Author: Missy Pankake
Kentucky Commodore: John R. Hall, BE’55, Honored
Nov. 20, 2016—enior Vanderbilt administrators, including vice chancellors David Williams, Susie Stalcup and Beth Fortune, attended a recent reception honoring emeritus Board of Trust Chair John R. Hall, BE’55.
Obituary: Art G. Demmas, BA’56
Nov. 20, 2016—Art G. Demmas, legendary NFL referee and former Vanderbilt football standout from 1952 to 1956, died Aug. 6 in Nashville. He was 82.
Obituary: E. Melvin Porter, LLB’59
Nov. 20, 2016—Civil rights leader E. Melvin Porter, one of the first African American graduates of Vanderbilt Law School and the first African American to be elected state senator of Oklahoma, died July 26 in Oklahoma City. He was 86.
Amanda Havard, BS’08, MEd’10: High-Tech Medicaid Management
Nov. 20, 2016—Drawing on her passion for technology solutions, Havard launched Health:ELT in 2014 with her business partner and father, L. Cade Havard.
Father’s Footsteps: Late Sportswriter Harold Huggins Endows Basketball Scholarship
Nov. 20, 2016—Huggins passed away in March at age 73 from complications of leukemia, and through his generosity, his legacy will live on through the Harold Louis Huggins Basketball Scholarship.
Miles Barr, BE’06: Solar Power Innovator
Nov. 20, 2016—As a Ph.D. student at MIT, Barr came up with the idea of creating transparent coating that would convert light into power. Today his company, Ubiquitous Energy, is in the business of making “solar technology invisible,” as Barr puts it.
Clock of Ages: 40 Years of Climbing Kirkland Tower, and Paul Young Keeps on Ticking
Nov. 20, 2016—For the past 110 years, the hourly tolling of Kirkland Hall’s signature bell has alerted generations of students that they’ve overslept for economics class or that kickoff was imminent. And for more than a third of those 110 years, the task of keeping the tower’s clock ticking—and its 2,000-pound bell in good working order—has fallen to Paul Young.
School of Medicine Establishes New Giving Societies
Nov. 20, 2016—Vanderbilt University School of Medicine (VUSM) has launched two new donor societies: the John E. Chapman, M.D. Society, which supports clinical programs and endowed faculty chairs, and the Discovery Circle, which supports the basic sciences.
Like Old Times: Alumnae Still Get Together 70 Years after Vanderbilt
Nov. 20, 2016—Virginia “Sis” Holladay, BA’46; Lillian B. Jenkins, BA’45; Mary Elizabeth “Libba” Johnson, BA’46; and Katherine White, BA’46 met at Vanderbilt in 1942 and still get together 70 years later.
#Vandygram, Fall 2016
Nov. 20, 2016—In each issue, Vanderbilt Magazine publishes a handful of social media posts from alumni, students, faculty, staff and Commodore fans that include the hashtag #Vandygram.
College Aspirations
Aug. 12, 2016—First-year Peabody College students Aaron and Nicholas Ainsworth have stayed connected to their hometown of San Bernardino, California, in part by mentoring a class of sixth-grade students there, both in person and by video chat.
Obituary: Larry G. Daughtrey, BA’62: Tenacious Watchdog
Aug. 12, 2016—Larry Daughtrey, legendary political reporter for The Tennessean newspaper in Nashville, known as a tenacious watchdog at the state Capitol who always broke the story first, died May 12 of complications from lung disease. He was 76.