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

   

Houston-based practicing pathologist Ed Uthman shot these amazing photos when he was a student at Rhodes College, Class of '74. They documented everyday life of students at this college which was called Southwestern at Memphis at the time from 1970 to 1974.

Freshmen Carolyn Carl, Annie Stein, and Dot Neale between classes

 

Music in the Amphitheater
 
 
A crowd shot from Acting President Pritchartt's address

 

Alice Hyatt enjoys one of the many nice afternoons on the Memphis campus. The other is Rick Bostock who is now a PhD and chair of plany physiology at UC-Davis

 

Allison Jones
 
 
Annette Wilkerson working in the Sou'wester office in the basement of the Briggs Student Center

 

Arthur Julich, Miriam Hudson, Eric Olson
 
 
Arthur Kellermann, shown here in a skit with Beth Bailey, is now an ER physician who is a well-known proponent of gun control

 

At a football game

 

 
Band in Lynx Lair. The guitarist Steve Harrington is now a dentist in San Francisco

 

Becky Forbes

 

Ben Legett, Paula Block, Margaret Robinson, and Chris Wellford
 
 
Beth Bigger, left Southwestern after freshman year

 

Bill Stephenson, attended Southwestern for only one year and then left to join the US Air Force

 

Burrow Library front desk. Prof. Franklin Wright is at far right
 
 
Byron Osgood, Jenny Hackemeyer, Dan Hougland, and Rob Barrow

 

Candace Keirns, and Holly Byer ponder a procedure in a lab for a biology course. Both of these delightful women ended up in the northeast. Holly teaches in the Yonkers public schools, and Candace, now a physician, is at Mass General

 

Card catalog, Burrow Library

 

 
Carol Brigance

 

Carolyn Bigelow attending a performance of the Southwestern Singers with Martha Crenshaw in the Amphitheater. Both women are now physicians

 

Carolyn Canon

 

 
Catherine Dailey

 

Cecil Dorman

 

Cheerleaders of Rhodes from the early 1970s
 
 
Chris Wellford

 

Conie Lowry went on to earn MBA and law degrees and is now an attorney with Memphis firm Lewis, Fisher, Henderson, Claxton & Mulroy

 

Convocation
 
 
Dabney Nicholls, Bill MacCurdy

 

Deb Martin, Helen Johnson, Phil Parker, and Carolyn Canon at Registration Room

 

Ed Uthman, self-portrait, from fall semester of freshman year
 
 
Erin Stukey, a sculptor and painter based in Murfreesboro, Tennessee

 

Florence Neely, Sue Davidson

 

Friday Ekwere

 

 
Gay Blouin

 

Geraldine Fleming

 

Getting shot for 'faces'
 
 
Ingrid Ortiz went on to get her law degree from Emory University. She is now senior VP for First Tennessee Bank in Memphis

 

Jackie Nichol

 

Jeanne Cook and Guitars. She married fellow alum William Beardall and is now a family physician in Austin, Texas

 

Jennifer Gilstrap, and Cathy Johnson

 

 
John B. Hampton, a fellow sci fi aficionado

 

John Hampton studying in Robb Hall

 

Kim McCord

 

Linda Parson
 
 
Lynn Dunavant went on to earn her master's degree and is now a psychologist with Metro Nashville Public Schools

 

Lynne Beard, Lisa Lanier

 

Mamie Hart with one of her macrame pieces. She is now an architect in Raleigh, North Carolina

 

Margaret Robinson, a fine singer, went on to earn a PhD from the University of Texas and is now a clinical psychologist in Fayetteville, Arkansas
 
 
Margaret Wilson and John Gladney, both went on to earn doctoral degrees. Margaret , DMN, heals souls (as co-pastor of Presbyterian Church of Seffner, Florida) and John, MD, heals bodies (as a cardiothoracic surgeon in Shreveport, Louisiana)

 

Mary Lynn is now a nuclear medicine tech in Jackson, Tennessee

 

Melanie Kennon

 

Missy Meyers at the loom
 
 
Nancy Jordan went on to get her PhD and is now a staff psychologist at the VA hospital in Memphis

 

Nancy Nolan

 

Neil Mara is now a News Systems Director with the Charlotte Observer in North Carolina

 

Ouida Bass

 

 
Pat Turner

 

Paulette Lewine, Joye Romeiser, John Coats, Laurel Price, and Linda Wilson

 

Penny Miller
 
 
rainy-day shot was taken from the arched portico at the south end of the Chemistry Building, looking south along the walkway to Halliburton Tower

 

Reading room in Burrow Library

 

Renaissance Fair

 

 
Rhodes in the early 1970s

 

Rhodes in the early 1970s

 

Rhodes in the early 1970s
 
 
Rhodes in the early 1970s

 

Rhodes in the early 1970s

 

Rhodes in the early 1970s
 
 
Rhys Scholes

 

Robert Freeman

 

Sandra Chu, now owns Westgate Drugs in Clarksdale, Mississippi
 
 
Stephanie Ryburn, now a schoolteacher, was an outstanding student editor

 

Students playing volleyball in front of the Briggs Student Center

 

Susan Neal, Ralph Carl, Andy Bradley, Gary Gherki, Frank Cole, Chuck Mcgrady, Jackie Nichol on 'the bench'

 

 
The Southwestern singers and concert band were the major draw for convocation

 

 

 

Theresa Cloys is now Director of Development for Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville

 

Weezy Elliott and Ellen Tyler. Ellen is now an immigration paralegal for BP America in Memphis. Weezy is the Intervention Team Coordinator for At-Risk Students at Worthington Kilbourne High in Columbus, Ohio