Coordinates: 35°09′21″N 89°59′28″W / 35.155810615149804, -89.99096632003784

Rhodes College
Motto:	Truth, Loyalty, Service
Established:	1848
Type:	liberal arts college
Endowment:	US $252 million
President:	William E. Troutt
Faculty:	167 (137 full-time, 30 part-time)
Undergraduates:	1690
Location:	Memphis, Tennessee, United States
Campus:	Urban, 100 acres (400,000 m²)
Mascot:	Lynx
Affiliations:	Presbyterian
Website:	http://www.rhodes.edu/

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Rhodes College is featured in Loren Pope's, Colleges That Change Lives and is featured on the cover of the 2008 Princeton Review Complete Book of Colleges. Loren Pope (July 13 1910 &ndash September 23 2008 was an American writer and independent college placement counselor Colleges That Change Lives is a college educational guide by Loren Pope. The Princeton Review (TPR is an American educational preparation company

Contents 1 History 2 Campus 3 Students and faculty 4 Traditions, sports, and clubs 5 Greek Life 5.1 Sororities 5.2 Fraternities 6 Noted alumni 6.1 Business 6.2 Medicine 6.3 Civic 6.4 Culture and Performing Arts 6.5 Scholars 6.6 Authors 6.7 Government and Military 7 Noted staff 7.1 Administrators 7.2 Professors 8 See also 9 References 10 External links

History

Rhodes College traces its origin as a degree-granting institution to the Masonic University of Tennessee, founded in 1848 in Clarksville, Tennessee. Clarksville is a city in Montgomery County Tennessee, USA Clarksville is the county seat of Montgomery County and is Tennessee 's fifth largest city Tennessee ( is a state located in the Southern United States. The institution became Montgomery Masonic College in 1850 and later was renamed Stewart College in honor of its president William M. Stewart. It was under Stewart's leadership that control of the college passed from the Masons to the Presbyterian Church in 1855. The Presbyterian Church (USA or PC (USA is a mainline Protestant Christian denomination in the United States. In 1875, the college added to its undergraduate program a School of Theology and became Southwestern Presbyterian University. The School of Theology operated until 1917.

In 1925, president Charles Diehl led the college in a move to its present campus in Memphis, Tennessee (the Clarksville campus would later become Austin Peay State University). Memphis is a City in the southwest corner of Tennessee, and the County seat of Shelby County. Austin Peay State University is an accredited public university located in Clarksville Tennessee, and operated by the Tennessee Board of Regents. At that time, the college shortened its name to Southwestern. In 1945, the college adopted the name Southwestern at Memphis, to distinguish itself from other colleges and universities containing the name "Southwestern. " Finally, in 1984, the college's name was changed to Rhodes College to honor former college president Peyton Nalle Rhodes.

Since 1984, Rhodes has grown from a regionally recognized institution to a nationally ranked liberal arts college. "^[3] Even as overall enrollment has increased over the past twenty years, the student body has comprised increasing proportions of students from outside Tennessee and the Southeast region. ^[4]

The current president of Rhodes is Dr. William E. Troutt, who joined the college as the 19th president in 1999. William E Troutt is the 19th president of Rhodes College. He was installed as president on March 30 1999 and inaugurated on April 14 2000 His predecessor, Dr. James Daughdrill, served as president for over a quarter century.

Campus

The campus covers a 100-acre (0. 40 km²) tract in midtown Memphis across from Overton Park and the Memphis Zoo. Overton Park may also refer to the US Supreme Court case Citizens to Preserve Overton Park v The Memphis Zoo, located in Memphis, Tennessee, is home to more than 3500 Animals representing over 500 different Species. Often cited for its beauty,^[5] the campus design is notable for its stone Gothic architecture buildings, thirteen of which are currently listed on the National Register of Historic Places. See also Gothic art Gothic architecture is a style of Architecture which flourished during the high and late medieval period. [1] The original buildings, including Palmer Hall (1925), Kennedy Hall (1925), and Robb and White dormitories (1925), were designed by Henry Hibbs in consultation with Charles Klauder, who designed many buildings at Princeton University, alma mater of college president Charles Diehl. Charles Zeller Klauder (1872 - 1938 was an American Architect best known for his work on university buildings and campus designs especially his Cathedral Princeton University is a private Coeducational research university located in Princeton, New Jersey. Later buildings were designed by H. Clinton Parrent, a young associate of Hibbs who was present from the beginning. Parrent's buildings include the Catherine Burrow Refectory (1957), which was an expansion of Hibbs' original dining hall. Parrent also added Halliburton Tower (1962) to Palmer Hall. The 140-foot (43 m) bell tower was named in honor of explorer Richard Halliburton. Richard Halliburton ( 9 January 1900 – presumed dead after 24 March 1939) was an American Traveler, Adventurer Rhodes maintains its Collegiate Gothic architecture, including the new Barret Library (2005) designed by the firm of Hanbury Evans Wright and Vlattas.

Students and faculty

Rhodes enrolls 1690 undergraduate students from 43 states, the District of Columbia, and 5 foreign countries; about 86% are Caucasian, 6% are African American, 5% are Asian and 1. White People is the second album by Handsome Boy Modeling School. African Americans or Black Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the black populations of Africa 6% are Hispanic. Hispanic (hispano hispánico hispânico Hispānus adjective from ''Hispānia'', the Roman name for the Iberian Peninsula) is a term that historically Fifty-seven percent of students are female. The student-to-faculty ratio is 11:1. ^[6] Popular majors include Economics and Business Administration, Biology, Political Science, English, and International Studies. A business (also called firm or an enterprise) is a legally recognized organizational entity designed to provide goods and/or services to Foundations of modern biology There are five unifying principles Political science is a branch of Social sciences that deals with the theory and practice of Politics and the description and analysis of Political systems English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States

Traditions, sports, and clubs

Rhodes is one of 62 colleges recently classified for both "Curricular Engagement" and "Outreach & Partnerships" in the "Community Engagement" category by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and Education, founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1905 and Chartered in 1906 by an Act of Congress, is a Approximately 80% of Rhodes students participate in some form of community service by the time they graduate. ^[7] The college's new curriculum includes a requirement that students participate in activities that broaden the connection between classroom experiences and the outside world. The mission statement of the college also reinforces community engagement, aspiring to "graduate students with. . . a compassion for others and the ability to translate academic study and personal concern into effective leadership and action in their communities and the world. "

Central to the life of the college is its Honor Code, administered by students through the Honor Council. Every student is required to sign the Code, which reads, "As a member of the Rhodes College community, I pledge my full and steadfast support to the Honor System and agree neither to lie, cheat, nor steal and to report any such violation that I may witness. " Because of this, students enjoy a relationship of trust with their professors and benefits such as taking closed book final exams in the privacy of their own rooms.

The college mascot is the lynx and the school colors are red and black. A lynx is any of four medium-sized wild cats. All are members of the Genus Lynx, but there is considerable confusion about the best way to classify The athletic teams compete in the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference in the NCAA's Division III. The Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference ( SCAC) founded in 1962 is an athletic conference which competes in the NCAA 's Division III. The National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA, often pronounced "N-C-Double-A" is a voluntary association of about 1200 institutions conferences organizations Rhodes counts five national championships to its credit - one awarded to the 1961 baseball team, and four awarded to its outstanding mock trial team. A mock trial is a contrived or imitation trial. It is similar to Moot court, but mock trials deal with trials while moot court deals with Appellate court

Rites of Spring, a three day music festival in early April, is a major social event of the school year, and typically attracts several major bands from around the country. In recent years, an adjunct celebration called Rites to Play has brought to campus elementary aged children from all of the various community agencies and schools that partner with Rhodes. The Rhodes students plan, organize, and execute a carnival for the kids.

Greek Life

There are a number of social fraternities and sororities at Rhodes. Approximately 50% of the students are members of Greek organizations. The fraternity and sorority lodges are not, however, residential.

Sororities

(in order of establishment at Rhodes)

• Chi Omega 1922
• Alpha Omicron Pi 1925
• Kappa Delta 1925
• Delta Delta Delta 1931
• Alpha Kappa Alpha
• Sigma Gamma Rho
• Delta Sigma Theta

Fraternities

(in order of establishment at Rhodes)

• Pi Kappa Alpha 1878
• Alpha Tau Omega
• Sigma Alpha Epsilon 1882
• Kappa Sigma
• Kappa Alpha Order
• Sigma Nu
• Kappa Alpha Psi

Noted alumni

Business

• John H. Bryan '58, former CEO of Sara Lee
• RJ Harper '78, Senior Vice President, Golf, Pebble Beach Resorts
• Cliff Watson '92, Creative Director, advertising agency Bozell
• Stinson Liles '92, Co-Founder, Red Deluxe Brand Development
• William J. Chi Omega ( ΧΩ, also known as Chi O is a women's fraternity and the largest member of the National Panhellenic Conference. Alpha Omicron Pi ( ΑΟΠ, AOII) is an international women's fraternity that was founded on January 2 1897 at Barnard College Kappa Delta ( ΚΔ) was the first Sorority founded at the State Female Normal School (now Longwood University) in Farmville Virginia Delta Delta Delta ( ΔΔΔ) also known as Tri Delta is an international Collegiate women's fraternity founded on November 27, 1888. Alpha Kappa Alpha ( ΆΚΆ) is the first Greek-lettered Sorority established and incorporated by African American college women Sigma Gamma Rho ( ΣΓΡ) was founded on the campus of Butler University on November 12, 1922, by seven school teachers in Indianapolis, Delta Sigma Theta ( ΔΣΘ) Sorority is a Non-profit Greek letter organization of college educated women who perform public service placing emphasis on the History Pi Kappa Alpha is an international brotherhood composed of 210 student chapters 9 colonies and 120 alumni associations This article is about the student fraternity in the United States Sigma Alpha Epsilon (also known as SΑΕ) is a secret letter social college fraternity Traditional founding The Kappa Sigma Fraternity claims that its origins can be traced back to Bologna, Italy in 1400. History Kappa Alpha Order was originally founded as Phi Kappa Chi on December 21 1865, at Washington and Lee University in Lexington Virginia. ΣΝ (Sigma Nu is an undergraduate College fraternity with chapters in the United States and Canada Kappa Alpha Psi ( KAΨ) is a collegiate Greek-letter fraternity with a predominantly African American membership John Henry Bryan Jr is the former CEO of the Sara Lee Corporation. Red Deluxe Brand Development is an independent brand development and advertising agency Michaelcheck '69, CEO Mariner Capital
• Vicki Gilmore Palmer '75, Executive Vice President, Coca-Cola Enterprises, Inc.
• Knox Phillips '67, CEO Phillips Recording Studio
• Marcie Allen Cardwell '96, President MAC Presents
• Arthur Rollins '81, one of the country's top financial advisers^[8]

Medicine

• John Robertson '68, President, American Association of Neurologic Surgeons

Civic

• Cary Fowler '71, Executive Director, Global Crop Diversity Trust

Culture and Performing Arts

• Ken Cameron '89, Associate Curator, New York Botanical Garden
• Dixie Carter '62, Emmy-nominated Actor
• Carroll Cloar, Guggenheim Fellow and internationally recognized artist. Coca-Cola Enterprises is the world's largest marketer producer and distributor of Coca-Cola products Global Crop Diversity Trust is an independent international organisation which exists to ensure the conservation and availability of crop diversity for Food security worldwide The New York Botanical Garden also known as The NYBG is one of the premier Botanical gardens in the United States, located in New York City. Dixie Virginia Carter (born May 25, 1939, in McLemoresville Tennessee) is an American Emmy Award -nominated Actress Carroll Cloar ( January 18, 1913 &ndash April 10, 1993) was a nationally known 20th century painter born in Earle Arkansas, who focused Guggenheim Fellowships are American grants that have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who
• Dina Facklis '93, Director, Second City National Touring Company
• Sid Selvidge '65, Executive Producer, Beale Street Caravan, a globally-syndicated radio program

Scholars

• Joseph M. Ajello '62, Senior Research Scientist, Cassini UVIS Co-Investigator, Earth and Space Sciences Division, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• John H. Churchill '71, Secretary, The Phi Beta Kappa Society; President, The National Humanities Alliance
• Lee Giles, '68, David Reese Professor of Information Sciences and Technology, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Professor of Supply Chain and Information Systems, Pennsylvania State University; Fellow of the ACM and IEEE
• Mark D. West '89, University of Michigan Nippon Life Professor of Law; Director of the Academic Program for the Center for Japanese Studies
• Sidney Strickland ’68, Vice President for Educational Affairs and Dean of Graduate and Post Graduate Studies, Rockefeller University

Authors

• Charlaine Harris '73, Best-selling mystery writer
• John Boswell '67, author; Publisher, John Boswell Associates
• Richard Jennings '66, author of children's books
• Steve Stern '70 author of "Lazar Malkin Enters Heaven" and "The Angel of Forgetfulness"
• Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor '39, award-winning author
• Anne Howard Bailey '45, television writer

Government and Military

• Bill Alexander '57, served as Chief Deputy Majority Whip while representing eastern Arkansas in the United States House of Representatives from 1969-1993. Dr C Lee Giles is the David Reese Professor at the College of Information Sciences and Technology at the Pennsylvania State University. Mark D West is a US legal scholar and Nippon Life Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Charlaine Harris (born November 25, 1951 in Tunica Mississippi) is a New York Times bestselling Author John Eastburn Boswell ( March 20, 1947 – December 24, 1994) was a prominent historian and a professor at Yale University. Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor ( January 8, 1917 &ndash November 2, 1994) was a U Anne Howard Bailey ( July 26 1924 - November 23 2006) was an American television Soap opera writer Arkansas ( is a state located in the southern region of the United States. The United States House of Representatives is one of the two chambers of the United States Congress; the other is the Senate.
• Abe Fortas '30, U.S. Supreme Court justice (1965-1969) & President Lyndon Johnson's nominee for Chief Justice of the United States. Abraham Fortas ( June 19, 1910 – April 5, 1982) was a US Supreme Court associate justice. The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest judicial body in the United States and leads the federal judiciary. The Chief Justice of the United States is the head of the judicial branch of the government of the United States, and presides over the U He authored the opinion in the 1969 case Tinker v. Des Moines School District, accepting the rights of schoolchildren to wear black armbands to protest the Vietnam War.
• Claudia Kennedy '69, U.S. Army Lt. General and Army Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence. Claudia J Kennedy (born July 14, 1947) is a retired lieutenant general in the United States Army. The United States Army is a military organization whose primary mission is to "provide necessary forces and capabilities. Lieutenant General is a Military rank used in many countries The rank traces its origins to the Middle Ages where the title of Lieutenant General was held by the Gen. Kennedy is a member of the Military Intelligence Hall of Fame, and the first woman to hold a three-star rank in the U. The Military Intelligence Hall of Fame is a Hall of Fame established by the Military Intelligence Corps of the United States Army to honor soldiers and S. Army.

Noted staff

Administrators

• Timothy Sharp, Dean of Academic Affairs-Fine Art. Conducted the Rhodes Singers and MasterSingers Chorale in performances at Carnegie Hall. The Rhodes Singers are a noted undergraduate choir from Rhodes College in Memphis TN, specializing in smaller unaccompanied Chamber music works
• William E. Troutt, President, former Chair of the American Council on Education and the National Commission on the Cost of Education and member of the Lincoln Commission on Study Abroad. William E Troutt is the 19th president of Rhodes College. He was installed as president on March 30 1999 and inaugurated on April 14 2000
• Dave Wottle, Dean of Admissions, Olympic gold-medal winner. David ("Dave" James Wottle (born August 7, 1950) is a former American athlete, winner of the 800 metres at the

Professors

• Andrew Terjesen, award-winning Philosopher.
• Tina Barr, award-winning poet.
• Eric Gottlieb, Chair of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, 2004 Fulbright Scholar
• Timothy Huebner, Professor of History, 2004 Tennessee Professor of the Year by The Carnegie Foundation and the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education
• Michael Leslie, Professor of English and the Dean of British Studies at Oxford (the oldest American exchange program at Oxford University)
• David McCarthy, Professor of Art, Smithsonian Fellow[2]. The University of Oxford (informally "Oxford University" or simply "Oxford" located in the city of Oxford, Oxfordshire, England is the The Smithsonian Institution (smɪθsoʊnɪən is an educational and research institute and associated Museum complex administered and funded by the Government of
• Mark Muesse, Associate Professor of Religious Studies. Produced two lecture series and companion books on Hinduism and on Axial Age Religions for The Teaching Company.
• Michael Nelson, Professor of Political Science, author, and media analyst focused on the American presidency.
• Marcus Pohlmann, Professor of Political Science, coach of the Rhodes Mock trial program, President of the American Mock Trial Association. Coached Rhodes to record numbers of national championships (4), finals appearances (7), top-ten finishes (16), and consecutive top-ten finishes.
• Westley Busbee, Professor of History and Political Science at Belhaven College; Chair of the History and Political Science Department, M. A. , Ph. D. , University of Alabama. Author, "Mississippi: A History" (Harlan-Davidson, 2004)

See also

• Rhodes Singers

References

External links

• Rhodes College

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