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Alumni Profiles

Carolyn Shettlesworth McClurkan ′60

Community leader continues Rhodes tradition. »

Rachel Wright ’02

From Blues to Stax, Rachel Wright′s academic and professional career has shared a confluence with Memphis music. »

Dr. Sidney Strickland ′68

Dr. Sidney Strickland’s career path sounds a lot like the way some of his research studies begin: “You are really kind of led by the nose,” he explains. »

Martha Ellen Maxwell ′51

Southwestern classes of the 1950s knew Martha Ellen Maxwell ′51 as classmate and assistant to the dean of women. Many will be amazed to read of her huge impact on the arts in Memphis, Tennessee and the U.S. »