Houston-based practicing pathologist Ed Uthman shot these amazing photos when he was a student at Rhodes College, Class of ’74. They documented everyday life of students at this college which was called Southwestern at Memphis at the time from 1970 to 1974.
Freshmen Carolyn Carl, Annie Stein, and Dot Neale between classes |
Music in the Amphitheater |
A crowd shot from Acting President Pritchartt’s address |
Alice Hyatt enjoys one of the many nice afternoons on the Memphis campus. The other is Rick Bostock who is now a PhD and chair of plany physiology at UC-Davis |
Allison Jones |
Annette Wilkerson working in the Sou’wester office in the basement of the Briggs Student Center |
Arthur Julich, Miriam Hudson, Eric Olson |
Arthur Kellermann, shown here in a skit with Beth Bailey, is now an ER physician who is a well-known proponent of gun control |
At a football game |
Band in Lynx Lair. The guitarist Steve Harrington is now a dentist in San Francisco |
Becky Forbes |
Ben Legett, Paula Block, Margaret Robinson, and Chris Wellford |
Beth Bigger, left Southwestern after freshman year |
Bill Stephenson, attended Southwestern for only one year and then left to join the US Air Force |
Burrow Library front desk. Prof. Franklin Wright is at far right |
Byron Osgood, Jenny Hackemeyer, Dan Hougland, and Rob Barrow |
Candace Keirns, and Holly Byer ponder a procedure in a lab for a biology course. Both of these delightful women ended up in the northeast. Holly teaches in the Yonkers public schools, and Candace, now a physician, is at Mass General |
Card catalog, Burrow Library |
Carol Brigance |
Carolyn Bigelow attending a performance of the Southwestern Singers with Martha Crenshaw in the Amphitheater. Both women are now physicians |
Carolyn Canon |
Catherine Dailey |
Cecil Dorman |
Cheerleaders of Rhodes from the early 1970s |
Chris Wellford |
Conie Lowry went on to earn MBA and law degrees and is now an attorney with Memphis firm Lewis, Fisher, Henderson, Claxton & Mulroy |
Convocation |
Dabney Nicholls, Bill MacCurdy |
Deb Martin, Helen Johnson, Phil Parker, and Carolyn Canon at Registration Room |
Ed Uthman, self-portrait, from fall semester of freshman year |
Erin Stukey, a sculptor and painter based in Murfreesboro, Tennessee |
Florence Neely, Sue Davidson |
Friday Ekwere |
Gay Blouin |
Geraldine Fleming |
Getting shot for ‘faces’ |
Ingrid Ortiz went on to get her law degree from Emory University. She is now senior VP for First Tennessee Bank in Memphis |
Jackie Nichol |
Jeanne Cook and Guitars. She married fellow alum William Beardall and is now a family physician in Austin, Texas |
Jennifer Gilstrap, and Cathy Johnson |
John B. Hampton, a fellow sci fi aficionado |
John Hampton studying in Robb Hall |
Kim McCord |
Linda Parson |
Lynn Dunavant went on to earn her master’s degree and is now a psychologist with Metro Nashville Public Schools |
Lynne Beard, Lisa Lanier |
Mamie Hart with one of her macrame pieces. She is now an architect in Raleigh, North Carolina |
Margaret Robinson, a fine singer, went on to earn a PhD from the University of Texas and is now a clinical psychologist in Fayetteville, Arkansas |
Margaret Wilson and John Gladney, both went on to earn doctoral degrees. Margaret , DMN, heals souls (as co-pastor of Presbyterian Church of Seffner, Florida) and John, MD, heals bodies (as a cardiothoracic surgeon in Shreveport, Louisiana) |
Mary Lynn is now a nuclear medicine tech in Jackson, Tennessee |
Melanie Kennon |
Missy Meyers at the loom |
Nancy Jordan went on to get her PhD and is now a staff psychologist at the VA hospital in Memphis |
Nancy Nolan |
Neil Mara is now a News Systems Director with the Charlotte Observer in North Carolina |
Ouida Bass |
Pat Turner |
Paulette Lewine, Joye Romeiser, John Coats, Laurel Price, and Linda Wilson |
Penny Miller |
rainy-day shot was taken from the arched portico at the south end of the Chemistry Building, looking south along the walkway to Halliburton Tower |
Reading room in Burrow Library |
Renaissance Fair |
Rhodes in the early 1970s |
Rhodes in the early 1970s |
Rhodes in the early 1970s |
Rhodes in the early 1970s |
Rhodes in the early 1970s |
Rhodes in the early 1970s |
Rhys Scholes |
Robert Freeman |
Sandra Chu, now owns Westgate Drugs in Clarksdale, Mississippi |
Stephanie Ryburn, now a schoolteacher, was an outstanding student editor |
Students playing volleyball in front of the Briggs Student Center |
Susan Neal, Ralph Carl, Andy Bradley, Gary Gherki, Frank Cole, Chuck Mcgrady, Jackie Nichol on ‘the bench’ |
The Southwestern singers and concert band were the major draw for convocation |
Theresa Cloys is now Director of Development for Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville |
Weezy Elliott and Ellen Tyler. Ellen is now an immigration paralegal for BP America in Memphis. Weezy is the Intervention Team Coordinator for At-Risk Students at Worthington Kilbourne High in Columbus, Ohio |