Calkins: For 100 years, Memphis and Rhodes have needed each other. That’s truer than ever today.
Charles Diehl, second from left, with degrees from Johns Hopkins and Princeton, was president of Southwestern Presbyterian University in Clarksville, Tennessee, at the start of World War I. Diehl changed the private university with the introduction of women, making it a co-ed institution. In 1925, he led the move of Southwestern to Memphis and personally supervised most of the details of the construction of the Memphis campus known today as Rhodes College. (Courtesy www.rhodes.edu)
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Geoff Calkins has been chronicling Memphis and Memphis sports for more than two decades. He is host of "The Geoff Calkins Show" from 9-11 a.m. M-F on 92.9 FM. Calkins has been named the best sports columnist in the country five times by the Associated Press sports editors, but still figures his best columns are about the people who make Memphis what it is.
Rhodes moved from Clarksville to Memphis in September 1925. A hundred years later, the college and the city still rely on each other to thrive.
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