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Amazing Photos That Capture Students at Rhodes College, Memphis From the Early 1970s

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