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Bonnie Arant Ertelt, Editor
Donna Pritchett, Art Director
Michael Smeltzer, Designer
Lew Harris, Assistant Editor
Nelson Bryan, Class Notes Editor
Lacy Tite, Web Edition Design and Development
Contributors: Geordie Brackin, Kurt Brobeck, Xiu Cravens, Jennie Edwards, Jennifer Johnston, Melanie Moran, Ann Marie Deer Owens, Jim Patterson, Jan Read, Sharon Shields, Ned Andrew Solomon, Courtney Taylor, J. Luke Webb
Camilla Persson Benbow, Patricia and Rodes Hart Dean of Education and Human Development
Timothy Caboni, Associate Dean for External Relations and Professional Education
Kerry McCartney, Associate Dean for Development and Alumni Relations
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On the cover: A mural painted in 2003 by youth from the Preston Taylor YMCA Boys and Girls Club at the McKissack Family Resource Center in Nashville, Tenn. Photo by John Russell. For more about the mural, see p. 18.
The Peabody Reflector is published biannually by Vanderbilt’s Peabody College of education and human development in cooperation with the Vanderbilt Office of DAR Communications. The magazine is mailed free of charge to all Peabody alumni, parents of current Peabody students, and to friends of Peabody who make an annual gift of $25 or more to the College. Correspondence, including letters to the editor and Class Notes submissions, should be mailed to: The Peabody Reflector, Office of DAR Communications, PMB 407703, 2301 Vanderbilt Place, Nashville, TN 37240-7703 or by email to reflector@vanderbilt.edu.