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AGNES SGOTT

ALUMNAE QUARTERLY

NOVEMBER, 194 2-

Agnei

i Scott's Twelfth Alumnae

Day Presents

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Thursday, November 12

Presser Hall

3:30 P. M.

— "Women in the War"
Lieut. Mildred McFall, ex-'24, head of the Atlanta Office of Naval
Officer Procurement.

4:30 P.M.

— "The Impact of the War on Higher Education"
Dr. Goodrich White, president of Emory University.

5:30-6:45 P. M.-

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— Book Exhibit in the Library. This exhibit is arranged through the
courtesy of Miss Edna Hanley, and members of War Council will
act as hosts. Included in the exhibit will be war maps and war
books of special interest, in addition to other current publications.

c ,.. .,,, 5:30-6:45 P. M.-

— Exhibit of Paintings by Miss Louise Lewis, in the Museum Room
of the Library.

7:00 P. M.

—Dinner in Rebekah Scott Dining Room. Alumnae and their hus-
bands are guests of the college for this occasion. All reservations
must be made by Monday, Nov. 2, in order for the dietitians to
make the necessary arrangements. We ask your cooperation in
this matter.

8:30 P.M.

— "Our Destiny in Asia"

Hallett Abend, New York Times' Chief Far Eastern Correspondent
from 1926 to 1941. Admission, 55c.

10:00 P. M.

— Reception for guest speakers and campus visitors.
Murphey Candler Building; Lecture Association hosts.

Mark November 12 on your date pad now!

Remember to make dinner reservations

by November 2!

TABLE OF CONTENTS =

Alumnae Week-End Program Frontispiece THE COVER THIS MONTH

Cooperatives and Peace 2

„ „ . ,,, This month's cover is dedicated to the hundreds of Agnes

Elizabeth K. Lynch, 3 3 ' °

„ „. .. rl L, . Scott virls who arc crowding into the science labs in order

Dean Nannette Hopkins 4 ° °

Juliet (Cox) Coleman, '03 to prepare themselves for active participation in defense

"Come, Some Music" 5 industries; and to the multitude of alumnae who have

Raemond (Wilson) Craig, '30 already found their places in the research and testing labo-

"Red Clay to Mould": A Review 6 ratorics 0f our nation's great industrial plants. We dedicate

Emma Pope (Moss) Dieckmann, '13

this issue to the quest for knowledge! The girl on the cover
In the Service 7

is Bee Bradfield, '42, former editor of the Agnes Scott
From a Tower Window 9

News, and member of Mortar Board.
Concerning Ourselves 11

Christmas Gift List Back Cover 7~~~~~~""""~~""""""ZHZZZII^^^^^^^^^^^^^IZHZIZ^Z

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COOPERATIVES and PEACE

By Elizabeth K. Lynch, '3 3

Harold Fey's convincing pamphlet on "Cooperatives and
Peace" warns that the slim prospect that civilization has to
escape the chaos of another "Hundred Years' War" depends
to a considerable degree on what is done now inside democ-
racies to preserve and extend freedom. His warning is this:
"Unless the cooperative and similar movements can extend
the health-giving principle of democracy from the political
life deep into the economic habits of the country, a corrod-
ing industrial autocracy will destroy even political democ-
racy, and with it our hopes for peace."

Vice President Henry A. Wallace has called the Con-
sumer Cooperative Movement, the "dominant economic
idea of the future." This Movement has just recently come
into our southeastern states with a new headquarters near
Agnes Scott College. An Agnes Scott alumna has had the
privilege of working with that headquarters, which is
described later in this paper.

In his recent address before the Free World Congress,
Wallace depicts the present war as part of the millennial
and revolutionary march of the common people toward the
four freedoms for which the United Nations have taken
their stand.

"We who live in the United States," he said, "may think
there is nothing very revolutionary about freedom of relig-
ion, freedom of expression, and freedom from the fear of
secret police. But when we begin to think about the sig-
nificance of freedom from want for the average man, then
we know that the revolution of the past one hundred and
fifty years has not been completed, either here in the United
States or in any other nation in the world. We know that
this revolution cannot stop until freedom from want has
actually been attained."

It is with that kind of thought in mind that we of the
Cooperative Movement feel that while we are neither mak-
ing guns nor carrying them, we are none-the-less working
directly on a part oi this great "march of freedom" — a
part which is both essential and urgent.

The Cooperative Movement has been defined as an edu-
cational movement which employs economic action in an
effort to bring about certain desired social ends. Early this
year the New York Times described it as "one of the
world's most peaceful, most constructive economic reform
movements." Freedom from want for the average man is
cne of its major goals. It is building an economy of abun-
dance for all as opposed to the subsidy of scarcity which
benefits only the few; it is building a democratic economy
in which the average man is not the helpless victim of this
or that great cartel or monopoly but rather and in truth
is "master of his own destiny." Professor Paul H. Douglas
of the Universty of Chicago has described the movement
as "one of the relatively unnoticed marvels of the last
eighty years." Average people, a lot of little people —
housewives, farmers, workers in all trades, teachers, office
workers, students- — people with little capital, little savings
— pooling orders, sharing savings, playing the game of
give and take for the good of the group, buying coopera-
tively the goods and services they need from day to day,

'Campbelli foreword to Voorhls, Morale oi Democracy, p. l-

"have created a democracy with more content and more
power, with greater portent for the new world, than all
the high flown dreams of economists, politicians and world
masters."1

There are cooperatives in more than 3 5 countries. Among
them, before World War II, was arising an appreciable trade
across national boundaries which gave promise for a new
world order.

Most of the bases on which mankind has thus far organ-
ized his interests are devisive in nature: labor and capital;
Protestant, Jew, and Catholic; Democrat and Republican;
white and Negro; nation and nation — each striving for its
own usually worthy goals but often involving antagon-
isms, class and race distinctions, pride, bitterness, and war.
A basis for organization which is cohesive in nature must
be one which all men hold in common. One of the most
significant but relatively neglected of these lies in the fact
that all men are consumers — consumers of goods and serv-
ices. Organized purchasing power is the strongest economic
control in the world; it can be used to reshape national and
international economies so that they truly serve the needs
cf the peoples of the world.

Almost one hundred years ago, twenty-eight desperately-
poor and hungry weavers of the little English village of
Rochdale, failing in attempts to get increased wages,
formed the first consumers' cooperative. From their little
investment of 2 8 pounds and their discovery of a signifi-
cant set of business principles has grown Britain's biggest
business. Eight million families are members of consumer
cooperatives in England, Scotland, and Wales, the cradle
of cooperation. Their business last year totaled 3 billion
and a half dollars.

The idea rapidly spread to Europe and became an essen-
tial part of the vital democracy for which the Scandinavian
countries became famous. Until the present war broke
out, American school teachers, college professors, and other
fecial scientists, in their search for economic ideas that
might improve American democracy, turned by the thou-
sands to Scandinavia to see what cooperation and common
sense had achieved there. Sweden's consumer cooperatives
became famous for their trust busting. Although con-
trolling only 1 1 ' < of the business of the country, the
co-ops broke the grip of four great cartels. In Denmark,
cooperatives were an important part of the program in
which farm tenancy dropped from 42' < to 3r< . The Finns,
with 40' < of their business handled bv cooperatives, had
wiped out unemployment. In Norway too, cooperatives
were a part of a new pattern for peaceful, democratic
social change. The Scandinavian experiment in social
progress has been successful, but with that test tube tem-
porarily in the hands of a tyrant it is increasingly impor-
tant to carry it on where there is still some measure of
freedom and while there is vet time.

Without fanfare or publicity the Cooperative Movement
has made dramatic progress in the United States. In 1940
more than two million consumers purchased approximately
s600,000,000 worth of goods through their cooperatives.
Consumer co-ops organized bv farmers handled one sixth

'November, 1942

of all the farm supplies purchased in the United States last
year.

But most of this cooperative activity has taken place
outside our own Southland. In fact until a year or so ago
national cooperative leaders thought of our eleven south-
eastern states as the barren desert of the cooperative move-
ment. About three years ago a group of teachers, preach-
ers, and other social workers and social scientists met in
Greenville, S. C, to discuss cooperatives at a conference
paid for by the General Education Board. Out of this and
subsequent similar meetings was born the Southeastern
Cooperative Education Association. At first there were no
paid employees — no office — just a lot of hard work and
correspondence done by busy people holding down their
own full time jobs and trying to start a Cooperative Move-
ment for the South during their leisure time. Then in
January, 1941, a small grant was secured — enough to
employ two persons and open a small office (9' and 12' to
be exact!). The writer was privileged to be the first
employee. Charles M. Smith was employed a few months
later. As the work began to take shape the association
became the Southeastern Cooperative League with Mr.
Smith as the executive secretary and field representative and
myself as the assistant to the executive secretary and editor
of the monthly bulletin. The League became the official
regional member of the national Cooperative League
U.S.A. (Within a year the work grew so rapidly that the
office was moved three times and now it is about 36 bv
24'.

Backing this pioneer movement for social and economic
change are some of the South's leading social scientists
including Dr. Howard W. Odum, Director of the Institute
for Research in Social Science, University of North Caro-
lina, and Dr. Lee M. Brooks, professor of sociology of the
same university. Dr. Brooks, is president of the League;
Dr. Odum, a member of the Advisory Committee. Edward
Yeomans, Jr., assistant professor of education at West
Georgia College is secretary-treasurer and has taken an
outstanding part in the work of the movement.

The League set itself up as the clearing house and head-
quarters for information, promotion, and organization of
cooperatives in the eleven southeastern states. Carrollton,
Ga., was chosen for the League office for several reasons:
Mr. Yeoman's extension work with West Georgia College
tied in closely with League objectives; the League and West
Georgia College, together with several county, state and
federal agencies, has set up the Carroll County Cooperative
Project, as a demonstration of a variety of cooperative
activities appropriate for the average Southern rural com-
munity.

Already the League is in touch with more than 100 buy-
ing cooperatives scattered throughout the eleven southeast-
ern states. A group of active cooperatives in and around
Richmond, Virginia, comprise an important spearhead of
southern cooperative development.

An outline of the basic principles of consumer coopera-
tion and an illustration or two showing how they work
out in actual practice is probably appropriate at this point:

Stated briefly, the foundation stones of the Movement
are:

1. Open membership

2. One member, one vote

3. Limited interest on capital

4. Distribution of earnings on patronage

5. Cash trading at market price

6. Neutrality in religion and politics

7. Constant education

8. Continuous expansion
These Rochdale principles of consumer cooperation incor-
porate the principles of universality and democratic con-
trol; respect for men above money; service not profit as the
impelling motive of business; a sound belief in education as
the basis of democracy; and the equality and freedom that
grow out of the joint ownership of property and mutual
respect for the rights of individual beliefs in regard to
politics and religion.

Many different kinds of goods and services are handled
in many different kinds of cooperatives. There are medical
co-ops, book co-ops, campus co-ops, housing co-ops, recrea-
tion co-ops, insurance co-ops, cooperative filling stations,
grocery stores, buying clubs, savings and loan associations,
fertilizer plants, potato curing houses, hammer mills, and
dozens of other varieties. But the operating principles are
always the same — that is, if it is a true co-op. And of
course there are many which parade under the name coop-
erative and disregard one or more fundamental Rochdale
principles.

Briefly these Rochdale principles work out something
like this: Take for example a typical small community.
The price of food is high. Many cannot afford to buy the
essentials. Someone in the neighborhood has heard a school
professor talk about cooperatives. He calls into his home
some evening a dozen neighbors and together they study
literature about cooperative buying clubs — perhaps they
meet once a week for several weeks. They get the profes-
sor to come over and tell them how to begin. They begin
very simply; they just pool orders on soap, canned goods,
and a few other items where buying in case lots is much
cheaper than buying in smaller lots. They buy cases at the
local wholesale or send for Co-op Label goods if freight
rates do not prohibit. When the order arrives they meet
again, each picks out his own individual order and they
have another study-and-discussion session on cooperatives.
Other neighbors hear of the plan and join in. The volume
of business and interest grows and they gain experience in
cooperative management before the amounts and risks are
large. Soon, however the wholesale orders overflow the lead-
er's back porch shelves and they are ready to open a small
store.

The big new chain store in the community has given a
small independent home grocer some tough sledding and on
top of that the grocer's customers are so in debt to him
that he is having it doubly hard. So the buying club group
offers to buy the independent grocer's store and to hire
him as their manager. He agrees. (In one specific case
similar to this general illustration, the grocer said after two
or three years under the new plan that he wouldn't go back
to the other way for anything because under the co-op
plan his income by salary from the co-op is steadier, surer,
and higher, and he likes having his customers feel it is
really their store.) To buy the store, each member puts up
as many $10 shares (up to the limit of 25) as he can. Yet,
no matter how many shares he has he still has just one
vote. Members elect a board of directors and vote on all
policies governing the store. The directors hire the man-
ager. The manager keeps account of each member's pur-
chases. Prices are the same as elsewhere. No credit is
allowed. (A cooperative credit union organized separately
among the same members takes care of the credit needs.)
At the end of the month after all the bills and the man-
ager's salary have been paid, the surplus is divided thus:
interest on shares is paid at the "going rate" (this year
about 3%); a reserve fund and an educational fund are
set aside; the rest usually goes back to the customer-owners
— to each in proportion to the amount he spent in the

The AGNES SCOTT ALUMNAE QUARTERLY

store. Members may, however, vote to do anything they
wish with this money. Sometimes they use it to build a
community recreation pavilion, to secure a community
nurse or clinic or whatever is needed. Often they put at
least part of the surplus back into stock to strengthen the
co-op, especially during periods of economic crisis.

Membership in the store is open to everyone — regardless
of race, creed, or political belief. No one is too poor to
join, for a non-member may receive patronage dividends
if he will let them accumulate in his account until they
amount to a share. Members and non-members alike trade
at the store and pay the same prices, but only members
can vote on policies.

Most Agnes Scott alumnae come from families where a
few dollars rebate on the monthly grocery bill would not
loom very important. And they aren't important in them-
selves— for the savings to each individual are as nothing
compared to the tremendous social, ethical, moral and
religious implications of the Movement. The Movement in
effect applies many of the principles of the Sermon on the
Mount to everyday business affairs. Its wide implications
tend to dull the causes of strife, greed, poverty, and war.
They are only hinted at in this paper but are adequately
treated in several 5 and 10 cent pamphlets available at the
Carrollton office.

But all these higher ideals and larger potentialities of the
Cooperative Movement will not and cannot be realized
until hundreds more intelligent persons, like Agnes Scott
alumnae, begin to acquaint themselves with the Movement
and to join the co-ops in their communities or help start
new ones. The Movement depends for its life and growth
on busy people with other jobs who will go to a few night
meetings to help with neighborhood co-ops.

Consumer cooperatives as a way toward a saner world
order have been officially endorsed by the National Edu-
cation Association, the Federal Council of Churches, the
National Catholic Rural Life Conference, the Central
Council of American Rabbis, the American Federation of
Labor, the Congress of Industrial Organization, the Grange,
the Farm Bureau Federation, and the National Farmers
Union.

One of the most widely developed varieties of consumer
cooperatives in the South is the credit union — a coopera-
tive savings and loan association operating on the same
Rochdale principles. A philanthropist, interested especially

in credit unions, gave the organization of these co-ops a
head start over others in this country. There are 10,000
of them in the United States. Now the philanthropist's
fund is exhausted and the credit unions support their own
state and national headquarters for education and promo-
tion. Because the Florida Credit Union League seemed to
need my particular training more just now than did the
League at Carrollton, I have recently transferred to Jack-
sonville, Fla., to accept the position of Managing Director
of the state credit union league. There are nearly 200 credit
unions in Florida. My job is to assist them in rendering
best possible services to their members and to organize as
many new credit unions as time allows. The estimated
need is for about 2,000 credit unions in the State. But the
story of credit unions is another whole story by itself. It
will have to wait for another time — or rather, you may
read part of it for yourself in the Readers' Digest of May,
1942, under the title, "Three Million Amateur Bankers."

At any rate I prefer to close this paper now with a few
further excerpts from Vice President Wallace's recent ad-
dress on "A Price for Victory", which bear directly on
the problem before the Cooperative Movement in the
South and throughout the world:

"Yes, and when the time of peace comes, the citizen
will again have a duty, the supreme duty of sacrificing the
lesser interest for the greater interest of the general welfare
. . . There can be no privileged peoples . . . And we cannot
perpetuate economic warfare without planting the seeds of
military warfare. We must use our power at the peace
table to build an economic peace that is just, charitable
and enduring . . . International cartels that serve American
greed and the German will to power must go . . . With
international monopoly pools under control it will be pos-
sible for inventions to serve all the people instead of only
the few . . .

"Some have spoken of the 'American Century'. I say
that the century on which we are entering — the century
which will come of this war — can be and must be the
century of the common man. Perhaps it will be America's
opportunity to suggest the freedoms and duties by which
the common man must live. Everywhere the common
man must learn to build his own industries with his own
hands in a practical fashion. The methods of the nineteenth
century will not work in the people's century which is
now about to begin."

DEAN NANETTE HOPKINS

(In Memoriam— Dec. 24, 1860 -Oct. 29, 1938)

Juliet (Cox) Coleman, Class Poet, 1903

Thrice happy those whose mem'ries hold in store

A treasure neither moth nor rust impaid,

A spirit-treasure of the richest ore

From hers — the golden hearted soul of prayer —

Whose royal faith girds ours these crises-days,

Whose radiant hope will light us to the end,

Whose love, remembered, fills our hearts with praise

That God should give to us so dear a friend —

For such a one to keep her memory green,

We would through coming years her torch lift high,

As beacon to the House — Beyond — Unseen —

That stands, eternal, in Heaven's sun-lit sky —

So, with true reverence, may we raise such spires,

To kindle faith — her faith — in holy fires.

L^ome, ^ome fy/udic. L^ome, the rZecorderd.

By Raemond (Wilson) Craig, '30

One day several years ago as I was walking through the
gardens of the Huntington Library, I heard the sounds
of plaintive and bewitching music. It was unlike any
music I had ever heard before, a little like a flute, but
sweeter and less shrill. Following the sounds, I came upon
three players sitting on a marble bench under a rose arbor.
There was a music-book open on a wooden bench before
them, and each player held to his
lips a wooden pipe. The pipes were
similar in design but each was a
different size; and as the players
blew upon them, there came forth
the close, strange harmony of an
enchanting melody. The players I
recognized as visiting readers at the
Library. When their music stop-
ped, I spoke and asked them about
the pipes and the enchanting little
tune. The tune, they said, was
Thomas Morley's music for Shake-
speare's "It Was a Lover and His
Lass," and the pipes were recorders,
instruments popular in England
even before Shakespeare's time.

In this delightful way was I first
introduced to the recorder, which
has since become my favorite hob-
by. It was many months after I
heard the strains of the plaintive
little tune floating through the
Huntington rose arbor before I
actually owned a recorder and
learned to play it. But from that
day my interest in it grew and I
set about finding out its history.

The recorder is a member of the
Apple or end-blown flute family, to
which the flagelot and common pen-

nywhistle also belong. It is often called the English flute to
distinguish it from the German or cross-blown flute. The
recorder was apparently of English origin, though the
details of its early history are still obscure. The earliest
English illustration of the recorder is found in a twelfth-
century Psalter now in the University Library, Glasgow.
Other illustrations appear in the Ormesby Psalter in the
Bodleian Library and among the choir-stall carvings in
Chichester Cathedral, both of the thirteenth century. In
the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries its peculiar
name, "recorder," appears. This was probably taken from
the similarity of its sound to the low warbling of a bird,
called "recording." But as the idea underlying the world is
that of repeating or recalling, it may refer to the facility
with which this pipe repeats in an upper octave the notes
of the lower.

In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries recorders were
made in various sizes, as many as six or eight. Musical
gentlefolk kept sets or "consorts" of recorders for use by
their household musicians. Henry VIII, who himself
played the recorder, left at his death seventy-five recorders

Rae and Hardin Craig

made of boxwood, walnut, and ivory. One especially fine

set is thus described:

Item, a case couvred with crimson vellat havinge
locke and all other garnishments to the
same of Silver gilte with viii Recorders
of Ivorie in the same case, the two bases
garnished with silver and guilte.

At the funeral of Queen Elizabeth
seven recorder players were allowed
mourning, five of them Venetians,
one a Frenchman, and the other an
Englishman.

In English literature of the six-
teenth and seventeenth centuries
the recorder is frequently men-
tioned. The most famous example
is found in the dialogue between
Hamlet and Guildenstern:

Hamlet. O! the recorders: let me
see one . . .
Will you play upon this
pipe?

Guihlcrstern. My lord, I cannot.

Hamlet. 'Tis as easy as lying; gov-
ern these ventages with
your fingers and thumb,
give it breath with your
mouth, and it will dis-
course most eloquent
music . . .

And Pepys found the recorder so
pleasing an instrument that he en-
gaged Thomas Greeting, a well-
known Restoration musician, to
teach his wife to play duets with
him. In his Diary for April 8,
1668, he writes:

. . . and thence I to Drubleby's and there did talk
a great deal about pipes; and did buy a recorder,
which I do intend to learn to play on, the sound
of it being, of all sounds in the world, most pleas-
ing to me.

A further entry tells us how, when at home, he applied
himself "to the fingering of my Recorder, and getting of
the Scale of Musique without Book," a process which he
considered troublesome but necessary.

Although the recorder was widely used in ensemble play-
ing in the sixteenth century, there was little music written
exclusively for it until after the middle of the seventeenth
century. In the eighteenth century it found a recognized
place in the orchestra and Bach and Handel used it freely.
Both the second and fourth Brandenburg Concertos use
the recorder. There is, moreover, a considerable literature
for the recorder itself including four sonatas by Handel
and six by Purcell. Mozart and Gluck had a place for it
in their works.

(Continued on Page 25)

"RED CLAY TO MOLD": A REVIEW

By Emma Pope (Moss) Dieckmann, '13

Between warm red covers that are as satisfying to the
eye as the red soil of Georgia to the Georgia born, Virginia
Newton has published her first book, a book of poems
entitled "Red Clay to Mould". The title suggests the pat-
tern and the pervading theme of the book "Behold, as the
clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in mine hand . . .",
and with her clay the experiences of her own life, Virginia
has turned from her wheel a beautiful and sensitive volume
that all who love poetry will enjoy.

Virginia graduated from Agnes Scott in 1919 with a
major in history, but with a great appreciation of her work
in English, so it was no surprise to those who knew her
to hear, in 1924, that she had won her M.A. degree at
Columbia University in English. Since that time she has
grown steadily in her work, having taught English for
eight years in Alabama College, and for four years in Bel-
haven College in Mississippi. She has done additional grad-
uate work at the University of Georgia, the University of
California, the State University of Iowa, and the Bread
Loaf School of English in Vermont. Now she comes home
to gather together for us her impressions of her life in
Georgia, and to give beautiful expression to many thoughts
and feelings that all who know and love Georgia will
respond to immediately, and all readers everywhere will
appreciate. The appeal of Virginia's poetry is so human
and so tender, and so closely touches the common experi-
ences of all readers that it transcends any bounds of lo-
cality. Although it does not appear first in the book, "The
Georgia Road" is a good introduction:

The Georgia road winds through the green

From blue ridge to the sea,

From purple mountains piercing mist

To peaks that mightily

Break far upon our southern sand,

And thunder kinship there

With seas and lands that rise and fall,

Obedient everywhere.

And Georgia's green stirs in the wind

From blue ridge to the sea,

From laurel on the mountain slope

To pines that loftily

Gaze deep into our southern skies,

And whisper kinship there

With all deep-rooted growing things

Aspiring everywhere.

Some readers may wonder whether too much has been
said of Virginia's native city of Athens in the book, but
a second glance at the poems that mention that fine old
town will quiet the thought.

"Where is Athens?" you ask. And I answer,
"In the rolling red hill lands of Georgia
She lifts toward the bountiful heavens
What of beauty through years she has mastered."

And as the poem goes on to suggest the far corners of the
earth where the children of Athens have gone in their work,
we find

To make a fair blueprint of Athens
Is task for the Master Surveyor.
My lines only trace very simply
Some of the truths I have seen here.
Is not this something that all of us, no matter where our

Athens, can claim as a part of our own feeling? And so
it is with all the poems. They are so closely drawn from
the love of familiar things and the experiences of such daily
life as many lead that they call forth a warm response
from all who love the beautiful expression that a poet can
give to one's own feelings.

The material of the book is varied, as are the verse
forms. Lines from the poem that lends its title to the
book say

Everywhere is color— in the flow
Of Indian copper where Oconee cuts
Her pathway, willow-bound, through ruddy hills,
And in the flash of white embowered in green
When dogwood breaks gray winter's tyranny
Amid a clump of pines, or in the fields
The leafy cotton lifts fresh blooms or bolls
Or cool magnolia boughs in summer's warmth
Thrust ivory blossoms through the smooth thick green
Where sunshine plays on glistening surfaces.
"Everywhere is color" — now the happy, now the sad, ex-
perience of childhood, and of the older reflective age, the
sobering touch where needed, and the flash of happier
mood. Variety, both of imagery and of feeling, to which
appropriate verse form gives expression makes the volume
one that is interesting in character.

If you, dear reader, happened to be a Georgia child, were
you not told that the puffing train engines said "Black and
dusty, going to 'Gusty"? Then you will like "On the
Way":

"Black and dusty, going to 'Gusty' "
Children used to play.
The tracks had spanned the wilderness

Long before their day.
Horse-cars, wreck in pitchy dark

Had passed in history
Before they boarded their rope swing

Hung from the shady tree.
But never were train passengers

More airy and more gay
Than youngsters flying with the breeze
On their singing way.

Of poems that are more serious in mood this is typical:
"Listen! The Wind"

Some souls flash past, I think,

On strong, unearthly wings,

So far above our common ground

Their swift flight sings.

Bearing a load of crushing weight,

Steady and poised and free,

They soar above the treacherous storms

That haunt their heavenly sea.

Oh, beautiful the wings wide-spread,

The passage swift and high,

Flashes of eternity

Passing in our sky!
"Red Clay to Mould", in Virginia Newton's hands,
becomes a beautiful and varied presentation that represents
a fine appreciation of life and of its expression. May the
sale of the volume carry it into the lives of many readers.
(Red Clay to Mould, by Virginia Newton. Published
by McGregor Press. Price $2.00.)

THE SERVICE

Lieut. Mildred McFall, ex-'24, of
Atlanta, has the distinction of being
the first person in the Sixth Naval
District to receive a Waves commis-
sion, and is now head of the Office of
Naval Officer Procurement, which was
set up in Atlanta September 10. Lieu-
tenant McFall attended Agnes Scott
for one year, graduated at the Univer-
sity of Texas, got her Masters at Co-
lumbia, and studied French at the
Sorbonne and at the University of
Bescancon. She has been professor of
French and Spanish at North Fulton
High School in Atlanta for the last
several years.

Lieut. McFall's particular task at
the moment is judging the hundreds
of applications received by the Officer
Procurement office, and deciding
which should be interviewed as pos-
sible petty officers. The ranks of officer
candidates have already been filled.

Catherine (Happoldt) Jepson, '3 3,
and Martha Eskridge, '33, both mem-
bers of the same class and both em-
ployed in personnel work in retail
stores, were inducted into the WAACS
on the same day.

"Happy" (Happoldt) Jepson fin-
ished Agnes Scott with a major in
physics and worked at Retail Credit
in Atlanta for one year before enroll-
ing at Prince School of Retailing in
Boston, Mass. After getting her M.S.
there, she worked in New York City
and Newark before returning to At-
lanta to become head of training non-
selling groups in Rich's, Atlanta's
largest department store. Successfully
combining a career with matrimony,
she continued her work even after
marrying Jimmy Jepson, who had been
a popular male "member" of Black-
friars at Agnes Scott. Jimmy joined
the Canadian Air Corps at the begin-
ning of the war and was reported lost
in action in 1941. Happy is deter-
mined to do her part in finishing the
job before us. She is now First Officer
Jepson, a wearer of one of the first
gold bars given out at the Fort Des
Moines training school.

We quote from a recent letter:
"Now that exams are over and we
have our beautiful gold bars, I can
relax for a second and tell you some-
thing about it. . . Our program has
been most strenuous and Colonel Faith
tells us it will be more so as we go

on, though we hardly see how this is
possible. In spite of the hard work,
it has been one of the most exciting
two months in my life. The place is
filled with interesting girls. In our
one company alone we have several
prominent lawyers, one president of
the Bar Association, Women's Divi-
sion, in Washington, D. O, General
Marshall's niece, General McArthur's
cousin, and quite a few prominent
business women. Those of us who
graduated last week (September 14)
have temporary assignments here for
a couple of weeks so that we may get
further training. We work half day
and go to classes the other half. I am
assigned as adjutant for the academic
battalion. It's a nice job with much
honor attached, but I believe I would
rather be out on the drill field with
troops as a company commander! Mrs.
Hobby comes out almost every other
week. She has talked to our company
on several occasions and we think she
is simply grand. I know there are
some outsiders who feel she has been
tied too closely to political set-up, but
she really does a good job on this. All
the girls feel that above all else every-
thing here is fair and without political
influence."

Martha Eskridge also attended the
Prince School, spent a year at Lord
and Taylor's in New York, was per-
sonnel manager for Ivy's in Charlotte
for several years, and recently moved
back to Shelby, N. C, to make her
home with her mother. Martha went
up to Des Moines with the only other

Eugenia Bridges

North Carolina candidate accepted at
that time.

Six Agnes Scott girls were among
the Georgia group of 3 1 which was
accepted for the WAVES in October.

Eugenia Bridges, '40; Lulu Croft,
ex-'3 8; Lil Croft, ex-'3 8; Eloise Estes,
'3 8, Mary McOuown, '42, (all of De-
catur), and Sybil Grant, '34, of At-
lanta, left October 6 for training at
Smith College.

A recent letter from Eugenia to the
alumnae secretary is quoted in part:

"Life in the Navy is exciting, in-
teresting, stimulating! It really keeps
one constantly alert and wide awake!
To show you what I mean, this is a
rough idea of our daily schedule:

Reveille 063 5 (6:3 5 a. m.)

Breakfast 0715

Study 0800-0935

Classes 0940-12 5 5

Lunch 1300

Drill and

Athletics 1410-1610

Class 1615-1700

Dinner 1800

Study 2050-2155

Lights out 2200

"At the end of a day like this the
double decker bed looks like heaven
to us at 2200 (10:00 p. m. to you
landlubbers!). . . My roommates are
from different sections of the coun-
try, and it has been quite interesting
to discuss our various differences in
speech, clothes, and customs. One girl
hails from Montana, one from Massa-
chusetts and one from Tennessee.
There are 900 girls here studying, each
hoping to rise above the status "Ap-
prentice Seaman" to "Midshipman."
Within four weeks we must become
thoroughly "indoctrinated," and at
the present time I am trying to learn
as much as possible about naval his-
tory, organization of the Navy, per-
sonnel of the Navy, types of ships and
aircraft, and naval strategy, as well
as naval customs, regulations and tra-
ditions. This is also a communications
school; and if we are good enough
these first four weeks, we are made
midshipmen and begin our communi-
cations work here. This promises to
be fascinating. This course will last
three months, after which time all
who deserve commissions will become
Ensigns, United States Naval Reserve.
Sounds wonderful, doesn't it? ... \

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The AGNES SCOTT ALUMNAE QUARTERLY

know all women are interested in
clothes, so I just have to describe our
uniforms. They are very tailored, beau-
tifully cut blue serge. When we be-
come officers we may wear the gold
buttons as well as the insignia of our
rank. We really get a thrill out of our
navy shirt, black tie, skirt, blouse,
topcoat and hat. With these we wear
navy regulation beige cotton lisle hose
and plain black oxfords.

"However, such things as uniforms
become relatively unimportant to us
when we seriously consider our reason
for being here. More and more we are
impressed with the vital need for
trained personnel in the Navy, and
we feel it our duty to do our best
while in training at this school. . .
Within a week's time each of us seems
to have acquired the 'Navy spirit,' and
it is sometimes hard to remember when
we were not part of the Women's Re-
serve. It is important that we do our
work well as apprentice seamen, mid-
shipmen, and commissioned officers
while we are part of the Women's Re-
serve, but it is also very important
that each of you does all you can in
the various activities concerned "with
our defense efforts. We must work to-
gether in America, and the women are
just as important as the men if we
are to be victorious. Make your aim
the same as that of each of us and the
United States Navy — '. . . to uphold
national policies and interests and to
guard the United States and its ccnti-
nental and overseas possessions.' You
do your part wherever you are, and we
in the Women's Reserve will do ours
to the best of our ability."

Eugenia was a very active member
of Blackfriars while at Agnes Scott
and taught dramatics at the Univer-
sity Evening School between gradua-
tion and enlistment in the Navy. She
has frequently taken part in the Agnes
Scott College radio programs.

Mary McQuown majored in history
and economics while at Agnes Scott.

Sybil Grant was a Latin major and a
Phi Beta Kappa. She has taught in the
Atlanta schools since her graduation
in 1934. The Croft twins did not
finish at Agnes Scott, but were honor
students the two years they were here.
They are the daughters of Anne (Mor-
row) Croft, 1905 from Institute. Lil
has been working in Washington as a
statistician; Lulu has been in the au-
diting department of Southern Bell.

Helen Respcss, '3 0, joined the Army
Nurses Corps the first of July and
was appointed assistant to the superin-
tendent of nurses in the Seventh Serv-
ice Command, Omaha, Nebraska. For
six weeks in July and August Helen

was at Camp Crowder, Missouri, ob-
serving and learning the so-called
"paper work." In September she spent
another six weeks at Fort Riley, Kan-
sas, doing the same thing. HeLn ex-
pects to go overseas with the Corps
sometime during the winter.

Essie (Roberts) Dupre, '14, chair-
man of the placement department of
the Atlanta Civilian Defense Volun-
teer Office, is adding more medals to
her string with her splendid work in
this office. Eight months previous to
the opening of the Atlanta office Essie
began making plans for the placement
department. Consequently when the
office was opened in the spring of
1942, the placement department was
operating so efficiently that it did all
the staffing for the new Control Cen-
ter, and to it goes much of the credit
for the successful operation of the
ACDVO.

Essie (Roberts) DuPre, right, with a
canteen worker in World War I.

People don't always inherit such
ability, and to her natural inheritance
Essie has added much in training and
experience. Graduated from Agnes
Scott with a B.A., and from Columbia
University with a Masters in social
economy, she started her career as a
canteen worker during the last war,
when she joined up and went overseas
with one of the first groups to leave
America. On her return to the United
States she became head of the person-
nel and placement work for the Jun-
ior Employment Service, which later
became the Community Employment
Service, with Essie as a director. She
was a charter member of the Junior
League and » irked especially hard on

a volunteer institute which the League
presented to Atlanta to stimulate in-
terest in volunteer participation by the
community. Essie instituted the first
works program in the state as director
of personnel and placement for the
Fulton County F. E. R. A., which
later became the WPA.

Essie's more personal hobbies in-
clude her garden, which is always a
beauty spot, and her two children,
Anne and Walter, Jr. Her interest in
garden work made her first chairman
of the Garden Club of Georgia pil-
grimage, a post which she held for a
number of years.

During the month of September
the placement bureau referred 5 52
women to new positions of volunteer
work. Among the agencies served by
this office are the Red Cross Motor
Corps, Red Cross Production, Nurses
Aides, Bonds and Stamps Booths; Con-
trol Center, clerks, stenographers and
typists, the ration boards, C. D. V. O.
placement, C. D. V. O. staff, consum-
ers' problems instructors for O. P. A.,
CDV photography, firewatchers, the
USO, WPA nursery schools, Girl
Scout leaders, public health center,
Atlanta Tuberculosis Association, Ful-
ton County Public Health Depart-
ment, the County Fair booth, Y. W.
C. A. leaders and instructors, Good
Samaritan Clinic, and Travelers' Aid
hostesses.

Hilda (McConncll) Adams, '23, su-
pervises the staff of 50 volunteers in
the placement bureau. Hilda special-
ized in psychology and vocational
guidance. She has taught in the At-
lanta public schools for the past five
years, where she specialized in psy-
chological testing. Hilda has a 10-
year-old daughter who is in school in
Atlanta; and in addition to her duties
at the Defense Office and her home re-
sponsibilities, manages to get in a bit
of her favorite sport — golf! Hilda is
life president of her class, and a for-
mer president of the Alumnae Asso-
ciation.

One of the day supervisors serving
under Essie and Hilda is Edythc
(Coleman) Paris, '26, who was May
Queen at Agnes Scott her senior year.
Edythe is quite active in Scout work,
and has served as the very capable
chairman of the Atlanta Flower Show.
She has two children, and they and
her garden constitute her main hobbies.

Also assisting at the Placement Of-
fice are Julia (Thompson) Smith, '32,
and Louisa (White) Gosnell, '27.

Jeanne Flynt, '39, of Decatur,
Georgia, is one of the twenty-six
women to attend the first Link In-
continued on Page 10)

From A Tower Window

Dr. Davidson Heads Vanderbilt
Graduate School

Hundreds of alumnae will be inter-
ested in knowing that Dr. Philip Da-
vidson, popular head of Agnes Scott's
history department, was called to Van-
derbilt University to be head of the
graduate school in September. Dr.
Davidson came to Agnes Scott in
1928. He is a native of Nebraska but
received his Bachelors from the Uni-
versity of Mississippi, his Masters and
Doctors from the University of Chi-
cago.

His first book, Propaganda and
the American Revolution, was pub-
lished in the spring of 1941. He has
recently finished a section of a_ history
text being compiled by eight south-
ern authors for use in teaching Ameri-
can history in the high schools. In ad-
dition to his work as professor of his-
tory, Dr. Davdson served as executive
secretary of the University Center
Council, as chairman of the Commit-
tee on Advanced Standing at Agnes
Scott, and as a member of the Com-
mittee on Public Lectures.

Outside interests include a strong
love of tennis and a very keen enthusi-
asm in his young son's current hobby,
model airplane building. Dr. Davidson
was made a director of the National
Academy of Model Aeronautics last
spring.

The Davidsons are receiving a very
warm welcome in Nashville, but they
are very much missed at Agnes
Scott. Page Davidson is now a sopho-
more at Vanderbilt, after completing
her freshman year at William and
Mary. Philip, III, is in high school.

Major Robinson on Faculty at West Point

Major Henry Robinson, who was on
leave of absence last year to head the
Fort MacPherson Induction Center for
the Fourth Corps Area, is now sta-
tioned at West Point Military Acad-
emy, where he is teaching his beloved
subject, mathematics. Major Robinson
was transferred from Fort MacPher-
son last summer, and spent several
weeks in Texas and in Washington,
D. C, before being assigned to West
Point. His family were unable to join
him there in September because of
housing difficulties, but are planning
to move to West Point in December.
Ann Robinson is a senior at North
Avenue Presbyterian School this year,
and Henry, Jr., is in high school.

New Staff Members Increase College
Community

Three additions to the library staff
include: Miss Carolyn Black, of Dal-
ton, Georgia, who received her B.S. at
G. S. C. W., and her B.L.S. at the
University of North Carolina; Miss
Lucy Cline, of Oxford, Georgia, who
received her B.A. at Wesleyan and her
B.L.S. at Emory University; and Miss
Emily Phillips, of Tallahassee, Fla.,
who attended F. S. C. W. and received
her B.L.S. at Emory.

Miss Ann Gellerstedt, '42, of At-
lanta, is assisting in the English de-
partment. Miss Alta Webster, '42, of
Homestead, Fla., is an assistant in
physical education. Miss Clare Purcell,
'42, of Charlotte, N. C, is in charge
of the bookstore. Miss Jane Stillwell.
'42, of Decatur, is a fellow in biology.

Dr. Harvey Young, of the Emory
University history department, is
teaching several classes in history on
the Agnes Scott campus this year. Dr.
Lloyd C. Alkema, of the Emory eco-
nomics department, is teaching a class
in statistics.

Miss Jewell Blount, who received
her training at the Georgia Baptist
Hospital, is on the Infirmary staff.
Mrs. Fred Bacon, who was an assist-
ant in the dining room during the
spring of last year, is now assistant to
the supervisor of dormitories.

Schedule Changed to Meet Demands
of War

Two important changes in schedule
were announced recently on campus.
To cooperate with the government re-
quest that railway traffic be cut down
as much as possible, the college will
have no Founder's Day or spring holi-
days. An additional week will be
added to Christmas vacation, enabling
us to leave by December 16 at the
latest, and to return on January 13.
To stagger the hours of departure as
much as possible, students will be
allowed to leave as soon as they finish
their last exam, instead of remaining
for two days of the winter quarter as
has been the custom. It is hoped that
this action on the part of all colleges
will relieve Christmas congestion and
avoid coincidence with furloughs.

Beginning November 2 all classes
will start one-half hour later, and
corresponding changes will be made in
meal times, chapel and the hours for
the library, the book store, the treas-
urer's office and the doctor's office.
With winter conditions what they
are, most of the day students leave

home before daybreak "to meet ''their
8:30 classes, and this is-riot th&u-ght
advisable by the colleger-authorities.
With the first class starting at nine,-
this problem will be relieved to some
extent, and some difference may be-
felt in the Atlanta traffic problem, as'
this would mean that the majority of.
day students would be traveling to-
ward the college after the peak hour in
the morning. Emory University is
also changing its schedule one half
hour, first class starting at 8:30, which
means that students will continue to
make the Emory schedule thanks to
the half hour difference.

New Tea Room Manager Added to

Alumnae Staff
Mrs. W. J. Webb, of Carrollton,
Georgia, is the new manager of the
tea room operated by the Alumnae
Association in the Alumnae House.:
Mrs. Webb has owned and operated'
her own tea room in Carrollton, giv-
ing it up only because of her husband's
ill health three years ago. After his
death she accepted a position as NYA
hostess at West Georgia College in
Carrollton, where she was very popu-
lar with students and faculty. She
comes to us directly from West Geor-
gia College and is already making
many friends for herself on the cam-
pus. She has two sons in the service,
one in Panama and one in training
in Alabama. Her only daughter is
married and living in Dalton, Georgia.

Alumna Wins Sicnal Honor in Washington
Patricia Collins, '28, is now legal
assistant to the Attorney General of
the United States. Pat went to Wash-
ington with the Anti-Trust Division
of the Department of Justice, was
later transferred to the Lands Divi-
sion, then became assistant to the chief
of the Department of International
Law in the Neutrality Unit, and on
May 1 was appointed to her new post
as one of the Attorney General's two

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The AGNES SCOTT ALUMNAE QUARTERLY

assistants. When there's legal work
to be done by the Attorney General,
it's Pat who gets the call. She was
admitted to practice before the Su-
preme Court in 1939 and has since
consistently gained brilliance as a lu-
minary among New Deal legal lights.
Pat received her degree in law from
Emory University in 1931.

Plans for Organizing Alumnae Hockey

Club Get Under Way
In cooperation with the United
States Field Hockey Association, the
Agnes Scott Athletic Association is
making every effort possible to fur-
ther the National Physical Fitness
program advocated by the Association.
In particular, it is attempting to or-
ganize a hockey club for alumnae of
Agnes Scott in this vicinity, and for
alumnae of other college hockey teams
who may be interested in participat-
ing. Plans for organizing this club
were made at a recent meeting of the
Athletic Association. Josephine Young,
of China, the student hockey mana-
ger, is in charge of organization. Jo
attended the Hockey Camp at Mt. Po-
cono, Pa., this summer and has a
wealth of good ideas about getting the
club under way.

Alumnae who have belonged to the
college hockey teams are being written
about plans for the club. Any other
alumnae who are interested are asked
to contact Jo at Agnes Scott. Informal
games with .student groups will be
arranged. Every graduate of every
college should make an effort to con-
tinue her exercise in order to be able
to do her war-time job with greatest
efficiency. Any regular exercise will
fill this need, but for those who play
field hockey, the extra effort involved
in planning regular hours for practice
is overbalanced by the fun and recre-
ation that comes from the game and
the competition and companionship.
"Who's Who" Lists Ten Agnes Scott Girls
Ten Agnes Scott students have their
biographies published in the 1942-43
issue of Who's Who Among Students
in American Unit ersities and Colleges.
This annual index of outstanding
students selects its members impar-
tially on the basis of character, schol-
arship, leadership in extra-curricular
activities, and potentiality for future
usefulness to business and society.
Founded after two years of research
had verified the need for one national
basis of recognition for students,
Who's Who has amply proved its
worth. When it was first published in
1934 it listed 2 50 colleges; today it
represents over 650 colleges. The pub-
lication maintains a free placement
service, used by five hundred person-
nel directors in leading firms, which

has placed thousands of graduates in
the past ten years.

Students listed are: Joella Craig, of
Walhalla, S. C, house president of
Inman; Martha Dale, of Atlanta, edi-
tor of the Agnes Scott News; Anne
Frierson, of Belton, S. C, president of
Athletic Association; Betty Hender-
son, of Wilmington, N. C, president
of Lecture Association; Dorothy Hol-
loran, of Lynchburg, Va., president of
Mortar Board; Mardia Hopper, of At-
lanta, president of Christian Associa-
tion; Frances Kaiser, of Atlanta, man-
aging editor of the Agnes Scott News;
Ruth Lineback, of Atlanta, editor of
the Silhouette; Frances Radford, of
Decatur, president of Student Gov-
ernment; and Clara Rountree, of De-
catur, vice-president of Student Gov-
ernment.

IN THE SERVICE
(Continued from Page 8)
strument Trainer Instructors School,
called "Litis" for short. After gradu-
ation on September 15, Jeanne took
her place with the others instructing
the Naval Air Cadets in the mechan-
ics of flying, without ever getting off
the ground. Educational piece de re-
sistance for the training program is
the Link trainer, a simulated airplane,
which started off twelve years ago as
a circus side-show toy and which since
has been adopted by the Army and
Navy for blind flying instruction. It
is considered a safe, fast and economi-
cal method of teaching primary in-
strument work. The trainers cost
$20,000 each and, according to the
officials in charge of the school at Gor-
don Airport, Atlanta, they are the
niftiest gadgets for teaching blind fly-
ing this country has ever seen. The
flyer gets inside, pulls down the hood,
has only his instruments and radio to
guide him. Consequently he must
learn to come in "on the beam."

Jeanne graduated at Agnes Scott in
1939 and earned for herself a reputa-
tion as a splendid actress while taking
part in Blackfriars production. Her
dramatic talent was not limited to the
stage, however, for she did a lot of
radio work and was in charge of the
Children's Story Hour at the Decatur
Library for a number of months.
Since graduation she has taught in the
Decatur schools and was getting her
pilot's license in her spare time.

Kathryu Greene, '41, of Atlanta,
has the distinction of being one of two
women selected to study Advanced
Instruction and Research in Mechanics
at Brown University this past summer.
Kathryn was one of a class of thirty,
in a student body consisting princi-

pally of graduate students and indus-
trial research technicians, about half
of whom already have their docto-
rates. This school of mechanics has
the double purpose of serving the na-
tion's wartime needs in the special
realm of applied mechanics, and of
pointing the way to a possible means
of solving some of the more difficult
engineering problems in industry. It
provides a center where men can ob-
tain broad training in the advanced
reaches of mathematics applied to en-
gineering, and where they can catch
the spirit of research and learn the
necessary techniques. The work is car-
ried on under the auspices of the En-
gineering, Science and Management
Defense Training Program of the U.
S. Office of Education.

Kathryn was working at the Gen-
eral Development Laboratory, at Fort
Monmouth, N. J., when selected to
study at Brown. She has resumed her
work at the Laboratory now, and in
addition teaches two classes daily to
Signal Corps specialists. Her evenings
she spends experimenting with ampli-
fiers, and one night a week she goes
up to New York to study advanced
acoustics under Harry Olson at RCA.
Kathryn is a math and physics major.

Other Agnes Scotters actively en-
gaged in defense work include: Vir-
ginia Collier, '41, of Barnesville, Geor-
gia, who is now stationed at the
weather bureau in Columbia, S. C.
Virginia was a math major, and her
originality and scientific interests are
standing her in good stead in this new
work.

Darleen Daniehon, '42, of Atlanta,
also a math major, is employed by the
TYA in Chattanooga, and is working
with aerial photography maps which
are badly needed by the Army and
Navy.

Pat Reasoner, '42, Bradenton, Fla.,
biology and chemistry ma:or, and stu-
dent lab technician during her four
years at Agnes Scott, is working at
Wilson Dam. Her work is research
into the value of various items in com-
mercial fertilizers as producers of vita-
mins in the foods we eat.

Virginia (MeWhorter) Freeman,
'40, of Decatur, is another successfullv
combining marriage and a career. Vir-
ginia took her major in math, and last
summer took a course in gauge reading
at Georgia Tech. At present she is
working at the Saginaw Steering Gear
Division of General Motors (the old
Chevrolet plant by the Federal Pen),
which is under the Birmingham Ord-
nance Department of the Government.
To quote Virginia, she is "making
shells, or bundles for Berlin!"

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ALUMNAE QUARTERLY

JANUARY, 1943

TABLE OF CONTENTS

To Our Readers 1

The Significance of Mortar Board 2

Ellen Douglas Leyburn, '27

Child Guidance Courses Announced 3

As 1 Si/ Here 4

Anastasia Carlos, '44

Mom 5

Pat Patterson, '43

The Cook Walks Out 7

Polly (Stone) Buck, '24

In the Sen ice 9

From a Tower Window 12

Concerning Ourselves 13

Founder's Day Broadcast 26

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TO

OUR

READERS

Early this fall in our first plea for your active support
of our alumnae program during this war year, we reminded
you that our task for the year was to show that the contri-
butions we alumnae make are so vital to the life of the
nation as to be worth the survival of a whole system of
education. We promised you interpretative material and
information about the work being done by your fellow
alumnae, all products of a liberal arts college. This issue of
the Alumnae Quarterly is particularly dedicated to the
furtherance of the liberal ideal.

Our cover design is dedicated to the love for and need of
good music which Agnes Scott has fostered in the com-
munity with bi-monthly programs, which have prospered
this year in spite of difficulties of transportation. Ellen
Douglass Leyburn's "Significance of Mortar Board" is a
splendid answer to those forces of evil which deny the right
of existence to a liberal arts college; it is a challenge in
itself, to the students whose particular task is the assimila-
tion of enough culture "to see that the life of the spirit for
which we are at war does not perish while we fight for it"
and to alumnae who must "use their knowledge of the past
and of the great thinkers of the past to frame a new and
better order."

The student reaction to such a challenge is reflected in
the splendid issue of the Aurora, which has just come off
the press and from which we have reprinted a book digest
and a short story. Tess Carlos' review of the six books she
has chosen, "As I Sit Here," is the answer to an editor's

prayer for a suggested reading list that would merit some
allotment of your precious time. Pat Patterson's "Mom" is
written from a background of experience received while
teaching Bible school in the mountains of North Carolina
the past three summers, and shows us very clearly just
how much the "life of the spirit" is needed in the back-
woods of our own nation. The resurrection of Folio (see
page 12) after sixteen years shows that an awakened inter-
est in the contents of a chemistry test tube can't submerge
a need for literary creation even in the Freshman Class, and
the announcement of lectures by Alfred Noyes and Richard
Niebuhr during the spring promise us further inspiration
and guidance.

Polly (Stone) Buck's "The Cook Walks Out" will re-
mind most of the 66% of their own reaction to similar
situations; we point with pride to the good fight being
fought on the home front! The other 33% will glow over
the splendid contribution being made by the Class of '42
to the war effort, as indicated in the poll of activities print-
ed on page 9, and the brief but informative sketches of
alumnae "In the Service".

To those alumnae who still have time to give to the war
effort, the announcement of the course to train volunteer
nursery school workers, which begins February 2 at Agnes
Scott, will be of special interest (See page 3).

To all those who cherish fond memories of the "shelter-
ing arms," the Founder's Day announcement on the back
cover is dedicated!

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By Ellen Douglass Leyburn, '27

When I was asked to speak to you about the signifi-
cance of Mortar Board, it seemed to me that the real sub-
ject was the significance of the liberal ideal, the very rea-
son for existence of Agnes Scottf and of other colleges
which share her purposes, the reason for the presence here
of every one of us. It behooves us to examine our reason
for being in such an institution because our right to being
is most severely challenged.

The primary object of Hitler's attack is this very world
of the mind which we purport to inhabit. The Nazi
scheme of conquest is now familiar, for it has proceeded
first in Germany itself and then in every country subdued
by the Gestapo in the same degraded pattern of book-
burning and suppression of printing, of painting, of drama,
of teaching, of preaching — and all this not at random, but
on principle, on the principle that civilization is effeminate,
that brutality is virility: a fitting paradox indeed to serve
as the slogan of those armies of unreason who march under
Goebbels to say that to become brutish is to become manly,
for the attack of Nazism is in effect an attack against the
nature of Man, against our humanity, our reason and spirit,
all that distinguishes us from the brute. And it is to main-
tain the dignity and worth of the human being that the
liberal college exists. Hitler's attack against us, against all
who are committed to the ideal of the freedom of the
human mind and spirit, is open and avowed.

We face a more insidious attack from within our-
selves. There is not only the danger inherent in a combat
with a professed brutishness that we become brutish. There
is also the danger that we put off these things to a more
convenient season. When the war is won, we say, we can
devote our attention to becoming worthy to live in the
world we have conquered. At present our duty is to buy
bonds, to study First Aid and home nursing, to fold
bandages and knit, to gather scrap and conserve rubber —
to do things for the War Effort. But I submit to you
that our outward effort is meaningless unless it is accom-
panied by the inner struggle to clarify our purposes, to
liberalize our minds and free them from prejudice and con-
fusion and despair of our own convictions. A sentence
in a letter I had last summer from a university professor
has sounded in my mind all these weeks as a warning, an
omen of worse to come. In the pressure of the speeded up
summer session he wrote: "I begin seriously to doubt
whether the liberal arts have much value educationally at
a time when everyone is on edge, too busy to ponder, and
intent upon getting on with the war effort." Such dis-
couragement is almost bound to prevail in the men's col-
leges. If boys of eighteen and nineteen are drafted, it is
hard to see how the men's institutions can exist at all
except as training centers for soldiers. Since young men
of your generation are being denied the chance for study
in the liberal arts, it belongs in a peculiar way to you who
are now in liberal colleges for women to see that the life
of the spirit for which we are at war does not perish while
we fight for it.

And so we do well to recall what the liberal arts are:
the arts of thinking, the arts that make men free. They
beget a capacity of speculation, a critical judgment, a
quickened insight, a power in practical affairs to dis-

tinguish means from ends, the use of language and mathe-
matics as the symbols of thought — and basic to all, yet
crowning all, the power of self-mastery, the grace to be
wrested from the bestial within ourselves, the confidence
of men in learning and in reason and in truth. These are
the enduring ideas from which our convictions as believers
in the life of the spirit spring. Their validity is absolute
and enduring because they are big enough to include the
special needs of man in any given age. Besides their funda-
mental effect upon the very nature of their upholders,
they have particular manifestations in every period. In
our own time these basic conceptions produce, it seems to
me, several very specific lines of thought:

First of all, the conviction that the love of freedom,
of dignity, of decency, which we covet for ourselves is
not to be denied to any man. This feeling will have to
grow out of a confidence in all men, a willingness to be-
lieve that the life of the spirit is possible for all men. If
we really believe that the Nazi revolution is a revolt of
man against himself, against his higher nature, we are as-
serting that that self, which is man's true nature, is the
opposite of the Nazi ideal of ignorance and violence; and
if the self that is the contrary of Nazism is man's true self,
it is the truth of Mankind, of all men everywhere. Vice-
president Wallace in his epochal speech last May, you re-
member, analyzed the fight between the free world and the
slave world as a march of freedom for the common man
based upon the idea of freedom derived from the Bible with
its extraordinary emphasis upon the dignity of the indi-
vidual. "Everywhere the common people are on the
march," he said; and he defined the march of freedom for
the past 150 years as a "long-drawn out people's revolu-
tion." It is hard for us to believe in any effective way
that the negro has a right to be trained so that he can
assume the responsibility of voting, just as it is hard for
the Englishman to believe that the people of India can
govern themselves. No one can claim that the way of
truth and honor is easy. But we make the same mistake
the Nazis make if we set ourselves up as having a right
to privilege in their stead. Wallace's comment was, "There
can be no privileged peoples. We ourselves in the United
States are no more a master race than the Nazis." If we
are to believe in the right of the common man everywhere
to freedom, as in justice and self-respect, we must believe
in it, we are bound to define freedom as the freedom of
the mind, the freedom to develop the best in human nature,
"to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with
our God." Roosevelt's four freedoms have validity and
worth only as they promote this inner^ freedom of the
human spirit, the freedom tc do right. ^We are by virtue
of being here in college set apart among the privileged to
grow and to become; and it is only by sharing such priv-
ilege that we can justify possessing it. If this freedom to
live in dignity and self-respect can be made the freedom
of the common man, the People's War will have been
worth fighting, and we shall have nothing to fear from
Communism or any other form of government.

Indeed the avoidance of this fear of what is strange
to us is another attitude of mind which the liberal arts
must engender in us for these times, I think. Change is

January, 1943

upon us. We cannot bring back the world as it used to be.
If we are to help shape the direction of change, we must
accept the fact of change and not repine for things as they
were. We need to adopt the spirit of the founding fathers
who used their knowledge of the past and of the great
thinkers of the past to frame a new and better order. They
worked well for their time. We can best emulate them by
realizing as they did that we have a chance to make a
new world. Our problems are harder because our indus-
trial world is more complicated than the open lands they
faced, but their spirit in attacking the new thing before
them will help us in attacking our newness^

A third control which the liberal arts give our think-
ing for our time is the safeguard against assuming that
giving freedom to all peoples is giving them our particular
pattern of living. If the only answer we can give to the
question "What is a Good Society?" is Ours, we shall be
indulging in what Howard Mumford Jones has called
Tribal Thinking; and furthermore we shall be making
the mistake of 1918 all over again. We were ready enough
then to remake the world in our own image; and when it
refused to be so remade, we had recourse to cynicism. The
tolerance and generosity of mind as well as the willingness
to look honestly at truth, which mark the liberal ideal,
will teach us that it is neither desirable nor possible to
destroy existing cultural patterns. If we manage in our
shame for sending scrap to Japan to be of some belated
help to the Chinese, we dare not try to impose our par-
ticular brand of Good Life on these people who were lead-
ing the Good Life when our country was still inhabited by
Red Indians, who also, by the way, had their conception
of the Good Life. If we are really Men of Good Will, we
shall not try arbitrarily to enforce our will.

LNot one of these attitudes is easy. How may we set
about acquiring them? First of all, I think, by real confi-
dence in the liberal ideal, the freedom of the mind, and a

confidence that makes us willing to attack its enemies in
ignorance and prejudice and bad manners of mind and
heart wherever they appear, especially in ourselves. Battles
of the spirit, like military battles, are won by attack, not
by defense.

Second, I think we must submit our minds to the dis-
cipline of study so that from science we may learn order
and precision of thought and a knowledge of man's en-
vironment, from history and the social sciences a knowl-
edge of his behavior, and from the literatures of our
own and other languages an insight into his ways of
thought and interpretation of his experience.

Third, I think we need to do reading specifically aimed
to help us understand this world that confronts us, reading
of the thinkers whose works have shaped the world we
fight for: Plato, Montesquieu, Burke, the writings of our
founding fathers in the Federalist Papers, and the best of
the interpretative comment from writers of our own times,
books like The Making of T omorrow by Raoul de Roussy
de Sales and the thoughtful articles that have been appear-
ing through the summer in many of our periodicals. The
sense of responsibility shown by writers in our better maga-
zines seems to me one of the really cheering signs in the
battle being waged for the human spirit. The courage and
forthrightness and vision with which Archibald MacLeish,
for instance, is willing to speak out in article after article
should make us very grateful, I think, for such a man as
head of the Library of Congress. A thought reading of
these expounders of our own tradition of western civiliza-
tion, and if possible some acquaintance with the back-
ground of thought of our Slavic and Oriental allies, is
bound to do something for our convictions as free beings.
r-) This then, it seems to me, is the liberal ideal; and this
our method of approach to it. It is the conception of life
to which Mortar Board and Agnes Scott and all of us as
believers in Freedom stand committed.

Child Guidance Courses Planned in Atlanta and at Agnes
Scott to Train "Women for Nursery School Work.

Anticipating the vital need of more nursery schools in
Atlanta and its vicinity and the training in child care nec-
essary to women in day nursery work, the War Council of
Agnes Scott College and the Civilian Defense Volunteer
Offices of Atlanta and DeKalb County have made plans for
training courses in child care and guidance.

Conducted by 1 1 outstanding authorities in the child
welfare field, one course will begin January 12 from 10:30
until noon at the assembly room, sixth floor, Georgia
Power Company. The basic course of 12 lectures and dis-
cussions will be supplemented by 1 5 hours of field observa-
tion and 50 hours of practice. After completing the course,
the volunteer will serve at least six hours a week in a day
nursery school. Women interested in this training course

are urged to register with the Atlanta Civilian Defense
Volunteer Office at Jackson 6264.

Training in child care will start Tuesday, February 2,
at 10:30 o'clock at Agnes Scott. The course as outlined
by Dr. Emily S. Dexter and Dr. Katharine T. Omwake,
professors of psychology at Agnes Scott, will consist of 10
to 12 lectures with discussion groups and field trips. This
course is planned to meet the vital need of the times for
experienced or trained care for small children. Instructors
will be faculty members of Agnes Scott, state leaders in
child care work, public agencies and members of the W. D.
C. D. Women who wish to take this course are asked to
register at the Office of Civilian Defense, 124 Atlanta Ave.,
Decatur, Crescent 3 565. No charge is made for either
course and a certificate will be given on completion of the

AS I SIT HERE

Anastasia Carlos, '44

I have six books on my desk. And I've read them all
very carefully. And I'm trying very hard to decide what
to say about them. I like books, but probably I wouldn't
have read these six books just now if Jean, who is tha
editor, had not said: "Now Tess, you must write a
book column. Nothing ornate, just something that will
express what you feel." I feel a lot about the books.
but I don't know what to say.

They are very nicely bound — these six books. And
I've been arranging them into various neat piles for the
last half hour, making up all sorts of combinations.
Sometimes I put William Saroyan's The Beautiful People
on top of Sherwood Anderson's Memoirs; and on top
of Saroyan, Anna Segher's The Seventh Cross, and then W.
L. White's They Were Expendable and Raoul de Roussy
de Sales' The Making of Tomorrow. On top I always
keep Thomas Wolfe's The Hills Beyond.

Sitting here, I wish I knew what that exact phrase
is which will describe each book so vividly and so per-
fectly that there would be no need for you to read
them. You and I would have the essence, the reason for
each book's existence. And we would be able to talk in-
telligently about them and confound all our friends with
our superior knowledge. But into each book the author
has poured something indestructible of himself, his times,
his ideas. And this eternal substance which breathes of
life cannot be classified into a series of descriptive phrases,
nor can it be talked about with any amount of accuracy
or truth by an inexperienced critic.

If I were strictly reviewing these books, I would stick
to those pat words of the trade: interesting, illuminating,
magnificently dull, excitingly revealing. Those are all
words, and oh, there are so many of them. But Jean,
who is the editor, said, "Write how you feel!" So — I feel
the searching sadness of Saroyan, the mountainous loneli-
ness of Wolfe, the penetrating wisdom of Anderson, the
rounded complexity of Seghers, the fathomless despair of
White, the scholarly exposition of de Sales.

Saroyan's book includes three plays: The Beautiful Peo-
ple, Sweeney in the Trees, Across the Board on Tomorrow
Morning — all whimsical, fantastic, unusual, the real world
mixed with that beyond the rim of our lashes. But re-
gardless of their seeming looseness and incoherence, their
peculiar originality, the plays convey emotion and mood.
The words do not mean merely what the character is
thinking of at the moment. They indicate what he has
always been.

Saroyan is of Armenian descent, and his works com-
bine the intricacies of an oriental mind and the sentimen-
tality of the American world. There is no better indica-
tion of this than his description of what he is attempting
to write: "A play, a dream, a poem, a travesty, a fable,
a symphony, a parable, a comedy, a tragedy, a farce, a
vaudeville, a song and dance, a statement on money, a
report on life, an essay on art and religion, a theatrical
entertainment, a circus, anything you like, whatever you
please." There is no conflict in his plays except with the
world, and this is never obtrusive. Ordinary people turn-
ed inside out get together and talk and reveal themselves.

Wolfe's The Hills Beyond is a collection of his best
short stories. Of all the numerous ones included "The
Lost Boy" and "God's Lonely Man" are best. Thomas
Wolfe, one of the most unusual American writers of the

early thirties, tells conventionally patterned stories with
a personal intrusion that has made most readers consider
his works autobiographical. "But I know that at the
end, forever at the end for us — the houseless, homeless,
doorless, driven wanderers of life, the lonely men — there
waits forever the dark visage of our comrade, Loneliness."

His is a vivid, sweeping wordage that captures the
interest by its sheer conglomeration of color. "Beauty
comes and passes, is lost the moment that we touch it,
can no more be stayed or held than one can stay the
flowing of a river. Out of this pain of loss, this bitter
ecstasy of brief having, this fatal glory of the single
moment, the tragic writer will therefore make a song for
joy. That, at least, he may keep and treasure always.
And his song is full of grief, because he knows that joy
is fleeting, gone the instant that we have it, and that is
why it is so precious, gaining its full glory from the
very things that limit and destroy it."

Sherwood Anderson's Memoirs tell of his life and world
. . . the storminess, the indecision, the callousness. Here
is what has not been revealed in his Winesburg, Ohio and
Dark Laughter about himself. He like Wolfe has used
what he intimately has experienced and known. "There
is a kind of persistent youth in some men and I am one
of that sort. I rebound quickly from disaster, laugh
a good deal, make rather quick and easy connections with
others."

The years of childhood, of adolescence, of later life
are described as he remembers. There is no attempt to
tell all. This is a story teller who just stopped by for
a moment to chat, who rambles through memory picking
up stray fragments of experience, and who soon goes
leaving behind the feeling that more might have been
said if he had not been called away.

In The Seventh Cross Anna Seghers, a refugee German
writer, tells the story of the escaped concentration camp
inmate, George Heisler, for whom the seventh cross of
torture was set up in the yard of the dread Westofen
Camp. His path of escape was like a deep pool into
which a stone has been thrown — the widening arcs plied
outward touching many so that "all of us felt how ruth-
lessly and fearfully outward powers could strike to the
very core of men, but at the same time we felt that at
the very core there was something that was unassailable
and inviolable." He touched the lives of many people,
and in the end it was chance that won him a victory.

W. L. White is an American correspondent noted for
his crispness of thought and detail. And in They Were
Expendable he recounts the story of the tragic Torpedo
Boat Squadron and of the young men who fought on
Bataan and returned home. "And through those plump
cities the sad young men back from battle wander as
strangers in a strange land, talking a grim language of
realism which the smug citizenry doesn't understand, try-
ing to tell of a tragedy which few enjoy hearing."

This book is a revealing study of men under danger
as told by the men themselves after the danger has end-
ed. The simplicity of language and the lack of super-
fluity in the style greatly add to the effect created. It
will appeal to all those who are interestd in what has
been happening externally in this second World War and
emotionally the crises faced by the participants.
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MOM

Pat Patterson, '43

I walked over the badly broken porch floor of the black-
ened one room school-house at Boggs to where Mrs. Roark
stood. I was surprised when the little old woman turned
her back and sat down on the edge of the porch, but then
Julie come quietly over to me and I greeted her, hoping to
learn why her mother did not want to speak.

"Mom's sorta tore up rite now, Miz Kathryn," drawled
Julie with her slow, wide grin. "Preacher jist axed her how
wuz Roger, an' she seem like she cain't talk 'bout him yit,
'thouten tears rise up frum way down inside. I reckon we
all feels bad-like, but she cain't hardly bear it."

"But, Julie," I questioned, "what about Roger? Preacher
Stone told me he was in the army now, but is anything
wrong?"

"No'am, but you know how Roger's alluz been — kinda
wild an' not very respectin' of how he orta do. Mom's
afeared he'll lose his neck a-gamblin' er carousin' down
yander. If 't'were Jess, now, Mom would grieve fer him
leavin,' but she wouldn't have no worry 'bout how he'd
act. But with Roger hit's differnt. Why, Miz Kathryn.
the day he got the notice frum the board in town to go
to thet Fort Bragg with the rest of the Ashe Boys, Mom
flung a fit o' anger an' all day she ranted, 'bout how
't'wern't rite to take the boys thet needed to be home
a'plowin,' an' send 'em way off ter git shot somewher.

"An' then she tuk to bawlin' an' said he weren't goin'
atall. Roger jist laughed an' said he reckoned hit couldn't
be holped noways, an' then she tuk up a sulky way 'bout
how he didn't have no love fer home ter be a-talkin' thet-
a-way. Law, Miz Kathryn, it uz awful."

We jumped up and perched on the top rail of the sturdy
criss-cross fence beside the school house, and Julie went on.
Her mother still sat, stooped and wretched, on the porch
floor, her short legs dangling toward the ground, her back
turned to us.

"An' then thet nite in bed Mom jist near 'bout cried
her eyes all out, an' talked till I went to sleep with her still
a-talkin' on. Next day she weren't fitten to do no work
hardly, so I stayed from school to cook fer Pa an' Jess an'
Roger an' keer for the bees."

I frowned but said nothing. Julie never took her school-
ing seriously — the slightest excuse could keep her home.
She took no notice of my frown but went on after a
moment.

"The nite afore Roger'd said he'd be obliged to leave,
they wuz a big Baptist meetin' up ter the school house.
At breakfast Jess said, "Roge, how 'bout going' ter meetin'
tonite," an' Roger laughed an' said, "My last nite ter
home? Don't be a fool, Jess — I'm a-goin' the rounds to-
night. Tish an' me is ridin' ter Glendale in the pick-up, an'
then after I brings her home, Potts an' me is celebratin'.
You kin go to the ole fool meetin' — I'm not a-squanderin'
my time."

"Jess didn't say no more — jist looked awful cast-down.
Mom wuz in the kitchen an' didn't hear, an' I didn't say
nothin' then 'counta Pa bein' ther. But after we'uz done
eatin' I followed Roger outside.

"Yer ain't a-takin' Tish ter no dancin', ner fast doin's,
air ye, Roge? An' he jist looked at me straight an' flung
his red hair back with his han' an' said, 'I said we'uz cele-

bratin'. I don't see no call fer tellin' ever-body where ner
how — not even you, Julie,' an' then he smiled and hit me
easy-like on the chin with his fist an' I know'd ever-thin'
were all rite — Roge jist don't like folks ter be axin' all
kinda fool questions.

"Pa an' Jess had been a-gittin' started on spring plantin',
but Jess left off work in the afternoon an' went way off in
the woods ter hisself. I knew why — Jess' heart wuz nigh
splittin' cause Roge ain't never been saved, an' he kep'
hopin' Roge mite git converted thet nite at the meetin',
but hit didn't soun' noways hopeful since Roge'd said he
wouldn't even go — he don't easy change his mind. Well,
Jess, he come home 'bout supper time an' I heerd him
a-beggin' Roger, but after a few minutes he went on
away 'thouten any supper, an' didn't come till way long
after Mom an' me wuz in bed. We know'd he didn't go
to meetin', cause Pa'd went up to the schoolhouse an'
he'd come home early. I guess Jess never had prayed so
long an' hard in his life; he loves Roger better'n anybody,
an' it grieves him mightily fer Roge ter harden his heart
theta way. He'd give both his hands an' his feet too fer
Roge ter be saved."

Most of the Sunday School crowd had left now, and Jesse
and Mom were starting on down the hill road. Mr. Roark
turned and looked at Julie, and she waved him on, saying
that she would follow later, bringing me to supper with
them. I protested, but she would not give in, and I gave
up the argument, urging her to continue her story.

"Well, Mom was quiet thet nite, so quiet I was almost
fearful, fer hit don't do fer Mom ter git ter ponderin' too
deep. She gits a idea in her head an' seems like hit drives
all th'others out an' she jist keeps a-goin' over the same
thing. Jist afore I dropped off ter sleep, I heerd her a-mum-
blin', 'Wicked, thievin' folks — but they won't git him —
won't git my Boy — won't git my Roger' — an' then ever'-
thin' was peaceful-like an I didn't har nothin' till Jess come
in. Roger alluz stayed late, an' I wuz a-sleepin' sound when
he got home — I didn't even rouse ter the noise of the pick-
up climbin' the hill from the river ford. Las' time I opened
my eyes, I could see the sky, all black an' starry, an' hear
the crickets singin' fit ter kill. Well, next day, — it'uz
Thursday — Mom an' me wuz a-cookin' the vittles for
breakfast, an Mom still weren't sayin' nothin'. Jess looked
all solemn an' sleepless as he split kin'lin' fer the far' an' Pa
was quieter than ord'nary when he come frum milkin'.
Roge come ter breakfast after I called a long time, lookin'
awful sleepy an' soundin' sorta excited when he talked. All
durin' breakfast Mom didn't say nothin', an' she got up
early an' went out.

"Roger kep' a-tellin' 'bout how Patten Miller looked in
his uniform an' 'bout the good food at Camp Davis an' the
swell fellers he'd got ter know down yander, an' how he
(Roge, I mean) wuz aimin' to larn about the insides o'
them big cannons. He wuz all a-far, sure 'nough. An' then
while we'uz all settin' aroun' jist a-listenin' an' a-tryin'
ter be cheery fer Roger, we heerd a awful rattly sound an'
bumpin', an' it sound like som-pin pow'ful big uz bein'
throwed down-hill at us. We all of jumped up an went
a-runnin', jist of a time ter see Roger's pick-up bust
through our ole rail-fence, goin' mighty speedy. If you
coulda seed it! Them old rails wuz a-flyin' ever-which-way

The AGNES SCOTT ALUMNAE QUARTERLY

up in the ar, an' thet truck went rite on through into the
river, way above the ford. An' Roger an' Jess went a-tear-
in' down-hill ter stop the thing, but hit'uz done gone too
fer fer'm to do no good. T'weren't till then (but hit don't
take the time ter watch hit does ter tell) thet we tuk
notice how hit had happened. We jist thought Roger
parked hit on a too steep place an' hit'd run hitself down —
but law, Mi/ Kathryn, if Mom weren't behin' the wheel of
thet vehicle. Pa spied the corner of her apern cotched in
the door, an' hollered to Jess an' Roge ter git her out.
Well'um, she'uz a-sputterin' an' a-shivering' all over when
they lifted her outen the pick-up, fer the winders wuz
open an' she'd near-bout had her drowndin' o' water. Pa
an' me sat her down while the boys looked at the truck.
They wuzn't nothin' they could do, fer the truck were up
ter the top rim in the water, an' hit's wheels stuck down in
the mud. Roger didn't think rite off how it happened — he
wuz too skeered Mom mite be hurt, to think whut'uz in
Mom's mind — but it'uz easy fer Jess an' me to see it — we'd
know'd Mom to do pow-ful unhandy things afore 'counta
Roger. Mom acts afore she thinks it out straight — She
jist figgered could she wreck Roger's truck so's he wouldn't
have no way o'gettin' ter Jefferson — he wouldn't have no
need ter go atall. She got her breath back, an' we all jist
stood around an' listened ter what she wuz a-sayin'. 'Now
hit won't do no good fer'm to call an' call — they won't git
yer, Roge — don't yer see yer pore ole Ma loves yer now,
Roge?'

"She looked up at Roger with her eyes all flowin' over an'
her mouth a-tremblin' an' a-grinnin', too, up at him.
Roger didn't plumb loss his temper — I uz' a holdin' my
breath an' prayin' he wouldn't. He jist said, 'Yep, Mom, I
know yer loves me,' an' gave her a hug an' walked up the
hill ter the house.

"Jess and me bolpcd Mom up the hill, an' Pa follered.
Mom wuz a-jabbcrin' all the time an' her eyes wuz shinin'
an' she still wuz a-tremblin' all over.

'I done it,' she said over an' over, 'I done it — they
cain't git him now — our boy — Roger — he kin stay with us
like hit's fitten an' rite.' Jess looked at me an' we couldn't
say nothin' but jist tried hard not ter listen ter Mom, cause
we know'd they weren't no good ner no sense neither in
whut she wuz a-sayin'.

"In a little spell Roge wuz all packed, ready to go. The
spring flood had washed our pole-boat down-stream an'

cracked it up, so Roge strapped his pack on his back an'
'low'd he'd be bound to wade the stream an' walk the nine
miles ter Jefferson town. He shuk han's with Pa an' said
he'd write, an' Jess promised ter git his truck outen the
river an' tol' him we'd pray fer him an' we loved him, an'
then Roge kissed me smack on the mouth an' hugged me
good, an' whispered ter me ter take keer of Tish. He
couldn't bear ter tell Mom goodbye, an' he jist struck off
down the hill while she uz' back in the house somers. She
come out on the porch, though, when he'd got about half
across the river at the ford, an' he turned an' blew her a
kiss an' hollered, 'Good-bye, Mom, I'll write ter yer soon
as I gits ther.'

"She sat down quick on the steps an' looked after him
with the funniest look I seed ever. Jist kinda blank, she
looked, like she'uz lookin' an' they weren't nothin' ter see.
Then she spoke, slow an' strange, an' looked at Pa an' then
at Jess — 'Whar's . . . he . . . a-goin'?'

"An' Jess said, 'He's walkin' ter Jefferson ter catch the
bus ter go ter Fort Bragg, Mom. He had ter go — ther jist
weren't no gittin' out — he'uz bound ter go.'

"Mom jist kep' a-settin', starin' off thet quare way an'
a-sayin', 'Bound ter go — bound ter go — Roger bound ter
go' — I most couldn't stand it, Miz Kathryn. Jess wuz
a-cryin' an' so wuz I. Pa he didn't say nothin' — jist went
out ter plow. Mom set ther half the day, a-starin' an'
a-mumblin' ter herself thet away."

"Have you heard from Roger?" I asked Julie. "How
did his letter sound?"

"Oh, he's been a-writin' steady an' his letters sound aw-
ful cheery. Mom made me read the first 'un over an' over.
She cain't sec how Roger kin like the army. He says ever'
thin's real nice an' he's got a heap o'fricnds an' he don'
lack for nothin' ceptin' fer wishin' fer home like they all
of 'cm do. Mom's got back her speech though, an' she
knows Roge ain't so awful bad mizzablc, so she feels some
better. But when Preacher Stone axed her today how wuz
he, seems like she got started agin. Mom's jist skeert
Roge'll git in some big messes. Jess an' me, we figger all we
kin do is pray hard an' keep a-writin' to him cheerful."

We slid from the fence to the ground, and, arm in arm,
started toward the Roark's home. The varicolored distant
hills and the fresh green near ones looked clear and lovely
in the bright summer sunshine, and a cool breeze stirred
ripples in the river.

^Jne C- o o h Walks \_Jut

By Polly (Stone) Buck, '24

When my Margaret heard that the old aunt who had
raised her in the south of Scotland was killed in an air
raid, she came straight in to me with the letter in her hand.

"To cook isn't enough," she said, with set lips. "I'm
going into Pennington's." Pennington's is our local muni-
tions factory. And by ten o'clock the next morning she
was there, at work at a machine.

I knew something about cooking, so I wasn't too upset
about running the house myself until I could look around
and find another cook. But when I started on my search,
I found to my dismay that the time-honoured seatwarmer
of employment anterooms had disappeared from the face
of the earth as completely as had the dodo. Nor was this
dearth of applicants confined to cooks: domestic help of
all sorts was suddenly non-existent. Daily, on all sides, the
talk grew of friends' maids who were leaving housework
for the munitions factory with its lure of higher pay, and
a feeling of importance in winning the war.

I had never been without a cook for any length of time
in my life, but I had coped adequately several times
through the years with the inevitable between-cook
hiatuses, and I thought we might manage now for a
while — especially if we had to. A cookless life was not too
pleasant to contemplate, but after all, this was a war, and
a great many people were enduring partings more poignant
than mine with a good cook. So I gave up a few outside
activities, and what must have amounted to a great deal
of delightful piddling, and braced myself to run the house.
Ruth, my children's nurse, helped me a bit with dishes and
upstairs cleaning, besides assuming almost entire charge
now of the three little girls. I am a sensible, and I hope,
intelligent woman. I had good cookbooks, I knew how to
read them, and I went at it not as a martyr, but with
zest; but I must admit that my "hand was out," as we
say in the culinary trade. My poor husband must have
missed his Margaret a great deal at those first dinners.
"You are all right, my dear," was his considered verdict at
the end of two weeks of my cooking. "Don't be discour-
aged. Your food certainly sustains life."

We rocked along for two more weeks, then the axe
really fell. Nurse Ruth came to say she too was going
to make guns. She would earn a third as much again as I
was paying her, it would be exciting work out in the
world and not in the quiet backwater of a small home, and
her family felt she had to take it. Of course she had to
take it. From her point of view, there was no other course;
from mine, it was the end of the world. She had been
with me for six years. There was no nurse available with
which to replace her, even if I matched factory wages.

To make a long story short, Ruth joined Margaret at
the factory, and I beat my golf clubs into brooms and
mops, and took over the singlehanded running of a house
peopled with three little daughters, two little dogs (and
their care is a decided item, let me tell anyone who doesn't
know), and to which a tired teacher husband returned
every evening, expecting an ordered household, a delicious
dinner, and a gay and good humoured wife.

"Gents all," that is a big order. And may I just this
once puff out my chest and say with all modesty that I
am delivering that order? And that although I have no

Alison Buck, youngest daughter of the author, on her
second birthday.

becoming military uniform with a smart visored cap, and
I never get the thrill of service and patriotism that ema-
nates from group meetings and nursing classes and lec-
tures, I carry with me on my round of daily duties a high
confidence that I, too, am a part of this thing called fight-
ing the war.

There is a big gas stove, and I am its high priestess;
there is a modern washing machine, and I am the one that
makes it go; there is a vacuum cleaner and a carpet
sweeper; there are two small girls to wash and dress, and
another still quite small one to inspect — and often re-
wash — and send off to school on time.

At the beginning of my incumbency things were in a
pretty ghastly mess for a while because, with the best in-
tentions in the world, I went at it in the wrong way. I
tried to do the work that both Margaret and Ruth had
done, with the same degree of efficiency that they had
shown, going literally, in fact, by the schedules that I my-
self had made out for them to follow. It was an impossi-
bility and knowledge of first grade arithmetic should have
proved it to me. Margaret's ten hours of housework and
cooking, plus Ruth's ten hours of housework and children,
plus the several hours that I had formerly given to it
myself, plus the family laundry (not originally done at
home, but added after we found out what our income tax
was to be — and after the help had left!), gives a total of
well over twenty-four daily work hours.

My husband and I talked it over. We faced the fact
that with our household staff gone, and dirt, meals,

The AGNES SCOTT ALUMNAE QUARTERLY

daughters and dogs remaining, the only way out was to
lower our standard of living. Some of the things that
make for the pleasant, gentle way of life we had known
must be abandoned. One entire morning a week, for ex-
ample, could not now conceivably be given to silver polish-
ing, as it had during Margaret's regime. So we got out the
grey flannel cases, and packed all the silver we did not ac-
tually need. I kept out candlesticks for the dining table,
six of everything flat, and the pie-knife, because a man
must have his pie. war or no war.

"I shall miss seeing these gleaming on the sideboard,"
my husband sighed, as the tea service disappeared into the
packing barrel. He loves silver — and has never had to
polish any! "We'll get them all out the minute the war is
over," I promised him, and myself, "when the factories
shut down and the people who want to work for us form
in a long line down the driveway. Except for looks, we
won't miss these, really. Tea tastes much better from an
earthenware pot, tin trays and china serving dishes aren't
at all bad, and there are millions of other ashtrays for every
possible elbow." But that barrel did seem rather like a
coffin as it disappeared around the bend of the attic stairs.

The dining room stripped to the bare bone, our next
downward step was to agree not to expect the house to be
as neat or to run as smoothly as it had with two full-time
workers. I would do the best I could: we would accept
the many shortcomings as a concomitant of war. Of
course there will often be dust on top of the hall clock.
Does it matter? Once it did, but not any more. The things
that Margaret and Ruth are doing instead of dusting that
clock are vastly more important in the world just now.

Once when I was planning a trip to Europe in the
bvgonc days when people did, an uncle gave me this ad-
vice: "Make out a careful, detailed itinerary, and then
tear it up." I am running my war-time household on the
same principle. I could not undertake the constantly losing
and hopeless struggle to adhere to a schedule that two effi-
cient women took twenty hours every day to complete,
but I know in detail all the things that ought to be done,
and in my own good time I get around to all of them that
really matter. Elasticity and gumption (good old gump-
tion! I couldn't live without that word) are what are
needed in my case rather than a formal plan. Monday may
have been washday for the Medes and the Persians since
the beginning of time, but not for me. I run a washerful
of clothes whenever we accumulate just that, a washer
full, and it is as apt to be on Friday night or at high noon
Wednesday as at any other time. If the weeds in our little
vegetable garden get pretty high, I let the house gather
dust while I weed; if the house seems more important. I
let the weeds grow. When the basket disappears under the
mending, it is time to forget both weeds and dust, and
stitch a bit.

The important thing seems to be to realize that in
many American homes today we are dealing with a situa-
tion that isn't written down in the books. Under ordinary
conditions, a woman who finds her home too large to man-

age alone, increases her staff, or moves into smaller quar-
ters. We cannot do the former, and it does not seem the
part of wisdom to take such a drastic step as to abandon
our pleasant homes, even if we could, to meet a situation
that must surely be only temporary.

The best solution seems to be to handle it as we are
doing: for the woman of the family to apply herself to
home duties, forsaking all others, if necessary. There are
thousands of women who have seen their accustomed
domestic staff leave, and have quietly and courageously
accepted the fact that their mute, inglorious part in de-
fense lay in menial housework. Of this sisterhood am I.
My job is lonely business as far as the recognition of the
war department and the cheering mobs is concerned. No
bugles sound at the end of my day's work, and I shall never
be decorated for mopping, nor have my picture in the
papers for washing twelve sheets a week.

Some very pleasant things that made for gracious living
are missing from our home these days. I cannot wear a
long dress to dinner any more. Does it matter? Not a con-
tinental. The mahogany dining table does not gleam as
it used to under Margaret's faithful rubbing. But we still
have candlelight, even if it is not reflected in silver on the
sideboard, and the "food that sustains life" is still there.
'Tho much is taken, much abides."

There is vital work on the home front to be done, and
we American wives and mothers must tie on our big aprons
and do it. Children must be tended, and men must be
kept strong. The things for which they fight are the
hearthstones we keep swept and glowing.

AS I SIT HERE
(Continued from Page 4)

De Sales' thoughtful analysis in The Making of Tomor-
row of the problems which faced us in the past and will
prove stumbling blocks in the future is merely a back-
ground into which the five other books can hide. Here
are the forces which were working on men's minds after
World War I, which colored the world of Sherwood An-
derson, Thomas Wolfe, William Saroyan, which caused
the circumstances that Anna Seghers and W. L. White
describe.

Here also is a formula for future growth in the post
war world. "The road we must follow is not new. It is
the road of reason. Those who feel that they cannot
live without the intoxication of something irrational and
romantic like a fundamental regeneration of mankind or
a new spiritual revelation, will be disappointed. This civ-
ilization of ours ... is infinitely rich and generous. It
contains all the inspiration we need for a thousand years
to come."

The books are all alike from the outside. They are
nicely bound. And I sit here trying to sum up what
they mean. And all I can think of are the closing
lines of Sherwood Anderson's Memoirs "Life, not death,
is the great adventure."

THE SERVICE

Of the ninety-four graduates of
the Class of '42, 30 are actively en-
gaged in defense work. This number
gives a percentage of 31.3, which is
exceptionally high for a woman's col-
lege class. The occupations are:

Becky Andrews, IBM operator at
the Atlanta Quartermaster Depot in
Conley.

Jean Beutell, chemist with the
DuPont Company in Charleston, W.
Va.

Lavinia Brown, junior professional
assistant in economics.

Mary Jane Bonham, government
chemist.

Martie Buffalo, TVA, Chattanooga,
lenn., photogrammetrist.

Edwina Burruss. IBM operator at
the Conley depot.

Gay Currie, volunteer work in
Richmond Hospital Colored Clinic.

Darleen Danielson, TVA, Chatta-
nooga.

Sunette Dyer, assistant computer
in the Ballistic Research Laboratory
at the Aberdeen Proving Ground.

Frances Ellis, statistician for the
Department of Agriculture, section
studying food shortages.

Kay Greene, research lab technician
for Fort Monmouth General Develop-
ment Laboratory, doing special work
with radio.

Sue Heldman, Conley depot, IBM
operator.

Jeanne Lee, working at Camp
Blanding, Florida, in one of the of-
fices.

Caroline Long, hospital technician
in Toledo, Ohio.

Mary Dean Lott, TVA photogram-
metrist.

Mary McQuown, member of the
WAVES.

Dot Miller, member of the WAVES.

Pat Reasoner, TVA at Wilson Dam
as technician.

Elizabeth Russell, chemist in Au-
gusta laboratory.

Mary James Seagle, War Price and
Rationing Board in Lincolnton, N. C.

Margaret Sheftall, secretary to
Chief Expeditor in the Office of Area
Engineer at Camp Gordon, Augusta.

Marjorie Simpson, IBM operator at
Conley depot.

Pete Stuckey, TVA photogrammet-
rist.

Betty Sunderland, Allowance and
Allotment Bureau of War Depart-

ment, in Newark, N. J.

Carolyn Taylor, Spanish transla-
tor for War Department in Miami.

Margaret Mary Toomey, govern-
ment chemical analyst.

Margaret Wade, chemist for Du-
Pont in Charleston, W. Va.

Virginia Watkins, government in-
vestigator.

Myree Wells is working in Davi-
son's, but gives three days a week
to the "dawn patrol" at the Filter
Center in Atlanta.

Olivia White, chemist of the
Huntsville, Alabama, arsenal.

The next largest group in the class
are those who have joined the famed
"66%"; nineteen members of the class
have added Mrs. to their B.A.s since
last June. Twelve of these lucky girls
are married to men in the service.
Sixteen members of the class are
teaching. Seven are working with the
Telephone Company, six in Atlanta
and one in New York City. Six are
taking business courses; five are do-
ing graduate work. Two each are
engaged in religious emphasis work,
hospital clerical work, and insurance
company clerical work. One is a
stylist for a prominent department
store; one is at Retail Credit; one is
librarian at a college; one is working
with a gas company and editing its
weekly paper, and one is on the stage
in New York City. Two members
of the class are not accounted for
in this poll of occupations.

Augusta Dunbar, '30, is now at Fort
McClellan, near Anniston, Alabama,
directing the Red Cross Center at
the Red Cross Station Hospital there.
Augusta had been a field supervisor
for WPA until Pearl Harbor, but
decided on December 7, 1941, to join
the staff of the Red Cross. She
was sent first to Fort Benning, as
assistant director, and remained there
two months before she was made a
director herself for Fort McClellan.
Her job is an executive one, concerned
not only with recreation for convales-
cent soldiers, but with the mainten-
ance of the Center and the thousand
details of its operation. The recrea-
tional director works under her direc-
tion, as well as a staff of other Red
Cross workers in addition to the local
volunteers. Augusta has taken grad-
uate work in social service at Colum-

bia, and at the University of Chicago
since her graduation from Agnes
Scott.

Lieutenant Martha Eskridge, '33,
one of the first group of officer
candidates to enter the WAAC train-
ing school in Des Moines last sum-
mer, is now assigned to the personnel
division of Colonel Oveta Culp Hob-
by, WAAC Headquarters Staff, in
Washington. After her graduation
last summer, Lieut. Eskridge was sent
to Springfield, Mass., as a member
of the Auxiliary Corps' recruiting
staff, and after a short time there
received the assignment to Colonel
Hobby's staff. Martha was director
of the personnel department at Ivey's
in Charlotte, after graduating from
Agnes Scott and Prince School in Bos-
ton.

Marjorie Fish, ex-'22, was one of
sixteen Red Cross workers to arrive
safely in Egypt recently, according to
an announcement made by the Amer-
ican Red Cross. The workers will
augment the Red Cross staffs now
operating in the field and in station
hospitals, where the Red Cross pro-
gram is being expanded to meet the
needs of the thousands of American
troops who have arrived recently in
Egypt. Marjorie was one of the two
field directors sent over.

Since her years at Agnes Scott,
Marjorie has attended the University
of Cincinnati and the New York
School of Social Workers. She has
been in welfare work for a number
of years, and prior to becoming as-
sociated with the Red Cross, was field
representative for the State Depart-
ment of Public Welfare in Savannah.
She has also been associated with the
Board of Social Welfare in Lakeland
and Leesburg, Fla.; the Federal Emer-
gency Relief administration in St.
Petersburg, Fla.; the Family Welfare
Society of Bethlehem, Pa. She was
at one time connected with the wel-
fare work in Tampa, Fla., and organ-
ized the Tampa Junior League. Before
sailing for Egypt she was stationed
at Fort Jay, N. Y. and Fort Bragg,
N. C. Marjorie is a sister of Vir-
ginia (Fish) Tigner, ex-'21, who lives
in Atlanta.

Cama (Burgess) Clarkson, '22, is
doing defense work in another sense,
and is two jumps ahead of most of

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The AGNES SCOTT ALUMNAE QUARTERLY

us, as she is working for the peace
to come after the war. Cama was
one of the delegates to the Delaware
Conference on a Just and Durable
Peace last March. She is constantly
out of town talking on this subject
to church and auxiliary groups.

Katherine (Leary) Holland, '3 0, is
working in a unit of the Aberdeen
Proving Ground Ballistic Research
Laboratory, in Philadelphia, as an assis-
tant computer. We quote: "There are
about fifty of us working here, un-
der the direct supervision of the Lab-
oratory at Aberdeen. Most of the
employees are from Philadelphia or
nearby cities. My work is on ballistic
computations, some on exterior bal-
listics and some on firing tables. I
spend my days filling up large sheets
of papers with numbers, and I really
mean filling up the page! For a
person like myself, with little inclina-
tion for mathematics, it isn't easy
but I'm not complaining for I feel
I'm doing my bit. With the coming
of Christmas I have been wishing
for a short vacation at home in De-
land, Florida, but it is quite busy
these days with the Navy sending so
many men there to the Air Base,
and the WAACS have really taken
over Daytona Beach, which is just
a short distance away."

Eloise Estes

Antony I he Agnes Scotters who will
graduate from the Officer Training
School at Northampton, Massachu-
setts, early in February are Helen Har-
die, '41, of Brazil and Miami, Florida;
Mary Landrum Johnson, '37, former
teacher in the Fulton County School
System; Eloise Estes, '3 8, of Deca-
tur; and Eugenia Bridges, '40, of At-
lanta, former member of the faculty
at the Georgia Evening School.

Mania Mansfield, '41, is a chemist
in one of the DuPont plants under
the Alabama Ordnance Works. Also
engaged in this type of work are
Julia McConnell, ex-'41, and Betty
Moore, ex-'43, who are at the Breean
plant nearby. When pressed for de-
tails about her work Marcia replied:
"I laughed when I read your letter
asking about details. Sorry to let
you down, but there are no details
for publication, since it is really of-
fense work. However there are a
few things that can be admitted. I
have just been transferred to a new
lab, so instead of testing material for
smokeless powder, I am working on
another type of explosive. There are
some curious regulations which may
interest you: we all wear glasses for
safety while we work; we can't run on
the reservation (safety hazard) unless
there is an explosion; we must go to
First Aid for even the slightest in-
jury; we must wash very carefully
before touching food, and many oth-
ers. We all have beautiful passes with
pictures on them that put the annual
pictures to shame. And as we go in
the gates the guards hold them up
to our faces and compare. Also they
ask for all matches, lighters, mechan-
ical pencils and fountain pens. At
least we can still carry lipsticks in.
All men get searched on entering the
plant and sometimes the girls do.
Very shortly I guess we'll all get
searched every time. We work shifts,
which means that I must get in by
10:30 so that I can change my clothes
and be ready to leave by 10:4S to
go out for midnight shift. Try it
sometime!"

Mary Elizabeth Chalmers, '40, is
chief of Civilian Personnel and Senior
Stenographer at the Army Office in
Dothan, Alabama.

Mary Eielyn Francis, '40, is work-
ing in the Charleston, S. C, Navy
yard.

Evelyn Baty, '40, is working three
hours three days a week at the Char-
lotte, N. O, filter center, which is
mighty heavy for her considering her
teaching schedule at Queens College.

Fannie G. (Mayson) Donaldson, '12,
is giving several mornings a week to
the Red Cross canteen in Atlanta, and
a most attractive picture of her in
uniform appeared in the Atlanta Jour-
nal of December 11.

Elizabeth Barrett, '41, is working
for the Military Intelligence depart-
ment of the U. S. Army, in New Or-
leans.

Lulu {White) Potter, ex-'lS, is

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Mary Landrum Johnson

chairman of the Home Service Volun-
teers of the Atlanta Chapter of the
Red Cross, and is also vice-chairman
of the Surgical Dressings unit. Lulu
comes by her aptitude for social serv-
ice easily, since her father, the late
Woods White of Atlanta, was con-
stantly interested in the problems of
men and women who, for one reason
or another, needed kindly assistance
in rising above obstacles of their own
weakness or adverse circumstances.
Consequently at an early age she began
to see social problems through the
eyes of a man who saw more deeply
than most people. Interest and apti-
ture could not have developed in
Mrs. Potter such qualities as make
her services to the Red Cross so valu-
able now, without training and ex-
perience. Through training given her
by the late Joseph C. Logan, direc-
tor of Atlanta's Associated Charities,
Mrs. Potter gained the advantages of
the professional viewpoint and the
professional experience in social ser-
vice. This was amplified by work
she did in the social service depart-
ment of the North Avenue Presby-
terian Church so that she now com-
bines both the attitude of the en-
thusiastic volunteer worker and that
of the well-trained professional case-
worker.

She now heads a division of Red
Cross in which only specially qualified
volunteers can be used. They are
chosen for those characteristics that
make for sympathetic understanding
of people and for experience that fits
them to carry forward the social serv-
ice activities that form the program
of the Home Service Corps. The work
of this division has expanded tremend-
ously in recent months. So great has
been the increased demand on the
home service department that the At-
lanta Chapter has found it necessary
to enclose a part of the veranda on
the north side of the Red Cross House

fan nary, 1943

11

in order to make more office space
for the workers, who in addition have
been scheduled for both day and
night work at headquarters. This in-
creased activity is due of course to
the war activities of the nation and
the consequent increase in needs of
service men and their families.

In her position as vice-chairman
of surgical dressings Mrs. Potter is
doing a more than ordinarily effective
piece of work. She not only likes
to supervise activities at the surgical
dressings headquarters, but she has
also assisted in teaching women from
many other states the required essen-
tials of Red Cross production in surgi-
cal dressings. Mrs. Potter was chosen
by Eastern Area Headquarters to
serve as area instructor for the states
of Mississippi, Louisiana, Kentucky,
Tennessee, South Carolina, Alabama
and Florida. Some months ago select-
ed delegates from these states were
brought to Atlanta for a three-day
period of training, at which Mrs.
Potter acted as instructor. Mrs. Pot-
ter also conducted a similar institute
at Columbus, Georgia, recently.

First Lieutenant Ruth Viriien, '22,
of Bellevue, Mississippi, was one of the
recent graduates of the WAAC train-
ing school at Des Moines. Ruth writes
that she was interviewed by First Of-
ficer Catherine (Happoldt) Jepson,
'33, and was in the class with Lieuten-
ant Martha Eskridge, '32. Ruth is now
assigned to the 81st WAAC Commun-
ications Company, Army Post Branch,
Des Moines, Iowa.

Ensign Sybil Grant, '34, finished her
course at the WAVE Training School
in Northampton on December 1 6, and
has been assigned to the Naval Air
Base at Jacksonville, Florida, for active
duty.

Lieutenant Janet Newton, '17, of
Augusta, also graduated on December
16, from the WAVES Training
School. Both Lt. Newton and Ensign
Grant were attached to the Mount
Holyoke Battalion.

We quote in part below from a
Christmas letter from Ensign Grant:

WAVE LENGTHS
Greetings:

It was a disappointment to learn
when we arrived at Northampton that
this group of ensigns would be trained
at Mount Holyoke. However we're
learning that we're lucky after all for
the j.g.'s at Smith march about 15
miles each day in going to classes and
meals, whereas we room and eat in the
same building and attend classes in an
adjoining building.

Our room, 406, is one of the best in
Rockefeller. It's true the stairs were
at first long and steep but once we

reached our dormer-windowed room,
we found it larger than most of the
others. We had heard that furnishings
were scant, but we couldn't know the
effect of walking into a room contain-
ing two double deck bunks, unmade,
and a table — nothing more. No chairs,
rugs, lamps, pictures — nothing. It was
like being served the carcass of the
turkey. However upon closer inspec-
tion we saw that things weren't so bad.
We found two ample closets with large
medicine chests for make-up kits.
Even if we hadn't had these, the pano-
ramic view of Gothic buildings and
the distant Berkshires would have
made up for everything. By now we're
quite comfortably situated in spite of

the fact that Katherine types her let-
ters while perched atop an impressive
tome, Naval Regulations, placed care-
fully on her steamer trunk, and climbs
into her top bunk by means of a lad-
der swiped from the hall.

Already we've become confused and
puzzled a number of times. This has
been partly due to the strange accents,
and partly to navy lingo. We live on
deck four which we reach by climbing
the ladder; we remain in our quarters,
sleep in a bunk, report to mess hall
where we eat food prepared in the gal-
ley. Our information comes from or-
ders posted or from the mate of the
deck (one of the ensigns who knows
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First Officer Catherine (Happoldt) Jepson, who left Decatur only last sum-
mer to enter training in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps at Fort Des
Moines, Iowa, is shown as she received the insignia of her new rank, equivalent
to that of captain in the Army. Colonel Charles Easterbrook, of WAAC head-
quarters in Washington, where Mrs. Jepson is on duty as a member of the
general staff, pinned on the bars. WAAC officer trainees graduate as third
officers, or second lieutenants. — Photo Courtesy, Atlanta Constitution.

from A Tower Window

Lecture Association Presents Two
Outstanding Speakers

Alfred Noyes, popular British poet
who was to have been resident poet on
the campus the week of Jan. 19, has
been forced to postpone his speaking
engagements here because of a seri-
ous illness. The date of the lectures
will be announced later.

During his stay he will speak
informally to various groups of stu-
dents and will meet with the girls
at luncheon and dinner. Mr. Noyes'
visit, thus, continues the tradition of
DuBose Heyward and Robert Frost
in past years.

Dr. Noyes came to this country
in 1940, after repeated Nazi bombard-
ments forced him to evacuate his
family from their home on the Isle
of Wight. He traveled extensively
in Canada before coming to the Uni-
ted States. He will be remembered
in Atlanta as the principal speaker of
the commencement exercises last June.

Public Lecture Association will pre-
sent Reinhold Niebuhr on May 5,
speaking on "The Nature and Des-
tiny of Man." Mr. Niebuhr is a
professor at Union Theological Sem-
inary in New York City and a dis-
tinguished author in the fields of poli-
tics and religion. His books include
Does Civilization Need Religion?,
Leaves from the Notebook of a Tamed
Cynic, Moral Man and Immoral So-
ciety, Reflection on the End of an
Era, An Interpreter of Christian Eth-
ics, Beyond Tragedy, Christianity and
Poucr Politics, and the Nature and
Destiny of Man.

Unusual Carol Service Highlights
Christmas Season
A chorus of 130 voices, composed
of the Agnes Scott and the Georgia
Tech Glee Clubs, under the direction
of Lewis H. Johnston of Agnes Scott
and Walter Herbert, of Tech, gave
two beautiful performances of Christ-
mas music just prior to the close of

school for the holidays. The first of
these was presented in Atlanta at the
First Baptist Church on December 6;
the second at the college in Gaines
Chapel on December 13.

The first part of the program con-
sisted of Christmas carols by the Ag-
nes Scott Glee Club, with solo parts
done by Jeanne Newton and Barbara
Connally, and violin obligato by Mary
Quigley. These were followed by a
group of carols by the combined
choirs. The later part of the program
was selections from the Messiah, with
solo parts sung by Helen Ardelle Mc-
Gee, Frances (Gilliland) Stukes, '24.
William Wyatt, and Walter Herbert.
Mr. C. W. Dieckmann presided at the
console of the organ.

Folio Revived by Freshmen Writers

The revival of "Folio," a writing
club which went out of existence on
the campus around 1926, will be of
interest to alumnae who at one time
were members of the club. "Folio"
is an English departmental club for
Freshmen, who submitted poems, es-
says and stories in try-out for mem-
bership. It is sponsored by Janef Pres-
ton, '21, and Clara Morrison, '35, of
the English department faculty, and
at present has 3 8 members.

The club is separated into four
workshop groups, each of these under
the direction of a member of B. O. Z.,
the creative writing club for upper-
classmen. The workshop groups meet
every other week, and present their
work for the intervening time for
criticism. An occasional general
meeting takes care of such business
as the group must decide.

The club was inaugurated in No-
vember in an effort to give the Fresh-
men interested in creative writing
some outlet for their talents and some
additional stimulus. Since Freshmen
are not allowed to try out for clubs
until spring quater, they could not
belong to BOZ until their sophomore
years. This group is another indica-
tion of the strong emphasis still be-
ing placed on the finer arts by the
students and faculty at Agnes Scott.
College Officials Attend Meetings

Dr. J. R. McCain and Dean S. G.
Stukes attended the 47th annual meet-
ing of the Southern Association of
Colleges and Secondary Schools which
was held in Memphis, Tennessee, No-
vember 30-December 2. Dr. McCain
attended the meeting of the Commis-

sion on Institutions of Higher Educa-
tion, the outcome of which meetings
was to decide whether or not the Uni-
versity of Georgia and other colleges
in the University system will be re-
turned to the accredited list. Mr.
Stukes participated in the Southern
Association of Colleges for Women,
and also the conference of Academic-
Deans of the Southern States.

Dr. McCain also attended the
meeting of the General Education
Board in New York City on Decem-
ber 3, and the meeting of Phi Beta
Kappa Senate in New York on De-
cember 10-11. One important func-
tion of this last meeting was to dis-
cuss the war policy of the organiza-
tion and such problems as whether or
not any applicants for Phi Beta Kappa
chapters should be considered now.
According to Dr. McCain, forty-five
applications have been received during
the last year.

Alumnae Committees Achievements
Two of the Alumnae Association
committees have done considerable
work on the House this fall, and the
results are most impressive. The House
Decorations Committee has at last
found the right mirror for the en-
trance hall, an antique-gold framed
oblong, which is perfect in the par-
ticular spot. A crystal chandelier,
reproduction of one in Mount Ver-
non, has been placed in the dining
room. Also added in the dining room
is a panel of hand painted Chinese
wall paper, which has been put on
the north wall, opposite the windows.
The Second Floor Committee has
completely furnished one room. An
easy chair in an attractive floral de-
sign, a Wedgewood reading lamp, two
Dubonnet rugs, and two floral prints
have completed the guest room known
as the pink room. New organdie cur-
tains have been purchased for other
rooms in the House, too.

The Tea Room Committee has lim-
ited its decorating to the dyeing of
the pongee pull curtains already hang-
ing in the Tea Room. They are now
a soft old-rose shade, most effective
with the pale green walls and wood-
work.

New Student Loan Chairman Added to
Executive Board

Julia Pratt (Smith) Slack, ex-'12,
has been appointed student loan
chairman, to fill the vacancy created
by the resignation of Mary (Malone)
Martin, '37.

Agnes Scott's Eighteenth
Founder's Day Broadcast

I f londauj ^jreoruaru 22, 1943

Tune in on WSB and join the seven thousand alumnae who will be observing the
birthday of our founder with us. In all patriotism, we cannot urge you to travel long
distances to attend the group meetings which will be held, but we do hope that you
and the alumnae who are your neighbors will be together and listening in at this time.

Group meetings are being planned in all the cities where we have large groups of
alumnae, and notices of the exact time of the program will be sent to these program
chairmen as soon as the time is scheduled.

If you are a "lone alumna" or one of a few in a small town, and would like to be
notified of the exact hour of the program, just let the Alumnae Office know by Febru-
ary 15, and we will gladly send you all publicity. We can't suggest that you have a
coffee, or even a Coca-Cola party under the circumstances, but wc can suggest that you
have a few friends in to tune in with you. There is no rationing of good fellowship,
and there never will be in America!

Remember the Station!

WSB, Atlanta Journal Station

(740 Kilocycles)

AGNES SCOTT

ALUMNAE QUARTERLY

APRIL, 19 43

TABLE OF CONTENTS

To Our Readers 1

So Much to Remember 2

Betty Jones, '43

They Burned the Books (quotation) Reprinted from Scholastic 2

Stephen Vincent Benet

May We Present 3

Selma (Gordon) Furman, cx-'24; Lucia Murchison, '22; Virginia (White) Barnes, ex-' 1 S;

Mary D. (Zenor) Palmer, Institute; Margaret Watson, '37.

From a Toner Window 6

Founder's Day, 1943 7

Challenge to College Women 9

They Gave to Others 10

Margaret Ridley, '3 3

//; Memoriam ID

Concerning Ourselves 11

Lecture Announcement 20

Front Cover 20

May Queen 21

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is second class matter under the

TO OUR READERS

The Alumnae Association is introducing two new mem-
bers this month — Miss Margaret Ridley, who is President
of the Association, and Miss Harriotte Brantley, who has
recently come to take Nelle Chamlee Howard's place as
Executive Secretary.

' Margaret Ridley, of the class of '3 3, is a well known
figure in this section. Always pleasant, friendly, and ready
to help, she is richly fulfilling the promise of her college
years. "Mardie" was President of Student Government
during her senior year, May Day chairman her junior year,
and an active member of
Blackfriars. Since gradua-
tion she has been Treasurer
of the Alumnae Associa-
tion, and at present is do-
ing excellent work as a
teacher at Girl's High.

Harriotte Brantley, '32,
comes from Blackshear,
Georgia where she served
as a teacher of social sub-
jects in the High School
for a number of years im-
mediately after graduating
from college, and later
worked in an insurance
office. She spent some time
last fall in Jacksonville
where she was engaged in
defense work and was tak-
ing a business course. Har-
riotte was House President
of Inman her senior year
at Agnes Scott, and was a
member of K.U.B. and the
Cotillion Club.

It will certainly be apro-
pos here to extend to Nelle
Howard sincere and heart-
felt thanks for her splen-
did work during those
years when she so gra-
ciously and capably filled
the office of Alumnae Sec-
retary. A charming, poised, and competent person she has
the good wishes of all those with whom she has come in
contact — students, faculty, alumnae, and friends of the
college.

Dear Alumna,

Spring is the season when every Agnes Scott graduate
takes a moment from her busy, well ordered routine to do
a bit of dreaming and reminiscing about college days. Per-
haps her thoughts center on May Day in the Dell, or on the
feverish fun of Senior Opera, or they may dwell on some
quieter moment that was so full of friendship and under-
standing, the very spirit of our college. No matter what

MARGARET RIDLEY

the instance, the memory is always stimulating.

In past years, the Alumnae Association has urged each
one of you to return to the campus so that with class-mates
you might relive your particular June and exchange notes
on the "adventures" that followed. This year, at the
request of Secretary Morgenthau and Joseph B. Eastman,
director of the Office of Defense Transportation, Agnes
Scott is cooperating with other colleges and universities
by curtailing some commencement activities. Because
we wish "to help ease the terrific strain on the coun-
try's transportation sys-
tems," we are foregoing
the class reunions. The
war alone prevents us
from carrying on as usual,
and for the first time our
spring Quarterly does not
carry the dates for special
reunion parties.

Since we cannot be to-
gether on the campus, we
are urging that local clubs
make a special effort to
hold spring meetings and
through them to renew
the same old commence-
ment spirit. It will help us
all to make plans now for
our first gathering in a
peaceful future. Why not
mark the very next bond
you buy, "My trip to Ag-
nes Scott in a not too
distant spring"?

Those of us who are
near the college are striv-
ing to keep alive and un-
changed the traditions and
spots that you love. We
want you to know that
the Alumnae House is as
inviting as ever, your wel-
come on the campus as
warm as in calmer years,
and a place is waiting just for you if business or Uncle Sam
brings you this way. Moreover, Harriotte Brantley, our
new alumnae secretary, will greet you personally in her own
gracious manner and make you know how glad we all are
that you have come.

Please write to us and tell us what you are doing.
Through a newsy summer Quarterly we may have a de-
lightful exchange of "visits" though the miles intervene
and the O.D.T. discourages traveling for pleasure.

Most sincerely yours,

Margaret Ridley, '3 3,
President of the Alumnae Association.

^o if/uck ^J o r\ememb

er

Betty Jones, '43

Some one has said that memory is life's clock. I like that.
I like to think that a long time from now I am going to be
able to measure the minutes, and hours, and days that I
have spent on the accurate timepiece of my memory. I
want it to be accurate. The big hand must point to those
unexpected moments of understanding deepened by sudden
realization. The small hand must point to a grown up me
in the first "formal"; to the glimpse of a faraway ocean,
seen for the first time; to a dash of sunlight in my room;
to the quirk of a smile and the sudden turn of a head I
love — all the moments that I shall measure into the stretch
of years on the face of my clock.

There is so much to remember: hot summer nights play-
ing in the streets, school with sand tables and shuffle relay;
the surprise of growing up, and one day before the surprise
is gone — college. College is four years on the clock, college
is time that we are forever going to reach until suddenly we
are living it.

Agnes Scott may mean a hundred different things to
each of us. Each will have a private store of whatever she
has gathered to fill her "going away" bag. But the memory
of certain things, and people, and places, certain ideas and
ideals that make a school distinctly and proudly itself,
belong to no years, but to all years — these are memories to
be shared.

Agnes Scott is a Monday morning with coats and hair
flying in the sharp wind coming around the corners of
Buttrick. It is the hockey field where voices are hoarse with
screaming; it is the pound of a basketball in the gym. It is
"lights out", and early morning cramming; the scratch
of pens and wads of tortured paper. It is cracker crumbs
in bed, and the rustle of paper on a package from home. It
is a Freshman tired from walking up and down a thousand
stairs, a Freshman bewildered by so many new, animated
faces, a Freshman writing volumes to everyone. It is a
Freshman, and a Sophomore, and a Junior, and a Senior
beginning and enlarging the pattern of Main Tower against
the sky, the quiet dignity of Presser and the lighted win-
dows of the Library, the purpose of Buttrick; a pattern of
voices, and contacts, and friendships, and exchangeable
ideas.

Agnes Scott is chapel with letters slipped in and out of
notebooks; the swelling comfort of hymns that are easy and
familiar; somebody in the choir smiling at somebody who
is not. It is Decatur, a movie, a walk, and sudden angry
clouds. It is snow, unexpected and rare, bringing squeals
and nonchalant, "It happens all the time in New York."

In the Fall Agnes Scott is Seniors in caps and gowns, two
long lines of whispered confusion. "Who belongs where?"
Two long lines of people hearing, and giving new meaning
to the strains of "Ancient of Days." In the Spring it is sun
baths and bright new freckles. It is the book store for
crackers and cokes and conversation, the tea house, and the
drug store just around the corner.

Agnes Scott is a street car, important and loud and inde-
pendent, passing miles of railroad tracks on the way to
Atlanta. It is skating in the gym, and plays and concerts
in Presser; it is exams never to be survived; it is sleepy after
lunch classes when the air is warm and still outside; it is
the sudden panic of not knowing an answer, the swift con-

fidence of a head brim full and paper blank and waiting.
It is notes on the bulletin board, and the mail room full and
buzzing.

Agnes Scott is a pride in certain intangible things that
can never be measured — "more surely mine, being not pos-
sessed." It is the beauty and strength of religion; it is
fellowship, the joy of sharing tasks and recreation; it is the
satisfaction of scholarship and the beginning of knowing
what is meant by "freedom of the mind."

Agnes Scott is these and a hundred other things. It is
nothing that has not been said before, and everything. It
has been almost four years on my timepiece, and now the
seconds whirl by too quickly, and June and Commence-
ment are reaching the proportions of reality. I must turn
my head often for a look behind me at the things I love. A
long time from now I shall still be measuring the minutes,
and hours, and days of college on my memory.

"This battle is not just a battle of lands,

A war of conquest, a balance-of -power war.

It is a battle for the mind of man

Not only for his body. It will decide

What you and you and you can think and say,

Plan, dream and hope for in your inmost minds

For the next thousand years.

Decide whether man goes forward toward the light,

Stumbling and striving, clumsy — but a man —

Or back to the dark ages, the dark gods.

The old barbaric forest that is fear.

Books are not men, and yet they are alive.

They are man's memorv and his aspiration,

The link between his present and his past,

The tools he builds with, all the hoarded thoughts,

Winnowed and sifted from a million minds.

Living and dead to guide him on his way."

— From Stephen Vincent Bcnet's Drama, "They Burned the
Books." Quotation reprinted from Scholastic, The
American High School Weekly, September 14-19, 1942;
page 26.

MAY WE PRESENT

Among the many files in the Alumnae Office is one listed
as "professional". Here are kept the names of our Agnes
Scotters engaged in all sorts of professions. There are adver-
tisers and aviatrixes, lecturers and lawyers, statisticians and
technicians. And so from time to time we would like to
introduce to you various members of this professional
group. May we present:

Selma Gordon, (Mrs. Max Furman), of the class of
ex-'24, who writes of her experiences along the trail of
becoming a Buyer:

"My career as a Buyer is studded with many humorous
and interesting episodes; but to me the strangest is the
story of how I chose that career in the first place, and the
gradual change that the career made in my original con-
ception of what the job entailed. Perhaps you "Aggies"
might be interested.

"A friend and I, both carefree newlyweds, were shopping
one afternoon, trying to spend our husbands' money as
judiciously as possible. In due course our conversation
turned to the happy life of a department store Buyer v1 o
is paid a substantial salary for spending the unlimited funds
of her employer on beautiful things. The idea grew on us
as we talked, and soon we decided to put thought into
action by applying at Macy's for a job.

"We soon learned in our interview with the efficient but
highly amused Employment Executive that you could not
even be an Assistant Buyer without certain essential com-
mercial experience. My friend became discouraged, but I
stuck to it and took the first step in the ladder of success
by becoming a Comparison Shopper. For the uninitiated,
this consists of being a sort of a 'Snooper' to determine
whether your employer's competitors are selling comparable
articles for less than he is. I found this work interesting,
but soon learned that it pays very little and leads to prac-
tically no advancement. But I gained a wealth of experi-
ence in judging values of merchandise and the qualities that
make merchandise desirable.

"To get closer to my goal, I became a salesgirl in the
dress department. I then learned 'what Macy's customers
wanted'. Strangely, the things I liked most were spurned
by my customers who chose things that I never would have
bought for myself. I learned that Buyers rarely buy the
things they like, but rather what their customers want.
Simple as this axiom seems now, its revelation to me de-
stroyed my early dreams of buying just pretty things.

"After some months of this I applied for and soon was
promoted to a position called 'Head of Stock'. Here I
gathered more commercial wisdom as I was taught that the
Buyer could not buy as much and as often as she pleased.
Instead, she must keep her inventory in such condition that
she is 'open to buy'. Once this technical and delicate bal-
ance is destroyed, the Buyer might just as well resign before
her merchandise manager fires her.

"More than a year elapsed before a vacancy occurred
and I was advanced to the exalted position of 'Assistant
Buyer', a Junior Executive. I was most elated and proud
at this recognition. Actually however, my time was prin-
cipally consumed with being a super saleswoman as I was
at the beck and call of each of the salesgirls in my depart-
ment to help clinch difficult sales. My only contact outside
of the store was in cajoling manufacturers to rush deliv-
eries of some merchandise or at other times holding deliv-
eries off when we were not ready to accept them. I have

heard manufacturers define Assistant Buyers as 'mice train-
ing to be rats'. Maybe so, but I found this training hard
work. Thus far, after some three or four years of appren-
ticeship, I had not even been sent to a manufacturer's office,
or bought a thing.

"Aside from doing all the unpleasant jobs that my 'boss'
detested doing himself, my principal responsibility was to
learn 'what the customers wanted'; this I gathered from
my conversations with them and the salespersons, and from
watching the fast moving merchandise. As soon as my
impressions were formulated, I transmitted them to my
buyer.

"And then after five years of preparation I became a
full fledged Buyer. At last, I was free to go out in the
market and spend thousands and thousands of dollars in
the course of a year on beautiful clothes and lovely things.
By now, however, I had learned that my Buyer's job is
principally a selling one, strange as it all seems to the lay-
man, and that I could not indulge myself at all, despite
all this money that was at my command. Alas! the things
that I buy must go on some other woman's back. She
lives a different life from mine, in another environment.
She looks different, and her husband's tastes differ from
mine. She uses her clothes for a different purpose, and
expects more or less utility from them. I must find out
all of these facts about my customer and supply her with
the garments that will fulfill her requirements.

"Department store buying is like a continuous race. The
contest consists of selling the volume which has been set
by a progressive merchandise manager. This figure is
often ten or fifteen per cent higher than that of the corre-
sponding day last year. Naturally, the more my depart-
ment sells, the more I am 'open to buy'.

"But meeting these progressive increases in quotas set for
you means a greater goal for the next year. This becomes
the bugaboo of a Buyer's dreams. Eventually the depart-
ment's volume reaches a saturation point, dependent on the
store's limitations, and the Buyer cannot push it any higher.
But other Buyers in other stores have also reached their
saturation points and are 'on their way out'. And so you
swap jobs.

"Conditions in the markets change each season, each
month. Now there is a shortage of goods, whereas a few
years ago my problem was principally selling the goods my
manufacturers begged me to purchase.

"There are problems of 'when to anticipate demand' and
'when to take a loss on merchandise to prevent a greater
loss in the future'. I have to cope with personalities in
my own department and in other departments in my store
as well as with my merchandise managers and the manu-
facturers. These furnish disturbing situations daily; never-
theless, my contact with these problems, and the method
with which I have dealt with them, have formed for me a
background of experience that serves me in good stead in
handling my daily problems, both in business and in my
personal affairs.

"Today, I am astounded at the simplicity of my early
conception of the duties of a Buyer. I knoiv now the
amount of knowledge, shrewdness, backaches, headaches,
disappointments, and failures that combine to make a suc-
cessful Buyer; yet I love it. I have learned much, and
have become more understanding of other people and their
problems."

The AGNES SCOTT ALUMNAE QUARTERLY

Lucia Murchison, class of '22, Director, Bureau of Social
Service in Washington, D. C. Lucia writes:

"The Health Department in the District of Columbia is
responsible for an over-all public health program. In 193 8
the Health Officer, Dr. George C. Ruhland, had the wisdom
and vision to inaugurate a social service program in the
health department. Washington was the second city in the
country to organize its social services into a bureau in its
city health department, Los Angeles being the first. The
social workers are available to assist those sick persons whose
social or economic needs keep them from receiving medical
care or getting the best benefits from their medical care,
or from carrying out the doctor's recommendations.

"The social service staff consists of a director, three
supervisors and twenty social workers. As director, it is
my duty to develop the policies and procedures for the gen-
eral operation of the bureau, to set up the qualifications,
responsibilities and duties of the personnel, to select the
personnel (the educational qualifications for the positions
are a bachelor's degree plus two years of graduate study in
an approved school of social work) to serve in a consul-
tative capacity to the local health and welfare agencies, to
assist in correlating community resources with medical
social service needs of patients.

"At the present time in the Bureau of Maternal and
Child Welfare, social service is giving service to patients
who attend the maternal clinics of the Health Department.
Such problems as lack of income, inability for the unmar-
ried mother to plan for the period of enforced unemploy-
ment caused by pregnancy, or for the baby after it comes,
emotional stress of having a baby out of wedlock, and lack
of understanding on the part of the family, compose the
majority of the reasons for referral of the maternity cases.

"Children known to the Child Health centers are referred
because of evidence of inadequate care, need of temporary
or permanent removal from their own parents, or inability
of the parents to provide special diets or items necessary
to the child for health or development. The handicapped
children's services which are administered in the Bureau of
Maternal and Child Welfare social services are so essential
in the work with orthopedic and cardiac that every new
patient admitted to the clinic is seen by the social worker.
Where there is evidence that the patient's or his parents'
attitudes and capabilities are such that it is likely to inter-
fere with his treatment, the social worker works with the
doctor and the public health nurse to insure the best pos-
sible results from medical care.

"Since the Health Department is responsible for the
administration of its city hospitals, the admission of pa-
tients for free medical care from the standpoint of financial
and residence eligibility is the responsibility of the social
workers assigned to the Hospital Permit Bureau of the
Health Department. In addition the workers have to
authorize the admission of indigent cases to three private
hospitals with which the District of Columbia has a con-
tract to pay for their care, and authorize admission for
District of Columbia patients to the Freedmen's Hospital
(Federal hospital for negro patients).

"The social workers in the Gallinger Municipal Hospital
and Glenn Dale Sanitorium (tuberculosis) work with the
doctors to assist the patient to meet the social problems
that arise because of his illness and often-times because of
his long stay in the hospital. The social worker has to assist
in such problems as arranging for food and shelter for
those patients who arc leaving the hospital and have no

economic resource or family to plan for them, straightening
out home conditions that worry patients and prevent them
from getting well, arranging for changes of occupation and
rehabilitation when necessary, assisting the patient to accept
his diagnosis and the doctor's recommendation for treat-
ment, obtaining social histories for the doctors to assist in
establishing medical diagnosis. This last function is most
important in the psychiatric service of the hospitals.

"During the past year I have had the privilege of being
chairman of two projects that are directly related to the
war effort and I think show very clearly the participation
of medical social workers in community planning. I be-
lieve a short description of these projects would be of
interest.

"The first project is the work with Selective Service
Draft Boards. The District of Columbia Selective Service
Headquarters designated officially the Public Assistance
Division of the Board of Public Welfare as the Selective
Service Referral Center to handle all requests for informa-
tion and investigations referred by the local Draft Boards.
The Public Assistance Division organized operating units
of professional social workers giving volunteer time to
investigate the cases in which the registrant claimed defer-
ment because of dependents, and the delinquent cases in
which the registrant has failed to report for examination
or fails to perform within the required time any duty
imposed upon him by the selective service law. The medical
social workers from our service and from the private hos-
pitals in the city composed one of the units. It is most
gratifying to report that approximately sixty per cent of
the delinquent cases were located and their failure to com-
ply, for the most part, was due to lack of understanding
the instructions, and incorrect addresses.

"The other project is the volunteer service of medical
socail workers in the Emergency Medical Service and Cas-
ualty Information Service of the Office of Civilian Defense.
The medical social workers have been assigned to fourteen
hospitals in the city to give volunteer service in the event of
enemy action or any large scale disaster necessitating the
services of Civilian Defense."

Editor's Note: According to Miss Murchison, social
workers are needed in many fields. Information on the
subject may be obtained by writing to The American
Association of Schools of Social Work, Miss Leone Massoth,
4200 Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa., and to The American
Association of Medical Social Workers, 205 W. Wacker
Drive, Chicago, Illinois.

Virgin/a White (Mrs. Robert H. Barnes), of the class of
ex-' 18, who teaches art at the State College for Women in
Montevallo, Alabama.

In addition to her teaching, Mrs. Barnes is a portrait
painter and her work includes portraits of: Dr. Brock and
Miss Tutwiler at the State Teacher's College in Livingston,
Alabama; Governor William Brandon, whose portrait hangs
in the State Capitol; Dr. Lee Turlington of Birmingham;
and Dr. Alfred Frasier of Dothan. Mrs. Barnes is now
painting two portraits which go to Asheville, North Caro-
lina. In the past few years she has won one prize from the
Birmingham Art Club, two from the Alabama Art League,
and two from the Alabama Water Color Society. Mrs.
Barnes is also the author of several articles which were pub-
lished, her subject being "Art Education".

April, 1943

One in a very different kind of vocation, Occupational
Therapy: Mrs. Mary D. Zenor Palmer, of the Institute.
And here is her contribution:

"Occupational Therapy is that form of treatment which
includes any occupation, mental or physical, definitely pre-
scribed and guided for the distinct purpose of contributing
to, and hastening, recovery from disease or injury, and of
assisting in the social and institutional adjustment of indi-
viduals requiring long and indefinite periods of hospitaliza-
tion. In the administering of this type of treatment, pre-
scriptions are as necessary as in any other form of treat-
ment.

"The practice in a Veterans' Bureau Hospital is — before
beginning any patient in Occupational Therapy, we are
required to have a clinical record signed by his Ward Doctor
stating diagnosis, mental attitude, present condition and
progress, along with the number of hours the patient is to
work, and usually the type of work.

"In our own General Hospital, at Fort Harrison, Mon-
tana, we have a shop where all the ambulant patients are
allowed to work; this is in charge of a shop aide. Here the
patients do wood-working, leather-work, basketry, metal
crafts, etc. They seem to like leather work and weaving
better than any other crafts. I'll mention a few specific
cases; one chair-ridden patient, scarcely able to move his
hands because of arthritis, has made more than 500 yarn
caps of every kind, on a round rake. Another case with a
broken back has had much pleasure and profit making
sweaters and scarfs on a rake. For nervous cases, weaving
is invaluable. We have had many cases to prove this. One
patient made thirty or more rag and roving rugs on the
large loom in the shop. He seemed happy and contented
when at work, as weaving was soothing to him. Generally
speaking, weaving is a good craft for many types of dis-
ability, for it gives exercise often greatly needed, and con-
tributes to the co-ordination of mind and muscles.

"While our work is not pre-vocational, many do carry
on after leaving the hospital, and are able to make a living
with the crafts they learned here. Many of the patients can
sell the articles they make; however, in Occupational
Therapy, the commercial side is the least of it. The thera-
peutic benefit they receive while making an article is of
paramount importance. Of course, the more interesting
and constructive the problem, the more value it holds
therapeutically.

"To quote from an address given by Miss Helen Seeley
at the California State Association of Occupational Thera-
pists: 'Just as the greatest values of life are not tangible,
so it is impossible to label every article with its full sig-
nificance. They are only by-products of Occupational
Therapy, — a means to some definite end. We wish that
every article were accompanied by a chart giving even
crudely its therapeutic value. One article might tell of the
diminishing of destructiveness of an excited patient or the
apathy of one who was deteriorated. Perhaps a series of
projects might tell of an orthopedic case and show the
rate of improvement in the function of a disabled member
by means of measuring devices and carefully kept data.
One piece in the exhibit might tell of the improved mental
attitude produced in a tuberculosis or otherwise chronic
case. One might have given the doctor a definite clue, by

the physical or mental action produced. Another, by bring-
ing to light an undeveloped interest or talent to be of use
later for the patient's retaining it in a vocation.' "

Margaret Watson, class of '37, who has combined an
interesting vocation with an equally interesting avocation.
She writes:

"My apologies for waiting so long to answer, but I've
been working for daily newspapers so long I'm wedded to
the habit of beating a deadline by a few minutes. I hope
this will beat your deadline, but I can't provide any inter-
esting 'copy' on myself as a flier now.

"As you know, the army has grounded all civilian flying
in the coastal areas except the Civil Air Patrol. The patrols,
such as the one here, which have ocean to cover, take no
women pilots, so, since last summer, I have been a 'dodo'- —
(bird who can't fly).

"I got my private pilot's license in Charleston in Octo-
ber, 1941, taking flying lessons in my home town and com-
pleting my course after I came here to work on The News
and Courier. Home town is Greenwood, S. C.

"Flying is my first love as an avocation — newspapering
is still tops as a vocation. My first solo flight, however, was
even more of a thrill than my first page one byline!

"My flying 'career', while fascinating to me, was un-
eventful— no hairbreadth escapes or forced landings, yet!
I try to follow my instructor's advice — 'Don't try to be
the best pilot — just the oldest!'

"I've had some interesting cross-country flights when I
did some of the flying, and a few when I was chief pilot.
The longest was a week-end flight from Greenwood to
Miami where I helped as navigator. That was before I was
qualified to do any of the piloting. My license is only for
the small, low-powered planes — 'animated paper bags', they
have been called, — but I feel a great affection for Piper
Cubs, because I know how to fly them.

"As soon as I can, after the war, I want to start flying
again, and my ambition is to own a plane some day — one
that's big enough for me and a passenger or two.

"Many women fliers are doing swell jobs in the war pro-
gram, and if there comes a time when my limited knowl-
edge and experience in flying will be of use, then I hope
I'll be able to take to the air again.

"On The News and Courier I replaced a man who was
off to the wars, and my job is the kind not often held by a
woman. I'm on the copy desk, taking turns on the sports
desk and the 'telegraph' desk, which latter handles all the
news coming in from other places, via Associated Press and
United Press teletypes.

"I select copy to be used in the paper, edit it, and write
headlines. It is very interesting and is quite different from
reporting, which I did when I first started on a newspaper.
I'm still not sure which I like best. A 'two-in-one' com-
bination where I could do some reporting and some editing
would be the perfect answer!

"Although I was never in the least athletic, I enjoy work-
ing on the sports section, and have acquired quite a 'sport-
ing' vocabulary. But my athletic activity is still confined
to description rather than participation!"

from A Tower Window

Founder's Day Radio Program

Jean Bailey and
Roberta Winter,
working together,
helped to give us a
splendid radio pro-
gram this year.
The program was
scheduled for
10:15 P. M. over
station WGST, and
less than an hour
before that time
Dr. McCain, Miss
Scandrett, and Miss
Margaret Ridley
were sitting around
a small table, with
a "Mike" in the
center, reading over
their scripts. Radio men bustled in and out, and there was
the last minute flurry that always makes you feel things
can never be worked out in a million years. And then
the hands of the big clock over your head were making
a pie-shaped piece of time, and the announcer was saying,
"Today was Founder's Day at Agnes Scott College," and
the program had begun. Miss Scandrett said: "So tonight
we are reporting to you on this year that the college has
just completed, and announcing our credo as an educatoinal
institution in a nation at war today with eyes firmly fixed
on the peace of tomorrow."

The minutes were ticking off Dr. McCain's familiar and
loved voice as he closed his address: "And so in its philoso-
phy of life, the college of liberal arts is not as concrete in
its teachings as a business college or a law school or an
officers training school, but it does claim that it deals with
the elements of human life that are eternal and that are
vital. It claims to represent the true welfare and happiness
of the human race. It claims to represent the best for
which the United Nations stand. It claims to be a real
participant in this war. It believes that it will be the
victor."

And then Miss Scandrett again: "As I think back
through all of this, the thing that keeps coming to my
mind is what Thornton Wilder says so ably in his modern
fantasy, "The Skin of Our Teeth" — that throughout the
ages man may suffer successive cataclysms — ice, flood,
wars — but that he will continue to live through them and
rise above them; and that one of the few things he instinc-
tively clings to is knowledge."

The fifteen minutes were almost gone and Miss Ridley
was saying: "We cannot repeat often enough the words of
welcome that await you whenever you return to the college
for a visit. We leave you with our best wishes and the
memorable melody of the Alma Mater ringing across the
quadrangle and on into a fifty-fourth year for Agnes Scott
College."
Faculty Review

On Saturday night, March 6, students and visitors on
the Campus were privileged to view the Faculty in action
— 80 souls — in a Revue entitled, "Our Day — and Welcome
to It". The purpose was to raise funds for the Red Cross.
There were three scenes — Ante Bellum, Bellum, and Post
Bellum. Program notes explain: "Be it understood that, as

advertised, this Revue embraces all of human life and cov-
ers a great span of time — how great, one may only guess,
since it shows the past, present and future, and since no
one knows how long the future will last. Action in Parts
One and Two are drawn from actual events and circum-
stances; the rules read in the faculty meeting are lifted
verbatim from old Agnes Scott catalogues, and so on. The
story is that of the rise, fall and partial restoration of
faculty rule on the Agnes Scott campus. This historical
theme sweeps the action along to a powerful, to say the
least, climax."

There were no mishaps — all ante-bellum students and
teachers escaped injuries which might have resulted from a
fall over "1890" skirts; the Faculty managed to reach a
satisfactory conclusion on the harrassing problem of what
should be done with students who ran away from classes
on April 1, and spent the day nibbling sweets and playing
leapfrog; the First Aid scene was rushed successfully to its
horrendous clamix; and a beneficent St. Peter, with long
white beard and long white robe, admitted more or less
deserving mortals to a Paradise where an angel teacher flew
(by courtesy of Mr. James, consultant on staging) to meet
her eager angel students on a "Happy, Happy Examination
Day."

The production was under the direction of Miss Roberta
Winter, and was written by: Miss Ackerman, Mrs. Rhodes,
Miss Alexander, Miss Hutchens, and Miss Winter, with ad-
ditional lyrics by Miss McDougall. Proceeds turned over
to the Red Cross amounted to $160.45.

Debate Team

Victorious in three out of four of their clashes, Agnes
Scott's debate team tied with three other colleges for first
place in the North Georgia intercollegiate debate tourna-
ment held February 25th-26th at Emory University. Du-
plicate awards will go to Agnes Scott, Emory, North Geor-
gia, and Piedmont colleges.

The debate question concerned the formation of a world
federation to bring peace to a post-war world. The subject
will be discussed at the Grand Eastern tournament to con-
vene April 7th- 10th at Charlotte, North Carolina. There
will be representatives from all the southeastern states,
including Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida,
and South Carolina. Agnes Scott will be represented by
Cathy Steinback, president of the club, Elaine Kuniansky,
Claire Bennett, and Ruth Kolthoff.

Dr. Posey To Take Place of Dr. Davidson in History Department

Dr. Walter B. Posey, present head of the department of
history at Birmingham-Southern, will come to Agnes
Scott next September to fill the vacancy left by the resig-
nation of Dr. Phillip Davidson, professor of history.

Dr. Posey is a graduate of the Universty of Chicago,
having received his Ph.D. there in 1923. He holds an
Ll.b. from Cumberland University, and an M.A. and a
Ph.D. from Vanderbilt. He is a Phi Beta Kappa and an
O.D.K.

May Court

Mabel Stowe of Belmont, North Carolina, has been
elected this year's May Queen. Mabel is the sister of
Mary Margaret (Stowe) Hunter who graduated with the
Class of '36.

Other members of the May Court are: Seniors: Betty
Brougher, Hester Chafin, Ann Hilsman, Marjorie Wilson;
juniors: Julia Harvard, Martha Rhodes, Robin Taylor;
Sophomores: Virginia Lee Brown, Joyce Freeman, Nancy
Moses, Julia Scott Newell; Freshmen: Gloria Ann Melchor,
Annette Neville.

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ALABAMA

Annistou: The Anniston Club met
at the home of Frances (Steele) Gor-
dy for a seated tea. No plans were
made to meet regularly because so
many of the members have perman-
ent jobs or are doing Red Cross work.
Many more had planned to attend,
but at the last minute had to
help with the rationing. Those pres-
ent were: Frances (McDonald)
Moore, Elizabeth (Shepherd) Knox,
Addie (McCaa) Butler, Weenona
(Peck) Booth, Carolyn (Sproull)
Knight, Rosa (White) Horn, Virginia
Ordway, Katherine DeHart, Susie
Blackmon, Estelle Bryan.

Birmingham: Louise ( A b n e y )
Beach was in charge of getting the
Birmingham Group together, and she
did a splendid job. She writes that
she nearly wore out her telephone, but
got twenty-three Agnes Scotters to
come — the largest crowd for several
years. They met at Mary Beard's Tea
Room and particularly enjoyed the
records. They'd like a movie for next
year.

FLORIDA
Coral Gables: Montie (Sewell)
Burns sends in a good report. We
quote: "Just a note to say that our
meeting was very satisfactory consid-
ering the competition we had — gas
rationing, registering for Ration Book
No. 2, sick babies, and a Heifetz con-
cert. We had twelve present and
we all enjoyed it very much. Miss
Smith was here with us. She is a won-
derful person and seems the same as
she did eighteen years ago." Montie
sent in some very interesting clip-
pings with Alumnae news.

Orlando: The Orlando Club meet-
ing got a splendid write-up in the
local papers. We quote: "Agnes Scott
alumnae met Monday for the annual
Founder's Day luncheon. Those pres-
ent were Imogene (Allen) Booth, of
Tavares, chairman, and her sister,
Mary Allen, of Decatur, who is visit-
ing her and who is a recent graduate
of Agnes Scott; Grace (Bargeron)
Rambo; Lou Ella (Griffin) Williams
who went to Agnes Scott the first
year it was a college; Cynthia (Pace)
Radcliffe; Faustelle (Williams) Ken-
nedy; Mary (Hyer) Dale of Winter
Garden, who has two sons serving in
the armed forces, one in North Africa
and the other stationed in Kansas;
Mary (Jarman) Nelson. Mrs. Nelson

is the author of a book for small chil-
dren entitled 'Fun With Music'." Imo-
gene Booth says that Grace, who lives
in Orlando, was responsible for the
meeting. She contacted the alumnae
in town and made the arrangements
for lunch."

Tallahassee: The Tallahassee Group
had an informal tea at F.S.C.W. at
five o'clock on Founder's Day. Lib
Forman sends in the names of those
attending: Alberta (Palmour) Mc-
Millan, Bernice Beaty, Mrs. Clive
Cross, Mrs. A. C. Kelly, Edith Eliza-
beth Lynn.

Tampa: Ellen (Allen) Irsch wrote
that the Tampa Club held a meeting
on Founder's Day which was very
much enjoyed. There were eleven
alumnae present, and the president,
Violet (Denton) West, had an inter-
esting program. A gift from the
Tampa Club to the Alumnae House is
greatly appreciated.

GEORGIA

Atlanta: The Atlanta, Business
Girls', and Decatur Clubs met to-
gether at the Atlanta Athletic Club
on Saturday, Feb. 20 th. There were
123 present, and it was an inspiring
sight to see all those Agnes Scotters.
Colonel George S. Clarke of Atlanta
was the guest speaker, and the honor
guests included Dr. J. R. McCain,
Dean Carrie Scandrett, Mrs. Clarke,
and Dean S. G. Stukes. Marie (Simp-
son) Rutland, president of the Deca-
tur Club, presided, and Ida Lois Mc-
Daniel was in charge of decorations.
Araminta (Edwards) Pate, president
of the Atlanta Club, and Marie (Stal-
ker) Smith, acting Chairman of the
Business Girls, were responsible for ar-
rangements. Lucy (Johnson) Ozmer
and Emma Pope (Moss) Dieckmann
were in charge of the program.
KENTUCKY

Lexington: Miriam (Preston) St.
Clair reports: "Though our regular
meeting could not be arranged for
February 22, we as a group wish to
send greetings for the Founder's Day
program. As many as can will gather
to listen to the radio program on Feb-
ruary 22. We are meeting every month
and enjoying exchanging A.S.C. news
and meeting different generations.
Greetings from us all. Last month we
had thirteen or fourteen but this time
only seven." Those present were:
Katherine (Griffith) Johnson, Mildred
(Bradley) Bryant, Elise Derickson,

Margaret Helen Yundt, Ila Belle Le-
vie, Mabel (Marshall) Whitehouse,
and Miriam (Preston) St. Clair.

NEW YORK
The New York Club met at the
Allerton on February 2 5 th with
twenty-one members present. Ruth
(Pirkle) Berkeley presided over the
meeting. Officers elected for the new
year are: President, Martha (Walk-
er) Gerrard; Vice-President, Miriam
(Dean) Pierce; Secretary, Annie Laura
(Galloway) Phillips; Treasurer, Dean
McKoin. Julia Lake (Skinner) Kel-
lersberger told of her work in Africa
and gave a style show which every-
one enjoyed. The club voted to send
fifteen dollars to the Alumnae Asso-
ciation which is most appreciated.
Julia Stokes, who sent in the news, is
the aunt of Pat Stokes, one of this
year's seniors. Those present at the
meeting were: Dorothy (Mitchell)
Ellis, Dorothy Chamberlain, Julia
Lake (Skinner) Kellersberger, Fran-
ces (Markley) Roberts, Dean McKoin,
Gene (Slack) Morse, Mary (Wells)
McNeill, Emily Daughtry, Martha
(Walker) Gerrard, Agnes L. Harris,
visitor, Judy (Blundell) Adler, Betty
Bolton, Douschka (Sweets) Acker-
man, Norma H. Faurot, Margaret
(Hansell) Potter, Margaret McCol-
gan, Sarah (Cook) Thompson, Annie
Laura (Galloway) Phillips, Frankie
(McKee) Robbins, Ruth (Pirkle)
Berkeley, Julia Stokes.

NORTH CAROLINA
Charlotte: Romola (Davis) Hardy
writes that the Charlotte Club had a
splendid meeting with thirty-seven
members attending. She says: "We
had one out of town alumna, Mrs.
Marion Hunter who was one of the
Stowe girls from Belmont. I believe
her sister is May-Queen this year. She
came all the way from Belmont to
Charlotte on the bus to attend. Three
of the leading ministers wives of the
city of Charlotte were present. Mrs.
Ray Jordan, Caroline Moody who was
a day student when I was there, is the
wife of Dr. Ray Jordan, pastor of the
First Methodist Church here. Mrs.
James A. Jones, '3 3, was Mary Boyd.
Her husband is pastor of the Myers
Park Presbyterian Church and one of
the most brilliant ministers of the city.
Mrs. James W. Stewart Jr. of 1930
was Margaret Ogden, whose husband
is pastor of the Plaza Presbyterian
Church. Another person present was

The AGNES SCOTT ALUMNAE QUARTERLY

Mrs. Milton Candler, whose husband
is the grandson of Col. George Wash-
ington Scott. She was Marian Sims of
Birmingham. They live here now."
Mary (Sprinkle) Allen who is secre-
tary of the Group says that Evelyn
Baty of Queens College faculty gave
them some news of the Agnes Scott
campus which she gathered on her
Christmas visit.

Durham: The Durham Club met
with the Chairman, Allene Ramage,
and there were eleven people present.
Allene says: "The records were grand.
Charlotte Hunter brought her coffee
and sugar, and I got cookies and pea-
nuts, and we had a nice time. We had
only Durham people, no Raleigh or
Chapel Hill this year, but we had the
largest attendance we've ever had.
Those at the meeting were: Frances
Brown, Charlotte Hunter, Mary
(Primrose) Noble, Hazel C. Collings,
Beryl L. Healy, Eva Ann Pirkle, Mr.
and Mrs. W. W. Rankin. Mr. Rankin
used to teach at Agnes Scott and is
now at Duke. Their address is 1011
Gloria Ave., Durham. Mary Anne
Hannah was also there, and Lillian
(Baker) Griggs who is in the Wom-
an's College Library at Duke.

TENNESSEE

Chattanooga: Anne McCallie writes
that the Chattanooga Group met at
the Girls' Preparatory School and en-
joyed the records, view booklets and
Quarterlies. Mary (Thatcher) Moses,
was suggested for chairman for next
year. Those attending were: Mary
(Thatcher) Moses, Margaret McCallie,
Alma (Roberts) Betts, Elizabeth
(Stoops) Sibold, Mary (Walton) Ear-
nest, Lillian (Johnson) Ramsay, Mar-
tha Buffalow, Cornelia Stuckey, Alice
(McCallee) Pressly, Marion Chapman,
and Anne McCallie.

Memphis: The Memphis Alumnae
met on February 20th with the chair-
man, Sara (Armficld) Hill, presiding.
Twelve members were present at the
luncheon. Julia Jameson was elected
chairman for the next term. Those
at the meeting were: Louise (Capen)
Baker, Ruth (Hall) Bryant, Eli-
nore (Morgan) McComb, Margaret
(Rowe) Jones, Margaret (Smith)
Lyon, Marian Van Dyke, Charlotte
Newton, Julia Jameson, Melvile
Jameson, Mrs. Town, and Mrs. Dunn.

Nashville: The Nashville Club was
fortunate in having Dr. and Mrs.
Phillip Davidson with them this year.
Anna Marie (Landress) Cate writes
that the group met at the Centennial
Club at 10:3 0. Mrs. Davidson, as-
sisted by Lavalette (Sloan) Tucker,
poured coffee. Mrs. Cate says: "Of
course it was an unusual treat to have

Dr. and Mrs. Davidson with us, and to
hear him talk to us in such a delight-
ful, informal way." Those at the
meeting were: The Davidsons, Mary
E. (Cunningham) Cayce, Josephine
(Douglass) Harwell, Aline Graves,
Shannon (Preston) Cumming, Lava-
lette (Sloan) Tucker, India (Jones)
Mizell, Frances (Long) Parks, Sarah
(Robinson) Sharp, and Anna Marie
(Landress) Cate.

TEXAS

Austin: Lulu Daniel Ames sent in
a clipping from the American States-
man about the Austin Founder's Day
meeting. "Ex-students of Agnes Scott
College, and a small group of high
school senior girls will be honored at
an informal tea to be given by Miss
Lulu Daniel Ames on Monday after-
noon at her home. The tea table will
be centered by an arrangement of
purple and white sweet peas, the col-
lege colors." Lulu writes: "Refresh-
ments, incidentally, were tea and
black walnut cake and sand tarts.
The black walnut cake was made from
Georgia walnuts, no less, and by me,
no less. I am proud of that cake; the
second such I ever made and the best,
to date." The Austin Group enjoyed
the record, and suggests that a re-
cording of the Alma Mater be made
for next year. Those present were:
Lulu Ames, Luella Clayton, Caroline
(Candler) Branan, Elizabeth Gribble,
Nancy (Gribble) Nelson, Hallie
(Robertson) Stayton, Mildred (Coit)
Cates, Erline Milstead, Kathleen Burke,
Gloria Bramlett, Bettie Currie, Alice
Wharton, Jane Knox, and Evelyn
Brewster.

VIRGINIA

Lynchburg: Dorothy Jester ('37)
writes that the Lynchburg Group got
together on Founder's Day at an in-
formal dinner party. "Just six were
present, but we had a grand time talk-
ing about everything from the Insti-
tute to date, with a little rationing
and current and local events mixed in.
Those present were: Gladys (Camp)
Brannon (ex-16); Mary Spottswood
Payne ('17); Courtney Wilkinson
('27); Phyllis (Roby) Snead (ex-
'27) Shirley (Davis) Taylor (ex-'45),
and myself."

Norfolk: Bobbe (Brown) Fugate
gives us a grand report from the Nor-
folk Group. She writes: "We met at
the Ames and Brownley Tea Room at
1:00 o'clock on February 22nd. There
was no formal program — we all remi-
nisced, and talked, and listened to the
record. We enjoyed the record, book-
lets, and Quarterlies very much.
Though the role of getting together
the Agnes Scott girls in this vicinity

was a new one, I thoroughly enjoyed
it. I'm certainly indebted to Cary
(Wheeler) Bowers for her help."
Those meeting in Norfolk were: Flor-
ence (Ellis) Gifford, Cary (Wheeler)
Bowers, Edna (Rosasco) Decker,
Fannie May (Young) Robinson,
Winona (Erbank) Covington, Fran-
ces (Rainey) McDaniel, Janet New-
ton, and Barbara (Brown) Fugate.

Richmond: The Richmond Group
sent both the Alumnae Office and Dr.
McCain greetings written when they
held their Founder's Day meeting.
"We hope all of you have had as won-
derful a reunion as we have. We
ate dinner at Gay Currie's home. Then
Gay showed us some technicolor mov-
ies made her senior year which were
so beautiful that we are all homesick
for Agnes Scott. We had some good
pictures on one reel of Mr. Cunning-
ham, so that hearing the record was
doubly good. Miss Torrance and Miss
Smith sounded very natural." The
meeting was attended by: Mary Jane
King, Louise Sullivan Fry, Dorothy
Graham, Margaret Bear, Harriette
Cochran, Gay Currie, Augusta Rob-
erts, Idelle Bryant, Miriam Bedinger,
Henrietta Thompson.

WASHINGTON. D. C.

Ann Martin, secretary of the Wash-
ington Group, writes that they had
a joint meeting and banquet with the
Emory Alumni on the eighth of Feb-
ruary at the Mount Vernon Place
Methodist Church. Jesse (Watts)
Rustin is president of the club this
year, and her husband, Dr. John Rus-
tin, is president of the Emory Club.
The date chosen lay between the Foun-
der's Day of each, so stress was laid
on the cooperation that is taking place
between the two schools now. Ann
says further: "Honestly I do not know
when I have felt so much at home
away from home as I did with the
friends and friends of friends that were
gathered there. Every single person
had something particular to tell about
what he was doing, and many and va-
ried were the reasons for being in war-
time Washington. Instead of our usual
custom of having a speaker, Jesse Rus-
tin planned a varied program of enter-
tainment that included several very
interesting musicians. Of course a
most joyful note for all of us arose
form the report on the success of the
University Campaign, which certainly
reached beyond expectation." Some
time ago Jesse Rustin wrote that the
Club had had a most interesting meet-
ing on the first of December with Mrs.
Francis B. Sayre (Elizabeth Evans) as
the speaker. They plan to meet again
on the thirtieth of March.

— Challenge To College Women —

WEEK-END CONFERENCE

Friday Evening. Feb. 26. to Saturday

Evening. Feb. 27

The week-end of February 26 th
and 27th is a memorable one for those
prvileged to be present at the Confer-
ence on "College Women and the
Challenge of the World Today." Miss
Susan Cobbs was chairman of the Con-
ference, and the speakers included Dr.
Gillie A. Larew, head of the depart-
ment of mathematics and acting dean
of Randolph Macon; Dr. J. E. Greene,
regional educational services represen-
tative, Office of Price Administration,
Atlanta; Miss Ruth Scandrett of the
U. S. Department of Labor, Division
of Labor Standards, Washington, D.
C; Dr. Herman L. Turner, minister
of the Covenant Presbyterian Church,
Atlanta; Professor W. B. Stubbs,
Emory University; Dr. J. J. Carney,
Jr., economist of the War Manpower
Commission, Atlanta; Mr. Malcolm
Henderson, British Consul, Atlanta;
First Officer Florence C. Jepson, per-
sonnel director for the WAAC, Wash-
ington, D. C; Dr. Margaret Mead,
associate curator in the Department of
Anthropology of the American Mu-
seum of Natural History, New York
City; Miss Ernestine Friedman, Office
of Price Administration, Atlanta.

The challenge of the economic home
front, labor problems, a right atti-
tude toward racial minorities, the role
of women in war production, British
women and the war, opportunities for
women in the enlisted services, the
problems involved in laying the
groundwork for a constructive peace
were subjects for discussion during
the conference.

Dr. Larew's talk, The Whole Armor,
expressed vividly the challenge to col-
lege women today.

"One evening recently, as I listened
to the precise and comforting voice of
Raymond Gram Swing, performing
the while the last rites of the day —
clock-winding, a bit of laundry, some
futile gestures toward self-improve-
ment with cold cream and bobby pins
— my telephone rang. Over the wires
came the voice of a Lynchburg wom-
an whose eighty years have sharpened
rather than dulled her keen enthusi-
asm and energy. Without preface or
apology or any regard for the neg-
lected Mr. Swing, she proceeded to ask
me what word of all there are in the
dictionary best expresses Women's
Contrtibution to Human Progress.
The students in my audience and even
some faculty members will understand

DR. MARGARET MEAD
Dr. Margaret Mead, one of the out-
standing speakers at the week-end
conference, is associate curator in the
Department of Anthropology of the
American Museum of Natural His-
tory, New York City. Dr. Mead, in
her talk, Laying the Groundwork for
a Constructive Peace, stressed the
idea that a study and understanding
of anthropological differences should
be the groundwork in laying plans
for a constructive peace.

and sympathize, when I report that I
stalled. My mind began to leap nim-
bly but unsystematically from woman
to woman whom I have known in his-
tory. She answered her own question.
The word she said is CONSERVA-
TION.

"Whatever it may signify for the
contribution of woman to civilization,
that is a good word with which to
begin an answer to those questions
about the liberal arts college. It must
be clear that a primary reason why
you and I should go on with liberal
arts is that there should be a chance
for our children to know anything at
all about liberal arts. It is a frighten-
ing thing to realize that one genera-
tion's neglect may destroy the inheri-
tance of centuries. Mr. Wendell Willkie
repeated to us a few weeks ago words
that have been many times quoted in
the last two or three years. 'To de-
stroy Eastern civilization in America
you do not need to burn its records in
a single fire. Leave them unread for
a few generations and the effect will
be the same.'

"So we can make a strong case for
the maintenance of the liberal arts
education, even while we are at war,

in order that we may not lose the
most precious of our intellectual pos-
sessions. Even in the fields dedicated
to technical use and to the war effort
— as the indispensable mathematics
and physics and chemistry — we must
not neglect the significant and endur-
ing values. Techniques we must mas-
ter and quickly; but we must not
forget that these very techniques are
the by-products of great principles
and theories that must not be lost, that
must endure to give birth to finer and
more powerful insruments of the hu-
man mind.

"We talk a good deal about plan-
ning the peace; the blue-prints of a
post-war world are well worth our
drawing. But it is, I think, fairly
clear that we, no matter how well we
may contrive to agree on the larger
plans, must work out experimentally
and patiently, and not without a cer-
tain amount of trial and error the
details of effective reconstruction.

"There is no subject in the curricu-
lum that we cannot use, no one we do
not need for this war. We must re-
think the fundamental postulates on
which we build our social, our na-
tional, our religious life. We must be
ready to give a reason for the faith
that is in us. We must know enough
not to be frightened by false alarms
and not to cry peace! where there is
no peace.

"It seems fairly clear that now and
until the situation becomes more acute
than it is now thought to be, we can
prepare ourselves for technical service
within the framework of our liberal
training. If from a third to a fifth of
our time is spent on those subjects
which bear directly on the war effort,
we shall be achieving a reasonable
preparation for our direct work and
shall have time to devote to the larger
and more enduring themes of educa-
tion. We can alter our educational
patterns without weakening the fab-
ric.

"We can also take our education
more seriously and devote more time
to it, carrying heavier academic loads
because we have lightened non-
academic loads. We can, with due
cautions, sacrifice some intensity of
training and broaden the scope of our
fields of study.

"I truly think that we women have

a great responsibility to play a major

role in conserving the heritage that is

ours; I think we have a great task to

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THEY GAVE TD OTHERS

Margaret Ridley, '3 3
President of Alumnae Association

In the Library at Agnes Scott College there is a Greek
inscription which reads: "Having Torches, They Gave to
Others." Throughout the years the graduates of the college
have consistently held high the torches of the spirit, and
"as one lamp lighteth another nor grows less", our alumnae
have let their light shine along paths of good will and
significant service.

No one will challenge the assertion that Agnes Scott
alumnae have made a worthy record in the professions and
in the varied callings of a changing world. But never have
the times demanded so much of women as today, and it is
natural that we express a just pride in those of our alumnae
who have shown such conspicuous leadership among the
women engaged in the many branches of the war effort.

As pressing as is the demand of our country for the serv-
ice of women of exceptional gifts, there is also an urgent
call to those of us who may be classed as mothers, teachers,
librarians, leaders and counselors of the youth of today.

The war has carried into military service so many of our
men, that it is the direct responsibility of women to pre-
serve, promote, and perpetuate those ideals and those free-
doms for which our men must fight. This challenge can
best be met by the tender nurture and wise direction of our
girls and boys — those citizens of tomorrow who determine
the course that future civilization is to take.

To preserve the best from the past, to clarify the issues
of the present, and to interpret these in terms of good will
for the future is a problem that must be met by the women
of today who are given the privilege of seeking a liberal
education. As we answer this war call, we must march
with steady tread and unflinching courage lest children
following sense our fear and falter.

It is no easy task to carry these torches entrusted to our
keeping. We must think clearly, act justly, and live by
faith, that our way of life may be worth every sacrifice and
that all children may see "the powers of darkness put to
flight, may see the morning break."

If we women are to be worthy custodians of the four
freedoms, we must realize the importance of the home, the
church, and the school. We must glorify the responsibility
of child welfare and all that it entails. Let us march to
victory, Alumnae of Agnes Scott, with glowing torches
that light the pathway for others, secure in the faith of

"One who never turned his back but marched breast
forward,

Never doubted clouds would break,

Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong
would triumph;

Held, we fall to rise; are baffled, to fight better,

Sleep, to wake."

IN MEMORIAM

The morning of February 4 a beloved member of the
class of '42 died with pneumonia in a California hospital.
Suzanne Kaulbach Naylor had been sick only six days and
her death was a shock both to her family and her many
friends.

Suzanne had been married just eight months to the
day. Her wedding took place two days after graduation
last June, and the many people who saw it will want to
remember her as she was then, never more radiant and
lovely. She went with Duncan to the various army camps,
doing a wonderful job as wife of a chaplain. The many
big and little things she did for others since June were just
a continuation of her spirit during the years at Agnes
Scott. Her experience ranged from canning tomatoes and
redecorating furniture to being matron-of-honor for one
of the girls who came "way out west" to marry a soldier
sweetheart, and giving a reception after the wedding.
When one of her California friends' baby arrived and the
baby's grandmother could not get there soon enough to

help care for her, Suzanne took charge.

She lived a full life in her twenty-one years. Each of us
will want to remember Suzanne in her own way. One
quality which stood out from all the others was the way she
lived each day for its present worth. She prepared herself
for the future, but she lived in the present. I am sure
Suzanne was ready when God called her. She made life
sweeter, happier, and finer for her family, her husband, and
for her many friends.

Mary Dean Lott.

Word comes to us as we go to press, of the death of
Edith (Camp) McLennan, (Mrs. J.Alan), (ex-'25). She
died quite suddenly on March eighth, in Birmingham. Her
son, Alan, Jr., who is eighteen years old, was at home at
the time of her death, having come from Auburn to regis-
ter for the draft. Her daughter, Edith, is twelve. Her
husband, according to our information, is at present sta-
tioned in Alaska. We extend our deep and heartfelt sym-
pathy to all the members of Edith's family.

MAY QUEEN
Mabel Stowe, of Belmont, N. C.

Commencement VVeeh-encl

May 2 9th- June 1st

MAY 29th-

Trustee's Luncheon, honoring alumnae and seniors.
Rebekah Scott Dining Room, 1 o'clock.

MAY 30th—

Baccalaureate Sermon, Bishop Arthur J. Moore.
Gaines Chapel, 1 1 o'clock.

JUNE 1st —

Commencement Exercises, Gaines Chapel, 10
o'clock. President Goodrich White, of Emory Uni-
versity, speaker.

Uhe program for thii ucar id in charge of the 1 1 luiic ^Department

You are asked to watch for further
announcements.

AGNES SCOTT

ALUMNAE QUARTERLY

JULY, 1943

TABLE OF CONTENTS

From the President's Desk 1

Book Reviews 2

Summer on the Brandyuine 4

Ellen Hayes, '46

To a Soldier 4

Frances Kaiser, '43

Committee Reports 5

From a Toner Window 8

//; the Sen ice 9

Alumnae Aid in Research 10

Our Part in the World Today and Tomorrow 11

Cama (Burgess) Clarkson, '22

We Pay Tribute 12

In Mcmoriam 12

Concerning Ourselves 13

Commencement Awards 21

FRDM THE PRESIDENT'S DESK

Dear Agnes Scott Alumnae:

We are presenting in this issue of the Quarterly revised
development plans for the future of Agnes Scott. I wish
to give some explanatory details so that you may be able
to visualize the part of the program which must yet be
carried out in order to realize the full dream.

As you look at the photograph of the plans, you will
notice the familiar Inman Hall, Main Building, and Re-
bekah Scott Hall in the foreground; but the White House
is cleared away, and the alumnae garden is extended. Anna
Young Alumnae House, immediately to the rear of Inman,
is the only building on Candler Street which we expect
to retain.

Just beyond Inman Hall, as one looks at the plans, is a
proposed building which resembles a church. It is intended
to be a central dining hall and kitchen for the entire cam-
pus, with provision for an open terrace opening on the
alumnae garden and two or three private dining rooms
which may be used for faculty groups or for birthday
parties and the like. As yet, we do not have any money
available for this building.

A very interesting item on the plans, just to the right
of the proposed dining hall, is the new location for Hopkins
Hall, the dormitory which the alumnae are giving in large
measure. It will stand exactly where the science hall is
now located. The latter must be torn down before Hopkins
Hall can be erected. It is now planned that the dormitory
will be in an "L" shape and thus will accommodate perhaps
125 girls. The alumnae have subscribed $109,000 toward
the erection of this building, and the subscriptions are
being paid very satisfactorily.

In looking at the plans again, immediately beyond Hop-
kins Hall will be located a new infirmary. It will be located
where Mr. Cunningham and Mr. Tart now live, between
the well-known tennis courts and Candler Street. We hope
to be able to serve our own students much more fully from
a health standpoint, and, at the same time, to run some
specialized clinics for the benefit of the community. We
do not yet have funds for the infirmary.

Immediately adjoining the infirmary is the new location
for the Murphey Candler Building (the old library) which
we hope to move without tearing down to a position just
south of the present tennis courts. It is too good a building
to destroy, but its location in front of the new library is
very unsatisfactory from the standpoint of a long-range
building program.

Those of you who have been at Agnes Scott in recent
years will recognize that our finest buildings are located on
an east-to-west axis, just back of Main Building and Re-
behak Scott. From left to right in the photograph, they
are the Bucher Scott Gymnasium, the library, Buttrick
Hall, and Presser Hall. All of these have been in use for
some years.

Just to the rear of Buttrick Hall is the proposed new
science hall, for which we have received a gift of $200,000.
This will be a very large and beautiful building, and we will
need to raise a considerable sum of money in order to erect
it as planned. We hope that this can be started as soon as
the emergency is over.

Immediately to the rear of the proposed science hall will
be the quarters for the proposed "Department of the
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BOOK REVIEWS

To one reader, at least, the most important aspect of
Beyond Surrender, Marian Sims' novel of the reconstruc-
tion South, is its timeliness. Today when most of us are
thinking in terms of the new and better world we hope to
see emerge from our own bitter war, the struggle of the
Warden family to adjust itself to the complexities of life
in post-war South Carolina involves each of us personally.
The conflicts between the land-poor farmer and the mer-
chant who holds the purse-strings, between Denis Warden,
who cannot forget the past and John Jernigan, who cannot
forget the future, between the white man and the black are
conflicts which engage us now. For anyone who believes he
has a tailor-made answer to the urgent question of race
relations this novel should be required reading, as it should
be for those few Southerners who still ask themselves in
private the question that Denis Warden asked his friend,
"Are negroes people?"

Beyond Surrender is a book about people, some black,
some white, some acting on principle with complete per-
sonal integrity, some driven by ambition, or pride, or greed,
or lust, all vigorous enough in mind or body to survive the
difficult times in which they lived. Against a background
of social, political, and economic upheaval detailed, and
authentic in flavor, Mrs. Sims has been able to create a set
of characters whose daily lives are important to us. Denis
Warden's return from the war, his long and losing battle to
make a living for himself and his family on the land at
Brookhaven, his hasty marriage to Dolly, daughter of the
merchant from whom he must borrow money from crop
to crop, and his tragic love for Sharon are the salient points
in a straightforward narrative that involves the reader
personally in the life of Fairfax county, South Carolina.
It is all there, the parades of the colored militia, the meet-
ings of the Rifle club, the meetings of the Missionary
society, the fantastic Victorian houses of the new rich, the
color and taste and smell of the country, presented with
perception and humor by a writer whose Southern birth
and New England heritage seem to have fitted her specially
for this particular task.

In the last analysis this is a novel of people reacting to
ideas of their own or ideas wished upon them by strangers,
ideas new and disturbing and important. It offers no an-
swers, but it raises a good many questions that are still
waiting for an answer. On the eve of the election which
marked the final defeat of the Republicans in South Caro-
lina, John Jernigan and Denis Warden stood in John's
office celebrating their victory with a quiet drink, watching
the crowds on the street below. Denis was thinking of the
black men who had filled the state-house in Columbia since
the war when he said, "Thank God, now we can put 'em
where they belong." John looked at him quietly for a long
time before he said, "Where do they belong, Denis?"

Page Acki.rman, '3 3.

When a book is written by an Agnes Scott alumna, all
of us sit up and proudly take notice. But imagine a book
written by four alumnae about one graduate! Such a book
is now in print.

The whole idea began in September, 1937, at Agnes
Scott when members of the Christian Association cabinet
decided that they would mimeograph letters and stories
written by Betty Hollis to be circulated among those in-
terested in having a copy. Elizabeth Hollis, known as
"Betty", a member of the class of 1937, died three weeks
after her graduation, but the memory of Betty was alive
in the hearts of girls on the campus.

The letters were gathered and parts mimeographed, but
when the Freshmen read the collection, they requested an
introduction to the material so that future Agnes Scott
generations might fully appreciate the significance of what
they read. Winifred (Kellersberger) Vass ('38), began
writing, and Henrietta (Blackwell) Ketcham ('39), con-
tinued the work. The next year, however, Christian Asso-
ciation decided that the material would make a book which
would be useful particularly to young people of high school
and college age. Isabel (McCain) Brown ('37), then spent
a year re-working the material, and the final step was taken
when Mrs. Julia Lake Kellersberger ('19), re- wrote the
book in its finished form.

But why so much interest in one particular graduate?
Because friends at Agnes Scott felt that her's was a life
which they wished to share, a life which should not stop in
its unusual Christian influence. So firmly did these girls
believe in the power of Betty's life that they persisted in
the writing and re-working of the material for six years.

In order to make Betty, a Life of Wrought Gold avail-
able to any person, the cost was kept down to one dollar
per copy, and may be ordered from the John Knox Press,
8 North Sixth Street, Richmond, Virginia. Any profit
made on the sale of the book will go to the establishing of
a scholarship fund at Agnes Scott in memory of Betty.

FROM THE PRESIDENT'S DESK

(Continued from Page 1)

Home"; and across the quadrangle to the extreme right of
the plans are proposed faculty apartments. The suggested
colonnade between the faculty apartments and the other
side of the quadrangle may not be needed.

At the extreme rear of the campus is shown the steam
plant and laundrv which we now use, and we hope to de-
velop a lake in the woods which the College has bought on
both sides of the Stone Mountain car line.

Not shown very clearly on the development plans are
campus homes for the President, the Dean of the Faculty,
the Dean of Students, and other administrative officers.

We would like wry much to round out this building
program within the next ten years. We will certainly be
very much pleased to have any suggestions from you about
the plans themselves or about how they should be developed.

Cordially,

J. R. McCain, President.

BOOK REVIEWS

"Biology, the Science of Life". By Mary Stuart Mac-
Dougall in collaboration with Robert Hegner. McGraw-
Hill Book Company, Inc., New York. $4.00.

"Biology, the Science of Life" is the culmination of years
of thought and work by Dr. Mary Stuart MacDougall,
Professor of Biology at Agnes Scott College. The friends
and students of Miss "Mac", as she is affectionately known,
expected a wonderful book to come from the enormous
energy and perseverance
which she put into its
preparation; and those who
are fortunate enough to
read a copy will not be
disappointed.

The size of the book
may frighten the begin-
ning student. However,
when he begins to study
the beautiful photographs
and drawings so clearly
labeled and annotated, he
will appreciate the extra
volume needed for their
inclusion. He will also be-
come aware that many
interesting comments over
and above the routine
statement of facts keep
him ever desirous of fur-
ther reading.

It was the aim of the
author to present the study
of Biology as simply and
yet as scientifically as pos-
sible. With the aid of her
splendid illustrations, and
thought - provoking ques-
tions at the close of each
chapter to aid in the
"digestion" of the subject,
she has achieved this sim-
plicity to such a degree that much profit can be obtained
by studying the book without the formality of a classroom.

Realizing that students and instructors in various locali-
ties have different preferences in the arrangement of ma-
terial, Miss "Mac" has afforded great flexibility in her text.
A thorough system of cross-references from one section to
another facilitates its use, whether types or principles are
emphasized.

The book has seven divisions. Part I deals with the
foundations of life and the interdependence of living
things. A discussion of biological classification and unique
illustrated outline of both the plant and animal kingdoms
are included.

Parts II and III may be used as a ready reference for
laboratory work if time does not allow a complete coverage
of the book in the lecture period. These sections present

DR. MARY STUART MacDOUGALL

detailed descriptions of the morphology and physiology of
a typical seed plant and of a typical vertebrate, followed by
briefer accounts of representatives of the main groups of
plants and animals.

General Biology: organs, systems, and their functions,
and the biology of man are discussed in Part IV. Both
plants and animals are considered and some repetitions of
earlier sections occur. However, these serve to emphasize

certain important princi-
ples. The chapters on Co-
ordination and the Special
Senses include much that
is studied in Psychology.

Part V is an exposition
of principles and theories
concerning germ cells and
fertilization, variation and
heredity, adaptations and
evolution, the field to
which the author has con-
tributed by her notable re-
searches on protozoa. The
many charts given here are
especially instructive.

Biology in relation to
human welfare, and con-
servation of plant and ani-
mal life are explained in
Part VI.

In addition to a number
of interesting portraits and
bits of history scattered
throughout the text, a
short history of biology is
presented as Part VII.

The student will also
find the text enlightened
with the etymology of
technical terms given with
their first appearance. This
is ably supplemented by a
complete self-pronouncing glossary and an extensive index.
Thus with drawings and photographs, glossary and index,
the author has efficiently supported her text. A very care-
ful student may note several errors in page and figure ref-
erences, but these do not detract seriously from a study of
the volume.

It is extremely gratifying because of its rarity, that a
work of such scholarship has been produced in the South.
All her friends will rejoice with Miss "Mac" in so success-
ful a conclusion to the stupendous task which she under-
took; for both student planning to use biology profession-
ally and serious laymen seeking to round out their liberal
culture will find "Biology, the Science of Life" most
profitable and enjoyable.

Lucille (Coleman) Christian, ex-'30.

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Ellen Hayes, '46

We were a bunch of noisy, barefoot cousins. There were
twelve of us in all, of a variety of shapes and sizes, having
in common the same grandparents and their farm, which
was just above the Brandywine. From the edge of the farm
we could look down on the muddy creek and across the
fields to the Pennsylvania hills which rolled smoothly to
the sky. Whenever we tired of climbing trees or of chasing
each other about the lawn, we would race down to the creek
to play.

There were exciting, happy days when it rained and
rained and the creek rose and flooded its banks. On these
rare days, we would run out barefoot after breakfast, each
of us still eating his muffin or piece of toast. I remember
one particular August flood. We all trooped down across
the lawn, until we were above the creek, and then we
stopped and stared at the angry, dangerous river the Bran-
dywine had become overnight. The willow bushes which
lined its banks were out of sight, and we could no longer
see where the creek had been before, for now the fields
were covered with a mighty, rushing sea, brown and ter-
rible. And the sturdy, stone bridge stood alone in the
midst, mocked by the waters that rushed past on either
side. In our breathless excitecent, we ran up and down the
banks, calling shrilly to each other. All around our feet
were poor sprawling beetles and spiders which tried to
crawl to safety, but were swept roughly away into the
current of the slowly rising river. A log swept past, a
small one, and on it was perched a water rat. Just as it
passed us, the log hit a tree, and the poor creature disap-
peared under the rush of the water. All the time there was
the roar of the river, so that we had to shout; but we were
so excited that nothing but shouting would have satisfied
us. The current brought with it huge, heavy logs, and
bright orange pumpkins torn loose from someone's garden
— and squash and green tomatoes, bobbing merrily.
Drowned chickens floated past, too, and the corpse of a
sheep. But finally, after a whole day of rushing past, the
river began to shrink again into the creek it had been
before; and in a few days things began to look normal,
though everywhere the water had been the tall grass was
pressed flat, and the fields and gardens were covered with
thick, brown mud.

Although floods were fun, we loved the Brandywine best
when it was its quiet, usual self. We would cross the road
by the side of the meadow, jumping down into the field of
tall, sweet grass. We loved the feel of the weeds between
our bare toes, but we stepped carefully to avoid the thorns.
There were tall, purple milkweed plants on either side of
the path, and orange monarch butterflies sailed lazily in
the sun. Everywhere there were bees, incessantly rushing
at the plants and forcing their way into the sweet centers
of the flowers. The nearer we got to the river, the stronger
was the delicious smell of mint and of wet creek mud. The
cows were over by a clump of willow trees, the ground
trampled and muddy where they had gone to the water to
drink.

Here was the canoe, lazily bumping against the landing.
On a pile of brush and twigs brought down by the floods,
there was usually a water snake — so dry and like the sticks
that we would never have seen it, except that our approach
would send it streaking for the water, where it swam away
into the current. Frogs would unexpectedly jump into the
water with shrieks that startled us. Then we would pull
the canoe to the shore and put our pillows into it. Finally

we would unlock ourselves from the stake and paddle out
into midstream. If we paddled quietly near the shore, we
could see an occasional snake entwined among the low
hanging branches, or we would frighten little turtles on
their perches atop logs, from which they would topple with
faint splashes. Often we could pluck snakes from the trees
and plunge them into the dark bag always kept handy in
the canoe. There was usually a box of snakes on the back
porch and a chorus of frogs in the pool. They never stayed
long: the frogs always hopped away, and the snakes always
managed to find a hole somewhere in the box; but we went
right on collecting.

On the days when our energy was the greatest, we took
the canoe upstream. Around the bend were the rapids.
We would all get out and push the canoe over the swift
shallow waters, lifting it over larger stones and stopping
once in a while to rest our feet in a mass of thick water
weed. Once over a rapids, we would climb in again and
paddle quietly up the creek. Often we frightened a big
white or blue heron from the water. And there were small-
er water birds, too — kingfishers and silly little tottering
sandpipers. Sometimes, when we passed the woods, we got
out and played Indian among the trees. My cousin Pa-
tience— slim, brown, with long, dark plaits — made a per-
fect Indian. My short-haired sister and I, with my uncon-
trollable mop, had to imagine our plaits. On our way up
the creek we would pass big red barns whose sides had been
washed a paler rosy color by the rains. Sometimes we took
along lunch and ate in a meadow, keeping a wary eye on
the distant cows.

But coming home was the most fun, especially at night.
Then we didn't have to paddle; we just drifted. The white
mist would rise from the water and insects would begin
their untiring singing, and the bull frogs, so small, yet
with such incredibly loud voices, would begin to bellow.
Now and then the noises would stop, and we could hear
only the rippling of the canoe as it went through the water.
The willow trees showed dark against the grey sky. Lights
of farmhouses began to come on, and it was night.

— Reprinted from the May 194} Aurora.

TO A SOLDIER

You leave, and all our little world of plans
Comes tumbling into ruin: unlived dreams.
So suddenly our life is changed, it seems
That this great chaos must kill all it spans.
No time for dreams: cold facts must fight a war.
But we will dream again, as once before.

Remember how wc sang in carefree case?
Today a marching measure fills my heart;
It giics new courage to all those who part.
Yet all too soon its voice will cease to please.
Away with melodies: we march to war!
But ite will sing again, as once before.

Men die! And life unfolds its glorious charm
To us, and fills us with the will to live!
Yet ue must change, and be prepared to give
This living treasure, lest all come to harm.
Gladly we die to self, for this is war.
But ice will live again, as once before.

— Frances Kaiser V
— Reprinted from the May 194} Aurora.

COMMITTEE
-REPORTS-

MEETING OF THE ALUMNAE ASSOCIA-
TION. MAY 29. 1943

The Agnes Scott Alumnae Associa-
tion met on Saturday, May 29th, im-
mediately following the Trustee's
luncheon. The meeting was held in
the chapel in Rebekah Scott with the
president, Margaret Ridley, presiding.

The minutes of the last meeting
were dispensed with, since they were
printed in the July Quarterly of last
year and alumnae had an opportunity
to read them there.

A financial report for the year was
presented by Frances McCalla, treas-
urer. The report showed a reserve on
hand of $1,310.82. There are still
some expenses for the last month to
come out of this fund. Miss McCalla
then presented the budget as it was
drawn up by the Executive Board, and
it was decided to accept the budget
as presented.

Harriotte Brantley, alumnae secre-
tary, gave a brief report of some of
the work done during the year.

Miss Ridley gave a report of the
Executive Board meeting and called
attention to the fact that all reports
will be published in the July issue of
the Quarterly. She then recognized
the various Committee Chairmen who
were present. Special thanks go to
Mrs. Bonner Spearman, chairman of
the Entertainment Committee, for her
splendid work.

Betty Lou (Houcke) Smith read a
list of the alumnae chosen by the
Nominating Committee. They are as
follows: First Vice-President: Susan
(Shadburn) Watkins, '26; Secretary
Ida Los McDaniel '3 5; Publicity Chair-
man: Emma (Moss) Dieckmann, '13;
Tearoom: Marion (Fielder) Martin,
'31; Second Floor: Katherine (Woltz)
Green, '3 3; Constitution and By-Laws:
Lucy (Johnson) Ozmer, ex-'lO; Stu-
dent Loan: Julia (Smith) Slack, ex-
'12. Mrs. Smith then turned the meet-
ing back over to the president, who
called for nominations from the floor
to fill the chairmanship of the Grounds
Committee. Eugenia Symms, '36, was
elected to the chairmanship of the
Grounds Committee.

Miss Ridley asked if there were any
other business. She thanked all the
members of the Board for their fine

(help during the year, and the meeting
was adjourned.

MEETING OF THE EXECUTIVE BOARD.
MAY 25. 1943
The spring meeting of the Execu-
tive Board was held at the Alumnae
House on Tuesday, May 25 th, with
the president, Margaret Ridley, pre-
siding.

In the absence of the secretary,
Julia (Thompson) Smith, the min-
utes of the last meeting were read
by Harriotte Brantley, alumnae secre-
tary. One correction was made to the
minutes in order that they should
read that it will not be compulsory
to send a list of the nominees and
their qualifications to the Alumnae,
but rather that it is agreed that that
will be done by the executive secre-
tary. Members were unanimous in
agreeing that it was better not to
change the constitution to include
the suggestion.

The Finance Committee's report
was presented by Frances McCalla,
treasurer, and the proposed budget
for 1943 -'44. The total of the new
budget was $3,202.50 plus the re-
serve carried over from this year.
There was some discussion as to wheth-
er the cut in the allotment to some
of the committees was justified, par-
ticularly in the case of the Entertain-
ment Committee, which has used only
a small part of its allotment for this
year due to present conditions. How-
ever, it was moved and passed that the
budget be adopted as it was presented.

Harriotte Brantley presented her re-
port of work done by the executive
secretary, the first part of the year's
work being done and reported by let-
ter by Nelle (Chamlee) Howard, who
served as secretary until the middle of
the year. This report is given in full
under another heading.

The report of the Radio Committee
as made by the chairman, Jean Bailey,
was read by Harriotte Brantley. The
theme this year was, Agnes Scott, a
Liberal Arts College, Prepares for Its
Part in the Post-War World. There
was discussion as to whether the radio
program should be continued, since it
seems to reach so few of the Alumnae
outside of Atlanta and vicinity. This
was particularly true this year, accord-
ing to reports received from Alumnae.

Virginia (Heard) Fedar gave a
brief report of the Alumnae Week-
End Committee. The number attend-

ing this year compares favorably with
that of other years, and it is believed
that the morning-evening type of
Alumnae Week-End is a successful
way of handling the situation brought
on by the war.

Elizabeth (Simpson) Wilson pre-
sented a report for the Second Floor
Committee. The Pink bedroom was
redecorated, and the ceilings in the
Pink and Blue bedrooms were re-
papered. Remaining funds were to be
used to work over the Green-Striped
Room.

Julia (Smith) Slack reported that
the Student Loan Fund had a balance
in the bank of $239.12.

Mrs. Webb, the tearoom manager,
handed in a good report, the tearoom
having not only paid expenses but also
netted a good surplus. Mrs. Webb
will not be able to come back another
year. Harriotte Brantley reported on
an interview she had had with Mrs.
Bunnell, the house mother of the
Emory Sigma Nu House. Mrs. Bun-
nell had made the suggestion that she
would like to take over the manage-
ment of the tearoom if it could be
arranged for two people to act as
joint-managers. She had in mind a
friend of her's, Mrs. Harris, who might
be able to accept the joint manager-
ship. It was pointed out that a new
stove is badly needed for the kitchen,
the old one being so worn that it can-
not be repaired and so that it is really
dangerous. It was decided that this
fact should be called to the attention
of the new tearoom committee.

Permission was given for Caroline
Black to room in the Alumnae House
next year. It was suggested that it
might be wise to get another per-
manent roomer for the next year, since
there will probably be fewer transient
guests.

It was decided to set aside the sum
of $50.00 to buy gifts for the mem-
bers of the Agnes Scott faculty and
administration who are retiring this
year. These are: Mr. Cunningham,
Mrs. Sydenstricker, Miss Torrance,
Miss Lewis.

The president announced that Har-
riotte Brantley will not be able to
come back next year as executive
secretary. Names of persons who
might be contacted for the job were
suggested. It was discussed as to
whether or not it might be arranged
to have someone from Decatur or At-
lanta do the work in the office during
the day and have a boarder act as
hostess in the House and take care of
any business that came up at night.

At the close of the meeting refresh-
ments were served. The meeting was
adjourned by the president.

The AGNES SCOTT ALUMNAE QUARTERLY

COMMITTEE REPORTS

Executive Secretary:

The secretary's report this year is
a collaboration, the first part of the
year's work being carried on by Nelle
(Chamlee) Howard and the latter
part by Harriotte Brantley, who came
in January to take Nelle's place in the
Alumna; Office.

The month of August was spent in-
vestigating tea room manager pros-
pects, in absence of Tea Room Com-
mittee chairman and in securing the
services of Mrs. Sarah Saley. She re-
signed after three weeks because of her
health, so the secretary kept the tea
room open for a week until another
manager could be secured. Mrs. W. J.
Webb, of Carrollton, took charge Oc-
tober 12, and the secretary endeavored
to cooperate with her to the fullest.

Worked with House Decoration
Committee and supervised the placing
of the Chinese panel and crystal chan-
delier in the dining room and the large
mirror in the hall. Met with Second
Floor Committee and outlined plans
for the year and assisted in planning
details for the Pink room. Also worked
with the Garden Committee, super-
vising colored gardener at times and
making plans with Mrs. Holt in the
absence of the Alumna; Garden chair-
man, Mrs. Fleming.

Met with the Alumna: Week-End
Committee for making tentative plans
for the 1943 Week-End. Worked out
details with Dr. McCain, Miss Scan-
drett, the dietitians, Mrs. Smith and
the Decorations Committee. Made ar-
rangements for several members of
each class to phone the local members,
inviting them to attend the programs.
Arranged for Grand-Daughters Club
members to assist at the registration
desk. Worked out details for publicity
in connection with the Lecture Asso-
ciation. Special thanks go to Mary
C. (Williamson) Hooker for her splen-
did work. Guests at the luncheon num-
bered about 115. Guests attending the
afternoon meeting numbered about 80
and a small percentage stayed for the
dinner and the evening lecture. The
number attending compares favorably
with other years. While the afternoon
and evening program as followed this
year may not be the most successful
type of lecture program, it does seem
indicated that it would more than hold
its own with the Friday and Saturday
morning; type of Alumna: Week-End.

During the fall and winter two is-
sues of the Quarterly were edited with
a soecial feature on alumna: in the war
compiled by the secretary under the
heading "In the Service."

Trained three scholastic students
who were new this year and supervised

routine work done by the six students
who work regularly in the office.

Editorial type letters were gotten
out to 1,000 former members of the
Association, the list of names being
taken from the classes of '3 8, '39, '40,
'41, and '42. These letters were to in-
terest the alumnae in re-joining the
Association.

The secretary acted as sponsor of
the Grand-Daughters Club, entertain-
ing the members at the alumna: house
on two occasions and contributing to
a fund to help them get up a float to
be used in the Mardi Gras celebration.

Because of transportation difficulties
the Founder's Day plans had to be al-
tered, the large district divisions cre-
ated in 1941 being cut so that alumna:
would not have so far to travel in or-
der to attend the meetings. Twenty
meetings were held in ten states and
many alumna; wrote that they were
planning to listen to the radio pro-
gram even though they were unable
to attend a meeting. The secretary
worked with Jean Bailey and Roberta
Winter in making out the radio pro-
gram which was presented over station
WGST. The Atlanta Club meeting
was most successful, there being more
than 100 members and guests present.
Flowers from this meeting were pre-
sented to Dr. Mary F. Sweet and Miss
Louise McKinney and to Mr. and Mrs.
Cunningham.

The record series begun in 1940 was
added to, with a reproduction of a talk
by Mr. Cunningham and an interview
of Miss Lillian Smith. Many of the
former records were sent out from
the office at the request of various
alumna;.

Secretary supervised the repapering
of the ceilings in the Pink and Blue
rooms and the cleaning of the wall-
paper in the downstairs and upstairs
halls and the upstairs bedrooms. Re-
papering was done by the Southern
Construction Company and the work
was given a two-year guaranteee. The
cleaning of the paper was done by Mr.
Homer Gibbs. The large rugs in the
dining room, sitting room and hall
were cleaned by Mr. C. S. Hall and
the small yellow sofa was also cleaned.
The yellow chair in one of the bed-
rooms was re-worked and $3.00 to-
wards having it recovered was donated
bv Florinne (Brown) Arnold.

After conferring with Dr. McCain,
Miss Scandrett and Miss Margaret Rid-
ley, it was decided to do away with
some of the Commencement activities
and a letter explaining this was pub-
lished in April Quarterly. A form let-
ter was gotten out to all members of
the reunion classes and the idea of a
"Bonded Reunion" as outlined by

Cornell University was suggested.
Response to these letters has been
splendid.

Secretary served on the Nominating
Committee and had the ballots printed
and addressed to paid members. Ballots
this year were printed on double postal
cards and the method seems to be very
successful as a large percentage of
those mailed out have been returned to
the office.

Invitations to the Trustees' Lunch-
eon were addressed and mailed and
plans for seating arrangements, deco-
rations, etc. were worked out with
Miss Scandrett, the dietitians, and Mrs.
Bonner Spearman, the chairman of the
Entertainment Committee.

It was decided to have an Open
House in Murphey Candler building
in place of the usual garden supper
given for the returning alumna: and
the seniors. Invitations were extended
to the alumna; through the clubs and
the secretary personally invited the
members of the senior class and mem-
bers of the administration. She also
helped Mrs. Spearman work out details
of the Open House such as getting
people to serve, etc.

Throughout the year the secretary
has acted as hostess for alumna: or oth-
er guests in the house and has tried
to make it as pleasant as possible for
them, being glad to assist with train or
bus reservation, schedules, etc.

Among other distinguished guests
entertained this year were: Dr. Mar-
garet Meade, associate curator in the
Department of Anthropology of the
American Museum of Natural History
of New York City; Dr. Gillie A. La-
rew, acting dean of Randolph-Macon;
and Mr. Baen Chu, who is connected
with the Student Christian Movement.

The secretary was interested in hav-
ing the office on second floor redeco-
rated and used the money obtained
through the sale of magazines for that
purpose. The walls and ceiling were
done over and some bright prints were
framed and hung on the walls.

Before leaving for the summer the
secretary supervised the closing of the
house, covering furniture, packing
away silver, etc. The July issue of the
Quarterly was edited and last-minute
details were attended to.

The secretary has endeavored to keep
personal contact with as many of th:
alumna; as possible by letter because
she feels that for the duration letters
must be the main source of contact
between Agnes Scott and her "Daugh-
ters."

Harriotte Brantley, '32,

Executive Secretary.

July, 1943

COMMITTEE REPORTS
Second Floor Committee:
On Hand( 1943 -'43:

Budget $50.00

From last year 1.25

Gift of House Guest 1.25

Gift of Atlanta Club 9.00

Extra Allowance from College 20.00

Club Gifts 7.3 3

$88.83
Expenditures:

Sheets $ 9.52

Repairs 2.50

Curtains 6.75

Curtains 3.89

Chair 12.95

Lamp 6.98

Rugs 12.70

Guest Towels 2.10

WashCloths 1.5 0

Repairs to Ceilings in Pink and

Blue Rooms 16.00

Decorations for Green Room. 13.85

$88.83
Signed,
Elizabeth (Simpson) Wilson, 31,
Chairman.

TEAROOM

May 25, 1943

Total on hand (cash) $101.00

The following assets:

In bills 25.00

Scheduled banquet 44.00

Expenses to be met:
One week's payroll
One month's gas bill

Expenditures: (Expenses such
as food, ice, etc. are met
daily)

Cleaning 5.00

Washing Drapes 1.50

Supplies 8.50

Committee Expenditures:

Water Glasses 3.00

Cups and Saucers 6.00

Repairs for Toaster 3.50

Gifts:

One dozen crystal plates
One dozen crystal goblets
One dozen crystal glasses

Report of the Alumnae Week-end
Committee

In view of the present transporta-
tion difficulties, the committee felt it
best to hold all the meetings on No-
vember 12 so that Alumnae from
town could come and spend the day.
The theme chosen for this year was
"Meeting Today's Challenge"

Lt. Mildred McFall of the Waves,
ex-'24, opened the day with "Women
in the War" in which she told how a
girl's major interests in college can be

utilized in placing her in the Wave
program. Following this talk Dr.
Goodrich White, newly elected presi-
dent of Emory University, spoke on
"The Impact of the War on Higher
Education" telling of the many
changes that are being made in the
curricula of colleges because of war
demands.

The Alumnae then enjoyed the ex-
hibits in the Library. Under Miss
Hanley's supervision there was a
group of interesting and timely maps
and war books, and Miss Lewis had ar-
ranged a fine collection of pictures.

The college very graciously was
hostess at dinner in Rebekah Scott
dining room to all Alumnae and their
husbands. Afterwards the Alumnae
attended the opening of the current
season of the Student Lecture Associa-
tion to hear Hallett Abend, New York
Times' Far Eastern Correspondent,
speak on "Our Destiny in Asia". The
"week-end" then closed with a recep-
tion in the Murphy Candler building.
There were about 1 1 5 Alumnae pres-
ent.

Virginia Heard Feder,
(Mrs. John G.), '3 3.

Radio:

The Committee reports that the
Agnes Scott Radio program, which
this year was confined to the annual
Founder's Day event, was planned and
executed in the following manner:

I. Committee Personnel:

A. Jean Bailey

B. Roberta Winter

C. Harriotte Brantley

II. Program Plan:

A. Theme: Agnes Scott, a liberal
arts college, prepared for education in
a post-war world.

B. The program was made up of
short talks on the various phases of the
theme by:

1. Dr. McCain, representing the
Administration of the college.

2. Miss Scandrett, reporting on
the year's activities among the stu-
dents.

3. Miss Margaret Ridley, presi-
dent of the Alumnae Association,
representing the entire body of Alum-
nae.

III. Perfortnance:

A. Program this year was given
by WGST.

B. Time: February 22, 1943;
10:15-10:30 P. M.

Respectfully submitted,

Jean Bailey, '39,
Committee Chairman.

Report of House Committee
May 4. 1942. to May 4, 1943

Income:
Brought forward from May

4, 1942 $ 74.95

Birthday gift from Mrs.

Eagan 25.00

Interest from undesignated

fund 85.50

Gift from Atlanta ASC club

(1942-'43) 15.00

Gift from Decatur ASC club

(1942-'43) 5.00

Additional grant from

Trustees 20.00

$225.45
Disbursements:

Mirror for Hall, W. E.

Browne Decorating Co $ 27.00

Paper and labor for Dining

Room, M. Dwoskin & Son 43.5 0

Chandelier, W. E. Brown Co. 100.00

Labor and Installation of
Chandelier, Capital Elec-
tric Co. 10.26

Crystal for table, Rich's Inc. 9.12

$190.88

Income $225.45

Disbursements __ 190.88

Ealance $ 34.57

Mrs. Fonville McWhorter,
(Willie Belle Jackson), '17.

COMMITTEE REPORTS

Student Loan:

February 3, 1943 — received
of Nelle (Chamlee) How-
ard, acting secretary $201.42

Deposits:

March 4, 1943 — for account

of Mary Anne Barfield___ 25.00
March 4, 1943 — for account

of Evelyn Baty 12.10

(Account of Evelyn Baty

closed)

April 27, 1943 — for account

of Mary Codington 5.60

Total $244.12

Withdrawals:

February 16, 1943 — loan to

Margaret Drummond 5.00

Balance $239.12

Respectfully submitted,
Julia Pratt Slack, Ex-' 12,
Chairman, Student Loan Committee

The AGNES SCOTT ALUMNAE QUARTERLY

From A Tower Window

Agnes Scott Faculty Members Receive Research Awards

S. G. Stukes, registrar and dean of faculty at Agnes
Scott and executive secretary of the advisory faculty coun-
cil of the University Center in Georgia, recently announced
that three Agnes Scott faculty members are among the
grantees receiving grants-in-aid from the Center for special
research during the coming year.

The committee awarded $500 to Dr. Ellen Douglass
Leyburn of the English department for a study of the back-
ground of Wordsworth's ecclesiastical sonnets; $2 5 0 to Dr.
E. H. Runyon of the biology department for continuation
of research in the organization of separate cell-units of
dictyostelium into a multicellular body; and $100 to Dr.
Catherine S. Sims of the history department for continua-
tion of work on a critical edition of Henry Elsynge's "Ex-
pedicio Bellarum Antiquitus." The grants received by Dr.
Sims and Dr. Runyon are further awards for work in the
same subjects for which they had been given previous
grants. In addition to these grants extension of time for
the completion of work already started was given to Dr.
Mary Sti'art MacDougall, head of the biology department.

Dr. Leyburn, who received one of the two largest
grants given, will do her research in the libraries of Yale
University and Harvard College this summer. Dr. Runyon
plans to do most of his work, which will consist chiefly of
writing up his findings, on the Agnes Scott campus.

Dr. Sims will continue her work on "Expedicio Bel-
larum Antiquitus" in Atlanta libraries.

Eight Seniors. One Alumna Elected to Phi Beta Kappa

Announcement of the election of eight seniors and one
alumna to the Georgia Beta chapter of Phi Beta Kappa,
national honorary fraternity, was made in chapel Saturday,
May 8.

Miss Florence Smith, associate professor of history and
president of the local chapter, stated the purpose of the
society as being "the encouragement of scholastic and cul-
tural interest among students and graduates" and presented
the qualifications for Phi Beta Kappa membership, which
includes not only high scholastic achievement but also char-
acter, capacity, breadth of interest, and general promise.

Seniors elected were Martha Dale, former editor of the

Agnes Scott News, member of Mortar Board, and recipient
of an Agnes Scott letter in athletics; Jane Elliot, president
of the Poetry club, managing editor of the Aurora, and a
member of B. O. Z.; Nancy Green, a junior transfer, mem-
ber of Chi Beta Phi and reporter for the Agnes Scott News;
Elizabeth Hartsfield, transfer, and conservation chairman
of the War Council; Dorothy Holloran, president of Mor-
tar Board, secretary of student government 1941-42, and
president of her sophomore class; Frances Kaiser, former
managing editor of the Agnes Scott News, secretary of
Mortar Board, and a member of Pen and Brush club; Ruth
Lineback, editor of the Silhouette, member of Mortar
Board and Chi Beta Phi, and recipient of the national Chi
Beta Phi key; and Margaret Shaw, transfer, assistant busi-
ness manager of the Aurora, secretary of French club, and
member of lower house of student government. All of the
newly elected members were on Honor Roll.

Miss Patricia Collins, class of 1928, was the only alumna
honored. After her graduation from Agnes Scott, she
obtained her law degree from Emory University, and is now
one of the two assistants to the Attorney General in Wash-
ington, D. C.

Government Athletic Program to Be Instituted at Agnes Scott

An intensive course in physical training, including the
increase of physical training from three to five hours a
week, will be begun at Agnes Scott College next fall,
according to President J. R. McCain and Miss Llewellyn
Wilburn, associate professor of physical education.

"In addition to the regular gym classes there will be a
fundamentals course stressing strength, endurance, flexi-
bility, relaxation, and body control," Miss Wilburn said.

New students who show their attainment of certain
levels of fitness will be excused from the fundamentals
course and advance to other classes. The fundamentals
course will be three hours a week for, fifteen weeks.

Seniors will not be required to take the courses, although
Dr. McCain said, "They should want to take these courses."
Dr. McCain also revealed that there will be a fitness course
for faculty members.

Romance From "Iolanthe"

When the Emory Glee Club and the Agnes Scott Glee
Club combined their talents to present the Gilbert and
Sullivan musical comedy "Iolanthe" three years ago, it was
a story of romance within and without the lilting, musical
play.

Two marriages are the result of that production of
"Iolanthe." Ruth Tate, ex-'39, of the Agnes Scott Club,
became the bride of Jack Boozer, of the Emory singers last
year. Jack, who was graduated from Emory last year, is
now attending the Boston School of Theology.

Then in the Sunday, April 18, edition of The Atlanta
Journal, the engagement of Annie Wilds, '42, who was also
of that cast, and Powers McLeod, who sang in the same
production, was announced. Powers will be graduated in
Theology in June, and their marriage will take place right
after his graduation.

Acting Cup Awarded to Ruby Rosser
For the best acting during the year, Ruby Rosser, '43,
received the Claude S. Bennett Cup at the recital of con-
temporary poetry given on April 2 3 by advanced speech
students under the direction of Miss Frances Gooch.

Those taking part on the program were Zena Harris,
Lauricc Looper, Ruby Rosser, Virginia Lucas, and Martha
Marie Trimble.

July, 1943

Student to Enter Army Air Corps

From faculty, to student, to army — such is the life of
Ruth Bastin who was once on the faculty of Agnes Scott
as a nurse, who is now a sophomore, and who will go into
the army as a nurse on July 1.

Ruth finished her nurse's training in 1940 and came
here as a nurse for the next year and a half. In her hours
oft duty, she went to classes on the campus and studied.
She went to the University of Chicago for summer school
and entered Agnes Scott last September as a sophomore.

Last Wednesday, Ruth was notified that she has been
accepted as a volunteer army nurse. She plans to ask for
service in the air corps, which she says is "simply the best
part of the army." This field of service may lead her to a
place in the Hospital Evacuation Corps which uses flying
hospital transports in its work.

Registrar Announces Enrollment Increase
"In spite of the war, Agnes Scott has to date the largest
registration in its history," stated Mr. S. G. Stukes, registrar
of the college. Although the number of boarders remains
more or less constant, there is a slight variation in the num-
ber of day students.

According to reports from other schools, including
Emory and Randolph-Macon College for Women, there is
an increased registration in these colleges also, this fact
holding true in men's colleges as well as women's.

Girls to Sing at Chautauqua: Joella Craig, '43, from
Walhalla, South Carolina, and Barbara Connally, '44, from
Tampa, Florida, will spend eight weeks of their summer
vacation singing with the chorus of the Chautauqua Opera
Association at Chautauqua, New York. The purpose of
the Association is to give promising young singers experi-
ence on the stage through the production of light operas
and operettas. The jobs last from the first of July to the
first of September, two weeks of the time being spent in
rehearsals. During the other six weeks there will be two
or three hours of practice a day and a performance each
night.

May Day: The theme of May Day this year was a dance
contest among the four season. The pageant was written
by Anastasia Carlos, '44, and Elizabeth Edwards, '44, and
was presented in the May Day Dell at five o'clock on the
afternoon of May first. Mrs. J. J. Espy accompanied the
entire production, playing original music by Mr. C. W.
Dieckmann, professor of music. The May Queen, Mabel
Stowe, was dressed in a gown of white lace and net, and
wore a crown of white flowers. Her attendants wore similar
gowns in green, and carried bouquets of pastel garden
flowers. Those taking the parts of the seasons were:
Spring, Leona Leavitt; Summer, Page Lancaster; Fall,
Jeanne Carlson; Winter, Betty Jane Hancock.

Mortar Board: Ruth Kolthoff, of Miami, Fla., was made
president of Mortar Board for the coming year, and "Bun-
ny" Gray, of Smithville, Ohio, secretary. Other members
are: Elizabeth Edwards, of Decatur; Clare Bedinger, of
Asheville, N. C; Mary Maxwell of West Palm Beach, Fla.;
Aurie Montgomery, of Birmingham, Ala.; Anne Ward, of
Selma, Ala.; Ann Jacob, of Decatur; Katherine Phillips, of
Tallahassee, Fla., and Virginia Tuggle, of Atlanta.

IN THE SERVICE n

The Alumnae Office has recently begun a service file for
keeping the names, ranks, and addresses of those Alumnae
who are members of the WAACS, WAVES, etc. We real-
ize that the information we have is not complete and will
welcome any additional news. We are printing the list of
names as we have it at the present time.

WAACS

Auxiliary Mary Blakemore (ex-'43), 72nd WAAC
Post Hq. Co., HRPF Norfolk Army Base, Norfolk, Va.

Lt. Martha Eskridge ('33), WAAC Headquarter's Staff,
Washington, D. C.

First Office Catherine (Happoldt) Jepson ('33), General
Staff, WAAC Headquarters, Washington, D. C.

Lt. Ruth Virden ('22), South Post, Fort Myer, Va.

Auxiliary Evalyn Wilder, A-402198 ('30), Second
WAAC Training Center Co., Fort Des Moines Army Post
Branch, Des Moines, Iowa.

WAVES

Virginia A. Earle, AS, USNR ('29), Billett 102 A,
Section II, Naval Training School, Cedar Falls, Iowa.

Ensign Sybil Grant ('34), Naval Air Base, Jacksonville,
Florida.

Jane Grey, AS, USNR ('29), Northampton, Mass.

E. Penn Hammond, AS, USNR ('38), Billett-55, North-
ampton, Mass.

Midshipman Kennon Henderson, USNR, M.S., V-9 (ex-
'3 8), Hotel Northampton, Northampton, Mass.

Rebekah Hogan ('41), USMCR (WR), South Hadley,
Massachusetts.

Midshipman Judith E. Hyde, WR ('23), Naval Reserve
Midshipman School, Mt. Holyoke College, South Hadley,
Massachusetts.

Dorothy C. Lee, AS, USNR ('3 8), USNR Midshipman's
School (WR), Smith College, Northampton, Mass.

Helen Lewis, AS, USNR ('27), Naval Reserve Midship-
man's Training School, Northrop House, Northampton,
Massachusetts.

Ellen Little, AS, USNR ('27), Midshipman's School,
Smith College, Northampton, Mass.

Midshipman Margaret Marshall ('31), USNR (WR),
Northampton, Mass.

Lt. Mildred McFall, 1428 Peachtree St., N. E., Atlanta,
Georgia.

Midshipman Mary McQuown ('42), USNRMS (WR),
South Hadley, Mass.

Midshipman Virginia I. Milner ('40), USNR (W) NR,
Midshipman's School, Northampton, Mass.

Elizabeth Gentry Moore, AS (ex-'41), USNRMS (WR),
Mt. Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass.

Lt. Janet Newton ('17), USNR, NOB, Norfolk, Va.,
% District Personnel Office.

Lou Pate, ASV-9, USNR ('39), NRMS, Northampton,
Massachusetts.

Ensign Helen (Hardie) Smith ('41), 232 Zamora, Coral
Gables, Fla.

Eleanor B. Starcher, AS, USNR ('22), Northrop House,
Northampton, Mass.

Frederica Twining, AS, USNR (ex-'3 5 ) , NRMS, North-
ampton, Mass.
Incomplete Addresses:

Eugenia Bridges ('40), WAVES.

Lil Croft (ex-'38), WAVES.

Lulu Croft (ex-'38), WAVES.

Ensign Eloise Estes ('3 8), WAVES. Eloise was married
on May 6th at the First Methodist Church in Decatur to
Malcolm Gordon Kaiser.

Rudene C. Taffar, AS, USNR (WR) ('34), WAVES.

ALUMNAE AID IN RESEARCH

Evangeline Papageorge, '28, who is diets with plenty of vitamins, will

assisting Dr. George T. Lewis, head of have on our health. Also assisting in

the biochemistry department of Emory the research is Virginia (Heard)

University in research to determine Feder, '3 3, whose husband, Dr. John

what effect the food shortage, and the Feder, was among those taken prisoner

difficulty of maintaining balanced when Guam fell to the Japs. Both

alumnae studied also at Girls' High,
Emory, and the University of Michi-
gan. An article about their most re-
cent work was written by Mr. Willard
Neal and published in the magazine
section of the Atlanta Journal, Sun-
day, April 18, 1943.

Our Part in the World Today and Tomorrow

Cama (Burgess) Clarkson, '22

"We believe that moral law, no less than physical law,
undergirds our world ... If man is to escape chaos and
recurrent war, social and political institutions must be
brought into conformity with this moral order."

Thus begins the first of the guiding principles adopted
by the National Study Conference on the churches and a
Just and Durable Peace, a conference called by the Federal
Council of Churches to meet in March, 1942, in Delaware,
Ohio.

The purpose of the gathering was not so much to give
out information as to bring together the thinking of numer-
ous church groups on the part the churches should play in
building this new world. Therefore the total number pres-
ent, less than four hundred, was divided into four sections
for discussion. Most of the time was spent in meetings of
these small groups. There were only six formal lectures,
these delivered by men considered experts in the several
fields which they covered. From the topics assigned each
group you can realize the nature of the discussion: first,
the Relation of the Church to a Just and Durable Peace;
and the other three divided respectively between the Politi-
cal, Economic, and Social Bases of a Just and Durable
Peace.

It was agreed in the beginning that there should be no
discussion of the war, nor of its significance in the Chris-
tian world. There were some who felt that this was an
unrealistic position to take since the war and the peace are
so closely bound. On the other hand the over-whelming
majority agreed that not only was the subject beyond the
province assigned to us and the time insufficient for its
discussion, but that many who could not agree on the war
subject could work together in building the peace. There-
fore any discussion of the war was ruled out of order. How-
ever it was generally understood that of course all the plans
suggested for building the post war world were based on
the assumption of an Allied victory.

The resolutions which were adopted by the sections in-
dividually and then by the conference as a whole were not
the work of just a few leaders but represented the thought
of the entire group, the result of long discussion, the give
and take of ideas in a democratic fashion. Therefore we
may accept them as a composite of what Christian people
in our country are thinking about our part in all of this,
not necessarily final conclusions but at least the markings of
certain milestones along the way to our goal — the building
of a world in which a peace can be made that will endure
because it is based on moral justice and righteousness.

In a limited space I shall not attempt even to summarize
these findings. They are published and are being studied in
various ways by the different branches of the church who
have accepted this responsibility. Perhaps, you as women
are already studying them in your auxiliaries. But there
are a few impressions from the conference as a whole which
have remained with me and have become even more fixed
as the days have gone by. I should like to mention them.

First, there seemed to me a very definite facing of reality,
something which has not always been found at church
meetings nor among peace groups. I am sure you have all
had the experience I have of attending a conference at
which you were very thrilled and quite lifted up, only to
return home and to feel that you had been in another world
totally removed from the workaday one in which we live
and unrelated in any fashion to it. Nothing really carried
over. But at Delaware I felt quite differently. It seemed
to me that these people were trying to face facts and to
study their practical application.

For example, there was a general acceptance of the basic
fact that the whole world order, social, political, and eco-
nomic, is undergoing a tremendous changing process, call it
evolutionary, revolutionary, or what you will, and that it is
up to people who believe in a moral order to set the direc-
tion in which these changes will move.

In the group discussion on the Church's relation to this
new order I was interested in seeing that they were not sat-
isfied with the adoption of only general basic principles;
is fairly easy to agree on ideals, but it is in their application
that the rub comes. These people insisted on finding ways
in which their ideals could be practiced by individual
churches and by the individuals themselves who make up
these churches.

The same spirit was evident in all the groups. The politi-
cal section was anxious to find just what the cost would be
for us to set up a real world government, and whether we
would be willing to make the necessary surrender of a part
of our national sovereignty.

The economic group spent much of its time on the ques-
tion of our own economics, whether the profit system as we
have had it can be truly Christian, also whether we as a
nation would be willing to make the economic sacrifice
required for the world we want to see, whether we would
be willing to turn over all tariff regulation to an interna-
tional trade commission, etc.

The social group was not satisfied with calling for an
idealistic world wide democracy but asked that at the same
time we establish a true democracy in our own country,
calling attention to certain specific social evils which we
have allowed too long. There was a call for real democracy
within the Church itself, and for fellowship and coopera-
tion among its different branches. In all of this you can see
the evident desire to be practical about these things, not to
spend time in talking alone but in doing something.

And then there was borne in upon us very strongly our
individual responsibility both as citizens of the United
States and as members of the Christian Church. In the
first capacity, we belong to the richest, strongest, and most
influential country in the world today; as such, what we say
and what we do affects the rest of the world to a degree
whose extent we cannot measure.

Then, as members of the Christian Church, we belong
to the only body international which today remains un-
broken. Because of its supernational quality, rising above
the lines that divide States, the Church is the same
throughout the world, whether it is composed of those of
us who worship in safety, of those German Christians who
felt first the cruelty of Nazi intolerance, of those stalwart
bishops in Norway refusing to bend the knee to Anti-
Christ, or of that group of Japanese Christians keeping vigil
day and night in their little church for a solid week before
Pearl Harbor praying that their country might pursue the
path of peace.

And finally it seems to me that to those of us who went
to Agnes Scott there comes an even greater responsibility,
beyond that of citizenship, even beyond that of our Chris-
tian citizenship. We have received an education in the
finest sense of the word, not merely a certain secular
knowledge but an education steeped in Christian principles.
"To whom much is given of him shall much be required"
was no more true when spoken by Jesus two thousand years
ago than it is today. It applies to each of us who have
received far above the average in our preparation for life.
May we accept our share of responsibility in our own com-
munities, in our country, in the world today, and in the
world we are now making for tomorrow.

- WE PAY TRIBUTE -

In this year of 1943, Agnes Scott is losing four of its
well-known and deeply loved personalities — three from the
faculty and one from the administration. The four are:
Mrs. Alma Sydenstricker, Professor of English; Miss Cath-
erine Torrance, Professor of Greek and Latin; Miss Louise
Lewis, Teacher of Art and Art History; and Mr. R. B.
Cunningham, Business Manager. To each of these, Mrs.
Sydenstricker, Miss Torrance, Miss Lewis and Mr. Cunning-
ham, the very best wishes of all Agnes Scott Alumnae!

Mrs. Alma Sydenstricker, who was before her marriage
Miss Alma Willis, has led a varied life, having kept up
through the years her study of art, music, literature and
especially of the Eiblical languages, Hebrew and Aramaic.
Two of her paintings have received national recognition.
Shortly after the death of her husband she went to the
Mississippi State College for Women to teach history. She
also served as advisor to juniors and seniors and to Y. W.
C. A. After two years at Mississippi she received and ac-
cepted a call to become head of the Bible Department of
Agnes Scott, and has kept that position ever since. By
continuous study and travel she has kept in touch with
educational progress. One vacation was spent in the Amer-
ican School of Oriental Research; and a year earlier she
traveled over Europe, specializing in the Archeology of
Greece and Italy. In April of 1932 a beautiful tribute was
paid Mrs. Sydenstricker in a write-up in the Christian Ob-
server: "Above and beyond the unusual mental and educa-
tional equipment, her ability to impress the spiritual life
of her associates remains her unique and most beautiful
characteristic."

Miss Catherine Torrance came to Agnes Scott from
Potter College in Bowling Green, Kentucky, at the time
when Potter was made a part of the State Normal School.
Her first association with Agnes Scott was as the associate
principal in the Academy. When the Academy became the
College, she took a place on the college faculty at the head
of the Latin and Greek Department. Miss Torrance studied
at the University of Chicago and has B.A., M.A., and Ph.D.
degrees. She was born in Charlestown, Indiana, "right on
the Mason-Dixon line." Her father was a Presbyterian
minister, born in Scotland. Miss Torrance's earliest teach-
ing was done in Natchez at Stanton College, where she first

met her friend, Blance Colton Williams, well-known writer.

Mr. Cunningham was born at Liberty Hill, in Kershaw
County, South Carolina. He graduated from The Citadel
in 1889 and for several years taught history in the Rock
Hill high school. He went to Winthrop when the college
was first opened and stayed there for sixteen years. He was
married to Miss Bessie Russell, of Rock Hill, in 1896. In
1911 Mr. Cunningham came to Agnes Scott and for thirty-
two years he has held the position as business manager of
the college. Dr. C. E. Cunningham, the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Cunningham, practices in Decatur. Their oldest
daughter, Mary, is Mrs. Edward Cayce, of Nashville, Tenn.
Another daughter, Mrs. Clifford Anderson, lives in Macon
and works for a stock concern, and the youngest daughter,
Kitty, who is Mrs. John E. Richards, graduated from Agnes
Scott in 1936. She is now living in Macon, at Robins
Field, where her husband is a chaplain.

Miss Louise Lewis, who came to Agnes Scott Institute at
the turn of the century to be the art instructor, brought
with her more than a knowledge of art. As a little girl she
played in the shadows of universities and when she was in
her early 'teens she went to Europe to study with the best
teachers. Each summer since becoming an instructor at
Agnes Scott she has spent her vacation painting and study-
ing both abroad and in the United States. Completely un-
biased, in her Art History lectures she presents the artist,
explains his work and contributions, then allows the lis-
tener to come to her own conclusion as to the worth of the
work. Many former students who have traveled abroad
come back to thank her for the joy she has given them
through knowledge gained from her lectures. In the studio
she guides in accuracy, teaches values and helps the students
seek real truth. Her manner is that of a person unafraid to
let the individual work out her own way. Miss Lewis is
well known not only as an instructor but as artist, and her
paintings have received deserved recognition.

Another person who for many years has been connected
with Agnes Scott is added to the list of those who will not
be back at the college in the fall. She is Mrs. Emmie J.
Ansley, secretary to Mr. Cunningham for nearly nineteen
years. Mrs. Ansley has accepted a position as registrar of
Peace College in Raleigh, N. C.

IN MEMORIAM

Rita (Schwartz) Aronstam, '17, died at her home, 834 Lullwater Road, N. E., on Saturday, May
14th, after a short illness. She was a native of Sumter, S. C. Rita was a worker in Parent-Teacher or-
ganizations, the Red Cross, The Service Guild, Home for the Blind, Council for Jewish Women, and
Jewish Sisterhood. She also served as co-chairman of the Agnes Scott-Emory University Endowment
Fund Drive. We extend our sympathy to her husband; to her daughter, Jean Cecile, of Atlanta; to her
son, Lt. (jg) Charles S. Aronstam, of the Navy, in Tiburon, Cal.; and to her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Charles D. Schwartz, of Atlanta. A life like Rita's is never really finished, for its influence extends down
through the years. For such a life we are deeply grateful.

Agnes Scdtt Cdllege 1889-1943

^Jhe Craned S^cott Jsdeal

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Physical Well Being Personalities

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