Rhodes College is a private liberal arts college located in Memphis, Tennessee, United States. Affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (USA), Rhodes is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and enrolls approximately 2,000 students.
The campus sits on a 123-acre, wooded site in the heart of historic Midtown Memphis. Due to the campus' natural beauty and distinctive Collegiate Gothic architecture, The Princeton Review named Rhodes the #1 Most Beautiful College Campus in America in its 2017 edition of The Best 381 Colleges.
Additionally, Rhodes is one of only a handful of prominent liberal arts colleges in a major metropolitan area. This provides Rhodes students with unrivaled access to internships with local employers such as St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, FedEx, Merrill Lynch, the National Civil Rights Museum, the Memphis Zoo, and the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. As a result, in the 2017 edition of The Princeton Review's Colleges That Pay You Back, Rhodes ranked #16 for Best Schools for Internships.
Rhodes has been named America's #1 Service-Oriented College by Newsweek,and has been recognized by The Princeton Review, U.S. News, Fiske Guide to Colleges and Forbes. Rhodes is also included in Colleges That Change Lives and The Princeton Review's Colleges That Create Futures: 50 Schools That Launch Careers By Going Beyond the Classroom.
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History
Rhodes College was founded in 1848 in Clarksville, Tennessee as the Masonic University of Tennessee and was renamed Stewart College in 1850 in honor of its president, William M. Stewart. Under Stewart's leadership in 1855, control of the college passed to the Presbyterian Church.
In 1875, the college added an undergraduate School of Theology and became Southwestern Presbyterian University. Under the leadership of Dr. Joseph R. Wilson, father of President Woodrow Wilson, the School of Theology grew and operated until 1917.However, in the early 20th century the college had still not fully recovered from the Civil War and faced dwindling financial support and inconsistent enrollment. Hoping to reverse the institution's fortunes, the board of directors hired Charles E. Diehl, the pastor of Clarksville's First Presbyterian Church, to take over as president.
In order to revive the college, Diehl implemented a number of reforms: the admission of women in 1917, an honor code for students in 1918, and the recruitment of Oxford-trained scholars to lead the implementation of an Oxford-Cambridge style of education. Diehl's application of an Oxbridge-style tutorial system, in which students study certain subjects in individual sessions with their professors, allowed the college to join Harvard as the only two colleges in the United States then employing such a system. During Diehl's tenure as president, he would add more than a dozen Oxford-educated scholars to the faculty, and their style of teaching would form the foundation of the modern Rhodes curriculum.
However, President Diehl's most significant change to the college came in 1925, when he orchestrated the movement of Rhodes' campus from Clarksville to its present location in Memphis, Tennessee (the Clarksville campus later became Austin Peay State University). The move provided a much need influx in financial contributions and student enrollment, and, despite the Great Depression and World War II, the college began to grow. In 1945, the college adopted the name Southwestern at Memphis in order to distinguish itself from other colleges and universities containing the name "Southwestern."
Charles Diehl retired in 1948, and the Board of Trustees unanimously chose physics professor Dr. Payton N. Rhodes as his successor. During Rhodes' sixteen-year presidency the college admitted its first black students; added ten new buildings, including Burrow Library, Mallory Gymnasium, and the emblematic Halliburton Tower; increased enrollment from 600 to 900; founded a campus chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society; and grew the college's endowment to over $14 million dollars. In 1984, the Board of Trustees decided that name "Southwestern" needed to be retired, and the college's name was changed to Rhodes College to honor the man who had served the college for more than fifty years.
Since 1984, Rhodes has grown into a nationally ranked liberal arts and sciences college. Under the leadership of Dr. James Daughdrill (president from1973 to 1999) and Dr. William E. Troutt (president from 1999 to 2016), the college's physical expansion continued, and Rhodes now offers more than 50 majors, interdisciplinary majors, minors, and academic programs. Additionally, the school has built partnerships with numerous Memphis institutions to provide students with a network of research, service, and internships opportunities. Today, Rhodes has the largest, most academically talented, and diverse student body in its history. In July 2017, Dr. Marjorie Hass began her tenure as the 20th president of Rhodes College and is the college's first female president.
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Academics and reputation
The academic environment at Rhodes centers around small classes, faculty mentorship, and an emphasis on student research and writing. As such, the average class size is 14, and the college enjoys a 10:1 student-to-faculty ratio, with each class taught by an actual faculty member. In 2017, The Princeton Review ranked Rhodes #9 for Most Accessible Professors. Rhodes is featured perennially on the US News and Forbes lists of the Top 50 Liberal Arts Universities and has been hailed by Forbes as one of the Top 20 Colleges in the South.
Through 18 academic departments and 13 interdisciplinary programs, Rhodes offers more than 50 majors, interdisciplinary majors, minors, and academic programs. If students are unable to find a major that meets their specific interests, the college may allow them to design their own major that is better tailored to their goals. Although the college is primarily focused on undergraduate education, Rhodes also offers graduate degrees in Accounting and Urban Education.
At the core of the Rhodes academic experience is the Foundations Curriculum, which gives students greater freedom to follow their academic interests and aspirations while developing the critical-thinking and communication skills that are fundamental to a liberal arts education. It also requires students to connect their classroom experience to the real world through an internship, research, and/or study abroad opportunities. More than 400 different courses are offered to fulfill the Foundations course requirements.
Graduate School Placement & Postgraduate Scholarships
About one-third of Rhodes students go on to graduate or professional school. Rhodes is in the top 10% of all U.S. colleges for the percentage of students who earn Ph.D.s in the sciences and in the top 6% for psychology Ph.D.s. The acceptance rates of Rhodes alumni to law and business schools are around 95%, and the acceptance rate to medical schools is nearly twice the national average. Additionally, Rhodes' partnership with the George Washington University School of Medicine allows Rhodes students that meet certain criteria after their sophomore year to receive a guarantee of later acceptance to the George Washington University School of Medicine.
Rhodes has produced seven Rhodes Scholars, is named perennially as a "Top Producing Institution" for Fulbright Scholars, and boasts numerous Truman Scholars, Goldwater Scholars, and recipients of the Thomas J. Watson Fellowship.
Community Service
Newsweek named Rhodes the #1 service-minded school in the U.S., and Washington Monthly named Rhodes the top college in the country for the number of hours committed to service by the student body. More than 80 percent of Rhodes students are involved in some form of community service, and the college has the oldest collegiate chapter of Habitat for Humanity and the longest student-run soup kitchen in the country. Rhodes' Kinney Program provides students with a direct connection to service and social-action opportunities in Memphis by cultivating relationships with about 100 local partners. Additionally, the Bonner Scholars Program offers scholarships to up to 15 students per class who have a strong commitment to change-based service. Rhodes also offers Summer Service Fellowships that award academic credit to students working full-time with Memphis community organizations and non-profits.
The mission statement 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".
Internships and Research
In 2017, The Princeton Review ranked Rhodes #16 for Best Schools for Internships and #16 for Best Career Services. Students are encouraged take advantage of Rhodes' metropolitan backdrop to participate in off-campus internships and "service learning". They are also given the opportunity to participate in a variety of research programs, such as the Summer Plus program at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, the Rhodes/UT Neuroscience Fellowship, the Center for Outreach and Development of the Arts, the Mike Curb Institute for Music, the Shelby Foote Fellowship, and the Mayor's Urban Fellows Program.
Rhodes also helps students obtain internships across the country and overseas. As a part of one of the oldest and largest international relations undergraduate programs in the United States, Rhodes' Mertie W. Buckman International Internship Program provides funding for outstanding students majoring in International Studies to work abroad during the summer months. In addition to the work experience, Buckman interns are provided with a stipend to use for cultural enrichment while abroad. Past students have worked for the U.S. Department of Commerce in France and Croatia, the German Marshall Fund in Belgium and Poland, taught English through nonprofit organizations in Cambodia, and helped a U.S. firm set up operations in China. Additionally, the Political Science Department offers semester programs in Washington, D.C.
Study Abroad
In the Institute of International Education's Open Doors Report, Rhodes made the list of Top 35 Colleges in the United States for Students Who Study Abroad. Best Choice Schools.comincluded Rhodes in its 2014 list of the 45 Top Colleges to Study Abroad.
Mike Curb Institute for Music
The Mike Curb Institute for Music was founded in 2006 to foster awareness and understanding of the distinct musical traditions of Memphis and the South and to study the effect music has had on the region's culture, history, and economy. Through the areas of preservation, research, leadership, and civic responsibility, the Institute provides support and opportunities for students and faculty, in partnership with the community, to experience and celebrate what Mr. Curb calls the "Tennessee Music Miracle."
In addition to taking specially offered courses, students have the opportunity to work with the Curb Institute through its fellowships program. As Mike Curb Fellows, students can gain experience in public relations, marketing, video production, audio production, community engagement, and extensive research/writing projects.
The Audubon Sessions: An Evening at Elvis'
In March 1956, Elvis Presley purchased his first home--a four-bedroom ranch house at 1034 Audubon Drive in Memphis--with the money he earned off the royalties of "Heartbreak Hotel." He lived there for thirteen months with his parents and grandmother before they moved to Graceland. During this time, Elvis would make his iconic appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, record such hits as "Hound Dog" and "Don't Be Cruel," and begin his storied movie career. In 2006, Mike Curb purchased the home for Rhodes, with the idea that it would be used by the college as an extension of the Curb Institute. Curb Fellows now use the house for interviews, recording, and projects like The Audubon Sessions.
The Audubon Sessions is a student-produced house concert series that takes place at 1034 Audubon Drive. Guest artists are invited to the house to perform and discuss their careers and thoughts about music and life, especially in the context of Memphis and the region. Rhodes students produce, film, record, and edit the shows alongside professionals such as New School Media and producer/engineer Doug Easley, and partners such as the Levitt Shell and Stax Museum of American Soul Music. After 4 years as a web series, the show has now evolved into a program that launches nationally to public arts television stations through a collaboration with NECAT.
Over the last couple years the house has hosted concerts by Mississippi bluesman Bobby Rush, singer-songwriter and Memphis native Rosanne Cash, Southern roots chanteuse Valerie June, guitar great Bill Frisell, jazz giant Charles Lloyd, Memphis alt band Star and Micey, and Memphis rapper PreauXX.
To watch episodes, visit http://www.necatnetwork.org/music-city-arts/audubon-sessions/
The "Search" Course
First required for entering freshman in 1945, The Search for Values in the Light of Western History and Religion, known affectionately as "Search," is a two-year, intensive study of the literature, philosophy, religion, and history of the West from Gilgamesh to modern times. The course is a central facet of Rhodes' Foundations Curriculum and can be seen as the college's take on the Great Books Program. Although Search has evolved over its history, the course remains a rite of passage for all Rhodes students and is seen as "the defining academic experience at Rhodes," and "the soul of the college."
The 2016 Rhodes College Course Catalogue offers this description the Search course:
Throughout its sixty-six year history, Search has embodied the College's guiding concern for helping students to become men and women of purpose, to think critically and intelligently about their own moral views, and to approach the challenges of social and moral life sensitively and deliberately. Students are encouraged to engage texts directly and to confront the questions and issues they encounter through discussions with their peers, exploratory writing assignments, and ongoing personal reflection. Special emphasis is given to the development and cultivation of critical thinking and writing skills under the tutelage of a diverse faculty drawn from academic disciplines across the Humanities, Fine Arts, Natural Sciences, and Social Sciences.
Although the exact assignments vary year to year, in every class of the sequence students read from primary sources that span the millennia of recorded Western history and thought. The curriculum has included readings from: The Epic of Gilgamesh, most of the Bible, the Quran, Homer, Herodotus, Plato, Aristotle, Aristophanes, Sophocles, Thucydides, Euripides, Livy, Plutarch, Horace, Ovid, Lucretius, Seneca, Cicero, Augustine, Dante, Aquinas, Chaucer, Machiavelli, Petrarch, More, Luther, Shakespeare, Descartes, Locke, Milton, Voltaire, Hume, Rousseau, Montesquieu, Goethe, Swift, Burke, Adam Smith, Benjamin Franklin, Ricardo, John Stuart Mill, Kant, Marx, Emerson, Byron, Shelly, Wordsworth, Goethe, de Tocqueville, Nietzsche, Darwin, Huxley, Planck, and many more.
Rhodes students are required to take one class from either the Search course or the Life: Then and Now course ("Life") during each of their first three semesters at Rhodes (4 hours each for a total of 12 credit hours). As such, the course constitutes more than 10% of a student's total credits toward graduation.
Campus
The campus covers a 123 acre tract in Midtown, Memphis across from Overton Park and the Memphis Zoo. Often cited for its beauty, the campus design is notable for its stone Collegiate Gothic buildings, thirteen of which are currently listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Additionally, Rhodes is a certified Class IV Arboretum, the highest designation granted by the Tennessee Urban Forestry Council, and contains over 120 tree species and more than 1,500 individual trees. In 2017, The Princeton Review named Rhodes the #1 Most Beautiful College Campus in America in its edition of The Best 381 Colleges.
The architecture of Rhodes College is the legacy of President Charles Diehl. 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 Klauder, who designed many buildings at Princeton University, President Diehl's alma mater.
Every building on the Rhodes campus is built of the same three types of stone: the walls are sandstone from Arkansas, the roofs are slate from Vermont, and the door/window frames and decorative carvings are crafted from Indiana limestone. Additionally, each slate roof is built at a precise 52 degree angle and every structure (except for the visual arts building) has stained-glass windows suspended in leaded panes.
President Diehl was particularly concerned about ensuring unity and consistency of design. When the first buildings were being planned in the early 1920s, architect Henry Hibbs chose for the walls a uniquely colorful sandstone with a range of reds, yellows, and browns from a quarry near Bald Knob, Arkansas. To ensure a continuous supply, Rhodes purchased the quarry. After the state decided to build a highway through the quarry in the 1960s, Rhodes was forced to sell the property. Since then, the college has been able to continue the uniformity of its buildings by sourcing the sandstone for the college's new buildings from other quarries within a five-mile range of the original source.
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 140-foot (43 m) bell tower was named in honor of explorer Richard Halliburton. The Paul Barret, Jr. Library (2005) holds a collection of Halliburton's papers in addition to the complete papers of renowned novelist and historian, Shelby Foote.
Keen-eyed visitors to the Rhodes campus may also spot four limestone gargoyles hidden among the stones of the college's buildings. These likenesses of former college presidents Peyton Rhodes, James Daughdrill, and Bill Troutt, in addition to a tribute to former college first lady Carol Troutt, are tokens of gratitude added by the generations stonecutters who enjoyed employment from the college.
The campus was used as the setting of the movie Making the Grade.
Students and faculty
The Rhodes student body represents 46 states, the District of Columbia, and 43 foreign countries. Additionally, 20% are students of color, and 30% are multicultural and international students. The student-to-faculty ratio is 10:1 and the average class size is 14. Some of the college's approximately 50 majors and minors include International Studies, Economics, Computer Science, Commerce and Business, Biology, Political Science, and Political Economy. Over 95% of Rhodes' 224 faculty members hold the highest degree in their field, and no classes at the college are taught by teaching assistants.
Honor Code & Other Traditions
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 campus-wide community of trust and mutual respect. You'll find unlocked bikes and unattended backpacks all over campus, and professors trust students to proctor their own exams and write closed-book essays on their own time, often in the privacy of their own rooms.
The Seal of Rhodes College is located in the Cloister of Palmer Hall. Tradition holds that if a student steps on the seal, he or she will not graduate on time, if at all. The senior class finally gets a chance to cross the seal during their procession to Fisher Garden during Commencement.
Rites of Spring is Rhodes' annual three-day music festival in early April that typically attracts several major bands from around the country. Past performers include The Black Keys, Coolio, Old Crow Medicine Show, Grace Potter, and G-Easy. Rhodes' Rites to Play has in recent years brought elementary-school-age children to the campus. Rhodes students plan, organize, and execute a carnival for the children, who are sponsored by community agencies and schools that partner with Rhodes.
Athletics
The college's mascot is the lynx, and the school colors are cardinal and black.
The Lynx compete in NCAA Division III in the Southern Athletic Association. Prior to joining the SAA, Rhodes was one of the founding members of the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference. Men's sports include baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf, lacrosse, soccer, swimming, tennis and track & field; while women's sports include basketball, cross country, field hockey, golf, lacrosse, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, track & field and volleyball.
Rhodes has four team athletic national championships to its credit, with the baseball team earning a title in 1961 and the women's golf team earning three from 2014 to 2017.
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.
Rivalry with Sewanee
In 2012, Sports Illustrated reported that the annual football rivalry between Rhodes and Sewanee: The University of the South is the longest continuously running college football rivalry in the Southern United States:
The longest consecutively played college football game below the Mason-Dixon line (since 1899) has the manners and traditions of the South without all the excesses of big-time conferences.
The exchange of the Edmund Orgill Trophy was added to the series in 1954, and the prize takes the form of a large silver bowl that is engraved with the result of each year's game. The name honors the Memphis mayor that served on the boards of both colleges.
Rhodes currently leads the trophy series 32-27-1, and is tied with Sewanee in the overall series, with Rhodes winning thirteen of the last fifteen meetings.
Mock trial
With four national championships and eight national final round appearances, Rhodes's undergraduate mock trial program is one of the most prestigious in the country. The program was founded in 1986 by Professor Marcus Pohlmann. Rhodes has qualified to the American Mock Trial Association's National Championship tournament every year since its inception (a national record), with twenty-seven top ten finishes and over seventy All-American attorney and witness awards.
Buckman Hall houses a replica courtroom used by the teams for practicing. Every spring, Rhodes hosts one of the six AMTA Opening Round Championship tournaments in the Shelby County Courthouse in downtown Memphis. The program also hosts an informal invitational scrimmage tournament in Buckman Hall every autumn.
Greek system
There are a number of social fraternities and sororities at Rhodes. While approximately 50% of the students are members of Greek organizations, fraternity and sorority lodges at Rhodes are not residential, and most Greek events are open to the entire student body.
President Charles Diehl, with his usual thoroughness and concern for the overall appearance of the college, prescribed certain rules regarding the design of the fraternity and sorority lodges. Each features the same Arkansas sandstone walls, Vermont slate roofs, Indiana limestone trim, and stained glass windows as the rest of campus. Today, Rhodes' fraternity and sorority rows contain similar domestic-scale Gothic lodges featuring variations on the college's distinctive architecture.
Panhellenic Council
(in order of establishment at Rhodes)
- Chi Omega 1922
- Alpha Omicron Pi 1925
- Kappa Delta 1925
- Delta Delta Delta 1931
Interfraternity Council
(in order of establishment at Rhodes)
- Pi Kappa Alpha 1878
- Alpha Tau Omega 1881
- Kappa Sigma 1882
- Sigma Alpha Epsilon 1882
- Kappa Alpha Order 1887
- Sigma Nu 1934
National Pan-Hellenic Council
- Alpha Kappa Alpha
- Delta Sigma Theta
- Kappa Alpha Psi
- Sigma Gamma Rho
Notable people
Faculty and administrators
- Robert Penn Warren, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of All The King's Men, began his teaching career at Rhodes in 1930
- Allen Tate, American poet, essayist, social commentator, and Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress; recipient of the Bollingen Prize in poetry, elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters (Lecturer in English from 1934-36)
- Bobby Rush (musician) - Blues Hall of Famer, Grammy nominee, visiting scholar in the arts
- Susan Bies, Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
- Dave Wottle - Gold medalist in the 800 meter run at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich
- Michael Nelson - American political scientist, noted for his work on the Presidency, Southern Politics, and elections; Senior Contributing Editor and Book Editor of The Cook Political Report; recipient of the American Political Science Association (APSA) Richard E. Neustadt Award for the Outstanding book on the Presidency and Executive Politics and the V.O. Key Award for Outstanding Book on Southern Politics. (Currently, he is the Fulmer Professor of Political Science at Rhodes)
- Mark Behr, South African novelist
- Horace B. Davis, Marxian economist
- Andrew A. Michta, Former M. W. Buckman Distinguished Professor of International Studies
- Marcus Pohlmann, Political Scientist, founder and coach of the mock trial team
- Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi, Professor of religious studies, Islamic scholar
- William E. Troutt, 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
- James H. Daughdrill, Jr., 18th President of Rhodes College
Alumni
Academia
- David Alexander '53 - President of Rhodes College and Pomona College
- Julie Story Byerley, '92 - Pediatrician and Vice Dean for Education for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine
- Lindley Darden, '68 - Professor of Philosophy, University of Maryland
- James C. Dobbins, '71 - James H. Fairchild Professor of Religion, Oberlin College
- Clyde Lee Giles, '68 - David Reese Professor of Information Sciences and Technology, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, and Professor of Supply Chain and Information Systems, Pennsylvania State University
- Harry L. Swinney, '61 - Director of the Center for Nonlinear Dynamics at the University of Texas at Austin
- Mark D. West, '89 - University of Michigan Law School Dean, Nippon Life Professor of Law
- Carol Strickland, '68 - Art historian and author
- Van M. Savage, '96 - Professor of Biomathematics and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Los Angeles
Athletics
- Tom Mullady - New York Giants tight end, 1979 to 1984
Business
- Herman Veevis '30 - Senior Partner of Price Waterhouse & Co. 1961-1969; consultant to the Comptroller General of the United States
- John Ricker '38 - Former Chairman and CEO of the Continental Corp., one of the world's oldest and largest NYSE financial companies, from 1976-82
- John H. Bryan '58 - Former CEO of Sara Lee and member of the board of Goldman Sachs
- Vickie Roman Palmer '75 - Former Vice-president and Treasurer of Coca-Cola Enterprises
Government and military
- Thomas W. Gregory, 1883- U.S. Attorney General 1914-1919
- Thomas Jennings Bailey, 1884- Associate Justice of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia
- William Little Frierson, 1887 - Solicitor General of the United States 1920-21; Assistant U.S. Attorney General 1917-1920
- Richard Key Pittman, 1890 - U.S. Senator from Nevada 1913-40; Chairman, Senate Foreign Relations Committee
- Theodore M. Brantley - longest-serving Chief Justice of the Montana Supreme Court, serving for 23 years (1899-1922)
- Nathan Lynn Bachman, 1897 - U.S. Senator from Tennessee
- Julian P. Alexander 1906 - U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi 1918-21; Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi 1941-1953
- Abe Fortas '30 - U.S. Supreme Court justice (1965-1969), argued Gideon v. Wainwright before the Supreme Court and authored Tinker v. Des Moines School District for the Court
- Joseph Williams Vance, Jr. (1918-1942) - an officer in the United States Navy decorated with the Bronze Star Medal for action in the Battle of Makassar Strait (1942) during World War II, attended Southwestern from 1936 to 1938. He later gave his life during the Guadalcanal landings. The U.S. Navy destroyer USS Vance (DE-387), which saw duty in the latter part of World War II, was named in his honor
- Bill Alexander '57 - U.S. Congressman from Arkansas (1969-1993), Chief Deputy Majority Whip
- W.J. Michael Cody '58 - Attorney for Martin Luther King, Jr. during the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Strike, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee (1977-81), Attorney General of Tennessee (1984-88)
- Catherine Eagles '79 - U.S. federal judge for the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina
- Claudia J. Kennedy '69 - first woman to hold a three-star rank in the U.S. Army, Lieutenant General, Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, member of the Military Intelligence Hall of Fame
- Kelley Paul '85 - writer, former political consultant; wife of US Senator Rand Paul
- A. Marvin Quattlebaum, Jr. '86 - U.S. District Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina
- Amy Coney Barrett '94 - U.S. Circuit Court Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit; Former Diane and M.O. Miller Research Chair of Law at Notre Dame Law School
- Alison Lundergan Grimes '01 - Secretary of State of Kentucky
- Dustin Burrows '01 - Texas State Representative, District 83 (beginning January 13, 2015)
Literature and the arts
- Verner Moore White, 1884 - Noted landscape and portrait artist; completed commissions for three U.S. Presidents
- Dorothy Jordan '25 - Stage and film actress; played John Wayne's wife in The Searchers
- Albert Erskine '32 - Random House editor 1947-1993 for William Faulkner, Robert Penn Warren, James Michener, John O'Hara, Ralph Ellison, Eudora Welty
- Carroll Cloar '34- Guggenheim Fellow and artist; one of the South's most highly regarded and widely collected artists
- Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor '39 - Pulitzer Prize-winning author
- Anne Howard Bailey '45 - Emmy Award-winning television writer (Adams Chronicles, Bonanza, Lassie)
- Mignon Dunn '49 - Internationally acclaimed mezzo-soprano, longtime star of New York's Metropolitan Opera
- George Hearn '56 - two time Tony Award winning actor and singer; star of Broadway's Sunset Boulevard and La Cage aux Folles
- John Farris '58 - prolific writer of popular fiction and suspense novels, and stage and screen plays
- Hilton McConnico - artist, designer, and film director; the first American to have work permanently inducted into the Louvre's Decorative Arts collection
- Dixie Carter '62 - Broadway actress and Emmy-nominated television actress, starred in hit CBS sitcom Designing Women
- Charlaine Harris '73 - New York Times best selling writer of The Southern Vampire Mysteries series, which HBO later adapted for its series True Blood
- Sarah Lacy '99 - technology journalist; former columnist at Bloomberg BusinessWeek and TechCrunch; founder of PandoDaily
Other
- Margaret Polk '43 - sweetheart of the pilot of the Memphis Belle B-17, after whom the plane was named
- Cary Fowler '71, Hon. '11 - American agriculturalist and the former Executive Director of the Global Crop Diversity Trust
- J. Vernon McGee '30 - Former pastor of the Church of the Open Door in Los Angeles and founder of Thru the Bible Radio Network.
See also
- Rhodes Singers
References
External links
- Official website
- Rhodes College Athletics website
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