Hendrix Magazine 2018 by Hendrix College

spring 2018

From the President

The Hendrix College Magazine Spring 2018 Volume 30, Number 1

While change often comes at a glacial pace on college campuses, things happen pretty fast here at Hendrix. Not only did we celebrate the opening of the Mary Ann and David Dawkins Welcome Center in the fall, but we also started preparations for the new Miller Creative Quad. With state-of-the-art facilities for music, an auditorium and film screening room, and the new Windgate Museum of Art, along with new student living space on the upper floors and green space for outdoor performances, the Creative Quad will bring new energy to the heart of campus. Aesthetically, it will blend the historic architecture and charm of Hendrix with the dynamism of the performing and visual arts. Functionally, it will inspire our community to engage more broadly and more deeply with the creativity at the heart of Hendrix’s liberal arts tradition.

Editors Amy Meredith Forbus ’96 forbus@hendrix.edu Rob O’Connor ’95 oconnor@hendrix.edu Graphic Designer Summer Lequernaqué

Before the spring semester started, we launched Career Term, a new intensive career preparation program for sophomores that is the first of its kind in higher education. (Read more on page 14.)

Contributors David Brown ’19 Jazmin Calixto ’19 Nelson Chenault Anushah Jiwani ’17 Mike Kemp Vicky Piccola Maddison Stewart Courtney Utley

A few weeks later, we announced that Hendrix had received a National Science Foundation grant to develop the Hendrix STEM Scholars program, which will provide scholarships, summer internship and research opportunities, and other mentoring and professional development support for Federal Pell Grant-eligible students studying STEM fields at Hendrix.

Magazine Advisory Committee Rev. J. Wayne Clark ’84 Courtney Lee Corwin Hope Coulter Pamela Owen ’82

But those are just a few of the highlights this year at Hendrix. Hendrix earns its reputation as one of America’s leading liberal arts colleges every day, in large and small ways. We couldn’t do it without bright students who are eager to learn and grow, and faculty and staff who challenge and support them. And we couldn’t do it without you. Thank you!

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Bill Tsutsui President and Professor of History

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Photo by Mike Kemp

on the cover Dr. Alice Hines retired in 2017 after 36 years with the Hendrix College Department of English. She guided the formation of Students for Black Culture, founded the Writing Center, chaired the Arkansas Humanities Council, earned numerous honors for professional and volunteer service, and remains active with several nonprofit and professional organizations.

Table of Contents

02 Hendrix Highlights 08 Faculty News 10 Faculty Feature: Alice Hines 14 Career Services News 16 Campaign Update 18 New Scholarship News 20 40-40-80 Celebration 22 Alumni Events 25 Alumni Weekend 2018 26 Alumnotes 30 Marriages 31 New Arrivals 32 In Memoriam

HENDRIX HIGHLIGHTS In addition to his faculty and administrative roles at Hendrix, Dr. Pete Gess, owner of a Chevrolet Volt, serves as administrator for the car charging program.

A Greener Campus College continues commitment to environment All-LED lighting and a new electric car charging station are among the recent upgrades contributing to a greener campus at Hendrix College. During the fall 2017 semester, Hendrix contracted with Entegrity Partners to convert approximately 15,000 light fixtures to LED technology. The lighting change will bring the College more than $1 million in net savings on energy and maintenance over the next decade. Getting to campus has become a greener prospect in recent years with the increasing availability and popularity of hybrid and all-electric vehicles. This fall, Hendrix installed an electric vehicle charging station in the parking lot between Harkrider Street and the Student Life and Technology Center. The new charging station can accommodate two vehicles at a time, and any electric vehicle driver with a ChargePoint account may charge a vehicle for free between 6 a.m. and 11 p.m. “We have actually had 16 unique drivers use the station,” said Associate Provost for Engaged Learning and politics professor Dr. Peter Gess, who is the administrator of the Hendrix car charging program. “I only know of three folks with EVs on campus, so clearly community members are also charging.” As of the end of January, the charging station had helped users avoid 530 kg of greenhouse gas emissions. “That’s the equivalent of planting 20 trees and letting them grow for 10 years,” Gess added.

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Hendrix made environmental concerns a more visible priority with the construction of the LEED Gold-certified Student Life and Technology Center in 2010. The new Dawkins Welcome Center, which opened in 2017, is also built to LEED standards (official notice of certification is expected later this year). In 2015, Hendrix students and the Board of Trustees approved a Campus Sustainability Fund, dedicating a $20 student fee per semester to support sustainability projects on campus designed by students, faculty, and staff. This fund has contributed to the cost of installing exterior LED lighting and the EV charging station, helps to fund ongoing irrigation system improvements to reduce water use, and has brought new combination waste/recycling bins to campus. “With the help of Facilities, we will gauge the amount of use these bins receive, and the amount of cross-contamination,” said Kaylee Davis ’18, Campus Sustainability Fund Committee chair. The fund will soon bring new recycling bins for the Student Life and Technology Center and an opt-in recycling program for individual students, as well. “Any student, faculty and staff member of the Hendrix community can submit a project proposal,” Davis said. “That means that we fund projects that the Hendrix community feels are really important to the sustainability of the campus. In that way, the application process is as much for environmental education as it is for the environmental integrity of the campus…. It shows how much our community is committed to sustainability issues.”

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Japan comes to Hendrix Since Summer 2016, Hendrix has served as a hub for a sharing of Japanese culture, thanks to the presence of Aya Murata through the Japan Outreach Initiative (JOI). Sponsored by the Japan Foundation and the Laurasian Institution, JOI sends volunteers like Murata to U.S. communities for longterm stateside stays. During her time here, Murata has reached an estimated 9,000 people in central Arkansas through visits to universities, K-12 schools, public libraries, senior centers, and community events.

New Role for Cultivating Partnerships Sarah Donaghy joined the Hendrix College staff this fall as the College’s first Coordinator of Community Partnerships, a position focused on building vibrant, mutually beneficial relationships with diverse community and nonprofit organizations, for-profit companies, governmental entities, and individuals in central Arkansas. The goal: increasing Hendrix students’ opportunities for internships, service-learning projects, community-based research, Odyssey experiences, and more. “Students are eager to apply what they’re learning at Hendrix and to make meaningful contributions on and off campus,” said Donaghy. “We’re fortunate to have such great partners with whom we can collaborate, both for the development of our students and for the benefit of the greater community.”

Every 7th-grader in Conway has met Murata; she spoke to their history classes during studies of World War II Japanese internment camps. On other school visits, she shares Japanese culture, including traditional dance, customs, and food. Murata works with the Japanese Conversation Club at Hendrix, and also with the Japanese Club across town at the University of Central Arkansas. Murata lives in the Japanese Culture House (McCreight House), which is home to 11 students this semester and holds weekly activities related to Japanese cooking, language skills, student research, and seasonal events and festivals. One long-term goal is for Japanese programming to continue beyond Murata’s two years on campus, which ends this summer. Gwen Stockwell, Director of ESOL and International Student Services and an adjunct Japanese instructor, recently planned a Japanese Immersion Weekend, supported by a gift from the Hendrix-Murphy Foundation, which she co-led with Murata. And, an exchange program through the Kakehashi Inouye Scholars Program welcomed Japanese students to Hendrix and sent Hendrix students on a visit to Japan. “We’re so grateful for Aya’s energy and enthusiasm, and for the excitement she has helped build around Japanese studies at Hendrix and in the community,” Stockwell said. “We hope to maintain that excitement through collaborations with the Asian Studies program, UCA, and community partners in the years to come.”

This position formalizes and strengthens the College’s focus on partnerships that contribute to positive career and employment outcomes for Hendrix graduates. It also marks a significant step in furthering the College’s desire to engage more intentionally and effectively with the communities of Conway and central Arkansas. Faculty and staff may turn to Donaghy for help making contact with potential community partners for specific needs related to research, coursework, service, or other studentrelated opportunities. The community partnerships position was made possible through a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation supporting diversity and inclusion initiatives at Hendrix. Organizations interested in exploring a partnership with Hendrix for internships or service-learning may contact Donaghy at donaghy@hendrix.edu or 501-505-1540.

A February 14 calligraphy workshop, part of the Kakehashi Inouye Scholars Program exchange, brought together students from Hendrix College and Prefectural Hiroshima University. From left: Yuki Kikuchi of PHU; Lexus Raney ’18 and Mara Campbell ’18 of Hendrix; and Mami Ono and Yumi Tamura of PHU. Campbell later went on the exchange trip to PHU, and Raney is currently taking the Japanese Language and Culture course offered at Hendrix.

Warrior Athletics

On the track, the court, and the field, Hendrix Warriors continue to excel Players of the Year

Three Hendrix Warriors were named Southern Athletic Association (SAA) Player of the Year in their respective sports in 2017: (1) Sara Dyslin ’18, Women’s Basketball (2) Hank Aldous ’17, Men’s Basketball (3) Miles Thompson ’20, Football (Offensive)

All-American

Two Warriors received All-American honors for 2017: (4) Victoria Amadi ’17, Indoor Track & Field (5) Jared Lincoln ’17, Track & Field

Hendrix Woman of the Year (4) Victoria Amadi ’17, Track & Field

Southern Athletic Association Man of the Year and Hendrix Man of the Year (6) Gray Stanton ’17, Football

All the Way to Finals

(7) In 2017, Hendrix Women’s Soccer reached the SAA Conference Championship Finals for the first time in school history.

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Postgraduate Scholarship for Petrisin

(8) While Hendrix athletes compete in non-scholarship NCAA Division III, their involvement in sports combined with their performance in the classroom can bring scholarship honors. This spring, volleyball player Lauren Petrisin ’18 received word that the NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship Committee has awarded her a $7,500 scholarship for part-time or full-time postgraduate study. The health sciences major/psychology minor plans to use the scholarship to pursue a Doctorate of Physical Therapy at the University of Central Arkansas. “Ultimately, I want to specialize in geriatrics in order to help sustain functional wellness and independence with aging,” she says.

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His lecture, “Vanishing Acts: Black Labor, Social Absence, & Civil Rights Reform,” highlighted how Douglas Turner Ward’s one-act play A Day of Absence stands as a creative response to the gap between the law of the land and the reality of African American experience in the 1960s. “The Civil Rights Act does a lot, but it also does not do a lot,” said Avilez, noting the contrast between the passing of civil rights legislation and the slow pace of reform. Taking into account the intimidation tactics of the era and the inability of legislation to address that type of obstacle, Avilez examined A Day of Absence as a meditation on questions surrounding Black labor and mobility. During a post-lecture discussion, Avilez emphasized the play’s current relevance by pointing out parallels between A Day of Absence and the 2004 film A Day Without a Mexican. “I often teach this play, then have them watch the film and we talk about what it means, and think about minority labor and the fact that 45 years later, it’s the exact same issue: Minority labor doesn’t actually have any value,” he said. “So little seems to have changed. Maybe we exchange the Black body for a brown body, but we still have the dynamics themselves.” Avilez, a Jacksonville, Arkansas, native, went on from Hendrix to earn his M.A. in English from Temple University, then a Ph.D. in English and a Graduate Certificate in Africana Studies from the University of Pennsylvania.

Avilez Returns as Inaugural Mellon Lecturer Special lecture series highlights diversity and inclusion Dr. GerShun Avilez ’02 returned to campus in the fall to deliver the inaugural Mellon Lecture, a new series made possible by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support diversity and inclusion initiatives at Hendrix.

At the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Avilez serves as Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of English and Comparative Literature; Director of the UNC Program in Sexuality Studies; and Affiliated Faculty for the Institute of African American Research and Department of Women’s & Gender Studies. He also has taught at Yale University, and held the Frederick Douglass Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the University of Rochester. Avilez’s work has gained attention beyond where he has studied and taught. While visiting Hendrix, he learned he would receive a Modern Language Association of America (MLA) Book Award—the William Sanders Scarborough Prize—for his book Radical Aesthetics and Modern Black Nationalism, published by the University of Illinois Press. The prize, named for the first African American member of the MLA, honors outstanding scholarly study of African American literature or culture.

“Each semester our community works to select a scholar of color to provide a guest lecture, attend courses, and to meet with students,” said Dr. Dionne Bennett Jackson ’96, Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion and Chief Diversity Officer for the College. “Dr. Avilez was selected in honor of Dr. Alice Hines’s retirement. Our office wanted to recognize Dr. Hines’s teaching legacy through the outstanding work and accomplishments represented by her former student.”

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Pettitt’s Lecture Launches New Series Jessica Pettitt ’96 is on a mission to teach people how to make better connections among those who may not look, behave, or think alike. Her book, Good Enough Now: How Doing the Best We Can with What We Have is Better Than Nothing, is dedicated to her mentor, Hendrix education professor Dr. James Jennings, whose untimely death in 2015 inspired her to form her approach to diversity training into a manuscript. Fitting that Pettitt was the first speaker for this fall’s inaugural Senate Jennings Lecture, a series established by the Hendrix Student Senate, named in memory of her mentor, and coordinated by the College’s Office for Diversity and Inclusion. “There’s a pattern to what we engage in, and there’s a pattern that scares us, that makes us feel small,” she told the Hendrix community as she walked around the stage of Staples Auditorium. “And there’s a pattern to what we can do about it.” She explained the patterns she has identified, engaging the audience in understanding different ways individuals tend to approach life. Difficult conversations in our personal lives, she says, use exactly the same skill set as broader conversations across difference. “There are a lot of things that we can do to make better connections, and I think the key piece is to think that we’re good enough to even try to try,” she said.

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Building on this principle, the Plano, Texas, native who lives in Eureka, California, travels extensively to provide training at universities, Fortune 500 companies, and more. Building on her varied experiences – including the Peace Corps, higher education, stand-up comedy, and even her role as chair of the Mascot Committee at Hendrix, which had her diving into controversy during her first semester on campus – Pettitt embraces a style she calls “subliminal diversity training.” “I am capable of doing the vocabulary-specific, topic-based things. What I really like doing is more of a blend of everything that scares us, and humor,” she said. “I typically joke that all of the things you’re not supposed to talk about, that’s what I talk about. “I think if we can have more conversations that matter, we’ll make better connections with actual humans, and I believe something that granular and that simple, that is actually how we’ll dismantle systems of oppression.” The opportunity to return to campus as the first speaker in the series named for Dr. Jennings “was such an amazing honor,” Pettitt said. “Talk about somebody who changed the world under the radar, and showed up every day. I wrote in my book that he was the first person who saw me when I was trying so hard not to be seen,” she said. “I think, at the base, that I am an educator because of him. That potential is in everyone, and sometimes that’s motivating and sometimes that’s crushing. But I think we get the opportunity to decide what to do with it.”

Student Senate President Jordan Borst ’19, Jessica Pettitt ’96, and Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion Dr. Dionne Bennett Jackson ’96 visit for a moment before Pettitt delivers the inaugural Senate Jennings Lecture on September 14, 2017.

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At first, Techawongtham used a sighted guide—meaning she had to depend upon another person to help her get from place to place. She decided to learn to navigate with a cane while attending an Englishspeaking high school in Thailand, and traveled to Colorado to receive that training. She chose Hendrix after deciding a smaller college in the United States would suit her needs; services for the blind are more readily available in the U.S. At Hendrix, the Office of Academic Services coordinates the accommodations she receives. Darryl Manes, the College’s Testing Services Coordinator, plays a crucial role in supporting students with disabilities. For Techawongtham, he scans books and other materials to convert them to Braille or to allow her computer to read them aloud to her, and provides additional tools to help with various types of learning. In 2016, Techawongtham’s counselor suggested getting a therapy dog to help with the stress of college life. She had never had a pet, so she didn’t seriously consider it right away. But when she spent a Thanksgiving break with a family and enjoyed time with their dog, she decided to explore the possibility that a guide dog might provide valuable assistance around campus and offer emotional comfort, too. She ultimately applied to receive one through Guiding Eye. Once selected, she participated in a rigorous three-week training session with her new four-footed partner.

Finding Her Way

Life at Hendrix with Luther is different, she says. “I feel like people talk to me more. They have an easy way to start a conversation by saying, ‘Your dog is so pretty,’ so I think having him around has made it easier to make friends.”

Student brings a new guide to campus experience

Among the things Techawongtham has noticed about life with a guide dog: Because Luther cannot receive affection or engage in play while working, she’s had to learn to say “no” to people more often. But he does get to have off-duty fun.

Sai Techawongtham ’19, a psychology major from Bangkok, takes voice and violin lessons. She holds down an on-campus job at the Writing Center, and regularly makes the Dean’s List. She is active with Student Outreach Alternative Resources (SOAR), and serves as president of the Hendrix Disability Awareness Club. Last fall, she led a discussion as part of Dining in the Dark, a simulation of what it is like to eat without sight.

“He’s so calm while he’s working that when people come to my room and see him jumping around and playing, they wonder if he’s the same dog,” she said. Luther loves to play tug-of-war, and at times, she has to balance her need to study with his need to burn off some energy by chasing a ball around her room.

She also has a new roommate this year: Luther.

Techawongtham and Luther have off-campus fun, too, such as when they received some celebrity-level attention at a Harry Potter-themed event in Conway.

A loveable Labrador, two-year-old Luther attracts attention around campus with his shiny black coat and his dedication to his job as Techawongtham’s guide dog. After accepting that her sight wouldn’t return following surgery at age 13 to remove a brain tumor, Techawongtham began making adjustments to her plans for life. She wouldn’t follow in her mother’s footsteps to become an interior designer after all, but her mom introduced her to psychology, which turned out to be a good match for her interests.

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“I told people he was Sirius Black,” she said with a laugh. Perhaps masquerading as a British literary character helped Luther prepare for supporting his person in her latest adventure: studying abroad at the University of Roehampton in London for the Spring semester.

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Faculty News

Distinguished Professor >

Dr. Stella Capek was installed as the Elbert L. Fausett Distinguished Professor of Sociology at a convocation ceremony on August 31, 2017.

“Teaching is an enormously demanding profession, including challenging students to develop both a critical eye and a hopeful spirit. I love engaging students in a dialogue about the not so obvious social structures in our society, and I am particularly pleased that Hendrix has supported my commitment to teaching and learning about social justice,” said Capek.

In addition to her teaching, colleagues cited Capek’s accomplishments, influence, and productivity as a writer, noting that every year since 1990, she has published a peerreviewed article, book, or chapter; presented a paper at a professional conference; or given an invited talk. Capek’s professional service spans local, state, and national activities, including her election as Chair of the Section on Environment and Technology of the American Sociological Association, her service on the Arkansas Public Policy Panel and the Arkansas Sociology and Anthropology Association, and numerous campus and community committees. >

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Analyzing for Civic Engagement

Human Rights Research

Computer science professor Dr. Mark Goadrich has joined the Periclean Faculty Leadership Program, a nationwide program which encourages faculty members in a range of disciplines to create and teach courses that address issues of social concern and civic engagement. This year, he developed and taught a computer science course that connects programming with civic engagement. It enables students to use their computer programming skills to create a voting simulator based on polling data and voter turnout, help constituents gain valuable information from local government, and analyze data from various political sources. “I can envision students from this course taking their burgeoning programming skills beyond the course boundaries into their everyday civic lives,” he said.

Politics and international relations professor Dr. Daniel Whelan’s book, International Human Rights (5th ed.), was published this summer. While he held the Charles Prentiss Hough Odyssey Professorship (2012-2015), Whelan assembled a team of seven International Relations students to assist with updates, and provide guidance on the content and usefulness of discussion questions, problems, and case-studies for use in the classroom. Their involvement went beyond typical “research assistance.” Whelan provided broad guidelines for what needed to be done on each of the interior chapters of the book, but the students came up with their own research plans and coordinated tasks amongst themselves. Whelan appointed Andrew McWard ’17 (who is now pursuing his Ph.D. in International Relations at UW-Madison) as the research coordinator.

Significance of Substances Anthropology professor Dr. Stacey Schwartzkopf co-edited a book published in November 2017. Substance & Seduction: Ingested Commodities in Early Modern Mesoamerica (University of Texas Press) explores how social, economic, cultural, and political forces influenced the desire for certain consumables in the early modern period. He also wrote a chapter of the book, and co-wrote the introduction with his colleague Kathryn E. Sampeck. The book features authors from a variety of disciplines who reflect upon the significance of a range of substances, including alcohol, chocolate, sugar, tobacco, and hallucinogens.

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New Odyssey Professorships Three Hendrix College faculty members were recently awarded Odyssey Professorships as part of the College’s nationally recognized Hendrix Odyssey Program. Each Odyssey Professorship carries an endowment to support faculty projects that create new engaged learning opportunities for students, such as internships, service projects, and

undergraduate research. The Odyssey Professorships also provide professional development opportunities for the professors receiving them. > Sociology/anthropology professor Dr. Anne Goldberg and psychology professor Dr. Jennifer Peszka received the Charles Prentiss Hough Odyssey Professorship for their project,

“8 hours for work, 8 hours for rest, 8 hours for what we will: Psychological and Anthropological Lessons for Living Longer from the Blue Zones.” >E nglish professor Dr. Dorian Stuber received the Isabelle Peregrin Odyssey Professorship in Journalism and/or Literature for the project “Bearing Witness: Holocaust Literature and Education.”

Faculty to Retire 2018 brings the retirement of two longtime faculty members with a combined 70 years of professional service devoted to educating Hendrix students. > Dr. Karen Griebling, Professor of Music, will retire in May. Since arriving at Hendrix in the fall of 1987, she has taught composition, theory, counterpoint, orchestration, and viola, and conducted the Hendrix Chamber Orchestra. She is also a violist with the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra and with the Conway-based Cross Town Trio. Last fall, she presented a concert of music from her two newest CDs, Richard III: A Crown of Roses, A Crown of Thorns and Fractal Heart, released by Centaur Records, one of oldest and largest independent classical labels in the U.S. > Dr. Jay McDaniel, the Willis H. Holmes Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Marshall T. Steel Center for the Study of Religion and Philosophy, will retire in December. Since 1979, he has taught courses at Hendrix addressing contemporary Christian theology, process philosophy and theology, Buddhist thought, Chinese culture and philosophy, interreligious dialogue, mysticism, meditation and prayer, and the relationship between religion and ecology. He has written books on religion and ecology, inter-religious dialogue, and spirituality in an age of consumerism. As part of Alumni Weekend 2018, both professors will participate in the “Last Lecture to Alumni” tradition. Dr. Griebling’s lecture will take the form of a last rehearsal in the Trieschmann Fine Arts Building, and Dr. McDaniel’s lecture promises to include a surprise or two! To learn more about Alumni Weekend plans, turn to page 25 or visit www.hendrix.edu/alumni.

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High expectations. Unapologetic truth-telling. Steady encouragement. Hendrix College faculty, students, and staff alike return to these themes when they consider the influence of Dr. Alice Hines, C. Louis and Charlotte Cabe Distinguished Professor English, in her more than three and a half decades at Hendrix College. When asked about a potential author for this feature, she said, “I think it would be best to let the students speak.” And so you’ll find on the next page reflections we have collected from a small sampling of her students. We also listened to those who honored her at an October 2017 reception, including her retired colleague, Dr. Chuck Chappell ’64, who currently serves as a member of the College’s Board of Trustees. Chappell told of how her work at Arkansas Governor’s School captured the attention of his colleague Dr. Ken Story, who in the summer of 1980 served there alongside Hines, then a University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff instructor. Upon the next vacancy in the Department of English at Hendrix, they invited her to apply. “She blew us away in the interview,” Chappell recalled. “She said she read Alexander Pope for pleasure!” Her unwavering standards kept everyone else’s high; during her time on the English Department faculty, “Our guiding dictum became, ‘Let’s just not disappoint Alice,’” he said. “The legacy of Alice Hines — which is a legacy of commitment, sacrifice, dedication, cheerfulness, relentless optimism, hope, courage, selflessness — that legacy is woven into the very fabric of Hendrix College, to the essential identity of this College, and will always be there,” he added. Walter Pryor ’87, Senior Vice President of Government Relations & General Counsel for Ceannate Corporation, and a member of the Hendrix College Board of Trustees, confessed at the reception that he found it intimidating to speak about Hines, his professor, mentor, and a Hendrix icon who was the first person of color to serve on the faculty of the College.

as a graduate student — her deep Christian faith, her guidance to students that went beyond classroom instruction, her shepherding the formation of Students for Black Culture, and her pervasive influence in his own life. “To this day, I cannot write a word without her voice in my head,” he said. “And to highlight the strength of the ripple effect of her teaching, my two children struggle with her voice in their heads when they write, even though only one of them has actually met her, and she has taught neither of them.” Pryor encouraged the Hendrix community to continue to look to Hines as a model. “If we are truly grateful for and want to honor her 36 years of contribution, then we must demonstrate the courage she demonstrated in being candid and outspoken, not only about diversity and inclusion but also the myriad of important issues that face Hendrix College. We must have the strength of character to hold this institution accountable, and to help it truly live up to its highest ideals.” Paraphrasing teacher and author Marianne Williamson, Pryor offered thanks to Hines for “being your authentic, brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous, outspoken, and consummate self, because in doing so, you gave us a glimpse that we too could be brilliant, and gorgeous, and talented, and fabulous, and outspoken as well. Your light is evident to all, including those who may not have been supporters. If there was darkness, you didn’t allow us to see it. You could never be accused of playing small, or shrinking to help others not feel insecure around you. By letting your light shine, you not only gave us permission to do so, but encouragement to do the same, and for that, we will be forever grateful.” Hines thanked her English Department colleagues for taking a chance on her, and Dr. Rosemary Henenberg, Willis H. Holmes Distinguished Professor of Theatre Arts, Emerita, for her support from the days when there were only six women on the Hendrix faculty. “It’s been a joy; it’s been a trial; it’s been a challenge to be here for 36 years,” she said. “My values are country values, and they’ve never changed.”

“It cannot go without saying that it’s important for minority students to both see in positions of leadership and to have the experience of being taught by people who look like them,” Pryor said. “Imagine the impact of coming to Hendrix and learning that there’s a Black professor who teaches literature and writing. And not only that, but she has the audacity to be an expert in 17th- and 18th-century British literature.”

Having completed her last semester of teaching in December, she plans to continue living in her hometown of Menifee, just across the county line from Conway on Interstate 40. She will continue to teach adult Sunday school at Zion Temple Christian Methodist Episcopal Church and remain active in numerous other service activities — including service to Hendrix and its students, when called upon.

Pryor praised Hines’s involvement in the Civil Rights Movement — including helping to cement integration at the University of Arkansas

“I will be here if you need me,” she said.

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While Alice Hines surely will be remembered for her notations from the Harbrace Handbook in the margins of graded essays and her love for the “delightful” Mr. Pope, her greatest legacy — at least in my life as a student and briefly as her teaching colleague — will be how she pushed me as a thinker. She was one of the first people to direct me down the “trouble-making” path of challenging what is “accepted” and “acceptable,” not to automatically discard it but to look at it with a critical eye and ask a lot of questions. I dare say that most every student whom Dr. Hines influenced similarly is a richer, more engaged person than he or she would have been otherwise, perhaps also wearing the “trouble-making” moniker with pride, as I do. —Melissa High Simpson ’94, editor with the Arkansas Division of Legislative Audit

Dr. Hines is the kind of professor who opened the minds of students to realize that in the world of words and literature, there are no boundaries on where or what even a small-town kid like me could explore or attempt to create — but only so long as we were willing to do the hard work required. —Douglas A. Blackmon ’86, winner of a Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction for his book Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II

At Hendrix I held all of my professors in great regard, but none more so than Dr. Hines, who radiated an aura of high standards and high expectations. Because my older sister had admired Dr. Hines, I walked into my first class with her prepared to do the same. It was perhaps the only time in a class of Dr. Hines’s that I felt prepared. The admiration came easily enough and never wavered, but I know I’m one of many still trying to rise to her standards. We’re surely all the better for it. — Trenton Lee Stewart ’92, author of the awardwinning and bestselling Mysterious Benedict Society series

Alice Hines is a superior educator. She engaged in rigorous analysis, and she required it of her students. She showed us that deep textual analysis of great literary works exposes nuance, ambiguity, and meaning not apparent from surface reading. She helped us understand how literature achieves its impact through structure, form, and prosody. Studying literature this way – like doing most things the right way – requires hard work. Dr. Hines taught us how to think critically and in so doing gave us the very best in liberal arts education. No one who embraced Dr. Hines’s approach would believe that the study of literature has no practical application: Our best utilitarian efforts require the hard work of careful analysis, deep exploration of evidence, and reasoned judgment Dr. Hines advocated in her teaching. The influence of the best professors — professors like Dr. Hines — benefits students throughout our lives. —Chip Chiles ’93, managing member, Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull PLLC

I was terrified of Dr. Hines when I had her for Renaissance Poetry back in 2009 or 2010. I had heard (and personally felt) that she demanded nothing less than perfection. She’s a strong and amazing woman. Every student should have at least one professor in their academic career that scares them into doing better...not for the accomplishment of a well-earned grade, but for the accomplishment of well-earned respect. The extra effort to do and be better is well worth it. — Amy DeVooght ’10, circulation manager at Bailey Library, Hendrix College

Dr. Hines was an important part of what made Hendrix College a special place for me. In addition to her responsibilities as an English professor, she served unofficially as a counselor to most every African American student at Hendrix. Whether you were an English major or not, most of us reached out to Dr. Hines for advice and help thriving in an environment where few people looked like us or shared some of the same cultural interests. Dr. Hines was the faculty advisor to Students for Black Culture and made sure that we felt welcomed and an important part of the Hendrix community. Not to mention she was an excellent professor. To this day, I fear her red ink pen and comma splices. You did not want to turn in a composition to Dr. Hines with a comma splice. —Darrin L. Williams ’90, CEO of Southern Bancorp

It is only because of Dr. Hines that I chose to pursue a career as a professor. She made me believe that there was space for someone like me in the world of the academia. Her generosity, selflessness, and tireless support gave me a life that I never imagined possible as a first-generation college student. Everyone talks about the importance of mentorship; she lives it. —GerShun Avilez ’02, Associate Professor of English, UNC-Chapel Hill

Dr. Hines’s strong influence has taught me that hard work and dedication can take me further than I thought possible. She constantly encouraged us to do more and be more. —Disheanna Brown ’19, current Hendrix student

Dr. Hines had a balance in her teaching of high expectations and compassion for her students that I never experienced in any other classroom. She pushed me to work harder and aim higher in my research goals, which was excellent preparation for graduate school and life as an English professor. She also provided me the opportunity to work in the Writing Center, an early exposure to mentoring that has been crucial to my academic career. Looking back on my years at Hendrix, professors like Dr. Hines who knew what I was capable of when I didn’t know it myself were a tremendous gift to me, for which I will always be grateful. —Lindsey Smith ’98, interim director for the Center for Poets and Writers at OSU-Tulsa; editor, American Indian Quarterly; associate professor of English, Oklahoma State University

ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP HONORING HINES GROWS Following her ceremonial Last Lecture on Alumni Weekend 2017, Dr. Alice Hines learned that friends and former students had honored her with gifts to the Alice M. Hines Endowed Scholarship. The fund, established in 2003, supports African-American students from Arkansas attending Hendrix College. Darrin Williams ’90, Walter Pryor ’87, Douglas Blackmon ’86, and Bracken Darrell ‘85 co-chaired the 2017 fundraising effort. To contribute to the scholarship, please contact C.J. Sentell ’03 at 501-548-5406 or sentell@hendrix.edu.

Prep School

Hendrix sets new standard for Career Services

Bracken Darrell ’85, right, CEO of Logitech, talks with students during an October 2016 Career Services event that featured an alumni career panel.

Today more and more college-bound students (and their families) want to feel confident that higher education will lead directly to immediate employment opportunities and rewarding professional careers. Since 2010, nearly 90 percent of incoming freshmen across the country said getting a job was a critical factor in their college choice. A recent national Gallup survey shows students at colleges that offer strong career preparation programs and active faculty support feel less anxious about their futures and better equipped for careers and life after college.

Leader of the Pack

Naturally, as well as nationally, Hendrix leads the way in career preparation and support for students. In January, before spring semester classes started, nearly 50 Hendrix sophomores returned to campus for the College’s inaugural Career Term, a new intensive career preparation program for sophomores. While other colleges offer “Jan Term” courses, devoting time during winter break to intensive career preparation is uniquely Hendrix. “We don’t want to see the deer-in-the-headlights stare from seniors when we ask them what they’re doing after commencement,” said Hendrix President Bill Tsutsui. “With Career Term, students think about their goals and practice the professional skills they will need to reach their goals before they finish their degree and enter the job market.”

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For two and half days, Career Term students covered résumé writing and job interview skills, graduate school planning and preparations, how to find an internship, professional dress and etiquette, networking and personal branding, and professional communication. Career Term was an opportunity for students to meet Hendrix alumni like Amanda Brooks ’08, Clark Cogbill ’93, Amanda Potter Cole ’04, Daniel Goodwin ’96, Kim Herrington ’10, Hendrix College Board of Trustees member Walter Pryor ’86, Ateca Williams ’04, and Jackie Wright ’00, who answered students’ career questions, offered perspective on life after Hendrix, and shared their professional connections and networks with students. “To offer an intensive incubator where students could focus on building real-world skills was really transformational for the students who participated,” said Leigh Lassiter-Counts ’01, Interim Director of Career Services at Hendrix. “The feedback we received was proof positive that our students want to learn these skills and value the investment of time and focus it takes to hone them.” At other colleges, traditional career services models include job skills programs with one-off workshops offered on an elective or opt-in basis. But that model no longer works, if it ever did. According to the Gallup-Purdue Index, an annual national survey of college graduates, 61 percent of students who graduated between 2010 and 2016 had visited their institution’s career center at least once. But 39 percent 2010-2016 grads surveyed did not opt-in at all. And of those who did, www.hendrix.edu

just 17 percent of students considered the career centers at their alma mater “very helpful.” Making Career Term and other professional development opportunities part of students’ experience at Hendrix is critical, Tsutsui said. Career Term will be expanded to more students next year and available to all sophomores in the Class of 2022.

Part of the Plan

Enhancing career preparation is one of the priorities in the Hendrix College Strategic Plan 2015-2020. Among the goals of the plan is to increase the proportion of students who have an internship or summer research experience by the time they graduate, with an ultimate goal of 100 percent participation. Another priority is to increase opportunities for those experiences by building business and community partnerships, and through mobilizing networks of alumni, parents, and Hendrix Board of Trustees members. The hub for all of Hendrix’s career preparation initiatives will be a new Center for Career Services. “Building on the high-quality student-centered services offered throughout all four years of a student’s time here, we are now hoping to launch into innovative ways to provide students experiences, networks, and mentoring so that they have confidence no matter where they are on their career journey,” said Lassiter-Counts. “Our students will be engaged and empowered about their future because of Hendrix’s new Center for Career Services.” The Center for Career Services is part of Be Hendrix, the College’s $110 million campaign. Gifts to the Center will provide endowed support for student opportunities, such as summer internships. While unpaid summer internships can be valuable experiences, they are also a financial burden for many Hendrix students, especially those already struggling to meet the costs of college. Gifts can also support critical programming, including Career Term and expanded professional shadowing and alumni mentor networks. “After a broad, rigorous, and engaged Hendrix education, our graduates have become successful leaders and innovators in the arts, business, medicine, education, the ministry, non-profits, and across our society,” said Tsutsui. “The new Center will build upon our heritage of preparing students to be effective leaders in their professions and in their communities. Most importantly, the Center for Career Services will ensure that every Hendrix student has the career-related skills, hands-on experiences, and networks of personal connections they need to be successful.”

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Campaign Progress the new david and mary ann dawkins welcome center The Dawkins Welcome Center opened this fall. As the new home of the Admission and Financial Aid Offices, it’s the first impression of Hendrix for more than 1,000 prospective students and families who visit campus each year.

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other campaign components Scholarships & Financial Aid Keeping a liberal arts education at Hendrix within reach for all students, as well as strengthening the Hendrix Arkansas Advantage and Hendrix Aspire scholarship programs. The Center for Career Services High-touch advising plus increased networking, shadowing, mentoring, and internship programs through on-campus partnerships and a network of alumni, parents, Trustees, and employers.

The Center for Teaching and Learning Pedagogical research-focused programming, new hands-on learning opportunities for students, and new experiences with cutting-edge pedagogies and increased peer exchanges on effective teaching practices for faculty. The Center for Inclusive Community Programming, training, and support for all students to feel connected and experience success at Hendrix.

campaign committee Joe Goyne ’69, co-chair > Jan Nelson Hundley ’80, co-chair > Luke Duffield ’91 > Bo Frazier ’81 Kenny Gunderman ’93 > David Knight ’71 > Tim Lomax, parent ’12 > Barbara Goad Moore ’63 > Hank Neely ’83 > Derrick Smith ’97

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fundraising

total goal $110 million $60 million endowment $25 million capital $25 million annual fund

funds raised $86 million as of january 31, 2018

you can help miller creative quad The new Miller Creative Quad will bring the creative energy of music and the visual arts to the very center of campus while providing new and renovated residence halls. Gifts of $6.5 million from the David B. Miller Family Foundation and $10 million from the Windgate Foundation ($6 million endowment, $4 million construction) launched the funding for this project, which has a budget of $16 million for construction and $8 million for endowment.

The College has raised $14.8 million toward our goal of $16 million for construction of the Creative Quad. We need your help to raise the final $1.2 million needed and begin construction in May! If you would like more information, contact Rev. J. Wayne Clark at clark@hendrix.edu or 501-450-1223. Visit www.hendrix.edu/behendrix to watch a short video about our campaign.

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“These scholarships are so important to us because they help us keep Hendrix affordable and increase the diversity of our student body,” said President Bill Tsutsui, noting that the partner schools and Hendrix share the goal of changing lives through education. “We are excited to work together to make a liberal arts education at Hendrix possible for their students.” This year, Hendrix added two new scholarship opportunities for incoming Federal Pell Grant-eligible students. In the fall, Hendrix signed an agreement with KIPP Delta Public Schools to offer Hendrix Aspire Scholarships to Federal Pell Grant-eligible students graduating from KIPP Blytheville Collegiate High School. Aspire Scholarships cover up to the full cost of attendance. Hendrix President Bill Tsutsui signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Scott Shirey, Executive Director of KIPP Delta Public Schools, at a signing ceremony in October on the KIPP Blytheville campus. KIPP Delta is part of a national network of 209 public charter schools dedicated to preparing students in educationally underserved communities for success in college and life. The MOU expands the reach of the existing Hendrix Aspire Scholarship Program. Other partners include the Arkansas Commitment program, Episcopal Collegiate School, KIPP Delta Public Schools, Little Rock Catholic High School for Boys, Little Rock Central High School, Mount St. Mary Academy, and Pulaski Academy. The Hendrix Aspire program was introduced in 2015 and is administered through the Office for Diversity and Inclusion, led by Chief Diversity Officer Dr. Dionne Bennett Jackson ’96. A total of 32 students have received the Aspire Scholarship to date, and the first cohort of Aspire Scholars will graduate in 2019. 18 Hendrix Magazine | Spring 2018

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Reaching Out Hendrix adds two new scholarship opportunities for Federal Pell Grant-eligible students

Hendrix STEM Scholars This spring, Hendrix was awarded a Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The S-STEM grant provides scholarships covering the full cost of attendance for academically talented Federal Pell Grant-eligible students pursuing degrees in STEM fields at Hendrix. The five-year Hendrix STEM Scholars program will be available to two cohorts of 10 students who enter Hendrix in fall 2018 and fall 2019. “This is a unique and valuable opportunity to welcome students from underrepresented backgrounds to Hendrix College,” said Hendrix biology professor Dr. Laura Broederdorf MacDonald ’09, principal investigator for the grant. She collaborated with Dr. Jackson, Leigh Lassiter-Counts ’01 (Career Services), Dr. Matthew Moran (Biology), and Dr. Leslie Zorwick (Psychology). “I am thrilled to be able to recruit outstanding students who will make a significant contribution to the campus community,” added MacDonald. “And we are eager to support them through the programming facilitated by this grant.”

“Our goal is to prepare students for careers in science and technology, especially those hoping to become research scientists,” said Moran. “Our hope is that our future graduates will be leaders in their field and advance scientific knowledge for the benefit of current and future generations.” Together, the new Hendrix Aspire Scholarships and Hendrix STEM Scholars program support the College’s 2015-2020 Strategic Plan goal to increase diversity and inclusion on campus. The plan also includes the development of a new Center for Inclusive Community, which is a fundraising priority in the College’s $110 million Be Hendrix campaign. “As a campus, we continue to work toward meeting our strategic goals of promoting access to Hendrix to underrepresented student populations, while also developing programming to ensure the sense of belonging and academic success of the students we serve,” Jackson said. “Aspire and S-STEM are hopefully the first of many future initiatives that promote equitable learning experiences for the wonderful students we recruit.”

In addition to scholarships covering the full cost of attendance, Hendrix STEM Scholars will receive summer stipends for three years of guaranteed research and internships. www.hendrix.edu

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Marking Momentous Milestones Faculty, staff, alumni, and friends of the College gathered in Cabe Theatre September 9 to celebrate 40 years of the Hendrix-Murphy Foundation, 40 years of Cabe Theatre, and the 80th birthday of Dr. Rosemary Henenberg.

Professor Hope Coulter, director of the Hendrix-Murphy Foundation Programs in Literature and Language, greets attendees of the 40-40-80 Celebration.

As part of the 40-40-80 Celebration, three special guests participated in a panel discussion on the value of literature and language both on the stage and in liberal arts education: Dr. Jeanne Hensley Griggs ’82, director of the Writing Center at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio; Douglas Blackmon ’86, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Atlanta bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal; and Dr. John Churchill, former secretary of the Phi Beta Kappa Society and former Dean of the College.

Murphy Visiting Writers for 2018-19 Join us throughout the 2018-19 academic year as we welcome Hendrix-Murphy Visiting Writers to read from their work. Thanks to the Hendrix-Murphy Foundation Programs in Literature and Language, these on-campus events are free and open to the public.

A cake depicting Cabe Theatre served as a delicious centerpiece for the occasion.

> Deb Olin Unferth Hendrix-Murphy Visiting Writer, Fiction and Creative Nonfiction October 2, 2018, 7:30 p.m. Reves Recital Hall > Sy Montgomery Hendrix-Murphy Visiting Writer, Science and Nature November 6, 2018, 7:30 p.m. Reves Recital Hall

> Trenton Lee Stewart ’92 Hendrix-Murphy Visiting Professor of Creative Writing (entire spring semester) Public Reading: February 12, 2019, 7:30 p.m. Reves Recital Hall > Greg Brownderville Hendrix-Murphy Visiting Poet April 11, 2019, 7:30 p.m. Reves Recital Hall

Bobby Engeler-Young ’93, Skip Hoggard ’91, Dr. Rosemary Henenberg, and Sarah Engeler-Young ’91

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Rolling Out the Orange Carpet On September 29, Hendrix College opened its new front door of campus, the Mary Ann and David Dawkins Welcome Center, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and tours of the new facility at Harkrider and Winfield Streets.

Hendrix-SMU Agreement Streamlines Path to Seminary Study Hendrix President William M. Tsutsui and Dr. Craig Hill, Dean of Southern Methodist University’s Perkins School of Theology, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) at a March 1 ceremony in the new Dawkins Welcome Center on the Hendrix campus. The agreement honors the institutions’ common Methodist heritage and shared commitment to training students for ministry. Under the terms of the MOU, Hendrix students with a cumulative 3.0 GPA who submit the requisite application materials to Perkins by October 15 will receive an early admissions decision for the following fall semester. In addition, Hendrix will communicate with Perkins regarding undergraduate students who are promising candidates for ministry, assist students in the application process, and coordinate annual visits by prospective students to the SMU campus. To view a video of the signing ceremony, visit http://tiny.cc/hendrixperkins.

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Visit with friends, hear Hendrix updates,

and have fun!

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We love seeing the happy, smiling faces of alumni, parents, and friends in all the photos from Hendrix events. Highlights from this year include Bill’s County-to-County BBQ Tour, the 2017 Odyssey Medal Presentation, and celebrations on and off campus. Check your mail, email, and www.hendrix.edu/alumnievents for upcoming Hendrix gatherings. See more photos from these and other Hendrix-sponsored events on Flickr at www.flickr.com/hendrixcollege.

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BBQ Tour FUMC Clarksville March 8, 2017 A1 John Frost ’76 and Julia Hilliard Frost ’76 A2 Grace Kelso and Rev. Larry Kelso ’72 A3 Sondra McKelvey, Richard McKelvey ’64, and Mike Lafferty

Etiquette Dinner April 5, 2017 B1 Dr. Dennie Compton ’79 B2 Troy Koser ’17 and Nikolai DiPippa ’06 B3 Dr. Veronica Williams ’93

Crystal Bridges Reception June 15, 2017 C1 Kyle McHan ’09, Mary Lynn Harris Reese ’65, and Dr. Anita Erwin Jones ’70 C2 Ryan Hughes Berner ’10 and Dr. Gary Berner ‘07 C3 Jim Crouch ’74 and Kathy Beall Freeman ’85 C4 Lori Filogamo Jones ’81, Lauren Sparks Adams ’82, Forrest Adams ’81, Storm Adams ’08, Drew Linder ’83, and Paula Linder

Move-in Day August 15, 2017 D1 Kris Maulden Alexander ’87, Sean Alexander ’16, and President Bill Tsutsui

D2 Margaret Sanders Jennings ’69, Alston Earley, Marian Owens Berry ’80, Roger Chinn ’82, Martha Crofoot Bumpers ’73, Paula Barnes, Cliff Barnes ’88, and Alston Jennings ’69 D3 Class of 2021

Fall Minority Alumni Network Meet and Greet September 9, 2017 E1 Front Row: Abba Colbert ’14, Leah Headley ’19, Katie Evans ’18, Dr. Dionne Bennett Jackson ’96 (Hendrix Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion), Dr. Marjorie Swann, President Bill Tsutsui, Ateca Foreman Williams ’04, Caleb Williams, and Harold Evans, and Kim Evans

Back row: Kevin Martin ’20, Remington Harris ’18, Derrick King ’19, Laundon Tucker ’12, Blair Causey ’16, Jackie Wright ’00, Kathryn Armstrong ’14, and Chassie Sasser Jones ’02

BBQ Tour FUMC Searcy September 20, 2017 F1 Rev. Wayne Clark ’84, Jon Stubbs, Rev. J.J. Whitney ’96, Jane Stubbs, and Blake Schrepfer F2 President Bill Tsutsui and Rev. David Orr

Legacy Luncheon October 8, 2017 G1 Leland Dodd ’66, Sidney McGough ’20, and Sherry Dodd G2 Chris Donnell ’20 and Kim Vail Donnell ’88

G3 Front Row: Stella Krone, Liesl Krone ’21, and Nina Krone

Back row: Lucia Brain Krone ’91, Tig Thompson ’62, Dr. Jennifer Thompson Krone ’88, and Ben Krone ’90

October Alumni Birthday Lunch October 2017 H1 Front Row: Bonda Deere Moyer ’69, Adrienne Crowell ’07, Bruce Jones ’82, Roger Chinn ’82, Dr. Thea Siria Spatz ’62, and Maureen Cohen Leverett ’63

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Back row: Dr. Bill Hobbs ’71, Rev. Mackey Yokem ’72, Tiffany Donovan ’10, Laura Beal Middlekauf ’80, Mauzel Matthews Beal ’50, Paula Crabtree Bookout ’62, and Jeff DuBose ’13

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BBQ Tour KIPP Blytheville October 12, 2017 I1 Scott Shirey, Executive Director KIPP Delta, and President Bill Tsutsui signed a memorandum of understanding. I2 Dr. Dionne Bennett Jackson ’96 visits with prospective students and parents

BBQ Tour FUMC Mountain Home October 20, 2017 J1 President Bill Tsutsui shares updates on Hendrix. J2 Baxter County alumni, families, friends, and church members joined President Tsutsui for BBQ.

Odyssey Medal Presentation and Reception October 25, 2017 K1 Debbie Dinsmore, Brian Dinsmore, Fumiko Hamer, Rachel Dinsmore, James Hamer, Mark Hamer ’88, Drew Williams, Julien Hubert, and Elika Hamer K2 Jan Nelson Hundley ’80, 2017 Odyssey Medal Recipient Mark Hamer ’88, and President Bill Tsutsui K3 The 2017 Odyssey Medal presentation and reception took place in the Great Hall of the Clinton Presidential Center.

Tailgate at W.D. Deli in San Antonio October 28, 2017 L1 Robin Eubanks, Mike Bobo ’79, Andrew Eubanks ’01, and Wayne Beers L2 Courtney Lobban ’08, Ryan Hillman, Amy Elder Laney ’08, Hazel Laney, Caroline Laney, and Phillip Laney

Candlelight Carol Reception December 4, 2017 M1 Chris Barrier ’64, Dr. Jonathan Wolfe ’66, Donna Manley Wolfe ’66, Jessica Scott, Veronica Scott, and Robert Wolfe ’00

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ALUMNI WEEKEND 2018 friday, april 20 - sunday, april 22

LAST LECTURES TO ALUMNI: 2018 EDITION > SATURDAY, APRIL 21 > Dr. Jay McDaniel – 1:00 p.m. > Dr. Karen Griebling – 2:30 p.m.

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION AWARDS BRUNCH

SATURDAY, APRIL 21 > 10:00 A.M. WORSHAM >2 017 Distinguished Alumna Award Joan Davis Wagnon ’62

>2 018 James E. Major Service Award Helen Sheffield Plotkin

>2 018 Hendrix Humanitarian Award Rose Thomson Gastler ’12

>2 018 Outstanding Young Alumna Award Rosalia Valdez Block ’10

Introducing Jenny Kyle Please welcome Jenny Yokem Kyle to her role as Director of Alumni Engagement. Jenny has 12 years’ experience in higher education and most recently served as Director of Student Services for the College of Nursing at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Jenny jumped right in, welcoming the Class of 2021 on her second day in the office. Please stop by the Office of Alumni and Constituent Engagement to meet Jenny. We’ll have a Hendrix mug waiting for you, and we’re ready to take your #HendrixMugShot!

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Alumnotes

connecting with classmates

Share your news with other alumni by visiting www.hendrix.edu/alumni and using the online form. Information received after Feb. 2 will appear in the next edition.

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1978

M. Jane Case Hawkins wrote a picture book, A Truck Named Tony.

Tony Hilliard was sworn in as president of the Arkansas Bar Association.

Dr. Richard Livingston is working part-time as Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at UAMS and living in Little Rock.

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1974 Walter Levy ’43, Duane Van Giesen ’64, Lana Dice Van Giesen ’66, and Dr. Robert Goodloe, Jr.

1953 Dr. Morriss Henry and his wife Ann are the 2017 Wes Gordon “Golden Deeds” recipients. The Wes Gordon Golden Deeds Award recipients are people who have gone above and beyond to make Fayetteville, AR, a better place to work and live.

1960 Pat McGill Lile was named a Community Champion in the 2017 Arkansas Women’s Hall of Fame.

1966 Ann Manasco Averitt has written a children’s book, Suzie Belle and the Dress Dilemma. It was illustrated by Les Galusha ’96 and published by Infinity Publishing Company.

Anne Keightley Moskow presented a paper “Educating for Peace” at the Peace in Africa Conference May 7-10, 2017, at the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Also, she was part of a delegation to Oaxaca, Mexico, with Witness for Peace June 18-27, to participate in meetings with social justice programs and with migrants making their way from Central America to the U.S. border and discuss issues that dealt with education, migration, and mineral extraction. Jonathan Wolfe retired from the faculty of UAMS College of Pharmacy as Professor Emeritus of Pharmacy Practice and received the Bowl of Hygeia Award from the American Pharmacy Association in the summer of 2016.

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1968 David Fayad retired from his teaching career and lives in Pinehurst, NC. Joe Purvis has been named by peers to the Best Lawyers in America as well as Super Lawyers of the Mid-South in the area of workers compensation.

1969 Jay Critz retired as a financial advisor with Morgan Stanley.

1971 Dr. Linda Gannaway recently published her first book, The Power of Life Lessons: How to Learn Your Lessons and Create the Life You Want. After retiring from a 30-year career as a counselor, instructor, and administrator at several universities, she is now starting a new adventure as an author, consultant, and motivational speaker.

Mike Mills has been inducted into the Arkansas Tourism Hall of Fame for 44 years of impact by starting/ expanding the Buffalo Outdoor Center in Ponca.

1975 Charles Feild, M.D., is retiring from UAMS, Department of Pediatrics, and Arkansas Children’s Hospital medical staff. He will continue as an Adjunct Professor of Pediatrics at Children’s Hospital. Ann Laux Turney is the Development Director at Blackbird Academy of Arts in Conway.

1976 Michael Henze retired from Lake Regional Health System after serving as Chief Executive Officer for 27 years.

1977 Scott Lewis is Senior Legal Counsel at Ensono, LP, a Chicago-based IT managed services provider with offices in Downers Grove, IL, Conway, AR, and London.

Theo Bunting announced his retirement as group president of Entergy’s utility operations. Chuck Harder of Benton has been appointed deputy attorney general for the Public Protection Department. Michael Stigall is the Vice President of Compliance and Quality Assurance at OmniComm Systems, Inc.

1982 Paulette Smithers Luker has been named CFO of the Year for Large Non-Profits by the Memphis Business Journal.

1983 Rev. Betsy Singleton Snyder was announced the 2018 Woman of the Year by Women & Children First: The Center Against Family Violence.

1984 David Clemmons won the 2017 Jeopardy! Teachers Tournament and participated in the Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions.

1985 Carrie Moore Bourdow was appointed to the board of directors of Nabriva Therapeutics.

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published in the Dead Mule Literary Review. He also had photographs published in THAT Literary Review, Meat for Tea, Freeze Ray, and Blinders Literary Journal.

1994 Tim Hicks has been named chief administrative officer and executive director of investor relations at Bank of the Ozarks of Little Rock.

1995 On October 17, The Skin Cancer Foundation held its 21st annual Gala at Cipriani 25 Broadway in New York City. The Legacy Award was presented to Johnny Dacus Amonette ’63 and Rex Amonette, M.D., ’61, who have been invaluable supporters of The Skin Cancer Foundation since its inception.

Dr. David Scurlock recently opened his own private family practice office, Piedmont Medical Associates, in Brookhaven, GA. (See New Arrivals)

1986 Dr. John Branch, Ed.D., received his doctorate in Curriculum and Instruction from Stephen F. Austin State University in Texas. Pam Hackbart-Dean will be inducted as a Fellow of the Society of American Archivists (SAA) during the SAA Annual Meeting in Portland, OR. The distinction of Fellow is the highest honor bestowed on individuals by SAA and is awarded for outstanding contributions to the archives profession. Connie Hickman Tanner has been named Chief Program Officer, Child Welfare and Juvenile Law, by the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges. Roderick Terry had photographs featured in a new exhibition, More Than A Picture, at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.

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1987 Dr. Mary Nell Ford joined Fayetteville Diagnostic Clinic and will practice internal medicine.

1988 Dr. Jerry Bridges is the new owner of Town & Country Animal Hospital in Little Rock.

1989 J.R. Andrews has been named the Director of Planned Giving for the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Dr. Regan S. Gallaher has joined the medical staff of Conway Regional Health System and has begun practicing at the Conway Regional Neuroscience Center.

1990 Phillip Reid received his Ph.D. in history from Memorial University, Newfoundland, Canada.

1991 Melody Hurdle Eagan has been named the new managing partner for Lightfoot, Franklin & White LLC. Eagan will be the first woman to lead the prominent Birmingham litigation firm.

Dr. Beth Gage Maris was named the Little Rock School District’s 2017 Teacher of the Year/Dr. Marian G. Lacey Educator of the Year. Becky Jenkins Nowell, M.D., was promoted to Associate Professor of Pediatrics at UAMS/Arkansas Children’s Hospital.

1992 Allison Cornwell has been named a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC).

1993 Wendy Anderson joined SparkCognition as the General Manager, Defense & National Security. Cynthia Eckley-Schuch was the first alumna to be inducted into the Hendrix chapter of Psi Chi. Dr. Jason Burke Murphy was awarded tenure and promoted to Associate Professor of Philosophy at Elms College in Western Massachusetts. He published “Plato, Habermas, and the Demonic Cobb” in a recent book, The Philosophy of Christopher Nolan, and had poetry

Rob O’Connor has been promoted to Vice President for Marketing Communications at Hendrix College.

1996 Brian Delavan won First Place in the Young Scientists Excellence Award competition at the 2017 MCBios annual conference for his presentation “Drug Repurposing for LEOPARD Syndrome by Integrating Chemical Structure and Genomics Based Approaches.” He also presented at the Drug Discovery and Development Colloquium at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in June 2017. Stephanie Doss-Robertson is Director of Clinical Services at Advocates, Inc. in Framingham, Mass. She oversees the Department of Mental Health community based services. Daniel Ellis was the revival stage director for the European debut of Sir David McVicar’s opera production of Berg’s Wozzeck at the Grand Théâtre de Genève in Genève, Switzerland from March 2-14, 2017. Amy Meredith Forbus joined the Office of Marketing Communications at Hendrix as Communications Director.

1997 Jennifer Wethington Merritt is now Senior Assistant Attorney General at the Arkansas Office of the Attorney General.

1998 John W. Ahlen IV has been named deputy bank commissioner for the Arkansas State Bank Department. Stephanie Bisulco is a scientist at Pfizer. Erin Gibbs was named Chief of Operations for the Peace Corps’ Office of Volunteer Recruitment and Selection in Washington, D.C. Dr. Michael Hargis was named Interim Provost at the University of Central Arkansas.

1999 Dr. Kate Helms was honored with the 2017 University Recreation Outstanding Alumna Award during the NIRSA: Leaders in Collegiate Recreation Annual Conference.

2000 Brian Bowen has been named deputy attorney general for the Arkansas State Agencies Department. Laura Hanlon is an Assistant Professor of Economics and Business at Hendrix. Rob Mays is a full principal at the the Van Winkle Law Firm. Dr. Lauren Turnbow was inducted into Lawrence County Sports Hall of Fame in Lawrence County, AR. Lauren played basketball at Walnut Ridge High School and Hendrix College.

Amy Ruple Jordan is the new principal of Bob and Betty Courtway Middle School.

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with the Bert Hodge Hill Fellowship for the 20172018 academic year. Ash McLain accepted a new position as the Traditions East Community Coordinator at The University of Oklahoma in Norman, OK. Ash completed her Master of Education in Adult and Higher Education at OU in 2011 and is excited to be back at OU in her new role.

2009 Claire Allison is the new Assistant Director for the Center for Community Engagement at the University of Arkansas. Dr. Laura Broederdorf MacDonald was awarded the Morris and Ann Henry Odyssey Professorship at Hendrix College. April Ambrose ’01, Dr. Carter Price ’03, and Ramona Pipkin Crippen ’82 (pictured) all spoke to high school students during the 2017 session of Arkansas Governor’s School, held on the Hendrix College campus.

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2002

Laura Keech Allen is the new executive director of the South Arkansas Arts Center.

Brandon Bates is the new Director of Youth Ministries at First United Methodist Church in Little Rock.

Laura Leigh Hampton Oyler has accepted a new role with RAI Innovations leading the group’s advocacy and outreach efforts. (See New Arrivals)

W. Richard Counts accepted a new position as Associate Vice Chancellor for Academics at Arkansas State University-Beebe.

Elizabeth Fite was re-elected to serve on the Executive Committee of the State Bar of Georgia.

Stephanie Smittle performed in Dr. Karen Griebling’s latest recording, Fractal Heart.

Amanda C. Dupree accepted a new position as the Associate General Counsel of ePlus. Ben Goodwin is the new director of Our House in Little Rock. Dr. Maureen McClung was awarded the Judy and Randy Wilbourn Odyssey Professorship at Hendrix College. Jonea Rima has been named new head coach for the Midway University volleyball program.

Tanya Corbin Holmes was promoted to Senior Director, Legal for ALSAC, the fundraising and awareness organization for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital® and was named to Memphis Business Journal’s Top 40 under 40 list.

2003 Jessica Duke Alexander had a press article published regarding one of her research projects, “What is Vocal Fry?” Jay Burling has been named Associate Vice President of Technology Services for Hendrix College.

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2004 Jeremy D. Dickerson is the new Associate Vice President for Enrollment and Director of Admission at Hendrix College. Dr. Stephen Routon joined Radiology Consultants in Little Rock.

2006

Hamilton Mitchell was appointed to the panel of Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Trustees for the Eastern District of Arkansas. Barrett Moore is now an equity partner in the Blair & Stroud law firm in Batesville.

2007 Kim Barrett is the new Chief of Staff for Social, Emotional, and Academic Development at District of Columbia Public Schools. Erin Walker is now the Director of Development and Communications for Innocence Project Northwest, a nonprofit organization that frees innocent prisoners in Washington State.

2008 Amanda Brooks recently accepted a position in communications at ESPN, managing PR for ESPN’s College Networks. Jamie Jennings Feldman joined The Toro Company as a Senior Embedded Software Engineer. Laura Hutchison, a Ph.D. candidate at Johns Hopkins University, is attending the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Greece, as a regular member

Dr. Erica Siebrasse accepted a position as the Postdoctoral Affairs Specialist at the Van Andel Research Institute in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in August 2017.

2010 Amy Hicks DeVooght is the new Circulation Manager for Bailey Library at Hendrix. Matthew Malecha started a game company called Trailhead Games with four partners. Meredith Strong Moore has been hired as an associate attorney at Rainwater Holt & Sexton in Little Rock. Thomas E. Robins has joined the Saxton & Stump law firm in Harrisburg, PA as an associate attorney, with a focus on labor and employment, construction litigation and health care litigation.

2011 Jake Brooks graduated in 2014 from Lewis and Clark Law School in Portland, OR, with a certificate in environmental and natural resource law. He is an

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environmental and land use attorney with the law firm Bricklin & Newman in Spokane, WA. (See Marriages) Taylor Kidd is Director of Development - Major Gifts at Southwestern University. Steve Weingold graduated from Cornell Law School in 2014 and joined the New York office of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP. He became an amateur wedding officiant, performing weddings for fellow 2011 alums Jake Brooks and Nicole Segear. (See Marriages) Darcy Wilkins is a Production Assistant for the National Geographic Channel in Washington, D.C. She is helping a producer gather stock footage and b-roll for an upcoming show called “Making a Dictator.”

2013 Chad Binns was awarded a second year of a research fellowship from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) and is working at HHMI’s Janelia Research Campus in Ashburn, Virginia. Maggie DesPain Dunson teaches 7th-grade English and is the field hockey and girls’ lacrosse coach at the Mary Institute and Saint Louis Country Day School. William Haden-Chomphosy is a Visiting Instructor of Economics at Hendrix. Allison Helm graduated from Spalding University with a masters degree in Teacher Leadership and Technology Integration and is beginning her second masters in Mild and Moderate Learning Disabilities at Georgetown College.

Evan Zimmerman returned to work at American Bridge 21st Century in Washington, D.C., with fellow Hendrix alums Elizabeth Price ’07 and Mitch Harle ’16.

Trey Kalbaugh graduated with a doctorate in dental surgery from the University of Missouri - Kansas City.

2012

Daniel Durbin received his graduate degree from the University of Denver in May and is working at Our House as Grants Coordinator.

Colin Bagby was ordained as an Elder in the United Methodist Church, Arkansas Conference. Kent Dunson is the Associate Director of Development for the Olin Business School at Washington University. Meredith Miles Jennings received her Ph.D. in Marine and Atmospheric Chemistry from the University of Miami in August 2017 and recently began a science policy fellowship with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Gulf Research Program at host office Harris County Public Health in Houston, Texas. Kyle Raskin has been named the Director of Finance for the Kannapolis Intimidators.

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2014

Colton Primm is the Director of Development for the University of Central Arkansas Athletics Department. Kallie Simmons accepted a Fellowship with Arkansas Teacher Corps and is teaching in the Delta, starting in the Fall of 2017. Joseph Stepina joined the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service class of 2019. He also is pursuing a degree at the UALR Bowen School of Law. Blake Tierney earned the Trinity Fellowship to attend Marquette University where he will work toward a Master of Arts in Public Service with a

A recent private gathering in Little Rock brought together a number of Hendrix alumni, including Todd Burks ’87, Meredith Wallus ’12, Jess Gunnell ’12, Amy Elder Laney ’08, Jeff Utech ’80, Jenni Burks Elder ’81, Cindi Jernigan Maddox ’81, John Elder ’80, Neal Keahey ’81, Elizabeth Smith Small ’81, Billie Oholendt Dreher ’81, and Melinda Burks Gunnell ’84.

specialization in Nonprofit Sector Administration. He will serve as a Fellow, Coordinator of Special Projects, at United Neighborhood Centers of Milwaukee (UNCOM) during the school year. Allison Tschiemer joined the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service class of 2019. She is also pursuing a degree at the UALR Bowen School of Law. Emily Williams graduated with a M.Ed. in Higher Education from Harvard Graduate School of Education. Jeremy Williams is an analyst in public finance at Citi in New York.

2015 Emily Brown has been named one of the 2017 McLarty Scholar recipients. Austin Nelson graduated in May 2017 from Baylor University with a M.P.P.A. degree, and he won the Department of Political Science’s Richard D. Huff Award for a distinguished master’s student. In August 2017, he entered the Law and Government Program (J.D./Ph.D.) at the University of Texas at Austin with a teaching assistantship in the Department of Government and a Dean’s Presidential Scholarship in the School of Law.

Jasmine Welch-Beardsley graduated in May 2017 from the University of Arkansas with a M.Ed. in Applied Behavior Analysis. She will work as a consultant at Arkansas Support Network, providing intensive early intervention for preschoolers with autism.

2016 Sean Alexander is a Research Fellow at the National Constitution Center. Jared Carver has been named a financial analyst for Stone Bank in Little Rock. Emily Nichols graduated from the University of Arkansas with a Master of Arts in Teaching (M.A.T.) in Secondary Science and plans to teach science in Northwest Arkansas. Travis Rabun has been hired as the assistant lacrosse coach and offensive coordinator for the Creighton University Bluejays.

Barrett Goodwin is working at Apptegy in Little Rock as a Researcher and Content Producer for their Marketing team, writing about trends in education policy for education administrators and the general public. Troy Koser is working at the University of GeorgiaSoutheastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study. Sydney Ozersky has been named to the Jewish Sports Review’s Softball All-America Team. Seth Peters has led the Steelers, a Finnish football team, to their first league championship since 2009 and earned MVP honors as the team quarterback. Sami Sexton published Getting the Best Teachers Where They Are Needed Most through the Arkansas Policy Program (APP). Samantha Stockdale joined the Hendrix College Office of Admission as a new Counselor. Mattie Thacker is working at Our House as Children’s Program VISTA.

2017 Ashley Baker joined the Little Rock Rangers Soccer Club in the Southeast Conference of the Women’s Premier Soccer League. Symone Bennett joined the Little Rock Rangers Soccer Club in the Southeast Conference of the Women’s Premier Soccer League.

Dayton Winn is a running back and special teams player for the Copenhagen Towers, a professional team in the Danish American Football League.

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marriages

Jennifer Gilley ’05 to Joshua Johnson ’05, May 28, 2016.

Stephen Weingold ’11 to Tessa Morland, June 11, 2017.

Front row from left to right: Lacy Allen ’05, Dave Clay ’05, Emily Hunter Johnson ’04, Ryan Johnson ’02, Joshua Johnson ’05, Ricky Johnson ’71, Jennifer Gilley ’05, Andrew Vogler ’07, Tessa Bunch ’05, and Meghan Murphy ’05. Back row left to right: Adam Rongey ’05, Joe White ’04, Daniel Feild ’06, and Jonathan Curth ’05.

Left to right: Jake Brooks ’11, Josh Stramiello ’11, Nicole Segear ’11, Rob Weingold ’13, Tessa Morland, Stephen Weingold ’11, Logan Walters, Blake Whicker ’11, and Francis Bowen Whicker ’12.

Jake Brooks ’11 to Rhylee Smith, May 28, 2017. Officiated by Stephen Weingold ’11.

Katie Midkiff ’14 to Chris Church ’14. Left to right: Brendan Midkiff ’19, Katie Midkiff ’14, officiated by Devon Dundee ’14, Chris Church ’14, and Sarah Church-Curley. > Trent Hubbard ’98 to Jennifer Nixon ’99, Dec. 10, 2016. > Margi Ault-Duell ’06 to Hugo Pérez Trejo, April 15, 2017. > James Tyus ’07 to Andrea Martin, Oct. 29, 2016. > Whitney Maxwell ’09 to Dominic Distretti, Nov. 26, 2016. > Catherine Curtis ’10 to Peter Klinefelter, April 29, 2017. > Hannah Jackson ’11 to David Cheek, Oct. 1, 2016. > Jane Derrick ’13 to Mason Meeks, June 10, 2017. > Jenny Imber ’14 to Nick Drake ’14, July 29, 2017. > Chris Bell ’15 to Anna Claire Atkins ’17, May 20, 2017.

Ava Parker ’17 to Jackson Fitzgibbon ’17, July 7, 2017.

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> Emma Paul ’15 to Cory Ziegler ’15, June 17, 2017. > Elizabeth Ayers ’17 to Jimmy Negley, June 23, 2017.

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new arrivals > Sebastian Gabriel, first son, first child, to Shana Woodard Graves ’05 and Solomon, May 3, 2017. > Elaina Kate, second daughter, second child, to Megan McMillan Smith ’05, April 27, 2017. > J unot Jacob, first son, first child, to Jennifer Cabrera ’06 and Kitoh, July 17, 2017. > Josephine Leigh, first daughter, second child, to Meredith Hawthorn Embree ’06 and Dylan Embree ’06, Aug. 12, 2017.

lijah Washington, first son, second child, E to Lije Cunningham ’07 and Caitlin Stevens Cunningham ’10, July 12, 2017. Pictured with big sister, Magnolia Snow.

Jack, first son, first child, to Alexis Reddig ’08 and Matt, December 5, 2017.

>E mery Louise, first daughter, second child, to Scott Large ’06 and Lauren, May 24, 2017. > Greyson James, first son, first child, to Alisha Burrow Workman ’06 and Eric, Jan. 11, 2016. > Lucas H., second son, second child, to Chris Foster ’07 and Rebecca Mayeux Foster ’09, Dec. 29, 2016. > Walker Owen, first son, first child, to Brian Horn ’07 and Hannah Wilkin Horn ’09, Aug. 20, 2015. > Helen Ray, second daughter, second child, to Molly Morton Bradney ’08 and Rory, Aug. 25, 2017. > Parker Knox, second son, second child, to Cary Small Koss ’08 and Brian Koss ’08, April 2, 2017.

Isaac, first son, first child, to Sarah Rhoads Reid ’09 and Matthew Reid ’09, July 27, 2017.

Ruth Helen, first daughter, first child, to Grace Yokem Depper ’10 and James Depper ’10, July 24, 2017.

>A lexa Rose, first daughter, and Eric Ross, first son, twin children, to David Scurlock ’85 and Eric, Feb. 23, 2017.

> Evelyn Marjorie, second daughter, second child, to Laura Leigh Hampton Oyler ’03 and Austin, March 2016.

> S arah Hazel, second daughter, second child, to Katrina Winborn-Miller ’91 and Calvin, June 25, 2016.

> Catherine Violet, third daughter, third child, to Laura Leigh Hampton Oyler ’03 and Austin, April 2017.

> J ennavieve Leigh, first daughter, first child, to Andrew Teague ’94 and Rächel, Feb. 16, 2017.

> Connor Miles, first son, first child, to Laura Conley-Olsen ’05 and Mark, June 16, 2017.

>C arly Lynn, third daughter, third child, to Ryan Mason ’02 and Jennifer Kribs Mason ’05, June 27, 2017.

> Jack Walker, first son, second child, to Cassie Jackson Dyer ’05 and Walker Dyer ’05, April 10, 2017.

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> Hazel Joy, second daughter, second child, to Amy Elder Laney ’08 and Phillip, Jan. 3, 2017. > J ames Ellam, first son, first child, to Alison McKeever ’08 and Elizabeth, Oct. 8, 2016. > R uby Alexis, first daughter, first child, to Ryan Hughes Berner ’10 and Gary Berner ’10, Nov. 14, 2017. > Arya Roxana, first daughter, first child, to Roxana Reyes Lobo ’11 and Richard, Aug. 29, 2017.

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in memoriam Rev. James E. Major ’40, 1916-2017

James Edward “Jim” Major died Aug. 13, 2017. A Conway native and United Methodist clergyman, Jim had a distinguished career as Vice President and Director of Development for Hendrix College. Jim became the College’s first Director of Development in 1961, and his work in that role laid the foundations for the offices now known as Advancement and Marketing Communications. During his 20 years at Hendrix, he founded the Alumni Loyalty Fund (now named the Hendrix Annual Fund), the Half Century Club, the Distinguished Alumni Award, the President’s Club, and the Hendrix Endowment Society (now named the Altus Bell Society). Upon his retirement in 1981, Hendrix established the James E. Major Service Award to honor individuals who have provided outstanding service to Hendrix.

James L. Patty ’42 Ruth Atkins English ’43 Anne Burney Taylor ’43 Mary Kathryn Murphy Williams ’43 Nancy Harton Kamp ’44

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Helen Marie Butler Lankford ’44 Elmer M. Purcell, Jr. ’44 Margaret Remmel Shelton ’44 Ruth Hamilton Duvall ’45 Wayne Woodruff Pyeatt ’45 Emily Roberts Carrigan ’46 James Bernard Foster ’46 Irving Spence Greer ’46 George D. Purcelley ’46 Robbye Lee Snowden ’46 Thad Burke Spence ’46 Edna Earle Boyce Waldron ’46 Sarah Springer Davis ’47 Helen Marie Winn Fidler ’47 James Waters Matheney ’47 Leanna Ellis Kent ’48 Merry Jean Brines McCarty ’48 Betty Jean Moore Pharo ’48 Sharon Collins Sims ’48 Miranda Nell McKenzie Biggs ’49 Edward Curtis Coley ’49 James Redfield Grant, Sr. ’49 Jacklyn Kelly McKay ’49 Marion Mouser McRae ’49 Jody Ellison Mullens ’49 Purcell J. Smith Jr. ’49 Richard Dixon Worley ’49 Harold Van Smith Jr. ’50 Mary Ann Mange Marshall ’51 John Pershing Miles ’51 Patricia Hunzicker Steel ’51 Norma Gene Powell Lang ’52 Charles B. Roscopf ’52 Wade H. Scott Jr. ’52 Thaddeus Daniel Winn ’52 Minola Caplena Kennedy ’53 Arthur Lee Sears ’53 Oris Baldwin ’54 Barbara Carter Clark ’54 Dwayne N. Couchman ’54 Carolyn Dooly English ’54 John E. Meeks ’54 Steve Ralph III ’54 Elizabeth Shaneyfelt-Akin ’54 Walter E. Workman ’54 James Carroll Christian ’55 Anne Cox Fincher ’55 Bill Branham Lefler ’55 Dorothy Yarnell Warden ’55 William Randall Womack ’55 Bettye Cook Bransford ’56 James C. Browne ’56 Anne Fulmer Bryant ’57 Tommy Hampton Mullane ’57 Patricia Leming Alexander ’58 Henry Fong ’58 Virginia Henry Nutter ’58 Barbara Tarver Cook ’59 Robert D. Francis ’59 James W. Joyce ’59 John Irving Moose ’59

Robert Eugene Walden ’59 Marion Atlas “Jim” Pollard ’60 Nettie Sue Mille Brummett ’61 Jay W. Dickey Jr. ’61 Margaret Parker Norris ’62 Kathleen Snell Tadlock ’62 William Clyde Davis ’63 Douglas Otis Eason ’63 Mary Frances Davis Hudson ’63 Agnes Hoeck Olivier ’63 Jesse Benton Taylor ’63 Walter Harris Nunn ’64 Harry Lee Shannon ’64 Robert Irl Darr ’65 Albert Rowell Hanna ’65 Hugh Marvin McCastlain ’65 Paul Edward Petty Jr. ’66 Daniel Barton Pritchett ’66 Albert Reed Thompson ’66 Nancy Sharon Elliott ’69 Tommy Nichols Evans Jr. ’69 James Akers Pence ’70 Stephen Harris Ellis ’71 Darla Heck ’71 Ricky Lynn Pearce ’72 James T. Turner ’72 Richard Dalton Boone ’73 Martin Lee “Skip” Hearne ’73 David Maurice Lanier ’73 Danny Morris Thomas ’73 Virginia “Ginny” Gardner Wilson ’73 Joseph Carroll Murphy III ’74 James Steven Good ’75 David Cannon Kinnard ’75 George Benjamin Spencer III ’75 Stephen Lowry Taylor ’75 Gary Michael Teal ’78 Tracy Mitchell Boxley ’81 Linda Payne Parham ’81 Kelly D. Shipman ’82 Debbie S. Holmes ’85 James Lyndon Turner ’86 Susan Marie Courtway ’87 Shan Edwin Scott ’88 Michael Scott Tarvin ’88 Rickey Arnol Robertson ’92 Clarissa Thompson-Thomas ’95 LaTashia Dehanna Rose ’98 John Sherman Alford ’11

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His Hendrix legacy lives on… and so can yours. It’s never too early to plan a gift that will create lifechanging experiences for generations to come. For more information on becoming a member of the Altus Bell Society, contact Lori F. Jones ’81, Director of the Center for Trusts and Estates, 501-450-1476 or jonesl@hendrix.edu. Documented estate gifts may count toward the Be Hendrix campaign.

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Steel Center at 40 Music critic Ann Powers, author of Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music, spent time at Hendrix this fall to discuss her journey in writing about music as it connects to her spiritual side. On October 6, she spoke at the Friday Afternoon Discussion, becoming one in a decades-long line of guests hosted by The Marshall T. Steel Center for the Study of Religion and Philosophy. Alumni Weekend 2018 will include events celebrating the Steel Centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 40th anniversary. To learn more, visit www.hendrix.edu/alumniweekend.