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The Magazine of Memphis University School • Winter 1999-2000

MEMPHIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL

Founded 1893

MISSION STATEMENT

Memphis University School is acollege-preparatory school dedicated toacademic excellence and the developmentof well-rounded young men of strong moralcharacter, consistent with the school’sChristian tradition.

HEADMASTER

Ellis L. Haguewood

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Ben C. Adams, Jr. ’74, ChairmanJames C. Varner ’73, Vice ChairmanW. Thomas Hutton ’61, TreasurerRobert Louis Adams ’70Donald G. Austin, Jr. ’59Russell E. Bloodworth, Jr. ’63V. Glenn CrosbySusan B. FaberRichard L. Fisher ’72P. Trowbridge Gillespie, Jr. ’65Mark J. Halperin ’67Harry Hill III ’66Joseph R. Hyde III ’61Robert E. Loeb ’73Musette S. MorganC. Barham Ray ’64Michael D. RoseCharles F. Smith, Jr. ’66S. Alexander Thompson IIIAlexander W. Wellford, Jr. ’60Kent Wunderlich ’66

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVE BOARD

Jerry B. Martin, Jr. ’79, PresidentFrederick C. Schaeffer, Jr. ’88, Vice PresidentPaul T.J. Boyle ’87Andrew F. Cates ’89Henry P. Doggrell ’66Buchanan D. Dunavant ’90G. Goodloe Early ’59Samuel N. Graham II ’80John H. Grayson, Jr. ’78Joel J. Hobson III ’72E. Charles Jalenak ’83Wise S. Jones ’73Edward C. Krausnick, Jr. ’79H. Montgomery Martin ’73Daniel H. McEwan ’88William P. Morrison ’75D. Stephen Morrow ’71Judson L. Peters ’81Thomas F. Preston ’74Wiley T. Robinson ’75David L. Simpson ’80Joel B. Sklar ’85S. Clay Smythe ’85Robert D. Sparks ’79Henry P. Sullivant, Jr. ’70Owen B. Tabor ’85Gary K. Wunderlich ’88

DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT

Perry D. Dement

DIRECTOR OF ALUMNI AFFAIRS

William R. Tayloe ’92

From the Editor “At MUS, not only do we teach our boys, we teachthem to give something back.” Even though we wrote thisas advertising copy, it is an axiom we live by here at MemphisUniversity School. Price Morrison’s (1975 Honor CouncilPresident) inspiring message at the Red & Blue Societyinduction last spring (of which excerpts appear in this issue ofthe magazine) addresses the time-honored tradition of serviceat MUS. We give our boys a lot — a great education, strongsupport, and a chance for emotional and intellectual growth.

In return, we expect and encourage these young men to take a continuing interest inthe school and in the communities in which they live. Our students are not shut awayin their own little world; they firmly believe in service to others. From fundraisingfor a variety of causes, to our continued involvement with inner-city school NewHope Christian Academy, to hosting a new summer camp for less-advantagedyoung boys, MUS students willingly donate their time and efforts to makeMemphis a better place. There are no better role models for service to others than Price’s parents,Buddy and Ruth Morrison, who are featured on our cover. As parents of alumniand among the school’s most generous contributors, along with Buddy’s pastchairmanship of the Board of Trustees and over twenty years of service as a trusteeand honorary board member, the Morrisons continue to show their love forMUS by their significant participation in the Doors to New Opportunities capitalcampaign. The new courtyard will be named in honor of Buddy through a generouscontribution from his family. You will also want to read how alumni Marc MacMillan ’92, John Sartelle ’92,Jim Burnett ’83, Craig Christenbury ’83, Drew Harris ’83, Scott Rose ’82, andKevin Parker ’84 serve MUS by volunteering their time as coaches for our LowerSchool sports teams, imparting the important lessons of teamwork, commitment,and responsibility to one another — lessons they learned years ago as students atMUS. Robert Davis ’82 also believes in service by providing television viewers withentertaining stories to help them make sense of medical news. Read about hissuccessful PBS show HealthWeek and how it contributes to consumer education. I hope you enjoy this issue of MUS Today and look forward to hearing from you.You can contact me by e-mail at dlazarov@musowls.org or by calling 901-260-1416.

Debbie B. LazarovDirector of Public Relations

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f e a t u r e sThe Morrisons: True Blue and Red to MUS 2Students Take the Lead in Community Service 5Alumnus Finds Prescription for Successin PBS’s HealthWeek 8A Tale of Two Countries 11Grease is the Word 13Alumni Coaches Teach More Than the Game 16Happy Holidays from Mark Crosby 28

d e p a r t m e n t sHeadmaster’s Message 4Faculty Profile 12Memorials 14Remember When 15Alumni News 17

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The Magazine of Memphis University School • Winter 1999-2000

The MorrisonsThe MorrisonsThe Morrisons

“Do you have a boy on the team?” a parent asked,gesturing toward the basketball court and the contingent ofMUS players dressed out for that night’s game.

“They’re all my boys,” drawled Buddy Morrison, seatedbeside his wife Ruth, the only other out-of-state fan who hadlogged as many MUS game-miles that season as he had.“Every MUS boy is my boy.”

Kent Wunderlich ’66, who recounted this story, doesn’trecall which team MUS played that night or even the year inwhich the exchange occurred. But he does know Morrisonmeant what he said. In their giving and their living, Ruth andWilliam P. “Buddy” Morrison continue to demonstrate theirlove of Memphis University School and its boys.

The Morrisons provided the lead gift for the school’smuch-needed J.J. McCaughan Science Center, which openedin 1980. It was named in memory of Mrs. Morrison’s father,a Memphis physician who single-handedly raised Ruth andher brother and sister after the death of his wife. BuddyMorrison and his sons established the Ruth McCaughan

Morrison Endowed Chair of Chemis-try in Ruth’s honor in 1984. And re-cently the family made their largestcommitment to date with a pledge tothe Doors to New Opportunities Cam-paign for Memphis University School,which aims to raise $15 million. The

new Upper School Courtyard will be named in honor ofBuddy Morrison through his family’s gen-erous contribution.

In terms of outright gifts — contri-butions to MUS while the donor is stillalive — no other individual or familyhas given more generously to the schoolthan the Morrisons.

Equally impressive is the Morrisons’personal involvement in MUS. The couplestill attends every home football and basketball game andan occasional away game, despite living in Earle, Arkansas,about forty-five miles from MUS, and despite no longerhaving children who attend the school. Their sons, WilliamPrice Jr. ’75 and Joseph McCaughan ’78, graduated years ago.(Price is an attorney with the Memphis law firm of MartinTate Morrow and Marston; Joe is an investment advisor andco-founder of Wallace-Morrison Capital Advisors in Mem-

phis. Their oldestson, John, whoattended TheMcCallie Schoolin Chattanooga,runs the family’sfarming interestsin Earle.)

“We’ve put a lot of miles on our car,” Morrison con-cedes. During football season the couple also travels to Nash-ville for Vanderbilt’s home games. Morrison, his brotherGene, and sons Price and Joe all attended Vanderbilt.

Morrison also served on the MUS Board of Trusteesfrom 1976 to 1995. He was chairman of the board from 1983to 1988 and in 1995 was named an honorary board member.

“Ruth and Buddy Morrison’s dedication to MUS isoutstanding,” said Kent Wunderlich, who succeeded Morrisonas board chairman. Wunderlich praised Morrison’s years onthe board: “He had the ability to articulate what the school isall about. He was an excellent salesman for the school.”

Morrison is also a convincing spokesman for hard work,the kind that transports people to the top of their game orprofession. In a speech he delivered to MUS students inchapel ten years ago, Morrison shared what would seem apersonal axiom: “Good, better, best. Let us never rest untilour good is better and our better best.”

It was 1969 when the Morrisons’ middle son, Price,enrolled at MUS as a seventh grader. Their oldest son, John,was attending The McCallie School, a Chattanooga boardingschool for boys that Buddy had attended. But the Morrisons

were not ready to have a second child leavehome for boarding school. They decided

instead to enroll him at MUS.They were attracted to MUS in

part by Ruth Morrison’s long-standingfriendship with Halcyon Lynn, the wifeof then Headmaster Ross Lynn. Theyalso believed MUS would provide an ex-

cellent foundation for their sons’ futuresuccess and happiness.

But matriculation meant a major lifestyle change. In-stead of requiring their sons commute to MUS from theirhome in Earle, the Morrisons set up a second residence inMemphis close to the school. They built a house, and for morethan ten years Buddy Morrison drove back and forth to Earleevery day to run the family farm he jointly owned with hisbrother Gene.

RUTH AND BUDDY MORRISON

True Blue and Red to MUS

by Helen Watkins Norman

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At one point the Morrisons farmed 10,000 acres, 3,000of them in Earle and 7,000 in an area seventy-five miles westof Earle. They grew cotton and processed it in their own gin;but they eventually got out of cotton, sold the gin, and shiftedto growing wheat, soybeans, and rice.

Morrison retired from active farming after bypass sur-gery seven years ago. Except for 2,000 acres still farmed byson John, most of the family’s agricultural holdings are nowrented out to others to cultivate. Morrison nonetheless hasan office in Earle and regularly checks on the property.

Morrison’s career has also included banking and civicinvolvement. He served as a director on several bank boardsin West Memphis and Earle, Arkansas, and Winchester andAthens, Tennessee; but in the mid-’80s, he sold his interest inthe banks. He also has served as chairman of the EarleHousing Authority, president of the Crittenden County FarmBureau, and as a member of the St. Francis Levee BoardCommission in West Memphis and the Mississippi RiverParkway Commission.

“I never intended to come back to Earle,” says Morrison,who served in the Navy during World War II and thenenrolled at Vanderbilt. His plan was to become an engineer.“My father died when I was in college at Vanderbilt in 1947.I felt that I needed to come back to Earle to help my brothermanage the family affairs.” He never found the chance toreturn to Vanderbilt.

He met Ruth McCaughan at a Cotton Carnival party.They married in 1950 and began raising a family.

Today the Morrisons live in an established, tree-linedEarle neighborhood, reminiscent of many small Southerntowns. The Methodist church, which his father helped buildand in which he and Ruth are active members, stands at thehead of the street; the town’s former school stands vacant afew blocks away, replaced by more modern facilities on theoutskirts of town.

In 1982 the Morrisons moved into Buddy’schildhood home, a comfortable, unpretentious,two-story structure of buff-colored crab orchardstone and dark-stained wood. The contents ofthe house reflect the couple’s interests. Ruth’sneedlepoint creations emerge in the form ofpillows and chair cushions throughout the housealong with pictures of the couple’s three sons,their wives, and twelve grandchildren. “Ourchildren and grandchildren are the joy of ourlives,” Ruth Morrison notes. The family room isfull of cherished mementos, including the blackMUS chair given to Morrison in appreciation ofhis many years on the board.

“When I went on the (MUS) board, Idecided I was going to be the best board memberI could be,” says Morrison. He called it “one ofthe most rewarding experiences of my life” tobe associated with those serving on the board atthe time, people of the “very highest caliber.”He notes with a smile his two initial goals — tolearn all the faculty’s names and the words tothe alma mater.

More important, however, he learned about the school’sneeds and dreams. Chief among them at the time was the needto raise endowment for faculty salaries. He helped lead thatcampaign.

“Everybody told me, ‘you can’t raise money for teachers’salaries.’ But we did it successfully,” boasts Morrison. Thatcampaign laid the groundwork for a faculty endowment fundthat is now valued at more than $9 million.

Jerrold Omundson, past chairman of the MUS ScienceDepartment and 27-year faculty veteran, noted thatMorrison’s and the board’s leadership in establishing a facultyendowment fund was “key in moving MUS to the strongacademic school it is today.” He also commended the Morrisonsfor their role in building the science center in 1980. The J.J.McCaughan Center, he explains, allowed for the “exchange ofideas and cross-teaching in the sciences,” which helped im-prove the sciences at MUS.

“(Morrison) is a very conscientious individual, a man ofstrong ethics and integrity,” notes Omundson. His sons, Priceand Joe, are of a similar character. Both were outstandingstudents, deeply involved in the school and its activities.”

MUS Headmaster Ellis Haguewood adds his own as-sessment: “The thing that characterizes Buddy Morrison ishis intense feeling and love. His heart gets involved. He’s oneof the most generous people I know. And that’s true of Ruth,too. You cannot separate the two of them.”

Buddy Morrison likewise credits his wife’s example:“Ruth is the most giving somebody I’ve ever known.”

Of their combined generosity, Morrison added, “I’venever given anything that didn’t come back to me manyfold. Whether it was to my friends, my church, my family,or MUS, the gift comes back...often in the satisfaction thatyou have done something good or worthwhile. Ruth and Ihave gotten a lot of satisfaction from sharing what we havebeen blessed to have.”

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Headmaster’s Message

Part of our ongoing mis-sion at Memphis UniversitySchool will always be to developwell-rounded young men ofstrong moral character, consis-tent with the school’s Christian

tradition. In other words, we would like ourboys to leave us seeking to serve, not seekingto be served.

In part, such a task must involve oppor-tunities for boys to serve in the communityand training in how to serve effectively. Weknow from the history of Memphis that ouralumni will become men who lead and servethis community in heroic ways far dispropor-tionate to their number. All areas of philan-thropic Memphis have been enhanced by MUSalumni – the Arts Council, the Zoo, MIFA,Boys Club, the Civil Rights Museum, Brooks,Dixon, United Way, and on and on.

Having a heart for service begins athome, but the school can reinforce the desire

by Ellis Haguewood

by offering a dynamic civic-service program.Through money-raisers for charity, like theannual Talent Show, pizza sales, and carwashes, our boys learn to work for others.Through volunteer efforts for the Oak HallRun for St. Jude or participation in New HopeChristian Academy’s carnival or blood do-nated to a community bank or cans broughtfor the Food Bank or coats given for thosewithout them, our boys learn that they havean obligation to help others that comes withour common humanity.

Gratitude for our blessings, a gratefulheart, is the key. A sense of our own entitle-ment is the enemy. What we would hope isthat our boys eventually learn to ask, “Whatdoes life expect of me?” rather than “Whatcan I expect from life?”

One of the greatest axioms of life is thatwe never help another person without helpingourselves. What a powerful lesson if we learnit early on in life!

Donating to theMemphis FoodBank, 1994

Collecting sports equipmentfor donation to children inneed, 1995

Giving toLifeblood, 1996

Performing in the annual Talent Show(proceeds go to charity), 1996

Year after year, MUS provides students withopportunities to serve the community.

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Students Take the Lead in Community ServiceOne of the goals of MUS is to instill the desire to make

a positive difference in the community. Community serviceactivities, under the leadership of the MUS Civic ServiceCommittee, are the means by which our students pursuethat goal. With the start of school, the Civic Service Com-mittee anticipated another successful year of communityservice. The committee actually began as early as June witha car wash. And only two weeks into the semester, the newcrew of officers, executives, and student advisors hadcompleted their first project, hosting on the MUS campusthe annual American Heart Association Heart Walk, whichwas a huge success.

This year’s leadership contains a blend of seasonedveterans and rookies, all of whom make for an earnest andcapable bunch. Officers include chairman David Wurzburg,vice-chairman of fund raising Ben Adams, vice-chairman ofspecial projects Ravi Bellur, vice-chairman of financeMichael Liverance, and Dan Machin, vice-chairman ofweekly projects. Additionally, five executives from eachgrade contribute ideas to the organization and relay infor-mation to the student body. Most important, the officers

and executives have the task ofleading the school with their enthu-siastic spirit of volunteerism andcommitment to community service.

The Civic Service Committeehas so far this semester contributedmanpower to the MIFA Golf Tour-nament, the Juvenile DiabetesFoundation Walk, the Pink PalaceCrafts Fair, and the NeighborhoodSchool Carnival. Currently thecommittee is collecting gifts forAngels of Love, selling Christmastrees, and leading a coat drive

among students. The committee also is initiating what ithopes will be an ongoing relationship with New HopeChristian Academy.

The Door to Community Involvement

Price Morrison ’75 addressed thetradition of service at MUS in hismessage at the Red and Blue SocietyInduction on April 30, 1999. Hispurpose was to encourage the boysto think about service and how itrelates to each of them. Followingare excerpts from his speech.

“…true service is motivatednot out of a desire to advanceourselves — to make us lookgood or feel good — but serviceis motivated by gratitude.

“If we had a proper appreciation for thecountless gifts we have been given and howundeserving we are, we would be irresistiblydrawn to share those gifts with others. Serviceflows from a grateful heart. This is a principlewhich Col. Lynn understood well. He taughtmany life lessons from this podium. His speak-ing style was not animated. He spoke in amonotone, often with his head down, but hiswords were always filled with wisdom. I can stillhear him saying, ‘MUS exists only because ofthe generosity of others.’ The message wasclear — we should be grateful for the gifts wewere enjoying as MUS students. He remindedus of this fact over and over again.

“…You show me a man with a gratefulspirit, and I will show you a man who has apositive outlook on life and much to share withothers — a man who has a sincere desire toserve others. On the other hand, you show me aman who has an ungrateful spirit, and I willshow you an unhappy man who thinks the world

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Junior Ben Adamshelps New Hopestudent climb into

her seat for a ride atthe school’s carnival.

Hosting the annualOak Hall-St. JudeRun, 1998

Cleaning up downtown property forMemphis City Beautiful Commission, 1999

Fundraising for local charities byselling Christmas trees and

wreaths, 1997

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owes him something, who is not ableto serve others because he is too busytrying to be served.

“...Why is it important for us toserve? It is important because a lifeof service is a full and rewardinglife….

“I will close by telling you abouta person whose life was short butpersonified this type of quiet service.Jim Gannon was my eighth-gradebasketball coach. He graduated fromMUS in 1966. You may want to gotake a look at his class picture in thehall next door. Jim was a good guy,popular with his classmates — thetype of guy who probably would havebeen inducted into the Red and BlueSociety. Although he was not big,5'10", 160 pounds, he was a giftedathlete in track and basketball. In hissenior year at MUS, he was an AllCounty Basketball player and wasnamed MVP in the Knights of Co-lumbus Tournament in which MUSupset Treadwell, which was rankedNo. 1 in the state. I have been toldthat win was arguably MUS’s biggestupset ever. After MUS, Jim went toLambuth and then Southwestern(now Rhodes), where he continuedhis outstanding athletic career. AtSouthwestern, he was captain of boththe basketball and track teams. Hewas named the Best Defensive Playerof the basketball team and was namedMVP at every major track meet hissenior year.

“Jim was a generous person.During his senior year at Southwest-ern, his fraternity named him its Manof the Year and gave him a $200 cashaward. Jim, although he did not comefrom a wealthy family, promptly gavehalf of the money to a needy familyand returned the other half to thefraternity treasury. Jim’s life dreamwas to coach. After college, he re-turned to MUS in the fall of 1970 tocoach under Coach Peters and toteach. By the time school started thatfall, Coach Gannon had been diag-nosed with terminal cancer, but thatdidn’t keep him from fulfilling hisdream. I had the good fortune ofbeing a member of the eighth-grade

He was happiest, not when peoplewere rewarding him, but when he wasrewarding others. Let us grieve hisuntimely death, but let us also bethankful for the fact that he lived andshowed us that giving is better thantaking, and doing things well is betterthan doing things poorly. The lessonto be learned from his life is that, inthe final analysis, it is not the lengthof life that is most important but thequality of that existence.’

“Gentlemen, this was the lifeof a man who knew how to serveothers….

“His service was quiet andunassuming....His get-well card to mewas a powerful symbol….I hope thatyou and I will learn from CoachGannon’s example and the exampleof others like him.”

basketball team hecoached that year.He was a fiery coach, very excitable.He was the type of coach who wouldgo to the mat for his team. We werecrazy about him, and he seemed toenjoy us also. Our team was verysuccessful — 22-1, losing one gameby one point in overtime. During theseason, as we celebrated our team’ssuccess, we had no idea that CoachGannon was sick.

“In July of the following sum-mer, I was in a car wreck and washospitalized for several days. WhileI was in the hospital, I received thisget-well card from Coach Gannon.On it, he wrote a personal note.About one month later in August,we received the news that CoachGannon had died. After the basket-ball season, his cancer had progressedquickly and taken his life.

“Let me read (from a memorialin The Owl’s Hoot in the fall of 1971):‘Mr. Jim Gannon was many things —a courageous athlete, an inspiringleader, an excellent coach andteacher, and a person who affectedothers in a special way. But CoachGannon was more than the sum ofthese qualities; he had an attributewhich is often discussed but rarelyfound. More than anything else, JimGannon was a winner. Most of hisfame came from winning games, buthis true greatness was his ability towin people. Although he receivedmany honors and awards in highschool and college, he remarkedseveral days before his death that theyear he taught and coached at MUSwas the happiest year of his life.

Jim Gannon ’66,gifted athlete

As an MUSseventh-gradegeographyteacher, Gannonwas popular withthe students.

In 1971, the eighth-grade basketball team,coached by Gannon, made its mark as one ofthe best eighth-grade teams in MUS history,winning all but one game during regular seasonaction and taking the championship of a three-game, post-season tournament: (standing) CoachGannon, Gregg Drew, John Edwards, Pat Mason,Al Haltom, Price Morrison, Keith Barton, BillAllen, Chip Pursell, Will Morgan; (kneeling) SamLewis, Putter Robbins, Wiley Robinson, BruceBolton, Albert Jones, and Alex Seagle.

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One of the most significant projectsthe Civic Service Committee has under-taken was the development of the MUSOutreach Summer Camp that was insti-tuted this past summer. From the firstday of camp, the contagious laughterand spontaneous smiles made all theplanning and expense worthwhile.Plans for MUS to extend good willto the larger Memphis communitywere realized in our first daycamp for inner city youth.The fourth and fifth gradeboys of Alonzo Locke Elemen-tary were invited to a specialweek of day camp held June 21-25, 1999, at MUS. The youngsterswere showered with attention by astaff of exceptionally caring studentcounselors. Working in tandem, stu-dents Greg Szu-Tu and JonathanDunavant, Michael Hollinger and MichaelMcLaren, Justin Monday and Kyser Thomp-son, Harvey Kay and David Wurzburg sharedmeals, mentored, and developed relationshipswith the campers.

Dawn’s Early LightEach morning began with a bus ride in the

school’s new 25-passenger bus. Two counselors rode tomeet the campers who were eagerly waiting outside theirschool on St. Paul Street near Cleaborn Homes. By 8:30a.m. the bus arrived at the Clack Dining Hall where ahome-cooked breakfast, prepared by BridgetteChristopoulos of Sodexho-Marriott, was warm and waiting.After breakfast, the counselors spent time with the guysworking on posters, skits, and raps to reinforce positivecharacter traits.

Fun with a PurposeThe developer of the program, Mrs. Nancy Sissman,

principal at Locke Elementary, provided support andguidance. Following her recommendation, the academicconcentration for the camp focused on chemistry. Mr.Jerrold Omundson, MUS Science Chairman Emeritus, hadstudents begging for encores after crushing heated sodacans in an ice bath thanks to regular old air pressure. Usingacid-base indicators, white “roses” turned red, and thechildren made “lava lamp” bottles with food coloring andimmersible liquids. Mrs. Lillie T. Akins with the NationalScience Teachers Association spent time with the campersand introduced polymer chemistry, water decontamination,and catalyzed reactions (very frothy). The teachers createdvery special discovery experiences, and the boys lookedcool in their goggles and aprons.

Body and SpiritAfter working the brains, time for

action. Before lunch, Coach BobbyAlston spent time instructing the skills offootball. After a little practice, teamswere formed and counselors cheered

as touch football games and competi-tive drills heated up. Each sessionended with a knee football contestwith counselors vs. campers. (The

counselors were routinelytrashed!)

Following lunch, charac-ter development was high-

lighted. Taking examples fromthe Beatitudes and Locke bulletin

boards, from the fruits of the Spiritto challenges from the inner-city

neighborhood, the young men wereencouraged to evaluate what it means to

grow up healthy and whole.In the afternoons, Coach Jerry Peters

took charge of the basketball session. WithMichael McLaren leading warm-ups and dem-

onstrating ball-handling drills, the camperslearned numerous ways to improve their game.

Team shooting competitions and games roundedout the sessions. Toward the end of the week, the

campers were much more aware of the importance ofteamwork, thanks in large part to the guidance of Coach

Peters and the counselors.Finally, Scott Elliott, recreation minister at Grace

Evangelical Church and former Ole Miss cheerleader,volunteered his expertise to teach gymnastics. His confi-dence and competence had campers and counselors daringand accomplishing more than they had imagined. Watch-ing youngsters’ willingness to accept new challenges meansseeing growth before your eyes.

Aqua VitaThe day ended with a swim at the Quince YMCA.

The joy on the faces of the boys as they jumped on counse-lors and played in the pool will remain one of the mostenduring memories of camp. Watching someone previ-ously afraid to leave the pool’s edge actually swimming byweek’s end as a result of instruction and encouragementwarms the heart. After the refreshing hour came time topry kids out of the pool and head for home.

Not only did the campers learn from their experienceat the weeklong camp, the counselors felt that they had amemorable experience as well. The MUS students believethat they learned as much, if not more, from the campersthan they had imparted. The Civic Service Committee hasdecided to make as one of its yearly goals the financing ofthe MUS Outreach Summer Camp.

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Oversimplified medical news delivered out-of-context may be hazardous to your health. Thatis the conclusion, at least, of television producerand reporter Robert Davis ’82 and the reason hehelped launch the trend-breaking PBS televisionprogram HealthWeek.

Davis, a 1982 honors graduate of MemphisUniversity School, is the executive producer forHealthWeek, a half-hour weekly consumer healthnews program which premiered in May 1997. Theaward-winning show currently airs on more than270 Public Broadcasting System stations aroundthe country including Memphis’ WKNO-TV,which broadcasts the show at 8:30 a.m. Sundays.HealthWeek provides in-depth coverage of topicsranging from managed care to fitness and nutritionto mental illness to new treatments for diseases.

“One of the reasons I was excited to work onthis show was my feeling in the past that the newsmedia generally do a poor job of covering healthinformation,” said Davis. “To explain a compli-

cated medical study in ten seconds is a disservice toviewers. It just makes them more confused.”

Davis helped create HealthWeek from what hecalls “an amorphous concept.” The show covers fourto five stories in each weekly program, giving viewersnot only information but also the context in which tounderstand that information. Davis produces theshow, overseeing everything from the hiring of staffto the editing of scripts, and he often serves as an on-air correspondent.

HealthWeek tries to help people make sense ofthe medical news. Davis told of a recent study whichsuggested that fiber does not decrease one’s risk ofcolon cancer, a finding that seems to run counter toprevious studies. Instead of reporting on the study’sresults, HealthWeek focused on how these studiescome about and why so many medical studies seem tocontradict each other.

“We try to help people interpret and understandthe information they’re getting,” said Davis, “espe-cially when we’re covering the week’s medical news.”

Alumnus Finds

Prescription for Success

in PBS’s HealthWeekby Helen Watkins Norman

The Door to Career Opportunity

Robert Davisand camera

crew preparean interview for

Healthweek.

Photo courtesy of Island Pocket

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The show also deals with sensitive issues like disabili-ties, anorexia, sexual dysfunction, and cancer, a challengewhen it comes to finding people willing to go on the air todiscuss their problems. “Two years ago,” said Davis, “co-median Rodney Dangerfield talked to us about his lifelongbattle with depression. It was the first TV interview he’ddone on the subject. He chose to do it with us because hethought we’d handle it sensitively and fairly.”

But health isn’t always serious business, according toDavis. HealthWeek injects a bit of fun into every program.Davis described the show’s coverage of a study that found“people sit longer in their parking spots if another car iswaiting, and even longer yet if the waiting driver honks.”Then there was the piece on a fellow who laughed so hardwatching the TV show Seinfeld, he always passed out.

HealthWeek is based in Washington, D.C., and pro-duced by Newsweek Productions which, in turn, is ownedby the Washington Post Company. With a full-time staffof fifteen journalists and another twenty-five freelancereporters and producers around the nation, the show candevote the time and attention that health news requires,Davis believes. It has an audience today of about two mil-lion viewers.

One member of his staff is alumnus Dr. Bruce Dan,who attended MUS in the late 1950s to early 1960s, al-though he did not stay to graduate. Dan was hired by Davisto be the show’s resident physician. He does a short seg-ment on-air called “The Doctor’s Corner” and reports onsome of the quirkier medical stories. “He’s a medical jour-nalist I had admired for years,” said Davis. “I didn’t knowtill later (in my career) that he had gone to MUS.”

Davis was attracted to medical journalism, in part,because of its broad focus and its importance in our day-to-day lives. “Health news is unique because it’s informationyou apply to your own life,” he said. “You often take ac-tions based on something you’ve read or heard in themedia: you eat something, you don’t eat something; you goto the doctor, you don’t go to the doctor; you ask for acertain drug or a certain treatment. There aren’t manyother kinds of news that have this kind of personal impacton you.”

Davis got his start in medical journalism following hisgraduation summa cum laude from Princeton and a year ofpostgraduate work at Stanford Medical School’s Center forResearch and Disease Prevention. Davis described his firstmajor job search: “I wrote letters to everybody that I couldfind who was in medical journalism. CNN just happened tohave a position open for a researcher.”

Within two months at the Cable News Network, hewas offered a job as associate producer. From there heassumed the posts of producer and reporter for CNN. Heworked full time for the network for three years, earninghis master’s degree in public health at Emory in his freetime.

Davis did not stop his education there, however. Heleft Atlanta in 1990 with a Pew Foundation Scholarship for

a Ph.D. program in health policy offered jointly by BostonUniversity and Brandeis. He completed the doctorate intwo and a half years (most students take four or five years),simultaneously doing part-time freelance reporting forCNN in Boston.

“The hardest part of television work is getting in,”Davis explained. “Once you get in, you don’t want to leavebecause it’s so hard to get back in.”

With his Ph.D. in hand, Davis moved on to what wasthen an exciting start-up organization called Medical NewsNetwork, an initiative of Whittle Communications thatbrought medical TV programming directly into physicians’offices. It was 1993-94, and Davis was hired as the show’sWashington correspondent, primarily responsible forcovering the new health reform movement led by HillaryClinton. “It was great experience in daily journalism,” saidDavis.

When Whittle Communications began to fail, how-ever, Davis left to join Time Life Medical in a medicalvideo project headed by former Surgeon General C.Everett Koop. Davis was hired as executive editor to over-see the content and production of thirty videos which wereto be distributed through pharmacies. “I worked veryclosely with Dr. Koop...he was very involved in theproject,” said Davis. The former Memphian was also at thetime working on a book about how health is covered by themedia and the impact that coverage has on the public asmedical consumers.

But his book project got put on hold, and Time Lifehad to find another executive editor. HealthWeek camealong, and it was too good a fit and too promising an op-portunity for Davis to pass up.

Although Davis had loved producing and reportingmedical news, he had become frustrated in his years at

CNN and Whittlewith “having only twominutes — a long timeon TV — to coversomething very com-plicated.” Davis con-tinued, “I often wor-ried that we mightconfuse people morethan we clarify.”HealthWeek allowed

him to remain involved in medical journalism, but in a waythat didn’t compromise his high standards for accuracy andanalysis.

“The most challenging thing about the program ismaking sure we get it right — doubly, triply sure thateverything we say is accurate. It takes a great deal of effortevery day,” said Davis, who works seven days a week in theprocess.

A testament to the program’s success, HealthWeek haswon more than fifteen national awards from differentorganizations including a Gracie Award for women’s health

Davis with Surgeon GeneralC. Everett Koop

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coverage. A story on a plastic surgeon and his wife whotravel around the world operating on the faces of third-world children recently won a national network award fromthe Society of Plastic Surgeons.

Davis and his HealthWeek team have also producedthirty episodes of a program called Health Scope for theDiscovery Health Channel. And in January, theHealthWeek staff will begin producingprogramming for The Health Network, anew cable channel owned by Fox.

“Given consumers’ growing appetitefor health information and programmers’growing need for content, I’m excitedabout our prospects,” said Davis.

Although HealthWeek has neverspotlighted any MUS graduates, it hascovered stories in Memphis, such as thepiece on St. Jude pediatric oncologist Dr.Satch Jogal, whose own bout with child-hood cancer inspired his career in thatfield. Another local story featured Mem-phis’ Dr. Scott Morris, founder of theChurch Health Center. Davis was the on-air correspondent for the piece on Morris,which was part of the show’s ongoing series called “Makinga Difference.” The series profiles interesting or unusualpeople in the field of medicine. Morris is on Davis’ shortlist of “most admired” people who have been featured onHealthWeek. So is Dr. Kenneth Cooper, the “father ofaerobics,” whom Davis interviewed for an earlierHealthWeek segment.

Davis got his start in journalism at a very young age.“The amazing thing about Robert is that, at least in

retrospect, it seems like he has always known what hewould do in life — pretty much since the days of the (Pres-byterian Day School) Press Bee,” said his long-time friendand fellow journalist, MUS alumnus Edward Felsenthal ’84.“Even as a kid, he always liked writing and was always verygood at it.” Felsenthal is an editor of the Wall StreetJournal’s Friday leisure section, the Weekend Journal.

As an eighth grader Davis was recruited by MUSEnglish teacher Terry Shelton to serve as the first editor ofthe lower school newspaper, The Half Hoot. That same yearhe served as anchor for the school’s internal televisionstation, now known as WMUS, interviewing among othersthe inimitable Ross Lynn, MUS headmaster at the time.

“It was then that I knew I wanted to work in televi-sion,” Davis said. In ninth grade he began writing for TheOwl’s Hoot newspaper, assuming the post of associate editoras a junior and editor as a senior. He calls his editorship“the best job I ever had.”

“It was such a challenge to create something out ofnothing,” he said. “But you don’t do it yourself; you moti-vate and encourage others to do it.” He also praised En-glish teacher Norman Thompson, the newspaper’s facultyadvisor. “He was there to help and be supportive, but hewasn’t in our faces.”

Davis believes the emphasis on writing at MUS andthe caliber of all its teachers — especially the Englishfaculty — prepared him well for a career in the nationalnews media. “I think they are the finest English facultyof any school in the country,” said Davis, listing some ofthe teachers by name: Shelton and Thompson, as well asJames Russell, Lin Askew, and Ellis Haguewood. “Not

only were they great teachers, but theyalso took an interest in me and theother students. That made a hugedifference.”

Davis still remembers the time heused the phrase “is indicative of” in apaper for Mr. Shelton. The teacherwrote in the margin, “This is indicativeof self importance. Ditch it.”

“That lesson, and so many otherslike it, have stayed with me and con-tinue to influence the work I do everyday as a journalist,” said Davis.

According to Edward Felsenthal,who like Davis formerly served as aneditor of The Owl’s Hoot, his friend“just really knows how to communicate

with clarity and insight and also with humor.”A lot of that Davis learned from his teachers at

MUS, Felsenthal maintains. “Like good journalists,they’re experts at conveying material in ways that are notonly lucid and informative but somehow manage to keepthe attention of two dozen teenage boys hour after hour.

“You can see some of those MUS qualities ondisplay when you tune in to HealthWeek,” Felsenthaladded. “In just thirty minutes the show manages todeliver a huge amount of health information in a formatthat’s fun to watch. And best of all, there are no tests.”

The only test for HealthWeek, it seems, is time. WillHealthWeek be around in five years? Davis cannot answerthat question, although he’s convinced that there willalways be a need for quality medical programming.

“Every job in TV is a ‘temp’ job,” he laughs. “I liketo think the show will evolve as opportunities arise.We’re witnessing a real explosion in health informationat the same time that demand for information is growing.People are being forced to deal with managed care. Theyhave less time with their doctors and don’t have the samekind of personal relationship with their doctors as theyonce had. They are looking to other sources for healthinformation like the Internet and television.”

Davis reasons that HealthWeek is in an enviableposition with a library of 4,000 tapes, countless hours offootage, and what he describes as “the strongest staff” inmedical news. “What we’ve created at HealthWeek isunique,” he said. “I’m excited about the potential.”

Editor’s Note: Davis said he welcomes e-mail fromclassmates and faculty, and he is happy to receive story ideas aswell. His e-mail address is rdavis@newsweek.com

“It was then that I knew I wanted to work in television.”

Davis on camera in front of Capital Hill

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The Door to Knowledge

Seventeen students participated in the 1999 MUS summer study program, “A Tale ofTwo Countries.” Jim Hewgley, Stuart Hutton, Ronny Kwon, Dan Machin, Omar Malik,Jay McDonald, Alston Meeks, Eric Osborne, Steve Owens, Thomas Razzouk, AdamReynolds, Andrew Shelton, Michael Varner, Park Vestal, Jacob White, John Witherington,Joe Woodward, and Academic Dean Mike Gunn experienced the history, culture, andcuisine of England and France.

For twelve days the students lived in LaGiraudiere, a country manor house in the LoireValley, France. French teacher Reginald Dalle andscience instructor Bill Taylor oversaw the needs ofthe students.

La Giraudiere’s Chef Didier, on the otherhand, satisfied the hearty appetites of the students,bringing to each lunch and dinner a gastronomicsurprise. They tasted more than fifteen typesof meat, from beef to veal to duckling, all withdifferent sauces appropriate to the meal. Thestudents learned to appreciate the varied texturesand tastes of French cheese and desserts, fromcrème caramel to pastries.

But the boys did not spend all dayeating, however tempting! Everymorning, Eric Berman shared hisvast knowledge of Europe by lectur-ing, comparing, and analyzing theheritage and culture of France andEngland. In the afternoon, thestudents explored the area, visitingcastles, abbeys, and cities likeNantes, Angers, and Saumur. Mr.Berman applied the lectures to theafternoon cultural activities, tabletime, and impromptu discussions,immersing the students in the cultureof the region.

Thanks to Mr. Berman, the experi-ence was very interactive, including

family and friends back home, through an Internet site he created on“e-circles.” Each day, folks in the U.S. could go online and visit thegroup, viewing pictures and reading comments. E-mail correspondencewas set up, too, so students could chat daily with those at home.

After the days in the beauty and tranquillity of the French coun-tryside, the young men were ready for Paris. They had two busy daysvisiting the world-famous landmarks of the City of Lights.

Travel on the Eurostar under the English Channel made a greatlink between the tale of two countries. In only three hours the groupmade it to Oxford, England. Here they experienced a taste of collegelife while living at Edmund Hall, one of the oldest colleges at Oxford.While based in Oxford, the students explored the surrounding areas,Stratford-on-Avon, Stonehenge, and Salisbury. London was their lastdestination, where they spent two days touring.

After twenty-two days of learning, thinking, writing, and absorb-ing new cultures, the group was ready to return home with plenty ofstories to tell.

Studying at La Giraudiere

Dining al fresco at La Giraudiere

Andrew Shelton, Omar Malik,Thomas Razzouk, and Ronnie Kwon

at Saumur, France

Dan Machin with a YeomanWarder at the Tower of London

Jay McDonald, Stuart Hutton, MichaelVarner at Stratford-on-Avon

Tale of Two CountriesA

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Faculty ProfileFaculty Profile

Andrew F. Saunders, IIIAndy Saunders has a

claim to fame at MUS: he isthe only teacher who had aradio show in Germany.“Medical Moments with AndySaunders” played everyThursday night at 9:55 p.m.on Armed Forces Radio dur-ing his stint with the U.S.armed forces.

Mr. Saunders served inthe U.S. Army from 1968–72,but entertaining and inform-

ing was always a part of his life. He sang in the SeventhArmy Soldiers’ Chorus and worked as a reporter and car-toonist for the MEDCOM Examiner while serving in Ger-many. After leaving the Army in May 1972, he worked as atechnician and stage manager for Memphis Opera Theatreduring the summer and began applying for teaching jobs.

“When I was a graduate theater student at MemphisState University in 1968, MUS teachers Chuck Miller andLeigh MacQueen asked me to design the set for Charley’sAunt. Chuck and I were graduates of Harding College. Sowhen I looked for teaching jobs, I remembered MUS andChuck Miller, applied at MUS, and was hired by ColonelRoss Lynn to teach Lower School science and coach foot-ball,” Mr. Saunders explained.

From 1972 until 1977, he taught all the Lower Schoolscience classes, helped coach ninth grade football,and designed and built the sets for plays directedby George Elder. “After George Elder left MUS,I assumed all the theater duties until Flip Eikner’77 joined the MUS staff in 1983. Without Mr.Eikner as a colleague and his infusion of youthand talent, I would not have been able to con-tinue in theater the entire twenty-seven years I’vespent at MUS.”

During those twenty-seven years, Mr.Saunders has taught seventh- and eighth-gradescience, seventh-grade Bible, ecology, mechanicaldrawing, theater production, cinema, tenth-gradeEnglish, and cultural history. This diversityreflects a wide range of academic interests whichcontinues today. “My current academic preoccu-pation is Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War,”Mr. Saunders said.

“This summer I read a 1949 biography ofLincoln by Benjamin Thomas,” Mr. Saunderscontinued. “Reading has always been my favoritehobby. I also read a biography of Michelangeloand reread several favorites such as Brave NewWorld and The Scarlet Letter.”

Next to reading, he enjoys listening to and studyingopera. “If I had been more daring, I would have stayed inEurope and pursued an opera career. John Winbigler,Jimmy Olson, and I were accepted for admission to theHoch Schule fur Musik in Vienna. John and Jimmy stayed,while I elected to return to the U.S. with my wife and six-month old son,” said Mr. Saunders.

He and his wife, Jean, have shared a 31-year marriageand have one son, Jonathan, who is married and a freelancecomputer programmer. Jean also works for MUS.

Mr. Saunders’ interest in performing has extendedoutside MUS as well. During the ’70s, he performed in theMid-South as a regional Ronald McDonald, opening res-taurants and going to hospitals. He sang in several groupsduring the ’70s and ’80s, including Opera Memphis and theMemphis Symphony Chorus. More recently, he worked incommunity theater groups designing sets, directing, andacting at Theatre Memphis and Germantown CommunityTheatre. He has been named “Volunteer of the Year” atboth theaters.

“I’ve seen a lot of students in the years I’ve taught atMUS,” Mr. Saunders concluded. “The young men whoattend this school are given a diversity of educational op-tions available only at the best schools in the U.S. Thosestudents who are wise use the options to grow physically,mentally, and spiritually.”

Mr. Saunders just completed directing a Must CProduction of Grease and looks forward to working onGreat Expectations, scheduled to run March 30, 31, andApril 1, 2000.

Grease cast of characters sing “We Go Together.” The couples are Phil Janowicz, JordanMarshall, Evan Linder, Hailey Giles, Michael Liverance, Carrie Rosson, Caroline Fourmy,

Russell Bloodworth, Cristena Doggrell, and Houston Hagewood.

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The perennial favorite Greaseonce again demonstrated its popularappeal, playing to packed housesOctober 28, 29, and 30 in HydeChapel.

Tickets for Thursday night’sopening performance were in suchdemand that late-arriving patrons hadto be turned away. “It’s a nice prob-lem to have,” quipped one luckyticket-holder waiting to be usheredinto the auditorium.

The popularity of Grease wasestablished immediately upon itsBroadway premiere in 1972. Soon,colleges and high schools across thecountry were producing their ownversions. In 1978 a hit movie withJohn Travolta and Olivia Newton-John won the hearts of America’steenage girls. Since then, Grease hasenjoyed countless revivals on theprofessional stage, recently winningBroadway approval with productionsusing television celebrities like RosieO’Donnell and Brooke Shields instarring roles.

Andy Saunders, the play’s direc-tor, realized the play’s potential to dobusiness after holding auditions in thespring of ’99. “Over fifty girls fromschools all over Memphis tried outfor our production. That turnout toldme the musical was still very popularwith the kids.”

The great ’50s deco set designedby Flip Eikner ’77, smooth vocalcoaching by John Hiltonsmith, andtight direction by Saunders gave thisproduction a gloss and shine appro-priate to its iconographic status.The choreography by student dancecaptains Caroline Fourmy, NatalieGaravelli, and Evan Linder providedan athletic buoyancy that brightenedthe whole show.

Playing the title roles of SandyDumbrowski and Danny Zuko were

Carrie Rosson, from HutchisonSchool, and Michael Liverance. Theiron-again, off-again relationship waselectrifying and propelled the plot toits happy conclusion and their re-union.

As with Danny and Sandy, thetrials of the “greaser” couples werecentral to this story of teenage alien-ation. Superbly singing and portray-ing these pairs were Hailey Giles(White Station) as Betty Rizzo andEvan Linder as Kenickie; JordanMarshall (White Station) as Jan andPhil Janowicz as Roger; CarolineFourmy (White Station) as Frenchyand Russell Bloodworth as Doody;and rounding out this talented fieldof eight were Cristena Doggrell(Lausanne) in the role of Marty andHouston Hagewood as SonnyLatierre.

All the supporting players inGrease gave notable performances.Catherine Owens (Houston) andCody Jameson were comically men-acing as school administrators MissLynch and Mr. Frikett; Benji Hassidwas smooth as wax portraying the oilyradio announcer Vince Fontaine;Jay Tayloe was hysterical as EugeneFlorczyk, the quintessential schooldweeb; and Alicia Weeks (St. Agnes)was appropriately “dippy” in the roleof Patty Simcox. Great special cameoappearances were provided by Justin

Grease is the Word

Willingham as Johnny Casino,Rydell High’s leading hip cat, andNatalie Garavelli (St. Agnes) as Cha-Cha DeGregorio, the best dancer atSt. Bernadette’s. And Harrison Fordhad just the right “attitude” as theadvice-proffering Teen Angel.

The ensemble performancescould not have happened without theadditional talents of Evlyn Wade (St.Agnes), Wendi Muse (St. Mary’s),Polly Klyce (St. Mary’s), MalloryTacker (Hutchison), J.K. Minervini,and Kenny Hickman providingmemorable moments.

Even when Grease is no longer“the word” on the MUS campus,memories will remain of the excep-tional talents and work of a top-notch group.

Hailey Giles is dynamicas the alienated BettyRizzo singing, “Thereare Worse ThingsI Could Do!”

The Teen Angel,Harrison Ford, isassisted by theAngelettes, PollyKlyce, EvlynWade, MalloryTacker, WendiMuse, NatalieGaravelli, andAlicia Weeks.

During his track meet, Danny (MichaelLiverance) is confronted by the gang played byEvan Linder, Caroline Fourmy, HoustonHagewood, and Russell Bloodworth.

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Remember WhenRemember When

Smythe: Mr. Amsler, Earl has to leave in a fewminutes to go to the doctor. He’s gonna get pickedup by my mom in the office. (This was our escapeplan…in case things got unseemly. My motherhad no knowledge of her role.)Amsler: Well that’s fine, Earl. You’re welcometo stay. You might learn something.Class: (serious squirming problems and giggles)

Mr. Amsler began the lecture. We were some-where in the middle of the Civil War, and as thelecture developed, Ted/Earl chimed in a few times

with some historically incorrect tidbits, causing us to chewour sleeves to keep from bursting out in laughter.

After about fifteen minutes, Ted/Earl shot up from hisseat to announce, “Clay, I gotta go meet momma.” We allrealized that this thing had gone too far. We needed a wayout. I interrupted the class to give Ted/Earl graphic direc-tions to the office from the classroom, which, when asked torecite the directions back, Ted/Earl failed miserably to do.

We said our good-byes, stood up to hug, I recall, andthe class screamed, “GOOD-BYE, EARL,” so loud thatI’m sure the librarian heard it. Class resumed, and wethought that the hoax had successfully sailed through.

The next day, standing at our lockers, Ted and Ibegan to realize that we weren’t quite yet in the clear.“Simpson” and “Smythe” had lockers in close proximity,and as we were airing our mutual concern for how we couldkeep Amsler from identifying Ted, the teacher suddenlyappeared at our lockers.Amsler: (puzzled) Earl, I thought you had gone home toRusselville!Ted: (Looks at Mr. Amsler, then glances at me beforeputting his head totally in his locker. And Ted’s got a head!)

Surely this ostrich-like response would thwart thegullible teacher!

The crowded hallway erupted in rowdy guffaws. Thecelebration was on. We had won, kind of.

The Honor Council ultimately waved me through.The MUS experience isn’t complete without a brush withthese guys, and they heard my case due to Mr. Amsler’sfaculty appointment. The charge was filed under “lying,”but the majority of the Council seemed amused by the sheerfoolishness of the shortsighted affair. (Thanks, HonorCouncil Chairman, William Wadsworth. Our time bondingon Rudolph’s bench paid off.) No parents were notified,but I think Coach Thorn gave me a disapproving look onmy way to S3 the next day. As for Ted, not even a slap onthe wrist. He got all the glory. As for Mr. Amsler, I hopehe forgave us. I’ve never talked about it with him.

None of us would have such a near brush with ques-tionable practices until 1985 Spring Formal, but that’sanother story. We don’t need to “Remember when…”that one.

When one’s first teaching assignment comesup “MUS Junior Class, American History,” I’mnot sure what one would expect; but rookie his-tory teacher Guy Amsler had his plate full fromday one with us. I’m not talking about hiding thesoftly muffled radio, set to K97, beneath piles ofpaper in the trash can, sure to irritate even moderatelysensitive ears. I’m not even referring to the times Mr.Amsler would come to class a few minutes late only tofind our scribbled sign stuck to the Room 11 classroomdoor, “Gone to lounge.” Nor am I remembering the timeswhen we did stay in the room, anticipating a delayedarrival, only for Mr. Amsler to find us in our desks facingthe back wall. I’m not talking about these things. I recallsomething much better. At least that’s how I remember it.

We must note that this wasn’t AP American History.Nope. This was JV American History, and Coach Amslergot the call to teach the rag-tag bunch, of which I wasone.

Our obvious advantage over the new teacher, an avidArkansas Razorback fan, was a command of the juniorclass roster; that comes in quite handy when you sneak ina fellow classmate, say Ted Simpson, from Mr. Deaderick’shistory class to pose as, say, your academically-challengedArkansas cousin, Earl. My having recently attended Ar-kansas basketball camp gave me a dangerous command ofbasic state geography. Thus, Earl from Russelville wasencouraged upon a willing Ted.

The plan worked flawlessly…to a point.More or less, it went something like this:

Smythe: Mr. Amsler, I want you to meet my cousin Earl,who’s visiting us today from Russelville, Arkansas. Say“Hi,” Earl.Simpson (Earl): (Stands) Howdy, y’all.Amsler: Earl, glad to have you here with us!Class: Hey, Earl. (snicker).Amsler: Earl, why don’t you tell us about yourself,what you’re studying in school. You know, stuff like that.

(At this point, peoples’ heads were in their desks,turned away from sight with some excessive coughing.All were about to explode with anxious immaturity.)

Ted/Earl stood there for a moment, reciting thingsabsolutely appropriate for the occasion, and sat down.He probably mentioned his great-grandfather reflectingon family tales from the War Between the States, stillupset with Reconstruction, mixed in with a “Souiee” foremphasis. All I recall is that most of the class had to goto the bathroom about then.

1983: Mr. AmslerMeets Cousin Earl

by Clay Smythe ’85

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Private Banking. “Two years later it was made an official LowerSchool sport.”

“I really enjoy it,” Jim explained. “I do it out of love forthe boys, the school, and the sport, in that order.”

“I learned from Coach Peters when I was at MUS – therewas nothing complicated about what he taught,” said CraigChristenbury. “If you can learn five simple things and do themreally well, you’ll succeed. In coaching, I get to see a small part

of what the faculty see. And when I seein a young man’s eyes that he catcheson to something, no matter how simple,I can feel I’ve taught him something.”Craig is co-owner of Chris-Hill Con-struction Company.

Drew Harris, owner of a residen-tial appraisal company, coaches withCraig and Jim. “Over the years, I’velooked up to the coaches I had at MUS,

and my appreciation for them hasgrown.

I think we all feel we got alot from MUS,” said Drew. “I’mhappy to give something back, andI hope we’ll continue coaching foryears.”

Scott Rose ’82, Kevin Parker ’84Scott Rose, a closing attorney,

coaches seventh-grade basketball. “CoachPeters asked me four years ago, and that’sall it took. I was, and am, glad to do it. It isa great way to stay involved with the schooland be a part of the new students’ firstexperience with MUS.”

Kevin Parker coaches eighth-gradebasketball, spending time at four practices aweek until the season starts in November.

The team plays two games a week until the season ends in mid-February, plus a six-game holiday tournament.

“I played basketball in school under Coach Peters and inthe alumni league after graduation,” said Kevin. “Coach Petersasked me three years ago to coach the eighth graders, and I haveloved doing it. I enjoy working with these young men, watchingthem grow, improve, and learn.” Kevin is manager of CampusServices for Service Master, which manages Charter LakesideHospital.

Marc MacMillan concluded, “MUS taught me the impor-tance of family and commitment. MUS is a family. Each mem-ber, whether it be an alum, administrator, faculty member, orstudent, has a commitment and responsibility to each other.That responsibility is not one of ‘must’ but of loyalty to ourschool and respect for those who made and make MemphisUniversity School what it is today.”

Marc MacMillan ’92, John Sartelle ’92When Coach Alston asked Marc MacMillan if he would be

interested in coaching Lower School baseball, Marc jumped at theopportunity. Marc, as head coach, recruited Coach Billy Bernardto help him build a quality baseball program for Lower School.

Through Marc’s efforts, MUS now has year-round baseballincluding both a seventh- and eighth-grade team, a combinedsummer team, and a fall team made up of returning eighth grad-ers and incoming seventh graders.

In the spring of 1998, Coach Alston asked Marc to head theeighth-grade football team. “I have the help of Coach Bernardand alumnus John Sartelle to bringa disciplined and fundamentalapproach to the eighth-gradefootball program,” Marc said.

With eighth graders nowhaving to compete at the varsitylevel less than four months aftertheir season is over, the signifi-cance of eighth-grade football isgreater than ever before.

Marc said, “The most re-warding thing in coaching is seeinga young man do things he neverthought he could do, whether it’slearning the proper way to turn adouble play, the proper five-step drop, or thesignificance of time management.”

John Sartelle agrees. “We work very hardon taking these kids to a different level. Theycome to the first day of practice scared of howhard Marc, Billy, and I are going to work them.We try to meet all their expectations, and thosewho make it through become new people. Thereward comes when you see that player who wasalways late to practice get there early to work oncatching...or when a non-vocal player begins toencourage his teammates...or when a player whocould barely get through drills at the beginning of the season isnow leading the rest of the team. Then you have a kid who truly isa different person.”

Marc and John take on their duties with MUS in addition todemanding jobs of their own. Marc is an assistant trading analystat First Tennessee Capital Assets (see Editor’s Note, page 17) andJohn is an institutional broker for Morgan Keegan.

Jim Burnett ’83, Craig Christenbury ’83, Drew Harris ’83Jim, Craig, and Drew volunteer their time to MUS as

coaches of the seventh-grade football team. They work with theteam of fifty–sixty boys about five to six hours a week.

“Coach Alston approached me nine years ago to coachLower School football, which at that time was not even an MUS-sanctioned sport,” said Jim Burnett, a division manager for NBC

Alumni Coaches Teach More Than the Game

Together, Jim Burnett (left),Craig Christenbury (above),and Drew Harris (below)volunteer their time tocoach the seventh-gradefootball team.

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A L U M N I N E W SAlumni NewsAlumni News

At the recent Alumni Association Executive Board luncheon, the schoolhonored two outstanding alumni for their contributions to the school andto the Memphis community: Volunteer of the Year, Marc MacMillan ’92,and Alumnus of the Year, Steve Carpenter ’83. Current Alumni Associa-tion President Jerry Martin ’79 presented the awards.

The Volunteer of the Year Award is given to an MUS alumnus whoserves Memphis University School in a significant and needed way through-out the year, seeking opportunities to promote the interests of the school.Marc MacMillan is the recipient of this award for volunteering his time ashead coach for the seventh- and eighth-grade baseball teams and the eighth-grade football team (see article on page 16).

After graduating from MUS, Marc went to Ole Miss where he playedbaseball. When he returned to Memphis in 1996, Coach Alston asked Marcif he would volunteer to coach Lower School baseball. Marc saw it as a greatopportunity. “Baseball needed some extra attention since sports like foot-ball, basketball, and tennis already had the interest and support necessary tobe successful at the high school level,” Marc noted.

In 1998, Marc was asked to head the eighth-grade football team as well.When he is not volunteering his time to MUS, Marc works for FirstTennessee Capital Assets Corporation.

The Alumnus of the Year Award is given to the MUS alumnus whoexemplifies community leadership and personal integrity, personifying theschool’s guiding principle of developing well-rounded young men of strongmoral character. This year’s recipient is Steve Carpenter, founder of NewHope Christian Academy, which is a private school for inner-city children.

Steve graduated from MUS in 1983, then attended the University ofTexas. After several years in the financial field, he decided to enter theseminary and left Memphis for Princeton Theological Seminary. WhenSteve returned to Memphis, he founded New Hope Christian Academy tomeet the needs of inner-city children and help them realize their potential.The school is located downtown and teaches children in kindergartenthrough sixth grade. Tuition is based on a sliding scale, depending on whatparents can afford. New Hope is a new concept for Memphis and provingto be a success.

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Editors Note: As this issue went to press, Headmaster Ellis Haguewood announced that Marc MacMillan has been hired bythe school as head coach of the varsity baseball team, assistant varsity football coach, and assistant to Skip Daniel in the BusinessOffice. Marc has a B.S. in Business Administration/Managerial Finance from the University of Mississippi. Welcome backto school, Marc.

ASSOCIATIONHONORSTWO Marc MacMillan Steve Carpenter

AT THE ANNUAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

LUNCHEON, JERRY MARTIN ’79 BEGAN

HIS TERM AS PRESIDENT OF THE MUSALUMNI ASSOCIATION. AFTER MUS,JERRY ATTENDED MILLSAPS COLLEGE,WHERE HE EARNED A B.S. IN HISTORY.HE IS CURRENTLY EXECUTIVE VICE

PRESIDENT OF KEMMONS WILSON

INSURANCE AGENCY.

NEW MEMBERS ELECTED TO THE

EXECUTIVE BOARD FOR 1999-2000ARE:

ANDREW F. CATES ’89OWEN B. TABOR ’85JUDSON L. PETERS ’81DAVID L. SIMPSON ’80WILLIAM P. MORRISON ’75WISE S. JONES ’73PAUL T. J. BOYLE ’87JOHN H. GRAYSON, JR. ’78

THEY JOIN THE FOLLOWING MEMBERS TO

INCREASE THE BOARD TO 27 MEMBERS:

JERRY B. MARTIN, JR. ’79 PRESIDENT

FREDERICK C. SCHAEFFER, JR. ’88VICE PRESIDENT

HENRY P. DOGGRELL ’66BUCHANAN D. DUNAVANT ’90G. GOODLOE EARLY ’59SAMUEL N. GRAHAM II ’80JOEL J. HOBSON III ’72E. CHARLES JALENAK ’83EDWARD C. KRAUSNICK, JR. ’79H. MONTGOMERY MARTIN ’73DANIEL H. MCEWAN ’88D. STEPHEN MORROW ’71THOMAS F. PRESTON ’74WILEY T. ROBINSON ’75JOEL B. SKLAR ’85S. CLAY SMYTHE ’85ROBERT D. SPARKS ’79HENRY P. SULLIVANT, JR. ’70GARY K. WUNDERLICH ’88

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Marriages

Douglas Pyne ’84 to DenaMichelle Haynes on July 24

Chad Graddy ’88 to Jody Bieberon June 12

John Minor ’89 to Janay MichelleJerome on September 4

Paul Barcroft ’89 to Susan AileenMcClanahan on October 30

Andrew Crosby ’89 to MollyElizabeth Caldwell on March 27

Max Ostner ’90 to Kalli Mackinskyon August 21

James Blount ’90 to HeatherDanielle Rader on July 31

David Roddey ’90 to Talitha PaigeFormby on September 11

Rob Abbay ’92 to Leigh DianeWeinberg on July 10

Will Abbay ’94 to Elizabeth AdeleSelman on August 28

Births

Thurston Moore ’64 and Corell,a son, Thurston McCain,on August 18, 1999

Jim Rainer ’77 and Missy,a daughter, Daisye Gardner,on January 12, 1999

Frank Hitchings ’78 and Mary,a son, Frank Albert, IV,on December 7, 1998

Mel Payne ’80 and Holli, a son,Samuel George, on July 12, 1999

Billy Orgel ’81 and Robin,a daughter, Hannah Blair,on March 15, 1999

Wyatt Isbell ’83 and Heather,a son, Henry Watson,on November 30, 1998

Jeff Barry ’84 and Amy, a daughter,Kate Lawson, on August 10, 1999

Lon Magness ’85 and Ragan,a daughter, Meredith McFarland,on October 19, 1999

Andy Rainer ’87 and Keith, a son,Andrew Talbot, Jr., on July 4, 1999

Peter Monaghan ’89 and Courtney,a daughter, Stuart, onOctober 6, 1999

Buck Dunavant ’90 and Douglas,a son, Buchanan Dobson, Jr.,on July 7, 1999

Phil WiygulClass Representative

John Quackenboss is currently workingfor Federal Data Corporation headquar-tered in Bethesda, MD. He is sales andmarketing representative for the Micro-soft Training and the Microsoft Solutionsgroup of the company. John was marriedin 1997 to Nancy Ann Vorona of FallsChurch, VA. They currently reside inArlington, VA.

Denby BrandonClass Representative

Ronald Alden is chief operating officerof CLB Associates. He has over twentyyears experience in software engineeringand project management for significanttechnology and telecommunicationscompanies including both Fortune 500(MIA, Data General, AT&T) and SiliconValley startups (Forethought, Go, andEo). He is an expert in the managementof engineering teams, complex technolo-gies, and related standards. Most recentlyRonald served as an independent consult-ant to AT&T and the government ofMicronesia Telecom authority, develop-ing that nation’s first Internet service. Heuses his technical and business skills toadvise CLB and its clients, to assess thetechnological advantages a client’sintellectual property may enjoy, and toreview the scope of proposed alliances,partnerships, and joint ventures. Ronaldreceived a Bachelor’s Degree withDistinction from the California Collegeof Arts and Crafts in 1975.Denby Brandon is the new class rep forthe Class of 1972. He replaces DavidThomson who has relocated to Atlanta.Send Denby your news, or email VickiLafferty at vlafferty@musowls.org.

Montgomery MartinClass Representative

In a daunting display of athletic prowess,the MUS Class of ’73 team of JimVarner, Keith Ingram, Stuart Collier,and Bob Loeb captured first place lowgross in the annual Alumni Golf Scramble(see photo, page 27) held at MemphisCountry Club on Friday, October 8.Despite a field of youthful talent, the ’73Buzzards held on when there was nothingleft in them except that will which says,“Hold on.”

KEEP IN TOUCH — ONLINE!Many of you have been waiting for usto get our e-mail address so you couldsend us information directly. We arenow online. Send information onmarriages, births, changes in employ-ment, accomplishments, honors,affiliations, college news. There aremany of you we never hear from, andthis is your chance to let your fellowalumni and the MUS community knowthe great things you are doing. E-mailVicki Lafferty at vlafferty@musowls.org.

Also, much of our information onalumni who have recently graduatedfrom college is outdated. We still havemany parent addresses listed for yourhome addresses. If you have graduatedfrom college and have your own place,please send us your new address, phonenumber, e-mail address, place ofbusiness, etc.

Bob LeeClass Representative

Dwight Drinkard recently resigned asdirector of the FedEx St. Jude ClassicGolf Tournament, saying he felt thatnew leadership and fresh ideas wouldbenefit the tournament. The event wasstaged under volunteer directors from itsinception in 1958 until 1986, whenDwight took the helm as the first (andonly) full-time director. Tournamentchairman Grattan Brown, Jr. praisedDwight’s leadership, his planningcapabilities, and his insistence on quality.Dwight has no immediate plans for a newjob and will continue in his position untilhis successor is named. Dwight alsoserves as president of the PGA TourTournaments Association until his termexpires.

John KeeseeClass Representative

Andrew Hummel is currently a seniormanager at Lockheed Martin TacticalAircraft Systems, working on the F-16Program. He lives in Weatherford, TX,with his wife, Eleanor, and their threechildren, Cady, Drew, and Walker. Theyspend their spare time (such as it is)restoring a Victorian house they boughtabout eight years ago. Eleanor is acorporate tax accountant for TNPEnterprises. Andy says it would be niceto hear from some of the other “outlaw”members of the class of ’69.

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In the Right Place at the Right TIME John E. Marcom, Jr. ’75 has been promoted again by Time Inc. He had been workingin Hong Kong as president of Time Inc. Asia and now has been named president of TimeInc. International and will be relocating to London. He will also serve as president of TimeInc. Atlantic – overseeing Time Inc.’s magazine publishing activities in Europe, the MiddleEast, and Africa – as well as maintaining his current responsibilities for Asia. John was praised by company officials for an outstanding job of managing Time Inc.,

Asia through the difficult economic conditions that have buffeted the region. Time Inc.’sproperties in that part of the world – Time Asia, Asiaweek, Fortune Asia, President Inc., and Emphasis Inc.,which produces magazines and programming for Asia’s airlines – weathered the crisis and strengthened theirpositions in the marketplace. John has also led the relaunch of Bises, a gardening magazine in Japan, as well aslaunching TIME-branded English language study guides in Taiwan and China. He was instrumental in theestablishment of a new Internet website, CNN.com/AsiaNow – a multimedia online news and information sitecovering the Asia Pacific region that combines the resources of CNN Interactive, Time, and Asiaweek.

John’s first association with Time Inc. was as a summer intern on the editorial side at Fortune while he wasat Princeton University studying for an economics degree, then later as a Henry Luce Foundation scholar inSeoul. He then spent eight years as a journalist for Korea Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Forbes in Seoul,Tokyo, New York, and London, before earning an MBA from the European business school, INSEAD, inFontainbleau, France.

In 1993, John returned to Time Inc., serving in a number of marketing and business development roleswith Time Inc. Asia before becoming development director, then publisher of Time Asia. He was appointedpresident of Time Inc. Asia in May 1998.

We agree with Norman Pearlstine, Editor-in-Chief of Time Inc., we “can’t imagine anyone betterequipped for this exciting new challenge than John.”

Mark RulemanClass Representative

Sandy Schaeffer owns ThoughtwareLearning Technologies, a Germantown-based company that develops andimplements Web-based trainingprograms and trains employees to makethe most of their time. Sandy and hiswife, Beth, who works at Hutchison,have been married nineteen years andhave three children, Emily, Mike, andKatie.Nathan Bicks practices law at Burch,Porter, & Johnson in Memphis andserves on the Executive Committee andBoard of Trustees of Lemoyne-OwenCollege, is president of the MemphisJewish Community Center, past-president of Solomon Schechter DaySchool, is on the Leadership MemphisBoard, and is a member of the MemphisJewish Foundation. He and his wife,Andrea, have two daughters, Alexandraand Becky.Norman Blake is a financial consultantfor Merrill Lynch. He and wife, Camille,

live in Memphis and have three children,Addison, Deven, and Beck.Gary Brown is president of BrownBusiness Systems, specializing in businessforms, ad specialties, and commercialprinting. He and his wife, Lisa, have fivechildren, Jeanine, Stephen, Hudson, Ian,and Carli, ranging from ages two tonineteen. At the recent reunion, Garyand Lisa were curious to see if they heldthe records for being married thelongest, having the oldest child, andhaving the youngest child. Gary knewthey were tied with Cooper Sanduskyand his wife, Mona, for having the mostchildren.Frank Crawford and his wife, Janet, livein Kingsport, TN, with their sons, Samand Billy. Frank preached in Portuguese(without an interpreter) in Rio deJaneiro, Brazil, May 23–June 1.Mike Hoover is a professor ofpsycholinguistics at McGill University inCanada. Mike was unable to attend thereunion as he was at the University ofSan Simon in Cochabamba, Bolivia,working on integrating native languagesinto Bolivian school curricula. He says it

keeps him off the streets.John Lammons is a real estate broker/investor with L&M investments inDallas, TX.Malcolm Pearson and wife, Melinda,and children, Daniel and Anna, live inHuntingdon, TN. Malcolm is presidentof Carroll Hardwood Co.Mack Ray runs Ray Farms inCrawfordsville, AR. He and wife, Pam,have two daughters, Cathleen andSuzanne.Cooper Sandusky lives in Memphis andis an orthodontist. He and his wife,Mona, have five children, Laura,Jennifer, Keri, Christine, and Cooper.Steve Thompson is director of cus-tomer development for Delta BeverageGroup. He and his wife, Elizabeth, livein Memphis and have three children,Steven, Jr., Christopher, and Katherine.Buck Wellford is a member of theShelby County Board of Commissionersand is a partner at Thomason, Hendrix,Harvey, Johnson, & Mitchell. He andwife, Sara, have a daughter, Caroline.John Whitson is the lead artist in videogame development at 989 Studios/Sony

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Computer Entertainment in California.He and his wife, Ann, have a son,Nicholas.David Yawn was recently awarded theFederal Express Apex ’99 Award forPublication Excellence. David lives inMemphis and works at FedEx as aneditor/senior communications specialist.

Kenny KyleClass Representative

Walt Efird has opened a new office inGermantown, The Efird Clinic, for thepractice of plastic and reconstructivesurgery. He was recently electedpresident of Harwell Wilson SurgicalSociety. He and his wife, Claudia, havethree children, Watt, Hayley, and Tyler.Tayloe Nickey was installed as Ser-geant-at-Arms of the Rotary Club ofMemphis for 1999-2000.

Paul EdwardsClass Representative

The Class of 1979’s 20th Year Reunionwas a great success. Many of us gottogether with our families and enjoyed asoggy but successful football gameagainst Chattanooga Baylor. Because ofthe first rain in three months, the familypicnic was moved to the Hyde Gymna-sium where the kids played and we got tocatch up on old times. The weekendculminated Saturday night when we allmet at the Hunt and Polo Club forfellowship, a delicious dinner, and JerryMartin’s latest standup routine on theMUS high school experience. Our guest,Headmaster Ellis Haguewood, whobrought us all up-to-date on MUS andexciting plans for the future in his owninimitable style, did Martin’s warm-up.We had several alumni from out-of-townjoin us, including Mark Crosby fromNew York; Jeff Peters, HenryCaldwell, Chip Wood and BreckBolton from North Carolina; BentleyLong from Georgia; Emory Miles fromFlorida; Dan Daniel from Indiana; TimGuyton from Jacksonville; and DrewBanks all the way from San Francisco.Drew just had his first book published,Beyond Spin (www.beyondspin.com),about corporate journalism. The bookwas originally targeted at businessleaders; but because of its balancedacademic/pragmatic approach, a fewuniversities (e.g., MIT, Stanford, DU,etc.) are considering using it for theirbusiness communication curricula. Drew

“In his book, The Angels Were Silent,author Max Lucado writes of one’s abilityto hang in there, to go the distance. He goeson to say that Brazilians have a unique phrasefor this ‘going the distance’. In Portuguese,a person who can hang in there and not giveup has ‘garra’ or claws. I first learned about garra during mydays at MUS. As a raw seventh grader, youhad better have a little garra when eighthgraders thought it a rite of passage to tossyou into ‘Hollywood’ (the holly bushes) everyday of your school life. In the classroom,

developing garra was a must. Teachers like Bob Smith were smart,demanding, and tough. Believe me, even noted tough guys such asHaynes McBride and Vance Alexander did not mess with Coach Smith.

What about Mr. MacQueen’s legendary multiple choice chaptertests? If you were not prepared, you were not going to guess your wayto passing. Then there were Mr. Hatchett’s weekly themes…he de-manded perfection and got it by making us rewrite the theme overand over until we got it right.

Surely we learned to hang in there in the athletic arena. I wellremember, as a freshman, the long bus ride to Whitehaven. Theyhad more guys on their football team than we had in our entire grade.When a Whitehaven kid hit you, you felt it! We had another ace in thehole. Coach Jerry Peters taught us about hanging in there and stayingclose. He did not teach us about the will to win. He didn’t have to.He coached and taught about the will to prepare to win. Coach Petersoften spoke of looking for reasons to succeed as opposed to excusesfor failing.

Since my days at MUS, I have had to endure many trying moments.Having garra is a necessity. MUS gave me the tools I needed to learnhow to ‘hang in there’.”

We teach our boys to pursue every opportunity in life.We also teach them to give something back.

A student at MUS is given much: an excellent education, a chance forgrowth, and an opportunity to realize his potential. We expect our boys togive something back to their school and to the community that nurturesand supports them.

Support through the Annual Fund will ensure that MUS continue toattract and keep distinguished faculty and that it keep pace with technology,teaching equipment, library collections, andall that goes into offering an education ofthe highest quality. Your gift to MUSsupports and enhances all the importantresources that make Memphis UniversitySchool a leader in college-preparatoryeducation.

A student’s responsibility tosociety is a priority at MUS.Continue the tradition throughyour support of the Annual Fund.

John Keesee ’69

Opening Doors For Boys For Over 100 Years

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is Director of Employee Communicationsand Integrated Performance Support forSGI. Pick up a copy and support yourclassmate. We also have two classmateswho have sons at MUS. Robert Spark’sson, Justin, and Paul Edward’s son,Price, are both in seventh grade at MUSand loving it. Both play for the unde-feated seventh grade football team.Thanks to Lou and Jerry Martin andFleet Abston for all of their hard workputting together the reunion weekend.Some updates follow on classmates whosent information about themselves to theMUS Alumni Office.Fleet Abston is vice president ofoperations for Sovereign Corporation.Jim Beard has lived in Louisville, KY, forthe past 11 years. He is president ofPapercone Corporation. He and his wife,Marybeth, have two children, Jimmy andTommy.Breck Bolton works for The CloroxCompany in Charlotte, NC, as regionalsales manager. He and his wife, Cindi,have two children, Breck, Jr. and Blair.Breck is a member of the CharlotteLeadership Forum, on the Board ofDirectors of the Charlotte Eagles, and ischairman of the Board of Deacons ofChrist Convenant Church.Brant Carter and wife, Mary, live inMemphis with their three children,Christopher, Corbin, and Caroline. Brantis a bond trader at Morgan Keegan &Co., Inc.Henry Caldwell lives in Roanoke, VA,and is vice president of operations forCommonwealth Cornerstone, Inc. Heand his wife, Kimberly, have two daugh-ters, Jane-Ann and Lilly. Henry isinvolved with Young Life, JuniorAchievement of the Roanoke Valley, is amember of Roanake County EducationCommittee, and is a past deacon of FirstPresbyterian Church.Dan Daniel is Central Regional salesmanager for Pegasus Airwave, Inc. inCarmel, IN. He and his wife, Terri, havetwo children, Hailee and Tanner.David Dunlap practices law withHumphreys, Dunlap, Wellford, Acuff,and Stanton. He and wife, Mona, havetwo daughters, Mattie Helen and LeahMae.Ken Flowers lives in Knoxville, TN,where he is regional manager for FederalData Corporation. He and his wife, Vicki,have one son, Preston.Bill Gross is a physician with MidSouthEar, Nose, and Throat and is a memberof the AOA Honorary Medical Society.He has had numerous publications inotolaryngology journals.

Sam Hollis works for Cushman &Wakefield as a commercial real estatebroker in Atlanta. He and his wife,Dabney, have a son, J. Tift. Sam ispresident of the Atlanta Alumni chapterfor W&L, is a Phoenix Award Recipientfor Atlanta Board of Realtors, and is onthe Board of Directors of the PiedmontDriving Club.Stan Hughes lives in Hickory Valley,TN, and is a flight crewmember forFedEx. He and his wife, Daphne, havethree children, Richard, George, andMichael. Stan and his family enjoybaseball, four-wheelers, and running.Collie Krausnick is a stockbroker forMorgan Keegan & Co., Inc. He and hiswife, Veazey, have two children,Elizabeth and Carl.Allen Landers is a supply officer for theUS Navy and is in Okinawa until May2000. He is currently serving with theMarine Wing Headquarters SquadronOne, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing inOkinawa as the Navy Liaison Officer.Allen has received two Navy-MarineCorps Commendation Medals whileserving as supply officer on USS PaulHamilton DDG-60 and two Navy-Marine Corps Achievement Medalswhile serving as disbursing sales officeron USS Gunston Hall LSD-44.Bentley Long lives in Atlanta and isdirector of Eastern Area Sales for ExarCorporation. He and his wife, Catherine,have two children, Elizabeth and Griffin.Jerry Martin is executive vice presidentat Kemmons Wilson Insurance, Inc. inMemphis. He and his wife, Lou, havethree children, Elizabeth, Jerry, andLouis. Jerry is president of the MUSAlumni Association for 1999-2000, waschairman of Professional InsuranceAgents of Tennessee 1998-1999, and is adeacon of Second Presbyterian Church.Cam McCaa lives in Atlanta and isregional sales manager for CryoLife, Inc.He and his wife, Stephanie, have beenmarried since 1996. Cam has beenpublished in Cryobiology Journal,Cryoletters, Orthopaedic Research Society,Society for Biomaterials, and AmericanSociety Mechanical Engineers.Ted McLaughlin is the owner ofHeyMister Productions, a video produc-tion company. He and wife, Vicki, live inMemphis and have two children,Winston Brode and Eleanor Crump.Greg Meyer lives in Memphis and isPresident of Gem, Inc. He and his wife,Elise, have two sons, Max and Sam.Rob Moore is an attorney for the Stateof Tennessee Department of Commerceand Insurance in Madison, TN.

Buck Neely lives in Dundee, MS, and ispresident of Environmental EnergyTechnologies. He and his wife, Leslie,have two daughters, Claire and Dixie.Chip Parrott is practicing medicine atthe Jackson Clinic in Jackson, TN, wherehe is a cardiologist. He and his wife,Deborah, have three daughters,Samantha, Meredith, and Linda.David Peeples lives in Sewanee, TN,and is a seminary student. He and hiswife, Margaret, have a daughter, AnnaLawrence.Jeff Peters owns 13 Party City retailstores throughout North and SouthCarolina. He and wife, Julie, live inCharlotte and have a daughter, Ellison.Jeff was awarded “Best of Charlotte” inCreative Loafing Magazine 1999.Joe Pierce is an investment banker inthe bond sales department with Duncan-Williams, Inc. in Memphis. Joe is singleand has a border collie named Scarlet.Lee Powell is a chemical/environmentalengineer for Pickering in Memphis. Heand his wife, Becky, have three children,Elizabeth, Trey, and Rachael.Hunter Seabrook lives in Memphis andis on the Young Life Board, ChristMethodist Missions Board, andLeBonheur/Seabrook Asthma Fund.Hunter is the owner of SeabrookWallcoverings, and he and his wife, Jill,have three children, Mary-Ashley, Hunt,and Kate.David Taylor is an assistant professor ofmedicine at the University of Texas-Horsten Medical School. David and hiswife, Judith, have two sons, Duncan andMac.Steve Satterfield works as an assistantdirector for the Shelby County Govern-ment. He and his wife, Patty, have threedaughters, Anna, Maggie, and MaryGrace.Scott Schaefer lives in Memphis and ispresident of Schaefer Sash & Door. Scottand his wife, Susan, have two children,Thomas and Carrie.Hugh Scott is a practicing physician atPediatrics East, Inc. He and his wife,Dawn, have two sons, William andCharles.Steve Sharp lives in Nashville, TN,where he is medical director at ClinicalResearch Associates.Gordon Summerfield and his wife,Melissa, have a daughter, Hannah. Theylive in Memphis where Gordon ispresident of Summerfield Packaging/Impact Promotions. He was president ofRetail Packaging Association from 1992-95, was Distributor of the Year 1995, andis involved with the Make-A-Wish

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Foundation and PALS for Porter-Leath.Dean Underwood lives in Memphis andis president of Underwood Sales Co.,Inc. He and his wife, Linda, have twochildren, Dean Robert and EliabethGraves.Tommy Van Brocklin is vice president/treasurer of Van Brocklin & Associates,Inc. here in Memphis. He and his wife,Nelle, have a daughter, Kate.Rush Waller, a physician who special-izes in pediatric cardiology, has recentlyreturned to Memphis from Charleston,S.C. He met his wife, Clara Gwen, atPaul Edward’s wedding, and they havetwo sons, Benjamin and Wilson.John Walt lives in Greensboro, NC, andis a contractor/salesman for SelectHomes, Inc. He and his wife, Laura, havefive children, Elizabeth Joy, John, MaryChambers, Sarah Grace, and Robinson.

After graduation fromMUS, Joe Lazarov ’82went to Boston Universityfor his college education.Then, armed with a de-gree in economics, heheaded for Hollywood!After a long climb, and lotsof picking up the boss’sdry cleaning, he is the co-producer ofthe exciting new show Law & Order:Special Victims Unit.

“I started out in 1987 as a pro-duction assistant in commercials –just about the best education for thebusiness. It is very intensive, very la-borious, and picking up the director’sdry cleaning can be tough. I did ev-erything! Camera assistant, costum-ing, electrician, grip, stunt double,you name it. The hours were long.Thirty-hour days were not uncom-mon,” Joe said.

He got his big break when theproducers of the television series AYear in the Life called and offered himan assistant position on the show. “Itook it. I wanted out of commercialsand into the TV series biz. Again, Idid everything no one else wanted todo. I delivered scripts, took photos,

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Dan Robertson reports he is still in FortMeyers, FL, operating on bad backs,necks, and brains. He recently had kneesurgery and stated that it should takeseveral strokes off his game.

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Norris McGehee was elected vicepresident of the Rotary Club of EastMemphis for 1999-2000.Billy Orgel and Kelly Truitt werenamed to the Memphis Business Journal“Top 40 Under 40” list for 1999.

Bill LansdenClass Representative

Steve Singleton writes that after leavingMUS, he went to Rhodes College,graduating in 1986. He passed the CPAexam in 1987, and started the Masters inTax Program at Georgia State Univer-sity in 1990. From 1986 to 1992, heworked for different public accountingfirms, transferring to Atlanta in 1989. Inthe fall of 1992, he started his ownpractice, specializing in tax consulting,compliance, and research. He is in theprocess of adding personal financialplanning to the practice, includinginvesting and life insurance coupled withestate planning and asset protectionplanning.

lavish love on their two cats, Lukaand Peach, and their poodle, Jack.

Joe visited the MUS campuslast May and enjoyed some goodmemories. “The theatre depart-ment did give me some insightinto the world of production. Mr.Saunders was a great teacher. Hegave us freedom to express our-selves as kids, students, and actors.Mr. Brown’s math classes weremore than math classes. Therewere days when we talked as agroup about life. These weremeaningful discussions. And myfriends — I liked spending timewith people who were growingjust like me, people who saw theworld a little differently and sharedthose views.”

“It was a great visit,” Joe con-tinued. “Seeing a lot of my oldteachers and seeing new ones thatI went to school with – wow, whata trip in time! I want to thank Mr.Brown for taking the time to visitwith me and tell me how the schoolis running now and the changesthat have occurred since I gradu-ated. I am sad to know the olderbuildings will be torn down. Butthat’s progress! I hope the newstudents will appreciate the up-grades.”

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got lunch, answered phones,and, of course, picked up drycleaning. But the saving gracewas that the associate producertaught me about post produc-tion,” continued Joe. He took that knowledgeand got a job on the short-livedseries Almost Grown. From

there, he went on to the successful ChinaBeach and then to Northern Exposure.He started as post-production supervi-sor and worked his way up after fiveyears to associate producer. “Talk abouta very creative environment!” Accord-ing to Joe, “The guys working on North-ern Exposure were brilliant. It was greatto be able to contribute to the success ofa wonderful show.” He worked as co-producer of sev-eral other shows and is now working onthe new Law & Order: Special VictimsUnit series. The show is similar to Law& Order but has a more emotional feel.It airs Mondays at 9:00 p.m.(CST) onNBC. Along the way, Joe found time toget married to California girl Jill Kramer(“She kept her last name - easier thanLazarov”). Jill sells radio air time for alocal station. They have no children but

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Gardner Visits Japan onFulbright ScholarshipDavid Gardner ’84 was one of four

Tennessee teachers selected to travel toJapan for three weeks in November 1998 asa member of the prestigious Fulbright Me-morial Fund Teacher Program. Partici-pants were chosen based on their proposalsfor sharing their experience with their stu-dents. David’s proposal included document-ing his trip using a variety of media and e-mailing his students at St. Mary’s EpiscopalSchool as he traveled.

One hundred ninety-six educators were the guests of the Japanese govern-ment, with the goal of absorbing all aspects of Japanese culture. The teachersspent time with host families, as well as visiting classes from the elementaryschool level to university. On their return to the United States, each teacherdeveloped innovative ways to share the newfound knowledge of Japan with theirschools and communities.

David’s plan to include students started before he left Tennessee. Wantingto take a little of America with him, he asked students at St. Mary’s and St.George’s to fold paper cranes for the Hiroshima Peace Memorial. Transporta-tion of the origami was courtesy of Federal Express.

David spoke in a chapel program last spring describing his three weeks inJapan. He was especially moved by his visit to Hiroshima and had much praisefor the kindness of the Japanese people.

Wyatt IsbellClass Representative

Charles Jalenak’s wife, Monique,dances for Ballet Memphis. Charles andMonique were married in July.

Bob McEwanClass Representative

Frank Watson is an attorney for Baker,Donelson, Bearman, & Caldwell. Frankrecently argued and won his first casebefore the Tennessee Supreme Court.The case involved the enforceability ofliquidated damages in an executive’semployment contract. The SupremeCourt accepted the position of Frank’sclient that Tennessee law should bechanged so that the contract could beenforced.Walker Hays was promoted to manag-ing director at Wunderlich Securities,Inc. He previously served as senior vicepresident.Rick Fogelman was selected to theMemphis Business Journal “Top 40 Under40” list for 1999.

Paul AndersonClass Representative

Paul Anderson is with Union PlantersTrust & Investment Management assenior portfolio manager. Paul and hiswife, Jennifer, have a daughter, Ella.Michael Patterson is currently ChiefOrthopaedic Resident at the Universityof Kansas Medical Center. He hasrecently been offered the position ofOrthopaedic Spine Surgery Fellow at theTexas Back Institute in Dallas. He andhis wife, Courtney, have two children,Courtney and Claire.

Jonny BallingerClass Representative

Brian Yates of Morgantown, NC, had apresentation of his recent works of art atthe Germantown Performing ArtsCentre in October 1999.Danny Wilson lives in Worcester, MA,and is an engineer with the NortonCompany. He and his wife, Beth, have ason, Adam.

Gary WunderlichClass Representative

Jon Van Hoozer, Class Agent

Thomas Hussey was recently elected tothe board of Hands on Memphis as vicepresident for Fund Raising. Thomasworks at Diversified Trust Co.Jay Keegan is back in Memphis and wasnamed director of Sales and MarketDevelopment at Adams Keegan, Inc.Previously, Jay served as manager of theChapel Hill, NC, office.Frank Colvett was selected to theMemphis Business Journal “Top 40 Under40” list for 1999.Chris Sullivan has “officially” retiredfrom the pro snowboarding tour in orderto pursue a career in law. He has statedthat he will still compete in two to threeevents a year, if he can sneak away.Robert Knapp recently passed throughMemphis on his way to Manhattan. Hehad been living in San Francisco for thepast seven years and decided to try living

on the East coast for a while. He will beresiding in his van, down by the river,until he finds a permanent residence inManhattan.Marc Gurley has been moonlightingfrom his two golf stores, Double EagleGolf. He fronts a rock band called Dustfor Life along with Jason Hughes ’87.The band has been played frequently onlocal radio and performs regularlythroughout the city. Their debut albumis sold in local Cats music stores.

Andy CatesClass Representative

Jason Fair, Class Agent

The Class of 1989 had their tenthreunion during MUS Homecomingweekend October 8-9. All who attendedsaid the reunion was a blast and thatJason Fair, et al., did an awesome job ofputting it together and seeing it through.Jason thanked all that came and said itwas a great time.

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MUS Salutes Our Top Five Under Forty

Peter Knoop, Jr. has been appointedassociate vice president at MorganKeegan & Co., Inc.Matthew Crosby and his wife, Jeanne,will be moving this fall from Memphis toHanover, NH, for two years so Matthewcan work on his MBA at the Tuck Schoolof Business at Dartmouth College.Jon Jenkins and his wife, Deana, havemoved to Charleston, SC. Deana is innurse anesthesia school at the MedicalUniversity of South Carolina, and Jon istaking post-baccalaureate classes at theCollege of Charleston.Captain Pat Hopper is still in the AirForce and is working in classifiedprograms doing advanced space researchand development at Los Angeles AirForce Base. He earned his ContractingOfficer’s Warrant, which means he cannow bind the Government contractu-ally—and go to jail for breaking laws!He recently attended Squadron OfficerSchool in Montgomery, AL, and wasrecognized as Distinguished Graduate.While in Alabama, Pat met up withScott Sherman in Atlanta. Pat’s wife,Angie, is a second-grade teacher andloves LA. They have a guest bedroom(no kids yet!!) that is available forvisitors, but call in advance. SwayneLatham ’90 visited them over the fourthof July. Pat and Angie still come toMemphis about twice a year for the BBQFest and Christmas.Daniel Shumake graduated from theUniversity of Mississippi with a B.A. andis presently a senior at Washington &Lee University School of Law. He will

graduate in June 2000. Daniel is presidentof the Legal Christian Society of Wash-ington & Lee School of Law and partici-pates in intramural football and basket-ball. He and his wife, Ava, have twochildren, Ann Elizabeth and Daniel, Jr.Daniel has accepted an invitation to joinGlankler Brown law firm as an attorneyupon graduation in 2000.Andy Cates and his wife, Alison, movedfrom Dallas back to Memphis within thelast few months. He has opened an officeand is selling commercial real estate.Peter Monaghan works with SmithBarney in Memphis.

Andrew SutherlandClass Representative

Andrew Sutherland has been appointedvice president at Morgan Keegan & Co.,Inc.John Ballentine works for NextelCommunications, and has purchased hisfirst home in mid-town Atlanta.

Brett GrinderClass Representative

Darrell Cobbins, Class Agent

Christopher Lamberson recently passedthe bar exam. He is an associate atGlankler Brown.Will Deupree is the second of the Classof 1991 to be listed as “Top 40 Under 40”by the Memphis Business Journal. DarrellCobbins was on the list last year.

Preston MillerClass Representative

Brandon Westbrook, Class Agent

Harry Sayle has been appointedassociate vice president, Fixed Income, atMorgan Keegan & Co., Inc.Cort Winsett moved to Nashville andhas been promoted to vice president ofWinsett-Simmonds, Inc.

Gil UhlhornClass Representative

Thomas Quinlen, Class Agent

Thomas Qiunlen and BrandonEhrhart will both graduate (they hope)from Vanderbilt Law School in May2000. Thomas is planning to stay inTennessee, while Brandon is looking atmore exotic locales for his practice, suchas Seattle and Denver.Gil Uhlhorn and Ben Hutton willgraduate from the University of Tennes-see Law School also in May of 2000. Benis engaged to be married shortly aftergraduation to his lovely fiancée, Shan-non. He has no plans at this time toorganize a “Tom Hutton, Jr. forPresident” campaign.Dean DeCandia and Jack Irvine areboth in their second year of law school atthe University of Memphis. Are weseeing a pattern here?Jon-Paul Hickey is still slaving away forJP Morgan in New York City, but he hasrecently threatened to return to theSouth. However, inside sources reportthat Jon-Paul has taken to saying “youguys,” so rumors of his return are likelygreatly exaggerated.Jim Alexander, who was married thispast summer to his now-wife, Tracy, hasrecently moved back to Memphis afterlanding a job with Ducks Unlimited. Jimhas yet to convert Tracy to hunting, asshe “doesn’t like to get all bloody.”However, the good news for Jim is thatwith these new developments, the Owl’sHoot’s prediction that ten years aftergraduation Jim would be shot in thewoods after being mistaken for a bear isunlikely to come true.Tom Wright, no longer “Tommy,” isselling pharmaceuticals for Upjohn inFlorida. Tom reports that “the retire-ment communities get really quiet atnight.” He’s having a blast.Daniel Warlick is at The Buc.David Young has been working as anengineer for General Motors in the tires

Frank H. Colvett, Jr.Class of ’88

Executive Vice President& Corporate Treasurer,

GreenScape, Inc.

Kelly H. TruittClass of ’81

Senior Vice President,CB Richard Ellis

William E. OrgelClass of ’81

President, MajesticCommunications Co.

Richard L. FogelmanClass of ’84

President, FogelmanProperties, Inc.

William W. Deupree IIIClass of ’91

First Vice President/Investment Management

Consultant, MorganKeegan & Co., Inc.

The Memphis Business Journal annually selectes the “Top 40 Under 40”—forty movers and shakers of the community who are also under the age offorty. Congratulations to five MUS graduates who made the list this year!

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Wanderman Thrives in PoliticsAt the beginning of the year, Greg Wanderman ’91

was named the executive director of the TennesseeDemocratic Party. Since mid-February, he’s been inNashville, running the day-to-day activities of the party.He works with the congressional delegation, the Vice-President’s office, and the Tennessee legislature. His

responsibilities include disseminatingthe Democratic message and helpingelect Democrats statewide. Greg’s interest in politics beganearly. After graduating from MUS in1991, he attended the University ofTennessee in Knoxville, where hemajored in English literature with aminor in Political Science. Greg took a

short break from his college career when he accepted apromotion from Warner Brothers Studio Stores andmoved to Oklahoma as a gallery supervisor. He returnedto Tennessee to finish his degree a year later.

Greg interned at the State Legislature in Nashvillefor State Representatives Wayne Ritchie and JoeArmstrong. After his internship, he moved back to Knox-ville and worked as a runner for Wayne Ritchie’s lawfirm, then moved to Brisbane, Australia for three months,gaining legal experience as a clerk in an international lawfirm.

On his return to the United States, Greg went towork for Horne Properties as the Director of THEBEST for Tennesseans, Doug Horne’s Political ActionCommittee (PAC). The PAC was successful in helpingelect many Democrats in the 1998 elections. When DougHorne was elected State Party Chairman in January ofthis year, Greg was asked to assume the position of execu-tive director of the party.

Greg is especially excited about theupcoming year. Vice President Al Goreis moving his national headquarters toNashville and Greg will be workingclosely with Gore’s campaign staff incoordinating Gore’s run for the presi-dential election. According to Greg,“The election will definitely give me afew more gray hairs, but I’m reallylooking forward to an exciting year.”

Cliff Goldmacher ’86addressed students at achapel program this fall onthe topic, “How to Turn aDegree in Political Scienceinto a Career PlayingGuitar for Drunk People.”What he really did was briefly touch on his life afterMUS, earning a degree from Stanford University,teaching English in France, and opening a recordingstudio, Cliff’s Walk-In-Closet, in Nashville where heproduces and writes music. He spent the majority of thechapel program thoroughly entertaining students andfaculty with his music and his message: work at some-thing you love to do — you will be happier and you canusually find a way to make it profitable.

When asked how he comes up with words for hismusic, he commented that he relies on his observationof people, sighting one of his lyrical examples: “Men arestupid, women are crazy.”

In preparing for his chapel program, Cliff wasinspired to write and perform an original song which hededicated to the school, entitled “Song for MUS” —and it goes like this:“Remember as you’re studying and taking your examsWork hard and pay attention, it’s worth it in the endYou might wind up a musician, here’s one good reason whyYou can come and sing in Chapel and you don’t haveto wear a tie.”

You can catch Cliff performing at Borders Book-store when he’s in Memphis. It will be well worth yourtime!

GoldmacherWorks to aDifferent Beat

After hisperformance,

Cliff Goldmachermet with students

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and wheels division since he graduatedcum laude from Notre Dame three yearsago. Last May he completed his firstM.A. in Engineering from Purdue. He isnow applying for a General MotorsGrant, which would allow him tocomplete his MBA in two years as a full-time student at the university of hischoice. After much research, he hasnarrowed his selections to the businessschools of Wharton, Harvard, andCornell. David attributes much of hissuccess so far to the educational back-ground he received from MUS.Hart Weatherford recently moved toNashville, where Will Adams is alsoliving, along with the aforementionedVandy students. If you weren’t mentioned in thisupdate, and you know where you are andwhat you’re doing, let either GillUhlhorn or Thomas Quinlen know aboutit. Thomas can be reached via e-mail atThomas.Quinlen@earthling.net.

Kirby MayClass Representative

Jason Whitmore, Class Agent

Spencer Reese graduated from theUniversity of Tennessee Knoxville with aB.A. in English. He is currently enrolledat the University of Memphis in themaster’s program and will soon beentering law school in the fall of 2000.Taylor Hewgley is finishing hisundergraduate degree at the Universityof Memphis after transferring from theUniversity of Tennessee Knoxville.Taylor plans to enter law school in thefall of 2000.Brian Edmonds graduated from theUniversity of Tennessee Knoxville thispast May with a degree in generalbusiness. He traveled Europe for threemonths, from Italy to Spain and up toGreat Britain and Ireland and everythingin between. The highlight of his trip wasplaying golf at the old course in St.Andrews, Scotland. He is now back inMemphis working with his family asoperations manager at St. Clair Foods,Inc., and living in Harbor Town.

Jeff MurrayClass Representative

Blake Bourland, Class Agent

Sean Lyttle was cast as Cain/Japheth inPlayhouse on the Square’s presentation

of Children of Eden that ran from August27–September 26. Sean also has appearedat Playhouse in The Rocky Horror Show,Return to the Forbidden Planet, and TheWho’s Tommy. He is a recent B.A.graduate of the Rhodes College theaterprogram.Marcello Guerra is a new scienceteacher at Pace.

Trey JonesClass Representative

David Hwang is spending his junior yearstudying biochemistry at St. EdmundHall College of Oxford University inEngland. Last year he was one of twosophomores selected by the Emoryacademic dean’s office for this particularjunior year study-abroad program. Lastsemester David received one of thenational Barry Goldwater Scholarshipsfor science students. That two-year U.S.government scholarship and his four-year Emory scholarship are funding hisyear at Oxford as well as his seniorstudies at Emory next year. David spentthis past summer in Memphis working asa clinical research assistant at MethodistHospital.

Don DrinkardClass Representative

Eric Clifford, Class Agent

Jason Lewin is a sophomore at theUniversity of Tennessee and was namedthe 1999 Southeastern Lacrosse Confer-ence player of the year. Jason set a schoolrecord scoring seventy-two goals andtwenty-two assists (ninety-four totaloffensive points) as he led the Volunteersto the SEC title, its first since 1994.

Chip CampbellClass Representative

Norfleet Thompson, Class Agent

Ben Bailey is at The Peddie School andis making weekly news on the footballfield. Ben is doing it all — receiving,running, scoring, and kicking. In the76th game between Peddie andLawrenceville, Peddie’s oldest footballrival, Peddie School was victorious with a

33-7 win. Ben scored two TDsand made three kicks.Robert Word, who left MUS in1996 when his family moved toKnoxville, graduated in May fromThe Webb School of Knoxvillewhere he was secretary/treasurerof the senior class and captain ofthe baseball team. Robertreceived the Spartan Award hissenior year for best male athletein the school. Robert is a fresh-man at the University of Virginiawhere he is a student/athleteplaying baseball for the Cavaliers.

Robert DowClass Representative

Kennon Vaughn, Class Agent

Matthew Rose, a senior at the Univer-sity of Virginia, is a biology major.Matthew is president of the studentbody, College of Arts & Sciences, anEchols Scholar, and a Barry GoldwaterScholar (scientific research).Tommy Luck is a senior at the Univer-sity of Tennessee Knoxville majoring inhonors history. He spent fall semester1998 at the University of Swansea inGreat Britain. Tommy plans to go to lawschool after graduation.Chad Ballentine is in his third year atthe University of Montana. Whileserving on the student senate, Chadsponsored legislation for the establish-ment of a Department ofTransportation at theuniversity. Passage of thislegislation will result in savingnot only money but also theenvironment, as it promotesalternative transportationoptions for the universityfamily.

Andrew Alissandratos ’99stands at attention as a “rat”at Virginia Military Institute.

Two MUS graduates, Will Thompson ’95and Richard Moore ’98, played for opposing

teams in the 1999 season opener of UVAversus UNC. Virginia won the game.’94’94

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Quarterback PaulGillespie takes the snapfrom Nick Godwin inthe homecoming gameagainst Baylor.MUS won 17-14.

Winners of the AlumniGolf Scramble wereStuart Collier, KeithIngram, Jim Varner,and Bob Loeb, allfrom the Class of ’73.

Cheerleaders try to staydry during halftimeactivities.

Defensive players DanielMcDonell (55) andWilliam White (61) standready for action at the snap.

Homecoming QueenLauren Daniel is escortedby Jay McDonald amidsta downpour.

The annual pregame barbecue broughtabout 300 alumni, parents, and theirfamilies to campus.Right: Elizabeth and David Rudolph ’81with a four-man team of their ownFar right: Members from the Class of ’79,Chip Wood, Gordon Summerfield, Cam McCaa,Fleet Abston, Jeff Peters, Robert SparksBelow: Robert MacQueen, Kenneth Lee,Trey Thomas, and Ted Cooper, all fromthe Class of ’89Bentley Long ’79 and his family

Low-net winners at the golf scramblewere Grey Sellers ’74, Jerry Martin ’79,Daniel Brown ’78, and Tom Preston ’74.

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Q. You are a lawyer, correct?A. Correct.Q. So where did you get the idea for yourChristmas book?A. From a big snow storm, actually.

Around New Year’s, 1996, New York Citygot close to three feet of snow in one night. Thenext day was sunny, but with so much snow,everything was closed. So I spent the whole daytaking pictures. Christmas decorations were stillup all over town, and the wintry cityscapes weregreat for shooting. When I got my pictures back,the idea for a book took hold almost immediately,especially when I learned no such book was inprint.Q. Why did a book occur to you? You’re not aprofessional photographer.A. True. But I thought it’d be fun to try todevelop the idea, however I could.

I was at most an occasional photographerwhen the big storm hit. I’d never published orsold a single photograph, much less a book ofthem. Besides, more than a day’s worth ofpictures was needed for the idea, and Christmashad already passed. So, I set out to find existing

Mark Crosby ’79 recently published a book ofphotography entitled New York Christmas (Universe,1999), surprising since Mark is not a professional pho-tographer. He’s a New York lawyer specializing inintellectual property. Upon graduating from MUS, hespent a year at Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan,after which he attended Furman University (’84) andWashington & Lee University School of Law (’87). So,how did Mark become the creator of a Christmas book?MUS Today asked Mark to submit to a few questions.He did and sent along these images from his book.

photography of New York at Christmas and, actingmore like an editor, intended to put together the bestof what I had shot with the best of what I might find.Q. But it’s a book of your photography?A. It is. But that didn’t happen until much later. Idiscovered shortly after I started looking at Christmasphotographs from stock photography agencies andphotographers who I knew or learned about that,while finding great stuff, most of what I wanted to seewas missing: cathedrals, brownstone townhouses,events of the season, etc., generally the less commer-cial things. So I began mapping out all I’d need withan eye toward shooting it the following season. I eventeamed up with some other photographers and paidtheir expenses.

And that’s what I started sending around topublishers. Only I was not to get any publisherinterested until the fall of 1998. By then, I hadlearned a good bit about photography, having takenseveral classes, worked with other photographers,and shot a great deal of film, all the while making thecollection of images more and more mine. When Ifinally caught the interest of Universe, the book’spublisher, they wanted only one photographer. Theyasked me to identify which photographs were mine

and to fill in any resulting gaps, which I did thispast season. That’s how the book came to be mine.I more or less backed into it.Q. How did you get Universe interested in yourphotographs?A. Believe it or not, I went to a seminar at aphotographers’ convention on how to get yourpictures published. One of the panelists was fromUniverse, and I simply sent him my pictures aweek or so later. Several months went by, in whichI would call occasionally, with no response. Andthen, out of the blue, Universe called. We met,they said they wanted to do the book, and theyasked me if I’d be interested in shooting a secondbook as well, all in one day.Q. What’s next? Law or photography?A. Both, for the foreseeable future. I enjoy pho-tography, but I’m a good way from making a livingfrom it. Besides, it’s been good being an attorneywith respect to the book, since it contains a num-ber of quotations from various sources and secur-ing permissions and negotiating a price for them—which I undertook for the publisher—is one of thethings I do as an intellectual property attorney.Q. Did being an attorney affect the publisher’simpression of you?A. They didn’t learn I was an attorney until wellafter they’d signed me on, when I was unable to

provide them with anartist’s bio (you know,what galleries you’veshown at, where you’vebeen published previ-ously, that sort ofthing). All I couldmake reference to wassix years of “schoolday, picture day,” withwhich, to my surprise,they claim to be unfa-miliar.Q. Any MUS visits inthe near future?A. Actually, I was justthere for my twentieth

reunion, the weekend of October 8. I stopped in tosay hello to whoever was around and was luckyenough to pin down Bob Boelte, Ellis Haguewood,and Skip Daniel. Clearly their long-term memoryis fading — they were glad to see me.

Editor’s Note: Mark’s book, New York Christmas, is avail-able online at Amazon.com and locally at Burke’s Bookstore.His second book of year-round New York photography will beavailable next fall.

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Grease packed the house this fall. Now everyone hasGreat Expectations for the spring!

Mark your calendar: Great Expectations, March 30 – April 1, Hyde Chapel, 7:30 p.m.More Grease on page 13.