field, an indoor track, a soccer field, and a baseball field. The area between the building and the sports fields is designated Young-Wise Memorial Plaza and houses the Young Memorial and sculptures to honor alumni who died in Afghanistan. The underpass nearby, which connects the building to the main campus and runs under Harkrider Street, is the location of an interactive art exhibit by Christopher Janney titled Harmonic Fugue. Notable alumni and faculty Ashlie Atkinson: film, television, and stage actress Charles R. Attwood: pediatrician and author Douglas Blackmon: journalist and bureau chief with the Wall Street Journal; 2009 Pulitzer Prize winner Roby Brock: Media executive and host of Talk Business and Politics John Burkhalter: businessman, former chairman of the Arkansas Economic Development Commission and the Arkansas Highway Commission Sarah Caldwell: notable opera conductor; first female conductor of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City; winner in 1996 of the National Medal of Arts Natalie Canerday: actress; notable roles in Sling Blade and October Sky Hayes Carll: country singer-songwriter; Americana Music Award winner Clint Catalyst: writer, spoken-word performer, journalist Jay Dickey: former Congressman; author of the Dickey Amendment Delzie Demaree: Botanist and plant collector. Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs: Science historian Susan Dunn: opera singer Timothy Davis Fox: judge in the Sixth Judicial Circuit of the State of Arkansas Randy Goodrum: songwriter whose credits include "You Needed Me" Tim Griffin: Attorney General of Arkansas, U.S. Representative for the Second District of Arkansas, interim U.S. Attorney, Justice Department official, aide to Karl Rove Dana Falconberry: singer-songwriter Ann Die Hasselmo: president of Hendrix College 1992–2001 Doyle Overton Hickey: Army officer who served in World War I, World War II, and the Korean War Missy Irvin: adjunct professor of dance at Hendrix; current Republican member of Arkansas State Senate from Mountain View Rock F. Jones: president of Ohio Wesleyan University Benjamin Travis Laney: 33rd governor of Arkansas Craig Leipold: Owner of the NHL Minnesota Wild Derek Lowe: pharmaceutical researcher Jo Luck: former CEO of Heifer International, a world hunger organization Max McCalman: Author and cheese connoisseur Jay McDaniel: Professor of Religion, who is known in academic circles for process theology and ecological theology Wilbur D. Mills: former U.S. Representative for the Second District of Arkansas (1939–1977), Chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, played a large role in the creation of Medicare Jim Moore: Major League Baseball player Robert L. Moore: Jungian psychoanalyst, professor