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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE From left, Provost Robert L. Entzminger, Trustee Albert Braunfisch ’86, and President Cloyd (right), enjoy Dr. Lucile Shivley’s remarks during a convocation at which she received a Doctor of Humane Letters degree and the Mabee Foundation received the Spirit of Hendrix Award.

Higher education is an investment in the future ON SEPT. 17, HENDRIX PRESENTED ITS HIGHEST AWARDS – A SPIRIT of Hendrix Award and an honorary doctorate – to a foundation and an individual that have been generous and faithful supporters of Hendrix, as well as other worthy causes. We honored the J.E. and L.E. Mabee Foundation of Tulsa, Okla., and Mrs. Lucile Esmon Shivley ’32. We honored them because their commitment to make the world a better place is an inspiration to us all.

John and Lottie Mabee created the Mabee Foundation in 1948 to distribute their wealth to support higher education, health care and Christian charitable organizations. So far, the foundation has given more than $800 million, including more than $58 million to Arkansas institutions and more than $11 million to Hendrix. When Judge Thomas Brett, a member of the Mabee Foundation Board of Trustees, accepted the Spirit of Hendrix Award, he told us that John Mabee, who had a third-grade education, wanted his money used to make life better for future generations. He believed investing in higher education was one way to reach that goal.

Lucile Shivley told me that she and her late husband Charles chose to support Hendrix because the College is small enough that “our gifts could make a difference.” Not only have her gifts made a difference, but Lucile’s joyful nature and optimism have been inspirational. She reminds us that the best example of the value of higher education is a life well-lived.

I was pleased to present Lucile – finally – with a Hendrix degree: a Doctor of Humane Letters. Lucile didn’t graduate with her class because cotton prices plummeted in 1930, and her family couldn’t afford for her to continue. She entered the workforce, met and married Charles, and became a passionate life-long learner.

Traveling the world to learn more about other cultures is one of Lucile’s passions. She has funded an Odyssey Endowment that provides grant funds to students whose projects combine international travel with service to others. She is always pleased to learn that one of her gifts has made a difference in someone’s life, as she did recently when a letter from Sarah Dunaway ’10 told Lucile how much working in Tanzania with the orphans of AIDS victims had affected her worldview.

Sarah’s story is just one illustration of how Your Hendrix Odyssey: Engaging in Active Learning is changing the lives of Hendrix students.

Odyssey, now beginning its fifth year, is also transforming the College.

Odyssey’s focus on engaged learning has helped spur enrollment growth to a record 1,463 for the fall semester (page 3).

The Class of 2009 is the first class for which Odyssey credits were universal. Each 2009 graduate completed at least three projects in three different Odyssey categories (page 8).

This innovative blend of critical thought and action has attracted national attention for the College and the respect of higher education lead-

ers across the nation. For example, Odyssey is one of the reasons U.S. News & World Report listed Hendrix as the No. 1 up-and-coming liberal arts college in America (page 2).

National buzz is proof that our efforts are bearing fruit; we are succeeding in establishing Hendrix as a national leader in engaged liberal arts education.

But national attention brings its own challenges. Liberal arts colleges across the country envy our success. They are attempting to copy what we’ve accomplished by replicating Your Hendrix Odyssey.

To maintain our position of leadership we will continue to innovate. The Hendrix faculty has generated a range of promising ideas for Odyssey 2.0.

With creative and dedicated faculty and committed trustees, alumni and friends, we know that Hendrix will continue leading the way in engaged liberal arts and sciences education and that our students will continue excelling – like the seven who earned national honors this spring (page 4).

Even in these tough economic times, Hendrix alumni, donors and friends have continued to support Hendrix students and our mission to change the lives of those who can change the world. In the 2008-2009 fiscal year, A Commitment to National Leadership: The Hendrix Campaign raised more than $12 million, putting us at $90 million on our way to a goal of $100 million by the end of 2010. We have funded many of the priorities that defined this campaign. Our primary focus now is to accomplish the following: * Meet the challenge issued by the Michigan-based Kresge Foundation to raise the final $4.8 million needed to fund the $26 million Student Life and Technology Center (SLTC) by June 2010. The $750,000 grant is one of four grants Kresge issued to higher education institutions last spring.

• Complete the Pat and Willard Walker Odyssey Challenge to build a $6 million endowment to support Odyssey by December 2010.

• Increase gifts to the endowment to support scholarships and financial aid.

• Raise $1.9 million in annual gifts and reach 32 percent participation in the Alumni Loyalty Fund.

Thank you to all who have supported Hendrix through the past year, when your gifts have been more needed than ever. Our 2008-2009 Report and Donor Honor Roll begins on Page 31. Please review the lists of those alumni, parents, friends, corporations and foundations that have made Hendrix a priority for their philanthropy. If your name is not yet among them, I hope to add it for the 2009-2010 report.

— J. Timothy Cloyd, Ph.D. President

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VOLUME 22 � NUMBER 1 J. TIMOTHY CLOYD, PH.D. President W. ELLIS ARNOLD III, J.D. ’79 Executive Vice President and Dean of Advancement MICHAEL V. HUTCHISON Associate Vice President for Development JACK FROST ’72 Senior Development Officer MELISSA JENKINS Assistant Director of Annual Giving LEIGH LASSITER-COUNTS ’01 Director of Annual Giving ROBERT O’CONNOR ’95 Director of Foundation Relations BROOKE AUGUSTA OWEN, J.D. ’01 Director of Planned Giving PAMELA R. OWEN ’82 Associate Vice President for Alumni and Constituent Relations

BARBARA HORTON Director of Stewardship, Alumni and Constituent Relations

TERESA CLOGSTON OSAM ’72 Coordinator of Special Events HELEN S. PLOTKIN Associate Vice President, Communications and Marketing Editor RAE HAMAKER ’10 COURTNEY JOHNSON ’12 Assistant Editors

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For the Class of 2009, the first class required to earn engaged learning credits to graduate, Your Hendrix Odyssey has been an integral part of their college experience. This innovative concept is changing lives and making Hendrix a leader in engaged liberal arts and sciences education.

13 SERVING AND EXPLORING IN VIETNAM Ten Hendrix students spent 10 days building houses in Vietnam and learning more about the country. Their mission trip was sponsored by the Miller Center for Vocation, Ethics and Calling.

14 RWANDAN STUDENTS EMBRACE THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

Twenty students from Rwanda are enrolled at Hendrix as part of the Rwandan Presidential Scholars Program. While they learn about America, these young men and women also teach about their culture and their resolve to rebuild their nation.

MARK SCOTT Director of Media Relations FELISHA WEAVER Communications Assistant Photography by

Joshua Daugherty, Stuart Holt and Felisha Weaver

Postmaster, please send form 3579 to Office of Institutional Advancement, Hendrix College, 1600 Washington Avenue, Conway, Arkansas 72032-3080 (501) 450-1223 FAX (501) 450-3881

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Hendrix students enrolled in Dr. Jay McDaniel’s eco-theology class continued their classroom work at a Heifer International site in China. Then, Dr. McDaniel returned to China to lead a Summer Language Institute.

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Hendrix students benefit from the generous support of alumni, parents, friends, corporations, foundations and the United Methodist Church. We thank those who honor Hendrix with their gifts by including their names in our annual Donor Honor Roll.

� HENDRIX is published by Hendrix College, 1600 Washington Avenue, Conway, Arkansas 72032-3080. This magazine is published for Hendrix College alumni, parents of students and friends. Permission is granted to reprint material from this magazine provided credit is given and a copy of the reprinted materials is sent to the Editor.

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ON THE COVER: Six Hendrix students represent the Class of 2009, the first class required to complete engaged learning projects to graduate as part of Your Hendrix Odyssey: Engaging in Active Learning. From left: Jordan Kennedy, Joe Muller, Luke Erickson, Justin Warren, Alex Graddy-Reed, and Mallory Bader. Photo by Felisha Weaver.

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Bracken Darrell ’85

Ruth Hyde Thompson Bernabe ’81

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THREE HENDRIX ALUMNI WERE RECENTLY ELECTED TO the Hendrix Board of Trustees. They include Bracken Darrell ’85 of Switzerland, Ruth Hyde Thompson Bernabe ’81 of Tennessee, and William Boyd Smith ’63 of Texas.

Darrell of Montagnola, Switzerland, is president of Whirlpool Europe. After graduating from Hendrix in 1985 with a degree in English, he earned a MBA at Harvard Business School. In 2008 he received the Hendrix College Odyssey Medal for Global Awareness in recognition of the leadership positions he has held in a variety of multinational companies. In his free time he enjoys reading, playing basketball, and competing in triathlons. He and his wife Maria Judith Darrell have three children, Anderson, Blair, and Conner.

Bernabe of Memphis, Tenn., teaches Spanish at Emmanuel United Methodist Kindergarten. A 1981 graduate of Hendrix, she then studied Recording Engineering and Spanish at Memphis State University. She has worked extensively in Hispanic Ministries and English as a Second Language at several United Methodist church-

es, most recently Highland Heights UMC. She enjoys photography, music, and writing and takes particular interest in foreign cultures and religions. She and her husband José Bernabe have one daughter, Olivia Jane Bernabe.

Rev. Smith, a native of Gillett and now of Dallas, Texas, is on the staff of Highland Park United Methodist Church, where he has worked since 1968. After graduating from Hendrix in 1963, he earned a master of theology degree from the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University. He has served on the Alumni Board of Governors for more than 20 years, and has also served as president of the Hendrix Alumni Association and as the national chair of the Hendrix Alumni Loyalty Fund. Smith takes special interest in landscape architecture, and he appreciates the beauty of the Hendrix campus.

The newest members of the Hendrix Board of Trustees will attend their first board meeting in October 2009. �

Hendrix is No. 1 on national list of ‘up-and-coming’ liberal arts colleges HENDRIX COLLEGE IS LISTED AS THE NATION’S TOP “Up-and-Coming” liberal arts college in the September issue of U.S. News & World Report. Over the last five years, Hendrix has garnered increasing attention as it launched Your Hendrix Odyssey and made significant progress toward its $100 million goal in A Commitment to National Leadership: The Hendrix Campaign.

Hendrix is among 13 liberal arts colleges recognized as having “recently made the most promising and innovative changes in academics, faculty, students, campus or facilities,” and “firmly focused on improving the job they’re doing today.” Tied for second on the list are Agnes Scott College in Georgia, Davidson College in North Carolina, and Furman University in South Carolina.

“As witnessed by all the attention we are receiving nationally, the momentum at Hendrix is exceptional and the accomplishments of our faculty and students are extraordinary,” Hendrix President J. Timothy Cloyd said.

The U.S. News announcement came just a day after the New York Times highlighted Hendrix for its innovative approach to offering campus visits to prospective students, and two weeks after The Princeton Review ranked Hendrix among the 371 best colleges in America and listed the College's athletics facilities as the 13th best in the nation. Since August, Hendrix has also been listed among the top liberal arts colleges in college guides published by Forbes magazine and by Washington Monthly. �

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Hendrix enrolls a record 1,463 for fall semester Odyssey is attracting. Odyssey provides opportunities for Hendrix students to pursue their passions through engaged learning projects that combine critical thought with action.

Fifty-one of the first-year students have legacy ties to Hendrix and are continuing a tradition begun by their parents, siblings, grandparents or aunts and uncles. �

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As new students moved into their new residences, Hendrix’s Green Team, a division of the student-led Environmental Concerns Committee, was out in full force recycling numerous boxes and packing materials that are typically discarded. Instead of filling trash dumpsters, the Green Team (wearing their easily identifiable green coveralls), collected several large receptacles full of materials to be recycled, leaving just a few bags of plastics that were unable to be recycled.

130 students are first residents of The Village at Hendrix THE FIRST RESIDENTS moved into The Village at Hendrix in August when 130 students moved into the top three floors of the first One of the two buildings now open in The Village two mixed-use buildat Hendrix. ings constructed.

The Village at Hendrix is Arkansas’s only New Urbanism community and will incorporate single family residences, restaurants, businesses, and student apartments into a walkable community.

The Hendrix students, mostly juniors and seniors, are living in six three-bedroom apartments, and 55 two-bedroom apartments, with two one-bedroom apartments housing a resident assistant in each building.

The first floor of each building will contain commercial establishments, such as restaurants and shops. The commercial areas are expected to open after construction on the portion of Harkrider Street (U.S. 65) adjacent to the campus is completed in 2010.

The first single-family homes in The Village at Hendrix are now under construction, with the first expected to be occupied in late fall.

For more information about The Village, call 501-450-1415 or visit www.thevillageathendrix.com. �

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IT’S ANOTHER RECORD-SETTING YEAR AT HENDRIX. THE College’s enrollment topped 1,400 for the first time in its history, building on an increase to 1,342 in 2008.

During the official census on the 10th day of class, Hendrix recorded 1,463 students enrolled for fall 2009 classes. The total includes 423 new students who moved into the residence halls on Aug. 18 to begin their Hendrix careers.

The incoming class included 412 freshmen, nine transfer students and two special students. Hendrix enrolled the largest freshman class in its history in 2008, when 433 first-year students and 14 transfer students joined the community.

The new students represent the second-largest freshmen class in the college’s history and will be a part of the largest student body ever at Hendrix. Boasting an average ACT score of 29, an average GPA of 3.82 and with 62 of the 188 incoming Arkansas students qualifying as Governor’s Distinguished Scholars, the group is among the most academically talented as well.

The Class of 2013 arrived from 35 states and five countries: China, Czech Republic, Rwanda, South Korea and Zimbabwe. The 188 students enrolling from Arkansas is up slightly from 178 Arkansans enrolling last year. The number of students enrolling from Arkansas has been steady for the past decade, while the number of out-of-state students attracted to Hendrix has continued to increase. After Arkansas, the top home states represented in the incoming class are (in order) Texas, Tennessee, Missouri, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Colorado, Illinois and Massachusetts.

The growth in enrollment from across the country can be attributed to the national attention the College’s innovative Hendrix

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Seven Hendrix students earn LAST SPRING, SEVEN HENDRIX COLLEGE students received national recognition for their academic achievements. Two students were named Goldwater Scholars, two were named Fulbright Scholars, two were awarded Watson Fellowships and one was named to USA Today’s 2009 All-USA College Academic Second Team.

“Our students’ success in winning national recognition is a direct testimony to the impact of the Hendrix Odyssey, which has allowed students to pursue their passions and to develop their potential in ways that make them competitive for these awards, as well as to the mentoring they receive from the faculty,” said Dr. Robert Entzminger, provost and dean of the College.

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Emily Harris ’10, and William James “Jay” Porter III ’11, were named Goldwater Scholars by the Board of Trustees of the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation.

Harris, a biochemistry and molecular biology major from Benton, plans to become a doctor, conduct research in neurology and teach at the medical school level. Porter, a physics and mathematics major from Hamburg, plans to conduct research in theoretical physics.

They are the 20th and 21st Hendrix College students to receive the scholarship, which helps cover the cost of tuition, fees, books, and room and board for up to two years. They were two of 278 scholars selected from a field of 1,097 applicants of mathematics, science, and engineering students nominated by college and university faculty nationwide.

Rachel DeCuir ’09, and Jessica Rood ’09, were named Fulbright Scholars by the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.

DeCuir, of Lafayette, La., earned a bachelor of arts degree in French.

She will use her scholarship to work in Thailand where she will undergo a language immersion program and then work with students for whom English is not a first language. She hopes to get her master’s degree in a French-speaking European country and pursue a Rachel DeCuir ’09 career in diplomacy. Rood, who earned a bachelor of arts degree in German and International Relations and Global studies, will use her scholarship to teach in Germany.

Rood hopes to join the Peace Corps and eventually attend graduate school for international law focusing on human rights.

The Fulbright Program is the flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government. Participants are chosen for their academic merit and leadership potential. The program awards 7,500 new grants annually.

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Hendrix professor receives $168,000 NSF grant COURTNEY HATCH ’00, AN ASSISTANT professor of chemistry at Hendrix College, was recently awarded a $168,000 grant from the National Science Foundation’s Atmospheric Chemistry Program. She will study mineral aerosol heterogeneous interactions with mixtures of atmospheric gases at relevant temperatures and humidities.

Hatch’s research will specifically focus on the reactivity of dust particles (mainly dirt from deserts) to determine surface-bound products

that can cause a number of issues, including altering the climate effects of the particle, the availability of nutrients upon deposition in the oceans, alerting the chemistry of the particle itself, effecting the abundance of gases in the atmosphere, and respiratory issues in humans.

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Erica Siebrasse ’09, was named to USA Today’s 2009 All-USA College Academic Second Team. Siebrasse, of Parsons, Kan., received a bachelor of arts degree in biochemistry/molecular biology.

She was honored for her work creating Ridin’ Dirty with Science, a fun science summer camp for elementary school children. She helped Erica Siebrasse ’09 establish the camp in Conway in 2007 and also held the camp in her hometown in 2008.

USA Today selects the top college students nationwide for their academic accomplishments based on their intellectual endeavors, community service and campus leadership. �

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T.C. Elliott ’09, and Benjamin Lownik ’09, were among 40 national recipients awarded the prestigious Watson Fellowship. Elliot, of Pyatt, received a bachelor of arts degree in biology with a pre-med emphasis. He plans to study biomedical and cultural approaches to medicine in relation to tropical diseases in Brazil, Vietnam and Tanzania. Lownik, who earned a bachelor of arts degree in political economy, is from Madison, Wis. He plans to study how bicycles are adapted to address the needs of people from different socioeconomic conditions in Belgium, Denmark, England, France, Germany, South Africa, Ghana, Rwanda, China, and Hungary.

The Watson Fellowship provides $28,000 for a year of independent exploration and study outside the United States. Hendrix College is the only college or university in Arkansas eligible to nominate a Watson Fellow.

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In addition to their work in the classroom, Hendrix faculty members engage in research and professional activities that expand their expertise and enrich their teaching. Here is a small sample of the professional activities of Hendrix faculty.

� Jeffrey Kosiorek, visiting assistant professor of history, presented “At the Crossroads of Past and Present: Memory and Commemoration in Nineteenth-Century America,” at the Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association in Albuquerque, N.M.

� Eric Binnie, professor of theatre arts, served as a member on the Ethics Committee of Alexander Technique International and also as the Editor of the group’s journal, ExChange.

� Garrett McAinsh, Harold & Lucy Cabe Emeritus Professor of History, presented the lecture series “Cities of the Mediterranean” on the cruise ship Crystal Serenity.

� Kevin Carnahan, visiting assistant professor of religion, presented “Prudence, Justice, and Quagmires: On the weaknesses of the presumption-against-injustice position in Just-War thought” for the Society of Christian Ethics.

� Jay McDaniel, Willis H. Holmes Distinguished Professor of Religion, attended a planning session for U.S. State Department Critical Language Study Summer Program at Heilongjiang University in Harbin, China.

� Constance L. Campbell, visiting assistant professor of theatre arts, served as Co-Writer and Costume and Makeup Designer for “Burn-Out Macbeth” which was performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

� Kristi McKim, assistant professor of English, presented “Fortune as a Way of Seeing?”, a keynote presentation for “Fortunes of Gender,” at the Penn State Behrend 2nd Annual Conference on Gender.

� Hope Coulter, adjunct instructor of English, was nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

� Rod Miller, associate professor of visual arts, published “Mirrors, Shadows and Muses: C.S. Lewis and the Value of Arts and Letters” for The Chronicle of the Oxford University C.S. Lewis Society. (Vol. 6 no. 2)

� Jenn Dearolf, associate professor of biology, served as Secretary for the Division of Developmental and Cell Biology of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology. � Bob Dunn, professor of physics, was named Senior Fellow with the Department of Physics and Astronomy at University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. � Peg Falls-Corbitt, professor of philosophy and director of the Miller Center, (with Bob Entzminger, Jane Harris, and David Sutherland) presented “Exploring Vocation: A Model for Engaging Students in the Liberal Arts” to the Council of Independent Colleges Conference: Vocation in Undergraduate Education: Extending the Theological Exploration of Vocation in Indianapolis, Ind. � Karen Fannin, assistant professor of music, acted as conductor at the Central Oklahoma Directors Association Honors Wind Ensemble at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Okla. � Melissa Gill, visiting assistant professor of visual arts, exhibited work at the Southern Graphics Conference in Chicago. Exhibits were shown at Columbia College, Happy Dog Gallery, and the Chicago Printmakers Collaborative. � Robert Glidewell, adjunct instructor of economics and business, published Legal Terminology (Aspen Publishers). � Liz Gron, associate professor of chemistry, presented “Greening Analytical Chemistry Education: Expanding the Green Revolution,” at the Green Chemistry and Engineering Conference in Washington, D.C. � David Hales, professor of chemistry, was a member of the Physical Chemistry Exam Committee of the American Chemical Society Division of Chemical Education Examinations Institute.

� Sasha Pfau, assistant professor of history, presented “Intimate Disasters: Domestic Violence as Madness in Late Medieval France” at the Fellows Symposium on Topographies of Violence at the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies at the University of Michigan. � Lawrence Schmidt, professor of philosophy, presented “Critique: The Heart of Philosophical Hermeneutics” at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the North American Society of Philosophical Hermeneutics at DePaul University in Chicago, Ill. � Andrew Scott, assistant professor of foreign language, co-edited “Autobiography: A Scholar’s Life” with T.C. Brennan, T.A. Broughton, R. Fowler, K. Shea, which was featured in the American Journal of Ancient History. � Tom Stanley, Bill & Stanley Bowen Odyssey Professor of Economics and Business, co-founded the Meta-Analysis of Economics Research—Network, planning Colloquia in Nancy, France, for 2008 and in Corvallis, Ore., for 2009. He also lectured at Deakin University’s Workshop on Meta-Analysis in Economics and Commerce in Melbourne, Australia. � David Sutherland, associate provost and professor of math, installed a new chapter of Pi Mu Epsilon at Willamette University in Salem, Ore., part of his duties as president of the national council of Pi Mu Epsilon honorary mathematics society. � Alex Vernon, associate professor of English, was invited as a panelist to discuss Hemingway’s “A Farewell to Arms” on the Diane Rehm Show on National Public Radio (NPR). �

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Samantha Clark ’09 waits in the Pecan Court with the rest of her class before walking to commencement in the Wellness and Athletics Center. Clark was a four-year letterman on the women’s basketball team and is attending dental school in Kansas City, Mo.

Hendrix celebrates 125th commencement ceremony HENDRIX COLLEGE CONFERRED DEGREES UPON 232 OF its students during the college’s 125th commencement ceremony on May 9. More than 1,500 people attended the exercises in the Wellness and Athletics Center on the Hendrix campus. Dr. Benjamin B. Dunlap, the President of Wofford College, was the commencement speaker.

The 10th President of Wofford College, Dunlap’s academic fields include literature, intellectual history, Asian studies, film history and criticism, fiction writing, and the arts. He has published poems, essays, anthologies, guides, and opera libretti. Dr. Dunlap spoke about how a healthy curiosity and passionate love of learning can form the basis for a rich, rewarding life. �

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KELLY ZALOCUSKY BECAME THE 30TH HENDRIX STUDENT TO BE awarded the President’s Medal on Honors Day 2009. She joins a list of names that started in 1980 when Rock Jones, now president of Ohio Wesleyan University, became the first graduating senior to be recognized as the student who best exemplifies the highest ideals of the college. The 30 Hendrix students who have received the President’s Medal include: Rock Jones 1980 Mike Pinter 1981 Ben Schumacher 1982 Karen Shirley Campbell 1983 Ken Pittman 1984 George Sawaya 1985 Sarah Pote Swartz 1986 Walter Pryor 1987 Stephen Wehling 1988 Cheryl Fisher Anderson 1989 Tom Huston 1990 Julie Nolte Owen 1991 Kelly Agnew 1992 Omer Shedd 1993 Becky Keeter Steward 1994

Barkley Thompson 1995 Misty Leigh Williams 1996 Ashley Harmon 1997 Todd Tinsley 1998 Russell Roberson 1999 Emily Austin 2000 Leigh Lassiter-Counts 2001 Angela Potochnik 2002 Christian Hester 2003 Sarah Jacobson 2004 Christina Barnes Cooley 2005 Amy L. Hillard 2006 Russell W. Montgomery 2007 Jennifer Robin Tate 2008 Kelly Anne Zalocusky 2009

Kelly Zalocusky ’09 (lef t), the 30th Hendrix student to be awarded the President’s Medal, and Rock Jones ’80, the first medal winner.

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THE CLASS OF 2009 HAS EARNED A SPOT IN HENDRIX HISTORY AS THE FIRST CLASS for which Odyssey participation was a graduation requirement.

Students who entered in fall 2005 knew they would be part of a new program focusing on engaged learning, but the details were a bit sketchy. Many of them had already chosen Hendrix for other reasons.

“I was pretty sold on the college, so the talk of Odyssey was only a bonus for me at the time,” Jordan Kennedy ’09 said. “I was intrigued, but I had no idea how much it would impact my time in college before I got there.”

For many 2009 graduates, Odyssey defined their Hendrix experience – and that’s no accident. In 2003 when Hendrix President J. Timothy Cloyd challenged the faculty to create what became the Hendrix Odyssey he asked that it “be universal (required of all) and defining of the Hendrix experience.”

Your Hendrix Odyssey: Engaging in Active Learning has clearly met both goals.

“The Odyssey program is as cool as you want to make it,” said Justin Warren ’09. “It’s like a very efficient machine: the amount of work and imagination that you put into it is directly proportional to the amount of cool that you get out of it.”

Mallory Bader ’09 agreed. “The first thing that I explain to people when I tell them where I went to college is the Odyssey program,” she said.

So, what is Odyssey?

“Odyssey grew from the active learning environment that has long been cultivated at Hendrix,” President Cloyd said. “It has become the unifying ethic for how we approach liberal arts and sciences education.”

Your Hendrix Odyssey requires that all students complete at least three experiential learning projects chosen from six categories: artistic creativity, global awareness, professional and leadership development, service to the world, undergraduate research and special projects. Hendrix graduates receive an Odyssey transcript in addition to their academic transcript.

Students and faculty are eligible to apply for grant funding to support their Odyssey projects.

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Mallory Bader Memphis, Tenn.

Environmental Studies, Sociology/ Anthropology

FOR 12 DAYS, MALLORY BADER RAN AROUND ENGLAND WITH SOME OF THE country’s best and wackiest cross country runners. As a longtime runner, Bader had a deep interest in exploring the country where cross country running originated as a sport. And as a sociology/anthropology major, she appreciated the unique culture of each running club she accompanied.

“The trip allowed me to pursue an interest that could not have been explored within the classroom setting, as well as practice my cultural anthropological skills of interviewing and participant observation,” she said.

Bader ran with three different Hash Harriers clubs in London. Portrayed as “a drinking club with a running problem,” the Hash Harriers appeal to a young crowd by starting and ending their group runs at a pub or bar. Bader also observed the annual relay race of the Thames Hares and Hounds, the oldest cross country running club in the world.

While abroad, Bader carried a small notebook to jot down her observations and record interviews. She drew strongly on the skills she learned in her Ethnographic Methods class, but the trip was more than an academic exercise for her.

“I’ll remember the trip forever in the sense that, being a competitive runner for so long, I was kind of burned out on it,” she said. “But then I saw 60- and 70-year-olds running with the Hash Harriers, just running because they enjoy it. It was nice to see that running can still be fun and it’s something that people can do for their entire lives.”

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ONE OF LUKE ERICKSON’S ODYSSEY PROJECTS SET HIM ON HIS CAREER PATH; another revealed his passion. Both might help him stave off climate change.

As a chemical physics major, Erickson participated in undergraduate research with Dr. David Hales, professor of chemistry. The two explored the use of sulfur compounds as a short-term means of slowing global warming, testing the hypothesis of Nobel Prize-winning atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen.

Erickson said the research gave him important lab experience, which will be useful to him this fall when he begins graduate studies in mechanical engineering at the University of Colorado. Erickson hopes to do his Ph.D. research at the National Renewable Energy Lab. He sees research as his career path, if not his calling.

“While I’ll pay the bills for awhile doing renewable energy research, I’m confident that the best way to mitigate the twin challenges that will define my generation – climate change and peak oil – is by growing our own food and supporting small, local agriculture,” he said.

During his sophomore year, after volunteering at a community garden for a summer, Erickson decided to start a Hendrix community garden.

“I loved the garden on every level,” he said. “Of my experiences at Hendrix, I am most proud of starting the community garden and watching it grow. It was extremely important to me to be able to eat some totally local food in an age when most of our food has traveled 1,500 miles to get to our plates, and in classes I was studying the terrible climatological effects of that system.”

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In celebration of Your Hendrix Odyssey’s fourth birthday, we interviewed six ’09 graduates about their engaged learning experiences. These Odyssey all-stars represent the potential the program holds for each student.

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F E AT U R E BILLED AS “THE PLAY SHAKESPEARE WOULD WRITE IF HE WERE from Arkansas,” Burn Out Macbeth: A Southern Gothic Tale was actually written by seven Hendrix students and their theatre arts professor, Ann Muse.

They wrote and produced the play in three weeks and performed it on a seven-by-seven foot stage – in Scotland, at the world-famous Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

“For the first time, I was involved with the theatrical process from the very beginning,” said Justin Warren ’09. “This experience was unique in that our professors came in with merely an idea, and really gave us the freedom to take it in the direction that felt right to us.”

The group ended up with a hillbilly version of the classic Macbeth: a bloody comedy set in the Ozark Mountains. After weeks of eight-hour practices, they packed up their costumes and props and flew to Edinburgh. That year the Fringe Festival, the world’s largest arts festival, attracted nearly 20,000 performers in 2,088 shows from 46 countries.

Despite the tough competition, the Hendrix actors attracted a sizeable audience. The average attendance for a Fringe performance is seven people, but Burn Out Macbeth routinely received five times as many attendees. On the final night, they performed to a sold-out audience.

“This project taught me how to be a performer on a grass-roots level, which strips away all of the glamour of being an actor in a traditional theatre with lights, a huge stage, and stage crews for assistance,” he said. “It ultimately made us much greater performers.”

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AS CHAIR OF CAMPUS KITTY, ALEX GRADDY-REED HELPED THE organization celebrate its 60th birthday in style, by raising more than $62,000 for local charities. It was an astronomical achievement for the Hendrix organization, which sponsors a week of fundraising events each spring. The 2008 total, which itself had been a record-breaker for the club, was $42,025.

“There’s no doubt this was the best thing I did at Hendrix,” GraddyReed said. “It was an amazing time when I was constantly busy planning and executing events all while staying focused on why we were trying to raise all this money.”

By her senior year, Graddy-Reed was already an experienced fundraiser.

She had spent the previous summer as an intern with the advancement office of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, planning events and working with high-level donors.

Both the internship and the Campus Kitty chairmanship gave GraddyReed valuable job skills, and she earned a Professional and Leadership Development credit for each experience. The experiences also led to a career path: she plans to work in fundraising for several years, and then attend graduate school.

“Both opportunities prepared me for this career and gave me a set of skills that most people don’t gain until entering the work force,” she said.

“The Odyssey program gave me the opportunity to explore development work in different settings, which cemented my desire to work in the field after graduation.”

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Joe Muller

St. Louis, Mo. International Relations

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JOE MULLER’S PATH TO LAW SCHOOL PASSED THROUGH THREE continents. In 2007, Muller leapt at the opportunity to travel to Rwanda with a group of Hendrix students, faculty and administrators. The following year, he and Mary Flanigan ’09 received Odyssey funding for a service trip to Guatemala.

This fall, he begins work on his law degree at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. “My Odyssey proposals helped prepare me for the law school application process,” Muller said. “My experiences abroad have encouraged my interest in law in general, and international law in particular.”

In Rwanda, Muller met with government officials like Rwandan President Paul Kagame. He and the other Hendrix students were able to ask questions about policy issues and governing in Rwanda. They also toured health clinics and microfinance projects, and stopped to see a Gacaca Court in action.

“The Gacaca Courts are one of the remedies that Rwandans have developed to deal with overflowing prisons from the 1994 genocide,” he said. “The courts are many people’s only judicial remedy for crimes committed during the genocide, and as foreigners we were really fortunate to see how they actually worked.”

Muller also confronted injustice in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, where he volunteered at a shelter for women and children. He was awed by the resilience and tenacity of the children there.

“I think my Odyssey trips have been an integral part of my experience at Hendrix,” he said. “My Odyssey experiences have been some of the most defining and memorable experiences that I’ve had in my undergraduate career.”

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Service to the World Jordan Kennedy

Bogalusa, La. Studio Art, Art History minor

JORDAN KENNEDY SPENT THE SPRING BREAK OF HER JUNIOR YEAR ON AN island in the Bahamas, but not at a resort. She and other Hendrix students on a Hendrix-Lilly mission trip worked side-by-side with residents to repair homes destroyed by a hurricane. While re-shingling rooftops and mixing cement, she realigned her priorities in life.

“The experience secured within me my desire to spend my life in service to others,” Kennedy said. “I believe you can’t fully get a grasp of who you are until you are granted the opportunity to completely abandon yourself and fully serve another individual.”

Kennedy was granted two such opportunities during her time at Hendrix, thanks to the Hendrix-Lilly program (now the Miller Center for Vocation, Ethics and Calling). A few months after her trip to the Bahamas, Kennedy received a Lilly Service Fellowship to travel to Ghana for seven weeks. She spent six weeks as a civil servant in the small village of Etordome, where she assisted with community development and taught at a secondary school.

During her free time she organized a formal photo shoot for the community, particularly the schoolchildren, who had never seen photographs of themselves. An Odyssey grant funded the production of her senior art show, an on-campus exhibition of the photographs she took in Ghana.

“I am particularly passionate about telling the stories of those who would otherwise not be heard,” Kennedy said. “It is my hope that my camera can be the microphone through which than can have freedom and comfort to speak.”

Jamie Fotioo, Admission Counselor and Enrollment Communications Manager, coordinated the interviews and Katie Rice ’10, student writer, drafted the text for this story.

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604 students and 83 faculty had shared $1.18 million in grant funding.

Dr. Mark Schantz, the first Odyssey director (who left Hendrix at the end of the spring semester to become provost of Birmingham Southern University in Birmingham, Ala.), said Odyssey has “succeeded wildly. The evidence of success is in the projects that faculty and students develop and the incredible creativity of the students.”

Dr. Nancy Fleming, the current Odyssey director, said the way Odyssey functions as an umbrella to draw many facets of the Hendrix experience together is unique.

“Odyssey draws on so many different kinds of experiences and recognizes the value of them,” Dr. Fleming said. “It pulls together the components of a wellrounded education. It speaks to our motto of ‘unto the whole person.’ ” In a relatively short period of time, Odyssey has grown from an intriguing concept to an integral part of the Hendrix experience.

“Odyssey is not an add-on. It’s not an extra little something we’ve added to our curriculum. It’s who we are,” President Cloyd emphasized.

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How has Odyssey changed Hendrix?

The idea of Odyssey has done more than transform the lives of individual students. It has also refined the way Hendrix thinks about itself and its mission.

“Odyssey has made Hendrix better at being Hendrix,” said Dr. Robert E. Entzminger, Provost and Dean of the College.

“We have always had students and faculty who are creative and who work well together outside the classroom,” Provost Entzminger said. “The funding and the program have made it possible for more of our faculty and students to realize their dreams.”

Several Hendrix administrators identified Odyssey as a primary reason for the recent expansion of international programs and dramatic growth in the number of Hendrix students traveling abroad.

“Odyssey has been a catalyst behind our impressive growth in international study and service projects,” President Cloyd said.

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Another benefit of the Hendrix Odyssey has been a significant impact on the College’s ability to recruit students from across the country.

“Odyssey has put us on the radar screen in a way we really hadn’t been before,” Provost Entzminger said. “Without Odyssey we would not have as many students from as many places.”

Although he believed the Odyssey concept would be well received, Dr. Entzminger said he and others were surprised by the level of success.

“There is no way we could have seen that we would grow 40 percent in four years, that we’d be able to recruit as far as we have, or that our national visibility would be where it is now,” he said.

For example, Hendrix was recently listed in as the nation’s top “up-and-coming” liberal arts college by U.S. News & World Report.

Innovation and a constant push to improve were the key criteria for inclusion on the list.

So, what is next for Your Hendrix Odyssey?

Hendrix is now widely seen as a model for engaged liberal arts and sciences education. As other institutions work to copy the College’s success, Hendrix must keep improving Odyssey to maintain its leadership position. President Cloyd has responded by once again asking Hendrix faculty members to be creative and bold in their thinking as they develop Odyssey 2.0. The faculty has responded with an array of proposals with the potential to enrich the Odyssey concept as they are developed and unveiled.

Dr. Entzminger sums up the goal for Odyssey’s future: “We are looking to make it even more robust and more integral to the whole educational experience.” �

You can help Hendrix honor its outstanding alumni by nominating someone for an Odyssey medal ODYSSEY MEDALS ARE PRESENTED BY THE Board of Trustees to individuals whose life achievements exemplify the Hendrix Odyssey program and accomplishment in artistic creativity, global awareness, professional and leadership development, service to the world, research, and special projects.

Nominations may be made by sending a letter (electronic format is OK) outlining how your nominee meets the criteria to plemmons@hendrix.edu by March 1.

Address your letter to President J. Timothy Cloyd. Send snail mail to: Office of the President, Hendrix College, 1600 Washington Avenue, Conway, AR 72032.

Please submit your nominations by March 1, 2010.

Earlier submissions are welcome.

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Rev. J. Wayne Clark, chaplain of the College, with a couple of the new friends he made during a mission trip to Vietnam in May.

Staff Writer IN MAY, 10 HENDRIX STUDENTS AND TWO FACULTY LEADERS FLEW TO VIETNAM for 10 days of service and exploration. Accompanied by six Vietnamese students, they constructed houses in an isolated village.

Shortly after arriving in the airport of Ho Chi Minh City, the students learned their first lesson about Vietnam: it’s not easy to get around. It took the students and their faculty leaders six hours to traverse the 120 miles from the airport to their hotel in Chau Thanh, in southern Vietnam. Getting to the work site at Giuc Tuong Commune each day required an additional 90-minute trek by bus and boat.

The students worked for four days, laying floors, constructing brick walls, and finishing the roof. The trip, sponsored by Hendrix’s Miller Center for Vocation, Ethics and Calling, also emphasized intercultural connections. One evening, the group attended a cultural exchange with community members and leaders at the commune.

Toward the end of their stay, the group visited the underground tunnels built by the Vietnamese during the war to escape from the fighting.

“As I watched our Hendrix students and the Vietnamese students crawl through the tunnels and laugh with each other and help each other through the tiny holes, I was moved thinking that almost 35 years ago these students would have been killing each other,” said Rev. Wayne Clark, who led the trip. “When you work with each other, rather than against each other, the ‘enemy’ becomes your friend.”

Student participants included: Larnie Campbell, Emily Harris, Heather Newell, Daniel Partain, Joseph Byram, Canyon Darcy, Lea Groat, Rachel Kincannon, Anthony Lucio, and Colleen Mayo. The group was led by Rev. Wayne Clark and Dr. Alex Vernon, associate professor of English.

The Miller Center designs, funds and oversees a variety of programs created for the purpose of helping participants explore the content and nature of their life’s true calling. In

communion with others, working for the up-building of those in need, individuals discover a place to which they are called. The Miller Center partnered with Peacework, whose goal is to end poverty and economic disparity throughout the world.

“It was truly a blessing to see God at work on this trip,” Clark said. “From the lives that were changed to the relationships that were built, I saw hope for the participants and hope for the world. Often, people go on mission trips thinking they are the experts and have all of the answers. We realized that we have a lot to learn from these trips.”

Participating in these trips is a highly selective process at Hendrix College. In 20082009, 120 students completed a rigorous application process with hopes of being selected to serve others around the globe during one of four mission trips sponsored by the Miller Center. Hendrix students participated in other Miller Center-sponsored mission trips last year in San Francisco, New Mexico, and Taizé, France. �

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Director of Media Relations PIERRE URISANGA WATCHED CAREFULLY AS THE STUDENT IN FRONT OF him at the Hulen Cafeteria strategically put together a hamburger. The meat and cheese go inside the bun? And lettuce and tomatoes, too? Such a novel concept, he had to try one for himself, and with the first bite he became infatuated with the popular college cuisine.

A memorable first experience eating at Hendrix, it wasn’t long before he branched out and found his true fast-food love: The Big Mac. “That’s the best,” the Rwandan student responds when asked about his favorite American food.

Pierre’s first year at Hendrix was dotted with variety of firsts – his first baseball game, his first ice storm, his first trip to the beach – and a challenging course load that perhaps weighs more heavily on him than the typical Hendrix student. Pierre will use his degree to rebuild his country.

One of 20 students from Rwanda now attending Hendrix, Pierre is part of the Rwandan Presidential Scholars Program, a partnership that began in 2007 between Hendrix College and Rwandan President Paul Kagame as an effort to provide American college educations to future leaders of the central African country. An educated workforce, from doctors to engineers to research scientists, is needed in the central African country ravaged by a bloody genocide in 1994.

A Hendrix-led higher education consortium with Rwanda was the brainchild of David Knight ’71, the chief legal council at Stephens Inc. and a member of the Hendrix College Board of Trustees. Knight worked with Hendrix President J. Timothy Cloyd to begin Hendrix’s relationship with Rwanda, and both men have been instrumental in recruiting new colleges to the consortium during the past two years.

Beginning at Hendrix College in 2007 with four Rwandan students, the program’s consortium grew in 2008 to include the University of Arkansas-Little Rock, Harding University in Searcy, Philander Smith College in Little Rock, Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia and Wofford College (S.C.). This year, University of Arkansas-Fayetteville, Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, Lyon College in Batesville, Southwestern University (Texas), Birmingham Southern (Alabama) and Sewanee: The University of the South (Tennessee) joined the consortium.

In all, 81 students are now earning college degrees through the innovative program.

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Rebuilding Rwanda In addition to the loss of more than a million lives, one of the most devastating consequences of the genocide in Rwanda was the near-total destruction of the country’s government and private sector infrastructure. Almost all of the senior government officials, educators and business leaders were killed or driven out of the country by the perpetrators of the genocide. And while the Rwandan government has been successful in establishing a politically stable and secure environment over the last decade, the process of identifying, recruiting and training new leaders has proven to be an understandably slow and laborious process. This program is a key response to this critical need, and its importance to the future development of the country is evidenced by the government’s major, long-term investment.

The Rwandan government has initially chosen math, physics, chemistry and biology as the areas of primary focus for the program. Pools of scholarship candidates are established based on national high school test scores, and representatives of the consortium colleges then travel to Rwanda each spring to interview prospective students. It’s an intriguing and thorough process, as students are selected based on their ability to succeed in such a rigorous educational pursuit.

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Campus Life Peter Gess, Hendrix’s director of international programs and the facilitator of the Rwandan Presidential Scholars Program, knows what it’s like to be a stranger in a foreign country. As a Peace Corps volunteer just out of college, Gess flew to Poland for an assignment and initially stayed with a family that couldn’t speak English. Gess’s inability to speak Polish made communication quite interesting.

Through Gess’s leadership, the consortium has

provided an intensive English summer program for the Rwandan students to help them enhance language skills and better prepare them for their classroom experiences. The program has allowed these students to “hit the ground running,” Gess said, which made for a much smoother transition to college life. This past summer, students also participated in the three-day Rwandan Presidential Scholars Program Academy, focusing on civic involvement and concluding with a tour and luncheon at the Clinton Presidential Library.

Linda Pondexter Chesterfield ’69, the first African-American graduate of Hendrix, was the keynote speaker.

The Rwandans’ adaptation to the U.S. has been incredible, both socially and academically. Given no preferential treatment in the classroom, the Rwandan students completed the spring semester with an average GPA of 3.67 – above the 3.49 average of non-Rwandan Hendrix students. Six of the 29 participants last year had perfect grades, and two of the Rwandans at Hendrix were recognized with special academic awards during Honors Day. The Rwandan students are also branching out socially. One student is working as a residential assistant in Hardin Hall, another does volunteer work at a local hospital. Pierre is active in a church youth group and participated in an annual summer youth beach trip in Florida. The group as a whole organized a Genocide Remembrance Week on campus in the spring, including a candlelight vigil in the Hulen Sunporch and a documentary about the Rwandan genocide.

It would be easy to write the program off as a charitable effort to a developing country, but that wouldn’t be accurate.

“There is a service motivation to provide assistance to Rwanda, but we really think of this as a two-way bridge,” Gess said. “As we help them, they help us.

They bring us their stories, views and examples of life in general to our campus, and that is a tremendous benefit to the diversity of Hendrix. It’s great to have students from California and Massachusetts, but it’s also great to have students from Rwanda and from around the world. They truly make life richer here at Hendrix.” �

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Pierre and other Rwandan students were initially surprised by the breadth and depth of the liberal arts curriculum at Hendrix.

In Rwanda, physics students only study physics; but here, students are exposed to electives and other educational requirements that expand their knowledge. Pierre chose to take a public speaking course during the college’s Maymester program, which he said enlightened him to a different communications dynamic. He put his newly-enhanced communications skills to quick work, interning in the college’s Office of Communications and Marketing and participating in feature interviews conducted by a National Public Radio affiliate and a Little Rock newspaper. He also volunteered to work with the college’s Alumni Office for the annual Hendrix Night at the Travelers event, which exposed him to his first professional baseball game.

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1. Hendrix students enjoy local cuisine at a restaurant in Yunnan Province. 2. Hendrix alumnus Shane Nunn ’87 shops in a local market. 3. Hendrix students visit with farmers and families at the home of a villager in Manan. 4. Citizens of Manan unveil a plaque celebrating their partnership with Heifer International. 5. Dr. McDaniel (on guitar) and students from the 2009 Summer Language Institute in Harbin, perform at a small village near Dalian, China, during a mid-semester excursion. Chinese villagers had just sung a popular Chinese song and invited their guests to play an American song. The group performed John Denver’s “Country Roads.”

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FOR STUDENTS IN DR. JAY MCDANIEL’S ECOTHEOLOGY CLASS, THE LEARNING didn’t end with the final exam. On May 16, McDaniel and six of his students flew to China to see firsthand the kind of sustainable economic development they had studied in the classroom.

The two-week study tour gave the students a rundown of the work Heifer International has done in China. The students visited four villages in the Yunnan province, one of the most biologically and culturally diverse regions in the country, to meet with project partners and the villagers involved in the Heifer projects.

In the village of Mandan, the home of the Achang ethnic minority, the students were welcomed with music, dancing and fireworks. When the celebrations died down, the students learned about the Achang Community Participatory Development and Women Empowerment project, which provided 150 Achang families with sows and piglets, as well as training in environmental conservation and improved animal management.

The villagers also received training on Heifer’s Values-Based Holistic Community Development Model, which emphasizes the social aspects of sustainable living.

The visits allowed the students not only to see the Heifer Model in action, but to witness the changes Heifer’s principles had wrought in the communities. Through meetings with local families, the students heard dozens of success stories: fatter and healthier pigs, increased income, less smelly pigsties, more fertile soil.

“These people don’t have the luxury of pondering questions,” said junior Lauren Klaskala, an environmental studies and biology double major. “When we asked them, like, ‘What is the most beautiful thing you’ve ever seen?’ or ‘What has been the happiest moment of your life?’ they had never thought about things like that. But they did say that, since the Heifer projects started, they’ve noticed that their community is more harmonious and there’s less quarrelling. I think their introspection is indicative of how much the change has meant to them.”

Biology professor Dr. Joyce Hardin also accompanied the students. As the chair of the Environmental Studies program at Hendrix, Hardin was uniquely qualified to help the students reflect on the way Heifer projects addressed environmental concerns.

“Becoming sustainable requires a complete lifestyle change,” Klaskala said. “People don’t realize that you don’t just do one thing. Just saying ‘I recycle plastics’ is not being sustainable.

You need to make an effort in every aspect of your life in order to make your lifestyle – or your community, or an institution – more sustainable.”

McDaniel hoped the work with Heifer would encourage students to learn from the Heifer model, which emphasizes eliminating poverty and enabling people to live in harmony with one another and the earth. It also encourages them to see connections between spirituality and sustainability.

A professor of religion, McDaniel was named to an Odyssey professorship last spring, which has provided him with funding to develop engaged learning experiences for Hendrix students.

McDaniel will use his professorship to develop a partnership between Hendrix College and Heifer International. He is developing other programs as well, and he hopes Hendrix will become a place where students can be involved with Heifer International in various ways. �

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IN AUGUST, 38 STUDENTS GRADUATED FROM THE SECOND ANNUAL HENDRIXcoordinated Summer Language Institute. The nine-week institute, hosted by Heilongjiang University in Harbin, China, provides students with an intensive language immersion experience in either intermediate or advanced Mandarin.

The selective program is funded by the U.S. Department of State, via the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC). The CAORC designated $1,110,000 to the Associated Colleges of the South to conduct two institutes in China, and ACS members Hendrix College and Furman University were chosen to facilitate those institutes. Furman’s takes place at Soochow University in Suzhou.

The Summer Language Institutes are part of the State Department’s push to help students learn “critical languages” such as Mandarin and Arabic. All expenses are paid for the students, including international airfare, room and board. In exchange, the students pledge to speak only Mandarin while in China.

Heilongjiang University, known for its excellence in teaching Mandarin to international students, offers a staff of 10 highly qualified language instructors, 12 teaching assistants and a resident dormitory advisor. Institute students live in the dormitories, eat on campus and take numerous excursions into Harbin as well as one longer trip to various sites around China.

So far more than 78 graduate and undergraduate students from around the country have participated, coming from a wide range of universities, including Princeton, Stanford, Georgetown University, Washington University and the University of Arkansas. Many use their language skills to pursue careers in government service, non-profit work, education and business.

“Hendrix has always been proud to help train leaders in international relations,” said Jay McDaniel, professor of religion. “It is now playing a small but important role in helping

Nine-week program in China is sponsored by the U.S. State Department American citizens better know their Chinese friends across the Pacific. This is what liberal education is all about: building bridges between nations and encouraging cross-cultural communication.”

From the Hendrix side, the language program is coordinated by director of international programs Peter Gess, assistant professor of history Han Zhao, and McDaniel. Xuelai Qiu serves as an assistant to the Hendrix directors, and Hendrix-in-China liaison Shane Nunn leads the mid-semester trip.

On the Heilongjiang side, the institute is directed by Xiaoguang Zhang, director of the department of foreign affairs, and co-directed

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first 20-plus win season since 2002. Forgerson (Simi Valley, HENDRIX COLLEGE FRESHMAN PITCHER CALEB Calif./H.S.), one of four first basemen to earn all-conference honors, Schallawitz (Ft. Worth Christian,Texas/H.S.) held a powerful had a .340 batting average (51-of-150) in 41 games played, along Trinity University offense to one run on only three hits and struck with 11 doubles, one triple, 10 home runs (T-4th in SCAC and new out two batters in an 11-1 eight-inning victory that gave the Hendrix single-season record) and drove in a team-best 43 runs.

Warriors their first ever Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Ward (Tacoma, Wash./Washington H.S.) boasted some of the best Baseball Championship and the school’s first men’s SCAC chamoffensive numbers in the SCAC this year with a .382 batting average pionship in any sport. Hendrix earned the SCAC’s automatic qual(12th in SCAC), .717 slugging percentage (3rd in SCAC), .492 onifier bid to the NCAA Division-III Baseball Championship. base percentage (4th in SCAC), 48 runs scored (4th in SCAC), 17 The #3 west Warriors went through the tournament undefeated doubles (T-1st in SCAC), two triples, 10 home runs (T-4th in SCAC and ultimately finished the season 22-23 and 5-2 all-time in the and new Hendrix single-season record) and 42 RBI. � SCAC Tournament. Hendrix defeated #2 west Trinity for the second time in the tournament after taking a 9-7 win over the Tigers in second round. The Warriors opened this year’s postseason classic with a 10-7 upset over #1 east DePauw University on Thursday before defeating #1 west Millsaps College, 9-8, on Friday.

The team’s SCAC Tournament Championship generated a cloud of excitement around campus on the night of Sunday, April 26. A large crowd of students, alumni, faculty and staff gathered at Warrior Field to greet the team as they returned from Jackson, ON THE SCHEDULE IT’S LISTED AS AN EXHIBITION. BUT Miss., around 9:30 p.m. when Hendrix and the University of Central Arkansas meet on the The impromptu and rowdy celebration was highlighted by basketball court in November for the first time in nearly two decades, speeches from coach R.J. Thomas, the team’s four seniors, and an exciting rivalry will be renewed. the team’s presentation of an autographed game ball to UCA hosts the Warriors on Nov. 13th (7 p.m. tipoff) at the Farris Center, Hendrix President Tim Cloyd, who was on hand for the celethe first time the two men’s teams have played each other since Feb. 19, bration. Several alumni baseball Warriors also attended the 1992. UCA leads the all-time series 69-54. The two haven’t met since event.

Hendrix moved to NCAA Division III and UCA began pursuing its current Hendrix College head baseball coach R.J. Thomas was Division I position. They formerly competed as cross-town conference named the 2009 Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference rivals in the Arkansas Intercollegiate Conference.

Coach-of-the-Year, while sophomore Jeff Forgerson and senior Last year, Hendrix’s women played UCA in an exhibition game, Daniel Ward earned All-SCAC honors. Thomas, in his third seadrawing an impressive orange-dominated crowd to the Farris son as the Warriors’ skipper, has improved the team’s win total in Center. The men hope to draw similarly festive support each of his first three years going from 13 wins in 2007 to 14 in this season.

2008 and 22 in 2009. Thomas also led the baseball program to its Dan Priest returns for his fifth season as the Warriors’ head coach. �

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McCracken takes over WBB Warriors Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC) men’s team in HENDRIX ASSISTANT MEN’S BASKETBALL COACH 2004-05 into a conference contender at 17-10 overall and Thad McCracken was named the new head women’s bas9-6 in the SCAC (2nd in SCAC Western Division) this ketball coach in March. He takes over at the helm with past season. five years of assistant coaching experience. Before coming McCracken won four HCAC Championships and to Hendrix in 2005-06, he helped lead Transylvania made two NCAA D-III National Tournament appearUniversity (Lexington, Ky./NCAA D-III) to a Heartland ances during his playing career at Hanover College Collegiate Athletic Conference (HCAC) Championship in (Hanover, Ind.). He was honored as a NCAA D-III All2004-05.

American and HCAC Player-of-the-Year his senior year “Hendrix is a great place to work,” McCracken said. and HCAC Tournament MVP his junior year.

“My wife Jennifer and I have enjoyed our four years here.

McCracken holds the record for most 3-pointers in a Having traveled with the women’s team and through Thad McCracken season (76/2003-04) and is tied for most career 3-pointwatching them play on a regular basis, I know going in ers (216/2001-04) in Hanover’s rich program history. that they are not only extremely talented players, but also McCracken will remain as head coach of the men’s golf team for the wonderful students and individuals.”

2009-10 season. He has been at the helm of the men’s golf team for the past McCracken made an immediate impact upon his arrival to four years and coached the women’s golf team for three years (2005-08). � Hendrix. He has helped transform a 5-19 overall and 1-13 Southern

solid 2008 campaign. Newell scored two goals and tallied 31 shots, while LaFortune led the team and tied for third in the SCAC with six assists on the season.

Junior Alyssa Havens (New Canaan, Conn.) is continuing her solid career in front of the net after making 85 saves in 2008 and 175 in 2007. Havens will hold sole possession of the goalkeeper’s duties throughout the 2009 stretch.

Karvoski’s freshman class includes three East Coast players, one midwesterner, one from Colorado and one Texan. Dana Nucaro (Valhalla, N.Y.), Julia Cook (Pittsburgh, Pa.), Ruth Hokans (Winchester, Mass.), Maggie DesPain (St. Louis, Mo.), Kelly Rappe (Ft. Collins, Colo.) and Ming Tai (Austin, Texas) wrap up this year’s first-year class. � � �

Booster Club memberships available THE WARRIOR BOOSTER CLUB SEEKS TO SUPPORT the Hendrix College athletic programs in the spirit of fair competition and goodwill among participants, students and fans of the institutions represented. Membership in the Warrior Booster Club is open to all alumni, faculty and friends of the college, who support the club’s objectives.

For more information, contact the Warrior athletic office at: 1-800-277-9017 or 501-329-6811. To access an online membership form visit www.hendrixwarriors.com and click on the Warriors Booster Club link in the left-hand column. �

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IN 2009, THE HENDRIX COLLEGE FIELD HOCKEY ROSTER features something the 3-year-old program has never seen — experience. The Warriors bring back seven juniors and three sophomores this year and will look to their six incoming first years to make an immediate impact.

It’s a good year to have that experience – Hendrix College is hosting the SCAC field hockey tournament Nov. 6-8 in Conway.

Hendrix improved in leaps and bounds during 2008. The Warriors won their first NCAA D-III game in program history with a 3-0 victory in the season opener against Earlham College. Hendrix went on to finish with a 4-11 overall record and 1-7 Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC) mark. The Warriors narrowly missed their first ever post-season win after a 2-2 tie in regulation and 1-3 shootout after two overtimes against Sewanee-The University of the South.

Hendrix avenged that loss, however, winning 2-0 against Sewanee in the 2009 season opener in September.

“We are playing an aggressive regular-season schedule this year to help prepare us for the post-season,” said head coach Ellie Karvoski.

“As hosts of this year’s SCAC Championships, we want to have an excellent showing, especially after all the great support our home crowd has given us over the past two seasons.”

Junior Abby Coleman (North Kingstown, R.I.) and sophomore Liz Williamson (Fort Collins, Colo.) form a solid link between the midfield and attack to help lead the Warriors’ offense. Coleman led Hendrix in 2008 with eight goals, 51 shots and 29 shots on-goal. Junior Katie Schaiff (Chesterfield, Mo.) found the back of the net four times in just 10 shots on-goal last year, while Williamson scored three times in 16 shots on-goal.

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1. Alumni Association Award winners, (from left): Mike Flory –James E. Major Service Award; Dr. James E. Browne ’56 – Distinguished Alumnus; Rev. Raymond A. Kahng ’56 – Humanitarian Award; Jonathan J Rhodes ’98 –Outstanding Young Alumnus. 2. Class of 1949: Robert L. Kirchman, Blanche Foreman Ball, Martha Love

Faulkner, Lawrence Mobley. 3. Class of 1959: Joyce Dilbeck Wuetig, Georganne Lyford Ricks, Barbara Tarver Cook, Linda Cherry Roseman, Lucy McAlister Sogandres.

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Darwin ’64 was exhibited in the Art Building.

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Hogan, Kelsy Caplinger, Gary Williamson. 9. Celebrating 60 years of Campus Kitty with the proclamation from the City of Conway are (from left) Alex Graddy-Reed ’09 – 60th Campus Kitty Chair; John Workman ’50 –1st Campus Kitty Chair (1949); and Natalie

Canerday ’85 35th Campus Kitty Chair (1984). 10. Swimmers reunite to enjoy the new Wellness and Athletics Center pool: From left, front row: Joel Bailey ’69, Alston Jennings ’69, Michael Licatino ’06, Frank Poff ’79, Mark Saltzman ’79. Back Row: Butch Cade ’69, Chuck Letzig ’75, Brad Welshans ’81, Joe Sullivan ’08, Alex Sanford ’63, Mahlon Maris ’63, Clay McCastlain ’83, John Courtway ’81, John Stroup ’69, and Coach Jim Kelly. 11. David Teague ’59 and Wayne Jarvis ’59 reminisce at the Sports Hall of Honor Banquet.

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’10, Billie Cholendt Dreher ’81. 14. Myra King Johnston ’39 visits with Lucile Esmon Shivley ’32, who was recognized as the oldest alumna present at the Half Century Club Luncheon.

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Caralyn Collins Woodruff '40 and her husband Jay have added eight great-grandchildren to their family tree, which also includes three children and two grandchildren.

Marie Stapleton Claude ’43 of Charlottesville, Va., was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in May 2008. After 25 sessions of chemo-therapy without significant side effects, she was pronounced all-clear by her doctor in December. After excellent test results in February 2009, the doctor told her: “You make me look good!” Hendrix produces strong graduates!

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Mary Evelyn Markham Ellis ’43 of Memphis, Tenn., is proud of her two grandsons, Ted Lester and Jay Lester, who both made Phi Beta Kappa.

Sam R. Adkisson ’47 was named Alumnus of the Year by the Washington University Dental Alumni Society in September 2008. He was also designated Professor Emeritus by the University of Texas Health Science Center-Houston in March 2009.

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Dobbs Franks ’54 of Melbourne, Australia, will conduct performances of Mozart’s Don Giovanni in Tokyo on Sept. 27 and 30. The Tokyo Philharmonic will be in the pit, and the cast will consist of Japanese, Chinese and Anglo Saxon singers singing in Italian with Japanese surtitles.

Senator Ruth Reed Whitaker ’58 is proud of her granddaughter Emily who is a National Merit Scholar and will graduate from Fayetteville High School.

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Anne Wallace Crighton of Middleton, Tenn., is president of the Board of Directors of the Hardeman County Chamber of Commerce, president of the Board of Directors of the UCA Alumni Association and a member of the BolivarHardeman County Library Board of Trustees.

Richard Carvell of Jonesboro retired on July 1, 2008, from the department of radio-television at Arkansas State University after 37 years of service to ASU. He was department chair for 19 years and also served as news director, operations manager and station manager for the university’s radio station, KASU, and won numerous state and regional awards for his radio station work. Before joining the ASU staff, he served four years as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Air Force, including one year in Vietnam. He was awarded the Bronze Star for his service in Vietnam. He currently is serving as chair of the Board of Higher Education and Campus Ministry of the Arkansas Conference of the United Methodist Church. He and his wife, Sue, raised five sons and have three granddaughters.

� William Wilson of Chapel Hill, N.C., received three awards in 2008 for work done at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: a special act award from his division for mentoring new employees; a Science and Technology Achievement award from the EPA’s office of Research and Development for a pair of papers published in Epidemiology and the Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology, describing a new way of estimating personal exposure to air pollutants and demonstrating that this technique produces a more accurate description of the effects of air pollutants on health; and the Mehlman Memorial Award from the International Society of Exposure Science “for use of exposure science in influencing public policy” based largely on his contributions to the review and revision of EPA’s national ambient air quality standards.

Dr. John and Joallen Logan Moose both ’59 celebrated their 50-year reunion at Hendrix in April and their 50th wedding anniversary in June.

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’69 Phillip E. Parker of Wichita, Kan., will be on sabbatical at Universidad Autonoma de San Luis Potosi (Mexico) for the spring semester 2010, working on Ehresmann connections and quasisprays.

’70 Deborah Clement Raessler of Lynchburg, Va., is president of the Virginia State P.E.O. Chapter for 2008-2009.

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Charles Archer of Niles, Mich., ran in the 113th Boston Marathon on April 20. It was his first

Boston Marathon and 17th total. It was a cold windy day for a run but a fun experience none the less. � Nell Meadows Doyle retired at the end of May 2009 after 21 years as associate director of the Hendrix-Murphy Foundation of Hendrix College. She will move during the summer to live in the Ozarks with partner Patrick Thompson. � Cynthia Webb Grossi retired on March 31, 2009, after 28 years with the U.S. Postal Service. � Gary L. Ingram of Fort Worth, Texas, was recently selected as one of Fort Worth, Texas magazine’s “Top Attorneys.” Ingram is a partner at Jackson Walker LLP and is statewide chair of the Labor and Employment section for the firm. He is Board Certified in Labor and Employment Law. � Cliff Morgan has retired after over 35 years with the public library system in Memphis, Tenn., and plans to return to Warren for retirement.

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Hendrix connection helps place Arkansas artist’s work in ambassador’s exhibition

Dr. Clif Christopher of Maumelle published his second book titled Not Your Parents’ Offering Plate with Abingdon Press.

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NANCY DUNAWAY ’69 RECENTLY HAD HER WORK FLOATING TOWARD the Dawn selected by Alan Eastham ’73, the new United States Ambassador to The Republic of Congo, for the the ART in Embassies Exhibition. He and his wife, Carolyn ’72 discovered Dunaway’s work through her website, nancydunaway.com, and the curator of the exhibition contacted her for permission to include the work.

The program, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, has been around since 1964, putting together small loan exhibitions of works by U.S. artists for the public rooms of U.S. ambassadorial residences overseas as a form of cultural diplomacy.

Typically an illustrated publication (catalog) accompanies each show. The loan period averages 2-1/2 years to coincide with an ambassador’s tour of duty.

“I was amazed and more than a little skeptical when I received an email stating the Easthams’ interest in my work,” Dunaway said. “You know how we all get those emails about receiving millions of dollars from exotic places or invitations to send work and money. Well, I checked it out and was thrilled when it was legitimate!” �

Neal Robbins of Dover plans to put two novels on the market in 2009. The novels, titled Ilat and Najamah’s Gifts to Dousaures, are both set in the ancient Middle East. In addition to fiction writing, he is also involved with a number of online paleontology groups and created DinosaurDomain.

’78 Beth Posey-Leonhard is the plant manager for Evergreen Solar in Midland, Mich. The plant is opened in the second quarter of 2009 and her family moved to Midland this summer.

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Colonel LeAnne Pittman Burch of Monticello is currently stationed in Kabul, Afghanistan, with the Combined Security Transition Command.

’84 Sylvia Colleen McDaniel Hoke saw her daughter become a third-generation Hendrix Alum in May. Sara Hoke ’09 joined her grandfather, Bobby Joe McDaniel ’55, her mother Sylvia and her father

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Dr. Susan Russell is the chair of the department of theatre arts at Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pa. Major Lee Zimmerman retired from the U.S. Army after more than 21 years of service. His last assignment was as commander of the Little Rock Military Entrance Processing Station. Lee, his wife Kim, and son Christopher live in North Little Rock. He is now the coordinator of military family assistance centers for the state of Arkansas, overseeing 16 family assistance centers across the state.

’87 Mary Smith Taylor is an English-as-a-secondlanguage specialist in the Fayetteville Public School System.

’89 Jason V. Terk is serving as legislative chair for the Texas Pediatric Society where he coordinates and supports public policy advocacy and legislation for pediatric health issues. The main focus of his advocacy efforts is in the area of supporting vaccine coverage to prevent outbreaks of disease.

’90 Mark Dalrymple of Leechburg, Pa., has recently published the second edition of Learn Objective-C on the Macintosh with Apress. � Eric Francis (www.DogtownWriter.com) has recently added Kumi Bradshaw, a business consultant in the Bahamas, and the River Town Project, a Little Rock publication, as journalism clients; and the North Little Rock Police Department as a grant-writing client.

’91 Melissa “Missy” McAdams-Huffman is enrolled at Volunteer State Community College where she hopes to be accepted into the physical therapist assistant program which will begin this summer. See New Marriages.

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Wallace Scott Hoke ’83. � Nancy Womack Mitchell of Cave City was chosen as the Employee of the Month for April 2009 in the Inpatient Rehab Unit at White River Medical Center in Batesville. In April 2008, Nancy received the Outstanding Student Service Award at the University of Arkansas Community College at Batesville, and in May she graduated cum laude. She received the Outstanding Academic Achievement Award and was Valedictorian of her LPN Pinning in July 2008.

This summer Nancy served as a preceptor for an LPN student. She is looking forward to her daughter, Sara Mitchell ‘10, returning home in June after spending a semester studying abroad in Vaxjo, Sweden.

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BILL PENNINGTON ’77, A chemistry professor at Clemson University, has been recognized by his peers and the Clemson class of 1939 with an Award for Excellence.

Colleagues and members of the class of 1939 paid tribute to Pennington in a ceremony in the university’s Carillon Garden. His name will be inscribed on the bell monument there. The Class of 1939 Award for Excellence includes a $5,000 stipend and recognizes faculty members for the highest achievement of service to the student body, the university and the community. The recipient also becomes an honorary member of the class.

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Wendy R. Anderson of Washington, D.C., worked on the South Asia policy team of President Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. � Dan Clanton of Lincoln, Neb., is assistant professor of religious studies at Doane College in Crete, Neb. His new book, titled Daring, Disreputable, and Devout: Interpreting the Hebrew Bible’s Women in the Arts and Music, has just been published by T&T Clark. He has also recently published an article titled “‘From Biblical Times to Lyrical Rhymes’: The Assertion of Jewish Identity in Music as Cultural Resistance,” in Studies in Jewish Civilization 19: “I Will Sing and Make Music”: Jewish Music and Musicians Throughout the Ages. In March, he presented a paper titled “Images of Jesus in the Elseworlds of American Popular Culture,” at the Rocky

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Erin Vinett ‘98, and Jennifer OylerOlson ‘01 worked together as three of the founding members and executive officers of the Arkansas Breastfeeding Coalition (ABC). ABC initiated and successfully passed legislation protecting a mother’s right to breastfeed a child in public during the 2007 Arkansas State Legislative Session. During the 2009 session, the group passed legislation giving mothers rights when pumping breast-milk in the workplace.

Pennington’s research is focused on solid-state chemistry and depends heavily on X-ray crystallography, a technique used to probe the structure of matter at the atomic level. His research is important in areas such as pharmaceuticals, where detrimental solid-state reactions often limit the effectiveness and shelf life of medicines, and in a “green” approach to chemistry, as solid-state reactions avoid the use of often toxic solvents. �

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Mike Hillis is an emergency physician at St. Edward Mercy Hospital in Fort Smith. He is living in Alma with his wife Jennifer and two sons Avery and Thomas. � Stacey Parker relocated to Newport Beach, Calif. In October 2008, she accepted a position as a retail planner with Vans, a division of VF Outdoor, Inc. Additionally, Stacey completed her RYT Yoga Alliance 200-hour yoga teacher training in March 2008.

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Quanda McIntosh Collins of Fort Worth, Texas, graduated from Concordia University Texas in December 2008 with a master’s degree in education administration with a curriculum and instruction focus. � Jason Cornwell has been married for five years and has one son, River Lee Cornwell, who turned 3 in April. He also owns and runs a casting/production company in Los Angeles (www.CornwellCasting.com).

Margie Alsbrook published an article on FDA regulation of biotech foods in the fall 2008 issue of the Drake Journal of Agricultural Law. � David Felio of Conway earned his GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Security Essentials Certification, scoring a 96% on the exam. His score prompted an invitation to join the SANS/GIAC

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Labor’s Exceptional Achievement Award in June 2008 as the Assistant District Director of the Wage and Hour Division in the U.S. Department of Labor. The award was for his work on the Wal-Mart Regular Rate project. The result of this project recovered nearly $34 million dollars in back wages for almost 87,000 employees. This represented the largest settlement in the history of Wage and Hour with a private employer.

’03 Corey Beaugh has been accepted into graduate school at the University of Wyoming in Laramie after working for two years as a hydrologist for the State of Arizona. He received a graduate assistantship working on a water quality mapping project on the Greybull River and will be working toward a master of science in rangeland ecology and watershed management. He also plans to do plenty of fishing � Jennifer Burkett has been accepted to the University of Southern Mississippi’s doctoral program in literature where she has also accepted a teaching assistantship. She began studies in the fall of 2009. Burkett has taught at Henderson State University and the University of Central Arkansas.

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Colter McCorkindale of Brooklyn, N.Y., has taken a position as a web project manager at American Express Interactive in New York City.

’98 Kevin Brannon of Jersey City, N.J., graduated with a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism on May 20, 2009. � Susan Todd Krafft has a new position as the director of the Western Arkansas Service Center of the American Red Cross in Fort Smith.

’01 Cortney Higgins graduated with her doctorate in civil and environmental engineering and engineering and public policy from Carnegie Mellon University in August 2007. She relocated to Washington, D.C., where she works at the Office of Management and Budget. � Elena Antonieta ReyesLovins of Sherwood earned her National Board Certification as an early adolescence/English language arts teacher.

’02 Lawrence Dunn graduated with his doctorate in physics from the University of Texas at Austin in December 2008. He was awarded the 2008 Ben Streetman Prize by the UT College of Engineering, “Recognizing Outstanding Research by a Graduate Student in Electronic and Photonic Materials and Devices.” � Vanessa Norton recently returned to Little Rock from New York City and is working as the executive director of the Historic Preservation Alliance of Arkansas, a statewide nonprofit organization focused on preserving Arkansas’ architectural and cultural resources.

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JIM JACKSON ’89 OF THE JACKSON LAW FIRM WAS recently named a “Top 100 Trial Lawyer” by the American Trial Lawyers Association. Selection for The American Trial Lawyers Association is extended to civil plaintiff and criminal defense attorneys by special invitation. Candidates are considered for membership in The American Trial Lawyers Association based on superior qualifications, leadership, reputation, influence, stature and profile in the trial lawyer community.

“To be named to the Top 100 list is a real honor,” Jackson said. “Membership in The American Trial Lawyers Association is something every trial lawyer aspires to. I’m honored to have joined the ranks of some of the country’s best attorneys. I look forward to continuing to fight for the rights of Arkansans throughout the state.”

Jackson is also a Mid-South Super Lawyer, named to the list for the third year in a row by Law & Politics magazine, a distinction awarded to only 5 percent of attorneys in Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee and a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum, a prestigious group of elite trial lawyers who have won million- or multi-million dollar results for their clients. Jackson settled his first million-dollar case in 1995, just two years out of law school. Jackson currently serves on the Arkansas Supreme Court Committee on the Unauthorized Practice of Law. Jackson and his wife Lisa Ferrell live in Little Rock with their three young children: Adam, 10, Luke, 6, and Olivia, 4. �

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IMAGINE YOU ARE SICK. IT IS DIFFICULT FOR YOU TO DRAW a good breath much less walk around. You have been experiencing sweats and chills day and night for the past two days. Now imagine that the nearest place to see a doctor is 17 hours from your home. You have to travel by foot because that is the only form of transportation available. This is the situation that the rural residents of Afghanistan (80% of 30 million people) are likely to experience at some point in their life.

When I attended Hendrix College and studied international relations under Dr. Ian King, the challenges were all in our minds. It was an education that focused on learning how to perceive a constantly changing world and draw ones own balanced conclusions. Upon graduation I moved to Washington, D.C., where I matriculated into Georgetown University School of Medicine. I am currently spending an academic year conducting medical/clinical research at a hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Americans are much more aware of Afghanistan since the entry of U.S. troops in 2001. My own interest in Afghanistan lies at the crossroads of health and international affairs. The health infrastructure of the country was virtually destroyed in the period between the Soviet invasion in 1979 and the NATO-led invasion in 2001 that toppled the Taliban regime. The first step in reconstructing the health care system was to asses what was left. In 2002 the new government sent people throughout Afghanistan with digital cameras to document the quantity and the quality of health care facilities.

Similarly, the diseases that affect the civilian population in Afghanistan have not been studied in the last 30 years. Hopefully, this new knowledge will translate into the improved provision of health care. One project involves studying the epidemiology of tuberculosis (TB). TB affects women of reproductive age more frequently in Afghanistan than any other demographic group. This is an unusual epidemiological pattern because in other parts of the world TB is predominantly a disease of men. The exact cause is unknown, but vitamin D deficiency has been proposed as one possible cause for this trend.

The hospital where I work developed the first modern civilian pathology laboratory in 2005. Another project involves using this pathology database to classify the various types of cancers that afflict the population. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) website provides mountains of statistical information about cancers in the United States. Statistical information concerning the Afghan population was last gathered in 1969. It is our hope this updated data will be a valuable asset to a nascent health care system with finite resources.

Another facet of my duties is teaching young Afghan physicians how to conduct research. United States medical schools emphasize research because our knowledge is constantly growing and changing.

The Afghan curriculum does not include instruction in the critical thinking skills necessary to understand research. Students are not taught how to interpret study findings, nor how to use research as a tool for answering their questions. The next generation of healthcare providers needs to possess the skills that will enable them to answer the questions that emerge as they care for their fellow citizens. Questions such as: Why do I see more women than men with TB? Is there some intervention we can make in that vulnerable population to prevent the occurrence of disease? What is the best way to treat cancer in a predominantly rural society? It is this human capacity for analyzing and problem solving that will be essential for improving health care, which in turn will produce interrelated effects on economic and educational development.

It is not only access to an education, but the type and quality of education that matters. I am thankful for the excellent education I received at Hendrix College. Lessons learned in Conway are helping me approach the complex challenges I am facing in Kabul today. I was pleased to hear about the addition of the Odyssey Program. It is encouraging to see that students will be challenged with experiential learning that will foster personal as well as mental growth. It is an honor to share some of the skills I have learned with the people of Afghanistan in their ongoing odyssey.

Questions are welcomed at: johnticeparks@gmail.com Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. National Program of Cancer Registries. http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/uscs/. Accessed February 14, 2009.

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Pictured left to right: Greg Johnson – Pilot; Dom Gorie – Commander; Honoree – Art Thomason; Art’s wife Kerrie Thomason; Bob Behnken – Mission Specialist; and Mike Foreman – Mission Specialist.

Space Shuttle crew thanks Thomason with a Silver Snoopy

’04 Carrie Misenheimer completed her master’s degree in education. She is a reading literacy specialist at Northside High School in Fort Smith. � James Wright received a “Teacher of the Year” award from Hillcrest High School in Dallas, Texas.

’04 Bonnie Steinruck Faitak was recently accepted into the master in teaching social studies program at Columbia University Teachers College and began taking classes in May 2009.

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It was an “all Hendrix” family wedding when Julie Alford ’04 wed Stephen Routon ’04 at Greene Chapel on June 7, 2008. Pictured from left: Margo Morton Alford ‘05, Brian Alford ‘02, Jan Roseberry Alford ‘75, Sarah Alford ‘11, David Alford ‘73, Julie Alford Routon ‘04, Stephen Routon ‘04, David Routon, Ree Gandy Routon ‘76 and Steve Routon ‘76.

Peggy West ’75 to Rev. Donald G. Coke. � Robert Griswold Jr. ’86 to Susan Parker ’88, July 26, 2008. � Melissa “Missy” McAdams-Huffman ’91 to Jason Huffman, Aug. 2, 2008. � Shelly Laine Bryant ’97 to Michael Douglas Thannum, April 19, 2008. � Regi Ott ’98 to Jeremy Brag, Oct. 18, 2008. � Paul Eppes Rebsamen ’98 to Meredith Blaise Switzer, Oct. 18, 2008. � Chris Canavan ’99 to Lisa Marie Bekkala, Oct. 12, 2008 � Lindsay Martinson ’99 to Brad H. Vester, March 29, 2008. � Julie Alford ’04 to Stephen Routon ’04 at Greene Chapel, June, 7, 2008. � Jeremy Gottfried ’05 to Vanessa Green ’07 in October. � Maradyth Georgia Hopper ‘06 to Colin Thomas McKenzie ‘08 at Greene Chapel, Oct. 11, 2008. � Laura Thielen ’06 to Philip Clemmons.

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Russ Montgomery is completing a master’s degree in health policy at Johns Hopkins University and working fulltime as a project manager at the Center for Medical Technology Policy, a non-profit organization that is creating new pathways through which new medical breakthroughs reach patients, both domestically and around the world. �

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ARTHUR THOMASON ’97 WAS PRESENTED A SILVER SNOOPY IN OCTOBER from Astronaut Robert Behnken and the STS-123 Crew that worked on the March 2008 Space Shuttle Mission. The award was given for his outstanding support of the U.S. space programs in his position as extra-vehicular activity — space walk — task manager for the crew.

Thomason is an engineer for Barrios at NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston.

His job involves training and support for astronauts for space shuttle and space station missions.

Thomason was directly responsible for the development of all EVA procedures used during the first five EVA missions scheduled and executed at the International Space Station. He was critical in the re-planning associated with the addition of the mission’s fifth EVA late in the training flow and the development of a plan to get the crew members trained for the tile repair simulation in time for its execution during the mission.

Thomason earned a bachelor’s degree in physics from Hendrix College and a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Texas A&M before taking a position with Barrios and NASA in 2002. �

� James Horey earned a doctorate in computer science from the University of New Mexico in 2008. Dr. Horey was honored with the 2008 Outstanding Graduate Award from the UNM Department of Computer Science and delivered an address at the fall 2008 School of Engineering commencement ceremony. Dr. Horey has accepted a postdoctoral research position at the Renaissance Computing Institute in Chapel Hill, N.C. � Dr. Aaron Strong graduated from the University of Arkansas for Medical Science in May 2008 and is now at Children’s Hospital in Little Rock doing a pediatric residency.

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� From left: Addie Janos, daughter of Aaron Janos ’91 and Julie Christian Janos ’94; Will and Lauren Humiston, children of Leslie Kruk Humiston ’94 and Jeff Humiston ’96; and Ryan and Charley Mulick, daughters of Krist Ketz ’94 and Pat Mulick.

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Editor’s note...

Alumnotes information, new children, marriages and names of deceased alumni received by the College after May 1, 2009, will appear in the Spring 2010 edition of HENDRIX magazine.

Check the Alumnotes section of the Hendrix Alumni Web site at www.hendrix.edu/alumni for updates between editions.

You can submit news for HENDRIX magazine by using a form on the Alumni Web site. While you are online, you can register for the Alumni Web Community and then update your own records and search for old friends in the alumni directory. Be sure to provide your e-mail address so that we can send you our monthly alumni e-newsletter. Or, you can e-mail information to the editor at plotkin@hendrix.edu.

Information can always be submitted by mail addressed to Editor, HENDRIX Magazine, 1600 Washington Avenue, Conway, AR 72032 or by calling (501) 450-1223. �

� Jackson Garrett and Thomas Denton, twin boys, first children, to Jason Bland ’99 and his wife Kristen, Jan. 7, 2009.

� Big sister Sydney Elizabeth, 2, holds Emery Anne, second daughter of Amy Dunn Johnson ’96 and her husband David, June 9, 2009.

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� Lauren Miller, second daughter, to Katie Miller Peoples ’98, Jan. 29, 2009.

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Eli, first child to Annette Simpson Roddey ’89 and her husband Collin, Dec. 23, 2008. � Betty Shell, first child, to Shell Black ’90, April 10, 2008. � Hunter Michael, first son, second child, to Michelle Hoffman Winn ’90 and her husband Michael, Sept. 2, 2008. � Hudson Wescott, first child, to Kendra Wescott Wright ’90 and her husband Kirk, Feb. 8, 2009. � Oliver Stanley Grant, second son, to Joyce Holaway Fletcher ‘91 and husband Simon, Nov. 7, 2008. � Ansley Marie, first child, to Christine Johnson Blumer ‘92, March 10, 2009. � Eli Nathaniel, adopted by Lisa Berry Odena ’92 and her husband Scott on Jan. 22, 2009, born April 14, 2008. � William Butler, fourth son, to Joe Washum ’92 and Marley Bowen Washum ’93, Feb. 6, 2009. � Cohen James, first son, to Jamilyn P. Harris Noble ’93 and her husband Nathaniel, Oct. 9, 2008 � Christopher Damon Jr., first son, second child, to Quanda McIntosh Collins ’94, Oct. 30, 2007. � Andrew Olin, second son, to Lee Harrison ’94 and his wife Kristine, Oct. 27, 2008. � Misara Olivia, first daughter, second child, to Michele Mills Matsunaga ’94, Nov. 13, 2008. � Charles Alexander, first child, to Kelli Carraro Wigginton ’94, Sept. 9, 2008. � Gianluca, second son, to Leslie Hager Furore ’96, Nov. 29, 2008 � Isabelle, first daughter, to Michele Field Trotter ’96 and her husband Tim, Aug. 7, 2006. � Mary Sorrels and John “Jack” Fogleman, twins, third and fourth child, to Charles Williams III ’96 and his wife Shannon, Dec. 10, 2008. � Ruby Catherine, first daughter, to Susan Forberg Beard ’97 and her husband Brandon, June 24, 2008. � Maddy and Gabe, twins, first daughter and son, to Philip Bentley ’97 and Stephanie McElroy Bentley ’99. � Anna Elizabeth, first daughter, to David Felio ’97 and Jennifer McMillan Felio ’97, March 23, 2008. � Ella Grace, second daughter, to Shannon Sparks Knotts ’97 and her husband Roy, Jan. 13, 2009.

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� Samuel Carson Sloan, first son, third child, to Marc Sloan ’97 and Amber Kennon Sloan ’97, May 29, 2008. � Lauren Miller, second daughter, to Katie Miller Peoples ’98, Jan. 29, 2009. � Logan Eric, first son, to Brandon Welch ’98 and Eva Juergenson Welch ’99, July 12, 2008. � Jackson Garrett and Thomas Denton, twin boys, first children, to Jason Bland ’99 and his wife Kristen, Jan. 7, 2009. � Mallory Jane, first child, to Michael Hendren ‘99 and Kelly Taylor Hendren ‘00, Oct. 21, 2008. � Marie Louise, second daughter, to Elsie Morris Bolton ’00 and her husband Jason, July 1, 2008. � Blake Winfield and Grayson Robert, identical twin boys, to Charles Robert Crossman ’00 and his wife Jessica, Sept. 17, 2008. � William Andrew, first child, to Nathan and Leah Hybl Schlientz ’00, Feb. 21, 2008. � Eliza Clare, first child, to Richard Counts ’01 and Leigh LassiterCounts ’01, April 11, 2009. � Maxton Michael “Max,” second son, to Audrey Dingler Eldridge ‘01 and her husband J.R., Jan. 8, 2009. � William Thomas, first child, to Sherri Brisco Townsend ’01 and her husband Wesley, Dec. 17, 2008. � Joseph Isaac Cotton, first son, second child, to Sarah Beth Wilson-Cotton ’01, second grandchild to Richard Wilson ’73 and Victoria Simpson Wilson ’75. � Carter Mason, second son, to Tanya Corbin Holmes ’02 and her husband Rodrick, Jan. 24, 2009. � Calvin Drew and Carley Sloan, twins, first son and daughter, to Becca Carle Austin ’03 and her partner Tara, Jan. 23, 2009. � Kevin James, first child, to Katherine Sims Roberts ’03 and her husband Connor, April 12, 2008. � Preslee, first child, to Alicia Hinton Sims ’03 and her husband Josh, July 15, 2008. � Abigail Katherine, first child, to Laura Armstrong Shachmut ’05 and Kyle Shachmut ’06, Dec. 12, 2008.

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Preserve Hendrix history Archives needs help to fill gaps

Murphy Program sponsors week in author C.S. Lewis’ home

Murphy Sadler Nelson ‘24 Clarence Weems ’27 Forrest F. Lipe ‘33 Oscar Fenn ‘33 Lt. Col Nita Bob Warner, USMC ‘36 Evelyn Pendergrass Walworth ‘37 Doyne Hunnicut ‘38 Frances Guthrie Whitaker ‘39 Poindexter Whitaker ‘39 Marjorie DeLange Baker ‘40 Jack Thomas Fryer Sr. ‘40 Dr. James Wesley Rogers Jr. ‘40 Rife Hughey ‘41 Jeff Roland Marsh ‘41 William Woodrow Wheeler ‘41 Hulen Williams ‘41 James Mayo Martin ‘43 Wanda Gibson Wimberley ‘43 Juanita Sharp Gammill ‘47 Lin E. Nixon ‘47

M E M O R I A M James F. Bowen ‘48 Nancy Carolyn Penix Christopher ‘48 John W. Spivey ‘48 George “Hoot” Bailey ‘49 Rebecca Jane Conatser Kimbrough ‘49 Chase Randall Stephens ‘49 Carl Wasson ‘49 Florence Stark Bollinger ‘51 Pat Ellis ‘51 Cora Adams Gray ‘51 Simms McClintock ‘51 Elizabeth Ann Brown Washburn ‘51 R. D. Wright ‘51 James W. Mosley ‘53 John Thomas Bratton ‘55 Carl W. Sparks ‘55 Larry Rupert Barnes ‘59 Linda Claire Posey Fox ‘63 Wilbur Don Heard ’63 James F. Thomas ‘63

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DR. ROD MILLER, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ART, AND HENDRIX students (from left) Sydney Selby, Melanie Morse, Samuel Boren and Michelle Stiles stand in the doorway of the Kilns in Oxford, England, home of author C.S. Lewis. The group stayed at the Kilns for a week in July attending a C.S. Lewis Summer Seminar. During the week, Dr. Don King, an authority on Lewis and his times, provided daily lectures and the group visited locations that figured prominently in the author’s life. The trip was sponsored by the Hendrix-Murphy Foundation Programs in Literature and Language. �

“DO YOU CHERISH your Troubadours but would like to reclaim valuable real estate in your house? Please consider donating them to your alma mater. The Hendrix College Archives is in search of old publications to fill in gaps in the collection. In particular, the archives are looking for Hendrix College Bulletins from the 1960s and early 1970s and Troubadours from the 1940s and 1950s.

For further information on how to donate, contact Judy Robinson at 501-450-4558 or robinson@hendrix.edu.

June Gray Wyrick ‘63 Edrene Downs Berckes ‘64 Charles “Joe” Murphy ‘66 Jane Sturdivant Stephens ‘66 Freddie L. Robert ‘67 Rev. Robert Wilson “Bob” Robertson ‘68 Mary Ann Coulter Sampley ‘68 Joan Riffey Archer ‘72 Allen G. Curry ‘72 Stephen Barron ‘73 John T. Bumpers ‘73 Jejo Mobley ‘73 Elizabeth Davies Harvey ‘75 Jim Hudson ‘76 Stella Mae Keene ‘87 Eben Lee Bradley ‘92 Faculty Dr. Kenneth Ervin Story (1972-2000) Professor Emeritus of English

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Hendrix staff members get a preview of the dining hall in the new Student Life and Technology Center, which is scheduled to open in January. The College needs to raise $4.8 million by June 2010 to qualify for a Kresge Foundation Challenge Grant and complete funding for the $26 million building.

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An update on The Hendrix Campaign:

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Kresge issues challenge to complete College’s largest project � By ROB O’CONNOR

Director of Foundation Relations TODAY HENDRIX IS ONE OF THE country’s leading liberal arts colleges and a national model for engaged liberal arts.

Over the last few years, the college has significantly increased student financial assistance, designed innovative programs that are vital to academic, co-curricular and student life, and developed critical campus facilities to support those programs.

This tremendous period of progress has been made possible through the generous philanthropic support of alumni, friends and foundations.

Hendrix supporters have invested more than $91 million in the lives of students and advanced this vision for Hendrix in response to A Commitment to National Leadership: The Hendrix Campaign, the largest comprehensive campaign in the history of the college.

To successfully complete this $100 million effort, Hendrix must first meet a prestigious challenge grant from the Kresge Foundation of Troy, Mich. Gifts and pledges made in response to the Kresge Challenge will support the new Student Life and Technology Center (SLTC). This incredible $26 million facility is the largest project undertaken at Hendrix. It will be the “living

room” of the campus and the new home of Your Hendrix Odyssey. The SLTC will also feature a beautiful new dining hall, office and work space for student media and student organizations, and increased student programming space. In addition, the new facility will feature embedded technology throughout the building as well as a dedicated Educational Technology Center that will weave state-of-the-art teaching, learning, and social technology into the fabric of student life.

Hendrix has already raised more than $21 million in philanthropic support for the SLTC. The SLTC will enhance the academic, co-curricular, and student life experience at Hendrix; and the Kresge Challenge provides an extraordinary opportunity to complete the fundraising for the building. To successfully meet the Kresge Challenge, the college must now raise the remaining $4.8 million in gifts and pledges for the SLTC by June 2010.

Hendrix must also increase support to the Hendrix Annual Fund and endow Odyssey.

Increasing support for the Annual Fund is critical to make the college accessible for the growing number of students attracted to Hendrix by the engaged learning opportunities Odyssey provides. The 2009-2010 Annual Fund Goal is $1.9 million.

Just as Annual Fund gifts ensure Hendrix remains affordable to all qualified students, raising endowed funds to support the Odyssey Program will ensure that Hendrix students can continue to pursue robust Odyssey experiences. In spring 2007, Hendrix was awarded a $2 million challenge grant from the Willard and Pat Walker Charitable Foundation of Fayetteville, Ark. To successfully meet the Walker Odyssey Challenge, we must raise $720,000 in 2009-2010 and secure $2.7 million in gifts and pledges by Dec. 31, 2010.

As we enter the final and most important phase of this historic undertaking, the continued advancement of Hendrix depends on the support of alumni and friends. For more information on how to support The Hendrix Campaign, please call the Office of Advancement at 501-450-1223. �

DONOR HONOR ROLL 2008-2009

Generous gifts keep momentum building

• A $1 million gift from Bob and Nadine Miller of Fort Smith established the Miller Center for Vocation, Calling and Ethics. The gift was announced at a reception in October.

• Gordon and Sudie A. Worsham of Dallas, Texas, gave $1 million in memory of Gordon’s mother, Nannie Emily Lasater Worsham, who was the college nurse in the 1950s and 1960s. The 6,000-square-foot student performance area in the Student Life and Technology Center will be named in her honor.

• In January 2009, Hendrix successfully met a $1.5 million challenge grant from the J.E. and L.E. Mabee Foundation of Tulsa, Okla., to construct the $26 million Student Life and Technology Center (SLTC), the largest capital project in the college’s history.

• The Mabee Foundation’s support positioned Hendrix to receive a $750,000 challenge grant from the Kresge Foundation of Troy, Mich. Hendrix has now secured more than $21 million for the SLTC. To meet the Kresge Challenge and complete the SLTC, the college must raise the final $4.8 million by June 1, 2010.

• Dr. Rex A. Amonette ’61 and Johnnie Dacus Amonette ’63 pledged $50,000 to match new or increased gifts to the Annual Fund during the 2008-09 fiscal year. Alumni, parents and friends responded by contributing $109,006 to meet the Amonette Challenge.

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2008-2009 GIVING HIGHLIGHTS

with gifts and pledges of more than $12.4 million in fiscal year 2008-2009, pushing us over $90.3 million toward our $100 million campaign goal.

The 2008-2009 Honor Roll of Donors, which includes the Alumni Honor Roll inserted in this publication, is one way we say thank you to those who have supported the mission of Hendrix College through their gifts.

With your support, Hendrix will continue charting progress toward raising $100 million by December 2010 and changing the lives of those who can change the world.

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EFFECTS OF THE TUMULTUOUS WORLD economy were felt on the Hendrix campus during fiscal year 2008-2009. The value of our endowment dropped significantly as the stock market tumbled and the impact was felt immediately in our operating budget. Hendrix faculty and staff worked together to meet our goal of holding down expenses without affecting the student experience.

We also called on our alumni, parents, friends, corporations and foundations to help keep the momentum going in A Commitment to National Leadership: The Hendrix Campaign. You responded

2008-2009 Financials The financial information reported here includes the unaudited results from the period beginning on June 1, 2008 and ending on May 31, 2009.* The financial stability of the College can be attributed to many factors, including gifts from alumni,

friends, United Methodists, corporations and foundations.

Tuition, gifts and endowment earnings – the three sources of income for the College – combine to provide a highquality education experience for all Hendrix students. *Prior to 2006-2007, the Hendrix fiscal year began on Aug. 1.

Annual Fund

Operating Budget (Unaudited) REVENUES: Tuition

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33,735,000 (19,559,000) 14,176,000 217,000

Annual Fund and Other Giving

2,175,000

Endowment Draw for Operations

9,787,000

Other Revenue Auxiliary Revenue Total Revenues

844,000

Trustees

$264,201

United Methodist Church

$393,810

8,135,000 35,334,000

EXPENSES: Instruction

Gifts to the Annual fund in 2008-2009 totaled $1,780,845. The chart below shows the amount given by various constituents of the College. Gifts from donors who are members of more than one group are counted more than once. For example, a gift from an alumnus who is also a parent and a member of the Board of Trustees would be included three times.

13,480,000

Alumni

$1,057,340

Parents

$174,785 $166,525

Student Services

6,339,000

Friends

General Institutional

7,572,000

Corporations

$55,861

Plant Operations & Maintenance

4,360,000

Foundations

$172,800

Auxiliary Services

3,583,000

Total Expenses

Endowment Value at May/31/09

35,334,000

$136,500,000

AICU

$51,381

Faculty/Staff

$54,985

Board of Trustees Dr. Joseph H. Bates Deputy Director Arkansas Department of Health Little Rock, Arkansas Ms. Ruth H. Bernabe Teacher Memphis, Tennessee Ms. Jo Ann Biggs Attorney/Partner Vinson & Elkins, LLP Dallas, Texas Dr. W. Kurt Boggan District Superintendent, Northeast Arkansas Area, United Methodist Church Jonesboro, Arkansas Mr. Albert Braunfisch Chief Executive Officer MailSouth, Inc. Little Rock, Arkansas Mr. Theodore H. Bunting Jr. Chief Financial Officer Entergy Services, Inc. Jackson, Mississippi

Mr. Bracken Darrell President, Whirpool Europe Montagnola, Switzerland Rev. Rex Dickey First United Methodist Church Bentonville, Arkansas Ms. Margaret K. Dorman Chief Financial Officer Smith International, Inc. Houston, Texas Mr. Arthur W. Epley, III Investor and Rancher Houston, Texas Mrs. Terri J. Erwin Civic Leader and Volunteer Little Rock, Arkansas Rev. Pamela J. Estes Grand Avenue United Methodist Church Hot Springs, Arkansas Dr. Morriss M. Henry Ophthalmologist Henry Eye Clinic Fayetteville, Arkansas

Dr. J. Timothy Cloyd President Hendrix College Conway, Arkansas

Mr. Roger G. King Retired Investor Larchmont, New York

Mr. Frank H. Cox Jr. President EnVision Marketing Little Rock, Arkansas

Mr. David A. Knight Chief Legal Counsel Stephens, Inc. Little Rock, Arkansas

Mr. R. Paul Craig Pentadyne Corporation Chandler, Arizona

Mr. Allen D. McGee Chief Executive Officer Radiology Corporation of America Boca Raton, Florida

Bishop Charles N. Crutchfield Arkansas Area, United Methodist Church Little Rock, Arkansas

Dr. Michael S. Maling Clinical Psychologist Deerfield, Illinois

“To err is human, to forgive divine.”

Ms. Julia P. Mobley Chair and Chief Executive Officer Commercial National Bank Texarkana, Arkansas

Mr. B. Kent Ritchey Corporate Manager Landers Ford, Inc. Collierville, Tennessee

Mr. Charles D. Morgan Chairman and Co-Manager of Investments Bridgehampton Capital Management, LLC Dallas, Texas

Rev. Britt Skarda First United Methodist Church Springdale, Arkansas

Mr. R. Madison Murphy, Chair President Murphy Foundation El Dorado, Arkansas Rev. Charles F. Murry First United Methodist Church Conway, Arkansas

Rev. Roy P. Smith Arkansas Area Ministries United Methodist Church Little Rock, Arkansas Rev. William B. Smith Highland Park United Methodist Church Dallas, Texas

Mr. A. Byron Nimocks, III General Partner First Manhattan Company New York, New York

Rev. Rodney G. Steele District Superintendent, North Central Arkansas Area, United Methodist Church Conway, Arkansas

Rev. Victor H. Nixon Pulaski Heights United Methodist Church Little Rock, Arkansas

Mr. Danny Thomas State Farm Insurance Little Rock, Arkansas

Dr. Larry Pearce Vice President for Medical Affairs St. Edward Mercy Medical Center Fort Smith, Arkansas

Rev. Beth Waldrup St. Paul United Methodist Church Jonesboro, Arkansas

Mr. Daniel M. Peregrin Attorney and Certified Public Accountant Moore Stephens Frost Little Rock, Arkansas Rev. William O. Reeves First United Methodist Church Hot Springs, Arkansas Mr. Martin M. Rhodes President Stephens Insurance Services Little Rock, Arkansas

Dr. Mitzi Washington Family Practice Physician St. Vincent Family Clinic Jacksonville, Arkansas Mr. H. Randy Wilbourn Cranford, Johnson, Robinson & Woods Little Rock, Arkansas Judge William R. Wilson Eastern Federal District Court of Arkansas Little Rock, Arkansas Dr. Russell H. Wood Cardiovascular Surgeon Cardiovascular Surgical Clinic Springdale, Arkansas

In preparing this President’s Report and Honor Roll of Donors, every effort has been made to ensure accuracy and completeness. If a mistake was made in the way you or your spouse is identified or if your name was omitted from a gift list, we apologize.

With your help, we can ensure that future Honor Rolls report your name as you prefer.

Please notify the Office of Advancement at (501) 450-1223 regarding any changes in the way your gifts should be reported in the future.

CHARTING PROGRESSO |

Inda Johnson Mitchell ’34

Gift of property will leave a legacy Inda Johnson Mitchell ’34 is a pioneer. Seventy-six years ago, in the midst of The Great Depression, Inda transferred to Hendrix College from Little Rock Junior College (now University of Arkansas at Little Rock) to finish her degree.

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There was no money for college, but Inda and her family found a way.

She received a degree in history and a teacher’s certificate.

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Today, Inda is still a pioneer. Doing her part to prevent future students from incurring such debt for a Hendrix education, she has deeded her home and land to Hendrix. She received tax benefits for this gift, known as a retained life estate.

According to Brooke Augusta Owen ’01, director of planned giving, Inda, along with her late husband Claude, are currently the only donors of a retained life estate on record at Hendrix.

“What better use can you make of land and real estate?” Inda said of the gift.

This planned gift will one day aid Hendrix students through scholarships, Odyssey funding and more.

Inda is making a difference. Will you?

LITTLE ROCK, AR PERMIT #906

For more information about giving to Hendrix, contact the Office of Advancement at 501-450-1223 or visit www.hendrix.edu/giving.

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But her degree came with a considerable amount of debt. In 1934 Inda owed approximately $5,000 in loans. In today’s market, that $5,000 debt would translate to nearly $82,000.

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