Becoming a part of the Emory
community
By Bob Carpenter
When did you become a member of the Emory community?
I ask this question not in the practical sense of what year you enrolled,
or the date you received your letter of acceptance, but more in a philosophic
sense. When did you feel embraced by the people, places, and traditions
of the institution? When did you embrace Emory? When did you feel you had
become part of the flock, a member of the assemblage, a dweller in the
community?
What was it that made you feel that bond?
Was it a night in Dooley's Den or the Dugout, talking to friends on the
steps of Candler Library,
or going to Everybody's with your favorite professor? Was it a championship
season, a Dooley's
skit on Fraternity Row, or a trip with the Glee Club/Chorale/Chorus?
Was it your study group in graduate school or a walk on the Quad at Oxford?
Or did you ever take that step? Was there ever a point in your Emory
experience when you felt that link to the greater group that would last
a lifetime? Or did the University miss out on its opportunity to instill
in you this sense of belonging while you were here? If so, how can we--alumni,
students, and administrators--make sure we do a better job of it in the
future?
These are some of the questions that were considered by the Board of Governors of the Association
of Emory Alumni during the past year. They grew out of a conversation
begun last fall at the Alumni
Strategic Planning Conference and continued during Assembly
XVI, "The Soul of the Academy." After much intense discussion,
this issue of community building on our campuses--and the perceived lack
thereof--emerged as the most often cited concern among the participants.
Without the galvanizing effect of a Division I sports program, how do we
grow our "center" and introduce and initiate members to our tribe?
What are our rituals? Do we have times and spaces that are "sacred"
and part of our collective lore?
In response to these questions and concerns, the Board of Governors
will consult with alumni and other interested groups to dig vigorously
into these issues and to make recommendations for our future. We hope to
have a report to present to you by the end of this academic year.
This is one example of the strong work being done by the Board of Governors.
Charged with oversight of all alumni programming at the University, the
board also selects the recipients of the Emory
Medal and makes nominations for the alumni trustee members of the University Board of
Trustees. Under the Board of Governors' direction, we began two new
programs of great significance in the past year: the development of the
Alumni Career Network with
a full-time director and the inaugural program of College Admission 101,
a seminar for alumni and their high-school-aged children on the process
and potential pitfalls of applying to a selective university or college.
Our Board of Governors is a working group, one that continues to expand
its role in the life of alumni and the life of the current University.
If you have recommendations to make to the board, particularly regarding
the community building report, I would be glad to pass them on. You can
contact me at 404-727-6400, by e-mail at rcarpen@emory.edu,
or by mail at the Association of Emory Alumni, Emory University, Atlanta,
GA 30322.
Bob Carpenter
Executive Director
Association of Emory Alumni
Back to school
Emory graduates reunite on campus
Some two thousand alumni, their families, and friends
of the University gathered on campus this fall for Alumni
Weekend activities. Events included the dedication of the Goizueta
Business School's new facility, the Alumni 5K Fun Run, the presentation
of this year's Emory Medals, the Sports Hall of Fame induction
banquet, and reunions for Emory
College, the Candler School
of Theology, undergraduate business,
and the schools of medicine,
nursing, and
public health. Attendees also had
a chance to take a walking tour of the Quadrangle with Dean of Alumni Judson
C. Ward '33C-'36G, hear renowned blues guitarist Tinsley
Ellis '77Ox-'79C play on McDonough Field for the young alumni band
party, and see photographs of contemporary Kenya at the Michael
C. Carlos Museum. Below are scenes from this year's Alumni Weekend
activities.
In the next forty years, the white population
in this country is expected to go from 191 million to 202 million, which
is considered no growth. The black population will double. The Hispanic
population will quadruple. The Asian population will increase fivefold.
This is a wonderful, fabulous blessing, one that this country has embraced
as the American experienceall of its history. Our challenge, as it's always
been, is how to deal with it. We do it messily, we do it slowly, we sometimes
do it hatefully, we do it with great effort. But the reason I believe we
really are able to meet it is we do have something that unifies us, and
it's the Constitution. Without it we really have absolutely no reason to
exist in this country. We have no shared history, we have no shared ethnicity,
we have no shared religion. But what we do have is that document. And the
institutions created by this Constitution allow us to celebrate this diversity
on a common ground, century after century.
--Cokie Roberts, ABC News correspondent, speaking at
the Emory Medal ceremony
Photo by Annemarie Poyo
Emory Sports Hall of Fame inducts its Class of 1997
During Alumni
Weekend, the Emory
Sports Hall of Fame inducted its Class of 1997. In attendance were
(clockwise from top left) three-time tennis All-American Gavin Patrick
O'Connell '91C, who went on to play professional tennis for the Atlanta
Thunder; Emory varsity swimmer John Payson Kennedy
'54C-'59G, co-founder of the Nantahala Outdoor Center and a multiple national
open canoe champion; William C. Cromwell '56C, who lettered in and
co-captained both the wrestling and track teams and won the Herbert Levine
Memorial Award for Outstanding Sportsmanship in 1956; six-time All-American
and three-time national champion diver Christopher Jon Radpour '90B; Thomas
A. Rowles '74C, a soccer standout at Emory who captained the team his senior
year and went on to complete various marathons and play in the national
over-thirty soccer championships for the elite Atlanta-based Datagraphic
club; Elizabethe Segars McRae '90C, Emory's first women's soccer All-American
and the assistant women's soccer coach in 1995; and John M. Morgan '42C-'45M,
who was All-Emory in football from 1939 to 1942 and was ranked in the top
ten in seniors tennis in Florida from 1976 to 1993. Four members were inducted
posthumously: Vaughn Nixon 1900C, a champion sprinter and an outstanding
athlete in basketball, football, and baseball; Emmett K. Perryman '13C,
who was on the All-Emory baseball team and went on to pitch for one year
with St. Louis of the American League; Henry Lumpkin Bowden '32C-'34L-'59H,
who was selected to the All-Emory basketball team three times, was a sportswriter
for the Emory Wheel, and
was an advocate for Emory athletics during his twenty-six years as chairman
of the Board of Trustees;
and David Grier Martin '33G, who earned varsity letters in basketball and
track, was Southeastern AAU hurdles champion, and was president of Davidson
College from 1958 to 1968.
Photo by Annemarie Poyo
Arts and Sciences Distinguished Alumni Awards
During a reception and dinner in the Dobbs University Center, Steven E. Sanderson (top right), vice president
for Arts and Sciences and dean of Emory
College, and Donald G. Stein (top left), vice provost and dean of the
Graduate School of Arts and
Sciences, presented this year's Arts and Sciences Distinguished Alumni
Awards. The three alumni honored with these lifetime achievement awards
were (bottom row from left) Harold S. Johnston '41C, one of the first scholars
to offer evidence of damage to the ozone layer from aircraft, who recently
received the Medal of Science Award at a White House ceremony; M. Kathleen
McCulloch '74G-'77G, a member of the Emory Alumni Board of Governors since
1992, who has devoted her career to service in the federal government and
is currently resource manager in the Defense Information Systems Agency;
and heart surgeon H. David Short III '70C, who established the Sonny Carter
Scholarship at Emory in honor of his late friend, astronaut Manley Lanier
"Sonny" Carter Jr. '69C-'73M.
Distinguished dental alumnni
Lawson K. Broadrick '54D (left) was honored with the 1997 Distinguished
Alumnus Award, and Peter A. Jensen Jr. '56D was honored with the 1997 Meritorious
Service Award by the Emory Dental Alumni Association. According to the
group's president, John F. MacNamara '78D, the award winners have "an
expertise that has set a standard for dentists across the Southeast."
Broadrick, who has had a private practice in general dentistry in Atlanta
since 1962, has served as president of both the Georgia Academy of Dental
Practice and the Emory Dental Alumni Association. In 1975, he introduced
the prepless bridge, a technique for replacing a missing tooth. A charter
member of the Georgia Academy of Dental Practice, Jensen has also been
actively involved in numerous other professional organizations, including
the American College of Dentists and the International College of Dentists.
He has had a private practice in general dentistry in the Emory and Northlake
areas for forty years.
Photo courtesy Foster and Associates
EMORY MEDALISTS
A businessman and civic leader of vision, Ben
J. Tarbutton Jr. '49Ox-'51C helped shape the industrial history of
central Georgia. He is co-owner of the Sandersville Railroad and shares
his expertise with a variety of firms and public agencies. He is the director
and past president of the Georgia Chamber of Commerce and a member of the
board of both the Georgia Department of Industry, Trade, and Tourism and
the Department of Natural Resources. Tarbutton is a former member of the
Emory Board of Visitors and the Board of Counselors of Oxford College and
has served on the Emory Board of Trustees since 1976.
Photo by Kay Hinton
A dedicated builder of the community, Nancy
Rankin Tarbutton '57C has worked tirelessly to promote and support
her city, state, Emory University, and the United Methodist Church. She
has served as a member of the Washington County Library Board, trustee
of the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation, and president and trustee
of the Transylvania Club, an organization that supports the community's
libraries. She has also served on the boards of the Atlanta College of
Art and the State Botanical Garden of Georgia. In her long service to Emory,
Tarbutton has worked to promote the Candler School of Theology's Committee
of One Hundred, particularly with regard to the Etheredge Trust, which
supports a number of Candler students each year.
Photo by Kay Hinton
In 1991, H. Jackson Brown Jr. '63C published
Life's Little Instruction Book, a volume of heartfelt observations
and words of counsel he had originally written to give to his son as he
went away to college. The book became an international bestseller, and
Brown went on to publish a number of other popular works, including A
Father's Book of Wisdom and The Little Book of Christmas Joys.
His books have sold more than twenty-one million copies and have been translated
into thirty-one languages. Brown served Emory as the honorary national
chair of the 1994-1995 Emory/Coca-Cola Challenge Fund and has been a board
member of the American Cancer Society.
Photo by Kay Hinton
The commitment of ground-breaking jurist Glenda
A. Hatchett '77L to the nation's children has made her a leader in
changing the juvenile justice system. Appointed to the position of chief
presiding judge of Fulton County juvenile court in 1991, she is Georgia's
first African-American chief presiding judge of a state court as well as
the department head of one of the largest juvenile court systems in the
nation. Her innovative introduction of public and private partnership initiatives
has revolutionized the way troubled children are treated in Atlanta and
across America. Hatchett is a member of the Children's Defense Fund, the
advisory board of the Morehouse School of Medicine's Center for Child Abuse
and Neglect, and the faculty of the National Judicial College of the National
Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges.
Photo by Kay Hinton
As an esteemed professor and dean, Ben F. Johnson
Jr. '36C-'40L guided Emory Law
School through a tumultuous and remarkable time. With the late Henry
Bowden Sr. '32C-'34L, Johnson, who was dean of the law school from 1961
to 1973, personally briefed and argued the landmark case that integrated
Georgia's private universities. Throughout his career he remained a strong
and effective advocate for women and minorities. During his tenure at Emory
Law School, Johnson also served as Georgia's deputy assistant attorney
general and was elected a senator in the Georgia legislature. In 1989,
Johnson received the Emory Law School Distinguished Alumnus Award.
Photo by Annemarie Poyo
Anne Elizabeth Hendrick Gaston '55M, the
first woman to be president of an Emory medical school class, has devoted
her professional life to improving health care for children. For twenty-three
years she practiced as a neonatologist and pediatrician in northern California
before moving back to Atlanta. Now retired, she continues to counsel and
instruct through Healthcare Partnership Consultants. Gaston was a founding
member and president of the Association of Emory Alumni (AEA) Board of
Governors, president of the AEA, and a member of the University's Board
of Trustees. She currently serves as co-chair of the National Council of
Medicine at Emory and with her husband, J. Harper Gaston IV '52C-'55M,
has established the Gaston Service Scholarship, awarded to Emory medical
school students who demonstrate outstanding volunteer and community service.
Photo by Ann Borden
J. Harper Gaston IV '52C-'55M has
been on the leading edge of change in the delivery of medical services
throughout his career. Now retired, he continues to provide leadership
to the medical community as both CEO and president of Gaston Loughlin Inc.
and Healthcare Partnership Consultants. Gaston is co-chair of the National
Council of Medicine at Emory and with his wife, Anne Elizabeth Hendrick
Gaston '55M, has established the Gaston Service Scholarship, awarded to
Emory medical school students who demonstrate outstanding volunteer and
community service. He has also been active with the Emory University System
of Healthcare Board of Directors, the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Campaign
Committee, and the Emory University Board of Visitors.
Photo by Annemarie Poyo
With a career spanning more than forty-five years,
Edith Folsom Honeycutt '39N is to many the embodiment of excellence
in nursing practice and education. According to a former dean of the Nell
Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Honeycutt "epitomizes the very
best of what nursing can and should be." An energetic and enthusiastic
alumna, she served several terms as president of the Emory Nurses' Alumni
Association and in 1980 received their Award of Honor. During her time
as a staff nurse at Emory University Hospital, she earned a reputation
for her expertise in the care of the critically ill. In 1990, the Metropolitan
Atlanta Community Foundation endoweda chair in her name. No other staff
nurse in the United States has a funded chair at a major university.
Photo by Ann Borden
Linton
C. Hopkins '73NURL
Links to the past
Golf legend Robert Tyre "Bobby" Jones
'29L, the only person to win all four Grand Slam golf titles in one season,
affectionately called Atlanta's East Lake Golf Club "my golf course."
Professor of Neurology Linton C. Hopkins '73NURL celebrates and chronicles
that bond in his recent book, Where Bobby Learned To Play.
"No golf course can claim the soul of Bobby Jones to the same extent
as East Lake," Hopkins writes. "It saw the start of his golfing
life at age six and his last round at forty-six. In between he walked the
course with his father and friends during his childhood, his competitive
career, and for sixteen years after he retired. For forty-one years, East
Lake was the course he played more than any other. He was world famous
for twenty-five of those years and could have played anywhere, but day
after day he came back home to East Lake to be with his father and friends."
Hopkins' book also traces the history of East Lake, which was constructed
in 1908 and recently underwent an extensive renovation, restoring it to
its former glory. Emory Trustee Tom Cousins played a major role in the
project. In the book, Hopkins shares stories of other golf notables--many
of whom were Jones' friends--who played the course, including 1938 British
Amateur champion Charlie Yates.--A.O.A.
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