Rhodes College is a four-year,
privatePrivate schools, also known as independent schools, are not administered by local, state or national governments; thus, they retain the right to select their students and are funded in whole or in part by charging their students tuition, rather than relying on public funds...
, perennial top tier
liberal arts collegeLiberal arts colleges in the United States are undergraduate institutions of higher education in the United States. The Encyclopædia Britannica Concise offers the following definition of the liberal arts as a "college or university curriculum aimed at imparting general knowledge and developing...
located in
MemphisMemphis is a city in the southwest corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County. Memphis rises above the Mississippi River on the 4
th Chickasaw Bluff just south of the mouth of the Wolf River....
,
TennesseeTennessee is a state located in the Southeastern United States. According to the 2008 census, it has a population of 6,214,888, an increase of nearly 9.5% since 2000. Tennessee is the 14th fastest growing state in the US and is ranked 17th by population. It is ranked 36th by total land area. In...
, USA.
Founded in 1848, Rhodes enrolls approximately 1,700 students.
About one third of Rhodes students go on to
graduateA graduate school is a school that awards advanced academic degrees with the general requirement that students must have earned a previous undergraduate degree...
or
professional schoolProfessional school may refer to:*Business school*Dental school*Journalism school*Law school*Library school*Medical school*Nursing school*Pharmacy school*Public policy school*Veterinary school...
soon after
graduationGraduation is the action of receiving or conferring an academic degree or the ceremony that is sometimes associated, where students become Graduates. Before the graduation, candidates are referred to as Graduands. The date of graduation is often called degree day. The graduation itself is also...
.
The acceptance rates of Rhodes alumni to
lawA law school is an institution specializing in legal education.- United States:...
and
business schoolA business school is a university-level institution that confers degrees in Business Administration. It teaches topics such as accounting, administration, finance, information systems, marketing, organizational behavior, public relations, strategy, human resource management, and quantitative...
s are around 95%, and the acceptance rate to
medical schoolA medical school is a tertiary educational institution—or part of such an institution—that teaches medicine.In addition to a medical degree program, some medical schools offer programs leading to a Master's Degree, Doctor of Philosophy , or other post-secondary education. Medical schools can also...
s is nearly twice the national average.
Rhodes College is featured in
Loren Pope'sLoren Pope was an American writer and independent college placement counselor.In 1965, Pope, a former newspaperman and education editor of The New York Times, founded the College Placement Bureau, one of the first independent college placement counseling services in the United States...
Colleges That Change LivesColleges That Change Lives is a college educational guide by Loren Pope. It was originally published in 1996, with a second edition in 2000, and a third edition in 2006...
and on the cover of the 2008 Princeton Review
Complete Book of Colleges.
Rhodes College traces its origin as a degree-granting institution to the Masonic University of Tennessee, founded in 1848 in
ClarksvilleClarksville is a city in and the county seat of Montgomery County, Tennessee, United States, and the fifth largest city in the state. The population was 103,455 at the 2000 census...
,
TennesseeTennessee is a state located in the Southeastern United States. According to the 2008 census, it has a population of 6,214,888, an increase of nearly 9.5% since 2000. Tennessee is the 14th fastest growing state in the US and is ranked 17th by population. It is ranked 36th by total land area. In...
.
The institution became Montgomery Masonic College in 1850 and later was renamed Stewart College in honor of its president, William M.
Rhodes College is a four-year,
privatePrivate schools, also known as independent schools, are not administered by local, state or national governments; thus, they retain the right to select their students and are funded in whole or in part by charging their students tuition, rather than relying on public funds...
, perennial top tier
liberal arts collegeLiberal arts colleges in the United States are undergraduate institutions of higher education in the United States. The Encyclopædia Britannica Concise offers the following definition of the liberal arts as a "college or university curriculum aimed at imparting general knowledge and developing...
located in
MemphisMemphis is a city in the southwest corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County. Memphis rises above the Mississippi River on the 4
th Chickasaw Bluff just south of the mouth of the Wolf River....
,
TennesseeTennessee is a state located in the Southeastern United States. According to the 2008 census, it has a population of 6,214,888, an increase of nearly 9.5% since 2000. Tennessee is the 14th fastest growing state in the US and is ranked 17th by population. It is ranked 36th by total land area. In...
, USA.
Founded in 1848, Rhodes enrolls approximately 1,700 students.
About one third of Rhodes students go on to
graduateA graduate school is a school that awards advanced academic degrees with the general requirement that students must have earned a previous undergraduate degree...
or
professional schoolProfessional school may refer to:*Business school*Dental school*Journalism school*Law school*Library school*Medical school*Nursing school*Pharmacy school*Public policy school*Veterinary school...
soon after
graduationGraduation is the action of receiving or conferring an academic degree or the ceremony that is sometimes associated, where students become Graduates. Before the graduation, candidates are referred to as Graduands. The date of graduation is often called degree day. The graduation itself is also...
.
The acceptance rates of Rhodes alumni to
lawA law school is an institution specializing in legal education.- United States:...
and
business schoolA business school is a university-level institution that confers degrees in Business Administration. It teaches topics such as accounting, administration, finance, information systems, marketing, organizational behavior, public relations, strategy, human resource management, and quantitative...
s are around 95%, and the acceptance rate to
medical schoolA medical school is a tertiary educational institution—or part of such an institution—that teaches medicine.In addition to a medical degree program, some medical schools offer programs leading to a Master's Degree, Doctor of Philosophy , or other post-secondary education. Medical schools can also...
s is nearly twice the national average.
Rhodes College is featured in
Loren Pope'sLoren Pope was an American writer and independent college placement counselor.In 1965, Pope, a former newspaperman and education editor of The New York Times, founded the College Placement Bureau, one of the first independent college placement counseling services in the United States...
Colleges That Change LivesColleges That Change Lives is a college educational guide by Loren Pope. It was originally published in 1996, with a second edition in 2000, and a third edition in 2006...
and on the cover of the 2008 Princeton Review
Complete Book of Colleges.
History
Rhodes College traces its origin as a degree-granting institution to the Masonic University of Tennessee, founded in 1848 in
ClarksvilleClarksville is a city in and the county seat of Montgomery County, Tennessee, United States, and the fifth largest city in the state. The population was 103,455 at the 2000 census...
,
TennesseeTennessee is a state located in the Southeastern United States. According to the 2008 census, it has a population of 6,214,888, an increase of nearly 9.5% since 2000. Tennessee is the 14th fastest growing state in the US and is ranked 17th by population. It is ranked 36th by total land area. In...
.
The institution became Montgomery Masonic College in 1850 and later was renamed Stewart College in honor of its president, William M. Stewart.
Under Stewart's leadership in 1855, control of the college passed from the
MasonsFreemasonry is a fraternal organisation that arose from obscure origins in the late 16th to early 17th century. Freemasonry now exists in various forms all over the world, with a membership estimated at around 5 million, including just under two million in the United States and around 480,000 in...
to the
Presbyterian ChurchThe Presbyterian Church or PC is a mainline Protestant Christian denomination in the United States. Part of the Reformed family of Protestantism, it is the largest Presbyterian denomination in the U.S...
.
In 1875, the college added an undergraduate School of Theology and became Southwestern Presbyterian University.
The School of Theology operated until 1917.
In 1925, president
Charles DiehlCharles Diehl was a French historian who was a native of Strasbourg. He was a leading authority on Byzantine art and history....
led the move to the present campus in
Memphis, TennesseeMemphis is a city in the southwest corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County. Memphis rises above the Mississippi River on the 4
th Chickasaw Bluff just south of the mouth of the Wolf River....
(the Clarksville campus would later become
Austin Peay State UniversityAustin Peay State University is an accredited public university located in Clarksville, Tennessee, and operated by the Tennessee Board of Regents.-History:Clarksville Lodge No. 89 sponsored the Montgomery County Male Academy...
). At that time, the college shortened its name to Southwestern. In 1945, the college adopted the name Southwestern at Memphis, to distinguish itself from other colleges and universities containing the name "Southwestern."
Finally, in 1984, the college's name was changed to Rhodes College to honor former college president, and Diehl's successor, Peyton Nalle Rhodes.
Since 1984, Rhodes has grown from a regionally recognized institution to a nationally ranked liberal arts college.
As enrollment has increased over the past twenty years, so has the proportion of students from outside Tennessee and the Southeast region.
Dr. James DaughdrillJames Harold Daughdrill, Jr. was the 18th president of Rhodes College. He was installed as president in 1973 and retired in 1999. He is the son of James Harold Daughdrill and Louisa Coffee Dozier. In 1964, he was the president of Kingston Mills, a $17 million carpet and textile business, but left...
served as president for over a quarter century.
His successor is the current president of Rhodes, Dr.
William E. TrouttWilliam E. Troutt is the 19th president of Rhodes College. He was installed as president on March 30, 1999 and inaugurated on April 14, 2000. Prior to serving as president of Rhodes, Troutt served as president of Belmont University from 1982-1999...
, who joined the college as its 19th president in 1999.
Campus
The campus covers a tract in midtown Memphis across from
Overton ParkOverton Park is a large, 342-acre public park in Midtown Memphis, Tennessee. The park grounds contain the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis Zoo, a 9-hole golf course, Memphis College of Art, Rainbow Lake, Veterans Plaza, Greensward, and other features...
and the
Memphis ZooThe Memphis Zoo, located in Midtown Memphis, Tennessee, is home to more than 3,500 animals representing over 500 different species. Created in April 1906, the zoo has been a major tenant of Overton Park for more than 100 years. The land currently designated to the Memphis Zoo was defined by the...
.
Often cited for its beauty, the campus design is notable for its stone
Gothic architectureGothic architecture is a style of architecture which flourished during the high and late medieval period. It evolved from Romanesque architecture and was succeeded by Renaissance architecture....
buildings, thirteen of which are currently listed on the
National Register of Historic PlacesThe National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...
.
The original buildings, including Palmer Hall (1925), Kennedy Hall (1925), and Robb and White dormitories (1925), were designed by Henry Hibbs in consultation with
Charles KlauderCharles Zeller Klauder was an American architect best known for his work on university buildings and campus designs, especially his Cathedral of Learning, the first educational skyscraper.-Biography:...
, who designed many buildings at
Princeton UniversityPrinceton University a private university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League and is considered one of the Colonial Colleges....
, alma mater of college president Charles Diehl.
Later buildings were designed by H. Clinton Parrent, a young associate of Hibbs who was present from the beginning.
Parrent's buildings include the Catherine Burrow Refectory (1957), which was an expansion of Hibbs' original dining hall.
Parrent also added Halliburton Tower (1962) to Palmer Hall.
The bell tower was named in honor of explorer
Richard HalliburtonRichard Halliburton was an American traveler, adventurer, and author. Best known nowadays for having swum the length of the Panama Canal and paying the lowest toll in its history—thirty-six cents—Halliburton was headline news for most of his brief career...
.
Rhodes maintains its Collegiate Gothic architecture. The latest example is the new Barret Library (2005), designed by the firm of Hanbury Evans Wright and Vlattas.
The campus was used as the setting of the movie
Making the GradeMaking the Grade is an American film which was released in 1984. It was directed by Dorian Walker and written by Charles Gale and Gene Quintano. It was filmed at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee.-Synopsis:...
.
Students and faculty
Rhodes enrolls 1664 undergraduate students from 46
statesA U.S. state is any one of 50 federated states of the United States of America that share sovereignty with the federal government . Because of this shared sovereignty, an American is a citizen both of the federal entity and of his or her state of domicile...
, the District of Columbia, and 13 foreign countries.
About 78% are Caucasian, 7% are
African AmericanAfrican Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the black populations of Africa. In the United States, the terms are generally used for Americans with at least partial Sub-Saharan African ancestry...
, 4.5% are
AsiaAsia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.6% of the earth's total surface area and with approximately 4 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population.Asia is traditionally defined as part of the...
n, 2% are
HispanicHispanic is a term that historically denoted a relationship to the ancient Hispania . During the modern era, it took on a more limited meaning, relating to the contemporary nation of Spain....
, 2% are international, and the ethnicity of about 5.5% is unknown.
Fifty-seven percent of students are female.
The student-to-faculty ratio is 10:1.
Some of the nearly 30 majors include
EconomicsEconomics is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"...
and Business Administration,
BiologyBiology is the natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy...
,
Political SciencePolitical science is a social science concerned with the theory and practice of politics and the description and analysis of political systems and political behavior. It is often described as the pragmatic application of the art and science of politics defined as "who gets what, when and how",...
,
EnglishEnglish is a West Germanic language that developed in England during the Anglo-Saxon era. As a result of the military, economic, scientific, political, and cultural influence of the British Empire during the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries, and of the United States since the mid 20th century,...
, and
International StudiesInternational studies can refer to:*International relations*International education...
.
Traditions, sports, and clubs
Rhodes is one of 62 colleges recently classified for both "Curricular Engagement" and "Outreach & Partnerships" in the "Community Engagement" category by
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of TeachingFounded by Andrew Carnegie in 1905 and chartered in 1906 by an act of the United States Congress, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching is an independent policy and research center, whose primary activities of research and writing have resulted in published reports on every level...
.
Approximately 80% of Rhodes students participate in some form of
community serviceCommunity service is an act by a person that benefits the local community. People become involved in community service for many reasons: for some, serving community is an altruistic act, for others it is a punishment....
by the time they graduate.
The curriculum includes a requirement that students participate in activities that broaden the connection between classroom experiences and the outside world.
The
mission statementA mission statement is a formal short written statement of the purpose of a company or organization. The mission statement should guide the actions of the organization, spell out its overall goal, provide a sense of direction, and guide decision-making...
of the college also reinforces community engagement, aspiring to "graduate students with...a compassion for others and the ability to translate academic study and personal concern into effective leadership and action in their communities and the world."
Central to the life of the college is its Honor Code, administered by students through the Honor Council.
Every student is required to sign the Code, which reads,
"As a member of the Rhodes College community, I pledge my full and steadfast support to the Honor System and agree neither to lie, cheat, nor steal and to report any such violation that I may witness."
Because of this, students enjoy a relationship of trust with their professors and benefits such as taking closed book final exams in the privacy of their own rooms.
The college mascot is the
lynxA lynx is any of four big-sized wild cats. All are members of the genus Lynx, but there is considerable confusion about the best way to classify felids at present, and some authorities classify them as part of the genus Felis...
and the school colors are red and black.
The athletic teams compete in the
Southern Collegiate Athletic ConferenceThe Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference , founded in 1962, is an athletic conference which competes in the NCAA's Division III. Member institutions are located in Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Texas...
in the
NCAAThe National Collegiate Athletic Association is a voluntary association of about 1,281 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletic programs of many colleges and universities in the United States and Canada...
's
Division IIIDivision III is a division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association of the United States.-Membership:The division consists of colleges and universities that choose not to offer athletically related financial aid to their student-athletes...
.
Rhodes counts five national championships to its credit - one awarded to the 1961 baseball team, and four awarded to its outstanding
mock trialA McTrial is a contrived or imitation trial. It is similar to a moot court, but mock trials simulate lower-court trials, while moot court simulates appellate court hearings. Attorneys preparing for a real trial might use a mock trial consisting of volunteers to test theories or experiment with each...
team.
Rites of Spring is a three day music festival in early April.
A major social event of the school year, it typically attracts several major bands from around the country.
Rites to Play has in recent years brought elementary-school-age children to the campus.
Rhodes students plan, organize, and execute a
carnivalCarnival is a festive season which occurs immediately before Lent; the main events are usually during January and February...
for the children, who are sponsored by community agencies and schools that partner with Rhodes.
The
J. Hal Daughdrill Award is given to the "Most Valuable Player" of the Lynx football team.
The award honors James Harold Daughdrill, Sr. (1903–1986), outstanding football player, athlete, business leader, and the father of Rhodes' eighteenth President.
The
Rebecca Rish Gay Award and
Walter E. Gay Award are given to the "Athletes of the Year" and are named after the parents of former President Daughdrill’s wife, Libby Daughdrill.
Greek system
There are a number of social fraternities and sororities at Rhodes. Approximately 50% of the students are members of Greek organizations. Fraternity and sorority lodges at Rhodes are not residential.
Sororities
(in order of establishment at Rhodes)
- Chi Omega
Chi Omega is a women's fraternity and the largest member of the National Panhellenic Conference. Chi Omega boasts 174 active collegiate chapters and hundreds of alumnae chapters. The fraternity's headquarters is located in Memphis, Tennessee.- History :Chi Omega was founded April 5, 1895 at the...
1922
- Alpha Omicron Pi
Alpha Omicron Pi is an international women's fraternity that was founded on January 2, 1897 at Barnard College on the campus of Columbia University in New York. Its founders were Stella George Stern Perry, Helen St. Clair Mullan, Elizabeth Heywood Wyman, and Jessie Wallace Hughan...
1925
- Kappa Delta
Kappa Delta was the first sorority founded at the State Female Normal School , in Farmville, Virginia. It is one of the "Farmville Four" sororities founded at the universities Kappa Delta (ΚΔ) was the first sorority founded at the State Female Normal School (now Longwood University), in Farmville,...
1925
- Delta Delta Delta
Delta Delta Delta , also known as Tri Delta, is an international collegiate women's fraternity founded on November 27, 1888. With 138 chapters in the United States and Canada it is one of the largest women's organizations in the world....
1931
- Alpha Kappa Alpha
Alpha Kappa Alpha is the first Greek-lettered sorority established and incorporated by African American college women. The sorority was founded on January 15, 1908, at Howard University in Washington, D.C., by a group of nine students, led by Ethel Hedgeman Lyle...
- Sigma Gamma Rho
Sigma Gamma Rho was founded on the campus of Butler University on November 12, 1922, by seven school teachers in Indianapolis, Indiana...
- Delta Sigma Theta
Delta Sigma Theta is a non-profit Greek-lettered sorority of college-educated women who perform public service and place emphasis on the African American community. Delta Sigma Theta was founded on January 13, 1913, at Howard University by twenty-two young women. Today, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority...
Fraternities
(in order of establishment at Rhodes)
- Pi Kappa Alpha
Pi Kappa Alpha International Fraternity is an international secret social Greek-letter college fraternity. It was founded at 47 West Range at the University of Virginia in the United States on Sunday evening, March 1 1868.-History:...
1878
- Alpha Tau Omega
ATΩ is an American Leadership fraternity that annually ranks among the top ten national fraternities for number of chapters, and total number of members. ATO has more than 250 active and inactive chapters with more than 200,000 members and more than 6,500 active undergraduate members...
- Sigma Alpha Epsilon
Sigma Alpha Epsilon is a North American Greek-letter social college fraternity. Founded at the University of Alabama in 1856, it is the only fraternity founded in the Antebellum South still in operation...
1882
- Kappa Sigma
ΚΣ is an international fraternity with currently 231 active chapters and 30 colonies in North America. There have been more than 245,000 initiates, of which more than 188,000 are living and more than 12,900 are undergraduates...
- Kappa Alpha Order
Kappa Alpha Order is a social fraternity and fraternal order. Kappa Alpha Order has 124 active chapters, 3 provisional chapters, and 2 commissions...
- Sigma Nu
Sigma Nu is an undergraduate social college fraternity with chapters in the United States and Canada. Sigma Nu was founded in 1869 by three cadets at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia...
1934
- Kappa Alpha Psi
Kappa Alpha Psi is a collegiate Greek-letter fraternity with a predominantly African American membership. Since the fraternity's founding on January 5, 1911 at Indiana University Bloomington, the fraternity has never limited membership based on color, creed or national origin...
Culture and Performing Arts
- Craig Brewer
Craig Brewer is an American film director and screenwriter.His 2005 movie Hustle & Flow won the Audience Award at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival and achieved commercial success, along with an Academy award for Best Original Song, "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp".- Career :Brewer's first film, The...
'91, film director and screenwriter
- Dixie Carter
Dixie Virginia Carter is an American actress. She was nominated for the Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for Desperate Housewives in 2007.-Early life:...
'62, Emmy-nominated Actor
- Carroll Cloar
Carroll Cloar was a nationally known 20th century painter born in Earle, Arkansas, who focused his work on surreal views of Southern U.S...
, Guggenheim Fellow and internationally recognized artist.
- George Hearn
George Hearn is an American actor and singer, primarily in Broadway musical theatre.-Early years:Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Hearn studied philosophy at Southwestern at Memphis, now Rhodes College before he embarked on a career in the theater, training for the stage with actress turned acting...
- two time Tony Award winning Actor and Singer
- Hilton McConnico
Joseph Hilton McConnico is a designer and artist who was born in Memphis, Tennessee in 1943 but has lived and worked in Paris since 1965. After working in fashion for such designers as Ted Lapidus and Yves St...
- film director
- Allison Miller
Allison Miller is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Michelle Benjamin on the NBC series Kings.-Early life:...
- Actress and singer
Scholars
- C. Lee Giles
Dr. C. Lee Giles is the David Reese Professor at the College of Information Sciences and Technology at the Pennsylvania State University. He is also Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Professor of Supply Chain and Information Systems, and Director of the Intelligent Systems Research...
, '68, David Reese Professor of Information Sciences and Technology, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Professor of Supply Chain and Information Systems, Pennsylvania State UniversityThe Pennsylvania State University is a state-related, land-grant, space grant public research university located in the University Park area and within State College and College Township in Pennsylvania, United States...
; Fellow of the ACM, IEEE and INNS
- Mark D. West
Mark D. West is a U.S. legal scholar and Nippon Life Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. He is widely published on the subject of Japanese law and the Japanese legal system, and is regarded as a leading American authority in these areas...
'89, University of MichiganThe University of Michigan, Ann Arbor is a public research university located in the state of Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university, the flagship campus of the University of Michigan, and one of the top public universities in the world...
Nippon Life Professor of Law; Director of the Academic Program for the Center for Japanese Studies
Authors
- Charlaine Harris
Charlaine Harris is a New York Times bestselling author who has been writing mysteries for over twenty years. She was born and raised in the Mississippi River Delta area of the United States. She now lives in southern Arkansas with her husband, and three children...
'73, Best-selling mystery writer
- John Boswell '67, author; Publisher, John Boswell Associates
- Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor
For other people named Peter Taylor, see Peter Taylor.Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor was a U.S. author and writer....
'39, award-winning author, 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction "A Summons to Memphis"
- Anne Howard Bailey
Anne Howard Bailey was an award winning American writer known particularly for her work as a screenwriter and opera librettist....
'45, television writer
- Sarah Lacy
Sarah Lacy is an American technology journalist and author.She co-hosts web video show Yahoo! Tech Ticker and is a columnist at TechCrunch and BusinessWeek....
'99, technology journalist
Government and Military
- Bill Alexander '57, served as Chief Deputy Majority Whip while representing eastern Arkansas
Arkansas is a state located in the southern region of the United States. Its name is an Algonquin name of the Quapaw Indians. Arkansas shares a border with six states, with its eastern border largely defined by the Mississippi River. Its diverse geography ranges from the mountainous regions of the...
in the United States House of RepresentativesThe United States House of Representatives, commonly referred to as the "House," is the lower house of the bicameral United States Congress, the upper house being the United States Senate. The composition and powers of the House and the Senate are established in Article One of the Constitution...
from 1969–1993.
- Abe Fortas
Abraham Fortas was a U.S. Supreme Court associate justice. He served in that role from October 4, 1965 until May 14, 1969, when he resigned under pressure.-Early years:...
'30, U.S. Supreme Court justice (1965–1969) & President Lyndon Johnson's nominee for Chief Justice of the United StatesThe Chief Justice of the United States is the head of the United States federal court system and the chief judge of the Supreme Court of the United States...
. He authored the opinion in the 1969 case Tinker v. Des Moines School District, accepting the rights of schoolchildren to wear black armbands to protest the Vietnam War.
- Claudia Kennedy
Claudia J. Kennedy is a retired lieutenant general in the United States Army. She is the first female to reach the rank of three-star general in the U.S. Army. She retired in 2000 after 31 years of military service.-Early life:...
'69, U.S. Army Lt. General and Army Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence. Gen. Kennedy is a member of the Military Intelligence Hall of FameThe Military Intelligence Hall of Fame is a Hall of Fame established by the Military Intelligence Corps of the United States Army to honor soldiers and civilians who have made exceptional contributions to Military Intelligence. The Hall is administered by the United States Army Intelligence Center...
, and the first woman to hold a three-star rank in the U.S. Army.
Administrators
- William E. Troutt
William E. Troutt is the 19th president of Rhodes College. He was installed as president on March 30, 1999 and inaugurated on April 14, 2000. Prior to serving as president of Rhodes, Troutt served as president of Belmont University from 1982-1999...
, President, former Chair of the American Council on Education and the National Commission on the Cost of Education and member of the Lincoln Commission on Study Abroad.
- Dave Wottle
David James Wottle is a former American athlete. He is the winner of the 800 meter run at the 1972 Summer Olympics. He is perhaps, however, best known for wearing a golf cap while running....
, Dean of Admissions, Olympic gold-medal winner.
Professors
- Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic and was one of the founders of New Criticism. He was also a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He received the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel for his novel All the King's Men and the Pulitzer Prize for...
, the Pulitzer PrizeThe Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by Hungarian-American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City....
winning author of All The King's MenAll the King's Men is a novel by Robert Penn Warren, first published in 1946. The novel's title is drawn from the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty...
began his teaching career at Rhodes in 1930.
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