Fall 2013

Summer Send-Off Parties welcome new students | Class of 1963 graduates to Quinqdom | Class ring styles expand Read More

Lift Ev’ry Voice Rick Lee “First-generation students who don’t have cultural capital, who don’t come to the table with college-educated parents or economic resources—for those kids to walk across the stage at graduation makes every single day worthwhile,” says Roslyn Clark Artis of her work in higher… Read More

Nancy and Hilliard Travis spent a lifetime doing all they could to benefit their community, especially their beloved Vanderbilt. The most recent example is a generous bequest gift to the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing for scholarships and pediatric research. Read More

Chinese Heart AFP / Getty Images Eunice Moe Brock of Liaocheng City, Shandong, China, died April 28, 2013. She was 95. Known as Mu Lin’ai, she was born in Hebei, the daughter of American missionaries to China. She recalled the tumultuous time of her youth in a… Read More

Sociology’s Tour de Force Courtesy of Paul Campbell Ernest Q. Campbell, emeritus professor of sociology, former chair of the Vanderbilt Department of Sociology and Anthropology, and emeritus dean of the Graduate School, of Nashville, died July 28, 2013. He was 86. Instrumental in… Read More

“Show … Your … Gold!” Crowell with his grandson Reid (Courtesy of Frank Crowell III) Frank Crowell, game-day announcer for Commodore football and men’s basketball for 22 years, died July 9, 2013. He was 71. A Nashville native and graduate of the University of North Carolina, Crowell… Read More

The Physician as Polymath Courtesy of Michael Tekeli Dr. Patrick Spencer Tekeli of San Francisco died June 27, 2013. He was 55. Born in San Francisco, he graduated from the University of California-Berkeley in 1980. After earning his medical degree at Vanderbilt in 1984, he began an… Read More

Brenda Ellis’ recollection of the Thresher disaster [“Watershed Event,” Collective Memory, Summer 2013] and Vanderbilt’s connections then and now brought to mind that fateful April day 50 years ago. Read More