix College has accomplished, while recognizing that much still remains to be done. But for all the uncertainty that the future may bring, we can be confident in what we do, in why we do it, and in our determination, even our eagerness, to tackle challenges together, with smarts and creativity, collective passion and an expectation of excellence.

“Even as we are buffeted by sweeping global change and turmoil in higher education, Hendrix should not become a weathervane, whipped in multiple directions by the shifting winds of fashion and fear and conformity, chasing the “next big thing” or hurrying down the path of expediency.

“We must continue to do what we are best at. We must affirm our historic values and be bold in our unfolding vision. And we must not shy away from exerting leadership, in the academy, in our home state, and in the world. Above all, we must trust in ourselves, trust in our heritage, trust in the spirit of our community, and look forward together to an even brighter future.”

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Pre-Inaugural Address When Dr. John Churchill accepted an appointment to the Hendrix College philosophy faculty in 1977, an eminent scholar congratulated him on the appointment and said he hoped that Churchill would discover the genius loci of the place and thrive.

That remark inspired, in part, “The Sense of the Place: Toward Humanity Fulfilled, Hendrix and the Transformative Experience,” Churchill’s Pre-Inaugural Address in the Mills Center.

“That a place should have a genius loci is the idea that it can have a definitive character, something we might approximate with words like ethos or style; more substantive than tone or feel; less explicitly directive than mission,” Churchill said. “For convenience, today, I have settled on the phrase, “the sense of the place.”

Churchill is currently Secretary (or CEO) of The Phi Beta Kappa Society, the nation’s oldest honor society, founded in 1776 at the College of William and Mary. Before assuming his position at ΦBK, he served as Dean of the College at Hendrix from 1984 to 2001.

He began his search for a sense of Hendrix with an examination of the College motto, adapted from a phrase in Ephesians and generally translated as “toward human fulfillment” or “unto the whole person.”

“What these versions cast as fulfillment, perfection, completion, or wholeness is the idea that there is a fullness of being human out there as a goal to be sought after and worked toward: a lure available to the imagination but not imaginary, that draws our aspiration, and is thus very real in its effect on our striving,” Churchill said.

It’s crucial, he added, that the motto doesn’t define human fulfillment, but leaves defining, questioning, and redefining human fulfillment as a critical component of achieving the goal.

“The genius loci of Hendrix College — the sense of our place — puts such questions as these squarely, and inexpungeably, at the center of our self-understanding,” Churchill said.

Looking back to the writings of the College’s first two presidents — founder Isham Lafayette Burrow (1876–1887) and Alexander Copeland Millar (1887–1892) — Churchill noted that the push away from the liberal arts toward learning practical arts that lead directly to employment is not a new thought for the 21st century, or even the 20th.

In the introduction of the catalogue for the 1889–90 school year, A.C. Millar wrote: “That education which, ignoring culture, burdens the student’s mind with tables and technical terms simply because these may be of use to him in his business or profession, is not practical or beneficial, but injurious in the extreme. The education founded upon comparison of what is best in Science and Literature, giving development to mind and heart, building strong by building deep and broad, is truly practical.”

“Millar lays out here, 126 years ago,” Churchill said, “the very progression of thought that dominates the decision processes of so many of our own contemporaries.”

“He is staking his venture on the idea that the practical and the ideal can be united in a vision of what it is to be a whole human being,” Churchill continued. “It’s a vision of wholeness — a deeper, longerterm practicality — one we would do well to seek and advocate in our own age.”

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John Churchill examines The Sense of the Place

“The immediately practical is all too prone to become the quickly outdated,” he said. “Real practicality lies not in mastering the techniques of the moment, but in acquiring the intellectual flexibility and agility to adapt, to continue learning, to be ready for an unpredictable future.”

Millar’s catalogue text is worthy of examination, Churchill said, because it captures “something very distinctive and enduring about the genius loci of this college, the sense of this place, a spirit of transformative intent that aims not at making people something they were not before, and certainly not at producing in every graduate a uniform output, but at transforming — no, enabling self-transformation of — people into themselves.”

Just as in Millar’s time, the debate continues today about the value of the liberal arts and the role of higher education in society.

“The question is whether it is the business of higher education to engage these further dimensions of our human being — the ones beyond getting us our first job,” Churchill said. “The answer at Hendrix, from the beginning, has been that it is. Hendrix has consistently held that those further dimensions, making up the wholeness of our humanity, is where our real work lies.”

After his address, President William M. Tsutsui and Terri Bonebright, Provost of the College, presented Dr. Churchill with a silver medallion struck with the Seal of the College in recognition of his service to Hendrix and to the liberal arts. He was also named Dean Emeritus of the College and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy.

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History Unveiled Hendrix commemorates Henry Sugimoto’s 1943 painting “Arrival in Jerome”

that, even in a time of war and fear and injustice, the campus could welcome a Japanese-American artist with talent and a quiet message of resignation, loyalty, and dignity in distress,” said Tsutsui.

The day before his inauguration as the 11th President of Hendrix, Tsutsui invited Hendrix faculty, staff, students, and community to a ceremony on campus to unveil a new interpretive plaque, which tells the story of Sugimoto, his exhibition at Hendrix, and the internment experience.

The plaque’s text was written with the assistance of Hendrix history professor Dr. Michael Sprunger and students in the yearlong interdisciplinary course Crossings: Peace, War, and Memory, including Ariel McDonald ’16, Michala Roberts ’17, and Jesse Gavin ’15.

At the plaque’s unveiling, Irene Hirano Innouye, President of the U.S.-Japan Council, spoke about her friendship with President Tsutsui, the legacy of Sugimoto’s work, and the importance of remembering the internment experience.

Madeleine Sugimoto, the daughter of Henry Sugimoto, who is depicted as a child holding her doll in “Arrival in Jerome,” told the audience of her experience as a child in the internment camps and her father’s determination to be an artist, recycling raw canvas material from the camp to paint on.

The Sugimotos were transferred to Rohwer in 1944. When the camp closed in the summer of 1945, the family moved to New York City, where Henry emerged as a powerful documenter of the JapaneseAmerican experience. Sugimoto, who died in 1990, participated in the redress movement of the 1970s and 1980s, and his works were featured in exhibitions in New York and Japan, and at the National Museum of American History and the Japanese American National Museum.

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On his first official trip to Hendrix College in 2013, President Tsutsui noticed a painting hanging on the wall in the Mills Center.

He knew it was a scene from the internment of more than 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry, many of them U.S. citizens, during World War II. Tsutsui thought the painting might be the work of Henry Sugimoto, an artist whose work Tsutsui had seen at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, California. He was correct.

But Tsutsui didn’t know the story of how the painting — “Arrival in Jerome” — got to Hendrix.

Once he learned, Tsutsui wanted to make sure that everyone who saw the painting at Hendrix knew the story of the Japanese internment, Henry Sugimoto, and how Hendrix acquired the painting.

Born in Wakayama, Japan, in 1900, Sugimoto immigrated to the United States in 1919. He studied Western painting, earning a BFA with honors from the California School of Arts and Crafts in 1928. He studied the French masters at the Académie Colarossi in Paris and placed works in several exhibitions, including the prestigious Salon d’Automne.

In 1932, Sugimoto returned to California, married his high school sweetheart, Susie Tagawa, and continued to paint and exhibit. After Pearl Harbor, the Sugimotos and their daughter Madeleine were relocated. Two of the 10 internment centers were in Arkansas: the Rohwer camp in Desha County and the Jerome camp in Drew and Chicot Counties. Each held approximately 8,500 internees. When the Sugimotos arrived at the Jerome Relocation Center in October 1942, the artist had lost much of his life’s work and believed his artistic career was over.

In the camps, Sugimoto sketched the everyday experiences of internees in the camps. Military authorities discovered his work and used it for propaganda because they thought that it illustrated the “freedom” internees enjoyed.

In 1943, Hendrix art faculty members Louis Freund, Elsie Freund, and Floy K. Hanson visited the Jerome Relocation Center, where they met Sugimoto. Mrs. Freund and Ms. Hanson arranged an exhibition of 15 paintings at Hendrix in February 1944 to publicize the artist and the plight of interned Japanese-Americans. The Sugimotos attended the opening and a reception held in their honor. Paul Faris, Professor of English and Photography at Hendrix, photographed the Madeleine Sugimoto (center) talks about her father’s painting “Arrival in Jerome” with Tim occasion. At the exhibit’s conclusion, Hendrix Faris ’64 and Mary Ann Faris Thurmond ’59, children of Paul Faris who photographed the openpurchased “Arrival in Jerome.” ing of an exhibition of Henry Sugimoto’s work at Hendrix in 1944.

“It is a testament to the Hendrix community and its enduring commitment to inclusiveness

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Monster Mash

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Hendrix College President Bill Tsutsui strikes a pose with former Hendrix President Dr. Ann Die Hasselmo, who led Hendrix from 1992–2001 as the College’s ninth President. Tsutsui and Die are pictured next to Gwatzilla, an inflatable monster owned by the Gwatney Chevrolet automotive dealership of Jacksonville, Arkansas. Gwatzilla was part of a cornucopia of Godzilla ephemera on campus for Tsutsui’s inauguration as the 11th President of Hendrix College. Godzilla’s likeness was also featured on the cake and cookies served at the public reception on campus following the inauguration ceremony. Tsutsui, a Japanese historian, is the author of Godzilla on My Mind: 50 Years of the King of the Monsters.

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Celebrating & Remembering Your Hendrix Experience

More than 1,100 people came to Hendrix College April 17–20 for Alumni Weekend and the inauguration of William M. Tsutsui as the College’s 11th president.

Current and past members of the Alumni Board of Governors formed a corps of volunteers whose support before and during the weekend was invaluable.

Hendrix classes from 1937 to 2014 were represented in the inaugural procession. Members of the Class of 1965 joined the Half-Century Club. University of Central Arkansas President Tom Courtway ’75 received the Distinguished Alumnus Award and Laurie Smith was honored with the James E. Major Service Award. Reunion-year classes gathered in Conway, Little Rock and North Little Rock to celebrate their Hendrix experiences. We remembered deceased friends at the annual alumni memorial service in Greene Chapel.

Save the date for next year’s Alumni Weekend: April 15–18, 2016.

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Seekers and Finders

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The first thing I notice about Lost Forty Brewing is its size. Although technically a microbrewery, everything about the operation is big.

Towering over its entrance, in a former warehouse district just east of Little Rock’s River Market, is an enormous grain silo that holds the 48,000 pounds of malt that will be used to produce some 3,000 barrels of beer this year. The day it opened last December, Lost Forty became one of the biggest breweries in the state and one of the most talkedabout dining venues in the city.

Although new to brewing, co-owner John Beachboard ’01 has been a big name in central Arkansas food and business circles for years. He and partners Scott McGehee and Russ McDonough would seem to have a Midas touch, having rolled out one hit restaurant after another: ZaZa in 2008, Big Orange in 2011, followed by Local Lime in 2012. Now the trio, who joined with businessman and “serial entrepreneur” Albert Braunfisch ’86 on this venture, are making a big splash on Arkansas’s burgeoning brew scene.

But Beachboard and Braunfisch are just the latest among a growing number of Hendrix College grads who are riding the tidal wave of craft beer that is washing over the state: including Evan McDonald ’03 in Fayetteville, and Ian Beard ’02, Patrick Cowan ’03, and Ida Mehdizadegan Cowan ’05 in Little Rock. So what’s causing all this brew-ha-ha?

According to Beachboard, the influx of new microbreweries in Arkansas is the state catching up with the rest of the country. After he saw how craft beer had taken off in places such as Oregon, Texas and Alabama, it was a “no brainer” to fill the void in the local market. Also, the craft beer currently being made in the state just tastes way better than the Milwaukee’s Best Light you were probably introduced to at your first off-campus party.

“For us it’s about getting people to understand that craft beer is better and local beer is even better than that,” says Beachboard, chief evangelist of all things local. “Because at the end of the day, you’re talking about a food product. It’s water and malt. Tacos don’t travel well. Arguably, beer doesn’t travel well either.”

Like all of the alumni featured here, Beachboard got his feet wet by fermenting at home. (Most of these grads started brewing while they were still at Hendrix!) But where others might have dipped their toes in the water with a gallon-sized Mr. Beer kit, Beachboard and partner Dylan Yelenich, took the plunge with a state-of-the-art 20-gallon system, which Beachboard nicknamed “Itty Bitty” after his cat. “We made some just ridiculously bad beers,” he jokes. “And then we started making some better beers and some even better beers.”

Today, Beachboard leaves the brewing to Yelenich and master brewer Omar Castrellon, and “Itty Bitty” is used only for their small-batch pilot beers. Everything else is made in the brewery’s massive two-story fermenters, the biggest of which can hold 2,700 gallons. And I can assure you, all of their beers are exceptionally good, from their lightest, the Lost Forty Belgian Blonde, to their darkest, the Forest King American Stout.

This spring, their business grew even bigger, with the launch of a canning operation which will keep their beer fresh even as it travels beyond central Arkansas. He and his partners also rolled out their newest restaurant model: The Heights Taco & Tamale Company, located on Kavanaugh Boulevard in Little Rock, bringing to 450 the total number employees under their management.

Surprisingly, despite the many successful ventures under his belt, Beachboard was not sure Lost Forty would be another triumph. “Albert and I joked that our taproom was either going to be a huge success or the coolest man-cave you could ever have,” he says. As he, Braunfisch and I look out over the taproom, filled to bursting just minutes after their 11 a.m. opening, it’s clear they have hit it big at both.

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Where Everybody Knows Your Name

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Walking into the taproom at Stone’s Throw Brewing on a Friday night this winter, I felt a bit as if I were crashing a neighborhood block party at someone’s home.

All 20 seats were taken, including a few tucked away in the back between the brew kettles. At one table some friends played a game of cards while another group threw dice at the bar. I ran into — literally — at least two old friends I hadn’t seen in years. But that’s typical of the atmosphere at Stone’s Throw. It’s a place where friends meet friends, bump into other friends, and maybe make a few new ones. What draws them here is the atmosphere, and of course, really good beer.

When Ian Beard ’02 and partners Theron Cash, Brad McLaurin and Shawn Tobin first decided to open a microbrewery back in 2012, they weren’t savvy entrepreneurs trying to tap into a growing trend. The four had met through a local home-brewing group, the Central Arkansas Fermenters, and each had been brewing small batches at home for more than a decade. Together they hoped to open a brewery where they could share their smallbatch beers beyond their own circle of family and friends and create an environment, says Beard, “where the locals would come and have a pint after work.”

They zeroed in on the perfect spot in the historic MacArthur Park neighborhood just a “stone’s throw” from the downtown business district, in a building that had started out in life as a German bakery more than 100 years ago. To finance their dream, they started a campaign on the crowdfunding website Kickstarter. “We were looking for $10,000, and we ended up with over $23,000,” says Beard. Some 264 individual investors donated amounts ranging from $5 to $2,000, including many of their new neighbors.

On opening weekend in August 2013, it was as if the whole neighborhood showed up.

Beard guesses that more than 1,000 people came through their doors before the taps ran dry. They had to put on kegs from other Arkansas breweries for three weeks until the next batch of their own beer was ready to be consumed.

Nearly three years in, Stone’s Throw anchors the MacArthur Park area, and it never runs out of beer.

“We’ve very quickly become an important part of the neighborhood, so much so that landlords will actually advertise their proximity to us in their ads,” Beard says. To return the favor to its local supporters, the taproom offers discounts to anyone who walked or biked to the bar.

The venture has also paid dividends to its founders, enough so that Beard was able to

leave his day job at the Old State House Museum, where he had worked as an educator and interpreter for the past 11 years, to work fulltime at the brewery. Today, this political science major has a business card that reads “Beer Pusher,” and he manages the taproom at Stone’s Throw, as well as the sales, marketing and distribution for the brewery. “But I prefer ‘beer pusher,’” he quips.

On this particular winter’s evening, he hopped from table to table encouraging visitors to try the day’s new release: the Wonder State Arkansas Farmhouse Ale, which is made from Arkansas-grown wheat, rye, and honey. With eight beers on tap, and just a 3-barrel brew system, Stone’s Throw is small, what’s known as a “nano-brewery,” but Beard says they have no plans to scale up. They love the neighborhood and their place in it.

As I leave, a growler of the Wonder State in tow, in walks a large group of friends. Suddenly the room erupts in a chorus of “Happy Birthday.”

Before long, everyone in the taproom has stopped sipping and started serenading the birthday boy, even if they don’t all know his name.

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Beer D.I.Y. The first thing you wonder about the trio behind Blue Canoe Brewing Co. is where do they find their energy? Opening a small business is always a labor of love and a ridiculous amount of work. All of the alumni featured here opened breweries on top of day jobs and family responsibilities, but the husbandwife team of Patrick Cowan ’03 and Ida Mehdizadegan Cowan ’05, along with their business partner Laura Berryhill, have taken the concept of “do it yourself” to a new level.

Not only do they brew the beer themselves, they built the business on personal savings, they designed and installed the taproom nail by nail, and they — and they alone — serve every glass of Blue Canoe beer that pours from their eight taps. “We’ve walked it every step of the way from grain to mouth,” says Patrick.

And they have done it all while maintaining demanding careers: Patrick is a plaintiff’s attorney with Clark Mason Attorneys in Little Rock. Ida and Berryhill met two years ago at

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Saline Memorial Hospital in Benton, where Ida was an anesthesiologist and Berryhill is a surgical assistant in orthopedics.

Initially, brewing was a distraction for Patrick from the work of renovating the 140-year-old house he and Ida bought in Little Rock’s historic Quapaw Quarter in 2012. It was also a welcome way to pass the time, while Ida and Berryhill waited around “on call” at Saline Memorial. “When you’re making beer, there’s a lot of downtime,” explained Patrick. “Our conversations started turning to, ‘wouldn’t it be great if ...’

And finally, it was Ida who said, ‘Stop saying wouldn’t it be great if, and start doing something about it!’”

Fast forward a year and everything has come together very quickly, culminating in their opening last December. So what’s the secret to building up a successful microbrewery in the off-hours, when the rest of us are sipping a cold one in front of the TV? The answer, they say, is the peculiar alchemy of all three working together that makes beer gold.

“And Midol,” says Ida. “Lots of Midol.”

Looking around their 30-seat taproom you can see the hand of each partner at work in the details. A batch of the Whittler IPA Patrick and Berryhill just finished brewing in the back. The bar and tables that Ida and Berryhill built themselves, using reclaimed materials from the Cowan’s remodel. The wooden canoe-themed tap handles that Berryhill carved by hand. There are even handmade soaps and dog biscuits, called “Brew Doggies,” that Ida made using spent grain from the brewing process.

And these three aren’t finished working yet. They’re looking to keep the beer flowing and open their doors an additional two nights a week, all without outsourcing any of the work. “If you want something done right you have to do it yourself,” says Berryhill. Meanwhile, Ida is moving to a new practice in North Little Rock this spring. And then there’s that 140-year-old house she and Patrick want to get back to renovating. You know, in their “free time.”

Now, if they could just bottle and sell some of their energy as well.

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Evan McDonald ’03 didn’t go to Hendrix College planning on entering the brew business. In fact, he didn’t drink beer at all while a student. Instead, his drink of choice was cider and he majored in theatre with an eye toward performing on the stage.

But though the life of an actor wasn’t his ultimate calling, his dramatic training has proved useful as the founder and co-owner of the Fayetteville bar, The Smoke and Barrel, and now a 250-seat microbrewery-restaurant, Apple Blossom Brewing.

“The theatre taught me how to sell something,” says McDonald, who describes himself as “aggressively loquacious.” “I’m the ‘mouth,’ the carnival barker, and I’ve been standing on my apple crate and yelling about this business since 2005.”

Ten years ago, fresh out of Hendrix and working at bars in Fayetteville, MacDonald got the idea of opening his own cidery, which he would name Apple Blossom Brewery after the Arkansas state flower. He spent years drumming up business partners and learning the ropes home-brewing both ciders and beers, just in time for the recession to hit.

“So, we abandoned the idea of restaurant and brewery and just opened a bar to ride out the recession,” explains McDonald.

That venture, The Smoke and Barrel, which opened on Fayetteville’s popular Dickson Street in 2008, has turned into a successful whiskey bar and music venue, where McDonald also employs his stage-managing skills booking the live musical acts. But the idea of a brewery was never far from his thoughts. “I had been pushing this idea of the Apple Blossom Brewing Company up the hill like Sisyphus for a long time,” he says.

In 2013, he and his partners, now five in total, got a break: an 8,500 square-foot brewery and restaurant at the entrance to Fayetteville’s Veteran’s park. Although housed in what is essential a “strip mall” development, they have crafted the space to look barrel-aged, thanks to a dark wood bar that once adorned a pub in Dublin and was purchased off eBay. On warm days, the patio out front is lined with bikes from customers stopping in off the nearby trails for refreshment.

While brewing is Apple Blossom’s raison d’être, they are also a full restaurant like Lost Forty, and just as much thought has been given to the food. Executive pastry chef Cody Johnson ’05 makes all the desserts

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and breads they serve, which have become so popular they are also being sold off-site.

Although McDonald finally saw his dream of opening a brewery come true (even if there’s no cider involved), he’s not done selling the public on craft beer and trying to pave the way for other would-be brewers.

Recently, he became the secretary-treasurer of the Arkansas Brewer’s Guild, an industry group which champions brewing in the state.

“There are some laws on the books here that are very beneficial to the small-brewer

and those deserve to be protected,” says McDonald, noting that breweries brought $112 million dollars to the state in 2013.

“Because it starts small. It’s people with a lot of passion who get a small amount of money together. That’s the future of Arkansas brewing.”

No doubt there are already a few future alumni brewing up the next big thing in the basements of Hendrix dorms. To them, and to all their Hendrix predecessors, I raise my glass.

Sarah Ligon is proud to have known John Beachboard, Ian Beard, Patrick Cowan, and Evan McDonald during the 1999–2000 academic year, which she spent as a student at Hendrix. Originally from Arkansas, she now sips beer and works as a freelance writer and editor from her home in Oxford, Miss.

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Self-Starter Young entrepreneur finds success in start-up scene

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It would be tempting to describe 21-year-old David Allan ’14 as an entrepreneur. Just take one look at his already impressive résumé.

Allan has twice been successful in Little Rock’s annual Start Up Weekend event. In 2013, he was a part of the Simple Service app team that took home first place, and his Kick It Little Rock app team won top honors in 2014. Before that, he won first place in a business competition at Hendrix College for his management startup called Task Atlas.

In 2013, Allan launched the service project app Acorn Hours, and he is currently Head of Customer Acquisition at Tagless Style, a fashion startup based in Little Rock.

However, Allan is hesitant to peg himself with the entrepreneur label.

“I’m not dead-set on being an entrepreneur and starting businesses,” he admits. “I’m not one of those kids that were starting businesses when they were twelve.”

Instead, Allan’s main focus is education.

“Education is my real passion. Whether I’m teaching, or I’m running some education startup or nonprofit, I think that’s probably where I’ll head.”

Allan was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. His family moved to the United States and settled in Sugar Land, Texas.

After being inspired by a series of TED Talks, he moved to Chicago in 2009 to tutor third-grade students in an Americorps City Year program.

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the suburbs of Houston.” he says.

He decided to attend Hendrix after reading the book Colleges That Change Lives and paying a visit to campus.

“It was the school where the most students enthusiastically said they were glad they went there,” he says.

Allan studied economics and business at Hendrix, but he credits his experience studying philosophy with giving him the mindset he would need to venture into the world of tech startups.

“Because these fields are changing so quickly, what really matters is adaptability and creativity and empathy,” he says. “I think that’s what I got out of studying philosophy at Hendrix — this ability to quickly be able to re-conceptualize things, the ability to communicate things effectively, and I think those are the really important 21st century business skills.”

Allan’s love of TED talks also inspired him to get involved with TEDxHendrixCollege, an independently organized TED event held annually on campus.

“That was a huge, huge learning experience, working on a team to start this event. I think anything that students can be doing to start something new, especially when there’s not a clear handbook of how to do it, is a really great experience,” he says.

At Hendrix, Allan received Odyssey funding

to return to South Africa to work for two months with a nonprofit owned by his aunt in North Johannesburg.

“I was living with the kids that I was working with, and it was a really eye-opening experience,” he says. “I think the Odyssey program definitely helped me for that experiential learning, which I believe in so much.”

Allan’s current focus is Tagless Style, a sustainability-focused online men’s styling service.

Partnered with Goodwill of Arkansas, Tagless employees search for high quality clothing donated to Goodwill and then clean and mend each item. A team of stylists then prepares sets of clothing for customers based on their size and style preferences. These sets are finally pressed, packaged, and shipped to customers’ doorsteps.

“It’s a much more affordable service because it is second-hand clothes and you’re not creating as much of a carbon footprint,” he says.

Allan isn’t quite sure what his ultimate career aspiration is, but he thinks that it will be something related to education.

“I really like thinking that, two years ago, I could have never have imagined that I’m in the situation I’m in,” he says. “I would have never thought that I’d be working with the people that I’m working with or doing the things that we’ve been able to do.”

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Corps Values Alumna connects service experience to education career

She would know.

In 2009, Santa Cruz began working as a corps member in an AmeriCorps City Year program in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where she tutored sixth-grade students and completed several community service projects.

Two years later, she accepted a job as the program manager of another City Year program in San Antonio, Texas, and began managing numerous volunteers, collaborating with administrators to improve school conditions and working to develop positive relationships between students and teachers.

Santa Cruz’s formative experience in the City Year programs helped to strengthen her nuanced understanding of the challenges facing students and educators today.

“My service with City Year reinforced the importance of working with students at an early age to really ensure that they’re receiving that mentoring and academic support,” she says. “A lot of support is needed in education.

We can’t expect our teachers and principals to support our kids alone.”

Since 2013, Santa Cruz has been enrolled in a master’s degree program at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas in Austin.

“It’s sort of a nice toolkit for anyone who’s interested in public service,” she says. “We have people in our program who are interested in a range of service and public policy issues, from education to transportation to state or federal government.”

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She expects to graduate from the program in 2015 and pursue her goal of improving educational systems through hands-on experience.

“I feel extremely passionate about education and working to close the high school dropout rate because I think that that’s extremely crucial for our country,” she says.

Hailing from Dallas, Texas, Santa Cruz acknowledges her mother’s persistence as a factor in choosing to attend Hendrix College.

“She read Colleges That Change Lives,” she says. “We decided to make a trip to campus, and the people were really friendly and really open. Also, the rankings for Hendrix listed it as academically challenging with a lot of opportunities available for students. Ultimately, all of these things, in addition to the financial support that Hendrix provided me, sort of sealed the deal for me.”

She credits the diverse range of educational and social experiences she had at Hendrix with helping to prepare her for a successful post-college career.

“One thing that I really appreciate about Hendrix, and in particular having a liberal arts degree, is just that you’re expected to not only excel in the field that you choose, but you’re also expected to learn about other subject areas,” she says. “I think especially when you’re thinking about public service, about community impact, about public policy — I don’t think you can really have the luxury of

just only refining your expertise in one area.”

A double major in history and Spanish, Santa Cruz was also a member of the Hendrix swim team.

Being a student-athlete was “extremely challenging,” but Santa Cruz credits it with helping her develop skills necessary for graduate school and the workforce.

“Hendrix really pushed me to balance my time and to manage my time extremely well, because if you didn’t, then many things were going to fall apart,” she says. “I think that that was also extremely true in my City Year service and into grad school as well. I do really attribute my ability to get things done successfully to managing my time well and balancing everything at Hendrix.”

Santa Cruz says that the spirit of lifelong learning instilled in her at Hendrix was what inspired her to begin work on earning her master’s degree. Now equipped with an education that has primed her for the future, Santa Cruz is looking to improve education for the next generation.

Though the policy aspects of education interest her, she says that what she really wants to do is the “school-based” work that she feels most passionate about: working with students, families, and administrators directly to improve the circumstances of their educational experiences.

“My ideal role is in some type of schoolbased or nonprofit-based program that provides wrap-around support services for students and families.”

Story by Collin Buchanan, Staff Writer

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Discussing some of the complex issues at play in the American educational system, Jane Santa Cruz ’09 says, “Our kids need a lot.”

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The Road Ahead Seniors Look Ahead to Life after Hendrix Armed with a liberal arts education from Hendrix College, the Class of 2015 will enter the workforce, earn advanced degrees, reflect on their future through gap-year experiences, and serve communities across the country. Hendrix Magazine sat down with a few seniors to ask, “What’s Next?”

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Zoe Barton Zoe Barton ’15 of Fayetteville, Arkansas, came to Hendrix College as a biology major planning to pursue a career in herpetology.

She quickly discovered that a life-long interest in amphibians and reptiles didn’t necessarily translate to her dream job.

Instead, through a series of valuable internship experiences, Barton discovered her true passions lie in social media, public relations and publishing.

At 19 years old, she will graduate from Hendrix with a double major in studio art and Spanish.

Barton, who made valuable contacts in New York City with the help of Hendrix alumnus, Brad Ford ’89, says her dream job is to manage social media in the publishing industry there.

But Barton knows she has options — and the time to explore them.

Currently completing a lobbying internship with the Poultry Federation, Barton is making valuable connections in the poultry industry in northwest Arkansas, which, when combined with her degree in Spanish, will make her a valuable candidate for opportunities at home first.

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Jill del Sol As an undergraduate, Jill del Sol ’15 was part of a research effort to better understand one of the most extreme cases of color variation of any species on Earth.

A biology major from Fayetteville, Arkansas, del Sol participated in the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) this summer in Panama, where she wrangled blue and red poison dart frogs. Panama’s Aguacate Peninsula is one of only two known locations where the different colors overlap. Del Sol and other students were researching whether color influences territory defense, mate selection and fitness. Outreach is very important to the nonprofit, which held an education program in Panama, del Sol said.

No stranger to research, del Sol also participated in the Hendrix-in-Costa Rica program and spent a summer at the University of Virginia’s Mountain Lake biological station researching horned beetles as part of a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU), a National Science Foundation (NSF)funded program that encourages women to pursue careers in the sciences.

Other REU students were mostly from large schools, where their research experience was usually limited to grunt work in the labs under the supervision of graduate assistants.

At Mountain Lake and STRI, undergraduates were able to discuss articles, help design experiments and work closely in the primary research, the kinds of things del Sol was

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accustomed to at Hendrix College.

“People are always surprised by the kind of research I’ve been able to do as an undergraduate,” she said.

She was one of five Hendrix students whose research was recently published in Southeastern Naturalist. The article explores American Persimmon, Osage Orange and Paw Paw seed dispersal, using Asian elephants and domesticated horses as ecological analogs to extinct Pleistocene mammals.

“I got to work in a group with similar interests as mine on a project we all really enjoyed even though we had to work through some issues we’d run into in any level of researchunexpected data, logistics, etc. And we were able to feed these fruits to elephants and horses, mammals that could have dispersed them so many eons ago, and we spent a lot of time on Petit Jean, which was so nice as far as field work goes,” said del Sol. “We also got so much guidance on every step of the project by working with fellow undergrads directly under an experienced research professor.”

When she was accepted into the STRI program, del Sol was researching a completely different kind of environment. She was studying fashion design, language and culture in Milan, Italy, through the International Student Exchange Program (ISEP).

“It was a nice break from science,” said del Sol, who is a volunteer in the Hendrix herbarium, a teaching assistant for a course

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Story by Rob O’Connor ’95, Managing Editor

on ecology and evolution and has conducted research on campus with fruit seed dispensers.

She’s also a student officer in the Hendrix Comic Book Society.

At Hendrix, del Sol was able to balance science with language and art classes, as well as a philosophy of evolution course.

“Here there’s an understanding that everyone is going to do their own thing, and it’s encouraged,” she said. “One of the main things about Hendrix is the atmosphere is very constructive and encouraging.”

In the fall, del Sol will start graduate school at the University of Montana, where she will study evolutionary patterns in beetles and prepare for a teaching and research career in evolutionary biology

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Ethan Hill As a freshman, Alabama native Ethan Hill ’15 received an Odyssey grant to study food culture, policy and sustainability at the World Food Prize Conference in New Zealand, where he lived among and hunted deer with the Maori.

He hasn’t sat still since.

Hill studied Spanish in Costa Rica during his sophomore summer.

“Immersion in another culture where you have to speak the language is the only way to become fluent,” he said. “That second language is a means of connecting with others.”

Along with his Spanish, Hill honed other skills too as he traveled the back roads of Costa Rica and Nicaragua.

“As an independent traveler, you rely on logic and problem-solving. You have to think quickly, to respond to unfamiliar and uncomfortable situations,” he said.

As a junior, Hill studied at the Universidad del Salvador in Buenos Aires, Argentina, a seven-month immersion in South American culture that included trekking across icefields in Patagonia and later cheering at the

World Cup in a bustling Brazilian town plaza.

He supplemented his coursework in urban planning and community development with independent excursions to planned cities in Brazil, Bolivian barrios and the mountains of Peru.

“I’m a different person than I was four years ago,” he said. “Hendrix shaped me because of the way it allows you all these experiences and opportunities and supports your intellectual growth.”

Hill heard about Hendrix College from his mother, an Auburn University professor who had a friend with a student at Hendrix.

“Hendrix had personality. It sucked me in,” he said. “It was the most unique place I’d seen, for sure.”

A Miller Center Service Scholar, Hill has served on Student Senate and been a residence hall council member. He’s also a member of the Environmental Concerns Committee and International Club.

Hill initially wanted to major in international relations and sociology. He decided to incorporate these interests, as well as community organizing and urban planning, into

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Story by Rob O’Connor ’95, Managing Editor

Foundations of Sustainable Communities, an interdisciplinary major he designed with the help of Hendrix faculty members.

“There’s no way I would have gotten that at a big school,” he said. “I wouldn’t know my professors.”

Hill wants to go to graduate school in urban planning in a year or two. In the meantime, he plans to spend next year working abroad, perhaps in Australia.

Charlotte Kraaijenbrink As a 16-year-old living in the Netherlands, Charlotte Kraaijenbrink ’15 spent her spring break in Ghana doing community service.

That experience inspired her to seek out something different for herself — she chose to attend college in America, selecting Hendrix College for its beauty and the opportunities it offered.

“I wanted to stand out,” she says.

And it worked.

At Hendrix, Kraaijenbrink has excelled in the classroom and as a leader on the field

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hockey team, having just completed her final season as team captain.

After graduation, Kraaijenbrink will return home to the Netherlands, where she is fielding multiple job offers from several of the Big 4 accounting firms, including a position in KPMG’s Young Talent Program, which is only offered to their top 12 recruits and includes support to pursue her master’s degree.

“I’m reviewing all the contracts, but definitely leaning that direction,” says Kraaijenbrink.

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Story by Julie Janos ’94

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alumni voices: glen fenter ’82

When I graduated from Hendrix College in 1982, I did so with the plan to embark on what I considered to be a fairly stable and straightforward career path in education. At that point in my evolution, I could not have imagined what it would take to excel in today’s technologically intense world — educational models that morph constantly in response to fluid and evolving societal expectations, but which are also expected to transcend time and place to better meet the diverse needs and desires of individual learners.

Today, our global economy impels a collective recognition of the inextricable link between education and economic development. It also illustrates, now more than ever, the importance of educational models that recognize the power of workplace-driven technical skills programming and the life-long learning requirements that accompany the quest of empowering our populous.

I have spent much of my career focused on promoting new educational strategies to provide more effective workforce education and helping to morph our antiquated educational paradigms. Thus, on the surface, I may not appear as the poster child for a liberal arts degree, but I do clearly see my time at Hendrix as absolutely critical to any of the small modicums of success that I may have enjoyed in my career.

Moreover, I am not alone in the belief that my Hendrix experience provided a strong foundation from which to build. In 2013, the American Association of Colleges and Universities released results of a national study of business and non-profit entities regarding employer priorities for college learning and student success. Among the findings was one that resonated with me and reinforced my gratitude for my experiences at Hendrix. The study revealed that 74 percent of employers say they would recommend a 21st century liberal arts education to a young person they know to prepare them for long-term professional success. The survey also indicated that more than three in four employers say they want “colleges to place more emphasis on helping students develop five key learning outcomes including critical thinking, complex problem-solving, written and oral

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communication, and applied knowledge in real-world settings.”

Back in my day as an undergraduate, Hendrix office door signs that read Garrison, Holland, Courtway, Hanna, Guthrie, Bruce, McDermott, Raymond, Meriwether, and Ellis, among many others, spoke volumes to those of us who trod the hallways. We knew those signs represented educators devoting their careers to dispelling the normative educational practices of the day that focused on the amount of information that we could internalize and regurgitate. Rather, they placed paramount importance on promoting our ability to process a variety of information sources and make informed, knowledgeable and logical decisions. They simply wanted us to learn how to think!

In short, the model prevalently promoted at Hendrix in 1982 certainly generated results consistent with the desired learning outcomes outlined more than 30 years later in the aforementioned AACU study.

Today, education remains the optimum way to fuel our economy with a sustainable, highly-skilled and productive workforce. A recent report by the Arkansas Research Center underscores the employment value of educational attainment. In particular, individuals attaining college education, from a technical certificate to a bachelor’s degree, exhibit the highest level of employment in Arkansas.

Clearly, whether it is a private liberal arts college, a state-supported university, a community college or a K–12 setting, our efforts must focus exclusively on students and desired outcomes. More importantly, exactly what outcomes are our educational models designed to produce? Today, the only acceptable approach should be simple: does the process lead to competencies that directly link the learner to a good job and promising career?

As I write this, I am transitioning from a leader IN higher education to a leader FOR higher education. In July, I will retire after 23 years as president of Mid-South Community College and become fully engaged as the CEO of the Greater Memphis Alliance for a Competitive Workforce.

The GMAC initiative brings business, government and education together to

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Career in workforce education came into focus at Hendrix

implement a strong vision connecting the education and training pipeline to the needs of our three-state regional economy. Our mission is to align training and education programs with employers’ skill requirements, to connect employers to cost-effective training and support, and to coordinate and improve outcomes among providers serving our students.

Encouraging a synergistic relationship between intellectual expansion and skill development and the ability to apply both in real-world settings is our focus. Our hope is that we can produce new systems that expand the boundaries of current thought and practice and better meet the needs of our students, employers, economy and country.

Testing boundaries has long been a proud tradition of Hendrix College. In a world where the only constant seems to be change, we are comforted to know that institutions like Hendrix hold fast to a commitment to add real value to their students’ lives.

It is nice to be reminded that some principles and some places are so well grounded in their values that they never go out of style!

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Reconnect with friends,

hear Hendrix updates

and have fun!

Oh, the places we go! President Bill Tsutsui continues his quest to visit and sample barbecue in all 75 counties in Arkansas.

Alumni, parents, and friends are stepping forward to assist him in his Arkansas Odyssey. Along the way, we’ve cheered the Warriors, welcomed Hendrix legacies to campus, honored Odyssey Medal recipients, and listened to the choir sing Candlelight Carols. Where to next?

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Legacy Luncheon Sept. 28, 2014, Hendrix College A1 David Griffin ’89, Christopher Griffin ’17 and Kimberly Gates Griffin ’89 A2 Clyde Hayre, Ann-Marie Hayre ’16 and Alice Green Hayre ’76 A3 Kathy Echols Mason ’86 and Ryan Mason ’17 A4 Lou Taylor, Janet Curry ’77, Chris Taylor ’17, Julia Taylor and Catherine Taylor

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A5 Tig Thompson ’62, Mack Krone ’15 and Jennifer Thompson Krone ’88 A6 Kathy Brooks Hatwig ’84, Regan Hatwig ’18 and Chris Hatwig ’84

Founders Day Reception Oct. 23, 2014, Little Rock, Ark. B1 Nancy Coleman Smith ’61, Mary Ruth Price Brown ’61 and Beverly Couch Villines ’72 B2 Audrey Bell Aikman ’89 and Jim Jackson ’89 B3 Hank Neely ’83, René Racop Neely ’83 and Rev. Wayne Clark ’84 B4 Ned Metcalf ’67 and Marty Rhodes ’72

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B5 Darrin Williams ’90 and Walter Pryor ’87 B6 Alston Jennings ’69, Margaret Sanders Jennings ’69, Frank Warren ’69, Dickie Lunsford ’69, Donald McDonald ’69, Buddy Villines ’69, Bob Lyford ’69, Mary Ann Moseley Critz ’69 and Jay Critz ’69 B7 Roger Chinn ’82 and T.J. Ticey ’80

Candlelight Carol Reception Dec. 5, 2014, Hendrix College C1 Phil Hathcock ’69 and Vic Nixon ’62

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C2 Jon Wolfe ’66, Donna Manley Wolfe ’66, Jessica Scott, Veronica Wolfe and Robert Wolfe ’00 C3 David Larson, Marilyn Larson, George Thompson ’48, Sharon Wood Thompson ’59 and Pamela Owen ’82 C4 Mauzel Matthews Beal ’50, Larry Morse ’76 and Sarah Allen Morse ’78 C5 Andrew Fleming ’18 and David Fleming ’84

County to County: Bill’s Arkansas Tour Various Locations

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D1 Maggie DesPain ’13, Logan Rice ’13, Michaelene Miller ’13, Jake Leffert ’14, Maitri Shah ’14, Alyssa Jaksich ’14, Meredith McKinney ’14 and Robert Nielson ’13 D2 David Knight ’71, Pat Osam ’70 and David Miller D3 Ethan Ake ’13, Jonathan Howard ’13, Peter Weirich, Amy Weirich and Connor Silvestri ’13 D4 Marjorie Swann, President Bill Tsutsui and John McMahon ’89

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Alumnotes

connecting with classmates 1958

Pat Couch Laster published her first novel, A Journey of Choice, in 2010. She anticipates releasing the sequel, Her Face in the Glass, in 2015. She lives in the Salem Community north of Benton, Ark.

1960

Neta Sue Stamps was presented the Distinguished Service Award by the Arkansas Hospital Association. This award was in recognition of service in Mercy Hospital Auxiliary and other volunteer hours in services to improve the health and welfare of her community.

1966

Roger Farish retired in 2014 after 22 years as a geophysicist with Texas Instruments and Mobil Oil and 27 years as Vice President of Investments with A.G. Edwards and Wells Fargo Advisors.

Dr. Buddy Wyre retired in October 2014 after 44 years in dermatology. He has been a retired captain in the United States Army Reserve for 29 years. He and his wife, Kim, will move to Kansas City, Kan., in summer 2015 to be near their son.

1969

Dr. Keith Kennedy retired as vice president of research and development for TyraTech in January 2014.

Share your news with other alumni by visiting www.hendrix.edu/alumni and using the online form. Information received after Feb. 10 will appear in the fall edition.

Photos smaller than 1440 x 960 pixels cannot be accepted for publication.

Dan Rizzie captures 40 years of art in one book Artist Dan Rizzie ’73 released a book titled Dan Rizzie, featuring 100 pieces of multiple mediums and styles of art produced over the span of four decades. The book, published by the University of Texas Press, showcases works inspired by Rizzie’s travels around the world in countries such as Egypt, India, Jamaica, Jordan, and the United States.

Rizzie attributes his success as an

Kennedy is now a wildlife photographer and his images have appeared in Audubon, Outside, and the annual calendar published by the Entomological Society of America.

1972

James T. Turner, Ph.D., was promoted to full professor of forensic studies in the Clinical Forensic Program at Alliant International University. Dr. Turner received the 2013–2014 Distinguished Award for Service from the Society for Police and Criminal Psychology. He finished a term as the chair of diversity and engagement committee for the San Diego campus in fall 2014.

Jim Winget retired after 30 years as a certified registered nurse anesthetist from Greenville, S.C.,

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artist to Hendrix stating, “Hendrix is where I decided to be, learned to be, and became an artist.” Today, he is an internationally recognized artist famous for his collages, paintings, and prints. His work is a part of permanent collections in major museums such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Dallas Museum of Art, and Metropolitan Museum of Art.

and is living in Ormond Beach, Fla.

1974

Judy Gregson Schwab, associate vice chancellor for administration at the University of Arkansas, will retire effective July 31.

1975

Charles Feild, M.D., was named to Editorial Board, The Journal of Academic Pediatrics, and The Journal of Pediatric Association.

Feild lives in Little Rock, Ark. Deborah Miles founded the Center for Diversity Education in 1995. In July 2014 it became the UNC Asheville Center for Diversity Education following a merger. Miles remains the Executive Director.

1976

Dr. David Whillock, dean of the Bob Schieffer College of Communication at Texas Christian University, has been appointed the associate provost for the Academy of Tomorrow initiatives. In this role, he will directly oversee the academic components of Vision in Action: The Academy of Tomorrow, TCU’s strategic plan.

1980

Sam Kauffman has accepted a position as a civil rights attorney with Disability Rights Arkansas.

1981

Chuck Harder joined the senior management team of SourceGas of Golden, Colo., as the vice president of rates and regulatory.

1985

Sheri Bylander edited NBC shows Sirens, which premiered in January, and The Slap, which premiered in February.

Rev. Luke Conway was appointed as senior pastor at Lakewood United Methodist Church in North Little Rock, Ark., in summer 2014. Prior to this appointment, he served as the senior pastor at First United Methodist Church in Maumelle, Ark., for eight years.

Kim Riley Linam was named first female CEO and President of Arkansas Oklahoma Gas Corporation in Fort Smith, Ark.

1986

Dr. Travis Langley, professor of psychology, authored Batman and

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Scott Walker joined Salesforce Marketing Cloud as a services account executive in Roswell, Ga.

1987

Darrin Woodring is the manager of the Discharge Care Program at El Rio Community Health Center in Tuscon, Ariz. See Marriages.

1988

Bryan Britt was selected

by Neustar to serve as an inaugural member of the usTLD Stakeholder Council, a new policy-setting board governing the United States Domain. He will serve at least two years alongside members of the FBI Cyber-Crimes Unit, U.S. Departments of Justice and Commerce, domain registries, security companies, and others.

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Tim Griffin was sworn in as Arkansas Lieutenant Governor in January 2015.

1991

Lauren Sanders Harrington and Tim Harrington ’92 of Conway, Ark., have begun their second year volunteering for Change30, a non-profit organization working to raise the life expectancy of Russian orphans in Kaliningrad, Russia.

Vince Tate was named Arkansas Business’ CFO of the Year in

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private companies. He works for Central States Manufacturing and lives in Rogers, Ark.

1992

Chris Davis, M.D., is the chief information officer/ chief medical informatics officer at Baptist Health System (BHS) in Alabama.

1993

Kenny Gunderman was named president and chief executive officer of Windstream’s planned real estate investment trust, Communications Sales & Leasing, Inc. His appointment became effective March 2015. Prior to Windstream, Gunderman worked as the executive vice president and co-head of investment banking at Stephens, Inc.

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Carissa Anawaty has been appointed operations manager for Rheem.

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Mark Chambers is a postdoctoral research associate at Durham University in the United Kingdom. He was an editor of Medieval Dress and Textiles in Britain: A Multilingual Sourcebook, which was published in fall 2014.

Daniel Ellis directed Christmas Carol — A Ghost Story of Christmas for Lyric Arts Main Street Theatre in Anoke, Minn., in winter 2014. He joined the directing staff of the Palm Beach Opera in January 2015 as assistant director. He also placed third in the 2014 American Prize competition for his production of Griffelkin by Lukas Foss.

Mary Spears Polk is serving a one-year term on the Arkansas Children’s Hospital Board of Directors and is the vice-moderator for ACH’s Circle of Friends, a statewide volunteer group. In June 2015 she will also become the Program & License Director for the First United Methodist Church Early Childhood Center in Conway, Ark.

Jessica Pettitt is a 2015 Diamond Honoree for the American College Personnel Association (ACPA).

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Allison D’Auteuil established TeamMercy.org, a non-profit 501(c)3 foundation seeking to provide connections to resources for families, specifically siblings, facing a fatal diagnosis in utero and/or following birth.

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Leigh Inman Lowman accepted a position as a seventh-grade English and preLatin/western civilization teacher at Greater Atlanta Christian School.

Brad Phelps, formerly Arkansas’ chief deputy attorney general, is now general counsel for the Arkansas State University system.

JPMorgan grant lets Sundell grow café Jack Sundell ’00 received a $150,000 JPMorgan Chase Bank Mission Main Street program grant for The Root Café of Little Rock. The Root Café, owned by Sundell and his wife, was the only business from Arkansas to receive the grant from JPMorgan. The Root Café provides the community with fresh food sourced from local farms to produce more flavorful food, but also to support the Arkansas economy.

Heather Benahm is the executive director of Athens Land Trust.

Trisha Bentz Kendall has accepted a communications position in the advancement office at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus after 10 years with the Colorado School of Mines Foundation.

Elaine Shuffield King has joined the leadership team of the Women’s Health Service Line as Administrator. Elaine will assume administrative responsibility for the women’s health clinics, programs and services within the Women’s Service Line under the direction of Dr. Curtis Lowery.

2001

Chrissy Jennings Chatham was promoted to Chief Marketing and

Development Officer at Youth Home, Inc. Chatham formerly served as Youth Home’s Development Director.

2002

Tanya Corbin Holmes was promoted to director of the legal department for ALSAC, the fundraising organization that supports St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn.

Greg Webb was promoted to partner at Haynes and Boone, LLP. Greg is a member of the firm’s Intellectual Property Practice Group in Richardson, Texas, where he specializes in intellectual property matters.

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Kathleen Reed Dudley sang Vivaldi’s Gloria as well as several seasonal choral pieces with Decatur, Ill., Opus 24, an auditioned choral group, on Nov. 25, 2014.

Dr. Lauren Holt is the associate director of English as a Second Language program for writing and communication at Emory University in Atlanta, Ga.

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Dr. Wesley Alford is one of the first two graduates of the Ph.D. in Leadership program at the University

To select grant recipients, JPMorgan identified businesses that outlined a strong business plan, a growth plan, the mission of their business, the impact their business would make on the surrounding community, and likelihood of success within the next two years.

Sundell plans to use the grant to expand the restaurant and upgrade equipment in addition to extending their hours for dinner.

“Hendrix helped prepare me, especially when I decided what I wanted to do. Hendrix was where I learned to learn,” said Sundell, “It’s a place that teaches you life lessons you can’t get from textbooks.” Sundell majored in International Relations and Global Business.

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Psychology: A Dark and Stormy Night and appeared in the recent documentaries Necessary Evil and Legends of the Knight. Psychology Today runs his online column, “Beyond Heroes and Villains.” His next books, The Walking Dead Psychology: Psych of the Living Dead and Star Wars Psychology: Jedi Mind Tricks (Sterling Publishing), will both come out in fall 2015.

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of Central Arkansas and accepted a position as assistant policy manager at the Arkansas Department of Human Services in Little Rock, Ark. Anna Patterson Strong has joined Arkansas Children’s Hospital as the Executive Director of Child Advocacy and Public Health.

2005

Leighanne Hillman Alford is the annual giving manager for Arkansas Repertory Theatre.

Shana Woodard Graves began working as an appeals analyst in the Office of the Senior Counsel of Appeals at Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield in December 2014.

Sarah Richison is teaching dance technique in Cancun, Mexico. In spring 2015, Richison returned to Hendrix to teach dance and theatre classes.

2006

Anna DeWeese published an essay included in Kissing in the Chapel, Praying in the Frat House: Wrestling with Faith and College (Copeland, Adam J. ed.,

Rowman & Littlefield, 2014). She is first author on the paper, “How is Your Practice Going?” And, she was featured in a segment of PBS’ Religion & Ethics Newsweekly featuring the Interfaith Community.

Jeffrey Herrold is in his final year as a resident anesthesiologist at Maine Medical Center in Portland, Maine.

J.B. Lajzer became an associate at Allensworth and Porter, an Austin-based construction law firm.

Dr. Jennifer Merrit McKenzie is the 2015 chair-elect for the Nashville section of the American Chemistry Society, and will serve as the chair of the local section for 2016.

Hendrix Worldwide We know Hendrix graduates get around and we’d love to see the pictures to prove it.

Follow the lead of Hendrix alumni who sent us photos showing how they’re sharing Hendrix with the world, and you might see your images in the next magazine or on Facebook!

Ethan Hill ’15 and his dad, Chuck, capture a Hendrix cap at Torres del Paine National Park in Chile, one of several places visited by the Hills and the cap while Ethan studied in Buenos Aires.

Susan Johnson-Mumford ’00 reads her copy of the Hendrix Magazine while she waits for a bus in London, England.

Sara Hales ’14 began a “Mug Shot” series after receiving her Hendrix mug from the Alumni Office. In this series, Hales documents her adventures and experiences in Italy as a Fulbright Scholar. From left to right: Viterbo, Italy; Thanksgiving meal preparations in Rome, Italy; and Piazza d. Santa Maria Novella in Florence, Italy.

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Heath DeJean’s essay, titled “High-Stakes Word Search: Ensuring Fair and Effective IRS Centralization in Tax Exemption,” was recently published in the Louisiana Law Review.

Adam Roush was elected chair of the Men’s Derby World Cup organization.

Roush lives in Washington, D.C., where he teaches AP physics, AP computer science, and math.

2008

Samuel Kauffman accepted a position as a civil rights attorney with Disability Rights Arkansas.

2011

Bernice McMillan has accepted a new position with L’Oreal. She will manage the digital and e-commerce business for NYX Cosmetics.

2014

Rachel Head is a FoodCorp service member in Warren County, N.C.

Marriages Darrin Woodring ’87 to Alberto Velarde, Nov. 4, 2014.

Tara Flanagan ’02 to John Tracy, June 16, 2014.

Brooke Ivy ’04 to Kyle Bridges, Sept. 20, 2014.

Rachel Lister ’04 to Michael Turner, Dec. 13, 2014.

Jennifer Smith ’12 to Blake Tierney ’14, Sept. 6, 2014.

Lauren Thorburg ’12 to Stephen Kreienkamp, April 12, 2014.

Kathy Woerner ’05 to John Caffrey, Sept. 26, 2014. Pictured, left to right: Christopher Cook ’04, Allison Roberts Cook ’05, Kathy Woerner Caffrey ’05, Christa Smith Berry ’04, Shelby Osborne ’04, Leah Alagood ’05.

Alison McKeever ’08 to Elizabeth Henry, Oct. 25, 2014.

John Casey ’09 to April Rheaume, Oct. 10, 2014.

Sarah Norman ’09 to Kevin Mason, Dec. 31, 2014.

Eric Robbins ’09 to Erika Edgerley, Oct. 7, 2014.

Emily Rahm ’11 to Kendall Whitman, Oct. 18, 2014.

Grace Cumpian ’12 to Adam Depmore, March 15, 2014.

Julia Parker, fourth daughter, fourth child, to Luke Duffield ’91 and Stephanie, Sept. 29, 2014.

Righteous Young Whitfield, fourth child, to Rodney Whitfield ’97 and Allison D’auteuil ’97, June 8, 2014.

Bennett Wilson, third son, fourth child, to Paige Wilson Marcantel ’01 and Brian, April 9, 2014.

Stella Kate, first daughter, third child, to Mollie Scarbrough Teas ’02 and Damon, July 7, 2014.

Ian Samuel, second son, third child, to Traci Williams Terrahe ’02 and Albert, Aug. 29, 2014.

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Rachel Robbins ’12 to Collin Sitler ’12 in Greene Chapel, July 5, 2014.

Shana Woodard ’05 to Solomon Graves, May 10, 2014.

New Children

Henry David, second son, fourth child, to Eva Bell Foster ’03 and Daniel Foster ’03, July 27, 2014.

Brennan McGinn ’12 to Hailey Travis ’12, Aug. 2, 2014.

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2007

Sarah Schichtl ’09 to Christopher Klapsa ’12 , March 22, 2014, at Greene Chapel. Pictured from left to right: Kate Freyaldenhoven, Katie Klapsa, Rikki Moore, Anna Castleberry, Sarah Schichtl Klapsa ’09, Christopher Klapsa ’12, Rob Slater, Jonathan McFarland, Drew Gustafson ’12, and Will Schichtl.

Lucile “Lucy” Jane, first daughter, first child, to Becca Swearingen Hazelwood ’03 and J. Michael, Dec. 10, 2014.

Alexandra Louise, first daughter, first child, to Erin Alexander Large ’04 and Nathan Large ’04, Nov. 11, 2014.

Natalie Paige, first daughter, second child, to Michael Acosta ’04 and Katelyn, June 24, 2014.

Haley Christina, first daughter, second child, to Lauren Long Lajzer ’04 and J.B. Lajzer ’06, March 9, 2014.

Elizabeth Louise, first daughter, second child, to Justin Long ’04 and Sarah Blount Long ’04, Jan. 9, 2014.

Molly Ann, first daughter, second child, to Grant Morshedi ’04 and Anna Parker Morshedi ’05, Sept. 19, 2014.

Lucinda Ellen, first daughter, first child, to Darby Grace Beranek ’05 and Peter, Feb. 12, 2014.

Jonas Duggan, first son, first child, to Kela Kalmbach McDonald ’06 and Russell, Dec. 30, 2014.

Holly Marie, first daughter, first child, to Stacy Montague Henderson ’05 and Jeramie, Sept. 30, 2014

Bennett Thomas, first son, first child, to Cary Small Koss ’08 and Brian Koss ’08, Sept. 17, 2014.

Louisa Alene, first daughter, first child, to James Ochiltre ’05 and Annalisa Keen Ochiltre ’07, Dec. 4, 2014.

Anna Rose, first daughter, first child, to Laura Theilen Clemmon ’06 and Philip, Feb. 18, 2014.

Mallory Rose, first daughter, first child, to Jeffrey Herrold ’06 and Kate Brannon Herrold ’10, July 3, 2014.

Madilene Rachelle, first daughter, first child, to Olivia Wallace Meadows ’10 and Brandon, Jan. 1, 2014.

Marissa Lynn, first daughter, first child, to Ellen Burr Ellis ’11, Aug. 22, 2014.

Sparrow Jane Violet, first daughter, second 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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David Sullenberger ’35 Frances Harris Hedrick ’38 Clarice Russell Keith ’38 Mary Garrett Gillespie Pruett ’39 Rose Hollis Bethell ’41 Homer McGrady Fox ’41 Betty Jane Martin Anderson ’42 Joan Reichardt Farris ’42 Jane Lee Buchanan Cherry ’45 Harold Delaney ’45 Betty Ruth Coleman Merrick ’45 Hugh Wayne Bigg ’46 Patricia Ann Hill Craig ’47 William “Pete” Jennings Bryant ’48

John Lathrop Fletcher, Jr. ’48 Mary Lou Cornelius Gay ’48 Lawrence Edward Mobley ’49, Faculty/Staff Marguerite Fuess Sidner ’49 Morris D. “Dick” Crisp ’50 Charles Scott McNew ’50 George Buchanan Stewart ’50 James B. McGowan ’51 Dorothy O’Neal Robins ’51 Gene Henry Thompson ’51 S. Miller Williams ’51 Sue Shackleford Crawford ’52 Jo Cravens Deal ’52 Tom Raney ’53 Maurice C. Webb Sr. ’53 James Robert Wilson ’53

William Arthur Dunaway ’54 Audria Eaves Bogan Grant ’54 Eva Lee Whitten Paysinger ’54 Sara Dell Rogers Amick ’55 Gerald W. Andrews ’55 Shelby Holmes Day ’55 James Vernon Flack ’55 A. Eugene Rushing ’55 Ann Dooley Barbour ’57 Kay Terry Spencer ’57 Ruth Reed Whitaker ’58 John Charles Dunn ’60 Linda Bryan Yount McGehee ’60 Gary Meek ’60 Robert Scott Mosby Jr. ’63 Adrian Curtis Stuart ’63 Tommie Sue Cardin Anthony ’64

David Allen Fincher ’67 Janice Eilfing ’68 Sondra Griffin Foti ’68 Mary Ann Williams Morris ’68 Barbara Jones Denton ’71 Laura Diane Orne ’71 David L. Goggans ’74 Claude A. Griffin ’76 Larry Chapman Kelly ’76 Andrew Fairchild McGee ’80 Robert Henry Burch Jr. ’81 A. Rolanda Hurst ’85 Stacy Lynn Duckett ’86* Amelia Kay Branton ’93 Ryan Heath Rorie ’98 * Alumni Board of Governors Chair

Hendrix Memorial Garden consecrated on April 19 On Sunday afternoon of Alumni Weekend 2015, a small group of alumni and friends of the College gathered under a large oak south of Greene Chapel to consecrate the Hendrix Memorial Garden.

The garden and the columbarium at its center opened in fall 2014 as a final resting place for those with a deep attachment to Hendrix College.

The Rev. Wayne Clark ’84, Hendrix Chaplain, and the Rev. J.J. Whitney ’96, Associate Chaplain, led the service, which included a litany of thanksgiving and consecration. The litany ended with all present saying together: “May this sacred space be a place of healing and hope for families and may this place remind us of your promise of eternal life.”

The consecration service began immediately after the Alumni Memorial Worship Service, which honors the memory of alumni who have died in the past year.

To learn more about the Hendrix Memorial Garden, visit hendrix.edu/memorialgarden.

Photo by Lexi Adams ’17

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In Memoriam

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Dr. Rosemary Henenberg, Chair, Theatre Arts Department and Founding Director, Hendrix-Murphy Foundation Programs in Literature and Language (1963–1967; 1973–2001) Dr. Rosemary Henenberg once said “Good plays are all about finding your way through. They are instrumental in enriching the life, mind, spirit and soul, which is what theatre is seriously about.” During her 32 years of teaching, she directed more than 100 productions, enriching the lives of almost 5,000 students.

Today, Dr. Henenberg fondly remembers the lives she touched over the years, just as they cherish what she taught them.

Although the names and faces change over time, the memories remain.

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Hendrix College and Conway have both changed in the 125 years since the College moved to town, as this 1919 image of the President’s Home (Ellis Hall) looking south toward downtown illustrates.