Passages

Frances Isley Hardie, former head of collections and acquisitions at Vanderbilt’s Jean and Alexander Heard Library, of Nashville, died Jan. 8, 2017. She was 90. Read More

An international monetary expert and one of the most esteemed economic minds of the last century, J. Dewey Daane died Jan. 3 in Nashville at the age of 98. Read More

Robert Wallace Brockman, a research biochemist who devoted nearly four decades of his life to the understanding of cancer-cell resistance to chemotherapy, died April in Charlottesville, Virginia. He was 91. Read More

Peggy Ann Brainerd Way (VANDERBILT SPECIAL COLLECTIONS) Peggy Ann Brainerd Way, a scholar in pastoral care and the first woman appointed to a full-time position on the Vanderbilt Divinity School faculty, died July 9 in Nashville after a brief battle with cancer. She was 84. Way accepted a position… Read More

Art G. Demmas, legendary NFL referee and former Vanderbilt football standout from 1952 to 1956, died Aug. 6 in Nashville. He was 82. Read More

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. Read More

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. Read More

Peabody College alumna Nera White powered the first national women’s basketball dynasty and became the game’s first female superstar—a dominance that led her into the Basketball Hall of Fame as one of the first two women to be enshrined there. She died April 13 in Gallatin, Tennessee, from complications of pneumonia at the age of 80. Read More

Phila Rawlings Hach, one of the grande dames of Southern cooking, died Dec. 2, 2015, at the age of 89. Read More

Tandy Rice, a prominent Music Row figure whose talent agency propelled the careers of Porter Waggoner, Dolly Parton, Jim Ed Brown and Tom T. Hall, died Aug. 3, 2015, in Nashville. He was 76. A native of Franklin, Tennessee, Rice was a 1961 graduate of The Citadel and a… Read More

STEVE GREEN Dr. Noel Tulipan, renowned neurosurgeon and trailblazer in fetal surgery repair for spina bifida, died Nov. 2, 2015, after a long illness. He was 64. Tulipan, professor of neurological surgery, emeritus, in the School of Medicine and former chief of pediatric neurosurgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center,… Read More

RUSTY RUSSELL Fred Thompson, who went on to an illustrious career as an attorney, counsel for the Watergate Committee, U.S. senator, Republican presidential candidate, and film and television actor after graduating from Vanderbilt Law School in 1967, died of cancer Nov. 1, 2015, in Nashville. He was 73. “We… Read More

Vanderbilt Athletics George MacIntyre, who served six years as head coach of the Vanderbilt football team and guided it to an appearance in the 1982 Hall of Fame Bowl, died Jan. 5 in Nashville after a two-decade battle with multiple sclerosis. He was 76. MacIntyre was named head coach… Read More

Jean Bass Crawford, editor of Vanderbilt Magazine for 29 years and former director of Vanderbilt’s Office of Alumni Publications, died Aug. 7 in Nashville. Read More

Francis Guess, a revered Nashville business leader, trailblazer in the private sector, and a champion of civil rights, died July 23. Read More

Frank Mordica, one of the greatest running backs in Vanderbilt football history, died of a heart attack July 18 in his hometown of Tallahassee, Florida, at the age of 57. Read More

Jacob “Jake” Brewer, a White House senior policy adviser to the Office of Science and Technology Policy, died Sept. 19 in a collision with a car in Mount Airy, Maryland, while participating in a charity bicycle ride for cancer treatment programs. He was 34. Read More

Maj. Peyton S. Mathis Jr. played football for Vanderbilt and earned his bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering, volunteering as an aviation cadet in the U.S. Army Air Forces in 1940. Read More

Richard F. Arenstorf, professor of mathematics, emeritus, died Sept. 18, 2014, at age 84. Read More

Penny Elizabeth Campbell, a pioneer in the fight for LGBT rights and a strong advocate for justice and equality, died Sept. 3, 2014, at her Nashville home. She was 61. Read More