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VA N D E R B I LT U N I V E R S I T YC O L L E G E O F A RT S & S C I E N C ETerrorThe College Responds to September 11 AttacksIt has become almost a cliché to say that the United States was irreversibly changed on Sept. 11,2001. On that day, America’s illusions that twogreat oceans could protect the mainland from international aggression were shattered along with anestimated 3,000 lives.Vanderbilt students, faculty and staff wereshocked and saddened by the attacks andconcerned by the war that followed. Along withthe rest of the country, they went about their dailylives with the threat of biological and chemicalterrorism hanging over their heads. Going to class,W I N T E R2 0 0 2teaching and learning, working on researchprojects, writing papers and studying texts wereantidotes for anxiety. Acts of patriotism and hopein the future helped, too.Scholarship and teaching combined to make(please turn to page 6)
A&SNewsHigh-energy physics experiment may benefit car, aircraft navigationPaul Sheldon, associate professor of physics at Vanen or 15 years from now, if auto manufacturers beginderbilt, heads the project to solve the technical problemsoffering guidance systems that allow your car to drivepresented by the BTeV “trigger system.” That system willyou automatically to and from work, you may have anbe responsible for automaticallyambitious new computer scienceidentifying and recording potenproject at the Fermi National Acceltially interesting subatomic events.erator Laboratory (Fermilab) inThe five-year grant is part of aBatavia, Ill., to thank. 156 million program in inforA research group of physicists,mation technology researchcomputer scientists and electricalannounced by the National Sciengineers from Vanderbilt, Syraence Foundation. According tocuse University, the University ofNSF, the purpose of the awards isPittsburgh, the University of Illi“to preserve America’s position asnois, Urbana-Champaign, and thethe world leader of computer sciFermilab has received a grant ofence and its applications.” Projects 4.98 million to develop an advanced Fermilab’s Tevatron is the site of a 4.98 millioncomputer system. The system must high-energy physics experiment that may result in were specifically selected that coulda variety of practical applications such ashave commercial applications.be capable of scanning terabytesautonomous vehicle navigation.Possible applications of the Fer(thousands of billions of bytes) ofmilab project include autonomous vehicle navigation, airinformation produced by the detector in a new hightraffic control systems, global weather monitoring and disenergy physics experiment, called BTeV. Not only mustaster early warning systems, satellite-based surveillance,the system identify the exceedingly rare interactions thathighly available Internet services, computer vision systems,the physicists are interested in, but it must also be excepand turbine engine and rocket motor monitoring.tionally reliable and easy to maintain and upgrade.TFor more information aboutthe College ofArts and Science,visit our Web page athttp://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/cas.htmYou also can access themain alumni Web page atwww.vanderbilt.edu/alumniand the on-line version ofthe A&S Cornerstone ne.htmlCONTENTSPEYTON HOGEVanderbilt responds toterrorism, pages 1, 6-9A&S News, pages 2-3Student and Alumni News,pages 4-5Research and FacultyNews, pages 10-11Faculty Art Exhibit, 12Samar Ali, Nelson Bryan,Judith DeMoss Campbell,Mark Carlisle, Shelton Clark,Lew Harris, Gayle Rogers,David Salisbury, ContributorsKeith Wood, DesignerAnthony J. Spence, E’75Director of Alumni PublicationsVanderbilt University is committed toprinciples of equal opportunity andaffirmative action.Cover illustration by David Wariner2Two A&S students were chosen Homecoming king andqueen this year. Ibrahim “Ibby” Nasmyth and AnnaCurry were presented at halftime during the VanderbiltGeorgia football game. Nasmyth is a senior from Atlanta.A Chancellor’s Scholar, he has a double major inpsychology and communication studies. Curry, a seniorEnglish major from Birmingham, receives the Harris RileyJr. Scholarship for a premedical student.&SDyer Observatory to play rolein remote telescope operationhe Astronomical League and its fellow stargazersare mounting an ambitious project to provide U.S.students in K-12 with access to a network of remotelyoperated telescopes in sites around the globe. Vanderbilt’sDyer Observatory is slated to play a central role in theeffort and will serve as the control and download centerof the network.Vanderbilt will provide observatory space for a satellite dish that will communicate with the telescopes. TheUniversity will also maintain a computer server that willupload control sequences to the telescope, download theastronomical images that theyproduce, store the images untilthey can be transferred to apermanent storage facility, andhost the Web site that will takerequests for observations anddisseminate the images to participating teachers and students. The initial phase of theproject involves setting up aremotely operated telescope inArizona, with future sites contemplated in New Zealand andRussia. The required communication equipment will be installed at Dyer Observatory over the next few months. The ultimate goal of theproject is to mount a similar telescope on the InternationalSpace Station, a step that will require the support of NASA.The Astronomical League is the world’s largest federation of amateur astronomers.TNewsVanderbilt on ‘hot’ listVanderbilt has performed well in several recent national rankings. U.S. News &World Report ranked Vanderbilt 21st in the magazine’s survey of the nation’s bestuniversities. This is the 12th yearthat Vanderbilt has been chosen byU.S. News as one of the nation’stop 25 universities.In a report released last fall,Newsweek/Kaplan listed the University atop eight other colleges and universities deemed to be “America’s Hot Schools.”What makes schools like Vanderbilt, Emory, and Tulane “hot”? Primary consideration was the number of students competing for admission. According toBill Shain, dean of undergraduate admissions, applications to Vanderbilt’sundergraduate schools increased by 14.7 percentfrom 1999 to 2001. As the University’slargest school, the College of Arts andScience enrolled 909 students in theClass of 2005, out of 7,000 applicants.Father of deconstruction visits Vanderbiltenowned French philosopher and literary critic Jacques Derrida delivered the Chancellor’s Lecture at Vanderbilt in October. The A&S departments of French and Italian, and philosophy, as well as the Law School, the Divinity School and the Frenchgovernment sponsored his visit.In his address on “Perjury,” Derrida probed a range of topics relating to memory, fidelity, and religion. He continued to explore language and culture in the vein of his watershed works, Writing and Difference, Of Grammatology, and Margins of Philosophy.Derrida is the chief architect of the school of deconstruction, which has been appliedto law, literature, religion, linguistics, and other fields.RPEYTON HOGEJoanne Lamphere Beckham, BA’62,EditorDonna PritchettArt Directoraculty in the College of Arts and Science received 21million in external research funds during fiscal year2001, according to Dennis G. Hall, professor of physics andthe University’s associate provost for research. That figureamounts to 10 percent of the research funds received by allthe schools of the University last year.Furthermore, Vanderbilt psychology ranked 9th nationally in the amount of funding it received from the National Institutes for Health (NIH) during the same time period.Psychology’s total included the combined efforts of psychology faculty and graduate students in A&S and PeabodyCollege.“This is the fourth year in a row of increased researchrevenue for the College of Arts and Science,” Professor Hallsaid. “It takes great ideas, hard work and well-written proposals to win extramural research funding in today’s competitive world. The continuing increase in new researchfunding could not occur were it not for our faculty’s creativity, talent and effort.”Appointed in June 2000, Hall came to Vanderbilt fulltime last July after 20 years on the faculty of the Universityof Rochester in New York, where he was William F. MayProfessor. During the past seven years, he directed the university’s Institute of Optics.Professor Hall received the PhD degree in physics in 1976from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and conducted his dissertation research at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He also has an appointment as professor of electricalengineering and computer science at Vanderbilt.FA&S CORNERSTONE is published by the College of Artsand Science in cooperation with theDivision of Institutional Planningand Advancement’s Office ofAlumni Communications andPublications. You may contact theeditor by e-mail atCornerstone@vanderbilt.edu or byU.S. mail at VU Station B357703,2301 Vanderbilt Place, Nashville,Tennessee 37235-7703. Copyright 2001 by Vanderbilt University.Neil Brake, Peyton Hoge,Woodie Knight, PhotographyCollege faculty members receive 21 million in research fundsAFORMER NEA CHAIR JOINS VU FACULTYBill Ivey, former chairman of the National Endowmentfor the Arts, has joined the Vanderbilt faculty. As theHarvie Branscomb Distinguished University VisitingScholar, Ivey will teach, write and conduct research oncultural policy. He will also begin planning a proposedcenter that will examine the complex relationshipbetween the arts and public policy. Ivey is creditedwith restoring the NEA’s credibility with Congress by bringing a populist approach to the endowment.“I am delighted to have theopportunity to work for thisesteemed university with itsrenowned community of scholars,”Ivey said.Before his appointment to theBill IveyNEA in 1998 by former PresidentBill Clinton, Ivey led the Nashville-based Country MusicHall of Fame. A respected folklorist and musician, healso taught classes at the Blair School of Music.Last October, Academy Award winner Eva Marie Saint, right, and her husband,actor/director Jeffrey Hayden, led workshops for A&S students interested in stageperformance. The couple visited Vanderbilt as part of the Fred Coe Artist-in-Residenceprogram. Saint won the Oscar as best supporting actress for her role opposite MarlonBrando in the 1954 film On the Waterfront.3
StudentandAlumniNewsThree Men and a Chair: Remembering Nelson TyroneIt was the remarkable friendship between two men thatbrought scores of Vanderbilt alumni and others to theLaw School lecture hall on a bright blue October dayto celebrate Don Doyle’s inaugural lecture as the NelsonTyrone Professor in American History.The two friends were 1961 A&S classmates NelsonTyrone and Fred Rentschler, whose friendship began inthe fall of 1957 when they were freshmen living together on the third floor of Vanderbilt Hall. Together, theyenjoyed the vagaries of Professor Belissary’s History ofPEYTON HOGEProfessor Don Doyle, left, the Nelson Tyrone Professor ofAmerican History, with Fred Rentschler, BA’61, who endowedthe Tyrone Professorship.Western Civilization class. Together they joined ATO fraternity, with Tyrone becoming president their senior yearand Rentschler vice president.Tyrone also became editor of The Commodore, whileRentschler served as student association president. Bothmen were tapped for ODK, the prestigious leadership/scholarship fraternity, and both excelled at intramural sports.After graduation, Tyrone, the son of a country doctorfrom Mississippi, went on to become a urologist and surgeon, earning his MD at Tulane and doing further workat the University of Virginia and Sloan-Kettering Hospital in New York. Then he settled down to practice medicine in Columbus, Georgia.Rentschler, meanwhile, returned to Ohio and workedhis way up in the Armour-Dial Company from salesman to president, after earning an MBA from Harvard.He went on to become CEO of Hunt Wesson Foods, thenBeatrice U.S. Foods and Beatrice Companies. He servedbriefly as president and CEO of Northwest Airlines beforeretiring in 1991.Today Rentschler chairs the board of trustees of theSalk Institute for Biological Studies and serves on severalother boards. He is also a member of Vanderbilt’s CollegeCabinet, the leadership donor society for A&S. For hiswork with Salk, the University of Wyoming awarded himan honorary doctor of laws degree in 1999. He and hiswife, Pam, divide their time between their home in Scottsdale, Arizona, and their Montana cattle ranch.4Through the years, Rentschler and Tyrone kept up, getting together at Vanderbilt reunions, meetings and whenever else they could. “He was my best friend,” Rentschlersaid, describing Tyrone as a Renaissance man who “lovedto travel, loved classical music [and] the arts.”“He was also a tremendous father to his daughter, Clayton, and his son, Nelson III, who happens to be mygodson,” Rentschler added. Tyrone’s children and hiswidow, Mary Munday Tyrone, live in Atlanta and attended Doyle’s lecture.It was with great sadness, but not shock, that Rentschlerlearned of Tyrone’s sudden death in 1987. “He was bornwith a heart defect and later on developed diabetes,”said Rentschler. “But he didn’t let it slow him down. Hekept himself in great shape and lived life to the fullest.”A few years later, Rentschler—on campus for an alumni meeting—strolled past the dormitory where he andTyrone first met. Looking up at the third floor, he remembers thinking, “Wouldn’t it be nice someday to have a chairnamed in Nelson’s memory.”After several years the dream became a reality with Rentschlerendowing the Nelson O. Tyrone Jr. Chair in American History. Last October, Don Doyle delivered his inaugural lecture as the Nelson Tyrone Professor to an overflow crowd.The lecture, “Reading Faulkner, Writing History,” was basedon Doyle’s latest book, Faulkner County: The Historical Rootsof Yoknapatawpha County.Calling the lecture thoughtful and scholarly, Rentschlerlauded the artful way Professor Doyle wove the fictionof Faulkner with the reality of Lafayette County whereFaulkner lived. “Nelson would have been deeply appreciative [of the lecture],” Rentschler said, “and he wouldhave wholeheartedly endorsed the fact that Don Doyleholds a chair in his name.”Doyle praised Rentschler’s generosity in establishing thechair. “I make a point of telling my students about the origin of this chair,” Doyle said. “I have no doubt some of themwill have the kind of friendships that will inspire this kindof honor. I only hope they have the combination of success and generosity that Fred Rentschler exemplifies.”Judith DeMoss Campbell, BA’63More AmbassadorsIn the fall issue of the A&S Cornerstone, the article onA&S alumni who have served as ambassadors to othercountries was incomplete. We have subsequentlylearned that Lyons Brown Jr. was sworn in as ambassador to Austria on December 6, 2001. The list alsoincludes Marion Creekmore, BA’61, ambassador to SriLanka and the Republic of Maldives from 1989 to1992, and Thomas C. Ferguson, BA’55, JD’59,ambassador to Brunei from 1986-1990.A&S ATHLETES SUCCEEDVanderbilt’s 2001 baseball team had a leaguehigh and team-record 12Commodores selected tothe Southeastern Conference Academic Honor Roll.Included on the list wereKevin Geshke, BA’01, amathematics major; KyleFlubacker, philosophy; JeffLittle, molecular biology;John Prothro, interdisciplinary communications; andBrooks Rutledge, mathematics. It was the thirdconsecutive award forGeshke and the second forFlubacker.Brandt Snedeker, a Vanderbilt golfer, was namedto the second-team All SECsquad as a freshman lastMay in voting by theleague’s 12 head coaches.The economics major fromNashville led the Commodores with a 73.09stroke average and finished in the top 10 in threetournaments last season.His best round of the yearwas a 5-under-par 67 at theGator Invitational.Several A&S grads haveassumed new coaching duties in the collegiate ranks:Jan van Breda Kolff,BA’74, moved from theWest Coast to the EastCoast when St. Bonaventure in New York hired himaway from Pepperdine inMalibu, California. He hada 47-18 record at Pepperdine that included a NCAATournament appearance in2000 and NIT bid in 2001.His career record, including stints at Vanderbilt andCornell was 174-128.David Lee, BS’75, washired as quarterbackscoach at Arkansas by headcoach Houston Nutt. Hepreviously was offensivecoordinator and quarterbacks coach at Rice underformer Arkansas coach KenHatfield. Lee coachedArkansas quarterbacksfrom 1984-1988 and wasthe Razorbacks’ offensivecoordinator in 1988.Karen Booker, BS’87, wasnamed women’s basketballcoach at the University ofthe South in Sewanee,Tennessee. An assistantcoach last season, she waspromoted when formercoach Richard Barron accepted a job at Princeton.Booker was head women’scoach at Cal Poly San LuisObispo for two seasons in1996 and 1997.StudentandAlumniNewsHonor Thy Motherthe prestigious Gamma Beta Phi service fraternity, is also ahen Richard Wallman, BE’73, and his wife, Amy,member of Alpha Omicron Pi sorority and a Young Life volchose to endow a scholarship at Vanderbilt, theyunteer at Nashville’s McGavock High School. She also worksdid so not in the Engineering School from which Richardpart-time at a local restaurant.was graduated, but in A&S, which his mothAfter receiving his Vanderbilt degree iner, Dorothy Niederhauser Wallman, BA’39,electrical engineering, Richard Wallman earnedattended.an MBA from the University of Chicago, whereWallman, the chief financial officer of Honhe met Amy, who also earned an MBA there.eywell, and his wife felt that it was important toRichard worked for Ford and Chryslergive the same educational opportunity that hisbefore becoming controller at IBM. Sincemother had enjoyed to other young women1995, he has been the CFO at Allied Signal,from Nashville. The scholarship memorializesand subsequently Honeywell, after the twoDorothy Wallman, who died in 1997.companies merged. Amy has been a partner“She thought that Vanderbilt was the bestschool in the country—the equal of any place,” Amy and Richard Wallman with Ernst and Young for 17 years.“We established the scholarship to honorRichard Wallman said.my mother, because she loved Vanderbilt so much,” WallDorothy’s three sisters also attended Vanderbilt, and herman said. “It’s hard to imagine what a great feeling you havedaughter and Richard’s sister, Lynne Wallman Reed, earnedwhen you know you’ve had a positive impact on somebody’sa BS degree from Peabody in 1970.life. It certainly helps that Jessica is a wonderful person.Jessica King is the scholarship’s first recipient. “My moth“What I particularly like about the scholarship is that thiser and I are overwhelmed with appreciation for Mr. and Mrs.is an endowed scholarship that will help students for yearsWallman,” said King, a junior majoring in sociology andand years to come,” he continued.Spanish. “As recipients of such a generous gift, we have been“The one request that we made is for the recipientsconvinced even more of our need to give back to the comto give us an update once a year on how they’re doing.munity. We really hope to give others the same joy that weWhen you’ve helped somebody in their life, it’s a wonhave so appreciatively received.”derful feeling.”King, whose academic work earned her membership inWDid You Know?Every undergraduate student canreceive up to fivehours of freetutoring at theLearning Centerfor each A&Scourse they takeeach semester. TheLearning Centeralso provides general academiccounseling, learning strategiesworkshops, individual tutoring,directed studygroups, tutoredstudy halls, andspecial programs.Students visit CubaThrough a recent change inU.S. policy, licensed culturalorganizations may now travelto Cuba. The Vanderbilt Alumni Association is sponsoring a tour in February 2002, led byAssociate Professor Jane Landers, director of the Center forLatin American
Curry were presented at halftime during the Vanderbilt-Georgia football game. Nasmyth is a senior from Atlanta. A Chancellor’s Scholar, he has a double major in psychology and communication studies. Curry, a senior English major from Birmingham, receives the Harris Riley Jr. Scholarship for a premedical student.
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