Stunning photography now in color from Richmond’s Past

from University of Richmond Magazine, Winter 2020

History’s next step

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

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

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.

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

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!

REFLECTIONS

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 fl oor 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 fi t 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 aff able Barelli.

After graduation, he worked as a police offi cer 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 fi eld,” 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 diff erent 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. STAY CONNECTED

A gentle reminder

Just after the Class of 2020 joins the ranks of alumni at commencement, Richmond graduates from class years ending in a fi ve 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 fi rst 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.

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:

• 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.

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. QUOTATION

“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

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

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.

NOTABLE

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.

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.

Illustration by Katie McBride

'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. A MOVABLE FEAST 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.

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.”

#SPIDERPRIDE

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.

LIVES OF PURPOSE

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 Yasmine 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.” BOOKS

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.

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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The magazine uses undergraduate degree designations for graduates through 1992, and law, graduate, and honorary degree designations for all years.

B Robins School of Business

C School of Professional and Continuing Studies

G Graduate School of Arts and Sciences GB Richard S. Reynolds Graduate School of Business GC Graduate School of Professional and Continuing Studies H Honorary Degree

L School of Law

R Richmond College W Westhampton College

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

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

—Alma “Bitsy” Rosenbaum Hurwitz, W’45

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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.”

—Aggrey Sam

TOM LUKENS, R’67

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.”

—Mary Trew Biddlecomb Lindquist, W’59

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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.”

—Jennie Stokes Howe, W’61

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‘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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“My sweet grands are climbing through the school grades way too fast. My sons are great dads. Mission accomplished!”

—Julie Perkinson Crews, W’62

New beginnings

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 tting that when Millhiser Gymnasium’s transformation into UR’s Student-Athlete Development Center is complete this fall, the new building will retain its hardwood oor 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 oor was always covered in dust because no one ever went in there, so I would try to nd 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 nest 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, of ce 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 bene t from the Student-Athlete Development Center — the Spider Athletics Leadership Initiative and student-athlete academic services will be on the rst oor of the building — the Spider basketball programs will be the most impacted.

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

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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“See how easy this is? Send me what’s happening with you and yours.”

—Archie Yeatts, R’64

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

—Richard “Dickie” Layton, R’65

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’68 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. 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.

’69 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. 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 JOY FINE, ’94

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?”

—Jane Chewning Prugh, W’68

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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.”

—Class of 1971 secretaries

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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.”

—Spring Crafts Kirby, W’73

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“I can’t imagine any experience that would have prepared me better for the courtroom than teaching.”

—Bonnie C. Davis, L’80

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’78 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. 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.

’79 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. 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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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

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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’84 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. 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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“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

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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

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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

KENDYL CRAWLEY CRAWFORD, GC’18

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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“Creativity is wellness.”

—Liz Montague, ’18

FACULTY, STAFF, AND FRIENDS

IN MEMORIAM

Spiders are everywhere, sports edition

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 identi ed with the help of the athletics department, the records of ce, and a few other well-placed sources. They include Spiders working in all ve 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-of ce 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.

410 Westhampton Way University of Richmond, VA 23173

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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PRIOR KNOWLEDGE

MISTRESS CHET’LA SEBREE, ’10

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—Alma “Bitsy” Rosenbaum Hurwitz, W’45

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.

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.

“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.

—Aggrey Sam

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.

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.”

—Cynthia Price

—Mary Trew Biddlecomb Lindquist, W’59

—Jennie Stokes Howe, W’61

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.

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

—Emily Cherry

—Julie Perkinson Crews, W’62

New beginnings

HOOPS HOME BASE

An active retirement

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

“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

—Archie Yeatts, R’64

—Richard “Dickie” Layton, R’65

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.

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.

—Aggrey Sam

—Jane Chewning Prugh, W’68

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His diligence paid off

—Aggrey Sam

—Spring Crafts Kirby, W’73

—Bonnie C. Davis, L’80

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.

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.

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.

“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

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

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.

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.

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

—Cammie Whisnant Dunaway, B’84