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Today's post is Rhodes College, located here in Memphis, TN. Rhodes is a notable liberal arts college and is rightfully noted as one of the most beautiful campuses in America (it was listed as the #1 most beautiful campus by the Princeton Review in 2017). All of the photos in today's post were taken on November 23, 2021.
In his forward to the book Southwestern at Memphis, alumnus Samuel Monk (class of 1922), described the history of Rhodes prior to 1925 as "at first glance, the depressing chronicle of failure" and alternately that of an institution with "remarkable vitality". The college did indeed have more than its fair share of difficulties, but thanks to the resolve of the faculty, students, and administration it not only survived it thrived. So much so that today Rhodes offers 46 undergraduate and two master's degree programs, has enrollment over 2,000, and has an endowment in excess of $410 million.
The history of the institution is similar to many others founded in the 19th century in the U.S. Established as an academy, Rhodes would take time to develop into a true college. The name of the institution would change multiple times and the campus would relocate. Whereas some of the colleges covered in this blog moved a matter of blocks (the University of Tennessee, Knoxville) and others a few miles (Union University), Rhodes moved over 200 miles from Clarksville, TN (northwest of Nashville) to Memphis.
What would become the college began its life in Clarksville in 1837 as the Clarksville Academy (also called the Montgomery Academy; I use the former name as it was referenced as the official name in the history book Southwestern at Memphis). Its sole faculty member at the time was Presbyterian minister, Reverend Consider Parish. The academy was a school for boys only, and Revered Parish was a very harsh master to his students. He was so difficult that the academy's board chose to replace him after just one year. A succession of faculty and headmasters would follow. The academy would grow despite the turnover and by 1840 talk of making the transition to a college began. The trustees hired William H. Marquess in March 1847 with the goal of having him lead the process. It unfolded rather quickly. Many members of the academy board were also part of the Clarksville Masonic Order and they sought to have the Tennessee Masons sponsor and support the new college. Support for a college was generally widespread and the Tennessee Order decided financially back what was proposed as the Masonic University of Tennessee. On February 4, 1848, the State of Tennessee authorized the Masons to take over the Academy and create a college. Today, Rhodes recognizes 1848 as their founding date. College coursework would be offered in January 1849. A new building, the college's first, would be completed in 1850. But despite the promising start, troubles would begin almost immediately.
Although Masons from across Tennessee were in favor of supporting the creation of a college, they were far from agreement on where that college should be. The three divisions of Tennessee - East, Middle, and West - are distinct in many ways and were perhaps more so at the time. Cultural and economic differences ran deep and the lodges in each area wanted to support an institution in their division only. No compromises could be found and the state order relinquished control to the Clarksville Order. In 1851, a new charter was approved with the Clarksville chapter as the sponsor and a new name - the Montgomery Masonic College. The name did not stick, however, and it was chartered under the name Stewart College in honor of President William M. Stewart. The college would remain under the auspices of the Clarksville Masons for only four years.
Although enthusiastic about the college, the Clarksville Masons were not able to support an entire college. The Synod of Nashville took control of the college in 1855. A school of theology was added and thus in 1875 the name changed once again to Southwestern Presbyterian University. That name would stay in place until 1925, when then President Charles Diehl moved the school to Memphis. It then changed the name to merely Southwestern University. The name would change again in 1945 to Southwestern at Memphis in an effort to better distinguish the school from others with southwestern in their names. That name would remain until 1984 when the school acquired its current name, Rhodes College, in honor of President Peyton Nalle Rhodes.
When you walk around the campus of Rhodes you have an experience unlike no other in the Memphis area. It is a calm, beautiful, and thought-provoking campus. It is moviesque and striking. Of the many colleges and universities in the Memphis metro area, it is by far and away the most beautiful in my opinion. Sitting on 123 acres in the midtown area, the campus is rolling and tree-filled, and the buildings are unified in appearance in a gothic style. The nearly 100 year old campus is at once modern and ancient in appearance.
The reasons for the move to Memphis were many, too many in fact to cover in this post, but center on the devastating effect of the Civil War. The war came to campus in a quite literal fashion. Passions were high on campus in the lead up to the war, and most decidedly in favor of succession and, after the bombardment of Fort Sumter, for war. A company of student cadets were the first from the county to volunteer for the Confederate Army. The college's president at the time, R.B. McMullen, wrote of the war as being declared by "northern invaders" who, he hoped, would by September 1861 have "received such salutary lessons" as to "remove their polluting feet from our sacred soil". That was in July 1861. No students would enroll that fall nor for several years thereafter. In the interim, the southern economy was devastated and the campus extensively damaged. The Union Army would occupy campus using it as a hospital and general quarters for some time. After, freed slaves would use the buildings as temporary housing. White refugees from Georgia would occupy the campus thereafter. In the end, the buildings were looted and left in terrible shape. It would take time for the school to recover in all respects.
In 1902, a movement began which sought to relocate the university to a larger city where local financial support could be more substantive. The board rejected the idea in a formal resolution in March 1903, but the idea did not go away. Residents of Atlanta, GA, were particularly anxious to have the university relocated there. In the end, legal action was taken, and the case went before the Tennessee Supreme Court in December 1904. The court ruled the university could not be moved and this quelled the initiative for some time. The university would never gain the financial backing it needed, however, so the idea was always in play just below the surface.
A change in the presidency and the double financial impact of World War I and the Spanish Flu Epidemic would eventually force the change. By 1919, the move seemed to be the best and perhaps the only option to secure the university's future. New president Charles E. Diehl would advocate for the move to Memphis. A plan for moving was officially approved by the supporting Synods on January 14, 1920. Within two years, sufficient funds had been raised to facilitate the move and in Spring 1924 the Tennessee Supreme Court approved the move. By then, a new site in Memphis adjacent to Overton Park had been chosen and construction was in progress.
Not only did Diehl facilitate the move, he was also responsible for the name change and much of the look of the new campus. Diehl wanted noted Philadelphia-based architect Charles Klauder to be the principal designer of the college. Klauder had designed many notable collegiate buildings on such campuses as the University of Colorado, Cornell, Delaware, Penn State, Princeton, and Wellesley. Klauder, who wrote the highly influential text College Architecture in America, was too busy and could not accept the offer. He suggested Diehl employ Henry C. Hibbs as his architect. Hibbs had trained with Klauder and had subsequently moved to Nashville. If Diehl would hire Hibbs, Klauder's firm (Day and Klauder) would sign on as consulting architects. An agreement to that effect was signed by all parties in 1922.
In addition to the style of buildings to be built, Diehl was also instrumental in the materials used. He wanted a common stone for all campus structures, and thus purchased a quarry in Bald Knob, Arkansas to ensure a steady supply of high grade, uniform stone. He also decided that all buildings would be trimmed in limestone from Indiana and the roofs clad in Vermont slate.
The first building to be erected on campus is the now named Southwestern Hall. Southwestern began its life with the name Palmer Hall. The building was initially named for Reverend Benjamin Palmer, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in New Orleans, Louisiana. A proponent of Southwestern Presbyterian University, Palmer was adamant it would remain affiliated with the church. He was killed in a streetcar accident in 1902 but lived on in the hearts of his parishioners who raised $200,000 to help fund the erection of the building that would carry his name. The building would ultimately cost $400,000 (or about $6.5 million today). The building's name was changed on April 12, 2019 after a committee decided that Reverend Palmer was not a good representative of the college having been a supporter of the Confederacy and slavery. Fittingly, therefore, the views you see below are of the North façade. The first four photos show that side of the building and its clock over the main entryway. The main entrance is intentionally off center. The building has its own cat seen in the fifth photo which during my visit had its own Advent calendar. The cloister can be seen in photos seven through seventeen. The arches are reminiscent of the University of Glasgow albeit indoors and not out (see photos of Glasgow's arches in my earlier post here). The stonework is superb in that area, although it does not extend down the hallways. A tribute to Diehl hangs in this area. The deep arrow slit-style windows add to the feeling that the structure has been around much longer than its nearly 100 years. The Rhodes Seal in the floor of the cloister can be seen in photos fourteen and fifteen. The tradition is that stepping on the seal jinxes a student to not graduate on time. During commencement, graduating students parade through the area.
Directly attached to Southwestern are two additional structures, Gooch Hall and the Halliburton Tower. Although you might not surmise it thanks to the complimentary nature of the two structures, Gooch is more than sixty years newer than Southwestern. Named in honor of Boyce Alexander Gooch (1893-1979) and her husband Cecil Milton Gooch (1889-1969). Cecil Gooch made his fortune in the lumber industry and he and Boyce were active in the Memphis community and in Rhodes in particular. Upon Boyce's passing December 14, 1979, it was announced that a major portion of their estate would be given to Rhodes. The result, in part, was Gooch Hall seen here in photos twenty-two to twenty-five.
Halliburton Tower is named in honor of Richard Halliburton, a Tennessean who is reportedly the inspiration for the Indiana Jones character. Born in Brownsville, TN, Halliburton moved to Memphis with his family when he was was a child. He became an adventurer in his adulthood and a travel writer. He swam the entire length of the Panama Canal and travelled around the world. He attempted to sail a Chinese junk across the pacific, but was lost at sea and presumed dead in 1939. His parents Wesley and Nelle Halliburton donated $400,000 (just over $3.75 million in 2021 value) for the creation of the tower which was completed in 1962. The tower was designed by H. Clinton Parrent, Jr., an alumnus of the college (class of 1958)
Next is Burrow Hall, formerly the Burrow Library. Burrow was made possible by a gift of $600,000 by Aaron Knox Burrow and his wife Catherine Walter Burrow made in 1950 (about $6.7 million in 2021 value). Burrow made a fortune selling cotton linters. It is one of two buildings on campus to carry their name (see below). Burrow was the son of a Presbyterian minister from Macedonia, Tennessee. The building was designed by local architects Walk C. Jones and Walk C. Jones, Jr. Groundbreaking for the library took place on January 5, 1951 and was dedicated on October 8, 1953. Aaron Burrow (1871-1968) served as a Director of the college from 1945 to 1962. Portraits of the Burrow's hang in the current Paul Barret, Jr., Library as does a rendering of Burrow Library (see below). Two interesting bits about the library: the first photocopier was acquired in 1965 and in 1977 a rare book by President Thomas Jefferson was found in the stacks. Today a variety of administrative offices are housed in the building. Below are three photos of the main entrance to Burrow Hall, the last capturing the statue of Charles Diehl which stands before it.
As the main person responsible for the move to Memphis and the driving force behind the gothic style of the campus, it is only fitting that a statue of Diehl is on such a prominent location on campus. The statue was completed by Ted Rust of the now defunct Memphis College of Art. Rust completed the statue in 1983. An interesting aspect of the statue is the fact that Diehl is wearing an open doctoral gown. If you're an academic nerd (I am), you probably know that in the U.S. we typically wear our gowns closed. Academic regalia in the U.S. typically have a zipper in front and for the most part we wear them zipped. In Europe, the tradition is to wear it open. Here, you can clearly see that Diehl's gown is open despite the fact that he was a graduate of Johns Hopkins and Princeton. It could be related to the era although both institutions today wear their gowns closed. If you peruse photos from the early 20th century, some U.S. academics wore their gowns in the European fashion. Perhaps in the past Princeton graduates followed European fashion. It is also notable that he does not wear a cap or tam.
The next set of photos are of the Paul Barrett, Jr. Library. I placed these here, deliberately following Burrow Hall which had previously served as the library. Thus, the new library follows the old in this post. The connection between the two structures is, however, not merely the fact that both are/were libraries. The library was made possible, in part, by a large gift from the Paul Barret, Jr., Trust. Barret was both an alumnus of the college (class of 1946), he was also the nephew of Aaron and Catherine Burrow. So the library continues to be housed in a structure made possible by the same family. Groundbreaking for the building occurred in September, 2001, and the building was completed in August, 2005. It was formally dedicated on October 7, 2005. Construction cost around $35 million or around $48 million in 2021 dollars. Among other business endeavors, Barret was chairman of the Barretville Bank and Trust Company. Designed by architectural firm Hanbury Evans Wright and Vlattas, the building comes in at 136,000 square feet. It houses a collection of more than 280,000 volumes. The first six photos are of the west side exterior of the building. Just inside the doorway is an entry hall with interior entrances on either side. The next thirteen photos are of various interior views. On the ground floor on the north side of the building are checkout locations, computer terminals, and reference materials as seen in photos seven through twelve. A grand staircase is on the north side of the structure. Staff were decorating a Christmas tree on the second floor as can be seen in photo fifteen. The second floor stacks can be seen in photos sixteen through nineteen. It is an opulent space. Does your library have custom carpet with your university seal? Well, Rhodes does! Does your library have overstuffed leather chairs? Well, Rhodes has those as well! A large endowment can provide many things. Views of the library's covered walkway follow as do photos of the Burrow's and the old Burrow Library (Burrow Hall).
Next we have Clough Hall. Clough opened in early 1970 and was formally dedicated on October 14th that year. Since it opened, it has been the home to the departments of anthropology and sociology, psychology, and art. It also houses the Clough-Hanson Gallery of Art. Dewitt Clough gave funds to create the building in honor of his sister Jessie Clough. Ms. Clough had taught art in the Memphis city schools for many years. In 1919, she took a world trip along with two of her students - Floy and Etta Hanson - during which she acquired many art pieces. She died in 1940, and the Hanson sisters donated her art collection to the college. Many years later, Dewitt remarked to his wife that they should do something for "the college that held (her) things". Clough Hall is the result.
The building was designed by Rhodes alumnus Wells Awsumb of the Memphis architectural firm George Awsumb and Sons. Construction costs came in at about $1.4 million (about $10.6 million in December 2021 value). Clad in the familiar stone with the slate roof common to campus, Clough differs from earlier structures by having large, single pane windows.
The set below is of the Frazier Jelke Science Center, home to the Rhodes' Department of Biology. Construction of the building began in 1966. It is physically connected to Rhodes Tower which was built at the same time. You can see a great photos of their construction here and here. Also completed during this time was Ohlendorf Hall (originally named the Mathematics Building). You can view a photo of all three well under construction in September 1967 here. I love how the handrails on the amphitheater side and the fencing around the structure carry the gothic arch theme! Interestingly, fossils of a mastodon were found when the site was being excavated. The building was dedicated on October 19, 1968. You can see Ohlendorf Hall in the background of the first photo, and the then-named Thomas W. Briggs Student Center (now simply referred to as Briggs Hall) in the background of the last photo.
As noted above, Peyton Nalle Rhodes Tower was constructed in conjunction with the Frazier Jelke Science Center. Rhodes spent nearly forty years at the college. He was a professor of physics from 1926 to 1949 and then president from 1949 to 1965. When it was being constructed it was simply called the Physics Tower. Given Rhodes' connection to the building, students referred to the building as "Peyton's Place" for some time. A good view of the building when under construction can be seen here. Aside from the stonework and few other features, Rhodes Tower does not exhibit the same attention to gothic details as those structures that came before or after it. Standing on the west side of the building is the Lynx Statue. The Rhodes mascot is the lynx, and this particular statue was designed and created by a then current student - Ann Moore, class of 1988. Apparently, President Diehl chose the mascot personally in 1923.
Next we have Berthold S. Kennedy Hall, another of the original buildings on campus designed by Hibbs and Klauder. Kennedy began its life with the simple name "Science Hall". The building sits adjacent to Southwestern Hall on the south, the Frazier Jelke Science Center on the east, and the Catherine Walters Burrow Refectory on the west. The arches and the tall windows give the building an impressive feel despite the fact that is diminutive in relation to nearby Rhodes Tower. The building is named for alumnus Dr. Berthold S. Kennedy.
Photos five through seven are of the Catherine Walters Burrow Refectory. The second Burrow building on campus, the refectory opened in 1957. It was designed by architect H. Clinton Parrent (who also designed the Halliburton Tower on campus). Aaron Burrow donated the bulk of the funds to build the structure and personally raised most of the rest himself. Ground breaking occurred in 1955. In the last photo, you can see Robb Hall, one of the first residence halls on campus. Robb was completed in the summer of 1925 along with White Hall. Robb and White remain residence halls to this day. The building's name is a carryover from the college's Clarksville campus. A Robb Hall was built there on land gifted to the college by one of its trustees, Lt. Colonel Alfred Robb. Robb was killed at Fort Donelson during the Civil War when Union troops captured the base.
The sculpture seen in photos four and six are of the piece Campus Life by Lawrence Anthony. It sits on the green beside Kennedy. The fourth was taken from within the vaulted arches of the entryway to Kennedy and the sixth just outside. In both cases, you can see the Burrow Refectory in the background. I had meant to get a close up of the piece, but got distracted talking with some students and forgot to go back to it. You may not be able to tell it from the distance from which these were taken, but the piece consists of figures meant to represent the type of crowd you may see when walking across campus. One is pushing a bicycle, one has a guitar case, and another is carrying books. I believe the "cobwebs" are leftover from Halloween. Anthony was on faculty at Rhodes and completed the piece in 1977.
Sitting just to the north of Rhodes Tower is a relatively new addition to campus, Robertson Hall, seen in the first nine photos below. Robertson encompasses nearly 55,000 square feet of office and lab space. Groundbreaking for the building occurred in June 2015 and completed in June 2017. It was formally dedicated on August 31, 2017. The building is named for alumni Lola (class of 1933) and Charles Robertson (class of 1929). It was designed by the Virginia-based architectural firm Hanbury. Hanbury architects have designed a plethora of academic buildings at colleges and universities across the U.S. The building anchors the south end of Troutt Quad (see below). The building cost $30 million. It connects to Frazier Jelke below ground. The first photo is of three structures in front of the south side entrance. Photos two through four are of the south entrance; photos five through seven are of the west side of the building. The beautiful gingko tree see in photos eight and nine is at the north end of the building near Hassell Hall (see below).
Located just to the west of Robertson is Briggs Hall, seen here in photos ten through twelve. Briggs began life as the Thomas W. Briggs Student Center. The building was dedicated on May 2, 1966 and was the student union on campus for many years. It is named in honor of its primary benefactor, Thomas W. Briggs. Briggs founded the Welcome Wagon Company here in Memphis in 1928. It would go on to be an international success. He passed in 1964, but the foundation he created continues to donate to various nonprofits to this day. Its latest renovation in 2017 transitioned the building into a computer science facility. The Hanbury architectural firm handled this renovation. The south side of the building can be seen in photos eleven (with the Paul Barrett, Jr., library in the background) and twelve (with Robertson on the right).
Behind Briggs is Trout Quad, named for former Rhodes president William E. Troutt. Troutt was a well liked president and was particularly successful at raising funds for the college. The quad is bounded by Briggs on the south, Barrett on the west, Robertson and Hassell on the east, and Bryan Campus Life Center on the north. The sundial seen in the last two photos sits at the northern terminus of the quad. Bryan can be seen in the background of the thirteenth photo.
Adjacent to Briggs and connected to Jelke is Ohlendorf Hall. The building opened in 1968 and for nearly three decades was called the Mathematics Building. The math department remains the principal tenant of the building, but it was renamed in 1996 for Harold and Bruce Ohlendorf. Harold was an alumnus of the college (class of 1931). The first photo shows the south side of the building and its connection to Jelke. Within the building is the Buckman Mathematics Library. Dedicated on October 19, 1968, the library was named in honor of Dr. Stanley Buckman. Largely empty of books during my visit, it seems more of a reading room these days. Buckman was a biochemist and the founder of Buckman Laboratories which maintains its international headquarters in Memphis to this day. Buckman Hall (see below), is also named for him and his wife Mertie. Neither went to Rhodes, but they were active supporters of education and in the Memphis area. You can read more about them here.
Next we have Hassell Hall. Hassell was completed in 1983 and the building is clad in over 450 tons of the iconic stone. Hassell was designed by Metcalf Crump, a Memphis based architect. Crump, a native of Memphis, was educated at The University of the South (Sewanee), another institution with beautiful stone clad gothic buildings and a green campus. Crump also graduated with baccalaureate and master's degrees in architecture from Harvard. His father, Charles Metcalf Crump was an alumnus of Rhodes (class of 1934). The Music Department is housed in the building which was formally dedicated on April 27, 1984. Martin, Cole, Dando, and Robertson were the builders. As can be seen in the second photo, the building was made possible by a donation from Thomas F. Hassell, Pauline Hassell Nicholson, and Frances Hassell-Wade. I could not find out much about the Hassell's, but Rhodes has several photos of them on their website. You can view a photo of Thomas Hassell with then Rhodes president James H. Daughdrill in 1985 here. The sisters Pauline Hassell-Nicolson and Frances Hassell-Wade and Daughdrill are together in a groundbreaking ceremony for the building in 1982 can be seen here. A photo of Pauline Hassell-Nicolson and Frances Hassell-Wade (and I believe the grandsons of one or the other) along with architect Crump and president Daughdrill at the April 1984 dedication here.
Below we have Buckman Hall. I mentioned the Buckman's earlier in this post when discussing Ohlendorf Hall which contains the Buckman Library. Also like Ohlendorf, the building was designed by local architectural firm Metcalf Crump. The building sits on the south side of campus adjacent to Burrow Hall. The building opened in 1991.
The Bryan Campus Life Center, seen in the first eight photos below, is an activity complex anchored by an historic gymnasium on the west side. The second through fourth photos show this older component of the building. The entrance you see here is the original part of the building, the William Neely Mallory Memorial Gymnasium. Mallory was a alumnus of Yale (class of 1933). He served as Treasurer of the college for a time and was a board member. He joined the Army Air Force following Pearl Harbor where his actions led to the destruction of twenty-two bridges earning him the Legion of Merit. He was killed in action in February 1945 and was posthumously awarded the Silver Star for actions. Groundbreaking for the building took place in 1953 and opened in 1954. It was designed by Parrent and cost about $1 million (or just over $10 million today) to build. Added to this was the Ruth Sherman Hyde Memorial Gymnasium, seen here from the northside in the fifth photo (situated to the east of the portions you see in photos two through four). Ruth Sherman Hyde was the daughter of Joseph R. Hyde, who founded a wholesale food company in Memphis in 1907 (Malone and Hyde). She passed in 1956 and the Hyde family gave the funds to construct the building. Her nephew, Joseph R. Hyde founded the large retail firm AutoZone which has donated considerable funds to my current employer, the University of Memphis.
Finally, photos six through eight show the newest addition, which sits further east of the Hyde addition. Designed by St. Louis, MO, architectural firm Hastings+Chivetta, it cost $22 million to complete (about $37 million in 2021 dollars). The Hasting+Chivetta firm has designed dozens of collegiate buildings and entire campus plans. They designed Larrick Student Center addition and the addition and renovation of the historic Carey Street Gym (circa 1891) at my previous employer Virginia Commonwealth University. The building officially opened on March 17, 1997. Within the building is a large events space called the McCallum Ballroom. The room is named for Robert and Virginia McCallum. Robert was chair of the Rhodes Board of Trustees from 1969 to 1981.
This set closes with two photos of Crain Field & Wolfe Track. My oldest son runs track, and we have been to Rhodes to watch him compete there.
Below we have the Moore Infirmary. The building is named for Ethel Sivley Moore. Her husband, Moore Moore, Sr., was a physician here in Memphis who actively worked to have the college relocated here. Dr. Moore served on the college board of directors for thirty-four years and was board secretary for the majority of that time. He would pass away prior to the onset of construction. Ground was broken in 1961 and it was completed in 1962. A formal dedication was held on June 2 that year. You can see a photo of the ceremony here and here, and one of his sons with dedication plaque here. In addition to the student health clinic, the student counseling center is housed in the building today. The first photo below is the main entrance doorway, followed by photos of the dedicatory plaque and the west side of the building which bounds the West Village residence hall.
Just to the north and to the west of the Moore Infirmary are two dormitories - West Village and Glassell.
West Village is the newest dorm on campus. Named for its location on the west side of campus, the building opened in 2012 and has space for up to 141 residents. Ground clearing was started in late winter 2011. The greenspace between West Village and the Catherine Burrow Refectory is known as Craddock Quad, seen here in the first photo. It was a gift of the Craddock family, several of whom are alumni of the college. West Village follows in the remaining photos. Following the path of the walkway from the quad (heading west), you see the southern side of the building in the next five photos. The second photo is the east end of the building and south side. The third photo shows a walkway through the middle of the structure (I call these arcades, but that may not be the correct term). The fourth through sixth photos are of the south elevation proper, and the last photo is the west (back) side of the building. The LEED® Silver Certified structure was designed by Hanbury and comes in 52,000 square feet.
Below is another set of dorms, in this case a set that was created to serve women. The first photo below is Voorhies Hall. It sits to the east of Clough and Burrow. Ground was broken for the building in 1946. The bulk of the funds used for its construction were a gift from the estate of Emma Denie Voorhies. An interesting bit of trivia about Voorhies - according the Rhodes website, inner spring mattresses were not available to residents until 1958! Directly attached to Voorhies is Margaret Townsend Hall, seen here in the second photo. It is named for the first female faculty member of the college and its first Dean of Women. It was dedicated in a ceremony on June 3, 1961.
Behind is the Trezevant residence hall seen here in the next three photos. Groundbreaking for Trezevant was in 1957 (you can see a photo of the building under construction here). It was known as East Hall until 1967 when it was dedicated to Suzanne Trezevant Little. Her husband, Edward H. Little, gave funds to Rhodes which led to the building being named in her honor. He was former CEO and President of Colgate-Palmolive. There is a new residence hall complex located behind (to the east) of Trezevant which now carries the East name - East Village. The sixth photo below is part of that complex, East Village A. East Village is home to upper division students and the complex offers apartment-style accommodations. The complex opened in 2001.
Photos seven through twelve are of Williford Hall. Williford was the last structure built during the 1960's. It was designed by local Memphis architecture firm McGhee-Nicholson Associates (now McGhee Nicholson Burke). The firm has designed numerous collegiate buildings across the country. It was renamed for Anne Marie Caskey Williford, former Dean of Women and Dean of Students. She was also an alumnae of the college (class of 1952). I love the gothic arch gate! A photo of her family at the rededication ceremony can be seen here.
The last two photos are of Blount Hall. Blount opened in 1986 and was initially called simply "New Dorm". It was rededicated on October 17, 1996, in honor of Carolyn and Wynton Blount (sometimes misspelled "Winton"). Blount, a self-made millionaire and philanthropist, was also the 59th Postmaster General of the U.S. Postal Service. He and wife Carolyn gave to many causes and universities. Read more about him here. To the left of Blount in the last photo is Robinson Hall. Originally named East Hall when it opened in 1985, it was renamed in honor of James D. Robinson in December, 1989. Robinson was a local businessman and developer who founded the Auto-Chlor company.
Earlier in this post, the Robb residence hall could be seen at the point where it nears the Catherine Burrow Refectory. Robb is physically connected to two other residence halls, White and Ellett, which are also directly adjacent to a third, Bellingrath. Along with Robb, White was one of the first dorms on campus. The first photo below is the gateway between White and Ellett which leads to the courtyard beyond. Robb and White were completed in time for the start of the fall 1925 semester. White Hall was originally known as Calvin Hall but was renamed on November 13, 1947, in honor of Dr. Gordon White, a dentist from Nashville. In the first photo, to the right would be White Hall and to the left Ellett. Ellett was added to this complex of dorms twenty years after White and Robb, but its foundation was laid down at the same time in 1925. Construction on Ellett began in 1946 and was completed in 1947. The name was not added until December 18, 1956. It is named for Edward Coleman Ellett, a noted Memphian ophthalmologist. He was the first dean of the University of Tennessee School of Medicine (now part of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center here in Memphis) and held many leadership positions in medical societies and other organizations. A statue of him is located at the UTHSC to this day. You can read more about him here. You can also see photos of the dedication ceremony in 1956 here and here. As you pass through the cloister seen in the first photo, you arrive in a quadrangle seen in the second. The structure you see in the second photo is the Bellingrath Hall. Bellingrath opened in 1961 and is named in honor of Walter Bellingrath, a notable donor to the college. He and his brother acquired the first Coca-Cola bottling franchise in southern Alabama. You can read more about him here. A photo of the building under construction may be found here.
History has it that Diehl was keen on having a grand formal entrance to campus and this desire was the impetus for the Ashner Gateway, seen below. The gateway flanks Thomas Lane. Each pillar is eleven feet tall and are toped by lynx which hold the Rhodes coat of arms. The gateway is awesome in appearance. I love the light fixtures!
The original campus in Clarksville would not sit idle for too long after Southwestern's departure for Memphis. In 1927, the Tennessee General Assembly established a new two-year college to be named after the then sitting governor Austin Peay. The Austin Peay Normal School would take over the Clarksville campus and it remains there today as Austin Peay State University (APSU). I hope to post about APSU in the future.
There have been several books written about Rhodes. I have read two of them and can recommend them both. For a history of the institution from 1848-1948, check out the aforementioned book Southwestern at Memphis, 1848 - 1948 by Waller Raymond Cooper (John Knox Press, 1949). The UofM has a signed copy of the book in its collection. It is a good book with one serious shortcoming - it has no index (which made finding information for this post quite difficult at times). For an awesome review of the campus and its architecture I highly recommend Collegiate Gothic: The Architecture of Rhodes College by William Morgan (University of Missouri Press, 1989).
Residence Hall or Prison Block?
If you have gone to college, you have no doubt lived in a residence hall. Dorms are an integral part of campus life and something that incoming students, fresh out of high school and free from parental rules, think about quite a bit. After the first year, the number of students residing in dorms goes down and there is typically a massive drop off thereafter. The freedom (from parents) of dorm life quickly give rise to the desire to move off campus. The reasons for the desire to move are many. Dorm rooms are typically small and shared, and thus students today find that they have less personal space in their dorm than they did in their rooms at home. Another factor is the fact that students who live in dorms never leave their workplace. When I went to college, my dorm room faced the campus and from my room I could see every place I had to "go to work". For a first-year student, that is not a big deal, but over time it gets to you psychologically. Dorms can also be quite loud compared to off campus housing where non-students simply will not tolerate blaring music or other noise in the small hours. The frivolity of campus life quickly becomes intolerable if you cannot sleep.
Perhaps the biggest driver of the exodus from campus is the condition of dorms – their cleanliness and upkeep. In others, it is the design. For the former, I know that one of the biggest complaints I had when living in the dorms as an undergraduate was the condition of the buildings. Although not unlivable, the dorms on my campus in the late 1980's were generally unkempt, had heating, air conditioning, and plumbing problems on a routine basis, and were frequently inhabited by more roaches than people. In one case, that latter problem was a full-blown infestation that should have resulted in the building being closed for fumigation. We joked that the roaches in the building complained about all the people running around. The buildings were only about twenty years old at that point and there was really no excuse for them being in such a condition. The fact that the university allowed the building to get into that shape and charged people to live in it still strikes me as unforgiveable. It was intolerable and I have never forgotten the university turning a blind eye to us by letting that be the case.
As for design, the layout and look of dorms have varied quite a bit over time both due to economics and fashion. For example, my doctoral alma mater's first two dorms were scaled back thanks to the Great Depression. Those buildings are ornate by today's standards but were reduced in scale from what was originally planned and their roofs – envisioned as tile covered slopes – were changed to flat surfaces which were cheaper to install. Even without such dire times, budgets in academe always seem to be limited and dorms are an easy option to slight in terms of funding.
Naturally, aesthetics change. What is fashionable at one point will not be at another. Needs change as well. The explosion of students after WWII put a tremendous strain on all campus buildings as did the flood of the Baby Boomers a generation later. On many campuses, the GI Bill related rush of students after WWII required the construction of temporary structures and in many cases the use of trailers. The mass of Baby Boomers entering college was foretold by their entry into K-12, and more permanent solutions were developed. The dorms that dominated my undergraduate campus in the 1980's were of this latter generation, and tended to be mid-rise structures with little features about them aside from being large boxes.
There is nothing inherently wrong with a box design. In fact, a simple design devoid of multiple angles and corners can be both cheaper to build and more energy efficient. If the scale is off, however, they can be abysmal especially to those who have to dwell in them. A woman I dated as an undergraduate who went to a different university described our dorms at the University of Tennessee as looking like "something straight out of the Soviet Union or East Germany". I wouldn't go quite that far but I understood her point. They were nondescript hulking masses that had no outward appeal and functional interiors that were even less notable.
In the late 1990's and the early 2000's, the big box dorm seemed to be going away. Smaller apartment-building style residence halls were going up all over the country. The smaller scale had them fit in better with their campus counterparts. They were much more modern in terms of the square footage provided per resident, and in many cases, they actually had a bit of architectural flair. Only time will tell what will happen in the future.
All of this came to mind as I read the academic news in the last couple of weeks. A dorm is being planned at the University of California, Santa Barbara. A couple of pieces about the building have appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Education, the Los Angeles Times, and on insidehighered.com. Although it is not unusual for news of a building to make the Chronicle, this one stands out for having not one, but two pieces appear in that outlet. You can gather that means something, and in this case, it is not good. The building is not even under construction at this point, but it is already causing a stir.
Munger Hall is to be an 11-story behemoth on the UCSB campus and will – if the current plans are followed – house about 4,500 students. Yes, you read that correctly, 4,500 students. The building will be the result of a $200 million donation by billionaire Charlie Munger, for whom the building will be named. But Munger is not merely the benefactor of the building, he is also the principal architect. Munger made his wealth via his work with Warren Buffet and Berkshire Hathaway. He has no training in architecture, but this is not the first building he has designed. The Munger Graduate Residence at the University of Michigan was also his. But the size of the building and the fact that Munger has no training in architecture are not the main complaints being aired about the UCSB project. Although it is hard to imagine the structure not overwhelming its surroundings, it is the lack of a certain feature that has drawn the most ire. You see, the rooms of this residence hall will be suites with eight bedrooms, a kitchen, bath, a common area, and a single window. Not a single window per bedroom. Just a single window in the common area above the kitchen sink. Eight bedrooms and no windows! Some 94% of student living space will be devoid of an external view of any kind. The bedrooms are designed to have "false windows", a light roughly the size of a typical rectangular window.
A consulting architect for the project, Dennis J. McFadden resigned and penned a scathing op-ed in the LA Times (see it here). He described it, among other terms, as "destructive". He noted that over a century ago, New York City outlawed windowless living spaces in the New York Tenement House Act. The building would come in at some 1.68 million square feet, which McFadden noted is larger than Dodgers Stadium in LA! Plus, the building would only have two sets of doors.
I have had an office without a window, and I can tell you it was not a pleasant experience. I would lose track of time, have no idea what the weather was like, and worse. After a few weeks of being in that office on a daily basis, I found that would get dazed and dizzy at times (and that would happen within only a few minutes). I would absolutely hate to have a bedroom without a window. I also would not want my sons to live in such a place. I will go so far as to I don't think it would be a humane space. If the dorms I resided in were like a Soviet housing block, this seems more like a prison block!
I will let you draw your own conclusions. In addition to McFadden's op-ed, you can read about the project here, here, here, and here.
The future of residence halls is always in question. We are in the middle of the biggest decline in traditional college-aged students in modern history. That alone will likely shape the dorm environment. I don't know if it will result in smaller buildings being built, or simply no new construction at all. On the other hand, urban serving institutions have and are continuing to build dorms to provide an economical alternative to housing in the competitive environment. Only time will tell.


Ah, asparagus. It's one of the first fresh crops of the season and if you're a veggie lover, you can eat it every day while it's in season and not get sick of it. And if you're a really serious foodie, you freeze some to make soup or a frittata in the off season.
There are so many ways to enjoy asparagus including steamed, grilled, roasted, in soups, in quiche or frittatas, in stir fry, or in salads. Below are a few simple ways to prepare asparagus, including naturally pickling or fermenting it, a great way to make it last beyond the spring.
An asparagus planting is usually not harvested for the first 3 years after the crowns are planted allowing the crown to develop a strong root system.
Place garlic, dill weed, peppercorns, and parsley in a glass quart jar. Add the asparagus.
Add the filtered water, sea salt and whey. Make sure you add enough water to cover with 1 inch liquid.
Cover and shake to dissolve the salt. Make sure everything is completely covered with liquid.
Allow to ferment in a dark cool place for 3 days or more, depending on the temperature in your kitchen. If your kitchen is warm, 3 days is sufficient. If your kitchen is colder, it could be left out 1 or 2 more days. The asparagus should taste pleasingly tart.
Store in refrigerator. It will continue to ferment, but at a much slower rate.
* You can use the watery substance from plain yogurt for your whey. You can also use Caldwell's starter culture for vegetables.
Place asparagus on a plate. Drizzle oil and balsamic over the asparagus and turn spears until they are coated. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and turn again.
Grill asparagus for 5 minutes over a hot grill. Turn spears after a couple minutes. Asparagus should begin to brown a little. Do not allow to char. Remove from grill and serve immediately.
Heat oven to 450. Toss asparagus, olive oil, and salt and pepper on a baking sheet. Roast until lightly browned, about 15 minutes.


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Most often procrastination is simply a matter of not knowing how to start. Beating yourself up over not starting is only adding to the frustration so stop. No, really stop. Take a 5 to 15 minute walk, meditate, stretch, do jumping jacks. Anything to clear your mind. Now you might just be ready to tackle a small part of that big bad task in front of you.
Now that your mind is clear let's tackle the ant. Take 15 minutes. A quarter of an hour. A truly dinky portion of time. Is it an essay? Come up with a title/outline in that 15 minutes. Cleaning the Garage? Gather a few big bags or boxes for the keepers, donations and trash. You get the idea. Then go soak your feet, have some tea.
So you have your boxes all set up ready to go and you went into the garage for that bucket to soak your feet in and you noticed that box of old stuff-n-fluff that you will never use again but someone could really use and you threw it in the donations box. You already started!!! Good for you!!! Now quick grab a pen because while you were soaking your feet you thought of 3 things to include in that essay.
The possibility that your idea of perfect and my idea of perfect could be the same is about as likely as winning the lottery on the same day as getting hit by lightning. So aim for better than you did on the last essay or better than the garage looks now. Ok, so maybe aim for seeing at least half of the garage floor this time. Then make sure you have fresh donation and trash boxes out so it won't be such a big task next time. Don't let the idea of not getting it perfect stop you from starting.
Get your environment in the right mood for the task. That garage could use some dance music to get you going but it might be a little too distracting for writing an essay. Adjust the temp to just a smidge cooler than usual and throw a little lemon in the diffuser to help you stay fresh and alert.
Really! There are so many of us that procrastinate that there is an app for every possible type of procrastinator. Have a need to be nagged? Try Yelling Mom. My favorite is App Detox. It's so easy to get distracted by your phone but this helps by temporarily blocking the apps you tell it to block for the period of time you tell it to block them. Go ahead. Try to check Facebook and you will get 'Dude! You wanted to detox from that'. It even timestamps your violations so you know when you are really weak and maybe you just plan a time out for that block of time.
Make a list – UGH! – Really?
True procrastinators aren't all that good at making lists and checking them twice. There's a couple of things to do that might make list creating a little less daunting. Paint a wall. Yup. There is paint for all kinds of things now. Are you a magnet freak? Paint your wall in magnetic paint. When you think of a task write it down and stick a magnet on it. You can even move that magnet around until you have the important tasks on top….ouououououu….aaaaahhhhh! AND….you can paint over it with regular wall paint so no one will know it's there….. unless it's covered in magnets. Or paint a whiteboard or chalkboard wall. Write….erase….repeat.
OK, so maybe that went a little far but at least now you have a handle on it. Go tackle the world/task!


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H.R. 3714 (113th): Servicemembers and Veterans Prescription Drug Safety Act of 2013
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12/12/2013--Introduced. Servicemembers and Veterans Prescription Drug Safety Act of 2013 - Directs the Secretary of Defense (Secretary) and the Attorney General (AG) to jointly carry out a program under which a member of the Armed Forces (member), an individual receiving or entitled to military retired or retainer pay, a dependent-beneficiary of a member, or any person lawfully entitled to dispose of the property of any of such individuals may deliver a personal-use controlled substance (the prescription medication of a deceased individual) for disposal at a facility to be specified by the Secretary and the AG. Requires the Secretary and AG, in implementing the program, to develop appropriate guidelines and procedures to prevent the diversion, misuse, theft, or loss of such delivered substances.
Directs the Secretary and the AG to jointly carry out a program under which a veteran, a veteran's spouse or dependent, a person in receipt of medical services at a Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) facility, or any person lawfully entitled to dispose of the property of any of such individuals may deliver such a controlled substance for disposal at a specified facility, subject to the same guidelines and procedures with respect to such delivered substances.

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My current love for all things with a citrus cest of lime has made me find UNIQUENESS by Alessandra Facchinetti. Prints, texture and detailling have created a mystical depth to the designers collection. There is a sense of calm distinction in Facchinetti's pieces. The more I look at the images and beautiful garments, the more I fall in love.
I'm loving yellow for winter too! Been falling for mustard and lemon-toned items to brighten up in cold weather!


If you are half as excited for Darksiders III as I am, you'd likely be itching to replay the original titles ready for the next chapter – and if you own an Xbox One, you will soon be able to experience the apocalypse in eye-blistering 4k resolution.
Gamers who have pre-ordered the Darksiders III: Blades & Whip Edition from the Microsoft Store will be able to download and play the enhanced Darksiders: Warmastered Edition as of today. This will be followed up by a release of an enhanced version of Darksiders II: Deathinitive Edition, sporting the same 4k sexiness you can tuck into while you wait for Darksiders III to drop later this month.
It's been 6 long years waiting for the next chapter of Armageddon, so you may as well spend a little time re-experiencing the end of the world before our girl Fury turns up – and what better way than in ultra high definition!
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What are your thoughts about the word church and churches? Take a moment and write them down.
If you've made the decision to follow Jesus, you're part of the church, even when you're at work, school, at the mall, on the basketball court, or sitting at home - it's not a building, it's us.
Being rooted in a local church is essential to every rooted follower of Jesus. This experience is filled with opportunities to grow and show the love of Jesus to the world. It provides an opportunity to bounce ideas off others, have questions answered, make sure you are on the right track spiritually, and remain accountable to fellow followers of Jesus. Ultimately, we are the bride of Jesus to the world. A great word picture of the church is a family, on mission, at war. The family aspect because we aren't spiritual orphans but rather have been adopted fully into the family of God and have brothers and sisters in Jesus. We are loved and known completely. The mission component because we allow Jesus to live through us for his glory. The war angle because we need an urgency for the Good News because eternity is a real long time.
And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers. And awe came upon every soul, and many wonders and signs were being done through the apostles. And all who believed were together and had all things in common. And they were selling their possessions and belongings and distributing the proceeds to all, as any had need. And day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they received their food with glad and generous hearts, praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved. (Acts 2:42-47 ESV).
Why do you say the "local" church?
The word "local" reminds us that God wants us to be plugged in, rooted and connected with other follower of Jesus geographically. Proximity matters. God doesn't just save us and leave us; he has created a community model of living to be rooted together for his glory. God has uniquely created you with talents, ideas, and spiritual gifts to live out in Jesus with one another. We need each other. We are better together! Watching or listening to church on TV, online, or on a podcast can supplement your relationship with God, but being involved in the local church is vital for your survival and optimum growth. God uses the local church to speak to us, empower us, correct and challenge us, to give us opportunities to grow, to go deeper in him weekly, and to show his love to the world. God wants us to grow with other believers in what Scripture calls "community." Community is where we exhibit COMMON UNITY with Jesus as our "Source"! Community is not always easy or clean but is for sure worth it and by his design.
Can you imagine if your body was in disorder and some of your organs were in different spots? Or what if there were no parking lines in a parking lot or no lines on the road for driving? What if we didn't have police officers or firefighters? What if we let babies lead adults?
You get the point. Everything needs order, and the church is Jesus's model to establish order and his kingdom on earth. This is exciting! The church represents Jesus on earth. It's his bride and body. Let's live with that in mind and love one another.
We are made up of many different races, faces, cultures, backgrounds, passions, and we use them all together for Jesus, each other, and all people made in the image of God. Some of us are accountants, others musicians, and many other types all making up one family.
"Represent" means to serve as a sign or symbol of, to stand in the place of.
God has instituted the local church to represent him on Earth, to establish his kingdom, and to show his love to a world in need of a savior. God is the author of community living. The perfect love of community is modeled in God the Father, Jesus the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.
"A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another." (John 13:34-35 ESV).
The church is a culture where we can grow and show the love of Jesus in community with other disciples. Our love for one another reflects his glory and serves as a sign of Jesus for non-believers. As we lift him up, he draws people close to him. Followers of Jesus in the local assembly grow together, worship together, serve together, and honor God together. It's a group of people who come together for accountability and who provide strength to help us when we fall. We have times when we will fall and fail, but we pursue Jesus over all sin because he first loved us, and we get right back up! The church helps in providing growth, stability and structure to do this.
The godly may trip seven times, but they will get up again. But one disaster is enough to overthrow the wicked (Proverbs 24:16 NLT).
Gathering also allows for us to remember Jesus and honor the Lord's Sabbath—a day of the week when God calls for us to celebrate that he is alive, worship him and rest. It's God's will for us to connect with and live in community with other followers of Jesus, get charged up, grow, be strengthened, get encouraged, and stay accountable to one another.
Ephesians 5:22-27 tells us that Jesus is the head of the church and refers to the church as his bride, and he is coming back for his bride one day. Being a follower of Jesus without being rooted in a local church is similar to an NBA player without a team. How can you play in the NBA and not be on a team? It just isn't possible! God has instituted the church to be his means of establishing his kingdom on Earth. Of course, no local church is perfect because it is made up of imperfect people that serve a perfect God.
A church provides us a place to grow, use our talents and spiritual gifts to serve God and others, and be a part of a plan that's bigger than ourselves. Inside the local church are leaders who teach us, stretch us, and show us Jesus's character on Earth.
What do you like about some of the churches you have visited or attended? Take a moment and write your thoughts down.
What are some things you would like to see happen with your church family? Take a moment and write your thoughts down.
You don't have to do anything you don't want to. Get Rooted followers of Jesus don't go to church because we have to; we go because we get to. It is awesome being where God is and learning from other followers of Jesus in a group setting. We are a family and love to gather to celebrate and encourage each other in love.
Does a church have to be a building?
No, the church is all about people who use a building to meet and grow. Many use portable locations and are even portable on purpose for purpose.
Can I ever leave a church?
If you feel God is leading you somewhere else, then bring this request to your pastor and ask him or her for insight. You can also leave if a church starts to not believe what the Bible teaches.
What would happen to you if your equilibrium stopped working abruptly? Take a moment and write your thoughts down.
What would happen to you if your eyes stopped working abruptly? Take a moment and write your thoughts down.
If these things happened, you would stumble and struggle to make it through life. As you strive to Get Rooted, you need a support system of others who are like-minded to keep you focused and on track. Sometimes our bodies have to warn us of danger, whether we are in danger of being burned or going over a cliff. In the same way, the support system of the church can warn us of dangers in our lives and lead us in Jesus and our purpose.
Maybe you've been hurt by the local church or a person that goes to church. I hope you can erase all prior knowledge, assumptions, and opinions, and let God show you the love he has for the church.
...Just as Christ loved the church. He gave up his life for her to make her holy and clean, washed by the cleansing of God's word. He did this to present her to himself as a glorious church without a spot or wrinkle or any other blemish. Instead, she will be holy and without fault (Ephesians 5:25-27 NLT).
Does it make sense to say that just because one teacher or boyfriend or girlfriend is bad, they all must be? NO! We have to be willing to focus on Jesus over people and grow in a setting with other followers of Jesus. Lean in and be solutions-oriented, and be the change you long to see.
And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near. (Hebrews 10:24-26 ESV).
People aren't perfect, and since churches are made up of people, no church is perfect either. However, God is perfect, and as we grow in God we will start to resemble him more and more, individually and in community.
We can focus on honoring God through our commitment to attending and growing in a local church. As we fall more in love with God, we will fall more in love with the local church. Pursuing God relentlessly has us growing in God at the local church.
· Pursue God relentlessly as a disciple by Being Rooted in church at least once a week (such as a Sunday morning service).
· Join a Root Group / Small Group at your church.
· Find out if your church has a membership program, and sign up for it.
· Read the book of Acts in the Bible and learn more about the earliest followers of Jesus and the first church.
· Write down questions you have about church, and bring them up to your Root Group leader.
God, help me to understand and see your love for the local church. You love the church so much, and it represents you on Earth, and I am excited to be a part of that. Help me to not grow bitter if I get offended. I know that imperfect people make up the local church, so there will be tough times, but you are the one I serve. Thank you for my church and all the churches in the world. Help us all to look like you. Amen.


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Operation Warp Speed, the U.S. government's crash program to inoculate 300 million Americans against the coronavirus, includes a number of pharmaceutical partners like Emergent BioSolutions in Baltimore. CBS News correspondent David Martin toured one of Emergent's manufacturing suites where the company is producing two COVID-19 vaccines awaiting FDA approval.
Watch as Sean Kirk takes CBS 60 Minutes Overtime inside Emergent BioSolutions Baltimore Bayview facility.
'It's a mission-critical type of situation' | COVID-19 vaccine produced in Maryland lab
BALTIMORE — Right now, nearly 800 people are working on a COVID-19 vaccine in Baltimore. The senior vice president of Emergent BioSolutions told WUSA9 that with rising coronavirus cases in our region and around the country the pressure is on, but he said they're ready.
Search for COVID Vaccine is Boosting Maryland Economy
BALTIMORE (WBFF) - Finding a vaccine is critical to reopening and doing so safely.
Work here in Maryland is ramping up to find one.
Two Maryland companies have just announced deals to work on a coronavirus vaccine. Between them, they amount to $2 billion dollars that's going toward manufacturing and development.
We're told that will lead to hundreds of new jobs in the state.
At a lab in front of Johns Hopkins Bayview, scientists with Emergent Biosolutions have been working on vaccines since March.
"We have 4 active partnerships," says Syed Husain, with Emergent BioSolutions.
The company just announced a $480 million dollar deal with Johnson and Johnson to manufacture a vaccine starting early next year.
"We're certainly adding to our workforce and adding a significant number of colleagues to join Emergent," Husain says.
They'll be adding 300 jobs to their two Baltimore locations and in Rockville.
View the full news story here.
Maryland Biotech Companies at Forefront of COVID-19 Vaccine Research
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — The worldwide race is on to find a COVID-19 vaccine, and Maryland is on the forefront of some of that research.
In the state, researchers at three companies are hard at work trying to create the first COVID-19 vaccine.
Among them is Emergent BioSolutions, a Global Life Sciences company headquartered in Gaithersburg, with facilities in Baltimore.
Senior vice president Syed Husain said the company has partnered with four fellow innovators, including Johnson & Johnson, in an effort to come up with a vaccine.
J&J sews up 5 years of coronavirus vaccine supply in $480M-plus deal with Emergent
Johnson & Johnson, like all drugmakers in the COVID-19 vaccine race, is hoping to cobble together enough manufacturing capacity to rapidly scale production of its shot hopeful. Now, to the tune of nearly half a billion dollars, J&J is ready to put its money where its mouth is.
J&J and Maryland-based CDMO Emergent BioSolutions inked a five-year work order worth at least $480 million to help produce the New Jersey-based drugmaker's COVID-19 vaccine candidate, Emergent said in a release.
Emergent signs $480M manufacturing deal with Johnson & Johnson for covid-19 vaccine
Emergent BioSolutions Inc. said Monday it has signed a five-year agreement with Johnson & Johnson to manufacture its Covid-19 vaccine candidate, just a couple of months after striking a $135 million deal for the first step of their collaboration.
For the first two years of the deal, valued at $480 million, the Gaithersburg biotech will serve as a contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) to Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc., part of New Brunswick, New Jersey-based Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ). Emergent (NYSE: EBS) will produce the drug substance at its Baltimore Bayview facility, beginning in 2021, at large scale for commercial manufacturing. Beginning in 2023, Emergent will support additional batches, and the partners will agree on terms for those last three years of the deal in 2021, according to the company.
"Over the next five years, we are committing our leading CDMO services to advance this important vaccine candidate," Syed Husain, senior vice president and CDMO business unit head at Emergent, said in a statement. "We have the expertise and capabilities to meet the long-term needs of our customers and provide ongoing commercial manufacturing to benefit patients."
THE RACE TO FIND A COVID-19 VACCINE
"It's not an understatement to say that the entire nation's hopes are focused on what's happening in a Maryland laboratory – step one in manufacturing a potential coronavirus vaccine."
Watch as Sean Kirk takes CBS Sunday Morning on a virtual tour of Emergent BioSolutions Baltimore Bayview facility.
Emergent BioSolutions Deploys Long-Standing Expertise To Combat Current Pandemic
Emergent BioSolutions Inc., world-renowned as a bioterrorism expert, is also utilizing its contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) status to help quash the coronavirus disease COVID-19.
"For 22 years, Emergent has focused on products and services that address serious public health threats, such as biological and chemical warfare agents, emerging infectious diseases, and opioid overdoses," said Sean Kirk, executive vice president of manufacturing and technical operations at Emergent.
"Like these threats," said Kirk, "the current COVID-19 challenge is complex, which requires a multi-faceted response. Emergent is committed to advancing solutions to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic."
Emergent manufactures its own products, many of which the federal government buys and stockpiles in preparation for an attack or infectious disease outbreak.
At the same time, the company operates a CDMO business to help other drugmakers develop and manufacture products, and recently signed on to provide such services to two companies, each working on experimental oral vaccine candidates for COVID-19.
As part of its CDMO's integrated network, Emergent also is marshaling resources from its Bayview facility in Baltimore, Md., which is designated as a Center for Innovation in Advanced Development and Manufacturing (CIADM) by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
CIADMs are part of a national strategy recommended in the August 2010 Public Health Emergency Medical Countermeasures Enterprise Review, which found that the nation needed a nimble, flexible capacity to produce medical countermeasures rapidly for any threat, known or unknown, including a novel, naturally occurring emerging infectious disease, according to HHS.
"Emergent's CIADM is a result of a public-private partnership with the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) at HHS," according to Kirk, who said Emergent is "entrusted to play a role in public health emergencies, and we take this responsibility seriously."
Kirk said that Emergent and BARDA co-invested to build the state-of-the-art facility, which is designed for large-scale manufacturing of medical countermeasures during public health emergencies.
"Our CIADM has the capacity to produce hundreds of millions of doses of vaccine based upon the platform technology being leveraged," wrote Kirk. "That capability encompasses clinical scale production meant to get vaccine candidates quickly into the clinic and, in parallel, the scaleup to commercial volumes necessary for the vaccine to help prevent the disease in people."
Since its designation as CIADM in 2012, Emergent has responded to U.S. government task orders to develop therapeutics for viral hemorrhagic fevers, including Ebola, and a Zika vaccine, according to his post.
Currently, Emergent is working on vaccines to address the COVID-19 pandemic in separate collaborations with Novavax Inc., announced on March 10 and most recently with Vaxart Inc., announced on March 18.
"We rapidly deployed the capabilities, capacities and expertise of our Bayview CIADM and continue to be in active discussions with multiple fellow innovators, ranging from small to large pharmaceutical and biotech companies, to offer our CDMO services, specifically our Drug Substance manufacturing capability at the CIADM, as a response," according to Kirk.
Under terms of the agreement with the Nasdaq-traded Vaxart, a clinical-stage biotechnology company, Emergent will provide development services out of its Gaithersburg, Md., location and manufacture drug substance at its CIADM facility in Baltimore for COVID-19.
Development services will begin immediately, and upon Vaxart's election, Emergent will produce clinical material that's expected to enable Vaxart to initiate a Phase 1 clinical study anticipated early in the second half of 2020.
"Emergent is pleased to deploy our nimble CDMO expertise to support fellow innovators, like Vaxart, and advance an experimental COVID-19 vaccine candidate," said Syed Husain, senior vice president and CDMO business unit head at Emergent BioSolutions. "We look forward to applying our broad molecule-to-market services, including our ability to work with a multitude of delivery systems, execute under expedited timelines, and meet Vaxart's potential need for future scalability and large-scale capacity for commercial quantities."
Since identifying the novel coronavirus sequence early this year — which Kirk said is the first step to developing an appropriate vaccine — companies like Emergent have been working diligently to advance solutions for COVID-19.
"Fortunately, we have a multi-faceted approach and are using our decades-long development and manufacturing capabilities in vaccines and plasma-derived treatments to quickly advance solutions," Kirk wrote.
Emergent also is supporting both preclinical testing and phase 1 safety trials for the COVID-19 vaccine candidate being developed by Novavax, another Nasdaq-traded, clinical-stage biotechnology company.
U.S. Rep. David Trone (D-MD) this week commended Emergent for its efforts.
"Today I spoke with @emergentbiosolu about their vaccine and therapeutic developments to respond to #COVID19," Rep. Trone tweeted on March 17. My background is in business. I know the importance of working with companies like @emergentbiosolu to help solve this public health crisis. Let's all work together."
In its financial results for the quarter and year ended Dec. 31, 2019, Emergent reported on Feb. 20 that its CDMO services brought in $80 million, or 7.2 percent of total revenue.
Kirk said Emergent is especially proud and thankful to its dedicated employees, who are "getting the job done as expeditiously as possible to make a positive impact on this pandemic."
Emergent, he wrote in his posting, is "focused on finding solutions to beat this pandemic."
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Emergent BioSolutions manufactures drugs like Narcan and was involved in the Ebola response. Now, the Baltimore manufacturing facility will be involved with two companies hoping to develop a coronavirus vaccine.
"Our people certainly feel that level of responsibility and they're giving it their all," Emergent's senior vice president Syed Husain said.
The company's Gaithersburg site will work on development for two companies that may be vaccine candidates, while its Baltimore plant will manufacture the drugs.
"We've been built for this," Husain said. "The sense of urgency has always been there and it's heightened at this time, and this is where our experience really comes together."
Emergent's first step is providing clinical trial materials. Regulatory agencies will make sure any vaccine is safe.
"(We're working) as fast as possible, but what's most important to make sure the vaccine, in this case, is safe and it's efficacious," Husain said.
Researchers caution, though, that it will likely be at least a year before any vaccine is available to the public."
Everyone wants to ensure a timeline is done as fast as possible. There's been indications of 12-18 months. I think that is an appropriate and fair timeline for what the experts have provided," Husain said.
An experimental coronavirus vaccine was administered earlier this week to human subjects in Seattle, CBS News reports, one of dozens of projects underway worldwide.
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Vaxart Inc. (NASDAQ:VXRT) announced that it has entered into an agreement with Emergent BioSolutions Inc. (NYSE: EBS), whereby Emergent will deploy its molecule-to-market contract development and manufacturing (CDMO) services to help develop and manufacture Vaxart's experimental oral vaccine candidate for coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Vaxart's oral recombinant vaccine candidate is based on its proprietary VAAST™ platform. "I'm pleased that we are joining forces with an experienced manufacturer such as Emergent to help advance our oral COVID-19 vaccine to the clinic," said Wouter Latour, MD, chief executive officer of Vaxart. "We believe an oral vaccine administered using a room temperature-stable tablet may offer enormous logistical advantages in the roll-out of a large vaccination campaign, and Emergent is a great partner to help in this endeavor."
U.S. Moves To Expand Array Of Drug Therapies Deployed Against Coronavirus
President Trump said Thursday he is directing the Food and Drug Administration to expedite testing and possible broader use of some investigational medicines to help treat patients diagnosed amid the pandemic of the new coronavirus disease.
"Nothing will stand in our way as we pursue any avenue to find what best works against this horrible virus," Mr. Trump told reporters at a White House news conference.
Mr. Trump specifically mentioned two drugs, chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, that have long been used for malaria but aren't approved for the coronavirus, as well as an antiviral drug, remdesivir, that is currently being tested in clinical research on Covid-19, the coronavirus disease.
Some physicians are already using hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine to treat patients with the disease. These therapies were approved decades ago and are off-patent.
"If things don't go as planned, it's not going to kill anybody," Mr. Trump said, arguing that the drugs pose less risk because two of them have been approved for other uses.
That approach is a departure from the FDA's normal procedure, which is to measure whether a drug achieves a balance of safety and effectiveness against a specific disease. This is done through clinical studies, often with some patients getting a study drug while others are randomly assigned to a control group.
However, the FDA has allowed compassionate use of unproven investigational drugs, such as when a patient is otherwise on the verge of death.
There is no known drug to combat the coronavirus, and pharmaceutical industry officials say it could take months to find an effective treatment.
The timing of whether drugs are effective and safe has less to do with regulatory decisions and more about how long drug development takes. Studies must be designed properly to assess whether an experimental medicine works, then patients must be enrolled in the study and tested.
Mr. Trump specifically touted drug company Gilead Sciences Inc., which produces remdesivir, as offering promising therapies.
In addition to Gilead, Emergent Biosolutions Inc. and Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. are also developing experimental therapies. The companies and industry officials have said that it will be several months before there is an indication of whether the drugs are effective and can be applied broadly to patients infected with the disease.
Takeda said if testing is successful, the company aims to make the therapy available to patients between nine months and 18 months from now.
FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn, in the news briefing, emphasized that his agency is trying to move as quickly and scientifically as possible.
"FDA's responsibility to the American people is to ensure that products are safe and effective and we are continuing to do that," Dr. Hahn said during the news conference. "We are looking at everything that's coming across our desks as possible treatment options for the coronavirus."
Dr. Hahn said Mr. Trump had directed the FDA to test chloroquine, adding that the agency wants a "large, pragmatic clinical trial" to test possible benefits of the drug for treating coronavirus.
Former FDA commissioners Drs. Scott Gottlieb and Mark McClellan called for the FDA to work with manufacturers in a paper published Thursday. The two said the agency should create two task forces to develop therapeutics and vaccines, exempt from some regulatory requirements.
Some in the Trump administration are arguing for allowing experimental drugs to get broader use in the country.
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Posted: November 7, 2018 by Amit Sharma in film, first look
Tags: Adil Hussain, Danis Tanovic, Emraan Hashmi, Sikhya Entertainment, Supriya Pathak, world digital premiere, zee5
Come November 21st, and fans of Danis Tanovic can watch his much awaited and controversial film Tigers, on Zee's online streaming platform ZEE5.
The film, based on a real life story, stars Emraan Hashmi, where he plays a Pakistani salesman Syed Aamir Raza, who is fighting a company (allegedly Nestle) whose baby formula is killing infants. The starcast of the film includes Adil Hussain, Supriya Pathak, Danny Huston and Satyadeep Mishra. Allegedly, Nestle paid the makers of the film not to release the film in theatres.
It's produced by Guneet Monga's Sikhya Entertainment, and is ZEE5's first original Hindi film. It premiered at TIFF 2015.
Tanovic has directed films like Death in Sarajevo, Hell, Triage, and No Man's Land – which won him an Academy Award in 2002.


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