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FORWARD THINKING With an eye to the future, the University announces bold initiatives.

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OFFICE OF Communications Eric Bumgardner Creative Director Kristina W. Moore Writer/Editor Antonio Banda Senior Designer Cindy Locke Associate Vice President for University Relations Ellen Davis Director of News and Media Relations John Kotarski ’93 Director of Web Development and Communications Danielle Stapleton ’05 Associate Director of New Media magazine @ southwestern.edu

board of trustees Merriman Morton ’63, Austin, Chair Larry J. Haynes ’72, Coppell, Vice Chair R. Griffin Lord, Belton, Secretary-Treasurer Martin Aleman Jr. ’68, Austin Mary Delmore Balagia, Dallas L. James Bankston ’70, Houston Lisa Barrentine, Allen Douglas M. Benold ’44, Georgetown W. Earl Bledsoe*, Plano Roy H. Cullen#, Houston John S. Curry ’70, Pampa James E. Dorff*, San Antonio Robert W. Dupuy ’69, Dallas Thomas A. Forbes ’71, Austin James W. Foster ’72, Houston Jack Garey, Georgetown Roberto L. Gómez ’69, San Antonio Sarah Gould-Stotts ’10, Charlottesville, Va. Robert H. Graham, Houston Kay Granger, Fort Worth Ronald D. Henderson, Plano Janice Riggle Huie*, Houston Henry C. Joyner, Colleyville

Robert W. Karr ’71, St. Louis, Mo. Bart C. Koontz ’78, San Antonio J. Michael Lowry*, Fort Worth Red McCombs ’49, San Antonio Michael McKee, Hurst J. Eric McKinney ’72, Georgetown David J. McNitzky ’77, San Antonio Laura A. Merrill ’84, Harlingen Charles R. Millikan ’68, Pearland Barbara Prats Neely ’77, Fort Worth Ernesto Nieto ’64, Kyle Steven A. Raben ’63*, Houston Robert T. Rork ’62, San Antonio Jake B. Schrum ’68*, Georgetown Robert C. Scott, San Antonio Peter A. Sessions ’78, Dallas Thomas V. Shockley, Georgetown H. Blake Stanford ’81*, Austin Stephen G. Tipps, Houston Donald W. Underwood ’70, Plano James V. Walzel, Houston D. Max Whitfield*, Albuquerque, N.M. Sarah Woolley, ’11, Austin

OFFICE OF Alumni and Parents Georgianne Hewett ’90 Associate Vice President for Alumni and Parent Relations JoAnn Lucero Associate Director of Alumni and Parent Relations Grace Josey Pyka ’05 Associate Director of Alumni and Parent Relations alumni@ southwestern.edu parents@ southwestern.edu

chief administrative officers Jake B. Schrum ’68, President Richard L. Anderson, Vice President for Fiscal Affairs Gerald Brody, Vice President for Student Life James W. Hunt, Provost and Dean of the Faculty Beverly Jones, University Chaplain W. Joseph King ’93, Vice President for Innovation C. Richard McKelvey, Vice President for University Relations Dave Voskuil, Vice President for Enrollment Services

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Francie Schroeder, Executive Assistant to the President

southwestern university’s core purpose

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Fostering a liberal arts community whose values and actions encourage contributions toward the well-being of humanity.

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In every issue

Features

4 | President’s Message

6 | Going Boldly into the Future: New initiatives look ahead while preserving our Core Purpose and Core Values.

Technology Services will allow Southwestern students

14 | On Campus

additional opportunities for communication and

16 | Athletics

collaboration.

30 | Engaging Find 32 | Alumni News

18 | Academics In Focus: Broad Strokes Art History students also learn the philosophy, religion, history, politics and class structure of a time period or culture.

34 | Class Notes 39 | Last Word

22 | 2011 Alumni Awards Five SU alumni are recognized for their extraordinary accomplishments.

28 | Behind the Lectern: Big Events The Brown Symposium, The Shilling Lecture and The Writer’s Voice feature big names.

On the Cover Renovations to the historic Roy and Lillie Cullen Building are nearly complete. All 467 of the building’s windows have been replaced, and work is in progress to replace the elevator and reconfigure both the second and third floors for office and classroom space.

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Our Path Forward

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n a new book titled The Innovative University, Clay Christensen and Henry Eyring conclude that traditional colleges and universities are going to have to “change their DNA”—and change it quickly—if they are going to weather the storms that are threatening institutions of higher education.

They explain that to survive and thrive in the new landscape of higher education, schools are going to have to rewrite the rules of the game.

The winners will be the ones that can successfully scale back their spending on luxuries such as climbing walls, and compete instead to make students more curious, more committed to a meaningful cause, more contemplative and more compassionate.

That’s good news for Southwestern, because this is our DNA! In the coming months and years, Southwestern will change as will much of American higher education. Our goal is to steward our University through this change so that we are known as an innovative, sustainable, relevant and distinctive provider of educational experiences that are essential to successful and fulfilling lives in the 21st century.

At my annual State of the University address to faculty and staff in September, I outlined a series of new initiatives that are designed to help us take a new path forward. These initiatives include the possibility of adding several new degree programs as well as a January Term.

Another initiative will be to integrate the operations of our A. Frank Smith, Jr. Library Center and our Office of Information Technology Services under the leadership of a Chief Information Officer (CIO). Many of our peer institutions, including Bryn Mawr, Allegheny, Rhodes, Connecticut College, Middlebury and Occidental have already undertaken this step as a way of ensuring that students and faculty have access to the best information possible in this new digital age. A search 4

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committee that includes representatives from across campus has been appointed to identify the best possible candidate for the new CIO position.

At the end of October, we announced two other initiatives that are being made possible by generous gifts from three of our alumni. We will be reinstating football in the fall of 2013 and fielding a new women’s varsity lacrosse team in the spring of 2014. More details on all of these initiatives can be found in this issue of the magazine.

None of these initiatives are without controversy, and we have had many lively discussions on campus since they were unveiled. While these changes may be hard for some to accept, I hope members of our community will eventually support them as a way to ensure a bright future for the University.

But what is more important than all of these changes and initiatives is that we continue to embrace our core purpose: Fostering a liberal arts community whose values and actions encourage contributions toward the well-being of humanity. As James T. Laney, former president of Emory University once said, “We are created to serve. If we do not care for something larger than ourselves and do it with a sense of heart, then we ourselves shrivel up. Society, the larger good itself, atrophies. The sense of service and the sense of ambition are twin aspects of education, and that we must take into account. What it means to be an educated person is not only to be a mind and to seek one’s own interests, but also to realize that as one enlarges their range of interests and serves them, one is fulfilled.”

This is what Southwestern is about.

Jake B. Schrum ’68

President

Southwestern Science Center e ng ag i ng m i n d s . t r a n s f or m i ng l i v e s .

Southwestern’s highest fundraising priority is to create an exemplary undergraduate science facility, which will foster a cross-disciplinary community and will enhance Southwestern’s tradition of excellence in science education.

Our plan is to create a new science center to house multiple teaching and research laboratories, classrooms, offices and multidisciplinary gathering spaces.

To learn more about Southwestern’s planned new science facility, please visit

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ince its inception, Southwestern has been thinking ahead about the way it educates and prepares future generations. Today, Southwestern continues to think ahead. Noting a “renewed sense of urgency,” President Jake B. Schrum ’68 announced at his September 2011 State of the University address a series of bold new initiatives designed to help provide a path forward for the University amidst a continually changing higher education environment.

Provost and Dean of the Faculty Jim Hunt says Southwestern has a history of rising to the occasion, but also notes that “we must work diligently to ensure that our students are getting the educational experience they deserve.”

With the student experience top of mind, the Board of Trustees charged Schrum with pursuing bold initiatives and putting Southwestern on the path toward achieving the goals the University community outlined in Shaping Our Future, The Strategic Plan for 2010–2020. (See Page 7 for a summary.)

“The immediate initiatives and those that are longer-term will all benefit the students and the institution going forward,” Hunt says.

Sarah Gould-Stotts ’10, a member of the Board, adds, “Southwestern needs these initiatives to stay competitive in the field of higher education, to continue providing its students with the highest-quality liberal arts education, and to continue making ‘valuable contributions to the well-being of humanity.’”

leading the way Rick McKelvey, vice president for university relations, suggests that now is not the time to be overly reflective, but intentional. “President Schrum, the senior staff and the Board are fully aware that the hardest work is ahead, and that there is an urgent need to be intentional about defining and vetting these bold initiatives with an eye to implementation as soon as possible, in order to strengthen Southwestern’s position as a leading liberal arts institution and—most important—to benefit our students.”

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1895: The University became a co-educational institution.

1907– 09: Southwestern graduated three of the first five Rhodes Scholars in Texas.

1914: The tradition of inviting contemporary speakers and artists to campus began.

1949: William C. Finch became president and was later credited with refining the University’s focus on liberal arts education.

1981: Roy B. Shilling was elected president, transforming Southwestern from a regional to a national liberal arts college and making $60 million in campus enhancements during his tenure.

1994: Southwestern was awarded one of only 280 chapters of Phi Beta Kappa, which celebrates and advocates excellence in the liberal arts and sciences.

2000: President Jimmy Carter was the keynote speaker at the inauguration of President Jake B. Schrum ’68, garnering the largest crowd ever assembled on campus.

2002: The Paideia® Program was launched at Southwestern.

2005: Southwestern began offering Living Learning Communities to strengthen the First Year Seminar program.

“Southwestern…is one of the few jewels of the Southwest whose mission is to prepare a new generation to contribute to a changing society, and to prosper in their jobs, whatever and wherever in the world they may be.”

— Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change the Way You Think About Colleges (2006–2007 edition)

In addition to the integration of the A. Frank Smith, Jr. Library Center with the Office of Information Technology Services and the addition of football and women’s lacrosse, these bold initiatives include the following three proposals designed to increase revenues and support the University’s academic mission:

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A January Term that will offer students more options for completing their educational requirements, and faculty more opportunities for teaching.

• Working with The Methodist Hospital Research Institute of Houston to develop a curriculum for a new master’s degree in translational medicine.

Often called “bench to bedside,” translational medicine seeks to quickly move research findings into medical practices that improve patient care.

• The focus of Southwestern’s current Quality Enhancement Plan on the Paideia® Program—if approved in 2012 by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS)—will equate to “Paideia for all” and will help Southwestern recruit students and raise the level of intentionality for interdisciplinary studies on campus.

There are ongoing conversations about other academic initiatives, including a Master of Arts degree in teaching and a possible re-envisioning of the business program.

While the Board of Trustees has approved the proposals, they will also require approval through the University’s governance councils and accreditation from the SACS, as well as the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, explains Hunt.

supporting our core Schrum says, “These initiatives represent a critical path to sustaining our mission. Every action is being taken to sustain and enhance the Southwestern Experience—to support the social sciences, the humanities, the natural sciences and the fine arts that lie at our core.”

Chairman of the Board of Trustees Merriman Morton says of the initiatives, “The positive expectations of these initiatives will be that the financial strength of the University will continue to be strong; there will be continued focus on academic excellence; the commitment to provide a positive educational and maturing experience for students will continue; and the commitment to fulfill our Core Purpose and Core Values will continue.”

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Shaping Our Future: The Strategic Plan for Southwestern University 2010–2020

www.southwestern.edu/plan

Overarching Vision: Over the next decade, Southwestern University will continue to position itself as a top-tier, national liberal arts and sciences college by building upon its greatest strength—providing a transformational, residential, liberal arts and sciences education that empowers an increasingly diverse range of students to lead fulfilling lives in a global community.

Strategic Direction: Focus on our academic mission—our commitment to providing every student with an education that extends beyond the simple transmission of knowledge and skills to a concept of learning as a broad, integrated and transformational process.

Supporting Strategies: Enhance Our Campus Experience and Residence Life Create a more vibrant, diverse and student-friendly campus that will enhance the campus experience and the quality of student life, and will contribute to attracting and retaining students that are best able to benefit from Southwestern’s academic mission.

Build Far-Reaching Visibility and Recognition Build far-reaching visibility and recognition for the University as an exceptional national undergraduate liberal arts and sciences institution known for engaging minds and transforming lives.

Ensure the Financial Vitality and Overall Sustainability of the Institution Ensure the financial vitality and overall sustainability of the institution by building an ever-stronger financial foundation that will increase our ability to invest in our academic enterprise, undergird our commitments and reach our aspirations.

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“This initiative addresses the reality that most students in today’s world search for information via the avenues that technology provides.

Research continues to reinforce this strategic direction…as a key component to move Southwestern forward as an institution.”

—Merriman Morton Chairman of the Board of Trustees

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“It’s not about each entity,” Joey King ’93, executive director of the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE), and vice president for innovation at Southwestern, says of the forthcoming integration of the A. Frank Smith, Jr. Library Center and the Office of Information Technology Services. “It’s about the information and information services the University can provide to its constituents.”

Provost Jim Hunt sees the integration as an “opportunity to strengthen the role of the library and instructional technology in the academic program” as well as enhance the campus experience and the quality of student life as outlined in the Strategic Plan.

Neither King nor Lynne Brody, dean of library services at Southwestern, can say specifically how the post-integrated library will look physically, but they agree that there will most likely be more space devoted to students in the form of an “information commons” or “knowledge center” where students may have opportunities ranging from individual study to group projects and casual conversation to roundtable discussions. Todd Watson, director of systems and networks, says that this idea goes hand-in-hand with providing the campus community with the ability to access as well as discern information. “One of our goals is to teach students how to be information literate,” he says.

According to King, Southwestern is the latest among its peer institutions like Occidental, Middlebury and Rhodes, to adopt the “best practice” of library and ITS integration. As part of the process, Southwestern has begun a search for a new Chief Information Officer (CIO), who will oversee the integration and will help the University best take advantage of digital technology in service to the liberal arts.

King, Brody and Watson are on the search committee for the new CIO and feel strongly that he or she should have not only a clear vision of information technology, but of the pedagogy of the institution as a whole. King says, “Southwestern will not take a cookie cutter approach.” Watson echoes, “We’re not trying to reproduce other schools’ models; rather, we want to customize the program to Southwestern.”

Brody adds that “the new CIO’s ability to understand and articulate the mission and the liberal arts focus of this institution will allow for the infusion of technology that will enhance rather than change the services we already provide … Our intent and hope is that our services will improve through the process, becoming stronger and better for our students, faculty, staff and other constituents.”

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In Good A Richer Learning Experience In response to the often-asked question, “Will there still be books in the library?,” the answer is yes. Brody says, “Students will find themselves having a richer learning experience thanks to new innovations in the way they are instructed. Characteristic of the Southwestern course experience, a strong faculty presence and personal interaction will continue, but will be enhanced by technology.”

Watson’s hope is that there will be an increased focus on technology and how it can enhance the academic program. He says, “It’s important to step back and see how both organizations can work together to enhance the student experience.”

Because information is increasingly available in new ways, Southwestern has the opportunity to gain access to significantly more information and resources. King references a recent NITLE pilot study that provided millions of digital holdings to students who previously had access to virtually none in their field of study (Chinese, in this case). As a result, students said their “lives have been changed.” King adds, “The key is that if students, faculty and others want information, Southwestern will endeavor to provide it, as well as to have the library staff be as available as they’ve always been or even more so.”

Some see the integration as a transition that embraces the liberal arts philosophy of adapting, learning, changing and growing. Brody responds that “in theory that is true, as long as the core values of a liberal arts education—creative thinking, careful reading and analysis of texts—are not lost or diluted, and as long as we’re careful to maintain a balance by building on and enhancing our current strengths.”

King, Brody and Watson agree that the focus during the integration should remain on serving the Southwestern community. Watson says, “We have a bright future. It’s all about providing students, faculty and staff with access to the best information and resources available. Brody adds, “I see this as a positive move that will enhance the services that are already available.”

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In a 2007 article published in Reference Sciences Review, 1 author Steve McKinzie asks the question, “Can academic libraries and information technology (IT) services work together closely?” The answer, he says, is certainly yes.

“They can and have done so since the dawn of automation. …

Even so, in recent years the bond between the two has grown more intimate. The combination of their shared commitment to the effective management of information and the library’s increased dependence on digital resources has brought the two together.”

The goal for academic institutions, McKinzie explains, should be “a superb library and IT coordination that serves faculty and students effectively. … Service and real cooperation among staff and professionals are the central goals of merged service organizations. Beyond that, nothing else matters.”

Chris D. Ferguson, who oversees a blended organization as associate provost for information and technology services at Pacific Lutheran University, says “The (library/IT) mergers work best at small colleges.” David W. Dodd, CIO at Xavier University, who oversaw their recent library/IT integration, tells his staff, “Go fearlessly into the future.”

1 Steve McKinzie, (2007) “Library and IT mergers: how successful are they?,” Reference Services Review, Vol. 35 Issue: 3, pp. 340 – 343

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Graduate in less than four years, add a minor, study abroad —these are just a few reasons why Southwestern students would like the option of a January Term.

“The primary reason for considering a January Term is the potential to provide innovative educational opportunities for our students,” says Provost Hunt. Present on many residential liberal arts

campuses (including Southwestern at one time), the structure of the January Term allows for educational experiences that may not be available in the fall and spring semesters. Hunt explains that courses offered during January Term may provide opportunities for off-campus learning activities, opportunities for collaborative efforts between faculty across disciplines, and opportunities for students who may need

to complete additional course requirements. In addition, he says, “Revenue from a January Term would provide additional resources that the University could use for its highest priorities, the highest of which is our Strategic Direction, as laid out in Shaping Our Future: The Strategic Plan for Southwestern University 2010–2020.”

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Collaboration in the Sciences exploring

Opportunities Translational medicine is a medical practice based on interventional epidemiology and is regarded as a natural progression from evidence-based medicine.

It integrates research from the basic sciences, social sciences and political sciences with the aim of optimizing patient care and preventive measures which may extend beyond healthcare services. In short, it is the process of turning appropriate biological discoveries into drugs and medical devices that can be used in the treatment of patients. 2 2 http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/17/ grove-backs-an-engineers-approach-tomedicine/?ref=technology “Grove backs an engineer’s approach to medicine”; New York Times blog

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More than 40 percent of all Southwestern applicants express interest in our science programs and about one in five students majors in one of the natural sciences. In addition, Southwestern science students have research experiences typically available only to graduate students at larger research universities, and three quarters of our graduates who have applied to medical, dental and veterinary school over the past 15 years have been admitted.

These statistics emphasize the importance of our science programs as well as the opportunities for collaborative research offered to our students with organizations such as the Welch Foundation’s Summer Scholar Program, the Texas Life-Sciences Collaboration Center, and—most recently—The Methodist Hospital Research Institute (TMHRI).

In May 2010, Dr. Charles Millikan ’68, a member of Southwestern’s Board of Trustees and the vice president for spiritual care and values integration for The Methodist Hospital System of Houston, invited President Schrum, Provost Hunt and Professor of Biology Ben Pierce to TMHRI to hear a proposal for collaboration between Southwestern and the research institute.

“The opportunity to work with TMHRI in Houston is a chance for Southwestern students to be exposed to world-class scientists, internships and a possible master’s degree in translational medicine,” explains Vice President McKelvey. Three Southwestern students had such an opportunity when they were selected as 2011 summer interns at TMHRI, resulting in an evolving relationship with one of the leading healthcare systems in the U.S. Since then, Mauro Ferrari, president and CEO of TMHRI, has suggested that the relationship between the two institutions could continue in a number of ways. Recently, Pierce and Associate Professors of Biology Maria Todd and Maria Cuevas have met with TMHRI representatives to discuss the possibilities, including that of a master’s degree offered by Southwestern in collaboration with TMHRI. While exploring TMHRI’s vision for collaboration with Southwestern, Hunt explains, “If a master’s program were approved and initiated, it would be a fifth-year program and would start small with approximately 10 students per year.”

MASTER OF ARTS IN TEACHING // SOUTHWESTERN is exploring the viability of instituting a Master of Arts in teaching degree, which would allow students to receive an undergraduate degree in a discipline other than education and continue with a fifth-year master’s program to complete certification.

“We’re having an ongoing discussion about this and alternate options in the Education Department,” says Provost Hunt, who explains that any changes to the academic program must first go through the University’s governance process.

Currently, the Education Department offers students the option to major both in education and a content field, completing in four years what a master’s program might offer in five. A four-year dual major program is competitive with five-year programs offered by Southwestern’s peer institutions, primarily serving those seeking secondary teaching certification in content fields like mathematics, English and history. However, some Southwestern graduates decide late in their academic career to seek teaching

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“From my perspective, Paideia’s guiding principles are at the core of a liberal arts education and this program empowers students to make meaningful connections between their academic interests, future goals and personal passions.

Every Southwestern student should have an opportunity to make those connections because they are so integral to maximizing the Southwestern Experience.”

—Sarah Gould-Stotts ’10

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certification and cannot meet all the requirements in a four-year time frame.

In spite of current negative trends in the economy and in the field of education, Southwestern has maintained steady growth in teaching graduates.

Hunt and the members of the Education Department hope to have enough information to make a decision on whether to move forward or not by the fall semester.

Paideia for All

For 10 years, the Paideia® Program at Southwestern has endeavored to transcend conventional approaches to teaching and learning through a student-driven, faculty-led experience. The program has promoted connections between academic courses, offered intercultural and diversity experiences, encouraged civic engagement, and supported collaborative or guided research and creative works.

While approximately 25 percent of Southwestern students have benefited from these experiences, the University hopes to offer the experience to an increasing number of students going forward—to ALL Southwestern students, in fact.

If the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools approves Southwestern’s proposed Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) in June 2013, implementation of the faculty development phase of the project will begin the following academic year, with initial implementation in the fall of 2014. “This is not a major overhaul,” Provost Hunt says, “but a redesigning of the curriculum already in place…in effect, it will be ‘Paideia for All.’” While students typically use the curriculum guidelines of the catalog under which they entered Southwestern, they may choose instead to adhere to the guidelines of the most recent catalog. In the “Paideia for All” model, the First Year Seminar would become an introduction to a topic/theme that students would then follow throughout their time at Southwestern. Three of their eight required general education courses would be clustered around this topic/theme. Professor of Art History and member of the QEP committee Thomas Howe suggests that the topics/themes might include: chaos theory, sustainability, global warming, evolution and behavioral sciences, food culture and health, and more.

The program would culminate with an upper-level seminar or salon, maintaining the mutual support and challenge of the current faculty-led Paideia cohorts. Howe says the committee would also like to maintain the current Paideia aspects of “interdisciplinary critical investigation which precedes responsible engagement, encouraging habits of lifelong integrative, interdisciplinary discourse and engagement, assisting students as they develop into public intellectuals who become members of an alert, informed electorate.”

Hunt says that while professors may need to look at curriculum in a new way under the redesigned program, students are sure to benefit from interdisciplinary study through which additional connections are made in the clustered courses, as well as through civic engagement opportunities and intercultural experiences.

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Thanks to $6 million in gifts from former student athletes, Southwestern will reinstate its football program in fall 2013 and will create a new women’s varsity lacrosse team in spring 2014.

As the T-shirts of many Southwestern students and alumni can attest, Pirate football has been “undefeated since 1950.”

That was the year that then President William C. Finch and the Board of Trustees reluctantly announced that football would be dropped from the intercollegiate athletics program.

First mentioned in the faculty minutes of Nov. 19, 1895, intercollegiate football officially began at Southwestern in 1908. The team gained national attention as a powerhouse team under the leadership of Coach Randolph M. Medley when Southwestern went 9-1 during the 1943–44 season, winning the Sun Bowl in January 1944 and again the following year.

Sixty years later, Board Chair Merriman Morton says, “Probably no initiative has received more conversation and comment among alumni, students and faculty than the decision to reinstate football at Southwestern.”

Joe Seeber ’63, a former Southwestern basketball player, and his wife, Elaine, have pledged $5 million to launch the new programs.

Red McCombs ’49, who played football at Southwestern, and his wife, Charline ’50, have pledged $1 million. Brent and Joanne Powers Austin ’74 also have made a gift to support the new programs.

“Both Mr. Seeber and Dr. McCombs were varsity athletes at Southwestern and their generosity is representative of the culmination of their love of amateur athletics and their commitment to Southwestern,” says President Schrum.

Adding football and women’s lacrosse will bring Southwestern’s complement of varsity teams to 20—on par with the University’s peers in the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference and the Associated Colleges of the South. Glada Munt, director of intercollegiate athletics at Southwestern, says that the addition of both programs is expected to strengthen student recruiting, with football expected to attract up to 100 male students and lacrosse to bring in 20 female student-athletes.

Munt also says that, once fully functioning, Southwestern football should be able to sustain itself financially and should generate a surplus that could be used for other University priorities like updated facilities, for example.

While home football games will be played at the new Georgetown stadium complex, the University plans to use land it owns on the east side of campus to build facilities to support both of the new programs, including two practice fields, a 15,000 square-foot field house, and a new track to support the track and cross-country programs. There are also plans to upgrade the existing locker rooms for field sports in the Corbin J. Robertson Center. These plans address one of the supporting strategies of the Strategic Plan—enhancing the financial vitality and overall sustainability of the institution—which calls on the University to “develop a long-range vision and initiate an East Campus master plan to enhance our academic enterprise, enrich the lives of all members of the Southwestern community, and provide a foundation for the future growth and prosperity of the institution well into the next century with self-sustaining activities and operations.” 

Enhancing Athletics “There are many places you can get an education, but not many places transform lives the way Southwestern does. This isn’t about football—it’s about transforming lives.”

—Joe Seeber ’63

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Your academic tracks. Like you, the successful Southwestern student of the future:  Is

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During the 2010–11 academic

year, 104 Southwestern University students gave a total of 3,275 volunteer hours to the Operation Achievement program.

Operation Achievement Receives Financial Boost “We aren’t just helping with math problems, we are changing lives for the better. We are building relationships with these students that in turn help with selfconfidence, academic success and peer relations.”

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Operation Achievement, a mentoring program that Southwestern has run for nearly 25 years in partnership with the Georgetown Independent School District, has received a gift from the Margaret A. Cargill Foundation of Minnesota that will enable the University to continue offering the program for at least five more years.

Operation Achievement serves students from all three Georgetown middle schools. Director Joni Ragle says the program helps students by providing them with Southwestern mentors who serve as positive role models and by teaching them problem-solving skills.

Operation Achievement is a student-run organization with six Southwestern students serving as “staff supervisors” and three who serve as lead mentors. The entire staff formulates policies and procedures for the program and plans and implements all the activities. Three of the staff supervisors serve as liaisons with the middle schools.

Another 50-85 Southwestern students from a variety of majors serve as mentors in the program each semester. In 2010–2011, 104 Southwestern students gave a total of 3,275 volunteer hours to the program.

Sherry Adrian, associate professor of education, says, “Operation Achievement is vital to

our department for the opportunities it provides to our students, and because it aligns with our department’s mission of educating and supporting students in the public schools.”

Sophomore education major Lindsey Ruther says, “We aren’t just helping with math problems, we are changing lives for the better. We are building relationships with these students that in turn help with self-confidence, academic success and peer relations.”

In addition, students participate in a weekly “enrichment activity.” Science classes have led hands-on experiments, coaches and athletes have offered sports clinics, the Music Department has invited the students to rehearsals, the Theatre Department has provided tickets for plays, and the Police Department has taught self-defense classes.

Each semester, the students do a community service project, and the program culminates each spring with an “All-Campus Day,” when these potential future Pirates tour the Southwestern campus, attend classes with their mentors, eat in The Commons and see what a college dorm is like.

“We’re thrilled the program will be able to continue,” says Ragle.

BIT OF A STRETCH “It was something we had already thought would be a fun thing to do in the future, so we said to ourselves, ‘well, why not now?’” Erin Cressy says of the theatre production company that she and fellow sophomore Emma Martinsen founded in Houston with their friend Wiley DeWeese, a student at New York University.

Creating Bit of a Stretch Theatre Company turned out to be not much of a stretch at all. The group’s

first production, Floyd Collins, sold out two of four performances. Set to do at least one show during summer 2012, Cressy says, “We can’t do shows while school is in session … we have to start planning and reserving spaces and getting rights to shows—it’s a really long process.”

As Bit of a Stretch is meant to be purely nonprofit, Martinsen, Cressy and DeWeese cover most of the behind-the-scenes work on their own, including

costumes, lighting design and operation, music, directing, producing and finances.

These skills help in their classes at Southwestern as well. Cressy and Martinsen are taking their first directing class, even though they’ve already directed three plays together. Cressy says, “We’ve already been practicing the theory but we just didn’t know it.”

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Doing Well at Doing Good

Eight Southwestern students who studied abroad in London last semester—Isaac Bernal, Sarah Chatfield, Dempsey Jones, Jennifer Juergens, Veronica Luna, Marlena Serrano, Kamna Tripathi and Lizette Villarreal—participated in internships while there.

Maria Kruger, internship coordinator for the Office of Career Services, explains that students can express an interest in internships after they are accepted into the London program and then the Center for Academic Programs Abroad arranges several interviews for them when they get to London.

David Olson, assistant professor and director of communication studies internships, says that while it can be difficult to fit an internship into a class schedule and cultural experiences in a new city, it is worthwhile because it gives students an added perspective they might not get as interns in the U.S. Tripathi, a junior communication studies major, interned with Action for Advocacy, a social justice organization based in England and Wales.

Villarreal, a junior communication studies major, worked as a marketing intern with INTO Higher, a network of university-based study centers. She says, “This internship experience (showed) me how interconnected the world is, and how all it takes is a little bit of patience, understanding and a lot of improvisation to form successful relationships with other cultures.”

In addition, Bernal interned with the Terrence Higgins Trust fundraising and press teams, Chatfield interned with Phoenix Futures; Juergens interned with Shelter England; Luna interned with Youth Net; Jones interned at three different radio stations; and Serrano interned with the Royal Aeronautic Society.

What would you do if you had $3,000 to give away? That was the challenge facing students in the new First Year Seminar (FYS) titled “Doing Good and Doing It Well: The Theory and Practice of Philanthropy,” taught by Assistant Professor of History Melissa Byrnes.

“I thought an FYS with a focus on philanthropy meshed well with our students’ interests and the University’s core purpose,” Byrnes says. The class included a broad theoretical discussion of philanthropy from multiple disciplinary perspectives, and included a local, practical project in which students were asked to solicit grant proposals from area nonprofits and select one of them to receive a grant.

“I thought an FYS with a focus on philanthropy meshed well with our students’ interests and the University’s core purpose...”

The students originally had $1,500 to give to a deserving local organization, but when Scott Alarcon from the Georgetown Health Foundation visited the class, he was so impressed with the students that he offered to match the amount with one caveat—the class couldn’t take the easy way out and divide up the money.

The students received four proposals and then visited each site. “The opportunity to be part of a professional group doing a real site visit with the local organizations was nerve wracking at first but one of the best things I’ve done here so far,” said first-year student Angelyn Convertino.

The organization selected to receive the grant was the Boys & Girls Club of Georgetown, which is using the money to start a garden to teach the children it serves about gardening, as well as about the importance of good nutrition.

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Ayers photo by Shelley Dormont ’11

Keller, Ayers Named 2011 Athletes of the Year Senior men’s soccer player Alex Keller and senior swimmer Sarah Ayers were the 2011 recipients of the esteemed Dr. Tex Kassen and Dr. Carla Lowry Athlete-of-the-Year Awards.

Keller, a midfielder from Houston, led the Pirates in goals, assists and points in 2011. One of the team captains, he started in 18 of the 19 contests in which he competed, scoring nine goals—two game winners—and assisting nine times for a total of 27 points, making him the fifth highest point getter in the SCAC. For his outstanding play, Keller was an SCAC Player-of-the-Week, as well as All-SCAC First Team and NSCAA All-West Region Second Team. He led the Pirates in every way imaginable as evidenced by his selection to the SCAC All-Sportsmanship Team and SCAC Fall 2010 Student-Athlete Academic Honor Roll.

“Not only was AK one of the most dynamic forwards in the conference, but he was also one of the classiest individuals to compete at any level,” says Head Men’s Soccer Coach Don Gregory. “It is an honor to say that AK made a massive imprint on our program with his friendly personality and outstanding character.”

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and earned an NCAA “A” Cut qualification and All-SCAC Team pick. Representing Southwestern at the NCAA Championships, Ayers came in seventh place in the 100 back event, earning Southwestern’s first-ever All-America honors in swimming.

While serving as the team captain, Ayers was named SCAC Swimmer-of-the-Week and is the current record holder in the 100 back, 100 fly, and 400 free relay. She was also selected to the CoSIDA Academic All-District team for her outstanding work in the classroom.

“This award truly exhibits Sarah’s talents and abilities that have enabled her to achieve success athletically and academically,” says Former Assistant Men’s and Women’s Swimming Coach Sarah Woodbury. “She is a strong leader and has been a vital part of the team’s success.”

Kassen and Lowry are former Southwestern Directors of Athletics who expected excellence from all who wore the Southwestern uniform.

They were advocates for all student-athletes and had great respect for those who worked hard, were exceptional performers and exemplified great sportsmanship.

Keller and Ayers were honored and received their awards at their respective sporting events during the 2011–12 academic year.

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Arrrr! PIRATE DATA H it the Switch //

Thanks to a generous anonymous gift, Southwestern’s soccer and lacrosse programs are embarking on a new era of competition at Southwestern—night games. New lights for the soccer/lacrosse field, a pedestrian walkway and a parking lot were installed this fall. A dedication ceremony was held on October 21, when the Pirates took on SCAC Conference opponent, Hendrix College.

The new lights will allow the teams to practice and compete on the field later into the evening, reducing the amount of class time missed by student-athletes. Night games will also improve the fan experience for students and community members, and elevate the competition environment for Pirate athletes. However, Glada Munt, associate vice president and director of intercollegiate athletics, notes that the new lights will be used judiciously to stay in line with Southwestern’s energy conservation and green initiatives.

“This addition will take the (soccer) program to an even higher level as the night venue will be a significant boost to recruiting and to student and fan attendance,” said Coach Gregory. “It has been a dream for quite a while to play under the lights, and now ‘hitting the switch’ will be a reality.”

An additional gift from a former Southwestern athlete provided funds to run a fiber optic cable to the field. This will allow the University to broadcast the games live online.

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rolls of tape the athletic training staff uses throughout the year.

1,080 gallons of Gatorade consumed annually.

1,750

baseballs the Pirates use in one season.

$224 average cost of a team meal (including coaches, trainers and managers) for the men’s lacrosse team.

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holes-in-one during competition under Coach Dan Ruyle (Kristen Davenport ’09; Ben Thompson ’05; Robert Kneisley ’06)

World-renowned distance runner and five-time Olympian Francie Larrieu Smith (above, center) has been Southwestern’s head cross country and track and field coach for 13 seasons.

She recently returned from her duties as an assistant track and field coach for the 2011 Pan American Games, held in October in Guadalajara, Mexico. “This type of coaching was never my goal, but it’s been fun and rewarding,” she says. The Pan Am Games opportunity was Smith’s third international coaching experience. “This time was different,” she says, “because it was track and field (rather than cross country) and track and field is my thing!”

She says she especially enjoyed helping the athletes negotiate the starting line and call room process. “I was able to help because I’ve been there,” she says, “and I know it can be nerve wracking.”

During the course of her 30-year career, Smith established 36 U.S. records and 12 world bests in distances ranging from 1,000 to 10,000 meters. She was selected by Runner’s World magazine as “The Most Versatile Runner of the Quarter Century.”

As an Olympian, she had her best finish in 1988 with a fifth place finish in the 10,000 meters at Seoul, South Korea. As a crowning achievement, she was the flag bearer for the U.S. Olympic Team in Barcelona, Spain (1992).

Smith holds a Master of Education degree in sports administration from The University of Texas at Austin. During her tenure at Southwestern, she has taken two athletes to the NCAA Cross Country Championships and has coached athletes to South/Southeast Region honors 17 times and All-SCAC honors 16 times. In track and field, she has coached two athletes and three relay teams to SCAC Championship titles and 24 athletes to All-SCAC honors.

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The rigorous and demanding Art History major at Southwestern “Prior to innovation, one needs a huge depth of knowledge.” —Thomas Noble Howe

he study of art history at Southwestern exposes students to high-quality historical and experiential learning, all framed by the perspective of a broader liberal arts education.

The art history major consists of six broad areas of study—East Asian, Latin American, premodern (classical and medieval), early modern (renaissance and baroque), modern and design history—and is a scholarly discipline that enables students to develop visual literacy and critically assess the complex meanings of material culture within diverse settings.

Thomas Howe, professor of art and art history and holder of the Herman Brown Chair, says that art history in particular is a rigorous and demanding degree program at Southwestern.

“Our students become visually literate, learn to speak rationally about the irrational and to back up their assertions with research and evidence.”

He adds, “We teach that art can and often should be considered using a broad, contextual approach.” By studying art objects in relation to contemporaneous political and historical events, students may learn about the philosophy, religion, history, politics, class structure and more of the time period.

By studying the aesthetics, one learns that objects, works, images and architecture are tied in intricate ways to the culture. Howe explains,

“Through art, we discover the economic condition, the political messages, and the religious traditions of the day.”

Including Howe, Southwestern’s Art History Program includes four full-time faculty members— two from Harvard University, one from Yale University and one from the University of Chicago.

“We are intentional about building diversity into the curriculum. We want our students to be able to reflect and think critically as they interact with research,” says Kimberly Smith, associate professor of art history, specializing in modern (European) art.

Though the department is small, it is 50-50 Western and non-Western in the fields the faculty cover. This is very unusual in any department; thus, the program is well equipped to prepare students for international careers in the world in which this generation of students will live. All four faculty work internationally and are fluent in the language and culture of the countries in which they work: Smith in Germany/Austria, Patrick Hajovsky in Central and South America, Allison Miller in China, and Howe in Italy, where he leads a large archaeological and arts management project near Pompeii.* “We all feel responsible to give students a global introduction to art history,” adds Hajovsky, associate professor of art history, whose focus is Latin American art and who is currently researching and writing a book on Montezuma, within an Aztec context.

Miller, assistant professor of art history, is the newest member of the department. She says, “Art history is an anchor for studying history in

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History Allison Miller leads students in the examination of an East Asian handscroll facsimile.

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general … art makes history come alive!” Fluent in Mandarin Chinese, Japanese and Latin, Miller’s specialty is East Asian art. She says she enjoys observing her students as they discover that East Asian art is “more than Mulan.”

The art history major offers excellent preparation for any field requiring critical thinking, broad cultural knowledge, and research and writing skills. In addition to preparing students for Master of Arts and Ph.D. programs in art history, it is an appropriate major for work in other areas of the visual arts or in other academic disciplines like history or philosophy. Howe says, “Art history is also great preparation for fields such as law, business or medicine.”

Senior art history major Kelly Johnson adds, “Studying art history provides the opportunity to learn a little bit about everything. Because art engages with culture throughout history in so many different ways, the discipline has the potential to tap into theory, science, politics, identity, religion, technology and on and on.”

Because the current generation of students will most likely change careers three or four times, Howe says, “One of the most important things about a liberal arts education is that it allows you to change direction, taking your previous training into your next … no one will be better prepared than a student who is educated in a liberal arts

environment.” For those who choose a career path other than in the arts, experience shows that they still carry their love of and knowledge about art with them.

TODAY’S WORLD Howe goes on to discuss the future of research in a small, liberal arts school like Southwestern, explaining, “In the ‘Flat World’ of Thomas Friedman**, technology allows both faculty and students to work at an ambitious international level, which I foresee leading to an evolution of researchers heading to smaller colleges … especially those who enjoy teaching at the undergraduate level as we do.”

Working nationally and internationally allows faculty to help students with networking opportunities both in the U.S. and abroad. Many art history students—about one half to three fourths—study abroad as part of their Southwestern Experience. In summer 2010, now senior Georgia LoSchiavo and Katherine Maples ’10 traveled to Italy with Howe to work on an ancient garden.

More than 2,000 years old and possibly the largest well-preserved formal garden ever found, the garden was located in the ancient Roman city of Stabiae that was buried with the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79. Howe has been leading excavations at Stabiae since 1999.

“Art history is an anchor for studying history in general … art makes history come alive!”

A number of Southwestern art history majors have found positions in the area of cultural management, for which they are well-prepared, thanks to their ability to learn a foreign language, their understanding of culture and history, and their ability to write and communicate well and to recognize important issues.

One such alumnus, Albert Bui ’06, went on to earn a Master of Industrial Design degree at the Rhode Island School of Design. He has since worked for DMX, an environmental branding company in Austin, and for Berlin Cameron United, a creative advertising agency in New York.

He currently freelances as a branding strategist for small, start-up companies.

Other alumni have found positions such as assistant to the creative director for Vogue magazine;

chief registrar and manager of collections for West Point Museum, tenure-track professor at Susquehanna University, and post-doctoral fellow for the Center for World Heritage Research at the University of Florida.

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Here in the U.S., one of the most successful off-campus opportunities for Southwestern students, according to Howe, has been the New York Arts Program, a full-semester, full-credit program, which introduces students to the world of established art and media professionals and organizations in New York City. Southwestern participants have been accepted to internships with such prestigious organizations as Sotheby’s, the Metropolitan Museum, Carnegie Hall and Rockefeller Center, where they begin networking for their future careers. Johnson, for example, participated in the program and interned at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art. She says of the experience, “my education definitely prepared me for the working art world.”

FACULTY ROLE Howe explains that the art world is a difficult one to break into. “We (the Southwestern art history faculty) are gatekeepers to that world.

It may seem harsh at times, but it is our job to prepare our students for that intense but privileged world. We care for our students, but feel strongly that it is important to give them more and more independence and ‘push them out of the nest’ so they are ready for that world.”

Alumni like Bui agree that they were very well prepared at Southwestern. “The transition from Southwestern to graduate work was almost seamless,” Bui says. “My writing abilities were quite strong compared to my peers and I was able to flush out large passages of critical text with confidence.” Even as a student, Johnson also agrees.

She says, “I’m considering pursuing a career as a museum curator, but wherever I end up after graduation, I can use my critical thinking and writing skills developed (at Southwestern) in any job situation.”

Bui adds that he owes much of his design editing eye to Howe, as well as Professor of Art Patrick Veerkamp. “Thanks to them, my ability to read emotional symbolism from visual and physical form is priceless and I incorporate this skill into every moment of my design work.”

He advises current students to “Be fearless!

Keep your eyes open and trust your point of view … observations of the world—especially human— will come in handy and you’ll get paid for it!” * With an international reputation as an architectural historian (ancient and modern), architectural design teacher, archaeologist (Greek and Roman), art historian (Greek, Roman, post-Modern) and cultural properties manager of “archaeological parks,” Howe has, for the past decade, been coordinator general of the Restoring Ancient Stabiae Foundation near Pompeii, Italy, serving as chief coordinator of archaeology and architectural planning. (Visit http://www.stabiae.com/fountation_site/usa/ index.html for more information.) ** Thomas Friedman was Southwestern’s 2012 Shilling Lecturer.

(See Page 29 or visit www.southwestern.edu/about/shilling for more information.)

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Each year, a committee of Southwestern alumni collects recommendations from the SU community and selects a number of their peers to receive annual Alumni Awards. The Association of Southwestern University Alumni hosts an awards presentation during Homecoming and Reunion Weekend. Colleagues, friends and family members contribute to the citations that are read to the recipients during the presentation.

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Joan Bray ’67 Distinguished Humanitarian Award The Distinguished Humanitarian Award is presented to alumni who have made a global impact on the human race by their actions while exemplifying Southwestern University’s Core Purpose, which encourages “contributing to the well-being of humanity.”

“Most everything Joan Bray does has the wellbeing of humanity at its core,” say her friends and colleagues.

A champion in the effort to elect more women to public office, Joan established herself as a formidable player in the Missouri State House of Representatives. Subsequently elected to the Missouri State Senate, she continued her advocacy for those in need on a local, statewide and even national level.

Joan is known for practicing what she preaches and “walking the talk,” particularly in the area of public transportation. So dedicated to the cause, a fellow senator gave her the nickname “Iron Wheels.”

With a reputation as a no-nonsense, fiscally conservative Democrat, Joan is known for her willingness to represent her values in a sometimes hostile political environment, unafraid to defy the majority if need be. As an outspoken legislator, she dedicated her life’s work to human rights and equality.

The words humble, warm and caring have been used to describe Joan’s character, as well as driven, high-energy and laser-focused. Many colleagues have a strong respect for Joan’s views, even when they are in opposition to their own.

She is admired for her tireless years of advocacy, diplomacy and leadership, as well as for her gift of seeing both the big picture and the details of an issue, and her ability to confront brutal facts with compassion and honesty.

Joan’s commitment to the truth and respect for all has enabled her to work with colleagues across the aisle to accomplish her priorities. Colleagues consider her to be helpful, reliable and someone who can be counted on to represent her constituents to the best of her ability. Widely regarded as a competent, principled and effective Senator, Joan has been a role model and mentor to many.

“Joan’s commitment to the truth and respect for all has enabled her to work with colleagues across the aisle to accomplish her priorities.”

For her dedication to those in need, for her commitment to personal values that serve to help others, and for her ability to restore the term “politician” to its best definition—one who serves the public—The Association of Southwestern University Alumni proudly presented Joan with the 2011 Distinguished Humanitarian Award.

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“Energetic, optimistic, compassionate, creative, diligent and trustworthy, Dan is known to be a leader and an inspiration to others.”

Dan Stultz ’72 Distinguished Professional Award The Distinguished Professional Award is presented to Southwestern alumni who have performed exceptional civic and/or professional services in a given geographic area or field of endeavor. Recipients represent the highest standards and exemplify the University’s Core Values.

As a practicing physician for 28 years and now the President and CEO of the 475-member Texas Hospital Association (THA), Dr. Dan Stultz is a lifelong learner and a shining example of the liberal arts experience.

Friends agree that he is the “whole package” both personally and professionally, and that his Southwestern Experience as an athlete and pre-med student was integral to preparing him for success in both medicine and business.

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he became Medical Director of Angelo Clinic Association and then Medical Director of Shannon Health System.

Dan genuinely cares about others and always focuses on helping patients have healthy, happy, productive lives. Over the years, he began assuming leadership roles and, because he also cares about issues facing the community and the country, chose to pursue a business degree from the University of North Carolina. He became Chief Medical Officer and then CEO of Shannon Health System prior to his appointment to the THA. In the five years since taking the helm at the THA, Dan has influenced state and federal health care policy, developed a strong public education program regarding the need for health care reform, established a hospital physician executives program, and served on the American Hospital Association Regional Policy Board.

Wit h a long- st a nd i ng con nec t ion to Southwestern—his uncle, Durwood Fleming, was Southwestern’s 12th president—Dan has recently become Vice Chair of the newly formed Science Center Advisory Council and a member of the University’s Board of Visitors.

Energetic, optimistic, compassionate, creative, diligent and trustworthy, Dan is known to be a leader and an inspiration to others, including his wife, Alice Schorre Stultz ’72, whom he met at Southwestern, his three children, John, James and Lisa Stultz-Bleakley ’98, and his five grandchildren.

For his interest in others both professionally and personally, for his willingness to take responsibility for his actions while considering the views of others, and for being a great example of the Southwestern Experience, The Association of Southwestern University Alumni presented Dan with the 2011 Distinguished Professional Award.

Marjorie Stripling Schultz ’70 Distinguished Southwestern Service Award The Distinguished Southwestern Service Award is presented to an alumna/us who serves the University over a long period of time; serves his or her community, state and nation, and is a leader in his or her chosen profession, business or vocation.

A s one of fou r sisters who attended Southwestern, as well as the wife of an alumnus — Al Schultz ’71—it is not surprising that Southwestern has had an enduring presence in the life of Marjorie Stripling Shultz. But, she has also had an enduring presence and influence in the life of Southwestern.

O ver t he yea r s, Ma r jor ie h a s “B een Southwestern” as a member of the Development Committee and the Campaign Cabinet, as well as an Alumni Board Officer and a member of the Board of Trustees. In addition, her service to Southwestern has included being a member of both the Brown Society and the 1840 Society.

A partner in the Houston law firm that bears her name, Marjorie is board certified in estate planning and probate law, and is the long-standing Chair of the Planned Giving Council. She and Al have shown their support and love of Southwestern by funding several annual scholarships.

“Always thoughtful and interested in the people with whom she speaks, Marjorie provides professional services of the highest caliber.”

She has also worked for the past decade as pro bono counsel for the University’s Office of Planned Giving to help advance Southwestern’s mission. Always thoughtful and interested in the people with whom she speaks, Marjorie has provided professional services of the highest caliber and has shared her wisdom and talents with the alumni and friends interested in naming the University as a beneficiary in their estate plans.

President Jake B. Schrum ’68 says, “As an expert estate attorney, Marjorie has continuously been willing to share her professional experience with alumni and friends of Southwestern, helping the University become the beneficiary of significant commitments. In the simplest terms, Marjorie facilitates our ability to provide the Southwestern Experience to future generations.”

Respected for her legal prowess and invaluable counsel to the University as a whole and to individual donors, Marjorie is also appreciated for her straightforwardness and generosity, which goes beyond simply writing a check, to supporting a cause or an organization about which she cares deeply.

It is for her commitment to those with whom she works, for her extraordinary energy and forthrightness in all areas, as well as for her devotion and service to the University, that The Association of Southwestern University Alumni proudly presented Marjorie with the 2011 Distinguished Southwestern Service Award.

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Sylvia Mayer, ’01 Distinguished Young Alumna Award The Distinguished Young Alumna Award is presented to Southwestern University students who have graduated in the last 10 years and whose achievements in the civic and/or professional realm set a standard of excellence. Recipients represent Southwestern’s finest young alumni and the University’s commitment to a values-centered curriculum and development of the whole person.

When Sylvia Mayer enters a room, every one knows it!

Described as a beacon of light, Sylvia has long worked to support others and encourage them to have a positive outlook, and is known for being motivated not by accolades or awards, but solely by what she stands for.

Friends and colleagues say that Sylvia’s intelligence, energy, vibrancy, charisma, grace and poise are continuously growing and thriving … and that there is nothing she can’t achieve. In fact, in the 10 years since graduating from Southwestern, Sylvia has already had an active career in the areas of sales, communications, research, marketing, project management, instructional design, public affairs, fundraising and grassroots advocacy.

As a student, Sylvia worked tirelessly to promote the common good of the student body and always stood up for what was right. She and her classmates also helped revive the “spirit” of the late J. Samuel Barcus, Class of 1890, who served as Southwestern’s first alumnus president from 1924–1928. Thanks to Sylvia, Barcus now has the opportunity to make late night visits to the library and guest appearances at SING! Continuing her service to Southwestern as an alumna, Sylvia has been an Annual Giving Board Member, a member of both her 5- and 10-Year Reunion Planning Committees, and the Communications Chair of the Greater Georgetown Association of Southwestern Alumni.

“As a student, Sylvia worked tirelessly to promote the common good of the student body and always stood up for what was right.”

Because of her work ethic and positive attitude, Sylvia stands out in a crowd. With a sense of fairness and constant thirst for the truth, Sylvia is never one to say “Don’t confuse me with the facts.”

Prior to her current professional position as Technical Trainer with Harte-Hanks, she was the Coalitions Director for the Texans for Kay Bailey Hutchison organization. Senator Hutchison has said, “Sylvia’s time at Southwestern has had a profound influence on shaping the committed, dedicated person she is today.”

For her strength and conviction, for her enthusiastic and positive attitude, and for always thinking of others first, The Association of Southwestern University Alumni presented Sylvia with the 2011 Distinguished Young Alumna Award.

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Pamela Gregory Rossman, ’72 Ms. Homecoming Award The Mr./Ms. Homecoming Award is an honor bestowed upon a member of the Southwestern University faculty as a token of the affection and respect of former students.

The award carries special meaning to the recipient, as it symbolizes the strength of the University: the strong, personal relationships between students and faculty, clearly indicating that alumni recall with appreciation the contributions of the recipient to the students’ education and development.

In her 28 years of service to Southwestern, Pam Rossman has taught piano, accompanied the University Chorale, and has been the Chapel Organist and its Music Coordinator. Pam’s colleagues say that she helps make their jobs “pure joy.”

Described as kind, generous, gifted and caring, friends and fellow alumni agree that Pam’s undying support of Southwestern, along with her quiet confidence and integrity, make her a wonderful example of teachers who make a difference.

While a student at Southwestern, Pam met and later married Mike Rossman ’73, Southwestern’s director of admission. Mike describes Pam as loving, committed, spiritual and passionate about music and says that she carries the mark of Southwestern teachers like Drusilla Huffmaster Anderson and others who came before her.

Pam has always understood the power of music to impact people. Using her love of classical music to express her spirituality, Pam plays the organ in a way that has brought many people both to tears and to levels of great joy, all with a sense of reverence. She is also able to identify and call forth students whose musical gifts, used in a public way, contribute to the lifting of others’ spirits.

“Described as kind, generous, gifted and caring, friends and fellow alumni agree that Pam is a wonderful example of teachers who make a difference.”

Pam’s belief that good music is worth the effort it takes to perform is proven by her rigorous practice routine. But she’s not all music all the time.

She also enjoys drinking her coffee and watering her flowers in the morning—when the water levels at Lake Georgetown allow it—as well as her three crazy dachshunds, who allow Pam and Mike to share their home.

For her com m itment to upli f ting the Southwestern community and to making a difference in the lives of so many people in such a profound and memorable and musical way, The Association of Southwestern University Alumni presented Pam with its highest honor bestowed upon faculty, the 2011 Ms. Homecoming Award.

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Brown Symposium Goes Back to the Foodture

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T he 34t h a n nu a l Brown Symposiu m, Back to the Foodture: Sustainable Strategies to Reverse a Global Crisis, was held on Southwestern’s campus Feb. 27–28, 2012.

Developed by Laura Hobgood-Oster, professor of religion, the Symposium’s topic was food—a celebration of food culture. “Bountiful food is celebration, creative food is art, particular foods mark cultures, lack of food is deadly. Food is so central to who and what we are that we, too often, take it for granted. But many humans are not afforded this luxury,” she says.

“Now, we find ourselves at the brink of a potential crisis. A growing human population coupled with food production practices that are potentially devastating for the environment, other animals and human health (factory farming, monoculture, intensive agriculture) threaten life in many forms —both human life and entire ecosystems.”

This year’s Brown Symposium considered food from many angles and pondered ways we can rethink our relationship with this most basic, beautiful and complex of needs.

Featured speakers included: Richard Wilk, Indiana University; Winona LaDuke, Honor the Earth; Amie Breeze Harper, University of California, Davis; Wayne Pacelle, Humane Society

of the United States; and Jo Luck, Heifer Project International.

Hobgood-Oster explains that Symposium participants learned that there are differences in food culture around the world. The food culture in the U.S. is “unsustainable and unhealthy, and now we’re exporting this culture.” She says this is not something to fear, but to be aware of. “We need to sustain appropriate food cultures and, unfortunately, agriculture is the enemy of biodiversity.”

Participants also learned about new ways of producing all kinds of food which are better for humans, animals and the environment, and that the healthiest diets in the world (Mediterranean, SE Asian) don’t consist of all the same foods, but include a wide variety of local foods.

As part of the Symposium, Patrick Veerkamp, professor of art, co-curated an art exhibit titled “Culinary Cultures: A Ceramics Perspective.” In addition, Bruce Cain and David Asbury, associate and assistant professors of music respectfully, performed a concert titled “River of Words,” featuring a special piece commissioned for the Symposium.

There was also a farmer’s market and a canned food drive. Hobgood-Oster encouraged participants to read the labels and be thoughtful about the foods they donated.

The Brown Symposium is presented by Southwestern University on an annual basis. Open to the public without charge, the Symposium is funded through an endowment established

by The Brown Foundation, Inc., of Houston for professorships at the University.

That Used to Be Us...

The Shilling Lecture welcomed New York Times foreign affairs columnist and Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas Friedman More than 2,000 gathered to hear the 2012 Shilling Lecture speaker, Thomas Friedman, foreign affairs columnist for The New York Times.

Friedman has won three Pulitzer Prizes, and according to Foreign Policy magazine, “Friedman doesn’t just report on events; he helps shape them.”

Vanity Fair called him “the country’s best newspaper columnist,” and he has been named one of “America’s Best Leaders” by U.S. News & World Report.

Friedman’s most recent book, That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World We Invented and How We Can Come Back is about the major challenges facing the U.S., the reason the country is

not addressing those challenges effectively, and the policies America needs to adopt to ensure prosperity at home and strength abroad in the 21st century.

His book Hot, Flat and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution — and How It Can Renew America, was a #1 New York Times bestseller, and his previous bestseller, The World is Flat, has sold more than four million copies. Other bestselling books by Friedman include Longitudes and Attitudes: The World in the Age of Terrorism, The Lexus and the Olive Tree and From Beirut to Jerusalem, which serves as a basic text on the Middle East in colleges and universities nationwide and won the National Book Award.

The Roy and Margaret Shilling Lecture Series, endowed in 1999 by The Brown Foundation, Inc., of Houston, to honor Southwestern’s 13th president, Roy B. Shilling Jr., and his wife, Margaret, brings to campus internationally prominent speakers on topics relating to ethics, public service and public policy.

The 2012 lecture was sponsored in part by Sodexo.

Emi Anderson, Class of 2013, said “As a political science major, having Thomas Friedman come to speak was one of the most exciting things that could happen. Whether you agree with his viewpoints or not, being engaged in the ... discussion is a valuable experience.”

Eggers Promotes Storytelling, Giving Back Dave Eggers, author of six books and the founder of and editor for McSweeney’s, an independent publishing house based in San Francisco, was the 2011 visiting author in The Writer’s Voice Series sponsored by the A. Frank Smith, Jr. Library Center.

Eggers’ best-selling book, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. His 2006 novel, What is the What, won the 2009 Prix Médicis for best foreign work of fiction and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Award for Fiction. His most recent work, Zeitoun, is a nonfiction account of a Syrian-American immigrant and his extraordinary experience during Hurricane Katrina.

Eggers spoke on November 1 to students, faculty, staff and the public in a full-to-capacity Alma Thomas Theater. In reaction, sophomore Jacob Brown said, “Eggers is a perfect fit for Southwestern. He not only stands for lifelong learning in his range of interests … but he’s also dedicated to civic duty—changing the world for the better.”

Discussing his writing as well as his passion for helping others, Eggers specifically shared his experience with 826 Valencia, a nonprofit writing and

tutoring center for youth in the Mission District of San Francisco, which he co-founded in 2002 with Nínive Calegari. Local communities have since opened sister 826 centers in Chicago, Los Angeles, Brooklyn, Ann Arbor, Seattle, Washington, D.C. and Boston.

For his work, Eggers received the 2007 Heinz Award in the Arts and Humanities, was named in 2010 to Poets and Writers magazine’s list of the “Fifty Most Inspiring Authors in the World,” and was one of the winners of the 31st annual American Book Awards, given for literary works that cover “the entire spectrum of America’s diverse literary community.”

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Zeitoun

by Dave Eggers // New York: Vintage Books, 2009 review by Thomas McClendon, Professor of History

This is a story of the American dream and the dark currents that threaten to drown it in a militarized and extra-legal America after 9/11.

Zeitoun illuminates the experience of the 2005 flood that followed Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans in a way that takes us far from the scenes of devastation in the Lower Ninth Ward and chaos in the convention center. In this book, we see the flood through the eyes of a successful smallbusiness owner, Abdulrahman Zeitoun, a Syrian immigrant paddling through the city in his canoe trying to help his neighbors while his Americanborn wife, Kathy, and their children worry about him from safe havens inland. They worry even more when he seems to disappear without a trace as he finds himself incarcerated with no access to lawyers, courts or phones. That anyone had such experiences—not to mention that tens of thousands of poor people were simply abandoned to the storm and flood—is deeply unnerving to those of us who want to believe that our country is decisively different from say, authoritarian Syria.

At first, Dave Eggers’ tale of Zeitoun in the flood seems like a grand adventure. When the storm waters first recede, then begin to rise rapidly around his house (bringing the realization that some levees must have failed), Zeitoun takes charge of his situation, camping out on the roof of his garage and feeding neighbors’ dogs. As he begins to paddle around his neighborhood in his canoe, his quiet approach enables him to hear the distress cries of trapped neighbors and rescue them, even as military parties speed by in fan boats, hearing nothing and stopping for nothing.

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man are roughly arrested (for no reason they can discern) at one of his rental properties. They soon find themselves incarcerated in cages erected on the bare asphalt in a hastily converted bus station: Camp Greyhound. The look of the place reminded Zeitoun of nothing so much as pictures he had seen of Guantanamo Bay. While guards, some of them veterans of Iraq or Afghanistan, accuse Zeitoun and his fellow immigrant of being “Al Qaeda,” and taunt them with pork-based MRE meals, no formal charges are brought, and they are not allowed to make a phone call or to see a lawyer. Their transfer, a few days later, to a Louisiana prison brings the expectation that a more orderly process will emerge, but in fact the nightmare continues. A chance encounter with a missionary, who phones Kathy at Zeitoun’s request, leads eventually to Zeitoun’s release, after more than three weeks of incarceration.

Zeitoun focuses our attention on two very important American stories. One is the story of Hurricane Katrina’s flood, a product of government neglect of critical infrastructure and failure to rescue citizens left stranded in the city as a result or their poverty or infirmity. The other is a story of the dark forces that have undermined the rule of law in America since 9/11. It tells us a great deal indeed about what has gone wrong with America.

Eggers and the Zeitouns have since established the Zeitoun Foundation “to aid in the rebuilding of New Orleans and to promote respect for human rights in the United States and around the world.”

I urge you to read this book and to contribute to the foundation.

Be Southwestern!

Alumni Association Mission To be a community that fosters a lifelong Southwestern Experience by: spanning generations and geographies, connecting ideas and individuals, inspiring learning and service, inviting diverse perspectives and strengthening loyalties so that The Association becomes vital in the lives of alumni and their University.

Alumni Council 2009–2011 Steve Raben ’63 President Blake Stanford ’81 President-Elect Nisa Sharma ’92 Class Relations Chair The Rev. Dr. Paul Barton ’83 Nominations and Awards Chair Sarah Walthall Norris ’68 Homecoming and Reunions Chair Maxie Duran Hardin ’73 Local Associations Chair Katherine Merrill Andre ’99 Alumni Connection Groups Chair The Rev. Milton Jordan ’62 Assembly Program Chair Yesenia Garcia ’03 Assembly Program Chair-Elect Lisa Dreishmire ’91 Alumni Communications Chair Ken Holley ’71 Lifelong Learning Chair John Dapper ’91 At-Large Member Theodore Caryl ’76 At-Large Member John Curry ’70 Trustee Representative Zoe Martin ’12 Student Representative

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Dear Southwestern University Alumni, As my term as president of The Association of Southwestern University Alumni draws to a close, I encourage you to view your relationship with The Association and Southwestern as reciprocal. If you will, the value of that relationship will increase. Take advantage of what The Association has to offer you personally and professionally. You not only have a great education on which to build your life, you have an extraordinary network of alumni to draw on for friendships, career connections, advice, intellectual inquiry and conversation. In turn, you can help other alumni, Southwestern students and your alma mater by “Being Southwestern” wherever you are.

Here are five areas on which I urge you to focus: I.

Alumni Leadership Development and Recognition • Help identify potential leaders.

• Mentor young alumni.

• Share the accomplishments of alumni you know.

II. Relational Connections

• Plan informal gatherings of SU alumni.

• Get involved with a local association, your class reunion or an alumni connection group.

III. Professional Networking

• Identify potential employers and promote job openings.

• Consider sponsoring a Southwestern internship at your workplace.

IV. Visibility and Recruitment

• Refer prospective students to Southwestern.

V. Support Southwestern

• Give a portion of your time, talents and financial support to Southwestern.

Southwestern is truly a lifelong experience. I have been serving Southwestern in various capacities since I graduated. I have given and I have received through this relationship. It is satisfying when you can help shape the future of an institution that helped shape you, and rewarding to develop fulfilling personal and professional relationships. It has been an honor to serve as your president.

Be Southwestern.

Steve A. Raben ’63

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7STOPS

2007 graduates Dustin Coates, Meagan Elliott and Josh Franco recently founded an online magazine called 7STOPS. Each month, they publish seven long-form, fiction and non-fiction articles which are variations on a theme and include perspectives from all over the world. Several Southwestern alumni have already contributed. Elliot says, “7STOPS is essentially our liberal arts education in magazine form.”

To read the latest issue or to find out how to submit an article, visit: www.7stopsmag.com

AT A GLANCE Homecoming and Reunion weekend 2011 Number of alumni attendees (topping last year’s record of 1,085)

Total number of attendees (again, breaking last year’s record high of 1,514)

Class Reunions

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Homecoming Cup Champion

DELTA DELTA DELTA

2011 was the inaugural year for the Homecoming Cup, sponsored by Student Foundation, in which student organizations/groups enter to participate in the Homecoming Parade, Capture the Cup and SING!, accumulating points for each event. The organization/ group with the most points by the end of the weekend wins the Homecoming Cup.

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SING! Winner

DELTA DELTA DELTA

Best float in the Homecoming Parade

ZETA TAU ALPHA

Capture the Cup Winner

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During Student and Parent Orientation in August, Southwestern welcomed 22 legacy students among the 2011 first-year and transfer class.

They are pictured here with their relative who is a Southwestern alumna/us. If you have a relative, friend or other student whom you think would be a great addition to the Southwestern family, please complete the Refer a Student form at: http://www.southwestern.edu/referastudent.

Over the past five years , Southwestern has more than doubled the amount of need-based financial aid it offers to students ($6.5 million). Unfortunately, the demonstrated financial need of Southwestern students and their families has increased by $10 million.

We hope you are able to help Southwestern close the gap between student need and what the University can provide.

The return on an investment in a Southwestern student can be exponential.

Every Gift Matters.

Please visit www.southwestern.edu/giving to learn more about students like Student Body President Brady Kent, and support Southwestern scholarships.

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The Original Social Network // The following Class Notes were submitted Jan. 8, 2011 through Aug. 31, 2011. Share your accomplishments, achievements and life milestones with friends and classmates! Submit your Class Note by visiting www.sualumni.net. Select “Connect” from the main menu, then “Class Notes.” You may also e-mail your Class Note to alumni@southwestern.edu.

1948 Robert Coleman, Wilmore, Ky., celebrated his 60th wedding anniversary to Marietta with his family in the summer of 2010. Robert retired from the Billy Graham Seminary, but continues teaching as an adjunct professor at Asbury Theological Seminary and was a visiting professor at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He has written more than 20 books, many of which have been translated into multiple languages. Still involved in preaching and pastor schools, he served as dean of pastor schools for the Billy Graham Seminary which has schools all over the world.

1961 Mary Louise Meyers Gulley, Houston, was installed in May 2011 as the Regent of the George Washington Chapter (Galveston) of the Daughters of the American Revolution for the 2011-2013 term. The George Washington Chapter was formed June 17, 1895, as the first D.A.R. chapter in Texas.

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1976 his local farmer’s market using a recipe from the old Southwestern Student Union Building from the 1960s. He says, “Smelling them bake brings me back to the old SUB and Southwestern.”

Ken Peters, Georgetown, has retired as pastor of New Braunfels Presbyterian Church after 25 years of ministry. Prior to becoming a clergyman, Ken taught history at Texas A&M University for seven years.

He and his wife, Marilyn, have recently relocated to Georgetown.

1975 Randy Mitchmore, Houston, has been elected Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry’s Charitable Foundation. The foundation’s main program is to help (at no cost) survivors of domestic violence who have had their smile damaged from abuse.

Leading a nationwide network of volunteer dentists and laboratories, Give Back a Smile has a vision of “Restore a Smile, Restore a Life.” For more information, visit: http://www.aacd.com/index. php?module=cms&page=610

Jon Morrison, Socorro, N.M., runs the Old Prospect’s Bakery. In addition to baking and selling artisan sourdough and yeast breads, he sells cinnamon rolls at

Dr. Timothy Boone ’77, Houston, was elected the president of the American Board of Urology to serve a term from January 2011 through December 2012. His role as president is to oversee the process of certification and recertification to practice urology in America, protecting the best interests of the public.

Since 2000, Boone has been Chief of Urology at Methodist Hospital and is a senior member of the Texas Methodist Hospital Research Institute (TMHRI), where he is conducting multiple clinical trials dealing with urology problems— from new drugs to devices. His main focus is on neurologic disorders affecting the bladder-like spinal cord injury and multiple sclerosis. Boone also maintains a clinical professor appointment at Baylor College of Medicine, where he teaches urology residents, and participates on a weekly basis in a basic science laboratory that he started at Baylor more than 10 years ago.

A biology major at Southwestern, Boone says that Southwestern helped prepare him for his current professional position through one-on-one instruction, especially in physiology. Setting his sights on medicine at Southwestern, Boone was an early M.D./Ph.D. student at The University of Texas at Houston. He says,

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Laurence Musgrove, San Angelo, has written a book titled Handmade Thinking: A Picture Book on Reading and Drawing. He is a professor and head of the department of English and modern languages at Angelo State University.

1980 Kathleen MacLean Ragsdale, Weir, is the Environmental and Conservation Services Director for the City of Georgetown, and was named the 2010 Manager of the Year for the city.

1981 Vicki Pierce Stroeher, Huntington, W.Va., is an associate professor of music at Marshall University.

She is an expert on 20th century English composer Benjamin Britten (1913-1976). She was invited to present her paper “’Without Any Tune’: The Role of the Discursive Shift in Britten’s Interpretation of Poetry” at the Literary Britten Conference in Sept. 2011 at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. During the same month, Vicki and two colleagues made transcriptions and conducted research toward a volume of correspondence

“I preferred the lab and research projects so graduate studies appealed to me more than medical school classes.”

Boone is glad to be able now to “give back” to Southwestern students by helping coordinate and foster interaction between Southwestern and TMHRI for research and education. (See Page 10 for more information on Southwestern’s collaboration with TMHRI.) He believes that new science center at Southwestern is a “must” for recruiting and educating students who have a lot of choices and are very discerning. He says it will also help keep good faculty. “A university is only as good as its faculty who are engaged in teaching and are up to date in their field.”

Boone and his wife, Angela, have four children. Their daughters, Christie and Blair, live in North Texas, where Christie is finishing a physics degree and Blair has her student teaching experience remaining before she starts in elementary education. Their son, Bolton, is a first-year student at Baylor, and son, Connor, is a sophomore in high school. Still closely connected to the University, Boone’s uncle was Southwestern’s 12th president, Durwood Fleming, and his cousin is Dan Stultz ’72. (See page 24.)

Dee Dee Thomas ’93 has been named executive producer of the weekend editions of TODAY, where she will oversee all aspects of Weekend TODAY. Previously, Thomas served as senior producer of TODAY, where she oversaw the 8 a.m. hour of the top-rated morning news program.

Thomas began her career as an associate producer at KERO-TV, a CBS affiliate in Bakersfield, Calif. in 1993, shortly after graduating from Southwestern. Later the same year, she started her career at NBC News as a production assistant at Weekend TODAY. As senior producer at TODAY, Thomas was responsible for the planning and execution of several special broadcasts including the 5th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina with Matt Lauer and Al Roker reporting live from New Orleans. While

between Britten and his recital partner, Peter Pears, at the Britten-Pears Library in Aldeburgh, England.

1982 Julie Nelson Clark, Kingwood, recently earned a Master of Library Science degree from the University of North Texas. Julie is a reference librarian at the Lone Star College Library, where she received an Adjunct Faculty Excellence Award for 2010.

1983 Richard Heyduck, Pittsburg, presented a paper, “Alasdair MacIntyre’s Concept of a Tradition and the Dialog Between Christians and Muslims,” at the International Society for MacIntyrean Enquiry in July 2011.

1987 Lisa Auanger, Hampton, Va., was named Hampton City Schools High School Teacher of the Year and Hampton City Schools Teacher of the Year. She teaches Latin at Kecoughtan High School.

BIRTH: Don and Joy Holaday Ryan, Pueblo West, Colo., a son, Max Oliver, Feb. 24, 2011.

1989 Cindy Olson Bourland, Round Rock, was named a Super Lawyer for the last five consecutive years.

Cindy participated in the annual Career Connections Barbeque at Southwestern in spring 2011 and made an announcement about it on her law firm’s website.

1991 Ashlie Simecek Cade, Holly Springs, N.C., is the chief financial officer for Johnson Lambert & Company LLP and was named a finalist for the 2011 CFO of the Year Award by Triangle Business Journal.

in that role, the 8 a.m. hour consistently grew in both total viewers and in the show’s key 25-54 demographic.‬ During her tenure at TODAY, Thomas also produced coverage for five Olympic Games: the 1996 Atlanta Summer Games, the 2000 Sydney Summer Games, the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Games, the 2004 Athens Summer Games and the 2008 Beijing Summer Games. Thomas received Daytime Emmy Awards in 2007, 2010 and 2011 as part of the TODAY production teams that won for Outstanding Morning Program. ‬ Thomas currently lives in New York City, N.Y. with her husband, Charles Reed, and their two children.

She is the co-owner, with her husband, Bart, of the recently launched website www.uniqueandmonogrammed.com. She is also a certified public accountant with more than 19 years of experience in public accounting firms and private accounting companies.

She and Bart have two sons, Tripp and Preston.

Lisa Dreishmire, Chicago, Ill., transferred in Nov. 2010 to the Chicago office of the law firm Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart P.C. of which she is a shareholder. She is now happily practicing employment law in both the Windy City and in Texas, and looks forward to enjoying Cubs baseball as a “local”!

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cooperative that represents 45 convention bureaus and their industry partners in North Texas.

BIRTHS: Shelly and Brent Metschan, Austin, a daughter, Adaire Miles, Nov. 23, 2010; Thomas and Maria Gill Murray, Abilene, a son, Maverick Thomas, Nov. 22, 2010.

1993 Sherrin Roberts Frances, Saginaw, Mich., is a tenure-track assistant professor of English at Saginaw Valley State University.

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Brian Hollis, San Francisco, Calif., is senior implementation specialist for inRESONANCE, working mainly with independent schools around North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. He travels extensively for business and pleasure and recently returned from a stay in Dunedin, New Zealand. Now living near Golden Gate Park, he invites those visiting San Francisco to let him know and says, “I’d be happy to show you around the park and take you to the deYoung Museum or the California Academy of Sciences.”

BIRTH: Mauricio and Amy Kizer Cuellar, Pearland, a son, Sebastian Nicolas, Mar. 31, 2011.

Nathan McCarty, Fremont, Calif., recently completed his MBA in sustainability and strategic planning from the San Francisco Institute of Architecture.

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Mark Thompson, Dallas, is vice president of marketing for the Irving Texas Convention and Visitors Bureau. He was selected as one of the “Top 25 Most Extraordinary Minds in Sales and Marketing” for 2010 by the Hospitality Sales and Marketing Association International (HSMAI). In Nov. 2010, he was named the “DFW Sales and Marketing Professional of the Year” by HSMAI’s DFW Chapter. He is a past chair of the DFW Area Tourism Council, a regional marketing

1995 BIRTHS: Edwin and Annalie Drusch Grubbs, Houston, twin sons, Emmitt Edwin and Nolan Wolf, April 11, 2011; Amanda McMillian and Benjamin Holloway ’96, a daughter, Emma Holloway, Feb. 2, 2011; Kenneth and Linda Bednar Paterson, Elgin, Scotland, a son, Jacob Marten, June 21, 2011.

BIRTHS: Marc and Michelle Mizell Corazao, Commerce, a son, Ian Michael, May 12, 2011; Benjamin Holloway and Amanda McMillian ’95, a daughter, Emma Holloway, Feb. 2, 2011.

1997 Jeffrey Barker, Charlottesville, Va., is an attending anesthesiologist at the University of Virginia Medical Center and completed his residency training in June 2010. He started fellowship training in pediatric anesthesiology in July 2011 at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston.

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Ruth Chiego, San Antonio, was promoted to manager of the Children’s Department at San Antonio Public Library’s Central Library. She is now a Librarian III for the City of San Antonio.

I n 19 9 0 — the sesquicentennial anniversary of the founding of the University’s first root college, Rutersville—Southwestern established the 1840 Society to pay tribute to alumni, parents, faculty and friends who have recognized the University in their estate plans or made other plannedgiving arrangements that benefit the University.

If you have already made provisions for Southwestern, or if you plan to do so, we welcome the opportunity to recognize your leadership in helping to make Southwestern a premier liberal arts institution. To learn more about the 1840 Society, go to www.southwesterngift.org or contact Justin Gould ’98 at 800-960-6363 or by e-mail at justin.gould@southwestern.edu.

MARRIAGE: Susan Kersey to Edward Sachnik on Oct. 18, 2008, living in Houston.

BIRTH: Ed and Susan Kersey Sachnik, Houston, a son, Edward Benjamin, Jan. 21, 2010.

1998 Arthur Hastings, Austin, received his Doctor of Physical Therapy degree from Texas Tech University.

He currently practices in an orthopedic clinic in Austin.

Kyle Kaneaster, Edmond, Okla., is an ear nose and throat surgeon at Deaconess Hospital in Oklahoma City. His wife, Shannon Webb Kaneaster, is head of the Pediatric Hospitalist Department at the University of Oklahoma Children’s Hospital.

MARRIAGE: Arthur Hastings to Kathleen R. Richter on April 1, 2011, living in Austin.

BIRTHS: David and Allyson DuBose Harr, Austin, a son, Thomas Patrick, Jan. 8, 2011; Sean and Sarah Kozma Lemons, Denver, Colo., a son, Dylan Zachary, April 12, 2011; Chris and Jennifer Clothier Redmond, Mansfield, a son, Jackson Paul, Feb. 15, 2011.

1999 Katy Merrill Andre, Austin, has been elected shareholder at her firm, Davis & Wilkerson P.C., representing business owners, individuals and insurance companies in personal injury, premises liability, general liability and professional liability litigation.

Destiny Traphofner Cromer, Austin, returned to Texas after more than eight years in New York, N.Y. She is now working at Texas Oncology in Austin as an adult oncology nurse practitioner. When not working, she is in training for her fourth marathon.

Brian Normoyle, Los Angeles, Calif., recently starred with Olympic Gold Medalist Greg Louganis and Grammy Award-winner Dawnn Lewis in a production of The Little Dog Laughed in Palm Springs, Calif. In March 2011, he starred in the American premiere of Trio, a play by world-renowned concert pianist Israela Margalit, in Hollywood. And, he co-created, co-produced and co-stars in the comedy

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“Servitude: The Series,” which can be viewed at www.ServitudeTheSeries.com.

Marisela Orta, San Francisco, Calif., concluded in summer 2011 a three-year residency with the Playwrights Foundation in San Francisco as part of its Resident Playwrights Initiative. As a member of the inaugural graduating class of Resident Playwrights, her play, Heart Shaped Nebula, was presented in a public showcase in June. She is also a guest blogger for Theatre Bay Area and a contributor to 2AM Theatre’s blog, featuring thought pieces by theatre artists throughout the country. This past fall, she joined AlterTheater’s inaugural AlterLab to begin writing a new play titled The River Bride.

BIRTH: Christopher and Katy Merrill Andre, Austin, a son, Luke Taylor, May 26, 2010.

2000 Jennifer Knight, Washington, D.C., is the co-author of How Women Can Make it Work: The Science of Success, which focuses on discrimination faced by women and the best way to overcome challenges.

Encouraged to research issues of concern to women

by Southwestern Professor of Psychology Traci Giuliano, Knight went on to earn both a master’s degree and a doctorate in organizational psychology at Rice University. She is now a psychologist for the federal government in Washington, D.C. She and her co-author, Eden King, have written articles for numerous academic journals, including the Journal of Applied Psychology, Human Resource Management Journal and Group and Organization Management.

Their research has been featured on Good Morning America, CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 and the CBS Evening News, as well as in The New York Times and Allure magazine. The book is available through Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

Arianna Chavez Lay, San Antonio, graduated in May 2011 from The University of Texas at San Antonio with a Master of Education degree in educational leadership and policy studies, with a concentration in higher education administration.

BIRTHS: Cara and Derrick Mueller, Austin, a son, Anders Link, Sept. 27, 2011; Cecilia and Benjamin Rain, Irving, a daughter, Elena Frances, Aug. 17, 2011; Adam and Stephanie Miller Umpleby, Albuquerque, N.M., a daughter, Adalee Joanna, Aug. 11, 2011.

Casey Hooper, Antioch, Tenn., runs Casey Hooper Design. This past fall, she was asked to be an inaugural designer in the Snapfish Publisher program.

Her work can be seen on www.Snapfish.com, www.Minted.com, www.Etsy.com and www.

CaseyHooperDesign.com.

MARRIAGE: Amanda Krcha to Daniel Lesikar on Aug. 11, 2011, living in Morgan’s Point.

BIRTH: Mike and Margaret Blair Fitzgerald, Houston, a son, Finn Porter, Aug. 17, 2010.

2002 Rebecca Lynch, Los Angeles, Calif., appeared in a skit for The Jay Leno Show, had a role in a Web series at www.panicshower.com, and was recently seen onstage in the absurdist comedy, The Caucus Race at the Complex Theater in Hollywood. Additional acting accomplishments include a French-speaking role in the film, La Benediction, and writing and starring in Not Far Enough from the Tree, which played at the Los Angeles International Short Film Festival.

Janelle Valera, Huntsville, is the children’s coordinator at the Huntsville Public Library. Together with her puppet, Otis, she has added new events and revitalized the summer Texas Reading Club and a weekly Preschool Story Hour, and reorganized the Texas Reading Club.

BIRTH: Drew and Megan Fimbel York, Allen, a son, Reid Thompson, May 14, 2010.

2003 Suzy Prucka, Baltimore, Md., is an assistant attorney general for the State of Maryland and an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. In Nov. 2011, she was appointed to a twoyear term on the Maryland Advisory Committee to

the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. This past year, she was also named one of the Top Singles for 2011

by Baltimore magazine, and was elected treasurer for the Board of Directors of the Junior League of Baltimore Inc. Elizabeth Vera-Bolanos, Houston, is a senior research assistant at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, where she coordinates multi-site protocols through the CERN Foundation and works as a data analyst.

She has had two recent publications in the journal, Cancer. She received a Master of Science degree in statistics from the University of Houston-Clear Lake in 2009.

2004 Leticia Davila, McAllen, has returned from her assignment as a health adviser with the U.S. Peace Corps. She served in Honduras, focusing on the prevention of teen pregnancy and on diabetes/ hypertension health education. She blogged about her experiences at http://coneja-nada.tumblr.com.

Rodney James, Wichita, Kan., earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in theatre (technical production) from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2011 and is now the theatre technical director for Newman University in Wichita.

MARRIAGES: Aubrey Bucker t to Andrew McCracken on Aug. 7, 2010, living in Portland, Ore.; David Caldwell to Brigid Kaelin on July 29, 2011, living in Edinburgh, Scotland; Jade Hatley to Scott Teakell on June 4, 2011, living in Houston.

2005 Adam Bates, Austin, earned a Master of Science degree in technology commercialization at The University of Texas at Austin in 2008. He now works for UT’s Global Commercialization Group where he brings products and technologies from foreign countries into the U.S.

Brandon Hobratschk ’02, Houston, has been involved in Houston theatre for the past six years, performing in 32 shows with 13 different companies, including his most recent production of the musical Floyd Collins, which was produced by “Bit of a Stretch.” (See Page 15 for an article about the company, run by current Southwestern students.)

Hobratschk says of Southwestern sophomores Emma Martinsen and Erin Cressy , who—with others— started the company, “I have been amazed by their professionalism and expertise.” He adds, “There is only one other director that I have worked with who exhibited such qualities— Bobby Linhart ’92. Floyd Collins and my experience with Bobby speaks volumes about the theatre program at Southwestern, and is just one more reason I’m proud to be an SU alum!”

Danver Chandler, Republic of Korea, won a local singing competition that was featured on television and radio. She also wrote a book titled Jobs for Teachers in Transition which aims to help teachers gain employment in the education field in areas they have not considered. She says, “I wanted to share with teachers those alternatives that are really amazing.”

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Marcela Berdión Straub, Houston, has completed law school at Southern Methodist University, and is practicing primarily in the area of international corporate arbitration at the law firm of Andrews Kurth LLP. Her husband, Christof, is completing his Ph.D. in biochemistry at The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.

MARRIAGE: Susan Garey to Ryan D’Ambrogi on May 21, 2011, living in Dallas.

BIRTHS: Ray and Megan Browning Altman, Kerrville, a son, Asher Ray, April 23, 2011; Ross and Renee Anderson Goodson, West Palm Beach, Fla., a son, Reece Henry, April 17, 2011.

2006 Aubbie Alexander, Salt Lake City, Utah, graduated from the Violin Making School of America with cum laude honors, the second student to achieve this honor since the school’s inception in 1972. She is a violin maker at Moroz Violins.

Aryn Campbell Calhoun, Coppell, released a new album of original music titled “Last One Standing” on Oct. 4, 2011, under her stage name Aryn Michelle.

More than 400 international fans enabled Aryn to raise $50,000 to record the album through their investments via the website www.Sellaband.com.

She and her band will be touring the album to promote its release around Texas and beyond.

Benjamin Lake, Georgetown, volunteers as Scoutmaster for Boy Scout Troop 151 in Georgetown.

He leads weekly meetings and takes the group camping every month.

BIRTHS: Neal Mann and Brittany Snodgrass ’07, Georgetown, a son, William Julius Mann, Aug. 4, 2011; Matthew and Aimee Whiteman Ybanez, Bedford, a daughter, Micah Rose, March 15, 2011.

2007 Natalie Goodnow, Austin, was awarded the 2011 Jane Chambers Award for her original solo play

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titled Mud Offerings. This is a national award that recognizes feminist plays and performance texts created by women writers that present significant opportunities for female performers.

BIRTH: Brittany Snodgrass and Neal Mann ’06, Georgetown, a son, William Julius Mann, Aug. 4, 2011.

2008 Chris Hinojosa, Portland, Ore., was awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship in bioengineering in 2010. He is conducting microfluidics and stem cell research in the Microscale Lab at Portland State University, the Micro-Nanosystems Lab at Tampere University of Technology and The REGEA Institute for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Tampere.

MARRIAGE: Courtney Clegg to Brian Kasper on Aug. 10, 2010, living in Dallas.

2009 MARRIAGES: Nick Parker to Jill Coffman ’10 on June 18, 2011, living in Houston; Veronica Garcia to Steven Arnold on July 25, 2009, living in Cedar Park.

2010 MARRIAGE: Jill Coffman to Nick Parker ’09 on June 18, 2011, living in Houston.

2011 MARRIAGES: Alex Burbey to Jason Koenig on June 11, 2011, living in Seattle, Wash.; Dyann Lopez to Jesse Tobar on May 14, 2011, living in Red Oak.

The cover of the July 2011 issue of Beyond Beauty Mag featured a photo by Clair McAdams ’10, taken in 2008 when she was still a student at Southwestern.

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In Memoriam None of us is replaceable and we are diminished by any who are absent from us. For the lives of all members of the Southwestern University community who have died, we give thanks.

Mattie Stanfield Fancher ’28, Austin, April 21, 2011 Virginia Ryman Larsson ’30, Louisville, Ky., Feb. 7, 2011 Bruno C. Schmidt ’33, Austin, April 14, 2011 Durward Bailey ’37, Baytown, Feb. 12, 2011 Joseph G. Kurth ’37, Houston, June 15, 2011 Tommye Houston Hightower ’40, Houston, Feb. 3, 2010 Donald V. Hammond ’41, Marble Falls, July 7, 2011 Frances Maas Mithoff ’41, El Paso, Feb. 9, 2011 Newton D. Gregg ’43, Titusville, Fla., Aug. 27, 2011 Sarah Jean Heil Anderson ’45, San Antonio, July 20, 2011 William W. Stevic Jr. ’47, Odessa, Jan. 9, 2011 Kenneth L. Sisserson ’48, Fort Worth, Sept. 28, 2011 Lee L. Turner ’48, Fort Worth, May 10, 2011 Bernice Murray White ’48, Houston, April 19, 2011 Robert P. Wilcox ’48, Eagle Lake, Aug. 15, 2011 Carolyn York Wilson ’48, Corpus Christi, Aug. 24, 2011 Joan Sturman Leifeste ’49, Brady, Sept. 1, 2011 Lamar C. Leifeste ’49, Brady, Aug. 19, 2011 Barbara Leon Scheef ’49, Lubbock, Sept. 20, 2011 Norman Spellmann ’49, Georgetown, Sept. 10, 2011 Thomas Weldon Gordon ’50, Round Rock, July 2, 2011 Marilyn Allday Devore McCanlies ’50, Kerrville, Aug. 23, 2011 Shirley Munson Ramey ’50, Georgetown, June 16, 2011 Carol Potter Bender ’51, Peoria, Ariz., Aug. 30, 2011 Lionel E. Kattner ’51, Dallas, May 19, 2011 Edgar R. Loessin ’51, Norfolk, Va., April 22, 2011 Allin M. Means ’51, Cordova, Tenn., Dec. 15, 2010 Lester L. Petermann ’51, Culpeper, Va., July 25, 2011 James C. Roberts ’51, San Antonio, July 21, 2011

Betty Gayle Tidwell Chafin ’52, Corpus Christi, April 5, 2011 Charles E. Dennis ’52, Fullerton, Calif., July 15, 2011 Kenyon F. Clapp ’53, Salado, April 23, 2011 Earl Nelson ’53, Houston, May 27, 2011 Jo Ann Claire Sanders Polk ’53, Beaumont, Aug. 21, 2011 Lawrence C. Pickens Sr. ‘55, Bellflower, Calif., Jan. 20, 2011 Jo Ann Morgan Salmon-Shanahan ’55, Stockdale, May 23, 2011 Frederick Freeman ’57, Alvin, March 4, 2011 Rhea Gracey Beckham ’58, Houston, July 21, 2011 Brooks R. Collum ’58, Woodville, May 31, 2011 Patricia Bogan Moore ’58, Denton, Aug. 21, 2011 George Dunkin ’63, Evergreen, Colo., Aug. 5, 2011 Stephen Burns ’65, Alice, April 19, 2010 Janis Sue Chiles ’65, Denver, Colo., Aug. 31, 2011 Judith Love Kenesson ’65, Woodville, July 29, 2011 Kaaren Van Amburgh Sullivan ’66, Woodville, Aug. 8, 2011 Don R. Trompler ’66, Dallas, April 21, 2011 Ramsay Gillman ’67, Houston, June 3, 2011 Lee Ann Emmick McClatchy ’67, Santa Anna, Aug. 14, 2011 Linda Carole Harris Beard ’72, Houston, June 7, 2011 Stephen M. Welch ’73, Dallas, May 16, 2011 Gale Murphy Thomas ’77, Lafayette, La., May 3, 2011 Paul M. Young ’84, San Antonio, Aug. 16, 2011 Joseph D. Whittenton ’93, Austin, June 8, 2011 Candy J. Core ’96, Houston, June 11, 2011 Orlando Dominguez Lopez ’96, Granger, Aug. 20, 2011 Courtland Patrick Quinn ’05, Kingland, April 15, 2011 Drusilla Huffmaster Anderson, Georgetown, April 29, 2011 Notices received after Aug. 31, 2011 will be listed in the next issue.

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Why Football?

by Jerry Brody, Vice President for Student Life

“Colleges and universities in NCAA Division III place highest priority on the overall quality of the educational experience and on the successful completion of all students’ academic programs. They seek to establish and maintain an environment in which a student-athlete’s athletic activities are conducted as an integral part of the student-athlete’s educational experience, and in which coaches play a significant role as educators…”

T

he NCAA Division III philosophy is certainly true at Southwestern University, where student-athletes have a long tradition of comparable grades and higher graduation rates than non-student-athletes.

Also, without offering athletic scholarships and paying reasonable coaches’ salaries, “small colleges find that adding football can result in positive net revenue.” As Stetson University President Wendy B. Libby stated, “non-scholarship [football] can generate a positive net revenue stream that you can use for the institution’s highest priorities.”

A conservative cost/revenue analysis of football at Southwestern showed football generating a surplus of more than half a million dollars annually, after the program is fully operational and any debt from starting the program is paid.

This model only addressed revenue obtained from student-athletes who would be football players. It is conceivable that additional nonfootball players who might have ruled out Southwestern because of the lack of a football program might enroll. Lastly, even non-scholarship football has the potential to help maintain both alumni interest and donations. I can attest to this personally as I go online each weekend to track my alma maters’ fate on the gridiron.

Gender balance is another reason often cited for launching a university football program.

A fully operational program at Southwestern should add approximately 100 male studentathletes to Southwestern University’s enrollment.

The addition of 100 males would change an enrollment of 1,250 students that was 37 percent male to an enrollment of 1,350 students that would be 42 percent male.

As evidenced from the results of national student satisfaction surveys (American College Testing, Educational Benchmark Incorporated), Southwestern already provides a vibrant, thriving academic and student life experience.

That is not to say that football would not add to campus life, because it would. At minimum, it would add an additional social opportunity for students. It would provide another reason to stay on campus on weekends. It would also provide another vehicle for students, parents and alumni to come together during parent and homecoming weekends. And yes, to some degree football will increase campus spirit. … Much like the Pirate Bike Program, football is not central to our mission and is not the solution to current challenges, but, developed correctly, it will be an asset to campus life.

Are there risks? Most assuredly. The key to addressing … these concerns is discipline and vigilance. If the University exercises prudence and patience, there is every reason to believe that a football program at Southwestern University would enhance campus life, bolster finances allowing for augmentation of other budget lines, improve the gender balance and increase enrollment.

A varsity football team would also offer a terrific experience for 100 new Southwestern University students. Remember, first and foremost, Division III athletics is about the student-athlete.

WANT MORE?

For Brody’s complete position paper, visit www.southwestern.edu/ plan/experience/positionpaper.php

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Photo by Shelley Dormont ’11