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“This
award adds yet another to the many debts which I owe Emory for
what it’s meant to me in my life and in the lives of the
five generations in my family who have been students,” said
Miami trial lawyer Walter H. Beckham
Jr. ’41C. Beckham is professor emeritus at the
University of Miami law school. He has served in leadership positions
for the Greater Miami YMCA, the International Academy of Trial
Lawyers, the American Bar Association, and the National Judicial
College. A charter member of the Dean’s Council for Emory
College, he also has served as president of the Miami Area Alumni
Club.
“All
I can say is, we’ve come a long way, baby!” said Emory
Sports Hall of Famer and alumni trustee Robert
E. Chappell Jr. ’56Ox-’58B- ’68MBA,
who is perhaps best known around campus for Chappell Park, the
baseball field he gave in honor of his father and his two sons,
Brett E. Chappell ’87C and Theodore E. Chappell ’91Ox-’93C,
who played Emory baseball. Chappell retired as senior executive
vice president and chief investment officer of Metropolitan Life
Insurance Company in 1993. A member of the Oxford College Board
of Counselors and a past president of the Association of Emory
Alumni, he has served on the Board of Governors, the Board of
Visitors, and the Parent Program Athletic Committee.
“We
are an accumulation of our life’s experiences, and I believe
that my years here at Emory were absolutely formative and had
a very big part in allowing me to be what I am today,” said
Kenneth D. Cole ’76C,
who invested his life savings to start his shoe business in 1982.
Using advertisements known for their sense of humor and social
commitment, Cole has expanded his business internationally. He
has received numerous awards for his philanthropy, including the
Council on Foundations Humanitarian Leadership Award.
Emory
Trustee James L. Ferman Jr. ’65B,
president of Ferman Motor Car Company, and Cecelia
Davis Ferman ’65C both received medals. “Emory
has always been a set of contrasts and exciting events. Within
these four walls [of Glenn Memorial Auditorium], I have now heard
the esteemed author Shelby Foote and the twenty-two-year-old folk
singer Bob Dylan,” said James Ferman, who has held leadership
positions in the Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce, the Florida
Aquarium, and the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center. He also has
served on the the Board of Visitors, the Association of Emory
Alumni Board of Governors, and the Tampa Emory Club. “Thank
you, Emory,” said Cecelia Ferman. “My first debt of
gratitude goes to my parents, who borrowed the money to send me
to Emory, and I’m so glad they did.” She is a volunteer
and fund-raiser for Meals on Wheels and has served in leadership
positions for Girl Scouts of America, United Way of Greater Tampa,
and the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute Foundation.
Moved
to tears, Fleming L. Jolley ’43Ox-’47M
thanked his mother, “who started me to Emory in 1941”
and who was there to applaud when Professor Emeritus of Neurosurgery
Jolley accepted his Emory Medal. A fellow in the American College
of Surgeons and a member of the National Council of Medicine,
Jolley also has served as a member of the Oxford Board of Counselors,
Oxford Alumni Recruitment Network, and the Emory Club of Atlanta
Steering Committee. In what was the largest single gift to Oxford
from an alumnus, Jolley provided funds for the renovation of four
residential halls on the Oxford campus. 
“With
this award, I expect to get a lot more respect around the house,”
joked Margaret E. Parsons ’75MN-’85PhD,
associate dean of the School of Nursing from 1994 to 1998, who
delayed her retirement to serve as interim dean during the 1998—99
academic year. During her long career at Emory, Parsons received
a number of honors and awards, including the Outstanding Undergraduate
Faculty Award, the role of graduation marshal, and an “Honor
a Colleague” recognition from the Georgia Nurses’ Foundation.
“I
want first to remember my mother, who when I was a young girl,
always excused me from household chores so I could do homework
and read. The powerful message of this privilege has stayed with
me,” said Beverly Guy-Sheftall ’84PhD,
who has dedicated her life to “helping to make more visible
the richness and complexities of black womanhood.” Founding
director of the Women’s Research and Resource Center and
Anna Julia Cooper Professor of English and Women’s Studies
at Spelman College, Guy-Sheftall was co-editor of Sturdy Black
Bridges: Visions of Black Women in Literature, the first anthology
of black women’s literature published in the United States,
and founding co-editor of SAGE: A Scholarly Journal on Black Women.
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