Emeriti to be honored at May 10 ceremony

Twenty four members of the Vanderbilt faculty and administration will be honored for their years of service to the University by having the title "emeritus" or "emerita" bestowed upon them during the University's Commencement ceremony May 10. The following is a complete list, in alphabetical order, of those to be honored:

R. Benton Adkins Jr., M.D.

Professor of Surgery, Emeritus

Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, Emeritus

R. Benton Adkins grew up on a farm in Middle Tennessee. Since his graduation from Austin Peay State College in 1954, he has been a member of the Vanderbilt community. He received his M.D. from Vanderbilt in 1958. He began his surgical residency that year, spent one year at Baylor Medical College in Houston, and returned to Vanderbilt, finishing as the chief surgical resident in 1965. Adkins was certified by both the American Board of Surgery and Board of Thoracic Surgery. He was appointed assistant professor of surgery in 1966, assistant professor of anatomy in 1967, associate professor of surgery and anatomy in 1970, and professor of surgery and anatomy in 1985.

Adkins was the surgeon-in-chief of the Metropolitan Nashville General Hospital from 1977 until 1991. He has lectured to thousands of Vanderbilt medical students in the first year anatomy course. He has published extensively and is well known for his textbook, Surgical Care for the Elderly, now in its second edition.

Contributing beyond his chosen field of surgery, Adkins was active in the Tennessee Air National Guard from 1959 to 1993. He was promoted to full colonel in 1988, was the state air surgeon from 1991 to 1993, and served on active duty during the Persian Gulf War.

Adkins was on the Board of Governors of the American College of Surgeons. He is past president of the Nashville Academy of Medicine, Tennessee Medical Association, American Association of Clinical Anatomists, Tennessee Chapter of the American College of Surgeons, Nashville Surgical Society and the H. William Scott Jr. Surgical Society. He is a recipient of the Distinguished Service Award from the Southeastern Surgical Congress.

Barbara C. Bowen, Doctorat de l'Université

Professor of French, Emerita

Barbara C. Bowen came to Vanderbilt in 1987 to chair the Department of French and Italian after 25 years at the University of Illinois in Urbana­Champaign. While on the Vanderbilt faculty, she published four books and 25 articles, and gave 37 keynote speeches and conference papers in the United States, France, Greece and Poland. Among her research interests are François Rabelais and 16th century French literature, French comic theater, European Renaissance humor and Renaissance art history.

Bowen has taught graduate seminars in French and comparative literature, and a wide variety of undergraduate French and humanities courses, ranging from "Renaissance Utopias" to "The Classic French Comic Book," and including French grammar and conversations as well as numerous literature courses. She has served on the Comparative Literature Advisory Committee, the Committee on the Humanities, the Humanities Center Advisory Committee and the Faculty Senate, and has acted as Newberry Library Renaissance Seminar representative for the campus since Vanderbilt joined the consortium in 1988. In her department, she has served as director of graduate studies and on numerous search committees, organized the annual French poetry-reading competition, served as moderator of the Kappa Lambda chapter of Pi Delta Phi (the national French Honorary) and frequently directed the annual French play.

William F. Caul, Ph.D.

Professor of Psychology, Emeritus

William F. Caul retires this year after 32 years of service to Vanderbilt University. Caul graduated from Bucknell University in 1960 and completed his Ph.D. at Carnegie-Mellon University in 1965. He joined the faculty of the Department of Psychology in 1970 after spending five years in full-time research at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

Caul is widely recognized for his important research in behavioral neuroscience. Using animal models, primarily the rat, he made fundamental contributions to understanding the effects of stress (e.g., physical restraint) on physiological processes and behavior and the effects of prenatal alcohol exposure on behavior. In recent years, Caul's research has examined the physiological and behavioral processes involved in drug tolerance and withdrawal. Caul has maintained an active and productive laboratory throughout his career and has published more than 60 articles in scientific journals, including four in the last year.

One of his most important contributions to the department's teaching mission has been the Honors Program, which has seen nearly 200 students conducting research in the psychological sciences. He served as director of undergraduate studies, director of graduate studies, and chair of the Department of Psychology. He also served on many departmental, college and University committees.

Donald H. Evans, M.F.A.

Professor of Art and Art History, Emeritus

Donald H. Evans was born in Murfreesboro in 1939. He graduated from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in 1962 with the B.F.A. and earned the M.F.A. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in 1968.

After serving as a lecturer at North Carolina State University, Evans joined the Vanderbilt faculty in 1969 in the Department of Fine Arts, where he was instrumental in expanding the studio wing of the department into the importance that it enjoys today among peer institutions. He served as director of the Vanderbilt Media Experimentation Center from 1969 to 1980 and offered pioneering courses at Vanderbilt in video art, multimedia and computer graphics.

Evans developed a strong following among students. His instruction in wide-ranging media earned him the reputation of an enlightened and inspiring teacher. Accomplished in many media, Evans is probably best known for his intricate and epic-scaled events, which encompassed live-action performance, spontaneous creation of two-dimensional images, sculptures, music and films. He established a strong national reputation for this sort of ambitious interdisciplinary work, the most recent example of which was "Burning Banjos II," a public multimedia performance and installation of 2001.

Evans has been prolific in several traditional media as well, counting into the hundreds his exhibitions of drawings and paintings. His films number in the dozens, of which seven, such as Data Bank and Video Dance, have earned awards. Evans's video works also number in the dozens, and include "Visual Prison and Light Sensitive People."

Sidney Fleischer, Ph.D.

Professor of Biological Sciences, Emeritus

Sidney Fleischer earned his B.S. degree from City College in 1952. With a 1957 Ph.D. from Indiana University, he undertook postdoctoral fellowships at Indiana and the Institute for Enzyme Research at the University of Wisconsin before accepting an assistant professorship at Wisconsin in 1960. He joined the Vanderbilt faculty in 1964 and was promoted to professor in 1968. In 1996, he received a secondary appointment as a professor of pharmacology in the School of Medicine. Throughout his distinguished Vanderbilt career, Fleischer has enjoyed visiting professorships at several American and European universities.

One theme traceable through Fleischer's research career is the structure and function of membrane proteins. Early in his Vanderbilt career, he and his colleagues were the first to demonstrate the importance of membrane lipids in the function of a membrane-bound enzyme. More recently, his laboratory has focused on proteins responsible for excitation-contraction coupling in muscle. This work has been described in more than 240 primary, peer-reviewed articles, the most recent in the March 2002 issue of Nature, and in more than 70 reviews and methodological articles, many of these regularly cited by hundreds of scientists around the world.

Fleischer has also edited 25 books, 21 of them volumes in the "Methods in Enzymology" series founded by the late Vanderbilt Professor Sidney Colowick.

Fleischer has served on numerous national and international advisory scientific bodies, including committees of the National Institutes of Health, the American Heart Association, the American Cancer Society, UNESCO and the Biophysical Society. He was elected president of the Biophysical Society in 1989, and was awarded the Earl Sutherland Prize for Achievement in Research in 1981.

Tomlinson Fort, Ph.D.

Centennial Professor of Chemical Engineering, Emeritus

Tomlinson Fort joined the Vanderbilt faculty in 1989 as Centennial Professor and chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering. In 1990, he received an additional appointment as professor of materials science and engineering. His term as department chair ended in 1996. Since then, he has concentrated on teaching and research.

After undergraduate work at the University of Georgia, graduate work at the University of Tennessee and a postdoctoral year in Australia, he was employed as a research chemist and later as a senior research chemist by DuPont Corp. After Fort later held professorships at Case Western Reserve University, Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Missouri­Rolla and California Polytechnic State University, he also held appointments as a visiting professor at the University of Copenhagen and the National University of Mexico.

A specialist in surface and colloid science, Fort directed the thesis dissertation research of 23 master of science and 20 Ph.D. students. Two of these students won national prizes for the quality and significance of their dissertation research. He is author or co-author of 80 research papers and several book chapters, is editor of one book and owns a patent.

Fort served for 25 years on the National Council of the American Chemical Society and has held every office within the ACS Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry. He has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, the Journal of Adhesion, the Journal of Dispersion Science and Technology and Langmuir. He was one of the founders of Langmuir.

Barbara F. Grimes, M.S.N., R.N.

Professor of Nursing, Emerita

Barbara Grimes has contributed significantly to the School of Nursing throughout her tenure at Vanderbilt University. She graduated with a B.S.N. from Vanderbilt University School of Nursing in 1959 and was appointed an instructor in medical-surgical nursing. She obtained the master of science in nursing degree from Western Reserve University in 1963 and rejoined the Vanderbilt School of Nursing faculty in 1967.

Grimes served in many leadership roles, including academic chair and program director of Physical Sciences Applied to Nursing, from 1970 to 1985, area director of adult health and coordinator of numerous courses. Grimes represented the School of Nursing on a number of Medical Center and University committees. She chaired the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee several times, as well as the Potter Search Committee, Faculty Council, Student Admission and Academic Affairs Committee, and Informatics Committee. She has also served on many ad hoc committees concerned with curriculum revision.

Grimes has proven herself to be a leader and promoter in the introduction of computer technology to faculty and the classroom. She was instrumental in the implementation of the distance-learning program through the creation of Web-based courses, which in turn was instrumental in increasing the enrollment in all specialties. She also facilitated the application of Prometheus in the School of Nursing. Grimes co-authored a computer-based assessment tool for basic knowledge of pharmacology, which is currently being used for the NCLEX review.

Russell G. Hamilton, Ph.D.

Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Emeritus

Dean of the Graduate School, Emeritus

Russell George Hamilton Jr. arrived at Vanderbilt in 1984 as a professor of Spanish and Portuguese and dean of the Graduate School.

When Hamilton entered the University of Connecticut in 1952 to pursue a B.A. in Spanish and English, Portuguese was not offered, so he continued study of it on his own. After earning an M.A. in Spanish at the University of Wisconsin­ Madison, he went on to receive a Ph.D. degree in Portuguese and Spanish at Yale. A Fulbright fellowship supported his two years in Brazil, where he carried out dissertation research and acquired a near-native command of Portuguese. In 1964, Hamilton joined the faculty at the University of Minnesota, where he earned promotion to tenure rank in three years. In 1982, he was appointed associate dean for faculty in the College of Liberal Arts.

Hamilton came to Vanderbilt in 1984 as a professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and dean of the Graduate School, a position he held until 2000. In 2000, the University recognized Hamilton with an Affirmative Action and Diversity Award for his active work in augmenting the population of African-American graduate students at Vanderbilt and other U.S. institutions.

Nearly every year as dean, Hamilton offered a graduate seminar in his area of scholarly expertise. He also regularly advised students and served on exam, thesis and dissertation committees. He served on a number of University committees, including the Advisory Board to the Chancellor Search Committee.

Howard L. Harrod, Ph.D.

Oberlin Alumni Professor of Social Ethics and Sociology of Religion, Emeritus

Howard L. Harrod came to Vanderbilt in 1968 as a professor of social ethics and sociology of religion, having earned his B.A. degree at Oklahoma University in 1957, his B.D. degree at Duke University in 1960 and his S.T.M. (1961), M.A. (1963) and Ph.D. (1965) degrees at Yale University. He began his academic career at Howard University, from 1964 to 1966, after which he spent two years at Drake University.

Harrod's research and teaching focus on the sociology of religion and Native American religions on the Northern Plains. He is the author of five books and numerous articles and chapters: "Mission among the Blackfeet" (1971); "The Human Center: Moral Agency in the Social World" (1981); and three studies on Northern Plains religions, "Renewing the World: Plains Indian Religion and Morality" (1987); "Becoming and Remaining a People: Native American Religions on the Northern Plains" (1995); and "The Animals Came Dancing: Native American Sacred Ecology and Animal Kinship" (2000).

Harrod has remained continually involved on Vanderbilt's Hospital Ethics Committee, the Committee on Research on Human Subjects and the Committee on Human Subjects-Behavioral Sciences, as well as on the Animal Care Committee. He also helped teach medical ethics in the School of Medicine. He twice led undergraduates on Alternative Spring Breaks to work on Native American reservations.

Harrod has been director of the graduate Department of Religion, has served terms on the Research Council, the University Promotion and Tenure Review Committee, and the Faculty Senate (including a year as its elected secretary), and has filled numerous other posts.

James McKanna, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, Emeritus

James A. McKanna has been a member of the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology at Vanderbilt since 1976. He received his Ph.D. in anatomy in 1972 from the University of Wisconsin and became an assistant professor in the Department of Anatomy at the State University of New York Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse, N.Y., before joining Vanderbilt as an assistant professor. He was promoted to associate professor in 1981.

McKanna has had numerous publications in the fields of neuroanatomy and biochemistry. In addition to his departmental teaching responsibilities, he has had successful research collaborations with other Vanderbilt faculty, including Professor Stanley Cohen and Professor Ray Harris. Most recently, McKanna has focused on a substrate for the EGF receptor kinase known as lipocortin 1 (LC1). He developed sensitive detection methods for LC1 and demonstrated that it has a restricted pattern of expression and identifies microglia in the central nervous system. Therefore, LC1 was identified as a useful marker to study these cells. He has also examined the regulation of LC1 expression and has shown that LC1 expression is associated with the development of sensory commissures in the central nervous system and with the morphogenesis of branched tubular organs.

The results of McKanna's research will be useful in future studies of the roles of microglia in the normal adult and developing nervous system, and following damage to the brain.

Alexander C. McLeod, M.D.

Clinical Professor of Medicine, Emeritus

Alexander C. McLeod has enjoyed a distinguished career as a community-based internist in Nashville and has been a longstanding and devoted contributor to the clinical and educational mission of the Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He has been a member of the Vanderbilt University Medical Center's medical staff and has practiced internal medicine in Nashville since 1967. He served on the Hospital Medical Board and Standing Policy Committee on Goals and Governance from 1983 to 1986. Since 1996, he has been an adjunct professor of management at the Owen Graduate School of Management.

McLeod's efforts to build collaboration and educational programs for health care management prompted him to play a leadership role in the development of a joint M.D./M.B.A. program at Vanderbilt. An important recent effort has been his creation and leadership of the Faculty Seminar on Health Care Management Studies, which brought together faculty from the schools of medicine, nursing, management, law, arts and science, education and engineering to discuss health care from an interdisciplinary perspective. He was a member of a University-wide committee, appointed by the provost and the vice chancellor for health affairs, to develop an interdisciplinary University-supported program related to health care improvement. McLeod is a former chair of the Subcommittee on Health Policy, Law and Economics, and he is listed in various "Who's Who" lists in America and in health care.

McLeod has 10 times in 30 years received the Physician's Achievement Award from the American Medical Association for his efforts in continuing medical education.

Gisela Mosig, Dr. rer. nat.

Professor of Biological Sciences, Emerita

Gisela Mosig joined the Vanderbilt faculty in 1965. She was born in Schmorkau (Kreis Oschatz), Germany. She received her undergraduate training at the University of Bonn and her graduate training at the University of Cologne, whence she was awarded the Doktor rerum naturalis in 1959. Later that year, she came to Vanderbilt as a postdoctoral research associate with Professor A.H. Doermann. In 1965, after laboratory work at the Carnegie Institution Laboratory at Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y., Mosig returned to Vanderbilt as an assistant professor. She was promoted to associate professor with tenure in 1967, and to professor in 1971.

Mosig has been a pioneering investigator in molecular genetics, in particular in the replication and recombination of DNA. She has published more than 100 research articles. One of her most recent papers was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA in July 2001, and was the result of an invited lecture to a National Academy of Sciences colloquium. Mosig still has an active research grant from the National Science Foundation. In recognition of her contributions, her colleagues elected her a fellow of the American Society of Microbiology in 1994. At Vanderbilt, she was recognized with the Earl Sutherland Prize for Achievement in Research in 1995.

Mosig's undergraduate course on viruses over-enrolls year after year, and her many and varied contributions to graduate education were recognized with the Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award in 1989.

Charles B. Myers, Ph.D.

Professor of Social Studies Education, Emeritus

Charles Myers received his B.S. degree in social studies from Pennsylvania State University, and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in history and social studies education from George Peabody College for Teachers. He has been a faculty member of Peabody College for 32 years and a professor since 1978. He joined the Peabody faculty in 1970 as an assistant professor and as director of instruction for an urban teacher education program. He has been director of programs for Educators of Youth, chair of the Department of Teaching and Learning, founder and director of the Center for Economic and Social Studies Education, associate dean for academic affairs and assistant to the dean for teacher education.

Recently, Myers has focused on school reform, teacher education reform and national standards for teacher education. He has held a wide variety of positions, including Peabody representative to the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education; member of all four national governing boards of the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education; officer of the National Council for the Social Studies; delegate from NCSS to NCATE; national coordinator of Social Studies Teacher Education Program Reviews; and executive director of the Arts and Sciences/Teacher Education Collaborative, a national organization of colleges and universities that fosters the enhanced role of arts and science content and faculty in teacher education.

Myers published four college texts, two school texts, four manuals, two national standards, seven book chapters, 12 journal articles and eight reports. Among his most notable works are the "National Standards for Social Studies Teachers," the document that sets national standards for the preparation of social studies teachers, and "Re-Creating Schools," with Douglas J. Simpson.

John R. Newbrough, Ph.D.

Professor of Psychology, Emeritus

John Robert Newbrough was one of the founders of community psychology in the early 1960s and continues as one of the field's most active and effective leaders. His contributions to community psychology earned him many accolades. He was named fellow of the American Psychological Association's Division of Community Psychology in 1972; elected divisional president in 1978; received the division's award for Distinguished Contribution to Community Research and Theory in 1994; edited the Journal of Community Psychology from 1974 to 1988 and currently chairs the division's Taskforce on a Woods Hole for Community Psychology, an international effort to stimulate and coordinate research in the field. The Inter-American Society of Psychology honored him in 1989, and the Tennessee Psychological Association named him Distinguished Psychologist of the Year in 1994.

Newbrough came to Peabody College in 1966 and founded the Center for Community Studies as one of the original units of Peabody's John F. Kennedy Center. He helped develop and presided over the Urban Observatory of Metropolitan Nashville­University Centers from 1969 to 1971. He co-founded Peabody's innovative Transactional Ecological Psychology Doctoral Training Program in the early 1970s and directed it until 1986. He also established and directed Peabody's nationally known doctoral program in Community Psychology. During the late 1990s, Newbrough developed and directed the new doctoral program in Community Research and Action in the Department of Human and Organizational Development.

Newbrough has been principal investigator on numerous grant projects. He has authored scores of publications in major journals across a wide spectrum of academic fields and topics.

James A. O'Neill Jr., M.D.

Professor of Surgery, Emeritus

James A. O'Neill Jr. was born in New York and attended Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., where he earned the B.S. degree in 1955. He earned the M.D. degree from Yale University School of Medicine in 1959. O'Neill trained in general and thoracic surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and in pediatric surgery at Ohio State University. He served for two years at the U.S. Army Institute for Surgical Research, focusing on burns and trauma, and has held faculty positions at Louisiana State University, the University of Pennsylvania and Vanderbilt. In 1988, after establishing the Department of Pediatric Surgery at Vanderbilt, O'Neill was appointed as C.E. Koop Professor of Pediatric Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania. He held that position until six years ago, when he returned to Vanderbilt as chair of the Department of Surgery.

O'Neill has a broad interest in general and general thoracic pediatric surgery with a special interest in vascular surgery in childhood, surgical oncology and conjoined twins. He has been published more than 300 times, and recently was the lead editor on the new fifth edition of the two-volume Pediatric Surgery. O'Neill has held a number of leadership positions in the Surgical Section of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Pediatric Surgical Association, the American College of Surgeons and the American Surgical Association. He also served as president of the Southeastern Surgical Congress for 2000-01. He has served on the editorial boards of several pediatric and pediatric surgical journals.

O'Neill played a key role in the Vanderbilt-Meharry Medical College alliance and in the planning for the new Children's Hospital.

Richard A. Peterson, Ph.D.

Professor of Sociology, Emeritus

Richard A. Peterson arrived at Vanderbilt in 1965 as an "industrial sociologist," and created new and enduring sociology from the Nashville "social laboratory" in his own backyard. He initiated studies of the Nashville music industry that looked at the impact of bureaucracy and institutional context on the content of artistic expression.

Peterson went on to develop his now-renowned "production of culture" framework. By systematically integrating a range of institutional, sociocultural, political and organizational factors that shape the content of a wide range of artistic output (music, art, etc.), his work soon assumed the status of a dominant interpretive framework in the field of cultural sociology. In recognition of this accomplishment, he was elected in 1987 the founding chair of the Section on Sociology of Culture of the American Sociological Association, now one of the largest sections in the ASA. The production of culture framework continues to define the trajectory of research in this field among researchers around the world.

By 1990, Peterson was a recognized ambassador of sociology to the humanities. This was reflected in his appointment as guest editor of the July 1990 special symposium issue of Contemporary Sociology on "The Many Facets of Culture." In 1997, he published his research monograph, "Creating Country Music: Fabricating Authenticity."

Peterson received a very high honor for his lifetime contributions and achievements in the December 2000 special festschrift issue of Poetics, titled "The Production and Consumption of Culture: Essays on Richard A. Peterson's Contributions to Cultural Sociology." The nine articles in this special issue, written by a distinguished group of scholars, testify to the breadth, depth and reputation of Peterson's scholarly achievements.

Oakley S. Ray, Ph.D.

Professor of Psychology, Emeritus

Oakley S. Ray grew up in western Pennsylvania, attended Cornell University, served in the U.S. Army, and then obtained his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Pittsburgh. He directed the Brain-Behavior Research Laboratories at the Veterans Administration Medical Center and the University of Pittsburgh before arriving at Vanderbilt in 1970. From 1970 to 1980, Ray was the principal investigator and head of the N.I.M.H.-funded Multidisciplinary Graduate Training Program, including the departments of anatomy, biochemistry, pharmacology, psychiatry and psychology. From 1973 until 1987, he directed the Mental Health and Behavioral Sciences Unit at the V.A. Medical Center in Nashville. He received the Leadership Award from the Association of V.A. Chiefs of Psychology in 1983.

Since 1987, Ray has been involved in full-time teaching and research in the Department of Psychology. Ray has had a long and distinguished career in research on the effects of drugs on behavior. He has published numerous articles and four books, including a very successful textbook titled Drugs, Society and Behavior, now in its ninth edition. Since 1980, Ray has been executive secretary of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology. In 1983, he received the Paul Hoch Distinguished Service Award from the ACNP. He is also international coordinator for the president in the Collegium Internationale Neuro-Psychopharmacologicum.

Ray received the Ingalls Award for Excellence in Classroom Teaching in 1972 and, in 1979, the Chancellor's Cup for contributions outside the classroom to student-faculty relations, and was named a Centennial Fellow in 1974. From 1979 to 1992, Ray presented a popular talk during freshman orientation, titled "Welcome to Vanderbilt. Try the Salad Bar."

Harris D. Riley Jr., M.D.

Professor of Pediatrics, Emeritus

Harris D. Riley Jr. graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1945 and Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in 1948. After completing an internship at Baltimore City Hospital, he moved to a residency in pediatrics at Babies and Children's Hospital, Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. He then returned to Vanderbilt for fellowship training in the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases.

In 1950, Riley was appointed to the Vanderbilt faculty. This appointment was interrupted from 1951 to 1953 by a stint in the United States Air Force Medical Service as chief of pediatric services and chief of the infectious diseases division. Dr. Riley returned to Vanderbilt in 1953 and resumed his faculty appointment until 1958, when he was recruited to the University of Oklahoma Medical Center as a professor and the head of the Department of Pediatrics. From 1958 to 1990, he held a number of wide-ranging positions before returning to Vanderbilt in 1991 as a professor of pediatrics.

Riley is an internationally recognized pediatrician. He has authored or co-authored more than 500 scientific articles, abstracts and book chapters, and has served on the editorial boards of distinguished medical journals. Among his many honors is the 1994 Amos Christie Pediatric Society Chair for his contribution to the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Department of Pediatrics and the establishment in 2000 of the Harris D. Riley Jr. Endowed Chair in Pediatric Graduate Education at the University of Oklahoma.

Riley's record of service to Vanderbilt University and the community includes service on the Board of Directors of the Alumni Association (president, 1974-75) and the Board of Trust.

Francisco Ruiz-Ramón, Ph.D.

Centennial Professor of Spanish, Emeritus

Francisco Ruiz-Ramón was born in Spain, where he studied at the University of Valencia and the University of Madrid (Licenciatura 1953, Ph.D. 1962). Ruiz-Ramón was appointed a research fellow at the National Research Center in Madrid in 1954. He left Spain in 1957 to teach at the University of Oslo, where he developed a program in Spanish literature and introduced the study of Spanish language in the School of Commerce. From 1965 until 1967 he was a research fellow at the prestigious Humanities Center in Madrid, founded by the Spanish philosopher Ortega y Gasset. In 1968, he accepted a position at Purdue University as an associate professor and was promoted to professor of Spanish in 1972. In 1974, he became an American citizen. He moved to the University of Chicago as a professor of romance languages in 1983 and came to Vanderbilt University in 1987 as Centennial Professor of Spanish.

Ruiz-Ramón has an international reputation as a distinguished scholar of Spanish theatre and is known for his many publications, including 20 books and more than 150 articles. In 1964, he received the Puerto Rico Theatre Prize for his play "Juego de espejos," performed by the Theatrical Company of the Department of Drama of the University. In 1982, he received the Gabriel Miró National Prize and, in 1988, the Theater Prize Letras de Oro for his play, "El Inquisidor." In 2001, he was awarded in Spain the Valle Inclán Prize for his publications and work in classical and contemporary Spanish theatre. He has been a member of the editorial board of several scholarly journals and university presses in the United States and Europe.

Ruiz-Ramón has been a visiting professor or lecturer by institutions in Europe, Japan, and both North and South America. His contributions to university life include service on numerous committees and as chair of the Spanish and Portuguese Department (Purdue) and as both Director of Graduate Studies and acting chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese (Vanderbilt).

Lawrence J. Schaad, Ph.D.

Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus

Lawrence J. Schaad was born in Columbus, Ohio, on Sept. 23, 1930. On a prestigious Westinghouse Science and Technology Scholarship, he attended Harvard University, where he received his A.B. in biochemical sciences in 1952. He received his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1956 under the direction of Professor C.G. Swain. His Ph.D. thesis led to a publication with Swain introducing the relationship between deuterium and tritium kinetic isotope effects. This relationship has become known as the Swain-Schaad equation and is mentioned in all textbooks dealing with chemical kinetics. In 1957, he won a National Institutes of Health postdoctoral fellowship at Oxford University. After a two-year postdoctoral fellowship with Indiana University, he joined the Vanderbilt faculty in 1961 as an assistant professor. He was promoted to associate professor in 1964 and professor of chemistry in 1972.

Schaad's early work at Vanderbilt focused on one of the simplest molecules, H3+. As computer technology advanced, his interests grew to encompass larger molecular systems, though primarily focused on organic systems. In 1971, in collaboration with Professor Andes Hess at Vanderbilt, he published a paper titled "Hückel Molecular Orbital ¼ Resonance Energies. A New Approach," which has become a classic on the theory of aromaticity, a very important concept in organic chemistry. Such work subsequently led to an article on the structure of cyclobutadiene, which settled a longstanding argument about the structure of a fundamental organic molecule. More recently, he has been interested in the basic concept of symmetry in organic reactions. Schaad has published 150 articles and chapters in scientific journals and books.

Robert E. Stone Jr., Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Otolaryngology, Emeritus

Associate Professor of Hearing and Speech Sciences, Emeritus

R.E. Stone Jr. was born in Washington State on Feb. 20, 1937. He received the B.S. degree from Whitworth College in 1960, the M.Ed. degree from the University of Oregon in 1964, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Michigan in 1971. In 1964, he was appointed instructor in speech at Portland State University. He became an instructor at the University of Michigan in 1971 and soon advanced to an assistant professorship of speech in the Department of Otolaryngology. After tenure in the schools of medicine and dentistry at Indiana University, Stone began his career at Vanderbilt University in 1987 as an associate professor of speech pathology in the Department of Otolaryngology. Upon the creation of the Vanderbilt Voice Center, he became the director of vocology.

Throughout his career, Stone has provided distinguished service as a scientist, educator, mentor and practicing speech language pathologist. He was co-founder of the Vanderbilt Voice Center. He developed and served as director of internationally recognized workshops on stroboscopy held at Vanderbilt since 1990. He has conducted research on the acoustic and aerodynamic characteristics of country-western singing and differentiation of classical and Broadway singing styles.

Stone is an active member and leader of many organizations. He is director of education for the Florida Laryngectomee Association Voice Institute, director of the International Association of Laryngectomees Voice Institute and president of the Institute for Rehabilitation of Laryngectomees-USA. He is a fellow of the American Speech, Language and Hearing Association. Additionally, he is a former associate editor of the American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, and currently is a reviewer for the Journal of Voice and the American Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research.

John H. Venable, Ph.D.

Professor of Biological Sciences, Emeritus

Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Emeritus

John H. Venable received his B.S. in physics from Duke University in 1960 and the M.S. in 1963 and Ph.D. in 1965, both in biophysics, from Yale University. He worked two years as a visiting scientist at King's College, University of London, joined the Vanderbilt faculty in 1967 and earned tenure in 1972. In 1981, he was appointed associate dean, and began more than two decades of continuous, distinguished service in college and University senior administration.

Venable's research interests lay at the interface of the physical and biological sciences. He applied physical techniques, such as electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy and small angle x-ray diffraction, to gain insights on the structures and functions of biological macromolecules and macromolecular assemblies. This interdisciplinary approach to science, considered unusual at the time, drew attention to the results of his research as it appeared in a wide range of prestigious journals such as Nature, the Journal of Molecular Biology, the Journal of the American Chemical Society and the Journal of Chemical Physics.

Venable was honored in 1980 with the Ellen Gregg Ingalls Award for Excellence in Classroom Teaching, and was a mainstay in developing and teaching the introductory course in molecular biology. He continued to instruct that course and upper division offerings in molecular biology, and to advise and tutor undergraduates.

In 1992, Venable was appointed acting dean of the College of Arts and Science and became associate provost for faculty affairs a year later. He remained in that office until 2000, when he was asked once again to take on the responsibilities of the college deanship. He served as dean of the college until last year.

Harold L. Weatherby, Ph.D.

Professor of English, Emeritus

Harold L. Weatherby was born on April 6, 1934, in Montgomery, Ala. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate from Vanderbilt in 1956, Weatherby received his M.A. degree from Yale University in 1957 and, after service in the United States Army, earned the Ph.D. from Yale in 1962. He began teaching at Vanderbilt in 1962 as an instructor and rose to full professor in 1974.

Weatherby began his active professional career as an expert in Victorian literature. He is widely regarded for his book Cardinal Newman in his Age: His Place in Theology and Literature, and he has lectured on Newman across the United States. With a secondary and abiding interest in Southern literature, Weatherby authored many articles about the Vanderbilt Agrarians and the Fugitives. His second book, The Keen Delight: The Christian Poet in the Modern World, reflected his lifelong concern with both literature and faith. Most noticeable about Weatherby's career, especially in this current climate of specialization, is the changed focus in his scholarship. Through much rigorous study and dedication, including his independent mastery of Greek, Weatherby became an expert on the Renaissance poet Edmund Spenser, and this research, along with his firm commitment to matters of faith, led to his third book, Mirrors of Celestial Grace: Patristic Theology in Spenser's Allegory, and additional articles and public lectures.

Throughout his career, Weatherby was known as a dedicated and demanding teacher. He was committed to teaching the canon of English literature by traditional critical methodologies. Of students, he required much and hoped for more.

Richard M. Zaner, Ph.D.

Professor of Medicine, Emeritus

Richard M. Zaner was born in Duncan, Ariz., on Sept. 20, 1933. After serving in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War, he graduated summa cum laude from the University of Houston in 1957. He then attended The New School for Social Research, where he earned the M.A. degree (1959) and the Ph.D. (1961) in the field of philosophy and the first Alfred Schutz Memorial Award for Outstanding Dissertation in Philosophy or Sociology.

In 1981, following teaching assignments at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, the State University of New York-Stony Brook -- where he was the founding director of the Division of Social Sciences and Humanities at the Health Sciences Center -- and Southern Methodist University, Zaner became the inaugural Ann Geddes Stahlman Professor of Medical Ethics at Vanderbilt.