WESLEYAN COLLEGE 4760 Forsyth Road, Macon, GA 31210-4462 Phone: (478) 477-1110 On the Web: www. wesleyancollege.cdu ADMINISTRATION Nora Kizer Bell, President 1 lilary Kight, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Interim Dean of the (',allege Susan Allen, Vice President for Institutional Advancement Jonathan Stroud, Vice President for Enrollment & Marketing and Dean of Admissions Renee Leake, Vice Pre ident for Student Affairs WESLEYAN MAGAZINE STAPP Sonya Barnes, Associate Director of Public Relations, sb11rnes@wesleyancol/cge.ed11 Beth Milstead '96, Publications Coordinator, bmilstead@ivesleyanco/lege.cd11 Penny L Kojak, Graphic Designer and Photographer Beverly D. Peavy, Administrative Assistant for Public Relations Michelle Tcwal '04, tudent Assistant for Public Relations Cathy C. Snow '71, Director of Alumnae Affuirs, [email protected] Rhonda Walls, Assistant Director of Alumnae Affairs Suzanne Grigsby '97, Class ores Editor PHOTOGRAPHY Ken Krakow, w,vw.kenkmkow.com Phillip Spears PRINTING Panaprint, Macon, Georgia Our thanks to alumnae and friends for providing photos. Wesleyan Magazine is published .by the Wesleyan College Office ofP ul,lic Relario1L<, 4760 For,yth R0<1d, Mafon, Georgia 31210-4462, phone (478) 757-5134,fax (418) 757-5104. Contellls may be reprinted with permission oft he editor. Cover photo: Ik r majesty Queen Noor at Commencement 2001. Photo by P/11/lip Spears. WIESILIEYAN Magazine VOLUME XXXI, NUMBER 1 • SUMMER 2001 COMMENCEMENT 2001 4 Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan addresses a capacity crowd in Porter Memorial Auditorium a Wesleyan con fers degrees on 95 graduates at the 2001 commencement. GooDSPORT 6 Trista Dudich '02 joins 13 other college athletes in Europe this summer as part of the USA Athletes International Inc. women's fast-pitch softball team. SAYING GOODBYE 7 Wesleyan bids farewell to Gena Roberts Franklin '71 and Jeanette Loflin Shackelford '61 as the longtime college employees retire. ALUMNAE WEEKEND 12 Celebrating more than 165 years of sisterhood, alumnae gather for fun and fellowship at the annual Alumnae Weekend. ALUMNAE AwA RD WINNERS 16 At the Annual Meeting, the Alumnae Association honors six of its own for their outstanding achievements in the community, church and workplace. V ·1 .:m Co11 i t I I DEPARTMENTS From the Editor .......... . Campus ews ........................ . I . Sports Report ............. 9 1 • • • • • • •••••••••••••••••• ••• Spring beauty abounds on the Wesleyan campus as the STUNT .................. ·, '. ........ ,r.... . . • . ... 10 1 •••• Cherry Blossoms open their blooms. Alumnae Club News ...... , .....•................... ·. ... 18 Class otes .. ____ _ . . 1. ... 20 ------ FROM THE EDITOR s spring Wesleyan witnessed two of its ates. Wesleyan's commencement is a deeply per most treasured events: the Alumnae sonal occasion. Maybe they can get the high pro ssociation's annual meeting and com file speakers, but my family has the lasting mem mencement. Both ceremonies have long and sto ory of seeing their "baby'' cross the stage and ried histories. Commencement goes back to 1840 receive her hard-earned degree. when Catherine Brewer (Benson) became the However, Wesleyan is fortunate enough that first woman in the world to receive a college not only are students treated to a deeply per degree. The annual meeting has been a highlight ceremony, but they also have the honor of shar for decades of the alumnae association, the first ing the stage with some amazing speakers. Last such association in the world. year the audience listened intently to prirnatolo Commencement is a special time for any col gist Jane Goodall discuss why she sees a hope for lege graduate, but Wesleyan's hallowed tradi our planet. This year was no exception as Her tions make it an evening more intriguing cere Majesty Queen oor of Jordan shared with the mony. Graduates wear academic hoods, which graduates her view on the role and re pon ibilit} are placed on them during the ceremony by spe of women in an international society. cial "hooders". These women are Wesleyan In this issue we give you a look at our newest alumnae who hold a special place in the gradu alumnae and the capstone day in their college ate's life. Often it is a Wesleyan "sister," other careers. We also give you, and them, a look at time it may be a relative or even an alumna the what happens when IO decades of alumnae gath· graduate has fostered a relationship with while er to rally behind their alma mater. In addition, attending Wesleyan. Wesleyan's athletics program has had some pow This is one of the reasons I treasure my memo erfuJ players this past year. We'll tell you about ries of commencement. Friends who attended one athlete who is taking her game to an intema· large universities have told me about how they tional level as well as update you on some of the graduated collectively and didn't have the oppor other achievements in our athletic program. tunity to cross the stage, or how they could only invite two members of their family to attend the Enjoy, ceremony because of the large number of gradu- Beth Milstead '96 Joined by former class sponsor Phil Taylor, associate professor ofb usiness and economics, members of the Class of 1996 take a moment to ham it up before the Annual Meeting during Alumnae Weekend. Summer2001 2 To THE En1ToR November 2000 February 8, 2001 Dear Dr. Bell, Hi Beth, I want to congratulate you for your effort to work on the i sue of I'm Louisa Abney-Babcock '69 and I'm at home recovering from finances with Wesleyan women and women in general. I graduated a broken hip after falling on the ice at the end of my driveway here in 1998, with the Purple Knight class .... I grew up in Guatemala, in Pa. The enforced home stay has given me the opportunity to and was an International Relations major. I am now the executive catch up on my reading. I've been reading all the good works in director of a human development project for the poor. ... I man progress at Wesleyan in the latest Wesleyan Magazine and was espe age a taff of80 Guatemalan employees and 30 volunteers from cially impressed by the newspaper article by President Ball and your around the world. It has been an amazing challenge and opportu complementary article. My immediate thought was that "this is the nity, I feel blessed. I have seen how my education at Wesleyan and Wesleyan I wanted to attend". The focus on a seriousness of pur the people I interacted with there have served me. pose for Wesleyan women to hold not only for their kith and kin I am excited about the future of Wesleyan, and hope to support but for all women is the truest calling of this college community. I it more. I am particularly excited about possible increased study wish Wesleyan had created that vision in 1965-that would have abroad opportunities, especially a stipend that will make it possible been another major pioneer accomplishment. The enormous good for more women at Wesleyan to participate ... work now is certainly a credit to the leadership of President Bell. ... The quality of the education I received at Wesleyan is top Thanks for an interesting and lively magazine updating me on notch, and I feel much more prepared for the world than many of the progress at Wesleyan. my peers from coed colleges or large universities. Wesleyan is part of why I am in the leadership position I am in now. Best regards, I feel this education should be available to women of all walks Louisa Abney-Babcock '69 oflife .... I will continue to speak for Wesleyan and encourage e-mail young women who are already there. I am trying to stay involved with International Relations and Political Science students, I sup port the Wesleyan Christian Fellowship members, and would like January 15, 2001 in the future to bring women down to Guatemala for an experi ence of working with the poor in Guatemala .... We have a wide Dear Madam Editor, range of opportunities for language and culture study in Antigua, The Winter 2000 issue of your magazine is excellent and most where we are located, and wonderful opportunities to learn by informative. doing at the project. Wesleyan is most fortunate to have a wonderful faculty with its I was thrilled to read your article, which I found on the website leadership. "Financial independence and moral responsibility'' for on the news page. I agree with you about women needing to know the ladies is an admirable approach. what to do with their money and how to manage money, and how to have access to it. We have women's community groups in many Respectfully, of the villages we work with, doing a variety of economic develop Fleming Jolley ment projects as well as self-awareness, empowerment projects. Sea Island, GA I look forward to hearing more about how this new emphasis on financial awareness develops, and how I can help or serve current students at Wesleyan .... Cheers, Tamalyn Jackson '98 Godchild Project/Fundaci6n de Esperanza Antigua, Guatemala via e-mail After STUNT rehearsals, a trio ofs ongbirds celebrate the addition of a Karaoke machine to the Hurdle Cafe. Wesleyan Magazine 3 a queen t 2001 and beyond ommencement is a spe sometimes expressed, that the cial time at Wesleyan role of men was leader hip and College. It is the day the role of women was service. the entire community This did a disservice both to the together to celebrate the nature ofleadership and to the ents of the women capabilities of women," Queen · be leading our world - Noor said. · ~, in schools, in Born Lisa ajeeb Halaby to a in politics. This year, distinguished Arab-American ~esty Queen oor of family, Queen oor was part of a woman who has been the first coed class at Princeton leader for more than University, receiving a bachelor des joined We leyan in of arts in architecture and • g her graduates. urban planning in 1974. In y's realities, both the 1978 she married King Hussein enges of the world beyond ofJordan and has played a campus and the possibili major role in promoting inter f your world herald a call national exchange and under ·ce," Queen oor told standing of Middle Eastern pol · te Class of200 I at com itics, Arab-We tern relations ent May 5. "Don't ever and current global issues yone tell you you are too throughout the world. She does to change the world." much of this work through the · g from her own expe Noor Al Hussein Foundation in public service, Queen (NHF) and the King Hussein r encouraged the graduates Foundation, which was estab d way professionally or lished by royal decree in 1999 to personally to give something continue the late king's human back to the community, a goal itarian vision and legacy. e college has also set for itsel£ Her background in humani a long time, in many tarian causes and her pivotal es, I think there was an role in Middle Eastern and umption, always implicit and international politics made Her Majesty Queen Noor ofJ ordan, center, and Wesleyan President ora Kizer Bell, right, greet students and their families at a reception 4 Queen Noor an ideal role model ed by even the smallest disease. and speaker for We leyan grad "You don't live to be very uates. From her early dreams of old. You die early, usually from joining the peace corps, to her a disease that's easily treatable. international work in urban And all tho e deaths come planning, to her current partici down upon the children. o pation in such groups as the you say, well 'why not be a Landmine Survivors Network, pediatrician?' ... but a lot of the Queen oor shared her experi things happen to kids happen ences of forging a new place for while their mothers are preg women in the world. nant or even before they got "We do not let that slow our pregnant," Fru recently told a tep towards progress, especial local newspaper reporter. ly where women are concerned. Another graduate who will be Throughout history the world heading to post-graduate work over, women's feet have too is LaTonya Parker, an English often been literally or metaphor major and philosophy minor. icaJly hobbled," she said. This fall she will enroll at Concluding her address to Vanderbilt University in the students, Queen Noor told Tennessee to pursue a master's the audience that it was her degree in divinity. La Tonya says husband's great pride in public her faith in God was a pivotal service that inspired her to part of getting through some "value work for the larger pub rough situations in her early lic good as the ultimate fulfill life, and she wants to attend ment of personal and profes seminary and eventually be sional aspirations ... involved in missionary work. 'Women and men should Also heading to postgraduate understand that leadership in its study is hannon Kundey, a highest form is service and that cum laude graduate who double service is a duty that we all share." majored in chemistry and psy THE CLASS OF 2001 chology. Shannon will begin her Wesleyan conferred bachelor postgraduate studies in psychol of arts degrees to 91 students ogy this August with Dr. Allan and master of arts degrees in Wagner at Yale University in middle grades mathematics and Connecticut. Wagner, the devel science on four students. The oper of the Rescorla-Wagner impressive undergraduate class Model of associative learning included a dual-degree student and memory, caJled Shannon who also received an engineer and asked her if she would like ing degree from Georgia to be one of his students. Institute of Technology; three It was possibly Shannon's honors program graduates; and record of professional-level pre 16 honor graduates, or 18 per sentations and extensive research cent of the graduating class. in learning and memory, that Among the class of2001 is impressed Wagner. During her cum laude graduate Karenne time at Wesleyan Shannon has Fru, a 19-year-old Cameroon presented papers at several pro native who will be attending fessional conferences, including Medical College of Georgia and one in the Netherlands. enrolling in their M.D./Ph.D. "I've never been one to be sat program. Karenne is interested isfied with where I am now. I try in specializing in obstetrics and to live a little in the future and gynecology and possibly study not get bogged down in today's ing infectious diseases, primarily success," Shannon said, echoing because of her own experiences a sentiment found in the hearts growing up in a village devastat- of decades of We sleyannes. • - Wesleyan Magazine 5 W esleyan students tournament with Inten have a long history and Olympic teams fro of travel abroad around the world. during the summer. Whether "I felt she statistically it is through language pro the numbers to make tl grams, studying at foreign uni But more than that she versities or even internships, embodiment of what 01 they have spent their swnmers international softball pl expanding their knowledge of should be," said Weslf) other cultures. ball coach Rob Brunel, Trista Dudich '02 will make nominated Dudich for a trip "across the pond" this team in March 2000. "S summer, but her objective is good kid and plays hare different than those who have always willing to do wh gone before her. She will leave can to help the team." July 7 for Apeldoorn, Holland, A second basemen wl as part of the USA Athletes viously played on her hi International Inc. women's school's baseball and giJ fa t-pitch softball team. There softball teams, she also I he will compete in the 2001 caught for Wesleyan's 11 Robur '58 Softball and is improving her pi Tournament She will compete skills. Her versatility am with 13 other players from 10 standing batting averag1 colleges and universities in the her a pivotal player on United States. Wesleyan's team, Brune "This is the sort of thing I've "Since I've attended always dreamed about," Wesleyan, my experienc Dudich said. "I've been playing sports has only gotten b ball since I was 4 or 5 and I've Dudicb said. "I not onl) always dreaded when I would prove to myself that I cc have to stop playing. So this is play at the college level, exciting to have a chance to also was able to share m possibly go further than the with others. college level." "I plan to play ball un Dudich was chosen to be can no longer make it at part of the 14-member team the bases," she adds. " r from more than 1,000 nomi will always be a part of r nated players. The team will fly and will be something tl to Europe in early July and will pass on to my childi play in a series of exhibition because of what is has d, games before competing in a and meant to me."• hits the diamond in Euro Article by Beth Milstea Photo by Phillip SJ RETIRING..71.lumnae bidding far Franklin, Shackelford reti1i Article by Beth Milstead '96 s summer two mem than $6 million in the Alumnae ers of the Wesleyan Campaign. It isn't just alumnae ommunity retired, but fund-raising that has seen suc they aren't going very far. cess under Gena's leadership. That's because their ties to the Institutional advancement saw college aren't merely occupa fund-raising records broken in tional. They're alumnae. Vice 1997, 1999 and 2000, including President for Institutional last year's highest giving year in Advancement Gena Roberts the college's history. Franklin '71 and Chair of the "To have worked with Gena Music Department Jeanette for the past five-and-a-half Loflin Shackelford '61 both years has been the most enrich retired this summer. ing experience. he is the Gena began working as an model of integrity, the epitome adjunct faculty member at of the Wesleyan alumna, and both Wesleyan and Mercer has been the most exceptional Univer ity in 1975. She taught teacher I have ever known. She full-time at Wesleyan from will be missed in such a 1980 to 1983 and chaired the tremendous way by all who Department of Speech know and love her," said for Communication. mer Director of Development "I wanted to return to Susan Allen, who assumed the Wesleyan to teach because of role of Vice President for my own wonderful experiences Institutional Advancement. as a student here," Gena said. Jeanette returned to From 1988 to 1991, Gena Wesleyan in July 1988 as the served in the volunteer posi executive director of the new tion of national alumnae presi MidSummer Macon arts edu dent and was hired as alumnae cation program and the Center director in 1991. In December For The Arts. The Center For of that same year she became The Arts began operating that duectorofadvancementand fall, and the first MidSummer alumnae affairs. The following Macon program was held the year the college hired current following summer. alumnae director, Cathy Coxey In 1993, former President Snow '71. She assumed her Bob Ackerman and former current position in May 1993 Dean of the College Carole when the board of trustees Brown asked Jeanette to serve named her vice president for as chair of the music depart institutional advancement. ment, in addition to her other Gena said she is quite proud duties. The success of of what Wesleyan alumnae MidSummer Macon has made have achieved during her time it necessary for Jeanette to as vice president of institution devote her full attention to the al advancement. From 1991 to program. Many of the thou 1994 the alumnae raised more sands of music, theatre, visual -- Wesleyan Magazine CAMPus'News and two drummers, Jose SORORITY CELEBRATES Mangual and Derrick Primus, 150-YEAR MILESTONE - to perform at the National Alpha Delta Pi is the first sorority Mayor's Convention in in the world to turn 150 years Savannah in March, represent old, and to celebrate they ing the city of Macon. returned to their roots. Founded at Wesleyan on May 15, 1851 as FINE.ARTS the Adelphean Society, Alpha Studio Art Delta Pi was the first collegiate Heidi Walker took third place sorority in the world The group for her clay sculpture in the commemorated its anniversary Middle Georgia Art this swnmer with events in both Association's Third Annual Atlanta and Macon. College Competition and The group's 150th Anniversary Exhibition. Arrin Freeman and Convention was June 28--July2 in June Lee also won merit Atlanta. Wesleyan President Nora awards for their oil paintings. Kizer Bell was keynote speaker at the organization's Friday night Chenny Gan won first prize in banquet. On July 1, hundreds of the non-juried section in the AD Pi members visited historic OLIVE SWANN PORTER BUILDING category of Painting on Paper at Rose Hill Cemetery and toured REDEDICATED AS STUDENT LIPE CENTER the Winter Arts Festival, held at the Adelphean room at the Colonial Mall Macon in March. Cannonball House. They also ate Members oft he Wesleyan CollegHinnily gathered to celebrate She exhibited her Chinese lunch on the lawn at Wesleyan the rededication and renaming of the Olive Swann Porter watercolor titled "Exuberant." and toured the campus. Building. The heart ofd ie Wesleyan.campus since the Rivoli While at Wesleyan, members campus opened in lnB, this building has recently undergone a The following students received of AD Pi dedicated a set of new $5 million renovation to make it even more functional for stu "Best in" awards in the Student iron gates at Wesleyan. The dents. The building was rededicated as the Olive Swann Porter Art Exhibition for 2001: gates were jointly donated by Student Life Center to reftect thismc:iellsed emphasis. ADPi and Phi Mu to match the Sculpture: Shannon Elliot President Nom Kizer BeB (pid:ule4 above in the lobby of the Photography: Rada Angelova gates on the main front OSP Student life Center) wtkomed the guests, including mem Painting: Arrin Freeman entrance. Phi Mu, founded at bers oft he Board of Trustees, &culty, staff and students. Board Drawing: Amanda Zagloba Wesleyan as the Philomathean Chair Ruth Knox '75 and April Prince ~ach thanked the gen Printmaking: Melissa Williams Society, will celebrate 150 years erous donors who made'this rtstoratioa possible. Chaplain Bill Ceramics: Vicki Bland in 2002. Hurdle then led the auditnce bl the Act of Re-Dedication and Show (2-D): Hyun Mi Choi Jennica Schenck 03 closed the ceremony in prayer. Show (3-D): Vicki Bland Several additions to the beautiful building include a grand LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE multi-storied foyer entraDQe, renovated Trlce Recreation Room TAPS 12 FOR SEATTLE Music and snack &dlities, an expanded bookstore, meeting rooms for The following students have Chenny Gan won the presti student organir.ations (the Belkladersbip SUites), the Reginald been selected to participate in gious Atlanta Music Club and FrankieTrkie ~Room for campus and.community the 200 l Leadership Institute in Concerto Competition in functions, renovated muaic rooms and campus post office. Seattle, Wash.: Ellie Coakley, April. She was presented in Another highlight is the new Hurdle~ which offers alterna Alison Justus, Chrissy Miner, concert with the Atlanta tive fare for students, 6iculty and staff as well as a place to relax in Catherine O'Kelley, April Community Symphony the evening. The students'VOted in the spring to name the caa in Prince, Natalie Puckett, Ebony Orchestra on May 20 in the honor ofWesleyan ~ Roberts, Crystal Rogers, Recital Hall at Georgia State The building was originally dedicated in 1940 as a memorial to Amanda Smith, Ericka Stewart, University in Atlanta. the wife ofb enefactor Jama Hyde Porter, a trustee of Wesleyan Katie Taylor and Beth Williford. for many~ Among those who contributed to the renovation HUMANITIES project are ARAMARK.the Belle Foundation, Mary A.L Branan Communication TROUPE DANCES AT Foundation, the Cll'Ul~!l.aV°qinia M. Major, Exposition In February, Jennifer Wang NATIONAL CONVENTION Foundation, Rejin;kl Pramde Trice and the Robert W. and Melanie Coerver compet Woodruff'Foundatiott; Harambee African Tribal ed in the Georgia Sounds Unlimited dance Intercollegiate Forensics troupe sent two dancers, Association tournament at Brandi Fryer and Pilar Wilder, Summer 2001 8