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Moving the 'World .Jls you'll see in the introduction to my Inaugural Address - and as you've heard me quote on several occasions on campus - I believe what Dr. William Holmes Ellison, a former presi dent of Wesleyan, told an early graduating class: Woman is the moral Archimedes - her lever is love ... and moves the world. Women, as we have seen through 162 years of Wesleyan College's history, do indeed move the world. We saw ample evi dence of that during our Inaugural Season. Think of the Wesleyan women who were featured - women who themselves grew strong because of the strength of the place Wesleyan offered them to stand: Janice Mays '73 - the Democratic Chief Counsel of the Committee on Ways and Means of the United States House of Representatives. Kathryn Stripling Byer '66 - award-winning poet-in-residence at Western Carolina University and teacher. Christine Olson Sibley '70 - ceramic artist whose works adorn the Atlanta Botanical Gardens and Piedmont Park. Nadine Cheek Jurgensen '79 - Wesleyan's Mildred Goodrum Heyward Professor of Music, whose gorgeous voice graced the inaugural concert. Charlene Payne Kammerer '70 - first woman bishop of the Southeastern Jurisdiction of the United Methodist Church. Harriette James Simmons '64 - rector of Christ Episcopal Church here in Macon. Lu McElroy Steed '58 - an Atlanta artist whose works have been exhibited and lauded throughout the Southeast. Lucretia Octavia Tripp '80 - Aerospace education specialist with NASA. Sandra Deer '62 - celebrated playwright and author of So Long on Lonely Street and Gal Baby. Paula Flannery Lytle '80 - Pastor of Grace United Methodist Church in Savannah. Carol King Pope '59 - Rocky Mount, North Carolina, artist whose works have been featured in shows throughout the Southeast. Every Wesleyan artist showcased at the gala at the Museum of Arts and Sciences. And, Ruth Austin Knox '75-attorney-at-law, and the strong and incredibly capable leader of the Wesleyan Board of Trustees. Each of these women, representatives of generations of Wesleyan graduates, has stood on Wesleyan ground and grasped the lever. They are moving the world. And these women are but a cross-section of the Wesleyan women through history who have moved, and will move, the world. I am proud to be chosen to lead this great institution. I pledge my support and love to you - as you move the world. NORA KIZER BELL VOLUM E XXVIII, N UMB ER 1 • SPRI G 1998 inauguration coverage begins on page6 WESLEYAN MAGAZINE e knew last July that something different was in the air here at Wesleyan ... the debut of the new general-education curriculum, the anticipation and planning for a presidential inauguration, the announce ment ofa master plan for the campus. Throughout this busy Inaugural season, Wesleyan has showcased its heritage as "First for Women." The fact that it's also been a fruitful year for scholarship, research, and stu Worship-service flag bearers Melissa Lockert '00 _(I~~) and dent, faculty, and alumnae Hannah Callender 'OJ eagerly anticipate the beginning of Inaugural Day activ1t1es. achievements demonstrates Amy Bl ckmarr returns out from Penguin thi June. that Wesleyan remains out to familiar ground to Amy's aunt, Helen Blackmarr Outler front. Coverage of Inaugural '53, attended the Macon event, along with Amy's uncle, W. H. Blackmarr. Week begins on page 6. It's been a long and interesting road Amy's mother, Sydney Willis Blackmarr for author Amy Blackmarr, from her '54, is also a Wesleyan alumna. days as a piano major at Wesleyan in the O o o p es n s om- 1970s, to Valdosta State University, and munication as "bridge to later to a fishing cabin near Ocilla, Georgia, and a "treehouse" in the libe a arts" Lawrence, Kansas. The Ocilla Michael Osborn, professor emeritu cabin was the locale for her col of Memphi University and for lection of essays, Going to mer president of the National Ground: Simple Life on a Georgia Communication Association, and Pond (Viking, 1997). Suzanne O born, consultant and educa Amy was in Macon last fall to tor, visited the Wesleyan campus sign copies of her book at December 3-4, 1997, to lead a convoca Barnes & Noble. Like Thoreau tion program, class sessions, and infor and Willa Cather, she believes mal discussions with students. The hu - her work mu t "resonate with band-and-wife Ph.D. team are the the land" - though she cites authors of the textbook Public Speaking. Ray Bradbury, Raymond Carver, "They inspired me to look beyond Helen Blackmarr and Charles Dicken as the three fiction the familiar jobs in communication and Outler '53 (center) and W. H. Blackmarr writers who have influenced her work (left) accompanied their niece, writer Amy push myself to venture into other fie]~, most directly. Her next book, House of Blackmarr, at a Macon book-signing. with my communication background, Steps, based on the Kansas house she is said Sarah Weeks, a communication occupying while completing her doc major in the cla s of 1998. Student torate at the University of Kansas, is due 2 WESLEYAN MAGAZI E • P R I G ' 9 8 CAMPUS NEWS appreciated the Osborn 'approachabili well. Betty ty, enthusia m, and compreh nsive out Smith of Hot look; tudent Government As ociation Springs, pre ident Nancy Hemingway '99 "found North What contribution can the disci them to be very down-to-earth, humor Carolina, gave pline of philosophy make to the ous, and caring people." a folk-music study of myths? That wa the que tion enior Erica Colling worth, in a cri concert March posed on April 18 and 19 when some of tique e ion on sp ech pre entations, Folk artist Lizzie Mae 24. Earlier in the world's foremost cholar of reli learned that "women have a tendency to Wilkerson's work the semester, gion and philo ophy gathered at be overly humble in the introductions appeared in the African Wesleyan. The conference, organized by of their speech ~ almo t to the point Womenfolk show. American Kevin chilbrack, associate profe sor of of being apologetic." (Thank to the ingers Sweet philosophy and religion at Wesleyan, 0 horns and imilar learning experi Honey in the Rock performed during also featured as pre enters Robert A. ence that are an integral part of a inaugural week, as an early kickoff event egal of the University of Lancaster, We leyan education, it's not likely that for Womenfolk. England; J. Baird Callicott of the Wesleyan women will uffer uch prob The April 23 symposium, coordi University of North Texas; Milton lem too greatly!) The college' appreci nated by exhibit curator Nys a Scarborough of Centre College; Tina ation goe to Cindy Buell of the Hattaway '93 and as ociate profe sor of Pippin of Agnes Scott College; Robert Communication department for orga art Libby Bailey, al o brought two McCauley of Emory University; Thomas nizing the event. renowned art historians to campus. Lawson of the University of Western Judy Mc Willie of the Univer ity of Michigan; and Mary Gerhart and Allan Georgia and Maud Wahlman of the Russell of Hobart and William Smith Univer ity of Central Florida gave Colleges. We leyan students participated women lide presentations and lectures fol in the conference, and Jeff Prudhomme, lowing the opening of the associate professor of philosophy and m Women Folk exhibition. religion, erved as a respondent. A comprehen ive catalog of the exhibition, prepared by curator Nys a omenfolk bring Hattaway, i available for $10 from the "ou id r" p r p ctive Wesleyan College Bookstore (912-757- 5233). to Jim Rowan delivers first 1 A ]hat i art?" once asked folk sculp V V Honor Lecture tor Bessie Harvey. "That's a really big que tion, and I'd like to know an It isn't ea y to de ign experiments that answer." In one of the mo t inclusive show how animals and humans learn, hawing of women's vernacular art but psychology professor Jim Rowan ever brought together in one gallery, has found a unique approach. Using a We leyan's Womenfolk exhibition device that rewards rats when they've March 23 - April 5 shone the spotlight correctly learned to repeat a pro Glenna on the works of folk artist pa t and grammed equence of action , Rowan Dod (left), Wesleyan's D. Abbot pre ent. The event, which featured and the Wesleyan students assisting him Turner Professor of Free Enterprise, quilts of Harriet Powers, Lucinda have made ome interesting discoverie spent the summer of 1997 on a Toomer, Je e Telfair, and Arester Earl; concerning memory and cognition. Fulbright program in Singapore and culpture of Mae Tarver and Bes ie Malaysia with Charlotte Smith Rowan discussed the ongoing Harvey; pottery by Marie Roger and research in an April 9 lecture to a large Pfeiffer '65, a professor of English at Grace Hewell; and paintings by Linda audience of students and colleagues in Abraham Baldwin College in Tifton, Georgia. The program was titled Ander on, Mattie Lou O'Kelley, Nellie Taylor Amphitheatre. The event was the "Fulbright Scholars' Views on Culture Mae Rowe, and Lizzie Wilker on, was first annual Honors Lecture, a recogni and Diversity." Professor Dod also only one of the highlights in a fortnight tion established and chosen by the tu attended a Fulbright program in of activitie celebrating Georgia's "out dents in the Honors Program. Bulgaria during her spring 1998 sab sider" women artists. batical. Performing arts were showcased as \V E L E y A N M A G A z I E PRING '98 3 WESLEYAN MAGAZINE Wesleyan alumnae help students FOCUS on the liberal arts by Heather S. Carter For the past nine years, the developing a wildlife sanctuary Entrepreneurship Seminar for busi in Idaho. ness majors, founded by alumnae • Lou Beller '64 lectured on Lou Beller '64, Alexis Xides Bighley '67, how to make millions using Diane A. Lumpkin '63, and Lynda Brinks programming skills and the Pfeiffer '63, has proved to be one of the bottom line, whether in most popular learning experiences in nations, industries, or per onal Wesleyan's repertoire. The program was life. Beller is one of three prin such an effective model, in fact, that its cipal partners in Alon Miller benefactors agreed to expand its scope to Associate , an international other fields of interest as well. And thus data proce sing/management Senior communications the FOCUS Seminar was born. consulting firm based in New majors Sarah Weeks (left), Lisa Hyman (center), and It's subtitled "Linking Liberal Arts York. Bianca Venuto learn how things are done at the Atlanta and Life" - and that's just what students • Cyndey Costello '92 Journal-Constitution printing plant. were able to do November 2-6, 1997, shared information about her during the first of the interdisciplinary field, media sales, during a discussion of communication. She is a marketing rep seminars. The multi-day event "focused" the trend in communication job oppor resentative with Davidson Retirement on career in communication and art tunities and the undiscovered job poten Properties, Inc. (the plan is that two fields will be high tial of communication sales and market In addition to the seminars, students lighted each semester). Students were ing. attended workshops led by Bighley, able to see firsthand how different • Graphic artist Jen Shermer '95 led a Lumpkin, and Pfeiffer. While Bighley spheres of learning connect with one seminar on careers in art. Shermer is the focused on direct mail advertising, another and with the working world. chief graphic designer and art director Lumpkin offered tips on how to maintain for Bright Ideas Group in Macon. In personal image, and Pfeiffer talked about Alumnae as inspiring examples 1997, she supervised a project that won incentive plans for employees. Alumnae Participants in the FOCUS program the prestigious American Graphic Design were on hand to meet and talk with stu toured the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Award. dents during breaks and scheduled "net Cable News Network, the High Museum • Lynn Lasseter Heard '87 talked working" times. of Art, and TMP Worldwide Advertising about "The Circle of Success and its in Atlanta. Also, alumnae representing Leslie Harris: The ''focus" Essential Components." Her lecture many fields returned to Wesleyan to is on film focused on hiring, training, and keeping share their expertise and career perspec One of the main highlights of the right people. Heard is manager of tives during FOCUS seminars and the FOCUS was a convocation with film Residence Inn in Macon. symposium. The range of their profes maker Leslie Harris. One of today's • Diane Mize Prewett '95 led a semi sional activities illustrates how widely hottest young filmmakers, Harris was nar on video opportunities in education, applicable they found the liberal arts: awarded a special 1993 Sundance Film including video conferencing, distance · Kristine Kuchinski '87, a veterinari Festival jury prize for her achievement as learning, and educational videos in the an with her own private practice/consul a first-time filmmaker with her movie classroom. Prewett, an Encore graduate, tation service, lectured on what it's like to Just Another Girl on the IRT. The movie is coordinator for distance learning at work with rare birds. opened to critical acclaim nationwide Georgia College & State University. She · Lynda Brinks Pfeiffer '63 gave a and was shown on the Wesleyan campus and her husband have founded a new eminar on crisis management based on as part of the fall film series prior to property management company, MP the novel Jurassic Park. Pfeiffer is former Harris' program. Born in Cleveland, Squared. executive vice president of finance and Harris earned a bachelor's degree in fine • Encore graduate Sue McMaster administration for Computer Business arts from Denison University and tudied Sanda '97 discussed opportunities in Applications, Inc., a multi-million dollar in Aix-en-Provence, France. She is a healthcare communication and market operation in Glendale, California. She is member of Women Make Movies, the ing. Sanda recently graduated from currently president of Cedar Haven, Inc., Black Filmmakers Foundation, and the Wesleyan as Most Outstanding Senior in a holding company in Nevada that is Association of Film and Video Maker . 4 WE LEYAN MAGAZI E PRING '98 Focus ON LIBERAL ARTS From advertising to art busine communities for 25 year . group on a tour of the High Museum of Perhap the mo t enlightening part A tour of the Atlanta Journal- Art. Lakes is the museum's coordinator of FO US wa the field trip to Atlanta, onstitution wa next on the day' agen of family and community programs. where tudent aw firsthand how adver da. Students saw the production, pre s, Lakes discussed variou aspect of mu e ti ing agencie , major television net and circulation areas of one of the um work: administration, public rela works, and large daily new paper get largest new paper in the country, while tions, and curatorship. The entire con their work done each day. The trip began learning about different career in the tingent of student , faculty, and alumnae at TMP Worldwide Advertising, the new paper indu try. fini hed tl1e multi-day experience with world' large t recruitment advertising Down tl1e street at Cable News valuable exposure to the many ways an agency. Sally Flannagan Neal '70 led the etwork, students got a behind-the Liberal arts education translates into the tour of TMP' Atlanta office. Neal' for scene look at live broadcast of "real world." mer firm, Flannagan Neal A sociates, and CNN Headline News hows. Many thanks from the Wesleyan facul wa bought by TMP in 1995. At TMP, Students learned how some pecial ty and students to all the alumnae and tudent learned about different po i effects are achieved in film and televi benefactors who have made FOCUS possi tions in the adverti ing indu try and sion, and saw how Ted Turner built the ble. Watch upcoming Wesleyan publica what goe into a successful advertising mo t widely recognized cable television tions for news of next fall's FOCUS activi campaign, dome tic and international. empire in the world today. ties. eal, who ha remained with TMP, ha While ome student were touring been active in the Atlanta and national NN, Shantras Lakes '90 led another Wesleyan sports 1997-98: A ''banner'' year Wesleyan Basketball added another name truly excited about the I 998-99 season and to its 1000-Point Club banner on have already begun their off- eason work February 21, when senior Karri Medley outs. Volleyball. Volleyball had a produc became the college's second student-athlete tive sea on, with a 5-18 record against a to achieve the goal. With soccer victories group of tough opponent . The team' hard over Agnes Scott College and a national work and perseverance will provide a firm equestrian championship, Wesleyan is foundation for next year's sea on. Two of poised to move in to a new phase ofg rowth next year's recruits were named to All and achievement in intercollegiate sports. Region teams, and one was named to an All State team. by Lori Mazza, Athletic Director Softball. The oftball player , despite a and Barbara A. Brannon 2-15 record, are learning how to mesh well The Eque trian Team included twenty as a team - a team that is only now finish tudents - an 82% increa e over last year The equestrian team finished it regular ing its econd year of official league play. and the largest number of members ever. Recruiting efforts are concentrating on ea on on March 28, with the Hunt Seat Thirty-one students participated in the improved pitching and building on strong Team fini hing in third place and the Equestrian Program overall. interests from girls in Florida, Georgia, and We tern Hor emanship Team fini hing fir t Basketball. Basketball had another Alabama. Head oach Rob Brunel is looking place in Zone 5, Region 4 Competition. And succe sful ea on, fini hing with a 13-12 forward to continued improvement in although this was only the first year of com record (seven home games were broadcast 1998-99. petition for We leyan's We tern locally on WG M-TV 64). Senior Karri Tennis. Tennis, too, i expecting to Hor eman hip Team (which finished in sec Medley scored her l,OOOth point on enior trengthen its performance under coach ond place at the Affiliated ational Riding Day, against Warren Wil on College. ext Jaime Kaplan. An increased level of competi Commi ion outhea tern Regional year's team will be led by Jeannette Jackson tion in the I 997-98 year resulted in a 2--6 Championship ), a Wesleyan tudent, Je sica '99, hanel Thomas '00, and Hannal1 sea on. alter, was named national champion in Callender '01, with a strong group of incom The coaches and athletic director recog Intermediate We tern Horseman hip at the ing recruits. nized the out tanding performance of national I HA tournament in Port Jervi , Soccer. Five year of experience in Wesleyan athletes during the Athletics ew York, May 1 (look for more in the um CAA soccer have yielded the Wesleyan Banquet on April 14. enior helby mith mer Wesleyan College News; the tory broke team's first wins. The soc er team finished its was honored as tudent-Athlete of the Year, as this magazine was going to press). For the eason at 4-14-1, ho wing improvement and enior Karri Medley took home honors ixth year in a row, We leyan has qualified a throughout the ea on; everal game were as Athlete of the Year. ~ rider for the IH A ational hampionships. narrow lo se . Next year' team member are WE LEVAN MAGAZINE 5 WESLEYAN MAGAZINE Reporting by Barbara A. Brannon, Heather S. Carter, and Beverly D. Peavy ANINAUGU WESLEYAN COLLEGE I TALLS ITS FIRST WOMAN PRESIDENT, FEBRUARY 21, 1998 Pre arations for the bi e N JANUARY, INVITATION beganarrivingin for the biggest celebration the mailboxe . Colleges and universities around the campus had seen in years. nation began sending their congratulations. Students "An inauguration is ... and graduates turned to shopping for party clothes. about giving a pre ident a But few realized that preparations for the February 21 pres good start;' according to the idential inauguration had been under way for months. From chair of Harvard University's the time that Chair of the Board of Trustee Ruth Austin Knox most recent presidential inau '75 appointed the inauguration committee in fall 1997, every guration.* For the alumnae, department and office of We Jeyan College worked to prepare students, parents, faculty, staff, and trustees of We leyan College, the inaugural season was a way of giving Pre ident Nora Kizer Bell a good start - but also of calling the world's attention to WesJeyan's historic role as the fir t college chartered to grant degrees to women. The eyes of the world would be watching, and everyone wanted We leyan to look it best! The Physical Plant and grounds crews worked overtime for weeks before the event itself, making repair , painting facad , and beautifying the landscape. The decorations committee, headed by France Bruce Van Horn '53, swathed the campu in purple, from banners on the lampposts, to wreaths on every door and gate, to flags flying in the breeze. By the offical open ing day, February 15, every detail was in place, and Wesleyan was ready to welcome gue ts from aero s the nation. - BAB 'Quoted in Presidential /11auguratio11s: P/a1mi11gfor More 71,a11 Just Pomp and Cirrumsrancr (CA E Publications, 1993). 6 W ES L E YAN MAGAZINE PRI G ' 98 AN INAUGURAL ALBUM ''Firsts for Women'' Throughout the week, the emphasis was on the achievements of women - specifically, of We leyan women. Friday's symposium treated Wesleyan as a "port of entry'' for everal Wesleyan graduates who have gone on the attain nation al recognition: chief coun el for the House Ways and Means Committee Janice Mays '73, poet and educator Kathryn Srtipling Byer '66, and Lucretia Octavia Tripp '80, NA A education specialist. In the absence of Bishop Charlene Payne Kammerer '70, Ruth Austin Knox '75 moderated these sion. - BAB PORT OF ENTRY: Abol'e hji, Margaret M1111me Thrower '34 llllli ]11/i11 M1111roc \Voodward '34 sig11 the guest book. Far left, K,,y Hyer '66 talks a/Jo11t her rnrccr as poet mu/ edurntvr. Left. ]a11icc Mays '73 cxplai11s that a wo,111111 's place is i11dced i11 the House. Hclmv: Prcsirlc11t Hell speaks with Octavia Tripp 'SO. A Celebration of Community Literacy Since 1989, the lives of nearly 2,000 adults in Middle Georgia have been touched by We leyannes who tutor through the Wesleyan Volunteers Against Illiteracy program. On February 17, as part of Inaugural Week festivi ties, nearly 100 people filled the Benson Room in Candler Alumnae Center to recognize the selfless work of the 1997-98 student volunteers and the persever ance of the adults who e lives have forever been changed by learning to read. According to several students who shared their experiences as volunteers, it is hard to know who is touched more deeply- the students or the adults. \V,mnl; Stephanie Dunda, class of 2001, said she is constantly in pired by her client who is working diligently toward her goal of passing the GED test. "When I write in my journal;' Stephanie relate , "I often wonder 'who was the teacher and who was the student?"' Continued on page 10 W E L E YA MA G A Z I E 7 WESLEYAN MAGAZINE The best of the liberal arts: Wesleyan's Inaugural Lecture and Performance Series The brainchild of Dean Priscilla Danhieser, the Inaugural Lecture and Performance Series was designed to recognize the vigor and variety of scholarship, research, and creativity on the Wesleyan campus. It also served to honor the patrons and representatives ofWesleyan's endowed professorships. Lectures were held nightly, February 15 through February 18. ''.A Musical alute to President Bell" wrapped up the series Friday evening, February 20, in Porter Auditorium. - BAB UN DAY Inaugural Lecture & Performance Series I February 15 Jo eph A. I kra, Jr., Herbert Preston and Marian Haley Associate Professor of Mathematics To E Rows A D MODULAR ARITHMETI A INTERDISCIPLINARY EXAMPLE Ronald B. Toll, Munroe Professor of Life ciences B10D1vER ITY: DoN'T L AVE HoM E WITHOUT (CHECKING O ) IT Mo N DAY Inaugural Lecture & Performance Series 11 February 16 Charles Taylor Wynn, Alumnae Professor of Education DE I ION MAKING A D Po TPORMAL THOUGHT: PROMOTING COGNITIVE GROWTH THROUGH CONDARY OCIAL STU DIE INSTRUCTION William Leonard Curry, Eleanor McDonald torza Professor of ocial cience THE ERIAL MURDERER: A p YCHOLOGICAL PROFILE w E D N E DAY Inaugural Lecture & Performance Series Ill February 18 Delmas S. Crisp, Jr., Fuller E. Callaway Professor of English TH REE FA E OP CRESS I DA: D1 PPEREN E AMO G CHAUCER, HE RYSO , A D HAKESPEARE Leah Marcile Taylor, Knox Professor of Humanities; Dupont Guerry Professor of History and Economics 'How MA y EARS M ST ONE MAN HAVE, .. .': PROTE TA D THE WAR I VIETNAM FULL HOUSE: Crowds filled the Benson Room each evening for lectures on a wide spec trum of topics. F R. I DAY Inaugural Lecture & Performance Series IV February 20 A Musical Salute to President Bell featuring Charle Edward Eikner, Jr., Catherine L. Comer Professor of Fine Arts c,,,,, adine heek Jurgen en '79, Mildred Goodrum Heyward Professor of Music 8 \'11 E L E Y A MAGAZINE PRING ' 98