University of Richmond Magazine, Winter 2020

GEN. MARK SIMERLY, R’84, IN KOREA • SPIDERS IN PRO SPORTS • REMEMBERING E. BRUCE HEILMAN

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HOW TO BREAK THE INTERNET It's easy. Anyone can do it.

Step 1: Teach rats to drive cars.

Step 2: Publish research about it.

Congratulations, you just broke the Internet.

That, anyway, was the experience this fall of behavioral neuroscience professor Kelly Lambert, whose rat-driving research has significant implications for understanding mental health treatment, emotional resilience, and environmental influences on the motivation to learn.

Ten Richmond faculty, staff, and students, including psychology professor Laura Knouse, ’02, joined her as coauthors on the study, which was picked up by media around the world. At last count, more than 1,500 articles reaching an estimated 2 billion potential readers in more than 40 countries have been published by everyone from Discover to Good Morning America to humor website Funny or Die. Learn more about the research at bitly.com/URDrivingRats.

Photography by Jamie Betts

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Please draw what you look like.

LIZATLARGE.ORG The creativity of Liz Montague, ’18, has earned her early success, including becoming a staff cartoonist for The New Yorker (three published cartoons and counting). She also continues creating her Liz at Large series, which she started while in college, so it seemed like the natural medium for this magazine’s interview with her.

How do you feel when you are on deadline?

How do you feel when you're done with an illustration?

What's something you can't live without?

What would a Liz Montague emoji look like?

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What do you think the world needs less of?

What do you think the world needs more of?

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What's something you would change about yourself if you could?

What would your 80-year-old self tell you right now?

What do you wish you could do better?

Why did you choose the University of Richmond?

Did you have a favorite spot on campus?

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EDITOR’S NOTE

The death of an arm In the living room of Whitehurst Hall on a Wednesday afternoon in the fall, a very interesting presentation on a very strange subject — the veneration of a 130-year-old taxidermied horse — turned even stranger and more interesting with a simple turn of phrase: “the death of an arm.”

Now there’s a story title if ever I’ve heard one, I found myself thinking from my cozy upholstered chair in the back.

The speaker, rhethoric and communication studies professor Nicole Maurantonio, used the phrase in passing to explain the date on a headstone that marks the putative burial site of Civil War Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson’s amputated arm. The stuffed horse, now on display in a basement gallery 100 miles west of campus, was Jackson’s too.

One of the points that Maurantonio made with these objects is that public memory is about forgetting as much as it is about remembering. She illustrated her point by describing how little is remembered about the people that Jackson enslaved and whose existence was barely documented, in contrast with Jackson’s horse and arm.

Such thoughts on public memory are the content of an upcoming book by the professor, and she had come to offer a preview as part of a new effort called The Faculty Hub to connect faculty with one another. She was a guinea pig of sorts, offering herself up as the first speaker in the newly christened “Hub Talk” series.

In the Q&A, Linda Boland, the professor who heads the Hub, asked about the definition of forgetting. She said that in her discipline, biology, the term means something specific, that a memory has been preserved and then lost. It was clear to her that Maurantonio had something different in mind. Indeed, she did, more like a failure to value something as worth remembering in the first place.

Now here's a quintessentially liberal arts conversation, I found myself thinking. Each definition frames the questions you ask very differently. Each offers up its own lessons.

As the talk concluded, I thought about the value to our students of being surrounded by such educators, people curious enough to get together to hold an idea in their hands, turn it over, and examine it from different perspectives to see what it may yield — and felt grateful that I could be among them, too.

Illustration by Gordon Schmidt

Matthew Dewald, Editor

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6 INBOX Your feedback Forum President Crutcher on wellness Vol. 8, No. 

8 NEWS New info about UR’s past, a Smithsonian intern, and more

PRESIDENT Ronald A. Crutcher VICE PRESIDENT, UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS John M. Barry

Voices A Q&A with the new Robins School dean

EDITOR Matthew Dewald SENIOR WRITER/EDITOR Aggrey Sam

Moments Studying alongside local residents

CLASS NOTES EDITOR Cheryl Spain

Portrait Myrsini Manou Georgila, ’20

DIRECTOR OF CREATIVE SERVICES Samantha Tannich GRAPHIC DESIGNER/PUBLICATIONS Gordon Schmidt GRAPHIC DESIGNER/ILLUSTRATOR Katie McBride PHOTOGRAPHER Jamie Betts WEB DESIGNER/DEVELOPER Chad Devers ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT FOR COMMUNICATIONS AND DIGITAL ENGAGEMENT Phillip Gravely, ’96 STAFF CONTRIBUTORS Ashley Bentley, GC’19, Sunni Brown, GC’18, Lindsey Campbell, GC’20, Sam Campbell, Chris Cassella, ’20, Catherine Amos Cribbs, ’07, Stacey Dec, ’20, Mike Domina, Joedy Felts, Pryor Green, ’06, Debbie Hardy, Kevin Heraldo, Alicia Hubbard, Brian Ivasauskas, Pamela Lee, Joe Minick, and Cynthia Price University of Richmond Magazine Puryear Hall 200 118 UR Drive University of Richmond, VA 23173 Email: magazine@richmond.edu Web: magazine.richmond.edu University of Richmond Magazine is produced by the Division of University Communications. The publication was launched in 1936 as The Alumni Bulletin and is currently published three times a year. Diverse views are presented and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the editors or official policies of the university. © 2020, University of Richmond

ON THE COVER: Photograph of Tyler Haynes Commons

by Jamie Betts

Priscilla Enslin Marsh, W’50, in a photo from a scrapbook kept by her class.

See more photos from Richmond’s past beginning on Page 38.

FEATURES

18 E. Bruce Heilman, 1926–2019 In memory of Chancellor Heilman, whose tenure as president set the university on a bold new course.

20 The fastest way to learn about physics Physics professor Christine Helms explains what NASCAR can teach us about physics.

24 History’s next step Scholars at Richmond who have been developing new ways of seeing the past are about to start giving their tools to America’s history teachers.

32 At the tip of the spear Gen. Mark Simerly, R’84, is one of the U.S. Army’s top commanders on the volatile Korean peninsula.

38 Stunning photography now in color from Richmond’s Past

16 SPORTS An extra edge from sport psychology Perspective Jaide Hinds-Clarke, ’20, on advocacy 46 ALUMNI Art theft, cinema, and an emerging entrepreneur Moments Reed, R’76, and Terrie Payne West, W’75, throw a party 50 NOTES Updates from friends old and new Back Then Millhiser has seen many eras.

It’s about to start another.

Profiles 10 Spiders we think you’ll enjoy meeting Postscript Spiders in sports

Early UR history as we’ve never seen it.

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YOUR MAGAZINE, YOUR VOICE Let us know what you think about what you read in this issue. Email your thoughts to magazine @richmond.edu or send us a letter (our postal address is on Page 5).

Please include your class year, city, state, and name you were known by as a student, if applicable. All letters to the editor may be edited for clarity or brevity and should not exceed 200 words. We also welcome your story tips at magazine @richmond.edu.

STAY IN TOUCH AND SHARE YOUR PRIDE Social media, hashtags, and sites: • @urichmond • #spiderpride • #spiderspotting • spiderpride. richmond.edu

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VOTER STRATEGY I very much enjoyed every aspect of your Autumn 2019 University of Richmond Magazine. It’s the best from cover-to-cover that I can remember. Jessica Flanagan’s thoughtful article [“Ballot-worthy: The Case Against Voting for Charisma,” Autumn 2019] was especially enjoyable.

Our recent Virginia experience shows the importance of one vote. While I agree that “individual votes are unlikely to be decisive,” we only need to look at the 2017 Virginia legislative elections to see just how important one vote can be. In 2017 [as reported then by USA Today], “Republican incumbent David Yancey was the victor after a small canister holding a slip of paper with his name was drawn from a ceramic bowl. Yancey claims the 94th district seat in Newport News, and the GOP will retain its majority by 51-49.”

—R. Kirk Jonas, G’77 Henrico, Virginia I was disappointed and rather surprised to see the latest issue feature a clearly partisan front-page essay regarding charisma.

The writer presented sophomoric arguments for avoiding a candidate's charisma in determining who deserves my vote. She then describes the “charisma” factor of several current Democrat[ic] candidates to demonstrate that their charisma would likely work against them while their policy positions might well be worth a vote. Donald Trump is the unspoken stalking-horse, but the inference is clear.

Stating that policy positions are the key determinant, she then proceeds to muddy her argument by introducing “morality” as an even more important factor in the decision process without clearly stating her definition of the word. Judeo-Christian ethics?

Islamic morality? Sexual, criminal, judicial, etc.? Given these false equivalences or suggesting that any candidate can consistently meet such severe tests of perfection, she seemingly closes with the argument that the

decision should rest upon the “morality” of the person even if the policies he or she espouses are not to your liking.

I would argue that past presidents’ scores on a charisma/policy/morality scale would differ from voter to voter. While voting based on charisma alone is clearly foolish, those who possess it are usually more effective at getting their policies adopted, and policy is the critical question that voters must consider.

—Charlie Crist, GB’85 Culpeper, Virginia

A CHILLING DETAIL Enjoyed the article about the trial of Rusty Calley and Capt. Daniel, my brother-in-law at that time [“Capt. Daniel vs. the President,” Autumn 2019]. Hopefully he will write a letter to our present president.

I am writing to clarify my sister’s name in the article. Unfortunately, she is now deceased, but at the time of the trial she was Shirley Hanbury Daniel, Class of ’64 Westhampton College. Always known as “Bucky.” Later, she married Robert B. Williams.

Even after all those years, it gave me chills to learn it was deemed necessary for her to be given security protection during the delivery of her second child.

—Ann Hanbury Callis, W’54 Virginia Beach, Virginia NO INSIDER KNOWLEDGE I love reading the magazine but was disheartened to read misinformation in a story [stating that] people buy properties in locations because of “insider knowledge” of waitlists [“Fairer Organ Donation,” Autumn 2019].

I work at the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), the national organization that is contracted by the federal government to regulate organ transplantation here in Richmond, and I submit this on behalf of myself, not UNOS. There is one national waitlist, based on organ, and there is no back door or insider

knowledge. Here is a great FAQ page about how the process works and how candidates can get on the waitlist: https://unos.org/ transplant/frequently-asked-questions/.

—Emily Ward, ’04 Richmond CHEERS FOR COOLEY I read with interest your article on defense lawyer Craig Cooley [“The Advocate,” Spring/ Summer 2019]. I was fortunate enough to have Mr. Cooley as a professor for a pre-law class my senior year back in 1992.

As a double history and political science major, I had a lot of good professors, but Craig Cooley — though only a part-time adjunct who taught only one class a year for the love of teaching and the law, as opposed to the money — was the best professor I ever had. I remember many of the lessons he taught us in class about the law, about life, about human nature and humanity, and about the fundamental right to the best possible defense.

Had I had him or someone like him earlier at UR, I’d be a lawyer myself today. As it stands, I am saving this article for my son, who is coming home for the holidays from his university where he is an aspiring law student. I’d be proud if he ends up anything like Counselor Cooley, a lawyer devoted to his profession and dedicated to the law.

Thank you for the memories and for a great article on one of Richmond's finest.

—Scott Glover, R’92 Gilbert, Arizona

#SPIDERSPOTTING ON @URICHMOND During a summer study abroad program, Ana Shimeall, ’20, showed off her #SpiderPride in Zaña, Peru, with classmates Jack Drake, Reuben Davis and Gibran Merchant, and Elizabeth Lopez-Lopez, ’21. They traveled there with physicians, nurses, therapists, and students from VCU through the Richmond Global Health Alliance to help provide health services in rural communities.

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Illustration by Maria Fabrizio

ON WELLNESS By Ronald A. Crutcher, president

Early to rise I make sure to devote part of each day to my own wellness. It’s essential for my commitment to living a happy, healthy, and purposeful life.

When I moved to Cleveland in 1990 to start a new job at the Cleveland Institute of Music, I never imagined that I would find enlightenment at a local gym. I had always viewed fitness centers as nothing more than places to see and be seen, and I had avoided setting foot in them at all costs.

Then one afternoon a good friend of mine from the Case Western Reserve University law school invited me to work out together at CWRU’s One-to-One Fitness Center on campus. I felt obliged to accept, and the decision forever changed my life.

The fitness center offered free assessments to new members. Intrigued, I signed up and underwent an evaluation. The results showed I had the cardiovascular capacity of a 60-year-old man, even though I was 43. I was alarmed, to say the least, and immediately engaged a trainer. After six months of circuit training, I had the heart strength of a man in his late 20s. I have been addicted to wellness ever since.

For many years, I have nourished my mind, body, and soul with a consistent wellness routine. Almost every day, I awake

at 5 a.m. and meditate for 10 minutes, focusing on breathing deeply and repeating one phrase until my mind is clear of all other thoughts. I then practice the cello for 15 to 30 minutes, playing a scale sequence slowly at first, then faster and faster to keep my fingers strong and sharpen my intonation with each new note. Finally, my wife, Betty, and I go to the Weinstein Center, where I train on the elliptical for 20 to 30 minutes, followed by either an upper or lower body workout. When I arrive at work, I feel equipped to address the challenges of the day, confident that I can tap into an inner well of strength to maintain my equilibrium.

Last semester, I was reminded how important it is that we empower our students to find their own inner equilibrium when life knocks them off balance. In a presentation to college presidents, Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner shared research findings showing that achieving mental wellness and developing a sense of belonging are the greatest challenges facing college students today.

I am proud that our university is leading

the way in preparing students to live happy, purposeful, and resilient lives. Thanks to the remarkable generosity of lead donors and other alumni, parents, and friends of the university, we are less than one year away from completing our new Well-Being Center. It will bring together all our wellness resources under one roof and strive to cultivate habits of sound mind and body in our students. To that end, the center will provide not only health care and counseling services, but also a health-food café and demonstration kitchen, a meditation garden and mindbody studio, and a self-care resource center.

The Latin writer Publilius Syrus once wrote, “Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.” The challenge is to hold your grip firm when the storm comes. A liberal arts education provides students with a remarkable set of tools to navigate the vicissitudes of life, from critical reasoning to creative thinking to empathic communication. The new Well-Being Center will help ensure that when our students find themselves on a tempest-tossed ship, they will have the inner strength to draw on those tools and steer through the battering waves with confidence, resilience, and skill.

LEARN MORE The construction of the Well-Being Center is part of a campuswide hoslitic and integrated approach to wellness called URWell. Learn more about the Unversity of Richmond’s efforts to build a culture of well-being at urwell. richmond.edu.

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Photograph by Kim Lee Schmidt

Illustration by Mike Domina

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

50+ years of research

President Crutcher gave remarks at the opening of an exhibit marking the 10th anniversary of UR Downtown.

Ten and counting

➤ NEIGHBORS The exhibition marking UR Downtown’s 10th anniversary, called “Who Is Downtown?” is on display through March 13. It highlights portraits (above) of individuals in the Richmond community and their stories and includes installations by Ayele d’Almeida, ’20, and Joanna Hejl, ’20.

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UR Downtown marked its 10th anniversary in December by opening an exhibition that celebrates people across the RVA community.

The focus was fitting, said Alexandra Byrum, assistant director for communications and UR Downtown, Bonner Center for Civic Engagement. “We wanted to acknowledge the communities that have driven the goals and purpose of UR Downtown for the last 10 years,” she said.

“All backgrounds, identities, and experiences are celebrated in this exhibition.”

When UR Downtown opened at 626 E. Broad St. in 2009, the Bonner Center for Civic Engagement’s then-director Amy Howard called the renovated banking space “a physical marker of the university’s commitment to community engagement.”

Ten years later, Howard, now an interim senior administrative officer at UR, says the facility has become

“an actual model of the university’s values because ethical engagement, pursuit of knowledge, and student growth all come alive there, along with diversity and inclusion.”

These values can be seen in what happens there. The university sponsored almost 125 events at the facility in the 2018–19 fiscal year, including classes, department retreats, and law clinic meetings. Members of the community sponsored nearly 150 more, including public workshops and board meetings.

The clinic is also home to a popular café and a variety of educational programs focused on community engagement and public service. One is the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program, which has secured more than $260,000 in tax refunds and $75,000 in earned income tax assistance credit for low-income tax filers. Most of the volunteers are UR law and accounting students.

One of the university’s largest classrooms celebrated its longevity in August with a commemoration ceremony and the installation of a historical marker.

In 1968, James Ball donated an undeveloped, 104-acre property in Goochland County, Virginia, about 30 minutes west of campus, for use by the university as an outdoor living laboratory. The Virginia Outdoor Foundation received the donation and immediately turned the property to the university, which has used the site for field studies by biology students ever since.

“This site has served such a crucial purpose for me, my colleagues, and most importantly our students,” said John Hayden, a professor of biology who has conducted research at the property for more than three decades. “As our students pursue competitive graduate school programs and careers, it’s critical they participate in hands-on field research experiences outside of the classroom.”

ACCOLADES

Still top-25, still rising

Richmond earned the No. 23 spot in U.S. News & World Report’s Best Colleges 2020 guide for national liberal arts colleges, up two spots from a year ago. The university also appeared on multiple lists the publication compiles, including “Best Value” (No. 24), “Most Innovative” (No. 10), and “Learning Communities” (No. 20).

In August, Forbes ranked Richmond the No. 14 university in the South, just between the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Miami.

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IN THE NEWS

QUOTATION

“We do not have earlids.”

When media cover news and events, they come to Richmond for perspective and expertise. Here’s a sample of recent stories that put the university in the news:

Music professor ANDY MCGRAW, in the first line of his syllabus for Soundscapes, a 200-level music course, making the point that we have “become virtuosic at ‘tuning out’ auditory stimuli.” The course asks students to relearn how to listen deeply to the world around them.

PBS’s The Open Mind interviewed RONALD A. CRUTCHER, president, for an episode about race and higher education. “If you don’t pay attention to disparities with respect to race … then you miss the nuances that occur when you take a student and they are in an institution that feels very foreign to them,” he said.

CLIMATE

ABC News asked physicis professor JACK SINGAL about the persistence of debunked moon landing conspiracy theories. “There was basically no prominent belief, or widespread belief in the moon landing conspiracy theory until the late 1970s,” he said.

In a Q&A about her book No Archive Will Restore You, English professor JULIETTA SINGH told The Advocate, “We are told all our lives that we are self-contained individuals, and in opposition to this logic, I wanted to write the body in a way that lets us see and imagine how wrapped up we are with other bodies,” she said.

Professor Stephanie Spera, above, is crowdsourcing data for her research on Acadia National Park.

Be a citizen scientist Stephanie Spera, a professor of geography and the environment, began her career as a researcher poring over satellite images of Mars as an undergraduate at Washington University in St. Louis. She’s since turned her sights closer to home, but she’s still interested in images — possibly including some of your photos.

Spera is studying shifts in the fall foliage season of Acadia National Park in Maine, with support from a fellowship from the National Park Service and research assistance by M. Olivia Hubert, ’19. They’re tracking when the leaves start changing, how vibrant the colors are, and how long they stay colorful, she said.

“Understanding the interaction between climate, fall foliage, and park visitorship is important for the environment itself, park management, and local economies.”

The research team has multiple sources for tracking recent and future foliage at the park’s Mount Desert Island, including satellite imagery going back to 2000 and an abundant collection of terrestrial photos taken in the last decade.

However, pre-2000 data is scarce.

They’ve found only about 10 photos from the 1980s, she told Newscenter Maine, a regional NBC affiliate.

That’s where your photos might come in. The team is crowdsourcing to find old photos of the park to help validate historical satellite data and to create a record that predates that imagery. They’re welcoming photos from the 1950s through the present day, and they don’t mind being inundated. (See sidebar for details.)

“The more photos we get, the better,” she said.

SCAN NOW Detailed information about how to send your photos is available at www. stephaniespera.com.

Click the Research tab and look for “Acadia National Park Fall Foliage.”

Spera says it’s best to send scans rather than prints.

History professor ERIC YELLIN wrote in Inside Higher Ed about teaching the Scottsboro rape trials in the age of #MeToo. “The students … reached beyond simple categories of race, gender, or class and thought about how identities, power and place combine to create complex human experience,” he wrote.

Richmond’s CBS 6 interviewed ELLEN SAYLES, director of education abroad, about UR’s The Return, a re-entry program for students returning from abroad. “A lot of attention is paid on preparing them to go, but … they [also] need some time to reflect on the experience and to incorporate it into their life once they return,” she said.

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QUOTATION

AROUND CAMPUS

“I wanted to do something real, something with my hands.”

American studies and creative writing major SAVANNAH ETZLER, ’21, at a symposium discussing her summer intership at Shalom Farms, a food access and community development program that operates a 12-acre sustainable farm.

‘Alexa’ for chemistry

HUMANITIES

Photograph by Richard W. Strauss

Chemistry professor Carol Parish is partnering with colleagues at Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of Florida for a nearly $1 million National Science Foundation-funded project that is using machine learning, design thinking, and data analytics to develop a central portal for the molecular sciences.

At the heart of the project is the creation of a “repository where scientists can deposit their molecular-level experimental and computational data in exchange for user-friendly tools to help manage and query the data,” Parish said.

“We want to essentially make the Alexa of chemistry,” said Adam Luxon, ’16, now a doctoral student at VCU who has been involved in the project from the beginning.

Kristi Mukk, ’19, at the Smithsonian, where her internship focused on women in the military.

History’s lessons

Pro bono

Law students are providing pro bono legal services in Richmond through a new medical-legal partnership with VCU Health and Central Virginia Legal Aid Society.

About a dozen law students and a CVLAS staff attorney are onsite two days a week at the VCU Health Hub, which opened in Richmond’s East End neighborhood in spring 2019. The Health Hub provides activities that promote individual and community health and well-being.

Working through Richmond Law’s Carrico Center for Pro Bono and Public Service, the Richmond Law students complete client intake screenings and connect clients with CVLAS attorneys, who can provide services such as legal advice related to housing, family law, public benefits, and other issues.

The community partnership “is a wonderful example of how our curriculum extends beyond the classroom and allows students to work directly with the clients we serve,” said Tara Casey, Carrico Center director.

➤ NEXT STEPS Mukk, who works as the projects and events coordinator at Simmons University’s Center for Excellence in Teaching, plans to pursue a master’s degree in library science at the Boston institution.

“Probably specializing in something like archives management or public history, focusing on telling the histories of marginalized communities,” she said.

Through her family ties and educational pursuits, Kristi Mukk, ’19, was well-suited for the Smithsonian Institution internship she landed in the summer of 2019. As part of the inaugural cohort of American Women’s History Initiative interns, she helped organize “Towards a More Inclusive Military History,” a symposium highlighting women in the military.

Mukk, the daughter of an Air Force veteran, acknowledged that the project “definitely felt like very high stakes” because of the Smithsonian’s prominence, but the internship simply built upon her undergraduate work with Bunk History — a project led by Edward Ayers, president emeritus — and the Race and Racism at the University of Richmond project.

The latter experience raised her consciousness about “archival activism and actively making those

connections between the past and navigating our present moment — and also trying to imagine what we would like the future to look like,” she said.

That background informed her work as she collaborated with curators from several museums to plan the symposium and ensure it was accessible for the wide variety of potential attendees.

“I feel like we’re at a really interesting national moment right now where we’re trying to reconcile all these incidents of racism or sexism in our past,” said Mukk, who was based at the National Museum of American History for her internship.

“I’m just really lucky that I got to work on all the projects that I did and have so many great mentors from across different fields who were able to give me advice and help prepare me.”

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U N I V E R S I T Y of R I C H M O N D N E W S

What have you learned since you arrived to campus that you didn’t know before?

Our alumni are devoted, loyal, committed, and passionate.

They’re always so excited to hear about what we are doing and to help in any way they can. Any person who has any contact with this university becomes so appreciative and loyal. There seems to be more of a deep connection.

What can we do even better to prepare our students for the future?

I hear a lot from alumni and employers that our students are well-rounded and go-getters. I want to make sure that we also are intentional in building the interpersonal and character skills required to lead with courage.

It is important that our students know how to be inclusive, how to problem-solve in groups, and how to set a direction and align people behind that vision.

I think our students have that, but I want to be sure we do this with intentionality.

How do you describe the Robins School when you find yourself chatting with a stranger in the airport?

We blend the best of a top business school grounded in a world-class liberal arts university to address societal issues and business issues. Our small size allows us to give personalized attention to our students and remain nimble in an ever-changing world. And we’re the Spiders.

What would you be doing if you weren’t working in higher education?

In my next life, I joke and say I want to come back as Oprah. I like to ask questions. I like learning about other people, their life stories, their organizations, and how they see the world.

A FORMER SIDE GIG Quiñones thinks of himself as introverted and contemplative. In graduate school, though, another side emerged.

He played lead guitar in a band called Delusions of Grandeur. “It would take me awhile to get my playing skills back up to sound credible,” he admitted.

Photograph by Jamie Betts

What do you see as the biggest challenges facing business schools nationally?

Our challenge is to graduate students who have the skills needed at a time when the business environment is in a state of flux.

The most obvious of these are technical and analytical skills, but students also need to have an understanding of societal trends and environmental changes, and a deep appreciation for the fundamental human condition.

Given our size and position within a world-class liberal arts university, we are well-positioned to provide the opportunities our students need to thrive. Our challenge is to take the great potential they bring and turn it into action.

How is business education at Richmond different from that of other universities?

We are similar in some ways to schools much bigger than us. For example, we offer a broad-based core curriculum that provides a solid foundation in all aspects of business, along with a plethora of experiential learning opportunities.

However, because we have smaller classes, we are able to innovate and try new things. We also have a culture of continuous improvement.

In addition, our faculty care deeply about our students.

MICKEY QUIÑONES By Cynthia Price

What attracted you to the business dean position at the University of Richmond?

It was an opportunity to make a broader and deeper impact. The Robins School is the perfect size and has the perfect ingredients to make a difference in the way we educate business students. We have a strong foundation in the liberal arts along with a solid, well-rounded business education. And because our classes are small, our students get personalized attention and unparalleled experiential learning opportunities.

VOICES

N E W O P P O R T U N I T I E S Mickey Quiñones, an expert in individual and organizational development and strategic management of human capital, became dean of the Robins School of Business in July.

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Photograph by Michael Simon

UR IN RVA By Lindsey Campbell, GC, ’20

On exhibit: Untold stories A community-based course in the fall brought students and community members together to develop an exhibition about HIV/AIDS in Richmond called “Voices of Richmond’s Hidden Epidemic” for a local museum.

NOW SHOWING Voices from Richmond’s Hidden Epidemic is on display at The Valentine Museum in downtown Richmond through May 25. The exhibition features more than 30 oral histories collected

by Browder and Herrera, with accompanying photographic portraits.

The exhibition looks at the HIV/AIDS crisis through the stories of survivors, caregivers, activists, and health care workers on the front lines.

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The atmosphere in Boatwright Memorial Library is focused. In nearly every nook and cranny, students are absorbed in equations plastered across whiteboards or reviewing flashcards as they prep for their next exams.

But on an unusually warm afternoon in October, the atmosphere inside a back-corner seminar room offers a stark contrast.

The room is scattered with construction paper, faux flowers, handwritten poems, and more, and buzzes with chatter and energy.

Students enrolled in a documentary theater course are here with members of a women’s HIV/AIDS support group from St. Paul’s Baptist Church, a predominantly African American church in Richmond. Their task is to develop a collection of cascading books that will be displayed at “Voices of Richmond’s Hidden Epidemic,” an exhibition for the Valentine Museum in downtown Richmond.

“These books are to be a colorful centerpiece of the exhibition,” said Laura

Browder, American studies professor and co-curator of the exhibition. “They’ll be the medium for you to tell your story, the way you want to tell it,” she explains to the women, all of whom are HIV/AIDS-positive.

In Richmond, a city that ranks in the top 20 among more than 2,300 localities in the prevalence of HIV/AIDS, the disease disproportionately affects people of color. In 2015, AIDSVu reported that 4,678 individuals were living with HIV in Richmond; 70 percent of them were black. Yet the story of HIV/AIDS is predominantly told from the perspective of white gay men, so it needs additional voices, according to Browder and theater professor Patricia Herrera.

After co-teaching a docudrama course on the HIV/AIDS epidemic last year, Browder and Herrera urged students this fall to seek out stories often left untold.

“I’m all about storytelling, but authentic storytelling,” said Johnette Johnson, ’20, a student in the course. “What I love

about this project is that these women get a voice. They get to tell their own story of transformation from their own perspective.”

As bright, colorful books developed in the small seminar room in Boatwright, Johnson and her classmates took in stories of transformation, faith, activism, relationships, and legacy from women who live with the disease — stories they would transform into a docudrama they performed with members of the support group in November.

“Students often get tunnel vision in everyday life, but they dig into these creative projects, and it helps them open up and see a bigger picture,” Herrera said.

“The meaningful experiences that happen along the way also establish relationships between students and the community that far outlast the semester.”

The women of the support group, in turn, are able to raise their voices and visibility.

“It’s important for me to share my story with HIV/AIDS,” said support group member Sheila Rollé. “I used to be hush-hush about this, but not anymore.”

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BUSINESS This fall, the Robins School of Business installed accouting professors Paul Clikeman and Joe Ben Hoyle as Robins Teaching Fellows in honor of their outstanding teaching.

“There’s something in every person who wants to be pushed to be great,” Hoyle said during the event. “I believe that religiously.”

Brain bubbles

The brain’s ability to navigate life’s uncertainties worsens when it is compromised.

Some culprits are widely recognized: mental illness and drug addiction, for example. In her new book, professor of behavioral neuroscience Kelly Lambert adds other suspects you might not guess: creature comforts and modern prosperity.

In Well-Grounded: The Neurobiology of Rational Decisions, Lambert explores modern factors that can lead to what she calls “brain bubbles,” distorted realities that result from decreased interacton with the physical and social world.

“As tempting as living a fairy tale-like affluent existence may be, ... the brain feeds on more grounded life experiences just as the stomach needs real food, and lungs need real air,” she writes.

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STUDENT LIFE

Anthony Lawrence, ’22, second from right, is one of the students guiding programming in the Multicultural Student Space, which opened in the fall in Whitehurst Hall’s former game room.

Unreliable narrators

A place ‘to just be’ Because a massive construction project wasn’t required to create the Multicultural Student Space — an inclusive environment available to all Richmond students but specifically designed as a place where students of color can “recharge, connect, and engage with one another” — its significance might not be readily apparent. On a campus where there are so many resources, perhaps the best way to consider its necessity is to ponder what didn’t already exist.

“Throughout my tenure, there’s never been a time when there wasn’t some interest in there being a safe haven [for students of color],” said Tina Cade, associate vice president of student development and director of multicultural affairs and disability services.

As a student told Cade, “We need a space where we can just be.”

Developed in response to a November 2018 student petition, “the Space,” as it’s been nicknamed, is located in Whitehurst Hall’s near-dormant game room. It opened at the outset of the current academic year as a pilot, though all indications are that it will be on campus for the long haul. It is collaboratively managed by an executive council of eight students and seven staff members.

“We definitely didn’t go into it blindly, thinking that, ‘Oh, we’re just going to demand this because we can,’” said Anthony Lawrence, ’22, chair of the student section of the Space’s council.

“We had to think about it methodically and do the research behind why we need this and why it works at other schools to show that it could work at this school as well.”

UP AND RUNNING Student organizations-in-residence with aligning missions have already hosted meetings and events in the Multicultural Student Space. Its executive council also plans events, including a study break prior to fallsemester exams and a Homecoming event with the University of Richmond Black Alumni Network.

Rap music’s popularity is growing with an unlikely audience: prosecutors. And the reasons are alarming.

That, at least, is the conclusion of Erik Nielson, associate professor of liberal arts, in Rap on Trial: Race, Lyrics, and Guilt in America.

The book, written with University of Georgia law professor Andrea L. Dennis, documents how prosecutors present the sometimes violent, crime-laden lyrics of rappers as confessions, threats, and other forms of evidence of crimes, and why judges and juries go along with it.

“No other fictional art form — music or otherwise — is targeted this way in court,” Nielson said. “It speaks to racial bias that we see throughout the criminal justice system.”

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Sharp Series 2.11, Queally Center Michael Steele, the Republican National Committee’s first African American chair, discusses the development of his political identity. richmond.edu/sharp

C-Suite Conversation 2.25, Ukrop Auditorium The business school’s breakfast networking series hosts Timmons Group president, chair, and CEO Brian Bortell for unscripted, onstage conversation. robins.richmond. edu University Dancers’ 35th Annual Concert 2.28–3.01, Alice Jepson Theatre The 2020 showcase will feature live music and professionally and student-choreographed work. modlin.richmond. edu

UNIVERSITY DANCERS With majors ranging from business to rhetoric to chemistry, eight students performed a site-specific contemporary dance work called Cross/Currents at the American Civil War Museum at Tredegar in Richmond in November.

Dance and design company NOW-ID partnered on the event, which was part of UR’s yearlong TuckerBoatwright Festival of Literature and the Arts.

Spring break week 3.9–3.13 As some students relax at the beach, others will fan out for learning and service opportunities — or maybe even visit home.

COMPUTER SCIENCE

Reproductive Justice 3.18, Jepson Alumni Center Loretta Ross of the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective concludes the 2019 WILL*/WGSS speaker series. will. richmond.edu URHere 4.08 Richmond’s second annual day of giving. Last year’s inaugural effort drew gifts from nearly 2,500 donors in all 50 states and 11 countries, supporting initiatives across campus that benefit students today.

Menuhin Competition 5.14–5.24 The leading international violin competition for players under age 22 comes to UR’s Camp Concert Hall, Perkinson Recital Hall, and venues around the city of Richmond. modlin. richmond.edu

Vincent Camp, ’19, designed the combat for Anatolian Trail, a game for teaching an ancient language.

wódr ˚ water ➤ PROTO-WHAT? Proto-Indo-European is a prehistoric language that eventually developed into Greek, Sanskrit, Hindi, Latin, German, English, Russian, and a host of other extinct and modern languages.

Dating it is difficult, but most evidence points to the period between 4,500 to 3,000 B.C.E. when it began to fragment as its speakers migrated.

Fightin’ words The affable Vincent Camp, ’19, is an unlikely evangelist for the value of a knock-down, drag-out brawl.

And yet there he was, in Lexington, Kentucky, in the summer of 2019, convincing linguists that they needed a little fighting to get what they wanted.

Thankfully, these fights are digital, a combat element in a video game called Anatolian Trail being developed at the University of Kentucky.

The game’s purpose is to teach Proto-Indo-European, the parent language of most languages spoken today in Europe and many in Central and South Asia.

Camp served as lead developer for the game’s combat element during a summer internship with Andrew Byrd, one of the UK linguistics professors leading the project. The two met when Byrd came to UR to

lecture about his consulting work on a video game called Far Cry Primal and Camp showed up because of his interest in video game development.

Byrd invited Camp to Lexington because his team was satisfied that word puzzles would be enough to hold gamers’ interest. Byrd thought the game needed battles, and Camp helped him make his case.

“I started coming up with potential ideas for how we could implement a combat system,” Camp said, “because the best way to get people on board with the combat system is having them play it.”

Camp left behind a framework for a novel combat system but admits that the language came less easily because he could do the coding without it.

“Very often they said, ‘Write it in English. We’ll fill it in,’” he said.

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When she’s not studying, Myrsini Manou Georgila, ’20, devotes her time to helping fellow international students feel at home in Richmond.

It was midnight on her first day back on campus in August, and Myrsini Manou Georgila, ’20, was at the campus police station.

“People think it’s torture, but I love it so much,” she said. As one of two head international orientation advisors, Manou Georgila was waiting for late arrivals to international orientation. For legal reasons, UR police must physically hand new students their student IDs, but Manou Georgila wanted to ensure all new international students were welcomed.

“They step off that shuttle [from Richmond International Airport] and are so confused, but they see us with the pizza, music, and bedding, and you see their whole face light up,” Manou Georgila said.

“I feel like there is nothing more rewarding than that.”

Three years ago, Manou Georgila arrived on campus for her own international orientation as a first-year student from Thessaloniki, Greece, and she did not like it. In fact, she can barely tell you what her

IOA, or international orientation adviser, looked like.

Still, the international student community is the campus community she identifies with the most, so it was fitting that she applied to be an IOA for her sophomore year.

Two head advisers and 16 advisers are the face of international orientation for about 150 students each year.

“I wasn’t sure where this was going to take me, but I was really excited to get involved with the international community [in] a mentorship role,” Manou Georgila said. “Knowing that I have been [in] their shoes and that I have been through a similar transition, I felt like I could contribute a lot to the program.”

That year, Manou Georgila said, she “spammed” her group with messages, encouraging them to get involved and giving them tips and tricks for living in Richmond.

“If I could make the experience slightly better for those 10 people that I had, then let it be,” she said. “Ten people is something.”

At the start of her junior year, Manou Georgila became head IOA, a role she repeated again her senior year. She’s also been making an impact on campus in other ways.

The liberal arts curriculum gave her the opportunity to to start taking Arabic, which then pushed her to join the Arabic Club, to create the UR Hellenic Society, and to get involved with International Club. She’s also in her second year as her class’s Westhampton College Government Association senator.

“It was a really great opportunity to reflect on my role in the university community and what I can give back. I felt that I had a better understanding of the international community’s needs and interests. In order to solve issues, you have to be aware of issues, and in order to be aware of issues, you have to stay in touch.”

But Manou Georgila has less than a semester left as a student. With graduation looming in May, she’s aware that every day produces another “last” at Richmond.

“Time is running out,” Manou Georgila said. “I still have things that I want to do before I leave. I want to do whatever I can do to get involved. So, what’s next for me?

It’s staying involved.”

EYEWITNESS With support from a summer fellowship, Manou Georgila spent the summer of 2019 teaching math at a school in Hong Kong.

Her stay in the Chinese special administrative region coincided with the start of massive pro-democracy protests that continued as the magazine went to press.

During a fall talk about her fellowship, she said that interactions with her students gave her a very personal look at the uncertainty they face. She also saw the unrest firsthand when protestors took over the airport on the day she was due to leave.

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A warm welcome

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“The days of wearing the ‘limited sleep badge of honor’ are over.”

Swimming and diving head coach MATT BARANY, describing the connection between good sleep and good performance in a Collegian story published Sept. 24. His athletes can choose to wear devices that track their sleep cycles.

EXCELLENCE

Two Olympians

Photograph by Gordon Schmidt

Pitcher Jonathan de Marte, ’15 & GC’17, and assistant baseball coach Nate Mulberg are headed to the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics in July as part of the Israeli baseball team. They’ll be the fifth and sixth Olympians in UR history.

De Marte pitched key innings as the team won a qualifying tournament in Italy in September. In four innings, he got seven strikeouts and gave up one hit.

Mulberg serves on the coaching staff of the Israeli team.

Soccer’s surge Turk’s background — she played college volleyball — helps make her relatable to UR student-athletes.

➤ S T U D E N TDRIVEN Turk’s position was established partly as a result of the advocacy of two Spider student-athletes — track and field sprinter Marshea Robinson and soccer player Mackenzie Cox, both 2019 graduates.

The pair turned a class assignment about studentathletes’ mental health into creating more awareness within athletics of mental-health issues their peers face.

An extra edge Rachel Turk’s warm demeanor, her comfortable Robins Center office, and the positive affirmations on Post-it notes stuck to her wall are all very fitting for her role. And given that she’s Richmond’s first full-time sports psychologist, her history as a former student-athlete — she played volleyball at Lynchburg College — is just as appropriate.

“I think in the athletics world in general, there’s some credibility that comes with being an athlete, even though a lot of the things that we do, like in individual sessions, any mental health provider could be doing,” said Turk, who works closely with her colleagues in UR’s Counseling and Psychological Services. “But once you’ve been a college athlete,

students look at you and say, ‘You understand what I’m going through because you’ve been there.’”

Turk, who arrived on campus in August, meets with Spider student-athletes, coaches, and athletics staff — individually or for presentations on topics such as performance anxiety or identifying issues students are experiencing.

“The excitement that the athletes have, but also the coaches, about having a position like this has been very different than anything I’ve heard about and felt at other places, which has been really cool,” Turk said. “There’s much less of a stigma here, I have noticed in our student-athletes, with talking about mental health.”

In October, Spider soccer pulled off its first win against VCU since 2015, a 1-0 thriller.

The winner came off the foot of redshirt junior Alyssa Walker with an assist by senior Brooke Beam.

The game was a good symbol of the program’s progress under second-year head coach Marty Beall. The Spiders narrowly missed the A-10’s eight-team playoff, finishing in ninth place with seven wins, including a 5-3 record at home, after winning two games in each of the previous two seasons.

The Spiders scored 25 goals on the season, more than doubling their 2018 output.

No. 6 in the nation

Princeton Review ranked UR’s athletics facilities the sixth-best in the nation in the 2020 edition of its annual best colleges guide, ahead of several powerhouses, such as Auburn and Ohio State. The rankings are based on students’ ratings of schools’ athletics and recreational facilities.

For the latest Spider scores, news, and updates, go to richmondspiders.com.

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HIGHLIGHTS Hinds-Clarke also shared her favorite stats from her junior year: • 10 double-doubles, 2nd in the Atlantic 10 • Career-high 20 points and 10 rebounds at Dayton • Career-high 19 rebounds at VCU • 500th career rebound vs. Saint Louis “Rebounding stats are always great because it’s the nitty-gritty stuff,” she said. “It takes heart to get rebounds.”

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community, you build it. Whether you build it on your own or with the help of people, you build it.

That’s why I went to my friend Dom Harrington, ’19, and I was like, “Hey, do you want to do this thing together?”

Dom and I wanted to address the fact that LGBTQ students of color may not have a space where they feel that they can be themselves. When we were getting Shades of Pride started, we were very intentional about where our meetings were going to be held and how we were sending messages because we were thinking about some of the different aspects that come with being an LGBTQ person of color. Even creating an Instagram page — which seems so small — would require people to publicly follow Shades of Pride’s account. Before we eventually decided to launch the page, we had long conversations about whether it would work against our purpose of protecting and uplifting members of our community.

There’s so much value in affinity groups.

I believe that there’s power in being able to go to a space where you don’t have to explain everything, where you’re not going to be questioned, and people aren’t going to be confused. It’s just nice to be in a space with people who share some of the same identities and some of the same experiences as you.

I think that’s why sport, in general, has the power to unite people.

When you’re at a sporting event, the thing that unites everyone is that you’re all cheering for that team and you want that team’s success. You’re not thinking about politics or the different things that can divide people. People have genuine love for their teams, and I think love beats everything else.

BEING MY AUTHENTIC SELF

If sport is a means for uniting, then all people should be able to feel united and empowered by sport, whether you’re playing or watching.

When I was being recruited, I did my research and wanted to make sure that Richmond was a place where I was going to be able to feel comfortable. And during my visits on campus, I felt comfortable.

That’s great, but when you get here, that feeling could shift a little bit, you know?

When it came to actually being here, I was very nervous initially about being myself.

I’m very aware of the different spaces that I’m in and very conscious of the way that my identities can be perceived and how that can affect me and my safety. Like, when my hair is short and I’m driving, I’m very aware of the fact that my hair is short and I’m driving. I think, “What implications can it have for me if I get pulled over?” because I’ve been misgendered before.

We see stories in the media about black men and the consequences of the snap judgments made about them. That’s something that I need to be aware of. My own identity, how I present, and how that can affect me in different spaces are all very important to my experience.

I feel as though if I don’t bring my authentic self to a space, then I’m doing a disservice not only to myself but to other people who might need to see somebody who identifies in some of the same ways that I do. That’s why I think representation is so important — being able to see people who look like you and identify the same way that you do, which gives you somebody to look up to.

I’m proud to express another part of my identity when I walk around in the community wearing the Richmond logo. Whenever I step on the court, I’m just as proud because I’m representing a place where I’ve felt like I can bring my authentic self to the table over and over again.

But I also recognize that not everyone feels that way. It’s important to recognize

that there may be deeply personal reasons why not everyone can bring their authentic self to the table. One of the reasons that Shades of Pride came about was that I was sitting one day and thinking about my experience and thought, “Hmm, I’m a junior, and I feel like I don’t really know that many LGBTQ people of color.” I know they’re out there. I know we’re here, so why is it that in my junior year, I don’t really have that community? Well, when you don’t have

PERSPECTIVE

Diversity Richmond, UR’s Bonner Center for Civic Engagement, and other organizations have honored women’s basketball forward J A I D E H I N D S - C L A R K E , ’ 2 0 , for her leadership promoting diversity and inclusion.

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TO UNDERSTAND THE REMARKABLE LIFE of Chancellor E. Bruce Heilman, it helps to begin long before he ever came to the University of Richmond. His story of determination and realized potential explains in large part why he became such a great leader for the university.

It begins in rural Kentucky, where Heilman, the son of a tenant farmer, began milking cows in the predawn hours at age 9 and was, by his own account, a lackluster student.

“I slept a lot, and I really thought I was pretty dumb because I got terrible grades,” he told an interviewer a few months before his death Oct. 19.

“The teachers, ... they just ignored me.”

When the nation called its sons to war after Pearl Harbor, he enlisted in the Marines at age 17 and headed off to basic training. There, he found a curriculum in which he excelled.

He earned respect as top scorer on the rifle range and took classes at the Marine Corps Institute.

“That was the beginning of my recognition of the principle that if you work at it and you want to do it, you can,” he said.

There were harder lessons waiting for him. As his unit sailed across the Pacific, its ship endured submarine and air attacks before unloading marines at Okinawa for bloody battles up onto hills and down into caves. When the war ended, “I had grown up from age 17 in the Marine Corps,” he said. “By then I was 19 years old. I was a mature person. I had my own mind.”

When he returned home at age 21, he had his GI Bill benefits in hand but lacked a high school diploma. He couldn’t find a four-year college willing to take him. A fellow marine suggested he try a junior college, Campbellsville, which gave him the opportunity he was ready for.

“The story there is I went in wondering if I could pass, and I graduated with a 3.9 average,” Heilman said.

He flourished at his next stop, too, Peabody College, now part of Vanderbilt University. When two faculty mem-

bers resigned midyear, his department turned to its ace undergraduate. Heilman — the kid who couldn’t pass algebra just a few years earlier — taught the mathematics of accounting to his peers. He went on to get his master’s and doctoral degrees, began a career in higher education, and became president of Meredith College in Raleigh, North Carolina, by age 40. In 1971, he came to the University of Richmond as president, charged with steering the institution into a new era.

E. Claiborne Robins, R’31, had just pledged the largest sum ever given to an American university by a living benefactor, which he bestowed on his alma mater with the hope of transforming it into “one of the finest small universities in the nation.”

Robins gave Heilman his support from the very start.

The legacy of Heilman’s tenure as the gift’s first steward is on display in every corner of the university today, from the availability of funding for ambitious programs and policies to buildings such as the Robins School of Business, the Gottwald Center for the Sciences, Tyler Haynes Commons, the Robins Center, and more.

Heilman Dining Center, where he enjoyed lunch with generations of students, bears his name. As President Ronald A. Crutcher wrote shortly after Heilman’s death, “His imprint on our campus is momentous and far-reaching for every living Spider.”

In the wake of his passing, praise for his capable leadership sat easily alongside stories of his personal kindness and love of motorcycles, which he rode into his 90s to promote support for veterans.

Heilman “was uniquely qualified to lead the university to prominence after the Robins gift,” Gerri Daly Leder, W’78, wrote on social media. “His contributions are innumerable, and his real gift was making each person who stood before him feel like the most important person to cross his path. He’ll never be forgotten.”

To see photos from throughout Chancellor Heilman’s life and to read President Crutcher’s announcement of his passing, go to richmond.edu/ heilman.

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Professor Christine Helms uses words like “electrospinning” in her research articles.

A more familiar term — “NASCAR” — helps her explain physics to the rest of us. here’s just something thrilling about traveling at high speeds. Throughout history people have always pushed themselves to go faster, whether on foot, on horseback, on a boat, or on a bicycle.

Nearly every weekend, today’s speed lovers can live vicariously by watching their favorite NASCAR drivers race around the track at death-defying speeds.

Maybe it’s the excitement in the crowd, or maybe it’s the constant threat of danger that draws people to the sport.

Or maybe it’s the feats of science and engineering that pull some spectators in. As a physicist, I love seeing all the physics principles on display during a NASCAR race.

SPEED NASCAR drivers travel at extremely high speeds, over 200 miles per hour. They accelerate so quickly that it takes them only around 3 to 3.5 seconds to go from zero to 60 mph. During this acceleration, the car must exert an average of 2,600 pounds of horizontal force against the track. This is comparable to the bite force of a large American crocodile or what it would take to lift a full-grown buffalo.

According to Einstein’s theory of special relativity, the faster you move through space, the slower your passage of time. So it’s fair to say that speed-demon NASCAR drivers age a very tiny bit less than the rest of us. At the end of a 3.5 hour race, the drivers have aged about 0.5 nanoseconds less than the spectators who stayed still. If a driver raced nonstop at 200 mph for the next 50 years, he would age 70 microseconds less than the rest of us.

While NASCAR drivers are moving at incredibly fast

speeds compared to the crowds in the stands, their speeds are small compared to what Einstein had in mind — like how fast light can travel, 670 million mph. The effect of relativity at the track is small, but it does exist.

THE TRACK So how are drivers able to obtain these speeds?

As a car enters a turn, it naturally wants to continue in the direction it was originally going. To change direction to follow the curve of the oval-shaped track, a force must be applied.

The necessary force comes from the friction between the tires and the track. Friction is the connection between the two that prevents them from sliding against one another.

So for drivers it’s a balancing act — they want to keep the pedal to the metal, but they can’t go so fast on a curve that their speed overpowers the maneuvering ability provided by friction. Go too quickly and the friction may not be enough to prevent the car from continuing in its original direction and sliding straight into the wall. Slow down too much and you fall behind the competition.

The way the track is designed can help out here. The turns are banked, meaning they are higher on the outside of the track and lower toward the center. Part of the force of the road pushing up on the car — what physicists call the normal force — assists the frictional force of the tires and helps the car make it around the turn.

Banking in the turns at some of the fastest race tracks is comparable to the steepness of a playground slide. Banking at Richmond International Raceway allows cars to go approximately 1.3 times as fast as they could without

PEOPLE HAVE ALWAYS PUSHED THEMSELVES TO GO FASTER, WHETHER ON FOOT, ON HORSEBACK, ON A BOAT, OR ON A BICYCLE.

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banking. Larger curves and higher banking, like those seen at Daytona and Talladega, allow the drivers to maintain a higher speed as they round those corners.

POWER Power is a measure of energy converted from one form to another in a set amount of time. In stock car racing, this conversion is from the chemical energy stored in gasoline to the kinetic energy of motion.

A NASCAR engine produces around 750 horsepower (560 kW), which exceeds a similar model street car that tops out around 300 horsepower. During a race, the power conversion of a NASCAR engine is about 500 times the power usage of the typical American household during the same period of time.

The cars’ power comes from burning gas as the engine rotates. The rotation of a NASCAR engine is 3.5 times faster than a standard street car and much more efficient, allowing the gas to combust more quickly and produce more power.

IT’S FAIR TO SAY THAT SPEEDDEMON NASCAR DRIVERS AGE A VERY TINY BIT LESS THAN THE REST OF US.

COLLISIONS With the high speed and power of stock cars come the risks of dangerous collisions. Some of the hardest crashes in NASCAR register around 80 G’s — that is, 80 times the acceleration of gravity that holds you to the planet. For perspective, amusement park rides top out around 6 G’s.

Safety elements try to extend the time, distance and area over which any collision takes place in an effort to lower these high forces. The principle is similar to the way gradually coming to a stop is less jarring than slamming on the brakes or the way lying on a bed of nails spreads the weight of your body over a large area versus lying on a single nail.

SAFER barriers along the outside wall of the racetrack are made to crumple and dissipate a crash’s force over a large area. The front end of the car itself is also made to crumple, which extends the time of impact.

Carbon fiber seats in the car absorb more impact energy compared to aluminum seats. They stabilize the driver by wrapping around the rib cage and shoulders and spread the impact force over a larger area.

A five-point harness connects the driver to the car, once again spreading the area of impact and slowing the driver along with the crumpling car rather than allowing the driver to continue forward at full speed until impact.

So next time you head to the track or tune in on TV, ponder some of the physics of NASCAR as well as the contributions of scientists and engineers working behind the scenes to improve the speed, power, and safety of the sport.

Christine Helms is an assistant professor of physics at the University of Richmond. This article was first published by The Conversation. com and was reprinted by more than 20 publications, including The Houston Chronicle and the Hong Kong Herald.

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n 2018, historian and former UR president Edward L. Ayers sat on a stage in Arizona to talk about the value of history with the Education and Workforce Committee of the National Governors Association. Ayers’ language was polite, but what he offered was a very diplomatic scolding.

“Everyone, regardless of party, agrees the nation’s history is the foundation of all that we are, … but here’s the puzzle,” he said.

“American history has been diminished in our schools over the last two decades.”

He cited a number of causes, including a seismic shift in emphasis to science and math education, the crowding effect of high-stakes testing, and budget cuts that have decreased or eliminated school field trips to museums and historical sites.

His remarks were an unfamiliar but welcome wave of affirmation to Annie Evans, who at the time was coordinator of social studies education at Charlottesville (Virginia) City Schools.

“Teachers that heard about this — history teachers like me who have followed [Ayers], read his books — we stood up and cheered,” she said. “That was something we’d been waiting for a very long time for people to hear.”

Ayers had ideas about the root causes and consequences behind this devaluation, too, saying they reflect a poverty in how people think about what history actually is.

“History teaches fundamental facts taught nowhere else, and by ‘facts’ I don’t mean the list of presidents and the facts that people I meet on airplanes always think that history teaches,” he said.

“Here are the facts that I mean. The world has not always been this way, and it will not stay the way it is now. People of all kinds move history in ways both terrifying and inspiring. True knowledge of history is based on evidence, not political convenience or wishful thinking or national vanity. There are no more important facts than these, no knowledge more important for all our students to share.”

Even as history has been losing ground in schools for decades, history scholarship has been riding a little-noticed wave of new technologies and methods of observation that are revolutionizing the way historians work, he explained. He compared them to tools that leapfrogged scientific knowledge, saying “For the first time, we have the equivalent of telescopes and microscopes to view the past at new scales, ways to see the entire nation and individuals within it with new clarity.”

Speaking by phone in the fall from a hotel room in Chicago, where he was taping an episode of a new PBS series called The Future of America’s Past, Ayers spoke with fresh enthusiasm because he believes that the University of Richmond is on the cusp of revitalizing public understanding of American history. He outlined a robust and growing set of projects in multiple media coming out of the university that will make substantive engagement with

history more possible for more people than ever.

And what’s most exciting to Ayers is that he and colleagues at UR — including, now, Evans — are in the process of packaging them as a remarkable array of free resources for every teacher of American history in the country.

“When I finished the presidency [at UR], I thought, ‘Well, what do I care about now?’” says Ayers, who is now Tucker-Boatwright Professor of the Humanities and president emeritus.

“Our animating goal is to create something at Richmond that nobody else is making and that is cutting-edge. It doesn’t all say ‘University of Richmond’ on it. It’s not advertising. But it’s going to be clear that it’s a gift from UR to the students of the country.

That’s what I get up every day thinking about doing, trying to live up to the opportunity that people created for me when I finished my presidency.”

“I MAKE THIS JOKE,” says Rob Nelson, director of UR’s Digital Scholarship Lab. “The DSL is not just a sweatshop.”

His “sweatshop” crack refers to the often repetitive and admittedly tedious work that undergraduate students contribute to the various digital projects that make up its portfolio at dsl. richmond.edu. Each semester, they put in hundreds of hours transcribing data from print documents, geotagging maps, and doing other tasks to migrate millions of pieces of information from the physical realm to a digital one. The students who do this work often describe it as a welcome respite.

“It’s such a good escape from the world,” says Leah Reistle, ’20, an economics major who began working at DSL at the start of her sophomore year. “You have all the stresses of social life in college and school and finding a job, and then you go there. … We love the DSL.” Ayers established the DSL in 2007, during his UR presidency, to continue the experimentation in the digital humanities he has been doing since 1991. The centerpiece of its work has become American Panorama: An Atlas of United States History, which the DSL’s site describes as “an historical atlas of the United States for the 21st century.”

It is a growing collection of interactive maps that explore aspects of American history in ways previously impossible and has won widespread recognition, most recently the 2019 Roy Rosenzweig Prize for Innovation in Digital History from the American Historical Association.

The map that has made the biggest splash is “Mapping Inequality: Redlining in New Deal America, 1935-40.” It also displays what is so innovative about American Panorama generally. “Mapping Inequality” displays maps that were created during the New Deal era by a federal agency called the Home Owners’ Loan Corp. Its charge was to assign grades to neighborhoods in cities across the coun-

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try that rated the level of risk they presented to banks and other mortgage lenders. HOLC also created a document trail explaining the grades.

“Mapping Inequality” brings these paper maps and area descriptions together and makes it all intuitively searchable and clickable in an instant. In doing so, it also puts one of the 20th century’s most damaging discriminatory federal policies in plain view. These maps “helped set the rules for nearly a century of real estate practice,” according to the site’s introduction. They disincentivized mortgage lending and other investment in immigrant and minority neighborhoods and gave birth to the term “redlining.” The multiplier effect of this disinvestment has played out across generations, from businesses deciding where to open grocery stores to decisions about which neighborhoods to bulldoze through to build interstate highways.

To borrow Ayers’ analogy, “Mapping Inequality” acts as both telescope and microscope for understanding redlining. A user from, say, Richmond, can zoom in to the neighborhood level and read that the area just north of Belle Isle received the HOLC’s lowest grade because “Negroes crowded out of [another neighborhood] are crowding white men out.” An all-white neighborhood adjacent to the University of Richmond, meanwhile, receives the highest possible grade, with one of its “favorable influences” listed as “restricted area,” presumably covenants that shut out minority and Jewish buyers.

The same user can zoom out, telescope-like, to scan clickable dots across the country that let them dive into more neighborhoods. In Decatur, Georgia, users can read about the all-white Glennwood Estates neighborhood.

The HOLC maps give it the highest grade and note that one of the “favorable influences” is an adjacent “negro area D3 for servants” just on the other side of a cemetery.

Meanwhile, D3, the Hunter subdivision, gets HOLC’s lowest grade, as did nearly every neighborhood in the country where African Americans lived. One of its “detrimental influences” is listed as “proximity of cemetery,” the same cemetery that top-graded Glennwood Estates borders on the other side.

Immigrant neighborhoods fared little better. A user zooming in on Cleveland can read about a neighborhood “[o]riginally settled by Germans and Irish [that] slowly bowed to Cleveland’s expansion and infiltration of other foreign peoples.” In Portland, Oregon, users can learn that a neighborhood is risky for investment because the “racial composition of its population is subversive,” i.e.,

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“ NEW AMERICAN HISTORY IS GETTING [HISTORY EDUCATION] TO THE POINT WHERE IT SHOULD HAVE ALWAYS BEEN.” people from Russia live there.

Examples like these abound across the country, and “Mapping Inequality” puts them all at users’ fingertips in a way that encourages discovery.

Ava Clarke, ’20, was another of the students transcribing these descriptions, and she often had trouble believing what she was typing.

“I was definitely shocked,” she said. “I just had no idea that government officials could put those things in writing and people would actually abide by them. … To see the effects of what they wrote on people’s lives and then moving forward, how it affects today — I was just like, ‘Wow.’” How often do traditional tools like textbooks, lectures, and worksheets evoke a “wow” response? Nelson says the key to understanding the unique power of the digital medium lies in how it puts the process of making meaning into the hands of the user.

“Writing is really good at making an argument, right?” he says. “You support your argument in words that fall in a linear pattern that you control as the author.” With the DSL’s digital maps, in contrast, “you don’t know how they’re going to fall through this, and the route that they take is unpredictable. You’ve lost control of the narrative at some point or ceded some control of the narrative to your reader/user and to the documents themselves.”

The result is that users create connections that DSL staff can’t anticipate as they make projects live.

Researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago used data from “Mapping Inequality” to draw a direct line from the HOLC maps, through

decades of disinvestment, to arrive at conclusions about their lingering effects today, writing that they “had an economically meaningful and lasting effect on the development of urban neighborhoods.” Researchers have drawn correlations between redlined areas and asthma rates and between them and urban heat islands, reinforcing arguments about poverty’s links to health inequities and the uneven impacts of climate change, respectively. K-12 teachers regularly tweet about using the maps in their classrooms.

“One of the things I’ve really loved about ‘Mapping Inequality’ — and it speaks to my background in American studies — is it gets used in ways I just would never have,” Nelson says. “I wasn’t thinking about gerrymandering. I certainly wasn’t thinking about asthma.”

American Panorama uses a similar formula for all of its projects. It presents historical information in graphically pleasing ways that put the reader in charge of how he or she navigates the evidence. The user has the option of scanning for vast patterns or zooming in on precise information from primary documents.

In the map called “Foreign-born Population, 1850-2010,” for example, sliding a bar on a timeline prompts colors and shapes to shift on a map of the United States, showing the changing distribution of immigrant populations.

Simultaneously, a chart listing the origin countries of the foreign-born population dynamically updates. Clicking the map gives users access to hyper-local data. Zoom in to western Pennsylvania, for example, and decades’ worth of data about the origin countries of immigrants to Pittsburgh’s county, Allegheny, is right there. (Spoiler alert: Italy led in every census from 1930 to 2000.)

Similar dynamism animates the other maps that make up American Panorama. “The Forced Migration of Enslaved People in the United States, 1810–1860” documents the displacement of nearly 1 million enslaved men, women, and children in the decades between the end of the transatlantic slave trade and the beginning of the Civil War. On that map, bubbles let users see where enslavers moved enslaved people from, usually via the domestic slave market, and where they moved them to, as well as the number of enslaved people relocated by this process.

Location markers connect to enslaved people’s place-specific, firsthand accounts of the slave trade. On “Electing the House of Representatives,” the changing strength of political parties in every district over every House election since the Civil War is readily visible. Animations that shift with timeline clicks highlight regional and urban/rural patterns across nearly 180 years of congressional elections.

CHANGE OVER TIME is something that all of the maps of American Panorama depict, reinforcing Ayers’ dictum that the world will not stay as it is today. As time passes,

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we can better understand the history that has brought us to where we are, Ayers says.

“The past is the past, but history is constantly changing,” he says. “What has happened has happened, but we see it from a different perspective with each passing year, as our own place moves. It’s like something on the horizon. The horizon is constantly moving as we watch. … The farther we get from the past, the more clearly we see it. It turns out that living through something is actually a pretty poor way of understanding it.”

Bunk, a second digital project being produced at Richmond, tries to help us do just that — understand our times — by immersing the news and opinions of today in diverse streams of history. Available at bunkhistory.org, the site takes its name as a wry twist on Henry Ford’s 1916 dismissal of history as “more or less bunk.” It publishes a daily stream of excerpts of new articles from a wide array of online sources, both popular and scholarly. It then links the articles thematically to others catalogued in Bunk.

“The issue isn’t that terrific, historically minded media isn’t out there — to the contrary, there’s more of it now than ever — but rather that people don’t have many opportunities to connect the dots,” says Bunk editor Tony Field.

“What we’re trying to do is not only to collect the best history content we can find but also to create tools that enable curious people to move back and forth across time and space. It’s like we’re setting out to give 3D glasses to everybody who’s only ever seen the story of the American past in a regular, 2D theater.”

The innovation of Bunk lies in a back-end tagging system that generates an often surprising set of connections based on what articles are about, who’s in them, and where and when they take place.

For example, an October Boston Globe article about the threat that rising sea levels pose to Chesapeake Bay historical sites related to Harriet Tubman connected to a Gothamist article about fights over Walt Whitman’s last surviving New York City home. And to a California Sunday Magazine story about the birth of modern environmentalism. And to an article in The Bitter Southerner about the ruins of the first free black settlement in what would become the United States.

Nat Berry, ’20, a philosophy, politics, economics, and law major from Richmond, Kentucky,

who has worked for Bunk since the spring of his freshman year, says that as a result of Bunk, “I’ve really blurred that line between what is the past and what is over and what’s today.”

He calls history “the best reality TV you could ever have because there are so many hidden stories, and it’s dramatic and complicated.” His work for Bunk involves writing teasers, choosing excerpts, and deciding on connection tags. It has changed how he reads, he says (and he predicts benefits for his upcoming LSAT — “being able to read fast and pull out major themes, major points”). But more broadly, it has changed how he understands the news that comes at him every day.

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to politics that are going on,” he says. “There are historical links to the economy, to social issues, to cultural issues, even with the Emmys or whenever there’s a big award show. There’s always going to be a Bunk article that’s contextualizing this current event through history.”

Gabby Kiser, ’21, an English major from Williamsburg, Virginia, has been at Bunk for a little more than a year.

“It’s always exciting for me to be able to connect something that happened in the past with what’s happening right now,” she says. “Or something that I’m familiar with now — how did it come into existence? …

I wish that it had been there for me when I was in high school because it’s just exciting to go there and find a more interesting story about the constitutional convention or Cold War diplomacy. All of that can be found on Bunk.”

She’s also drawn to some of the quirkier subjects that end up on Bunk.

“I always think back to the oral history of the StairMaster,” she says, referring to an article that appeared on Medium.com in February 2019.

(Subtitle: “The untold story of an iconic workout machine, told one step at a time.”)

The tags that Kiser applied for Bunk resulted in the article being connected to a dozen articles on subjects as wide-ranging as the rise of protein bars, the invention of LSD, and the role of the Cold War in the creation of the President’s Fitness Council.

Like Berry, Kiser says she thinks differently from how she used to about what history is and why it matters. Before working at Bunk, history was to her “stuff that happened, and

it’s interesting to find out … but I think that Bunk has definitely helped me to realize how important it is to think about what’s happened before when thinking about what’s happening now.”

Ayers is hopeful that a project like Bunk can help more people become more aware of how an understanding of the past frames how they think about the future.

“We are harvesting what our own time is making available — which is all of the representations of the past — in ways that we can see them all, connect them all, and then convey them all in ways that wouldn’t have been possible just a few years ago,” he says.

For evidence of why this is important, he points to the core slogans of the current U.S. president and his immediate predecessor.

“Very often the claims that people are making about where we should be going are claims about where we’ve been,” Ayers says. “‘Make America Great Again’ is a historical argument, right? It’s assuming that we were great at one time, and there’s been quite a bit of arguing about when was that, but it’s an implicit argument. But so was President Obama’s, talking about hope and change. Every argument about the future is an argument about the past.

It assumes a trajectory that we are on that we can either sustain or reverse. Even though all of these arguments are based in history, they are seldom framed as such.”

IN AYERS’ EXPERIENCE, students don’t arrive at college thinking about history in these ways. As he told the governors in 2018, part of the fault lay in how schools have traditionally taught history, and he offered a promise, if the governors would take him up on it.

“We are ready to teach history much better than we did in the past,” he said, “when we too often relied on dull textbooks, rote memorization, uninspiring lists, vacuous vocabulary words, and putatively important events whose significance students didn’t really understand even if they knew when they happened, more or less.”

One audience particularly hungry for new ways to teach history are America’s K-12 history teachers, according to Evans, the former K-12 social studies curriculum coordinator in Charlottesville. Before that, she taught middle school social studies in Henrico County, Virginia, for more than 20 years, and she now sits on the Virginia Department of Education’s state steering committee for social studies.

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“The ‘Let’s start on Chapter 1 in September and let’s end on Chapter 30 in June’ way of teaching history has never been OK with me,” she says. “I didn’t like it as a kid.”

The textbooks she grew up with told the story of history from a limited point of view — “a white, male, upper middle class perspective,” she says — and focused on a limited cast of characters taught over and over. They were boring and left an awful lot out.

In projects like American Panorama and Bunk, she sees exciting new ways for engaging students at all grade levels across the country, so much so that in the spring she signed on to join Ayers on a new project called New American History (newamericanhistory.org). Through it, the University of Richmond aims to pool the resources of American Panorama, Bunk, Ayers’ new PBS show, and his longtime podcast BackStory to create learning resources available for free to K-12 teachers everywhere. Evans’ role is to provide educational outreach, supporting teachers integrating New American History tools and resources into their classrooms.

“New American History is getting [history education] to the point where it should have always been, which is that history is happening every day, and we’re constantly uncovering new things about history,” she says.

“With the technology we now have available, we can make more stories accessible, relevant, and compelling.

Instead of just a flat map that a teacher pulls down on the wall or that students look at in National Geographic magazine — not that there aren’t still great uses for those, but now that we’ve got the ability to digitize this information, we can constantly update it as things change and as the world evolves. More importantly, as we keep uncovering more stories and narratives about history, we’re telling different narratives now. That’s what I’m most excited about with New American History.”

She says that when Ayers and Field, Bunk’s editor, first began discussing New American History with her, they said something along the lines of, “We’re thinking that these tools might be of use to an AP U.S. history class or an 11th-grade history class.” She told them, sure, but they should be thinking about much earlier grades, too.

“I took the American Panorama map on immigration, developed a fourth-grade lesson, and went and piloted it with a class in Charlottesville,” she says. “And they loved it. I mean, they had a great time. They looked up where many of them came from, because some of them were recent immigrants themselves. And then other kids were looking up where they thought their ancestors or grandparents came from.”

Those inquiries led to class discussions about everything from DNA testing kits to historical events that help explain past immigration patterns and the current events that are driving immigration in the world today.

“Our kids are very much aware of the fact that there’s a high refugee and a high immigrant population in our schools today,” she says. “Even though these kids are being integrated into your own classroom and sitting right

next to you, we almost never talk about it in most schools.

It opened up a lot of really great conversations with the students amongst themselves and with the students and the teachers.”

THIS APPROACH to the study of history — active, inquiry-based, grounded in the latest evidence — gives students the tools to develop deep understanding of history — and then, importantly, to revise that understanding when new information becomes available. The word “revisionism” is sometimes tossed at historians as an epithet. Bring it on, Ayers says.

“I WANT REVISIONIST HISTORY, JUST LIKE I WANT REVISIONIST MEDICINE. WHAT ARE THE LATEST THINGS YOU’VE LEARNED? GOOD, I WANT THAT.” “People will say, ‘Well, this is revisionist history.’ I’ll say, ‘Yeah, I want revisionist history, just like I want revisionist medicine. What are the latest things you’ve learned? Good, I want that.’ People who want the past to remain static and fixed don’t understand the past, and they don’t actually value it. To claim that it only meant what it meant when you were a child, what you were taught, is not to honor it.”

As he points out, we never see less of the past, only more.

Distance and discovery continually increase the amount of information available about everything that happened before today. The nimble technologies that underpin American Panorama and Bunk are built for expansion with new evidence and the newest perspectives. With a teacher-focused boost from New American History, they also stand a chance of competing for the attention of todays’ students in a way textbooks have not for decades and of reshaping how the next generation thinks about the past, and the future.

Matthew Dewald is editor of University of Richmond Magazine and a frequent Bunk reader.

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AMERICA’S 8TH ARMY, STATIONED IN KOREA, HAS A MOTTO: “TRAIN TO FIGHT TONIGHT.” GEN. MARK SIMERLY, R’84, IS ONE OF THE ARMY’S TOP COMMANDERS, ENSURING BOTH DETERRENCE AND READINESS ON ONE OF THE WORLD’S LAST COLD WAR BATTLEFIELDS. It was in February 2004, about 11 months after the start of the second Gulf War in Iraq, when Mark Simerly, R’84, found himself standing by a sand berm in the deserts of northern Kuwait, scanning the vast, beige horizon.

Then an Army major, Simerly was about to command a 37-vehicle convoy of troops, military vehicles, supply trucks, and materiel on a nonstop run from the Kuwait border north to Tikrit, a city just beyond Baghdad. It was anything but an ordinary road trip. Though U.S. forces had vanquished the once-powerful Iraqi army, a relentless, deadly guerrilla insurgency had risen in its place. Reports of enemy snipers picking off American troops, slaughtering them with suicide bombs, or blowing up military convoys with improvised explosive devices — powerful, booby-trapped roadside bombs — were constant.

That afternoon, Simerly and his team were awaiting orders to start the 8,000-kilometer gauntlet through the middle of Iraq, in part under cover of darkness. Though three 50-caliber gun trucks and 80 armed soldiers were the convoy’s defense, carelessness and fatigue — or a combination of both — were concerns. Failure to spot an IED or account for a strange vehicle on the road could be as dangerous as an enemy ambush.

Yet as he surveyed the otherworldly landscape, mindful of the planning, training, and preparation he and the forces he commanded had done for the mission, Simerly had an epiphany that has defined his three-decade military career.

Service, he realized, is its own reward; military leadership was his destiny.

“I truly felt privileged that I was the one leading that convoy — that I’d been given that chance to lead American soldiers into combat,” Simerly recalls. “I knew I had the responsibility of getting every piece of equipment and every soldier up there to our destination. That was was my job: Accomplish the mission, get everybody there, and to be ready to do our next mission.”

Now, some 15 years after successfully getting that convoy to Tikrit, Simerly has risen through the command levels to become a brigadier general, the Army’s fifth-highest rank.

He’s one of 231 officers in that service branch who wear stars on the shoulders of their uniforms.

In reaching that elite level, Simerly has also taken on perhaps his highest-profile and most complex, politically sensitive assignment yet. He was recently selected as the commanding officer of the Army’s 19th Expeditionary Sustainment Command in Daegu, South Korea.

His primary responsibility is the transport and delivery of goods, supplies, and personnel in a country technically still at war, in a region where peace and security depend on the strength of American defenses.

The Korean Peninsula, in fact, has been in the spotlight in recent years and has gotten lots of personal attention from President Donald Trump.

Chasing a nuclear nonproliferation deal with North Korea, Trump has met three times with Kim Jong Un, leader of the reclusive nation. Despite Trump’s overtures, Kim’s singular pursuit of a nuclear weapons arsenal, including a ballistic missile test as recently as late October, have kept the region and the world on edge.

Yet North Korea isn’t just a nuclear threat. Obsessed with acquiring international respect through military power, North Korea has built a formidable army, and the country’s agenda includes reunifying with the South — by force, if given the opportunity. As a deterrence, the U.S. and South Korean militaries hold annual joint exercises in the region, but the North’s reaction to the muscle-flexing

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often includes more ballistic missile tests, dialing up tensions even higher.

The Cold War, experts say, can erupt into a hot one in an instant in this part of the world. Hence the motto of U.S. forces stationed in Korea: “Train to fight tonight.”

The North’s forces “continue to pose a threat to South Korea, Japan, and U.S. forces in the region,” according to the 2019 Worldwide Threat Assessment, an annual report produced by the Director of National Intelligence.

To enhance his power, “Kim Jong Un continues to pursue advanced conventional weapon programs and capabilities, including more accurate artillery and ballistic missile strike capabilities,” as well as armed drones.

Despite the distinct possibility that latent, Cold War-era hostilities could erupt into nuclear war at any moment, Simerly is unfazed and, instead, analytical.

“It’s a fascinating time to be here,” the brigadier general says. “I’ve been in many other places where I felt a much greater imminent danger — Iraq and Afghanistan, primarily. I don’t have any sense of personal or professional insecurity here.”

Given his path to Army leadership and his command style, Simerly’s sanguine outlook on the geopolitics of the Korean peninsula might not be surprising. Having studied journalism and English with him at UR — and having been friends with him and his wife, Cynthia Eckenrod

Simerly, W’84, since freshman year — I know Simerly to be thoughtful, evenNORTH KOREA keeled, and rational, traits that serve him well as a commander who would Pyongyang rather work through a problem and DMZ solicit ideas than solve it by force of will. Though he’s reached a command level few in his profession achieve and Seoul Area II served in active combat zones, Simerly Area I Area V is less George Patton and more James Mattis, the former defense secretary SOUTH Area III and retired Marine Corps four-star KOREA general who is so well-read and anaArea VI Daegu lytical that admirers called him “the Area IV Warrior Monk.”

Yet unlike most who reach the general-officer level, Simerly says the Army wasn’t a deliberate career choice.

“If you told me I would have a career of nearly 30 years in the Army, close to what my dad had served, there’s no way I would have believed it,” he says. At UR, “I was probably most concerned about getting through college, then having some opportunity for some unknown unspecified career that would follow.”

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ing advantage of opportunities, “something that I would have been like, ‘Hmm, that’s kind of curious. OK, let’s see what happens.’”

That includes his decision to attend the University of Richmond, sight unseen.

Growing up on Army bases, the second of three children and the only boy, Simerly admired his father Charles S. Simerly, an Army colonel, aviator, and intelligence officer.

The family was stationed in Germany but was headed for Virginia when it came time for the colonel’s son to pick a college; Simerly considered the service academies but wasn’t completely sure he wanted to don an officer’s uniform like his father.

“I wanted a traditional college experience,” he says, including the freedom to explore his intellectual interests, following them wherever they led.

“My dad was going to be assigned in the Pentagon, but I was also very interested in a liberal arts education” somewhere near the Washington, D.C., area, he says. Some family friends were former Spiders, though, and they recommended he consider UR as an alternative to West Point or the Naval Academy. An ROTC scholarship gave him the best of both worlds: paid tuition and military leadership training at a small, liberal-arts school in exchange for four years of active-duty service after graduation.

“What I was seeking was ultimately the ability to think, the ability to learn, the ability to communicate,” Simerly says. “Those are things that I studied, specifically as an English and journalism major at UR, and I think those fundamental skills have served me well.”

He still remembers how he felt when he received his acceptance letter.

“With the admissions packet there was a little map of the campus,” Simerly says. ”You know, something just really appealed to me about the school. And my first visit to the campus, the summer before my freshman year, really confirmed that choice. I really felt at home.”

His choice of academic majors paid off, too: He met Cynthia when he interviewed her as a reporter for The Collegian. She’d made news by petitioning the E. Claiborne Robins School of Business for access to the curriculum, something she and other liberal arts majors didn’t have at the time.

After graduating summa cum laude in 1984, Simerly decided he wanted to serve in the military — but as an Army lawyer, not in a field command. But law school at the University of Virginia, after deterring his active-duty commitment, dealt him arguably his first significant setback: After just two semesters, Simerly abruptly dropped out.

The decision, over which he’d privately agonized, stunned friends and family, caused Simerly to second-guess his career path, and planted seeds of self-doubt.

“I realized that [law] was not going to be the right profession for me,” Simerly says. “I didn’t make that decision in the most deliberate manner. So that caused me to question my abilities. It caused me to question my maturity as a young man.” And, since the Army sponsored his education,

Simerly owed them service. The time had come to pay up.

Rather than an obligation, however he saw it as an opportunity for redemption.

“It became a second chance to prove to myself and prove to others, especially my loved ones, that I was capable of doing well,” he says. “Not to sum it up too simply, but a lot of my early drive to succeed in the Army was to redeem myself from some poor choices.”

“The ability to think, the ability to learn, the ability to communicate — those fundamental skills have served me well.”

Commissioned as a second lieutenant, Simerly began his military career as an artillery officer but gradually transitioned into military logistics — moving equipment, supplies, and personnel, sometimes in and out of combat zones. It was during the early years and his first combat tours as a logistician when the Army began to seem like the right fit for him. It’s also when Simerly acquired his taste for leadership.

“My dad served as brigade commander — 33 years in the Army, three tours as a pilot in Vietnam,” Simerly says. “So I was certainly inspired by his example. And I was attracted, I guess, in some ways early on, to the adventure of the profession. That’s still something that appeals to me.

Every time I ride in an Army helicopter, I think about the fact that I’m not wearing a tie sitting in an office — that what I get to do is fundamentally cool.”

Still, “I think it really comes down

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to one word for me — leadership,” he says. “Besides being a husband and a father and other family roles, the opportunity to lead soldiers has been the most rewarding thing I’ve done in my life, the most fulfilling thing. And there, it’s not necessarily just about leading soldiers.”

Contrary to stereotypes, Simerly says, Army leadership is more than shouting orders or charging headlong into battle, guns blazing. In his view, a good commander is selfless and disciplined, taking satisfaction in the achievement of others — a thinking person’s vocation.

“I think there’s something intangible about leadership that’s innately rewarding when you have the opportunity to be part of a team and then to lead a team success,” Simerly says. “On any kind of team, you get that sense that your personal success matters less than the success of the entire team and the organization. So that’s no doubt a component of the attraction of the military for me.”

As Simerly rose through the ranks, so did the level of his responsibility, from leading a platoon of some 40 soldiers as a newly commissioned lieutenant to company commander as a rising young captain, leading 150 troops.

“I determined after my company command, which is kind of the crucible of military leadership experience, that I felt I was suited to the Army and that the Army was suited for me,” he says. “Then my next goal was to be a successful battalion commander. I had the opportunity to command a battalion, about 1,200 soldiers, take that battalion to war [in Iraq], and come back with everybody.”

The Army also invested in those leadership skills, sending Simerly to a series of selective training and postgraduate education programs — including the National Defense University in Washington, D.C., and the elite United States Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

During his tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, Simerly was responsible for supporting Army units in active combat. That meant sending personnel — members of his unit, soldiers he’d trained — into hot zones, knowing there was a chance the mission might fail or draw an enemy attack.

“Making tough decisions about sending America’s sons and daughters into harm’s way is the essence of leadership — balancing mission requirements with soldier welfare,” he says. “You never rest easy when your units are conducting operations until the mission is complete. I can recall nearly every detail of patrols conducted over a decade ago due to the intense focus and scrutiny — particularly when those patrols were transiting hazardous terrain. During operations along a corridor near the Iranian border — we called it ‘IED alley’ — we could barely breathe until we cleared the danger zones.”

Though Simerly sleeps better at night, by far, in Daegu than he did in Baghdad, Tikrit, or Kabul, his new command requires taking the threat from North Korea seriously every day without fail. Preparing to engage with the enemy, at any hour, is central to the mission, and there are frequent reminders that his unit is at the tip of a spear pointed at Pyongyang.

The day begins before dawn with a morning workout, a mix of running and resistance exercises at the base gym.

An hour or so later, in green camouflage fatigues and boots — the standard Army field uniform — and a small star on his chest, Simerly begins his administrative duties. Meetings with his command staff go beyond routine check-ins; even the terminology of office work underscores the seriousness of his new command.

“We refer to our daily/weekly routine of meetings as a ‘battle rhythm’ so that each day we have a predictable series of collaborative reviews of different functions in the command,” he says.

As the senior U.S. military leader and public official in Area IV, which includes Daegu, Simerly can have an agenda that includes sessions with elected officials or his counterparts in the South Korean Army (“to improve our alliance,” he says), occasions that call for dress blues but also a security detail and driver, an entourage typically granted an envoy or White House-level representative. Those meetings, Simerly says, can be equal parts diplomacy, strategy session, and contingency planning. The goal: ensuring coordination between leaders of South Korea’s fourth-largest city, its military, and the troops at Simerly’s command, should the worst-case scenario unfold.

Though he is placid about his current assignment supporting U.S. troops in Korea, all eyes were on the peninsula in June 2019 when President Trump traveled to Seoul for a summit with South Korea’s president, Moon Jae-in.

Trump even made history at the demilitarized zone by briefly setting foot in North Korea, raising expectations the United States would soon reach a peace deal. Not long after the visit, however, North Korea sent a missile over the peninsula — sword-rattling that frayed nerves in Seoul, in Tokyo, and throughout the region.

Simerly, however, says he’s where he belongs.

“Here’s probably the best way I could put it: I feel like I’m doing what I was trained to do. I feel like I’m doing the work that I was made to do. I believe in the military. I found my vocation and the thing that I’m more passionate about than anything else, [other] than being a member of my family.”

The one-star general recalls a favorite quote that summarizes his come-what-will philosophy, a mindset that defined his path from Army brat to UR honors graduate to senior commander of a critical geopolitical post. The line isn’t from Friedrich Nietzsche, Colin Powell, Sun Tzu, or any of Simerly’s mentors in uniform. It’s from Joe Strummer, frontman of legendary punk band the Clash and Simerly’s rock ’n’ roll hero.

“The future,” he says, quoting Strummer, “is unwritten.”

Joseph Williams, R’84, is a senior news editor at U.S. News and World Report. He and Simerly were classmates, fellow English majors, members of the “Justice and the Circuit Rider” Viewers Club, and good friends in their days at UR.

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stunning realism that became possible with the invention of

photography.

But to our eyes

now, images in sepia now make the scenes they show look distant from us.

Artist Sanna Dullaway has built a career out of interpreting old photos by

adding color to them.

Here, she applies her talent to images

from Richmond’s early years, letting

us see the past more like the people then might have seen it.

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PREVIOUS PAGE 1917 Westhampton commencement procession, from a scrapbook in the archives of the Virginia Baptist Historical Society that was kept by Florence Smith, a member of the graduating class. The white building on the hill, where Boatwright Library now stands, was the site of commencement exercises from 1914 to 1925.

Photograph courtesy Virginia Baptist Historical Society

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Looking south, circa the early 1930s, at a stop on the 700 block of East Broad Street for a Westhampton trolley, which transported generations of students until 1947. A 1926 advertisement in The Collegian said the trip from the Main Street train station to campus took 30 minutes. Today’s UR Downtown is located just behind where the photographer stood to take this photo.

Photograph courtesy Boatwright Memorial Library

Aerial image, circa 1929. The Red Cross constructed the white building in the right center, near where Booker Hall now stands, in 1918 as a recreation hall for soldiers when UR’s campus served as a military hospital during World War I. After the war, the building became a gymnasium for Westhampton students.

Photograph courtesy Boatwright Memorial Library

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Biology lab in 1939, likely in Maryland Hall, which is now home to the president’s office. Maryland was one of three buildings constructed in the late 1920s and early 1930s as Richmond’s home for the sciences. Maryland focused on biology, Richmond Hall on physics, and Puryear Hall on chemistry. These disciplines all moved to the Gottwald Center for the Sciences when it opened in 1977.

Photograph courtesy Library of Virginia

Ryland Hall circa 1950, when it housed the university’s main library.

This great hall is now home to faculty in the English department and still is a showcase space.

Photograph courtesy Boatwright Memorial Library

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Art studio class in 1939. According to the Westhampton College course catalog, a painting class met that year from 2 to 4 p.m.

Tuesdays and Thursdays in “Pb,” or the physics building, i.e., Richmond Hall, which is now home to the psychology department.

The person in the white coat second from the right is likely art instructor Marcia Silvette.

Photograph courtesy Library of Virginia

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Westhampton students, possibly student-athletes, circa 1923, on a track on the site of present-day Crenshaw Field. North Court is visible in the background, and this location is visible in the aerial photo on Page 41. Athletics department archives indicate that Westhampton students began intercollegiate competition in track and field in 1914, the college’s first year. Physical education also had a central place in the early academic curriculum under the leadership of athletic director Fannie Crenshaw.

Photograph courtesy Virginia Baptist Historical Society

Richmond College runners, likely in the late 19th century, location unknown.

Athletics department archives date the first official men’s track and field season in 1910, but some intercollegiate meets happened before then. They grew out of highly competitive campus field days that were a fixture by the 1890s. An 1893 article in The Messenger, a student publication, asks for intercollegiate contests, noting that Richmond already competes in “base ball, foot ball, and lawn tennis matches.” Go Spiders!

Photograph courtesy Boatwright Memorial Library

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STAY CONNECTED

A gentle reminder Illustration by Katie McBride

Just after the Class of 2020 joins the ranks of alumni at commencement, Richmond graduates from class years ending in a five or a zero are invited back for Reunion Weekend 2020, May 29–31.

For everyone from young-at-heart Spiders who received their diplomas in 1950 to 2015 alums celebrating their first Reunion, it’s an opportunity to catch up with old friends, spend time on the beautiful campus again, and revisit why being a UR grad is so special.

It’s never too early to spread the word, so use the hashtag #SpiderReunion on social media to make sure your classmates know you’ll be back on campus.

For more information, visit https://alumni. richmond.edu/return-to-campus.

Keeping “the cultural heritage of the world” secure is no easy task, as John Barelli, R’71, can attest.

The watchman’s tale John Barelli, R’71, admits that he left a few stories on the cutting room floor when he wrote Stealing the Show: A History of Art and Crime in Six Thefts, a recently published memoir chronicling his career as chief of security for New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Some tales weren’t mentioned because he didn’t think they fit the book, others because he and the museum agreed not to share them, and a few — well, accompanying Michael Jackson on an after-hours tour is another category entirely.

“He was quite a character,” said the affable Barelli.

After graduation, he worked as a police officer in Richmond before moving back to his hometown and entering private security with the New York Botanical Garden. His long stint at the Met — “the top of the security field,” he said — soon followed.

“You’re protecting the cultural heritage of the world,” said Barelli, a member of UR’s Athletics Hall of Fame for his Spider football career.

The former lineman also was responsible for protecting less ancient, but just as recognizable cultural touchstones. During the late Diana, Princess of Wales' 1996 visit to the Met for its eponymous, star-studded annual gala, he was by her side throughout the event.

Over the course of his tenure, technology such as closed-circuit television recording systems and continued personnel growth (he estimates more than 600 people were on the security staff ) changed how Barelli did his job. But his law-enforcement instincts — what he calls “a sixth sense” — and staying abreast of criminal trends helped him thwart untold incidents that otherwise would have been fodder for his book.

“You’re able to read different signs,” said Barelli, who met his wife, Anna, a fellow Met employee, at the museum. “And you really have to keep up with what’s going out in the outside world, whether it’s terrorism or theft."

DEEP TIES Barelli has remained connected to the university by keeping in touch with his old teammates — a Homecoming regular, he attended 2018’s 50th anniversary of Richmond’s Tangerine Bowl victory — and through his oldest son, Peter, ’11, an internal medicine resident at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York.

“He had a good education,” said the elder Barelli, who credited UR chemistry professor John Gupton for mentoring his son.

Cause for celebration

Mark your calendars, Spider law alumni. As the University of Richmond School of Law approaches its 150th anniversary, events to commemorate the occasion are gearing up, including: • • •

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oUR Network happy hour with Dean Wendy Perdue, Feb. 20.

1870 Society lifetime giving celebration (by invitation of the dean), April 21.

Regional celebrations in New York City; Washington, D.C.; Hampton Roads, Virginia; and Roanoke, Virginia, during the summer.

A gala celebration at the Jefferson Hotel in Richmond, Oct. 10.

Watch for more details in the winter issue of Richmond Law, the law school’s alumni magazine.

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NOTABLE

“To me, the imperfection is beautiful, which mirrors more the real world, as far as I see it.”

BRIAN PITNEY, L’92, on ceramics. Pitney, an attorney and shareholder at Richmond law firm Sands Anderson, has taken classes at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Studio School for 25 years.

CINEMA

This could be his best design yet

As the principal designer for Callaway Golf Co.’s Odyssey brand, Austie Rollinson, R’90, has worked with the likes of Phil Mickelson, Ernie Els, and Rory McIlroy to come up with custom putters that have helped propel the star golfers to victories on the PGA Tour.

And after nearly 30 years in the business, Rollinson, a golfer since his childhood, deserves to be a little self-indulgent.

In September, he displayed one of his most recent designs in a Twitter post — a URthemed wedge.

Marc Megna, ’99, the subject of a documentary by Randy West, ’03

SPECIAL SPIDER Following a career that included leading NCAA Division I-AA in sacks, being named an All-American, and winning the Dudley Award as Virginia’s best college football player, Megna was selected in the sixth round of the 1999 NFL Draft.

The 2013 UR Athletics Hall of Fame inductee also led the Canadian Football League’s Montreal Alouettes to the 2002 Grey Cup, the CFL’s equivalent of the Super Bowl.

A familiar subject On a Thursday night in November, the atmosphere at Richmond’s historic Byrd Theatre felt like a family reunion. The mostly UR-affiliated crowd was there for the local premiere of Just a Kid from Fall River, a documentary by Randy West, ’03, about Marc Megna, ’99, his fellow Spider football captain.

“Knowing his story, I thought his life was a great example for a lot of our youth,” said West, a former teacher and coach at his high school alma mater in the Richmond suburbs. “I wasn’t trying to make an artistic masterpiece. It’s one continuous message that you can do whatever you put your mind to.”

The film features cameos from family, friends, former coaches, and UR

teammates like New York Jets general manager Joe Douglas and ESPN NFL draft analyst Todd McShay, both ’99.

It traces Megna's journey from a hardscrabble Massachusetts upbringing and stellar college career to the ups and downs of his professional football tenure and transition to personal training in Miami, where he owns a state-of-the-art facility.

Megna attributed his track record of perseverance throughout his life — including when he initially struggled with UR’s academic rigors — to his late mother’s philosophy: “Dream big, never quit.”

“I made the decision to give insane effort in everything that I do because that’s the only way I can pay it back to her,” he said.

Setting the stage for success

Richmond fared well in the Princeton Review’s 2020 college guide, including a No. 2 ranking for “Best Career Services.”

That status reflects the Office of Alumni and Career Services’ ability to answer what Leslie Stevenson, UR’s director of career development, calls one of the most common questions posed by parents of prospective students: “How will you help my child?”

With many of its offerings — industry-specific panels, road trips to visit employers in large metropolitan areas, and on-campus recruiting — the office often puts students directly in touch with alumni to help them position themselves for professional success.

Visit careerservices.richmond.edu or call 804-289-8547 to explore contributing to the next generation of Spider alumni as they find their post-graduation footing.

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Illustration by Katie McBride

REED AND TERRIE WEST, W’75

By Cheyenne Varner, ’13

A M O V A B L E F E A S T For Reed, R’76, and Terrie Payne West, W’75, an annual tradition of feeding hungry Richmond students prior to the winter holidays feels even more special when they reflect upon its history, endurance, and effect on attendees.

'THE WAY WE WERE' Regardless of how frequently they return, the Wests say that being on campus has a distinctive meaning for them.

“There’s something really nice about being able to come back to where we started,” Terrie said, reminiscing about her and Reed’s September 1974 wedding.

“Dr. [John] Welsh, who was directing a play at the time, had to cancel rehearsal because everyone was invited to the wedding, including him,” she laughed.

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Every December, after the last day of classes but before fall semester exams, the home of Reed, R’76, and Terrie Payne West, W’75, transforms. Large, lit candy canes adorn the yard, a wreath hangs on the door, and poinsettias and holiday decorations ornament the rooms.

Soon, dozens of Richmond theater and dance students, faculty, and their families arrive, taking turns filling plates with Reed’s home-cooked roast smoked turkey, mashed potatoes, string bean casserole, roasted Brussels sprouts with pecans and maple syrup, and so many brought desserts that some lucky students will leave with treats. The mood is both calm and lively with chatter, laughter, and festive group photos on the hallway stairs.

“The students like it,” says Reed, professor emeritus of theater.

He and Terrie — who met and married while students at UR — have carried on the tradition since 1986, its legacy woven deeply into their family history. Reed’s father, the late Warwick “Rick” West, a longtime UR biology professor, hosted similar events when Reed was a child. So when as a professor Reed was asked by another faculty member to take up the holiday dinner mantle, the concept was familiar to him.

Terrie was pregnant with son Hank West, ’10, at the very first dinner they hosted. In the years to come, Hank was passed around parties from arm to arm until he could walk, run, and play during the festivities — often with other faculty’s children, for whom Terrie always set out toys.

As the years went on, the Wests went to great lengths to keep the event accessible and comfortable. Neither snowstorm, nor travels, nor hospitalization ever got in its way. Reed once peeled potatoes the day after having surgery for appendicitis. Terrie

once decorated the house with 5-yearold Hank while Reed was in London for the opening of a show. Both drove food to campus so students wouldn’t have to contend with icy, weather-worn roads. In recent years, they’ve taken care to provide vegetarian and gluten-free options on the crowded dining table.

University dancer Mira Carroll, ’20, overhearing the Wests discuss the tradition, enthusiastically affirmed the event’s reputation among students. It took only a moment for her to find a photo on her phone of students pressed together on the stairs wearing everything from formalwear to oversized red-and-green sweaters and headbands with reindeer antlers, all smiling as though caught mid-laugh.

“Everyone would speak about how important this Christmas party was to them, and after my freshman year, I understood why,” she said. “I’ve been every year except when I was studying abroad, and I wished I was here instead.”

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BOOKS

A DYNASTY? The UR alumni ice hockey team’s run of success continues. The squad trekked to Nashville, Tennessee, in August for the Boom Boom Cup Country Classic tournament and left as champions. The result adds to team’s previous titles at the USA Hockey Classic Tournament in 2017 and 2018.

The champs’ roster featured: Tucker Blanton, ’13; Justin Collins, ’08; Matt Curtin, ’07; Brenden Gallinek, ’14; Will Harrison, ’11; Matt Improta, ’10; Chris Nelson, ’09; Tom Occhino, GB’06; Mike Sumbs, ’08; and Chris Woodford, ’11.

MISTRESS CHET’LA SEBREE, ’10 In her debut collection, Sebree, assistant professor at Bucknell University and director of its Stadler Center for Poetry and Literary Arts, captures the attention of readers from her first poem — narrated in the voice of Sally Hemings, an enslaved woman who birthed several of Thomas Jefferson’s children — and doesn’t let up.

LIVES OF PURP OSE

Fabiana Ayala, right, with pattern designer Patricia Torrico, TodoSuma's first artisan

‘It all adds up’ After attending boarding school in Hong Kong, Fabiana Ayala, ’17, knew she wanted to study business and Chinese, so Richmond’s international business program caught her eye. Even before she graduated, Ayala used what she learned at the Robins School of Business to make an impact in her home country of Bolivia.

“Living and studying abroad has allowed me to develop a worldly outlook, which has continued to make me feel curious about the world and its intricacies,” Ayala said.

On visits home between semesters, Ayala realized her burgeoning business acumen and knowledge of local culture could help create fairwage employment opportunities for Bolivian women. Incorporating her interest in fashion, Ayala and Yas-

mine Karam, ’17, started TodoSuma (Spanish for “it all adds up”), selling handmade, crocheted swimsuits created by women in Ayala’s hometown of Cochabamba, Bolivia.

TodoSuma has been able to employ 35 women, ultimately providing them with financial independence and autonomy. Its products, which have expanded to clothing, blankets, and backpacks, are available online and in brick-and-mortar stores, including UR’s bookstore.

“TodoSuma’s vision was to help create a world where social responsibility is the status quo,” said Ayala, whose initial customers were UR classmates. “The most rewarding thing to come from creating TodoSuma was seeing this vision come to life.”

PRIOR KNOWLEDGE Ayala now works for Bamboo, an advertising agency in San Francisco, and collaborates with clients such as Adobe.

“The work I enjoy doing most is using creative strategy to concept direct response ads and run them through our clients before working with our creative studio to bring them to life,” she said.“It involves a lot of what I was doing with TodoSuma and had taught myself without a script.”

LITTLE BIG SISTER ON THE MOVE AMY BASHIAN McCOY, W’93 A reviewer describes McCoy’s novel — written from the perspective of Katie, a 9-year-old with an older, autistic brother — as “a rare treasure for children who have a sibling with special needs — to know they are not alone.”

THIRD ACT: WOMEN RISE AND ROAR DONNA BOONE, W’70 In the midst of the #MeToo movement, Boone provides important context through what one reader calls “a great primer on the history of patriarchy and misognyny in the United States.”

YESTERNIGHT SARAH MUSE, ’13, ILLUSTRATOR Author Linda Hobgood, director of UR’s Speech Center, enlisted Muse, one of her former speech consultants, as the illustrator of this children’s book that was inspired

by Hobgood’s granddaughter. “It was a joy and an honor to help her see her passion come to fruition,” said Muse, now a graphic designer in the Washington, D.C., area.

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“Celebrated [my] 95th birthday at home with more than 20 relatives gathered from around the world.”

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JOAN WOOD, W’60 AND G’70

Aging well When Joan Wood, W’60 and G’70, describes herself as a “perennial student,” she isn’t being hyperbolic.

As a resident of retirement community Westminster Canterbury Richmond, she’s taken classes in everything from French to Palestinian literature.

“My first love was always what we used to call the liberal arts,” she said. “And I always said that in retirement, I was going to indulge myself in that kind of experience.”

It’s par for the course for a woman with four degrees — the two from Richmond, both in history, and two from VCU, a master’s in gerontology and a doctorate in psychology with an emphasis on aging.

She received her doctorate the year she turned 50.

In addition to pursuing knowledge, Wood shares it. After attaining a bachelor’s degree, she taught high school in Dinwiddie County, Virginia, and at Southside Virginia Community College, receiving a master’s from UR along the way. When VCU began its graduate program in gerontology, she was immediately interested in studying the then-nascent field, eventually joining its faculty.

“It was the women scholars on the faculty at Westhampton College who showed me that I could have a career in academia,” said Wood, who later taught at the University of California, San Francisco, before retiring at 70 and moving back to Richmond.

When she isn’t adding to her formidable range of expertise — or visiting campus for various events — Wood gives occasional talks about aging at Westminster Canterbury Richmond.

“Aging is a field about which everybody has an opinion, but a lot of the commonly hailed ‘normal’ beliefs about aging are not based on science but on myths and stereotypes,” Wood said. “What I do is differentiate ‘normal’ aging from disease: what’s to be concerned about and what you should not worry about.”

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Adventures on the high seas Tom Lukens, R’67, is an adrenaline junkie. It’s one reason he’s spent his career as an emergency physician. And it’s why, during his downtime, he now travels the world as a ship’s physician for National Geographic.

His adventures began when a colleague at MetroHealth in Cleveland talked about a trip he had taken with National Geographic. “It sounded exciting,” Lukens said. “I sent my resume to National Geographic and told them I was available.”

Initially, they told him it would be at least a year before he would be assigned to a ship. A month later, however, he went on his first voyage, to Baja California, Mexico.

Lukens cares for passengers and crew. He dispenses medicine and has access to an EKG machine and IV fluids that patients may need.

“I was surprised that most passengers and crew were complaining of simple things like colds, coughs, and seasickness,” he said. “I was prepared for more serious illnesses given some of the locations that we visit.”

Lukens usually serves as a ship’s physician on at least two adventures each year. He has four trips scheduled in 2020, including one that will take him to Cambodia and Vietnam via the Mekong River. “That’s one I’ve been waiting to do now for several years.”

The adventurer has been to Antarctica four times and explored the Falklands and South Georgia, British territorial islands in the southern Atlantic Ocean where “there are thousands and thousands of penguins,” he said. He has also sailed to Norway and Svalbard (a Norweigan archipelago) and made several visits to Costa Rica, normally after passing through the Panama Canal.

—Cynthia Price

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“It was wonderful seeing so many classmates at our reunion.”

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“This is [our] first — and last — ‘built-fromscratch’ home. …

This is not necessarily the adventure to save for one’s 80s.”

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OLIVER NORRELL III, L’76

‘A sense of civic duty’ In 2016, Col. Oliver Norrell III, L’76, completed a doctorate in public service leadership. For the retired U.S. Army colonel, it's both a meaningful and logical accomplishment, given the fact that his 37year career was driven by “a sense of civic duty."

He sustains that commitment today as director of Army instruction for Richmond Public Schools’ Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps.

“As a child, there were two things I wanted to do,” said Norrell. “I wanted to be a lawyer, and I wanted to join the Army.”

After checking off his goals in that order, Norrell — one of the first African Americans to graduate from the law school — explored a wide swath of career options. A variety of professional legal experiences — private practice, multiple stints with local commonwealth’s attorney’s offices, an in-house corporate counsel position, the Richmond public defender’s office, the U.S. attorney’s office, and the Virginia attorney general’s office — “helped make me a well-rounded lawyer,” Norrell said.

But the Army still called to him. Prevented from enlisting due to a medical condition, Norrell received a direct commission in the Army National Guard in 1983 as a judge advocate general before becoming a commissioned logistics officer. After completing a nine-month program in the U.S. Army War College, Norrell was assigned to active duty, working on projects like logistics readiness and human resources for the National Guard.

“I was afforded the opportunity to travel and meet different people,” he said. “I got to be a leader again.”

His current position provides him with another opportunity to practice leadership while giving back.

“The impact it has on the kids, it’s really something,” said Norrell. "It helps them get a better sense of civic responsibility.”

—Emily Cherry

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BACK THEN

Photography: Millhiser gym courtesy Virginia Baptist Historic Society; Bo Diddley by Jeffrey Mayer; Bruce Springsteen by Album/Francesc Fàbregas

As Millhiser Gymnaisum is renovated in preparation for its fall 2020 rebirth, it’s worth remembering that the campus landmark has served many purposes — intended and unintended — throughout its long existence.

It’s fitting that when Millhiser Gymnasium’s transformation into UR’s Student-Athlete Development Center is complete this fall, the new building will retain its hardwood floor and basketball hoops, given the temptation they’ve presented to students over the years.

“I used to try to sneak in there and pretend that I was in Hoosiers,” said Taylor Smiley, ’03, referring to the classic basketball movie, which featured an old-school gymnasium. “Millhiser was my favorite spot on campus. The gym floor was always covered in dust because no one ever went in there, so I would try to find a broom to clear some space and shoot a few jump shots before anyone knew I was in there.”

Forgive Smiley his trespasses, as he might have been one of the more conscientious basketball-loving students to pay unauthorized visits to Millhiser, which opened in 1922. According to Mike O’Toole, who retired in 2019 after a long career as UR

athletics’ coordinator of facilities and events, students clandestinely entered the building for full-blown pick-up games until the current renovation work made it physically impossible.

The old gym served legitimate purposes, too. Funded by a donation from Clarence and Regina Millhiser in memory of their late son, Roger — a Richmond College student who passed away following surgery while training for duty in World War I — it was “one of the finest athletic plants of any college of its size in the country” when it opened, according to university literature.

Millhiser initially housed Richmond’s athletics department and was the home court for Spider men’s basketball until 1947, including the program’s lone undefeated season in 1934–35.

While the basketball team moved into increasingly more modern and expansive digs, Millhiser continued to host events,

including concerts featuring the likes of Bo Diddley in 1966, Death Cab for Cutie in 2001, and in 1970, an obscure young artist named Bruce Springsteen. Over the years, the historic facility also has been the home of the military science and leadership program, office space for enrollment management, summer camps for local youngsters, and a practice venue for cheerleaders and various club teams, among other functions.

The renovated version of Millhiser will have a more singular focus. The gym “will become the hub of our academic support and leadership programs for our Spider student-athletes,” said John Hardt, Richmond’s vice president and director of athletics.

“Millhiser Gymnasium has an important place in the history of Richmond Athletics,” he added. “This project allows us to preserve the history of Millhiser Gymnasium while breathing new life into the facility with its repurposing into the Student-Athlete Development Center.”

As Millhiser enters the next stage of its long and varied life, it’s returning to its roots.

HOOPS HOME BASE Though all Richmond student-athletes will benefit from the Student-Athlete Development Center — the Spider Athletics Leadership Initiative and student-athlete academic services will be on the first floor of the building — the Spider basketball programs will be the most impacted.

The men’s and women’s basketball offices will be located on a new second floor, providing the programs with direct access to the adjacent Queally Athletic Center, the new basketball practice facility also opening in the fall.

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NEARLY A CENTURY OF MEMORIES By Aggrey Sam

New beginnings

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JACK LONG, B’81

An active retirement For most, a trip around the world is something dreams are made of. For Wendell “Jack” Long, B’81, that dream has come true … not once, but thrice.

“I’ve always been fascinated with this idea of flying around the world,” he said. “I think the root of that is it wasn’t in the cards for me to become an astronaut, so doing something aviation-related was pretty motivating.”

In 2015, Long piloted his Pilatus PC-12 — purchased after selling his interest in his startup PeopleAdmin, a higher education talent management software company — as he made his first circumnavigation via one of three routes recognized by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale, the world air sports federation.

That eastwards circumnavigation was quickly followed by a 2017 over-the-poles circumnavigation and a 2019 westwards one.

Long, who earned his pilot and commercial pilot licenses while at UR, has logged more than 4,500 flying hours, many of those dedicated to philanthropic causes. One such organization is LightHawk, a Denver-based nonprofit that matches volunteer pilots with conservation partners in need of aviation support.

“My wife, Carolyn, and I are very passionate about conservation and the environment, and I’m very passionate about flying,” Long said.

On Lighthawk’s behalf, he’s flown orange-breasted falcons to Belize, Mexican grey wolves to Mexico, a red panda to Canada, and California condors and black-footed ferrets within the United States.

Despite his active philanthropy — among other causes, he also supports low-income students attending St. Stephen’s Episcopal School in Austin, Texas, through Emerging Scholars, his own nonprofit — Long considers himself retired these days.

But while he and his wife hope to spend more time traveling, one thing stands without question: “We’re not much just to go someplace and play golf or sit on the beach, that’s for sure.”

—Cheryl Spain

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“As long as I feel this good and can help people, I will try to practice until I am 80.”

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Fields of dreams It’s not uncommon for people to have competing ambitions, as was the case for Joy Fine, ’94. As an animal-obsessed, pointe-shoes-wearing girl in Ohio, she wanted to be a veterinarian as much as she wanted to dance.

It was part of the reason she attended Richmond.

The university “had a good record of getting people into Ohio State [University College of Veterinary Medicine], and it had a dance company,” she said.

Fine was active in different styles of dance throughout her time at UR and even during veterinary school at Ross University in St. Kitts in the Virgin Islands, where she taught ballet to local children. However, ankle injuries put dancing on hiatus as she established her career in private and corporate practice before specializing in veterinary acupuncture, also known as integrative medicine.

“It’s a much more common treatment option in other parts of the world than it is in the U.S., but we’re starting to catch up,” said Fine, who has made Charlotte, North Carolina, her home. “I probably do the most acupuncture cases for arthritis, chronic pain, Pawspice — which is animal hospice for our cancer patients that are not going to be continuing chemotherapy, especially dogs with bone cancer — and then progressive neurological problems that we really don’t have any drugs to treat yet.”

As a relief doctor, she makes her own schedule, which gives her the flexibility to perform with two local dance companies, Wingspan Dance and Mufuka Works.

“I need both for work-life balance,” said Fine, who is involved in Charlotte’s burgeoning arts scene. “I love being a veterinarian, but you are subjected to a lot of traumas and emotional situations.

So you need to have some sort of art to process what you experience as a veterinarian, and I find that dance works for me.”

—Aggrey Sam

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“[Mary Ellen’s] daughter, Dawn, who was the firstborn baby in our class, is retiring this year. How is that even remotely possible?”

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“[Gina’s] last six years of retirement have been active, fun, and challenging. She often threatens to go back to teaching to get a rest.”

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OMAR BANKS, ’97

His diligence paid off Despite the success he experienced early in his career, Omar Banks, ’97, yearned to break into college athletics. He began volunteering as an intern for North Carolina State University’s athletic department after his 9-to-5 job at IBM and then got a master’s degree in sport leadership from Virginia Commonwealth University while working full time at Fidelity Investments.

“The funny thing is, I was always told when I applied for jobs that I didn’t have athletic experience,” said the former Spider football defensive back. “But accounting principles are the same, whether you’re at a hospital, a corporation, or a university.”

When he applied for a job in development at Hampton University near his hometown of Newport News, Virginia, his diligence paid off. His interviewer realized Banks would be a better candidate for a completely different position: athletics business manager. Since seizing that opportunity, he’s made a steady climb. Following his stint at Hampton, he was hired by VCU, entered senior management at the University of Cincinnati, and then became chief financial officer for Virginia Tech’s athletic department — culminating with his hire in June 2019 as athletics director at Campbell University in North Carolina.

“The more people I met, the more encouraged I became to continue to rise up the ranks to become an athletic director, to run a department, because I got a chance as a financial person, whether as a business manager or CFO,” said Banks, who came to Richmond intending to study computer science, but switched to business administration after meeting Robins School of Business professor Neil Ashworth.

“If you do a good job, the next job always finds you. I’m a big believer in that.”

—Aggrey Sam

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“This year is the 50th anniversary … of our arrival on campus as fresh-faced freshmen.”

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U N I V E R S I T Y of R I C H M O N D N O T E S

BEN CRIDER, ’06

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Proper guidance As a first-year student, Ben Crider, ’06, knew exactly what he wanted to study — physics. He just needed to narrow his focus. Thanks to his University of Richmond faculty mentors, that happened quickly.

“I was able to dive in right away, and the small class sizes allowed me to engage with the faculty pretty much as soon as I stepped foot on campus,” said Crider, who keeps in touch with many of UR’s current and retired physics faculty. “I had an opportunity to do research starting that first year and realized that I wanted to be a nuclear physicist.”

Now an assistant professor at Mississippi State University, Crider not only nurtured his love for physics at UR but also experienced a model for how to guide his students.

“Few teachers have been as good as the ones I had at Richmond,” said Crider. “I wouldn’t have gotten the drive I have and the underlying basis to do what I’m trying to do if I hadn’t gone to a place like UR.” Crider’s research has caught the attention of the National Science Foundation, which is backing his low energy physics project with a highly competitive Career Grant Award.

The five-year NSF funding will support his research — which he will conduct at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory in Michigan — on the structure of the atomic nucleus. Crider says nuclei are generally thought of as spherical balls, something he also once believed to be the case, but their structure is actually much more complex.

“Some nuclei look like rugby balls, and some look more like pancakes,” he said. “That’s where my research plugs in. We are trying to understand more about these nuclei and their role in the universe.”

—Sunni Brown, GC’18

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LYRICA FILS-AIMÉ, ’10

‘You ask the people’ While working as a social worker at a charter school in the Bronx, New York, Lyrica Fils-Aimé, ’10, discovered a gap.

The students from its large African immigrant population had near-perfect attendance (chronic absence was a problem in the area) but declined most extracurricular offerings. Moreover, she noticed that some teachers didn’t understand the differences between African and African American experiences, failed to recognize frequent and serious bullying of African students, and sometimes called child protective services on African parents for their disciplinary practices.

Inspired by the memory of her own father, who is Haitian and threw fundraisers in her school’s cafeteria to support Haiti, Fils-Aimé began organizing Celebrate Africa. She turned largely to the parents to construct the event.

“That’s how you really do community building,” she said. “You ask the people what they need.”

The result: a bustling room full of African fabrics, traditional clothing, food, drumming, and more. Within the party’s walls, parents and students were the experts, teaching the teachers about the cultures from which they came.

Families and faculty enjoyed it, participation in school programs subsequently rose, and one parent in particular went on to build a relationship with Fils-Aimé that sparked the Thérèse Dipoumbi Foundation. Benefiting schools in Cameroon, Dipoumbi’s home country, the foundation provides for educational needs from books to fans to plans for building a new school.

Today, Fils-Aimé serves as director of equity, transformation, and culturally responsive education for the New York City Department of Education.

She credits Celebrate Africa as a pivotal point in her equity work, preparing her to take on culture change in the entire city’s educational system.

“Belonging is extremely important,” she said.

“Do people feel like they want to be here?”

—Cheyenne Varner, ’13

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minim veniam, quis nostrud exerci tation ullamcorper suscipit lobortis nisl ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis autem vel eum iriure dolor in hendrerit in vulputate velit esse molestie consequat, vel illum dolore eu feugiat nulla facilisis at vero eros et accumsan et iusto odio dignissim qui blandit praesent luptatum zzril delenit augue duis dolore te feugait nulla facilisi. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut laoreet dolore magna aliquam erat volutpat. Ut wisi enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exerci tation ullamcorper suscipit lobortis nisl ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.

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’85

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’87

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“I wanted to put my heart and my energy into helping grow a company that makes a difference in the world.”

—Cammie Whisnant Dunaway, B’84

’89

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’90

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’91

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’93

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’94

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’95

SEE YOU AT REUNION WEEKEND MAY 31–JUNE 2, 2019

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“There are moments in our lives when we realize that we, too, … have been seeing things only in part.”

—Kristin Adkins Whitesides, ’02 volutpat. Ut wisi enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exerci tation ullamcorper suscipit lobortis nisl ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis autem vel eum iriure dolor in hendrerit in vulputate velit esse molestie consequat, vel illum dolore eu feugiat nulla facilisis at vero eros et accumsan et iusto odio dignissim qui blandit praesent luptatum zzril delenit augue duis dolore te feugait nulla facilisi.

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’97

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’98

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SEE YOU AT REUNION WEEKEND MAY 31–JUNE 2, 2019

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’01

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“You can find me behind the bar at Little Branch in Manhattan’s West Village, where all Spiders are more than welcome to drop by.”

—Chris Vola, ’07

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A storytelling enthusiast Kait Walsh, ’13, has come a long way since she walked into her first professional interview with her DVD documentary thesis, on how UR students market themselves, in hand. She had created her own interdisciplinary studies major of strategic marketing and communications with journalism studies and wanted to continue to tell stories through film and marketing.

Now a producer at Spotify, an audio streaming service, she puts giving others a voice at the core of her career, specifically through podcasts. Her favorite projects have been Spotify originals such as Harmonize, which examines the biases faced by marginalized communities and how music can be a catalyst for social change — and features John Legend and Pusha T. “My job today is really to create, find, and amplify great content — whether it’s my own or whether it’s a brand’s or whether it’s an artist’s story — and tell that on our platform,” said Walsh.

Though Walsh focuses on long-form audio now, she started with long-form video and worked on the Weather Channel’s Emmy and Peabody Award-winning documentary The Real Death Valley while working at Efran Films, a New York City-based production company.

“I feel like the golden age of video was during my time in Efran Films, and I feel like the golden age of audio is approaching, if not already here, with podcasts,” she said.

Walsh’s passion for storytelling extends beyond the office. In 2019, she started Draft Queens, a weekly “pet project” podcast that recently highlighted fellow Spider Tim Hightower, ’08.

“The premise behind Draft Queens is to create a reliable and relatable podcast about sports hosted by women, so there’s a female voice in the podcasting space, but for everyone,” she said.

—Stacey Dec, ’20

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In pursuit of ‘justice for all’ Kendyl Crawley Crawford, GC’18, didn’t know it at the time, but her reaction to news coverage of a natural disaster and the human toll it wrought was a harbinger of things to come.

“The moment that I talk about — my kind of awakening — happened when I was in high school, seeing Hurricane Katrina,” she said. “I’d come home from school and see all of the devastating impacts and the folks that were left behind.”

Now, she is the director of Virginia Interfaith Power & Light, a faith-based group dedicated to organizing statewide efforts surrounding climate change and “environmental justice — making sure that everyone has access to clean air, clean water, safe and stable climate, and clean land.” She advocates with vulnerable populations in places such as Union Hill, a historic African American community in rural Buckingham County, Virginia, and the site of a proposed natural-gas compressor station for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline.

“You can see who gets saddled with environmental burdens versus environmental benefits in our community,” said Crawley Crawford, the commencement speaker for her graduating class at UR’s School of Continuing Professional Studies, where she earned a master’s degree in nonprofit studies.

Beyond her background — she majored in marine and environmental science as an undergraduate at Hampton University, received a Marshall Scholarship to study air pollution in London, and worked as an organizer with various nonprofits focused on climate change — her straightforward logic saliently supports her work.

“We intimately depend on the environment around us, although we may not think about it every day,” said Crawley Crawford, a native of Hampton Roads, one of the most at-risk areas for sea-level rise and storm surge in the country. “We still have a lot of work to do within our society in terms of achieving ‘liberty and justice for all.’”

—Aggrey Sam

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FACULTY, STAFF, AND FRIENDS IN MEMORIAM

“Creativity is wellness.”

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POSTSCRIPT

In 2019, a newspaper ran a column about Spiders in professional sports, identifying (appropriately enough) eight of them. That got us thinking that we know many more. But how many?

Here are 40 we identified with the help of the athletics department, the records office, and a few other well-placed sources. They include Spiders working in all five of the major North American spectator sports leagues — NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, MLS — as well as in the minor leagues and abroad as athletes, coaches, and front-office personnel.

Are there even more? You tell us. Drop us a note at magazine@richmond.edu if you know of a sports pro to add to the list of Spiders to cheer for.

Graphic by Katie McBride

GO SPIDERS

Spiders are everywhere, sports edition

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Ambition starts within us.

Leland Melvin, R’86 NFL Football Player NASA Astronaut

SPIDERS GIVE NEW MEANING TO “THE SKY’S THE LIMIT.” The University of Richmond prepares stellar minds to pursue their galaxy-level ambitions. Fueled by a common drive for excellence, our alumni find uncommon ways to excel — whether running on the gridiron, traversing the cosmos, or becoming the only person to catch a football in both the NFL and outer space. What we do has a huge impact everywhere.

And we do mean “everywhere.”

See what’s within us and the impact we make at within.richmond.edu.

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Non-Profit Org. U.S. Postage Paid University of Richmond

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Spider pride at top speed When a university vendor offered a no-cost-to-UR car sponsorship at a Richmond Raceway NASCAR race in September, we said yes faster than a pit crew changing a tire. For a look at how one professor uses NASCAR as a teaching tool, see “The Fastest Way to Learn About Physics” on Page 20. Photograph by Jamie Betts

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