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